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WM. A. HOUGHTON'S SPEECH, APRIL 12, 1887.
In reviewing our work we are impressed with the fact that the speech made by the Rev. W. A. Hough- ton, Apr. 12, 1887, at the Town Hall, on the occasion of the reception given to Chandler Carter, and on the presentation to the town of his portrait, should ap- pear in full on these pages. The report of the same,
JOHN H. PARKER, Sce p. 447.
MYRON L. WHITCOMB,
ERASTUS S. WHEELER.
MRS. MERRIAM (BARTLETT) HOLT. See p. 285. B., 1804.
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as published in the Berlin Enterprise, is as follows : Mr. Chairman :
It is ever a pleasure to me to represent my native town. The longer I live the more I appreciate the privilege, and my gray hairs and so many years' companionship with our special benefactor have, perhaps, won me this opportunity. Having remembrance, somewhat, for three score years, of the familiar names of Berlin, and knowing much of their history, including the life of Mr. Carter as "schoolmate," "fellow soldier," when there was no fighting to do, as citizen, from his first vote, as nearest neighbor for thirty years, there may be some fitness in my position. And I want to say, just here, to the young that the longer I live the more confidence I have in the general good heartedness of men, and the more intimate my personal acquaintance, the more good qualities I find in them. If you would touch the real core of a man's life, do him a kindness. Probably Mr. Carter, in all his good will for us before, never thought so well of our responsively generous sentiment as he does now, and if any of you have failed to see his own respon- sive interest in us, you see it is because you could not look upon the heart. This good will to us is not the impulse of a moment. It is the maturing of long cherished good will. You do not know how many good wishes are breathed upon you which the lips do not utter.
And you, Mr. Carter, my worthy fellow citizen, native with me of the town, you will not hear one-half of the benedictions, yes, and prayers, which will breathe in many hearts while you live. Indeed, words seem so inadequate to express our obli- gation that many will restrain the words that come to them. We know our thanks are all you ask. But mere thanks seem like air bubbles. But in the name of these fathers of the town, in office, and in the name of all our citizens, I beg of you to believe that every citizen, uttering or restraining his words, is truly grateful. Let me add, also, the motherhood of the town, and our modest maidens. Our children will hold
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you in remembrance. And, perhaps, more than I have said has been wrought into a few lines by that graceful poetic pen which has already given our native town a good reputation in that line. It will be read to you.
One thing just here, fellow citizen. Not that I have the least occasion to say it in connection with this free gift; I have not. The contrary every way. But I have heard, in my life time, when some person of larger means than others has made a generous gift, or generous subscription, even in com- mon, the contemptible remark, "he is able," "she is able," " can afford to do it." Such a spirit prevalent would sink any community. That is the spirit that doesn't thank God for His gifts because He is "able" to give. Doesn't cost Him any self-denial. True " the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, gold and silver, the cattle upon a thousand hills." But God does like to be acknowledged and thanked. He does not like to be told He is able and could do it as well as not.
Now, somehow, I cannot, of late years, talk much about anybody without getting into their "genealogy." "Mr. So and So." "Yes, I know that name." "What was your father's given name?" "Why, Abel." "And your grandfather's ?" "Well, I think his name was Abel." "Yes; and your great- grandfather's?" "Well, there's where you've got me."
Here is Neighbor Bassett; I don't believe he will get through with that picture without some genealogical tangle ; for my Neighbor Chandler's own aunt married into Richmond. But I don't mean he shall use my thunder. I am speaking for the town, but I don't propose to give you Berlin genealogies ; I'll furnish that one of these days. But you ask Mr. Bassett if he knows anything about a man till he knows his genealogy. It is blood that tells. "Stock in trade " is nothing to stock in blood.
The year we were set off from Lancaster into Bolton was signalized by the birth of the first Berlin Carter, Stanton, 1 738. He appears first in a purchase on east side of Third Division hill, probably the later Sanderson Carter place, 1763. But the
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homestead was on land now traversed by the Central Massa- chusetts railroad beyond Larkindale.
The Carter stock, founded in Samuel of Cambridge College, England, was stanch Puritanic. The first two Samuels were Orthodox ministers.
In Lancaster it became an even game which should be the most numerous-the Carters, the Wilders, or the Houghtons. It became more dubious when the second Samuel married Dorothy Wilder, and the third Samuel married Jemima Houghton. Samuel, 3d, and Jemima kept the record good in twelve Carter-Houghton children. I put this in to make out my kinship to my neighbor. Jemima Houghton was . Chandler's great-great-grandmother. I have not been able to tell exactly my consanguinity with Jemima.
The Carters sought for good blood in matrimony. They took in the Sawyer stock by way of Dorothy Wilder, whose mother was daughter of the famous saw-mill builder in Canada. She had in her also the John Prescott blood, the most vigorous probably of all Lancaster stock. No wonder that in the great Carter gathering, two years ago at Woburn, " there was not a bald head among them." We would not deprive the Carters of the high price of their original blood, but no doubt the present Carters are considerably indebted to the Sawyer and the Houghton stock. We don't think they owe it "twenty thousand dollars," but we trust they will not take offense at our showing of kinship.
So we have made out the pedigree of our generous bene- factor thus : Thomas, Samuel, Samuel, 2d, Samuel, 3d, Stanton, Daniel, Chandler-seven generations.
The Carters and the Houghtons were about equally repre- sented in the west school, Berlin. The house stood very near the present residence of George Felton. Chandler was my seat-mate, I don't know for how long, but he was certainly one of the most honest school-boys I ever sat with. I don't believe he ever "laughed out" in school or "in meeting." He was very diligent in his lessons. Of course I was a good boy in such
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company, but I used to astonish him by my fluency in gram- mar. He seemed very much dazed when I stood up in my seat beside him and recited to Baxter Woods, say the 2 1st rule of Murray, "When the quality of different things is compared, the latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction than or as (for conjunctions have no government of cases), but agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb, or by the preposition expressed or understood ; as, Thou art wiser than I, that is, than I am."
I did not know then why Chandler spent so much of his time on arithmetic; still I used to hear it ever enjoined that we must know how to reckon money at interest. I see now how much more arithmetic did for Chandler than grammar did for me. Let the boys give heed to arithmetic, especially interest ; grammar has gone out of date. The old idea was to put language together, the latter is to tear it into shreds till it doesn't mean anything.
The wealth of school-boys in those days consisted mainly in a pin-box made of elder, the pith pushed out, filled with dis- torted pins ; a pop-gun, made in like manner ; a home-made metallic lead pencil to rule the writing book, and a shaky jack- knife. I think Chandler was a lucky fellow in pins, as he has been in interest. I never was in luck on pins more than in simple interest. He and I attempted once to trade in jack- knives ; not in school, we didn't do that. I wanted his knife, but he wanted two cents " to boot." He said he " candidly" thought it was worth it. That was my first idea of the word
" candid," "candidly." I learned that of my seat-mate, out of school, of course, and never hear of a candid man to this day without thinking of Chandler Carter. He was a candid boy ; he made a candid man ; he has dealt candidly with all men, in all business transactions. I think his candor has done as much for him in gathering in his interest as his diligence in arithmetic. " As the twig is bent, the tree is inclined." I don't think he would sleep o' nights if he had dealt uncan- didly. He came over to my house once to persuade me that I
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had just paid him too much interest. In school sports, my seat-mate was a hard one to handle, as I could see, keeping out of his grasp. It was said, too, by those who knew, that he was great in the dance. He and I had nothing in common on that line.
I want just to say publicly, before I leave his school days, that I think I beat him in penmanship. He may have been better looking than I was, but that didn't make him handsome. You couldn't have got that fine picture out of his face then. Upright living improves a man's face.
Turning now to more sober facts of life, I was called at midnight, at my guardian's, Esquire Meriam, in 1824, to carry tidings to Lancaster of the dying condition of Mr. Daniel Car- ter. In those days every family sorrow was felt through the town. Mr. Carter was little more than three score when he died. His mother was then living. I recall her tottering step, bending form and convulsive emotions as she placed her trembling hand on her son's brow in his coffin, and then the family train, five sons and two daughters with families and two sons unmarried. It seems strange to me that I need say to any Berlin citizen that this was on the homestead now owned by Mr. Bancroft.
They tell an anecdote of Mr. Carter and his minister. Dr. Puffer came across him by the highway loading heavy logs. Mr. Carter was wrestling with one of them. The minister deliberately watched the tussle, when the log got the better of the man, and they both went down together. Mr. Carter was not the man to whine, but he did groan that time. "I de- clare," said Mr. Puffer, " did it hurt you?" "Hurt me, yes !. " with a wish upon the minister not to be put on paper. Dr. Puffer was not a man to wrestle with logs.
From the death of his father, our friend and benefactor made his way in life on his own responsibility. Nobody had heard of ten hours for a day's work; nor for a hired man "from sun to sun." The light of the sun was not long enough for the longest days sixty years ago.
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Many of you have heard Mr. Carter tell of his labor experi- ences. But money hard earned spent well; gains well by prudent accumulation. A kind Providence has attended the industrious frugal young man up to his three score and ten, plus. Two most worthy wives have been helpmeets for him. The children have been stricken down ; the wives are no more, and now in declining years our fellow-citizen seeks to make a worthy use of all his prudent accumulations. Content, him- self, to live in simplicity when he might be in the enjoyment of most abundant luxury, he includes in his good will not alone those akin by flesh and blood, but his townsmen ; the religious society which he has before so much fostered, and orphan children, not one of whom, perhaps, he ever saw.
It devolves on me to speak only, at this time, of his munifi- cent gift to the town. In this Mr. Carter illustrates one of the noblest traits of American citizenship. Next to one's family and one's most preferred church, citizenship is a tie most ennobling. "My native town" is a sentiment next to " my native country." I think the stirring of his heart in the Carter name of late has, perhaps, quickened his interest in us as fellow-citizens. For one I can say that my search and find- ings in the memorial I have made out of Berlin families have greatly intensified my interest in the living families. Mr. Car- ter feels, with me, the short tenure we have in our hold on the living. He would leave to those we must leave so soon such an expression of his interest in them as will, in some measure, make our bonds perpetual. "We live in deeds."
I believe nothing would be more congenial to Mr. Carter's sentiments and desire than that his generosity should serve as a bond of good fellowship in the promotion of sympathy one with another as citizens of the same town,'identified in our aims and purposes to help one another. He has never sought to increase his wealth at the expense of another, be he citizen or stranger, above all a citizen, neighbor, or kindred. Con- vince him that he had and he would restore four-fold.
As citizens we are a township, one body bound, naturally,
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by common interests. We are a small town, surely, therefore we should each seek the welfare of every other, even as we know each other better because we are a small town. Less than a thousand? For that reason we know each other better than we should know any other thousand persons were ten thousand on the same territory. Town relationship is very sacred. This is the reason so many go back in their sympa- thies, in sunset years, and remember in some generous way their native town.
It is not so often that a man who has spent his life in the place of his birth, amid the divisions of the town into parties and sects-not so often that such an one holds on upon his native town with so much common sympathy as to make gen- erous donations for its welfare-as our fellow-citizen has done. We have often contravened his judgment in town affairs ; in nothing, perhaps, so much as in incurring a heavy debt. But he does not leave us to smart under it. Rather, proposes to lift us out of the difficulty which his vote would have avoided. Berlin is not alone in her errors, but she is alone, I think, in having one who opposed our errors to lift us out of it. The management of town affairs is a great responsibility, and public officers do well to weigh opposing opinions in steady balances.
Our benefactor could easily have expended on himself what he has bestowed upon us and no man would have said aught. Of course we have only praise to bestow. But this cannot be as gratifying to him as the assurance, which we trust he may feel, that the town not only responds to his gift, but that we will hereafter endeavor to exercise generous good will in town relationship, and to use all prudence in our business transactions. Few, propably, will attain to Mr. Carter's finan- cial ability, but we can, one and all, take the lesson which his course teaches us, namely, to make our prosperity a mutual matter. Let every man seek another's prosperity as well as his own. It is a divine law that help begets help to the helper.
I do not like to say in all our comforts that Berlin is a poor town. Our financial wealth is certainly small ; our financial
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expenses must still continue to be great. There are few towns, I am sure, where voluntary contributions for religious societies so nearly equal, and in many cases exceed, town assessments. We congratulate the society which is relieved of such a burden by the same generous benefactor. We rejoice in the lessening of life's burdens everywhere.
The occasion may warrant the suggestion of better hopes for the town in time to come. There is more inducement for good citizens and families to come into a town not encumbered by debt. Large business is yet shy of us, but a current is setting in, which, by encouragement, might make the town a summer resort for a very worthy class of boarders for the open season. One hour and little more from Boston, with several opportunities daily for coming and going, cannot long fail of bringing about good results, taken in a business view.
In short, if the spirit of good will and mutual helpfulness which this great help to us all suggests and urges upon us, shall be cherished and exemplified, the future of Berlin is hope- ful. Should we fail to show this spirit it will be our reproach, but the deed of our benefactor will still stand as a memento of his earnest desire for our good and an assurance of his noble generosity.
TESTIMONIAL.
The undersigned, members of the committee, de- sire to put on record a brief statement in relation to the completion of the history, as left by Mr. Hough- ton. The work of rewriting, compiling and publish- ing the work has been left largely in the hands of Mr. Bassett, who has acted as chairman of the com- mittee. From previous experience in writing a history of his native town (Richmond, N. H.), he possessed superior qualifications for the work in hand. The positions of honor, trust and responsi_
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bility held by him in town will be found by an ex- amination of various pages of this book. We accord to him diligence and faithfulness in the performance of the ardnous and difficult task imposed, and be- lieve that the result of his labors is alike credit- able to the town and the author who began the work.
E. C. SHATTUCK, P. B. SOUTHWICK, GEO. F. PRATT,
Committee.
NOTABLE REMOVALS
AND CHANGES IN TOWN NEAR THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1895.
The Metropolitan Water Works' location for tun- nel and aqueduct fixed from Larkin's mountain to Northboro line.
A branch of the Lyman School for Boys established on the Edward Flagg farm. Flagg sold the farm and bought the Mills place in New Worcester (so called).
The old Stephen Southwick farm sold by the pres- ent incumbent, Mrs. Reuben A. Wheeler, to Charles J. G. Hubbard of Fitchburg.
The R. S. Hastings store at the Centre changed occupancy, from C. S. White to H. E. Lasselle, for- merly of the South Berlin store.
The Unitarian stables built, December, 1895.
E. C. Shattuck appointed postmaster in place of C. S. White, December, 1895.
John Draper, a former hotel keeper here, is now (Jan. 1, 1896) occupant of the Berlin Hotel (the old Meriam place).
John F. Larkin sold his farm to Lyman Kendall of Boylston. The tunnel goes under the farm near the house.
The Arad Taylor place has been sold by Jos. B. Moore to Joseph Welch of Fitchburg.
Lewis L. Carter has bargained his farm to his brother, Jonas H. Carter.
CONCLUSION.
As the weary mariner, after a long voyage of ex- ploration, is about to enter the port from which he took his departure, laden with the fruits of his research, rejoices in the near prospect of relief from continual observation, so we, who have been journeying amid the faded memories of the aged and the musty manuscripts of past ages, exult and rejoice that our diversified observations and numerous peregrinations are prospectively drawing to a close; but to one who has been for a considerable time de- voted to a particular line of study or research, the laying aside of what may be considered a heavy burden is fraught with lively sensations of joy, mingled with modified feelings of regret. (The work of writing a town history, when perfection is aimed at, but hardly attainable, is truly an Herculean task under ordinary circumstances.) The committee who have had the work in charge bear cheerful tes- timony to the great value of the labors of Mr. Houghton in laying the foundation by collecting the statistics of early families, and by gathering valuable historical data which must be of special interest to all having any connection with the town. The town certainly owes a debt of gratitude to the author for his labor of love. The original design seems to have been to publish mainly family history and biography. We have seen fit to broaden the
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scope intended by inserting such topics of town history as appear worthy of preservation.
It will be noticed that considerable space has been allotted to our soldiers who served in the War of the Rebellion; for this we make no apology, and none is demanded. Their names should be kept in perpetual remembrance for the sacrifices they made for liberty on their country's altar. Probably the most novel feature of our work will be found in the large number of its illustrations ; especially the por- traits of citizens and soldiers, so largely presented, may truly be regarded as a new departure from old beaten paths. In this we have only attempted to keep pace with the progress of the age in the line of art. Our aim and intent have been more particularly to transmit to posterity the looks of Berlin people as well as their acts. Not alone the portraits of the more distinguished have been sought, but those of all others of the people-of the common people, who constitute the bulk of the town. We regret that we have been unable to secure the pictures of some one of many families, which would have added materially to our collection. From motives of delicacy, or, pos- sibly, of fear that their looks might not reflect the goodness of their hearts, they have hesitated to have their pictures examined by the thousands who will first or last peruse the pages of this book. We re- gret that some misplacements will be found in both the genealogical and historical parts of the work, but all will be found by reference to the index.
We fondly cherish the hope that this book, so long in preparation, may be of permanent value, not only to those now living, but also to those who may come
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after us. It is quite probable that copies of this work may be found when not a single descendant of the first settlers, or even of those now living here, will occupy this territory, such are the changes wrought by time. It may truly be regarded as fortunate for the town that so many of the frag- ments have been gathered up which might have been lost for all time but for the labors in the first place of the Rev. William A. Houghton.
BERLIN, January, 1896.
HISTORICAL INDEX.
A
Page.
Abandoned Farms
48
Continental Money
.
39
Academy, Bride's
105
County Roads .
54
Agriculture and Horticulture 88
240
D
B
Bell Purchased
71
Bell Broken
73
Berlin Surveyed
54
District of Berlin
28
Blacksmiths
93
Doctors
.
219
Bridges
81
E
C
Carpenters
95
Carter Fund
I29
Carter Donation
204
Emigration
29
Carter Reception and Portrait
205
Cemetery, Old
I44
F
Cemetery, New
I45
Centennial Celebration,
200-202
Farmers' Club
230
Federal Money, Grants in
55
Fire Apparatus
202
Fire-proof Safes
199
Fires, Buildings Burned
216
48
G
Gates' Pond
18-46-200
Gift Rejected
193
Golden Cross
.
220
Coopers .
94
Ecclesiastical
.
IIO
Ecclesiastical Controversy
II5
Exchanges by Dr. Puffer
II5
Church's Request to Town 117-119
Civil Service Reform
201
Clamshell Pond
18-46
Clock
202
Coffins Furnished
75
Cold Year
67
Comb Making .
97
Common, Ownership of
76
Common, Plan of
68
Page.
Constables
243
County, Division of .
72
Agnostics
138
Convention to Alter the
Assessors
Deaths, Accidental, etc.
213
Decoration Day
200
Delegates to Convention
82
Berlin Territorially
45
Constitution
68
Donations to Cong. Church
I 24
Church Centennial
I26
Forest Trees
Grange, P. of H.
203-
577
INDEX.
H
Page.
Hat Making
97
Medicine and Extracts
97
Hearse
55
Meeting House, First
IIO
Hearse House Removed .
67
Meeting House, New
69-73
History while Part of Bolton 20
Methodist Church
129
History while Part of Lancaster
6
Methodist Ministers . Memorial Hall
131
Hopedale Community
231
150
House for the Poor 55-69-SI
Military Organizations 140 Militia, Enrollment of 182-183 Militia Organized . 54-140
Millerites
76
Incorporation of District
32
Indians .
18
Inns and Inn Keepers
98
Inoculation
57
Introduction
I-6
N
T
Nashua Plantation
7
Jury Boxes
43
Justices of the Peace
245
K
Noyes Survey
8
Kequasagansett Lake
IS
King Philip's War
8-10
King William's War
Parish, South . IIO
Paupers . 215
Penacook Indians
IO
Petition to Court
54
Petition for Relief
57
Lancaster Inhabitants Re-
jected
59
Portrait Artemas Barnes
197
Larkin, Peter, Admitted to Town
55
Post 54, G. A. R.,
186
Lawsuit with Bolton
74
Postmasters, List of
88
Lawsuit with Maynard
199
Post Offices,
84
Library
221
Potash
97
Lyceum
228
Pound and Stocks
43
M
Map of Town
32
Public Worship, Cost of
139
Marines 3×
.
57
L
Lamps
202
Piano Purchased 209
Lancaster Resettled
II
Portrait Rev. W. A. Houghton 209 Population 236
6-10
Nipmucks
9-10
Northboro Line
55
Mill Owners
95
Millwrights
96
Moderators
. 237
Page.
Masons
96
I
Incorporation . 57-58
Nashua Tribe Indians
P
Knapsacks
Powder House 65-202
President's Call 151
181 Puffer's, Rev. Dr., Exchanges 115
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INDEX.
Q
Page.
Soldiers of 25th Reg. 164
Queen Anne's War
12
Soldiers of 22nd Reg. 165
Soldiers of 29th Reg. 167
R
Soldiers of 26th Reg. 167
Railroads
82
Soldiers of 53rd Reg. 167
R. R., Agricultural Branch
82
Soldiers of 5th Reg.
168
R. R., Mass. Central
83
Soldiers of 11th Reg.
174
Recruits
182
Soldiers of 27th Reg.
174
Representatives
244
Soldiers of 6th Reg.
175
Roads
77
Soldiers of 3rd Cavalry
173
Rowlandson Massacre
9
Soldiers of Heavy Art. Soldiers' Uniform
178
S
South Parish
30
School Districts N. & S. . 41
Stables on Common
67
School Districts E. & W. . 42
Stage Coach
84
School Committees
243
School Funds . 109
T
School Money, Division of
53-55
School in Centre
71
Tanning 97
Tax on Dogs
54
Tax on Pews 68
Temperance Society . 220
Tithingmen
65
School in Town House
73
School, Select .
68
Town Census
74
Schools, Singing
55-57-68
Town Clerks
238
School Teachers
109
Town, Division of 194 .
Selectmen
238
Town Farm
.
Senators .
245
Town Grants
.
38
Shakespeare Club
224
Town House, Old
72
Shays' Rebellion
50
Town House, New
194
Shepherd & Dwight .
68
Town Meeting
35-70-72
Shoe Shops, Parker's
90
Town, Name of
30
Shoe Shops, Other .
91-92-93
Town Vote of Thanks
71
Society of Friends
136 . Tories
26
Soldiers, History of Deceased
152
Tramp House . 200
Soldiers Who Survived the
Treasurer and Collector 242
War .
162
Treaty Ratified
49
Soldiers of 16th Reg. ·
162 Trees on Common .
76.
Stores and Store Keepers . 99
Surplus Revenue
74
School-house, West
73
School-houses, Religious
Services in 70
Schools and School-houses
IOI
Town and Church Division 73
.
.
Town's Health
21I
Sleeping Rock . 19-48
Soldiers of 36th Reg. 175
Road Bounds
82
55
School Districts . 73-101
Page.
579
INDEX.
U
Page.
Page.
Water Trough .
204
Unitarian Society
127
Well on Common
56
Unitarian Meeting House .
129
Wheelwrights . 96
Wire-drawing . 97
W. C. T. U.
234
Valuation
236
Wool-carding . 97
Veterans, Sons of
191
Worcester County, Div. of 54-199
War, King Philip's .
S
Year of Disaster
74
War, French and Indian .
20
Yellow Day
201
War of the Revolution
22
War. Preparation for
48
War of ISI2
59
Gates' Pond Taken 544
War of Rebellion
146
Orthodox Sunday School, . 545
War Meetings .
151
Washacum Lake
19
ADDEND.1.
W. A. Houghton's Speech, 562-570 Testimonial, 570
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Page.
Page.
Barnes, Fortunatus
547
Keyes, Chas. G.
554
Brown, Ira H. M.
547
MacElwain, Andrew
. 555
Cotting, Geo. A.
548 Maynard, Geo. W. .
555
Durston, Rev. A. S.
548 Maynard, Geo. E.
555
Fosgate, C. O.
549
Meriam, Jona., Esq.
.
556
Hartshorn, E. H.
549
Morse, Lyman
556
Hastings, Arthur
550
Powers, A. A. .
557
Hastings, Henry W.
550
Sawyer, E. Irving
557
Hastings, Leslie,
551 Sawyer, Dea. Oliver
558
Hastings, Ruthven
55I
Sawyer, Stephen
558
Hastings, R. S.
552
Shattuck .
559
Hodgkins, Asenath
552
Smith, A. G.
560
Holder, Samuel
553
Southwick, P. B.
560
Wm. A. Howe
563 Wheeler, Erastus S. .
.
561
Jones, Solomon
554
Whitcomb, Myron L.
562
GENEALOGICAL INDEX.
A
Page.
Page.
Bruce
311
Adams
247
Bryant
312
Allen
.
247-248
Burke
312
Ames
248
Butler
313
Andrew's .
249
Bullard
314
B
C
Babcock .
250-256
Caldwell .
314
Bailey
256-269
Canouse .
315
Baker, Hon. Sam'l
269-274
Carter ·
315-326
Baker, Benj.
274
Cartwright
326-327
Ball
275
Carvelle
327
Barber
.
.
276
Coburn
328
Barnes
276-282
Collins
328
Barnard
282-284
Conant
329
Bartlett
284-288
Coolidge
329-330
Barter
288
Cotting
330
Bassett
288
Coulson
331
Bennett
289
Crossman
331
Benway
290
Crosby
332
Berry
290
Christy
332
Bickford .
290-291
Clarke
333
Bigelow
291-294
Cutting
333
Bliss
294-295
Boyce
296
Bowman
296
Dakin
· 333
Bruce
297-301
Dailey
333
Bride
302-306
Davis
334
Brigham
306-309
Day
334
Brewer
· 309-10
Derby
334
Brooks
310
Dewey
335
Brown
310-11
Dexter
335
.
275
Chamberlin
327
Barker
.
.
.
D
.
582
INDEX.
Page.
H
Dinsmore
335
Page.
Dudley
335
Hale
371
Dugan
Hapgood .
371
Dunn
336
Harper
372
Hartwell
372
E
Hartley
373
Eager
336
Hartshorn
373-375
Egery
336
Hastings
375-380
Ellis
337
Haynes
380
End
337
Hibbard
38I
Hoar
381
F
Holbrook
381
Fairbanks
337-34I
Holder
382-384
Fagin
341
Holman
384
Farwell
34I
Holt
385
Fay
341-345
Houghton
385-392
Felton
345-347
Howard
393
Fife
347-348
Howe
394-398
Flagg
348
Hudson
398-399
Fletcher
349
Hunt
399
Foley
Foster
.
350
Fosgate
350-354
Fox
.
Jackson
. 40I
Jenkins
401
Jewett
40I
Johnson
402-407
Jones
407-4II
Gage
357
Gamble
.
357
Gibbs
.
Kerley
. 411
Keyes
412-415
Garrity
359
Keating
415
Gill
359
Kelley
415
Goddard
360-366
Killam
416
Gott
366
King
416
Grassie
367
Knight
417
Greenleaf
367
Griggs
Green
368-370
Larkin
417-422
Guertin
370
Livingston
422
Gunnison
.
370
Lawrence
422
.
.
.
.
400
J
Fry
354-356
Fuller
356
357
Gates
357-359
.
.
.
368
L
·
K
Hunting
350
354
G
336
INDEX.
583
Page.
Lasselle
422-423
Rice
Page 466-468
Longley
423
Rich
469
Richardson
469
Robbins .
469-470
McCarty .
423
Rose
470
McPhearson
424
Marsh
424
Maynard .
424-429
Meriam
420-432
Sawyer .
471-49J
Miller
432-433
Sawtelle
492
Moore
433-438
Severance
492
Moran
438
Shattuck .
492-494
Shepherd
494
Small
. 495
Smith
495-496
Snow
496
Newsome,
441
Southwick
497-50I
Newton
441-443
Spofford
501-503
Nourse
444
Starkey
503-504
Staples
504
Stetson
504
Osgood
445
Stone
505
Stratton
505
Sweet
506
Parmenter
445
Parks
446
Paine
447
Taft
. 506
Parker
447
Taylor
506-507
Peters
448
Temple
507
Pierce
448
Tenney
507-508
Pollard
449-452
Thompson
508
Pratt
454
Townsend
509
Priest
457-461
Turner
509
Proctor
461
Tyler
509-510
Pry
461
Puffer
.
462
U
R
Upham
510
Rand
463-464
Randall
464-465
Rathbun .
465-466
Vinals
.
· 51I
.
470
S
Morse
439-440
Mossman
440
N.
0
·
.
.
.
T
Powers
452-454
Tisdale
509
.
.
V
P
Rudersdoff
MI
584
INDEX.
W
ADDENDA.
Page.
Page.
Walcott
511
Coffran
537
Walker
511
Davis, Geo. C.
537
Wallis
511
Dawson,
537
Walter
512
Dyar
637
Wheeler
512-529
Goddard, E. M.
538
Whitcomb
.
529
Howe, C. A.
538
White
530-533
Jewett
539
Whitney
533
Laybolt
539
Wilder
534
Merrill
539-541
Williams
534
Mills
541
Winship
534
Morse
541
Winter
535
Otterson
542
Wood
535
Paige
542
Woodbury
535
Perry
to
543
Woodward
535
Pierce, A. F.
543
Worster .
Segar
544
Schubert
544
Y
Smith
544
Young
. 536
.
536
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