History of the town of Bristol, Grafton County, New Hampshire, Volume I, Part 1

Author: Musgrove, Richard Watson, 1840-
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Bristol, N.H., Printed by R. W. Musgrove
Number of Pages: 731


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COPYRIGHT, 1904 BY R. W. MUSGROVE


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INTRODUCTION


The History of Bristol is here presented with no apology for its appearance. It was called into being by the conviction that it ought to be. This conviction first took shape in June, 1879. At that time the building at the corner of Central square and Spring street was being remodeled, and a brick was discovered in the chimney marked "1795." This was thought to be the date when the building was erected. To gather some light on this point, we sought an interview with two vener- able residents of the village, Mrs. Solomon Cavis and Miss Jane Bartlett, and listened with great interest to a narrative of what they knew of the subject, and to their description of the people and the village when they were young. This interview impressed us with the importance of preser- ving the facts learned, and the same day a record was made. From that time dates the work on this history, and from that time interviews with the old people of the town constituted a source of great delight which grew with the passing years, until a desire to write the history of our native town took possession of our very being and was an ever present incentive to work. Every hour that could be spared from the regular routine of life has been gladly devoted to this end.


The question of publication was a serious one. Though a printer and able therefore to place the work on the market at the minimum cost, we were warned by the experience of others that our bank account was hardly sufficient to warrant us to undertake, unaided, the additional expense of publication. The use of historical matter from time to time in the columns of the local paper had created a desire for a town history, and on the recommendation of friends, an article was inserted in the warrant for the town meeting in November, 1900, to see if the town would appoint a committee whose duty it should be to examine any town his- tory that may have been written, with a view to its endorsement by the town if found worthy. .


The town voted to instruct the selectmen to appoint a committee of five, and Hon. Ira A. Chase, Dr. George H. Calley, Dr. Channing Bishop, Charles W. Fling, Esq., and Postmaster Fred H. Ackerman were ap- pointed.


The committee examined the manuscript, and were unanimous that the work should be printed, and in two volumes, the first devoted to the an- nals of the town, the second to genealogies, and that the town should take two hundred sets at five dollars per set, and so reported at the annual town meeting in March, 1902. The town generously voted without a dis- senting voice to adopt the recommendation of the committee. This action was especially pleasing because it gave the town's unqualified endorsement of our efforts, and also guaranteed the publication of the


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history without further loss. The generous action of the town is fully appreciated and here gratefully acknowledged.


It is not claimed that the work has literary merit. It is simply the product of hard labor inspired by love for the work rather than of any fitness for the duty.


It is a source of deep regret that the time and means at our disposal did not allow us to include in this work the whole history of the old town of New Chester, embracing what is now the towns of Hill, Bristol, and Bridgewater. Much of the early history of these towns is given and the ecclesiastical history of both Hill and Bridgewater is brought down to the present time.


In common with all works of this nature errors and mistakes will probably be found. We only claim that all that careful work and close scrutiny could do has been done to make its pages accurate and reliable.


The author acknowledges his indebtedness to all who have assisted and encouraged him in his labors, especially to the members of the com- mittee named above, and to his son, Eugene R. Musgrove, who wrote the chapters on Topography, Scenery, and Bristol in Literature, and drew the maps which embellish the work; to Charles W. Fling, Esq., who scrutinized the final proofs, and to Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, ex-secretary of state, who is now at work on the history of Plymouth, for valuable data.


We send these books out with the greeting of one native of the town, whose happiness it has been to spend his life among the hills of the town that gave him birth, to other natives and residents who have shared these delights and blessings with him, or who have gone forth to help found and build up other towns and states of our great country.


March, 1904.


RICHARD W. MUSGROVE.


CONTENTS


CHAPTER I


TOPOGRAPHY OF THE TOWN


Page I


The position of Bristol in the state; its boundaries ; its rivers, lakes and mountains; its mountainous character - Bridgewater range -Signals of the coast survey - Bristol Peak - Mountains of New Chester - Alexandria hills - Newfound valley - Sugar hill- New- found lake- Newfound river - Smith's river - Pemigewasset river - Hemlock and other brooks - The physical geography and geol- ogy of Bristol - Examples of erosion - Elevation of chief points in town.


CHAPTER II


SCENERY


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Unsurpassed beauty of Bristol scenery - The beauties of Newfound lake ; Mountains seen from its waters - The principal summits - The view from Bristol Peak - New Chester mountain ; its view - Gale's hill - Sugar hill - Burns's hill -List of mountains to be seen from Bristol soil, their location, altitude and distance from Bristol.


CHAPTER III


THE ABORIGINES AND THE FIRST WHITE MEN WHO VISITED THIS SECTION 18


Indian life in this section -The Algonquin race - The "long carrying place"- Expedition of Col. Tyng in 1703-'04; of Col. Winthrop Hilton; of Capt. Baker in 1712 - Fight at Plymouth - Fight at Bridgewater - Death of Waternomee -Sketch of Waternomee - Capt. Lovewell's expedition - Capt. Eleazer Tyng's journal - John Stark at Plymouth - Project to settle Haverhill - Zacchius Lovewell's survey - Capt. Peter Power's expedition.


CHAPTER IV


THE PROPRIETARY HISTORY 28


John Mason's grant; its sale to the Masonian proprietors ; its bound- ary -The grant of New Chester- First meeting of New Chester proprietors-The drawing of lots -The public lots - The con- struction of roads - The granting of mill lots - The forfeiture of the grant - The hiring of a minister - Meeting-houses - Incor- poration of the town - Last meetings of the proprietors - Sale of unlotted lands.


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CHAPTER V


FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN NEW CHESTER


The first blow in the wilderness -The first settler - First log cabin - First white woman in New Chester - First settler in Bristol - First settlements in Bridgewater - First settler in Bristol village - First grist-mill and saw-mill-Settlements on Smith's river - Mills on Smith's river - Settlements in Hill village -Settlements along Pemigewasset river - Settlements south of Smith's river - Other settlements - Trails from the main road -- The Locke neighborhood.


CHAPTER VI


THE ORGANIZATION OF NEW CHESTER, ITS INCORPORA- TION AND ITS DIVISION .


· 55 The organization of the town - First meeting - Carr Huse's paper on the actions of first town meeting - Inventory of 1773 - Warrant of 1774 - Town meeting of 1774- Desire for incorporation - Peti- tions -Charter - First town meeting under the charter - Four thousand dollars raised for highways - Fifteen dollars per day for labor - Petition to be allowed to tax non-resident lands - Efforts to divide the town - Petitions to the legislature - Incorporation of Bridgewater - List of taxpayers in New Chester - Taxpayers in Bridgewater.


CHAPTER VII


BRIDGEWATER AND NEW .CHESTER FROM 1788 TILL THE INCORPORATION OF BRISTOL 70


Charter of Bridgewater - First town meetings - Agitation for organiza- tion of another town - Sale of public lots - Lease of ministerial lots - Case of Moses Lewis - Report of committee on division of Bridgewater - Petition to tax non-resident lands - Itemized bill of selectmen - Warrants posted by constables - Bills of town officers - Manner of keeping town records - Friction between New Chester and Alexandria - Method of paying taxes - Exchange of territory - A review of New Chester and Bridgewater- Incorporation of Bristol - Name of New Chester changed to Hill.


CHAPTER VIII


BRISTOL FROM ITS INCORPORATION TILL THE PUBLICATION OF THIS HISTORY 84


Act of incorporation - First town warrant - First town meeting - Tax- payers in 1820 - Efforts to make Bristol a county seat - Will of Thomas W. Thompson - Effort to annex a part of Alexandria to Bristol - Controversy with New Chester - Surplus Revenue - Town hall -Indebtedness of the town - Exemption from taxation.


CHAPTER IX


EARLY CONDITIONS, CUSTOMS, AND RECREATIONS OF THE PEOPLE 94


Primeval forests- Game - Clearing the land - Homes - First framed houses ; their furniture- Cooking utensils - Food - The brick


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oven - Mode of travel - Holidays - Clothes worn - Sugar-making and soap-making - Diversions - Care of sick - Funerals - Petty suits - Trips to Boston - Raising of cattle - Indentured boys and girls - Rewards for runaways.


CHAPTER X


FORDS, FERRIES, AND TOLL-BRIDGES 105


Union bridge - Bennett's ferry - Rates of toll - Favor's ferry - Favor's bridge - Fisk's ferry - Sleeper's ferry - Worthen ford - Burley's ford - Pemigewasset bridge - Central bridge ; list of stockholders ; rate of toll; made a public highway - The "Ashland" bridge car- ried down stream.


CHAPTER XI


HIGHWAYS 114


First road - Smith's river bridge - Road to the Borough; to South Alexandria ; over Alexandria hill; from Outlet of Lake to Alex- andria - Changes - Road at No. Bristol ; to the Locke neighbor- hood ; thence to the lake and Bridgewater; over New Chester mountain - New road ordered by the court east of mountain - Road built west of mountain -Indictments of the town -The Mayhew Turnpike- Other roads - New road to Profile Falls - Sugar Loaf road -Streets laid out - Macadamized road - High- way surveyors and road agents.


CHAPTER XII


POST-ROUTES AND POST-RIDERS, MAILS AND POSTMAS- TERS


136


First post-office in the state - First post-riders - Routes traveled - Post- masters appointed - Rates of postage- New routes from Concord to Haverhill- First stage-coach-Free ride from Concord to Haverhill- Three mails each week - Post-office in Alexandria - Advent of steam cars - One mail each day - Two mails each day - Star route - List of postmasters 1805-1904.


CHAPTER XIII


RAILROADS 144


Lecture on railroads - The Northern road -The Franklin and Bristol railroad - Public meetings - First meeting of directors - Road completed - Great rejoicing in Bristol- Free ride to Concord - Franklin and Bristol absorbed by the Northern - Northern road leased to Lowell - Lowell leased to the Boston & Maine - Efforts to bring the road into the village - The New Hampshire Cen- tral road.


CHAPTER XIV


TAVERNS 148


Travel on the highways-The first taverns in Bristol territory -The Sleeper tavern and Kelly tavern - Taverns the news centers - The Hoyt tavern - the Dodge tavern - Hotel Bristol.


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CHAPTER XV


TEMPERANCE


153


General use of liquors -- New England rum - Bad results of its use - Sold at tavern and stores - Public conscience aroused - Organized work in the temperance cause - The Washingtonian movement - Sons of Temperance - The Reform Club - Vote on Constitutional amendments.


CHAPTER XVI


THE TOWN'S POOR 159


The support of the poor - Warning out of town - The sad case of Molly Clark -Jonathan Clark as an apprentice ; as a runaway -The maintenance of the poor sold at auction -The town farm - The county farm.


CHAPTER XVII


MILITARY HISTORY-NEW CHESTER IN THE REVOLUTION- ARY WAR 164


Early organization of the militia - Reorganization - Petition for arms and ammunition for local defense - Capt. Osgood's company of Rangers - Enlistment of men for the service; for the re-enforce- ment of Ticonderoga - The Bennington campaign - Capt. John Willoughby's company - Recruits for expedition against Canada - The depreciation of the currency - Beef and rum for the army - New Chester men claimed by other towns - List of men who served in the army.


CHAPTER XVIII


MILITARY HISTORY FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO THE CIVIL WAR .


182


The militia in 1784 - Its reorganization in 1792 - The composition of the 14th Regiment - The Miami war and War of 1812 - Bounties paid - The organization of the 34th Regiment - Musters - The ununi- formed militia - The Bristol Phalanx - Gen. Cook driven from the muster field - Roster of officers.


CHAPTER XIX


MILITARY HISTORY -THE CIVIL WAR 197


The election of Abraham Lincoln -The secession of the Southern states -The President's call for men - The attack on troops in Balti- more- A son of Bristol the first to die for the Union - Soldiers' Aid society - Other calls -The town offers a bounty of $200 for volunteers - The 12th Regiment raised -- Other calls for men and larger bounties - Losses at Chancellorsville - Roll of Honor - - Militia since the Civil war.


CHAPTER XX


POLITICAL HISTORY 227


Plan of government considered in 1782 - Votes for President of New Hampshire- Amendments to the constitution acted on - Una-


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nimity of voters - The protection of American commerce -Town meeting on short notice - The Whig party - The era of good feeling - The subject of slavery a disturbing element - Local con- tests - The campaign of 1851 - The Knownothing party - Advent of the Republican party - The Ingalls contest - The campaign of 1860-The Rollins fight -- The election of Cyrus Taylor as senator - The election of Lewis W. Fling - The Prohibition party - The Liberal Republican party - The Foster fight -The post-office fight - The contest of 1886 - Seven political parties in the field - Vote on constitutional amendments - Australian system of voting - New Chester, how classed for representatives - Early elections - Complete list of representatives.


CHAPTER XXI


ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY - NEW CHESTER 25I


Efforts to build a meeting-house - Money raised for preaching - Meet- ing-house erected at Hill Center - The minister tax distasteful - Vote to sell ministerial lot - Early ministers - Center Congrega- tional society incorporated - Proprietors of First Meeting-house incorporated - The Calvinist Baptist church at Hill Center - Its brief existence- Hill Center Christian church-Congregational church organized at Hill village - First Congregational Meeting- house society ; it becomes extinct - East Meeting-house society - The Christian church - Congregational church reorganized - Meeting-house destroyed by fire- Two churches erected -The Methodists - The Freewill Baptists.


CHAPTER XXII


ECCLESIASTICAL - BRIDGEWATER . 260


Early religious conditions - Vote to build a meeting-house -The Free Baptists -"First Religious Society of Bridgewater" ; its constitu- tion - Meeting-house erected ; sale of pews ; four denominations as- sist in its construction - A Congregational church organized ; its struggles ; it becomes extinct-The Free Baptists continue a fee- ble existence -- Repairs of the meeting-house - Meeting-house remodeled - Second Free Baptist church ; it also becomes extinct ; - No religious organization in town.


CHAPTER XXIII


ECCLESIASTICAL-THE METHODIST CHURCH . 269


The introduction of Methodism into New Hampshire - First Methodist class organized in Bridgewater- The Bridgewater circuit - New Hampshire district- Early circuit riders - Brodhead, Hedding, and Ruter - First Methodist chapel - Molly Burton - First camp- meetings - Local crises of 1838-The Millerite excitement - Erection of Spring street chapel - Camp-meetings - Great revival of 1870 - A new and costly church - A great burden of debt -The church destroyed by fire - A new church arises - A fine pipe


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organ - Local preachers- The exhorter - Class-meetings - Sun- day-schools - Centennial - Salaries - Membership - List of pas- tors and presiding elders.


CHARTER XXIV


ECCLESIASTICAL -CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SOCIE- TY 293


Early Congregational ministers - The bequest of Thomas W. Thompson - First Congregational Society of Bristol - First Congregational church - Articles of faith -Church edifice -Purchasers of pews - First Pastors - Installation of Rev. Daniel O. Morton ; his death - Memorial Tablet - Congregational parsonage - Mr. Ketch- um's pastorate ; his successors-A revised "Statement of Doc- trine "-Improvements in the church edifice-The first bell - Membership - List of pastors and deacons.


CHAPTER XXV


ECCLESIASTICAL -FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH AND SO- CIETY


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The birth of the denomination - Rev. David Fisk's church - The Bris- tol and Alexandria Freewill Baptist church - Church covenant - Rev. David Calley's first pastorate - Elder Fisk - Church erected - Sketch of David Calley - Rev. Lewis Malvern and others - Farewell to Elder Fisk -Church improvements -Personal sketches - Membership, pastors, and deacons.


CHAPTER XXVI


ECCLESIASTICAL- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH


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First Catholic services held in Bristol- Rev. Father Coakley becomes resident pastor - Church erected - Church dedicated - Father Coakley removes to Enfield.


CHAPTER XXVII


EDUCATIONAL 322


In New Chester :- School lots - Town indicted for failure to maintain school - Sale of timber on school lot - Lot leased - Accommoda- tions for schools - Town divided into districts - Manner of paying teachers-Schoolhouses. In Bridgewater :- School districts formed - First schoolhouse in Bridgewater village. Bristol : - School districts - Money expended for schoolhouses - School fund - Schoolhouse burned - Wages and length of schools - Decline in the number of scholars - The law of 1885 - Private schools - Un- ion school district No. 2- New school building -The Somers- worth act adopted - District incorporated - High school - List of Superintending school committees, school board, and board of education.


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CHAPTER XXVIII


BRISTOL IN LITERATURE


339


Authors of Bristol : Rev. John Brodhead Wentworth, Frederic Adolphus Moore, Rev. Silas Ketchum, Marian Douglas, Josephine Augusta Cass, Anne Sargent Hammond, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Prof. Fred Lewis Pattee.


CHAPTER XXIX


LIBRARIES


352


The Social library of New Chester, 1800 -- The Bridgewater Social Libra- ry, 1802- The Bristol library, 1823 - Town library, 1868-The Minot-Sleeper library, 1883 ; provisions for its support - The Min- nie Maria Day-Jackman fund - List of officers.


CHAPTER XXX


NEWFOUND LAKE AND RIVER, AND THE PEMIGEWASSET RIVER . 358


Newfound lake ; its early names ; the origin of its present name ; its pure waters - The lake trout - Landlocked salmon - Other fish - State hatching houses - First steamboats - Summer schools - New- found river - The Lowell Company's dam - The surplus water - Water suits - The Bristol Water-power Company - The Pemige- wasset river - Saw-mills -Business on the river - Reminiscenses.


CHAPTER XXXI


MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 366


First saw-mill and grist-mill - Tannery - Mills on south side of river - The failure of Moses Lewis -The successive owners of the tan- nery -Changes on the stream-Grist-mill on Central street - Shoe factory site - Carriage factory site - Black lead mill - Machine-shop and foundry - Bedstead factory - Cotton- and woolen-mill -Potash business - The Brown tannery -The Pray tannery - Pill-box shop - Willow street mills - Dodge-Davis Manufacturing Company's mill - Train-Smith Company's paper- mill - North End grist-mill - Mason-Perkins paper-mill - Electric light power station - North Bristol - Moore's Mills - Profile Falls - Other manufacturers.


CHAPTER XXXII


MERCANTILE HOUSES AND OTHER INDUSTRIES 392


Emerson's block-The Ichabod C. Bartlett store - White's block - Cavis's block - Rollins's block - West-side drug store - Tin-shop site - Tukey's block - Abel block - Fowler's block - Robie's block - Post-office block - Blake block - Bank block - Bristol Creamery - Miscellaneous.


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CHAPTER XXXIII


LAWYERS AND PHYSICIANS OF BRISTOL 406


Lawyers : David Smiley - Moses H. Bradley - Nathaniel G. Upham - Benjamin F. Weeks - Samuel H. Stevens - Ralph Metcalf - George Minot - Frederick Bartlett - George M. Phelps - Josiah Minot -George W. Burns - Napoleon B. Bryant - Lewis W. Fling - George Tenney - Samuel K. Mason -Samuel E. Holden - Ira A. Chase- Kenson E. Dearborn -George A. Emerson - Charles W. Fling. Physicians : Timothy Kelly - Timothy Tilton - Ben- jamin Gale-Walter I. Wardrobe- Samuel Smith -Joseph . B. Eastman - Moody C. Sawyer - Joseph R. Kelley - Moses C. Hoyt -Jacob S. Eaton-Ira S. Chase - James M. Bishop-Hadley B. Fowler-Austin S. Durkee- Lucius E. Truesdell -Daniel W. Hazelton - George H. Calley - John C. Wheet - Channing Bishop - Fred E. Wheet - Arthur V. Doud-John W. Coolidge.




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