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In the original survey of the farm, returned by Thomas Noyes to the General Court at the session beginning on October 18, 1659, it is said that the land lies "at the place wch is Called by the Indians nanajcoyijcus." From this it would seem that the name was given to the neighborhood by
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REMARKS ON NONACOICUS.
the red men, and not by the whites. Perhaps earthen pots were made in that locality, as fragments of pottery, as well as various stone implements, were formerly found there and elsewhere throughout the township; and this fact may have given a distinctive name to the place.
Originally Nonacoicus included the district in Harvard now known as the Old Mill, - two miles away from Willard's farm, - where Jonas Prescott, of Groton, the grandfather of Colonel William Prescott, the American commander at Bunker Hill, had his grist-mill. John Prescott, of Lancaster, in his will, dated October 8, 1673, and on file in the Middlesex County Probate Office at East Cambridge, says in reference to his third son Jonas, named above, that " he hath Received a full Childs portion at nonecoicus in a Corne mill and Lands and other goods." After the death of Major Willard, Nona- coicus farm passed into the hands of Hezekiah Usher, and the deed speaks of the place as " Nonaicoicus farme "; and in Sewall's Diary there are many allusions both to Usher and his wife. Usher's will is dated at Nonacoicus, on August 17, 1689. The judge himself was a member of the Third Church of Christ in Boston, now known as the " Old South," where he was a constant attendant on Sundays ; and the minister at the time of the writing on the fly-leaf, was the Reverend Samuel Willard, a former preacher at Groton, and son of the first owner of the farm. All these circumstances, trivial in themselves, tend to show that the Indian name of the place was familiar to Sewall. The farm was situated on the banks of the Nashua River, in a neighborhood full of Indian tradi- tions and associations. Major Willard's house was the first dwelling burned by the savages, when the town of Groton was destroyed in the spring of 1676.
My friend George J. Burns, Esq., a lawyer of Ayer, who has passed his whole life in the neighborhood of Non- acoicus, and is withal an accurate antiquary, thinks that the name was owing to the natural conformation of the land. The following letter, written by him in answer to one from me, gives a high degree of plausibility to his theory in the matter : -
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CAPTAIN FITCH'S NOTE-BOOK.
AYER, MASS., May 10, 1893.
Hon. SAMUEL A. GREEN,
30 Tremont St., Boston : -
MY DEAR DR. GREEN, - Upon the east side of the Nashua River, and just north of the mouth of Nonacoicus Brook, there is a very peculiar natural formation that could not have escaped the atten- tion of the Indians ; and it was of sufficient importance, both as a landmark, and as a post of observation commanding a view up and down the intervale, and rising above the floods that periodically inundate the surrounding lands, to have received a designation by them. While it is not alone the only "earthen pot" in this vicinity, it is just the kind of a formation to which such a name would be particularly applicable.
It consists of a promontory about 500 feet in length, varying from 300 to 500 feet in width, and protruding from the higher lands at the east in a succession of irregular ridges or small hills, which surround or enclose various hollows or basins, some of which con- tain water. During the last fifteen years I have often visited the place and wondered at its physical peculiarities, and I have tried to imagine what impression it made on the natives. I consider it the most interesting and curious natural feature of the territory called " Nonacoicus," and I am strongly of the opinion that it gave rise to the Indian name of this neighborhood.
Yours truly, GEO. J. BURNS.
CAPTAIN FITCH'S NOTE-BOOK.
SOME years ago I bought at a second-hand shop in Boston a small note-book, which once had belonged to Captain Zech- ariah Fitch, of Groton, and been used by him while in com- mand of a military company during the early part of the American Revolution. It consists of only twenty pages, of which three are blank, but it gives the names of the officers of the company and of many of the men, which, perhaps, are not found elsewhere. In these days of patriotic societies such facts have an interest and a value for the present gene- ration. The note-book has also been used by him to record certain items in connection with a new township in Maine. The various entries throughout the pages have been made by
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the writer, with little regard to any order; but in this printed copy I have brought such entries together and, after a fashion, have arranged them according to their subjects. This seemed to be the simplest way in which they might best be utilized.
Captain Zechariah Fitch was the eldest child of Zechariah and Elizabeth (Grimes) Fitch, and was born at Bedford, on April 1, 1734. According to Brown's " History of the Town of Bedford," he was married to Rebekah Davis, eldest daugh- ter of Eleazer and Rebecca (Chandler) Davis, who was born on August 2, 1736; and they settled in Groton. By this marriage there were two daughters, of whom Abigail, proba- bly the younger, was born in the year 1761. Neither the first wife nor the second lived a long time after the marriage, as it is entered in the church records, under date of August 4, 1763, " Zechariah Fitch of Groton to Lydia Tuck of Bed- ford;" and again, under date of February 3, 1767, “ Zache- riah Fitch to Sibele Lakin both of Groton." By the second marriage there were two sons, Richard, born on October 25, 1763, and Joseph, born on February 13, 1766. His third wife, Mrs. Sibyl (Lakin) Fitch, was a daughter of John and Lydia (Parker) Lakin, born on October 16, 1739; and she died on October 11, 1806. By her there were four sons and three daughters. Late in life, on May 11, 1809, Mr. Fitch was married at Pepperell to Betsey Tuttle, of Littleton, as his fourth wife, who died on January 5, 1823. His own death had taken place previously, on September 2, 1820. His father was a younger brother of John Fitch, from whom the city of Fitchburg receives its name.
AN ACOUNT OF OFFICERS.
Cap Zechariah Fitch Ist Leut Nathan Stow 2ª Leut Josiah Bowers Ensign Nemiah Blodget
Sarget Abijah Meeds Sarg' Levi Fletcher Sarg' John Scott Sarg' Silas Foster
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CAPTAIN FITCH'S NOTE-BOOK.
Cop Zebediah Farrah Corp Isaac Coary Corp Joseph Lawrance Corp Zacheus Richardson
Drumer Jonathan Hamblet Fifer Benjaman Hazen
August y" 3" 1776 I Rec" my Comision y"21" I Rec" orders to march as soon as Posable to Bennington y" 28 I marched from miles
Groton to Leuningburg II
Westmester Whores
Templetown Wright 13
Coock New Salem . 8
16
Hadley Goodman
19
North hamton Edwards
8
Chesterfield Hunt
8
Pateridgefield [Peru] Wilcocks 12
New providence [Adams ] Staford
9
Beningtown Jewett
dito dewe IO
2
September y" 10 we marchd From Beington
A Jornal of the way from Groton to Ticonderiga
From Groton to
to Leuningburg Haskels . II
to Westamester Hoars 13
to templeton Wrights . 8
to Petersham Winslows 8
to Newsalem Cookes 8
to Shutesbery Dickesons 5
to Amerhast Adams
9
to Hadley Goodmans .
5
Over the River to Hampton
3
Dito Edwards
5
Chesterfield Baileys
5
Dito Hunts .
3
Worthington Agers
5
Ditto Danielson 3
Paterdgefield Wilcaks 4
Williams town Searls . 19
CAPTAIN FITCH'S NOTE-BOOK.
Gagesborough Dodges 4
Newprvidence Stafords
5
104
East husok Wrights
6
Ditto Jones .
5
Williamstown Searls
3
Pownal Wheeler
6
Benningtown Jewits
4
Ditto Fays
2
Shaftsesborough Gelasha
7
Arlington Hawlag
7
Ditto Powel
3
Dorset Sutle
5
Rupert .
3
Ditto Herman
2
Polet Willards
5
Ditto Allens
5
Granvil Utter
4
Skeensborough first Landing
II
Ston house
5
Over South Bay to Ty
30
To Mount Hope "il 103
November ye 28th 1776
We all Marched From Mount Hope to Fourt Georg over the
Lake
45
From thence to Fort-Edward 14
Saratoge 15
Stillwater
IO
Albuny there two Days
26
Green Bush Shuter
4
New Lebulon Buleses
18
Petsfield Wrights Noon
II
Patridgefieldfield Babcock
9
Worthington Ager .
12
Dito Hunts
4 /2
Chesterfield Baley
3 /2
Nhampton Edwards
9
Dito
5
over the River to hadley
from thence to Amrhest Fields
8
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CAPTAIN FITCH'S NOTE-BOOK.
Shuts Bury Dicksons 9 /2
New Salem Cook 5
Petersham Winslows
Templeton Whites . 4
Dito Right 4
115
Westmester Whores
8
Leuningburg
13
Groton Childs
II
32
In the foregoing list the names of persons following the towns, with one exception, are undoubtedly those of the tavern-keepers along the way.
October 21 I hear that Daniel Billings was Dead: he Died the 9 Day of October
October 26 Sarg Silas Foster David Lakin Ephraim Furbush was Discharged
November 5th Sarg' Abijah Meads. Thadeus Garfield Abner Kent. Samuel Kemp Simon Hunt Ebenezer Ston John Right Nathaniel Cuter was Discharged
November 14th 1776 Zebediah Farrar: Daniel Howard Zebulon Bootman : Aaron Wright William Campbell : Joseph Lawrence Peter Bitefield. Ephraim Brown John Simonds .. John Laugh- ton James Adams./ Amos Adams Bengaman Hazen Timothy Baker Job Page/
November 22d 1776 Ebenezer White Elnathan Sharwine Jonathan Bigford John Scott all went hom
November 27 these went hom
Jonathan Steavens Samson Walker John Pushe Pristol Cumings Elias Mackentire Pason Eaton John Eaton John Center Jonas Heseline Thomas Heseltine Oliver Green
The following entries have an interest as showing at that period the depreciation of the currency. The use of the word " sas " or sauce, as applied to culinary vegetables, still sur- vives in some places, where the expression "garden sarce " even now occasionally may be heard : -
Recd 136 Dolars for sas and milk money Cash 3186 Dolars Caried with me
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CAPTAIN FITCH'S NOTE-BOOK.
Spent on my Jorney 2230 Dolars Cash hired 15 Dolars and 0 - 4 - 8
The following names are of men in the company against whom charges have been made.
Sept 9th Abner Kent d' to Cash € sd Q Lent him Bristol Cumings d' to Cash
0 - 6 -0 -0 0 - 18 - 0 - 0 John Simonds d' to Cash . 0 - 7-0-0 thos Duton d'. - 18 - 0 - 0 David Lakin d' to Cash 1 - 10 - 0 - 0 James Adams d' to Cash I - 4-0-0 Abiah meade d' to Cash 5 - 2-0-0 Bristol Cuming d' 0 - 6 -0 -0 0- 12 -0-0 0-12 -0-0 16 - 0 -0 I - 2-0-0 0 - 2-0-0 0 - 1 - 6 -0
John Simonds d' . William Graves d' Cash William Graves d' Cash William Graves d' to a Coat Joseph Taylor d' to a Chest . to a Pare of Britches to Stotens Drops . 0 - 1 - 6 - 0 to Cash Lent . 5 - 2 -0-0 0 - 18 - 0 -0 0 - 18 - 0 -0
Jacob Durant d' to Cash . Samson Walker d' to Cash
Jonathan Steavens
0 - 6 - 0 - 0
Bristol Cumings .
- 6 -0-0
Jonathan Steavens d'
0- 3-0-0
Pason Eaton dr 0 - 2 - 4 - 0 For John Center John Center d' 0- 1-7-0 Ephrm Forbush d' 0- 1-9-0
Nemiah Blodget d' . 0- 1-1-0
D' to Jonathan Steavens 0 - 5 -0
Elias Mackentire
0 - 4 - 0
John Pushe
0 - 5 and
0- 7-6 John Center
Ephraim Nash d' to Cash I - 6 - 0
William Graves d' 0 - 12 - O
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CAPTAIN FITCH'S NOTE-BOOK.
I
Capt
I
I Leutenent
I
2ª Leutenent
I
Ensign
4
Sergents
Officers
Comision
Non
I
Drumer & fife
28
Present fit for Duty
10
Sick present
4
Sick absent
8
on Comand
on Furlough
59
Totol
Dead
Discharged
Return
sence Last
alteration
The following entries found in the book refer to a new town- ship in Maine, perhaps Sebago. This itinerary would seem to lead to that neighborhood.
At Concord September 14": 1780 the Proprietors of a New township met to act on Bisness of the warent and I was Chosen and Cap' Brown and W" Whitemore as a Comittee to Lot out said township
ye 29 I sot out from home on s'! Buisness and went to Boston to Get a Plan and other meteriels for sª Jorney
October ye 2" I sot out from Bedford to Bilderica tuxbury andever Bradford 26 [miles] haverl Plasto Kingtoun Exeter Newmarket 26
A Duty or Weekly Return of Capt Zechariah Fitchs Company in Col. Samuel
Brewers Regement
and File
Effective Rank
Deserted
Officers
Comison
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THE KEMP FAMILY.
Durham Dover Sumersworth Barwick over Quompeagen Bridge Wels 33[+]8 [miles] Kenebunck Sacco Dunston goromtown 25 Persontown Newtownship 19
September 21 1781
then I went to Cambridge to get a Copy of they Proprietors Votes 22 to Boston to Prvide Nesecerys and other Bisness 24 one Day to Borow money 25 I sot out my Jorney the 30 I arived to Bridgetown October 20 1 arived hom
Groton June ye 4th 1782 then I sot out to go to the Eastward to agree with the setlers and Put them on in a township Latly Granted to Cap' Samuel Whitemore and others and to Let out mils to Be Built and Roads to Be made &c
Newmarket Young
Persontown
Setlers that are on the town ship
Joshua Davis Lot Nº 3 Range 2ª
Moses Lowel
16 Range I
Lazarus Row
15
2
Zebulon Leatherby
1
5
Bartholomy thorn .
3
Range I
John Harvy .
4
I
John Stout
7
I
Benje Row
8
I
Richard Hine
22
I
Benja ingels
Joshua Davis 4 Lot
2 Range
Samuel Bachelder .
5 L
2 R
Jonathan Lowel
7
2
Ephraim Bachelder
9
2
Gideon Lowel .
15
1
Cristepher Noble
Joshue Leatherby .
2
5 Range
James Leatherby
THE KEMP FAMILY.
WITHIN a short time I have seen three letters, written many years ago by Joseph Sawtell, 3d, of Groton, to his
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THE KEMP FAMILY.
brother-in-law, Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., of Gorham, Maine; and from them I have gathered a few items of genealogical interest, which are given below.
The first letter, dated May 15, 1809, at Groton, mentions the fact that old Mr. Joseph Rockwood's wife had died and was buried on the last day of March (see Groton Epitaphs, page 134); that Deacon Lakin was dead ; and that Stephen Kemp was buried on the last day of April. (Ibid.) The second letter, dated January 26, 1814, at Groton, says, that Alex- ander Smith died on November 25; and that Deacon Isaac Farnsworth died on October 2, and his widow on October 20, 1813. The date of Deacon Farnsworth's death, as given on page 296 of this volume, is October 1, which is probably cor- rect, as the notice in the newspaper was inserted presumably by the family. The third letter, dated December 26 [1814], with no year given, mentions the death of Mrs. Daniel Shat- tuck in April, who is known to have died on April 8, 1814, - and the burial of Mrs. Asa Wheeler, on December 18. It also mentions the death of the writer's wife, Mrs. Hannah Sawtell, on December 21, 1814. Joseph Sawtell, 3d, was married to Hannah, youngest daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Bradstreet) Kemp, on February 22, 1788; and Eben- ezer Kemp, Jr., was her eldest brother.
David Smith, of Shrewsbury, was married to the eldest sister, Abigail Kemp, on April 23, 1781 ; and in a letter dated January 7, 1812, at Pepperell, written by him to Ebenezer, Jr., the writer refers to the death of his own eldest son more than a year previously ; and also to his brother-in-law, Oliver Kemp, who had gone to Lake Champlain in the previous year, where he was drowned.
Ebenezer Kemp, Jr., the eldest child of his father's family, born on January 11, 1749, was married on August 31, 1773, to Relief Phillips, of Groton; and they had seven children. In the year 1782 he and his wife removed to Otisfield, Maine, with two children, who had been born at Groton. A deed of land given July 10, 1784, by James Prescott, of Groton, is still in existence, which conveyed to him at his new home a lot of a hundred acres " in consideration of five shill & doing
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THE KEMP FAMILY.
settleing Duty paid & Performed by Eben! Kemp." The acknowledgment of the deed was witnessed by Oliver Pres- cott, and by George Peirce who went to Maine from Groton near the beginning of the Revolution. After living at Otisfield for a few years, Mr. Kemp removed to Gorham, but not to the farm where he spent his last days, which was bought in 1797, and still remains in the possession of the family. On this homestead his mother, Mary Bradstreet Kemp, passed the declining years of her life, and was buried in the neighboring cemetery. Counting the small children of the family, six generations of Kemps have lived on the spot, covering a period of an even century.
Ebenezer Kemp was a member of Captain Henry Farwell's company of minute-men that marched to Cambridge from Groton on the memorable nineteenth of April; and under a later enlistment he belonged to the same company, and took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he was severely injured. The tradition in the family is that he had his hip dislocated, when he was taken prisoner by the British; but immediately afterward he managed to escape, hobbling off, it is said, by the aid of General Warren's gun, which being better than his own he picked up after Warren fell. He was in the army in the year 1777, and his descendants have his powder- horn bearing that date. This horn previously had been carried by William Lennon, who had cut upon it a plan of Brook- line Fort, when stationed there during the siege of Boston. The canteen used by Mr. Kemp throughout the Revolution, and bearing on one side the initials " E. K." can still be seen at the old homestead, which is now owned by Augustus F. Kemp, a great-grandson. He has been heard to say often that his family had bear-steak for dinner every Sunday during his first year's residence at Otisfield, which would seem to give him high rank among the hunters and trappers of that carly period. His descendants are now scattered through the towns of Gorham, Otisfield, and Windham, and other places in Maine, and a few have wandered to distant States.
Mr. Kemp died in 1833, aged 83 years, and his wife died before 1800.
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THE KEMP FAMILY.
CHILDREN OF EBENEZER, JR., AND RELIEF (PHILLIPS) KEMP.
Elijah, born at Groton, probably in October or November, 1777, and died at Gorham, on October 7, 1846, aged 68 years and II months.
Submit, born at Groton ; publishment of marriage to Josiah Clark, of Gorham, on September 30, 1797.
Relief, born probably at Otisfield, married to John Brown, of Gray, Maine, on May 3, 1807.
Mary, born probably at Otisfield, married to Levi Knight, of Windham, Maine.
Ebenezer, Jr., born probably at Gorham, married to Eunice Allen, of Windham, and is supposed to have been lost in a storm on the Great Lakes.
David, born probably at Gorham, in 1793, married to Anna Humphrey, of Gray, Maine, on October 21, 1819, and died on July 5, 1853.
Jonathan, born at Gorham ; publishment of marriage, on May 1, 1825, to Martha Humphrey, of Gray, who was a sister of his brother David's wife.
CHILDREN OF DAVID AND ANNA (HUMPHREY) KEMP.
Julia Ann, born on March 3, 1820, married Ephraim Holt, of Portland, on December 27, 1835, and died on March 9, 1852 ; one child living in Kansas.
Willis Bradstreet, born on January 23, 1822, married to Elizabeth Prince Fellows, of Augusta, on April 15, 1849, and died on April 14, 1892.
Israel Humphrey, born on January 20, 1824, married to Amanda Trask, of Gray, on November 10, 1853; one child living at Gorham.
Sarah Maria, born on January 11, 1826, married Robert Dodge, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, on November 29, 1846, and died in Wisconsin, leaving five children, all married, and with families.
George Clinton, born on June 11, 1828, and died on October 19, 1846.
Lucius Sidney, born on July 13, 1831, married to Susan Klein- felter, of Wisconsin, now living in the West ; they have had eleven children, of whom nine are alive.
All the children of this generation were born at Gorham.
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MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM GIBBET HILL.
CHILDREN OF WILLIS BRADSTREET AND ELIZABETH PRINCE ( FELLOWS) KEMP.
George Clinton, born on December 27, 1849, married to Ellen Peck, of Manchester, New Hampshire, on December 23, 1872 ; and they have three children ; Bertha, born on December 24, 1873; Frederick, born on April 15, 1878 ; and Phineas, born on March 15, 1884.
Sarah Colburn, born on August 19, 1851, unmarried.
Willis Bradstreet, born on April 27, 1853, unmarried.
Anna Humphrey, born on August 16, 1855, and married William G. Clark, of Cumberland Mills, Maine, on November 13, 1883. No children.
Augustus Fellows, born on January 13, 1857, unmarried.
Lucy Elizabeth, born on April 6, 1859, married Benjamin Frank- lin Irish, of Gorham, on February 12, 1881 ; and they have three children : Clyde Harold, born on March 2, 1883 ; Percy Clifford, born on September 7, 1886; and Ralph Willis, born on June 22, 1891.
Jessie Benton, born on September 11, 1862, unmarried.
Eda Marian, born on July 8, 1865, unmarried.
All the children of this generation were born at Gorham.
MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM GIBBET HILL.
SEVERAL years ago Mr. Edward G. Chamberlain, of Au- burndale, in reply to a note, gave me some interesting facts in regard to certain hills and mountains, as seen from Gibbet Hill. Mr. Chamberlain is an enthusiastic member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and very familiar with the heights and peaks of New England. By his courtesy in the matter he has placed me under great obligations to him for information that could not be gathered from other sources. While Mr. Chamberlain has never been on Gibbet IIill, his opinions in regard to the distant range of mountains, as seen from that point, are entitled to great weight. The following letter will explain itself : -
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MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM GIBBET HILL.
AUBURNDALE, MASS., November 29, 1893.
Dr. SAMUEL A. GREEN : -
DEAR SIR, - I enclose the paper handed me on Monday at the Topographical Survey Office containing queries in regard to mountains seen from Gibbet Hill in Groton. I have laid out the bearings which you give, on a chart that I constructed some twenty years ago.
You make no question in regard to Joe English and the Un- canoonocks, and the bearings agree with the chart. Kearsarge you mark with a query, but it is undoubtedly correct. It is 2948 feet above sea, distant from Gibbet 55 miles. Its profile from Gibbet would probably be something like this : , depending on how much of it you can see. This is compiled from sketches made from other points in Massachusetts. The mountain N. 8º 40' E. marked in pencil " Saddleback ?" is probably Gunstock, 63 miles distant, 2394 feet high, in the town of Guilford, N. H., just south of Lake Winnepesaukee. It is the middle and highest peak of the Suncook Mountains (or Belknap Mountains, modern name). I do not think I have ever seen it from any point in Mas- sachusetts, unless from Wachusett. But from Groton you may look along the valleys of the Nashua, Merrimack, and Suncook Rivers, a direct line to the source of the latter in the Suncook Mountains. I wish the old name could be restored.
In regard to the two mountains seen from East Gibbet (N. 18º 50' E. and N. 23º E.), I am not so confident. The former may be Fort Mountain in Epsom, 1428 feet high, and 41 miles distant ; and the latter, Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, about 1400 feet high, and 55 miles distant.
There is a range of hills sometimes called the Blue Hills (or Frost Mountains), extending N NE-S SW in the towns of Milton, Farmington, Strafford, Northwood and Epsom, about 1000 to 1.400 feet high. I have never explored them except from distant points with a glass. As near as I can make out, Saddleback is a comparatively low hill in the town of Northwood, which makes a fine show from the neighboring town of Deerfield, and used to attract some notice in stage-coach days; and so has become famous as Saddleback "in Deerfield." When any of its higher, but less known, neighbors are seen from a distance, they are at once identified as Saddleback. I do not think that I ever saw this mountain, but I have often tried to make it out.
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MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM GIBBET HILL.
Fort Mountain in Epsom would probably appear like this from Groton. Blue Job I have never satisfactorily iden- tified. The mountain seen in that direction you think is the most distant one visible. May it not thus appear so because of its low altitude, showing but little above the horizon, while Gunstock (if it be Gunstock) is not only better situated for exhibition, but (without computing) by its greater height may have greater apparent altitude, and so a clearer profile, even though further off ?
Yours very truly, E. G. CHAMBERLAIN.
Again, in continuation of the subject, Mr. Chamberlain writes, on December 20, 1893, as follows :-
When studying the view from a hill I always used to compute the azimuth, or direction to all the points whose position had been determined ; and if the Latitude and Longitude of the view-point had not been determined, I took measures to determine them myself, so as to compute the bearings. If you have the " Appala- chia " magazine in your library, you may find my methods de- scribed in Volume III. (page 122), and Volume IV. (page 132). I have never visited Gibbet Hill, so I have made an approximate position by comparing several maps, and have plotted on my chart with the following results : -
FROM GIBBET HILL.
APPROXIMATE BEARINGS AND DISTANCES.
Approximate Height. Azimuth. 623º
Wachusett Mt.
2018 ft.
Watatick
1847 "
110°
Monadnock "
3170 "
1213º
Temple
2050(?)" 132° 136;º
S. Pack Monadnock . 2289 "
6
N. " . 2260 +
1407º 1491°
Crotchet Mt.
2066 “
Lyndeboro Pinnacle - 1280(?)“
152° 0
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