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"He purchased a plot of land north of the village and built a gristmill, where grain was ground for many years for the townspeople. In connection with his milling busi- ness he manufactured rakes, which business was subsequently carried on by his son David. His rakes were of a superior manufacture and were in demand wherever known."
In 1838 Augustus Faulkner bought a "shop" here from the Ebenezer Morses; 1858 to Thomas J. Pierce.
The north part of the lot went 1879 to Lyman Chandler of Alstead; 1886 to Edwin Seabury for $11; 1889 to Charles E. Andrews; 1890 to Frank E. Leeman, blacksmith shop; 1891 to Fred A. Lebourveau, and
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Alvin Colburn fixed over into a woodworking shop; 1892 to William J. Hall; 1913 to Charles M. Russell, wheelwright; 1927 to Maine B. Gilbert who had a wheelwright shop here as late as 1941; the building is still standing, though tired.
The south part of the lot sold in 1870 to David Russell who had a basket manufacturing shop; 1879 to Edwin Seabury; 1885 to William J. Hall, who restored antiques and made coffins; 1923 to Wallace E. Graves; 1941 to Harry G. Russell; 1953 to Irene E. Biagiotti. In later years this was a dwelling and was nearly destroyed by fire in February 1961.
18. MARSHALL E. PUTNAM: The Mead deeds are confusing, but it is safe to say that the house which Marshall E. Putnam now has was the old Mead House. Moses Mead, Sr., lived here as did his widow Lezee Viles Mead after him. Moses, Jr., died in 1818 and Moses, Sr., in 1819 when David Mead, brother and son, acquired the property. His heirs, none of whom lived in Walpole, sold 1881 to David Buffum; 1884 to Elizabeth Wells, widow of Edward; 1931 to her daughter Sarah (Sally) Frances Runyon, widow of John F. of Morristown, N. J. (she came home to take care of her mother); 1944 to her brother Herbert E. Wells, reserving life use; 1945 to Gustave W. and Mary C. Bailey; 1946 to Leon R. and Har- riet S. Bugbee; 1951 to Marshall E. and Virginia H. Putnam.
19. HOLLIS G. CHANDLER: In 1844 Josiah Bellows sold to Clarissa Mead a four-rod square houselot in the southwest corner of his land on the east side of Rt. 12 north of the village. Her daughter Maria Louisa Cooke of Keene sold 1881 to George B. Holland. Clarissa was the 11th child of Moses Mead.
In 1891 Holland sold to Charles H. Roundy, blacksmith. In 1898 May L. Roundy sold to David D. Roundy of Gilsum; 1898 to Herbert D. Gale; 1917 to Charles S. Hawks; 1919 to Henry P. Marsh; 1924 to Joseph B. Gray; 1927 to Alice B. Duffy of Keene; 1927 (with Frank E. Duffy, both of Waterbury, Conn.) to Bellows Falls Saving Institute; 1940 to Fred Wille of Bridgeport, Conn .; 1941 to Fred A. Ramsay (Wille having died); 1942 to Glenna B. and Hollis G. Chandler.
20. WALTER C. KILBURN: Josiah Bellows sold one-half acre here on the west side of the Turnpike to Aaron K. Chase in 1837; Chase in 1838 to Thomas J. Pierce, carpenter, who probably built the house. He died 1905 and his widow Eliza J. or Jane E. (son Wilson C. lived with her) sold 1906 to William Mitchell; 1912 to Ernest A. Stowell; 1920 to Hattie E. Graves; 1930 her estate to Walter C. and Victoria E. Kilburn.
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21. WALPOLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: Next north on the west side of the high- way and south of the hatchery is the school lot, high school and ele- mentary. This was part of the Josiah Bellows estate and was purchased by James L. Mitchell from the Estate. He sold to Albert F. Nims who owned a year, cutting off the oak woods (1883-4); then to Dennis Griffin who raised tobacco here and built a barn in 1892; his son Andrew Grif- fin had it after him, then Arthur G. Griffin who sold 1945 to Town of Walpole.
ELM STREET, NORTH TO SOUTH, EAST SIDE
In 1818 Dr. Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold 7 rods along the east side of Elm Street south from the Turnpike to William Mitchell; 1821 to Stephen Rowe Bradley; 1821 to David Danforth, blacksmith, who lived here, probably #23; 1832 to Otis Bardwell; 1834 to George C. Ewing. He built a carriage shop on the east part of the lot which he sold to Rob- bins. The west part of the lot he sold in 1838 to William Bellows and Philip Peck; 1852 to William Ruggles; 1852 to Hiram Hefflon. In 1858 there was a paint shop in the north corner of the lot. In 1862 Hiram Hefflon removed to Jay, Vermont, and sold to Moses Wright (Fidelia).
22. ROBERT S. BARRETT: In 1864 the Wrights sold the north part of the lot to Dennis Griffin who built a house, lived there, large family-worst looking place, always smelled of cabbage (Weymouth); 1884 to Edwin K. Seabury; 1886 to Frances H. Farr; 1905 to Edwin K. Seabury; 1906 to Samuel M. Seabury; 1912 to Mary M. Sweeney; 1930 to Richard Sweeney; 1935 to John C. and Lillian H. Pheur (he ran the First Na- tional Store and she had a beauty shop, North Walpole people); 1942 to Robert S. and Helen E. Kilburn Barrett.
23. EVERETT E. HOUGHTON: In 1864 the Wrights sold the south part of their lot to Aaron P. Howland; 1868 his heirs to Oliver Martin; 1870 to Alura Nichols who had lived in the Valley until after her husband died; 1888 to Rhoda A. Knapp, wife of Richard Knapp. He was a skillful tailor who sat by the window and sewed all day. His wife helped him with the work and their son Henry became a good tailor although drink bothered him. Richard Knapp was also a barber. Although over-age, he served in the First N. H. Volunteers, returned to Charlestown, and in 1870 came to Walpole. Of their four sons, George R. served in the Four- teenth N. H. Volunteers for three years. He was assistant postmaster for two years. Charles was a travelling salesman. In May 1904, he bought a horse. Thoughtful friends, during the night, drew down from the car-
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riage house at the Knapp Homestead on Wentworth Road the ancient one-horse chaise and left it in his back yard. With a little repairing it might last another hundred years. He had enlisted in the Fourteenth N. H. Volunteers in 1863, served to the end of the war, and died at the Soldiers' Home in Chelsea, Mass., in 1919.
In 1928 the Knapp heirs sold to Anna M. Warren, wife of John C. Warren, who had come from Maine to take charge of the woodworking shops connected with the Abenaqui Machine Shop at Westminster. After his death his son Lester of Ogunquit, Maine, sold the place in 1943 to Esther M. and Everett E. Houghton.
24. MAURICE FAIRBANKS: In 1869 while Oliver Martin owned the lot above he sold off the south side to Mary O. Pierce; 1888 to Henry A. and Hattie E. Henry; 1889 to Lydia A. Fuller; 1892 to Estella S. and Ella M. Wilbur; 1892 Ella's share to Estella; 1907 to Mary Jane Kiniry; 1933 to her daughter Mary Catherine Kiniry; 1947 Mary Catherine Kiniry Jeffrey to Maurice and Elaine Jeffrey Fairbanks.
25. CAROLA M. GRAVES: AH 78 gives the impression that the Stephen Rice house, next south on Elm Street, was built before 1800, but the deeds do not bear this out. In 1818 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold this lot to Stephen Rice, who seems to have lost title to the property for awhile, but regained it in 1823. In 1846 he had died, and Aura Rice had sold to Thomas Russell (Eliza) of Woodstock, Vt., and Charles S. Rice of Dorchester, Mass., probably his son. The whole thing is rather con- fused because there is no mention of the relationship of Aura. There is a record that she joined the church in 1812, and died in 1844. There is also a note that Stephen Rice was insolvent and that George Allen was settling his estate. In 1849 the Russells sold to Henry O. Clark (Hanna); 1856 to Samuel Derby Learned, master carpenter (wife Cynthia P.), who later owned on School Street; 1864 to Curtis Stearns; 1868 his heirs to Samuel W. Bradford. Through the years Mr. Bradford was described as a mer- chant-tailor, a farmer, a carpenter, and as being in meat and provision business. His wife was Sarah, known as Aunt Sarah, youngest daughter of Elisha Hooper. In 1874 Bradford sold to Harriet M. Stoddard (related to Ira Hubbard's mother); 1883 to William J. Hall, who had gone from the Plain on the Upper Road to Ludlow, Vt., then back to Walpole. He was here many years, had a cabinet shop, was an undertaker; 1916 to Charlie A. Watkins; 1925 to Lewis J. and Ida M. Wright; 1926 to Rosa- line M. Slade; 1928 to Lawrence O. Thompson from Berlin, N. H .; 1943 to Carola M. Jeffrey, now Carola M. Jeffrey Graves. It is now occupied
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by Ralph and Doris Brainard who came here from Colebrook. Ralph Brainard is a Pharmacist.
26. FLOYD M. SMITH: In 1854 Susan Robeson sold this lot out of her land on the corner of Westminster and Elm Streets to Aaron P. and Huldah B. Howland and they erected buildings; 1864 to Dares A. and Lucinda S. DeWolf; 1865 to Eliphalet K. Webster who left it to Mary J. Bemis. She and Cyrus H. Bemis sold in 1872 to Levi A. Hall; 1880 to Winslow G. Barnett; 1909 his estate to Lucy M. Fuller. She died 1915 and her daugh- ter, Emma F. Bartlett, widow, came home to take care of her father, William Fuller, and inherited the property, selling 1931 to Fred A. Le- bourveau; his estate in 1934 to Floyd M. and Lillian G. Smith, service man for Hubbards' Hatchery. They created a joint tenancy with their daughter M. Elinor Hamill in 1955.
The Winslow Barnetts lived here for many years, she a fussy invalid who was confident she was going to Heaven to see her twin sister Mary.
TRIANGLE BOUNDED BY NORTH MAIN STREET, NORTH STREET, TURNPIKE STREET
27 MABEL COLE: In 1760 James Ball sold to Asa Baldwin. In 1767 Asa Baldwin had sold this property to Samuel Chase; 1773 Solomon Chase to Ebenezer Swan one acre (eight rods on Main Street); 1783 to Daniel Lor- ing including potash works, kettles, etc. In 1784 Stephen Fuller of Chester, Vt., cordwainer, sold to Asahel Goodenow of East Sudbury, Mass. "a certain shoemaker's shop about 14 feet in length, 12 feet wide and 7 feet post, said shop standing on Benjamin Bellows' land in Wal- pole and on road leading from Charlestown to Westmoreland. . . . " In 1785 Loring sold to Goodenow one-half of his land above "also one-half the building on it and one-half of two broken potash kettles." Aaron Emes of Keene obtained a judgment against Goodenow and sold 1786 to George Sparhawk; 1788 to John Crafts; 1791 to Samuel Grant, saddler; 1801 to William Pierce. The new Third N. H. Turnpike cut the piece in two and Pierce sold in November 1801 that part northeast of the Turnpike to Thomas and Isaac Redington; 1820 to Otis Bardwell who also bought a narrow strip on the north from Dr. and Mrs. Morse.
Bardwell lived here for 25 years. He came to Walpole from Massachu- setts, commenced the stage business, began as driver and became operator, owning with George Huntington the important lines centering in Wal- pole. He had a stable here and in 1832 bought the blacksmith shop on the north side of North and Turnpike Streets.
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Old Harness Shop
After Bardwell, the next owner was his sister, Sarah B. Pool (Mrs. John). They owned the whole triangle. After John Pool's death, Sarah bought the interests of the other heirs. The whole Triangle is now four properties.
In 1861 Mrs. Pool sold to Henry Allen what is now the Cole place. He lived here and carried on a livery and harness business with his son, Henry P., a dealer in horses and a manufacturer of harness. The other heirs sold their interests to Henry P. Allen who sold in 1892 to Katherine A. Weymouth and removed to Everett, Mass. Mrs. Weymouth left the property to Katherine Keefe; 1930 to Walpole Historical Society. While Emily Jennison was curator she used the shop as a museum. In 1947 the Society sold the property to Mabel R. Cole.
This house was probably built by Asa Baldwin by 1762, and was oc- cupied by Ephraim Baldwin. George Weymouth built modern chimneys in 1894.
28. GEORGE H. HURLBURT: In 1843 Otis Bardwell had sold to his brother- in-law, John Pool, the west part of the triangle (6 rods on North Street). In 1860 Mrs. Pool sold this to Ephraim Barker (Lydia) of Granby, Mass., with the dwelling house and barn; 1866 to Harvey Ball; 1871 to Cath-
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erine W. Kendall; 1884 to Lizzie M. Chapin (Mrs. Herbert); 1910 to William J. Hall. He seems to have used the barn for storage and an un- dertaking shop. He sold the west part of the property to Cora B. Hill in 1921; 1932 to Newell G. Holden; 1937 to Mary F. Holden; 1957 to George H. and Joanne H. Hurlburt.
29. MATT L. NASH: In 1921 William J. Hall sold the northeast part of his property to Matt Nash, on the south side of North Street. This in- cluded the barn.
30. JOHN H. HOWARD: In 1922 William J. Hall sold the southeast part of his property to Ida L. Howard, including the undertaker's shop. She left half of this property to Ruby M. Howard who sold to John H. How- ard in 1957, he owning the other half by inheritance from Ida L. Howard. Both 29 and 30 have been converted into dwellings. These must have been the old stable buildings but the deeds do not indicate that this property belonged to Allen.
31. TOWN OF WALPOLE: In 1822 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold a quar- ter-acre on the north side at the junction of North and Turnpike Streets to David Danforth, blacksmith, "said Danforth agreeing not to turn in cattle or occupy said premises as a pasture until he fences it." He sold 1832 to Otis Bardwell. In 1843 Bardwell sold to his brother-in-law, John H. Pool, who kept the blacksmith shop here and lived in the house in the south point of the triangle between Turnpike and North Streets. The first shop, which was of wood, burned, and Pool rebuilt it of brick. Mrs. Pool sold in 1860 to Ephraim Barker of Granby, Mass .; 1877 to Ephraim W. Barker; 1885 (Ephraim W. then of Winchester, N. H.) to Lyman G. Fales of Easthampton, Mass .; 1886 to Sarah G. Hale; 1888 to Town of Walpole which used it as a lockup. This was demolished in 1952 by a highway crew. After this, a steel cage in the basement of the Town Hall was used as the lockup; now prisoners are taken to Keene or the County Farm.
32. WAYNE D. POLLEY: In 1845 John Poole sold to Abner Wheeler a small piece west of the blacksmith shop, where Wheeler probably built the house; 1888 his heirs sold to Charles W. Potter; 1894 to Horace A. Perry; 1897 to Ulysses Riley; 1902 Riley Estate to Horace A. Perry; 1904 to Alexander Rattray; 1905 to Ida L. Howard; 1919 to John Wallace Burbee; 1932 to Alice E. Burbee; 1938 to Annie M. Riley; 1943 to Mabel C. Howard; 1952 to Daniel F. Potter; 1958 Savings Bank to Marjorie M. Wilson; 1958 to Wayne and Eleanor T. Polley.
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33. LYDIA M. BEACH: NEXT EAST OF BRICK SHOP #31: In 1887 Lyman G. Fales sold this house, which had been a part of the shop lot, to Nora Walsh; 1890 to Abbie Chappell; 1891 to Hiram Hicks; 1894 to Fred Prentiss; 1903 to John W. Prentiss; 1909 to Frank A. Spaulding; 1927 to Lydia M. Beach.
34. DONALD E. MACK: In 1825 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold to Moses W. Hammond a lot running north from North Street 5 rods along Main Street and 15 rods deep; 1826 to Daniel W. Bisco; 1831 to George Kil- burn. The Kilburns had two houses and were living here in 1834, Elijah in what is now the Rogers house and George in the Brewster house. In 1834 George Kilburn sold to Lincoln Whitcomb (Emeline R.) the west end of the lot; 1868 to Patrick Drislane, who took care of what is now Mrs. Endicott's place on Wentworth Road. His daughter Lizzie M. Chapin of Alstead inherited the place, sold 1912 to Warren H. and Willis A. Colburn, brothers. In 1945 sold to Elmer J. and Gertrude A. Foss of Newton, Mass .; 1949 to William F. and Gertrude B. Lane; 1953 to Donald E. and Verna R. Mack.
35. AGNES M. BREWSTER: In 1837 George Kilburn assigned the remainder of the property to his creditors and it was sold 1848 to Henry A. Hitch- cock, being the east part of the lot. Hitchcock came to Walpole about 1837, engaged in cabinet and furniture business, undertaking, and carriage making. Annie J. Hitchcock, sole surviving heir, sold the place in 1893 to Charles M. Russell; 1907 to Newell I. Gale; 1917 his estate to Cora B. Hill; 1932 Albion F. Hill became joint tenant with Cora B. Hill; 1947 Albion Hill estate to Clifford Chickering; 1947 to Gerald A. and Doris K. Corbett; 1952 to Agnes M. Brewster.
36. PAUL ROGERS: In 1839 Aaron Mansfield bought the rest of the lot; 1841 to James M. Burroughs; 1851 to Thomas Murphy; 1866 to Henry W. Griswold; 1867 to James Benson; 1882 heirs of Benson to Patrick Dris- lane; 1892 to Emma G. Hinds; 1909 to Clifford L. Sturtevant as trustee; 1929 to Town of Walpole; 1929 to Louisa C. Mousley; 1936 to her daughter Easter L. Mousley Peters; 1939 to M. Alice R. Rogers (husband Paul).
37. GERTRUDE LANE: North of Mrs. Brewster's there is a lane leading to Gertrude Lane's place. This property was formerly part of the Hitchcock property. The west part on which the house stands Henry A. Hitchcock sold in 1848 to James M. Burroughs with a shop thereon "also right of carriage way . .. from Main Street to said premises for 15 years from
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date hereof and so much longer as said Hitchcock shop shall be used as a mechanics shop"; 1851 to Thomas and Mary Ann Murphy; 1856 to Bridget O'Connor. She must have built the house (perhaps from the old shop), shown on the 1858 map. She was probably Bridget McNamara, wife of Patrick O'Connor, both born in Ireland. They seem to have had four children: Bridget, born about 1824, who married Edward Griffin and had a son, Patrick Edward (Patsy) born about 1855 who married Hannah Shean; Ann, born about 1826, who married Thomas Lynch, born about 1824; Mary, born about 1827, unmarried; and John, born about 1837, who also married.
Bridget willed the property to John and Mary by 1882, they willed to Patrick E. Griffin and wife Hannah, Mrs. Thomas Lynch, Edward Griffin and wife Bridget. They sold 1897 to Mrs. Mary Carney; 1897 to Frank J. Griffin (he may have been related, probably son of Dennis and Catherine O'Connor Griffin); 1907 to George O. Taggard; 1908 to David Harty; 1928 to Mabel C. Howard; 1944 to James E. Nelson; 1946 to Arthur H. Chickering, Jr .; 1947 to Anna Belle Murray; 1949 to Anthony and Mattie Black of Bellows Falls; 1953 to William and Gertrude Lane. The northeast part of the present property, which includes a barn, came down from Hitchcock by a different series of transactions.
WEST SIDE NORTH MAIN STREET
38. NANCY HOLLAND HUBBARD: The original north line of Lot #1 in the 4th Range was ten rods south of the corner of the wall north of the Holland-Hubbard house on the west side of North Main Street. In 1760 Benjamin Bellows sold six acres here, a piece 20 rods on the road and 50 rods deep, next north of Ephraim Baldwin, to Israel Calkins "with the appurtenances thereon". When Samuel Chase bought this same lot from John French (Olive) in 1762, there was a house on the lot, the southeast corner of which was five rods south of the north line of the lot. In 1762 Asa Baldwin, who owned the land next south (there is no record that Ephraim ever owned it except references in abutting deeds), bought the ten acres west of Chase to the river, sold to Chase in 1767, along with what he still owned of Lot #1.
In 1776 Chase sold three acres in his northeast corner, ten rods on Main Street and 50 rods deep, to James Russell, maltster; 1790 his heirs to Josiah Bellows. This piece extended to the present Rt. 12, so there is a ten-rod jog in the line there. The Hollis Chandler property was taken out of Josiah Bellows' land; the Mead property on the west side of the highway out of the Crafts' property.
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In 1776 Chase had a house ten rods south of the present north line. He sold to John Crafts, recorded 1796, and Crafts' widow lived here with her second husband, Rev. Samuel Mead. The property was her widow's third, subject to a lease during her lifetime. The property came to Esther Crafts Morse and her husband, Dr Ebenezer Morse. They sold in 1830 to Ephraim Holland.
Ephraim, son of Dr. Abraham Holland, had married Nancy, daughter of Rev. Samuel Mead.
"He went to Keene and kept the Phoenix Hotel there when first married, and sub- sequently moved to Boston and kept a hotel on Howard Street known as 'Holland's Coffee House'. He at length returned to his native town and built the house where his widow now resides (1880), and lived there until his death" in 1859.
They had eight children of whom the eighth, George B., stayed at home with his mother, not marrying until his early forties. Of his three daugh- ters the eldest, Nancy Holland Hubbard, now has the family home.
In the story of the settlement of Drewsville (AH 130), Aldrich states that Thomas C. Drew "had manufactured brick which he intended to use in building a house on land of Mrs. Lyman Watkins (1880). The bricks were made on land now owned by the Hol- land heirs just north of the bridge on Mad Brook.
This would have been on the west side of North Main Street on land now of Nancy Holland Hubbard.
39. EVALYN F. CURRIE (Mrs. Archie L.): Josiah, youngest son of Benjamin Bellows who died when the boy was ten, was willed 400 acres and £300 in money "to help him build a house and barn." He married at 21 years.
"After his marriage, Josiah lived for a time in a log house about half a mile south of the homestead. . . . He then built a small house a little south of his later residence. . . . About 1792 or 1793 he built the house now (1898) owned and occupied by John W. Hayward, which he enlarged as required by the needs of his increasing family and in which he lived for the rest of his life. . . . 'Uncle Si' was of medium height, but quite stout; was rather reserved and silent; decided in the expression of his opinions, and, although kind in his feelings and just to all, strict in enforcing his will. ... Two days before his death, when driving a new horse on the Keene road a short distance south of the village, he met the stagecoach and, turning out too far, fell from his wagon and struck upon his head. He was taken up in a state of unconsciousness from which he never recovered." He died in 1846, aged 79.
In 1860 his heirs sold the property here, westerly to Rt. 12 and northerly to the cemetery and the Cemetery Road, to Henry G. and Harriet S. H. Wheelock, a grandson. While they owned the property, they sold to Nancy M. Holland a sliver 28 rods long along her north line
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from a point on Main Street to seven rods wide at the west end. This made her line more nearly perpendicular to Main Street.
In 1867 the Wheelocks sold to John W. Hayward, another grandson of Josiah Bellows, including the land south of North Road which had come to Josiah from his father-in-law's estate; 1902 to Frederic and Sarah D. Nichols of Boston, Mass .; 1933 Nichols' Estate to Nelle H. Nichols of Newton, Mass .; 1957 to Archie L. and Evalyn F. Currie of Springfield, Vt. (For more concerning the Haywards see Bellows Genealogy.)
The first meeting house in Walpole was in the yard here, on the north- east side of the house.
40. JOHN W. JENSEN: Frederic Nichols built from what had been the milkhouse the smaller house next north for his caretaker, Everett L. Houghton, who also purchased Nichols' barn and the land on the east side of Main Street. In 1941 he gave this house to his son Ralph E .; 1956 Ralph sold to John W. and Ethel L. Jensen. Everett Houghton added the porches and John Jensen has made further changes.
HUBBARD ROAD
41. DR. WILLIAM H. VON LACKUM: The house of William Von Lackum at the head of Main Street stands on the site of the house Thomas Spar- hawk built soon after he came to Walpole. (Burned March 7, 1866.) According to Aldrich, Thomas Sparhawk came to Walpole in 1769.
"Where he first located is unknown, but he was not here long before he purchased a large tract of land, comprising, in part, what is now known as the Sparhawk home- stead (now 1962 Kazimier), and built for himself a substantial dwelling, on the site of the residence" of William Von Lackum. "Here he lived till he died" in 1803. His wife, Rebecca, died 1807.
After the death of Thomas Sparhawk this property went to his daughter and her husband, Mary and Josiah Bellows. They sold almost immediately (April 1803) to Roger Vose, reserving as the dower right of Rebecca Sparhawk a certain part of the garden,
"1/3 of dwelling house, viz. southeast room and chamber over it; 1/2 the kitchen; 1/3 of cellar; 1/2 of washroom; 1/2 of dairy room; 1/2 of meal room; 1/3 of outbuilding with privilege in woodyard to put her wood; all barn on east side of floor; 1/2 privilege of barnyard. . .
In 1843 the Vose heirs sold the property to Benjamin B. Grant of Boston.
He was "a successful merchant of great enterprise. .. . Short, erect, plump, almost fat, the typical English squire of olden days ... with forcible manner which com-
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pelled every one to get out of his way when he called; with a wife, good 'Aunt Mary', his counterpart, copying all of his imperative ways, and yet the very soul of comfort and of good cheer. The memory of the good dinners which she cooked as no one else could, lingers still. . . . I can see Uncle Ben now as he took his summar daily walk to the village, dressed in spotless white, head thrown back, body erect, showing in every motion the energetic and masterful soul which controlled the short figure. ... The beautiful trees planted by him that line our streets will long remain as the best monu- ment to the enterprise and sagacity of him."
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