illiip^liiiiiiilii^ d ri-j .■^ ,^~^ ■<. s-^ ■'■,.. '-:s- .A^^ ,v p. ■; aV A .A^'^ •■'.V. .c\^ i HISTORY OF a.'-n^r STRAFFORD COUNTY NEW HAMPSHIRE AND Representative Citizens BY JOHN SCALES EDITOR DOVEK DAILY DEMOCRAT 'All History is Philosophy Teaching by Example" PUBLISHED liY RICHMOND-ARNOLD PUBLISHING CO. F. J. RICHMOND. Pres. ; C. R. ARNOLD. Sec. and Treas, CHICAGO, ILL. 1914 PUBLISHER'S PREFACE The aim of the publishers of this volume and of the author of the history has been to secure for the historical portion thereof full and accurate data respecting the history of the county from the time of its early settlement and to condense it into a clear and interesting narrative. All topics and occurrences have been in- cluded that were essential to this subject. The reviews of resolute and strenuous lives that make up the biographical part of the volume are admirably calculated to foster local ties, to inculcate patriotism and to emphasize the rewards of industry dominated by intelligent purpose. They constitute a most appropriate medium for perpetuating personal annals and will be of incalculable value to the descendants of those commemorated. These sketches are replete with stirring incidents and intense experiences and are flavored with a strong human interest that will naturally prove to a large portion of the readers of the book one of its most attractive features. In the aggregate of personal memoirs thus collated will be found a vivid epitome of the growth of Strafford County, which will fitly supplement the historical statement, for its development is identical with that of the men and women to whom it is attributable. Sketches not corrected by subscribers when submitted to them are indicated by a small asterisk (*). The publishers have avoided slighting any part of the work, and to the best of their ability have supplemented the editor's labors by exercising care over the minutest details of publication, in order to give the volume the three-fold value of a readable narrative, a useful work of reference and a tasteful ornament to the library. Special prominence has been given to the portraits of many representative citizens, which appear throughout the volume, and we lielicve that they will prove not its least interesting feature. \Ve have sought in this department to illustrate the different spheres of industrial and professional achievement as con- spicuously as possible. To all who have kindly interested themselves in the prepa- ration of this work, and who have voluntarily contributed most useful information and data, or rendered any other assistance, we hereby tender our grateful ac- knowledgments. The Publishers. Chicago, 111., February, 1914. EDITOR'S PREFACE The Editor has simply to say that in the performance of his part of the work in making this book he has kept in mind and endeavored to carry out the plan of giving a correct history of the county, as a whole, in its general details, which had never been done before, and for each city and town a general outline of its leading historic points, characteristics and events, with brief mention of promi- nent citizens of former generations. The space alloted for such matter in this book would not permit more details. Whatever errors may be found came from lack of proper information as to facts and dates. The Editor has carefully used all the material at his command and endeavored to put it on paper in an intelli- gent style. J. S. Dover, N. H., January 26, 1914. CONTENTS CHAPTER I Notes ox Eakly History of the County 25 First Use of the Term, "New Hampshire"' — Division into Counties — Boundary Lines of StraiYord County— County Seat Estahhshed— In(han Trails and Roads — First Courts — Notal^le Men — County Officials — At- torneys. CHAPTER II COXCERXIXG CorKTIIOUSHS 48 The "Old Courthouse" and Famous Lawyers Who Practiced There — The Courthouse Built in 1842— Its Destruction by Fire— The Fight for County Seat — Dover's \'ictory — Strafford County Jails — The County Almshouse — Burning of the Insane Asylum — County Commissioners. CHAPTER III AlKDicxr 59 Strafford District .Medical Society — Charter Members and Officers — Members to Date. CHAPTER W HO.MICIDKS AXL) H \X(.IX(;S IX STU.M'FllIil) CurXTY 64 The Elisha Thomas Case— Case of Andrew Ilnward — Execution of John O. Pinkdiam- The Fourth l-'irst Degree Murder— Other :\Iurder Cases — The Crime of Joseph E. Kelley — John Williams. CHAPTER y FIiSTORY (JF Do\i-:r ( 1 ) 74 The First Permanent Settlement in Dover and New Hampshire — The Various Grants — David Thompson — Thompson's Island — Mason Hall — Llilton's or Dover's Point — William Hilton — Thomas Roberts — Leonard Pomerov — Settlement i>f 1623 — The Hilton Tirant. 10 CONTENTS CHAPTER VI History of Dover (H) loo Early Names in Old Dover. CHAPTER VH History of Dover (HI) 105 The First Parish and Church — Alinisters of First Church. CHAPTER VIII History of Dover (IV) 114 Later Religious Societies in Dover — St. John's M. E. Church — First Universalist Society — First Free Will Baptist Church — First Unitarian Society — Franklin Street Baptist Church — Roman Catholic Church — St. Thomas Church — Washington Street Free Will Baptist Church — Belknap Congregational Church — The Advent Qiristian Church. CHAPTER IX History of Dover (\') 130 The \'arious Forms of Government. CHAPTER X History of Dover (VI) 1.^6 Important Events. CHAPTER XI History of Dover ( VII ) 1 40 Dover Neck. CHAPTER XII History of Dover (VIII) 143 Cochecho — Sawyer Woolen Mills — I. B. Williams & Son's Belt Fac- tory. CHAPTER XIII History of Dover (IX) 148 Garrison Hill — The Observatory — John Bowne .Sawyer — A Sad Fa- tality. CONTENTS 11 CHAPTER XIV History of Dover (X) I57 The Back River District— The Dam— Drew Garrison— Tlie Wedding of Amos Peaslee. CHAPTER XV History of Dover (XI) 172 Indian Attacks on Dover— Durham Destroyed — Berwick Assaulted, 1703 — Berwick. CHAPTER XVI History of Dover (XII) 182 Dover in the Revolutionary War. CHAPTER XVII History of Dover (XIII) I94 The Civil War— List of Regiments and Soldiers. CHAPTER XMII History of Dover (XIV) 206 Notable Citizens of Dover in Former Generations. CHAPTER XIX History of Somersworth (I) 212 Origin of the Name — Sligo — St. Alban's Cove. CHAPTER XX History of Somersworth (II) 216 Ministers and the Parish— The High Street M. E. Society. CHAPTER XXI History of Somersworth (III) 224 The Town and the City. CHAPTER XXII History of Somersworth (IV) 231 Schools and Schoolmasters— Col. Herailes Mooney — Master John Sullivan — Master Joseph Tate. 12 CONTENTS CHAPTER NXIII History of Somersworth (\') 241 \arious Business Interests — Banks and Banking — Railroads. CHAPTER XXI\' History of Somersworth (\T) 250 Noted Citizens of Somersworth. CHAPTER XXV History of Rollixsford (I) 268 Origin of the Name — The Farmers — X'arious Industries — Churches — Banks and Banking — Railroads. CHAPTER XX\'[ History of Rollixsford (II ) 274 Military Record — Regiments and List of Soldiers. CHAPTER XX\TI History of Rollixsford (III) 278 Notable Citizens of the Town. CHAPTER XX\ HI History of Durh.\m (I) 286 The Parish of Oyster River. CHAPTER XXIX History of Durh.\m (II) 293 The Oyster River Massacre. 1694. CHAPTER XXX History ofDurii.vm (III) 301 Durham in the Revolution — Capture of the Powder at Ft. William and Mary, 1774. CHAPTER XXXI History OF Durh.vm (I\^) 3'^ Durham in the Revolution — On the Battlefields and in the Councils of State. CONTENTS 13 CHAPTER XXXII Htstokv of Durham i \' ) 324 As a Business Center and a College Town. CHAPTER XXXIII History of Lee (I) 331 Origin of the Name — Parish ijf Lee in Dvn'ham. CHAPTER XXXIV History of Lee ( II ) 337 Business and Occupations. CHAPTER XXX\" History of Lee (111) 344 Alen of Lee in the Wars and in Peace — Soldiers — The Ministry. CHAPTER XXX\T History of ]\I.\dbury ( I ) 353 Origin of the Name iMadlmry. CHAPTER XXX\T1 History of Madblky (II) 356 Organization of the Town — Petition for a Parish — Eirst Parish Meeting. chapti:r xxx\ hi History of Madi'.uky (III) 360 Madljury in War Times — Garrisons — Meeting House — Moharimet's Hill or Hick's Mill — Ministers — Soldiers of the Rehellion. CHAPTER XXXI X History of Barri.vcton (I) 367 Origin of the Xame and List of C)riginal Pro])rietors. CHAPTER XL History of B.xkri-xgton (II) 373 First Settlers — Garrison Houses — The Two-Mile Streak. 14 CONTENTS CHAPTER XLI History of Barrington (HI) 380 Ecclesiastical History — Meeting-Houses. " CHAPTER XLH History of Barrington (IV) 383 Barrington Men in the Revolution and in the Civil War. CHAPTER XLHI History of Bakrington (V) 386 Town Meetings — Representation in Legislature — Town Clerks and Se- lectmen of the First Century. CHAPTER XLIV History of Barrington (VI) 391 Noted Persons and Localities. CHAPTER XLV History of Strafford (I) 403 Origin of the Name — Organization of the Town. CHAPTER XLVI History of Strafford (II) 407 Churches and Schools. CHAPTER XL\TI History of Strafford (III) 412 Strafford's Patriotic Record, 1861-1865 — Regiments and Soldiers. CHAPTER XL\11I History of Strafford (lY) 418 Business and Locations. CHAPTER XLIX History of Strafford (V) 421 Noted Persons of Strafford CONTENTS 15 CHAPTER L History of New Durham (I) 434 Origin of the Name — Original Pi-oprietors. CHAPTER LI History of New Durham (H) 44° Location, Scenery and Business. CHAPTER LH History of New Durham (HI) 442 Notable Citizens and Events. CHAPTER LHI History of Middleton (I) 449 Origin of the Name — Leading Points in Its History. CHAPTER LIY History of Middleton (II) 453 Noted Persons Born in Middleton. CHAPTER LV History of Rochester (I) ^ 455 Geographical— Topographical— Incorporation— The Royal Charter— The Town Named— First Meeting of Proprietors— Eirst Clerks— First Selectmen— Survey of the Township— Drawing the Lots— The Pioneer Settler Other Early Settlers — Subsequent Division of Lands— Norway Plains, Close of the Prospectors" Reign— Last Meeting— Town Assumes Control of Affairs. CHAPTER L\T History of Rochester (II) 459 Ancient Local Names and Land Grants— Squanianagonic— Witch- trot— White Hall— Blind Will's Neck. CHAPTER lATI History of Rochester ( III) 466 Indian History — Garrison Houses— Indian War— First Battle — John Richards— Tonathan Door— Danger of Abandonment of the Settlement- Petition for the Soldiers— The Old Iron Cannon— Major Davis' Defense of the Town— Indian Attack— The Killing of Mrs. Hodgdon— The Brit- ish Press-Gang. 16 CONTENTS CHAPTER LVni HiSTORV OF ROCHESTKR (IV) 4/6 Town Organization — Change to City. CHAPTER LIX History of Rochester (V) 480 Rochester Men in the Revolution. CHAPTER LX HiSTORV OF Rochester ( M ) 4^3 Religious Societies. CHAPTER LXI HiSTORV OF Far.mixoton (I) 48S Geographical — Topographical — Farniington Dock — First Town Meet- ing — Officers Elected. CHAPTER LXH HiSTORV OF F.^RMINGTON (H) 49^ Ecclesiastical — Congregational— Free Will Baptists. CHAPTER LXni History of F.\rmiN(;ton' (HI) 404 Farmington's Shoe Manufacturers. CHAPTER LXIV History of F.\rmington ( I\' ) 49^ Farniington Soldiers in the I'ivil War— \'arious Town Topics. CHAPTER LXV History of F.\rmington (V) 50i Noted Alen of Former Generations. CHAPTER LXVI History of Milton 5o8 Location in the County — The First Settlements. CONTENTS 17 CHAPTER LX\ II History of Miltox (IT) 513 Concerning Ministers and Churches. CHAPTER LX VI 1 1 History of Milton (IIIJ 519 Alilton Schools and Educational Matters. CHAPTER LXIX History of Milton (IV) 533 Various Business Enterprises — Military Record. CHAPTER LXX History of Miltox ( \' ) 52(j Interesting Traditions. Refresent-stive Citizens 337 A R R O L L V I. r Mi(N)f *' ' 1 1 i> iHi-t:/r o \ . \l..l.ll.l.... V FORD CO. l/./r* /., ./« /,../. BIOGRAPHICAL Abbott, Samuel B 854 Adams, Col. Winborn ^lo Allen, Charles A "9'5 Allen, John A 904 Allen, William H 661 Anderson, Dr. H. K 732 Andrews, Charles II °°° Andrews, Hon. Elisha C 608 Annis, Mark 935 Atkinson, Wm. K 37 Bacon, Charles E 632 Baer, Mrs. Aunie W »lo Baker, Charles 951 Barefoot, Dr. Walter 209 Baril, Thomas A ^^o Barker, David, Jr 42 Bartlett, James 41 Batchelder, Dr. Edward C &»o Bateman, John IL °o5 Bates, Dr. J. H 7/7 Bates, John W 601 Beard, George M '•i]' Beckwith, Fred N 5^0 Beckwith, Harry H 551 Belknap, Rev. Jeremy 209 Bennett, Martin P 70^ Bernier, August G 739 Bishop, Rupert G 1^7 Blaisdell, Curtis W ^.'l Blanchard, Dr. Eoscoe G 562 Bodwell, Fred L., D. V. S 852 Bond, Bernard Q "JS Bowman, William M 915 Bradley, Charles H 594 Bradley, Hon. William G 704 Brennan, Eev. James 11 643 Brigham, Dr. Frank E 775 Brewer, Luther W '87 BrowTi, Elisha R 818 Brown, Fred H 618 Brown, Natt 814 Buekner, Charles '^^'^ Buffum, David H 265 Bunker, Fred M 5/0 Buniham, Charles E 8dS Burnham, Charles H 6-5 Burleigh, George W 44 Burleigh, Job H 943 Burleish, John A 4J Buz7ell, Eev. Aaron ■^■'^ Buzzell, Eev. John ■'•'*' Canney, John '06 Canney, Thomas 209 Carignan, Dr. Edmond N 559 Carter, Edgar 1 604 Carr, Col. James 256 Carr, Dr. Moses 256 Cartland, Cliarles S 599 Casey, P. P 804 easier, Loren D 707 Caverly, Eev. John 427 Caverly, Robert B 426 Caverno Family 424-426 Chadwick, Eev. Edmund 454 Chalmers, David 708 Chamberlain, Moses G 868 Chamberlain, Samuel G 868 Champlin, William H 722 Chandler, Capt. Isaac 266 Chapman, Dr. Everett L 732 Chapman, Frank G 675 Charrette, William 673 Chase, Mark 950 Cheetham, Joseph H 840 Chesley, Hon. Daniel 594 Chesley, Guy E., D. V. S 855 Chesley, Stephen P 952 Christie, Daniel M 38 Clancy, F. W 588 Claiiham, Charles 37 Clark, C. E 788 Clark, Hon. Frank P. 718 Clark, F. W 865 Clark, George B 939 Clnrk, Joseph 42 Clements, .Tob 207 Clifford, Henry H 867 fnoutman, John F 505 Cochrane, Henry 939 Coffin, Hon. Peter 209 Cogswell, Col. Amos 210 Cogswell, Francis 40 Coleman, Frank P 566 Converse, Joshua 282 Cooper, Levi C 674 Copeland, William J 44 Copp, Amasa 42 Copp, Darid, Jr 37 Corson, E. A 72d Corson, .Tames 793 Corson, Leonard Z 680 19 20 INDEX Cossette, Eugene '^■ti Cote, Louis F HIO Crockett, Charles F i'-lS Crosby, Oliver -ij Cross, Ernest A ^04 Cushiug, Bev. Jonathan 'MS Dame, John ]£ USl Davis, George A SO:i Dawson, S. F., Jr 879 Dawson, 8. F., Sr 87S) Dean, G. E 700 Dearborn, Col. Thomas H 556 De Schuyler, Augustus 947 Deshaies, Rev. Fabien G 811 Desrosiers, Bev. O. J (531 Dougherty, Dr. Thos. J 607 Dow, Henry 564 Duntley, Ira W 578 Durell, Daniel M 37 Duval, Dr. Ernest "74 Eastman, Charles H 834 Eastman, Xehemiah 41 Eastman, Royal 44 Edgerly, James B 690 Edgerl V, Royal JI 843 Ela, Eichard 41 Elliott, Dr. Charles F 1^60 Emery, Justin A 5113 England, Walter 749 Evans, Charles W 5So Evans, Col. Stephen 208 Fairbanks, Charles A 583 Farnham, George W 623 Fauuce, Alpheus L 733 Fernald, Kingman 630 Finley, William W 65() Fish,' Robert H 786 Fisher, John E 701 Fisher, Samuel C 632 Flanders, Dr. Louis W 560 Folsom, Edwin W 723 Foote, Arthur L 738 Ford, Jacob S. M 922 Ford, James W 801 Foss, Charles A 307 Fo.ss, Hon. Charles H 566 Foss, Eugene C 717 Foss, Marshall B 924 Foss, Newell B 930 Foster, Hon. George J 880 Fownes, A. H 697 Fox, Charles D 805 Freeman , Asa 38 Freeman, Cyrus 936 Frost, Hon. George S 571 Fuller, Mrs. Diantha J 839 Furber, Dudley L 549 Gage, Daniel A 579 Gage, Elbridge G 912 Gage, Col. John 30-208 ( iage, Walter F 026 Gagner, Joseph 684 Galloway, Everett J 564 tiaiside, Oriinel W 046 Garvin, William R 1^83 (ielanas, A. G 791 Gilbert, Xaiiuleon H 693 (iilman, William A 62:i Glidden, Jolin A 756 (ilidden, I^eslie W' 756 Goddard, Robert H 743 Gonic Manufacturing Co., The 894 Goodwin, Charles A S89 Goodwin, Rev. Daniel B 454 Goodwin, Ezra C 862 Goodw in, James 753 (ioodwin, Irving E 678 Goss, Col. Charles C 648 ( ireen, Dr. Ezra 2l>9 (irimes, James A 771 Grant, Dr. L. E 60S Gunnison, William T 696 Gupi)ey, Jeremy B 883 (iuptili, Oscar "L 790 Haines, Hon. .Tohn N 657 Hale, Hon. John P 210 Hale, John P., Sr 39 Hale, Hon. Samuel 393 Hale, .luilgi' Samuel 394 Hale, Thomas W 396 Hale, William 211-394 Halev, Harrison 151 Hall,' Albert 1 711 Hall, Charles F 747 Hall, Col. Daniel 634 Hall, Dwight 931 Hall, Hon. Frank H 941 Hallam. Daniel W 857 Ham, Charles A 914 Ham, Edgar J 913 Ham, ,1. Herman 679 Ham, J(din T. W 898 Hanson, B. F 609 Hanson, Fred J 724 Hardy, Capt. Washington AV 8.56 Harvev, Frank A 606 Hawkes, E. M 659 Haves, Charles C 581 Hayes, Frank L 581 Hayes, S. Lyman 7S0 Henderson, Charles H 717 Henderson, Frank D 858 Henderson, Harry P 586 Herrett, David W 609 Hills, Dr. Charles W 690 Hilton, .Tudge Edward -. . 206 Hilton, William 92 Hodgdnn, Geo. F 945 Hodgdon, iloses 37 Horlor, John E 796 Horn, W. Ashton 681 Home, Jesse R 619 Hough, .\ndrew .T 782 INDEX 21 Hough, Ralph Olil) Hoiile, Hon. Fred A tiUo Huustou, James O (j.j-i Howe, Charles L (544 Howe, l-)r. James 4X2 Hughes. Cieorge T 590 Hughes, Thomas 7Si Huukiiig, Capt. Mark 377 Huntress. Dr. Eugeue W 755 Hurlhurt, Paul SO!) llussey, Charles H 745 Husey, Frank E 587 Jat-ksoii, Aui.lrew 098 Jaiksou, James A S73 Jaijues, Dr. Edwin D -S5 .lenkins, Horace \V Oi.'i Jenkins, Sarah F 947 Jenuess. Judge Bemiing W 421 Jeuness, Cyrus L 779 Jenness, Daniel F 799 Jenness, Josiah P 810 Jeuness, Hon. Samuel H 752 Jewell, Hon. John W 840 Johnson, Dennis A 748 Jones. Albert D 769 Jones, Charles M 945 Jones, Ira W 877 Jones, Jeremiah 489 .Tordau, Ichabod (! 43 Jo.v, Rev. Joseph F 440 Joyce, James H 02.S Keay, Dr. Forrest L 712 Kendall, Col. Frank L 750 Killoren, Hon. Andrew 875 Kimliall, John L 844 Kimball. .John S 772 Kimball, Ralph M 860 KiuJjall, Richard 39 Kimball, W. A 633 Kimball. William K 099 Kimball, Willard H 721 King, Arthur H 688 Kivel, Hon. John 817 Kuollys, Hanserd 207 Knowles, Dr. James 481 Knox, William H 5.55 LaPoute, Joseph 605 LaBonte, Hon. Paul 580 Laeroix, Rev. C. S 719 Lane, Edmund B 841 Lane, Edmund J 841 Lane, Robert B 932 Langley, Hon. Currier W 800 Langley, George H •■ 851 Langm'aid, L. F 797 Lamiix, Alphonse 853 Lawson, Walter S 789 Layn, Jlaurice N 769 Leathers, Alphonso D 798 Leavitt, Charles H 906 Leavitt, Charles W 833 Leighton, Edgar A 545 Libbey, John G 932 Littletield, Alphonso E 652 Littlefield, Cyrus 626 Locke, Hon. James A 745 Looney, Charles H 874 Loouey, Mrs. Emily E 874 Lord, Charles E 694 Lord, Edward F 928 Lord, Harlan P 578 Lord, Oliver H 204 Lowe, H. C 715 Lowe, C. \V 715 Lucas, John 662 Lucas, Hon. Isaac L 653 Lucey, David J 779 Lucey, James 818 Luce.y, James, Jr 755 McDuftee, George I) 677 McDuffee, Lieut.-Col. John 481 McDutfee, Willis 575 McElwain, William L 813 McGill, Patrick 560 McNallv, Hon. William F 643 Maguire, Frank B 699 Marston, William L 793 Marston, Winthrop A 43 Martin, Frank E 809 Martin, Dr. Noah 211 Mason, Mrs. Arabella 90S Mathes, Valentine 767 Mayo, Dr. Dana B 60.5 Meader, Harry H 839 .Meader, John L 851 ileader, Stephen C 893 Meader, Walter S 842 Mellen, Henry 37 Middleton, Rev. William 453 Miller, Ira 860 Miller, Winfield Scott 859 Mdlet, Capt. Thomas 208 Mitchell, Alvin 598 Mitchell, Stephen 41 Montgomery, Hon. Samuel P 423 Moonev, Col. Hercules 231-317 Morang, Hon. Charles H 906 Morgan, Christopher 720 Morgan, Dr. George P 778 Morin, Dr. Jeremiah J 731 Morrill, Joseph 703 Morrison, Harry A 705 Morrison, Dr. Thomas J 610 Morrison, Walter N 700 Morton, Hon. William H 921 Nash, Hiram A 934 Nason, Orrin E 5S8 Nason, Hon. William P 781 Neal, Edward C 677 Neal, Moses L 38 Nealley, Benjamin M 685 Nealley, John H 773 Nolette, Hon. Joseph E 7.j3 22 INDEX Nute, Hon. Alonzo 5(16 Nute, Hon. John H 91H Nutter, Dr. George W ti49 O 'Doherty, Jonn D 580 Osborne, Downing V I'.ii Otis, Charles S 8«0 Otis, Hon. Job i2- Owen, Herbert W 550 Page, Dr. William H S9(3 Page, Victor E S9ti Palmer, Orrin J (iS'2 Parker, Dr. David T 501J Parker, Dr. Henry E 537 Parry, Eobert A 812 Parsliley, Augustine S 709 Parsons, John 618 Paton, Archibald B 84:! Pattee, Dr. John K 739 Pcaslee, Joseph E 814 Peirce, Hon. Andrew 210 Perry, Hon. Henry E 683 Pike, Rev. James 219 Pike, Rev. John 207 Pike, Dr. John G 284 Pike, Hon. Eobert G '558 Pinkham, Alonzo T 806 Pinkhani, Rev. Charles L 447 Pinkham, George F 878 Pitman, Charles H 576 Place, Demeritt 432 Place, Elder Enoch 431 Plant e, A 616 Plumer, Charles 886 Plumer, Hon. Fred 627 Plumer, Hon. John 481 Plummer, Bard B 871 Plummer, Frank P 852 Pomerov, Leonard 93 Prav, Charles F 951 Pray, Moses H 941 Prescott, George N 624 Preston, Hon. Frank B 726 Pugsley, Everett A 744 Pugslej', George E 679 Randall, Rev. Benj 444 Randall, Ira A. . .' 841 Eawson, Jonathan 36 Reilly, Rev. Thomas E 553 Reyner, Rev. John 207 Richards, Benjamin T 716 Richardson, J. Edward 864 Richardson, .John A 41 Richardson, Louis M 815 Ricker, P. S 621 Ricker, Marilla M 610 Rines, William E 740 Roberts, Amasa 41 Roberts, E. E 551 Roberts, Ernest R 632 Roberts, .Judge Hiram R 279 Roberts, Howard M 909 Roberts, Hon. Joseph D 887 Roberts, Simeon B 632 Roberts, Thomas 93 Roberts, Dr. Walter J 701- Eoberts, Hon. William H 768 Rollins, Augustus 280 Rollins, Hon. Daniel G 261 Rollins, Judge Ichabod 255 Rollins, Samuel H 911 Ross, Dr. Jonathan S 285 Rounds, Holmes B 926 Roux, Raoul 624 Runnels, Rev. John S 447 Russell, Javan M 602 Russell, William F 620 Rust, Col. Henry 30 Samjison, Capt. Luther B 604 Sanders, Capt. S. S 670 Sawyer, Hon. Charles fl 770 San'j'er, .John Bo'ivne 153 Sawyer, Hon. Thomas 210 Sawyer, Thomas E 39 Sawver. William 725 Scarr, Gerald A 791 Scales, John, A. B., A. AI 600 Seavey, Hon. Albert E 582 Seavey, Andrew .J., V. S 654 Seavey, Fred F 737 Seavey, Hon. J. Frank 590 Seavey, R. F 778 Shaw, James 662 Sheppard, Joel F 545 Sherburn, Rev. Samuel 399 Sherry, Albert P 552 Shortridge, Elwill S 551 Simpson, Arthur W 949 Smallev, Fred C 712 Smith, Dr. A. Noel 580 Smith, Frank J 776 Smith, John H 40 Sawyer, Luther D 41 Snow, Anson E 835 Snow. Leslie P 835 Spaulding Brothers, Tlie 940 Spaulding. Huntley 940 Spaulding, Ix-on 940 Spauldins, Rolland 940 Spiers. Frank R 641 Springfield, George H 804 Steele, David 42 Steuerwald, J^r.uis H 663 Stevens, Hon. Edwin A 918 Stevens, F. K 741 Stevens, Hon. Sidney F 617 Stewart, Alexander 743 Stewart, Brooks D 802 Stiles, Philip H 923 Studley, Ira G 706 Sullivan, Gen. .John 35 Sullivan, John 235 312 Sullivan, Dr. Miah B 563 Sutcliffe, Prof. Frank S 944 Sweeney, I>i'. John L 587 INDEX Sylvester, Fred A 0S7 Symes, George F ^'^^ Tiisli, ( 'ol. Tliuiiias 317 Tasker, Dca. Alfred 42!l TasUer, Charles W., D. i >. t:* S.S'.t Tasker, Enoch 749 Tasker, Rev. Levi 427 Taie, Joseph -3S Teague, James F 837 Tebbetts, E. L 050 Tebhetts, Noah 42 Tebbetts, Hon. W. K 021 Tetreau, Rev. Hormisdas 816 Thomas, Ed» in H 729 Thompson, Benjamin 327 Thompson, David 79 Thompson, Jndge Ebenezer 317 Tibbetts, Edward B 659 Tibbetts, Frank L 006 Tibbetts, John W <'.S9 Tibbetts, Samuel 37 Toliey, Kev. Alvan T 293 Tolman, Dr. George A 576 Towle, James B - 730 Towle, Jeremy B 933 Townsend, Henry H 801 Townse.nd, John C 642 Tovvnsend, John E 861 Trask, Elkanah 777 Triekey, James E 925 Tripe, George A 684 Tuttle, A. Roseoe 800 Tuttle, Geo. W 937 Tuttle, Gapt. John 208 .Twombly, Hon. James AV 565 Tyler, Dr. John E 284 Underbill, Gapt. John 207 Varney, Charles W 703 Varne'y, E. K 571 Varney, Elias C 927 Varney, Hon. John R 553 Vickery, Oliver M 929 Walderne, Maj. Richard 206 Waldron, Col. Isaac 391 Waldron, Thomas W 208 Wallace, James W 719 "Wallace, Rt. Rev. Mens. T. H 719 Wallingford, Col. Thomas 235 Walnisley, William 910 Warren, Ralph A 774 Waterhonse, Prof. Sylvester 396 Watson, David W 907 Watson, John H 076 Webber, Llewellyn T 751 Welch, Hon. John T 597 Wells, Christopher H ^^43 Wells, Nathaniel : 43-259- Wendell, Isaac 257 Wentworth, Bartholomew 278 Wentworth, Bert 728 Wentworth, Fred K 003 Wentworth, Geo T '^0 Wentworth, Col. John -'''■ Wentworth, John (,J. A 047 Wentworth, Col. Jonathan 256 Wentworth, Jjcwis E '''^^ Wentworth, Col. I'anl 250 Wentwortli, Tappan 43 Wentworth, Wilbur M 650 Wentworth, Elder William 207 White, John H 39 Whiteheail, James F 671 Whitehouse, Cliarles S 759 Whitehoiisc. Charles AV • . • 754 Whitehouse. Judge George L 505 Whitehouse, Hon. Nicholas V 764 Whitehouse, William H 737 Whitteniore, Hon. Arthur G 540 Wiggin, Arthur II 810 Wiggin, Benjamin A '89 Wiggin, Orlando K S67 Wiggin, Capt. Thomas 206 Willand, Edward A S^S Willey, Charles F ''90 Willey, J. Herbert 593 Williams, John 210 Wilmot, Theodore 673 Wingate, Daniel 697 Wilson, Henry 501 Winkley, Hon. Daniel 4.30 Woodman, Charles 558 Woodman, Charles W 39 Woodman, Jeremiah H 40 Woodman, John S ^42 Worcester, Charles F 720 Worcester, Col. Horace L 741 Worster, Kirk 6^0 Wright, Georce B 651 Wyatt, Geo. H., Jr 929 York, E. J 811 York, Rev. John 453 Young, Col. Andrew H 634 JOHN s(.'alh:s History of Strafford County CHAPTER I NOTES ON ITS EARLY HISTORY As parts of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1641-3 to 1679) the towns of Dover, Strawberry Bank (Portsmouth), Hampton and Exeter were com- prised witliin Norfolk county, \\ hich was one of the four shires, viz. : Essex, Mitldlesex, Suffolk and Norfolk into which the Bay Colony was separated from "3d month, loth day, 1643." The name New Hampshire was first applied to these towns in 1679, as a province separate from Massachusetts Bay Colony, but it remained under the same Governor, having a Lieutenant-Governor of its own until 1742, when it was completely separated from Massachusetts, and Benning Wentworth was appointed Governor and held the office until 1767. During Governor Wentworth's rule the territory was all one, no counties; in his ([uarter of a century he granted a great many townships in all parts of the province and on both sides of the Connecticut river. .\II the courts were held at Ports- mouth during his tenn, so the inhabitants of these new towns had to travel long distances, over bad roads, to attend courts and transact business with the Governor and Council and the Assembly. Of course this caused them much inconvenience and no little expense. As early as January, 1755, a proposition to divide the province of New Hampshire into counties was entertained in the Assembly. The Merrimack river was to be the dividing line and there were to be two counties — Ports- mouth and Cumberland. The Council rejected the bill because it provided for a court at Exeter, as well as Portsmouth, and they "could by no means con- sent to that." The two branches of the Assembly continued to consider this C|uestion in various forms and failed to find grounds of agreement as to fletails until 1769, when the government was under control of the young Governor John Wentworth, who had succeeded his uncle, Benning Wentworth, in 1767. The agreernent as finally reached, April 29, 1769, established five counties, subject to the Crown's appro^'al of the act, which was done March 19, 1 77 1. (Laws of 1 77 1, ch. 137, p. 204.) The five counties were named 1 25 26 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY ' Rockingham, Strafford, Hillsborough, Cheshire and Grafton ; the names were conferred in honor of the Governor's friends in England. The Earl of Strafford was the Wentworth ancestor of the Governors Wentworth, uncle and nephew, so he gave the name to Strafford county. Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap, in his history for the years 1770-71, after speaking of the first commencement at Dartmouth College, in the summer of 1 77 1, says: "Another improvement was made al)out this same time, by dividing the proxince into counties. This had been long sought but could not be obtained. The inconvenience to which the people in the western parts of the province were subject, by reason of their distance from Portsmouth, where all the courts were held, was extremely burdensome ; whilst the' conveniences and emoluments of office were enjoyed by gentlemen in that vicinity. Some attempts to divide the province had been made in the former administration, but without effect. The rapid increase of inhabitants for several years made a division so necessary that it had become one of the principal subjects of debate in the Assembly, from the time of the Governor's (John W'entworth) arrival (June 13, 1767). Several sessions passed before all points could be adjusted. The number of counties and lines of division were not easily agreed to, and a punctilio of prerogation, about the erecting of courts, made some difficulty; but it was finally determined that the number of counties should be five ; and the courts were established by an act of the whole Legis- lature. It was passed with a clause suspending its operation until the King's pleasure should be known. The royal approbation being obtained, it took effect in 1771. The five counties were named by the Governor after some of his friends in England, Rockingham, Strafford, Hillsborough, Cheshire and Grafton. The counties of Straft'ord and Grafton, being much less pop- ulous than the others, were to remain annexed to the county of Rockingham until the Governor, by advice of his council, should declare them competent to the exercise of their respective jurisdictions, which was done in 1773." The act of the General Assembly, March 19, 1771, gives the boundary lines for Straft'ord county as follows : "Beginning at the northwest corner of Canterlmry, and from thence to cross the river, then down the river to Pemigewasset : then to run up Pemige- wasset river to Campton ; thence round the westerly end of Campton, and by the northerly side lines of Campton, Sandwich and Tamworth ; and thence easterly to the province line on the same course with the northerly side line of Eaton; thence down said province line to the line of the first county (Rockingham), hence by the same to the bounds first menioned." So Strafford county consisted originally of the towns of Dover, Dur- ham, Lee, Madbury, Somersworth, Rochester, Harrington, Strafford, Farm- ington. Barnstead. Gilmanton, Alton. Sanbornton. Meredith. New Hampton, AND REPRESEXTATIXE CITIZEXS 27 New Durham, Milton, Brookfield, Gilford, Wolfeborough, Moultonborough, Tuftonborough, Ossiper, Effingham, Freedom, Tamworth, Eaton, Conway and Cliatham. It retained tliis size jiractically for nearly 70 years, np to December 22, 1840, when the northerly towns were separated from it and made into two counties, Belknap and Carroll, since when its territory has remained as at present, and consists of Dover, Durham, Lee, Madbury, Somersworth, Rollinsford (which was set off from Somersworth in 1849), Harrington, Strafford, Farmingtim, New Durham, Milton and Middleton. The most northerly point is in New Durham. The county seat was established at Dover and the inhabitants of those towns had to come here long distances to attend courts until 1797, w'hen Gil- nianton was made an additional county seat, and the courts for that part of the county were held in the new Academy building which had been com- pleted in 1796. The courts were held alternately in Dover and Gilmanton, which at that date had 200 inhabitants in the center village where the academy was located ; it was then a lively place of business, and the school has been kept up in a good, working condition to the present time. In those days it was a great event in a farmer's life to serve on the grand jury. Indian trails, kept somewhat warm by hunters and trappers, were better than a trackless wilderness but they did not meet the demands of the pioneers. In 1722 a road had Ijeen cut out to the eastern shore of Lake Winnipesaukee, a block house erected and a guard stationed there. This is the first road of which we have record. No more roads were undertaken until after the peace of 1760. In June, 1786, the .Vssemljly enacted that a "post set oft' e\'ery (jther Monday from Portsmouth and from thence proceed through Newmarket, Durham, i)o\fr. Rochester, XX'akefield. Ossipec, Core and Taiuworth to Moultonljorough, thence through Meredith, Cilmanton, Barnstead, Barring- ton, Dover, Durham and Newmarket to Portsmouth. The fourth State post route, established December 6, 1791, came from Portsmouth once a fortnight via saiue route to Dover, Rochester, Wakefield. Ossipee. Tamworth, Sandwich, Centre Holderness, Plymouth, Meredith. etc., as before. The only postoffice in Strafford county until 1800 was at Dover, and the Dover papers of that period frequently contained advertise- ments of letters for residents of Tamworth, Sandwich, Wakefield and as far north as Conway, and the White Mountain region. The post rider (on horseback) received £12 a year for service on the above route, which it required a week for him to traverse. Samuel Bragg, afterwards newspaper publisher at Dover, was one of the early post riders, beginning about 1795. Postage on letters was 4 pence under forty miles, and 6 pence for every forty miles. Strafford county remained a part of Rockingham county from March 28 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 19, 1771, to February 5, 1773, in accordance with the act of the Assembly which says : "That the said counties of Strafford and Grafton shall be for tlie present (March, 1 771) annexed to and deemed and taken as parts and members of the county of Rockingham and subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the courts, magistrates and officers of the said county of Rock-' ingham to all intents and purposes and shall remain so annexed, deemed and taken and subject until the Governor by and with advice and consent of the Council shall declare them respectively sufficient for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions and no longer." At the beginning of 1773 Governor Wentworth and his Council reached conclusion that these counties had reached the point where they were "suffi- cient for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions,' and the Assembly February 5, 1773, passed the following law: "An Act for fixing the times and places for holding the courts in the county of Strafford and Grafton. "Whereas, by the act for dividing of this province into counties, Strafiford and Grafton were to be counted and taken as parts and members of the county of Rockingham until the Governor and Council siiould declare them respectively sufficient for the exercise of their respective jurisdictions; "And Whereas, the Governor by and with advice and consent of His Majesty's Council of this province, has declared the said counties sufficient for the exercise of said jurisdiction; therefore, "Be it enacted by the Gcrvernor, Council and Assembly, that the several courts in the county of Strafiford shall be held as follows, viz. : A Court of General Sessions of the Peace on the second Tuesday of January, July and October at Dover annually; and an Inferior Court of Common Pleas on the first Thursday next following the second Tuesdays of January, July and October at the same place, annually. And one Court of General Sesssions of the Peace on the second Tuesday of z"\pril, shall be held at Durham, in said county, annually; and one Inferior Court of Common Pleas on the first Tuesday next following the second Tuesday of April at said Durham annu- ally, and that a .Superior Court nf Jurisdiction l)e held at Do\-er, aforesaid, on the last Tuesday of May annually. This regulation shall continue for the term of seven years and after that time the said Superior Court to be held at Dover and Wolfeborough alternately; and the said Courts of General Ses- sions of the Peace and the said Inferior Courts of July and October to be held at Wolfeborough." Governor John Wentworth had established a grand country seat for him- self at Wolfeborough, on Lake Wentworth, a branch of Lake Winnipe- saukee, soon after he came into office. He had erected a mansion house there of the old English style of grandeur, and at great expense had con- structed a road to it. He had grand plans in view to develop the country AND REPRESENTATI\'E CITIZENS 29 around there and in the towns north of it. Hence in the act of the Assembly just quoted he liad pruvisiun made that tlie higher courts should be held there after 1780. Had C.overnor W'entwurth been permitted to carry out his grand plans the conditions in Wolfeborough, Strafford county and New Hampshire in general would have been far different from what they were from 1773 to 1800. But the Revolution began two years later and in three years Governor Wentworth was a fugitive, out of power, and the mighty con- flict of eight years was in full swing. Governor Wentworth's grand estate at Wolfeborough was confiscated; his mansion house became the abode of com- moners, and Lake Wentworth was converted into the plebeian "Smith's Pond," which title it bore for more than a century, but the ancient and proper name has been restored in these later years. So it came to pass that Wolfeborough did not become a county seat ; no courts were held there. And the courts were held at Dover and Durham, until Gilmanton was honored in 1797 and courts were held there until Strafford county was divided in 1840. The "act to constitute the counties of Belknap and Carroll," approved December 22. 1840, contained these provisions: "Belknap shall contain all the land included within the following towns and places which now constitute a part of the county of Strafford, to wit : Alton, Bamstead, Centre Harbor, Gilford, Gilmanton, Meredith, New Hampton and Sanbornton. "Carroll county shall contain all the land and waters included within the following towns and places which now constitute a part of said county of Strafford, to-wit : .\lbany, Brookfield, Chatham, Conway, Eaton, Effingham, Freedom, Moultonborough, Sandwich, Taniworth, Tuftonborough, Ossipee. Wakefield and Wolfeborough." This act reduced old Strafford county to the towns already mentioned as its present limits. The original county contained what is now one of the most popular summer resorts in New England, or in the whole country for that matter. Governor Wentworth foresaw all this when he was the last Colonial Governor, but it has been developed in a way entirely different from what he had planned. It is interesting to speculate what he would have done had he been permitted to remain in control a third of a century. STRAFFORD COUNTY COURTS The first court organized in Strafiford county under the act of February 5. 1773. was the Probate Court. It was held in the office of the register of probate, John Wentworth, Jr., Esq., which was on the ground floor of his residence. The building is now standing, on the west side of Central avenue and next south of the Belknap church. The first session of the court was held April s. '^772>^ when the will of Deliverance Hanson, widow of 30 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Joseph Hanson, was probated in due fonn. The judge was Colonel John Gage. That was the only court at which Judge Gage presided. The record of events, births, marriages and deaths kept by Joseph Tate, the schoolmaster of Somersworth, and known as "Master Tate," contains the following: "Collo Jno Gage of Dover Taken sick Wednesday night June 23d, Dy'd un Friday, June ^5 & Buried on Sunday June 27, 1773." So it appears he held the oflice only three or four months. In passing it seems proper to make a further mention of "Master Tate." He was a schoolmaster in Somersworth (that part now Rollersford), N. H. He was said to have been an Englishman. He lived to be ninety years old. While he was a schoolmaster he kept a manuscript volume headed, "Names of Families, Children's Names and Time of Birth in the Town of Somers- worth, Mar. Ye 26, 1767. '" It gives prior dates of births of children in the families then resident there and continues until 1778. The volume also contains, "Memorandums of Sundry Things, viz.. Deaths. Marriages, Dis- asters, etc." It is a very curious and valuable book. Colonel John Gage was born in Beverly, Mass., April 7, 1802. He was son of Moses and Sarah Gage. ]\Ioses was grandson of John Gage, who came to New England with John Winthrop, Jr., in 1633, and was one of the original settlers of Ipswich, Mass. His family was descended from the De Guage or Gage who was one of the Norman soldiers wlm came o\er to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. John Gage came to Dover in 1725. He married Elizabeth Roberts, great- granddaughter of Governor Thomas Roberts, one of the first settlers of Dover. They had several children, and their descendants are among the noted families of the town. John Gage was one of the leading business men of Dover for a half century. He held various town offices, and was captain of a company in the French and Indian wars. Captain Gage was elected Representative from Dover in the Provincial Assembly in 1742 and many times after that. At the time of his death he was a member of the Assembly and was in attendance as late as May 18, 1773. He was appointed colonel of the Second Regiment by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1756 and held that office until his death. He was appointed judge of probate by Governor John Wentworth in February, 1773. Colonel Gage was a close friend of both of the Governors, and popular with his fellow citizens. At the time of his sudden death he was the possessor of tliree important offices, colonel judge and Representative. Colonel Gage's successor as judge of probate was Colonel Henry Rust, who held his first court August 11, 1773. He was appointed by Governor John Wentworth in July, 1773, and held the office until January, 1776, when the Provincial officers were displaced by the Revolutionary Assembly. Colonel Rust was one of the notable men of his time. He was born AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 31 at Stratham, N. H., January _'_', 1726; he died at Wolfeborough March 17, 1807. He was son of Rev. Henry Rust, a graduate of Harvard College and the first settled minister at Stratham, in April, 17 18, which charge he held thirty-seven years. Colonel Rust was a sailor and shipmaster twenty-five years, and in that way won his title as captain. He resided at Portsmouth until about 1768, when he removed to Wolfeborough, of which town he was one of the original proprietors, ha\ing 600 acres of the best land in the town, near Rust's Ponrl. He was a close friend of Governor John Wentworth, who established his country residence in that town about the same time Captain Rust settled there, (lovernijr Wentworth ai)pi.>inted him colonel of one of the New Hampshire regiments about that time. At the death of Judge Gage he api>ointed Colonel Rust to tliat office When Colonel Rust took that office Governor Wentworth administered the "oath of allegiance" to King George III, and Judge Rust would not yield up allegiance to royal authority and never acknowledged the new republican form of government and would never accept an office under it. He believed that as he had once taken the oath of allegiance to the Crown, he could never consistendy recall it. But he was one of the best citizens of the town and of the county, and was loyal in every w^ay except in the matter of holding public office of any kind. His sons and grandsons and later descendants, however, held im- portant offices in town, county and state, with honor to themselves and profit to the common weal. The Rust family is one of the most noted of Wolfe- borough. As Judge Rust would not take the oath to support the Revolutionary Government he could not retain the office of judge of probate, or colonel of the militia. The Journal of the Assembly, Friday, January 17, 1776, reads as follows : "Voted that the persons hereafter named be and herel)y are appointed to the respective offices following, viz. : FOR THE COUNTY OF STR.\FF0RD Justices of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas: George Frost, Otis Baker, John Plummer and Moses Carr. Judge of Probate, Ichabod Rollins, Esq. Register of Probate, John Wentworth, Jr. County Treasurer, Thomas Westbrook Waldron. Justice of the Peace of the Quorum. Joseph Badger, Esq. Justices of the Peace. Ichabod Rollins, Ebenezer Smith, Daniel Beede, Joseph Senter, Thomas Parsons, Jo.seph Sias, Solomon Emerson, Simeon Dearljorn. Miles Rendall, Paul Hayes, John Wentworth, Jr.. Esq. 32 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Coroners, John Gage, Ebenezer Tibbetts, John Horn, John Cate, Jacob Brown and Edward Gihnan. JUDGES OF PROBATE Colonel John Gage, February. ^77},. to June -'5, 1773. He died very suddenly, being sick only three days. Henry Rust, June, 1773, to January, 1776; Ichabod Rollins, January 17, 1776, to December 25, 1784; Joseph Badger, December 25, 1784, to May 20, 1797; Ebenezer Smith, May 20, 1897, to February 2, 1805: John Mooney from February 2. 1805, to De- cember 20, 1824; Daniel C. Atkinson, from December 20, 1824, to July 6, 1839; Warren Lovell from July 6, 1839, to January 4, 1841 ; Benning W. Jenness from January 4, 1841, to January 3, 1846; Charles W. Woodman from January 3, 1846, to January i, 1853; Hiram R. Roberts from January I, 1853, to June 30, 1857; Daniel G. Rollins from June 30, 1857, to Sep- tember 18, 1866; James H. Edgerly from September 18, 1866, to July 7, 1872; Hiram R. Roberts from July 7, 1874, to July 18, 1874; Moses C. Rus- sell from July 18, 1874, to July 25, 1876; Jacob D. Young from July 25, 1876, to June, 1893; Robert G. Pike, 1893 to 1895; Charles B. Gafney, 1895 to 1898; Christopher H. Wells from 1898, now in office, 1913. REGISTER.S OF PROBATE The following were registers of probate for Stratford county beginning with its organization, by royal permission, in February. 1773: John Went- worth, Jr., from 1773 to 1787; William King from February 12, 1788, to 1805; William King Atkinson from February 2, 1805, to 1819; James Barf- lett from January i, 1819, to 1824: Daniel C. Atkinson from December 24. 1824. to 1836; Ira H. Eastman from June 18, 1836, to 1839; Winthrop A. Marston from 1839 to 1844; Enoch Berry from July 6, 1844, to 1849; John Hubbard White from July 6, 1849, to 1857; Asa Freeman from June 30, 1857, to 1870; William C. Woodman from July 11, 1870, to Novem- ber 19, 1870; John Riley Varney from July 19, 1870, to 1874; George E. Durgin from July 7, 1874, to 1876: John Riley Varney from July 25, 1876, to May 2, 1882, when he was killed by the falling of the brick wall of the Washington Street Free Will Baptist Church; John Tapley Welch from 1883 to 1887; Charles Sumner Clifford from July, 1887, to April i, 1893; William W. Martin, April, 1893, is now serving his twenty-first consecutive year, the longest any one has held the office. Mr. Martin is a good penman, thorough in the knowledge of the law and careful in keeping the records. The first register of probate was John Wentworth, Jr., who was born in Somersworth July 14, 1745; graduated from Harvard College in 1768; o AND REPRESENTATRE CITIZENS 35 read law witli William Parker, Esq., of Portsmouth and opened a law office in Dover in 1771. He was the first lawyer in Dover and the second one in Strafford county, the first heing Gen. John Sullivan of Dunham, who opened an office there in 1/<>S- Before that all the lawyers in New Hamp- shire lived at Portsmouth where all the courts were held. Mr. Wentworth was son of Col. John Wentworth, one of the most distinguished patriots of the Revolutionary period, Mr. Wentworth opened his law office in Dover in 1771, in the house that now stands on Central avenue, on the west side, next south of the Belknap church. In July that year he married Margaret Frost of Newcastle; the fourth of November following he bought the house; he had his residence in the second story, over his office. When the county was organized the office of register of probate was one of the prizes .sought for; Mr. Went- worth applied for it and his third cousin, Governor John W^entworth, gave it to him. He held it to the time of his death, January 10, 1787, at the age of forty-two years. In the revolutionary movements which began to exhibit themselves overtly in 1774, he took no passive part. He was chosen one of the com- mittee of correspondence of Dover, and in 1776 to his seat in the Assembly which elected him register of probate, with the other county officers pre- viously mentioned. He served there as Representative continuously until 1 781 : then in the Council till December, 1783, and in the Senate from June, 1784, to 1786. The last ten years of his life he was chosen moderator at nearly every annual town meeting in Dover. March 14, 1778, he was chosen delegate to the Continental Congress, and he affixed his signature to the original Articles of Confederation of the United States in August, that year. He was twice reelected to Congress, but feeble health prevented his attendance much of the time. Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth had four sons and three daughters. His youngest son, Paul W'entworth, had a distinguished son who was one of the early settlers in Chicago. He is known by the popular name, "Long" John Wentworth, as he was a giant in stature, as well as in intellect, and as a newspaper manager and political leader. .■\TT0RNF.YS-.\T-LAW The attomeys-at-law who practiced at the Strafford county bar, during the three-quarters of a century from 1773 to 1850, were for the most part college educated men, and in their profession ranged second to those of no other county in the state. A brief mention of each during that period is given in the following pages. General John Sullivan of Durham takes rank as the first, and, in many 36 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY ways, the ablest of the whole list; was son of John and Margery (Brown) Sullivan; born, Somersworth, February i8, 1740; practiced in Durham; died there. January Ji,. 1795. His father was a famous schoolmaster of liberal education, and all the boys who went to college from this section of New Hampshire and York county, Maine, received their preparatory instruc- tion from him. Master Sullivan was a wonderful man. He did not need to send his son John to college for an education ; he gave him as good as a college training right at home. He read law with Samuel Livennore at Portsmouth and commenced practice soon after he was twenty-one years old, so his professional ser\ices antedate the organization of courts in Strafford county more than a decade of years. His residence was at Durham but he practiced in the courts of Portsmouth, and in York county, Maine, and when the courts opened at Dover in 1773 he stood at the front of the practition- ers. He was so able and successful that he had accumulated an ample fortune at the opening of the Revolution. As has before been stated he and John Wcntworth, Jr., of Dover were the only lawyers in Strafford county when it was organized. General Sullivan was a great lawyer, a great soldier and a sound patriot. He was an important factor in a multitude of important events from 1774 to his death in 1795, when he was only fifty-five years old. In 1774 he was a delegate to the first Continental Congress, and headed a party in the earliest anned resistance to the royal authority at Fort William and Mary; in 1775 he was again a delegate in Congress, was appointed a brigadier-gen- eral in the American army, and commanded the New Hampshire troops at Winter Hill; in 1776 he was promoted to major-general, was taken prisoner in the battle of Long Island, exchanged and conducted the retreat of the American troops from Canada; in 1777 he distinguished himself at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown; in 1778 he commanded the army in the Rhode Island campaign; in 1779 he was in command of the expedition which completely wiped out the Indian settlements in \\'estern New York, and that same year he resigned his commission in the army. In 1780 and 1781 he was again a member of Congress; from 1782 to 1785, inclusive, he was Attorney-General of New Hampshire; in 1788 he was Speaker of the State House of Representatives, and president of the convention which rati- fied the United States Constitution; in 1789 he was President of New Hamp- shire (as the Governor was then called) and that year was commissioned Judge of the District Court of the United States, which office he held till his death. Jonathan Razvson; son of Rev. Grindall Rawson ; bom in Yarmouth, Mass., 1759. Served in the Revolutionary war. Studied law with Peter Green of Concord; commenced practice of law at Nottingham, 1783; settled in Dover in 1785 and practiced his i)rofession there until his death in 1794. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 37 Henry Mdlcn; son of Rev. John Mellen and brother of the distinguished Judge Mellen of Maine. Born in Sterling, Mass., October 24, 1757; grad- uated from Harvard College 17S4. Studied law with I'eter Greene, Esq., of Concord. Commenced practice of law at Dover, 1786, and continued here until his death, July 31, 1S09. He was a man of much literary ability aside from his professional career. William King Atkinson, son of William King of Portsmouth, but as- sumed the name Atkinson by act of the Legislature to comply with a devise of his uncle whereby he inherited the valuable estate of his kinsman, Theo- dore Atkinson, of Colonial fame. He graduated from Harvard College in 1783. Studied law with Judge Pickering of Portsmouth. Settled in Dover in 1787 and continued in practice here until his death. September, 1820. County solicitor, 1789-1803; Justice of Superior Court, 1803-1806; Attor- ney-General, 1807-1812. Ele was a man of much learning and great force of character. Charles Claphain was English by birth; studied law in the otiice of Jona- than Rawson. Esq. He was law partner with Mr. Rawson several years in Dover, until Mr. Rawson's death in 1794. He then left Dover and gave up the practice of law to enter the British Navy in which he rose to the rank of an officer, and died an ofiicer of a man-of-war. Dai'iil Co/^p. Jr., son of David Copp of Wakefield, where he was born in 1770; graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy; studied law with Judge Atkinson; practiced his profession in Do\er from 1797 to 1S04. Reumved to New Orleans, where he died. Daniel Meseriu- Diirell. sdu nf Nicholas Durell of Lee. where he was bom July 20, 1769. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1794; studied law at Dover with Henry Mellen. Esq. ; commenced practice in that town in 1797 and so contiiuied until his death, April 29, 1S41. He was member of Congress from 1S07 to 1809: member of the Legislature several ■years; Chief Justice of Circuit Court of Common Pleas, 1816-21 ; LTnited States District Attorney-General, 1830-34. He died at Dover April 29, 1841. Oliver Crosby, son of Oliver Crosby of Billerica, Mass., where he was born, March 17, 1769; graduated from Harvard College in 1795; studied law with Judge Atkinson at Dover; commenced practice of his pro- fession at Dover in 1798, and remained in practice there until he removed to Atkinson, Maine, in 1821, where he resided until his death in 18=51. Samuel Tibbetts, son of Maj. Ebenezer Tibbetts of Rochester, where he was born in 1780; graduated from Harvard College in 1799. He was admitted to the bar in 1802, and practiced his profession in Dover until his death in 1810. Moses Hodgdon, son of Shadrach Elodgdon of Dover; he was born there; graduated from Harvard College; studied law and commenced prac- 38 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY tice in Dover about 1800 and so continued imtil his death, October 9, 1840. He was author of the law book, "The Complete Justice of the Peace, etc.," wliich had a large sale. Moses Lcai'itt Kcal, son of John Neal of Hampton, where he was born in 1767; graduated from Harvard College in 1785; studied law with Hon. John Prentice of Londonderry; commenced practice of law in that town in 1793; removed to Rochester in I79f>: practiced his profession there until 1806, when he removed to Do\er. Clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, by annual elections, from 1809 until 1828. He died in 1829. Charles Woodman, son of Rev. Joseph Woodman of Sanbornton, where he was bom, January 4, 1792; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1813; studied law with his brother, J. H. Woodman, Escj., and with Hon. Christo- pher Gove. He opened an office in Dover in 1816. Representative in the Legislature, 1820, 1821, 1822; Speaker of the House, 1822. Died October 30, 1822. He was one of the most brilliant young lawyers Dover ever had. Asa Freeman was I)orn in Hanover. January, 1788, son of Hon. Jona- than Freeman; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1810; studied law with his brother, Peyton R. Freeman, of Portsmouth and with Isaac Lyman, Esq., of York, Maine, and first began practice in that village; opened an office in Dover in 1818 and resided here until his death, Decemljer 8, 1867, engaged in the practice of his profession. He was member from Dover in the Constitutional Convention in 1850; United States Commissioner several years; register of probate from 1862 to 1867, when he died. Daniel Miltiniore Christie was born in Antrim, New Hampshire, October 13, 1790, son of Samuel and Ziboah (Warren) Christie; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1815. He read law with James Walker, Esq., of Peterborough; commenced practice of his profession in York, Maine, in 1818; removed to Dover, N. H., in 1823, where he resided in the practice of his pro- fession until his death, December 8, 1S76. He represented Dover in the Legis- lature in 1826, 1827, 1828, 1830. 1831, and several times after that. Dart- mouth College conferred on him the degree of LL. D. in 1857. He was Lhiited States District Attorney several years. He was one of the most eminent lawyers the county ever had. John Parker Hale was bom in Rochester March 31, 1806, son of John Parker Hale. He died in Dover, November 19, 1873, of which town he had been a resident from 1827, the year he graduated from Bowdoin College. He studied law with Daniel M. Christie and was admitted to the bar in 1830, and opened his law office in Dover, but soon engaged in politics and was elected Representative in the Legislature of 1832. He was appointed United States District Attorney in 1834 and held the office until 1841 ; member of Congress, 1842-1846; United States Senator, 1846-1852, being AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 39 Speaker of the House of wliich lie was a member from Dover when he was elected Senator; again elected Senator in 1855 to fill out the unexpired temi of Charles Atherton, and in 1858 was chosen for the third time and held his seat in tlie Senate till the spring of 1865. He was minister to Spam from the spring of 1865, four years. The remaining four years of his life were spent (piietly in his home in Dover. He was the Free Soil candidate for President in 185J. Mr. Hale was one of Dover's most distinguished citizens. Thomas Elkvood Sazvycr, son of Stephen Sawyer, was born in Dover November 21, 1798; he studied law with Hon. Charles Woodman and Hon. James Bartlett of Dover and was admitted to the bar in 1825 and opened his law office that year, which was not closed till his death, February 27, 1879. His career as a politician was very notable, more so than his career as an attorney. He was assistant clerk of the House of New Hampshire Legislature in 1822; member of the E.xecutive Council, 1830 and 183 1; be- tween 1833 and 1850 he was ten times elected Representative to the General Court; member of the Constitutional Convention of 1S50; in 185 1 anithrop A. Marston. son of John Marston of Nottingham, where he was born in 1801 : read law in the office of Stephen Mitchell, Esq., at Durham; opened an office in Somersworth in 1830: resided there the rest of his life, except two years spent in Dover. During the later years of his life he was in partnership with Royal R. Eastman, Esq. The firm of Marston & Eastman was a very strong one and had a large practice in and out of the courts in Strafford county and York county, Maine. His death was sudden on March 30, 1 85 1. Ichabod Goodzvin Jordan, son of Capt. Ichabod Jordan of Saco, Maine, where he was born October 6, 1806; graduated from Bowdoin in 1827; studied law and began practice in Somersworth in 1830 and resided there until 1864, when he removed across the rover to Berwick, Maine, where he resided initil his death. He was State Senator in New Hampshire in 1853 and 1854. John Adams Burleigh, son of John Burleigh of Deerfield, was born there Jainiary 2, 1800. He was fitted to enter Yale College but took up the study of law instead, under the direction of his brother, Hon. William A. Burleigh of South Berwick, Maine; commenced practice of his profession in South Berwick in 1824 and resided there eight years; removed to Somersworth in 18^2. where he practiced law six years, and then became agent of tlie Great Falls Manufacturing Company, which business he managed with great suc- cess until his death August 22, i860. He was one of the great managers of mills of the country. 44 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY George William Burleigh, son of John Adams Burleigh, was born in South Berwick, Maine, April ii, 1830; graduated from Dartmouth College in 185 1 ; read law with Wells & Bell at Somersworth ; admitted to the Strafford county bar in 1854 and became partner of Mr. Wells, Mr. Bell having withdrawn. He succeeded his father as agent of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company in i860, which position he held until 1874, when he resigned and resumed practice of law. He was Representative in the General Court of New Hamp- shire in 1863 and 1864; State Senator 1S65 and 1866. He was member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and a trustee of Dartmouth College. He was also director in several railroads and in the Great Falls National Bank, and the Somersworth sax'ings bank. He died .\pril 25. 1878. Royal Eastman, son of Richard Eastman of Talmouth, Maine, was born there January 2-j, 1816; read law with Nathaniel \\€i\% of Somersworth and was admitted to the Strafford county bar in 1844, and opened an office in that town, where he practiced his profession successfully many years. He was appointed postmaster in 1870 and held the office until his death, February 2, 1874. William J. Copcland, son of Rev. William H. Copeland, was born in Albion, Maine, January 24, 1841 ; read law with Hon. Increase S. Kimball of Sanford, Maine; was admitted to the bar in Maine about i860, and prac- ticed his profession in that state until April, 1868, when he opened an office in Somersworth and remained in practice there until his death. He was one of the remarkable men and ablest lawyers at the Strafford county bar. In the later years of his practice he had James A. Edgerly, Esq., as his partner. This law firm was one of the strongest in the county for a number of years. Mr. Copeland flied in 1S86. Mr. Edgerly continued in successful practice until his death in 1908. Following are the Strafford county lawyers of the later period, most of whom are living, but only a few reside here at the present time (1913). The record is from February. 1894. to August, 1913. Adams, James E., Dover; Amey, Harry B., Mihon Mills; Blackburn, Frank E., Dover; Boyer, Edmund S., Somersworth; Bragdon, Oscar H., Somersworth; Brown, Fred H.. Somersworth; Cartier, George E.. Roches- ter; Cochrane, George E. (dec'd), Rochester; Dearborn, Samuel L., Roches- ter; Doe, Robert, Dover; Edgerly, James A. (dec'd), Somersworth; Emery, Justin A., Rochester; Fairfield, Orren R., Somersworth; Felker, Samuel D., Rochester; Femald, Frank F., Dover; Folsom, Ernest B., Dover; Foote, Arthur L., Dover; Frost, George S., Dover; Gafney, Charles B. f dec'd), Rochester; Galloway, Everett J., Dover; Gunnison. William T., Rochester; Hall, Arthur W., Dover; Hall, Daniel. Dover; Hall, Dwight. Dover; Hall, Joshua G. fdec'd), Dover; Hayes, Eugene B., Farmington ; Hughes. George T., Dover; Jones, Albert D.. Rochester; Kimball, Henry. Rochester; Kivel, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 45 John, Dover; Knapp, William D. (dec'd), Soniersworth; Marsh, Forrest L., Milton Mills; Mathews, William S., Soniersworth; McCabe, James H., Dover; McGill, Laurence V., Rochester; Moore, Harry V., Soniersworth; Nason, William F., Dover; Parker, Samuel S., Farmington; Pearl, Isaac E., Rtichester; Pierce, Da\i(l R., Soniersworth; Pierce, William S., Dover; Pike, Robert G., Dover; Putney, Clifton C, Dover; Roberts, William H,, Dover; Russell, William F., Soniersworth; Ryan, James, Jr. (dec'd), Dover; Scott, Walter Vv., Dover; Sherry, Albert P., Dover; Smart, Elmer J., Rochester; Smith, Harold M,, Rochester; Smith, Sidney B., Soniersworth; Snow, Leslie, P., Rochester; Stevens, Sidney B., Somersworth; Sunderland, John, Jr,, Dover; Templeton, Ernest G., Rochester; Tibbetts, George E., Soniersworth; Turner, Henry C, Rochester; Whittemore, Arthur G., Dover; Wiggin, Arthur H.. Farmington; Worcester, Joseph H. (dec"d), Rochester; Wright, William, Rochester. COUNTY SOLICITORS There was no county solicitor, as such, up to 1789, but the office was created by the Legislature that 3^ear, and William King Atkinson, a young lawyer who had been recently admitted to the bar, was appointed by the Gov- ernor and Council. He held the office until 1803, inclusive. His successors were as follows: Stephen Moody, 1803-1819; Lyman B. Walker, 1819-1834; Winthrop A. Marston, 1834-1835; Warren Lovell, 1835-1841 ; Charles W. Woodman, 1841-1846; Samuel Clark, 1S46-1855; Charles Doe, 1855-1857; Walcott Hamlin, 1857-1862; Louis Bell, 1862, who resigned his office to become colonel of a New Hampshire regiment and left for the war in 1863; Joshua Gilnian Hall, 1863-1875; Thomas J. Smith, 1875-1876; Charles B. Shackford. 1876-1881 ; William R. Burleigh, 18S1-1887; John Kivel, 1887- 1892; William F. Nason, 1892-1898; Walter W. Scott, 1898-1904; Dwight Hall, 1904-1910; George T. Hughes, 1910, now in ofiice. .SHERIFFS FOR STRAFFORD COUXTV Theophilus Dame, 1773-1S00; James Carr, 1800-1810; Daniel Barker, 1810-1820; William Badger, 1820-1S30; John Chadwick, 1830-1835; Ben- ning Wcntwnrth Jenness, 1835-1840: Ezekiel Hurrl, 1S40-1845: Gorham W. Hoitt, 1845-1850; George McDaniel, 1850-1855; George \X. Brashridge, 1855-1856; Nathaniel Wiggin, 1856-1866; Luther Hayes, 1866-1871; Joseph Jones, 1871-1875: John \^^ Iwell, 1S75-1876; Stephen S. Cliick. 1876- 1879; John Greenfield, 1879-1887; John G. Johnson, 1887-1889; John H. Pingree, 1889-1891 ; William S. Hayes, 1891-1892; Bard B. Plummer, 1892- 46 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 1894; James E. Hayes, 1894-1900; George \V. Parker, 1900-1906; Frank I. Smith, 1906-1912; Edward S. Young in office, 1913. REGISTERS OF DEEDS Thomas W'estljronk W'aldron, 1773-17H5; John Smith 3d, 1785-1791: William Smith, 1791-1793; John P. Gilman. 1793-1803; J. C. March, 1803- 1811; Dominicus Hanson, 1811-1816; Moses L. Neal, 1816-1829; Joseph Cross, 1829-1833; George L. Whitehouse, 1833-1839; Thomas T. Edgerly, 1839-1841; James B. Edgerly, 1841-1843: Charles Young, 1843-1845; S. Varney, 1845-1850; Charles Young, 1830-185 1 ; Elijah Wadleigh Wadleigh, 1851-1855; Andrew H. Young, 1855-1859; David W. Parshley, 1859-1863; John S. Hayes, 1863-1868; Nahum Yeaton, 1868-1872; E. H. Twombly, 1872- 1878; Joseph A. Jackson. 1878-1879; Frank F. S. Tompkins, 1879-1913. Mr. Tompkins has ser\'ed thirty-four consecutive years and surpasses all previous records in length of time. He is an excellent penman, a courteous gentleman and accurate in all his records and transcripts of the same. JUSTICES OE THE COURT OF COMMON PLE.AS John Wentworth. 1773-1775; George Frost, 1773-1793; Otis Baker, 1773- 1785; John Plumer, 1773-1796; Moses Carr, 1776-1784; EI>enezer Smith, 1784-1787; Thomas Cogswell, 1784-1810; Ebenezer Thompson, 1788-1795; Joseph Pierce, 1793- 1794; Samuel Hale, 1 794-1 81 3; Daniel Beede, 1795- 1799; El)entzer Thompson, 1796-1802; Nathaniel Hoitt, 1796-1813; Aaron Wingate. 1803-1813; William Badger, 1816-1820; Richard Dame, 1817- 1819; Valentine Smith, 1819-1820; Samuel Ouales, 1820; Henry Y. Simp- son, 1833-1841 ; Henry B. Rust, 1833-1838; Ezekiel Hurd, 1838-1840; Hiram R. Roberts, 1840-1853; George L. Whitehouse, 1841-1853 : James H. Edgerly, 1853-1854; Charles William Woodman, 1854-1855. CLERKS OF COURTS OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Ebenezer Thompson, 1783-1788; Benjamin Thompson, 1788-1814; Daniel Waldron, 1814-1818; Andrew Peirce. 1818-1833; Francis Cogswell, 1833- 1841; John H. Smith, 1841-1853; Reuben Hayes, Jr., 1853-1857; John R. Varney, 1857-1860; George H. Niebuhr, 1860-1866; Daniel Hall, 1866-1875; James M. Folsom, 1875-1876; George E. Durgin, 1876, resigned July, 1904; William H. Roberts, August, 1904. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 47 CLERKS OF SUPREME COURT George King, 1774-1780; Samuel Sherburne, 1 780-1 781 ; Nathaniel Adams, 1781-1817; Daniel Waldron, 1817-1821; Andrew Peirce, 1821-1834; Francis Cogswell, 1834-1835. COUNCILLORS FROM 1 776 TO 1 784 Tlie Council, which was organized by the Revolutionary Assembly January 5, 1776, and continued until the Constitution was adopted in 1784, had the following Strafford county men: From 1776 to 1780, Col. John Wentworth of Somersworth, and Ebenezer Thompson of Durham; in 1789, John Went- worth and George Frost of Durham; in 1782 and 1783, George Frost and John Wentworth, Jr., of Dover; in 1784, George Frost and Ebenezer Thompson. CHAPTER II CONCERNING COURTHOUSES AND JAILS When the Assembly passed the law, February 5, 1773, to organize courts in Strafford and Grafton counties, one of the conditions was that at the county seat a courthouse and a jail must be provided inside of four months. Dover complied with the terms by granting permission to hold the courts in the First Parish Meeting House, and by constructing a jail on the east side of what is now Central avenue and on the side of the hill where Mrs. John H. Henderson's house stands at the comer of South Pine street and Central avenue. It was built of very thick, white oak plank, and the job was so thor- oughly done that no prisoner ever escaped from it, till set free by the law. So that hill received the name of "Jail Hill," which it bore for more than a century, and it is sometimes now so called. The Meeting House in which the courts were held was of wood and stood where the present ]>rick house near the comer of Central avenue and Silver street stands. It was built in 1758, so was a comparatively new edifice. Besides being a place of worship for the First Parish and First Church, it was the place in which town meetings were held. This had been the order of things from the beginning of settlement on Dover Neck in 1633 ; the town and the parish were one. The first court was held there, as provided in the law of February 5, 1773, and so continued for fifteen years or a little more, when a regular courthouse and town house was built, which building is now standing on the easterly side of the square, opposite the First Parish ^Meeting House. It is now occu- pied, on the first floor, by Bradley's garage. That square is called Tuttle square, in honor of Capt. John Tuttle, one of the ancient worthies of the town, a century before the courthouse was built. So the town and the county were joint owners and joint occu])ants. The first town meeting was held there November 23, 1789; Col. John \\'aklron was moderator. This "old courthouse" is one of the historic houses of the city. The June session of the Legislature was held there in 1792, so Dover was the capital of New Hampshire. The courts were held there for more than a half cen- tury, until 1843. In its court room many famous lawyers addressed juries. Not only the lawyers of Strafford county, but others came here in the trials of important cases. Among the number were Daniel Webster, Jeremiah 48 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 49 Mason, Ichabod Bartlett, George Sullivan, and Jeremiah Smith. Great legal battles were fought there by the giants of those days. Previous to 1840, when the old county was divided, the town of Rochester made repeated attempts to get the Legislature to remove the courts to that town and make it the county seat, the shire town. The zealous citizens of "Norway Plains" represented to the general court that Rochester was much nearer the center of population; that it was easier of access; and made tempt- ing pecuniary offers to have the courthouse located at the "Plains." The result of all this agitation was that Dover was compelled to build a new town house to be used jointly by the town and county for town meetings and court sessions, with provisions for jiroperly keeping the records of both. It required a good deal of discussion, diplomacy and some political dealing to induce the others towns to join with Dover and continue this as the shire town. But it was done and the corner-stone of the town hall and courthouse (under the same roof) was laid September 29, 1842; John P. Hale, then Congressman, and later United States Senator, delivered the address, a very eloquent oration. The first meeting was held in it July 4, 1843. It was a temperance meeting and several interesting addresses were delivered. It was held under the auspices of the Martha Washington Temperance Society. The hall was crowded and addresses were made by Dr. Nathaniel Low, Col. Andrew Peirce, John P. Hale, Rev. Enoch Mack, Samuel H. Parker, J. R. Kimball and George T. Wentworth. This was appropriate, for the small wooden build- ing which had stood on that corner, and partly over the brook, was a liquor shop, and an intoxicated man had been drowned in the brook. The Masonic Temple now stands on that lot and the brook, a large stream of water, nms under Washington street in a big sewer. The last annual town meeting held in the old courthouse was on March 14 1843 and one to draw iurors was July 22, following. The first town meeting was held in the new building July 24, 1843- and the courts m the fol- lowing September. The courts continued to be held there undisturbed until November 23 1866. A ball was held in the hall over the court room that night and about an hour after midnight the building was discovered to be on fire and was partially destroyed on the interior, the walls remaining stand- ing No records were destroyed. This was repaired and came into use again \pril 18 1867 The courts continued to be held there until March 22, 1889, when a 'fire occurred which totally destroyed the building, and the courts were held temporarily in another building in the city, known as Walker hall, corner of Locust and Washington streets. The city of Rochester, soon after the fire, commenced a campaign of agita- tion to have that citv made the shire town and take the courts away from Dover A meeting of the representatives in the county was called and he d in Walker hall April 8, 1889, to consider the question and decide what should 50 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY be done. At this meeting it was voted to have a separate building, wherever it might be located. Certain committees were appointed and the convention then adjourned to April 24 to hear at that time what proposition Rochester might have to present. At the adjourned meeting the Rochester committee read the following, as a correct copy of the records of the Rochester town meeting, held April 22 : "Voted, on motion of John Young, in writing, that the town build a court- house in connection with its town hall, or build one separately, as may be deemed advisable, also all necessary and proper county buildings and offices, free of expense to the county, provided that the Legislature, it its next session, will authorize the same and change the shire town of the county from Dover to RcKhester. And that Ebenezer G. Wallace, Stephen D. Wentworth and George F. Richardson be a committee on the part of the town to locate and purchase a suitable lot or lots, and to apply for all necessary legislation and to erect said buildings and pledge the credit of the town therefor." Mayor B. F. Neally of Dover addressed the convention and presented the following resolution : "Resolved, by the city council of the city of Dover: That the city of Dover purchase and donate to the county of Strafford a lot in said city, suit- able for the erection of a courthouse and county offices, and such as said county may elect, provided the cost of the same shall not exceed ten thousand dollars." The proposition offered by the city of Dover was accepted, although the Rochester party made a hot fight for the adoption of the offer made by that city. The convention appropriated $30,000 for construction of the courthouse. The lot given is a large and beautifully located tract of land, between First and Second streets, and in the rear of National block on Central avenue. It is an historic spot, as here was where Maj. Richard W'aldron's garrison stood which was destroyed by the Indians June 28, 1689, and the Major was mur- dered in a torturing manner bj- the savages. This courthouse and county seat contest between Rochester and Dover began a hundred years before it ended as above described. It does not seem probable that it will be renewed as everybody seems to be satisfied with the present arrangement. The county commissioners in their report April 30, 1890, said: "The new courthouse is practically completed, the interior arrangement of which is very convenient. The material used in the construc- tion of the interior of the building and the workmanship, is first class: the amount expended to date is $34,678.79." The commissioners were George P. Demeritt. John F. Rowe and Dwight E. Edgerly, who had charge of the construction. AND REPRESENTATR'E CITIZENS 51 STRAFFORD COUNTY JAILS The first jail in 1773, as has been stated, was built of white oak plank four inches thick. It was a one-story structure and stood on "Jail Hill," on the east side of what is now called Central avenue, near where Mrs. John H. Hender- son's house stands at the junction of South Pine street with the avenue. It was in use for about sixty years, when the citizens of the county began to demand something better and stronger than the old one, notwithstanding that had done good service and no prisoner had escaped from it until the law had set him free. The outcome of this public demand for a new jail was the erection of the stone structure on Silver street, with a brick house for the residence of the jailkeeper and his family. At the east end of the stone structure was a large yard, surrounded by a high board fence, inside of which the prisoners could have liberty for exercise, with no chance for escape from imprisonment. Silver street is one of the fashionable as well as the oldest in Dover. The residents grew weary of having those prison walls to look at as they passed and repassed it many times a day. Moreover, they took no pride in showing it to visitors. Finally the demand for its removal became so outspoken that at a meeting of the Strafford county delegation of representatives held at Concord, August 24, 1887, the sum of $25,000 ^as raised and appropriated, along with the proceeds of the sale of the old jail and lot. for the purjwse of building a new jail. Previous to that the city of Dover had very creditably and very liberally deeded the county five acres of land, located on a hill on the south side of the Cochecho ri\"er, one of the most beautiful spots in tiie city, and removed cjuite a distance from all dwelling houses and factories. It is well adapted for the use for which it was given. In the fall of that year a contract was signed with the Pauly Jail Company of St. Louis for the build- ing of a rotary jail, connected with a house for the jailor. In their rejjort the county commissioners, Benjamin F. Hanson, George P. Demerilt and Joseph D. Roberts, say: "We presume that before another year the old jail, that has stood as a disgrace and dishonor to the fair name of Strafford county, will be replaced by one of the most modern in New England." The construction was completed in 1888. The old jail property was sold for about $5,000. The stone from the jail can now be seen in the wall on the north side of the Cochecho river, extending from the Manufacturing Company's coal yard easterly toward the Central avenue bridge. The new jail was completed in 1888 and the prisoners were taken from the old jail in January, 1889. The jailor then was Charles K. Meserve, who con- tinued in office up to April i that year, when he was succeeded by John H. Pingree. Jailor Meser\"e held the office nine years in succession and was a very efficient official. No prisoners were successful in playing any tricks on 52 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY him, and they were sure not to make any attempt a second time. Jailor Meserve was a stern man, but never cruel to his prisoners. He maintained military discipline during his nine years' service. Since his term the sheriffs have performed the duty of jailer, in person, residing in the house annexed to the jail, a beautiful, comfortable and pleasantly located dwelling house. THE COUNTY ALMSHOUSE In the beginning of Strafford county there were not many poor folks who had to be cared for at the public expense ; here and there, now and then, there was one and all such were cared for in private families. As the years went by conditions changed; town paupers began to appear; soon they became so numerous that each town was compelled, by law, to provide a "Poor Farm" and pay a man and his wife to manage it, and take care of all the town paupers. Then ensued a period of hustling by the selectmen of each town to "shunt" the paupers onto other towns of the county whenever possible. But as a general tiling the poor on these farms were well cared for, had plenty to eat and drink, perhaps too much cider at times, and plenty of clothing to keep them w arm in w inter. This arrangement continued for many years. But all the time the selectmen kept a sharp outlook at the ancestry of each pauper and shoved as many of them as possible onto the county for support. The result of this procedure was that the counties felt obliged to establish county farms where they could properly care for their poor, instead of paying the various towns to do it. In fact the conclusion was reached that the towns charged the county too much for board and lodging. The outcome was that in 1866 the Legislature authorized the counties to purchase farms and fit up houses to properly care for the support of the "county paupers," instead of paying the towns for doing it. The commissioners for Strafford county to inaugurate this change in 1866 were Joseph F. Lawrence of Lee, Andrew Rollins of Rollinsford and LTriah Wiggin of Dover. The first two mentioned were brothers-in-law. Mr. Law- rence in later years removed to Chicago, 111., and became one of the influential men of the city and resided there until his death in 1910. It was estimated that he was a millionaire at the time of his death. I\Ir. Wiggin died several years ago. Mr. Rollins, at four score and two years, is still active on his big fami in Rollinsford. These gentlemen, by the authority given them, purchased the John Trickey farm, located on tlie n(_irth side of the Ci)checho river, in Dover, but about four miles from the city hall. They took possession May 21, 1866, and employed Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius E. Caswell to live in the large famihouse, care for the poor and carry on the fann. The farm contained 165 acres, ninety of which were in one field, along the bank of the river, a magnificent tract AND REPRESENTATI\'E CITIZENS 53 of land, which has produced enormous crops year after year ever since. Not long after that they purchased the Timothy Sneh farm adjoining it on the north. The commissioners in their report said the cost of boarding each pauper was $1.50 a week. Soon the old farmiiouse was displaced by a large brick edifice, for the better accommodation of the poor and for the superintendent and his wife. In 1868 the county farm scheme had come into so much favor that nearly all the towns had sold their farms and were board- ing their paupers at the county's establishment. In the first published report, 1867, they estimated the whole property at $43,144.80; the Trickey farm hav- ing cost $9,500, Snell farm $6,000, and the new house $16,000. At the last report ending with the year 191 2, the total valuation was set at $146,243.33, divided as follows: Farm buildings and fixtures, $83,000; house of correction, $24,000; personal property, $39,243.33; jail lot and buildings, $35,840.81; ccuirthouse, lot and li.xtures, $43,948.57. Soon after the beginning a small number of paupers were insane, and these were supported at the state asylum in Concord at a cost of $5 a week; so the commissioners decided that such as were incurably insane might be properly cared for in a house the commissioners could fit up, separate from the main establishment. One of the buildings that was on the Snell farm was fitted up for the purpose, and the unfortunate ones were confined in it and cared for by a humane superintendent, equally as well as at the Concord establishment, and at much less ex])ense. As the years went by the number of paupers of this kind increased ; the asylum had to Ijc enlarged, but there never was any complaint that it was badly managed, or that the inmates received improper or cruel treatment. All went along well, Mr. and Mrs. Caswell in charge of the main establishment and an efiicient assistant under him in charge of the insane asylum. All moved along smoothly and satisfactorily under Mr. Caswell's man- agement, who was superintendent from 1867 to 1880, when he died. His successor was William T. \A'entworth, who was a good manager and held the office seven years, 1880-1887. Following him Josiah G. Stiles held the office three years, 1S87-1890. His successor was Charles E. Demeritt, who was superintendent three years, 1890-1893. The present superintendent, Edward A. \\'illand, came into office April i, 1893, and held the office ten years; the following six years were filled by R. M. Handy; since then Mr. Willand has held the office to date, and his term does not expire until 1914. He is a very efficient and popular manager. All moved along smoothly until the third year of Superintendent Demer- itt's term. His assistant manager was William P. Driscoll, who had special care of the insane asylum, he and his wife residing in one apartment of that building. For some reason not explained a very bad feeling had arisen between them before the winter of 1893. Demeritt gave up all control of the 54 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY insane and the management of the asylum to Driscoll. The result of these disagreements was disastrous. On the night of March 9, 1893, a most calamitous event occurred. The insane asylum was burned to ashes, and forty-one of the forty-four inmates were cremated. It was the most awful sight witnessed in Dover since burn- ing of Maj. Richard Walderne's garrison two centuries before when the Indians cremated him and a number of other Dover citizens. Soon after the fire the State Board of Health visited the county farm and made a thorough investigation. The board consisted of the following gentlemen; John B. Smith, E. G. Eastman, James A. Weston, G. P. Cann, John J. Berry and Irving A. Watson. March 8, 1893, they made a report to the General Court. They took the evidence of everyone who was cognizant of the facts in the case. They said the asylum was a two-story building, with two-story L with attic, first floor occupied by the keeper (Mr. Driscoll) and his family and seventeen inmates, second floor by nineteen inmates, attic by eight inmates. There were fifty-six cells or apartments in all, twenty-one apartments or cells on the first floor, twenty-three on second and twelve in attic. The asylum was erected twenty-one years ago, repaired and enlarged wholly of wooden materials, floorings, partitions, sheathings and furnishings to all the cells of pine lumber, flooring and sheathing so dried and shrunken in portions of the building as to enable persons to see each other between the floors and cells: heated throughout by steam from boiler, pipe hung over head. Its location was seventy feet west from the almshouse, and four miles from Dover (city hall) and about six miles from Somersworth and Rochester. The outdoor en- closure for the use of the inmates was surrounded by a wooden fence alx)ut ten or twelve feet high ; windows to asylum barred by four or more bars ; also some of the windows had heavy wire screening on the inside. The build- ing had four doors, one in main building, one in cell, one leading into the outdoor enclosure for women, and one leading into a like enclosure for men. The building was supplied with 200 feet of rubber hose. 100 feet of which was kept coupled onto pipe leading to tank in attic of almshouse; ca]:>acity of tank jo.ooo or more gallons, that was always kept well filled by supply from pumping station. Another 100 feet of hose hung on reel near standpipe; also supplied with four water pails on first and four on second floor, which were always kept full of water. At the time of the fire and for several months previous, the management and control of the asylum was in the hands of the keeper, William P. Dris- coll, with the exception that he had nothing to do with the food and clothing of the inmates, the same being supplied from the county almshouse under the direction of Charles E. Demeritt, the superintendent. Mr. Driscoll was assisted at the asylum by his wife, who was matron of the institution. There AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 55 were no other employees, the entire care of the forty-four inmates devolving upon Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll. Formerly Mr. Demeritt had entire charge of the almshouse and the asylum, but, owing to a personal difificuhy which arose between himself and Mr. Driscoll, the county commissioners (Dwight E. Edgerly of Farmington, Frank P. Reeve of Somersworth and Winthrop S. Meserve of Durham) divided the authority by giving Mr. Driscoll full con- trol of the asylum, and thereby relieving Mr. Demeritt of that especial duty. There was a night watchman, \Vilber Chesley, who received his orders solely from Mr. Demeritt, superintendent of the almshouse, and who was re- quired to make six rounds each night, one of the stations, No. 4, being in the asylum of the insane. In making his 10 o'clock round on the night of February 9, he saw upon entering the storm door at the main entrance to the asylum, through the glass of the inside door, a reflection from the fire in the cell of Mary La P'ontaiue. He entered the asylum as quickly as pos- sible, and rushed to the apartment occupied by Mr. Driscoll and family at the further end of the corridor in the L and informed him of the iire. With- out waiting to dress. Keeper Driscoll rushed to the cell occupied by Mary La Fontaine and unlocked it, then turned and unlocked the cell of Jim Daly, nearby, telling the watchman to "get some water and open the doors"; but while getting Daly out, Mrs. La Fontaine jumjied upon Mr. Driscoll's back. Mr. Driscoll almost instantly disengaged himself from her, as he states himself, and the watchman also testified that Driscoll had freed himself from the woman before he (the watchman) had got the front door unlocked. The watchman (Chesley) left the I>uilding as soon as possible, and the spring lock efifectually closed the door after him and could not be opened from the inside. Driscoll proceeded to unlock the other cells and succeeded with those upon the first floor, barely escaping from the building in season to save him- self and family. By this time, ow ing to the combustible nature of the build- ing, it was thoroughly on fire so that further efYorts to subdue the flames wxre unavailable. Two of the inmates whose rooms were unlocked by Mr. Dris- coll escaped from the burning building, and the one woman was rescued from the second story from outside. The remaining forty-one inmates were cre- mated. After giving a summary of the testimony of each witness, the board says: The board has carefully reviewed all the evidence presented in this case, and has arrived at the following conclusions : First. That the fire originated in the room occupied by Mary La Fon- taine, and was, probably, ignited with a match in her possession. It was known that matches were furnished those inmates who smoked. She smoked occasionally, therefore it would not be difticult for her to obtain matches her- self or from other inmates. That the attendant of the asylum, William P. 56 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Driscoll, in a manner inexcusably careless, furnished matches to the afore- said inmates when called for. Second. That the fire might have been extinguished immediately after its discovery had the watchman, Mr. Chesley, and the keeper, Mr. Driscoll, promptly made the attempt, inasmuch as at the time of its discovery the fire was small, being, according to Mr. Driscoll's testimony, "no larger than a bushel basket," and there was a fire hose ready for instant use, within a few feet of the fire, which was not used at all. Third. That Mr. Chesley, upon his own testimony, is shown to be totally unfit for a watchman, by reason of his defective eyesight, and also in not knowing, after having made the rounds of the institution for several months, that there was a fire hose and fire buckets in the asylum. Fourth. That the superintendent, Air. Charles E. Demeritt, while having many commendable qualities, was inefiicient in his administration of the af- fairs of the institution in the following particulars : Neglect in not having given specific instructions to his employees (and especially the watchman) as to what should be done in case a fire was discovered ; in not disciplining, or reprimanding tlie watchman for failure to perform his required duties, as shown by the register dial of the watcliman's clock ; in not having a prop- erly organized and drilled fire squad, consisting of his employees and such inmates as might be available. Fifth. That the attendant, William P. Driscoll, was guilty of faulty management in not ha\ing instructed the watchman regarding the means available for extinguishing fire at tlie asylum, even though the testimony shows that he had no authority over the watchman. Si.vtii. That the county commissioners were negligent of their duties in the following particulars : In not giving explicit instructions as to the man- agement of the institution, both the almshouse and the asvlum ; in not exam- ining carefully and fully into all the details of the management of both these departments, and remedying the defects that might have been readily ascer- tained by them; in not providing fire escapes, which they might have done, to a greater or less extent, without a special appropriation for that purpose; in not furnishing suitable means for promptly liberating the inmates from their cells, the testimony showing that several different keys were required to unlock the doors ; in dividing the responsibility of the management of the institution on account of personal differences between Mr. Demeritt and Mr. Driscoll, instead of discharging cmc nr Imth, anf Eee. The final trial was held in the old courthouse, now (1913) Bradley's garage, in the summer of 1845; August 11, that year, he was convicted and sentenced to be hung on the twelfth of November following. On that day all the necessary preparations for the hanging were ready, and the gallows up in front of the jail yard, and several thousand persons had gathered to w itness the execution, covering all the fields around there, and Sheriff Hoitt was alxiut to escort the prisoner to the platform when a fast riding courier arrived on the scene and presented from Governor Steele a reprieve of the prisoner to the eighth of July, 1846. The crowd was greatly disappointed. They wanted to see Howard hung, and some would have taken him out and performed the job for the sheriff, could they ha\e got hold of him. Put Sheriff Hoitt was a strong man and had a strong posse at hand to assist him in defense of the jail and in support of law and order. The affair was a neighborhood talk in all parts of the county until the real execution came in the following July- The Dover Enquirer of September 26, 1843, gave an interesting account of the murder, from which the following excerpt was taken. It says: "In a remote part of the town (of Rochester) near the line of Farmington, a woman. Phebe Planson, was shot in her own house at noon-day. Miss Hanson was a maiden lady somewhat advanced in years, and with her brother, also unmarried, occupied the house. About noon a neighbor of the name of Page, living a few rods distant, heard the report of a gun at the house of Miss Hanson, and soon started for there to see what was the matter. Before he arri\'ed there he saw three men advancing toward the house from an opposite direction, with guns upon their shoulders, and they reached the house and entered it a few minutes before Mr. Page arrived. On entering he found them seated in the kitchen. On inquiring for Miss Hanson he was 66 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY told that she was in tlie front entry asleep; they said they had been out gun- ning and had called to get some drinks of cider. Air. Page went to the entry and found Miss Hanson dead, having bled profusely. He told the men she was dead, supposing that she had fallen down stairs. They expressed surprise, but left the house and went into the woods. The neighbors were informed, and search was made for the men and they were found and arrested. An investigation was held and they cleared themselves of having any knowledge of the murder. Two other persons, brothers, of the name of Howard, one of whom had been often employed by Miss Hanson on her farm, and who sustained a bad character, were immediately suspected and warrants were taken out for their arrest. When the officers reached their house and entered the front door the brothers made their escape by the cellar door, and went to Dover; the officers pursued them and succeeded in arresting them just as they were entering a car to leave on the train for Boston. They w ere taken to Rochester for examination, which was held before Richard Kimball, Escj. The officials seem to have made it so searching that one of the brothers, Andrew, made a full confesssion of his guilt ; as nothing appeared against his brother, Emery, he was set free. "From his confession it appeared the object of perpetrating the crime was to obtain money from Miss Hanson, which he knew she had in the house. He said he left his brother's house, near Great Falls, Tuesday morning (day of the murder) with his gun loaded and went to Miss Hanson's house detennined to get her money. Her brother was away. He tried to persuade her to gi\-e him money, and she gave him a small sum. Then he threatened her if she did not give him more; she said that was all there was in the house. He told her he knew better, and finding she would not give up. he raised his gun, took deliberate aim and shot her through the neck. The ball passed completely through and caused instant death. He then took the trunk be- longing to her brother, Jacob Hanson, broke it open and stole what was in it, about thirty dollars, in cash, and a pocket knife. The trunk of Phebe, which was said to contain nearly $i,ocx3, he failed to find. The money and knife were found later. Howard is a young man about twenty-five years old." llie trial of the case commenced on Tuesday, August 13. 1844. Charles W. Woodman, county solicitor, was the prosecuting attorney, assisted by Attorney-General W^alker. Counsel for the prisoner were Daniel M. Christie and John P. Hale. The trial occupied two days. Mr. Hale's argument, about three-quarters of an hour, w as directed against capital punishment. Mr. Christie argued that if the prisoner were guilty, which he neither affirmed nor denied, he was guilty only of murder in the second degree. The case was given to the jury about 12 o'clock (noon) who, after being out all the after- noon, came into court and refxirted that they could not agree, six being in AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 67 favor of returning a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and six that it be for murder in the second degree. The case was again tried at the February term of the court of common pleas, when Attorneys Bell and Christie were counsel for Howard. About two hundred jurors were summoned Ijefore the panel was completed. From the first fifty only four were chosen. The trial occupied nearly a week, the defense l^eing carried on with great skill liy two of the ablest lawyers in the state. Mr. Christie, who was then in his prime, occupied five hours in his argument which was very ingeniously woven and held the close attention of every one in the court room, which was crowded. The jury were out only a short time when they agreed upon a \erdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The counsel for the prisoner immediately made a motion in arrest of judgment, so the sentence could not be given until the next August. The execution took place July 8, 1846, nearly two years after the murder was committed. The local papers gave a full account of the scenes attendant upon it. The number of spectators in attendance was estimated at three thousand, a third of whom were women. The larger part of them could not see anything of the hanging of the ])risoner, at which they expressed much anger toward .Sheriff Gorham W. Hoitt because be had erected the gallows in the rear of the jail, where it could not be seen from the street. The sheriff had also endeavored to conceal it by a canvas, from those who had mounted fences, but this he was compelled to remove by the threats of the more boisterous part of the spectators to demolish the fences of the jail yard if the canvas was not taken down. It is the tradition that the sheriff was very much frightened by the mob tendency of the spectators and took down the canvas as a compromise. When the hanging was booked for the previous date, but was postponed by a reprieve from Governor Steele, the gallows had been erected in front of the jail where everybody could see. One man, who was present and witnessed the execution, told the writer he never saw a more excited crowd of people, and when some one shouted, "There he goes," several women screamed and fell senseless in swoons. It is the tradition that Sheriff Hoitt dreaded to perform the work, and Ijecame so nerved up he was ne\er quite himself again. It was well that the Legislature not long after decreed that all executions henceforth should be performed in the state prison. The Howard murder trial was probal>ly the subject of more talk and discussion than any homicide that ever took place in New Hampshire. The Silver street jail was built in iSj" and began to be occupied in 1828, the year the old jail was sold. THE THIRD EXECUTION; JOHN Q. PINKH.\M The third execution of a Strafford county man was on the fourteenth day of March, 1879; John O. Pinkham was the man and Sheriff Stephen S. Chick 68 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY perfiirnieil tl:e hanging in the state prison at Cdncurd. Tiie murder was com- mitted in New Durham January 9, 1878. The trial began March 5, 1878, and was completed i\Iarch 9, and he was convicted of murder in the first degree. The prosecution was conducted by Mason W. Tappan, Attorney- General and Charles B. Shackford. county solicitor. Counsel for the defense were James A. Edgerly and George S. Cochrane. The respondent was sen- tenced to be hanged on the fourteenth day of ^larch, 1879. At a meeting of the Governor and council the first of March, 1879, the council voted to commute his sentence to imprisonment for life, on account of his alleged mental condition, but Governor Prescott refused to sign the warrant for commutation, so he was hanged as decreed by the court. The murder occurred on the afternoon of January 9, 1878, at a farm house in New Durham. The \ictim was ]\Irs. Hiram Berry. Pinkham was a farm laborer who had been in her employ, but had been discharged a few weeks before, as his conduct had Ijecome unendurable; he was a confirmed cider-toper, and kept himself boozy cross about all the time that winter. He claimed she owed him for work; she refused to pay it, as she did not owe him anything. He made the demand twice, and was refused; he came a third, on the fatal afternoon, with a double barrel gun loaded, and repeated the deman.d; being refused he went into the entry \\here he left his gun when he first came in ; returning, he took deliberate aim and shot her dead, in the presence of her daughter, who exclaimed, "You have killed my Mother!" Whereupon Pinkham exclaimed, prefacing it with an oath: "I have killed your mother, and if you speak another word, I will shoot you!" Pinkham then left the house and when about forty rods away he pulled out his pocket knife and cut his throat, but did not do any serious damage, so he recovered all right. Soon after, the alarm being given, he was arrested by Sheriff J. G. Johnson and taken to Farmington, where a hearing was held before Judge Tuttle, who committed him to jail in Dover. The trial in March occu- pied four days, and his counsel, Edgerly and Cochrane, made strenuous efforts to make it appear Pinkham was temporarily insane, but Attorney- General Tappan and County Solicitor Shackford presented proof that all the insanity he had was caused by too much hard cider in his stomach, having pre\'iously been on a spree, and the killing was the result of his violent temper. THE FOURTH FIRST DEGREE MURDER The fourth, and last, first degree murder case was that of Isaac B. Saw- telle, which took place in Rochester, though neither party was a resident of that city. It was committed on February 5, 1890; the victim was his brother, Hiram F. Sawtelle. of Chelsea. Mass. The trial began December 16, 1890, at II A. ^I. and was concluded December 25 at 5 o'clock P. M. The prosecuting AND REPRESENTATI\'E CITIZENS 69 attorneys were ^Attorney-General Daniel Barnard and County Solicitor John Kivel, with Elmer J. Smart, Esq., as assistant. The counsel for the defend- ant were James A. Edgerly, Joseph H. Worcester and George F. Haley, Escjs. It was a hard-fought battle, but Sawtelle was convicted of murder in the first degree. The case was transferred to the Supreme Court on excep- tions, which e.xceptions were o\-erruled. A motion for a new trial was heard before the full bench of judges and denied. The resiiondent was sentenced on the twenty-fifth of December, 1890, to imprisonment in the state prison at Concord until the first Tuesday of January, ir ^Mr. Ki\-el she told a plain, straight story. Mr. Edgerly's cross examination was \'ery se\'ere, as he knew how to be w hen his powers were aroused. That brought out the whole story of the family quarrels about the property, which caused the murder. Previous to this first hearing at which the respondent was held, w ilhout bail for appearance before the grand jury, there had been a great amount of investigation, it taking quite a while to track the murderer's route to the place where he buried the body of his victim, wiiich he mutilated considerably, and then <|uite a lot of running and searching for evidence the body was that of Hiram. Newspaper men were here from all quarters, on the watch for the 70 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY latest discoveries in the affair. So it was a period of excitement never before surpassed in Strafford county. County Solicitor Kivel was on the watch constantly and had every clue thoroughly ferreted out before he had the preliminary hearing, so that he was ready to counter strike every blow dealt by his opponent, Mr. Edgerly. At the trial in December following two of the most eminent judges in the state presided, Chief Justice Charles Doe and Judge George A. Bingham, and they held the contending counsel, who were very bitter at times, strictly within the rule of e\'idence and of law. The weather was very cold. The court room at each day of the trial was crowded to its capacity. Judge Doe was noted for his love of fresh air, both at home and in court. The presence of such a crowd in the court room made the atmosphere very much vitiated soon after the sitting began ; Judge Doe could not stand it ; he ordered the sheriff" to lower every window in the room ; the cold, l)racing air come in with a rush ; he put on his coat and kept the lawyers and witnesses working, though shivering with cold. When he thought enough fresh air had been admitted he ordered the windows closed. This ventilating process was repeated each day, whenever the judge got "fidgity." Several persons caught severe "colds" and were laid up with pneumonia after the trial was o\er. In conducting the defense the respondent's counsel became convinced they could not clear him of the charge of murder, so bent all their energy to dis- credit evidence that the crime was committed in Rochester; if committed across the Salmon Falls river, in Lebanon, Maine, then, of course, no legal trial could be held in Strafford County, New Hampshire. Xo witness saw the shooting; all the evidence presented was circumstantial. In substance it was this: \\'hen Isaac and Hiram were on their way in the team from Rochester Center to East Rochester village a man with a load of lumber met them ; soon after he had passed them he heard three rapid reports of pistol shots in the direction of the carriage containing the two men ; he did not recognize the men, but afterwards did recognize Isaac Sawtelle as one of the men. Also a woman, living near the road to East Rochester, and not far from where the lumber man passed the team, heard the three pistol shots fired in rapid succes- sion. A third witness was also produced in court who testified to hearing the pistol shots. Other circuiustantial evidence \\as also presented. After the shooting one witness testified he saw the two men in the carriage and one was leaning against the other. Hence it was shown that the murder was committed in Rochester, N. H. This was the last case in Strafford county of murder of the first degree. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 71 OTHER MURDER CASES From January 24, 1888, to August 2;^, 1908, there were t,^ indictments by the grand jury for murder in Strafford county; during the past five years there has been no case of the kind before the court. As has already been stated, two of these were for murder in tiie first degree and were sentenced to be hung; one was hung; tlie other died before the day arrived for hanging. Fifteen were convicted and sentenced to state prison; three were found to be insane and were confined in the insane asyhim. One escaped from jail before his case came to trial. Twelve were acquitted. The larger part of those who were convicted were strongly under the intluence of into.xicating liquors, and probably never would have committed the acts had they let rum alone. JOSEPH E. KELLEV OF SOMERSWORTH One of the most singular and dramatic of the fifteen manslaughter cases was that of Joseph E. Kelley of Somersworth, a young man of about twenty- four years of age, who murdered Joseph .\. Stickney, cashier of the Great Falls National Bank, April iG. 1897. Kelley, according to his own con- fession, did not intend to rnurder Stickney, but only to rob the bank, but the latter put up a fight and Kelley killed him by a blow on his head and then completed his job of robbery. Following is a brief of his confession : He said he was out of money and had been planning the robbery for some time. On Thursday previous to the murder he went to the bank to carry out his plans, but was prevented by the presence of a lady. On Friday he wrapped an old overcoat in paper, with the intention of asking Stickney to have the parcel placed in the bank \ault. When Kelley reached the bank he tried to open the screen door, and was met by the cashier, who was alone, and asked w hat he wanted. Kelley made no rejily but forced open the door. Stickney shouted for the police. Kelley then hit him on the head with a jimmy, knocking him insensible; he then struck two more blows and cut Stickney's throat from ear to ear with a razor. Then he proceeded to ransack the safe, putting all the money he could get hold of into a pillow case, estimated at $4,125. He carried the spoils to an orchard and hid them, returning, unconcernedly, to his boarding house to partake of dinner. After dinner he paid his landlady $20, which he owed her, placed the pillowcase containing the money into a dress-suit case and drove to Milton. He threw the razor away in the orchard. He hitched his horse outside the village, and called at the house of Farmer Jones, about a quarter of a mile from the vil- lage proper. He asked Miss Jones if her father was at home, saying he wished to put up his team for a couple of days. After further chat with 1-2 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COL'XTV Miss Jones, he went to the store of John IMason and purchased a hght. spring overcoat anti a slate-colored derby hat. He then drove to Chamberlain's livery stable and put up his horse, telling Mr. Chamberlain that he was going by train to Sanbornville, about ten miles away. He promised to return in three days. He took the Boston and Elaine train without purchasing a ticket, getting on to the rear platform. The conductor did not discover him till Union was reached. At Sanbornville, he says, he got off and took the next train for Cookshire Junction, Que., coming into ^lontreal Junction on the Halifax express. "After I saw Stickney dead," he broke in here, "I felt sorry, but an hour after I did not even feel ner\'ous about it." Xcar Cookshire he sorted over his money, placing the gold in a separate pocked from the paper. The silver he left in the dressing case. From the description given by Kelley, ]\Ir. Carpenter concluded he had hidden the dress-suit case at V'audreuil or St. Tolycarpe Junction, and at once hurried Kelley aboard a train. Kelley was not sure of Vaudreuil, but cpiickly recog- nized St. Polycarpe. After walking along the Canadian Pacific tracks for a distance of about live hundred yards a bag containing $8io was found in a covered culvert, where Kelley had thrown it on Saturday. The dress-suit case was found in the middle of a plowed field, about one hundred and fifty yards from the railway tracks. Kelley stated that after leaving St. Polycarpe he had walked to St. Justine de Xewton, through a pouring rain, and after having taken several drinks in a saloon, he proceeded to Berard's hotel, wdiere he remained until the Canadian Pacific express came along, boarding it for Montreal. The murder was not discovered until two or three hours after it was com- mitted, at noontime, but when the news got abroad, Sherifl:" James E. Hayes and his deputies, George \V. Parker, J. S. ^IcDaniel, W'm. H. Rich and Edwin B. Bartlett got on the track of Kelley and traced his travels to Canada, where they found him in Montreal, and on the 22d of April started with him foi Dover. Kelley was willing to return, having confessed the whole story of the murder. On the way home Kelley puffed away at a cigar in the train, apparently quite unconcerned. On the way home he told Sheriff Hayes that he wore a disguise when he went to rob the bank. He had on a mustache and a goatee, and this was so eft'ectual a disguise that Stickney did not know him. These, he said, would be found in his room. Stickney shouted when Kelley drew^ a revolver upon him, but Kelley was afraid to use it, and so hit the old man with a jimmy. The trial of the case began November 8, 1897, but it was taken from the jury November 11, as Kelley made a complete confession to the court of his guilt, and the presiding justice fixed the degree of murder in the second degree and sentenced him to thirty years in the state prison. He was then about twenty-four years old. He was a native of Amesbury, Mass., but had lived AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 73 in Soniersworth and vicinity two or three years, engaged as porter in hotels and other minor occupations. He was courteous in manner and pleasing in conversation and had made quite an extended ac(|uaintance among" tlie young men of the city. THE C.VSE OF JOHN WILLI.XMS One of the most daredex'il and sensational murder cases was that of John Williams, on Dover Landing, July 4, 1900. The trial was quite brief, occu- pying only from 9:15 A. M. Octolier 30 to 11 145 A. M. Nov. i, 1900. The prosecution was conducted l)y Attorney-General Edwin G. Eastman and County Solicitor Walter W. Scott. Williams had no counsel. The verdict was "guilty of manslaughter in the first degree." Williams was sentenced to confinement in the state prison at Concord at hard labor for the term of thirty years, and pay costs of prosecution. It is said that Williams is not his real name and that he is connected with some wealthy family in Massachusetts. Four attempts have been made to get him pardoned out on the ground he did not do the shooting; the last petition was in September, this year, 1913; but no pardon or commutation has been secured. A brief of the case is as follows: Williams antl two other voung men, all under thirty years of age, had been at work in a stone quarry in Maine, and came to Dover to have a "good time" and celebrate the "glorious Fourth." They had been drinking before they came here, and drank more beer while here, so at night they were in a very hilarious state of mind when they made their appearance on Dover Landing, the shipping section of the city. On one of the streets they saw Magie Donalson and Kittie Scanlon seated on the steps of a residence with John ]\IcNalley and Thomas Dobbins. The men stopped and commenced talking to the women. McXalley and Dobbins objected to what was said to the girls, when \\'illiams pulled out a revolver and began shooting, indiscriminatel_y, among the persons on the doorsteps around there. The result was J(jhn McNalley was shot dead, Thomas Dob- bins died of his wounds soon after, Joseph Gagnon received two pistol wounds, one in the chin, the other in the stomach, and Arthur Russell had the bones of one leg shattered by a Ixillet. The shooting occurred about 10 130 P. M. on the night of July 4. The persons shot were 3'oung men between thirty and forty years of age. City Marshal James Fogerty and his assistants made vigorous search for the three strange men and at length found two of them at a public house near the Granite State Park and the third one, John Williams, who did the shoot- ing, asleep under some bushes in the vicinity of the park. At the trial it was proven that Williams did the shooting, not aiming to hit anyone in particular, but at the crowd in general. CHAPTER V HISTORY OF DOVER (I) THE FIRST PERMANEXT SETTLEMENT IX DOVER AND NEW HAMPSHIRE In order to give a clear understanding of where the first pennanent settlement of Xew Hampshire was made, it seems best to begin with a state- ment of the \arious grants of the territory of New Hampshire, to whom and when made, as this matter of grants has led to much confusion of ideas among the historians, by which tliey have been led into making erroneous statements ; several important facts in regard to this question are now known which were not known by the early writers, some of the discoveries of important papers being of recent date. November 3. 1620, King James granted a patent or charter to forty persons who were incorporated as "The Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing Xew England, in .Vmerica ; from the 40th to the -|8th degree of latitude, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean." Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason were important and influential members of this powerful company. All New Hampshire patents and grants were obtained from this Council of Plymouth ; the grants were as follows : 1. jMariaxa, to Capt. John Alason, March 9. 1621-2, under which it is claimed that he had Ambrose Gibbons, as his agent, make a small settlement at Cape Ann in 1622 or 'jt,, and they remained there until ousted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Mason lost all control there in 1630. 2. The Province of Maine, to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason, April 19, 1622. This comprised all the cost from the Merrimack river to the Kennebec river, and back into the country a rather indefinite but very great distance. So far as New Hampshire was concerned, nothing was ever done under this grant. 3. A POINT OF land in THE PaSCATAWAY RIVER, IN NeW EnGLAND, tO David Thomson, Mr. Jobe and Mr. Sherwood, always since known as Thom- son's Point; this grant was made in 1622; the exact month and day of month are not known, but probably in July or August, as only a memorandum of the patent and the year it was given has been found. Mr. Thomson made a settlement there, as w ill be explained farther on. 74 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 75 4. Odiorne's Point and Hilton's Point, comprising a tract of six thousand acres, bordering on tlie south side of the Pascataqua river and its branches. On this land the first settlement was made in the spring of 1623, as will be explained later. The grant was made October 16, 1622, by the Council of Plymouth, to David Thomson, alone. 5. New Hampshire, to Capt. John Mason, November 7, 1629, which was bounded as follows : "All that part of the main land in New England, lying upon the sea coast, beginning at the middle part of the Alerrimac river, and from thence proceed northward along the sea coast to the Pascataqua river, and so for- wards and up within the said river, and to the farthest head thereof (now known as ]\IiIton Three Ponds), and from thence northwestwards, until three score miles be finished from the first entrance of Pascataqua river, and also from fmouth of the) Merrimack through the said river, and to the furthest head thereof ; and so forwards up into the lands westward, until three score miles be finished : and from thence to cross overland to the three score miles, as accompted from Pascataqua river, together with all islands and islets within five leagues distance of the premises and abutting upon the same, or any part or parcel thereof, etc., etc." — Captain Mason never did anything with that grant. 6. "THE LAcoxiA GRANT, Only ten days later, to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason, November 17, 1629. The boundaries of this grant extended from the , mouth of the Merrimack river, along the coast to the Sagadahock (Kennebec) river, and the side lines extended north and west to include Lake Champlain and territory to the St. Lawrence river. Under that patent lively work was begun by Captain Mason to make a settlement in New Hampshire; he had dune nothing before in this respect. He sent over a party in 1630, in the famous ship Warwick, of which Capt. Walter Neal was gov- ernor, and they took possession of the Thomson house at Odiorne's Point, began the settlement at Strawberry Bank, which twenty-three years later was named Portsmouth: and Captain Mason began settlement at the head of the Newichawannock river, in 1634, at a point since known as Great Works. About the same time. 1634, settlements began to be made on the east side of the river, directly across from Dover Point, in that part of Old Kittery, now Eliot. The settlement in what is now Kittery began several years later. This was not a part of the Laconia Company's scheme, but independent of it, after that company failed. The historians of New Hampshire, for more than two hundred years, in writing of this first settlement, have stated in substance, and the statement has been everywhere generally accepted, that Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason having obtained from the Council of Plymouth, consti- tuted by the King of England, a grant of all the land between the ri\ers 76 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Merrimack and Sagadali^ck (Kennebec) extending- back to the great hikes and river of Canada, fonned a company w ith several merchants of London and other cities, and styhng themselves the "Company of Laconia" attempted the establishment of a colony and fishery at the moutii of the Pas- cataqua river. For this purpose in the spring of 1623 they sent out David Thomson, Edward Hilton and William Hilton, who had been fishermongers in London, with a number of other people, in two divisions, furnished with all the necessaries for carrying out the design. Thomson landed at the river's mouth at a place which he called Little Harbor, where he built a house, after- wards known as "Mason Hall," erected salt works, and made other prepara- tions for carrying on his fishing business, but the Hiltons set up their fisiiing stages eight miles further up the river on a neck of land which the Indians called W'innichahannet, but they named it Xortham and afterwards Dover. The proper designation of that story is historical "rot." Mason and Gorges had nothing whatever to do with Thomson and Hilton, as I will prove later; they were here seven years before the Laconia Company sent over the first emigrants in the ship Warwick in 1630, and commenced the settlement at Strawberry Bank. The managers of the Laconia Company entertained most extravagant ideas of the geography and topography of the country between the mouth of the Pascataqua river and Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence river. They thought it was only a short distance between the head waters of the Merri- mack and the Pascataqua, from which it would be an easy job to step over into Canada and drive out the French. With the Pascataqua as a base of operations the company expected to acquire immense fortunes for the indi- vidual members, but it proved to be a great failure, after three years' trial, and was dissolved in 1634; Mason took the New Hampshire side of the ri\er, and Gorges the Maine side, except that Mason retained the settlement at Great Works (now South Berwick), as he had invested quite largely there in mills and live stock, etc. Captain ]Mason died in 1635, '*"'! 'I's widow left the settlers to shift for themselves, as she was not financially able to assist them further. They speedily made good by gobbling up all the property they could lay hands on. That was the end of the Masonian work of making settlements; but a half century later, the land owners here were forced to defend themselves against Masonian lawsuits, which were handed down from generation to generation for nearly a century. It is not easy to see wherein, or whereat, Capt. John Mason ever benefited New Hampshire. He was its founder only in the fact that he gave the name which it bears, from his home county in Old England, making it New Hampshire in New England. Captain Mason was a failure as a colonizer AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 77 in New Hampshire; the settlement was begun seven years before he had any- thing to do with it. 7. The Hilton Grant, commonly called the Squamscott patent to Edward Hilton, March 12, 1629-30, which date is only four months after the Laconia patent was issued to Gorges and Mason, which entirely covered and surrounded what Hilton had come into possession of by David Thomson's grant of October. 1622, and which he had occupied peaceably and had improved during the seven years, from 1623 to 1630. The Council of Plymouth willingly granted his request for a patent to more securely protect him in the holding of the property which he had rightfully possessed for seven years. This grant will be .spoken of and discussed further on. It covered all the territory of Old Dover. 8. P..\scAT.\w.\v. to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. Juhn Mason, November 3, 1631. The object of this patent was to define more definitely the territory between Gorges and Mason and the territory covered by Edward Hilton's patent, as a dispute had already arisen among the land owners as to the boundary line. In brief, the patent says : "All that portion of land lying within the precincts hereafter mentioned, beginning upon the seacoast about five miles to the westward to or from the said chief habitation or plantation now possessed by Capt. Walter Neal, at Strawberry Bank, for the use of the adventurers to Laconia (being in the latitude of 43 degrees, or thereabouts), in the Harbor of I'ascataquack. alias Bassataquack, alias Passataway, and so forth, from the said beginning, east- ward and northeastward, and so proceeding northward or northwestward into the Harbor and River, along the coast and shores thereof, including all the islands and islets lying within, or near unto the same, upwards unto the headland opposite unto the plantatiim, or lialiitation, now or late in the tenure or occupation of Edward Hilton, and from thence westwards and southwest- wards in the middle of the River, and through the middle of the Bay or Lake of Bequadack, alias Bassaquack. or by what other name or names it hath,' towards the bottom or westernmo-,t part of the river called Pascassockes to the falls thereof, and from thence by an imaginary line to pass over to the Sea, where the proambulation began, etc.. etc." That is to say. it included what is now known as Portsmouth, Rye. Hampton, Greenland and part of Newington. 9. New Hamp.shire and Masonia, to Capt. John Ma.son, April 22, 1635. This patent was issued because the Council for New England, at its session, February 3. 1634-5, had decided to surrender its charter to the King, and its territory was divided by the Council into eight divisions, of which No. 6 was given to Captain Mason, and comprised the territory mentioned in his New Hampshire grant of No\-ember 7. 1629, and which finally came to be defined by the present boundary lines of the state, after a contention with Massa- 78 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY chuselts for nearly two hundred years; the final decision of the line was made less than a score of years ago. It may be well here to state a fact that is not generally known, that what is now the State of New Hampshire was never so called by the people here; nor was the name New Hampshire used in official and legal papers until 1679, fifty years after it was given to the territory by Captain Mason, that is, November 7, 1629. During the period from 1640 to 1679 the towns here were a part of Norfolk county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the ter- ritory here was called Pascataqua; that was the name it was known by e\ery- where along the coast, from 1623 to 1640. It has been assumed by some historical writers, that "Pascataqua" was applicable only to the locality about Little Harliur and Strawberry Bank; hut that is a mistaken idea of the ter- ritory covered by the word. In writing letters they were dated as from "Hilton's Point, Pascataipia ;" or, "Strawberry Bank, l'ascata(|ua;" or, "Pas- cataqua in New England," when letters were sent here from England. In a statement of Robert Mason's claim for land rent from the Dover and Portsmouth farmers, in 1674-5, reference is made to Capt. John Mason's various franchises, which have already been mentioned, and "afterwards enlarged," and "now called New Hampshire." The inference is plain, that it was not so called before 1675. The Mason heirs had been trying for years to sell land and collect rent from land holders, but the Massachusetts courts would not admit any such claims; so, as a last resort, in 1679, the separate province of New Hampshire was established, with new courts that Massachusetts could not control, in which the lawsuits were tried. But for those lawsuits our state today might rejoice in the euphonious name, Pascataqua, instead of New Hampshire. Having shown that Capt. John Mason had nothing whatever to do with the first settlement in New Hampshire, I will now show that David Thomson and Edward Hilton were the leaders in making the first settlements — the former at Thomson's Point and Little Harbor, and the latter at Hilton's Point, now commonly called Dover Point. Both came with their parties in the spring of 1623. Thomson remained two or three years, then removed to Thomson's island, in Boston harbor, where he died. Hilton remained pemia- nently at Dover Point, and the settlement there has l)cen continuous to the present day; therefore I claim that the first permanent settlement in New Hamjxshire was made at Hilton Point. I will give the evidence on which I base my belief. Who was David Thomson that he should receive grants of land from the Council of Plymouth? What induced him to come here to settle? Who was Edward Hilton that he should come here with David Thomson ? Surely they could not have been ordinary men. AND REPRESENTATR^E CITIZENS 79 D.WID THOMSON David Thomson was born about 1590; he was united in marriage with Amias Cole, of I'lymouth, England, July 13, 1613; she was the daughter of William Cole, of that town, who was a shipbuilder. The wedding took place in St. Andrew's church, and is on record there. The names of his parents are not known. It is said that he was of Scotch descent and that he was a son of Michael Thomson, but there is no evidence of this. He is nowhere meiUioned as connected with any town in Scotland; the inference is that he was born in Plymouth, where he married his wife and was in business a number of years previous to coming to New England. At the time of his marriage, when he was about twenty-three years old, he was called "an apothecary's clerk." His place of residence from 1613 to 1623, was at Plymouth. How long he continued in the apothecary business is not known. As his father-in-law w as a sliipbuilder, he may have engaged in busi- ness with him; but up to 1620 there is no record further than above stated, as to what he was employed in doing. But it is quite certain he was a busy man and became associated with men who were liigh up in official circles, whose records are well known. That he was interested in shipping, and had made \-oyages to New Eng- land and the Pascataqua river before 1623, is shown by his knowledge of the localities here and in Boston harbor and in Massachusetts bay. The proof tliat he came here in the ship Jonathan, in the spring of 1623, will be given at the close of this sketch. He and his party landed at Little Harbor. The precise rock on which they set foot, w hen they landed, cannot be pointed out, as the Plymouth Rock is, on which the Pilgrims stepped only two and a half years before, but, from the lay of the land, called Odiorne's Point, on which it is probable the first house was built, it is quite certain the landing was made in some cove on the south side of Little Harbor, and below the bridge that leads from Rye to the Wentworth hotel, at Newcastle, as it was not possible to anchor their ship safely any further out toward the open bay. What interest did Mr. Thomson have in this New England colonization business, that was undertaken by "The Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon (England), for the planting, ruling, ordering and gov- erning New England in America, etc., etc."? The Council was chartered November 3, 1620; it organized soon after, and David Thomson was elected or appointed "Messenger," or confidential "Agent." This is shown by the records of the Council, when a hot contest was going on in Parliament, to take away the charter, on the ground that the King had exceeded his author- ity in granting it. The following are excerpts from the record : On the 5th of July. 1622: "It is ordered that David Thomson do attend the Lords with a petition to his Majesty for forfeits committed by Thomas 80 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Weston; As also to solicit the Lords for procuring from his Majesty a proclamation concerning fishermen in the western parts. Likewise to pro- cure some course for punishing their (the fishermen's) contempt for author- ity (of the Council)." On the 24th of July, 1622: "Mr. Thomson is appointed to attend the Lords, for a warrant to Mr. Attorney-General for drawing the new Patent." On the 8th of November, 1622: "Mr. Thomson is ordered to pay unto Leo Peddock £10, towards his pains for his last employment to New England." On the nth of November, 1622: "Mr. Thomson is appointed to attend Sir Robert Munsell concerning Captain Squebbs' commission." On the 15th of November, 1622: "Mr. Thomson and the Clerk are directed to see the ton of iron weighed to be sent to Mr. Whitty;" and the same day, "Mr. Thomson is appointed to solicit Captain Love to pay in the £40 for which Sir Samuel Argall standeth engaged," etc. On the i6th of November: "It is ordered that Mr. Thomson pro- poundeth to have an order from the Council for transportation of ten per- sons with provisions for New England. And the persons so transported to pay the Council the usual rate for their transportation, after expiration of two years." David Thomson's name ceases to appear on the records, as an active agent of the Council, after December 3, 1622. He was then preparing his emigration party for New England ; the agreement with the three merchants, his partners, was drawn up December 14, 1622, and signed that day; which agreement will be given later in this article. From these briefs from records of the Council, it is manifest that David Thomson was an active agent of the Council in the contest with Parliament to save their charter. While he was thus active, he secured for himself, a Mr. Jobe, and a Mr. Sherwood, a patent or grant of a point of land in the Pascataqua river, in New England. The patent itself has not been found, but a memorandum of such a grant is on record in the public record office in London, and was copied by Mr. Charles Deane, of Boston, when he was in London, and published by him in the Massachusetts Historical Register, in 1876, as follows: "1622. A patent to David Thomson, M. Jobe and M. Sherwood, for a Point (of land) in Pascataqua River, in New England." In the earliest times of history here, tiie name Pascataqua was applied to the river on the east side of Dover Point, and in that river there is a point of land, just below the mouth of the Cochecho river, which is called Thom- son's Point, and has l)een so called from the the earliest Ijeginning of records here. That is undoubtedly the point of land which was granted to those three men, and there the first temporary settlement was made in Dover by Thomson AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 81 before 1622. His object was to use it for catching and curing salmon in the spring time, when that fish ran up the river there in immense schools. When he first made this discovery that it was a good fisliing point cannot be deter- mined ; it may have been before 1620. The patent was obtained some time during the summer of 1622. It shows that Mr. Thomson must have been there in some spring time before, else he could not have known there was such a river, and such a point of land in it, which was desirable for fishing. It has been supposed by some writers, that the name of the Point was derived from William Thompson ; but that is an error, as the land bore that name before William Thompson became a resident of Dover, and probably before he was liorn. "'ilidiiiMin's I'nint Imuse"' is on the oldest extant tax list in Dover, 1648: name of the owner not given. DAVID Thomson's indenture On the i6th of October, 1622, the Council of Plymouth gave a patent, or grant, to David Thomson, alone, of six thousand acres of land and an island, in New England. The patent for this grant is not extant, but that there was such a patent is proven by an indenture of David Thomson's, which was found among the old papers in possession of the late Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, which he had inherited from his ancestor, John Winthrop, the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It had lain among the Winthrop papers two hundred and fifty years, unknown to the historians of New Hampshire, who, in their ignorance, have published a mass of historical "rot" about the first settlement of this state. Soon after Mr. Winthrop found the indenture, he gave it to the late Charles Deane, of Boston, who read it before the Massachusetts Historical Society, at a meeting in May or June, 1876; and it was published in the annual of the society for that year. In presenting it to the meeting, Mr. Deane first gave a summary of its contents, as follows, which is all that is necessary to give in this paper: The indenture recites that the Council for New England had granted to David Thomson, alone, under date of i6th of October, 1622 : Six thousand acres of land and one island, in New England, but did not locate it; that Thomson had absolutely conveyed one- fourth part of the island to three merchants of Plymouth, viz. : Abraham Colmer, Nicholas Sherwell and Leonard Pomernv, with covenants to convey, in fee simple, the fourtli part of six thousand acres. In consideration whereof it is agreed between the parties, in brief, as follows: First. That the merchants, Colmer, Sherwell and Pomeroy, will at their own charge, "this present year, 1622," provide and send two men with 82 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Thomson, in the ship Jonathan of Plymouth, to New England, with vic- tuals, provisions, etc., as shall suffice them till they are landed. And if they land there within the space of three months after the ship shall pass Ram Head (a promontory just outside of Plyniouth sound), the residue of the three months' victuals shall he delivered to Thomson, at his landing, there to be disposed of by him towards finding a fit place for intended habitation, and also to begin the same. Second. The three merchants will, this present year {1622), at their own charge, provide and send three men more in the ship Providence of Ply- mouth, which shij) was owned by Ponieroy, if tlie\' mav be as soon gotten. or in some other ship with the first expedition that mav be to New England ; the charges of these three men to be born equally by all the parties. Thiril. Two men more are to be sent this present year (1622), in the Jonathan of Plymouth, the charges of them to be l)orne by all the parties equally. Fourth. As soon as Thomson and the se\en men are landed in New England, Thomson shall, as soon as con\enient, find out a fit place to make choice of six thousand acres of land, and a fit place to settle and erect some houses, or buildings for habitations, and to begin the erection of the same. Adjoining these buildings there shall be allotted before the end of five years, six hundred acres of land, which, with all the buildings and everything appertaining to them, shall, at the end of five years, be divided equally between all parties; and all the charges for building, planting, husbanding, etc., dur- ing that time shall be equally borne by all. The residue of the six thousand acres to be also divided in a convenient time, between the parties in four parts, whereof Thomson was to have three-fourths, and the others one-fourth. Fifth. At the end of five years the island shall be divided into four parts, where Thomson was to have three-fourths, and the others one- fourth. Sixth. Three-fourths of the charge for planting, husbanding and build- ing on the said island, shall be borne by Thomson, and one-fourth ]>y his partners. Seventh. All profits during the five years that may be derived from the six thousand acres, and by fishing and trading, etc.. shall be divided equally; the merchants, however, were to have liberty to employ ships to fish at their own charge, if Thomson does not care to participate in the profits of such extra ships. Eighth. All benefits and profits arising during the five years, on the resi- due of the six thousand acres, and on the island, shall be divided among the four men, Thomson to have three parts, and the others one part. Each of them shall, on request, deliver a just account of their receipts and payments during the five years. The above is a summary of the indenture, which was signed on Decem- AND REl'RESENTATR'E CITIZENS 83 ber 14. iO_'_', by Thomson, ColnitT, Sherwell and i'onieroy, ami under which the first settlement of New Hampshire was made. As they then reckoned time, the year 1622 did not end until March 24; so they had ample time to load the ship Jonathan of Plymouth, and get over here before the end of the year 1622, which was the agreement they would do, and probably did do; anyway, they arrived in the early spring of 1623, as we now reckon the year, as beginning in January. As regards the location of the six thousand acres: According to the indenture, Mr. Thomson was authorized to make his own selection, any- where he pleased in New England. The location of the island was not men- tioned; but a lawsuit, a quarter of a century later, made it certain it was an island in Boston harbor, ever since called Thomson island. .According to the terms of the grant, he was not obliged to locate his six: thousand acres all in one compact body. It is quite evident he did not take it all in a lump. Portsmouth, as now bounded, has 9,000 acres ; so it appears his grant was two-thirds the size of that city. It was all that he and his partners needed for carrying on their fishing and Indian fur trade business. Please keep in mind, also, that Sir Ferdinand© Gorges, Capt. John Mason, and the Earl of Warwick, had nothing whatever to do with this grant of land; Mr. Thomson's partners were the three reputable merchants of Ply- mouth, whose names have already been given. Those four men having signed the indenture on December 14, 1622, proceeded at once to prepare to set sail in the Jonathan of Plymouth. The company started on the voyage across the Atlantic on some day that winter — the exact date is not known; neither is the day of their landing at Little Harbor, but it was in the spring i)f 1622-3; ni_) douljt aljout that. If Mr. Thomson had been as gifted in the use of the pen as he evidently was in managing business, he might have left us as interesting a story as Governor Bradford wrote for Plymouth; unfortunately he left no record of what was done, or when important events took place. He was a young man of twenty-eight or thirty years of age then. If he left no records, how then do we know that he really came in 1622? W'e know by the written records of other men. Look at the evidence : William Hubbard, the historian of New England, who wrote at a period about as distant from March, 1623, as we are now from the date of the firing of the first gun on Fort Sumter, which opened the Civil war, says that Thomson and his company landed at Little Harbor in 1623. There can be no doubt he knew whereof he wrote. Capt. Christopher Leavitt, a famous sea captain, traveler, discoverer, colonizer and historian, left an interesting account, which has been published, of a voyage he made to the New England coast in the summer and fall of 1623; he visited the Isles of Shoals, which he describes very accurately, and 84 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY in November of that year visited Mr. Thomson and his company at Little Harbor. He calls it "Pannaway," but he is the only writer who has ever so called it; why he used the name has never been explained; Captain Leavitt says : "The next place I came to was Pannaway, where one Mr. Thomson hath made a plantation. There I staid about a month, in which time I sent for my men in the East (at Agamenticus and York), who came over in divers ships. At this place I met with the Governor (of New England, Robert Gorges), who came thither (from Plymouth) in a bark which he had (confiscated) from Mr. Weston about twenty days before I arrived at the land. (Weston had disregarded the orders of the Council of Plymouth.)" "The Governor then told me that I was joined with him in commission as Counsellor, which being read I found it was so ; and he then in the presence of three more of the Council, administered unto me an oath." " In the time I staid with Mr. Thomson, I surveyed as much as possible I could, the weather being unseasonable and very nnich snow on the ground. "In those parts I saw much good timber; but the ground seemed to me not to be good, being very rocky and full of trees and bush wood. "There was a great store of fowl of divers sorts, whereof I fed very plentifully. About two miles further to the East (Fort Constitution), I found a great ri\er and a good harbor, called Pascataway. But for the ground I can say nothing, but by the relation of the Sagamore or King of that place, who told me there was much good ground along the river, about seven or eight leagues above (Dover point)." Governor Bradford in his "History of Plymouth," under date of 1623, says: "There were also this year some scattering beginnings made iii other places, as at Pascataway, by David Thomson, at IMonhegan, and some other places, by sundry others." Thomas Weston, the London merchant who had planned to finance the expense of sending over the Mayflower and its emigrants, but who backed out of the agreement just as the Pilgrims were on the point of sailing for New England, and left them in great financial straits, was again heard from in the summer of 1622. He sent over emigrants in two ships, the Charity and the Swan, who first landed at Plymouth. There were sixty of these colonists, most of them hard characters. After remaining at Plymouth a short time, they commenced a settlement at Weymouth, eighteen miles north of Plymouth, Weston himself coming over in the spring of 1623, with the Maine coast fishing fleet. He left the fleet in the neighborhood of Monhegan, taking two men and a small trading stock in a shallop, and sailed along the coast for Weymouth, Mass. They sailed along all right until ofif Rye or Hampton beach, where a stonn capsized the boat, and they barely escaped to the shore alive. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 85 When Weston and the two men gathered themselves up on dry land, with what of their boatload had washed ashore, they were attacked by Indians, who were short of guns and clothing; they took the guns and all the clothes the three men had on, and left them. Weston and the men, in their naked condition, tramped back along the shore to where they had called on David Thomson, a short time before, in sailing along the coast. Fortunately for Weston, it was warm summer weather; so they did not suffer, except for sore feet. Governor Bradford says in his history: "He (Weston) got to Pascataquack and borrowed a suit of clothes, and got means somehow to come to Plymouth." It is not recorded what became of the other two poor men; probably they stayed with Mr. Tliomson, and worked for their board and clothes, help- ing him finish his new house on Odiorne's Point. Perhaps the following may explain how Weston sailed from Pascata- quack to Plymouth ; it may have been that Capt. Myles Standish took him along : Winslow's book, "Good News of New England,' published in 1624. in describing events of the summer of 1623, says: "At the same time, Captain Standish, being formerly employed by the Governor to buy provisions for the refurnishing of the colony (at Plymouth), returned with the same, accom- panied with Mr. David Thomson, a Scotchman, who also that spring began a plantation twenty-five leagues northeast from us, near Smith's Isles, at a place called Pascataquack, where he likelh well." Phineas Pratt, whose manuscript narrative was not published until 1858, says he visited David Thomson, at Pascataway, in the year 1623. What greater proof would be asked, that David Thomson began his settlement at Little Harbor in the spring of 1623 than has been given by the witnesses above quoted? The year and the season is beyond question. It was in the spring of 1622. O. S. ; or, 1623, New Style, as we now reckon years. HOW LONG DID THOMSON RESIDE AT LITTLE HARBOR? The historian, Hubbard, says Mr. Thomson abandoned Little Harbor the next year, 1624, "Out of dislike to the place or his employers." On the other hand, Bradford's "History of Plymouth" says he was resid- ing at "Pasketeway" in 1626; as in the spring or summer of that year, he joined with the Governor of Plymouth and Mr. Winslow in purchasing goods at Monhegan, where the owners broke up their establishment and sold out to the highest bidder. When Thomson and the Plymouth party arrived there, and the Mon- hegan fellows saw there were competing bidders for their stock in trade, 86 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY they put up the price ; then Winslow and Thomson stopped bidding and withdrew for consultation; the result was they agreed to purchase the whole lot, jointly; which they did, and then divided the goods according as each had means to pay. Among the lot were some fine animals — goats and hogs ; some of these Mr. Thomson took, as a part of his share, and carried them to his island, in what is now Boston Harbor, where he established a flourish- ing business in raising swine and goats for trade with the settlers along the coast. As regards Pascataqua and Little Harbor, I have not been able to find any reference that would show that Mr. Thomson resided there after the summer of 1626. The inference is that he had shut up his house and was con- fining his work to his flourishing" estaliiishment nn Thomson's Island. There is no record, or hint of a record, that any one resided at Odiorne's Point after Thomson left there, in 1626, until Capt. \\alter Neal took possession of the house, by order of Capt. John Masecame Ports- mouth. Not a name of a single human being, except Thomson, has been found who was a permanent resident of Odiorne's Point, or Strawberry Bank, j)re\ious to 1630. Thomson left there in 1626; and his fishermen and other "hired men" engaged in more profitable employment somewhere else. It seems evident that rhomson. Coimer. Sherwell and i'cimeroy did not find it a paying investment at Little Harbor, so ga\e it up, and shut up the house. WHAT ABOUT THOMSON'S ISLAND? How do we know that the island mentioned in the Indenture is Thomson's Island in Boston Harbor? The Indenture simply says, 6,000 acres and an island. Well, that nnght mean Newcastle Island, just across Little Harbor from Odiorne's Point. Why didn't he select that, instead of the fertile land in Massachusetts Bay? The reason is obvious to any one who has seen both islands; the one must have seemed to Mr. Thomson's eyes to l^e nothing but ledges and rocks, with here and there thin patches of earth ; the other was almost free from rocks, and presented an inviting appearance — just the place to raise hogs and goats. How do we know that Da\id Thomson li\ed on Thomson's Island ? We have the evidence of men who were his contemporaries, and knew him well. David and Aniias (Cole) Thomson had a son, John Thomsdu, who was born, probably, in 1625 or 1626, at Odiome's Point; hence was the first white child lx)rn in New Hampshire. David Thomson died in 1628, leaving a widow and an infant son. Later the widow married Sanniel Maverick, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 87 who was the owner of and first resident on what is now East Boston. In 1630 the i\Iassachusetts Bay Colony commenced its settlement at Boston. Time went on, and other settlements of towns around there w'ere begun, receiving their grants of land from the colony officials. In 1635, not knowing David Thomson ever had a grant of the island, the officials of the Bay Colony granted it to the town of Dorchester, which town held it a dozen years, unquestioned; then, in 1647 or 1648, John Thomson, son of Da\'id, who had just become of age, entered his claim for ownership of the island, as sole heir of his father, David Thomson, who had died in 1628, on that island; and he petitioned to have it taken from the town of Dorchester, and have it restored to him, the rightful owner. SluirtlelT's 'TTistor}- of Boston'" gives full particulars of the lawsuit that followed, ending in restoring it to John Thomson. In court, in 1648. lie said his father began to occupy the island "'in or about the year ifuO." In course of the trial, there were among the witnesses, Capt. Myles Standish and \A'illiani Trevore, a sailor wdio came over in the Mayflower, in 1620, and visited Boston Harbor in 1621 ; and while there took possession of this island, under the name of the Island of Trevore, for Mr. David Thomson, then of London; he also testified that Mr. Thomson obtained a grant of the island from the Council of riymoutli some years before the Massachusetts Bay Colony had its grant. Captain Standish testified that he knew Mr. Thomson, as a resident of the island. Mr. William Blaxton, who was a resident on the peninsula of Boston some years before the Massachusetts Bay Company settled there in 1630, testified that he knew Mr. Thomson well, as a resident of Thomson's Island where he was prosperously engaged in raising hogs and goats for trade with the colonists. There was much other testimony which convinced the authorities and the court that jahn Thomson's claim was just and legal; and accordingly the island was restored to him much to the grief and vexation of the town of Dorchester. The court decision, therefore, settles beyond question that David Thom- son was a permanent resident of Thomson's Island from 1626 until his death in 1628. It appears from the testimony of Trevore, that he was the person who informed Mr. Thomson about that island, and that Thomson the very next year obtained a patent for it, October 16, 1622. WHAT .-VBGUT MASON HALL? In all the histories the story is repeated that David Thomson built a house on what is now called Odiorne's Point ; that it was a spacious and eleo-ant house, built in the style of the great mansions in England, in which 88 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY the lords of great manors then resided, and in which tlieir descendants reside to this day. How Ijeaiitiful and grand it seems as you picture it in your mind's eye ! Tlie historians not only say it was a grand mansion, but also that he called it Mason Hall. Well, what about it? There never was any "Mason Hall." In the first place, if Mr. Thomson had built such a fine house, there was not the slightest reason why he should name it for Capt. John Mason, who never invested a penny in sending over emigrants, and had no interest whatever in Thomson's grant of land. Moreover, Mr. Thomson had no time, material or work- men, such as would be absolutely needed for the construction of such an edifice. For example, it is stated as a fact that it took an expert carpenter a year to do the carving and finishing of the council chamber in the Governor Wentworth house, at Little Harbor, which was not built till more than a century after David Thomson built the first house at Odionif's Point, just across the Little Harbor from the Governor's house. Consider the situation of things when Mr. Thomson anchored his good ship, Jonathan of Plymouth, in the southwest cove of Little Harbor, in the spring of 1623. The beautiful plateau of Odiorne's Point was covered with a heavy growth of pines, and all the land around was a forest untouched with axe since the forest primeval first sprouted, as the glaciers of the ice age receded and exposed the earth to sunshine. Evidently the first work the men did was to clear the land of the forest; they had axes and strong muscles, but no sawmill to cut up lumber, of which there was more than enough. Mr. Thomson had his men con\ert those huge trees into a large log house in the quickest time possible ; it was capacious and substantial, but there could not have been very ornamental work. The chimney was built of stone, at the north end of the house, and the mortar was tough clay, from a clay bank near by. The foundation stones of that chimney can be seen today, and were seen by the Pascataqua Pioneers when they visited the spot, August 31, 1909. No doubt they had the house completed before Captain Leavitt and Gov. Robert Mason and the councillors paid Mr. Thom- son a visit, in November, 1623, when he entertained them a month, as Cap- tain Leavitt says. It is fortunate that we have a description of one of these plantation houses, which was built near Cape Elizabeth, by John Winter, ten years later, who was the agent of Robert Trelawney, mayor of Plymouth and the proprietor of the plantation there. Mr. Winter gave Mr. Trelawney the following description of the house ; my opinion is that Mr. Thomson's house was of the same style. ]\Ir. Winter says : "Now for our buildings and planting, I have built a house here at Richmond Island that is forty feet in length, and eighteen foot broad. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 89 within the sides, besides tiie chimney; and the chimney is large, with an oven in each end of him. And he is so that we can place a kettle within the mantel i>iece. We can brew and hake and Ixiil uur kettle within him, all at once within him, with the help of another house that I have built under the side of our house, where we set our sieves and mill and mortar in, to break our com and malt, and to dress our meal in. "I have two chambers in liini, and all our men lies in one of them. Every man hath his close boarded cabin (bunks like a ship, one above another), and I have room enough to make a dozen close boarded cabins more, if I have need of them; and in the other chamber I have room to put the ship sails into, and allow dry goods which is in casks ; and I have a store house in him that will hold i8 or 20 tuns of casks underneath. Also underneath I have a kitchen for our men to set and drink in, and a steward's room that will hold two tuns of casks, which we put our bread and beer into. And every one of these rooms is closed with locks and keys unto them." Enough seems to have been said of Odiorne's Point, Mason Hall, and the career of that grand pioneer, David Thomson ,of whom Thomas Morton, the historian and personal friend, says he was "a Scotch gentleman, who was conversant with those people (the Indians) ; a scholar and a traveller that was diligent in taking notice of these things, and a man of good judg- ment." It should be borne in mind that Mr. Thomson was a young man about thirty-eight years old when he died. Hilton's or dover point Having shown when and how the settlement at Odiorne's Point was begun, and how long the settlers remained there, I will now consider the question of how and when the settlement was begun at Hilton's or Dover Point : The settlement was begun in the spring of 1623, by Edward Hilton and his party, and the occupation has been continuous to the present day; some of the descendants of the very first party being now residents on Dover Neck, about a mile above the Point; so that is the locality where the first permanent setileiiient was begun in New Hampshire. Who was Edward Hilton? He was a native of London, England; born of good parents, with a worthy ancestry ; he was well educated ; he was ad- mitted to membership in the Fishmongers Guild, in London, in 1621, when he was about twenty-five years old. That society was very exclusive in selecting its membership ; none but owners of fishing vessels and wealthy bosses in the fishing business were admitted. Mr. Hilton's admission to the Guild is evidence that he was a young man of high standing in that city. 90 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY What his relations w ere with David Thomson are not recorded, but he came to Pascataqua in the shij) — -Providence of P'lymouth, \vhich was sent over by the three merchants, partners of Thomson — Abraham Cohner, Nicholas Sherwell and Leonard Pomeroy — a few weeks after the Jonathan of Plvm- outh sailed with Da\id Thomson's company. IMr. Pomerov was owner of the Providence, and probably came over in the ship on that voyage. When they arrived at the mouth of the Pascatafpia, they must have had prexious knowledge that Thomson had landed there, or intended to do so, otherwise they would not have known where to make harbor. Of course they called on him, and then came up the river to that beautiful point of land on which they staked out the settlement, and built their lirst house, which it is reasonable to suppose was of logs, of which they had a good supply all around here. Perhaps Mr. Thomson may have got his house built first: we don't know — but we do know- they were both built in the year 1623: and there Edward Hilton had his abode for ten years, when he sold out to Capt. Thomas Wiggin's company, which came over and began the settlement on Dover Neck, in 1633. Where is Hilton's P^oint? The distance from the Odiorne's Point land- ing place, in Little Harbor, coming up the west side of Newcastle, to Hilton's (Dover) Point, is six or seven miles. The "Point" lies between the Pas- cata(|ua and Pack ri\er nu the south and west. Fore river (otherwise Xe- wichawannock ) on the east. In coming ui> the Pascatatpia. it lor)ks as though it was straight down on the east side of Dover Neck; David Thomson and the first \oyagers so regarded and so called it, hence Thomson's grant of "a point of land in the Pascataqua river" was on the supposition that the water Dover settlers have always called "Fore river," was a continuation of the Pascataqua. The Point is about a half mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, and is nearly level, and in its highest place perhaps fifty feet abo\-e high water mark. The soil is excellent. The situation is one of the most beautiful in the state. There is where Edward Hilton and his party settled. He was a shrewd business man, as well as a gentleman ; he was not an ordinary fisherman. He saw and appreciated the advantages of that localitv for the purposes for which he came over here: that is for fishing, planting and trarling with the Indians. .At various seasons of the year the waters there, on all sides, were abounding in excellent fish : it was but a short distance to the Isles of Shoals, then a most excellent localitv for deep sea fishing; the soil all about his houses was excellent for raising Indian corn, which the Indians soon taught him how to cultivate; also for beans and other garden products. Two or three miles above there, he could get all the ovsters thev could AND REPRESENTATI\'E CITIZENS 91 possibly use; and the clams in Back river were so abundant that thev fed their hogs on them. Lobsters, wild ducks, and wild fowl of all kind were abundant in Little Bay and Great Bay, so that they never lacked for food. As Elder Brewster said of the Plymouth colonists that year, 'They were permitted to suck the abundance of the seas and of the treasures hid in the sands." By the way, the Indians never, at any time, troubled the settlers on Dover Point or Dover Neck; not e\en during the fiercest Lidian wars. Hilton's Point was a most excellent place for meeting and trading with the Indians, for the beaver skins and other Indian products of the forests ; and Hilton and his men must have found that branch of their business as profitable as fishing; perhaps more so. That very year, 1623, while Capt. Myles Standish and his soldiers were fighting the Indians, hand to hand at \Yey- moulh, all was peace on the Pascata(jua, and it continued so all through the troubles at Plymouth. Mr. Hilton resided there ten years; then, having sold out his interests to Captain Wiggin's company, which came o\er in 1633, soon after removed to what is now Newfields, then in the to^vn of Exeter, where he resided until his death in 1671. His remains and tho.se of eight generations of his descendants are interred in the ancient burial ground, not far from tbe Boston and Maine railroad station at Rockingham Junction. When Wheelwright and his party came to Exeter in 1638, they settled at the Falls, and they found Hilton three or four miles below, where he possessed a large tract of land ; and as the 3'ears went by, he built a spacious residence after the old English style. He was not a Puritan; probably that was one reason why he left Hilton's Point when the Puritan settlers came there with Captain Wiggin. Mr. Hilttm was attached in a quiet way to the English Church, as is manifest in a petition to the King which he signed July 18, 1665, praying that he might be permitted to "enjoy the Sacra- ments of the English Church," which he had limg been deprived of. When Exeter became settled, Mr. Hilton was one of the leading men until his death. He was elected one of the Selectmen in 1645, and in many years after that. In the early history of Exeter his name appears fre- quently, and he was repeatetUy cliosen by the inhabitants on important com- mittees to look after their interests. May 3, 1642, he was appointed by the authorities in Boston a magis- trate, to hold courts at Dover, for that town and for Exeter; those towns having come under Massachusetts rule in October, 1641. Judge Hilton held the office for several years. Such was the man who established the first permanent settlement in New Hampshire. 5 92 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY WILLIAM HILTON U'illiam Hiltun, brother of Edward, was one of the party that settled at Hilton's Point in 1623. \\hat of him? He was five years older than Edward ; he was admitted to membership in the Fishmongers' Guild, in Lon- don, in 1616, and was an active member until he came to Plymouth, New England, arriving November 11, 162 1, in the ship Fortune. He returned in the autumn of 1622, and came over with his brother Edward to Pascata- qua, in 1623. His wife and two children came over to Plymouth in the ship Ann, in the summer of 1623, and in ,\ugust of that year came from Plymouth to Hilton's Point, and resided there as long as his brother did, engaged in business with him. He was deputy to the Massachusetts General Court in 1O44, and probably in nther years. Alter E.xeter was settled he had grants of land there. He also had grants of land in Dover. He had a cornfield, in what is now Eliot, directly across the river from Dover Point. Probably it was an old Indian cornfield, which the Indians had used during an unknown period before the Hiltons settled on the Point. Later he built a house and resided there, until he was driven off by Capt. Walter Neal, governor of Capt. John Mason's settlement at Strawberry Bank, who claimed that the land belonged to Mason, under the Laconia grant. Captain Neal very summarily destroyed Hilton's house, and granted the land to Capt. Thomas Cammock, June 2, 1633; '^^ designates the grant as, "Where \\'illiam Hilton lately planted corne." Hilton l>rought a suit against Mrs. Mason to recover it; and it was not till twenty years later that the case was decided, after Maine came under Massachusetts rule. It was on October 25, 1653, that judgment was given, in his favor, against Mrs. Ann Mason, executrix of Capt. John Mason, and she had to pay him £160, instead of restoring the land which had been occupied by some one during the twenty years. It was his land and his house that Captain Neal dispossessed him of; the court so decided, and that. of course, by right of the David Thomson, 6,000 acres patent. No doubt he began planting corn there soon after the settlement was begun on Hilton's Point, as it was an old Indian cornfield, all ready to be worked. He was assistant justice at Dover in 1642. Later he remo\ed to Kittery Point, where, October 27, 1648, he was licensed to keep a public house at Warehouse Point, near Phyllis' Notch. He had ferry boats which ran to various points on the Great Island and Strawberry Bank side of the river. In 1650, Mr. Hilton removed to York, where he was one of the signers that made that town come under the rule of Massachusetts, November 22, 1652, and took the oath of freeman; there were fifty signers. He was one AND REPRESENTATR'E CITI/EXS 93 of the Selectmen of York in 1652, 1653, 1654. He owned the ferry across York river. He died there in 1655 or 1656, as letters of administration are dated June 30, 1656, to his son-in-law, Richard White. TIIOM.KS ROBERTS Another man who came over with Edward Hilton in 16.23 was Thomas Roberts, who has lineal descendants, in the name, residing on Dover Neck today on the very land that he owned J75 years ago. He was made presi- dent of the court in March or .\pril, 1640, hence Governor of the Colony at Dover, succeeding Capt. John Underhill, which office he held until Dover and all the New Hampshire settlements were united with Massachusetts in October, 1641. The correct locality of his first residence on Dover Point is not known, but it is probable it was very near that of Edward Hilton, the site of which is where the present Hilton Hall stands — at the extremity of the Point. After Capt. Thomas Wiggin's company came here in 1633, having Itought Edward Hilton's land, Mr. Roberts moved further up, on the Neck, and located himself on the bank of the Fore river, where the spot on which he built his house is still identified and pointed out by his descendants, who reside on the land, which has been preserved in the Roberts' family, in uninterrupted succession for 275 years. In his old age he favored the Quakers, and reprimanded his sons, Thomas, and John Roberts, who were constables when the Quaker women were whipped by order of the court. He died September 27, 1673, about two years after Edward Hilton died. They were about the same age. His grave, not marked, is in the northeast corner of the old burial ground on Dover Neck. LEOX.VRD I'liMERoy Leonard Pomeroy, one of the three merchants wdio signed the Thomson Indenture, and who was a partner in the 6,000-acre venture, owned the ship Providence, in whicli Ivlward lliltnn came ii\er; Mr. Ponierdv i,r()hal>ly came with him, to inspect the investment he had entered into with David Thomson. .Vbraham Colmer and Nicholas Sherwell. Mr. Pomeroy was not a permanent resident at Plilton's Point, as were the Hiltons and Mr. Roberts, but he was there on various occasions between 1623 and 1628, so many times that his name was given to the cove that is between Dover Point and Dover Neck, on the east side. That cove has, from the very first, been called Pomeroy's Cove ; and is so called today. That cove is where the Dover and Portsmouth railroad crosses the tip-end of it. There was where the 94 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Providence landed its passengers when it brought Edward Hilton and his party up the Pascataqua, in the spring of 1623. 'I'here was some special reason for calling it Ponieroy Cove; it would nut ha\e l)een so named had he not been there repeatedly. No other Pomeroy was ever in any way connected with the history of Dover. Other families were undoubtedly added to this colony between 1623 and 1 63 1, but their names cannot be given. Now what are the proofs of all this? How do I know they came here in 1623? evidence of the settlement in 1623, .•\nd that they remained at Hilton's point What is the evidence that the Hiltons and Roberts, and others, com- menced the settlement at Hilton's Point in 1623? First. The historian, Hubbard, says so in his "History of New Eng- land," which was published about fifty years after that day, but was in manuscript much earlier than that. He was, probably, personally acquainted with Edward and William Hilton, and conversed with them on the subject. Edward Hilton did not die until 1671, and lived at Exeter thirty years; and it would seem strange if Hubbard did not interview Mr. Hilton when hv \\a> collecting the material for his history. He says in his history : "lujr being encouraged Ijy the report of divers mariners that came to make fishing voyages upon the coast, they sent over that year (1623), one Mr. David Thomson, with Mr. Edward Hilton and his brother, William Hilton, who had been fishmongers in London, with some others that came along with them, furnished with necessaries for carrying on a plantation there. Possibly others might be sent after them in the years following, 1624 and 1625; some of whom first in proljability seized on a place called the Little Harbor, on the west side of the Pascataqua river, toward or at the mouth thereof ; the Hiltons meanwhile setting up their stages higher up the river, towards the northwest, at or aliout a ]ilace since called Dover." Belknap, and other historians following, repeat the statement abo\'e quoted from Hubbard. Second. William Hilton says they came to Hilton's Point in 1623. The New England Historical and Genealogical Ixegister, of 1882, Vol. 36, has the following petition, w hich had Iiut recently been fountl in the old court records, and no historian had ever known there was such a document ; it settles the question of date, as 1623, beyond a doubt: petition of WILLIAM HILTON, 1660 To the Honored Generall Court now Assembled at Boston. The Petition of William Hilton Humblv SIk nveth : AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 95 Whereas your petitioner's father, WiUiain Hilton, came over into New England about tlie year Anno: Dom : 1621 : & yr. petitioner came about one year and a half after, and in a little tyme following settled ourselves upon vc Ri\cr of Paschataq with Mr. h^dward llilton, who were tiie first luiglish Planters there, William having much intercourse with the Indians by way of trayde and mutuall giving & receiving, amongst whom one Tahanto, Sag- amore of Penacooke, for divers kindnesses received from your petitioner's father & himself, did freely give unto ye aforesaid William Senior and Wil- liam Hilton, Junior, Six Miles of land lying on ye River Penneconaquigg, being a riverlette running into Penacooke to ye eastward, ye said land to be bounded soe as may be most for ye best accomodation of your said petitioner, his heyres & assignes. The said Tahanto did also freely give to ye said father & son & to their heyres forever, Two Miles of ye best Meddow Land lying on ye North East Side of ye River Pennecooke, adjoining to ye said River, with all ye appertenances which said Tract of Land & Meddow were given in ye presence of l-'ejld & Severall Indians, in ye year 1636: At which tyme Tahanto went with ye aforesaid Hiltons to the Lands, and thereof gave them possession. All of wch commonly is known to ye An- cient Inhabitants at Paschatq; & for the further confirmation of ye sd gyft or grant Your petitioner hath renewed deeds from ye sd Tahanto, & since your petitioner understands that there 1>e many grants of land lately given, thereabouts, to bee layd out : And least any shoud bee mistaken in Chusing yr place & thereby intrench apon yr i>etitioner's rights, for preventing whereof : Your Petitioner humbly Craveth that his grant may be confirmed by this Court, & that A — B — C — , or any two of them, may be fully Impowered to sett forth ye bounds of all ye above mentioned lands, & make true returne whereof unto this honored Court. And your petitioner, as in duty bee is bound, shall pray for your future welfare & prosperity. Boston, June i, 1660. The Committee having considered ye contents of this petition, do not judge meet that ye Court grant ye same, but having considered the petitioner's ground for ye approbaccon of ye Indian's grant, doe judge meet that 300 acres of ye sd Land be sett out to ye petitioner by a Committee Chosen by this Court, so as that it may not prejudice any plantation, and this as a finall end & issue of all future claims by virtue id" such grant from ye Indians. Thomas D.\nforth, Elea Lusher, Henry Bartholomew. The Magists Approave of this returne if theire ye Depu'ts Consent hereunto. Edward Ravvson, Secretary. Consented to by ye Deputies. William Torry. Cleric. (Endorsed.) The Petition of William Hilton Entered with ye Magistrates 30 May, 1660, & ex. pd. ents Tahanto's Deed dd and p Mr. Danf, William Hilton's petition enterred & referred to the Committee. Now it is a matter of record that William Hilton arrived at Plymouth, in the ship Fortune, November 11, 162 1 ; his wife and two children came to 06 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTV Plymouth in tlie sliip Anne, in June or July, 1623; one of the children was William Hilton, Jr., the above named petitioner. He says that he and his mother arrived at Plymouth about '"one year and a half later;" that reckoned from Noveml>er 11, i6ji, makes the date in June or July, 1623: he further says: "and in a Ivttle tyme following, settled ourselves upon ye River of P'aschatii, witii Air. Edward Hilton, who were the first English planters there." That settles the question. Third. We have the evidence of Edward Hilton himself, as shown in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register of July, 1870, Vol. XXIV, wherein is published the "Grant of the Council of Plymouth to Edward Hilton of Land in Xew England, dated 12 Alarch, 1629 (O. S.)," that is, 1630 (N. S.). It was found among the court records of the lawsuit of Allen vs. Waklron, of date of February, 1704-5. This suit was one of the Alason heirs' claims against the New Hampshire land owners. It was put in as evidence that Capt. John Mason never owned what is Dover and other towns adjoining. THE HILTON GR.VNT Know ye that said President and Council by virtue and authoritv of his Majesty's said Letters Patent, and for and in consideration that Edward Hilton and Associates hath already at his and their own proper cost and charge transported sundry servants to plant in New England aforesaid, at a place there called by the natives Wecanacohunt, otherwise Hilton's Point, lying some two leagues from the mouth of the River Paskataquack, in New- England aforesaid, inhere Ihcy have already built some houses and planted Come. And for that he doth further intend by God's Di\-ine Assistance to transport thither more people and cattle, to the good increase and advance- ment, and for the better settling and strengthening of their plantation, as also that they may be better encouraged to proceed in so pious a work which may especially tend to the propagation of Religion, and the great increase of trade, to his Majesty's Realms and Dominions, and the advance- ment of public plantations — Have given, granted and Engrossed and confirmed, and by this their pres- ent writing, doe fully, clearly and absolutely give, grant, Enfeoffe and Con- firme unto the said Edward Hilton, his heirs and Assigns forever: All that part of the River Pascata(|uack. called or known by the name of Wecanacohunt, or Hiltons Point, with the south side of said River, up to the fall of the River, and three miles into the main land by all the breadth aforesaid; Together with all the shores, creeks, bays, harbors, and coasts alongst the sea, within the limits and bounds aforesaid, with woods and i.slands next adjoining to the land not being already granted by said Council unto any other person or persons, together also with all tlie lands, ri\-ers, mines, min- erals of what kind or nature soe ever, etc. etc. : To have and to hold all and singular the said lands and premises, etc. etc. unto said Edward Hilton, his heirs and assigns, etc. they paying unto AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZEXS 97 our sovereign Lord the King, one-fifth part of gold or silver ores, and another fifth part to the Council aforesaid and their successors, by the rent hereafter in these presents reserved, yielding and paying therefor yearly forever, unto saitl Council, their successors or assigns, for every one hun- dred acres of said land in use, the sum of twelve pence of Lawful money of England into the hands of the Rent gatherer for the time being, of the said Council, for all services whatsoever: And the said Council for the afifairs of England, in America aforesaid, do by these presents nominate, depute, authorize, appoint, and in their place and stead put William Black- ston, of New England, in /vmerica, aforesaid. Clerk: \Villiam Jeffries and Thomas Lewis, of the same place. Gents, and either or any of them jointly or separately, to be their (the Council's), true and lawful Attorney or Attorneys, and in their name and stead to enter into each part or portion of land and other premises with the appointments by these presents given and granted, or into some part thereof in the name of the whole, and peacable and quiet possession and seisin thereof for them to take, and the same so had and taken in their name and stead, to deliver possesssion & seisin thereof unto Edward Hilton, the said Edward Hilton, his heirs, associates and assigns, according to the tenor, forme and effect of these presents. Rati- fying, Conforming and allowing all & whatsoever the said Attorney, or Attorneys, or either of them, shall doe in and about the I^remises by virtue hereof. In witness whereof the said Council for the affairs of New England in America aforesaid, have hereunto caused their Common Seal to be put, the twelfth day of March. Anno: Domi : t()29. (1630. N. S. ) Ro. Warwick. Memo: That upon the seventh day of July, Anno: Domi: Annoq ; R's Caroli pri. Septimo : TBy Virtue of a warrant of Attorney within mentioned from the Council of the affairs in New England, under their common Seal unto Thomas Lewis, he the said Thomas Levas had taken quiet possession of the within mentioned premises and livery and seisin thereof, hath given to the within named Edward Hiltun in the presence of us: TttoMAS WlGGIN. Wm. Hilton. Vera copia efficit per nos. Sam'l Sharpe, Tim ; Nicholas. James Downe, Pet. Coi'pur. Vera Copia, Attest. Rich : Partridge. Cleric ic. In conclusion it may be well to repeat \\hat has already been mentioned — that the reason for his getting this grant was that Capt. John Mason had obtained his New Hampshire grant on the 7th of November preceding; and the Laconia company only ten days later; which grants entirely surrounded Hilton's possessions. The result was that Hilton did what every sensible business man would do under similar circumstances; that is, he secured a new and specific patent, to cover what he had had possession of for seven years. 98 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY under tlie David Thomson grant of six thousand acres. If he had not done that, no doubt Capt. Walter Neal would have tried to drive him ofif, as he did Wilham Hilton from the cornfield in Kittery, now Eliot. The very wording of the grant shows that the C(_iuncil regarded him as a permanent settler; not a new man just come over; and that he really owned the land. Again, there is further evidence that he had been settled there several years before 1630. In 1628 Governor Bradford sent a letter to Thomas Morton, the head man of a lively lot of settlers at Merry Mount, in Wol- laston, requesting him not to sell guns, ammunition and rum to the Indians, as he and his men had been doing. To this letter Morton replied that he defied the Plymouth authorities to molest him ; and assured the Governor that there would be bloodshed should they attempt it. Upon receipt of this letter, Bradford, in June, 1628, sent the Plymouth militia, under the command of Captain Standish, to subdue them. When tlie Captain arrived he found the settlers barricaded in Morton's house ; and Morton, after taunting Standish with a volley of abuse, led his men out against the men of Captain Shrimp, as he styled Standish. In the scrimmage which followed, Morton was taken prisoner, and the others surrendered ; the only shedding of blood being from the nose of a drunken Merry Mount settler which was scratched with the sword-ix>int of one of Standish's soldiers. Soon after this, Morton, under arrest, was sent to Engand in a ship that sailed from the Isles of Shoals. The charges incident to arresting Morton and sending him to England were apportioned among the settlements along the coast, from Plymouth to Monhegan. The total was £12, 7s; of which Edward Hilton paid £1 ; his men at Pascatarjuack £2, los ; Thomson, at Thom- son's Island, 15 shillings; Pljiuouth, £2, los; Naumkeag (Salem), £1, ids; Jeffrey and Burslem, £2; Xantascott, £1, los; Blackston at Shawmut (Bos- ton), 12 shillings. That shows that Hilton was one of the most substantial citizens in New England, and was an old resident, interested in preserving order. It also shows that Hilton and his men at Pascataqua paid more than any other place. As regards the names of the two places: Hilton's Point was so named because Edward Hilton settled there in 1623, and stayed there. Odiorne's Point was so named from the Odiorne family that settled in that neighbor- hood more than a century after David Thomson built his house there in the spring of 1623. It never had any name before that. If David Thomson had remained there, a j)ermanent settler, as Hilton did at Dover, the place, as a matter of course, would have been called Thomson's Point. He did not do that; he went to Boston Harbor in 1626, and resided on the island that had been granted him in 1622; and the place bears the name, Thomson's Island, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 99 to this day. The names themselves show that the first permanent settlement in New Hampshire was at Hilton's Point, in Dover. In conclusion it seems proper to say that it has always been the tradition in the Roberts family, passed clo^^n from father to sons to the present day. that Thomas Roberts came over with Edward Hilt(,n, and settled at Dover Point: and that they came in the spring of 1623; and that he remained there ten years; m 1633, \vhen Capt. Thomas Wigsin's company arrived, and the settle- ment was begun on Dover Neck, Mr. Roberts remoxed from the Point to the Neck, and built his house on a grant of land the town gave him on Fore river, which land has remained in possession of his descendants to the present day. The Laconia grant of November 17, 1620. led to the first settlement of Strawberry Bank ( Portsmouth ). m 1630. The Thomson grant of October ih 1622, led to the settlement of Hilton's Point (Dover), in 1623. Dover was never in any way under control of the Laconia company. Dover is seven years older than Portsmouth, and fifty years older than New Hampshire CHAPTER VI HISTORY OF DO\'ER (II) EARLY NAMES IN OLD DOVER As has been stated, the first settlement began in Dover at Hilton's Point (Dover Point), in the spring of 1623. The founder was Edward Hilton; two of his associates were his brother William and Thomas Roberts. The place where they landed the ship in w hich thev came over is called Pomeroy's Cove, named for Leonard Pomeroy. who owned the ship. It is where the Dover and Portsmouth railroad crosses the tidewater between Dover Neck and Dover I'oint. Edward Hilton built his house where Hilton Hall now stands. The settlement on the hill, above this cove, began ten years later. As regards names. At first the locality was Hilton's Point-on-the-Pascat- aqua and that part of the town continued to be called Hilton's Point for more than two hundred years ; the present name, Dover Point, is of comparatively recent use. \Mien Hilton sold out to Capt. Thomas \\'iggin's company in 1 63 1 and the colony came over in 1633 and began the settlement on Dover Neck, the settlement was called Bristol, as many of the men came from towns in tile west of England, along the Bristol Channel; but the whole settlements at Dover and Portsmouth were known by the common name Pascataqua; locallv Portsmouth was Strawberry Bank and Dover was Bristol. In 1637 the name was changed to Dover. When the First Church was organized in Xfjvember, 1638, a new element was introduced. The second minister. Rev. Thomas Larkham, had been pastor of a church at Northam, England, at the mouth of Bristol channel, and he induced the settlers to change the name from Bristol to Northam, by which name it was known a few years. After I\Ir. Larkham had left the church and the town had come under the rule of Massachusetts in 1642, the name was changed to Dover. So the names have been Hilton's Puint-on-the-Pascat- aqua, Bristol, Northam, and Dover. It is not known that any of the settlers came from Dover. England. Dover is fifty years older than New Hampshire; that is, the town is half a century older than the province and state. New Hampshire was never a colony, except for a few months in 1775, when it was so called for con- 100 FIEST PARISH CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH, DOVKR, N. H. ST. (IIAKLKS cnrKCIl, DUVKK, X. II. WASHINGTON ST. F. B. CIIUKCH, DUVEK, N. H. PKIHCt; .\Ii;.\l(.)KIAL (■lllli( 11, IK)\ KW, N. H. AXD REI'RKSKXTATRE CITIZENS 103 venience in actin.i,' with the other colonies. The name New Hanii)shire was not used until ahnut i(>--,. up to which time Dover was a town in Norfolk county, Massachusetts, and it sent its representatives to the general court in Boston every year and helped make die laws ; but in addition to which it made many of its own local laws in town meetings at Dover Neck. Old Dover comprised the present city and Somersworth, Rollinsford, Dur- ham, Madbury, Lee and Xewington. I'T)r more than a century, when you hml tiie name Dover in the old records, town and province, it means what we now call Dover Neck. There was the meeting house, what in modern parlance is called town house, and church. There was the business center of the town, and they were strung men who ruled in those days. Other localities had local names for convenience in use in business affairs. Here, where nnw is the heart of the city and now the center of business, was called Cochecho-in-Dover. Durham was Oyster River-in-Dover, Newington was Bloody Point-in-Dover. The great lumbermen, like Major Waldron, had names for their timber lijts. which were granted to them by the town. Many of those names remain to the present time. For example, Tolend is simply an abbreviation of Tolland. England, near where Major A\'aldron emigrated from when he came to Dover and settled, and built his mill here at the Cochecho falls, in i64_'. Mad- bury gets its name from a timber lot up in that territory, which was called Modbury by its owner, who came from the neighborhood of that town in England. The men remembered their old homes. Timber lots had to have names in order to designate transfer titles in buying and selling land, so thev applied names that were familiar to them in their old lionie in England. There is one name of special interest on account of its origin — "Bloody Point." that section of Old Dover now Newington. It will be seen in the first cha])ter of these historical sketches, that Capt. John Mason secured a grant from the Council of I'lymouth defining the boundarv line l>etween his territory and that of Edward Hilton; the local name for [Mason's territory was Straw])erry Bank; the other was Hilton's I'oint. At the beginning in 1630. and for several years following. Capt. Walter Neale was Governor at Strawberry Bank; in 1^)33 and for several years following. Capt. Thomas Wiggin was Governor at Hilton's Point and the settlement on Dover Neck. Cai)tain Wiggin contended that the line between his territory and that of Strawberry Bank was wdiere the present division is between Newington and Portsmouth. Captain Neale contended that Mason's territory extended up to w here the Newington railway station is now- located, at the east end of the railroail bridge. So, many collisions occurred while the contriwersy was goin"- on. not only between the settlers, but between Captain Neale and Captain \\ iggin. in regard to the division line. On one occasion they came near fight- ing a duel with swords. The Massachusetts historian, Hubbard, informs us that Wiggin, being forbidden by Neale "to come upon a certain point of land. 104 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY that lieth in tlie mitlway between Dover and Exeter, Captain Wiggin intended to have defended his right by the s\\ urd, Ijut it seems both the litigants had so much wit in their anger as to wave the battle, each accounting himself to have done very manfully in what was threatened; so as in respect not of what did, but what might have fallen out, the place to this day retains the formidable name of Bloody Point." So, in the town records of Dover, as well as in com- mon speech among the people, Dover territory on the south side of the Pas- cataqua river was called Bloody Point in Do\er until it was made a separate parish and town in 171 2. by the Pro\incial Assembly, and given the name Newington. CHAPTER VII HISTORY OF DOVER (III) THE FIRST PARISH AND FIRST CHURCH Edward Hilton was a Cliurch of England constituent; he does not appear to have had any special sympathy with the Pilgrims or the Puritans. For ten years he and his associates attended strictly to business, fishing and trading with the Indians. It does not appear that any clergyman of any persuasion did service at Hilton Point during the first decade. But as they were fre- quently going back and forth between Old England and New England, they no doubt kept in touch w ith the religious mo\ements that were going on in their old home. The}- were not (iodlcss men, but God-fearing and honest in their dealings. When Hilton sold his plantation to Thomas Wiggin's company, and the new company took possession, in the fall of 1633, a new religious element was introduced. The newcomers were reputed to be "of some account for religion," that is to say, they were largely made up of those who entertained Puritan views, as regarded the Church of England religious forms of church government. So the first parish was organized in 1633 with Re\'. William Leveridge, "a worthy Puritan divine," who came with the company that arrived October 10, 1634. That winter they built a log church a short distance down the hill southwest from the present meeting house site that is marked with a wall and a bronze tablet on the road side. Mr. Leveridge served the people two years, then went elsewhere for a more lucrative position. Fie was succeeded by the Rev. George Burdet, who remained two years, when steps were taken to have a regularly organized church, which was completed in the fall of 1638 with the Rev. Hanserd Knollys as the first pastor of the first church in Dover and New Hampshire. Mr. Knollys served two years and was succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Larkham, \\ho had been minister in a Puritan church in Northam, England. He was so popular with the people that they were induced to change the name nf the town from Dnxer and call it Xortham, which name it retained about four years and then was changed to Dover, having come under Massachusetts rule in 1642. 105 106 HISTORY OF STRAl'FORD COL■XT^• The first parisli and the town continued to work togetlier until June ii, 1762, when the parish was made separate from the town in the management of business affairs. Up to that time the town built the meeting houses, and there were held the town meetings as well as the church meetings, and the town voted support for the ministers and other current expenses. After 1762 the parish organization did what the town formerly had done, and the parish organization has continued to the present day. All persons are members of the parish who attend divine service at the "meeting house," or pay for sup- port of the minister; and all members of the church are members of the parish ; but members of the parish cannot be members of the church until formally admitted according to the established rules of the church, which have \aried from time to time. That is to say, the town and parish were one until 1762. They built the first meeting house of logs. They voted to ha\'e the second meeting house built, and Maj. Richard Walderne was the contractor (he was not a regular major then) ; he was to build it in consideration of the extensive grants the town had given him, covering all the lower falls of the Cochecho, where he had his sawmill and grist mill, with much timber, besides a rent of £12 per annum in boards or plank, bound himself, heirs and administrators, to erect a meeting house upon the hill, near T'ldcr .Xutter's residence; the dimensions of it were to be forty feet long, twenty-six feet wide, sixteen-foot studs, with six windows, two doors fit for such a house, w ith a tile covering, and to plank all the walls; with glass and nails for it, the whole to lie finished "betwixt this (April. i''>53) and April next come twelvemonth, which will be in the year 1654." Alajor Walderne completed it according to contract. As there was no bell on it, Richard Pinkham was hired to "beat the drum" on the Lord's Day to call the people to meeting. December 21, 1658. — It was voted that the meeting house on Dover Neck be underpinned, and catted and sealed with boards, a pulpit and seats con- venient l)e made, and a bell purchased, to be paid for bv a rate upon each man's estate according to the law of the country. But it appears by the records that the bell was not purchased until 1665, when the selectmen authorized Peter Cofiin to agree with some workmen to build a "turrett uixDn the Meeting House for to hang the bell," which they had bought of Captain Walderne, the cost to be paid out of what credit the Neck had in Mr. Coffin's hands, and if it cost more they engaging to pay him on the town account. And that year, 1665, the bell was first rung on the meeting house, taking the place of Richard Pinkham's drum. The next meeting house was built on Pine Hill "at Cochecho in Dover," in 1 7 12, and soon after this became the official seat of government in the tow n. Always before that the seat of government was at Dover Neck, and when- ever Dover is spoken of as a place where somebody lived or something was AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 107 done, that is the place meant; the other places were simply localities in Dover Ot course religious meetings continuerl U> he held in that house on the Neck for a long tune after it ceased to be used to hold town meetings in and con- duct the town business. The minister of the first church officiated at both places. The last public town meeting was held in that house March lo 1760 A new house had been built in 1758-9, where the present first parish meeting house stands on Tuttle square. That was the fourth house the parish had. It was built ot wood. That was taken down in 182S and the present brick edifice was erected in its place. The tacitv and ill adaptation in style and convenience, was yet dear to the older members of the church, and given up with natural reluctance. The last service in it was held on Sunday. August 1, 1875. The >er\ ice of the laying of the corner-stone was observed on October 2, 1875, under the direction of Rev. Dr. Barrows, presiding elder of Dover District, who gave an address and laid the stone. The prayer for this service in the ritual w'as offered by Rev. J. Thurston. The singing was by the choir of the church, led by John S. Hayes. A large congregation attended, and the service was solemn and impressive. The stone contains documents giving an account of the building and demolition of the old edifice, the names of the present pastor, presiding elder, church officials, building committee, city papers, coins, etc., closely sealed up in a copper box. The new church was dedicated September 6, 1876. It is built of brick, with basement entirely above ground. It is 56 feet w^ide and 100 feet long, exclusive of the chancel and tower projections, which make its entire length AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 121 about 120 feet. Its walls from the ground are 45 feet high, and the tOAver, which IS at one corner. i,as a height of 140 feet. The tower contains a chnne of nnie l,ells. u ith an aggregate weight of 8,600 pounds, costing about $3.too. These bells are of excellent tone. .This is the only chime of bells HI a Methodist Church ui the world, except the Metropolitan at Washuigton. The basement contains a complete set of church rooms Aside from the entries it has a lecture room. w,th seats for about 600 persons- a smaller vestry, with 175 sittmgs; a library room, opening into both these apartments, tor the accommodation of both the adult and juvenile divisions of the Sunday school ; a completely appointed kitchen, a parlor for the ladies' circle. The organ was built by Hutchins & Plaisted, of Boston, and cost $3-000. I he church \m11 seat nearly i.ooo persons. The entire cost of the building with furniture was $35,700. Rev. Morris W. I'rince was appointed as the successor of Mr Scott and remained till 1879. L- C. I'ield was pastor from 1879 to 1880; C E Hall 1880-1881. The present pastor is the Rev. Elwin Hitchcock, who' is the forty- third minister, m regular succession, and the churcli is in a pn,sperous conditii_)n. The First Uuircrsalisf Socicly was organized March 27,. 1825 on which occasion Jonathan Locke was chairman, and (. H. Curtis, clerk Hiram Rollins. N. W. Ela. Joseph Badger and John Moore were also prominent members. This society was reorganized in 1837, under the name of the First Universalist of Dover. They have a neat house of worship, pleasantly situated on Third street. It was erected in 1837, and dedicated December 8th. the .same year. It cost $2,800. Rev. Rufus O. Williams was their pastor. He was installed May 2^,. 1838. Resigned his office May, 184 1. A fine-toned bell was placed upon the church November, 1842, at a cost of $375- It weighs 1.365 pounds. The church was publicly recognized with appropriate services December 25, 1838. Rev. Eben Francis was born in Boston, May 28. 1819. Began his labors in Dover June 6, 1841 ; ordained pastor October 13. 1841 ; dismissed 1844. Flis successors have been W G. Anderson, 1845-46; J. G. Forman, 1847-48; Thomas J. Greenwood. 1848-58; F. F. Hicks, 1858-61; Benjamin F. Eaton, 1862-66; E. Hewitt. 1868-70; J. Crehore, 1871-73- H W Hand 1877-78; J. Gorton. 1878-79. The house was sold in 1874. lUit the organization was preserved and worship was renewed in 1883. A new and elegant brick church of fine archi- tecture was erected on Central a\enue by the munificence of Thomas W. Peirce, a former citizen of Dover, in commemoration of his parents The building is called the "Peirce Memorial Church." and is an ornament to the city. The First Free-mil Baptist Church. Some time in or near the year 1824, 122 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY individuals, members of Free-Will Baptist Churches iu the main village and at "Upper Factory," began to assemble at the latter place for religious worship. In 1826 a revival was enjoyed. Organized September 15, 1826, with twenty-five members, at the house of Mrs. Webster, at Garrison Hill. Elder Roger Copp was moderator, and Samuel Davis served as clerk. September 2, 1827, the Lord's Supper was administered for the first time by Elder E. Place. Garrison Hill schoolhouse being too small for the assembly, they gathered under some shady oaks near by. Meetings were held in Garrison Hill schoolhouse, old courthouse in oppo- site direction, in a hall in Sawyer's building on Landing, an unfinished room over the blacksmith shop on the hill. Main street, which took the name of "Iron Chapel," at Deacon Jenness' vestry under G. W. Wendell's house, corner of School and Main streets, at the academy, and in manv pri\ate dwellings in the village and at L'pper Factory. October 27, 1830, steps were taken to purchase a lot and to erect a meeting house on (what is now known as) the corner of Chestnut and Lincoln streets. This was accomplished at a cost of $2,000, and May 20, 1832, it was dedicated; sermon by Re\-. A. Ca\'erno. The strength and efficiency of the church was essentially in the women who worked in the factories, who, under God, were the soul of the movement in building a house of worship. In September, 1834, the churcli numbered 250. From 1838 to 1839 was a time of severe trials, resulting in a division and the formation of a new church (now AX'ashington street). Under the bless- ing of God, a precious revival followed. In 1843, under the labors of Elder Hiram Stevens, the church endured a severe shock from the intense excitement of Millerism, in which the pastor for a time was carried away. It soon recovered, by the help of God, from the injury received. From the unfortunatet trials of 1872 and 1873, "^2'' the close of Rev. E. A. Stockman's pastorate, it has measurably recovered. August 17, 185 1, the society abandoned its house of worship on Chestnut street for a new one, remodeled at a cost of $1,500, on Charles street, since which time three thousand dollars or more have been expended in vestry, repairs and changes. The church has seen many trials, but it has also seen many precious revivals and man}' souls converted. Sixteen hun- dred have been members of the church, as near as can be ascertained by the records. Pastors: Andrew T. Foss, in 1S27, one year and a half; ALn^hew Clark, in 1829, short time; Nathaniel Thurston, in 1831, about three years; Enoch Mack, October, 1835, to May, 1837; A. D. Smith, June, 1S37, about two years; Aaron Ayer, in 1839, about two years; Hiram Stevens, in 1842, about two years: S. W^ Perkins, in 1844, some over one year; A. D. Smith, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 123 in 1846, three years; A. Caverno, in 1849, to April, 1852; Mooers Cole, Augnst, 1852, to May, 1855; '\- Caverno, May, 1855, to May, 1856; J. M. Durgin, May, 1856, to April, i860; James Rand, October 14, 1S60, to September 29, 1867; John Malvern, March, 1868, to September 24, 1871 ; E. A. Stockman, November 15, 1871, to January, 1873; Charles E. Blake, June, 1874, to July, 1875; E. W. Ricker, February, 1876, to March, 1882; H. F. Wood, May, 1882. The church was disljanded in 1899, several min- isters having served up to 1895. The First Unitarian Society of Christians in Dover. The first meeting for fonning this society was held August 28, 1827. The society was organ- ized on September 4, following. The first meeting for public worship was held at the courthouse, Novem- ber 4th of the same year, when Rev. Henry Ware, Jr., then pastor of the New Brick Church, Hanover street, Boston, and afterwards Professor of Pulpit Eloquence in Cambridge Divinity School, ofiicicated. The house was built of brick, seventy by eighty-three feet, in the year 182S, situated on Locust street, opposite head of Kirkland street, and cost $12,000. It was dedicated, and Rev. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop ordained February 17, 1829. The dedicatory services were performed by Rev. Dr. Nichols, of Portland, and ordination sermon by Rev. Dr. Parker, of Portland. The church was gathered the evening previous. Mr. Lothrop was born in Utica, N. Y., October 13, 1804, was graduated at Harvard College in 1825, received his theological education at the Theo- logical School at Cambridge, and was approbated for the ministry August, 1828. He was pastor of the church and society until May, 1834. He was succeeded by Rev. Edgar Buckingham, who was ordained December 30, 1835. He resigned June 17, 1839, and removed to Trenton, N. Y. Rev. John Parkman, native of Boston, Mass., graduated at Harvard College in 183 1, had been settled in the ministry in Greenfield, Mass., and was installed pastor of this church and society April 22, 1840. He remained until 1849. His successors have been : Henry F. Bond, ordained May, 185 1. Edwin M. Wheelock, ordained January 27, 1857, appointed chaplain, October, 1862, of the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers. Francis E. Abbot, ordained August 31, 1864. Thomas W. Brown, settled December 15, 1869, left May 2, 1875. Charles A. Allen, settled September 5, 1875, resigned March 30, 1879. W. R. G. Mellen, began labor October i, 1880, served several years and has had able successors to the present time. Franklin Street B-aptist Cliurch was constituted with thirteen members, and recognized in the usual form by a council on August 23, 1828. The names of members were John Alden, Samuel Chase, John Roberts, Dorcas 124 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Alden. Cliarity Woodward, Hannah Wentworth, Louisa A. Ayer, John Gould, Joshua W. Bazin, WiUiam E. Lord, Mary E. Harris, Sarah Went- worth, Sarah J. Ayer. Before organization, in ]\Iarch, 1S2S, Dev. Duncan Dunbar was invited to preach to this body of Baptist friends, and as a resuU of a few Sundays' stay three were baptized on profession of tlieir faith. Octol>er 21, 1829, Brother Elijah Foster was ordained. On the same day the i)resent church edifice was dedicated. The Rev. Elijah Foster continued pastor of the church till the spring of 1831, when he received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Salisbury and Ames- bury, Mass. In Decemlier. 183J, Rev. Xoah Hooper was elected pastor, and remained until July, 1833, when he was dismissed to become pastor of the Baptist Church of Sanbornton, N. H. At the same meeting of the dismissal of Rev. Mr. Hooper it was also \oted to call Rev. Gibbon Williams to the pastorate. He remained \\ ith the church until the summer of 1835, when he accepted the call of the church at Chester. In November, 1835, Brother Benjamin Brierly was ordained to the work of the ministry and settled as pastor of the church. His stay was nearly two years. In June, 1838, Brother Lucien Hayden, of Hamilton Theological Sem- inary, was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry, and remained three years. The successor of Rev. Mr. Hayden was Rev. A. M. Swain, who came to the pastorate of the church in No\'eml:)er, 1842, and remained until May, 1844. In September, 1844, Rev. Oliver Ayer became pastor of the church. He officiated six years and eight months. Rev. L. D. Hill followed as pastor, coming to the work June i, 185 1. and remaining a little more than two years. Rc\'. John Cookson succeeded him March 16, 1854. During his pastorate of one year alterations and improxements in the house of worship tn the amount of $550 were made. Brother Warren C. Clapp, a licentiate of the Franklindale Church, New York, accepted a call from the church, and was ordained as its pastor May 27. 1856. He remained six years. In August, 1862, Rev. L. D. Hill was again called to the pastorate c"^ this church from Thomaston, Me., and officiated four years. Deacon John Gould, for thirty-five years an office-bearer in the church, and one of its first deacons, a man greatly loved, died. In May, 1867, Rev. Alden Sherwin, of Brattleborough, Vt., accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of the church, remaining until October, 1868. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 125 In September, 18O9. Rev. W,ll,a,n T. Cliase con:nienced pastoral labors with the church. After four years and two months he was dismissed to the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Lewiston Me In February. 1S74, J^ev. A. Bryant uas chosen to tlie pastorate whose stay extended over a period of a year and two months On the 30th of September. 1875, P.rother Charles A. Towns was or- damed to the work of the ministry, and was settled as pastor of the church He was dismissed May, 1881. Rev. Robert L. Colwcll became pa.fu- ,„ ( )clob.r, ,88,, and served seve.-al years: .ull„wnio- ]„,„ h.-ue been a nn.nber ,,f able pa.stors. and the church lias prospered. During the f^rst fifty years of its existence there have been added to the church 662 members, 411 of whom were baptized into its fellowship and the remamder by letter and ex];erience. The year following the organization of the church the Sundav school work was taken up. and has been engaged in ever since that time ' Rowan Catholic Church. Mass was first .said in this town in the winter of 18.0, by Rev. Virgil H. Barber, S. J. Aniong the prominent pioneer Catholics m Dover were Willia,n Ashcroft, John Burns, Francis G O'Neill Philip b. Scanlan and \\'il!iam AIcDevitt. Services were f^rst held in the courthouse. May 17, i8^S the corner- stone of the first Catholic Church was laid, and was' completed and accepted 111^ June, ^ii2ij. It cost $j,8oo. The church was coiiseci-ated September '6 1830, by Rt. Rev. Dr. l),,niinick Fenwick, of Boston. The rapid o,-,nvth of the church demanded a more commodious church edifice, and in 1872 the present building was completed. The first regular pastor of the church was Rev. Ivather French, in 1827 who remained two years after the erection of the first church edifice and was succeeded by Rev. blather Lee, M. D., D. D. He remained three years and was followed Iw Rev. Father McXamee, M. D., D. D. He officiated until 1839, and was succeeded by Rev. Father Conovan, who stayed until iS^S- Father McShane came next, succeeded by Father Brady. Next came Father Niccolo, who was followed by leather Drummond, assisted by the Rev. Father Blodgett, a convert, who was given full charge of the parish before he had been here a year on account of the feebleness of Father Drummond. Father Blodgett was one of the most able and enterprising priests that ever presided over this parish. It was through him that the New Hampshire House property and the new Catholic cemetery was secured, and, had he lived, he would have erected upon this property one of the finest churches in the state. Father Blodgett died May 15, 1881, and was the first priest to be buried in Dover. Rev. Father Murphy succeeded, and was soon given 126 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY full charge of the parish, as Father Drunimond became demented, and died in October, 1882. Feather ^lurphy improved the Xew Hampshire House property by erecting on it one of the hnest parochial schools in the county: he also remodeled the main Iniilding of the hotel for a nunnery. The present church was imiiroved at once, at an expense of thousands of dollars. Xew steam-heating apparatus was put in, and tiie church was frescoed by one of the best artists in that busi- ness. The parsonage was remodeled and extended under the suj)ervision of Father Murphy. Since his death \arious other improxements ha\'e been made, St. Thomas' Church. The first account of services in the vicinity of Dover in accordance with the doctrine and ritual of the Protestant Episcopal Church I if America is to be found in the report of Rew Henry Blackwaller to a convention held at Hopkinton. Wednesday, September 8, 1830. Therein he reports a flourishing parish by the name of St. Paul's Church, Great F\alls, Somersworth. In the spring of 183 1, Mr. Blackwaller removed to Salmon Falls to take charge of an Episcopal Church (Christ Church) just then established there. In the Convention journal of 1832, Mr. Blackaller reports that since the month of February, 1832, "he has held occasional services in the increasingly populous village of Dover." Friday evening, February 15, 1832, he reports "that our venerable prelate (the late Right Rev. Alexander V. Griswold) preached in the Congregational place of wor- ship in Dover on the doctrines of the church before a numerous and respec- table audience, with much apparent interest to all present." He adds that a church of our order is much desired by several respectable families in Dover, and expresses a belief in its ultimate establishment and success. The per- manent establishment of this church in Dover is not due entirely or chiefly, however, to the efforts of Mr. Blackwaller, but rather to the venerable rector of St. John's Church, Charlestov n. Mass., the Rev. Thomas R. Lambert, D. D., who in 1839, being chaplain in the navy, began the regular services of the church in what was then Belknap School, a wooden building, then situated on Church street, since moved to Third street, and occupied for business purposes. September 2, 1839, gentlemen interested in the forma- tion of a church met in this schoolhouse and entered into an association for this purpose. The signers of the original articles of association were Asa A. Tufts, Richard Steele, Caleb Duxbury, Thomas C. Oakes, \\'illiam Wil- liamson, Thomas Hough, Stephen Hardy, William Johnson, Daniel Hallam, Samuel H. Parker, Sanborn B. Carter, Thomas R. Lambert, Charles Hus- band, Edward Husband, Thomas Hampton, James Duxbury, Charles W. Woodman, John Duxbury. The church was called St. Thomas' Church. December i, 1839, Rev. William Horton, before rector of Trinity Church, Saco, became rector of St. Thomas' Church, Dover. In 1840 a lot of land was bought on what is now the corner of Central and St. Thomas AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 127 street, then a part of the Atkinson estate. A church bniliHng was erected and finished January, 1841, at the cost of $5,800. The first service was held in the new church January 17, 1841. The church was consecrated by Bishop Griswold, Marcli 17, 1841. August, 1841, the parish consisted of sixty families and forty communicants. Rev. Mr. Horton resigned his rectorship November 10, 1847. The Rev. Thomas G. Salter became rector December 12, 1847. In i860 gas was put into the church, and the church bell was hung. July i, 1861, Mr. Salter resigned his rectorship, and September i, 1861, Rev. Edward M. Gushee became the rector. During our late Civil war Mr. Gushee was chaplain of the Ninth New Hampshire Regiment, and in his absence Rev. Charles Wingate officiated as rector. Mr. Gushee resigned in April, 1864. December i, 1864, the Rev. John W. Clark became rector. Mr. Clark resigned September 16, 1866. February 3, 1867, Rev. George G. Field was chosen rector. Mr. Field resigned August 16, 1868. Rev John B. Richmond became rector November 8, 1868. During the rectorship of Mr. Richmond the church building was altered inside and out, and its seating capacity increased. Mr. Richmond resigned April 29, 1876, and was succeeded by the Rev. Ithamar W. Beard, who was chosen rector, and entered upon his duties November 5, 1876, and served to November, 189S. During his pastorate the beautiful house of worship was built on Hale street. At present the number of families in the parish is about 150; the number of conununicants, 106; the Sunday school, 150 teachers and pupils. The ]iarisli has been subject to the usual changes incident to a manufacturing town, h ranks perha|is third (jr f(iurth in order among the parislies of this church in New Hani])shirc. JVashiugtoii Street Free-Will Baptist Cliiireli. The church was organ- ized in the Central street vestry, February 4, 1840. The first covenant was signed by thirteen persons, as follows : William Burr, Enoch Mack, Tobias Scruton, Jonathan C. Gilman. Asa H. Littlefield, M. D. L. Stevens, E. B. Chamberlain, Alfred Scruton. Lucy ^'. Foss, Eunice Colbath, Elance Fuller, Chloe Holt, Mary Willard. Of these none is now living. The first settled ])astor was Rev. J. B. Da\-is He entered upon his pastorate No\'ember i, 1840. and remained Init one year. The subsequent pastors have been as follows : Rev. A. K. Moulton. settled in 1841, remained one year; Rev. R. Dunn, settled in 1843, remained one year; Rev. Elias Hutchins, settled in 1845, remained thirteen years; Rev. Charles E. Blake, settled in 1866, remained but one year; Rev. Willet Vary, settled in 1859, closed his labors in 1866; Rev. I. D. Stewart, settled in 1867, remained until 1874; Rev. G. C. Waterman, began his pastorate in 1874, and closed in 1879. The Rev. Frank K. Chase began his pastorate in October, 1879, and served until 1892. Since then four pastors have served, and the church is prosperous. 128 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Tliree hundred and thirty-six converts liave been baptized by the pastors. The whole number connected with the church to date is about seven hundred and ten. The church has always been forward in all benevolent work, has been actively engaged in the Sunday school work, and has enjoyed the presence and counsel of many noble men and women. Upon all great moral questions she has spoken with no uncertain voice. The services were held at first in the Central street vestry. When that became crowded they were removed to what was then known as the "Bel- knap schoolhouse," standing in the rear of the First Parish Church. After that the services were held for a time in the old courthouse. The first house of worship owned by the society was the building on Washington street now known as the Odd Fellows building. This was dedicated September 21, 1843. During the pastorate of Rev. I. D. Stewart the society sold out its interest in this building, and erected its brick church I in Washington street. This was dedicated October 28, iS(K). On the morning of Tuesday. ,May 2, 1882. a fire broke out in a small brush factory near the church. The fire soon spread to the church itself, and in a painfully short time the church was a mass of smouldering ruins. In the afternoon a heavy wind blew the northern gable over. The bricks fell upon the audience room floor, crushing it like an eggshell. A number of persons were standing in the vestry, and five of them were buried beneath the ruins. Four of these were taken out alive. The fifth, Judge John R. Varney, was not missed until late at night. A midnight search was made, and he was found crushed and dead under the bricks and broken timbers. At an informal meeting of the society, held on \\'ednesday evening, in the chapel of the First Parish, it was decided to accept the otter of the Belknap Church, which was then without a pastor and not holding regular services. The first service in this church was held Sunday, May 7th. The rebuilding of the church, much improved, was completed in 1882. Belknap Congregational Church. This church was the result of public worship begun in the town hall 1)_\- Re\-. Benjamin F. Parsons, after his resig- nation of the First Church, from which he was dismissed September 3, 1856. A Sabbath school was organized July 6, 183(1, with forty-five scholars. A society was organized July 7. 1856. and the church September 3, 1856. with forty- four members. The corner-stone of the house of worship was laid July 4, 1859, and the house was dedicated December 29, 1859. Rev. Mr. Parsons was dismissed, on his resignation, October 24. 1861. His successors in service have been Charles H. Pratt. James B. Thornton 1 lu-gan December. 1861), E. A. Spence, Ezra Haskell ( l)egan in 1862). Charles C. Watson (installed July 11, 1867), J. W. Savage. Frank Haley. Isaiah P. Smith, James De Buchananne. from 1877 to 1882: Ezra Haskell, 1889-1895; R. K. AND REPRESENTATI\-E CITIZENS 129 Jones. ,895-96. The churcli was closed until 19,0, when services were resumed. The Advent Christian Church was organized Mav 4, 1881, by a body of Christians who had worshiped in houses anut fur every Deputy the town sent to the Massachusetts General Court. They did not have newspapers in those days, so when the Court was through its session Major Walderne had to read his report of the proceedings, and laws enacted, to the people assembled in public meeting in the meeting house on Dover Neck. No doubt the leading men cross questioned him closely, as he read his reports. At the end of forty years, the same number that the Patriarch [Moses led the Israelites in the Wilderness, the New Hampshire towns were made into the Province of New Hampshire, which made its own laws but had a common Governor with Massachusetts. In 1742 the province was separated completely from Massachusetts and had its own Governor. In 1775 the Province changed to a Colony, and very soon to a State. Dover men took an acti\e and important part as the various changes were made, through AND REPRESENTATR'E CITIZENS 135 wars and revolutions. Do\-er conlinncd the town meeting fonn of govern- ment down to i85(), twu centuries and a (|uarter, 'Jlie to\vn_ liad grown so numerous tliat the town meetings were \ery unwieldy bodies to govrern and transact public business in an orderly and satisfactory manner, so in 1855 the New Hampshire General Court granted the petition of the citizens for a city charter. The last regular town meeting was held .March 13, 1855; Joseph Dame Guppy was moderator. The selectmen elected were Charles Clement, Daniel Hussey and David Steele ; town clerk, Amasa Roberts ; Rep- resentatives to the General Court, Daniel M. Christie, Nathaniel Wiggin, James Bennett, William S. Ste\-ens, I\ory Paul and lulniund J. Lane. These were the last before the city government was organized. The last special town meeting was August 13. 1855: Charles A. Tufts was moderator. At this meeting the city charter was accepted, and the ancient town meetings came to an end. The first city election was held in November, 1855, at which Hon. Anrew Peirce was elected mayor, and the city government was organized on March 25, 1856. CHAPTER X HISTORY OF DOVER (VI) IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF DOVER Following are some of the most important events in the history of Dover, mentioned in the order of their occurrence. There are others, but these are milestones which w ill mark the journey of the school boy and school giil and every student in search of Dover history. The complete story of each one would make an interesting chapter, but that will not be attempted in this work. First. if:-'3: '1 he beginning uf settlement of Hilton Puint in the spring of 1623, by Edward Hilton and his party. Scco)id. 1^.33: The arrival of Ca])t. Thomas \\'iggin's company in Octo- ber, 1633. They organized the village on Dover Xeck, and established the First Parish. Third. 163S: The organization uf the First Church in December, 1(138, by the Rev. Hanserd Knollys and Capt. John Underbill. Fourth. 1640: The Combination Agreement for government of the Dover settlement, signed in 1640, Thomas Roberts being Governor. Fifth, 1642: The vote in 1641 to unite with the Massachusetts Bav Colony, which union was completed in 16)2, which remained in force, prac- tically, a half century. Sixth, 1643: Settlement of the boimdary line between Bloodv Point and Strawberry Bank by commissioners from the Massachusetts General Court. Practically the line now between Portsmouth and Xewington; the latter town was "Bloody Point in Dover" until it was made a separate town by the Pro- vincial Assembly in 1712 with the name of Xewington. Sn'cnth. 1642 : Beginning of the settlement at "Cochecho in Dover," and the erection of a sawmill and gristmill by Richard \\'alderne, later known as "Major Richard." at the falls east of Central avenue bridge. He was granted fifteen hundred trees, either oak or pine, for the accommodation of his sawmill he was shortly to erect. Eighth. 1650: Grants of waterfalls to various persons for sawmills, with timber adjacent, at the second falls of the Cochecho, and the .second falls of the Xewichawannock. 136 AND REPRESEXTATINT. CITIZENS 137 Ninth. 165J: Disputes about boundaries of sawmill grants. Tenth. i()5_>: Capt. Richard Walderne contracted to build the meet- ing house, on Meeting House hill, l,Jo\er Neck, between April. 11153, ^^'i'' April, 1654. And it was so built. Elcvoith, 1052: The boundary of Dover was fixed by a committee appointed by the General Court, consisting of William I'ayne, Samuel Wins- low and Matthew Boyse. The territory included what is now Dover. Som- ersw-orth, Durham, Madbury, Lee and Newington. Ti^'clftli, 1662, December 22: Order by the Court, Richard Walderne presiding, for the expulsion of the Quaker women who had made disturbance in town ; and they were whipped and expelled in accordance with the order. Tliirti'cnth. 1665: Peter Coffin was authorized to "Build a Turrett upon the Meeting House for to bang the Bell which we have bought of Capt. Walderne." It was built and the bell was hung. It is supposed that the tra- dition is true that that bell forms a ]iart of the bell metal which composed the old licU on the Virst Parish meeting house. Fourteenth, 1666: Various persons were warned out of town as lieing undesirable inhabitants. Fifteenth, 1667: Left. (Peter) Cofiin engaged by the selectmen to Iniild a fort around the meeting house, one hundreed feet sipiare, with two sconces sixteen feet square, all of timber twehe in.ches thick, and the wall to be eight feet high with sills and liraces. Si.vteeiith. 1(175: The beginning of Indian wars in 1675 which continued fifty years, ending at Knox Marsh in 1725. The first garrisons were built in 1675. There had been no trouble with the Indians in Do\-er u]) to that date. Seventeenth, 1675: The advent of the Capt. John Mason claimants in 1675, who demanded rent from e\'ery land owner; and the settlements here on the Pascataqua river were then first called "New Hampshire." Eighteenth', 1674: The first execution of wdiite men in any of the Pas- cataqua plantations. The record says : "A fisherman about Pascataqua had two ser\-ants. w ho in anger conspired to kill yr master, did so, tooke his money & fled, but were taken & both executed." Where they were hung is not stated, but probably on Dover Neck. Nineteenth, 1678: Rev. John Pike came to Dover and became minister of the First Church November i. He commenced keeping a diary which is of great historical value. Tzwntietli, 1679: September 18, the union with Massachusetts was dis- solved at this date by royal proclamation. John Cutt was appointed president of the province with a Council of six of the principal inhabitants, of whom Richard Walderne of Dover was one. Agreeably to the royal direction these six chose three other gentlemen into the Council, of whom John Clements of Dover was one. President Cutt nominated Major Walderne to be his 138 HISTORY OI' STRAFFORD COUNTY deputy, or vice-president, and John Roberts marshal. That was the begin- ning of New Hampshire. Dover is fifty-six years older than New Hampshire. Twentieth. 1685: The attempt of the heirs of Capt. John Mason to obtain possession of lands claimed by them, and the countenance which they received from the courts whicli had been established for that very purpose, at the instigation of Governor Cranfield. led to forcible resistance on the part of some of the inhabitants in Dover. Executions were issued for the arrest of Major Waldeme and other principal citizens of Dover. Twenty-first, 1689, June 27-8: Destruction of Cochecho, in which Major Walderne's garrison was burned, as also Richard Otis' garrison, and their bodies were burned in the buildings, etc. Twenty-second, 1690; End of the provincial government of 1680. Steps taken to return to a union with Massachusetts, as before 1679. Tzcenty-third, 1691 : New Hampshire reorganized as a province, with a Lieutenant-Governor, having the same Governor as Massachusetts. Twcnty-foitrtli. 1694: Massacre of settlers at Oyster river, on July 17. Twenty-fifth, 1709: The first pound at Cochecho Falls was ordered built this year. Tzveuty-si.vlli. iju: Meeting hnuse built un Fine Hill by the residents of Cochecho. Tii.'cnty-sei'enth, 1715: Place for town meetings changed from Dover Neck to the meeting house on Pine Hill. Tz^vnty-cightli, 1717, September 18: Rev. Jonathan Gushing was ordained as minister of the First Church, which position he held fifty years. Tzt.'enty-ni)ith. 1724. .Vugust 2j : Ts date of the end of Indian wars in Dover, when the house of John Hanson at Nock's Marsh was attacked by the Indians, two of his children killed, and his wife, maid servant and four children carried to Canada, prisoners. Thirtieth. 1744: Capt. Samuel Hale raised a company of Dover men and was in command of them at the capture of Louisburg in 1745. He was a noted schoolmaster in Dover for two or three years preceding that war and later far more famous as a schoolmaster and public official in Portsmouth. Thirty-first. 1754, April 22: The parish of Somersworth incorporated as a town. Thirty-second, 1755: Madbury was made a parish separate from Dover. Thirty-third, 1758: A new meeting house was built on Tuttle square, and the old house on Pine Hill was torn down in 1760; the last town meeting was held there March 31, 1760. Thirty-fourth. 1762: First Parish was incorporated by the Provincial Assembly, to be distinct from the town. Thirty-fifth. 1768: The parish of Madbury was set off from Dover and made a town. AND REPRESENTATRE CITIZENS 139 _ Ihirty-sixth, ij-jz, November lo: This day Rev. Jeremy Belknap, min- ister of the First Church, preached a sermon before his Excellency John Wentworth, Esq., Governor of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, at a review of the Second Regiment of Foot, at Dover, in said province; and met so favorable a hearing that the officers requested a copy for the press, which was granted. ( Life of Doctor Belknap. ) Thirty-sixih. 1774: Beginning of the Revolution. Do\er men in town meetmg took patriotic action. Thirty-scraith, ijc)2. June 6: The State Legislature held its first and last session m Dover this year. It closed its work on June 22. During the session there was a presentation of an opera, called the ""Beggar's Opera"!" at the theatre in Dox'er. The entertainment on another txmmg was Garrick's "Satyracal Farce Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades." riurty-cujhth, 1805, May 17: The Dover turnpike road from Dover to South Benvick was opened to public travel. Thirty-ninth, 1817: IVesident Monroe visited Dover in July this vear and was given a grand reception. Fortieth, 1821 : The corner-stone of the new factory was laid on the 4th of July, with Masonic ceremonies; Col. Andrew Peirce delivered the address. The Nail Factory was also .set up at the Lower I-alls this year. Forty-first, 1825: General Lafayette's visit to Dover in June, this year. He was given a grand reception. Forty-second, 1824-1830; Period of great religious excitement and dis- cussion. Division of the First Church and formation of the First Unitarian Church. The Unitarians dedicated their brick church on Locust street Feb- ruary 18, 1829. The First Parish dedicated its new brick church December 31, 1829. Forty-second, 1840: The turnpike road from Dover to South Berwick was made a free road February 7, by decree of Court of Common Pleas. Forty-third, 1841 : Boston & Maine Railroad was opened for business at the west side of the cut through the hill at Washington street, September 1st, and the company held its annual meeting in Dover. Forty-fourth, 1842, June 30: Cars of the Boston & Maine Railroad crossed the Cochecho for the first time, arriving at the new depot on Frank- hn square at 10:30 o'clock, which, with the bridge across the river, was com- pleted a few days before. Forty-fifth, i860, March 2: Abraham Lincoln addressed a mass meeting in the city hall, Dover. The hall was packed to the doors. Forty-sixth. 1861, April 15: A mass meeting of citizens was held in the city hall to take action in relation to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteer soldiers. The first recruiting office was opened April 17,' by George W. Colbath, and in three days more than one hundred and fifty men had volunteered. CHAPTER XI HISTORY OF DO\'F,R ( MI) DOVER NECK Dover Neck is that section of Old Dover which is separated from Hilton Point by Pomeroy's Cove, over which the Portsmouth & Dover Railroad crosses. It is bounded on the east by Newichawannock river, on the west by Back ri\er, on the south by the Pascataqua river, and on the north by "Upper Neck," which is the land included between three rivers, Back river on the west, Cochecho river on the north and the Newichawannock on the east. The ground is le\el for a third of a mile above Pomeroy's Cove and Sandy Point, then rises gradually to the summit of Huckleberry Hill, a distance of a mile or more. It was on this hill that Capt. Thomas Wiggin's company settled in the fall of 1633. It is a beautiful location; no finer view of hills, rivers, bays, broad fields and forests can be found in New Hampshire. It was on this hill the first meeting house was build in New Hampshire, and the outlines of where the second meeting house stood are yet preserved and properly marked. The First Church owns the land. Margery Sullivan Chapter D. A. R. paid the expense of constructing a wall along the roadside of the lot and enclosed it with iron rails, that mark where the stockade was placed when it became necessary to fortify it against possible attacks by the Indians, about 1670. But they never made any attempt to attack the settlement on the Neck, although they wrought havoc all around it. The hill slopes gently to each river. For convenience the inhabitants called the river on the east Fore river, and that on the west Back river. Along the summit of the hill they built a road and called it High street. This- was the business street of the settlement. About an eighth of a mile from this, toward Back ri\'er, they built another road and called it Low street. Between these, at various points, were cross streets called lanes, some of which also extended down to landings on Back river. Back Cove especially was a busy shipping point on that river. The historic "Hall's Spring" is near there and was marked \\ ith a curbing a few years ago by Col. Daniel Hall, a lineal descendant of Deacon John Hall, from whom it recei\ed its name. There ^\ere also lanes, at several places, from High street to shipping points along Fore river. The dwelling houses were along each side of High 140 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 141 street, and also along Low street. Each householder had an acre or two of land connected with his house, on w hich he raised his garden stuff and had his various outhouses for whatever work he carried. The cooper business was especially flourishing. Everybody had a trade and everybody worked. There were no gentlemen of leisure or lords of manors. Every known trade in England was in some way represented by a tradesman who was an expert in that line of business. All the boys were compelled to have a trade. If they could not be instructed by their parents they were set to "serve their time" of apprL-nticesbip with sumcnne cnmpctenl to properly instruct them to become good workmen and good citizens. It was in the fall and winter of 1633-34 that Captain Wiggin and his men staked out the bounds of the village and began clearing tlie forest. It must have been a very busy time, and strenuous work was put forth in muscle and brain to cut down the trees, convert the logs into houses, clean up the brushwood and keep comfortably warm in the cold weather. The winds from the northwest l)low very cold there in winter, having a clear sweep from the mountains in the White mountain region. It is easy to understand why those sturdy Englishmen built their first meeting house under the south- west protection of the bill ; it was a warmer place, less exposed to the fierce blasts and blinding snowstorms from the east. Twenty years later, when the village had become well built up with substantial houses and other comfort- able surroundings, they then built the historic meeting house on the summit of the hill, ready to withstand fierce winds, howling storms and all sorts of weather, and they had leisure hours to enjoy the beautiful grand and pic- turesque views, as you can see them today. At the beginning Captain Wiggin is said to have had authority t(.) make allotments of land to each man. Just how he did it there is no record. There is no record of when the first town meeting was held. It is doubtful if they held any as long as Captain Wiggin remained in supreme control as governor. Of course they had their parish meetings from the beginning. As they had a minister, one of the first public undertakings was to build a meeting house for him to hold the services in on the Lord's Day. The fair inference is that the parish meetings antedate the town meetings by several years. Probably the era of town meetings began when the first "combination" was formed in 1637. When the town meetings came to be a fixture, the right of making grants of land to individuals, which Captain ^^'iggin exercised as long as he was in control, was assumed by the town meetings, and it was in those meet- ings that all grants were made, as long as there was any public land remain- ing in control of the town. As tourists pass along High street, now the State road, they do not, from present appearance, have anything in view to indicate this locality was the busv center of business, with two streets lined with dwelling houses and U2 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY places of business. Yet for ninety years this was "Dover," and when you read history of the times, up to and past 1700, and Dover is referred to, this is tlie locahty, and not where the present city building stands. What is now . called the Dover Point road was called the "road from Dover to Cochecho." The cellars can now be traced by hollows in the fields and orchards, where for a hundred and fifty years was a very busy and prosperous business center. There was the meeting house in which religious meetings, town meetings, courts and public assemblies in general were held. In the early years near by were the jail and the stocks. On the bank of Fore river is the spot where the first brewery and the first tannery were built in New Hampshire. For a great many years shipbuilding was largely engaged in at shipyards on Fore river. At a cove about a mile and a half above Pomeroy"s Cove a frigate was built for the English navy before 1660, being the first ship of its kind built on this side of the Atlantic. In the next century Capt. Thomas Millet, who came there in 17^0, was a famous shipbuilder and sailed his ships after he built them, and while he was away his wife. Love Bunker, bossed the shipyard work and kept everything in perfect order until the Captain returned from his voyage to the West Indies. An apple tree is now standing near where his house stood, which he set dut 190 years ago; it was brought over from Eng- land in a tub; it was kept in a tub in order to keep it properly watered while on shipboard. It was here at the meeting house that the Quaker women were tried in a court held by Richard ^^■alderne, and were sentenced to be whipped and sent out of town: and it was here the order began to be executed, and not at Chochecho, as the poet \\'hittier states in his poem. It was here that from time to time all the great men of the period assembled for business that con- cerned various public interests. The great shipping point of the town in those years was Sandy Point at Pomeroy's Cove, the landing place of the first settlers. The cause of the change to the present conditions of that of a farm- ing district is easy to explain. Business changed as the province progressed. The young men went to points where new business called them. The old men died. The deserted houses went to ruin. The cellars were filled. The fanners changed the land into fertile fields and flourishing orchards. But the far-reaching landscape of land and water remains as beautiful and grand as ever. CHAPTER XII II ISTURV (JJ- DOVER (\qil) COCHECHO Wliat is called Cochecho-in-Dover for the first seventv-five years of its existence, has been the leading part of the town since 1715; it is the business center around which cluster the chief nianufacturinsj interests Hilton's Pomt began to be settled in 1623: Dover Neck, which V.r several years was calle.l Northani. until Ur.j. l;,oa„ t(, be settled in lO^,: Cochccho had its first begmnmg; i„ ,642, \vhen a grant ..f land at the lower falls was given to Richard \Valderne, who later \von fame as Major Walderne. L'p to that year the water had run undisturbed. In that year is the first we iind notice of them ; the settlers had been too busy elsewhere to come here. On the ist of the 6th mo. 1642, granted \\-alderne fifty acres on the north side of the falls This grant covered the territory up as far as New York street and up the river to Fourth street bridge. On the 30th 6th mo. 1643 the town gave him another grant of sixty acres on the south side of the falls, .so he came into control of the waterpower here, and it reniaine-as a grist mill called the "Libliey Mill." Another building was erected in i8_'6 in connection with the grist mill, and on the same fall, in which he carded rolls, fulled, and dressed cloth. In 1832 he bought the Hanson Cotton Factory at Bellamy, moved and erected it on the falls about twenty rods below. In this mill he commenced the manufacture of woolen flannels with one set of machinery. The business prospering, the miU was enlarged, another set of machinery added in 1837. In 1845 Air. Sawyer bought of the Great Falls Manufacturing Companj all of their rights in the property, and continued the business without inter- ruption until his death, which occurred in 1849. The business then passed to his brother, Zenas Sawyer, 1849-50; Z. & J. Sawyer, 1850-52; F. A. & J. Sawyer (Francis A. Sawyer, of Boston, and Jonathan Sawyer, of Dover), 1852-73, when Charles H. Sawyer was admitted, and the concern incor- porated as the Sawyer Woolen Mills. In 1858 the property now known as the lower mill was purchased, with the two sets of machinery which it contained. The Great Falls Manufacturing Company sold this property in 1845 to C. C. P. Moses, and on the site of the old foundry, which had been operated by William and Daniel Osborne, he built a brick mill, in which he manu- factured paper until 1855, when it was changed into a flannel mill. After it was purchased by F. A. & J. Sawyer, the old machinery was replaced by new, and the mill gradually enlarged to its present capacity. The old mill, before mentioned as started in 1832, was continued in operation until 1872, when it was replacetl by the present structure. ISA.\C v.. WILI.I.\MS & sons' BELT F.XCTORV The foundations of the present business of Isaac B. ^^'illiams & Sons belt factory was laid by the senior partner in 1842 in the manufacture of belting for the Cocheco Manufacturing Company. In 187 1 the firm name became I. B. Williams & Son, h^rank B. Williams having been taken into the partnership. In 1875 the business had outgrow'n its quarters in the Cocheco Manufacturing Company's buildings, so that larger and better facilities were needed to supply the increased demand for their goods, and a large and valuable property on Orchard street was pur- chased, and so added to and remodeled as to afford the desired facilities. In 1878 George H. Williams was admitted to the partnership and the firm name changed to I. B. Williams & Sons. Since then the senior member AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS Ul of the firm has died and the junior member has withdrawn, but the firm name remains tiie same under ownership of the elder son, Frank B. WilHams. In i88_' the firm, by reason of still increased and increasing trade, were compelled to tear down and entirely rebuild their factory, having in the mean- time purchased an adjoining property. A large and handsome brick building, four stories high, one hundred and forty feet long by forty-five feet wide, with a tower, containing elevators and stairways, five stories high, now cover their land. The factory now contains all the modern machinery required to produce in all respects a perfectly reliable belt, all of which are manufactured from the finest of oak-tanned leather, finished and perfected in their own building under the firm's own immediate supervision and inspection. Their goods are sold throughout the United States and South America, and the factory has grown to be one of the largest in the country. CHAPTER XIII HISTORY OL' DO\I-:k ( IX) GARRISON HILL Tlie Sawyer Memorial Observatory on Garrison Hill was dedicated August 2, 1913. at which JNIr. John Scales delivered the following historical address, which seems appropriate for publication in the volume of "Strafford County History:" The first mention of this hill in Dover records, or anywhere else, is in a grant of land to Elder William Wentworth dated 5 Deceiuber, 1652, two hundred and sixty years ago, which savs : "To the northward of half-way swampe * * * on the north side of John Hearrl's 40 acre lot ^ * * and so along the carte waye that Raeneth to the marsh forty roedd in Breadth and one hundred sixtie Roedd in lenkth." Same date : 5 acres of upland "near the Great Hill at Cochechoe, on ye east side of ye Great Hill one hundred Roedd in length and the north of the Cartwaye fower scoer Roedd in Breadth." Elder Wentworth had several other grants of land east and north of the Great Hill. It is impossible to define the boundaries, except one mill grant on Fresh creek, with any exactness. But the land is east and northeast of this hill, on the eastern side of the road down there which leads to Somers- worth. and west of north of Fresh creek tide-water. The Boston & Maine Railroad runs through the west side of the land, and the turnpike cuts through it on the cast side. It is further identified by the fact that the part, perhaps the central part, is still in the family name, having come down uninterruptedly from Elder William \\'entworth, the present owner being \\'illiam H. ^Ventworth. It was there that he lived; and the Elder's burial place is on a knoll in the field east of and near to the railroad. The "half way swamp" which has been mentioned in the land grants was the low ground west of the Cartway and southeast from Great Hill. It was so called because it was half way from Cochecho Falls to the Great Cochecho Marsh. 148 AND REPRKSENT.\TI\"K CITIZENS 141) On the same date, 5th, 10 1110: (December) 1O52, Juhn Heard was given a grant of fifty acres, "under the Great Hill of Cochecho, on the south side below the Cartway. A freshet ( Ijrook ) is mentioned the same day as "coming out of the marsh beside the Great Hill at Cochecho.' " The name fiarrison Hill was originally gi\en tu the hill over which the ancient Cartwaw now Central avenue, passed, and took its name from Heard's garrison which stood near where the Bangs house stands. That was the garrison nearest the summit of Great Hill, but there were se\eral other gar- risons around it. After Ebenezcr Yarney came into control of the land by his wife, a granddaughter of Richard Otis, and he and his wife built the Haiu house at the foot of the hill, about 1694, it began to be called Varney's Hill and so continued to be named initil about eighty years ago, when the land passed out of the name Varney, haxing been purchased by John Ham, father of our esteemed fellow citizen, John T. W. Ham; after that purchase, in 1829, instead of calling it "Ham Hill" the people began to call it Garrison Hill, transferring" the name from Central avenue to the whole elevation. There have been various owners of different parts of it from time to time, but in 1888 the summit here was owned by Joseph Ham and Harrison Haley, and that year they sold eight acres of it to the city, which now constitutes the Garrison Hill Park. The city purchased it in order to place the reservoir here: but the city fathers "Patres Conscript!," builded better than they knew, for henceforth with this massive observatory here it will be the city's most popular park, and the pride of its citizens, who will delight to take their guests here and show them one of the most picturesque, grand and far-reach- ing views to be seen in New Hampshire, or New England, outside of the White Mountain summits. The ground on \\hich this observatory stands is 298 feet above the head of tide water at Cochecho Falls, just below Central avenue bridge. At the close of my address I will tell you what can be seen on a clear day from the upper balcony of this observatory. Rev. John Pike, in his journal, says, in 1704: "May 28, Sacrament day. An Ambush of 4 Indians lay betwixt Tristram Heard's and Ephraim Went- worth's upon the north side of (Great! Hill, but were happily discovered and escaped." This Tristram Heard lived in the garrison which his father, John Heard, built and which stood near where the Bangs house now stands. He was born there 4 March, 1667; he escaped the Indians in 1704, but about tw^enty years later at Cochecho he was killed by them in 1723. I have spoken of the land grants made to Elder William Wentworth and to John Heard (Hurd) in 1652, by the town of Dover. There was another grant of land to Richard Otis in 1655, about two years and a half later. Mr. Otis had several grants, the first was "2r)th 9 mo. (Nov.) 1635. Ten acres located as follows: 'Forty Rod on the Cartway, on the west side of the 150 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY land from his house, and forty Rod north cast from liis liouse, and forty Rod a piece on the other two sides.' " His house stood where the present llutchins house stands, in from the street and nortli of the parsonage of St. John's ^^letiiodist Episcopal Church. The next year, 1656, a few montlis after this grant, "Richard Otis had fifty acres of land given unto him." This was north of and adjoining his first grant on the west side of the Cartway, now Central avenue. It was laid out and bounded by William Wentworth, Ralph Hall and John Hall. Later in the same year the town granted him one hundred acres of land on the west side of the "Great Hill," and the selectmen established the bounds. That made 160 acres of land owned by Richard Otis on the southwest side of the "Great Hill" in 1660, and he retained the ownership until he was killed by the Indians, and his garrison house was burned thirty-three years later, June 28, i68g. The exact boundaries of that 160 acres, of course, cannot now be determined, but it certainly included the southwest side of this hill, where the Ham house is and down to the Hutchins house. The Cartway was where Central avenue is, and the land adjoined it on the east side. In this connection you may be interested to know liow the age of the Ham hou.se is determined. When the Indians began to be troublesome, about 1675. Mr. Otis built his garrison on the west side of what is now Mount Vernon street, a short distance from Milk street. He lived there until he was killed by the Indians and his son Stephen lived in the old house, where the Hutchins house now stands. Stephen was killed by the Indians at the same time his father was, and some of his children were carried to Canada and never returned to Dover. But he had a daughter, Mary, who was born about 1675, ^'"1 married Ebenezer Varney about 1693, and they built the house soon after they were married. It required some time to settle the estate of Stephen Otis after the massacre of 1689, and thus enable Mary Otis, his only heir remaining in Dover, to get possession of it and Ijuild a house on it. But she finally forti- fied her title (in her husband's name) by deeds from the Canada heirs and quitclaims from the others. Of course Mr. Varney would not have built the house you see down at the foot of the hill until he got possession of the land; and he could not get possession of the land until he married Mary Otis; but she could not get full title to it, to transfer it to her husband, by marriage, until the estate was settled, w hich required three or four years, at least. Thus the building of the Ham house is reasonably fixed at 1693 or '94. And so, in the course of years, when the Varney family came into possession of ih.e whole hill it took the name "Varney Hill," and the smaller hill, between the present Bangs house and Ste\-ens house, retained the name Garrison Hill, and the village there was the Garrison Hill village. But for the last three-quarters of a century the "Great Hill" has been called Garrison Hill. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 151 At the massacre in June, 1689, the Heard (Hurd) garrison was saved through tlie instrumentaHty of Elder William W'entworth. Why he hap- pened to be there that night instead of at his home over the other side of the hill here has ne\er been explained, so far as I have been able to find out. but he was there, and when he heard tlie Indians coming up the hill he ran and closed the gate to the palisade enclosing the yard around the house, and lay on his back with his feet against it and held it until the people in the house were roused by his cries for help and came to his assistance. Elder W'entworth was aroused from his sleei) by the barking of the house watch-dog who scented the approach of the Indians from afar. Ebenezer Varney was a Quaker; so being a non-combatant and friendly in his treatment of the Indians, they never troubled him or the Varney fam- ilies who inherited the house and the Great Hill after him. It remained in possession of that Varney family until 1829, when John Ham bought it and in a few years, 1837, he gave it to his son, Joseph Ham, father of the present owner of the house, Miss Theresa Ham. This 1)rings my story down to a speaking distance of the present generation. I have heard Mr. Ham say that he had plowed and planted crops all over the top of the hill here. At some period after the Civil war the late Harrison Haley became part owner of the summit here and in the autumn of 1880 they completed the con- struction of the first observatory, erected on the same spot on which this grand structure stands. This enterprise was the outcome of the construction of the Horse railroad. The observatory, as finally completed, was sixty-five feet high, on the upper deck. It was built by Mr. B. D. Stewart, at a cost of about one thousand dollars. In a description of it, given at that time in a circular by Mr. Haley, he said : "Its construction is similar to one at Coney Island, N. Y., and that on Davis" Hill, Philadelphia, with open balconies, so as to afford unobstructed views. The highest balcon}' affords a view of rare beauty, characteristic of New Hampshire ; the great distant ring of the horizon is rugged and broken with a continuous chain of hills, somewhere in the south- east the distant ocean .shows its line of blue. The late Hon. John P. Hale, on his return from Europe, said, in a public address : 'That of the hills he had visited in any country, none for beauty and variety of scenery surpassed Garrison Hill.' " Gazing upon scenery thus charming, one is reminded of Whittier's beau- tiful lines: Touched by a light that never dies, A glory never sung, Aloft, on sky and mountain wall. ."Xre God's great pictures hung. Just here I want to say a word in honor of the memory of Harrison Haley. If it had not been for Mr. Haley, Dover would not have had a horse 152 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY railroad; if liiat road liad not been eon^tructed Mr. Haley and .Mr. Hani would not have Imilt the ob.'^ervatory in iS8o; also if Mr. Haley had not pushed through the con.structiun of tlie horse railroad when he did, there would have been no electric road started through Dover to Somersworth by Henry \\'. Burgett, when he took hold of the job and substituted electric power for horse-power in moving the cars; it is doubtful if we should have the electric cars today; certainly not until many years later, some time perhaps in this twentieth century. Mr. Haley was a good. Christian business man. He helped build up Dover in many ways, for which he never received his proper credit. He was a man of good sense, good judgment and always ready to lend a helping hand to every good cause, so far as his means would permit. Of course there were men in his time of activity here, who thought they knew a good deal more than Mr. Haley did ; perhaps they did, but those wiser ones never did half as much for Dover's advancement as he did. It is not necessary at this time to further enuinerate his good deeds. The observatory was completed in the autumn of 1880; that was thirty- three years ago; a third of a century has passed into history when we stand here to dedicate this beautiful and substantial structure, which is its suc- cessor. Thirty-three years; how old are some of you young folks here today? Those who are forty now were only seven-year-old kids then, and of course cannot remember much about "the beginning of things" here as a pleasure resort. You who are fifty can recall the many pleasure lrii)s you made here. You remember the spacious roller skating rink that was erected northerly of where the reservoir is ; roller skating was then the most fashion- able diversion young people could engage in'; baseball and golf now are poor comparisons with it; you ladies and gentlemen of fifty remember how you used to do it. John ^^■heatland Caverly was the manager of the rink and was one of the most popular men in town, among the young folks. He deserved his popularity, courteous, generous and upright in all his dealings. Now, and for many years he has resided in Lynn, IMass. Sad to say, he has been blind for a number of years and otherwise out of health ; but that same, cheerful, hopeful spirit abides in his heart. It is well that we should recall his memory here today in connection with Mr. Halev and the old observatory. In May, 1888, the city councils completed the purchase of eight acres of the summit of the hill, and soon after workmen commenced digging a hole for the big basin to hold the water for use in the city; that put an end to its previous use as a pleasure resort ; temporarily at least. The electric road took the pleasure seekers to Burgette park, and the skating rink was taken down, the material removed to the park and set up again, and in which are the bowling alleys, billiard tables, etc., for the use of visitors. By the way, in passing allow me to express the opinion that the name Burgette park never AND REPRESENTATR'E CITIZENS 153 ought to ha\'e been changed to Central park. But for Mr. Burgette it is very improbable that we should have had a park then, or now. It was his energy, shrewd judgment and push that created it ; circumstances and financial con- ditions beyond his control forced hini out of the management and then he was further robbed of the name. The observatory cimtinued to be visited i|uite frequently in the years that followed the placing the reservoir there, but on Sunday, June z"], 1897, it was set on fire liy the carelessness of some smokers, who dropped a match, or lighted a cigar, and ;dl efforts to sa\ e it prcixcil in \ain. Everybody felt grieved at the loss. The citv council did not feel rich ennugh to rebuild it. Everybody said there ought to lie an observatory here; but n(ibody ever expected to see one take tlie [)Iace of Haley and Ham's grand "Outlook." And vet, here we are tnday dedicating its successor. And how coiues it? What of the donor? Ex-Mayor Nealley has told you something about Mrs. Saw}'er, by whose generous will the obser\-atory stands here as a memo- rial of her beloved husband. Now let me give you a brief sketch of that gentleman, Joseph Bowiie Sawyer. Joseph Bowne Sawyer was born November 20, 1832, in the house in w liicli he died, down at the foot of the hill, on Central avenue, Tuesday after- ni)OU, July 5, iyo5, in his se\'enty-thir7, being mie of the last ol the old-fashimied Quakers, who have a good record in Duxer history. Mr. Sawyer was descended from good New En,gland stock. His grandmother was Mary Varney, a lineal descendant from Elienezer Varney, who built the Ham house, and of Richard Otis, who was killed by the Indians June 28, 1689. Mrs. Clarence I. I'inkham, 171 Mount Vernon street, who is clerk of Society of Friends in Dover and vicinity, kindly furnished the correct statement of Mr. Joseph B. Sawyer's ancestry, as shown by the Friends' records, which are the best kept of any of the old records in the city. Levi Sawyer was born in Dover 8th, 11 mo: 1791, son of Stephen Sawyer and Mary Varney, who were married at Dover 3d, 4 mo: 1778. Said Mary Varney was born in Dover T7th, 8 mo: 1756, daughter of Paul Varney and Elizabeth Hussey, who were married at Smithfield 7th, 2 mo: 1742. Said Paul Varney was born in Dover i8th, i mo: 1715-16, son of Eben- ezer and Mary Otis-Varney. Plannah Pinkham Sawyer was born in Dover 17th, 5 mo: 1804, daughter of Joseph Pinkham and Betty Green, who were married at Hampton 19th, I mo: 1788. 154 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Said Joseph Pinkhani was born in Do\er 14th, 8 mo: 1757, son of Paul Pinkham and Rose Austin, who were married. Said Paul Pinkham was born 3d, 4 mo: .1730, son of Otis Pinkham and Abigail Tebbetts, who were married at Dover 22d, 9 mo: 1721. Said Otis Pinkham was born in Dover, son of John Pinkham and Rose Otis (Richard Otis). Joseph B. Sawyer's mother was a most excellent woman. She was one of the speakers who presided at the ser\-ices in the Friends' meeting house at Pine Hill, and a leader in good works in many ways. It is said by those who knew her best that in cases of sickness she was equal to the best of modern trained nurses. So cf sucli good, old Quaker stock was Joseph Bowne Sawyer. In 1883 i'rof. E. T. (juinil>y of Dartmouth College hail a camp on this hill for several years in working up the coast survey ; from his memoranda thus obtained he made a map of all the elevations and mountains that could be seen from the old observatory. That map is in the city clerk's office, and from it I obtained the information which I now gi\e to you. 1. Directly north there is no object with a name; but the water tower of Somersworth is slightly to the east of north, and Carter mountain (Dome) slightly to the west of north. Carterdome is 85 miles distant. 2. Almost directly east is Agamentacus, 9 miles. 3. Directly west is Northwood Ridge, 19 miles, with Green Hill in Bar- rington, slightly north of west, 5 miles away. 4. Slightly west of south is Stratham Hill 12 miles, and slightly west of that. Bunker Hill 14 miles. Now, beginning at the north and scanning the horizon from north to west, on a clear day from the upper platform of the obser\-atorv you can see the following in order; of course you will keep in mind that the more distant are behind and not by the side of the nearer. Next to Carter Dome is Alount Washington. 85 miles. A little west of that is Chocorua, 54 miles. Next Parker Mount, 25 miles. Next Teneriffe, 18 miles. Next Moose, 25 miles. Next Major, 25 miles. Next Cropple Crown in Xew Durham. 23 miles. Next New Durham hills. 22 miles. Next, near at hand, is Haven's Hill in Rochester. Behind that, from 20 to 2^ miles, are Mount Molly, Devil's Den and Mount Bet. About northwest is Chesley's Hill. 15 miles, behind which are Guilford mountains. 35 miles. Then Hussey. 15 miles. Then more of the Guilford mountains, 35 miles. Next, and only 15 miles distant, is Blue Job. Next is Sander's mountain, 15 miles. Right in line with it is Long Hill in Dover, 3 miles. Next is Blue Ridge (or Parker's Mount) in Strafford, 17 miles. Almost directly west, beyond Green Hill in Barrington, 23 miles away, is Catamount. Next south of that is Northwood Ridge, 19 miles ; south of that AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS ,_ 155 Epsom mountains, J3 nnlcs ; ne>vt to that Saddleback, 18 miles; then comes the three Patuccawas in Nottingham, 18 miles; 14 miles away, and slightly south of these is Nottingham Square. The next elevation south of that is Red Oak Hill, in Epping, 15 miles. Nearer at hand and ne.xt south is Lee Hill, 10 miles. Beyond Lee Hill, 23 miles, is the Danville. This brings us to the hills in .\e\\ market and Exeter, 10 and 18 miles distant. Then you are around to Bunker and Stratham hills almost directly south. Beginning at the north and scanning the horizon from north to east, we have first the water tower at Somersworth and nearer at hand 2' j miles away, Ricker Hill, more properly Otis Hill, as Richard Otis, I have already spoken of, was the first man to have the grant of it from the town of Dover. Salmon Falls village is about northeast, and Ouamphegan Hill, in South Berwick, is between Salmon Ealls and .\gamenticus, 9 miles distant. South of Aga- menticus is Third Hill, 6 miles; close by it Frost's Hill, 6 miles. In the southeasterly direction are the Isle of Shoals, 22 miles. The flag and chimney in Kittery, 10 miles; White Island Light, 21 miles; Wentworth House, 13 miles; North Church in Portsmouth, 11 miles: Dow's Hill in Newington, 9 miles; Greenland, \2 miles; Hampton, 20 miles; Great Bay, Little Bay, Pascatacpia river and the Atlantic ocean. There is another incident in connection with the history of Garrison Hill that had fatal results. It is in connection with the old cannon you can see on the ground of the south side of the observatory, only a few rods distant. In brief, the story is this: When James Buchanan was elected President in 1856 the victorious Dem- ocrats planned to celebrate their grand victory; they planned to have an immense parade, fireworks, and an oration in the city hall, and to fire a salute of one hundred guns, if they could get a cannon with which to do it. Money was subscribed and the campaign committee went to Portsmouth navy yard in search for a gun. They found there two cannon for sale, one of which they purchased. It had been captured from the British in the War of 181 2- 15. It is marked on one hub "J4 P" (24 pounder) ; on the other hub "82481, Capron, 1814," that is, it was made at the Capron Iron Works, England, in 1814. The committee felt sure they had secured a great bargain. They engaged Joseph \'iiung tn l)ring it up the ri\er. dU a gundalow, to Do\er Landing. From the Landing it was transported to Garrison Hill by a team of three yoke of sturdy oxen; Jeft'erson Cannty handled the goad. Bystanders who witnessed the loading of the gun onto the ox-cart made a bet that Mr. Canney's team could not haul the gun up Garrisdu Hill, but he won and the prize of the wager was a fine yoke of oxen. The gun was placed on the westerly side of the hill, and all was made ready to fire the grand salute. With proper ceremony the campaign committee christened it "The Constitu- tion." Near the gun they had a large collection of pitch-pine knots and tar 156 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY barrels iDr a grand bonfire \\liicli niigbt be seen from the mountains to the sea. The orator for the meeting in the city hall was Col. John H. George of Concord. Rothwell's brass band furnished the music and led the grand torchlight procession. It was arranged that the gun should begin firing at precisely 7 o'clock, and the band should commence its music at the same time and lead the procession through the streets. 'i"he gunners who had charge of the piece had received express orders to fire in not less than four minutes after 7 o'clock and the cartridges to be two minutes' walk from the gun, which contained eight or ten pounds of powder. The committee had pro\ided everything asked for by the gunners, and tip to the moment the committee left the gun, they were cautioned to be prudent and follow instructions to the verj^ letter, as they had no e.xperience in firing cannon. Nevertheless, it appears that immediately after the first discharge, without swabbing, the second cartridge was being rammed home when the man thumbing the vent w ith his bare thumb, finding it too hot to bear, took his thumb ot¥; a premature discharge took place which threw the gtuiners, Foss and Clark, down the hill a few rods and killed Foss instantly and mutilated Clark so badly that he died at ten o'clock that night. The accident was not generally known in the procession until they had reached a point on Central avenue opposite the residence of Charles W. W'iggin. In consequence the procession broke up on Third street and all further cere- monies were declared off, even to the supper prepared for the Buchanan Guards in the American House. The names of the tinfortunate gunners are George S. Clark of Dover, aged 26, and John Foss of Strafford, aged 2^. The other man at the gun was Charles Philbrock, who escaped with a ])ndlv burned finger. In 1875 the gun was moved to its present position and at the Centennial celebration was fired by the late John A. Goodwin, a Grand Armv veteran, who had had much experience in gunnery during the Civil war by ser\ice in the Union Army. Air. Goodwin fired it successfully, without accident, but be never wanted to try the experiment again ; neither has anyone else. It will do for children to play with, but men do not care to fool with it. The accident occurred November 19, 1856. CHAPTER XIV HISTORY OF DOVER (X) THE BACK RIVER DISTRICT THE DAM DREW GARRISON Hilton's Point, now known as Dover Point, was settled in the spring of 1623; Dover Neck began to be settled in the fall of 1633; Back river district in 1642. Hilton's Point is about a mile below the mouth of Back river, at Royal's Cove. Dover Neck is on the eastern side of Back river and the west- em side of Fore river (Newichawannock is the Indian name). The Back river district is one of the best farm land sections of the town or the state, and the dwellers therein have always been among the best citizens of the town. And their sons and daughters who emigrated from there have made good records, near and far. The Drew garrison house is at the west end of a twenty-acre lot, which, in turn, is at the west end of twenty-acre lot number 14. These lots are forty rods wide and eighty rods long. I \Aill now explain the history of the twenty- acre lots. The oldest record of the town of Dover now in existence, was recorded by the town clerk, William Walderne, on a piece of paper, in 1642, and that paper was copied into the earliest record book now extant, by William Pom- frett, who was chosen clerk in 1647 and served nearly a quarter of a century. There were record books liefore this one, which is marked on the cover "No. 7," but they have all been lost. Perhaps someone destroyed them to prevent their being used in the land lawsuits which the Mason heirs brought against the large land-owners in Do\-er. Town Clerk Pomfret was a jiarty interested in having the contents of that piece of paper preserved, hence he recorded it in the first book he kept. It reads and spells as follows : The west sied of ye Back Reuer or ouer ye Back Riuer. A Record of ye 20 Ackes loets as theay waer in order given and layed out to ye inhabetance hoes names are here under menshened with the nomber of the loet to each pertickler man. As it was fowned Recorded by William Walden in a Pec of paper in ye yeir (16)42, wich lots ar in Breadth at ye water sied 40 poell and in lenketh 80 poll up into ye woods. 9 ' 157 158 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Names Thomas Roberts, i Richard Roggers, 2 Henry Tebbets, 3 Mr. Larkham, 4 Edward Colcord, 5 George Webe, 6 John Tnttle, 7 William Story, 8 i]arthey Smeg, 9 John L'grove, 10 John Dam, 1 1 William Pomfrctt. i^ This 12th lott is exchanged with Dea. Dam for ye 17th lott. W'm. Hilton, Sr. 13 Edward Starback, 14 Samewell Haynes, 15 This 15th lott was Resined to John Hill and by him sold unto Wm. ffollett as was acknowledged. Robert Huggins, 16 John Crosse, 17 This 17th Lott is Exchanged by John Dam with Lt Pomfret for ye I2tth Lott. Thomas Layton, 18 John ILdl, 19 Hatabell Nutter, 20 Henry Beck, 21 John Westell, 21 No name, 23 Richard Pinkham, 24 Bear in mind these lots on the river bank were forty rods in width and eighty rods in depth ; as there were twenty-four lots, the distance from Royal's Cove, at the mouth of the Back river, was three miles to lot No. 24, close to the head of tide-water where Back river begins and Bellamy river ends or empties into it. Soon after the grants were awarded the owners began trading and exchanging. Deacon John Dam {\\\\o \\as not deacon until thirty years later), who drew No. 11, soon received No. 12 from his father-indaw, William Pomfret. the town clerk. And in 1656 Deacon Dam bought lot No. 13, so he then owned Nos. 11, 12 and 13 and he settled his son, William Dam, on the land, when he became of suital^le age ; his other son, John, was located on the east shore of Little Bay, which to this day bears the name Dame's Point. William Dam was born October 14, 1653; his wife was Martha Nute, also Ijorn in 1653. She was daugb.ter of James, who owned the lots next south of Deacon John Dam's. They were married about 1679. He prob- ably had been living on his father's land there three or four years before marriage and had built a garrison house, as the Indians were getting to be troublesome. Anyhow, he had a garrison, as the Provincial records show. It was built before this Drew garrison and was contemporary with it. It was in that garrison that William Dam's six children were born, the eldest. Pomfret, ]\Iarch 4, 1681, and the youngest, Lear, March 17, 1695. The fourth child was Samuel, born March 21, 1689. When a young man he settled in the District of Maine, and his descendants to this day preserve the ancient spelling of the name — Dam. The Nute and Dam families have a common burying ground on the bank of Back river, where I have seen three AND REPRESENTATI\'E CITIZENS 159 headstones with inscriptions and others without name. These are the graves of James Nute, founder of the Xute family in America, Martha Dam and her husband, William Dam. It was about 1650 that James Nute bought lots Nos. 9 and 10 from the grantees, John Ugrove and Barthey Smeg. And much, if not all, of that land is now owned by the Nute family, his descendants, having remained in the name j6o years ; the present owner is Thomas Herbert Nute. In Volume 17 of the Provincial Papers are the following references to the Dam garrison. From January 7 to P'ebruary 6, 1695, it says John Cross served as one of the guards, "at Will. Dam's garrison"; from May 12 to June 8, 1695, John Bickford was watchman; from November 4 to December 5, 1695, John Tucker and John Miller were guardsmen; from December 5, 1695, to January 7, 1696, Ephraim Jackson was the special soldier on duty. That period w as very perilous, and no man or crew of men dared to go to the fields or the \\oods to work without carrying their loaded guns for use in defending their lives, in case the Indians should make a sudden attack on them from ambush in tlie woods. So much for the Dam garrison. I will now take up the consideration of the Drew garrison and show to you that, beyond reasonable doubt, it was built by John Drew, Sr., in 1698, and stands on the west end of a 20-acre lot, which is west of 20-acre lot No. 14, which is north of the Dam lot No. 13, which I have been talking about. I will first give you the evi- dence by quoting the deeds of land purchases made by John Drew, .Sr., between 1680 and 1702. THE URI-;W GARRISON DEEDS 1680, June 25. 'AVilliani ffollett and Elizabeth his wife, for and in consideration of a valuable sum of money to us well and truly paid l)y the hand of our beloved son, John Drew & for other causes us thereunto mo\- ing, have given, granted and sold," etc., "a certain tract or Parcell of Land containing Twentie Akers Scituate on ye West Side of ye back River, being ye fifteenth Lott in ye Numlicr of ye Lotts as it doth appear by Dover Records," etc. — Recorded February 2, 1719. 1696, May II. "I William Brackstone of ye Towne of Dover in ye Prov- ince of New Hampshire, Planter sendeth Greeting" . . . "for Twentie two Pounds of currant and lawful money," etc. . . . "delivered by ye hand of John Drew of ye Town and Province aforesaid. Cooper," etc. . "give, grant, sell," etc. . . . "a certain tract or Parcell of land containing twentie Acres with ye Appurtenances l:)elonging to it, Scituate lying and being on ye West Side of ye Back River in ye Town of Dover, and is ye fourteenth Lott in ye Number of ye Twentie Acre Lotts, and is 160 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY thirty eight rods wide by ye water side and four score and four rods West North West into ye woods, bounded on ye south side by Joseph Tibbetts, on ye East by ye Ri\-er, on ye North on ye liigh way. on ye West on ye Com- mons," etc. his "William N Brackston mark her "AiiiGAiL X Brackston" mark Recorded December 28, 1699. 1697, August 16. "Zachariah Pitman" sold to "John Drew" twenty acres granted to liim by the town of Dover in 1694 "lying and being in ye Dry Pines between Jno. Knight's and Zachariah ffield's land." This was in the neighborhood of Field's garrison. — Recorded December 29, 1699. 1698, I\Iay 6. Thomas Austin sold to John Drew, both of Dover, "a certain Tract or Parcell of Land containing Twentie Acres, lying & being on ye West Side of ye Back River, as it was laid out above ye Lott of land granted to Elder Starbuck, which Twentie Acre Lott is ye fourteenth in Number of Lotts all of wch Twentie Acres of land as it was laid out and bounded by ye lot layers of ye Town of Do\er as will appear on Dover Records," etc. — Recorded December 31, 1699. 1699, March 16. Abraham Newt sold to John Drew "for and in con- sideration of a house to me in hand delivered by ye hand of Jno Drew of ye Town and Province aforesaid Scituate on ye West side on Dover Neck." etc., "a certain tract or parcell of Marsh and llatts scituate on ye East side of ye Back River, adjacent to Partridge Point and so down by ye Back River side three score and two Rods, or poles, to Sandie hill, all which Marsh and flatts." etc., he sells to Drew for the house on Dover Neck. — Recorded December 29, 1699. 1698, June 6. "I Robert Huckins, ye Eldest son and Heir of James Huckins, ye only son and successor of Robert Huckins, sometime of Dover in ye Province of New Hampshire, deceased," etc., sold to John Drew for £14, "a certain Tract or parcell of land containing twentie acres, granted to my grandfather Robert Huckins by ye Towne of Dover in ye year 1642, Scituate on ye West side of Back River, being ye Sixteenth Lott in ve Number of Lotts, bounded on ye East by ye River; on ye South by Jno Drew his land ; on ye North by Thomas Whitehouse his land : on ve West by ye Commons; all wch twentie Acres of land are as it was laid out and bounded by ye lot-layers of ye Town of Dover," etc. — Recorded January i, 1699/17CK). 1700, July 6. John Drew and wife, "Sara," sold to Joseph Tibbetts of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 161 Dover, "a Sertain tract or parcell of land Scituate on ye West side of ye Back River, being part of twentie Aker Lott bought of Thomas Austin," and located "at ye south west of Drew's land and the Commons." 1700, December 7. John Drew, Sr., bought of Joshua Wingate of Hamp- ton, son of John W'ingate of Dover, deceased, "a Sertain tract or Parcell of Land Scituate on ye West side of ye Back River Containeinge Twentie Akers, wch said Land my father, John Wingett, Deceased, formerly bought of Ralfe Haull, and is lyinge and beinge lietwcne a Twentie Aker Lott laide cute to my father and ye Hed of ye said twentie Acre Lottes borderinge on ye northe west on ye aforesaid Lotts laid out to my father, Jno. Wingett, and on ye South weste by ye Commons, and on ye South Este on ye Com- mons, and on ye North Este on a Lott of Land now in ye Tenure and occu- pation of ye aforesaid Jno. Drew; all which twentie acres of land were laide oute and bounded by ye Lott layers of ye Towne of Dover," etc. 1701-2, l-'ebruary 5. John Drew, Sr., bought of Pomfret W'hitehouse, grandson of William Pimifret. lot No. 17. 1702. June 16. John Drew, Sr.. bought of "Israeli Hogsdon" and Ann, his wife, twenty acres of land granted to him in 1658 by the town of Dover "scituate and beinge on ye Weste side of ye Back River, bordering on ye north by a twentie acre Lott laide oute att ye same time to John Roberts, and betwene itt and Ralfe Hall his twentie acre Lott, above ye hed of ye old twentie acre Lotts on ye Weste side of ye Back River," etc. 1705, May 26. John Drew, Sr., bought of Richard Paine and Sarah, his wife, of Boston, twenty acres of land with marsh and flats. 1705-6, March i. John Drew, Sr., "Coojier." Ixuight of Israel Hogsdon, "Carpenter," a "piece of salt marsh and thatch ground.' lying on the west side of Back river adjacent to Drew's land. From the abo\'e it appears : 1st. William Follett and his wife Elizabeth gave to their "beloved son, John Drew." lot No. 15, on Back river, June 25, 1680. That expression "belox'ed son" shows that Drew's wife was daughter of William Follett. Wives did not own land in those days, nor for a good while after that date. 2d. May 11, 1696, Mr. Drew bought of William Brackston of Dover, lot No. 14. 3d. May 6, 1698, Mr. Drew bought of Thomas .\ustin of Do\-er. twenty acres west of lot No. 14, and that is the land on which the garrison stands. 4th. June 16. 1698, Mr. Drew bought of Robert Huckins of Oyster river, lot No. 16. 5th. February 5, 1702, Mr. Drew bought of Pomfrett Whitehouse, lot No. 17. 6th. June 16. 1702. Mr. Drew bought of Israel Hogsdon, "Cooper," of Dover, lot No. 18. 162 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Thus you see he had five lots on the river front, west side of Back river, covering a space of 200 rods. The deed from WilHani Brackston says lot No. 14, as he sold it to Mr. Drew, was tliirty-eight rods wide, at the river bank, and ran back eighty- four rods into the woods, to make the twenty acres; the reason for tliis is that a road two rods wide was on the north side, about where the road now is to Mr. Peaslee's house, which stands on lot No. 15. This roadway rail in the low ground by the fence between the Rounds and the Peaslee faniis. The Peaslee family has lived there since 1760. The late owner was Joseph E. Peaslee, who was born in the garrison house, where his parents resided while the jjresent Peaslee house was being built in 1842. 7th. On March 16, 1699, ^^^- Drew sold his house on Dover Neck, where he residetl, and which he inherited from his father, William Drew, to Abraham Nute, in exchange for marsh land on the west side of Back river. The marsh land along the west shore of Back river was always reckoned separate from the high land. Mr. Peaslee now owns several pieces of marsh where the adjoining high ground is owned by other persons. Now we gather from all this that Mr. Drew would not have sold his house on Dover Neck until he had another to move into. About a year before this sale he bought the twenty acres on which the garrison stands. He built the garrison here some time ; hence there can be no reasonable doubt he built it between May 6, 1698, and Alarch 16, 1699. Quod crat dcinonstranduni. The mansion house here was built in 1810 by Joseph Drew, a great-great- grandson of John Drew, Sr., who built the garrison. It is well to keep in mind that the Indians did not trouble Dover people before 1675, more tlian thirty years after the grants of land were made. So there were no garrisons before that date. Another point to bear in mind is that there was no call for building garrisons after 1725, when the Indian wars ceased here, having continued fifty years. The last Dover man who lost his scalp was John Evans, the Poet Whittier's great-grand- father. The Indians performed that surgical operation in the vicinity of the Knox Marsh road beyond the road to Bellamy mill. Mr. Drew had good reason for building a garrisoned house when he did. The Oyster River massacre had occurred only four years before, when his father and one brother were killed, and other members of the family were carried captives to Canada. ANOTHER THEORY AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE DREW GARRISON Mr. Scales, in the preceding statements as to the probable origin of the Drew garrison, liased his argument on the supposed fact that, as it is AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 163 called the Drew garrison, it was built by a Drew; and if built by a Drew it must have been by John Drew, Sr. ; and if by him, it must have been built on the twenty-acre lot in the rear of lot No. 14, which is the most southerly lot owned by him. Of course Mr. Scales' argument fails if it can be shown that the house does not stand in the rear of lot No. 14. Smce Mr. Scales had prepared the preceding statement he has been in- formed that Mr. N. ^\^ Davis of Winchester, Mass., a lineal descendant of John Drew, Sr., and a gentleman of much experience in genealogical work, being a member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, had become so far interested in the question of location of the lots at Back- river that he had a surveyor measure the distances along the river bank, and determine, as far as possible, the exact boundary lines and location of each lot. He found that the garrison is on the lot in the rear of lot No. 13, and John Drew's lot No. 14 is one notch farther up the river. As has already been stated, Deacon John Dam owned lot No. 13. and gave it to his son, William Dam, who came to that side of the river to live between the years 1675 and 1680. Now, if Mr. Davis' surveyor be correct in his measure- ments, then Mr. Scales' theory comes to naught, since he based it entirely on the supposition the garrison is located in the rear of lot No. 14. And he has to admit that it looks quite sure that Mr. Davis' survey is approxi- mately correct. There are other corroborating proofs that the garrison was built by William Dam or by his father, Deacon John Dam ; probably they both had a hand in the job. It is known, beyond dispute, that William Dam had a garrison at Back river, and soldiers were quarterer there during the Indian wars, as shown by the Provincial records, already (luoted. Further- more, deeds and wills and various land transactions, which liave recently been found, show that at the death of William Dam, Sr., in 1718. the house passed to the possession of his son, William Dam. Jr. iM-om William Dam, Jr., the ownership passed to his sister Leali and her husband, Samuel Hayes,' and the Hayes family resided in it up to 1770, when he died there. Samuel and Leah (Dam) Hayes had a daughter, Mary, who married James Nute, and their daughter, Leah Nute, married Joseph Drew (a great-grandson of John Drew, Sr.), in 177 1, and they commenced housekeeping in the old garrison, which her grandi)arents had recently vacated, by death. Up to 1 77 1 it was known as the Dam (or Dame) garrison. Joseph Drew was the first of that name to reside in it. From him it passed by inheritance to his son, William Plaisted Drew. From him it passed by inheritance to his son, Edwin Plaisted Drew, who resided there until 18S4, when it passed by purchase to the present owner, Mrs. Ellen S. Rounds, wife of Holmes B. Rounds, whose mother was a Drew, a lineal descendant of John Drew, Sr. 164 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY If this really be the William Dam garrison, as seems quite certain it is, it was probably built about 1679 or 1680, when William Dam married Martha Nute and went to that side of Back river to live. The Indian wars had begun then, and of course he would not be likely to build any other kind of a dwelling house in war times. This makes it quite certain that the garrison is more than tzvo hundred and thirty years old, and is the oldest house in Dover. Next oldest house in Dover is the Guppy house, built in 1690, 22^ years ago, and third is the Ham house about 220 years old. It does not appear there was any other Drew garrison. It bore the name of its builder, William Dam, 100 years. In the records of about 1700 a highway is mentioned between Dam's land and that of James Nute, just south, which led to a landing place at the head of James Nute's creek, about a mile from the Drew garrison. This creek is above Hope-Hood's Point. The name of this point is derived from a noted Indian chief, said to have belonged to the Abenaki tribe. Doctor Quint says he was the Sagamore, W'ahowah, or Wohawa, chief of all the lands from Exeter to Salmon Falls. The historian, Hubbard, in his narra- tive, calls him "Hope Hood," and says he was son of Robin Hood. The two are mentioned together in signing a deed of land at "'Squanianagonak" to Peter Coffin, January 3, 1688. It was Hope Hood who led the attack on Newichawannick settlement in 1690, as well as that on Fox Point shore soon after. So noted did he become for his ferocity to the English settlers that Mather, in his "Magnolia," calls him "that memorable tygre,". and "that hellish fellow," etc. The tradition is that he was killed in 1690 and buried on this point of land which bears, and will ever bear, his name. No headstone marks the exact spot where he was buried, but it is affirmed that the groans of the old Indian warrior are still to be heard there from time to time among the moaning branches of the trees, when great storms prevail. It is supposed he died of his wounds received in the fight at Fox Point, and bis friends brought him across the river to this point and buried him. Hope Hood was one of the occasional neighbors of William Dam and James Xute. No wonder they had a garrison and soldiers to defend them, although the doughty old Indian chief seems never to have troubled them. Probably he was in his peaceful moods when he lived on Hope Hood Point, and they treated him kindly. Cotton Mather in his "Magnolia" gives an account of Hope Hood's treatment of James Key, son of John Key of Ouochecho, a child of about five years of age, who was captured by the Indians at Salmon Falls; and that "hellish fellow, Hope Hood, once the servant of a Christian master in Boston, was made ma.ster of him. and treated him in a very cruel manner." In another passage Mather says, in regard to the Indian attack on Wells, that Hope Hood and his party, "having first had a skirmish with Captain AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 165 Sherborn, tlicy appeared tlie next Lord's Day at Newicliawannick, or Ber- wick, where they burned some houses and slew a man. Three days after they came upon a small hamlet on the south side of the Pascataqua river, called Fox Point, and besides the burning of several houses, they took half a dozen prisoners, and killed more than a dozen of the too securely un- garnsoned people; which was as easy to do as to have spoiled an ordinary henroost. But Captain Floyd and Captain Greenleaf coming (from Salis- bury) upon these Indians made some slaughter among them, recovered some capti\-es. with much plunder, and bestowed a good wound upon Hope Hood, who lost his gun (which was next to his life) in this action." The unfor- tunate thing about these Indian wars is that the Indians left no record of their side of the history. ^^ ^It may be noticed, from the list of lot owners, that John Tuttle had "No. 7." Mr. Tuttle was the first of the name to settle in Dover and his residence was on Dover Neck, on the east side of High street and about a quarter of a mile below the meeting house, where now is River View hall He did not come over to Back river to reside, but one son did. and that lot No. 7 remained in possession of the Tuttle family and the Tuttle name until a few years ago. What a beautiful locality Back river is, and always has been. Directly across the river from the Drew garrison is Huckleberry Hill the ancient training ground of Capt. John Tuttle's valiant soldiers. ' Further down the ndge. at the extreme right is the site of his old meeting house. All along the river bank, at suitable spots, are the burial lots of the Back river families- there lies the dust of brave men and devout women. There are no ancient burying grountls back so far from the river as this old garrison. Those men and women had eyes that appreciated the beautiful' in life and the "sleeping place" in death. Another noticeable thing about this Back river locality is the location of the dwellings a half mile back from the river; each land owner built his house and his barn as near to the river bank as the nature of the ground would permit to secure good drainage and good spring water. The houses were nearer to the river than the bams and outbuildings. This arrangement was because of the fact that the chief travel was done by boats on the river There were roads to the river where each family had its boats The -reat business center, then, was on the Neck, just across the river When the farmers wanted to trade they went there in their boats, or to Portsmouth This custom of traveling by boats was in use as late as sixty years ago The old houses all fronted .square to the south, as the garrison does The reason of this is apparent when we consider the fact that clocks were scarce and. when they had them, were not very accurate timekeepers. The sun always keeps correct time; when it cast a shadow square with the east and 166 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY west ends of the liouse the housewife knew tliat was high noon, and would toot her dinner horn accordingly to call the workmen from afar in the fields. A noon mark on the window sill was kept to show the time also. You can find the noon mark now, if you search carefully in the front win- dows of very old houses. Now no housewife thinks of blowing the dinner horn, or the conch shell, which antedated the horns, because every day laborer carries a \\'aterbury or a W'altham watch in his vest pocket, and has it regulated by an electric stroke from the observatory in Washington or Cambridge at noon every day. Why, the day laborers now have for every- day fare what would ha\'e been luxuries for the aristocrats of Dover Neck and Back river 200 years ago. Persons driving along the garrison road no doubt wonder at the fashion that pre\'ails of having the bams nearer the road than the houses, which seem to be behind theni ; t1iat is, the barns appear to be in front of the house. The reason of that is that the l)arns were built long before the roads, and were behind the houses, because the great thoroughfare was the river, and moreover they did not want the beautiful view of tlie river, and Dover Neck beyond, obstructed by old barns and out buildings. They had an eye for the beautiful, as well as the useful. Speaking of garrisons, it may be well to mention one more in this section, which stood on the height of land, a short distance west of the Back ri\er schoolhouse. It was l>uilt by Zachias Field, who was taxed at Oyster river in 1664 and owned land at Back river as early as 1670. It was probably built soon after the Indians squared their accounts with Major Walderne at Cocheco, June 28, 1689. In connection with that gar- rison Rev. John Pike, for many years pastor of the First Church, relates that July 8. 1707, John Bunker antl Ichabod Rawlins were going with a cart from Lieut. Zach I'Teld's garrison to James Bunker's, at Oyster river, for a loom, w hen they were slain by the Indians. This incident shows what li\ely times they had about here in those days. Some cranks are accustomed to bemoan the Yankees ; that the race is dying out ; that foreigners are overrunning the land ; and so on, page after page of twaddle. Why, look at that very locality, Back river; Tuttle, Nute, Drew, Peaslee, Emerson, Tibbetts, Leighton, Rounds, and others ; their ancestors were among the first settlers here and in New- England. Mr. Rounds' mother was a Drew, a lineal descendant of John Drew, Sr., who built the garrison here. The Tuttles and the Nutes are still here. The Peas- lees, who came here more than a century and a half ago, have their de- scendants here with us today, also the Emcrsons. The Dover Yankees are not dying out; they could not all stay here in Dover; they went where work called them, and opportunities for manifestation of their abilities for usefulness were found. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 169 The Indians had buried their dead there long before the white man came here. No doubt Hope Hood's Point is an Indian burial ground, and that is a reason why the old Indian Chief Wahowah was buried there by his friends, when he passed on to the Indian hunting grounds of the unseeable world. I will close my story of today by giving you an account of a Quaker wedding of a century and a half ago. Right after the wedding the bride and groom came here to Back river to reside; their house stood in sight of the garrison ; right across the brook there, where Mr. Joseph E. Peaslee and his sister Mattie reside, and they are with us today. The Peaslees came here from Massachusetts, where the immigrant ancestor was one of the first settlers of Haverhill. The family has been here at Back river since 1760, one hundred and fifty-three years. The representatives here today are great-grandchildren of Amos and Elizabeth Peaslee. •*- AMOS PEASLEe's MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE Ninth Day of the Seventh Month, 1760. Whereas Amos Peaslee of Newbury in the County of Essex and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, son of Robert Peaslee, last of Haverhill, deceased, and Alice his wife, and Elizabetli Austin, Daughter of Joseph Tibbetts and Rose his wife of Dover in the Province of New Hamp- shire in New England Having declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage before several \mh\k meetings of the People called Quakers in Dover, aforesaid, according to the good order used among them and proceeding there in after deliberate consideration thereof with regard unto the Righteous Law of God, in that case they also appearing clear of all others, and having consent of parents and relations concerned Ware approved by said meeting. Now these are to certify to all whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing of their intentions this Nineth day of the Seventh month, called July in the year according U_> the Christian account, one thousand seven hundred and si.xty 1 hey, the said Amos Peaslee and Elizabeth Austin appearing in a Public Assembly of the aforesaid people and others met together at the Public Meeting House at Cochecho, in Dover aforesaid and in a solemn manner, he, the said Amos Peaslee taking the said Elizabeth Austin by the hand did openly declare as followeth : Eriends I desire that you be my witnesses that I take this my friend Elizabeth Austin to be my wife, promising by the Lord's assistance to be unto her a true and loving Husband until it shall please God by death to separate us: And then and there in the said assembly, the said Elizabeth Austin did in like manner declare as followeth : Friends, I desire you to be my witnesses that I take this my friend AmOs Peaslee to be my Husband, promising by ye Lord's assistance to be unto him a true and loving wife 170 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY until it shall please God by death to separate us, or words to that purport, and as a further confirmation thereof the said Amos Peaslee and Elizabeth Austin did then and there to these t*resents set their hands, she according to the custom of marriage assuining the name of her husband And we whose names are hereunto subscribed being present among others at the solemnizing of their said marriage and subscription in manner afore- said as witnesses hereunto have also to these Presents subscribed our names, the day and year above written. Amos Peaslee. Elizabeth Peaslee. Witnesses: Elizabeth Shiplee, Hanah Foster, Miriam Hussey, Ruth Mor- rill, Hannah F*inkham. Jos. Estes, John Gage, Nathaniel Baker, Peter Gush- ing, Stephen Jones, Eph. Hanson, Nathaniel Varney, John Titcomb, Ichabod Canney, Samuel Tuttle, Stephen Varney, Arthur Davidson, Joseph Austin, Otis Pinkham. Bena Austin. Elijah Austin, Joseph Tibbetts, Jr., Jacob Saw- yer, Hannah Hanson. The original paper, which I have just read, is now the property of Miss Mattie Peaslee and Mr. Joseph E. Peaslee of Back river, whom I have already introduced to you. They were near neighbors to the Drew family in the garrison. In addition to this paper they have numerous other old papers, heirlooms of the Peaslee family, which ought to be carefully pre- served after the present owners have "passed on." Your attention is called to the expression "at the meeting house, at Cochecho in Dover." This was in 1760. Up to that time, and for several years after, when Dover is mentioned it means the locality on the hill, Dover Neck, right across Back river from here; all other villages were simply localities in Dover. Tlie wedding was not held in the present Quaker meeting house, on Central avenue at Pine Hill, as that was erected seven or eight years later in 1768, and is the oldest house of worship in this city, being 145 years old. The first Quaker meeting house was built at Dover Neck. The second was built at Cocheco about 1720 and stood on the south- west comer of Silver and Locust street, where the Jacob K. Purinton house stands, now owned by Elisha R. Brown. It was in that meeting house the Peaslee wedding was held. That building was taken down soon alter the present house was built at Pine Hill. Some of those witnesses were noted persons in their day and cut no small figure in Dover history. John Gage was colonel of a New Hampshire regi- ment, many times a Representative in the Provincial Assembly, and the first judge of probate of Strafford county. John Titcomb was conspicuous in town affairs and colonel of a regiment in the Revolutionary army. Peter Gushing was grandson of Rev. Jonathan Gushing, pastor of the First Church fifty years. Peter was one of the great business men of the town. AND REPRESEXTATR-E CITIZENS 171 In fact, all the big families of the town were represented at the wedding — Tuttle, Baker, Hanson, Canney, Varney, Pinkhani, and others. It was a great wedding, notwithstanding there was no "single ring or donble ring" ceremony. So, ladies and gentlemen, ends my story. CHAPTER XV HISTORY OF DOVER (XI) INDIAN ATTACKS ON DOVER, N. H. Sack of Dover, June 2-j, 1689. Being one of the oldest settlements in Xew Hampshire, by the year 1689 it had grown to be one of the most flourishing. The first settlement grew up at what is now Dover Point. The second settlement grew up at the first fall^ of the Cochechc), w liere Maj. Richard Waldriin had liuilt his saw and grist mill. \\'aldron was the great man of tlie \'illagc. He had held most of the important offices, both civil and mihtary, and at this date was major of the militia. He was about seventy-three at this time, hale and hearty and vigorous, and as iiard to mo\'e as his own milldam. Fi\'e block houses guarded the settlement; for Dover touched the very edge of the wilder- ness. These were Waldron's, near the courthouse, Otis's, near Alilk street, whose site has just recently been discovered, Peter Coffin's and his sons on this side of the river, somewhere near Williams' belt factory. All were sur- rounded by strong walls of timber, with gates that could l)c securely bolted and barred at night, at which time, the people living outside, came to sleep, going to their own homes in the morning. This was Dover. This was border life, yet danger had its charms. It was the making of robust men and women, whose nursery tales were the tragedies of Indian warfare or captivity, and who, as they grew up. became skilled in the use of arms, keen in tracking the bear and moose, and of withstanding hunger and hardship, as well as the wild Indians themselves. Though they did not know it, the people of Dover were w'alking between life and death. They had forgotten, but the Indian never forgets, nor forgives any injury or wrong. For years the memory of the treachery of Waldron's had rankled deep in their hearts. This is not a pleasant tale, but it is true. During the struggles of King Phillip's war, some thirteen years before, Waldron had made peace with the Pennacook, Ossipee and Pigwacket tribes, by which the calamities of war were wholly kept from him and his neighbors. This was a shrewd move to keep the Indians quiet. In this 172 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 173 treaty the Indians promised not to harbor any of King Phillip's men. They shook hands with Waldron upon it, and were allowed to come and go as they pleased. This promise was, not, however, kept. The I'ennacooks sheltered many ot .:'hillip's followers. Indian hospitality could not refuse this asylum to their own, hunted as they were by the whites. With this exception, the tribe lived up to these obligations. The tribes on the Androscoggin and Kennebec were easily led to take up the hatchet again, killing and plundering the defenseless inhabitants. Two companies were sent out from Boston to stop this, and to protect the people. When they arrived at Dover, they found some hundreds of Indians gathered here, as it seemed, to trade. They were armed but there was no fear of an attack. It was then and there that Waldron dealt them their most terrible blow, a blow struck from l)ehind the back, which he was later to pay dearly for with his life. The two captains. Sill and Haw- thorn, liaving orders to seize all Indians who bad lieen out in King I'lullip's war w herever found, upon l)eing told that there were many even now among these \ery Indians, would ha\'e fallen upon them without fiu'ther words, Init Waldron was tno wary. A plan had arranged itself in his mind by which the whole l)i>ily of Indians could be taken without striking a blow. He proposed to the Indians to celebrate the meeting l)y having a sham fight — after the English fashion — to W'hich they readily consented. In the meantime, he called U[) Captain Frost's company from Kittery and got liis own men under arms. These, with the two marching companies, gave him all the men he needed. The next day the two Ijodies. English and Indians, were drawn up in sham battle, into \vhich the unsuspecting redskins entered with much sijirit. Meantime, while going through certain simple movements, the English were ciuietly surrounding the Indians. Still mistrusting nothing, the Indians fired their first vollev. When their guns were discharged, the English rushed in, seizeil and disarmed ihem without the loss of a man. .\l)out four hundred were so taken. They were then se])arated. Those known to be friendly were allowed to go in peace, but all those suspected of having helped King rhilli[>. some two hundred in number, were sent under guard to Boston, where seven or eight were hanged, and the rest sold out of the country as slaves. It is known that those hanged were in some of the blood- iest massacres of the war. Those sold helped to pay for their capture, and all the people said Amen. So now, long years after, some of the Indians who had been entrapped by Waldron, laid their plans to be revenged. When it was found that the people of Dover had fallen into careless habits, kept no watches, and would even let Indians sleep in their houses, these plans were ripe for execution. 174 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY Some hints of tlie intended mischief had been thrown out, but the careless settlers had hardly listened to them. When W'aldron himself was spoken to about it, he jocosely told the uneasy ones "to go and plant pumpkins and that he would tell them when the Indians would break out." When the time for the assault drew near, the two chiefs, Kau-ka-ma-gus and Mesaudowit. brought their followers to within striking distance of the village. Indian cunning was then set to work. On Thursday evening two squaws went to each of the live garrisons and asked leave to sleep there that night. It being wet weather they were readily admitted to all except young Coffin's. When some objected at \\'aldron's, the kind old man quieted they by saying, "Let the poor old creatures lodge by the fire." They were even shown how to unbar the doors. Mesaudowit went boldl}^ to \\'aldron's, where he was kindly received, all the more readily because he announced that a good many Indians were coming ne.xt day to trade. While the two were sitting at supper, the chief jestingly asked. "Brother Waldron, what would you do if the strange Indians should come?" "A hundred men stand ready to come when I lift my finger thus," was Waklron"s replv. All retired to rest ; not a single sentinel stood guard over the doomed village. When all was still, the faithless squaws noiselessly arose, quietly unbarred the doors of the four garrisons, and gave the signal agreed upon — a low whistle. Instantly the warriors who had been lying in wait outside rushe quickly that the Indians were able to get away unmolested with all their booty. It is but just to add that the conduct of the savages during the sack of Dover was not without some redeeming features; while certain persons were marked for unrelenting vengeance, other were spared, and still others not even molested. The prisoners were talcen to Canada and sold to the French. The savages treated the prisoners as slaves, and disposed of them as such. Sad to relate, the terrible affair might have been averted by the timely delivery of a letter. The design had been disclosed to Major Henchman at Chelms- ford. A letter was at once started for Dover, but some delay at Newburg made the warning some hours late. In this letter Waldron was notified that he was the special object of vengeance. The feelings with which this letter was received and opened by his son may be imagined. This letter is 10 176 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY in Belknap, X. H., and is said to have cunie from W analancet, Sagamore of the Pennacooks. Among tiie capti\es taken was Major \\'aIdron"s little granddaughter, Sarah Gerrish, seven years old, who slept in her grandfather's house. Awak- ened out of a sound sleep l)y the strange noises in the house, Sarah sprang from bed and ran into another room, where one of her little playmates was sleeping. Childlike, she crept into her companion's bed and covered herself over by pulling the l)edclothes over her head. Her hiding place was soon discovered, and she was told to get up and dress, and they hurried her out out the house before she could put on' her stockings. With one bare foot she was marched off into the wilderness, after seeing her grandfather's house plundered and burned before her eyes. She went with the tribe of Indians down into Maine where she remained luitil winter. Sarah's first master was Sebundowit, harsh but not cruel. He sold her to another Indian, both cruel and harsh, who carried her away to Canada to be sold. No tongue can tell the terrible suffering and hardships this little girl of seven had to undergo during that long and terriljle march to Canada. At one time her wretch of a master told her to go and stand beside a tree while he began loading his gun, with tantalizing indifference. When she shrieked out in terror at what \vas to be her fate, the old fellow seems to have relented and seemed satisfied. Once while running along the high bank of the river some of her impish companions pushed her over the bank into the water, leaving her to sink or swim. Fortunately, she could catch hold of the bushes as she came up to the surface and draw herself out. Though only a little child of seven, when asked how she became wet, she did not dare complain of her companions. Once she overslept after a very hard day's march, and when she awoke she was partly covered with snow, and found that she was left alone, llie party had gone on and left her. and being terribly afraid at the thought of bears and wolves, she ran crying after them, following their tracks in the snow, and after a long and weary chase they allowed her to come up with them. Then again, when one night they had built a big fire, thev told her that she was going to be burned to death. She was struck dumb, and then burst into tears, and throwing her arms around her master's neck, begged him to spare her life, which lie agreed to do if she would be a good girl. After going through fire and water, she at last reached Canada, when she was taken to the Lord Intendent's, where much notice was taken of her by persons of equality. In the course of a week, the wife of the Intendent purchased her, and she was placed in a convent, and was once more safe in the hands of Christians. When the fleet of Sir William Phipps appeared before Quebec the next year, Sarah was exchanged after sixteen months, and returned to her friends again. In August, 1689, the authorities AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZEN'S 177 at Boston collected an army of 600 men at Berwick, where the Indians had been burning and scalping. July 18, 1694 DURHAM DESTROYED The French, fearing that they could not hold the Indians who lived between Canada and the English settlements of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, determined to incite the Indians to attack the whites. If they did not, the English would probably make friends with the Indians and the French would lose the country. So V'illieu, a French officer, went among the Kennebec and Penobscot tribes urging them to take up the liatchet. They were made large presents, flattered, feasted, and old wrongs artfully dwelt u]]on, until the slunii)ering smoke of hate and rage flamed up again with ten-fold fury. A large supply of brandy did the rest. Casting the treaty to the winds, INIodockawando and ^loxus of Penobscot declared for war, so the Penobscots, Norridgewalks and Paguoits and a sprinkling of tribes further east, were again on the war path. Villieu thus had 300 war- riors and singled out Oyster river for fire and slaughter. Scattered along the high grounds were some twelve garrisons, enough to have sheltered all the inhabitants if they could have been warned in time. Most of them, however, not dreaming of danger, slept in their own homes, and there being no suspicion no watch was kept. The village stretched out on Ijoth sides of the river, liut the most of the houses were. near John Dean's sawmill at the falls, with the meeting house on the hill just beyond. X'illieu reached the \icinitv undiscovered on Thursdav exening, July 17, 1694. He halted near the falls until after dark, then divided his followers into two bands, one taking the south, the other the north side of the river, so as to make a clean sweep of the whole settlement. Eomazien went with the Indians to the soutli side, while Captain Nathaniel put himself at the head of those on the north. Tlien the two parties broke up into parties of eight or ten so they would fall on the houses at the same time when it should become light. Had this succeeded a greater loss of life would have resulted. It happened that John Dean had planned to go on a journey that morn- ing. He had risen early and was just leaving the house wdien he was seen, fired at, and killed on the spot. The alarm was thus given before some of the assailants had reached their stations, giving some of the families chance to defend themselves. At the signals the Indians fell upon the settlement, and the butchery began. The plan was the same ; to surround the house, beat down the doors. 178 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY and cai)ture or kill the settlers. Most of the men were tomahawked on the spot, and the women taken away into captivity. After John Dean had been killed, the Indians rushed into the house and took Mrs. Dean and her little daughter two miles up the river and left her in the care of an old Indian, who complained that he had a headache, and asked Mrs. Dean what he should do for it. She, seeing that he had a bottle, told him to drink it and it would help him. Since this pleased him, he did so, and was soon fast asleep. Mrs. Dean and her daughter fled to the woods and hid until night, when they returned home to find a heap of blackened ruins. They found a canoe in which they paddled to Lieutenant Burnliam's garrison, where they found themselves among friends. The garrisons were the special points of attack. Jones's was one of the first. He was awakened by the dog barking, and got up to see if the wolves were about, when he saw the flash of a gun, and instantly jumping to one side, heard the bullet hit where he had stood. Seeing that they were on their guard, the Indians withdrew. Adams' garrison made no resistance. Fourteen people were killed here. Drew surrendered on condition that his life would be spared, but he was instantly killed. His nine-year-old boy was made to run the gauntlet, and was at length tomahawked. Thomas Edgerly and son both escaped by boat, going down river. Beard's and Meader's garrisons were abandoned. Thus five garrisons were taken without firing a shot ; the other five held out. Burnham's had carelessly left the gate open, but just managed to close it in time. Bickford's was saved 'ny rare courage. He sent his family down river in a boat, and determined to defend his home. He shut his gate, and fired at the Indians whenever he could see one, appearing at different win- dows with a diiTerent cap and coat, shouting as though giving orders to his men. After a while, the Indians withdrew. Twenty houses, or about one- half of the town, were set on fire, over the bodies of dieir owners. Then they went to Woodman's garrison, but he was prepared for them, and they went away with their booty and prisoner, and they reported that only one man had been wounded. .About one hundred persons hail been shot down or tomahawked in cold blood. A party went across the Piscataqua and killed Mrs. Cutt and three others. Moxus went as far as Grotan, Mass., and made a determined assault, but was repulsed. On the way they killed thirteen, and carried away twentj'-nine captives. A month later, the people were waylaid while coming home from church, three killed, three wounded, and three carried away as captives. A war party under Hope Hood fell upon l-'ox's Point in 1690. Slew fourteen persons ; carried oi¥ six. They w ere pursued Ijv Colonels Floyd and Greenleaf, and compelled to lea\e some of their prisoners and booty. AND REPRESEXTATIX'E CITIZENS 179 111 July, 1690, eight persons were killed while mowing in a field. The Indians were pursued to Wheelwright's Pond, where a bloody fight took place. Captain Wiswell and his lieutenant and sergeant and twelve men were killed, and the English were driven back. The Indians killed more than forty people in that week. On March i-j, i()90, Salmon Falls was attacked by Hertel. After reconnoitering, Hertel's scouts found that no watch was kept. Hertel decided to attack at daybreak. Dividing into three parties they attacked the three garrisons. Though taken by surprise, the garrisons fought well, but in the end had to gi\e up. Thirty of the inhabitants were killed and fifty-four made prisoners, all the buildings burned; no place could have been made more desolate. Alarmed at the approach of the Eng- lish, Hertel retreated through Berwick, and crossing the river by the bridge, stood at bay until night, when the English withdrew. August j8, i6q8, Jeremiah Swain marched to Berwick with 600 men and remained awhile. After Swain left, the Indians swooped down on Dur- ham again, carrying away several, killing eighteen men and three children. Later a roving party killed seven at Berwick. JANUARY 28, 1703 BERWICK ASSAULTED \Adiile the ground was covered with snow a small war party fell upon Xeal's garrison, with great fury. Fortunately, the sentinel discoveretl their approach in season to give the alarm. A young man and a girl that were at some distance ran for their lives. The girl was quickly overtaken and toma- hawked. The lad almost reached the garrison when they shot him. Think- ing him dead, they left him and charged upon the garrison. A well-aimed volley killed the leader, and while the Indians were trying to drag his body away, the boy ui) and ran into the garrison. Then the Indians withdrew, and fell upon Smith garrison. They were soon beaten off, however. Captain Brown, aroused by the firing, rushed to their assistance with a dozen good men. He came upon the Indians as they were binding up their plunder, and put them to flight, firing at them and wounding some of thein, as the blood on the snow showed. The Indians left all their plunder, hatchets and blankets. This time they burned two houses and killed seventy cattle. In October, 1703, they again attacked Berwick and destroyed the village. In 1704, a hundred friendly Indians, Piquods, Mohigans and Mautics, were posted here to keep off the Indians from the east and Canada. They were under the command of Maj. Samuel Monson. They were fed and clothed by Massachusetts and given twelve pence a day by Connecticut. In July, the Piscataqua settlements were terrorized, at Dover. Three were killed, three wounded, and three captured. July 18 they killed one man at Niwich- awarnock and captured Wheelwright's "Sambo." David Gorland was killed 180 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY at Dover, April 26, John Church was killed and John Hane and Humphrey Foss taken prisoners, but were released by the determined efforts of Lieu- tenant Heard. May 14, at Spruce creek, they killed one lad, and carried others away. They then went to Oyster river, where they shot Jeremiah Cromett and burned a sawmill at Dover. Ensign Tuttle was killed and a son of Lieu- tenant Heard wounded while standing guard. John Bickwell was shot at Spruce creek as he was locking his door, liis wife wounded, and his child knocked in the head and scalped. The two children of John Waldron were seized outside of Heard's garrison (this was the old garrison of Waldron's) and their heads cut off, as the Indians did not have time to scalp them. This time there were no men in the fort and Esther Jones deceived the Indians by calling out, "Come on, come on; here they are!" which had the effect desired, and the Indians withdrew. On October 25, 1704, the Indians appeared at Oyster river again. BERWICK October 25, 1704, two men were shot going home from church. The Indians, being vigorously attacked, dropped their packs, and in them were found three scalps. In the spring of 1705 they were on the east side of the Piscataqua river, killing five settlers at Spruce creek and capturing many more. Mrs. Hall was killed; Enoch Hutchins lost his wife and children. Three weeks later John Rodgers was wounded and James Toby shot. In May, 1705, they wounded Mark Gile; W. Pearl and Nathan Til)bets were shot. These attacks were by bands of roving Indians. Pearl lived in a cave up Oyster river and he had been urged to come into the settlement, but he would not. On May 22, 1707, they captured two at Oyster river. In July they came upon John Bunker and Ichonard Rawlins, aged twenty and thirty, of Dover, and killed them both as they were driving a cart from Dover to Oyster river. They also killed many cattle. In 1 7 10 the settlers were warned of a new outbreak, and 400 soldiers were posted in the New Hampshire towns. In 171 1 they appeared at Dover and found Thomas Downs and three men at work in a field. These they killed, and lay in ambush for the settlers as they came from church. They succeeded in killing one and came near another, but the alarm was given and the Indians withdrew. In 17 12 they killed Ensign Tuttle at Dover and Jeremiah Cromwell at Oyster river; later they killed Joseph Ham at Dover, carrying off his three children. Ne.xt Tristram Heard was killed. In the spring of 1705 the Indians made a descent on Oyster river ?nd Nathanial Meader was shot while in his field. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 181 Some Quakers who did not share in the ideas of war and who hved out on Knox marsh, were singled out for attack, as they would not go to the garrisons. Ebenezer Downs was taken and used very roughly because he would not dance before the Indians. John Hanson was urged repeatedly to come to the garrisons but he would not, so the French Mohawks singled him out. One day when Hanson and his eldest daughter were away at church, the two eldest boys out in the field and the wife at home with four children, the time they had been waiting for, the Indians went to the house and killed the younger children, took the wife and a fuurteen-day old infant with the nurse and two other daughters and a young son and carried them into cap- tivity, after sacking the house. This was so quietly done that the first to dis- cover it was the eldest daughter when she returned home and beheld tlie horrible sight. The alarm was given. Mrs. Hanson was at the time at the edge of the woods but could not cry out. She was taken to Canada and sold. • She has left a very forceful history of that journey. Mrs. Hanson was a woman of slight build and tender constitution. But she had a firm and vigorous mind, and passed through the Indian captivity with much resolution and courage. When her milk gave out she nourished her babe by warming water in her mouth, and letting it fall on her breasts fed the child, until the scpiaws taught her how to beat the kernels of walnuts and boil them with husked corn, which proved a nourishing food for the baby. They were all sold to the French in Canada. Hanson went the next spring and redeemed his wife and three young children and the nurse, but could not the eldest daughter, although he saw her and talked with licr. She married a I'rencliman and ne\er returned. He redeemed Elizal)elh Downs. Hanson made another trip, but died at Crown Point on his way to Canada. Hanson after the first attack went to live with another Quaker who had several lusty sons "who kept the guns loaded for big game." After Hanson had returned to his old home the Indians determined to make another attack, watching for a favorable opportunity. They secreted themselves in a barn when three men went Ijy. The Indians fired and killed William Evans ; Benja- min and John Evans being slightly wounded, but bleeding freely. The Indians, thinking John dead, scalped him, turned him over and pounded him with their guns and left him. He was taken to the fort where he recovered and lived fifty years longer. The Indians made their escape, taking Benjamin Evans as a captive. He was at this time thirteen years old and was later redeemed in the usual way, September 25, 1725. This was the last foray into Dover, New Hampshire, as three months later a treaty was signed at Boston and in the spring was ratified at Falmouth. 1726. After peace was declared, the Indians often visited the very homes they had despoiled. The treaty was ratified by Governor Drummer and Wenamouit, sachem and sagamore of the Penobscots. CHAPTER XVI HISTORY OF DOVER (XII) DOVER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Tlie syinpatliies of Dover in the Revolutionary struggle were almost with- out exception upon the patriotic side. It had few office holders to sympa- thize with their employers. The teachings of Rev. Jeremy Belknap from the pulpit were bold and inspiring. The first utterance which is found from Doctor Belknap bearing upon the subject which was beginning to enlist the thoughts of our fathers occurs in a sermon which he preached November lo, 1772, before His Majesty's Governor, John Wentworth, Esq., at a review of the Second Regiment of Foot in Dover. New Hampshire had been inured to military service through its long period of war w ith the Indians. An old law required every male inhabitant from sixteen to sixty years of age to ow n a musket, bayonet, knap- sack, cartridge-box, one pound of powder, twenty bullets, and tweh-e flints. This militia was organized into companies and regiments, and subject to fre- quent drills. The muster-day and the review was a great occasion. Dover was a center of this military stir. At this gathering here in November, 1772, the royal Governor, John Wentworth, came up from Portsmouth. Captain Walderne, a member of this church, and a staunch friend of hi pastor, had invited Doctor Belknap to preach to the troops. The subject chosen by the preacher was. "Military Duty."" In the course of the sermon he spoke as follows on the necessity of self-defense; "Has the all-wise and merciful Parent of the uni\erse furnished the Jjrute and reptile creation with the necessary instruments of defense, and does the instinct which he has implanted in them prompt them to make use of these weapons for their own subsistence and security ? and has He not implanted in mankind a natural courage or martial spirit and given them skill and power to provide themselves with all the necessary instruments of defense, and can it be supposed that we must make no use of these gifts of nature, even when Providence points out the necessity? Do w=e guard our fields from devouring beasts, our houses and bodies from the rigors of the weather, and shrill we not have the privilege of defending our lives, our liberties, our property, our 182 s AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 183 families, our civil government from hostile invaders? Must we tamely yield to every lawless usurper and suffer tyrants to sport with the lives and estates of mankind? Must all these laws, which the wisdom and experience of ages ha\e founded, must the sacred bonds of society, the peace, the welfare, the happiness of mankind be sacrificed to the impetuous rage of a foreign con- queror? Forbid it, reason and conscience; forbid it, ye heroic worthies of old, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions. (picni,hed the \iolence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens." The officers of the Second Regiment of Foot were so pleased with this address that they asked a copy for the press. The General Assembly of New Hampshire was in session in May this year, 1774. Conformably to the proceedings of the Assemblies of other colonies, the representatives in this pro\-ince appointed a Committee of Cor- respondence. Go\'ern(.)r W'entworth interfered. He adjourned the Assem- bly. The members met again. The Governor with a sheriff' came among them. He declared their meeting illegal. The sheriff made proclamatic>n for all persons to disperse and keep the king's peace. The members met again, and determined to send letters to all the towns and parishes in the Province, requesting them to send deputies to a convention at Exeter, who should choose delegates to a General Congress to meet at Philadelphia. This was the first movement for rallying the whole of the people of New Hampshire in the great contest. Attached to this most important letter to the several towns was this brief proclamation : "Considering the Distressing situation of our public affairs. Thursday, the 14th inst., is recommended to be kept as a day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer through this Province." The day was observed here in Dover with special religious solemnity. On that occasion, July 14, 1774, Doctor Belknap preached a semion which bears this title. "On Account of the Difificulties of the King." The text was from I Sam. viii. 18: "And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day." A most pertinent text. In this sermon he saj-s : "It is, my brethren, a very dark day to these American colonies. Burdens and taxes are laid upon us by the Parliament of Great Britain, and the most forcible attempts are made to bring us to a submission, and what further is intended we know not, but we have reason to fear much, considering how highly they are incensed against us, and what power they have to carry their determination into execution. * * * When a ruler departs from these principles, and sets up any other rule of go\ernment than the laws and Consti- tution which he is sworn to maintain, then the government degenerates into tyranny." 184 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Perhaps the most remarkable passage in this noble sermon is the following ; "Would it not be astonishing to hear that a people who are contending so earnestly for liberty are not willing to allow liberty to others ? Is it not aston- ishing to think that there are at this day, in the several colonies upon this continent, some thousands of men, women, and children detained in bond- age and slavery for no other crime than that their skin is of a darker color than our own ? Such is the inconsistency of our conduct ! As we have made them slaves without their consent and without any crime, so it is just in God to permit Litlier men to make slaves of us." The tidings of the battle of Lexington reached Belknap at Dover Point, as he was on his way home from Portsmouth. He sent from the Point the following note to his wife: "Before you receive this you will hear the awful news by the express I met just now at the ferry of the devastation the troops have made at Concord and the commencement of a civil war, which makes it absolutely necessary that I should proceed immediately to Boston, if it is not in ashes before I get there. I shall try and get a chaise at Greenland. As necessity has no law, the people must excuse my absence next Sabbath if I should not return before it." He arrived at Cambridge in due time, and found himself "among ten thousand armed men who had gathered from every quarter" to take part in the next battle. From there he writes to his wife in Dover, "Don't let my gun and munition get out of the house if you can help it." The brave parson knew his gun well. Among his papers is a very precise description of it. He doubtless thought it most pmliable that he should be called to fight, in which case no "carnal weapon" could have served him better. While at Caml:>ridge, he preached in the morning in the street and in the afternoon in the meeting house to the provincial army there assembled. He soon returned home with his parents. Dover for the next few months was astir with military preparations. There was a company at once enlisted here by Capt. Benjamin Titcomb. On the 14th of June, three days before fire opened on Bunker Hill, Doctor Bel- knap preached to these soldiers on the "Nature of true courage." He said, "It is a very fashionable doctrine, especially among the British troops, that the soldier has nothing to do with the conscience of war, or to inquire whether it be just or not. He has only to obey orders. If soldiers had no conscience, if they were horses instead of men. this doctrine might be propagated with the utmost safety. But, my brethren, you are reasonable creatures. You are accountable to a higher tribunal than any earthly power, and you have a right to examine, and it is your duty to examine, whether the cause in which you are engaged is just, and if you find that it is so, you can fight with a good conscience, and with a hope in the Divine Providence for liberty and success. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 185 Let, then, every man behave himself in his proper station according to the duty required of him, and serve his country to the utmost of his power." Four days after, news having been received that a i)attle had commenced at Charlestown. this company, under Captain Titcomb, marched to the scene of battle. It is matter of known tradition that Doctor Belknap, when news arrived of the Declaration of Independence, went to the one town school at Pine Hill, then kept by Master Wigglesworth, announced that America was now a nation, and himself and the master at the head, stopping to take up a drum- mer by the way, the whole school marched through town as far as the Col. John Walderne mansion, and returned. At the schoolhouse Doctor Bel- knap offered prayer, and a holiday was then given. The people of Dover took an early part as a municipality in remonstrating against those aggressions of the British government which led to the Revolu- tion, and when remonstrances failed, and the cause of liberty was submitted to the stern arbitrament of arms, none exerted themselves more cheerfully or contributed more in proportion to their means to render that cause success- ful. As a record of interest, we publish from the town records all the pro- ceedings, votes, etc., which we find in reference to the Revolutionary war. The first recurd which is made is the following: "At a legal meeting of the cpialified voters of the town of Dover, this tenth day of January, 1774, convened at the Friends' Meeting-House in said town on purpose to consider of the innovations attempted to be made on American Privileges — "Col. Otis Baker was chosen Moderator — "Although we deprecate every thing which in its infant motions tends to alienate the affections which ought to subsist among the subjects of the same King, yet, we cannot longer behold the Arts used to curtail the Priviledges purchased with blood and treasure of British America, and of New England in particular, for their Posterity, without bearing our Testimony against them. "As these Colonies have recognized the Protestant Kings of Great Britain as their Lawful Sovereign, and WE in this Province the Man whom the King has pleased to send us as his Representative — We acknowledge this Representative from our first formation into a Government has had a nega- tive voice on all Bills proposed by Laws in the manner his Majesty has at home. "And as it doth not appear that any Parliaments have been parties to any Contracts made with the European Settlers in this once howling Wilderness, now become a pleasant field — We look on our Rights too dearly bought, to admit them now as Tax masters — Since (by laws as firm as tlie honor of crowned heads can make them, and which we have no Apprehension so good and gracious a King as we obey, will suffer to be abridged) we have Parlia- 186 ITISTORV OF STRAFFORD COL'X'IA' ments of our own — who always witli the greatest Clieerluhiess furnished his Majesty such Aids as he has been pleased to require from time to time according to the Abilities of the People, and e\en beyond them, of which, none but themselves could be adequate Judges. "Why the King's Subjects in Great Britain should frame Laws for his Subjects in America, rather than the reverse, we cannot well conceive, as we do not admit it to be tlrawn from any Pact made by our ancestors, or from the Nature of the British Constitution, which makes Representation essential to Taxation — and this supix)sed Power of Parliament for taxing America is quite novel, some few Instances for the better Regulation of Trade excepted, which no more i)rove their supposed Right, than the Tortious Entry of a Neighbor into the Infant's field does that of the Intruder — but if Superior Strength be the best plea, how would they relish the Alternative? which if political Arithmetic deceives not advances with Hasty Strides; tho' nothing but downright oppression will e\'er effect it. "Therefore, Resolved, ily. That any attempt to take the Property of any of the King's Subjects for any purpose whatever where they are not repre- sented, is an Infraction of the English Constitution; and manifestly tends as well to destroy it. as the subject's pri\-ate property, of wliich recent proid's are plenty- Resolved 2ly, That We, and our American Brethren, are the liege People of King George the Third, and therefore ha\e as full, and ample a Claim, to all the Privileges and Immunities of Englishmen, as any of his Subjects three thousand miles distant — the Truth of which, our i)..'mcanor clearly evinces. "Resolved 3ly, That the Parliament in Britain by suffering the East India Company to send us their Teas subject to a Duty on landing, have in a meas- ure testified a Disregard to the Interests of Americans, w hose lilieral Ser\-ices ill deser\-es such ungenerous Treatment. "Resolved 4ly, That we are of opinion that any seeming Supineness of this Province in these very — very interesting matters, hath i)roceeded from a Con- sideration of their Smallness among their Brethren, rather than from any insensibility of impending Evils. "Resolved sly, That this Tow n apjiroves the general Exertions, and noble struggles, made by the oi)ulent Colonies through the Continent, for preventing so fatal a Catastrophe as is implied in Taxation without Representation, viz Sl.-wery — than which, to a generous Mind, Death is more Eligible. "Resolved 61y, That ^^'e are. and always will lie ready in every constitu- tional Way, to give all the \\'eight in our Power to avert so dire a Calamity. "Resolved /ly. That a Dread of being enslaved Ourselves, and of trans- mitting the Chains to our Posterity (by which we should justly merit their curses) is the principal Inducement of these Measures. ".\nd Whereas, our house of Commons have a Committee for correspond- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 187 ing with those of the several Colonies on these matters, and the Committees of the several Towns in this Government to correspond with each other at the necessary Times, may be subservient to the common Cause — Therefore resolved that a Committee to consist of five persons be chosen for that purpose. "Voted that Col. Otis Baker, Capt. Caleb Hodgdon, Capt. Stephen Evans, Capt. Joshua W'ingate, and John Wentworth, jr, or either three of them, be the Committee of Correspondence for this Town. "Voteil that the proceedings of this meeting be entered in the Records of this Town, and that an attested Copy thereof be sent to the Committee of Correspondence at Portsmouth, to assure them, and all concerned, that our hearts are knit with those, who wish the weal (as it is constitutionally fixed) of our most gracious Sovereign, and all his numerous subjects." July 1 8, 1774. — A committee of five was chosen to represent the town at a meeting to be held at Exeter for "appointing Delegates to join in a General Congress of the P'rovinces for considering of and advising to the most con- ciliating methods of establishing their rights and harmony among all the subjects of our gracious Sovereign, which meeting is proposed to be held on the 1st Sept. at Philadelphia." And £6 los. were voted as the proportion of Dover towards paying the exi>enses of the delegates, which the selectmen were authorized to advance. November 7, 1774. — A town meeting was called to see if the inhabitants would raise anything, either "in Money, P^at Cattle or Sheep," for the relief of the Poor in Boston, then suffering from the operations of the Port Bill. And it was voted that the town would "give something." December 26. 1774. — At a town meeting the following preamble and reso- lutions were adopted : "The Designs of the Continental Congress holden at Philadelphia being so humane and benevolent, the result of their proceedings so salutary and effect- ive as justly to attract the n(Aice of the millions of freemen in America, this town on mature consultation are fully convinced that nothing (under Heaven) will so evidently tend to preserve the rights of Americans or frustrate the attempts already made for their destruction as carrying the same into full execution. For w Inch purpose, "Voted, That Messrs. Otis Baker, Shadrach Hodgdon, Stephen Evans, Joshua Wingate, John Waldron 3d, Caleb Hodgdon, John Wentworth, Jr., John Kielle, and John Gage be a committee. "Voted, they have the following instructions, viz. ; "ist. We expect that to the utmost of your power you carefully intend the preservation of peace and good order in the town so far as the same may be endangered by a discussion of sentiment relati\'e to political matters. ".2d. We enjoin ymi that liy e\ery lawful means you see the recommen- 188 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY dations and proceedings of the Continental Congress strictly complied with by the inhabitants of this town so far as we are therein concerned. "3dly. As examples you are to encourage every kind of Temperance, Frugality, Industry, and Economy and to discountenance every species of Vice, Immorality, and Profaneness. Neither to use any sort of Gameing or unlawful diversions yourselves nor suffer it to be done within your knowledge without intimating your own dislike and the displeasure of the town thereat. "4ly. Whereas. Hawkers, Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen are continually strolling througli the country with Goods, Wares, and Merchandise (nuich of which was undoubtedly forwarded by the enemies of America) in order to vend the same to the great hurt and decay of trade and in defiance of a good and wholesome law of this Government — You are therefore not knowingly to harbor, conceal or entertain any one of them, nor purchase any of their wares, nor permit any within your knowledge to do it, and in case any Tav- erner, Innholder, or Retailer within this town, after being duly informed thereof, shall be knowingly guilty of either the acts in this instruction men- tioned — You are to take every legal measure to prevent their ever here- after being licensed by the Court of Sessions either as Taverners or Retailers. "5ly- Notwithstanding any persons may be so daring and hardy as to counteract the sense of the town expressed in these instructions, you are by no means to suffer any insult or abuse to be oft'ered to either their persons or estates, but use your utmost endeavor to prevent the same. "61y. Of all breaches of these Instructions you are as soon as may 1)e to inform your neighbors and the Selectmen of the town that whenever it may be necessary the town may be convened in order to consult and ad\-ise thereon." July 13, 1776. — "Voted that forty-two shillings be given liy the town to each of the soldiers enlisted and that shall enlist since the nth inst., and proceed in the present expedition to Canada, not exceeding fifteen or sixteen men, and that the Selectmen hire the money (and pay the same) in the best manner they can immediately on the town's account." May 5, 1777.— "\'oted that Col. Otis Baker, Capt. Thomas Young, and Capt. John Hayes be empowered to enlist what men is wanting to make this town's quota of men for completing the Battalions to be raised in this State, on the best terms they can. "Voted, that the Selectmen furnish the Committee with money to hire said men and raise the same in the next tax bill." May 15, 1777. — '"Voted that the Alarm and Train Band Lists have three shillings a day and one shilling and sixpence a half day allowed them by the town for each day they train in a year more than the law requires." September 10, 1777.— It was "voted that thirty dollars be given to each AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 189 soldier who enlists for the Continental Service until the last of November next, and that the Selectmen pay each soldier the said sum when mustered." March 30, 1778. — It was "voted that a committee of two persons be chosen to inquire into the state of our quota of Continental troops, and if we are found lacking to take the most effectual measure for filling up the same." June 15, 1778. — It was "voted that Mr. John Bm. Hanson, Col. Joshua Wingate and Maj. Caleb Hodgdon be a committee to hire six men as soldiers to go to Rhode Island to reinforce General Sullivan's Division." May 10, 1779. — -It was "voted that the Selectmen advance the Conti- nental and State bounty agreeable to a request of the Committee of Safety if they have it in stock, and if not the Selectmen are empowered to hire money for said purpose." July 5, 1779. — It was "voted that the Selectmen advance the Continental bounty being £60 and Slate bounty of £30 and travel for five men, and if they have it not in hand that they hire the same and have power to raise it in the next year's tax." "Voted that a committee be chosen to hire eight men for the Continental Army one year and five men for the service at Rhode Island six months." August 30, 1779. — It was "voted that a hundred dollars a month be given nine men tn ser\e as sdldiers at rurtsmouth, &C., including what tiie State is to pay them." June 26, 1780. — It was "voted that the Selectmen be a committee for the purpose of getting eight men for the Continental Service on the best terms they can." July 4, 17S0. — It was "voted that the Selectmen with the two Captains of the Companies in Do\er be a committee to get our quota of militia men for the Continental service." January 22, 1781. — It was "voted that Mr. Andrew Torr, Capt. John Gage, and Maj. Benja Titcomb be a committee to get the proportion of men wanting from this town to fill up and complete the Continental Army in the cheapest and most expeditious manner possilile." March 5, 1781. — It was "voted that each Recruit from this Town as their quota of men for completing the Continental Army have and receive as wages fourteen busliels of Indian Corn per month during their stay in service, and that the Selectmen give their security for the payment of the same accord- ingly." July 16, 1781. — On the petition of Capt. Thomas Young and Capt. James Calef. stating that they had been "ordered by Col. Stephen Evans without loss of time to enlist or draft fourteen able bodied effective men to serve three months if not sooner discharged, where\-er the commander in chief shall order as soldiers," it was "voted that Capt. Young and Capt. Calef be a committee to raise the 14 men required, and that they give thirty shillings 11)0 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY silver money to eacli man tliat enlists, which they sliall have whether called on to go into senice or not, and when they march each man shall receive thirty shillings more like money." September 19, 1781. — At a town meeting held for raising soldiers, it was "voted that nine men now to be raised for three months be given ten silver dollars each as bounty and paid fourteen bushels of merchantable Indian corn per month by the town in January, 1782."" After this date we find no record of any further proceedings in relation to the war. The capture of Fort William and Mary, December 14, 1774, largely by men from Durham, intensified the struggle. Of the men concerned in it promi- nently were Sullivan, Adams. Scammel, and others. The then Governor, John Wentworth, the best of all the royal Governors of that day, descended from that William Wentworth who was elder of the Dover First Church, and of the same blood with that Earl of Strafford who was beheaded in the time of the first Charles, and with the British premier, the Marquis of Rockingham, soon sailed away never again to set foot upon his native soil. John Langdon, after gallant service in the war and priceless service in its civil support, became Governor and the first president of the Senate of the United States. John Sullivan, then a lawyer in Durham, was son of that John Sullivan who was once schoolmaster of the town of Dover, and who was the father of Governors, and was born on Dover side of the Salmon Falls. To him the refugee Livius wrote from Montreal in 1777 urging his return to the royal cause, promising him particular reward, and saying, "You were the first man in active rebellion," and Livius had fled from Portsmouth. Sullivan became major-general and Governor of his State. Winborn Adams, also of Dover blood, was lieutenant-colonel when he met his death at Stillwater. Alexander Scammel, of that Durham party, was adjutant-general of the army when he fell at Yorktown. Demeritt, Griffin, Bennett, Chesley, Noble, and Durgin of that expedition all did service in the army of the Revolution. When news came of the slaughter at Concord. Mass., New Hampshire was aroused. Men collected from every quarter. "It is surprising," wrote Col. John Wentworth, April 25th, "to see the number who collected. Some came to Dover, twenty miles or more." Shadrach Hodgdon and Stephen Evans represented Dover in the convention of the "Friends of Liberty," which met at Exeter on the 13th of May. That convention voted to raise two thousand men, and to accept those who had already hurried to the field. Three regi- ments were raised. Stark"s and Reid's had the glory of fighting at Bunker Hill. The other, the Second, Colonel Poor's, was largely on duty on the coast, from Odiorne's Point to the Merrimac. Most of the Dover soldiers were in that Second, but there were scattering recruits in the Third certainly. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 191 In the Second was the company of Capt. W'inborn Adams, — John Griffin, first lieutenant ; Zebulon Drew, second lieutenant, — from Durham, which was at Bunker Hill. In the same regiment was Capt. Jonathan Wentworth, "old Colonel Jonathan," of Rollinsford; James Carr, first lieutenant; Jethro Heard, second lieutenant. He made a forced march of sixty-two miles pre\'ious to the battle of Bunker Hill, and arrived in Chelsea on that morning, but could not cross the river on account of the enemy, and went round Ijy way of Medfurd. Jonathan Wentworth was adjutant of Colonel Evans' regiment at the capture of Burgo_ync. and in 1778 was on the staff of Sullivan with the rank of lieu- tenant-colonel. His posterity are here. He had two brothers in ser\ice, one of whom died in the army. In the Third Regiment was Ezra Green, its sur- geon, well known to nian\- !i\iug, w hu had passed his hundred years when he died in Dover. He served on land until 1778, and then sailed with John Paul Jones, and was surgeon of the Ranger in its great battle. Immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill reinforcements went forward. I find in Bel- knap's diary, on the second day after the battle, "Benj. Titcomb's co. marched from here." This was that Benjamin Titcomb, brother of old Colonel John, who afterwards became lieutenant-colonel, and one of the most gallant men in the army. Though se\erely wounded in three different battles he served through the war, and ended his days here at his house by Dunn's bridge. His descendants are still in Dover. With him in 1775 was his first lieutenant, Frederick Mordantt Bell, who, a captain in 1777, was mortally wounded at Stillwater. His granddaughter is still here. Ephraim Evans was second lieutenant in the same company. 1 he present Dover also raised at once another company, — John Waldron, captain ; Timothy Roberts, first lieuten- ant ; Paul Welland, second lieutenant ; John Heard, ensign, — and sent it to Cambridge, mustered in July 3, 1775. In 1775 the six towns which composed ancient Dover had, between the ages of sixteen and fifty, 1,070 men, including the sick, the feeble, the exempt, and the sailors off at sea. Of this numlier, in the early autumn of that year, 150, or nearly one-seventh of the whole, had shoul- _ dered the musket and were actually in the field. It was evidence of the same alacrity which caused New Hampshire to furnish more than half the men who fought the battle of Bunker Hill, at the very gates of Boston. Washington made an urgent appeal to New Hampshire for men. and Sul- livan added his influence. Thirty-one companies \-oIunteered and marched to Cambridge. In this force were the companies of Elijah Dinsmore, of Lee; Alpheus Chesley, of Durham; Moses Yeaton, of Somersworth; and John Waldron, of Dover. In December, 1775, New Hampshire had in the field over five thousand men ! John Waldron w as in ser\ice when the exigency arose. He came home to Dover to raise recruits. Of his own company, Ebenezer Ricker was first lieutenant, and John Goodwin was second lieuten- 11 192 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY ant. Tradition has tulJ us that in four days he and his selected officers enHsted in this vicinity 700 men, which he commanded as colonel. The roster does not appear on our adjutant-general's books, and we had there- fore doubted the truth of his colonelcy; but documents recently produced show him at Cambridge the next spring, in command of his regiment, and with the missing roster. The energetic Col. John Walderne lived where the late Taylor Page lived, above Garrison Hill. The son of Harrison Haley, of this city, is the grandson of the colonel's grandson. An entry in Belknap's diarj' says: "Dec. 9, 1775, dined at Capt. John W'aldron's, and prayed in the companies." The companies of the upper vicinity were, therefore, camped at Walderne's. The fathers pitched their tents there, on that high ground looking down into Dover. They saw then but one spire, if the parish church had one. They looked down on a few score of houses. "Route step, march !" As they obeyed, with flint-lock guns at a shoulder and powder-horns by their side, they passed beautiful Garrison Hill and its few houses, and the spot where Heard's garrison had stood out against the sagaves eighty-six years before, almost as lonely as then. From that spot they found no houses till the site of Otis' garrison, the scene of barbarous slaughter in 1689. And next was the then elegant mansion of the soldier of Louisburg, Thomas West- brook Walderne. They crossed the then new upper bridge (no historian tells us whether its piers were of faced stone or of crib-work), and they saw only a grist mill and a sawmill on the dam which then fretted the waters of the Cochecho. They passed over a hill in front of the place where Varney's block now stands, and saw one house high up on the side of the road, where Coffin's garrison had once fallen. Crossing the gully, they must have stopped in front of the first house reached, that of John Wentworth, Jr., that old house still standing next south of the Belknap church, and saluted the youth- ful patriot lawyer, whose heart was alive in the cause. Then the houses became more plentiful, and they passed in front of the Dover hotel, then in its early prosperity, and so went on the Durham road and on to the siege of Boston. It is not the purpose to follow the history of the seven years' struggle. With the statement that the towns which made ancient Do\-er did their full share, we can barely mention the names of a few others who did serxice. We see the name of Hercules Mooney, of Lee. He had been a captain under Colonel Meserve. in 1757. In \"-j he was lieutenant-colonel in Colonel Long's regiment, at Ticonderoga, and in 1779 was colonel, and commanded a regiment. In Colonel Long's regiment was also Lieut. Samuel Stackpole, also at Ticonderoga, and later under Washington farther south. Dr. Paul A. Stackpole, of this city, is his grandson. In September. 1776, Col. Thomas Tash, the old French war soldier, led a regiment to reinforce the Con- tinental armv, which with others joined Washington in Pennsylvania, and A\D R[iPRESENT.\TI\E CITIZENS 193 was at Trentun and Princeton. Joseph Smith was his adjutant, and Jon- athan Chesley his quarterniaster. Timothy White, who had been at the cap- ture of Louisburg, was quartermaster of Col. Joshua Wingate's regiment, raised for Canatla, but which joined the Northern army in New York. Hon. John H. White, late of tliis city, was Timothy White's grandson. Dr. Samuel Wiggleswath was surgeon of that regiment. Lieut. Enoch Chase, of Dover, was with Winljorn Adams and Benjamin Titcomb and Frederick M. BeU. and was in the Burgoyne campaign. He was captain in 1780 and 1 78 1. Mrs. J. 1]. H. Odiorne is his granddaughter. In Moses Yeaton's com- pany, in 1775, was Lieut. Samuel Wahingford. He was captain in Colonel Oilman's regiment in 1776 (James Nute his first lieutenant), and was lieu- tenant of marines on Jones' "Ranger" in 177S, when he fell in its action with the "Drake." Col. Stephen Evans, a soldier at the capture of Louisburg, com- manded a regiment at the capture of Burgoyne. He was a colonel on the staff of General Whipple in 1778. He lived to a ripe old age, and his descendants are in Dover. Alpheus Chesley was lieutenant-colonel in Col. Walderne's regiment in 1776, and Jonathan Chesley was quartermaster under Colonel Wingate in 1778. William Twombly was ensign in Colonel Reid's regiment in 1777 and later. Numerous descendants are still here. Of the Dover com- pany in Colonel Evans' regiment in the Burgoyne campaign, James Libby was captain; Joshua Roberts, first lieutenant; Nathan Horn, second lieutenant; and Francis Warren, ensign. The records of others, and of the rank and file from Dover in the war, have not been preserved, nor the record of the sailors who went from Dover. Of these it can only be said that the large number of volunteers from Dover proved worthy of their descent from the hardy emigrants who came from the maritime counties of England. CHAPTER X\TI HISTORY OF DOVER (XHI) THE CIVIL WAR In the evening of the President's tirst caH the citizens of Dover met in the city hah. The mayor, Alphonso Bickford, presided. The first two speakers were Jolni P. Hale and Joseph H. Smith, both recognized as leaders in the opposing pohtical parties. The resohitions, introduced by Hon. Charles W. Woodman, and unanimously adopted, were these : "Whereas the authority of the Federal Government of the United States has been denied, the Flag of the country fired upon, and the forts, arsenals, and other public property seized, and a series of outrages and wrongs perpe- trated for months upon the Government, whose forbearance had been received as proof of pusillanimity, till open and flagrant war has been wantonly and causelessly waged upon the goxernment and people of the United States, and the President has been forced to appeal to the People to maintain by force the honor, dignity, and continued existence of the Government they have established ; therefore "Resolved, In answer to said appeal of the President, that we, the citizens of Dover, feeling that our country is above party, hereby pledge ourselves to sustain the administration of the General Government in the manly and patriotic position assumed by the President in his recent proclamation, and that we cheerfully and readily tender to the Governor of this State, and through him to the President of the United States, our full proportion of such volunteer force as may be required of this State. "Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed at this meeting to obtain the names of at least one hundred men. who will hold themselves ready at the shortest notice to march wherever the demands of the country and tlie order of the government shall require." On Wednesday, the 17th, by authority of the Governor of this State, George W. Colbath opened a recruiting office in our city hall. On Thursday he informed the Governor that the first company was full. He was directed to proceed with enlistments. On the next Monday one hundred and fifty men were on the muster roll. On the i8th of April the city councils voted to raise the flag upon the city 194 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 195 hall, to give the hall for a drill-room, and unaniniDusly determined to assist the families of the soldiers in the following terms, — the beginning of aid cheerfully given for years : "Whereas civil war has been inaugurated, our glorious Union assailed, and our institutions endangered ; and "Whereas our fellow-citizens promptly and cheerfully answered to the call of the government for aid in this its hour of peril; therefore "Resolved, By the City Council of the city of Dover that the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be needed, be and hereby is appropriated for the benefits and wants of the families of those who have responded or shall respond to the call of the country for the support of the Constitution and Laws." On the 23d the members of the Strafford Medical Association resident in Dover issued an offer to give their professional services gratuitously to those families; the first signature on the list appropriately l>eing that of a distin- guished fellow citizen, Xoah Martin, a former Governor of this State. In the 26th one counted the flags that were floating in the air. There were forty of them from the houses in our streets: "Forty flags with their silver stars. Forty flags with their crimson bars." On Monday, the 29th, the first two companies were to leave home, to become Companies A and B of the First New Hampshire. On the day before they had listened to a stirring sermon in the old First Church from a suc- cessor of that minister who had i)reached to the soldiers here on the same spot as they were to take up their march for Cambridge in 177s. .-^t 10 o'clock, Monday morning, they were in line in Central sc]uare, 145 men in the ranks. Four thousand people witnessed the scene. — in the streets, from windows, from balconies, from the house-tops. The women had been work- ing day by day to supply needed clothing, some of them whose tears dropped as they sewed. Prayer was offered by one who soon after himself went to serve in the war vessels, — Rev. T. G. Salter. A third company was meanwhile formed from the excess of enlistments. Orders now came, however, to receive only those who would enlist for three years. On the nth of May the choice was given to each, — three years or to be discharged. Seventy-one on that day chose the three years, and five days afterwards the number was one hundred and four. On the 25th, that company left the city to become Company D in that gallant Second New Hampshire. Of how many men this city furnished during the four years that followed the record is not perfect. Even in the imperfect rolls there were Dover men in each of the first fifteen regiments and in the Eighteenth, in the cavalry, the 196 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY navy, and the marine corps. From the call of July _', 1862, 582 names are on record. Prior to that were all the first men of the first eight regiments, and of the sailors entering the navy before that date which should be added. Some examination of the rolls shows that more than eight hundred enlist- ments were made by this city of 8,500 inhabitants. This tells nothing of the sacrifices made. But of the number in gave their lives to their country. The slain alone fell at Fair Oaks, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg, at Cold Harbor, and Burnside's Mine, and Deep Bottom, and Bernuida Hundreds, in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, and Weldon Rail- road, and Petersburg, at Pocotaligo, and James Island and Wagner, and Port Hudson. Dover men served in the Shenandoah and in the first disastrous march to Bull Run ; they were in the Peninsula battles and marches ; in the second battles before Washington ; in the bloody charge at Antietam bridge. They were in the charge up the heights of St. Mary's. They were in the burning woods of Chancellorsville. They were where Lee hurled his legions against Cemetery Hill ; in the long and bloody march from the Wilderness to Peters- burg. They were in North Carolina, where the "swamp-angel" hurled death into Charleston, and on Florida rivers. They were with Burnside in Ten- nessee, and with Sherman back of Vicksburg. And they sailed the coast, and watched the harbors, and manned the war boats on the Mississippi. The following is a list of soldiers from Dover who were killed or died in service during the War of the Rebellion : Abbott, Orrin S. Abbott, Philbrick R. Babb, Henry. Ball, Joseph H. Bateman, William. Bennett, George P. Berry, Charles A. Blaisdell, David L. Brook.s, William H. Brown, Charles H. Brown, James M. Brown, Nathaniel. Bryant, Perley B. Biince, Eli. Buzzcll, A. J. H. Carney, Martin. Carpenter, Samuel. Carrill, Edward. Carter, Charles A. Chadwick, Charles E. Chase, Algernon F. Cole, Jeremiah. Conway, Thomas. Cook, Benjamin F. Cotter, James. Cousins, Charles E. Davis, William H. DeCater, William. Dennis, Joseph V. Drew, Andrew T. Drew, John S. Drew, Joseph. Emerson, Henry H. Emery, George W. Faxon, George K. Fisher, John C. Fitzgerald, John J. Flanders. Charles H. Foss, David H. Franklin, James W. Frye, .Augustus. Frye, Charles A. Gase, George F. Glidden, Benjamin F. Gray, Joshua B. Greene, Willis. Hackett, William H. Hanscom, Oliver P. Hanson, Benjamin. Hanson, William E. Harding, John F. Hartford, Joseph L. Hawkins, John D. Hawkins, William H. Hayes, David C. Heath, George W. Henderson, Thomas A. Hobbs, Nathaniel P. Holt, Benjamin F. Home, Gustavus P. Kellcy, Moses R. Kimball, Charles B. Knott, James. Knox, Charles A. McDate, Patrick. McDate, Joseph. McDule, Hugh. McKenna, James. McKone, James. McKone. Michael. Merrill, John Jr. Otis, William. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 197 Patterson, John H. Paul, George \V. Perkins, Daniel L. Perkins, James. Pinkliam. John .S. Pinkham, William W. Place, James G, K. Place, John H. Printy, Edwaid. Quimby, Joseph C. Rand, Jolin T. Roberts, Charles P. Roberts, Geor"c W. Roberts, John. Rogers, Charles F. Robinson. William A. Rothwell, Eleazer. Rovve, Steplien. Sawyer, Charles W. Seavey, Charles H. Shaw, William. Smith, Daniel. Smith, Charles Herbert. Smith, John H. Snell, Albert F, Sncll, William 1 1. Steele, George H. Swain, Truman C. Thompson, Samuel. Tompkins, Charles R. Webster, Samuel. Wallace, Sylvester B. Welch, John. Wentworth, George G Whitehouse, Alfred. Whyte, Andrew. Willey. George W. York, George. York, Josiah. The above is the list as corrected for the soldiers, monument of those who were killed or died in the service during the Rebellion. A soldiers' monument was erected in the Pine Hill burying-ground by Charles W. Sawyer Post, G. A. R., and dedicated September 17, 1877. Ben- jamin F. Prescott, Governor of the State, made the opening address, and the oration given by Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, D. D., former chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. S. H. Foye, mayor, was presi- dent of the day. MILITARY RECORD, 1861-65 The following list embraces, so far as we know, the names of all the citizens of Dover who now are or have been since the commencement of the war in the military or naval service of the United States. The record has been corrected from the list prepared by the city clerk, and is as correct as time and circumstances permitted. FIRST KEGIMENT NEW HAMFSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three months. Mustered into service May I, 1861. Left Concord May 25, 1861.) Colonel, Mason W. Tappan, Bradford. Company A. George W. Colbath, Jst lieut. Oliver M. Clark, 2d lieut. Ayer, Erastus M. Ashton, James H., reenlisted in the navy. Cocliran, Adam, reenlisted in N. E. Cavalry. Daniels, Charles. Dame, John S. Foot, George E., reenlisted in nth Regt., Co. K. Bickford, Joseph C, reenlisted in "th Regt., Gordon, Eben. Gleason, James. Co. F. Goodwin, Samuel H., reenlisted in N. E. Brown, Enoch G., reenlisted in 17th Regt., Cavalry. regular army. Guppy, George N., reenlisted in navy. Chase, George H., reenlisted in sharpshnot- Giles, Charles P. ers. Hartford, George, reenlisted in 7th Regt., Corson, Martin V. B., reenlisted in 4th Regt.. Co. F. Co. A. Haines, David. Hanscom, S. O. 198 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Hogan. \Viiliam H. Rollins, Diaries L, Kenniston. Samuel F.. reenlistcd in jth Reirt , Roberts. John H., reenlisted in 4th Regt. Co. F. Co. A. Knox, Charles H., drowned at New York on Richards, P. B. his return home with his regiment. Smith. Charles F., reenlisted in cavalry. Kimball, Edw-ard L.. reenlistcd in cavalry. Steele, Thomas M., reenlisted in navy. Kimball, Orrin. Lane. Joseph, reenlisted in 4th Regt., Co. A. Mudgctt. Jacob H., reenlisted in Mass. Sharp- shooters. Meadcr, Thomas F. iMeserve, George H. O'Brien, Owen. I'erkins, Martin V. B., reenlisted in 7th Regt., Co. F. Philbrick, Ivorv F.., reenlisted in N. E. Cav- airy. Place, John \V.. reenlisted in 7th Regt., Co. F. Perkins. Samuel, reenlisted in 7th Regt. Co. I. Shapley, Martin L., reenlisted in 4th Regt. Co. G. Tompkins. Charles R., reenlisted in nth Regt. Co. K. Varney, Shubael. Whitehouse, George VV., reenlisted in 4th Regt. Co. G. Welsh, John, reenlisted in 5th Regt. Co. D. Woodes. James M. \N'iggin. Harvey F., reenlisted in 4th Regt. Co. A. York, James G., reenlisted in 7th Regt. Co. F. Company B. Charles W. Sawyer, 1st lient. Hall, Stephen T., reenlisted in 4th Regt, Jasper G. Wallace, 2d lieut. Co. A. Brvant, Perlev I!., reenksted in 7th Regt. Lord, Horace W., reenlisted in 8th Regt, Co. T. ' Co. G. Dame, Benjamin F. Legg, Lucien B., Jr., reenlisted in 4th Regt. Dixon, James W. Co. G. Dame, James C. Lewis, John C. Emery, George W., reenlistcd in 9th Regt. Law, Thomas, reenlisted in 7th Regt. Co. F. Qq j5 Merrick. Stephen W. Foff Tohn M Keay, William H., reenlisted in 6th Regt, Foss, David Ik, reenlisted in 7th Regt. Co. F", '"'' Grant, Lncien II., reenlisted in 7th Regt. Co. F. Hanson. William F.,, reenli-.lcd in 6tli Regt. Co. H. Hanson, Harrisfm, reenlisted in 7lh Regt. Co. F. He.itli. .\liin?o, reenlisted in Q'.h Regt. Co. 1). Rogers. Charles F., reenlisted in 5th Regt. Co. D. Rowe, Stephen, reenlisted in 7th Regt. Co F. Randall, Jeremiah D. Waldron, Jnhn B., reenlisted in 6th Regt. Co. H. Wentwiirth, Clark-, reenlisted in regular army, 17th Regt. Hawkins, William H., reenlisted in 7th Regt. Webster, Samuel, reenksted in 7th Regt. Co. L Co. F. SECOND REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (I'"ur three years. Mustered into service June 8, 1861, left Portsmouth June 20, 18111.) Colonel, Oilman Marston, Exeter. CuMrANv D. Hiram Collins, capt., wounded at Bull Run Roberts, George W., 1st lieut. Co. C. July 21, 186 1. Abbott, Alexander L., discharged and reen- Samuel P. Sayles, ist lieut.; wounded at listed. Glendale June 30, 1862, capt. Ashton, Benjamin F., Co. K; captured at Parmenter, Warren H., 2d lieut.; res. July Williamsburg; exchanged. 8, 1862. Chadbourne, Moses C. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 199 Chadwick, Luther VV., discliarged July, lS6i, for disability. Colby, Moses J., discharged for disability. Davis, James, wounded at Williamsburg. Downs, Calvin C. Drew, Daniel L. Durgin, John H. Drew, Martin V. B., discharged July, iS6i ; reenlisted in 6th Regt. Co. H. Emerson Henry H., captured at Dull Run July 21, i86i ; e.xchanged ; reenlisted in loth Regt.. Co. I. Goodwin, Ezra C, wounded at Bull Run Aug. 2g, 1862. Gerrish. Benjamin 1". Hall, Isaac G. Jenness, Henry O., wounded at Williams- burg May S, 1862. Kane, Peter, discharged Jan., 1862, for dis- ability. Lord, John F. Logan, Johnson C, captured at Bull Run Aug. 29, 1862, and exchanged. Labounty, William A., Co. F ; wounded at Bull Run Aug. 29, 1862, and died. McCabe, John. Otis, John H. Roberts, Charles P., wounded at Bull Run Aug. 29. iSt'12; died. Soesman, Flavins A., Co. B; wounded at F'air OaUs June 25, 18(12. Shepherd, J. Thompson, James A. Tash, Edwin S., discharged July 16, 1861, for disability. Watson. Charles E. THIRD REGIMENT NEW H.X.MPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Concord Sept. 3, 1861.) Colonel, Enoch Q. Fellows, Sandwich. Surgeon, .Andrew J. II. Buzze Israel B. Littlefield, capt., res. April I, 1862. Welbee J. Butterfield, ist lieut., res. March 6, 1863. Allen, Charles H. Brown, Charles H. Bolo, George N. Burns, Charles M. Ball, Joseph H. Cassidy, James. Campbell, Nathaniel J. C0MP.\NY K. Davis, Henry S. Dustin, Adrian C. Estes, Leonard. Edgerly, Jonathan H. Farrill. Thomas. Fitzgerald, John J. I'rye, Augustus. Houston, Harrison. Hanlan, Joseph. Hall, Edwin F. Judkins, Henry. Lock, John C. McLain, Hugh. C)'Connell. Timothy, Co. C. Parkinson, John W. Place, John. Rahill, James H. Sherry, Patrick. Stokes, Benjamin. Warren, p'rederick A. W arren, Paul C. Charles W. Sawyer, capt. Jasper G. Wallace, 1st lieut. Harvey F. Wiggin, 1st lieut Co. I. Bolo, Andrew J. Bateman, Richard W. Bean, Levi. Brooks, William H., Co. G. Clay, Charles H. Carter, Charles A. Carroll. Edward. Cole, Jeremiah. Corson, Martin V. B. Durgin, George W. Fall, John J. FOURTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOI.trNTEERS (For three years. Left M.anchester Sept. 7, 1S61.) Colonel, Thomas J. Whipple, Laconia. COJIPANV .'\. h'rost. David D. Gage, George F. Hayes, David C. Hail, Stephen T. Hughes, John. Hughes, Barnard. Jackson, John. Lord, John A. Lane, Joseph. Legg. Lucien B., Jr. McGuinness, John, Jr. Mullen, John. McGaw, Michael. McDade, Joseph. Osgood, James Y. Ouimby, John W. Roberts, John H. Rose, Joseph b". Ricker, Oliver P. Shapleigh. Martin L. Shakley, George. Tibbetts, George W. Wallace. Nelson J. Whitehouse, George W. Welsh, James. Watson, John L. Wendell, David A. Wentworth, John A. Watson. Barnard F. 200 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY FIFTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Concord Oct. 29, 1861.) Colonel, Edward E. Cross, Lancaster. Avery, Edgar. Bliss, Charles. Boulter, Joseph B. Church, Charles, discharged Aug. 6, 1862, for disability. Edgerly, Charles R., dis- charged May 14, 1862, for disability. Foss, Joel S., discharged Oct., 1862, for disability. Gilpatrick, Reuben E. Gale. William. Hawkins, John D., died Jan. 7, 1862. C0MP.\NY D. Ivirs, William. Leighton, Samuel R. McCone, John. McCone, James. Mitchell, Andrew J., charged. Murrill, John, April, 1862. Mulligan, Martin. Murphy, Peter. Newell, Charles H. Otis, William L. Peavey, John. Pinkham, Andrew J Reynolds, Andrew T. Rogers, Geo. F. Rhines, John. Rothwell, Jerry, dis- Ryan, John. Wentworth, George G., died Jr., died July 14. 1862. Welch, John, wounded at Fred- ericksburg and died. Wliitehouse, Joseph H. SIXTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Keene Dec. 25. 1861.) Colonel, Simon G. Grififin. Abbott. Philbrick R. Adams, Jno. T., Co. D. Bolo, John W. Bodwell, Charles A. Drew, Martin V., charged for disability. Drew, .Andrew J. Garrity, John. dis- Company H. Fountain, Joseph. Hanson, William E. Hersoni, Oliver, Jr. Hanson, George W. Hussey. George W. Hussey, John W. Knott, Thomas. Keay, William H. McKenna, James. McCone, James. McSoley, Patrick. Pinkham, John H. Varney, James R. Varney, George W. Waldron, John B. Whittier, Osgood T. SEVENTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Manchester Jan. 14, 1862.) Colonel, H. S. Putnam, Cornish. Adjutant, Thomas A. Henderson. Major, Daniel Smith, died August, 1S62. Quartermaster, George S. Hanson. Augustus W. Rollings, cap- tain. Oliver M. Clark, ist lieut. Leander Fogg, ist lieut., Co. K. Perley B. Brvant, 2d lieut., Co. I. .A.ustin, Jacob K. Bickford, Joseph C. Baker. John C. Butler, Edwin C. Brown. John B. Buzzell, George E. Brown, Patrick. Company F. Bradford. Francis L Bedell, Ivory. Blake, Aaron H. Bunce, George. Card, Sylvester. Cilley, Benjamin F. Cousins. Charles E. Clark, William, Jr. Claridge, Ira. Chadwick, Charles E. Caverno, Michael. Curtis, Francis. Gate, Nathaniel S. Cook, George W. Carpenter, Samuel C. Cook, Benjamin F. Cotton, James. Dearborn, Wyman, discharged for disaliility. Decatur, William. Dudley, George W. Dunn, Frank. Evans, Josiah. Foss, David H. Felker, Jonathan K. Keenan, Peter. Kimball, James. Kimball, James A. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 201 Knox, Erastus. Law, Thomas. Lord, Charles F. Libbey, James H. Littlelield, Rufus C. Meader, John F. ]\IcDual, Hugh. McCody, Patrick. McKanna, Micliael. McKone, Michael. i\Ieader, Thomas F. Otis, John C. Perkins, James. Petty, Richard R. Pinkham, Henry A. Patterson. John H. Perkins, Samuel. Perkins, Martin V. B. Pickering, Levi. Place, John W. Roberts, George. Rand, John T. Riley, James. Roberts, John. Ripley, George H. Foss, Moses W. Finnegan, James. Farrall, Thomas E. Foss, Drew. Fisher, John. Gibbs, John F. Gray, William H. Green, Willis C. Goodwin, Nathaniel. Grant. Henry. Gray, Solomon S. Grant, Charles. Guppy. Langdon. Grant, Lucien. Hall, Henry. Hewes, Andrew J. Harltford, George. Hill, Moses C. Hemenway, Albert. Hughes, Patrick R. Hanson, Harrison. Haughey, Patrick. Haughey, John, Jr. Holt, Joseph N. Hanson, George W. Hobbs, Nathaniel P. Jcnness, George W. Kimball, Charles B. Kelley, Moses R. Kenniston, Franklin. Kenniston. Samuel D. Kimball, Orin. Rowc. Stephen. Rahill, Michael. Robinson, Elbridge G. Ring, Ihomas. Stackpole, George K. Stackpole, Charles. Stackpole. Josiah. Smith, John H. Smith, Charles W. Smith, David D. Snell, Albert F. Shaw, William. Snell, Seth. Thompson, Samuel. Thayer, William F. Worcester, Albert. Whitehead, John. Warren, Edwin F. Wentvvorth. Charles H. Wentvvorth, Ephraim. Willey, James. Willey, George W. Wentworth, Ezekiel. Webster, Samuel. Wiggin, J. Munroe. York, George H. York, James G. York, Josiah. EIGHTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Manchester Jan. 25, 1862.) Colonel, Hawkes Fearing, Jr., Manchester. Company G. Fernald, William H. H. Roberts, Charles A. Walker, Henry. Lord, Horace W. Sawyer, Horatio G. NINTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Concord Aug. 25, 1862.) Colonel, E. Q. Fellows, Sandwich. Chaplain, Edward M. Gushee, Dover. Andrew J. Hough, ist lieu- tenant, subsequently cap- tain and major. Abbott, Orin S. Burley, Charles H. Bunce, Eli. Brewster. William A. Daney, Hiel P. Donovan, John. Emery, George W. Frye, Charles A. Company D. Foster, Charles E. Hall, Charles F. Hall, Stacy W. Heath, Alonzo. Ham, John. Jenness, George. Judge, John. Knott. Edward. Lyons, John. Jr. .McDonald, Patrick. McCooley. Patrick. McCoole, Dennis. McDade, Patrick. Otis, Sylvester. Quimby, Joseph C. Quimby, James M. Roberts, William. Simpkins, Luke. Staples. John W. Towle, Patrick. Vallely, John. Whyte, Andrew. 202 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY TENTH REGIMENT NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Manchester Sept. 22. 1862.) Colonel, Michael T. Donohoe. Richard Cody, ist lieut., signed. James Knott, 2d lieut. Agnew, Heniy. Agnew, Michael. Bodge, Stephen. Berry, Alonzo F. W, Caton, James. Cox, Henry. Card, Joseph. Coin, Patrick. Dobbins, James. Davis, Samuel C. Kmerson. Henry F[. b'isher. Erastiis E. C0MP.\NY \. Follett. James W. Foy, William. Gleason, Andrew. Grimes, Robert. Hughes, John. Hughes, Michael. Kemball, Charles VV'. Littlefield, George W. Lord. Charles A., Co. A. McNally. Dennis. Moor. George. Morgan. John. Morrison, Matthew. Marky, Thomas. McD' nald, James. McCoy. Henry. Murphy, Frank. Pinkham, John S. Printy, Edward. Pinkham, William. Pinkham, John F. Reiishaw, James B. Rogers, Owen. Sullivan, Thomas. Starlin, John. Sullivan, John. .Scully, Dennis. Sheeham, Michael. Tolmy, Nicholas. ELEVENTH RECIME.VT NEW H.^MPSHIPE VOLUNTEERS (For three years. Left Concord Sept. 11, 1S62.) Col. Walter Harriman, Warner Nathaniel Low, Jr., capt. B. Frank Rackley, ist lieut., ri.s. Dec. 2\. 18G2. Henry W. Twombly, 2d lieut., pro. Dec. 24, 1862. Charles E. Everett, 2d lieut., pro. Dec. 24, 1862. .\mazeen, .Abraham, niaisdcll, David L. Boardman, Thomas. Boardman, Thomas W. Brown, Nathaniel. Berry, George G. Babb, John A. Boston, James. Chamberlain, Joseph. Cook, Charles FT. Caswell, George .\. Dame, Joseph. Demeritt. James H. Davis, Willi.im H. Delaney, John W. Dame. Albert W. Everett, Clarendon. Everett, L. Theodore. I'oss, Joshua P.. COMIWNY K. Foot. George E. French, Joseph H. Foxon, George K. Franklin, James W. Flanders. Charles H. Ford, William H. Fernald, John S. P. Ford, Noah P. Goodrich, Charles A. Gray, Joshua B. Gove, Hira'.n. Gould, .'^irthur T. Glidden, Benjamin F., at Falmouth, Dec. 9, Glidden, Henry S. Hill, Charles W. Hartford, Joseph L. Hanson, Enoch T. Howard, William T. Hill, Albert A. Jones, Charles ^L Jenness, Franklin H. Kingsbury, Calvin ?. Lord, Charles E. Moore, Moses H. McGuinness, Patrick. Meader, Jasper Y. Norton, William H. Nason, Reuben, wounded at Fredericksburg, Dec. 1,3, 1862, discharged. Pray, John C, paroled pris- oner at .Ann3polis. Palmer, John G. Robinson, Edward H. Seavey, Henry. Scates, Charles E. Smith, Charles H. died Sawyer, Levi N. 1862 Snell, William H. Spurlin, Charles F. Swain, Truman. Trickey. Nathaniel. Tompkins, Charles R. Tolmy. James. Waterhouse, Charles H. Whidden, Alfred S. Whyte, Andrew, Jr. Whitehouse, Joseph. Webster, Benjamin K Warren, Charles W. Young, Louis A. Young, Jacob N. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 203 TWELFTH REGIMENT NEW HAMrSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. Rust, Charles A.. Co. K. FOURTEENTH REGIMENT NEW H.VMrSHIRE VOLUNTEERS. Hiissey, Albert F., q.m.-sergt. FIFTEENTH REGIMENT NEW H.\M1'SHIKE VOLUNTEERS. (For nine months. Left Concord Ueccmber, 1862.) Colonel, John W. Kingman, Quartermaster, Ira A . Quartermaster's clerk, W. Del- Moody, more Place. Durham. r\ 4. ^ Quartermaster - sergeant, Chaplain. Edwin M. VVeelock. George \V. Hobbs. CoMP.\NY K. John O. Wallingford, ist Buncc, Charles. lieut. Gowen, John. Brown, Enoch. Bennett, Charles W. Clark. William B. Davis, Augustus A. Drew, Joseph. Drew, John S. Giles, Charles P. Conner, Isaiah C. Fuller, Henry F. Gowing, John. SEVENTEENTH REGI.MENT. Gale, Albert. .McCabe, Francis. McCabe. John. Paul, George W. Pinkham, Nathaniel. Sherry, John H. ei(;hteenth rfgiment. Goodwin, James I". 1 lodgdon, Joseph H. Stackpole, Albert F. Smith. John. Sanborn, .Austin, Wentworth, Gcorgi Walker. John. Watson, Isaac. Wentworth, Clark. York, Gilman J. Tebliets, George B. Woods, J. H. C. Whitehouse, Alonzo H. Allen, Charles E. Bean, John. Bean, Jonathan. Bean, Jonath:)n .\r. Cochran, Adam. Coleman, David. Colomy, Daniel, Jr. Carnes, Edward. Corson, Benjamin F. new ENGLAND CAVALRY. Dore, Charles A. Goodwin, Samuel H. Glidden. Charles A. Hill, Lebbeus. Heath, George W. Kimliall, Edward L. Littlefield, Cyrus. Pinkham, Thomas B. Philbrick. Ivory E. Stockl)ridge, Ira. Smith. Charles F. Torrens, James W. Tuttle, John L. Wentworth. Hiram Pray, .'Vndrew. Rotluvell. Eleazer. fourth COMl'ANY HEAVY ARTILLERY. Billings, James H. Brownell, William B. Cole, John W. Colman, Charles. Demeritt, Charles A. Davis, Grandville. Davis, Edgar W. Edgerly, Charles R. Greenhalgh, Timothy. Hughes, James. Hanson, James W. Kingsbury. J.mics A. Libbey, J. T. S., lieut. Merrill, Isaac K. Meserve, John C. Otis, John H. Quinn, Peter. Rollins, George W. Rowe. Jaines. Smith, Wesley M. Smith, Newton C. Smith, William P. Tebbetts, Samuel H. Thayer, W. F., lieut. Towle, Jeremy B. 204 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Berden Sharpshooters. — George H. Chase, Moses P. Moultoti. Andrew Sharpshooters.— j^cob K. Mudgetl. Isaac N. Miidgett, Henry Moulton. ist Mass. Regiment. — John F. Meader, George H. llaiiscom. :2th Mass. Regiment. — John S. Grant. l.3//t Mass. Regiment. — John H. Place, Charles C. Guppy. S. Frank Hartford. jylh Mass. Regiment. — John Tucker. 22d Mass. Regiment. — Edward M. Tucker. 25//1 Mass. Regiment. — Andrew J. Hughes. 28//1 Mass. Regiment. — James JMcCarty. T,Sth Afass. Regiment. — William H. ?Iackett. 6//1 Mass. Battery. — Daniel L. Perkins (died Oct. 16, 1862). 1st Maine Regiment. — John B. Franklin. 31/ Maine Regiment. — Henry Jiidkins. 7//1 Maine Regiment. — Patrick Hughes, Wil- liam A. Robinson. \2th Maine Regiment. — Edward Bearer. i6th Maine Regiment. — John F. Harding. 17//J Maine Regiment. — Joseph Hughes. p'crtnont Regiment. — Alvin Morse. 16//1 Ne:v York Regiment. — Sylvester Ab- bott. S2d New York Regiment. — Patrick Heffer- man. i)i)tJi Pennsyl-~-ania Regiment. — James iVlc- Donald. .V. )'. Battery Light .■()/i7/itv.— Benjamin 1'". Holt. (jIIi Ohio Regiment. — John W. llussey. 5?/j Rcginient E.rcelsior Brigade. — Isaac K. Merrill. Regular .Irmy — 4//; F\egimenl. — John Mullen, George Corson. Invalid Corps. — W. J. Butterfield, Charles Church. Substitute, 1863, M. McDerniott. SulKhysician and surgeon. He not only had great fame as a physician in Dover and the region around here, but was dis- tinguished as the surgeon on tlie first warship that John Paul Jones .sailed from Portsmouth and won such fame in the Revolutionary war. Dr. Green was the first ])OStmaster of Dover, appointed by George Washington, with whom he was personally acquainted. His office was in the Job Burleigh house, on Silver street, near corner of Atkinson street. He lived in the house at the corner of Silver and Belknap streets, where the Misses Richardson lived. He died there in 1847, aged loi years. 210 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Hon. Amirczv Pcirce, merchant, leading business man of Dover for half a century. Held important ofificial position in town and state. First mayor of Dover. 1856. Hon. John P. Hale, lawyer, orator, statesman, United States Senator, ambassador to Spain, cliampion anti-sla\ery ad\ocate. Probably the greatest statesman Dover ever had. Col. Amos Coij.'Ta'iil. who was born in 1752 and died January 28, 1826; served eight years in the army of the Revolution; enlisting as a private soldier in his brother's company, lie came out a major. ^Vfter the war he resided in Dover and for se\eral years was colonel of a battalion of ca\alry. For a luimJjer of years he was member of the state Legislature, both as Represen- tative and Senator, He was one of the most popular business men of Dover for forty years. The house in which he li\ed now stands on the south corner of Angle street and Central avenue, and is well preserved. John Williams was agent for the first cotton factory built in Dover. The corporation organized at a meeting of the proprietors January 19, 1813, at Mrs. Lydia Tibbett's dwelling house on Silver street, at 5 o'clock P. M. That house is now standing, directly opposite Elisha R. Brown's residence. Mr ^Villiams remained connected with the mills here more than a quarter of a century. He built the brick house on Central avenue, known now as the John P. Hale house, and resided there until he removed to Boston about 1840. The first cotton factory was located at the falls two miles up the river, and e\er since known as "Upper Factory." Hon. Thomas E. Sawyer was a noted man in many ways. A lawyer by profession, a politician by instinct and popular with his fellow citizens. He held various town offices. He was first elected Representative in 1832, and again at ten annual elections, the last year being in 1850. Mr. Sawyer was a Whig all those years. In 1851 the ^^ big party nominated him as its candi- date for Governor. In his own town he received 719 votes; Samuel Dins- moor, 472 ; John Atwood, 52. There was no choice by the people, the vote standing Dinsmoor, Democrat, 24,425; Sawyer, Whig, 18,458; Atwood, Free Soil, 12,049. '^'^^- Sawyer was again the Whig nominee for Governor in 1852, and his Democratic opponent was also a Dover man. Dr. Noah Martin. The vote in Dover this year was. Sawyer jz^i,; Martin 491; John Atwood 126. In the state i\Iartin had 30,807; Sawyer, 19,850; x\twood 9,479, and Martin was elected. The political contest in Dover that year was red hot. There was nothing like it until the Civil war l>egan. Mr. Sawyer was member of the school committee more years than any other man who served on the board. The Sawyer grammar school was named for him. Mr. Sawyer was the second mayor of Dover. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 211 Dr. Noah Martin, as above mentioned, was cliosen Governor in 185 1 and 1852. At that time he had been a prominent citizen and successful physician for more than a quarter of a century. He died in 1863. During his active J career he held various positions of trust. lion. William Hair, who was born in Portsmouth in 1764, and died in Dover in 1848. At his death, in his eighty-fourth year, he was Dover's oldest, wealthiest, and most respected citizen. He was Representative in Congress, 1809-1811, and four years, 1813-1817, and at different times filled the offices of Representative. Senator and Councillor under the state government. His Father, Maj. Samuel Hale, commanded a company of Dover soldiers at the siege and capture of Louisburg. CHAPTER XIX HISTORY OF SO.MERSWORTH (I) ORIGIN OF THE NAME In considering the liistory of tlie interesting and enterprising town and city of Somersworth, it seems proper to bear in mind that up to 1754 Somers- worth was a locahty in Dover: furthermore, up to 1849, RolHnsford was Somersworth and its history will be so considered, its individual history beginning only fifty- four years ago. For nearly a century, when the name Dover appears in the records, it means the settlement on and around ^Meeting House Hill, on Dover Neck, as it is now called. All other settlements were simply localities in Dover. For a correct understanding of where land grants were made by the town to individuals, these localities had to have names. The origin of the names of some of these places was somewhat facetious. It was not long after 1637 that they l)egan to come into use. These are samples: Cochecho in Dover: Bloody Point in Dover: Oyster River in Dover: Summersworth in Dover, etc. Of course, the inhabitants not being numerous and the Indians not being specially friendly, the settlers advanced slowly and prudently, for their own sake, into the unbroken wilderness. The first settlements in Somersworth, for these reasons, did not begin until about 1700, and those were along the rivers Newichawannock and the Salmon Falls. And they gave it the local name "Sligo," which it retains to this day. It is said, and no doubt correctly, that some of the earliest settlers there were immigrants from Sligo in Ireland and they gave the name of their old home to the new home on the Newicha- wannock river. Miss Mary P. Thompson, in lier book, "Landmarks in Ancient Dover," says: "The name now given to the district in l-iollinsford. below Ouamphe- gan, appears to have been originally given to the garrison that stood above St. Alban's Cove, not far from the Newichawannock shore." It is men- tioned, March 29. 1708. when Jethro Furber conveyed to Benjamin W'ea- mouth twenty acres of land "at or near a place called Slic/oc'x Garrison, be- tween the highway and the lots formerly David Hamilton's and Nicholas 212 AND REPRESENTATIXE CITIZENS 213 Curren's, fronting on the Newichawannock river, being the lot originally granted to Henry Magoon, who sold it to William Laton, by whom it was sold to Edward Cowell, 'grandfather of the donor.' Richard Hussey, Feb- ruary 25, 1710, conveyed to Benj. Weymouth thirty acres of land 'at a gar- rison called Sligoc' Benj. Weymouth, February i, 17 17, conveyed to Ben- jamin Weymouth. Jr.. thirty acres of land originally granted to Richard Hussey, 'lying and being at a garrison called Sligo,' bounded north by Joseph Roberts' land, east by said Weymouth, south by 'a lott called Carroll's,' and west by the Commons." : The exact site of this garrison is not known, but it is mentioned. May 9, 1709, as on the east side of the highway from St. Alban's Cove to Ouam- phegan, between Lieut. Hatevel Nutter's house and that of Sylvanus Nock. This land is now owned by the Gar\in family. The name of the Sligo gar- rison soon extended to the surrounding district. Eleazer and Sarah Wyer conveyed to Eleazer Wyer, Jr.. September 25. 1738, twenty acres of land, with two dwelling houses and a barn thereon, "at place formerly called Sligo, bounded N. by the land of Sylvanus Nock, E. by the Newichawannock river, and S. and W. by Benj. Weymouth's land. The town of Somersworth voted April 5. 1756. two years after it became a town, that a 'school be kept three months at Sligo.' " Sligo was doubtless so called from the to«n of that name in Ireland, "Sligo town that lies so snug at the foot of Knocknaria." The name is said to be (leri\-ed from the Irish word silgcach, which signifies a shelly river, or a place where shells are deposited. The Sligo garrison is said to have been built by a member of the Stack] )oIe family, a descendant of James Stackpole, the immigrant. The name may have been given out of compliment to the Earl of Bellomont, who was appointed Governor of the Province of New Hampshire in 1699. He was born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1636. Orders from King William were sent to him January 19. 1701, to build such forts at Pascataqua, and elsewhere as were necessary for security [N. H. Prov. Papers, Vol. 3. page 130I. His political and religious principles naturally recom- mended him to the favor of our colonists, and he is said to have been very popular during his short administration. He was the grandson of Sir Charles Coots, a noted ruler in Ireland under the reign of Charles I, and he himself was one of the first to espouse the cause of William of Orange, who rewarded him with the title of earl, and appointed him Governor of New York, Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire. The St. Alban's Cove spoken of in connection with Sligo garrison, is on the \vestern shore of the Newichawannock next below Ouamphegan brails, at South Berwick. The first mention of it on record appears in a grant of the mill privilege on Fresh Creek, February 5, 1652. The name is said to have 214 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTV been given by Judge John Tuttle of Dover, whose father, Julni Tuttle, came from Great St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, England. This is the earhest name of the Cove, and should l)e preserved. .\ later name is Style's Co\e. The first settlement back from the river was at what is now the junction of the Boston & Maine railroad ami tlie branch road from the city of Somers- worth. It began about 1700. It soon grew to a prosperous hamlet. The households were at quite a distance from the meeting house in Dover ; they had to travel down the Newichauannock river in their boats to attend service on the Lord's Day. To save travel it was arranged for the minister of the First Church, or some one of his assistant elders to go there and hold meet- ings in a barn, in warm weather, where all could attend, old and young. As these meetings were held in the summer time, and the lijcalitv had no name, so somebody, perhaps Rev. John I'ike, suggested the name Siiiiiiiic'rszi'orth. According to Dr. Samuel Johnson, whose large dictionary was published in 1755, Siuiniirr is a Saxon word for the warm months of the year, and xvorth, in the termination of the names of places, means a "court or farm, or a street or road." And "court" is defined as "an open space l>efore a house; a small opening enclosed with houses, distinguished from a street." The abo\-e are the meanings (jf the words as those settlers understood tlu- King's English. That is to say, when the Rev. John Pike, minister of the First Church, on Meeting House Hill. Dover, came here to hold meetings in the summer time, in somebody's house or barn, or maybe out of doors, he would say he was going up to Suiiuucrxworth. that is, to Summer-town. Mr. Pike was a graduate of Harvard College ; he knew the English language thoroughly, hence it may be fairly presumed he originated the name as a matter of convenience. However that may be, as to the authorship of the name this little hamlet of A. D. 1700 had grown into a respectable village in 1729 and the inhab- itants addressed the General Court of the Province, asking that their section of the town might be established into a parish for the purpose of organizing a regular all-jear-round church service. The petition is as follows, and shows that the name Sitinnicrsu'orth was then the common and accepted name of the settlement. The result of this petition appears in the following copy from an old book, which has on its cover the words, "summers WORTH RECORD.S" Anno Regni -Regis Georgii secuudi Tertio An Act for setting off the northeast end of the Town of Dover and erecting a Parish by the name of Summersworth. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 215 Whereas tlie northeast eml or part of tlie town of Do\'er is competently filled with Inhabitants who labor nnder great difficnlties by their remoteness from the jilace of public worship, and have thereupon addressed the Court that' they may be set off a distinct Parish and lie vested Powers and Priv- iliges accordingly. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Covernor Council and Repre- sentatives in General Assembly Convened and by the authority of the same that the Northeast part of Do\'er as hereafter is bounded & described be and hereby is sett off a District and Separate Parish by the name of Summersworth. The liound of said Parish to be as follows; (viz.) Beginning at the mouth of Fresh Creek and to run as the creek runs to the way that goes over said creek, or at the head of the creek where the way goes over and from thence as the way now goes to the southerly side of Varney's Hill (Garrison Hill) to Ebenezer V'arney's land, and then to an oak tree over the end of said hill, which is a white oak tree marked, standing aljout two or three rods from a spring, and from thence on a northwest and by north point of the compass to the head of Dover bounds, and that the inhabitants of said lands be vested with all the privile,ges and Powers of a Parish to chuse officers for the well re,gulating of the same, and raise money from time to time for defraying the charges of the minister, school & poor Provided the Inhabitants of the said Parish do within the space of one year from the date of this .\ct, erect and finish a credable house for the Public Worship of God, and procure and settle a learned Orthodo.x Minister of Good Conversation and make 'iroxision for his Comfortable and honourable Support. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that Capt. Paul W'entworth, Mr. Thomas Wallingford & Mr. John Ricker be the first Select- men of said Parish, for the calling and assembling the said Parish in order to chuse the proper Parish officers for the year ensuing. Dec. ig, 1729, Read three times in the House of Representatives & past to be enacted. Theo. Atkinson Speaker pro Temp. Eod. die Read three times at the Council Board and past to be Enacted. Richd \\'aldron Cler. Con. I assent to the Enacting this Bill. J. Wentworth. True Copy Rich. Waldron Cler. Cons. A true entry of the aforegoing Copy per Thomas IMiller, Parish Clerk. This will suffice to show the origin of the name which is unique among all the towns in the United States. There is no other Summersworth or Somersworth, as it is now spelled. It is also peculiarly appropriate. From its magnificent Prospect Hill is presented a beautiful and diversified scenery of mountains, valley and shore. CHAPTER XX HISTORY OF SOMERSWORTH (H) MINISTERS AND THE PARISH In the preceding chapter was given an explanation of the origin of the unique name, Siiiiniwrsicortli, and the act of incorporation of that parish in Dover. The record of the first parish meeting under tiiis act is as follows : To the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Parish of Summersworth : Greeting : These are to give notice of a Parish meeting to be held at the Meeting House in the Parish of Summersworth on Wednesday next, the 7th of this instant January at 10 of the clock before noon to choose Parish officers for the year ensuing as the Law directs, and all persons are desired to give their attendance at that time and place, dated at Summersworth, January Second. January 1729/30. Paul Wentworth Thomas \VALLiNGF0Rn JOHX RiCKER Selectmen. A true entry of the original warrant per Thomas Miller, Par. Cler. At a parish meeting held at the meeting house in Summersworth pursuant to the above warrant on Wednesday. January 7, 1729-30. Paul Wentworth, Esq., Moderator. Doct. Thomas Miller, Parish Clerk; Paul Wentworth, Esq., Thomas Wal- lingford and John Ricker, parish selectmen, and Mr. James Hobbs was chosen collector of the parish assessments. A true entry of the parish officers as they were elected, as attests. Thomas Miller, Parish Clerk. This shows that they had their meeting house nearly completed when the act of incorporation was passed, December 19, 1729: probably it had been 216 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 217 ill use for some time before, but how long before does not appear. The parish officers were elected January 7, and they immediately issued the following notice : To the freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Parish of Summersworth: These are to give notice of a I'arish meeting to be held at the Meeting House in Summersworth on Monday, the 12th of this instant January at ten of the clock before noon to give Mr. James Pike a call to the work of the ministry amongst us and to make him proposals for his settlement therein, and also to choose a committee to wait on him and offer the same for his acceptance, all persons concerned are desired to give their attendance at time and place before mentioned. Summersworth January loth 1729/30. A true entry per Thomas Miller, Par. Cler. Paul Wentworth Jonx Kicker Selectmen. At a parish meeting held at the meeting house in Summersworth in con- formity to the above warrant on Monday, January 12, 1729-30. Paul Wentworth, Esq., was chosen Moderator. Voted that Mr. James Pike be invited to be the settled minister of this parish and be called thereto and that his annual salary be one hundred and thirty pounds — and also twenty acres of land as near the meeting house as it can conveniently be got, to be his forever if he continues the parish minister till his death, and one hundred pounds for his settlement. Also voted that Ensign Jno. Tibbetts, Mr. William Wentworth. Mr. Maurice Hobbs, Mr. Jerem. Rawlings, Mr. Elienezer Wier, Mr. James Guppy. Mr. Samuel Jones, and Mr. Phillip Yeaton, with the present select- men, wait on Mr. James Pike and offer the above proposals to his considera- tion and acceptance and that he be desired to gi\'e his answer in writing as soon as he can with conveniency. It was also \oted at the same meeting that all votes passed, or officers chosen by holding up of the hand, shall be as authentic to the full as if the same were done by writing. A true entry of the parish votes as they were passed in the parish meeting in- mi 111 confradicciito. As attests: Tho.m.ns Milij-:r. Parish Clerk. A list of the persons that voluntarily gave land towards the settlement of a minister in the Parish of Summersworth, as they gave the same on Wednes- day, January 7, 1729-30, each man one acre: Paul Wentworth, Esq., Mr. Jeremiah Rawlings, Mr. Thomas Downs, Mr. Lo\e Roberts, Mr. Thomas 218 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Nock, .Mr. Saimicl Ivandlu, .Mr. TIidiikis Wallingford, Mr. Joscpli Kicker, Mr. Zachariah Xnck. Mr. Siixanus Xock, Mr. Gersliom Weiitworth, Mr. John kicker, Mr. I'.enjainin Tv, uiiilily. Following is Mr. Pike's response to the committee that was appointed to wait on him and inform him of the action of the parish. The parish clerk's record says that at the parish meeting March 9, 1730: Mr, James Pike, appearing personally at the meeting, desired that at the expiration of two years he may have sixteen or twenty cord of good firewood to be hauled to his door to be added to his salary. Unanimously voted that Mr. James Pike shall have ten cord of wood to be hauled to his door for the first two years, and after his ordination twenty cord yearly to be hauled to his door, the whole time of his being the parish minister. Mr. Pike also desired that there be an alteration of the vote passed Janu- ary 12, 1729-30, whereby twenty acres of land was given him to be given him forever if he continues the parish minister till his death. Voted that the beforementioned \ote run thus — and twenty acres of land as near the meeting house as it can conveniently be got to be Mr. James Pike's forever, but if he leave the people on his own default, or without a sufficient reason, then the said land is to return to the parish. With the additional vote of the firewood and the alteration of the vote of January 12, last, IMr. James Pike did z'iz'a voce in the parish meeting ac- cept of the call from this parish. At the same meeting a committee was appointed "to agree with a man or men to build the stairs and seats in the upper part of the meeting house and also to set a valuation on the places for pews and make report thereof to the parish for confirmation," The record contains : A list of the persons to whom tlie privilege for pews belong as they were drawn by lot on March 17, 1729-30. Number i Phillip Yeaton 2 Samuel Randle 3 Jeremiah Rawlings 4 Gershom W'entwurth 5 Thomas Wallingford 6 Love Roberts 7 Ministerial 8 Joseph Ricker Number 9 Benjamin Twombly 10 Thomas Downs 11 Richard Wentworth 12 John Tibbetts 13 Joshua Roberts 14 Zachariah Nock 15 Paul Wentworth, Esq. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 219 At a town meeting held in tlie meeting house on Pine Hill, Dover, May 4, 1730, it was voted to grant to the Parish of Summersworth "ten acres of land for the settlement of a minister amongst them and twenty acres for a parsonage; if it be found in common within their parish." The land was found and properly laid out by the Dover lot layers. Mr. Pike commenced conducting services at once, but was formally or- dained Octolier 29. 1730, at which time the following clergymen officiated: Rev. Jeremiah Wise of Berwick, Rev. John Tuffts of Newbury, Rev. Jona- than Gushing of Cochecho (in Dover), Rev. Jno. Rogers of Kittery, and Rev. Joseph Adams of Newington, with t\^•o messengers from each of said churches. Mr. Pike was not an unknown preacher in Summersworth before it was set off as a parish ; this fact appears by a \ote at a parish meeting Decem- ber 6, 173.': Voted that Rev. Mr. James Pike have thirty pounds paid him the ensuing year more than his stated salary to make up his former arrearages for his preaching to the people of said parish before his settlement amongst them. It is stated that he began to preach there August ij, 1727, but was not or- dained until three years later. He preachetl his first sermon October 23, 1726: he preached his last one Octoljer 31, 1790, ha\ing Ijeen in continuous service in the ministry sixty-four years. Rev. James Pike was born in Newbury, Mass., March i, 1703; he died at the parsonage in Somersworth March 19, 1792, aged eighty-nine years; he was son of Joseph and Hannah ( Smith ) and grandson of Joseph and Susanna (Kingsbury) Pike, who was son of John Pike, the immigrant who came to Newbury in 1635. Rev. James Pike graduated from Harvard Col- lege in T725, in the same class with Re\'. Dr. Mather Byles of Boston, and Rev. Timothy Walker, first minister of Concord, N. H. Soon after he grad- uated he came to Berw'ick, now South Berwick, and taught the first grammar school ever opened in that town. The next year, 1726, he commenced preach- ing, as opportunity came to hand, and he began in Somersworth in August, 1727. He was a great preacher and a good manager in parish affairs. He had no quarrels with his people. The Congregationalist Journal, puljlishcd at Concord, N. H., January 10, 1850, says: "Near the junction of ( Bostona) Maine and Great Falls Railroad, stands an ancient but well-preserved house with three venerable elms in front. In that house lived and died the first minister of Somers- worth, and these elms were borne from the forest on his shoulder and planted where they stand by his hand." It is of interest to note here that the house was built about 1730, and 220 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY was burned to tlie gromul in 1903, the owner at that time l)eing Judge Robert G. Pike, a great-great grandson of the Rev. James. Two of these ehns are completely gone, but part "{ one still lives, after ha\ing l>een struck by light- ninsT se\eral times, and was somewhat scorched when the house was acci- dentally burned with valuable family heirlooms and things of historical interest. Rev. James Pike married, August 26, 1730, Sarah, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah (Clark) Gilman of Exeter. It is a singular coincidence that they both died on the same day, jNIarch 19, 1792, ha\'ing lived together in married life sixty years. They had a family of se\'en children. The fifth was Nich- olas, born October 6, 1743; graduated from Harvard College, 1766; taught school at York, Me., and afterwards at Newburyport, Mass. In 1788 he pub- lished his arithmetic, which was in use in schools a great many years. The writer of this has one of the copies of the edition of 1788, and it is well preserved. He endowed a scholarship at Andovcr. Mass. Mr. Pike was a justice of the peace for more than fifty years. He was one of the great mathematicians of his age. Amos W. Pike, Esq., a great grandson of the Reverend James, who in- herited and resided at the ancestral homestead, wrote of his ancestor as follow s : "His parish was very large, extending throughout what is Somersworth and Rollinsford, and it was his custom yearly to visit every home in the whole town, of whatever denomination or belief, and to tarry all night with the one at whose doorstep evening found him. The Quakers, so generally disliked at that time, welcomed him with delight, and when the rising sun bade him journey on, the Quaker friend would say, 'r>iend Pike, I thank thee for this \'isit, and am happier for having seen thee.' "The interests of the people were so interwoven with his life and heart that at the time of the Revolutionary war, when want and suftering stared so many in the face, he cut his meagre salary down to the purse of his people, which amounted to the \alue of about eight bushels of corn a year, and during the most trying period he would receive nothing from his parishioners, li\ing upon the income of his own farm, and ministering more, if possible, to the w ants of his people. He was the common scrivener for the whole parish ; when they wanted any legal papers drawn they called on him to write them. Hardly a legal document during that period was made out in any other hand- writing than his own. "When W'hitefield came to this country in 1744 he was the guest of Mr. Pike for several days and preached in the meeting house one Sunday. "A ludicrous instance of his settling a dispute is handed down. He and A\D REPRESENTATI\-E CITIZEXS 221 a brother minister were out walking and came upon two men wlio were fight- ing. The two divines conferred as to the best way to part them and preserve the peace. It was finaUy agreed that each should take one of the coinbatants and bear him away. The Reverend James unclenched his man and carried him off on his shouklers, struggling and kicking, and his brother minister did the same with the other disturber uf the peace. Thus tliey ended the fight. The Rev. James Pike was a very strong, athletic person, and in his full man- hood venerable and imposing. Imbued with a deep piety and a truly Chris- tian spirit, his unselfish nature spent itself in w(.)rking for the welfare of others. Nor did he cease his work until age had laid its blighting force upon his brow, at four score and seven, and the stately form was laid in its final resting place at the age of eighty-nine years. His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Moses Hemmingway, D. D,, from the text, Rev. xi, lo: 'Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.' " Mr. Pike's successor was Rev. Pearson Thurston, who served as minister from February i, 179J, till December 2, 1812. He was a graduate of Dart- mouth College. His successor was Re\-. Luke Spofford, who remained but a short time, when he was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Blodgett. In 1824 Mr. Reu- ben Porter became pastor and served two years, and also preached at the village of Great Falls ; and when the "First Congregational Society of Great Flails" was organized in January, 1827. he was called to be their minister. He accepted the call and served them one year. Mr. Porter was the last regular minister of this first parish church. In 1827 its membership had decreased to five, and in 1829 to two. Preaching in the old meeting house ceased. Business and church centered at Great Falls, in Somersworth. As already stated, the First Congregational Church at Great Falls, con- sisting of eight members, was organized on January 16, 1827. Their first meetings were held in a schoolhouse. Their first minister was Reuben Porter. The next was Rev. Josiah T. Hawes, who served from January, 1828, to January, 1830. The meeting house was built in 1828, and Rev. Dr. I.yman Beecher delivered the dedicatory sermon in August, tliat year. Mr. William Twining succeeded Mr. Hawes as preacher, serving two years, and increased the membership very much. Rev. James A. Smith became the next minister in 1832 and remained four years. Mr. Smith's successor, Avho remained not quite a year, was Rev. Alfred Goldsmith. The Rev. John R. Adams began his labors with the church, as acting pastor, in September, 1838, and remained two years and four months. His successor, Rev. Samuel Beane. was or- dained July 7, 1 84 1 : di.smissed Alay, 1844, The seventh pastor. Rev. lames T. McCallom, was installed October, 1844; dismissed December, 1853. Rev. James B. Thurston was acting pastor during 1844. Rev. George Anthony 222 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY was ordained October 3, 1855, and served until i860. His successor was Rev. Horatio O. Butterfield. who was installed May 2t„ 1861, and served four years. The Rev. Ephraini N. Hidden, the eleventh pastor, was installed January 5, 1865: dismissed December 30, 1869. Twelfth pastor. Rev. Clark Carter, was installed April 27, 1870; dismissed June, 1872. Thirteenth was Re\-. Stephen V,'. Webb, who ser\ed eight years. During his pastorate the meeting house was remodeled and enlarged. In making these changes a pleasant and commodious vestry was furnished. Since that date the church has been supplied with very able pastors and lias flourished to the present time. THE HIGH STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL SOCIETY The High Street Methodist Episcopal Society was organized September 22, 1827, with the following members: Alfred French, Charles Lewis, Moses Bates, David Minor, Simon Hall, Bartlett Hall, Christopher C. Wal- cott, John G. Chase. Thomas T. Edgerly, John Home and George W. Edgerly. The first Methodist sermon preached in what was known as Great Falls, was at the house of Gershom Home in 181 7, by the Rev. John Lord, then laboring on the Rochester circuit, which embraced Dover, Somersworth, Berwick and several other towns. Mr. Home and family at this time were the chief proprietors of the territory that is now occupied by the compact part of the city. In 1825 the Rev. J. N. Mofiitt, pastor at Dover, held occa- sional services here at an unfinished house on Bridge street. The first class was organized in 1826 and consisted of eight persons. The first settled min- ister was the Rev. Giles Campbell, who served the lawful Methodist terms of years and was succeeded by the Rew .\aron D. Sargent, in the beginning of whose ministrv services were first held in an unfinished room in one of the mills, but he was an enthusiastic leader and soon measures were taken for the erection of a meeting house, which was completed and dedicated in Sep- tember, 1828. The dedication sermon was delivered by the Rev. Stephen Martindale of Boston. The society was then in a flourishing condition, and has since then maintained a first class standing among the churches of the Methodist Episcopal Conference of which it is a member. I'^illuwing is a list of ministers who have presided over this church during the first half century of its legal organization: The Reverends Giles Camp- bell. Aaron D. Sargent, Benjamin R. Hoyt, George Storrs, John F. Adams, Daniel S. Robinson, Samuel Morris, Joseph Dearborn, Eleazer Smith, Elihu Scott. James W. Mowry, Daniel S. Robinson, Silas Green, Henry W. Adams, Samuel Kelley, Elisha Adams, Moses Howe, James Pike, Charles N. Smith, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 223 H. H. Hartwell, R. S. Rust, S. Holman, Richard Humphrey, C. S. Harring- ton, A. J. Church, John H. Lord, Charles Young, Daniel C. Babcock, O. H. Jasper, C. U. Dunning, J. W. Adams, H. Woodward, W. E. Bennett and R. L. Green. In this list are the names of some of the most distinguished ministers of New Hampshire during tliat period. 13 CHAPTER XXI HISTORY OF SOMERSWORTH (III) THE TOWN AND THE CITY The first recorded movement toward changing from a parish in Dover to separate town was in December, 1743, when the parish "voted that Thomas WalHngford, Esq., and Mr. Benjamin Mason be agents to prosecute a peti- tion in behalf of the Parish of Summersworth in order that said parish may obtain the benefits and privileges of a town." Nothing came of it, however, and there is no record of any other until that of 1753, which proved to be successful. The last parish meeting was held in 1754, and the end of the record of it has the following: "An end of ye parish Parish Records, 1734." The next page of the same book contains the following words: "The Beginning of Ve Town Records, 1754-" The first entry is the charter of the town ; the people petitioned to have their town named Summersworth, but Theodore Atkinson, the Province Secretary, or some one in authority, in drawing up the bill spelled the name wrong — Som- erszi'orth — the name of the parish was never spelled that way, but always Su)H)ucrszi.'orlIi. The charter is as follows: Anno Regni Georgii Secundi Magnae Britanae Franciae et Hiberniae Vicis- simo Septimo. [L — 8] An act for erecting the Parish of Somersworth in this Province into a Township. Whereas ye Inhabitants of said Parish by their agents have petitioned by the said Parish which was made by an act of Assembly by metes and bound might be made a Tow n by ye same limit & Boundaries of ye Parish represent- ing by it would be of considerable advantage to them and no Detriment to ye Town of Dover of which they are now a Part upon which ye said Town have been heard by their agents & offering no material objection — Be it therefore Enacted by ye Governor and Council and Assembly and by ye authority of the same it is hereby Enacted & ordained Jjy all ye Poles and Estates within ye bounds of said Parish shall be and hereby are severed & separated from ye said Town of Dover and shall not from time forward l^e adjudged & taken for a Part of sd. Town but shall be wholly Exonerated & Exempted of & from all taxes. Charges & Duties within ye same & as a part 224 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 225 of said Tuwn and the said I'oles & Estates are hereby Enacted & Incorporated into a town by ye Name of Somerswortli and ye Inhabitants thereof shall be & hereby are Enabled to take. Purchase tS: hold any estate to them or tiieir successors forever by that name, as also thereby to give, grant, sell and con- vey ye same, to sue & be sued, to Prosecute & Defend & have Perpetual Suc- cession and continuance forever and ye said Corporation is hereby invested with all Immunities, Franchises, rights & Privileges liv law granted to any Town in this Pro\ince. Provided nevertheless yt. nothing in the Act shall be construed and Deemed to Discharge ye said Poles & Estates as part of ye Town of Dover and from their Proportion of any Damage which may hereafter happen to said Town by reason of any former grant of land. Contract or other act what- soever done by said Town or anyway relate to or affect the right. Property or manner of Improving, Dividing, or Disposing of any Common and un- divided land in said Town. Pro\'ided also that ye said Town of .Somerswortli is hereby directed & enjoined always to keep & maintain a good bridge fit for carts to pass & re- pass over Newichwannock ri\'er at SaluKin Falls or Ouamphegon so called within this Province from ye Charge of which ye said Town of Dover shall be entirely exempted so long as said town shall keep and maintain a good bridge as aforesaid over Cochecho river & no longer — and Thomas Walling- ford, Esq., Capt. John Wentworth & Mr. Moses Stevens are hereby appointed and authorized to call ye first meeting of qualified voters in ye said Town of Somerswortli according to law to be held there sometime in ye month of May next as ye Persons above named shall appoint to choose all Town officers as ye Law directs — and all after meetings of said voters to be according to ye Directions of said Province in such cases Provided, the annual meeting for ye choice of Town officers forever hereafter in ye said Town to be on ye second Tuesday in March. Province of New Hampshire In the House of Representatives April i8, 1754, the foregoing bill having been three times read, voted yt. it Pass to be Enacted. Meshech W'e.xre, Speaker. In Council April 226. 1754. The foregoing Bill read a third time Passed to be Enacted. Theodore Atkinson, Secry. In Council Eadem Die Consented to B. Wentworth. Copy ex md Theodore Atkinson, Secry. Thus on April 22, 1754, the Parish of Summersworth became the Town of Somerswortli. by reason of a careless spelling, by Theodore Atkinson, sec- retary of the province. The agents who presented the petition never asked for 226 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY any change in spelling: they had i>etitioned for and thought they had ob- tained a charter for the Town of Summersworth, as appears from their no- tice calling the first town-meeting. That notice was as follows : Whereas the Parish of Summersworth have sometime since Petitioned the General Assembly of this Province by their agents in order to be made a Town separate from ye Town of Dover & vested with all Town Privileges, and whereas said General Assembly has granted ye Prayer of said Petition appointing us ye subscribers to call a Town Aleeting — These are therefore to give Notice to ye Freeholders & other Inhabitants of ye Town of Summersworth by law cpialified to vote in Public Town-meet- ing that there will be a meeting held at ye meeting-house in Summersworth aforesaid on Tuesday the fourteenth day of this Instant May at one of ye clock in ye afternoon To Choose all Town officers for ye ensuing year as ye Law Directs. All persons concerned are desired to give their attendance promptly at ye Time above mentioned. Dated at Summersworth ist May 1754. Per order ye General Assembly. Thomas Wallingford. John Wentworth, Moses Stevens. By order of ye Selectmen, Moses Carr, Parish Cler. The record of the first town-meeting is here given and shows who were the men prominent in town affairs. "At a Town-meeting held at ye meeting-house in Somersworth on Tues- day, ye 14th day of May, 1751. Pursuant to warrant by virtue of an act of General Assembly. "Capt. John Wentworth was chosen Moderator of 2d Meeting, Doctr. Moses Carr, Town Clerk; Col. Thomas Wallingford first selectman, Capt. James Hobbs, second selectman, Capt. John Wentworth, 3d Selectman. Mr. Charles Baker & Capt. William Wentworth assessors. Mr. Richard Philpot. Mr. Francis Roberts I\Ir. Samuel .Austin Commissioners. Mr. Amos How- ard Constable. Mr. Daniel Goodwin & Ensign Benj. Tvvombly, Tythingmen. Capt. Archd. Smith, Mr. Eliphlet Cromwell, Mr. Moses Stevens, Mr. Samuel Jones & Ensign Icabod Rawlings, surveyor of highways. Mr. Eliphlet Crom- well, Mr. Ebenezer Wentworth & Mr. Thomas Whitehouse, Field Drivers. Thomas Whitehouse, .Abraham Mimmee, Richd. Downs & Sanniel Horn. Hogreeves, Moses Stevens, Pound-keeper. Lt. Benja. Wentworth & Mr. Benja. Weymouth, fence viewers. Dea. Gershom Wentworth & Air. Philip Stack-pole, overseer of Ye Poor. Mr. Elisha Andrews. Surveyor of lumber. Mr. Moses Tibbetts, Leather Sealer. "At ye above meeting Col. Thos. Wallingford declared yt. he freely gave AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 227 to ye Town of Soniersworth ye charge of mentling \-e nieeting-hduse Bell, upon which ye Town \oted thanks. "A true entry By Moses Carr, Town Cler." The complete record of the last meeting of the Parish of Sumniersworth is as follows : To the Freeholders & other Inhabitants belonging to ye Parish of Sum- mersworth. These are to give notice of a meeting to be held at ye Meeting- house in Summersworth on Monday ye fourth Day of March Next ensuing ye Date hereof at one of ye clock, aftermion. Then and there to choose all Parish officers for ye ensuing year as ye Law Directs and also to consider and do what may be thought proper Respecting ye Rev. Mr. Pike's Salary. AH persons concerned are desired to give their attendance at time and place. Dated at Summersworth ye 20th of Feby. 1754. By order of ye Selectemen, Moses Carr, Parish Cler. At a Parish meeting held at ye meeting-house Pursuent to ye preceding warrant on Monday ye Fourth Day of March 1754, Capt. John Wentworth was chosen moderator of sd meeting, Drctr Moses Carr Parish Clerk. The following gentlemen were chosen Selectmen for ye Present Year, viz, Capt. John Wenworth, Capt. James Hobbs & Dea. Gershom Wentworth. Voted Mr. Samuel Austin, Mr. Reichard Philpot & Mr. Francis Roberts Commis- sioners. Mr. Philip Stackpole choose to take an Inventory thro ye Parish & voted twenty shillings for the service. Voted Mr. Samuel Austin Twelve Pounds ten Shillings for keeping Rich- ard Hammock ye Present year. Voted Dr. Thomas Nock Twelve Pounds ten shillmgs for keeping Hugh Connor ye Present year. Voted Mr. Moses Stevens fifty shillings for Ringing ye Bell, sweeping & taking care of the Meeting-house the present year. Voted ye Revd. Mr. James Pike's salary one hundred & sixty pounds this year. A true entry Moses C.\rr, Parish Cler. Following is a list of the parish clerks. Dr. Thomas Miller was elected January 7, 1730, and served till December 6, 1732. Nathaniel Perkins, De- cember 6, 173.2, to December 15, 1735. Thomas Miller, from December 15, 1735, to December 16, 1736. Benjamin Twombly, from December 6, 1736, to March i. 1747. Dr. Moses Carr. from March i. 1747. to March 14. 1754, the date of the first town-meeting. As soon as the new town got into full swing the spirit of improvements enthused the people and it manifested itself in various ways. The town needed new roads and began at once preparations for their construction. Following are samples of the most important of the highways : May 28, 1754. the selectmen laid out a road from the bridge at Salmon Falls to the road to the "upper mill." May 23. 1755, they laid out the first road con- structed at Great Falls. It extended from wliere now is the Great Falls Bank 228 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY over rros])ect Hill, down Horn's Hill by the John Roberts' place, to Forest Glade Cemetery, where it connected with the "Road yt. leads through the Pitch pine Plains to Cochecho." For more than sixty years that was the only highway to Great Falls. In 1764 they laid out the Rocky Hill road to Rochester line. In 1770 an attempt was made to have the town build a bridge between Great Falls and Berwick, but it was voted down in town meeting. In 177J the public institutions of Somersworth consisted of a meeting house, a schoolhouse. a grave yard, a training field and a pnund, all of which were located at the center of the town, where now is Rollinsford Junction. That year the inhabitants decided to build a new meeting house. It was built and in 1773 it was "voted that the committee pull down the old meeting house the new so far finished as to be comfortable & decent to attend worship in, and that they apply such of the old house to furnishing the new one as may answer well, and sell the rest at Public Vendue for the benefit of the Town." This house stood near where the old cemetery is at Rollinsford Junction. April 2?, 1782, the town "voted to join with Berwick in building a Bridge over the Mill Pond at Quamphego," and it was built that year. In 1783 a bridge was built between Berwick and Great Falls, Berwick to keep one-half in repair and Somersworth the other half. According to tra- dition, this first bridge at Great Falls was located nearly in the same place where the present bridge is; and the city of Somersworth and the town of Berwick "go halves" on keeping it in repair. At some period before 1807 a bridge was built across the river where now is the village of Salmon Falls, and March 10, of that year, the town voted to accept it and keep it in repair. This was the third bridge across the river in that town. In 1823 a new road was built to connect Great Falls village with Dover. It extended from the foot of Prospect street (the old road) to the old road south of the Carr place, so known. That road is the present High street of the city. The electric railway between Dover and Somersworth was located on this route in 1S89, and Budgett Park was laid out which now is known as Central Park. Another new road to Dover was laid out in 1837 by way of Green street. The first annual town meeting in Great Falls was held in the vestry under the Congregational meeting house, March 8, 1842: the annual meeting for March, 1843. "^^'^s held in the old meeting house, but the contest was on be- tween the old center of business and the village of Great Falls, which had become the more powerful. Special meetings were held, sometimes at the Falls, at other times at the old meeting house. At a special meeting January AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 229 15, 1845, it was voted to build a town house at Great Falls at a cost not exceeding $4,000. An attempt was made at the following annual meeting in Alarch to reconsider this vote, but this was defeated by vote of 271 in favor and 344 opposed. The town house was built, and the annual meeting was held in it March 12, 1846. The dwellers in the neighborhood of the old parish meeting house were greatly dissatisfied and began to devise ways and means to divide the town. Salmon Falls, though a manufacturing village, was smaller than (Ircat b'alls, while the farmers in the Salmon Falls section were wealthy and occupied some of the best farms in the state. They and their ancestors had ruled the town and the parish for more than a century. It was humiliating for them to forsake the old meeting house at the center and come up to the out- skirts to town meeting. They would not stand that sort of treatment. So at the annual town meeting in March, 1849, one article in the warrant was as follows : "To see if the town will \ote for a division of Somersworth by a line commencing on Salmon Falls river at or near Fray's brook, so called, and rumiing westerly to the line of the town of Dover, near the house of Benja- min Hussy." This was defeated by a vote of 263 in favor and 364 against division. Although the minority were beaten in town meeting, their "mad" was up and their courage powerful. They took the question to the General Court in the follow ing June and their petition for division was granted. They gave it the name of Rollinsford for the reason that the Rollins family was quite numerous and were influential and powerful in support of the petition. A committee appointed by the General Court, consisting of George W. Nesmith, Thomas E. Sawyer and Josiah H. Flobbs, divided the property owned by both towns in common as follows : The town house, the woodlot, the town pound, the fire engine and salamander safe should be the property of Somersworth, and the "poor farm" and stock and other personal property thereon should be the property of Rollinsford. There were seven inmates at the farm ; the committee decided that Somersworth should take care of four of them, and Rollinsford three. Thus Rollinsford began its separate existence, and for sixty-four years has an honorable history of its ow-n. Somersworth continued to advance in improvements, and in an increase of its population. It established the Forest Glade Cemetery; it put sewers in its streets ; it lighted its streets and stores and residences with gas ; it put in electric light after 1889; it provided good schools and was a tidy, up-to-date town, and the citizens concluded they wanted to make it a city. They pe- titioned the Legislature and at the January session, 1893, an act was passed 230 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY to establish the city of Somersworth, by virtue of which the town of Somers- worth became a city. I'ebruary 24, 1893. The first city election was held on the second Tuesday of March, 1893; the candidates for mayor were Franklin N. Chase, Democrat, and Christopher H. Wells, Republican. The vote in the wards was as follows: Ward one. Wells 155; Chase 147. Ward two, Wells 157; Chase 112. Ward three, Wells 144; Chase 138. Ward four, Wells 58; Chase 147. Ward five, Wells 68; Chase 86. And Mr. Chase was elected by 52 majority. The first city clerk was Fred L. Shapleigh. For seventy years the place where the compact part of the city of Som- ersworth is, was called and generally known as Great Falls ; nobody ever said they were going to Somersworth. No, they were going to Great Falls ; but when it came to changing from town to city government there was a revolt against calling it "City of Great Falls." The old historic name was restored, and we have city of Somersworth. It was astonishing how quickly the name Great Falls was dropped; it has never been used since 1893. Before that date, probably, half of the inhabitants did not know they lived in Somersworth. It was a happy change ; historic names should be presented. CHAPTER XXII HISTORY OF SOMERSWORTH (IV) SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS Tlie first provision for a school in the new parish was made by the fol- lowing vote at a parish meeting, December ii, 1733: "Voted that the Selectmen have power to raise one hundred and ninety- fcmr pounds money, to pay Mr. Pike his salary, his firewood, the School, the Selectmen, Clerk & Collector." This money was probably raised, for July 2, 1734, the parish "voted that Hercules Mooney be the schoolmaster here for one month (viz.) from July 4th to August 4th, 1734, next ensuing, at three pounds fifteen shillings i>er month. Voted that Capt. Thomas Wallingford and Mr. Philip Stackpole be the men that join with the Selectmen at the month's end, above, to agree with said Mooney, or any other suitable person to keep school in this Parish for the Residue of the summer and autumn." This was the first school committee of Somersworth, so far as the records show. At a parish meeting in 1735 it was "voted that Mr. Jno. Schrugham be schoolmaster for one month in this Parish at the Discretion of the Selectmen," also "voted that there be thirty pounds raised to defray the charge of a school this summer and autumn." COLONEL HERCULES MOONEY Nothing definite is known concerning John Schrugham, but the first schoolmaster, Hercules Mooney, has a record worth mentioning in this his- tory. He was a citizen of Durham for many years, but the last fifteen years of his life was spent in Holdemess, where he died in April, 1800, and his grave is marked by a rough slab of granite. He was colonel of a battalion of New Hampshire militia in the Revolutionary war. Colonel Mooney was born in Ireland about 17 10. He was of good family and well educated. He is said to have been tutor in a nobleman's family 231 2;{i) HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY in tliat country. He came to Dover in 1733, and the next year, July 4, 1734, he commenced teaching school in the parish of Summersworth in Dover, and was engaged there ahout a year. About 1737 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Evans, and resided near "Barbadoes" " pond, on the "Littleworth" road, localities familiar to Dover people. He resided there about ten years, during which time his children, Obadiah, Benjamin. Jona- than and Elizabeth, were boni. During the time he also did more or less school teaching at "Cocheco" in Dover, and spent the rest of his time in vari- ous occupations which provided bread and butter. About 1750 he removed to Durham and engaged in teaching there. Previous to that date his wife died, and soon after he settled in Durham he married Mary Jones, widow of Lieut. Josei>h Jones of that town, and resided on the Jones farm, which later was the residence of Gorham W. Hoitt, Sheriff of Strafford county for several years, and which remained in possession of his family until the death ni his daughter. Miss Mary A. Hoitt, in 1912. The part of Durham in which this fanii is located was separated from that town in 1766 and made the parish of Lee. Colonel Mooney resided on that farm until his removal to Llolderness in 1785, of which town he was one of the grantees in 1761. Hercules Mooney was not only a good schoolmaster, but also a valiant soldier. In 1757 he received a captain's commission in Colonel Meserves' regiment, and took part in the expedition to Crown Point, his son, Benjamin, serving as ensign in his company. In 1758 this son Benjamin was first lieu- tenant in Capt. Thomas Tash's company at Crown Point. This son has a fine record, as also other sons of Colonel Mooney. The town records of Durham show that Col. Mooney held various town offices, besides being schoolmaster. He was assessor in 1762; selectman in 1765; and that year headed the petition with ninety-nine other inhabitants of Durham to have the town divided into two parishes. In response to this petition, and favorable action by the town of Durham, the Provincial Government set off a part of Durham and incorporated it as the parish of Lee, January 6, 1766, with town privileges. Captain Mooney's farm being mostly on the Lee side of die division line, he taught school at Lee Hill village until the Revolution, and again after the war until his removal to Holderness. His sons Obadiah and John were also school teachers. Colonel :\Iooney served as one of the selectmen of Lee from 1769 until iie joined die Revolutionary army. He represented Lee in the Fifth Provincial Con- gress at Exeter December 21, 1775, and his record in that Congress shows Uian he was more conservative than most of the delegates. From that time until 1783 he was the Representative from Lee in the Provincial Assemblies, except one year, 1777. :i'l.'-' |>|>AL CHUKt'JI AM) l.'KCTOin-, SALMUN FALLS, ^. H. ^r. \I\|,Y b CATHOLIC CTHUECH, SALMON FALLS, N". H. TO\Vx\ liALL A\U Uj:\La;Li,ATluNAL i'AK SONAGE, SALMON FALLS, N. H. FKAiNKLIN HIGH SCHOOL, SALMON FALLS N^H SALMON FALLS MANUFACTURING CO. 'S PLANT BBIDGE AND EAST SIDE OP MILLS, SALMON FALLS, N. H. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 235 Marcli 14, 1776, Hercules Mooney was appointed major in the regiment of Col. David Gilman. and stationed at Newcastle and vicinity. September 25, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Continental battalion, then being raised in New Hampshire, which was placed under Pierce Long and stationed at Newcastle, until ordered by General Ward to march to Ticon- deroga in February, 1777. Upon the approach of the British army under General P>urgoyne, Ticonderoga was evacuated July 6, 1777, and the New Hampshire troops were ordered to help cover the retreat, during which a few were killed and about one hundred men wounded. From May 23, 177S, to August 12. 177S, he was member of the Committee of Safety; and again from December 2t„ 1778 to March i(>, 1779. June 23, 1779, he was ap- pointed colonel of a regiment ordered for continental service in Rhode Island. The regiment was raised in June and remained in service until January, 1780. After the war Colonel Mooney resumed teaching at Lee Hill; served as iustice of the peace for Strafford county from July, 1776, until his removal to Holderness in 1785, and was afterwards justice of the peace in Grafton county until his death. He was one of the selectmen of Holderness and was its Representative in the State Legislature, 1786- 1787 and 1789- 1790. This closes a brief sketch of the career of the first schoolmaster in the parish of Summersworth. M.\STKR JOHN SULLIVAN Judge Wm. D. Knapp. in his excellent but brief history of Somersworth, says: "In 1737 the parish voted sixty pounds for a schoolmaster; voted that Mr. John Sullivan be the schoolmaster for the ensuing year ; vote that John Sullivan sweep and take care of ye meeting-house & to have thirty slulhngs." Judge Knapp then adds: "John Sullivan came from Limerick, Ireland, in 1723 ; landed at York, Me. ; was a teacher in Berwick ; married Margery Brown in 1735. and soon after purchased 70 acres of land in Berwick, where he resided more than sixty years. He died in May, 179^'), in his TOf.th year."' Judge Knapp's statement is erroneous in some points, viz. : John Sullivan married Margery Brown, who came over in the same ship with him and kiiided at York in the v> inter of 1-J3: he was a man of thirty-two years; she was a girl of nine years; he paid the captain of the ship for her passage across the Atlantic; she "served her time" as a house maid from 1723 to 1735 in one of the best families in Old York; they were married in 1735, when he was forty-four years old and she was twent^'-one, just "out of her time"; Ihey commenced housekeeping at Summersworth soon after they were mar- 236 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY ried, as we know by legal documents he drew up for others and signed his name "John Sullivan of Summersworth." And next, in 1737, the parish of Summersworth hired him as its schoolmaster; he continued such until April, 175J, a period of fifteen years, when, at a meeting of the parish April 6, "voted Mr. Joseph Tate twenty-three pounds old tenor, to keep Parish School one month." A notice of Master Tate will be given later. In August, 1753. John Sullivan bought his farm in Berwick of Mr. Samuel Lord; he built a house on it. on the hill, and removed his family from the Summersworth village to it in 1754; he resided there until his death in June, 1796, in the 105th year of his age. So he lived in Berwick forty-two years only, instead of "more than sixty years," as Judge Knapp states. There is no record that Master Sullivan ever bought land at any other town or place. His remarkably brilliant family of children were all born in the parish of Summersworth, viz.: Benjamin, in 1736; Daniel, in 1738: (Gen.) John, in 1740; (Gov.) James, in 1744; Mary. 1752; Ebe- neder, 1753. These are the facts, and yet the cyclopedias and biographical dictionaries keep right on repeating the old error, that his children were lx)rn in Berwick, Me. The error, probably, originally started by some writer who knew that he lived in Berwick many of the last years of his life and therefore took it for granted all of his married life was passed there, hence that his children were born there. It seems this is the proper time and place to correct this error of many years' endurance, and establish for the parish of Summersworth the illustrious honor which belongs to that little village, now known as Rollinsford Junction. No more illustrious family was ever born in New Hampshire; and no greater schoolmaster has ever lived in the province or state than was Master John Sullivan. The parish of Summersworth in Dover, as has been stated, hired ]\Iaster Sullivan to keep school in 1737; but that was not the first school he kept in the town. He arrived at York, Me., from Limerick, Ireland, in the winter of 1723. His first work was on the INIcIntire farm in that town to earn money to pay for his passage. The reader will better understand this part of his career by letting him tell his own story. In his old age, when he and his wife were calling at a neighbor's house, they got to talking about his younger days, and he told the following story, which was recorded by the person who heard it. Master Sullivan said in the presence of his wife: "I sailed from Limerick, Ireland, for New England in 1723; owing to stress of weather the vessel was obliged to land at York, Me. (it had intended to land at Newburyport, Mass.). On the voyage my attention was called to a pretty girl of nine or ten years, Margery Brown, who afterwards became my wife. As my mother had absolutely refused to furnish me with the means AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 237 for paying transportation, and I had not means otherwise, I was obhged to enter into an agreement with tlie captain to earn the money for my passage. "After I landed at York, for a while I Hved on tlie Mclntire farm in Scot- land Parish. Unaccustomed to farm labor, and growing weary of manual occupation, I applied to Rew Dr. Moody, pastor of the parish, for assistance. I made my letter written in se\-en languages, so that he might see I was a scholar. He became interested in my behalf, and being conversant with my ability to teach he loaned me the money with which to pay the captain the amount I owed for my passage. Thus set free from the Mclntires, I was assisted to open a school and earn money to repay Dr. Moody." You will notice he does not say where he opened his school: but there is evidence concerning this point in his career. It was in the winter of 1723 that he worked on the Mclntire farm. Winter on a farm then was cutting lumber in the forest; cutting firewood in the dooryard ; and feeding and caring for the stock in the barn. That was what the son of aristocratic Irish parents was set to do, and from which Dr. Moody freed him. The minister of the First Church in Dover, at Cochecho, was the Rev. Jonathan Gushing; Mr. Cushing and Dr. Moody were close friends. Mr. Cushing was influential in school affairs, as well as in many other ways in Dover; so it is not difficult to see why the following appears in the Dover town records: At a meeting of the Selectmen in Dover the 20th of May, 1723, ordered that two schoolmasters be Procured for the Town of Dover for the year en- suing, and that their sallery exceed not £30 Payment a piece and to attend the Directtions of the Selectmen for the servis of the town in eque'll Proportion. Test. TiiOM.vs Tkbets, Towne Clerk. At the same time Mr. Sullifund exseps to sarve the Town above sd as Scoolemaster three months sertin and begins his servis ye 21st Day of May 1723, and also ye sd Sullefund Promised the Selectmen that if he left them soonner he would give them a month notis to Provide themselves with another, and the Selectmen was also to give him a month notis if they Disliked him. Test. Thomas Tebets, Towne Clerk. The above also shows where John Sullivan began keeping school. There were to be two teachers, "for the serivs of the Towne in Equi'll Proportion." That means one schoolmaster was for Dover Neck, at the meeting house : the other at Cochecho, where the Rev. Mr. Cushing lived, and the presump- tion is fair that Master Sullivan was located near Pine Hill where the meet- ing house was and Parson Cushing lived. There is no record in regard to the matter, but I have no doubt he kept on teaching here in Dover until he got married and had a call to become schoolmaster in the parish of Summers- 238 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY wortli in Dover, in 1737. After he bonght his farm in Berwick and settled there in 1754. he became schoohnaster there, and kept on teaching more or less until he was much passed four score years of age. He was sixty-three vears old when he settled in Berwick, and he was a noted schoolmaster there for a score of years. There is not the slightest evidence that he taught school in Berwick before 1734. He taught school in Old Dover thirty years, and in Berwick twenty years. All the Dover men who took such a prominent part in the Revolution had been his pupils. Of course Master Sullivan did not keep school every month in the year; he did many other things. He was an expert at drawing up legal papers, deeds, wills, etc. He raised his own vegetables, coni, beans, etc., for the household, and was always ready to lend a hand at w hatever needed to be done in the Parish of Summersworth. He had private pupils at his house. MASTER JOSEPH TATE Joseph Tate, known as "Master Tate,'" was the immediate successor of Master John Sullivan as schoolmaster in the Parish of Summersworth. He was an Englishman, but where he was born the writer does not know. It is said that the maiden name of his mother was Bird. He did not live near the meeting house, as his predecessor did, but by the Salmon Falls river, about fifty rods below the lower mill. He married Elizabeth Saunders. She was probably a widow, as his record says, 21 Dec. 1774, "My wife's daughter, Elizabeth Todd, broke her leg in going home from my house." lie lived some years previous to his death, at the house of Captain Morris Hobbs, where he died in 1782. aged about ninety j-ears, and was buried near Captain Hobbs in the family burying ground, near the present residence of Charles Ham. He had a family of four sons and one daughter; the sons: Robert, born in 1744; Joseph, born in 1746; Benjamin, born in 1749; and Mark, bom in 1 75 1, were all soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Master Tate was noted as a schoolmaster, but he is still more noted and remembered to this day by the journal he kept, which is now in possession of the town clerk of Rollinsford. The volume is headed : "Xames of Families, Children, Names and Time of Birth, in the town of Somersworth. Mar. ye 26, 1776." It is said that some of his records were lost by the burning of a dwelling house. The extant volume gives dates prior to 1767, of births of children in the families then resident in that town, and continues until 1778, his other records come down to 1786. The volume contains, also, "Memo- randums of Sundry Things, viz.. Deaths, Marriages. Disasters, etc." There AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 231) are interspersed extracts from periodicals, statistics, recipes, notices of cur- rent events, etc. ; and the book is very curious and valuable. Up to 1793 ^^'^^ town had been one school district ; in that year a committee was chosen to divide the town into school districts, and locate a schoolhouse in eacii district. The committee tli\ided the town into four districts. In 17Q4 the town voted that the selectmen may not furnish the districts with school- masters; that each district furnisJi themselves with schoolmasters, and tliat they will save tiie selectmen harmless from all costs that arise from a fine on that account. Somersworth has always been up-to-date in its schools, and sometimes in the advance of other towns. By an act of the Legislature passed in 1848, known as the "Somersworth Act," school district No. 3 in Somersworth (the Great Falls district) was permitted to have a system of graded schools, and maintain a high school, to purchase land for schoolhouse lots, not exceeding three acres in one lot, and to erect such schoolhouses thereon as may be deter- mined on by vote of the district ; also to hire money to meet the cost of lot and building, in excess of $j,ooo. Under this act a lot was procured on Prospect Hill in 1S49, and the present high school was erected upon it at a cost of ten thousand dollars. This was the first high school established in .New Hamp- shire. D()\'er did nut take this ste]) until 185J. The graderl system was adopted. The principals and instructors in the high school have held high rank in the profession, and some of them have won distinction in other fields of work. As an adjunct of good schools the citizens have maintained a good circulating library, which was established in 1842. In the articles of agreement adopted December 31, 1841, they gave it the name "Manufacturers' and Village Library. " The organization continued under this business agreement seven years. On the 30th of April, 1849, a voluntary association was organized under the statutes, a constitution and by-laws were adopted and officers chosen, whereby the partnership gave way to a kind of corporation. A charter was obtained from the Legislature in June, 1855, which provided that John A. Burleigh, Mark Noble, Royal Eastman, Isaac Chandler, Henry Y. Hayes, George W. Wendell and their associates, successors and assigns, be and hereby are constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the "Manufact- urers and Village Library" and that "they may establish a library in Somers- worth, may lease or erect and maintain suitable buildings therefor, and may take and hold by gift, grant, purchase, devise, or otherwise real and personal estate to the amount of $JO,ooo," which later was enlarged to $100,000. A reorganization was established and the library commenced to grow and flour- ish and has continued doing excellent work to the ]>resent time. 240 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY In August, 1888, one of the original incorporators gave the hbrary a lease for ninety-nine years of the second story of his block on Orange street, to be used as library rooms. Henry J. Furber, Esq., of Chicago, a f(jrnier resident of Somersworth, supplemented Mr. Chandler's generous gift by giving money sufificient to finish and furnish the rooms so as to afford excellent accommo- dations for the library. The library now has about thirty thousand \olumes, and any person can have the privilege of reading these books by paymeet of one dollar a vear. CHAPTER XXIII HISTORY OF SOMERSWORTH (V) VARIOUS BUSINESS INTERESTS When the Parish of Somersworth began to be settled it was not a condi- tion such as the modern vaudeville song has it, "Everybody works but father." The fact was "father" took the lead and all the boys and girls followed in helping keep on hand a good supply of pork and beans, bread and butter, and homespun clothing for all sorts of weather, and they had plenty of "aJl sorts" in the beginning of things here. As the ground was covered with for- ests, untouched since the ice age in New England, the men and boys first of all had to use their axes in chopping, and their broad axes in hewing to build houses for all sorts of purposes. They had to use the broad axe until they could build saw mills, and as soon as they could get to it the town granted water falls to enterprising citizens for the construction and running of the mills; more than that, the mill owners received grants of timber for use in the mills. The early town records of Old Dover contain reports of many such grants. For example : 5, 17 Mo; 1652. "Whereas Captain Thomas Wiggins and Mr. Lyman Bradstreet have sett upp sawmill works at Ouamphegon fiaW" they are granted trees on land a couple of miles long and one mile broad; £10 rent per annum. 5, 10 Mo: 1652, at Fresh Creek a mill privilege, on the west side of the old road, was granted to "William Ffurber, William Wentworth, Henry Langster and Thomas Canney;" £6 rent per annum, "for the wood beside ten shillings for every such mast as they make use of." So it is manifest what the chief business was at the beginning of things and this business held good for more than a century and a half. About 1700 Judge John Tuttle, one of the big men of Old Dover, came into possession of the Ouamphegan mills and did great lumber business for a score of years. His residence was on Dover Neck, a short distance below the Meeting House. But not all the lumber business was done in sawmills. The manufacture of pipe-staves, clapboard, shingles, etc., by hand, was extensively engaged in. You know in the old arithmetics one of the tables the boys had to commit to 14 241 242 HISTORY OF STRAI<"FORD COUNTY memory was tliis: Four gills make one pint; 2 pints make one quart; 4 quarts make one gallon ; 63 gallons make one hogshead ; 2 hogsheads make one pipe , 4 pipes make one ton. Well, the "pipe-staves" that the Dover men made were made into casks that held two hogsheads, as stated in the talile. Uo\er had coopers who manufactured the "pipes," a very profitable business; after the heads and hoops were all fitted, the casks were taken apart and placed com- pactly together, and shipped to the West Indies for the use of the molasses and rum trade. Time went on; one thing opened the way for another. Up to 1750 no record of more than one fanner is found at Great Falls, on either side of the river. Andrew Horn was resident on the Somersworth side. A sawmill and a gristmill were built at the lower le\el ab(iut 1735. There was no dam across the river, but power was obtained by drawing the water through a sluice way, at the side, from the upper to the lower level. The business had become so thriving that in 1 yftT, the mill proprietors petitioned for a road to be built that would give them connection with Do\'er. The proprietors of these mills were Ebenezer Wentworth, Isaac Hanson and several others. Up to 1820 there was no dam across the river, the power being obtained by the sluice way. Soon after that something happened. A quiet, Ijut energetic Quaker, Isaac \\'endell, came up there from Dover and viewed the "Great Falls" and saw what a mighty power was running to waste. Mr. ^Vendell had been engaged in the purchase of the Cochecho Falls at Dover, and in the establishinent of a manufactory of cotton at that place. He, with Mr. John Williams, had obtained a charter and formed a company, chiefly of Boston men, called the Cocheco Manufacturing Company. That was in 1821. It is stated by those who had ])ersonal recollections of conditions at the Falls in 1822, that the only houses there, in what was soon to become the village of Great Falls, were the Joseph Wentworth house, then occupied by Andrew Horn, Jr., now (1913) the residence of Mrs. Edgerly, widow of the late James A. Edgerly, Es(]., antl standing where it then stood, and Gershom Horn's house, which stood where the familiar J. \\ . Hates' blue stiire stood in \'ery recent period. The Great Falls Manufacturing Company was chartered June 11, 1823, with an authori;^ed capital of $500,000. .\n increase of the capital stock to $1,000,000 was autliorized in 1826, and in 1827 it was increased to $1,500,000. In 1823 the highway, now High street, was laid out, three rods wide, and became the way to Dover, instead of the Prospect street route, which Mr. Wendell described as "very narrow, rough and steep." The Great Ealls Manufacturing Company owned all the land from the Great Falls hotel south to the Indigo Hill road. Main street was opened by the company for a highway, and in 1827 the town laid out a road, four rods AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 243 wide, from the meeting house to the In(Hgo Hill road. This gave to Great Falls the present highway to Rollinsford Junction. In 1828 that part of it which is known as Main street was laid out, three rods wide, reserving four- teen feet on the westerly side for a sidewalk. In 1827 the town voted to widen and straighten the road from Mrs. llannah I'arr's 1>_\' lienjamin Hussey's to Dover line, "as said road will be much traveled and it is of vast importance that the road from manufacturing estal)lishments should be good to touch water, or from village to village." The editor of this History of StratTord County was editor and publisher of the Dover Enquirer in 1894, as before and after that date. In January of that year he received the following communication from Aliss Anne E. Wen- dell, of Wayne, Penn., daughter of Isaac Wendell, the founder of the com- pany that built the mills, and the village of Great Falls. It was published in the Enquirer of January 26. 1894, and gives a description of the village and the origin of the mills which are as unique as they are of inestimable historic value. The editor of the Enquirer then never dreamed he wouUl be afiforded an opportunity to use it as now given. Miss Wendell said : After the Dover factories were well established and John Williams elected agent, father at the re SOMERSWORTH, N. H. CATHOLIC CHURCH AND FAKISH HOUSE, SOMERSWORTH, N. H. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 245 ley Wiggin's tailor shop, a dwelling occupied by Dr. Martin, in 1826, the factory, store and counting house: below these, running nearly to the old grist mill, which in i8j6 was still in use, was a row of one-story buildings, occupied by a tin-man, barlier, and Ann Bearing's milli'nery. Fronting these up the hill, stood the old "Farm" boarding house, and still higher on the other side of the Dover road a large house, whether new or old, I do not remember; Oliver W'alcott occupied it. The Presbyterian church nearby was erected I)efore, or in 1827. The two-storied frame houses on the east side of the canal were built as early as 1823 I think, — in theiu lived at that time Whittemore, Lamos, Moore, Lemuel Perhani ( f^r a little while) and llilili)- the wife lieater. who received the ladder penalty, which cured hiiu. On the west side of the canal, passed the road leading to Pierwick; on this road in i8_'4 were built the row of two-storied brick houses, fronting others near the river, there being (piite a distance between the two. the canal sep- arating them. In 1824 the street back of these was opened with two-story frame iiouses on each side; Moore's boarding house was the last one down. In 1825 the company commenced the brick hotel on the corner of the Dover road; suon after Isaac Stanwood built his store, and Joseph Whittier his house, near the wood; opposite, I think, Gershom Horn's new house; these in 1827 were the last houses on the Dover road. There were others near, but I cannot recall them. The Presbyterian churcli was built in 1826; the Methodist had no church building until near 1S30; they met in pri\ate houses or vacant rooms. Dudley ^Viggin was one of their leaders. John G. Chase joined them; he was one of the noblest of Christan men down to his old age, and one of the able men father gathered around him, among whom were Daniel Osborne, principal clerk; l3avid Osborne (Williams & Wendell's Boston clerk), David Barker, Gideon C. Smith, Brayton Slade, James Dennis, Asa Arnold, Charles Lawton, Abel Fletcher, a mathematician of high order, Jonathan Freeman, and others. There were also odd and peculiar people, and amusing incidents. No intoxicating drink was allowed on the place, while under my father's control, ginger-beer was substituted for those who desired it, but liquor was often secretly obtained. The laborers building the walls of the canal, left little hiding places for the bottle. Father had no control in Maine, and the men sent their shoes to be mended, he thought, rather oftener than was necessary, and one day, observing a messenger boy returning with a pair of boots, he approached the boy on the bridge, but before they met. the boots went over the railing into the river, and the story was told. One season, in very warm weather, a death occurred at Rocky Hill; it was reported the man would have been saved, had they been allowed stim- ulants ; but after examination, it was found that he alone among the men, had taken licjuor." The woolen mills were in full operation in 1826, weaving carpets and broadcloth. They were under the care of Oliver Walcott, but not being profitable, were abandoned after a few years." 246 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY The gristmill and sawmill, which had been at Great Falls from 1755 to 1822. when they gave place to the cotton mill, were rebuilt at the lower falls, familiarly known as "New Dam," in 1825. The gristmill was on the Somers- worth side and the sawmill on the Berwick side, a "new tlam" ha\ing been thrown across the river that year. The gristmill was maintained mitil 1863, when the Great Falls Woolen Company was incorjwrated with a capital of $50,000. This company took a lease of the power there and built a woolen mill in place of the gristmill. In 1864 the capital stock of the company was increased by a stock dividend to $100,000, having made immense profits on the manufacture of amiy goods for use in the Ci\il war. The woolen mill is still in operation and is owned by Deering, INIilliken & Co., of New York City, of which Seth M. Milliken is the head and chief owner. Mr. Alilliken is a son-in-law of the late Dr. Levis G. Hill, of Dover. The sawmill on the Berwick side has given place to the electric plant of the Consolidated Light & Power Company; the change was made in 1888. The manufacture of cotton cloth (the chief industry of Somersworth) was almost at a standstill during the Civil war, but the Great Falls Company, having confidence that the L'nion army would subdue the rebellion and restore prosperity, occupied the time while its looms were idle, in making improve- ments in its plant. A flouring mill was erected and put in operation, and a reservoir was constructed on Prospect Hill, and connected by a twelve-inch pipe with the river, to be filled by force pumi>s in one of the mills. The town was permitted to lay water pipes, connected with this main pipe, and to place hydrants through the town for protection against fire, the company to have the use of the town's pipe for such service as its needs might require. L'nder this verbal agreement the town has extended a system of pipes and hydrant service, so that the city is not in danger of a great conflagration through lack of water. The reservoir is 140 feet above the upper level of the river (top of the upper dam) and has a capacity of 1,700,000 gallons. In 1890, the company erected by the side of the reservoir, a water-tower, or stand-pipe. 20 feet in diameter and 70 feet high, having a capacity of 160,000 gallons, which furnishes a pressure in the hydrants on Market street of eighty pounds to the square inch, sufficient to throw streams of water over the tallest buildings in the city. Further improvements have been made since then in various ways There are other minor industries carried on in the city, which are prosperous, but which are of comparati\ely recent date. B.\XKS AND B.XNKING The Great Falls Bank was incorix)rated by the Legislature in 1846 and its charter was approved July 8th of that year. Its capital stock was $100,000, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 247 and its original incorporators were Joseph Doe. John A. Burleigh, Daniel G. Rollins, Samuel Hale, Nathaniel Wells, Winthrop A. Marston, Benjamin Hanson, Oliver H. Lord, Thomas B. Parks, Oliver Hill and Ezra Harthan. August 30, 1849. it was voted to increase the capital to $120,000, and August II, 1851, it was voted to further increase it to $150,000. The bank was reor- ganized as a national bank, March ij, 1865. The first president was Joseph Doe, 1846-1848; John A. Burleigh, 1848-1860; Nathaniel Wells, 1860-1878; he was succeeded by David H. Buffum, who had been the first cashier until April 20, 1863, when he was succeeded by Joseph .\. Stickney, who held the oflice until he was murdered in 1897 by Joe Kelley. The name of the bank was changed in 1902 from Great Falls National to First National of Somers- worth, and Fred M. Varney was Mr. Stickney's successor as cashier and served until 1908. The Somers worth State Bank was incorporated in 1855, and became the Somersworth National Bank in 1865, and its charter has been renewed under that name each twenty year periods since then. The incorporators of the State Bank were : Oliver H. Lord, George W. Brasbridge, Royal Eastman, Charles F. Elliott, George McDaniel, John S. Haines, Calvin Whitten, Stephen Shorey, John H. Burleigh, David L. Rollins, George W. Wendell and Au- gustus Gushing, all strong men in business affairs. Oliver H. Lord was the first president and held the position until i8Sr. Edward Ashton Rollins, son of Daniel G. Rollins, was the first cashier. He later achieved national fame as commissioner of internal revenue, and as president of the Centennial National Bank of Philadelphia. He is the gen- tleman who gave the money to build tlie beautiful Rollins Chapel for Dart- mouth College. George L. Dearborn was Mr. Rollins' successor as cashier of Somers- worth National Bank ; John A. Burleigh succeeded Mr. Dearborn ; he was fol- lowed by Samuel S. Rollins, who held the office nineteen years, until his death in 1881, while he was in performance of his duties of cashier. Henry C. Gilpatrick succeeded Mr. Rollins and served until his death in 1897; Charles M. Dorr held the office 1807-1800: and in December, 1899, Edgar .\. Leigh- ton was elected cashier and has held the office to the present time. The presi- dents of this bank have all been able and high-minded men. Since 1896 Jesse Robinson Home has held that position. The Somersworth Savings Bank was incorporated July 2, 1845, and the first meeting of the incorporators was held .August i6th following; they were Joseph Doe, John A. Burleigh, Daniel G. Rollins, Ichabod G. Jordan, Nathan- iel Wells, Mark Noble, Oliver H. Lord, Jeremiah Goodwin, Ezra Harthan, Hiram R. Roberts, Benjamin Hanson, Moses Baker and Wm. W. Rollins. 248 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Tlie officers elected were : John A. Burleigh, president ; Hiram R. Roberts and Daniel C. Rollins, vice preseidents ; Joseph Doe, Moses Baker, Wm. W. Rol- lins, Icliabod G. Jordan, Nathaniel Wells, Benjamin Hanson and Oliver H. Lord, trustees. The secretary and treasurer was Mark Noble. The bank was opened for business September i8, 1845, in Central build- ing, on Main street. The first deposit book was issued to Henrj' Hobbs for $100; which book is now in possession of the bank. This bank has continued sound and prosperous to the present day, having been carefully and honestly managed for sixty-seven years. The treasurers have been: Mark Noble, 1845-1857; David H. Buffum. 1857-1867; Joseph A. Stickney, 1867-1877; Albert A. Perkins, 1877-1897; William Sewell Tibbetts, 1897 to the present time. The presidents: John A. Burleigh, 1845-1860; Micajah C. Burleigh, 1860-1881 ; Samuel S. Rollins, one month only, in 1881 ; Isaac Chandler, 188^-1890; Edward Hargraves, 1890-1905; Jesse Robinson Home, 1905 to present time. There is one official now connected wiih the bank who has been in its service since 1871, Miss Angenette Stickney, who has served as clerk continuously and efficiently; no errors have been found in her work. In this connection it is but justice to state that Miss Martha T. Walker has held the office of assistant cashier of the Somersworth National Bank continuously since 1877. These two ladies are both remarkable for their efficiency, ac- curacy and courteousness in the performance of their duties. Probably no other banks in New Hampshire have women officials who have served that length of time. The Great Falls Bank erected a banking house, in 1845, ^t the corner of Prospect and Market streets, on the site of the old blacksmith shop which An- drew Home, Jr., occupied in 1823. The bank building consisted of one story and a basement and was used by both the Great Falls Bank and the Somers- worth Savings Bank. The entrance was from Prospect street. In 1874 a sec- ond story, new entrance from Market street, and a tower were added to the building, making it the present elegant banking house of the Great Falls Na- tional Bank. In 1876 the Somersworth Savings Bank erected the large and substantial block at the corner of High, Fore and Elm streets, and beside room for itself, provided accommodations for the Somersworth National Bank, an office for the American Express Company, several stores, business offices, a hall for the Odd Fellows, and another for the Knights of Pythias. RAILROADS The Boston & Maine Railroad had been built in 1842 through Somers- A\orth from Dover to Berwick, and in 1843 a branch was built from the old AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 249 meeting-house about two miles to the village of Great Falls. The first pas- senger tram over this branch arrived in Great Falls July 4 1843 amid the boommg of cannons, firing of crackers, barking of dogs, and a general hurrah of the people. Some persons now living, who were boys and girls then wit- nessed this the grand entry of the train, and no event since then has mlde a stronger mipression on their memory; they say they had great fun. The railroad company built a station where the present station is located • also a stone engme house and a large freight depot on Market street Before the ra.lruad uas built, all the freight of the Manufacturmg Company had been hauled by teams over the road where the electric cars now run. bet\xeen Great Falls and Dover Landing. By means of the railroad these freights were moved with less expense and the village was brought within three hours' ride of Boston. This gave a great boom to business, and more capital was invested m the village of Great Falls. A postoffice had been established at Great l!. Isaac ChaiiiHcr was born in Windsor, Conn.. September 22, 181 1. He received a common school education, and commenced work in a cotton factory at Ludlow, Mass., when he was sixteen years old. When he was nineteen he left there and came to Great Falls (Somersworth) in 1830 and engaged in covering rollers for the Cotton Manufacturing Company; his pay was twenty-two cents a day, and during the first year, at that, he laid by forty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents. He was then promoted to the mule-room, receiving a few cents more a day; he soon mastered that work and they set him at work mule-spinning, and he soon by far exceeded the efficiency of the old workmen, who tried to bluff and bother him. In 1S35 he was placed in charge of the belt and roller shop, which position he held for a long series of years. A young man who could save forty-nine dollars in a year on a salary of twenty-two cents a day, as he did. was sure to succeed ; that saving charac- teristic ruled in his financial affairs all through life. He possessed financial foresight which led him to make investments in Government land in the West as opportunity presented. He began this practice as early as 1833. and kept it up and received large returns on his investments. Notwithstanding he was connected with the mills, he found time to do lots of other things. He commanded a militia company four vears and won his title of captain. In his mature years he was a director in the Great Falls AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 267 National Bank; vice-president of the Somersworth Savings Bank; director in the Great Falls & Conwa}' Railroad; one of the founders of the village library; Representati\e in the Legislature in 185 1; for thirty years he was member of the school committee and was a powerful force in keeping the schools of the town a little ahead of other towns in educational methods. As school committeenian he soon made up for his own lack in boyhood education by making himself familiar with all the text-books used in all grades of the schools, so far as the English language was concerned. There was nothing stingy about Mr. Chandler's character or hal.iits ; he was a benevolent man, but he chose to be his own judge of how to spend his money on charity; he ne\er turned the worthy poor away empty; on the contrary, he sought them out when they did not seek his aid. Mr. Chandler's wife was Elizabetli Downing Inirber, daughter of Wil- liam and Alice C. Furber. They were married No\ember 26, 1837. Their children were: Mary Eliza; Charles Furber; Arabella; and Albert F. The sons were educated in the Somersworth scho(.)ls and went West when young men, where they became successful business men and useful citizens in the communities in which they li\'ed. CHAPTER XXV HISTORY OF ROLLINSFORD (I) ORIGIN OF THE NAME, THE FARMERS Rollinsford adjcjins South Berwick. Me., from which it is separated by the Salmon Falls river Up t(j July 3. 1S49. its territory was a part of Somersworth and its history, chiefly, to that date has been given under the head of Somersworth. Since it was incorporated as a separate town it has continued to flourish and progress in a manner very creditable to its citizens. It has always been regarded as one of the best farming towns in Xew Hami)sliire. and its early reputation in this respect has been maintained by the farmers of the present century; they are up to date in every farm imprdvement. The Kdlinsfdrd ( Irange is one of their latest institutions and :t is one nf the best in the state, and none better in the countv. They have a fine hall in wdiich to hold their meetings, both officially and socially; in fact, it is the social center of all interests outside of Salmon Falls village, which latter is made up largely of foreign elements that work in the mills. The old. native Somersworth stock is as vigorous as at anv time in its history. .Many of the families on the farms can trace their ancestry back to the immigrant settlers of Old Dover, of which Somersworth was a parish. In their Grange meetings they discuss all the new questions of the day and keep up the old traditions of historic interest. It is a pleasure to ride on the various good roads in the farming district and look at the elegant and well kept farm buildings, and gaze over the broad, smooth fields in the grow- ing and the harvest seasons of the year. If one wants to get a fine view of Rollinsford farms, the best place to get it is from the upper lialcony of the Sawyer Memorial Observatory on Garrison Hill, the east part of which hill is in this town. \\ hen Rollinsford was incorporated in 1840. the petitioners asked that It be so named, as the Rollins family was one of the most numerous and most prominent in the town. Of course, there were others equally promi- nent, but not .so numerous. They owned large farms; they held important 268 AXI) KEPRESEXTATIVE CITIZEXS 269 official positions from time to time. Judges, Representatives. Senators. Hence tiie origin of tiie name of the town. ITS X'AIUOL'S INDUSTRIES Otherwise tiian farining, the cine I industry of Rolhnsford is the manu- facture of cotton goods at Sahnon EaUs viUagc. The postoffice of the town is Sahiion Falls, hence a great many persons take it* for granted that is the name of the town. It is a very ancient name, dating away back to 1634, or earlier; it may be s') far back as the founding of Dover, and was so named because for ages Ijefore the white men came here the salmon hsh used to come up this river in great "'schools" from the salt water of the Pascataqua and Newichawannock rivers to get into fresh water to lav their spawn to hatch a new lot of salmon annually. It was preciselv the same here as it is now in the Columbia river and other ri\ers of the western United States and Alaska. The salmon fish kei)t up this annual work in springtime -until they were shut out from getting to fresh water by dams across the fresh water rivers at Ouamphegan E'alls and Cochecho h'alls after 1640. When the fish could not get to the fresh water they ceased coming up the salt water rivers and became extinct in the waters along the New Ham[>shire and Maine coasts. They could not continue existence without the annual migra- tion to fresh water. An abundant supply was kept up for Do\-er fishermen until about 1640. So, of old, these falls in Rolhnsford were called Salmon Falls, and the Indians had their spring fishing there for ages before the Englishnien' built a log house on the bank of the river. There was a saw mill at the falls at an early period, but the water power was not used to any extent imtil the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company was incorporated, June 17, iSjj. The incorporators and pioneers in this work were James Rundlett, Jerennah Mason, John Haven and others; the General Court of New Hampshire emjiowered them to carry on the manu- facture of cotton, woolen and other goods at Salmon Falls in the town of Somersworth. They began wi^rk jjy erecting a mill where No. i now stands, for tlie manufacture of woolen cloth, and ran it with \arying success until August 7, 1834, when it was totally destroyed by fire. This stroke of bad luck was very discouraging to the owners, and the political situation at Washington rendered it uncertain what prospect of success there might be if they rebuilt the burned walls, but two years later, August _'6, 1836, the stockholders held a meeting and voted to rebuild ; after the building was erected there was a difference of opinion among the managers as to what they should manufacture, woolen cloth, as formerly, or cotton cloth; this 270 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY disagreement blocked all progress until 1844, when a number of Boston capitalists got hold of a controlling interest in the property of the corpora- tion ; among these enterprising men were Abbott Lawrence, Amos Law- rence. William Appleton and others who had become interested in the manu- facture of cotton goods in other sections of New Englaml. Thev put in the best machinery that could be bought in England and in due time had the mill manufacturing bea\y cotton drillings and sheetings. The \-enture ])ro\ed a success, to such a degree that four years later, in 1848, they built another mill of sixteen thousand spindles, and they increased their capital stock from $500,00x3 to $1,000,000. This Xo. 2 mill was 360 feet long, 60 feet wide and five stories high. The business prospered up to the beginning of the Civil war. A large village had grown up in Rollinsford, which changed the conditions of the town, socially and financially. A new class of people had come in. Of course, during the war, when cotton was scarce ;uid high priced, the mills could not dn much. July 8. 1864, the company sustained a heavy loss by the total destruction by tire, of No. i mill, agent's house, machine shop, cloth room and other property. In the spring of 1865, when the managers saw the end of the war was near, and they could be assured of a good supply of cotton, they commenced to rebuild No. i mill in larger proportions, and put up lirick wall three hundred and sixty-three feet long, fifty feet wide and five stories high, in which they installed 15,000 spindles, and business began to boom, and has been kept generally good ever since. They had been so prosperous that in 1876. by judicious alterations and improvements, the number of spindles was increased from 31,000 to 54,304. In connection with the mills they have a large picker house, a machine shop and a cloth room and a cotton house. Various impro\-enients lia\-e been made since 1876, old machinery being displaced for that which is up to date in doing rapid and economical as well as first class work in cotton manufacture. The company not only built the mills, but they practically built the village around it. They put up good houses for their help to live in ; they laid out streets, and lent a helping hand to the town in various ways. All this was in the line of progress, but it reduced the prosperous village of Old Soniersworth, at Rollinsford Junction, to a hamlet of prosperous fanners, and brought to an end the Parish of Summersworth, that was full of good works of worthy, high-minded, industrious men and women. The old church at the junction gave place to the new Congregational Church, which was organized May i, 1846, with Mr. Samuel J. Spalding as pastor, which has done good work ever since. Mr. Spalding served as minister to June 9, 1851; among his successors are E. E. .\lwater, 1852-1857; D. B. Bradford, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 271 185S-1862; S. V. Robie, 1S66-1870; Selali Merrill, 1870-1874; George W. Christie, 1878- 1880; R. G. W'oodbridge, 1880- 1890. The Protestant Episcopal Church started in holding ser\ices in the vil- lage in 1830 under the supervision of the Rev. Henry Blackaller, who was then preaching at Great Fails. Services continued to be held in halls there, from time to time, until "Christ Church" was organized in February, 1831; their church edifice was dedicated July -'4. Services were held c^uite regu- larly up to J84O, since when there have been \ery few services, at irregular intervals, owing to a change in the class of population. A Methodist Episcopal Society was organized in the \-illage in August, 1849, with twenty-four members and the lollownig board of stewards: Thomas Foye, j. W . Worster, Foster Wilson. Orange Page, Amasa Fitch, N. G. Clary and R. C. Fernakl. The societ\- ne\er erected a meeting house, but held services in halls, and the Episcopal Church when not in use until 1862, when the war had so pnjstrated business that the supply of the pulpit could not be maintained. Since then a union was established with the Con- gregational Church, .\mong those who served as pastors were Reverends Henry Drew, James Thurston, Samuel P>udle, Byron Mark, Silas Green, Eliazer Smith, Simeon P. 1 leatli and J. H. Holnian. The Roman Catholics erected an edifice for worship in 1857, near the present passenger station in the .Salmon Falls village. The cost of the large brick building was about ten thousand dollars; the membership then was about six hundred. The first priest was the Rev. Michael Lucy, who served until 1865. He had under his charge also the Catholics at Great Falls, hold- ing services at both places each Sunday. He was succeeded by the Rev. Patrick Canovan, who was the priest over the church until 1870. His suc- cessor was the Rev. John Sullivan ; next was Rev. William Herbert, w-hose successor was the Rev. F^rancis X. Bou\ier, who was followed by able priests to the present day. The Salmon Fails Manufacturing Company has had very able men for agents to manage its mills. Their names are as follows : James Rundlett from November 21, 1822, to July 14, 1823; Ebenezer Ball from August 21, 1823, to January i. 1825; Joshua \\'. Pierce from January i, 1825, to May 14. 1844; Pliny Law ton from May 14, 1S44, to July 14, 1854; Varnum A. Shedd from July 14, 1854, to April 2, 1859; Joshua Converse from April 20, 1859, to July 15, 1875; O. S. Brown from July 31, 1875, until his death in 1904. His successors were Charles H. Rumer, one year; J. P. Lewis, eight years; present agent, L. W. Omaley. The results of the management by these men were highly creditable to them and satisfactory to the stockholders. 272 lllSroRV Ui'" STRAFFORD CUL'XTV who have received good divideiuls during the larger jjart of tiie )'(.ars ihe coini;any has heen in existence. SOMERSWURTll MACHINE COMl'A.NA' The Sonierswortii Machine L'onipany lias a foundry and machine shop about one-thirtl of a mile down the riser from the factory mills. This was estaljlished at an earl)- period after the mills were in running order and supplied a long felt want, not only for the mills but also for all the business interests of Stratfori! county, as also of York county, Maine. For many- years past it has been under the very etiicient management of Edwin A. Stevens, Esq. .\bout seventy-five men are employed and all sorts of castings are made, as business of the community may demand. F^or many years the manufacture of stoves was a specialty. BANKS A.Vl) BANKING There are t\\(j Ijanks in the \illage. the Salmon h'alls State Bank, and the Rollinsforcl Savings Bank. The former was incorporated as a state liank July 3, iiS^i, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, divided into five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each. The first meeting was held Septemlier 13. 1N51. William IT. Alorton was chosen cashier and held the office continuou-^ly. until his death in 1898. Flis successor, who had been a'^sistant cashier for a number of years, was John O. A. W'entworth, who has held the office continuously to the present time. The bank commenced operation on the first day of January. 185J, and it has always been conducted in a sound and successful manner. The directors first chosen were : Hiram R. Roberts, Augustus Rollins Pliney Lawton Samuel Hiedden. John Tyler, Humphrey S. Watson and 01i\'er Lord. Wr. Roberts was elected president and held the office until his death in 1876. He was succeeded by his son, Joseph Doe Roberts, who holds the office at the present time. The Rollinsford .Savings Bank was incorporated by the New Hampshire Legislature in 1850, one }'ear after the town was incorporated, and it com- menced operations soon after it was incorporated. The officers chosen by the incorporators w ere ; President, Hiram R. Roberts ; vice-presidents, Josejjh Doe and F'liney Lawton ; trustees, Francis Phimer, William H. Mor- ton, John Woodman. Horace Barber, Roliert C. Fernald and Charles T. Stewart; secretary and treasurer. Justus D. \\'atson. In 1855 William H. Morton was chosen secretary and treasurer, which offices he held until his death in 1903. His successor was John O. A. Wentworth. whii has held AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 273 the offices to the present time. On the death of President Hiram R. Roberts in 1876, Mr. Edwin A. Stevens \\as elected his successor, which office he holds at the present time. On July I. 1835, the deposits were $70,463; in July, 1877, the amount had increased to above $800,000. In the winter of 1877-78 there occurred a large depreciation of the resources of savings banks in general throughout New England, owing to the failure of western securities; Rollinsford bank suffered with the rest, hence the bank commissioners ordered the deposits of the bank to be cut down 25 ])er cent, which was done. But in a few years the affairs of the bank \\ere managed s<> well that the cut down was restored to the depositors. Since then the l>ank has c4; substitute. John O'Neil, Aug. 17, 1864. • James Sharracks, Sept. 8, 1864. Henry Hemp, Sept. 8, 1864. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS m Frank S. Mildraw, Sept. 6, 1864. Pierce B. Buckley, Sept. 6, 1864. Lewis Ceroid, Sept. 6, 1864. Thomas Mon-ity, Sept. 7, 1864. Michael Medden. Sept. 7, 1864. Robert Carr, Sept. 7, 18O4. William Williams, Sept. 17, 1863. Charles Smith, July 3, 1863. Henry B. Philiiot, Aug. 15. 1864. John Drury, Aug. 10, 1864. Thomas Kearns, Aug. 12, 1864. George W. Brooks, September, 1863. Patrick O'Grady, September, 18^3. C. J. Collager, September, 1863. Richard Proctor, September, 1863. Alexander (i. .\nderson, Seirtemljer, 1863. John Shepard, September, 1863. Samuel H. Rollins, ]\Iay 5, 1S63: substitute. Men who served four years i $ 133-34 Men -who served three years 108 10,800.00 Men who served one year 6 Joo.oo Men who served two months i 5.55 Total $11,138.89 FIK.ST REGIMENT VOLUNTEERS Three MoiltllS George Guppey, ist sergt. Co. A, Minot R. Bedell, Co. A. George Boncher, Co. A. Charles E. Colcord, Co. A. James Daniels, Co. A. Webster Miller, Co. A. Henry Nichols, Co. A. Ivory Pray, Co. A. George H. Robinson, Co. A. George R. Shapleigh, Co. A. Josiah Whitehouse, Co. A. George H. Jenkins, corp. Co. B. George R. Downing, Co. B. Jones Reynolds, Co. B. Jacob W. Yeaton, Co. B. Lewis K. Litchfield, corp. Co. B. William Yeaton, Co. B. CHAPTER X.WII HISTORY OF ROLLIXSFORD (III) NOTABLE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN In the Rollinsford part of Old Somersworth lived a good number of notable persons whose record is given under the head of that city, but Rollinsford, since it became a sejiarate town, has kept up the reputation that \\as established in former years. Among the number are the following: Bartlwlomciv ]\'c)itworth, born January j. 17S8, lived and died on an estate which was granted to his great-great-grandfather, Elder William Wentworth, December, 1652, and on which he li\ed and where he died and was buried, when past four-score years of age, IMarch 16, 1696-7, the eighty-first anniversary of the day of his baptism. Bartholomew was the twelfth child and se\'enth son of a family of fourteen children, ten of whom arrived to maturity. He was a son of liartholomew and Ruth (Hall) Went- worth; grandson of Lieut. Benjamin and Deborah (Stimpson) Wentworth; great-grandson of Benjamin and Sarah (Allen) Wentworth, who was the youngest son of Elder William Wentworth, ami all of these, in succession, lived on the elder's homestead of 1652, and which yet remains in possession of Bartholomew's grandson, John Wentworth. Bartholomew Wentworth, Sr., died May 25, 1813, and his wife died in January, 1840. She was a descendant of Deacon John Hall of Dover, who came from England about 1639. He was a man of prominence in the settlement on Dover Neck, and for forty years was deacon of the First Church in Dover. Bartholomew Wentworth, Jr., on July 2?', iSii, was united in marriage with Nancy Hall, daughter of Capt. William and Sarah (Roberts) Hall. Their children: Arioch, l)orn June 13. 1813: Catherine, born April 28. 1815; Ruth, bom April 25. 1818; Sally, born December 12, 1S22; William Hall, born March 30, 1824; Rebecca Ann, born March 2, 1826; Seleucus, horn March 3, 1831. All these are dead; the last surxivor was Rebecca .\nn, who died in 1910. One of this group of children has a remarkable record. Arioch Wentworth, born in 1813; died in Boston. 1904, a multi-millionaire. 278 Ai\D REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 279 He was educated in the scliools of Dover and Franklin Academy; learned the trade of marble cutter; commenced work at his trade in Boston when a young man; saved his earnings and became boss of the marble establishment in which he commenced as a day laborer ; enlarged the works, doing an immense business; imested his surplus earnings in real estate in Boston; by shrewd, careful and honest business management he had become pos- sessed of several million dollars' worth of property when he was past four score years of age. He lived to be past ninety-one years. He founded the Wentworth Home for the Aged, near Garrison Hill, Dover, and endowed it with $200,000. He founded the Wentworth Hospital, in Dover, close by the Wentworth Home, giving the city of Dover, for that purpose, $100,000. All this in his life time; and by will he founded a workingmen's college in Boston, endowing it with several million dollars, wliich is now in tine work- ing order and is doing a vast amount of good in training experts in all departments of mechanics. Bartholomew Wentworth, Jr., was a man tall of stature, powerfully muscular, keen of mind, a great worker. Being a giant in strength, he was never weary until old age bade him cease from active labor. He was a good father, worthy citizen and esteemed by all who knew him. Judge Hiram R. Robrrls, born May 16, 1806, in Somerswortli, now Rollinsford; son of Stephen and Deborah (Wentworth) Roberts, and grand- son of John and Elizabeth (Hodgdon) Roberts, who was a great-grandson of Gov. Thomas Roberts of the Do\'er Combination of 1640. at Dover Neck. Judge Roberts was educated in the public scliools of Somersworth and at South Berwick Academy ; when a \-oung man he taught district schools in the winter. His father died when the son was fifteen years old. He inherited the Roberts homestead in Somersworth, now Rollinsford, which was first settled on by his great-grandfather, Roberts, in 1743, and has now been in the Roberts family 170 years, the present owner being his youngest son, Hon. Joseph D. Roberts, of whom a sketch is given elsewhere in this book. Judge Roberts was an .Andrew Jackson democrat, but he never let politics interfere with business. He was not a lawyer by profession, yet he was a wise and esteemed judge for many years. He was abo\e all a first class, progressive farmer and a Christian gentleman, in every way a crerlit to his town and a helpful neighbor. Judge Roberts was an excellent farmer, but he was more noted as a leader of the Democratic party in StraiTord county: he led, others follow^ed. He was one of the first selectmen of Rollinsford ; he w-as its Representative in the Legislature several times, first in 1837; in 1839, when he was thirty- three years old. Governor Page appointed him Associate Judge of the Court 280 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY of Coninion Pleas for Strafford count}-, uhicli then inckuled Belknap and Carroll counties. He held this oftice thirteen years, performing the duties in a manner satisfactory to those who had anything to do with the courts. He resigned in 1852 and Gow Xoah Martin of Dover appointed him Judge of Probate for Strafford county, which position he filled with credit to himself and the satisfaction of all who transacted probate business. He served in this capacity five years, and then resigned. The great political battle of his life was in 1875, when lie was the Democratic candidate for Governor. He conducted a red hut campaign and ga\e the Republican leaders a race they found it ditiicult to keep up with. His opponent was P. C. Cheney, who received less than two hundred more votes than ]\tr. Roberts. There was no election by the people, so the (juestion was decided in favor of INIr. Cheney by the Legislature, which was controlled by the Repulilican party. Judge Roberts was one of the incorporators of the Salmon b'alls Bank and the Rollinsford Savings Bank and was their jjresident from the date of organization until his death, ^Nlay 30, 1876. He was a good financier and his judgment in matters of business was an important factor in the success of those institutions w hile he was in oflice. For more than forty years he was a member of the Baptist Church at South Berwick, and for many years was superintendent of the Sunday school. For .several years he was superintendent committee for the public schools of the town and always took a keen interest in promoting popular education among all classes. His wife was Ruth Ham, daughter of Joliii and Mercy (Wentworth) Ham of Dover; they were married in November, 183 1: they were cousins. Their children were : Stephen ; Elizabeth ; Edward H. ; Walter S. H. and I'rank W',, who settled in Iowa when young men; Susan J., who married Samuel H. Rollins ; and Joseph Doe, who inherited the homestead, a biograph- ical sketch of whom appears in another part of this book. Auyiistiis Rollins was born August 29, 1797: he was son of Capt. Hiram and Joanna (Wentworth) Rollins. He lived on the farm north of Garrison Hill, opposite the Senator Rollins farm. He held various town offices and represented Rollinsford in the Legislature, but he was not a poli- tician; on the other hand, he was one of the best farmers in the town and kept his fann and buildings in first class condition. He believed in higher educa- tion for his children and gave all the best ad\-antages for obtaining it that the times afforded. His eldest son, Samuel Winkley Rollins, was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846 and was one of Xew Hampshire's noted lawyers and jurists, who resided at Meredith village. For many years he was Judge of Probate for Belknap county. Mr. Rollins' youngest son, Augustus W. AND REPRESENTATRE CITIZENS 281 Rollins, entered the service uf the Union army, in the Civil war, November 7, 1861, as captain of Company F, Seventh New Hampshire Regiment; he was promoted to major July 2^. 1S63; to lieutenant-colonel September 30, 1864; and for his skill and bra\ery as a commander at the storming of Fort Fisher was breveted colonel March 13. 1865; and later was appointed colonel of the New Hampshire Second Regiment, which office he held at the time of his death., February 16. jSjo. The father of these two worthy sons. Augustus Rollins, did not go to the war himself, hut he was a Republican in i-olitics and contributed liberally of his time and money in support of "the boys at the front." He was one of the most active and influential citizens n{ Rollins- ford. Mr. Rollins married. J4th of :May. 1824. Miss Abiah W'mkley, of Bar- rington; their children were: Samuel W'inkley; ( )li\er K.; .\ugustus \V. ; Mary Ellen and Lydia Hale. William H. Movton was liorn at IV.rtsmuulli. l-ebruary 14. 1814; died June 4. 1903: he was son of William and Sarah ((iriftith) Morton; his parents removed to Salmon Falls in 1823, when the son was nine years old. and that became his home until his death in 1898. He was educated in South Berwick Academy, in which he had the record of being a good student, and he Vvas amply fitted for success in his future career. \\ hen he was sixteen years old he entered the employ of the Salmon I'alls Manufacturing Company to learn the business; he began as a wool sorter at which lie worked four years and became master of that department of the work. In 1834 the mills were destroyed by fire and he went to Grafton, Mass., and worked in a woolen mill there for two years. He then engaged in mercantile business in the same town. When he was twenty-eight years old, 1842, he went to Blackstone, Mass., and continued in trade as at Grafton. In 1845 he returned to Salmon Falls and opened a store for general trade, in which he continued until elected cashier of the Salmon Falls Bank in 185 1 ; he then disposed of his store and devoted all his time to banking. When the savings bank was organized he was elected secretary and treasurer; all of these offices he held up to the time of his death, June 4, 1903. He pro\'ed to be one of the best banking officials in New Flampshire, as the records of the bank show, and was vigorous up to his eighty-ninth 3'ear. Mr. Morton w as not only a good banker, but a good citizen in every way. He was town treasurer for Rollinsford from organization in 1849; town clerk from 1833; both of which offices he held for life; his townsmen had such confidence in him they did not want any one else as long as Mr. Morton could serve them. Before the towns were separated he was one of the select- men of Somersworth two years; and for Rollinsford he was selectman three 282 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY years. He was a republican in politics after that party displaced the old whig party. He was a Congregationalist and was a liberal supporter of that church in the Salmon I-'alls village. Rollinsford had no better or more highly esteemed citizen. Mr. Morton was thrice married; (i) in 1841 to Sarah P. Merriam, of Grafton, Mass. ; they had three children, only one of whom survi\es. Etta, widow of John Merriam. Mrs. Merriam died in 1849. (2) He married Armine Leavitt. of York, Me., in 1851; children: Frederick H., deceased; William A., a merchant in Portland, Me.; and Sara J., a highly educated and most comi>etent woman for all good, patriotic work that may fall to her lot to do. She is one of the leaders in Margerj' Sullivan Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and has been one of the managers of the Went worth Home for the Aged, since its organization in i8g8. Her mother died in 1866 and Mr. Morton took for his third wife Miss Mary Shackford, of Ports- mouth, in 1S07. Joshua Converse was born June 15. 1813. in l-iinge, X. H. ; died in Rol- linsford, April 4, i8<)i. He was son of Joshua and Polly (Piper) Converse. He was given a good common school etlucation by his parents and then set to work in one of the cotton mills of Lowell. ]\Iass. He was an apt pupil in the business and worked his way up tpiite rapidly and for several years before he was forty he became superintendent for the Suffolk Manufacturing Cor- poration in that city. In 1859 he was appointed agent for the management of the mills at Salmon Ivalls and removed from Lowell to that village; in this position Mr. Converse was eminently successful. While a resident of Lowell, he took a hand in public affairs as well as in the manufacture of cotton goods. He began as member of the common council, of the city government; he served the customary two years and then was promoted to aldennan and served two years. Plis record as a city otificial was clean-handed, high-minded and efficient. There was no "graft" permitted in any deiiartment he controlled. Next he served two years as Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature. He was director and subsequent president of the Travelers' and Mechanics' Insurance Company; a director of the Prescott P.ank, and a trustee of the Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank, from the organization of these institutions until he removed to Salmon Falls. W bile he was agent of the mills in that \-illage he was director in the Salmon Falls Bank, and vice president of the Rollinsford Savings Bank. In his management of the mills and in the performance of his ofificial duties in con- nection with the banks, Mr. Converse manifested great ability and integrity and held the unqualified respect of his associates. In 1875 Mr. Converse purchased a tract of land on the eastern slope of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 283 Garrison Hill, in Rollinsfurtl, on which he huilt a l)eauliful and commodious dwelling from the windows of which can he seen a \ery fine view' of the city of Dover and the surrounding country. He removed from Salmon Falls village to this elegant residence. He purchased a wharf on the Cochecho river at Dover Landing, and put it in good shape to engage in the lumber business, shipping his lumber from Maine and the British Provinces. At first he conducted the business alone; the business venture prospered and he took in company Charles C. Hobbs ; the firm name for a number of years was Converse & Hobbs. Later Mr. Hobbs retired and Mr. Converse took as his partner Mr. Marshall B. Hammond in 18S3, and the firm name became Converse & Hammond. This partnership continued until severed by the death of Mr. Converse, April 4, 1891. He left the business in a fiourish- ing condition, and at the age of seventy-eight years ended a long, active and honorable career. After he engaged in the lumber business he was elected Representative from Rollins ford in the State Legislature in 1877 and 1878. He was a staunch Rei)ul)lican. October 18, 1835, Mr. Converse was united in marriage with Jane B. Damon, daughter of Galen and Jane (Barker) Damon. Children: William Henry, Josephine and Mary Jane; the son and oldest daughter died young; the other daughter became the wife of James A. I'lace, of South Berwick, Me. Mrs. Converse died March 4, 1868, and August 30, 1870, he married H. Jennie Dearborn, daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Drew) Dearborn. They had no children. U'iUiaui Roberts Garvin was born March 15, 1830, in what is now Rol- linsford; died May 16, 1910; son of Samuel and Susan (Roberts) Garvin, a great-grandson of the immigrant ancestor, James Garvin, who settled in the "Sligo" section of the town about 1700. Mr. (iarvin was educated in the common schools of Somersworth and Berwick Academy. When he had completed his academy education he engaged in school teaching several winters and was successful in the work, keeping the big boys under control and thoroughly instructing in the use of the "three R's." But Mr. Garvin's chief ambition was to be equal if not a little ahead of the best farmer in town or county. For this reason he soon became an active member of the first agricultural society that was organized in the county of Strafford and gave it his earnest support. From discussions in the meetings of the society he became the leader in improving the stock of his farm and the whole town; later he won fame and many premiums at cattle fairs by his successful breed- ing of the celebrated Avreshire cattle. Mr. Garvin was systematic, energetic and progressive in the management of his excellent farm and splendid stock. 284 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY He stood in the front rank of good fanners in that best of farming towns in the state. Being a Democrat in pohtics he was not always successfnl in iiis pohtical \'entures, liut his townsmen honored themselves by electing him to local offices, selectman, schoiil committee, road sur\eyor, etc.. and he was once tiie I )cnio- cratic candidate for county commissioner, l)ut failed of election after making a \ery strong can\ass. Mr. (_iar\'in was a member oi the Uaptist Church oi South Berwick, and was an active worker in its Sabbath school, holding official positions and lending a helping hand in the church work in every way. ]\Ir. Garvin was united in marriage with Frances H. Yeaton, of Rollins- ford, April 2, 1862; they had a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters: .\nnie Bertha; Clara W. ; William Roberts; Susie Homer; Ciertrude and Samuel R. John E. Tyler, M. D., was born in Boston, December 9, 1819; died in April, 1S78; grailuated from Dartmouth College in 1841 ; then engaged in teaching in Rhode Island a few years ; studied medicine at Dartmouth Med- ical School and medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his diploma in 1846. He then came to Salmon Falls and began jjractice of his profession, in which he was \ery successful; he remained here until his appointment, (Jctober 5. 1852, superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. He held this office successfully until 1858, when he resigned to accept the position of superintendent of the McLean Asylum for Insane, which important position he held until he resigned on account of ill health in 187 1. He then tra\-elled in Europe for (|uite a while. He died in 1878. Doctor Tyler was a gentleman of marked ability; he not onlv stcjod high in the ranks of his profession, but he possessed good business capacity in other ways. When Rollinsford was separated from Somersworth in 1849, and held its first state election in March, 1850, Doctor Tyler was elected its first Representati\e in the Legislature. He was one of the directors of Salmnn Falls State Bank. John G. Pike, M. L\, was born in Somersworth, .Vugust 17, 1817; died in Dover, 1907, agetl ninety years. He was son of Nathaniel G. Pike, grand- son of John and great-grandson of the Rev. John Pike, first minister of the Parish of Summersworth. He was fitted for college at Berwick Academy, from which he entered Bowdoin College and was graduated from that insti- tution in 1843. ^^ studied medicine with Dr. Theodore Jewett of South Berwick and w-as graduated from Bowdoin Medical College in 1847. He commenced practice of medicine that year in Durham village. In 1848 he AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 285 removed his oftice to Salmon Falls village, where he continued in practice of iiis profession twenty years. Dr. Pike then sought a wider field of work and opened an office in Boston in 1868, where he continued in successful practice until 1871, when he removed to Dover, X. H., where he resided until his deatli in kjO/, at ninety years of age. Doctor Pike was a large man, physic- ally, antl had a commanding presence, and ranked well up in his profession. He remained in practice until past four score years. During the last decade of his life he was blind, but his mind was as keen and active as in his younger years. Jonatluiii S. Ross, M. D., was born in Lisl)on, X. H., April 12, 1822; died in Concord, 1877. He fitted for college at Holmes Academy, Plymouth, and graduated from Dartmouth College in i<'>43. He studied medicine in Dart- mouth Medical School, and in the JMedical College of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1846. He commencetl practice in Boston, but went to Bath, N. H., and opened an olfice in XovemI.»er, 1846, where he remained until the fall of 1852, when he came to Rollinsford and opened an office in Salmon Falls village and practiced his profession three years. He then opened an office in Som- ersworth at Great Falls \'illage and was in practice there twenty-two years. He (lied X'ovember 22, 1877. He was Representative from Rollinsford in 1853, in the State Legislature. August 14, 1862, he was appointed surgeon for the Eleventh Xew Hampshire Regiment of Volunteer Infantry. He serxed in the armv continuouslv luitil the fall of i8f>4, when his health failed, and he was discharged Decemljer 7, 1864. While in the army he was pro- moted to surgeon of Second Brigade, Second Division, Xinth .Vrmy Corps, Gen. ,S. G. (iriffin. In 1865 he was appointed post-surgeon and stationed at Concord, and serA-ed to the close of the war. wlien he returned to his home in Somersworth. Doctor Ross was an excellent surgeon and a highly esteemed gentleman. lulwiii /'. Jaqiics. M. D., was lianks of all the rivers; one of these was Durham Point ; from there the settlements gradually crept up the river, on both banks, to the falls, "Oyster River freshet." Hill, Smith. Mathes, Meader, Bunker, Burnham, \\'illiams. Bickford, Edgerly. Woodman, Jones, Davis. Chesley. I'itman, Tasker, Jenkins, Durgin, Cretchett, Doe, Willy, Demerett, Jackson, are among the names of the earliest .settlers, and descend- ants of these are dwellers in that good old town today. It was the common law of the town that all grown persons must attend church on the Lord's Day. They did not call it Sunday or Sabbath. The tneeting-house was on Meeting-house Hill, Dover Neck. It was quite a dis- tance for the Oyster River farmers to travel in their boats to the Cove on Back ri\er and climb the hill, going Ijy "Deacon Hall's Spring," to the meet- ing-house and get there before Richard Pinkham finished "beating the drum." as a warning for all to attend. Being a tedious morning journey, soon after 1650 the}' began to petition for the town to provide a special service to be held at Durham Point, for the convenience of all. So 16. 2 mo.. 1655, in town meeting the following is the record : "It is agreed upon concerning setting comfortable maintenance of tlie ministry of Dover and Oyster Ri\er, all the rent of the saw mills shall be set apart into a Towne stocke. with two pence upon ye pound to be rated upon the estates of all the inhabitants, and all such estates so apjMinted are to be put into the hands of any that shall be chosen Treasurer by ye sd. Towne to receive the same, which sum hath 286 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 287 respect to the Rate is to be paid in Money, Beaver, Bief, Poarke, ^\■Ileat, Pease, Mault, Butter, Cheeise, in one or any of these. This order to take place 25tli of June next and continue one wliole yeare." June 30, 1^)56, the town vdted to huiid a liouse at Oyster River "near the meeting-house, for the use of the minister, of the following dimensions, viz. : thirty-six feet long, ten feet wide, twelve feet in the wall, with two chimnies to be suitably finished." This was done and indicates that the Oyster Rive, inhabitants had built a meeting-house at their own expense, ready for service. The first minister there was the Rev. Edward Fletcher, who served "one whole year" and then returned to England, from whence he had come. Fol- lowing this they had no minister of their own. but thev i)aid their ministerial tax to Dover and had the service of the regular minister at the First Churcli on Meeting-house Hill, who came over to Oyster River as often as his time would permit. The town records say: "Mr. Fletcher and the town having had .some discourse whether he will leave them, he willingly manifested that he was not minded to stay any longer, but to prepare himself for Old England and could not justly lay any blame upon the town." After Mr. Fletcher left it was arranged that the Rev. John Ruyner, minister of the h'irst Church, should have fifty pounds extra for services rendered at the Oyster River meeting-hou.se. November 10, 1658, in town meeting, it was voted that the charges for "fitting the two meeting-houses of Do\er and Oyster River" should be borne by each place respectively, each place taking care of its own house. In iC>f)2 the tax list shows that twenty-eight taxpayers lived on Dover Neck, twenty-nine lived at Cochecho, twelve at Bloody Point, forty-two at Oyster I'^.iver and one William Ffollett at Belle-Man's Bank. This shows that Oyster River settlement was a lively place and they employed the Rev. Joseph Hull to be their minister. Mr. Hull was born in England in 1594; graduated from St. Mary's, Oxford University, in jCu^: liegan preaching, as a I'uritan minister, in 1621 ; he came to New England about 1650; he came to Oyster Rix'er in 16O2 and was the minister for that community about three years, then removed to the Isles of Shoals, where he died November 10, 1665. During his ministry the Quaker women missionaries came o\-er from Dover Neck and gave him considerable trouble in his Sunday meetings. They would stand up when he was delivering his sermon and contradict what he said and persist in arguing the ipiestion. On ()ne occasion one was so discourte- ous, not to say abusive, that the deacons interfered and removed her from the meeting-house. In 1668 the minister's house at Oyster River needed repairs and in town 288 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY meeting Captain Waldeme and Robert Burnum were cliosen to oversee the work, and Left Coffin and William Ffollett were instructed not to "act any- thing" without their consent and "what they shall consent unto shall be the act of the town for finishing the house." In 1669 the church difficulties between Dover Xeck and Oyster River broke out afresh and a ix-tition to the General Court in Boston asking that the Oyster River section of Dover be made a separate township, in which they say: "We groan under intolerable grievances, our niimstry being greatly weakened, yea, and hazarded thereby, having neither head nor hand, to mo\e in order to calling (a minister) when without, or selling and main- taining (one) when obtained, and it being so difficult for us to attend civil (town) meetings there (at Dover Neck meeting-house) that often most of us cannot be there, hence we are in danger to be neglected or not taken care of, nor our affairs so well provided as if we were a township of our- selves, we being in all two hundred and twenty souls, near fifty families and seventy-odd soldiers, a convenient number of farmers, humbly request this honored court to grant us that so beneficial a privilege of becoming a township," etc. The petition was duly considered by the General Court ; Capt. John Wood- man was the chief spokesman for the petitioners, but Capt. Richard Walderne overruled him in strength of argument. So instead of granting the petition, the committee of the court reported : "We have grounds to hope there may be an agreement and settlement of things betwixt you (Dover Neck and Oyster River) ; we commend to your considering it best that you should jointly agree upon terms which may be most advantageous for each other and for public good ; and for that end we judge it mete to respit ye case till next session of this court," etc. That was the end of the case for the time being, and no further effort was made in this direction until 1695. In 1675 it was agreed that two of the five selectmen should be chosen from Oyster River. Under this arrangement the people for many years had their own minister, who was paid by the town of Dover, but with taxes imposed upon the Oyster River taxpayers. Just who officiated as minister up to 1G84 is not quite clear, but during that year the Rev. John Buss was duly installed in that official capacity. Mr. Buss was both physician and minister, and an able man in both capacities. He was born in England about 1640. and as layman did some Puritan preaching before he came over to New England. He first appears at Wells, Me., in 1672, and served that settlement as minister and physician until 1684. when he settled at Oyster River, and was a leader among that people for many years. He lost his house and valuable library in the awful Indian and French massacre in the AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 289 summer of 1694, when nearly a hundred of his parishioners were killed and others were carried away captives. He died in 1736. An ancient landmark, "Parson p]uss' Pulpit," on the south side of Oyster River, will ever recall the memories of this tine old gentleman, who was for many years the guardian of the health and the souls of his people there. In 1695, what the Indians had left of the Oyster River people presented a petition to the Provincial Assembly of New Hampshire, asking to be made a township. There is no record that any action was taken in regard to this petition. It may be of interest to the reader to see the names of the petitioners of this date. They arc: John Woodman, Stephen Jones, Paul Davis, Sampson Doe, James Bunker, Sr., Jeremiah Cronimett, James Durgin, William Williams, Elias Critchett, Nathaniel Meader, John Cromell, Jere- miah Burnum, John Smith, Thomas Bickford, John Binder, Ffrancis Mathes, Henry Nock, John Willcy, Thomas Edgerly, Iidward Leathers, Henry Marsh, Joseph Meader, Edward Wakeham, Philip Chesley, Sr., Thomas Chesley, Jr., George Chesley, William Jackson, Joseph Bunker, John Smith, Joseph Jones, John Doe, John Williams, Thomas Williams, William Durgin, Henry Vines, Philip Cromell, John Meader, Jr., William Tasker, Philip Duly, Eli Demeritt, Joseph Jenkins, James Bunker, James Thomas, John Edgerly, William Durgin, Joseph Smith, Thomas Willey, Thomas Chesley and bT'rancis Pitman. The next record in regard to this question appears in the Provincial Records, May 4, 1716, as follows: "In Answer to ye Petition of Capt. Nathaniel Hill and ye People of Oyster River. "That ye agreement of ye town of Dover with yt Part of ye town called Oyster River, abt maintaining a Minister among them at their own cost & charges be confirmed & yt ye new meeting house built there be the place of ye publick worship of God in that District an establish a Distinct parish with all rights & privileges belonging to a Parish with full power to call & settle a Minister there and make Assessments for ye payment of his Salary & all other Parish charges equally on ye several inhabitants within yt Dis- trict & annually to chose five persons, freeholders in said Parish to make ye ta.x & manage all affairs of ye Parish," etc. The first parish meeting was held May 14th, following the granting of the petition, at the new meeting house. John Thompson, constable of the district, was authorized to call the meeting and notify the inhabitants. The new meeting house had been erected in 171 5 upon the spot where the one afterwards built in 1792 was located; that is where the General Sullivan monument now stands. The first minister of the new parish was the Rev. Hugh Adams. He was 17 290 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY bom May 7, 1676; graduated from Harvard College in 1697; studied for the ministry and preached at Braintree, Mass., where he was ordained and settled September 7, 1707; later he was minister at Chatham, Cape Cod, and was dismissed in 1715. He came to the Oyster River parish in 1716, and August 7, 1717, purchased the residence now known as the "General Sulli- van house." "At Oyster River Parish, in Dover, March 26th (1718). This day (through the smiles of Heaven upon us) we had a Church gathered here, in Decency and Order of the Gospel, and our Teacher, the Rev. Hugh Adams, was then consecrated and Established the Pastor thereof, who then preached from the Text in Cant. 3-1 1; we being then favored with the Presence and Approbation of some Reverend Pastors of the next Neighbor- ing Churches with the Honoured Messengers thereof, at the said Solemnity, in our New Meeting-House, wherein they gave the Right Hand of Fellow- ship. "As witness our Hands. "Nathaniel Hill, "Stephen Jones." Mr. Adams v\as a man of great power and influence in the new town; he was minister in this place until he asked to be dismissed, and his request was granted January 23, 1739. He died in 1750, aged seventy-four. From the records it appears that more than a hundred persons, besides the ten who organized the church, became members during his ministry; and a still larger number of persons of various ages were baptized. The Rev. Nicholas Gilman, a native of Exeter, was Mr. Adams' suc- cessor in the ministry at Durham; born January 18, 1707; graduated from Harvard College in 1724; was ordained at Durham March 3, 1742. He con- tinued as minister until his death, April 13, 1748. "He was buried at Exeter, the home of his ancestors, whither his remains were carried by the young men of the town. He was greatly beloved for excellencies of charac- ter and disposition." Mr. Gilman's successor was the Rev. John Adams, son of Matthew Adams of Boston and nephew of the Rev. Hugh Adams, above mentioned. His father was one of the noted men of Boston and a leading citizen when Benjamin Franklin was a boy, to whom he lent books which, no doubt, had much to do in shaping the career of the great philosopher and statesman. Dr. Franklin mentions this fact in his memoirs and gratefully acknowledges the favors received in his boyhood. Mr. Adams was born June 19. 1725; graduated from Harvard College in 1 745 ; and three years later came to AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 291 Durham, as its minister, it being his first pastorate. He was ordained March 25. 1749- He was a man of fine literary ability; he possessed musical talents ot a high order and saw to it that all the best musical talent in the parish was brought mto use; he was skilful as a mechanic and would have been a first class master builder had he turned his attention in that direction instead of the mmistry. He was a patriot and during the Revolution made the old meetmg house rmg with soul-stirring sermons in aid of the cause of Ameri- can mdependence. He was not only a strong minister, but also a good physician for the community at large. At his request he was dismissed June 16, 1778. Soon alter he removed to Newfields, Me., where he was one of the leaders in founding the town. He continued his ministry there and practiced medicine until his death, June 9, 1792. Mr. Adams' successor was the Rev. Curtis Coe; bom in Middletown, Conn., July 21, 1750; graduated from Brown University in 1776, and began his ministry at Durham about three years later, being ordained and installed November i, 1780. He was minister here more than a quarter of a century He resigned May i, 1806, and became a home missionary in the frontier towns of New Hampsliire and Maine, where no ministers were settled He was a good man, a great preacher, and successful pastor. He died at Newmarket, June 7, 1829, leaving many worthy descendants. The meeting house erected in 171 5, and under which the powder taken from Fort William and Mary was stored by General Sullivan in December, 1774, was taken down in 1792. and a larger one erected upon the same site' where now the Sullivan monument stands. That meeting house was built by the town, just as the ministers had been supported by the town ; this town support of the minister continued up to 1806, when Mr. Coe resigned. After that the town, as such, declined to vote money for the minister's salary in town meetings. In changing over from the old to the new order of ministry there was some little delay in getting the church machinery in working order They had preaching occasionally, but no regular pastor until 1814, when the Rev. Federal Burt commenced to preach in the meeting house on the hill He was born March 4. 1789, at South Hampton, Mass. That bein- the day on which the Federal Government of the United States was put in operation, is the reason why the paternal Burt named his son "Federal" Burt. He graduated from Williams College in 1812; he was formally settled as minister for the Durham church June 18, 1817. He was then a young man of twenty-eight years, and possessed of an interesting person- ality, as well as a thorough knowledge of and skill in using the English language. He had preached quite a while before he was ordained and had created a great revival in 1816, which led to his ordination the following 292 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY year. He was a man of commanding presence and exercised a wonderful power over the people of the town, outside of the church organization. He died February 9, 1828. The old meeting house on "Broth Hill" was given up in 1848, when the present house of worship was erected. A fonner resident of the town, who could remember seeing Mr. Burt in the last years of his ministry, wrote as follows: "What a spacious attair it was, with its high galleries all around; its square pews; seats on hinges; high pulpit up a long flight of stairs; the sounding board over the pulpit, slightly back of the preacher; and printed in gilt letters on a green ground the fourth verse of the one hundredth psalm, "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him and bless his name.' And then it was an awe inspiring sight as Mr. Burt, robed in his elegant black silk surplice, ascended those stairs, opened the Bible and read the morning lesson." The Rev. Robert Page was Mr. Burt's successor; born April 25, 1790; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1810; from Andover Theological Sem- inary in 1815; he was installed as pastor at Durham, December 3. 1828; dismissed March 31, 1831, and died January 12, 1876. His successor was the Rev. Alvan Tobey, D. D. ; born at Wilmington, Vt., April I, 1808; graduated from Amherst College in 1828; Andover Theological Seminary in 1831, and began preaching in Durham the first Sabbath in October of that year, and remained the minister of the church until the first week in January, 1871, a period of a little more than thirty- nine years. It was the wi,sh that he remain pastor for life, but he declined. He was a discrete manager among the people and kept the membership of the church well up, leaving it in fine and harmonious condition. Dr. Tobey received his degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1867. He was the author of several religious works during his pastorate. Soon after he retired he removed to Somersworth, where he resided until his death, September 30, 1874. CHAPTER XXIX HISTORY OF DURHAM (II) THE OYSTER RIVER MASSACRE^ JULY l8, 1694 The greatest event in the history of the Oyster River parish was the massacre perpetrated by the Indians and French on July i8, 1694. At that time the settlement had grown to such an extent that houses were along the banks on both sides of the river, from Durham Point to the falls, where Oyster River freshet connects with the tide water, and all these were attacked soon after midnight, July 17-18. There were twelve garrisoned houses, and several others which were not protected with palisade logs. The dwellers in the latter houses went to the garrisoned houses whenever they supposed there was any danger of attack by the Indians. As they had recovered from the fright given them by the massacre at Cochecho in June, 1689, they were resting quietly in their respective homes on this eventful night, not apprehending any danger, as the Indians had been quiet for some time past, since they had murdered the great and brave Maj. Richard Walderne in his garrison, which stood where the courthouse stands in Dm er. Everything was quiet in July. 1694, and the people of Oyster River had no occasion to entertain fear, as they had not done anything to incur the special enmity of the Indians, as Major ^\'alderne and the iieople at Cochecho had. It is said that the design of surprising the Oyster River settlement was publicly talked of at Quebec two months before it was put into execution. Sieur de Villieu, who had distinguished himself in the defense of Quebec in 1692, when Sir William Phips attempted to capture it, was leader of this raid. During the first week in July there were rumors of Indians seen lurking around in the woods hereabout, but no mischief being attempted, the dwellers here imagined they were merely hunting parties, so thought no more of it. But, at length, the necessary preparations having been made, Villieu, with a body of 250 Indians, collected from the tribes of St. John, Penol)scot and Norridgewog. attended by a French priest, had gathered in the forest around, early in the night, without being discovered. At the falls they formed two divisions, one of which was to go on each 293 294 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY side of the river and plant themselves in ambush in small parties that would cover all the houses, so as to be ready for a simultaneous attack on all at the rising of the sun, which, you know, at that time in July is about 4 o'clock. The plot was well laid, but it miscarried to a certain extent. You saw just before you crossed over the river to the Sullivan monu- ment, a mill dam and the ruins of an old mill. Well, in 1694, John Dean's house stood near that old mill. I presume he was a miller. As it happened, that morning he arose before daybreak, probably about 2 o'clock, to go off on a journey, perhaps to Portsmouth. It had been agreed among the Indians to commence the attack at all points when the first gun was fired, at sunrise. But when John Dean stepped out of his door to take his boat to go down the river, an Indian shot him dead. This firing disconcerted the plans of the Indians, in part, as several parties who had some distance to go had not then arrived at their stations: the people in general were attacked imme- diately, where the Indians were ready to begin their bloody work; some of the people at the lower part of the river, here, had time to make their escape across Little Bay, to Fox Point, while others prepared for defense. The fight raged for two or three hours. Of the twelve garrisoned houses, five were destroyed, viz. : Adams', Drew's, Edgerly's, Meader's and Beard's. They entered the Adams gar- rison without resistance, where they killed fourteen persons. The grave is still to be seen in which they were all buried : it is just across the river from where you saw the site of the Davis garrison, near the mouth of the river. It was built by Charles Adams. Mr. Adams and his wife and son, Samuel, were among the numi)er killed. The huge mound of the grave has always been respected by the owners of the soil, by never stirring the sod by plow for planting. The ancient Mathes burying ground is near it. Thomas Drew's garrison was just above that of Adams' ; he surrendered his garrison on the promise of security, but they murdered him; also his brother, Francis, was killed, and several of the family were carried away captives to Canada. Among the number was Thomas Drew, Jr., and his wife. Tamsen: they had been recently married and were living in the old garrison in 1694. when the Indians captured them and burned the house. A boy, nine years old, one of the family, was made to run the gauntlet, the lane of Indians throwing their hatchets at him until he was finally killed. Thomas Drew and his wafe were separated by the Indians on their retreat, and he was carried to Canada, but she was carried to Norridgwog. He was redeemed after remaining in Canada two years ; she was not redeemed until 1698, and during her bondage of four years she suffered great cruelties. After four years she returned and she and her husband commenced house- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 295 keeping on the shore of Great Bay. where they lived until he was ninety- three and she was eighty-nine years of age, and they raised a family of fourteen children. Their descendants are numerous and most worthy citizens. The Edgerly garrison was built by Thomas Edgerly about 1680, on the shore of Little Bay, south of the mouth of Oyster river; on account of tlie alarm being given ahead of schedule time, by the shooting of John Dean, Mr. Edgerly and his family had time to get out of the house and into boats, by which they crossed over the bay to Fox Point, but they were shot at by the pursuing Indians, and his son, Zachariah, was killed by one shot. The rest escaped. The Indians burned his garrison and all the contents. This Thomas Edgerly was appointed a justice of the peace in 1674 and m February, 1684-5. was one of the judges appointed by Governor Cranfield to try the Rev. Joshua Moody, pastor of the church in Portsmouth, for violation of the law in refusing to administer the Lord's supper to Cranfield and two of his council, according to the forms of the Church of England, "as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, and no other." Justice Edgerly held that Mr. Moody was not guilty. Whereupon Cranfield revoked Edgerly's com- mission as justice, but it was restored to him by Cranfield's successor. He was living as late as 1715. Beard's garrison, whose location you saw a short distance this side of the falls, was built by William Beard in 1675, when the Indians first began to be real ugly, and in September of that year a party of Indians under the lead of the Chief Squando made their first onset at Oyster River; they burned two houses belonging to persons named Chesley; killed two men in a canoe and carried away two captains, both of whom soon after made their escape. They came up to Beard's garrison and, meeting him outside the garrison, killed him, and in a barbarous manner cut off his head and set it on a pole in derision ; then they went on to Exeter and Hampton, where they committed more murders. That was the first serious trouble that Oyster River settlement had with the Indians. In 1694 the Beard garrison was occupied by his son-in-law. Edward Leathers, who with his family made their escape before the Indians attacked and burned the garrison. By the way. this Edward Leathers, who seems to have been a very respectable and worthy citizen, as were many of his descendants, was the ancestor of the noted dwellers in the famous Leathers City of Barrington, whose fame was .great both far and near, but the city in Barrington is now but a quiet neigh- borhood. The Meader garrison, which stood in the neighborhood of where Mr. Elisha R. Brown's summer residence is, up there opposite Fox Point, was 2(16 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY built by John Meader as soon as the wars began in 1675. I" 1694 Mr. Meader was about sixty-four years old. When he heard the firing of guns about daybreak on the morning of the massacre, he was not properly and sufifi- ciently prepared to defend his house, because ammunition was lacking, so he took his family across the river to Fox P^oint before the Indians had a chance to begin their attack on his garrison. When they reached there, finding it vacant, they burned it to the ground, but Mr. Meader immediately rebuilt it after the massacre and called on the Government to station soldiers there, which was done, according to the provincial papers, and they remained until December. 1694. There were other farm houses about the settlement which were not gar- risoned; that is. did not have a large yard around them enclosed by a high stockade of posts in the ground which no man could climb over, the entrance to which was by a gate of strong timbers which was fastened at night by a strong bar across it. On that horrible night in 1694 nearly all of these defenseless houses were set on fire, the inhabitants being either killed or taken prisoners; some of them escaped to the garrisoned houses, or hid in the bushes, or other secret places. Dear friends, just imagine yourself under such circumstances; you can then appreciate this story. I have told you of the garrisons that were burned. The other seven garrisons, viz.: Jones', Bunker's, Smith's, Davis', Burnham's, Bickford's and Woodman's, were resolutely and successfully defended. Taking them in the order as you saw the localities in coming down here I will first mention — The Tones garrison, ^^•hich stood on the upper side of Jones creek, a pleasant location, with the river in full sight. It was built by Stephen Jones, who settled there in 1663, and the farm has been in possession of the Jones family to the present day, 246 years ago. He is called Ensign Jones in 1692, being one of the three officers appointed for the defense of the settlement, the others being Capt. John ^Voodnlan and Lieut. James Davis. That was three years after the massacre at Cochecho, so it is more than probable that they sup]ilied their garrison well with amnninitinn and other means of defense, which made them thoroughly prepared to fight the Indians when they made the attack two years later. The Jones garrison was beset before daybreak. Ensign Jones hearing his dogs bark, and imagining that wolves might l)e near, went out to secure some swine, which done, he returned unmolested ; but being suspicious that all was not right, he then went up into the flankout and sat on the wall. Discerning the flash of a gun, he dropped backward ; soon a ball entered the place where he had withdrawn his legs. Of course there was something doing at once; he aroused his household and AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 297 prepared for defense, which was successfully made, although his fort was beset on all sides. The Bunker garrison you saw the ruins of, as you came here. It is on the upper side of Bunker's creek. It was built by James Bunker, who was settled at Oyster River as early as 165J: it was built about 1675. It was successfully defended in 1694, and a part of the original estate, including the old garrison, has remained in possession of the Bunker family to the present time, 257 years. Tiie Smith garrison stood on a hill, near where you saw the Smith bury- ing ground. It was built by Joseph Smith, \\ho on July 31, i6t)0, had a g-rant from the town of Dover of that lot of land, which has remained in possession of the Smith family to the present time, 253 years, the jiresent owner being Forest S. Smith, Esq., a prominent merchant in Boston. This Joseph Smith was a son of George Smith, who was one of Capt. Thomas Wiggins' company that settled at Dover Neck in 1633, 281 years ago, and was a prominent citizen of Dover, being town clerk several years; he some- times spelled his name "Smyth." He is named among those who were the first freemen of Dover. Joseph Smith resided on that land until his death; his remains were interred in the burial ground nearly where the garrison stood, and on his gravestone you read this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Joseph Smith, ivho died December 15, 1728, aged eiiihty-nine years. He 7uas the first Euro/yean zvho cultivated the soil in zvhich his remains arc deposited." The adjoining tombstone bears this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Smith, wife of Joseph Smith, ivho died May 25, 1727." In that burial ground you saw the grave- stones of six generations of the Smith family, who in turn had been owners of that land; it is a condition which probably no burial ground in New Hampshire can duplicate. In the Woodman burial ground, up near the col- lege, there are the graves of Capt. John Woodman and six generations of his descendants, who in turn owned the \\'oodman garrison anrl the land around it, but not all of the graves have separate headstones to designate the exact spot where each was buried. The Smith garrison was successfully defended, "being seasonably apprised of the danger," as the report says, other families taking refuge there. The Indians made furious and continued attacks, liut the brave men within "held the fort." The Smith family in every genera- tion descended from Joseph has had men distinguished for ability, energy and faithful sennce in public trusts. The Davis garrison, the location of which you saw near the mouth of Oyster river, was built by John Davis of Haverhill, Mass., who came here as early as 1653 and settled on that land in 1654; he is the present writer's 298 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY ancestor. He is called Ensign John Davis as early as 1663, and died before 1686. He built tlie garrison about 1675, and in it resided his son, James, and family at the time of the massacre in 1694. This James was then Lieut. James Da\is; later in life, in the next century, he became colonel of his regiment and was one of the great men of his generation, valiant in wars with the French and Indians, wise and energetic in peace ; judge, coun- cillor, and incorruptible in all official positions ; he accumulated great wealth and left a family of nine children, whose ages, at their death, averaged eighty-seven years eacii. He died in 1748, aged eighty-eight years. You saw the headstone at his grave, where it has withstood the storms of 160 years. Around it arc the unmarked graves of his descendants for several generations. \\'hen the Indiana made their attack on the garrison on the morning of July i8th, Lieutenant Davis and his neighbors who had gathered there were ready for them, being forewarned by the guns up the river, and they suc- cessfully repulsed every attack that was made, without the loss of a man. But what a horrible night it was as he looked across the river and saw the burning houses and heard the cries of his neighbors, whom he was unable to assist. It is the tradition of the neighborhood that Col. James Davis, the veteran officer and able magistrate, used on occasion to lay aside his carnal weapons, and convene religious meetings at his capacious garrison, in which he took the lead in prayer and exhortation. (Some time after the affair of 1694, it is the tradition that six or seven persons from Oyster River Point, on their way to the boat from one of these meetings, were waylaid and slain by the Indians on the Meader land just below Davis creek. Their bodies, discovered some days later, were covered with earth where they lay. This place was pointed out to you by Mr. Chesley.) The Bickford garrison stood at Durliam Point, across the river from Colonel Davis' but lower down. It was built by Thomas Bickford, ancestor of the present writer; that point of land has Little Bay on one side and Oyster river on the other. On the occasion of the attack. Captain Bickford being forewarned by the noise and fire up river, sent his family across the bay to Fox Point, and remained to defend his garrison, when the attack should be made, which he knew was sure to come. He did the work in a very ingenious and successful way ; it w as surrounded by a strong palisade. Despising alike the promises and threats by which the Indians would have persuaded him to surrender, he kept up a constant fire at them, changing his dress as often as he could, showing himself with a different cap, hat or coat, and sometimes without either, and giving orders of command in a loud voice, as if he had a company of soldiers with him, and continually shooting AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 299 at the enemy, he completely deceived them and they finally gave up the attempt to capture the garrison, thinking it was too strongly manned for them. The first meeting house at Oyster River was just across the river from the Smith garrison ; the Indians did not disturb it, and it is the tradition that while the massacre and l>urning of houses was going on, a French priest, who accompanied the party, remained in the meeting house, and employed him- self in writing on the pulpit with chalk, and would not permit the house to be damaged. At that time the pastor was Rev. John Buss; he happened to be away from home, but the Indians destroyed his house, nearby the church, with a valuable library, wiiose books and manuscripts would be of inestima- ble value if our historical society could possess them now. His wife and family escaped to the woods and thus saved their lives. The Burnham garrison, above the meeting house, also made a successful defense. After the fight on both sides of the river was over, Dr. Belknap says: "Both divisions then met at the falls, where they had passed the even- ing before, and proceeded together to Captain Woodman's garrison. The ground being uneven, they approached without danger, and from behind a hill kept up a long and severe fire at the hats and caps which the people within held up on sticks above the walls, but did no damage except battering the roof of the house. At length, apprehending it was time for the people in the neighboring settlements to collect in pursuit of them, they finally with- drew, having killed and captivated between ninety and a hundred persons, and burned about twenty houses, of which fi\e were garrisons." Just a few words about that Woodman garrison, which was standing in a fine state of preservation until it was burned to the ground in N()venil)er, 1896. You saw what a beautiful location it stood on, the hill at the head of Beard's creek, with brooks and deep ravines on every side of the acclivity, except the west. It has a fine outlook for an approaching enemy, as well as a charming view in every direction, except in the rear, where the rise of land intercepts the prospect. Durham village, which did not exist in 1694. lies at the south in full view ; at the east may be traced the windings of Oyster river. .'\t the north, through an opening between the hills, can be seen the spot where stood the Huckin's garrison; and nearer at hand, but separated by a deep ravine, is the field where occurred the massacre of r68(). when the garrison was destroyed and eighteen persons were killed in a field by the Indians. The mound where they were buried can still be pointed out, never having been disturbed by the plow. The W^oodman garrison was built by Capt. John Woodman, a direct ancestor of the present writer; he was a son of Edward Woodman of New- 300 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY bury, Alass., one of the founders of that town. Captain \Voodman came to Oyster River as early as 1657, and in 1659 had a grant of twenty acres of land, the same on which he built the garrison. Captain Woodman was one of the leading men of the town and the province. The garrison and the valuable fami remained in possession of his descendants, in the Woodman name, for more than two hundred years, the last of the name to own it being the distinguished Prof. John S. \\'oodman of Dartmouth College, who died in the old garrison May 9, 1871, and was buried in the ancient burial ground, which you saw on that beautiful spot on the hill by Beard's creek, where five generations of his ancestors had been laid before him. After his death it was sold by his widow, together with the farm. By carelessness on the part of the owner, it was burned in November, 1896, an event that never ought to have occurred; such carelessness in connection with historic places is inexcusable. The Woodman burial ground is on a beautiful ridge between Beard's cove and the broad, green field at the south of it. This was an ancient burial ground for the Indians in the ages before the white man came up Ovster river. In 1862 Prof. John Smith Woodman of Dartmouth College erected a fine monument in the center of the ground on which are the fol- lowing inscriptions : "Here lie the remains of the Woodman family, who have occupied these grounds since 1659. Here are the graves of seven generations; August, 1862. "Tohn Woodman. Esq.. came from Newbury, Me.; born 1630, died 1706; his son Jonathan, born 1665, died 1729; his son John born 1701, died 1777; his son Captain Jonathan, born 1743, died 181 1 ; his son Nathan born Decem- ber 29, 1789, died March 2. 1869; his .son Prof. John Smith, born Sep- tember 6, 1819, died May 9, 1871. Professor Woodman's wife bom May i, 1833, died December 15, 1884. Their daughter Fanny born September 5, 1861, died February 26, 1862." CHAPTER XXX HISTORY OF DURHAM (HI) DURHAM IN THE REVOLUTION CAPTURE OF THE POWDER AT FORT WILLIAM AND MARY, DECEMBER, I// 4 The third great event in the history of Durham was the Revolutionary war, in which its citizens took an active and important part, beginning with the first overt act of the war, in December, 1774. The parish was incorpo- rated as a town by the Provincial assembly, May 15, 1732. It received the name of Durham, apparently at the request of the Rev. Hugh Adams, who had been minister of the parish a number of years. In his address to the General Court in 1738, he says this parish "was chartered into the township of Durham" in answer to his petition "for its privileges and said name, as therein pleaded for." For some reason not explained, Mr. Adams had a love for Durham in Old England and wanted it given to this new town in Xew^ England, and the Assembly so named it. The men of the new town took an active part in the French and Indian wars preceding the opening of the Revolutionary struggle. The most con- spicuous man among Durham citizens in the Revolution was John Sullivan, born in the parish of Summersworth. in Dover, February 17, 1740; son of the famous schoolmaster, John Sullivan, and his wife, Margery Brown. He was given a good education by his father, and completed his study of law, with Samuel Livermore of Portsmouth, when he was twenty years old, and was married that same year, commencing housekeeping at Berwick, Me., where his father lived (not South Berwick). Later he settled as a lawyer in Durham, and on December 19, 1764, purchased from the heirs of Dr. Samuel Adams the well known Sullivan house, near the Sullivan monument on "Broth Hill," where the old meeting house stood. That house Parson Hugh Adams, father of Samuel, had purchased of Joseph Burnham, August 7. 1717. It was then a new house, Init now (1913) must be near, or quite, two hundred years old. That house was General Sullivan's home until his death, January 23, 1795, and the home of his family for many years after that. 301 302 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY The young lawyer soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice of his profession and for ten years was one of the leading lawyers in New Hampshire and in York county, Maine. He was brilliant, energetic and eloquent as an attorney and he carried on considerable mill business, outside of his law practice, so that in ten years he had acciunulated quite a handsome fortune, for that period. It would have been nothing unusual for him to oppose war to save his property, but the oppressive measures of the British ministry found him a bold opponent. Perhaps he inherited this feeling of opposition from the way his ancestors had been despoiled of their possessions in Ireland. He was of the O'Sullivans of the southwestern part of that island, near Bantry bay, to whom the name of England was justly a synonym of merciless tyranny and bloody despotism. He could trace his ancestry to holders of castles leveled by the English invader. His grandfather, Major Philip O'Sullivan, had been a soldier in the defense of Limerick, the last place in Ireland to yield to King William III, and on its fall had chosen liberty in exile in France, where he died, rather than to submit to forswear himself at home. This young lawyer of Durham, at thirty-four years of age, had the spirit and courage of such ancestors, and when the call came for him to show his colors in 1774 he was ready for tlie fray. In December of that year Paul Revere took his first patriotic horseback ride and came to Portsmouth and infonned the leading patriots there that a British warship was coming to that town to take the powder and other war materials from Fort William and Mary, where Fort Constitution now is, and he advised them to get busy and remove the war material Ijefore the British sailors could get a chance to do it. It was a very important and timely journey, though not much has been said about it since then. Well, a party at Portsmouth acted promptly on Paul Revere's advice. On the afternoon of December 14, 1774, they went down river to the fort in Newcastle: surprised everybody in it, and took away ninety-seven barrels of powder and brought it all up river to Portsmouth. Then the question was what to do with it. If they kept it there in Portsmouth the British war- ship could come there and capture it; and the ship did arrive a day or two after the powder and other stuff had been taken safely inland and stored where no British army could find it. The Portsmouth Sons of Liberty very speedily and wisely sent a message to Major John Sullivan in Durham to come down with a crew of men and help them. They received a prompt and hearty response, and Sullivan and his party arrived early the next day and began to make plans of what to do and how to proceed in doing it, as will be shown a little further along. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 303 The Pascataqua river empties into Ipswich bay in the space between Fort Constitution and Kittery Point; its mouth is wide and deep. From tliere it goes ahnost straight up to Dover Point ; at this points it curves to the south and west and extends up about two miles, where it has its head, at Fox Point, around which the tide flows into Little bay, two miles west of which is Great bay, and beyond that Exeter. Oyster river flows into Little bay a short distance south of the head of the Pascataqua river, and it is about three miles from the mouth to the head of tide water at the falls at Durham village, where stood the meeting house under which the powder was first stored, December 17, 1774, as it took two days to cut the ice in Oyster river, from Little bay to the falls, the weather being very cold. The rough sketch enclosed shows the route by which the i^owder was carried in gondolas and other boats. Why they did this I will explain later. In 1774 no powder was manufactured in .'\merica ; all was brought from England. In the fall of 1774 King George ordered that no more powder should be exported to the .A^merican colonies; orders also were given for the British commanders over here to collect and get complete control of all the powder that w as o\-er here already ; that meant that the colonists, deprived of powder, could not fight the King's armies, if war should come; no powder, no fight. The king would have complete control. Now, then. News of this order by the King reached Boston early in December. The King had two warships m Boston, which Paul Revere learned were pre- paring to come to Portsmouth and get the jiowder at Fort William and Mary, now Constitution. December 13, 1774, Paul Revere rode to Portsmouth and infonned the patriots there that the British warships were coming to get the powder, and urged them tu organize a party and capture and remove it at once from the fort to places where the warships could not reach it. This Paul Revere is the same man who four months later made that historic horseback ride from Charlestown to Lexington and Concord and infonned the people that the British soldiers were coming to capture the powder at Concord, which resulted in that "firing of the shot that was heard around the world." His ride to Portsmouth on December 13, 1774, was just as important and beneficial in its results as was his ride to Lexington and Con- cord in the darkness of .\pril 19, 1775, but as no blood was shed at Ports- month, and cutting ice is not so poetic as shooting men in battle array. General Sullivan's ice cutting in Oyster river has never been landed in poetry and song as has l)een the fighting by the farmers at Concord, and their fight- ing from behind c\'ery stone wall along the road over which the British sol- diers made their hasty retreat to Boston. The result was the same in both 304 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY instances. Tlie colonists saved their powder at I'^ort William and Mary and at Concord; the one by cntting ice, the other by shedding blood. Well, Paul Revere arrived in Portsmouth on the afternoon of December 13th. On the 14th. John Langdon and other patriot leaders organized a party, properlv armed, and on the afternoon went to the fort and captured the powder. There were no bridges then ; the journey to Great Island had to be made in boats, and in boats it had to l)e taken away; no easy job on a cold day, but they got out nearly a hundred barrels and brought it up here to Portsmouth. The next day, December 15th, Gen. John Sullivan (he wasn't a general then) and a party came down from Durham, and with Portsmouth men went to the fort at night and took out the rest of the powder, the cannon and the guns, and brought it all up to Portsmouth. So far. well done; but it never would be safe to leave it there. The frigate Scarborough was on the way from Boston, and could take it just as well at Portsmouth as at the fort, so the work began at once of removing the powder and guns to places where the British soldiers and marines could not get hold of it. As is w-ell known, it is deep water all the way from Fort Constitution to the head of the Pascataqua river. The frigate Scarborough could easily have gone up there had the powder been left along the way, hence the powder was taken to Durham, the nearest point of safety. So, as fast as possible, with favoring tide, the loaded gondolas were taken up the Pas- catacpia as far as Pittle Bay. the water being free of ice. At Fox Point they could go no farther, as the Oyster river had frozen over, the ice being a few inches thick. This had to be cut by Sullivan and his men, but in a day or two the powder was all floated up the river and the barrels were rolled ashore and taken up the hill to the old meeting house, which stood where the Sulli- van mounment stands. The cannon and guns were also taken care of; but the powder was the most precious of all. After they had the powder safely hidden under the meeting house floor the news came that the frigate Scarborough had arrived at Portsmouth harbor to get the pow^der. The officers examined the fort and found all the war material was missing. So it appears that Langdon and Sullivan and their com]>atriots were just in time; a few days' delay would have made it impossible to save the powder from British hands, except by a hard fight with the British frigate, in which it would have been difficult for the patriots to have saved the powder. The powder did not remain long under the meeting house; for greater security it was carted to the towns around Durham. Maj. John Demerritt. who resided in Madbury, about three miles from the meeting house, had AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 307 his men dig a siJtcial cellar under his barn, in which he deposited a number of barrels of the precious explosive. He had a passageway dug from his house cellar to the powder cellar, by which the barrels were rolled in, and in midwinter he rolled out some of them and hauled them to Medford. Mass., with his ox team; some of that powder was used at the battle of Bunker Hill, and more of it in the siege of Boston. The capture of the powder and arms was the first overt act of the Revolutionary war. ante-dating the encounter at Lexington and Concord by four months. As regards the way the assaults were made upon the fort, the story given in Brewster's "Rambles about Portsmouth'" is not correct, although it is dramatic and interesting. Wv. Brewster says the attack was made by the Portsmouth party on a bright moonlight night (Deceml^er 14. 1774), about midnight; that Capt. Thomas Pickering was the first man who scaled the western ramparts of the fort and surprised the sentinel and disamied him, and then some other men arrived and held the sentinel while Capt. Pickering went to the quarters where Captain Cochran, the commandant of the fort, was asleep, and arrested him before he was fairly awake and informed him the fort had been captured and he was a prisoner. "Whereupon Captain Cochran tendered his sword to Captain Pickering, who politely handed it back to him. observing he was a gentleman and should retain his side amis, and turned to leave him. As he turned. Cochran thought he had the gallant Pickering at his adxantage and aimed a blow at him with his sword, which Pickering parried with his arm, and then, without deigning to draw his trusty sword, he felled the miscreant to the ground with his clinched hand." Just then others came to Pickering's assistance and Cochran was placed under guard. I need not quote more : the facts of the case are. however, quite different, as I will show. Paul Revere brought his message on Tuesday, December 13, 1774, from the Committee of Safety in Boston to the committee in Portsmouth, of which Mr. Samuel Cutts was chainnan, announcing that troops were to be sent to re-enforce the fort, and bringing information also of the King's order in council prohibiting the exportation of gunpowder and military stores to America ; and he urged the committee to at once get the powder and arms at the fort. Mr. Cutts immediately called the committee together and they formulated plans for the capture of the powder upon the following day. Governor Wentworth seems to have had some intimation of w-hat might happen from Paul Revere's visit, for he sent word to Captain Cochran to be upon his guard. In 'W^'ent worth's report on the affair, however, he states that "before any suspicion could be had of their (the committee's) 18 308 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY intentions, about four hundred men were gathered together." The result of the committee's conference and plans was that at 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, December 14, they had secretly and quietly come upon the square, and with a drum and fife corps commenced parading the streets to call the citizens together. Of course Governor Wentworth heard the music and soon learned what were the intentions of the committee, and by his order the Chief Justice of the province made proclamation that what they proposed, to go and take the powder, would be open rebellin against the King. The Sons of Liberty were not terrified in tlie least. They kept the drum and fife going and the whole town came out to see what was the mat- ter. About 2 o'clock 200 men got on board all kinds of boats and started down the river for the fort at Newcastle. On the way others joined them, so that about four hundred men arrived at the fort about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and beset it on all sides. Captain Cochran says he had been mfomied about i o'clock that they were coming "to take possession of the fort, upon which, having only five effective men with me, I prepared to make the best defense I could, and pointed some guns to those places where I expected they would enter." When the men had landed from their boats Captain Cochran told them, on their peril, not to enter. They replied they would. The captain then says: "I immediately ordered three four-pounders to be fired on them, and then the small arms; and before we could be ready to fire again we were stormed on all quarters, and they immediately secured both me and my men and kept us prisoners about one hour and a half, during which time they broke open the powder-house, and took all the powder away, except one barrel ; and having put it into boats and sent it off, they released me from confinement. To which I can only add, that I did all in my power to defend the fort, but all my efforts could not avail against so great a number." That is the w ay the powder was taken from the fort, according to Capt. John Cochran, who was in command of it. Quite different from Mr. Brew- ster's prettv story in his "Rambles." It does not appear that any one was killed or wounded by the discharge of the cannon and small arms; if there had been three or four killed the great historians would have made as much of a story of it as they have of the Lexington and Concord fight. The pow- der was taken up to Portsmouth and kept a day or two, in the gondolas in which it had been loaded, in all ninety-seven barrels. Probably as the tide favored the boats were taken farther up the river. Just who led in this capture of the powder is not stated in any of the letters and documents relat- ing to it, but Capt. John Langon has always been mentioned as one of the number. The four hundred Sons of Liberty were all of one mind and did not AND REPRESEXTATIXE CITIZENS 309 need any cuniinander. Langdon and Pickering and Cutts were all in it with the rest, (jovernor \\ entwortii says "after they entered the fort they seized the captain. ga\ e three hii/.zas, and hauled down the King's colors;" let this suffice for December 14. ( )n tlie following day. Thursday, December 15, 1774, Maj. John SuUi- \an ( later general ) , of Durham, appeared on the scene and took a hand in the affair uf completing the work of dismantling the fort; he had no connec- tion with the first day's work. Of course those drumbeats on Market Square C(juld nut lie lieard at Durham, but expresses were sent out in all directions to alarm the county people, and one of these came to Durham. General Sulli- van in one of his letters says : "A messenger came to my house (on the night of December 14) from the Hon. Colonel Long (of Portsmouth) and I think also signed by President Langdon, informing me that one hundred barrels of powder were sent to my care ; that they had been to the fort and secured as nnich of the powder as they could; and desired me to come down with a parlv to secure the remainder, with the cannon and munitions of war, as they were in danger of l^eing seized by the British ships." The result was that by the next forenoon Major Sullivan had mustered a large company of Durham men and they arrived in Portsmouth about noon of Thursday, December 15. He says that among the number were Rev. Mr. Adams, Deacon Norton. Lieutenant Durgin, Capt. Jonathan Woodman, Mr. .\aron Davis, a ^Nlr. Footman of Dover, and Alexander Scammell, his law student, later colonel of the First New Hampshire regiment at the capture of Comwallis at Yorktown, where he was killed. When they arrived at Portsmouth they w ere drawn up on parade, on Market Square. They chose a committee consisting of those persons who had been the most active in the affair of the preceding day, with Major Sullivan and some others, to wait on the Governor and ascertain whether he expected any of the King's troops or ships to come to the fort. They called on him and the Governor, after expressing great concern for the taking of the powder from the fort, which they pretended to disapprove and to be ignorant that it had been taken, assured them that he knew of neither troops or ships coming into the Prov- ince, and ordered Major Sullivan, as a magistrate, to go and disperse the people. The committee returned and reported to the assembled patriots what the Governor had told them. They voted it was satisfactory, but they also voted approval of the taking the powder from the fort. Matters then ap- peared to subside and the authorities thought the people had left quietly for their homes. They did leave the parade quietly, but Major Sullivan, with about seventy of his men, concealed themselves until the evening and then went to the fort, arriving before midnight, and took out the remainder of the 310 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY powder, with fifteen four-pounders and one nine-pounder, and a quantity of twelve and four and twenty pound shot, with a lot of small arms, and having loaded it in gondolas, with favoring tide went up the river as far as they could, towards Durham. It does not appear in any reports that they met with any resistance at the fort, but the men said it was very cold work wading in the water to load the material in the I>oats on that December night. They got all of this and the powder up as far as Oyster river all right; then tliey had to cut ice with saws, and General Sullivan says it took two days to get it all up to his house at Oyster river falls. The ice was not strong enough to haul the powder and heavy guns on sleds by unloading it from the gondolas. This ends the first part of the story of Durham men in the Revolution. CHAPTER XXXI HISTORY OF DURHAM (IV) DURHAM IN THE REVOLUTION ON THE BATTLEFIELDS AND IN THE COUNCILS OF STATE Durham men did \aluable scr\ice on the battlefields and in the councils of state during the eight years of the Revolutionary war. Their careers and ser\ices are finely set forth in the valuable history of Durham by the Rev. E. S. Stack-pole and Col. Leucien Thompson, recently published, so only a brief of what was done can be given here; those who want to know more in this regard are respectfully referred to the first volume of Stackpole and Thompson's history. The Durham men who held high positions in the army were Gen. John Sullivan, Col. Alexander Scammell and Col. VVinborn Adams. The two last named lost their lives in the service; Colonel Adams in 1777 at the battle of Stillwater, New York, and Colonel Scammell in 1781, Sept. 30th, at the siege of Yorktown, Va. At the Fort William and Mary overt act of war against the Crown, Sullivan was a young man of 34 years; Scammell was 28. He had graduated from Harvard College when he was 23 years old ; then taught school a year; then came to Portsmouth, N. H., and was in the employ of Governor Wentworth, making surveys of his Wolfeborough land estate' where he established liis summer residence and planned great things for that section of New Hampshire around Lake Winnepesaukee which he would have carried out if the war had not changed the course of events in his life. The Governor had Scammell make data for a map of his prov- ince and mark the broad arrow on the best pine trees he found in the forests, for future use in the King's Navy. In 1772 he concluded he had had enough of forest survey work with Governor Wentworth and came up to Durham and commenced studying law with Maj. John Sullivan, that being the militarv title then of the future general, as he was an officer in a militia regi- ment; 'and being a law student he went down to Portsmouth with the Major and helped bring the powder and guns up to Durham. He had nearly completed his law studies and so, when Sullivan was elected delegate to the 311 312 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Continental Congress in 1775, Scammell took charge of the law business at Durham and carried it on until there was more call for war than for law. When his preceptor was appointed Major-General in the Continental Army July 29, 1776, he had Scammell appointed Brigade-Major, and the law office at Durham was closed, and remained closed three years, when the General resigned in 1779, at the close of his brilliant Indian campaign in Central New York, and came home and opened it to eani some clothing for himself and family, and provide them with the needed bread and butter. At one period in his military campaigns he said he had not money enough to buy a much needed new suit of clothes for military use. Scammel served with General Sullivan in the battle of Long Island and of Trenton and Princeton. In 1777 he took command of the Third New Hampshire Regiment of the Amer- ican Army, having been appointed on the lOth of December, 1776. His regi- ment was ordered to re-enforce the Northern Army under Gen Horatio Gates. In that campaign he was notably active and efficient and was wounded at Saratoga. In 1778 he was appointed adjutant-general of the army and became a member of General Washington's military family. He held that office until March. 1781. when he was given command of the First Regiment, New Hampshire Regulars, General Joseph Cilley having retired, after holding command of it from the beginning of the war. He went South with his regiment, under command of General Washington, and took an active part in the siege of Yorktown, on the 30th of September, 1781, he was reconnoitering the enemy's position and was captured by Hessian dragoons, and wounded after he surrendered. On request of General Washington, who was deeply grieved at the news, Comwallis permitted him to be taken to Williamsburg for treatment, where he soon after died. Colonel Scammell was an accom- plished scholar; an eloquent speaker; a brave officer, sans peur et sans re- proche. Durham farmers very thoughtfidly and properly have named their grange, "Scammell Grange." John Sullivan, son of the famous school master John Sullivan of Som- ersworth, N. H., whose wife, Margery Brown, was equally noted, was born at what is now known as Rollinsford Junction, Feb. 17, 1740; it was then the Parish of Summersworth in Dover. The cyclopedias of American biog- raphy say he was bom in Berwick. Me., which statement is incorrect. Mas- ter Sullivan gave his son an education equal to most of the graduates of Harvard College at that time. Later he studied law and opened his law offices in Durham. In 1772 he was appointed Major of the militia, receiv- ing his commission from Gov. Jolm Wentworth, against whom he rebelled, and committed treason against King George in December, 1774. He did not send in his resignation to Governor Wentworth, but converted his regiment in AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS did 1775, into a regiment of patriots ready to fight for American rights. Fol- lowing is a brief of what he did for the glory of Durham and the success of the American cause. Durham held a town meeting, at tlie call of Col. John Wentworth of Somersworth and elected Major Sullivan delegate to the provincial conven- tion held at Exeter early in 1775 ; the convention elected delegate to the Con- tinental Congress in Philadelphia; that Congress, in June, 1775 appointed him one of the eight Brigadier-Generals for the American army; General Sulli- van came to Cambridge with General Washington and was placed in com- mand of New Hampshire regiments at Winter Hill which command he held during the siege of Boston, except that he came to Portsmouth in the fall, October, and put the troops, there gathered, in proper array to keep the Brit- ish warships from coming up the river to Portsmouth, and then left the river ports in command of Colonel Wingate. When 2,000 Connecticut troops left him at Winter Hill in December, 1775 he came to New Hampshire and raised 2,000 recruits to take their place ; Durham sent a good number of his neigh- bors. General Washington complimented Sullivan's command at Winter Hill, during the siege, as being the best drilled, and kept in the best sanitary condition of any in the army around Boston. It was while he was in command of the forces at Winter Hill, watching the Britsh troops on Charlestown Neck that he wrote John Adams a strong letter in favor of having Congress declare independence at once. This letter was written Dec. 21, 1775, six months before Congress actually issued its Declaration. The British troops had just been throwing shot and shell across from Charlestown into his camp; he says: "Let me ask if we have anything to hope from his Majesty or his Ministers, Have we any encouragement from the people of Great Britain? Could they exert themselves more if we had shaken off the yoke and declared ourselves independent? Why then, in God's name, is it not done ? Whence arises this spirit of moderation ? this want of decision ? Do the members of your respectable body think that they will throw their shot and shells with more force than at present? Do they think the fate of Charlestown or Falmouth might have been worse, or the King's Proclamation more severe, if we had openly declared war? Could they have treated our prisoners worse had we been in open and avowed rebel- lion, than they do now?" When the enemy had been driven from Boston, March 17, 1776, General Sullivan with Washington's approval was assigned to our army in Canada. He went there via Lake Champlain and the Sorrel River. When he reached our army there, which was on its retreat from Quebec up the St. Lawrence River, he found it in a pitiable condition with the enemy in close pursuit. 314 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY General Montgomery had been killed at Quebec, and Maj.-Gen. John Thomas had been placed in command by Congress. On the retreat General Thomas died, just previous to Sullivan's arrival, who then took command. This first n;o\e was to reenforce General St. Clair at Three Rivers, but that proved useless, as the British force in pursuit numbered ten thousand while Sullivan, A\itli the combined American forces had but se\-en thousand, and half of them were sick with smallpox. The Americans were in imminent danger of being cut off from a chance to retreat. From this position, and under these conditions, with the enemy only two hours' march behind him, Sullivan extri- cated his little army with admirable skill. Not a sick man was left behind, and he .saved all of his military impedimenta, and brought the whole fot.. the sick and the well, down Lake Champlain to Ticonderoga, where he relinquished the command to another. At his parting he received the hearty thanks of the men and officers for the way he had conducted the awful retreat. Among those who signed the address were John Stark, Enoch Poor, James Reid, .\nthony \\'ayne and .\rthur St Clair. He was next assigned to duty on Long Island, not far from New York, under General Greene and assisted in the erection of defenses. General Greene being taken sick, General Putnam wa'^ assigned to command, with Sullivan and Lord Stirling as subordinates. The battle of Long Island occurred Aug. ij. The enemy numbered four times the .\merican forces, and the Americans could not prevent defeat. Sullivan next was engaged in the campaign in New Jersey and by the skilful movement of his forces he enabled W^ashington to make that brilliant movement upon Trenton, Dec. 26, 1776. At the crossing of the Delaware Sullivan was in command of the right wing, and Greene, with Washington present, in command of the left. The march was in a storm of snow and sleet. Sullivan sent word to \\'ashington that the ammunition was thoroughly wet and asked what should be done. "Use the bayonet" was Washington's reply. That suited Sullivan and he dashed into Trenton, with John Stark in advance. over]X)wering all opposition and disposing his troops in sucli a manner as to prevent any escape on the right; Greene's cooperation took care of the left, and the Hessians were captured. Eight days after this Sulli- van with his troops captured Princeton, and nearly two hundred prisoners. He was stationed a while at Princeton, and kept close watch of the British movements. At the Brandywine. September 11, Sullivan commanded the right wing of Washington's anny. Sullivan's activity and skill were every- where visible, but he could not do the impossible. At the battle of Gennan- town Oct. 4, 1777, General Sullivan led tvro divisions, and succeeded in the AND REPRESENTATR'E CITIZENS ai5 part assigned him, driving the enemy from their position; it was not his fault that Washmgton was compelled to order a retreat. General Sullivan passed the winter in the sufferings of Valley Forge, but on the 17th of April, 1778, he was assigned to command of the army in Rl'iode Island, most of which was then held l.v the British, u ho occupied a stron-ly fortihed position at Ne^^'l)ort. That Rhode Island campaign was not The success It was expected, because the French fleet did not perform its part of the programme. But Sullivan ended the campaign with what Lafayette declared to be one of the m,,st hotly cnnte,.ted an,l best commanded battles durmg the war. Congress passed a resolution declaring -that the retreat made by General Sullivan, with the troops under his command, from Rhode Island was prudent, timely and well conducted, and that Congress highly approve.s the same, and that the thanks of Congress be given to Major-General Sulli- van and to the officers and troops under his command for their fortitude and bravery displayed in the action of August 29, in Avhich they repulsed the British forces and maintained the field." General Sullivan's last military campaign was the work of chastising the Indians in the Sus,|uehanna Valley, an.l of dealmg a blow at their power which \\ould guard the fnmtier settlements from such atrocities as had betallen Wyonnng in the preceding year. British, Tories and Indians were m combination. The British Government was employing savages in this mfamous warfare. Congress directed Washington to provide for the work of chastisement. His orders were severe; the country was to be laid waste. General Sullivan was given four brigades with artillery and riflemen. After cutting their way through the forests General Sullivan's forces came in con- tact with the enemy August 29, 1779. From that to the end of the campaign Sulhvan carried out Washington's orders perfectly. Not a fruit-tree or a cornstock was left standing. Immense quantities of supplies were destroyed. Not a roof -tree was left from the Genesee Valley to the Susquehanna. Some writers have condemned his severity; but they forget the murders of Wyom- mg Valley. In speaking of Sullivan's campaign Gen. Wm. T. Sherman said: "Washington gave General Sullivan orders to go there and punish the Six Nations for their cruel massacre in the Valley o^f the Wyoming, and to make it so severe that it would not occur again. And he did so. General Sullivan obeved his orders like a man and a soldier, and the result was, from that time forward, your people settled up these beautiful valleys." Durham men were with General Sullivan nearly all the time he was in the anny, captains, lieutenants and private soldiers. Congress, Oct. 14, 1779, adopted strong resolutions of thanks to General Washington for order- ing, and to General Sullivan and his brave officers and soldiers for effectually 316 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY executing, the expedition. This was General Sullivan's last military service. On the 9th of November, 1779, he tendered his resignation to Congress. He gave as a reason the impairment of his health, and the advice of his pliysicians. He then lacked three months of being forty years old. Col. IVinborn Adams began his military service in June, 1775, when he was appointed captain to raise a company for Col. Enoch Poor's regiment, to consist of sixty able-bodied, effective men. There were eight companies in the regiment; Benjamin Tilcoml) of Dover and Jonathan Wentworth of Somersworth were two of the eight captains. On the 17th of June Captain Adams was ordered by the New Hampshire Committee of Safety "to march by the middle of next week to join the amiy at or near Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay, there to receive further orders." The next day Colonel Poor's w hole regiment was ordered to march to Cambridge. Captain Adams remained in the ser^-ice as captain during the siege of Boston, being at Winter Hill under General Sullivan. Colonel Poor's regiment was known as the Second New Hampshire. In April, 1777 it was reorganized and the follow- ing were its officers: Col. Nathan Hale of Rendge; Lieut.-Col. Winbom Adams, Durham; Maj. Benjamin Titcomb, Dover; Adjutant, 'William Elliot, Exeter. In July following Colonel Hale was taken prisoner in the battle of Long Island and died while a prisoner. Previous to the reorganization Captain .Vdams had been promoted to Ala j or in Col. George Reid's regiment. The reorganized regiment went to Northern New York and were in the retreat of the army from Lake Champlain in the summer of 1777 and in September and October were in the battles that preceded the surrender of Bnrgoyne October 18, at Saratoga. As Colonel Hale was a prisoner, Lieu- tenant-Colonel Adams was in command of the regiment in the battle at Bemis' Heights, and during the engagement he was killed, 19th of September. Captain Adams' company which he enlisted and first commanded in the Second New Hampshire Regiment was made up largely of men of Durham and the towns around. Previous to entering the army he kept a public house at Durham, opposite where the Sullivan Monument now stands. His wife was Sarah Bartlett. sister of Col. Thomas Bartlett of Nottingham, a very accomplished and excellent woman. After he entered the army Mrs. Adams continued to keep the tavern open for a few years, and it maintained a repu- tation for first class service. This was on the route of travel of the soldiers from Dover, Somersworth, Berwick and other towns in Maine, when they were on the march for Boston and beyond. And they always made a halt when they climbed the hill from Oyster River Falls to Madam Adams' Inn. They always regarded it as honoring Colonel .\dams who had given up his life in the cause of American independence, as well as honoring and aiding AND REi'RESENTATlVE CITIZENS 317 Mrs. Adams. In 1780, the General Assembly of New Hampshire, in accord- ance with the resolves of Congress, granted her a pension of one-half of her husband's pay. Col. Hercules Mooney, who has already been mentioned as a schoolmaster in the Parish of Summersworth in Dover, was a resident of Durham and schoolmaster there for a number of years after 1750, and has a good war record in the Revolution. He had two sons, Benjamin and John, who were soldiers at times during the war, the former being lieutenant of a company. The record of Colonel Mooney and his sons is good from beginning to end. Col. Thomas Task was a prominent resident of Durham for a number of years and had a good war record in the French and Indian w ars first preced- ing the Revolution. At a special meeting of the Council and Assembly of New Hampshire held Sept. 14, 1776, to consider the matter of raising more men to reenforce the army in New- York, at which it was "\oted that there be raised in this State one thousand men, officers included, to reenforce the army of the United States of America at New York, to be divided into two regiments, eight companies to a regiment, to be in the service until the first of December next unless sooner discharged." In accordance with that, Sept. 17, Thomas Tash of Durham, an old French war ofiicer was appointed to the command of the first regiment, the field and staff officers of which were as follows : — Colonel, Thomas Tash, Durham; lieutenant colonel. Joseph Welch, Plaistow ; major, William Gregg. Londonderry: surgeon, John Cook; adjutant, Joseph Smith, Durham; quarter master, Jonathan Chesley. Barnstead. There were cpiite a number of Dur- ham men private soldiers in this regiment. In this connection it seems per- tinent to state that in the last half of the year 1776, New Hampshire had three regiments in the regular or Continental army under General Washington, viz., Stark's, Poor's and Reid's ; a regiment in the Canada service under Col. Timothy Bedell ; Col. Pierse Long's regiment, which was stationed for the defense of Pasquataque harbor until it marched to reenforce the garrison at Ticonderoga in February, 1777; and in addition furnished four regiments of militia as reenforcements, viz., Wyman and Wingate's in July and August, Tash's and Bald\\ in's in September and Gilman's in December. New Hampshire troops participated in the battle at Trenton and Princeton and honored themselves and the .State by their bravery and good conduct. Durham men did their share of brave work. But it was not wholly in the field sen'ice that Durham men were active and influential leaders ; in the committee of safety, in the Council and in the Assembly they were among the leaders. Judge Ebenezer Thompson, a neighbor of Gen. John Sullivan and Col. 318 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY W'inborn Adams, and Cul. Alexander Scamniell, and Cul. Thonia> 'lash, and Col. Hercules Mooney. He was a descendant of one of the old families of that town, son of Robert and Susanna Thompson. He was born March 5, 1737-8; he died suddenly August 14, 1802. His father gave him a gooefore the white men came, had known of these oyster beds and came there in the season for them and had feasts and dancing and a general good time. Descendants of this ancient "first settlers" in the oyster beds in the river and Little Bay are still living there, although not much used in the later century. Just when and where the first ship was built is not on record, but it was at a -very early period. The first inhabitants did most of their travel by water and they built their own boats in which to make the journeys. They had plenty of good lumber for the purpose, and ship carpenters, who had learned their trade in the old country, and could build boats or sliips as the market demanded. The ships were not very large, but they had sufficient capacity to carry lumber to all parts of the civilized world; and there were sailors who could and did sail them to all points. Everybody was busy, and prospered, as prosperity was then rated. The fishing business gave employment to quite a lot of men in the season for catching fish, and later carried their cargoes to foreign ports. 324 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 325 In 1794 the bridge was built across the Pascataqua river, and soon after the turnpike road was built from its terminus at Franklin City through Durham to Concord. This largely increased business at Durham village and all sorts of trades flourished there for half a century — lawyers, doctors, store keepers, tavern keepers, cabinet makers, clock makers, house carpenters (they called them joiners), tailors, boots and shoe makers, ship builders, school masters and school mistress. The writer of this has an eight-day clock, in a tall mahogany case, that was made at Durham in 18 16, for his grandfather; the brass works were made in England and the case was made at Durham and the works fitted into it by an expert in the Inisiness. His name is not known now, but he was there for a numl>er of years and did a thriving business, "^'oung lawyers found Durham tillage a good place to "hang out their shingle" and make a good l>eginning record in their pro- fession. Some of New Hampshire's greatest lawyers made their beginning in Durham \illage. It was a good place for general trade ; the store keepers waxed rich and some of their descendants are enjoying the benefits of the fruit of their labor. When the turnpike road was in full swing the tavern keepers were kept busy in supplying the wants of the teamsters, and in caring for their teams that had come to market from the up-country towns. Most of these teams were oxen, three or four yoke to a team — big, strong, hand- some animals. No dull times then ; everybody was busy, and Durham by men grew rich. They had schools and school masters and one school mistress, at least, Mary Sullivan, sister of Gen. John Sullivan, and the only daughter of Master John Sullivan, the famous teacher who educated about all the boys of Dover, Somersworth, Durham, Berwick, who became distinguished in the Revolutionary period. In that family were five sons, all of whom were great men, and one daughter. She was born in Somersworth in 1752; she grew to be tall and handsome, like her father, and inherited his fondness for books ; he gave her a first-class education at a time when girls were supposed to be well educated if they could write their names. Her brother John was twelve years older than she was. When he opened his law office in Durham, his sister Mary came there and lived with the family more or less and in due time she made the acquaintance of Theophilus Hardy, a business man. a resident of Durham, and married him. But for several years before mar- riage she was a school teacher in the village and won marked success. She was brilliant and attractive, mentally and socially. So far as is known she was the first woman who kept a school in Durham. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy resided in Durham village and had a fine family of children. One daughter married Edward Wells. Esq. She was like her mother and grandfather, 326 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Master John Sullivan. Her sons won distinction, and manifested those strong traits of intellectual power of their Sullivan ancestors. One son, Samuel Wells, was governor of Maine two years, 1855- 1856: another son, John Sullivan Wells, was the Democratic candidate for governor of Xew Hampshire in 1858, and lacked only fifty votes of an election by the people, a majority being required; he was Attorney-General several years; United States Senator a short temi ; Speaker of the House of the New Hampshire Legislature, and also President of the Senate. He was a great lawyer and a brilliant and fascinating public speaker, and one of the most popular men of his (democratic) party. Another brother, Joseph Bartlett Wells, was a distinguished lawyer in Illinois, where he was attorney general several years, and was lieutenant governor at the time of his death ; had he lived he would probablv have l>een promoted to governor of the state. They were great grandsons of Master John and Margery (Brown) Sullivan. It is the tradi- tion that Margery Brown, when she was coming to New England in 1723, a girl of about ten years, some one asked her what she expected to do when she got over here; her answer was "become the mother of governors!" Her prophecy turned out to be true: two of her sons were governors, John in New Hampshire and James in Massachusetts, and a great-grandson was governor of Maine, and two other great-grandsons came very near being governors of states. Edward and Mary (Sullivan) Wells resided in Dur- ham, and that town has the credit of having been the birthplace of their four distingviished sons; Samuel was bom in 1801 and John S. in 1803; the latter died in Exeter when he was fifty-seven years old; the fomier died in Boston when he was sixty-seven. They were born when Durham was in the height of its prosperity. June 24, 1840, the Boston & Maine Railroad was opened to Exeter; not long after that it reached Durham, and great business changes followed, consequent upon the opening of the new avenue for transportation of mer- chandise. Gradually Durham village became a quiet place; delightful for residence, but not for business. The old families lived on their accumulated wealth and took life easy. The gundalows that used to convey big loads of cord wood from Oyster Ri\er landing to Portsmouth, made voyages less fre- quent, till finally the business ceased. It paid the farmers better to sell their wood to the railroad. So Durham led a quiet, delightful, dreamy life from 1841 to iSgi, an e\en half centurv, when the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was removed from Hanover, where it had been an annex of Dartmouth College, to Durham, and planted on Benjamin Thompson's "Warner Farm," which he gave to the college in his will, with a large fund of invested money, on certain conditions, which were complied AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 327 witli. Tlie chang^e that has followed in the score of years since then, would seem marvelous to the old teamsters who used to drive their ox teams over the turnpike road, along which now stand the beautiful and commodious college buildings, could the old fellows but return and take a look at them and the broad, green lawns, and the broad fields, under modern cultivation such as the "Warner" fanners never dreamed of. Who is the author of all this man-elous change in Durham village'' Benjamin Thompson. Benjamin Thompson was born in Durham village in 1806 and died in 1890. He was son of Benjamin and Mary (Pickering) Thompson, and grandson of Judge Ebenezer Thompson, of whom notice is given elsewhere. This grandson was educated in the common schools of Durham and the academy there, and in the business activity of the village, which was at its height during his school-boy days. He was a farmer and inherited his father's residence in Durham village with neighboring land, a part of which was the so-called "Warner Farm," on which the college buildings are now located, and which was a part of the original grant by the town of Dover, of 500 acres to Valentine ?Iill in 1652. at Oyster River. His father was an extensive fanner and kept a store in the village: he owned several farms which he rented. Benjamin was his youngest and favorite son. When the son was not attending school he workeegan to be settled at a very early date. First the immigrants built their village on Dover Neck ; soon they branched out along the rivers and Little Bay; they went up Oyster river; soon after up "I^mperele" river, as they spelled it. and then across country between the two rivers, Dover claiming all the territory up to that river, Exeter having what was beyond. One of the chief points the enterprising men looked out to secure grants of were the water falls, for mill sites, and this section of old Dover, now Lee, had then and has now several excellent falls for use in generating power for mills. The lumber business was soon one of the most important and profitable. So Wadleigh's Falls, on Lamprey river, in that part of old Dover, now Lee, were granted by Massachusetts authorities to Samuel Symond of Ipswich, Mass., together with 640 acres of land (one square mile) of which he took possession June 3, 1657, in the presence and with tlie consent of Moharimet, the Indian sagamore of this region. But he did not hold it, as appears from the following in Dover Town Records. May 3, 1669, Robert Wadleigh was received as an inhabitant in Dover "according to ye tenure of the last inhabitant received." At the same time he received this grant of what has ever since been known as Wadleigh's Falls: -At a general tnwn meeting held at Doxer INIanli 3. u'>(:'). r,i\en and granted tinto Robert Wadleigh as accommodations for the erection and setting of a sawmill or mills at the u]>permost falls upon Lamperele river, commonly called by ye name of ye Cleland falls; with an acconimodatiim of timber there- unto belonging, ye bounds of ye timber are as follows : A't is to sa\-. all ye timber on ye south side above sd falls as farr as ye towns bounds doth goe, and on ye north side all ye timber yt is within of the River above ye sd falls as far as the Town bounds doth goe. with one hundred acres of land on ve south side of ye sd River and tw^eiTty acres of land on ye north side of ve river afljacent unto the sd falls on both sides: all which falls, timl)er and land is granted unto ye sd Wadleigh and his heires. executors, administ. and assigns, provided it doth not intrench upon any former grant either in pt. or whole. In consideration of sd grant of falls, timber and land, the sd. Robt. ^^'adleigh dothe engage himself heires. executors and administr. to pay or 331 332 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY cause to lie paid unti.) the Towne (if Dover tlie sunini of tenn [Kjunds per an. in merchanta. pine bords at priee currant at the ordinary landing place on Laniperele i\iver lower falls, as long as he or tliey do keepe possession there of well ])ayn]nt is to l>egin the last of .August next insueing this instant, to l)e niatle unto ye Selectmen of Dover or their order, and further it is agreed and ordered that if any pt. thereof Ije taken away by any former grant tlien the town is to abate of the rate proportionally. And alsoe ye towne doth reserve free eagresse and Regresse for ye transportation of timber, citlier liy land or water; and ye Inhabitance have ye same Lilierty in this grant as they have in ntlier Mill grants. Hatevil Nutter, who had an interest in a former grant at or near the same place, entered his dissent to this grant, but Mr. Wadleigh held the title. He had a sawmill ninning there as early as April 21, 1668, and in 1669 his right was confirmed by Massachusetts. They are called the upper falls in Lamprey River in a survey of Dover bounds in 1701. Ezekiel Oilman of Exeter conveyed to Samuel Doe, Nov. 9, 1730, "one sixteenth part of a 640- acre grant in Dover, at a place commonly called W'adley Falls upon Lamperell river lying on both sides of the river, formerly granted by the General Court of Boston to Samuel Symonds of Ipswich, deceased, which sixteenth part said Oilman had by deed from Robert Wadley Sept. i, 1730. Also one sixteenth part of the sawmill and dam upon Laperell river, at JVadley's Falls, w-itli all privileges." These falls are in the southeast part of Lee. When a century had passed beyond this date the farm holdings had become quite numerous, and the farmers began to complain about having to travel to Dur- ham village to attend town meetings and especially religious services on the Lord's Day; they did not call it Sunday. After discussion a year or two, the following is the record of what was done in town meeting, as a result of neighborhood discussions : Province of Newhamp at a Publick Town meeting, (Legally Notified) held at the Meeting house at The Falls in Durham, on monday The Third dav cif September .\. D. 1764 — Joseph Atkinson Esc| was Chosen Moderator, for the well Regulating Said Meeting— Voted That There Should be a Com- mittee Chosen To Run a L.ine across Said Town of Durham, From Paul Chessley honse, near madbury Line; to the house of John Smart upon New- market Line being according to The Request of Sundry of The Inhabitants of Said Town, Requesting That ; all the upper or western end of Said Town, above the afores Line, may be voted, to be Sat of as a Parish — Voted That Leiu Joseph Sias. mr Miles Randel, and, mr Nicholas Duda of The Petitioners and Capt Benjamin Smith, Capt Stephen Jones, and Mr Thomas Chesley, of The T,ower Part of The Town, be The persons, to be Employed as a Committee for The aforsd purpose — Voted, Likewise, That if the Said Com- mittee, Dont Think The Line petitioned for to be Suitable to fix any other Line Tb.at They niav Unanimously agree upon and make Report Thereof AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 333 accordingly to The town on Tlie 24 Inst. The meeting adjourned To The 24 day of September Instant, to 2 of the Clock in The afternoon. Met according to adjournment, Sept 24th and The Committee made The Fol- lowing Report in writing, under tiicir hands, To tlie Town. Whereas, we The Subscribers, were Chosen, at a Publick Town meeting, of The Inhabitants of Durham, the 3d Inst To Run a Line, across Said Town, agreeable to a Petition, Exliibited to Said Town, by Sundry of the Inhabitants Requesting, the western part thereof, to be Sat of into a Parish, it was Likewise voted — That if we Tlie Subscribers, Dont Think the Line Petitioned for proper, to fix Some Other Line, that we might agree ujion, and make Report to tlie Town accordingly. Pursuant Thereto, we have Run the Line petitioned for, and indeavored to Veiw, and Infomi ourselves, into the Circumstances of Said town, and Do Lhianimously agree. That a Strait Line; Beginning one hundred and Twenty four Rods, above the Dwelling house, of paul Chesley, on madl3ury Line, and So to Run a Strait point across to Newmarket Line, to one mile and a half, above the Dwelling house, of John Smart may be a Suitable Line. N B it is the intent of the above Resolve, that the Line Fi.xed upon. Run from the house of paul Chesley, North 6 degrees East, to Madbury Line & then to Measure up 124 rods, by Said madbury Line. Stephen Jones Miles Randel ] Benjamin Smith Joseph Sias ]■ Committee Nicholas Dudea Thomas Chesley ] The meeting adjourned, to the 8th flay of October next, to 2 of the Clock in the afternoon. October Stii met according to adjournment, and Voted That Capt lienjaniin Smith .\nd Leiut Joseph Sias, be appointed, a Committee, to draw a Vote in writing for the western part of the Town to Be Sat of as a parish and Bring it to the Town, at Some publick townmeet- ing — the Town meetting Dissolved. November i8th [765 — at a Publick Town meeting. (Legally Notified) of the Inhabitants of Durham, held this day at the falls in Durham — Joseph Atkinson Esqr Chosen moderator, for Said meeting — Capt Benjm Smith Esqr and Capt Joseph Sias Brought the following Vote to the Town in writing — That The Avestern End of Said Town ni Durham, be voted, to be Sat of as a parish, Agreable to the Result or a Report of a Committee. (Chosen and appointed for that purpose) and Brought into Publick Town meeting, the 24th day of Septr 17^1. — with tliis addition, thereto, that the Said parish, (when an act may be Obtained for that Purpose), Shall take Their proportionable Part of tlie poor now Supported by the whole town, and Likewise That the Said parish Shall not in any Respect Interfere with any Lands belonging to the proprietors in Said Town — Voted, that the above vote, Brought by Capts Smitli and Sias, is agreeable to the Sense of the Town, and that it be Recorded accorrlingly. The above, & within, are True Coppyes, as on Durham Town Records. attest — Ebenr Thompson T Cler 334 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY As a result of tliat meeting a petition for a division of tlie town was pre- sented as follows : Province of New Hamp'r To his Excellency Benning W'entworth Esqr Governor and Commander in Ciiief in and over his majesty's Province of New Hampshire to the Honourable his majestys Counsel and the House of Representatives in General assembly Convened — The Petition of Sundry of the Inliabitants of Durham most humbly Sheweth That in said Town of Durham there are Inhabitants Sufficient for two Parishes and to maintain and sup])ort the Charge thereof That many of the Inhabitants live more then Eight miles from the Place of Publick \\'orship and where all Town meetings and the Publick of Affairs are holden and Transacted which Ren- ders it \ery Difficult for them to Attend there at any time but more Espe- cially in the winter Season that the Consecpience thereof it is Probable will be that many of the Youth in said Town will be brought up in great Igno- rance unless the Difficulties be removed and the Petitioners are in a great measure prevented the use of their Privilidges in their present Situation — Wherefore vour Petitioners most humbly pray your, Excellency and Honours, that there may be two Parishes in said Town and that the Dividing Line between the Two Parishes Beginning at Paul Chesles house at Beech Hill so (Called) then North Six Degrees East to the line Between said Durham and Medbury then running westerly on said line one hundred and twenty four rods then Beginning and Running from thence to New Market line to one mile and half aliove the Dwelling House of John Smart which Line was agreed upon by a Committee Chosen by the Said Town of Durham in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty four and Voted in Publick Town meeting and so to Include the whole of said Durham above this line We therefore humbly i)ray your Excellency and your Honours to take our Case into your wise Considerations and Set said Parish off by said Line with the Powers and Privilidges of Other Towns or Parishes in this Prov- ince and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall Ever pray Dated at Durham November i8th 1765 Hercules Alooney (Gideon Mathes \\'intrhop Durgin Elijah Denbo Samuel Jackson Joseph Thomson James Hall Jonathan runnels Samuel pitman John follett Benjamin Bradly Joseph Jackson Josiah Johnson Timothy Davis thomas Yourk stoten tutle Miles Randal Samuel Langley Moses Davis Junr ^\'illm Waymoth James Davis Hanary tufts nathanel Watson Andew^ watson Isaac Small Joseph Hicks John Sanborn Edward Hill Thomas Snell Eli Clark Juner Eben Randel Micab Emerson Joseph Clark Joseph Sias John Elliot Josua Woodman Jun John Giles Joseph meder Thomas Huckins Nicholas Duda Eben Lethers William Renely francis Eliot Benjamin Bickford AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 335 mason Renclel Joseph Clay Nathaniel Stevens Jun. Bartholomew Smart Nichole Tuttel Samuel Burley Nathaniel Randal Reubin Hill Clement Davis James Watson Nathaniel frost Samuel watson Josiah Durfjin John Durgin John Shaw Benjamin Woodman Samuel Sias David munsey Benja Clark Moses Dam joseh doe Benja Durgin Ebn Jones Juner Isarel Randel Francis Durgin Joshua ]3urnam Samuel Carter Thomas huckins jr Solomon Sias frances Allen William Cashey Edweard Scales Samuel hick ford william Rendel Job Runels John Clark Da\id Davis Gorge tutle Jonathan Stevens Zaccheus Clough Jolui Davis James Giles Bunker Robert York Jonathan Stevens Ebenezer Dow jun Nathaniel Watson Jur Josei)h Huckins John Shaw Junr Ichabod Denbow Thomas Wille John Snell "Eli Clark hunkin Dam Thomas Noble Ebenezer Jones Nathel Sias Nathaniel Stevens In the above petition for a parish no mention is anywhere made of a name for it; the petitioners simply say they wish to be set off from Durham as a parish, and Durham had given its consent. Plow then did the parish get the name of Lcc? Governor Benning Wentworth gave it the name, just as he did the name of many other towns that were granted under his adminis- tration. And he selected the names from places in England, where he had friends, or with which he was acquainted. He selected Lcc, on the River Lee, in London. There was no particular reason for it ; he simply so named the parish, which in fact was a town. The Journal of the House (New Hampshire Provincial Assembly) Wednesday Jan. 15, 1766, A. M., has the following: A message was sent to the Council by the Clerk of the House to Enquire what Acts had passed the Council and were consented to by the Governour. P. M. In answer to the message to the Council by the Clerk in the forenoon, Mr. Secretary (Theodore Atkinson) came down and infonned that the following Acts were consented to by the Governour (Benning Went- worth) viz: For a new Parish in Durham. To enable the Treasurer to recover debts. To revive the Proprietary Act. To enable the Selectmen to exchange Roads. To enable inhabitants to call town-meetings. To make void fraudulent deed. To enable Peabody & Shepard to sell land. To dissolve the marriage of Saml Smallcom. 336 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY The records from Jan. 15 to Jan. 23, 1766, are missing, but on January 1 6th the act for a new parish of Lee became law, as on Friday, Jan. 10, 1766, the House had passed an "Act for incorporating a new Parish in Durliam," according to the Journal for that day. In that act the parish is called "Lee." The petitioners did not ask to have it named Lee ; they did not mention any name for it. So Governor Benning Wentworth gave it a name; he called it Lee, as has been previously explained. CHAPTER XXXIV HISTOID' OF LEE (II) BUSINESS AND OCCUPATIOxMS The first business after obtaining the charter from Gov. Benning Went- worth was organizing the parish, or town machinery. The chief settlement in the new town was at Lcc Hill, as it has been called since Governor Went- worth named the town; before that it was The Hill, where fi\-e roads center, since they had roads leading to different sections of the town, (^uite a hamlet was gathered there before Durham became a town in 1732, and farms began to be settled around it. Who built the first house there the writer cannot say. But they had a meeting house there and a minister ready for establishing the new parish in 1766. Lee Parish was incorporated Jan. i(). \j()(<. which act of incorixjration autli(_)ri2ed Juseiih Sias to call the first parish or town meeting; he issued the call for March i8th, and they organ- ized by choosing Miles Randall for moderator and clerk ; Robet Thompson, Ely Clark and Nicholas Dudy, selectmen. Among other business it was voted "that Zacheus Clough inspect into the affairs of Rev. Samuel Hutchins." Mr. Hutchins was the minister when the town was incorporated. Mr. Clough attended to the duty assigned him and reported Mr. Hutchins' "affairs" satisfactory, and it was voted to continue him as minister for the town. He so continued until about 1800. His successor was the Rev. John Osborne. The town lines are straight, but at their meeting form a variety of angles; it has one pond and three rivers. Wheelwright's pond is near the center of the west side of the town and is the source of Oyster river freshet — that is, the fresh water part of Oyster river. On it is one fall where a sawmill was located at a very early period. As the county w as one vast forest the first thing to do was to build a sawmill at every waterfall and begin sawing lumber. The territory about these falls near the pond was covered with very tall, white pine trees, and many of them were cut for masts for the King's navy and merchant ships. More than two hundred and twenty-five years ago (1913) it had the local name A^ezvtozvn, which it has retained to the present time. The Dover records speak of a highway laid out in 1688 from the head of 337 338 HISTORY UF STRAFFORD COLXTY Beard's creek, near the \\'oodinan garrison, to Nezv Tozt.ii. The name itself iniphes settlement there at that time, and they had a sawmill at the falls called A'CZV Town Mill. Belknap states in his history, in 171J, this mill was burned by the Indians, and with the mill they burned a large lot of boards. But it was soon rebuilt and iiu frontiersmen kept on sawing boards, regardless of the Indians. Who received the first grant of land there the writer does not know ; nor why the locality was called A't-zi.' Toivn; prolialily it was some freak notion or fancy of the first hunberanan, who was under the necessity of giving the locality some name in order to locate his timber grant, in a particular part of old ])o\er. On Oct. 17, 1663, 230 years ago (1913), Patrick Jemifon received a grant of 120 acres about a mile and a half from Wheelwright's pond, down the river on both sides; that included the falls. May 31, 1721, sixty acres of this grant were laid out to Capt. Samuel Emerson, and in describing the bounds it says "beginning below Xcwtowii Orchard, at a red oak on the south side of Oyster River." That shows tlie ])lace had been settled a long time and had an orchard. Captain Emerson bought it of John \\'el>ster and wife Bridget, of Salisbury, Mass. Webster sold the other half (of the Jemison or Jameson grant) to Nathaniel Randall Jan. 2/. 1719-20. .\nd this was alongside of the Mast Path leading through Madbury to Do\er at Wingate's slip, on Back river. The XczvtoT^'ii Mill was owned by several persons who owned shares at the same time, and the owners took turns in using the mill in the flood season of the year in sawing each his quota of time there would be a good supply of water to run the saw. For example, when an inventory of the estate of Robert Huckins of Oyster River was taken April 23, 1720, it is noted that he owned "half a quarter" of the nu'll at Newtown. Nathaniel Lamos had forty acres of land laid out to him May 17, 1729, "beginning on Oyster's River, a little abo\e the mill called Nezi' Tozvn iiiill." A highway "from Nczv Tozi.m mill up into the woods" is mentioned Oct. 20, 1735, when twenty- five acres were laid out for Robert Huckins on the south side of this road "at a ])Iace called Maple Brook." A highway was laid out from New Town sawmill on the south side of Oyster river June 9, 1738, extending from the road that leads from Little river. William Clay conveyed to his sons Samuel and Joseph Oct. 23, 1742, "one full quarter part of a sawmill situated in Durham, upon ye stream, or river called Nezv Tozvn River, being ye uppermost mill standing upon ye sd. stream, and is next to ye pond called W^heelwright's Pond out of which sd. stream issues" with a quarter part of "ye running geer." dam, stream and all privileges thereunto belonging. "Nezv Tozvn River" is, of course. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 339 that part of the river Howing through New Town. WiUiani Clay, "cord- wainer,"' and Samuel Clay, husbandman, conveyed to Daniel Rogers and Benjamin Mathes, July 20, 1754, eighty acres of land at or near Nezv Town Saw Mill m the town of Durham, beginning at the southeast comer of said Clay's land, next to Eli Clark's, thence running by the highway to said sawmill and o\-er the freshet by sd highway to the end of Clay's fence, thence northerly to the land of widow Joanna Snell and John' Jenkens then easterly I)y the highway to the first Ijound with all buildings, (irchards, etc. Edward Leathers, Jr., uf Durham, conxeyed to David Munsey, Sept. I-', 1761, one sixteenth part oi Xcw Tozvii Sawmill, so-called in sd Durham, also one sixteenth of the falls and pri\ileges belonging to sd mill, and a sixteenth part of all the inm work in partnership belonging thereunto. Edward Leathers con\-eyed to John Leathers, March 5, 1790, forty acres of land in Lee, beginning at the southwest corner of John Snell's land and running on the road that leads to Ncivtozm sawmill, until it comes to Clark's pond, so-called, etc., excepting, however, the land lately sold to his daughter Hannah (afterwards the wife of Lemuel Chesley). Also a sixth part of Nczvtown sazmnill and gristmill, so-called, in said Lee, together with one sixth part of the dam and privilege of said mill. Edward Leathers, April 7, 1801, conveyed to David ^Monsey one sixteenth part of a sawmill in Lee known by the name of Nczvtozvn sazvmill. So it appears the mill was known and called Nczv Tozm sazmiill from 1688 to A. D. 1800, and perhaps later; since then it has been called Layu's mill the larger part of the time. The man from whom it derived this name was Capt. John Layn, who was in Durham as early as March 8, 1760, when, as a young man, he enlisted in Capt. Samuel Gerrish's company. Col. John Goff's regiment, for the Canada expedition. "John Layn of Durham, gun- smith," in a petition of May 26, 1761, states that he was employed as amiorer for that regiment, and furnished his own tools, but had received no extra pay for this service, hence he petitioned for it. He was allowed £4 sterling. He was appointed captain in Col. John Waldron's regiment, March 6, 1776, for six weeks' ser\dce at Winter Hill. He acquired land at Newtown in 1763 and again in 1766, when Thomas Leathers conveyed to him ten acres of land where said Thomas then lived at the corner of the roads that led to Durham Falls, Madbury and Newtown. He established an inn in this vicinity, probably the f^rst in Newtown. In 1790 John Layn calls himself "of Lee" but in 1804 he was living in Rarrington where he had acquired several tracts of land — among others forty-two acres at Bumfaggin. and lots No. 41 and No. 42 in the half mile range, near Bow Pond, in that part of Barrington now Strafford. He had a sawmill there, but probably lived 20 340 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY tlicre only during the spring season, when the sawing was done. At that time he owned the whole of the gristmill at Ncwfozcn, but only four days' right in the sawmill, both of which he conveyed July 17, 1804, to Paul Giles, who reconveyed them to Layn Nov. 22, 1805. These mills were then, no doubt, operated by his son Edmund, who continued to run them till his death at the age of seventy-six years, Aug. 27, 1843. There is now a saw and shingle mill owned by his descendants in the Layn family. Nczi'tozini Plains have a unii|ue history in Lee and Durham. They are a sandy and not \ery prolific region and rather monotonous for travelers who have occasion to pass through there from Lee to Barrington, and certain parts of Aladbury. Frequent mention is made of the Plains in the Durham and Lee town records. \\'hy the pioneer settlers or lumbermen came to call it Nc7V Town is a mystery. As Patrick Jemison (or Jamison) received a grant of land there in 1063, six years before Robert Wadleigh received his grant at W'adleigh's Falls, the sawmill at Ncic Tozvn was probably the first mill built in Lee, about two hundred and fifty years ago, and there has been a mill in use there ever since. Wadleigh's falls are in the southwest part of Lee at the north end of the "Hook" in Lamprey river. The river, below the falls, turns and runs south about half a mile, then strikes the foot of a high hill of gravel and hardpan; then turns almost at right angle and flows in an easterly direction a half mile, where it strikes the foot of amither and is diverted almost at right angle, in a northerly direction and flows for a mile through a fertile valley until it strikes the foot of Lcc Hill, and is diverted in a large circle and flows south out of Lee into Durham. This valley through which it flows and forms the "hook" between the hills has some of the best farms in Strafford county. This remarkable bend or "hook" in Lamprey river has no duplicate in any other river in New Hampshire. A sawmill was built at a fall near where it bows around and runs direct into Durham. The date of the first mill is not known, but probably aljout 1700. The inventory of Tieorge Chesley's estate of Durham .\ug. 2/. 1724. mentions part of the mill "at yc hook of Lauiprccl Rizrr." It is called "//;r Hook mill" in a deed of 1726. Ephraim Foulsham. Dec. 4, 1742, conveyed to his son John sixty acres of land in Durham, bought of Maj. Peter Oilman Dec. 8, 1739, lying next ye highway below ye Hook mill, beginning twenty rods above ye second brook from ye house fomierly Capt. John Oilman's, towards ye Hook mill. Peter, John, Samuel and Noah Oilman, May 2, 1749, conveyed to Joseph Smith AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 341 190 acres at a place commonly called the Hook, beginning by the side of Lampereel ri\er, in the turn below the falls where the Hook mill stood. John Thompson of Durham, "one of ye proprietors of ye Hook land, and ye proper owner of one whole share," conveyed his share, Aug. 30, 174S. to Abner Clough of Salisbury, Mass. The Durham grants of land at the Hook conflicting with the Oilman claims, Samuel Smith and Capt. Jonathan Thompson were appointed agents of the land proprietors in Durham Nov. 28, 1748, to agree with Col. Peter Oilman and others about "the parcel of land in Durham on the south side of Lampreel river, commonly called and known by the name of the Hook land. In a deed of Aug. 30, 1748, this district is called Durham Hook, Lee being at that time a part of Durham. The Rev. John Adams of Durham records, June 10, 1750, the baptism of "Nicholas, son of Nat Frost, in Ye Hook." The "Hook road to Northwood" is mentioned on the state map of 1803. It runs from Newmarket through the Hook, and crosses Lamprey river at Hill's bridge, near the falls where now stands Dame's mill. This IliU's bridge obtained its name from Capt. Reuben Hill, who settled near there about 1750 and owned a sawmill and gri.stmill at the falls. He was one of the selectmen of Lee in 1769. His mills are mentioned in the records of the town; and the neighboring bridge across Lamprey river is frequently mentioned in the town accounts from 1771 till 1800 and later. For example, £5 IS. were paid "Ensign Reuben Hill on his bridge" in 1771. His name is still retained, though Reuben Hill died about 1794, and his heirs sold the water privilege here in the first decade of the nineteenth century. John Mathes owned and operated the mills for many years in the middle of that century. He had a sawmill, shingle mill and gristmill. Little river runs into Lamprey ri\er about a quarter of a mile abo\-e Hill's bridge, and on it, in Lee, are two falls that have been used much in the former centuries, and is frequently mentioned in the early records of Dover and Durham. It rises at Mendum's pond, in Barrington. For example, three score acres of land were granted to Jethro Furber, June 2t„ 1 701, "adjacent to Lampereal Little River" laid out Feb. 2, 1726-7, "begin- ning on the northeast side of said Little River above the old mast u-av" This "mast imy" is the road that now leads from Lee Hill to the State College at Durham, and was so called because over it were hauled the big pine trees to Durham falls, where they were put into Oyster river and floated to Portsmouth. This grant of land to Furber has remained in possession of the Furlier family to the present time. The roail from Lee hill by Furber's place to Wadleigh's falls was laid out July 31, 1753, but communication 342 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY with Little River, at a point above Furber's, was opened more than two Inmdred twenty-five years ago, from there to Oyster river by cutting tlie mast road through the forests over Lace hill, ending a short distance al)ove the \illage, at the falls, where, at an early period, "Litlc River sazvuiil!" was luiilt: John Thompson, Sr., had a grant of land there April _>. i'.y4: Mr. Thompson mentions the sawmill in his will April u, 1733. A mill was kept in running order there for more than a centurj- and a half, being owned by several of the farmers in the neighborhood. This mill was at the foot of a high antl steep hill, on the summit of which for many genera- tions the Thompsons lu'ed. .\ l^eauliful ])lace. The road up over this hill is called the North River road. A short distance west of the Thompson farm is the Cartland farm, now owned by Mr. Charles S. Cartland, of Dover, cashier of the Strafiford National Bank. This farm has been in possession of the Cartland family since 1737. 175 years. The land was granted to Joseph Meader soon after John Thompson received his grant above mentioned. Meader sold to Joseph Cartland, a native of Durham, in 1737, who built a house in 1740, where the present house stands. He was baptized by the Rev. Hugh .Adams and was brought up in the Congre- gational faith, but in later years, after he settled in Lee, he became a member of the Society of Friends, and the Cartlands have remained in the Quaker faith, most of them, to the present time. The Cartland farm is beautifully located and excellent in quality of land. The ]\tathes famil}' came up from Durham and settled in the same neighborhood about the same time. A short distance below Little River Falls are what were called Thomp- son's falls, where Jonathan Thompson had a gristmill and fulling mill. In his will Sept. 10, 1756, he gave these and an acre of land to his son Joseph, who, !May 3, 1774. sold them to Josiah Bartlett of Haverhill, Mass.; the sale included his dwelling house and one acre of adjoining land, and four acres between the fulling mill and Little River sawmill. This Josiah Bartlett was brother of Col. Thomas Bartlett of Nottingham, who has a distinguished record in the Re\olution. The brother Josiah also has a pa- triotic record. Since the Revolution these falls have been known as Bart- lett's falls. Col. Thomas Bartlett had a son Josiah who settled in Lee, in 1815, on a fami which is now owned by his son, Hon. John C. Bartlett; it is alx)ut half a mile below the Hook sawmill, on the road to Newmarket. Mr. Bartlett has a farm of 300 acres there, one of the best in Strafford county. The hamlet at Lee Hill has been the center of business in the town from the beginning of its settlement by lumbermen. After 1800. when stage- coach routes began to be introduced "The Hill" was a busy place as a coach center, and two or three stores were there and did a thriving business. AND REPRESEXTATR'E CITIZENS 343 W hen the Xew Hampshire turnpike was completed from Pascataqua Bridge to Concord, about 1802, they commenced to run stage coaches from New- market to connect with the turnpike coaches to Concord, and Lee Hill was the place where a stable of horses was kept for use. There was also another coadi line that ran from Dover through Lee, Nottingham Square, Chester, Derry. W in.lham. to Lowell, after the cotton mills began to be built there. Gen. P,radl)ury Partlett. son of Colonel Thomas, was agent for this route a number of years. He was known in his later j^ears as Judge Bartlett. General Bartlett's brother-in-law, lion. Kdwanl B. Nealley, became a resident at Lee Hill about 1810 and resided there until his death in 1837. During his residence there he was a prominent citizen of the town and had a store by the side of w hat later was the residence of Simon Otis. He was engaged with his brother-in-law. General Bartlett, in the stage coach line from Dover to Lowell. Of course when the ]]oston & Maine Railroad reached New- market the stage coach business began to wane, and finally cea.sed to pay, and stopped, but not until after Mr. Nealley's death, in 18:57. Lee Hill from being a hustling village became the quiet hamlet it is today, having the meeting house, town house, postoffice and town cemetery, grange hall and a few farm residences. In connection w ith the postoffice is a country store. From being lumbermen and millmen the citizens devote their time to farming, with marked success. It has first cla.ss schools, no doctors or law- yers ; it has too small a population to support more tlian one religious society: so all combine, regardless of private opinions, in support of a Congregational Church, in the altruistic sense of the word. In the interim between the stage- coach period and the present long continued period of prosperity, there was a prevalence of intemperance, but vigorous Christian heroism in a few year.* wrought for the better and Lee, for many years past, has held the rank, in respect to temperance and sobriety, "the banner town of Strafford county." CHAPTER XXXV HISTORY OF LEE (HI) MEN OF LEE IN THE WARS AND IN PEACE The men of Lee have a patriotic record in the French and Indian wars; later in the Revolution from 1775 to 1783; and especially in the war for the suppression of the Southern Confederacy. During the Indian war period, 1675 to 1725, the inhabitants had to keep constant guard lest they be attacked by a secret Indian foe, but the only great Ijattle with the Indians in Lee was at Wheelwright's pond in July, 1690. On March i8th, previous, the Indians had attacked and destroyed the settlement at Salmon falls (now Rollins- ford). The inhabitants made a brave defense, but were outnumbered, and after thirty of their fighting men had been killed, the rest surrendered. After plundering, the enemy burned the houses, mills and barns, with the stock of cattle in them. In May following this same party of French and Indians, with some additions, attacked and destroyed Casco. The Indians then came up to Fo.x Point, in what is now Xewington, where they burned some houses, killed about fourteen, and carried away six as prisoners. On the fourth day of July eight persons were killed as they were mowing in a field (in Lee) near Lamprey river, and a lad was carried away captive. The next ilay they attacked Captain Hilton's garri.son at Exeter, failed to capture it, as the garrison was relieved by a company under Lieutenant Bancroft, with the loss of a few of his men. The Indians retreated up through Lee. Two companies under Captains Flo)-d and Wiswall were out scouting on the sixth day of July and discovered the tracks of the Indians ; they pur- sued and came up with the enemy at the west end of Wheelwright's pond. where they were engaged fishing. The Indians immediately changed work from fishing to fighting, and a bloody engagement ensued for several hours. Of course, there was no cleared ground around the pond, so the fighting was done in dodging from tree to tree, without hand-to-hand contests. Captain Wiswall's company suffered worst; he was killed, also his lieutenant. Flagg, and Sergeant Walker; twelve men of the companies were killed, and several were wounded. Captain Floyd kept up the fight for a while after his 344 & AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 345 companion officer was killed, but his men became so fatigued, it being an exceedingly hot day, and so many were wounded, that he drew off, and at the same time the Indians began to retreat in the opposite direction, carrying their dead and wounded with them, to a safe place where they could bury their dead warriors. It is not known how many Indians were killed, but it was a drawn battle. After the battle was over, and the Indians had started on a retreat westward. Captain Conners went to look after the wounded white men, and found seven alive, whom he brought in about sunrise the next morning. He then returned and buried the dead, among the number Captain Wiswall, Lieutenant Flagg and Sergeant Walker. Where their graves are no man knows ; not even a common field stone was placed at their heads. The Indians, on their way westward, in the course of a week, killed, between Lamprey river in Lee and Amesbury, Mass., not less than forty people, according to the chronicles of the day. They did not carry away any prisoners. Of course, when the news reached Oyster river settlement that a battle was going on at Wheelwright's pond all the fighting men made haste to get there and assist Captains Floyd and Wiswall. It is recorded that some of the men ran so fast that they were completely overcome with heat, and it was exceedingly hot that 6th of July. One man died of surfeit. Init the rest got there and rendered valuable assistance. GARRISONS IN LEE Only three garrisons are mentioned within the present town of Lee. There was one at South Lee, on the North River road, which was built by Joseph Doe, who bought land there June 23, 1737, of John Bickford, which had been assigned Bickford as his share of the common lands in Durham in 1734. After the death of Mr. and Mrs. Doe, the garrison became the property of his daughter, who had married Elijah Fox. Up to that time it had been called the "Doe garrison." From Mr. Fox it came to be called the "Fox gar- rison." At the death of Mr. and Mrs. Fox it passed to the ownership of their grand-daughter, wife of Daniel Cartland. but still retained the name. Fox garrison. After the death of Mrs, Cartland, Mr. Samuel French bought it and resided there until his death, about 1880. Soon after that it was taken down. At New Town was the Jones f/arrison. which was probably one of the first garrisoned houses that was built in this section of Old Dover. It stood on the Nehemiah Snell farm and served as a place of resort for safety when the Indians were roaming around, hunting for scalps of white men. It was taken down many years ago. 346 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY The Randall garrison stood on tlie Mast road between Lee hill ami where now is the State College. It stood on the south side of the road near the A. D. Wiggin house. It was built of logs with the upper story projecting over the lower, with loopholes in the thick walls for the discharge of guns. This was a center of safety in Indian a\ ar times for all the neighborhood around. The builder was Capt. Nathaniel Randall, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Tozer) Randall. Captain Randall's grandfather was Richard Tozer, who married Judith Smith in Boston. Gov. Richard Bellingham performed the marriage ceremony. They came to live at Salmon Falls, Berwick side, where the Indians killed him, Oct. i6, 1775. Capt. Nathaniel Randall married Mary Hodgdon of Dover. Having received several grants of land from the town of Dover, in what is now Lee. he went there and Ijuilt the garrison and was one of the big men of the town ; big in ability and property. He died on March 9, 1748-9, in his fifty-fourth year. His grave may be seen in the Lee cemetery, about half way from there to Lee hill. It does not appear on record or in tradi- tion that the Indians e\er attempted to play pranks with anv of these gar- risons, but the neighborhoods tell much safer in li\ing in sight and hearing of safe houses of retreat in time of danger. IN THE REVOLUTION Lee is a small town, jet in the spring of 1776 there were 14J men who signed the Association Test, which reads as follows : "We, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risque of our lives and fortunes, with amis, oppose the hostile proceedings, of the British fleets and armies against the United American Colonies." This "Test" was sent out by the New Hampshire Committee of Safety in April to the selectmen of e\ery town to find out who were Tories, or sup- porters of the British force measures, and who were willing to fight for the rights which the United Colonies demanded should be guaranteed to them bv the Crown. The signers in Lee are given below, and the names are interest- ing as showing who were living in the town at that time. NAMES OF SIGNERS Elijah Dinsmore, Samuel Jackson, Bennan Jackson. John Emerson. Samuel Emerson, Joshua Burnham, Joshua Burnham, Jr., Steven Willie, Joseph Seas, William French. Joshua \\'oodmarch. Eleson Watson. Philbrok Barker, Moses Runnales, Samuel Hill, Ruel Giles, Cornilus Dinsmore, Job AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 347 Ruiials. E. Jones. Jr., Jonathan Dow, Isaac Small, I'eter P'olsom. Jusiah Dura:ien. Aliles Randel. Benjamin Durgin, John Sanhonn, Jonatlian Rnnales, Zacheus Clough, Job Runels, Jr., Enoch Runels, William Goen, Ephm. Sher- burne, Dimond Fernald, Richard Hull. Samuel Langmaid, Ebenezcr Jones, Lemuel Chesley, John Jones, Benj. C'lark. George Jones. Benj. Jones, Smith Emerson, Isaac Clark, Simon Kindel, Janies Brackett. Stephen Stevens, Gideon Mathes, Daniel Chesle. George Chash. Thomas Arlen, Zehelen Wiley Timothy Muncy, Micajah Bickford, David Shaw, .\nios Fernald. Edward Scales, Robert Parker, John Mcndum, Ilunking Dam, Jnhn h'ollctt. I^lienezer Randel, Eli Inirber. Ebenezer Burnum, Joseph Brackett, Joseph Eollitt, Samuel Stevens, Samuel Bickford, Jonathan Fisk. Williaui Waymouth, George Tuttle, George Duch, James Watson. Samuel Watson, Timothy Moses, Dennet Waymouth, John Kinnison. Jusiah Kinnison. William Gliden, John Putnam, Anthony Fling, John Davis. Clement Davis. Andrew Watson, Thoinas Tuttle, Thomas Tufts, Samuel Burley. James Davis. Jeremiah Hutchins, John Davis, Nathaniel Frost. Henry Tufts, Jonathan Stevens, Henry Tufts, Jr., Thomas York, Nicholas Tuttle, Ri)i)ert \'(irk, hdiphalet York, David Davis, Nathaniel Stevens. \\'illiam Stevens. Samuel Durgin, Josepli Watson, Reuben Hill. S;ini llulcliin. Jnsiali I'.artlett. .Moses Dam. Jonathan Thompson, Samuel Mathes. William Bly. Samuel Fangley. Samuel Smith, Nicholas Meder. Mathias Jones, Benj. Jones. Joseph Jones, Tolman Thompson, Zekiel W^ille, Edward Leathers. John Leathers. Joseiih Doe. John Williams, John Layn, Benjamin Briley. Thomas Huckins. Jr.. Elijah lYi.x. John Wiggin, James Clemens, John Sias, Benjamin Bodge, Mark Weder, Mr. Samuel Bodge, John Glover, Edward Hill, Thomas Wille, Ezekiel Wille, Thomas Noble, Samuel Woodman, Edward Woodman, Thomas Hunt, Josiah Burley, Samuel Wille. Joseph Pitman. Samuel Snell. Jr., and Thomas Langley. Those men were not all of military age, but one-half of the whole number of signers actually served in the army, perhaps more. There were others who did important service for the cause, although they did not shoulder their guns and go to the front. The following names liave been found in the Revolutionary war rolls of New Hampshire : Elijah Dinsmore, Samuel Jackson. John Emerson. Joshua Bumham, Samuel Willie, Ezekiel Wille, John Sias, William French, Moses Runales, Job Runels, Enoch Runels, Samuel Hill, Reuben Hill, Ebenezer Jones, John Jones, Benjamin Jones, Joseph Jones, Jonathan Dow, Isaac Small, Benjamin Durgin, Samuel Durgin, Ebenezer Randall, Edward Hill, John Sanborn, Zaccheus Clough, Stephen Stevens, Jonathan Stevens. Samuel Ste\ens. Wil- liam Stevens, Nathaniel Stevens, Micajah Bickford, Samuel Bickford, Daniel 348 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Shaw, Robert Parker, Eli Furber, Elienezer Burnhani, Jonathan Fisk, John Kennison, Anthony Fhng, John Davis, Clement Davis, James Davis, David Davis, Thomas Tuttle, Henry Tufts. Samuel Burley, Jeremiah Hutchins, Samuel Hutchins, Xathaniel Frost. Eliphlet York, Josiah Bartlett. Jonathan Thompson, Edward Leathers. John Leathers, John Williams, John Layn, Thomas Huckins. John ^^'iggin, John Sias. Samuel Bodge, John Glover, Samuel Woodman, Edward Woodman, Thomas Hunt, Josiah Burley, Joseph Pitman, Col. Hercules Mooney, Benjamin Mooney, and John Mooney. This is a remarkably good showing of patriotism in a small town. Those men fought to form the Union of the United States of America. Four score years later this small town of Lee sent the following men to the battlefields to preserve the Union whicli their ancestors formed. Very nearly the same number, in both wars, are on record in various departments of the service. SOLDIERS OF LEE IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION Charles R. Clay, Co, D. 3d Regt. ; enl. Aug. 23. 1861 ; re-enl. Jan. 23, 1864; disch. Aug. 24. 1865. Joseph T. Cummings, Co. D, 3d Regt.; enl. Aug. 21,. 1861 ; re-enl. Feb. 16, 1864; disch. June 19. 1863. Moses Lovering, Co. D, 3d Regt.; enl. Aug. 2t,. 1861 ; re-enl. Feb. 14, 1864; disch. July 20, 1865. Frank Bidges, Co. H, 3th Regt.; enl. Aug. 18, 1864; died ^^lay 3, 1865. Francis Lovell, Co. G, 3th Regt.; enl. Dec. 28, i8<:)3; missing April 7, 1865. Clonin Jean, 3th Regt.; enl. Dec. 17, 1864. John a". Randall, Co. A, 3th Regt.; enl. Feb. 6, 1865; disch. June 28, 1865. Miron B. McAllister, Co. A. 3th Regt.; enl. Feb. 4. 1865; disch. June 2, 1865. Erastus C. Davis, corp. Co. C, 6th Regt.; enl. Nov. 27, 1861 ; disch. June 24, 1862. John F. Jones, Co. C, 6th Regt.; enl. Nov. 27, 1861 ; disch. Nov. 27, 1864. Washington Davis, Co. H. 6th Regt.; enl. Nov. 28, 1861 ; re-enl. Dec. 31, 1863; killed Tune 23. 1864. William Hardv.'Co. K^ 6th Regt.; enl. Jan. 5, 1864. William Johnson. Co. E, 6th Regt. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Andrew }. Lawrence, 6th Regt.; enl. May 18, 1864. Hollis S.'Peavy, Co. C, 6th Regt.; enl. Jan. 11, 1864; died Sept. 7, 1864. Andrew W. Locke, Co. D, 8th Regt. ; enl. Dec. 28, 1861 ; disch. April 10, 1862. Nathaniel Glover, Co. L 8th Regt.; enl. Dec. 20, 1861 ; re-enl. Jan. 4, 1864, Yet. Bat.; di.sch. Oct. 28, 1863. John S. Harvey, Co. H, 8th Regt.; enl. Aug. 28, 1862; trans, to Co. C, Vet. Bat.; d'^isch. Oct. 28, 1865. Edwin Lamondan, Co. L loth Regt.; enl. Jan, 5, 1864; trans, to 2d Regt. Jan. 21, 1865; no discharge furnished. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 349 Joseph VVhite Co D loth Regt. ; enl. Jan. 5, 1864; trans, to 2d Regt. Jan. 21, 1865; disch. June 19, 1865 Dana M^Dicy, Co. G, loth Regt.'; enl. Jan. 5, 1864; killed June 27, 1864. Charles E. Linscott, musician. Co. I. loth Regt. : enl. Jan. s, 1864- trans to 2d Regt. June 21, 1865; disch. Dec. 19. i86^ ^ Enoch Glover, Co. I. loth Regt.; enl. Sept. 4, ^1862; disch. June 21, 1865. Addison Osborne, Co. I, loth Regt. ; enl. Sept. 4, 186- trans to U S Cav Oct. 25, 1862. Alonzo E. Langmaid, Co. A, nth Regt.; enl. Aug. 28, 1862- disch lune 4. 1865. ' ^ ■ J True \V^ Langmaid, Co. A, nth Regt. ; enl. Aug. 28. 1862 ; died May 30, 1863. ?r xf^.V''"!' ?■ \ ^'th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 28. 1862; missing Sept 30, 1864. John R Marsh. Co. A, nth Regt.; enl. Aug. 28. 1862; disch. June 4, 1865. Albra Plummer, Co. A, nth Regt.; enl. Aug. 28, 1862; pro. to corp. ; disch June 4, 1865. Lawrence a Otis Co E, 13th Regt. ; enl. Sept. 19. 1862; disch. May 14, 1864 Darnel S. Randall. Co. E, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; trans, to Inv Corps reb. 15, 1864. Charles A. Fernald, Co. E, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; disch. May 16 1865. ^ George W. Hanson, Co. E. 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; trans to U S Navy April 2'&, 1864. Joseph A. Jones, Co. E, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; died Feb x 186- Richard Randall, Co. E, 13th Regt. ; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; disch. Sept 29 186:; Bradbury C. Davis, Co. E. 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19. 1862; disch June 10 1865. Orrin Dow. corp. Co. E, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; pro. to serrt • disch. May 12, 1865. ' John W. Emerson, Co. F, 13th Regt. ; enl. Sept. 19. 1862; disch, June 6 1863 True Emerson. Co. F, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19. 1862; disch. April 2 186-, Joseph G. Clay, Co. F, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19. 1862; disch. June 21 1865 Israel G. York. corp. Co. D, 15th Regt.; enl. Oct. 8, 1862; disch Au"- i-. 1863. *'■ ■'' Stephen Hilton. Co. D. 15th Regt.; enl. Oct. 14. 1862; disch. Aug. n, 1863 Josiah D. Thompson. Co. D, 15th Regt.; enl. Oct. 8, 1862; disch. Aug 13 1863. George W. Demerritt. corp. Co. I. i8th Regt.; enl. Feb. fi. 186:; • pro to sergt. May 18. 1865; disch. July 29. 1S65. Samuel Durgin, Vet. Res. Corps; enl. Jan. 5,^864; date of disch. unknown. Frank G. Wentworth, 2d lieut. Co. A. Heavy Art. ; pro. to first lieut Sept 19, 1864; disch. Sept. n, 1865. Josiah D. Thompson. Co. P., H. A."; enl. Sept. 4. 1864; disch. Sept. n, 1865 David S. Bennett, Co. D, H. A.; enl. Sept. 4, 1864; disch. Tune 15. 1865. Albert S. Cummings, Co. D, H. A.; enl. Sept. 4. 1864; discli. Sept. 15. i86q Joseph B. Davis. Co. D, H. A.; enl. Sept. 4. 1864; disch. June 15. 1865 ' Albert W. Davis. Co. D. H. A.; enl. Sept. 4. 1864; disch. June 15. 1865 George B. Haley, Co. D. H. A.; enl. Sept. 4, 1864; disch. June i ^"^ 1865' 350 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Charles A. Rollins, Co. D, H. A.: eiil. Sept. 4. 1864; discli. May 31. 1865. Nehemiah Randall, Co. D, H. .\. ; enl. Sei)t. 4, i8C)4: disch. Sept. 11, 1865. Jonathan B. Thompson, Co. 1), II. A.; enl. Sept. 4. 1864: |)ro. to corp. ; disch. June 23, 1865. Josiah D. Thompson, Co. D, H. A.; enl. Sept. 4, 1864: disch. Sept. 11. 1865. Rohert McKee, Co. M, H. A.; enl. Aug 14, 18(13: disch. June 9, 1865. Dennis Lahay, Co. S. 12th Regt. ; enl. Jan. 2, 1864; trans, to 2d Regt. Lawrence Keough, Co. H, 14th Regt.; enl. Aug. 14, 18G3; disch. July r, 18O5. William E. Smith, enl. Aug. 19, 1864. James F'itzgerald, enl. Aug. 19, 1864. James JMcPhenson, enl. Aug. 17, 1864. John Powers, enl. Sept. 17, 1863. James McClay, enl. Sept. 17, 1863. John Mullen,' enl. Sept. 17, 1863. Edward Dalton, enl. Sept. 17, 1863. G. Singer, enl. Oct. i, 1863. THE MINISTRY IN LEE Lee has not only furnished valiant and patriotic men for war, Init has also furnished men who were valiant in peace. The first minister was the Rev. Samuel Hutchins, who preached the gospel and led his people in ways of peace from 1766 to 1800, and during the Revolution he was a sturdy sup- porter of the cause for which his people were contending on the fields of battle; his semions were ali\e with his patriotic spirit which enthused his hearers. Mr. Hutchins' successor was the Rev. John Osborn, who began about 1800 and served as minister more than a third of a century. He was very popular and his memory is held in high esteem to the present day. The first century of the ministry in Lee was completed hy the Rev. Israel Chesley, who succeeded Mr. Osborne. The following persons were natives of Lee and became ministers who did good service in other towns: Rev. Jesse Burham, Free Baptist, was born in 1778. Moved to Sebec, Me., 1806. Began U> preach there with success. He was ordained at Charlestown, Me., June, 1808. Residence there, 1808-15. Jointly with Rev. Ebenezer Scales and Rev. Mr. Libby organized a church there. Baptized many hundreds in the region where now are the towns of Atkinson, Charlestown, Corrinth, Dexter, Exeter, Bradford, and other places. Moved to Maxfield, Me., in 181 5, and Howland, Me., 1818, and organized a church there; also in neighboring towns. Moved to Janesville, Wis., fall of 1840, and did circuit riding, preaching the gospel to scattered settlements in Illinois and Wisconsin. With the assistance of Rev. Mr. Cheney he organ- ized the first Free Will Baptist Quarterly Meeting in Wisconsin. Instru- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 351 mental in gathering a church at Janesville; organizing the Honey Creek Quarterly Meeting and the First Home Missionary Society in Wisconsin. Preached until within four weeks of his death. Died at Janesville Wis Dec. 3, 1863. Daniel Elkins, Free Baptist, was born in 1760. Moved to Gilmanton in 1797- Began to preach about 179S. Ordained at Sandwich, X. H., June 21, 1804. Organized church in Jackson in 1809. Spent most of his ministerial life there. Died at Jackson on June _m, 1845, ^ Joseph Foss, Free Baptist, was born in 1765. Began to preach about 1802. Moved to Brighton. Me., about 181J. Preached there and in the towns arouml until near his death; died at Brighton, Me., Dec. 29, 1852. Thomas Huckins, Free Baptist, born 1795. When a child his father removed from Lee to Parsonsfield, Me., and later to Canada East. Returned to New Hampshire and served at Portsmouth, as a soldier, 1812; afterwards as a marine on board a privateer. At the close of the war returned to Canada East. Organized churches in se\eral towns there. He was licensed to preach in 1827 and was ordained in 1828, being the first Free Baptist minister in the province. Later he organized Free Baptist churches in Canada West. Resided at Lexington. Mich., 1839 to 1853. having organized a church there. Died there May 2t,. 185^. ^ Christopher William Martin, Christian, son of Rev. Richard and Flannah (Faxon) Martin. Born 1790. Began to preach in 1S16, in Vermont. Did evangelistic work in New ^'ork. In later years uas preacher in Vermont. Died in Salem, Alass., April 5, iK^c). Robert Mathes, Christian. l>orn 1772; commenced preaching at iMilton, N. H., 183 1, where he was ordained. Died there in 1840. Levi Moulton, Free Baptist, born 1813. Removed from Lee to Maine, 1835: licensed to preach, 1838; ordained that year and did itinerant work.' He was drowned by the capsizing of a boat in crossing Lake Cicilidibicis May 10, 1846. Charles Frost Osborne, Free Baptist, son of Rev. John and Mary (Frost) Osborne, born March 12, 1800. In early life lived at Alton. There in 181S. Afterwards settled in Scarborough, Me. Licensed to preach tliere in May, 1838. Ordained there in 1840, and pastor till 1845. Later he was pastor in several towns. Died at Gorhaiu, Me., Jan. 2t„ i8sr,. WilHam W. Smith, Christian, son of Samuel Smith, born iSrr. Licensed to preach in 1840. ^^^ent to California, 1849, via Cape Horn, and was a farmer, gold prospector and miller for fifty years, meanwhile doing evan- gelistic work among the miners and settlements. Served in the navy^'during the Civil war. and then perfecte.l draxNings f,,r rapid fire guns, armored 352 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY trains, etc., but before he took out patents his drawings were stolen, and others got the benefit of his inventions. Died at Antioch, Cal., Oct. i6, 1899 He was a Christian hero. John G. Tuttle, Free Baptist, born 1802. His parents moved to Effing- ham about 1812. Licensed to preach, 1833. Ordained at ^^'olfborough, 1837. Pastor of churches of Gilmenton, Danville and South Weare. Moved to Lowell, Mass., 1845: died there June 23, 1846. CHAPTER XXXVI HISTORY OF MADULRV (I) ORIGIN OF THE NAME MADBURY The name Madbury antedates the parish and the town by more than a century. It was made a separate parish, with town privileges, by the Provin- cial Assembly, May 31, 1755, and was incorporated a township May 26, 1768. An attempt was made in 1743 to secure parish privileges, but the tuwn of Dover and the Provincial Assembly both refused to grant the petition that year, and the petitioners did not obtain this wish until 1755, when the terri- tory was made a parish for ministerial purposes. The town is in the shape of a wedge, in between Dover on the east, Durham and Lee on the west, Bar- rington on the north; on the south it comes to a point with the lines of Dover and Durham, at a ledge called Cedar Point, where one can put his feet in three towns and stand, facing south, and look down the Pascataqua river to the Hilton Point bridge. The distance along the Barrington line is a little less than three miles. The line between Dover and Madbury is seven miles long; the westerly line is about the same. The name Madbury was first applied to the territory west of Barbado pond, in the vicinity of the ancient Gerrish mill, on the Bellamy river. Just when it began to be used there is no record, but on March 19, 1693-4, it appears on Dover records when forty acres of land were granted to Francis Pitman "on the X. W. side of Logg hill, on the N. E. side of the path going to Alatlhcrry, where he had all Reddy begun to improve." The "Logg hill" referred to is at the Gerrish sawmill, down which the lumbermen rolled the logs into the pond, ready to be used in sawing. At that date the name Madbury had become well established in use among the lum- bermen, so they knew where to locate Pitman's grant. Probably the name had then been in use among lumbermen thirty or forty years. The "path to Madberry" referred to above is the [iresent road over the Bellamy river at the mill site. The reader will obseve that the record does not say Pitman's grant is in Madbury l>ut on the side of the path going to Madbury; so the fair infer- ence is that the locality (a lumber lot) called Madbury, was somewhere 353 354 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY between Gerrish's sawmill and Ncu- Tozoi in Lee. There is no other town in the United States of the same shape or the same name as Madbury; in the old records it is sometimes spelled Aledberry, or IMedbury. but generally Mad- Iniry. A funny name: whence its origin? The late John El win of Portsmouth, who was thoroughly versed in everything relating to the early history of the Pascatacpia region and was the grandson of Gov. John Langdon, and a descendant of Ambrose Gibbons, the early pioneer, who died at Oyster River, July ii, iC^s6. made a study of that word and came to the conclusion that is was derived from IModbury in Devonshire, England, the seat for centuries of the Champemowne family, to which belonged Capt. Francis Champernowne of the Dover combination of 1640. He received various grants of land, chief of which was on the east- ern side of Great Bay, which is now a part of Greenland but was then in the territory of Old Dover. He married the widow of Robert Cutt, brother of President John Cutt, and was one of the most influential men of the Prov- ince. He was a meml>er of the Provincial Council in 1686. and held that office until his death in 1687. Captain Champernowne was of royal descent, and nephew of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, his mother being sister to the wife of Gorges. His great-grandfather, Sir .Arthur Champernowne, of Modbury, took part in the battle of Bosworth Field, and was vice-admiral in the English navy. At Modburv was born Katherine Champernowne (great-aunt of Captain Francis), who by different marriages was the mother of Sir Humphrey Gil- bert and Sir Walter Raleigh. The Champernowne house at Modbury, where the royalists had entrenched themselves under Sir Edmund Fortescen, was taken and devastated by the parliamentary troops in 1642. Modbury is midway between Dartmouth and Plymouth. Some ruins are still left of the ancient manor house, where, according to the expressions of the old chronicler, "the clarions family of Champernon" once lived in dig- nitv and splendor. But, alas, as John Elw }ii laments, "No crusader's war-horse. i>lunie(l and steeled. Paws the grass now at Modbury's blazoned door." Well, supposing ]\Ir. Elwyn is correct, as I think he is, as to the origin, how did it ever get applied to a piece of land in Old Dover, a mile or so west of the Gerrish sawmill ? There seems to be but one explanation ; it is that Cap- tain Champernowne at some date several years before 1693 had a grant of timber land up there, west of Bellamy river; he ga\-e it a name, in order to locate it : he called it Modburv for the old home of the Champernownes. It was a common practice then to name the localities, in which were specially AND REPRESEXTATIVE CITIZENS 355 fine mast trees, for historic localities in England. The common people here corrupted the word and pronounced it Madbury, and so it is to this day. Miss Mary P. Thompson well says in her excellent book. "Landmarks in Ancient Dover" : "It is to be deplored that this historic name should have been corrupted mto Madbury by our early settlers. The original name should be restored. Modbury is more agreeable to the ear and its association with the Champernownes would give it a significance not to be regarded without pride." It is to be hoped that some Representative from Madbury in the New Hampshire General Court, may win honor for himself and his toun by having the letter o substituted for a in the name of the town, by the Legislature. 21 s CHAPTER XXXVII HISTORY OF MADBURY (II) ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWN Madbury was incorporated as a parish (for ministerial purposes) May 31, 1755, and as a town May 25, 1768, but the petition for a parish was pre- sented to Gov. Benning Wentworth, the Council and the House of Repre- sentatives May 13, 1743, as follows: PETITION FOR A PARISH To His Excellency Benning \\'entworth. Es(|., Covernor and Commander- in-chief in & over His Majesty's Council & House of Representatives for said Province and General Assembly convened the loth day of May, 1743. The petition of Sundry Persons Inhabitants of the Westerly part of the town of Dover & the Xortherly part of Durham in said Province Humbly shows that your Petitioners live at such a distance from the meeting houses in their respective Towns as makes it difficult for them & their Families to attend the Publick Worship there, especially in the winter & spring seasons of the year, which induced a number of your petitioners some years since at their own cost to build a Meeting House situated more conveniently for them where they have some times had preaching in those seasons of the year at their own expense though they were not exempted from paying their proportion at the same time to the standing Minister of the Town. That the Towns aforesaid are well able as your Petitioners apprehend to bear their annual charges without the assistance of yr Petitioners and that they might be Incorporated into a new Parish whereby they might be accommodated their children & servants (as well as themselves) have more Frequent oppor- tunities of attending Publick Worship and all of them Reep the advantages of such an Incorporation which considering their present circumstances they think would not be a few. and the Towns not Injured. That your Petitioners conceive a parish might be erected with out prejudice to the other part of the Town of Dover by the Following lioundaries viz. Beginning at the Bridge over Johnsons Creek so called, where the dividing Line between Dover & Durham Cross the Country Road & from thence running as the said Road runs unt'l it comes even with Joseph Jenkins his house & ff'Dm 356 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 357 thence to run on a North \\'est & by North course until it comes to the head of said Township which boundaries would comprehend the estates & habitations of yr Petitioners living in Dover & the making a parish there will greatly con- tribute to the settling the lands within said Boundaries & those that Lay con- tiguous as well as be \-ery convenient for yr Petitioners. Wherefore they most humbly pray that a parish may be erected & Incorporated by the Boundaries aforesaid with the usual powers & Priviledges & that such of yr Petitionrs as live within the Town of Durham may have liberty to Poll off into the same, or that such a part of the said Township may be annexed thereunto w hich would be the better way as will accommodate the Remote settlers in said Township near the said Boundaries as well as your petitioners or that they may be Relieved In such other way & method as this Honble Court shall see fit. & vor petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c Thomas W'ille John Roberts Samuel Davis Samuel Chesley Thomas Bickford Daniel McHame James Huckins Ralph Hall William Bussell Azariah Boody Timothy Moses John Demeret Zachariah Edgerly Joseph Daniel Francis Drew Daniel Young William Twombly Isaac Twombly Joseph Evans junr. John Evens Plenry Bickford Henary Bussell Joseph Hicks Joseph Tasker Derry Pitman Paul Gerrish. Jr John Bussell Job Demeret David Daniel James Chesle Reuben Chesle Henery Tibbetes John Huckins James Jackson Zachariah Pitman Ely Demerit John Foay, Jr Solomon Emerson Jacob Daniel Joseph Rines Benjamin Hall William Demeret William Allen his Xathiel O Davis mark Samuel Davis Jr Jonathan Hanson Robert Evens Jonathan Daniel William Hill Stephen Pinkham Benjamin Wille John Rowe Hercules Moony Joseph Twombly Abraham Clark Joseph Jackson James Clemens William Dam Jr JMorres Fowler Robart \X\\\e Abel T,eathers 358 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY In the House of Representatives May 13th 1743. The within Petition Read and Voted That the petitioners at their own cost serve the select men of the Town of Dover and also the select men of the Town of Durham with a coppy of this petition and the Vote thereon. That the selectmen of the Respective Towns aforesaid may Notihe the said Touns to appoint persons to appear the third day of the sitting of the Generall Assembly at their next session of Genii Assembly to shew cause if an}' why the prayer of the petition may not be Granted. James Jeffry Cler. Assm Province of / ,, . New Hamp \ ^^^^ -7'^ '743- The abo\ e Vote read & concurr'd Theodr Atkinson, Secry Eodem Die Assented to. B. Wentwortii. Pursuent to the foregoing Notification a publicke Toun meeting was holden at the Meeting House at Cochecho in Dover July 19. 1742. And Capt Thos Willet Esq. was chosen Moderator of the sd meeting &c And the Request of the ^^'■esterly part of the Tow n for Raising money for the support of ye Ministry in that part of the Town for six months as men- tioned in the above notification was then heard considered & put to Vote & it Passed in the Negative. A true copy attested. Pr. Paul Gerrish, Town Clerk. Dover May 5tli 1743. The Petitioners for a Parish in Madbury & what they paid in the year 1743. £ s. d. £ Thomas \\'illey o 17 3 Daniel Meserve i John Roberts ' 16 2 Francis Drew Samuel Davis 16 2 Thomas Bickford Paul Gerrish 10 11 Ralph Hall Samuel Chesley 18 3 John Foy, Jr James Chesley 16 2 Henry Tebbets James Jackson 13 6 Dery Pitman i John Huckins i 5 2 John Bussell Job Demerett i 2 4 \\illiam Bussell John Tasker i 3 2 \\'illiam Demerett David Daniel 16 11 Eli Demerett. Jr i Zachariah Pitman 15 n Jose]>h Rines Solomon Emerson i o S Jacob Daniel Joseph Hicks i 17 6 Timothy Moses James Huckins 10 1 1 Benjamin Flail Azariah Boodv 10 2 John Demerett .?. d. 7 9 15 9 U 3 16 1 1 9 9 17 6 13 9 14 3 10 1 1 13 1 1 2 6 8 3 13 1 1 1 1 3 13 2 i.S AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 359 £ ^. (/. £ ,s-. d. Zachariah Edgerly 19 11 William Hill 18 9 William Allen 9 9 Stephen Pinkham 10 11 Joseph Daniel ij q Henry Bussell u o Nathl Davis 12 5 Benjamin Willey 7 6 Daniel Young 15 o John Row ....'. 7 6 Samuel Davis, Jr 13 2 Herkules Mooney 8 3 Jonathan Hanson o o o Joseph Twomhlv 11 3 ,f. resentative to the Gen- eral Assembly, held at Exeter in Deccmlier, 1776. Rev. Samuel Hyde was settled as minister of the parish soon after it was incorporated, and was succeeded by Rev. William Hooper, who was the last settled minister in the town. A meeting-house was erected soon after Mr. Hvde came into the parish, but it has long since been torn down. CHAPTER XXXVIII HISTORY OI- MADBURY (IIIj MADBURV IX WAR TIMES During the French and Indian wars the Madbury part of Old Dover suf- fered its share of the "brunt of the battle" during the half century of those conflicts with the enemy. It does not appear that the inhabitants began to build garrisoned houses until about 1694. Following are the names of the owners as gi\-en by Miss Mary P. Thompson in her "Landmarks in Ancient Dover" : Clark's Garrismi. This garrison stood on Clark's plains, on the hill, west of Knox's Marsh road, which the Boston & Maine Railroad now uses for a gravel bank, and near the boundary line between Dover and Madbury. It was built by Abram Clark, who owned a farm on the hill there. March 19, 1693-4, Richard Pinkham had a "grant of 30 acres drie pines and Abraham Clark's garrison." It was taken down aljuut the year 1836. Daniels' Garrison stood near the summer residence of Mr. Charles W. Hayes. David's Lane, so named for David Daniels who built the garrison, extends from Nute's Comer past where the garrison stood to Mr. Hayes' house. The house was turn dnwn many }-ears ago. Demerit's Garrison was built by Eli Demerit, Jr., about 1720. It stood on the road between the Clark garrison and the present I'oston iS: Elaine Rail- road station. It was taken down about the same time the Clark garris(3n was, in the spring of 1S36. Gcrrish Garrison stood on the first hill west of Gerrish's mill, which was at the falls in the Bellamy river west of Barbado's pond. That mill was built by Paul Gerrish, who also built the garrison; he was son of Capt. John Gerrish and grandson of Major Richard ^^'alderne, his mother being a daugh- ter of the major who owned a part of the mill privilege which, at his death, came into possession of his daughter and long remained in possession of tlie Gerrish family. Her sons. Paul and Timothy, had sawmills and grist mills and fulling mills at about every falls on the Bellamy river anil the tide water at Back river. :i60 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 361 Alcscrz'c's Garrison stood on the summit of Harvey's hill, which fonned a part of the old Meserve lands, on the road north of Gerrish's mill. The land of Daniel Misharvey, Jr. (Meservey, Meserve or Harvey), at a place called Freetozvii, is mentioned Dec. 19, 1745, in a deed of land to Eli De- merit. This "place called Frcetozcii" is in the northwest corner of Madbury, adjoining the locality in Lee called Ncziiozvii. The name first appears in Dover records about 1700, in connection with land grants, and, of course, was brought into use for convenience in locating grants, so that the owners might know in what direction to go from some known place to an unknown lot of land in a pathless forest. No one has ever given an explanation why that particular name was given to that particular locality. Probably it was the outgrowth of the fertile imagination of some lumberman. But it has been in use for more than two hundred years, and manifests no sign of decay. Eor example, it is mentioned February, 1730, when twenty acres of land were laid out to Derry Pitman "a little above the west end of Mehemiett's Hill," beginning at the corner of Wm. Demerit's land and running north by sixty rods, then east by the common, then south "on a road leading to the road com- monly called Frcctozvu road." Derry Pitman and wife Dorothy con\'eyed to Wm. Powder, June 25, 1748, one acre of land in Madbury, part of a thirty- acre grant to his father, Nathaniel, June 23, 1701, beginning at Zachariah Pitman's fence, near said Fowler's house, on the same side of "the road lead- ing from Madbur\! to the place commonly called Freetozvn." This seems to locate the Champernowne timber lot "Modbiiry" on the road about a mile north of the present town house, near where the branch road runs easterly to Gerrish's mill. The reader will bear in mind this was seven years before the present town w'as made a parish, and bounded as now, and the name Madbury applied to the whole parish. In 1748 it meant simply that locality a mile above the town house, as it now- stands at the foot of Moharimet's hill. Tarkc/s Garrison was at the foot of Moharimet's, commonly called Hick's hill, near where Maj. John Demerritt's house now stands. The laml here originally belonged to Charles Adams of Oyster River, who had a grant of one hundred acres, laid out November i, 1672, at the foot of "Mahermett's Hill" half of which he conveyed March 11, 1673-4, to his daughter, Mary, wife of William Tasker. Mr. Tasker had built his house there before the deed of conveyance was made and they were living there when the awful massacre occurred at Oyster in the summer of 1694. As it was not gar- risoned the family made their escape to the Woodmen garrison before a party of Indians reached the house, about daylight, and commenced an attack on it. Mr. Tasker was inside and succeeded in keeping them out until they felt obliged to leave to join the rest of their party, which had given up the 362 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY fight at Woodman's garrison and had started on the route to Lake \\'innii)e- saukee. on their return to Canada. Mr. Tasker soon after converted his house into a strong garrison. It was taken down about 1S20 when the Taskers sold the farm to Ebenezer T. Demerritt, ancestor of the present owner, Maj. John De Alerritt. T-a'oinbly's Garrison stood a few rods above the residence of the late Judge Jacob D. Young. It was probably built by William Twombly, who acquired land there before April, 1734. It was taken down in the spring of 1842 by JMr. Nathaniel Twombly, a great-grandson of the builder, and used by him in construction of a barn in Dover. Ma-dbury Mccting-House. In this connection it may be well to make rec- ord of the fact that the Aladbury meeting-house stood near the present brick schoolhouse, not far from Alaj. John Demerritt's residence. It is on record that John Tasker and Judah, his wife, September 23, 1735. conveyed one acre of land to the inhabitants of the western side of Dover township for a meeting-house, "beginning at ye turn of ye way that leads from Madbcrry road to Beach Hill;" there is where they built the first meeting-house, twenty years before the parish was incori>orated, and Parson Cushing of the First Church went out there occasionally and preached to his people instead of having them come over to Cochecho to hear him preach. Another bigger and better meeting-house was built there later, a plan of which, with its interior galleries around three sides, is to be found in the Madbury town rec- ords. This larger and last house was taken down about 1850. It is to be noted in passing that this first meeting-house was on the "western side of Dover township." and the description of the location shows that the locality then called Madbnry was above the turn in the road that now leads to Lee Hill. Mohanmct's Hill, or Hicks' s Hill, as known in later years, is a noted land- mark, directly north of the site of the old meeting-house. It is a beautiful elevation and has many historical associations. Its original name, which should be preserved, was derived from ^Moharimet. an Indian sagamore of the seventeenth century. It is mentioned by that name in 1656 when Charles Adams had a grant of one hundred acres of land "at the foot of Mohanmct's hill." This was the Tasker farm for more than a century and a quarter, and is now owned by Maj. John Demerritt and his sister. Miss Jennie M. Demerritt. and has been in possession of the Demerritt family nearly a century. Many old deeds refer to it as Mohanmct's hill. In 1761 Joseph Hicks obtained ownership of land on the north side of the hill and later got possession of nearly all of it, and as his faiuily and those that followed him in owner.ship were wealthy and influential people, the name Hicks came AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 363 into use in place of the old Indian sagamore. It is time now to restore the old Indian name. This Indian sat^amore was a big Indian and ruler over all the small Indians, and the territory from the big hill, which bears his name, in ]\Iad- bury, to Exeter. He had his "planting grounds" for raising corn in the village of Lamprey River. One of these was on the south side of that river froin a point where the Pascassick empties into it, easterly to the run of water called "The Moat," in which is Doe's island. That there was such a man, and that he owned the land (until the Dover authorities stole it), is shown by a deed which he signed and consented to, by which the Massachu- setts Bay authorities granted to Samuel S\aiionds of Ipswich, Mass., a tract of land, and what is known as Wadligh Falls, in Lee, which Symonds took possession of June 3, 1657. Many noted Madbury people have lived near Moharimet's hill. Col. James Davis, one of the influential men of Oyster River, at an early period owned a large part of it. His sons, James and Samuel, received portions of it from their father by will in 1748; also his daughter Sarah, wdio married Capt. Jo- seph Hicks, received another portion, and the Hicks family later came into possession of nearly all the hill and much land around it, and from Joseph came the name now used, "Hicks hill." Mrs. Hicks lived to be ninety-one years old. outliving her husband many years. She was vigorous and acti\e down to her last year, and was noted for her business capacity, and her work, quite as much as any men of that period. She left a large estate, on which letters of administration were granted January 14, 1794. The Demerritt family along the west side of the hill has been there many generations and has produced men who were among the most noted in the town. One of these was Maj. John Demerritt, who has a conspicu- ously patriotic record in the Revolutionary war. He helped Maj. John Sulli- van bring the powder up from Forts William and ]\Iary in December, 1774. After the powder was landed at the falls he took a number of barrels of it to his residence, on the "Madbury Road," a short distance west of tlie hill. Then, to make sure the British should not capture it by sending an army up from Portsmouth, he dug a cellar under his barn in which he placed the barrels of powder, twenty or more. He covered over this cavity, so no sign of it could be discovered in the barn. Then he dug a passage to the cellar of his house (now standing), a few rods off, by which the barrels could be rolled out when wanted. The entrance to that passage was carefully con- cealed in his house cellar. If the enemy had been able to reach Major De- merritt's house thev could not have found the powder. No enemy came hunt- ing for it. The Major kept quiet until mid-winter; then he rolled out sev- 364 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY eral barrels from the hiding place : loaded them into his ox-cart ; yoked up his best pair oxen, fine, sturdy, fast-stepping animals, who understood every motion of their master's goad and promptly obeyed it; hitched them to the cart, and earlv one morning started for Boston. In due time he reached Med- ford, where he unloaded it, the officials in whose charge he placed it judging thai to Ik; the safest place to deposit it. Major Demerritt returned home and soon after completed the work of transportation of the remaining barrels. Some of that powder was used by the patriots at the battle of Bunker Hill, and more of it in the siege of Boston. It has been stated that the last settled minister in the town was the Rev. William Hooper, who closed his pastorate in the first half of the nine- teenth century. That is correct, but for several years during the latter part of the second half of the nineteenth century the citizens employed the minis- ter of the church at Lee to conduct services in the town house, on the after- noon of each Sabbath, except in w inter. Madbury has furnished four men for the ministry, as follows : Jonathan Broi^'ii, Presbyterian, was born in 1737. Graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1789. Studied for the ministry with Rev. John Murray of Newburyport, Mass. Ordained pastor of third church East Londonderry, 1796; dismissed September. 1804. Without charge there 1804- 1838. Died there January 9. 1838. Joseph Dai'is. Free Baptist, son of David Davis, was born in 1792. Re- moved to Effingham in 181 4. where he engaged in farming. Having been converted to the Free Will Baptist belief he joined that church and began to preacli when he was about thirty years old. He was ordained to the min- istry July 4, 1824, and was pastor of the church in that town until 1843, being a very successful minister. He died there December 14. 1843. Daniel Pinkham, Free Baptist, was born in December. 1776. When he was eleven years old his parents removed to Jackson where he was edu- cated in the common schools and brought up to do farm work. Becoming converted to the Free Will Baptist faith, he began exhorting in pul>lic meet- ing. Being a fluent and interesting speaker, he was licensed to preach in 181 5. and became a circuit preacher in the towns of Bartlett, Randolph, Jeft'er- son. Jackson, Pinkham, Grant and Lancaster. His residence was at Jackson from 1787 to 1828: at Pinkham Grant from 1828 to 1835; at Lancaster from 1835 to 1855. where he died June 25th of that year. Edgar Blaisdell U'vlie. Congregationalist, son of Samuel Smith and Eliza ( Burnham ) Wylie, was born February 24, i860. Graduated from Wheaton College. Wheaton. 111.. 1889; and Chicago Seminary, 1892. Or- dained pastor of Summerdale church, Chicago, April 27, 1893, having pre- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 365 viously supplied from April, 1891, and continued pastor until April, 1901. He died in Chicago July 6, 1901. In the Revolutionary war, the War of 1812-15, the Civil war, 18S1-1865, and the Spanish war of 1898, Madbury furnished its quota of brave men for the service. In 1898 Maj. John Demerritt served in the PhiHpi)ines, he being a great-great-grandson of Maj. John Demerritt of the Revolution; he is the fourth John Demerritt in succession who has won, by service, the title of major. SOLDIERS OF M.MJBURY IN THE W,\K OF THE REBELLION William H. Miles, 2d lieut. Co, K. 3d Regt. ; enl. Aug. 22. 1861 ; resigned Feb. 5, 1862. Samuel Willey, Jr.. Co. K, 3d Regt. ; enl. Aug. 24, 1861 ; died Aug. 9, 1S62. George W. Russell, Co. K, sth Regt.; enl. Feb. 19, 1864; pro. to ist sergt. ; killed June 18, 1864. Eben Munsey, Co. H, Tith Regt. ; enl. Xow 28, 1861 ; trans, to Vet. Res. Corps. Andrew J. Cross. Co. D, 7th Regt.; enl. Sept. 17, 1862; disch. June 26, 1865. Benjamin S. Hemenway. Co. I. 7th Regt. ; enl. Sept. 17, 1862 ; trans, to Invalid Corps, Feb. 3. 1864. Daniel Clifford, Co. C, 7th Regt.; enl. Feb. i, 1S63; pro. to Corp., June xi, 18(15; disch. July 20, 1865. William H. Miles. Co. H, 7th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 30, 1862; disch. Mav n, 1865. Allen Dicks, Co. K. 7th Regt. ; enl. Feb. i, 1865. George W. Hough, Co. I, loth Regt. ; enl. Sept. 16, 18^12; disch. Mav 18. 1865. Andrew W. Henderson, Co. K, iitli Regt.; enl, Sept. 2, 1862- disch Oct 26, 1864. Ira Locke, Co. K, nth Regt.; enl. Sept, 2, 1862. Asa Young. Co. K, nth Regt.; enl. Sept. 2, 1862; disch. June 4, 1865. Samuel N. Robinson, corp. Co. K, nth Regt.; enl. Sept. 2, i8r>2; disch. Jan. 20, 1863. George E. Bodge, Co. B, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. 18, 1S62; disch. Nov. 12, 1S64. Charles H. Bodge, Co. B, 13th Regt.; enl. Sept. t8, 1862; died Jan. 14, 1863. Llewylln D, Lothrop, Co, F, i ;^th Regt,; enl. Sept, 10. 1862; trans, to navy, April 28, 1864. Stephen H. Richardson, Co. F, i ^th Regt.; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; disch. June 21 i8ri5, John O'. Langley, Co, D, 15th Regt,; cnl, Oct, 8, 1862; killed July i, 1863, Samuel N. Robinson, corp,, Co. K, i8th Regt.; enl, March 21, 1865; disch. May 6, 1865, Charles A. Osgood, Co. I, ist Cav. ; enl, March 29, 1864; killed Tnne 13, 1864, Daniel W. Furber, Co. K. ist Cav.; enl. Sept, 6, 1862; disch, tune 28. 1S65, John Crystal, Co, K. ist Cav.; enl. Sept. 8. 1862; disch, June 5, 1865. Charles Webster, i.st Cav. ; enl. Sept. 15, 1862. William H. Babb. Co. D, H. Art. ; enl. Sept, 4. 1864; disch, June 15, 1865. 366 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY lanics H. P. Batchelder, Co. D, H. Art.; enl. Sept. 4, 1864; disch. June 15, 1865. John W. Cheswell, Co. D, H. Art.; enl. Sept. 4, 1864; discli. June 15, i8()5. Plummer Fall, Co. D, H. Art.; enl. Sept. 4, 1864; disch. June 15, 1865. Trueman W. McLatchay, Co. D, H. Art.; enl. Sept. 4, 1864. George \V. Young, Co. D, H. Art. ; enl. Sept. 4. 1864; disch June 15. 1865. Julius Hawkins, U. S. C. T. ; enl. Jan. 2, 1865 ; date of discharge unknown. Charles Foss, V. R. C. ; enl. Dec. 22, 1863: date of discharge unknown. W'm. H. Foss, V. R. C. ; enl. Dec. 22, 1863; date of discharge unknown. John Vallelly, V. R. C. ; enl. Dec. 22, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Charles Bedill; enl. Dec. 22, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Samuel V. Davis, Strafford Guards; enl. May 5, 1864; disch. July -'8, 1864. Wm. Galbraith; enl. Feb. 2, 1865; date of disch. unknown. Tichnor Miles, Strafford Guards; enl. May 5. 1864; disch. July 28, 1864. Wm. H. H. Tuvenbly, Strafford Guards; enl. Alay 5, 1864; disch. July 28, 1 864. Wm. Haines; enl. Sept. 11, 1863; date of disch. unknown. Almon Stacy; enl. Sept. 17, 1863; date of disch. unknown. James Thompson; enl. Sept. 17, 1863; date of disch. unknown, "tohn Smith; enl. Sept. 17, 1863; date of disch. unknown. CHAPTER XXXIX HISTORY OF BARRINGTON (l) ORIGIN OF THE NAME AND LIST OF THE ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS Previous to 17 19 considerable quantities of iron ore had been discovered in several places in New Hampshire, hence in that year a number of opulent merchants in Portsmouth formed a company for manufacturing iron by erect- ing works on Lamprey river. Adams's "Annals of Portsmouth" says they determined to procure workmen from Europe, but tiiey wanted to obtain a tract of land in the neighborhood which would furnish a sufficiency of fuel, and on which they might settle their laborers. In 1669 the town of Ports- mouth gave sixty pounds to Harvard College to erect a new building for the accommodation of students, and engaged to pay that sum annually for seven years. In 1672 the General Court of Massachusetts, in return for this dona- tion to the college, voted to grant to the town of Portsmouth a quantity of land for that village, "when they should declare to the court the place where they desired it." The town neglected to apply for the grant until the 25th of March. 1719, when they chose a committee "to address the General Assembly (of New Hampshire), at their next session to oiitain order for laying out "six miles square of land at the head of Oyster river, formerly granted by Massachusetts to the town of P'ortsmouth." The petition was referred to tlie Governor and Council, who granted a "number of opulent merchants of Portsmouth," proprietors of tlie proposed iron works at Lamprey river, a slip of land at the head of the Dover line, two miles in breadth ( six miles long) for the use of the iron works. This was called the "Two-mile- slip." The "opulent merchants" never developed the iron works, but they held onto the land grant as much as possible. It was called New Portsmouth by tlie grantees. As nothing had been done about the iron works, a town meeting was held in Portsmouth, March 26, 1722, and it was "voted that the village of New Portsmouth be divided amongst the inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth according to their town rate in the year 1721 ; and that no man be accounted an inhabitant but those persons who have been rated for four years last past." 367 368 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY A sliort while before tliis action of tlie Gox'ernor and Conncil anil the Assembly the town of Portsnionth had generously paid the expense of making repairs on the King's warship Barrington. while in port there ; in this year, 1722, the taxpayers of that town were kindly remembered by the Provin- cial authorities who presented them with a tract of land, west of Dover line, six miles wide and thirteen miles long, and they named it Barrington in honor of the ship the taxpayers had paid the expense of repairing. The Journal of the General Assembly has the following, May 10. 1722: "Several Charters being prepared l)y order of His Excellency the Gov. and Council for granting sundry tracts of land in this province and incorporat- ing the Grantees was this day laid before the board, and being read were signed and sealed (namely) : 1st. Chester, Charter dated ye 8th inst. 2. Nottingham 1 3. Barrington Y dated this day. 4. Rochester j Copies of which Charters are on file." The following is the Charter as given in Vol. XXIV, page 423, of the State Papers : George, and by the Grace of God and n\ Great Britain, France & Ireland, King, Defender of the faith &c. To all people to whom these presents shall come Greeting : Know ye that We of our Especial Knowledge & mere Motion for the Due Encouragement of settling a New Plantation by & with the advice and consent of our Council have given & Granted and by these Presents ( as far as in us lyes) do gi\e and grant unto all our Loving Subjects as are at present Inhabitants of our Town of Portsmo within our Province of New Hampshire and have paid Rates in the Said Town for four years last past to be dixided among them in proportion to their Respective Town Rates which they paid the year last past anrl the record of which is to be found in their Town i*>ook and is agreeable to their Petition preferred for that Purpose: All that tract of land contained within the fallowing Bounds (viz) — to begin at the End of two miles upon a line Run Upon a Northwest ]ioint, half a ix)int more northerly from Dover head line at the end of four miles and a half westward from Dover ; North East Corner Bounds and run upon the aforesaid point of Norwest half A Point more northerly eleven miles into the Country and from thence Six miles uix)n a straight line to Nottingham northerly Comer bound; then to l>egin again at the end of the two miles aforesaid and to run upon a parallel line with Dover headline six miles to Nottingham Side line and from thence Eleven miles along Nottingham side line to Nottingham Northerly Comer bounds. And also we give and grant in manner as afore- said all that tract of land Iving between Dover headline & the aforesaid granted AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 369 tract of Land, it being in breadtli six miles upon Dover head Line aforesaid and two miles in depth from the said Dover head line to the aforesaid granted tract of land, to our Loving Subjects the present Proprietors of the Iron Works lately set up at Lamprey River (viz) The Hon'ble John W'entworth, Esq., George Jeffrey, Esq.. Archibald Macphaedrie Es(|. & Mr. Robert Wilson, for their encouragement & Accomodation to carry on & maintain the aforesaid Iron Works, the aforesaid two tracts of land, to be a Town Corporate by the name of Barrington, to the persons aforesaid forever — to have and to hold the said two tracts of land to the Grantees & their heirs & assigns fore\er upnn the following conditions : — 1st That they build fifty dwelling houses and settle a family in each within seven years and break up three Acres of Ground for each Settlement & plant or sow the Same within Seven Years. 2dly That a Meeting-House he built for the Publick Worship of God within the term of Seven Years. 3tlly That two hundred Acres of Land be reserved for a Parsonage, two hundred Acres for the Minister of the Gospel & one hundred Acres for the Benefit of a School. Provided nevertheless that the peace withe Indians continue during the aforesaid term of Seven Years, But if it should happen that a war with the Indians should commence before the expiration of the term of seven vears, aforesaid, there shall be allowed to the aforesaid Proprietors the term of Seven Years after the ex[)iration of the War for the performance of the aforesaid conditions. Rendering and paying therefore to us, our heirs & Successors, or such other officer or officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, the Annual Quit Rent or acknowledgement of one pound of good, merchantable hemp in the said town on the first day of December, yearly, forever, if demanded, Reserv- ing also unto us, our heirs & Successors all Mast-trees growing on said land, According to the Acts of Parliament in that case provided. And for the better order, rule & Government of the Said Town we do by these Presents Grant for us, our heirs & Successors unto said Men & Inhabitants, or thos that .shall inhabit Said Town, yearly & every year, upon the last Wednesday in March, they shall meet to Elect & Chuse by the Major Part of them. Constables, Select- men and all other Town Officers according to the Laws & Usage of our afore- said Province, for the Ensueing, with such Powers, Privileges & Authoritys as other Town Officers within our Aforesaid Province, have & enjoy. In Testimony whereof we have Caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto Annexed. Witness Samuel Shute, Esq, our Governor & Com- mander-in-Chieff of our Said Province at our Town of Portsmo, the tenth day of May in the Eighth year of our reign Anno. Domini 1722, Sanniel Shute. By his Excellencys Command with advice of the Council, Richard Waldron, Clerk — Com — 370 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY The first meeting of the proprietors was held in Portsmouth May 28, 17J2, with Richard W'ibert as moderator, and Clement Hughs clerk. They then drew lots for selecting the place where they would take their number of acres. In Vol. IX of the Provincial Papers, page 41, is found the following: "A List of the original Proprietors of the Town of Barrington with the Rate\vhich each man Paid & by which the Quantity of Acres each man had is ascertained at the rate of two Pence pr acre & also the number of Each Lot as the Same was drawn by each Propr or his Constituent" Names. Acres. Henry Keese 270 Thos Hammett ... 60 John Moor 7-2 Francis Rand .... 60 Benja Gamblin . . . 330 Eleazr Russell .... 96 Widow Hatch .... 60 Edward Cater 120 W'm White f)0 Revd Rogers ^(>o James Libby i-'O Saml Allcock 210 Jno Roberts 210 Saml Hart 180 Jno Shack ford ... 210 Joseph Holmes ... 150 Wm Warren 60 Jno Shores 60 Doctr Baley 96 Wm Bridgham ... 96 Agnis Russell .... 30 Thos Phips 300 Richd Wibird 660 Thos Westbrook 300 Wm Cotten Junr. . 120 Peter Greeley .... 120 Eplim Dennet .... 3''>o Widow' Hunking . . 108 Hen Sherburn Jun. 90 Wm Lowde 192 Jno Plaisted 414 Joseph Moses .... 72 Benja T.angley .... q6 Jno Savage ~2 Names Acres. Richd Cutt . . . Widow Walker Widow Jackson Wm Bradden . \\'idow Tapley Benja Akerman Saml Hinks . . . Henry Slooper Thomas Sibson Thos Main .... Thos Crocket . . James Spinney . Edward Cate . . Richd Waterhouse Richd Cross .... Thomas Ayre . . Reuben Al)I)ott . Capt Wm Cotten Jno Brewster . . . Jno. Hooper . . . Josiah Clark . . . Wm .\moss .... Jno Hill Edward Toogood Saml Hewett . . . Alex Dennett . . Mathew Nelson Natlil Tuckerman Tim Davis .... Jonathan Stoodl Geo. Banfill . . . Ed Phillips . . . Jno Deverson . Joseph Fannin . /- 48 90 72 120 120 7^ 2J(, 180 7-i 78 120 120 180 120 150 7-2 150 150 60 120 72 96 144 108 180 150 132 96 120 84 S4 7-' 90 Names. Acres. Geo \Valker 72 Edward Cate Jun . . 1 50 Joseph Miller .... 90 Richd Waldron ... 216 Thos Harxey .... 1 50 Saml Sherburn ... 120 Walter Warren ... 1 20 Wm Cross J2 Jos Allcock 168 Thos Beck 90 Jacob Lavis /2 Caleb Grafton ... 30 Jno Churchill .... 60 Doctor Pike 240 Ambs Slooper .... 180 Jos Moulton 138 Al)rm Jones 150 14ios Beck Junr. . 78 Abrm Bartlett 72 ■\Iich Wliidden ... 210 James Moses 90 Jno Abbot 84 Thos Moore 72 Wm Frost 72 Wm Lewis 90 Jno Savage 150 Jno Peverly Jun . . 96 Solomon Cotten . . 72 William Hunking.. 30 Saml Shackford . . 210 Jno Cotton 144 Doctor Ross 96 Tno Ham 48 Michl Whidden Jr 84 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 371 Names. Acres. Robert Armstrong . 240 Bishop. . Joseph Pitman Thos Gotten . Thos Barns . . Michl Kennard Wm Knight . . Jno Clark . . . Thos Landell . Ed Pendexter Jno Lear .... Jethro Furber Stephen Greenleaf Stephen Lang Jno Jones . . . Jno Grindal . . Nathl Peverly Thos Packer . James Jaffrey Jer Neal David Gardiner Nathl Lang ... Philip Gammon Peter Ball Joshua Pierce . Jno Hooker ... Thos Sherljurn Zac Leach Richd Pashley . Richd Tobey . . A\'ido\v Marshall Jno Ciitt Moses Caverly Jno Mardin ... Jno Hardeson . Saml Penhallow Richd Jose ... Wm Fainveather Ephm Jackson . Colo Hunking . ^^'ido\v Martin Wm Pe\'erly . . Benja. Lucv . . Robert Almary . Go^^ Wentworth 22 7« 90 96 180 330 84 120 96 108 / - 120 120 132 7-' 90 648 240 90 120 120 3><> 120 720 96 96 90 144 144 90 LSo 120 66 180 720 120 7-' 168 210 120 120 96 98 720 Names. Acres. Abraham Libby ... /2 Saml Banfield .... 180 Charles Brown ... 54 Thos Greely JJ A\'m Parker 240 Sampson Babb .... 240 Jno Lang 126 Tim Waterhouse . . 150 Henry Beck yj Saml Ham 1 56 Abraham Barns ... 60 Widow Almary ... 30 Jno Rolx^rson .... 144 Anthony Row Junr J2 Jno Bradford .... 96 ] Nehemiah Partridge 7 Peter Moore Thos Wilkinson Philip Babb . . Benja Cotton Jos Buss .... Saml Winkley Benja Miller . James I'itman "Christr Noble Thos W^right . Robert Ward Widow Pitma Son Jabez . Jno Ford .... George Pierce Colo Vaughan ^^'m Gotten . . Wm Bams . . . Richd Swain . Jno Cowel . . . \\'m Ross . . . Tames Sherburn Natid Mclcher Jno Sherburn Thos Peirce . Peter Abbot . . Jno Edmonds Thos Walden Hen Sherburn Ac /- 84 60 7- 90 96 240 120 60 96 i^o 96 30 7- 210 240 210 7-' 72 84 7-' 90 7^ 120 210 60 84 ^50 192 Names. Saml Brewster Jno Davis .... Jno Libby .... Roger Swain . . \\'idow Brianl Jno Almary . . . Tobias Langdon Richd Elliot . . Hen Bickford . Obacliah Morse Nathl Odiorne Geo Jaffre}- . . . Mathew James Jos Sherburn . Jno Pray Capt. Hen Sherburn Jno Pe\'erly . . . Wm Terret . . . Jno Skillings . . Richd Saulridge Ed Ayers Saml Monson . Daniel Jackson Nath Robertson Moses Ingraham James Leach . . Jona Partridge Jno S h e r b u r widow Ed Wells Stepn Noble . . Steph Noble . . Wm I'ennet . . Hen SeaAvard . Thos Larraby . Nathl Fellows . Mary Moore Leach Geo Ayers . . . Arch Hunking Hugh Banfill '. Amos Furnell Abraham Dent Saml Rhymes Saml Clark . . Alis res. 90 120 144 84 3'J 120 240 96 96 48 108 600 120 354 138 55^ 96 ^4 96 108 210 120 72 60 120 90 7-' 24 120 f)o 60 120 120 120 7-' 30 96 72 108 L50 6 96 132 372 ■ HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Names. Acres. Names. Acres. Names. Acres. Cha Banfill 60 Alex Miller 180 Widow Nelson & Ale.x Roberts .... 180 Anthony Roe .... 60 Son 150 Capt. Geo Walker. 300 Capt. Tobias Lang- Francis Ditty .... 60 Saml Pitman 90 don 300 Jos Mead 108 Geo Townsend . . . 108 Ezek Pitman 120 Jno Collings 60 Saml Snell 36 James Stootly .... 30 Joseph Sibson .... 120 Saml Waterhouse . 24 Clemt Hughs 180 Laz Noble 60 Jno Sparks jj Jno Drew 120 Laz Holmes 42 Jno Davis 90 Jos Berry (h Abraham Center . . 06 Jno Cross 30 Jacob Tash 90 Not drawn Benja Cross 210 Daniel Quick .... 96 Not drawn Nathl Mendam . . . 240 Jer Libby iSo Not drawn Robert Pickering. . jj Jno Preston 120 Not drawn Arch Macphadris . 600 Wm Fellows 240 Not drawn Moses Paul 210 Saml Brown J2 Jer Calf 72 At a meeting held June 14, 1722. it was \-oted to give forty-two lots of forty acres each, as near the centre of the town as the land would admit, to such persons as would fulfill the conditions of the charter. Considerable dififi- culty was found in getting settlers to take up the land on those conditions. After sundry meetings a number of persons were found who agreed to take the forty-acre lots and settle upon them, when a committee was chosen to proceed to Barrington with the proposed settlers and lay out their lots. This committee reported. June 27, 1727, that after having been upon the land, and having with them certain persons who had agreed to settle, "the land proving to be so extraordinary bad by reason of its being so extremely rocky and stony that none of those present would accept it," and they thought it "impracticable to settle upon it." CHAPTER XL HISTORY OF BARRINGTON ^H) DIFFICULTY OF SECURING THE FIRST SETTLERS. GARRISON HOUSES. THE HISTORIC TWO-MILE-STRE.\K During the first thirty years, 1732 to 1753, all the meetings of the pro- prietors were held in Portsmouth, and quite a number were held at ditterent times. At the one held January 29, 1732, it was voted "that 100 acres of land out of the town commons be given to each proprietor that shall appear in 15 days and give bond with good security to the value of one hundred pounds each, that each of them shall build a house, and perform every other article that the charter obliges a settler to do (within one year), provided the num- ber exceed not forty-two, and the same give in their names to the dark." It was also voted, August 7, 1732, to give to each settler of the forty-two forty-acre lots, one forty-second part of all surplus and undivided lands in town. It appears that these last liberal offers were sufficient to secure the re- quired number of settlers, and the proprietors came in possession of the town. In 1 741 the proprietors asked for and received of the General A.ssembly power to raise and collect rates upon themselves the same as possessed by towns. "The following is a list of Rates on the Poles and Estates of Township of Barrington in the Province in the year 1742." (The figures denote shillings and pence.) Joseph Ellis. 1 1 ; John Mackmatle, 1 1 ; Robert Macdaniel. 1 1 ; James Gray, 10; Sampson Babb, 10 6: Charles Felker. 10; Samuel Frost, Jr., 10 6 Paul Hayes, 10; Jonathan Church, lo; William Howard, 10: Richard Swain ID; William Cate, 12; John Ellis, 6 6: Thomas Ellis. 6; b.ihn Sliepard, 6 6 Samuel Dillay, 9; Robert Bamford, 5; George Gear, 6; Charles Bamford, 6 Robert Macdaniel, 6; John Macdaniel, 6: Nehemiah Macdaniel, 6; John Rand 6 : Arthur Caverley, 6 ; Thomas Dock, 5 ; John Leighton, 6 6 ; Peter Morse, 6 6 Solomon Snell, 6 6 : Joshua Frost, 6 ; George Gray, 5 ; Joshua Foss. 6 6 ; James Shute, 6; Richard Babb, 6; Michael Felker, 6; Samuel Fost. 6 6; Richard Knight, 4: Timothy Tibbetts, 4: Josei)b Johnson. 4; Thomas Johnson, 4; Richard Eliot, 2; John Waterhouse, 4. Thomas Shippard, 10. 373 374 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY There appear to have been Hving on the Two-mile Streak in tlie year 1747 sixteen famihes and upwards of ninety inliabitants, who petitioned the Provincial Governor and General Assembly for protection against the Indians. THE PETITION May it please yr Excellence wee make bould To Truble yr Excellence & yr honourable Council taking into Consideration our Dangerous Condition of our Eniinys. the want of what luen you shall think proper to Steate One the two Garresons at Two-Mile-Streik In Harrington, being obliged to leave our W'emen & Children Exposed in said houses. Otherwise our Cropes must suffer. Our dependence is on yr Excellence & that }-ou w ill nut let us be any longer in Such a Condition, being the Xeedfull, and are ever yr Excellence's humbl Servants. J. W. Macmath, Tnos. Sheephard. Two-Mile-Strcak in Barrington, Jan. the 15, 1747. Governor \\'entworth and his council did not appear to pay any attention ti> this petition, so the following was sent to them in the next month : To His Excellency Benning \\ entworth, Esqr., Governor and Commander-in- Chief in and over the Province of New Hampshire, The Honorable His Majesty's Council! and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened. The petition of Thomas Shepherd in behalf of him.self and the otlier Inhabi- tants of the Two-Mile-Streak ( so called ) in the Township of Barrington in said Province most humbly shew that there are sixteen families settled within the said Two-Mile-Streak, containing upwards of ninety Persons, in all, That the Situation of the same is such that the Inhabitants are very much exposed unto the Indian Enemy. That the Summer past the laboring People there were obliged to leave their wives and children at home unarmed & defenceless whilst they went out about their business of husbandry, having no soldiers there to guard and protect them. That they are in great fear that the Indians will destroy some of them the approaching Spring and Summer, if they tarry there, unless the Government Allows them Some Protection. That in Case the said Indians move in, it will give the Enemy an advantage, besides that thereby your Petitioners' Planta- tion, where they raise Considerable Provision, will lay unimproved. Wherefore, your Petitioners most humbly Pray your Excellency and Hon- ours to take their Case under Consideration and to allow them such a number of Soldiers & for such time as you shall judge reasonable, and your Petitioners as in duty Bound shall ever prav. l-'ebry. 23d, 1747. Tiiom.\s .SiiEPHERn. In Council ]\Iarch 8th, 1747. read and ordered to be sent Down the Honbl. House. Theodore Atki.xsox, Secy. i SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. RO( IlESTEi;, X. II. GAKNEV HOMK. ROl'HESTEK. X. H. SCHOOL ST. SCHOOL, ROCHESTER, N. II. PUBLIC LIHl;.\l;V (CARXEGFE). ROCHESTER, N. H. i^^^^m CJTY HALL. ROCHESTER, N. H. MASONIC TEMPLK. ROCHESTER, N. H. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 377 Ihe result of tliat petition and otiiers like it from other towns was tiiat a company of soldiers was kept on patrol duty, under command of Captain Jonathan Longfellow of Nottingham, all summer along the northern bound- ary line of the towns frnm Chester to Rochester, those towns included, to keep watch and guard to announce the approach of the enemy at any point. It does not appear that any families were attacked in Barrington. It appears from these petitions that the first settlements in Barrington were made in the Twn-mile Streak, between 173J and 1740. The Lamprey River Iron Works proprietors did not settle any of their workmen there, as they did not manufacture any iron or have any workmen to settle in their "New Portsmouth." The north boundary line of the "Streak" runs parallel with the Dover, Mudbury and Lee headlines and two miles from it. This line crosses the carriage road north of ( ireen Hill near where the Nashua and Rochester railroad bridge is; it is one quarter of a mile north of the Con- gregational church at "Hard Scrabble:" about one-third of a mile north of the outlet of Swain's Pond; and one-third of a mile north of the True William McDaniel residence, near the line between Barrington and Nottingham. The first settlement was begun in the \icinity of where the Congregational church now is, and among the first men there was Captain William Cate, who Iniilt the first garrison house, in town, there and it stood there until 1870, more than one hundred and thirty years. It is known that one other garrison was built a little later, in the Two-.Mile Streak, by Captain Mark Hunking of Portsmouth. It stood north o1 Winkley's Pond, and a short distance north of where the Nashua and Rochester railroad crosses the carriage road at that point. So far as known these were the only garrisoned houses in Barrington. Captain Cate was one of the leading men for many years. He was a commander of a company of provincial militia. When the settlers on the Two-Mile Streak wanted any public business to be transacted they had him placed at the head of the committee to see that it was done. He was chairman of the first board of Selectmen elected in 1753. His son William Cate' Jr., also was acti\e in public affairs during the Revolution, as also was his son John Cate. Captain Mark Hunking, son of Col. Mark Hunking of Portsmouth, was a famous sea captain. He was born in Portsmouth about 1700: he died in Barrington in 1775; his family resided in Portsmouth until after 1750. He was one of the Selectmen of Barrington in 1762, 1763 and 1764, and was a prominent citizen in town for many years. In his business as sea captain he sailed his ship to all parts of the world, and acquired much wealth. In one of his later voyages to the W'est Indies, about 1750, he brought home a jet black negro girl ele\en years old. She lived to be more than a huntlred years, 378 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY dying in Barrington about 1840. She was a slave in the Hunking and the Winkley famihes all her life, and was the last slave who died in New Hamp- shire. During the last few years of his life Captain Hunking was afflicted witii rheumatism ; as he could not get around very well he had an ami chair made with trucks under it, and in this his colored slave, Agnes, used to wheel him about the house and the dooryard as he might wish to go. In her old age she lived with the Winkley family, one of Captain Hunking's daughters married Francis Winkley of Portsmouth and li\ed a near neighbor to the Hunking garrison. A grandson of this daughter of the Captain, Henry Winkley, who was born there, became a very wealthy merchant in Philadelphia; he was born in 1803 and died in the Quaker City in 1S88; in 1879 he gave to Dartmouth College several thousand dollars to endow a professorship in Anglo Saxon and English Language, which is known as the Winkley Professorsliip. Captain Hunking owned another negro slave, named Richard, as appears in Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap's record of marriages ; his record says : Married, "Dec. 26, 1774, Richard, negro servant of Alark Hunking, Esq., of Barring- ton, and Julia, negro servant to Stephen E\ans, Esq., of Do\er, by consent of their respective Masters." Col. Steven Evans was Dover's most distin- guished military officer in the Revolutionary War. At that period there were reported to be three negro slaves in Barrington. Probably the third one was the servant of Captain John Drew, a distinguished officer in the Ixevolution. That may have been the last wedding of negro slaves in New Hampshire, but probably not as there was quite a colony of slaves in Portsmouth until after the Revolution. In 1790 the census does not report any slaves in the town. On account of disagreement among the owners the Hunking garri- son was allowed to go to ruin, but a part of it was standing in 1899, when the writer visited the spot, and found the grave of Captain Hunking and members of his family. The burial ground is on the south side of the rail- road and not far from where the carriage road crosses the railroad. The garrison was on an elevation a few rods north of where the raiload crosses between it and Winkle3''s pond. In 1832, when the house was in good con- dition, one of Barrington's most distinguished sons was born in it — Col. Daniel Hall now of Dover, a biographical sketch of whom can be found else- where in this book. The Two-Mile Streak is the historic part of Barrington. In it are Green Hill, on and around which, amung the early settlers, were the families of Hayes, Wiggin, Young, Horn, Tibbetts, later. Gray, Hall and Waterhouse. Beauty Hill at the east of Swain's Pond and north of the Hunking Garrison is for the most part in this Streak ; it was here that Richard Swain was one of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 379 the earliest settlers. Some of its descendants live there now. Francis Winkly was another of the early immigrants from Portsmouth who settled in the neighborhood of the pond which bears that family's name. Other families in the Streak were Bumford, Watson, Young, Daniels, Woodman, Locke, Church, Oilman, Whitehouse, Chesley, Hall, McDaniels, Waldron, Foss, Peirce, Kendall, Ellis, Brown and Evans. All these names can be found in the families there now. From these families many sons have won distinc- tion in various parts of the country. CHAPTER XLI HISTORY OF BARRIXGTOX (HI) ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY MEETIXG-TIOUSES At a meeting of the proprietors of narringtoii held in Portsmouth Mareii 31. 1731, it was voted to build a meeting-house for the worship of God, and to locate it as near the center of the town as the land would admit, and fifty pounds were appropriated for that purpose. Nothing was done under that vote, but eleven years later, 1742, at a meeting of the proprietors it was voted "that a meeting-house be Ijuilt at the charge of the proprietors, and they appropriated 200 pounds for that purpose, and stated the dimensions to be forty- four feet long and thirty-six feet w ide. ' The following were appointed a committee to locate and superintend the construction of the house: Thomas \\"riglit, Timothy W'aterhouse and Capt. WilHam Gate. At a meeting held June 2, 1742. it was voted that "one hundred and twenty pounds be apijropriated fi)r shingling, lluuring and inider- pinning the meeting-house." This house \vas located and hrst stood at the foot of W'aldron's Hill, on or near land now owned by Mrs. William C. Buzzell. This location proved to be very inconvenient for the settlers, as the most of them lived near the Gate Garrison and around Green Hill. At a meeting of the proprietors, held June 14, 1752, they "voted to grant liberty to the present inhabitants of Barrington to move the meeting-house from the present lot to land uf Samuel and Xathan I'oss." The house was taken down and mo\ed to this lot, where it stood as late as 1854, after which it was removed and converted into a dwelling. A town meeting was held Xov. 18, 1754, to consider the ]iropriety of settling Rev. Joseph F'rince as minister of the town. .\ committee was chosen to in(|uire into his character and (jualifications. Fa\oral)le reports of him being received from ministers of the Piscataqua Association, it was voted, Feb. 22, 1755, to give him a call. The Gongregational Church of Barrington was organized June 18. 1755, at which time Re\-. Mr. Prince was installed. ?ilr. Prince was a blind man, and ser\ed the church as ])astor thirteen years. 380 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 381 To show that tlie men of that time were prompt in paying tlie nmiister's salary, and careful in doing business, the following receipt, bearing Mr. Prince's autograph, is copied from the town records : "Received of ye Selectmen of ye town of Barrmgtun this nth Day of April, 1757. two hundred & fifty I'oumls. old tenor, m full, for my salary irom ye Beginning of ye world to this Present Day. I say Received In' me, "JdSKPii Pkixce." In the year 1770, John Uarlantl and Samuel Drewster, in behalf of the church and parish, asked the General Assembly for authority to conduct the affairs independent of the town meeting, setting forth as a reason that certain inhabitants who called themselves Quakers, and other separators from any religious body, and members of the Church of England, cause great con- fusion whenever a town meeting is held to settle a mini.stcr according to the laws of the province. Their request was granted. Rev. David Tenney was pastor from Sept. i, i,S. till May 3, 1830; Samuel H. Merrill from b\'b. 23, 1831, to Aug. 10, 1835; Samuel Nichols from Sept. 20. 1837, to Oct. 2<>. 1847. The present house of worship was built in 1840. Theodore Wells was pastor from [une 9, 1845, to May 10, 1859. After this the church was served liv non-installed pastors, as follows: For five years and seven months by Rev. Charles W'illey, to March. 18^)5; from June, 1865, by Rev. Josiah S. Amies; from May, 1869, liy Rev. Ezra Haskell; from September, 1875, to September, 1877, by Rev. Albert Watson and James De Buchanan. From 1877 to 1S87 the Rev. E. F. Borchers was minister for the church. Since, there have have been several pastors, all worthy and able men, and the church organization is in a fl(nirishing condition. Baptists. — In the year 1779 a Baptist Church was formed in the north- westerly part of Barrington. Its membership soon extended over a large part of what is now Strafford. Several active members lived in that part of Barrington called Canaan, where regular meetings of worship were held. The first record of a church organization in that neighborhood began in 18 1 8. At a conference meeting held Feb. 8. 181 9, those present expressed their wish to become a Church of Christ,- taking the New Testament as their rule of faith and practice, and to become connected with the New Durham Quarterly ^Meetings, and chose George Seaward ruling elder and Pomphret Pearey deacon. In 1851 the church was reorganized as the Straf- ford and Barrington South Free Baptist Church. In 1861 a large part of 382 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY its nieiiibers witlidrew and formed a cluirch in Strafford. Since then its members have, for tiie most part, lived in Barrington, where its meetings of worship have been held, and has been known as the Canaan Free Baptist Church. Six Free Baptist ministers and one Congregational minister have grown up under tiie influence of this church. In 1881 a house of worship was built. Present membership, 65: A. E. Boyerton. pastor. Through the labors of Rev. S. B. Dyer, of Nottingham, a Free Baptist Church was formed in the year 1820, in the south part of Barrington, known as the First Barrington Free Baptist Church. In 1830, Samuel Sherburne was ordained pastor, which relation was continued till his 'death in 1861. In addition to preaching Mr. Sherburne taught school much of his time, and exerted a wide influence in this and adjoining towns. Their meeting-house was built in 1847. The church has since been supplied by different men, among whom were Revs. P. Chesley, U. Chase, L. jMalvern and A. C. Peaslee. In 1821 another I'>ee Baptist Church was formed in Barrington near Nottingham line. It kept up its organization for a few years without a pastor or house of worship. About the vear 1834 a Free Baptist Church was formed in the north- westerly part of the town, known as the Third Church. It enjoyed consid- erable prosperity for a few years, when it was disbanded, and its members generally joined the churches in Strafford. Alethodism. — Methodist meetings were commenced in this town about the year 1S33, by Rev. Mr. W'alcot. in what was then known as tlie Blake schoolhouse, and a church was organized soon after. In 1835, a meeting- house was built, and the pulpit was supplied by appointments from the Con- ference some ten or twelve years. During this time the attendance w as large antl much prosperity was enjoyed. Afterwards the number of members was greatly reduced by death and removal from town. The Conference with- drew its appointments, and no meetings have been held since. The meeting house was taken down about 1885. Friends. — A few Quaker families settled on Waldron's Hill, and built a meeting-house. It stood on land now owned by George S. Tuttle. What its dimensions were or how long it was used are not known, as it was taken awav before the days of the oldest inhabitants living. CHAPTER XLII HISTORY OF BARRIXGTOX (IV) BARRINGTON MEN IN THE REVOLUTION, I775-I783, AND THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 When the Association Test was presented to each man in Barrington by the selectmen, Wilhani Cate, Jr., Silas Drew and John Kingman, 200 signed it and twelve refused to sign, Ijeing Quakers and opposed to war or bearing amis as the "Test" rcijuired ; those men of conscience were: David Drew, Samuel Williams, William Durgen, Jonathan Swain, Jonathan Clark, Elijah Tuttle, Jeremiah Tibets, Daniel Clark, John Buzzel, Thomas Caverly, Richard Swain and Jolni Evens. Of the 200 signers nearly two-thirds of them served in the army, more or less. Capt. John Drew had the longest and most conspicuous service. Several of the citizens were active and efficient in official positions of quite as much importance as being soldiers in the army. At a town meeting called Feb. 7, 1774, to consider the infrmgement of the rights of the American colonies by the British government, the following resolutions were unanimously ]>assed : 1. That liberty is the birthright of every Engli.shman, an essential part of which is a power, vested only in themselves or their representatives, to dispose of their property, and the inhabitants of this town are a part of his British majesty's liege subjects, and have a right to all the privileges of such suiijects and of Englishmen, so we apprehend we cannot be legally taxed by any power on earth but w hat is delegated 1)}' oursehes. 2. That the laying a duty on teas by the British Parliament, to be paid upon their being landed here, is an infringement upon the natural rights of Englishmen, and is calculated to carry into execution the plan of despotism adopted by the British ministry, has a direct tendency to subvert our happy Constitution, and to reduce us to a state a little short of African slavery. 3. That it is the duty of every honest man to e.xert his utmost ability in opposing every effort of the enemies of our liberties to enslave us, that by this means we may be instrumental of transmitting unimpaired (through the ravages of time) our liberties down to the latest posterity. 383 384 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 4. That we will nut directly or indirectly purcliase any of the teas sent here bv the East India Company or suffer it to be used in our families, and those who dissent from this resolve we shall esteem as enemies to their country, i>ests to society, and as friends to slavery, and that they ought to be treated with neglect by ex'ery true-hearted Briton. 5. That the thanks of this town be given to every community and indi- vidual that have exerted themselves in this noble and glorious cause of freedom. The selectment took a census of the inhabitants Sept. 14, 1773. and reported twenty-fi\'e men in the amiy. At a town meeting held in April. 1777. "A'oted to make a bounty to enlisted men, including what the .state pays, fifty pounds." Sept. 15, 1777. 'A'oted that the men who enlist join General Siark at Birmington." April 13. 1778. "Voted twenty pounds lawful money to nine months" men in addition to the State and Continental bounties." The population of the town by census of 1790 was 2,478. In 1800 it was 2.JJ2,\ in 1810 the number was 3.504. exceeding the pre.sent population of Harrington and Strafford (Old Barrington). According to the census of 1810, Portsmouth was the largest town in the state, Gilmanton second, and Barrington third. Like many other farm- ing towns, the population has not increased. The town records do not show that any action was taken h\ the town in regard to the War of 1812. The men who were required were drafted. When there was a threatened invasion at Portsmouth an entire regiment was called out from Barrington, Dover, and some of the adjoining towns. Cai)t. John W. Hayes" company, of this town, was called out in full. This regiment marched to Portsmouth under the command of Col. Isaac Waldron, of Barrington, and remained there fourteen days. It is sufificient to say of Barrington in the War of the Rebellion that its citizens volunteered promptly at the call of the President, and the \oters with great unanimity appropriated money and instructed its officers to iurnish the men to fill the several quotas of the town, that no citizen be compelled to go to the war against his will. Nearly all of its soldiers were to be found in the ranks, three only going out as commissioned officers, and their record in tiie field will compare fa- vorably with that of other towns, and is one of which the town has no reason to be ashamed. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 385 SOLDIERS IN THE LATE WAR OF THE REBELLION Daniel W. Allen, Joseph F. Avers. Isaac Allen, Charles E. Arlin, George \V. Arlin, Albert Brown, Charles H. Brown, John I. Burnham, James Brown, Leonard Brown, Andrew E. Buzzell, Matthew Brown, Albert H. Berrv, Alonzo F. Berry, John Brown, Jr., Ira Braydon, Lewis 11. lUizzell, James \V'. Buzzell, Charles O. Buzzell, Daniel R. Berry, Daniel Brown, John A. Buzzell, Alden B. Cook, Darius E. Coverly, Oscar F. Corson, Isaac \V. Cater, Alason Caverly, George W. Caverly, Albert W. Corson, Thomas Curran, Kichartl Callahan, Nathaniel Caverly, Samuel E. Caswell, James Clark, Joseph G. Clay, Harrison Capen, Thomas H. Colton, \\'illiam H. Dearborn, James M. Davis, Asa C. Dame, Jonathan Dustin, George F. Demeritt. Lorenzo D. Drew, George W. Dame, Wright T. Ellison. John W. Emerson. \\'illiam H. Ellison, William Earl, James P. Prescott. Duane T. Perkins, Benjamin E. Palmer, Richard Perry, George W. Rowe, Washington Rowe, Alfred Rowe, Auguste Roberts, James Ryan, Curtis Stimpson, Dennis Sullivan, John Smart, James B. Spinner, Daniel Smith, Joseph W. Smith. Nathaniel H. Sea\'ey. Albert F. Seavey. Aus- tin I'". Sea\ey, Joseph Seely, Galen Sherebate, George Scales, George W. Seavey, Samuel A. Foss. Oliver Fremont. William Faemancht. \Villiam A. Foss. Benjamin Fox. Henry Garmon. William H. Gray. Jacob Hall. Jeremiah Hall. Charles H. Hall, George Hoyt, Charles W. Hanson, John O. Hayes, George W. Hall. Franklin M. Howard. Levi F. Hall. Joseph Haynes. Jr., Charles F. Hall, Gilman Hall, Jr., Benjamin Hall, Richard Jackson, George \V. Jackson, Charles H. Jackson, Henry Johnson, I'cter Kenney, Thcjmas E. Kil- roy. John Kelley. Ste[)lien Leathers. Lyman Locke. John W. Locke, Henry Lord. Elisha E. Locke. Jolin W. Locke, Daniel A. Lea. Irving C. Locke. Wain- wright M. Locke, George F. Locke, Hiram Morse, Joseph F. Mix, John J. Martin. Samuel S. Morrison. Joel H. Morrison, Patrick McGrath, John P. Mulligan. James McKay, George A. Nach, John P. Neal, Riester Ottis, George Scales. John Sullivan. Nelson Shepard. Alfred Stevenson. Wilhelm State. Charles E. Smith, George Thomps(jn, George W. Thompson, FJijah Tuttle. John H. Twombly, Miles B. Tibbets, Jonathan D. Thompson, Nathan Von- camp, Moses Wil'ley. Jr.. Joseph W. Wade. Charles J. Woods, James H. Witham. Samuel S. Willey. George Whitfield. Samuel Wood, Jeremiah White- house. William H. H. Young, George W. ^'oung. CHAPTER XLIII HISTORY OF BARRIXGTON (V) CONCERNING TOWN MEETINGS, REPRESENTATION IN LEGISLATURE, TOWN CLERKS AND SELECTMEN OF THE FIRST CENTURY The first town meeting of the settlers held in the town was called by Capt. William Gate and held at his house, known in the nineteenth century as the "Old Garrison.'" That house was taken down in 1870 by Thomas Wright Hale, who owned it. It had been in a dilapidated condition for some years. It stood on "Hard-Scrabble Hill" on the east side of the road, a short distance north of the present church. Mr. Hale made a mistake, which he regretted too late, when he ordered the historic house to be taken down. The meeting was called by authority of the General Assembly of the province, which authorized the settlers to organize in regular town fashion. The meeting was held Aug. 30, 1753, m the meeting-house, and the following were chosen : Moderator, Arthur Daniellson ; clerk, Hugh Montgomery : selectmen, William Gate, Sampson Babb, Phederece Macutchen. At the next annual town meeting, held March 2-j, 1754, chose Gapt. William Gate and Timothy Emerson a committee to petition the General Assembly for an act to "subject non-resident proprietors of land to bear [lart of expense of building meeting-house." Also for authority to lay out roads. In 1762 the following petition was presented to the General Assembly and granted : "Pdition of Selectmen of Barriiiijton. etc. "To his Excellency, Benning Wentworth. Esfjr, Governor & Commander in Chief of his Majestys Province of New Hampshire, &c., &c. "Sir, — ^Whereas the town of Harrington has for some years past paid a Consideral)le Province Ta.\, and has upwards of 120 Poles in it, which we humbly hoi^ie Intitles us to ask the fa\our That we may Chuse one Assembly man to Represent said Town in ye General Assembly. "Therefore pray your Excellency would Vouchsafe to grant the Town of Harrington a Liberty to Chuse such a Representative to, appear for us in ye 386 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 387 General Assembly of this Province, Which favor we siiall so duly esteeni, and as in Duty Bound e\'er pray for the Su|>|)orter of mir Pri\ileses. "Pal'l Haves. "John Hayes. "HeZEKIAH H.W'ES. ■']\1.\rk hunking. "Francis \\'i.\kle,v, Jr. "John Garland, "Eleazer Young, "Wm. Gate, "Selectmen." Portsmouth, Feb. 19th, 176.2. Upon the above petition I ha\e thought it for His Majesty's Service to Incert in the King's writ the Town of Barrington which ]>lease to fill up that they may send a precept to the Selectmen in time to make Choice of a pro|)er person to represent them in the next General Assembly. I am Sir Your hum Ser\'t. B. Wentwortii. To Hon. Theodore Atkinson, Esq. The town of Barrington elected its first representation that year, 1762. and continued to so elect annually until the change was made to biennial elec- tions. At a town meeting held the first day of March, 1770, Deacon John (iarlanD. Foss. i8:4.-Thomas Hussey, Elias Varney, Henry Hi , Jacob D. Foss. i826.-Thomas Hussey, Elias Varney, Henry Hih, Ebenezer Buzzell. 8.7 -Thomas Hussey. Ebenezer Buzzell. Isaac Daniels. Jeremiah Buzzell. 8^^' Thomas Hussey Elias Varney. Samuel Sherburne. James Hanson. 8'q ~t5o a H s y, Samuel Sherburne. Samuel E. Buzzell. Aaron Young. ;830.-ScS f Clough, Aaron Young, Samuel E. Buzzell, Jonathan Dre^y. 23 390 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY l83i.' — Thomas T. Hall, Jonathan Drew, Jonathan Young, Benjamin Odiorne. 1832. — Thomas T. Hall, Jonathan Young, Benjamin Odiorne, Aaron Young. 1833. — Ebenezer Buzzell, Aaron Young, Jonathan Young, Samuel F. Brewster. 1834. — Ebenezer Buzzell, Samuel F. Brewster, Micaiah S. Clough, Jacob D. Foss. 1835. — Ebenezer Buzzell, Jacob D. Foss, Micaiah S. Clough, Jeremiah Buzzell. 1836. — Hiram Hall, Jacob D. Foss, Levi Felker, Jacob Sherburne. 1837. — Hiram Hall, Micaiah S. Clough, Thomas Hussey, Jacob Sherburne. 1838. — Benjamin Odiorne, Jacob D. Foss, Thomas Hussey, Jeremiah Buzzell. 1839.- — Benjamin Odiorne, Aaron Young, True William McDaniel, Jonathan Young. 1840. — Alexander Waterhouse, True William McDaniel, Hiram Hall, Nich- olas Caverly. 1841. — Alexander W^aterhouse, Hiram Hall, Benjamin Odiorne, Darius Winkley. 1842. — Thomas T. Hall, Oilman Hall, Samuel F. Brewster, John H. Wink- ley, Jr. 1843. — Thomas T. Hall, Benjamin Odiorne, John H. Winkley, John D. Peirce. 1844. — Thomas T. Hall, Benjamin Odiorne, John H. Winkley, John D. Peirce. 1845. — William \\'aterhouse. Oilman Hall, Elias Varney, Hezakiah Thompson. 1846. — William Waterhouse, W^illiam H. Young, Lyman Locke, Elias Varney. 1847. — William Waterhouse, William H. Young, Lyman Locke. Elisha Locke, Jr. 1848. — William Waterhouse, Elisha Locke, Jr., True William McDaniel, John S. Caverly. 1849. — William Waterhouse, True W. McDaniel, Solomon Waldron, John S. Caverly. 1850. — Benjamin Thompson, Hezakiah Thompson, John S. Buzzell, Albert W. Daniels. 185 1. — Benjamin Thompson, John S. Buzzell, Albert H. Daniels, Solomon Waldron. 1852.^ — William Waterhouse, Benjamin Odiorne, Smith Pearey, Seth W. Woodman. 1853. — Albert K. Waterhouse, Benjamin Odiorne, Smith Pearey, Seth W. Woodman. 1854. — Albert K. Waterhouse, Seth W. Woodman, Jonathan F. Berry, James B. Peirce. CHAPTER XLIV HISTORY OF HARRINGTON (VI) NOTED PERSONS AND LOCALITIES Col. Isaac VValdron was born in Madbury, March 16, 1747; he died in the VValdron house, near the railway station, May 3, 1841, in the ninety-fifth year of his age. He was son of Richard Kenney VValdron and his wife, Mary Clark. The ancestry of Richard Kenney Waldron has not been definitely determined, but it seems probable he is a descendant from Foulke VValderne, brother of Maj. Richard Walderne, famous in Dover history. That he has a double name given to him at his birth in 17 19 is a notable fact, as not until more than a half century later did the fashion begin to give children double names. The given name of his father is not known, but it is supposed that his mother was daughter of Richard Kenney who married Deborah Stokes, Aug. 15, 1687, as shown by Dover records, who was a grandson of Thomas Canney, the immigrant who came to Dover in 1633. Richard Kenney Waldron was a farmer in Madbury when his son Isaac was born, but about 1760 removed to that part of Barrington called "Canaan." He was a soldier in Capt. (later Maj.) Samuel Hale's company of Dover men at the siege of Louisburg, 1745; soldier in Capt. Samuel Gerrish's com- pany of Col. Nathaniel Meserve's regiment in the "Crown Point Expedition," May I to Nov. i, 1756; a soldier on militia duty in Capt. John Cochrane's company at "Fort William and Mary," now Fort Constitution, Newcastle, July 6 to Sept. 28, 1771. He died at the home of his son Isaac, but the date of his death is not known. Col. Isaac Waldron's mother was Mary Clark, daughter of Abraham Clark and wife, Anna, who resided in Madbury. All traditions agree that she was a very able and most excellent woman. She was baptized by Rev. Jonathan Gushing, minister of the First Church in Dover, Jan. 17, 1742, together with her mother and sister Anna, her age not given. When her son Isaac became old enough to engage in business for himself he came to reside at the business center of the town, the neighborhood around the Congregational Church. About 1772 he married Sarah Boodey and commenced housekeeping where 391 392 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY the old Waldron house stands. That house was built soon after the close of the Revolution by Colonel W aldron, who had begun to flourish in business and had l)econie one of the prominent men of the town. His first wife died July .S, 1799. In 1801 he married Tiazah Xoble. \\hi> died in 1841. a few months Ijefore he died. He and his wi\'es are buried in the burial ground on the Waldron farm, in the rear of the house. His grantlson, John H. \\'aldron. son of John, born in 1807, died in i8(j2, alwaxs lived at the home- stead. He said his grandfather was a total abstainer from into.xicating drinks. The late Judge Jacob D. Young once told the writer that he remembered his great uncle, Colonel Waldron. He was a spare man, about medium height, and when I, a boy of sixteen knew him, he was \"ery dignified and affable, then past ninety years. He could reatl w ithout glasses as well as any- body and was very active mentally. The first public record of Colonel \\ aldr(jn sa^s he was surveyor of highways in 1777. He was selectman in 1779, and from then on uy. to iS^o ills name appears fre(juently in public aflairs. He ser\'ed twenty years as Rep- resentative in the Legislature, nineteen years in succession, jsrevious to 1816 His name appears among the signers of Barrington to the Association Test or 177A. He did n(.)t go to the war but was an otflcer of the militia company of Barrington that trained the men who went to the war. .\t the organization of the militia in 1796, under the new constitution, he was major of the Second Battalion of the Twenty-fifth Regiment and continued as such until 1804. Lieutenant-colonel commandant (colonel) and held that comnns- sion until 1816, when he was 58 years old. In 18 14 he was colonel of tlie Fourth Regiment of Detached Militia, which marched to Portsmouth for the defense of that port against the expected attack by the British warships. Jeremiah Kingman of Barrington was sergeant-major on his stafif; Ichabod Bartlett. who later became the distinguished lawyer at Portsmouth, was quartermaster on the stafif. Colonel Waldron had his regiment arri\-e at Portsmouth promptly on time at the call of Governor John Taylor Cilman. under date of Sept. 9, 1814. At Barrington from the close of the Revolution up to 1825. or about that date, Colonel Waldron kept store, tavern, and cultivated a big farm. besides being engaged largely in puljlic affairs. The late Robert B. Caxerly. F.sq., of Lowell, Mass.. who was born in 1806, and knew Colonel Waldron well, said "he was endowed with sound common sense, force of character. honesty and practical good manners." Hon. Isaac Waldron of Portsmouth was Colonel Waldron's oldest son antl was born Dec. 4, 1773. and died in Portsmouth, Aug. i, 1843. He was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1794. He began his business AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 393 career in Portsmouth and became one of its most distinguished citizens and wealthiest mercliants. He was many times Representative in the Legishiture. and was member of the Governor's Council. From i8ig to 1831 he was president of the Portsmouth Bank; afterwards, until his death, president of the Commercial Bank; he was also director in \arii;ius other corporations. He was a member of the North Church, and of St. John's Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, which is the oldest Masonic lodge in X'ew Hampshire. Hon. Samuel Hale was born in Portsmouth. Veh. 5, 1758; died in Barrington, April 29, 1828, aged 70 years. The son of Alaj. Samuel Hale and Mary Wright, his wife, who was daughter of Capt. Thomas Wright of Portsmouth, one of the original proprietors of Barringt(_>n and for whom Major Hale named his second son. Major Hale was the second son of Samuel and Aphia Moody Hale, and was born in Newburgport, Mass., Aug. 24, 1 7 18, and graduated from Harvard College in 1740. Soon after grad- uation he came to Dover (N. H.) and was school master there three years or more; when preparations began for the capture of Louisburg he raised a company of nearly a hundred men of which he was appointed captain ; he led his company at the capture of Strong Fort in 1745, and for his skill and bravery as a commander was promoted to major, which title he retained ever after. On his return to New Hampshire he did not return to Dover but commenced teaching in Portsmouth, where he received the offer tresenting a very rugged appearance ; the Province road passes over its northern end, at a steep grade ; the summit is quite level for a considerable space then slopes off gently to Nippo pond, a beautiful body of water on the border line between Barrington and Strafford. W'aldron's Hill is the eastern companion of Mount Misery, its southernmost summit — being called, in old times, Brown's hill. The farms on it are excellent. It took its name from Col. Isaac \Valdron and his family, who at one time were extensive owners. The Province road passes over this hill. This road took its name from the fact in Gov. John Wentworth's time, before the Revolution, the Provincial Assembly AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 401 voted money to help build it from Durham to Barnstead, to encourage settle- ment in Barnstead and hcyund. In the beginning of settlements in the town the settlers ga\e fancy names to localities in order to inform their friends out of town in what section they resided. Along the southwestern border is Ireland. I'^rance, Canaan, Bum- fagin, Wild Cat road. In the center is Hard Scrabble, Mellago, Smoke street: Ayers pond, Long p(jnd and Round pond are in the northwest sec- tion. Stone House pond is also a noted locality, taking its name from the high ledge and caxern under it. A noted locality at the closing years of the eighteenth and the hrst half of the nineteenth century was known as Leathers City. It disappeared from the map many years ago. The immigrant Leathers family settled at Oyster river as early as 1677, and were very resi)ectable peoi)le, except for one family which settled in Barrington a century later who by some l>ad intermarriages and too much use of rum produced the historic Barrington tribe whose spe- cialty was the manufacture of various kinds of baskets, which thev carried to market in large hayracks, and took their wives and children with them as they journeyed through the villages and cities in Massachusetts. Some of the old women made a specialty of telling fortunes to such as w isheecial wish was. During the Civil War the political situation became so hot that a division of the town w as asked for. the Blue Hills to be the dividing line ; but the Legislature wiselv refused to make the division. Perhaps the best man did not win every time, or to express it in another way the man who was defeated was generallv as good as the winner, the party lines being tightly drawn. Be that as it may. the following is the list of winners in the first fifty years, 7820-1870: which party they belonged to the historian cannot say; but for many years the town was always counted on as sure to go Democratic. Representatives: 1821, Azariah Waldron; 1822, Job Otis. Tobias Roberts; 1823, Andrew Leighton, Job Otis; 1822, Tobias Roberts, Azariah Waldron: 182=;, Tobias Roberts, and no choice for second: 1826 and 1827 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 405 there was no clioice. the contests being fearfully hot; 1828, Job Otis, Benning W. Jenness; 1829, Benning W, Jenness, Amos Tabbett; 1830, John Perkins, Elisha Parker; 1831, the same; 1832. John Perkins, Israel Hall; 1833, Israel Hall, William Tarker; 1834. Win. Tasker, Daniel Winkley; 1835, Daniel Winkley, Hudson Peavey; 183*), Hudson Peavey; 1837, n(j choice; 1838, Samuel P. Montgomery, Joshua Woodman; 1839, the same; 1840, Paul Perkins, Elisha Weeks; 1841. Paul Perkins, James B. Foss ; 1842, James B. Foss, Wm. Berry; 1843, Stephen Young, Andrew D. Leighton ; 1844, the saine; 1845, Charles Ca\erly, Eliphalit h'oss ; 1846, the same; 1847, Benjamin E. Woodman, Benjamin T. Foss; 1848, the same; 1849, John Huckins, John Saunders; 1850, Stephen Leighton, Nathaniel Locke; 1851, John Huckins, John Saunders; 1852, Joshua Roberts, Nathaniel Brock; 1853, Jacob Drew, Ezra Drown; ]854. Jacob Drew, John Peavey; 1855, Andrew J. Otis, Joseph A. Clough : 1856, ,\aron W. h'oss, Dennis Bal)b; 1857, Aaron W. Foss, Thomas Scranton; 1858, Hezekiah Berry, John K. Evans; 1859, John C. Huckins, David R. Montgomery; i860, Isaiah D. Edgerly, Daniel J. Holmes; 1861, Joshua Otis, Chas. F. Montgomery; 1862, John \V. Jewell, Cyrus Wingate; 1863, George C. Pinkham, Paul Perkins; 1864, James Tuttle, Robert W. Foss; 1865, Nehemiah C. Twombly, Rufus Hall; 1866, Durban D. Caswell, Warren H. Perkins; 1867, Thomas Berry, Azariah Foss; 1868, Jeremiah F. Hanscom, Samuel Larkin; 1869, Daniel J. Holmes; 1870, Cotton H. Foss, Jeremiah Tasker. Tmvii Clerks: 1820-24, Wm. Foss (3d); 1824-28, George W. Foss; 1828-33, Enoch Place; 1833-35, Samuel P. Montgomery; 1835-37, David K. Montgomery; 1837-38, Enoch Place; 1838-47, Benjamin E. Woodman; 1847-49, Wm. Strachm; 1849-51, David K. Montgomery; 1851-54, Joseph A, Clough; 1854, Demeritt Place; 1855, Alfred Tasker; 1856, Charles F. Montgomery; 1857-59, Mark K. Foss; 1860-62, Richard W. Foss; 1863-65, Mark Foss; 1866, John S. Foss; 1867-68, Lafayette Chesley; 1869, Mark K. Foss; 1870-71, Wm. C. Foss. Sclccfiucn: 1821, Tobias Roberts, Joseph Huckins, Paul Perkins; 1822, Joseph Huckins, Joshua Otis, Azariah Waldron; 1823, Joshua Otis, Elisha Tasker, Thomas Chick; 1824, the same; 1825, the same; 1826, Joseph Huckins, James Demerrett, William Tasker; 1827, the same; 1828, Joshua Otis, Elisha Tasker, John Perkins; 1829, the same; 1830, Tobias Roberts, Isaiah Hall, Jr., James B. Foss; 183 1, the same; 1832, Daniel Winkley, Joshua Wingate, Wm. Tasker; 1833, Daniel Winkley, Barliar Gray, Joshua Woodman; 1834, Joshua Woodman, James B. Foss, Barbar Gray; 1835, James B. Foss, John W^ingate, Charles Caverly; 1836, Charles Caverly, Joshua Otis, Israel Hall, Jr.; 1837, Dennis Babb. Joseph Caverly, David K. Montgomery; 1838, Dennis Babb, 24 406 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Elisha Tasker, David K. Montgomery; 1839, Elisha Tasker, Stephen Young, Daniel Winkley; 1840, Stephen Young, Daniel Winkley, B. W. Jenness; 1841, Andrew D. Leighton, Eliphalit Foss, Wm. Holmes; 1842, the same; 1843, George W. Cavemo, S. P. Montgomery, Israel Foss, Jr. ; 1844, the same ; 1845, Samuel Durgin, Jr., John Huckins, John H. Scott; 1846, John Saunders, Wm. Tasker, Thomas Scruton; 1847, the same; 1848, Stephen Leighton, Stephen Young, Rufus Hall; 1849, Wm. L. Hill, Joshua Roberts, Warren Foss; 1850, Jacob Drew, Rufus Hall, Thomas Berry; 185 1, Jacob Drew, Thomas Berry, John Evans; 1852, Cornelius Caswell, Lewis Stiles, John L. Swain; 1853, the same; 1854, Wm. Foss, Jr., John S. Young, Jehoah Tuttle; 1855, Benjamin T. Berry, Caleb Hanson. Ebenezer F. Hanson; 1S56, Ezra Drown, Dennis F. Babb, Thomas Caswell; 1857, Micajah S. Hanscom, Thomas Caswell, Azariah Foss; 1858, M. S. Hanscom, Azariah Foss, John J. Leighton; 1859, John Leighton, Paul Perkins, Joshua Otis; i860, Abram S. Clark, Joshua Otis, James Tuttle; 1861. Paul Perkins, James Tuttle, Durban D. Caswell; 1862. Paul Perkins, D. B. Caswell, Jeremiah S. Winkley; 1863, Jacob B. Smith, Stephen Leighton, Joseph A. Whitcher ; 1S64, the same; 1865, Jacob B. Smith. Aaron W. Foss, Jeremiah F. Hanscom; 1866, J. W. Foss, A. F. Hanscom, Asa H. Tuttle; 1867, Joshua Otis, Asa H. Tuttle, Lyman Foss; 1868, Paul Perkins, L. \\'. Foss, John O. Bordy; 1869, Robert B. Peavey, Warren Foye. George N. Foss; 1870, the same. The first delegates to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Con- stitution of New Hampshire were Benning W. Jenness, Samuel P. Mont- gomery. The delegates for revision, in 1876, were Aaron W. Foss, Jacob B. Smith. From the town records we find that Job Otis, Azariah Waldron, Tobias Roberts, by act of the Legislature of New Hampshire, were authorized to call the first town-meeting. In 1827, at a special meeting called for the purpose, it was voted "that no ardent spirit be sold within one-half mile of the place of the town meeting." Also the following is from the records : "Strafford, March i, 1823. "This may certify that we the subscribers selectmen approve of George W. Foss to be a suitable person to sell and mix spiritous liquors such as rum, wine, brandy, gin for two days at the Ridge Meeting-House on the nth and 12th days of March inst. "Joshua Otis, "Azariah W^aldron, "Joseph Huckins. "Selectmen of Strafford. "A true copy of record "Attest "WiLLi.\M Foss, 3d, Tozi'ii clerk." CHAPTER XLVl HISTOm' OF STRAFFORD (II) CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS The Free Will Baptist church was established at four localities in what is now Strafford ; these places were known as Crown Point, The Ridge, The Pond and Snackety. That at Crown Point (Strafford Corner) was organized in August, 1779, by the Rev. Edward Lock, who was connected with the Calvin Baptist church of Berwick, Me. He held a revival there and the church was organized of about forty members. Rev. Tozier Lord and Rev. Benjamin Randall was then a member in good standing in the Baptist church at Berwick, the work of organization and Mr. Lord was chosen the first pastor. Mr. Randall was then a member in good standing in the Baptist church at Berw ick, and had been a preacher about three years, but had not started the movement to organize a new denomination. In March 1780, he left the church at Berwick and joined this new one at Crown Point in Barrington. Mr. Randall had settled his family on New Durham Ridge, where he had inirchased thirty acres of land in March 1778 and was doing itinerant work in preaching in various towns around, but it was not until April 5. 1780, a month after he joined the Crown Point church that he was formally ordained as an evangelist by Rev. Tozier Lord and Edward Lock. And on Saturday, June 30, 1780, a meet- ing was appointed for the organization of the church at New Durham, where Mr. Randall resided and which is generally regarded as the First Free Will Baptist church in America. But in fact the church at Crown Point, of which Mr. Randall was a member when he organized the "Mother Church" at New Durham Ridge, was the first Free Will Baptist church, although that name had not been formally assumed. The Rev. Edward Lock who organ- ized the Crown Point church, had been a member of the Calvin Baptist church at Gilmanton, had been disfellowshipped for declaring he had no sympathy with Calvinistic election, nor with close communion, so he organ- ized the Crown Point church as an independent body of Christians. The Rev. Tozier Lord was one of the council at Gilmanton that disfellowshipped Mr. Lock, and he said at the council meeting: "H you withdraw fellowship 407 408 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY from Mr. Lock you do also from me, for I am of the same belief." So when Mr. Lock had organized this independent church at Crown Point he very naturally recommended Mr. Lord for their minister, and the recom- mendation was approved, and Mr. Lord became the first settler-minister. Mr. Lock was then minister of a Baptist church in Canterbury. As Mr. Randall was a member of this church when he was ordained to the ministry, the church \ery naturally followed his lead when he became a full Hedged "Free Wilier," and it has remained ever faithful and efficient in maintaining the ancient faith proclaimed by Mr. Randall. Of course there have been occasional reverses, but its life has Ijeen continuous one hundred and thirty- four years ( 1913 ). At the beginning Mr. Randall had to visit the brethren and set them aright on certain theological points which he had carefully and prayerfully studied out, and get the church machinery into gear with the established routine of Free Will Baptist work. Among the laymen of this church there were men of marked ability, one of wliom was the Hon. Job Otis. It has sent out men who have become eminent as members in Free Will Baptist churches, and as leaders in the business world. It is said that the first persons baptized by immersion in the town of Strafford were Ralph Hall and Miss Abigial Daniels : he was an aged man and she a young woman. The names of the ministers of this church for the first hundred years were as follows : Elders, Tozier Lord, 1779- 1781: Benjamin Randall, associated with Micajah Otis from 1783 to 1821; Enoch Place, till 1853; D. L. Edgerley, till 1857; A. R. Bradbury, till 1858; K. Place, till 1861 : N. C. Twombly, till 1863: B. Van Dame, till 1865; B. B. Snfith, till 1868; William T. Smith, till 1869; N. C. Lothrop, till 1873; Ezra Tuttle, till 1874; S. N. Brooks, till 1876; C. C. Foster, till 1878; E. Tuttle, till 1882. There are four parallel roads about equally distant apart extending north and south through the town ; there are a few crossroads, along the six miles, which connected these main thoroughfares; they were awful rough roads, passing over ver}' steep hills ; very naturally the people travelled on them as little as possible; the result was that the church-loving people Inult four meet- ing houses and organized four Free Will Baptist churches. Crown Point, the Ridge, Bow Pond and North Strafiford. The good people could attend meetings, then without travelling on a single crossroad, on which scarcely any one lived. The church at Crown Point was first, as already stated ; the second was organized in the summer of 1781. at North Strafford (local name Snackerty), with Elder Toseph Boody as minister; he was a native of Barrington and at this time was 29 years old. He was one of the converts in the revival which AiND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 409 swept Ills native town under Elder Randall, i)reaching; he was one of the se\enty who organized this church and hegan preaching, but he was not ordained until August 24, 1783. His ordination was to the office c;if Killing Elder; remained minister of the church thirty years. Mr. Boody was a tall, dignified appearing man; he had a powerful voice and a pleasing and at- tractive manner in using it in his sermons and addresses ; his keen wit, severe sarcasm and fearless independence, rendered him a successful antagonist in theologv' and also in politics. He was a great re\i\al preacher, and was often engaged in evangelistic work witli Elder Randall. When they con- fronted a crowd of sinners, his Satanic Majesty made haste to retreat, lie- side attending to the religious wants of his hcime church h'.lder HdiHK- travelled and preached extensively in \'erni(int and Canada. He died in 1SJ4. hut his usefulness as a minister ceased when he was a little past three score vears old. This church still lives. The Third I'Vec \\ ill I'laptist church was organized in iSk;: the residents on the Ridge g(,t weary of uavelling over the rough and exceeding liillv cross- road to attend meetings at Crown Roint, so, January 20, that year, a reipiest was made by the people of Strafiford Ridge to the New Durham (Juarterly Meeting for a separation and for the organizing of a separate church at that place, not because of any difticulty among them as to divisions or dis[)utes. but for convenience and better accommodations. This recjuest was granted, and Elders Place, Merrill, and Peavey were appointed a committee to meet the people at the Ridge on the first Saturday in February, 1819, to acknowl- edge them the Third Church and to assist them in organizing. The meeting was organized on the above date by choosing Re\-. Enoch Place moderator, and Rev. J. E. Peavey clerk. ( Erom the records.) "Now when the brethren had gathered together at the schoolhouse on the Ridge, on the 1st Saturday in February, 1819, agreeable to appointment, they came to the following conclusion by the Grace of God. "\^'e, whose names are hereafter subscribed, ha\ ing given ourselves unto the Lord, do gi\e ourselves to one another in the Lord, by the will of God, considering ourselves a church of Christ, intending to watch over one another in love, striving together for the things which make for peace and things whereby we may edify one another. (Owning the .Scri])tures to be our rule of faith and practice and all the saints of God our l)rethren, we intend to comfort ourselves in the Lord together and edify one another even as also we' do. And to know them which labor among us and are over us in the Lord and admonish, and to esteem them very highly for their work's sake and be at peace among ourselves. To warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient to all men. To render not evil 410 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY for evil to any man, but ever follow that which is good, both among ourselves and to all men, praying the God of love and peace to aid us in all our journey from this to the eternal world, and preserxe us blameless, soul, body, and spirit unto his heavenly kingdom." Ebenezer Kelley, John Winkley, John B. Foss, Jr., Jerusha Foss, Timothy Foss, George Foss, Jr., Joshua Foss, Jr., Joseph Hill, William Foss (3d), Richard B. Foss, Joseph Huckins, Samuel Kelley, James Foss (4th), Mechech Drew, Simon Foss, Moses Sawyer, Joshua Foss (4th), Joseph Roberts, James Tuttle, John Tuttle, Woodbury Foss, James C. Gate, James Tuttle (3d), John Rowe, Sarah Foss, Mary Huckins, Hannah Huckins, Elizabeth Foss, Eleanor Muncy, Alice Foss, Eliza Foss, Elizabeth Foss, Sarah Foss, Alice Foss, Abi- gail Foss, Hannah Foss, Abigail Foss, Sarah Foss, Priscilla Foss, Mary Caverly, Anna Drew, Sarah Drew, Mary Drew, Jane Foss, Mary Huntress, Hannah Foss, Sarah Foss, Amy Foss, Abigail Foss, Sarah Foss, Judith A. Shepherd, Sally Shepherd, Eliza Shepherd, Sally Hill, Polly Hill, Katherine Hill, Susan Hodgdon, Betsey Peary, Sally Foss, Betsey Foss, Betsey Daniels, Elizabeth Brown, Olive Twombly, Anna Drew, Deborah Kelly, Sarah Tuttler, Sally Tuttle, Esther Tuttel, Polly Hall, Rhoda Clark, Alice Clark, Sarah Rowe, Mary Smith, Lydia Smith, Sarah Smith. Following is a list of the Elders who ministered spiritual food to its people during the sixty years following the organization of the church ; it is now one of flourishing and strong churches of the denomination ; the date of set- tlement was, Enoch Place, 1819; Ammi R. Bradbury, 1855; Arthur Caverno, 1858; D. P. Harriman. 1859: Uriah Chase, 1865; I. M. Bedell, 1866; Caleb C. Foster, 1872; C. E. Handy, 1873; S. C. Kimball, 1875; L. H. Winslow, 1880. During the thirty-six years' pastorate of the Rev. Enoch Place he preached but one-half of the time, two Sabbaths per month: the other Sabbaths the pulpit was occupied at intervals by Elders Sherburn, P. S. Burbank, John Winkley, Nathan Caverno, and others. The first clerk of this church was William Foss (3d), 1819, succeeded by Rev. Enoch Place, 1821; William B. Foss, 1842; J. H. Montgomery, 1845; Warren Foss, 1848; Alfred Tasker, 1877, who served 20 years. The first church was built in 1800. It was a large church, with square high-backed pews, and a gallery running round three sides of the house. There were no means of lighting or heating; evening service and service during severe weather being held in the academy. The pulpit was high and elaborate. This church was taken down in 1857, and a new church built, in which service is held at the present time. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 411 The Bow Lake meeting-house was erected in 1843, as a Union Church, and occupied as such till 1859. Rev. John Caverly and Enoch Place, Eree-Will Baptists, and the Rev. George W. Ashby, Baptist, occupied the pulpit. In 1859 the Bow Lake Free-Will Baptist Church was organized, with Rev. Levi B. Tasker as pastor, William P. Hall, deacon, and Orin T. Hill, clerk. The meeting-house was dedicated to the Free-Will Baptists, Nov. 14, 1859. The church, when organized, consisted of twenty-four members, as follows : L. B. Tasker, M. H. Tasker, W. P. Hall, Eliza Hall, C. M. Thomp- son, Dyer Hall, Daniel D. Caverly, Orin T. Hill, Mary E. Hill, Reuben Crit- chett, Betsey Critchett, George W. Buzzell, Mary Babb, Jeremiah Cavemo, Dolly H. Caverno, Almira J. Hill, Elizabeth Roberts, M. A. Huckins, C. A. Hill, A. W. Hill, Susan Roberts, William Thompson, Mary Tasker, and Deborah Thompson. The Rev. L. B. Tasker presided over the church as pastor for three years, and was succeeded by Rev. Joseph Brown, who remained pastor until 1865. Since then they have had a succession of good ministers and the church is prosperous. SCHOOLS IN STRAFFORD From the beginning of its organization as a separate town, Strafford has been liberal in supplying good town schools. Not only that, but in 1832, twelve years after the separation from Barrington, Strafford Academy was organized by the citizens of the town and located on the Ridge. It was recognized as a Free Will Baptist institution, and really was the outgrowth of that church on the Ridge. So it became the first, high class educational organization of the Free Will Baptist denomination, and took the lead in educating men for the Free Will Baptist ministry; many of its men who became powerful leaders in after years received their education there. Some of the instructors became distinguished as educators of nation wide fame ; and its students occupied seats in the Senate of Congress, and held positions of honor in the National Government. In the later years of the Nineteenth century the Rev. Mr. Austin made a bequest of $5,000 and the name was changed to Austin Academy. A score of years ago Mr. Gate, a wealthy shoe manufacturer in Massachusetts, who was educated in the original academy, bequeathed by will about $200,000 to the institution, and the name was changed to Austin-Cate Academy, and it is now one of the best educational institutions in the state. CHAPTER XL\T1 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD ( IH ) Strafford's i'atriotic RiccoRn, 1861-1863 Second Regiment Xew Hampshire X'olunteer Infantry Recruits Joseph D. Boyd, Co. I; enl. Dec, 2. 1863; al)seiit, sick, Dec. ly, i8()5; no dis- charge furnished. Johnson, John J., Co. B; enl. Jan. 4, 1864; trans, from Co. I, i3tli X. H. V., June 21. 1865; must, out June 21. iS>(;^. Johnson. Gray W., Co. B: enl. Jan. 4, 1864: trans, from Co. I, 13th X. H. \'., June 21, 1863; iniist. out Dec. ig, 1865. Smith, Richard, Co. I; enl. Dec. 2, 1863. Stael, Franz, Co. I; enl. Dec. 2, 1863; must, (lut Julv i. 1865. Third Regiment Xfw Hampshh^k X'oi.rxTEER Ixi \ntrv Campbell, Xathaniel J., Co. H; enl. Aug. 24, 1861 ; reduced to the ranks May 30, 1863: re-enl. h'eb. 13, 1864. Huckins, Azariah W., Co. H; enl. Aug. 24. 1861 ; died of disease at Hilton Head, S. C, Aug. 20, 1862. Scruton, Clark, Co. H; enl. Aug. 24, 1861 ; wounded slightly July 18, 1863; re-enl. I'^eb. 19, 1864. Clark, John, Co. H; enl. Dec. 10, 1864; must, out July 20, 1865. Hines, James. Co. I; enl. Dec. 10, 1864. Fourth Regiment X'ew Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Pillsbury, Moses W.. Co. E; enl. Sept. 18, 1861 ; discharged for disability at Morris Island. S. C, Oct. 27, 1863. Jenness. John M., Co. E; enl. Feb. 25, 1864; captured April 9, 1865; released April 29. 1865; must, out June 5, 1865; re-enl. \eteran. Fifth Regiment Xew Hampshire W)lunteer Infantry Brown. James, Co. C; enl. Dec. 4. 1863; aljsent. sick. June 28-. 1865. Carlisle. James. Co. C: enl. Dec. 4. 1863: disch. for disability Oct. 10. 1865. Hunter. James. Co. C; enl. Sept. 14, 1865: must, out June 28, 1865. Mercier, Charles, Co. C; enl. Aug. 12. 1863 ; must, out June 28. i86s. Underbill, William H.. Co. E; enl. Aug. 20. 1864. 412 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 413 Sixth Regiment New Hampshire Voli'nteer Infantry Creamer. Alonzo D., Co. G; enl. July 2. i8ry4; trans, from Co. G. i ith N. H. v., June I, i(H65; must, out July 17, 1865. Williamson, James, Co. I ; enl. Aug. 14, 1863 ; absent, sick, since May 2/. i8(34 ; no discharge furnished. Seventh Regiment .\'e\v Hampshire Voli'xteer Ixeantrv Johnson, Henry, Co. D; enl. Dec. j, 1863: wounded se\erely, Feb. 2f). iSfq; wounded June i(^>. 1864; died of wounds at Hamjjtim, \''a.. June j;. 1864. Rand, William E., Co. I; enl. Aug. 11, 18(4; must, out JuU- 20. 1865. Caverl}-, Cyrus G., Co. A; enl. Feb. 2y. i8()4; captured near Richmond, Va., Sept. 27, 1864; tlied at Salisbury, N. C, Nov, 25. 1864: re-enl. veteran. Tuttle, Joseph W., Co. .\ : enl. Felx 24. 1864: wounded at Deep Run. Va.. Aug. 16, 1864; pro. to corp. June i, 1S65; must, out July 20. 18^)5: re-enl. vet- eran. Eighth New Hampshire Volunteer Ixfaxtrv Prescott, Thomas C, capt. Co. H ; com. May 2^, 1863 ; must, out Jan. 18. 1865. Prescott, John H., capt. Co. G: com. Dec. 20, 1861 ; pro. to maj. July lO, [863. Prescott, Thomas C, sergt. Co. G; must, in Dec. 31. 1861 ; pro, to sergt.-maj. Nov. 16, 1862. Prescott, John H., corp. Co. G; enl. Dec. 27,. 1861 ; pro. to sergt. July 1 1, 1862 ; re-enl. Jan. 4, 1864. Eastman, George H., Co. G; enl. Jan. 4, 1864; cap. at Yellow Bayou. La., May 16, 1864; released; pro. to corp. Nov. i, 1864; trans, to Co. B, Vet. Batt, 8th N. H. Vols., Jan. i, 1865. Prescott, John H., Co. G; enl. Jan. 4, 1864; pro. to 2d lieut., to date Dec. 16, 1863. " Veteran Battalion, Eighth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Eastman, George H., Co, G ; pro, to corp, July i, 1863 ; must, out Oct. 28, 1865, Eleventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Bones, Thomas, Co. H; enl, Dec, 4, 1863, Legro, Alexis, Co. A; enl. Dec. 22, 18G3: wounded slightly June 7, 1864; disch. for dis. March 20, 1865. Straub, William, Co. G; enl. Dec. IQ, 1863. Halstead, Walstonholme, Co. G; enl. Dec. 22,. 1863; pro. to corp. March i, 1865 : pro. to sergt. May i, 1863 ; trans, to N. H. Vols. June i, 1863, 414 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY TllIKTEENTH ReGIMENT NliW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEER InKANTRY Hubbard, W. Hall. capt. ; com. March i. 1865; must, out June 21, 1865. Woodman. Charles A.. 26. lieut. ; com. June 15, 1865; not must.; must, out as I St sergt. June 21, 1865. Hall, Charles C. musician; enl. April 28, 1864; died of dis. Jan. 22, 1865. Parsiiley, John D., sergt. Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; must, out June 21, 1865. Woodman, Charles, sergt. Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; pro. to ist sergt. July i, 1863; wounded slightly June 3, 1S64: pro. to 2d lieut. June 15, 1865. Evans, Alpheus D., corp. Co. F; enl. Sept. 19. 1862; died of dis. at Newport News. Va., March 8, 1863. Prime, Joseph H., corp. Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862 ; disch. by Order No. 4, 1863. Panshley, Augustine S., corp. Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. Nov. 13, 1863 ; must, out June 20. 1865. Foss, Albert H., Co. B; enl. Sept. 18, 1862; must, out June 21, 1865. Roberts. Tobias, Co. B; enl. Sept. 18, 1862; must, out June 21, 1865. Evans. Joseph S., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; wounded severely June i, 1864; must, out June 21, 1865. Edgerly, Charles E., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; died of dis. at Washington, ^D. C, March 8. 1863. Foss, Azariah J., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; wounded May 3, 1863; died of wounds at Suffolk, Va., May 7, 1863; interred at Suffolk, Va. Berry, William F^, Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; disch. for disability at Ports- mouth Grove, R. I., May 11, 1864. Berry, Charles H., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; must, out June 21, 1865. Foss, Lemuel P.. Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; must, out June 28, 1865. Foss, George W.. Co. F; enl. Sept. 19. 1862 ; died of disease at Concord, N. H., Oct. 15, 1864. Hanscom, George H., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; pro. to corp.; wounded slightly June 15. 1864; must, out May 19, 1865. Hubbard, John, Co. F; enl. Sept. 19. 1862: disch. for disability at Portsmouth (irove, R. I., May 29, 1863. Hall, Daniel D., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; pro. to corp. Aug. i, 1863; pro. to sergt. May 6, 1864; wounded severely Sept. 29, 1864; must, out June 21. 1865. Hall, A. C, Co. F; enl. Sept. 23, 1862: disch. for disability at Philadelphia, Pa.. Jan. 15, 1863. Peavey, E. B., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; died of disease at Portsmouth, Va., March 19, 1864. Seaward, Joel D., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; disch. for disability at Ports- mouth, Va., Sept. 23, 1863. Seaward, George A., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; must, out June 21, 1865. Thompson, David, Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862 ; disch. for disability at Philadel- phia. Pa., April 13, 1863. Tuttle, Darius, Co. F; enl. Sept. 19. 1862; wounded slightly June 3, 1864; wounded slightly Sept. 29; must, out June 21, 1865. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 415 Tuttle, Joseph A., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; died of disease at Portsmouth, Va., June 27, 1863. Thompson, Hiram S., Co. P; enl. Sept. 19, 1862 ; must, out June 21, 1865. Wentworth, Charles F., Co. F; enl. Sept. 19, 1862; disch. for disability at Camp Casey, Va., Nov. 8, 1862. Fifteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Foss, John S., Co. G. : enl. Oct. 18. 1862; must, out Aue. n, 186^ ■ sick at Strafford, N. H. *, o o , Avery, John W., Co. G: enl. Oct. is, 1862; must, out Aug. 17,, i86v sick at Strafford, N. H. & . Winkley, Mark H.. Co. G; enl Oct. rs. 1862; must, out Ausj i :; i86v sick at Strafford, N. H. " o- o • Wingatc, Albert G., Co. G ; enl. Oct. 15, 1862 ; died of disease at Port Hudson, July 12, 1863. Howard. Martin V., Co. B; wounded. Eighteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer I NFANTR'4 Caswell. Samuel S., adjt. : com. May 19, 1865: must, out July 29, 1865. Caverly. Alonzo H., Co. C; enl. Sept. 14. 1864; re-enl. in the ist Mass. Cav. Eaton, Samuel P., Co. C: enl. Sept. 14. 1864; must, out June 10, 1863. Evans, Enoch, Co. C; enl. Sept. 14. 1864; must, out June 10, 1865. Hill, William E., Co. C; enl. Sept. 17, 1864; must, out June 10, 1865. Tuttle, Daniel D., Co. C: enl. Aug. 14, 1864; must, out June 10, 1865. Herriman, Jeremiah P., Co. D; enl. Sept. 20, 1864: must, out June 10, 1S65. Willis, John, Co. H; enl. March 30, 1865. New Hampshire Battalion. First Regiment, New England Cavalry Glidden, William H., enl. Oct. 24. 1861 : pro. to corp. June i, 1862; re-enl. Jan. 5, 1864. Fir.st Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Cavalry Glidden. William H., corp.. enl. Jan. 5. 1864; trans, from Troop H Tan. i. 1865; pro. to 1st sergt. Jan. i. 1865; pro. to 2d lieut. June 10, 1865" Hall. Asa A., Troop H; enl. Jan. 2, 1864: wounded June 13. 1864; pro. to corp. July I, 1864; missing at Lacy Springs, Va.. Dec. 21, 1864; pro. to sergt. April i. 1865; disch. for disability. Baltimore, Md., June 25. 1865. First Regiment New Hampshire Heavy Artillery Howard, George W.. Co. D; enl. Sept. 4, 1864: trans, to Co. B Tune 10, 1863. Howard. Herbert E., Co. D. ; enl. Sept. 4. 1864; died of disease at Fort Rey- nolds. Va., Nov. 2. 1864. 416 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Scruton, Clark, Co. D; enl. Sept. 4, 1864. Dyke, Lyman, Co. I: enl. Sept. 7, 1864; must, out June 15, 1865. Balk, John O., Co. I; enl. Sept. 7. 1864; pro. to cor|). June 8. 1863 : must, out June 30, i8fi-. Brown, Samuel F., (.'o. L; enl. Sept. j6, 1864; must, out June 1;, iH(>^. Clough. Moses B.. Co. L; enl. Sept. 26, 1864; must, out June 15, 1865. Kelley, Paul, Co. L; enl. Sept. 26. 1864; must, out June 15. i8()5. Caverly, Robert B.. Co. M; enl. Dec. i8, 1863: must, out June 9. 186;. Volunteer E.and Tenth Army Corps Boody. George \\'., enl. Sept. 27^. 1864: must, out July 4, 1865. Enlistment in \'eter.\n Reserve Corps Brown, Andrew H.. enl. Dec. 29. 1863. Caverly, \\'illiam B.. enl. Dec. 22. 1863. Soldiers not Found in Adjut.\nt-Gener.\l's Report of 1866. Caswell, Joseph F.. i8th Regt., Co. D; must. Sept. 20, 1864. Bruster. Gilman T., ist Regt. H. Art., Co. K; must. Sept. 17, 1864. Davis, Luther W.. 9th Regt.. Co. C; must. July 17. 1862; killed ;\Iay 12, 1864. Abbot, Orris S., nnist. Aug. 7, 1862: missing at l-Yeclerick.sbnrg, Dec. 18, 1862. Burk, Michael, 9th Regt., Co. A; must. Dec. 10, i86^; killed in action Mav 31. 1864. Robinson, Charles .\.. 13th Regt.. Co. D: must. Sept. 18, 1862. Pease, Thomas S., 13th Regt., Co. B; must. Sept. 18, 1862. Peary, Samuel, 15th Regt., Co. G; must. Oct. 18, 1862: di.sch. Clark, George D, 15th Regt., Co. G; must. Oct. t8. 1862: disch. Aug. 13. 1863. Abbot, Orrin, 7th Regt., Co. H; must. Dec. 17, 1861 ; died July 20. 1864. Drew, Cyrus G.. 13th Regt., Co. B; must. Sept. 22. i8(:2. Pitman. Thomas, 15th Regt., Co. G: must. Oct. ]8, 1802; nine months' man. Miller, Levi, 7th Regt., Co. A; must. Oct. 29, 1861 ; hadlv wounded in battle. Scruton, George H., 2d Regt., Co. D; nnist. June r. 1861 ; disabled, and disch. June 17, 1863. States. Tobias. 7th Regt.. Co. A; disabled, and disch. Julv 28, 1863. Colbath. Charles A., 7th Regt., Co. A; must. Xov. 29, 1861 ; Inft. Brown, John \\'., 3d Regt., Co. H; must. Aug. 24, 1861 ; Inft. Brown, Jared P., 3d Regt. Co. H; must. Aug. 24, 1861 ; Inft. Foss, Richard T., 7th Regt., Co. H; must. Dec. 17, 1861 ; Inft. Ricks, George S., 129th X. Y. Regt., Co. A; must. July 21, 1862. Hayes, Joseph H., 7th Regt., Co. A; must. Xov. 29. 1861. Critchet, Luther C, 15th Regt.. Co, G: mu.st. Xov. 6, 1862: must, out Aug. 13, 1863. Emerson, Samuel M., 18th Regt., Co. C; must. Sept. 14, i8()4 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 417 Young, George W., 13th Regt., Co. F; must. Sept. 19. i86j; trans, to Vet. Corps July I, 1863. Dufey, John, 14th Regt., Co. K; must. Aug. 5, 1861 ; recruit. Foss, Ira, I3tii Regt.. Co. I-'; must. Sept. 8, 1862; trans, to cavalry corps. All the men have a good record and some of the officers and subordinates have specially fine records for bravery under the severe trials and exposures of war. CHAPTER XLVIII HISTORY OF STRAFFORD ( IV) BUSINESS AND LOCALITIES Like all of the old towns, Strafford has its peculiar local names for differ- ent parts of the territory; here are some of them: The Pond; The Ridge; Crown Point; Above the Hills; Snackerty; Canaan; Sodom; Johnsonbor- ough Pig Lane. There is a history connected with each one. Many of the men Avho were pioneers in settling that part of old Barrington were soldiers in the Revolutionary army in which they had many experiences which impressed their memories so strongly that their war stories were repeated at the hearth- stones and every fireside for years afterwards. Some of the old soldiers ser\'ed in the army at Crown Point in the hardest conflicts around Lake Champlain. After tlieir war service was o\er they came up to what is Strafford Corner, then an area of the primeval forest. They had to cut their way through the forests and underbrush and found it very rough work, and as they cut down the trees and brush, and wiped the sweat from their foreheads, they said, one to another, "This is as hard as it w as in getting up to Crown Point with the army." It was a happy hit at the truth of the situation, and ever after they called the locality about Straft'ord Corner "Crown Point." Later some of the old soldiers who had served with Gen. John Sullivan in that historic campaign of 1779, when he suljdued the Indians and routed the Tories in Western New York, came up and settled in North Strafford soon after that campaign w as over. The incidents w ere fresh in their memory, and they told war stories to the end of their lives. One place they particularly remembered was Schenectady, but in common parlance, one with another they pronounced it "Snackerty" and for some fancied reason, which passed out of memory of their descendants, they applied the name to their new home, and it has remained to this day. In local phrase The Pond always means Bow Pond, which is in the center of the western side of the town and partly in Northwood. Its name is derived from its shape, lying among the hills. It covers 1,625 acres of land when at high water. Its outlet is Isinglass river, which empties into the Cochecho river at Blind Will's Neck in Rochester, a 418 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 419 short distance above the line between Dover and Rochester. Bow Pond vil- lage is at the outlet, where a dam was built by John l<"oss at an early period in the settlement of this part of old Barrington. The excellent water-power soon made the locality a village center, which it has always remained for this part of the town. The pond was purchased by the Cocheco Manufacturing Company at Dover about 1830, and a higher dam was built to increase the storage capacity for water which the company used in turning its wheels in the cotton mills at Dover. The first dam liroke away in 1832 and the water rushed out, flooding the Isinglass river \alley for two-thirds of the way to Dover. It was feared trouble might be caused when the water reached the pond in Dover; but it did not, as the marshes all along the river held it in check, so that it amounted to not much more than a big spring freshet. In the southwest corner of Strafford and the northwest corner of Barring- ton is a neighborhood of good citizens and prosperous farmers which is called Canaan. It has been so called since the settlement of that section of old Barrington was commenced. Who named it no one knows, but was some one well versed in Bible history who very happily bestowed on it one of the best farming sections of the old town. It is the l)irthplace of se\eral distinguished persons. In the valley between Center Strafford Ridge and Caverly Hill, below Bow Pond, where the Isinglass river forms an island and during a great many years following the beginning of the settlement there were two sawmills. The road jiassing tlin lugh there is called Pig Lane road. The road was built at a very early period and has always been so called. Who gave it the name, or for what reason, is a mystery. The hills on the road leading down to the valley are very steep, which test the strength of the strongest muscles in a horse when con\eying a load, either up or down, but the valley itself is a beautiful spot, when you get to it. In later years the so-called "Range road" was built, which gave an easy approach and exit to the Province road which passes over Caverly Hill. In the valley between Center Strafford and Crown Point ridges is a district called Johnsonborough, which took its name from several families living there by the name of Johnson. On the road south of it is a locality called Sodom. This name seems the most mysterious of all, for the good families who have lived there from time immemorial were complete contrasts with the historic Sodomites. Probably in the earliest days of lumbermen some rough-minded wood chopper gave it the name, and there it has remained. 420 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES Strafford lias many good waterfalls on the ri\ers which are outlets from the ponds within its boundary, and at a very early period and for many rears following, before the introduction of steam mills, there were numerous saw- mills and some gristmills, which did a thriving business. So late as 1870 there were seven sawmills (water-power) where lumber was manufactured, four gristmills, one cotton and woolen carding mill, one barrel and shook manu- factory, and two carriage manufactories. The Isinglass river from Bow Ponf the latter year he was instrumental in getting the town divided ami in having his half of it incorporated as Strafford. He was Representative from Strafford in 1822, 1823, 1828 and 1833. In the Legislature he was among the leaders in shap- ing business and was a shrewd manager in getting enacted laws as he desired. In 1834 and 1835 he was one of the Governor's Council. This was the close of Mr. Otis's public career, but not of his political career, for he remained a power among the political managers a decade of years following the close of his councillorship. Judge Jenness and Job Otis were the leaders in their respective sides of the town. Bow Pond and Crown Point. They were lioth stanch democrats ; when they combined forces and gave the word of command their plans never failed of success. Hon. Sainuci P. Montgomery was a man small of stature but lithe of foot and quick of action, wiry, and the wire steel. He was born at the old Mont- gomery farm on the summit of "The Ridge," an excellent farm and a delight- ful location. His brother David was one of the last of the family who lived there. Samuel was well educated and acrjuired a wide general knowledge after his school days were over. He was never married. He was a delightful and instructive conversationalist. He was a better schoolmaster than he was farmer. His gifts as a political manager were vigorous. He was popular with his townsmen and they willingly bestowed on him e\'ery office that was theirs to give from time to time in the annual town meetings. About 1850 he was State Senator and in the General Court was chairman of the judiciary com- mittee. His appointment to that position was criticised by the lawyers, who claimed that a lawyer should l>e at the head of the committee, and Mr. Mont- gomery was not a lawyer. Nevertheless he proved to be equal to the demands 424 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY of the jxisition and before tlie close of the session won the praise of all of his brother Senators. Mr. Montgomery engaged considerably in the lumber business for se\eral years. Later he engaged in school teaching in one of the Southern States and closed his life's work there. He was a good schoolmaster, as he had been a good citizen and an agreeable companion on all occasions. He was a great-grandson of John Montgomery, one of the earliest settlers in Strafford. He was born June 9, 1806, on the farm which his ancestor settled on and cleared off the primeval forest. From him it passed to his son Jonathan, whose son John inherited it, father Samuel P. and David K. The latter was an excellent farmer. His brother was not gifted that way, but his talents were active in other useful occupations. He was no idler; he was a good school-teacher and held all the offices of trust and responsibility in town several times over. His great-grandfather, John Montgomery, was one of the first .settlers in Straft'ord Ridge. The Caverno faiiiilies in Strafford have ah\ays occupied a prominent posi- tion socially, politically and financially in the community. The first of the name who settled in old Barrington, in that part which is now Straft'ord, was John Caverno, son of Arthur, of Sc(jtch-Irish natiunality. who came to this country soon after 1735, and in 1742 commenced clearing a farm from the primeval forest on w hat is know n as the Canaan road, about a mile south of Bow Pond village. He married Sarah Ti])betts of Barrington in 1746 and they commenced housekeeping in a log house he had built on his clearing. They prospered and before many years a good, old-fashioned, two-story New England dwelling house took the place of the primitive habitation. Their son, Jeremiah, inherited the homestead and married Margaret Brewster. They prospered; an important part of their prosperity was a family of ten children: John, Sarah, Lydia, Jeremiah, Polly, Arthur, George W., Marga- rei, Sullivan and David B. They all made good and Jeremiah succeeded his father on the old homestead. John and George bought farms in the immediate neighborhood of the old homestead, upon which they li\-ed and died. These farms remain in possession of their descendants. Snllkvii Caz'crno, who was born in 1807, was graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1831, Ijeing the first Strafford boy who acquired that honor. He taught school at Rockport, N. Y., two years; studied law and opened an office at Lewiston in October, 1835, where he resided until his death about 1890. He was one of the eminent lawyers of that part of New York. He was master and examiner in chancery four years, 1836-1840; Police Justice for Niagara county from 1844 to 1848. Later Gov. Horatio Seymour appointed him one of three commissioners to revise the statutes of the State AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 425 of New York, a very high coniph'ment to liis aljility as a lawyer. Judge Caverno kept fresh in mind his literary work as well as his law practice, reading frecjuently in his Latin and his Greek. In the later years of his life he took np the study of the natural sciences and became proficient therein, fie was one of the first to see the advantages of consolidation and grading of schools and secured the adoption of a union system in Lockport, when the states in general had little or no provision for such system by general stat- ute. He was a man of sound brain and his life was a stage whereon was exhibited irreproachable conduct. His son, Daniel Henry Caverno, graduated from Dartmouth College in i860, studied law and was in practice with his father a while. He died suddenly in 1867 as he was about to settle in practice of his profession at Nashville, Tenn. He was a young man of fine aliilities. Rev. Arthur Caverno. born April 6, 1801, was a brother of Judge Sullivan Caverno, above mentioned. He received a good academic education but was not a college graduate ; his father could not afford to send two boys to Dart- mouth. He taught school a while after he finished attending academies at Gilmanton and Newfields. When he was seventeen years old he became con- verted to the Free Will Baptist faith and was baptized by Elder Enoch I'lace, October 18, 1822. When he was twenty-one 3fears old he was licensed to preach by the New Durham Quarterly Meeting. He was ordained to the ministry in the following year on the 17th of June in an oak grove on his father's homestead by a council consisting of Revs. Samuel B. Dyer, Moses Bean, David Harriman, Enoch Place and William Buzzell. His first pastorate was in Epsom, where he was stationed until 1827. During this time he preached occasionally in Nottingham and Raymond. One of his con\'erts was Daniel Plumer Cilley, who later became an eminent Free Will Baptist preacher. His second pastorate was at Contoocook, where he was a success- ful and satisfactory minister five years. He then settled at Great Falls in Somersworth where he was minister of the church for three years up to 1836. From 1836 to 1838 he was financial agent for Strafford Academy, which had recently been organized. In the following years up to his death in Dover, July 15, 1876, he continued active in the ministry; the Sunday before his death he preached at the Free Will Baptist Church in Alton. Following are some of the places he was pastor: Lowell, Mass. ; Bangor, Me. ; Portsmouth, Concord, Beddeford, Me. ; and Dover, where he spent the years after he was three score and ten. He was a preacher fifty-six years and an ordained minister fifty-three years. He preached 6,000 sermons, baptized 480 persons, married 320 couples, and attended 500 funerals. He was the first Free Will Baptist minister who received a stipulated salary. He was a frequent con- tributor to the Morning Star, the denominational paper published at Dover 426 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY many years. Elder Caverno was in a twofold sense one of the fathers of the denomination, being more than a half century in its ministry, and he exerted a controlling influence at its formative period. He possessed a voice of more than ordinary sweetness and power. He was affable and courteous in manner, social in disposition, and a general favorite with all the families where he was known. y\'('i'. Dr. Charles Cazrrno is a nephew of Judge Sullivan and Elder .\rthur Caverno, and a .son of Jeremiah and Uuruthy Kingman ( Balch ) Caverno, who lived on the old Caverno homestead on the Canaan road, southeast of Bow- Pond village, where he was born .\ug. 19, 1832; graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1854; principal of Thelford, Vt., Academy, 1854-5; read law at Albany Law School and with his uncle. Judge Sullivan Caverno, at Lockport, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced his pro- fession at Milwaukee, Wis., five years, leaving there in 1S62. Then followed farming two years to recover his health. Having recovered, he turned his attention to the ministry and was ordained as a Congregationalist at Lake Mills, Wis., Dec. 4, 1866, and was pastor of the Congregational Church there five years ; ne.xt three years at Amboy, 111. ; then four years at Lombard, 111. ; during the ten years from 1888 to 1898 he was minister of the Congrega- tional Church at Boulder, Colo. His health did not pernn't him to continue longer in charge of a parish and he has since lived in retirement at Lombard, 111., but has preached and lectured from time to time and written much for publication. Doctor Caverno is an accomplished scholar, an interesting speaker and one of the best of men. He has been successful as a lawyer and a minister. Robert Boodcy Cai'crly, Esq., was one of Strafford's most distinguished sons who won fame outside of the town. He was a son of Lieut. John Caverly and his wife, Betsey Boodey, daughter of Elder Joseph Boodey of North Straf- ford, one of the first Free Will Baptist ministers. Robert was l)orn July 19, 1806, at the Caverly homestead on Caverly Hill, one mile south of Bow lake village. The house in which he was born in is yet standing and was built by his grandfather, Moses Caverly, in 1777. The late John Huckins, one of the noted men of the town, in the middle and closing years of the last century lived directly across the road from the Caverly homestead. Robert's great grandfather ]\Ioses Caverly was one of the first settlers in Barrington. His wife was Margaret Cotton, of Portsmouth. The farm which he settled on is at what is known as the "Old l-'rench Mill." on a branch of the Isinglass river which flows from Lone Pond, which is close to line, between Barrington and Straft'ord, on the road to Strafford Ridge. The original house built by Moses yet stands there, being used for storage of wood and other purposes. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 427 Robert Boodey Caverl}' receixed an academic education and commenced work, off the farm, as school-master at Great Falls, Somersworth. where he met with good success. He next studied law witli John A. Burlugh, Esq., and finished his studies at the Harvard University law school from which he was graduated. He commenced practice in Limerick, Me., and resided there six years in successful practice. He removed from there to Lowell, Mass., where he resided and practiced his profession with great success many years. During that time he not only practiced law and won great cases and great fame in the courts, but he also became the author of many literary and poetical pro- ductions which received commendations from distinguished persons. Among his publications are : Annals of the Caverly Family ; Lessons of Law and Life; Indian Wars of New England; Battle of the Bush, comprising five dramas, each being an historic legend of some distinguished character as found in New England history. He published poems from time to time between 1862 and 1880, which have received favorable comment. In 1874 he led off in the building of the Dustin monument on the island at the mouth of the Contoocook river where it empties into the Merrimack, on which island Hannah Emerson Dustin performed the heroic deed which enabled her to return to her home in Haverhill, and make a spectacular page in history. Rev. John Cai'crly, an elder brother of Robert Boodey Caverly, was a Free Will Baptist minister, who served as pastor of the church at Bow Pond thirty years. He was born in 1789 and died in 1853. He was trustee of Straf- ford Academy nearly twenty years. He was a good farmer as well as min- ister and for many years had charge of the Cocheco Manufacturing Com- pany's property at Bow Pond. Strafford was the native place of six other men who became ministers. Nathaniel Berry, Free Will Baptist, born in 1816; died in 1865. Andrew F. Foss, born in 1803; died in 1854. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1827. Tobias Foss, Free \\'ill Baptist, born in 1813; died in 1893. George Thomas Griffin, Free Will Baptist, born 1856; licensed to preach in 1888. Joseph Hayes, Methodist Episcopal, born in 1817; ordained in 1842; remained in service up to 1890. Rev. Levi Buccell Tasker, Free Will Baptist, deserves more than a passing notice. He was a son of Elisha and Mary (Buzzell) Tasker and was born in Strafford, March 21, 1814. He was given a good education in the common schools and Strafford Academy. His father gave him the trade of tanner, currier and shoemaker, in which business he was busily engaged until he was thirty years old, but during the time he was active in Sunday School work and was superintendent in the Sunday School. He was a good boy, a good tanner and an expert shoemaker. While a student in Strafford Academy 428 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY he sent out the first call for a county temperance society, about 1836, and was active in its organization, and he remained a worker for temperance to the end of life. Previous to being ordained to the ministry lie was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church at Northwood, wliere he was then at work. The Rockingham Quarterly fleeting, to which the church belonged, passed some very radical anti-sla\ery resolutions which the Northwood Church opposed; whereupon that church withdrew from the Rockingham O. ^I. ; Mr. Tasker vigorously supported the action of the O. M. and as vigorously opposed the church, withdrew from it ; whereupon he was dropi^ed from the rolls of the church, but he was afterwards restored, although he still remained a strong anti-slavery advocate, and lived to see his views triumphant. Elder Tasker was licensed to preach by the New Dunham Quarterly Meet- ing, at Canterbury, May 28, 1845, ^'^^ itinerated for three years, which gave him a training, in connection with the study he kept up, a theological course equal to that o])tained in the regular theological schools. He was ordained to the ministry at Strafford. January 13, 1S48; he had his first regular pas- torate with the Second Church at Harrington. He became minister of the Free Will Baptist Church at Sandwich, June 29, 1848, and remained there six years, meeting with marked success in building up the church. In Septem- ber, 1854, he became pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church at New Market, \vhere he remained a year and a half and was then recalled to Sandwich where he ministered another three years. Following that he was at Bow Pond four years and resuscitated the church there, bringing it up to the highest standard it ever attained. In 1S84 the church at Sandwich again called him to be their pastor, and he remained there until his death, August 29, 1875. The fact that he was twice recalled to Sandwich shows that he was a man of superior aliility. Elder Tasker was clerk of the Sandwich Quarterly Meeting and of the New Hampshire Yearly Meeting many years and was one of the most efficient business managers in those organizations. He was corporator of the Morning Star Priiitiiif/ Establishineiit seven years and a meml)er of the executive fioard. He was a member of the "Home Missionary Society" and its executi\e board for twenty years; also of the "Education Society." In one of his "vacations" he visited South Carolina and labored for a month or two among the recently freed negroes and saw just what were the conditions to be combatted and overcome. He was an excellent preacher, a good pastor, a wise counsellor and a worthy citizen. His wife was Hannah P. Caswell, daughter of William and Betsey (Tasker) Caswell of Northwood; they had a daughter and two sons. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 429 Deacon Alfred Taslccr, a younger brother of I'Llcler Tasker, was born in Strafford, Marcli 9. ]y the Whig party for Stale Senator; the democratic party then had a majority of nearly five hundred votes, as recorded at the preceding election. The popularity of Mr. \Vinkley was shown by the fact that he reduced the majurity against him to fifty votes. But Mr. Winkley was not specially given to |)olitics. his name and fame should ever remain conspicuous in Strafford history in his work establishing Strafford Academy on The Ridge; it was largely through his influence that it was located there, and he was a tower of strength in its promotion, thus laying the founda- tion of which has been built the splendid institution of learning, the Austin- Cate Academy. If it had not been for Mr. Winkley's \-igorous efforts there would have been no academy in the town since then. He was a trustee of the old academy a half century or more. Im-oui 1S57 to 1866 Mr. Winkley resided in Maiden, Mass. He then returned and resided on Strafford Ridge, near the church and the academy. He ever remained one of the town's honored, trusted and highly esteemed citizens. Elder Enoch Place was born in Rochester, July 1.^. 1786; he obtained a good education and cduimenced teaching winter (district) schools when he was sixteen years old; he worked on the farm with his father during the rest of the year. He continued this mode of life until he was twentv-one years old. Being then converted he was l)ai)tized by the Rev. Micajah Otis at Crown Point, and in the summer of 1807 began preaching in I'>ee Will Baptist meet- ings and continued in the work as minister for more than half a century. He was married Sept. -'9, 1808. to Miss Sally Demeritt, daughter of Capt. Daniel Demeritt. He and his family resided on the ancestral Place farm in Rochester until 1824, in the spring of which 3'ear he removed to Straft'ord Ridge and this became his home until his death, March 2t,, 1865, in his seventy- ninth year. In his later years he was afflicted with heart disease, of which he died. He became pastor of the church on the Ridge in 1824 and remained such nearly forty years, having assistants to some extent in his later years. He was not confined in his ministerial work entirelv to that church; he gave valuable assistance to the Crown Point Church, and did a good deal of itinerant work among other Free Will Baptist churches throughout the range of the New Durham Quarterly Meeting, assisting as revivals were held from time 432 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY to time. Elder I'lace had a splendid physique — tall, strais^ht. full chested, well proportioned, with a fine head and pleasing- countenance ; his voice was magnificent; for many years, in the prime of life, he was Chaplain on the Staff of the Brigadier Generals of southeastern New Hampshire, and officiated at tiie Brigade musters which were many times held on the grounds near the Col. Isaac Waldron residence in East Barrington. On such occasions, mounted on a sj)lendid horse, finely caparisoned, at the proper time in the grand review, the Chaplain- offered prayer; it is statetl as a fact that on a clear day, in moderate autumn weather, his praver. though he ne\er shouted, could be heard a mile. The late Rev. Arthur Caverno said that, at times when he had heard hnn preach at revivals, "As he began to warm up w ith his subject, his soul would swim as in a place of burial rivers and streams. There was then an unutter- able unction in his preaching. Everything moved that could be moved by the human voice." He was one of the founders of Strafford .\cademy, and a progressive and tirm friend of education, missions and Sunday schools. He was a trustee of the Morning Star Printing Establislnncnt a number of years. For a long time he was clerk of the New Durham O. M., and secretary of the New- Hampshire Charitable Society many years, following its beginning. During his ministry he married more than five hundred couples, attended between twelve and thirteen hundred funerals. Dcincritt Place, eldest son of Elder Enoch Place, was for a great niany years one of the most active and energetic business men of Strafford; he had his home on The Ridge, near his father's residence. He was born in 1812; he li\-ed to be ninety- four years old; he was educated in the common schools and Strafford Academy; he was small of stature, a perfect contrast to his father ; he was ijuick in all his movements, both manual and mental and possessed an untiring energy controlled by keen, sound business judgment: quick of speech and sometimes ratiier brusk when he was \-ery busy initangling some in-iportant business knot, but always kind, generous and cordial when at ease from work. He began work in the poultry and produce business about 1835, collect- ing his material from citizens of Strafford and nearl)y towns. At first he ran his teams to Boston ; later as the railroad from Boston to Dover was advanced year by year he met it at the terminals and then put up his horses and transferred his loads to the cars and went into the Boston markets and made sales; when the rails were laid to Dover in 1843 '^^ ^^'^s one of the first men who put any freight aboard the train to go to Boston. Mr. Place never failed to have something to send each week, or twice a week, from that time AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 433 until he was past eighty years of age. Vigorous and strong he traveled oil the same train with his freight to Boston, sleeping soundly on a bunk in the car. He was the first man who carried huckleberries and blueberries to Boston markets for sale. The demand was small at first but grew to large propor- tions before he gave up business. As he was very neat and particular to have everything clean and attractive looking he always obtained the highest price the market afforded. It is beyond question that Mr. Place brought more ready cash to the citizens of Strafford than any other half dozen men, while he was in business. He had a good, but not large farm, which he kept in good condition and from uhich he raised good crops. He was a trustee of the Academy many years; and chairman of the board several years under the new organization. He presided at the dedication of the new building for the Austin-Cate Academy in June, 1904, although past four score and ten years of age. A more useful man or better citizen Strafford never had. Among the prominent families beside those mentioned are the following: Waldron, Huckins, Hall, Perkins, Parshley, Tuttle, Foss, Brock, Holmes, Buzzell, Smith, Swain, Twombly, Brown, Whitcher, Jones, Shackford, Walker, Evans, Critchett, Babb, Scott, Stiles, Sloper, Caswell, Cate and Pillsbury. CHAPTER L HISTORY OF NEW DURHAM (I) ORIGIN OF THE NAME ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS Xew Durham was granted by the Masonian Proprietors, May 5, 1749, to Jonathan Chesley. Ebenezer Smith and other citizens of Durham ; at first it was called Cochecho Township ; later the proprietors named it New Durham, for their old town, as so many of their people went there to settle they pre- ferred the home name, and by that name it was incorporated by the Provincial Assembly, Dec. 7, 1762. The first mo\-e in the business was in 1748, as follows : Proxince of Xew Hampshire To the Honorable Purchasers and Proprietors of Mason's Right (so called) — The Petition of Jonathan Chesley and Ebenezer Smith of Durham Gents Humbly Shews — That your Petitioners are appointed Agents for and on behalf of a Number of ye Freeholders and otlier Inhabitants of sd. Durham who are desirous of having a Certain Tract of Land granted them within sd. Mason's sd. Right and being con\inced (upon ye best information we can get) that ye property is yours and consequently that you can gi\e us a Title to what we desire. Therefore We Humbly pray that We and our Constituants may have ye Grant of a Township bounded bounding upon Rochester's head Line and Bamstcad upon Such Terms as Shall l)e most likely to promote your and our interest. Jonathan Chesley, Ebenezer Smith, In 1749 the following was presented to the Masonian Proprietors and shows who were the grantees and proprietors of the proposed new town : Province of New Hampshire: To the Hon. Theodore Atkinson, Esq., and other Gentlemen Purchasers and Proprietors of John Tufton Mason. Esq., his Right in Land in sd. Province a List of the Subscribers to the .Petition for a Tract of land abo\ e Rochester, to the above said Proprietors, preferred by the hands of Capt. Jonathan Chesley and Mr. Ebenezer Smith, viz. : Durham, April 11, 1749. 434 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 437 Jonathan Chesley, Ebenezer Smith, James Drisco, Joseph Duda, Jr., Joseph Wheeler, Benjamin Jackson, WilHani Bruce, Thomas Young (of Newmarket), John Cromel, Benjamin Mathes, Thomas Tush, Samuel Wille(y), Samuel Stevens, James Thompson, Jeremiah Drisco. Peter Moo, Jol) Runels. |r.. Walter Bryent, Jonathan Durgin, Aljednego Lethers, Jeremiah Burnuni, jr.. Joseph Hall (of Newmarket), Joseph Smith (of Newmarket), Philip Cmmet, John Andras, Benjamin Smith, Simon Rendel, Rnhert Burnuni, Robert Kent, John Beckford, Joseph Burnum, Samuel Adams, John Edgerly, Abraham Bennick, Jr., Thomas Langley, Eljenezer Jones, Eliphelet Daniels, [ohn h'oot- man, Thomas Stevenson, Jr., Valentine Mathes, Ichabod Chesley, Thomas Chesley, Jonathan Chesley, Jr., Aljrabam Stevenson, bVancis Drew, Tohn Inhn- son, Nathaniel Frost, Joseph Smith, Jr., Abraham Mathes, Eleazer Bickford, Benjamin Bennick, John Mason, \\'illiam Weeks (of Greenland), Lemuel Chesley, Joseph Sias, Samuel Chesley, Thomas Wille, Jr., Miles Randel, Samuel Sias, Solomon Seas, Treworthy Durgin, John Burnum, Joseph Chesley, Daniel Rogers, Samuel Smith, Jr., John Bennick, John Elliot, Benj. Jenkins, David Davis, Winthrop Burnum, Ichabod Denbo, John Wille, Jr., James Snn'th, Jeremiah Burnum, J(,)seph Thomas, Stephen Jones, Jr., Wm. Jack- son, Jr.. I'hilip Chesley, John Durgin, Francis Durgin, Pcnmore Duda, Nicholas Duda, Joseph Jones, Thomas Chesley, Jr., Joseph Drew, John Drew, John .\danis. Minister, 71iomas York, William Durgin, Theodore Wille, John Beckford, Jr., Valentine Hill, I^ichard Denbo, Calei^ Wakham, Joseph Weeks (of Greneland) and Joseph Bickford. The names on the petition are all numbered from i to 80. On the 5th of May, 1749, the Masonian Proprietors granted the petition above presented to them. The land to be along the he.idline of Rochester and to be of the extent of "six miles square adjoining a tract of land granted to Ebenezer Varney, William Wentworth and others and the headline of the said tract to be parallel with the Rochester headline." A plan of the town was made at Portsmouth, May 2, 1750, "At a Proprietors' meeting held at the house of Ann Slayton, — The Draft of ye Shares or Lots of ye Township granted to Jonathan Chesley, Ebenezer Smith and others." A draft of the lots was made, which is shown on pages 102 and 103 of volume 28 of New- Hampshire State Papers, which is \^ol. 5 of the Town Charters. This tract of land was included in the charters of "Kingswoods," Oct. 20, 1737, which was granted during the administration of Governor Belcher, which was before the so-called "Masonian Proprietors" had purchased the claim to New Hampshire territory, above the old towns, from John Tufton Mason; so these "Proprietors" sold it over again, disregarding the "Kings- wood" transaction. Nothing appears to have been done toward making a 438 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY permanent settlement of the territory until Dec. 7, 1762, when it was incor- porated with full town privileges, by the Provincial Assembly. Major Thomas Tash, a brave soldier of the French and Revolutionary wars, was authorized to call the first tow n meeting. He did not remove from his home in Durham to New Durham until about the close of the Revolutionar_\- war. He died there in 1809 at the age of eighty-seven years. The census of 1790 shows there were 562 inhabitants in the town of w hich number 138 were free white males 16 years of age and upward, includ- ing heads of families of whom there were 104. There were 142 children. In 1785 there were 70 poll tax payers. Xew Durham was settled largely by citizens of Durham, as is shown by the L'nited States census of 1790, as published in 1907. Following are some of the Old Durham names that appear in the New Durham census, Sanniel Runnels, 13 in family, Thomas Tash, 10 in family: John Edgerly, 4 in family, Josiah Doe, 5 in family; Caleb Edgerly, 6 in family: Samuel W'illey, 4 in family: Nathaniel Hanson, 6 in family: Lemuel Da\'is. 4 in family: Ebenezer Durgin, 5 in family: Thomas Tash, Jr., 4 in family: Eljenezer Beckfurd, 9 in family: Jacob Leighton, 7 in family; Moses Evans, 8 in family; Stephen Drew, 5 in family; John Beck- ford, 6 in family; Stephen jNIeadtr, 4 in family; Thomas Dame, 2 in family; Jonathan Hayes, 4 in family: John Bennett, 6 in family; John Roberts, 8 in family; Joseph Jackson, 4 in family; Ichabod Buzzey, 11 in family; John Glidden, 8 in famil}-; John Collemny, 11 in family; ElishaDavis, 7 in family; Nathaniel Durgin, 7 in family: Samuel Beckford, 9 in family; Moses E\ans, 8 in family; Andrew Nute, 5 in family; Joseph Durgin, 8 in family; John Berry, 5 in family; Isaac Hanson. 8 in family; Zach Boodey, 7 in family; Thomas French, 7 in family ; David Elkins, 9 in family ; Nathaniel Kennston, 9 in family. The U. S. census of 1790 shows 562 inhabitants; the census of 1910 shows the number 523, that is 39 less 120 years before. In 1900 the jwpulation was 625, that is 63 more than no years before. In 1890 the number was 579, only 17 more than 100 years before. In 1770 Timothy Murray and Shadrach Allard made an inventory of the families, houses, improved grounds and fell trees in New Durham ; following are the heads of families: Ebenezer Dow, Edward and W'm. Peavey, John Bennick, Rob Boody, Nick Glidden, Benj. Bickford, John Glidden, Zeb Glidden, Nathaniel Kenniston, Jonathan Buzzell, Zach Boody, Jeremy Dow, Joseph Libbey, Eben Bickford, James Berry, David Allard, Benj. Mathes, Joseph Doe, John Collome, John Doe, Marriam Berry, Benj. Mooney, James Palmer, Jeremiah Taylor, Henry Allard. James Stillson, Timo Murray, Sidney Allard. Benj. Berrj-, John Rogers, Theo. Atkinson, Timo Davis, John Allard, Paul March. They reported t^j houses in town; 302 acres of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 439 improved ground. They stated that the meeting house was enclosed, shingled and under floor laid ; it was underpinned and the window frames in "and no more finished towards it." There were two sawmills in running order, one had recently been burnt down. A sworn statement was made Jan. 4, 1770, before John Plummer, justice of the peace, that the report was correct. Another inventory was taken in April 1770 and the report shows 41 houses, an increase of 4 during the winter; and the number of families had increased from 33 in January to 42 in April ; and there was one gristmill reported in oj^eration. One sawmill had been burned during the winter. The number of acres of improved (cleared) land was reported as 448^'S acres. 26 CHAPTER LI HISTORY OF NEW DURHAM (U) LOCATION, SCENERY AND BUSINESS New Durham is peculiar in sliape. By the terms of its charter its south hne was the "heatUine of Rochester," and Rochester then inchided I'^arming- ton, and its "uppermost (northern most) line was to run parallel with the Rochester line"; its east and west lines A\ere to be long enough to make an area of six square miles, and of course run parallel; so the length of the side lines is eleven miles, and the width between them four miles. The side lines run very nearly north and south ; the distance from the northeast corner to the southwest corner is twelve and one-half miles. On its south line is Farm- ington; on the east are Middleton, Brookfield ; on the north is Alton, Wolfebor- ough and Carroll; on the west is Alton, which in ancient times was called New Durham Gore. High hills, big rocks and mountains abound, with fertile valleys here and there. New Durham ridge is three miles north of the southwest corner of the town. On this is the lieautiful, historic \'illage where the first church of the Free Will Baptist denomination was organized in 1780. The ridge is a high elevation about three miles long and has some of the best farm land in t!ie county. It was one of the earliest places settled. The \illage is a little more than a mile from the railroad station, which lies on the northeast, in the \alley between the ridge and New Durham Corners, which village is one mile northeast of the station. The railroad is in the valley of Ela ri\'er. which flows from Cold Rain pond and emivties into the Coclieclio ri\'er at I'armington vil- lage. This river is the source of power for several sawmills. The town hall is at The Corners, a very pretty village, with various industries, and good farms about the five roads that meet there. In the center of the west side of the town is the village of Downiiigs mills, which takes its name from Hon. S. Downing, who for many years contlucted a large lumber business at the falls in Merry Meeting river. It is about a half mile northeast of the railroad, near the Alton line. This ri\-er flows from Merry Meeting Pond, whose outlet is two miles and a half north of Downing's mills, and half a mile from the Alton line. The Union Powder works are located near the outlet, and for many 440 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 441 years was a very busy place engaged m the manufacture of powder and other industries. Merry Meeting pond is ten miles in circumference, covers i.ooo acres and extends more than three miles from east to west of the town ; it is very deep. It is surrounded by the mountains of the town. Directly north of its eastern end is Mount Major, one mile ; one mile north of Mount Major is Crop- pie Crown ; one mile west of Mount Major and a half mile north of the pond is Mount Molly ; about two miles west of Mount Molly and bordering on the pond IS Devil's Den Mountain ; south of the pond is Birch hill ; at the foot of the south side of this hill is Marcelis pond, which is nearly in the geographical center of the town, which is one source of the Cochecho river which flows through Farmington and Rochester to Dover. There are several mills at falls along its course. At one of these falls Mr. F. W. Coburn has had a knife factory in successful operation for more than a half centurv. From a small plant in i860 it has grown to proportions that aftord sales of knives in every state m the Union. His sons continued the business. In the northern part of the town, between the mountains and Wolfeborough is Shaw's pond Near the center of the town is Rattle Snake hill, on the south side of which is a per- pendicular ledge 100 feet high. The lumber business has always been a source of much profit; the ground, when cut over, quickly reforests itself. CHAPTER LII HISTORY OF NEW DL'RHAM (.HI) NOTABLE CITIZEXS AND EVENTS Many who had served in the Revokitionary army w ere led to be settlers at New Durham by Col. Thomas Tasli, a soldier in the French and Revolu- tionary wars and was a conspicuous and influential citizen of Durham, a notice of whom is given under the head of Durham. He went there to reside after the close of the war, and he and his sons and grandsons were among the leading citizens for many years. Their names appear frequently on the town records and in business affairs for a century. In the state papers, edited by Isaac W. Hammond, are published petitions that were presented by the vet- erans, after the war with the I'rench, to the General Assembly in 1764. The signers are Gideon Gould, Timothy Clough, Henry Frink, Nathaniel Merrill, Richard Hull, Ebenezer Brow and Robert Pike. They claimed they had not received proper compensation for services rendered at Crown Point in 1760. In 1785 Mrs. Doe of New Durham claimed pay from the General Court for services of her husband, David Doe, as a Continental soldier. Another petition was presented by Peter Drown of New Durham who had served as a captain in Col. Stephen Peabody's regiment in the State of Rhode Island in 1778. He was paid with depreciated currency and he asked to have the depre- ciation of his pay made up. Col. Thomas Tash appeared in behalf of the peti- tioner. Captain Drown was murdered Feb. 2, 178S, by Elisha Thomas, an account of which is given in the first [)art of this volume. In Decemlier, 1788, Samuel Runnels, petitioned for pay for service for si.x months in Rhode Island from Dec. 31, 1778, to June 30, 1779. In January, 1787, presented a petition to the General Court stating that he w as a resident of New Durham and had served in the army under Col. Thomas Tash in the New York campaign on North River and "in discharging his gun his left hand was torn to pieces by bursting of said gun, and his thumb carrietl away and his fingers and hand rendered almost useless, by means whereof he suffered most excruciating pain for a long time and has ever since been in a great measure deprived of the means of a subsistence for himself and a numerous family 442 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 443 of children." \M:erefore he asked for a pension or compensation in some way. On Feb. 3, 1791, Richard Colomy of New Durham petitioned Congress for a pension, stating "tliat lie was a soldier in Capt. Frederick BeU's company, Col. Reid's regiment, Gen. Poor's brigade in the late Continental army— that on tile 19th of April. 1777. i„ battle at Stillwater, he received two wounds, one in his knee and the other in his hi]^ and the ball still remains in his hip— by means of which your Petitioner and jNIemorialist is much disabled— that by reason of his living remote in the country, & being poor & ignorant of what to do, he ne\er made application to be enrolled as an invalid pensioner in New Hampshire till the time of enrolling had expired." Therefore he applied to Congress and \\as ])iit mi tlu' iinalid pension roll. The following is the resignation of Colonel Tash in favor of his son in 1701 for justice of the peace in New Durham. It is given verbatim : . ^'cu Uurliam, Ian. 10, 171;!. De.\r Sir: This Conies to Inforimc you that I wrot to let you know that I am willing to Resign Ijeing appointed a justice of the Peace In favour of My Son Thomas Tash. If the President and Counsel Sees ht t.. appoint hmi m my Room. I Suppose that he Is well qualified for that Commission and will be no dishonor to them that appoints him, and I expect it will be agreeable to the Town (New Durham) he Lives In which Is all from your friend and most humble Sarxiit. -T) c T I • T Tiios. T.\si[. r. i5. — 1 wrote this Letter Least you had not received the other. New Durham has always been noted for its good schools. Not only that, but in the years previous to 1797 the citizens had organized a library .society for the pleasure and improvement of its members, as appears by the following petition which was presented to the New Hampshire General Court, May 25, 1797: To the Honorable Senate and Llouse of Representatives for the State of New Hampshire to be convened at Concord, in said State on the first Wednes- day in June next : The petition of the Subscribers, a Committee appointed by. the New Dur- ham Library Society for the purpose, at their meeting held in said town on the 1 2th day of September last— humbly shows that said Society consists at present, of forty members, each of whom have paid four dollars a piece for the use of said society which money has been laid out to the best advantage in furnishing said society with the best and most useful collection of books for the use of the Members ;— That said Societv is still increasing in number and respectability and would in their opinion much faster increase if they were incorporated and made a body corporate and politic— on a plan similar 444 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY to other institutions of the kind now existing in this State; that said Society at present are subjected to inconveniences, for want of such incorporation : — And as you are our poHtical fathers and guardians and, we are assured, wish patronize and promote useful literature, knowledge and good order among citizens at large, which beneficial ends are much facilitated l;)y institutions of this kind: — Your petitioners would therefore humbly pray, in behalf of them- seh'es and their associates, that your honors would be pleased to permit them to introduce a bill of incorporation for the purposes aforesaid, under such regulations and restrictions, as your Honours may deem just and reasonable, And your petitioner as in dut}- bound will ever pray — New Durliam, May 25, A. D. 1797. Samuel Runnels, Thomas Tash, Jr. Joseph Jack.sox, Conniiittcc. The committee was granted leave to bring in a I)ill. which was done and the society was duly incorporated. Since then no country tnwn in New Hamp- shire has had a class of better educated people than New Durham. Among the noisiest events of the town ha\e been the exj)l(isions of the powder works several times : the noise of each explosion was heard for many miles away. NOTED MEN Probably the Rev. Benjamin Randall should be ranked as the most eminent citizen New Durham has liad. He was born in Newcastle, Feb. 7, 1749; he died in New Durham Oct. 22, 1808, in the 60th year of his age. He was son of Captain Benjamin and ^largaret ()ilardaunt) Randall. He was grandson of the immigrant Randall, who came from England in 1700 and settled on Great Island, later known as New Castle. His parents late in life removed to Ossipee. At their death they were buried at New Durham ridge. He gave his son Benjamin a good mercantile education and had him learn the trade of sailmaker and tailor, at both of which trades the future preacher did good work. He gave the sea captains good sails and his patrons in Ports- mouth "good fits" in fashionable suits. He liked the work well enough Init it did not satisf}' his mental powers or his religious feelings. He united with the Congregational Church in Newcastle when he was twenty-three years old. When he was t\\enl}'-s!x he cliangcd his \icws on the tpiestion of baptism and joined the Calvin Baptist Church at Berwick, Me. When he was a lioy he went on sea voyages w ith his father occasionally, but he never learned to swear, as was then the fashion among sailor boys. He was married when twen- ty-two years of age. His wife was Joanna Oram, daughter of Robert Oram ot AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 445 kittery. In 1775 he was orderly sergeant for a uliile during the siege of Boston in Captain Mooney's company. On leaving tiie army he began to preach, havmg been baptized, by immersion, by Rev. WiHiam Hooper at Ber- wick, the first Baptist minister in .Maine. Mr. Randall conducted meetings, m an itmerant way. in various towns, Madbury among tlie number. At this place some Xe\\- Durham people, who were visiting their old homes in Durham heard Inm preach and invited him to visit their new town and conduct meet- mgs, and he went there in the spring of 1777; he went there again in the autumn of that year. That was the nay he was led to towns in which he was to do his historic work. The next year. ,778, he moved his family, wife and several children, to i\ew Durham and that remained his home the rest of his life. There his children were educated, having the advantage of library already referred to. No doubt Elder Randall was one of the forty members of the Library Association. He purchased thirty acres of land on the ridge and kept it well cultivated in raising good crops for his family. His corn crops were among the best in town. In his preaching he had expressed opinions which the Berwick Baptist Church pronounced heretical and he was arraigned before a council for exam- mation. The council excommunicated him. He was soon after ordained as an evangelist, April 5, 1780. On Saturday, June 30. 1780, he organized the First Free Will Baptist Church, at New Durham ridge, his home Mr R-^n- dall made a draft of the Articles of Faith and the Covenant, and seven per- sons endorsed the draft, and tlie First Free Will Baptist Churcii was born Tt still lives and flourishes on the ridge. In these later years the word "W^iir' was dropped from the name. Soon others joined the new society For thirty years Elder Randall was its clerk and the records are in fine shape for historians to consult. Elder Randall did not "hide his light under a bushel" • he lived on a high hill and he let his "new light" shine\iear and far. The commotion he produced cannot be appreciated in the calm days of this twen- tieth century. The people were all stirred up. and those who opposed his views drew out the thread of their verbosity nnich finer than the staple of their discourse which stirred up the people all the more. He became a tireless worker and aroused others to take hold and help him ; but he was everywhere acknowledged as leader— the others followed. They did not have to attend a theological school to learn how to preach Elder Randall's free will doctrine ; hearing him preach a few times was enough. He crossed the line into Maine and stirred up the people everywhere he went. Churches were organized- then followed the Quarterly Meetings; then the Yearly Meetings, so, before he died in 1808, he had a perfect organization, working harmoniously and vigorously. Elder Randall (they called all their ministers Elder, not Rev- 446 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY erend) did not start out to do any such a big job in 1778, but once he started he could not stop; tlie terrific opposition he met pushed him forward instead of backward. Benjamin Randall was a man of sound judgment, possessing a well- balanced mind. He was a good organizer and a strict disciplinarian. His piety was deep and strong. As a preacher he reasoned instead of ranting. His integrity was never questioned. He had a keen sense of ministerial propriety. He was a total abstainer from the use of intoxicating liipiors as a beverage, at a time when rum drinking was fashionable and its use was con- sidered necessary for courteous treatment of friends and strangers, and especially at weddings and funerals. Mrs. Randall survived her husband eighteen years, dying in 1826. They ha\'e many distinguished descendants. Rev. Joseph Franklin Joy was born on New Durham ridge, May 15, 1838, son of Samuel and \Yaty (Pettegrew) Joy. His father was a farmer and deacon in the First F'ree Will Baptist Church, organized by Elder Randall. Mr. joy fitted for college at New Hampton Academy; graduated from Dart- mouth College in 1863. After graduation he w as connected with the Sanitary- Commission at \\''ashington. D. C, for se\'eral months, then took up the study of medicine at Bowdoin College Medical School, Init ga\e that up at the end of a year to prepare for the ministry, being" strongly imiiressetl that he must take that course. He was licenseil to preach by a (Juarterl_\- Meeting of the Free Will Baptists at Northwood in January, 1865, and was ordained at Xew Durham in May, 1865, and became pastor of the church on the ridge, which position he held until 1872; he was minister at Milton 1872-75; and again at New Durham 1875-1883. He then went west and resided at Frankfort. South Dakota, engaged in farming until 1891, when he returned to New Hamp- shire and was minister of the church at Farmington 1891-96, and member of the school committee several years. He lived retired after that, engaged in farming. Elder Joy was a faithful student in college and Christian gentleman every- where. As a preacher he was not the equal of F'lder Randall, Init he was a faithful supporter of the doctrines as the Creat Foun'; in 1842 he was ordained by the Wolfeborough Quarterly Meeting and commenced itinerant work in New Hampshire and proved to be an efficient worker from 1842 to 1847; '^e was pastor of the Second Free Will Baptist Church, at Poland, Me., from 1847 to 1854. He died there March 22, 1854. Rcz\ iluvirs LiitJicr riulcliain was born in New Durham Nov. iS, 1841, son of Luther Hale and Mary Chamberline (Wallace) Pinkham. He was educated at the New liampton Institution and Bate's Theological School, from which he was graduated in 1879, but he had been licensed to preach in 1874 and had done much work in that line while carrying on his studie>. He was ordained Oct. 17, 1879. He then became pastor of the church there and served ten years. After that he held several pastorates; was chaplain of the state prison two years; state missionary and secretary seven years; treas- urer of the Xew Hampshire Mission Board six vears ; pastor of the b'rec Will Baptist Church several years, during the time being its representative in the Legislature in 1903, in which year he died, December 22. Mr. Pinkham for many years held a place in the fr(.)nt rank of the Free P.aptist ministry, Mrs. Marilla Marks (i'niiii;/) Rickcr. a biographical sketch of whom can be found in another part of this volume, is a native of New Durham. Her ancestors were among the first settlers in the town and her kinsmen still abide there. She is proud of her native town and pays it an annual visit. At her death she has made suitable provisions for the cremation of her body and the burial of the ashes in the old family burial ground on the beautiful hill. Mrs. Ricker was given a good education, as well as a thorough training in domestic science by her good mother. She was a brilliant school teacher before marriage; she became a widow when a young woman; she was ambi- tious to do things and not afraid to say things at the proper time ; she studied law in Washington, D. C. ; she was admitted to the bar there and practiced her profession. In later years she returned to Xew Hampshire and resided at Dover. She applied for admission to the New Hampshire bar; she was finally admitted by a very elaborate decision rendered by Chief Justice Doe of the Supreme Court, being the first woman admitted to the bar to practice law in this state or in Xew England. Mrs. Ricker was born of good Free Will Baptist parents and is a strong admirer of Elder Benjamin Randall, and she bears the name of one of the most noted women of the Free Will Baptist denomination, Mrs. Marks, who 448 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY was the wife of tlie Rev. Da\id Marks. But, strange to say, Mrs. Ricker adopts and lives up to only a part of Elder Randall's creed ; she is a thorough believer in free will and has practiced it for many years, omitting the Baptist part of the creed. Xew Durham had an Old Home Day celebration not long ago and Mrs. Ricker was the orator of the day. The celebration was a grand success and her address was applauded much in its 'delivery and will be long remembered by those who heard it. She praised her native town and set forth its beauties and its grand attractions for summer visitors. She made special note of the fact that there were no illiterate adults in New Durham, and never had been from the beginning of the settlement in the primeval forest before the Revolutionary war began. The town has alwaj's provided good schools and the families have raised good children to be educated in them. Its farmers and especially its housewives arc and always have been among the best and most industrious in New Hampshire. New Durham has some very rocky places and hills hard to climb, Init it has good farms and good farmers in the smoother places, and her forests are perennial. For a number of years Mrs. Ricker has made Dover her chief residence, spending the cold winter weather in warmer southlaml. CHAPTER I.III HISTORY OF AHDDLETON (I) ORIGIN OF ITS NAME LEADING POINTS IN ITS HISTORY Micldlcton is in the middle of the most northern part of Strafford comity. It Hes in a wedge-shape form between Mihon on the east and south, and New Durham on the west. It received its name from its location. It was granted by the Masonian proprietors to certain petitioners who had settled there, or proposed to do so, March 21, 1770. These settlers were immigrants into the forests from Lee, Rochester and Somersworth, a leader anmng wlnjm was Thomas Morgan. It then included the present town of Brookfield. and when the original Strafford county was incorporated the Brooktield part was in the county, but is now in Carroll county. Up to the beginning of the Revolu- tion the settlements were all in the vicinity of Middleton Corners. In 1773 they presented the following petition to the General .Assembly of New Hampshire : ProA'ince of New Hampshire To His Excellency, John \\'entworth, Esq., Captain Ceneral and Com- mander-in-Chief in and over said Province of New Hampshire, etc., etc., and to the Honorable His Majesty's Council for the Same — The Humble petition of a Number of the inhabitants and proprietors of the Township of Middleton in the county of Strafford and province aforesaid, being a tract of land granted by the Proprietors of Mason's patent so called on the 2 1 St day of March, 1770 — Most Humbly showeth that great progress is made and is still making towards the Compleat Settlement of said tract of land and that the inhabitants and proprietors thereof have been at great expense and Charge in making public roads through said Township for the benefit of His Majesty's Service — Your petitioners therefore pray that your excellency and Honours would be pleased to incorporate said tract of lanfl into a Township with such priviledges as other Towns enjoy within this Province by the bounds and limits contained in sd. Grant and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray. Middleton, July 7, 1773— 449 450 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY John Drew, William Hill. Xicholas Tuttle, Xatluuiiel X'arney. Isaac Drew, Nathaniel W'entworth, Josiah Johnson, Henry Young, Joseph Cook. John Hanson, John Tash, Ezekiel Sanborn, Isaac Stanton, John Gage. This petition was duly considered but not granted, but they were authorized i(j choose selectmen and a constable for the sole purpo.se of raising a provmcc tax, and the following was the tax collected: in 1775. 7 pounds, 4 shillings; 1776, 4 pounds, 6 shillings, 6 pence; 1777, 2-j pounds, 14 shill- ings, 4 pence. And in 1777 the inhabitants presented the fnllowing petition: State of New Hampshire To the Honorable General Assembly now convened at Exeter: The [Memorial of Simeon Dearborn in'liehalf of the Inhabitants of Middle- town and Leavits Town (so called) Humbly shews that said Inhabitants are not incorporated into Towns, but were by the General Court of said State (when under the former Government) Authorized to-chuse Selectmen and a Constable for the Sole purpose of Raising a Province Tax — Since the late distraction of the time have neglected to chuse said Officers, by which means they are returned to a State of Nature — Therefore your ]\lemorilist Humbly Prays that said Inhabitants may be in\ested with Town priveleges, and in such a manner (if consistent) as to retain the I'mprietary pri\ ileges as here- tofore — and your Petitioner shall as in duty Bound ever pray — Simeon Df..\kiiorx. Exeter, March loih. 1777. The prayer of the petitioner was answered by the General Court by incor- porating Middleton March 4, 1778. The name Leavits Town disapi>ears, which was locally api)lied to the northern part, now Brooktield. The two sections are separated by the almost impassable mountains: Great Moose, Bald and Parker's Mountain. In 17(85 the following petition was presented to the General Court of New Hampshire asking for a division of the town along these mountains and have the northern section annexed to Wolfsborough. State of New Hampshire To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Convened at Concord, third Wednesday of October, 1785. Humbly Shew the Inhabitants of the Second Division of [Middletown, in the County of Strafford, and State aforesaid, that they are situated at great distance from the place of holding the public meetings in said Town, prevented from going to the other part of the Town w here most of the Inhabi- tants live, without traveling into another Town first, through roads almost impassible for the greater part of the year — Your Petitioners being so cir- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 451 cuinstanced have been and must be deprived of the benefit of all town privileges in Middletown while they belong thereto — That as your Petitioners can more conveniently attend public meetings in Wolfeljorough, shold the Meeting House there be built at tlie place agreed on — They pray that they may be dis- annexed from Middletown and annexed to Wolfeborough. or otherwise relieved from their present grievance' — And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall e\er ])ray. Nicholas Austin, for Petitioners. The petition is signed by forty-six names but there is no date attached; it was in 1785. When the inhabitants south of the mountains heard of this peti- tion they bestirred themselves and got up the following remonstrance which was sent to the October meeting of the General Court : State of New Hampshire, Strafford, S. S. To the Honorable the General Court (jf said State — The Petition of us the Subscribers, h>eeholdcrs and Inhabitants of the Town of Middletown in said State Humbly shevveth that we your Petitioners are much Surprised to hear that a Number of People Inhabiting the upper part of our Town have petitioned to be set ofif from us in the infant State of our Town as we all are but few in numl)er and the State of our affairs both Public and Private being such that if granted we apprehend would be a great disadvantage to the General Welfare and Advancement of the Town, if not Ruin Both, Therefore we Humbly pray that their said Petition be not granted, or at least that it may be suspended to some futer Day, and Your Petitioners in duty bound shall pray. Middle Town, May jSth. 1785. This is signed by thirty- four men among whose names are Perkins, Hanson, Pike, Cook, Whitehouse, Baker, Horn, Ellis, Bickford, Richards, Garland, York, Wentworth, Johnson, Keniston, Burnham, Stanton. These remonstrants won and the devision did not take ])lace until Dec. 30, 1794, when the north part was incorporated into a town named Brookfield. For a number of years these two towns united in sending a re])resentati\e to the Legislature. In i8j6 David Davis, Esq., who represented these towns in the Legislature, caused a special act to be passed, allowing each town a member, neither of which had the constitutional number of votes. The first settled minister was Rev. Neiiemiah Ordway (orthodox). Plis successor, Elder John Buzzell, a Free ^\'ill Baptist, established a church, since which time this has been the prevailing religious sentiment. The southern and central parts of Middleton have a level surface, but while looking north. Great Moose, Bald, and Parker Mountains tower up 452 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY before the eye of the beliolder, fonning a natural buhvark between tliis and the town of Brookfield. The soil yields good returns by that perseverance and industry which characterizes New Hampshire farmers; the mountains protect them from the cold north winds so the town afifords some of the most delightful residences in New Hampshire. Many of the farmers are in pros- perous circumstances. Middleton Comers, a little hamlet south of the center of the town, is the principal place of business. Here is the postoilfice, the stores, a hotel, a public hall, and one Free Will Baptist Church edifice. Middleton contains 7,154 acres, of which 4.000 are improved by cultiva- tion. The census of 1790 shows there were 107 heads of families in the town, and 613 inhabitants. The largest family had 13 to provide for; 8 and 10 in a family was common; there were 164 boys under 16 years of age; there were 304 women and girls. Among the family names were: Furnald, Palmer, Willey, Drew, Durgin, Daniels, Brown, Stanton, Austin, Johnson, Tibbets, Stodard, Nickerson, Coldair. W'hitehouse. I^yford, Roberson, Pike, Dearborn, Hanson, Watson, \\'iggins. Clay, Palmer, Keniston. Perkins, Cham- berlain, Kent, Edgerly, Stellings, Alley, Sanborn, Wentworth, Dearborn, Sawyer, Hill, Woodman, Colley, Bryant, Perkins, Gappy, Baggey, Hines, liickford, Horn, Beiuiett, Da\is, Twombly, Hix, Runnels, Place, Gerrish, Richards, Frost, and Baker. The present residents of the town, in 19 13, are practically descendants of these families and are sturdy representatives of the English stock of New England. They have good schools there and every child goes to school. No illiterates in Middleton. The census of 1870 shows a population of 482, that is a decrease of 131 ; in 1890 it was 207; in 1900, 300; in 1910, 291, the smallest ever, 15 less than half the number it was in 1790. The boundary lines of the town are sixteen in number, taking the highest record of any town in the county. The lines on the east and on the west run very nearly north and south, and are parallel and four miles apart ; Wake- field is on the east and New Durham on the west. The south line, between Middleton and Milton, runs northeast-southwest, and is five miles and a half long. The north line, between it and Brookfield, has 13 angles and thirteen straight lines ; the surveyors could not do any better ; they could not get over the mountains which cover the way without zig-zagging in tlie manner the line apjiears on the map. The most northern source of the Salmon Falls river has its rise in Great Moose mountain in the northwest corner of Middleton. In the southwest part of the town is a pond which is the source of the Cochecho river; the orig- inal pond is much enlarged by a reservoir dam. CHAPTER LIV HISTORY OF MIDDLETONN (H) NOTED PERSONS BORN IN MIDIJLETON Rcz: JJ'illiain Biiccell, a Free Will Bajjtist minister wasi born in Middle- ton, Jan. 4, 1775. He was a son of William and a cousin of Rev. John Buzzell, who resided there from 1768 to 1798. Their parents went there from Barrington. He was a fanner until he was about thirty years old, when he was converted under the Free Will Baptist influence and com- menced preaching at Middleton in 1804; he was ordained to the niinistr\- in 1806 and served as pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church in that town un- til 1831, a period of thirty-seven years. During the time he had charge, some years, of the New Durham (Elder Randall's) Church, He preached more than one thousand funeral sermons, being well known and highly esteemed in all the towns around. He officiated at more than six hundred weddings, and baptized several hundred. He possessed marked ability as a preacher, and his commanding presence and sonorous \-oice made him specially serviceable in grove meetings. When he was tempted to remove from Middleton and change his pastorate such was the love of his brethren for him that they would not pennit him to leave the Middleton Church. He died June 14, 1841 : two brothers and a cousin and two nephews were ministers. Rei>. John York was born in Middleton, March 4, 1783: he died in East Dixmont, Maine, April 25. 1862. aged seventy-nine years. He was converted at a revival in his nati\'e town when he was a young man and was baptized by Elder Benjamin Randall ; when he was twenty-four years old he married and removed to Dixmont, Maine, and soon after became a member of the Free Will Baptist Church at Newburgh when it was organ- ized in 1809, and he took the" oversight of it as pastor, and in t8ti was or- dained as an evangelist. The ordination service took place at Wilton. Maine, where Rev. Ebenezer Scales was minister and officiated in the ordi- nation ceremonies. He retained his residence at East Dixmont. but did itinerary work as an evangelist in Monroe, Brooks and Jackson, Maine, be- 453 454 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY sides liolding the pastorate at Newbiirgh up to 1S19. In the follow ing years he labored in twenty-two towns in Eastern Maine and organized six churches. He was in active service up to 1857, but in the closing five years of his life he preached only occasionally. Rev. Daniel Biizzell Goodivin was born in Aliddleton Feb. 22, 181 1, son of Dr. Joseph and Anna (Hanson) Goodwin. He was converted when a young man, and being a good speaker he labored as a lay e\angelist in the interval when he was not busy with his necessary work on his farm in Middleton. He was a welcome \isitor in W'olfeborough, Tuftonborough, Moultonborough and Alilton, and was an able assistant in many revivals. Occasionally he spoke in Maine, at Lebanon, San ford and Berwick. He simply claimed to be a Christian. In January, 1858, he was ordained to the niinistn,- at Moultonborough by the Staf¥ord County Conference of Christians, and was minister of the church there 1858-71 ; at West Milton, 1871-80. He continued his residence in that town, but was without a charge the remaining eight years of his life. He died Oct. 10, 1888. Rez'. Edmund Chadzi'ick was born in !\Iiddleton, Jan. 12, 1812; died at Eddytown, Xew York, April 7, 1899. He wa a student at Dartmouth Medi- cal College for a time, \\'ater\ille College, 1836-38, graduating from Bowdoin in 1840. Following that he was a teacher at Nashville, Tennessee, two years. In 1843 he commenced studying for the ministry at Lane Theolog- ical Seminary. He finished his studies at Bangor Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1845. He was licensed to preach by the Penobscot Association (Congregationalist), at Bangor, Maine, Nov. 12, 1844. Ordained at Franklin in 1845, agent of Sabbath School Assocition, Ohio, 1843-4; prin- cipal Starkey Seminary, 1847-61 ; principal of Dundee (New York) Academy, 1863-7 ; president of County Teachers' Association, and loan commissioner for the United States deposit school fund for the State of New York. He held high rank among the educators of New York state. CHAPTER LV HISTORY OF ROCHESTER (I) GEOGRAPHICAL TOPOGRAPHICAL INCORPORATION- — THE ROYAL CHARTER THE TOWN NAMED FIRST MEETING OF PROPRIETORS — FIRST CLERK FIRST SELECTMEN SURVEY OF THE TOWNSHIP DRAWING THE LOTS THE PIONEER SETTLER OTHER EARLY SETTLEMENTS SUBSEQUENT DIVI- SION OF LANDS "NORWAY PLAINs" CLOSE OF THE PROSPECTORS* REIGN LAST MEETING TOWN ASSUMES CONTROL OF AFFAIRS. The town of Rochester Hes in the eastern part of the county, and is bounded as follows : On the north by Farmington and Milton, on the east by Salmon Falls river, which separates it from Maine, on the south by Som- ersworth, Dover and Barrington, and on the west by Barrington, Strafford and Farmington. The surface of the town is rolling, and the soil generally fertile. It is watered by the Salmon Falls, Cochecho, and Isinglass rivers. Incorporation. — This town was incorporated by royal charter under date of May ID, 1722. The charter was granted in the name of King George I, and the signing of this document, which gave a "local habitation and a name" to this section, was the last act of government performed by Gov. Samuel Shute, his Majesty's Governor of the Colonies of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Its caption bears the following: " George, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King Defender of the faith, etc." The town was named in honor of the Earl of Rochester, a brother-in- law of King James II, and one of the most eminent men of his time. For a number of years he had held the exalted position of lord treasurer. Immediately following the charter is "A Schedule of the names of the Proprietors of the Town of Rochester with their respective proportions ascertained being Part of the Charter." First appears a list of fifty-two whole-share proprietors, heading which is the name of Col. Richard Wal- dron, and at the close "Parsonage," "Use of Grammar School," and "First Ordained Gospel Minister." Secondly. "Half-share Proprietors;" of these 455 456 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY there are eight. Then come twenty- four quarter-share proprietors, and, final- ly. "Associates admitted, Governor Shute for a home lot and five hundred acres ; Lieut. -Governor Wentworth, ditto. Eight other members of the Gov- ernment Council a w hole share each." The petition for the charter of the town was signed by most of the in- habitants of Dover, with others from Portsmouth, Xewington and Durham. The first meeting of the proprietors was held at the meeting-house in Cochecho, July 9, 1722, "to consider, debate, and resohe such matters and things" as were necessary for the performance of the conditions of the cliar- ter. Col. Richard W'aldron was chosen moderator, and Paul Gerrish town and proprietor's clerk. The first condition of the charter required that within three years the proprietors should build a house and settle a family therein, and within four years plant or sow tliree acres of ground. The right of those wIki fail to complv was forfeited. It was therefore decided at this meeting that the most commodious part of the town should be laid out into "home lots," where the several proprietors might build their houses and settle their families. A committee was appointed to "pitch upon" the best location, and were also instructed to lav out roads and also a suitable "train-field." The clerk was instructed to procure a "book consisting of three cpiires of paper Ijound up in parchment, at the charge of the commoners," to keep the records in. This was all the business transacted. In consequence of the Indian troubles, which kept the border settlements in a constant state of alarm for the next few years, no meeting of the proprietors was held until April 24, 1727. At this meeting Paul Gerrish was reelected clerk and served until his death, in 1744- The first selectmen were also chosen at this meeting, as follows: Capt. Francis Matthews, Capt. John Knight, and Paul Gerrish. At this time but little interest seems to have been taken in the new plantation. The selectmen notified the comnnttee which had been appointed five years before to lay out the home lots to reconsider a plan of division, and after five months a plan was submitted which proved not acceptable to the proprietors, and was voted "void and of no effect." Capt. Robert Evans was then chosen by the proprietors to survey and lay out the plantation in 125 lots, one lot for each share, of sixty acres each, in ranges from Salmon Falls river to the Barrington line. The sun-ey having been made, the drawing of the lots was commenced Dec. 13, at the meeting-house in Cochecho, by Rev. James Pike, and com- pleted on the following day at Oyster River (DurhamV whither the meeting bad adjourned. AND REPRESENTATR'E CITIZENS 457 The territory now lia\'ing been properly laid out, and the home lots satisfactorily drawn, the next move was the settlement of the town; and to Capt. Timothy Roberts it seems is due the honor of having been the first to settle within the bounds of the present town of Rochester. This was Dec. _'6, i7_>8. He was not a proprietor, but purchased a quarter of a share of Samuel Twombly, of Dover, for ten pounds. He located below Gonic on a part of lot 90, first di\-ision. The deed of Twombley to Roberts was the first cnn\eyance of lanecame vested in him and his successors forever. CHAPTER LVI HISTORY OF ROCHESTER (H) ANCIENT LOCAL NAMES AND LAND GRANTS The territory of Rochester has an interesting history antedating 1722 by tliree score and ten years, at least. Although Dover began to be set- tled in the spring of 1623 its exact boundary was not detennined, by com- missioners appointed by the general court of Massachusetts, until 1652. The committee consisted of William Payne, Samuel Winslow and Nathan Boyse. The northern line was started at the first falls in Lamperill river and ran on a "west by north" line to the Salmon Falls river, at a point four miles above the first falls in the Newichewannick ri\er (South Berwick). All the territory north of this line belonged to Massachusetts, and the general court made several grants accordingly. Dover town meetings made all the land grants inside of its own boundary. SQUAMANAGONIC The first grants made by Massachusetts general court in Rochester terri- tory were to Mrs. Parnell Nowell and her son, Samuel, Mr. Samuel Nowell, each one thousand acres, Oct. 14, 1656. Mrs. Nowell was widow of Increase Nowell of Boston, who died there Nov. i, 1655. The record says he came over with John Winthrop in 1630. He was appointed ruling elder that year, but resigned in 1632, and crossed the river and founded the church in Charles- town. He was commissioner of military affairs in 1634 and secretary of Massachusetts colony, 1644-9. At that date he joined an association which was organized to abolish the custom of wearing long hair, which was at that time a mark of "dignified office and estate," and wrote and spoke with much vehemence on that subject. He died in poverty, hence, the next year after his death, the Massachusetts General Court Record, Oct. 14, 1656, has the fol- lowing : "The Court being sencible of the low condition of the late Honnored Mr. Nowell's family & Remembering his long Service to this Commonwealth in the 459 460 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY place not only Magistrate but Secretary, also, for wich he had but litle and slender Recompense, & the Countries debts being such as out of the Country Rate they Cannot Comfortably make such an honorable recompense to this family as otherwise they would Judge meete, therefore do Give and Grant to Mrs. Xowell and her sonne Samuell two thousand acres of land to be laid out by .Mr. Thomas Danforth and Roljert Hale in any part of the Countrie not yet Graunted to others in two or three famis that may not hinder any plantacion to be erected " This Samuel Xowell was born in Roston in 1634; graduated from Harvard College in 1O53, ''i"<^' ^^'i^ chaplain under Gen. Josiah Winslow in the Indian battle Dec. 19, 1674, in which he e\inced "a fearless mien while the balls whistled around him." He was an assistant i6e appropriated for building five block-houses or forts, "three on the great road that leads to Norway Plains, one at Squamanagonic upper mill, and one on the road by Newichwannock river, or as His Excellency should otherwise order," and appointed a committee to carry out the vote. The forts were built, although the rents could not be collected to pay for theuL Besides these ])ublic garrisons many were built at private expense, which received the names of their owners. Garrisons were built two stories in height, the lower story being of solid timber, with strong window-shutters fastening upon the inside. The upper story projected three or four feet upon all sides, commanding approach to the building from every quarter. From the projecting part water could be poured down to extinguish the flames in case the house should be fired, while an enemy who came near the doors or windows was exposed to certain death. Loop- 466 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 467 holes were provided at suitable places, large enough upon the outside for a gun-barrel to be pointed through them, and hollowed or leveled upon the inside to allow the gun to be moved about and aimed in different directions. The second story was built according to tiie fancy or ability of the owner. In the case of the Richard Wentworth garrison, it was made of thick planks dove- tailed together at the corners like a chest, and without any frame, except a few braces. The cellars of the public garrisons were divided by walls into many separate apartments for accommodation of different families. This was the case with the one at the Gonic. As an additional protection oftentimes the whole building was surrounded with a rami>art or palisade formed of timber or posts set in the ground. A few anecdotes will illustrate the cunning of the Indians and the caution of the settlers. The cattle were discovered in the cornfield one day at Colonel McDuffee's. The boys .started at once to drive them out, when they were checked by the colonel, who said he knew the fence was strong, and the rascally Indians must have laid a plot to trap them. No one was allowed to move out of doors for a day or two, but when it was safe to venture forth the place of concealment whicii the Indians had contrived was discovered, and it was evi- dent that they liad cut down the fence, driven the cattle into the held, and placed themselves in ambush to kill or capture whoever came out. At one of the garrisons a large number of hogs were kejit, whicii were suffered to roam about during the day to feed upon acorns and such other food as they could find, and were called home at night. One evening they were called a long time, but none made their appearance. In the night, when it was quite dark, the hogs seemed to return suddenly, and a grunting as of a large drove was heard all around the building. The family were too wary, however, to be deceived by any such ruse as this; they suspected the truth, tliat the Indians had dispatched the hogs and were now imitating their grunts to entice somebody out of the garrison. That the imagination of the settlers often magnified the real danger or excited needless fears is very probal)!e. Not nnicli would be required to produce alarm after a few persons had fallen victims to tliese inhuman foes. It was not until June i- 1746, that any concerted attack was made Ijy the Indians. What a thrill of horror ran through the community! By an artfully-contrived and boldly-executed plot, four men were murdered in the midst of the settlement, and within sight of a garrison; a fifth was wounded and taken prisoner. The names of tliese persons were Joseph Rich- ards, John Richards. Joseph Heard. John Wentworth, and Gershom Down. They were on the way to their w ork in the field, carrying guns and traveling in company for mutual protection. A band of Indians had concealed themselves 468 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY by the side of tlie road, near where these men must iKiss, ha\ing first sent one of their number to the opposite side, who stationed himself liehind a tree at a convenient distance. Thus haxing prepared a snare, with aU that cunning for whicii the race is noted tliey ])atiently waited the ajiproacli of their \ictims. When tlie w orkmen arrived at tlie ambush, the sohtary Inihau, w lio was to act as a decoy and draw the fire of tlie party. ste])|)ed suddenly fortii into full \ iew and fired upon the company. "Face your enemies: fire!" was the order of Joseph Richards, whc) acted as cai)tain, and all discharged their pieces at the savage, who, having effected his object, had instantly disappeared, escap- ing unharmed. The remaining Indians, with terrific yells and whoii|)s. sprang from their ambush in the rear and rushed furward. John Riclianls was wounded. All the guns on both sides being tlischarged, an exciting race ensued. The whites fled down the road towards a deserted house belonging to the wounded Richards, where they hoped to gain refuge. The Indians followed as closely as they dared, but w ith caution, for fear the guns of some of their enemies might still remain loaded, 'i'he fleeing ]>arty — all except John Rich- ards — succeeded in reaching and entering the house ; the door was secured behind them, the men planting themselves firmly against it, while they hastened to reload their arms. Before they cnuld accomplish this the Indians, finding iheniseh'es unable to force open the ri:i;, N. H. ST. MAKVS CATHOLIC (HI'KCH, ROCHESTEK, N. H. FIRST CONGREGATIO.NAi, CHURCH, ROCHESTER, N. H. .MLTJloLilST CHURCH, ROCHESTER, N. H. HULV RUSAKV (;HL:RCH, ROCHESTER. N. H. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 471 ada. he was sent by flag of truce to Boston, and thence returned to his friends in Rochester. He bought the place in the village now owned by J. H. Ela, Esq., and here he lived after his return. He died in 179J, aged seventy. His son, of the same name, inherited the place, and for years was a miller in the I birne & Hurd mill, situated opposite, where Deacon Barker's grist-mill now stands. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and served through the war; was in the battle of Bunker Hill and at the surrender of Ticonderoga, where he narrowly escaped capture; he was at the battle of Bennington and at the surrender of Burgoyne. He is remembered l:v man\- now li\ing. The excitement proved by the atrocity of June 2-j, cannot easily be imagined. The suddenness of the attack, its locality, — the most thickly- settled part of the town, — the exciting nature of the struggle, the death of so many of their friends and neighbors, and the escape of the enemv before pursuit could be made. — all must have r(.iused to an intense degree the feelings of the people. It is apparent from the haste with which they adoptec years a State Senator, being part of that time senior Senator, hence .ser\e(l as President of the Senate. He died Oct. 15, 181 7, aged ninety years. Dr. James Knowles came to Rochester in 1749. His fellow citizens con- ferred on him many official positions: although he was past the age of military service he did valuable work in the Revolutionary period, as a civilian. He served in the Legislature six years as Rochester's Representative. For fort\- years he was a deacon of the church. He was an able, efficient and unostenta- tious servant of his townsmen manv vears. 482 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Dr. James Howe was one of six brothers who served in the Revolution. He had entered upon the practice of his profession before the war began, and his first service in the army was as surgeon's mate in Colonel Long's regiment. He did good ser\ ice in the Canadian campaign of 1777. He was three times elected as Rochester's Representatixe in the State Legislature. CHAPTER LX HISTORY Ol- ROCHESTER (VI) RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES The first Parish Congregational Church is as old as the town, as one of the conditions of the charter in 1722 was that the proprietors build a meet- ing-house within four years. Indian wars jirevented any settlement in the town for six years, and the condition was not fulfilled. In 1730 it was voted to build a meeting-house, forty feet long, thirty feet wide, and eighteen feet stud, to be well framed and inclosed. The house was built in 1731, on Havens' hill. In 1776, this house having become dilapidated and in danger uf being blown down liy the wind, it was proposed that a new one l)e built; but, on account of the war, it was delayed until 17S0; then a new church was built upon "The Common." This house remained un])ainted, and for years had neither steeple or bell. It had galleries on three sides. Many of pews were high square boxes. The middle of the house was provided with free benches. In 1842 this house was moved from "The Common"' to the corner of Main and Liberty streets. It was then renovated, and a \estry was added below. In 1868 it was enlarged and remodeled at an expense of $8,500. In 1876 repairs were again made on the interior of the house, and it is now a pleasant and commodious house of worship. The following is a list of the pastors from 1737 to 1883: Amos Main graduated at Harvard College in 1729; was called to be the settled minister of this town May 9, 1737; died April 5, 1760, aged fifty-one; was pastor of this church twenty-three \ears. Samuel Hill graduated at Har^-ard College in 1735; was installed pastor of this church Nov. 19, 1760; died April 19, I7'^>4; was stated supply and pastor of this church about four years. Avery Hall graduated at Yale College in 1739: was installed pastor of this church Oct. 15, 1766; resigned April 10, 1775 ; was pastor of this church eight and a half years; died at Wakefield, Aug. 5, 1820, aged eightv-two. Joseph Haven graduated at Harvard College in 1775; was installed pastor 483 484 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY of this church Jan. lo, 1776; died Jan. 2.J. 1825, aged seventy-seven; was pas- tor of this church forty-nine years. Thomas C. Upham graduated at Dartmouth College in 181 8, and at .\n- dover Theological Seminary in 182 1 ; was installed colleague pastor with Mr. Haven July 16, 1823; resigned to accept a professorship at Bowdoin College. May 29, 1825 ; was pastor of this church two years : died April, 1872. Isaac Willey graduated at Dartmouth College in 1822, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1825; was installed pastor of this church Jan. 17. 1826; resigned Oct. 22, 1834: was stated supply and pastor of this chiu-cli nine years. Edward Cleaveland graduated at Yale College in 1832, and Yale The- ological Seminary in 1835; was installed pastor of this church Jan. 11, 1S37; resigned Oct. 30. 1837; was stated supply and pastor of this church one year. Francis V. Pike graduated at Yale College, Sept. 14, 1831, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1834; was installed pastor of this church Feb. 20. 183Q; resigned Sept. 20, 1841 ; was pastor of this church about two and a half years; died at Newburyport, Mass.. Sept. 4, 1843. John E. Farwell graduated at Amherst College in 1836. and at .\ndover Theological Seminary in 1839; was installed pastor of this church Aug. 13. 1843; resigned June 22, 1852: was jiastor of this church aliout nine years; died Dec. 24, 1858. George Spaulding became acting pastor of this church in .\ugust, 1852: resigned in August. 1853 ; was acting pastor of this church one year. J. C. Seagrave was installed pastor of this church May 25. 1854; resigned Dec. 26, 1855 ; was stated supply and pastor of this cliurch two years. James M. Palmer graduated at Water ville College in 1847. and at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1853; became acting pastor of this church May i. 1858; was installed .April 26. 1S59; resigned July 14. 1864; was acting pastor and pastor of this church about six years. Prescott Fay graduated at Amherst College in 1S52. and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1855; became acting pastor of this church May 4. 1865; resigned August. 1867: was acting pastor of this church two years and three months. A. F. Marsh graduated at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1867; was installed pastor of this church Oct. 31, 1867; resigned Oct. 11, 1870: was pastor of this church three years. Harvey W. Stone graduated at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1847 '• ^^'^^ installed pastor of this church May 18. 1871 ; resigned Jan. 28, 1873; was stated supply and pastor of this church four years. A. J. Quick graduated at Williams College in i860, and at Union Theolog- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 485 ical Seminar}' in 1863; became pastor in October, 1875, and served until 1884. His successor was Rev. A. S. Kimball. The First Free Will Baptist Society was organized Marcli 19, 1825, at the house of Enoch Tibbets. A church was organized April 15, 1829, at the house of John York. It consisted of sixteen persons. For several years the meet- ings were held at private residences. In 1840 a meeting-house was built and dedicated at Gonic. The first quarterly meeting was held at the courthouse Aug. 10, 1839. In 1842 Rev. D. Swett was chosen first pastor of the church. In 1874 extensive repairs of llic meeting-house were completed at an expense of nearly three thousand dollars. The society is in a prosperous condition. The East Rochester and South Lebanon Free Will Baptist Church was organized June i, 1865, and Rev. Isaac Hyatt l>ecame pastor. The meeting- house was built soon after at a cost of $6,000. Rev. R. McDonald became pastor. The society continued to grow as the business interests of the \'illage increased, and is now in a flourishing condition. The Rochester J'illage Free Will Baptist Church was organized in the fall of 1 87 1 and Rev. Ezekiel True was chosen pastor. Fie gathered a large congregation and put the society on a firm foundation. A nice church edifice was built, and in honor of this able and faithful pastor the society named it the True ^Memorial Church, and the society is one of the most prosperous in the city. The Friends commenced having meetings in Rochester in 1751 by permis- sion from the Monthly Meeting in Dover. Permission was renewed from tiuie to time, for short periods only, usually about a month. In 1776 there were twenty men who professed that faith and probably as many women, perhaps more. In 1781 they built a meeting-house near Judge Dame's residence. It was afterwards taken down and the material user! for constructing a new one at Gonic. from which it has since been removed to its present location. A meeting-house was built at Meaderborough in 1805. In 1823 there were reported to be twenty families belonging to one meeting and fifteen families to the other. The membership at present is not large in number, but excellent in quality. The Uniz'ersalist began to organize in 184 1 and their first pastor was Rev. R. O. Williams. Following him services were held whenever they could secure ministers to officiate up to 1865 ; from that date until 1877 no meetings were held, w'hen a reorganization was perfected and services were conducted for several years. The Unitarians have for a number of years had a pastor who served them and the Unitarian Society at Dover, in the forenoon of Sundays in one city and 486 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY in the afternoon in the other city. At present the liberal sentiment of the city is united in supporting these meetings. I'lic Methodist Episcopal Church began its existence in Rochester in 1807. The Rev. Ebenezer Blake was the itinerant who deliveerd the first ^Methodist semion. 'j'he meeting was held in a schoolhouse. He made his circuit round there once in four weeks. The Rev. Warren Banister assisted him betimes. In 1S08 the preachers were Revs. L. Bates and E. F. Xowell, doing service in a circuit of towns. Class meetings were organized and the cause of Metho- dism advanced slowly. In 1S09 the circuit riders were Revs. H. Field and A. Taylor. The meetings were then held in the courthouse and the size of the audiences increased, when signs of mob ojiposition appeared and the preacher had to be escorted on his way to the courthouse by special police officers. The opposers were "lewd fellows of the baser sort" in the town. In 181 1 the membership had increased to ninety-one members. Next year it increased to 108. It seemed to lie the custom for a jireacher Uj ser\e onl\- one }ear. In 1 81 6 Rev. John Lord became pastor and during the year increased the mem- bership about sixty. He was not permitted to remain more than two years, but his successors kept up the membership and increased it little by little each year. In i8_\:; the society had become sufficiently prosperous to build a meet- ing-house, which was completed in October, and dedicated with great rejoic- ing under the pastorate of Rev. H. Foster. Rev. E. F. Xowell participated in the dedicatory service. The new meeting-house and the new minister. Rev. Charles Baker, increased the size of the audiences. An act of incorporation was granted by the Legislature this year to facilitate business arrangements. The membership was largely increased in the years i8j6, 1827, and 1828: in the latter year a parsonage was built In 1830 the first Sunday school was opened in connection with the regular church service. Sunday schools had been held in a schoolhouse before that time. In 1834 they began to assist in missionary work. It had come to iie the regular custom now to change ministers l^iennially. F'sually the Rochester church was well ser\'ed and it prospered sjiiritually and financially. In 1844 the Rev. O. C. Baker was appointed preacher, but the presiding elder could not permit him to return a second year, because of a misunderstanding lietween the elder and the church, whereat the church was much stirred up, but his successor. Rev. Henry Drew, poured oil on the troubled waters and peace was restored, but they never for- gave that presiding elder. Before Mr. Drew's two years expired he secured a remodelling of the audience room of the church, which greatly improved the appearance, and made the house much more conxenient for the parishioners. In 1853 ^t was found necessary to enlarge the audience room to accommodate the increased congregation; also an organ was installed, which added much to AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 487 the effects of the nuisical programs. In the spring of 1854 the New Hamp- shire Annual Conference was held in Rochester for the first time. That same year the church contributed $1,000 to the Conference Seminary, which had been established at Tilton, N. H. In iSfn the present parsonage was built at a cost of $3,000. In 1867 the corner-stone of the new church was laid Rev F K. Stratton bemg pastor. The Masonic fraternity assisted in the ceremonial work, m the presence of an audience of 5,000 persons. It was completed in 1868 at a cost of $20,000. The j.astor was Rev. J. M. Chapman The Kev. M. T. Cilley was pastor in 1877-78, and did especially good work in rais- ing money to pay off the church debt of about Uvo thons'and dollars Beinc. housed m a very fine brick edifice, in a central location, the society has pros'" pered and done good work in all lines that help to make the citv better in nther ways as well as religiously. CHAPTER LXI HISTORY OF FARMINGTON (I) GEOGRAPHICAL TOPOGRAPHICAL FARMINGTON DOCK FIRST TOWN MEETING OFFICERS ELECTED The line between Ivocliester and l""armiiigton is 6^ miles long. The line helween Farmington and Xew Durham is parallel with the Rochester line and six miles distant ; Strafford is on the southwest and .Milton on the northeast. It touches Middleton at its north corner for the distance of two-thirds of a mile. The town is well supplied w ith streams and rivers, among which are the Cochecho, Mad, Ela, and Waldron. These afford manufacturing facilities which are a never-failing source of profit to the inhabitants. These are in the northeast side of the town, and the village is in the valley at the junction of the Cochecho and Ela rivers. The railroad is on the hill west of the village. Chesley mountain in a little south of the center of the town. Blue Job is on the northwest side of the town, partly in Strafford. The names of its mountains are from parties who owned them at an early (late. Job Allard owned the mountains now called Blue Job, which belongs to the Blue Hills range, hence the name Blue Job. Mad river derives its name from its freshets or floods, to which the country along its bank is subject. It has been known to rise after a heavy storm of one or two hours' duration a number of feet, flooding the country along its border, sweeping property and ever^-thing before it ; rocks weighing tons have been moved from their resting- places by its impetuosity and carried quite a distance down the stream. One of the floods occurred in 1869, causing great destruction of property, and endan- gering the lives of the people. -In some instances they uere rescued from their houses in boats. The early history of Farmington will be found principally in the history of Rochester, of which this town originally formed a part. The early record his- tory, Revolutionary, names of early settlers, etc., are incorporated in the history of the mother-town. Among the first who settled in this section were Benjamin, Samuel, and Richard Furber, Samuel Jones, Benjamin Chesley, and Paul Demeritt, who located near Merrill's Comers from 1770 to 1783. On the Ten-Rod road 488 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 489 Joseph and Levi Leighton were located ; on Chestnut hill, Moses Home, Caleb Varney, Judge Wingate, and others in various parts of the town. Among the men from this town who have held public positions in the state and United States legislative halls, now deceased, are Nehemiah Eastman, Esq., who held a distinguished position at the bar for many years. He was elected to the State Senate, and also a member of the Nineteenth Congress. He died Jan. 19, 1856. Dr. Joseph Hammond was a member of the State Legislature, and also of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses. He died March 28, 1836. George L. Whitehouse was a deputy sheriff six years, a judge of the court of common pleas for the county of Strafford for fourteen years, also a member of the House of Representatives three years. Judge Whitehouse has also been extensively engaged in railroad surveys in this and other counties. Jeremiah Dame, John D. Lyman, George M. Herring, and Alonzo Nute were members of the State Senate: Thomas T. Edgerly and Josiah B. Edgerly were regis- ters of deeds. Jeremiah Jones was the first man born in the town who was elected to the State Legislature. He was elected for six successive terms and nominated for the seventh, but refused to run. His majority at his first election was one, at the last 158. The late Hon. Henry Wilson, United States Senator from Massachusetts, was born on a farm about two miles south of Farmington village. The first meeting-house was built on Robert's hill, about two miles south of Farmington village. The first schoolhouse was built at Merrill's Corners, in the southern part of the town, about the year T791. Early Merchants. — One of the first merchants in Farmington was Jonas C. March, who came here from Portsmouth in about the year 1780, and built a store in what is now the lower end of the village, on premises now owned by G. N. Eastman. Mr. March subsequently removed to Rochester, and was suc- ceeded as the "trader" of the town by John Googin, whose stock in trade con- sisted chiefly of molasses, tea, spiceberries, [iepiier-corns, tobacco, rum, etc. Mr. Googin, however, soon had an energetic competitor in the person of Joseph Smith, of Dover, who erected a large two-story building on the site of the present brick church and engaged in trade, adding dry-goods to the usual stock of groceries. He had a faithful old clerk named Joseph Sherburne, who had charge of the store here, while Smith remained at Dover. In 1830, Nehemiah Eastman was the lawyer here, and Joseph Hammond the doctor. Peter and Levi Pearl were at the head of the militia, and J. H. Edgerly called the roll of names, among whom were the Nutes, Burnham and Isaac, George R. Dame. Samuel Bunker, Hiram French, etc. At that time "Jerry" Wingate was postmaster. 29 490 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY l-anniiigtoii "Dock." — The name of Farmington Dock is said to have originated as follows : Long years ago, when I-"annington was a part of Rochester, the people living on what was called the "I'lains" were in the habit of cutting logs in the winter and depositing them on a little hill on the banks of the Cocheco, near what was called Knight's Brook, ready to be rolled into the river when the spring freshets came and floated them to the "Plains." l*>om the manner of depositing, or "docking," as it was called, came the name. Another theory, however, is that the name Farmington Dock (or the Dock) originated from a growth of large yellow dock growing on the border of Knight's Brook, aljDut one-half mile south of the \illage, where it crosses the road. People were in the habit of watering their horses at this place, and the growth of said plant was so thick that it became of public notoriety. The word first appears in the town records in \j()2. The \illage of Farmington is situated on what was formerly known as the "Old Ji)hn Ham farm." The first dwelling was a log house, occupied by one Berry, i'he first frame house was erected in 1781 or 1782 by John Roberts, and here he reared a numerous family. The second frame house was built by Jonas C March pre\ious to 179-'. The town of Farmington was incorporated Dec. i, 1798, the notification for the first town meeting being dated Feb. 23, 1799, and signed by Aaron W'ingate. The First Toivn Meeting was held March 11, 1799, at the house of Simon Dame, "at ten of the Clock in the forenoon," when the following ofiicers were chosen: Moderator, .\aron W'ingate; town clerk, Jonas C. ]\Iarch : selectmen, Ichabod Hayes, Ephraim Kimball, and Da\-id Roberts; auditors, Capt. Samuel Furbur and James Roberts ; assessors, Thomas Canney and Paul Demeritt ; surveyors of highways, James Roberts, James Leighton, Joseph Thompson, Jr., Paul Demerett, Benjamin Furl)ur. Joseph Emerson, Daniel Canney, Jona- than I'rench, Edward Knight, Samuel Jones. Jr., Thomas Davis, John Downs, and ( ieorge Leighton ; surveyors of lumber, Jonathan French and David French: hogreeves, Richard Furbur, Josei-ih Holmes, .\aron W'ingate, Jonas C. March. Ephraim Perkins, John Murray, Ichabod Pearl, Ichabod Hayes, and Paul Demerit; tithinginen, Edward Varney, Anthony Peavey, James Xutter, Ezekiel Ricker, Samuel \'arney. Alexander Berry, and Richard Rundlet ; fence-viewers, John Walker, Ezekiel Ricker, Joseph Holmes, Elijah Meder, and David French ; field-drovers, James French, Benjamin Runnals, Joseph Thompson, Jr., Moses W'hitehouse, Paul Twombly, Moses Varne}', and Samuel Drowne. At this meeting it was voted "that the privilege of being a constable in said town of Farmington the present year shall be sold at vendue to the AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 491 highest bidder, and the purchaser to give bonds to the satisfaction of the selectmen for the faithful perfunnance of his duty." The "constable birth," as it was called, was bid off by Ensign Samuel Knowles for twenty-one dollars and twenty-fi\e cents. At this meeting John Taylor Gilman received one hundred and thirty-three votes for Governor. Richard Furbur was the town's first representative to the General Court. In 1799 licenses to retail "foreign distilled spirituous liquors" were granted to the following persons : Joseph Holmes, Lakeman & Marsh, Benjamin Run- nals, and Elezear Pearl. The following tavern licenses were granted : Joseph Holmes, Col. Richard Furbur, Samuel Knowles, Edward Knight, and Ephraim Perkins. CHAl'TER LXIl HISTORY OF FARMINGTON (II) ECCLESIASTICAL CONGREGATIONALISTS FREE WILL BAPTISTS The Congregational Church in Farmin^on Sept. 15, 1819, with the fol- lowing members : Benjamin Furber, Peter Akemian, Noah Ham, Mary Fur- ber, Muhitable Hayes, Mary Furber, Mehitable Furber, Elizabeth Roberts, The Rev. James Walker, agent of this New Hampshire Missionary Society, officiated at the organization, and he became pastor and held the office seven years. His successor was Rev. Clement Parker, who served in 1827-28 and 29. Following him the supply was furnished from time to time by the Missionary Society up to 1840 v\hen Rev. Timothy Morgan was installed and remained three years. Rev. Joseph Lane served in 1844-45 and 46; Rev. Benj. Willey, 1847-50; Rev. Roger M. Sargent, 1851-52; Rev. D. D. Tappan, 1852-58; Rev. Roger M. Sargent, 1860-69; Rev. W. S. Kimball, 1869-71 ; Rev. Eugene Titus, 1872-74; Rev. Paul H. Pitkins, 1875-77; Rev. Walter E. Darling, 1877- 1884. Since then a succession of good men have served as pastors and the church is in a flourishing condition. A good Sunday school library was secured for the society in 1833 by Rev. Mr. Fisk while a student at Andover Theological Seminary. The Free Will Baptist Society was organized Oct. 21, 1854. A church was organized inside of the society or parish Nov. 8 of the same j^ear,- with a membership of thirteen, five men and eight women. One of this number was Rev. Dexter Waterman, who became the first pastor of the church and society. The meetings were held at this time in the old Peavy meeting house, located about three-quarters of a mile from the center of the village. Under Mr. Waterman's management the membership of the church was increased to thirty-two, and the society was largely increased during the two years he served. His successor in November, 1856, was Rev. J. L. M. Babcock. In 1857 steps were taken for the erection of a house of worship in the compact part of the village. The efforts were successful and the new meeting house was dedicated with appropriate services Oct. 28, 1857. The Rev. Ransom Dunn preached the dedicatory sermon. Mr. Babcock, who had successfully 492 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 493 carried througli the campaign of meeting house construction, financial and otherwise, resigned in May, 1858. His successor was the Rev. Daniel Poor Cilley, a grandson of Gen. Joseph Cilley of Nottingiiam, a speaker and pastor of unusual nierii wlm put tlie churcli and society into high standing among the churches of tiic i'ree \\ ill Llaptist denomination. Mr. Cilly served nearly three and a half years, when lie resigned to accept the appointment of chap- lain of the Eighth New Hampshire Regiment of Volunteer Infantry and soon joined his regiment and left witli it for the war. He inherited the martial spirit of his illustrious ancestors and served faithfully with his regiment to the close of tiie war, going with the men into every engagement the regiment was called upon to participate in. The Rev. Ezekiel True was Chaplain Cilley's successor, and he served from Nov. I, 1861, to March i, 1866, and was very successful in calling out large audiences at the Sunday services. At a meeting held on the 17th of the month the society voted to give their old pastor. Chaplain Cilley, a call to hecome their pastor again, as he had returned from missionery work in the South and was then a resident of Farmington. He accepted and served about six months, when he was obliged to resign on account of ill health ; his service in the army had broken his bodily powers liadly. His successor was Rev. S. N. Tufts, who served until Oct. 1, 1870. Mr. Tufts was succeeded by Rev. George M. Park, who served until Xcn . i. 1874. During Mr. Park's pastorate the meeting iiouse was enlarged, the interior uuicii adorned, and a new bell tower and spire were added. Mr. Parks was a great worker and left the society almost free from debt. He received ninety-two persons to the church — seventy-four by baptism. Mr. Parks' successor was Rev. David H. Adams, who served until Oct. 31, 1878. During his ]>astorate still further improvements were made by the introduction of a plant for steam heat for the meeting-house and vestr}'. The Rev. C. A. Bickford succeeded Mr. Adams and served till Oct. 31. 1880. The Rev. David H. Adams, who had been preaching at New- market accepted a call to return to Farmington in 1881, and served several years. Since then the church has prospered under a series of able pastors. CHAPTER LXIII HISTORY OF FARMINGTOX (HI) farmixgton's shoe manufacturers 111 1836 Elijah H. Badger came to Farniington and coniiTienced the manufacture of shoes, known at that time as Xatick Sale work, that place being then the banner town in the country for the manufacture of this peculiar grade of goods, brogans. He continued in business about one year, when he became financially embarrassed, and left town not to return again. About this time Martin E. Ha}es commenced in a small way the manufacture of shoes. He continued increasing his business until he was regarded as the largest manufacturer of shoes in the state, and from the time he commenced business he continued it almost without interruption through life. Mr. Hayes was a native of Farniington, and he always manifested a lively interest in the welfare of his town. To Mr. Hayes more than any one else the town is indebted for the beautiful shade trees in the village. He commenced the example by setting fruit and shade trees on his own grounds; others soon followed his example; the result gave the streets a beautiful and attractive appearance. Mr. Hayes never attempted to monopolize business, but encour- aged other manufacturers to come to Farniington and settle. About 183S or 1848, George M. Herring started in the shoe business here. He came from Natick. Mass. He was successful in his venture and continued in the lousiness during his life time. He not onlv manufactured shoes but also took a livelv interest in public affairs, both religious and political, and contributed much to advance what he thought beneficial to the community at large. Much credit is due him for the enterprise and energy which characterized him through life. His energy drew attention to this town as a good place for others to locate their shops, and Boston merchants began to invest their capital here in the shoe business. Mr. J. F. Roberts, backed financially by Boston nnJiiey, was the next to open a shoe shop in the village. ^Ir. Roberts was a man much respected both for his energy and honesty. He continued l;ut a short time, for his health failed him. and he, too, was soon numbered among those whose business histor}- was short and honorable. 494 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 495 Mr. Roberts was succeeded by his two brothers, George E. and Henry L. Roberts, who remained together a few years, when they dissolved, and each continued by himself. Henry L. is still doing business in town, while George E. has for the last eight or ten years been retired. Alx)ut the same time that Mr. J. F. Roberts commenced manufacturing, Messrs. Alonzo and J. O. Nute commenced and continued together a few years, when J. O. withdrew. Alonzo remained in business, and has been continually engaged since, except a brief period in which he was in the army of the Union. Mr. Nute was one of those enterprising men who may always be found at the front in any enterprise he believes to be for the interests of his town. They were among the largest, if not the largest, manufacturers in town. Among others who were early identified in the business of our tow n were Luther Wentworth, H. B. Edgerley, and Israel Hays. Mr. Wentworth continued a short time, but failing health compelled him to retire from active business, and disease soon took him from our midst. H. B, Edgerly still continues, and has been continually identified with the business for the past thirty years. Mr. James B. Edgerly, the present very efficient cashier of the Farmington National Bank, was associated with Mr. H. B. Edgerly, for a few years. The name of the firm under which Mr. Edgerly does business at present is, H. B. Edgerly & Son. Mr. Israel Hays is still in the manufacture, and his firm is I. Elays & Son. Mr. William Johnson was one of the early comers to our town to engage in manufacturing. He has since moved to the West, where he is engaged in shoe business, but not manufacturing. Mr. N. T. Kimball and John L. Platts were also among those who were early identified with the shoe interest here. Mr. Platts removed to Dover, N. H., where he still resides, but he is not now^ doing shoe business. Mr. Kimball moved to Rochester, N. H., where he continued in business until his decease. Mr. John H. Hurd, later of Dover, N. H., is a native of Farming- ton. Mr. Hurd commenced and continued manufacturing in Farmington for many years, when he moved to Dover, where he continued in business, and the name of his firm was John H. Hurd & Son. The late C. W. Thurston, of Dover, fonnerly did business in Farmington, and continued here until the great fire of 1S75, whicli consumed his factory, together with a great deal of other property in our town. Mr. E. F. Jones manufactured shoes a number of years in town, at first in company with George A. Jones, who did a nice business, and was actively engaged many years. Mr. Daniel W. Kimball and John M. Berry were the active manufacturers for C. W. Thurston before his factory was destroyed. xA.fter that Mr. Kiml>all engaged in manu- facturing for a Boston house, and did a nice business. Mr. Berry was 496 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY actively engaged in business since he commenced in 1870, and his factory now is one of the largest in town. Mr. Berry was the only manufacturer in town who made long leg, crimped, and treed boots. He manufactured shoes in the winter and boots in the summer. Mr. E. C. Kinnear was one of the largest manufacturers in town for a number of years. He continued here for some ten or twelve years, when he moved to Dover, and continued the manufacture until 1880, when he moxed to Rockland, Mass. Mr. A. E. Putnam commenced manufacturing in Farmington in 1878. He manufactured for a Boston house. J. F. Cloutman commenced in 1854, and continued actively engaged in business a half century. He commenced the manufactur- ing of brogans, and continued in that branch of manufacture for nine years. After that time he made a different class of goods, manufacturing women's, misses', and children's light sewed goods, made of grains, glove, kid, calf, goat, and kid, lastings, etc. The \alue of the product of J. F. Cloutman's factory in some _vears reached nearly one-half million dollars. J. F. Cloutman brought the first wax-thread sewing-machine ever used for shoe work in the state into Farmington, about 1855. He was the senior partner of the firm of Cloutman & Bingham. 147 Summer street, Boston. Mass. When manufacturing shoes commenced in Farmington there was no machinery used at all. Soles were cut from the sides of leather by hand, using a straight edge and pattern to mark the size of the sole. The heel lifts were cut out with knife and pattern. The inner soles were I>egged on to the last, and made to fit the last by hand and the use of a knife. Upper patterns were made of pine wood generally, and bound with flat zinc about three-eights of an inch wide. The uppers, after being cut. were sent into the country to be closed and made ready for the bottomer. The closing was done on the old-fashioned clamp, and the thread was prepared in the old- fashioned way, putting two or three threads together and waxing with the old-fashioned ball of wax by hand. The bottomer did all of his work by hand, and in fact from the beginning the shoe was made entirely by hand, without the aid of machinery. Today the methods are entirely changed. Machinery is used to cut the soles ; it is used to prepare the heels ; it is used to mould the soles that they may the better fit the shape of the last ; it is used by many to last the shoe; it is used to tack the outer sole on the shoe after lasting it; it is used in pegging, sewing, or nailing; it is used in leveling the bottom ; it is used in putting the heel on ; it is used in smoothing or shaving the heel ; it is used in trimming the front edge of the shoe ; it is used to set or burnish the front edge and heel; it is used to buff or scour the bottom preparatory to finishing it ; and in fitting or stitching the upper it is used from the beginning to the finish. Even the button-holes are worked in silk by AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 497 machinery, and one operator can make from 2,500 to 4,000 button-holes per day. Machinery has made it possible to produce a much nicer boot or shoe, for a much less price, and in many cases one-half the cost, than under the old methods. In 1854 it was considered a fair business for one manufacturer to manufacture ten cases per week, or 600 pairs per week, and twenty cases, 1,200 jjairs per week, was considered a great business. Today there are a great many factories that produce from two to three thousand pairs each per day. The manufacturers of this town manufactured in 1881 about fifty thousand cases, or about one million five hundred thousand pairs, the value of which is probably about two million dollars. Farmington has alw ays been the largest shoe manufacturing town in the state, and continues pros- perous in the business. The shoe manufacturers of Farmington probably pay out annually in cash for labor $500,000, and furnish employment for from 1,000 to 1,200 people. CHAPTER LXIV HISTORY OF FARAHNGTOX (I\j FARMINGTON SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR, VARIOUS TOWN TOPICS Farmington has always been one of the most patriotic of towns, in peace as well as in war. For the suppression of the southern rebellion it furnished 234 men. in all departments of the service; the following are some of those who held high positions: Louis Bell, captain of Co. A. First Regiment, later promoted to colonel, killed Jan. 15. 1853; Alonzo Nute, quartermaster of the Sixth Regiment; Rev. Daniel Poor Cilley, chaplain of Eighth Regiment; Albert W. Hayes, second lieutenant. Sixth Regiment, promoted to captain in 1862; Ralph Carlton, captain Co. I, Third Regiment; Henry A. Flint, first lieutenant Co. F, Second Regiment. Captain Carlton was killed July 17, 1862; the Grand Army Post of Farmington was named in honor of his bra\e career. A fine soldiers' monu- ment has been erected on one of the most \-aluable lots in the \'illage. the gift of Air. James Bartlett Edgerly. a descendant of Col. Thomas Tash and of Col. John Waldron of the Revolution, who is a member of the Carlton post. The Woman's Relief Corps did a large amount of work in raising funds to procure the monument. The noble stature that surmounts the monument was modeled from a brother of Seth Low. who was mayor of New York several years ago. The figure very appropriately faces southward, as Faniiington men faced and helped conquer the great rebellion. As Farmington was simply the Northwest parish of Rochester during the Revolution, the war record of its citizens is given in the history of that town, but in the lesser wars of the nineteenth century were : C. B. Roberts. Timothy Davis, J. G. Watson, G. L. \\'hiteliouse, Asa and Jeremiah Willey, whose graves are honored on Memorial Day by the Grand Army veterans. Farmington has many fine buildings showing that it has been and is pros- perous. The spacious opera house was opened in 1881 with Sol Smith Russell as the great attraction; since then its walls have echoed to the notes of many famous people, among them: Mr. Blaisdell of Concord. Camella Urso. Walter Emerson, Emil Lubliny, Miss Hall, the Fiske jubilee singers 498 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 499 and excellent orchestras, from time to time. Mr. Tompkins of the Boston theatre sent some of his best companies here who gave iirst class entertain- ments Of fraternal organizations Farmington has its full share: Free Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of P*ythias, Improved Order of Red .Men and others, and the farmers are well organized and are doing good work in the Henr)' Wilson Grange, which has its name in honor of United States Senator and Vice-President Wilson who was born and brought up in this town. In \iew of the immense amount of good in work au.xiliary to the church and state and to the fraternal societies, special mention in terms of unquali- fied praise is due to sexeral organizations of Farmington women; among the nimiber are: Mrs. .\delaid Cilley Waldron, Mrs. L. H. Palmer, Mrs. L. A. Small. Mrs. Knox and .Mrs. Thayer of lodges, and Mrs. C. W. Talpey, Mrs. J. F. Cloutman. Mr>. .\. \\\ Shackford. Mrs. E. F. Eastman and Mrs. Larson A. Fernald. of the W^oman's Christian Temperance Union, and societies auxiliary to religious bodies. Extravagance has never been apparent in the dwellings of Farmington, but a certain degree of comfort antl delicate living is and has been the rule in nearly all of them, and there are few marks of destitution. The com- munity is made up largely of pure New England stock, \'ery few foreign families have come here to dwell. As a rule e\'ery man owns the home in which he dwells. The Fariuingtou Savings Bank was chartered in June, 1868, and organized the same year by the choice of George M. Herring, presitlent ; Thomas ¥. Cooke, treasurer; G. M. Herring, .A. Nute, Hiram Barker, George N. East- man, David T. Parker, H. B. Edgerly, John Barker, John G. Johnson, Daniel Pearl, C. W. ^^'ingate. John H. Ste\'ens, Le\i Pearl, and l^Iijah Jenkins, trustees. Mr. Herring held the office of jiresident until his death, in 1875. Jan. 14. 1876, Hon. John F. Cloutman was elected ])resident, and held the office until May, j88r, when he was succeeded by C. \\ . Wingate. Esq. Mr. Cooke held the office of treasurer until his death, Nov. 11, 18S0, and was succeeded in office by William ^'eaton. Mr. Yeaton's successor was Charles W'. Talpev who held the office until his death, as also did Mr. Cloutman. Among those who ha\e served as trustees were : Charles W^ Wingate, George N. Eastman, Levi Pearl. II. B. Edgerly, William W^ Hayes, John F. Cloutman, Hiram Barker, Jonathan R. Hayes, David S. Parker, A. Nute, Josiah B. Edgerly, John Tuttle, John H. Barker, D. W. Edgerly, G. E. Cochrane. E. P. Nute. 500 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY I'he Fanningtoii National Bank \vas organized in July. 1872, with the following board of directors: George M. Herring, J. F. Cloutman, John H. Barker, H. B. Edgerly, Alonzo Nute, C. W. Thurston, Charles \V. Talpey, Martin L. Hayes, Edwin Wallace; first president, G. M. Herring; first cashier. Thomas F. Cook. Mr. Herring's successor was John F. Cloutman; Mr. Cook"s successor was James B. Edgerly, both of these gentlemen served until they died. CHAPTER LXV HISTORY OF l-ARMLXGTON (Vj NOTED MEN OF FORMER GENERATIONS The State of New Hampshire lias furnished one President of the United States, Frankhn Pierce, and one Vice-President, Henry Wilson; both in the same generation; one of Concord, the other of Farmington; Pierce served from March 4, 1853, to March 4, [857; Wilson served from March 4, 1873, until his death, Nov. 22, 1875; he was in feeble health during 1875 and died of apoplexy. That score of years 1853- 1875, covers a period of the most remarkable events in the world's history, and Henry Wilson was active in. it from beginning to end. New Hampshire men can never duplicate it. In fact it is doubtful if New Hampshire ever furnishes another President or Vice-President of the United States. To Farmington will ever remain the lionor of being the birthplace of Henry Wilson, and his place of residence until he was twenty-one years old. Of course Henry Wilson is Farmington's most illustrious citizen. No extended biography of his career is needed here, but just a mention that he stands at the head of this town's noted men. His birthplace in this town is properly marked with a bronze tablet on a huge boulder. He was born Feb. 16, 1812; he died Nov. 22. 1875, in Washington, D. C. His birth name was Jeremiah Jones Colbath, but after he became of age he had the Massachusetts Legislature change it to Henry Wilson ; why the change was made is not known. When he was ten years old, his parents being very poor, he was apprenticed to a farmer in Farmington to "serve his time." as was the old custom in New England. It took eleven years to finish that contract, which terminated Fel). 16. 1833. During the time he was allowed to attend the winter school in that district, about six weeks, each winter, a little o\'er a year in the whole time, but he made good use of it in reading, writing and ciphering; also put in his spare time in the course of his duties as farmer's "hired man" to read every book that was available in Fannington, or the towns around it. and he seems to have digested the reading matter. There was no public library, neither were books very plenty, or in great variety. When his apprenticeship terminated in February, 1833, 501 502 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY he took his departure from I'arniington in search of utlier than farm work. There was no shoe shop or grange in the town at that time. After lie had won national fame in the United States Senate, he spoke one evening at a pulihc meeting in Dover. He said it was his first speech in tliat citv, and he began his address in a reminiscent way; tlie writer of this was fortunate enough to be there and hear iiim. He said he hail left Farmington. .so many years liefore his speech, in search of w ork ; he in(|uired at Rochester, no work for him there: he went to Great Falls, nothing for him there; he came to Dover and made ini|uiries, ever\- empli)\t'r had all the help he wanted ; he crossed the line out of New Hampshire and made inquiries at Haverhill, nothing doing. So he kept on from town to town until he reached Xatick, .Mass., having made the journey all the way on foot; in that town he was fortunate enough to find work in a house of a shoe maker. He went to work anrl learned the trade: he staid with that employer two years, and lived \"ery frugally; saved all the money he could and in 1835 trami)ed back to Xew Hampshire to see the folks. Strafford .\cademy had recentlv been opened ; he went to Strafford Centre, a few miles from his old home and attended the school a few terms; this gave him a good start, as he was quick to appre- hend and diligent in his studies. It was at this academy he began to show his masterly powers as a debater; at that time the school was full of keen young men and gave J\lr. Wilson all he wanted in that line; one of the great questions debated was anti-slavery. There he took his stand as an Aboli- tionist : thirty years later he was in the I'nited States Senate and his anti- sla\'ery campaign was ended in a complete victory. But at StrafYord he had not the remotest idea of what he and the country had to go through to set the bondmen free. In 1838 Mr. Wilson resumed his work of shoe making at Xatick, and that Ijecame his liome the remainder of his life. He began his political career as a campaign speaker in 1840, advocating the election of Harri.son and Tyler. At these meetings lie was introduced as the "X'atick Col>bler'" ; the result was his brother cobblers in that town sent him to the Legislature, as their representative: and then, after an intermission he served tliree annual terms in the State Senate, and had won a reputation throughout the state as a Free-Soil partv leader. After that he did not ha\-e much time to devote to shoe making, but the Xatick cobblers stood by their chief and kept him in the public senice of the state until 1855, when he was elected United States Senator; he was kept there by re-election eighteen years: then resigned to take the chair of Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. -1. T11U.\1A« Ei'lsrnl'AL i.'ll I ' l;i 'II , Ih)\K|;, N. ]1. wtJf-tfM^ ST. JOHN '8 M. E. CHURCH, DOVER, N. H. RICKER MEMORIAL CHAPEL, I'lNi: IIII.L iKMETERY, DOVER, N. H. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 505 Judge George L. If'liilelwiise was burn in Middleton, [an. 6, 1797; Iiis parents were Nathaniel and Anna ( Leighton) Wlntehouse. Tlieir son Cleorge remained at home on the farm until eighteen years of age. but during the tiuK- had attended the district school of his neighborhood, and had learned some- what of sur\eying. W hen he was sixteen years old he taught a winter district school, and did so several winters following. He supplemented his common school education by attending academies. He came to Farmington in 1^24 and engaged in the grocery busmess. He was deputy sheriff of StraftV,rd cunty from .Mav. 18J7, t.i Mav, 18^^; he was register of deeds fmm May. i,S,^_^. to August. 1830.' In the'fair'of that year he commenced his career as a civil engineer. 'bv constructing a canal thrce-ipiarters of a nnle long, at the headwaters of the Cochecho ruer in Middleton. Later he was assistant engineer for sometime in the construc- tion of the Cochecho railroad from Dover to Farmington. In 1851 he commenced the preliminary survey of the route for the Great b'alls and Con- way railway: later he sur\eyeresentative from Farming- ton in the Legislature of 1830, and in that of 1850 and 1857. John F. Cloutiiian was born in New Durham. Dec. 27. 1831 ; he was a son of John F. Cloutman and Patience S. Edgerly his wife, who was a daughter of Andrew Edgerly. He received a limited school education, but what the schools failed to supply he acquired by general reading and careful and intelligent observation. He worked on the farm until he was thirteen years of age. then began to learn bow to manufacture shoes, and at twenty-two years of age was master of all departments of the business. In 1853 he be.gan manufacturing shoes on bis own account for Joseph Whitney & Co., of Boston, and did work for that firm nine years. In 1862 be changed from the Boston firm and began the manufacture of shoes at Farmington, in connection with the \^'allace Brothers, of Rochester, 506 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY and was associated w ith them two years, and the following six or seven years manufactured on his own account. Later he was engaged with different firms but kept at the business as long as his health permitted. In 1862 and 1863 Mr. Cloutman represented Farmington in the Legisla- ture. In 1876 and 1877 he was State Senator. He held various town offices. Trustee and \ice-president of the Farmington Savings Bank. He was member of the Masonic fraternity in which he held various official positions; he was member of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar of Dover. He was district deputy grand master of the first Masonic district in New- Hampshire. Hon. Alonzo Nutc was born in Milton, Feb. 12, 1826; he was a son of David Nute and Lavina Cook, his wife, who was daughter of Peter Cook of Wakefield. He worked on his father's farm until he was si.xteen years old, attending school in the winter time. In 1842 he went to Natick, Mass., where Henry Wilson had gone before him, who gave Alonzo a hint that it would be a good place for him to make a start in the world of work and business. Mr. Nute worked at the shoe manufacturing business there six vears, and mastered all departments of the business of making and selling boots and shoes. During two years of the time he was an employe of Mr. Wilson and lived in his family; so they were life-long friends and heart io heart politicians of the Free Soil, Republican stamp. He returned to Farmington in 1848 and became boss in one of the departments of Martin L. Hayes shoe shop. But in the fall of 184c) he set up business for him- self in the manufacture of shoes in company with his brother Jeremy O. Nute. In 1854 they dissolved partnership and he carried on the business successfully alone until his sons Eugene P. and Alonzo I. became of age to engage in the business with him ; then the firm name became A. Nute & Sons and so continued as long as he remained in the business. In the Civil war Mr. Nute was quartermaster for the Sixth New Hamp- shire Regiment for two years. He was representative from Farmington in the State Legislature in 1866, and State Senator in 1867-68. Later he was Congressman from the first district, and made a good record in the House at \Vashington. He was an able, courteous and successful man in business and in politics. Dr. Da^nd Taylor Parker was born in Bradford, Vt., April 10, 1813: he was a son of Reverend Clemens and Rachel fTaylor) Parker. His father was a Presbyterian minister, so the son was well born and well brought up. For a while the son was a student at the academy in Alfred, Me. When he was eighteen years old he commenced teaching winter district schools, and he was a good instructor. When he was twenty years old he began the study of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 507 medicine with Dr. L. M. Baker at Great Falls, as Somersworth was then called. He graduated from Bowdoin College in May. 1836. He commenced the practice of his profession in Farmington, March 3, 1837, and was in successful practice there for more than half a century. The field of practice was not confined to that town, but his serN'ices were in demand in all the towns around, as the people had perfect confidence in his skill as a physician In 1864-65 Dr. Parker was the Republican representative in the Legisla- ture, although the general ticket of the Democratic party was successful by a large majority. He was president of the Strafford District Medical Society m 1842-43 : he was president of the Xew Hampshire Medical Society in 187' For many years he was a member of the American Medical Association as well as of several other important professional societies. He always kept well read up in the latest discoveries in the medical science, so that none of the fresh graduates from Harvard Medical School or any other school could compete with him in the treatment of dilificult cases. Dr. Parker was one of New Hampshire's great and good doctors. 30 CHAPTER LXVI HISTORY OP^ MILTOX (I) LOCATION IN THE COUNTY THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS AND BY WHOM Milton is the northeasternly town in Strafford county, and is situated upon the Sahnon Falls river, which forms its entire easterly boundary, and separates it from Acton and Lebanon in the State of Maine. It is bounded southerly by Rochester, westerly by Farmington, and northerly by Middleton and W^akefield. The west Ijranch of the Lebanon Falls ri\-er also runs through the town, making a junction with the east branch at the head of Northeast pond. The town has a territorial extent of about eighteen thousand acres. The surface is somewhat broken, but the soil is generally good and well adapted to farming purposes. The Teneriffe ^Mountain is a bold, rocky elevation, near the center of the town, affording excellent pasturage. The tdwn is abund- ' antly watered, being tra\ersed by numerous streams and brooks beside those already named. The three ponds from which the principal village takes its name are a trio of beautiful ponds spread out at the base of the mountain, affording excellent boating and fishing, and are a favorite resort of the dis- ciples of the immortal Isaac. The early history of this town is identified with that of Rochester, it having formed a part of that town under the name of the Third or Northeast Parish prior to June ii, i8oj, at which time it was incorporated into a separate town by legislative enactment. On account of the destruction of the records bv fire, it has been found somewhat difficult to determine just when, where, or by whom the first permanent settlement was made in this town. It is. however, \ery certain that it was in the southern part and probably as early as 1760, or very near that time. The writer is of opinion that Jonathan Twombly is entitled to the honor of making the first settlement near the Twombly brook, and upon the farm now owned bv Hon. Luther Hayes, and sometimes called the Bragdon farm, Samuel Bragdon having purchased the farm from a son of Mr. Twombly in about 1800. Mr. Twombly and his wife and some of their children were. 508 AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 509 no doubt, buried upon this farm. An ancient headstone records that Hannah Twombly died in I'ebruary, 1769. She was doubtless a daughter of Jonathan and this is behe\cd to be the oldest grave in Milton. Richard Walker was also a very early settler and a near neighbor ot Mr. Twombly; probably there was very little difference in the time uf their settlement. Mr. Walker died in 1813 at the age of seventy-seven years, and he and his wife are buried very near their old neighbors. The date of Mr. Twombly's settlement is obtained from the i^irth of his daughter, Betsey, who afterwards married James C. Hayes. She was born June 4, 1862. and is believed to ha\e l)een the first white child born in town. John Twoiubly, not supposed to lie a near relalive of Jonathan, made a settlement in what is now known as the Varney neighborhood in 1771 or 1772, and had for nearest neighb(.ir une Jenkins, who li\-ed upon the Goodwin hill at that time. The Christian name of Mr. Jenkins is not known, and no subsequent knowledge is had of him. Mr. Twombly very soon removed to and made a penuanent settlement in the Lyman neighborhood, where he and his good wife died at a ripe old age. Our respected townsman, Theodore C. Lyman, was an adopted son of this worthy couple, and always spoke of them with much affection. The next settlement is believed to have been made uixjn Plumer's Ridge in 1772 or 1773. or very near that time, and probably by Benjamin Scates. Beard Plumer and his brother Joseph, sons of the Hon: John Plumer, of Rochester, however, were very early settlers, and it has been sometimes questioned whether they were not the first in this locality. James C. Hayes, David Wallingford, William Palmer, Elijah Horn, Moses Chamberlain, and others, very soon followed and opened up settleiuents in this neighliorhood. This was soon followed by quite a rush of settlers to the west side of the town, Daniel Hayes. Caleb Wakeham, Enoch Varney, Samuel Nute, William Wentworth, William Tuttle, Tchabod Hayes, James Hayes, Ebenezer Coursan, and Stephen Meseron being among the first. Jeremiah Cook, Dudley Rurn- ham, fotham Nute, Otis Pinkham, Ephraim Plumer, Jolui Twombly, James Varney, Tohn Varney, William Mathes, and others coming soon after. Early in the summer of 1776, Samuel Twombly, a nephew of the first settler, Tonathan Twombly, could ha\e been seen, with a pack well strapped upon his liack, wending his way u|) the side of Teneriffe, to search out a home for his ladv love, returning and bringing her to this wild region the next year. Stephen Wentworth very soon became a neighljor of the Twomblys. It does not appear that any settlement was made east of the West Branch river prior to about 1783 or I78'>. and among the earlier settlers there may be 510 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY named, among others, Reuben Jones, Paul Jewett, Amos Witham, the Berrys, the Millers, Ephraim Twombly, Paul Wentworth, Caleb Wingate, David Coursan, John McDuffee, and soon after Hatwell Xutter, Thomas Applebee, William Applebee, John Hart, John Remick, Jr., Jonathan Dearborn, Joseph Dearborn, and many others. Among the first who settled at Three Ponds were Samuel Palmer, Levi Burgen, John Fish. Paul Jewett, Pelatiah Hanscom, Robert McGeoch, and others. Daniel Door and Jonathan Door settled at the head of the Pond quite early. The old tavern-house at Three Ponds, bumed a few years ago, was built by Robert McGeoch in 1786 or 1787, and was perhaps the iirst tavern in town. April 9, 1787, the town of Rochester "voted to raise a tax on the supposed first parish, to pay Rev. Joseph Haven his salar\% and also voted to raise an equivalent tax on the out parts of the town, to he laid out bv tliem at such time and place as they may agree." This was doubtless the origin of tlie dilTerent parishes which were afterwards established. On Oct. 15, 1787, Rochester "voted to lay out a road from the Branch bridge to Palmer's mill." This was the first public road laid out in Milton, and was from some bridge in the present town of Rochester, and not from what is now known as the Branch bridge in Milton, for. at a meeting held the 31st day of the following March, they "voted to lay out a road from Palmer's mill to Wakefield line, if the owners will give the land." This road extended over Plumer's ridge, the Branch river, and what has since been known as the Branch hill, thus establishing a thoroughfare tlirough the entire town from Rochester to Wakefield. March 7, 17Q2, "Voted to lay out a road from Moses Chamberlin's to Haines' Mills." This is the old road leading from the Branch to Union village. March 5, 1793. "Voted to lay out a road from Shapleigh Upper Mill to Wakefield line, in accordance with the petition of Thomas Cloutman." James Hartford is said to have been the first trader or merchant in Milton. He was located at Three Ponds, but in what year is not known. He has been succeeded by something more than one hundred different merchants in that village. Elijah Horn was doubtless the first blacksmith, but was soon followed by Isaac Worster at the Ponds, and later by Solomon Land and Joseph Rines at Milton Mills. Stephen Drew settled at Milton Mills in 1818 or 1819, and after a year or two moved to the Three Ponds. He is supposed to have been the first resident physician in town. Before his time doctors were called from other towns when needed. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 511 Very soon after the organization of the town it uas voted to use the capital letter M as the seal of Milton. The first town meeting was called by Wilham riumer. Esq., and held at the dwelling honse of Lieut. Elijah Horn on Aug. 30, 1802; Beard Plunier was chosen moderator; Gilman Jewett town clerk; W dham Plumer, John Fish and John Remick. Jr.. selectmen. Their hrst official act is on record as follows: State of New Hampshire. Stratford, ss: We. the Selectmen of Milton do by these presents license to Elijah Horn to keep a public tavern at his house in Milton trom this date under such Rules and Regulations as the law directs (jriven under our hand at Milton, this 30th day of August, 1802. William Plummer, John Fish, John Remick, Jr., Selectmen. At the first annual meeting held March 14. 1803. Beard Plumer was chosen moderator; Gilman Jewett, clerk; William Plumer, John Fish, Ezekiel Hayes, selectmen ; Beard Plumer, representati\'e. One hundred and thirty- four votes were ca.st for governor, of which John Taylor Oilman had 10:;; John Langdon 31. The following were appointed to locate the proposed meetmg-house, for church and town uses: Capt. Daniel Hayes, John Fish, Timothy Roberts, John Remick, Jr., William Plumer, and Beard Plumer;' these gentlemen being unable to agree called in council Joshua Allen, Daniel Wingate and Luther Dearborn, and the combined number of wise men decided in favor of the site on which the present townhouse stands. The town voted to accept the choice made by the committee. Then the town voted to build a meeting-house on that site, 52x42 feet, with a porch at each end eleven feet square and a portico in front. John Fish,' Gilman Jewett and Beard Plumer were appointed a building commitee. Its construction was to be completed on or before Oct. 3. 1804, and it was so completed. They sold the pews at auction for $19,083. They used two gallons of rum at the raising of the frame and putting on the ridge pole. The first town meeting was held in it Aug. 27, 1804. During the first four score years following its incorporation the following were moderators at town meetings : Beard Plumer, 6 years ; John Fish, i ; John Remick, Jr., 8; Joseph Plumer, Jr., 4; Levi Jones, 4; John Nutter, i; James Roberts, 8; Hanson Hayes, 10; Charles Swasy, 3; Thomas Chapman, 2; James Berry, 2; Eli Wentu orth. i : John D. Lyman, i ; Asa Fox, i ; Charles A. Varny, 3 ; Charles C. Hayes. 14: Charles Jones, 6; E. W. Plumer, 2: Abram Sanborn, 2; Luther Hayes, i. 512 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY The following have been town clerks during the first eight years: i8o-'- 06, Oilman Jewett; 1807-10, John I-'ish : i8ii-_'_', Levi Jones; 1823-39, Stephen Al. 2\lathes ; 1840, James M. Twombly; 1841-51, Robert Mathes; 1852-53, Daniel E. Palmer; 1854-55, Ezra W. Twombly; 1856-68; Joseph Mathes; 1869, George W. Tasker; 1870-74, Joseph Mathes; 1875-84, Charles H. Looney. The representatives for the same period are as follows: 1803, 1805-08, Ueard I'lunier; 1S04, 1809-10, John h^ish ; 1811-12, 1818-19, Theodore C. Lyman; 1813-15. William Plumer; 1816-17, John Remick, Jr.; 1820-21, Daniel Hayes; 1822-24, Levi Jones; 1825-27. Hanson Hayes; 1828-29, 1835- 36, Thomas Chapman; 1830-32, Stephen AL Mathes; 1833-34. Stei)hen Drew; 1837-38. James M, Twombh- ; 1839-40, James Berry; 1841-43, John H. Varney; 1844-45, Charles Swasey; 1846-47, Ichabod W'entworth ; 1848-49, Asa Fox; 1850. Robert Mathes; 1851-52, Fbenezer Osgood; 1853, James Doldt, John D. Lyman; 1854, John D. Lyman, Samuel Washburn; 1855-56, Eli W'entworth, David Wallingford ; 1857-58. Luther Hayes, Lewis Plumer; 1859-60. John E. Cioodwin, Daniel E. Plumber; 1861-62, Enoch \\'. F'lumer, Charles Varney; 1863-64. Charles Jones. Theodore Lyman; i865-()(>. Ambrose II. W'entworth, Thomas H. Roberts; 1867-68, John V. Simes, Hiram V. W'entworth: 1869, George Lyman, Samuel G. Chamberlain; 1870, George Lyman, Samuel \\'. Wallingford; 1871, Samuel G. Chamberlain, George W. Tasker; 1872, George W. Tasker, Bray W. Simes; 1873, Joseph Plumer, Elbridge W. Fox; 1874-75, Charles C. Hayes, George E. Simes; 1876, Sulli- van H. Atkins, Luther Hayes; 1877, Luther Hayes, William F. Cutts ; 1878, Luther F. Cutts, Samuel H. Roberts; 1879-80, Ira A. Miller; 1881-82, Asa A. Fox. CHAPTER LXVII HISTORY OF MILTON (II) CONCERNING MINISTERS AND CHURCHES It does not appear that they had any regular minister hefore the Congre- gational Church in 1S15. But ininiediatelv after the completion of ''the meeting-house in 1804 an effort was made to settle a minister, as a regular town mmister. At a meeting held Aug. 27. 1S04. it was: -Voted to choose a committee to treat with Rev. Mr. Nason. and see on uliat terms he will agree to settle in town." At a meeting on the 5th of November the com- mittee rendered the following report: "Miltnn, Nov. 5, 1804, Centlemen : We have, according to your desire, talked with Mr. Nason. and we find that if the town are agreed to give him the use of a decent parsonage during his ministry and $300 yearly, that he would settle with us on these conditions'! Counmttcc. Richard Walker Benjamin Scates" The town voted to accept this report. But Mr. Nason did iKjt settle there; he and others conducted services in the meeting-house frum time to time, but not regularly as settled ministers. The town accounts show that prior to 1805 the following persons had been paid to preach : Reuben Nason. $82; Mr. Brown, $4: Mr. Bunt, $24: Mr. Pillsbury, $55; Captain Plume'r for boarding the ministers. %2>o'^ in 1805 the town paid Christopher Page for preaching. $84; Reuben Nason, $34-15: in 1806, paid John Darrance for preaching. $54: in 1807 paid him for preaching, $21: in 1808 paid Mr. Preston for preaching, $5: in 1808 Mr. Papkin for preaching. $30: in iSio Asa Piper for preaching. $30: in 1811 Asa Piper. $2.50: Mr. Godiny for preaching. $5: in 1812 Asa Piper. '$2:~,\ Mr. Thurston. $3; in 1813 Asa Piper, $4.50: and Israel Briggs for preaching. ,$33. ^larch 14. 1803. in town meeting, voted to raise 50 cents on a poll, and other ratable property in proportion, for support of the ministry. The same tax was voted to be raised March 12. 1805. and also "voted to tax all denominations alike, with the privilege of directing what teacher mav have their money." 513 514 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY March g, 1813, "Voted not to raise any money for the support of the ministry." And at a meeting held May 3, follow ing, a committee was chosen to ascertain what property there is in Milton which was given by the pro- prietors of Rochester to procure preaching of the gospel in said town. It does not appear on record that this committee made any report, but a com- mittee chosen March 10, 181 8, to ascertain the amount of all the parish and school property then belonging to the town did report March y, 1819, "That they can not ascertain the exact amount, but in their opinion $1,000 should be appropriated for the support of the gospel." April 8, 1820, "Voted to lay out $60 and the interest of the $1,000 called parsonage property for the support of the gospel, and that the same be divided between each society in the town petitioning for the same." March 8, 1831, "Chose a committee of three to assist the selectmen in making a fair and impartial division of all the notes belonging to the town ; and voted that notes amounting to $1,000, as be by them separated from all other town property, and kept separated as a special fund belonging to the town, as parish property, and that the same shall l>e managed as a fund entireh- separate from all other notes." It does not appear that this committee ever took any action in the matter; at any rate the record does not show- that any separation of the notes alluded to was had. At this time the town held notes against individuals amounting to $1,744.78, a large proportion of which were entirely worthless. These notes were carried forward from year to year until 1844, when the selectmen, in accordance with a vote of the town, selected those considered worthless, amounting to $635.98, and placed them in the town chest, where they doubtless now remain. What proportion of those worthless notes represented parish property has not yet been determined. No further action was taken in the matter until March 13, i860, when it was "\-oted to di\ide the ministerial money equally between the five established societies." March 10. 1863, "Voted to divide the ministerial money etjually among the several religious societies in town who shall hold meetings regularly four months in the year previous to the first day of January." These two latest votes would seem to indicate that it was the intention of the tow n to divide whatever money there might be that the societies could have any claim upon, and thus end the whole matter, but it does not appear that this was carried into effect, or that any efifort was made to determine what, if any, amount they were equitably entitled to. March 9. 1880, "Voted that the interest of the ministerial fund be divided AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 515 equally among the several societies in town that support preaching four months in a year prior to January first." The First Congregatiomtl Church in the town was organized on Sept. 8. 1815. and consisted of nine members, viz. : Barnabas Palmer, Hatevel Nutter, Benjamin Scales, Abigail Scates, Deborah Wentworth, Mary Chamberlain, Achsah Palmer, Mrs. Xutter, and Elizabeth Rolaerts. Benjamin Scates was the first clerk and deacon, and Rev. Curtis Coe the first pastor. The church remained under his care, and that of the Re\ . Dyer Burge until 1819, when Rev. James Walker was called, and continued in charge until his death in September, 1826. From this time until December, 183-', the church had no settled minister, but was supplied by Rev. Clement Parker, E. S. Anderson, and others, whose names do not appear upon the church records. Re\', Benjamin C. VVilley was then settled, and remained in charge until 1846. He was succeeded by Re\s. b'dward F. Abbott, August, 1846, to May, 1848: James Doldt, May. 1848, to January, 1870; Frank Haley, February, 1870, to April, 1874: John N. Lowell, August, 1874, to August, 1875; Sanuiel W. Clarke, April, 1876, to April, 1877; John N. Jewett, 1877 to 1880; George Sterling. October, 1881, to 1890. This church originally so small, and in a location sparsely settled, has made an almost unprecedented addition to its membership of 236, making a total of 247; of which number ninety-two are supposed to be now living: sixty-nine now active members. Sally Jones and Deacon E. W. Plumer are the elder active members, having united with the church in 1836, and held a continued membership up to this time. Ebenezer Osgood became a member in 1832, but asked and obtained a dismissal a few years ago for the purpose of uniting with the Second or Union Church. This church worshiped in the old meeting-house until 1835, when the house was built at Three Ponds, which has since been transformed into a "Classical Institute." After this time for several years the meetings were held alternately at the Three Ponds and Milton Mills. The present meeting- house of this church was built in 1860. and is a spacious and elegant edifice. The -first Christian Church" was organized Anarch 3, 1827, with ten members, as follows, viz. : Hapley Mesene, Joseph Goodwin, Anna Good- win, Joanna Meserve, Eliza Rines, Abigail Burnham, Ruth Burnbam, Mary Burnham, Dorcas Ricker, Mary Howe. The first deacons were Hapley Meserve and Sanuiel Ricker, and the first clerk was Hapley Meserve. The pastors ha\ e been Simeon Swett, John Davis. John T. G. Colby, Samuel S. White, Jotham S. Johnson, and A. G. Comings. The deacons have been H. Meserve, Samuel Ricker, Joseph Goodwin, Jonathan Howe, Joseph H. Nutt, James H. Twombly, and John C. Varney. 516 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY and the clerks, Hapley Meser\e, Daniel B. Goodwin and ]\Iartin V. B. Cook. Two hundred and one members have been added to this church, and sixt}-- eight have died. Their house of worship, known as Union Chapel, was dedicated Sejjt. 2J. 1841. Baptist Church. — Prior to 1S34 a church existed, known as the Acton and Hilton l'.a])tist Church. This church had a large membership in Milton. On the jSth day of Octoljer. in said year, fifty-two members were dismissed from said church, and the 30th day of the same October they organized them- sehes into a new church, called the Baptist Church of ]\Iilton. The member- ship was as follows : Charles Swasey, Sarah Swasey, John Shackford, Eliza- beth Hart, Ann E. Hart. Hannah Xutter, Ruth Xutter, Samuel S. Hart, Daniel Jones. Xanc_\- W'itham. Ira Witham. Xathan J(ines. Mehital)le W'itham. Eunice Swasey, Harriet Fox, Widow Betsey Berry, Susan S. Xutter, Mary Ann Xutter, John W'itham, Jr., William S. Nutter, Aaron H. Hadsdan, Xathaniel O. Hart. Jnhn W'itham. b^rancis Berry. Josiah W'itham. Susan Jones, Martha \\'itham, l-'atima W'allingford, L\-dia Jewett, Susan Archabald, Eliza G. Berry, James J. Jewett, Lydia Witham, Xathan Dore, Climena W'itham, Alice Hussey, Mary W'entwcirth. Lyilia I''all, Sarah W'entworth, Sally Merrow, Eliza Merr(_iw, Mary Jdiies, Xancy Jewett, Asa Jewett, Betsey Berry, Mary W itham, Al>igail W'itham, Deborah Dore, Sarah Berry, Francis W'allingford, Sarah Dore, Elizabeth Xutter. William S. Nutter was chosen clerk, and Charles Swasey and John W'itham, Jr., were chosen and ordained as deacons. Of these fifty-two members nine only are now living. This church worshiped in the Union meeting-house at Milton Mills, which was built in 1834. The church for several years was in a very prosperous condition, and received an addition of twenty-three members. Tan. 25, 1842, David Earnham was ordained a deacon, and in May, 1855, Samuel S. Flart was also made a deacon. The pastors were Elders Emerson, Glover, Smith, Small, Chase, McGregory, Cox, Robbins, Jay, Daymond, Broadbent, Jones, and Hubbard. and perhaps some others. William S. Nutter held the clerkship from 1834 to 1837, Asa Jewett from 1837 to 1850, David Earnham from 1850 to 1852, Samuel S. Hart 1852 to June 6, 1867, at which date the record closes. A Frcc-U'ill Bat^tist Church was organized at the house of Theodore Lyman, on the nth day of May, 1843, with seventeen members, viz. : Hazen Duntley, Daniel M. Ouimby, Luther Hayes, William Fernald, James O. Reyn- olds, Drusilla Jewett, Betsey Lyman, Mary H. Downs, Mrs. D. W^ Wedg- wood, William B. Lyman, Theodore Lyman, E. S. Edgerly, Dearborn Wedg- wood, Phrebe Duntley, Sophia Ouimby, Sally F. Downs, Mrs. A. Hubbard. Luther Haves was chosen clerk, and Theodore Lyman deacon. Rev. AND REPRESEXTATR'E CITIZENS 517 William II. W'alilruii was the lirst pastor, lia\ iiig charge of the church about one year, and was succeeded hy Rev. Horace Stanton. Mr. Stanton's health failing he was soon obliged to resign the pastorate, and the Rev. L'riah Chase was called for a time. This church, ha\ ing no meeting-house or suitable place for public worship, soon discontnnicd Saliliath meetings, but kept up i>rayer and conference meetings until May i, 1S50. at which time the organization became extinct. There were ten memliers added to the church after its organ- ization. Although for the lack of pecuniar}' ability t(.) build a meeting-house and support the regular preaching of the gospel, this little church was ol)liged, for the time being, to give u]) its organization, many of its members continued to feel a lively interest in the cause, and in 1859 succeeded in building the present ver}- neat and tasty meeting-house, which was dedicated on the 25th day of December of that year. On the 17th day of May, i860, a new church was organized under the supervision of Revs. Daniel P. Cilley, li/sa Tuttle, and E. P. Gerrish, with twehe members. \iz. : Ezra Tuttle, Samuel Jones, X. B. Varne\-, Eli G. Downs, Eleanor Hubbard, Martha A. Varney, Luther Hayes, Benjamin Scates, Fred H. Tuttle, Mary H. Tuttle, b'rancis Jones. Mary A. Jones. Luther Hayes was chosen clerk, and has contiiuied in that position to the present time. Samuel Jones was chosen deacon, and Re\'. Ezra Tuttle was called to the pastorate, and remained in charge of the church nearly three years, resigning April 26. 1863. He was succeeded by Re\'. J. M. Bedell, May, 1864, to May 4, 1865; Rev. N. C. Lathrop, Dec. 3. 1865. to Dec. 2, 1867; Rev. I. C. Guptill, May 2, 1868. to April 3, 1869: Rev. Ezra Tuttle, April 10, 1870, to Jan. 6, 1872; Rev. J. P. Jay, Aug. 31, 1872, to June C, 1874; Rev. E. G. York, Sept. 28, 1878, to April 3, 1879; Rev. C. L. Plunier, Aug. 12, 1879, to July 2, 18S1. Rev. E. Owen, of Portsmouth, preached one-half the time from April i, 1876, to Dec. 30, 1877, but was not settled over the church. His labors resulted in much good, sixteen members being added to the church during his term of service. The .Methodist Church at Milton Mills was organized in June. 1S69. The first officers were Asa A. Fox, clerk; John Brackett. treasurer; Harris Brown, sexton; Alpheus Remick, collector. Stewards, A. B. Shaw. John Brackett, E. C. Abbott, S. F. Rines, W. Hapgood, J. N. Witham, B. S. Butler, H. L. Mitchell. A. A. Plumer; trustees. A. B. Shaw. B. S. Butler. J. B. Dow. J. Brackett. S. F. Rines, J. Lewis. J. N. Witham. G. E. Hart. W. Patten. The pastors have been Revs. Ira J. Tibbetts. James Crowley, W. H. McDaniels, A. B. Carter, J. M. Bean, \V. C. Bartlett. and J. P. Frye. 518 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY This church has a very neat and tasty house of worship, pleasantly located near the Union House. It was erected in 1871. The Union Congregational Church at Milton Mills was organized on the 26th day of September, 1871, with a membership of sixteen, viz.: Benjamin G. Adams, Sophia Adams. Dr. Reuben Buck. Mary Buck, Mary E. Brown. Margaret Brierly. Sarah E. Fox, Tosiah Gerrish, W'm. McGibbon, Marv JklcGibbon, Betsey Hubbard, Helen Miller. Ebenezer Osgood, Ellen C. Osgood. Almira B. Osgood, Ann E. Simes. Among the first pastors were Revs. Almon T. Clark, D. B. Scott, George Muchael and C. F. Goldsmith. CHAPTER LXVIII HISTORY OF MILTON (III) MILTON SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL MATTERS Previous to the incorporation of the town the northeast parisli of Roches- ter was divided into eight school districts, and each district had a summer and a winter school of a few weeks. Most of these schools were held in private houses, as the town could not afford to build schoolhouses so easily as they could establish school districts. On the first day of December, 1806, the town was re-districted and the number was reduced to five, which arrange- ment continued until 1828, when the territory was re-districted into ten divi- sions. In 185 1 the number was increased to twelve. Subsequently other changes were made and so continued until the district system was abolished by the Legislature and the present town system was introduced. During the district period of more than a century the town, as a rule, provided good schoolhouses. and the teacher did good work for small pay. A few of the votes taken in the town touching school matters may be of interest in this connection. March 14, 1803. voted to leave the amount of school money to be raised to the selectmen. Nov. 5, 1804, voted to sell the timber on the school lot; and in accordance with this vote said timber was sold at public auction on the 13th day of the same month for the sum of $1,212.25. There is no record showing that this money was ever appropriated to school purposes. March 12, 1805, "Voted to leave the amount of school money to be raised discretionary with the selectmen." March 11, 1806, "Voted to raise half as much more money as the law requires for support of schools." But at a subsequent meeting, held in May following, "Voted to leave this matter to the selectmen." March 10, 1807, "Voted to raise, in addition to what the law requires, half as much more money for the support of schools." March 13, 1810, "Voted to lay out the interest due the town in schooling." 519 520 HISTOKV OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Marcli \2. iNii. "X'oted to add ^^loo to what the law rc(|uirt's lor scliooliii^-."' March lo. i8i_', "A'utcd tn add all the interest on notes due the town to what the law requires fur the support of schools for the ensuing \ear." March 14. 1815, a committee of fi\e was chosen to separate the school property from other town property and at the next annual meeting this com- mittee reix)rtcd $388 sch(jol property and $628 parish property. ]\Iarch 10. 1818, a committee recommended that in their opinion $1,000 should he a])i)ropriated for the support of the gospel, and $500, together with the school lot, which they considered worth $500 more, for the support of schools. I\Iarch 10, 1829, "Voted that the principle of the literary fund he funded with the town, and that the town raise the interest annually for the lienefit of schools." March 14. 1837, "Voted that all literary money over and above $500 be expended the present year, and all that may hereafter be received be expended the same year it is received." March 13. 1838, "Voted that the interest of the surplus revenue now- accrued l)e expended for support of schools."" July 28, 1842, "Voted that the selectmen dispose of the notes in the hands of Levi Jones and ajjpropriate the same towards the extinguishment of the debt due from the town ti) the se\eral school districts by paying over to each district its proportimi the present year."" .Accordingly, $186.46 was paid to the districts. March 13. 1877. "\^oted that the railroad money received from the state be app-ropriated for schools."' March 9, 1880, "Voted that the surplus dog tax be appropriated for the support of schools.'" The schools at Three I'onds and Milton Mills were the first to be graded, about 1870. Also there was a classical institute opened at Three Ponds after the close of the Ci\-il war. THE NCTE HIGH SCHOOL Milton has had good schools from the beginning, more than a century, but the best of its good fortune was when one of its loyal sons. Lewis Worster Xute. made provision in his will for a first class high schoolhouse and money enough to make a handsome annua! income to support first class teachers to run it. Mr. Nute was born in Milton, Feb. 17. 1820. He was son of Ezekiel and AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 521 Dorcas ( Worster t Nt;te, natives of Milton, and grandson of Sanuicl Xute. a native of Back River, Dover, who settled in what is now Alilton, soon after the close of the Revolution. His ancestors were among the early settlers in Dover. Ezekiel Xute was a good farmer and for man_y j'ears a deacon in the Congregational Church at Alilton. His wife was one of the best of w(jnicn. They had four sons, the second of wliom was named Lewis Worster. He worked on the farm with his father until he was nineteen vears old. When he was a small boy he went to school summer and winter, si.x weeks each; when he was a big boy he went to the winter school only; all big boys attended the winter school. Those who think the "six weeks" schools were not of much account are greatly mistaken. The best of them, like that in Mr. Nute's dis- trict, were kept by college boys and tlie work done was first class and thor- ough. The boys went to these schools until they were eighteen or twenty years old. Mr. Nute made good use of the time and easily mastered all the text-books then available for school use. When he was nineteen years old he com- menced teaching winter schools in the back districts, and the committee .said he did good work. When he was twenty years old he left the farm anfl went to work in Boston as clerk in Mr. Simmons" ship-chandler store. When he was twenty- one he commenced work in the boot and shoe business with Elmer Townsend. Later he worked with the firm of T. P. and O. Reit & Company, remaining with them until 1848: then with .\!len, Harris & Potter, with whom he remained until May i, 1853, when he purchased an interest in the business, and the new firm became Potter, FJder «S: Nute. In 1837 the firm clianged to Potter, Nute, White & Bayley. In 1S63 Mr. Xute took the entire business and held it as long as he lived. His specialty for a long time was the manu- facture of brogans and plow-sh(jes. For a long time his wholesale store was at 2-j High street. Boston. He had an extensive manufactory at Natick, Mass. His career was a remarkable one: strict in his business methods, honest in his dealings with his emplo}-ees. and a large-minded citizen wdio lo\ed and did not forget his old home in Alilton. His wife, to whom he was married Aug. I, 1845, was Priscilla Farrow of Cohasset, Mass. They had no children. Mr. Nute died in 1888 and in hi-^ will gave to the town .$125,000 to estab- lish a high school, and an additional $25,000 left in trust to a relative as long as slie lived. She died a few years ago and the scho(_)l now has it. From the funrl a first class schoolhouse was constructed anfl the remainder in\-ested, the income used for support of the school. The investments now amount to 522 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY about $100,000. The trustees have managed to keep first class teacliers and for years past it lias ranked among the best educational institutions in New Hampshire. It goes without saying that Lewis W. Nute ranks among Mil- ton's foremost and most highly esteemed sons. CHAPTER LXIX HISTORY OF MILTON (IV) VARIOUS BUSINESS ENTERPRISES On the 14th day of March, 1837, the town voted to receive its proportion of the surphis revenue, and at a meeting held June 4, 183S, a vote was passed authorizing the town agent to expend that money in tlie purchase of a farm to be used for a liome and the support of the poor. Although there was a large majority in favor of this action, the nunority felt very much aggrieved thereat, being of the opinion that this money should be divided per capita. These malcontents immediately took measures intended to frustrate the action of the majority. They at once asked for a meeting to be called to reconsider the vote for the purchase of a farm, and being again defeated at this meeting, and the farm being soon purchased, they at once petitioned for a meeting to sell the farm and divide the money. They were again defeated, but with a persistency worthy of a better cause they continued to ask for meetings for the same purpose as often as they could legally be called, until at last the selectmen refused to notice them further. They then applied to a jus- tice of the peace to call a meeting, and on the 31st day of May. 1842, a meeting was held at which a vote was passed to sell the farm and stock, and divide the proceeds equally between all the inhabitants of the town, and a committee chosen to carry this vote into effect. This committee at once advertised the farm and stock to be sold at public auction on the 4th day of July following, at which time all was struck ofi' to the highest bidders. At a meeting held on the 28th of the same month a resolution was passed declaring the former meeting and the action of the committee illegal and void, and instructing the selectmen to demand of said committee all the prop- erty, both real and personal, taken into their possession. In accordance with these instructions, the selectmen commenced a suit against the committee for the recovery of said property. This suit was prose- 31 523 524 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY cuted to final judgment and execution. The farm continued to be used as an alms farm until a county home was prepared for the poor. MILLS, M.\NUFACTORIES. ETC. The first saw-mill was built by Samuel Palmer at the Three Ponds village, and near where the present dam is located. This was \ery early, probably about 1775 to 1780. Mr. Palmer subsequently built another saw-mill and a grist-mill farther down stream, where the Varney mill was afterwards located. This part of the town was known for many years as "Palmer's Mills." \'ery soon after this a saw-mill was built at Miltmi Mills hv a Mr. Xock. This mill soon went into the hands of Paul Jewett, and was sul)se(|uentlv known as the Jewett mill. This place was known for a long time as Shapleigh ]\Iills. Mills rapidly increased, so that in 181 3 there were no less than twehe mils of \ari- ous kinds in town. \iz. : Lyman's saw- and grist-mills. (iwne \jl:-. ' ' ^|N l^ll *» vS. ' .\ I ■:' W Ij AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 533 what mixed and quite serious. The Middleton bruin had selected the fattest pig of the lot for liis l)reakfast and was having a difticult job to get him ii\er that log fence. Mr. W'akeham at once took a hand in the fight, Ijut the big bear lield his grij), mounted on the top of the fence, and in spite of all the farmer could do. old Bruin escaped, carrying the i>ig to his mountain den. where Mr. and Aladam liruin and all the cubs had a fine breakfast while Mr. Wakeman was making improvements on his log fence around the pig pen. HEXEY K. PARKEB, M. D. Representative Citizens HENRY R. PARKER, M. D.. formerly one of Dover's best known and most highly honored citizens, who passed from life's stage, December 29th, 1909. when in his 74th year, came of a long line of sterling New England ancestry, whose virtues were brightly reflected in his own life and character. The history of the family has been traced back in England to early in the fifteenth century, as the records show that a certain William Parker died chamberlain to the King (Henry VI) in 14J3, and that this William "had an excessive i>edigree." At subsecjuent periods many of the Parkers were prominent in church or state affairs. Sir John Parker, second son of the William above mentioned, was in 1470 canon of the church of Covingham. Sir John's eldest son, Matthew, in 1504 was master of Bene College, Cam- bridge. His son Matthew was archbishop of Canterbury in 1564. The latter's eldest son, John, was a captain of the King's guard in 1600. Henry, son of the above mentioned John, was of the Queen's household in 1624. Matthew, another son of John, was custodian of Stoke Clane College in Suf- folk. John (2), son of John ( i), was director of the Suffolk corporations. Stanley Hugh, son of John (2), for bravery in war, was made Itaron in 1681. Hugh (2), son of Hugh (i), was commander of the Channel fleet in 1720. Sir Hyde Parker, son of Hugh (2), was a gentleman of prominence; his son. Sir Hyde (2), commander of the British fleet in the East Indies, was, with his vessel and all his crew, lost at sea in 1768. Sir Hyde Parker (3) dis- tinguished himself on the English side in the .\merican revolution in 17S2. Sir William Parker (2) was a British admiral in 1810; and his son. Sir Wil- liam (3) received a baroncy in 1844, was made admiral of the blue in 1851, admiral of the white in 1853, and admiral of the red in 1858, and rear- admiral of the United Kingdom in 1862. He died in 1866. From this family sprang the Parkers of America. Six male scions of this old English family came to New England during the 17th century and settled promiscuously about Massachusetts Bay. At the surrender of Com- wallis at Yorktown two brothers by the name of Parker remained in this country, and later, on the captured "Frolic" another Parker remained in 537 538 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY America. Tlie former six are the founders of the registered Parker famihes in this country. Coming to the genealogical line of the subject of this sketch it appears that William Parker, an arti.san, second son of Hugh Parker, an alderman of London in 1681, "sailed in ye ship Hellen for the wilds of America in ye springe of 1696," where he became the father of a large family. The record shows that \\'illiam Parker, a tanner, came o\er from England in the latter part of the 17th century and settled in Portsmouth, X. H. He married and had four children. That his eldest son, William became a law- yer, then a judge of note and record. The judge's fourth daughter, Lydia, married Samuel Hale of Portsmouth, whose son John Parker Hale, became the father of John P. Hale, United States senator from New Hampshire, and free soil candidate for President in 1852. Matthew Stanley Parker, fourth son of Judge \\illiam Parker, was born in Portsmouth in 1749. In 1773 he married Ann Rust, daughter of Captain Henry Rust. Here is where the Parker and Rust families mingle. He re- moved to Wolfeboro, bought the most of Wolfboro Neck and built the first house on it. Later he moved to "Slab City" and operated lumber mills there. He was a promoter of Wolfeboro. He was the father of seven sons and one daughter. Matthew Stanley Parker's fourth son was Henry Rust Parker. He was born at Wolfboro, February 6. 1728. He married Hannah, granddaughter of Col. Henry Rust. For a while he operated a hotel at j\Iink Brook. He was one of the founders of the Wolfeboro and Tuftonboro Academy, and died Monday, September 15, 1848. His children were John Tappan, Sam- uel Sewall and Matthew Stanley. John Tappan Parker, son of the above mentioned, was born September 25, 1804 and died September 2^, 1S4S, at the age of 44 years. He married Sally L. Seavey and they had three children. Eliza Frances, Ruth Ann and Henry Rust Parker. Eliza Frances, born July 30. 1S26, married first Asa- Perkins and had children. Hartley, John and .\sa. She married for her second husband, Clark Collins. Ruth Ann. born August 9, 1832, married Moses Thompson and had children, Roland. Charles and Nellie. Henr}- Rust Parker, third child of John Tappan and Sally L. (Seavey) Parker, was born in Wolfeboro, N. H., January 24. 1836. He began his educa- tion in the public schools, where he usually stood near the head of his class. When but twelve years of age he had the misfortune to lose both of his parents, and was thereby thrown wholly upon his own resources. Realizing the need of a good education in order to insure his future, he worked with a persistent energy that was bound to win success. Before many years had passed he AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 539 was a student in the Wolfeboro Academy, and later liis name was enrolled among those of the noted instructors of that institution. While performing his duties as a teacher Mr. Parker devoted his free time to the study of medi- cine, for which he had a predilection. Afterwards he entered the medical department of Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in ]86>6. He began the practice of medicine in his native town and continued there until 1881, when he came to Do\er. Here he made rapid strides in his chosen profession until he occupied an assured position among the leading medical practitioners of this section of New England. He was examining surgeon for pensions in Strafford County under both the administrations of President Cleveland, he being president of the board. He was for several years one of the trustees of the estate of the late Hiram Barker of Farmington. He was a member of the Do\'er Medical Society, which he served as president; a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and a member of the Strafford County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1891 and 1892. He was a member of the medical staff' of the Wentworth Hospital. He also served as a member of the State Executive Committee of the Y. M. C. A. of New Hampshire and Vermont. Dr. Parker was elected mayor of Dover by the Democrats in 1890, after the most exciting campaign in the city's history and the following year was re-elected, his period of service comprising the years 1891-2. He gave the city one of the best administrations on record, bringing about an era of re- form on financial lines. He was a 32d degree Mason, a past master of the Blue Lodge and a member of St. Paul's Commandery, K. T. He was one of the incorporators of the New Hampshire Genealogical Society, wdiich he served for a while as vice president and president. Pie was a member of the Northam Colonists, the Society of Colonial Wars of New Hampshire and the Sons of the American Revolution. He was a member and vestryman of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, and president of the Men's Club of that parish. Dr. Parker was married, May 27. 1866. to Miss Ella M. Thompson, of Wolfboro, N. H., and by this union there were three children— Nathalie S., wife of George B. Harper, of Montreal, Canada, whose children are Helen Louise and John Tappan; Alberta T., wife of Harry P. Henderson, of Dover. N. H., who has two children— Maud C. and Ella P. ; and Henry R. Parker, Jr.. who died December 27, 1894, at the age of nineteen years. Dr. Parker died December 29, 1909, after being sick about a week with pneumonia. As soon as the sad event was known, Mayor George J. Foster published the following announcement : 540 HISTORY OF STR.'\FFORD COUNTY TO THE PEOPLE OF DOVER City of Dover, Mayor's Office, December 30, 1909. Death has removed from our midst an honored citizen of Dover, one who has been identified with its progress and de\elopment, and who worthily filled the office of Chief Executive of our city during the years 1891 and 1892. As a mark of respect to the late Dr. Henry Rust Parker, I earnestly re- quest that our merchants close their places of business during the progress of the funeral on Saturday, January i, 1910. between the hours of i 130 and 2 130 p. m. George J. Foster, Mayor. This request was generally respected, uni\'ersal sympathy being felt and shown for the bereaved family. Dr. P'arker was both an able and conscien- tious man. Devotion to duty was one of his chief characteristics ; but he went beyond that in often accepting responsibilities involving onerous labor from which nianv would have sought to be excused. He had an attracti\-e personality and made many warm friends, whose esteem he never forfeited. He had his reward in the approval of his own conscience, and he will long be held in affectionate remembrance l)y all who knew him. HON. ARTHUR GIOIAN WHITTE.MORE, attorney-at-law, banker, and one of Dover's best known and most popular citizens, was born in Pem- broke, N. H.. in July _'6, 1856. His parents were Hon, Aarun and Ariannah ( Barstow ) Whittemore, and he is a descendant in the eighth generation of Thomas Whittemore, who came from Hitchin parish, Plertfordshire, Eng- land, and settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1642. Mr. Whittemore's great- great-grandfather on the paternal side was Rev. Aaron Whittemore, the first settled pastor of the Congregational church in Pembroke ( formerly Sun- cook), who was a graduate of Harvard College in 1732 and was ordained pastor March 2, 1738. The great-grandfather, son of the above-mentioned, served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Tlie father and grandfather of the subject of this sketch were associate justices of the Court of Common Pleas for Merrimack county. On the maternal side ]\Ir. Whittemore is a descendant of Elder William Brewster, one of the Mayflow er [lilgrims. Arthur Oilman Whittemore was educated at Pembroke Academy and Harvard Law School, being adnu'tted to the bar in March, 1879. For nine years he was associated in law practice with Judge C. W. Woodman, in Dover, the partnership continuing until the latter's death in 1888, since which time Mr. Whittemore has practiced alone. By strict application to his chosen profession he has gained an extensive and lucrative practice and with it the AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 541 confidence and respect of tlie whole community in wiiich he Hves. He is attorney for and vice president of the StraiYord Savings Bank, one of the largest and strongest savings banks in the state, and is also a director in the Strafford National Bank. When the Dover National Bank failed in 1895, Mr. Whittemore was appuinted receiver, and although the defalcation of its late cashier exceeded the capital stock, Mr. \\'hittemore so successively liquidated the remaining assets as to pay the depositors in full, with interest and a substantial dividend to the stockholders. At various times Mr. Whittemore has taken an active jiart in some of the more important public enterprises of Dover. In 1887, when the new water- works system was installed, he was elected one of the water conimissiuners and held that important office thirteen years, by tri-annual elections l>y the city councils. In the management of the business he always manifested g(.iod judgment in financing the great work and in its up-keep and extension. At the No\-emlier municipal election, in i<)00, Mr. Whittemore was elected mayor, and re-elected in Novemljer, igoi, and also iqoj, serving three \-ears. He was installed in office on the first Wednesday in January, iqoi. During his three years of service some of the most important improvements the city has undertaken were inaugurated. They were not easv joI)s. l)ut reipiired a good deal of shrewd but honest management to bring about. Ma\or Whitte- more had a cpiiet, yet forceful, Inisiness-like way of taking hold of and carry- ing forward any scheme, so that most of the citizens were astonished, as well as delighted, when they saw what he had actuallv accomplished. During his first year in office he was the chief promoter in securing a dona- tion of $30,000 from Andrew Carnegie for the construction of a public library building. When the proposition was first mentioned to Mr. Carnegie he did not seem inclined to comply with the request, and interposed various objec- tions, all of which Mr. Whittemore shrewdly and successfully removed from the generous Scotchman's mind, and the gift was secured for the city. The trustees of the public library for the year 1902 in their annual report say: "The wide and animating beneficence of Andrew Carnegie has not overlooked Dover. We have touched the edge of one of his golden showers. Plans arc maturing for a new library building. * * * j^ noble lot has been donated by the trustees of the Franklin Academy, being a part of their estate called the Hale lot on Locust street." Mayor Whittemore in his inaugural address in January, 1902, said: "The city has bad placed at its disposal a large and valuable lot for school and library purposes, situated in the heart of the city, near the city hall, and known as the William Hale estate. * * * j would recommend that you take immediate action in reference to the construction of a new high school 542 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY building. Having the lot the building can be advantageously erected in con- junction with the new public library." Mayor Whittemore's recommendations were adopted. But what a lot of judicious and persuasive work had to Ije done to remove the encumbrances on the north side of the Hale lot, to secure a clear opening to St. Thomas street. Most mayors would have folded their hands and given up in despair. Not so Mayor Whittemore. He talked, argued and advised with all interested parties, and success crowned his labors. Of course he had able assistants, but he took the lead and held it to the end of his three years' term. The chief contest after the land claims were disjwsed of was what plan should be adopted for the high school house; the settling of that question required the concurrent action of the school committee and the city council, but Mayor Whittemore proved to be a good manager and the school com- mittee finally adopted his views and selected the plans he favored and the work of construction was begun; but the completion was left to his suc- cessor in office. The library building was completed during his third year, in accordance w ith plans he favored. These public buildings are monuments to his good judgment and a credit to his financeering ability. His adminis- tration was creditable in every resiicct, and that he was popular with the people is manifest by the fact that he was elected by the largest majority ever given any mayor of Do\er. In the summer of his first year in office Mayor Whittemore had the honor of entertaining, as the guest of the city, P'resident Roosevelt, who paid its citizens a brief visit in August, on his way to Maine. The President left the train and was escorted to the large platform erected on Franklin Square, where he delivered a stirring speech. Mayor Whittemore presiding and intro- ducing him to the vast throng. For eight years Mayor Whittemore was one of the three railroad commis- sioners ; during the three years of the closing of his temi he was chairman of the board; his term of service was cut short somewhat by action of the Legislature, which established a Public Service Commission, which took the place of the railroad commissioners. But in the performance of the duties of his office during his eight years he was efficient and judicious in render- ing decisions between the railroads and the public. During the last three years he w'as in office he was chairman of the board, when they were given some pretty hard problems to solve. When any complaint was entered he was always prompt in starting an investigation and never slow in finishing it. One of these important questions was regarding the express rate charges. Numerous complaints were made that the charges were exorbitant. The board instituted a thorough investigation and established an equitable rate. CHRISTOPHER H. WELLS AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 543 but they were deprived of the right of enforcing their rates, as the Legis- lature estabHshed the Public Service Commission, displaced the railroad commissioners, and nothing was done to enforce the order. Mr. W'hittemore is president of the Dover Board of Trade. He is a member and one of the organizers of the Bellamy Club, a business man's social club. He is a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church and one of its staunch supporters. Above all he is a courteous and agreeable gentleman to meet on any occasion. Mr. Whittemore was married June ij. 1887, to Miss Caroline B. Rundlett, and they have two children, Manvel and Caroline. The son graduated from Dartmouth College in 191 1, with honors, and is now a student at law. Mrs. Whittemore is a woman of marked ability. She has been president of the Dover Women's Club, and is a jwpular leader in society. CHRISTOPHER HENRY WELLS, judge of the Probate Court, was born in Somersworth, X. H., July 6, 1853, son of Nathaniel and Eliza (Thom) Wells. He was graduated from Somersworth High School in 1871 and from Bowdoin College in 1875. On August 15, 1878, he was admitted to the bar and entered into the practice of law with W. R. Burleigh. February 10, 1883, he bought out the local printing and publishing plant which publishes the Somersworth Free Press, a weekly newspaper, and does a general printing and publishing business, and is now owner of and controls the business. On March 15. 1898, he was appointed judge of probate for Strafford County, N. H., and was appointed January 11, 1900, justice of the Somersworth Police Court. The latter position he held until July i, 19 13, when the police courts of the state were, for partisan purposes, abolished and district police courts substituted by the Democratic majority in the Legis- lature. March 28, 1901, he was appointed as chairman of the commission selected by Governor Jordan to prepare rules of practice and procedure in the probate courts of the state, and uniform blanks for use in those courts, this commission taking two years for its work. From 1881 to 1883 he was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, and he was also a member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention of 1889. He ser\'ed as aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov. Charles H. Sawyer, with the rank of colonel, in 1887 and 1888. Judge Wells was president of the Strafford County Republican Club for four years. From 1894 to 1898 he was mayor of Somersworth, also a member of the Executive Committee of the State Republican Club, and from 1876 to 1880 he was captain of the Independent Company of Cadets, of Somersworth, one of the best drilled companies in New England. Judge 32 544 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Wells is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, the New Hamp- shire Historical Society, the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution, president of the First National Bank of Somersworth, trustee and first vice president of the Somersworth Savings Bank, and trustee of the Somersworth Public Library. He was one of the first to inaugurate the movement which resulted, in 1893, in obtaining a charter and establishing the city of Somersworth, and was chairman of the committee which con- structed waterworks for Somersworth, from 1893 to 1896. Judge Wells is a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Ivnight of Pythias, and member of Somersworth Grange, P. of H. He is also a member of the Somersworth Club, the Derrj'field Club of Manchester, the New Hampshire Weekly Publishers" Association, and the Suburban Press Association of Massachusetts. He married in Dover, June 15, 1887, Oriana Hartford. Such in brief, is a simple statement of Judge \\'ells' career, but he deserves something more than that. His father, Nathaniel W'ells, Esq., who was born in Wells, Me., in 1805. and graduated from Phillips-Exeter Academy in 1826, has a record that shows where the son received his inherited ability from. After graduation he edited a newspaper at Brunswick, !\Ie., three or four years and then, in 1830, came to Somersworth and commenced study of the law in the office of Winthrop A. Marston, and at the end of the usual three years' course was admitted to the Strafford County Bar. and became a part- ner of 'Mr. Marston in the practice of his profession. Later he was partner with Hon. Charles H. Bell, and when in 1854 George William Burleigh pur- chased Mr. Bell's interest, the firm of Wells and Burleigh was fomied, which continued two years, when ]\Ir. Burleigh withdrew and Mr. Wells took as his partner his law student. Royal R. Eastman, which partnership continued until 1873. when Mr. Eastman withdrew on account of ill health. Mr. Wells' last partnership was with William R. Burleigh. The latter died August 16, 1878. He was attornev for the Great Falls Manufacturing Comiiany, director of the Great Falls National Bank and trustee of the Somersworth Sa\-ings Bank. He was an able and successful lau ycr. Judge \\"ells has performed with credit to himself and benefit to the public the \arious duties that ]ia\'e ]>cen assigned to his keeping bv his towns- men and by the higher authorities of the state; a good lawyer, a just judge and a discreet councillor in the management of public affairs. Beyond that Judge Wells is a first class newspaper man. an inherited trait of his father which was never fully developed in the parent, as he was in that business only three years before he began the study of law, and not under favorable circumstances for encouragement to continue. On the other hand the son AND RKPRESEXTATR'E CITIZENS 545 began newspaper work four years after lie took the law business, and under favorable conditions, February lo, 1883; for thirty years Judge Wells has conducted a model weekly newspaper, "The Somersworth Free-Press." Dur- ing those three decades no item of local news worthy of record has escaped being recorded in "The Free-Press;"' its files give a complete history of what has happened. That is not all; his editorial comments on affairs, local, state and national, have a crisp good sense and appreciative humor which wins the favor of his readers, regardless of their politics or religious belief. At three score years Judge Wells is in the prime of his usefulness, and it is hoped "The Tattler" will furnish two columns for the first page of the "Free- Press" during another decade, at least; then he can dispense with his "Forty Years Ago" column. JOEL FITHIAN SHEPPARD, proprietor of the National Wood- working Machine Company, Dover, N. H., an important industry of this place, was born at Quincy, Mass., April 15, 1884, and is a son of Eben Wallen and Frances (Pratt) Sheppard. The parents reside at Quincy, where the father is a coal merchant. Joel F. Sheppard prepared for college in the public schools and was grad- uated at Cornell University in the class of 1907, earning his degree of mechan- ical engineer, and in the same year engaged with the International Steam Pump Company, of Cambridge, Mass., being engineer in charge of tests and inspections. He continued with that company until April, 19 10, when he bought the wood-working machinery plant of the John A. White Company, at Dover, N. H., and operated it until June, 191 1, in September of the same year starting the Dover Machine Works. In February, 191 3. he purchased the National Wood-working Machine Company's interests at Manchester, moving the plant to Dover and establishing here what promises to be an industry of the utmost importance to this section. Mr. Sheppard married Miss Francis Bather, a native of England, and daughter of George Bather. Mr. Sheppard has many pleasant social con- nections, which indicate a genial disposition and a large measure of popu- larity, tliese including membership in the Portsmouth Country Club, the Bellamy Club, his old Greek letter college fraternity, the Quincy Yacht Club of Quincy. 7\Iass., and the Middlebrook Golf Club, in which last named organ- ization, as a member of the executive committee, he has charge of all match games. EDGAR A. LEIGHTON, who for the last thirteen years has held the responsible position of cashier of the Somersworth National Bank, is a scion 546 HISTORY OF STR.-\FFORD COUNTY of an old New England family, both his paternal and maternal ancestors having been among the earliest settlers of Dover. Among them was Thomas Edgerly, who was prominent among those who resisted the Mason claims in 1684, an account of which controversy may be foimd in an early chapter of this volume. On the paternal side the immigrant ancestor of the subject of this sketch was Thomas Layton (or Leighton), who was born in 1604, probably at Edinboro, Scotland, as his father was Prof. Ale.xander Leighton, of Edin- boro University, a distinguished theologian. He was a brother to Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow, distinguished in English history. Dr. Ale.xander Leighton, the father of Thomas, a Scotch divine and physician, was born at Edinboro in 1568. He l^ecame professor of moral philosophy in that university, but afterwards went to Leyden and took his doctor's degree. He then visited London, where he had a rectorship, until he lost it by incurring the displeasure of King Charles L through his opposi- tion to that monarch's tyrannical methods of raising money and his tyranny in matters of religion. He ]>uljlished two books, one entitled, "Zion's Plea Against Prelacy." and the other an appeal to parliament. "The Looking Glass of the Holy War." This so angered the King that Dr. Leighton was summoned before the "Star Chamber Court" and there convicted. He was fined $10,000 and degraded from the ministry. He was sentenced to stand in the pillory, to be publicly whipped; he had an ear sliced off, his nostril slit, and the letters "S. S." (sower of sedition) burned into his cheek, and then, after a week of ]iain anil fever in jail, was again let out to undergo a similar mutilation on the other .side. Nor was that all. Scorched and bleed- ing, he was sent back to prison, where he remained eleven years, or until the tyranny which had crushed him had fallen before the growing power of the puritans. He died insane in i^>44. In the histories of England by Fronde and Hume frequent mention is made of a Richard Leighton, who, it is thought, was the father of Ale.xander, and who was one of the commissioners appointed under Thomas Cromwell, in the reign of Henry VIII, to investigate the monasteries, with a view to their suppression — a scheme of Henry's, which was ultimately carried out. 380 of the smaller monasteries being put down by act of parliament, and their revenues of 100,000 [lounds placed at the King's disposal. Robert Leighton, son of Alexander, and brother of Thomas, was born in Edinborough (or possibly London) in 161 1. He was educated in Edin- borough and in 1643 .settled as minister of Newbottle. near that city. He then quitted the Presbyterian church for the Episcopal, was successively principal of Edinburgh University, bishop of Dunblane, and archbishop of Glasgow. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 547 and died in 1OS4. He was a good theologian, an eloquent preacher, and a pious and disinterested man. On one occasion he made this statement : "They forget a main part of the glory of the church w ho do not pray daily for the conversion of the Jews." Thomas Layton (or Leighton) came to this country in i'>33, landing at Salem, Mass., Octulier 10th, from the ship "JanK's," with about thirty colo- nists for the plantation at Hilton's I'oint, having been eight weeks on the voyage from Gravesend, England. The company was umler charge of Capt. Thomas W'iggin, and was sent out by Lords Say and Brooke, ("ieorge Willys, William Whiting and others, who in the previous year had bought a grant of the Pascataqua plantation (including Northam, or what is now Dover) from the Bristol Conip^any. They proceeded at once to the settlement at Dover Point. In the record of those who received grants of house lots from Capt. ^Viggin, on the high and beautiful lands, a mile up from the Point, appear the names of John Dame, Richard Waldern, Thomas Layton, and Rev. William Leverich, the last mentioned coming as minister of the settle- ment. That Thomas Layton was a prominent man in the colony is evidenced by the fact that his name frequently apijears in important transactions connected with the affairs of the colonists. He was a member of the "Combination I'or Government by ye people of Pascataqua," in 1640, witl: forty-one others entering a ])rotest to the King against the efforts of Capt. Underbill to force a union of the colonists with Massachusetts. In 1648 he was the largest tax payer in the settlement, with one exception. He was selectman in 1647. 1648 and 1658. He received several grants of land, but continued to reside at Dover Neck until his death, January jj, 1672. leaving one son and several daughters. In his will he gave property to his only son and heir, Thomas (second), and to his daughters. Mary Elizaljeth and Sarah. His widow, Joanna, married for her second husband, July 16, 1673, Job Clement. She died January 15, 1703. Thomas Leighton, jd, was born at Dover Neck, date of birth not given. Later records read that he resided at "Leighton's Hill," north of Clement's Cove, old Pascataqua Bridge, near the site of what was planned to be, the great commercial center, "Franklin City." This was one of the original grants given his father, Thomas, ist, in 1642, and transferred by his will to his son Thomas, 2d. Thomas Leighton, 2d, married Elizabeth, daughter of Elder Hatevil Nutter. The daughters married as follows: Mary married Thomas Roberts; Elizabeth married Capt. Phillip Cromwell: Sarah was single in 1672, but may have married Philip Chesley later. Other members of the Leighton family who came to America at an early date were: John 548 HISTORY OF STR_\FFORD COUNTY Leighton, 1645, who settled in Saco, Me., and Capt. Wni. Leighton, 1650, settled in Kittery, Me. Thomas, 2d, died at Leighton's Hill, and was succeeded by his son Thomas, 3d, who lived with his father at Leighton's Hill. Jt is said that the property remained in the Leighton family for 200 years, or until a com- paratively recent tlate. Thomas Leighton, 3d, was born about 16S5. He left several children, among them David, who is in the direct line of descent to the subject of this sketch. David Leighton at the family homestead at Leighton's Hill, October 14, 1730. He married Anne Chaml)erlin. who was born July 18, 1733. He died December 14, 181 1. and his wife Anne died September 29. 1816. They left ten children, namely : Dorothy, John, Jacob, Ephraim, Jonathan, William, Elizabeth, Nancy, David, and Moses, of whom Jacob is the ancestor next in direct line. Jacob Leighton was born July 12, 1757. He married Mary Townsend, bom July 2^. 1761. They had nine children — Betsey, :Mary, Dorothy, Jacob, Lydia, Rhoda, Ephraim, and Hannah. Ephraim, above mentioned, the next direct ancestor, was l)orn November 8, 1798. When a young man he, with two companions, went to the almost unbroken wilderness of what was then known as the Second Division of New Durham, near "Merry Meeting Pond," and took up land and began to clear it for farming purposes. The cave, or what is familiarly known as "Devil's Den," was on the farm belonging to him. He married Nancy F. Edgerly, born September 23, 1796. At this point the union of the Leighton and Edgerly families brings the subject of this sketch, E. A. Leighton in straight line of descent from Col. Thomas Tash, who sensed in the French and Lidian wars, leading a battalion against Crown Point. He was later an officer in the Revolution, thus making Edgar A. Leighton eligible as a Son of the American Revolution, as Nancy F. Edgerly, his grandmother, was a granddaughter of Col. Tom Tash, her father having married Elizabeth. the second daughter of Col. Tash. Ephraim Leighton died May 18, 1847. from the effects of being thrown from a horse that he was riding. His wife, Nancy, died in Dover, November 4, 1882. They left children as follows: Nahala D., Everett W. (father of E. A. Leighton), William A., Hiram, Caroline A., and Mary E. F. Everett W. Leighton was born ]\Iay t6, 1820, on the old Leighton home- stead in New Durham. He was a member of Company C, 13th Regiment, N. H. Volunteers, in the Civil War, and died ^larch 14, 1863, from disease contracted in the service. He was engaged in the hard fought battle of AND REPRESE\"TATI\'E CITIZEXS 549 Fredericksburg and in several other smaller engagements. He married Alice O. Edgerly, a straight line descendant of Thomas Edgerly, who settled at Oyster River in 1665, thus making our subject a "Northern Colonist" by both lines of descent. They left eight children, namely: Sarah L., Edgar A., Clara E., Alice A., Warren E., Adraanna, Isora Alma, and Clara B., only two of whom are now living — Edgar A. of Somersworth and Warren E. of Lewiston, Me. Clara B. (Mrs. Davis), died recently. Edgar A. Leighton, whose name appears at the head of this article, is, as shown above, the tenth in line of descent from Richard, the pioneer. He was born March 14, 1849, on the old homestead in New Durham, N. H. When he was about two years old the family removed to Alton, N. H., where they lived for about six years, thence moving to Farmington. In 1S71 he came to Somersworth to take charge of one of the departments in Nute Brothers shoe manufactory, later being associated as a partner in the general insurance business of Crawford, Tolles & Co. For the last thirteen years, as elsewhere stated, he has been cashier of Somersworth National Bank. He was married to Clara Eva Rand, of Portsmouth, N. H., in iSji. He and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, while he is a member of Washington Lodge, I. O. O. F. They move in the best society of Somers- worth and Mr. Leighton is widely known as a successful business man, an able financier, and a patriotic citizen whose aid and influence can always be enlisted in any good and worthy cause. Dl'DLEY L. FURBER, shoe manufacturer, and president of the Mer- chants' National Bank, of Dover, was born in Northwood, N. H., August 18, 1848, .son of Samuel H. and Mary (Leavitt) lnirl)er. The father was a farmer by occupation, and he and his wife were the parents of seven children, including the subject of this sketch. Dudley L. Furber acquired his elementary education in the |)ublic schools, and afterwards attended Northwood Seminary. He then learned the trade of shoemaker, which he followed until 1883, at which time he engaged in the clothing business, meeting with good success. Lie continued thus occupied until 1890, when he entered into the shoe manufacturing business. He located in Dover in 1893, at which time he established his present up-to-date plant, which is doing a good business. In 1903 he became a director in the Mer- chants' National Bank, and in 1910 was made its president, which position he has since held. His connection with this bank has proved beneficial, and it is widely recognized as one of the most solid financial institutions in this part of the state. Mr. Furber is a member of the Democratic party; he belongs to the 550 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COL'XTY Masonic Order and to the Knights of Pythias, also to the Bellamy Club. He married Miss Cora Carleton, a daughter of Captain Ralph Carleton, who served with distinction in the Civil \\ ar. The family residence is at Xo. 213 Washington street. Dover. HERBERT \\". OWEX, general superintendent of the Pacific Mills, Cocheco Department, at Dover. X. H., was bom in the state of Connecticut. December 14, 1871. a son of Oscar G. and Harriet M. ( Roljbins | Owen. The father, Oscar G. Owen, was identified with the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, holding a position as superintendent until a few years l>efore his death in 19CK). Herbert W. Owen, who is one of a family of three cliiMrcn. was educated in the public schools of Massachusetts, and when he grows to maturity he, like his father, became identified with the cotton interests. In irjoi he came to Do\er. being engaged as superintendent of the cotton nulls, and he continued in that position until 1908, when he was promoted to be general superintendent of the Cocheco Department of the Pacific Mills, which position he still holds. These mills, w-hich are a branch of the Pacific IMills of Lawrence. Mass.. are engaged in the manufacture and [)rinting of cotton goods and gi\'e employ- ment to a large number of peo^jle. He is a trustee of the Strafl:'ord Savings Bank. He belongs to the ^lasonic order and also to the Odd Fellows. Mr. Owen married Miss Hattie E. French, of r-'all River. Mass., and they have two children. \'era H. and Oscar C. The fanuly ha\e a comfortable home on Locust street, and are affiliated with the L'nitarian church. I'RED X. BECK\\'ITH. superintendent of the Beckw ith Box Toe Com- pany, Dover, N. H., was boni at Wooster, Mass., December 9, 18S6. Li the public schools and at Adams academy, Mr. Beckwith was educated, and his first business experience was in the retail shoe line in which he continued three years. He then became interested in the present enterijrise and has so continued. The Beckwith Box Toe Company w as established in 1904. at Boston. Mass.. by Harry H. Beckwith. w ith eight employes and an output of 5000 pairs of box toes a day. Later h'red X. Beckwith. his brother, entered the business and in September. 1909, the plant was remo\"ed to Do\'er. where excellent facilities for enlargement could be secured. Here a four-story imilding is occupied, this company utilizing two floors and hax'ing 26,000 scpiare feet of floor space, and in contrast to the first year of business, there are now ninety people employed and the normal output is 80.000 pairs a day. The sale territory covers the entire L^nited States, Canada. England, France and AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 551 Germany. The company is incorporated with a paid in capital of $-'5,000. H. H. Beckwith is president and treasurer and I'red N. Beckwith is super- intendent. Harry H. Beckwith was born in Nova Scotia liut was educated in the United States. He began work in a New luigland shoe factory and Later became a traveling salesman in the same line and so continued until he estab- lished his present enterprise. He married Isabel Doris, of Somerville, Mass., and they have two children, Ivlwin and Isabel. They reside at Brookline, Mass. Mr. Beckwith and family attend the Baptist LJiurch. I'Ved X. Beckwith devotes himself almost entirely to the affairs of the 'Beckwith Box Toe Company but has additional interests and is on the direct- ing board of the Dover Realty Company. His social tastes are indicated bv his membership with the Portsmouth Country Club, the I'ellamy Club and the Middlebrook Golf Club. ELWILL S. SHORTRIDGE, of the C. E. Brewster Compan>-, svlmlesale druggists. Dover, N. H., was born in Brookfield, N. H., September jo, i86(}, son of John L. and Susan E. (Mitclicll) Shortridge. the father being a pros- ]:)erous farmer. He began his educatinn in the ci)untr\- schools, suljsequentlv attended the public schools of Dox'er, frcmi which he was grailuatcd in 1S74, and then returned to his father's farm, .\fter remaining at home for awhile he became a shoe operator, at which occupation he wurked for iln-ee vears. Me then entered the drug business as tra\eling salesman for C. I'^. Brewster, and was thus employed until 1894, when, in company with Charles H. Bradley, he purchased the business, Mr. Brewster dying in April of that 3'ear. The business was then re-organized and conducted as the C. E. Brewster Company until 1900, when it was incorporated, with a capital stock of $20,000. The present officers are: C E. Cartland, president; E. L. Corson, vice president and secretary; E. S. Shortridge, treasurer and general manager. The concern occupies a three-story building, on a site 40x90 feet, and sells to the trade within a radius of 75 miles around Dover. Mr. Shortridge is also a trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank and president of the Dover Realty Company. He is a 32d degree Mason, belonging also to the Mystic Shrine, to the Knights of Pythias, and to Lodge No. 1S4, B. P. O. E. E. E. ROBERTS, one of Do\'er's most highly respected citizens, now living somewhat retired and occupying his comfortable residence on Sixth street, was born at Lumber City, in Telfair county, Ga., February 4, 1837, and is a son of Elijah and Susan G. (Taylor) Roberts. Elijah Roberts was bom in Ossipie, N. H., and came to Rochester in earlv 552 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY manhood. He was a natural mechanic and akhough he never had the chance to learn the trade of millwright, followed the same successfully for many years. It was during the fixe years that he and wife lived in Georgia, where he built mills throughout Telfair county, that his son, E. E. Roberts, was born. He was employed for many 3-ears in the factories and saw niills at Rochester, Somersworth and Dover, spending the greater part of his life in Strafford county. He died in 1857, at Oxford, Me. He married Susan G. Taylor, wlio was l)orn in Maine ami li\ed to be eighty-three years of age. Of their eight children there are two sur\i\'ors : E. E., of Dover, and ]\Irs. Anna A. Hurd, of Rochester. In early boyhood E. E. Roberts attended the \illage school at Rochester,' afterward studied one year at Saco, Me., and subsequently was gi\en three academic terms at Lebanon, Me. \\'hen fifteen years of age he began to gi\e his father valued assistance in his mill-building work, helping during the sum- mer seasons and attending school in the winters. He continued this work under his father's supenision until the latter's death, when he engaged with other lumber men. For three years he worked under Burges & Butterfield and was then made foreman at East Rochester in the work of installing ma- chinerv. He went then to Hyde I'ark and built the tube mill there, remaining one year, returned then to East Rochester and during the following year built a mill there. In the ne.xt year he built a mill at Gonic, for five years being continuously engaged in constructing these important mills. In 1871 ^Ir. Roberts came to Dover and for three years worked as a journeyman with the Cocheco Company. He then spent one year in the meat business at Lawrence, Mass.. and in 1875 became a master mechanic for the Cocheco people, con- tiiuung in that capacity w itli the same conipau}-, for twenty-one years, severing this relation on August 8, 1896. Since then 'Sir. Roberts has been interested in handling timber tracts. He is a self-made man, assuming heavy responsi- bilities when only a boy which he subsequently honorably discharged, among these being the paying off of a mortgage on his father's farm, which amounted to $650. Mr. Roberts married ]\Iiss ^lartlia L. Herrick, who is survived by two chiklren: Fred E. and JMrs. Clara L. York. He was married (secondly) in 1894, to Miss Ellen N. Cavenaugh. He has always been a man with settled religious convictions and attends the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he is a Republican and fraternal!}- a Mason. ALBERT P. SHERRY, attomey-at-law and city solicitor of Dover, was born in Dover, N. H., February 28, 1879, one of the family of two children of Michael and Ann (McLin) Sherry. The father, JMichael Sherry, is a AND REPRESENTATR^E CITIZENS 553 native of Englaml of In^Ii descent. Tiie snljject of this sketch graihiated from both the public and parochial schools of this city. To earn a livelihood he then learned the trade of barber at which he worked until 1903. He began the study of law under Dwight Hall in kjoj and in 1903 was admitted to the bar. After practicing law for two .and a half years in Nebraska, he came to Dover in 1909, where he has since continued in the practice of his profession, having an office in the Stratford National Bank Building. A Repul)lican in politics, he was elected city solicitor of Do\er, on that ticket, in 191 1 and has ably administered the affairs of the office. He has achie\ed a gratifying success, which has been self-earned, and is widely respected as a citizen. Mr. Sherry married Miss Abbie E. Sullivan, a native of Ireland and daughter of I>ter and Julia ( Sullivan ) Sulliwui. 1 le and his wife arc members of the Catholic church, and they reside at No. 662 Central .Vvenue. Mr. Sherry is also affiliated with the Knights of Columbus; Div. i, A. O. H., and the Royal .\rcanuni. REV. THOMAS E. REILLY, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, of Dover. N. H., was born at Concord, N. H., Decemlx-r 23, 1838, one of the family of five children of Bernard and Mary (Lynch) Reilly. Both parents were natixes of Ireland. The subject of this sketch began his education in the public schools of his native town and later attended the seminary in Montreal, and also the St. Theresa Seminary at Three Rivers. Imniediatelv after finishing his classical course he was ordained to the priesthood, at Portland. Me., by the Rt. Rev. Bisho]) Heal_v. He was first stationed at Concord. N. H.. in the capacity of assistant priest, under the Rev. J. E. liarry, remaining there until October, 1884. He was then assigned to the cathedral at Manchester, N. H., this being in December, 1886, and from thence he was assigned to a parish at Newmarket. On October i, 191 1, he was assigned to his present position as pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Do\-er, and has since remained here. Tliis church has a very fine interior. The church contains a population of 3 125 people, wdiile the parochial school, taught by the Sisters of Mercy and Christian Brothers, has between five and six hundred pupils. HON. JOHN RILEY VARNEY, in former years one of Dover's most noted citizens — a man whom all delighted to honor — was born in Dover, N. H., March 26, 1819. His parents were James Bowdoin and Sarah ( Byles) Varney, and he was a descendant in the eighth generation of William Varney, or Varnie, of Ipswich, Mass., the immigrant ancestor of the family, who died in Salem, Mass., in 1654. William's son, Humphrey, was "received an inhabitant" in 554 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Do\-er, X. H.. August 4. i'i59. He luarricd Sarah, ilau!j;liter nf Ivlik-r lulward and Catherine ( Starhuck ) X'arney. Their son, I'eter \'arney. married Mary Hussey as earh* as 1720. Their son, Moses Varney, born about 17-4, was married in 1750 to I'lstiier Chick. Among their cliildren was ^b)ses \'arney, liorn May 10, 1762, who married in 1^82, ?\Iercy I'ioutman. Of tiicir ten ehil(h"en was James Rowdoin Varney, Imrn in Rochester, X. H., July 17. 1784. wlio died in Dover. Marcli 12. 1838. He married Sarah Byles, ihuighter of Jolni and Mary (Hanson) Riley, of Do\er, and they were the i)arents of seven children, of whom the fourth-born was John Rilev A'arney, the suljject of thi,s-sketch. John Riley \'arney was born in a house that stood on what is now the extension of Washington street, opposite the new Xo. i mill, .\fter ac(jniring an elementary education in the public schools of Do\er, he became a clerk in the store of Messrs. Alden & Morse. Before long, howe\'er, he determined that he woukl have a college education, and, after preparator}- studies at Franklin .Academy, Dover, went to Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 1843, holding the first or second position in his class for scholarship. While in college he taught school during the \'acations. and after his graduation taught in the Franklin Academy for two years. He then took up the occupa- tion of civil engineer, in which he continuetl for ten ye.nrs. This was a work for which he was particularly well fitted, his mind ha\ ing a strong mathematical lient, and he showed marked ability in the solution of those problems which enter into the laying out of railroads, b'or a considerable time he was employed in making sur\eys and measurements for a route through the great forest region of New York. In 1856 Mr. Varney became clerk of court for Strattord county, remaining in office four years. He was then chosen professor of mathematics in Dartmouth College, in wliich i^osition he remained three years. He was a man of wonderful powers in this department of science. His mint!, working with great intuiti\e rapidity, reached conclusions by over-leaping wide spaces that ordinary mathematicians would ha\e found it necessary to bridge by successive stages of proof anil reasoning. In this respect he was the peer of such men as Prof, Chase, of Dartmouth, and Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard. For some time during this period Mr. Varney had pursued legal studies, and in 1863 being admitted to the bar, he became the partner of Hon. John P. Hale of Dover. Even before this he had become one of the most ])rominent men in the county, both in social and public life. He served as postmaster of Dover for four years. He w as a member of the Legislature in 1856 and 1857, and was secretar)- of the Xaval Committee at Washington in 1862 and 1863 — a position which at that time was no sinecure, but which called for men of a AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 555 high degree of ability and patriotism. He was register of probate from tlie death of VVilham C. Woodman until 1874, and two years after was reappointed to the office. He also served the city as its police judge for five years and as a member of the Board of Education for four years. In 1868 Mr. Varney became a joint proprietor and editor of the Dover Enquirer, and subsequently of the Daily Republican. These last three positions he was filling at the time of his death. He was also a deacon of the First Church. Mr. Varney, at the age of sixty-two, on May 2d, 1882, in the full maturity of his powers and usefulness, met death in an instant, under the falling walls of the Washington Street Free-Will Baptist Church, which had been burned a few hours before. This tragic e^'ent was a great shock to the community. The great respect in which he was held and the deep sorrow- felt by all classes was strikingly manifested at his funeral, which took place at the First Church three days later and which was attended by a great con- course of people, e\ery place of business in the city being closed. Yet of such a man it may well be said that thiuigh dead he still liveth. not only in the hearts and memories of those who knew and loved him, ])ut in the lasting impression made by his deeds and works, the influence of which is still felt in the community and will doulHless be felt for many years to come. Mr. Varney was married first to Susan Kimball; secondly, on Dec. 25, i860, to Isabella C Kimball, a daughter of Richard (no relation to first wife) Kimball, now deceased, who in former rlays was well know^n throughout this section as an able attorney. Of this marriage there are two daughters — Mar- garet P. and Harriett O. P... who reside with their mother at No. 8 Hanson street, Dover. WILLIAM H. KNOX, one of the substantial men of Dover, where he is engaged in business on Middle street, dealing in flour, feed, grain, cement, hay and fertilizers together with farm implements, was born in 1870, at Charlestown, Mass. His father was William P. Knox, long a member of the police force of Boston, Mass., whose death occurred in 191 1. William H. Knox attended the Charlestown public schools, after which be went into the teaming business and still has interests there. In 1903 he came to Strafford county and bought a farm in Madlniry, and in 1908 embarked in his present business at Dover. In politics a Republican he served four years as a representative from Madliury. He has been town treasurer for five years and chairman of the lioard of selectmen for one year and at present is sen-ing in the office of forest fire warden. Mr. Knox married Miss Elizabeth E. Berry, of Charlestown, Mass., and they have four children, namely: Warren P., who is a student in the New 556 HISTORY OF STR-\FFORD COUNTY Hampsliire State College: and Henrj' B., Alice R. and William E., all three of whom are students in the Dover High school. I\Ir. Knox and family attend the Universalist church. He is a man of social instincts and belongs to the local Grange and to the Odd Fellows. COL. THOMAS HAIXES DEARBORN was born August -m, 1860, at Nortfield, N. H. He is eighth in descent from the immigrant ancestor, Godfrey Dearborn, who was born in Exeter, England, about 1605 and came to New England ajjout 1636. He was one of the company that started the settlement at Exeter, N. H., under the leadership of Rev. John Wheelwright. His name appears among the signers of the Combination for Good Government in 1639, in that town. Settled in Hampton before 1648 and became a large property owner there and was one of the prominent citizens. His son Thomas was born in Exeter, England, in 1634 and came over with his parents. His son Jonathan was born in Hampton in 1686; he is known in histor}' as "Cornet" Jonathan Dearborn, as during the Indian wars he held that office in a company of militia that served in the wars. His son Shubael was born in Hampton in 17 19, May 17th. He married Sarah Fogg of Hampton. He rcmmed from Hampton to Northfield in 1770, and was one of tho first settlers in that town ; in fact it was not set oft' from Canterbury and made a township until after that date. He was a soklier in the last colonial war with the French and Indians, under King George, against whom he after- wards rebelled. He also was a soldier in the siege of Louisburg, under com- mand of Sir William Pepperell. At the capture he secured for himself and brouglit home a good F'rench musket. At Northfield he was a prosperous farmer. His son Shubael was born at Hampton, July i-'. 1753. and came to Northfield with his parents. In 177*) he marrietl Ruth Lea\itt of Hampton and they commenced housekeeping in a log house in Northfield, but before long he liuilt a new frame house, all the materials for which, except the chinnic\- and wnod-wnrk. he hauled from Portsmouth with an ox-team; it was a nice, good-ste]iping team of young iixen that coukl walk as fast as a man could walk. But before marriage he served in the Revolutionary army. ]\Ir. Dearborn was 22 years old when the war began. His father, too old to go," took down from the hooks o\er the fire-place his b'rench musket, which he had kept bright and shining ever since he "gobbled it up" at Louisburg, and putting it into his son's hands told him to join the New Hampshire troops and use it for the defense of his country against the attack of King George's Hessians. The son obeyed. He enlisted in Captain Jeremiah Clough's com- pany of Canterbury and Northfield men, which company became a part of Col. Enoch Poor's regiment, which marched from Exeter to Cambridge, June AND REPRESENTATRT. CITIZENS 557 27, 1775; the next ten days after the hattle i>( lUink'er Hill his com[iany tnok part in the siege of Boston, whieh continued until March, 1776. He continued ser\'ice in Colonel Poor's regiment in later campaigns. He brought that gun home and it was useil again in (he War of 1812-15 liy another memher of the Dearborn faniil_\-. Il is now in the possession of Shuliael Dearliorn (_)f Concord. This second Shubael has a son he named Shubael ; he was born in 178^^, on the old farm on Dearborn Hill, Northtield. He was twice married; his secon. blis wife survi\ed him se\'eral years, living to fie 87 years of age. She died at Exeter, being at the time with her son-in-law, Hon. VV. H. C. Follansby. Their son, Colonel Thomas H. Dearliorn, is the subject of this sketch. Colonel Dearljorn is eighth in the descent from Thomas Lea\itt, by his great grandmother, Ruth Leavitt. Thomas Leavitt was one of the founders of E.xeter and his name appears as one of the signers of the Exeter Combina- tion of 1639. Thomas Leavitt w^as one of the prominent men of Exeter. Another immigrant ancestor of distinction was Roger Shaw, who came from England in 1636 and settled at Cambridge, Mass. Later he removed U> Hampton, where he held various town offices, and was representati\-e in the Massachusetts General Court in i(>^\. 1O52 and i'^>53. Culonel Dearborn's mother, Hannah Haines, daughter of Thomas Clough and Deborah (Rogers) Haines, was of the seventh generation from Samuel Haines, who was one of the original settlers on Dover Neck, and his name appears among the signers of the Combination for Good Government in Di;)\er. in 1640. Later he renio\ed to Greenland. Colonel Dearborn was educated at three of the best schools in the state — Tilton Seminary, New Hampton Academy and Philiiis Exeter Academy. .\t the conclusion of his school w ork he w as engaged for a few years in the West in the stock-raising business. Returning to the East, he commenced his life work in the dr}' goods business as clerk in a store at Exeter. In 1884 be removed to Dover and opened the large doulile store in the National Block, at the corner of Second Street and Central Avenue, under the firm name of Thomas H. Dearborn & Co. It at once became the leading dry goods estab- lishment, the firm doing an immense business. He managed this concern for more than a score of years, when he retired from that business for a brief period, and was at the head of the State Commission for the sup- pression of the brown tail moth and gipsy moth pests, in which he did 558 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY good service. In 1908 he took cliarge of his present dry goods establishment, "The Fashion." At the age of 53 years he is in the prime of life to do big business; and lie is doing it. Notwithstanding Col. Dearborn has been a very busy and industrious dry goods man, he has in these later years taken considerable interest in political affairs. He served as alderman from Ward 4 in 1901 and 1902, during which time important improvements for the city were undertaken and carried our, and Col. Dearborn was always on the progressive, prudent, business side of the (|uestions that came up for decision. In 1903 he was appointed by Go\ernor Nahum J. Bachelder member of his staff, with the rank of colonel. It was during this period — 1903 to 1905 — that an attempt was made in the legislature to divide the town of Northfield and annex the village part of it to Tilton. In that contest Colonel Dearborn was influential in helping defeat the bill. ^ It was during the 1903 session of the legislature that a police commission w as granted to Dover, and Colonel Dearborn was appointed one of the three commissioners, and the board elected him chainnan, which position he held for ten years. During that term the police force has been maintained by a high standard class of efficient men who have been i)rompt in the performance of the duties. .\s a society man Col. Dearborn is a member of Moses Paul Lodge of Masons; Lodge No. 186 of the Elks, and Wecohamet Lodge of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the New Hampshire Society Sons of the American Revolution and the New Hampshire Historical Society. He is a member of the First Parish. September 15, 1884, he was united in marriage with May R. French, daughter of Mr. Sperry and Harriet Robinson French of Exeter. Children : John Sperry, Ruth French, Thomas Arnold and Eleanor Follansby; all are living, except the elder son. Mrs. Dearborn is a lineal descendant (seventh removed) of John Alden. CHARLES WOODMAN for many years was one of the representative men of Dover and as a financier was known all over Strafford county. For a long period prior to his death in 1885, he was treasurer of the Strafford Savings Bank at Dover. He was born in this city in 1822, a son of Charles Woodman who died at the age of thirty-two years. Charles \\'oodnian never knew his father, as he was a babe of six weeks when the latter died. He attended school and Greenland Academy at Dover and afterward was a clerk in a store in Boston, still later was employed in a railroad office. He returned then to Dover and became identified with the AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 559 StrafYord Savings Bank witli his uncle, William Woodman, and so continued untd his death. He was widely known in financial circles and his advice was sought and his judginent accepted by those making investnients. Like his father, he was to some degree interested in public affairs, although not a politician, as was the older Charles Woodman who, before his death, had been nominated for Congress. Voting the Republican ticket, Mr. Woodman was elected alderman and held other civic offices. He was identified with the Masonic fraternity and attended the Congregational church. Mr. Woodman was twice married, first to Miss Hannah Coffin, and they had three children: Alice, William and Sarah, the last named surviving. Mr. Woodman's second marriage was to Miss Annie E. Allen and they had two children, Charles and Alice, both of whom are now deceased. Mrs. Woodman resides in the old family homestead at Dover, which was erected loo years ago. She is a member of the Congregational church and is a lady much esteemed. Mr. Woodman died December 20, 1885. EDMOND N. CARIGNAN, M. D., of Dover, is one of the younger mem- bers of the medical profession in this city, but who, well qualified for his pro- fession, has already laid the foundation for future success. He was bom in Canada, October 7, 1881, his parents being respectively Zephirin and Mary (Blais) Carignan. The father, a native of Canada, was a carpenter by occupation. The Carignan family is of French origin, and the subject of this sketch was educated in the Catholic schools of Canada, graduating from St. Ann's Col- lege in 1906 with the degree of A. B. He then entered Laval University of Quebec, where he remained two years, taking his B. M. degree there. He then went to Baltimore Medical College for two years, being graduated in 1910. In the same year, after taking a post-graduate course, he located in Dover, N. H., where he is now recognized as one of the rising young physicians of the town. His practice lies largely among the French population of Dover, but he has also a considerable clientage among those of American birth. He is a member of the local, County, State, District and American Associations. His political affiliations are with the Democratic party. In January of the present year he was elected city physician of Dover. Dr. Carignan married Miss Graziella Lavoie, a daughter of John Lavoie, who was also of Canada. He and his wife are the parents of two children^ Roland and Charles E. The Doctor's family residence is at No. 31 Atkinson street, his offices being located at No. 1 14 Washington street. 560 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY PATRICK McGILL, funeral director and undertaker with well apix>inted rooms at No. 12 Third street, is a native of Dover, born in 1876, a son of Thomas and Ann (Rossiter) McGill. Thomas McGill was born in Ireland but spent almost his whole life of fifty-nine years in the United States, his death occurring at Dover. He mar- ried Ann Rossiter, who survives, and they had three cliildren : James, a Cath- olic priest, pastor of the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help at East Manchester, N. H. ; Julia, and Patrick. Re\'. James McGill is the only Dover boy ever ordained to the priesthood. He was born in Dover and ordained here by the Rt. Rev. Dennis M. Bradley, bishop of this diocese. Patrick McGill attended the public and parochial schools in boyhood and subsequently was graduated from St. Anselni College at Manchester. He then became an employe in the Roberts Bros." shoe store and continued until he embarked in his present business on November i, 1907, preparing for the same by a course in the Barnes" School of Sanitary Science and Embalming, Boston, under the direct supervision of Professor Dodge. Mr. McGill married Miss Genevieve M. Sherry. In politics he is an independent voter, doing his own thinking and asking no political favors. LOUIS WARNER FLANDERS, M. D., who for the past twenty years has been identified with the medical fraternity of Dover, N. H., as a specialist in diseases of the eye and ear, is a native of Rhode Island, having been born .\pril 2-j, 1864, in Wickford, Washington county, that state. He is a son of the Rev. Alonzo B. Flanders, D. D., and a grandson of James Flanders. The latter w as a man of some prominence in Vermont, where he died at the age of seventv- six years. The Rev. A. B. Flanders was born in Chelsea, Vt.. December 6, 1829, and acquired his early education at Exeter. X. H. Having studied for the ministry with Bishop Carleton C. Chase, of this state, he was duly ordained at Claremont, N. H., in June, 1853. For twelve years subsequently he was rector of St. PauKs church at Wickford, R. I. Enlisting in the Fourth Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, at the outbreak of the Civil War. he served as chaplain at the front for two years, during which time he was twice stricken with malarial fever. The second attack was so severe that his life was only saved by the devotion of his wife, who bravely made her way through the lines and nursed him back to health. After his return home, on the advice of his physician, he went to Ver- mont, in the hope of benefiting his health l;y a stay in the mountains. In December, 1868, he settled in Chester. Vt., where he afterward founded St. Luke's church, of which he was rector for fifteen years. Then, after a short residence at White River Junction. Vt.. he moved to St. .Albans. .\t his death. AND REPRESENTATRE CITIZENS 561 whicli took place in April, 1898, he was one of the oldest and most highly esteemed ministers of Vermont. His degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- ferred on him by Vermont University. He was a member of the standing committee of the dioces<;, an examining chaplain, and ser\ ed as delegate to the General Convention several times. Rev. A. B. Flanders married Sarah A. Ide, who was born in Windsor, Vt., a daughter of Simeon Ide. Her father, a widely known editor, publisher and politician, was the founder of the Vermont Journal and the American Yeoman, both of which he established in 1818. Three years previously he had printed in an old blacksmith shop the first edition of the New Testament ever printed in New Hampshire. Mr. Ide was a man of very forceful character. He was described as a leader among men, was extensively acquainted with the most prominent politicians of his native state, and was a member of the State militia. He lived to the venerable age of ninety-four years. Louis W. Flanders began his education in the common schools of Chester, Vt., and subsequently attended the Stevens High School at Claremont, N. IT. Later he entered the Lni\ersity of Vermont and was graduated from the med- ical department in the summer of 1885. Soon after he Ijegan the practice of general medicine at Highgate, Vt., but after a short stay there removed to Brandon, Vt., and in the following year was associated with A. T. Woodward. He then went to Castleton, Vt., where he continued in practice until 1890. He now gave up general practice antl removing to Burlington, in the same state, became assistant to J. H. Woodward, ?vl. D., professor of Ophthalmology and Otology. Dr. Flanders was professor of the materia medica in the University of Vermont. After a three years' stay in Burlington, during which Dr. Flan- ders became especially well skilled in those branches of his profession to which he was devoting his particular attention, he came to Dover — in 1893 — and opened an office here as an oculist and aurist. He has been successful in build- ing up a large practice, both in Dover and for a circuit of twenty miles around. His office is located in the Masonic Temple. Dr. Flanders has attained a high rank in Masonry, belonging to Burlington Lodge. No. 100, F. & A. M., of Burlington, of which he is past master; Burling- ton Chapter, R. A. M. : Orphan Council, R. & S. M. ; St. Paul Comniandery, K. T., and to the N. H. Consistory. .\. .\. S., Northern Jurisdiction. Polit- ically he is a Republican, but takes no acti\e part in public affairs. He was married December 23. 1890. to Miss Annie Miriam Hilton, of Chester, who was a companion of his early childhood and a schoolmate. They reside at No. 14 Hamilton street, Dover. They have one son, Walter Louis, bom May 11, 1897. 562 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY ROSCOE G. BLANCHARD, M. D., a very prominent member of the med- ical profession, at Dover, N. H., has been estabhshed in his profession here for twenty-nine years, during which time he has buik up a fine practice and has won the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. He was born in West Cumberland, Cumberland County, Me., July 24, 1853, a son of Joseph Y. and Abbie N. (Libby) Blanchard. When he was six years of age his father died and his mother removed to Saco, Me., and here he acquired his elementary edu- cation in the district schools. He subsequently attended the Biddeford High School, from which he was graduated in 187 1. He then took a commercial course at Gray's Business College in Portland, after which he found employment as bookkeeper and cashier with the firm of Chadboum & Kendall, dry goods merchants of Portland, with whom he re- mained seven years. During the latter five years of this period he occupied his spare hours with reading medicine with Dr. Edward Preble and attending lec- tures at the Portland Medical College. Having by close ecenomy accumulated a little money, he now gave up his position and entered the Portland Medical School, where he took a two years' course. This was followed by a full course in the medical department of Bowdoin College, from whicli he was graduated M. D. with the class of 1884. A few months later he located in Dover, where by dint of hard and conscientious work he has achieved a pronounted success as a physician and surgeon. He is an active and prominent member of the Maine Medical Society, the New Hampshire Medical Society (of which he was president one year), the StrafTord District Medical Society, which he has served as secretary, and the Dover Medical Society, of which he was secretary five years and president two years. A Mason of high rank, being one of the four 33d degree Masons residing in Dover, Dr. Blanchard has done much to promote the good of the order in this city. He is a member of Strafford Lodge and Belknap Chapter, has served for nine years as illustrious master of Orphan Council, and is a knight of St. Paul's Commanderj', of which he was eminent commander for two years. In 1895 ^^ ^'^s invested with the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite; also belongs to Beacon Lodge, I. O. O. F,, of Portland, and to Port- land Encampment. He was advanced to the 33d degree rank in the Masonic order ten years ago. His office is located in the Masonic Temple. Dr. R. G. Blanchard was married September 4, 1877, to Miss Laura B. Hodgdon, a daughter of Z. H. Hodgdon and Orinda (Reed) Hodgdon, of North Boothbay, Me. They are the parents of a daughter, Florence L. The family residence is at No. 630 Central Avenue. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 563 JUSTIN A. EMERY, attorney at law. with offices in the McDuffee Block, Rochester, is one of the younger members of the Strafford county bar but is recognized by his associates and the public as a lawyer of marked ability. He was bom June 22, 1880, at York, Me., and is a son of Joshua and Abbie A. (Baston) Emery. Toshua Emery was born in South Berwick. Me., where the family is an old settled one. His occupation throughout life was mainly farming. Shortly after the birth of his son, Justin A., he moved to Rochester, N. H., purchasing a farm on Rochester Neck, and resided there until his death, at the age of eighty years. He married Abbie A. Baston and they had four children. Justin A. Emer}' attended school at Rochester. N. H., and afterward, for several years, was in the life insurance business, subsequently accepting a gov- ernment position as letter carrier, in which he remained for seven and a half years. Such a position affords little leisure but Mr. Emery took advantage of his free time and applied himself so closely to the study of law that he succeeded in his ambition and in June, 191 1, was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, later being admitted to practice in the United States District Court. In Sep- tember, 191 2, he opened his present office and has won and maintains honorable standing in the profession. Mr. Emerv married Miss Mary E. Stillings and they have tv>o children: Elfreida C. and Esther L., whose ages are respectively eight and three years. Mr. and Mrs. Emery attend the Congregational church. In politics he is a Democrat and has uften |)roved his party loyalty. Fraternal life has interested him and he belongs to the Masons, the Order of Eastern Star and to the Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges, being officially connected with these organizations. MI.'\H BUCK. WON SULLIViVN, M. D., one of the most prominent members of the medical profession in Dover, N. H., was born May 29, 1857, one of the family of ten children of Jeremiah and Rebecca ( Gillman) Sullivan. He began his education in the public schools, afterwards attended the Towle Acad- emy, and later the I'niversity of New York, from which institution he was graduated in 1881. Beginning the practice of his profession in Lewiston, Me., he remained there, however, but a short time, removing in the same year to Dover. Here he has built up an excellent practice and is widely recognized, both in and out of the profession, as one of the most able physicians and sur- geons in the county. He is a member of the Medical Society of New Hampshire and of the Strafford County Medical Society, and is fraternally identified with the Elks and the Knights of Columbus. He is also a director in the Merchants Savings Bank. He served as chairman of the committee of credentials, and also as one of the committee on Work at the Elks' convention held at Mil- 564 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY waukee, Wis. In addition to the societies above named Dr. Sullivan belongs to the New York Medico-Legal Association and to the American Medical Society. He is a close student and keeps well abreast of his profession at all times, investigating every new discovery in medical or surgical science and using the most modern methods in his own large practice. He has been very successful and as a citizen is held in high esteem. Dr. Sullivan was united in marriage, February 2, 1897, with Miss Mary X. Holden, a daughter of William Holden, a prominent citizen of Baltimore. Md. They have two children — Marie T. and James H. He and his family are members of the Catholic Church, and they have a pleasant and commodious residence at No. 61 Silver street. The Doctor's office is located at 430 Central Avenue, Dover. Dr. Sullivan's daughter unveiled the Elks monument at Pine Hill cemetery, November, 19 13. EVERETT J. GALLONS' AY. a member of the well known law finn of Pierce & Galloway, lawyers, of Dover, N. H., was born in Lynn. Mass., March 29, 1877, a son of John H. and Julia (McCarthy) Galloway. His father was an expert shoe operator in one of the large shoe factories for which the city of Lvnn is famous. The subject of this sketch, after attending the common schools, completed his literary education in the Portsmouth ( N. H.) high school, where he made a good record in scholarship. For a short time he fol- lowed his father's occupation, but in 1903 he began the study of law in Dover in the office of W. S. Pierce. Admitted to the bar in 1908, he has since been successfully engaged in general law practice, becoming a member of the finn of Pierce & Galloway in 1908. This firm has a good reputation in the pro- fession, and a considerable amount of law business passes through their office in the course of the year. Mr. Galloway is affiliated fraternally with the Knights of Pythias (Lodge No. 89) ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 184, and the New England Order of Protection. July 13, 1903, he married Miss Myrtie E. Smith, a native of Dover and daughter of Newton C. and Laura A. Smith. HENRY DOW, now deceased, for many years was one of the substantial and representative men of Dover. He was born at Dover, on the site of the old Strafford bank, and always made his home in his native place, where he died in 1889. at the age of eighty-nine years. He came into life with the beginning of the century that was notable in many respects, and throughout his long period of existence took a deep interest in the progress and development made. In the schools of Dover Mr. Dow received his boyhood educational training and from there entered Exeter Academy, later becoming a student at Harvard AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 5-65 College. Subsequently he engaged in the study of medicine but when the time came for him to begin the practice of his profession he discovered that his incli- nations lay in a different direction, in fact that agriculture made a greater appeal to him. Therefore the collegian and physician became a farmer and for many years interested himself in the cultivation and improvement of his fertile acres lying in the vicinity of Bellamy, Strafford county. He was never an active politician but gave his continued support to the Republican party. Mr. Dow married Airs. Mary Edna ( Hill) Ciray, a daughter of Nathaniel R. Hill, of New Hampshire, and widow of George Frederick Gray, to whom Mrs. Dow was married in October, 1875. ^'^^- Gray was born at Dover, N. H., where he died in 1S80, survived by three children: Cleorge, who is an illus- trator, with a studio in Boston. Mass. ; and Ruth and Charles, twins. George Frederick Gray was prominent in politics in Strafford county and was once a member of the state senate. He was w idely known also in journalism and as editor of the Dover Gazette and as contributor to the Herald, was one of the pioneer and progressixe newspaper men of this section. HON. JAMES WALTER TW'OMBIA', formerly a member of the New Hampshire State Legislature and a leading factor in [jolitics in Strafford county, is the oldest contractor engaged in the business at Dover, a member of the firm of Nathaniel Twombly & Son. He was born at Dover, N. H., August 2, 1859, and was educated in the public schools and at Reedfield College, where he was a student in i877-'78. After his return from college, J. W. Twombly, in 1882, became a.ssociated with his father in contracting and building, at Dover, under the firm name of Nathaniel Twombly & Son. He has continued in the business ever since and has erected many of the most substantial business houses and residences at Dover. He has ever been an active and interested citizen, zealous for Dover's good name as a business situation as well as an ideal location for homes, and during his two years as city alderman and two years as a member of the city council, lent his assistance to every movement of a public-spirited character that promised substantial results. His record was appreciated by his fellow cit- izens and he was elected a member of the General Assembly from the Fourth Ward, Dover. In 1882 Mr. Twomlily married Miss Juliet I'erkins of Wells, Me., a daugh- ter of Charles and Susan E. Perkins, the former of whom was a retired sea captain and hotelkeeper of \\'ells Beach, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Twombly had one child who died in infancy. He is a member of Mt. Pleasant Lodge, F. & A. M., and belongs also to the Elks and the Royal Arcanum. 566 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY FRANK P. COLEMAN, who has been the efficient suiierintendent of Pine Hill cemetery at Dover for the past twenty-two years, is well known over Strafford county. He was born at Durham, N. H., in 1852, the youngest of a family of twelve children, his parents being Oliver and Mehetable (Clark) Coleman. The father died when aged f ony-seven years, having been a farmer all his mature life. Frank P. Coleman was reared by his mother, being but four years old when his father died. He attended school at Durham and Dover, N. H., and at Linden, Vt., and then was variously engaged prior to being appointed a member of the police force at Dover. In 1889 he was made super- intendent of the tract set apart for cemetery purposes and Pine Hill cemetery has practically been entirely de\eloped through his care, taste and good judg- ment. Its beautiful hillside situation was recognized by early settlers and in 171 7 the second meeting-house ever constructed at Dover was built on this hill, by public subscription. When Mr. Coleman took charge of the cemetery he had only seven lots under special care, while now he has a fund of $60,000 to make use of for cemetery improvement. It is a beautiful spot, one that reflects credit both on Mr. Coleman and the city. Mr. Coleman married Miss Lillie Philpot. who died in 1888, leaving one daughter, Florence R., who died when nineteen years old. His second mar- riage was to A. Minnie Hall, who died in 1901, leaving one child, Francena H., who is the wife of Eddie Gill, of Melrose, Mass. In politics Mr. Coleman is a Republican. He I)elongs to the Odd Fellows at Mt. Pleasant and the Encamp- ment and is major of the order of Patriots Militant of New Hampshire. He is a member and a trustee of the Pierce Memorial church at Dover. HON. CHARLES H. FOSS. mayor of Dover, N. H., is one of the prominent business men of this town, being interested extensively in real estate and insurance, and acting also as agent for the foreign steamship companies. He was born in Rochester, N. H., April 2, 1851, one of a family of two children bom to Andrew and Abigail (Place) Foss. The father, Andrew, who was a farmer, died December 29, 1904, his wife, the mother of our subject, having passed away nearly four years previously, on February 4, 1901. Their remains rest in the old farm cemetery at Rochester. N. H. Charles H. Foss, after attending the public schools for the usual period, became a student at Austin Academy, at Strafford, N. H., and afterward at the Eastman National Business College, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. On reach- ing maturity he found employment in the office of Sawyer Woolen Mills, at Dover, N. H., where he was soon made cashier and paymaster, and he remained connected with that industry for twenty-seven years, or until 1899. He was then for three years collector of taxes, after which he engaged in his CHAKLES H. Fuys AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 569 present business. He has been successful as a business man and has also taken a prominent part in local politics, having been elected on the Republican ticket to various important ofKces. He served on the common council of Dover during the years 18S3 and 1884; was alderman in 1891 and 1892; a member of the school board from 1895 to 1900 and collector of taxes in 1900, 1901 and 1902. He was twice elected to the Legislature from the Fourth Ward, ser\- ing during the sessions of 1909 and 191 1. He also served as street and park commissioner, being appointed in March, 1912, by the Hon. Dwight Hall for a three years' term and when elected mayor resigned from that body, being elected in November, 19 12, and taking office in January. 1913. Mr. Foss is also prominent in the Masonic fraternity, being a member of StrafTord Lodge No. 29, A. F. & A. M. ; Bclknal Chapter No. 8, R. A. M. ; Orphan Council No. i, R. & S. I\L, and St. Paul Cummandery, K. T. ; also of Major W'aldron Council No. 989, Royal Arcanum. He was married Sep- tember 20, 1875, to Miss Carrie Garside, daughter of Walter Garside. and he and his wife are the jiarents of a son, Walter. The family attend the Methodi.-^t Episcopal Church and are identified with \arious social activities of Dover. RALPH HOUGH, a well known and respected resident of Dover, now retired, who for forty-five years was an active factor in the industrial life of the city, was born August 15, 1824. in Manchester, England. His parents, Thomas and Catherine (Keniston) Hough, came to America with their family in 1S26, landing here after a voyage of nine weeks in a sailing vessel. Locating in Dover, Thomas Hough found em])loyment in the Cocheco Print Works, and afterward died. The children of the famih- comprised eight sons and two daughters. Ralph Hough, who was but a babe of two years at the time of the family's advent in this country, was well brought up and actjuired Iiis education in the common schools of Dover. He began industrial life at the early age of 10 years, beginning a five years' apprenticeship in the Cocheco Print Works. Dur- ing the first year he was paid at the rate of fifty cents per day, sixty-two cents during the next two years, and a further increase during the succeeding two years. The next eighteen years of his life were spent as a journeyman in the same establishment, during which time he acquired a thorough and accurate knowledge of the entire business. Having by his industry and ability gained the confidence of his employers, he was then appointed foreman of the print room, which position he held for twenty-two years, acquitting himself with fidelity to his charge and earning the good will of his associates and those over whom he had super\'ision. He then retired after forty-five years of consecu- 570 HISTORY OF STPLAFFORD COUNTY ti\e service with this company, a record of which he mav justly be proud. He has also been a director of the Cocheco National Bank-. A stanch Republican in politics, Mr. Hough formerly took an active part in inililic life. His wide popularity was made manifest on various occasions, f'rom 1859 to 1866 he was a member of the Common Council of Dover, rep- resenting Ward J, which is now called Ward i. In 1884 he was a member of the State Legislature, and in 1885 and 1886 he served as countv commissioner, being chairman of the board. For several years he was a lieutenant in the Strafford Zouaves, a i>opular military organization. He is a Blue Lodge Mason and also belongs to W'ecohamet Lodge, I. O. O. F.. of Dover. On February 4, 1849, Mi"- Hough married Miss Sarah Delan}-, a fair English girl, whose birthplace was but a few miles from hi> own. She came to this country in 1825 with her parents, John and Margaret (Farrell) Delany. who settled in Do\er. It is an interesting and noteworth_\- fact that "Sir. Hough and his w ite. w hen babies, were rocked in the same cradle. They have been the parents of four children, namely: Belle, who married Otis V.. W'aitt; Harry: -\lice, wife of James Harrison, who resides with her parents at No. 16 Fifth street. Do\er: and Sarah J., who is now deceased. Mr. Hough, who is now in his ninetieth year, is still hale and heart}-, a cotispicuous example of the \alue of good habits, backed by a sound heredity. Fie and his wife are members of the Episcopal church, he being the only survivor of those who were members at the time he joined it. He is also the only one now alive of those public ofScials who served the city of Dover contemporaneously with himself. b'RED M. BUNKER, a leading business man of Dover, conducts his gro- cery store at No. 10 Broadway, and a second store at No. 67 Fifth avenue, where he deals in coal, wood, hay, grain, lime, cement, sewer pipe and fami implements. He was born at Durham, N. H., in 1861, and is a son of William Henry and Abbie (Thompson) Bunker. The father was a fanner in Straffortl county, where he was born and where he died at the age of forty-nine years. He niarried Abbie Thompson and they had two children, Mrs. Mary J. Delaney and Fred M. Fred M. Bunker was reared on the home farm and attended school in Dur- ham and Dover. For the past four years he has been in the grocery business but it is fifteen years since he embarked in the coal business, which he has e-xpanded into a local industry of importance, giving employment to a number of men. Mr. Bunker married Miss Edna Demerritt and they have two children, a son and daughter. The former, Ralph Bunker, who is associated with his father in business, married Bernice Home and they have one son, Kenneth. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 571 The daughter, Blanche, is the wife of Paul Knowlton. In politics Mr. Bunker is a Republican and formerly was town supervisor of Durham. He is a member of the Knights of Malta and of Dover Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. E. K. VARNE^^ who is a member of the firm of Swett & Varney, elec- trical contractors, at No. 26 Third street. Dover, is doing an excellent business, the firm meeting the demands of a large trade. He was born at Madbury, Strafiford county, N. H., in 1870. and is a son of Albert and Antoinette (Crockett) Varney. The father was also bom in New Hampshire and was engaged for some years in farming but now lives retired, on Belmont street, Dover. His family consisted of three children : Annie, E. K., and Effie. E. K. Varney attended school in his nati\e place and then went to work on the farm but not feeling satisfied, secured a place with the General Electric Company at Lynn, Mass., and remained there seven years. When he returned to Dover he found employment with the Dover Electric Eight Com])any and continued with them until 1909, when he started his own enterprise, being asso- ciated with E. H. Swett. Mr. Varney married Miss Clara Hill, and they have two children, Gladys and Viola. The family attends the Methodist Episcopal church. Politically he is a l\e])ul)lican and fraternally an Odd Eellow and Knight of Pythias. HON. GEORGE SE^^^\RD EROST was born at the Frost homestead, on the west side of Oyster River, July 4, 1844. He was son of William Pepperrell and Mary (Hoole) Frost. His maternal grandmother was of the distinguished Prince family of Massachusetts, and a lineal descendant of Elder William Brewster, the Pilgrim minister. The ancient spelling of the name was Ffrost, and was so used by the generations down to Judge George Seward Frost, who dropped the use of the small "f." Judge Frost is seventh in descent from the immigrant ancestor. Nicholas Ffrost, who was born in Tiverto, ".April ye 25th, 1585," and came to New- England in 1632. In an old family Bible is the record of his parents in England. which says: "John Ffrost, Borne Nov'br ye 17th, 1558, near Carnbre Hill, Cornwall, Anna Plamden, Borne Oct'r ye 8th, 1563. John and .'Anna Married May ye loth, 1587." Nicholas Ffrost settled on the east shore of the Pascataqua River, in what is now Eliot, directly across the river from Dover Point, in 1634, known as Leighton's Point. His wife's name was Bertha Cad walla. He resided there until he received a grant of land in 165 1 on the south side of what is known as Frost's Hill, in Eliot, at the head of Sturgeon Creek, which is opposite the "Upper Neck" in Dover, Sturgeon Creek being on the east side of tlie New- 572 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY chawanncx-k river. The hill received its name from him. and has remained in possession of the Frost family to the present time (1913). He held various town offices. He died in 1663. leaving a large estate to his family. IMajor Charles Frost, his eldest son, was bom in Twerton, England, 30th of July, 1633. His wife was Mary Bowls, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Howell) Bowls of Wells, Me. He resided on Frost Hill, where he was killed by the Indians, July 4, 1697, as he and his family were returning from meet- ing on the Lord's day. The place where he was killed is marked with a bronze tablet placed on a boulder. Major Frost was one of the prominent and influ- ential men of the town and owned much land. Hon. John Frost, third child and second son of Major Charles, was born March i. 1680-81 ; married September 4, 1702, Mary, daughter of William and Margery ( Bray) Tepperrell, and lived in Newcastle, N. H. He died February 25, 1732-3. In his younger days he ser\ed in the British navy and rose to be commander of a British war ship. Afterward he was a merchant at Newcastle, and was a man of influence in political circles, and was member of the gover- nor's council. His grave is still pointed out in the graveyard in that town. Mary Pepperrell. his wife, was sister of Sir William Pepperrell. Their father settled at the Isles of Shoals in 1676, then a good fishing station. Later he came over to Kittery, married Margery Bray, and built the historic Pep- perrell mansion, which his son. Sir William, inherited. Margery's father, John Bray, built the house now standing east of the Pepperrell house. The Bray house is said to be the oldest house in ^^laine. Mary Pepperrell Frost was born in the Pepjierrell mansion. Judge George Frost, fifth son of Hon. John and Mary ( Pepperrell) Frost, was bom April 26, 1720. He married Margaret Weeks, daughter of Major Weeks of Greenland. He resided at Durham. He was appointed one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas when Strafford county was organized in 1773, and for a number of years was chief justice; he was in oftice until 1 79 1. He was delegate to the Continental Congress in \'/-/(\ 1777 and 1779- He was one of the council in 1781, 1782 and 1783. George Frost, Esq., son of Judge George, was born at Durham. 3d of December, 1765. He married, April 3. 1797, Mehitable Burleigh, daughter of James and Mehitable (Sheafe) Burleigh. He was a merchant, shipbuilder and leading citizen of Durham for many years. He died in i84rx William Pepperrell Frost, son of the last named George, was bom in 18 u. He married October 18, 1842, Mary Hoole. He died in 1886. He and his brother George were in partnership together at Durham many years as mer- chants and were noted for their energy, integrity and business capacity. Judge George Seward Frost, the subject of this sketch, is one of two sons. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 573 of whom William Edward died at the age of 17 years. Born June 4, 1844, George S. Frost was educated in the pubHc schools of the town, Durham Acad- emy and Phillips Exeter Academy, which latter institution he entered the last tenn of the junior class of 1861. Graduating that year, he remained another year at Exeter and entered the sophomore class of Harvard College, from which he was graduated in 1865 with the degree of A. D. He received the degree of A. M. in 1868. He commenced the study of law at Dover in the ofifice of Judge Keremiah Smith, in 1866, where he remained tv\ o years. Grad- uated from Harvard Law School in 1868, he was admitted to the Suffolk County bar in Boston, July 7. 1868: practiced in Boston. July 30, 1872, he was appointed trial justice for West Roxbury, which office he held until that district was annexed to Boston in 1874 ; June 9th of that year he was appointed associate justice for the Boston Court for the district of West Roxbury, but declined the appointment. He was member of the Boston School Committee in 1874 and 1875, for Ward 17; declined a re-election. November 6, 1875 he was appointed assistant district attorney of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, which office he held until November, 1877, when he resigned on account of ill health produced by over work. In all these various positions Judge Frost showed marked ability to such a degree that he received recommendations from several of the leading lawyers of Boston for an appointment as justice of the Superior Court. Had his health not given out, no doubt he would have received the appointment for which those big lawyers regarded him highlv (jualified. Up to this time his family had resided at Jamaica Plain. He removed his family to Dover, N. H.. in the winter of 1877-78, since when he has resided in this city. He was obliged to live a quiet life for two years to regain his health. In 1881 he was elected representative of Ward 4 for the Legislature, in which he held a high position on the Judiciary Com- mittee. June Ji, i88j, he was appointed judge of the Police Court for Dover, which office he held continuously thirty-one years, until he was abolished July I, 1913, by the District Court of Dover, w hich had been established by the General Court of 1913. Governor Felker appointed him judge of this new court, he and Associate Justice Edw. H. Adams of Portsmouth being the only two Republicans in the state who received such an honor from the Democratic governor. During his long service of more than thirty years Judge Frost was called upon to render many decisions of great importance, from some of which appeals were taken, but it was only in a very few instances that his decisions were over-ruled by the higher courts. He has a good, clean, high-nu'nded record from beginning to end of his service of police court judge. Judge Frost was delegate from Ward 4 in the Constitutional Convention 574 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY of 1905, and served on important committees. November 8, 1888, he was elected member of the School Committee for Ward 4, and lield the otfice con- tinuously until January, 1897, when he declined a re-election. He was chair- man of the School Committee 1895 and 1896. He has been senior warden of St. Thomas Episcopal Churcli about 27 years and declined a re-election. He has been a director of the Strafford National Bank 27 years ; charter member of the Bellamy Club; also a charter member of Moses Paul Lodge, A. F. & A. M.. and is a 32d degree Mason. He has been a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association for more than thirty years and has done a large amount of work as a consulting lawyer. Those who consult him feel sure they will get the law straight and sound. He is one of the incorporators of the Wentworth Home for the aged, and has been one of its trustees continuously from it;, opening in 1898. In a w ord Judge FVost has been a very busy man and a \ery useful citizen in a nuiltitude of ways. On the 6th of December, 1870, Judge Frost was united in marriage with Miss Martha Hale Low, at Dover, N. H. She is daughter of Dr. Nathaniel and Mary Ann (Hale) Low of Dover, in which city she was born the 13th of June, 1841. Her father, a distinguished physician, was born 4th of July, 1 792; her mother was born nth of November, 1798; they were married 1 8th of November, 1818; residence, Dover. He died April 2, 1883: she died October 7, 1882. She was daughter of Hon. William Hale, who married April 30, 1794, Lydia Rollins, daughter of Judge Ichabod and Ruth Thilpot Rollins. Mr. Hale was born in Portsmouth, August 6, 1765 ; he died in Dover, November 8. 1848. He was son of Major Samuel Hale, who married May 23, 1751, Mary Wright, daughter of Capt. Thomas Wright of Portsmouth. Major Hale died in that city, July 10, 1807, and his wife March 11. 181 1. Both are i unicd in the North Cemetery, near the railway station in Portsmouth. William Hale lived in Dover. He was a merchant and ship builder and ship owner with his brother, Judge Samuel Hale of Barrington. He was State Senator from 1797 to 1801 ; member of the Governor's Council, 1803 to 1805: repre- sentative in Congress six years 1809 to 181 1 and 1813 to 1817. The father of his wife was one of the first judges in the courts of Strafford County Mrs. Frost is a worthy descendant of such excellent ancestors. The children of Judge George S. and Martha Hale (Low) Frost are: Mary Pepperrell, born at Dover, Sept. 18, 1871. Margaret Hamilton, born at Jamaica Plain, Mass., Nov. 21, 1873. Sarah Low, born at Dover, Oct. 7, 1875. Elizabeth Rollins, born at Dover, Dec. 29, 1881. Of these daughters, Mary Pepperrell graduated from Smith College, 1894; married June 10, 1897; James Cowan Sawyer ; lives in Andover, Mass. Their children are : George Frost Sawyer, born June 25, 1902; Charles Henry Sawyer, born Oct. 20, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 575 1906. Miss Elizabeth Rollins l'"rost graduated from Smith College in 1903; graduated from the Albany Library School; was assistant librarian at Butfalo, N. Y., and at the Carnegie library at I'ittsburgh, Pa., is now reference librarian at Waterbury, Conn. Saraii was assistant librarian Doxer Public Library a number of years. Slie is also librarian for Phillips Andox'er .Vcadeuiy, Ando\er. Mass. WILLIS IMcDCI'J'EI*]. president and editor of the L'ourier Publishing Company, of Rochester, X. H., a citizen well known and highly esteemed all over Strafford County, was born in Rochester, X. H., March 15, 1S68, a son of Franklin and Mary Frances (Hayes) McDuffee. Ancestors of the McDufTee family were among the first settlers of Do\er, and for generations representa- tives of the family have been among the best known and most useful citizens of the count}-. The paternal grandfather of our suljject, John McDut'fee, was a well known Ijanker. founding the first Inmk in this section. Franklin McDuffee, father of Willis, graduated from Dartmouth College and studied law, but instead of practicing that profession, went into the banking business with his father, and it remained his occupation throughout the rest of his life, which terminated in 1880. His widow now resides in Rochester, this county. They had tw o sons, Willis and John Edgar, the latter of whom died in igoo. Willis iVlcDuft'ee began his education in the schools of Rochester and then attended Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in the class of 1890. After six months spent in foreign travel, he formed a partnersliip, in 1891, with William W. Lougee (now |)racticing medicine in Massachusetts) in the journalistic enterprise of which he is now the head. In 1894 the present stock company was formed. Charles G. Janness is now business manager, the stockholders being Gov. Samuel D. Felker, Ex-mayor R. V. Sweet, N. T. Kimball, Charles G. Janness, and the subject of this sketch. This enterprise has achieved a pronounced success. The Courier is a bright, newsy journal, up-to-date in all its departments, and deserving of the large circulation to which it has attained. It is neat in appearance, reliable in its news, and its editorial page usually contains some timely clean cut thoughts on the leading topics of the hour. For a number of years Mr. McDuffee has lieen actively interested in politics. He formerly served on the school board for three years, was representative to the state legislature in 1895, and for some time was a member of the Repub- lican State Committee. In 1906 he was one of the men to start the progressive movement in the state, but declined to enter the third party movement in 1912. presiding at the meeting of the Progressi\-es at Concord in opposition to this 576 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY movement, which was responsible for carrying the state for Taft at the primaries. He is a Knight Templar Mason. Mr. McDuffee was married July 22, 1897, to Miss Dora Haley, of Barring- ton, N. H., who is well known throughout the State as a vocalist of great talent. They have two children — Franklin and Maude Chase. The family are affiliated with the Congregational church and are prominent in the best society of Rochester. GEORGE A. TOLMAN, M. D., a well known physician and surgeon, in successful practice at Dover, N. H., was born in Maine, July 6, 1867, the only child of George and Eliza A. (Spofford) Tolman. His father, who was a merchant, is now retired, and both parents reside at the home of our sub- ject. George A. Tolman, after acquiring his elementary education in the public schools, attended the Westbrook Seminary. He was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1890 and Maine Medical College in 1893, and graduated from New York Post-Graduate Hospital and became assistant to Dr. Carl Beck a noted New York surgeon. He began the practice of his profession in Dover in 1894, and has since built up for himself a large and profitable clientage. He belongs to a number of medical societies, including the American Medical Association, the State of Maine Medical Association, the New Hampshire State Medical Association, the District and Strafford County Aledical Association, and the New Hampshire Surgical Club and Dover Medical Society. He is a 32d degree Mason, belongs also to the Royal Arcanum, and in politics is a Repub- lican. As a citizen he is held in high esteem. Dr. Tolman married I\Iiss Clara E. Rounds, a daughter of George H. Rounds, of Portland, and they have one child, Eloise P. The family affiliate with the Congregational Church, and reside at No. 37 Summer street. Dr. Tolman's office is located in the Strafford National Bank Building. CHARLES H. PrfMAN, one of the substantial citizens of Farmington, who carries on a satisfactory business in insurance and real estate, was born July 13, 1844. at Bamstead, N. H., in the neighborhood of which he spent the first twenty-five years of his life. He is a son of Henry and Druzilla (Miles) Pitman, the former of whom was born in New Hampshire and the latter in Vermont. Both have rested for many years in the family lot in the old cemetery at Barnstead. Charles H. Pitman was the third member of his parents' family of four children. He attended the public schools of Barnstead and an academy at i'ittsfield and continued to assist his father on the home farm until the fall of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 577 1869, when he came to Farmington. Here he entered the employ of James E. Fernald, with whom he remained for thirteen years, during this time assisting Mr. Fernald to establish the Farmington "News." Subsequently he embarked in the insurance business and also opened a job printing office, conducting the latter enterprise for twenty-two years and then selling it. Since then he has devoted his entire attention to insurance and real estate. He has made property investments here and is a stable and dependable citizen of the town. In 1872 Mr. Pitman was married to Miss Emma J. Crosby, a daughter of Ebeneezer H. Crosliy. The one daughter of this marriage died in 1907, at the age of thirty-three years. She was the wife of Fred W. Holmes and is survived by one son, Charles Leslie Holmes, who is a young man of twenty-one years and is of a literary turn, at present being correspondent for Dover newspapers and the Boston "Globe." In 1885 Mr. Pitman was married (sec- ondly) to Miss Carrie L. Pearl, a daughter of Charles L. Pearl, of Farming- ton. Mr. and Mrs. Pitman are members of the Order of Rebeckah and of the Pythian Sisters, and he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, to the Odd Fellows and the Masons. I'^or eleven years Mr. Pitman was a memljer of the New Hampshire National Guard, holding rank as second lieutenant, first lieu- tenant and then captain, for eight years being captain of Company F, of the Second Regiment and then resigned. He was elected major of the Second Regiment, but declined to serve on account of business. A Democrat in politics, he has frequently been sought for public office, including that of state representative, and has ser\ed four years as town clerk, si.x years as a member of the school board, three years ;is tax collector, and in 1912 was town treasurer of Farmington. He also served as clerk of the Fannington Village Precinct for seventeen years. CURTIS W. BLAISDELL, one of the well known residents of Strafford county, residing on his valuable farm of thirty-eight acres, situated in Rollins- ford, was bom January 21, 1S58, at Lebanon Center, Me., and is a son of John and Sarah (Drew) Blaisdell, and a grandson of Enoch Blaisdell, all of the same state. The father was born at Lebanon and the mother at Newfield and both are now deceased. Curtis W. Blaisdell continued to live in his native town until he was nineteen years of age. attending school in the meanwhile. He then came to Strafford county and for two winters afterward attended school in Rollinsford. By trade he is a carpenter and follows the same when not engaged with his farm, on which he settled in 1877. On December 5, 1893, he was married to Miss Belle Randall, who was born at North Berwick, Me., July 5, 1864, and is a daughter of Isaac S. and Olive (Coffin) Randall. The father of Mrs Blaisdell 34 578 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY was a native of North Berwick, where the family is an old settled one, and he still lives there, being now in his Sjd year. The mother died May 17, 1909, having passed her seventy- fourth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Blaisdell have one daughter, Edna M., who was born June 20, 1895, and is a student in the Dover High School. For several years Mr. Blaisdell has been a director of the Salmon Falls Bank. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to the Calvin Baptist church of South Berwick, while Mrs. Blaisdell is a member of the Old School Baptist church. HARLAN P. LORD, dairyman and milk dealer, who has resided on his present farm near Rollinsford, N. H., since 1909, was born May 30, 1880, at Effingham, Carroll county. N. H., and is a son of Thomas B. and Harriet P. (Burbank) Lord, and a grandson of Thomas and a great-grandson of Thomas B. Lord. It was the great-grandfather who came from England very many years ago, settling at Berwick, Me., where he reared his family. One of his sons, Thomas Lord, subsequently located in Carroll county, N. H.. and founded a settlement which perpetuates his name as Lord's Hill. There the father of 1 larlan P. Lord was born and there he died when the latter was three years old. Harlan P. Lord attended the public schools of Efifingham and for two years was a student in a seminary at Parsonfield, Me. He was eighteen years old when he began to work in the milk business and for five years was in the employ of Childs' Bros., a large firm of Waltham, Mass. Later he was with H. P. Hood & Sons, well known wholesale and retail milk dealers, for four years, in their milk depot at Charlestown, Mass. He tluis had a large amount of practical experience in this industry and was well prepared to embark in it when he came to Rollinsford in May, 1909. He has built up a fine trade and has a paying milk route in Dover. His farm of fifty acres is devoted mainly to dairying and his sanitary and well equipped buildings are always ready for inspection. In June. 1909, Mr. Lord was married to Miss Celia R. Mudgett, a daughter of the late Willie Mudgett, of Conway Center, N. H. They have one son, Almon M., who was born June 18, 191 1. Mr. Lord is a very intelligent and progressive man and in his views on public questions is inclined to identify himself with what is known as the Progressive party. He belongs to the Hiram R. Roberts Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. IRA W. DUNTLEY, who is one of Milton's best known citizens, holds a record for continuous work in one line, having been engaged in horseshoeing for fifty-four years, in his own blacksmith shop, after three years' similar service during the Civil war, as a member of Company K, First R. I. Cavalry, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 579 and of Company K, First N. H. Cavalry. He was born in the village of Milton, N. H., March i6, 1842, and is a son of Hazen and Phoebe (Laughton) Duntley. llazeu Duntley was reared in Vermont and New Hampshire, probably at Farmington, in the latter state, as he tlicre married Phoebe Laughton, who dierl when aged fifty-eight years. Tliey had eleven children, six of whom are still living. In 1838 Hazen Duntley built his blacksmith sliop on almost the same site as that now owned by his son, Ira \V., and followed the blacksmitli trade during all his active life, during the Civil war serving as a blacksmith for three years in the same regiments as his son. He was an expert workman and a dependable, honest man. In politics he was a Democrat and religiously was affiliated with tlie Free Baptist church. He died in 1884 in his eightieth year. Ira W. Duntley attended the \illage school and learned his trade with his father. After serving three years in the army, as noted above, he w as honorably discharged December 4, 1864, in Virginia, and returned then to Milton, where he has carried on his work as horseshoer and blacksmith to the present time. He is a member of and at times has been an official of Eli Wentworth Post, G. A. R., No. 89, at Milton and is greatly interested in Grand Anny aiTairs. In politics he gives support to the Democratic party but does not call himself a politician. Mr. Duntley married Miss Sarah A. Hodgeman, who was liorn near Lowell, Mass., and they have two datighters: Ada C, who is the wife of Robert Mcintosh, of j\IiIton; and Hattie M., who resides with her parents. Mr. Duntley and family attend the Free Baptist church. l<"br forty years he has been identified with the Milton lodge of Odd Fellows, and is a charter member of the Madokawando Tribe, No. 21, Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Duntley is highly regarded as a neighbor and citizen, being a man of upright character and cliaritable impulses. DANIEL A. GAGE, a substantial and progressive farmer of Dover and a member of a well known family of this section, was born in the town of Dover, N. PL, February 25, 1853, and is a son of Daniel and Sarah ( Hersum) Gage, and a grandson of James Gage. Grandfather Gage established the family in the section known as Gage's Hill and there Daniel Gage resided all his life, dying some years since. He was a well known and respected citizen. His wife survived him for a few years. They had two children: Walter F., who is deceased ; and Daniel A. Daniel A. Gage was reared in the old home on Gage's Hill and continued to live there until he was thirty years of age. He attended the public schools and also Franklin Academy at Dover. About 1885 he located on his present valuable farm of 120 acres in the Blackwater District and gives attention to general farming and stock raising. In politics he votes with the Republican 580 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY party and has served two terms as selectman from the First Ward. For many years he has taken a deep interest in the grange movement and belongs to Cocheco Grange No. 8i, Patrons of Husbandry, in which he has filled the office of steward, and also to Eastern New Hampshire Pomona Grange and to the New Hampshire State Gi-ange. Mr. Gage attends the Methodist Episcopal church. HON. PAUL LA BONTE. mayor of Somersworth, who conducts an up-to-date grocery store at No. 183 Main street, that city, was born at Salmon Falls, this county, in Feb. 1 1. 1876, a son of George and Margaret (Guilmette) La Bonte. The father was a native of Canada who came to the United States and Located at Gt. Falls, later removing to Salmon Falls, this county. He died here at the age of 82 years. He and his wife were the parents of 16 children. Paul La Bonte began his education in the common school at Salmon Falls. N. H. He subsequently attended college at Levis, in the Province of Quebec. Canada. Returning to New Hampshire after his graduation, he entered the grocery business in Somersworth as clerk and applied himself to learn the trade. About nine years ago he bought out his employer and started his present business, dealing in a general line of groceries. He has always kept a high grade stock and has a large patronage. A Democrat in politics, he has been quite active in public affairs and has been elected to some important oflRces by his fellow citizens. He served as councilman from the Fourth Ward for four years, was city clerk four years, sanitary ofificer one term, and was elected mayor of the city in March, 19 12, in all of which positions, as well as in some others, he has served with efficiency and with an eye to the public interest. His society affiliations include member- ship in St. Jean Baptiste Society; Court Rochambeau, Catholic Order of Foresters ; Court St. Martin, A. C. A. : L'Union St. Jean Baptiste. of America; Artisans Canadiens Francais, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Mr. La Bonte married Georgiana La Bonte. of Somersworth, N. H. They have had two adopted children — Eva, who died at the age of 16 years, and Raymond, who survives. The family belong to St. Martin Catholic church. A. NOEL SMITH, M. D., is one of the oldest medical and surgical prac- titioners in Dover, where he has successfully practiced his profession for the last thirty-five years. He was born in Meddybemps, Me.. July 29. 1851. a son of Dr. Samuel M. and Mary E. (Nickerson) Smith, the father, a graduate of Bowdoin. being a well known physician. I>r. Smith's elementarj- education was acquired in the public schools, and he subsequently attended AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 581 Calais, Me., Academy, where he was graduated in 1868. From there he went to the medical school at Bowdoin college, graduating in 1872. After tak- ing a post-graduate course at Harvard in 1872- 1873, he began the practice of his profession in the year last mentioned at Silver City, Idaho, remaining there until 1878. He then returned east and located in Dover, where he has since remained. He is a member of the Dover, County, State, and American medical associations, and has served as president of both the Dover and County associations. He belongs also to the Masonic order and to the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a Republican, and was a member and chairman of the school board. Dr. Smith was first married, in 1874, to Miss Hattie M. McCann, whose death occurred in 1885. Three children blessed this union, namely: Arthur Thad, Laura H. and Ina E. Smith. In 1886 Dr. Smith married for his second wife. Miss Ella Dame, a daughter of Moses Dame. Dr. Smith is one of the best known and most popular medical men in Dover. Since coming here in the late seventies he has built up an excellent practice and made many fast friends. As a citizen lie is interested in every movement calculated to promote the moral or material welfare of the community in which he lives. He has a pleasant and commodious residence on Mt. Vernon street, while his office is located at No. 430 Central Avenue. FRANK L. HAYES, one of the reliable business men of Rollinsford, N. H., who is in the dairy business and operates a milk route in Dover, was born in South Farmington, N. H., May 14, 1852, and is a son of Charles C. and Elizabeth W. (Pollard) Hayes, and a grandson of Levi Hayes, who was a native of Barrington, N. H. Charles C. Hayes was born and reared at South Farmington, N. H. He married Elizabeth W. Pollard, who was born at Acton, Me. In the spring of i860 Charles C. Hayes moved to Rollinsford. N. H., settling on the fann which his son now owns and occupies. He followed farming and dairying and for 25 years during his early manhood taught winter terms of school. He was a man of solid character and educational acquirements, having enjoyed advantages at both Strafford and Gilmanton academies. For some years he was superintendent of the public schools of Rollinsford. In his political views he was a Republican. For a considerable period he was a member of the Masonic fraternity. His death occurred on his fanii July 7, 1888. He had survived his wife for sixteen years, she passing away March 14, 1872. She was the mother of two children: Nellie F.. who is the wife of Albert Elliot, of Rollinsford : and Frank L. Frank L. Hayes was eight years old when his parents settled in Rollinsford, 582 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY where he attended the public schools and, later, Franklin academy at Dover, N. H. He was reared to farm pursuits and has made dairying a specialty. After many years of business association with his fellow citizens his record shows that he is respected and esteemed by them and is held as a man of sterling character. Mr. Hayes married Miss Jennie S. Home, who died December 2^, 1912. Her parents were Augustus E. and Rebecca (Carley) Home, formerly of Rochester, N. H., but both now deceased. Mrs. Hayes was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, attending church at Dover. In politics Mr. Hayes is a Republican. He takes much interest in progressive agriculture and is a charter member of the Hiram R. Roberts Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Mrs. Hayes also belonged to this organization. HON. ALBERT F. SEAVEY, now deceased, for many years was closely identified with the business life of Dover and with public affairs in Strafford county. He was born December 29, 1843, in the town of Rochester, Strafford county, N. H., and died at Dover, December 14, 1909. His parents, Samuel F. and Eliza (Ham) Seavey, were lifelong residents of New Hampshire. Albert F. Seavey grew to manhood on the home farm, where he gave his father assistance while attending the public schools and the Rochester Academy, and then came to Dover, where he was an employe of a shoe factory for four years. Afterward, in association with his brother, J. F. Seavey, he established the clothing firm of J. F. Seavey & Co., with which he remained connected during life. During the last eight or ten years of his life he was also owner and proprietor of the Albert F. Seavey Co., dealers in lumber. He Charles H. Seavey & Co., dealers in lumber. While his business concerns profited by his judgment and foresight, he yet found time to take part in public affairs, for which his natural gifts well fitted him, and he served in numerous responsible elective and appointive positions. In politics he was a Democrat and in 1874 and 1875 served as a member of the common council of Dover, representing the Fourth Ward, and in 1876 and 1877 was a member of the New Hampshire legislature. In 1874 he served as a member of the staff of Governor James A. Weston. In every position he sen'ed with the integrity that marks the honorable and unselfish public man. On July 31, 1883, Mr. Seavey was married to Miss Marietta Fogg, a daughter of Charles F. and Rebecca F. (Webster) Fogg, of Dover, and they had five children: Alice Mary, Marion Webster, Harold Leon, Helen Grace and Katharine Fogg. The family attend the St. Thomas Episcopal church. Mr. Seavey was a thirty-second degree Mason and belonged also to Olive AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 583 Branch Lodge No. 6, Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank; to the Knights of Honor and to the Improved Order of Red Men. CHARLES ALBERT FAIRBANKS, M. D., was born in Portsmouth, N. H., December 17, 1849; removed to Dover with his parents in 1855, and has since resided here. He was a student in the Dover High School for three years and entered the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in the full course in 1871. He studied medicine in the ofiice of Dr. John Randolph Ham and in the Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1877. He is son of Albert Augustus and Lydia L. (Brock) Fairbanks, the former of whom was born in Dedham, Mass., October 21, 1821, and died in Dover, February 19, 1890, where he had resided for thirty years, the larger part of which time as an expert machinist for the Cocheco Manufacturing Company. His wife was born in Barrington, N. H., September 21, 1821, and was daughter of Ralph and Dorothy (Young) Brock. She died in Dover, January 19, 1892. Dr. Fairbanks is ninth in descent from Jonathan Fairbanke ( Fairbank, Fairbanks) of Dedham, Mass., the immigrant ancester, who was born in England before 1600, came with his family to Boston in 1633, and settled in Dedham in 1635, where he resided until his death, December 5, 1668. The large two-story mansion house which he built in that town is now the property of the Fairbanks Family Association. Dr. Fairbanks' grandfather, Capt. Abner Fairbanks, lived in Forborough, Mass. He served in the War of 1812. He was son of Abner Fairbanks of Dedham, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary anny, serving several years. These two ancestors were substantial citizens and well-to-do farmers. The ancestors intervening between these and the immigrant were John 5th, Joseph 4th. Joseph 3d, John 2d. They were all born in Dedham and resided there, good, reputable, prosperous citizens. Former Vice President Fairbanks is 8th in descent from the same immigrant ancestor, and the list of his descendants contains the names of many illustrious men. On graduating from Dartmouth College in 1871 Dr. Fairbanks engaged in mechanical drafting at Boston, in the employ of the National Bridge and Iron Works, and after a year and a half went to work in the same capacity for the Flint & Marquette Railroad Company, at East Saginaw, Mich. After three years of this kind of work he concluded to give it up and take up the study of medicine. On returning to Dover he was appointed station agent here for the Portsmouth Railroad Company, and a year later began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. John R. Ham, reinaining with him one year. He then entered Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated M. D. in 584 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY the class of 1877. After a brief stay in Fall River, Mass., where he began the pracuce of his profession, he came, on March 18, 1878, to Dover and opened an office here, where he has since remained. For thirty-six years he has occupied the same office rooms continuously; no other physician has a like record in one office apartment. In 1878 Dr. Fairbanks was elected county physician and held the office successfully and satisfactorily four years. He has sen'ed as city physician fifteen years; a member of the Board of Health ten years. He has been a member of the School Committee continuously since 1882, and chairman of that committee six years and at present holds the position ; his long experi- ence and good judgment in school matters and progressive education make him one of the most valuable members of the board. He was secretary of the board fourteen consecutive years, and his records are models of neatness and correctness. He has been trustee of the public library three years; trustee of the Pine Hill Cemetery three years; moderator of Ward Three for sixteen annual elections. He has been water commissioner twelve years, being a member of the original board when the works were established by the city and holding the office continuously. He has served as a member of the Pension Board since 1897. Dr. Fairbanks became a member of Strafford County Medical Society in 1878, and has been its secretary twenty years, but not continuously. He has served as president of it two years and has read several valuable papers before it. Dr. Fairbanks was mayor of Dover three years, 1898, 1899 ^"<^ 1900. In his first year many improvements were made in streets and sewers and extension of the water pipes into new territory, but the chief contest was over the question of purchasing a steam road-roller. After several trials in the councils the proposition was defeated. The chief event of Mayor Fair- banks' third year was the construction of the new engine-house on Broadway fo- '' fire department, to take the place of the Lincoln hook and ladder house on First street. There was the usual amount of discussion as to location and plans, but it was finally placed on Broadway, where the Free Baptist Church stood at a cost of $9,200. It is a model of convenience for fire purposes and is centrally located. Mayor Fairbanks veiT properly felt proud of his achieve- ments in this work. His three years' service make a record of prudent man- as^ement of city finances, so far as he could control business, and many improve- ments \vere made iii many iiarts of the city. In the later years Dr. Fairbanks was representative from Ward Three in the General Court in 1907-8 and ic)09-io, serving on important committees with credit for his good judgment of bills and public measures and his readv AND REPRESKNTATIYI': CITIZENS 585 and intelligent discussion in committee meetings, and he is a ready and inter- esting speaker. He was member of the Republican State Central Committee for eight years, during important campaigns. He has been chairman of the Republican City Committee ten years or more. So it is apparent that Dr. Fairbanks has been a very busy and very useful citizen during his thirty-six years of professional life in Dover. He is an orator of exceptional ability, and a ready debater when it becomes necessary to enter into a contest on any cjuestion of public policy. He is a very entertaining conversationalist, and as a public official, conservative, capable and of rigid probity- October 21. 1884, Dr. Fairbanks was united in marriage with Miss Emma Belle Caswell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Caswell. She was a woman of marked ability, and before marriage had been a successful teacher in the public schools; a most excellent lady in every way. She died May -'X, 1888. They had no children. CHARLES W. EVANS, one of the representative men of Strafiford county and chairman of the board of assessors, is in the sixth generation of his family. He owns fifty acres of land located one and one-half miles from the city of Rochester. He was born on the old farm in January, 1842, and is a son of William and Hannah (Shannon) Evans. The father spent his entire life on this farm and died at the age of seventy-nine years. Charles W. Evans is one of a family of eleven children born to his parents and all of those who reached maturity attended the Rochester schools. He remained with his father until he was thirty years of age, after which for some years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits in other sections, spending ten years in Belknap county, after which he returned to the old home town. Mr. Evans married Miss Clara A. Young and they have two sons : William J., head bookkeeper for the S. S. Pierce Company, Boston, who married Ethie Calnan; and Fred A., with the Grimes Wholesale Produce Company. Dover, who married Mary Martin. In politics Mr. Evans is a Republican and he has been elected to many local offices, many years ago serving three terms as selectman. Since January, 1910. he has been a member of the board of assessors, of which he has been chairman for two years. Fraternally he is identified with the .\. O. U. W., the Red Men and the Patrons of Husbandry. ^^'ith his family Mr. Evans attends the Baptist church. The family residence is at No. 115 Charles street, Rochester. EDWARD C. BATCHELDER, M. D., one of Dover's physicians and surgeons, was born in New Hampshire. October 17, 1878, one of the two children of Nathaniel M. and Clara (Carpenter) Batchelder. The subject 586 . HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY of this sketch was graduated from the public schools of Pittsfield, and after- ward attended Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1898, and in 1904 was graduated from the Dartmouth Medical School. He was subsequently, for two years, a surgeon in Bellevue Hospital, New York, where he had abundant opportunity for becoming acquainted with the practical part of his profession. In 1906 he located in Dover, where he has since remained, and where he has already built up a good practice, having offices in the Masonic Temple. He is identified with the Masonic Order, and in politics is a Republican. November 17, 1905, Dr. Batchelder married Miss Gertrude Kaime, a daughter of Frank E. Kaime, of St. Louis, Mo., and of this union there is one child, Edna G. Dr. Batchelder and family are affiliated with the Episco- pal church, their residence being at 250 Washington street, Dover. HARRY P. HENDERSON, one of Dover's most progressive citizens, who is identified with the insurance and real estate business, including surety bonds, having offices at 478 Central Avenue, is one of a family of two children bom to his parents, John H. and Maria Henderson. The father, now deceased, was formerly extensively engaged in the manufacturing business in this county. The subject of this sketch was born in Dover, N. H., October 30, 1872. Graduating from the public schools in 1891, he then engaged in the inanufac- ture of brick and was thus occupied until 1897, when he entered into his present business, in whicii he has been very successful. He is a member of the Masonic order and has been eminent commander of St. Paul Commandery, K. T., since 1910. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. Aside from his regular business above mentioned, he is a director in the Merchants' National Bank and a trustee of the Merchants' Savings Bank. In politics he is a Republican. In 1895 Mr. Henderson married Miss Alberta Parker, a daughter of Dr. Henry R. Parker, of Dover, and he and his wife are the parents of two children — Maud O. and Ella P. JOHN D. O'DOHERTY, one of Dover's prominent physicians and sur- geons, was born in Ireland, August 15, 1867, a son of William and Jane (Agnew) O'Doherty. His father was also a native of Ireland, where he fol- lowed the vocation of a farmer. The subject of this sketch acquired his elementary education in the public schools of his native town. He then for some time attended the University of Dublin, Ireland. After coming to America he became a student at Harvard College, and later, in 1888, was graduated from the Georgetown University, with the degree of A. M. For a short time subsequently he resided in Boston, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 587 whence he came to Dover. After remaining here awhile, however, lie returned to Boston, residing there three years. Returning again to Dover in 1890, he has since remained a resident of this city. He l>elongs to the local medical society, the Strafford County Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He was city physician of Dover for two years, and is now serv- ing as county physician. As a physician and surgeon he ranks among the foremost in this county. Fraternally he belongs to the Elks and the Eagles, and politically he is a Republican, but has ne\er found time to take part in public affairs. He has a conxenient olfice at No. 5 Locust street. FRANK E. HUSSEY, a representative and useful citizen of Rochester, who is setn'ing in the office of city clerk, is a native of California, born at Vallejo, May 9, 1870, a son of Daniel and Mary (Evans) Hussey. Daniel Hussey. a blacksmith by trade, was born in New Hampshire and moved to California prior to the birth of his son. In 1882 he returned to his native state and died at Rochester at the age of seventy-nine years. Frank E. Hussey was twelve years old when his parents returned to New Hampshire from California, where he had attended the public schools. His first employment was in the office of a manufacturing company at Rochester, where he remained three years, after which for seventeen years he was with the C. F. Trask Manufacturing Company. His election to the ofiice of city clerk, in January, 19 13, showed public recognition of his general reliability and high standing as a citizen. In politics he is a Republican and at times he has served as a member of the school board. Mr. Hussey was married in 1897 to Miss Emma Wentworth, and they have two children, Charles D. and Frank W. Mr. Hussey and family attend the Baptist church. Fraternally he is identified with the Odd Fellows and the A. O. U. W. JOHN L. SWEENEY, M. D., is a native son, having been born in Dover, February 28. 1880. He is one of the family of seven children bom to Patrick and Margaret (Mahoney) Sweeney. The father. Patrick Sweeney, was a native of Ireland, who emigrated to this country and engaged in mercantile business in Dover, N. H. John L. Sweeney was educated in the parochial schools of Dover, graduat- ing in 1893. He continued his education in St. Anselm's College at Manches- ter, N. H., where he was graduated in 1899. and subsequently studied medicine and surgery in the McGill Uni\ersity of Canada, and the Queen's University, of Ontario, taking his medical degree at the latter institution in 1908. In the following year he located in Dover, where he has since remained, having alreadv built up an excellent practice. He is a member of the Dover Medical 588 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Society, the Strafford County Medical Society, the New Hampshire State Med- ical Society and the American Medical Association, and thus keeps in close touch with the progress of his profession both in medicine and surgery. The Doctor is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and in politics is a Democrat. His office is located in the Bracewell Block, at 430 Central Avenue. F. W. CLANCY, who is manager of the box department of the New- England Cotton Yarn Company, at Rochester, with plant situated on Allen street, has held his present position since 191 1, coming here from New Bedford, Mass. He was bom at Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 11, 1886, and is a son of H. S. and Susan (Harrison) Clancy. H. S. Clancy was born in Phila- delphia, Pa. For many years he has been a member of the Santa Fe bar and is now assistant attorney general of New Mexico, his brother being attorney general of the state. He married Susan Harrison and they have five children. F. W. Clancy attended school at Fannington, N. H., and later took a busi- ness course in the Bryant & Stratton Commercial College, Boston. Before coming to Rochester he was in business as a broker, first at Fall River and afterward at New Bedford, Mass. The New England Cotton Yarn Company in its box department turns out wooden boxes and shooks and employment is given eighty men, it being an important industry here. Mr. Clancy married Miss Eda F. Barker, of Farmington, and they have one son, Frank B. In politics Mr. Clancy is a Republican. ORRIN E. NASON, who is a member of one of the old families of Dover, has long been a representative citizen, deeply concerned in all measures that promise to l>e advantageous to his native section of the country. He was born at Dover, N. H., September 13, 1849, and is a son of Elisha and Julia A. ( Jenness) Nason. Elisha Nason was born at Eliot, Me., a son of James Nason. who was of Scotch ancestry. When a young man, Elisha Nason came to Dover and here followed his trade of carpenter and joiner more or less during his whole life. He owned a tract of land and made his home on it, having it under cultivation. He died in 1870, a man well thought of by his fellow citizens. Of his children there are three survivors: Elizabeth H., who is the wife of Rev. George H. Wallace, of Lawrence, Mass.; Orrin E., of Dover; and Clinton L., who is a resident of Nashua, N. H. Orrin E. Nason attended the district schools in boyhood and afterward learned the shoemaking trade, which he followed at Dover for a number of years before turning his attention to his present industries, general farming, gardening and poultry raising. He owns seventeen acres of excellent land and AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 589 Mr. Nason has found it profitable to devote a part of it to his fine poultry, his favorite breed being the Rhode Island Red. Mr. Nason has been very active in public alYairs, although always independent in his political affiliations. For a number of years he served as road surveyor of his district and since the fall of 1905 has served continuously as selectman from the Fourtli Ward. On March 2, 1873, Mr. Nason was married to Miss Abbie F. Downes. who was born at Dorchester, Mass., September 25, 1849, a daughter of James M. Downes. As in many other old New England families, Indian treachery caused the death of one of the founders of the Downes family, Gershom Downes fall- ing a victim with a number of his neighbors many years ago. Mrs. Nason was a child when her father moved to Strafford county, where she has lived ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Nason have two children : Marcia N.. w ho is the w idow of Perley Sanders, of Durham, N. H. ; and E. Leroy. \vho is a resident of W est L}nin, Mass. CHARLES WESLEY T.XSKER, D. D. S., one of the first and most prominent dentists in Dover, having handsomely furnished offices in the Union Block, 123 \\'ashington street, was born in Rochester, Strafford County, N. H., September 17, 1845, a son of Thomas J. and Comfort ( Bickford) Tasker. The father, who was a native of Madbury, this county, worked at the carpenter's trade in various places during the earlier years of his manhood. Afterward he turned his attention to agriculture, purchasing a farm in Rochester, where he resided until his death, December 4, 1886, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife. Comfort, who was a native of Rochester, survived him but two weeks, passing away December 19, i88r>, in the seventy-fourth year of her age. They were the parents of seven sons, namely: George H., John C, Charles \\'., Enoch O., Thomas J., Jr., Eli B. and James F. George H., Thomas J., Jr., and James F. are now deceased. George H., who was the eldest son, served in the Civil War with the Forty-first Massachusetts Infantry under General Banks, and died of fever at Baton Rouge, La. Charles Wesley Tasker lived on the home farm during his boyhood, attend- ing successively the district schools of Rochester and Franklin Academy in Dover. When about twenty years old he began business life as a clerk in a boot and shoe store in this city, continuing thus employed for three years. Having saved some money, he then began studying with Dr. Murphy, a well known dentist, and a year later he completed his dental education in Boston. Thereupon, returning to Dover, he opened an office here in April, 1869. He has since continued in the practice of his profession, building up an extensive and finely paying patronage, and acquiring among his regular customers some of the leading families of Dover and vicinity. In politics he is a Republican, 590 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY but has never sought official honors, the duties of his profession requiring his entire time and attention. On October 9, 1869, Dr. Tasker was married to Miss Maria B. Newcomb, a native of Haverill, Mass., and a daughter of Captain Jesse S. Newcomb, who was a sea captain for many years. Of the three children born to Dr. and Mrs. Tasker, two successively named Grace, are deceased. The elder died in infancy and the second daughter at the age of six years and six months. Both parents are members of the First Congregational church. HON. J. FRANK SEAVEY. president of the Dover Co-operative Bank, and head of the J. Frank Seavey Lumber Company, manufacturers and deal- ers in pine, hemlock and hard wood lumber, is one of the best known citizens and leading business men of Strafford County, of which he is a native son. His parents were Samuel F. and Eliza K. (Ham) Seavey, and his paternal grandfather, Samuel Seavey, was a Rochester farmer, who served in the War of 1812-15. The maternal grandfather of our subject was also a soldier in that war. Samuel F. Sea\ey, father of J. Frank, was born in Rochester, this county. and spent his active years in farming. He was quite successful and at liis death, which took place when he was se\enty-t\vo years of age, he left a considerable property. A stanch Democrat politically, he took an acti\e ]>art in local affairs. He was a man of firm religious principles and lie and his wife were active and valued members of the Free Baptist church. The latter — in maidenhood, Eliza K. Ham — was. like himself, a lifelong resident of Rochester, N. H. They had a family of seven children, namely : James Frank, subject of this sketch; Mary J., Elizabeth A., Albert F., Joseph W., Charles, who died in infancy, and Charles H. J. Frank Seavey was born in Rochester, N. H., August 14, 1838. He spent his early years on the home farm and began his education in the public schools, subsequently attending the private school of Miss Caroline Knight, of Rochester, and later the Franklin Academy, of Dover. Leaving home at the age of nineteen years, he began his business career in Dover as clerk in a drygoods and grocery store, in which occupation he continued for eight years, learning every detail of the business. He was for some years subse- quently engaged in the clothing business, in partnership with his brother, Albert F., now deceased. Afterwards he became associated successively with various business enterprises, either as projector or director, and, as already stated, is now head of the well known lumber firm — the J. Frank Seavey Lumber Co. In these various positions he has shown large business capacity, evincing accurate foresight of probable conditions, comprehensive knowledge J. FRANK SEAVEY AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 593 of detail, and firm executive ability — qualities that spell success. Always a man of his word, he has the confidence both of his patrons and of his business associates. Thus richly endowed, it is but natural that Mr. Seavey should have been called on at various times to take part in public life. In 1867, when he was twenty-nine years old, he was elected a member of the common council of Dover, in which he served with credit for two years. For two years also he was selectman of his ward, and for the same length of time ward clerk. From 1869 to 1872 he served as county treasurer. In 1878 and for three years thereafter he was a member of the Legislature, and in 1881 was chosen a member of the State Senate, in 1S83, receiving the unusual honor of a re-election. He was for two years — 1903 and 1904 — a member of Gov. Na- hum J. Backelder's council. He is a Knight Templar Mason ; belongs also to the Knights of Pythias, of which order he was grand chancellor in 1876, and in 1S78 and 1879 supreme representative ; and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, hav- ing passed all the chairs of \^'echohamet Lodge of Dover, and being also a member of the Encampment. James Frank Seavey was married, April 20, 1863, to Sarah F., daughter of Daniel K. and Hannah (Hani) Webster, of Dover, N. H. Of this mar- riage there have been two children, namely : Grace W., the wife of Montgom- ery Rollins, and Walter H., who married Mabel Foster. Mrs. Sarah F. Seavey died in 1900. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Seavey is a regular attendant, and to the support of which he is a generous contributor. He takes a great interest in anything pertaining to the good of his home town and county. J. HERBERT WILLEY, postmaster at Milton, N. H., and proprietor of a drug store, was born at Salmon Falls, N. H., May 27, 1875, and is a son of James F. and Frances P. (Davis) Willey, and a grandson of A. C. Willey, of English and Scotch ancestry, on the paternal side, and of John B. Davis on the maternal side. James P. Willey was born at Wakefield, N. H. J. Herbert Willey was reared at Salmon Falls, where he attended school and also at the South Berwick Academy. He was graduated from the Massa- chusetts College of Pharmacy at Boston, after which he came to Milton to go into business. He bought the drug store of Henry Hayes, renewed his stock and made the improvements which have converted this into one of the most modern drug stores in the state. In politics he is a loyal Democrat and on August 13, 19 1 3, he was appointed postmaster to succeed Joseph H. .Avery. Milton is a thriving village and is constantly growing so that there is consider- 594 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY able business done liere and its volume is reflected in the postoffice. Mr. W'illey has H. D. Coles as his assistant. Mr. Willey is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Knight Templar. He was reared in the faith of the Episcopal church and is a member of Christ church at Salmon Falls, N. H. CHARLES H. BRADLEY, who for some years has been successfully engaged in the real estate business in Dover, N. H., was born in Danville, X. H., March 3, 1863, a son of John C. and Mary (Emerson) Bradley, the father being a well known merchant. After graduating from the New Hamp- shire Literary Institute in 1884, the subject of this sketch began his business experience in his father's store, where he remained from 1884 until October, 1893. He then came to Dover and organized what was the C. E. Brewster Company, now the C. E. Brewster Drug Company, which he carried on until about 1898. He then went to Boston, where he was engaged for some years in the brokerage business. Returning to Do\er in 1909, he here entered into the real estate and fire insurance business, in w hich he has been since engaged. He i-^ affiliated with the Dover Grange, and was one of the organizers of the Grange in his home tDwn of Danville. He also belongs to the Masonic order, having membership in the Blue lodge at Kingston, N. H. ( No. 84. F. & .A. M.). the Chapter, and St. Paul Commandery, Dover. He is a member also of the Bellamy Club of Dover. Mr. Bradley married Miss Mary Spaulding, of Northampton, Mass., the wedding taking place in September, 1893. One child was the result of this union — Josephine May, who is now attending high school. Mrs. Bradley died March 28, 1897. She was an estimable lady, a consistent member of the Con- gregational church of Northampton, Mass., and a good wife, mother and neighlx)r. Mr. Bradley is a progressive, up-to-date citizen, who takes a lively interest in the welfare of his adopted city, and whose aid and influence can always be enlisted in behalf of good government, or any practical movement for the moral or material betterment of the community. HON. DANIEL CHESLEY, senator from the 22d senatorial district of New Hampshire, comprising the towns of Durham, Madbury, Lee and Rollins- ford, and Wards i. 2 and 3 of Dover, is a resident of Durham, and a man well known throughout this section of the state for his pronfinence in public affairs and his ability as a legislator and a conservator of the public interests. He was born in Madbury, October 11, 1859, a son of Daniel and Margery Steele (Woodman) Chesley. His father was a native of Madbury and his mother of Durham. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Paul Chesley, a pronfinent AND RRPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 595 citizen of Durham, who was sixth in descent from Philip Chesley, wlio came to Old Dover from Enghmd before 1O44, as that town gave him a grant of land on the west shore of Little Bay; later he received other grants, one of which includes the farm <,n which Daniel Chesley, the subject of this sketch, now resides. Philip Chesley is frequently mentioned in the old records of the town, showing he was one of the substantial and influential citizens. His descendants have resided continuously in that part of old Dover, now Durham, to the present time, and in each generation members of the family ha\e been among its most worthy and esteemed citizens. Mr. Chesley's ancestor on the maternal side, in the first generation, in that part of old Dover now Durham, was Capt. John W'oodman, who came here from Newbury, Mass., about 1650, and in a few years built the historic Wood- man garrison, which stood in the neighborhood of where the State College now is, but. unfortunately, was burned in 189S. Capt. Woodman was one of the most prominent and influential citizens of old Dover, and of the Province of New Hampshire. Daniel Chesley, father of the present Daniel, resided all his life in Durham, where he engaged in agriculture, and at different times held town offices. He and his wife Margery were the parents of ten children, of whom seven now survive, including the subject of this sketch. The other si.x survivors are: Mrs. Rosetta Roberts, who resides with her brother Daniel; Charles P., a resident of Dover, N. H. ; Annie M., wife of Jackson Kiml>all. of Hermon, Me. ; Laura A., wife of Frank D. Randall, of Lee, N. H. ; Mrs. Carrie O. Davis, of Framengham, Mass.; and Addie M., wife of David W. Mannock, of Pittsfield, Me. The father, Daniel Chesley ( i st ) , was a Jacksonian Demo- crat in politics, and a member of and deacon in the Baptist church at Durham. Daniel Chesley, his son's namesake, with whom we are mnre directl)- C(in- cerned, was in his third year when the family removed from Madbury to Durham, and he was there reared to man's estate. Mr. Chesley was educated in the public schools of Durham, w hich have always been good schools, and in Franklin Academy at Dover. Since his school days and while engaged in the affairs of business life, he has kept himself posted in current affairs of the day and in his spare time given attention to good reading matter, which makes him an intelligent observer and judge of public affairs. On reaching his majority he engaged in business as a general contractor, which has been his principal occupation ever since, he at times having as many as 80 men in his employ. A man of first rate business ability, thorough in his methods, and having great natural tact in the handling of men, he has achieved a financial success along business lines. His farm already referred to contains 35 596 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY lOO acres, well cultivated, and he has also extensive interests in stone (luarries. He is also a director in the Merchants and Farmers National Bank. A Republican in politics, Mr. Chesley has for years taken an active part in [nihlic aii'airs. He was formerly for five years a selectman of Durham, serv- ing two years as chairman of the board. He also held other local offices there. In 1897 and 1898 he served as a representative from Durham to the state legis- lature, and while a member of the lower house aided largely in getting the appropriation for the New Hampshire State College at Durham. In Decem- ber, 1902, he was one of the members of the State Constitutional Convention held at Concord. Mr. Chesley was elected senator from the 22d senatorial district in 19 12, in a closely contested canvass, which shows he is popular with his party and has the confidence of the public in general. In the Senate of the New Hamp- shire General Court .Mr. Che.sley was acti\e and efficient in guarding the rights and interests of the people, and in support of his pariv and its principles. Among other things he was one of the most influential members of the com- mittee that framed and seconded the passage of the law relating to the liens of mechanics and nthers. Mr. Chesley has a wide acquaintance throughout StrafTord County and few men. if any, are held in higher esteem by the citizens generally. He is a member of Mt. Pleasant Lodge, I. O. O. 1'".. of Dover; of Sullivan Lodge, K. of P., at Durham, N. H.. and of Scamniel Grange. Patrons of Plusbandry, at Durham: also of the Society of New Hampshire Sons of the American Revolution, by right of the service of the great great-grandfather. Samuel Chesley was a private soldier in Capt. Philip Chesley's company (his uncle) on Seavey's Island, Portsmouth Harbor, from October, 1775, until August, 1776, active in defense of the town against any attack the British warships might make against that town and New Hampshire. In 1777 Samuel Chesley was a private soldier in Capt. George Tuttle's company. Col. Stephen E\an's regi- ment, in the battles of Stillwater and Bemis' Heights, and at the surrender of General Burgoyne and the British army at Saratoga, October 18, 1777. GEORGE T. HUGHES, of Dover, attorney-at-law, and countv solicitor of Strafford County, N. H., was born in Dover, this countv, September 2, 1873. a son of Frank and Helen (Barker) Hughes. The father, Frank Hughes, was a carriage painter by trade, which he followed all his active life. His death took place in 1878. The subject of this sketch, who is one of two children born to his parents, was educated first at public and parochial schools, then at Holy Cross College, graduating in 1S94. He then went to the office of Judge Pike to study law. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 597 He was admitted to the bar in March, 1898, and practiced law in partnership with Judge Kivel until May 26, 1913, when the latter was appointed to the Superior Court bench. In 1902 Mr. Hughes was elected city solicitor and held that office up to and including the year 191 1. He was elected to his present position as county solicitor in ic}io. and re-elected in 191 2. He also ser\'ed as clerk of the police c(jurt five }'ears. Mr. Hughes married Miss Nellie Parle, a daughter of Thomas Parle, and they have a family of three daughters. They all belong to the Catholic church and Mr. Hughes is also a member of Council No. 807, Knights of ColumI>us at Dover. The family residence is at No. 35 Elm street. HON. J( )IIX T \I'Lb:V W ELCH, postmaster of Dover, N. H., was born in Dover, Decemlier 15, \S^f\ ime of five children of Joseph W. and Mary P2. (Tapley) Welch, lie is of the se\'enth generation in .America, his emigrant ancestor being Philip Welch, who came to Ipswich, Alass., from Ireland in 1654- His great grandfather was Col. Joseph Welch, an of^cer in the Revolution- ary war and man of affairs. His father, Joseph Williams Welch, was born at Atkinson, N. H., January 27, 1817, and died October 25, 1S77. In early life a tanner and currier and later a successful school teacher, he then learned the machinist trade, and was for twenty-eight years master mechanic for the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, and was not only a master of his profes- sion, Imt was a public spirited man. As a member of the School Committee he took a leading part in the estalilisbment and promotion of the Dover High School, and was alderman in 1866-7-8. He was a member of the First Church of Dover, and for many years superintendent of its Sunday School. He was Eminent Commander of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar, of Dover, in 1870-71-72, and held various offices in the Grand Commandery of New Hampshire, declining further promotion on account of his serious illness, which resulted in his death. John T. Welch, the direct subject of this sketch, was educated in the public schools of his native city and at Dartmouth College. After completing his education he devoted several years to newspaper work. He has always been a Republican in politics and has served his native city as school committee, 1885-8; trustee of Public Library, 1883-8; clerk of Police Court in 1881-82, and was also from. 1882-87 Register of Probate for Strafford County. He was chosen a Representative to the Legislature in 1S88, and State Senator in 1896. He was chief time clerk. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, from February, 1890, to July, 1894. From August, 1894, to May, 1898, he was employed by the late Hon. Frank Jones at Portsmouth, N, H. 598 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY He became postmaster of Dover, May 24, 1898, and lias held the office ever since the above appointment and by three successive reappointments. His management of this important trust has been systematic and efficient. On May 30, 1910, tlie Post Office was transferred to the beautiful and con- venient U. S. Government building, costing $100,000-, which was secured through the eft'orts of Mr. Welch, seconded by the co-operation of the delega- tion in Congress. Mr. Welch is affiliated fraternally with the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Fythias and the Elks. He-is a member of the Xew Hampshire Historical Society, the Sons of the American l-ievolution, the Dover Historical Society and the New Hampshire Genealogical Society. He married Elizabeth A. McDaniel, daughter of the late Virgil Homer McDaniel. Tliey have one son, George Gregg Welch, a ci\ il engineer employed by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company. ALVIN JNHTCHELL, one of Dover's well known citizens and a veteran of the great Civil war, was born September 25, 1840, in New Durham, N. H., and is a son of Samuel and Sallie (Drew) Mitchell, the father a native of New- Durham and the mother of Brookfield, X. H. Samuel Mitchell was a son of Samuel Mitchell and a grandson of John Mitchell, who was a Re\'oluli(.)nary soldier and the founder of the family in New Durham. Samuel Mitchell, Jr., was a farmer in New Durham and there spent his life. In early years he was a Whig and later becaine identified w ith the Republican party. Of his chil- dren three survive: Alvin; Joseph, of Milton, N. H. ; and Susan E., widow^ of John L. Sbortridge, who is a resident of Do\er. Alvin Mitchell attended the district schools in boyhood, but his education was mainly secured later in life through reading and association with others. In the second year of the Ci\'il war, on August 14, 1862, he entered the service of his country by enlisting in Company K, 12th N. H. Volunteer Infantry, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac ami later was incorporated with the Army of the James. Mr. Mitchell fought bravely at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Swift Creek, Drury's Bluff' without Ijeing injured, but at the battle of Cold Harbor he was struck by a bullet in his left arm and had to go to the hospital. It was some time I)efore the wuund healed enougli to permit him to return to his regiment. He participated in the siege of Peters- burg and then accompanied his regiment to Bermuda Hundred. The com- mand remained on the north side of the James river, in Virginia from Novem- ber, 1864, until April, 1865. When Richmond was evacuated by the Con- federates the 1 2th New Hampshire was a part of the first brigade that proudly marched through the fallen city. Mr. Mitchell received an honorable discharge at Richmond, Va., on June 21, 1865, and then returned to Strafford AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 599 county, three years later coming to Dover and for over a quarter of a century has occupied his present residence, No. 54 Fifth street. Mr. Mitchell was married at Dover, Decemher i, 1874. to Miss Frances J. Twombly, who was born in South Berwick. Me., a daughter of Benjamin and Asenath (Young) Twombly, the father a native of Farmington, N. H., and the mother of York, Me. The grandfather of Mrs. Mitchell was Peter Twombly, an early settler of Farmington and a son of Ralph Twombly. at one time a resident of Dover. The Twombly family is of English ancestry. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Mitchell was Jonathan Young, who settled early in York, Me. Mrs. Mitchell has two brothers and one sister: Henry H. and Albert F. Twombly. both of Lynn, Mass.: and Eliza A., who is the wife of George Kendall, of Maiden, Mass. .Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have had two children: Jennie A., who is now deceased: and Albert H.. who is a resident of Dover. Mr. Mitchell is a valued member of the G. A. R. post at Dover. Nonu'nally he is a Republican but he has independent tendencies. Both he and wife belong to the Peirce Memorial Universalist church at Dover. For many years he has been a member of Mount Pleasant lodge. Odd Fellows, of this city. CHARLES S. CARTLAND, cashier of the Strafford National Bank, of Dover, N. H., is one of a family of five children born to his parents, .Moses A. and Mary P. (Gove) Cartland. The father, Moses A. Cartland, was an educator of note, following that vocation his entire life, with the exception of a brief period during which he was identified with the newspaper business. Charles S. Cartland was born in the town of Lee, Strafford County, New Hampshire, March 19, 1851. He was educated in the public schools, and in schools taught by his father and later attended the Friends' school, now the Moses Brown School in Providence, R. I. While still a young man he began industrial life on the farm and later was connected with a manufacturing business. Locating in Dover in June, 1875, he obtained employment here as an accountant in the office of Cocheco Manufacturing Company. In January, 1876, he became a clerk in the Strafford National Bank, and after serving for some time in that capacity was made assistant cashier. In July, 1890, he became cashier, which position he still holds, performing its responsible duties in a highly acceptable manner. He is a Republican in politics and is connected fraternally with the Moses Paul Lodge, the lodge of Grangers in Dover, and the Bellamy Club. Mr. Cartland was married, April 27, 1887, to Miss Julia H. Wallingford, a daughter of Zimri S. Wallingford, and they were "the parents of "three children, namely: Charles W., Lucia H. and Mary A. Mrs. Cartland died 600 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY June, 1894, and was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover. Mr. Cartland and the surviving members of his family are affiliated with the Friends' Church, and reside at No. 151 Central Avenue. JOHN SCALES, A. B., A. M., was born in Nottingham, N. H., October 6, 1835. His parents. Samuel and Betsey (True) Scales, were descendants of English immigrants who settled in New England before 1640: William Scales at Rowley, Mass., in i''>39: Henry True at Salem, ]\Iass., 1638. His Scales ancestors were residents of Nottingham a hundred years, the first set- tler there, 1747, being \l)raham Scales, born in Portsmouth in 171S. whose father Matthew Scales was Ijnrn in Rriwley. .Mass., grandson of the immi- grant, William Scales. I'our generations of his mother's ancestors in the True family resided in Salisbury, Mass., from which town her grandfather, Abraham True, emigrated to Nottingham in 1754 and was one of the first settlers in that part of the town which became Deerfield in 1 768. The True farm is about three miles from Nottingham Square; on this farm Betsey True was bom Jan. 11, 1805. Samuel Scales was born July 18, 1800. John Scales was educated in the jiublic schools of Nottingham; a private school at Lee Hill; Prof. B. Van Dame's Academy at Nottingham Center; Pembroke Gymnasium ; Strafford Academy and Col. Thomas A. Henderson's high school. He worked at farming with his father when he was not at school. He taught school at Harper's Ferry, Va., from January, 1856 to June, 1857. He attended the New London, ( N. H. ) .\cadcmy (now Colby Academy) Sept. 1857 to July, 1859; entered Dartmouth College in September, 1859; graduated therefrom in July, 1863, with the rank of Phi Beta Kappa and received the degree of A. B. In i86fi he received the degree of A. M. From September, 1863 to April, 1869, he was principal, in succession, of Strafford Academy, Wolf borough Academy, Gilmanton .Academy. In April, 1869, Mr. Scales became principal of I-Vanklin Academy at Dover, since when he has been a continuous resident of this city. He re- mained principal of Franklin Academy fourteen years, during which time it attained its highest membership of any year in its history. From 1883 to 1898 Mr. Scales was editor and one of the proprietors of the Dover Daily Republican and the (Weekly) Dover Enquirer. Since then he has been engaged in various literary and newspaper work in Do\er. Air. Scales edited and published the History of the Class of 1863, Dart- mouth College, also a volume of Historical Memoranda of Old Dover, (N. H.) ; the Genealogy of the Descendants of \\illiam Scales, Rowley, Mass., 1639: the Genealogy of Descendants of Deacon John Dam of Dover, N. H., 1633. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 601 He has delivered four historical addresses before the New Hampshire Histori- cal Society. He has furnished numerous historical and biographical articles for various magazines, and delivered historical addresses on various occasions before societies and pulilic gatherings. Mr. Scales was united in marriage with Miss Ellen Tasker October 20, 1865: she is a daughter of Deacon Alfred and Mary Margaret ( Hill) Tasker, of StratTord. where she was born Ma)- 30, 1843. 1 hey have two sons who lived to grow up and graduate from Dartmouth College ; Burton True, born August 10, 1873; graduated from Dartmouth in 1895; Robert Leighton, born May 20, 1880; graduated from Dartmouth in 1901, and from Harvard Law School in 1907 with high rank; practiced law in Boston three years and then retired on account of his health; died {3ctober 30, 1912, in Roswell, New Mexico, where he went to reco\'er his health. He was one of the most gifted and brilliant young men Dover has sent forth. The elder son. Burton True, has been instructor in the music department in the William Penn Charter School, in Philadelphia, since 1900; also instructor in music in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania; and principal of the Summer School of Music in the University of New York. He holds high rank as an instructor and man- ager of musical clubs. He is married and has a son and a daughter. As a society man Mr. Scales is a member of the First Church ; the New Hampshire Society. Sons of the American Revolution; the Society of Colonial Wars in New Ham|)shire; the Pascataqua Pioneers; the Northam Colonist Historical Society. Dover; Moses Paul Lodge A. F. & A. M. ; Belknap Chapter No. 8. R. A. M.; Orphan Council; and St. Paul Commandery, Knights Temp- lar, of Dover. He has served several years as member of the school com- mittee in Dover, and as trustee of the State Normal School at Plymouth. In his list of names of ancestors whose services entitle him to member- ship in the Sons of the American Revolution he has one grandfather, three great grandfathers and five grand uncles, who served in the Revolution. As for ancestors who served in the Colonial wars, whose services entitle him to membership in the Society of Colonial wars, there are thirty-one, twenty of wliom were commissioned officers, the highest rank being that of colonel ; the lowest lieutenant of a comi^any. JOHN W. BATES, formerly vice president of the First National Bank of Somersworth and for many years the leading merchant of this place, was born at Somersworth, N. H., in 1832, and died here in May. 1901. He was a son of Moses Bates, who was a pioneer dry goods merchant and continued in the business until his death. 602 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY When John \\'. Bates was a boy the schools of Somerswortli had not approached their present state of efficiency and to complete his education his father sent him for two years to Northfield (now Tilton) Seminary. Ujx)n his return home he became a clerk for his father and afterward, on his own account, went into the boot and shoe line and proved himself an enterprising and resourceful business man, enlarging his scope until it covered other articles and at one time operated five retail stores dealing in hats, caps, boots, shoes and harness and two additional stores carrying novelty goods At that time he was the heaviest trader and the leading merchant within a radius of twenty miles. \\'hen his responsibilities became too heavy he closed out all but the boot and shoe line, in which he continued until the time of his death. He took only a good citizen's interest in politics, voting with the Republican party, but could never be induced to accept public office for himself. He was vice president of the First National Bank of Somersworth at the time of death, of which he had fonnerly been president and a member of its board of directors. Mr. Bates was first married to Miss Ellen Thompson, of Solon, Me., and they had two children : Laura and Frank C, both of whom are deceased. His second marriage was to Miss Leonora Haines, a daughter of John S. and Theodate (Nowell) Haines, the former of whom, a very prominent man for many years in Strafford county, died at the age of sixty-five years. The mother of Mrs. Bates survi\es, Ijeing now in her ninety-second 3'ear and the most \enerable member of the Congregational church at Somersworth. Mr. and Mrs. Bates had two daughters : Leonora and Theodate. Mr. Bates was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a trustee for many years. He was a man of great kindness of heart and charitable in his impulses and passed away honored and respected by all who knew him. J.\YAX M. RUSSELL, who carries on a large lumber business at Somersworth. with residence and office at No. 17 Noble street, was born in 1S58, at Paris, Oxford county, ]\Ie., and is a son of Charles and Asenath (Willis) Russell. The father of ^Ir. Russell was a physician and practiced his profession until the time of his death, in 1888. His family consisted of eleven children. J. M. Russell attended school at Kents Hill, Me., and afterward the Wesleyan University, following which he taught school, first at Bridgeport, Conn., and then at Brimfield, Mass. In 1893 he came to Somersworth, where, for three years he was principal of the high school. Mr. Russell then em- barked in the lumber business and has continued to be interested therein, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 603 operating and buying young growth of timber. He is a citizen of broad mind and exhibits much civic pride. In his political views he may be termed an Independent Repul)lican. Mr. Russell was married first to Miss Elizabeth Gowell and thoy had one daughter, Gladys E., who is now in Japan, on a trip around the world. His second marriage was to Miss Edith Le Gros, of Somersworth, N. H., and they have three cliildren, Harriet Bates, Edgar Eegro and Walter Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Russell attend the Methodist Episcopal church. FRED K. W'ENTW'ORTH. treasurer of the Somersworth Savings Bank, and a well known business man and public official, was born in this town, in 1870, a son of Nathan and Emeline (Kelley) Wentworth. The father, a native of Berwick. Me., was a merchant at Somersworth and also served for awhile as postmaster. He died in Somersworth at the age of 69 years. His wife Emeline, who survives him, was born in Gilmanton, N. H. They were the parents of two children, namely. Grace, now^ Mrs. Herbert A. Blaisdell; and Fred K., the subject of this sketch. Fred K. Wentworth was educated in the schools of Somersworth, and when a vouth entered the employ of the Great Falls Gas Light Company. Later he went to Waltham, Mass., where he obtained a position with the Waltham Bleachery & Dye Works. From there he went to the Boston Manu- facturing Company, as assistant payinaster. After holding this position for awhile he returned to Somersworth, N. H., and was employed in the Bleaching and Dye Works there until December i, 19 12, at which time he entered on his present duties as treasurer of the Somersworth Savings Bank. He is a Republican in politics and has served efficiently on the school board of Somersworth ; he is also city auditor, having made a specialty of this class of work, in which he is an expert. He is a Mason, being secretary of Libanus Lodge, F. & A. M. ; a member of Edwards Chapter, R. A. M.. and Orphan Council. R. S. M., of Dover; a member also of Somersworth Council, Royal Arcanum. He belongs to High Street M. E. Church, and has served a number of years as superintendent of the Sunday school. Mr. Wentworth has been three times married. Llis first wife was in maidenhood Gertrude W^arren, of \\'altham. Mass.; she died leaving two sons, Bruce K. and Nathan W. He married for his second wife Alice B. Coan, of Dover, of which union there was one child — Gordon Coan. Mr. Wentworth's present wife was Alice E. Home, of Somersworth. HON. FRED A. HOULE, city clerk of Somersworth and formerly a member of the New Hampshire legislature, has practically spent his life in 604 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Strafford covinty and is well and favorably known. He was born at Somers- worth, X. H., in 1S79, and is a son of the late Archie Houle, a native of Canada who came to the United States when seven years of age. During the greater part of his life he was connected with the grocer}' business. He was one of the party that left Strafford county to investigate the reputed wealth to be easily secured in the Klondike region but returned to Somers- worth and died here in 1901, at the age of forty-four years. He married Jessie Bourque and they had thirteen children, eight of these yet living, Fred A. being the eldest. Fred A. Houle attended school at Somersworth and afterward followed clerking, mainly in grocery stores, and has an expert knowledge of this line of business. In politics he is a Democrat and in 1907 he was elected a member of the General Assembly, where he performed his duties very creditably. In 191 2 he was elected city clerk and his efficiency is acknowl- edged by all who have to transact business with him. Mr. Houle married Miss Odila Vachon and they have four children : Dolor, George, Fred, Jr., and Violet. The family belongs to the Catholic church. Mr. Houle is identified with the A. C. A. association and with the Knights of the Maccabees. EDGAR I. CARTER, one of the leading business men of Somersworth, proprietor of the largest dry goods and carpet stores of the place and well known all over Strafford county as a dependable merchant, was born at Somersworth, N. H., April 15, 1856, and is a son of Alfred and Abbie L. (\\'entworth) Carter, For many years the name of Carter has been associated with the mer- cantile interests of this section. Alfred Carter, father of E. I. Carter, was one of the pioneer merchants of Strafford county. He was born at Wakefield, Carroll county, N. H., in 1S28, and died at Somersworth in 1910, when aged eighty-two years. He was the senior member of the old firm of Carter & Merrill. In 1852 he entered into partnership with his brother, Charles P. Carter and they continued together until 1876, when Charles P. moved to Franklin, Mass., and four years later A. Carter admitted his son, E. I. Carter as a partner. Edgar I. Carter, an only child, had excellent educational advantages and as soon as his school days were over gave his father assistance in his business, becoming identified with the same in 1873 and a partner in 1880. In 1886 occurred a loss of stock and buildings by fire but the buildings were imme- diately rebuilt and the business scope enlarged, E. I. Carter taking entire charge when his father died. A large and carefully selected stock is carried AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 605 and the trade territory extends over the city and surrounding country, the location at Nos. 32-34 Martcet street being convenient to all transportation lines. Mr. Carter is a director of the Somersworth Savings Bank. In 1885 Mr. Carter was married to Miss Margaret M. Shaw, of Austin, Minn. They have one son, Warren Shaw Carter, who is a graduate of Dartmouth College and of the law school at Ann Arbor. Mich. He is now employed by the Kellog and Severance law firm of St. Paul, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are members of the First Ci.mgregational church at Somersworth. In jjolitics he is a Republican. DANA B. M.WO, M. D., physician and surgeon at Somersworth, came to this citv from \'crmont in June, 1911, establishing himself at No. 68 High street, and through professional ability has built up a very satisfactory practice. He was born in 1879 in Massachusetts, and is a son of N. D. and Addie (Penney) Mavo. The father now lives retired after years of business activity. The mother died when Dr. Mayo, the only child, was but four years of age. Dana B. Mayo attended Wakefield academy at \\'akefield, ]\Iass., and completed his medical education at Boston, being graduated in June, 1905, from the medical department of the Boston University. Pie immediately entered upon the practice of his profession, locating in northern Vermont, in 191 1, as above mentioned, coming to Somersworth. Dr. Mayo is a member of the New Hampsliire State Homeopathic Society, the Vermont State Homeopathic Society, the American Institute and the Somersworth and Ber- wick Medical Society. Dr. Mayo married Miss Aiable ( i. Clark, of Melrose, Mass., and they have two children: Francis Clark and Dana Bartlett, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Mayo are members of the Congregational church. Politically he is a Republican. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Foresters and the Masons and is identified with the local Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. JOSEPH LA BONTE, jjroprietor of a general store at Somersworth, N. H., was born in 1878, in Canada. His parents were people of ample means and thus he had educational advantages which included attendance at Levy College, in the city of Quel)ec. where he fiecame a student when nine- teen years of age and remained for two years. -Vfter completing his education in his nati\e land, Mr. La Bonte came to Strafford county and embarked in the bakery business in which he con- tinued for six and a half years at Somersworth. He has always been in business for himself with the exception of four years during which time he was employed by Mr. Gregoire. In 1899 he opened his present business G06 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY at Xos. 1S9-163-167 Main street, Somerswortli, where he handles general merchandise, especially hardware, meats and groceries, carrying the heaviest stock in these lines in the place. He has bnilt up a tine business through honest methods and first class goods. .Mr. La Bonte married Aliss Anne TJion and they have five children: Clare, George, Evan, Wilfred and Jadiasse, the three eldest being graduates of the local schools. Mr. La Bonte and family are members of St. Martin's Catholic church. He belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters, the St. Jean Baptiste Union and other organizations. In politics he is a Democrat. FRAXK A. HAR\'EY. who is pn)i)rietor uf the leading hardware store at Somersworth, is one of the progressive young Inisiness men whose enter- prise and energy^ bespeak continued prosperity. Ever}' town and city has need of active and interested young men to pu.sh business activity to the front and thus add to the general welfare, and such is the suliject of this sketch. Air. Harvev was born June 3, 1883, at Dover. X. H.. and is a son of Frank B. and Hannah S. (Fife) Harvey. Frank B. Harvey was born about 1848 in ALiine, but has been a resident of Dover since he was twenty years old. He has been in the mill business all his life and is overseer of a w^oolen mill. 1'. A. Harvev. an onlv child, attended the Dover schools. He began his own business life as a mill man, continued thus for four years and then became a clerk in a hardware store. I-'inding this line of business congenial, in 1905 lie bought his present place from the S. Augustus Seavey estate and has continued in business at Somersworth. although he lives at Dover. He carries a full line of general hardware and also builders' supplies. He is a member of the order of Elks. FRAXK LESLIE TIBBETTS, who has been identified with the jewelrj' business at Somersworth for a cpiarter of a century and during all this time has been numbered with the stable and reliable citizens of the place, is a native of New Hampshire, born at Wakefield, September 23. 1S69, and is a son of Benjamin F"~. and Emily J. (Roberts) Tibbetts. Benjamin F. Tibbetts was born in Maine but passed fifty years of his life in New Hampshire, first as a railroad man and later as a farmer. His death occurred at Wakefield, N. H., when he was sixty-seven years old. He married Emily |. I'ioberts and six of their seven children are living, the other survivors in addition to the subject of this sketch, being Fred, Henry C, Chas. R., Susie, wife of Edwin A. Seavey of Portsmouth; and Imogene, wife of Ormand Junkins of Kittery, Me. Frank Leslie Tibbetts attended the schools of Wakefield, where he had AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 607 academic advantages, after w hich lie entered tlie store of James J. Woodward in order to learn the je\velr\- business. He remained with him from April 23, 1888, until February 15. 1908, when he opened his own jewelry establish- ment at No. 80 Market street, Somersworth. Mr. Tibbetts carriers a full line of jewelry, selected with careful discrimination, offering to the public articles beautiful in design and of excjuisite workmanship; he also does watch and clock repairing. Mr. Tibbetts married Miss Ruth A. Simmons, of Bloomfield, New Bruns- wick, and they have three sons: Calvin B., who is in college at Durham, N. H. ; Percy F., a student in the high school at Somersworth; and Robert F., an infant. Mr. and Mrs. Tibbetts attend the Methodist Episcopal church. He is identified w ith the Odd Fellows and in politics is a Progressive. THOMAS J. DOL'GHERTY, M. D., who for nineteen years has been engaged in medical practice at Somersworth, enjoys a professional reputation all over Strafford county, while at Somersworth he is also looked upon as one of the most progressive and useful public men. For three years Dr. Dougherty served the city in the office of mayor and gave an administration that resulted in many reforms and corrected many civic abuses. He was born in 1868 at Schaghticoke, N. Y., and is a son of William and Catherine ( Gregg) Dougherty. Thomas J. Dougherty attended the public schools, afterward studied for a medical career and when prepared for collegiate instruction entered the Baltimore Medical College, now the University of Maryland, where he was graduated in 1894. He immediately entered upon practice at Somersworth and has continued to make this pleasant city his home. \\ ith the enlightened understanding of a trainetl medical man, Dr. D(jugherty is particularly well ciualified for public offices of responsibility and when able to give time and attention to the same has been willing to ser\e. For three years he was chair- man of the school board and for five years was city physician and at all times has been ready to give scientific advice on such questions as the water supply or public sanitation. He has always kept thoroughly abreast with the times, holding membership in numerous professional bodies including the American Medical Association and the state and county medical societies, in 1910 serving as president of the last named. Dr. Dougherty was married to Miss Alfreda McLean, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He belongs to Holy Trinity church and fraternally is identified with the Elks, the Foresters and the Ancient Order of Hibernians. In politics he is a Democrat. 608 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY L. E. GRAXT, M. D.. wliu is engaged in medical practice at Somers- worth, X. H.. with office in liis residence at Xo. 85 Market street, was born in 1859, at Xorth Berwick, Me., and is a son of Lindsey W. and Martha C (Farman) Grant. The father was born at Berwick. Me., followed an agri- cnltural life and died at Xorth Berwick when aged sixty-six years. He married Martha C. Fannan. who passed away at the age of sixty-three years. They were parents of nine children. L. E. Grant attended the common and high schools at Xorth Berwick and I)nrsued his medical studies in the medical department of Bowdoin College, where he was graduated in 1882. He began practice at Raymond, X. H.. removing one year later to Candia and from there, four years afterward, to Somerswortli and here he has been in active practice for over a quarter of a century. Dr. Grant's medical skill and professional standing are well known and recognized all over the county and for twelve years he served as county physician of Strafford county. He belongs to the Strafford County and to the Xew Hampshire State Medical Societies. Dr. Grant was united in marriage with ^Miss Georgie E. Ricker. a native of Maine, and they have one daughter, ( )li\e E., who is a student at W'ellesley College. In politics Dr. Grant is a Ivepublican. I'nr twelve years he served as county coroner and for four years was a very useful member of the town council. He is identified with both the Masons and the Odd Fellows. With his family he belongs to the Congregational church. HOX. ELISHA C. AXDREWS. superintendent of the Strafford- York Gas Company, and a prominent Democratic politician of Strafford county, was born at Somerswortli. X. H., September 16, 1876, and is a son of Alonzo H. and Mary E. ( Huchins) Andrews. The father was also a native of Somersworth and was a merchant here until his death in 1884. E. C. Andrews was one of a family of six children and was seven years old when his father died. He was educated in his native town and began his business career in the line of newspaper work, later was interested in insurance and real estate, and since then has filled his present position and has also been elected to numerous public offices. For four years he served as city clerk, from 1901 to 1903 he senxd in the New Hampshire legislature and on Februarv 19. 1907 he was made superintendent of the Somersworth. Berwick and Rochester District. Mr. Andrews married Miss Emma N. Jorde, and they have three children: Erma, Pauline and Muriel. With iiis family Mr. Andrews belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. He is identified with the Royal Arcanum and is locally prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of Libanus Lodge AND REPRESENTATIX'I'. CITIZENS 609 and Edwards Chapter, Royal Arch Masons and the Council at Dover. His good citizenship has often been proved and he stands high in public regard. B. F. HANSOX, pro])rietor of the (mly li\er\- stable in Scjiners\v(irth, N. H., who also holds the position of police judge, was born in this ])lace, December 12, 1848, a son of Benjamin V. and :\Iary E. (Li])by) Hanson. The father, a farmer, was a native of Sanford, Me., where he died at the age of 72 years, but for many years it was his custom to spend the winters in Somersworth. His wife Hilary was also of Sanford. They had four children, namely: Luther L.. who died in the fall of 191 j, in Maiden; I'.enjamin Iv, the subject of this sketch; Charles H., who resides in Sanford, Me., and George W'., also a resident of Sanford. B. F. Hanson, the present bearer of the name, was educated in the .schools of Sanford, Me., and Lebanon, N. H. He then took up the h(.»rse and livery business, in which he has been engaged continuously for the last 4s years, having now the oldest livery establishment in the state. He also deals in harness to some extent, and was formerly more extensively engaged in that branch of his business tlian at present. A Democrat in politics, Mr. Hanson has taken an active interest in public affairs and has served since July i, 1913, in his present office as p-olice judge. He was also county commissioner six years, city trea>urer three years, and mayor of the city for five vears, making a good record in all these important offices. He is also a director in the Somers- worth National Bank. Fraternally he is afiiliated with the Grange and the Masonic order. Judge Hanson married Miss Fannie T. Thompson, of Chepley, Me., and they are the parents of one child, Bert, who is a graduate of Yale College and the Cornell Law School, and is now practicing law in New York City, having an office at No. 42 Broadw ay. DAVID W. HERRETT, who, with his business associate, Charles E. Burnham, conducts a coal and wood yard at No. 19 Cocheco street, Dover, under the firm name of the Herrett & Burnham Coal and Wood Company, is one of the substantial business men of this city, his concern being one of the largest in this section. He was born in 1850, in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, and is a son of William A. and Roxann (Totten) Llerrett, an only child. The father was a farmer in Nova Scotia and died there when aged forty-five years David W. Herrett completed his school attendance before leaving his native place, coming then to Dover and shortly afterward embarking in his present line of business. Li 1906 he formed his partnership with Charles E. 610 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD LOL"XTV Burnhani and the firm deals in coal and all kinds of fire wood, giving employ- ment to several teamsters. Mr. Herrett is the oldest man in the business at Dover. He has been more or less active in civic matters and has served with efiiciency and honesty in numerous public ot^ces, as councilman, alderman and street and park commissioner. He votes with the Republican party. Mr. Herrett married Miss Alargaret Stewart. They attend the Methodist Episcopal church. He is prominent in the order of Odd Fellows and belongs also to the Elks, the Red Men and the United Order of the Golden Cross. THOM.AS J. -MORRISON, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of medicine at Somersworth, N. H., with ofiices at Xo. 2 Elm street, was born in Canada, in 1882, and is a son of Michael and Ellen (Demers) Morrison. The father was born in Ireland. After coming to Somersworth he worked as a laborer and died here in advanced age. There were four children in his family. T. J. Morrison attended the public schools of Somersworth and afterward the University of Vermont and in 1909 he was graduated with his medical degree. He then opened his office in Somersworth and has since built up a very satisfactory practice. He is a member of the medical fraternity, Alpha Kappa Kappa. June 14, 191 1, he married Miss Helena T. Bresnahan of Burlington, Vt. They are members of the Catholic church. MRS. MARILLA M. RICKER. In these days of advanced thought, when the mental horizon of mankind is broadening more rapidly than ever before, when scientific discovery and higher criticism have in large measure upset ancient traditions and given many a licwildering shock to the time-hon- ored creeds of our forefathers; when Woman is at last arousing to a sense of what is due her and is demanding it in no uncertain tones — in these epoch- making times, in short, it is interesting to review the career of one who. like the subject of this sketch, has been to some extent a pioneer along the lines referred to, ha\ing long held and advocated those iileas of free thought and political ecjuality for the sexes which are now causing so much unnecessary consternation among many good people who, owing to early training, mental lassitude, or other causes, find difiiculty in keeping abreast of the car of progress. Advanced thought, in regard either to politics or religion, has no terrors for Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker; nor has she been hampered by heredity. She comes of a long line of ancestors who were members of the legal profession. Her father, Jonathan B. Young, was born on the farm settled by his grand- father. He was a distant relation of the noted Brigham Young, but, though MARILLA M. KICKKR AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 613 possessing all tlie latter's astuteness, was, unlike him, a broad, liberal-minded man, a stanch Whig, and — what was a good deal more rare in those days — a believer in C(|ual suffrage. This latter fact, of itself, is enough to mark him as having been a strong and independent thinker. With the political doings of the world he kept himself in touch through the columns of the New York Weekly Tribune and the Boston Cultivator. The influence of her father's lib- eral spirit must be counted as one of the chief factors in the bent of Mrs. Ricker's genius and its later de\e!opment. Mr. Young and his wife, Hannah (her maiden name was Hannah D. Ste\ens) had four ciiildren — Joseph D.. Alarilla M., Helen Frances and Ade- laide. Joseph D., the only son, enlisted in the War of the Rebellion in the Third New Hampshire Regiment, Company I. He was a gallant soldier and lost his life on Edisto Island, South Carolina, in 1862. This was Mrs. Ricker's first great grief, and its memory has ne\'er lieen quite effaced. Helen Frances Young married Samuel G. Jones, of New Durham. She died in 1870. Adelaide Young, who is unmarried, is a professional nurse in Con- necticut. Marilla M. Young acquired her elementary education in the district schools of New Durham. Mrs. Hannah D. Young was a devout church woman, and three of her children were accustomed to attend church with her on Sunday. Marilla always refused to go. Says Josejjhine K. Henry. "She stayed at home with her father, who was her chum and comrade, and in the summer they spent the "Lord's Day' salting the cattle, looking after the fences, etc. As a child she could run faster, climb trees quicker, and make more noise than any other boy or girl in the neighborhood. She rode all the horses bareback, loaded hay, dropped corn, beans, potato and pumpkin seed. . . . She was pas- sionately fond of books and when only four years old she cut the large letters out of the newspapers and followed her father around the farm asking him what they were. She could read at five." When older she entered Colby Academy, where she fitted to be a teacher, paying her expenses by teaching in the district schools. Beginning this work at the early age of sixteen, she showed marked talent and for seven years was one of the most successful instructors in the state, although on several occasions she came into conflict with the school committee on account of her disinclina- tion to make Bible reading a part of the daily exercises. She has always held to the belief that a natural adaptation to the work is the most essential part of a teacher's equipment — in other words, that "teachers are bom, not made," and still looks back with pleasure to her "school marm" days. In 1863 she married Mr. John Richer, of Dover, N. H., who lived only five years after. She was now twenty-eight years old, a widow with no chil- .3fi GU HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY dren, and with means sufficient to enable her to devote her time and her heart to any work in which she feh called upon to engage. After traveling for some years in America she went abroad, remaining three years, spending nnich of that time in Gennany, where she acquired a jjerfect command of the Ger- man language. After her return home she began the study of law in the office of A. B. Williams, in Washington, D. C, and in 1S83 was one of a class of nineteen to a])ply for admission to the bar in the District of Columbia. She recei\ed first rank in the examination, and was said to give e\idence of possessing more extensive legal knowledge than had e\er l^een displayed by any other candidate. She began the practice of law in the courts of Washington and has practiced there ever since. She has, however, been admitted to the bar in Xew Hamp- shire and in Utah, and in 1891 she was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. She was appointed a notary public by President Arthur, in 1884, by the judges of the District Supreme Court, United States Commissioner and Examiner in Chancery, both of w hich offices she still holds. Aside from her profession, INIrs. Ricker is chiefly interested in politics. Inheriting Whig principles from her father, she naturally became a supporter of the Republican party, and on many important occasions has ably upheld its principles by voice or pen. Her work on the stump during National cam- paigns has often aided in the triumph of Republican principles. During the campaign for Harrison she made lecturing tours through California and Iowa and she made many stump speeches and wrote many articles for the McKinley campaign. She has also written ably on the tariff. On the success of her party in 1896 Mrs. Ricker conceived the worthy ambition of representing the United States of America as en^•oy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Republic of the United States of Colombia, a position for which she was in e\'ery way well cjualified. Her application for that or "some other diplomatic position of equal rank and importance" was strongly indorsed by influential men, not only in New Hampshire but elsewhere, the states of California, Iowa, Illinois, Colorado and Massachusetts being represented in the petitions presented to the President in her behalf. Ex-senator Henry W. Blair had a personal interview with President McKinley on the matter, and also wrote him a forcible letter calling attention to the strength of Airs. Rickers claim to the appointment, "so far as character, ability, education, professional acquirements, experience, culture, and all the varied accomplishments which would adoni the position and reflect honor upon her country are concerned." His letter was referred to by the Boston "Investigator" as "a very strong 'W^oman's Rights' document from a somewhat conservative source." Not- withstanding such substantial support, her application was rejected, the ap- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 615 pointment going to Mr. Charles B. Hart. Mrs. Rickcr accepted the result in a calm and philosophic spirit and immediately wrote a congratulatory letter- to the appointee. To others she said: "I am still a Kepublican and still a ;McKinley woman. I am well satisfied with this administration and expect to work for McKinley's re-nomination and re-election in igoo." Mrs. Ricker is a member of the W^oman's Suffrage Association and has liberally aided the cause, both with her money and with her pen. She has always believed in the ultimate success of the movement, and has the distinc- tion of having been the first woman in Dover, X. H., who tried to vote. As long ago as 1870 she appeared before the selectmen of the town and asked to have her name put on the check list, claiming to be a law-abiding and tax-pay- ing citizen. She was Suffrage candidate for governor of New Hampshire in 1910, and during the last campaign she was strongly opposed to Rooseveltism, writing for the press a number of pithy article.,, antagonistic not so much to the Progressive propaganda as to the arbitrary domination of Mr. Roosevelt, its Presidential candidate, whom she regards as a would-be czar. Her answers to the anti-suffragists, which have appeared in the press from time to time. and some of which have been published in pamphlet form, are also strong and forceful productions. Mrs. Ricker is not givin to mincing words. She likes to drive the nail in up to the head. When attacking error or defending a righteous cause it is her custom to call a spade a spade, and not to beat about the bush in search of euphemistic expressions to gild the edge of crit- icism. This applies with full force to her various articles against dogmatic theology, as she is an advanced free thinker. She was a personal friend and ardent admirer of the late Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, and has offered copies of his works to a large number of town libraries, the gift having in some cases been accepted and in others refused. A number of years ago she presented a set to the library of the state prison. Those wdio wish to know her views more fully on these subjects should read her pamphlets entitled, respectively: "Jona- than Edwards." "What do IMinisters Ivnowi"' "How Can We 'Take' Christ"" "Fable of the Bees," and "Reply to Elder A. E. Kenyon." Mrs. Ricker is a woman of broad charity, with an intense sympathy for all unfortunates, and her law practice has lain largely with criminals. It has been a frequent custom of hers to visit the jail on Sundays, l^efriending the needy and offering words of cheer and encouragement to the prisoners. She works for all. good and bad alike, and has long been known as "The Prisoners' Friend." Mrs. Ricker still claims Dover, N. H., as her home, though during the winter she is usually to be found in Washington. In her attire she studies simplicity and comfort rather than fashion. Her hair is worn short and 616 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY curled, and she always wears a frill of soft lace at the throat, which lessens the effect of plainness and gives a womanly setting to her strong intellectual face. A. PLANTE, president of the Somersworth Candy Company and owner of the Cascade Laundry at Somersworth, is one of the solid business men of this place, one who has shown an enter-prising and progressive spirit. He was born in Canada, in 1870, and is a son of Joseph Plante, also a Canadian, who died when A. Plante was but four years old. He was the father of six children, fi\e of whom sun-ive. In the schools of his native locality A. Plante secured the usual common school training. When he left Canada he came to Somersworth and secured work in the Great Falls mills, where he continued until 1894. He then embarked in the laundry business and now operates the largest laundry in the place, his location being at No. 85 High street. The Cascade Laundry is equipped with modem laundry machinery, is sanitarj' in every particular, gives steady emplovment to seven people and delivers its clean linen by auto- mobile. The Somersworth Candy Company is also an important business concern of this section. Mr. Plante married Miss Georgina Pillion, and they have had twelve children, nine of whom survive. Mr. Plante and family belong to the Catholic church. In politics he is a Democrat and fraternally belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters and the Canada-American society. LOUIS P. COTE, manager of the Somersworth Candy Company, at Somersworth, N. H., an incorporated business of considerable importance in Strafiford county, was born in Canada, in 1862, and is a son of J. B. and Elizabeth (Bergeron) Cote. The father was born in Canada and died in Wisconsin while his children were young. They were five in number, two of whom are living. The mother, now in her seventy-fifth year, resides with her son at Somersworth. L. P. Cote obtained his education in the schools of his home neighborhood and remained with his mother on the home farm in Canada. About 1888 he moved to Marlboro, Mass., and fi\-e years later came to Somersworth and went into the drug business, which he continued for fi\e years and then bought a stock of dry goods and millinery. This enterprise is under the personal oversight of Mrs. Cote, his wife; it is located at No. j^ Main street and is one of the largest stores in the place. Mr. Cote was one of the original directors of the Somersworth Candy Company, which, five years ago, was incorporated under the laws of the state of Maine. The officers of this AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS • 617 company are : A. Plante, president ; E. F. Gowell, secretary ; Joseph Deshaies, treasurer; and L. P. Cote, manager. This is largely a wholesale jobbing business in all kinds of candy and the trade territory is wide, one representa- ti\"c being on the road. Mr. Cote married JMiss ]\Iinnie Martel, of Marlboro, Mass. In politics a Democrat, Mr. Cote has served in many official positions. He has been a member of the common council, also of the school board, has served in the state legislature and in 19 12 was a member of the constitutional convention. He belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters, to the Maccabees, to a Canadian-American society, to a temperance organization and to the Catholic church. These connections plainly indicate his high standing in his com- nnuiity. HON. SIDNEY F. STEVENS, who is a member of the well known law firm of Matliews & Stevens, with office at No. 68 High street, Somersworth, was born Januarv _>'). 1878, at Somersworth, N. H., and is a son of Charles E. and Frances A. (Loud) Stevens. Charles E. Stevens was born at Parsonsfield, Me., and now lives retired at Somersworth, to which ])lace he came in 1S73. I'^or forty-six years he was a conductor on the B. & M. Railroad and when he was retired on a pension, was the oldest in point of service in the Western Division. His wife, a native of Massachusetts, was reared in Maine: she survives, as do their three sons: Albert E.. who is baggage master on the B. & M. at Somersworth; Melvin L., who lives at Reading, Mass. ; and Sidney F. Sidney F. Stevens attended the public schools until prepared for college, w lien he entered Dartmouth. After graduation he completed his law studies, which he had in the meanwhile been pursuing with the firm of Edgerly & Mathews. Graduated from the Boston University Law School, he was ad- mitted to the bar in June, 1904. In the same year he became associated in practice with Mr. Mathews, with whom he entered into partnership in 1905. .V large amount of important litigation is entrusted to this firm, the pro- fessional standing of which is deservedly high. Mr. Stevens is a director of the First National Bank of Somersworth. Mr. Stevens married Miss Kancy E. Woy, of Ouincy, Mass. A Republi- can in politics, Mr. Stevens has been a loyal party man and served twice as a member of the state legislature with marked ability, in 1907 being chair- man of the committee on Revision of Statutes and in 1909 a member of the judiciary committee. For a number of years he has been chaimian of the Republican city committee and for two years was chairman of the Republican county committee, as well as a member of the State executive committee. At 618 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY present he is serving as a member of the school board. He retains member- ship with his college fraternities and is entitled to attach a number of letters to his name indicating the degrees he has taken in his studies. He attends the First Baptist church. JOHN PARSONS, superintendent of the water works at Somersworth, N. H., was born here in 1853, when the present city was the village of Great Falls. He is a son of John and Mary (Morrison) Parsons, who were born and married in Ireland. About 1846 they came to the United States, landing in tlie city of New York, where the father worked as a laborer until 1848, when the family came to Somersworth. The father died here at the age of eighty-two years. Of his large family of children but two survive. John and Mary. John Parsons went to school until old enough to work in a factory and afterward was a clerk in a clothing store and since June, 1903, has been superintendent of the water works and has proved very efficient in this office. I\Ir. Parsons was married first to Hannah Griffin, and one of their three children lived to maturity. }\lary A., whu is now tlie wife of John E. Sullivan. His second marriage was to Margaret Lynch, and two of their children survive: Louisa C, who is a teacher in the public school, and John J., who is a school boy. The family belongs to Holy Trinity Catholic church. ]\Ir. Parsons has been very prominent in Democratic circles and served in the state legislature in 1888-90-91 and 1892. When Somersworth became a city he was elected the first alderman from the Fourth Ward. He is identified with the Ancient Order of Hibernians and was the first president of Division No. 5 of that order and in 1910 was state president and was re-elected in 1912 to the same office. FRED H. BROWN, attorney at law and city .solicitor of Somersworth. was born at Ossipee, Carroll county, N. H., April 12, 1S79, and is a son of Dana J. and Nellie (Allen) Brown. They still live at Ossipee, wliere the father during his active life was a merchant. An only child, Fred H. Brown had many educational advantages. He attended the public schools of Ossipee and Dow academy, at Franconia, X. IL. and afterward passed one year at Dartmouth College and at the Boston L'ni- versity. He read law in ihe office of James .A. Edgerly of Somersworth, and was admitted to the l)ar in 1907, afterward, until the death of Mr. Edgerly in 1908, being associated with his preceptor in practice. In the latter year he was elected city attorney and is still serving. He has always been an active and responsive citizen and is serving as chairman of the school board AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 619 at Somersvvorth. A loyal Democrat, his party has frequently acknowledged his fitness for positions of responsibility and named him as a presidential elector in the interests of President Woodrow Wilson's campaign, and in 191J sent him as a delegate to the constitutional convention. For the past four years he has been a member of the Democratic state committee. He belongs to Prospect Lodge, Knights of Pythias; the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; Edwards Chapter, at Somersworth, and to the Council at Dover. JESSE R. HORNE, president of the Somersworth National Bank and also of the Somersworth Savings Bank, is also owner of the J. R. Home planing, box and lumber mill, which is situated in Berwick, Me., his many interests indicating the prominent position occupied in this section. He was born at Rochester, N. PL, March 11, 1833, and is a son of Jesse and Sallie (Hubbard) Home, the former of whom was a native of Somersworth and the latter of Berwick, Me. Jesse Home, the father, followed farming all his active years, then retired to Rochester and died there at the age of eighty-six. Of his family of five cliildren Jesse R. is now the onlv survivor. All)ert M. died November 26, 19 13. Jesse R. Home obtained his educational training in the schools of Rochester, afterward becoming a mill worker in various places but mainly at Somersworth. In 1879 he erected his own mill, which is the oldest lumber mill in this section. All kinds of general mill work in lumber is engaged in, the manufacturing of boxes being a specialty. He has been a resident of Somersworth since April 19, 1858, and learned his trade here, and in 1905 became president of the Somersworth National Bank. In 1881 he was made trustee of the Somersworth Savings Bank, of which he became president in 1905. Although his business responsibilities have been heavy and more or less absorbing for many years. Mr. Home is the type of citizen who never permits himself to be indifferent concerning the welfare of his community and his high business and personal standing have caused his fellow citizens to frequently urge him to accept ))ublic office. He served ably in the New Hampshire legislature during 1865-6, as a county commissioner of Strafford county from 1869 until 1872, and as a member of the city water works board during 1903 and 1904. h'or many years he has served as a member of the school board and was president of the Fresh Glade cemetery board for fifteen years. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Home has traveled over a good portion of his own country, spending winters in Florida and Texas, and in 1893 'is fi^'st went abroad, journeying pleasantly through Spain, Italy and North Africa, in 191 1 making a second visit during which he traveled through 620 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY tlie northern part of Europe including England, Scotland, and also through France, Germany, Italy, Holland and Switzerland. Mr. Home was married in 1854 to Aliss I\Iary Rohin.son, who was born in 1839 and died July 23, 1889, a daughter of James and Martha Robinson of Dover, X". H. They had one daughter, Nellie M., who was born October 17, 1858, and died November 23, 1S81. In January, 1893, Air. Home was married to his second wife. Miss Frances Black, -who was l)orn January 3, 1862, a daughter of John H. and Kate Black, of Boston. Mass. Mr. antl Mrs. Horne have one daughter, Jessie Eleanor, born April 26, 1898, who is attending school. Mr. Home and family attend the Methodist Episcopal church. WTLLIAM F. RUSSELL, who is the oldest i)racticing attorney at Somersworlh, has long been a leading representative of the bar of Strafford county. He was l)orn at W'aterford, Oxford county. Me., in 1S55, and is a son of William and Eliza (French) Russell, being one of the six sur\ivors of tlieir family of eight children. William Russell, the father, was a native of Fryeburg, Oxford county. Me., and his business was farming and manufacturing. In October, 1864, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering Company B. Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and fell mortally wounded on the battle field of Hatch's Run, April 3, 18(15. William F. Russell attended school in his nati\e place and also Gould's Academy at Bethel, and at the age of se\enteen years began to teach school. Afterward he entered the Freeport High school both as student and as teacher, and in 1877 entered the University of Alaine. He remained but a short time on account of trouble with his eyes. He w as admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1884, in the meanwhile having pursued his law studies with Judge Wells and William R. Burleigh. Later he became associated as a partner, succeeding ludge \\ ells, and the law firm of liurleigh and Russell continued with the two partners until 1888. In 1889 Mr. Russell admitted Edmund S. Boyer to partnership, the latter having been a student with Mr. Russell. In i8c)4 Mr. Boyer moved to Anderson, Ind.. since which time Mr. Russell has continued in practice alone, maintaining his oftice first in the Great Falls Hotel building until 191 1 and now at No. 48 High street. He has taken part in much important litigation and has continued practice in the local courts for the past thirty years. He is counsel for the Somers worth Savings Bank and the repository of many family trusts. Mr. Russell was united in marriage with Miss Lucy W. Tibbets and they have two children, Lucia G. and Frances E., the former being a graduate AND REPRESENTATI\'E CITIZENS 621 and the latter a student at Smith College, Northampton, IMass. Mr. Russell is member of the Congregational church, while Mrs. Russell and daughters are members of Emanuel church of Boston, Mass. He has long been identified witli the Masonic fraternity. V. S. RICKER, cashier of the Eirst National Bank of Somersworth, with which institution he has been identified since i()oq. was born in i8f>3, at Berwick, Me., and is a son of Winslow T. and Martha A. ( Smitli ) Ricker. The father of Mr. Ricker. a native of Maine, died at Ik-rwick in igoj. He was born at Lebanon but the larger portion of his life was spent at Berwick, where he was engaged in the tanning business. Of his four children but one, F. S., survives. The mother uf our su]>ject was a native of New Hampsiure. V. S. Ricker was reared and educated at Berwick, Me. For a few years he was connected with the mercantile house of Carter & Son, at Somersworth, and later was in a real estate business at Chicago, 111. b'or fi\-e years prior to accepting his present position with the First National, ]Mr. Kicker was jjractically out of business Ijut since then has devoted himself to adxancing the interests df the l'"irst National Bank, his name, as an ofticial, being an asset of the same. Mr. Ricker married Miss Grace Elyde, who is a daughter of Rev. Henry Hyde, a former pastor of the First Congregational church at Somersworth. to which Mr. and Mrs. Ricker belong. They ha\'e two children, Caroline Hyde and Elizabeth Palmer. Mr. Ricker gives his political support to the Republican party, and fraternally he is connected with the Masonic order. HON. W. R. TEBBETTS, a member of the New Hampshire State Legis- lature, to which honorable body he was elected in November, 1912, has been one of the representative business men of Somersworth for the last eighteen years. Mr. Tebbetts was born in 1872, at Berwick, York county, Me., and is a son of George S. and Harriet S. (Roberts) Tebbetts. George S. Tebbetts was born in Maine and was a resident of Berwick and a fanner there until 1897, when he moved to Rochester, N. H., where he now lives retired. He married Harriet S. Roberts, who also survives, and they have two sons: George E., who is a resident of Dorchester, Mass., and W. R., of Somersworth. W. R. Tebbetts attended school first at Berwick and later at Somersworth, after which he engaged in a mercantile business at Dover, wdth John A. Hoye, on Third street, and later with John C. Lathrop, with whom he con- tinued for six 3'ears. On September 11. 1895. he established his present business at No. 30 Market street, Somersworth, dealing in clothing, hats and 622 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY furnishings. Mr. Tebbetts is a successful business man, and has also served in several important local offices prior to his election in 1912, on the Republican ticket, to membership in the General .-Vssembly. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a "Shriner," and belongs also to the Odd I'ellows and Knights of Pythias. His good citizenship has never been questioned nor his business integrity assailed. .Mr. Tebbetts was united in marriage to Miss Olive Stone, of Berwick, Me. By a former marriage he has one daughter, Marion. The family attends the i\Iethodist Episcopal church. \\ ILLIAM A. LilLAl.VX, for nian\- years a prominent citizen of Stratford county and an honored and useful resident of Dover, was born December I, 1846, in South Berwick, ]\Ie., and died at his home in Dover, N. H., Novem- ber I. 1910. He was a son of George and Susan ( Plummer) Gilman, the former of whom was born at Exeter and the latter in Rollinsford, N. H. William A. Gilman received academic instruction at South Berwick, after which he came to Dover and entered the dry goods store of John Bickford as a clerk, continuing after the business was purchased by Charles Trickey. Later for a time he filled a clerical position at the I'. S. Navy Yard at Portsmouth. His main interest, Imwexer, was farming, to which he dc\oted the time not claimed Ijy public affairs. He was an intelligent and earnest citizen and early identified himself with the Republican party which, on many occasions, recognized his loyalty and superior C]ualifications for public service. He served in the city council of Dover and in 1895 was elected a member of the New Hampshire legislature, representing the Second Ward of the tow n of Dover. As a public man he was honorable and efficient and as a neighbor and friend he was true to e\ery (_)hligatiim. Mr. Gilman was married first to Mrs. Nancy Rollins, widow of John Rollins, her maiden name having been McDuffee, and two children were born: Helen A., who is the wife of John A. Marshall, of Lawrence, Mass., and lames W., who is also a resident of Lawrence. On Alay 25, 1899, Air. Gilman was married secondly to Miss Jennette S. Nealley, who was born and liberally educated at South Berwick, Me. She is a daughter of .Andrew J. and Lydia ( Hodsdon) Nealley. Her father was born at Nottingham, N. H., a son of Benjamin Nealley, an old settler. In early manhood he moved to South Berwick where he engaged in farming and in the lumber industry and died there. The mother of Mrs. Gilman was born in South Berwick and was a daughter of Benjamin Hodsdon. Mrs. Gilman is a member of the Dover Woman's Club and belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution, her connection with this exclusive society being through her ancestor. Sergeant Joseph Nealley, a Revolutionary hero. She is a AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 623 member of the Congregational clnirch of South Uerwick ami is (luite prom- inent in tlie social life of both South Berwick and Dover. GEORGE W. FARXHAM. whose long, busy and useful life has been passed in New England, is well known in different sections where he was identified with various interests, has lived retired for some years, occupying his comfortable residence at No. 7 Cedar street, Dover. Ele is one of the few sur\i\ors who can recall fruni personal ol)ser\ation, the manner and appearance of General Lafayette, when he was the nation's honored guest in 1825 and visited Dover. Mr. I'"arnham was born March 14, 1819, at Woodstock, Vt., a son of Jeremiah and Martha (Perkins) Farnham, the father born in Maine and the mother at Dover, N. H. Three of their children survive: George \V., of Dover, and Mrs. Martha M. Ciriffin and Mrs. Fannie F. Smith, both of Springfield, Mass. When George W. Farnham was three years old his parents moved to South Berwick, Me., and six years later to Rollinsford, N. H. h'or a numljer of 3'ears he lived in Rollinsford and there attended school, also in Dover, and for a time was a pupil in the South Berwick Academy. While the great industries for which this section is noted were not de\'eloi)ed as they are today, they offered ready employment and remunerati\-e compensation for the times and Mr. Farnham. like others, entered the big woolen mill at Salmon Falls. There he worked for seven years and then went into a cotton mill at South ]>erwick. Me. He then engaged in farming for some years at Leljanon, Me., and after that came to Dover and for several years was in the weaving department of the Cocheco i\Iills. He then emliarked in a mercantile Inisiness at South Berwick, Me., and during a number of years' residence there was a clerk for others and also proprietor of his own store. When he returned to Strafford county he located on a farm near the Granite State Park, which farm lay partly in Somersworth and partly in Dover. It was while living on this farm that his first wife died and he then remo\'ed to Springfield, Mass., where he continued until he came once more to Dover, making this city his permanent home e\ cr since. Mr. Farnham was married first at Newfield, Me., to Miss iMary Moore, and they had two children. Mar}' A. and George F., both of whom are deceased. His second marriage was to Miss Jennie Woodward, who died 1903, who was born in Canada but w as educated in New York and at the time of her marriage was a resident of West Springfield, Mass. In many ways Mr. Farnham has been an ideal citizen for he has always been a promoter of progressive movements wherever he has lived; his con- duct has been honorable and upright and he has ever had scrupulous regard 624 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY for the sanctity .as daughter of Samuel and Ohve (Tuttle) Dame. Mr. Dame was a tanner by trade, and a farmer and merchant m Nottingham, where he l,ecame a resident during the Revolution He was born m Lee in 1746, aiul died in Nottingham in 1871. He was sixth m descent from Deacon John Dame, the second dcacni of the First Church in Dover. He came here from England in 1633. The church was organized ni 1638. Samuel Dame's mother was Anna Ilunking, daughter of Capt 626 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Mark Hunking of I'arrington, X. H. Olive Tuttle, grandmother of Mr. Samuel Burnham. was fifth in descent from Judge John Tuttle, one of the first settlers and most prominent citizens of old Do\er. Her father, Sergeant Stoten Tuttle, was a soldier in the French and Indian wars: he was with the army that captured Ouebec from the hVench, and was one of the soldiers who climbed the steep side of fortress to the summit of the Heights of Abraham. Eliza Foye, Charles H. Burnham's mother, is a lineal descendant, and of Jolm h^oye one of the earlv settlers of old Doxer, -who came here before idSo. The Foye family has an honorable record as farmers and business men. The late Mayor Solomon H. Foye of Dover was ]\Irs. Burnham's kinsman and one of Dover's honored citizens. Mrs. Burnham died in 1892 aged 67 years. Charles H. Burnham \vas educated in the public schools of Dover. In 1880 he went to Boston and entered the employ of George W. Armstrong, the great newspaper agent. Mr. .\rmstrong set Mr. Burnham at work as newsjjaper distributor on the trains between Boston anil Portland; he held this position four years, and then was placed in charge of Armstrong's news stand at the old Eastern Railroad depot on Causway street, being Mr. Arm- strong's most trusted and eiificient assistant manager for six years and one year as manager. In 1 89 1 Mr. Burnham returned to Dover and engaged in the retail fruit and confectionery business on Central a\'enue. About 1901 he commenced the business of manufacturing confectionery at his present location on Stark a\enue, and disposes of his product at wholesale in southern New Hampshire and York, County, ^Nfe. Mr. Burnham married in 1890 Miss Ella Manock, a daughter of the late I)a\id Manock, of Do\er, who was a native of Enghnul. Mr. and Mrs. Burnham have four children: ]\[rs. Ethel M. Greenaway, of Portsmouth, N. H. : and Mildred, Ruth ]\I. and Charles R,, who reside at home. The family attends the Methodist Episcopal church. ^^Ir. Burnham is a staunch Republican, but has held no office, nor has he asked for any. He is a member of Mt. Pleasant Lodge of Odd Fellows and Prescott Encampment, and Canton Parker, Patriarch Militant. He is also a member of Kankamagus Tribe of Red ]\Ien. He has filled chairs in the lodge, and has passed through the chairs in the Encampment. He was also an officer on Major Samuel Abbott's staff in Canton Park. As a business man he possesses the full confidence of his fellow citizens. CYRUS LITTLEFIELD, one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Dover, N. H., is a native of this city, having been born here January 27, 1837. His parents were James and Sarah C. (Bean) Little- AND REPRESEXTATI\'E CITIZENS 627 field, and he is a grandson of Nicholas Littlefield, a native of Wells, Me., whu was a descendant of one of four brothers who settled in Wells, Me., at an early date. James Littlefield, father of our subject, settled in Do\-er, N. II.. wlien a young man and lived here all his life, dying in 1871. ( )f his children the following survi\-es Cyrus, of Do\'er, N. H. ; Mary S., widow (if Marcus Marx, late of Brooklyn, N. Y., uhere ^he resides; Fannie, widow of Dr. Carl H. Horch, late of Dover, N. H. ; Sarah C, widow of Ephraim J. Deland, late of Dover, w^here she resides, and Emma, widow of Henry Chamberlain, late of Boston, Mass., she Ijeing now a resident of Do\er. James Littlefield, the father, was a Republican in politics, having been orginally a \\ hig. He was in his 68th year at the time of his death. Cyrus Littlefield was reared in Dover, X. H., acquiring his educatiiin in the public schools of this city and at Wolfboro Academy. Lie was for many years a prominent business man of Dover, though now retired. Lie is a Civil War veteran, having been a memlier of Company K, which Ijecame a part of a Rhode Island cavalry regiment. While ser\ing at \\'arren Junction his horse fell un him and he was seriously injured, owing to which he received an honorable discharge in June, 1862, having served from December, 1861. Returning to Dover, he re-engaged in business and soon became one of the prominent citizens of the town. He served as county commissioner for two terms (four years), being chairman of the Ixiard during his last term. He also served ten years as assessor of Ward i of Dover. He was a member of the school board two j^ears and was moderator of political meetings in Ward I on \-arious occasions. Late in the sixties he represented Ward i in the State Legislature, ser\-ing two terms. In politics he is a Republican and is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Littlefield married in i860 Harriet J. Webster, who was born in Dover, a daughter of William Webster, formerl}- a well kufiwii citizen of Dover, N. H. Of this marriage there ha\-e been fi\e children, namely : Mortimer C. who resides in Virginia; Nettie, who is now deceased; Sarah C, wife of Frederick Coffin, of Do\er; James, residing in Dover, and Nettie E., wife of George R. Williams, who is superintendent of the Kidder Press Company, of Dover, X. II. Mrs. Cyrus Littlefield died May 4, 1910. Mr. Littlefield is a man w idelv known throughout the county and as wideh' esteemed. Lie is public spirited and progressive and both his wonl and actions can alwa\'s be relied on. HON. FRED PLLTMER, who served as a meniber of the New Hampshire legislature from Rollinsford in 1897, is a leading man of Straft'ord county 628 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY and a substantial farmer, owning seventy-five acres of excellent land at Rollinsford Station. He was born on the farm on which he lives, April 8, 185-', and is a son of William and Permelia ( Waldron) Plumer. The father was bom at Rollinsford and the mother at Dover. X. H., and the paternal grandfather, Ebenezer Plumer was also a native of this state. W illiam Plumer during life served frequently in local offices and was a man of sterling character, a liberal supporter of the Baptist church at South Ber- wick. Me. Following his school days, during which he attended an academy at South Berwick, Fred Plumer has devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits and has taken much interest in public affairs. In the General Assembly he lent support to measures of a beneficial character and cast his vote fairly and honestly. He has served two years on the board of selectmen, being chairman of the same. He is a Republican in his political views. Mr. Plumer was married first to Miss Mary A. Yeaton, and they had one sun. Harold E., who lives at Buffalo. N. Y. On January 28, 1887. he was married secondly to Miss W'ilhelmina Home, who was born in Rollinsford, August 2. i860, and is a daughter of Luther P. and Abbie ( Downing) Home, the father a native of Wakefield and the mother of Somersworth, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Plumer have two children : G. Everett, who lives in Rollinsford ; and Helen W.. who is studying art and science in the New Hampshire State College at Durham. Mr. Plumer and wife are members of the Baptist church at South Berwick and for a number of years she has had charge of the primary department in the Sunday school, possessing the rare gift of being able to interest and hold the attention of a body of children. Mr. Plumer is a member of the Hiram R. Roberts Grange No. 192, one of the charter members, and has served as master. He belongs also to the Odd Fellows and has served in the ofiice of noble grand in Lodge Xo. 30 at Salmon Falls and additionally has held offices in Agamenticus Encampment Xo. 15, of this place. I\Ir. and ]Mrs. Plumer are members of the O. N. E. Club, of Rollinsford and both take part in the pleasant social life of the community. lAMES H. JOYCE, who is engaged in business at Somersworth along the line of insurance and real estate and is a notary public and a justice of the peace, was born in Somersworth. September 4, i860, a son of James and Elizabeth (T^arsons) Joyce. lames Toycc. the father, was born in Ireland and came to America in earlv manhood. During the Civil war he served as a private soldier in the Twenty-second Xew York Heavy Artillery until the summer of 1864, escaping all injurv except a wound in the ankle. He was an industrious man and AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 629 immediately resumed work after returning home, but three weeks later, in August, 1864, met death from a stroke of Hghtning. He had married EHzabeth Parsons, also a native of Ireland, w ho lived to extreme old age, passing away June 20, 191 1, in her ninety-seventh year. Of their children, J. H. Joyce is the only survivor. Bereft of his father in childhood. J. H. Joyce missed many of the privileges that he would otherwise have enjoyed. i\s soon as his age and strength per- mitted he went to work in a mill and continued in wool and cotton mills at difierent points until he was twenty-two years of age, when he engaged with a grocery house at Berwick, Me., and remained for two years. Mr. Joyce then embarked in a grocery business of his own, in the old Union store build- ing on Washington street, Somersworth, and for a short time also dealt in meats, but two years later disposed of his stock when elected to the office of deputy sheriff for four years. For the first time in his life he found leisure to devote himself to the study of law, for which he had an inclination, and pursued his studies in the office of Mr. Pierce. He still had one more year to serve in office when he went to Concord to take his examinations and made such a favorable impression on Judge Doe, that, on the advice of the jurist, he entered the Boston University Law school. His close application, however, had affected his eyes to such an extent that five week later he was (jbliged to limit his ambition and return home. After he had succeeded in bringing his eyes to a normal condition he went into his present business. He handles both farm and town property and has the reputation of selling more first class real estate than all the other dealers combined. One of his holdings is the old residence of Charles Blaisdell, who was his first em])loyer. He represents many of the old line insurance companies and maintains his office at No. 6 Orange street. Mr. Joyce was married first to Miss Amie Barrett, a daughter of Robert Barrett. She died nine years later, the mother of tfvo children: Mary A., who died aged four years; and Elizabeth, who is an expert stenographer employed in Boston. He was married secondly to Miss Hannah Lawlor, daughter of Fenton Lawdor, and they have had the following children : Helen, a stenographer; Catherine, a student in a business college; Margaret, a high school student; and Alecia, James, Fenton, Lawrence and Nora, the last named dying when aged 4 years. Mr. Joyce and family belong to the Catholic church. Formerly he was a Democrat but is now a Republican. He has served as overseer of the poor of Somersworth. He belongs to the Hibernian Society and to the Sons of Veterans and has been state commander of the latter organization. 37 630 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY KIRK W'ORSTER, who resides' on and is owner of the old \Yorster homestead farm of loo acres, situated in Somersworth, N. H., was born in Somersworth, July 14, 1870, and is a son of George and Augusta (Hayes) Worster. George Worster, the father, was a son of Oliver Worster, of Berwick, Me., who was town clerk and kept a general store for many years. George Worster came to Somersworth, N. H., in earl)- manhood and settled on the farm above mentioned and here resided until his death, which occurred in 1902. He was a Democrat in politics and was held in high regard as a citizen. He was a well educated man, having enjoyed early advantages at Brewster Academy, at Wolfboro, N. H. He was identified with the Masonic fraternity. George Worster was married (first) to .\ugusta Hayes, who was born at Farmington, N. H., and of their five children three survive : Kirk, Mrs. Bradley Thurston, of Berwick, Me., and Mrs. Samuel Waldron, of Farmington, N. H. His second marriage was to Eliza Hartford, and they had four children : Herbert H., Henry, Moses J., and Mrs. Arthur Junes, all of Farmington, X. H. Kirk Worster secured his schooling at Somersworth and then learned the shoe-making trade and followed the same for several years in Massachusetts and in New York. After the death of his father he took charge of the home- stead farm and purchased it and has continued to carry on general farming here ever since. Mr. Worster married Miss Harriet Perkins, of Exeter, N. H., a daughter of the late Woodbridge O. Perkins, and they have two children: George W. and Harold O. Mr. Worster gi\es his political support to the Democratic party and fraternally is identified with the Knights of Pythias at Berwick, Me. He is one of the respected and representative citizens of this part of Strafford C(junty. KINGMAX FERXALD. one of Do\'er's well known citizens who is now engaged in agricultural pursuits on his farm of sixty-five acres in the town of Dover, was born at Barrington, N. H., June 14, 1847. and is a son of William H. K. and Martha S. (Perkins) Fernald. William H. K. Fernald was born at Kittery, Me., and was a son of Tobias Fernald, who was a soldier in the War of 1812-1815, in which he lost a leg and subsequently his life; his burial was in the sea. William H. K. Fernald was young when his parents removed from Kittery to Barrington, X. H., where he lived until 1859, when he came to the town of Dover and settled on the farm that his son now owns. Here his death occurred in 1884. He was a man of public importance, serving as tax collector while living at Barrington and in 1875 was elected on the Republican ticket a member of the New Hampshire legislature, representing the Third \\'ard of Dover. In AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZEXS 631 1838 lie married Martlia S. F^erkins, wlio was born in South Berwick, Me., in 1818 and died in 1894. Of their children the following survive: Kingman; Charles W'.. who is a resident of Newton, N. H. ; Chapley 1., a resident of Lynn, Mass. ; Curtis D., who li\es at Haverhill, Mass. ; and Oscar L., of Lynn, Mass. Kingman Fernald was fourteen years of age when his parents came to Do\'er and since 1888 he has been a continuous resident on his farm, which he successfully devotes to general agriculture. For two years he was a mem- ber of the Dover city police force, for seven years he was driver of Steamer No. 2 at the Orchard street station of the fire department, and for sixteen years he engaged in general teaming for Mayor J. S. Abott, of Dover. On March 15, 1871, Mr. Fernald was married to Miss Isa B. Caswell, who was born at New Market, N. H., in 1846, a daughter of George W. and Mary A. Casw-ell, former residents of New Market. Mrs. Fernald died May 10, 1913, survived by one son, Percy W., of Dox'er. Mr. Fernald has always been affiliated with the Republican part)-. REV. ONESIME J. DESROSIERS, pastor of St. Martin's Catholic church at Somersworth, N. H., was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, April 6, 185 1, and is a son of Onesime and Catherine ( Brouillard ) Desrosiers. Both parents were born in Canada, and both are now deceased. Of their eleven children h'ather Desrosiers was the first born. He attended school in his native place and afterward taught in the college at Sorel, where he subsequently studied for the priesthood, and on August 14. 1877, was ordained. After fourteen months as an assistant in parishes in Canada, he came to Salmon Falls, N. H., December 16. 1882, where he remained in charge of the church until January lo, 1883. when he was transferred to St. Augustine, at Manchester. There he continued until September, when he was recalled tO' Canada to become a superintendent in a college. On August 14, 1886, he returned to St. Augustine, Manchester, as assistant priest, and in julw 1888, became the parish priest at Greenville and in 1895 was transferred to Suncook, in Merriniac county, where he remained until April, 1907, when he came to St. Martin's at Somersworth. St. Martin's church edifice is a beautiful Gothic building, the largest church at Somersworth and the most complete in all its appointments in Strafford county. The parsonage is also a pleasing structure, of brick construction. Both were erected by Father C. Demers, who established the parish October 15, 1882. The congregation of St. Martin's includes 654 families or about 3750 people. To this large assemblage Father Desrosiers faithfully de\'Otes himself, e\'er making the interests of his people his own, with Christian zeal 632 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY directing them spiritually and with sound judgment advising them in many material things. He is a factor in everything that promises to be beneficial to the community. SAMUEL C. FISHER, for many years one of the most substantial citi- zens of Dover, N. H., vice president of the Strafford Bank, and owner of valuable real estate in ditYerent parts of Strafford County, was born at Francestown, N. H., in 1817. He came to Dover when a young man and up to the Civil War period conducted a dry goods business in this city. He sub- sequently went to Newbern, N. C, where he engaged in farming and was interested for some years in various other industries. Later returning to Dover, he acquired financial and real estate interests here, becoming the heaviest tax payer in Strafford County and the largest owner of realty. It was a matter of justifiable pride with him that he was the builder of his own fortune, from early youth having been dependent upon his own resources. He was a man of keen business foresight with a high sense of integrity and his success was as great as it was well earned. He was a member of the Congregational church and a liberal giver to charitable enterprises. In politics he was a Republican, although never active in public affairs. Mr. Fisher died at Dover in 1909, at the advanced age of eighty-two years, deeply regretted by a wide circle of friends. His widow — in maiden- hood Miss Emily Bacon — still survives, and during a part of the year is a resident of Dover. CHARLES E. BACON, who for a number of years was associated in the jewelry business with the late Mr. Nutter, at Dover, N. H., was born in Biddeford, Me., March 11, 1833. Succeeding Mr. Nutter at the latter's death, he continued the business alone until one year before his own decease, which took place July 10, 1902, when he was sixty-nine years old. His wife, whose maiden name was Susan Clark, was a native of Dover. There were four children, two of whom survived — Dr. T'dmund Sawyer Bacon, of Provi- dence, R. I., and Emily B. Fisher, wife of Sam'l C. Fisher, of Dover, N. H. ERNEST R. ROBERTS, postmaster at Salmon Falls, N. H., was bom at South Berwick, York County, Maine, October 30, 1883. He is a member of one of the old pioneer families of this section, being a direct descendent of Gov. Thomas Roberts, a family that settled in New Hampshire as early as 1623. He is a son of Simeon B. and Lydia TShackford) Roberts, and a grandson and great-grandson of Aaron Roberts. In early childhood he accompanied his parents from South Berwick, Maine. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 633 to Rollinsford, N. H., to the old homestead, where he has since resided, being the eighth generation to reside thereon. Tie was graduated from the pubHc schools of the town, and later entered the New Hampshire State College at Durham, N. H., where he spent one year. In 1907 he was appointed postmaster at Salmon Falls, having previously served as assistant postmaster. As a public otficial he is entirely satisfactory, and as a citizen he commands the respect of the community. His political affiliation has always been with the Republican party. He is a member of the Hiram R. Roberts Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Rollinsford, X. H. Simeon B. Roberts was born at Rollinsford { Somersworth), N. H., in 1850 and the greater part of his very active life has been spent in the same place. For many years he has been more or less active in Republican politics, served for a time as postmaster at Salmon Falls and also represented Rollins- ford in the state legislature. He has taken marked interest in agricultural development, has given active support to the order of Patrons of Husljandry and is sei-ving as master of the local grange at the present time. In 1S71 he married Lydia Shackford who was born at Eaton, N. H., in 1851, and they have seven children : Mayhew T., who is a resident of Alberta, B. C. ; William E., who is a resident of Rollinsford, N. H.; Lena M., who is the wife of Herbert F. Berry, of Lawrence, Mass.; A. Milton and Herbert A., both of whom live at South Berwick, Me. ; and Ernest R. and George R. W. A. KIMBALL, one of Dover's well known business men, is estab- lished at No. 27 Lcicust street, where his line of work covers almost all kinds of ornamental wo(.i(! manufacturing. He was born at Du\er in i8vS and is a son of Alonzo E. Kimball. \y. A. Kimball attended school in Dover and afterward spent one year as a clerk in a grocery store and following this was with I. C. Connor, who con- ducted a picture and music store. His next employer was Winslow Hall, \\ ho \\ as in the loom harness and reed business and be continued there eighteen years, and afterward for ten years had charge of the harness and reeds in the Cocheco Mills. In 1906 Mr. Kimball started his own business, which includes reproducing and restoring antique furniture, band sawing and wood working and all kinds of jobbing along this line, also fine cabinetmaking. He has mod- ern machinery, his shop being equipped with electric power circular and band saws and turning lathes and the work turned out is Ijolh beautiful and artistic. Mr. Kimball has long been identified with both the Masons and Odd Fellows. Mr. Kimball married Miss Ida F. Ham, a daughter of the late William Ham. and they have one son. Harold H., who is his father's capable assistant, having spent five years after his school days and prior to coming into the shop. 634 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY with the New England Telephone Company. Harold H. Kimball married Miss Eva D. Hobby and they reside with his parents at 38 Cashing street. Both Mr. Kimball and son are Republicans in politics. COL. ANDREW" H. YOUNG. Among the representative men of Straf- ford county, whose honorable acti\-ities through a busv and useful life brought distinction to himself and his community, was Col. Andrew H. Yoiuig, who was born at Barrington, N. H., Jime 16, 1827, and died at Dover, December 10, i8go. He was a son of Aaron Young who was once a substantial farmer in Strafford county. Andrew H. Young was reared on the home farm and attended school at Barrington, making such rapid progress that when l)ut twenty-three years of age he was made superintendent of the village schools. He was ever in the forefront in movements of an educational nature, although the greater portion of his life w-as identified with military affairs. In 1855 '^^ served as a member of the New Hampshire legislature and prior to 1861 served as register of deeds and clerk of the Supreme Court of Strafford county. \Vhen the Civil war broke out he became quartermaster in the 7th N. H. \'olunteer Infantry, later was made captain, and in 1862 was advanced to major and paymaster in the United States army, and in 1864 was advanced to lieutenant-colonel by brex'et. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant, a collector of internal rex'enue and continued as such until 18S1. In 1885 he was appointed quartermaster in the regular army and assisted in the construction of the United States barracks at Fort Thomas, Ky. He w as personally acijuainted w ith and enjoyed the friendship of many of the leading men of his da_v. In 1854 Colonel Young was married to INIiss Susan E. Miles, of Madlniry. Strafford county, and they had four children : Hamilton, who is deceased : Mary Hale : Haldimand Putnam, who married ^larie Voorhees, of San Fran- cisco; and Richard Batchelder, who married Estelle Miller of Cincinnati and has one daughter, Elizabeth. '&' COL. DANIEL HALL, of Dover, N. H., lawyer, business man. and Grand Army veteran, whose name for many years has been prominently connected with state affairs, was born in the f>eautiful town of Barrington, this county, February 28, 1832. His parents were Gilman and Eliza (Tuttle) Hall and he is a descendant in the 7th generation of John Hall, who appears to have come to Dover, N. H., in the year 1649, with his brother, Ralph, from Charles- town, Mass. Of this blood was the mother of Governor John Langdon, Tobias Lear (Washington's pri\ate secretary), and others of like energy. John Hall was the first recorded deacon of the Dover First Church ( the first church established in New Tdampshire ) : he was also town clerk, commissioner to COL. JJAMKL HALL AND REPRESEXTATRE CITIZENS 637 try small cases, and a farnitT, l.)ut mainly surveyor of lands. His spring of fine water on Dover Neck is still know n as "Hairs Spring." His son, Ralph, was of Dover, a farmer; whose son. Ralph, also a farmer, was one of the early settlers of Barrington ; whose son. Solomon, also a farmer, w as of the same town. Solomon's son, Daniel, also a farmer, was father of Gilman Hall (his ninth child), who, by his wife. Eliza Tnttle. was father cif nine children, Daniel being the first-born. The pictures(jue old house in which he was born, located near W'inkley's Pond, was torn down about looo. It was an interesting and venerable landmark, but unoccui)ied and in a ruinous condition. Gilman Hall was early a trader in Do\-er. but for twenty-fi\e subsequent years was farmer and trader in Barrington. his nati\-e town, on the stage road known as the \\'aldron's Hill road. He was representative and for many years selectman. His wife. Eliza, was a descendant of John Tuttle. who was judge of the Superior Court for many years prior to 1700, residing in Do\'er. Daniel Hall spent his boyhood on the farm, attending the district school, and by and by helping in his father's store. When fourteen years old he began driving a team to Do\er, w ith wood and lumber, which he sold, standing on Central Square. By this time, h(>we\er, he had f(irmed a strong taste for books and had resolved to acquire a g(jod education. Accordingly, when about sixteen, having mastered all that could be taught him in the district .school, he secured two terms, about six months in all, at Strafford Academy — one term under Ira ¥. Folsom ( D. C. 1S4S ). and one under Rev. Porter S. Burbank. In 1849 he was one term at the Xew Hampshire Conference Seminary, in North- field, Rev. Richard S. Rust, principal. Then, for satisfactory reasons he gave up all academies, returned home, set himself down alone to his Greek, Latin, and mathematics, and with indomitable jierseverance prepared for college. He entered Dartmouth in 1S50. i;rol)a1)ly the poorest fitted in his class, but he had the litting of a determined will, unconcpieralile industry, a keen intellect, and the fibre of six generations of open-air ancestors, and in 1854 he graduated at the very head of his class, and was valedictorian. As the eldest of nine children he bad to practice economy. He taught district school five winters in his native town, and what small advances he had from his father were repaid, to the last dollar, from his first earnings. In the fall of 1854 young Hall was appointed a clerk in the New- York custom house, which position he held for some years. He had taken an early interest in politics, being b}- education a Democrat. But he had always been positively anti-slavery in sentiment. Pie was dissatisfied with the Kansas- Nebraska bill, and alone of all the clerks in the custom house, and fearless of the probable result to himself, he openly denounced the Lecompton Constitu- tion policy of Buchanan, and supported Douglas. In consequence he was re- moved from office in March, 18^8. 638 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Returning to Dover, he continued the study of law — which he had com- menced in New York — in the office of the eminent lawyer, Daniel M. Christie, and on that gentleman's motion was admitted to the bar at the May term, i860. He afterwards well repaid Mr. Christie's kindness by a eulogy upon his decease, delivered before the court and subsequently printed. It was re- garded as an eloquent and appreciative tribute to Mr. Christie's remarkable qualities of manhood and extraordinary powers as a lawyer. Mr. Hall, upon his admission to the bar, opened an office in Dover, and commenced practice. In the spring of 1859, just before the state election, in view of the great crisis coming upon the country, at an immense meeting in Dover, he (as did also Judge Charles Doe) withdrew from the Democratic party and cast in his allegiance with the Republicans. With them, where his conscience and political principles alike placed him, has his lot been cast e\er since, and it is not improbable that that one addition in later and critical years turned the scale in Xew Hampshire's political destinies. It was an episode in his life that in 1859 he was appointed by the Gov- ernor and Council school commissioner for Strafford county and reappointed in i860. His early training in the country district school, his work as master in the winters, and his hard-earned higher education qualified him eminently for the practical duties of this office. In the autumn of 1861 INIr. Hall was appointed secretary of the I'nited States Senate committee to investigate the surrender of the Norfolk Navy Yard. This committee consisted of John P. Hale, Andrew Johnson and James W. Grimes. Soon after he was appointed clerk of the senate committee on naval affairs at Washington, of which Mr. Hale was chairman. He served in this capacity until March, 1862; but he wished for more immediate partici- pation in the great struggle then in progress. The conflict, which had its symptoms in the Lecompton strife, had become war, and the young man who had then sacrificed office for princifile was ready for a still greater sacrifice. In March, 1862, he was commissioned aide-de-camp and captain in the reg- ular army of the United States. He was assigned to duty with Gen. John C. Fremont, but before he had time to join that officer, Gen. Fremont had retired from command, and Capt. Hall was transferred to the staff of Gen. A. W. Whipple, then in command at Arlington Heights of the troops and works in front of Washington on the south side of the Potomac. In September, 1862, a few days after the battle of Antietam, Gen. Whipple joined the xAmiy of the Potomac, and eventually marched with it to the front of Fredericksburg. On the 13th of December. 1862, he was in the battle of Fredericksburg, cross- ing the river with the Third Corps and taking part in the sanguinary assault upon the works which covered Marye's Heights. At the battle of Chancellorsville he was in the column sent out to cut Jack- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 639 son's line as he moved in front of tlie army, and in the gallant action of the Third Division of the Third Corps, nnder Gen. Whipple, of whose statY he was a member, and was with that lamented officer when he fell mortally wounded. Capt. Hall was then assigned to the staff of Gen. Oliver O. Howard, commander of the Eleventh Corps, and with him went to Gettysburg. His position in that action was important. When Gen. Reynolds, commanding the First Corps, had advanced through the town and encountered the enemy, Gen. Howard, then moving up and aljout five miles to the rear, hearing the heavy firing, ordered Capt. Hall to ride forward as rapidly as possible, find Gen. Reynolds, ascertain the condition of afl^airs, and obtain his orders. Capt. Hall's fleet horse soon covered the distance, and he found Gen. Reynolds himself in an advanced and exposed position from the enemy's fire. He did his errand. Gen. Reynolds said he had met the enemy in force, and sent the order to Gen. Howard to bring up his corps with all possible dispatch. Scarcely had Capt. Hall got back through the town when he was ox-ertaken by the intelligence that Gen. Reynolds was mortally wounded, and near the cemetery he met Gen. Howard impatiently coming up in advance of his corps. Passing Cemetery Ridge, Gen. Howard said, "That is the place to fight this battle," and directed Capt. Hall to take a battery from the leading division and place it in position on the crest of the hill. This was done, and that bat- tery, the first planted on Cemetery Hill, remained on that spot through the three days of the conflict. When Gen. Howard took his own place there, . Capt. Hall was of course with him, and on the second day of the engagement was slightly wounded by a shell. These details are given simply to place on record, in this permanent form, his testimony to the justice of the claim made by the friends of Gen. Howard that he was fully entitled to the thanks voted him by Congress for selecting Cemetery Hill and holding it as the battle- ground of the great and glorious battle of Gettysburg. In the latter part of 1863 his health suffered, and he was forced to leave the service in December of that year. But in June, 1864, he was appointed provost-marshal of the First New Hampshire District, being stationed at Portsmouth, and here he remained until the close of the war. The affairs of the office were in some confusion, but his methodical habits soon reduced it to order. During his term of service he enlisted or drafted and forwarded over 4,000 men to the army. This service ceased in October, 1865. "He was one of the men," said a substitute broker to the writer of this sketch, "that no man dared approach with a crooked proposition, no matter how nuich was in it." Mr. Hall resumed the practice of law in Dover, but in 1866 was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court for Strafford County, and in 1868 became judge of the Police Court of the City of Dover, serving from 1868 to 1874 and 1876 to 640 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 1877. The duties of these offices were performed with his usual sense of justice, but in 1874 the Democratic party being in power, "addressed" him out of both offices. In the meanwhile he had been judge-advocate, with the rank of major, in the military of New Hampshire, under Governor Smyth, and held a position on the staff of Governor Harriman, which gave him his usual title of colonel. Col. Hall had long taken a deep interest in political aft'airs. To him they represented principles. In 1873 he was president of the Republican State Convention at Concord. He had been for some years a member of the Repub- lican State Committee, when, in December, 1873, his abilities as a leader and executive officer were recognized in his selection as chairman of that commit- tee. He so remained until 1877. 'i'""^' conducted the campaigns, state and na- tional, of 1874, 1875, and 1876. These were critical years for the Republican party. The nearly even balance of parties in New Hampshire, the vigor and intensit}- with which the battles are always fought, and the skill necessary in e\"ery department, demand abilities and energies of the highest order. The years mentioned surpassed ordinarx- years in political danger to the Repub- licans. It is sufficient to say that Col. Hall conducted the last three campaigns (previous to 1882) to a triumphant issue. So decisive were the successive victories that the tide was turned, and from that time the state swerved not from Republican allegiance until the Democratic landslide in 191-'. In 1876 Col. Hall was chairman of the Xew Hami)shire delegation to the Republican National Convention at Cincinnati, being chosen at large, un- pledged, and with scarce a dissenting vote. Seven delegates voted from first to last for James G. Blaine, but Col. Hall, with ex-governor Straw and Hon. Charles H. Burnes, voted six times for Mr. Bristow, and on the decisive ballot for Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1876 and 1877, ]\Ir. Hall was. by appointment of Governor Cheney, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and in that honorable position published \c;)lumes 56 and 57, New Hampshire Reports. In 1877 he succeeded Gov. Harriman as naval officer at the port of Boston, serving till 1886. This office is co-ordinate with that of collector, upon which it is a check. Air. Hall's business habits, his keen insight, his perfect accuracy, and the ruling principles of his life to do ever\thing well and thoroughly, there came into operation. He quietly mastered the details as well as the general work of the department. Regularly at his jiost, his office became a model in its management and was commended in the highest terms by the proper officers. When, therefore, his term expired he was reappointed for another four years by President Arthur, with no serious opposition. Col. Hall has been trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank since 1883 and AND REPRESEXTATIVE CITIZENS 641 is now its vice-president. Among other offices he has held and the duties of which he has ably performed, are: trustee and secretary of the Soldiers' Home from 1889 to date; department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1892-1893; trustee of the Dover Public Library, 1895 to date; trus- tee of Berwick Academy from 1895 to date, and director of the Strafford National Bank from 1897 to date. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion of the United States, the New Hampshire Historical Society, the Bar Association of Southern New Hampshire and the American Bar Association. He has made many public addresses on subjects political, military, literary and miscellaneous. A volume entitled "Occasional Addresses" was published liy him in 1S92. He was president of the Historical Society three years and officiated at the dedication of the fine building at Concord presented to the Historical Society l)y Hun. Edward Tuck of Paris. It is the finest building in the state, ha\ing cust half a million d(.)llars. Col. Hall married, January 2^, 1877, Sophia, daughter of Jonathan T. and Sarah (Han.son) Dodge, of Rochester, N. H., and has one son, Arthur Wellesley Hall, born August 30, 1878. who married Inez Bunker, daughter of F. H. and Frances Bunker. They ha\e ntworth was the grandmother of Mrs. Howe. Betsey Wentworth was the daughter of Thomas Wentworth and Mary Roberts; she, the daughter of Col. James Roberts, a soldier of the Revolution. The grandfather Went- worth (grandfather of Betsey), known as Col. Jonathan of the 2d New Hampshire militia, served as captain of a company in Col. Poor's New Hamp- shire regiment, .\fter the Concord alarm his regiment made a forced march from Dover to Chelsea. He served throughout the war, rising to the rank of major. Pie was fourth in descent from the famous Elder Wentworth, the immigrant of tlie Wentworth family in .Vmerica. T\\ enty-one years ago after having learned in Boston the trade of a florist and the art of floral design, as well as having had some practical experience in the business for himself in Nashua, for about three years, Charles Luke Howe came to Strafford county. Here in Doxer he built on Rutland street a small greenhouse and started in a modest way as a florist. About a year after he had an opportunity to purchase \\ hat was then known as the "Johnson Greenhouse" at Garrison Hill. For several years he conducted both houses but finding such a plan divided his attention he consolidated the two houses at Garrison Hill. His expert knowledge of how to make flowers bloom under glass at the least expense and so enable him to supply them to the public at moderate prices, his executive abilitv by which he could find and teach men to do the work as well as be could do it himself, together with the careful personal supervision which he has always given the whole business, have all been factors in the development of his present extensive plant covering 17 acres. It includes 12 glass greenhouses, each about 125 feet long, their average width being about 30 feet. Here he raises all plants and flowers that there is a commercial demand for, having a large trade in fancy cut flowers, both wholesale and retail. These greenhouses are" not onlv more in number but are better in construction and contain more stock than any other retail flower growing house in Maine. Xev Hampshire AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 647 or Vermont. Since establishing his plant in Dover j\Ir. Howe has founded branch establishments at 631 Congress street, Portland, Me. ; 221 Water street, Augusta, Mc. ; 4 Market street, Portsmouth. N. H. ; and 668 Main street. Laco- nia. N. H., all the latter being devoted to the retail trade. He has about 15 employees m his Dover plant and several in each of his other stores. Taken together the amount of cut flowers used by his branch stores re(iuire the services of about 20 men, six horses and two automobiles where the flowers are grown. As a florist Mr. Howe's reputation extends over several states. He belongs to the Masonic lodge at Dover, to the Odd Fellows, the B. P. O. E., the Royal Arcanum and the Knights of Pythias, all of Dover. He belongs to the Congregational church and pdlilicall}- is a Kepuljlican. JOHN O. A. WENTWORTH. treasurer of the Rollinsford Savings Bank, and cashier of the Salmon Falls Bank, is a well known and popular citizen of Salmon Falls, N. H., where he has resided since 1872. He was Ijurn in the town of Rollinsford. February 20. 1849. ^ son of Samuel H. and Jane ( Walsh ) Wentworth. the father being a native of Rollinsford, N. H.. and the mother of Portsmouth. N. H. Samuel H. Wentworth was a son of John Wentworth. of Rollinsford. a descendant of William Wentworth. who was a descendant of one of the early settlers of Rollinsford. John, the grandfather, was at one time a member of the New Hampshire legislature, representing the town of Somersworth. Samuel H. Wentworth also represented Somersworth in the legislature, in 1847 and 1848. He was originally a Whig and later a Republi- can. He was a farmer all his life in Rollinsford, where he died in 1870. The subject of this sketch was his only child. John O. A. W'entworth was reared in Rollinsford, N. H., beginning his education in the public schools and later attending South Berwick Academy at South Berwick. Me. In 1867 he graduated at I'.ryant & Stratton Commercial College, at Concord. N. H.. after which he taught school for a short time. On the death of his father in 1870 he engaged in farming on the homestead and was thus occupied for two years. He then removed to Salmon Falls and entered the employ of the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company as assistant paymaster, which position he held until 1801. when he was appointed i>avmaster with the same concern. In i\Iay, 1892, he was appointed treasurer of the Rollinsford Savings Bank, and some time thereafter was appointed cashier of the Salmon Falls Bank, both of wdiich positions he has since continued to hold. Mr. Wentworth is a Republican in politics and has taken a more or fess active part in public affairs. For a number of years he served as tax collector of Rollinsford and in 1879 and 1880 was a selectman of that town. In 1876 he was a delegate to the New Hampshire State Constitutional Convention. He 38 648 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY was representative from Rollinsford to tlie State legislature in 1883 and 101 r. For over a quarter of a century he acted as trial justice for Rollinsford and for 25 years has been a notary public. Since i8*:)6 he has served as town clerk and for a number of years has been a member of the school board of the same town. In addition to being cashier of the Salmon Falls Bank, he is also a director in the same institution, and is treasurer of tlie Episcopal Church of Salmon Falls ; also a trustee of Berwick Academy. Fraternally he belongs to Granite Lodge, No. 65, A. F. & A. M., of Salmon Falls and to St. Paul Com- mandery, K. T., at Dover, N. H. ; also to Salmon Falls Lodge, Xo. 30, L O. O. F. ; in the work of all these lodges he has taken an active and useful part. He occupies a prominent place among the enterprising and substantial citizens of Salmon Falls and has a wide and extended acquaintance throughout the county generally. Mr. Wentworth was married, in June, 1872, to Lillia E. Russell, of Salmon Falls, and they have one son, Ralph, who is now paymaster of the Salmon Falls J\Lanufacturing Company. COL. CHARLES CARPENTER GOSS, of Dover. N. H., banker, and one or the leading financiers in southern New Hampshire, \\as born in Gass- ville, this state, February 9, 1871. He is one of a family of three children born to John A. and Electa A. (Carpenter) Goss. His financial ability may have come to him partly through inheritance, as both his father and maternal grand- father — after the latter of whom he was named — were bankers of renown. The father died February 4, 1903, and Chas. H. Carpenter in 1910. The subject of this sketch after attending school in Pittsfield, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and in 1889. entered Dartmouth College, from which institution he was graduated in 1893 with the degree of B. S. He had literally gro\\n up in the banking business, having been busy in the National and Savings banks from boyhood during vacations in his school life. The following summer he entered the banking business with the Shawniut National Bank of Boston. After remaining there awhile he returned to Pitts- field because of his father's failing health in the bank where for many years his father was cashier and his grandfather the president, remaining there until 1900. During that time he was town treasurer and treasurer of other business companies in the town, when he came to Do\er. and organized the Merchants" National Bank, with Charles H. Carpenter, president ; John A. Goss, vice president, of which he Ijecanie cashier and \icc i)resident, positions which he now holds. In the following year, 1901, he organized the Merchants' Savings Bank, of Dover, both banks ranking among the foremost in the state. Of the Merchants' Savings Bank he is now trustee and treasurer, and directing AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 649 the affairs of both banks. In addition he is president of the Pittsfield National Bank, of Pittsfield, N. H., taking his grandfather's place there. He has also other important business interests, being president of the Lothrops-Farnam Clothing Company, of Dover, and a director of the New Boston R. R. His business and financial ability is widely recognized throughout the state, and in the southern part of the county his connection with any enterprise is of itself sufficient to inspire general confidence in its success. He served as treasurer of Strafford County for six years, making an ideal official. He belongs to the Masonic order, to the Knights of Pythias and to the Bellamy Club. In politics he is a Republican, and for two years he served as a member of Gov. Henry B. Quimby's personal staff. Mr. Goss married Miss Winifred Lane, born April 30, 1875, a daughter of Charles H. and Lorena A. (Perkins) Lane, of Pittsfield, N. H., and he and his wife are the parents of a son, Charles Lane Carpenter Goss, born February 24, 1903. Mrs. Goss is at present state regent of the Daughters of the American Re\'olution and a member of other patriotic and social organiza- tions. The family are affiliated with the Fir.st Congregational church and are prominent members of the best society of Dover. As business man and citizen Mr. Goss is a potent factor in the life of Dover and vicinity his character uniting in happy proportion those two most desirable qualities of progress and conservatism so pithily enjoined in the famous saying of Davy Crockett — "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." GEORGE W. NUTTER, M. D., formerly a member of the New Hamp- shire legislature, and in 1900 a member of the New Hampshire State Con- stitutional Convention, has been engaged in medical practice at Salmon Falls since 1891 and is owner and proprietor of a drug store here, a second store at Somersworth. and a third store at Concord. Dr. Nutter was born ?t Barn- stead, N. H., June 21, 1858, and is a son of William S. and Mary E. (Cvjj'ins) Nutter. The founder of the Nutter family in New England came from Eng- land in 1630. settling in what is now Newington, N. H., the family removing to Barnstead when the great-grandfather was a young man. Both the father and grandfather were born and raised at Barnstead where William S. Nutter passed his life, being a man of substantial standing and serving at times in the office of selectman. His death occurred some years ago about 1898. George W. Nutter was reared in his native place where he first attended school, later becoming a student at Pittsfield Academy and subsequently at Dartmouth Medical College, from which institution he was graduated in 18S3. He entered into practice at Manchester and won political and professional prominence there, coming from that city to Salmon Falls in 1891, as stated 650 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY above. He has always been an active citizen with a feeling of responsibility, l-'or se\-eral years he served as selectman of Rollinsford and at present is tax collector of the town, elected on the Democratic ticket. Dr. Xutter is a trustee of the Rollinsford Savings Bank and a director of the Salimm Falls Bank. Dr. Xutter was first married to Miss Josie AI. Lord, of Salmon Falls. His .second marriage was to Miss Bertha A. Johnson, of this place, and they have two daughters, Ruth and Dorothy. The family attends the Congregational church. He is well known in fraternal life, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a "Shriner," belonging to Granite Lodge, A. F. & A. M. at Salmon Falls; the Chapter at South Berwick, Me. ; the Council and Commandery at Dover ; Aleppo Shrine at Boston and other branches at Portsmouth and Nashua, N. H. He belongs also to Ridgley Lodge of Odd Fellows, at Manchester. \MLBUR M. WEXTWORTH, who follows farming and dairying near Rollinsford, X". H., was born un the place on which he lives, Januarv (\ 1863, and is a son of John H. and Mary J. ( Stockpole) W'entworth, and a grandson of John W'entworth. Clrand father \\'ent worth was seven years old when he accompanied an uncle who settled on the farm that is now owned by Wilbur AL W'entworth, this land never since having passed out of the family. John H. W'entworth was born at Rollinsford, X. H., and lived there all liis life, his death occurring in 1903. He married Mary J. Stockpole. who was l)orn at Somersworth. X. H., and died in 1888. Of their numerous children the following survive: Charles T., who lives at Rollinsford; Ella C, who is the wife of Frank L. Quint, of Xorth Berwick, Me. ; John B., who live sat South Berwick, Me.; Orion A., who is of Rollinsford; Emma C, who is the wife of Alfred J. Foss, of South Berwick, Me. ; Mabel, who is the wife of Edward H. .Spurling, of Dover; Wilbur AL ; Lizzie A., who is the wife of Charles E. Quint, of South Berwick; Alvah D.. of South Berwick; Herbert T, and Elmer X., both residing at Rollinsford. In politics John H. Wentw orth was a Repub- lican. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist church at South Berwick, Me. Wilbur M. W'entworth was reared on the home farm and was educated in the ]niblic schools. He owns sixty acres of excellent land and here carries on general agriculture, including dairying. This property possesses much more than a money value to him as it has been the family heritage for generations, each owner making improvements and adding to its value. Mr. W'entworth married Aliss Florence M. Ford, of South. Berwick, who d-ed early. His second marriage was to a lady born in Connecticut. In politics he is a Republican. He is interested in the Patrons of Husbandry and is a member of the Hiram R. Roberts Grange and belongs also to the lodge of Knights of Pythias at Portsmouth. X. H. Mr. W'entworth stands well with his AND REPRESEXTATRK CTTIZE.XS 651 fellow citizens and is numbered with the sulid and suhstantial men of this section. GEORGE BENNETT \\Tted city. In politics Dr. Seavey was a Republican. He was identified with the Masonic order, and was a charter member of the Commandery, K. (j. E. (-)n September 5, 1853, Andrew J. Seavey was married to Miss Cyuthia A. Canney, a daughter of Thomas J. Canney. Of the seven children born to Dr. and Mrs. Seavey but two survive, namely: George \V. and Annie K., the former of whom resides in Manchester, N. H., and the latter in Dover. Miss Seavey is a graduate of the Dover High School and one of the prominent woman of Dover who are conspicuous in good works. She is member of the Dover Woman's Club, and was its president two years, during which some important changes were made in its methods of work and its field of influence was much enlarged. She is member of the Northern Colonist Historical Society, which makes a specialty id" local history; she has been [jresident of the society and has contributed papers showing she is an expert in historical research. Miss Seavey is member of the St, Thomas Episcopal Church in this city and is one of its very eflicient workers. She is also a member of Margery Sullivan Chapter, Daughters of the -\merican Revolu- tion, and of the Pascataqua Pioneers' Association, a historical society whose immigrant ancestors settled on the banks of the Pascataipia Ki\er Ix-fore the year 1700. Miss Seavey's maternal grandfather, Thomas Jeft'erson Canney was born April 12, 1807, and died in Dover, February 12, 1885. He was son of Ichabod and Mary ( Waldron ) Canney ; he was seventh in descent from Thomas Canney who came from England to Do\er in March, 1631, being one of the settlers here and for many years a prominent citizen of Dover. Mary Waldron was daughter of Richard and Elizalieth (Kimball) Waldron, a descendant of the distinguished Waldron family of Dover. Thomas Jefferson Canney, for more than forty years, was one of the prom- inent and most acti\e l)usiness men of Dover; be was an expert forester, housebuilder and bridge builder, and many structures of this character are now standing in Do\er and vicinity as monuments of his energy, ability and honesty of thorough construction. His father was an earnest supporter and 656 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY strong admirer of President Jefferson, and when his son was born in 1807 he gave the infant the name of the great leader of Democracy; so in manhood Thomas Jeft'erson Canney very naturally became a Jeft'erson Democrat, and remained true to the party to the end of his life. For many years Mr. Canney was one of the efficient leaders of the Democratic party in Dover; but Mr. Canney always put business before politics, and was one of the town's hon- ored and highly esteemed citizens. WILLIAM W. FINLEY, a \vide awake, progressive business man of Dover, who operates the only ice cream manufacturing plant here, has been engaged in this business since 1907. He has occupied his present quarters at No. 54 Central avenue since 1900 as a residence and has engaged in manu- facturing at the same place since February, 191 1. Mr. Finley was born in Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, September 26, 1858, and is a son of James and Sarah A. (McCloskey) Finley, both of whom were natives of Nova Scotia. William W. Finley was nine years old when his parents came to the United States, locating in the city of Boston, IMass., and there he had educational ad- vantages for a time, later graduated from the grammar school at Natick, Mass., and subsequently from Amherst Academy, Amherst, Nova Scotia. He learned the machinist's trade and for nine years worked as a machinist, during the larger part of this time in Boston. He then turned his attention to the life insurance business and for eighteen years was employed by the INIetropoli- tan Life Insurance Company, was for eleven years superintendent and was then made a general agent at South Framingham, Mass., being subsequently transferred to New Haven and, nine months later, to Dover, N. H., where he represented this company for nine years, retiring in 1904. Afterward, for a short time, he was a piano salesman for the well known piano firm of M. Steinhart & Sons Company of New "S'ork and Boston. For fi\e years after embarking in his present business he carried on a bakery in connection, with his office at No. 396 Central avenue, removing then to No. 54 Central avenue, where he has a well equipped, sanitary plant. As a business man and as a private citizen Mr. Finley commands respect and confidence. In his views on public questions he is a progressive Republican. He served one term as mod- erator for the Fourth \^'ard and is now moderator. Mr. Finley married Miss Edith A. Bailey, who was born at Boston, Mass., and they have had five children; Nettie E. A. and Stella M. being the only survivors, while W. Stuart, Harry B. and Harold are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Finley are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he belongs to the official board. He is a Knight Templar Mason, belonging to Strafford AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 657 Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Balknap Chapter, No. 8, Orphan Council and St. Paul Comniandery. Mr. Finley and family take part in the pleasant social life of this old and more or less aristocratic city and are people who enjoy many evidences of the esteem in which they are held by a wide circle of friends. HON. JOHN N. HAINES, a member of the New Hampshire State Senate and formerly, for two terms, mayor of Somersworth, since 1885 has been the owner and operator of a cotton waste mill, his plant being located at Berwick, Me. John N. Haines was born at Somersworth, N. H., June 15, 184S, and is a son of John S. and Theodate (Nowellj Haines. John S. Haines was born at Greenland, N. H., and was fifteen years old when he came to Somersworth. Here he was employed at first Ijy the Great Falls Manufacturing Company and continued until 1861, when he started a cotton waste mill at Berwick, Me., and continued to operate it until his death in 1885, when aged sixty-five years. He was appointed postmaster of Somers- worth, then Great Falls, by President Lincoln and served continuously for eleven years. He served in numerous local ofiices and was also county treas- urer and a member of the General Court. He married Theodate Nowell, who was born at Sanford, Me., in 1822, and still survives, in reasonably good health in spite of her advanced age. She is a member of the Congregational church. To John S. Haines and wife si.x; children were born: Tohn N. ; Leonora, \\ho is the widow of J. W. Bates, formerly of Somersworth; Theo- date, who is the wife of Charles H. Gridley, of ]<^lmira, N. Y. ; Charles S., who died at the age of two years; Fred Sumner, who lives at Rochester, Minn., married Carrie Faitoute and has four sons; and Mary C, who is the wife of Rev. Sherrod Soule, they residing at Hartford, Conn. ■John N. Haines attended the public schools, was graduated from the high school in 1866 and then spent two years as a student in Dummer Academy, at Byfield, Mass. He then entered the United States Navy and served four years on the "Plymouth." during this time visiting the North and the Baltic seas. South America, the /Vfrican coast and the West Indies, returning then to his native land. For a time he was a clerk in a fancy goods store in the city of Boston. Several years later he came to Somersworth and was engaged in a coal and wood business until 1885, when, on the death of his father, he took charge of the waste mill plant at Berwick. Like his father Mr. Haines has been progressive and public spirited and has taken a leading position in public matters. A Republican in politics, he has very often been honored by his party and aside from the responsible positions mentioned in the opening paragraph, he has served a number of times ^s county commissioner and in 658 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COLXTY 1885-6 as selectman. He is a man vi force of character and enlightened views. On January 13, 1881, Mv. Haines was married to Miss ]\latilda P. i'age, of Somersworth. He is identified quite prominently with leading fraternities being a ^jd degree Mason, and Ijelonging to Lebanus Lodge Xo. 49, F. & A. M.: to the Elks, at Dover; and to Prospect Lodge Xo. 13, Knights of Pythias, Somersworth, and in 1894 was state grand chancellor of this order. He is a charter member of Dover Lodge of B. P. O. E. HON. ROBERT GORDON PIKE, of Dover, lawyer, jurist, and chief justice of the Superior Court of Xew Hampshire, was born in Rollinsford, X. H.. Julv 28. 1851. son of Amos \\'. and Elizabeth M. ( Chadbourne ) Pike. On the paternal side he is descended from John Pike, an emigrant from Eng- land, who settled in Xewbury, Mass., in 1635. John Pike's great great grand- son, the Rev. James P'ike, preached his first semion October 23. 1726. and in the following year began to preach to the people in that part of Dover, which in 1729, was set off to form the town of Somersworth. From the latter to^vn in 1849 was set off the town of Rollinsford, wherein the meeting-house in which he preached was situated. He was ordained as the tirst pastor of Somersworth, October 26, 1730. and he preached his last sermon October 31, 1790. Of his sons, Xicholas, a celebrated teacher, was graduated from Har- vard in 1766, and was the author of a famous arithmetic. Another son was Tohn Pike, who was the great grandfather of the suljject of this sketch. On his mother's side Judge Pike traces his descent from Humphrey Chadliourne, who came to this country about 1631 and who died in i()6(). In his youth Robert G. Pike attended the common schools of Rollinsford, and Berwick Academy at South Berwick, Me. He then entered Dartmonth College in the scientific department, being graduated in 1872. Upon leaving colle"-e he engaged in civil engineering in Dover, \\'altham and Boston until 1875. He then taught school until 1878 and was superintendent of the schools in Rollinsford from 1877 to 1882. In 1878 he began the study of law with Chief Justice Doe who died in 1896. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in [March, 1881. and to the bar of the Circuit Court of the United States in November, 1894. Immediately upon his admission to the bar in 1881 he began practice at Dover. He was city solicitor of Dover from 1887 to 1889 and for two months in 1893. He was appointed judge of the Probate Court of Strafford County December 28, 1893. On April 14, 1896, he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the State and so served until this court was abolished by Legislature in 1901. At that date two new courts were established in its place ; one the present Supreme Court — a court AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 659 of last resort on iiuestions of law — and the other the Superior Court — a court of last resort on the trial of facts. Judge l^ike was appointed an associate justice on the Superior Court at its estahlishment and served as such until X(i\enilier i. KM^- ^^ which time he was a|)pointed chief iustice of this court. Judge Pike is interested in the cause of education and in whatever may serve to advance the best interests of his adopted city. He is and for many years has lieen a trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank, of Dover. He was a trustee of Franklin Academy from September i. 1883, to August 5, 1896, when he resigned; and was treasurer of the board from August 5, 1884, to the time of his resignation. For over two years he was a memlier of the school board of the cit}' of Dover, declining a re-election. He has been trustee of Berwick Academy since 1900, and a Visitor of the Chandler h^oundation, Dartmouth College, since 1902. In politics he is a Republican. Judge Pike resides at No. 56 Summer street, and has an office at No. 123 Washington street, Dover. E. M. H.VW'KES, who is the owner of the granite, niarl>le and monument plant located on North Winter street, Rochester, has conducted this Inisiness at the [jresent location for the past fourteen years. Mr. Hawkes was born in i8r;9, at Concord, N. H., and is a son of John G. and Lydia (Monroe) Hawkes, who reared a famil}- of six children. The father, a nati\-e of Brooks. Me., was a granite worker all his life, and died in 1909 at the age of sexxnty years. E. M. Hawkes attended school at Concord and also Oak Crox'e Seminary. Frnm boyhood he was interested in his father's work. Later he learned the trade and has since continued to follow it. He has a large plant at Rochester with modern equipments for monument making and constructs vaults and all other cemetery adornments both in marble and in the beautiful native granite. Emplo}-ment is gix'en to from two tlic matters. In bis political affiliation he has always been, like his late father, a Republican and on numer- ous occasions has been called upon to serve in public office. In 1888 and 18S9 he served as a member of the city council, from the Fourth Ward. Dover, and fcir a quarter of a century has been a member of the ward Republican com- mittee and has also been secretary of the same until recently. During the session of 1901 of the New Hampshire legislature he served in the office of doorkeeper of the lower house. He has been interested for a number of years in several fraternal organizations, particularly in the Improved Order of Red Men. in which he is a member of the Great Council of the United States, a past great sachem, and has been a member of the Wanalanset Tribe and its .secretary, at Dover, since it was instituted in 1886. He belongs also to Mt. Pleasant Lodge, Odd Fellows, and to Prescott Encampment and is a past chief patriarch. He is identified also with the Dover Lodge of Elks. On October 18, 1910, Mr. Whitehead was married to Miss Maud C. Grant, of Dover, who is of Revolutionary ancestry on both paternal and maternal sides. He and his wife attend the Peirce Memorial Universalist church at Dover. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 673 WILLIAM CHARRETTK. whose undertaking estaljlishnient is at No. .\cj South street, Somersworth, is one of the stable young business men of this city, where pubhc confidence and regard ha\-e l>een gained tlirough his lionor- able business methods. He was Iiorn in Western Alichigan, November 26, 1880, and is a son of Lazzer and ^Nlary Charrette. They were natives of Quebec. The mother survives and makes her home with her son, but the father died at Somersworth in 1905. \\'illiam Charrette was two years old when his parents returned to the province of Quebec from ^Michigan, and two years later came to Somersworth, where he grew to manhood and secured a public school education. For seven years he was employed in the dye house of the Great Falls Bleachery at Somersworth, after which he went into the undertaking business and also operates a hack and dray line. He has occupied his present quarters since April I, 1908, where he has excellent facilities for meeting every demand likely to be made in this line. Mr. Charrette was married August 4, 1902, to Miss Alphonise Lapointe. They are members of St. Martin's Catholic church at Somersworth, and he belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters, to the Societe St. Jean Baptiste, to the Eagles at Somersworth and to the Canado-American .\. C. A. In politics he is a Repuljlican. THEODORE \\TL1\I0T, whose expert technical know ledge has advanced him to the important position of boss spinner and foreman of the spinning department in the Gonic Manufacturing Company, of Gonic, N. H., was born at Theatford, Vt., January 10, 1864. and is a son of Harry Dennis and Harriet (Newcomb) Wilmot. The parents were natives of Vermont. In 1849 the father went to the gold fields of California and after his return to his native section of the country resumed farming. He married Harriet Newcomb and they had three children, Theodore being the youngest born. Theodore Wilmot is a direct descendant of Timotliy \^'ilnlot, who ser\-ed in the .\merican Revo- lution. He saw continuous service from 1776-1781. Ijeing at New York city. Long Island, West Point, Montreal, \\'hite Plains, Lake Champlain and the siege of Yorktown. Theodore \\'ilmot attended the pul)lic schriols and the Theatford Academy. after which he entered a woolen mill and has continued his connection with the mill industry ever since. For fourteen years he was in the emplove of the Concord Manufacturing Company, at West Concord. In September. 1906, he came to Rochester, N. H., and for three years was with the Rochester Woolen Company, then became overseer of the spinning department in the Gonic Manufacturing Company, and since then has occupied his present posi- 674 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY tion, one in which he has 25 spinners under his super\-ision, and is held respon- sible for the quahty and volume of the output. ]\Ir. Wilmot married Miss Mary S. Moore, who was born at Lakeport, in Belknap county, N. H., a daughter of Royal Moore. They have two chil- dren : Maud M., a graduate of the Rochester High and ilie Plymouth Normal schools, who is a teacher in the Gonic public schools; and Roland Theodore, who is a graduate of both the Rochester High school and the Dover Business College. Mr. Wilmot and family attend the Congregational church. He is prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to Eureka Lodge No. 70, A. F. & A. M., at Concord ; Temple Chapter at Rochester, and Palestine Commandery at Rochester. LEVI C. COOPER, deceased, was a prominent citizen of Dover for many years, a man stable in l)usiness and reliable in public and private life. He was born in South Berwick, ]\Ie., February 24, 1824, and died at his home in Dover, N. H., January 15, 1907. He was a son of Moses Cooper, also a native of South Berwick. Levi C. Cooper was fifteen years old w hen he accompanied his father and step-mother to Dover, and here he practically spent the remainder of his life. After completing his education in the Dover schools he entered the \\'illiams Belt Factory at Dover, and continued with this same company for 45 years, justly securing recognition as one of the most reliable employes of this con- cern and the personal confidence and regard of his employers. Mr. Cooper found time also to look into civic affairs and in his desire to improve condi- tions looking to the general welfare, accepted offices in which he could exert more influence than as a private citizen and served acceptably and usefully both as councilman and as alderman. He united early with the Free Will Baptist church and his subsequent life was lived consistently with his pro- fession therein. He was also active in the Masonic fraternity, with which he was long officially connected. Mr. Cooper was twice married, first to ]\Iiss Hannah Lucas, of Alton, N. H. Of their four children there is one survivor, Annie O., who is the wife of John S. Hanson, of Rochester, N. H. Three children are deceased- Clarence, Estelle and Charles, the last named for several years ha\ing been a clerk in the Dover postoffice. :\Ir. Cooper's second marriage took place Feb- ruary 17, 1 87 1, to Miss Jennie M. Wentworth, who was born at South Wolf- boro, N. H., a daughter of Josiah and Betsey A. (Lucas) Wentworth, the former a native of New Durham. N. H.. and the latter of Alton, N. H. The grandfather of Mrs. Cooper, Josiah Wentworth, was also a resident of New Durham, the W'entworth family being one that settled very early in that sec- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 675 tion. Mrs. Cooper has one sister, Mrs. E. A. Johnson, of South Sanford, Me., and one brother, Josiah B. Wentworth, who is manager at Salem, Mass., for the great packing firm of Swift & Co., of Chicago, 111. Mrs. Cooper is one of Dover's well known and highly esteemed residents. She has been unselfish in her work for charity, is a member of the Dover G. A. R. Relief Corps and is very active as a member of the Free Will Baptist church. Her social interests also engage a portion of her time and she is a member of Pocahontas lodge of the Au.xiliary Order of Odd Ladies at Dover, and of the Christian Temperance Union. FRANK G. CHAPM.VN for many years was a prominent and universally respected citizen of Somersworth, N. H., where he was born July i, 1870, and died January 18, 1908. He was a son of Hartley S. and Arthama H. (Gar- land) Chapman, and a grandson of Hartley W. and Sarah R. (VVinslow) Chapman. The Winslow line can be clearly traced from Sir Edward Winslow, who was the first go\ernor of the colony of Massachusetts. Hartley S. Chapman was born in Maine, came to Somersworth with his parents when about fifteen years of age and resided here until his death in March, 1909, when in his eighty-second year. For many years he was overseer of the spinning department in the factory of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. Frank G. Chapman was reared and educated in his native place and in the Bryant and Stratton Business College at Boston, Mass. For two years in early manhood he was employed as a clerk in the auditor's office of the Boston and Maine Railroad, at Boston, afterward becoming bookkeeper for the Lothrop-Farnham Company, well known clothiers at Dover, N. H. In 1891 he was appointed superintendent for the fireat Falls Gas Light and Water Company of their plant at Somersworth, N. H., a position he continued to fill for seventeen years. He was a man of sterling character, upright and cap- able in every position to which the duties of life called him and he passed away with the respect and esteem of tho.se wln) knew him best and thus will his memory be preserved. Mr. Chapman had been cradled as it were, in the Re- publican party, his father being an artlent supporter and twice a member of the New Hampshire legislature, and the son ser\ed three years as a member of the city council, representing the Second Ward. For three years he was master of the Somersworth Grange and was deeply interested in the workings of the order. He was a member of the First Baptist church of Somersworth and was a man noted for his kind and generous impulses. On July 5, 1893, Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Alice Augusta An- drews, who was born at Somersworth. a daughter of Alonzo H. and Mary 676 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY (Hutchins) Andrews, the former being a native of Somersworth and the latter of York, Me. The paternal grandfather, Elisha Andrews was of English descent and for many years was a resident of Somersworth. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Chapman: Gerald L.. Vera Irene and Marcia Frances. ]\Irs. Chapman is a gradnate of the Somersworth High school and for fonr years previous to her marriage, taught school in Strafford county. She is a member of the ^^lethodist Episcopal church and an active worker in the same, being much interested in its benevolent agencies and a member of the Ladies' Aid Society. Her residence stands on the corner of Maple and West High street, Somersworth. '&' JOHN H. WATSON, a prominent citizen and lifelong resident of the town of Dover, owns a valuable farm of lOO acres and carries on general farming and dairj'ing. He was born in the house in which he still resides, Tune 4, 1855, and is a son of Seth and Lydia A. ( Home) Watson. Seth Watson spent his entire life in Dover and was a son of Benjamin Watson, who also was born and died in Dover. The family came originally from England. Seth Watson was a tyi>e of the plain, unostentatious farmer and stable citizen, a man who followed the dictates of his conscience in all the affairs of life and at death left the world better than he found it. He married Lydia A. Home, who was of Scotch extraction, and of their family of children the following survive: John H. and Thomas E., both residing in Dover; and Mary, wife of William E. ^\'hiteley, also of Dover. The mother of these children survived the father for many years, passing away in 1909, a woman of many virtues. John H. ^\'atson attended the ilistrict schools in Dover in Ijoyhood. Hav- insr no occasion to leave the homestead he has remained on it. continuing the agricultural industries of father and grandfather and making such improve- ments as he has deemed advisable. He occupies the old round log house built bv an ancestor on a hardwood frame and it has sheltered eight generations of the familv, often being repaired and remodeled but never changed to any great extent. This staunch old dwelling house remains as one of the land- marks of pioneer days in the county. John H. Watson was married first to ^liss Ida A. Cannavan, who was born in New Hampshire and was a daughter of Martin Cannavan who for years was an engineer on the Boston and ]\Iaine Railroad. Two children survive her: Robert AI., of Dover, and Alice L., who is the wife of Dr. Fred S. Cav- erlv, of Passaic, N. J. Mr. Watson's second marriage was to Mrs. Grace M. Sutermeister, widow of Samuel Sutermeister, formerly of Boston, and dauo-hter of Frank Getchell, who was born and died in New Hampshire. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 677 Mrs. Watson is a member of the Baptist church of Boston, Mass. Mr. Watson attended the M. E. church. He has always acted with the RepubHcan party but lias never accepted pubHc office. He belongs to the A. O. W. W., to the Ivnights of Pythias and to the Royal Arcanum, all at Dover. EDWARD C. NEAL, who is one of Rochester's highly respected retired citizens, has occupied his comfortable residence at No. 14 Autumn street since 1900. He was born in 184S at Tuftonboro, N. H., and is a son of Thomas W. and Triphena (Kelsey) Neal, of Revolutionary stock. The father moved to Boston with his family and was there engaged in a trucking business until his death in 1880, at the age of fifty-nine years. Edward C. Xeal was the second Ijorn of a family of fi\e children and completed his education in the schools of South Boston. He then assisted his father in the trucking business, after which for eight years he was in the wholesale grocery trade. In the fall of 1873 he came to Rochester as agent for the Eastern Express Company and remained until the death of his father in December, 1880, recalled him to Boston. In association with an older Ixcitlier he took over the father's Inisiness and the partnership continued until 1890. In March of 1900 Mr. Neal received an injury to his hand that caused his practical retirement from business and in that year he established his residence at Rochester. He has had other business connections, for fi\e years 1890 to 1895— being '" the employ of the Standard Oil Company and for five years — 1895 to 1900 — he was with the Dover Stamping Company. Mr. Neal married Miss Emma J. Copp of Tuftonboro and Rochester. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Neal is well known in Masonic circles in Strafford county and Boston. He Ijccame a Mason on June 18, 1870, and advanced rapidly, in 1871 entering Boston Commandcry and at the present time is the oldest Knight Templar in years of service at Rochester. .Ml of the Masonic bodies that he is a member of are in Boston. GEORGE D. McDUFFEE, a well known farmer and dairyman of Do\er, N. H., belongs to one of the oldest families of Strafford county, the record showing that his great-great-grandfather, the first John McDuiTee, being of Scotch descent, came to New Hampshire from the north of Ireland and .set- tled in this county as early as 1720. During the Revolutionary war members of his family served on the Committee of Safety, an organization made up of the most dependable men of the different communities. George D. McDuft'ee was born near Dover, N. H.. January 19, 1867, and is a son of James Y. and Abigail (Jenness) McDiiffee. James Y. McDuffee was born at Rochester, N. H., which was also the 678 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY birtliplace of his father, John ^[cDuffee, and of Iiis grandfather, James McDnffee. Near what is now Gonic, N. H., may yet be seen traces of the first house erected by the immigrant ancestor, John McDuffee. James Y. McDuffee married Abigail Janness, also of Rochester, and they settled on the farm at Do\er on which George D. ^NIcDufifee now lives. Of their cliildren there are two survivors, George D. and M. Abbie. The mother died in 1S74 and the father in 1900. They were worthy people in every relation of life and were respected by all who knew them. George D. McDuffee was educatetl in the public schools of Dover and at Franklin Academy, and since then has de\'oted himself mainly to farming, owning 75 acres of well developed land. On January 19, 18S8, he was united in marriage with Miss Xellie 'SI. Furber, of Rochester, N. H., a daughter of Charles Furber, formerly of Farmington. Mr. and ]\[rs. McDuffee have one daughter, Muriel L. Mr. McDuffee is a very enterprising and careful agriculturist and is inter- ested in all the agencies that assist the farnier and the farmer's family. One of these without doubt is the organization widely known as the Patrons of Husbandry, with which he has been identified for many years and he is an acti\e member of Cocheco Grange, which he served several times as master. He belongs also to Mt. Pleasant Lodge of Odd Fallows, at Dover. As was his father, Mr. McDuffee is a Republican and for 19 years he has served as a memljer of the school board at Dover. \\'ith his family he belongs to the First Congregational church at Dover and is superintendent of the Sunday school. He stands as an honorable, upright, useful citizen of his community and as such enjoys public confidence and esteem. IR\'IXG E. GOODW IX, market gardener at Dover, who has lived in his comfortable residence at Xo. 809 Central avenue since 190J was born October 18, 1865, at Eliot, Me., and is a son of Daniel and Mary (Lord) Goodwin. The Goodwin is an old family of Eliot and there Daniel Goodwin was born and still resides, being a son of Daniel Goodwin, who was of English ancestry, Ir\-ing E. Goodwin secured a public school education in his native place and was eighteen years of age when he came to Do\er, his mother's birthplace, and here learned the carpenters" trade. He continues to work at the same and is known as an expert and careful mechanic. On his land on Central avenue he carries on market gardening and takes a great deal of pleasure in his success in producing early vegetables. Mr. Goodwin was married to Miss Mabel Raitt, who was born at Eliot, Me., and they have had four children: Harold R., Eugene B., Frank E., and Clyde M., who is deceased. Mr. Goodwin is a Republican in politics but is no AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 679 seeker for public office. He has lived a quiet, busy, self-respecting life and when his fellow citizens name over the reliable and stable men of their town they do not forget his name. GEORGE E. P'UGSLEY, who is overseer of the dressing rooms of Mill 3, Great Falls Manufacturing Company, efticiently tills one of the numerous posi- tions in this great industrial plant, which are very necessary to ensure the easy working which the quality and \olume of modern production demand. He has been identified more or less continuous!}- with this mill since 1872. He .was born at Acton, Me., July 19, 1849, and is a son of John M. and Mary (Grant) Pugsley. The family is of English extraction but the father was born at Sharpleigh and the mother at Acton, Me. George E. Pugsley was about thirteen years of age when his parents moved to the father's old home at Shapleigh, and there he completed his school attendance. He was about 20 years of age when he mc)\ed from there, where he had been a mill worker, and was employed in mills at other places. During several winter terms he taught school, being a successful and popular teacher at Acton, Shapleigh and Sanford, all in the state of jNIaine, having prepared for this line of work in the Western Normal School at Farmington, Me., and at the West Lebanon (Me.) Academy. In 1872, as mentioned above, he came to Great Falls, now Somersworth and entered the employ of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. Here he has worked in various departments but during the greater part of the time has been in the dressing department of the works and since 1910 has been overseer of Mill 3, as already stated. Mr. Pugsley was united in marriage with Miss Olive Butler, of Lebanon. Me., and they have two children: \\'illiam A., who is a clerk in the U. S. Custom House, Boston: and John ?>.. who is principal of the high school at Somersworth, being a graduate of Colby College at ^^'aterville, Me. Mr. Pugsley and wife are members of the Free ^^'ill Baptist church, in which he is a deacon, and in this as in other connections enjoys the confidence and good will of those with whom he is associated. In his political views he is a Repub- lican and has served two terms as councilman from the Second Ward. For several years he has been a member of Libanus Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Somersworth. Tlie family residence is at No. 30 Highland street. T. HERMAN HAM, general farmer and dairyman, and substitute rural mail carrier for Route No. 4, Dover, is one of the well known and substantial men of this part of Strafford county, where the family settled at a very early day. He was born in Dover, N. H., September 6, 1879, and is a son of Joshua M. and Mary A. (Wiggin) Ham. 680 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Joshua M. Ham was born on the old Ham iKnnesteatl, located two miles from the city of Dover, a son of Walter Ham, and died on the old homestead farm in 1888. aged 48 years. He married Mary A. Wiggin. who sur\ives him and still li\es on the homestead. They had five children : Walter W., now decea.sed; Grace A., who is the wife of John T. Perkins of Dover; Hittie F., a teacher in the Dover school; Bertha M., who is the wife of J. Henry I.ock- wood, of Lawrence, Mass., and J. Herman. J. Herman Ham was educated in the Dover schools. Since the age of sixteen years he has been engaged in fanning and dairying and has carried on his industries with such good judgment that he has made them profitable. On April 17, 1907, he was united in marriage with Miss Annie Wright, who is a nati\e of Dover, a daughter r>f William and Mar)- (Greeneway) Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Ham have three children: Carlton W.. Dorothy E. and Phyllis. In politics, like his late father, ISIr. Ham is a Republican. He is a man of enterprise and believes in progress, being especially interested in keeping the public schools at a high standard. He belongs to Pleasant Lodge No. 16, L O. O. F., and Prescott Encampment Xo. 2;^. both of Dover, antl both he and his w ife are members of Do\er Grange No. 225, Patrons of Husbandry. LEONARD Z. CORSON, a well known resident of Dover, who has lived on his present farm situated on the Mast road, since March, 1889, wdiere he makes a s])ecialty of market gardening and poultry growing, was born in Rochester, N. H., Septemfier 27. 1852, and is a son of Zimri and Dorothy ( \\'entworth ) Corson. Zimri Corson was born in Rochester, N. H., and s]:)ent his life there. He was a son of Joseph Corson, who was also born there, this being one of the old settled families of the state and of Scotch extraction. Famiing has been the main occupation of the generations of Corsons and they all have been men of industry and uprightness. Zimri Corson died in T898 and was interred in the Cold Spring cemetery at East Rochester. Leonard Z. Corson secured school training in his native neighborhood. In 1877 he came from there to Dover and for the following 22 years was em- ployed in the Sawyer W'oolen Mills as an employe of the shipping department, retiring then to his farm of ten acres, on w hich he has resided e\'er since. Mr. Corson is an excellent manager and makes every foot of his ground gi\'e some return. He raises certain crops other than garden produce and each year has enough stock for liis own use. ]Mr. Corson w as married to Miss Annie E. Moody, who was born in Balti- more county, ]\Id., a daughter of Christopher I\Ioody, a former well known resident of Baltimore county. Mr. and Mrs. Corson have two sons : Wilbur AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 681 W ., whu is a letter carrier in tiie city cif Dover; and Edwin L.. wlio is shipping clerk for the C. E. Brewster w holesale drug house at Dover. In pohtics Mr. Corson is a Repubhcan as was his father, and he belongs fraternally to the Improved Order of Red Men at Do\'er. In a general way he enjoys the friendship and good will of his fellow citizens for he is always ready to bear his share of public responsibilities and further movements for the general welfare. JOHN H. DA^IE, one of Dover's well known, respected and substantial citizens, residing on Silver street, Dover, and the owner of a farm of twenty- seven acres, was born November 21, 1858, in Lee, N. H., of an old Strafford county family. His parents were Israel S. and Mary E. (Hanson) Dame, the father a native of Lee and the mother of Do\er, N. H. The paternal grand- father was Israel Dame, who was also born in Lee, his father having been one of the early settlers in that section of the state. Israel S. Dame spent his life as a farmer in the town of Lee and at times served in local offices there, being elected to the same on the Democratic ticket. He died at the age of 65 years. He was a member of the Baptist church, while his wife belonged to the Society of Friends. John H. Dame spent his boyhood and youth on his father's farm, during the winter seasons attending the district schools. Afterward he learned the carpenters' trade, which he has followed at Dover for twenty-two years, and for several years past has also been interested in the lumber industrv. Pos- sessed of excellent luisiness judgment, Mr. Dame has prospered in his under- takings and is justly regarded one of the substantial nitn of Dover. Nom- inally he is a Republican but is too intelligent a man U> blindly follow party leading and is much disposed to cast his vote independently. For a number of years he has been interested in the workings of the Grange mo\ement and at pre.sent is overseer of the Dover Grange. Mr. Dame was married first to Miss Mary E. Hanson, a daughter of the late Sergeant Hanson, of Madbury, X. H. His second marriage was to Miss Edith B. Nason, a daughter of \\'illiam F. Nason, late of Eliot, Me. Two children were born to them: Frank H., who is deceased: and Marion A., who lives at home. Mrs. Dame is a member of the Free Will Baptist church. W. ASHTON HORN, a well known Inisiness man of Somersworth, N. H., manufacturer iif White Root Beer, ginger ale and all kinds of soda water, with quarters at No. 83 Green street, is a native of Somersworth, born Feb- ruary 6, 1858. His parents are Edwin P. and Elizabeth (Frost) Horn. Edwin P. Horn has spent his entire life at Somersworth, born here sev- 40 682 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY enty-seven years ago, a son of W'entworth Horn, a native of Berwick, Me. For o\er forty years he was active in the Ixisiness Hfe of Somersworth, for many years being the representative of the Portsmouth Brewing Company, of Portsmouth, N. H. Some years since he became proprietor of the Somers- worth BottHng Company and continued active until 1903, when he was suc- ceeded by his son, W. Ashton Horn, under whose management the business has continued to prosper. For two years in its early days, Air. Horn served as chief of the fire department of this city and in many ways has been a citizen of value. He married Elizabeth Frost, who was born at Shapleigh, Me. W. Ashton Horn was reared and educated at Somersworth. For fifteen years i)rior to 1903 he worked at the trade of iron molder, then succeeded his father, as above mentioned as proprietor of the Somersworth Bottling Works. He keeps five men employed at his plant and his products. White Root Beer, ginger ale and soda water of all flavors, the ginger ale being a specialty, are sold over Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. He is also agent and bottler of the Portsmouth Brewing Company's ale and lager I)eer — a satisfactory and reliable as well as enterjjrising business man. Mr. Horn married Mrs. Ella ( Nichols) Wiggins, of Moultonville, N. H., and they have one son, Archie A., who conducts an automobile and garage business at \\'olfboro, N. H. Mr. Horn is deemed a good citizen although he never has desired public olifice and votes according to the dictates of his own judgment. He belongs to the Odd Fellows at Meriden, Conn., and to the Elks at Dover. ORRIN J. PALMER, a well known citizen and prosperous business man of Dover, a contracting mason, with headcpiarters at No. 7 Lexington street, has been a pennanent resident here since 1S75. He was born at Efiingham, Carroll county. N. H., Alarch 9, 1857, and is a son of Luther S. and Mary D. (Woodson) Palmer, and a grandson of Joseph Palmer, this family being an old one in Carroll county. Orrin J. Palmer obtained a public school education in his native place. He was eighteen years of age when he began work at the trade of general mason, with his uncle, Morris D. Palmer, of Dover and he ser\-ed an appren- ticeship of four years there and three years at Fall River, Mass. In 1875 '^^ returned to Dover and almost ever since has been engaged in some branch of mason work as a contractor, in late years making a specialty of brick work and plastering. Long since he proved his skill and accuracy and he has been concerned in many of the large contracts whicli ha\e been successfully com- pleted here, keeping a large force of capable men employed. Mr. Palmer was married September 5. 1880, to Miss Gertrude Brown, •AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 683 who was born at Dover, a daughter of the late Caleb Brown, who once was the leading carriage builder of Dover. Mrs. Palmer died April 15, 1908, a lady of many \'irtues and of beautiful character. Mr. Palmer is a member of the Free Will Baptist church on Washington street, in which he has been a deacon for many years and also has been church warden, at present being a member of the board of trustees. Politically he is a Republican and frater- nally belongs to the A. O. U. M. and to the Knights of Pythias at Dover. He is one of the city's solid, reputable men and deserves the high regard in which he is held by his fellow citizens. HON. HENRY E. PERRY, superintendent of the water works at Dover, N. H., is one of Straffortl county's popular and representative men. and has been a resident of Dover for the last thirty-five years. He was born at Ports- mouth, N. H., October 25, 1849. and is a son of Dr. Adams and Selissa Scott (Seagrave) Perry. Dr. Adams Perry was born at Plymouth. Mass.. in 1812, and his wife at Uxbridge, Mass. For over a half of a century Dr. Perry practiced medicine at Portsmouth, N. H., where his death occurred in 1880. Of his family of children but one'survives, Henry E. Perry of Dover. After his school days were over, Henry E. Perry learned the trade of machinist and steam engineering, serving his apprenticeship with the Swam- scott Machine Company, then located at South Newmarket, now Newfields, N. H. He continued to live there until 1878, when he came to Dover, where for 2t years he was employed as a machinist with the Sawyer Woolen Com- pany and during this time also gave attention to the duties of numerous civic offices. In 1903 he was appointed superintendent of the water works and in this position his practical knowledge has been of great use in relation to the efficiency of this important public utility. A zealous Reiniblican since man- hood, Mr. Perry has been frequently honored by his party. He served two years as a member of the city council from the Fourth Ward and also as alder- man, and for four years was a member of the school lioard of Dover and twice was elected a member of the New Hampshire legislature. On August 28, 1869, Mr. Perry was married to Miss Camelia M. Gilson, who was born at Nashua, N. H., a daughter of William E. and Melissa J. (Clay) Gilson. The father of Mrs. Perry was born at Concord, IMass,, and the mother at Madbury, N. H. In her childhood tliey moved to South New- market, N. H., where she was reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have one daughter, Helen K. B., who is the wife of Prof. Robert J- Sisk, who is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is supervising principal of the public schools of Auburndale, Mass. Prof, and Mrs. Sisk have one son, Harland P. Mr. and Mrs. Perry take an active interest in all things that are educational 684 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY' and uplifting in the life of their city and they are members of the First Parish Congregational church. JOSEPH GAGXER, a well kudwii citizen and enterlJri^ing and success- ful agriculturist, residing on his farm of IJ5 acres, located on the Drew- road, in the town of Dover, was horn on the St. Lawrence ri\er, in Kamoraska county, Province of Quebec, Canada, May 15, 1850, and is a son of Peter and Margaret M. (Hudon) Gagner, the parents of whom were early settlers in that county. Joseph Gagner remained in his native county until he was nineteen years of age and then spent a short time near Ottawa, and from there, in the spring of 1871. came to the United States and located at Horseheads, N. Y., at first, but soon afterward continued his travels until he reached New Hampshire. After a short season at Manchester he went on to Exeter, and in 1876 came to Dover. Here he was employed for a number of years in the print works of the Cocheco Mills, but in 1887 he turned his attention to agri- cultural pursuits and settled on his present farm on which he has lived ever since and which is regarded an excellent property. Mr. Gagner was married February 4, 1875, to Miss Margaret Cavanaugh, who was born in the north of Ireland, a daughter of John and Catherine (McConnell) Ca\-anaugh, both of whom died in her childhood. She was ten years old when she accompanied her brother Edward and sister, Mary Cav- anaugh, on the sailing vessel, the Isaac \\'ebb, out of Liverpool, for New York. After a voyage of 25 days they were safely landed in New York, harbor and from there came to Do\er, where she was educated in the parochial schools. Mr. and ]\Irs. Gagner have had three children, one of whom sur- vives, Frederick P., while both John and Joseph H. are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Gagner are members of St. Mary's Catholic church at Dover. In politics he is a Republican but takes only the interest of a good and law-abiding citizen. He and family are highly respected in their neighborhood. GEORGE A. TRIPE, who is one of the older residents, in point of settle- ment, on the Cocheco river, town of Dover, came to his present farm of 30 acres over a half century ago and thus is one of the best known men in this neighborhood. He was born in York, ]\Ie., January 31, 1853, and is a son of Robert H. and .Mice D. 1 Bridges) Tripe. Robert H. Tripe, father of George A., was born in the town of Dover, a son of Sylvanus Tripe, who was also a native of Dover. While the greater part of his life was spent in Dover, for some years he lived in York, I\Ie., his occupation being farming. His death occurred in 1901. He married Alice D. AND KHPRESEXTATIVE CITIZENS 685 Bridges, w ho was born at York. Me., and they liad one son. George A. George A. Tnpe was five years old when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Dover and here he was reared and edncated. BENJAMIN MASON NEALLEY died at his residence on W'ashino-ton street. Dover, N. H . Jnly 29. 1888. aged 77 years; he was born in N^.tting- ham and received his edncation in the schools there, bnt came to Dover in 1824 and commenced work as bobbin boy in the Upper Factory Cotton Mill, the first cotton mannfactnring mill that was built in New Hampshire. He remained in the business more than half a century, and for many years was master of the work in which he began at the lowest grade. Mr. Nealley re- mained in the employ of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company up to 1834. Then being offered a more lucrative position in the mill of the Portsmoirth Manufacturing Company at South LSerwick. he went there and remained as overseer in one of the departments a score of years, and during that time raised a family of two bo)-s and two girls who made him proud and happy in his old age. as he had married, August 8, 1836, Miss Abby Pray, daughter of James and .\nnie (Fogg) Pray, descendants of the early .settlers of Old Kittery. She was born May i, iSi;. and died in Dover. January 29. 1895. In 1858 Mr. Nealley was offered a good position as overseer in one of the departments of the Laconia Cotton Mill at Biddeford; he accepted and resided there in charge of that department ten years, having become an expert in the use of the best, up-to-date machinery then available for cotton manufacturing. In 1868 he resigned his position with the Laconia Com- pany and accepted the position as agent of the Jute Mill at Salem. Mass.. which agency he held with success until he was obliged to gi\e it up, on account of failing health, in 1877. He then removed to Dover. N. H.. where his .sons were in business ; purchased a residence and ipiite a lot of land on Washington, street, where he spent the remainder of his years in comfort and ease. He could not be idle, however, so all the spring, summer and fall of each year, he cultivated his land and raised good crops of fruit, vegetables, and garden produce, thus showing he well remembered the training his father ga\e him on the farm in Notingham, when he wa> a Ixiv. In politics Mr. Nealley commenced voting with the \\'h\g part}^ in 18:52; being a cotton manufacturer he believed in i)rotection of home industries and he held to that belief to the end of life and taught his boys to .stand by the same principle in politics. He remained a Whig until the Republican party was formed, then he joined that, because it was a protectionist party, anfl he supported that ])arty as long as he lived. Mr. Nealley was a strong anti-slavery man and during his residence in 686 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY South Berwick was "conductor" on the underground railroad which ran from Xew Hampsliire to Maine and up into Canada. He believed in equal rights and the principle of the Declaration of Independence adopted July 4, 1776. He was equally radical on the temperance question, not only practicing total abstinence from the use of intoxicating liquors himself, but advocating prohibition of its manufacture and sale for others to use to their ruin. Mr. Nealley and his wife were church-going people: previous to coming to Dover to reside they attended the Congregational Church; during the closing decade of his life they attended the Washington Street Free Baptist, where they were liberal givers, ever ready to lend a helping hand to all good causes. Mr. Nealley was fortunate in his ancestors and in his children : they were all well born and well bred. His father, Benjamin Nealley, was a well-to-do farmer who was born and lived at Nottingham, except a few of his later years ^\hich were spent with his sons at South Berwick. ^le., where he died in 1859. aged ■]•/ years. He was a highly respected citizen in both towns. His wife, Sally Ford, died at South Berwick, in 1849, ^%^^ '^S years. She was daughter of Capt. Eben Ford who served in the Revolutionary army, and his ancestors were among the early settlers of Newbury, Mass. Captain Ford was one of the early settlers in Nottingham. Benjamin Nealley was son of Sergeant Joseph Nealley and his wife Susannah Bowdoin of Exeter. Sergeant Nealley served three years in the Revolutionary army, and had a distinguished career; he was a participant in two of the most important events in the war. the surrender of Burgoyne's army, in October, 1777, and the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Susannah Bowdoin was daughter of John Bowdoin of Exeter, a kinsman of the founder of Bowdoin College. Sergeant Joseph Nealley was son of Matthew and Margaret (Beverland) Nealley, of Nottingham, and grandson nf William Nealley. who was born in Londonberry, Ireland, in 1690, emigrated to New England in 1718 with the company that settled Londonderry, New Hampshire. Mr. Nealley with his family came to Nottingham and settled near The Square, where he pur- chased a farm from one of the Boston proprietors of Nottinghom, about 1725. He and his descendants cover a period nf residence in that town of nearly 190 years. Benjamin Ma.son Nealley received hi> dnnlilc name from Benjamin Mason, uncle to his father Benjamin, who esteemed his kinsman very highly: Ben- jamin Mason married Polly Nealley, sister of Sergeant Joseph. Benjamin Mason Nealley's children were all born in South Berwick, and were educated in the public schools and the academy nf that town. His eldest son. Benjamin AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 687 Franklin, \vas burn October 30, 1S39, and died in Dover, March, 1910. At the age of 18 he engaged in the dry goods business and continued in its 36 years, A\itli niarihort time was his partner in contracting and building, under the hrm name of Sanuiel King and Com- pany. Afterward, for a number of years he was superintendent for E. H. Frost, of Dover, a well known contractor, subsequently going into business for himself. He is a man of well known stability of character and is one of the leaders in his line in Stratford county. Mr. King married ^liss Eugenia Ransom, who was born in Durham, N. H., and is a daughter of Reuben Ransom, a well known former resident of Dur- ham. Mr. and Mrs. King have four children: Mildred F., Elsie L., Roscoe B. and Thomas L., the last named bearing his great-grandfather's name, Thomas L King, who was a native of England. Mr. King has been active and useful as a citizen and has served two terms as a member of the Dover AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 689 city council, representing the Second Ward, and also for six years was a delegate from this ward to the Republican county convention. He is a mem- ber of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 6, Knights of Pythias of Dover; a member of Crescent Company, Uniform Rank, lieing lieutenant of the same; and is a member of the PMhian Sisters, all of Duver. He belongs also to the Impro\ed Order of Red Men, Do\-er, and to Strafford Lodge, A. I*'. & A. M., Dover and Belknap Charter, and also to Orphan Council at Dover. JOHN WINSLOW TIBBETTS, owner and proprietor of the Glendon House, the leading hotel in East Rochester, N. H., was born in Dover, N. H., Januar\- 5, 1831, a son of Samuel H. and Belinda (Cross) Tibbetts. The father, Samuel H. Tibbetts, was born at Heath House, this county, February II, 1807, of Scotch ancestry. He was a farmer and hotel keeper by occupa- tion, but sold out his property in 1852 and took up his residence on North Main street, Dover, where he died at the age of 53 years. He married Belinda Cross, who was born on the shores of Lake C"hamplain, April 23. 1808, their wedding taking place in Dover. She died in that city at the age of 35 years, having been the mother of six children, namely: Hannah, born Nov. 12. iSjj. who married a Mr. Hodson and is now deceased; J. W., the direct subject of this sketch; Mary H.. bom October 10. 1833; Ira, born July 18. 1836; Deb- orah, born September 8, 1838, now deceased; Esther J., born November 9, Tohn \\\ Tibbetts had but limited educational ad\antages, attending school in his boyhood about ten weeks in a year. He learned the carpenter's trade under Woodby S. Maines, of Dover, and in 1850 came to East Rochester, where he followed his trade for a while and also engaged in the lumber busi- ness, and at various times in other occupations. In 1854 he bought the lot on which his present hotel stands and erected a small house on it. He built the hotel about 1880, since which time he has been its proprietor. He is now the oldest hotel man in the county and has been engaged in the lumber business 40 years. In politics he is a Republican, but in 1852. before the Republican party was organized, he voted for Gen. W'infield Scott, the ^^'hig candidate. In the se\'enties and later he tr)ok an acti\e part in local affairs, serving two years. 1874-1876; was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature; he served on the common council the first two years after the town was organized, and a^so served two years in the town government as selectman. He has advanced in Free Masonry as far as the council, and has taken all the degrees in Odd Fellowship, belonging to the local lodges. Mr. Tibbetts has been twice married : first to Charlotte F. Chamberlain, who died eight months after marriage ; secondly to Clara Blaisdell, who died 690 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY J9 years ago. Of this second union there were two children: Cora Bellt, wife of Joseph Hayes, who had one son, Harry T. ; and Avie, wlio died in 1893. Mr. Tibbetts has been a director of the Rochester Loan & Bank Com- pany for many years, and is widely known as one of the sterling citizens of East Rochester and has a host of friends. Though now in the evening of life he is still hale and hearty for one of his years and keeps well posted on current events. He has lived to see many wonderful inventions that were not dreamed of in his youthful days, but notwithstanding that, he knows that the old times had their own peculiar chann and that people enjoyed life then just as well as they do today, if not more so. DR. CHARLES WHITMAN HILLS, osteopathic physician, of Dover, N. H., is a native of Springfield, Mass., and son of Charles D. and Emma J. (Martin) Hills, his father being a Methodist minister. Beginning his educa- tion in the public schools. Dr. Hills subsequently entered Union College, where he was graduated in 1S92. He then became a student in the New York Law School, graduating there in 1896. On the breaking out of the war with Spain he \\as a member of the Brooklyn Naval Reserves and went with that organization into the United States auxiliary navy, serving as acting quarter- master during the war, finally recei\ing an honorable discharge. He was then for two years in the employ of the New York Telephone Company at New York City, after which he began the study of osteopathy and was grad- uated in that science in 1902. In the following 3ear he came to Dover, of which city he has since been a resident, having successfully practiced his pro- fession here for the last ten years. He is a member of the American and the New Hampshire Osteopathic Associations. Dr. Hills married Miss Gertrude Newhall Sullivan of Boston, Mass. They have had two children — Charles \\'hitman, Jr., who died in infancy, and Jeanne Champlain. Dr. Hills is a member of the Psi Upsilon college fraternity and is an active and up to date citizen, a good representative of the town in which he has made his home. JAMES B. EDGERLY, cashier of the Farmington National Bank, of Farmington, N. H., was born at Farmington, January 29, 1834, and has practically spent his entire life in his native place. He is a son of Josiah B. and Cordelia (Waldron) Edgerly, the father coming of Irish ancestry and the mother of English. Both parents are deceased, their place of burial being Pine Grove cemetery at Farmington. James B. Edgerly was the eldest of seven children. He was afiforded excel- lent educational advantages, attending the public school at Farmington and JAMES B. EDGERLY AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 693 afterward Gilmanton academy, at Gilmanton, N. H. From the close of his school period to 1879, when he became associated with the Farmington National Bank, he was engaged in the shoe business, both as operative and owner. In September, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil war as a musician in the Fifth New Hampshire regimental band and continued a member of this organi- zation until 1862, -when all regimental bands were discharged by an act of Congress, following which he returned to his home. As above mentioned he became identified with the Farmington National Bank, of which he has l^een cashier since 1S80. This institution was organized in 187J, on a solid, con- servative basis, and at present is operated with a capital of $50,000, and a surplus of $15,000. Mr. Edgerly was married in 1863 to Miss Maria J. Fernald, now deceased. She was a daughter of Robert and .\phia Fernald, natives of South Berwick, Me. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Edgerly: Agnes A., who died at the age of twelve years, and Annie M., who married Elmer F. Thayer, and resides at Farmington. Mr. Edgerly has always given his i)olitical support to the Republican party and as a substantial citizen has frequently been called upon to ser\'e in local offices, at different times being moderator of the town, town clerk and town treasurer. He is identified with the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M., at Farmington. Mr. Edgerly attends the Congregational church. NAPOLEON H. GILBERT, one of the leading business men of Somers- worth, senior member of the firm of Gilbert and St. Hilaire, wholesale bottlers and soda manufacturers and agents at Somersworth fijr the products of the Frank Jones' Brewing Company, of Portsmouth, N. H., sole agents at both Somersworth and Salmon Falls, He was born at St. John's. Quebec, Canada, October 16, 1839, and is a son of Paul J. and Soulange Gilbert. Napoleon H. Gilbert was nine years old when he accompanied his parents to Somersworth, w here his father died five years later and thus heavy respon- sibilities were thrown on the .shoulders of the youth before he was hardly able to bear them. For a numljcr of years he w orked in the mills of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company at Somersworth but before this he had ])ecn employed on farms. For a time he conducted a restaurant and in later years went into the hotel business at Somersworth, for four years conducting the Hotel Somersworth, which excellent property he yet owns. In 1896 he estab- lished his present bottling business, which he conducted alone until May, 191 2, when he admitted Alfred St. Hilaire as a partner. They conduct their business at Nos. 23-25 Myrtle street, Somersworth, giving employment to 694 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTV from eleven to Hfteen people, and sales are made all over Xew Ilaniijshire and Maine. In his youthful days Mr. Gill)ert was called upon to face many hard- ships and endure many deprivations but. through honesty, pluck and perse- verance, he athanced himself and now is numl)ered with the substantial and representative business men of this county. He is a Democrat in politics and in 1896 was elected a member of the legislature of Xew Hami)shire and ser\ed one term as representative from the Third Ward. Mr. Gilbert was married to Mrs. Annie Demers, of Somersworth, her maiden name having been Annie Charette. She married Alfred Demers and they had one daughter, Benedette. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert have had one son, Xapoleon G., who is deceased. Mr. Gilbert belongs to the Elks at Dover and to numerous organizations at Scmiersworth. CHARLES E. LORD, chief of the Fire Department of Salmon Falls, of which he has been a member for many years was born at Salmon Falls, July 31. 1850, and is a son of Temple and Silvina (Snow-) Lord. The I-ord family was founded in what is now South Berwick, Me., by Nathan Lord (I), who came from County Kent, England, in 1652, and Charles E. Lord is in the eighth generation of descent irom this ancestor. Temple Lord, father of our subject, was born in South Berwick, Me., a son of Xathan Lord, also of South Berwick. He came to Salmon Falls, X. H., in 1843 with his family and remained here until his death, which occurred in April. 1S82. He was a prominent member of the Republican party here and ser\ed in many offices with efficiency, was selectman of the town of Rollinsford and in 1871 and 1872 served in the X'^ew Hampshire legislature. He belonged also to the Masonic fraternity and was well known in many circles. Before his school days were over Charles E. Lord exhibited unusual musi- cal talent and has ever since been connected with musical organizations in this section. He was identified with the Union Cornet Band of Salmon Falls from 1867 to 1870; then, upon that organization disbanding, he organized the Salmon Falls Cornet Band in the summer of 1870 and was leader and director until 1878. He then joined the South Berwick, Maine, Cadet Band of that year and afterward joined the Salmon Falls Military Band, of which today he is an active member. The organizations with which he has been connected have met with popular favor and their music is a pleasing part of both public and many private entertainments. Since April, 1866. Mr. Lord has also been a member of the Salmon Falls Volunteer Fire Department and through efficiency earned his place as assistant chief in 1877, serving until 1882, when he was elected chief engineer. He has held that office, with the AND REPRESENTATR^E CITIZENS 695 exceptions of tlie years icSfjS to 1901, up to the present year 1914. At his present age 64, Mr. Lord is an acti\e, energetic, and progressive fireman and he beheves in all modern impro\ements to fight fires. He has been a delegate to the N. H. Firemen's Relief Convention for the past ten years. 'Sir. Lord was married first to Miss Sarah A. Hardy, of Brushton, N. Y. 'i"Iie\- had twii children, neither of whom are li\ing. His second marriage was to Miss Lena JJoule, of Salmon h'alls, anank P. and Emma ( Cushman ) B(_)nd. Frank I'. Boml was born in New Hampshire and has alwavs been a resident of his native state, at present living at Littleton, in Grafton countv. He is engaged there in the mercantile business and is a member of the directing board of- the Littleton Sa^-ings Bank. He married Emma Cushman and tiiey ha\e but one child. Bernard O. Boml attended school at Littlelanfingham. Mass., and they have three children: Eleanor K., l-'rances and Lois. The fanfilv attends the Congregational church. IVilitically Mr. Fownes is a Repuljlican and fraternally a Mason. DANIEL WINGATE. Somersworth, N. H.. has among its honored retired residents men who have claimed this ])lace as their home all through life and one of these is Daniel Wingate, now residing at No. 214 High street, who was born here when the city was known as Great Falls, ^larch 8, 182O. His parents were Daniel and Sabina (Tibbetts) Wingate, the former a native of Rochester, N. H., and the latter of Berwick, Me. Daniel Wingate, the father, was a man of lousiness importance at Great Falls. He bore the name of his father, Daniel Wingate. who had been a Revolutionary soldier and probably was the founder of the family at Roches- ter, N. H., where he died in old age. The second Daniel W^ingate taught school at Great Falls in early manhood and afterward was a traveling sales- man for a time. Later he eiubarked in a mercantile Ixisiness, which he con- 698 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY tinucd for many years, at last retiring to his farm, which was sitnated between Somersworth and Dover. Of his children there are three survivors: Daniel, the third of the name in succession; Airs. Harriet X. Hubbard, of Berwick, Me.; and iNIrs. Ina Ferguson, also of Berwick. Daniel Wingate attended the Somersworth schools in boyhood and remaineil at home until his se\tnteenth year. He then went to Boston to take instruction along lines for which he had developed considerable natural talent. He served there an apprenticeship of almost three years with a firm of car- riage and sign painters and then returned to Somersworth, where he went into business for himself, at the age of twent)- years becoming a contractor both in house and sign painting. He also conducted a store at Great Falls, where he handled paints, oils, glass, sash and blinds, to which he later added hard- ware. Included in his line of work was frescoing church interiors. At times he employed a large force of men and did work all over Strafiford county, N. H., and York county, Me., and for a long period the painting work on depots, bridges and signs re(|uired by the Boston & Maine and the Great Falls & Conway Railroads, was entrusted to him. After a long business career, marked with much success, he retired to enjoy the ease won by his former industry. Mr. Wingate married ]Miss Abigail J. \\'iggin. of Dover, and they had six children, the survivors being; William H. and Edward C, both residents of Nashua, N. H. ; Emma J., wife of Frank F. Feniald, a well known attor- ney of Dover; and M. Isabel, wife of Frank H. Morrison of Rochester. Mr. Wingate and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Somersworth. In public matters .Mr. \\ ingate was active and useful serving as a member of the first board of assessors after Somersworth was incorporated as a citv, for five years being chairman of the board. For several years he was the executive officer of the Ijoard of health and also was a selectman of the town of Somersworth in 1873 and 1874. The other members of the board were Hon. David G. Buffum, former president of the New Hampshire Senate ; Samuel D. Rollins, cashier of Somersworth National Bank, Hon. Tliomas Jameson and Enoch Whitehouse. He also served as street commis- >ioner and later as a member of the town .school committee with the late Judge William D. Knapp and Hon. James A. Edgerly. Mr. Wingate belongs to that type of citizenship wliose infiuence is lasting, for it is through its honest industry and high ideals that progress has been made and the welfare of all has been placed on a finn foundation. ANDREW' JACKSON, attorney at law and a member of the law firm of lackson & Hurlburt, with of=fices at No. 8 Hanson street, Rochester, was AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 699 born at Littleton, N. H., in 1882, and is a son of James R. and Lydia (Drew) Jackson. James R. Jackson was a native of Vermont and from there came first to Dover, wliere lie married and later was a well known jtractitioner of law at Littleton. N. H. His family consisted of six children. Andrew Jackson attended the excellent public schools of Littleton and then entered Dartmouth College. After completing his collegiate studies he entered the educational field, teaching his first school at Lyndonville, Vt. He after- ward taught at Rochester for three years and for three years more was super- intendent of schools here before entering the Boston University Law School, where he secured his degree and in 1912 was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He entered into practice at Boston as a member of the firm of Hurlburt, Jones & Cabot, in the following year opening his present office at Rochester. In his political sentiments ^Vlr. Jackson is a decided 13emocrat. FRANK B. MAGUIRE, who is one of the enterprising business men of Rochester, is proprietor of the Graves Corset Company and is also secretary and manager of the Rochester Agricultural and Mechanical .Association. He was born in 1861. at Danby. Vt., and is a son of John and Mary (Heney) Maguire and they had a famil)- of twelve children. The father was a native of Enniskillen. Ireland, and the mother was liorn in Dublin, Ireland, and they married there. They spent their married life at Danby and died tliere, the father living to the age of 82 years. Frank B. Maguire secured a public school education at Danliy, after which he was in a shoe factory in Hudson, Mass. In 1895 he came to Rochester and went into the shoe business but prior to this had been in the business for some years at Springvale, Me. The Graves Corset Company, of which Mr. Maguire has been proprietor since 1907, manufactures corsets and docs a large mail order business. A large i)art of Mr. Maguire's time is demanded by his duties in relation to the Fair Association, a very important and popular organiza- tion in Strafford county. I'olitically Mr. Maguire is a Republican. He served with extreme efficiency for one year in the New Hampshire legislature and for fifteen consecutive years has been an official of the city government. Mr. Maguire married Miss Lillian Weber, of Lynn, Mass., and they partake of the pleasant social life of the city. Mr. Alaguire is a Mason of high degree, belonging to the Shrine at Boston and to the lower branches, including the Commandery, at Rochester. He is identified also with the Odd Fellows. WILLIAM K. KIMBALL, who is one of Rochester's active business men, conducts a grain, flour, hay arid straw hiusiness on Hanson street and owns and operates a grain elevator. He is a native of Rochester, born in 1863, and 41 700 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY is a son of W. K. and Sarah J. (^Hoyt) Kimball, one of a family of two chil- dren. The father of Mr. Kimball was also born at Rochester and for many vears engaged in a grocery, confectionery and stationery business. His death occurred at Rochester on May ii, 18S4. W. K. Kimball attended the public schools through boyhood. His first place of employment was in the \\'allace Shoe factory where he became a shoe cutter. Afterward for eight years he was connected with the G. T. Laundry Company. In 1898 he embarked in his present business at Rochester and has expanded it into a large enterprise, employment being given to five people and trade connections maintained all through this section. Mr. Kimball mar- ried Miss Annie H. Jones, of S. Milton, N. H. He is identified politically with the Republican party and fraternally with the Masons. With his family he attends the Methodist Episcopal church. WALTER N. MORRISON, who belongs to the active and progressive business men of Rochester, does a large amount of work in the line of engineer- ing, heating and general mechanics, his location being on Front street, Roches- ter. He was born November 24, 1859, in Wolfboro, N. H., and is a son of Benjamin and Fannie (Foss) Morrison. They had three children, Ida, Walter N. and Fannie. The father, a native of Walton, was an engineer by profession, and died at the age of seventy-seven years, at Wolfboro. Walter N. Morrison attended the public schools of his native place. Having a natural inclination in the direction of mechanics, he learned engineering and worked as a stationary engineer until 1889, when he embarked in his present business at Rochester. He gives employment to from eight to ten men, a general line of machine and mechanical work being satisfactorily covered. Mr. Morrison married twice, his second wife having been prior to marriage Miss Ellen Pike. One daughter, Florence, born to his first marriage, resides at home. Mr. Morrison and family attend the Baptist church. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons and belongs also to the Odd Fellows. G. E. DEx\N, who operates a grist mill on Railway avenue, Rochester, and deals in grain, flour, feed and hay, has been interested here since .\pril, 1910. He was born in 1865, at Brownington, Vt., and is a son of G. M. and Ellen (Barrows) Dean. The parents are natives also of Vennont and still survive, the father being in his seventy-fifth year. Of their four children two are living, G. E. and a daughter, Mrs. Etta McLean. During his entire active life the father followed milling. AND REPRESENTATI\-E CITIZENS 701 After liis school days were ended, G. E. Dean went to work in a bakery and so continued for five years and learned the business. He was ^3 years old when he became associated with his father in the mill and some years afterward bought a mill at Orleans, Vt., fomierly Barton Landing, which lie operated until he went to the West for a year, .\fter his return he went into his present business at Rochester, purchasing from J. C. Daniels & Son. He has equipped his mill with modern machinery and affords employment to two millers all the time and adds to his force as occasion demands. Mr. Dean married Miss Anna Goss and they have two daughters, Catherine and Pauline, aged fifteen and seven years respectively. In politics Mr. Dean is a Republican but his tastes have never been in the direction of public office. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons, Odd Fello\vs, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, the Grange and the American Alechanics. In his business relations he has won the confidence of his fellow citizens and is numbered with the reliable and representative men of Rochester. JOHN E. FISHER, a member of the firm of A. C. Fisher & Sons, lumber dealers and operators, was born in Canada in 1886, a son of Albert C. Fisher. The latter was also a native of Canada, who came to this country about 25 years ago. He was a lumber sawyer, at first operating a stationery null and afterwards a portable mill, which he conducted until his death on February 8. 1909. He married Emma Lavoie and they were the parents of four children. Charles E., John E., Frank E. and Xorman A. John E. Fisher was educated in the schools of Rochester and afterwards became associated with his father in the lumber business here. Since the lat- ter's death he and his brother, Charles E., have operated the business together. dealing in timber lots and lumber and running portable saw mills. They are doing a prosperous business and are numbered among the substantial and reliable citizens of Rochester. John E. Fisher was married three years ago to Ora Vachon, of Somersworth, and they ha\e two children, Brenda and Florence. Mr. Fisher is independent in politics and attends the French Catholic church. \\'ALTER J. ROBERTS, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of medi- cine and surgery at Rochester, N. H., having an office at 46 Main street, was born in York county, Maine, a son of William E. and Cora B. (Carl) Roberts. His father, who was a farmer, is now living retired at Waterboro, Maine. W. J. Roberts was educated in the Maine schools and was graduated at the Medical School of Maine in 1906. He spent a year in the Maine General 702 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Hospital, wliere he gained mucli practical experience and in 1907 came to Rochester, where he bought out the practice of Dr. John H. Neal and has since practiced his profession successfully here. He is medical referee for Strafford county and he Ijelongs fraternally to the Masons and Odd Fellows, ha\ing membership in the local lodges. He married Idella E. Ross of Phillips, Maine. MARTI X P. BENNETT, one of the well known citizens of Dover, where he has been in business for many years, is located at No. 8 Milk street and deals in wagons, carriages, harness, whips, etc., and is agent for the Brown automobile truck. He has the distinction of being the only dealer in his line in this section of the country. Mr. Bennett was born at Dover, in 1852, and is a son of George P. and Abbie P. (Straw) Bennett. George P. Bennett was a native of Maine but spent a number of years in Dover engaged as overseer in old No. 4 wea\'e room. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil war he went to Wakefield, N. H.. and there enlisted and served faithfully until he lost his life in the charge before Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864. The family then returned to Dover, where the mother died, ]\Iarch 10, 1889. There were three children: Martin P., William H., and INIrs. Arabella W^atson. Martin P. Bennett started to work in a shoe shop at Dover after his school days were o\er. He then worked about fi\e years in the Cocheco Print Works and then went into the junk business in which he continued for thirty-five years, following which he embarked in his present line. As a business man he stands high and is numbered with the substantial men of the city. Left fatherless in boyhood he had to make his own w ay and what he owns he earned for himself. He owns considerable property, his investments having been made judiciously. Mr. Bennett was first married to iliss Mary E. Abbott, a daughter of John W. Abbott, who was survived by two children: Mrs. Angle ]\[. Brown, and Alice L. His second marriage was to Mrs. E. P. Churchill. Mrs. Churchill had two children: Albert IL and E. Ruth Churchill. The family belongs to the Central Avenue Baptist church. In politics Mr. Bennett is a Republican and has served in city ofifices, first as selectman, later as a mem- ber of the council for two years and for two years was alderman. Fraternally he is identified with the leading organizations, belonging to IMoses Paul Lodge, A. F. & A. M.: Mt. Pleasant Lodge No. 16, Odd Fellows, Prescott Encamp- ment and Canton Parker, and has passed all the chairs in the above orders. He is a past chancellor of Olive Branch Xo. (>. Knights of Pythias, and belongs also to the Pvthian Sisters and the Rebeccas: also to A. O. O. Workmen, Gar- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 703 rison Lodge No. 6. He has taken great interest in the Sons of Veterans, hav- ing passed through all the chairs and in 1910 was'elected Division Commander of his state. CHARLES W. VARXEY, of Charles W.'Varney & Co., general insur- ance, with office in the McDuffee Block. Rochester, X. H., and a member also of the firm of Crawford, Tolles & Co., of Somersworth, is a nati\'e of Lebanon, Me. His father, David W. Varney, was a lumberman and was also engaged in farming in Lebanon, Maine, where he always resided. He is now deceased. He married Abbie S. Tibbetts, of Rochester, N. H., and they had a family of four chiklren. Charles W Varney in his boyhood attended the district school in Lebanon, Me., and West Lebanon Academy, and also took a course at Bryant & Strat- ton's Business College of Boston, Mass. He then worked four years for the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company in their Boston office, ci>niing to Roches- ter Ajjril I, KjoCi. Here he is carrying on a general line of insurance and also transacts a loan business. Much of his time is devoted to the Somersworth firm of Crawford, Tolles & Company, of which he is a member. He is a thorough business man and a reliable citizen, which he has proven while in public office, having served as representative to the State legislature in 1913. He is a jjd degree Mason, memljer of the Odd Fellows, American Mechanics, and the Grange, having taken all seven degrees. At the present time he is serv- ing the office of lecturer of The New Hami>shire State Grange. In politics he is a Republican and he affiliates with the M. E. church. Mr. \'arney mar- ried Matilda Webster Shephenl. of Jamaica Plain, Mass.. and they have one child— Charles W., Jr. JOSEPH MORRILL, a former citizen of Dover who pas.sed away in 1870, will long be remembered for his many estimable personal qualities and his remarkable business ability, coupled with an admiraljle public spirit that made him a Ix-nefactor of the community in whicli he s])enl the greater part of his useful life. Generations yet unb(:>rn will enjoy the lieauty and shade of the long avenues of trees that it was his great ])leasure to ^et out to adorn the city. This single beneficence would entitle him to the gratitude of all. Little is known of the boyhood days of Joseph Morrill. He came to Dover when a young man and for over thirty years was employed in the local mills, for a long period being an overseer. He was the son of a farmer, but agricultural labors did not attract him, his business sense being so keen that he more enjoved the trade and l>arter of commercial life, and so unerring were his judgment and foresight that any enterprise he engaged in was usually 704 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY successful. He was a careful iuvestor in real estate and for many years was the largest holder of the same in Dover. He also owned ships and a two-third interest in the Dover water works, besides having other wealth, w hich, when inherited by his family, caused them to be the largest tax payers in the county. He erected the two business blocks which Iiear his name, the first of brick, and the second, completed just before his death, of wood, this being then the most pretentious building in the cit}'. Joseph Morrill married Xancy Ouimby, who came from the old W'aldron family, some of the finest stock in the state. Of their nine children there are now three sunivors — Charles Joseph, Mrs. James E. Lothrop, and Rosena. Mr. Morrill donated the first drinking fountain in Dover. On this same spot his heirs erected a handsome memorial in granite, in 19 13. Charles Joseph Morrill, son of Joseph and Xancy ]\Iorrill, secured his edu- cation in the Dover schools. During his active years he was in the clothing business, but since his father's death he has been more or less fully occupied with taking care of the estate. He married Miss Annie D. Cushman. They had one son, James Lothrop, who was born in 1876 and died when two years old. Mr. Morrill is a Republican and has served in various public oftices. HON. WILLIAM G. BRz\DLEY, now living retired from active business, at Rochester, for many years has been a prominent citizen of Strafford county and through high efficiency in public office as well as through personal integ- rity, has won the confidence, respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. Mr. Bradley was born March 29, 184S, at Burlington, Mass., and is a son of Charles P. Bradley, a native of England, who, coming to the United States in boyhood, served as a sailor on the old United States frigate Constitution, familiarly called "Old Ironsides." He lived to the age of 78 years and died in Massachusetts. The mother of Mr. Bradley survived until 1875. He was the only child. William G. Bradley had but meager school advantages in boyhood and the greater part of his book knowledge was secured in night schools at Lowell. He was but 13 years of age when he found work, driving a team from Burling- ton to Boston, after which he returned to Lowell and worked in a shop until 1866. In April, that year, ha\-ing saved a little money, he went West, but after spending his savings returned home. Then, in i86<), he went to Grafton and spent two years on a milk farm, subsequently returning to shop work. In 1876 he came to New Hampshire and was employed by a Dover firm for four months, follow ing which he came to Rochester and for the next three years was engaged in work at the Wallace Shoe factory. Mr. Bradley then embarked in the retail shoe business on Central Square, starting business AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 705 August 25, 1879, and continuing in the same until December 31, 1896, when he sold all his stores. He made this city his home, while at the same time he con- ducted branch stores at Gonic, East Rochester, Salem and Newburyport. In 1898 Mr. Bradley was elected mayor of Rochester, being re-elected in 1899, again in 1902, 1903. 1907, 1908 and 1909; having previously, in 1895, served in the New Hampshire legislature, elected on the Republican ticket. His good citizenship has been in many other ways recognized by his fellow citizen: For nine years — from 1899 to 1908 — he was manager of the Rochester Fair Association, being also a stockholder in the same. Although now retired from active Inisiness he still has large lumber and real estate interests which more or less claim attention, from 191 1 to January i, 191J, being associated in these lines with Mayor I'reston. He is also one of the trustees of the Gaf- nev Home fur the Aged. Since starting in business at Rochester Mr. Bradley has been a liberal con- tributor to all manufacturing plants coming to Rochester, East Rochester and Gonic. It was through his efforts that the street railway was extended to East Rochester, he assuming all responsibilities. He also had the fire engine house and town hall built at East Rochester. The president of the street rail- w^ay company was present at the dedication and in his speech said that the peo- ple of Rochester and East Rochester w ere indebted to Mr. Bradley alone for the street railroad to East Rochester. Mr. Bradley was united in marriage w ith Miss Louise M. Howe. Thev attend the Baptist church. Since 1871 he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity and belongs also to the Order of the Eastern Star. HARRY A. MORRISON, collector of taxes for Dover, N. H., a well kno«n, capable and trustworthy citizen, who is serving in his ninth year in the above office, was born at Do\er, December 14, 1873, and is a son of Andrew and Margaret (Anderson) Morrison. Andrew Morrison was born in South Boston, Mass., in 1839 and he and his wife are now highly esteemed residents of Dover. He was a brave soldier during the Civil war and is a A'alued member of the Grand Army post at Dover. In politics he is affiliated with the Republican party. Harry A. Morrison secured excellent educational training in the public schools of Dover and afterward, for a time, worked at the carpenter trade and then became chief clerk for D. L. Furber, who conducted a shoe store on Washington street, Dover, and also was a manufacturer. For several years Mr. Morrison was at the head of the retail department and continued with Mr. Furber until 1904, when he was elected tax collector for the first time and his efficiency in office has been rewarded ever since by re-election. 706 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Mr. Morrison married Aliss Mabel L. Priestly, of Dover, and they have one daughter, Ruth E., who was bom ]\Iay 13, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Like his father, Mr. Morrison has been active in the affairs of the Republican party. He belongs to Moses Paul Lodge, A. F. & A. AL, and to the Knights of Pythias in all branches of that order, being a member of its board of trustees at Dover, and is treasurer and secretary of the building committee of the new Knights of Pythias' build- ing which is now under course of construction in this city. IRA G. STUDLEY, treasurer and manager of the Studley llox & Lumber Company, with plant located on Sil\er street, Rochester, N. H.. was born in 1876. in Massachusetts, and is a son of Gideon and Elizal)eth CTotman) Studley. Gideon Studley, who is engaged in the box l>usiness at Rockland, Mass., is an experienced box manufacturer. In 1905 he came to Rochester and in association with his son, Ira G., founded the Studley Box & Lumber Company, the business of which has now grown into large volume, becoming one of the largest enterprises of this manufacturing city and affording employment to ijt men. Gideon Studley married Elizabeth Totman and twelve cliildren were born to them. Ira G. Studley attended the public schools in his nati\'e state and then took a course in the Institute of Technology at Boston, after which he was in the box manufacturing business with his father. Later he was in the business at Henniker, N. H., and from there, in April, 1905, came to Rochester and bought the plant which is now owned by the New England Cotton Yarn Company, to whom he sold and for lour }-ears afterward operated it for them. In the meanwhile he started his present business, utilizing the same building then standing but introducing all the improvements The business is dressing lumber in transit and manufacturing bo.x shooks. Capital, good business judgment and honorable methods have combined to make this a prosperous undertaking. Mr. Studley is not active politically Init gives his support to the Republican party. He is identified with several degrees of Masonry. JOHN CANNEY, a well know n and highly respected resident of the town of Dover, where he owns a farm of 20 acres, has been active in many local positions of responsibility since the close of his services as a soldier in the Civil war. He was born at Barrington, N. H., December 16, 1845, and is a son of Isaac and Betsy (Cater) Canney. Isaac Canney was a son of Isaac Canney, who was a son of the pioneer of the family, who was born in Ireland and who, when he came to the Ignited AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 707 States, located among tlie early settlers in Madbury, Strafford county, N. H. Isaac Canney, father of John Canney, spent the greater part of his life in Dover, where he died at the age of fiy years. He followed farming and was also a dealer in cattle. He married Betsy Cater, who was born at Barring- ton, N. H. As soon as his boyhood school days were over, John Canney learned shoe making and worked at his trade and also as a farmer until he enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company E. First N. H. Cavalry, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac. He served for almost one year, being mainly engaged in scouting and raiding, and was then honorably discharged and returned to his Do\-er farm. For twelve years Mr. Canney has been in charge of the Rochester Fair Grounds during the annual exhibitions and few men in the county- are more generally known, for the county fair brings residents of every section to Rochester, either as exhibitors or interested visitors. Dover also has reason to know him well and favorably, for he was assistant marshal on the police force of Dover for eight years. In politics he is nominally a Republican but has independent inclinations. Mr. Canney married Miss Cynthia Huntoon. and they have one son, Lyman Canney, who is now a resident of East Pepperill, Mass. LOREN D. CASLER. Not every man of really good intentions possesses the energy and enterprise that are necessary in order to advance, esi^ecially along the industrial lines in which competition is great. Loren D. Casler, who is one of Somerworth's respected and useful citizens, has demonstrated his capacity in his many years of business life and now occupies a responsible position as general overseer of the yards of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. He was born at Little Falls. Herkimer county, X. Y., January 20, 1849, and is a son of Myron C. and Catherine S. (Fink) Casler. The Casler family is an old and respected one in the Mohawk valle}', and when the German ancestors settled there they spelletl the name as they pro- nounced it, Keysler. In later generations it became Casler. Myron C. Casler and wife were both born there and during the childhood of their son, Loren D., removed to Montreal, Canada, which was the family home for many years, Myron C. Casler being foreman for the Montreal Water Works for 20 years. Both he and his wife died at Montreal. Loren D. Casler remained during his school period and early manhood in the city of Montreal and then came back to the United States. At Omaha, Nebr., in 1876, he enlisted in Company E, 4th U. S. Cavalry, and during his five years of subsequent service was stationed at points ranging from Dakota to Texas, and in 1881 received his honorable discharge at Fort Elliott, Texas. 70S HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Mr. Casler soon afterward came to Great Falls, N. H., now Soinersworth, becoming a clerk in tlie store of William Plummer & Co., this firm at that time doing the largest grocery business in the place. After a number of years with this house Mr. Casler went with the Great Falls Bleachery and Dye Works, where for a number of years he had charge of the baling goods department, and his faithful service was rewarded by appointment to his present responsible position, on January ii, 191 1. On June 29, i88j, Mr. Casler was married to Miss Ella Isadore Plummer, who was born at Great Falls (Somers worth), N. H., and is a daughter of William and Mary A. (Home) Plummer. Her father was bom in Maine and her mother at Great Falls. Mrs. Casler is a lady of mental attainments and for eleven years was a teacher in the public schools before her marriage, for seven years being an instructor in the Somersworth High school. Mr. and Mrs. Casler have one son, Stanley Casler, who is a resident of Peabody, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Casler are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has served in various offices, at present being church clerk. Politically he is a Republican and has been supervisor of the check list of Somersworth for the last twelve years. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Blue Lodge and Chapter at Somersworth and to the Commandery at Do\-er. DAVID CHALMERS, founder of the Chalmers conservatories at Roches- ter, whose death took place September 19, 1913. was born at Alva, Scotland, and came to this countr}- when a baby w ith his parents. In Scotland the name of Chalmers is a highly respected one, much honor having been conferred on it by the ministry and life work of Dr. Chalmers, the noted Scotch divine, known and revered throughout the land. On arriving in this country the parents of our subject settled first at Troy, New York, from which place they subsequently removed to Massachusetts, later coming to Rochester, X. LI., or about 40 years ago. For some years Da\id Chalmers worked for the Cocheco Company at East Rochester. In the meanwhile Mrs. Chalmers, with the assistance of her eldest son, Ernest D.. then only eleven years old, began raising vegetables for the market. They had such success that about 1890 Mr. Chalmers resigned his position w ith the Cocheco company and entered into the business also, taking up the raising of flowers and founding the widely known Chalmers conservatories. This plant consists of several glass houses 300 feet long, devoted to the raising of flowers for mortuory and other purposes, the trade in cut flow ers, which is large, being a specialty. The business is the largest of the kind in this section. Mr. Chalmers married Mabelle Gushing, who was born in Rochester, N. H., a daughter of Samuel Gushing, now one of the older residents of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 709 Rochester, who came liere from Tannvorth, N. H., at the age of 20 years. Mr. Gushing is the oldest pansy grower in New Hampshire. His w ife, \\ hose maiden name was Ehiiira Wentworth, was born in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Chahners were the parents of five children, namely : Ernest D., born in Rochester, N. H., December J5, 1S7S, who married Mary Hamil- ton and has two children — ( i ) Dwight, born July 25, 1908, and Dorothy, born July 9, 1909; (2) Forrest S., born July 9, 1883, who married Jennie Spring- field of Rochester and has one child — Harold S., born January 16, 1913: (3) Albert R., born August 9, 1885; (4) Harry O., born August 17, 1887; and Winnifred R., born May 17, 1891, who married Angie Roberts of Farmington. Mr. Chalmers' death caused much sorrow in this community, as he was a man widely known and respected. Among the floral tributes was a wreath of heather which came from Ole Bull's home in Norway and was given by the Shapleigh family of Lebanon, Me. He was a member of L'nity church and in politics was a Republican. The conservatories are now under the management of his widow and gi\x' full employment to three of his sons. AUGUSTINE S. PARSHLEY, whose death occurred December 1 1, igoi, was one of the foremost citizens and business men of Rochester, New Hamp- shire. He was a veteran of the Ci\il war and a man whom it pleased the people to elect to offices of trust upon \arirjns occasions. He had a large, well established insurance business, and also dealt in real estate. Mr. Parsh- ley was born in Strafford county, N. H., June 21, 1840, and was a son of Jolni W. and Mary A. (Foss) Parshley. both natives of Strafford county. John W. Parshley followed farming and was also a carpenter, both of which occupations he followed in Strafford throughout his active career. He was a politician in no sense of the Avon!, Ijut w as a free soiler. Religiously he and his wife were members of the Free \\ ill Piaptist church. He and his wife both died at the age of fifty-eight }-ears. They were parents of the following children: Charles, who died in infancy; John D., who died in Rochester in 1895: Sarah J., widow of A. C. Hall, who lives in Georgetown, Mass.; George C, deceased; and .Vugustine S. Augustine S. Parshley remained at home, following farming and car- pentering with his father, until the war. In 1862, he enlisted for three years' service as a member of Company F, 13th Reg. N. H. Vol. Inf., his enlistment terminating in June, 1865. He was advanced to the rank of corporal. He w as seriou.sly wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg, and for one year was prevented from service with his regiment. When he returned to the front. he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps and assigned to the defense of Washington. Upon the close of the war, he returned to Strafford and 710 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY followed car])entcring until 1870. when he moved to Rochester and engaged in the insurance business. He was one of the pioneers in that field here and established a large and well paying agency. He also became interested in real estate and was secretary and treasurer of the Rochester Building and Loan Association for years. A republican in politics, he was in 1873 elected chairman of the Ijoard of selectmen, and was re-elected each term until 1882, serving a part of the time as town treasurer. When first incumbent of the latter position, the town indebtedness was $62,000, because of the war, and when he left the ofBce the town was free of debt. When he stood for re-elec- tion in 1875, he received all but forty-five of a total of 1,200, which evidences the esteem in which he was held by his fellowmen. In 1873 '^^ ^^'^^ chosen to represent his district in the State Legislature. In 1884 he was again elected chairman of selectmen, serving two years. He declined the nomination for mayor, although strongly imjxjrtuned to accept it. Mr. Parshley was married in i860 to Miss Georgiana Clough, who died, leaving a datighter, Nellie. This daughter, now deceased, was born June 24, 1861 ; married in July, 1886, Benjamin ]\I. Flanders (also now deceased), and had one son, Philip R. Flanders, who was born July i, 1887, and is at the present time in business in Boston. In April, 1866, ^Ir. Parshley was united in marriage with Miss Ellen F. Buzzell of Strafford, and their union was blessed with four children: Abbie F., who was born August 14, 1867, and died while yet in her teens; Lillian E., born August 16, 1868, who became librarian of the Rochester Public Library when it was established in 1893, and has served efficiently in that capacity ever since; Charles A., who was born October 4, 1871. and died February 15, 1899, at Southern Pines. North Carolina; and Mary E.. born September 2, 1876, who holds a responsible position as bookkeeper. Charles A. Parshley, who was in the insurance business with his father, was married in 1894 to Miss Sadie Hanson. He was a }kIason and a member of the Sons of Veterans. Mr. Parshley was one of the founders of the Rochester Fair Associa- tion, and ser\'ed as secretary of the board until some three years prior to his death. He was a devout member of the Free Will Baptist church, and for 25 years was superintendent of the Sabbath school. Rev. John Manter of that church ofiiciated at his funeral services, which were largely attended by a host of friends and fraternal brothers. Mr. Parshley was a member of Lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F. ; Humane Lodge No. 21, A. F. & A. M. ; Temple Chapter No. 20, R. A. M. ; Runnanville Tribe No. 9, I. O. R. ; Sampson Post No. 18, G. A. R. ; and of the Rochester Board of Trade. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 711 ALBERT I. HALL, a man of recognized business ability and standing of Rochester, N. H., is a dealer in farm machinery and sawmill equipment, in addition to which he sells real estate. He also is meeting with great success as a fruit grower and dealer. Mr. Hall was born in Barrington, N. H.. in 1856, and is a son of John B. and Lydia S. (Foss) Hall. The father was a native of New Hampshire, and except for his early years in the shoe manu- facturing business in Havershill, followed farming. He and his esteemed wife reared four children. Albert I. Hall was reared and received his educational training in Barring- ton and Dover. Throughout nearly the entire of his business career he has engaged in the sale of farm machinery, being much of the time tra\'eling. He has been located at Rochester for 24 years, his oftice and residence being at No. 92 Charles street. He is the most extensive grower of apples in this vicinity, having 100 acres devoted to that fruit, and he markets from 2,000 to 5,000 barrels per year. Mr. Hall was united in marriage with Miss Esther S. Young, a daughter of Judge Jacob D. Young of Madljury. and their home has been blessed with three children: Irene J\I., Olive F., and Rosvvell. the last mentioned being now deceased. Politically Mr. Hall is a Republican. He is a man of wide acquaintance and is held in high esteem. CHARLES F. PRAY,* station agent at Rollinsford, N. IL, for the Boston and Maine Railroad, has been identified with railroad work ever since he reached manhood. He was born at Rullinsford, September 27,, 185 1, and is a son of Humphrey and Eunice (Stackpole) Pray. The father was born in York, Me., and the mother in Strafford county, N. FI. The Pray family is of Scotch ancestry. Charles F. Pray attended the public schools of his native place and the Salmon Falls High school. Having decided on railroad work as his occupation, he learned the art of telegraphing, beginning as an operator, August 15, 1870, with the Boston and Maine Railroad. Two and a half years later he was appointed station agent and ever since has filled both positions. This is a busy railroad point and Mr. Fray's duties occupy all of his time during working days, while his church and Sunday school activities fill the first day of the week, especially as he is church organist. Mr. Pray has been twice married, first to Miss Novella A. Libbey, of Lowell, Mass. They had two children: Charles B. and Harry E., the latter being assistant superintendent of the Sayles' Bleachery, of Saylesville, R. I. The second marriage of Mr. Pray was to Miss Lucy B. Lord, of Lebanon, Me., a highly educated lady who had been formerly a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Pray 712 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY are members of the Methodist Episcopal cluirch of South Berwick, in which he used to be Sunday school superintendent. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Salmon Falls. Politically a Republican, he belongs to that wing of the party that particularly advocates temperance. Mr. Pray is one of Strafi'ord county's well known and most popular citizens. FORREST L. KEAY, M. D., of Rochester, N. U.. having an office at 19 S. Main street, was born at Lynn, Mass., April i. 1865. His father, Frank Keay, was until iSfxj engaged in the maunfacture of shoes at Lynn, Mass. He then became a resident of East Rochester, N. H., where he con- ducted a grocery store. Later he engaged in brick manufacturing at Lebanon, Me. His death took place at Ocean Park, Old Orchard, Me., in 1907, when he was 72 years old. He married Releaf Goodwin Jones and their family numbered seven children. Forrest L. Keay was educated in the schools of Rochester, including the high school, from which he graduated in 1883, and Dartmouth College, graduating from that institution in 188S. In the fall of 1893 he was gradu- ated from Dartmouth Medical Cullegc. after wliich he six;nt one year in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Boston. He then began the practice of his profes- sion in East Rochester, N. H., remaining there five years and a half, or until February i, 1900, at which time he took up his present location in Rochester. He has made a good record in his profession, and, being appointed medical referee, served in that position for six years, from 1907 to 1913. He was county physician for eight years and is now secretary of the board of health and overseer of the poor. He was also for several years medical examiner of pension applicants and served on the school board one term. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical Associations, belongs to the Rochester Country Club, and is a 32d degree Rfason, having been High Priest of Temple Chapter four years, from 1900 to 1904, and for three years' time Eminent Commander of Palestine Commandery, from 1908 to 191 1. Dr. Keay married Lillian 'SI. Ouimby, of E. Rochester, on June 20, 1895. In politics he is a Republican and in all things a reliable and patriotic citizen. FRED C. SMALLEY, who is engaged in the monument and building busi- ness at Dover and also at Portsmouth, is one of the representative men of Strafford county, progressive and enterprising and more or less a leader on account of these qualities. He was born in 1866, in Rutland county, Vt., a son FRED C. SMALLEY AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 715 of Christopher and Virginia (Guard) Snialley. They had a family of live children, four sons and one daughter, all surviving but one son. The father was a farmer in Rutland county and died at the age of Tj years. Fred C. Smalley enjoyed excellent educational advantages, attending school at Black River Academy and later at Albany. N. Y., and afterward taught school during several winters. In 1890 he became an employer in the office of the Vermont Marble Company at Proctor, Vt., where he continued for three years and then was employed for two years in their branch office at St. Louis, Mo. He spent the following two years in traveling through the Central States. In 1896, with a partner, he embarked in a monument business of his own at South Berwick, Me., but two years later the partners bought the Dover plant. Later he purchased his partner's interest and in 1906 bought his Portsmouth business place and operates them -both. He has two large quarries, in partnership with his brother, at Milford, N. H., and at Westerly, R. I. His location at Dover is Nos. 297-301 Central avenue, and at Ports- mouth, No. 19 \\'ater street. Mr. Smalley married Miss Grace M. Hanson, of South Berwick, Me., and they have four children; Virginia, Elizabeth, Frederick and Harry. In politics he is a Republican and at present is serving on the board of aldermen. He belongs to Moses Paul Lodge No. 96, A. F. & A. M., and to the Royal Arcanum. With his family he attends the L^nitarian church. C. W. LOWE, who is associated with his son, H. C. Lowe, in the livery and undertaking business, at Rochester, was born at North Shapley, Me., in 1855, and is the oldest of the family of six children born to his parents, who were John and Hannah (Hargraves) Lowe. The father was also born in Maine and died at North Shapley at the age of 74 years. During his entire active life he was a spinner in a mill. C. W. Lowe left school at the age of eleven years to become a worker in a textile mill, where he continued until 18 years old. He then spent one .summer in Boston, after which he located at Milton Mills, N. H., later mov- ing to L'nion, where he bought a marble shop, still later entering a woolen mill at Springvale. He remained there as carpenter for 18 months and then came to Rochester, where he was car inspector for two years. In 1904 he embarked in the livery business and in 191 1 his son, H. C. Lowe, went into the undertaking business, and the two lines have since been carried on in partnership. C. W. Lowe married Miss Adelia Chamberlain, and they have one son, H. C. Lowe. He was born and attended school at Milton Mills, N. H., later taking a business course at Dover. His first employment was in a railroad 716 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY freight house. In preparation for the undertaking business he attended the Boston Embalming Scliool, but prior to that had worked for seven years witli a local undertaker. He married Miss Eva Webber and they have two clnldren: Robert and Elizabeth. C. W. Lowe and son are identified with the Republican party politically and fraternally widi the Odd Fellows, and the younger member of the firm belongs also to the Grange, the Red Men and to the American Mechanics. As reliable business men and excellent citizens they stand high in public regard. BENJAMIN TYLER RICHARDS, one of Rochester's respected cit- izens, now retired, residing at No. 220 North Main street, was born at Lynn, Mass., April 2-j, 1835, and has spent his entire life in the New England states. He attended the village schools in boyhood but as soon as old enough took his place on the shoemaker's bench to learn the trade. At that time no one had even dreamed of the present great shoe factories with their special- ized machinery, able to turn out thousands of completed footwear a day, and he learned the trade in the old way and with the old instruments. Now hand-made shoes are a luxury while then they were a necessity. Mr. Richards continued to live at Lynn until he was 30 years of age. In 1855 he went to Redficld, Kennebec county, Me., which was his home for thirteen years and during eleven years of this time he was postmaster of that city and for seven years town clerk. He returned then to Lynn, :\Iass., where he remained for ei"-ht more years and then came to Rochester as foreman in the shoe-cutting department of a factory belonging to F. W. Breed of Lynn, Mass. Mr. Rich- ards continued in this capacity until about 1901, when he retired, after a busy and useful life. Mr. Richards was married in early manhood to Miss Marilla M. Elliott, of Readfield, Me., and five children were born to them: David Elliott, who is unmarried and lives at Kansas City; Elizabeth, who is the widow of Ben- jamin Router, of Lynn, Mass., resides at Rochester and has one daughter, Mildred, who is tlie wife of William Jenness, and two grandchildren (great- grandchildren of our subject), Lloyd and Natalene Jenness; \\'illiam Tyler, who is a resident of Lynn, Mass., married Elma Newhall and they have five children, Florence, Grace. Hazel, Chester and Ruth. Grace being the wife of Daniel McDonald and the mother of one daughter, Lillian ; Marilla, who died at the age of 18 months; and Isabelle, who is the wife of John H. Shep- pard and has six children — William, Harold, Marion, Frances, Gladys and Mary. For many years Mr. Richards took a very active interest in Republican politics, casting his first vote in 1856, and while a resident of Maine was active AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 717 in his support of Hon. Anson P. Morrill, who was elected to the United States Congress in i860. Since residing at Rochester Mr. Richards has merely voted as lie has deemed right for a good citizen. He attends the Universalist church, cherishing a kindly creed and e-xemjilifying it in his life. Since 1864 Mr. Richards has been a Mason, uniting with the fraternity in Maine, and is a memlter of the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council at Rochester. EUGENE C. FOSS, manager of the Henry Evans & Co. Hardware Com- pany, at No. 43 Main street, Rochester, N. H., is recognized as a thoroughly experienced business man and a citizen of worth. He was born at Tufton- boro, N. H., February 18, 1866, and was educated in his native place. At the age of 18 years Mr. Foss came to Rochester and entered the employ of F. \\'. Emery & Co., as a clerk. Later, in the same capacity, he was with Ira B. Moore & Company, No. 55 Hanson street, for 19 years. Mr. Foss then went to Dover, where, for 18 months he was connected in business with J. Herbert Seavey, returning then to Rochester and for six months prior to associating himself as junior partner and manager of his present fimi, was with the firm of Berry & Shorey. Thus almost all of his business life has been spent at Rochester and here his other interests are centered. Mr. Foss was married to Miss Fannie L. Clark, a Ir. Wallace is numliered with the substantial men of Somersworth and his good citizenship has long since been established. He has never been willing to accept public office but is one of the stanch Demo- crats of Somersworth. CHARLES F. WORCESTER, a well known, respected and useful cit- izen of Somersworth. of which city he has been a resident for 26 years, has been identified with the Great Falls [Manufacturing Company as foreman of the belt and roller shop fur a long time. He was born at Ipswich. Mass., February 10, 1858, and is a son of Daniel C. and Sarah (Tenney) Worcester, both parents being natives of Ipswich. The ancestry of the Worcester family leads back to England and the family is an old one in Lebanon, yie. The mother of Charles F. Worcester is now deceased but the father, now a ven- erable man in his eighties, still lives at Lynn, Mass. Charles F. Worcester spent the first ten 3-ears of his life at Ipswich and then accompanied his parents w hen they removed to Xewburyport, where he completed his education in the public school. He was about 21 years of age when he went to Haverhill, in his native state, but the wider field of business opportunity offered by Great Falls, now Somersworth, soon became apparent and he came to this city, a move he has never regretted. Mr. Worcester has been twice married and of the three children born to his first union there are two sundvors, one of these being Mrs. Blanche T. Woodman, of West Somerville, Mass. His second marriage was to Mrs. Dora (Southerland) Sanborn, of Lisbon, Me. In politics Mr. Worcester is a Republican and served one term as a selectman of Somersworth, being chairman of the board. He is identified with the order of Knights of Pythias and is serving as chancellor commander of this body. Both he and his wife attend the first Baptist church. 1 CHRISTOPHER [MORGAN, overseer of the carding department of mill No. 2 of the Great Falls [Manufacturing Company, is a man whose long ex- perience in the textile industry has qualified him for a position of responsibil- ity. He was born at Lowell, Mass., August 8, 1845. and is a son of Christo- pher and Eliza (Howard) Morgan. The father was an overseer for the AXD REPRESEXTATIVE CITIZENS 721 Lawrence Alanufacturing Company of Lowell, Mass., for over a half centur)-. His death occurred in his 79th year. Christopher ^Morgan attended school at Lowell until he was 12 years of age and then, like the greater number of his boy comrades, went to work in a cotton mill. He remained in the same mill at Lowell until he was 18 years of age. It being connected with the plant of the Lawrence Manufacturing Com- pany, and by that time had become expert enough to be ai)pointed a foreman in the spinning and winding department, where he continued for seven years. He then resigned and went to Laconia, N. H., where he accepted a position as foreman of the spinning department of a hosiery mill, but later returned to his native city for a time, when he was tendered a position with a company of expert mill machinists \\ ho were preparing to go to Shanghai, China, at the request of some Chinese capitalists, to introduce occidental methods and install ginning, picking and carding machinery in mills owned bj^ a large Chinese firm. Not only did Mr. Morgan assist and superintendent the instal- lation of this machinery but he remained as overseer of the ginning, picking and carding departments of that mill for three years. After this uiuisual experience he returned to America and shortly afterward — March 6, 1893 — took up his present position with the Great Falls Manufacturing Company at Soniersworth. Mr. Morgan married, first, Miss Rosella S. Badger, of Lowell. Mass.. who died at Somersworth. February 3, 1912. Mr. Morgan's second marriage was to Mrs. Sarah J. (Livingston) Stevenson. She was born at Peacham. Vt.. a daughter of Harvey B. and Elizabeth (Way) Livingston. While not a member of any particular church, Mr. Morgan is a willing contributor to all moral movements and worthy charities. He belongs to Libanas Blue Lodge. A. F. & A. M.. at Somersworth; to Edwards Chapter, Somersworth; and St. Paul Commandery at Dover; and also to Friendship Lodge. I. O. O. F.. of Hookset, X. H. WILL.ARD H. KIMBALL, master mechanic, has been identified with the Great Falls Bleachery and Dye Works, of Somersworth, N. H., for many years, and maintains his home at Berwick, Me., where he is held in high esteem as a citizen. Mr. Kimball was born at Amherst. Me.. March 28, 1865, and is a son of George S. and Olive (Frost) Kimball, the former of whom was born at Waterville and the latter at Mariaville. Me. The father was a farmer and once was prominent in the lumber industry. Willard H. Kimball attended the public schools of Amherst but had no other educational advantages, having, to a large extent, provided for himself through life. In 1887 he started to work for the Great Falls Manufacturing 722 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Company in tlie firing room, from which he w as promoted to the machine shop where he worked for two years. In 189 1 he assisted in placing the machinery in the Great Falls Bleachery, afterward being permanently employed in the machinist's department of this plant, for five years being head machinist, and in July, 1899, was made master mechanic of the Great Falls Bleachery and Dye Works, a position of responsibility which he still holds. This fact of itself indicates that Mr. Kimball is a trusted and capable man in his line of work for only such ever attain such prominence in the great industrial plants of the present day. In December, 1S89, Mr. Kimball was married to Miss Lillian Lawrence, who died February' 4, 1906, the mother of six children: Flora ^I., who is the wife of Omar L. Pratt, of Laconia, N. H. ; and Beulah F., Earl L., How ard S., Helen M., and Ralph L., all of whom reside at home. On June 21, 1911, Mr. Kimball was married secondly to Miss Martha E. Worster, who was born at Berwick, Me., a daughter of Ebenezer Worster, formerly of Berwick. Mrs. Kimball passed away June 14, 1913. In 1887 J\Ir. Kimball settled at Somersworth and continued to reside there until 1895, when he removed his home to Berwick, Me., his residence being on the corner of Merriam and Berwick streets. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic lodge at South Berwick, Me., and belongs also to Washington Lodge, Odd Fellows, at Somersworth. WILLIAM H. CHAMPLIN, who owns and operates the largest box manufacturing plant in New Hampshire and the second largest in all New- England, has his factory and planing mill on Glenwood avenue at Rochester, N. H. He was born at Warwick, R. I., and was educated there and at East Greenwich Academy. At the age of eighteen years Mr. Champlin came to Rochester and in 1906 began the erection of his first planing mill. This was destroyed by fire on October 7, 1913. with considerable loss to him, but a new mill is in course of construction, equipped with every modern facility for car- rying on the box making business, which is the specialty, and by January i, 1914, it will be in full operation. Mr. Champlin also carries on a general wholesale lumber business and gives employment to 200 men. Energy and efficiency have marked every step of his business career and undoubtedly his undertaking has a still more prosperous course in the future as long as he lives to direct its management. ]\Iany business men are the best of citizens without taking a very active interest in political matters and this is the case with Mr. Champlin. He votes the Republican ticket and lends his interest to public-spirited movements but declines to serve in public office. He is identi- fied w^ith the Odd Fellows, and is a member of the Episcopal church. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 723 EDWIN W. FOLSOAI, one uf the old established business men of Soniersuorth. jeweler and optieian, located at No. 17 Main street, came to Great Emails in 1874, and, practically, has been continuously in the same busi- ness stated above during all these years, and is at present 'in the oi-tical busi- ness at No. 3 Main street. He was born at Acton, Me., September _>9, 1S49, and IS a son of \\'illiam P. and Lucy (Goodwin) Folsom, both of \\hom uere l)orn m Maine and probably were of English ancestry. Edwin \y. Folsom was twelve years old when he accompanied his parents in their removal to Springvale, Me., and some years later to East Rochester, N. H. A few years later he went to Manchester, N. H., and after serving an apprenticeship to the jeweler's trade for four years, remained there two years longer and then came to Great Falls, now Somersworth, and immediately embarked in business. He is vice president and a director in the Somersworth National Bank and is one of the city's stable and representative men of affairs. Mr. Folsom \vas united in marriage with Miss Delia Marston, who was born at Somersworth, a daughter of Thomas F. Marston, a former \\ell known resident of Somersworth, and they have five children: Flora, the wife of Harry Graf, who is connected with the postoffice at Manchester; Ethel, the wife of Harry Campbell, who is assistant treasurer of the Dwight Manu- facturing Company of Chicopee, Mass., with main office at Boston; Nellie L., the wife of Malcom M. McKenzie, a teacher of mechanical engineering and drawing in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston; Olive M., the wife of George B. Sargent, who is in the banking business at Boston, Mass.; and W^illiam M., who is with the Great Falls Bleachery and Dye \Vorks, as a business student, at Somersworth. Mr. Folsom is an important factor in the business life of this city and at present is treasurer of the Somersworth Board of Trade. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and is identified with all the local Masonic bodies and belongs also to Washington Lodge, Odd Fellows, at Somersworth. E. A. CORSON, who is one of tlie leading business men of East Rochester, conducts one of the largest greenhouses in Strafford county, which is located on Autumn street, while his office is at No. 60 Hanson street, Rochester. He was born at East Rochester, N. H. in 1867. and is a son of Benjamin and Mary E. (Noyes) Corson. Benjamin Corson was born in Strafford county and in his earlier years was engaged in farming but later went into the shoe business at East Roches- ter, in which he continued practically as long as he lived, being 84 years old at time of his death. He was a quiet, industrious, steadv-going man. one who did his full duty in every position in which circumstances placed him. 724 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY E. A. Corson attended the East Rochester schools and as he was one of a large family, early began to learn a self-supporting trade. He went into a shoe factory and gradually pushed ahead until be became foreman of the cutting room. ,\lthough he became an e.xpert in that line his real tastes lay in the direction of his present business which he started 18 }-ears ago and has built up to large proportions, having now 6,000 feet under glass. He has so equipped his plant that he can ha\e flowers for almost e\ery pur- pose on demand, but his si)ecialties are potted plants and funeral designs. Mr. Corson was united in marriage with Miss Miriam Aimie Noyes, a native of Deerfield and they have two children: Royal W'., who married Miss Zilla M. Southard, of Buston, and Bertha I., who lives with her par- ents. In politics a Reptiblican, ^Ir. Corson has sen-ed a term in the state legislature and is now in his second year as a member of the city council. His fraternal connections include membership in the Grange and with the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. With his famil)- he belongs to the Baptist church. FRED J. HANSON, manager and half owner of the Nutter Heel Com- pany, an important industry at Farmington, has been identified with the leather business almost all his working life and has been engaged as a manufacturer of specialties for more than 30 years. He was born at Dover, N. H., January 16, 1857, and is a son of Joseph H. and Sarah Elizabeth (Maine) Hanson, the latter of whom died in 1881, her burial being in Pine Hill cemetery at Dover. She was born at Farmington, N. H., in 1836. One of her ancestors was Parson Maine, a statue of whom stands in the public square at Rochester, N. H. On the paternal side of the original ancestor was Thomas Hanson, who came from England in 1657 and settled in Straf- ford county, N. H. three miles below^ Dover. Joseph H. Hanson, father of our subject, married twice. Of his first marriage six children were l)orn, Fred T- being the second in order of birth. Up to the age of sixteen years Fred J. Hanson attended school at Dover. Then his industrial life began, his first work being at the trade of cutting heels. In 1880 he embarked in the manufacturing business at Boston, Mass., where he remained for four years. He then sold out and came to Farming- ton, in 1885 establishing his factory here for the manufacture of soles, taps and heel lifts and heels for all kinds of shoes. The business is now con- ducted as a partnership under the style of the Nutter Heel Company, the concern occupying a three-story building and doing an extensive business. Mr. Hanson has additional interests, being a stockholder in the Farmington National Bank. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 725 In January. 1879. Mr. Hanson was united ni marriage with Miss Edna M. Smith, who is a daughter of the late (ieorge K. and Hannah (Colomy) Smith. The father was l)orn at Bradford, ^lass., and the mother at Farm- ington, X. H. Botii are deceased, their remains resting in Pine Gro\e ceme- tery, Farmington. Mrs. Hanson was l)i:>rn October 4, 1864, the seventh in a family of eight children. She is well known in many circles, belonging to the Daughters of Rebekah and to the Woman's Club, at Farmington. and being the organist of the Baptist church. While always voting the Repulili- can ticket, Mr. Hanson has never consented to accept a political office fi>r himself. His fraternal connections are with Harmony Lodge, I. O. O. i'\, and with Mystic Lodge K. of P., huth of I-'armington. \MLLIAM SA\\'YER, a scion of one of the old and representative families of Dover, in which city he spent his life, was born July 24, 1849 and died May 17, 1913. His parents were Thomas E. and Elizabeth (Moody) Sawyer. Thomas E. Sawyer was Ixirn Xo\ember 21, 1798, in Do\er, where his name is yet publicly commemorated in the handsome school building, located on Fifth street. His death took place February 27, 1879. He was a bril- liant member of the Do\er bar, a man of sterling worth and was at one time mayor of Dover. In 1813 he married Elizabeth Watson, who died in 1847. He later married Elizabeth Moody, who was a native of Effingham, X. H. William Sawyer was reared at Dover and had many educational and social advantages. His business antl family interests were centered here and this city remained his chosen home. He was affiliated widi the Re]nibli- can party and was a liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church. For a number of years he was identified with the Improved Order of Red Men. On September 22, 1882, Mr. Sawyer was married to Miss Sarah Ran- dall, of Conway, N. H., a daughter of Xathaniel and Mehitable M. (Brough- ton) Randall, both of whom were natives of Conway and both are now de- ceased. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer: Jessie, who is the wife of Ben P. Brierly, of Stratham, N. H. ; Edith B., who resides with her mother at Dover; and Thomas E., who is a resident of Frank- lin, N. H. Mrs. Sawyer occupies the family residence at No. 14 St. John street, Dover. She a-.id her daughter belong to tlie Episcopal church and they take part in many of the plea.sant social activities of this old city, where the family name has been known and respected for generations. 726 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY HOx\. FRANK B. PRESTON, of Rochester, wlio is one of the city's representative men, botli in business and pubhc affairs, was born at Straf- ford Bow Lake, February ii, 1856, and is a son of Wingate T. and Mary J. Preston. They had four children, iMrs. Cyrena A. Rand, of South Ber- wick, Me., Frank B. and George W. of Rochester, and Alberton D., of Barrington. The mother died several years ago, and the father died March, 1913, aged 82 years. Frank B. Preston had excellent educational training, attending school at Strafford, Barrington, Franklin Academy, Dover, N. H., West Lebanon Academy, Lebanon, Me., and New Hampton Literary Listitute and Com- mercial College, New Hampton, N. H. He has been a contractor and builder in Rochester for 15 years. For the next 15 years, he was manager and part owner with Governor Samuel D. Felker of the Rochester Lumber Com- pany. For the past six years, he has been interested in real estate and lumber, exclusively, having an office in Dodge Building, He was elected moderator of Barrington in 1881. He was married to Miss Fannie C. Foss in 1881, and moved to Rochester, where he has resided ever since. They have three children, Vinton \\'., who married Ada E. Mason; Mary Florence, a graduate of Rochester High School, and of New Hampton Literary Institute, also a student of Bates College, and Verne F. a member of the senior class of the Rochester High school. He was elected moderator of Rochester for 1887, he also served as moderator at the state election in 1888, at which election he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention from Ward 6. He was one of the Presidential electors on the Democratic ticket in 1900. He has served four years upon the school lioard as a member from Ward 2, namely, 1909- 1910-191 1-1912. and since then as president of the board. Fie was elected a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention for 1912, from Ward 2, without a dissenting vote. He was elected Mayor of Rochester, for the year 1913, and was re-elected to serve for the year 1914, without opposition, all parties uniting upon him. In politics he has always been a Democrat, and for six years was a member of the Democratic State Committee. He was elected in 1904, and every year since, corresponding secretary and manager of the Gafney Home, and at present is a trustee of that institution. He was elected president of the People's Building Loan Association in 1907, and has held the position ever since. For several years, he has been a trustee of the New Hampton Lit- erary Institution. He is a Free Baptist, and has served as director for several years, and at present is president of the society. Fraternally, he is identified with the Odd Fellows at Rochester, a member of the Rebekah Lodge, also AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 727 a member of the Rochester Grange, I'atrons of Husbandry, and one of New Eastern New Hampsliire Pomona Grange. RUPERT G. BISHOP was born in King's County, Nova Scotia, August . 7, 1843, son of Leander L. and Rebecca (Burbridgej Bishop, but his ances- tors were good, old Connecticut stock, of the Bishop family of New Haven, whose forbears were among the first settlers from England in that ancient and historic town. Leander L. was son of Peter Bishop, Jr., and his wife Amy Bishop of New Haven, Conn., and Peter, Jr., was son of Peter Bishop, Sr., and his wife Phebe Hamilton of New Haven. Peter, Sr., was born in New Haven about 1730, and his Bishop ancestors had li\ed there from the beginning of things in that town. In June, 1755, Peter, Sr., and three brothers were privates in a company of Connecticut militia which were serving under Governor Shirley of ^Massachusetts, in the land and naval armament which lie sent from Boston to the head of the Bay of b'undy, where they captured the I'rench forts and took military possession ui the land of Acadia, and later the Acadians were dri\en from the land and scattered all along the New England coast, and the Atlantic coast of the Southern States. Longfellow, in his beautiful poem. '"Evangeline," tells the story of their jjanishment and cruel sufferings. In this expedition the Bishop brothers became acquainted with the fine .'\cadian farms, whose broad and fertile meadows are dikcil to keep out the high tides that are characteristic of the arms of the Bay of Fiuidy. After the Acadians had all been deported, and the Bishop brothers had completed their term of military service, the four brothers emigrated from New Haven to Nova Scotia and settled in King's county. They took with them four New Ha\'en girls for wix'cs. and were allotted farms where the Acadians had dwelt. Peter Bishop took Pliebe Hamilton for his wife, and they raised a family of 16 children, boys and girls, and some of their descendants are farmers in Acadia today. His sons all came back to New Haven. Conn., to select girls for their wives; his son Peter made choice of Miss Amy Bowles, daughter of one of the old families of that town, and they com- menced housekeeping where the French had vacated. It may be they lived on the identical farm from which Longfellow's heroine, Evangeline, was deported, but his grandson in Dover is not informed in regard to that point in history, but he never gets weary reading Longfellow's delightful poem in which is a description of Benedict Bellfontaine's farm where Evangeline lived. Peter Bishop, Jr., was bom about 1770, and he and his good wife died in King's County. Their son Leander L., father of the subject of this •28 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY s \\a sketch, was born in 1813. He learned the trade of carriage huiltier. and .\as engaged in that occnpation in King's County, Nova Scotia, until about 1870, when he renio\ed to the I'acitic Coast and settled at Taconia, \\ ash- ington. His wife, Rebecca Bnrbridge, was daughter of John and Abby ( Fitch j Burbridge of King's County, and grand-daughter of Col. J')hn Bur- bridge, an officer of the English Army, who had settled in Nova Scotia when he retired from the army. Rupert G. Bishop had none of the educational advantages now given the children and youth, but his parents sent him to a small private school conducted at Kentsville, near his home, and as soon as old enough to be trusted with tools he learned the cari>enter trade under an uncle, James Burbridge, with whom he remained for several years. It was in 1870 that Mr. Bishop came to the United States, finding work at his trade in the city of Boston, Mass., working, according to the custom of the time, as a journey- man and became a contractor and builder in that city and vicinity. In 1878 he came from there to Dover, soon finding an excellent business field here and has continued until the present, having been concerned in many large building contracts in StraiYord county and is noted for his strict integrity in his Inisiness transactions. Mr. Bishop married Mrs. Ellen Smith, widow of Mark Smith, formerly of Dover, daughter of Peletiah and Comfort (Chase) Daniels of Strafiford, near Bow Pond. Mrs. Daniels was a native of Vermont; Mr. Daniels was a great grandson of Joseph Daniels of Portsmouth, who settled m Liar- rington before the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have no children. He has never held any public office or aspired to hold any, nor is he a member of any secret society, but his fellow citizens esteem him as one of the best of men; he is a willing and liberal contributor to worthy charity, and gi'ves a helping hand to all causes of public niorabty. BERT WENTW'ORTH. justice of the peace and notary public, with offices at No. 44 Fourth street, Dover, is well known all over Strafford County and far beyond. He has acceptably tilled many public offices and aside from these has won an interstate reputation as a scientific expert on finger prints and the Bertillon measurements, the accepted systems of identi- fying criminals. He was bom at Dover, January 4, 1857, and is a son of George T. and Olive A. (Whitten) Wentworth. George T. Wentworth was a life long resident of Dover, by profession a lawyer, and all his mature life he was active in public affairs. He was appointed postmaster of Dover by President Zachary Taylor and was sub- sequently reappointed by President Fillmore. He was a man of fine natural AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 729 ability and (if engaging personaiit)-. His death took place when he was in his 59th year. Bert W'entworth in his boyhood attended sehool at Do\er. H e was T / years of age when his father died and he became an employe of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company that same year, entering the print works as a student and sul>se(picntly l)ec(iming foreman of a num]]er of departiP.ents there. I'or many years public life has claimed ^^Ir. W'entworth's attention. He served seven years as deputy sheriff of Strafford County, and five years as police commissioner of Dover, under aijpointnient of Gov. John Mcl.ane, resigning this office in order to accept that of a deputy United States marshal at Washington, D. C., iu's duties being confined to the District of Cohimliia. After 13 months in Washington his health failed, the chanL;e of climate not agreeing with him, hence he resigned his office and returned to Do\-er. Mr. U'entworth was united in marriage with Miss Emma J. \Vendell, a daughter of William Wendell, a well known resident of Do\er, now deceased, and they have had two sons, Harry J- and Wendell L., tlic latter being now deceased. The former is a ci\'il engineer connected with the Fitchburg Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, with headquarters at Fitchburg, Mass. Mr. Wentworth is a ^2(1 degree Mason and belongs also to the Royal Arcanum at Dover. With his wife and son he Ijelongs also to the First Parish Congregational Church at l-)over. Fie is deeiilv inter- ested in his scientific studies and when not engaged in his official duties may usually be found in his library. EDWIN HARRIS THOMAS, one of the representative and influential men of Strafford county, has lieen more or less identified with the printing business since he was 17 years of age, and has been a resident of Farm- ingtou for the past 14 years, where he issues the Farmington News, of which he is editor and owner. Mr. Thomas was born at Lawrence. St. Lawrence county, N. Y., November 19, 1857, and is a son of Harris J. and l.v.ry D. (Wright) Thomas, natives of Vermont, both now deceased. The father was twice married and Edwin Harris was the youngest born of the lamily of four children to his first imion. Edwin Harris Thomas secured his education in the schools of Nichol- ville, N. Y., and St. Albans, Vt. He was 17 years old when he became an apprentice to the printing trade in the office of Col. Albert Clarke, at Rut- land, Vt., and after completing his apprenticeship worked in the same Cjffice as a journeyman until November, i8S_^, when he resigned in order to become foreman of an office at Montreal, Canada, where, after one year, he was made superintendent of the whole plant. After his subsecpient return 73U HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY to Rutland, Vt., lie took charge of the inechaiiical department of the Rutland Herald, owned by Col. Albert Clarke, on which journal he was also a si>ecial reporter for five years. Failing health caused his retirement from business for two years but in the meanwhile he assisted in establishing the Rutland Even- ing News. In November, 1899, he came to Farmington and luirchased the News, which he has since issued as a weekly newspaper. It is in a very pros- perous condition, with a circulation of 1400 copies, its political polic}' beuig independent, although personally Mr. Thomas is a Republican. On many occasions he has been a delegate to state convenlidiis and in 1912 headed his delegation for the Republican choice at that time. The job office conducted in connection with the newspaper, is a very important adjunct of the business, although its equipment with up-to-date machinery cost Mr. Thomas a large expenditure after he took charge. His office thus supplied with new type and all necessary machinery is liberally patronized, especially by the shoe factories, a large amount of printing being done for each plant. Mr. Thomas has been president of the board of trade for some years and is serving in his fourth vear as president of the public library. In 1880 Mr. Thomas was married to Miss Jennie I. Shipman, who was born August 14, 1837, third in a family of five children, her parents being of Hardwick, Vt. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have two sons: Carl S., who is associated with his father in the publishing business; and Guy E., who is a resident of Farmington but is employed in the office of the New England Cot- ton Yam Company, at Rochester. For ten years Mr. Thomas was a member of the Ransom Guards, a noted military organization of Vermont. In his fraternal connection with the Alasons he belongs to Fraternal Lodge No. 71 and is high priest of Columbian Chapter No. 18, R. A. M. He belongs also to Harmony Lodge No. 11. Knights of Pythias, in which order he has passed all the chairs and has ser\ ed as district deputy. Both he and wife are members of the Eastern Star, of which he has been worthy patron for the past four years. They attend the Congregational church. JAMES B. TOWLE, general farmer and dairyman, owning a \alual)le estate of 80 acres, situated on the Back River road, town of Dover, was born in Dover, N. H., July 2, 1856, and is a son of Jeremy B. and Mary (Nute) Towle. Jeremy B. Towle was born at Wolfsboro, N. H., and is still a resident of New Hampshire, having lived in Dover for almost 80 years. He married ?^Iary Nute. who was born in Madbury, N. H., and died many years ago. Their sur- viving children are: Levi W.. James B., and Hiram G., all of Dover; Edwin AND REPRESKXTATR'E CITIZENS 731 D., a practicing physician of Salem, Mass.; and Cora A., a graduate nurse uf Boston, Mass. James B. Towle was educated in the public schools of Dover, after which, for ten years, he was employed as a wool sorter in the old Sawyer Mills at Dover. He then went to South Dakota and was engaged in farming for several years and subsequently, for several years, was manager of the large dairy farm belonging to E. A. Smith, who, at that time, was roadmaster on the Boston and Maine Railroad. Mr. Towlc also, f< t a short time, was engaged in farm- ing in Worcester county, Mass., before returning to Dover, in 1890, when he located on his own farm, where he has carried on a general farmino- line, including dairying, having a ready market at Dover. Mr. Towle married Miss Georgia E. Prescott, who was born in Iowa and is a daughter of George Prescott, of near Fitchburg, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Towle have three children: Mary T., who is a graduate of the Westminster High school and of the State Normal school at Salem, Mass.; Harriet E., who is a trained nurse, a graduate of the Mas.sachusetts General Hospital at Boston; and Ralph A., who is a resident of St. Petersburg, Fla. Mr. Towle gives his political support to the Democratic party. JEREMIAH J. MORIN, M. D., whose office is located at No. 95 North Main street, Rochester, N. H., was born in Canada, May 4, 1885. His father, Louis Morin, was a Canadian who came to the United States when his son, the subject of this sketch, was but a year old. He now resides in Portland, Me., where he is engaged in the pa])er manufacturing industr\-. He married Amanda Beaubien, and they had two children, Jeremiah J. and a daughter who is now deceased. Jeremiah J. Morin was educated in the schools of Bellows Falls, \'t., Syracuse University, and the Uni\-ersity of Vermont, graduating from the College of Medicine in 1909. He came to Rochester in May, 1910, after spending the interval in the Hartford Hospital and at Cummington, Mass., and has already laid the foundation of a good practice, being recognized as a fully competent man in his profession. He is a member of Rochester, Straf- ford County and State Medical societies, and American Medical Association. His fraternal affiliations include membership in the orders of Maccabees, Moose, Catholic Order of Foresters, Association Canado-American, L'Union St. Jean Baptiste, Local St. Jean Baptiste, and Knights of Columbus. He married Mary B. Dailey and he and his wife are members of the French Catholic church. 732 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY H. E. ANDERSON, M. D., physician and surgeon, with office and resi- dence at Acton, Me., and Mihon ^^lills. X. H.. inclusive, enjoys a substantial practice that covers a wide extent of country. He was born April i, 1887, at Liniington. Me., and is the only child born to Edward A. and Nettie S. ( Purinton) Anderson. The mother of Dr. Anderson died at Limington, Me., in 1896. She was a daughter of Stephen Purinton, who formerly was a county commissioner of York county. Me. The father of Dr. Antlerson was sheriff of York county for six years. He died at Alfred, Me., in March, 191 1. H. E. Anderson was eleven years old when his parents moved from Lim- ineton to Alfred, Me., where he continued his schooling. Later he attended the Lewiston High school for two years, after which he returned to Limington and completed his academic studies there. Subsequently he had medical col- lege advantages at Boston. Brunswick and Portland, and after receiving his degree he located at Acton (Milton Mills) and has remained here, becoming a leading citizen and physician in whom great confidence is placed. He is town physician of Acton, chairman of the board of health, superintendent of schools, and town clerk of the west end of the southern part of the town of Acton. His area of practice covers Union, Middleton, Acton ( IMilton Mills) Lebanon and Shapleigh and, as may be judged, his time is very fully occupied. He is affiliated with the Republican party and belongs to the leading fraternal organ- izations, being a member of Springvale Lodge No. 192, A. F. & A. M. : Miltonia Lodge No. 52, L O. O. F. ; Rebecca Lodge No. 79, and is identified also with the ^lilton Grange. Dr. Anderson married IMiss Abbie Small, who is a daughter of \\'. S. and Kate Small, of Limington, Me. Mrs. Anderson is a highly educated and talented lady and devotes much time to music, having pupils at Acton and Milton Mills. She belongs to the Sisters of Rebecca and also to the Eastern Star. Dr. Anderson and wife take a prominent part in the social activities of Acton. EVERETT L. CHAPMAN, M. D,, of Dover, was born at Columbia. N. H., February 3, 1887, being one of the three children of William G. and Nora (Hutchinson) Chapman. His father was a dealer in timber and also engaged in the real estate business, buying and selling famis. The subject of this sketch, who was one of three children born to his parents, began his education in the public schools and also attended the high school of North Strafford, and the University of Vermont, where he was graduated in 1910 from the medical department. He then took a post graduate course in the Mary Fletcher Hospital of Burlington, Vt., and then a course in the S. R. Smith General Hospital and later in New York Lying-in Institute, of New AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 733 York, on Aug. ii, 191 1, coming to Dover, where he has already made a very favorable impression, being recognized as a competent physician and surgeon, a good citizen, and a man of agreeable personality. With such (jualihcations doubtless the future holds much in store for him. He is a member of (he County Aledical Society, the State Medical Society, and also the local medical society. He is a Republican in politics and is affiliated with the IMasonic order. His office is located in the Alasonic Temple. ALPHEUS L. FAUXCE, of Somersworth, N. H., a prominent Republi- can and a veteran of the Civil war. was born at Oxford, Oxford county, Me., in 1842. and is a son of Aaron D. and Emily J. ( Lennell) Faunce. The father was born in Maine and in early manhood was a mill operative. After coming to Somersworth he embarked in the undertaking business and con- tinued until his death, at the age of se\-enty-four years. He married Emily J. Lennell and they had nine children. Alpheus L. Faunce attended school at Oxford in boyhood and afterward worked in a woolen mill. About 1888 he caine to Somersworth and was engaged in the undertaking business until his appointment as postmaster by former President Roosevelt. In 1863 he enlisted for service in the Civil war, in Company C, 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry, serving a second enlistment in ;the 27th unassigned company of Maine, and being honorably discharged at the close of the war. For six years he served as deputy sheriff of Strafford county. Mr. Faunce was married to Miss Sibelia A. Gaslin, who, at death, left no children. His second marriage was to Miss Alice Littlewood, and they have tw o children, Clyde L., who carries on an undertaking business here, and Nina Belle. Mr. Faunce and family attend the Methodist Episcopal church. He belongs to the Masons, Elks, and Knights of Pythias and is a member of the local post of the G. A. R. LEWIS E. WENTWORTH,* a well known citizen of Rollinsford, N. H. where he is engaged in truck farming and poultry raising, was born in Straf- ford county, N. H., February 11, 1859, and is a son of James M. and Meribah K. (Bartlett) Wentworth. James M. Wentworth was born at Exeter, N. H., and was quite young when his father died. His mother, with her two sons, moved tiien to Dover. He was early thrown on his own resources and through force of character became a man of standing and substance. For a number of years he worked in a manufacturing plant at Salmon Falls and was advanced in position from time to time until he was made overseer of the dressing room. Later he was employed as a machinist in a cotton mil! at South Berwick, Me. His death 43 734 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY occurred in 1882. He married Aleribah K. Bartlett, who was born at Eliot, Me., and of their children two survive: Lizzie, who is the wife of George T. Clark, of Berwick, ]\Ie. ; and Lewis E. Lewis E. Wentworth attended the public schools of RoUinsford and the Salmon Falls High school. He has made truck fanning, vegetable growing and poultry raising his main interests and devotes his fourteen acres of land to these industries. He makes a specialty of the White Wyandotte strain of fowls and has accommodations for a flock of 100 of these beautiful birds. On December 28, 1895, Mr. ^Ventworth was married to Miss Mary P. Rollins, a daughter of Andrew Rollins, a well known citizen of RoUinsford, N. H., and they have four children: Rollins, Ellen A., iMarion and Andrew. Mr. Wentworth is a member, with his wife, of the Hiram R. Roberts Grange, Patrons of Husbandry', and he belongs also to the order of the Golden Cross, at South Berwick, Me. He has long been active in the fonner organization and has served in many official positions. Li his views on public matters he is broad-minded and has identified himself with the Progressive party. DOWNING V. OSBORNE, who is engaged in the manufacture of shoes at Farmington, under the style of the Thayer-Osborne Shoe Company, can scarcely remember the time when he was not actively interested in his present line of industry. He was born at Rochester. N. H., April 27, 1864, and is a son of James L. and Lydia (Baldwin) Osborne. They were natives of New Hampshire and spent their entire lixes at Rochester. Of their eight children, Downing V. was the seventh in order of birth. Downing V. Osborne was born in a section of the country where several industries flourish and after completing his period of school attendance at the age of 16 years, decided to learn the carpenter's trade. He soon, how- ever, became more interested in the shoe business and entered a shoe factory at Rochester, where he remained one year, going from there to Wolfboro, where he was employed for one and a half years. For about 16 years Mr. Osbome worked as an operative in the manufacture of shoes, a period of training that prepared him for the responsibilities he now bears as one of the large manufacturers of this section. In 1902, in partnership with Elmer F. Thayer, he purchased a manufacturing concern at Alton, N. H., and the present'firm style was adopted there in 1904, the same partnership continuing to the present. In 1906 removal was made to Farmington. The company was incorporated with a capital of $125,000, and employment is given 500 people. The two plants have 100,000 square feet of floor space and are equipped with machinerv' capable of turning out 5,000 pairs of boys' and youths' shoes a DOWNING V. OSBORNE AND REPRESENTATIXE CITIZENS 737 day. The rapid expansion of this business has been marvelous and its trans- actions at the present time represent a million dollars annually. Mr. Osbonie was married in 1887 to Miss Martha A. Tuttle. Mr. Osborne votes with the Republican party but has never been desirous of holding public office. He is a T,2d degree Mason and belongs also to the Odd Fellows. In addition to his large business interests at Farmington, he owns valuable real estate at Rochester, N. H. FRED F. SEAVEY, a partner in the lumber firm of R. F. & F. F. Sea\ ey, of Rochester, with residence at No. 23 Woodman street, was born in Boston, Mass., August 16, 1879, a son of Joseph \V. and Nellie R. (Nowlin) Seavey. His father, a resident of Everett, Mass., is a cutter in a wholesale clothing establishment. Fred F. Seavey was the only child of his parents, his mother dying at his birth. He was educated in the schools of Everett, Mass., and sub- sequently found employment with the Batchelder & Lincoln Company, w hole- sale boot and shoe dealers, of Boston, with whom he remained three years. He then came to Rochester, N. H., in 1901, and entered into the luml)er l)usi- ness, which he conducted for about seven years for himself, becoming a part- ner in the fimi above mentioned in 1908. He is an up-to-date business man, progressive, and of tried integrity. In politics a Republican, he served as a member of the State Republican committee from Rochester two years ago and did useful work for his party. Air. Seavey married Miss Faye Woodruff, of Everett, Mass., and has two children — Dorothy and Samuel F. Mr. Sea\ey is a past master of Rochester Grange, P. of H., and is also a Mason, being thrice illustrious master of Orient Council and Captain General of I'alestine Commandery. In addition to the political activities mentioned above he .served for one term as a memlier of the school boartl. He attends the Congregational church. WILLL\M H. W'HITEHOUSE. The textile mills of New England are a source of great wealth to many communities and employment is afforded thousands of individuals in the various departments. Many of these must be expert along some certain line of the manufacturing process and the most expert are usually chosen for such positions as superintendents or oxerseers. Since May, 1903, William H. Whitehouse has been overseer of the dressing rooms of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company at Somersworth. known as No. I and No. 2 mills, and in this responsible position he is giving the utmost satisfaction. Mr. Whitehouse was born at Dover, N. H., August 31. 1855, a son of John H. and Mary A. (Allen) Whitehouse. lohn H. Whitehouse was Iwrn at Tamworth, N. H., and was a son of 738 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY William Whitehouse, also of Taiinvorih. John H. W hitehouse enlisted for service in the Civil war and was a brave soldier, although he did not meet death on the field of battle, ha\ing been accidentally shot by a member of his own company, on January i, 18O2. He married Mary A. Allen, who was born at Wakefield, N. H., and survixeil until iS8j. W illiam H. \\ hitehouse was an infant of three weeks when his parents moved to Great Falls, now Somersworth, and was seven years old when he lost his father. His mother subsecpiently married Phineas D. Hoitt and in 1864 the family moved to Portsmouth, X. H., where the youth attended school. In 1878 he came back to Great P'alls and from then until the present, with the exception of nine years spent in the grocery business at Somersworth, has been connected with the departments in the Great Falls Manufacturing Company's mills with which he is yet identified. Mr. Whitehouse married Miss Annah M. Doe, and they have one daugh- ter, Annie V., w'ho is an accomplished young, lady, a graduate of the Somers- worth High school. Mr. Whitehouse is a member of the Baptist church at Somersworth, in which he is a deacon. He belongs to Libanus Lodge No. 49, A. F. & A. M., at Somersworth, in which he is senior warden, and belongs to Washington Lodge No. 4. I. O. O. F., Somersworth, and for the past fifteen years has been treasurer of this lodge, and also is a member of Stephen J. Went worth Camp No. 14, Sons of Veterans. Mr. Whitehouse has also passed the chairs in the Great Falls Encampment, No. 15, his interest in this fraternal organization having been continuous since early manhood. ARTHUR L. FOOTE, a prominent member of the Strafford county bar, having an office in the Masonic Temple, Dover, was born in Lewiston, Me., December 25. 1863. a son of William L. and Elizabeth ( Meserve) Foote. The father of our subject, son of William L. Foote, w as a lilacksmith. A. L. Foote, who was one of six children, after graduating from the Great Falls high school in 1883, read law under George E. P.eachem, of Somersworth, N. H., and was admitted to the bar March 11, 1887. He immediately became Mr. P,eachem"s partner, this association being continued until the latter's death. From i8r>5 until November 22. 1886, he was a resident of Sanbon- ville and while living there practiced law at Somersworth until 1908, when he came to Dover. He was president of the l>ar there from 1904 to 1908. While residing in Carroll county, N. H.. he served as county solicitor. On January 29. 1908, Mr. Foote located in Dover, of which city he has since been a resi- dent and where he has gained a high reputation as a capable attorney. Fra- ternally he belongs to the Masons, the Red Men and the Elks. In politics he is a Republican. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 739 Mr. Foote married Miss Carrie B. Sanbom, who died in the spring of the present year, 1913, leaving one child, Lowell S. The family affiliate relig- iously w ith the Episcopal church. AUGUST G. BERNIER,* contractor and builder, is one of the repre- sentative business men of Somerswortli, to which city he came in 1892 and is established at No. 45 Franklin street. He was born in the province of Quebec, near Quebec, Canada, August 22, 1859, and is a son of Damase Bernier, who died in Quebec when aged 74 years. After his school days August G. Bernier assisted his father, who was a carpenter and builder, and under him learned his trade. At the age of 19 years he came to the United States and prior to locating at Great Falls, N. H. (now Somerswortli), he worked in various places. He spent several years at Muskegon and Grand Haven, Mich., six years in the province of Quebec, on the river Du Loup, and four years in New Brunswick. In 1892 he came to Great Falls, where he has been in business for himself for tlie last i ^ years, prior to this having been foreman for George E. Hanson, a well known builder at Somersworth. Mr. Beniier has been concerned in a large amount of building here and his reputation is that of a skilled workman, careful contractor and honest man. Mr. Bernier was married January 14, 1884, to Miss Adalena Demers, who was born in the province of Oueliec. and they lia\'e had six children : Joseph, who is a resident of Salem, Mass. ; John C, Alfred, and Arthur, all of whom live at Somersworth; and two who are deceased. Mr. Bernier and family are members of St. Martin's Roman Catholic church at Somerswnrth and he is identified with sexeral organizations. He has lieen (piite acti\'e politically and at one time was the candidate of the Republican party for representative of the Third Ward in the New Hampshire legislature, failing of election by the small margin of 17 votes. He is a progressive, earnest and public-spirited citizen and as such reflects credit im the comnumity. JOHN R. PATTEF, M. D., physician and surgeon, of Dover, was born in Campton, N. H., December 22, iSC^o. a son of John W. and Charlotte Polly Pattee. He was educated in the public schools and gained his medical educa- tion in the Eclectic Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating there in '888. He began the practice of his profession in Canterbury, N. EL, where he remained for ten years. Locating in Do\Tr in 1896, he has since remained a resident of this city and by hard work and close attention to his profession, has built up a lucrative practice. While residing in Canterbury he sen-ed as county physician, also as chairman of the board of health. He has a con- 740 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY venient office at 392 Central A\enue. He is a member of the Strafford County Medical Society and of the State Medical Society, and is affiliated fraternally with the order of Owls. Dr. Pattee was first united in marriage with Miss Georgia E. Kimball, now deceased; they had two children — Ruth E. and John A. His present wife was in maidenhood Miss Alice Howarth, a daughter of Richard Howarth, they having adopted one child. Marion E. The family residence is located at No. 16 Second street. Dr. Platte is a close student of his profession, keeping well abreast of its progress in the various departments. As a citizen he is reliable and patriotic and always in favor of any movement calculated to pro- mote the general good of the community, along either moral or material lines. A\'ILLLAI\I E. RINES. assessor of \\'ard Xo. i, Dover, who operates 35 acres of land in Dover de\'oted to dairying and poultry raising, was bom in Bath. Me., June 20. 1846, a son of William H. and Roxana ( Tibbetts) Rines. Both his parents were natives of New England. \\'illiam H. Rines, the father, came with his family from Bath to Dover about 1848. He served in the U. S. Navy for three vears during the Civil war and subsequentlv resided in Dover until his death, which took ]>lace about 25 years ago. He was a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the work of which society he took much interest. Of his children three are now living: William E,, whose name begins this sketch; Annie S. and Nellie ]\I., both of whom also reside in Dover. The father, William H., was a member of the Free Will Baptist church and a Republican in politics. William E. Rines was a child but two years old when he came ^vith his parents to Dover and here he was reared to manhood, attending the public schools of the city, in which he gained his literary education. This he has since enlarged by reading and study. After leaving school he learned the machinist's trade, which he followed for some years in and around Boston, Mass. Later returning to Dover, he engaged in farming in which line of business he has since continued. He is a Republican in politics and is now serving his eighth year as assessor of Ward i, and has just been re-elected for another temi of two years, being very popular both as a man and public official. He belongs to Mt. Pleasant Lodge, L O. O. F., at Dover, and to Major A. J. H. Buzzell Camp, Sons of Veterans, at Dover, N. H., of which he is a charter member. Mr. Rines married Ellen M. Russell, of West Cam- bridge, now Arlington, Mass. They have a pleasant home and a wide circle of friends throughout this section. AND REPRESEXTATR'E CITIZENS 741 F. K. SI EVENS, who conducts a grocery and feed store and also operates a grain elevator at Lebanon, Ale., has long been ranked among the fore- most citizens of East Rochester, N. H. He is a native of Maine, having been born in the town of Industry, and is a son of James Aladison and Velsonia (Freerick) Stevens. James Madison Stevens was born in Green township and was reared at Lewiston. He followed farming some five years prior to the Civil war, in which he served most creditably, and upon his return from the front worked in the Androscoggin Alills at Lewiston, as machinist, lo years. He then went to Madison, Me., where he lived until his death at the age of 63 years. He and his estimable wife became the parents of three children: F. K., sub- ject of this record; Nellie and Grace. The two last named are deceased. V. K. Stevens was reared in Maine until his nineteenth vear, when he crossed the line into New Hampshire. Here he has since lived, except for a period of four years when he was engaged at Keene as overseer of spinners for the h'aulkner and Colony Company. He then returned and after farming about two years started his present business operations, which he has been carrying on for five years. He carries a complete general line of merchan- dise, also hay, grain and wood. He purchased the Iniildings of Charles Brad- ley, but in the main he has made the impro\'ements himself. He has the oidv business of the kind at this point, and is meeting with success. Mr. Stevens was joined in marriage with Miss Hamie A. Canney of Dover, and the following children have blessed their home : Harold, Carl, Grace, and Florence Maybelle. Fraternally Mr. Stevens is a member of the Knights of Pvthias at East Rochester. He is a Republican in politics. COL. HORACE L. WORCESTER, one of Rochester's best known resi- dents, who has honorably filled many public positions, retired from active mer- cantile life in 1900. but continues to be closely interested in all matters afTect- ing the general welfare of the city. He was born March 28, 1846, at Lebanon, York county. Me., and is a son of Lemuel and Margaret (Pray) Worcester. His parents were natives of Maine, where the father, a farmer, lived to the age of over 80 years. Of their four children two died in infancy. The sur- vivors are Horace L. and Mrs. Mary A. Wallingford, the latter a resident of North Berwick, Me. Col. Worcester, after leaving school, learned the trade of shoemaker and followed it for many years in Rochester, Dover, Farmington and Natick. In 1864, although but 18 years of age, he enlisted at Portland, Me., on the U. S. ship Sabine, for sen-ice in the Ci^'il war, but served on the U. S. .S. Lacka- wana. His manly appearance, together with his stor}- that he was 21 years of 742 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY age caused liim to bp accepted w ithout the consent ot his father. He ser\ed in tlie West Gulf Squadron under Admirals Farragut and Thatcher until the close of the war. He is Past Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of New Hampshire, and a member of Sampson Post No. 22 of Rochester. During the administration of Governor Jordan he was appointed a member of the Governor's staff with the rank of colonel, a title he still retains and prizes. Owing to ill health Col. \\'orcester retired from the shoe business and accepted a position that would give him a more active life and for three years was baggagemaster on the Great Falls Railway. He was for 20 years engaged in the book and stationery business, 12 years of that time being a co-partner with Frank Greenfield. For many years he has been connected officially with the Norway Plains Savings Bank, being a trustee and during a part of the time president, which office he resigned in 1902 on account of his prolonged absence in the west. For a long period Col. Worcester has been actively interested in public afifairs. From 1880 until 1884 inclusive he was town clerk. He served as a member of the New Hampshire Legislature of 1903, resigning to accept the position of U. S. Consul to Saltillo, Mexico, .\mong other positions filled efficiently by him were those of city clerk, clerk and collector for the water works, clerk of the police court, and at present time is clerk of the district court for Rochester, and trustee of the Rochester Public Librar>% and in 1900 he was elected mayor of Rochester, serving two years, after which he spent some time in the Black Hills region, Dakota. The Colonel is a Knight Templar Mason, and a member of the Farragut Associates (composed of officers and men who served in Farragut's Fleet). On June 27, 1872, Col. Worcester was married to Miss Millie A. Green- field, daughter of the late Charles Greenfield, fonnerly president and a director of the Norway Savings Bank. Mrs. Worcester was very prominent in social life and of rare executive ability. She was one of the honorary mem- bers of the Board of Women Managers of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. N. Y. : was the first president of the Rochester Woman's Clul) and one of its managers: a member of the ]\Iargery Sullivan Chapter of the D. A. R. of Dover; past department president of the \Voman's Relief Corps of New Hampshire : grand treasurer of the order of Eastern Star, and later assistant matron and matron of James Farrington Chapter of the order of Eastern Star ; she was also the organizer and first regent of Mary Torr Chapter, D. A. R.. of Rochester. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 74:J ALEXANDER STEWMRT,* wlio carries on a large business at No. 44 Orange street, Soniersworth, as a contracting house painter and paper hanger, is well known in this city, where his work meets with general approval. He was born in Leath, Scotland, in June, 1846, and is a son of John and .'\gnes Stewart. In 1854 Alexander Stewart accompanied his parents to the United States and the family settled at Soniersworth, N. H., where he grew to manhood and learned his kindred trade. In May, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering Company K, 2nd N. H. Volunteer Infantry, Army of the Potomac. He saw hard service, participating in 32 engagements from the first battle of Bull Run to the surrender of General Lee, many of them being the greatest battles of the war, including Bull Rim ( i), siege of Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Strawberry Plains, ]\Ialvern Hill, Bull Run (2d), Malvern Hill (2d), under General Hooker, Kettle Run, Chantilly, Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Shortly before the battle of Chantilly he was transferred to Company K, 4th U. S. Artillery. Having completed all the terms of his first enlistment, he reenlisted February 11, 1864, for three years more and was honoral)Iy discharged l-'eljruary 11, 1867. After the surrender of General Lee he was stationed at \\'ashington, D. C, and after- ward, for one year, was at Fort Delaware, where he recei\'ed his second honorable discharge and then returned to Somersworth. Mr. Stewart married Miss Ellen Carbry, a native of Scotland, who died November 13, 1909. Mr. Stewart is a member of the ^Methodist Episcopal church. He belongs to Washington lodge of Odd Fellows at Somersworth. Now one of the busy, useful and respected citizens of Somersworth, he has won through his own perseverance and honesty this place of high standing and he has proved that a faithful soldier in times of war may be a valued citizen in days of peace. ROBERT H. GO'DDARD,* one of Dover's Avell known and respected citizens who is engaged in farming and stock raising to some extent, has been a resident of New Hampshire since the spring of 1888 and of the town of Dover since 1895. He was born April 26, 1861, at Durham, Me., and is a son of James and Jane (Douglass) Goddard. James Goddard was a native of Brunswick and his wife of Durham, I\Ie. The paternal grandfather, Robert Goddard, was also born in Brunswick. Robert H. Goddard is a self made man in the sense of having had to depend upon his own efforts and judgment from boyhood. He was but six years of age when his father died and only twelve years old when his mother passed away. He remained in the vicinity of Durham until he was 18 years 744 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY old and then went to Amesbury, Mass., and prior to coming to New Hamp- shire, spent one year in Michigan. Mr. Goddard Hved at Madbury, Strafford county, for twelve years and then settled on his present farm in Dover town where he has been engaged in agricultural activities ever since. He is deemed a very capable farmer and is held in esteem by his fellow citizens as a dependable and honorable neighlior. In March, 1881, Mr. Goddard was married to Miss Hattie Chambers, who was born at Bath, Me., a daughter of the late William Chambers, who was a native of Nova Scotia. Mr. and Mrs. Cloddard have had eight children : Herbert H. ; Jennie E., who is the wife of Ernest \V. Pickens, of Lawrence, Mass.: Bertha M.. who is the wife of Henry J. Tetreau, of Lawrence, Mass.; Fred C, who is a student in the medical department of Tuft's College. Boston. ]\Iass. ; May E. and Malissa M., who reside at home; and William and Doris A., who are deceased. Mr. Goddard has never been very active in political affairs ])ut always casts his vote with the Repulilican party. EVERETT A. PL'GSLEY. superintendent of the public schools of Rochester, N. H., is a well known educator of Strafford county, a man of acknowledged scholastic attainments who since completing his education has devoted his whole life to teaching. He was born at Rochester, in 1858. and is a son of Frank and Mahala (Hamilton) Pugsley. Frank Pugsley was born at North Shapleigh, Me., and his boyhood and youth were spent there and at Acton. In early manhood he engaged in the shoe trade at Lynn. Mass.. later he moved to Great Falls, N. H., and sub- sequently came to Rochester. He married Mahala Hamilton, a native of Rochester, and they had four children: Alvin L., now deceased; Everett A.; Fremont L., who is an attorney at law, residing at ^Melrose, Mass.; and Bertha, who is a resident of Rochester. Everett A. Pugsley attended the public schools of Rochester and Austin Academy at Strafford. N. H., and still later the New Hampton Literary Institute at New Hampton, N. H.. subsequently graduating from Bowdoin College. In the course of his busy life he has been engaged in teaching a wide range of subjects and has filled se\-eral important educational positions for long periods. For some time he was a principal of the Northwood Academy at Northwood, N. H., then was instructor in history and English at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. For a time he was principal of the schools of Salmon Falls, N. H.. and for the past four years has been superintendent of the Rochester schools. He is connected with numerous educational bodies and is a recognized force in school advancement in this section of New Hampshire. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 745 Mr. Pugsley married Miss Elizzie D. Felker of Rochester, N. H., of the family from whom comes the present governor, Samuel D. Felker, of New Hampshire, and they have one son, Raymond P., who is a pupil in the Rochester High school. Mr. Pugsley and family attend the Congregational church. Politically he is affiliated with the Repulilican party. Mr. Pugsley takes a deep interest in all movements for the benefit of his city, state and the country at large; he belongs to the Patrons of Husbandry, being a member ol the Hiram R. Roberts Grange of Rollinsford, N. H. CHARLES H. HUSSEY,* a well known resident of Dover and the owner of 140 acres of excellent land, 100 of which comprise his home farm, was born in Somersworth, N. H., March i. 1861, and is a son of John and Sallie Hussey, and a grandson of John S. Hussey. No family in the town of Somersworth stands higher in public regard and it is one of the old pioneer ones of that section. John Hussey and wife were residents of Do\er for many years, he being an extensive farmer during middle life. Charles H. Hussey attended the public .schools during boyhood, after which he learned the carpenter's trade, which, in conjunction with farming, he has carried on ever since. Since 191 1 he has lived on his present place. He takes only a good citizen's interest in public affairs, not desiring office for himself, and gives his political support to the candidates of the Democratic party. He is well known in many parts of the county and enjoys the respect and friendship of all who have done business w ith him. HON. JAMES A. LOCKE. — On Friday, January 19, 191 -', there passed from earth's scenes one of Somcrsworth's most honored sons, James A. Locke, a man well lo\ed and held in deep regard no; only by his immediate family, in which he was a model husband and father, but by practically the entire community, which he had often served faitli fully and efficiently in public affairs. Mr. Locke was born on Fayette .street, this city, February 8, 1847, a son of Howard and Eunice fWentworth) Locke. After acquiring his education in the public schools of Somersworth, he enlisted, on Augu.st 16, 1862, at the age of 15 years, in the JJ. S. navy, from Portsmouth, N. H., as a first class boy. He was drafted to the l^. S. school ship "Macedonian,"' under Captain Stone, and was honorably discharged March 10, 1863. Ten days after he re-enlisted on the "Ohio" at Portsmouth, as landsman. This time he was drafted to the U. S. bark "Restless," and was honorably discharged May 6, 1864. He enlisted for the third time on August 22, 1864, on board the receiving ship, "Vandalia," lying at Portsmouth, and was drafted to the 746 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY U. S. S. '-Colorado," to rank as a gunner. He was honorably discharged September 7, 1867, when in the Mediterranean station. While in the naval service lie took part in the attack on Fort Fisher, he being then a member of Admiral (then Lieutenant) Dewey's gig crew. His brother, Edwin H., who enlisted the same day, was with him in the attack. Mr. Locke began his industrial life in his father's grocery store, the firm being known as Locke & Hill, with location at the corner of Fore and Main streets. In February, 1871, the store was burned and Mr. Locke next pur- chased the High street bakerv', of which he was proprietor for several years, when he sold to Hon. Freeman A. Hussey. He was then made selectman of the town of Great Falls and held the office in connection with that of road commissioner four years. He was then but 2- years of age and was the youngest selectman that had ever held that office. After serving eificiently in both these positions he bought out the trucking business of John Decatur, which he kept for a year, when he again went into jiublic office, first as deputy sheriff for a few months, and then as street commissioner for a year. About this time he was kicked in the temple by a horse and was obliged to be out of business for a year, when he bought out the meat business of Charles L. Estes, now or recently city marshal. After conducting this for a few months he accepted the position of yard superintendent for the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, a position which he held for 24 years with honor to himself and advantage to the company. He resigned December i, 1910. on account of ill health. He then purchased the market on Sullivan Square, Berwick, but was not able to continue it and soon sold out to Z. P. Dolby, the present proprietor. In addition to the pul)lic offices mentioned above Mr. Locke was the only Republican alderman ever elected from Ward 4, and after becoming a resident of Ward 3, he was prominently associated with the politics of that ward. He was elected to the State senate in 1901 from the T2th Senatorial District and subsequently represented his ward at the constitutional convention and was a candidate for the office of county commissioner. He was a member of Littlefield Post, No. 8, G. A. R. ; also of Libanus Lodge, No. 49, A. F. ^ A. M. ; Edwards Chapter, No. 21, R. .\. M.. and Orphans Council of Dover. He ioined the Green Street Free Baptist church in 1875 and was a liberal contributor to it. Mr. Locke married, July 3, 1S69, T^liss Susan A. Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivory W. Hamilton, of South Waterboro, Me. At his death, which occurred after about a year's illness, he left, besides his wife, three sons and two daughters, namely: Guy Howard, of Melrose Highlands, Mass.; Roy Hamilton, of Ameslmry, Mass.; Edwin Cecil, of Roslindale, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 747 Mass.; Mr>. Annie Belle Merrill, of Wa.shington, D. C, and ]\Iiss S, Agnes, of this city; also two grandchildren, Stephanie Hamilton Locke, of Roslindale, and James Willis Merrill, of Washington; a brother, Charles Henry Locke, of Brockton, Mass., and an aged aunt, Mrs. Maria Emery of Somers- worth, with nephews and nieces. The daughter. Miss Agnes, is a teacher in this city. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. B. F. Tilton, of the Green Street Free Baptist church, and were participated in with impressive ceremonies by Littlefield Post, G. A, R. Interment was made in the family burial lot in Forest Glade Cemetery. A pathetic and touching incident was the coming in a body, at about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, of some forty men who worked for him when he was su})erinlentlent of the yard for the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, some of whom had gone to work w itli him 24 years previously and are still in the employ of the company. Many of them could not restrain their tears as they gazed their last on one whom they had learned to love. The casket was draped with the Hag which he had fought to save, and about it a large and beautiful collection of lloral gifts from friends. As a husband and father Mr. Ldcke was "generous and self sacrificing; as a business man his career was upright and honorable and won high praise from his associates; as a servant of the company and of the city he was ever faithful. Some of his best friends were of the laboring class, with whom his sterling qualities and his generosity made him a favorite. CHARLES F. H.VLL,* who is one of Dover's most respected citizens, has resided on his well cultivated farm of five acres for the past 20 years. He is one of the honored \eterans of the Ci\'il war and iircjbably to the close of his life will be a sufferer from the hardships and dangers endured during his military service. He was born at JMilton, N. H., May 31, 1843, and is a son of Elijah S. and Mary (Bickford) Hall, a grandson of Daniel Hall and a direct descendant of Deacon John Hall, well known in the early history of Strafford county. The Hall family has been firmly established here for generations. Charles F. Hall was three years old when his parents left Milton and moved to Dover and there he attended the district school and helped his father in every way an industrious youth could think of. In June, 1862, he enlisted for service in the Civil war. becoming a member of the 9th N. H. Volunteer Infantry, which became a part of the 9th Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac. He took part in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam and in the latter was so severely wounded that he was not able to return to the field after being confined in a military hospital near Frederick City, Md., 748 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY iruni September, 1862, until March 9, 1863. when lie was honorably dis- charged. He returned to Dover where for many years afterward he followed shoemaking and then settled on his present farm. .Mr. Hall was married to Miss Ida Howe, of Barrington, N. H., who is survived by one daughter, ^label E., who is the wife of Edward Burgess, of Son-ier\'ille. Mass. Mr. Hall was married secondly to Miss Cora H. W'iggin, who was born at Farmington, X. H., a daughter of Lewis R. and Delia (Decatur) \Viggin, the former of whom was born at Moultonboro, and the latter at New Durham, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have reared Helen E. Rowe, a grand-niece of Mr. Hall, as their daughter, and have given her educational and social advantages. Mr. Hall is a Republican in his political views. DENNIS ANDREW' JOFIXSOX,^^ who is one of the well known and highly respected citizens of Dover, X. H., belongs to a very old family of Strafford county, the Johnsons having settled very early in the vicinity of Barrington, where both his father and grandfather were born. He was born at Dover, December 12, 1836, and is a son of Dennis and Sarah (Weeks) Johnson. Dennis Johnson, the father, was a son of yVndrcw Johnson, and it is possible that the founder of the family came from Ireland to Straft'ord county, N. H,, prior to the latter's birth at Barrington. Dennis Johnson had reached manhood when he settled at Dover, N. H., where for many years afterward he was a custom boot and shoemaker, subsequently becoming a farmer. He lived a quiet, industrious life which was prolonged into old age, his death occurring in 188S when he was in his 85th year. In his early ix)litical activities he was a Whig and later became a Republican. He married Sarah Weeks, who was iwrn at Kittery, York county. ^le., and they had the following children: Dennis A. and William H., both of whom live at Dover; Joseph, who makes his home in Nebraska; Isaiah and Elzira, both of wliom reside at Dover; and John G., Hannah E., Sarah A. and James H., who are deceased. John G. Johnson was once sheriff of Straft'ord county. Dennis A. Johnson attended the Long Hill district school in boyhood and afterward assisted his father, mainly on the farm, and during the greater part of his life he has been engaged in farm pursuits and now owns and oversees a well cultivated tract of 34 acres in the vicinity of Dover. In Tuly, 1873, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Addie E. Stevens, who died November iq, 1876. She is survived by an only daughter, Addie E., who is the wife of Arthur Pettigrew. of Kittery, Me. Mrs. Johnson was a daughter of Samuel Stevens, a former resident of Dover. She attended the .\dventist AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 749 church. Mr. Johnson casts his vote with the KepnbHcan party but has never consented to accept public office. He has been a worthy citizen, however, ever lending his influence to advance movements that have promised to be beneficial to his section of country. WALTER ENGLAND,* proprietor of "The Maples," a fine agricultural tract situated on the corner of Oak and Cocheco streets, Dover, N. H., is one of the well known men of this section, practically all of his life having been passed in Strafford county. He was born near Gonic, N. H., February 13, 1859, and is a son of Michael and Phebe J. (Roberts) England. Michael England was born in England and was 18 years old when he came to the Lhiited States, shortly afterward securing employment in a cotton mill at Salmon Falls, N. H., where he continued to work for se\eral years. He then moved to Gonic and in that \icinity was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred early in the seventies. He married Phebe J. Roberts, who was born in Strafford county, N. H., and of their children the following survive : Sarah A., who is the widow of \\ alter \\'iggin, a former resident of New Market, N. H., she now living at Dover; \Villiam H., wdio is a resident of Lowell, ^lass. ; George \\\, whose home is at Amesburg, Mass.; Walter, who lives at Do\er; and Freeman, who is a resident of Gonic. Walter England attended the public schools until he was about 15 years of age, at which time his father died. He worked as a farmer for others until he was 17 years old. He then went to Rollinsford and in the follow- ing year began to farm on his own responsiliility. He continued a farmer there for over a quarter of a century and then located on his present place. As a good citizen, Mr. England has been interested in the substantial de\-elop- ment of Strafford county at all times but has never consented to accept any public office. In his political views he is a Democrat. ENOCH O. Tx\SKER, who has been an active business man at Dover since 1873, is well known all over Straft'ord county. He owns an excellent farm of 65 acres in the suburb of Dover but resides in the city, his residence being at No. 16 Prospect street. He was born March 26. 1847, on Rochester Neck. Strafford county, and is a son of Thomas J. and Comfort (Bickford) Tasker. Thomas J. Tasker was born in Madbury, where his father, Ebenezer Tasker was born, and his ancestors had lived tw'O centuries, the immigrant ancestor being ^^'illiam Tasker. Thomas J. Tasker passed the greater part of his life in Rochester, where he was a farmer and also followed the carpenter trade. He was a good fanner, an expert carpenter, an honest man in all his 7oO HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY dealings with others and, though not a memUer, was a worthy supixjrter of llie Free Will Baptist Church at Gonic, of which his wife was a devout member. Having lust his father when six years old, his success in life was creditable in every w ay and he had the esteem and confidence of all his fellow citizens. Fie married Comfort Bickford, who was a native of Rochester Xcck, and whose immigrant ancestor, Thomas Bickford, was a resident of Do\er in ifi.^o. Enoch O. Tasker grew to manhood on Rochester Xeck. in the meanwhile being afforded educational advantages, attending Stratford Academy and both public school and a private school at Rochester, so that he was better qualified tlian many when he started into business for himself in 1873 at Dover. Here he associated himself with his brother. John C. Tasker, in the mercantile business, the firm style being John C. Tasker & Co., which con- tinued for some years and ;\Ir. Tasker remained in the mercantile line for a quarter of a century. Wlien Mr. Tasker and his brother dissolved partnership he entered in the grocery and provision business with ]Mr. John L. Kimball, July i, 18S6. Mr. Kimball withdrew and ^Ir. Tasker admitted Mr. \Vm. F. Cartland as his partner in the business, which was then conducted in a store on Washington street, east of the old Strafford Bank building. When Mr. Anderton com- pleted his brick Iilock on Locust street they removed to that street and occupiefl the large double store where now Mr. Cartland is located. The firm name was Tasker & Cartland. and became one of the largest grocery and pro\ision dealers in the citv. Mr. Tasker retired from the business January- i, 1898. having the esteem and confidence of all his numerous customers and the public in o-eneral. In recent years he has given considerable attention to his farming interests and also carries on a teaming business at Dover. On November 12. 1878, Mr. Tasker married Ursula M. \\'inkley. daughter of Darius \\'inklev. who for many years conducted a mill at Barrington and was a leading citizen there and widely known. They have three children: Bernice Winklev. who is the wife of N. Arthur Gifford of Somerville, Mass.: Sumner T-. who is a resident of San Francisco, Cal. ; and Cecil P.. who is located in Bo.ston, Mass. Mr. Talker and family are members of the First Farish. of which Rev. W. A. Morgan is pastor. For many years he has been a member of ]\It. Pleasant Lodge I. O. O. F. and practices the professions of that benevolent order in an exemplary manner. GEORGE M. BEARD,* whose farm of 70 acres, in the town of Dover, is devoted to general farming and stock raising, is a member of an old AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 751 Strafford county family and has been identified with business affairs at Dover since 1896. He was bom at Farmington, X. H., November 19, 1858, and is a son of Arthur L. and Aljigail (Sanborn) Eeard, the former of whom was born at Lebanon and the latter at Alton, N. H. For many years they resided at Farmington and there George M. Beard, their only child, grew to manhood. Arthur L. Beard died at Farmington in 1907, having survived his wife two years. George M. Beard attended the public schools at Farmington until he was 16 years of age, when he 'became an employe in a shoe manufactory and he remained connected with the shoemaking industry at Farmington for a number of years. When he first came to Dover he entered the employ of |. H. Ireland & Company, shoe manufacturer^, with which firm he remained for five years, afterward becoming associated with the shoe manufacturing firm of D. L. Furber & Company, where he continues and now is foreman of the upper leather room. In 1900 Mr. Beard located on the farm which is his place of residence and here he carries on his agricultural industries with results that indicate judicious farming methods. Mr. Beard married Miss Hannah E. Bolo, of Dover, X. H., and they have an adopted son, George F. Beard. Mr. Beard has always given his political support to the Democratic party. He has been identified with the Masonic fraternity for many years, belonging to the Blue Lodge at Farmington and also to the Chapter at Farmington, and to the Commandery at Dover. LLEWELLYN T. ^^'EBBER,* who is engaged in farming and stock- raising near Rollinsford, N. H., located on his fifty acres of excellent land in 1909 and has every reason to be satisfied with his success as an agricul- turist. He was born at Monroe, Waldo county. Me., March 15, 1859, and is a son of Elbridge and Mary (Warf) Webber. The original family settler was Wolfoid W'ebber, who came to America from Holland and after reach- ing the city of New York entered into Imsiness relations there and passed the rest of his life in the metropolis. He had two sons, one of whom settled on the Kennebec and the other on the Penobscot river, and Llewellyn T. Webber is a descendant of the latter. His father was born in Waldo county and his mother in a county bordering the Kennebec river. Reared and educated in Waldo county, Llewellyn T. W^ebber, remained in the home neighborhood until he was 25 years old and then went to Lowell, Mass., where he lived, although not quite continuously, for ten years, moving afterward to Chelsea, Mass., where he was in the employ of the state for seven years as an engineer at a pumping station. He lived at other places in Massachusetts, including Peabody, and it was from there 44 752 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY tlial he came to Rollinsford. Although he has not had a hfe experience on a farm, as have some of his neighbors, he finds no difficuUy in carrying on his operations on his land and finds both pleasure and profit in these activities. Mr. Webber married Miss Cassie Taylor, of Earlton. Xova Scotia. In politics he has always been a Republican but has unmistakable progressive proclivities. For a number of years he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity and belongs to the lodge at Salmon Falls, N. H. HON. SAMUEL H. JEXNESS, who is one of Dover's substantial business men, has been a resident of this city for 43 years and has occupied his present handsome residence at Xo. 611 Central avenue since Xovember, 1907. He has been prominently identified with much of the substantial progress made here during that period. He was l.iorn at Somersworth, N. H., September i, i86j, and is a son of Stephen A. and Hannah J. (Cook) Jenness, the former of whom was born at Dover and the latter at Somers- worth. The Jenness family was established early in the vicinity of Rochester, N. H., by William Jenness, who was succeeded by his son, Stephen Jenness, who was the grandfather of Samuel H. Jenness. Stephen A. Jenness spent the greater part of his life at Rochester, on a farm, removing to Dover in 1870, where he died in 1880. Samuel H. Jenness was a babe when his parents moved to Rochester and he accompanied them to Do\er in 1870. where he has maintained his home ever since. He attended the public schools and Franklin Academy, well known as a fine educational institution in his youth, and was there under the instruc- tion of Prof. John Scales. For a short time afterward he was a clerk in a mercantile h.ouse here. In 1S94 he was appointed assistant postmaster of Dover and ser\-ed in that capacity for three years, subsequently being apjwinted postmaster during the second administration of President Cleveland and serving one year. During igoi and again in 1902 Mr. Jenness served as a member of the board of aldermen of Dover, representing the Second Ward. After retiring as postmaster he embarked in the mercantile business in which he continued for ten years, but for the past 20 years he has been in the real estate business. Mr. Jenness is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a past grand of Wecohamet Lodge Xo. 3 and a past chief patriot of Ouocheco Encampment No. 2. He is chairman of the Odd Fellows' Building Committee, who have charge of the Odd Fellows' property, and is also a member of IMajor Council Royal Arcanum No. 989. He is an AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 753 active member of the Dover Realty Company and is a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Jenness was first married to Miss NelHe G. Coleman of Dover, who died m 1S90. His second marriage was to Mrs. Nettie L. King, widow of Theodore King, a former resident of Dover who left two children: Mary W., who IS the wife of A. Roy Kennard, of Dover; and Millard O King also of Dover. Mr. and Mrs. Jenness attend the Methodist Episcopal church. JAMES GOODWIN.* one of the best known residents of Rollins ford, N. H., resides on his farm of 50 acres, on which he has carried on agricultural activities ever since he reached manhood. He was born here December 27. 1848, and is the sixth of his name in direct line of descent. He is a son of Capt. James and Elizabeth (Sabory) Goodwin. Capt. James Goodwin was born at Lebanon, Me., and was a son of James and a grandson of James Goodwin. The original ancestor was Daniel Good- win, who, at a very early day. came to the American colonies from Eng- land and settled in Maine. Capt. James Goodwin was engaged for 40 years in the business of getting out lumber for shipl)uilding purposes and he was a farmer after removing to Rollinsford. N. H., where many years of his life were spent. He was captain of a militia company in Maine and in that capacity met General LaFayette. and at the time of' his death, in his 78th year, was the only member left of that organization. He was a man of local prominence and at times served as selectman of what was then known as Somersworth. James Goodwin attended the schools in his native town in his boyhood and through subsequem: reading and interest in current e\-ents has kept well posted in world history. General farming has been his chosen occupation. On June 20, 1887. Mr. Goodwin was married to Mrs. Armine A. Foss, widow of Amos A. Foss, formerly of Bingham, Me., and a daughter of Isaac Decatur, of Barrington. N. H. Mrs. Goodwin died October 7, 1910. By her first marriage she had four children : Ernest S., who is a resident of Somersworth. N. H. ; Isaac N., who lives in California: Pearl, who is a resident of Swamp- scott, Mass.; and Minnie, who is the wife of Fred Spencer, who is in the undertaking business at Berwick, Me. Mr. Goodwin has accepted the prin- ciples that are at the foundation of the Progressive party. HON. JOSEPH B. NOLETTE.* a member of the New Hampshire legis- lature and a prosperous business man of Salmon Falls, is justly held in esteem by his fellow citizens. He was born in Canada, in Megantic county. 754 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 90 miles from Quebec, March 21, 1868, and is a son of Abram and Desange (Deseault) Xolelte, natives also of Canada. Joseph B. Nolette has made his own way in the world and his success is illustrative of what may be the reward of industry, courage and adherence to the teachings of a good mother. He was merely a child when he lost his father by death and was eleven years old when his mother came to the United States and settled at Somersworth, X. II., where he grew to manhood and had school opportunities. He had few of the pleasures of boyhood because as soon as old enough he had to become self supporting. For three \ears he worked in a cotton mill at Somersworth and later, for a short time, was a clerk in a store and then assisted his brother, Frank X. Nolette, in his meat and provision store. He thus learned the business and in 1893 came to Salmon Falls ynd embarked in the meat business for himself on I'^ront street, \\here he has been very successful and continues. On August 4, 1889, Mr. Nolette was married at Somersworth to Miss I'hilosise Cadorette, and they huve five children: Hilaire G., who is one of the board of selectmen at Rollinsford; Arthur J., who lives at Salmon Falls ; Albino, who is organist of St. Mary's Catholic church at Salmon Falls ; and Joseph and Alberta, both of whom live at home. Mr, Nolette and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic church. In politics he is a Democrat, with independent proclivities. He is a man of energy, enterprise and proper public spirit and has made a very good impression in the General Assembly, h'or some years he has been identified with the order of Eagles at Somersworth and with the Red Men at Salmon Falls. CHARUES W. WHITEHOUSE,* who does an excellent business in the line of fruit, ice cream and confectionery, at Fannington, N. H., was burn at Farmington, January- 31, 1S81, and is a son of Daniel P. and Marilla J. (Howard) Whitehouse. They are natives and well known and respected residents of this town. Charles W. Whitehouse is the eldest of his parents' family of five children, and was educated in the public schools of Farmington. When 21 years old he started out to take care of himself, engaging as a clerk in the store of F. E. Breen, with whom he continued until September 26, 1906, when he bought Mr. Breen's interest and stock and has since continued the business alone. He has a wide acquaintance and both his methods and goods are calculated not only to secure patronage but also to retain it. He owns his residence and his parents reside with him. Mr. Whitehouse is a Republican in politics Init not as actively interested in ])ublic affairs as he is in his many fraternal associations. He is a member AND REPRESENTATRE CITIZENS 755 of tlie Unifonii Rank. Knights uf Pythias, uf the tJdd Fellows Lodge and Encampment and also the Rebekahs, belongs also to the Blue Lodge, A. [\ & A. M., and the Eastern Star, and to the junior Order of United American Mechanics. Mr. Whitehouse is unmarried. JAMES LUCEY, JR.,* owner and proprietor of the Cocheco Bottling ^\'orks. at No. 25 Summer street, Rochester, is one of the busy and enter- prising business men of this city. He was born at South Groveland, Mass., and is a son of James Lucey. He was educated in the public schools of Rochester and afterward, for ten years, was with the firm of Fineman Bros. In 1904 he came to his present location and opened the Cocheco Bottling Works for the manufacture of soda and mineral waters, and has met with deserved success. He now gives continuous empluyment to four men and operates two teams, his product having advertised itself through its qualitv. Mr. Lucey married Miss Mary O'Brien, of Rochester, and they have three sons. Gerald. Richard and Donald. Mr. Luce_\- and faniilv l)elong to the Catholic church. Politically he is a Democrat and fraternally is identified with the A. O. H.. the Elks and the Cominercial Travellers' Association. EUGENE S. HUNTRESS, M. D.,* who has been actively engage.l in the practice of medicine at Farmington since 191 1, was born Octolier jo, 1858. at Portsmouth, N. H., the fifth child in a family of six born to his parents, Seth \\'. and Catherine H. (Palmer) Huntress. They were natives of New Hampshire and both are now deceased, the burial of the father bcin.g at Portsmouth and that of the mother at Farmington. Eugene S. Huntress attended the public schools at Portsmouth, gratluat- ing from the grammar school, after which he applied himself to medical study. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont and also of the Boston University, in medicine and surgery. His first 17 years of practice were spent at Wolfboro, N. H., then for two years he was in Boston, Mass., two more years he practiced at Keene. N. H., spent the following two years at Dairy, N. H.. and from there, in September, 191 1, came to Farmington. where his .skill in the line of his profession has been speedily reco.gnized. In Tune. 1879, Dr. Huntress was married to Miss Flora B. Pinkham. who was born at Farmington August 30, i860, a daughter of Frank B. Pink- ham. They had two children: Ida F., who is the wife of George Moses, of Lynn, Mass., and Frederick E., who also lives at Lynn, with wife and one child. On April 17. 1906, Dr. Huntress was married secondly to Mrs. Elise M. Caulstone. who was born in Switzerland, January 30. J 639, a dau.ghter of Armand and Rosalie (Monod) Shopfer, They spent their lives in Switzer- 756 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY land and their burial \\as in the cemetery at Vevey. By her former mar- riage JMrs. Huntress had five Hving children: Joliet Louise, who married Dr. Killory, then of Boston, now of Somerville, Mass. ; Charles \\'., who lives at home; Pauline E., who is an employe of the Boston postoffice; and Emile A. and Albert R., both of whom reside at home. In his political views Dr. Huntress has always been a Republican but has ne\-er desired any public office. He is identified with the Knights of Pythias. With his family he belongs to the Congregational church. :\Irs. Huntress is a member of the Farmington Ladies' Club. LESLIE W. GLIDDEN, mortician and funeral director, located at Nos. 20-26 Locust street, Dover, carries on business under the finn of Glidden & Glidden, the junior partner being his wife. Mr. Glidden was born at Dover, N. H., December 16, 1875, and is a son of George W. and Jennie A. (Winn) Glidden. The father was born also in New Hampshire and for a few years after marriage lived at Dover but died in a western state when his only child was young. The mother survives and resides at Wells, Me. Leslie W. Glidden attended the South Berwick Academy and Bates Col- lege, afterward taught school for several terms, and then engaged in farming until 1906, when he embarked in his present business. In order to properly prepare for it, Mr. Glidden attended the Massachusetts College of Embalming at Boston and was then associated with his uncle, the late John A. Glidden, until the latter's death in February, 1913. For forty years he had been in the undertaking business and was a man well and favorably known all over this section. John A. Glidden was born March 14, 1836, at Tuftonboro, N. H., the third child of John and Pluma (Dame) Glidden. A carpenter by trade, he came to Dover in 1868 and was employed as carpenter and general repair man in the Cocheco Mills until he severed that connection in 1S69 and in 1873 established an undertaking and livery business. He was a Republican in poli- tics and while living at Barrington was superintendent of schools. At Dover he served on the board of aldermen, and in 1899 was a member of the lower house in the state legislature. He was a thirty-third degree Mason and since 1872 had been an Odd Fellow, l)elonging to all the l>ranches of the order. He served with the rank of major on the staff of Gen. A. J. Farrington. In many ways the late John A. Glidden was one of the leading men of Dover. On May 12, i860, John A. Glidden was married to ?^lary Addie Manson, a daughter of James and Sophia (Sherburn) ]\L-inson. Mrs. Glidden was a highly educated woman and even after marriage was her husband's assistant LESLIE W. GLIDDEN AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 759 teacher in school work. She died September i6, 1S91. John A. Ghdden was a prominent member of the Advent church. LesHe W. Glidden was married May 17, 1898, to Miss Ozza Noble, who is a graduate of the New England Institute of Anatomy and Sanitary Science of Boston, where she secured her diploma and is in full partnership with her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Glidden have four children: Robert L., Irma L., Earl E. and John A. In politics Mr. Glidden is a Republican. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and is very prominent in the latter organization, belonging to Mt. Pleasant Lodge No. 16, Prescott Encampment No. 23 and Canton Parker No. 3, of which he is commantler and is also district deputy grand patriarch. He is also a member of Olive Branch No. 64, K. of P. The firm of Glidden & Glidden have every equipment for the proper and dignified conduct of their business, possess the confidence of the public and the esteem of a large circle of personal friends. COL. FRANK L. KENDALL, who is proprietor of the largest insur- ance agency in Strafford County, has been established at Rochester since 1902. He was born in 1870, at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and is a son of L. L. and Maria A. (Poland) Kendall and an only child. The father passed his entire life in Vennont, where he was a merchant for many years and died when aged 76 years. Frank L. Kendall was educated in the public schools at St. Johnsbury Academy, and for some years afterward followed railroading. In 1892 he embarked in the insurance business at Laconia in Belknap county, N. H., and from there came to Rochester in 1902, where he has built up an enormous volume of business, covering every line of insurance. He is a man of great enterprise and ready recognition of business opportunity and is additionally interested as secretary and treasurer of the Rochester Building and Loan Company, as a director of the Rochester Loan and Banking Company, as treasurer of the Rochester Fair Association and one of the organizers and a former president of the Rochester Country Club. Mr, Kendall was united in marriage with Miss Sarah E. Kennett, and they have one son, Kennett Russell, now aged four years. In politics Mr. Kendall is a Republican and secured his military title as a member of the staff of Governor Batchelder. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and also an Odd Fellow. CHARLES SIDNEY WHITEHOUSE* was born September 3, 1827, and died March 4, 1899. The interim of those dates marks the lifetime of a man whose great energy and boundless enthusiasm carried him into many 760 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY fields of acti\ ity, aside from his private business. A leader in thought and action, he was always found in the front rank fighting for that which would benefit his home town, county, state or nation, and it can truthfully be said he left an impress on the community which time has not effaced. His chief business activity was in woolen manufacture at Gonic and Rochester, New Hampshire, along which line his father before him established a repu- tation which was by no means confined to this state. Mr. Whitehouse was born in Gonic, N. H., and was a son of Nicholas V. and Susan (Place) Whitehouse. Tlie manner in which Hon. Nicholas V. Whitehouse won his way in the world from poor circumstances, with little education and no means, to a station of affluence and prestige, is told else- where. The Whitehouse family in America dates back to early colonial days, haxing come from Wales to New England, although the earliest names and dates have been obscured by time. The earliest of whom we have knowl- edge was Edward Whitehouse, whose name appears as a "third share pro- prietor" in the schedule of the original proprietors of Rochester, N. H.. bearing date of May 12, 1722, under charter of that date granted by King George HI. There were many families of the name in Rochester and sur- rounding towns, all people in moderate circmnstances, given to farming, the trades and ordinary labor. At a later date we find some who developed ability along different lines and became influential, among whom may be mentioned Hon. George L. Whitehouse (born in 1797 and died in 1887), a civil engineer of Farmington. N. H., a builder of railroads, sheriff, registrar of deeds, and judge in the Court of Common Pleas. Turner Whitehouse. an ancestor to whom the last named directly traces, was one of the 198 citizens of Rochester who, on October 13, 177^, signed the declaration: "We, the subscrilters, do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risk of our lives and fortunes with arms oppose the hostile proceeding of the British fleet and armies against United American Colonies." Israel W'hitehouse. father of Hon. Nicholas V. White- house, was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving for a time in Capt. .Xndrew Pierce's company, and later in the company of Capt. John Haven. The Place familv. from whoui the subject of this sketch came on the maternal side, also had numerous representatives in and surrounding Roches- ter. The Rev. Joseph Haven, during a pastorate extending from 1776 to 1824, recorded the baptism and marriage of ^2 persons of that name. Rev. Enoch Place (born in 1786 and died in 1865) was for 57 years a minister of the Free W^ill Baptist church. There were some of the name who partici- pated in the French and Indians war as early as 1748, also many of the name in the Continental army during the Revolutionary struggle. Mrs. White- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 761 house was a great-granddaughter of Richard llace, who it is thought came from Devonshire, England, about tlie year 1688, with his father, John Place, settling in Newington. N. H. Richard Place married his cousin, Susannah Thompson, daughter of Xoah Thompson of Berwick, Maine, and among their children was Col. l)a\id Place, of Revolutionary War distinc- tion. A\ho was born in 1741 and died in 1824. David Place raised a company for the Second Continental Regiment, under Colonel James Reed, in 177''). He ser\ed first as captain and later as colonel, and after the war was a man of influence in all town affairs. His smi, Ste])hen Place, married h^lizabeth Chesley, a daughter of James Chesley, who lived to the remarkable age of loi years. Of the seven children nf this marriage, Susan Thompson Place (Mrs. Whitehouse) was the second in order of l)irth. She was horn in 1803 and died in 1888. Charles Sidney \\'hitehousc attended village schoul from the time he was old enough until he was thirteen years of age, then in 1840 began attendance at the academy of Centre Strafford, where he remained two terms under the instruction of Francis W. Upham, a native of Rochester, N. H. During the summers of 1841 and 1842 he attended the academy at Durham, N. H., and during fall and winter of those years attended academy at Rochester, under Marrison C. Hobart, to whom he was much indebted for his high ideals anil the moulding of his future life. In 1843 he entered Phillips Exeter Acad- em}-, which he attended two years, lacking little of being prepared for col- lege when ill health brought his schooling to a close. Mr. Whitehouse first began work as clerk in the store of E. & W. .Andrews at Dover, with whom he remained a little more than a year. Early in 1846 he entered the employ of Benjamin T. Hardy in the dry goods business at Lowell, continuing at this occupation until January, 1848. He returned to his home at Gonic and entered the mill of his father to learn the woolen manufacturing business. which was to be his field of operations for the following 30 years. Through his personal efiforts, a postof¥ice was established in Gonic in 185 1 and he was installed as the first postmaster, an office he filled efficiently for 26 years. In 1858 the Gonic Manufacturing Company was incorporated with his father as agent, and he, himself, as superintendent and clerk. He discharged the duties of these positions until the fall of 1875. In 1862 he had joined with his father, Nicholas V. Whitehouse, John Hall, Samuel B. Rindge of Boston, and a few others, in the organization of the Cocheco W^oolen Com- pany at East Rochester, N. H., and during that and the following year he superintend the construction of the large brick mill of the Gonic Manu- facturing Company, and improved its water power. In August, 1875, he severed his connection with the Gonic Manufacturing Company and assumed 762 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY nianagenient of the Cocheco Company at East Rochester. During his five years' tenure of that position, he evidenced exceptional executi\e abihty and caused many improvements to be made, not alone in the matter of com- pany property, but in the beautifying of the streets with shade trees and the encouragement he gave toward the erection of a new schoolhouse on an enlarged lot. In 1880 Colonel \Vhitehouse retired permanently from the woolen business. Charles Sidney Whitehouse evinced a deep interest in political affairs from his earliest manhood. He was a firm believer in protection to home industries and was an ardent Whig. His first vote, cast when he was 21 years old, was for Zachary Taylor for president. In 1849 li<-'' '^'^'^'i others, organized the Rochester Phalanx, a military organization which included in its roster many of the prominent young men of the town and existed until 1856. In 1852 he was the leading spirit in organizing the Tiger Engine Com- pany, of which he was treasurer for many years. In 1854-1855, years in which politics grew to fever heat, he was a potent factor in the political evo- lution which gave rise to the Republican party in New Hampshire and ended the rule of the Democratic party in town and state in 1855. Ralph Metcalf was elected governor, and the subject of this record received appointment as one of his aides, receiving the honorary title of colonel. When the Fremont campaign opened at Wcjlfboro, September 8, 1856, he. in association with his brother, Freeman Whitehouse, George and Smith Scates and William Beedle organized a glee clul). In terms of the present day, their entrance into the campaign was a decided "hit," and instantly their services were sought for all mass meetings, flag raisings and other patriotic gatherings. Many of the songs sung were composed by Colonel Whitehouse. When the time came for the raising of companies for service in the Civil war, he encouraged with earnest speech and money, and during the war he gave aid, advice and care to the families of those patriots who had gone to the front He gave invaluable assistance to the Sanitary Commission, raising money by means of public entertainment to be used for the comfort of those at the front. In 1862 he served as a representative in the New Hampshire Legis- lature, and during 1863 and 1864 was a member of the State Senate. In 1868, combining with the Gonic Fire Engine Company, and the people of the villa.ge, he caused to be built the Gonic Hall, which was properly arranged for the giving of public entertainments, shows, etc., being fully equipped with scenery. Well did it serve its purpose until January 6, 1885, when destroyed by fire. There was no public improvement in which he was not interested. In iScS he enthusiastically lent his efforts toward the erection of a new school in the village, and in 1872 toward the remodeling of the church. He was an AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 763 earnest churcli worker, serving as superintendent of the Sabbath school, teaching the children to sing, and planning and conducting festivals. His interest being enlisted in any project or movement, he knew no fatigue until success was attained and the oljject accomplished. In iSjj Colonel White- house was chosen Ijy the Republican party as one of the delegates to the Phila- delphia convention which nominated General Grant for his second term in 1S74. In conjunction with I. W. Springfield and a few others, lie started the Rochester Town I'air Association, the .success of which institution lias Ijeen made apparent with each succeeding fair since. In 1S73 he recei\-ed the nomi- nation for member of congress after a hard fight, in which he was contested by some eight or ten other influential Kejiublican^. Ilowexer, he was defeated by the Democratic candidate, ]\Ir. l'>ank Jones, after a vigorous campaign in which he added many friends. Pie declined the nomination for that office at the succeeding con\-ention, although victory was certain. In i88j Colonel W'hitehouse was appointed weigher in the Boston custom house, of which Roland Worthington was then collector, and for three years he continued as such. In the meantime he had been appointed by Governor Charles H. Bell as the first state auditor under the new law. lie was re-appointed in 1883, and the same year again represented Rochester in the State Legislature. In 1888 he was elected presidential elector and in the electoral college cast his vote for Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Alorton for president and \-ice-presi- dent, respectively. For se\'eral years jjrior to 1891 the expediency of chang- ing the town to a city organization had been discussed by leading men of Rochester, but no one had appeared to direct the movement or to attempt to crystalize public sentiment in its favor. Colonel Whilehouse took command of the situation and with Henry Kimball, a lawyer of Rochester, formulated a charter, which was approved and passed by the legislature of 1891. In December following he was elected and on January 6, 1892, was inaugurated as the first mayor of the city. In 1893 he was elected councilman, represent- ing the third ward in the council for three years. January i, 1897, he announced his retirement from all further ])articipation in public affairs. September 30, 1852, Charles Sidney \Miitehouse was joined in marriage with Ellen Frances Foster of Norway, Maine, and they reared two children: \\'a!ter Barker Whitehouse, born September 25, 1854, and Alice Atberton, born November 9, 1862. The last named was married to Mr. W. C. Sanborn, by whom she has four children: Alice Louise, whose profession is that of a trained nurse: Marion F. : Charles Sidney; and Joseph M. Mrs. Whitehouse, a lady of culture and refinement, resides in Gonic, where she is surrounded by friends of long years' standing. 764 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUXTY HON. NICHOLAS \'. W HFrEIKJUSK .- uhu passed from this lite more than thirty-five years ago, still lives in the memory of the people of Strafford county. New Hampshire, who were living in his time, and of younger generations who ha\e had recounted to them his greatness and his achie\eiuents through a long and honorable career. It was the \illage of Gonic, New Hampshire, which claimed his residence and was the chief seat of iiis business operations, but the county and state also knew him well and were pleased to honor him. He was born in Gonic, October 22, 1802, and was a son of Israel and Olive (Varney) W'hitehouse. His father was born in 1778 and died March i, 1841, whilst his mother was burn in 1775 and died i\Iarch 10, 1839. Coming of a family but little blessed with worldly goods, struggling liard to eke out a living, with few pleasures and no luxuries, it is small wonder that Nicholas V. Whitehouse's schooling was but meager. He attended the common school during the winter and summer terms, each of six weeks' dura- tion, until he was twelve years of age, and thereafter only during the winter term, as he was kept busy with such work as he could do for his father and neighboring families. When fifteen years old he learned something of the shoemaking trade from his father in trips among the neighboring farmers, as was the custom in those days. When seventeen years old he left the parental roof, \\alking to Boston, Mass., a journey which consumed two days' time. Arriving at his destination he found work with a man named Griggs who lived at Brookline, Mass., and continued with him for two years. His remun- eration was ten dollars per month and found. He was a lad who inspired con- fidence, both as to ability and integrity, and it was but a short time until young W'hitehouse was intrusted with driving the market wagon to Boston every other morning, there selling the ]iroduct of the farm. .\t the end of two years he returned to Gonic, and the following spring went to Salmon Falls, where he was employed in the wheel pit and trenches of a factory then in course of construction. It was heavy work and his constitution, far from rugged, did not stand the strain more than a few weeks. Me again returned to Gonic and accepted employment as clerk in the general store of John Plumnier. It was the village store conducted in a cheap frame building on what now is the village square. He displayed considerable aptitude for the business, and when 2t, years old embarked in the. business for himself in a brick store which he had erected. He put in a complete stock of goods, and also fitted up the second story of the building as a residence. This he fur- nished in modest fashion, and on July 31, 1825, did what he often said was "the best day's work of my life," that is, married Susan Place, a daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Chesley) Place. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 765 Mr. Wliitehouse continued his store some tliree or four years, when liard times came, finding him with much of his stocl< disposed of on credit. Tiie result was that creditors took the remainder of his stociv. Nothing daunted or discouraged him ami we find him setting out witli enthusiasm to finil something to do in New V(.irk. Beconnng homesick for his young wife after an absence of three weeks, he returned home. His stabihty of cliaracter stcHid him in good stead in this b(_)ur nf need, anrl a friend, whose good will anfl confidence he enjoyed, assisted him to get started, and in 1830 he was once more established in trade. He continued until the fall of 1S33, when he closed out his business in (ionic and mo\ed to Dover, New Hamp- shire. There he oi)ened a store in the Sawver IMock, a brick building at what was known as "The Landing," Init the surroundings being distasteful to him he did not continue the Inisiness lieyond the following spring, at which time he returned to (jonic. He then iiroceeded U> put life into the \-illage such as it had not yet known. He bought the old saw nfill and privilege, together with the grist mill attached, both of which he enlarged and improved, and Ijuilt an addition for making linseed oil, also an addition for the manu- facture of plow handles and plow beams. He improved the process of flour making, along which line he de\'eloped considerable Inisiness. He also dealt in wood lots, and manufactured lumber, dealing largely in wood with parties at Dover. He manufactured bricks, gr(.>und ]ilaster. and also l)egan wool carding and cloth dre^sing. .Although he did not then realize it, the 1st named industrv was destined to become the leading occupation of his life and gi\e him a reputation and prestige by no means local. His mill was esteemed the Ijcsl equipjicd in Strafford county, and its reputation ha\'ing become established it drew from all parts of the county and adjoining counties. He began woolen manufacture in 1838 and carried on the business without interru];ti(in until 1S48, when his iilant was destroyed liy fire. The follow- ing xear he had a new^ mill, \vith four sets of machinery, in successful opera- tion. In 1851;, with Parker, Wilder & Co., he helped to organize the present Gonic Manufacturing Company, of which he was made president, agent and manager. He continued to act in these several capacities until 1877, when he withdrew from the company. In the meantime, in 1863, he, in association with John Hall, Samuel B. Rindge of Boston and four others, oljtained the charter for the Cocheco Woolen Manufacturing Company at East Rochester, of which concern be was president until his death. His interests were varied and important. In 1856, he was largely instrumental in found- ing the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Rochester, and he also established the Cionic Five Cent Savings Bank. He was one of the original directors 76G HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY of the Nashua and Rochester Railroad and continued on that board up to tlie time of his death. Mr. W^hitehouse was a man of the broadest vision, an optimist and an enthusiast, one who did not confine his energies to his own private interests, but gave hberally of his time and means to enterprises and organizations whose uhimate aim was the pubhc good. As a young man he took great interest in mihtary ai^'airs, and was always an earnest advocate of citizen soldiery, which has proved our bulwark of defense in time of stress. In 1826 he was made quartennaster of the 39th New Hampshire Regiment, and in 1829 was commissioned captain and adjutant by Governor Benjamin Pierce. He in early manhood began taking a deep interest in the politics of our country, and in time became exceedingly active in his town and state. He was strongly imbued with the ideas of jjrotection to home industries, following closely the views of Henry Clay. In 1837, he took a prominent part in ousting the Democratic party from the control it had held for so many years. He was a Whig. He was elected moderator and representative to the State Legi-slature, and the following year was re-elected to the latter office. Upon the advent of the Know Nothing Party, he adopted its principles and entered heartily into the campaign of 1855. He was a candidate before the conven- tion for the nomination for member of Congress, Init instead was honored with nomination and later election to the governor's council. The follow ing year he was defeated for that office, but again won the election the next year. He served under Governors Ralph ?iletcalf and William Haile. During the Ci\il ^^'ar, he took an important part in raising the town's quota of troops, and gave one hundred dollars to the first twenty men who enlisted in Rochester. His keen perception of political affairs of the time, combined with excellent judgment of men, qualified him as one of the factors m jireparing the way for the Republican party. From its \-ery inception to the day of his death, he remained an ardent Republican, believing that in its principles lies safety to the country and prosperity to its people. He was a member of the state constitutional convention, and was not infrequently talked of most favorably for governor. Mr. W'hitehouse recognized the influence of church for good m the community, and while he subscribed to no creed was a friend and liberal supporter of all. He was a regular attendant at the Congregational church until 1840, in which year he was instrumental in building the Free WM Baptist church in Gonic. He thereafter attended the latter, and whenever rebuilding or other heavy expense were to be met his subscription was always liberal and among the first given. He carried his religion into his home and business. Considerate and self-sacrificing, he was an ideal man in his family VALENTINE MATHES AND REPRESENTATRE CITIZENS 767 relationships and fricndsiiips. To know him was to love him, and this does not too strongly state the regard the people of Gonic had for him. His death on November ^i, 1878, was a distinct shock to the general public, as well as to his devoted family. His widow, to whom he attributed much that was best in his nature and always his loving help-meet, survived him nearly ten years, dying in May, 1888. The following children blessed their union : Elizabeth Ann, Charles Sidney, deceased ; Enoch Freeman ; Emily J.; Albert M., who died in infancy: and Arthur D. VALENTINE MATHES, who is credited with being the largest realty owner in the city of Dover, has been for many years a very active factor in business circles in Strafford County. He was born at Durham, this county, in February, 1847, and is a son of John and Permelia Mathes. John Mathes, the father of our subject, was engaged during his active period in farming and brick manufacturing, and was a man of business en- terprise and personal integrity. He died at the age of y^ years. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, of whom the present survivors are Valentine, subject of this sketch; John of Portsmouth, N. H. ; Benjamin F., of New York; Charles A., of Dover, N. H., and Dorothy C. Valentine Mathes during his boyhood attended the schools of his native town. His first employment was in railroad work, which he followed for one year, after which he was engaged in freighting on the river for three years. He then embarked in a general store business at Durham, which he conducted for ten years, and during this time was also interested in lirick manufactur- ing. While engaged in the latter occupation he saw the need of adequate water transportation and was a prime mover in the organization of the Pas- cataqua Navigation Company, capitalized at $100,000.00, of which he has for some time been one of the directors, his brother, now deceased, having for- merly been its president. 'I'his company owns two steamships and tweh-e barges which were first used for the transportation of brick but are now en- gaged in hauling lumber between various points on the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire. From Durham Mr. Mathes subsequently came to Dover, this city present- ing a more favorable business field, and here he expanded his activities until his business interests included coal, wood, lumber, grain and groceries. In 1906 he disposed of all his local retail business interests but continued his wholesale lumber interests and since then has given his attention largely to manufacturing lumber, operating and being interested in the manufacture of lumber in Maine and New Hampshire, and owning extensive tracts of timber land. His undertakings, being directed by a keen business sense, backed by ripened judgment and ex|)erience, ha\e brought him satisfactory results, and 76S HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY lie is now one of Stafford Countys leading capitalists. During his entire life his attention has been turned to the iniiirovement and upbuilding of Dover, having erected altogether some sixty business blocks and tenement houses, all of which he still holds as investment. Mr. ^lathes married Miss ^lary E. Pendexter. of Durham, N. H., and they have five children — John R., Morris Everett, James Monroe, Fannie P. and Margaret J. The three sons are graduates of Dartmouth College. The eldest son, John R:, married Lona De^^'itt, and has three children — Valentine, De\\'itt, Thomas De\\'itt and Lona Joy. Of the daughters, Fannie P. is a graduate of Bridgewater Normal School, and Margaret J., who was a student for two years at Smith College, is now attending the Sargent School of Physi- cal Training at Cambridge, Mass. ;Mr. Mathes and family attend the Congregational church. He is a Re- publican in politics, has served in city offices, was postmaster at Durham for ten years, and member of the legislature two years. For a long time he has been identified with the leading fraternal organizations, belonging to Moses Paul Lodge, A. F. & A. M. : Mt. Pleasant Lodge, L O. O. F., together with the Encampment and Canton; and also to the orders of Red Men, Elks and the local Grange. While his personal interests have absorbed much of his time, he has ne\-er neglected to identify himself with public movements prom- ising to benefit his town and section. HON. \\TLLL\:\I H. ROBERTS, a prominent attorney of Dover, N. H., clerk of courts of Strafford County, was born in RoUinsford, N. H., April 20, 1866, only son of Closes and Lydia ( fiussey) Roberts. His earliest paternal ancestor in this country was one Thomas Roberts, who came to America from England in 1640, taking up his residence at Dover Point. Many of the latter"s descendants settled in this county, among whom was the great- great-grand-uncle of \\'illiam H., who took up a tract of timbered land in the town of RoUinsford, and there cleared and improved a homestead, upon which resides Moses Roberts, who belongs to the fourth generation of the family. \Mlliam H. Roberts began his education in the district schools of his nati\-e town, at the age of fifteen years becoming a pupil of the Salmon Falls High School. Entering Berwick Academy two years later, he graduated therefrom in 1886. He then engaged in the study of law under the mentor- ship of Hon. Joshua G. Hall, of Dover, in whose office he remained for two 3'ears. His legal studies were finished in the Boston University Law School, where he graduated in the Class of 1890. Admitted to the bar in July of the same year, he began the practice of his profession in Dover, of which city lie has since remained a resident. He is a Director in the Merchants' Na- tional Bank and Trustee of the Merchants' Savings Bank. Mr. Roberts has always taken a strong interest in local affairs and at times AND REPRESENTATIVE CTIZENS 769 has been more or less active in politics. In i8(j3 he was elected to the legis- lature from his nati\e town and was made a member of the important Com- mittee on Revision of Statutes. In the following year he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for solicitor of Stratford County, and although de- feated in the following election — the district being a Republican stronghold — he ran ahead of his ticket, receiving many Republican \-otes. He was appointed clerk of courts of Stralf'ord County in 11)04. Mr. Roberts is a T,2d degree Mason and belongs to the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His residence is at No, 125 Silver Street, Dover. Few of Dover's citizens enjoy a more wide- spread popularity. MAURICE N. LAYN, street commissioner of the city of Dover, is well known all over Strafford county, for many years ha\ ing been active both hj business and public affairs. He was born at Lee, N. H., September 26, 1865, and is a son of Samuel W. and Susan (Durgin) Layn. Samuel W. Layn, father of Maurice N., was a son of Samuel Layn, and both were born at Lee, N. H. Samuel W. Layn is still a resident there, being now in his 8jd year. He has been a very prominent man in his day, in 1872 and again in 1873, ser\'ing ii] the New Hampshire legislature, being elected to that body on the Democratic ticket. He married Susan Durgin, who was born at Nottingham, N. LI. Maurice N. Layn attended the pulilic schools of his natix'e place. Frank- lin Academy at Do\er, and Northwood Seminary, at Northwood, N. H. For 14 years he conducted a general store and meat business at Lee, in ad- dition to paying attention to farming and lumbering. He was also engaged for some time in contract work for the Boston & Maine Railroad. His con- tracting business expanded and he subsequently constructed miles of state roads. For several rears before coming to Do\'er, in 1906, he was a mem^ ber of the school board at Lee. In Mr. Layn Dover has secured a capable street commissioner, he entering upon his duties on January i, 1914. Mr. Layn was united in marriage with Miss Annie B. Harvey, of Not- tingham, N. H., a daughter of Daniel O. and Elizabeth N. Harvey, the for- mer of whom is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Layn have two children : Lois E. and Mark H. Mr. Layn belongs to Sullivan Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Durham, N. H., and to the U. R. K. P., at Dover. In his political views he is independent. ALBERT DODGE JONES, attorney at law, with offices in the Dodge Building, Rochester, N. H., is additionally interested in real estate and, as a public official, is serving in the office of auditor of Strafford County. He was born in Dodge's Hotel, on the present site of the Dodge Building, Rochester, 46 770 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY N. H., June jS, 1875, and is a son of Frank H. and Martha A. (Dodge) Jones. Frank H. Jones was born February i, 1846, at North Hatfield, Mass. He was an employe of the United States Ctistom Office at Boston, and so con- tinued until his death, which occurred July 11, 1S85, when he was 39 years old. He was married at Rochester, X. H.. to Martha A. Dodge, a daughter of Jonathan T. and Sarah Dodge, an old Xew Hampshire family, and they had two children — Charles T., b«jrn May 11, 1884, who died August 12, 1884, at the age of three months, and Albert D., the subject of this sketch. Albert D. Jones, after graduating from the Rochester high school in 1894 entered Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in 1898. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon and also the Sphinx Senior Society. He then studied law in the office of Daniel Hall, Elmer J. Smart and William Wright, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1905, immediately entering into prac- tice at Rochester. He is engaged in general law practice, including probate court work, and is recognized as an able and honorable attorney and counsel- lor. Mr. Jones was united in marriage September 21, 1898, with Miss Sarah A. Warren, the only daughter of Joseph and Addie G. Warren, and they have one son, Warren Dodge, who was born October i(>. 1899 and is now a student in the Rochester high school. Mr. Jones and his family attend the Congre- gational church. He is a 32d degree Mason ant! affiliates politically with the Republican party but he has always kept aloof from political acti\ity, attending strictly to his large business interests. HON. CHARLES HENRY SAWYER, formerly for many years one of Dover's leading citizens, a successful manufacturer and business man, and one time governor of the state, was born in Watertown, N. Y., March 30, 1840, eldest son of Jonathan and Martha (Perkins) Sawyer. His ancestors on both sides were among the early settlers of Massachusetts. He attended the schools of \\'atertown until he was ten years of age, when the family re- moved to Dover, and he completed his education in this city. At the age of seventeen he entered the Sawyer Woolen Mills, the plant then being engaged in the manufacture of flannels. By the time he was twenty-six he had ac- quired a thorough knowledge of the business and was then appointed super- intendent of the mills. In 1881 he became president of the company, and the general management of the mills remained in his hands subse(piently until 1898. His business career was concerned with many other interests than that above mentioned. He was a director in the Strafford National Bank, a trustee and vice-president of the Strafford Savings Bank, and a director of the Dover Gas Light Company. At one time or another he also held the posi- tions of president of the Dover Horse Railroad Company, director and ex- AND REPRESENTATRE CITIZENS 771 ecutive member of the Granite State Insurance Company, president of the Elhott Bridge Company, and director in the Dover & Portsmouth, in the Portsmouth, Gt. Falls & Conway, and in the W'olfboro Branch Railroads. An ardent Republican, he worked hard for the success of his party and on various occasions was elected to public office. He served in both branches of the city council of Dover, was representative to the legislature in 1869, 1870, 1876 and 1877, a member of the staff of Governor Charles H. Bell in 1 88 1, and a delegate to the national Republican convention in Chicago in 1884. In 1886 he was elected governor of New Hampshire, which office he administered with ability and fidelity to the public interests. While governor he represented the state in many centennial celeljrations that were held dur- ing that period, notably at Philadelphia on the occasion of the looth anni- versary of the promulgation of the Constitution of the United States, and that in New York of the inauguration of President Washington. Mr. Sawyer was a Alason, was twice chosen master of his lodge, and f(.)r many years was the eminent commander of the St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar. His death, which took place January 18, 1908. remo\ed from early scenes one of New Hampshire's foremost men, who had done much to foster her business and industrial interests and keep her abreast of her sis- ter states in those things that make for the ptiblic weal. Mr. Sawyer was married February 8, 1865, to Susan Ellen, daughter of Dr. James ^^'. and Elizabeth Cowan, of Dover. Their children : William Davis, who married Susan flertrucle, daughter of Hon. Joshua G. Hall, of Dover; Charles Francis, who married Gertrude Child, daughter of Hon. Henry W. Se\'erance of San Francisco ; James Cowan, who married Mary Pepperell, daughter of Judge George Seward Frost of Dover; Edward, who married Leslie, daughter of the late Phineas Sprague Tobey of Boston, and Elizabeth Coffin Sawyer. The last mentioned, Elizabeth, resides at No. go Stark Avenue, Dover. She represents the Sawyer family in the fine farm known as the Sawyer farm, of which W. D. F. Hayden is manager. The Middlebrook farm at Dover is one of the finest pieces of agricultural prop- erty in the state. It holds diplomas (for third position) gained at the Na- tional Dairy Show, held at Chicago in 1910 and again in 1911, and at the International Dairy Show, at Milwaukee, in 191 1, in the certified milk class. Mrs. Charles H. Sawyer died April 20, 1899. She was a lady of culture and refinement and her loss was deeply felt by scores of admiring friends. JAMES A. GRIMES, one of Dover's well known retired citizens, who has occupied his present residence at No. 22 Broadway for the past forty years, was born in County Armagh. Ireland, in August, 1826. His parents 1 1: HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY were Robert aucl Ami (Donnely) Grimes and they came to the United States with their three children, two sons and one daughter. Robert Grimes served ahiiost through the entire Civil war, entering Company I, loth X. H. Volunteer Infantry, and participated in a number of imixjrtant battles, including Antietam and Fredericksburg. He returned then to Dover, where he had previously established the family home and sub- sequently died there. One of his sons, Frank Grimes, was also a soldier in the Civil war and is now deceased. The mother of James A. Grimes died when he was young. James A. Grimes grew to man's estate in Dover and here attended school until old enough to learn the shoemaking trade, which, he subsequently fol- lowed at Barrington and other places. For a number of years, although not continuously, he was employed in the i>rint works of the Cocheco Manufac- turing Company, at Do\er, and for some twenty years was in a general team- ing business for himself. In 1878 Mr. Grimes embarked in the grocery business on Third street, Dover, later removing to Nos. 495-496 Central ave- nue, where he continued until within recent years. Mr. Grimes married Miss Bridget Grimes, a native like himself of County Armagh, Ireland, and of their seven children five are living — Robert, of Dover; Catherine, wife of Thomas McKone, of Dover; James H., of Dover; Mary, wife of John Rogers, of Dover, and Frank E., also of Dover. John and Lizzie B. are both deceased. The mother of the above family died in April, 1913, her memory being tenderly cherished by those left behind. Mr. Grimes has been a valuable citizen, ever ready to do his full share in bear- ing responsibilities and he is held in respect and esteem. He served four teims as a member of the city council, representing the .Second Ward. He was also vice president of the local branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians for a number of years and treasurer; was first assistant and captain of Tiger Engine Fire Company No. 2. With his family he belongs to St. Mary's Ro- man Catholic church. JOHN S. KIMBALL, "The \'illage Postmaster" at Rochester. X. H.. was born Dec. 29, 1859. in the town of Alton, X. H.. and the son of Joseph P. and Lucy M. (Freeman) Kimball, both of whom died in 1863. within a few weeks of each other, leaving three sons. Charles X^. Arthur Dorman, and John Sinclair, the subject of this sketch. The three fatherless and motherless boys. Arthur D.. eight months old. John S., three years, and Charles X.. six years, were adopted into the family of Dr. Xathaniel Dorman of Alton. X. H.. who in March, 1867 moved to Rochester, X'. H.. in order to secure better educational achantages for his JOHN S. KIMBALL AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 77:3 three wards, and to retire from acti\e practice. The two brothers, Charles N. and the Rev. Arthur Dornian Kimball, died in 1885. John S. Kimball, after completing the pnblic school course, entered the employ of the Messrs. E. G. & E. Wallace, shoe manufacturers, and served in various capacities, the last being shipping clerk. In August, 1885, he re- ceived the appointment of assistant postmaster under the late Charles W. Howe, P. M., during President Cleveland's f^rst administration, and was retained successively by Postmasters John Greenfield, Charles W. Bickford, and Osmon B. \\'arren, succeeding postmaster Warren at his death, Jan. 25, 1908, as postmaster, making a long period of continuous service to" his credit, an evidence of the esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens, irrespective of party politics, and his eminent fitness for the position. In national politics he is a Republican, though the Civil Service rules prevented any political activitv. Mr. Kimball is an attendant of the First Congregational church. He is a 3Jd degree Mason, and Past Master of Humane Lodge, Xo. 21, A. F. & A. M., of Rochester. X. H., Past Patron of James Farrington Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and is active in all the Masonic bodies. He joined Motolina Lodge, No. 18, I. O. O. F., in 1880, having been a member for 34 years, and is Past Xoble Grand of that body, also an honored member of the Patrons of Husbandry, having taken the State and Xational degrees. Mr. Kimball was married Nov. 27, 1S82, to Lydia Flora Allen, by the Rev. Ezekiel True, pastor of the Free Baptist Church. She died Oct. 25, 1899, after a long illness. In his long career in public life and fraternal circles, he has made a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, and mav be well classed amongst our list of self made men. JOHN H. XEALLEY, one of Dover's most enterprising business men, prosperously engaged in the dry goods business, who has also served well in public ofifice, was born .\ugust 4, 1853, in South Berwick, Me., the .son of Benjamin Mason and Abbie fPray) Nealley. Acf|uiring his elementary edu- cation in the public schools of Biddeford. he subseciuentlv attended Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College at Portland, Me. where he prepared for a business career. After working for two years as clerk in a wholesale and retail grocerj' and grain store in Saco, Me., he came in 1871 to Dover, where he found employment in the dry goods establishment of his brother, the Hon. B. F. Nealley, for whom he clerked several years. In 1893 'le purchased the entire business from his brother, and has since been proprietor of the store in which he was formerly an employee. The establishment is one of the most extensive of its kind in this part of the state and includes a com- 774 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY plete stock of dry goods and fancy goods, together witli the latest novelties in this line. By enterprise and honorable business methods, ]\Ir. Nealley has built up a large and lucrative trade both in Dover and in many of the sur- rounding towns. A Republican in politics, Mr. Nealley has been often solicited to accept responsible positions in the town or county government, but has generally de- clined because of the engrossing demands of his business. He served, however, as representative in the State legislature in i88oy he began collecting minerals and from time to time since then has added to his specimens, as in his tra\'els he has found them in various parts of the United States, and he has not a few that friends have furnished him from foreign lands. Xo doubt his collec- tion of minerals, fossils and other curios is the largest and finest private se- lection to be found in Straft'ord count\-. It gi\-es him great pleasure to show and explain the various articles to his friciuls and strangers, who cannot be Othei^vise than delighted and in>tnicte(l by the examination. Mr. and Mrs. Scarr are esteemed memljers of Dover's social circles. They have no children, but ha\e taken a hnely girl, Viola Andrews, to care for, and bring her up as they would their o\\ n child. AND REPRESEXTATIVE CITIZENS 793 JAMES L'()RSUN, who is a iiiciiiber of uiie of tlie old and substantial families of Rochester, N. H., has spent his long and busy life in Strafford county, where he owns acres and acres of valuable land. He resides on Port- land street, one-half mile southwest of East Rochester and one and one-half mile northeast of the public square in the city of Rochester. He might reside, however, in many other places did he so desire, for he owns 500 acres of land in the town of Rochester; 500 acres in the town of New Durham ; joo acres in the town of Milton; and 350 acres in the town of Farmington. Mr. Corson was born on a farm on the Salmon I'\alls road, in the town of Rochester, N. H., February 15, 1S45, ^1"^ '* ^ son of Michael E. and Mary (Butler) Corson. Michael E. Corson and his father, Joseph Corson, were both born in Rochester and spent their lives here, passing through the usual human experi- ences and finally, in the course of nature, giving way to their descendants. They were among the founders and supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rochester. Michael E. Corson married Mary Butler, who, in all probability, came from the same sturdy stock that produced Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, of Civil War fame, who was also closely identified with the cotton mill industry at Lowell, Mass. Four sons were born to Michael E. Corson and wife: John, who died in May, 1913, at the age of jt^ years; Hiram, who resides at Kennebunk, Me. ; James ; and Nahum, who is a resident of Rochester. James Corson attended the district schools in boyhood and since reach- ing manhood has given attention to lumbering, fanning and dairying. When the Patrons of Husbandry came into being and the first grange was organized at Rochester, Mr. Corson was one of the first to take an interest in the move- ment and is the only surviving charter member. Mr. Corson married Miss Mar)- E. Curtis, who was born one-half mile south of the present home, on the Salmon Falls road and is a daughter of Cyrus K. and Rachel W. Curtis, old settlers of Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Corson have had the following children: Freeman, who is a resident of Providence, R. I.; Edna, who is the wife of S. A. Cai)ron. of Westfield, Mass.; Woodbury, who died when three years old; Lilly, who died at the age of twelve years; Grace R., who is the wife of Eldred G. White; Nellie W., who is the wife of Charles Boyce, of Palmer, Mass. ; and Bertha, who lives at home. Mr. Corson and family at- tend the Baptist church at East Rochester. He has consented to serve in small town offices at times but has never been very active in politics, his time being very fully occupied with his extensive land interests. WILLIAM L. MARSTON,* who for more than 30 years was identified with Mill No. 3. of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, most of the time 794 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY as overseer of the weaving department, is a resident of JJerw ick, Manie, where he owns a farm of 45 acres. He was born in Williamstown, \'t., March 11, 1846, and is a son of Orvis K. and Caroline (Letch) Alarston, both natives of Vermont. The Marstons are of English ancestry. William L. Alarston was reared in Williamstown, \'t., and there attended the public schools. He enlisted for service in the Federal Army during the Civil War, enlisting June 2^, 1862, as a private in Company I, 9th Reg. Ver- mont Volunteer Infantry. About two months after they left Vermont, this regiment was included in the force surrendered by General Miles at Harper's Ferr)-. Mr. Marston, among others, was paroled, and was marched to Anna- polis, Aid., thence later to Chicago, 111. About four months later, he was duly exchanged. He then served in various states until the fall of 1864, when at the battle of Chapin's Farm, 'City Point, Va., near Richmond, he was severely wounded. Incapacitated for service, he was confined in a military hospital for five months. In April, 1865, he returned to his regiment at Chapin's Farm and was on picket duty within five miles of Richmond when that city was evacuated by the Confederates. He was one of the first men to enter Richmond after it had been abandoned. He was honorably dis- charged from the service on June 14, 1865. After the war had closed, Air. Alarston returned to his native state and shortly after began farming, at which he continued for several years. He subsequently went to Rhode Island, where he was in the employ of a house fur- nishing concern at Providence for a time. He next moved to Great Falls (now Somersworth) New Hampshire, and entered the employ of the Great Falls Alanufacturing Company as a bobbin boy. He was later a loom fixer for three years, after which he was advanced to second hand in the \\ea\ing room. After a time he went to Biddeford, Alaine, where he became overseer in the weaving department of the Pepperill Mills. He remained there nine years, at the end of which time he returned to the Great Falls Company as overseer of the weaving department in Alill No. 3. At this time he took up his residence in Berwick, Alaine, where he has lived continuously since. He ser\-ed in a highly efficient manner and continued without interruption as overseer of that department from 1886 until 1912. when he resigned. For a inimber of years he had followed agricultural pursuits, and is the owner of a good farm of 45 acres in Berwick. In Alay, 1874, Air. Alarston was united in marriage with Aliss Jennie S. Bailey, who was born in Lisbon. N. H., and is a daughter of William G. and Susan fClough) Bailey. Her father was bom in Bath, N. H., and her mother in Lyman, N. H. Airs. Alarston is descended from Richard Lynne Bailey, who came from England in the ship "Bevis" in 1639, coming as a AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 795 senant of one Richard Duininer. He settled at Xewburyport, Mass., reared a family, and to him many of the name trace their ancestry. Of his descend- ants some were participants in the Revolutionary struggle, some as privates and others with rank of captain or colonel. William L. Marston and his wife are members of Granite State Commandery Xo. 40, Golden Cross, at Somers- worth, X. H. and of Martha Washington Rebeccas. Mrs. Marston is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church of Berwick. He is a member of Lodge No. 2, I. O. O. F. ; Great Falls Encampment Xo. 15, I. O. O. F., at Somers- worth; Washington Lodge Xo. 4, I. O. O. F., Somersworth ; Joseph H. Dear- born Canton, I. O. O. F., of Biddleford, Me. ; and Mavochen Lodge No. _', K. P., at Biddeford, Maine. He is a member of Litttefield Post, No. 8, G. A. R., at Somersworth, of which he was commander two terms and of which he is now quartermaster. CHARLES A. ALLEN, farmer and dairyman, residing one mile from Rochester Square, on Washington street, Rochester, N. H., owns seventy acres of land and manages it so well that it makes satisfactory returns for all his investments. He was born at Barrington, N. H., April 7, 1851, and is a son of James L. and Mary A. ( Hoyt) Allen. In 1863 the parents of Mr. Allen moved to (ionic, where the father died at the age of 72 years. The mother still lives there and is now in her 86th year. They had five children, three of whom sur\i\e. Charles A. Allen was mainly educated at Gonic and has been a resident of Rochester for the past 50 years. For eleven and a half years he served as city marshal and for 25 years has been on the police force of the town and was formerly its chief. For ten years he operated a livery and feed stable, building his barn at the City Hotel on Arrow street. On his present place Mr. Allen has brought everything to a first class condition and raises all his own corn and keeps ready for constant use a silo of 100 tons capacity. He maintains his dairy with 24 head of cows and has some thorough-bred cattle and in the past has raised fast horses. He delivers daily from 150 to 200 quarts of milk in Rochester, employing one man besides himself in the morn- ing delivery and has never disappointed his patrons one day in the last three years. Mr. Allen married Miss Mary Abbie Randlett, who was born in Durham and is a daughter of Charles and Lucy Randlett. She was mainly reared at Lowell, Mass.. and attended school at Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have two children : Charles Roscoe. a resident of Rochester, who married Maude Small : and Alta ]\Iaude, who is the w ife of Frank Grover, of Rochester. Mr. Allen is quite prominent in Republican politics in Strafford county and served one term in the state legislature, representing the town of Rochester. 7!)6 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY JOHN E. HORLOR*, who has been identified with the Great Falls Manu- facturing Company at Somersworth, N. H., for the last 26 years, a master mechanic since 1907, is held in the highest esteem as a trained, experienced and capable workman and as a man whose fidelity could never be called into question. He was born at Berwick, Ale., October 6, 1861, and is a son of Charles W. Horlor and a grandson of William Horlor. The latter was a native of England and for many years was well known at Great Falls as a gunsmith. Charles \V. Horlor for a long period was a machinist with the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. John E. Horlor attended the public schools of Great Falls but from the age of 14 years has' been entirely dependent upon his own efforts for support and advancement. He may rightly be termed a self made man. In 1887 when he entered the employ of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company he already understood the machinist trade and he continued work as a machinist there until 1891, when he was promoted to be a millwright, working as such until 1896. Then promotion came again and he worked as a steam engineer until 1903, when he was made assistant shop foreman and continued in that capacity until he became full foreman in 1905, in 1907 being made master mechanic. In 1891 when the bleachery plant was built, Mr. Horlor was gi\en charge of the installation of the machinery, with the result that its entire construction was entirely satisfactory. Step by step he has advanced in his business and occupies a very responsible position as master mechanic of this large manufacturing concern. Mr. Horlor married Miss Etta S. Morrill, a daughter of Charles R. Mor- rill, of Somersworth, and they have two children: Lennie M., who is the wife of E. L. Thompson, of Sanford, Me.; and Charles H., who is with the Great Falls Manufacturing Company. Mr. Horlor and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Republican but is not an aggressive politician. He is identified with the Knights of Pythias at Somers- worth and is past chancellor of the lodge. CHARLES I". WILLEY,* who carries on general farming and market gardening in the town of Dover, owns 50 acres of excellent land, lying along the Littleworth road, this being his father's old homestead. He was born October 31, 1843. and is a son of Thomas J. and Elizabeth (Ricker) W'illey. Thomas J. Willey. father of our subject, was born in Strafford, X. H., a son of Isaac Willey, one of the early settlers there. He owned the two bodies of water known as the Willey ponds, together with a grist mill and a large tract of adjoining land. He was of English extraction. In early manhood Thomas T- ^^'illey came to the town of Dover, settling on the land now owned AND REPRESENTATU^E CITIZENS 797 by his son, Charles F. and died here many years ago. He was a man of consequence, serving as councilman and also as alderman of Dover, and was highly regarded by all who knew him. He was a member of the l-ree Will Baptist church, which he ser\ed many years as deacon. He married Eliza- beth Ricker, a daughter of Nicholas Ricker, who was a son of Nicholas Ricker. the father and grandfather being old residents of Dover. Four chil- dren were born to Thomas J. Willey and wife, two of whom survive, namely: Annie M. and Charles F., both of Dover. Charles F. Willey attended the district .schools and later Franklin Academy at Dover. His life has been largely devoted to agricultural pursuits, espe- cialy market gardening, Dox'er being his point of distribution. Fie is well know n and is held in esteem both as a business man and neighbor. For some years he served as deacon in the Free Will Baptist church. L. F. LANGMAID,* who is proprietor of the granite works at No. 24 South Pine street, Dover, is one of the oldest monument men in the business in this section. He was born in December, 1865, at Durham, N. H., the only child of Jacob and Emma (Da\is) Langmaid. Jacob Langmaid, also born at Durham, was a carpenter by trade and worked at the same until he died at the age of 70 years. The property which is the site of the present post- office building was once his and after selling he bought a hou.se at a very high figure for those days, in order to enjoy the fine location. This he sold after the tragic death of his wife, who was accidentally killed by a railroad train near her home, when aged but 28 years. She was a nati\e of Newmarket and an admirable woman in every relation of life. L. F. Langmaid secured his education in the village schools of Durham, as soon as old enough assisting his uncle in the latter's monument shop dur- ing the summers and returning to his books in the winter. He also worked under Joseph Abbott, with whom he learned the best methods of cutting stone, and continued with him until he came to Dover to go with the firm of Stephens & Chesley. Later he entered into partnership with Stephen W. George, sell- ing out four years later, and for seven years following was with the firm of Spencer & Coombs. In 1899 he came back to Dover and bought his present place, where he does all kinds of cemetery and stone work and carries both simple and ornate monuments. He gives constant employment to four men and often has six on his pay roll. Mr. Langmaid married Miss Annie Thompson, who died at the age of 23 years, leaving three children: Gertrude, who is the wife of Fred Pinkham ; Vera, who is the wife of Samuel Gage and has two children, Dorothy May and John Linville; and Ruth E. Mr. Langmaid was married second to 798 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Miss Annie Knapp, wlio conducts a millinery store at Dover. Mr. Langmaid is quite prominent in Democratic politics and was a member of the New Hampshire legislature in 1913, and for five years was street and park com- missioner of Dover. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum, the Red Men and the Elks and is also a member of Mt. Pleasant Lodge, Odd Fellows and Prescott Encampment, and additionally is identified with the Masonic bodies including the Chapter. ALPHONSO D. LEATHERS, a well known citizen of Dover, and a \eteran of the late Civil war, residing on the Mast road, was born in Palmyra, Maine, April 17. 1841, a son of Oliver and Lucinda (Boody) Leathers, Oliver Leathers, the father, resided for most of his life in Palmyra, to which jilace he moveil in 1823 from Nottini;iiam. N. H., his native town. He was a son of Joseph Leathers of Nottingham. The Leathers family is said to be of English extraction, and Joseph Leathers, grandfather of our subject, fought for American independence in the Revolutionary war, while Oliver was a soldier in the War of 181^-15. The latter died in Palmyra, Me. His wife, Lucinda, was a native of Rarrington, N. H. Of the eleven children, four were soldiers in the Ci\"il war, nanieh' : John P.., now deceased; Charles H., residing in Minneapolis, Minn. ; h'rederick A., a resident of Cham])lin, Minn., and Alphonso D., the subject of this sketch. Alphonso D. Leathers was educated in the public schools of Palm\ra, Me. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, jd Regiment N. H. Volun- teers, which was attached to the Army of the Potomac. At the first battle of Bull Run he was captured by the enemy and subsequenth- spent three months and ten days in Libby prison, being auKing the first Nurthern sokiiers to be confined there. He was then transferred to Parish prison, New Orleans, where he was confined four months, and the remainder of his prison term, totaling ten months and f(jurteen days, he spent in Salsbury prison. North Carolina. He was finally released on parole and sul)sei|uently exchanged, after which he returned home to I'almyra, Me. After remaining home a few days he went to Washington, D. C, where he was employed in the (piarter- master's department (in the clothing department) for eleven months. After Lee's surrender he helped decorate the White House and was subsequently detailed to assist in draping buildings on Lincoln's assassination. He also took part in the grand funeral procession in Washington. After his return home and discharge from the army he spent some eight years in Farmington, N. H., working at the trade of shoemaking, and subsequently followed the same trade in Dover for nine years, residing on and having charge of the Benjamin Thompson Farm, now the New Hampshire State College Farm. He took up his residence on the Mast road, Dover, in June, 1889. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 799 Mr. Leatliers was married in May, 1867, to Jennie E. Wentworth, who was born in'Fannington, N. H., a daughter of Joseph Wentworth, of that place. Of this union was liorn one son, Frank A., wiio also resides on the Mast road, Dover. Mrs. Leathers, the wife of our subject, died in i(S88. Mr. Leathers is a member of the G. A. R. post at Dover and he and his son are both Democrats in politics. They are well known and progressive citizens, taking an active interest in the betterment of the community and keeping well informed on current events, being extensive and thoughtful readers. DANIEL F. JENXESS, who is one of the representative men and sub- stantial farmers and stock raisers of Strafford county, has passed his entire life on his home farm near Rochester and was born here ()ctober 16, 1856. He is a son of Cyrus and Mercy (McDnffee) Jenness, and a grandson of Daniel Jenness, who was one of the early settlers of Rochester. Both parents of Daniel F. Jenness were born at Rochester and the father died in 1881 on the old homestead farm which he had cultivated. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends and was a man of sterling character. Daniel F. Jenness attended school at Rochester and for a time was a student in Franklin Academy, a well known institution, after which, during several winters, he taught school in the neighborhood of his home. Agricul- ture, however, has claimed his main attention. His farm of 150 acres is de\oted to general farming and stock raising, and he makes a specialty of pure-bred .shorthorn cattle. He has always felt a citizen's responsibility and has lent his influence to public measures wdien c')n\'inced that they were honestly beneficial. He votes with the Republican |)arty InU has been a candidate of the Prohibition party for the Ceneral Asseml)ly. He served one vear as a selectman from the town of Rochester. Mr. Jenness was reared in the Society of Friends and is an elder in the same and belongs to the congregation at Gonic, N. H. Mr. Jenness married Ida M. Wiggin, wdio was born at Danvers, Mass., Mav 17, 1850, a daughter of Andrew- Wiggin, and the following children were born to them: Cyrus F., residing in Newton, Mass.; Elwood S., of Rochester, N. H. : Elizabeth E., a teacher in the Friends' Select .School, at Philadelphia, Pa. ; Chester A., of Newton, Mass. ; Myron Irving, of Roches- ter; Rachel Ida, residing at home; Edith W., formerly a student in the We.^ttown Boarding School, at Westtown, Pa.; Judith V., who is a student in the above named institution; and Gertrude and Margaret, both of whom are at home. In many quiet, unostentatious ways, Mr. Jenness has been a useful man in his community and he enjoys universal respect and confidence. 800 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY HON. CURRIER \V. LANGLEY,* fonnerly a member of tlie New- Hampshire legislature and a well known business man of Do\er, came to this city in 1869, some years after the close of the Civil war, in which he had honorably participated. He was born August i. 1848, at Xewfield, Me., and is a son of William and Sarah H. (Dearborn) Langley. The Dearborn family is of English extraction and were early settlers in New Hampshire, while the Langleys settled etpially early in Maine. Both were of a sturdy type that left worthy representatives. William Langley was a son of Valentine Langley. He died in 1852, the father of ten children. Currier W'., then four years old, being the youngest of the family. Currier W. Langley remained with his mother at Newfield, Me., until he was thirteen years old, after which he .-^jjent two years in Boston. He then returned to Newfield to re-enter school and continued more or less continu- ously at his studies until October, 1864, when he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering Company F, Second Me. Volunteer Cavalry, contracting for one year or during the war. b^^rtunately he hafl to serve but ele\'en montlis, mainly in Florida, and then was honoraljly discharged and returned to Newfield, Me. Shortly afterward he moved to Concord. N. H., where he worked for a short time in a caljinet-maker's shop. He then went to Cam- bridge for a limited period, then to Weymouth Landing, Mass.. and from there, in i86q, came to Dover. Here he learned the carpenter and building trade with W. P. Hayes, then a well known Iniikler of Do\'er, and remained with Mr. Hayes for twelve years. Since then he has been in the contracting and building business for himself and has done a large amount of work all over New Hampshire. He has been an active and interested citizen and has served as councilman and as alderman from the Third Ward in the Doxer city government and at all times has had the welfare of the majority at heart. Mr. Langley married Miss Alice J. Jennis. who was born at Newfield. Me., and they had two children : William C., who is now deceased : and I'^rank AL, who is a resident of Dover. In politics Mr. Langley in a general way is a Republican but claims the right to be independent in action when his judgment so urges. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Odd Fellows and is a member also of the Charles W. Sawyer Post, G. A. R., at Dover. W'ith his family he belongs to the ^Methodist Episcopal church. The family residence is at No. 336 Washington street, Dover. A. ROSCOE TUTTLE,* who is engaged in business at Gonic as a black- smith and carriage manufacturer, and also pays some attention to contract- ing, is a substantial and respected citizen who would be missed should his AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS SOI interests call him to another section. He was born December 20, iS".', in the town of Strafford, county of Strafford, N. H., and is a son of Freeman and Jane L. Tnttle, both of whom are deceased, the father dying at Strafford. N. H., and the mother at Berwick, Me. A. Roscoe Tuttle obtained his education in the schools of Strafford and Gonic, following which he learnefl the blacksmith's trade with C. E. Pearl, whom he succeeded in 1894. In his blacksmith, carriage and repair shop he employs five regular men the year through and as he has otiier interests he is quite a large employer of labor for a i)lace of the size of Gonic. Formerly, for five years, he conducted the local hotel and at present is operating a first class livery stable, affording satisfactory service at reasonable rates. Mr. Tuttle was united in marriage with Miss Agnes Abbott, a daughter of Charles Abbott. They have no children and occupy comfortable rooms in the rear of the shops. In politics Mr. Tuttle has always been a stanch Democrat and for nine years served as a member of the council of the town of Rochester. He is identified with the Odd Fellows and vvitli the J. O. U. M., both of Rochester. JAMES W. FORD,* a representative citizen of Dover, N. H., and a member of the city council, representing the Fourth Ward, was born at Dover, April 10, 1849, and is a son of George W. and Martha S. (Cate) Ford. George W. Ford was boni at Dover Point, N. H., and was a son of Ben- jamin A. Ford, and a grandson of Jacob Ford, a very early settler, probably of Scotch extraction. George \V. Ford spent his entire life in the town of Dover and was a man of local pronnnence. For many years he served as a justice of the peace in quorum, was a s]3ecial pijliceman du occasion antl also was a constable. His death occurred in May. 1910.. He married Martha S. Cate, who was born in Strafford count}', N. H. James W. Ford grew to manhood in Do\'er and attended the pul)lic schools. While a large portion of his time has been absorbed by pufilic duties, he owns and operates a farm of ^7, acres. For a (|uarter of a century he has served as special policeman of Dover Point and for two years has been a member of the Dover city council. Mr. Ford married Miss Carrie Brackett, of Dover, and thev ha\'e had one daughter w h(ini they named Edith Ina. She is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Ford have an adopted daughter, whom they reared from childhood. Florence May, who is now the wife of George O. Hodgon. of Dover. In politics Mr. Ford is a Republican. He belongs to two well known fraternal organizations, the Odd I'ellows, at Council Bluffs, la., and the Red Men, at Dover. 802 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY GEORGE A. DAVIS, general farmer and stock raiser, residing on his 400-acre farm whicli is located in Farmington and New Durham townships, was born on this place, November 22, 1871. He is a son of Samuel and Caroline B. ( Hayes ) Davis, wiio were born in New Hampshire and lived and died on this farm, which has l)een in the family five generations, their burial being in a private cemetery on the place. This land came into the family three generations before they were married, the line being on the maternal side, the date of the original grant from the King of England being 1750. The residence was solidly built by Edmund Tibbetts, in 1780, and is yet com- fortable, having been remodelled first in 1844 and again in 1885. George A. Davis was the youngest of four children born to his parents, but two of whom are living, Dr. W. S. Davis of Sanbomville, N. H., being the other survivor. Mr. Davis was educated in the public schools and has always made his home on the farm, with the exception of two years during which he was a shipping clerk in a wholesale leather house in Boston. He carries on general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of hay, rais- ing about seventy-five tons of timothy hay in a year. He cultivates about 100 acres, following modern methods and utilizing the best improved machinery. In 1 89 1 Mr. Davis was married to Miss Eliza Davis, who was born July I, 1872, the second of three children born to her parents, George E. and Ariana P. Davis. Her father was born in ]\Iaine and her mother in New Hampshire. Both have passed away, the burial of the father being in the Mt. Alban cemetery, and the mother at Farmington. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have five children: Hazel, aged 21 years, a student at the New Hampshire Normal School, and a graduate of the Farmington high school, who has taught three years of school very satisfactorily; and Ruth E.. .Albert H. and Anna P., aged respectively, twelve, ten and eight years, are all at school; the youngest being Louise, who is three years old. Mr. Davis and family are members of the Congregational church at Farmington. In politics he is a Republican. For a number of years he has been a Mason, is past master of the Blue Lodge and past high priest of Columbian Chapter. BROOKS D. STEWART, a well known contractor and builder of Dover, N. H., is a progressive and public-spirited citizen, always to be found in the forefront when any movement is afoot pertaining to the welfare of the com- munity. He has been a resident of Dover since September, 1879, and since 1880 has maintained an office in the Brace well Block. Mr. Stewart was bom in Skowhegan, Maine. Jnne 24, 1843, and is a son of Isaac and Betsy (Co- burn) Stewart, both natives of Skowhegan, Maine. The Stewart family is AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 803 of Scotch extraction. Isaac Stewart was an agriculturist of Bloomfield, which now is a part of Skowhegan. Rev. Robert Coburn, maternal grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was a Calvinist Baptist minister, and en- joyed an extended acquaintance and reputation throughout the eastern part of the state of ]\Iaine. Brooks D. Stewart was reared in his native village, where he attended the public schools and what formerly was known as Bloomfield Academy. He served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade at that place, and when the war broke out he joined the Federal army, enlisting on October i8, 1861, as a member of Company K, nth Reg. Me. Vol. Inf., which became attached to the Army of the Potomac. He was with General McLellan's command throughout the Peninsular Campaign, and later saw service in the Shenan- doah Valley. He was in active service during a greater part of the war, a part of the time engaged in construction work, and no matter what the task set for him it was done faithfully and with such ability as he possessed. After receiving an bon(jrable discharge from the army, Mr. Stewart returned to his New England home and spent most of his time in the build- ing business. After a time he went w-est to Logansport, Ind., where for sev- eral years he was superintendent of the agricultural works of Tucker & Howe. In September, 1879, as before mentioned, he returned east and took up his residence in Dover, X. H. Pie maintains an office in the Bracewell Block and has a shop at No. 14 Eirst Street. A broad, lilieral-minded man, he has not been content to restrict his energies to mere success in business; his interest is unbounded whether it be in civic affairs, music, lodge work or charities. In 1889 and 1890 he was a member of the Dover City Council, representing the fourth ward. He is a member of C. W. Sawyer Post No. 17, G. A. R., in which he has held one office or another for the past 28 years, a part of the time as commander. Since 1897, he has been quartermaster and at the pres- ent time is also patriotic instructor of the post. He also has been a member of the Council of Administration of the New Hampshire Department, G. A. R., and served the department as inspecting officer. In 1897 he represented the State Department as a delegate to the National Encampment which was held in Buffalo, New York, in that year. For more than a quarter of a century he has held office in the National Veterans Association of which he is a mem- ber, and at the present time he is secretary and treasurer with headquarters at Weir, N. H. He has been a justice of the peace 12 years. Mr. Stewart has been an Odd Fellow for more than forty years, being a member of Winnipesaukee Lodge No. 7. at Laconia, New Hampshire. He has been very active in musical circles in years past, and was at one time treasurer of the Choral Society, which formerly flourished in Dover. 47 ' 804 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Brooks D. Stewart and AJary D. Viles were married on June 2, 1880. She was born in Orland, INIaine, and is a daughter of Joseph H. and Tamson (Eldridge) V'iles, the father being a native of Orland, Maine, and the mother of Bucksport, Maine, both famiHes being of Enghsh extraction. Two chil- dren have been the issue of this marriage, namely ; Charles D., of Melrose, Mass., who is in the railway mail service, running between Bangor and Boston ; and Morris A., the second son, employed in the classification depart- ment of the Patent OfBce at \\'ashington, D. C, in the government service. The latter is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received the degree of Ph. D. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have with them a granddaughter. Miss Olive M. Stewart (a daughter of Charles D.), who was graduated in 1913 from Dover High School. Mrs. Stewart is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, P. F. CASEY,* who is well known as a business man at Dover, is an electrician, with shop at Xo. 2 New York Street. He was born in Ireland, in 1877, and is a son of Peter and Rose (Donnelly) Casey. Peter Casey and wife came also to Dover and he followed farming until his death when aged 50 years. He and his wife were members of the Catholic church. They had seven children. P. F. Casey attended school after coming to Do\-er and then was em- ployed in the grocery store of William F. Carter for six years and subse- quently was a road salesman for several years, one year for E. A. Gower & Son. In 1909 he started his present business in partnership with Edgar A. Davis, later becoming sole proprietor. He does all kinds of electrical work and carries electrical supplies. Mr. Casey married Miss Catherine Davis and they have four children: John F., Edgar, Morris and Ralph. Mr. Casey and family belong to the Catholic church and he is a member of the Knights of Columbus. GEORGE H. SPRINGFIELD,* lumberman, general farmer and raiser of thorough-bred shorthorn cattle, owns a fine estate of 600 acres in the town of Rochester. The homestead farm lies one and one-half miles from Roch- ester Square, on the ten-rod road, but Mr. Springfield resides at No. 26 Antrim street, Rochester. He was born in Rochester, N. H., January 10, 1855, and is a son of George W. and Sarah J. (McDuffee) Springfield. George W. Springfield was born also in Rochester and for many years was a successful farmer and lumberman in Strafford county. He was an active member of the local Grange and was a lifelong Democrat in politics. He married Sarah J. McDuffee and they had two sons : J. Frank and George H. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 805 George H. Springlield was reared and etlucated in the town of Rochester and has always maintained his home here. He raises about 40 head of fine cattle yearly which are sold all over the country. His herd of thorough-bred shorthorns he has exhibited at many agricultural fairs where they have won the blue ribbons. He sells his lumber by contract only and all his in- dustries are carried on according to modern methods. He is a very thor- oughly interested member of the local grange. Mr. Springfield married Miss Carrie E. Hall, a native of Rochester, and they have three children: W. Eugene, Jennie E. and Grace M. Mr. Spring- field has additional interests and is identified with the Rochester Loan and Banking Company. Politically he is a Democat and formerly for three years was a member of the city council. He belongs to the Odd Fellows at Roch- ester. With such important personal affairs to interest him, Mr. Spring- field finds little leisure but he is never too busy to fail to assist a neighbor or perform some public service for the general welfare. CH.VRLES D. FOX. a successful business man of Milton Mills. New Hampshire, is engaged in the undertaking business. He comes of a well known family of this vicinity, where for several generations it has been active in business and civic affairs. Mr. Fox was born in Milton Mills, March 6, 1856, and i.s a son of Asa A. and Hannah (Howe) Fox, and a grandson of Asa Fox. Asa Fox, the grandfather, was born in Acton, Maine, and early in his career moved across the line to Milton Mills, New Hampshire. He estab- lished a general store which was conducted with much success for a period of over fifty years, the firm name being Asa Fox & Son, a son Elbridge \V. being the partner. After the death of A.sa Fox, the son continued the business until he in turn died, when a third generation of the family succeeded to it, namely, Everett F. Fox, a son of Elbridge, who discontinued it after a time. Asa Fox married Harriet W. \\'ood of Sharpleigh, Maine, and tliev became parents of three children, one of whom died of typhoid fever at the age of eighteen years. The two who grew to maturity were Elbridge \\'. and .Asa .-\. The former was a Republican and served in all of the town offices, also as state senator. The death of Elbridge \\'. Fox occurred in his seventy-seventh year, and his burial was in the IMilton Mills Cemetery. He was a leading member of the Congregational church, and for many years was superinten- dent of the Sunday school. Asa A. Fox. father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Milton Mills, where iiis schooling was acquired in the public schools. After his marriage he worked in and was a foreman in the rebuilding of the Pemberton Mill, and 806 HISTORY OF STR.A.FFORD COUNTY for a time worked at carpentering. He became interested in the manufacture o: sail clotiiing, in connection with which he conducted a general store busi- . ncss. He finall\- closed out that enterprise to start up in undertaking, in which line he built up a lucrati\e inisiness. He was succeeded in the man- agement of the business in April. 19 13, by his son. Charles D. Fox, and the business has l^een continued with the same success it previously enjoyed. The patronage of this firm extends o\'er a radius of fifteen miles, including Wakefield, }ililton. Brookfield, Lebanon, Acton and Xewfield. They manu- facture caskets to a limited extent, and carry a complete stock of caskets and robes. Asa A. Fox married Hannah Howe, who was born in Newfield, Maine, and was next to the youngest of eight children. Her father, Sam- uel Howe, died at Newfield, Maine. This marriage was blessed with but two children: Etta, who died at the age of two years and was buried at Milton Mills; and Charles D. Charles D. Fox was educated in the New Hampshire schools, after which he was a tra\eling salesman for several years. He married Hattie M. Fox, daughter of Alfred and Elvira Fox of Acton, Maine. They have an accomplished daughter, Edwina, who attended the Nasson Institute and for the past two years has been an instructor in the schools. She also is a graduate of the Nute High School at Milton. Mr. Fox is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, also of the Knights of Pythias, in which he has passed through all the chairs. He was formerU- president of the Xew Hampshire Licensed Embalmers Association. In national politics, he is a Republican. HON. ALONZO TAYLOR PIXKHAM. deceased, passed out of life while serving in the highest municipal office to which his admiring fellow citi- zens of Dover could elect him. He was a man of unblemished character, both in private and public life, and on many occasions had been honored with tokens of public confidence and esteem. He had served as a member of the state legislature, as city treasurer and as county treasurer, and at the time of death, on August 22. 1906, was mayor of Do\er. He was born at Madbury. Straf- ford county. N. H.. and had academic achantages there and at Dover, and afterward took a course in the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York. After completing his education he chose the drug business as his line of work and when he came to Dover he entered into partnership w ith Dr. Lothrop. imder the finn style of Lothrop & Pinkham. The business is continued under the same name. Mrs. Pinkham retaining her husband's interest and having a manager. This drug business is one of the oldest in Dover and to its e.xten- ALONZO T. PINKHAM AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 809 sion, solidity and usefulness, Mr. I'inkhain devoted himself closely. He was, however, a man of such strength of character and practical efficiency that public demands were made on his time and many honors tendered him. He belonged to many benevolent organizations and headed public movements, a case in point being the Do\-er Hospital, in which he was greately interested. He had promised to dedicate the same when completed but did not live to fulfil his word. In large measure he was a self-made man. Mr. Pinkham was married to Miss Elizabeth Frye, a daughter of James N. and Elizabeth (Burroughs) Frye. an old family of Dover. Her father was a shoe merchant of Dover. Mr. Pinkham attended the Universalist church. He was a man of social inclinations and belonged to the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Elks and the Knights of Pythias, and in his death each fraternity felt the loss of a valued member. P/\UL HURLBURT, attorney at law and a member of the law firm of Jackson & Hurlburt, at Rochester, with offices at No. 8 Hanson street, comes naturally by his legal ability, his father, a man of public distinction and once attorney general of Massachusetts, being a prominent member of the Boston bar. Paul Hurlburt was born at Lynn, Mass., in 1889, and is a son of Henry F. and Fannie (Thompson) Hurlburt, natives of Massa- chusetts and parents of six children. Paul Hurlburt enjoyed rather exceptional educational advantages, attend- ing first the Lynn schools, later St. Paul's Boys' School at Concord, afterward Princeton Lfniversit}' and subsequently the Boston University Law School. After graduating he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and nine months later to the bar of New Hampshire. He chose Rochester as his field of prac- tice and entered into his present partnership. He takes a hearty interest in public matters and gives his political support to the Democratic party. Mr. Hurlburt married Miss Ethel MacMillan. of Brookline, Mass., and they have one daughter, Paula, who has celebrated her first birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt have many pleasant social connections in Boston, Brook- line and Rochester. FRANK E. MARTIN, who is a substantial and well known resident of Somersvvorth, where he has been engaged in general farming for more than a quarter of a century, owns 150 acres of land, a part of which is cov- ered with a valuable limber growth. He was born in the province of St. Anne, Pocatiare, Canada, November 17, 1852, and is a son of Ferdinand and Angelina Martin, who were natives of that place. In the neighborhood in which he was born, Frank E. Martin attended school and remained until he was 18 years of age. Being ambitious and 810 HISTORY OF STIL\FFORD COUNTY enterprising but largely dependent upon his own efforts, he then left home and entered the United States, remaining in the state of New York for a short time and then going to Manchester, N. H., where, for about 15 years he was a wood chopper. Circumstances led him to \isit Butte, Montana, where he was interested for a time and then returned to Manchester but later went back to Montana and remained for one year. Mr. Martin has vivid recollections of the comparatively uncivilized state of society in the Mountain state at that time and when he felt ready to settle permanently, he chose to establish his home among the peaceful hills of old New Hampshire and in 1887 purchased his farm in the town of Somersworth. Mr. Martin was married in November, 1887, to ]\Iiss Mary L. Martin, who was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, and is a daughter of Henry and Frances Martin. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin, the survivors being: Mary L., who is the wife of Arthur L. Douglas, and they have had two sons, Arthur L., deceased, and Laurence M. ; and Adolph J. Frederick A., Wilfred J. and Annie M. Mr. ]\Iartin and family are members of St. Martin's Roman Catholic church at Somersworth. He takes no decided interest in politics but votes with the Democratic party and in all local matters may be counted on to do his full duty as a citizen. ARTHUR H. W'lGGIN, who is engaged in the practice of law at Farm- ington, was born November 30, 1865, at Ossipee, Carroll county, N. H., and is a son of Charles F. and Arvilla (Beachman) Wiggin. The father was also a native of Ossipee and spent his life there. The mother was born at \Volfboro and died at Farmington, N. H. Arthur H. was the younger born of their two sons, George A., the elder being now a resident of W^estboro, Mass. From the public school Arthur H. ^^'iggin entered Wolfboro academy and later the New Hampton Literary Institute, after which he began tlie study of law in the office of his uncle, George Edwin Beacham, at Somersworth, N. H. Li 1889 he was admitted to the bar, in September of the same year opening his law office at Farmington. With the exception of two years he has been in continuous practice here ever since, and on July i, 1913, was appointed judge of the District Court of Farmington. In 1893 Judge Wiggin was married to Miss Harriet Bradeen, who was born in February, 1873, the elder of two children born to her parents, William H. and Sarah F. Bradeen, of Waterboro, Me. One daughter was born to this marriage, Esther Beatrice, who lived but six years. Judge Wiggin and wife attend the Baptist church. His political identification is with the Republican party. As a citizen of public spirit Judge Wiggin has not been unmindful of the general welfare and for twelve years accepted the responsibilities of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 811 membership on the board of education, during eight years of the time being chairman of the board. He is a Mason, being senior warden of Fraternal Lodge No. 71 at Farmington, and belongs also to Harmony Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and to Woodbine Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mrs. \Viggin is a member of the Order of Rebekah. REV. FABIEN GEDEON DESHAIES, pastor of St. Charles Catholic Church, Dover, N. H., was born September 27, 1863, at St. Damien, Berthier County, Province of Quebec, Canada, one of the 13 children of Augustin Deshaies and Marine Gareau. He made his first course of study at Joliette Seminary and was sul>sequently ordained priest by Archl>ishop Fabre at Montreal, February 14. 189-'. On October 22, 1893, h*^ ^^'^-s stationed at Somersworth, N. H., where he served as assistant priest for eight years under the Rev. C. Demmers. On February 14, 1902, he was appointed pastor of the Holy Angels Church at Westville, N. H., and remained there for a period of five years, after which he was transferred to the St. Joseph Church at Epping, N. H., 29th of April, 1907. From x\ugust, 1908, to January, 191 1, he was obliged to take a vacation on account of ill health. He was next, on January 29th, 191 1. appointed to his present charge as pastor of St. Charles Church, Dover. N. H. Si. Charles parish was founded by Rev. J. J. Richard. The first Mass was celebrated in the Lowell Hall (now Lyric Hall), November 11, 1893, 235 people being present, besides children. On the ist of May, 1896, Father Richard began the construction of the present church, the contract for the building being $9,400.00. The total cost, with pipe organ, vestments, etc., was about $20,000.00. The first Mass in the present church was celebrated November 8, 1896. The attendance is now, besides children, 700. Beginning with 124 families, it has increased to 300 families. The school, built in 1901, opened with 212 i)upils and si.\ sisters; it has now 361 pupils, and ten sisters of Presentation, all being under Father Deshaies' supervision. E. J. YORK, an extensive dealer in lumber, grain and coal, at Dover, with ofiice at No. 121 Washington street, yard on Locust street and grain elevator on Folsom street, was born at Greenland, N. H., in 1858. His parents were Jeremiah and Evaline (Bennett) York. His father was a resident of Dover for fifty years and during his active life follow-ed farming. E. J. York was one of a family of five children born to his parents and is largely a self made man. After his school period, which included several terms at Franklin Academy in Dover, he went to the New Hampton Listitutc, and was subsequently engaged in farnnng in Strafford County until about 812 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 1893, when he started his present business in Dover. Beginning with one horse and delivering his own commodities, he now has twenty-eight men on his payroll and keeps a number of teams in continual use. Thrift and good judgment have marked his undertakings and under such conditions success is not unusual. Mr. York is credited with being the largest dealer in his line in New Hampshire. Air. York married Miss Addie W'enell, of Dover, and they have two children, Grace and Charles. In politics he is a Republican. He is a thirty- second degree Mason, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias, and belongs also to the Grange. ROBERT A. PARRY,* who is manager of the Gonic, N. H., brick plant of the Boston Brick Company, and ])art in\entor of the new coal system of burning brick, is well known in the brick manufacturing. indu.stry, with which he has been identified since youth. He was born at Cambridge, ]\Iass., June II, 1865, and is a son of C. E. and Susan ( Porter) I'arry. C. E. Parr}', who \\as long connected with brick manufacturing, was a native of Canada. He died at Cambridge, Mass., in 1878, at the age of 49 years. He married Susan Porter, who passed away in 1891, when aged 66 years, the mother of fi\e sons. After his school days were ended, Robert A. Parry went into the brick manufacturing business with his father and has since continued in it. The Boston Brick Company has its main offices at Boston, ]Mass., with branch offices at Somersworth and at Gonic. The latter place is the site of the plant started in 1902, located one mile south of Gonic, the company purchasing 150 acres and leasing an additional 100 acres. The product is sandstruck, waterstruck and Harvard brick and employment is afforded 1 10 men. The officers of the Boston Brick Company are : George A. Parry, treasurer ; J. O. Bennett, w ho is manager of the Chelsea yard ; and Richard H. and Robert A. Parry. The Parry Brick Company is the sales company of the Boston Brick Company and its officers are: G. .\., R. PI. and R. .\. Parry, Robert .\, being manager from Lowell to Portland. The Parry Brick Company owns the large part of the Boston Brick Company and manufactures all special shapes of brick. The Parry Brick Company sold and supplied brick for the Great Falls construction, nearly 4,ooo,ocx> brick being used in building that manufacturing plant ; the Do\er Storage plant, of Pacific Mills and the Laconia Car Builders' works, an"d is just completing the delivery of 4,000,000 brick for the new freshman dormitory at Harvard College. The Boston Brick Company own the coal system of burning brick, which was invented AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 813 by Robert A. Parry and J. O. Bennett, which system has proved cheaper and productive of better results than any former method. Mr. Parry was married November 13, 1889, to Miss Maria G. McGlear. Pohtically he is a RepuIjHcan and fraternally a Mason. No name in Imsiness circles is held in higher regard in New England than is that of Parry and it is perpetuated in the present generation by two sons of Mr. Parry, Robert E., who was born April 3. iSgi, and is a member of the present senior class of Harvard College; and John E., who was born January 28, 1894, and is em- ployed in the shipping office of the Boston Brick Company, at Somersworth, N. H. WILLIAM L. McEL\\'.A.IN,* who fills the responsible position of boss dyer for the Gonic Alanufacturing Company, of Gonic, N. H., is an experi- enced man in this line of mill work, having been identified with the industry since early manhooelongs to the lodge, Chapter Council and Commandery at Rochester, being a past oflicial of the lodge and chapter, and present eminent commander of the cominandery. The family attend the Church Society of Friends. REV. HORMISDAS TETREAU, pastor of St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church at Gonic, N. H., came to his present charge October 9, 1913, from Nashua, N. H. He was born in the historic old town of St. Charles, Canada, May 15, 1876, and was early dedicated to the church. His education was accordingly directed along this line and for eight years he attendetl St. Hyacinthe College, was afterward a student for three years at Grand Semi- nary, Montreal, Canada, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 12, 1904. After spending eight months in connection with the hospital at Farn- ham, Canada, he became chaplain of St. Peter's Orphanage, at Manchester, N. H., where he remained for almost four years. Father Tetrean was then assigned as assistant pastor under Father Rich- ards of St. Charles church, at Dover, remaining there one year, and being then appointed assistant pastor at St. Aloysius church, at Nashua, N. H.. in which position he remained four years. He then came to St. Leo's at Gonic. This church was built in the autumn of 1891, the first resident priest being Father Larocque. His successors have been Fathers A. Lessard, Melancon, Godin and the present pastor. Father Tetrean. This is a nice little parish, Father Tetreau having 105 families under his spiritual care. He impresses a visitor as an earnest Christian man of broad sympathies, and many of the plans he has in \-iew will be beneficial not only to his church but also to the community at large. JOSIAH P. JENNESS, who occupies a \'ery responsible position as super- intendent of the American Woolen Company Sawyer Mills at Dover, has EEV. HORMISDAS TETREAU AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 817 been identified with these mills almost his entire business life. He was born April 23, 1867, and is a son of Stephen A. and Hannah (Cook) Jenness, the former of whom was born at Rochester, and the latter in Somersworth, N. H. For many years they were residents of Do\'er. Josiah P. Jenness was twelve years old when his father died. He at- tended the public schools of Dover until old enough to become self supporting, when he secured a position in the Dover postoffice, under Postmaster Joshua Varney, where he remained for three years. He was in his twentieth year when he became a clerk in the Sawyer Woolen Mills at Dover and served in this capacity in the main office for six years, then beconfing assistant super- intendent under Superintendent T. M. Clark for six years. On account of poor health he w as out for two years. He then returned as clerical eniijloye for the Sawyers, and after the American Woolen Company took charge was made paymaster, which position he held fi\'e years, then becoming superin- tendent. In his political acti\ities Mr. Jenness supi)Orts men rather than parties, being a man of broad outlook and true appreciation of good citizen- ship. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of New Hampshire and is a past master of Strafford Lodge. He is widely known in the fraternity and not only is past district deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire liut is grand representative of the Grand Lodge of the states of Arkansas and Michigan. Mr. Jenness was married first to Miss Caroline M. Meserxe, a daughter of Samuel Meserve, of Dover. His second marriage was to Miss Mary O. Franklin, of Dover and one daughter survives, Pauline F. Mr. Jenness mar- ried for his third wife. Miss S. Maud Libljy, daughter of Frank M. Libby, of Do\"er, N. H., and they liaxe one daughter, 01i\e A. Mr. Jenness an"d fanfily are members of St. John's Methodist Ejiiscopal church at Do\er, of which he was treasurer for a number of years. The fanuly is well known in the city's pleasant social life. HON. JOHN KIVEL*, one of the associate justices of the superior court of the state of New Hampshire, and a highly esteemed resident of Dover, was born in the latter city April 29, 1855, a son of Patrick and Catherine Don- augher Kivel. Graduated from the Dover high school in 1871, he later attended Dartmouth college, from which institution he was graduated in 1876. He studied law in Dover with the late Frank Hobbs, was admitted to the bar in 1879, and has since practiced his profession in the difl^erent counties of the state with marked success. From 1887 to 1893 he ser\'ed as county solicitor for Strafford County and was a member of the State Board of License Com- missioners from March 29, 1903, to May 26, 1913, when he was appointed to his present position on the bench. 818 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COL'XTY On October 12, 1879, he was united in marriage with Aliss Eva G. Ennis, a daughter of Albert Ennis. Judge Ki\el and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church and they reside at No. 40 Cushing street, Dover. He is a trustee in the StrafTord Savings bank and in politics is a Democrat. JAMES LUCEY, boss carder and foreman of the carding and picking department of the Gonic Manufacturing Company, at Gonic, N. H., has been identified with the woolen mill industry almost all his life. He was born at Oueenstown, County Cork, Ireland, October i, 184S, and is a son of James and Mary (Walsh) Lucey. Seven of their nine children were born in Ire- land and James was three years old when the}- came to America and secured a home in the city of Boston, Mass., where the elder James Lucey became a landscape gardener, James Lucey, the younger, attended school at Baladvale and also at Lawrence and then entered a woolen mill and subsequently was employed at different places in woolen mills in Massachusetts prior to entering the army during the Civil war. He served twenty months as a member of Com- pany M, Second Mass. Hea\y Artillery, and when the war was over returned to his former place of emiiloyment, the .South (iri:)veland Mills, at South Groveland, Mass. From there he came to Gonic, May 11, 1880, becoming boss carder, with eight men in his department and has continued in this position, now having 18 men under his direction and supervision. Mr. Lucey has shown that he not only has the technical knowledge necessary for this position, but that he also possesses the other qualities that are demanded in a satisfactory superintendent in order that the work may be expedited without complaint or friction. Mr. Lucev married Miss Hannah T. Donahue, who was born in Ireland, a (laughter of John and Mary (Cronan) Donahue. They have had nine children— John F., David J., James E., :\Iary A., Anna T., Margaret M., Agnes A.. Stephen D. and Celia Rose. Of the above three are deceased — Mary A., Stephen D. and Celia Rose. ?^Ir. Lucey and family are members of St. Mary's Catholic church. In politics he is a Republican. He belongs to Division No. 2, A. O. H., of Rochester, and is pa.st commander of the G. A. R. Post at Rochester. The family residence is at No. 66 Church street, Gonic. ELISHA RHODES BROWN, third son and fourth child of Colville Dana and Mary Eliza (Rhodes) Brown, was born in Rrovidence. R. I., 28th March, 1847. The family removed to Dover, N. H., in 1850. and he has con- tinued to reside in this city ever since, being practically a native of the city. He was educated in the public schools here, and although not a college graduate EL18HA R. BROWN AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 821 he is a well read and scholarly man, having a large and carefully selected library at his house. He began his business life, as many of his ancestors did, as clerk in a store; as such he served four years in the dry goods store of Trickey & Bickford, in Dover. On loth December, 1867, Mr. Brown commenced his banking career as teller in the Strafford National Bank, with which he has been connected continuously for nearly forty-five years. He served as teller eight years. January i, 1876, he was elected cashier. Ten years later, 12th January, 1886, he was elected one of the directors of the bank; June 30, 1890, he was elected vice-president; April 26, 1897, he was elected president, which ofifice he has held continuously to the present time (1914). Mr. Brown was elected one of the corporators of the Strafford Sav- ings Bank, 25 March, 1S76; trustee 31 March, 1883; vice-president 24 March, 1890; president 21 October, 1891, which office he has held continuously to the present time. Mr. Brown has been a busy and efficiently hard worker in connection with these banks, but outside of that he has been actively identified with many other important enterprises. He was director in the Manchester and Lawrence, Dover & Winnipiseogee, West Amesbury Branch, Eastern New Hampshire and Portsmouth and Dover Railroads. He is now director of the Concord & Portsmouth Railroad and Maine Central Railroad. He was director of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company at the time of its sale to the Pacific Mills Company. In these \arious directorships he was an active member of the companies, and his good judgment and keen foresight had much influence in their successful management. His ability as a banker and business manager are widelv known. Governor Sawyer and Council appointed Mr. Brown the Commissioner for New Hampshire, 5 February, 1889, to attend the celebration of the Centennial of the Inauguration of \\'ashington as President of the United States. In the Constitutional Convention of this year he was a delegate from Ward Four in this city. He was an active member and president of the old Do\er Library and when the Dover Library was merged in the Dover Public Library he was made one of the trustees, which position he has held continuously to the present time. Franklin Academy was established here in 1818 and for three-quarters of a century was a flourishing institution and did good work in the higher education of the boys and girls of Dover. In its later years Mr. Brown was president of the trustees. About 1900, the school was closed, the building and grounds were sold and the proceeds properly invested. Later when the subject of having a Public Library building and a High School building erected was under consideration, it was largely 822 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY tlirough his iiitlueiice and good judgment that the funds of the institution were investetl in tlie purchase of the Hon. WiUiam Hale estate on Locust street, and donated to the city for the perpetual use of the lihrary and the school. So the funds of the Academy continue to be used for purposes of education. ;\Ir. Brown is and has been for several years, vice-president of the Xew Hamp.shire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in which ofticial position he has done much good work in Dover and vicinity, in the protection of dumb animals that were being cruelly treated by their owners, and by his vigorous enforcement of the law against them. ]\Ir. Brown stands very high in the Masonic orders, being a memlier of Moses Paul Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons; Belknap Chapter of Royal Arch ^Lasons : Orphan Council, Royal and Select Masters; St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar, all of Dover. In Scottish Rite Masonry he has taken all the degrees up to and including the Thirty-second degree, and is a member of the New Hampshire Consistory, of Nashua. His various other duties have not given him time to hold official positions in these organizations, but he has for many years been a loyal supporter of them all. He has also for many years been a member of \\'ecohamet Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellrjw s. In politics Mr. Brown is, and always has been, a Republican, having cast his first vote for General Grant for president in November, 18G8. He is still firm in the faith of the well established principles of that party. In religion he is a Congregationalist, havi-ng joined the First Church in Dover July 5, 1873; in 1885 he was elected one of the deacons of the Church; he still retains that office but retired from active service in 191 1. In his official relations Mr. Brown has rendered invalualile assistance in the man- agement of financial affairs of this very ancient Church, and when he retired from active service as deacon the Church ga\e him a highly complimentary and perfectly just vote of thanks, at a large meeting of the members. When the Wentworth Home for the Aged was established by the munifi- cence of Hon. Arioch \\'entworth of Boston, in 1898, Mr. Brown was elected one of the trustees and has held that office continuously to the present time. The first President of the incorporators was ]\Ir. Joseph Brown Sawyer. On the death of Mr. Sawyer in 1908, Mr. Brown was elected to fill the vacancy, and now holds the office. The Wentworth Home has a fund of o\er $.200,000 and is one of the most prosperous and best managed institutions of the kind in New England. There are at present thirty members cared for at the Home. Mr. Brown was one of the founders and has always been a liberal sup- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 823 porter and member of the official board of the Dover Children's Home, located in a large brick building on Locust street. In this from thirty to forty children are cared for, educated, and, at the proper age, placed in good families to be brought up to manhood and womanhood and become good citizens. Formerly the Pine Hill Cemetery was managed by a committee of the City Council; a change was made in the City Charter, and several years ago the management was placed in the control of a board of trustees and Mr. Brown was elected one of the members of the board, which office he has held continuously to the present. In this connection his duties have not by any means been sinecure. Under the direction of the trustees the cemetery has been greatly improved and much enlarged. It is now one of the beautiful spots of the city, and Mr. Brown as trustee has done his full share of the work in the planning and financing the improvements. Mr. Broii'n's Ancestors and Kiusiucn. — Mr. Brown inherits his character and business ability from worthy ancestors. His father, Colville Dana Brown, was born in Providence. R. I.. 4 July, 181 4. He came to Dover in 1850 and for a number of years was an expert calico printer in the Cocheco Print Works, whose products commanded the best prices in the country. Shortly after the Civil War began he entered the government service and was an official in the Commissary Department to the end of the war, serving faithfully and efficiently. Soon after the close of the war he was appointed Superintendent of the Government Grounds in Washing- ton, D. C, which important position he held until his death, 2 January, 1898. Mr. Brown's grandfather, John Brown, was a successful merchant in Providence, and was son of Elisha Brown, also a successful merchant in that city. He was son of Deputy-Governor Elisha Brown, who was born in Providence in 1717 and died in that city in 1802. His wife was Mary Harris. He was one of the leading business men of Providence, a member of the Rhode Island General .Assembly a number of years and Deputy Gi^v- ernor 1765, 1766 and 17(17. James Brown, an elder l)rother of Deputy Governor Elisha Brown, is best remembered by his four sons, Nicholas, Joseph, John and Moses, who in the Providence annals are known as the "Four Brothers." A brief notice of each may be of interest, so is here gix-en. Nicholas was left an orphan at the age of ten years, and the youngest, Mo.ses, was but seven months old when his father died, _'7 April, 1739: but they had a remarkable mother, who brought the boys up to be staunch Baptists and keen business men. Nicholas followed mercantile pursuits and 48 824 HISTORY OF STR.AFFORD COUNTY therel)}' acquiretl a \'ery ample fortune. He was liberal with his wealth and a generous benefactor of Rhode Island College. Joseph Brown, second of the four brothers, was likewise engaged in business and in manufacturing and acquired sufficient wealth to permit him to follow his natural taste for science. He became an expert in the knowl- edge of electricit}-. He was also proficient in astronomy. He was a warm friend of Rhode Island College, of which he was one of the trustees for several years, and during the last two years of his life he was Professor of Natural Philosophy, serving without pay. John Brown, the third brother, was the most energetic of the four and became the wealthiest of them all, and it is said he was the first merchant in Rhode Island to carry trade to China and the East Indies. He was a leader in the party that destroyed the British sloop-of-war "Gaspee" in Narragansett Bay, on 17 June, 1772, and was sent in irons to Bost'on on suspicion of having been concerned in that affair, but he was released through the eft'orts of his brother, the Quaker member of the family. Antici- pating the war of the Revolution, he instructed the captains of his ships to freight their vessels on their return ^■oyages with powder, so when the war began at Lexington and Concord, and the battle of Bunker Hill had been fought, and Washington assembled his army at Cambridge with only four rounds of powder for each soldier, Mr. Brown sent up a generous supply of powder from Rhode Island which enabled Washington to proceed to business in besieging Boston. After the war he served as member of Congress several years. But greatest of all, ]\Ir. Brown laid the corner stone of the first building of Rhode Island College, now Brown University. He was one of the largest contributors and was for twenty years its treasurer. Moses Brown, the youngest brother, was brought up in the family of his uncle Obediah, whose daughter he married. When he was twenty-five years old he became engaged in business with his three brothers, but, after ten vears with them, withdrew and engaged in l>usiness by himself. He withdrew from the Baptists and became a member of the Society of Friends. Possessing large wealth he emulated his brother John, in the Rhode Island College business, and became .the founder of the Friends' Boarding School in Providence, and his donations in support of it were frequent and lilieral. In 1773, he manumitted his sla\es and was one of the founders of the Abolition Society of Rhode Island. There is one more of this family of brothers who deserves mention in this connection, Nicholas Brown the philanthropist, son of Nicholas, the eldest of the "Four Brothers." This son was born in Providence in 1769. He was graduated from Rhode Island College in 1786, and in 1791 the AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 825 death of his father left him with a handsome fortune. Forming a partner- ship with his brother-in-law, Thomas P. Ives, he became a merchant, and, by his wisdom and honorable dealing, made the firm of Brown & Ives one of the most successful in the country. For many years he was a member of the Rhode Island Legislature. He was one of the most munificent patrons of Rhode Island College, which, in 1804, changed its name to Brown Uni- versity in his honor. His donations to the college amounted in all to more than $100,000. In addition to this he gave about $50,000 to other institu- tions. Deputy Governor Elisha Brown, uncle to the "Four Brothers," was son of Reverend James and Mary (Harris) Brown, who was a noted Baptist minister of Providence. The Reverend James was son of Elder John and Mary (Holmes) Brown. Elder Brown was a noted minister and succeeded his father the Reverend Chad Brown as pastor of the First Baptist Church at Providence, the oldest Baptist Church in America. Chad Brown, the immigrant ancestor of Elisha Rhodes Brown, was an Elder in the Baptist Church. The dates of his birth and death have not been definitely ascer- tained. He died i)robably in 1665; but colonial records were largely destroyed during King Philip's W^ir, ten years later, and it cannot be verified. He came over from England in the ship "Martin" and landed at Boston in July, 1638. About this time occurred the "Anabaptist heresy" and many of the Boston colonists removed to the Providence I'lantations. It is probable that Mr. Brown was among these, for his tombstone, erected by the town, bears record that he was "exiled from Massachusetts for conscience sake." He probably arrived in Providence in the autumn of 1638, when Roger Williams and twelve others executed what is known as the "initial deed," assigning the land acquired by purchase from the Indians. Mr. Brown at once became a leader in the afi^airs of the colony, and when, after three months, the restless Williams finding that the Church would not implicitly accept his teaching, again seceded, Mr. Brown was chosen as his successor. He was formally ordained Elder in England in 1642, and assumed the pas- toral office on his return, and was in reality the first Elder of the First Baptist Church in America. Prior to his ordination serious dissensions had arisen in the colony, involving a quarrel with Massachusetts, and Mr. Brown was one of the comnnttee appointed to make peace. He was a peace maker in various other w-ays and his influence in shaping the early tendencies of the colony was marked, and it is probable that, but for his resolute character and judicious management, the daring and refractory spirits tiiat composed the colony would ha\e come to blows on a dozen different questions of civil and religious import. So successful was he in adjusting the quarrels of 826 HISTORY OF STR.-\FFORD COUNTY his flock that the lionorable title of "Peacemaker" was popularly accorded him. Mary Holmes, wife of Elder John Brown, was daughter of the Rev- erend Obediah Holmes, who was the first pastor of the First Baptist Church at Xewport, R. I., and a man of great inlluence in the business affairs of that part of the colony. He was one of the Commissioners for the General Court in 1655-58 to settle ofiicial disputes and difficulties; and again in 1676 he was Councillor for the General Assembly of the Colony in the troublesome Indian wars. It seems worthy to note that in thejuly (1912) number of the Journal of American History mention is made of the fact that Abraham Lincoln was a lineal descendant of Obediah Holmes, through the Lincoln fanuly of Alassachusetts. Elisha Rhodes Brown is a descendant from very distinguished ancestors on his mother's side. First of these may be mentioned Roger Williams, one of the great historical characters of Xew England, being the founder of the colony of Rhode Island and the pioneer of religious liberty in America. He was born in London, 1604; son of a merchant tailor; graduate of Pem- broke College, Cambridge; studied law, then studied theology, and held ecclesiastical positions in England. Emigrated to Xew England with his wife Mary, arrived in Boston in February, 163 1, and in April following became an assistant teacher, or minister, at Salem ; later he was assistant to the minister at Plymouth. In August, 1634, he became teacher, or min- ister, at Salem, where he had been assistant. His preaching and teaching were so liberal that he incurred the hostility of the authorities of the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony. After recei\'ing \-arious admonitions, which he did not heed, he was formally tried by the General Court, which decreed he should be banished from the domain of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. \\'hen they were about to arrest him he made his escape into what is now Rhode Island. If the authorities had caught him they would ha\e slu'pped him back to England. So, in June, 1636, Williams with four companions founded the first settlement in Rhode Island, to which, in remembrance of "God's merciful proxidence to him in his distress" he gave the name Provi- dence. W'hen government was organized the chief corner stone, laid by Williams himself, was complete religious toleration, with a view to its becoming "a shelter for persons distressed for conscience." The result was the colony speeerty of the town of Dover until the loth of the 8 mo. 1653, when "Thirty acres of upland on Fox Poynt" were granted to John Bickford, Sr. Mr. Bickford and his wdfe Tem- perance, May 13. 1677, gave it to their daughter Mary, wife of Nicholas Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison resided there until his death in 1708, when it passed, by will, to their daughter Elizabeth, wife of Col. John Down- ing, and the Downings lived there several generations, until about 1840. John Bickford, Sr., is Mrs. Brown's immigrant ancestor. It was to the 832 HISTORY OF STIL\FFORD COUNTY home of Nicholas Harrison and his wife, Mary Bickford, that the Meaders and Bickfords and Edgerly and others fled when they escaped from the awful Indian massacre at Oyster River in July, 1694, not having suitable protection at home. As one sits in Mr. Brown's Camp it is not ditiicult to call up a picture of the women and children being rowed across to Fox Point, in the common boats of the period, as the war whoops of the savages were heard and the flames of the burning garrisons along the river were seen behind them. There was the home of Col. John Downing, who for twenty years was one of Governor Benning ^^'entw•orth's Councillors, a man of remarkable ability and of great influence in the province. One of his intimate friends and co-laborers was Councillor Joseph Smith of Oyster River, a kinsman of Mrs. Brown, on her mother's side. It was a descendant of Col. Down- ing, Mr. Samuel Downing, who died in 1864, who was the last survivor of the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army. Councillors Downing and Smith were guests at the historic wedding at the W'entworth Mansion, Little Harbor, when Governor \\'entworth and Martha Ililton were united in marriage by the Reverend Arthur Brown, the scene of which is so beautifully described by Longfellow in his poem. "Lady Wentworth." Mr. Brown's camp is near the mouth of Oyster River, on the south side of which is Durham Point, between which and Fox Point is the Narrows that connects Little Bay with Pascataqua River. On Durham Point were the Bickford garrison and the Edgerly garrison ; the latter was captured and burned by the Indians in July, 1694, while Judge Edgerly and his family escaped in boats across to Fox Point. Captain Thomas Bickford, howe\'er, defended his garrison successfully in a very unique manner. As soon as the Captain was aroused from his slumbers by the alarm guns at the upper garrisons, which told him the Indians were at hand, he hustled his wife and children into boats and sent them across to Fox Point. He closed fast the big door of the palisade and then awaited the approach of the enemy. When they arrived and began firing gvms at his house he in turn fired rapidly as possible at them, and kept up a great shouting of mili- tary orders, as if he had a company of men; and from time to time he showed himself to the enemy in a fresh guise, cap and unifonn. In this way Captain Bickford deceived them so effectually that they thought his garrison was well manned with soldiers, and so gave up the attempt to reduce it. Captain Bickford was a kinsman of Mrs. Brown. The Davis garrison stood near Oyster River, a short distance above Mr. Brown's Camp. It was there that Lieut. James Davis successfully defended it against the attack of the Indians in 1694. It was there that his son. Col. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 833 James Davis, resided, wlio in liis day was one of the leading men of Dover and the Province. Tile Smith garrison was a sliort distance above tlie Davis garrison and in sight of it. Tiiis garrison was Imilt by Joseph Smith, who on the 31st, 7 mo. 1660, had a grant of land there, which has remained in the posses- sion of the Smith family continnously to the present day, a period of 2^,2 years, the present owner being Mr. Forest S. Smith. Mr. Smith built his house there and soon bought more land from the William Williams estate, north of his grant, from the town of Dover. About fifteen years later he converted his house into a garrison, as the Indians were beginning to be troublesome. It so remained until I7_'5, when the Indian wars hereabouts ceased. When the Indians made the attack in 1694 Captain Smith was ready for them, having been aroused by the reports of the guns fired up- river. The Indians made a furious attack, but were repulsed at all sides. So not only the Smith family, but also several others who had lied tliere for protection, were saved. Near where the garrison stood is the Smith fainily burying ground, in which can be seen sets of grave stones the like of wdiich cannot be duplicated in New Hampshire. There are interred the remains of seven generations who in succession had been proprietors of the Joseph Smith farm, beginning in 1660. AH were conspicuous citizens and business men of the town. Mrs. John Brow^n's mother is a lineal descend- ant from Joseph Smitli. To the east of the camp can be seen the site of the old meeting house on Dover Neck, where was the beginning of Dover histoiy. That was Dover, when the present center of the city was simply "Cochecho" in Dover. The meeting house that stood there was the center of business for nearly a century. Several years ago Mr. Brown and the late Governor Sawyer purchased four acres there, which includes the site, and presented it to the First Church. A few years ago Margery Sullivan Chapter, D. A. R., \-ery generously had a splendid bank wall built along the east side, next to the road, on which they placed a bronze tablet with appropriate inscription ; they also had iron rails around the site on which the meeting house stood. CHARLES \V. LEAVITT*. a veteran of the great Civil war, residing at 34 Prospect street, Dover, N. H., came to this city in 1905. He was born in Gilford, Belknap county, N. H., Feb. 3, 1840, a son of Taylor and Maria (Roberts) Leavitt. Both his parents were natives of New Hampshire, the father born in StrafYord, of which place his father, Samuel Leavitt, was a resident for a number of years. When about three years old Taylor Leavitt removed from Strafiford, N. H. to Gilford, Belknap county, with his parents, 834 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY and there he was reared and there iHed in his 83d year. His father, Samuel, passed away in i860. Charles \V. Leavitt, our direct subject, was reared in Gilford, acquiring his education in the public schools, and residing on his father's farm, on which at an early age he began to make himself useful. On August 9, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, 12th X. H. Volunteer Infantry, and soon found himself a soldier in the Army of the Potomac. With that army he took part in some of its most desperate battles, including Drury's Bluff, Ber- muda Hundred, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and numerous other actions more or less bloody. Being severely wounded in the neck at Cold Harbor, he spent several months subsequently in various hospitals, on his partial recovery being assigned to duty with a wagon train. \\'ith his regiment he entered Richmond after its e\'acuation by the Confederates. He received an honor- able discharge in July. 18(15 '''^'' liien, returning to his native town of Gilford, he engaged there in farming, an occupation in which he continued for many years. He then moved to Laconia, N. H., remaining there four years and thence going to Somersworth. this county, but not long after, he came in 1905, as above stated, to Dover, which place has since been his home. He was formerly a member oi the Lakeport, X. H. post of the G. A. R. In politics he is a Democrat and he is widely recognized as a progressive, up to date citizen, taking an interest in everything calcidated to benefit the community in which he resides. Mr. Leavitt has been three times married, first to Martha Dolloff, of Laconia, X'. H., who bore him two children — Myrtle E., now the wife of Levi Wright of Laconia; and Florence A., the widow of Frank Cheney and a resident of Lakeport, X. H. Mr. Leaxitt's second wife was Mary Lamp- rey, a native of Alton, X. H. He married thirdly Mrs. Eliza Lilley, widow of Joseph Lilley, a former well known resident of Lakeport, N. H. She is a daughter of George H. Spencer, a native of England, where she also was born. Her father was formerly a well known and respected resident of Lakeport. Mrs. Leavitt is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church and she and her husband are popular members of Dover society. CHARLES H. EASTMAN, one of the well known residents of Gonic, who, for the past five years has been a special police officer here from the Third Ward, was born at Kearsarge, X^. H., July 26, 1852, and is a son of Abiathar and Louisa (Holt) Eastman, both now deceased. In the schools of his native place Mr. Eastman received educational training and from Kearsarge, in 1893, he moved to Rochester, N. H., having already learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed at Rochester until 1905, when he AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 835 came to Gonic. While a resident of Rochester he worked for ahiiost aU ihe contractors at one time or another and there are few streets in tliat jilace on which he has not helped in the building of some structure. As Rochester, is somewhat noted for its attractive appearance, Mr. Eastman may be justi- fiably proud of his creditable work there. Three years after coming to Gonic he was appointed to bis present office, the duties of which he has faithfully performed ever since. He resides at Xo. -j Main street, Gonic. Mr. Eastman married Miss Margaret Lynch, who was born at Rochester, and is a daughter of Patrick and Winifred Lynch. In politics he is a Democrat. LESLIE PERKINS SNOW, law.yer and president of the Rochester National Bank, of Rochester, N. PI., was born in Snowville, Carroll County, N. H., October 19, 1862. He is a son of Anson Edwin and a grandson of Joseph Snow, the latter of whom married Sally Atlinson. Anson E. Snow, father of our subject, was born at Snowville, N. H., October 15, 1836. He was educated in the schools of Eaton, in which town Snowville is situated, and for some time remained at home, taking care of his parents in their old age. The ancestral estate finally came into his possession, and in 1856, in company with his brother, he opened a general store at Snowville. Three years later he bought out his brother and subsequently carried on the busi- ness alone. In 1866 he built a com])ination saw and grist mill. Erom 1873 to 1S78 he was a member of the firm of Snow & Brooks, cattle dealers, their operations extending throughout Maine and New Hampshire. Erom 1856 he was also continuously engaged in the lumber business, carrying on whole- sale manufacturing, together with a saw mill and store, and gradually adding to liis possessions. He carried on his lumber operations on .scientific prin- ciples, cutting only the -large timber and letting the small stand. A man of sound business judgment, large executive ability and unquestioned integ- rity, be was highly successful. He also took a prominent and useful part in local affairs. As a Democrat he served his party on the State committee, was a leader in promoting pulilic improvements, such as the nio\ement for a highway from Eaton to Brownfield. Me. and to Conway. N. H. ; served as justice of the peace, and was legal ad\ isor of his fellow townsmen on various matters of importance. As moderator he presided at town meetings for many years. He was selectman of the town of Eaton in 1864-66 and from 1878 to 1882, 1887 to 1889 and in 1900, presiding as chairman of the board, except during the first year. From 1895 to 1897 he was on the board of education; in 1S73 he was town clerk, town treasurer in 1877; postmaster of Snow\ille in 1894; county commissioner for 1875-1876; auditor from 836 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY 1881 to 1886; and again county commissioner from 1881 to 1S91. Elected representative to the State legislature, he served during the sessions of 1 867- 1 868, 1 881 -1 882- 1 883- 1 884 and 1899- 1900, being a member during a part of this time of the Railroad and Judiciary committees. He was a State senator in 1891-1892, and in 1894 was appointed a member of the State Board of Equalization, serving thereon until his death at which time he was the oldest member in point of service. In these various and respon- sible positions he showed more than ordinary ability and ever with a due regard for the public interest, by which he earned the gratitude and esteem of his fellow citizens. Religiously he was a consistent member of Mt. Chris- tian Baptist Church. He also belonged to the Odd Fellows' lodge at Snowville. Anson E. Snow was married, October 14, 1857. to Helen AI. Perkins, of which union there were six children — Xellie H., Isabella, Leslie P. (subject of this sketch), Bertha C, Helen AI. and Xellie. In 1902 he married for his second wife, Martha Jane Harmon. Leslie Perkins Snow in his youth attended Fryburg and Bridgton acad- emies, graduating from Bridgton in the class of 1881. He then spent a year engaged in business in Sno\\\ille, after which, in 1882. he entered Dart- mouth College, graduating B. A. in the class of 1886. During his college life he was a member of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity and in 1886 served as its president. During his vacation he was associated in business with his father, and from 1887 he presided o\er town meetings for a number of years. In 1S87-1888 he represented the town of Eaton in the legislature. Appointed special pension examiner for the U. S. Government, he served in that capacity frum 1887 to 1890, spending two years in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado and one year in Washington, D. C. In 1S87 also he began the study of law and was graduated from the Columbia Law School (now George Wasliington University) in the class of 1800, taking first prize for the best legal essay. He was admittetl to the Alar^land bar in June. 1890, and llien returning to Snowville was engaged in the lumber industry there for one year. Being admitted to the New Hampshire bar in August, 1891, he opened a law office in Rochester, but almost immediately became a member of the law firm of Worcester, Gafney & Snow, the other members of the firm l)eing Joseph H. Worcester and Charles B. (jafney. This firm had already built up a large practice. After the death of Judge Gafney in 1898 the lousiness was con- tinued under the old style until 1900, when Mr. Worcester died and Air. Snow has since continued it alone, conducting a successful practice. Since 1881 his name has been associated with that of his father in the firm of A. E. Snow & Son, in the general store, mill and lumber business. AND REPRESENTATIXE CITIZENS 837 Mr. Snow is a trustee of the Gafney Home for the Aged, of which lie was the chief proniotor, and lie is also trustee for several large estates. He served on the school board of Rochester from 1899 to 1904 and has been warden of the Congregational church since 1903. In January, 1S99 he became a director of the Rochester National Bank, being elected its president February 25, 190J. He has built three houses in Rochester, including his fine residence on North Main street. Mr. Snow is a Mason of high degree, belonging to Humane Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; Temple Chapter, R. A. M. ; Orient Council, R. & S. M.; Palestine Commandery K. T., of Rochester, N. H., and Bektash Temple, M. S., of Concord, N. H. He also belongs to Trinity Lodge, L O. O. F., of Snowville. He was first married, November 28, 1888, to Susan E. Currier, of Haver- hill, N. H., of which union there were two children born — Conrad Edwin, August 6, 1889, and Leslie Whitmore, December 9, 1890. Mrs. Snow was a daughter of Franklin Pettingil and Missouri (Whitmore) Currier, her father born July 12, 1830 and her mother, February 3, 1839. She is a descend- ant on the paternal side from Richard Currier, of South Hampton, Mass. and Hezekiah Foster, of Salisbury, N. H., both Revolutionary soldiers. Mrs. Susan E. Snow died June 6, 1892, and in June, 1894, Mr. Snow married for his second wife her sister. Norma C. Currier. He and his wife are prominent members of Rochester society. JAMES F. TEAGUE, who occupies an extremely important position as foreman in the wool room and as boss wool sorter of the scourine and drying department of the Gonic Manufacturing Comiiany, at Gonic, was born January 9, 1862, at Rochester, N. H.. and is a son of James and Hannah ( McMeniman ) Teague. James Teague and wife were both born in the north of Ireland. For many years he was foreiuan and boss finisher in the Rochester Mill. He died at his home in Rochester at the age of 05 years, having survived his wife about 25 years. Her burial was at Lowell, Mass., and his was in the ceme- tery at Rochester. They were members of the Catholic church. Eight chil- dren were born to them, five of whom are living, two sons and three daugh- ters. The grandfather, Lanty Teague, spent his life in the north of Ireland. James Teague, in younger days was a member of the Ancient Order of Hiber- nians. Patrick Teague, a brother of James Teague, gave two of his 15 children, to serve in the Ci\-il war in the I'nited States. Thev survived and later died at Rochester, N. H. James F. Teague was reared and attended school in his nati\e place and then went to work in the wool room in the Rochester Mills. In 1881 he 838 HISTORY OF STR.'\FFORD COUNTY came to Gonic and became a wool sorter for the Gonic Manufacturing Com- pany and for the past 25 years has been foreman. This class of work re- (juires great care and the supervision must be based on expert knowledge. Air. Teague married Mar}- (Blackmar) Clark, a daughter of Charles E. Blackmar, who formerly was station agent on the B. & M. Railroad at Gonic. Mrs. Teague had three brothers; Charles E.. her father, was a soldier in the Civil war. Mr. and Airs. Teague have three children; Charles M., who is assistant station agent for the B. & M. Railroad at Gonic; Julia Lucile. who is in her third year at the Rochester High school ; and Neal P., who is in the se\enth grade in the public school at Gonic. The family resides on Church street, Gonic. \Miile a good citizen, ever ready to do his part in promoting" the general welfare. Mr. Teague has never been willing to accept public office. He votes with the Republican party. The family are members of the Friend's church. CHAREES E. BURNHAAI,* a representative business man of Dover, a member of the well known finn of Herrett and Burnham, dealers in coal and wood at No. 19 Cocheco street, for many years has also been foremost in public affairs in this city. He was born at Portland, Me., and is a son of Benjamin and Mary A. (Foster) Burnham. Benjamin Burnham was born also at Portland, Me., where the family has been settled for generations. Practically his whole life was spent there and for a number of years before his death he occupied a confidential posi- tion on the city's police force. He married Mary A. Foster, who is now in her 88th year, residing with her son at Dover. Charles E. Burnham passed his school period in Portland and in his native city learned the trade of carriage builder. Before he reached his majority he came to Dover. Shortly afterward he was made foreman of the carriage works of J. H. Randlett and for 2~ years he was foreman and general superintendent of the same. On two different occasions, subse- quently, he served as superintendent of the city gas plant which is now owned by the Twin State Gas and Electric Light Company. For some years he has been engaged in his present business under the firm style of Herrett and Burnham. a firm that bears a reputation for business integrity. Mr. Burnham married Miss Ellen A. Vickery, a daughter of Gilman Vickery. of Do\er. a well known citizen, who, at one time served as city marshal. Mr. and Mrs. Burnham have had two children: Arthur G., and Eva, who is now deceased. In political attachment Mr. Burnham has always been a Republican and as a trustworthy citizen has frequently been elected to public office, serving two terms at councilman of the city of Dover, rep- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 839 resenting the Third Ward and from the same ward serving two terms as alderman. He was a memlier of the bnilding committee when the present liandsome city hall was erected, and. it may be added, that he was the youngest member of this very efficient body. Fraternally he belongs to Mount Pleas- ant Lodge, Odd Fellows, and socially to the Bellamy Club. :\Ir. Burnham and wife attend the Unitarian church. H.\RrJY H. MEADER, who is assistant superintendent of the Conic Manufacturing Company, at Gonic. N. H., is also a practical, modern farmer, owning 250 acres of land in Ward 3, town of Rochester. He was born on a farm in Rochester, May i, 1883, and is a son of John E. and Clara E. Header, the former of whom is deceased. Harry H. Meader was educated in the public schools, in the Moses Brown School at Providence, R. I., and in a business college, after which he came to the Gonic Manufacturing Company, starting at the bottom and perse\'er- ingly working his way upward through all departments until, in 1908, he was made assistant superintendent, with much heavier fidelity and as a business man has shown keen perception and good judgment. Mr. Meader was united in marriage with Miss Grace M. McDuffee, a daughter of J. A. and Carrie McDuft'ee. and they have three children- Faith, John McDuffee and Richard Levi. Their home is an attractive resi- dence at No. 52 Church street, and they are members of the Friends' church. In his political affiliation Mr. Meader has always been a Republican. He is identified prominently with Masonry and is a Knight Templar and Shriner. MRS. DIANTHIA J. FULLER, a highly respected and venerable resi- dent of Dover, N. H., where she has lived since 1836, was born in Denmark, Me., February 9, 1826. Her parents were James K. and Xancy (Corson) Jordan, the father a native of Denmark. Me., and the mother of Lebanon, Me., the Jordans and Corsons being old fannlies in the places above named respect- ively. Her maternal grandfather, Daniel Corson, was a well known and re- spected resident of Lebanon. The father of Mrs. Fuller, James K. Jordan, met his death by accident — by drowning, it is said, in the Saco river, and his widow, with her two daughters, residing in Denmark, Me. until the sub- ject of this sketch was about ten years old, or in 1836, when they came to Dover. Here Mrs. Fuller was reared and educated, attending the public schools. On July 7, 1851, she was united in marriage with Solomon H. Ful- ler, who was born in New Hampshire October 28, 1823, and reared in his native state. For several years Mr. Fuller was engaged in the hardware and stove business in Dover, his store being located in the Cocheco block, off 49 840 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY Central square. It was a partnership concern, his partner being Horace Little- field, and the style of the firm, Littlefield, Fuller & Co. Mr. Fuller died August 19, 1878. He was a member and deacon of the Central Avenue Baptist church and was a man who enjo3'ed the good will and confidence of his fellow townsmen. In politics he was a Republican. JMr. and Mrs. Fuller had three children — Charles H., Frank H., both of whom are now deceased, and one that died in infancy. Mrs. Fuller's mother died September 20, 1872. The other daughter (sister of Mrs. Fuller) Aurelia, married William H. Seavey, of Dover, N. H., and she also is now deceased, passing away in February, 1909. Mrs. Fuller is a member of the Central Avenue Baptist church, to which her husband belonged. For years she took an active part in church work, taking an interest in every worthy cause and helping the same both with her means and through her personal efforts. In proportion to her means she has extended a generous hand to charitable enterprises and has done what lay in her power to advance the social and moral condition of the community and extend the cause of religion. She is a charter member of the W^oman's Christian Temperance Union affiliated with the church to which she belongs. Though well advanced in years, Mrs. Fuller is a lady of keen intelligence and amiable christian character. Nearly all the friends of her youth, like the members of her own household, have passed away, but she keeps a cheerful spirit, and on her journey through life has made many new ones who are not lacking in appreciation of her many sterling (jualities. JOSEPH H. CHEETHAM,* a resident of Berwick, .Me., who holds the position of overseer of Mill No. 3, of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company at Somersworth, N. H., came here and took charge of his present department in June, 1912. He was born in Lewiston, Me., January 24, 1867. a son of Joseph and Jane (Cooper) Cheetham. His parents, who were natives of Lancashire, England, are both now deceased. They came to America early in the fifties, making the voyage in a sailing vessel from Liverpool and on arriving here settled in Fall River, Mass. After a residence there of several years they went to Lewiston, Me., where they li\'ed for many years. Then they resided for a short time in New Brunswick, after which they re- turned to Lewiston, where they died. The father, Joseph Cheetham, was a spinner by trade and for many years was overseer of the spinning department of mills in various places. Joseph H. Cheetham was reared and attended school in Lewiston until reaching the age of sixteen years, when he accompanied his parents to Mill- town, N. B. There he became an employe of the St. Croix Mill, remaining four years, for most of the time in the spinning department. He afterwards AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 841 worked in different mills in various parts of New England and New Llruns- wick, accepting his present position, as above stated in June, 1912. He was married in Dover, May 26, 1893, to Elizabeth Moore, a native of Schenectady, N. Y., and daughter of Robert and Amy Moore, both her parents being natives of England. Her mother is now deceased, her father being a resident of Methuen, ]\Iass. and now in his 74th year. During his active period he was employed more or less in various capacities in woolen mills. Mr. and Mrs. Cheetham are the parents of two children — J. Albert and John R. Mr. Cheet- hem is a member of Victoria Lodge, No. 26, A. F. & A. M. at Milltown, N. B. and he and his wife affiliate with the Congregational church. In politics he is a Republican. EDMUND B. LANE, now living retired at No. 189 Central Avenue, Dover, N. H., was formerly engaged in the book and stationery business here for many years. He was born in Dover a son of Edmund J. and Eliza- beth (Barker) Lane, both his parents being natives of Stratham. N. H. His paternal grandfather was Jabez Lane, for many years a resident of Stratham. Edmund J. Lane, father of our subject, was engaged for o\'er half a century in the book, stationery and wall paper business in Dover, carrying it on until his death in 1884. He was a very prominent citizen, serving in 1864 and 1865 as alderman and was city treasurer of Dover for nine years. He also represented his ward or district in the state legislature in 1853 and 1856 and for years served on the local school board. In politics he was a Republican. He was a deacon in the First Parish Congregational Church for 45 years and one of the wardens of the parish for 16 years. From 1871 up to the time of his death he was a trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank, of Dover. He was a man who took a keen interest in the moral and material development of the city and few of its citizens were more highly respected and esteemed. Of his children there are now two survivors — Edmund B., whose name appears at the head of this sketch ; and Abby F., who is a resident of Dover. Edmund B. Lane was reared and educated in this city, attending the public schools and the former Franklin Academy. In 1870 he became a part- ner with his father in the latter's business, the style of the firm being E. J. Lane & Co. Subsequent to his father's death Mr. Lane carried on the busi- ness alone for fifteen years. He is a Republican in politics and, like his father, is a man who has at heart the best interests of the community. IRA A. RANDALL,* who is one of the representative business men of Dover, who is interested in dealing in real estate and who profitably carries 842 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY on general farming on his 40 acre tract of carefnily cultivated land, situated in the town of Dover, was born March 18, 1859, at Lee, N. H., the old family place of residence. There his grandfather Randall settled at an early day and there his father, Richard Randall spent his entire life. His mother, Betsy (Freeman) Randall, was born at Barrington, X. H. Richard Randall was a soldier in the Civil \\'ar and possibly died early from the hardships ex- perienced during his military career, passing away when his son, Ira A., w as but a youth. One other son survives, John A. Randall, who is a resident of Aladbury, X. H. Ira Austin Randall was reared at Lee, N. H., and attended school there and at Durham. He came to Do\er in early manhood and for many years afterward followed teaming, later turning his attention to general farming and real estate handling. He is one of the well known men of Strafford county and is held in general esteem. Mr. Randall was married March 13, 1880, to Miss Martha J. James, of Madbury. X'. H.. a daughtr of Andrew D. and Lillis (Bunker) James, both of whom were born in Strafford county. ]Mr. and J^Irs. Randall ha\e one daughter, who is the wife of Amos E. Ball, of Manchester, X. H., and they ha\e two children, Fred H. and Helen D. Mrs. Randall is a member of the Christian Science church at Dover. In politics Mr. Randall is a Repub- lican. He has never consented to accept public office but is an earnest, intel- ligent citizen ever ready to take part in any concerted eff'ort for public improvements or general progressive movement in his community that prom- ises to be of benefit to the majority. WALTER S. MEADER, brother of Stephen C. Meader, and paymaster for the Gonic Manufacturing Company, was born March 11. 1857, at Roches- ter, N. H. He was educated at the Moses Brown school. Providence, R. I., and at Brown University, taking the degree of A. B. in 1880 and that of A. M. in 1883. He taught higher mathematics in the Moses Brown school from 1880 to 1905, and from the latter date to 1910 was engaged in the lumber business in New Hampshire. Since 1910 he has been paymaster for the Gonic iManufacturing Company. l'"or the past se\en years he has been a member of the Rochester School Board ; he was a member df the Constitutional Convention in 19 12, and has been clerk of the Xew England Yearly Meeting of Friends for the last six years. In 1890 he married Lucy J. Hawkes, a daughter of I. Warren Hawkes, of Manchester, Me. .she being a direct descendant of John .\lden and Miles Standish. Their children are Stephen W.. Margaret S., Helen H., W. S.. Jr.. and Elizabeth .\lden. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 843 ROYAL M. EDGERLY, who is the leading undertaker and funeral director at Rochester, with otfice and residence at Xo. 86 Soutli Main street, has lived here all his life, this residence Iieing the one in which he was horn, in 1858. His parents were James H. and Emeline (Roberts) Edgerly. James H. Edgerly was born in Farmington, Strafford county, N. H., and with the exception of one year of his life, passed all of it in Strafford county. He was one of the earliest undertak'ers at Rochester and continued in the business from 1835 until his death in 1893. He married Emeline Roberts and they had six children, R. M. being the last born and the successor of his father in the business. After his school days were o\er, R. ]\I. Edgerly gave his father assistance and thus learned the practical details of his occupation. He owns his own equipment and is ready at all times to respond with efficient service when called upon. Mr. Edgerly was united in marriage with Miss Ella Frances Tebbetts and they have had four children: Edith, who lived but 15 years; Mrs. Edna Labonte, and Winnifred M. and James Hervey. In politics Mr. Edgerly gives his support to the principles of the Republican party. For many years he has been identified with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Elks. ARCHIBALD B. PATOX. who is one of the thoroughly experienced worsted men of the cnuntry. lias lieen identified with manufacturing industries throughout his business life and is now agent at Sawyers' Mills, Dover, owned by the American Woolen Company of Boston, ^lass. iNfr. Paton came to Do\-er in 1907. He was born at Tillicoultry. Scotland, a son of George R. and Anne ( Brciwning) Paton, natives of Scotland. When se\-en years old the parents of Archibald B. Paton left Scotland with their children and sailed for Canada, settling at Sherbrooke. in the l)ro\'ince of Ouel)ec, and there the youth attended school and also at Montreal. When 16 vears of age he entered the mills of the Paton Manufacturing Company at Sherbrooke, which were under the management of his uncle, Andrew Paton, who had foundeil and nameubject of this sketch, was a graduate of Dartmouth college in the class of i8i_'. He was a well known educator of his time, teaching in private schools and academies. For a number of years he resided in Boston, where he taught a private preparatory school. He also taught ten years in Chesterfield acatlemy. N. H., and followed his profession in Dover and other places throughout New England. That he was a man highly , thought of is evidenced from the fact that he represented the town of Ches- terfield in the state legislature for several terms. He was originally a Whig in politics but became a Republican after the formation of that party. Washington W. Hardy at the age of four years accompanied his parents from Chesterfield to Brentwood, X. H., where he resided several years, they subsequently removing to Dover. Here he was reared to man's estate, attending the public schools, and, for a short time, Hampton Academy, at Hampton, X. H. In 1854 he began a sea-faring life, shipping as a boy before the mast on a voyage from Xew York to Ha\ana and the West Indies, thence to London and return to Boston, where he landed after an absence of six months. This was but the first voyage of many, for he subsequently ci>n- tinued in the mariner's vocation, practically for about forty-six years, for the last thirty years of that time being captain of various ships mainlv engaged in the China and Japan trade. He navigated the glolje over thirteen times, on eleven of these occasions as captain. During his life as a sailor he visited many strange countries and saw many strange sights, having many adxen- tures and fronting many dangers, but with a good vessel under his feet, well manned, and with capable officers under him, he proved equal to e\'ery emergency until finally he left the ocean in 1901 to enjoy an honorable retire- ment on shore. He is a member of the Boston Marine Society and also of the New York .Marine Society. He has many friends in Dover who know him as a man of integrity and a progressive and public-spirited citizen. Capt. Hardy was married March 29, 1871, to Elizabeth Bickf(jrd, a native of Dover, X. H.. and daughter of Dr. Alphonso Bickford. in his day a pr(.)mi- ninet Dover physician and at one time mayor of the city. Capt. and Airs. Hardy had two children born t(j them: Mar_\- R.. wife of Henry Folsom, a well known attorney of Boston: and Francis H., who is captain of a go\'- ernment steamer in the coast sur\ey ser\ice. He is a graduate of DartmcSuth college, while the daughter, Mrs. Folsom, graduated from Smith college. DAXIEL W. HALLAM, a well known and substantial citizen of Dover, N. H., now retired from active business life, was born in this city. February 50 858 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 25, 1838, a son of Daniel and jMartha ( Purstglove) Hallam. His parents were both natives of Derbysliire, England, where the Hallani family has been settled since the early part of the 13th centur}-, or, according to genealogical records, abont the year 1224. A. D. The parents of our subject came to America in 1834. landing at New York, whence they came to Dover, N. H. Daniel Hallam, the father, was a merchant tailor by occupation, but did not follow his trade after arriving in this country. Instead he found em- ployment witli the Cocheco Print Works, then under the management of George W. ^lathewson, as an employe. He remained with this concern for many years and a short time before his death, which took place March 4, 1852, he was promoted to the position of superintendent. Daniel W. Hallam, our direct subject, was in Ins 14th year when his father died. He was educated in the public schools of Dover, including the high school, and in 1863 he went to Philadelphia, where he attended for six months the Bryant and Stratton Business College. He was also a student for one year at the Wagnei Institute of Science, receiving a diploma for a special course in science. He subsequently attended the Franklin Institute, pursing the mathematical and mechanical courses there as a regular student for several years. He also studied natural history at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, following these studies at intervals for a number of years. In 1865 he became identified with the foreign fruit and produce business, at first as bookkeeper with a concern engaged in that line, then as traveling salesman with two different concerns, and finally, in 1868, en- gaging in the business for himself in Philadelphia, conducting a wholesale and retail establishment and dealing in both foreign antl domestic fruits, nuts, etc. He did a large and prosperous business until 1899, when he retired and in the following year returned to Dover, N. H., of which place he has since been a resident. He has been a member for several years of the Dox'or Sportsmen's Association, which he is now serving as secretary and treas- urer. He is a progressive and up to date citizen, a Republican in politics and a member of St. Thomas Episcopal church. He takes a keen interest in the commercial prosperity of the city and in its material and moral improve- ment and is widely recognized as one of Dover's reliable and substantial citizens. FRANK D. HENDERSON, who carries on general farnfing and raises cattle with profitable results, was born June 10, 1848, on his farm of 125 acres, which lies three and one-fourth nfiles from Rochester, N. H., on the Farmington road. He is a son of Daniel Henderson and a grandson of William Henderson. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 859 William Henderson, the grandfather, was the pioneer settler of the family in the town of Rochester. He was already married and more children were born on the farm on which he settled in 1774-5, and the following names have been preserved: Stephen; Tim, who served in the War of 1812-15; James, who died when aged fifty years; \\'illiam, Daniel, Polly, Sally, Mar- garet, Susan, Abigail and Betsey. All were reared on the fann above men- tioned l)ut when Grandfather Henderson died he left the place equally divided between his sons Tim and Daniel. Daniel Henderson was born in 1S12. When he reached mature age he bought his brother Tim's interest in the farm and always lived here, although, being a carpenter by trade, he erected a fine residence at Dover. He married Ruth McDuffee, a daughter of Thomas McDuffee, and they had the follow- ing children; an infant that died; William, Hannah, Sarah, Thomas, Frank D., Charles, Lewis and George. Of these, Thomas and Lewis died each at the age of four years. Frank D. Henderson, with his brothers and si.sters, attended school in youth and had kind and judicious instruction at home. He received his farm from his father but earlier had worked in the shoe factory at Rochester and continued until 1898, since which time he has given his entire attention to the industries pertaining to his farm, .\bout one-diird of his land is under fine cultivation. In 1880 the timber was first cut and in 1909 and 1910 Mr. Henderson cut timber all over his place but at the present time there is a fine new growth. Mr. Henderson married Miss Eliza Henderson, a daughter of William Henderson, of Cambridgeport, Mass., and they have four children; Horace L., Helen Louisa, Ruth Etta and William Daniel. Mr. Henderson and family attend the Methodist Episcopal church. He gives his political support to the Democratic party but has never been willing to accept public office. He is one of the representative and relialjle men of this |)art of Strafford county. WINFIELD SCOTT MILLER, who is one of the leading citizens and substantial men of Milton Mills, Strafford county, carries on general farming on 250 acres of land and in addition to this large estate owns a tract of tim- ber land of considerable extent, extending across the state line into the town of Acton, Me. He was born in the village of Miller's Corners, in the town of Acton, Me., March 4, 18^0, and is a son of Ira and Fannie W. (Merrill) Miller. The Miller ancestry can lie traced through at least three generations. The great-grandparents were Benjamin and Lois (Woodman) Miller, the latter being a daughter of John Woodman. Benjamin Miller was born at New- 860 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY ington, X. H., in 1766. They were the parents of eight children: John, Caleb, Benjamin, Woodman, Polly, Hannah, Lonisa and Eliza. Benjamin Miller died in 1849. Caleb Miller, son of Benjamin and grandfather of Winlield Scott Mil- ler, was born in the town of Acton, Me., Xuvember 13, 1798, and died Xovem- ber 13, 1838. His wife, iMary Miller, was born December 18, 1808, and died January 29, 1S27. Ira Miller, son of Caleb and father of Winfield Scott Miller, was born in the town of Acton, Me., December 13, 1826, and died December 12, 1902. He was left motherless when a bal^e of six weeks and was twelve years old when liis father died. He was reared l)y liis uncle. Woodman Miller. When sixteen years of age he started out to take care of himself and assisted farm- ers during the haying season, feeling sufficiently well paid when he received twenty-live cents for a day's work. He then went to Lebanon, Me., where he worked for Alillett Wentworth for seven months, therel))- earning the sum of seven dollars, after which, during the summers he again assisted farmers and attended school in the winters, in Acton, ^le., where he after- ward was employed by Simon Tuttle at a wage of ten dollars a month, which in his second season, was increased to thirteen dollars. He then learned the shoemaking trade at Milton Mills and then opened a shop and soon had a trade that made necessary the employment of six or eight men. In 1855 he erected the first shoe factory ever built at Acton, ]\Ie., and embarked in shoe manufacturing on a large scale, having a shoe store in connection, later selling his factory and buying the Roberts' grist mill. This he remodeled and made it the best plant of its kind in the county, operating it from 1859 until 1866. He then sold out and went into the hotel Inisiness, l)ecoming l)roi)rietor of the Central House at Milton Mills, which he conducted until 1877. He then opened the largest general store at Milton Mills, putting in a heavy stock, including groceries, boots, shoes, oil, drugs, hardware and farm implements, and this pro\ed a ver_\- jirosperous enterprise. He also had acquired 4CX) acres of valuable land, together with his town property. In puljlic affairs he was equally impcjrtant and served in numerous impor- tant offices. For twentv years he was town clerk and selectman, also for the same length of time was town treasurer and also representetl the town of Milton Mills in the legislature. I'Vom the formation of the Repuljlican party he was identified with that organization, and for years had been a memljer of the local ^lasonic lodge. Before his death he sold his store interests to his son-in-law, F. H. Lowd. He had a wide accjuaintance and held the con- fidence of the people who recognized his business ability as well as his business integrity. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 861 Ira Aliller was married May _'(), i'^4Q, to Fannie W. Merrill. She was born in Acton, Me., December 7, 1825. and died January 30, 1^97. She was a daughter of Asa and Fannie (Wood) Merrill. Her maternal grand- mother was the wife of the son of Ralph Farnham, who was one of the last surviving Revolutionary soldiers when lie died at the age of 105 years. To Ira Miller and wife three children were born: Winfield Scott; F'annie, who died at the age of four years; and F'annie L., who was born August 15, 1863, and died May 25, 1898. She married I". H. Lowd and is survived by two children, Grace M. and Alice M. Winfield Scott Miller attended school at Acton and Milton Mills and his sister was a graduate of the West Lebanon .\cadeniy. Mr. Miller began to work in his father's grist mill when he was nine years old and continued until his seventeenth year, when the mill was sold, and after that he assisted in the hotel business. When his father died he received all the real estate located in Acton and in Milton Mills. After marriage he lived for two years on a farm, He then became associated with his father, remaining with him until the latter's death. He has since devoted his time to looking after his real estate interests. In his political views he is a Republican but has never been willing to accept the responsibilities of public office. In 1878 Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Josephine White- side, who was born at Lowell. Mass., November 24. 1857, and was reared and educated there. She is a daughter of Edward J. and Frances (Thomp- son) Whiteside, and a granddaughter of James Whiteside, who died in England. Edward J. Whiteside, father of Mrs. Miller, was born in Eng- land. His second marriage took place at Lowell. Mass.. and eight children were born to the union. The mother of Mrs. Miller, FVances (Thompson) Whiteside, was born in Scotland and died at Boston. Mass. She was a daughter of Roljert and Nancy ( Stewart ) Thompson, and her grandmother. Nancy Tames, was born at Paisley. Scotland, where Robert Thompson was a contractor for the building of lirid.ges. JOHN E. TOWNSEND. one of Strafford county's well known business men. is sole owner of the Townsend Mill, an old plant at Milton Mills, hav- in^^ succeeded his father and. indirectly, his grandfather in the mill business. He was born at Milton Mills, N. H., September 9, 1871, and is a son of Henry H. and Agnes ( Brierley ) Townsend. John Townsend. the grandfather, was Iiorn in England and came to the United States in 1819 and to Milton :\Iills. N. H.. about 1845. He pur- chased the plant of the ]\Iilton ^Manufacturing Company and continued it. carrying on woolen manufacturing under the name of John Townsend. 862 HISTORY OF STR.'\FFORD COUNTY His one son, Henry H., was born in Massachusetts, and his two daughters, Caroline and Jennie, at Milton Mills. Henry H. Townsend was born at Dorchester, ]\Iass., in 184J, and died at Milton Mills in 1904. When he w^ent into business it was with S. H. Atkins as a partner, under the name of Townsend & Company. With twenty employes the company engaged in the manufacture of felt until 1880, when Henry H. Townsend bought his partner's interest, after which he erected what is now known as Tov\nsend's Mill. He entered into the business of manufacturing both wool and cotton blankets and continued it prosperously until his death, at the age of sixty-two years. Between 1894 and 1900 accom- modations were greatly increased to meet the demands of trade, and by that time fifty people were given constant work in the mill. Henry H. Town- send was a shrewd, careful business man, always too busy to accept the responsibilities of office, although well cjualified through excellent judgment and a high sense of honor. He married Agnes Brierley, a daughter of Edward Brierley, who was a felt manufacturer. They had two children, Grace M. and John E. The mother of these children died in 1S91 and was buried in the Milton Mills cemetery. She was a member of the Congrega- tional church. John E. Townsend was educated at Milton Mills and Lindsey University, Me. He afterward entered his father's office and continued therein until the latter's death. He then took charge and operated the mill until 1906, when he bought the plant of the estate and conducts the mill along the line of fine blanket manufacturing, affording constant employment to si.xty-five men. As superintendents he has men well known for their efficiency, includ- ing F. H. Simms, A. T. Loud, J. F. Archbold and E. .\. Wentworth. This mill is classed as a 4-set mill and is equipped with electricity, the plant site covering two acres. Mr. Townsend married Miss Eda B. Li)ud, a daughter of Elbridge and Melissa Loud, of Acton, Me., and they have two children: Henry .\., who attends the Brunswick School at Greenwich, Conn.: and .\gnes M., who is a student at Brookline, Mass. In politics a Republican. Mr. Townsend was elected in 1903 a member of the Xew Hampshire legislature. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs aho in the Odd hallows at I\Iil- ton Mills. The handsome family residence is on the corner of Western avenue and Church street, Milton .Mills. EZRA C. GOODWIN, superintendent of the L B. Williams & Son Belt factory at Dover, N. H., and a veteran of the Civil war, was born in South Berwick, Me., February 27, 1841. a son of Samuel and Polina .\. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 863 (Cooper) Gdixlwin. Duth his parents were natives of South Berwick, where tlie Goodwins are among the old settled families, having originally come from England. The immigrant ancestor was James Goodwin, wdio settled in Kittery, Me., about 1628. Jedediah Goodwin, grandfather of our sul)- ject, in his day was a prominent citizen of South Berwick, following the combined occupations of teacher, i)reacher, farmer and shipbuilder, being also a local judge. He was a man of some influence in local politics. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. Samuel Goodwin, father of Ezra C, resided in South Berwick, Me., until 1S52, when with his family he came to Dover, N. H., which place was his home for the rest of his life. Ezra C. Goodwin was eleven years old when he accompanied his jjarents to Dover. He was educated in the public schools here and began industrial life at the age of fourteen. On April 29, iSCn. he enlisted as a private in Company D, 2d N. H. Volunteer Infantry, his regiment becoming a part of the /\rmy of the Potomac. W'hh it he fought in both the first and second battles of Bull Run, the Siege of Yorktown, the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Kettle Run, Gettysburg and Cold Har1)or, in which last men- tioned engagement he was wounded three times, su])sequently spending sev- eral months in the hospital. He was then granted a furlough, which he spent in I])over, later returning to liis regiment. In h'ebruary, 1865, he was honorably discharged for disability, having been previously wounded at second Bull Run and Gettysburg. He had received promotion to the rank of sergeant. On his return home he entered the employ of I. B. Williams in the lat- ter's loelt factory at Dover, which concern later became mergerl into that of I. B. Williams & Sons, a prominent manufacturing establishment w ith which Mr. Goodwin has been connected since Octolier, iS()5, for the last few years having been superintendent of the plant. In addition to belts the company manufactures lace-leathers and welting. I'rom 250 to 300 men are em- ployed, over whom Mr. Goodwin has supervision. Mr. Goodwin is a mem- ber of Charles W. Sawyer Post, Xo. 17, G. A. R., of Dover, of which he has been commander three years and is now serving as senior vice commander. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and to the local Grange. For two years he was a me nber of the Dover city council and also served two years as alderman. For the same length of time he represented Ward 3 of Dover in the New Hampshire legislature, in politics being a Republican. He is widely recognized as a broad-minded, reliable citizen and has made a multi- tude of friends. Mr. Goodwin was first married to Lucy H. Beal of Dover, N. H., of 864 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY whicli union two children were born — Harry B. and Grace G.. the latter being now deceased. He married for hi-r second wife Mary .\. Felker, of Dover, X. H. Mrs. Goodwin is a consistent member (if \\a>hington Street Free Will Baptist clnircli, Dover. J. ED\\'ARD RICHARDSOX, a well known resident of Dover, a rep- resentative citizen and successful professiimal man, has l)een established as an architect since 1894, making choice of his native citv as the scene of his professional work, with office at 36 Masonic Temple. He was born September 2~. 1873. and is a son of J. Herbert and Jettie (Huntress) Rich- ardson. I.iith iif whom were natixes of Xew Hamjishire. J. Edward Richardson was educated at Dover, completing the high school course. He was about nineteen years of age when he began the study of architecture. Fossessing a natural talent in this directinn Mr. Richardson pro\ed an apt student; he advanced so rapidly that by 1894 he so thoroughly understood the principles of his profession that he opened his own office and has continued in practice e\er since. He has designed many of the beautiful structures for which Dover is justly celebrated and has also made the plans for other buildings here and at other points. As a competent and tasteful architect he is well known all over Strafford county. Mr. Richardson married Miss Mary M. Worthen. of Dover, and thev have four sons — Charles E., Melvin W'., Albert F. and Homer H. Mr. Richardson has been affiliated with the Republican party since attaining man- hood l)ut has ne\'er been \ery acti\e in politics. In fraternal life, however, he takes much interest, as did his father, and belongs to Straiford Lodge. A. F. & A. M. : Belknap Chapter. Xo. 8: Orphan Council, Xo. i, and St. Paul Commandery. and is also a member of Olive Branch Lodge. Knights of Pythias, all of Do\'er. ERXEST ALBERT CROSS, general farmer, owns si.\ty-tive acres of excellent land, which is located two and one-half miles east of Rochester Square, on the Rochester Hill road. He was liorn opposite the site of the Odd Fellows' Building, in the city of Rochester, .\ugust iq. f^.^7, 'UkI is a son of Xathaniel and Jennie (Stillings) Cross. Nathaniel Cross was born at Rochester, X. H., and was a son of Joseph Cross, who once was register of deeds for Strafford count}-. X^'athaniel Cross during many years of life was connected with the Wallace shoe factory as boss finisher in the dressing room. After lie retired from business he spent his remaining days as a member of his son's household and died while \ AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 865 i-isiting his daughter in Maine, when aged seventy-nine years. He married Jennie Stilhngs. of Ossipee, X. H., who (hed in 1880, at the age of forty-six years, being survived by an imly child. Ernest Albert. The parents of Mr. Cross were steadfast nieuihers nf the Congregationalist church. Ernest Albert Cross was reared and attended school at Rochester and then entered the Wallace shoe factory and was under his father's supervision in the dressing siioe room for a time, after which he entered the service of the Boston and Maine Kailrdad L'ompany, and was so occupied for sixteen years. During this time he was yard clerk in the W. X. 1'. Division of the B. & M. Railroad and later was yardmastcr. In lyoo Mr. Cross turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, purchasing his present property, known as "Maple Place." from David Whitehouse. He has made many improvements here, including the erection of a garage and ice house and a new barn with dimensions of 38x60 feet. He handles cream, skim milk and general products and has 120 customers at Rochester, to whom he makes deliveries by auto- mobile twice a week. Through his energy and enterprise. Mr. Cross has made this enterprise successful. On March i_', 1881. Mr. Cross was married to Miss Elizabeth .\. Jack- son, who was born at Rochester, X. H.. a daughter of James H. and Lucy (^Mayfield) Jackson, l)nth now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Cross attend the Congregational church. In politics Mr. Cross is a Republican, as was his father. He is identified with ihe Rochester (Grange. Patrons of Husbandry, and with the Odd I'ellows. F. W. CLARK, a prosperous agriculturist of the town of Rochester, Strafiford county, N. H., is the owner and resides uiion a farm of 175 acres, located one half mile west of Conic on the Barringtc^i and Gonic Road. He was born on this farm March 4, 1851, and is a son of Smith and Abigail (Henderson) Clark. He is a grandson of Plezekiah Clark, and a great- o-randson of Jacob Clark. It is an old Xew Plngland family and has long been estalilished in Strafford county. Jacob Clark, above mentioned, came from the vicinity of Portsmouth, X. H., and settled on Waldri.n Hill. Outer Barrington. but later moved to Round Pond, North Barrington. He had two sons, Aaron and Hezekiah. The latter, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was reared in Bar- rington and was favored with a good educational training. He married Hannah Ham, wiin was born on the farm ect and regard. He was born Xovember 15, 1846, at Lee, N. H., and died at his home in Dover, Xo. 61 Park street, July 21, 1908. His parents were Thomas J. and Olive (Goodwin) Otis, natives respectively of Strafford and Rockingham counties. Charles S. Otis was reared on a farm and obtained his education in the country schools and a private school conducted for a time at Lee. During his youth he followed farm pursuits, but for twenty years prior to his death had been largely interested in the manufacture of lumber, iiaving moved to Dover with his family in 1894. From con\ictions of right he ■was active as a citizen and accepted public office at times, ser\"ing as a member of the city council of Dover, and also as an alderman, represent- ing the Secontl Ward. He believed in the principles of the Repulilican party. On December 24, 1873, Mr. Otis was married to Miss Flora B. Nutter, who was born at Alton, N. H., November 23, 1853, a daughter of Charles A. and Ann M. (Varney) Nutter, her father lieing a nati\e of Barnstead and her mother of Alton, N. H. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Otis: George E.. who is deceased, and Harry G. and Pauline O. Airs. Otis continues to reside in the family home at Dover, in which city she is highly esteemed in many circles. She is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Ladies, and also of the W. C. T. \J. She belongs to the Congregational church at Lee, to which Mr. Otis also belonged for a number of years. Mr. Otis was one who possessed qualities which make for remem- brance by family and friends, his loving care for his family and his thought- ful consideration for others being well remembered characteristics. HON. GEORGE J. FOSTER, born in Concord, N. H., February 13, 1854, is son of Joshua Lane and Lucretia (Gale) Foster. He was gradu- ated from the Portsmouth high school in 1869, but his father gave him a higher education by initting him at work on the Dover \\'cekly Democrat, AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 881 when he was seventeen years old, when the paix-r was started in Jannary. 1872, and the Daily Democrat in June. 1873, when Mr. Foster was nineteen years old. He has remained continuously in the w(.irk of managing these papers forty-three years. The present standing cf these papers shows that his father was a good schoolmaster and the son a bright pupil. Mr. Foster, Sr., was one of the keenest editorial writers that has appeared in New Hampshire; the son did not take to that part of the work, it was not neces- sary, but devoted his attention and energy to the mechanical and business part of running a successful newspaper. He could handle the pen all right, but it was not needed as long as his father and brother Charles lived. That no mistake was made in making the young man the business manager is manifest by the present standing of the papers among the press of New Hampshire, and the complete pecuniary success of the enteri)ri.se. His long training had made him keen in perception and sound judgment as to what is the right thing to do at the right time. t(.) please his patrons by giving them the news, fresh from the acts, complete in facts and detail, and by treating the business men in such a square and courteous way that he gave the advertisers in his ])apers more than their money's worth in return, as well as the satisfaction, which is worth more than money. Outside of being a good newspaper man Mr. booster has been a good citizen. He has been a member of the school committees almost continu- ously since i88j: he has been chairman of the Ijoanl several years and has used all his influence t^ advance the schools to better work in what they had. and also to intrdduce new methods and new departments which would keep Dover schools on an eipial, if not a little ahead of otlier schools in the state. His s]5ecialty on the committee was on finance, for schools cannot do good work without good financial su|)|ir)rt. Xo school mone)' was e\'er wasted with Mr. j-'oster's consent. Mr. Foster has l)een a staunch Republican since the first presidency of Grover Cleveland. As such he has represented his ward in the legislature of 1893, and he was an efficient member of the General Court, serving on important committees and ne\'er Ijctraying the interests of his constituents, or his city, or his ])art\-. Mr. Foster has been mayor of Dover three times; his first election was by the city councils to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mayor Alonzo T. Pinkham, August 22. 1906; he served in that office until the first \Vednes- day in January, 1907. The important event of that ]ieriod was the dedica- tion of the Wcntworth Hospital, which had been given to the city by Hon. Arioch Wentworth of Boston. The dedicatory service was on August 30th and marked the completion of one of the most \'alual)le institutions the city ]iossesses. 882 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Mr. Foster next served as mayor two full terms in 1909 and 1910, during which time there were made several marked improvements. The Govern- ment Imilding for the post office was completed on Washington street. The filter bed for the water works was completed, which removed all complaints about the purity of the domestic water supply, concerning which there had been much complaint before. -\lso two wells were driven for an increased water supply. An impro\enient was made in the efficiency of the fire department by the purchase, on recommendation of Mayor Foster, of a chemical fire extinguisher engine. Mayor Foster kept a careful and intel- ligent watch over all the business interests of the city, never allowing his private business to interfere in any way in answering the calls of public business, which he conducted as carefully as he did his own affairs. In fact, being a successful manager of a good newspaper thoroughly qualified him for being a first-class mayor of the cit}\ During his second year, on his recommendation, playgrounds were provided for the children and ama- teur base ball games, all of which was highly appreciated by the young folks and commended by the citizens in general. As a society man Mr. Foster favors St. John Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of Moses Paul Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 96; Olive Branch Lodge, Xo. 6, K. P.; Dover Lodge, Xo. i8j, B. P. O. E.. and is a thirty-second degree Alason of the Scottish Rite. For many years he has been a member of the Bellamy Club, and its president four years. He is a trustee of the W'entworth Flome for the Aged, and also a trustee of the Strafford Savings Bank. Mr. Foster is ninth in descent from Rugenald (?) Foster, who came from England at the time so many emigrated from England to Massa- chusetts in 1638, and with his family was on board one of the vessels em- bargoed by King Charles L Soon after he arrived he settled in Ipswich with his wife and five sons and two daughters. It is said that he lived to extreme old age: that his children also lived to past three score and ten. and left families whose descendants are in all parts of the country. The Foster family has authentic records co\ering a period of nearly one thousand vears ; it has furnished to the world its share of fruits of toil ; it has con- tributed its share to enterprise and progress. Wherever it appears in the affairs of men it l^ears its crest, the iron arm. holding the golden javelin poised towards the future. During its existence the Foster family has been a hardy and progressive race, almost universally endowed with an intense nervous energy; there have been many instances of high attainments. A bearer of the name has been ex-officio vice president of the Republic (Hon. Lafayette G. Foster. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 883 president pro tern, of the Senate during Andrew Johnson's administration) ; anotlier, Hon. John \V. Foster, of Indiana, was secretary of state under President Harrison. Hon. Charles Foster of Ohio was secretary of the treasury. The New Hampshire Fosters ha\e a good record. These facts are mentioned incidentally to show that George J. Foster comes from good Puritan stock. On July 22, 1880, Mr. Foster was united in marriage with Anna C. Clark, daughter of Seth H. and Clarissa Clark. They reside in an elegant residence jn Hough street. They have two sons and a daughter, Bertha Florence, who graduated from Wellesley College in 1900 and was united in marriage with Mr. Harold C. Glidden, June 7, 191 1. The sons, Arthur and Fred, are both engaged on the newspaper in \arious departments, mak- ing the third generation in succession, which is a somewhat remarkable fact, at least in New Hampshire. JEREMY BELKNAP GUPPEY, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Dover, N. H., residing on a farm of over 100 acres situated partly in Dover and partly in Rollinsford, was born in Dover, N. H., April 6, 1831, younger child of John and Hannah (Dame) Guppey. His father ■was a native of Portsmouth, N. H., and his mother of Kittery, Me. She was daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Plaisted) Dame. He was fifth in descent from Deacon John Dame, who settled in Dover in 1633. She was fourth in descent froiu Roger Plaisted of Kittery, 1650. Tiie immigrant ancestor of the family of whom our subject is a great- grandson was Joshua Guppey. who came to this country from England in the year 1700, settling at Beverly, Mass. From him the present line of descent is traced through Capt. James Guppey (grandfather of J. Belknap), a sea captain, who made his home at Portsmouth, remo\-ing to Dover, N. H., in 1768, where he purchased the farm now owned and occupied by the subject of this sketch, and here he died. His son John, succeeding to the fami, resided on it all his life, engaged in agriculture: he died in 1855. He and his wife Hannah were the parents of eight children, of whom J. Belknap was the joungest and is now the sole sur\i\or. He had two brothers who won prominence in highly worthy fields of labor. General Joshua James Guppey, born August 27, 1820; graduated from Dartmouth College. 1843, -'^- B-- -^- M. 1S57: studied law; went West; settled in Wisconsin; judge of probate, 1849-50; judge of County Court, 1850-1858. 1860-1882. In the Civil War he was lieutenant colonel of the Tenth Wisconsin Volunteers, colonel of 23d Wisconsin Volunteers; brevet brigadier genera! of volunteers, 1865. He was one of the most 884 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUKTY distinguished men of the state; died at Portage, December 8, 1S93. ^'^ remains were brought to Dover and interred in the family burial ground in Pine Hill Cemetery : unmarried. Another brother, Joseph Dame Guppey, born February 11, 1823, died June 3. 1S90; lie was educated in the public schools and Franklin Academy of Dover. In his younger days he was a famous schoolmaster. In his later years he was engaged in farming and in public affairs; besides holding other offices he was mayor of Dover in 1879 and 1880. Previous to that he had been alderman two years and county commissioner two years. He was a man of marked ability. The Guppey Club of Franklin Square was named in honor of him. J. Belknap Guppey was reared to man's estate on the old family home- stead, where he now li\es. His education was acquired in the common schools and Franklin .\cademy of Dover, and in the larger school of life, in which he has lieen an apt pupil. His farm is a good piece of agricultural property, and the house in which he resides was built in 1690, being one of the old landmarks of the county, and is next to the oldest house in Dover. the Drew Garrison at Black river being ten years older. It has been kept in good repair and is a comfortal)le family residence. The frame of the house is of white oak; the timbers are hewn with perfect exactness. It is finished with the utmost care. A delicate beaded edge is shown on the square beams inside in e\ery room. The parlor is finished in clear white pine, very wide panels perfectly free from knots. In the southwest corner of the parlor stands a handsome buffet, exquisitely made ; and the front entry is paneled from top to bottom. The winding oak stairs have a sub- stantial oak rail. There is a huge beveled glass mirror on the wall, near the buffet, above which is a picture of a young girl in a loose pink gown, leaning against a white pillar which is labeled "Sacred to Friendship." The mirror is perhaps sup])Osed to remind the lady beholding herself in it that she is far more beautiful to her friends than to herself. On the north wall of the parlor are large jjortraits of King George III and Queen Char- lotte. These were brought from Fngland by Captain James Guppev in 1760. the year their majesties were crowned. He is the great-grandfather of Queen \'ictoria. who is grandmother of the present King George of Eng- land. So three generations of the Guppey family cover the period occupied by six generations of kings and queens of England. This shows what a vigorous race the Gu])])ey family is. Air. Guppey is a Republican in politics, and although he is getting along in years, is a wide-awake and up-to-date citizen, taking an interest in the leading questions of the day. a supporter of the church, and favoring wide- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 885 spread, practical educalion. In fact, any worthy cause is pretty sure to receive his cordial approval and support. He believes in doing good work with his estate while alive, instead of be(jueathing it by will for an executor to settle. About a half dozen years ago he denoted to the city a beautiful playground for children. Ijetween I'cjrtland and h'orcst streets. Abnut the same time he gave the city the free use of the tract known as the "Cuppey Pines,'" in which the boys and young men have a fine base ball ground, which is much used in the base ball season. During this current year, 1913, he has donated a large tract of land, nu the hill north of Atlantic Avenue, to be used by the city as a pul)lic i)ark forever. It is one of the fine.st loca- tions in the city for such a use. All this generosity was for the public good, for which his fellow citizens hold him in high esteem. That is not all. 'I'wci or three years ago he made \aluable donations to the three religious societies in Dover — to the First Church, to St. John's Methodist Episcopal Cliurch. and to the Pierce Memorial Church — to each a good tenement house on or near Portland street, from wliii'h these organizations are receiv- ing a good rexenue for the support of religious work. JOHX H. B.\TEMAN, a well known citizen of Strafford county, has resided on his \aluablc farm of forty acres in Rollinsford since the s|)ring of iQi.v and for many )-ears has i)een engaged in both farming and lum- bering, owning timber land in StrafTord and East Xorthwood, X. PI. lie was born at Do\er, X. II.. January 27. 1846. and is a son of Richard \Y. and Lydia 1 Pea\ey) Bateman. Richard W. Bateman was liorn in Cumberland county, England. In 184J; he came to the L'nited States, finding employment at Dover, N. H., where he remained for manv vears as bead machinist and blacksnu'th in the Cocheco. now the Pacific, Mills. In 1S37 he met with an accident in these mills that caused his death. He was sur\i\ed by his wife, who was a nati\'e of X'ewington. X. H. John H. Bateman had his own wa}' to make in the world after the death of his father and his l>oyhoo(l days were spent in attending school when he was able and in working as he found opportunity. He grew up with good principles. lio\\e\ er. and an ardent loxe of countrv and on Sep- tember 5, 1S64. enlisted for ser\ice in the Ci\il war, entering Company E, i8th X. H. Volunteer Infantr}-, which became a part of the Army of the Potomac. He participated in numerous shar]) engagements and was in the se\'en days' battle in front of Petersburg. He participated in the triumphal review at Washington, doing provost duty during the entire period of the parade, and was honorably discharged June to, 1865. In July, 1913, Mr. 886 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Batenian attended the great gathering of the Bkie and Gray at Gettysburg, Pa., wliere he met old comrades, renewed old friendships and extended the hand of kindly fellowship to many who were once his enemies. It was a wonderful occasion. .-Vfter the close of his army life he went to Strafford county, N. H., and this section has continued to be his home. On December i6, 1868, Mr. Bateman was married to ]\Iiss Sarah E. Foss. who was born August 15. 1844, in Strafford, a daughter of Daniel and Mary D. (James) Foss. the father a native of Straft'ord and the mother of Lee. N. H. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Bateman was Richard Foss, \\ho was a son of Nathaniel h'oss, an early settler of Strafford. It is a fine old New England name and was borne by a recent governor of Mas- sachusetts. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bateman — Orpha L., William and an uiniamed infant all being deceased; John F., who is a resi- dent of Pittsfield, N. H. ; and Edith E., who is the wife of Victor McKay, also of Pittsfield. One daughter of ]\Ir. and Mrs. McKay, Leah E., resides with her grandparents. Mr. Bateman is a Republican in politics. CHARLES PLUAIER, one of the best known residents of RoUinsford, N. H., was born in this town October 8. 1847. a son of William and Pame- lia (Waldon) Plumer, the father being a native of RoUinsford and the mother of Dover, N. H. His paternal grandfather was Eljenezer Plumer. a native of what is now RoUinsford and a descen(huU of one of the early settlers of this town. The Plumer family is said to be of Scotch origin. William Plumer, who resided all his life in RoUinsford, was in his day a representative to the State legislature ; he also served as selectman, held other town offices, and was cai)tain of militia. He died January 20. i8yo. Of his family three now survive, namely: William H., a resident of Max- well, Neb.; Charles, subject of this sketch; and Fred, who lives in Rollins- ford, N. FI. William, the father, was a memljer of the Baptist church of South Berwick, Me., and was a well known and respected citizen. His sister, Mary W^. was the mother of the late Senator Edward H. Rollins of New Hampshire. Charles Plumer was reared to man's estate in his nati\e town of Rol- linsford, being educated in the public schools here and at South Berwick Academy. When a young man he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for several years. He then went to Lincoln County, Neb., where for several years he was engaged in stock raising at Maxwell. At the same time he was employed as express messenger by the LTnion Pacific Ex- press Company, controlled by the L'nion Pacific Railway Company. Re- turning east in 1880, he located at RoUinsford Station, this county, where AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 887 lie has since remained. He lias served as selectman of tlie town and in other offices, and is a reliable and popular citizen. Mr. Plumer married for his first wife, Ella M. Fellows, a native of Sandown, X. M., and daughter of Kufus Fellows. He married secondly, October 27, 1H86. his present wife, whose name in maidenhood was Ella E. Knowlton. She was born at Salmon Falls, N. H., a daughter of Jere- miah and Eliza (Goodwin) Knowlton, both her parents being natives of Eliot, Me. Mr. and Mrs. I'lumer attend the Congregational church at Salmon Falls, of which for the la.st twenty years he has been treasurer, being also secretary and treasurer of the Sunday school. In politics he is a Republican with independent proclivities. He belongs to the Masonic order and to the Odd Fellows, and is also a charter member of Hiram R. Roberts Grange, wdiich he has also served as master. Mrs. Plumer was for years organist of the Grange. She is a memljer of the Women's CluJj at Somersworth, N. H., and is secretary and treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Congregational church at Salmon Falls, being also clerk of the church. She was formerly a teacher in South Berwick Academy and in the grammar school ai Salmon Falls, and is a member of the Robinson Seminary Association .\lumnae. For many years she has been the Salmon Falls correspondent of the Somersworth Free Press. She is also secretary of the Goodwin Family Association and organist of the Congregational church at Salmon Falls. HON. JOSEPH D. ROBERTS, one of the prominent and representa- tive men of Strafiford county, bears an honored name and in his own person has won public esteem and on many occasions has been elected to offices of trust and responsibility by his fellow citizens. From 1895 ""til i8'/> he served as a member of the New Hampshire legislature; for a number of years has been president of the Salmon Falls Bank, of which he is yet a director and is also a trustee of the Rollinsford Savings Bank, while his agricultural interests are extensive. He was born in Rollinsford, N. H., November 12, 1848, and is a son of Hiram R. and Ruth (Ham) Roberts. Hiram R. Roberts was born also in Rollinsford, a son of Stephen Rob- erts and a grandson of John Roberts, an early settler in Strafford county. The old Roberts homestead has been continuously in the family since 1737. Hiram R. Roberts was an influential and useful citizen of this county. He served as an associate judge in middle life. In 1874 he was his party's chosen candidate for governor and it was said that he received the largest vote ever cast up to that time for a Democratic candidate. For many years afterward he served in the office of justice of the peace and was one of 888 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY the promoters of the Sahiioii h'ahs Bank, <>\ whicli he was president for a long period, and one of the founders of the Rolhnsford Savings Bank. He carried on farming during tlie larger portion of his life and died on his old homestead in 1876. Of his children the following sur\-i\'e: Walter S., who is a resident of Des Moines, la. ; Hall, \\ ho lives at I'ostville, la. ; Susan R., who is the widow of Samuel H. Rollins, is a resident of Rol- linsford ; Joseph D. and I'Vancis \\ ., whi) lives at Seattle, Wash. Joseph D. Roberts attended the Rollinsford schools in his youth and later passed ten winter terms as a student in an academy at Berwick, Me. From boyhood his interests have been agricultural. He has taken a very acti\e interest in the Patrons of Husbandry, for man\- years has been a member of the New tlampshire State Grange, and for the last fourteen years has been its treasurer and a trustee. He belongs to the Hiram R. Roberts Grange No. 194 of Rollinsford, of which he has been master. For a cj[uarter of a century Mr. Roberts has been in the i)ure bred stock business and for the last fifteen years has gi\en nuich attention to the breeding of Holstein cattle. His beautiful estate containing 256 acres bears the name of Hill Top b'arni. On July 31, 1873, Mr. Roberts was married to Miss Addie E. Littlefield, who was born in York county, Me., a daughter of Thomas B. and Eliza- beth (Jones) Littlefield. Of their family of ten children the following are living: Elizabeth, who is the wife of Charles Coker of Salem, Mass.; Harry, who li\-es in Montana; Edith A., who is professor of l)otany and geology at Mount Holyoke College, lieing a graduate of Smith College, and having also attended Chicago University; Hiram H., who is a select- man of Rollinsford and lives on the old homestead; Ruth, whi) is the wife of Harold Dodge, and Joseph C, Clara H. and Dorothy D., who are all of Rollinsford. J\lr. Roberts and wife are members of the Baptist church of South Berwick, Me. h^rom 188(1 until iS(;o Mr. Roberts was a com- missioner of StraiYord county and for many years was a selectman of Rol- linsford and often president of the board, as he has long l)een of the board of education. For ten years he has served as a member of the New Hampshire State Board of Agriculture, being its cliairman. Fie has led a busy and useful life. CHARLES H. ANDREWS, general farmer, residing in the town of Rochester, where he has 150 acres of land situated three miles from Roches- ter Square, city of Rochester, was born at Gonic, N. H., October 14, 1S53, and is a son of Benjamin and Loui.se (George) .\ndrews, the former of whom died at Lynn, Mass., and the latter at Salem, lioth aged fifty-seven years. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 889 Charles H. Andrews has been a resident of Rochester since he \va> ten years old. He attended school here in boyhood, after which he engaged in farm work, having a preference for it beyond any other kind of employ- ment. When he married he settled un the present farm, forty acres of which is tillable, the rest being given np to pasturage. He keeps high grade cattle and operates a milk route, handling'the product of twelve cows. The father- in-law of Mr. Andrews, James T. Hanson, lived on this farm from the age of seven years until his death on .\pril 7, 1889, at the age of seventy- one years. During the lifetime of Air. Hanson, Mr. Andrews assisted in keeping the buildings in repair and since then has made all needed impro\e- ment, although originally they were so substantially constructed that com- paratively little change has been neetled. The barn was Iniilt in 186S. and the dwelling was erected 100 years ago. On April 2^. 1873, Afr. .\ndrews was married to Miss Clara Ida Han.son, who was born on this farm, the eldest of the three children born to her parents, who were James T. and Lois A. { W'entworth) Hanson. James T. Hanson was born in Rochester, N. H.. and spent his life as a farmer. He was a Democrat in his political opinions init never accepted political ofifice. He married Lois H. Wentworth, who was born in 1825 antl died May 17, 1900, and both were buried in the Somersworth cemetery. They were luembers of the Congregational church and were worthy, respected people in e\-ery relation of life. Air. and Airs, -\ndrews have two sons: Everett J., who is a resident of Haverhill, Mass., and Raymond B., who assists his father on the homestead. Mr. Andrews is a Democrat in politics ; lie has served in local offices and at present is a member of the city council of the city of Rochester, having been elected in 191 1 for three years. Ray- mond B. Andrews belongs to the fraternal order of Red Alen, CHARLES A. GOODWIN, who for the past four years has lived somewhat retired at Rollinsford Junction, after thirty years of agricultural activity on his farm m Rollinsford, is a veteran of the Civil war and a highly respected citizen of Strafford county. He was liorn at Sanford, Me., December 8, 1843, a son of Rev. Charles K. and Dorcas P. (Libbev) Goodwin. Rev. Charles E. Goodwin was born at Lebanon, Me., and died in Straf- ford county, N. H. (where he had lived for a few years previouslv) in 1899, at the age of eighty-three years. He was a .son of Charles Goodwin, born also at Lebanon, who was a descendant of Daniel Goodwin, who came from England to America in 1652, founding a family in York county, Maine, which has ^|lread to other .sections, ever preserving the old, sturdy 890 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY traits of character that from the first distinguished it. Rev. Charles E. Goodwin was the representatixe of the scNxntii generation in America. He was widely known as a minister in the Christian church and for many years preached at different places in York county, ]\laine. He married Dorcas P. Lihljey, horn also at Lebanon, and of their children the follow- ing sur\i\e: I\iir_\- L., who lives at West Medford, Mass.; Charles A., residing in Rollinsford; Edward J., president of Packer Collegiate Insti- tute, Brooklyn. X. "S'., a noted educator and graduate of Bates College and formerly assistant commissioner under the late Dr. Draper, who was com- missioner of education for the state of New York; and Mary, who is the widow of John L. Bennett, and resides at Xo. 31 Belknap street, Dover. Charles A. (ioothvin attended the public schools in York county, Maine, and later an academy at .\ndo\er, X. H., afterward for seven consecuti\e years teaching winter terms of school in his nati\'e county. In 1877 he came to Rollinsford, where, as stated above, he was a farmer and stock raiser for thirty years. He has an honorable Civil war record. On Sep- tember 10, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, 27th Me. Vol. Inf., which was called out to defend the city of \\^ashington, the enlistment co\ering ten months. His term expired on June 30, 1863, but he was one of the 300 members of his regiment who voluntarily remained as pickets around Washington for four more days of danger. They were released on the evening of July 4, 1863, after the battle of Gettysburg, Init their service was not forgotten, in proof of which Mr. Goodwin can display a gold medal voted by Congress to the 300 men who showed real patriotism in defense of their capital city. This medal is a valual)le and cherished keepsake, bearing, in ]\Ir. Goodw in's case, the following inscription : "The Congress to Corporal Charles A. Goodwin, Co. B, 27th Me. Infantry." On July 22, 1864, he re-enlisted, entering Company A, 5th Mass. Vol. Inf., and again was assigned to duty at \A'ashington, where he was honorably discharged November 17, i8r)4, when he returned to Straft'ord county, his home ever since. Mr. Goodwin was first married to Miss Charlotte Wilson, a native of Kittery, Me., and they had two children, Jennie M. and William, both of whom are deceased. On August 12, 1877. he was married secondly to Miss Amanda A. Bennett, who was born !\Iarch 26, 1847, ^t Freedom, N. H., a daughter of Sylvester and Olive (Lang) Bennett, the father a native of Freedom and the mother of Wakefield, N. H. Mrs. Goodwin's grandfather, Joseph Bennett, was said to have been a native of England and a resident for many years of Freedom, N. H., where Mrs. Goodwin was reared and attended school and also, for a short time, taught school. STEPHEN C. HEADER AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 893 Botli she and Mr. Goodwin are members of the Hiram B. Roberts Grange at Rolhnsford, of which Mr. Goodwin was master for two years. They attend the South Berwick Free Baptist Church. Mr. Goodwin belongs to the Sahnon Falls lodge of Odd Fellows and to the Encampment at South Berwick, Me. In politics he is a Republican; for two years he served as a selectman of Rolhnsford and for one year was chairman of the board. STEPHEN CHASE MEADER, agent for the Gonic Manufacturing Company, of Gonic, N. H.. was born in Rochester. N. H., December 14, 1840, a son of Levi and Amanda (Eastman) Meader. He comes of an old New England family, established Ijy John Pleader, who came from England in 1650 and settled at Oyster River, between Portsmouth and Dover, where he had a land grant in 1656. He had a son Daniel, among others, and seven at least of Daniel's sons settled at Rochester about 1750 to 1760, who took up land in that part of the town known as Meadeboro. Benjamin, the son of Daniel mentioned above, had a son Stephen, who was the grand- father of Stephen C. and Walter S. Meader of the Gonic Manufacturing Company. This Stephen Meader was born in Rochester in 1782 and resided on a farm near Meadeboro Corner, which is now in the possession of one of his descendants. Levi, the fourth son of Stephen, was Ijorn in Rochester. Feliruary 4. 1S13. In 1837 he married Amanda Eastman, of Peacham, Vt. His son, Stephen Chase Meader, whose natixity is given aI)o\e. during boyhood li\ed on the farm with his parents, attending the district sclmol and laying the foundation of a strong, healthy physi(jue. When lie was about 14 years old his father moved to Gonic \illage. in part to get better educational advantages for his large family. Here yi.umg Ste])hen. in the intervals of the A'illage school sessions, worked in the mill. In 1856 he entered the Friends' school in Providence, R. 1., where he remained nearly four years. He was a diligent student, excelling in mathematics and chemistry. In i860 he completed his school life at Providence, returned to Gonic and entered the mill in the employ of the late N. V. Whitehouse, working in various parts of the mill. From this time forward his mastery of the details of manu- facturing was rapid. His methodical habits and quick insight into the var- ious processes united to gmjd indgment and faithfulness hastened his promo- tion to the position of dyer, then finisher, superintendent, and finally to that of agent, to which last place he was fonnally appointed in 'June, 1S81. He is a director of the Rochester Loan and Banking Company, also a Trustee of the Rochester Library and a director of the Rochester Loan and 52 894 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Buikling Company. Since he took cliarge of the Gonic Manufacturing Conii)any in ii^8i, the coniimny has been remarkably successful. Like his father and his brother John lie has been twice elected to repre- sent the town in the State legislature. The prominent points of his character are quiet, unobtrusive ways, decision, firmness and a conscientious regard to duty, always seeking for the best results and shaping the means at his command with excellent judgment to obtain them. Constantly alive to the requirements of the position he holds and of undefatigable industry and perseverance, while holding to the ancient faith of a long line of ancestors as a member of the Quaker fraternity, he is liberal to all religious denom- inations and a generous contributor to the support of the village church. He is a judicious helper in educational and moral purposes for the good of the community in which he lives, and his future usefulness 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 Pleader Andrews. THE GOXIC MAXL'FACTURING COMPANY, of Gonic, N. H., was the second industry in the town to develop into a woolen factory, as a producer of woolen goods for the general market, which dates back to 183S. Prior to that time and, in fact, up to 1848, the water power was used largely for sawmill, gristmill 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 bockings, but mainly woolen flan- nels. In 1848 the whole concern was swept away by fire and in the following year the building was replaced by the present No. i mill, built with four sets of machinery, to make woolen flannels exclusively. From this date up to 1859 it was owned and managed by N. \". W'hitehouse, since deceased. In the year last mentioned the concern was incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, the W'hitehouse family and the firm of Parker, Wilder & Co., being its stockholders. N. \\ W'hitehouse was the first president. Samuel B. Rindge and Marshall P. ^\'ilder. with himself, were the directors. The factory employed at this time about fifty people. i\Ir. W^hitehouse was its agent and so continued until 1877, when the whole interest of the concern merged into possession of Parker, Wilder & Co. For about three years — • from 1877 to 1880 — the plant was closed down, it being started again in the year last mentioned, under the direction of the present Agent, S. C. Meader. In 1865 the large No. 2 mill was built. Within the past 30 years under the present management many important alterations, improvements and additions have been made, resulting in increasing the production more than AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 895 fourfold, and in a higher standard of excellence in the goods. Everything in and about the mill is of the best; every appliance to increase the produc- tion 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 are designed largely for women's ware. The first officials of the company were N. V. Whitehouse, Marshall P. Wilder and Samuel B. Rindge, directors; Ezra Farnsworth, treasurer, and Charles S. Whitehouse, clerk. N. V, ^Vhitehouse, as already noted, was also agent until 1877. Benjamin Phipps was made treasurer November, 1868, and held that position until his death. Ezra Farnsworth succeeded N. V. Whitehouse as a director, and in 1881 the venerable Marshall P. Wilder retired and was succeeded by William H. Sherman. On May 3, 1883, Samuel B. Rindge died and Col. Francis J. Parker of Boston succeeded him. The present officers are P'arker Bremer, president ; Stephen C. Meader, director and agent, and Samuel Rindge, director and treasurer, the last mentioned having been appointed treasurer at the death of Benjamin Phipps. John Meader, formerly superintendent, was succeeded at his death by John L. Meader, who now fills that position, with Harry H. Meader as assistant superintendent. Julia E. Meader is bookkeeper, W. S. Meader paymaster. George B. INIcEIwain was dye-master for many years, his present successor being William L. McElwain. L. M. Richardson is boss weaver, James Lucey boss carder, Theo. ^^'ilmont boss spinner, George ^larsh boss finisher, James Teague boss wool sorter. About two hundred people are now employed. The company owns fifty tenements, which are rented to the employes. During the last year the power at the sawmill privilege has been largely increased by the construction of a canal, 1,000 feet long, and the erection of a power house, water wheels, dynamos, etc.. to transmit about 550 horse- power back to the mill. The mill at present has 14 sets of Davis & Furber cards, 116 Knowles" Broad looms and produces about 1,000,000 yards of cloth \-alued at about $700,000. EDWARD A. WILLAND, superintendent of the StratYonl County Farm, in Dover, was born in Berwick, ^le.. May 11. 1846. His father, Nathaniel H. Willand, followed the combined occupations of farmer and tanner for many years successively in Berwick, Me., and Rochester, N. H., to which place he removed in 1846. On the breaking out of the Civil War, he responded to the call for \T)lunteers by enlisting in Company I, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, being nnistered into service at Con- cord. At the close of his term of enlistment, which was for one year, he re-enlisted, this time for three years, and served subsequently until the end 896 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY of the war, taking part in many important battles. After receiving an hon- orable discharge he found employment as cook on a merchant vessel running between London and the West Indies, and was thus occupied until 1871. He then ga\e ii]) the sea and took his residence in Rochester, X. H.. where he died May ^<^, 1876. He married Hannah F. Hubbard of Berwick, Me., liy whom he had four children, namely: James H., who died in infancy; James H. (second), who died at the age of eight jears; Edward A. and Emma, wife of John H. Blaisdell. Edward A. Willand was but a babe in arms when his parents took up their residence in Rochester, this state. He attended the public schools of that town until he was thirteen years old and afterwards spent two years at the Biddeford High School. He then learned the carpenter's trade, serv- ing an apprenticeship of three years ami becoming an expert workman in the manufacture of sashes, doors and Ijjinds. During the ne.xt two years he worked at his trade in Boston and Dover. He then entereil the employ of E. G. and E. Wallace, tanners and shoe manufacturers, of Rochester with whom he remained fifteen years. For a time he served as chief of pnlice in Rochester before it became a city. Subsequently locating in Do\er, Mr. Willand was elected the first regular police officer at Sawyer's Mills. Three years later he was elected assistant marshal of Dover, which office he resigned in 1893. He was appointed to his present position as superintend- ent of the Strafford County Farm in April i, 1893. Politically Mr. Willand has been identified with the Republican party since coming of age, and has always remained true to the party. He stands liigh in the Masonic order belonging to Humane Lodge, No. 21, of Roches- ter; Temple Chapter, No. 20, of Rochester; and to Dover Lodge of Per- fection, having also taken the Scottish Rite, and also to the Dover Senate, K. A. E. O. Mr. \\illand was married in Dover, December 25, 187 1, to Calista A. Chesley. daughter of Samuel and Maria (Hanson) Chesley, of Barrington. Thev are the parents of two children — Ella M., a graduate of the Dover High School, having been the valedictorian of her class, who is the wife of Col. E. B. Folsom, and Blanche E., the wife of Frank E. \'arney. Mr. Willand is a man well known throughout the county and his record in the administration of his present office has justified the confidence of his fellow citizens in his ability and integrity. VICTOR E. PAGE, a representative citizen of the city of RcKhester, is a general farmer and stock raiser and resides two and one-half miles from Rochester on the l-'armington road, where he owns one of the most attractive AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 897 residences in this part of the county. Tiie iionic i)lace contains 300 acres, and together w ith tiiis he possesses other farms and city jjroperty. He was born at Boston, Mass., March 9, 1868, and was the youngest in his parents" family of five children, the parents being Dr. William H. and Nancy (Jen- kins) Page, both now deceased. The grandparents of Mr. Page were Capt. Benjamin and Huldah (Hussey) Page. Daniel Page, the great-grandfather of Victor E. Page, came from England and was an early and prominent settler of Rochester, N. H., where he reared a family, one of his sons, Benja- min Page, becoming a captain in the War of 181 2. Dr. \\illiam H. Page, son of Capt. Benjamin Page and father of Victor E., was a graduate of the Medical College of Harvard University, Class of 1853. W'hile in the college he was the assistant of the Professor of Anatomy (Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes), the highest position then obtain- able. Upon lea\ing the college he was unanimously elected House Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital. Upon leaving the hospital he was unanimously elected dispensary physician, a position he held for several years. He then spent two years in \arious hospitals of Europe, where he recei\etl the highest compliments as a medical expert; but, as soon as the first report of the first gun at Fort Sumpter was heard across the water, he returned, and in answer to a letter from Goxernor Andrews of Massachu- setts, offered to go to the front without pay. He served all through the Peninsular campaign in 1862, where he rendered invaluable services, and remained with the army till the disastrous retreat to James Ri\er, when he was the only surgeon to volunteer to stay with the 3,000 wounded tliat General McClellan was obliged to abandon to the enemy. On his return to Boston Dr. Page served as examining Surgeon of Recruits in that city and was appointed one of the examining surgeons for the L'nited States Pen- sion Office, and was employed by various railroad corporations in important surgical cases and as a medical expert by the Attorney General of Massa- chusetts. Owing to ill-health Dr. Page mo\ ed to New Mexico and later died in California. He married Nancy Jenkins and they had five children: William H., who is a prominent lawyer of New ^'ork City, and president of the New York Athletic Club; Nina, who is traveling in Europe; Harriet P. Junkins of New York City; (jeorge H.. who is deceased, and Victor E. Victor E. Page was left motherless at the age of two weeks and fourteei; years afterward took up his residence with his uncle, Richard T. Rogers. Mr. Rogers was born in the town of Rochester. Strafford county, N. H.. July 3, 1818, a .son of Samuel and Nancy (Tripe) Rogers. The earliest ancestor of Mr. Rogers in .-\merica caine from Dublin, Ireland, bringing with him an infant son. John Rogers. The latter grew to manhood and 898 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY marrieil ^lary AIcDuffie, who had been born on the sea. John Rogers was the lather of Samuel Rogers and the grandfather of Richard T. Rogers. The father of Nancy (Tripe) Rogers is said to have invented the diving bell in use at Portsmouth, N. H. Samuel Rogers had two children, Eliza- beth and Richard T. The latter received his early schooling in the town of Rociiester and was diligent as a student. At the age of twenty-one years he went into the lumber business and also acquired such an excellent kno\vl- edge of law that he was able to transact a large amount of probate business. He was a Republican in politics and served Rochester many years as select- man; he was also county commissioner and served several terms in the state legislature. His death occurred October 28, 1890. On December 25, 1877, he married Olive M. Page, a daughter of Benjamin and Huldah (Hussey) Page, and who was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, and a teacher for many years in the public schools at Boston until her marriage to Mr. Rogers. Victor E. Page attended school at Boston until fourteen years of age. He then accompanied his aunt, Mrs. Rogers, to Rochester, and for two more years attended school in Rochester, after which he spent two years at Phillips Exeter Academy, Class of 1888. Since then he has been engaged in his farm activities. For twelve years he operated a morning milk route to Rochester. He has about fifty acres of his land cleared, the rest being in pasturage and lumber land, and annually he winters about thirty head of cattle and other meat stock. Mr. Page married Miss Frances S. Gerrish, daughter of Ebenezer Ger- rish, of this city, and they have seven children: Olive F., Nina E., Beatrice, Gladys, Roger E., Florence E. and Dorothy E. Mr. Page is a Republican and was the youngest man ever elected to the Rochester city council at the time of his tenn of office, and just missed election to the legislature by a few votes. He is a member of the Rochester Fair Association and belongs to the local grange. His acquaintance is wide and his friends are many. JOHN THOMAS WENTWORTH HAM. of the firm of John T. W. Ham & Co., dealers in hats, caps, furs and furnishing goods in general, has been actively engaged in this business since August i. 1S31), when he entered into partnership with the late Amos D. Purinlnn. wlio iiad Ijeen engagefl in the business many years. Mr. Ham had been a clerk with Mr. Purinton five years preceding that date, and had learned all the details of the business before he became a partner of the firm, so in fact, he has been active in the business nearly sixty years, and has not yet retired, being the ranking merchant in term of senice in Dover. The dates are these : He was bom JOHN T. W. HAM AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 901 July I, 1838; he became clerk in Mr. I-\irinton's store September 4, 1854: he became partner of Mr. Purinton August i, 1859; the firm of Purinton & Ham was dissolved by the death of the senior member in 1877; this firm conducted a large wholesale as well as retail business, their wholsale trade extending into northern New Hampshire and Maine; following the death of Mr. Purinton, Mr. Ham conducted the business alone at the same place on Central avenue, up to 1890, when Mr. Alden Hatch entered into partnership with him and has so continued to date, under the firm name of J. T. W. Ham & Co. Up to 1900 the business of the firm had been located on the north side of the river near the Central avenue bridge; that year he purchased the J. K. Purinton store on the south side of the river, adjacent to the bridge, and erected on the spot the present elegant and finely equipped brick building in which his business has been conducted since that year. On this spot the hat, cap, fur and fur- nishing business has been conducted continuously since 1833, a period of 80 years. Mr. Jacob K. Purinton was the elder brother of Amos D. Purinton, Mr. Ham's partner. Mr. Ham entered into a business partnership with Mr. Purinton, as before stated, when he was twenty-one years old ; Mr. Purinton was so well pleased with this arrangement that he very cordially consented to a further and closer partnership by the marriage of his only daughter, and only child, Abbie Maria, with Mr. Ham, May i, i860, which proved to be a most happy union for 26 years, which was only dissolved by the Angel of Death, who took her lovely spirit across to the other shore September 10, 1886, and the mortal eyes of a most estimable woman were closed to the scenes of earth. They had no chil- dren. Mrs. Ham was one of Dover's most highly esteemed women, being highly educated, brilliant and the best of wives. Her sudden death caused great grief in the family connection. Mr. Ham was the only son of John and Martha (Wentworth) (Drew) Ham, born July i. 1838; he was named "John," for his father, and "Thomas Wentworth" for his mother's father, Thomas Wentworth, who was fifth in descent from Elder William Wentworth. Thomas was son of Col. Jonathan Wentworth, and grandson of .Samuel. I)oth of whom served in the Revolu- tionary war; Samuel had another son, Daniel, who served in that war for liberty and independence. Jonathan was Captain of a company at the battle of Bunker Hill ; later he was Major in Col. Thomas Bartlett's regiment at West Point; after the close of the war he was Colonel of the 2d New Hampshire regiment in 1789. His residence was Dover. Mr. Ham's grandmother, Mary Roberts, wife of Thomas Wentworth, was daughter of Col. James Roberts, who served in the Revolutionary amiy. He was Ensign in a company of Berwick f Me.) men in Col. Scammon's regiment 902 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY at tlie battle of Bunker Hill. Later he was Captain in Col. Robinson's ( Maine) regiment ; still later he was Major in Col. John W'hither's regiment, in the expedition against Quebec in 1776. After that he was Lt. Colonel in Col. Wiggles worth's regiment and served in the campaign that ended in the sur- render of General Burgoyne at Saratoga in October, 1777. After the close of the war he was Colonel of a militia regiment in Alaine. His residence was Berwick. Mr. Ham's father. John Ham, was fourth in descent from William Ham, who came to New England in 1640 and settled at Portsmouth on the point of land in the Pascataqua River, where the buildings are now (1914) located that were constructed for an immense paper mill. l'>om him it was called Ham's Point for nearly a ccntur}^ and a half. By a later owner it was changed to the name Freeman's Point. William's son, Lieutenant John, who was born in 1649 and died in Dover in 1727, was the first of the name who settled in Do\er, on a grant of land at Tolend, near the second falls in the Cochecho River. Later his residence was on what is now Central avenue, and his house stood on the east side of it. next to the south of the house on the corner of Ham street, and opposite Milk street. The original deed of this land from Peter Coffin to Lieut. John Ham is now in possession of his great great grandson, John Thomas Wentworth Hani. The house and the large farm around it remained in possession of the Ham family 200 years, the successixe owners after Lieutenant John being: Benjamin, born in 1693, died in 1781 ; John, born in 1737, died in 1824; John, lx)rn in 1779, died in i860; John Thomas Wentworth, born in 1838. Thus it is seen that the lives of the five owners cover the remarkable period (to 1914) of 265 years. Four generations preceding Mr. J. T. W. Ham were all good farmers, good citizens and well to do business men. Their wives were from good fam- ilies, so Mr. Ham. the subject of our sketch, is the product of some of the best New England and New Hampshire stock, and in his career has shown himself worthy of it. Mr. Ham has ne\'er sought to hold public office, and only consented to serve two years as member of the Common Council, for \Vard Three ; he had no taste for that sort of business, and it is a matter of conscience to do well whatever he undertakes, so he declined further prefennents. But for many years he has served the public in other capacities. He is trustee in the man- agement of Pine Hill Cemetery ; trustee of the Wentworth Home for the Aged, since 1897, having served as one of the Building Committee when the institu- tion was organized. At the building of the Masonic Temple in 1890, he was chosen one of the fi\e members of the Building Committee and he has con- AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 903 tinned to be one of the directors and business managers of the concern ever since then. No man ever revered and loved his mother more dearly than Air. Ham has and does his mother, Martha Wentworth. She was of medium height, slight figure, pleasing in iier address, a good conversationalist, but not over talkative, and possessed superior intelligence and a first class housekeeper. She was one of the early members of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church in Dover, which was organized in 1824, and she remained one of its most faithful members to the end of life. Her husband was a staunch member of the Society of Friends, and was popularly knoA\n as I-Viend Ham. an excellent man and a prosperous citizen. It was their custom to both attend the Friends' Meeting in the forenoon and the Methodist Church in the afternoon. In addition to this she rarely failed to attend the weekly prayer meeting and class meetings at St. John's vestry. She was always ready to lend a hand in any work the Church had to do. Under such parents Mr. Ham was trained and educated in the ways of doing what was rigiit. Need any one wonder, then, tiiat for thirty years he has been a working member of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church in Dover? Such is the fact antl for many years he has been one of the trustees and a member of its finance committee. When at home, and in health, he has rarely failed to attend the morning service of the Church, and to extend a welcome hand to all strangers whd might \isit there for worship. In the Fraternity organizations of tiie city Mr. Ham has for many years been a member of Mt. Pleasant Lodge of Odd Fellows, and Prescott Encamp- ment. Also he is a naember of 01i\e liranch Lodge, Knights of Pythias and is trustee of Lodge No. 84, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the New Hampshire Genealogical Society, and of tiie New Hamp- shire Society Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Hani's attention was first called to I'ree Masonry in 1862, when he was 24 years old, and he received degrees in Stratford Lodge, Dover, on the following dates; Entered apprentice. December 3, 1862; fellow craftsman. March 3. 1SO3; master mason. April 29, 1863; so he has now been a full fledged member of the order fur more than half a century. On December 23, 1863, he was elected treasurer of the lodge and has held that office continuously to the present time, liaxing received his fiftieth annual election at a recent meeting of the lodge. That he has Ijeen a faithful and efficient officer is fully evidenced by this fact. He has not aspired to or accepted any other office in the lodge, yet no man stands higher in the confi- dence, good will and esteem of the lodge than he. As treasurer he has never failed to attend and render his reports on all occasions when called for by the rules and they have always been found correct. Since November 904 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY 2-], 1863, he has been a member of Belknap chapter; he was elected treas- urer of the same and has served as such ever since. iMr. Ham has received the Cryptic degrees of Orphan Council in 1863, and on September 25, 1867, he was elected its treasurer, having served in that capacity by annual elections to the present time. In that same year, half a century ago, he was admitted to membership in St. Paul's Com- mandery, K. T., of Dover, and received the orders in due course. His membership in the four branches — lodge, chapter, council and commandery — is now well advanced in its fiftieth year. He has been treasurer of the commandery since June 17, 1S67, by annual re-election, and is now com- pleting his forty-seventh year in that office. In more recent years Mr. Ham has been initiated into the various degrees of Ancient and Accepted Scot- tish Rite Masonry, completing the journey upward September 10, 1902, when at Providence, R. I., he was created sovereign grand inspector general, thirty-third and highest degree of the order, being made also an honorary member of the Supreme Council, Northern Jurisdiction. He has served as treasurer of New Hampshire Chapter, Rose Croix, since May 8, 1902. On December 14, 1906, he was promoted to noble of the Mystic Shrine, Bek- tash Temple, at Concord, N. H. It may be added that he is a director of the Masonic Building Association, having served in that capacity since its organization in 1890. It will thus be seen that Strafford Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of Dover, has a member whose Masonic record cannot be equaled probably by any member of the fraternity in New England. Mr. Ham holds membership in Mt. Pleasant Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Dover, and since July 31, 1872, he has been a member of Olive Branch, K. of P. He is a trustee of Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover. As a man and citizen he is highly esteemed for his agreeable manners, public spirit and high sense of personal honor and integrity. Since early manhood he has taken a keen and active interest in the growth of the commercial and manufactur- ing interests of Dover and of the county generally, and also in its social and moral development. Mr. Ham married Abbie M. Purinton, who died in 1886. JOHN A. ALLEN, proprietor of Egwanulti Farm, a tract of land con- taining some 500 acres, situated in Rochester, is interested in general farm- ing, lumbering and the breeding of fine stock and pure bred poultry. He was born on this farm November 5, 1865, and is son of Amasa and Eliza- beth (Blaisdell) Allen. Amasa Allen was the son of William and Sarah (Nute) Allen and was born November 15, 1820. William (2d) was born 1794, the son of Sam-, uel, born 1761 ; Samuel was son of William (ist), who was born 1717. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 905 William (ist) was one of Rochester's earliest settlers, coming to Roch- ester in 1746, having received a grant of land from the king. A portion of this land is now a part of the farm now owned by John A. William (1st) was the son of John ( ist) (1685), who was the son of Charles, who came to "Old Strawberry Bank," as Portsmouth was then known, in 1635. In his early manhood Amasa Allen was a shoe manufacturer, but loving the soil and "to see things a growing," he became a farmer at about the time of his marriage to Elizabeth A. Blaisdell. The children of this union were Charles W., deceased March, 191 1; Clara A., wife of the late Senator Charles H. Seavey, deceased, April, 1895; Martha E., wife of James A. Jackson of the Rochester Hills road, and John A. John A. Allen was educated in the district school at the Academy at West Lebanon and at the Academy at South Berwick. He married January 18, 1888, Miss Bertha L., daughter of Simon L. and Lydia (Parsons) Home. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have three daughters — Bessie L., Mattie B. and Bertha E. All are graduates of Rochester High School. The eldest is a successful teacher in one of the city schools. The two younger have entire charge of the poultry department of the farm and the results prove their good management. They make a specialty of White Plymouth Rocks and of White Leghorns. Mr. Allen has recently set out a fine orchard of peach, pear, cherrry, plum and apple trees. Mr. Allen has given much attention to the raising of Hol- stein Friesian stock and has a fine herd of thoroughbreds, and also some fine grades — thirty-two head at present. He does an extensive dairy busi- ness, selling milk and cream in the local markets. He raises much hay and grain, using modern machinery in the raising and harvesting crops. A 7 1-2 horse power gasolene engine furnishes power for filling the silo, sawing wood and grinding grain for home use. A smaller engine pumps water for the stock and for the pressure tank which supplies the building with water. To carry on the work of the farm five men are employed the year round and more in busy seasons. Mr. Allen is afifiliated with the Republican party but is not a partisan, and always works for what he believes to be the highest good of the com- munity. He has ne\er sought for office but has served on the School Board. He has always worked for temperance, good roads and good government. He is a member of Rochester Grange, a member of the Holstein Friesian Association and of the Strafford County Sheep Breeders' Association. He and his family are members of the Walnut Grove F. B. Church, of which Amasa Allen was for many years senior deacon. 906 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY HON. CHARLES H. .MOKAXG*. who has heen interested in the manufacture of brick at Dover Point, N. H., since 1S75, is not only a pros- perous Inisiness man of Strafford county but also one of political imiior- tancc. He was burn at Lubec, Washington county. Me., July 31, 184O, and is a son of James and Caroline (Kelley) Morang. Joseph Morang, the grandfather, came of French parents but was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, and afterward moved to Lubec, Me., where his son, James Morang, was subsequently born and grew to manhood, when he married Caroline Kelley, who was born at Trescott, Me. Charles H. Morang grew up in the fishing village of Lubec and for a few years engaged in the fishing industry, mainly on the Atlantic coast off Lubec. For three years he followed farming on land bordering the Kennebec river. Me. In 1873 he came to Dover, X. II., and two years later went into brick manufacturing at Dover Point, at present being the senior member of the firm of C. H. Morang & Son, brick manufacturers, their business being an extensive one. Mr. Morang married Miss Sarah Littlefield. who was born in Maine, and they have the following children: Mabel 11., wife of Richard G. Pray, of Port.smouth, N. H. ; Florence, wife of Charles Rines, of Portsmouth; Fred L.. who is associateil with his father at Do\er Point; Alice, wife uf Robert Goodwin, of Portsmouth, and Ralj^h IL, who resides at Dover Point. Mr. Morang has been a very acti\e and ])ublic spirited man and has so secured (he respect and confidence "f his fellow citizens that they base manv times elected him to honorable and responsible offices, bdr three years be serveil as selectman representing the Fourth Ward (jf l)o\er city, and for two terms was a meml)er of the Do\er city council, and fur twn additional terms was a member of the board of aldermen of Do\er. He ser\ed twn terms also from the Fourth ward in the New Hampshire legislature and in 191 2 was brought forward by his party and friends for election to the state senate. Since manhood he has been loyal in his support of the Republican party. He belongs to Mount Pleasant Lodge. Odd I'ellow s. at Do\er. CHARLES H. LEAVITT*, a well known and respected citizen of Dover, who is engaged in general agriculture on his farm of thirty acres, situated in the town of Dover, was born November 5, 1853. in Effingham, N. II., and is a son of John C. and Hannah M. (Clark) Leavitt. John C. Leavitt was born at Effingham, \. H., and with the e.xception of a few years, during which he was a resident of Dover, spent all his life in his native place, dying there some years ago. For a number of years he w'as engaged in a general mercantile business and for a time also in c AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 907 manufacturing:. He married Hannali M. Clark, a native also of Effinghaim and a daughter of Dr. David \V. C. Clark, formerly a well known physician of that place. Mr. Leavitt was twice married and his surviving children are; Mary E., who is the wife of Charles Jellison, of Concord, N. H. ; Charles H., of Dover, and John E., of Boston, Mass. John C. Leavitt at one time was a member of the New Hamjtshire legislature, representing hltiingham and was elected on the Republican ticket. He was a memljer of the Alasonic fraternity. His father, James Leavitt, who was of English extraction, was also a resident of Effingham. Charles H. Leavitt attended the Effingham schools and remained there until he was seventeen years of age. He then came ti> Dover and was gi\en a position in the Dover post office, in which he continued, desjiite anging administrations, for thirteen years, and for three years was assist- ant postmaster. Subsequently, for thirteen years more he was a bookkeeper at the Cocheco Mills, in the print works department, retiring in 1908 to his farm in Dover, since which time his interests have been more or less cen- tered on its improvement and development. On January [3, 1875, Mr. Leavitt was married to Miss Gara A. Ward, of Rumney, N. H.. a daughter of the late Daniel S. Ward, at one time judge oi the police court of Do\-er. Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt have one son. Lester W. In politics Mr. Lea\ itt is a Republican and fraternally an Odd Fellow. DAVID W. WATSON, proprietor of Little Bay I'arm. containing 100 acres, situated near Little Bay. the town of Durham, carries on general farming and gardening, making a specialty of growing onions. He was liorn at Maiden. Mass.. October 2/, 1854. and is a son of Daxid and I'^lizalieth (Ocliorne) \\'atson. Da\id Watson was born at Woodstock. Vt.. but spent many years of his life at Maiden. Mass., and was one of the owners of the Boston Type Foundr3^ He was a son of David Watson, who was a man of scholarl\- acquirements, one who understood tive different languages. The Watson ancestry is Scotch. David W. Watson was given excellent school advantages and attended the public schools of Maiden and a noted pri\'ate institution — the Chauncy Hall school at Boston — later taking a business course in the Bryant and Stratton Commercial College. Boston. For a time he was connected in a business way with an amateur printing press concern at Boston. I:)ut since early in the eighties he has de\oted himself to his agricultural acti\'ities, his fore- sight and good judgment being shown in his specializing on a vegetable for which his soil is particularly adapted and one that is in demand the world over. 908 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Mr. Watson was married at Maiden, Mass., to Miss Hattie Soule, who was born at Boston, a daughter of John P. Soule, for many years having an art studio on Washington street, Boston, in which city he was a well- known Freemason. Mrs. Watson died in October, 191 1. She was the mother of eight children, namely: Ethel C, who is the wife of A. W. Simpson of Madbury, N. H. ; David A., a resident of Durham; Gertrude E., a trained nurse, at Portland, Me.; Lucia S., wife of Dean Smalley, of Lynn, Mass., Leon P., a resident of Barrington, R. I. ; Miles S., who is of Ipswich, Mass. and Earl E. and Philip W., both of whom are students in the agricultural department of the Xew Hampshire State College. Mr. Wat- son has been careful in the educational training of his children and three of them — Miles S., David A. and Lucia S. are graduates of the New Hamp- shire State College. Three also are graduates of Robinson Seminary at Exeter, N. H. ; Ethel C, Gertrude E. and Lucia S. Mr. Watson and family attend the Congregational church at Durham. In politics he is atfiliated with the Republican party, and he belongs to the Royal .\rcanum, at Dover. He is a man of public usefulness, responsible and reliable in the small things as well as the big events of life and stands among the representative citizens of Straf- ford county. MRS. ARABELLA MASON, who is a well known and highly esteemed resident of Dover, N. H., is a representative of one of the oldest families of Dover Point, N. H. She was born at Dover and is a daugliter of Andrew T. and Ann E. (Roberts) Roberts. Andrew T. Roberts was born also in Dover, a son of Alonzo Roberts, and a grandson of Daniel Roberts, all of Do\'er. It was Thomas Roberts, who came from Great Britain to America between 1624 and 1643, was the founder of the family at Dover Point, and ever since it has been a leading one in the county, prominent in local and state affairs. Andrew T. Roberts spent his entire life at Dover Point, and was interested there in brick manufacturing, as was his father, Alonzo Roberts and as also was .-\aron Roberts, the mater- nal grandfather of Mrs. Mason, .'\ndrew T. Roberts served in local oflices and when Dover was incorporated was the first street commissioner. He was a man of industry and enterprise, one who recognized, however, that public improvements that would benefit the whole community must be the result of concerted effort: lie must be credited with arousing public atten- tion to various matters that resulted in permanent adxantages to the com- munity. His family consisted of two daughters and one son, the latter, Clarence H., being now deceased. Mrs. Mason had a sister, Emma Z., who AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 909 died Dec. 9, 1913, ami w lio was the wife of Edwin A. Reed, of Worcester, Mass. Arabella Roberts was reared at JJo\er I'oint and enjoyed pleasant social surroundings ami educational ad\antages in her youth. After graduation from the Dover High scIuxjI and from the New Hampshire State Xornial school at T'lymouth, X. EL, she taught school for a number of years in Dover, taking a great interest in educational work and pro\ing a capable and popular teacher. In 1889 Aliss Roberts was married to Harry Mason, of I'hniouth, N. H., where they resided for some time. Harry Mason was a descendant of one John Mason, who recei\'ed a ro}'al grant of land from the King of Eng- land, in colonial days, which co\ere was reared in Dover, where he attendetl the public schools. He may truly lie called a self-made man. as he has had to make his own way in the world since quite young. The Garrison farm, of which he is the owner, contains 160 acres of land and is devoted to general farm- ing. On it is located the old Log Garri.son Hou.se. famous in local history as having been formerly a fort in which the early settlers here were accus- tomed to take refuge in case of Lndian alarms. It is kept in a good state of preservation by our subject. Mr. Rounds married Ellen S. Peavey, who was liorn in Dover, N. H., a daughter of Bryant and Anna Pea\ey of this city. They have passed their golden wedding anniversary, having been married o\-er fifty years, but are still youthful in heart and mind. Their friends are numerous in this locality. :\Ir. Rounds belongs to Mt. Pleasant lodge of Odd Fellows at Dover and Dover Grange. He attends the L'ui\ersalist church, of which his wife is a member. W.ALTER F. GAGE, was one of the widely esteemed citizens of Dover, where he was born October 9, 1848. He was a lifelong resident of Gage's Hill, and died February 21, 1909. He was a son of Daniel and Sarah (Hersom) Gage, and a grandson of James Gage, who was the founder of the family in Strafford county and the original settler of Gage's Hill, to which he gave his name. Daniel Gage was born on this place and spent his life here. He married Sarah Hersom, who belonged fo an old family of Berwick, Me. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 927 In the district schools ami at I'ranklin Academy. Walter 1", Gage was educated and throughout life was a well informed man anti interesFnig com- panion. He followed agricultural pursuits for thirty-seven years and for this length of time conducted a milk route at Do\er. In many ways he was useful to his community and served with strict integrity as a member of the city council and also as a member of the board of aldermen at Dover. In politics- he was a Republican. The only fraternal body with which he was connected was the Knights of Pythias, of which he was a charter member at Dover. In his family Air. Gage was kind, thoughtful and indulgent and in his community was accommodating, courteous and charitable. On February 14, 1877, Mr. Gage was married to Miss Amanda J. Stir- ling, who was born January 12, 1853, at South .\tkinson, Me., a daughter of Ephraim and Susan ( Ham ) Stirling, and a granddaughter of Harry Stirling, of New Castle, N, H., who was a sea captain and was of Engli.sh extraction. Captain Stirling and one of his sons were lost at sea while on a voyage in foreign waters. Mrs. Gage has the following brothers and sisters: Wesley B., who resides on Broadway, Dover, N. H. ; Truman, who is a resident of San Gabriel, Cal. ; John H., who is a resident of Dover; Elsie S., who is the widow of Henry Hope, and resides at Lowell, Mass., and Isabel G., who is the wife of William Pray, of Dover. The father of Mrs. Gage was also a sea captain and owned mills at South Atkinson. He later moved to Blackwater, N. H., and was engaged in farming for a few jears before removing to Garrison Hill, where he died March 30, 1888, being survived by his wife until May, 1890. Tw'o children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gage: Cora B. and Everett W., both of whom remain with their mother. The Gage farm is a fine estate of about 300 acres. The familv attends the Central Avenue Free Will Ba])tist church, to which Mr. Gage was a liberal and willing contributor. 'b ELIAS C. VARNEY, a ])rominent and highly esteemed citizen of Dover, residing in the Blackwater district, was born May 28, 1835, in Rochester, N. FL, a son of George W. and Sarah F. ( Hanson) Varney. He is a grand- son of Elias Varney, who settled at an early day in Barrington, N. H., where he resided many years and finally died. George \\''. Varnev, father of our subject, was born in Barrington and came to Rochester at the age of ten years, becoming a memlier of the household of E. Cloutman, Esq., being here reared to man's estate. His wife, Sarah, whom he married here, was a native of Somersworth. Of their children the following are now living: Elias C, whose name begins this sketch ; Sarah F., widow of Howard Parsons, late of Dover, N. H. ; Christine, widow of Charles Home, late of Berwick, 928 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY Me., where slie resides: Susan E., widow of the late Samuel Lord and a resident of Dover; Lenora, who is the widow of James Home, late of Dover, of wliich city she is still a resident, and Emma, widow of George Cheney, late of Manchester, X. H.. where she is now living. The father, George W. Varney, (Hed in Rochester over a quarter of a centurv ago. Elias C. \'arney was reared to manhood in Rochester, in his hoyhood attending the jiuhlic sciiools. He tiien went to Boston, where he was engaged in teaming for some 20 years. Subsequently returning to Rochester, he took up farming, which occupation he has now successfully carried on for 30 years with a gratifying degree of success. He has a fine and well culti- vated farm ni 143 acres, on which he is also engaged in stock raising. As a citizen he stands high in the estimation of all who know him, his capacity, integrity and progressive qualities being widely recognized. In politics he is independent, being bound by no party shackles but acting on his own private judgment when called upon to cast his vote. Both in his reading and thinking he keeps well abreast of the times, and his aid and influence can always be enlisted on behalf of any cause calculated to benefit the com- nninity at large. Mr. \'arney was married in 1859 to Sarah F. Moody, a native of Tam- worth, X. H.. who died June 13, 1907. She was a most worthy woman and a consistent member of the Free Will Baptist Church. She bore her husliand four children, namely: George \\'., whd resides in Rochester; Inlm W'., a resident of Dover. X. H. ; Elizaljeth ^l., wife of Edward E. Clark, of Dover, and Frank, who is also a resident of Dover. Mr. Varney's chil- dren are all progressive, intelligent members of the communities in which they respectively reside — such as bring credit to a family name. He him- self is one of the prosperous and substantial citizens of Strafi^ord County, having accumulated an ample competence through his own exertions, backed by industry, intelligence and economy. EDWARD F. LORD, master carpenter, who has been connected continu- ously with the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, at Somersworth, N. H., for 33 years, is a valued employe, one whose worth has been recognized by well merited advancement. He was born at Berwick, Me., where he still maintains his home, Xovember 17, 1854, and is a son of Benjamin S. and Sarah (Roberts) Lord, both of whom were natives also of the Pine Tree state. Edward F. Lord attended the public schools of Berwick during his boy- hood and then learned the carpenter's trade, at which he has worked con- tinuously ever since. Since 1880 he has been connected with the carpenter shops of the Great Falls plant, some years since becoming master carpenter. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 929 In early manhood Mr. Lord was united in marriage with Miss Ella Fall, who was born also at Berwick. Me., as were her parents. George and Ellen (Melcher) Fall. Her father is deceased. Mr. Lord belongs to the Ma,sonic fraternity, attending tiie judge at South Berwick, and also is a member of the Odd Fellows, at Berwick. He is a highly respected, earnest and well inten- tioned citizen and gives his political support to the Democratic party. Public ottice has never appealed to him as he has found his time sufficiently taken up with his business affairs and his home and social interests. OLIVER AI. VICKER^', a well known and successful agriculturist of Dover. N. H.. is a native of this county, having been 1)orn in Rochester, N. H., August 22. 1 85 J. His parents were Joshua and Mary (Green) Vickery, the father a native of Wakefield, X. H., and the mother of Roch- ester. Our subject's paternal grandfather was Samuel Vickery who resided in Wakefield many years. The family is said to be of English origin. Oliver M. Vickery was reared to man's estate in Rochester and trained to agricultural pursuits. For nine years he was employed in Dover but now owns a farm of his own of 60 acres here, dex'oted to general farming. He was educated in the public schools but the knowledge there acquired has been largely supplemented by practical experience in the affairs of life. He has resided on his present farm since 1896 and is doing a successful farming business. His prosperity is the result of his own personal efforts and he may be called a "self-made man" in the best sense of tlie phrase. That he has force of character is evidenced by the fact that he lias several times been chosen by his fellow citizens to serve in public office. He was formerly a councilman of Dover, representing ^^"ard i, and lie served as alderman for two terms from the same ward, showing efficiency and a due regard for the interests of his constituents. In politics he is a Republican. As a citizen Mr. Vickery is up to date and public-spirited, being always found on the side of true progress and the moral and material improvement of the city and town. He has gained much popularity and has a wide circle of friends. Mr. Vickery married Annie B. Osliorn. of Rochester, N. H.. a daughter of Hiram S. Osborn. late of that city. Of this marriage there have been two children — Walter R.. residing at Lakeport. X. H.. and .\lta. wife of Herbert Meader of Dover. X. H. GEORGE H. ^^'Y-VTT, Jr., general farmer, who is successfully carrying on his agricultural industries on his 140 acres of land, which are situated three and one-half miles east of Rochester Square, on the Dover and Roch- 54 930 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY ester stale road, was born in the town of Farmington, N. H., September i8, 1866, and is a son of Lyman and Mary H. \Vyatt. After his school days were over, George H. Wyatt gradnally became connected with the saw mih business and during the last ten years has done a large amount of lumber contracting. Recently he has sold his saw mill, through which he was known in the lumber regions of both Strafford and York counties, and now devotes his entire attention to his farm activities, which include raising and dealing in stock, particularly horses. He has placed his property in fine condition but the buildings were erected by the former owner, George W. Varney. Mr. Wyatt was married first to Miss Alice L. True, who, at death, left four children. The second marriage of Mr. Wyatt was with Miss Nettie E. Davis. In politics he is a Democrat but has been generally unwilling to accept office ; at one time he was trafific agent at Farmington. He is well and favorably known all over .Straft'ord county. NEWELL B. FOSS is proprietor of Broad View Farm, containing 185 acres, situated two and one-half miles west of Rochester Square. He owns also 600 more acres in Strafford county and his interests cover farming, lumbering and livestock trading. Mr. Foss was born in the town of Straf- ford, Strafford county, N. H., August 19, i860, and is a son of Richard W. and Emily (Place) Foss. The Foss family came from Massachusetts to New Hampshire in the person of the great-grandfather, settling on what is now the Foss home farm of 300 acres, situated at the foot of the Parker mountains, then known as Blue Hills. James B. Foss, the grandfather, married Sarah \\'aldron and they had two sons and three daughters, one of the sons, Richard W., receiv- ing the farm as his portion and lived on it until he gave it to his oldest son, James H. Foss, who is the present owner. He married Emily Jane Place and they had four sons and three daughters to reach maturity. Newell B. Foss with his brothers and sisters attended school at Straf- ford antl the Newhampton Academy and in 1886 he was graduated from the Newhampton Commercial College, following which he started out on his own business responsibility. ]Mr. Foss's farm was formerly owned and named by George \Vallace, who erected all the special buildings, and here was once carried on probably the most e.xtensive henneries in the state, also fancy cows and horses. A partial description may give some idea of its plan of con- struction. The main barn, with dimensions of 50x100 feet, is three stories high, the first floor being arranged for horses and carriages. Hay and weighing scales occupy the second and third floors. Adjoining the main AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 931 barn is the cow stable, 35x70 feet in dimensions, with accommodations for thirty-eight cows to be kept under sanitary conditions. The cattle barn, 100x20 feet, also has a cellar with twenty-two cow stanchions and box stalls; and the boiler house, 20x35 feet, three stories high, has a cement floor on which is located the engine, and here all the cutting and grinding of food for the cows and poultry is attended to, modern conveniences being sup- plied. The brooding quarters, 200x20 feet, and a separate steam heat plant is here utilized. There are six hen houses, 20x100 feet, all finished in proper way; and the incubator house operates two stoves and accommodations are provided for a tenant. The place and its many improvements and con- veniences must be seen in order to be appreciated. Mr. Foss has a handsome i6-room residence, built in modern style, with cement cellars and with a steam heating system. All the buildings are well supplied with water from a drilled well 298 feet deep, and reservoir holding 15,000 gallons. Many wonderful improvements have been made here since the time of Mr. Foss's grandfather, who conveyed his products to Boston by wagon. Mr. Foss married Miss M. Isabella Waterhouse, a daughter of Charles H. Waterhouse, of Harrington, N. H., and they have one daughter, Nancy Laura, residing at home. She is an educatetl and accomplished lady, formerly was a bookkeeper and stenographer for Leslie P. Snow, of Rochester, N. H.. and afterward a teacher in the Rochester High school. Mr. Foss is a promi- nent member of the Grange and belongs also to the Odd Fellows and the order of United American Mechanics, at Rochester. DWIGHT HALL.* attorney-at-law, Dover, N. H., was born in Straf- ford County, N. H., April 13, 18S7, one of a family of three children of Joshua G. and Susan E. (Bigelow) Hall. The father, Joshua G. Hall, was a very prominent lawyer up to the time of his death, which occurred October 31, 1898. He also served the city of Dover as city .solicitor from 1868 to 1870 inclusi\e. Dwight Hall, after attending the |)ublic schools, entered Andover Academy, from which institution he was graduated in 1890. He studied law at -the Dorister Law School, of Boston. Mass., and was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1897. Immediately after he began the practice of his profession in Dover, where he has since remained. He served the city of Dover as city solicitor and has also been countv solicitor and referee in bankruptcy. Elected mayor of Dover, he sened capably in that office during the years 191 1 and 1912. He is a director in the Strafford National Bank of Dover. Mr. Hall married Miss Frances C. Smith, a daughter of James Smith 932 HISTORY OF STIL\FFORD COUNTY and he and his family are nieml^ers of the First Congregational church. In pohtics he is a Repubhcan. Mr. Hall is one of the leading members of the bar in Strafford County and few citizens of Dover are better known or more liighly esteemed. ROBERT B. L.\XE, who occupies tlie important position of overseer of the spinning department of mills Xo. i and Xo. 2 of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, of Somersworth, N. H., has been identified with this extensive plant since December, 1899, when he became a resident of this city. He was born at Carroll, Me., October 18, 1868, and was a child when his parents removed to Lewiston, Me. During the nine years that Robert B. Lane lived at Lewiston. he attended school anil after remo\ing to Warren, Mass., was graduated from the Warren High school. By the time he was eighteen years of age he had become interested in the textile mills at Warren and entered the carding and spinning department. He continued with the Warren Cotton Mills for ten years, making his way from the bottom of the ladder until he becaine foreman of the spinning department. After this he spent a year in the Xew York Mills, X. Y., where he was superintendent of mill No. 4, and from there came to Somersworth. At first, for a time, he was overseer of the spinning depart- ment of mill No. i: later he was given charge also of mill X'^o. 2, and at one time he even had mill X^o. 3 under his care. His long experience in this particular line has made him very valuable as an overseer and his watch- ful eye lets no fault of either workman or product escape him. Mr. Lane was married at Warren, Mass., to Miss Mabel Armour and they have two children — James W. and Maud T. Mr. Lane and family atter.d the Free Will Baptist church at Somersworth. In politics he is a Repulilican but is no seeker for office. For many years he has been identified widi tiie fraternal order of Knights of Pythias. Mr. Lane is a quiet, industrious, public spirited and liberal citizen and stands high in the esteem of those with whom the past fourteen years of his life have been spent. JOHX' G. LIBBEY. one of the prosperous agriculturists of the town of Somersworth. where he owns seventy-five acres of valuable land, was born at Lebanon, Jile., February 11. 1867, and is a son of Thomas H. and Mary .\. ( Goodwin ) Lil:>l)ey. Thomas H. Libbey was born at Ossipee, N. H.. and was six months old when his father died and the death of his mother left him an orphan at the tender age of three years. He was reared by an uncle. Ivorv Hodgdon. of Ossipee. with whom he remained until he reached manhood, when he went AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 933 to Lebanon, INk-. There he married and remained for some years and then moved to Boston, Mass., for a short time. He then returned to Lebanon, which remained the family home until 1895, when removal was made to Somersworth and settlement was made on the farm tliat is now owned by John G. Libbey. Here Thomas H. Libbey resided until his death in Decem- ber, 1905, his wife surviving until April, 1910. They were members of the Free Will Baptist church. Of their children John G. Libbey is the only survivor. John G. Libbey grew to manhood in his nati\'e place and attended tlie public schools. From choice, farming has always been his main occupation. On April 11, 1895, he was united in marriage with Bertha Hanscom, who was born at Lebanon, Me., a daughter of Aaron H. and Susan (W'oodsum) Hanscom, the father a native of North Berwick and the mother of Lebanon, Me. Mrs. Libbey has two sisters : Mrs. Ida Brockett, of San Antonio, Tex., and JNIrs. Alma Estabrook, of Berwick, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Libbey had one son, Maurice C, who is now deceased. As a good and intelligent citizen, Mr. Libbey takes an interest in public affairs and gives his political supjiort to the Republican party. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, at SpringA'ale, Me. JEREMY B. TOWLE, who is one of Dover's best known and most respected citizens, has j^assed the greater part of his life here, his main interest being farming. He belongs to one of the old families of the state and is in the eighth generation from the original settler, who was Philip Towle, a native of Ireland and one of the first householders at Kingston. N. H. Jeremy B. Towle was born at Wolfboro, N. H., May 13, 1831. a son of Levi and Sallie (Dudley) Towle, and a grandson of Jeremiah Towle. Levi Towle was born at Hanover, N. H., and moved to Dover in 1840, where he spent the rest of his life, dying at the age of eighty-four years. Jeremy B. Towle accompanied his parents to Do\'er at the age of nine vears. In Ijoyhood he attended the old Pine Hill school and assisted his father on the home farm. He learned the shoemaking trade and in after years alternated work at the same time with farming. In the fall of 1864 he offered his services to his country, enlisting in Company D, First N. H. Heavy Artillery and was honorably discharged nine months later in the meanwhile having been mainly on guard duty at \\'ashington, D. C. He returned then to Dover and has since lived here with the exception of a few years spent at Madrid, Me. His farm lies on the Back River road. town of Dover. Mr. Towle was married first to Miss Mary A. Nute, of Madbury, N. H., 934 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY aiKl ten children were born to them, the following of whom survive: Levi W., James B., and Hiram G., all of whom are residents of Dover; Cora B., a trained nurse and graduated physician, who is a resident of Boston, Alass. ; Edwin D., a physician in practice at Salem, Mass.; and Jeremy S., who is a resident of a western state. Carrie E., Alary A., Alice and Abbie are deceased. The second marriage of Mr. Towle was to Miss Catherine L. Cook, who was born at W'olfboro, N. H., a daughter of Joel E. and Susan M. (^^ 'gP") Cook. Her father was born at Wolfboro, N. H., and her mother at Newmarket, the latter being a direct descendant in the eighth generation from Capt. Thomas Wiggin, who was the first acting governor of the state of New Hampshire. Mr. and j\lrs. Towle have two children: Arthur, who is superintendent of a woolen mill at Hillsboro, N. H. ; and Ruth W., who is a student in the Dover High school. Mr. Towle and wife attend the Universalist church. In his political views he is a Democrat. As a citizen ever ready to further movements for the general welfare, Mr. Towle stands among the foremost and both he and his w'ife have a wide circle of friends who hold them in personal esteem. Hner of years. In politics he was a Democrat but he was never willing to accept any office of a public nature. He was a kind and thoughtful brother and in his last illness transferred his farm to his sister by deed. His death occurred August 20, 1908. AUGUSTUS DE SCHUYLER,* a highly respected retired resident of Dover, was born in Belgium, August 1 1, 1842, and is a son of Saul and Cather- ine De Schuyler. Both parents were liorn in Belgium, in 1801, and both lived to be over ninety years of age. Augustus De Schuyler had few of the early advantages which are now considered the Iiirthright of American children, but he was taught to be honest and industrious and on such good foundation built his business career. During youth and early manhood he worked in flax, cotton, silk and other mills in his 948 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY own land, but all the time cherished a liope of finally reaching America and this hope became a fact in March, 1865. After boarding a vessel at Antwerp, he had to transfer at London, England, and from that city go by tram to Liver- pool, at which port he was able to secure passage on a steamer for the United States. About 18 days later he was safely landed at Portland, Me., from which city he came to Newmarket Junction, N. H. He reached the United States near the closing months of the great Civil war and, on account of the money inducement offered, decided to enlist in an organization then forming, and on March jg, 1865, became a member of Company G, 4th N. H. Volunteer Infantr)^ in which he served for si.x months, mainly in North Carolina, and was then honorably discharged. He then came to Do\-er, attracted by promise of work in his own line, and for 20 years subsequently he continued an employe of Sawyer's Woolen mills. Afterward, for 13 years, he was caretaker of St. Mary's cemetery at Dover. For several years he has lived in comfortaljle retirement, enjoying the esteem and good will of those with whom his life has been spent for so long a time. Li November, 1878, Mr. De Schuyler was married to Miss Catherine McDonough, who was born in County Sligo, Ireland, a daughter of Matthew and Mary (Fenly) McDonough. She was two years old when her parents mo\ed to Manchester, England, and Vned there until she came to the L'nited States, landing at Dover, N. H., July 6, 1S65. Mr. and Mrs. De Schuyler are members of St. Mary's Catholic church at Dover. In his political views he is a Republican with independent proclivities. CHARLES F. CROCKETT,* who is now serving in his third term as clerk of the Somerswortli Water Board, is a citizen of prominence in the town and resides on the old Crockett homestead farm, which is located at Crockett's Crossing, on the Salmon Falls road. He was born in the house in which he now lives, January i, 1853, and is a son of Charles H. and Sallie P. (Ireland) Crockett, the latter being a native of Charlestown. Mass. Charles H. Crockett was born at Ossipee, N. H., a son of Andrew Crockett, also of New Hampshire. The former accompanied his parents to Strafford county in boyhood, they locating in what is now called Rollinsford, near Rol- linsford Station. Charles H. Crockett engaged in farming as his main occu- pation and in 1836 bought the farm which his son, Charles F. Crockett now owns. He and wife attended the Methodist Episcopal church and were worthy people in every act of life. His death occurred February 9, 1897. They had six children: Louisa J., Sarah A., Charles H. and Mary E., all deceased; and Charles F. and Martha E., the last named being the widow of AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 949 P. W. Hemingway, formerly of East ^^'eylnouth, Mass. Mrs. Hemingway now resides witii her only brother at Somersworth. Charles F. Crockett attended the district schools and has devoted his life mainly to farming. He owns thirty acres of well cultivated land and finds health and contentment in still further impro\ing his estate. Mr. Crockett was married Octoher i6, 1897, to Miss Frances Shorey, who died January 27, 1912. She was a daughter of Albert P. Shorey, a former resident of South Berwick, Me. Mrs. Crockett was a member of the Calvin Baptist church at South Berwick, Me. In politics Mr. Crockett is a Democrat and served six years as a member of the school board and for several years has been a select- man representing the Fourth Ward of the city of Somersworth. With this record to his credit, it is unnecessary to add that he is held in high regard by his fellow citizens. ARTHUR W. SIMPSON,* one of Madbury's well known and respected residents, who is the owner of Hillside Farm, and who, in addition to farming carries on a general catering business with excellent financial results, was born in Yorkshire, England, June 26, 1862, and is a son of William and Sarah Simpson. Both parents of Mr. Simpson were natives of England, the name being a well known one in Yorkshire, and from there they came to the United States in 1864, settling at Dover, N. H., where both subsequently died. For many years the father was an overseer in the old Sawyer Woolen Mills, in the days when no brick had yet been used to displace the old wood construction. Arthur W. Simpson was reared and educated at Do\er and attended also the old Franklin Academy. During early manhood he was employed in various departments in the old Sawyer Woolen A4ills. Afterward he was in the tea and coffee business at Dover. Following his first marriage Mr. Simpson set- tled on Plillside Farm, on which he has continued to live ever since. It was formerly the property of Judge Atkinson, from whom John Hill purchased it, and his name is commemorated in the name of this beautiful and productive tract of 226 acres of fine land. Mr. Simpson carries on general farming and dairying, and, as a side line, conducts his catering business. His residence stands near the former location of the old Piscataqua river bridge. Mr. Simpson was married first to Miss Lydia L. Hill, who was born in Strafford county, a daughter of John Hill, and two sons were born to them: John H., who is a resident of San Diego, Cal. ; and Roscoe H., who is a resident of Dover and fonuerly a member of the board of selectmen of Madbury, N. H. Mr. Simpson's second marriage was to Miss Ethel C. Watson, a daughter of David W. Watson of Durham, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson attend the Con- gregational church at Durham. For 30 years he has been more or less active 950 HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY in political life in StrafTord county, particularly in the town of Madburv, and has given his fellow citizens efficient service in many responsible positions. He sened on the board of selectmen a number of terms, being twice cliaimian of the board, and early in the nineties was sent to the Xew Hampshire legislature to represent the town of Aladbury. At present he is a member of the board of health and deputy fire warden, and has filled many other local offices where good judgment was essential. In politics he is a Republican and fraternally is identified with the Masons, at Dover as well as the Odd I^\-llows, the Elks and the A. O. U. W. Mr. Simpson is justl}- luimbered with Strafford county's representative citizens. MARK CHASE,* owner of the beautiful tract of land known throughout the town of Dover as Fairview Place, located on Bay View road and contain- ing 185 acres of land, was born in Albany, Carroll county, N. H., June 20, 1852. His parents were George and Amy (Annis) Chase, the former a son of Oliver Chase and a resident of Albany, and the latter born in Madison, X. H. Mark Chase was not born until two months after his father's death. The mother subsequently married Samuel Banfield and the family moved to Con- way, N. H. March Chase attended the ])ublic schools at Conway and lived there until he was 20 years of age, in the meanwhile having lost his mother by death, when he was twelve years old. He then came to Dover, but two years later returned to Conway and remained there several years longer. He was first married June 20, 1873. to Miss Rosalie A. Ham. a daughter of Plumer and Mary Ham, who were well known people of Rochester. Mrs. Rosalie A. Chase died in 1887. and on October 16. 1888, Mr. Chase was married secondly to Miss .\lice J. Farrington. who was born at Conway, N, H., a daughter of John C. and Mary A. (Banfield) Farrington, members of old Conway, N. H., families. The great-grandmother of ]\Irs. Chase was the first white female child born at Moultonboro, N. H., for which family the place was named. ]\Irs. Chase was a school teacher prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Chase have had four children: Herbert F., of Dover; Eugene R.. who is deceased: and Ernest C. and Althea M.. both residing at home. j\lr. Chase and wife located on his present fami in the fall of 1893. where he follows general farming and dairs-ing. They are members of the Wash- ington Street Free Baptist church. They are also members of the Do\-er Grange, to which the sons also belong; Herbert F. having held office therein for many years, is said td be the youngest man ever elected master of a grange in New Hampshire. The other son, Ernest C, Chase, is now serving the Grange in the office of steward. The Chase family is prominent in social AND REPRESENTATR^E CITIZENS D51 circles, and the male members are stanch Democrats, without desire for public office. CHARLES O. BAKER, a well knuwn citizen of Dover, N. H., owner of a farm of al)out 30 acres devoted to farming and dairying, was born in Dover, N. H., October 2, 1846, a son of Samuel W. and Lydia P. (Blake) Baker. He is a grandson of Sharonton Baker, fonnerly of Dover, who resided here many years, serving the town as selectman, and who died in New York in i860. Sharonton was a son of Eben Baker, the family being of English extraction. Samuel \\'. Baker, the father of our subject, was born in Dover, his wife Lydia being a native of this county. He was a prominent citizen, serving in the legislature in 1870 and 1871 from Ward i, Dover. He was also an alder- man two years and was assessur for a number <;)f years. In politics he was a Republican and he was a citizen of great popularity with a wide following. Of the children born to Samuel W. llakcr and wife there are now three sur- vivors, namely: Charles O., the subject of this sketch; Samuel B., residing in Charlestown, Mass., and Sharonton H., a resident of Maiden, Mass. Charles O. Baker, in addition to the activities above mentioned, is an active participant in public affairs. A Republican, like his father, he is now serving as an assessor at large of Dover, being also clerk of the board. He has served as clerk of Ward i for several years and has been a member of the common council for two terms, showing marked efficiency. He is a charter member of the Wanalonset Tribe of Red Men at Do\er ; a charter meml:)er of the United Order of the Golden Cross, at Do\er; and a member of Chcheco Grange, No. 81, P. of H., which he has served as o\'erseer. He attends the Pierce Memorial Universalist Church. Mr. Baker married Elizabeth Drew of Barrington, N. H., a daughter of Swain Drew, now deceased. They have one daughter, Alice G., who is the wife of Hollis P. Ford, of Dover, and the mother of one son, Charles Baker Ford. CHARLES F. PRAY, station agent at Rollinsford, N. H., for the Boston and Maine Railroad, has been identified with railroad work ever since he reached manhood. He was Ijorn at Rollinsford, September J3, 185 1, and is a son of Humphrey and Eunice (Stackpole) Pray. The father was born in Lebanon, Me., and the mother in Rollinsford, N. H. The Pray family is of English and Scotch ancestry. Charles F. Pray attended the public schools of his nati\e place and the Salmon Falls High school. Having decided on railroad work as his occu- pation, he learned the art of telegraphing, beginning as an operator, August 952 HISTORY OF STR.\FFORD COUNTY 15. 1S70, \\ itli llie IJustuii and Maine Railroad. Two and a" iialf years later he was appointed station agent and ever since has filled both positions. This is an important railroad ix)int and Mr. Fray's duties occupy all of his time during the week of seven days. ]\Ir. I'ray has been twice married, fir.st to Miss Xovella A. Libbey, of Lowell. Mass. They had two children; Charles B. and Harry E., the latter being assistant superintendent of the Sayles' Bleachery, of Saylesville, R. I. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Pray married Miss Lucy B. Lord, of Lebanon, Me., a highly educated lady who had been formerh- a teacher, whom lie also lost by death. Both his wives were worthy and estimable ladies. Mr. Pray is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of South Berwick, Me. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Salmon Falls. Politically a Republican, he belongs to that wing of the party that particularly advocates temperance. Mr. Pray is one of Strafford county's well known citizens. STEPHEN P. CHESLEY*. who is a member of one of the old agri- cultural families of Strafford county and carries on fann industries on the place on which he was born, July 2ji,. iSdj, in the town of Durham, is a son of John S. and Nancy A. ( Sanljorn ) Chesley. I~ew families of Durham ha\'e older associations connected with this part of New Hampshire than ha\e the Chesleys. The pioneer settler of the family was Samuel Chesley, perhaps of English extraction. He secured the land which the family still preserves and here reared his family. His son, Stephen P. Chesley, grandfather of Stephen P. Chesley, of this sketch, was a respected resident of Durham throughout his life. John S. Chesley, father of Stephen P., spent his entire life in Durham, where he died in 1896. He was prominent in local affairs, serving several temis as a selectman of Durham, and was practical and careful in the man- agement of his own enterprises. He married Nancy A. Sanborn, who was born at Loudon, N. H., and they had the following children: Stephen P., of Durham; James S., of Dover; Wilbert S., Gabriella, Edgar D. and Eliz- abeth W., all of Durham; and Ivy M., of Sanbornton, N. H. Stephen P. Chesley attended the public schools of the town of Durham, also Franklin Academy, at Dover and subsequently, Coe's Academy, at North- wood Center, N. H. From early manhood he has made agriculture his busi- ness, and he carries on fanning and dairying with profitalile results. In his political opinions, like his late father, he is a Democrat; he has served as a selectman of the town and on several occasions his party has made him its candidate for the legislature. At the last election his opponent, Hon. AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 953 Charles Wentworth, defeated him by but a small majority. Mr. Chesley is interested in the Patrons of Husbandry and belongs to Scamniell Grange No. 122, of Durham. He belongs also to the Knights of Pythias and is a charter member of Sullivan Lodge No. 26, at Durham, in which he has held ofificial positions. Mr. Chesley stands high in the esteem of his fellow citi- zens and well represents the good citizenship of Durham. 56 rfe-C LRFFe78 '''•'■ 9 ,0 o^ '•'j. -^^ ■^,. .-^^ --.. ,,^^' .x^^" aV-^. ■: >^ V %- c^^ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS !l |! I I! II. IL nil nil III liL JIM III III lllll 013 997 222 3