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178. DONALD H. SPITZLI: The first strip south of Middle Street was ap- parently sold by Benjamin Bellows Jr. in east and west parcels. The east
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portion, 12 rods on Main Street and 20 rods deep, Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold in 1797 to David Carlisle Jr. (Abigail). There were already buildings here. This is the house supposed to have been built about 1785 by Ebenezer Crehore. For lack of records one can only guess the story. There seems no reason why Bellows should have hired such a house built. Did Crehore build it for himself and for some reason never receive title? It was originally built with a roof similar to #172 and #175, later altered to put the gable ends on the east and west and pillars on the side toward Main Street. In the attic the original framing can be traced in oak beams; the alteration made use of chestnut.
David Carlisle Jr. was a printer in business with Isaiah Thomas of Worcester. He mortgaged the place to Thomas who took it in 1799; 1802 to David Stone; 1813 to Francis Gardner, who had previously owned property at the top of Depot Hill; 1817-20 Samuel Dana and Thomas Bellows 2nd, Bellows living here; 1820 to Thomas Bellows and Isaac Redington; 1820 to William Buffum in whose family it remained until 1946. His son William G. and daughter Sarah Ann resided here. After Sarah died, Ogbourne D. and Laura owned the property; 1946 to Donald H. and Beatrice B. Spitzli of Summit, New Jersey.
179. BERL E. TILTON: (First strip south of Middle Street-West Part) The west part of the lot Joseph Weld (Lois), an apprentice to the tinplate business, owned; 1799 to Amasa Allen. 1799 to Josiah Bellows 2nd; 1803 to Calvin Ripley for $600; 1807 to Joseph Bellows Jr .; 1811 to Roswell Bellows; 1812 to Stephen Johnson; 1813, reserving the new building that Johnson used as a study, to Amasa Tiffany; 1817 Amasa Tiffany sold the southwest corner on River Street to Stephen Tiffany. He was a butcher who resided in the Walton Mead house. (See Decade 1810-1820 and AH 94) The rest of the lot Amasa Tiffany mortgaged and apparently lost. In 1822 David Stone to Jacob Brown, taken for mortgage; 1825 David Stone and Josiah Bellows 3rd quit to Abel Bellows; 1836 to Walton Mead, no mention yet of any buildings. Mead apparently built his house on the northeast part of the lot. He married late in life Elizabeth Parker of Charlestown. After she died he married in 1854 Louisa, the widow of Theron Adams. Mead died in 1866 and his widow married Oliver Mar- tin, being his second wife. Martin died in 1888, and she in 1902 in Phila- delphia, where Clara Ivanetta Sargent was her heir to this property; 1903 to Ida L. Watkins; 1927 to David A. and Jennie C. Kenyon; 1952 Estate to Carl M. and Gladys H. Barrett; 1955 to Bernice M. and Berl E. Tilton. 180. LESLIE A. NEAL: The west part of the Mead lot, on the corner of
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Middle Street and the Common, Mead sold in 1848 to Jacob Brown (wife Mary Ann). He had a wheelwright shop and was a painter.
In 1865 the Brown estate to William Watkins; 1881 his estate to son Warren F. Watkins of Fitchburg; 1892 he and his wife Ellen E., then of Wyandotte County, Kansas, sold to Edwin M. Jennison (Isabel S.); re- moved to Cambridge, Mass .; 1902 to Ida L. Watkns; 1935 her son Herbert E. Watkins to Wallace E. Graves (Mabel I.); 1942 to Neil C. and Evelyn Noble Stevens; 1952 to present owners.
181. GEORGE W. JEFFREY: The southwest corner of the lot, which Amasa Tiffany had sold to Stephen Tiffany, the latter sold in 1820 to Theodore Phelps; 1821 to Jacob Brown; 1822 to David Stone; 1824 to Eleanor (Nelly) Livingston; 1839 to Isaac F. Bellows; 1854 to Jacob N. Knapp and Francis W. Bellows (first reference to buildings); 1857 for taxes to Lyman Watkins (Abigail); 1859 to William C. Sherman; 1912 his sole heir, Helen R. Bedlington, to George W. Jeffrey.
SECOND OR MIDDLE STRIP BELOW MIDDLE STREET
182. MRS. MILDRED ROGERS: Benjamin Bellows Jr. had given this property to his son Caleb in 1791, and in 1806 Caleb sold to Thomas Drew a strip ten rods wide from Main Street to River Street, 37 rods; 1834 with barn thereon to Ruggles Watkins and his son Lyman; 1836 the southeast corner on Main Street to William C. Sherman, who apparently built a house; 1846 Thomas and Abel Bellows took for the mortgage; 1851 their heirs to George Huntington; 1852 to Willard Ball; 1868 to Mrs. Mary E. Miller; 1872 to George H. Champlin of Boston; 1873 to Dares A. DeWolf; 1881 to Edward M. Holden; 1920 to Grace I. Van Demark, mother of the present owner, Mrs. Mildred Rogers.
183. LYLE W. JEFFREY: The southwest corner of the lot Ruggles and Lyman Watkins sold 1836 to George Watkins 2nd; 1847 to Levi H. Foster; 1850 to Thomas Seaver; 1853 to Harriet Seaver; 1870 to Julia S. Fuller; 1876 to Jennie S. Fuller; 1926 her heirs to Lewis J. and Ida M. Wright; 1942 to Lyle W. Jeffrey.
184. RALPH POTTER: Lyman Watkins (Abigail F.) had his home on the northwest corner of the lot. He died about 1875, his wife in 1886. His brother Henry J. Watkins bought the shares of the other heirs; sold 1889 to Charles G. Livermore of Alstead; 1892 his heirs to Matthew H. Gorham; 1948 his granddaughter's (Eleanor Hayward, daughter of Olive Gorham Hayward) estate to present owners.
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SOUTH STREET-NORTH SIDE
185. ELLIOTT W. KEACH: After Caleb Bellows died, the land between Drew's strip and South Street, approximately six rods wide, was sold 1823 to Ephraim H. Bellows; 1824 to Parks & Lord of Boston; 1833 to Daniel Brooks; 1833 to George Huntington; 1833 to Nathaniel Holland; 1834 the west end on River Street to Aaron P. Howland. The rest of the lot Holland sold in 1835 to Thomas Bellows, Jacob N. Knapp, Abel Bellows, Josiah Bellows 3rd and Ephraim Holland; 1835 to John Bellows; 1842 his estate to Lyman Watkins; Henry J. Watkins bought the shares of the other heirs of Lyman Watkins, and sold in 1894 this property to Josiah G. Bellows; 1894 to Lora Holden; 1897 the lot on the corner of Main and South Streets to Martha A. Caldwell, who built the house in 1897; 1918 her heirs to Charles H. Barnes; 1940 his son Stuart K. to Leslie B. and Nellie B. Menzies; 1941 to Fordyce T. and Mary H. Flagg; 1950 to Charlotte Sewell; 1953 to Henry T. and Marion Sewell Andrews of Reading, Mass .; 1955 to present owner.
186. ESTATE MAUD BROWN: In 1894 Lora F. Holden sold to Ida L. Wat- kins the west part of her lot on South Street. In 1899 she sold a house lot here to Sarah E. Blake Glazier (Mrs. Burt), who built the house in the fall of 1899. She was postmaster. She sold in 1920 to Erwin Bowman whose wife was Annette Brown. Her sister Maud Brown inherited the place.
187. ALBERT F. CHICKERING: The strip which Aaron Howland bought from Nathaniel Holland on River Street is now in four house lots. The first on the north Holland sold 1834 to Oliver Pratt, removed to London- derry, Vt .; 1842 to Ebenezer Morse; 1844 to David O. Gale of London- derry; 1844 to Anson Dale; 1847 to Nehemiah Giles who built the house and left to Emory Washburn of Cambridge, Mass .; 1871 to Addison Miller; 1906 his estate to Frances Miller; 1910 (she then of North Charles- town) to Warren D. Knowlton; 1930 to George W. and Alice Penniman; 1944 estate of Alice E. to Lyman H. and Sarah G. Guest; 1945 to Robert G. Guest; 1945 to Merle and Elaine Guest Jeffrey; 1953 to John W. and Mary E. Good; 1956 to Jesse D. and Marjorie J. Pickering who exchanged with his brother Edward S. Pickering in 1958; 1961 to present owners.
188. HERBERT E. WATKINS: The next lot south Howland sold 1834 to James Benson, who built the house; 1851 to Betsy Hale; 1876 her estate to Ephraim A. Watkins; now Herbert E. Watkins.
189. CARLTON E. SPARHAWK ESTATE: The next lot south Howland sold in 1853 to Oliver Martin; Ralph Farnsworth, who may have built the
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house, was living here in 1853; 1858 to Thomas S. Whiting of Cambridge, Mass .; 1866 to William Barron of Bellows Falls; 1866 to George P. Porter (Eliza C.); 1871 to Edmund A. Marsh; 1875 to Fanny M. Sparhawk; 1910 her heir Thomas C. Sparhawk (Sarah J.) of Winchendon, Mass., to Carlton E. Sparhawk.
190. HELEN BREADNER CARR: The lot on the corner of South and River Streets Oliver Martin sold in 1867 to Jarvis D. Hinds; 1884 his estate to David N. Wright; 1901 his estate to George O. Taggard; 1910 to Allan G. Shaw; 1915 to Warren D. Knowlton; 1923 to John Mattson; 1944 to Clement S. and Irene S. Hill; 1948 to Sarah K. Clark, Washington, D. C .; 1955 to Helen Breadner Carr and Eugene G. Carr of Bellows Falls.
SOUTH STREET, SOUTH SIDE
191. GEORGE R. HARRIS: Nathaniel Hovey owned here (by abutting deed references, no deeds) 1760 and had a house here 1762 (road record). At least 1776-1782 James Bundy Jr. was here (by abutting deed references and road record). He may have had the same house as Hovey, probably where Harris house now stands. In the southeast corner of the lot, about nine rods south of South Street, he had a blacksmith shop in 1782. In 1790 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold to Mason Abby, wheelwright, where James Bundy formerly lived. Abby (Abbey) sold the north part of the lot with buildings thereon to John Carlisle, shoemaker.
He reserved the wheelwright shop, but apparently removed to Amherst, Mass., and in 1794 sold the shop to Calvin Ripley, wheelwright. Ripley married Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Lois Bellows, on February 27, 1800, and they resided in the Maynard house near the foot of Prospect Street.
"In 1807 having become involved in pecuniary difficulties, he sold his shop to his brother-in-law Joseph B. Bellows Jr. and removed to Middlebury, later to Bennington, Vt. Soon after 1815 Mrs. Ripley left her husband in Bennington and returned with her children to Walpole."
Joseph Bellows Jr. sold in 1811 to his brother Thomas Bellows 2nd; 1812 to John Livingston Jr. who had bought in 1803 three-quarters of an acre on South Street next west of the Harris place and erected a house and barn there. He was a blacksmith and gunsmith by occupation and ac- cording to AH 313 his shop stood a few rods east, probably on land he bought from Thomas Bellows.
"It would appear from statements made by descendants of the Livingston family that the gun-making establishment was of considerable importance. Guerdon Hunt-
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ington (uncle of George) was a partner in the gun establishment, and tradition says that from 100 to 150 men were employed in the years from 1793 to 1802. It is also stated that, when the establishment was broken up in Walpole, the tools and ma- chinery were bought by parties in Springfield, Mass., and removed thither, and formed the nucleus of the armory there. If the foregoing statements are true, it is certainly remarkable that the history of such an extensive business is not more gen- erally known. From what is known of John Livingston he appears to have been a man of great force of character, and one who snapped his finger at the common ob- servances of society, and made laws until himself. He married Sally Little, hired girl of General Amasa Allen."
Aldrich appears somewhat skeptical of the gun-making story, but we take it for what it is worth. It seems logical that it would be booming in 1812, since there was a war at that time.
Livingston died in 1816 and the shop was sold at auction in 1817 to John Maynard, saddler; the same year to John Carlisle, who already owned the lot next north to South Street. According to AH 225, Carlisle lived in the house on the corner and probably carried on his business of making shoes in what was the old gun shop.
John Carlisle died in February, 1833, and in April his heirs (Rebecca and Ruel Keith of Newport, N. H., Rebecca (widow) and George (son, wife Sarah), of Cincinnati, Ohio, Fanny and Calvin Graves of Walpole) sold all their holdings in Walpole to Jared Miller. He came to town in 1820 and first established himself in the south part of town, in District #9.
"There he remained eight years, when he removed to the village where he lived and continued in the shoe business till nearly the close of his life. He manufactured sale boots and shoes for the western market, in connection with custom work, the latter of which was faithfully done. No customer ever complained of poor work that came from his shop. He was a man of positive views and strictly honest habits. He died May 29, 1870." (AH 334)
In 1854 Jared Miller (Irena) sold the shop property to Jahial Com- stock (Malinda) with "the yellow house" thereon, so it would appear that he had ceased the manufacture of shoes then and the old shop had been converted into a dwelling (AH corroborates the fact that the shoe shop was converted into this dwelling). In 1856 the Comstocks sold the property to Levi and Frederick Hooper, sons of Salmon. The family owned it until their brother and sister George Hooper and Mrs. Mary E. Weymouth sold in 1909 to Allen G. Shaw. The house had been occupied by various tenants (MacNutts, John Graves' sister, Slades) through the years and had become shabby and dilapidated. The Shaws tore it down.
Shortly before Miller died (1870), he made over the home place to his daughter Harriet and she and her sister Ellen lived here. Louisa May
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Alcott was their guest here at one time. Ellen sold in 1909 to Allan G. Shaw; 1924 both pieces to Florence B. Harris; 1959 to her son George R. Harris.
The old shop stood very close to the brook, almost over it. Probably the cutting of the "new" Keene road at this corner did not enhance the value of the location for a dwelling.
The south quarter acre (three rods on the street) was a part of John Bellows' farm; the rest, that of Gen. Benjamin Bellows.
192. GEORGE C. DOUGLAS AND WARD L. ASHMORE: The house of this farm was probably built while John Livingston Jr. owned the lot in the north- east corner of the farm. Livingston had bought in 1803 from the estate of Benjamin Bellows, the widow's third. The widow Sally Livingston re- sided here and after her death, the heirs, including Daniel and Eliza Emde of Ohio, sold in 1837 to George Watkins, who also bought from the Bellows Estate the rest of the land along South Street.
George Watkins, second son of Alexander Watkins, was a butcher and always lived in town. In 1853 the other heirs sold their shares in this property to George D. Watkins; 1859 he bought from Rev. Dr. Henry and Eliza N. Bellows 28 acres next south; 1868 to John C. Brown, who farmed here and added a story to the house in 1891. He died in 1912 leaving a widow and four children.
In 1940 the Browns sold the property to Albert F. Chickering; 1944 to Arthur Chickering Jr .; 1946 to Bant H. Morgan (excluding a house lot on Rt. 12 which was sold to Hatch); 1947 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr. (excluding a parcel sold to Frank Ude); 1953 to George C. Douglas and Ward L. Ashmore (excluding the five parcels on Rt. 12 sold to Crabtree, Leland, Wilson, Ude and Hatch, and three parcels on River Road to Clifford Chickering).
The north part of the Brown farm was Gen. Benjamin Bellows' land; the south part, Col. John Bellows'.
FORD AVENUE (laid 1960)
193-196. In 1959 George C. Douglas and Ward L. Ashmore sold to Evelyn R. Chickering, she a half interest to Robert L. Galloway, what came to be known as Walpole Acres Development; 1960 to Daniel E. Ford of Westminster, Vt. In 1962 he deeded to the town land for the street. There are four new houses on the southeast side of the street #193 to #196, north to south.
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196. QUENTIN W. HUNTLEY: In 1962 Ford sold this house, at the south end of the street, to Quentin W. and Frances L. Huntley.
RIVER ROAD, EAST SIDE
On the south corner from South Street into River Road there are three new houses out of the old Brown farm:
197. STEWART W. HOLMES: In 1950 Arthur H. Chickering Jr. sold to Clifford S. (Evelyn) Chickering; 1951 to present owners.
198. MARTIN W. MURRAY JR .: The next house south Clifford Chickering sold 1952 to George J. and Helen M. Audet (his sister); 1954 to present owners.
199. DAVID B. STAPLES: In 1952 Arthur H. Chickering Jr. to Leland F. and Dorothy B. Stanley; 1955 to Maurice E. Robbins, who built the house; 1956 to Norman F. and Helen H. Begien. He died, and she sold to present owners.
PROSPECT HILL, WEST SIDE
200. MARY REED CUTTER: The beginning of this place is obscure. Ac- cording to a deed of 1781, this was land "Samuel Fuller bought of John Cooper". According to another deed this John Cooper also "improved" part of the land of the place next south. According to this same deed (1806), Amos Butterfield then had this place, although he does not seem to have owned it at that time. Deeds indicate that he was here 1781-2; Benjamin Bellows sold to Walter McCoy, house joiner, in 1794; 1795 Eliphalet Fox bought from Caleb Bellows; 1807 to Pliny Dickinson.
(In 1778 Amos and Mary Butterfield from Wilton joined the church. There were also Amos and Anna Butterfield from Pomfret.)
Pliny Dickinson (see AH 135, 237; Bellows Genealogy 242-5) must have lived in Caleb Bellows' family about two years, then bought this place where he lived the rest of his life. He was married to Mary Brown Bel- lows in 1819. In 1838 Mrs. Dickinson married James Crawford, lawyer, of Brattleboro. They sold in 1841 to Otis Bardwell; two months later to James Hale of Alstead; 1852 to Orlando Blodgett of Stoddard; 1854 Noah (Fanny) of Keene and Orlando (Charlotte L.) Blodgett of Lowell, Mass., to George Bundy (who had resided at Watkins Hill); 1871 other heirs to his daughter Mary J. Watkins (Mrs. Hiram); 1903 heirs to Wil- liam N. Langley of Boston; 1904 the Savings Bank to Annie E. Hurd (Mrs. Harry), whose husband was a cashier of the bank; 1906 to Frank
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W. Stearns of Boston for Edith Clark, his sister-in-law; 1931 to Mrs. Mary Reed Cutter.
Next north of the Pliny Dickinson place on Prospect was a half acre piece which Simon Buell bought from Col. John Bellows in 1806. He built a house and lived here, mortgaged it several times to his neighbor to the south, Eliphalet Fox. In 1819, when Fox's estate was settled, own- ership passed to Fox's heirs, although Buell continued to live here, prob- ably until Abel and Timothy Fox sold their shares in 1829 and 1830 to John Carlisle. It is doubtful if the Foxes ever lived here, since Oliver (Mary) and Abel (Mary K.) lived in Fitchburg, and Timothy lived in New Ipswich, N. H. Where Joseph resided is not stated. After John Car- lisle bought, John Maynard occupied the place at least 1838-41. In 1843 Carlisle sold to William Watkins; 1844 to Jacob N. Knapp; 1853 to Andrew Roy (from March Hill Road); 1869 to Leonard F. Parker; 1872, Parker, then of Langdon, to Mary Fletcher; 1874 to her daughter Mary J. who married Henry Allen; 1909 to Clarence M. Brooks. It then be- came a part of the Cutter place and the house was moved up the hill by Harrison Barnes to a site south of his buildings (now #163). He chose to move it on a Sunday, obstructing traffic and annoying keepers of the Sabbath.
201. CLIFFORD A. BELLOWS: In 1857 Jacob N. Knapp, Abel Bellows and Ephraim Holland sold to Nancy M. Perkins; 1867 to Henry N. Bellows; 1883 to Edward Bellows; 1888 to Mary N. Bellows; 1892 heirs to Kath- erine B. Robeson; 1921 estate to Clifford A. Bellows of Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
202. HOWARD HALLIDAY: In 1801 John Bellows sold to Caleb Bellows 3/4 acre here; 1831 estate to Thomas Lord and Elisha Parks of Boston; 1833 to Daniel Brooks of Groton, Mass .; 1833 to George Huntington; 1833 to Nathaniel Holland; 1835 to Thomas Bellows, Jacob N. Knapp, Abel Bellows, Josiah Bellows 3rd and Ephraim Holland; 1837 to Jacob N. Knapp and Abel Bellows; 1869 to Emily R. Barnes of Lowell, Mass., who built the cottage about 1840 (see Bellows Gen. 174); 1886 to Sarah B. Clark of Boston, reserving life use; 1899 to George R. Clark of Dor- chester, Mass .; 1912 to Mary L. McLeod; 1923 to Alec St. George; 1929 to Fred A. Lebourveau; 1934 estate to Edward C. and Rega Pearl Townsend of Bellows Falls; 1948 to Agnes N. Dodd of East Orange, N. J .; 1957 to Agnes N. Dodd Whitmarsh and George B. Whitmarsh; 1962 to present owners.
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203. WALTER C. KILBURN JR .: In 1870 Amherst K. Maynard sold the south part of his lot to Hiram Watkins who probably built the house, since it is known that a house was built here sometime between 1858 and 1877, and the price had quadrupled when Watkins sold it; 1874 to George P. Porter (AH 345), son of Vine Porter, who improved the prop- erty; 1884 to Clarissa Jennings, daughter of Charles Watkins and second wife of Alonzo Jennings; 1919 heirs to Cluffie Mary Gobie, the visiting nurse; 1921 to Bertha M. Linsley; 1927 to Leslie G. and Minnie L. Con- verse; 1928 to Charles A. Moultrop; 1929 to Lillian F. Burt; 1943 estate to Charles D. Dalzell; 1956 to present owners.
204. MAUDE MAYNARD SLADE: The point of land between Wentworth Road and Prospect Street was a part of John Bellows' farm, land which' he bought from his father in 1776; 1793 sold 145 rods here to Edmund Brewster, gentleman, of Westmoreland. The increase in price when he sold indicates that he built a house; 1807 to John Livingston, black- smith; 1811 to Isaac Redington, merchant; 1816 to Jonathan (brother of John) Livingston; 1824 to William Simonds; 1834 to Stephen Dean of Westmoreland; 1838 to Hartshorn Wight; 1842 to David R. Fleeman; 1846 to Amherst K. Maynard. The property now belongs to Mrs. Maude Maynard Slade.
WENTWORTH ROAD, NORTH END
In 1772 Jonathan Chase of Cornish sold to Benjamin Bellows that part of #3 in the 4th Range which lies west of Wentworth Road through to the river, a strip about 90 rods wide (166 acres). Chase had it from Tim- othy Dilano who had probably had it from Benjamin Bellows. Bellows then owned the land next south.
In 1776 Benjamin Bellows sold to John Bellows 45 acres in the point between Prospect Street and Wentworth Road, in Lots #2 and #3 in 4th Range; in 1779 he sold him 10 acres from a point north of the Endicott house west to the brook near the River Road, and south to his own land. The early records are obscure as to how John Bellows came by all his holdings in this area.
205. THORNDIKE H. ENDICOTT: About 1770 Col. John Bellows built what is now the Endicott house, with a long row of barns (since removed) which testified to the extent of his flocks and harvests. His holdings ex- tended from the old county road (Prospect) to the river and south to Boggy Meadow, including #2 in the 3rd Range and #4 and #5 in the 4th Range. He had acquired these last two from his brother Theodore,
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the other from his father and brother Benjamin. His son Josiah had the land on the east side of Wentworth Road and his son Hubbard the homestead and land on the west side of the road.
Hubbard was not as prosperous a farmer as his father, and after his death in 1835 the farm was sold to David and William Buffum to satisfy his creditors. Dr. George Smith had the place, letting out the farmland, after which his daughters, Matilda J. and Agnes, sold in 1854 to Rev. Dr. Henry W. Bellows, who used it as a summer home for many years. His daughter, Mrs. Thorndike Endicott, now owns the place. On July 4, 1930, Mrs. Endicott's barn burned.
206. THORNDIKE H. ENDICOTT: Rev. Russell N. Bellows built this house in 1896. The house probably stands on the old line between Lots #2 and #3 in the 4th Range.
"Col. John Bellows was of about medium height, but very stout-so much so that in the latter part of his life he was unable to walk up the steep hill leading from the village to his house without discomfort. He kept a horse saddled, and to aid in mount- ing had a horse-block placed in the yard at the south of the house. . .. Col. John was very particular in regard to his dress ... wore a dark cutaway coat with wide skirts and bright brass buttons and three similar buttons on the broad cuffs; a long light colored waistcoat with large pockets, and made open to show the frilled shirt front; and small clothes, with stockings coming above the knees and held in place by buckles. The cloth was homespun, Mrs. Bellows being a notable spinner and weaver of linen and wool, but the clothes were probably made in Boston.
"Town and province records show that he was very active in civic affairs. When a task needed doing with promptness and dependability, Col. John was called upon, many times during the unhappy dispute with Great Britain and in the formation of the new state government.
"Rev. Dr. Henry Whitney Bellows was probably the most illustrious of the whole Bellows family. He was ordained January 2, 1839, and started on his long pastorate in New York City. He was a natural orator, his voice sonorous and musical, his ges- tures natural, his imagination kindling as his subject developed under the heat of his earnest thought and feeling. His social gifts were no less remarkable; though naturally somewhat shy, he had a charm of manner which drew men and women to him. In- dependence in thought and fearlessness in expression of his opinions were always marked characteristics of Dr. Bellows. His parish in New York grew and several times it was necessary to move farther uptown and build a new church.
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