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Centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town, a lecture given, at, by Deacon Hervey Barber, 130.
Chair stuff, 153.
Chestnut Hill, named for its chestnut-trees, 15, 17.
Child, Phinehas, ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of, 173.
Church, First, pastors of, and preachers in, 157, 160, 161. (See Unitarian.)
Church, Second Congregational, formed, 116; pastors and supplies of, 163, 164 ; preachers of, originating from the town, 165.
Clap, Mrs. Mary Blake, donations of, for the improvement of the cemetery, thanks of the town to, for her gifts, 140, 143; donations of, to the First Church and Society, 162, 163.
Clark, Rev. George Faber, installed pastor of First Church, 160.
Climate, III, 125.
Committee, on the History of Warwick, 7 ; appointed by the General Court to lay out original grants, 13 ; to find out the nearest route from Roxbury to this place, 22 ; to lay out a road to Pequeage, 24.
Committees chosen, 7, 13, 14, 16, 22, 24, 29, 32, 35, 37, 38, 48-51, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 76, 79, 81, 82, 84-87, 102, 108, 109, 114, 115, 126, 133, 137, 138, 140, 162.
Common, the, of ten acres, 29; lands, laid out into two divisions of seventy-five and sixty acres each, 32.
Constitution of the State, proposed amendments to, two, only, out of the fourteen pre- sented were accepted by the town, 104 ; additional amendments to, acted on, 114, 116, 117, 125, 128-130.
Copperas, 121.
INDEX. 233
Cornet band, 154.
Cornwallis, anecdote in relation to the surrender of, 41.
County, separate, petitioned for, 66; of Hampshire, respecting a division of, 82, 88. Court, General, grant from, in 1735, of four tracts of land, for townships, each six miles square, in the admission of settlers to said territory preference to be given to petitioners and descendants of officers and soldiers who served in the expedi- tion to Canada in 1690, 12.
D.
DANIELS, Rev. E. D., pastor of the Baptist Church, 167.
Davenport, James, a relation of his concerning the British, and the soldiers of the Revolution, 41, 42.
Deaths from 1807 to 1845, 214-221 ; from 1847 to 1872, 221-226.
Delegate to amend the Constitution of Massachusetts, 104.
Delegates to the congress at Northampton, 45.
Democratic party formerly in the ascendency, a change since, 119.
Diseases, III. Districts, school, 86.
Dog-tax, discharged by one day's work on the highways for each dog, 86; for benefit of the library, 140.
Dudley, William, Esq., proprietor's clerk in 1736, 14.
Dysentery, malignant, 159.
E.
EARTH, red, 122.
Electors of President and Vice-President voted for, the first time, 80.
Embargo, memorial to the President of the United States for the repeal of the, 92, 93. Episcopalian minister who originated from Warwick, 168.
Erving's Grant, 15.
Exports, III.
F.
FAIRS, 150, 162.
Families or settlers, thirty-seven of them located on the first division of lots, 31.
Farms, 119; first ones of one hundred and fifty acres each, 17.
Farrar, Rev. C., pastor of the Baptist Church, 167.
Fay, Moses, had " Hobson's choice" of pews in meeting-house, 77. Fay, Rev. L., pastor of the Baptist Church, 166.
Field farm, of four hundred acres, 16.
Fifty-acre lots, owners of in 1737, when the first plan of the township was made, also, in 1761, and in 1872, 184, 185. Fireplaces, old-fashioned, 21.
Firestone, 122.
Fisk Cemetery, 133, 134 ; soldiers' monument erected in, 146, 147.
Fitzwilliam, N. H., soldiers' monument made of granite from the quarry in, 147 :.
Flour hill, 17, 18, 173; why so called, 18.
Fort, the only one built in the town, 27; Lot, 27.
Franklin Glass Manufacturing Company, account of, 94-97:
Freestone, 1 22.
Fund for the support of Rev. Samuel Reed as minister, 80.
Funeral carriage, and a house for the same, provided, 82, 94, 109 .. Funerals, public, of Lemuel Scott and Henry G. Mallard, 129.
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HISTORY OF WARWICK.
G.
GALE, David, killed a catamount, 22.
Gallop, Samuel, petitions the General Court for land, in consideration of his services in the Canada expedition of 1690, 14.
Gardner, Capt. Andrew, in Canada expedition, 14.
Gardner's Canada, so called, now Warwick, 24.
Gilbert, Job, surveyor, laid out sixty-two lots of land, of over fourteen acres each, being the fifth and last division, 39.
Glass Company (See Franklin.)
Goldsbury, Rev. John, 6 ; one of the committee to have charge of the history of the town, 7.
Goldsbury, Capt. John, representative to the General Court, instructions assigned him, 67, 68 ; chosen a justice of the peace, 70.
Gould, Thomas, had first choice in the pews of the then new meeting-house, 1786, 77. Grace brook, 20.
Graves, Elder J. M., minister of the Baptist Church, 165.
Great farm, 16.
Grist-mill, voted in 1759, to build one, and a committee chosen to select the spot for it, 28 ; built on Black brook, 31.
Groton, part of a leaf of an account-book found there, about sixty miles from War- wick, taken thence by the tornado, 107.
Grout, Howe, and Garfield carried into captivity, 26.
Guideposts, the first erected by law, 84.
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HAILSTORM, destructive one described, 170-173.
Hall, Dr. Ebenezer, originator of the Glass Manufacturing Company in town, 94. Hastings, Miss Mary Ann, of Framingham, Mass., legacy of, to the First Church and Society, 163.
Hatch, Rev. Roger C., pastor of the Second Congregational Church, 163; death of, 163.
Hats, palm-leaf, manufactured, III.
Hay, 119, 149 ; and other articles, the prices of, fixed by a committee of the town, 63. Hearse, 82, 94, 109.
Hedge, Elisha, his donation, 87, 88.
Hedge, Rev. Lemuel, of the First Church, ordained, 28, 113; votes for his salary, 28, 29 ; liberty given him to lay out a hundred acres of land in one place, near the meeting-house, 29 ; answer to the call of the committee for settlement, 30; agree- ment with, for his salary, 35; difficulties with, 50, 51 ; death of, 62.
Highways, forty pounds raised to repair them, 36.
Hills, or high ridges of land, selected for the first settlements, 15.
Hix, Elder, his delusions and disgraceful exit from the town, 59-61.
Hodge, Elder Levi, pastor of the Baptist Church, 155; death of, 166.
Home lots, laid out, to contain not less than fifty, nor more than sixty acres, began to be numbered in the south-west part of the town, 14, 15.
Horses, the town voted three thousand one hundred pounds to pay for, for the Conti- nental service, 65.
House, eighteen feet square, and seven feet stud, at the least, to be built by each set- tler or grantee, 13.
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INDEX.
I.
INCORPORATION of the town, 132. Indebtedness of the town, 129 Independence, national, the town votes unanimously for it, 54. Indian capitivities, in 1755 and 1756, 26 ; corn, 119 ; mortars, 123 ; kettle, 148.
Inhabitants, general character of, 111 ; decreased, 119; more than one-twentieth of them seventy years of age and upwards, 227.
Instructions, from the town to their first representative in the General Assembly of the Province, 52, 53 ; to their representative in the General Court, 68. Iron ore, 120-122; forge, 121.
J.
JARVIS, James, of Roxbury, first meeting of the proprietors of the township after- wards Warwick, held at the house of, in 1736, 14. Johnson and his company, 16.
Jones, Nahum, 7 ; donor of land, 138; boot manufactory established by, 152.
K.
KELTON Corner, 20. Kelton, Enoch, land-surveyor, 20 ; his wife confined fifty years to her bed, 20. Kingsley, Rev. S. S., pastor of the Baptist church, 167.
Knob, Bennett's, 21.
L.
LAFAYETTE, shoes and stockings presented by him to our soldiers, 42. Land sold at auction in 1761, for about four cents and three mills per acre, 32. Lands, fifth and last division of, laid out, 38.
Langley, Capt. Samuel, agreement of, to build a new meeting-house, 71-75 ; his dwell- ing-house destroyed by fire, and the pews and doors, nearly finished, of the meet- ing-house were there consumed, 77.
Lawyer in town, 118, 192. Lead, 122.
Leather, 152.
Leonard, Moses, what is now the north part of the burying-ground given by him to the town, 67.
Leonard, Mrs. Sarah Blake, notice of, 164, 227.
Lesure, Mrs. Hannah, aged 101 years, anecdote and death of, 135.
Lesure, Samuel, sen., a soldier of the Revolution, 135.
Library, public, money appropriated for, 137; town voted to accept of it, 139; five trustees of, chosen, 140, 141 ; money appropriated for the enlargement of, 142; report of condition of, in 1872, 229. Life, loss of, at tornado in Warwick in 1821, 106.
Light Infantry of the town, 125, 153; chartered, and officers of, 153.
Locke, Ebenezer, delays building a saw-mill through fear of Indian depredations, 25, 26.
Longevity, 111, 112, 124, 198, 199, 226, 227. Lots, second division of, laid out in 1757, 16. Lumber, 119, 151.
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HISTORY OF WARWICK.
M.
McKIM, Col., present of a bell from, 130.
Manufactures, 151.
Marriages and intentions of marriage, list of, from 1806 to 1844, 206-214.
Meeting-house, to be thirty-five feet long, and thirty wide, with nineteen-foot posts,
24 ; site for it first selected, 24; raised in 1756, in another place, 26 ; four pounds voted to enclose it, 27 ; standing uncovered two years after, 28 ; voted to finish it, 32, 35 ; agreement with Capt. Samuel Langley to build a new one, 71, 161 ; struck by lightning, 161 ; new one described, 115, 116; repairs on, 161-163 ; con- cerning it, 90, 91, 110, 115.
Members of the church, and worthy citizens of the old school, alluded to, 159.
Methodists, 112.
Military companies, two in town, a line established between them, 81.
Militia, 92 ; officers chosen, 47 ; enrolled, 129.
Mineral productions, 120, 148.
Minister, first settled, to have one share or a sixty-third part of the original township, 12 ; eighteen pounds raised to defray the charge of one on probation, 28. Ministers in town, 112, 113, 157, 160, 161, 163-168.
Ministry, for the use of, one sixty-third part of the territory in the township, 12; lands sold, 81 ; in relation to the, 97, 101, 102.
Miry brook, 19.
Money, voted for Mr. Hedge's settlement in the ministry, 28; paper, depreciated, vote concerning, 56; voted to pay for horses used in the Continental service, 65 ;
raised for town expenses, 118; to aid the families of volunteers, 130; expended on account of the war, 145, 146.
Monument, Soldiers', 146; a soldier killed at the raising of, 132.
Monuments, Stone, on the town lines, 129.
Morse's brook, 20 ; pond, 19, 20.
Mount Grace, so named from a child of Mrs. Rowlandson, buried near the foot of it, 19; its height, 123.
N.
NEWALL, Samuel, one of the petitioners for the territory (now Warwick), 12, 14; authorized by the General Court, in June, 1736, to call the first meeting of the proprietors, 14.
Noon houses and stables to be built on the meeting-house common if requested by the inhabitants, 79.
0.
OATS, 119. Old fort, 27.
Orange, the town of, 16, 129 ; in part formed from Warwick, 67; district of (then South Warwick), joins with the town of Warwick in the choice of a representa- tive to the General Court, 69. P.
PACKARD, Jacob, chosen a delegate to attend a convention at Hatfield called to de- vise means to stay the Shays rebellion, in 1786, 71.
Padanaram, 19. Pails, water, 152.
Paine, Esq., services at General Court in getting the town incorporated, 34.
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INDEX.
Paper currency, depreciation of, 56, 62, 64.
Park, public, 137-139 -
Party feelings strong, 88-90.
Pasture lands, 119.
Patriotic votes, and movements of the town, 41-47, 52-55, 58, 59.
Paupers, first mentioned, 36, 37 ; the inhabitants to keep them on town farm, 125- I27 ; case, 128; expenses of, 134.
Peaked End, 19.
Pequeage, 15.
Perambulating the town lines, first record of, 79.
Petition to the General Court for town incorporation, 32 ; for a new county, 34, 66 ; for- redress of grievances, 63.
Pews in the Unitarian meeting-house, owners of and prices, 116.
Physicians, 118, 192, 199, 203, 204.
Pierce, Daniel, donor to the Baptist Church, 167.
Poetry, 168, -by Hon. Jonathan Blake, Warwick, 177 : Sunday-school celebration, 178; dedication-hymn for the new Unitarian Church in Warwick, 179; dedica- tion-hymn, 180; lines to be sung at a donation party, 181 ; lines of condolence, 182.
Poetry by Elder John Shepardson, - reflections on the tornado of 1821, 188.
Poetry by Susie E. Barber, - the Rebel Bell, 190, 191.
Poetry by Miss M. A. Reed, - Hymn of Welcome, 205, 206.
Pomeroy, Lieut. Josiah, chosen delegate to attend a convention at Northampton, to state the prices of the necessaries of life, 63; Medad, Dr., 15; notice of, 204,; lines repeated by him, 204.
Pomeroy's Pond, 19.
Population in 1860 and 1865, 132.
Postmasters, 199, 203.
Pound, to be built of wood, underpinned with stones, 84 ; new ones, 97, 11'4.
Powder-magazine to be built, 102.
Preachers, summary of those who originated from the town, 168.
Prohibition of the sale of ale, porter, and beer, 141.
Proprietors, meeting first held in Roxbury, Sept. 22, 1736, and after till 1761, 14 ; twenty shillings each, paid by the sixty, to defray the expense of laying out the home lots, 14; first meeting of, in the meeting-house, 30; last vote on record of, 40.
Province Land, now Royalston, 15.
R.
RAILROAD, the want of one, 120.
Rainstorms, 172, 173.
Rawson, Mrs Hannah, first town-school teacher, 38.
Recruits for the war, 131.
Reed, Abigail, report of a committee in favor of, 100, 101.
Reed, Rev. Samuel, the second minister of the town, ordained, 63; invited to become the Town's minister, instead of the Society's, 82; his answer accepting the invi- tation, 83 ; salary of, increased, 86; death of, 94.
Regimental orders, 186; men detached, 186, 187.
Report on the library, to be printed, 143.
Reports, 100, 101, 103, 126, 133, 134, 140, 142.
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HISTORY OF WARWICK.
Representative, none chosen in 1783, on account of, as alleged, the extreme poverty of the town, 69.
Representatives chosen 86, 87, 91, 192, 195, 196, 199.
Residents of Warwick over seventy years of age, 198, 227.
Rich, Lieut. Thomas, first representative from the town to meet the General Assem- bly of the Province at Watertown in 1776, 51 ; instructions to, 52, 53, 55. Roads, the first on record, laid out, 35 ; the first accepted, 36 ; important vote about,
39 ; seventy-six miles in town, all of them surveyed by Jonathan Blake, jun., 124. Rock, shelving, of a large size, 148.
Rowlandson, Mrs., and her daughter Grace, 19.
Roxbury, cr Gardner's Canada, now Warwick, 14.
Rye. 119.
S.
SALT, from Boston, for the inhabitants, 51 ; apportioned by General Court, 56.
Sawmill, in 1753, voted fifty pounds to build one, 24; delay in building it for fear of
Indians, 25, 26 ; set a-going in 1759, 58 ; stood on Black Brook, 31. Sawmills, 120, 151.
School, first, at the expense of the town, 37, 38 ; ten pounds voted to support it a part of the year, 37; Mrs. Hannah Rawson the teacher, 38; districts, first division of, 48; nine formed in the town, 69 ; defined anew, 114; bounded, 117; land sold, 81 : money, 86; separated from the ministerial, 114; committee, 108, 200-202; se- lect one, 156.
Schools, one of the sixty-three shares in the township, for the benefit of, 12.
Schools and schoolhouses, 86, 101, 102, 108, 128, 137, 142, 156.
Scott's brook, 20.
Scott, Samuel, his house to be fortified, 27.
Selectmen, 37, 193, 194, 196, 197, 199, 200 ; imprisoned, 78.
Settlers, original, to be admitted, to be sixty in number, and to have one share each,
of the township, 12, 13; to be on the premises, to have a house eighteen feet square, and seven feet stud, and six acres of land brought to, 13; bonds required of, penalty twenty pounds, 13; estates to be forfeited to the Province within five years, in case of non-fulfilment of terms, 14; early, 124.
Severance farm, of two hundred acres, 16.
Sharp, Capt. Robert, moderator of the first meeting of the proprietors, 14.
Shays rebellion, 70.
Sheomet, Indian name of the surrounding country, 200.
Shepardson, Elder John, minister of the Baptist Church, 156; death of, 166.
Skunks Baron, 19.
Smith, Rev. Preserved, called to settle, 97; his answer, 98, 99; ordained, 99, 157 ; half-century discourse of, 158.
Soil, III.
Soldiers, bounty paid to, for six months' service, 64, 65 ; and soldiers' families, money for the support of, 136; monument to, erected by the town, 146.
South Warwick, called the district of Orange, 69.
Spiritualism, 168.
Spooner, Samuel W., a delegate to the convention for amending the Constitution of the State, in 1853, 195.
State Constitution, non-acceptance of, 57, 64.
Stave and other mills, 152.
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Stockings for the soldiers, knit by a centenarian, 136.
Straw- braiding, III.
Strong, Caleb, voted for on the part of the town for County Register, 57.
Survey of the town, 124.
T.
TANNERY, 152.
Taylor, Dr. Amos, physician over forty years, 204.
Tilestoa, fho nis, of Dorchester, a petitionier for a tract of land for services in the Canada expedition of 1690, 12.
Tilton, Abraham, and others who served in the expedition to Canada, petitions Gen- eral Court, in 1735, for land, which was granted, 12.
Timber on Town Farm to be disposed of, 137.
Tornado, a destructive one described, 104-108 ; lines concerning it, 188.
Town, meeting, the first, 33 ; plan made by Jonathan Blake, jun., 124; farm 126, 127 ; warrants posted, 128; officers, 132, 192 ; clerks, 193, 196, 202, 203 ; treasur- er, 203.
Training-field, laid out, 29.
Trees, 119; set out in the burying-ground, 110.
Trustees of the Library, 140.
T'ully brook, 20; river, 20.
U.
UNITARIAN Church, First Congregational, 157; plan of the interior of, with owners and prices of pews, 116.
Unitarian preachers originating from the town, 161.
Universalist Society, incorporated, 97, 118, 168 ; ministers of, and those who originated from the place, 168.
V.
Valuation of the town in 1860 and in 1865, 132.
Volunteers for the war, 131.
Vote, for numbering the people, 56; against adopting the constitution laid before the people, 57 ; to pay three years'-men in the service, 65 ; to raise men and beef for the army, 65.
Votes, patriotic ones, in 1774, 44.
W.
WAR of the rebellion, the town lost twenty-six men in, 132; their names inscribed on the Soldiers' Monument, 189 ; names of those from the town who entered it in the service of the country, 189.
War of 1812-14, men enlisted in, 185.
Warned out of town, all who were not inhabitants, 63.
Warwick, History of, read before Lyceum, 4, 9; committee on, 7; town of, appro- priating money for the publication of, 8 ; territory of, one of four grants, each six miles square, granted by the General Court in 1735, each town laid out in sixty- three equal shares, one each for the first settled minister, the ministry, the schools and sixty settlers, 12-14 ; charges of laying out the township, and admitting set- tlers, defrayed by the Province, 13; first called Roxbury, or Gardner's Canada, 14; contained twenty-three thousand acres of land, exclusive of the Great Farm of sixteen hundred acres, and the Severance and the field farms, 16, III ; way from, to Northfield, 1740, Deacon Davis to mark it out, 23; town of, incorporated
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HISTORY OF WARWICK.
Feb. 17, 1763, 32; name of, probably originated from Warwick in England, or from Guy, Earl of Warwick, 33; first town-meeting in, 33; first town-officers chosen, 33, 34; names of owners or occupiers of houses in, in 1798, 228, 229. Water of the town feeds three rivers, - Miller's, Ashuelot, and Connecticut, 124. Way, public, marked out through Pequeage, now Athol, to Northfield, 23.
Wheat, 119.
Wildcats, thirty pounds bounty for killing them, 85.
Willard, Rev. William A. P., ordained pastor of first church, 160.
Williams, Samuel, representative to the Provincial Congress at Concord, 46; at Cam- bridge, at Watertown, 49.
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Wolves, voted to pay a bounty of twenty pounds per head on, 58 ; vote concerning, 64. Wood, for fuel, 152.
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