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His son Seth, born August 8, 1820, died January 3, 1895, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Dexter Kingsbury (Mary Ann, born Septem- ber 29, 1818, married, April 9, 1840, Dexter, son of Luther and Al- mira (Morse) Kingsbury, died (1906). He married, August 24, 1863, Mary T. W., daughter of William S. and Elizabeth (Holbrook) Beal, born January 30, 1832, in Milton, died August 31, 1881, in Braintree. He taught in the academy at Wrentham with L. Allen Kingsbury; at Westboro, and for twenty years the grammar school. His brother, Joseph Haven, born July 14, 1831, in Charlestown, died July 2, 1890, in Wellesley. He married (1) April 7, 1864, Mrs. Sophia Abbie (Grant) Kingsbury, widow of Hamilton Kingsbury, born January 17, 1834, died September 4, 1874. He married (2) April 21, 1885, E. Marietta, daughter of Albert and Emily (Kingsbury) Smith, born September 11, 1837. He enlisted in Company C, 43d regiment Mas- sachusetts volunteers for nine months, and was discharged as sergeant July 30, 1863.
Maria Willet Howard (Mrs. Aubrey Hilliard) is the grand- daughter of Reuben Dewing (Elijah, Ebenezer, Henry, Andrew, An- drew) whose daughter Mary Jane was born February 9, 1840, and died in Braintree, October 31, 1874. She married, October 16, 1861, William H., son of William and Maria (Willet) Howard. Reuben Dewing was born February 12, 1805, in Bellingham, Mass., and died in 1858. He married Mary, daughter of William and Sally (Parker) Eames, born August 30, 1809, in Holliston, and died February, 1846.
His father, Elijah, was born July 11, 1761, in Needham, died September 10, 1844, in Medway. He married May 14, 1788, Betty Reed, who also died September 10, 1844. He was in the War of the Revolution, serving for short periods at various times.
FISKE, Joseph Emery (Emery, Moses, Moses, Moses, Na- thaniel, Nathan) born October 23, 1839, died February 22, 1909, was the son of Eunice Morse (Adam, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Daniel) and Emery Fiske. He married (1) Ellen Maria Ware (Dexter, Daniel, Josiah, Nathaniel) and (2) Abby Sawyer Hastings (Rufus, Stephen, John, Daniel, Samuel) of Sterling, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1861, served in the 43d Regiment as ser- geant and in the 2d Heavy Artillery as Captain. He was State Sen- ator in 1874-76 and, like his father, filled many town offices.
Ellen Ware Fiske, born January 14, 1871, daughter of Ellen Maria (Ware) and Joseph Emery Fiske, lives at the Fiske home- stead, built by her great-great-great-uncle Enoch (Moses, Nathaniel, Nathan) in 1804 for his son Isaiah. This house was bought in 1834 by Emery and Moses, the latter soon selling out his share to Emery. Enoch lived in the house built by himself on Oakland Street, now on the Catholic school grounds. The family of Fiskes resided in the Leg, Framingham, and Needham from a very early date, having come from Watertown where they had settled in 1634.
Isabella Howe (Fiske) Conant, born April 29, 1874, is the daughter of Abby (Hastings) and Joseph Emery Fiske, and the wife of Walter A. Conant.
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The FULLER families of the town trace their ancestry back to Ensign Thomas of Dedham, but do so in two distinct lines.
Charles E. Fuller, professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, electric light and water com- missioner of Wellesley and on many important committees, and one of the most prominent of the older families is the son of Edward G. (Augustus, Captain Jonathan, William, Robert, Jr., Rob- ert, John, Thomas) and Frances P. (Farnum) Fuller. Mr. Fuller married Addie, daughter of Charles P. and Martha J. (Fuller-Jona- than, Capt. Jonathan, William, Robert, Jr., Robert, John, Thomas) Withington.
G. Clinton Fuller and Ada (Fuller) Moulton are the children of Edwin (Alvin, William, Robert, Jr., Robert, John, Thomas) and Malvina Almira (Parker) Fuller.
Ada Fuller married William Moulton whose ancestry is traced through the Hunting side.
Frank Louis Fuller, Edward Ware Fuller, Ellen Mabel Fuller, Jeanette (widow of Charles Bixby) are the children of Hezekiah (Deacon Hezekiah, Solomon, Lt. Amos, Thomas, Ensign Thomas) and Emmeleine (Jackson-Ephraim, Samuel, Edward, Edward, Sebas, Edward) Fuller.
Deacon Hezekiah was one of the founders of the Grantville Church. He originally lived in the upper village, on the present Rollins place. Hezekiah, the younger, was a carpenter, and among the houses that he built were the Wellesley Hills Congregational parsonage and the Fuller house on the corner of Washington Street and Woodlawn Avenue. His wife belonged to the Jackson family of Newton, who owned much property on both sides of the river, the Fiske homestead coming through the Jackson heirs as well as the town farm in West Newton.
Mrs. Ellen E. (FLAGG,) Sawyer the daughter of William and Martha (Winch) Flagg and sister of Samuel Brown (William, Solo- mon, Solomon, Gershom, Benjamin, Thomas) Flagg, whose widow Caroline (Kingsbury, Luther, Joseph, Jesse, Josiah, Eleazar, Joseph and daughter Martha live on Cottage Street is the widow of R. K. Sawyer.
William, brother of Samuel, married Mary Beck and their son, H. Lasselle, married (1) Annie M., and their son, Howard, lives in Wellesley. Edward Flagg (Eben, Elisha, Solomon, Solomon, Gershom, Benjamin, Thomas) has a son, Walter, by his first wife, Emily Woodward.
"Uncle Solomon," the son of the second Solomon, has no de- scendants in town, but he was the best known of the family. His mother was Esther Brown and his grandfather, Solomon (who mar- ried Lydia Ware) lived at first in a small house off Dover Street. Later he built the "Eben Flagg" house on Central Street and an- other long, low one, very similar to it, about where the Episcopal Rectory now stands. Later he erected the house at the corner of Washington and Church Streets, where he kept a tavern.
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"Uncle Solomon" was town clerk for many years in the old town of Needham and when Wellesley was set off he served in the same capacity from 1881-1888. His handwriting was unusually legible and his books were marvels of neatness. He was a tenor singer of considerable prominence and led the choir of the Welles- ley Congregational Church for many years. Tradition tells that a stranger came into the church one morning who also possessed a leading tenor voice. To the great amusement of the congregation the morning hymns soon became a contest of strength and endur- ance between Mr. Flagg and the stranger, with honors finally for the home town.
Miss Abbie HUNTING of Cottage Street is the only one of the family name now living in the town. Her father, Israel (Daniel, Stephen, John, John) married Rhoda Dewing.
Louisa, a sister of Miss Hunting, married James Moulton, and their sons are James Francis, who married Mary Boyd, and Willard, who married Ada, daughter of Edwin Fuller.
The ancestor, Elder John of the Dedham Church, owned land in the Hundreds in the 1699 grant. An old Hunting house lived in by Charles McIntosh, and now remodelled by Mr. Sprague, may have been on the extreme southeast boundary of the old grant.
The Welles family, residents of the town as early as 1763, and large land owners always, married into the HUNNEWELL family of Watertown, and thus transferred name and land titles to that family. Isabella Pratt, daughter of John (Arnold, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas) and Abigail (Welles-Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Samuel, Thomas) Welles married Horatio Hollis, son of Dr. Walter (Richard, Charles, Charles, Richard, Roger) and Susanna (Cooke) Hunnewell.
Their descendants are:
(A) Hollis married Louisa Bronson and their children are: Hollis, Horatio and Charlotte Bronson. Hollis married (1) Maud S. Jaffray and their children are Louisa B. and Maud J. He mar- ried (2) Mary (1) (Kemp) (Neilson) and their child is Hollis. Charlotte married Victor Sorchan and their child is Louisa B. (B) Francis Welles married (1) Margaret L. Fassitt and (2) Gertrude C. Sturgis.
(C) John Welles married Pauline E. Perche and had John A. and Francis A. (unmarried). John A. married (1) Martha Stolz and had John W. W. and Albert A. F. and (2) Bertha Schmitt and had Harry H.
(D) Susan died in infancy
(E) Walter married Jane A. Peele, and their children are: Mary P., Sarah P., who died in infancy, Walter Jr., Francis Welles, Willard P., who died at eighteen, Louisa and Arnold Welles. Mary P. married Sydney M. Williams, and their children are: Mary P., Sydney M., Jane P. and Richard M. Walter Jr., married Minna C. Lyman, and their child is Caroline A.
(F) Arthur married Jane Hubbard Boit and their children are:
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Isabella, Jane Boit, Julia Overing and Margaret Fassitt. Isa- bella married (1) Herbert M. Harriman and (2) James S. Barclay. Margaret married George Baty Blake, and their children are: Mar- garet and Julia O.
(G) Isabella Pratt married Robert Gould and their children are: Susan Welles, Hollis H., Theodore L. and Arthur H. Susan married John C. Lee, and their children are: Isabella, Lucy H. and Pauline Agassiz; Hollis married Anna F. Driscoll; Theodore mar- ried Lillian A Donahue; Arthur married Acrata von Schrader.
(H) Jane Welles married Francis William Sargent and their children are: Jane Welles, Francis Williams, Alice, who died young, Henry Jackson, Daniel, Margaret Williams and Ruth who died young. Jane married Dr. David Cheever, and their children are: David, Francis and Charles E. Francis W. married Margery Lee and their child is Francis W.
(I) Henry Sargent married Mary Bowditch Whitney and their children are: Christiana, Henry ,S., who died in infancy, Gertrude and Mary. Christiana married Nelson S. Bartlett, Jr., and their children are: Nelson S. Bartlett 3rd and Christiana.
The KINGSBURY family have long been prominent in town affairs and there is still a large family connection. Of the four- teen children of Luther (Joseph, Jesse, Josiah, Eleazar, Joseph) and Almira (Morse, Joseph, David, Captain Joseph, Samuel) Kings- bury, eleven grew up and married. Allen married (1) in 1848 Mary Jane Dix and (2) in 1872 Charlotte Sawyer daughter of Otis Sawyer. Both of his wives were school teachers in the village as well as himself. He was on the school board for fourteen years and was the first to advocate and insist on music being taught in the schools. He was the holder of much real estate in the vil- lage. His children are Florence who married L. M. Grant, and Frank A., Herbert and Mowry, the three latter not living in town.
Lewis married Eliza Cloudman. Their son Harry is chief of police of the town. He married Katherine Carey and they have three children: Luther, John and Katherine. Lewis' widow and daughter Mary live on Forest Street. The other daughter Ella is the widow of Joseph E. Peabody a town official for many years and son of Ezekiel Peabody, formerly town warden. Her children are Harry L., Marion and Estelle who is the wife of Theodore Parker of Salt Lake City.
Dexter married Mary Ann Dewing (Seth Andrew) and their children are: Fred H., Francis M. the widow of Lucius and Emma O. Fred married Edith Nelson who is not living. He was town clerk for a great many years. He lives with his daughter Eliza- beth on Wellesley Avenue. Hamilton married Sophia Grant and their family does not live in town.
Of the daughters Almira married Richard Parker and their daughter Nellie lives on Wellesley Avenue, and son Walter who married Katherine Stoker lives on Clifford Street. Emily mar- ried Albert Smith and their daughter Marietta is the second wife
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and widow of Joseph H. Dewing. Harriet married T. Willis Par- menter, Sophronia married Harvey Brown, Marian married George Russell, Maria married William L. Clarke (whose family once owned the property now belonging to the Academy of the Assump- tion) and their daughter Anna M. lives on Wellesley Avenue. Car- oline married Samuel Flagg and with her daughter Martha lives on Cottage Street.
The house on the lower corner of Kingsbury and Washing- ton Streets was a very old Kingsbury home and was on the original "Hundreds" grant of 1699, and built by Jesse Kingsbury. The "Brick end" house now owned by the Andrews family was the Luther Kingsbury home where perhaps all of his children were born with the exception of Dexter who was born in a house where the Wellesley Hills station now is.
Another branch of the Kingsbury family, extinct as far as is known were the children of Joseph and Nancy (Bacon) Kings- bury, first cousins of Luther's family, Luther and Joseph being brothers. These children were William, Nancy, Joseph, Charles and Charlotte. The two latter are remembered as living in the Kingsbury house on Linden Street, now owned by E. H. Fay.
Mrs. Charles E. Shattuck (Emily Kingsbury) was the daugh- ter of Annie Bliss (Holmes) and Leonard Kingsbury (Leonard Jonathan, Caleb, Josiah, Eleazar, Joseph), who was the owner of the town farm and adjacent land.
On Dover Street live Charles, Rebecca and Eliza, children of Eliza (Reynolds) and William Deming Kingsbury (Moses, Moses, Timothy, Timothy, Joseph). These Kingsburys originally came from the east side, but their grandmother, Lucy Deming, wife of Moses Kingsbury, was the daughter of Esther (daughter of the Rev. Oliver Peabody, the first minister settled over the Natick Indians) and William Deming. Another daughter, Rebecca, married Thomas Noyes, the first minister of the West Needham parish. The two brothers, Dr. William and Jonathan, owned much of what is now Wellesley Square on both sides of Washington Street as far as Kingsbury Street and back to the Fuller land on Wellesley Avenue. The Jonathan Deming house was back of the lilacs where the old cellar hole is on the library grounds, and was lived in later by the minister and his wife, the latter being the niece of this Mr. Deming. William Deming lived in the house opposite, now destroyed, and replaced by the Mansard roofed dwelling, once owned by Professor A. H. Buck, now by Boston University.
An Isaac Deming also owned land on Dover Street where Dr. E. H. Wiswall is now located.
Edward and William LYON who own and live on the Lyon farm opposite the present Country Club are sons of William, who with his brother Lemuel owned land on Walnut Street for a great many years. Their grandfather Lemuel lived in Milton and traces throughi Jacob to Benjamin who lived in Milton, the original home of the- Lyons in this part of the country.
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Arnold LIVERMORE and Mrs. Edward W. Perkins (Faith Per- kins) and their children are the descendants of the Livermore, Ar- nold, Hoogs and Shaw families. Their father, Oliver C. Livermore, was a captain in the Civil War and had an especially brave record. He served as selectman and in various other civic capacities. His father Elisha (Elisha, Amos, Oliver, Daniel, Samuel, John) married Faith Hoogs, the daughter of George W. (William) and Faithful (Seaverns) Hoogs. Faithful Seaverns was the seventh child of Joseph (Samuel, Samuel, Samuel) and Elizabeth (Stratton) Seaverns.
Captain Livermore married Georgiana SHAW, the daughter of George and Sarah (Arnold) Shaw. In Mrs. Livermore's father's generation there were thirteen brothers and sisters, children of Caleb (Samuel, Joseph, Caleb, Roger) and Betsy (Brown) Shaw. "Uncle" James and "Uncle" John Shaw were two of the brothers who were prominent village characters in the past generation, inter- ested in all civic advancement and improvement, John Shaw giving the bell and clock to the school which bears the Shaw name.
Mrs. George Shaw's family, the Arnolds, held considerable prop- erty in the town, the Southwick place once belonging to Joseph Arnold, and the Gamaliel Bradford place to Ambrose Arnold.
Lucy Seaward married (1) John Shaw, son of Sarah (Arnold) and George Shaw, twin brother of Mrs. Oliver Livermore, and (2) Herbert Kingsbury, son of L. Allen and Jane (Dix) Kingsbury. Mrs. Joshua Baker is the daughter of the first marriage.
The MORSE family, prominent for many years in Natick and the "Leg" is represented in this town principally by the Hathaway and Lovewell families.
Rebecca Morse (Daniel, Henry, Daniel, Henry, Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, Samuel) born in 1824, married Harrison Hathaway in 1848 and lived at the corner of Central and Weston Road until her death in 1916. Her son, Eugene Hathaway makes his home in Porto Rico.
Mrs. Hathaway's sister Martha married C. B. Lovewell in 1847. Their daughters were Mrs. Thomas Ferguson (Mary Lovewell) and Mrs. Herbert A. Joslin (Nora Lovewell) who lives on Washington Street. The sons are Charles Herbert and S. H.
The third generation is represented by Jeanette and Ellen Fer- guson, Walter Lovewell.
The Lovewell family came from Weston and at one time owned much of the property around Cottage Street, formerly known as Lovewell Place.
Mrs. L. Allen Kingsbury (Charlotte SAWYER) and Mrs. E. H. Stanwood were the daughters of Charlotte (Boynton) and Otis Saw- yer of Foxboro. Their brother, Mowry, lives in New Jersey, and recently (1915) gave land on Forest Street to the town, known as Sawyer Park.
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The Sawyer family owned and lived on the property on Forest Street now owned by the Convalescent Home, once known as the Metcalf farm.
The STEVENS family first settled here when Sibell Gay, daugh- ter of Jeremiah, married, October 18, 1759, Ephraim Stevens of Holden. Through her the old "school lot," previously referred to, of three hundred acres bought by her grandfather Jonathan Gay of Dedham came into the Stevens family, who still own much of it. Tradition says that the Stevens also owned considerable land in Sudbury at even an earlier period.
Francis H. Stevens, one of the substantial citizens of the town, is the son of Augustus (Timothy, Ephraim, Ephraim, Cyprian, Cyprian, Thomas, Col. Thomas) and Ann Eliza (Fuller) Stevens. Augustus held town offices for a great many years and was super- intendent of streets when the town was divided. Other children by his first wife are Willis who lives in the South, and Anna, who married Charles H. Palmer. His second wife and widow was Mary Evans and is the mother of Gertrude, Arthur and Orrin Stevens. They live on Washington Street, Wellesley. Francis H. Stevens mar- ried Frances I. Alden and their daughter Susie Mae is the wife of Malcolm G. Wight.
Abel Stevens and his sisters Caroline (widow of Chester H. Felch) and Susan live on the homestead on Worcester Street, in- herited from their father Franklin (Captain Abel, Ephraim, Ephraim, Cyprian, Cyprian, Thomas, Col. Thomas).
Frankline H. Stevens, nephew of Abel and son of the late Herbert J., married Lydia Day of Boston. They have two children and live in Wellesley Hills. Two sisters are married and live out of town.
George Dexter WARE, born in Needham, January 7, 1833, died November 7, 1916, was the son of Mary Colburn (Smith-George, Aaron, Jonathan, John, Christopher) and Dexter Ware (Daniel, Joshua, Nathaniel, Robert). Dexter was born in Needham, October 27, 1797, and died October 20, 1851. He was killed by the cars in West Needham. He was one of the founders of the Grantville church. His father Daniel was born May 19, 1755, and died October 20, 1819. He served as orderly sergeant in the Revolutionary ariny for two terms of three months each. He married, September 16, 1784, Abigail Newell, daughter of Ebenezer (Josiah, Isaac, Abraham) and Elizabeth (Allen) Newell, born in Dover, November 24, 1764, died April 20, 1849. His father Josiah was born in Wrentham, March 21, 1707, and died in Needham, July 3, 1798, having moved there soon after he was twenty-one. He married four times, but this line is traced back to his marriage with Dorothy, daughter of Andrew (Andrew, Andrew) and Abigail (Fisher) Dewing, born May 31, 1721, and died January 26, 1756. His father, Nathaniel Ware, was the second son of the "immigrant" and was born in Dedham, October 12, 1670. He married, in Wrentham, October 12, 1696, Mary "Wheelak." Robert came to Massachusetts before the autumn of
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1642, as he is found in the Dedham records November 25, 1642. The "Great" or Dedham Island probably became his house lot. Among other grants of land made to him in this vicinity were on Rosemary Meadow Brook, on the Great Plain, and near Maugus Hill, which latter he left to his son Ephraim. His first wife and the mother of his children was Margaret Hunting, daughter of John Hunting, first ruling elder of the Dedham church, and of his wife, Esther Seaborne, whom he married March 24, 1645.
Ware descendants living in Wellesley are Caroline Ware (Batchelder) daughter of Rebecca Ann (Ware, Dexter, Daniel, Josiah, Nathaniel, Robert) and Henry Batchelder (John, John, Ben- jamin, Thomas, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Stephen) and widow of C. C. Henry; and Ellen Ware Fiske, daughter of Ellen Maria (Ware- Dexter, Daniel, Josiah, Nathaniel, Robert) and Joseph E. Fiske.
Mrs. George White (Frances Mary Edwena NOYES) is the widow of Judge White of the Probate Court at Dedham, who died in 1899, and is the daughter of Clarissa (Slack-Benjamin, John, Benjamin, William) and Edward (Thomas, Thomas, Daniel, Joseph) Noyes. Edward Noyes' father was Thomas the first minister of the West precinct, and his mother was Rebecca the daughter of Dr. William and Esther (Peabody) Deming. On her mother's side Mrs. White's grandmother was Sarah Kingsbury of Needham.
Mrs. White's children are Mary Hawthorne, wife of Clarence A. Bunker, George Rantoul who married Irma M. Clapp and Edward Noyes who married Ruth Kellogg. Mrs. Bunker's children are Ray- mond, Lawrence and Miriam. Edward's son is Sidney.
SOCIAL LIFE AT WELLESLEY
(A Paper read at the Wellesley Club, Dec. 16, 1899.)
The subject assigned to me for this evening naturally includes about all there is of interest in the history and present conditions in the town, as it is impossible to discuss the social and political condition of the community without including religious, educational and material conditions likewise. This evidently is not intended for me to do and I must be content to call attention in a brief man- ner to a few incidental items of the social and political conditions in the town in the past and present.
The town was till quite lately a part of Needham, and originally of Dedham, whose first settlers were English, coming to Dedham after a brief stay in Watertown. They, like many settlers in New England towns, were no doubt impatient of control by others, and desired their own form of government.
The early economic details in the settlement of the territory, comprising our town, would afford a text for George, or Bellamy, or Adams Smith, or the German or French economists, but I will not take farther time than to say that lands were divided by the first settlers of Dedham from whom all the old families of our town are
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descended, first, so that each should have a house lot of twelve acres (the house not necessarily upon it), second, certain amount of pas- ture rights (not ownership), and third, certain interest in arable land and later on in woodland. These interests were apportioned equally as regards the house lot, the more cows a man owned the more pasture he had, the more servants he employed the more acres he had to till. The abler man he was (the general capacity was taken into account in the division) the more fortunate in feudal ownership.
In passing I think I may refer to the division of woodland as of local interest. In 1685 the land lying between the Weston line and the Sherburne Road, so called (i. e. the old Indian trail from Nonantum to Natick, now Walnut, Washingon, Linden, Wash- ington again with some variations in Wellesley village), was divided by parallel lines into strips of one hundred acres each, and assigned to the Proprietors of Dedham, and called the "Hun- dreds Divident." This abbreviated to "The Hundreds" is the origin of the now popular name of a most attractive residential part of the town.
With these privileges of ownership and occupation came also duties each freeman owed to the community. He was obliged to live within the radius of a certain center, not over half a mile away, for his own and the general protection. He was obliged to clean a certain amount of land each year so that there might be less pro- tection afforded to noxious animals, and more arable land for cul- tivation and pasture; to clear the streams and rivers of brush, so that there might be less overflow; to assist in building roads and bridges, and to be prepared for military duties. Many matters of public concern, which are now done by delegated authority, and paid for out of the public funds raised by taxation, were, in our early history, and indeed within the memory of many now living, done by the individual or by an especially assigned tax. The road tax was a general thing worked out by the inhabitants even within my memory, and even our old ministers appeared in working clothes doing a good and effective day's work. An unwritten law required cooperation in all work of importance of all the neighborhood, as for instance in a "raising" everybody turned out, and the house, barn or church, with their heavy timbers, went up in a day, and the jollification of the working together, the provisions, the liquors, per- haps paid for the time given. If a bridge was built and heavy stones were hauled the ox teams turned out by the score, and there was great rivalry to see who could make the best display. The fact, too, that all were actively enrolled in the militia and had training days and muster, brought people into close contact and acquaintance. The semi-business gatherings, with the Sunday meetings which all attended, when in the intermission a great deal of visiting was done, a great deal of news exchanged, a great deal of sympathy shown. afforded a relief to what otherwise would have been unendurable hardship and unrelenting labor.
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