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MOOSEHILLOCK
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WARREN.
THE
HISTORY OF WARREN;
A MOUNTAIN . HAMLET,
LOCATED AMONG
The White Hills
OF
FORT WAYNE IN ALLEN COUNTY INIO.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
BY WILLIAM LITTLE.
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MANCHESTER, N. H. WILLIAM E. MOORE, PRINTER, UNION BUILDING. 1870.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by William Little, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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The illustrations in this volume were mostly made by Amos F. Clough, Artist, Warren, N. H.
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PREFACE.
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To preserve the Indian traditions, tales of border wars, the memories of the old proprietors and first white settlers, the legends, anecdotes, and events of our mountain hamlet, and to afford some slight assistance to the great historian of New Hampshire who shall come hereafter, was why this book was written.
The author was sailing chip boats on Aiken brook one day when a very small boy. A companion, several years older, now Rev. William Merrill, was planting potatoes near by. For amusement he told the story of James Aiken, how his house was burned up, who did it, and why, and showed the old cellar. An interest was excited; it grew as the years went by, and the result is this history.
The writing of it has not been a labor. It has been a pleasant pastime, a source of amusement-" good fun." If any are disposed to smile at the writer's efforts, let them remember that every one must have a little recreation of some
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kind, and that while the writer's friends have enjoyed them- selves some by hunting and fishing, some by music and danc- ing, some by cards and gaming, some by squinting through . glass tumblers and worshipping the god Bacchus, some by paying their devotions at the shrine of Venus, some by buying pictures and costly libraries, some by sporting fine horses and carriages and building magnificent houses, some by preaching and praying and singing psalms and songs, and some in divers other ways too numerous to mention, the author of these pages has passed many pleasant and happy hours preserving the inci- dents of his native town.
But we wish all our readers to know that this pleasant pastime, writing a town history, is a costly one; that we have not, cannot, and shall not make a cent out of it; that, to use an expression of the vulgar world, " We are a good deal out of pocket by the operation; " and that the whole thing is well illustrated by the wise maxim that "those who dance shall pay the fiddler."
We claim that this history has one merit over ordinary town histories, and that is unity. That instead of being heterogeneous matter thrown together without any regard to connection of thought, and with no unity except perhaps that of time, and with no interest to any one except persons particularly acquainted with the town, we have grouped our facts together, giving unity of thought, unity of time, and we hope some interest to the general reader.
We know that the first two books of this history are no more applicable to the town of Warren than to any other of the neighboring towns. But it seemed necessary to write them
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in order that it might be known how this wild northern coun- try came to be cultivated and settled.
The citizens of Warren should be very happy that they have this history. Their acts and those of their ancestors and their friends will be preserved as long as the State exists. They have a bright and shining page, while Wentworth, Rom- ney, Ellsworth, Woodstock, Benton, and Piermont, and all the other neighboring lands round about, have lost the pleasant memories of their early settlers; and all their historical data, so rich, so entertaining, has passed away forever. To-day the inhabitants of those regions are no better off than the Negroes, Hottentots, or the dwellers on the Cannibal Islands. They have no place in history, and perhaps never will have.
To those who have assisted us in producing this work, we tender our most grateful acknowledgements. We would men- tion Col. Stevens M. Dow, Anson Merrill, Amos F. Clough, Geo. Libbey, Nathaniel Richardson, James Clement, Mrs. Susan C. Little, Miss Hannah B. Knight, all the town clerks, and particularly Russell K. Clement, as persons who have materially aided us. We would also return our most sincere thanks to those pleasant writers who gave "Knickerbocker's History of New York," "Margaret," and "Rural Life." We have helped ourselves freely to such portions of those works as pleased us, and while the authors of them will not suffer, we believe the good folks of Warren will be much happier by reason of our literary larceny. We have also derived great assistance from Vol. vii. of the N. H. Hist. Coll., a book dry as a chip to the general reader, but one of the most valuable historical works ever published in New Hampshire. But most especially do we
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feel thankful to those persons who have encouraged us in writ- ing this book, by placing their names in our list of subscribers. We shall hold them in happy recollection to the latest day of our life.
In closing, we hope that those who look over these pages may be in some degree amused, pleased, edified, and entertained; and that some one, a native of Warren, may, many years hence, revise, add to, and continue this history, making a book ten times better than ours.
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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
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BOOK I.
CONTAINING A HISTORY OF A TRIBE OF INDIANS NEVER BEFORE WRITTEN BY ANY OTHER HISTORIAN.
CHAP. I. Of the name of this tribe, or how they called themselves one name while foreigners called them another, together with where they resided in the most permanent manner, and what great tribes lived around them. 23
CHAP. II. Containing the origin of the Pemigewassetts with a few profound theories very interesting to know. -
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CHAP. III. About Acteon,-politely called old Acteon,-and what he as well as others said of the manners and customs of the Pemigewassetts.
CHAP. IV. The first account of the Nipmucks, or the earliest history of the Pemigewassetts, and of their union with other tribes; also how a Bashaba was killed, with a.description of a very polite way of treating captives, and a foreshadowing of something dreadful to happen. - - 41 CHAP. V. Of a terrible war, pestilence, and famine, the heroes of which are all dead and their names forgotten. - - 47
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CHAP. VI. How the Pemigewassetts and the rest of the Nipmucks were compelled to enter a new league to protect themselves from the Mo- hogs, Marquas or Mohawks, with a slight sketch of another great man who came to be Bashaba. - 51
CHAP. VII. In which is set forth the manner the Pemigewassetts some- times enjoyed themselves, while the new Bashaba lived, and then of a slight war that arose which was exceedingly entertaining to them, to- gether with its pious close at Quocheco.
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CHAP. VIII. How according to tradition the Pemigewassetts were present · at a great court at Quocheco, where the laws were very legally executed and justice done-according to the idea of certain exasperated red men. 64
CHAP. IX. Containing a slight attempt at biography, or the early life of Waternomee, otherwise Wattanumon, sometimes vulgarly called Wal- ternumus, last chief of the Pemigewassetts. 69
CHAP. X. How the Pemigewassetts engaged in Queen Anne's war-of sun- . dry expeditions-and how several Pemigewassetts were surprised and slain by five terrible Marquas led by the brave Caleb Lyman. - CHAP. XI. Of several things that happened during the progress of the war, and how, as one of the results, the Pemigewassett tribe was destroyed and their hunting grounds, of which Warren was a part, became a solitude.
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BOOK II.
TREATING OF INDIAN FIGHTS AND MASSACRES, EXPEDITIONS AND EXPLORATIONS, RESULTING IN OPENING TO THE WHITE MAN THE LAND OF THE PEMIGE- WASSETTS, AND MAKING THE VALLEY NOW CALLED WARREN, AND ALL THE ADJACENT COUNTRY, A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE IN.
CHAP. I. Of two wars and more than a dozen battles. 87
CHAP. II. A beautiful solitude, and how there was an attempt to build two forts above the Pemigewassett country, and what came of it. 99
CHAP. III. Giving an account of a hunting party on the Asquamchumauke; how two young men were captivated in the most captivating manner- concluding with how one got his back tickled with the oil of birch, while the other did not, much to the delight of all concerned. - - 103
CHAP. IV. How the salvages, Sabatis and Christo, stole two negroes from the settlement at Canterbury and the excitement it caused, together with a grand result before hinted at. 10.7
CHAP. V. How the road was cut through the woods, and how the great and mighty nation of Arosagunticooks, composed of all the Nipmuck tribes, including our Pemigewassetts and some others, sent a flag of truce to . Number Four. Concluding with a general back out. - 110
CHAP. VI. How Sabatis and Plausawa fared in the hands of Peter Bowen, together with the miraculous opening of the jail. Concluding with a captivating account of a whole family who were politely invited to go to Canada, by " the gentle salvages." - 114
CHAP. VII. How Capt. Peter Powers marched gallantly through the Pemi- gewassett country to the land of the Coosucks; of a brave exploit and a heroic retreat. -
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CHAP. VIII. Of a gallant exploit on the New Hampshire frontier,-of an excited camp on the shore of Wachipauka pond, with other entertain- ing and curious matter, very interesting to know. - 126
CHAP. IX. Account of the manner the brave Arosagunticooks of St. Fran- cis passed Captain Goffe; the capture of the Johnson family, with other incidents no doubt very interesting to the participants, together with the first campaign of the old French war.
CHAP. X. Treating of the assembling of the regiment, and the building of the log fortress at Coos, with other interesting adventures, in the country about Lake Champlain.
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CHAP. XI. A long march through the woods; a terrible attack on an Indian village; a bloody butchery-awful to the participants-but withal very pleasant to read about. . 141
CHAP. XII. The retreat and its horrors. The camp on the Coos interval under the shadow of the mighty Moosilauke; concluding with a beauti- ful and golden tradition that has been repeated around the farmer's fireside for a hundred years.
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CHAP. XIII. How the surviving rangers all got safely home and how thenceforward the Pemigewassett land containing the pleasant little territory of Warren, became a very safe country in which to sojourn. - 154
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BOOK III.
OF THE BIRTH OF A MOUNTAIN HAMLET, OR THE PRECISE AND ACCURATE HISTORY OF THE ACTS OF SIXTY-SIX DISTINGUISHED MEN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE PROPRIETORS OF WARREN.
CHAP. I. Concerning a great shaggy wood, and numerous hunters therein; and then of a sweet little feud between three royal governors, and how one of them politely " euchered " the others, much to their delight. - 157
CHAP. II. Of a fine old Governor of 'ye ancient days, and of his royal Sec- retary; how these two worthies built golden castles in the air, and finally grew quite rich. 162
CHAP. III. What John Page, Esq., did, or how he procured a royal charter of our mountain hamlet, Warren, conferring many glorious privileges and only a few conditions very easy to be complied with. - 166
CHAP. IV. Of eager men,-how they held several meetings-also of a gay and festive corporation dinner; concluding with a powerful effort to obtain a surveyor of the King's Woods. - 176
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CHAP. V. How the lines were run round about Warren; a camp in the for- est; a roaring, raging equinoctial storm worth seeing, and a report of the whole affair by surveyor Leavitt. - 182
CHAP. VI. ¿ Conditions hard and terrible,-road made of an Indian trail,- rich lots of land drawn by lot, and how men felt rich but anxious. - 187
CHAP. VII. How the proprietors' prospects got desperate-so much so that they were willing to give away some of their lands; how Phillips White, Esq., came to the rescue-got them out of a terrible difficulty, and finally procured a new charter, which ends this book and intro- duces us to an altogether new life in Warren. . 194
BOOK IV.
WHICH RELATES HOW OUR WILD MOUNTAIN HAMLET WAS CULTIVATED AND SETTLED.
CHAP. I. Of divers and sundry sounds, heard on the head-waters of the Asquamchumauke, and of two hotels in which not a drop of "grog" could be got either for love or money. - - 201
CHAP. II. About Joseph Patch, the first white settler of Warren, and how
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CHAP. III. How eighteen families and two single gentlemen came to War- ren to reside, and amused themselves building cabins, clearing land, . hunting moose and deer ou the hills, and fishing in the clear, rapid trout streams.
CHAP. IV. Of how the early settlers of our mountain hamlet took great thought about the manner they should be sheltered, and what they should eat, and of the building of mills; concluding with the mighty leaps of the salmon, and a delectable swim by the boys. - 236
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CHAP. V. Narrating how two men, Stevens Merrill and James Aiken loved each other,-how the laws were executed, and a house burned up,- concluding with a " pious inquiry " worthy of all good christians. - 243
CHAP. VI. Mount Carr; its ancient inhabitants, and then of the grand old huntings that were had about it, with a beautiful Moosehillock descrip- tion thrown in for variety. 247
CHAP. VII. Of a provision for religious meetings; grandiloquent descrip- tion of one, and how it closed with a cup of sweet comfort and peace, as was the custom in ancient times. 257
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CHAP. VIII. War! How it reared its horrid front and its din resounded even across the boundaries of Warren, together with what part our early settlers took in it.
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BOOK V.
CONCERNING THE MIGHTY MARCH OF EVENTS IN THE GREAT CIVIL HISTORY OF WARREN.
CHAP. I. Of the organization of the hamlet, and how certain men achieved immortal glory by getting elected to town office. -
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CHAP. II. How the revenue was raised to carry on the war, much to the delight of several patriotic gentlemen called tories; and what soldiers were furnished to fill Warren's quota, with other very interesting and entertaining matter. 282
CHAP. III. The first funeral of a white man in Warren; or how John Mills died and was buried. .
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CHAP. IV. About a great army in Warren, how it marched and counter- marched ; of the pretty names it was called, and how it was subsisted. 297
CHAP. V. Thanksgiving day, or how there was feasting, dancing and merry- making in our hamlet among the hills. 304
CHAP. VI. The first schools of Warren, or how the young idea was taught to shoot; and of a certain oil much used in ye ancient days. - - 313
CHAP. VII. How Sarah Whitcher was lost in the woods, what happened and how they hunted for her, together with a remarkable dream, and how a bushel of beans suddenly disappeared. - 322
CHAP. VIII. Of a mighty battle fought between two ambitious office seek- ers, and how each gained the victory, much to his great delight. - 329 1
CHAP. IX. Concerning a great boundary feud and what came of it. -
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CHAP. X. Of the mighty requisites necessary to make a perfect democracy, all graphically portrayed in the most attractive manner. - - 340
BOOK VI.
IN WHICH THE MIGHTY MARCH MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING OF BOOK V. IS CONTINUED.
CHAP. I. How several religions came to Warren; of tythingmen who fined men for traveling Sunday, thereby making them exceedingly happy; concluding with an account of a camp-meeting, where several pions youth sounded a horn in the night and disturbed the slumbers of the godly. . 361
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CHAP. II. Of grand huntings, fowlings, and fishings; concluding with how a 'squire, a doctor, and a minister were perfectly delighted trying to - catch every fish in Wachipauka pond. - 370
CHAP. III. How the turnpike was built, and of divers things that happened thereby. - - 384
CHAP. IV. About the 1812 war; of drafting and volunteering; closing with a grand muster, when Warren's hills heard louder music than ever before. - 390
CHAP. V. How the first covered stage, accompanied by sweet music, ran through Warren, with an account of the first post-office, and who de- livered the letters. - 398
CHAP. VI. The Black Plague, otherwise called the Spotted Fever, or the greatest horror Warren people ever had. 404
CHAP. VII. How almost a famine, then a hurricane came, and then a his- tory of one of the most pleasant years Warren ever experienced. - 408
CHAP. VIII. What a woman can do and how she did it; or the accomplish- ment of one of the greatest "requisites" of the last century, viz : the building of a meeting-house. 422
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CHAP. IX. A gay little chapter about witches. -
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CHAP. X. The first store in Warren, and its successors, and of a roaring, raging canal that never was built. - - 441
BOOK VII.
WHICH BOOK IS BUT A CONTINUATION OF BOOKS V. AND VI., AND CONTAINS THE HISTORY OF THE THIRD GENERATION OF WARREN'S WHITE INHABITANTS.
CHAP. I. How gold, silver, and diamonds were discovered in Warren; and of several individuals who got immensely rich mining, especially in their imaginations. - 449
CHAP. II. How the Berry brook road was built, and a path on to Moosehil- lock was cut, with a pleasant account of several individuals who nick- named each other in the happiest manner. 454
CHAP. III. Of a great lawsuit about Mrs. Sarah Weeks, whom foolish people called a witch, concluding with pleasant recollections of a paring bee and a " shin- dig," if anybody knows what that is. - 461
CHAP. IV. A chapter on fires. 467
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CHAP. V. How and when the railroad was built, which will be a wonder to future generations, but is quite a common thing now. 472
CHAP. VI. A brief account of two murders. 478
CHAP. VII. Concerning a great rivalry between charitable religious soci- eties, which resulted in moving and remodelling the old meeting-house, in a town-house, a new school-house, a beautiful common, and in im- proving the graveyard, all which is an honor to the town and the pride of the inhabitants.
CHAP. VIII. Of a delectable visit to Moosehillock, and what can be seen there-the weather permitting. - 490
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CHAP. IX. How several individuals got rich manufacturing, or ought to, with the glorious results of it. -
CHAP. X. Of several things that happened; concluding this History with sincere thanks and many kind wishes. - . 508
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APPENDIX.
Explanatory Notes. Natural History of Warren. Selectmen, Representatives, and other Town Officers. Town Statistics. Lawyers, Doctors, and Ministers. Military Officers.
Town Lots. First Inventory and Tax List. Longevity. Genealogies. Miscellaneous. The Poets of Warren. Amos F. Clough's Diary, kept on Moosehillock. Chronology.
INDEX.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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1. Moosehillock, from Warren, opposite title page.
2. Map of Warren 17
3. Webster Slide and Wachipauka Pond . 23
4. Oak Falls 23
5. Rocky&Falls 87
6. Portrait of Amos F. Clough, Artist 157
7. Map of Warren 171
8. Mount Carr 201
9. Waternomee Falls 201
10. Old Barn built by Joseph Patch 240
11. Breaking and Swingling Flax 274 336
12. Old Boundary Lines
13. Our Grandmothers' Pastime
14. Portrait of Rev. Joseph Merrill
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17. Portrait of Samuel B. Page, Esq.
18. Church and Village School-House
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19. Town House .
20. Sugaring off . 486
21. McCarter, the Hermit 486
22. Moosilauke Falls 486
23. The Forks School-House 486
24. Moosehillock from Indian Rock 493
25. Prospect House, Summit of Moosehillock 493
26. Portrait of Dr. Worcester E. Boynton 502
27. Portrait of Gen. Natt Head . 510
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16. Map of Modern Warren
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15. Portrait of Rev. Moses H. Bixby .
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INTRODUCTION.
WHICH GIVES A CONCISE ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA ; ITS SETTLEMENT BY THE ENGLISH; THE LOCALITY OF WARREN, ITS BOUNDARIES, MOUNTAINS, HILLS, STREAMS, PRODUCTIONS, AND INHABITANTS.
AMERICA was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The first permanent English settlement was made at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. New Hampshire, another British province, was settled in 1623. These are facts that every one is presumed to know.
Warren, the history of which we now undertake to write, is a town in New Hampshire. It is situated in latitude forty-four degrees north, longitude six degrees east from Washington, and became a geographical fact July 14th, 1763. Admiral Warren, a gallant commander of an English man-of-war, was its godfather. These are facts which every one is not presumed to know.
For further information we would say that Warren is a mountainous hamlet, situated in one of the western valleys of the great White Mountain range. The latter is a cluster of lofty peaks, located a little north of the centre of the State, which vary from three thousand to six thousand three hundred feet in height. Four great roads pass through these mountains, connect- ing the northern and southern portions of the State. One leads through the Pinkham notch, another through the White Mountain
The White Hills were called by the Indians, Waumbekketmethna; Waum- bekket signifies White, and Methna, mountains.
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notch, a third through the Franconia notch, and the fourth and most western one through the Oliverian notch. Warren is situ- ated on the last mentioned thoroughfare.
That there may be no mistake about the locality of the town, gazetteers say that it is in the very centre of Grafton County, is fourteen miles from Haverhill, one of the shire towns of the county, seventy miles from Concord, the State Capital, and ninety- three from Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only seaport.
The boundaries of Warren are the gifts of nature. Its eastern line runs over the crests of three lofty mountains. Mt. Cushman on the north rises like a dark wave of the ocean 3,306 feet high. Mt. Kineo, a hundred feet higher, sweeps away in wavy crested summits to the southeast, and Mount Carr, blue, forest-clad, and the last of the trio, is 3,500 feet in height. The south line bends down the slopes of Red-Oak hill, crosses the pebbly-bottomed Asquamchumauke, and creeps up to the elevation of 2,059 feet over Mt. Sentinel. The western line is over a spur of the latter mountain, crosses Tarleton lake and Mt. Mist-so called from the vapor that sails up to its summit from the blue waves-and finds its northern termination on Webster Slide mountain. The latter is 2,170 feet above sea-level, and its precipitous face slopes down 800 feet to the deep shadows of Wachipauka or Meader pond. The northern line rests upon the flanks of Owl's Head mountain, 3,206 feet high, Mt. Black 3,550 feet, * Moosilauke about 5,000 feet, ; and Mt. Waternomee, a woody elevation of about 3,000 feet. The first is a most curiously shaped mountain. Like a whale-its head a sharp angular peak, piercing the blue ether, its dorsal fin white jagged rocks, rising from the dark forest of firs, its tail a dizzy precipice, sinking perpendicularly a hundred fathoms down,-it turns up its huge back to be fanned by the rude winds. The second, Mt. Black without a white spot upon it, is a dark, sombre monument, rising in the city of mountains ; the third, Moosilauke, head and shoulders above the others, is monarch of all, and the
The height of these mountains was ascertained by Prof. Guyot, of Princeton College, in 1857.
* Moosilauke was so called by the Indians from Moosi, bald, and Auke, a place-Bald-place. On the first maps it was written Mooshelauke, then Mooshe- lock, then Moosehillock. Many persons suppose it was so called from the large number of moose once found about the mountain.
t Some say 5,051 feet; others say 4,802 feet high.
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fourth, Mt. Waternomee, is a green wooded mountain with three round crests, and is sometimes known as the southern spur of the Pemigewassett range.
The exact centre of Warren is the summit of Knight hill. Standing on the top, one is surrounded on all sides by lofty crests, and the forest hamlet appears like a huge bowl, with another bowl transparent, formed of blue sky inverted and placed over it, and resting upon the rim of mountains.
Warren is well watered. The principal stream is the As- quamchumauke, now called Baker river. It rises in a little meadow pond on the north side of Moosilauke mountain. At first a wild torrent, then a bright pebbly-bottomed stream, and lastly a deep blue river, it empties into the Pemigewassett. Its Warren tributaries from the west are Merrill, Berry, and Black brooks; on the east, East Branch, Batchelder, and Patch brooks. Through the north part of the town, running into the Connecticut, is Oliverian brook. These are the principal streams; but small yet never-failing rivulets gush from the mountain springs situated in every ravine, while there is scarcely a meadow which does not contain a fountain whose waters, cool and crystalline, bubble up from the white sands. More than a hundred of these musical streamlets make Warren one of the best watered towns in New Hampshire.
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