USA > New Hampshire > Cheshire County > Walpole > A history of Walpole, New Hampshire, Volume I > Part 17
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65
In 1914 the Hayward heirs sold the place to Louis R. Lincoln; his son Paul R. Lincoln of Montpelier, Vt., sold 1938 to Esther M. Andros (Mrs. Charles).
NORTH ROAD
The lot east of the houses on the east side of North Main Street was part of the Rev. Jonathan Leavitt property sold 1774 to Thomas Spar- hawk; from the estate Josiah Bellows acquired from his two wives' in-
159
heritances; 1860 Mary Bellows sold to Henry G. Wheelock (Harriet S. H.); 1867 to John W. Hayward; 1902 to Frederic Nichols; 1933 to Nelle H. Nichols (no relation); 1933 to Everett L. Houghton; 1933 to Frank E. Mitchell (Maggie B.). The Mitchells sold as follows, from west to east:
99. ROBERT L. GALLOWAY: 1938-built house.
100. REUBEN D. HARRIMAN: In 1941 one acre to Edward W. and Elizabeth P. Foss; 1942 to Hubbard Farms; 1944 to James William and Helen Jean Haun; 1953 to present owners.
101. GILBERT W. HANSEN: In 1955 Maggie B. Mitchell to Arthur Schade; 1959 to present owners.
102. JEAN MITCHELL FARRELL: Mitchells built their home here near the turn in road. Maggie B. Mitchell willed to Jean Mitchell.
103. WILLIAM A. ALLEN: In 1955 Maggie B. Mitchell sold to the Allens of Westminster the southeast corner of her land, next to the Graves property, part way up the hill. The Allens built the house.
104. M. KENNETH MILLER: In the field part way up the hill Mr. Miller is building a house now (1962), on land he purchased in January 1962 from Maggie B. Mitchell Estate.
In 1777 Thomas Sparhawk bought Rev. Jonathan Leavitt's property. He died intestate and the property was divided as follows:
To Thomas Jr., 54 acres north corner North and Hubbard Roads.
To Josiah Bellows (son-in-law), 44 acres south corner North and Main Streets, and Von Lackum property at head of Main Street.
To Samuel, 60 acres between North and Reservoir Roads.
To Oliver, 50 acres opposite Sabin Rock.
To Hubbard, 50 acres at Sabin Rock.
To widow Rebecca, an interest in the Von Lackum property and the land of Thomas and Samuel.
105. WALTER J. KAZIMIER: This house is on what was Thomas Spar- hawk Jr.'s share of his father's estate. He built the house, it is said, to cut off the view from what had been his father's house. Of his nine chil- dren, only George married. He lived in Rockingham. Charles, Rebecca and Mary lived on the home place. Thomas C. Sparhawk and his sister Mary Octavia had the place from the other heirs. He died in 1904, she in 1910. Mr. Ira Hubbard remembers today the remarkable fact that Thomas Sparhawk, in the days before window screens were in common
160
KNAPP HOUSE in 1959, south side (#207)
(Lib. Cong.)
ORIGINAL WALLPAPER IN KNAPP HOUSE (#207)
(Lib. Cong.)
PORTER HOUSE in 1959 (#174)
(Lib. Cong.)
BUFFUM HOUSE in 1959 (#178)
(Lib. Cong.)
PECK HOUSE in 1959 (#172)
(Lib. Cong.)
JENNISON HOUSE in 1959 (#112)
(Lib. Cong.)
DOORWAY TO JENNISON HOUSE in 1959 (#112)
(Lib. Cong.)
"INDIAN SHUTTER" IN PECK HOUSE in 1959 (#172) (Lib. Cong.)
AARON HOWLAND HOUSE in 1959 (#54) (Lib. Cong.)
Watkins's Tavern
1795
SIGN OF THE WATKINS TAVERN (#410)
(Lib. Cong.)
BRICK SMOKE HOUSE AT BUFFUM HOUSE (#178) (Lib. Cong.)
FIREPLACE IN BEMIS HOUSE (#3)
(Lib. Cong.)
........
THE ORDINARY IN BUFFUM HOUSE (#178)
(Lib. Cong.) Where History Committee Met
- البعيد ٢٠
HALL AT HOOPER GOLF CLUB (#410)
(Lib. Cong.)
"HISTORICAL HOUSE" with Mrs. Kate Weymouth about 1895 (#27)
OLO SETTLER BOOKSHOP
WALpole, N.H.
OLD SETTLER BOOKSHOP about 1950 (#270)
(Harris)
ABRAHAM HOLLAND HOUSE before 1892 (#459)
THE GILBERT ESTATE after 1900 (#459)
GEN. BENJAMIN BELLOWS HOUSE before 1888 (#139)
-
DAVID BUFFUM HOUSE at left about 1870 (#140) ABRAHAM JACKSON HOUSE at right (#141)
VIEW TOWARD THE NORTHEAST FROM TOWN HOUSE TOWER in 1873
-
VIEW TOWARD THE EAST FROM TOWN HOUSE TOWER in 1873
VIEW TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST FROM TOWN HOUSE TOWER in 1873
VIEW NORTH FROM KNAPP'S HILL in 1868
JOSIAH G. BELLOWS HOUSE about 1955 (#96)
(Harris)
-
STEPHEN ROWE BRADLEY HOUSE about 1955 (#66)
(Harris)
IRA HUBBARD HOUSE about 1960 (#460)
TITUS HOUSE about 1880 (#175)
THE HOMESTEAD about 1955 (#471)
EIN
HARRIS HOUSE about 1955 (#191)
(Harris)
MOSES FISHER HOUSE before 1906 (#444)
BURT HOMESTEAD about 1900 (#243)
ENDICOTT HOUSE about 1955 (#205)
(Harris)
HOOPER GOLF CLUB FROM 9th FAIRWAY about 1950 (#410)
use, was never bothered by house flies. This fact was worthy of note, be- cause to most housekeepers in those days, flies were a large annoyance. In 1904 she sold to her nephew Charles E. Sargent and his son Clarence H. Sargent. The Sargents sold the land in 1908 to the Gilberts. In 1916, the buildings were sold to Colgate Gilbert; 1956 his heirs to Walter J. and Marie F. Kazimier.
The barn burned in 1920.
106. LESLIE HUBBARD: In 1954, the Gilberts sold east 341/2 acres to Leslie Hubbard who built a house.
107. ROBERT W. GILES: The Gileses bought from the estate of Alice C. Gilbert one and one-half acres of land with buildings. The house was on land originally a part of Thomas Sparhawk Jr.'s share of his father's estate. The rest of the land was the northwest corner of the share of his brother Samuel. Mrs. Gilbert had owned the two lots since 1908 and 1913 respectively and she built the house, or allowed the Unitarian minister to build it, to be used as a summer camp at first.
108. KATHARINE BUTLER PARSONS: This was Samuel Sparkhawk's share of his father's estate. In 1810, Samuel, then living in Keene, sold to Joseph Bellows Jr .; 1812 to Roger Vose; 1854 to Thomas G. Wells (Elisabeth); 1857 to Frederic A. Wier; 1860 to Addison Miller. The Millers sold the northwest seven acres to James Hooper Jr .; he to Horace A. Perry 1873; he to Richard Burton 1906; to Florence E. Wood 1907; to Alice C. Gil- bert 1913.
In 1865 Addison Miller (Asenath) sold to George H. Foster this farm on which the Millers then lived; 1876 George H. Foster, then of Fram- ingham, Mass., to Levi H. Foster who bequeathed to Mary A. Foster, and she to her daughter Julia A. Turner; 1901 to Harry J. Stowell; 1917 to Colgate Gilbert, who rented the property to various people; 1924 Esther M. Gilbert (wife of Colgate) to Granville and Lucetta Leonard of West- minster, Vt., this and another piece of land to the north; in 1929 to the present owner.
MAIN STREET, EAST SIDE, SOUTH FROM HIGH STREET 109. MACDONALD STORE: In 1792 Amasa Allen bought from Benjamin Bellows Jr. a 50 foot lot on the east side of Main Street, including the present High Street and to the south. The southwest corner of the lot was five feet south of Allen's store which was already on the lot. In 1806 Allen bought from Samuel Grant an additional 66 ft. east of his store.
161
In 1794 John Carlisle established a boot and shoemaking business at the place formerly occupied by William Pierce, next door south of the printing office. 1815-1822 Allen leased the property to Samuel Grant and Leonard Stone.
In 1822 Betsey Gilchrist of Grafton, heir of Allen, sold to William Mitchell, saddler.
In 1836 the property went to William M. Mitchell and, after his death, reverted in 1841 to George Allen; 1842 to Otis Bardwell; 1855 to Major J. Britton.
Judge Josiah Bellows thus remembers him: "Somewhere about 1845 one Major J. Britton came to town to keep store, in the Slade Butcher Shop (1905). He was the pos- sessor of very luxuriant and rapidly growing whiskers, and one Saturday evening after he shut up his store, he went to Mitchell's to be shaved for Sunday Church. After he was comfortably seated in the barber's chair, lathered, and his face half scraped, he discovered to his horror that old Mitchell was extremely drunk, and his life was in imminent danger from the uncertain hand that held the razor. He strove to rise, saying that the shaving should be finished Monday morning, but Mitchell literally held him by the nose, as has been the custom of barbers from time immemorial, and when he started to get up, with a great tweak of his nasal protuberance, forced him back into his chair, saying, 'Mr. Britton, you came in to be shaved, and you must be shaved, Sit down.' "
In another chapter he continues: "Major J. Britton was a marked man, filled with that sense of his own importance that induced him, although literally without educa- tion, to assume the knowledge of a sage. He was a good man, kindly of heart, and a most admirable citizen, a devout attendant and warm supporter of the Unitarian Church. By this he attracted the admiration and attention of the late Chief Justice Bellows. So when the good judge was holding court in Keene a case was called up before him where Major Britton happened to be one of the panel to try it. As soon as the jury list was handed to him by the clerk the judge, passing by the turned up slip with which that official had indicated whom he thought the proper man for foreman, said at once 'Major J. Britton, the court appoints you foreman of this jury'. With all his native shrewdness, Major Britton could hardly write and was entirely unfitted for the duty placed upon him. The case proved to be one of considerable magnitude, a matter of rather intricate accounting, which had been tried before the late Judge Vose as auditor, and then carried to a jury, from his finding. After three or four days' hard trial the jury retired and finally returned. The clerk made the usual proclamation: 'Mr. Foreman, have you agreed on a verdict?' 'Yes,' said Mr. Britton rising, 'We think Judge Vose was about right.' Imagine the consternation that reigned, and how all Judge Bellows' admiration turned to wrath. Of course he sent the jury out again and they reduced their wise verdict, for Judge Vose was a very wise man, to writing."
In 1869 Edwin K. Seabury bought the property and sold to John A. Blake, blacksmith, who died in 1876. Acting as guardian for Blake's minor children, Seabury sold in 1880 to George P. Porter.
In 1873 Ed Randall of Alstead opened a boot and shoemaker's shop
162
here; in 1874, Charles A. Howard opened a furniture store. Henry E. Hewey was a barber here 1887.
In 1891 the property was sold to B. Frank Webster (Maggie) and Matthew Gorham, who had a market together for 17 years. Then Gorham ran the market for three years. Gorham was later in business in Massa- chusetts, returned to Walpole in 1902. In 1904 this was Slade's market. In 1903 Mrs. Mary D. Gorham bought Webster's share of the property; her husband died in 1908, and in 1914 she sold to Charles S. Bain; 1920 to George E. Wheeler (in Florida now); 1945 to Blair and Ruth Baldwin; 1947 to Alexander MacDonald. In 1953 he enlarged his store.
Harvey Ball had a jewelry store here, bought old clocks, and repaired and sold profitably. He was later very successful as a photographer. This and the next building north are the oldest business buildings in town.
110. CENTRAL GARAGE-MRS. DORIS P. GRISWOLD: In 1795 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold the second 50 foot lot to his brother Josiah Bellows, trader, who already had a store here when he bought the land. An ad- vertisement in the Museum read "1794 Bellows & Redington at their store-Tallow for sale by ton, 100 wt. or lb." In 1796 Josiah Bellows sold to Thomas and Isaac Redington who seem to have already had the store; 1798 to Benjamin Bellows Jr .; 1799 to Josiah Bellows 2nd and David Stone, "land on which their store stands." According to the Bellows Genealogy, Stone's partner was his brother-in-law Roswell Bellows, which partnership was dissolved June 1801.
In 1806 they sold to Joseph Bellows Jr., their cousin. He had kept tavern April 1796-April 1799. According to the Museum, he began merchandise business in Walpole, probably taking over when Josiah Bellows 2nd and David Stone dissolved their partnership. Because of misfortunes in business about 1812 or 1813, Joseph Bellows Jr. retired from business and removed to Rockingham where he died in 1821. In Walpole he resided in the house which then stood on the north corner of Main and Middle Streets. About the time he went out of business Samuel Dana and Thomas Bellows 2nd began, continuing until they were finan- cially embarrassed in 1820, when the bank took over this property. In 1827 Thomas Bellows owned it, buying whatever right Joseph's widow had in it. He probably rented it to others, sold to Hiram Nichols, saddler. It appears that Nichols also made shoes and had others working for him; 1840 sold to David Buffum.
Born in 1803, David Buffum came to Walpole in 1820 at the age of 17. For three years he clerked for his brother William in his store, then be-
163
came William's partner for 14 years. For three years, he was in partner- ship with Thomas Seaver. In 1840 he was in partnership with Henry H. Baxter for six months, 1841 with Francis Bellows (1819-1880), who began his business career here as a clerk. In 1842 or 1843 Francis Bellows removed to New York.
In 1849 Col. David Buffum sold the business to his son Thomas B., who continued until the store burned in 1859. In 1861 Thomas B. formed a partnership with his father, continuing for five years. In 1871 he retired from business because of his health.
In 1879 the Holdens had a meat market in the basement of this block, moving that year to their own Huntington Block.
In 1895 Frank A. Spaulding bought; 1896 to Edwin K. Seabury; to Patrick Drislane; Lizzie M. Drislane Chapin of Keene 1917 to Willie P. Craig and Roy L. Mullen. Craig was killed in a hunting accident. The property was sold 1921 to Clarence W. Houghton; 1958 Dorothy M. Houghton, administrator of estate of Sadie F. Houghton to Mrs. Doris P. Griswold of Rockingham.
The town library was here until it burned in 1859. The present brick building is nearly on the same site.
111. SITE OF LIBRARY-THIRD LOT SOUTH OF HIGH STREET: In 1795 Benja- min Bellows Jr. sold to his son-in-law, Samuel Grant, six rods on Main Street. On the northwest corner he had a saddler shop. However, care of his wife's extensive land holdings took so much of his attention that he had to give up his own business. He sold this corner with building thereon in 1814 to Capt. Timothy Ware (Hannah), who came from Wrentham, Mass. From 1805-16 Capt. Ware owned #448 on Ramsay Hill. He was a brother of Mrs. William Guild and Mrs. Ezra Hixon. He sold 1818 (still a saddler's shop) to Leonard Stone, probably the same man who owned the Galen Tiffany place #271 on Rt. 12 in 1821-2; 1819 to Jonathan Cutler, goldsmith, wife Phebe; 1831 he had removed to Putney and sold to Lovell Farr (Lucia).
Deacon Thomas Seaver came to Walpole about 1803 from Northboro, Mass., and married Eunice Redington, sister of Thomas and Isaac. He soon commenced trade and continued in business more than 40 years. He kept various kinds of goods for sale, but he was principally an apothecary, compounding and selling drugs and medicines, among others a liniment which was very popular for a time and met a ready sale. Seaver's store was neatly fitted with counters on three sides, in back of which were drawers with names of medicines he had in stock. On
164
Seaver's death the liniment recipe and the fixtures went to Deacon Love- joy, later to C. C. Davis.
Seaver was proverbially a pious and peace-loving citizen and a constant attendant at public worship. It is said he offered to give land for the new Orthodox Church, but the deacons refused the offer on the grounds that he sold liquor in his store. He was one of the early pillars of that church and for many years one of its deacons. He lived to the ripe old age of 90 years.
His son Thomas Henry, born 1818, was a merchant, and was at one time in business with his father. It seems fairly certain that the Seaver store was on the site of the library, but the ownership is obscure. Possibly he rented for some years before buying from Farr 1839. In 1845 the firm name was T. Seaver & Co. The building was a long wooden one with Seaver's store in south part. In the north part Peck says Henry Allen lived, and had a livery stable in rear.
Lovell Farr removed to Brattleboro and sold the property, described then as having a house thereon, in 1853 to Benjamin Willis Jr .; Willis removed the house. (See #83.)
In 1859 he sold his holdings to John and Elvira Jennison, who sold this lot in 1862 to David Buffum who owned the next lot north; his heirs to Hudson E. Bridge 1890. In 1891, after adding to this lot 17 feet from Jennison land, Bridge built the Bridge Memorial Library which he gave to the Town of Walpole. (See Library.) His father is supposed to have been born in the house on the site.
112. FRANCES E. JENNISON: On that part of his lot next south of the pres- ent library, Samuel Grant built for himself what is now the Jennison house. In 1802 Bellows sold to him another piece adjoining his, the south line being the Ravine Brook, east to the present Turner Farm (then James Fuller), along North Road about 40 rods to the Sparhawk Farm, then along Sparhawk's south line to Grant's previous lot.
In 1846 George W. Grant (Sarah B.) sold the Grant house and most of the land to Benjamin Willis Jr. Josiah G. Bellows wrote of the Wells- Willis family:
"This family came from Boston sometime about 1845. Mr. Wells, head of the family, was then a man in early middle life, rather bright mentally, somewhat irascible in temper, and possessing a burning discontent with the business world in which, thus far, he had not been a success. The family came here under the direction, and I fancy at the charge of Mrs. Wells' father, Benjamin Willis. Quite an old man at the time he came here, he had led a successful business life, and having modest ambitions had retired early from the struggle. He was not a man of much education or refinement,
165
and showed in himself very fully the effect of a life devoted to trade from boyhood. He was very fond of his toddy and prone often to extend his matutinal 11 o'clock until he became very garrulous and at times, cross.
"Calvin J. Holden kept our hotel (what had been the Crafts Tavern) then in looks and manner the ideal old-fashioned tavern keeper: short in stature, immense in paunch and head, a devotee of Bacchus, and with an abundance of coarse country tavern wit. The wags said that when Willis came to town he had Holden put up a pipe of Hol- land gin, and that when he had the pipe drank up (it held somewhere from 60 to 100 gallons) he packed his trunk and went away.
"With Benjamin Willis came his father, also Benjamin, and some 25 years older than his son. That means the older man must have been then between 80 and 90. The father and son were quite notable figures in our village streets for several years, and it forms one of the distinct pictures of my early days, how these old cocks looked and acted as they walked out together. My good mother was the special admiration of these old birds, particularly of the older Benjamin, who often used to make his evening call on her, and my two older brothers were deputed to escort him home through the dark- ness which prevailed in our village streets.
"It was rather hard at times for poor Mrs. Wells that she was thus compelled to pass so many years of her life in close companionship with three men so mighty disagree- able in many ways; but she was one of the angelic kind, having every feminine virtue except beauty. She came from the Boston Mays, a family greatly distinguished for its philanthropy and progressiveness, a Unitarian of Unitarians, a peace disciple-for in those days the progressives really believed in the millennium. . .. Mrs. Wells had four children born here and one after she left us. Henry, her eldest boy was just my age and my bosom friend and constant companion. One might paraphrase for him the well- known description of the strawberry: 'doubtless God might have made a homelier boy, but doubtless he never did'. He was rather bright, too, and a boy of much individuality. Eliza, the older sister, was also really homely, but with such charm of manner and bearing that we almost considered her the village beauty. Eliza and Henry have long since passed to another world; and of the living I ought not to speak."
In 1859 Benjamin Willis sold the place to John Jennison and his wife Elvira. When they died their son George moved down from his farm to their house which is still owned and occupied by the family, now by Fanny, the last of his four daughters.
113. JACOB KOSON JR .: In 1863 John Jennison sold the south part of the lot to Charles Hooper who built the house now standing here. It was elegantly finished and equipped. In 1891 George D. and Warren L. Hooper sold to Helen A. Bridge; 1894 her other children sold their shares to Amy Bridge Hastings who modernized the place; 1926 her heirs to Bayard T. and Louise C. Mousley who had a hospital in the building east of the house on Main Street; 1941 Dr. Mousley had died and Mrs. Mousley sold to Walpole Savings Bank; 1942 to Community Hospital; 1945 to Walpole Post #77 American Legion; 1954 to Raoul J. and Emma
166
M. McKenven; 1958 to Richard N. and Barbara M. Aldrich; 1961 to Jacob Koson Jr.
HIGH STREET, SOUTH SIDE
114. WALPOLE VILLAGE FIRE PRECINCT: In 1886 George Jennison sold to the Walpole Village Fire Precinct a lot for a fire house on the south side of High Street, east of the stores facing on Main Street. It was later used by veterans, and is now used for storage.
115. GILBERT L. CHANDLER: In 1907 Mrs. Jennison and daughters sold another lot next east of the fire station on High Street to Frank A. Spaulding; 1920 to Emma V. H. Peck; 1956 to her son Hubert Peck; 1958 to Gilbert L. and Grace E. Chandler.
116. PETER A. BOUDRIEAU: In 1897 Peck had sold a house lot from the west side of the lot below to Nancy Podwin, who built in 1897; 1919 to son George H. Podwin; 1946 his widow and heirs to Ruth E. and James E. Nelson; 1948 to Lena R. Podwin; 1953 to John W. and Mary E. Good; 1953 to Peter A. and Hazel E. Boudrieau.
117. ALMON E. WELCH: In 1869 John Jennison sold to James L. Mitchell the lot on the southwest corner of High and School Streets; 1883 to Eleanor V. Mitchell; 1892 Rebecca B. Mitchell and Eleanor V. Hutton to Thomas B. Peck who built the house; 1916 Edith Russell, heir of Peck, to Sylvia M. Guild and Flora Bowman; 1945 to George F. Jr. and M. Jeanette Lawrence; 1949 to Peter E. and Mary A. Schmitt; 1953 to Inez Goodrich of Springfield, Ohio; 1955 to Almon E. and Myra K. Welch.
SOUTH SIDE OF HIGH STREET EAST OF BROOK
In 1862 and 1863 John and Elvira Jennison sold to James L. Mitchell the tract east of the Academy, south of High Street and north of the Ravine. In 1885 the property came to Eleanor V. Mitchell and to Rebecca B. Mitchell with barn thereon; 1892 to Edward Bellows. He was a retired Navy Paymaster who lived at the hotel and devoted his time to his horses, which he kept here at his barn. He took great pride in his horses. He had enlisted at the beginning of the Civil War and remained in the service. He died in May 1903. In August, to settle his estate, there was a big auction at the Town Hall of his horses and his collection of china from all over the world.
Commodore Henry Bellows Robeson bought this property in 1905; 1920 Katherine Bellows Robeson, his widow, sold to Wilber F. Wallace;
167
1920 to Henry A. Slade; 1927 to Leslie G. and Minnie L. Converse, the land east of the brook; 1929 to C. Lyman Worden who was the last man in town to have a team of workhorses. Worden lived alone in the living quarters at the barn. He wore a handlebar mustache and bushy whiskers, and worked for Woodward; 1957 to Clifford S. Chickering and Chester R. Wing Jr .; 1957 to Milton A. and Marie A. Quinlar, except the land sold to Roberts. In 1951 Worden had sold the east part, 906 ft. on High Street, to Richard B. and Dora A. Roberts.
118. TOWN OF WALPOLE: In 1926 Henry A. Slade sold out of this tract the part west of Ravine Brook, east side of School Street, to Town of Walpole who built town garage.
119. RUTH HOWARD WELLS: In 1937 the town sold to Ralph Podwin the little house north of the garages; 1939 to Mrs. Ellen T. Arnold; 1945 her son Fred J. Smith of Rockingham to Louis and Ruth Wells.
120. MILTON A. QUINLAR: Near the site of the old barn, which has been demolished, and on land purchased 1959 from Chickering and Wing, a new house has been built 1962.
121. RICHARD A. WELLS: 1953 Richard B. Roberts to Marie and Milton Quinlar; 1962 to present owners.
122. ALEXANDER W. PODWIN: 1957 Dora A. Roberts Graves to present owners.
123. EVERETT A. GASSETT: 1954 Richard Roberts to Milton and Marie Quinlar; 1960 to present owners.
124. CLARENCE SWAIN: 1952 Richard Roberts to Frederick H. and B. Grace Koon; 1956 to present owners who bought the next lot west from Quinlars in 1961.
RAVINE
In 1930 Ellen B. Robinson (Endicott), Robert P. Bellows, Louisa B. Knapp and Frederick B. Knapp deeded to Walpole Village District "Land to be held in trust as a memorial to Henry Whitney Bellows and Frederick New- man Knapp who acquired it 69 years ago that it might be preserved in its natural beauty ... said tract being all of our undivided shares known as upper part of Acad- emy Ravine with all the rights of way, etc., including those under the deed of the lower part of said Ravine. ... Said tract conveyed under the following conditions: to be used for park, recreation and educational purposes for benefit of citizens and resi- dents of and visitors to Walpole; only such trees shall be removed as may be desirable
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.