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Gore, was fatally injured while he was felling trees. The tree fell upon him, injuring him across the back so that his lower extremities were paralyzed. He lived until June 3d, when he died, aged forty years. He left a wife and six children. Mr. Noyes is our authority for saying that he was a very upright and industrious man, and set a good example for his family and others to follow. George Parsons, attorney-at-law of Bangor, formerly of this town, died this year. David Frost died March 12th, aged eighty-three, and Ebenezer Cobb, May 9th, aged seventy. In January of this year, Daniel Cummings of Gray was found dead in the road, where he had been traveling for wood. He was aged sixty, and the first white male child born in Gray. He was the father of Daniel, who came to this town and married a daughter of John Bird. The Observer announced that several farmers in town cut their hay this year without the use of ardent spirits, and found no trouble in procuring help. Israel Millett died May 18th, aged forty. Increase Robinson advertised this year that he had opened a public house in Norway Village between the hay scales and the Universalist Meeting- house.
1827
The valuation this year was one hundred and one thousand and thirty- seven dollars ; number of polls, two hundred and fifty-six; number of scholars, six hundred and ten; highway taxes, two thousand two hun- dred and four dollars and seventy-three cents ; money taxes, one thou- sand five hundred and two dollars and sixty-seven cents. Asa Barton moved here with his family either this year or last year subsequent to taking the valuation. Joel Parkhurst's name first appears this year ; he was engaged in farming and lumbering. Uriah Holt represented the town in the Legislature. This year in January, Anthony Bennett com- menced running a weekly stage to Bethel. Ebenezer Whitmarsh died June 5th, aged sixty-eight years. He was an early settler and the first collector of taxes. Mrs. Tryphena Winkley died aged sixty-eight. Lydia C., wife of Simon Noble and daughter of Doctor Moses Ayer of San- gerville, died in May. Nathan Noble, the early settler, was fatally injured by the fall of a tree, January 13th. Mrs. Ebenezer Whitmarsh died June 6th, aged seventy. The widow of Phineas Whitney died of
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old age, June 26th ; hers was the second dwelling-house burned in Nor- way. Other deaths were : Bravety Marston, fifteen. January 23d, Mrs. Saunders, forty-five, consumption ; 27th, Lucinda A. Shackley, eighteen. March 9th, child of J. Hall, one. July 29th, child of J. Hall, four months. August, Mr. Howard. September 3d, Mrs. French, sixty- eight, consumption ; 3d, child of H. Pingree. October Ist, child of D. Holt; 19th, child of M. Upton. November, child of William Par- sons Jr .; child of William Hor. December 28th, Mrs. Israel Pike, consumption.
1828
Paul Wentworth of Greenwood was the representative to the Legisla- ยท ture. The town valuation was one hundred and six thousand and ninety dollars ; polls, two hundred and fifty-eight; scholars, six hundred and thirty-seven ; road taxes including an extra, two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and twenty-one cents. Rev. Benjamin B. Murray was one of the new men on the tax list this year. He was pastor of the Universalist Church. Daniel Bullen came this year; also John Gurney and Amos Work, while fourteen old settlers' sons came of age. Among the deaths this year were the following: January 12th, child of Asa Barton, five ; child of Mrs. Cushman, eighteen months. March 26th, Mrs. Brown, thirty-seven. May 12th, Judith P. Tucker, four ; 23d, Olive Latham, twenty-two, consumption. June Ist, Harriet Foster, eight ; 4th, child of J. Hall; 21st, Mrs. Sally Shackley, forty-two, consumption. August 19th, child of Joseph York, four ; 23d, child of Joseph York, two. September 2d, Sally Greenleaf, twenty-two ; 4th, child of Captain H. Rust, fourteen months; 6th, child of D. Young, four. October 5th, child of J. Bennett, five, quinsy. Nov. 5th, Sarah Rust, four and three-fourths ; IIth, Henry Rust, three. December 28th, child of J. Bradbury.
1829
Uriah Holt was again elected to the Legislature. The valuation was one hundred and six thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars ; polls two hundred and seventy-one; scholars, six hundred; highway taxes, two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and seventeen cents ; money taxes, one thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars and
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eighty-four cents. William E. Goodenow was here this year, and bought into the Oxford Observer. He was, by trade, a printer, and long a resident in town. On the 7th of May, Solomon Millett, one of the early settlers, lost his barn by fire. He undertook to smoke a cow which was suffering, as was supposed, from hornail, and for that pur- pose carried a kettle into the barn with live coals in it. Leaving it for a moment, the fire extended beyond the kettle, and the barn was soon in flames. He lost four oxen, eight cows, four three-year-old steers, and two horses, beside hay and grain. On the 18th of April, Levi Frank, aged sixty-three, was killed by falling into a cellar while he was moving a barn for John Parsons Jr. The barn was in the Lee Grant where Jacob Tubbs first purchased, and was built by Mr. Tubbs. February Ist, the dwelling-house of Jonas Stevens of Greenwood was burned with its contents, the family barely escaping with their lives. In April of this year, Mr. Barton sold his interest in the Observer to William E. Goodenow and William P. Phelps. May 14th, Mrs. Ruth Cade died, aged nearly eighty-nine. She had resided in Boston over seventy years, and belonged to Rev. Dr. John Elliott's church. The Moral Society, Jere Mitchell, secretary, called a meeting in June, to organize a county temperance society. The meeting was held July Ist, and was addressed by the Rev. Thomas T. Stone. A county society, auxiliary to the American Temperance Society, was organized and the following officers chosen : Luther Cary of Turner, president; Samuel F. Brown of Buckfield, secretary ; and Jeremiah Mitchell of Norway, treasurer. Levi Whitman Esquire was chairman of the executive committee. Deaths this year were: January Ist, Mrs. Witt, wife of Benjamin Witt, fifty, consumption ; 17th, Hannah Gorham, twenty, consumption. March Ist, Mrs. Josiah Blanchard, forty-eight ; 8th, John Robinson, seventy, dropsy. April 18th, Levi Frank, sixty-three ; killed by falling into a cellar while moving a house. June 25th, Jacob French, forty, fever. July 10th, child of Nathaniel Millett, two. August 2d, child of Levi Shed. September 2d, Woodman Bartlett, eight ; 30th, child of Simon Stevens, sixteen months. October 20th, Mrs. John S. Shed, thirty, consumption. November 19th, Harriet Buck, twelve, fever; 25th, Mrs. S. Buck, forty-two, fever ; 28th, child of Mrs. Hall, four months. December, child of William Lovejoy.
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1830
Valuation one hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars ; polls two hundred and seventy-four ; scholars six hundred and twenty ; road taxes two thousand and eighty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents ; money taxes one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifteen cents. Ethel Stevens was taxed here this year. He was the son of Jonas Stevens and came here from Greenwood. Dr. Nathaniel Grant is also one of the new names this year. In August, John Parsons Jr. lost his barn by fire. It was filled with hay and was struck by lightning. His grain had not been harvested. He then lived on the Jacob Tubbs place. The village had an unusual growth this year, the three brick buildings in the then central part, having been put up this year ; other buildings of various kinds were put up to the number of twenty-seven, making the whole number thirty. In April, Benjamin Witts' house was destroyed. The fire occurred in the daytime and the cause was unknown. He lost most of his household stuff as the fire spread with great rapidity. There was no such thing as fire insurance in Norway, in those days. Mr. Stephen Curtis died April 2d, aged eighty years. The Oxford County Medical Temperance Society met in Norway, February 25th. Among those who participated were Dr. Nathaniel Grant and Jonathan S. Millett of Norway, Dr. Luther Cary of Turner, Dr. Jacob Tewksbury of Oxford, and Dr. Reuel Barrows of Fryeburg. Jerome Pollard died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 27th, aged twenty-four ; he was born in Vermont, but resided nine years in Norway Village. Phineas Whitney, the old soldier, died in June, aged eighty. Joseph Stevens, the first settler of Norway, died August 14th, aged seventy-seven. Thomas Hill died July 8th, aged eighty-four ; he was one of Burgoyne's soldiers, but finally settled in Paris and lived there many years. The store of Asa Barton was robbed of goods to the amount of five hundred dollars, on the night of August 12th. A man calling his name William Bacon was arrested in Weld, and all the goods consisting of silks, satins, and jewelry, were found upon him. John March advertises in September that he has erected and put in operation a clothing mill at the center of the town. Other deaths than those already mentioned were: January 2d, child of Hoyt Pingree, thirteen ;
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28th, child of John Witt, three. February 9th, David Smith, thirty. May Ist, Mrs. Jordan, ninety-four, old age. Stephen Curtis, palsy and old age. May 25th, Clarissa Small, twenty-four, consumption ; 27th, child of Rufus Bartlett Jr., six months. July 8th, Mr. Thomas Hill, eighty-four. Child of H. Pike. July 26th, George L. Smith, fifteen, consumption ; 30th, child of C. Cobb. September 30th, Mrs. Churchill, fifty, fever. October 15th, child of William Churchill ; 23d, child of Ira Johnson, fourteen months ; 15th, Mrs. M. Millett, thirty-eight.
1831
The valuation this year was one hundred nine thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars ; polls two hundred and sixty-three; scholars six hundred and fifty-one; highway tax one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and forty-seven cents ; money tax `two thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty-five cents. Thomas Roberts was among the tax-payers this year. He was from that part of Bethel which became Hanover, and was a student with Dr. Millett. He practiced a few years at North Norway, then moved to Rumford. David P. Hannaford was another of the new men. He came from New Gloucester, and went from this town to Woodstock, where he kept a tavern. The Fourth of July was observed this year with unusual enthusiasm. A procession was formed which marched to the meeting- house, where prayer was offered by Rev. Benjamin B. Murray, the Declaration of Independence read by David Noyes, and an oration delivered by Dr. J. S. Millett, all of Norway. David Noyes acted as toast-master, and appropriate patriotic toasts were offered and responded to. Deaths this year were: March 2d, Edmund Merrill, fifty-two, consumption ; IIth, child of B. B. Murray, one. May 18th, child of John Witt, three months. June 30th, Otis S. Noyes, son of D. Noyes, sixteen, consumption. July 5th, child of John M. Wilson, six. September 17th, child of M. Smith, one month. November 14th, child of J. Shackley, eighteen months ; 16th, Simeon Herring, twenty-three.
1832
Ichabod Bartlett was chosen representative this year. He served several years. The valuation reached the highest point yet, and stood
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at one hundred fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars. The number of polls was two hundred and seventy-five, and of scholars six hundred and fifty-seven ; road taxes including one for extra roads, two thousand and eighty-seven dollars and forty-four cents ; money tax -State two hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-six cents ; county one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy cents ; schools six hundred and seventy-five dollars; poor and town charges five hundred dollars ; overlay thirty-two dollars and sixty-two cents ; total, one thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighteen cents. William Clark Whitney came to town this year. He came from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Paris with the early settlers. He went from there to Hebron, and now came here. He was a capable business man, and accumulated the largest private estate in town. Lee Mixer also appears on the voting list this year. He probably came the year previous. He was the first treasurer of the Norway Savings Bank. The mortuary list was large this year, and embraced among others the following, many of them being cases of scarlet fever : March 20th, child of Charles Cleaves, five, scarlet fever ; 23d, child of same, seven, same; 28th, child of same, three, same. April 12th, child of Deacon B. Herring, four, same; child of Mr. Rich, five, same; child of same, three months, same. April 13th, son of Deacon B. Herring, seventeen, same; 17th, child of Benjamin Peabody Jr., three, same ; 20th, child of Mr. Rich, same; 21st, Henry Herring, thirteen, same; 23d, child of Robert Frost, four, same; child of Mr. Rich, three, same. May 6th, child of J. Holt, two, same ; 9th, child of same, four, same; IIth, Mrs. Barrows, twenty-seven, fever; 19th, child of Cyrus Cobb ; 24th, child of J. Andrews, one, canker-rash. June 11th, child of Mr. Tucker, two, lung fever; 19th, child of William C. Whitney, three, canker-rash ; 24th, child of General William Parsons, five, lung fever. July 14th, child of J. Hobbs, three months; 15th, William Totherly, forty-eight; 20th, child of James Hill, two, canker-rash; 25th, child of same, twelve, same. August 11th, child of Reuben Hill, one, same ; 16th, Mrs. Jere Henley, thirty-five, consumption. September 6th, child of B. Barrows, five, canker-rash; 16th, Algernon Cox, six, same. October 4th, child of Dr. J. S. Millett, one month ; 27th, Mrs. John Gurney, thirty-two. November 15th, Mrs. Frost, seventy-eight.
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1833
The valuation this year was one hundred and sixteen thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars ; number of polls, three hundred and two ; scholars, six hundred and fifty-seven. The highway tax was two thousand five hundred and ten dollars and twenty-six cents ; money tax, one thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-nine cents. The temperance cause had been discussed in Norway for some years, and culminated this year in the formation of a temperance society. This society, like others in the county, was organized under the auspices of the State Temperance Society, which held its first meeting in Augusta, in January of this year. Benjamin Tucker Jr. was the first secretary of the Norway Society, and Uriah Holt president. Two hundred and fifty persons joined the society during the year, over half of whom were females. Among the new men this year, were Micah Allen, a tailor, afterward of Paris, John Tuttle, father of Azel and Joseph, Ephraim Whitcomb, the blacksmith, and Hiram Stevens, son of Amos of Greenwood. The deaths were as follows : February 9th, Jonas Stevens, eighty-four, palsy ; 24th, Elizabeth Beal, twelve, typhus fever ; 27th, Mrs. Joseph Rounds, consumption. April, child of E. Merrill, six. July, child of A. Fuller, five. August 25th, David Stevens, two and one-half. September 28th, child of J. Holt. October 3d, child of Mr. Hale. December 16th, child of J. Hobbs, eight.
1834
The valuation was one hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars ; number of polls three hundred and nine ; number of scholars six hundred and eighty-seven ; number of voters three hun- dred and fifty-five. The temperance society continued to flourish, and a large number united with it. The pledge was not very stringent, or would not be so regarded in these days. It pledged the signer to abstain from the use of the stronger liquors as a beverage, leaving him free to drink ale, beer, cider, and wine. The road tax this year was two thousand seventeen dollars and seventy cents, and the money tax one thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-one cents. Titus O. Brown's name first appears on the tax list this year. In company with his son-in-law Purington, he kept the hotel. He had kept
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a tavern at Gray Corner and was well known to our people. He was an excellent landlord. He remained here until his death. He was the father of Hon. John B. Brown of Portland. The fore part of May, Pleaman Holt's barn was burned, including a quantity of hay. The fire broke out near midnight and the cause was never ascertained. Among the deaths this year were the following: January 5th, Mrs. Robbins, forty-eight, fever ; 18th, Mrs. Ephraim Briggs, dropsy ; 24th, Mrs. Twombly, fever. February Ist, child of Daniel Cummings, one ; 14th, Eliza Fuller, consumption ; 15th, wife of William Frost, forty-one, fever ; 18th, child of same, two weeks. March 7th, child of A. Fuller, one. May 17th, Charles L. Hobbs, eighteen ; 26th, Captain John Rust, seventy-two, erysipelas ; 29th, David Gorham, seventy-two, consumption. June 19th, child of Henry Pike, seven. September, Jacob Parsons, fifty-eight, consumption. November 22d, Mrs. Nancy Cummings.
1835
Valuation one hundred and twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-nine dollars ; number of ratable polls three hundred and, six; of scholars six hundred and sixty-three; road taxes two thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and eighteen cents; money taxes one thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Pinckney Burnham was here this year, but removed to Bethel, where he long carried on the carriage business. He came here from Gilead. Asa Thayer came this year from Paris and went into trade. The name of the gunsmith, Loren H. Wrisley, appears for the first time on the tax list of 1835 ; also that of David R. Holden. On the twenty-seventh of April, Mr. David Whitcomb, formerly of Waterford, was killed at Hall's Mills in Norway, by being crushed under mill logs which rolled upon him. His age was sixty-five, and he was the father of Ephraim Whitcomb, the blacksmith. Ephraim Whitcomb was a movable planet, although his orbit was not very extensive. He lived in Greenwood, Bethel, and Paris, and died at the latter place of hemorrhage of the lungs in 1851. Other deaths were as follows : February 4th, Hannah Holt, wife of Uriah Holt, forty-six, consumption ; 25th, Mrs. Riggs, nineteen, same. March 19th, wife of Silas Meriam, fifty-five, same; 28th, child of Benjamin Tucker, six months. June 9th, Mrs. Sally
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Smith, thirty-seven, consumption; 13th, child of Hiram Millett, ten months; Elmira Hor, eighteen, consumption; 28th, Mrs. Eunice Bartlett, thirty-eight, in a fit. July 11th, Mrs. Gammon, sixty-five, suddenly ; 25th, child of Elliott Smith, ten months; 28th, Mary Crock- ett, twenty, cancer; 27th, Mrs. Joseph Morse, twenty-five, same. November 12th, Mrs. Adaline A. Beal, twenty-eight, same ; child of William Brown, three months.
1836
The town valuation fell off a little from last year and stood at one hundred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and seven dollars. The number of polls was three hundred and six, and of scholars six hundred and sixty-four. The road taxes were two thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents, and money taxes one thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and twelve cents. Wm. W. Berry came to town and was mill-man for Colonel John Millett in the north part of the town. He married Sally, daughter of Frye Lovejoy, and deceased a few years ago, at the Village. The name of Addison A. Latham, the well-known stage man and railway conductor, first appears on the town books this year. James Yates came here from Greenwood, but returned there and then moved to Paris, where he died. Thirty names in all were added to the tax list this year, a majority of them being the sons of old settlers, who had become of age. On the fifth day of February, Nathan Foster, the first of the name in town, died very suddenly. He went to the barn to attend to his stock, and was found dead in the yard, where he had fallen, as was supposed, in a fit. He left a large family. Other deaths : January 16th, child of J. Rounds, nine months ; 17th, Louisa Cushman, twenty- seven, consumption. March 19th, Zachariah Weston, seventy-five, decline; 22d, child of Andrew Mills. April 4th, Joseph Bradbury, sixty-seven, erysipelas ; 22d, child of Asa Thayer, one month ; 29th, child of H. C. Reed, fifteen months. May 21st, Mrs. Alexander Mills, sixty, decline ; 31st, Martha Hobbs, eleven, disease of the heart. July 30th, Mrs. Mary Cushman, twenty-eight, dropsy. August Ist, Mrs. Anna French, forty, consumption ; 3d, Mrs. E. Hall, sixty, same; 5th, Mrs. John Case, forty-seven, cancer ; 11th, child of Thomas Pool.
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September 28th, wife of Thomas Chase, twenty-eight, consumption. October IIth, Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin Flint, seventy, same ; 2Ist, wife of Stephen Pingree senior, eighty-four, same ; 30th, Mary Jane Upton, twenty-eight, same. November IIth, Major Elijah Hall, seventy-two, cancer. December 20th, Mrs. Daniel Knight, seventy- four, consumption.
1837
A census of the town this year was taken to aid in the distribution of the money known in history as the surplus revenue. The inhabitants numbered one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. The first installment of this revenue, which was so much per capita, was loaned to parties in sums of twenty-five and fifty dollars ; the second, in sums of ten dollars. Subsequently, the Legislature passed an act giving towns the authority to distribute it among the inhabitants, and this was done in Norway. It amounted to two dollars for each person in town. Those who had large families of children, drew considerable sums. The valuation this year was one hundred twenty-three thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars ; number of polls three hundred and twenty-two, and of scholars seven hundred and twenty-three. The town raised in taxes, for roads three thousand and ninety-four dollars and seventeen cents; in money one thousand one hundred sixty-two dollars and sixty-six cents. Jonathan B. Smith was elected representa- tive. Bradley Foster, aged thirteen years, was accidentally drowned on the fourth of July. The day was celebrated in Greenwood, and young Foster, with others who were there, went into a pond to bathe and got beyond his depth. He was the son of Nathan Foster Jr. who died this year on the nineteenth of January. The name of Titus O. Brown Jr. first appears this year, also Erastus Hilborn. He was the son of Seth Hilborn, lived in Bethel and Greenwood after he left here, and died in Portland. Rev. Charles Soule became the pastor of the Congregationalist Church, and Rev. Reuben Milner of the Baptist Church, this year. Mr. Milner was a native of England. The mortuary record of 1837 embraced the following names : January 8th, Colonel Amos Town, suddenly ; 19th, Nathan Foster Jr., forty-five, fever. February 6th, child of M. Lassell, five; 14th, child of Asa Pool.
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March 10th, Sally, wife of David Noble, thirty ; 17th, Sally Crockett, thirty, dropsy. April 14th, Jane Bodwell, twenty-seven, consumption. June 2Ist, child of A. Fuller. July 4th, Bradley Foster, thirteen, drowned in mill pond in Greenwood ; 20th, child of Titus O. Brown Jr., two and one-half, canker-rash; 24th, John Brown, fourteen, same. August 14th, child of Henry Pike, eighteen months; 24th, Mr. Carr, a stranger, sixty, colic ; 25th, child of William Pingree, six ; 29th, Lorenzo D. Shackley, twenty-four, consumption. September 11th, child of M. P. Smith, twenty-three months. November 11th, Ann J. Wetherbee, thirteen ; 30th, child of S. Merrill, four. December 5th, S. Coffin, twenty-four, consumption.
1838
The town valuation this year fell back to one hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-four dollars ; number of polls three hundred and twenty-five, and of scholars seven hundred and twenty- three ; road tax two thousand and ninety-two dollars and forty-nine cents ; money tax two thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents. Elliott Smith was elected to the Legislature. The Oxford County Temperance Association, which had been organized a few years before, met this year on Paris Hill. There was a good attendance of Norway people, and Levi Whitman Esquire was called to preside. Politics ran very high in the State this year, the contest for governor being between John Fairfield and Edward Kent. The loss of the Norway town records by fire, prevents us from giving the vote of the town, but Edward Kent, the Whig candidate, was elected. Troubles about the settlement of our eastern boundary began to come up prominently this year. Lorenzo Hathaway from Paris came into town this year, and lived here until his death. Rev. Luke P. Rand also came and Stephen P. Rowe. Mr. Rowe was of Oxford, afterward went to Greenwood and then to Woodstock. His second wife was the daughter of Joseph Stevens, the first male child born in Norway. The town-house was built this year. The meetings for several years previous had been held in the Center meeting-house. There was the usual discussion about its location, but a committee located it on land of David Noyes who generously donated the use of the land so long as
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