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Oxford counties, with fair success. In the fall his brother, Joseph, who had established a store at West Minot in 1842, offered him a partnership, which he accepted, and formed the firm of J. & J. A. Bucknam. They continued in trade in a small way until 1847, when they purchased the store of Deacon Joseph Hall and Ezra Mitchell at Mechanic Falls, and began trade on the site of the brick store of J. A. Bucknam & Co. They commenced, in 1843, the manufacture of men's cowhide boots and women's kid shoes at West Minot, which was continued until 1850 at Mechanic Falls. The store at West Minot was conducted until 1848. Business was then brisk at Mechanic Falls. The railroad had arrived, making it a centre of trade for a large section, and the Bucknams rented the hotel (now Hawkes & Whitney's store) and ran that two years as well as their store and shoe factory. When the railroad was opened further a financial depression occurred at the Falls. This caused Joseph to sell out in 1852 to J. A., who abandoned the shoe business and added a custom-clothing department to his store. This was in charge of Augustus Golderman, an excellent tailor, and an honest and faithful workman, who conducted it until 1863, when he raised a company for the Union army. In 1854 the making of sales work was commenced, to give employment to people that they might have means to purchase goods. Only two men were employed at first in the shop, and the work was sent out to families. All sewing was done by hand, as there were no machines. The business increased rapidly, and even the panic year of 1857 was a very prosperous one. In 1882 it was removed from the small building where it was established to the building now occupied, where 80 hands are employed in preparing the work to go to Boston, and 800 people in a circle of 50 miles diameter are on its pay-roll. In 1862 Mr Bucknam formed the firm of J. A. Bucknam & Cobb, by admitting Francis H. Cobb as a partner. Two years later H. L. Jones became a partner, and the firm name became Bucknam, Cobb & Co. In 1869 Mr Bucknam purchased Cobb's interest, and reorganized the firm by admitting Charles H. Dwinal, Joseph and William B. Bucknam as members, changing the title to J. A. Bucknam & Co. Joseph Bucknam died in August, 1870, and in 1871 E. Adrian Gammon, who had been a clerk since April 1, 1864, purchased Mr Jones's interest. In 1879 Mr Bucknam and Mr Gammon bought out the other partners and have since conducted the business. The brick store was built in 1866, and occupied in February, 1867; the grocery department was added in 1869, and the annual business amounts to $100,000. In 1868 Mr Bucknam purchased the privilege at Page's Mills, and improved it by grist and saw-mills, and a box and trunk factory. Here 20 to 30 men were employed until 1879. The power has been unused for 10 years.
Mr Bucknam was originally a Democrat, but when that party divided on a local issue of temperance he voted the temperance ticket for governor, and became a Republican when that party was formed, and now classes himself as
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an independent Republican. He has been an able local worker in politics, a frequent delegate to conventions, and town treasurer and representative. He has ever been a pronounced temperance man and a member of all active temperance organizations. He has been a Free Mason since 1858, and an Odd Fellow since 1876. Although educated in the Baptist faith, he is an ardent Universalist, believing "that good, at last, will come to all," and has given time and means freely to the advancement of that faith. He is frequently a delegate to state and national Universalist conventions, and is a trustee of the Universalist State Convention. He married Nancy Judson Glover, who died May 19, 1886. (She was born in Hebron and was a descendant in the seventh generation from George Barrows, whose posterity has done so much in building and sustaining Hebron Academy.) They had three sons, Judson J., Edward H. Chapin (died August 13, 1891), and Charles W. The sur- viving sons are residents of Mechanic Falls. Mr Bucknam occupies a high position in the esteem of the people, and has been a leader in building up and sustaining the march of improvement in his section. We can best close this sketch by giving these extracts from Mr Bucknam's diary and his accompanying remarks.
March 21, 1846. I am twenty-five years old to-day! A quarter of a century !! One-half of a middle- aged man's life has passed away, and what have I accomplished ? Have I done any good ? Can any one say that I have benefited him or her ? Have I made any advance toward the end for which I was created ? I dare not venture an answer. But whether I have or no, I am determined that I will try, henceforth. "Will try," shall be my motto. Feb. 9, 1849. This writing witnesseth that I have this day resolved that the habit of smoking tobacco is injurious to both body and mind, therefore will use no more, unless it is made to appear for my benefit. (It never so appeared.) In 1851 I joined the Temperance Watchman Club and pledged myself to total abstinence from all intoxicants. Jan. 1, 1853, I wrote in my diary, I promise to bestow one-tenth of my actual gain, the ensuing year, on benevolent objects. I have renewed this from year to year to the present time. I have faithfully kept all these pledges and firmly believe that whatever of success has attended my life, that these have largely contributed to it.
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DURHAM.
CHAPTER XLVII.
Derivation of Name - Boundaries - Surface and Soil - Royalsborough - First Planta- tion Meeting-Extracts from Plantation Records - Plantation Committees - Incorporation of Durham -First Town Meeting- Extracts from Town Records-War of 1812 - Rebellion - Civil List.
D URHAM probably takes its name from the county of that name in England, once the residence of the Royall family. It lies in the southern part of the county, is bounded by Lisbon on the north, Topsham and Brunswick on the east, Pownal on the south, and Auburn and New Gloucester on the west. It has an area of about 18,000 acres, and comprises the territory of the early settled Plantation of Royalsborough, a part of the Pejepscot Purchase. The surface is undulating, with a slope in the north towards the river. The soil in the most part is well adapted to farming. The extreme southern and a part of the northern portion is measurably rocky. The central part is generally sandy, while in all parts are intervals well adapted to the production of hay. In the southern and western portion are large peat bogs. In 1766 the Pejepscot proprietors voted that lands be laid out and cleared in the Planta- tion of Royalsborough and a log house be built to accommodate settlers. In 1768 they laid out a "New Township to be called Royalsborough." March 3, 1768, Jonathan Bagley, Belcher Noyes, and Moses Little were chosen to bring forward the settlement and procure settlers. The plantation took its name from Colonel Isaac Royall, one of the proprietors.1 The early settlers needed
nerve and endurance. As the town was an unbroken forest, they suffered many privations and hardships. The first year provisions were so scarce that though they had money they were unable to purchase food, and berries formed a large portion of their living. If any chanced to get provisions by the chase or otherwise, they would blow a horn to call their distant neighbors and share with them. The nearest mill was at North Yarmouth. When corn was procurable it was taken in a bag upon the shoulders to be ground, the path
1 He emigrated to America from England in 1738, with his parents, to Medford, Mass. Colonel Royall owned shares in the Pejepscot purchase, amounting to about 3,000 acres in the south west part of Durham. He inherited a large estate in Medford. He gave 2,000 acres of land to Harvard College in order to found a professorship of law. In 1815 the professorship was established with Hon. Isaac Parker as the first "Royall Professor of Law." For 22 years he was a member of the Governor's Council in Massachusetts. Colonel Royall was an officer of the Crown, and was held in great esteem in Medford. In 1776 he returned to England, where he died in 1781.
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being kept by marked trees. Capt. O. Israel Bagley subsequently put up a wind-mill for grinding corn on the hill back of where Charles Bliss lives, which was of great advantage to the people.
The First Plantation Meeting was held February 24, 1774, "in order to Consult upon some method for Entring into some order in said Town." Quite a settlement occupied this territory, and Brunswick claimed control and collected taxes. Major Charles Gerrish came to Portland in 1748 and with his wife, Mary, and children, William, Charles, and Nathaniel, is said to have settled in Royalsborough in 1752. Whether he was the sole settler until after the French and Indian War is now unknown. Judah Chandler in 1773 had built a saw-mill and house and had a clearing. In 1774 and 1775 the inhabitants were Capt. Charles, William and Nathaniel Gerrish, Josiah Day, Josiah Dunn, Charles Hill, Thomas Coffin, O. Israel Bagley, John Cushing, John Dane or Dean, Ezekiel Jones, John Getchell, Nathan Lewis, Samuel York. Ichabod Frost, Samuel Clough, Hugh Getchell, Joshua Babb, Edmond Lane, Michael Dyer, John Randall, Stephen Hart, Benjamin Vining, Joshua Strout, Stephen Chase, Baltherder Ring, and perhaps others. So it is evident that " some order" should be arranged for. The "Plantation record" covers from 1774 to 1786. At the first meeting Josiah Dunn was chosen moderator, Charles Hill, Esq., clerk, Charles Hill, Esq., and Mr Thomas Coffin " wardeans," O. Israel Bagley, William Gerrish, and Stephen Chase "a Committy for viewing a ministerial lot," etc. February 15, 1775, action was taken concerning a meeting-house lot and grave-yard. September 15, 1777, Josiah Dunn, Benjamin Vining, Ebenezer Robbins, and Charles Hill were chosen as a committee of correspondence, inspection and safety, and empowered to defend the plantation against usurpations of Brunswick. Nine good men served the plantation in the Revolution - Isaac Davis, Isaac Turner, Charles and Nathaniel Gerrish, John Vining, Eben Woodbury, John McIntosh, Elisha Lincoln, Nathan Lewis,1 and it was voted " to Purch some Corn to Suply the women whose Husbands are gon in the army for a sertain prise." In January, 1778, "voted to ask the General Conrt to take off the taxes laid by Brunswick in 1776 and 1777. Benjamin Vining was chosen agent and £16 L. M. voted for his expenses. A "legal town meeting " was held March 30, 1778, and it was voted to pay Charles Hill and Benjamin Vining for about nine acres of land that they purchased of Mr John Deans for burying-yard and meeting-house lot. July 29 voted "to pay those men that provide clothing for the soldiers that are gone in Continental army what cost they are at if the Court will not pay for them," also to raise £150 for town charges. In November, 1779, £600 was voted to defray town charges, £70 to Benjamin Vining for land for meeting-house, etc. It was further voted "to pay each soldier that went to Penobscot £75 L. M.,
1 Voted in 1782 " to pay Nathan Lewis the Bounty agreed on." He is " to return himself to Boston upon the risque of the town."
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to set up a meeting house the same bigness of Brunswick meeting-house by July 1st." March 16, 1780, voted to have school this year and to move the school according to polls; also to raise £600 for town expenses. January 16, 1781, "voted to give the two men that shall goe in Continental army $20 bounty and $10 wages a month." 1782, November 29, voted to return Samuel Wage as a soldier and contest Amesbury's claims for him. Elijah Douglass, John Getchell, and Hugh Getchell were chosen to lay out roads wherever needed in the eastern part, and William Megray, William Gerrish, and Joseph Davis to lay out roads wherever necessary for the town. $100 silver was to be paid for school, and a teacher to be hired, and a school-house built in the eastern part of the town. In 1783 voted to have three months' preaching, and "that all the sleds in this town shall Bee foer feet Beten Jyents, and aney man Be found or sleding with a slead of Leas weadth than that a Bove meonech shall Be Liable to fine of twenty shillings fine." 1784, voted not to hire any preacher, to have school three months " this winter," not to be incorporated. In 1785, voted to have three months' preaching. In 1786 it was again voted " not to be incorporated." "In the Plantation of Royallsborough" committees were chosen instead of selectmen : 1774, O. Israel Bagley, William Gerrish, Stephen Chase. 1778, O. Israel Bagley, Charles Hill, William Gerrish. 1779, O. Israel Bagley, Jonathan Armstrong, Joshua Strout. 1780, Jonathan Arm- strong, Joshua Strout, Nathaniel Gerrish. 1781, O. Israel Bagley, Ebenezer Newell, John Crehill. 1782, O. Israel Bagley, Josiah Day, Ebenezer Newell. 1783, Joseph Davis, John Cushing, Benjamin Vining. 1784, John Cushing, Benjamin Vining, Josiah Day. 1785, John Cushing, Caleb Estes, Benjamin Vining. 1786, Meather Duren, John Cushing, Hugh Getchell. From 1774 to 1777, Charles Hill was clerk; Benjamin Vining from 1778 to 1786.
A petition for incorporation as Sharon, or, if there was any other town by that name, Bristol, signed by John Cushing, Israel Bagley, Ebenezer Newell, Joshua Strout, and Jonathan Currier, was sent to the General Court, February 4, 1788, and the town of Durham was incorporated February 17, 1789, the 69th town, with a population of abont 700. The first town-meeting was held March 17, 1789 Samuel Merrill was chosen moderator; Ebenezer Newell, clerk; John Cushing, Nathaniel Gerrish, and Thomas Fisher, selectmen. April 6 voted to build a pound 30 feet square inside and eight feet high. Voted to raise £45 for support of schools, £18 for the support of the Gospel, and £12 for other town charges. July 20 £100 voted for repair of highways the present year. 1790, March 22, voted to build five school-houses, one on Charles Gerrish's land, one on Aaron Osgood's land, one on the county road near the road leading to Michah Dyer's, one near the Friends' meeting-house, and one on Hugh Getchell's land. April 5 £52 raised for schooling, £18 for "to hier the Gospel preached," and £15 for other town charges. 1791, May 4, voted, 21 to 0, that the District of Maine he set off into a separate state. 1792, April 2, £30 raised for support of schools. 1794, August 14, voted £12.6 to purchase a stock of warlike stores. August 28 voted to pay the soldiers under Capt. Bagley $10 per month if called into service. 1795, May 6, £60 raised for schooling, £130 for repairing highways. 1808, April 4, John Collins, Isaac Davis, and JJoseph Knight were appointed to run the town line. August 29 voted to concur with Boston and other towns in a petition to the President of the United States for the suspension of the embargo. November 7 voted to purchase a town stock of powder, balls, flints, and camp kettles, and $128.25 were voted for that purpose. 1809, February 6, voted to request the General Court to take measures for a repeal of the several embargo laws. Jonathan Strout, John Collins, Israel Currier, John Converse, Josiah Burnham, Joshua Miller, Meshach Purinton, George Gerrish, Jr,
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and William Newell were appointed a committee of safety to correspond with committees from other towns. 1811, November 14, $120 was voted to buy a town stock of ammunition and to build a powder-house.
War of 1812. - There were eight volunteers from Durham -Captain Nathaniel Bragdon, William Roak, William Weeks, Theophilus Knight, Ezekiel McIntosh, Asa Lambert, John Nason, Jarvis Beal. The Durham militia was called to Bath and was on duty as coast guard less than a month.
1814, September 3, voted to raise $500 to defray the expenses for rations and powder, and the fine upon the Minot road. 1816, May 20, voted, 45 yeas to 44 nays, that the legislature be requested to give its consent to the separation of the district of Maine from Massachusetts. 1819, December 6, the town was divided into 13 school districts. 1820, April 15, Josiah Burnham, Alvan Robinson, John Rucker, Secomb Jordan, and Thomas Freeman were directed to petition the legislature to abolish the Court of Common Pleas and substitute a court of equity in each town. 1822, May 6, voted to give $5 bounty on wild cat heads the ensuing year. 1828, April, Aaron Turner was licensed as a retailer of strong liquors until September. 1829, September 14, voted to accept a deed for a burying-ground, presented to the town by Elijah Littlefield, on condition of its being fenced with a post and board fence free of expense to the town. 1830, September 13, selectmen, treasurer, and clerk authorized to insert in the licenses of as many persons as they may deem necessary permission to sell wine, rum, and other spirituous liquors to be drank in their respective stores or shops. Similar permission was refused in 1831. 1832, April 30, voted that the selectmen employ any person they think suitable to vaccinate the inhabitants. 1834, February 12, James Strout, Joseph Warren, and Daniel Harmon were chosen to remonstrate against being set off from Cumberland county into a new county. 1840, November 2, voted to build a town house, 36 x 40 feet, with 10-foot posts and 23-foot rafters on land of Merrill W. Strout, near the great gully. 1842, February 5, voted to buy a hearse and hearse house for public use. 1843, $4,300 appropri- ated for town expenses, repairing bridges, and breaking roads. 1844, appropriated $3,350. 1845, appropriations, $3,399. September 3, selectmen given power to build bridge near James Newell's. 1847, selectmen authorized to fence the burial vards. 1849, March 12, Retiah Drinkwater was chosen agent to buy a poor farm. 1850, March 4, "voted to instruct the selectmen to prosecute all who sell liquors illegally "; also to procure a lot in the burying-ground to bury the town poor. 1853, March 14, " voted to advise the selectmen not to appoint an agent to sell spirituous liquors the ensuing year." October 2, " voted that the selectmen petition the legislature to be set off from the county of Andros- coggin to the county of Cumberland." Voted whether Lewiston, Auburn, or Danville should be the shire-town of the new county of Androscoggin. Auburn had 282 votes and Lewiston 23.
Action of the Town in the Rebellion. - Durham was credited with 161 soldiers in the Civil War, and $27,673 was paid in bounties. 1862, July 24, voted to pay $100 each to privates and non-commissioned officers to the number of 18. Voted to raise $500 for the support of volunteers' families. September 1 voted to raise the town's quota (33 men) according to the last call for troops, and to pay each volun- teer $100, and each drafted man $50. 1863, July 7, voted to raise $300 to relieve those who may be drafted. November 30, voted to raise an additional bounty of $200 for each man enlisting under the call of October 17, 1863, not exceeding 26 in number. 1864, February 3, Ai Waterhouse, John C. Merrill, Horace P. Merrill, Milton C. Wedgwood, and Retiah Drinkwater were chosen to fill the town's quota under the calls of October 17, 1863, and February, 1861. March 7, voted to raise $6,000 to pay bounty orders due this year. February 20, 1864, voted to borrow $1,000 to pay for aid to families. Angust 20 voted to issue town scrip to the amount of $300 to every man, whether he enlists, gets a substitute, or is drafted, to fill the quota under the call of September 5. October 1, 1864, voted to raise $3.300 additional bounties to fill the quota. Retiah Drinkwater and Horace B. Merrill were chosen to fill future quotas. January 13, 1865, voted to raise $400 for each man to fill the quota. Feb- ruary 25 $100 additional bounty voted to each man of the town's quota under last call. Nelson Strout was appointed agent to fill future quotas. 1866, August 18, voted to pay $300 to each person who furnished a substitute. In 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1873, frequent action was taken in reference to paying the war debt.
1869, James H. Eveleth, Joseph Warren, Jr, and William D. Roak were appointed to investigate the financial condition of the town. 1870, March 12, voted to raise $1,200 for town debts; that the military debt be funded, and the selectmen issue the bonds of the town, bearing 6 per cent. interest. 1872, December 2, voted to build our portion of the bridge between Durham and Lisbon Falls, as located by the county commissioner. 1883, March 12, voted to exempt a shoe and a box factory from taxation for 10 years. 1884, September 8, Durham voted, 166 yeas to 44 nays, upon prohibitory amend- ment. 1887, March 14, voted to abolish the school-district system, and to appropriate $400 to buy books for the scholars, but, March 31, the latter vote was reconsidered. A motion to reconsider the
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vote providing for the abolition of school districts was lost, 109 to 39. The town system is a complete success. 1888, March 12, voted to raise $200 to build, in connection with the Durham Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a building which shall be used to house the town road machine, and as an exhibition building for the society. 1889 the town was free from debt.
Town Clerks. - The town clerks since the organization of the town, with terms of service, are as follows: Ebenezer Newell, 1789 to 1790; Martin Rourk (Roak), 1791 to 1806; Isaac Davis, 1807 to 1811; Symond Baker, 1812 to 1814; Jacob Herrick, Jr, 1815 to 1829, and in 1832; Allen H. Cobb, 1830 to 1831, and 1833 to 1850; James Strout, Jr, 1851 to 1853, and from 1859 to 1864; John C. Merrill, 1854 to 1856, and 1868 to 1869; Emery S. Warren, 1857, 1871, and 1872; Merrill W. Strout, 1858; Wm B. Newell, 1865, 1873, 1876, and 1877; Wm F. Morrill, 1866 to 1867; Ralph H. Hascall, 1870 and 1887; W. H. Thomas, 1874 and 1875; Ira Goddard, 1878; William D. Roak, 1879; George E. Warren, 1880 to 1886 inclusive; Luther L. Newell, 1888; Marcus W. Eveleth, 1889; George W. Nichols, 1890; Royal A. Rich, 1891.
Selectmen. - 1789, John Cushing, Nathaniel Gerrish, Thos Fisher; 1790, Aaron Osgood, N. Gerrish, Thomas Fisher; 1791 and 1792, A. Osgood, N. Gerrish, Caleb Estes; 1793 and 1794, A Osgood, N. Gerrish, Wm True; 1795, N. Gerrish, Mathew Duran, Samuel Merrill; 1796, N. Gerrish, Samuel Merrill, Reuben Tuttle; 1797, N. Gerrish, Samuel Merrill, Joseph Estes; 1798, N. Gerrish, Isaac Davis, Hugh Getchell; 1799, N. Gerrish, A. Osgood, Isaac Davis; 1800, A. Osgood, Isaac Davis, Caleb Estes; 1801, Isaac Davis, George Ferguson, Caleb Estes; 1802, Isaac Davis, Caleb Estes, Josiah Burnham; 1803 and 1804, Isaac Davis, J. Burnham, Joseph Knight; 1805, Joseph Knight, T. Pierce, Joseph Estes; 1806 and 1807, Josiah Burnham, I. Davis, Joseph Estes; 1808, Josiah Burnham, Wm Stoddard, Thomas Pierce; 1809, J. Burnham, Isaac Davis, John Collins; 1810, I. Davis, J. Collins, Joshua Miller; 1811, I. Davis, J. Burnham, Thomas Pierce; 1812, T. Pierce, Job Sylvester, Jr, David Osgood; 1813 and 1814, J. Burnham, Secomb Jordan, Elijah Macomber; 1815, J. Burnham, Secomb Jordan, Thomas Pierce; 1816, J. Burnham, Symonds Baker, Thomas Freeman; 1817, J. Burnham, E. Macomber, James Strout; 1818, T. Freeman, E. Macomber, James Strout; 1819, Secomb Jordan, T. Pierce, Gideon Curtis; 1820, S. Jordan, T. Pierce, E. Macomber; 1821, Gideon Curtis, James Strout, Daniel Harmon; 1822, 1823, and 1824, J. Strout, E. Macomber, Thomas Pierce; 1825, Thomas Pierce, Joseph H. Hoyt, Ivory Warren; 1826, Thomas Pierce, Joseph H. Hoyt, Jacob Herrick, Jr; 1827, Jacob Herrick, Jr, T. Pierce, Simeon Bailey; 1828 and 1829, Jacob Herrick, Jr, James Strout, Waitstill Webber; 1830, James Strout, Allen H. Cobb, T. Pierce; 1831, James Strout, Jona. Strout, James Newell; 1832, Jacob Herrick, Jr, David Douglass, Win Newell, Jr; 1833, 1834, and 1835, James Strout, Joseph Warren, Thos Estes; 1836, James Strout, Henry Moore, Joseph Reed, Jr; 1837, Joseph Warren, Joseph Reed, Jr, Simeon Bailey; 1838, Joseph Warren, S. Bailey, Thomas Estes; 1839, James Stront, Daniel Booker, Daniel Harmon; 1840, Joseph Warren, Jona. Strout, John Smith; 1841 and 1842, Joseph Warren, S. Bailey, Sol. Crosman; 1843, Sol. Crosman, Job P. Sylvester, Jr, Alvah Marston; 1844, James Strout, A. Marston, Joseph Warren; 1845, Ivory Warren, James Newell, Jer. Dingley; 1846, 1847, and 1848, Joseph Warren, A. Marston, R. Drinkwater; 1849, Joseph Warren, A. Marston, Wm Robinson; 1850, Joseph Warren, R. Drinkwater, Win Robinson; 1851 and 1852, Joseph Warren, R. Drinkwater, Wm Newell, Jr; 1853, Joseph Warren, Sewall Libby, Emery S. Warren; 1854, Jos Warren, E. S. Warren, David Bowe; 1855, Nelson H. Cary, Wm D. Roak, John D. Osgood; 1856, Joseph Warren, W. D. Roak, J. D. Osgood; 1857, Joseph Warren, Win H. Johnson, Sewall Strout; 1858, Wm D. Roak, John D. Osgood, Barnard Williams; 1859 and, 1860, Emery S. Warren, S. Strout, W. H. Johnson; 1861, Sewall Strout, H. C. Libby, R. C. Michaels; 1862, Sewall Strout, Gideon Brag- don, Washington Parker; 1863, Sewall Strout, W. Parker, Elisha Beal; 1864, Joseph Warren, E. S. Warren, Alfred Lunt; 1865, Joseph Warren, A. Lunt, James Strout, Jr; 1866, John D. Osgood, Joseph Miller, T. C. Pinkham; 1867, Wm D. Roak, Joseph Miller, Joseph H. Davis; 1868, Nathaniel Dun- ning, George Douglas, Jona. Haskell; 1869, Wm D. Roak, G. Douglas, Wm C. Hascall; 1870, Wm C. Hascall, J. H. Davis, John C. Merrill; 1871, Alfred Lunt, Win B. Newell, A. Littlefield; 1872 and 1873, Alfred Lunt, Charles W. Harding, Win Lang; 1874, Chas W. Harding, Wm B. Newell, Daniel Dyer; 1875, Joseph W. Davis, Alfred Lunt, Benjamin W. Nason; 1876, Alfred Lunt, Joseph H. Davis, Leonard Macomber; 1877, Alfred Lunt, Chas W. Harding, Lewis C. Robinson; 1878, Joseph H. Davis, Wm S. Miller, Henry Sylvester; 1879, Wm B. Newell, Joseph H. Davis, Henry Sylvester; 1880, Wmn B. Newell, Lorenzo S. Lambert, Alfred Littlefield; 1881, Wm B. Newell, Leroy S. Bowie, Emery S. Warren; 1882, Alfred Lunt, Leroy S. Bowie, Willey L. Davis; 1883, Alfred Lunt, L. S. Lambert, Jolın H. Merrill; 1884, L. S. Lambert, Win B. Newell, John H. Merrill; 1885, Alfred Lunt, Chas H. Bliss, Leroy S. Bowie; 1886 and 1887, Willey L. Davis, Samuel B. Libby, Chas M. Varney; 1888, Henry Sylvester, Chas H. Bliss. Rufus Parker; 1889 and 1890, Joseph H. Davis, Samuel B. Libby, Wm Stackpole; 1891, Horace M. Beal, William B. Newell, George H. Estes.
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