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THE LEAD MINE
HISTORY OF GOSHEN NEW HAMPSHIRE
SETTLED, 1769 INCORPORATED, 1791
By WALTER R. NELSON
1957
NUMBER
EVANS PRINTING COMPANY CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Goshen Hill
Concerning the poem given below, the author says: "My last return to Goshen was not long before the death of my wife and furnished the inspira- tion for my poem Goshen Hill. Returning from a reading and lecture ap- pointment before the Vermont Author's League, I took Eleanor over the mountain and down to Goshen. I showed her the room in which I and my mother was born, and then we went out to the tie-up. Dropping back to Mill Village, I bought crackers and cheese from John Pike and went up to the pasture. owned by my Grandfather after he sold the old place to his son Fred. I intended to take my wife up the path over which a barefooted boy had traveled to 'fetch' the cows, but a storm drove us back to our car. Shortly before her death Eleanor asked me if I remembered how steep it was when we came down Goshen Hill and hence the poem ... "
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Do you remember Goshen Hill? Goshen Hill . .. Goshen Hill . . .
It was so very very steep: The valley was so very deep And dark with spruce and awesome-still.
Tell me more of Goshen Hill: Goshen Hill . .. Goshen Hill . ..
What is on the other side? It seems to stretch so far and wide That one would reach the Evening Star If he should journey out so far Beyond the green of Goshen Hill.
Some day we both shall go - we will - Up ... and over ... Goshen Hill: Over Goshen Hill - and down - Miles and miles beyond the town Into the shade of Goshen Hill.
Harry Elmore Hurd
All rights reserved by the Author.
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Preface
Fifty-five years' accumulation of stray bits of information about our town and its people is herein brought to fruition. The ingathering has been a constant source of new surprise and fascination; its correlation and presentation has proved to be a matter of tedious and often burdensome detail which I had too long postponed. Needless to say, it is with a deep sense of gratitude to all concerned that this page is written.
In 1902 I had no intent to do more than preserve, if I might, the recollections of the older people then entertaining a boy of twenty, who was hobbling about after a serious infection arising from a dog-bite. Very little printed matter concerning the town was in being at that time and none of it collected, although there had never been a lack of persons capable of the task. Fortunately, anecdotes, names and dates were then gathered that would shortly have been lost for all time. The work was necessarily hasty and it was never in proper shape for a printer. The estimates of the few commercial publishers contacted were out of my reach, relatively small though they were. To do my own printing, then, seemed the only way of accomplishing my purpose. During the early spring of 1903 I took the job of splitting nearly thirty cords of beech and maple block-wood for Uncle Oren Farr and invested the proceeds in the smallest - and cheapest - printing-press advertised in The Youth's Com- panion, that most valuable household journal of the time. The chase of this little press was only three by five inches in type- space, but upon it an edition of 145 copies of "An Historical and Industrial Sketch of Goshen," of ninety pages, was labori- ously set and printed by hand, one page at a time. Frequently the home-made type-case became so depleted that the text had to be revised in order to make use of other letters that were in stock. When the cast-iron pressure-arm snapped in two during operation, it was O. A. Lear, the village-blacksmith, who laid aside his other work to fashion with great care a new arm from a bar of toughest drill-steel. Printing was completed in June, when the days were long and warm, and the pamphlets, stapled and bound in blue blotting-paper covers, were offered for sale at fifty cents each.
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It was by this very amateurish production that I became an historian. Occasionally thereafter notes from old letters, family genealogy and the like were brought to my attention and the notations, often made upon such scraps of paper as were at hand when the informant was speaking, collected in increasing confusion.
In 1918, during World War I, and again in the years of the Second World War, 1942, '43 and '44, I made what use I could, aside from work at the shipyards, of the vital-records in which Portsmouth abounds, to round out the background of the Goshen pioneers at the source.
Into our busy family-circle there came, in 1921, a veritable fairy god-mother of genealogical lore in the person of Mrs. Anna Margaret (Chandler) Riley, then living in Claremont, though born in Newbury, Jan. 15, 1838. She was, therefore, eighty-three years of age, although her sprightliness and vigor of mind gave little hint of it. She had vainly offered her services in the prepa- ration of a history of Newbury, years before, a task for which she was preeminently fitted could she have forgotten and for- given more of the old frictions. It was now her consuming desire to press my delayed work to completion. She spent the spring and early summer with us, copying town, school and church records in her very exact longhand, and supplying much genea- logical material from her own overflowing note-books. We were all such busy folks then and every dollar of income was ear- marked by necessity for furtherance of the family welfare. No financial sponsor appearing, her hopes were again frustrated. Would that it might have been otherwise.
However, during portions of 1934 and '35, I wrote a series of historical articles which Editor Harry B. Metcalf of the Argus-Champion kindly printed, thereby augmenting readily available data to the extent that some of the papers in which they appeared were laid aside for further reference. The need for a more permanent record still persisted and efforts were twice put forth in town-meeting to provide a small sum for the purpose, met opposition and came to naught.
At the annual town-meeting in March, 1953, an article was inserted in the warrant, to see if the town would "print the
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history of Goshen." It appears that Albert DeRobertis, then chairman of the Board of Selectmen and a promoter of the local Kiwanis Club, sponsored the article, with a reprint of the little Sketch of 1903 in mind. He had slipped the item in hastily, without approval by the Budget Committee, and the proposi- tion would have died ignominiously then and there had not legal quibbles been overcome during debate to allow the approval of $100.00 to be spent for historical purposes. That the actual compilation of a revised and extended history would better serve the public than a reprint of the early edition was mani- fest to those of us who had for so long persisted in hope. Mr. DeRobertis gracefully accepted this view and I was given - or seized, the point not being quite clear here - the coveted honor of writing Chapter I, Formation of the Town, with the express provision that this portion, if opportunity offered, would serve as a part of the proposed volume-to-come. A pamphlet of 22 pages was produced as a result and distributed without charge to all inhabitants of the town and such friends abroad as would seem to appreciate it. The response to this visual ap- peal was sufficient to ensure the further appropriation, in March, 1954, of $500. The knowledge that printing-costs were at an all-time high and the appropriation insufficient did not lessen the rejoicing of the friends of the History; a concrete founda- tion had been supplied and efforts were at once put forth to build well upon it.
A History Committee of three was appointed by the Moder- ator to conserve the appropriated fund and comprised Arthur W. Nelson, Jr., chairman and treasurer, Doris C. Newman and Ivan E. Scranton. The members of this Committee deserve great credit for their understanding collaboration.
Completion of the work has been delayed overlong. Apologies will avail little. What counts most, it seems to me, is that delay and discouragement have been, not victors, but vanquished.
WALTER R. NELSON
Goshen, New Hampshire
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Acknowledgments
The years since publication of the little Sketch have been so many that I realize full well the impossibility of giving due credit to all those who have helped in my historical searchings and those who have tried to help. It appears that I am not one easily assisted. I have to grope along in an unsystematic way all my own.
Those most vitally affected have been the beloved members of my own family who have had to live with me during the span of this obsession - my parents, ever optimistic and hopeful that my dream of a creditable history would some day be ful- filled; my wife, bearing all things with sweetness; my daughter Doris who has corrected proof and advised as to form and con- struction; my brother Arthur W., and my nephew, Arthur, Jr., without whose opportune and steadfast help this volume would not have taken form.
The elderly friends of my boyhood were named in the Sketch: Mr. Hiram Sholes; John R. Cutts; Jonathan Ingalls; Miss Lemira Underwood and her sister Mary, my revered teacher; F. L. Hanson; Mrs. Harvey Baker; Mrs. Ellen Pike; Mr. and Mrs. Oren E. Farr; Mr. Wm. H. McCrillis and C. M. Brown, the two latter of Newport.
In later years there were correspondents from farther points, some of whom I never saw: genial Austin B. Willey of Clare- mont; John B. Meserve, Esq., member of the Shipping Board in President Wilson's administration; George S. Woodward of Belmont, Mass .; Lt. Com. Matthew Thornton Betton, ret., of Portsmouth; Mrs. Grace (Lear) Woodward, Orford; John Mc- Crillis, Esq. of Newport; Maj. S. H. Edes, gracious historian, to name but a few.
Then of the present there are my fellow-townsmen, John G. Pike, Mrs. Helen A. Brigham, Imri G. Crane, Harry G. Bartlett, Mrs. Lucy F. Newton, Mrs. C. J. Oliphant, Albert DeRobertis, all having a vital share in this production.
At Keene probate records and the files of Cheshire County deeds proved of such fascination to me that I may have erred in giving too much space to boundaries and surveys. In defense
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I would point out the proven value therein contained of names definitely located on certain dates. The New Hampshire His- torical Society at Concord early became my headquarters during legislative sessions and every courtesy has been extended to me by the Librarian, Miss Charlotte Conover, and her fellow- workers. Mrs. Alice Thompson, professional genealogist of Concord, has also been of the utmost assistance. At the N. H. Highway Department, the late N. O. Whitford brought forth a long-lost Wadleigh map of Goshen and devoted hours of his valuable time to discussion of early roads, in which he was an authority. Ernest L. Sherman, Director of the State Planning and Development Commission, has freely shared his knowledge of Colonial New Hampshire with me. Indeed, courtesies and helpfulness without stint or measure have met me at every turn.
We are known to be powerfully influenced by our early sur- roundings. My recollections have largely been of Goshen, its sounds, its far vistas, the tang of the far-off sea when the wind draws from the east, the pungency of wood-smoke, the heat of the summer sun in haying-fields; all these have made up the intangibles that are woven into a man's heart and fiber. I am not ashamed to own it. There were starlight nights when the farm-horse, drawing us resolutely up the hills from evening prayer-meeting, would breast the last rise and break into a trot for the home-barn. The encircling mountains, whom we knew intimately by day, lay before us dim with mystery and if Mother did not murmur the inspired words of the Psalmist we knew they were on her lips and our eyes and hearts were lifted up to the eternal majesty of Creation. Could it have been otherwise - that a definite devotion, even the imperfect writing of a history, should have had its birth in such an hour?
In conclusion it may not be amiss to add that if the same forbearance be practiced by the reader as shown by the printers, The Evans Printing Company, this work may prove to fill the needful office so fondly hoped for it.
WALTER R. NELSON
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Table of Contents
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
CHAPTER
I. Formation of the Town; Incorporation, First Census 13
II. Early Settlement 27
III. The Province Road 32
IV. Mason's Curve Line in the Saville Area 48
V. Corey's Town and Road 59
VI. Early Families.
First Section; Grindle, Gunnison, Lang, Lear, Rand, Sherburne 66
VII. Indian Days 100
VIII. Signers of the "Association Test." Trials of War 105
IX. Old Roads.
County Road; Croydon Turnpike 112
X. Early Religious Influences 122
XI. Goshen's First Minister
XII. Taverns 126
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XIII. The Militia System 135
XIV. Wild Game 139
XV. Happenings in the Town 145
XVI. Early Industries 166
XVII. The Old Town Meeting House
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XVIII. Churches 210
XIX. The Pierce Graphite Mine 235
XX. Schools and Schoolhouses 245
XXI. £ Mail Service 257
XXII. Captain John W. Gunnison 259
XXIII. Merchants and Tradespeople
273
XXIV. Professional History
292
XXV. Narratives 308
XXVI. Library Matters
323
XXVII. The Eventful Later Years 330
XXVIII. Farming and Allied Activities 342
XXIX. Endeavors in Many Fields 353
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Military Records 371
XXXI. Early Families. Second Section 383
Resident Voters and Elected Officials, 1956
INDEX 442
Illustrations
The Lead Mine
PAGE Frontispiece
Portion of early Holland map
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Portion of Mason Curve Line
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Portion of map of Wendell
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FACING PAGE
Old Mills
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Mill Dam and Saw Mill
166
Horse-powered Log Saw
167
Old Blacksmith Shop
167
Rev. E. D. Farr
228
Community Baptist Church
228
Sunapee Mountain
229
Congregational Church
229
Capt. John W. Gunnison
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Old Goshen Home
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Fireplace in Boyhood Home
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Althine F. Lear
302
Harry Elmore - Hurd?
302
Walter R. Nelson
302
Dr. Fred P. Jones
302
Village Streets, 1930
303
Dedication of Memorial
332
Clover Ridge Creamery
332 332
Old Rand House
332
Sunapee Mt. Grange Hall
333
Dedication of Goshen-Lempster Cooperative School
333
First Gas Station
360
F. L. Hanson Store
360
North Main Street
361
Views of the McCrillis Centennial Celebration, 1873
412
Rev. Nathaniel Gunnison 413
Thaddeus M. Fuller 413
Hiram Sholes 413
Hial F. Nelson 413
Monument at Goshen
Stairway in Boyhood Home
Chimney Rock
HISTORY OF GOSHEN
CHAPTER I
Formation of the Town
G OSHEN was formed from adjoining portions of Fishersfield T (Newbury), Wendell (first Corey's Town, then Saville, now Sunapee), Newport, Unity and Lempster, with a narrow strip of mountain-land from the town of Washington. It was incor- porated December 27, 1791.
Historical matters are thus complicated, because original records of the contributing towns must be examined and com- pared.
Swinging in a strong and rugged curve to east and south, the Sunapee mountain range is thrown, making a barrier difficult to cross, and inverse to the historic Mason's Curve Line which, established by Royal grant in 1729, laid its invisible sovereignty over a large part of New Hampshire. In short, had the moun- tain curved the other way, bowing west instead of east, the Curve Line would have practically followed along its crest and there would have been no need of a new township. But the mountain and the Curve Line did not coincide and the boundary laid down did leave portions of Newbury - albeit they were very rough portions - at a discouraging distance from the ancient town-center shown on early maps with its graveyard and meet- ing-house, the latter long since gone.
On these westerly mountain-slopes several small streams have their sources, flowing down into the narrow valley of the South Branch of Sugar River. In reality it is this watershed that by act of incorporation became united in the new town of Goshen.
To citizens of Fishersfield formation of the new town was en- tirely logical. In a petition to the General Court, May 20, 1791, bearing the signatures of thirty-six Fishersfield voters, it was represented "that the Southwest Corner of this Town, Lying
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upon the west side of a great Mountain, so that it is Impossible for it to be commoded by the Centert of this Town which is the reason for its not being settled before now for they could not get from the Corner of said Town without going through a part of Wendell to (or, around. Ed.) the north End of said Moun- tain and when travel'd five Miles they would be no nearer the Center than when first set out Therefore we think it reasonable and Necessary that it should be Incorporated with the corners of several other Towns. Provided it does not include Samuel Gunnison farm."* In a subsequent petition, Oct. 18, the farm of William Gunnison, as well, was to be reserved to Fishersfield, both men highly esteemed by their neighbors. Finally, no Fishersfield citizen was disannexed.
With whom the idea first originated is not known. The "Peti- tion of Daniel Grindle and others" gives the earliest mention of the proposed separation. This probably refers to the Petition for a new town, 1789, given in N. H. Town Papers, Vol. 13, p. 501-2, although Daniel Grindle's name therein is placed almost at the last of the signers, as will be seen. By this the inference may be drawn that he was certainly one of the active partici- pants in the agitation. The record follows:
"The Petition of us the Subscribers Inhabitants of Wendell Lempster Unity Newport and Fishersfield living on a Tract of Land lying in the Re- mote corners of the Towns aforesaid which makes it Exceedingly Incon- venient on account of all Town affairs as Publick Town Meetings and Religious Societies by our being at Such A Distance from the Center of those Towns that we are now Incorporated with, Therefore the Prayers of your petitioners is that your Honrs will Consider us in our Situation and Incorporate us as a Town as shall be Set forth in the Plan herewith Exhib- ited or otherwise as your Honrs in your Wisdom Seem meet and your peti- tioners as in duty bound Shall ever Pray
Lemster December ye 22 A D 1789
Asa Hebard
John Wheeler
William Lang
Benjn Willey
James Libbey
Stephen Lang
Allen Willey Jr
Parker Tandy
Daniel Grendel
Milan Hebard
George W. Lear Arthur Humphrey
Luther Martin
Joseph Lear
Stephen Gilman
+The old Newbury Town Center, one mile east of Highway 103, is a place of much interest to the visitor. Only its cemetery, overgrown with low blueberries, and its cellar- holes remain.
*Town Papers, Vol. 12, p. 667.
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Nathan Willey Benjamin Rand Reuben Willey Benjamin Rand
Elisha Thacher
Eleazer Cary
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Ephraim Gull (nn)ison George Ayres
Daniel Shirbon
Nathanill Gunnison
Daniel Shirbon Jr Moses True
N. B Said Town to be bounded as followeth (viz) Beginning on Newport South line About fifty Rods west of gilmans mils thence South four Milds and three Quaters or So far as to be parralel with the South line of fishers- field thence East four milds thence North five milds and 140 Rods thence westerly four milds and One third to the first mentoned bounds."
The proposition was at once assailed by a large majority of Lempster citizens and strongly-worded protests are found upon record (see "Lempster", N. H. Town Papers, Vol. 12, p. 399- 403). Sixty-two names in opposition to the plan are found affixed to a petition to the General Court, dated May 17, 1790, but were somewhat offset by a counter-petition a year later, May 24, 1791, signed by twenty-four Lempster inhabitants, including Charles, David and Allen Willey, Phineas, Sylvester and Elijah Abell, Peter Lowell, Resolved Wheeler, and some others who were probably residents of the portion later to be known as Goshen Four Corners. These are familiar Goshen names; their owners felt that the severance of the northeast corner, as pro- posed, would not hurt the town of Lempster, but would "leave it in a better situation".
A dry sarcasm creeps into a remonstrance (Ibid, p. 400-1) made by Vine Bingham, William Story, David Gordon and Calvin Bingham, Dec. 25, 1790, as follows:
" - Your Petitioners beg leave to inform your Honours that we are very unwilling to be incorporated as requested by . . . Daniel Grendell and Others - that the (proposed) line will divide our farms, leaving part in one town and part in another: and if our cituation is remote from the center as is represented ... we would inform your Honors that we had much rather live in a remote part of the Town of Lemster than in a re- mote part of their intended new Township."
However, the second signer, Story*, was soon led to reverse his stand and sponsored a petition in favor of separation; so stated by the selectmen of Newport, Nov. 7, 1791, at which time in a legal town-meeting, the voters of Newport made no objection to the incorporation of the new town (Ibid, p. 402).
*William Story lived on or near, what has more recently been known as the Dero Farm, south of Goshen Corners and against present Lempster line.
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That Story canvassed Unity too, with his petition is evident. From the first, Unity, as well as Newbury (Fishersfield), showed the organizers of the proposed new town no hostility and voted for the proposal at a legal town-meeting Jan. 14, 1790, and again Sept. 12, 1791, when it was agreed that the dividing line should run "on the North End of the first Range North of Corys Road, in favour of a petition of William Story and others" (Town Papers, Vol. 13, p. 581-2). The observation was made in the preceding May, a petition addressed to the Legislature, that if the line should extend fifty or sixty rods further west it would be for the ultimate benefit of Unity, "as there is a Very bad hill Running aCrost said town and all East of said hill will be much more convenient to the New Town than to any part of (Unity)."
A remonstrance, it must be admitted, is on record, signed by nearly fifty solid citizens of Unity, protesting the ceding of any more land than agreed upon to the new town, but a note of personal grievance against the selectmen is detected in it and a larger matter was being simultaneously forced upon them, namely a proposal to divide the town into two "parishes", severing the west part of Unity to be united with north Charles- town. In the face of such a threatened mortal dismemberment - though the plan was never adopted - the issue of parting with a much smaller portion of its eastern end must have seemed in- nocuous enough. The favorable vote stood.
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