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234. CUMMINS CATHERWOOD: This was the north 63 acres of Boggy Meadow Farm sold in 1818 to Thomas Seaver; 1831 to Josiah Bellows 3rd; 1848 his daughter Sarah K. Bellows to Frederick Wier the north 39 acres, apparently adding the remainder to the farm to the south; 1852 to Elias Hardy (Alice W.); 1859 to Joshua C. Clark (Mary B.); 1861 for love and affection to Joshua Boylston Clark (Sarah B.); 1867 to Benjamin and Alvin Dwinell; 1907 to Harmon Whitton, who raised tobacco here; 1909 to Fanny Mason; 1937 to Harry B. Brown who ran it as a dairy farm; 1949 to Cummins Catherwood. The barn burned on September 22, 1942. In 1809, the road here was relocated, the new road going through an old house west of the old road.
235. TRACK FARM, HENRY B. CABOT: In 1822 Stephen Rowe Bradley bought the 150 acres next south of #234, out of Boggy Meadow Farm, for his daughter Stella C. Bellows, who left it to her daughter Stella K. Bellows (Mrs. Harry Hibbard of Bath, N. H.); 1872 to John B. Russell and John C. Brown; 1873 to Leonard Holland; 1876 to Henry J. Wat- kins; 1886 to David W. Leach of Westminster, reserving the blacksmith shanty; 1903 to Fred Lebourveau; 1903 to Copley Amory; 1903 to Fanny Mason. At the north end of the farm the large field was developed as the Cheshire Trotting Park. The buildings here burned August 31, 1906. The ell from the brick house was moved here, not covering the whole of the old cellarhole, which has not been filled.
236. BRICK HOUSE, CHARLES C. CABOT: The Bradley farm extended south to include the large brick house, probably built by Bradley. This place came back to Boggy Meadow Farm when Fanny Mason bought it in 1905. She left to a protégé, Paul Doguereau; 1951 to Henry B. Cabot; 1951 to Charles C. Cabot. This property includes the two brick houses.
237. PARK SWITCH: In the point south of the railroad crossing is the cellarhole of the small, plain cottage built by the railroad for George Stanley, who ran the extra woodburning engine used to help push or pull trains over the Summit between Walpole and Keene. The old barn
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nearby was the engine house, later used by Wright as a tobacco barn, and at one time as a slaughter barn. Stanley left here in 1891, and the house burned in May, 1893, while occupied by Curtis.
238. HENRY B. CABOT'S WATKINS FARM: In 1860 William Mason sold to William Watkins 187 acres, a strip of the south part of the farm from the river to the east line, for $10,000. His brother Henry J. Watkins in- herited the land, then Alice M. and Albert H. Watkins; 1906 to Joseph Sargent Jr. of Boston; 1906 to Fanny P. Mason, O. H. Ploof occupying at the time.
The barns here burned on May 5, 1882. About 8:00 P.M. the barn was discovered to be on fire, already out of control. The fire was set by Charles Farnsworth (16) who had been put here to work and wanted a change. Seventeen head of cattle, three horses and several sheep were lost. The place was then occupied by Fred Smalley.
Miss Fanny Mason built the house to the south for her manager, McIlvaine.
A barn burned here August 14, 1927, and was rebuilt in 1930.
According to the early Bellows map of the town, Benjamin Bellows owned all the land south of Boggy Meadow Farm in 1766. From the land records it has been determined that very early this tract was divided into three farms: the Chandler farm (the 300 acres next north of the West- moreland line); the Andrew Spear farm, extending from the north line of the Chandler farm (about even with the brook on the north side of the second meadow) north to include the Burt land; and the William Smeed farm.
The very early records on these three farms are obscure or missing. It is possible that John Chandler and Andrew Spear had their farms by virtue of their rights as grantees of Westmoreland. It is claimed that when Benjamin Bellows made his plan of Walpole and obtained his New Hampshire charter he included two miles (more or less) of what had been granted by Massachusetts to Westmoreland. Trouble over title followed in later years.
How far east these farms extended is not clear. To be 300 acres the Chandler farm would need to extend to the 3rd Range, but later records indicate other land owners between the Chandler tract and the 3rd Range. The bounds of the Spear land are indicated only by the descrip- tions of the farms to the north and south.
William Smeed bought from Benjamin Bellows prior to 1770 a strip south of the Atkinson Farm from the river east to Wentworth Road,
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including Lot #8 in the 3rd Range. In 1770 he sold the tract next to the river to Elisha Marsh of Westminster, Mass., who settled here and erected buildings; 1783 to Aaron Allen, probably the father of James Allen who lived on Rt. 12. James had a sawmill on the brook on Aaron's land in 1800. In 1801 Aaron Allen sold the property to Samuel Turner of Mansfield, Conn.
239. FRANKLIN C. BARRETT: In 1813 Samuel Turner sold to John Turner, reserving the "millspot" and a house occupied by Elijah Turner; 1837 to Allen Dunshee; 1867 to Eben Burr of Westmoreland, except the six- acre millspot; 1877 to John B. Knight of Westmoreland; 1894 to his sister Mary K. Ward of Westmoreland; 1916 to Fred Smalley; 1927 to Arthur Chickering Jr .; 1943 to Edward B. Knapp; 1951 to Evelyn O. King (Mellen); 1953 to present owners. Only the house remains. It went through a period of dilapidation but has been restored by both the Knapps and the Barretts.
240. EDDY L. HALL: In 1873 Eben Burr sold a strip about 18 rods wide from the River Road to the river on the north side of his farm to Rhode M. Wilbur; 1911 heirs to Fred A. Ramsay; 1912 to his daughter Lizzie M. Mellish. Her husband was drowned in the river (see Bellows Falls Times, May 14, 21, 27 and June 3, 1913), and she later married Elkins, removing to Hampton Falls. She sold in 1917 to Fred O. Smalley; the same year, he sold the north half to Fanny P. Mason. In 1949 Henry B. Cabot, for the Mason estate, sold one-half an acre of this land with right of a spring across the road to the present owners. The old house burned about 1950 and the Halls built the present house. The old house may have been the one Samuel Turner reserved for Elijah.
241. SMALLEY FARM: WEISS A. SAWYER AND ALFRED W. SAWYER: Hugh Dunshee came to Walpole from Londonderry about 1784 (AH 244) and worked for Dr. Abraham Holland for about three years. In 1787 he mar- ried Cynthia, daughter of James Allen, and located on land lying north of Henry Burt's, no doubt the south part of the Aaron Allen farm. After he died in 1829, his son John had the place; and then his son Lewis; 1862 to Levi Lyman; 1872 Caroline M. and Orice W. Dwinnell (she being formerly the wife of Lewis Dunshee). In 1884 the bank foreclosed; 1885 to Fred O. Smalley of Claremont. Calvin Dunshee had occupied the prop- erty in 1877. In 1927 Smalley sold it to Arthur H. Chickering Jr. The farm was carried on by Albert Chickering. The buildings burned early in the morning of August 9, 1940, while Chickering was away on a buying
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While Smalley owned the farm, it was prosperous and he expanded by operating several other farms in the neighborhood; 1943 purchased by present owners.
242. CLARENCE J. JEFFREY: In 1826 Carlton Wiers married Laurinda Dunshee, daughter of Hugh Dunshee. She bore two children, Lewis and Diana. After her death he married her sister Diantha. They resided in Stockholm, New York, where he died in 1849 (AH 244). In 1854 Mrs. Wiers bought from her nephew, Lewis H. Dunshee, one quarter of an acre of land on the west side of the River Road, next to the Burt north line, with buildings and the "old cider mill spring on Dunshee land about 4 rods north of the above tract". Here Mrs. Wiers and her step- daughter Diana resided, Diana remaining after Mrs. Wiers' death; 1900 to Alma G. Pierce of East Milton, Mass .; 1909 to Michael and Leslie M. Murray of Newton, Mass., who called it Catnip Ranch; 1930 to Arthur Chickering Jr .; 1934 to Adolphus R. Stevens; 1935 to Richard and Mary L. Busteed of Ridgewood, N. J .; 1950 to Harold C. and Lois Kenyon; . 1954 to present owners. From the river going by this place was the old road from the boat landing to the mill and to the taverns on the Barrett and the John Kolvoord places.
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Andrew Spear had left here by 1784, and Bellows was selling the land to others; practically all now belongs to Weiss A. and Alfred W. Sawyer. For identification we will use the old names of these places.
243. BURT FARM:
"Moses Burt, one of the old Revolutionary patriots, was the son of Aaron Burt, of Northfield, Mass., a wholesale merchant there of whom the settlers of Walpole used to purchase goods before a store was opened here. Moses was born in Northfield on Feb- ruary 14, 1756, and came to Walpole in 1775. . . . On August 14, 1777, when he was stooking wheat he heard the reports of cannon at the battle of Bennington and im- mediately left home for the scene of strife. He enlisted in the army for three months and when the time expired he returned to Walpole, but was soon drafted to serve nine months longer, which term he served out. In 1783 he married Submit Ross, sup- posed to have been an inhabitant of this town, and had ten children." (AH)
Their son Luther inherited what had come to be the Burt farm, the north part of the old Spear farm; his son Henry, who was single, in- herited the farm and stayed on the old homestead; 1892 to his nephew, Waldo Burt (Ida); 1919 to Elwin C. Clough, 150 acres; 1920 to Arthur Chickering Sr .; 1931 to Arthur Chickering Jr .; 1943 to Edward B. Knapp; 1949 to Oliver and Mary J. Lawrence; 1950 to Joseph N. and Bernard P. Crosby of Brattleboro; 1952 to present owners, Weiss A. and Alfred W. Sawyer.
In 1922 Chickering built two new silos and greatly enlarged the barn. On May 30, 1930, all the buildings burned in the night: three huge barns with 100 tie-ups, two silos, a milkhouse, and the house. The fire started in an ell chimney. The children, who were asleep upstairs, were barely saved. The cattle also were saved. There is now only a small house.
244. SCHOOL #11: When Ida Burt deeded the Burt farm to Elwin C. Clough in 1919, she reserved the right to move the schoolhouse, on the west side of the road, south to a lot she reserved near the Ingham place. There she and her sister Lena C. Cobb, a jolly pair, lived. Ida Burt liked to do the inside work, so she kept the house and sewed, while her sister did the outside work, including the gardening. After the sisters were gone, Francis E. and Jean G. Daigneault of Athens, Vermont, bought the place in 1939. It went through the hands of Arthur Chicker- ing and the Knapp brothers and in 1948 Weiss A., Josephine C., and Alfred W. Sawyer bought.
245. WARD L. ASHMORE: This lot was originally about two acres of land when Selah Turner, chairmaker, bought it in 1802 for $20 from Samuel Wiers and Moses Burt. He must have built a house for in 1805 he sold to
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Stephen Johnson for $300.20; 1807 to Moses Burt who advertised it thus in the Cheshire Gazette February 10, 1826: "For sale good situation for most kinds of mechanics, on River Road near Moses Burt-1 acre good land, small orchard, house, barn, shop, 31/2 miles south of Walpole Vil- lage." Luther Burt inherited the property; 1844 to Lewis J. Wilber; 1853 to Andrew J. and Charlotte Burt; to daughter Edna Burt Ingham. The widow of Dr. Ingham was a very dark-skinned woman who was a dress- maker. She shared her home with George Shaw, who was a relative. She left the property to Hannah Gove Jenkins of Barre, Vt .; 1940 to Arthur Chickering Jr .; 1940 to his sister, Nancy M. Douglas of Roslindale, Mass .; 1947 to her daughter, Helen C. Ashmore.
246. HOME PLACE-WEISS A. AND ALFRED W. SAWYER: This was Levi Ly- man's home farm; 1870 to his sister Diana Ross and her son Levi A .; 1911, after the Ross family had died, to Arthur Chickering Sr .; 1912 to Liv- ingston P. Lewis; 1917 to Henry Young, whose sons Carroll H. and Mer- rill lived here also; 1919 to Arthur Chickering; 1931 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1943 to Edward B. Knapp; 1948 to the Sawyers from Unity, N. H. The buildings burned on September 17, 1927, and were rebuilt.
247. CHARLES CHICKERING PLACE-WEISS A. AND ALFRED W. SAWYER: This cellarhole is part of the old Spear farm, known as the Angier farm, al- though no Angier ever held title to it. In 1802 Samuel Wiers and Moses Burt sold five acres here to Simeon Lyman. The property was absorbed into his son Levi's holdings. Apparently there were no buildings here in 1858, although there had been in 1826; in 1870 Levi Lyman sold the farm to Charles W. Chickering; in 1883 to Levi Ross whose children inherited it; 1904 to Prentiss and Norwood; 1905 to Henry Young. The buildings burned on December 9, 1916-dwelling, barn, shed. Fred Graves lived here before Young owned the property.
Simeon Lyman was brought up by Samuel Wiers, who set him up as a blacksmith ". .. in a shop that once stood on land near the Lyman homestead, on the east side of the highway .. . and lived in a house near his shop till April 4, 1846, when he died aged 81." At the top of the bank, north corner of Genzer Road with the River Road, are the remains of old foundations, probably Simeon Lyman's house and/or shop.
248. CHANDLER FARM-SAMUEL J. CHICKERING JR. AND ARTHUR H. CHICKER- ING: In 1762 John Chandler, yeoman, sold to Jonathan Burt and Samuel Wiers of Northfield for £90 his 300 acre farm in the southwest corner of
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Walpole; 1795 Jonathan Burt, then of Windsor, Vt., to Samuel Wiers.
However, in 1766 Aaron Burt had sold to William Molineaux of Bos- ton the same 300 acres; 1771 to Charles Ward Apthorp of New York City; 1772 to Crean Brush.
Samuel Wiers settled here, having eloped with Aaron Burt's daughter, Mary. He was born in 1746, son of an English soldier who returned to England after the close of the war in which he was engaged leaving his son and daughter to be brought up by others. The daughter married Samuel Marshall, grandfather of John Marshall of Walpole.
Crean Brush, by his courtly manner, dash and ability, won for himself lucrative places of honor and trust across the river, although he was a rank Tory. For several years he was unscrupulous in business and got possession, by purchase or otherwise, of an almost baronial estate which included the Samuel Wiers farm in Walpole.
Before the close of the war he committed suicide. His daughter Eliza- beth, whom he had left behind him in Ireland, laid claim to his prop- erty. She instituted a suit against Wiers and Burt which continued in the courts for some twenty years. In 1802 Wiers died and was buried on the premises, the belief being that by such action his heirs could hold the land. The suit was continued by his son, John H. Wiers. Weary of the law's delay, the prosecution offered to settle on an equal division. Burt wished to settle, but Wiers held out and they lost. However, they sued for "betterments" and the case continued until they recovered. Both parties were thoroughly beaten by the cost of the long suit.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brush Norman came into possession of the farm and sold it in 1816 to Stephen Rowe Bradley, Josiah Bellows 2nd, Josiah Bellows 3rd, and David Stone. They took the precaution of getting a quit claim deed from Thankful Wiers, widow of Samuel. Bradley bought out the other owners in 1817; in 1828 the farm was inherited by his daugh- ter Mary, wife of Henry Tudor; 1850 the main farm to Levi Lyman; 1870 to Ira Holmes, to his widow Catherine B. and his son John P. In 1908 the farm was sold to Arthur Chickering Sr. and Clement L. Mans- field; 1931 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1934 to Arthur H. Chickering Sr .; 1944 his estate to Arthur H. Chickering Jr. and Samuel J. Chickering; 1946 to Henri Anger; 1953 to Samuel J. Chickering and Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1954 the latter sold his share to Samuel J. and Alice Chickering; 1955 to their two sons, Samuel J. Jr. and Arthur H. (Jimmy) Chickering.
The original buildings stood on the west side of the road; the house on the east side was built for Ira and Catherine Holmes. On May 7,
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1930, the buildings on the west side of the road burned. They were later rebuilt. Then the barn on the east side was partly burned and rebuilt.
249. LYMAN CHICKERING FARM: This was the north part of the Chandler farm. There is not even a cellarhole now, only some stones, tawny lilies, roses. In 1858 the buildings were about opposite the west end of Genzer Road. In 1842 the Tudors sold the north part of the Chandler farm to Daniel Ross; 1948 to Levi Lyman; 1870 to Lyman J. Chickering; 1910 to Arthur H. Chickering, owner of the farm to the south, of which it is now a part. The buildings burned on June 10, 1901.
Levi Lyman, son of Simeon Lyman, acquired all the land from the Westmoreland north line up to and including the present Sawyer home place. He had no children and, as he grew older, he divided his holdings by selling to his two nephews farms side by side-the Charles Chickering farm and the Lyman Chickering farm. They both built homes and in later years lost them by fire.
ROUTE 12, NORTH TO SOUTH
BRIDGE ESTATE: In 1822 William Buffum from Westmoreland, merchant in Walpole, bought the Amasa Allen farm (#1 in 3rd Range) from the Allen heirs; in 1824 he bought the Thomas Cunningham place on the river opposite the Leighton Bridge place; in 1836 William and David Buffum bought the Hubbard Bellows estate (from the Endicott place south on Wentworth Road to Lot #6 in 4th Range, west to the River Road and/or the Boggy Meadow line); about 1839 they divided the property between them. David took the Endicott place, east half of #2 in 3rd Range #5 and south part of #4 in 4th Range; while William took the rest. Various parcels were sold by the descendants; most of them were brought together again to form the Bridge estate in 1888.
250. WILLIAM BEER: In northwest corner of Lot #4 in 4th Range. This land was the part of William Buffum's estate bought in 1843 by James Jr. and Charles Hooper; 1846 to Levi H. Foster; 1868 to John W. Tag- gard; 1871 to Rev. Henry W. Bellows; 1889 his heirs to Hudson E. Bridge of St. Louis; 1908 to Charles Bellows of Brooklyn, New York, who built the house; 1948 his widow, Elizabeth L. to Hudson G. and Mary A. Farnsworth; 1962 to William and Joan Beer of Plymouth, Mass.
251. ROY A. SUNTER: David Buffum had bought the farm on the east side of the new road in 1843 and sold it to Bridge in 1888. The farmhouse was probably built about 1839 when the new road was laid. At one time
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the John Hodgkins family lived here with their three daughters: Lizzie, who died at 18; Nellie, who married John Benjamin Russell; and a younger sister. Thomas Buffum, son of David, lived here, as did Will Parker, who was farmer for Bridge.
In 1931 Hudson E. Bridge sold the farm to Arthur N. Jennison; 1944 to Ottie B. and Eva Brooks; 1947 to Perley P. and Grace M. Allbee; 1947 to Philip C. and Olive P. Allbee; 1950 to Louise P. Seale of Bellows Falls; 1954 to Paul F. and Dorothy H. Wilson; 1955 to F. Wallace and Frances B. Patch; 1961 to Roy A. and Mary W. Sunter of Plainfield, New Jersey.
252. SAMUEL A. LEWIS, BRIDGE MANSION: Hudson Elliot Bridge of St. Louis, Missouri, built the mansion in 1890, having taken down a barn Holland had built here. The favorite pastime during the summer of 1890 was walking down from the village to watch the construction. In 1957 George Leighton and Dorothy F. Bridge sold the homestead to Samuel A. Lewis, having received it from Helen D. Bridge in 1939.
253. SAMUEL A. LEWIS: In 1946 the Bridges sold 11.7 acres north of the driveway to Samuel A. Lewis who erected the house.
254. DWIGHT H. JENNISON: In 1954 the Bridges sold the former carriage house to Leland F. and Dorothy B. Stanley; 1957 to present owners.
255. GREGORY MACRI JR .: In 1953 the Bridges sold one and two-tenths acres to Charles A. Flint of Bronxville, New York. He built the house, and he and Margaret C. Flint of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sold it in 1955 to the present owners.
256. DEWEY EARL BOYNTON: In 1932 George E. Wheeler bought 8 acres here on the east side of the Keene Road and north of the Hooper cross- road from Willis C. Foster and built the filling station; in 1943 he (then of Fort Lauderdale, Florida) and Nellie E. Wheeler sold it to Avery M. and Grace E. Willson who kept the filling station; 1949 to Lawrence G. Cole, the Willsons having removed to Westmoreland; 1951 Cole, then of Fruit- land, Idaho, to George W. Martin and Emma D. Leon of Marlow; 1953 the piece on which the filling station stood to Dewey Earl and Vernice Mae Boynton.
257. CLARENCE J. JEFFREY JR: In 1956 George W. Martin sold the re- mainder of the 8 acres to Clarence J. Jeffrey Jr. The Willsons probably built this house while they owned the property.
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258. EDWARD C. MASTEN: (Lot #3 in 3rd Range). Lemuel Holmes bought this lot in 1774; 1780 to Samuel Fuller; 1791 to John Bellows and later to Benjamin Bellows; 1801 to Levi Hooper; 1839 to Samuel Grant; 1861 to Gardner Towne. There were no buildings here in 1858, but some were erected before 1877; 1864 to George M. Fay (Martha A.) who removed to Brattleboro; 1866 to Francis W. Perkins of Westminster, removed to Brattleboro; 1879 to Andrew J. Gates; 1908 to Henry Burrows; 1910 to Julia Wallace; 1912 to Harry S. Van Demark of New York City; 1935 his widow, Grace I., to their son Harry T. Van Demark.
The Van Demarks occupied this as a summer home. On March 11, 1918, the place was set afire by a tramp while it was closed for the season. The wind blew a lantern over and the tramp went to the neighbor's for help. The house was destroyed.
Harry T. Van Demark came to Walpole during the depression, first living in a house on Depot Hill. He later started a chicken business here, living then in a house on Dana Hooper's place, since torn down. He built the present house about 1945 and sold it in 1960 to the present owners.
259. BEATRICE GRAVES: In 1781 a road starting at the west side of Went- worth Road passed westward between Lots #4 and #5 in the 3rd Range. It crossed what is now Beatrice Graves' place south of the present house and north of the site of the barn. The original house on the place stood on the south side of this road near the northwest corner of the big barn built by Josiah Graves in 1895, which burned in 1950.
That part of the farm in Lot #5 David1 Hall bought in 1778 from Joseph Barrett (Barrit), carpenter. This was known as Barrett Lot. Prob- ably Barrett or Hall built the first house. Hall lived here until his death about 1806, and his widow Lydia lived here at least as late as 1843. The land next north in Lot #4 Hall bought in 1794 from John Moore, gentle- man.
It appears probable that David2 Hall and his wife Lucinda with their children David3, Prudy, Louisa and Levi lived here with his mother Lydia. Lydia had the house and the land on the southeast side of the old road for her third of the estate, and it appears that the rest of the farm may have been sold to settle the estate, David2 buying at least part of it, eventually most of it.
The year before his father died David3 had married and perhaps gone immediately to Charlestown to live. In 1841 he sold his father's holdings to settle his estate, his grandmother Lydia still retaining her third.
Ezra Hall, another son of David and Lydia, who resided at the Gilson
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place (#267) began in 1843 to buy out the other heirs of Lydia. It appears that she died before 1849. He also bought other parts of the farm and left the property to his son Orin. Orin probably built the main part of the present house; Josiah Graves built the ell. Orin later moved to Northfield, Vt., and willed the property to his adopted son Edwin, who sold it in 1883 to Josiah Graves and others. The place still belongs to Josiah's daughter Beatrice.
260. CECIL MARTIN: Lot #4 in 3rd Range, West End. Sometime between 1774 and 1783, Simeon Smith must have sold the west end of the lot, probably to John Moor, with a jog in the east line to include the Martin place, one and one-quarter acres. Moor sold this little piece with build- ings thereon in 1790 to John Crafts; 1793 for £5 to Recompense Hall, carpenter, who, the same day sold for £40 to Roswell Baldwin, laborer; 1803 to Jason Dudley; 1805 to Samuel Martin "with buildings thereon and shop standing on opposite side of highway." David Hall, who owned the land to the west, came into possession of the property; 1815 to Levi Hall; 1818 to Elisha Hooper; 1819 to Mary Flint, widow, who removed to Palmyra, Maine; 1829 to James Fuller; 1833 to Heman Gates; 1838 to Stephen Foster Jr., of Sullivan; 1839 to Preston Titus; 1882 to Frank Dunshee; 1895 to Maria L. Graves; 1916 to Josiah Graves; 1945 to present owners.
This place was rented to many different families during the years the Graves owned it.
261. SNOW CELLARHOLE: North side of Mill crossroad: This came out of Widow Lydia Hall's right, out of #5 in 3rd Range. Darius Graves owned this property, which was part of the mill property until Lewis Lane sold it in 1840 to Francis L. Snow for $120. Whatever there was for a house was mortgaged to Lane and reverted to him. There are references to the Snow house here as late as 1874, although it does not appear on the 1858 map. It was probably used as a tenant house until it either burned or fell down. Snow was a blacksmith, horsetrader, and sheep farmer who seemed to move about frequently and usually lived on land of others.
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