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In 1886 the executors of Mary B. Grant sold to Miriam Nicholson of New York City; 1933 to Raymond B. Spaulding of Harrogate, England; 1942 to William and Lena P. Von Lackum.
42. JOHN J. O'BRIEN: This was originally a part of the Fessenden farm. Justin Farr sold an acre here in 1870 to Samuel J. Hubbard who probably built the house about 1871; 1872 to Samuel E. Hubbard; 1881 Samuel E., then of Westminster, sold to Charles Stowell; 1932 Helen E. Stowell to Nellie G. Stowell; 1951 to Donald Hubbard, reserving life use; 1956 to Roswell S. Pomeroy; 1959 to present owners.
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43. HUBBARD FARMS, INC .: In 1766 Benjamin Bellows sold to Rev. Thomas Fessenden for £80 about 41 acres near the meeting house at the north end of Main Street, on the north side of the road by the cemetery. In 1771 he sold a piece (five acres) from the south side to Thomas Spar- hawk. Rev. Thomas Fessenden died 1813 and the farm was sold to his son-in-law, Royal Crafts, who had married Elizabeth Fessenden. However, he and his brother John had financial difficulties and he lost the farm.
In 1817 it came into the hands of Abel and Josiah Bellows; 1846 heirs of Josiah Bellows 3rd sold to Ezra Miner; 1866 his heirs sold to Israel Stowell; 1868 to Justin Farr of Westminster; 1879 to Sybil Augusta Farr of Boston; 1885 to John W. Hayward; 1908 to Everett L. Houghton; 1924 to Anna B. Fish of Ashby, Mass .; 1929 to Norman A. and Rosanna E. Wright of Grafton, Vt .; 1935 to Hubbard Farms, Inc.
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44. THOMAS W. KINIRY: Dr. Ebenezer and Esther Crafts Morse kept for themselves the north corner of Elm and Pleasant Streets and had their home there. Mrs. Morse sold in 1868 to Eliza A. Griswold (Mrs. Henry W. S.) 17 acres; 1870 to Norman P. Clark; 1873 to George Huntington; 1877 his estate to Edwin K. Seabury; 1912 Seabury heirs to Henry K. Willard; 1913 to Fred A. Lebourveau; 1923 to Harry J. and Eva M.
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Stowell who left the property to their daughter Treva Stowell Kiniry. Apartments have been made here.
45. CARMEN G. KENYON: In 1891 Edwin K. Seabury sold this house lot to George Newell Holden who built a house that burned April 2, 1910, and was replaced by the present house; 1893 to Ella J. Bond; 1912 to Emily V. Wellman. Following litigation between Alma A. Burbank and Martha Barnard the property was sold in 1952 to Merton A. Kenyon and daughter Carmen G.
46. CHARLES S. (SID) WILSON: Between 1870 and 1873 Norman P. Clark sold this lot to Oliver T. Joslyn. He probably built a house here and had a garden. In 1875 he removed to the Plain on the Upper Road, and sold this property to Hubbard Newton; 1876 to David C. and Adeline Thomp- son of Walpole and Samuel Thompson of Appleton, Wisconsin, heirs of Lewis Thompson, brothers and sister; 1891 Warren, son of David C. Thompson, turned over his rights to his sister Frances A. Hubbard (Mrs. John). In 1903 she was residing in Hendersonville, N. C., and sold to Ira S. and Serena I. Hubbard; 1904 to George O. Taggard; 1910 to John E. Proctor; 1920 to Carrie L. Merriam of Foxboro, Mass .; 1928 to Herbert L. and Alice R. Hall; 1935 to Charles A. Merriam of Foxboro, Mass .; 1940 his estate to Lucile Bragg who made it into two apartments, and sold 1946 to Charles S. Wilson.
47. JOSEPHINE FLANDERS: In 1873 George Huntington sold land and buildings to John Harty; 1894 the Harty children to Widow Johanna Harty; 1940 Annie Harty (unmarried) to Josephine Flanders.
48. ROBERT E. MACK: In 1872 Norman P. Clark (Corintha F.) sold land and buildings to Tryphosa P. Hale of Westminster, the house being occu- pied by Mrs. Minor; 1885 Alexander Atcherson foreclosed the mortgage, and sold to Emeline V. Wellman. In 1952 following litigation between Burbank and Barnard, it was sold to George J. and Helen M. Audet; 1952 to Parker & Dymond, dealers; 1953 to Raymond L. and Gladys L. Sears; 1955 to Parker & Dymond; 1956 to Robert E. and Mary L. Mack. 49. HAROLD E. KILBURN (House at end of Pleasant Street): In 1874 George Huntington sold to Cornelius and Margaret Harty one-third of an acre with land and buildings occupied by Thomas Griffin; 1879 Margaret Harty to Thomas Griffin; 1941 heirs Ellen H. and Cornelius Griffin sold to Harold E. and Alice T. Kilburn.
50. FELIX ALDRICH JR. (Near west end of Pleasant Street and west of old
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street to Depot Hill): In 1880 Edwin K. Seabury sold one-half an acre here to Eliza T. Driscoll; 1896 to Bartholomew Driscoll, Eliza re- serving use for natural life; 1920 his heir, Elizabeth V. Driscoll, to Thomas P. Griffin; 1929 other heirs to Ellen Griffin (Thomas Griffin Jr. resided here wheen he died); 1942 Griffin estate to Ada and Martin Densmore; 1954 to Felix E. Jr. and Kathleen Aldrich.
51. JOHN A. HILLIER JR. (Next east of old street to Depot Hill): In 1833 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold to Sylvanus Titus one-half an acre; 1837 to Phebe Wire, reserving two rods wide across north end for a road; 1854 to Emeline Livingston (Henry D.), tenant Jacob W. Hale; 1857 to Thomas S. Felch (Lucy R.), inherited by Irving Felch; 1910 to Augustus T. Felch; 1919 his estate to Urania C. Graves; 1920 to Cornelius Harty; 1924 to Fred A. Lebourveau; 1928 to Henry P. Marsh; 1934 to Irene M. Spinney; 1949 Irene M. Spinney Farnsworth to daughter Julia S. Thomp- son of Westminster; 1954 to William L. and Jane E. Pennington; 1957 to John A. Jr. and June Hillier.
52. JOHN HARTY: In 1833 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold one-half an an acre here to Ira Waldo; 1839 to Otis Bardwell; 1847 to Albert Richard- son (Mary C.); 1854 to Silas M. Bates (Sally); 1954 to Abel Bellows; 1869 his son Abel Herbert Bellows to Maria Hall (Martin G.); 1892 to John E. Proctor; 1919 his estate to Cornelius Harty; John Harty inherited.
53. ALFRED M. MARTIN: In 1833 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold one-half an acre here to William Sherman; 1835 to Keziah R. Holland; 1849 to Foskit Farr; 1872 his heirs to Mary E. Miller, daughter and a widow; 1872 to George H. Champlin of Boston; 1873 to Ebenezer Proctor; 1877 to John E. Proctor; 1919 his estate to Ruth G. Stowell; 1930 her estate to Granville E. and Lucette E. Leonard; 1942 widow Lucette to Fred A. Ramsay; 1960 his daughter, Gertrude Ramsay Wallace to Alfred M. and Arvilla W. Martin.
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54. CHARLOTTE A. FLINT AND JOHN W. FLINT: In 1817 the Morses sold "156 rods" to John Maynard who mortgaged and lost it; 1819 it was sold to John Carlisle, shoemaker; 1821 to Ebenezer Morse. The records do not show how Isaac Redington obtained this property, but in 1836 he sold to John Bellows; 1840 Henry W. Bellows to William Jennison; 1842 to Aaron P. Howland who is supposed to have built the house. Mrs. How- land sold in 1884 to George P. Porter who had a store where Central
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Garage is now; 1923 Porter estate to Cyrus M. Clough; 1938 Bertha R. Clough, who inherited, to Edward C. Boyce (Mary L.) of Fitzwilliam, who came to Walpole to run the Walpole Inn. He sold in 1941 to Lucile Bragg. When Mrs. Bragg took over the property it presented a sad sight with its run-down buildings, trees overturned by the hurricane, garden lands grown up to weeds. She wrote:
"It was the superior and unusual construction of the house with its attractive Gothic windows and detail that tempted me to see just what I could make of it. The fact that the house was built by Aaron P. Howland for his own family undoubt- edly accounted for its superior construction. The cellar walls are unusually thick and the cellar itself is divided into three separate rooms. The outside walls of the house are of brick covered over with wood, while the chimney at the back of the house has built into it on the second floor a complete outfit for smoking meat."
In 1942 Mrs. Bragg sold to Eleanor H. and Norman H. Schofield. After the death of Mrs. Schofield, Norman married Ruth Cobb and they built a new house on Prospect Street, selling here to Charlotte A. Flint and her son John W. Flint in 1960.
(See also AH 288 for A. P. Howland)
55. RICHARD E. COLLINS: In 1952 Lucile Bragg sold the west end of the lot with two dwellings which she had erected to Richard Collins. He kept the easterly of these houses.
56. HAROLD S. KELLEY: In 1952 Richard Collins sold the westerly end of his lot with dwelling to Helen Tatem Demers (Frances Edgett, the school nurse, had been living here); 1960 Helen Demers, then of Rochester, New York, sold to Harold S. and Mary S. Kelley.
57. ESTATE OF BERTHA LEONARD: In 1817 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold an acre of land here to Isaac Redington. He built the house and lived here. (AH 345-6) Redington sold in 1834 to Edwin Jennison; 1835 to his father William Jennison who lived here, and who probably had come down from his farm (Howland place now on Ramsay Hill); his daughter Phebe Augusta of Worcester sold 1864 to Edwin Hosmer (Maria) who had been on the Fletcher Farm. Maria Elizabeth Guthrie of Buffalo and George E. Seabury of Clinton, Mass., inherited from Maria Hosmer and sold their shares in the estate to their father Edwin K. Seabury in 1902 and 1904; 1904 to Dr. O. L. Corliss; 1909, he having re- moved to Mt. Vernon, N. H., sold to St. John's Church; 1911 to Hudson E. Bridge; 1916 to Willie G. Leonard whose son Wallace (Bertha) inherited.
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58. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH AND PARSONAGE: The line between the Morse and Bellows property was at the north line of this property. In 1806 the heirs of Benjamin Bellows sold one-half an acre here to Justin Hinds, bookbinder; 1806 to Alexander Thomas. The price would indicate that Hinds built a house here while he owned the property. In 1808 Thomas bought additional land on his south, all on the corner except the brick schoolhouse lot. Thomas lived here until he died, his heirs selling in 1832 to William Ruggles, after which the property came to be known as the Ruggles house. Ruggles had previously owned property on Prospect and had married Ransom Lawrence's widow, Betsey. R. L. Ball also lived here.
In 1864 Ruggles sold to James Benson (Lucy); 1866 to Leonard B. Holland. The Hollands acquired the whole corner, sold it in 1902 to Helen D. Bridge who gave it to the Protestant Episcopal Church, erecting St. John's Church.
Thomas Redington lived in the Ruggles house at some time, but never seems to have owned it. The house was taken down in 1892, when it was known as the Ball house.
BRICK SCHOOLHOUSE: In 1809 Samuel and Phebe Grant sold a lot on the corner, two rods on Elm Street and four rods on Westminster Street, to School District #1 for the new brick schoolhouse which had already been built. In 1854 District #1 sold the plot to Philip Peck (Martha E.) and they to Levi H. Foster (Fanny M.); 1866 to Leonard B. Holland, now a part of the St. John's Church Lot.
Josiah G. Bellows wrote:
"When the high school was established and the present primary and intermediate school was built, there was no longer any need for the brick schoolhouse. The floor was leveled, the intermediate schoolroom was converted into a shoemaker's shop and was occupied for many years by R. L. Ball who there followed his calling of making excel- lent boots and shoes for customers, as well as repairing and selling ready made goods. The rest of the building was used as a dwelling house. I have a photograph of the building in which Mr. Ball stands in his shirt sleeves and leather apron at the open door, with his sleeves rolled up just as he rose from his bench.
"There was a wooden structure at the west end of the schoolhouse used for a wood- shed and other purposes which had a curious history. This wooden appendage was bought by Levi H. Foster and employed to form part of the walls of a dwelling house which he put up close to the schoolhouse on Westminster Street. I remember well the contrast between the dark weather-beaten clapboards and the new lumber on the walls of the house.
"When Mr. Foster began the work on the house he was a strong, healthy man, but unfortunately as he was at work on the staging which was built across the front of the house at the second story, he stepped on the end of a loose board and fell to the side-
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walk. He was so badly injured that his life was in doubt for a time, and he was ever after a cripple.
"After a time the brick schoolhouse was taken down and the bricks used to pave Mr. Mitchell's driveway. Probably no one regrets its removal, since it had outlived its usefulness and was too large to be preserved as a relic.
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59. BRIDGE COAL AND GRAIN STORE: In 1807 the proprietors of the Village Bridge bought to southwest corner of Josiah Bellows' land from his father, and here on the north side of the east entrance to the bridge built the toll house. The town acquired title when it took over the bridge; 1913 to Frank A. Spaulding who had a coal-grain store here; 1931 his heirs to Carl Smith; 1947 his widow to George Leighton Bridge who continued the business here until the laying of the new Route #12, bypassing Walpole Village. The building is no more; the Bridge business is now located at the corner of Main and High Streets.
In May 1877 the old toll house, kept by P. Murray as Connecticut River Hotel, was closed by town authorities. It had been opened for the accommodation of tramps, but the proprietor abused his privilege by entertaining also loafers and furnishing beverage not allowed by law.
In 1846 the Morses and Bellows heirs sold the land next east to the Cheshire Railroad Co. The Walpole Depot was here.
On Depot Hill there were four properties, the land records of which were closely related. The north three, all gone now, came from land which Eliza Holton (widow of Loomis) bought from the Morses; sold 1859 to Daniel Kiniry; 1860 north part of lot to Bartholomew Kiniry; 1869 the south four rods to Cornelius Harty; 1877 heirs to Margaret Harty. On May 15, 1904, the following item appeared in the Bellows Falls Times:
"During church as the Catholics were homeward bound, the Orthodox people heard, the Unitarians did not, the fire alarm. The fire was in the shed of Mrs. Harty's house on Depot Hill, occupied by her son David. The furniture was removed, the firemen were able to protect the houses of B. Driscoll and B. Kiniry. The house was entirely consumed by noon, but there was plenty of help to take care of sparks carried by the south wind. Mrs. Harty, over 80, and her son were taken home by her son-in-law, Thomas Griffin."
Apparently no one claimed the place thereafter, and the town finally took possession in 1960. This property is presently in the course of the new Route #12.
Next south in 1863 Daniel Kiniry sold to Bartholomew Driscoll and it became his home place. Frank P. Driscoll inherited; sold 1956 to Mary L.
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Wing; 1957 to Donald H. and Betty L. Sawyer. This also taken as in the path of new Route #12.
Next south Daniel Kiniry sold 1865 to Daniel Sheehan; 1866 to Chris- tian Lucke; 1867 to John S. Farnsworth; 1892 heirs to Bartholomew Dris- coll; Frank P. and Mary C. Driscoll inherited; 1955 to Ronald V. T. and Harriet F. Tilyard. This was in the path of the new highway.
Next south was the Burt place. In 1849 the Morses sold an acre of land here to Sumner A. and John H. Burt, Holland Burt living here at the time. Sumner's widow Anna E. B. sold her share in 1887 to John; his heirs Mary Jeanette Burt and Mabel Burt Lawson sold 1904 to Bartholo- mew Driscoll. As may be seen Bartholomew Driscoll owned the three last places here, and he changed the lot lines. A study of the deeds makes it appear that the Tilyard house was the old Farnsworth house. Frank Driscoll confirms this.
Also on Depot Hill were three other places, closely related in the records, that have been taken to make way for the new Route #12. These were the Kiniry places, some of the land of which came from the Josiah Bellows estate which James L. Mitchell bought in 1869.
a. Bartholomew Kiniry's homestead his son Thomas had; then his widow Ellen L .; 1937 to Raymond A. Seward; 1939 to Glen T. and Pearl L. Boynton.
Next north the sons Thomas A. and Frank W. Kiniry built houses in 1897.
b. The middle house Ellen L. and Margaret L. Kiniry sold 1953 to William A. and Floris E. Russell; 1953 to Rolland S. and Greta A. Jame- son.
c. The north house Ellen L. Kiniry sold 1945 to William T. Kiniry; 1949 to Winfred H. and Marjorie A. Dunham.
The two latter houses have been moved (1962) via the new road to Maplewood Park, 'b' now Rodney MacArthur's #499 and 'c' Gilbert Ross' #493.
After the railroad was built, a road was laid 1859 from the southwest corner of the cemetery on the Bellows Falls Road to the new depot. This road was not entirely satisfactory due to clay primarily and was discon- tinued in 1950.
The dump for the town was for some years on this road, moved, when the new school was built, to a site on the road to Drewsville.
In the early 1900's an old lady by the name of Buckley lived in a freight
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car on this, the dump road. She is remembered as one the children were afraid of because she made them think of a witch. The Buckleys had no recorded deed, but when the Mitchell estate was sold in 1883, it was "subject to rights of Patrick Buckley deceased or his heirs or widow."
60. CLYDE E. SESSIONS: In 1853 Ebenezer and Esther Morse sold to Mary Ann Wellington a piece two rods by two rods and in 1859 another piece the same size to the east. She was a washerwoman who lived alone, who was more or less tormented by the boys, and who finally went insane. In 1879 E. K. Seabury bought this property and sold to Alfred Knight. He added a second story in 1881; the house was razed in 1897. Knight was a funny old English chap who had a shoemaker's shop over Ransom Ball's store, very nice people. In 1929 Lawrence Amor sold to Emma H. Hathaway; 1940 to Raoul J. and Emma M. McKenven. In 1952 Mc- Kenven sold the south part of the lot to Clyde E. and Leola A. Sessions.
61. ROBERT J. WALLIS: In 1940 McKenven had bought from Frank P. and Mary Driscoll another piece on the north, added it to part of the Hathaway lot and sold in 1946 to Frank A. and Katherine M. Cass; 1946 to Warren K. and Deborah G. Brubach; 1947 to George C. and Marion R. Douglas; 1952 to Fred B. and Janet C. Spyker; 1954 to Harold A. and Janet Sample; 1957 to Robert J. and Lorraine M. Wallis.
62. STEWART W. HOLMES: The land at the top of Depot Hill, north side, on the turn, was sold by Ebenezer and Esther Morse in 1826 to Josiah Bellows 3rd and Charles T. Redington; Charles went to Charleston, S. C., to recover his health, there died of consumption. His heirs (brothers George, William, and Henry and sisters Frances and Mary Ely, all of Littleton, N. H.) and Bellows sold 1835 to Horatio Wood; 1839, Wood having removed to Newburyport, Mass., to George Huntington; 1854 to Solomon Thayer of Portland, Maine; 1857 (with Lydia E. Thayer) to Mary D. Faxon; 1892 Mary F. Howe, daughter of Mary Faxon, and living in Longwood, Ill., sold her half of her mother's estate to Elizabeth F. Tobey; 1949 Harrison Gardner Bridge, grandson of Elizabeth Tobey, sold to George E. and Helen S. Page of Rockingham, Vt .; 1958 Helen S. Page, widow, to Stewart W. and Katheryn M. Holmes.
According to the Bellows Genealogy John Bellows built the house in 1833.
63. EMMA M. MCKENVEN: Along the north side of Westminster Street there was a narrow strip which belonged to Gen. Benjamin Bellows, but the main part of this land was Crafts property. Bellows' heirs, Samuel and
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Phebe Grant, sold this strip in 1810 to Francis Gardner who owned on the south side of the road; 1813 to David Stone; 1817 to Stephen R. Bradley. In 1830 Bradley bought from Ebenezer and Esther Morse the land next north of this strip and in 1833 Bradley's heirs sold to John Bellows of Boston. He lived here and must have built the house. His widow, Ann H., sold in 1854 to Orlando Leland; 1856 he and his wife Ursula C. sold to Hiram Wotkyns of Troy, N. Y .; 1866 he with his wife Sarah U. sold to Leonard B. Holland of Kirkwood, Missouri. His wife was Elnora. Various trusts were set up and finally one group of her heirs- at-law (Nathaniel W. Holland, Emma Holland, Isabel H. Gile and husband Alton A., Ada H. Mason and husband Leston E., James L. Holland) sold to another group (Mary M., Henry B., Abbie and Lenora Holland) in 1898. In 1900 Mary M. Holland became the owner, the other three selling to her. In 1936 the property was taken over by Brattleboro Trust Company; 1937 sold to Raoul J. and Emma M. McKenven.
Mary Holland kept it as the Holland House, the favorite stopping place of those who were just opening or closing their summer homes, as well as others. It has now been made into apartments.
64. WOODWARD FLORIST: In 1936 Fanny P. Mason sold to Herman O. and Alice B. Woodward a piece of land which was the northwest point of the old Bradley farm, west of Depot Hill and south of the railroad depot, they buying more land in 1942. Mr. Woodward built here his florist plant-greenhouses, workshop, sheds, replacing the plant in Westminster damaged by the 1936 flood. The new Rt. 12 bypass has taken the west side of this property, necessitating moving the woodworking shop to their place on Main Street.
65. PHILIP L. WOODWARD: To the east of the other buildings of Wood- ward Florist, Mr. Woodward built a house along the southwest side of Westminster Street; 1940 to Philip Woodward who lives here.
66. WILLIAM B. WILLARD: David Stone brought the farm together piece by piece beginning with what he bought from Francis Gardner in 1813, including the house on the south side of the street at the top of Depot Hill. Gardner had bought one acre from Samuel and Phebe Grant in 1808 for $200 and built the house. He was a lawyer in Walpole, who later removed to Keene and became a member of Congress. His son Francis was headmaster of Boston Latin School for many years. Margaret Gardner (Mrs. Francis Sr.) was quite the belle of the town according to Emily Barnes. After selling this place the Gardners owned the Spitzli place until 1817.
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Except for the piece west of Depot Hill which was out of the Morse property, this whole farm came from what had been Gen. Benjamin Bellows land.
In 1817 Stone sold to Stephen Rowe Bradley. (AH 214-6, Josiah Bellows Memoirs Chap. 3 Page 7, Bellows Genealogy Page 187.)
In 1833 the other heirs of Bradley sold to Henry S. Tudor, 1849 to Abiel Chandler of Boston, retired merchant; willed to New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane in 1855; to George R. Makepeace of Utica, N. Y., merchant. He was also a hotel keeper running the Wentworth House.
In 1861 he sold to Benjamin P. Spaulding (Sarah) of Boston; 1876 to Thomas R. Marston; 1878 to James B. and Louisa M. Dinsmore of Charlestown "reserving all potatoes, except 25 bushel, and hay stored in tobacco barn." They were hotel people and ran the property as a board- ing house; 1887 to Carrie E. and Edward R. Bryan of New Haven, Conn .; bank took over and sold 1888 to Matthew H. Gorham; 1892 to George F. Tower of St. Louis for a summer home; 1901 Tower estate to Fanny P. Mason; 1913 to Henry K. Willard of Washington, D. C., now owned by William B. Willard.
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67. TOWN HALL: In 1826 Abel Bellows deeded to the town the plot on which the town hall stands. On October 27, 1825, the town had voted to move the Meeting House down from Prospect Hill; the Bellows plot provided land for the building. Since the first deed provided that the "Town shall hold this land for as long as it is used for the usual purposes of a meeting house and sheds", Bellows gave a quit claim deed to the town for $200 after the Town Congregational Society erected its own church on Main Street and the town hall was no longer used for meeting house purposes.
This had been a part of Gen. Benjamin Bellows' tract; Samuel and Phebe Grant sold 1806 to Amasa Allen; his heirs in 1822 to Oliver Allen; 1825 to Abel Bellows. The town hall burned in 1917 and was rebuilt. (See Town Business.)
68. ST. JOSEPH'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: In 1844 the selectmen sold to Henry Foster the south part of the meeting house lot; 1845 to Henry S. Tudor; 1848 to Uriah Newton and Anson Lawrence who in 1848 made it over to a group representing the Methodist Church; 1868 to James L. Mitchell for the Episcopal Church. After five or six years the Episcopa- lians sold to the Catholics.
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As originally built in 1845, the church had at the front a Greek portico with roof supported by four fluted Doric pillars, giving the building a distinctly classical appearance. Some 50 or 60 years ago the church was enlarged by adding the chancel portion at the west end, enclosing the portico at the east end and adding a tower and a small porch. For posts for the new porch two of the old pillars were shortened. The other two pillars were placed inside the building at either side of the chancel. The interior has recently been refinished, acoustic tile added to the ceil- ing.
69. CATHERINE M. PARKINSON: In 1806 Samuel and Phebe Grant sold the next eight rods south on west side of Washington Square to Samuel Grant and Nathaniel Gould; 1808 to Oren Hall. There was a house near the north line occupied by Nathaniel Gould. In 1810 Oren Hall lived here and had a shop to the south of the house. In 1810 he sold the north half of the lot to Henry Rice; 1811 to Nehemiah Chandler, clothier; 1813 to Macy Adams who was occupying the house; 1819 to William Gage, son of Asa Gage; estate of Sarah Gage to George W. Graves (Stella); 1858 to Isaac F. Bellows (Ellenora); 1863 to Morgan J. Sherman; 1865 to J. Boyl- ston Clark (Sarah B.); 1865 to Louisa R. Johonnot; 1867 to Otis Bard- well; 1881 his heirs to John B. Russell and Samuel W. Bradford; 1892 (Bradford had died) John B. Russell and Sarah G. Bradford to Jessie F. Joslyn; 1896 to William Sibley; 1899 Frank B. Sibley sold to Timothy and Mary A. O'Brien; 1941 his estate to R. J. and Emma M. McKenven; 1956 to present owner. Rev. N. G. Allen lived here about 1880.
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