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George G. Parker .- He was born in Acton, June 19, 1826. He was the oldest son of Asa Parker and Ann Margaret (McCaristone) Parker. He fitted for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, and Appleton Acad- emy, New Ipswich, N. H. He taught school in Ac- ton and elsewhere. He graduated from Union College, New York, in 1852; studied law at the Albany Law School, New York, and was admitted to the bar of that State.
In 1856 he settled in Milford, Mass., and was ad- mitted to the Worcester Co. bar, where he has since practiced. For many years he has been chairman of the Board of School Committee of Milford, senior warden of the Trinity Episcopal Church, Milford. In politics he was a Republican, but joined the Gree- ley party in 1872, was a member of the Cincinnati Convention of that year, and represented the Demo- cratic party in the Legislature in 1876. December 26, 1854, he married the eldest daughter of Rev. James T. Woodbury, Augusta. Their child, Marga- ret Augusta, died at Milford in 1861.
William M. Parker, M.D .- He was born in Acton, June 15, 1828, son of Asa Parker and Ann Margaret (McCaristone) Parker. He acquired a thorough aca- demical education, and entered the Berkshire Medical Institution at Pittsfield, and graduated in 1853. He practiced in Shutesbury about five years. He there served as a member of the School Committee. From 1856 to 1860 he was surgeon of the Tenth Regiment of Massachusetts militia. In 1858 he removed to Milford, and there followed his profession till his death, March 1, 1883. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Massachu- setts Medico-Legal Society, and at the time of his decease was State Medical Examiner in Worcester County. He was married June 25, 1872, to Miss Emma T. Day, whose death preceded his own by about six months. He left his only child, Lillian Blanche, to Mr. and Mrs. George G. Parker, by whom she was adopted. The Milford historian, Mr. Ballou, speaks of his social standing as being in accord with the doctor's eminence as a physician and citizen.
Hon. Henry L. Parker .- Hc was born in Acton. He was the son of Asa Parker and Ann Margaret (McCaristone) Parker. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1856. He was admitted to the bar of Worcester County in 1859, and commenced the prac- ticc of law at Hopkinton, Mass., and was trial justice for about three years; removed to Worcester in 1865, where he has been in practice since.
In 1886 and 1887 he was representative to the Geu- eral Court from Worcester. In 1886 he was a mem- ber of Committee on Probate and on Drainage. In 1887 he was chairman of Committee on Probate. In 1889 and 1890 he was Senator from the First Wor- cester Senatorial District. In 1889 he was member of Judiciary Committee and chairman of Public Ser- vice. In 1890 he was appointed chairman of the fol- lowing Committees : Judiciary, Rules, Election Laws and Special Elections. In Worcester was six years a member of the School Board. For the past two years he has been president of the Worcester County Horticultural Society and senior warden of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, also member of the Board of Associated Charities.
Rev. Ephraim Hapgood, son of John and Clara Hapgood, graduated at Brown University in 1874, pursued theological studies at Newton Theological Seminary ; was settled iu Seward City, Nebraska.
Rev. Josiah W. Brown graduated at Dartmouth and Andover Theological Seminary.
Edward F. Sherman .- Born at Southeast Acton, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1843, and prac- ticcd law in Lowell. The mills at Southeast Acton called the Sherman Mills.
Luther Jones, M.D .- He was the son of Silas Jones, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1841.
Eben H. Davis .- He was born in Acton, 1840. He was the son of Eben Davis. He graduated at Kim- ball Union Academy in 1857, and at Dartmouth Col- lege iu 1861. He took a course at the Harvard Law School, and then entered upon his life-work, that of teaching. He was principal of the Belmout High School, and was then elected, in 1869, superintendent of the schools in Nashua, N. H., where he remained a year and a half, when he resigned and became the superintendent of the schools in Woburn, which position he held for thirteen years, and has been superintendent of the schools iu Chelsea six years. He has made a specialty of primary methods in teach - ing, has written for educational magazines, both in the South and iu the Northeast, has lectured in several States at Institutes, and is now editing a series of readers, in behalf of the Lippincott Publishers.
Julian A. Mead, M.D .- He was boru in Acton ; the son of Oliver W. Mead. He was fitted for college at Exeter, N. H; graduated at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School : studied over two years in the medical schools and colleges of Europe, and is now in active practice in Watertown, Mass.
George Herman Tuttle, son of George Tuttle; pre-
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pared for college at Concord High School; gradu- ated at Harvard, 1887; has been one year at the Med- ical University of Pennsylvania; one year at Harvard Medical School.
Frederick Brooks Noyes, son of T. Frederick Noyes, has graduated from Andover Theological Seminary, and nearly completed his course at Harvard Univer- sity
PHYSICIANS .- Dr. John Swift, son of the minister, was the first physician.
Dr. Abraham Skinner was from Woodstock, Conn., and commenced practice in Acton in 1781, where he died, April 16, 1810, aged 53. He married Sarah, daughter of Francis Faulkner, Esq., 1788.
Dr. Peter Goodnow was from Bolton ; commenced practice in Acton 12th October, 1812 ; left February 18, 1827, and was afterwards a merchant in Boston.
Dr. Bela Gardner resided here from 1823 to 1828; removed to Vermont.
Dr. Harris Cowdry, born at South Reading; grad- uated at the Berkshire Medical Institution, 1824; commenced practice in October, 1826.
Paul C. Kittridge, from Littleton, commenced prac- tice in Acton August 30, 1830.
Harris Cowdry, M.D., was born at South Reading (now Wakefield), Mass., September 23, 1803. He studied with Dr. Hunt, of that place, and graduated at the Berkshire Medical School, Pittsfield, Mass.
At eighteen he applied himself to the vocation of a nurse, and in this work he acquired a taste for the medical profession. He entered upon this pursuit with the greatest enthusiasm. He grappled bravely with the obstacles that met him at the outset of his profession, and soon took a front rank.
In choosing a field for practice, several places were in mind. The fruits which abounded in Acton, even at that early date, attracted his notice, and here he determined to locate. Possibly, other attractions may have helped his decision, for, in due time, he found a helpful companion in Miss Abigail Davis, daughter of Eben Davis, a native of Acton. Here he practiced his profession for nearly half a century-nearly the average life of two generations.
The country in Acton and the adjacent towns is but sparsely populated, and his rides were long and fatiguing.
As a physician he was faithful and conscientious to all-both rich and poor. With the latter he was attentive and sympathizing, and in his charges leni- ent. The case of each patient he made an especial study. Hc was continually gathering up improved methods of practice from medical works and from the experience of friends, not allowing his mind to run in ruts.
As a general practitioner he excelled. Others in the profession may have been his superiors in some special branches, but for the varied work to which he was called, few have been his equals. As he entered the sick-room he brought a cheerful countenance and
a happy style of conversation, inspiring confidence, both in the patient and attendants. He was fond of children, and apt in discovering and treating their ailinents.
He was an early member of the Evangelical Church of Acton, and its firm supporter to the end. He was a reformer, zealous in the cause of temperance and anti-slavery.
He was interested in education ; a superintendent of the schools sixteen years, and chairman of the School Committee at the time of his death. He was fond of inusic, and, however pressing his professional cares, seldom was he missed from the village choir, seldom even from the rehearsal.
He was an ardent patriot. As a specimen of the man at the outbreak of the Rebellion, his letter to Captain Daniel Tuttle, dated May 1, 1861, is here given :
" You can't tell what an anxious night we spent after the telegraph had flashed it up to South Acton that the Sixth Regiment had been attacked in Balti- more. We are proud of you, and, more than that, we are glad the friends of freedom the world over know of your noble bearing.
" We know if the South don't back down, and there comes a fight, the Davis Guards will do their duty bravely and well.
"If prayers and tears can help you, be assured you have them all. You never saw such a town-meeting as we had last Saturday. We are ready to do any- thing for the soldiers."
He was one of those few men who never grow old. He was in his seventy-third year during that last winter campaign. His locks were silvery, but his step was elastic, his eyes flashed with the fire of early manhood, and he dashed through the streets, on his way to the sick, whether the call came by day or night, in sunshine or storm.
He died, as he wished, with the harness on. That Centennial Day at old Concord, April 19, 1875, was too much for him. The severity of that raw, chilly day gave him a fatal attack of influenza, from which he died, after a short but painful sickness, May 6th.
More died from the exposures of that day than from the original 19th, a hundred years before, and Dr. Cowdry was one of these patriotic martyrs.
He had two children : Arthur H. Cowdry, a suc- cessful physician in Stoneham, Mass .; Mrs. Helen Little, widow of Charles Little, M.D., whose active professional life began in Acton in 1866, and liis mar- riage to Dr. Cowdry's only daughter soon after, and his death at the age of thirty-three, after a promising but brief professional career.
Charles Little, M.D .- Dr. Little was born in Bos- cawen, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1860, and received liis medical degree in the same in- stitution in 1863; died November 16, 1869, thirty-two years old. During the same autumn he entered the navy as assistant surgeon, where he remained until
DR. HARRIS COWDRY.
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the close of the war. Unwilling to enter upon a private practice without a more thorough preparation for his work, he passed the winter of 1865-66 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and at the hos- pital in New York. Hc commenced his active pro- fessional life at Acton in the spring of 1866, and soon after married the only daughter of Dr. Harris Cowdry, of Acton.
Dr. Little was a good classical scholar, and had an excellent knowledge of the minutiæ of his profession. His practical career, though short, was long enough to give him a place in the confidence of the people, aud betoken a useful and successful career. He was modest in his manners, but outspoken for the right. In the home circle he was best appreciated. He was a genial husband, brother and friend. His end was peaceful and like a summer's cloud.
John M. Miles, M.D .- He was born in Temple, N. H. His father was a minister in Temple for sev- eral years, where he died. He married a daughter of Josiah Taylor, of Temple. He was educated at a medical college. He practiced in Boxboro' and Lit- tleton and settled in Acton in 1843, and practiced here until his death, March 22, 1865, aged sixty-three years and five months.
Isaiah Hutchins, M.D .- He was born in Westford, Middlesex County, Mass., September 23, 1829; lived on his father's farm in Groton till eighteen years of age. His education was in the public schools and Lawrence Academy at Groton. He entered the office of Dr. Walter Burnham, of Lowell, as a student in the study of medicine, and graduated from the Wor- cester Medical College in 1852, and the same year began the practice of medicine at West Acton, and for most of the time since has continued in it at the same place.
He was in the Union army during the nine months' campaign, acting assistant surgeon most of the time in the same regiment, Sixth Massachusetts, during 100 days' campaign as second lieutenant Company E. He married a daughter of Alden Fuller, West Acton.
Charles Barton Sanders, M.D., born in Lowell, Mass., February 19, 1844. He received his early edu- cation in the common school at Berwick, Me., and at Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Me. Enlisted as private August 11, 1862, in Rollingsford, N. H., and served with the Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers (being promoted to corporal) until March 1, 1864, when he was discharged by orders of the War Department to receive commission as first lieutenant in the United States colored troops, and was assigned to the Thirtieth Regiment; was through the Wilderness campaign and was taken prisoner July 30, 1864, at the battle of " Crater," front of Petersburg, and was confined iu a rebel prison at Columbia, S. C., seven months. Mus- tered out of service December 10, 1865, having served as adjutant of regiment from 1st of June, 1865. Re- ceived medical education at Harvard and Bowdoiu
June 1, 1869. His early years of practice were in Lowell. In July, 1875, he located at Acton Centre. September 4, 1878, he married Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Moses Taylor, Esq.
LAWYERS .- Samuel Jones, Esq., resided here as an attorney in 1805-06, but left the town and died in the South.
Ferdinand Adolphus Wyman, Esq .- He was born in Waltham, Mass., December 28, 1850. He is a prac- ticing lawyer, resident in Hyde Park, which place he represents for the second term in the Massachusetts Legislature. He was educated in the schools of West Acton. He was assignee of T. Shaw & Brothers, the extensive leather manufacturers, and as assignee or trustee has settled other large estates. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1886. Heis a member of the House Committee on Railroads.
'A. A. Wyman, Esq .- Mr. Wyman's full name is Alphonso Adelbert Wyman ; he was born in West Acton January 29, 1862. He was educated in the common schools of Acton and Lawrence Academy, Groton; he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, 1875 ; graduated at the head of his class of thirty in 1879. He was president of the Golden Brand, a literary society founded in 1817. He was managing editor of the Exonian, a school paper, and he was class historian by unanimous choice of his class. In 1879 he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated with honors in 1883. He was one of twenty-five in a class of 200 elected to the Phi Beta Kappa, holding the highest rank in scholarship. In December, 1883, he began the study of law in the of- fice of Henry W. Paine and William Varen Vaughan, 20 Washington Street, Boston, aud was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 1885, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Boston and West Acton. On July 28, 1886, he was married to Laura Aldrich, and his residence has been in West Acton.
Francis C. Nash, Esq., a native of Maine, gradu- ated at Tufts College, 1863 ; admitted to practice in Maine in 1866, and was in active practice in the Maine courts for several years. He opened an office in Boston (54 Devonshire Street) in 1880, residing at West Acton, at the homestead of Mr. John Hapgood, whose daughter Clara he married. He has been on Board of School Committee as chairman and superin- tendent of schools in Acton, and held other positions of trust.
Mrs. Clara Hapgood Nash, daughter of John and Clara Hapgood, was admitted to practice before the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, October, 1872. She was the first lady admitted to the practice of the court, in which she was for several years in co- partnership with her husband. She was, before her law practice, a teacher in public schools, was for a time an assistant principal of the Danvers High School.
Charles B. Stone, Esq .- He was admitted to the Suffolk bar February, 1890.
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FROM SHATTUCK'S HISTORY OF CONCORD .- A post-office was established iu 1828, and Silas Jones, Esq., was postmaster.
Appropriations :
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1800.
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Minister
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Schools
13
12
24
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49
333
450
450
Roads
26
70
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120
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12
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In 1826 the aggregate time of keeping schools was 28 months, attended by 412 pupils, (227 males, 185 fe- males) ; 139 under 7 years, 160 from 7-14 and 113 from 14 upwards.
In 1825 there were 2 carding-machines, 2 fulling- mills and 4 saw-mills ; valnation, $862,928.
Barrels were the staple production of the town, 20, 000 estimated as tlie annnal production.
The population in 1764 was 611 ; in 1790, including Carlisle, 853 ; in 1800, 901 ; in 1810, 885 ; in 1820, 1047; in 1830, 1128.
In 1821 there were 140 dwelling-houses, 230 other buildings, 513 acres of tillage land on which were raised 705 bushels of rye, 932 of oats, 5833 of corn, 75 of barley, 140 of beans; 1527 acres of mowing land, producing 956 tons of hay ; 2026 acres of pas- turing, keeping 939 cows, 196 oxen; 2055 acres of wood, 3633 acres of unimproved, and 1311 unimprov- able ; 240 nsed as roads and 500 covered with water.
It then had 3 grist-mills.
MISCELLANIES .- The dark day, so called, was May 19, 1780. Joseph Chaffin died in 1836, eighty-fonr years of age. Solomon Smith, the father of Luke, died July 25, 1837, aged eighty-four. One hundred and thirty-two dwelling-honses in South Acton in a range of a mile from the centre of the village; 109 in West Acton ; 60 in the centre. Seventy thonsand barrels of apples are shipped from West Acton per year. Between eight and nine thousand barrels are raised within a mile of Acton Centre and of the choicest quality and variety.
QUARRY WORKS IN NORTH ACTON .- This enter- prise has opened under the management of David C. Harris and John Sullivan, with encouraging pros- pects. They already do an extensive business, send- ing their granite as far west as Nebraska, and as far south as Pennsylvania. The granite has a peculiar merit in its tint, fineness of grain and durability, and gives a growing satisfaction to those who have tried it.
It most resembles what is known as the Concord, N. H., granite, though in some respects it is thought to be superior to that.
The granite has been known for quite a number of years.
A part of the monument at Lexington came from this quarry, and was drawn by oxen.
THE GREAT BLOW-It came Sept. 23, 1815. From "Our First Century," by R. M. Devens, in the article relating to the gale, is the following statement :
" In the little town of Acton the damage amounted to forty thousand dollars.
"This gale was severe at the Centre, blowing down several of the horse sheds around the meeting-honse. It came from east and weut to the west. It was es- pecially severe among the forests on Myers hill oppo- site the residence of Charles Robbins, in the east part of the town. It is remembered by several now living, and they have never forgotten the scene of falling forests."
The area of Acton is 12,795 acres. Its valnation in 1886, $1,286,089. Its population by the last State Census in 1885 was 1785 ; dwelling-houses, 413. The number of children between the ages of 5 and 15 in 1889 was 267. In 1885 there were 190 farins, the pro- duct of which was $209,533. The product of the dairies, $77,065. Hay, straw and fodder, $50,132. Vegetables, $19,417 ; 29,756 fruit trees, 1467 neat cattle, 240 horses. Aggregate of goods in 1885, $332, 345. Valnation in 1888, $1,310,947. School property, $22,600. Two thousand volumes in the West Acton libraries ; 4000 volumes in William A. Wilde's Me- morial Library. The general healthfulness of the climate is well established by the records of the past. Fatal epidemics have been rare. Seldom have the years been marked with prevailing sickness.
The average longevity for the last 26 years includ- ing those dying in infancy, has been 44 years and 6 months. This may be taken as an approximate aver- age for the entire history of the town. Longevity has always been a feature of the locality.
During these 26 years the average number of deaths in town has been 30; the total, 789. Those reaching 60 years, 289; those reaching 70 years, 211; those reaching 80 years, 98; those reaching 90 years, 14. The highest age reported is that of Mrs. Mehitable Piper, 101 years and 2 months, March 25, 1872. She was the wife of Silas Piper.
From Shattuck's " History" we learn that during the twenty years subsequent to 1800 there were published 208 intentions of marriages, and there occurred 161 marriages, 344 birth3, 302 deaths, of whom 72 died under one year old, 32 were 80 and upwards, 8 were 90 and upwards and one lived 99}. The average number annually was 15, abont one in 70 of the whole population. The mean average age was 35.
LONGEVITY .- The causes explaining this longevity are not obscure. They may be found in the frugal habits of the people ; in the tonic air of the hills; in the pure water of the springs ; in the excellent drain- age of the low lands, by means of running brooks and larger streams; in the variety of the soil, fertile enough to enconrage a diligent culture; in the land- scapes ever present and ever shifting to accommodate the moods of the resting or laborions hours; in the vicinage of the ocean, near enough to enjoy its cool- ing batlıs in the heat of summer, and distant enough to escape the extreme chill of the more vigorons months.
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DEATIIS OF TIIE OLDEST PERSONS.
Benjamin Brabrook, April 27, 1744; James Brabrook, died at Nova Scotia, Fort Lawrence, May 8, 1756 ; Samuel Brabrook, died at Reuisford Island, July 14, 1756 ; Francis Baker, 1816; 1sauc Davis, Sr., 1740; Johu - Davis, died in Littleton, Oct. 6, 1753 ; Ebenezer Davis, died March 5, 1755 ; Jolru Edwards, died Sept. 25, 1760 ; Nathaniel Edwards, April 6th, about 1800, 80 years old; Dea. Joseph Fletcher, Sept. 1, 1746; Ammi Faulkner, Aug. 4, 1756, 64 years ; Jonathan Hosmer, Jr., Oct. 1, 1777 ; Ephraim Hapgood und Nathaniel, lost in a vessel at sea coming home from Maine, Nov. 1, 1780; Samuel Jones, Nov. 29, 1796; Phineas Os- good, on Daniel Tuttle place, Dec. 27, 1752; Samuel Prescott, July 25, 1758 ; George Robbins, July 24, 1747; Nathan Robbins, June 7, 1764 ; Thomas Smith, May 10, 1758; David Stimson, Sept. 25, 1746; Daniel Shepherd, Sept. 15, 1785; William Thomas, Sept. 26, 1796; Joseph Wheeler, June 27, 1756; Ensign Mark White, Oct. 5, 1758; Abraham Wood, Feb. 26, 1759; Jacob Wood, March 7, 1759 ; Hezekiah Wheeler, May 5, 1759, supposed to be grandfather to Josiah D. Wheeler ; Joseph Wooley, June 24, 1787; 1823, James Billings, on Perkins' place, 74 years ; 1824, John White, 54; David Forbush, May 19, 1803, 85; Titus Law, Feb. 16, 1801, 84 ; Dorothy Robbins, widow of Natban, July 9, 1802, 93; Joseph Piper, Dec. 19, 1802, 85 ; Sarah, widow of Samuel Jones, Dec. 29, 1802, 86; Simeon Hayward, June 5, 1803, 48; Lieut. John Adams, Oct. 30, 1803, 87; Stephen Law, Nov. 7, 1784, 77; Francis Faulkner, Esq., 77, Aug. 5, 1805; Widow Sarah Cutting, Dec. 25, 1805, 97; Lucy Hunt, wife of Dea. Simou, March 31, 1808, 71, ; Esther Piper, widow of Joseph Piper, April 27, 1810, 85; Catharine Davis, widow of Simou, Jan. 3, 1810, 81; Dr. Abrabam Skinner, April 17, 1810, 54 ; Lieutenant John Heald, Oct., 1810, 90; Thomas Wheeler, Nov. 17, 1810, 55 ; Ephraim Hosmer, Nov. 17, 1811, 89 ; Rebecca Faulkner, widow of Francis, Esq., 76, April 3, 1812; Deacon Joseph Brabrook, April 28, 1812, 73; 1813, Phillip Robbins, Feb. 6, 73 ; 1813 Samuel Wright, March 2, 87; 1813, Captain Joseph Brown, Aug. 9, 61 ; 1813, Roger Wheeler, Dec. 30, 77; 1814, Lieut. Simon Tuttle, April 21, 80 ; 1814, Lieut. Henry Duraut, May 6, 40 ; 1814, Capt. Zedekiab Smitb, in the Army, May 13, 45; 1814, Silas Brooks, Aug. 11, 68 ; 1814, John Harris, Nov. 26, 80 ; 1815, David Davis, Sept. 16, 72; 1816, John Hunt, April 4, 78; 1816, John Shepherd, May 27, 64; 1800, Capt. Joseph Robbins, March 31; 1816, Capt. Daniel Davis, Dec. 7, 67; 1817, Samuel Wheeler, April 5, 82; 1817, Capt. Stevens Hayward, Oct. 6, 56 ; 1817, John Haudley, Dec. 12, 81; 1819, Benjamiu Wild, in Bostou, Aug. 2, 66; 1819, Thomas Law, March 20, 78 ; 1819, Abraham Hapgood, April 6, 66 ; 1820, Ezekiel Davis, Feb., 68 ; 1820, Dea. Simon Hunt, April 28, 86; 1820, Oliver Jones, Aug. 11, 82 ; 1820, Daniel Brooks, Aug. 25, 82; 1821, Joseph Barker, April 12, 99 ; 1821, Nathaniel Faulkner, July 2, 85 ; 1821, John Robbins, Dec. 31st, 60; 1821, Dea. John Wheeler, 56 ; 1822, Josiah Bright, 63; 1822, Jouathan Hosmer, July 10, 87; 1822, Smith Foster, 67; James Marsh, 71; 1822, Lieut. Thomas Noyes, Nov. 19, 82 ; 1824, Josephi Brooks, 74; 1824, David Barnard, 64 ; 1824, Samuel Hayward, 82 ; 1824, Jonathan Billings, died in Coucord, 85 ; 1824, John Wheeler, 64; 1825, Stephen Chaffin, 65 ; 1825, Jouas Brooks, 78; 1825, Joel Willis, 44; 1826, Samuel Temple, 74; 1827, Benjamin Brabrook, 85 ; 1827, Israel Robbins, 82; 1827, Samuel Parlin, 80; 1827, Quartis the colored man, 61; 1827, William Reed, 85 ; 1828, Ephraim Forbush, 72; 1828, Nathan Wheeler, 57; 1828, Robert Chaffin, 76; 1829, Nathan Brooks, 56 ; 1829, John Lamson, 89 ; 1829, John Hunt, 61 ; 1829, Theo- dore Wheeler, 52; 1830, Joel Hosmer, 60; 1830, Reuben Davis, 76 ; 1831, Seth Brooks, 91 ; 1831, Calviu lloughton, 78; 1831, Joseph Barker, 87; 1831, John Reed, 73; 1831, James Fletcher, 43; 1832, Elias Chaffin, 77 ; 1832, Jonathan Davis, 80 ; 1832, Elijah Davis, 82; 1832, John Hay . wald, 69 ; 1833, Thomas F. Lawrence, 52; 1833, Daniel Holden, 60; 1833, Abel Couant, 87 ; 1834, Willau Cutting, 80 ; 1834, Ephraim Bil- lings, 83 ; 1834, Aaron Hayward, 48; 1834, Jobn Faulkner, 73; 1835, Capt. Seth Brooke, 91 ; 1835, Moses Fletcher, 50; 1835, Lemuel Dole, 64; 1836, John D. Robbins, 58; 1836, Jonathan Fletcher, 64 ; 1836, Aarou Jones, 82; 1836, Joseph Chaffin, 84; 1836, John Robbins, Esq.,
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