History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 86

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1534

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SATURDAY morning, Nov. 10, 1860, there ap- peared the initial number of a newspaper, published and edited by William H. Jewell, and called The Stoughton Sentinel. This issue was printed in the neighboring town of Canton. It was quite an ambi- tious start, and its first numbers indicated interest and enterprise. Born in times of great national troubles, their echo is seen in its columns. The editor be- lieved in the right of secession, and this fact doubt- less had much to do with the early demise of the en- terprise. Saturday morning, Nov. 7, 1863, Messrs. William W. and C. A. Wood, again taking the name of Sentinel, issued a bright, entertaining sheet, its ob- ject "to entertain, to instruct and improve." This enterprise continued until the 15th of October, 1864, when the paper appeared as a half sheet, with the fol- lowing notice at the editorial head: "Both of the editors of the Stoughton Sentinel having gone to war for 100 days, the paper will be published in its pres- ent shape during their absence." The paper ap- peared until Sept. 9, 1865, when it yielded to death's call, not being sufficiently supported to pay. Messrs. Pratt & Hasty, of Randolph, again took up the broken thread in 1870, and printed it in Randolph. Mr. H. E. Wilkins was identified with this move- ment and lent it substantial aid. Soon Mr. Hasty, becoming alarmed for his precedence with outsiders, removed to Stoughton. Mr. Hasty continued the paper until 1877, when he died. Mr. A. P. Smith then became editor and proprietor, and continued until August, 1883. In September, 1882, Mr. L. W. Standish, a Stoughton boy, came from. Wakefield, where he had served apprenticeship as a printer, and where he had evinced ability as a writer, and took charge of the editorial work of the paper. Under his well-directed efforts the circulation of the paper was doubled in a few months, and it soon became well known and quoted in these parts. In August, 1883, Mr. Standish purchased the paper and office of Mr. Smith, and is now at its head. The paper has about one thousand circulation weekly and a large advertis- ing patronage. The Sentinel is now known as hav- ing an opinion on all matters relating to Stoughton's welfare, and its position carries weight. It occupies

1 By Rev. C. H. Ewer.

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a high place among the list of country papers, and is widely quoted.

Rising Star Lodge1 was instituted Dec. 10, 1799, with the following charter members : Peter Adams, Benjamin Capen, Joseph Richards, Nathan Gill, Abraham Capen, David Wadsworth, William Capen, Amos Upham, John Atherton, Jr., and Consider Southworth.

The first regular meeting after the charter was obtained was held at the house of Lemuel Drake, in Stoughton, on the eve of the 9th of January, 1800, and the following officers were chosen : Peter Adams, M .; Benjamin Capen, S. W .; Joseph Richards, J. W. ; Nathan Gill, Treas .; Abraham Capen, Sec .; David Wadsworth, Sr. D .; William Capen, Jr. D .; Amos Upham, First Steward ; John Atherton, Jr., Second Steward.

Permission was given by the Grand Lodge to re- move the lodge to Canton, March 15, 1810. It was thence removed from Canton to Sharon, June 13, 1814, and then back to Stoughton Dec. 27, 1817.

The first time the lodge appeared in public was on the 22d of February, 1800, on which occasion they joined a procession composed of militia, visitors, and school-boys, "to pay funeral honors to their late brother, George Washington, late general of the armies of America." The procession moved to the burying-place in this town, then back to the meeting- house, where an oration was delivered by the Rev. Edward Richmond, D.D., suitable to the occasion.

It has always been said with pride by the old members that while many lodges surrendered their charters during the Anti-Masonic excitement of 1831, this lodge never missed a meeting, as the records will show.

The Masters of Rising Star Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons from its organization to the present time have been as follows: Peter Adams, 1800 -5; Benjamin Capen, 1805-6; Amos Upham, 1807-8; Elijah Crane, 1809-11; Thomas Kol- lock, 1812-13; Consider Southworth, 1814-15; William Dunbar, 1816 ; Elijah Atherton, 1817-20; Willard Gould, 1821 ; Joel Talbot, 1822 ; Thomas Crane, 1823; Lemuel Gay, 1824-25, 1852 ; Jon- athan Reynolds, 1826-27 ; Nathaniel Blake, 1828- 29; James Swan, 1830-31, 1851; Azel Capen, 1832-34, 1850; Ansel Capen, 1835-36 ; Samuel Chandler, 1837-39; Consider A. Southworth, 1840-41; John H. Wales, 1842-43; Simeon T. Drake, 1844-46 ; Ebenezer W. Tolman, 1847-48 ; Rev. Benjamin Huntoon, 1849; George 'Talbot,

1853-57; Enos Talbot, 1858-60; George B. Blake, 1861-62; Jonathan R. Gay, 1863-64, 1868; Benjamin Ward, 1865-66 ; Bradford Kinsley, 1867 ; George F. Walker, 1869-70, 1874; Joshua Britton, 1871-73; Leander G. Britton, 1875-76 ; Elmer W. Walker, 1877-78 ; James H. May, 1879- 80; Robert Jackson, 1881-82 ; Albert E. Standish, 1883.

The following are the officers for 1884: Albert E. Standish, M .; Ewen Boyden, Jr., S. W. ; Gurdon Southworth, J. W .; Washington Tower, Treas .; Leonard A. Thayer, Sec. ; Henry A. Standish, Chap. ; George F. Walker, M .; Ira F. Burnham, S. D .; George O. Wentworth, J. D. ; H. Augustus Monk, Sr. Steward ; William Curtis, Jr. Steward ; William Atherton, Organist ; James W. Richardson, Tyler. Present membership, eighty-two.

Mount Zion Royal Arch Chapter, F. and A. M.2- The membership of Rising Star Lodge of Freemasons in Stoughton comprised very many of the leading men in the vicinity, and its reputation for good Masonic work was well known. Many of its leading members had become Royal Arch Masons, and their love of the craft culminated in a meeting at the Masonic Hall in Stoughton on Oct. 12, 1820. The meeting was opened, as all' great and good undertakings should be, by first invoking the divine blessing. This was done by Rev. Thomas Rich. The petition for the charter was then read, and it was decided to present the same to the Grand Chapter in December. The following were selected as officers : H. P., John Edson ; K., Elijah Atherton ; S., Thomas Tol- man; C. of H., David Manley ; P. S., Timothy Dorman ; R. A. C., Jonathan Reynolds ; Treas., Royal Turner; Sec., Artemas Kennedy; M. 3d Veil, Joel Talbot ; M. 2d Veil, Consider South- worth ; M. 1st Veil, Luther M. Harris ; 1st Steward, Leonard Kinsley ; 2d Steward, Leonard Alden ; Chap., Rev. Thomas Rich. No Tyler was selected. Among the petitioners were also Abram Capen and Benjamin Capen, of Stoughton, and Wm. Dunbar, of Canton. Consider Southworth was chosen a committee to get the approbation of Adoniram Chapter, and Thomas Tolman to obtain the approba- tion of St. Andrew's and St. Paul's Chapters, and John Edson, Elijah Atherton, and Thomas Tolman were appointed to present the petition to the Grand Chapter, and the same were appointed to call the first meeting, if the petition was granted.

The dispensation was issued Dec. 13, 1820, and was signed by Jonathan Gage, Grand High Priest, John

1 Contributed by Mr. Leonard A. Thayer.

2 By Samuel Wales Hodges.

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J. Loring, Grand Secretary. The chapter immedi- ately went to work with the officers as named above, and its first candidate was Maj. Lemuel Gay, for many years postmaster, and a leading citizen of the town ; closely followed by Nathaniel Blake, the leading owner in the stage line from Taunton (through Stoughton) to Boston; Richard Talbot and Mather Holmes, whose names frequently occur on the town records ; Abel Wentworth, of Canton ; Robert L. Killan, of Hanson ; and others from Bridgewater, Randolph, and other towns in the vicinity. Among the first officers were John Edson, a man of charac- ter ; Elijah Atherton, for many years the leading trial justice of the vicinity : Thomas Tolman, a lawyer, for a long period treasurer of the Grand Lodge F. and A. M. of Massachusetts ; Timothy Dorman, of Randolph, whose initials, T. D., will be long remembered in con- nection with the old-fashioned clay tobacco-pipes; Royal Turner, of Randolph, many years president of Randolph Bank ; Consider Southworth, the pioneer manufacturer of Southworth sewing-cotton and loom- harness twine; Capt. Jonathan Reynolds ; and Joel Talbot, ever tó be remembered as good citizens and active townsmen ; and Benjamin Capen and his brother Deacon Abram Capen, the owner of the hotel, and who furnished the hall for the Masonic fraternity.

The work of the chapter was continued with " fer- vency and zeal," so that about twenty were added during the following six months, rendering the suc- cess of the chapter beyond question.

On the 22d of August, 1821, a charter having | been granted, Mount Zion Royal Arch Chapter was duly consecrated at Stoughton by the officers of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts. This was a gala day for the craft, and the citizens of the town. The record says, " The officers of the Grand Chapter were received by the committee of the chapter, at the house of Rev. Mr. Gay, resident clergyman, and es- corted to the Masonic Hall. A procession, consisting of nearly four hundred members of the order, and a large number of ladies, was formed, and all marched to the meeting-house of Rev. Mr. Gay, where the ceremonies of consecration and installation were per- formed, agreeably to the ancient forms and usages of Freemasonry. An address was delivered by Rev. Companion Joseph Richardson ; prayer was offered by Richard Carraque ; music by the Stoughton choir,'

1 This Stoughton choir was the " Musical Society in Stough- ton," organized about 1762 to furnish music for church service, in which they were remarkably successful. The society is in existence to-day, and in a very flourishing condition. It was and is confined to citizens of Stoughton. In about 1786 another society was formed out of this, called the " Stoughton Musical

which was judiciously selected, and well adapted to the occasion. After the close of the services in the meeting-house, the procession was reformed, and they proceeded to the bower, and partook of a dinner pre- pared by Companion Abram Capen. The total ex- penses of the occasion, except the dinner, were twenty- eight dollars and fifty-five cents.

The first death of a member was that of Leonard Alden, of Randolph, in August, 1822, and Royal Turner, of Randolph, was elected to prepare and deliver the eulogy. This was subsequently carried out at the meeting-house. Prayer was offered by Rev. Benja- min Hunton, of Canton, and the singing was by the Stoughton choir, who were thanked for their services.

On the 24th of June, 1825, the chapter partici- pated in the ceremonies of laying the corner-stone of the new court-house in Dedham. Nov. 8, 1824, the chapter gave its consent to the formation of a new chapter in Medway ; Nov. 17, 1828, for a new chap- ter in Dedham ; May 4, 1860, for a new chapter at Foxboro'; Oct. 18, 1861, for a new chapter in Bridge- water; Feb. 25, 1870, for a new chapter in Hyde Park. The charter members of the above new chapters were largely from Mount Zion Chapter.

One episode of the old Anti-Masonic political times may be recorded. During the great excitement, in 1831, feeling ran high in Stoughton, and Anti-Ma- sonry was triumphant. At a town-meeting held in Stoughton April 4, 1831, the selectmen presented a list of persons to act as jurors. This list was referred back to them for revision. A second list was dis- posed of in the same way, when the third revise was presented to the town. They voted to accept it after striking off the names of Leonard Hodges, Elijah Atherton, Jonathan Reynolds, and Benjamin Capen, and substituting therefor Ruel Packard, Thomas Capen, Daniel Hayward, and Eliphalet Gay. Al- though nothing is said in the record of the question of Masonry, the people of the town and the Masons understood that these names were stricken off because they were Masons, and the substitutes were elected because they were Anti-Masons. In the light and intelligence of the present age it seems impossible that such a thing could have occurred. At the next meeting of the chapter, held April 25, 1831, three applications for the degrees conferred by the chapter were received.

June 21, 1831, the chapter voted a donation to the Seamen's Friend Society of Boston. This is but

Society," which drew membership from the surrounding towns as well. These two are supposed to be the oldest musical so- cieties in this country. (See page 4 of this work.)

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one of a series of donations to charitable objects by the chapter, they having cheerfully accepted and honestly carried out the benevolent instructions of Masonry.

Mount Zion Chapter has, during more than sixty years of life, contained within its membership some of the brightest lights of Freemasonry, and its own star has never been dimmed during any of the years of the crusade against the craft. Its roll of member- ship contains the names of those who have been the most active in their localities in all good works, and its own large charities have been administered with- out ostentation. No stain has marred the purity of the banner it threw to the breeze at its birth, and no doubt its future life will be a repetition of its past, with the good even more abundant.

Stoughton Lodge, No. 72, I. O. O. F.,1 was insti- tuted May 5, 1845, with the following charter mem- bers : Elisha Page, Elbridge Jones, Ezra Stearns, Williams W. Hawes, Luther Hayden, Josiah Adkins, William Hayden, John F. Craig, Hosea Osgood, Jr.

The following are the names of the Past Grands who are members of this lodge at the present time : R. Warren Jones, George W. Hussey, Samuel Capen, Francis M. Ellms, Warren P. Bird, Henry W. Dar- ling, Robert Burnham, Henry W. Mead, Henry Drake, Thomas W. Bright, Joseph D. Jones, Charles H. Drake, Jr., Chester Clark, Philip B. Whiting, Abraham F. Lunt, Wilbur F. Fuller, Daniel P. Gray, A. St. John Chambre, Lysander Wood, Edward W. Stevens, Nathan R. Lothrop, Newell S. Atwood, W. Holmes, Clarence W. Mead, Albert E. Standish, Henry H. Waugh, Hiram Smith, Melvin O. Walker, F. Walker, Albert H. Whiting, Charles Tenny, Oscar | A. Marden, J. W. Richardson, Edwin M. Norton, Benjamin F. Pierce, Henry A. Standish, Charles S. Young.

The present officers are : N. G., H. I. Wood ; V. G., Frank F. Smith ; Rec. Sec., Wilbur F. Fuller; Per. Sec., James W. Richardson ; Treas., Charles R. Seaver; Trustees, N. S. Atwood, Charles Tenney, Abram F. Lunt.

Number of members at present time, one hundred and twenty-eight.

The following is a list of the Past Grands of Stoughton Lodge, No. 72, I. O. O. F., with the date of their installation as Noble Grands :

In 1821, Isaac Beals moved from the east part of 1845 .- May 5, Elisha Page; July 7, Elbridge Jones; Oct. 6, | the town to the centre, and commenced the manufac-

Ezra Stearns.

1846 .- Jan. 2, W. W. Hawes; April 5, Luther Hayden; July 6, Ezra Stearns ; Oct. 5, William Page.

1847 .- Jan. 4, Jefferson Fitts; July 6, Eliab Pratt.

1848 .- Jan. 3, Hosea Osgood, Jr .; July 3, Ahira Porter.

1849 .- Jan. 1, Jedediah Tucker; July 2, William Tozer.

1850 .- Jan. 7, Elihu Withington; July 1, Obadiah Jenkins.

1851 .- Jan. 6, George W. Hayden; July 7, Jeremiah L. Capen. 1852 .- Jan. 5, James Ingham; July 19, N. Withington, Jr. 1853 .- July 7, George Marden.

1854 .-- Jan. 5, Samuel W. Hodges; July 6, George W. Hayden. 1855 .- Jan. 1, William H. Hardin; July 5, Abraham F. Lunt.

1856 .- Jan. 7, E. S. Anderson ; July 1, W. H. Anderson.

1857 .- Jan., Charles R. Hill; July, Henry Drake.

1858 .- Jan., Henry W. Mead; July, R. Warren Jones. 1859 .- Jan., Joseph A. Foster; July, A. E. Richardson. 1860 .- Jan., Leonard Drake; July, Wilbur F. Fuller.

1861 .- Jan., George B. Blake; July, Samuel Capen.

1862 .- Jan., George W. Hussey ; July, Ezra T. Upham. 1863 .- Jan., William H. Hardin; July, Samuel Capen. 1864 .- Jan., E. S. Anderson ; July, Thomas W. Bright. 1865 .- Jan., Joseph D. Jones ; July, J. M. Bird. 1866 .- Jan., Henry W. Mead; July, A. St. John Chambre. 1867 .- Jan., F. A. Stevens; July, A. St. John Chambre. 1868 .- Jan., Warren P. Bird ; July, Charles H. Drake, Jr.

1869 .- Jan., Frank M. Ellms; July, Henry H. Bromade. 1870 .- Jan., Henry W. Darling ; July, M. A. Linfield.

1871 .- Jan., Daniel P. Grey ; July, N. R. Lothrop. 1872 .- Jan., Chester Clark; July, Lysander Wood. 1873 .- Jan., Edward W. Stevens ; July, James W. Richardson. 1874 .- Jan., N. S. Atwood; July, C. Farrell. 1875 .- Jan., Philip B. Whiting ; July, Charles Tenney. 1876 .- Jan., James H. May; July, Melvin O. Walker. 1877 .- Jan., Wadsworth Holmes; July, Benjamin F. Pierce. 1878 .- Jan., Albert E. Standish ; July, Albert H. Whiting. 1879 .- Jan., George F. Walker; July, E. M. Norton.

1880 .- Jan., Clarence W. Mead; July, Henry H. Waugh. 1881 .- Jan., Oscar A. Marden ; July, Charles S. Young. 1882 .- Jan., Henry A. Standish ; July, Hiram Smith. 1883 .- Jan., Robert Burnham ; July, H. I. Wood. 1884 .- Jan., Frank F. Smith, the present Noble Grand.

Past Grand Samuel W. Hodges is Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and Past Grand George W. Hay- den is the present Grand Herald of the Grand Lodge of Massa- chusetts.

The Boot and Shoe Interest.2-The principal in- dustry of Stoughton, for the past fifty years or more, has been the manufacture of boots and shoes.

The business was begun by John Linfield in 1816, who started the manufacture of shoes in the building afterwards owned and occupied by Robert Porter, and which was removed, in 1880, to make room for the erection of the town-house. A somewhat remarkable incident in connection with this fact is, that Jesse Holmes, the present postmaster of this village, worked at stitching shoes for Mr. Linfield more than sixty years ago, on the same site where he now daily dis- tributes the mails.

ture of boots. The building in which he began was afterwards occupied as a dwelling by Luther and Rob- ert Swan, and was destroyed by the fire of 1880,

1 By Wilbur F. Fuller.

2 By C. Farrell.

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which consumed nearly half of the business centre of the village. Mr. Beals remained but a few years in the business, during which time there was associ- ated with him Simeon Drake, who afterwards became a prominent manufacturer.

The apparent success of this firm encouraged many of the young and enterprising men of that day to embark in the same enterprise, nearly all of whom became successful business men. Among the most prominent of these were Nathaniel Morton, Martin Wales, L. & W. Belcher, Beals & Holmes, Hill & Drake, George R. Monk, and James Littlefield & Co.

To these men is due not only the credit of estab- lishing the business as a permanent industry, and the building up of the town, but also the acquiring of that reputation for the superior quality of boots and shoes which Stoughton has for so many years justly enjoyed.

Up to 1860 the largest demand for fine goods was from the South, consequently the manufacturers of Stoughton bent their energies principally towards the Southern trade. It was owing to this fact that the late civil war was peculiarly disastrous to the greater number of these manufacturers, some of them never recovering from the effects of their heavy losses.

The men doing the largest amount of business at the beginning of the war were Atherton, Stetson & Co., James Hill, G. & S. Wales, S. Pettee & Son, N. Morton, Bradford Kinsley, Monk & Reynolds, L. & W. Belcher, Samuel Savels, J. W. Jones & Co., J. Swan & Co., J. & D. French, J. E. Drake, F. N. Littlefield, and E. Tucker. The amount of business done in 1860 by the above-named firms was about one million three hundred thousand dollars, and they employed very nearly twelve hundred hands, many of those employed coming from surrounding towns.

Previous to 1860 no shoes of any amount had been made here, but after the loss of the Southern trade, the manufacturers, being obliged to find a new market for their goods, turned their attention more fully to this branch of the industry, in order to supply the local trade, and for some years after the war Stough- ton's principal market was the New England States.

In 1872 a corporation was formed, to be known as the Stoughton Boot and Shoe Company, with a capi- tal stock of thirty-five thousand dollars. This cor- poration for eight years did a large business in the manufacture of boots and shoes, employing about one hundred and fifty hands, and doing a business of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars annually during the best years of its existence. They were the first manufacturers to introduce steam into the shoe-factories of the centre of the town.

There are now (December, 1883) engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes in Stoughton the fol- lowing firms, doing a business annually of about nine hundred thousand dollars, and employing about seven hundred hands : D. French & Son, J. & H. Fitzpat- rick, Henry Tucker, E. Littlefield, Upham, Brothers & Co., Farrell & Marston, Charles Tenney, J. H. May & Co., F. Capen & Co., Reynolds Brothers, Alanson Belcher, Samuel Savels, and H. Folsom & Co. The business is annually increasing, and the most of it is in the hands of young and enterprising men, who are trying to make the annual product more than it was in the palmiest days before the war.

Civil History .- The following is a list of repre- sentatives from Stoughton, taken from the town records by Henry C. Kimball, Esq. The omissions in certain years indicate that the town voted " not to send," either from motives of economy,-the pay of the representatives being formerly defrayed by the town,-or from the difficulty of obtaining a majority vote for any candidate, the town having in one in- stance voted eighteen times unsuccessfully, on suc- cessive days :

Moses Gill, 1731-33, 1737. William Royall, 1734-36, 1738. William Crane, 1739.

Ralph Pope, 1740-41.

John Shepard, 1742-48, 1750- 51, 1754.

Joseph Hewins, Jr., 1749, 1753.

Joseph Hewins, 1754 to com- plete term, 1761-63.

Richard Baily, 1755-60.

Daniel Richards, 1764-65.

Hezekiah Gay, 1766-74.

Thomas Crane, 1775, 1777-78, | Charles S. Richardson, 1853. 1780-81.

Thomas Crane and Benjamin Gill, 1776.

Elijah Dunbar, 1779, 1782, | Cyrus S. Mann, 1858. 1793.

Elijah Dunbar and Frederick Pope, 1787.

William H. Tucker, 1859. Elmer H. Capen, 1860. Frederick Capen, 1861.

John Kenny, 1783.

Jesse Holmes, 1862-63.

Albert Dickerman, 1864.

Lemuel Gay, 1800-1, 1803- | Henri L. Johnson, 1869. 9.

Samuel Talbot, 1810-12, 1815- | Samuel L. Crane, 1871. 16.

Benjamin Richards, 1813-14.

John Drake, 1821, 1825.

Abner Drake, 1828-31.

Jesse Pierce, 1833.

Jesse Pierce and Jabez Talbot, 1834.

| Jesse Pierce and Martin Wales, 1835-36.

Martin Wales and Massena B. Ballou, 1837.

Jesse Pierce and Consider Southworth, 1840.

James Swan, 1841. Enos Talbot, 1842-43.

Nathan Drake, Jr., 1844. Charles A. French, 1846.

! Albert Johnson, 1849, 1851.

| Isaac Smith, 1850. Samuel W. Curtis, 1852.

Abel T. Upham, 1855. Charles A. French, 1856.

Elisha C. Monk, 1857.

James Endicott, 1784-86, 1790. Frederick Pope, 1788-89, Nathan Tucker, Jr., 1865. 1791-92, 1794-96. Jonathan R. Gay, 1866. Thomas Wilson, 1867. | Orlando B. Crane, 186S.

Elijah Crane, 1795.

Jonah Dean, 1799.

George H. Goward, 1870.

Henry Jones, 1872. Adam Capen, Jr., 1873. Ezra Stearns, 1874. Leonard A. Thayer, 1875.

Warren P. Bird, 1876.

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In 1876, Stoughton, Randolph, Sharon, and Wal- pole were combined to form Representative District No. 7, of Norfolk County, and since that time Stough- ton has had only the following representatives :

Newell S. Atwood, 1880-S1. | David HI. Blanchard, 1882.

The town clerks of Stoughton from its incorpora- tion in 1726 to 1884 have been as follows :

Joseph Tucker, 1726-28, 1733. Joseph Hewins, 1729.

Richard Talbot, 1806, 1812-29. | Seth Morton, 1807-11.

Abner Drake, 1830-32.

James Swan, 1832-33, 1838-

40. Martin Wales, 1834-37, 1841- 45. Jabez Talbot, Jr., 1845-55.

George Crosman, 1767-87, | Charles Upham (2), 1855-66. 1789.

Joseph Smith (4), 1787-88. Elijah Crane, 1790-94.

Peter Adams, 1795-96.

John Atherton, Jr., 1797 1804.

Henry C. Kimball, 1875, pres- ent incumbent.

Jedediah Atherton and Rich-

ard Talbot, 1805.

Military History .- Stoughton furnished five hun- dred and twenty-two men for the war, fifteen of whom were commissioned officers. The whole amount of | money expended by the town, exclusive of State aid, , died March 5, 1832.

was seventy-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy- two dollars and fifty-five cents. The town also ex- pended thirty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and twelve cents, which was repaid by the State, for aid to soldiers' families.

The selectmen during the war were as follows : 1861-63, Jedediah Adams, Samuel Capen (2), Clif- ford Keith ; 1864, Jedediah Adams, Clifford Keith, William H. Tucker (2) ; 1865, Jedediah Adams, Clifford Keith, Samuel Capen (2).

The military record of Stoughton during the war of the Rebellion, embracing a list of soldiers' names, etc., was destroyed by fire a few years since.

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History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 86

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1534

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1534