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UNH LIBRARY 3 4600 00600 1025
HISTORY
OF
CARROLL COUNTY,
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
(ILLUSTRATED.)
We tell to-day the deeds of story, And legends of the olden time, While vofres, from an ancient glory, Still charm us as a silver chime. The old and new join loving hands, The past before the present stands; The ages give each other greeting, And years recall their old renown, Their aets of fortitude repeating That won for them historie crown. - Adapted.
The wheels now roll in fire and thunder, And bear us on with startling speed; They shake the dust of nations under The flowers of forest, mount, and mead. The oldtime worthies still are near, The spirit of the past is here; And where we tread, old Indian builders Looked forward through the mists of time As we look back. The scene bewilders! And all the distance is sublime.
GEORGIA DREW MERRILL, Editor.
W. A. FERGUSSON & CO. BOSTON, MASS. 1889.
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COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY W. A. FERGUSSON & Co.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
PRESS OF SAMUEL USHER, BOSTON, MASS.
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F ROM innumerable sources of information, - many of them broken, fragmentary, and imperfect, - from books, manuscripts, records, and private documents, we have gathered much of value respecting this land of Carroll and its savage and civilized occupancy. In our labors we have endeavored to separate truth from error, fact from fiction, as they come down to us from the half-forgotten days in legend, tradition, and the annals of the past.
We express our thanks to those who have willingly given of their time and labor to aid us; to those who have contributed the illustrations, thereby adding much to the value of this work; to those whose cheering words and earnest assistance have ever been at our service; and to all, for the uniform courtesy extended unto us during our sojourn in this most picturesque of counties.
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I. THIE COUNTY OF CARROLL . 1 Organization - Towns Ineluded - Addi- tions - Boundaries - Name - Strafford County - Area-Location and Boundaries - Population, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Wealth - Statistics from Census of 1880 - Financial Condition - Altitudes.
II. GEOLOGY 4 .
Rock Formations - Rock Systems - The Age of Ice- Glacial Drift - Lower Till - Upper Till - Champlain Period - Kames - Recent or Terrace Period, etc. etc.
. III. GEOLOGY. - (Continued) 8
Modified Drift, etc. - Saco River - Pine River-Ossipee Lake - Altitudes around Winnipiseogee Lake- Departure of the Ice Sheet - Lake Basins - Terraees - Kames - Clay -Dunes - Lake District Elevations -Conway Bowlders - The Washington Bowlder - Ordination Rock - Madison Bowlder - White Mountain Granites.
IV. MINERALS 16
Copper - Arsenic - Galenite and Silver - Bornite - Sphalerite - Pyrite - Chalcopy- rite - Arsenopyrite - Fluorite - IIematite - Magnetite - Tin - Limonite - Quartz - Beryl - Epidote - Mica - Feldspar - Tourmaline - Chiastolite - Fibrolite - Apatite - Scorodite - Calcite - Novaculite - Gold.
V. FLORA . 19 . .
Alleghanian, Canadian, Arctic or Alpine Divisions - White-Pine - Pitch and Red Pine - Hemlock - Oaks - Chestnut - But- ternut - Elm - Maples - Birches - Beech - Black and White Ash - Black, Choke, and Fire Cherries - Black Spruce - White Spruce - Balsam-Fir - American Larch - Poplar - Small Trees and Shrubs - Alpine Plants.
VI. INDIAN HISTORY 23
Aboriginal Indians - Iroquois - Mohawks - Algonquins - New England Tribes - Wigwams- Social Life, Government, and Language -Food-Religion-Taratines- War, Famine, and Plague- Nipmucks - Passaconaway - Wonalancet - Kaneama-
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gus -Lovewell's Enterprises, Battle, etc. - Death of Pangus - Abenaquis - St Francis Village - Bounties for Scalps and Prisoners.
VII. EARLY HISTORY 39 The Sokokis and Pequawkets - Eastern Boundary Line - Walter Bryant's Journal - Continuation of Boundary Line - Rang- ing Parties and Military Occupation - Early Grants - Townships Granted - First Settlement - Early Censuses - Pop- ulation, Polls, and Real Estate - Rapid Increase - Early Selectmen.
VIII. EARLY LAND GRANTS, TITLES, ETC. . 44 Grants by James I -North Virginia - Ply- mouth Company - Captain John Smith - New England - Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason -Province of Maine - Laconia - First Settlement of New Hampshire - Annulling of Plymonth Charter- Death of John Mason - Liti- gation - Robert Tufton Mason - Gov- ernor Benning Wentworth - Twelve Pro- prietors and their Grants - Legislative Settlements of Mason's Grant.
IX. EARLY SETTLERS 50
Character of Early Settlers of New Hamp- shire - Concerning the Houses, Manner of Living. etc. - "The Meeting-house " - Minister - Traveling - Labor - Chil- dren - Carroll County Pioneers - Hard- ships - Privations - Sufferings - Educa- tion - Dress, etc.
X. PRIMITIVE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS . 55 Clearing Land - Planting - First Crops - Preparation of Flax - Carding - Garments - Houses - Modes of Traveling - Food - Primitive Cooking - " Driving" - Game - Liquors - Tools- Spinning - Loom and Weaving.
XI. ROADS 63 Indian Trails - Roads, Turnpikes, and Highways - Early Post-routes - Extracts from Governor and Lady Frances Went- worth's Letters - Return of the Governor's Road to Plymouth - A Coach and Six --
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Turnpikes - Canals - Railroads - Lake Navigation.
XII. REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD AND WAR
OF' 1812 . 73
The Association Test - Patriotic Spirit - Colonel Poor's Regiment - Bounty and Encouragement -Names of Recruits -Col- onel Badger's Return - Colonel Badger's Report to Committee of Safety - Names of Officers and Soldiers -Scouting Parties - Wakefiekl - Wolfeborough - Effingham - Moultonborough - Tamworth - Conway - Sandwich -Tenth and Fourteenth Regi- ments - War of 1812.
XIII. WHITE MOUNTAINS 87
Topography - Mt Starr King Group - Mt Carter Group - Mt Washington Range - Cherry Mountain District - Mt Willey Range - Passaconaway Range - Albany Mountains - Pequawket Area -History - Mythology - First Visited - Winthrop's Account - Darby Field's Ascent - Josse- lyn's Description - " The Chrystal Hills " - Later Visits - Western Pass or " Notch " - First Settlement - Scientific Explorations - Scenery of the " Notch" - Nash and Sawyer's Grant -" A Horse through the Notch " - Sawyer's Rock - First Articles of Commerce - Tenth New Hampshire Turnpike - Brackett's Account of Naming and Ascertaining the Heights - Other Scientific Visitors Hardships of Early Settlers - First House in the " Notch " - Crawford's Cabin on the Summit - Summit House - Tip-top House - First Winter Ascent - Carriage Road - Glen House - Mt Wash- ington Railway - Mountain Tragedies - " Among the Clouds " - Signal Station - Mt Washington Summit House.
XIV. SCENERY; ATTRACTIONS, TRADI-
TIONS. AND LEGENDS OF CARROLL, 101 Observation Points: - Copple Crown - Moose Mountain - " Tumble-down Dick " - Mt Delight -Green Mountain - Mt Prospect -- Pocket Hill - Batson Hill - Trask's Hill - Whiteface and Cotton Moun- tains-Ossipee Mountains- Mt Shaw - Ossipee Park --- Whittier Peak - Unele Tom's Hill -Red Hill - Mt Israel - Sand- wich Dome - Mt Whiteface -- Passacona- way - The Potash- Mt Paugus - Mt Wonalaneet - Mt Chocorua = Apostrophe to Chocorua -- Gow Hill - Bear Mountain Table Mountain Mote Mountain Eagle and White-horse Ledges - Haystack Mountain - Cathedral Ledge - - Devil's Den -- Mt Attitash - Conway's Green
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Hills - Mt Kearsarge - Thorn Mountain -Iron Mountain - Double-head - Spruee, Black, and Sable Mountains - Baldface - Lyman, Glines, and Cragged Mountains.
XV. SCENERY, ATTRACTIONS,
TRADI-
TIONS, AND LEGENDS OF CAR- ROLL. - (Continued) . . 109
Character of First Settlers - Lake Winni- piseogee - Squam Lake- Squaw Cove- Sandwich Notch - Chocorua - Paugus.
XVI. SCENERY, ATTRACTIONS, TRADI- TIONS, AND LEGENDS OF CAR- ROLL. - (Coneluded) . . . 125 Champney Falls -Bear Camp River - The Great Carbunele - Saco River - The Story of Nancy - Carter Notch - Pinkham Notch - Boott's Spur - The Crystal Caseade - Glen Ellis Falls- Goodrich Falls-Conway - Echo Lake - Diana's Bath - Artists' Brook - Thomas Starr King - The Poet Whittier.
XVII. MILITARY HISTORY . 134
Military Affairs in Carroll County Prior to 1861- Soldiers in the Rebellion 1861 to 1865.
XVIII. MASONIC, ODD FELLOW, MEDICAL,
AND TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS, 186 MASONIC. - Morning Star Lodge, Wolfe- borough - Charter Oak Lodge, Ethingham - Unity Lodge, Union - Carroll Lodge, Freedom - Red Mountain Lodge, Sandwich - Ossipee Valley Lodge, Centre Ossipee - Mount Washington Lodge, North Conway - Officers of the Grand Lodge. ODD FEL- LOWSHIP. - Saco Valley Lodge, North Con- way - Bear Camp Lodge. Sandwich -Cold River Lodge, Tamworth - Osceola Lodge, Bartlett - Trinity Lodge, Eaton - Fidelity Lodge, Wolfeborough - Crystal Lodge, Madison - Carroll County Medical Society -- Work of the Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union.
XIX. NEWSPAPERS AND MANUFACTURES. 221 Newspapers - Charles Il. Parker - Timber and Lumbering- Maple-sugar Making - Other Resources - Healthfulness-Why Manufacturers Should Locate Here -- Em igration Should Tend Hitherward.
XX. STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS . 23
Delegates to Constitutional Conventions- Early Representatives-Classed Representa tives - Members of Congress - State Cour cillors - Presidents of the Senate -Stat Senators - Justices of Court of Session Justices of Court of Common Pleas. County Justices Clerks of Superior Court Court of Common Pleas, and Suprem
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Court -Judges of Probate - Registers of Probate and Deeds - Treasurers - Soliei- tors - Sheriff's - Commissioners.
XXI. COURTS AND COUNTY BUILDINGS 238
History of the Courts-The Superior Court of Judicature -The Inferior Court of Common Pleas - The Court of General Ses- sions of the Peace - Probate Court - Trial Terms - Court-House - County Farm, House, and Jail.
XXII. COURTS, LAWYERS, AND NOTABLE
TRIALS 242 Introduction - James Otis Freeman-Sam- uel Emerson - Samuel Peabody - Judge Charles A. Peabody-Ira A. Bean-Lawyer Everett - Robert Tibbets Blazo-William M. Weed - Nathaniel Quimby - Aaron Becde Hoyt- Neal McGaffey - John Mc- Gaffey - Judge David Hammonds Hill - Erastus P. Jewell -Henry Asa Folsom - A. Birnay Tasker-Levi Folsom-Henry C. Durgin - George P. Davis - Elbridge Fogg - Charles E. Hoag -Horace L. Had- ley - William B. Fellows - Alonzo Me- Crillis - David MeCrillis - Samuel Hidden Wentworth - Paul Wentworth -Moses J. Wentworth - George Winslow Wiggin - Alpheus B. Stickney - William Quinby- Aaron Beede, Jr-John Peavey -Zachariah Batchelder-Joseph Farrar-Charles F. Hill - William Copp Fox - Edwin Pease - George E. Beacham-Sewall W. Abbott - Joseph Tilton - David Copp, Jr - Amasa Copp - William Sawyer - Josiah Hilton Hobbs-Luther Dearborn Sawyer-George Y. Sawyer-Hon. Joshua Gilman Hall - John Paul-Amasa C. Paul-Charles Ches- ley-Frank Hobbs-Charles W. Sanborn - Edward A. Paul-Arthur L. Foote-Josiah Dearborn - Samuel Q. Dearborn - Hayes Lougee - John Sumner Runnells -Orestes Topliff - Nicholas G. Blaisdell - Elmer Smart - Josiah H. Hobbs - Uriah Copp, Jr - Sanborn B. Carter - Buel Clinton Carter-Samuel D. Quarles-Frank Weeks - Oliff Ceeil Moulton - George Barstow French - Charles B. Gafney - Zara Cutler - Benjamin Boardman - Obed Hall-Hon. Joel Eastman - Francis Russell Chase - Charles B. Shackford - John Colby Lang Wood - John B. Nash - Frederic B. Os- good - Hon. G. W. M. Pitman - Seth Wy- man Fife- John Bickford - James A. Edgerly - Conclusion - Notable Trials.
XXIII. WOLFEBOROUGH 279 Kingswood - Grant - Grantees - Associ- ates -Township Defined - Wolfeborough
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Addition, ete. - Topography-Bays-Lake Wentworth - Ponds - Mountains-Abori- gines- Name - Survey -Committee for Settling - Miles Road - Elisha Bryant - Drawing of Lots - First Mills - The Ncek -First Settlers -Forfeitures - Charter - Action of Town in First Meetings - Fair - Quaint Records - Officers- Prosperity and Depression - Ammunition -Committee of Safety - Inventories of 1776- Governor Wentworth and his Farm.
XXIV. WOLFEBOROUGH. - (Continued) . 296 Something about the Proprietors- Early Settlers-Early Families and their Descend- ants.
XXV. WOLFEBOROUGH. - (Continued) . . 312 Revolution-Proprietors and the Land they Owned - Schools - Advancement of the Town - Wolfeborough Village about 1800 - Action of Town in Civil War- Later Chronieles - Civil List.
XXVI. WOLFEBOROUGH. - (Continued) . . 325 Church History - Town Meeting-house- Rev. Ebenezer Allen - Congregational Church -North Wolfeborough Congrega- tional Church - First Freewill Baptist Church- Rev. Isaac Townsend-Deacon B. F. Parker-Second Freewill Baptist Church -First Christian Church - Second Christian Church -Second Advents-First Unitarian Society -Church Buildings.
XXVII. WOLFEBOROUGH. - (Continued) . 347 Schools - Early Teachers - " Master Con- nor" - School Districts - School Com- mittees - School Money - Wolfeborough and Tuftonborongh Academy-Incorpora- tion - Charter - Lot-Proprietors-Acad- emy Building - Chapel - Pewholders - Trustees of Academy - Preceptors-Chris- tian Institute - School Money for 1888- Number of Scholars - Social Library - Brewster Free Academy - Temperance.
XXVIII. WOLFEBOROUGH. - (Coneluded) . 356 Mills and Manufactures - Early Stores and Traders-Taverns -Hotels - Summer Boarding-houses -Insurance Company - Banks - Physicians - Fatal Casualties - Fires - Societies-Brewster Memorial Hall -Present Business Interests - " Pen Pic- ture"-Financial Condition-Biographical Sketches.
XXIX. MOULTONBOROUGH . . 392 Location and Surveys - Grant - Names of Grantces - Bounties to Settlers - Bounties to Mill-builders- Petition of Proprietors - Incorporation - Name.
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XXX. MOULTONBOROUGH. - (Continned) . 396 Boundaries - Moultonborough Neck and Long Island - Brown Family - East Moul- tonborough - Moultonborongh Falls - Moultonborongh Corner - Red Mountain - The Cook Family - Ossipee Mountain - Ossipee Park-B. F. Shaw - Ponds and Streams-Little Winnipiseogee Pond-Red Ilill River - Gristmill -Sawmill-Emery's Mills - Indian Occupancy, Relies, etc. - Early Prices.
XXXI. MOULTONBOROUGH. - (Continued) 401 First Town-meeting - Inventory -Divi- sion Lines - Jonathan Moulton - Moulton- borough and Sandwich Social Library - Colonel Nathan Hoit - 1820 - Early Set- tlers and their Descendants - John Mars- ton -Richardson Family-Smith Family- Lee Family - Evans Family - The Sturte- vants-Moulton. Bean, and Ambrose Fami- lies, etc. - Early Life - Prominent Natives not Residents - Temperance Question.
XXXII. MOULTONBOROUGH. - (Continued) 407 Ecclesiastical-First Meeting-house-Con- gregational Church-Covenant Presented- Signers- Petition in Relation to Rev. Samuel Perley -Rev. Jeremiah Shaw -- Salary - Ordination - Rev. Joshua Dodge -New Church at the Corner - Metho- dist Church - Pastors - Freewill Baptist Church - Christian Baptists and Advent- ist.s.
XXXIII. MOULTONBOROUGH. - (Conehided) 410 Physicians-Business Men-Other Sketches - Action of Town in the Rebellion - Civil List.
XXXIV. TUFTONBOROUGH . .
. 422 Introduction - Boundaries - Description - Scenery -Township Granted - Names on First Inventory -Petition of Woodbury Langdon - Other Petitions- Reception of Petitions, cte. - Act of Incorporation - Record of First Town-meeting - First Roads - First Settlers - Town-house - Public Library.
XXXV. TUFTONBOROUGH. - (Continued) . 430 Congregational Church - Methodist Epis- copal Church - First Christian Church - Second Christian Church -First Freewill Baptist Church-Advent Church -Tem- perance -Schools.
XXXVI. TUFTONBOROUGHL. - (Concluded) 436 Civil War- Postoffices-Villages- Islands - Sketches - Civil List - Biographical Sketches.
XXXVII. BROOKFIELD . 150
Incorporation and Description - Early Set-
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tlers-First Town-meeting - Records of 1795 - Inventory of 1796 - Further Town- meetings - The Haven Farms - Religions Societies - The Great Rebellion - Business Interests, ete. - Prominent Families-Civil List.
XXXVIII. WAKEFIELD 462
Wakefield -Original Name - Incorpora- tion - Changes - Surface - Bodies of Water-Extract from Proprietors' Records -Petition for Incorporation - First Town Officers - Civil List.
XXXIX. WAKEFIELD. - (Continued) . 468 .
Topography-Masonian Proprietors-East Town - Early Settlement - Lots - Early Settlers -Lientenant Jonathan Gilman - Captain Jeremiah Gilman - John Horn - Captain David Copp-Deacon Simeon Dear- born - John Dearborn - JJosiah Page - John Kimball -Noah Kimball-Colonel Jonathan Palmer - Andrew Gilman - Clement Steel - Benjamin Perkins - Rev. Avery Hall - Samuel Sherborn - William Moore.
XL. WAKEFIELD. - (Continued) 473
Early Settlers Continued -Samuel and Joseph Haines - Robert Hardy - Extraet from Diary of Robert Hardy -JJosiah IInn- ford -Samuel, Samuel, Jr, and Abner Allen-Nathaniel Balch-Eliphalet Quimby - Daniel Hall - Samuel Hall- John Serib- ner - Reuben Lang - Jacob Lock -Weeks Family - Mayhew Clark - Nathan Mor- dough -Joseph Maleham - Daniel Ilorn -John Huggins - Benjamin Safford and others- John Wingate- Eliphalet Phil- brook - Captain Robert Calder -Captain Joseph Manson - Joseph Wiggin- Richard Dow- Isaac Fellows-Nathan Dearborn - Thomas Cloutman - Benjamin and David Horn - Simeon, Isaiah, and Jacob Wiggin.
XLI. WAKEFIELD. - (Continued) . . . . 478 Wakefield in the Revolution- Extracts from Records-Signers of Association Test- Captain Gilman - Militia Officers, Requirements, and Supplies - Early Roads -Some Acts which make for Peace and Safety.
XLIL. WAKEFIELD. - (Continued) . 481 Transition State - Petition for Repeal of lauber Act -Petition Relative to Arrears of Taxes- Tax List of 1795 - Town Busi- ness- War of 1812-John Paul- Wake- field in 1817 - Extracts from Town Records and Action of Town-From 1817 to 1842
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The Poor in Town - The Mexican War
-- War for the Union - Action of Town in the Rebellion -Town Debt.
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XLIII. WAKEFIELD. - (Continued) . 487 Ecclesiastical History -Centennial Poem- First Church -Organization -First Men- bers - Early Action - Rev. Asa Piper - Rev. Samuel Nichols - Rev. Nathaniel Barker - Martin Leflingwell-Joseph B. Tufts - Rev. Daniel Dana Tappan - Rev. Alvan Tobey - Rev. Sumner Clark - Rev. George O. Jenness-Rev. Albert H. Thompson - Rev. Lyman White - Early History of Church and Society- Deacons - Other Members - One Hundredth Anni- versary -Second Congregational Church -Organization - Original Members -Min- isters - Deacons - Sunday-school - Free- will Baptist Churches - Methodist Epis- copal Church-Second Advent Church - Episcopal Church - Meeting-houses, etc.
XLIV. WAKEFIELD. - (Continued) 506
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Education, Early Provisions for-Teach- ers' Wages- First Schools - Districts - School Committees-Common Schools - Dow Academy-Wakefield Academy-Col- legiates - Teachers. ete. - Libraries - Societies.
XLV. WAKEFIELD. - (Coneluded) 514 Development - Union Village - Railroads - Wolfboro Junetion - Manufacturing - Population - Polities - East Wakefield - Taverners and Traders-Early Priees - North Wakefield and Wakefield Corner -Physicians-Longevity, ete. - Biographi- val Sketches.
XLVI. EFFINGIIAM 531
Situation - Original Grant -North Effing- ham - Area - Surface - Boundaries - Indian Relies -Proprietors' Meeting - Conditions of Charter-Survey -Early Settlements-Association Test - Early Ac- counts-Pay of Town Officers-Civil List.
XLVII. EFFINGHAM. - (Continued) . . . 538 Roads and Bridges -- Highway Distriets in 1802- Mails, Postoffices, Stage Routes- Effingham Falls-South Effingham -Hunt- ress Neighborhood - Merchants - House on Green Mountain - Ice Cave.
XLVIII. EFFINGHAM. - (Concluded) . . 547
Preaching - Churches- Schools -- Higher Schools - Physicians - Sheriff - F. W. Barker.
XLIX. FREEDOM 560 Incorporation -Description - Boundaries - Population - Freedom Grange -Manu- facturing-Mercantile Houses- Physicians -Ilon. Zebulon Pease - Savings Bank - Baptist Church -Christian Church.
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L. FREEDOM. - (Concluded) . . 567
Civil List -Town Annals - Biographical Sketches.
LI. OSSIPEE 579
Description - Lakes, Streams, and Ponds - Origin of Name - Boundaries and Changes - Incorporation - Forts - Indian Monumental Mound - Where some of the Early Settlers lived - Early Mills -Stores and Traders.
LII. OSSIPEE. - (Continued) . 589 What the Early Records Contain - Early Taverners - Early Marriages - First In- ventory.
LIII. OSSIPEE. - (Continued) 594 Gleanings from Town Records - Action of Town in the War of 1861 - Later Chroni- cles -Condition of Schools.
LIV. OSSIPEE. - (Continued) 603
First Congregational Church - First Meet- ing-house - Freewill Baptist Churches - First Methodist Episcopal Church.
LV. OSSIPEE. - (Continued) . 615
Villages - Ossipee - Centre Ossipee - West Ossipee - Ossipee Valley - Moul- tonville - Water Village - Leighton's Corners - Family and Personal Sketches.
LVI. OSSIPEE. - (Concluded) 633
Civil List Statisties Biographical Sketches.
LVHI. SANDWICHI . 644
Charter-Boundaries - Names of Grantees - Additional Grant - First Meeting of Proprietors - Orlando Weed -Terms of Settlement - Other Settlers-Further En- couragement - Drawing of Lots-Daniel Beede's Survey -Committee to Prosecute Colonel Jonathan Moulton - Proprietors' Gift to Sandwich.
LVIII. SANDWICH. - (Continued) . .. . . 649 Situation -Healthfulness-Scenery-Sand- wich Dome - Red Hill Pond - Wentworth IIill-First Birth - Selectmen's Return in 1775-Some Residents in 1776-French and Indian War - Revolutionary Solliers - Early Traders - Lower Corner -Centre Sandwich, 1800-10 - Business Centres - Early Industries -Physicians - Dentist - Mills and Manufactures - Merchants ---- Sandwich Cattle - Freshets - Longevity -Summer Boarding-houses, etc. ete.
LIX. SANDWICHI. - (Continued). 664 Characteristics of Early Settlers - Emi- gration - Early Population - Early Com- merce and Highways - Place of Settlement - Colonel Jonathan Moulton -The Asso-
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ciation Test- Signers' Names - Inventory of 1783 - Personal Sketches.
LX. SANDWICH. - (Continued) . . . . 677 Church History - Elder Jacob Jewell - Calvinistie Baptists - Freewill Baptist Church - Sketches of some of its Pastors - North Sandwich Freewill Baptist Church - Methodism - Congregational Churches - The Friends - Education - Sandwich Library Association.
LXI. SANDWICHI. - (Concluded) 694 Excerpts from Early and Late Town Records - Action of Town in Civil War - Civil List - Biographical Sketches.
LXII. TAMWORTH . 731
Name - Surface - Bodies of Water - Boundaries - Chocorua Lake - Tamworth - Grantees - First Settlers and Set- tlements - Progress and Prosperity - " Siege of Wolves" -Trout -Tamworth Village - South Tamworth - Hotels - Tamworth Inn -Tamworth Iron Works - Chocorna Honse - Merchants of Tam- worth Iron Works - Cottages - First Inventory - Water-powers, Mills, and Manufacturing.
LXIII. TAMWORTH. - (Continued) 743 Town Annals from 1777 - Action of Town in Civil War-Soldiers in Organizations ontside the State- Civil List and Later Annals.
LXIV. TAMWORTH. - (Continued) . . . 756 Church History - Arrangements for Set- tling Mr Samuel Hdden - Parsonage- Letter of Acceptance -Organization and Ordination - Original Members- Rev. Mr Hidden's Pastorate - The Hidden Monu- ment - Other Pastors - Deacons- Free- will Baptists-Rev. John Runnels - Second, Third, and South Tamworth Bap- tist Churches -- Rev. David Bean -Metho- dist Episcopal Church -" Reminiscences of Rev. Samuel Hidden " - Education.
LXV. TAMWORTH. - (Coneluded) . . . 765 Some Citizens, Families, and Business Interests - Biographical Sketches.
LXVI. ALBANY 782 Grant - Boundaries - Grantees --- Descrip- tion - Settlement - Petition - Orlando Weed -- Colonel JJeremiah Gilman -- Allard Family - Population - Albany in 1868 - Timber Lands = Freewill Baptist. Church - Union Chapel of Chocorna -- Civil List.
LXVII. EATON 788 Date of Grant - Description - Number
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of Polls in 1783-First Town-meeting - Additions to Town - Eaton Centre - Snowville - Mills - William Robertson - Other Early Settlers - Sketches - Churches.
LXVIII. EATON. - (Concluded) . 795
War of 1812 Action in Civil War - Civil List and Extracts from Town Records - Inventory, Valuation, etc., 1889 - Bio- graphical Sketches.
LXIX. MADISON . 802 Organization - Description - Boundaries -- Some Early Settlers - Mills - Silver Mine - Physicians - Early Taverns - Traders - Silver Lake - Silver Lake Vil- lage - Bickford's Cave - Madison Village. LXX. MADISON. - (Coneluded) . 809
. Town Annals -Freewill Baptist Churches - Rev. Charles E. Blake -Civil List - Statistics.
LXXI. CONWAY 815 Introduction - Conditions of Charter and Boundaries - Grantees - Peqnawket - The Original Proprietors and List of Settlers - Andrew McMillan's Petition - Roads - Prominent Settlers - Signers of Association Test - Early Mills - Early Prices - Early Innkeepers - Early Taxes - Early Music - Early Survey - Freshet of October. 1785-Inventory of 1794.
LXXII. CONWAY. - (Continued) . 826 Extracts from Proprietors' Records- Annals from Town Records - Action in the Civil War - Civil List.
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