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Rev. William Brigham Wesson, a graduate of Wil- liams College in 1802, followed Mr. Holt and was ordained October 20, 1805. During the ministry of Mr. Wesson the division of parishes and churches on account of the growing prevalence of Unitarian- ism, was felt in Hardwick, and in consequence of the non-committal stand taken by him some dissatisfac- tion in the church resulted, and though sustained by a majority of the society, he asked and received his dismission, June 14, 1824.
After the dismission of Mr. Wesson the differences between the church and the parish prevented an agreement as to the settlement of a new minister. The church held to its Trinitarian doctrines; the par- ish had crossed the threshold into the new theology. The result of the differences was the secession, in 1827, of the old orthodox Congregationalists, who were a majority of the church, with the old church records leaving the Congregational Society, with a minority of the church in possession of the meeting- house and property of the parish. The old society invited Rev. John M. Merrick to settle as their pas- tor and he was ordained August 27, 1828. Mr. Mer- rick continued in the pastorate until March 5, 1832, when he resigned and not long after settled in Wal- pole, where he remained many years. In 1869 he was settled in Charlestown, New Hampshire, and there died March 20, 1871.
Rev. John Goldsbury followed Mr. Merrick and was installed July 4, 1832, and remained until 1839. Mr. Goldsbury was a native of Warwick and gradu- ated at Brown University in 1820. Aside from his duties as pastor he was deeply interested in the cause of education and in various places was engaged in
the duties of teacher. Under his instruction, among others, his son, John Goldsbury, was fitted for Har- vard and graduated with the writer of this sketch, in 1842. A daughter of Mr. Goldsbury married the late Amos B. Merrill, an attorney-at-law, in Boston, of high character and considerable practice.
In 1841 a new meeting-house was erected under an arrangement with the Universalist Society, by which the two societies were practically united, and dedi- cated January 25, 1842. Rev. Rufus S. Pope, who had been preaching to the Universalists, was engaged for a year and was followed by Rev. Norwood Daman, Unitarian, who remained two years. On the 2d of July, 1845, Rev. Benton Smith, Universalist, was ordained, who continued his pastorate until 1850.
After varions supplies Rev. George J. Sanger, a Universalist, was installed May 7, 1856, and served eight years. During the war he served as lieutenant and chaplain in the army, and not long after his re- turn resigned his pastorate, June 1, 1864.
Rev. John Harvey Moore, Universalist, followed, and preached until 1874. In 1875 Rev. Henry Jew- ell, also Universalist, took charge of the pulpit, and served until his resignation, in 1878. Since the resig- nation of Mr. Moore the pastorates of the society have been held by Rev. Lucian S. Crosley, who was ordained November 13, 1879, and Rev. Benjamin V. Stevenson, who began his services April 1, 1882.
The seceding church, on the 13th of November, 1827, organized the "First Calvinistic Society in Hardwick," and built a meeting-house, which was dedicated September 9, 1829. Rev. Martyn Tupper was ordained pastor April 16, 1828, and resigned April 29, 1835. His successor was Rev. Edward J. Fuller, a native of Plainfield, who was ordained No- vember 3, 1835, and dismissed March 21, 1837. Rev. William Eaton followed September 6, 1837, and re- signed March 26, 1840. Mr. Eaton was followed hy Rev. Barnabas M. Fay, who was ordained May 20, 1840, and served until August 23, 1843. The next pastor was the Rev. Asa Mann, a native of Randolph, Vt., and a graduate of Amherst in 1838. He was or- dained June 19, 1844, and resigned October 14, 1851. Rev. Martyn Tupper began a new pastorate at Hard- wick June 23, 1852, and resigned September 1, 1870. Rev. Eldridge W. Merritt served from June 5, 1873, the date of his installation, until October 1, 1876, and since that time the pulpit has been occupied by Rev. Augustus C. Swain, Rev. Gilbert B. Richardson and the present pastor, Rev. Charles A. Peirce.
The Universalist Society, to which reference has been already made, was incorporated June 12, 1824. For many years previous to that time there had ex- isted in Hardwick more or less of those holding to the Universalist faith, who held public service as op- portunity offered, but there was no organized society until the date above mentioned. And even after the act of incorporation no uninterrupted services were held until 1836 or '37, when Rev. John Pierce was
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ordained, on the 27th of September in the latter year. Rev. Gilman Noyes, a native of Atkinson, N. H., and a graduate at Dartmouth College in 1830, suc- ceeded Mr. Pierce, and was followed by Rev. Rufus S. Pope, who was pastor of the society at the time of its union with the Unitarian Society already described. After the union the society gradually fell into the Universalist ranks, and is now reckoned one of the societies of that organization.
A Baptist Society, which was incorporated in IIard- wick in 1816, built a meeting-house in 1801, and a larger one in 1832. In 1846 the society removed its place of worship to Ware, and sold the meeting- house in Hardwick. During the life of this society in Hardwick its pastors were: Rev. Ebenezer Burt, ordained June 20, 1798, and dismissed November 19, 1827; Rev. Joseph Glazier, Rev. Nelson B. Jones, Rev. William Brown and Rev. Joseph Glazier, for the second time, who resigned in 1846, not long before the removal of the society to Ware.
A Methodist and a Catholic Society are also in op- eration, the former at the Furnace Village, where a meeting-house was erected in 1845, and the latter at Gilbertville, where a church was erected in 1872.
A Congregational Society was organized at Gilbert- ville about 1860, and held its services in a hall, built by Mr. George H. Gilbert, until the dedication of their stone church, September 10, 1874. Towards the construction of this church Mr. George H. Gilbert, who died in 1869, bequeathed the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the George H. Gilbert Manufactur- ing Company gave twenty thousand dollars and a piece of land with the foundation for the structure, Mrs. Gil- bert presented the society with an organ and her chil- dren with the furniture and a window as a memoriał of a beloved sister. The various pastors and supplying ministers of this society have been Rev. William H. Beecher, Rev. Rufus P. Wells, Rev. Willard D. Brown and the present pastor, Rev. Arthur Tit- comb.
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After the incorporation of New Braintree, in 1751, which diminished to a small extent the territory of the town, no change was made in its boundaries until the passage of the act incorporating the town of Dana February 18, 1801. That act described the new town- ship as follows :
Beginning at the southwest corner of Petersham, on the east line of New Salem, and running on said line three miles and sixty rods to the southeast corner of said New Salem; thence east seventy-four rods ; thence south two hundred and thirty rods; thence east thirty rods; thence south one mile and one hundred and thirty rods ; thence east fourteen degrees south two hundred and sixty rods to Hardwick west line ; thence south thirty-seven degrees west on said Hardwick line one hundred and twenty rods; thence east thirty-two degrees south two hundred and forty rods to the middle of Swift river ; thence by a line drawn on the middle of said Swift river to the confluence of Pantapang l'ond ; thence north thirty-eight degrees east one mile through said Pond to the northeast corner thereof at la stump and stones on land of Luther Page ; thence north fifteen degrees east two hundred rods to the centre of the bridge across said Swift river on the country rond ; thence east twenty-one degrees north one hundred rods to the southeast corner of land of Stephen White; thence north twenty-two degrees east
eighty rods; thence north six degrees east two hundred and eighty rods ; thenco north five degrees west one mile and eighty rods to the enstern declivity of Three-penny Morris Ilill (so-called) ; thence west ten degrees cast to the northeast corner of land of Seth Williams one mile and eighty rods; thence west fourteen degrees north one hundred und thirty tods; thence west twenty-five degrees south two hundred rods; thence west nineteen degrees north to the first-mentioned bounds.
Another slight change in the boundaries was made by an act passed June 10, 1814, providing that Joseph Robinson, of New Braintree, with his family and so much of his farm as now lies in New Braintree and west of Ware River, should be set off from New Brain- tree to Hardwick.
On the 7th of February, 1831, a gore of unincorpo- rated land was annexed to Hardwick, described as beginning at the northwest corner of Hardwick, and running north seventy degrees east five rods to the southerly corner of Petersham, thence south forty-one and one-quarter degrees east one hundred and cighty- four rods on the line of Petersham to the southeast corner thereof, and thence north thirty-seven and one- half degrees west one hundred and eighty-six rods on line of Hardwick to the bounds first mentioned.
On the 6th of February, 1833, a gore of land lying at "the southeasterly part of Hardwick and adjoining said town, called Hardwick gore, containing about two hundred acres, beginning at a monument in the pond above Anderson's mill, at a place where the westerly line of New Braintree leaves Ware River; thence on the said westerly line of New Braintree south fourteen degrees east one hundred and twenty-two rods to a stone monument; thence south thirty-seven degrees west two hundred and eighty-nine rods to another stone monument, at the southwest corner of New Braintree and northeast corner of Ware; thence nortlı eighty-seven degrees west thirty-six rods to said Ware River; thence on the said river northerly four hun- dred and twenty-one rods to the southeast corner of Hardwick; thence sixty-one rods to the place of be- ginning, together with the inhabitants thereof," was annexed to Hardwick. This last annexation fur- nished the territory on which the village of Gilbert- ville is chiefly built, and on which a large part of the population of the town have their residences.
As a partial compensation paid by the town for these additions to its territory, by an act passed Feb- ruary 4, 1842, a tract of land described as "beginning at the southwest corner of Silas N. Johnson's land, on the line of said Hardwick and Dana; thence running south forty-nine degrees east two hundred and four rods to the corner of Stephen Hillman's land ; thence north thirty-one and one-half degrees east five hun- dred and forty-three rods to Barre, Hardwick and Pe- tersham corner, together with a part of Petersham," was taken from Hardwick and annexed to Dana.
It was not long after the incorporation of the town and after the complete operation of its municipal ma- chinery had been put in motion before the prosperous career of its little community was disturbed by the French and Indian Wars. During the second war the
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following Hardwick men were engaged in military service :
Samuel Atwood.
Simeon Hazeltioe.
David Allen,
Samuel Hunt.
David Aiken.
Joseph Higgios, corp.
Timothy Abbot.
Samuel Harrington.
Solomon Aiken.
Elisha Hedge, Jr.
Nathaniel Winslow. Nathaniel Whitcomb, Jr.
Edward Blair, corp.
Joseph Hinds.
Seth Wioslow, Jr.
Thomas White.
Thomas Burns.
Seth Hinckley.
Shubael Winslow.
Daniel Warder.
John Blnut, sergt.
Sylvaons Howe.
Simeon Bacon.
Thomas Johnson.
Jason Badcock.
Edmund Johusoo.
Nathan Billings.
Jolın Jordan.
Daniel Billings.
Dudley Jordan.
Samuel Billings.
Edmund Jordan.
Abel Benjamin.
Jacob Knowlton.
Silas Bowker, sergt.
Ebenezer Lawrence.
Elisha Billings, corp.
Ezra Leonard, ens.
James Bacoo.
Amos Marsh.
David Barr.
John McSwain. Benjamin Mano.
Edward Blair.
Wm. Merrick.
Samuel Bridge. Jotham Bruce.
Panl Mandell, capt.
Jonas Butterfield.
Noah Mandell, ens.
Oliver Cobleigh.
Nathaniel Merrick, corp.
Samuel Church.
David Marble.
Nathan Marble.
Joseph Nichols.
Timothy Church.
Caleb Nye.
Elisha Cobb, corp.
John Cobb.
Lemuel Cobb.
Benjamin Negus.
Ebenezer Cox, capt.
WVm. Paige, capt.
Isaac Clark, corp.
Phineas Powers.
Henry Chase, corp.
Ezekiel Pratt, ens.
Isaiah Carpenter.
Isaiah Pratt.
Ebenezer Cummings.
Jonas Paige.
Elijah Cummings.
John Paige.
Ebenezer Curtis.
Joho Paige, Jr.
Joseph Chamberlain.
Joseph Petrell.
David Doane, sergt. Samuel Dexter.
Timothy Pike.
James Doane.
Abraham Powers.
Wm. Powers.
Zurisbaddais Doty. Richard Ellis. Joshua Elwell.
Timothy Ruggles, Brig .- Gen
Samuel Robinson, capt.
Thomas Elwell.
Samuel Robinson, Jr.
James Robinson, Jr.
Leonard Robinson.
Eleaser Rice, ens.
Joho Roberts.
Benjamin Raymond.
Jolin Raymond.
Jonathan Farr.
Ephraim Rice.
Edward Foster.
Oliver Rice.
Thomas Freeman.
Whitney Ruggles.
Watson Freeman.
Joseph Ruggles, lieut.
Aaron Forbush.
Solomon Rice.
Moses Seaver.
Isaac Gibbs, corp. Joseph Gilbert. John Green.
Job Smith.
Nathaniel Sprout.
Larkio Green.
Daniel Stearns.
Caleb Green.
Thomas Stevens.
David Gitchell, sergt.
Elkanah Stewart.
Benjamin Goddard. David Glazier.
Samuel Stewart.
Isaiah Glazier.
Win. Stone. Phillip Safford, drum.
Solomon Gilbert.
Joel Sinouds.
Jobo Aiken. Nathaniel Aiken.
Israel Aiken.
Philip Amidou. Joseph Boyutou.
Samuel Hedge, corp.
Joho Haskell.
Nathan Stone, lieut.
Zachariah Haskell.
Samuel Steele, corp. Bartholomew Taylor.
James Taylor.
Joho Train. Samuel Winslow, sergt.
Ebenezer Whipple, sergt. David Weeks.
James Whipple. Ilolland Weeks.
Benjamin Whipple, sergt.
Thomas Weeks.
Paul Whipple.
Nathaniel Whitcomb.
Win. Wood, corp.
James Whitcomb.
Brigadier-General Ruggles, who entered the service from Hardwick as colonel and soon rose to the rank and title here given to him, was a man whose distinc- tion deserves some special reference. He was de- scended from Thomas Ruggles, who appeared in Rox- bury as early as 1637. Rev. Timothy Ruggles, father of the general, graduated at Harvard at 1707, and was settled in Rochester, Mass., November 22, 1710. He was in many ways helpful in the early settlement of Hardwick, his father, Samuel Ruggles, Having been one of the original purchasers of the territory from the Indians in 1686. Among his class- mates was Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist, and pastor of the Old South Church in Boston. His pas- torate continued in Rochester until his death, in 1768. The general was born in Rochester October 11, 1711, and graduated at Harvard in 1732. After practicing law for a time in Sandwich, where he also kept a tavern, he settled in Hardwick, which town he repre- sented in the General Court in 1736, At the battle of Lake George in 1755 he was brigadier-general and second in command. He was appointed judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in 1756, and was the chief justice of that court from 1762 until the Revo- lution. He was president of the Stamp Act Congress of the Nine Colonies in New York in 1765, but, re- fusing to concur in its measures, was reprimanded by the Legislature. He adhered to the King at the be- ginning of the Revolution, was a Mandamus Coun- cilor, and on the evacution of Boston went with the British troops to Halifax. He returned to Long and Staten Islands and organized a body of loyal militia. His property was confiscated by the act of 1779, and at the close of the war or earlier he settled in Nova Scotia, and died at Wilmot August 4, 1795.
Nor was the town of Hardwick less active in its efforts to carry the Revolutionary War to a successful conclusion. In the archives of the State the names of the following persons are found, who at various times and for various periods of service took part in the struggles either as a part of the militia or of the Continental army :
Atwood Aiken, corp.
Elisha Bangs, lient.
Stephen Gorham.
Solomioo Aiken, sergt. Nathan Bangs.
Daniel Hastings, corp. Jacob Hastings.
Challis Safford, surg.
Ebenezer Safford, sergt. Timothy Sage.
Seth Babbitt. Joseph Byram.
John Butler. Ebenezer Barlow.
Samuel Billings, Jr., capt.
Aduab Bangs, corp.
Joseph Barlow. James Byran.
Elisha Hedge. Richard Hatch.
Seth Stewart.
Joho Bangs. Jonathan Belding. Phinehas Blood.
Jonas Fay.
Daniel Fay. James Fay. John Fay. Stepben Fay. Joshua Farr.
Daniel Parkhurst.
Elisha Church.
Richard Church.
Timothy Newton, clerk. Silas Newton, clerk.
James Winslow.
Elijah Warner.
Pelatiah Ware. Asa Whitcomb.
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Samuel Beals, sergt. Oliver Bailey, corp. JJedediah Barrett. John Batchelder.
Joshua Boyden.
Andrew Haskell.
Levi Pratt. Stephen Pratt.
Robert Spront. Barnabas Sears, liout.
Silas Bowker, sergt. Nathan Carpenter.
Solomon Hedge.
Edward Chaloner.
George Haskell.
Timothy Paige.
Isaac Clark.
Ephraim Hodges.
William Paige, Jr.
Daniel Thomas.
Uriah Converse. Jabez Cobb.
Asa Hedge.
Edward Rawson.
Ephraim Thayer, corp.
Abraham Chamberlin, serge.
Autipas Howe.
Isaac Rice.
Daniel Thomas. Ephraim Tucker.
Moses Chamberlin.
Jobn Hanmer, sergt.
Daniel Rice.
Edward Church.
Aaron Hudson, corp.
Moses Rice.
Robert Tucker.
James Crossman.
Henry Higgins.
l'eter Rice.
Samuel Thayer.
Jonathan Childs.
Elisha Hedge, Jr.
Henry Rixford.
Jacob Terry.
Nathan Crosby.
Simeon Hazeltine, capt.
Josiah Roberts.
John Thayer.
Paul Crowell.
John IIedge.
Joseph Robinson.
Samuel Thayer.
Thomas Crowell.
Edmund Hadger, capt.
Thomas Robinson, Jr.
Isaiah Tower.
William Chamberlin.
Joseph Higgins.
Thomas Robinson, sergt.
Thomas Tupper.
Elijah Carpenter.
Solomon Jolinson.
James Robinson.
Jabez Uphanı.
Isaac Cummings.
Philip Jordau.
John W. Robinson.
Abel Warner.
Barnabas Cushman.
Prince Jenney.
Benjamin Ruggles.
Shubsel Wilder, drum.
David Chamberlin.
John Jenney.
Edward Ruggles.
John Wheeler, sergt.
Nathaniel Crowell.
Lemuel Johnson.
Nathaniel Ruggles.
Silas Willis.
Solomon Dennis.
Seth Johnson,
Samuel Ruggles.
Thomas Winslow.
Moses Doty, fifer.
Elnathan Jenney.
Thomas Ruggles, corp.
Sammel Whipple.
John Duasmore, lieut.
Stephen Johnson.
Daniel Ruggles.
Stephen Wait.
Job Dexter, lieut.
Thomas June.
Seth Ruggles.
Moses Winchester.
Silas Deag.
Jesse Kinney.
Ephraim Ruggles.
Edward Willis.
Seth Dean.
John Kinney.
John Raymond, sergt.
Ebenezer Washburn, lieut
Paul Dean.
Ebenezer Laurence.
William Raymond.
Gardner Wait.
Samuel Dexter.
James Lawton.
Cornelius Ryan.
Daniel WarDer.
Daniel Evans.
Nathan Leonard, capt.
Dennis Ryan.
Elijah Washburn.
Consider Eddy.
Joseph Loring.
John Ryan.
David Whipple.
Abijab Edson.
John Lawton.
John Sellon.
Jacob Whipple.
Thomas Edson.
Ebenezer Lyscom, sergt.
Samuel Spooner.
John Wheeler. Job Winslow.
Christopher Foreland. Eli Freeman, sergt.
Moses Laurence.
Zephaniab Spooner.
David Weeks.
Jedediah Fay.
Experience Luce.
Nathaniel Swift.
Joseph Weeke, corp. Joseph Washburn.
Nathan Freeman.
Daniel Munden.
Jeduthao Spooner.
Judah Weeks.
Daniel Fay, Jr., corp.
Ames Mandell.
Jesse Snow.
Adam Willis.
Aaron Forbush.
Joslyn Munroe.
Nathan Foster, Jr.
Constant Merrick.
Samuel French, corp.
Calvin Marble.
Alexander Forbush.
Edward McMullin.
Aaron Fay.
Constant Merrick.
Simon Fletcher.
William Merrick.
Philip Fricker.
Moses Mandell.
Edmund Freeman.
Marshall Miller.
Stephen Fuller.
Caleb Nye.
Stephen Gorham, sergt.
Joseph Nye.
Shean Jasbub Goodspeed. John Griffin.
Joseph Nye.
Benjamin Glazier.
William Nye.
Jonathan Glazier.
Stephen Newton, sergt.
Johu Gorham.
Timothy Newton, sergt.
Lemuel Gilbert.
Reuben Ned.
Josiah Green.
Gideon Newton.
John Gilbert,
Ebenezer Nye.
Thomas Gilmore.
Elias Nye.
David Hunt.
Isaac Nye.
Sylvanns Hopkins.
Jobn Nye.
Philemon Holden.
James Peirce.
Timothy Hathaway.
Timothy Paige, capt.
Seth Harkley.
Samnel Pike.
Elisha Pike.
Job Harkley. John Hunt.
John Plant, corp.
Samuel Ilinkley.
Jesse Paige.
Samnol Hayford.
David Pratt.
William Paige, capt.
Nathaniel Paige.
George Paige, Jr.
Jesse Paige.
Jesse Safford.
Reuben Snow.
Timothy Paige, Jr. Joseph Pike.
Thomas Spooner.
John Harris, sergt.
Moses Haskell.
Josiab Perkins.
James Paige (21).
Steward Southgate, sergt. Ebenezer Sprout. Nathaniel Sprout.
Moses Hunt.
Denison Robinson, sergt.
Epbraim Titns.
Lemnel Ruggles.
Ammiel Weeks.
John Earl.
Israel Lawton, sergt.
Roland Sears.
Moses Whitcomb, sergt.
Stephen Forbush.
Ezra Leonard, Jr.
Lamnel Swift.
James Sturtevant
T. M. Wright, corp.
George Field.
Josiah Locke, lient.
Joel Stratton.
Elisba Sibley.
David Witt.
Abijah Sibley.
James Wright.
Freeman Sears.
Jonathan Warner, maj-gen.
Lewis Sweeting.
The loyal sentiment, which existed to a marked degree in many of the towns on the seaboard, found slender foothold in the inland towns. It is a little singular that in the towns where the old Pilgrim blood coursed most abundantly in the veins of the people adherence to the crown should have been the most pronounced. No communities in the Massa- chusetts Province held within their limits so many descendants from the original settlers of New Eng land in 1620 as Plymouth and Marshfield, and in those towns the loyal sentiment was strong. In the latter town, at the beginning of the war, the loyalists were in the majority and were suppressed only by the most active measures. In the interior towns, among the farming population, on the contrary, the current of feeling was strongly in one direction and that towards resistance and independence. Of Timothy Ruggles, the leading loyalist in Hardwick, mention has already been made. As far as the writer knows, there were but three others sufficiently pronounced in
John Hatch. Bial Harrington. Joseph Hunt.
Jonathan Hastings, corp. Prioce Haskell, drum. Uriah Higgins.
Prince Nye.
Lemuel Leach, ensign.
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their views to be publicly classed among the friends of the crown. John Ruggles, son of Timothy, was proscribed and banished in 1778, and afterwards lived in Nova Scotia until his death.
Daniel Oliver, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1762, settled as a lawyer in Hardwick, and, leaving the country, took up his residence in Eng- land, and died at Ashted, Warwickshire, May 6, 1826. Sabine, in his sketches of loyalists, calls him the son of Chief Justice Peter Oliver, who was a noted loy- alist, and died at Birmingham, England, October 13, 1791. It is more probable that he was the son of Andrew Oliver, a brother of Peter, who succeeded Hutchinson as Lieutenant-Governor, and who, as the distributor of stamps, was hung in effigy on the Liberty Tree in Boston.
Jonathan Danforth was imprisoned, but finally released by order of the General Court, and continued to live in Hardwick many years afterwards, a sns- pected, though not a proved, loyalist.
After the War of the Revolution the excitement attending the causes of Shays' Rebellion disturbed for a time the peace of the town, but was soon allayed. The annoyances of the French War, which caused trouble in the towns on the coast engaged in foreign commerce, caused no commotion in the inland com- munities, and the War of 1812 was little felt. Thc town went on in a peaceable career, first putting its financial affairs in a satisfactory condition, and then enlarging and extending its municipal machinery. More attention was paid to the establishment of schools, roads and bridges were built, stage lines were put in operation, a town-house was built, libraries were organized, and on the 15th of November, 1832, the town, with heartfelt congratulations, celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of its incorporation On the occasion of this celebration the exercises were held in the old meeting-house, and consisted of music, prayers by Rev. John Goldsbury and an address by Rev. Lucius R. Paige.
In the War of the Rebellion, as in the French and Indian War and in the Revolution, the people of Hardwick were not behind other towns in the Com- monwealth in the display of patriotic sentiment and in their efforts to do their share of work and bear their share of burdens in carrying it to a successful conclusion. The following is a list of the soldiers furnished by the town at different times and for dif- ferent terms of service, some of whom enlisted more than once :
Joseph Atwood.
Newell A. Bacon.
llenry P. Aiken.
Alonzo P. Brewer.
Wm. F. Alden, corp. Sanforth Botham. Wilder U. Barnes.
Augustus T. Barnes.
Frederick W. Burgess.
Lauriston Barnes.
Charles G. Bartholomew.
Barnes Brigham, sergt.
Norman II. Butterheld.
Robert Bailey.
Michael Camerou.
Aoson S. Comee, sergt. Frank H. Cleveland.
James B. Conkey.
Benjamin F. Pease.
Frederick A. Cobb. Dwight Cleveland.
David Pickett. John W. Parker.
Charles H. Chandler.
Samuel I. Peck.
Wm. H. Cleveland.
Wol. A Perry. Thomas Perry.
Henry J. Coburn.
George W. Campbell.
George W. Parks.
George W. Davis.
Leverett Pierce.
Edward Dunn.
John M. Ramsdell.
John Devlin.
Timothy G. Redheld.
Calvin C. Deane.
Richard Roland.
Samuel S. Dennis.
David D. Rogers, corp.
Hiram B. Douglass.
Alden Rawson.
Robert W. Davis, sergt.
George W. Richardson.
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