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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL JENEALOGY COLLECTION
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CONCORD N.H.
DIRECTORY
CONTAINING
THE NAMES, OCCUPATIONS AND RESIDENCE OF THE INHABITANTS OF
CONCORD CENTRE . VILLAGE,
WITH OTHER MATTERS OF GREAT
LOCAL INTEREST.
CONCORD : PUBLISHED BY CHARLES L. WIIELER. 1853-4.
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BUSINESS INDEX.
Books, Stationery, Periodicals, Newspapers, &c. NORTON & CRAWFORD. Bonnets, Straw Goods, Milinery, &.c. Mrs. WOOLSON; Miss HERBERT; Mrs. KELSEY. Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. GOVE & HARRIS; A. P. MUNSEY. Cabinet Furniture. DANIEL A. HILL; BROWN & YOUNG. Carpeting. WM. H. PAGE; H. W. NEWHALL; H. A. FAY. Cloths, Readymade Clothing, &c.
N. EVANS, JR .; EDMUNDS, ROBINSON & CO .; M. OLDS; W. G. SHAW; T. W. STEWART. Crockery, Glass Ware, &c. S. G. SYLVESTER; W. H. PAGE; H. A. FAY. Daguerrcotype Miniatures. W. H. KIMBALL; J. H. KIMBALL. Dentists. JOHN W. LITTLE, M.D. Drugs and Medicines. JOHN A. GAULT. Dry Goods. HUTCHINS & CO .; MI. A. NEWHALL; C. W. HIARVEY; BULLOCK & SARGENT. Guns and Sporting Apparatus. M. C. CUTCHINS; J. CARTER & SON. Hats, Caps, Furs, &c. JOSEPH GROVER; CYRUS IIILL; W. G. SHAW. Hardware. MOORE, CILLEY & CO .; WARDE & WALKER. Livery Stables.
DUDLEY & CORNING; B. F. DUNKLEE & CO. Painters. J. D. WRIGHT; GEORGE MAIN. Printers. TRIPP & OSGOOD; L. L. MOWER. Sharing and Hair-cutting Saloon. C. W. GARDNER; C. W. ALLEN; TALBOT. Saddle, Trunk and Harness Makers. J. D. JOHNSON; DAVID SYMONDS. Stores. FLANDERS & EASTMAN. Watchmakers, Jewelers, and dealers in Fancy Goods. J. B. STANLEY; J. CARTER & SON; AUSTIN M. WARD; CHARLES PEARSON.
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HARLES L. WHELER,
Publisher and Printer,
Exchange Building-up stairs, CONCORD, N. H. PUBLISHES
1. The Concord Directory-biennially.
2. The N. E. Historical Gazette-monthly.
3. Northern Indicator. (To be commenced soon.)
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H. A. NEWHALL,
EXTENSIVE DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, . .......
CARPETING,
PAINTED CURTIR'S, WINDOW
FIXTURES, CORNICES, CURTAINS, 1
TASSELS, CORDS, &.c.
RUMFORD BLOCK,
(OPPOSITE SCHOOL-STREET.)
OF The undersigned is agent for the
MALDEN DYE HOUSE.
Any kind of Garments for Men, Women or Children, left at his store, will be dyed with care, (or no charge,) and safely returned or paid for.
DE. CARPETS and BLANKETS cleansed by B. F. & D. HOLDEN, and returned in three days.
IL. A. NEWILALL,
RUMFORD BLOCK, CONCORD, N. H.
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WARDE & WALKER,
Importers of and Dealers in
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Sole agents in Concord for
Gage, Hubbard & Co.'s Celebrated Cast Steel
Also, sole agents for the FLINT-ENAMEL STONE WARE.
WARDE & WALKER succeed Messrs. PORTER & ROLFE in a part of their former business, keeping con- stantly on hand a large and well-selected stock of Hardware at prices which cannot fail to suit purchasers.
EXCHANGE BUILDING, CONCORD, N. H.
DAVID A. WARDE,
GUSTAVUS WALKER.
KEPT BY
DUDLEY & CORNING,
A FEW RODS NORTH OF THE R. R. DEPOT, REAR OF THE PHENIX HOTEL,
TETHERE may be had at all hours and on shortest notice HORSES and CARRIAGES, which, for beau- ty, safety and fleetness, are not excelled.
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CROCKERY. And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
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WINDOW SHADES, PAPER HANGINGS, MATS, &c. Merchants' Exchange --------- Concord, N. H.
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EXCHANGE BUILDING, [Second floor,] CONCORD, N. I.
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AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS. SOUTH DOOR OF EAGLE HOTEL BLOCK, CONCORD, N. HI.
House, Sign and Ornamental
PAINTER,
PAPER-HANGER AND GLAZER.
Imitations of Woods and Marble neatly executed.
NO. 74 MAIN STREET, Opposite the Freight Depot, CONCORD, N. II.
D.IV & E.VERSO., Marble WTonks,
No. 2 School-street.
Monuments & Grave stones
Of all patterns and qualities of Marble or Slate-stone. Table and Counter-Tops made to order; together with all articles of Soap-stone.
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W. H. PAGE, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
CARPETING, CROCKERY, GLASS,
AND BRITANNIA WARE;
PAPER HANGINGS, TABLE CUTLERY, SOLAR LAMPS, &C. At the EMPIRE STORE, opposite the State House, CONCORD, S. H.
AUSTIN M. WARD, (Successor to Ivory Hall,)
DEALER IN WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER WARB, Gold and Silver Spectacles ; ALL KINDS OF SILVER-PLATED WARE, Fine CUTLERY & BRITANNIA WARE, Housekeeping and Fancy Goods, 176 Main.st., Sopposite } Concord. N. H. 1
All kinds of Watches and Time Pieces thoroughly re- paired and warranted. The most dificult and complica- ted Jobs solicited ..
OFF" Engraving neatly executed at short notice.
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CONCORD [N. H. ] directory, containing the names, occupations and residence of the inhabitants of Concord centre village, with other matters of great local interest. Concord, C. L. Wheler, 1853-4.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in 1852, by Charles H. Celbeler, In the Clerk's Office of the District of New Hampshire.
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PREFACE.
THE continued growth of the population and business of Concord Centre Village renders a new Directory more than ever necessary. All possible care has been taken to render it correct ; and if some errors shall be discovered, the compiler hopes the critic will consider the difficulties in making such a work perfect, and censure lightly if censure he must.
As heretofore, the Directory contains the names of all the persons in the Centre Village doing business, with their place of business and resi- dence. As the Village is openly built and many lots yet unoccupied and streets unnumbered, it is often impossible to do more than direct a person towards the place indicated. It is to be regretted, too, that the streets are as yet mostly unmarked by proper signs.
To cater to the love of variety, the compiler has started some features rather new. A work of this kind should be, whether published annually or biennially, a sort of local history. With this view, the local events of the town are brought up
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from January 1, 1850, to November 2, 1852, the time of the printing of this work. A series of sketches of the " decided characters " of the town is given. In the next, a series of biographies of the former notables of Concord, with portraits, will be given, comprising notices of George Hough, the first Concord printer; Rev. Timothy Walker, the first minister; Count Rumford; Gov. Isaac Hill, &c. Indeed, according to the compiler's no- tion, each number of such a work should be a perfect reflex of an annual or biennial period,- reflecting the business, spirit, characters and im- provements thereof with the faithfulness of the cup of Jemsheed,-so that it could be bound up and preserved as a complete chronicle and history.
The sketch of the history of Concord is very meagre. Indeed, no necessity exists for dwelling particularly upon that subject, when it is recol- lected that a most perfect history of the town is ere long to be published, written by the most com- petant hand in all the town-that of Rev. Dr. Bouton.
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CONCORD :
A SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY. -
CONCORD lies on either side of the Merrimack River, and comprises an arca of about ten square miles. Besides the Merrimack, the town is wa- tered by two lesser streams-the Contoocook and Turkey Rivers. The former is of considerable size, rising in the South-eastern part of Cheshire County, and receiving the tributes of the Warner and Blackwater Rivers, with many lesser streams. The latter rises in Turkey Pond, and consequent- ly almost entirely waters the legitimate soil of Concord. There are six sheets of water within the borders of the town, viz : Lake Penacook, Turtle, Snow's, Great and Little Turkey, and Horse-shoe Ponds. These bodies of water comprise an arca of not less than 1800 acres. Lake Penacook is a beautiful sheet of water, and altogether worthy the preference given it by the State Commission which has just located the State Reform School upon its borders. The natural scenery of the town is not surpassed by that of any other in the State. Indeed, the intervale of the Merrimack, everywhere interesting, is here transcendently rich in the beautiful and picturesque.
The Indians, who were the original owners of the soil, were called Penacooks; and when the present territory of Concord was granted to Wald- ron and others by Massachusetts Bay, in 1668, by virtue of her claim to " three miles North of the River Merrimack, " it was called " Penacook Plantation." The petition of Waldron* and his 21 compeers was dated May, 1659, and prayed for " the grant of a trackte of land " twelve miles square, promising to be " at the cost and charge of vewinge" it, yet claiming three years in which to consider " whether to proceed on for the settl- inge of a town or noc." In addition they prayed,
*Spelled Walderne in the original petition.
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in case they should settle, to have their "freedom from publique charge [taxation] for the space of seaven years," The "Honred Courte" consid- ered their petition on the 18th, and they duly granted them the right " to carry on the work of the said place in all civil and eclesiasticall re- spects," with all privileges asked for, if they should settle twenty families before the end of the ycar. But nothing was done. Capt. Richard Waldron had previously built a "Trucking-house" here for the purpose of trading with the Indians, and had sold pretty freely to them two articles contraband, viz: intoxicating liquors and fire- arms. A warrant was put into the hands of Thom- as Hinksman on the 30th of July, 1668, to inves- tigate a case of murder at this place resulting from the free use of rum. An Indian, in a fit of intoxication, had stabbed Waldron's agent. When the officer spoken of arrived here he found no white man or liquors-nothing but "some old Rundletts wherein some strong liquors had beene." He took the depositions of Tahanto, Sagurmoy, and other "ancient Indians." The Indian did not deny the murder-he only put in, by way of palliation, that he was drunk. When told that he must die for what he had done, he said that he was sorry that he had killed the white man, but was willing to die for it. He was shot after trial by the Commission. Subsequent depositions of Tahanto and other Sachems declare that they sent a deputation to Waldron, residing at Dover, beg- ging him not to send any fire water to Penacook, which was disregarded-that still another was sent, which was also disregarded. The affidavit of John Page and others, taken afterwards, (Oc- tober 27.) says :- "On or aboute ve month of June last, going to l'ennycooke to enquire after cattle yt were lost, rideing to ye ffort of the said Pennycooke, meeting with some of ye Indians be- longing thereto, told us that an Englishman was killed by an Indian, and that on the Englishman's laws they had killed the Indian. We farther en-
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quiring of them how and whether the Indians were drunke when the Englishman was killed, and they answered all Indians were drunke or else they had not killed Englishman. And farther we evidence Tahanto, a Sagamore, being afrayd that we had brought Liquors to sell, desired us if we had any that we would power it uppon the ground, for it would make ye Indians all one Divill."
Whether the " trucking-house " was continued here afterwards we know not-most probably it was.
About 1720, Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and others, of Haverhill, Andover, and that vicinity, petitioned for a tract of land "situated on the river Merrymake, at the lower end of Penacook;"' but their petition was not granted until 1725. The next year a Committee appointed by the Gov- ernment of Massachusetts with a Committee from the Grantees, laid out a hundred and three house lots on the river; and considerable progress was made before winter. A block-house, 25 by 40 feet, was begun, and finished the succeeding year. This stood near the present residence of Nathan Stickney, Esq.
On the 20th of May, 1727, the Government of New Hampshire blindly made a grant of land to Jona. Wiggin, which covered a large portion sey- erally of Concord, Pembroke and Hopkinton. This caused much difficulty; and it was not final- ly settled until 1762.
On the 15th of February, 1728, the first white child was born in Penacook,-Dorcas, daughter of Flward and Dorcas Abbot; she died Sept. 28, 1797. The house in which she was born stood on the ground now occupied by Dr. Chadbourne's residence.
On the 8th of March, 1727, a Committee was " empowered to agree with a minister to preach at Penacook," but not to assure him more than £100 per annum for his services. Mr. Enoch Coffin, who came as chaplain to the surveying Commission, preached until his death, which took
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place August 7, 1727. The proprietors at Brad- ford having empowered Mr. Bezaliel Tappan to preach, nothing was done towards procuring a regular clergyman until October 14, 1730, when Mr. Timothy Walker was employed at £100 a year.
During 1780, the burial ground now opposite the M. B. Institute was laid out; also, the first bridge built in town, over the Soucook river.
The first legal town meeting,-the town having obtained "town privileges," in consequence of having 80 families within its borders, on the 31st of July, 1731,-was held July 11, 1732, at the meeting-house-the block-house before spoken of. Capt. Ebenezer Eastman was chosen moderator, and the usual town officers were then chosen for the ensuing year. The minister's salary was rais- ed to £110 .- The next town-meeting, besides its usual business, granted a bounty of 20s. on every wolf killed within the township; Gs. on every rat- tlesnake, and ld. on every " blackbird." [crow ? ] They also offered a mill privilege free on Turkey river, and 100 acres of land as a premium, to any person who would build a mill on the said river.
In 1733, the town was regularly incorporated by the Government of Massachusetts ( New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts then being one Govern- ment, ) under the name of Rumford. At the town meeting, this year, $50 were granted Mr. Walker for building him a house, which building, we be- lieve, is still occupied by one of his descendants, Joseph B. Walker, Esq. It is the oldest house in town, and is said to be also the oldest between Boston and Canada. The first appropriation was also made for a school, which was taught by James Scales, afterward minister of Hopkinton. His salary was C16.
In 1739 apprehensions of the hostility of the Indians on the North began to be felt, and a stockade was accordingly built round the parson- age house. No demonstration of hostility was
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made, however, until 1742, when the wife of Mr. Jona. Eastman was made prisoner and carried to Canada. She was soon afterwards redeemed. In this year the first school house was built "near the clay-pits," now understood to have been about ten rods south of the Court House.
On the 8th of August, 1746, a party of one hundred Indians from Canada came into town with an intention to destroy it. In expectation of their hostility, Capt. Daniel Ladd, with a compa- ny of forty men from Exeter, arrived the same day, and two other companies were already sta- tioned in town. The Indians discovering this, concluded to lie concealed till the Sunday follow- ing, when they determined to massacre the people assembled in the meeting-house. But they went armed, which disappointed their intentions. One party of the Indians was concealed in a thicket of alders, growing where the house No. 144 Main street now stands, and another in the bushes on the North, between the old North Church and Mr. Towle's house. Some of them were seen by a lit- tle girl during the exercises; but she did not make it known till the meeting closed, when the people marched out in a body, and the Indians conclud- ed to abandon the attack. They then retired to the woods, and laid in ambush, ready to capture whoever might fall in their way.
On the 11th, zeven of the inhabitants set out for Hopkinton, all armed. One of the party, (O. Peters,) having proceeded some distance in ad- vance of the others, sat down to wait their ap- proach. The Indians rose from their ambush, fired and killed him on the spot. His friends had just gained the summit of the hill; and being deceived as to the number of the Indians, they fired their pieces and rushed down among them. The whole body of Indians than arose, being about 100 in number. Jonathan Bradley now urged his com- rads to fly; but it was too late-the work of de- struction had commenced. Samuel Bradley was shot through the body, stripped of his clothing,
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and scalped. To Jonathan they offered " good quarter," having been acquainted with him; but he fought until they literally hewed him down, when they scalped and stripped him. Two others, John Bean and John Lufkin, attempting to flee, were killed at the same fire with Samuel Bradley. Alexander Roberts and William Stickney were made prisoners, and taken to Canada. Upon the alarm given, the soldiers and the people repaired to the scene of slaughter. As they approached, the Indians were seen upon the retreat. The bodies were brought away, and interred in the church-yard the following day. Six of the Indians were killed, and several wounded.
On the 22d (corresponding to the 11th, O. S.) of August, 1837, a monument was erected by the descendants of Samuel Bradley to mark the spot where the massacre took place. An address was delivered on the occasion by ASA MCFARLAND, Esq. This monument stands on the North side of the road, about a mile and a half from the State House; it is a plain granite obelisk, twelve feet in height, resting upon a base somewhat elevated, with the following inscription :- " This Monument is in memory of SAMUEL BRADLEY, JONATHAN BRADLEY, OBADIAH PETERS, JOHN BEAN, and JOHN LUFKIN, who were massacred, August 11, 1746, by the Indians. Erected 1837. by Richard Brad- ley, son of the Hon. John Bradley, and grandson of Samuel Bradley."
The Indians continued to lurk round the town without doing much mischief, until the 10th of the following November when they made a Mr. Estabrooks prisoner. The alarm of the inhabit- ants became so great that they petitioned for mili- tary assistance, which was furnished them accord- ing to their need. Notwithstanding, great harm was done by the "bludy salvages," in the way of shooting cattle, destroying crops, &c.
In August, 1747, Capt. Ebenezer Eastman died. He was one of the earliest and most introped set- tlers of the town. Hle figured in the Indian wars,
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as well as in the Port Royal and Louisburg expe- ditions. His house was near that now occupied by John Eastman, Esq., on the East Side. It was a block-house, and the writer of this well remem- bers secing the ruins of it within twelve years .- It was this "block-house " that gave the name of " the Fort " to the village latterly more com- monly called the " East Side."
From 1756 to '66 several petitions were presen- ted for an act of re-incorporation, to which those interested in Bow lands always successfully ob- jected to. The origin of this controversy arose from the construing of the Charter of Charles II to Massachusetts to cover three miles North of the Merrimack. Under this the Government of Mas- sachusetts granted Penacook, and subsequently Suncook (Pembroke) to the 47 surviving soldiers of the doughty Capt. Lovewell, for their valor in the Pequacket fight. These two grants covered about thirteen square miles. When the former was being laid out, the Government of New Hamp- shire, (located at Exeter,) sent a Commission to forbid the proceeding, to which no notice was given. Two years after the laying out of Pena- cook, the New Hampshire authority granted eigh- ty-one square miles of land to Jonathan Wiggin, which covered the greater part of the two before- mentioned grants. In about twenty years, after Penacook and Suncook had become thriving towns, and while Bow was yet only laid out and survey- ed, a bitter contest grew up between the two Colo- nies in consequence of the conflicting grants. The dispute went before the King for a hearing, who finally decided that the "Northern lwundry of Massachusetts should be a curved line pursuing the course of the Merrimack river, at three miles distance on the North, begining on the Atlantic Ocean, and ending at a point due North of Paw- tucket falls, thence to the West of his majesty's other possessions." By this decision Rumford fell into the borders of New Hampshire.
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appropriated lands on the northern borders of the township claimed by the Bow grantees, long and vexatious law suits were maintained by them against the settlers. Rev. Mr. Walker visited England as the deputy of the Rumford people, and succeeded in obtaining a grant of £100 to defray the expenses accrued by defence against the Bow grantees, and also a complete settlement of the whole matter in dispute.
On the 17th of June, 1765, the Government of New Hampshire granted a new charter to this town, comprising " a part of the town of Bow, and some lands adjoining thereto," under the name of CONCORD.
During the Revolution, the people of Concord were unsurpassed in their devotion to liberty .- On the reception of the news of Lexington battle, Capt. Chandler, with his company of thirty men, hastened to Cambridge and joined the army. But as two other companies were raised from this vi- cinity for a definite period of service, they return- ed home. One citizen from Concord was killed at Bunker Hill, and one wounded. Of the Vigilance Committee for 1776-7 the venerable Richard Her- bert still lives, at an age something over ninety.
On the 2nd of September, 1782, died the ven- erable Timothy Walker, minister of the town for fifty-two years.
On the 2nd of June, 1781, the adoption of the State Constitution was recognized in Concord with religious solemnity.
In 1782, Main Street was laid out.
The "Old North Church," (now Methodist Biblical Institute, ) was begun in 1751, and finish- ed in 1785. The semi-circuler part was added in 1802.
On the first of July, 1789, Mr. Israel Evans was inducted into the ministry as Mr. Walker's successor. He continued in office until 1797, when he resigned.
On the 27th of June, 1798, Mr. Asa MeFarland was installed as Mr. Evans' successor.
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August 30, 1790, the town voted "one hundred pounds for building a house for the accommodation of the General Court," to be 80 by 40 feet, and 15 feet post. This building was not finished in 1796, as it appears £60 were then voted for that purpose. This stood on ground opposite the residence of Dr. McFarland, and extended its length up and down the street. When Merrimack County was form- ed, [1823,] the building was turned round, and another story added to it, making it the building the Court House is remembered to have been be- fore the addition of the new front in 1849.
The building of the Capitol was begun in 1816, and finished 1819. The architects were Messrs. Park and Brigham ; the superintending commit- tee, Messrs. Albe Cady, William Low, and Jere- miah Pecker.
The State Prison was erected 1812, The new portion (north wing) was added in 1832-3.
The Asylum for the Insane was completed in 1849-50, since which time a large addition has been made by building a westerly extension to the north wing.
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