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"Valuable and important as had been Dr. Bellows' work as a defender, preacher and minister of rational religion in the metropolis, it was in the planning, organiza- tion and successful conduct through the war for the preservation of the Union of a voluntary humane society of national scope, the U. S. Sanitary Commission, that he became most widely known, both at home and abroad." For a fuller account of Dr. Bellows, see Bellows Genealogy 283-320.
207. AGNES C. BUNKER: "About the time of his father's (Col. John Bel-
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lows) death in 1812, Josiah Bellows 2nd built on that part of his father's farm between Wentworth Road and Prospect Hill the large brick house known as the Knapp House. It was designed to be the most substantial and imposing private residence in town, and has remained without material change to the present day, even the original wall paper in the large parlor being preserved." (Bellows Genealogy)
Having mortgaged the place to his cousin John Bellows of Boston, and becoming pecuniarily embarrassed, he removed with his family to Lancaster, N. H., 1820 or 1824. John Bellows sold the place about 1824 to Jacob Newman Knapp who had married his sister Louisa. He had been a preacher and a teacher, but a weakness of his eyes led to his re- tirement to his farm in Walpole where he kept active for a long life. The Knapps had two sons; Francis Bellows, a preacher and teacher, who never married but devoted his time to the care of his parents; and Fred- erick Newman who served several churches, but spent most of his life teaching. He had four children, Louisa Bellows, Frederick Bradford, Sarah Perkins and Maria Bradford, who finally inherited the old home- stead. Maria and Frederick sold their shares to Sarah and Louisa who came here for the summer for many years.
When they sold the place in 1927 to Agnes C. Bunker, they reserved "for and during their joint lives right to occupy rent free premises con- veyed from May 7 to June 7 and from October 1 to November 1 each year and right to use wood from premises for fuel purposes and also right to use a convenient storeroom in buildings on said premises similar to storeroom now used by grantors."
ROUTE 12, SOUTH OF VILLAGE
208. GEORGE H. DOLLOFF: In 1853 William G. Buffum sold from his farm a house lot on the west side of the "new" Keene Road to Joseph Mason. This was a part of the old John Bellows farm. The Mason family came to Walpole about 1787, first settled on the Scovill Farm near the Surry line. They lived on Carpenter Hill until Mason retired to this place and built "Brookside", where he lived until his death in 1874. After the death of her husband, Dauphin W. Buckminster, Mason's daughter Har- riet sold this place in 1880 to Emogene A. Geer, daughter of John Crosby. Her husband, William Geer, was a brother of Maria who married A. K. Maynard. The Geers were an early shoemaking family in Charlestown, and Emogene spent her last years there. She sold this place in 1905 to Nathaniel W. Holland. For many years he rented it for the summer sea- son to Mrs. Ellen Hosmer. In 1899 it was enlarged by raising the roof of
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the ell. In 1922 Frank Adams of Rockingham foreclosed, sold in 1923 to Charles E. Seward; to his son Alfred C., whose wife Ethel Converse Seward sold the property in 1957 to Samuel J. Chickering; 1957 to pres- ent owners.
209. DOROTHY M. HOUGHTON: In 1905 Mrs. Geer sold a house lot from the south side of her lot to Thomas B. Peck, who built the present house; 1909 to Mrs. Lizzie H. Litchfield of Boston; 1914 to Mrs. Georgetta A. Mills of Braintree, Mass .; 1918 to Mrs. Susie D. B. Flint; 1938 heirs to Charles W. and Dorothy M. Houghton. He died in 1961.
The land of the next four house lots along the northwest side of Rt. 12 was sold during the 1940's and 1950's by Arthur H. Chickering, and was all part of the old John Bellows' farm.
210. WILLIAM N. CRABTREE: In 1950 bought the first lot south of the Houghtons and built a house.
211. ROLLAND S. JAMESON: In 1950, the same day the Crabtrees pur- chased their land, Willard and Iva Leland bought the next place south and subsequently built a house; 1961 Iva Leland, her husband having died, sold it to present owners.
212. LACEA R. WILSON: The next lot south Bant H. Morgan bought in 1946; 1946 to Frank and Harriet Ude of Westminster; 1946 to Harrison Ude; 1947, he then being of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Blair and Ruth Baldwin; 1949 to George F. Jr., and Jeanette C. Lawrence; 1950 to Frederick I. and Lacea R. Wilson of Bellows Falls, Vt., now Lacea R., since Frederick has died.
213. CHRISTINA B. HATCH TYLER: In 1941 Harold A. and Christina B. Hatch of Rockingham bought the next lot south. Christina B. Hatch Tyler (widow) now owns the place.
214. ANNA M. HALSEY ESTATE: The field out of which the Halsey prop- erty is taken belonged to John C. Brown in 1869, a part of the old John Bellows farm (which had belonged to Dr. Smith and then William Buf- fum). Brown sold in 1869 to Leonard B. Holland; 1875-6 to Henry J. Watkins; to Lucius Slade of Boston, whose daughter, Mrs. Lelia Slade Sawyer, built the house here and sold it in 1912 to Helen P. Davis; her widower Archie I. Davis in 1927 to William S. and Anna M. Halsey, both of whom have since died.
215. RUSSELL HASTINGS :- OLD CLUB HOUSE: This was part of the William Buffum land that Levi Foster bought in 1844. He had a farm here, the
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house standing on the west side of the road, probably on the site of the present house. Foster lived here for many years. He sold in 1868 to John Taggard; 1870 to David Russell; 1873 to George H. Holden; 1891 to Hudson Bridge, reserving the barn and pasture for his cows for the sea- son. (Bellows Falls Times says the house was taken down about 1884.)
The club house which had stood on the Amory land on the Hubbard Road to Drewsville was taken apart and moved to this site, on Bridge property, and was used for some years by the Country Club. In 1926 Lawrence D. Bridge sold this two acre piece where the house stands to Russell Hastings of Brookline, Mass.
Thomas Nelson Hastings built the club house on the Amory golf links in summer of 1899.
216. GEORGE LEIGHTON BRIDGE JR .: This is part of William Buffum land sold to George Watkins 2nd in 1843 to settle the estate. In 1847 he sold to Levi H. Foster, who owned a farm here; 1868 along with the rest of the property, to John Taggard; 1870 to Dr. Hiram Wotkyns; 1889 his daughter Helen A. to Herbert J. Watkins; 1902 Ida L. Watkins to Louis R. Lincoln who built the house; 1904 to his wife Edith B .; 1914 to Fran- cis B. Allen of New York City. Clifford A. Bellows, who inherited the property from Allen, sold in 1953 to George Leighton Bridge Jr. and wife Betty F.
RIVER ROAD
217. JOHN P. O'BRIEN: Where the O'Brien house stands was Benjamin Bellows land on which the house and shop of Samuel Whittle, wheel- wright, stood in 1800. Exactly opposite the house and shop was a small barn. These buildings Whittle sold for $100 to Benjamin Bellows, but continued to live here; 1805 to Joseph Bellows Jr. the three acres with the buildings; 1807, Benjamin Muzzey living here, to Elijah Russell who removed to Rochester, Vt .; 1812 to Aquila Russell who was living here then; 1812 to Samuel Young of Weathersfield, Vt .; 1814 to Daniel Tur- ner; 1833 to Oliver Martin, who had just bought the Holland meadow to the north (42 acres); 1852 to Lucius Slade; 1863 to Eliphalet K. Webster; 1865 to John B. Russell; 1867 to Allen Dunshee; 1903 to Copley Amory, to Fanny Mason; 1934 to Anne S. and George S. Harris of Montclair, New Jersey; 1948 to John P. O'Brien (Helen).
On a Saturday night in May 1941 the barns and sheds burned with stock and machinery. The house caught, but was saved by the good work of the firemen. Considerable damage was done by people with good in-
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tentions tearing out fixtures to save them from the fire. Mr. and Mrs. John O'Brien, farmers for the owners, were out for the evening and re- turned at the height of the fire. Mrs. Hudson Farnsworth saw the fire and sent in the alarm at 11:39 P.M. She was unable to save the stock, but took the children from the house-Barbara 7, John Jr. 6, and Robert 3, and Robert Daniels. Mr. Harris had just taken the sleeper to New York, came back and announced that he was through farming. The rest of the land from here south to the north line of Lot #1 in 3rd Range (to Leighton Bridge place) belonged to John Bellows.
218. HARRY H. BOUDRIEAU: In 1818 Hubbard Bellows (son of John) sold one-half an acre to Margaret Mclaughlin next south of the O'Brien place, the land forming a small wedge between the old and newer River Roads; Rebekah and James Rafferty of Moria, New York, inherited; 1880 to Lucius Slade for his mother Eunice; 1901 to Carrie L. Knowlton; 1910 to Lelia L. Sawyer; 1921 to Eli Bashaw, blacksmith; 1923 to Howard A. Hildreth; 1935 to George E. and Nellie E. Wheeler; foreclosure by bank which sold 1938 to Hudson G. and Mary A. Farnsworth; 1948 to present owners.
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Margaret Mclaughlin supported herself by weaving rag carpet. In 1822 she sold a strip of land two rods wide on the south side of her land to Lucinda Bennett. After she died Woodard Hinds bought in 1854; 1859 to Jarvis Hinds; 1859 to George Rust; 1868 to Allen Dunshee, mak- ing it a part of the O'Brien farm. The Bennett house was gone before
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219. MRS. MARTIN MURRAY SR .: In 1841 when Dr. George S. Smith owned the Endicott place on Wentworth Road, he sold this house lot to James Gibson of Keene, "reserving slaughter house ... with privilege of re- moving . . . "; 1847 his estate to Eleanor Gibson at auction at DeWolf's Inn for $125; 1856 her niece Mary Delany of Keene inherited. She mar- ried Patrick Murray, and they were here by 1858. They were the grand-
Hubbard Bellows had that part of his father's (John Bellows) estate on the east side of River Road, selling in 1841 to William Buffum; 1844 his
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heirs to Oliver Martin; 1847 to Frederick W. Scovill. Martin had build- ings then, but they were probably the Melvin Ramsay buildings on the west side of the highway; 1849 to John Cole (Mary E.).
220. JULES D. CUSHING: In 1852 Cole sold the north part of the property to Anson Dale, who probably built this house; 1853 to George Rust for $3700; he left it to the Slades; 1906 to Lelia Slade Sawyer (Mrs. Henry); 1938 to Thomas F. and L. Rachel Donnelly of Craftsbury, Vt .; 1948 to Clifford S. Chickering; 1948 to Jules D. and Sadie M. Cushing and Walter W. and Doris W. St. Peter. The property now belongs to the Cushings.
221. ELMER W. TOLE: In 1939 the Donnellys sold to Nelson J. and Ardelle McKenven three acres on the knoll south of the Murray house, where the McKenvens built the house. In 1947 Ardelle McKenven Lyons sold the property to John Albert McKenven; 1950 to present owners. 222. SIDNEY BUSTARD: In 1949 the Cushings and the St. Peters sold the house lot here to Clarence L. Bodine (Marjorie E.), who built a house; 1950 to Robert M. O'Neill (Margaret L.); 1954 to present owners from Rockingham, Vt.
223. VERNON A. KENYON: While the Donnellys owned the Cushing place in 1942, they sold a lot next south of their house to Chester Duprey. Later, they bought back the land and sold it in 1947 to Kenyon, who built the house.
224. MELVIN RAMSAY ESTATE: The land next south, the Coles sold in. 1852 to Silas M. Bates. There was probably a house here then; 1853 to Anson Dale; 1853 to Joseph B. Mead; 1865 to Uriah Newton, son Hub- bard inheriting; 1882 to Josiah Johnson of Keene; his heir Harriet F. Johnson 1891 to David N. Wright; 1891 to Clara and Betsy Gowing; Clara willed the property to Melvin and Junie Ramsay.
225. KENNETH RAMSAY: He had this land from his father and built the house about 1956.
Col. John Bellows' daughter Hannah Stone (Mrs. David) had her father's land on the west side of the highway. In 1829 she sold the 40 acres next south of the Livingston land and "opposite Hubbard Bellows' brewery" to Stephen R. Bradley; 1831 to Henry S. Tudor; 1850 to Oliver Martin.
226. MARY J. WALKER (JADKOWSKI): In 1852 Oliver Martin sold this property to Anson Dale; 1853 to George Rust, who willed it to the
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Lucius Slade family; Lelia Slade Sawyer built this house for herself; 1942 her estate to Mary J. Walker.
227. CHESTER D. DUPREY: In 1938 Lelia L. Sawyer sold to Thomas F. and L. Rachel Donnelly; 1943 land and buildings to Chester D. and Ruth S. Duprey.
228. HENRY WALKER: In 1948 the Donnellys sold this land to Arthur H. Chickering (Irene A.); 1948 to present owners.
229. MELVIN RAMSAY ESTATE: In 1852 Oliver Martin sold this property to Anson Dale (Sarah), who had a house here in 1858; 1863 to Thomas F. Watkins (Martha W.); 1866 to Henry J. Stowell; 1866 to Henry W. S. Griswold (Eliza); 1867 to Luther D. Knowlton; 1868 to Calvin C. Gow- ing; his daughter Clara inherited it, and left it to Melvin and Junie Tiffany Ramsay.
230. LEON JONES: In 1860 Oliver Martin sold this property to George Rust, who left it to the Slades; 1933 Lelia L. Sawyer to Leon and Sophie Jones. They first had a shop here, then made the building into a house. They have moved the house (1962) to the east side of the highway to make way for the new Rt. 12.
231. GEORGE LEIGHTON BRIDGE: About 1937 the Bridges built a new house on the side hill east of the River Road, on the north line of the old Lot #1 in 3rd Range, a part of the Bridge estate (see #252). The early history of this section is open to conjecture. In 1772 Samuel Chase owned Lot #1 in 3rd Range and sold to Benjamin Bellows who willed to his son Theodore; 1786 to Amasa Allen, who in 1792 bought more land to the north from Col. John Bellows. Probably his barns stood on the east side of the highway somewhat south of the Bridge house, and the house on the west side where a cellarhole is to be found on the west bank of the railroad, well concealed by sumac and grapevines.
Earlier records show that Timothy Delano sold to Samuel Chase the 10 acres immediately north of Boggy Meadow's north line in 1765; 1775 to Levi Hooper. The land next north belonged to Ebenezer Hatch in 1765; to Col. John Bellows in 1775. It is not clear how he came by it, but in 1799 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold the 21 acres here west of the highway to Amos Butterfield, who had a house here. Apparently he lost title to the property, because in 1809 Caleb Bellows and Samuel Grant, heirs of Benjamin Bellows Jr., sold to Thomas Cunningham, who was already living in the house. This house may have burned, for in 1811 he ex-
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changed with Allen for the land on the west bank of the railroad cut, where the cellarhole is located.
In 1822 William Buffum bought the Allen farm and in 1824, the Cun- ningham farm; 1846 the heirs sold property rights to the railroad for about $300; apparently what they owned on the west side of the high- way. Whatever may have remained of the Butterfield cellarhole was probably obliterated by railroad construction. If there was still a house on the Allen cellarhole, it was of no use after the railroad was built. Barns remained on the east side of the highway, notably the tobacco barn in 1882. More recently a slaughter barn stood here. All gone now. This is the farm to which Allen went early in the morning, as described by Mrs. Barnes. (See #172.)
BOGGY MEADOW FARM, HENRY B. CABOT: When Benjamin Bellows and Theodore Atkinson divided the town between them, two-thirds to Bel- lows and one-third to Atkinson, a part of the latter's share was this 1000 acre tract. The southeast corner was on Rt. 12 at the Hall Crossing Road; the east line ran due north along the west line of the 3rd Range to a point near the River Road, then a short bound west to the river. Wil- liam K. Atkinson, who lived in Dover, N. H., inherited the tract; 1814 for $25,000 to Josiah Bellows 2nd and David Stone, with buildings; 1816 Josiah Bellows 3rd became a partner in ownership; 1821 Josiah Bellows 2nd dropped out. In 1822 Jonathan Mason purchased the property which is still in the family, having come down through William P. Mason to Fanny Mason to Henry B. Cabot. In 1823 Jonathan Mason built a large barn which was for many years considered the largest farm building in these parts. It was 60 feet square in the center with a lean-to on each side, which made the entire building 100 feet square. It took 11,559 feet of square timber for the beams and sills, and 97,500 shingles to cover the roof. Recompense Hall and Joel Chaffin were the carpenters. It took the united strength of 300 men working 5 hours and 40 minutes to raise the barn. It remained substantially as it was built for some fifty years. New pen stables were built in 1959.
232. RED FARM HOUSE: This house on the west side of the highway near the road to the river is probably the oldest house on the farm.
233. MANSION: On the height of land overlooking the farm is the man- sion. In back of it are three houses erected by the Masons for their help, and a small place farther east built by Fanny Mason for her companion.
Miss Fanny Peabody Mason died in 1948, aged 84, leaving for charita-
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ble distribution an estate of $4,000,000 which by sound investment she had built up from the fortune left to her by her father, William Powell Mason. Her only brother had drowned 60 years earlier. Practically every- one with whom she had come in contact was named as beneficiary in her will. To Paul Doguereau, a concert pianist who was her protégé, were left bequests to establish a music center. The Town of Walpole was left much of her woodland for a town forest.
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