Old Foxcroft, Maine : traditions and memories, with family records, Part 10

Author: Lowell, Mary Chandler, 1863-1949
Publication date: 1935
Publisher: Concord, N.H. : Lowell
Number of Pages: 552


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And still another War Veteran, James H. Manter, also ours by adoption, came from Parkman. He purchased the Palmer house on upper Main St. Mr. Manter was b. Feb. 3 1847. He m. Mar. 17, 1872, Myrtie A. Rollins b. Nov. 18, 1853. She d. in Foxcroft Mar. 5, 1932 having just passed her sixtieth wedding anniversary. Each have been actively interested in the Grange, and G.A.R. work. Mr. Manter was always a lover of horses and trained many for the race course. Although Mr. Manter has passed his 88th birthday and resides a half mile from the business center, he walks down daily and so keeps in touch with his fellow citizens. Mr. Manter and Mr. Charles Dyer Paine are perhaps the last of the Civil War comrades in "old Foxcroft". Mr. Paine, though several years Mr. Manter's senior, is vigorous and keenly interested in town affairs, though having retired from business many years ago. His wife, Mrs. Frankie Knight Paine whom he m. July 19, 1871 passed away in 1932. They were one of the five couples married in the parlors of the Elbridge Thompson house by Rev. John H. Gurney, the others being Sarah Abby Thompson and Mr. Jameson, Mary Rollins and Elmer Thompson, Lelia Mina Thomp- son and William C. Elliot, Lucy McComb and William Poole. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson left at once for California and Mrs. Sarah (Thomp- son) Jamison though still living, has never returned to "old Foxcroft".


Our industrial interests were widened and given a decided impetus in 1870 in the erection of the spool factory by L. H. Dwelley & Co. Not only did it create enlarged employment in the village itself but during the winter quantities of yellow and white birch were purchased of the


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farmers and hauled in. The waste material at the factory furnishing cheap fuel for the community.


On the night of July 12, 1877 the old building was burned, creating the most hazardous and spectacular fire "old Foxcroft" had ever known. But for the bravery and herculean efforts of John K. Robbins, much of the village would doubtless have been laid in ashes. Mr. Robbins was a master fire fighter. For hours he stood with a heavy metal door leaning against his left shoulder holding the large hose and nozzle and directing a steady flow of water upon the drying room filled with spool timber. The water was pumped by the old hand en- gine. During the heaviest fighting, Mrs. Aaron Knowlton and Mrs. Bela Hammond fried doughnuts and made coffee in the Knowlton (Annis') kitchen, while Fred Wyman and I ran back and forth with filled and empty cans and baskets. And valiantly did those two women work, while pieces of burning birch bark as large as a man's hand were flying about their grounds, and men on the roofs of their house fighting incipient blazes!


The new brick building arose from the ashes. Equipped with the most improved and intricate machinery of today, under the intelligent and skilled supervision and ownership of the MacGregors it is a valu- able and much appreciated asset to the town.


With her mills turning out a superior grade of textiles; her factories converting the shining birch into polished carriers of thread; and other natural woods into casements for the sweet toned keyed instruments,


and veneering for furniture; her railroad penetrating the vast timber- lands to the huge potato fields of the northeast ; her dye-stuffs furnishing cheer to the homes throughout our land; and her Academy sending forth the best and bravest, "Old Foxcroft" was a small dynamo!


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CHURCHES


When in 1814 Mrs. Nathan Carpenter, and Mrs. Bezaleel Loring united with the Congregational Church of Lincolntown, later Garland, under the pastorate of Rev. John Sawyer, little did they think that they, with ninteen others, would so soon withdraw to organize a church in "Old Foxcroft" to be known as "The Church at Foxcroft".


At the time the twenty-one members were dismissed, Deacon Joel Pratt was Clerk of the Garland church and when, in 1826 his house was destroyed by fire, the records were burned and an authentic list cannot be found.


But a formal invitation, concurred in at a town meeting especially called, was extended to Rev. Thomas Williams to become the pastor. Mr. Williams was then connected with the church in Brewer. The town would not specify a salary, though it did vote him the ministerial lot and entire income of the ministerial fund and one third of the time to be appropriated as he deemed best.


"To the Proprietors of Foxcroft


GENTLEMEN;


We the subscribers, Selectmen of said town, being desirous that the public land for the use of the first minister, for the ministry and for the use of schools in said town should be located and established hereby request you to appropriate and establish the following lots for the aforesaid purpose Viz- for the use of the first minister Lots No 10 in the 4 range; A in 8th; No 2 in 10th; and 56 acres off of North end of No A in 11th range.


For the use of the Ministry Lot No 8 in 6th; No 13-6th; No 1 in 10; and 24 acres being a part of A in 11th Range laying between the School land and the first ministers land.


For Shools No 4 in 5th No 17 in 7. No A in 10th R- and 20 acres off of the South end of A in 11 Range


JOEL PRATT JOHN BRADBURY Selectmen of Foxcroft


A true copy


Mr. Williams accepted and on Dec. 30, 1822, Rev. Mr. Sawyer and Parson Williams organized the members set off from the Garland Church into a society, to be known as the "Congregational Church of Foxcroft," as the following records bear evidence.


"The Rev. John Sawyer and Rev. Thomas Williams, at the request of a branch of the Church of Garland residing in this place (Foxcroft?) and vicinity met this day, in this town, in order to embody a church.


The Rev. John Sawyer presided.


Received from the Church in Garland the following communication


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'GARLAND Dec. 27, 1822


The Church met this day in this place and voted that the connection between the members of this church who reside in Foxcroft, Sangerville, Guilford and Dover exist no longer than when they shall be embodied into a separate church. Voted unanimously.


JOHN SAWYER, Moderator.'"


The ministers then agreed to gather the following persons into a church, they having previously adopted certain articles of faith and covenant presented them, and agreed to "fellowship each other as brethren and sister in the Lord."


The names of those set off from the Garland Church, as nearly as can be ascertained, were as follows: Nathan Carpenter, Nathaniel M. Bradbury, John Fish Chandler, Susanna Carpenter (Mrs. Nathan), Abigail Chamberlain (Mrs. Samuel), Sarah Pratt (Mrs. Joel), Lydia Loring (Mrs. Bezaliel, of Guilford), Nancy (P) Bradbury (Mrs. Nathaniel), Mrs. Gibbs (Mrs. Elisha). Abigail Towne (Mrs. Moses), Anna Chandler (Mrs. John. Fish), Hannah Mitchell (Mrs. William), Keziah McClanathan (Mrs. Samuel of Sangerville), Mary Drake (the first Mrs. Kingman Drake of Sangerville), Sarah Buck (Mrs. Nathaniel), Lydia Parsons (Mrs. William Sr. of Sangerville), Miss Ruth Nickerson (Spinster of Sangerville and Mrs. Daphne Turner (Mrs. Abel.)


On January 1, 1823 the installing council convened, consisting of Rev. Jonathan Fisher from Bluehill, Rev. Mr. Blood from Bucksport, Rev. Mr. Loomis, Dea. Pike and Prof Smith from Bangor, Rev. Mr. Peet and Dea. Heald from Norridgewock and Rev. Mr. Sawyer from Garland, the mother church.


Services were held in the Town House until that building was sold at auction, 1823. The Academy being in process of erection, it was suggested that it was fitting that building should be used as a place of worship, accordingly the following petition for a town meeting was posted.


"To Thomas Wentworth, Nathan Carpenter, Asaph Howard, Selectmen of the Town of Foxcroft.


We, the subscribers, freeholders in said Town of Foxcroft, respect- fully request you to cause the Inhabitants of said Foxcroft qualified to vote in town affairs, to be notified and warned to meet at the School House in said town near the dwelling house of Daniel Greeley, Esq. (Academy) on Monday the eighth day of November next at two of the Clock in the afternoon to act on the following business viz:


1st To choose a Moderator for said meeting.


2rd To see if the town will raise the sum of Three Hundred dollars or less sum to be appropriated to the use of the Trustees of Foxcroft academy in consideration that said Trustees will grant the Inhabitants of said Foxcroft the use of said building erected by said Trustees for an Academy, for a house for public worship


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on the Sabbath Day, for the Term of ten years from the first of Jan'y next, under the direction of a Committee appointed by said Trustees and to act on any other business as the Town may deem proper.


Foxcroft, October 27, 1823


JOHN BRADBURY DANIEL GREELEY ADONIRAM BLAKE NATH1 BRADBURY NATH' BUCK"


The above petition was passed upon favorably, and the old Academy building became the place of public worship in town, for the time speci- fied above.


Mr. Willams, it is said, received missionary aid and divided his "one third time" between Sangerville and Sebec, in conducting public serv- ices and making pastoral calls.


(Copy)


To the Town Clerk of Foxcroft, SIR


This may Certify that on the first instant the first Pacific congrega- tional Society in Foxcroft consisted of thirty seven members Yours with respect


Attest AARON TUCKER secretory of P Society


Foxcroft May 4 1829


"To Charles P. Chandler one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Penobscot.


The subscribers, desirous of incorporating themselves into a company for the purpose of erecting a Meetinghouse in Foxcroft, request you to issue a warrant to some one of their number directing him to notify them to meet at some suitable place for the purpose of incorporating themselves as aforesaid by choosing a Clerk, Moderator and such other officers and Committees as they may deem expedient, and for doing and transacting any business relative to erecting and finishing a Meeting house in said Foxcroft.


February 9th. 1833


Jonah Buker


Caleb Prentiss


Jacob H. Jones


John Hale


Ebenezar Dunham S. S. Herring


Henry Scott


Sylvanus Longley Josiah Cole J. G. Remick


Silas Paul


Azel Howard


Joshua Mitchell


Samuel Marston


Daniel Remick


William Parsons


Leonard Robinson


Joel Pratt


Charles P. Chandler


Isaac Weston


Nathan Carpenter


Allen Chandler


Aaron Tucker


Gideon Dawes


Dominicus Mitchell


Samuel Greeley


Gilman Clark John Bradbury


Jacob Muzzey


Chase Parker


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STATE OF MAINE Penobscot S. S.


To Jacob Muszey one of the persons named in the foregoing application,


GREETING-


[L.S.]


In the name of the State of Maine you are hereby authorized and requested to notify and warn the persons who have signed the fore- going application to meet at the Academy in Foxcroft on Tuesday the twentysixth day of February instant at four of the clock in the after- noon to act on the business mentioned in the foregoing application.


Hereby fail not and make a due return of this warrant with your doings there-on.


Given under my hand and seal at Foxcroft this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty three.


(Signed) CHARLES P. CHANDLER Justice of the Peace.


Penobscot S. S. February 18, 1833


I have notified and warned all the persons who have signed the within application, to meet at time and place mentioned in the within warrant to act on the business named in the said warrant and have given them personal notice or left a written notice at their usual place of abode.


(Signed) JACOB MUZZEY


A true copy Attest, S. S. HERRING, Clerk


FOXCROFT February 26th 1833


At a legal meeting of the persons named in the preceding application, began and holden on Tuesday the twenty sixth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three at four of the clock, afternoon, by virtue of the preceding warrant, the said persons transacted the following business, Viz:


Chose a Clerk of said society. Made choice of S. S. Herring for Clerk.


Penobscot S. S. February 26, 1833


Then appeared Sylvanus S. Herring and made oath that he would faithfully and impartially record all votes passed by the first Congre- gational Meeting House Corporation of Foxcroft and do all other duties incumbent on him as Clerk of said Corporation.


Before me


CHARLES P. CHANDLER Justice of the Peace


A true copy Attest S. S. HERRING, Clerk


"Joel Pratt was chosen Moderator and it was voted to receive members to the Society by subscription. It was also voted to build a meeting house and Henry Scott, J. G. Remick, and Joel Pratt were



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chosen a committee "to draw a draft of the Meeting house about to be erected" and Joel Pratt was chosen especially to "ascertain a site for the Meetinghouse" at an adjourned meeting held March 2rd 1833.


it was voted that the house be divided into shares of twenty-five dol- lars each and to give Joel Pratt the first refusal for building the meeting house at the price of sixteen hundred dollars as per former agreement of individuals.


Voted-that this corporation be styled the first Congregational Meeting House Corporation of Foxcroft.


Voted that the building Committee, Henry Scott, J. G. Remick and Caleb Prentiss be authorized to engage some person to erect the meet- ing house.


Voted-The building Committee be authorized for to take Deeds of the site for the Meeting House and to give Deeds to the Society and also to have them recorded." They then adjourned until Mar. 8, 1833 at which date the only business transacted was "to adjourn this . meeting without day."


On April 17, 1833 the Corporation again assembled and having wiped out a misunderstanding,


"Voted: that the Meeting house be erected on the land as described in the deed from John Bradbury and Henry Scott (which deed is now before the Corporation left in the care of C. P. Chandler) given to the said Meeting House Corporation.


Voted,-that the building committee be authorized to level the ground in as good a manner as the ground now is on the former place where it was designed to build said House for the Meeting House free of expense to Joel Pratt.


Voted,-to adjourn without day."


The next meeting of the Corporation was on Nov. 23, 1833 when the building committee, Henry Scott, Caleb Prentiss, John Bradbury, C. P. Chandler were also made the Committee to appraise pews.


"At the meeting of the first Congregational Meeting house Corpora- tion in Foxcroft, legally notified, assembled began and holden at the Academy in Foxcroft on Sat. at one of the clock, P.M. Nov. 23, A.D. 1833, Voted, that the building committee be authorized to raise the Bell into the belfry of the Meetinghouse and add the expense to the cost of the Meeting house."


Although Col. Foxcroft had in 1827 closed all his business relations concerning Foxcroft, he had, through his attorney, Charles P. Chand- ler, presented a fine, clear toned Bell to the Corporation to be used "out- side the new church." Therefore a belfry had been erected for it.


Also "Voted,-that Rev. Thomas Williams be authorized to preach the dedication sermon or supply a substitute, and take the lead of the religious services at such time and as he shall see fit to appoint; also to invite such neighboring ministers as he may deem expedient: also voted,-that the building Committee be authorized to procure stoves and Funnell for the Meeting House."


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Agreement was finally reached as to terms of sale of pews. Caleb Prentiss was chosen Treasurer and "Chas. P. Chandler Attorney to make deeds to convey the Pews," and on Jan. 6th 1834, Caleb Prentiss having been duly authorized by the Selectmen of Foxcroft to act as auctioneer, he proceeded to sell the Pews in the first Congregational Meeting house in Foxcroft as follows :-


Pew


No. Name of Purchaser


$ cts.


Appraisal of Pews


57


to Henry Scott


at


11.00 in addition to


$42.00


33


Joel Pratt


11.00


45.00


2


Chase Parker


9.00


=


42.00


31


John Bradbury


9.00


45.00


53


Charles P. Chandler


6.00


45.00


6


John Hale


6.00


45.00


52


Caleb Prentiss


6.00 (Carpenter)


45.00


34


Aaron Tucker


6.00 in


45.00


3


Allen Chandler


6.00


16


40.00


48


Joel Pratt


5.00 (Prentiss)


45.00


56


Nathan Carpenter


5.00 in


40.00


51


Samuel Greeley


4.00


42.00


54


Alpheus Jefferds .


2.00


16


42.00


5


Leonard Robinson


2.50


42.00


26


Gideon Dawes


2.00


45.00


27


Gilman Clark.


2.50


45.00


49


Henry Scott


2.00


45.00


47


Jonathan A. Smith


2.00


66


38.00


58


Modicai Mitchell


2.00


35.00


29


John Hale.


2.00


16


40.00


10


Daniel Tower


2.00


45.00


7


Alanson Dunham


1.50


45.00


32


Samuel Chamberlain


1.00


45.00


12


Azel Howard


1.50


66


38.00


35


Silas Paul


1.50


42.00


23


¥


Dominicus Mitchell


1.00


38.00


14


Ira Buck


1.00


66


32.00


55


'. Ebenezar S. Greeley


1.00


38.00


60


Ichabod Chandler Jr.


1.00


20.00


1


Eli Crockett


1.00


=


35.00


11


Sylvanus Herring


.50


45.00


28


Sewell Cockran


1.00


66


45.00


4


" Henry Scott


1.00


38.00


59


Cyrus Dwinel and W. S. Mayhew


1.00


=


20.00


$117.00


$1379.00


117.00


1496.00


Am't of sale on 34 Pews


Pew No. 34 is selected for the Parsonage Later sold


50 “ Isaac Weston


1.00


42.00


38


Jacob Muzzey


.50


32.00


$118.50


$1570.00


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"At an adjourned meeting on the 21st of January A.D. 1834 at 5 of the clock in the afternoon,-


Voted to adjourn this meeting the Jan 25 1834.


"At an adjourned meeting on the 25 th of Jan A.D. 1834, Voted to adjourn this meeting to the store of C. Prentiss.


Voted to raise a committee of three to devise ways and means to ob- tain money to discharge the present debts of the society.


voted and made choice of John Hale, John Bradbury, Caleb Prentiss, and Charles P. Chandler was later added.


Voted to adjourn the meeting without day.


S. S. HERRING, Clerk


"At a meeting of the first congregational Meeting house corporation duly warned and notified, began and holden at the Academy in Fox- croft on Tuesday the eighteenth day of February A.D. 1834.


Voted. Moderator, Joel Pratt


... Voted to adjourn this meeting to the store of John Hale. Made choice of Caleb Prentiss, Clerk,


Voted to reconsider all votes passed by the corporation at the Meet- ing held on the 25th day of January last.


Voted to rebuild the meeting house and Gilman Clark, Charles P. Chandler and Nathan Carpenter were chosen to select a site."


This is the only reference made to the destruction (by fire) of the church and it would seem that the fire must have occurred between Jan. 25 and Feb. 18, 1834.


And where was that church located? It would seem by the vote authorizing the building committee to "level the ground in as good a manner as the ground now is on the former place where it was designed to build said house for the meeting house, free of expense to Joel Pratt," that a change in location had taken place and that change in location must have been near the house of J. S. Holmes on the present Lincoln St. as at the meeting on Feb. 18, 1834 it is recorded that "said Com- mittee report that it is their opinion that the south east corner of the land owned by J. S. Holmes near the schoolhouse (North St) in this village is a suitable spot for the house. Voted to accept the report as above."


"On Mar 4, 1834 at and adjourned meeting of the first Congrega- tional Meeting house Society, 7th, Voted that the building committee consult with Mr. Holmes and unless he will exchange even the lot the corporation proposed to build on rod for rod for the one owned by them near his house not to exchange with him."


That Mr. Holmes did exchange, may be concluded and a meeting house built, I submit the following :


"Penobscot S. S.


I have notified the members of the First Cong. Meeting house Cor-


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poration to assemble at the meeting house in said Foxcroft on Friday the 21 st instant (Nov) at one o'clock P.M. A.D. 1834


C. PRENTISS Clerk


A true record


Attest C. PRENTISS


Clerk"


Without any further proof, I venture to offer the story of the fire in the first Congregational Church or Meeting house, as related to me in 1906 by my cousin, Mrs. Ellen (Jordan) Prentiss. (Mrs. Henry). Mrs. Prentiss' memory was very accurate. Although not born until Sept. 5, 1837, she had heard the tale of the burned church until it was very clear to her. She was born in the house now owned by her sister Mrs. Ada Ober. As she told the story she sat near a window from which she could see the site of the old church: "The church was located in Frank Whittier's door yard. The fire occurred on Saturday and the men had started the fires to warm the house for the next day. They planned to keep the fires going all night. They had put a lot of shav- ings and small cuttings in barrels in the entry, these were near the stoves. The front draft was open in one stove ; perhaps a spark snapped from it to a barrel. The men were working in the auditorium, smelled the smoke, ran to the entry and then gave the alarm. The church was not entirely destroyed. It has been said that the church was filled with people. I think that an error. I never heard it." The corporation,


" Voted on Feb. 25, 1834 that the pews of the house be built similar to those of the old one and the old materials for the same be used as far as practicable. That whoever throws in proposals for building shall state his price by having the lumber and other materials saved of the other house."


FIRST MEETING HOUSE


The first Meeting House in "Old Foxcroft" was located on what is now Lincoln St. and was a building fifty-six (56) feet long by forty-four (44) feet wide, painted yellow and without ornament, unless one might call a small pitched roof belfry, entirely open on four sides, ornamental !


Two single doors in front, one for women, the other for men to enter, opened into a long entry; in the end for men was placed a rough ladder leading to the belfry.


The pulpit was midway of the east wall, with four very steep steps leading to it, and suspended over it, a "sounding board". One broad aisle ran the length of the room on the west side. The pews, square, like little pens, ran across each end with middle aisle leading down to the altar. Directly in front of the pulpit and facing it, were seven or eight pews running parallel with the aisles and at either end were aisles run- ning from the broad one on the west to the pulpit steps.


The front one of these pews was set apart for the deacons and their


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contribution boxes. With great reverence did Dea. Pratt and Dea. Car- penter rise, when Parson Williams rose to offer prayer; the two deacons remained standing with most devout attitude throughout the lengthy petition.


The sanctuary was unfinished to the roof showing rafters and under- side of the roof. Around three sides were galleries, reached by stairs from the entry, the "singers' seats" being opposite the pulpit.


In those first Sabbath services the twang of the pitch pipe preceded the burst of sacred song. Some of the favored hymns were, "Stop poor sinner, stop and think." "Ho! ye sinners poor and wretched," "When with my mind devoutly pressed"; and the tunes were devoutly prolonged! When a baby was baptized, the following stanza from "Watts and Select Hymns" to the tune of St. Martins was usually selected,


"Thus, later saints, eternal King, Thine ancient truth embrace, To Thee their infant offspring bring, And humbly claim Thy grace."


The bell presented by Col. Foxcroft was "raised into the belfry of the Meeting House." The long, big bell rope was coiled on the floor in the "men's side" of the entry, a great temptation to the youngsters, who longed to give it a pull.


The second church edifice was erected on North St. on the Holmes lot, now about the site of George Hilton's Garden. This was burned Oct. 21. 1850 together with Sunday School library, pew cushions, lamps, bass viol and flute. Loss placed at $2000.00 on building and $600.00 on contents.


Mr. Williams continued as pastor until Apr. 3, 1835. In addition to the twenty-two original members, the membership of the church in- creased to one hundred and fifteen adults. The records show that one hundred and eighteen children were baptized.


From Foxcroft, Mr. Williams moved to Poland where he died in Nov. 1846. Mr. Williams was an Overseer of Bowdoin College from 1820 until his death. From letters before me addressed to my grandfather, Mr. Chandler, by Mr. Willimas, it is evident that he was in "great want of money", probably in need, in the last years of his life and that many in "Old Foxcroft" could not meet their monetary obligations to him. Nor could he dispose of his farm. John Murch lived on the farm until 1852 when it was purchased from the Williams estate by Mr. Harrison Chandler in whose family it has since remained.


Mrs. Sarah Cushman Williams, the widow, was living in 1862 when Mrs. Chandler received a letter from her son, Theodore S. Williams.


Parson Williams was followed by a young theologian from the Bangor Seminary, Elias Wells, Jr. b. Oct. 6, 1809, son of Dea Elias Wells of Duxbury Vt. He was ordained and installed as pastor on Nov. 7, 1837


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with a salary of $300.00 in money, his fire wood, part of a house and three months vacation each year. His wife was Eliza Williams b. May 7 1809 dau. John & Eunice (Oleans) Williams. They were m. Sept. 15 1837, Winthrop Me. He purchased the house next but one west of the church from Mr. Wm. H. Ropes, a former Academy Prin- cipal and was a resident of "Old Foxcroft" until the summer of July 1842 when he resigned. His house was purchased by Elias J. Hale who moved his wife, Mrs. Ann (Bixby) Hale, an own cousin of Charles E. Kimball of Dover, and his aged parents to it. Capt. Hale died. After the death of Madame Hale at the age of ninety-six years, the house was sold to John G. Mayo of Dover. Mr. Mayo moved the house to the side rear of the lot and built the house now the residence of Mrs. L. C. Sawyer. The old house, now remodeled, is the home of Mr and Mrs. Charles Hescock.




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