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316. JOHN KOSON: About 1954 the Kosons built this house in the point
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between the roads. Both the Pearces and Kosons have improved the property.
In 1761 John Graves of Saybrook, Conn., bought from Benjamin Bellows Lots #6 in the 3rd Range and #9 in the 4th Range, extending from the Boggy Meadow tract east to include the land where Stuart Graves now lives. John Graves had at least three grown sons when he came to Walpole,-John Jr., Eliphas, and Eliad. John Sr. settled near where Stuart Graves now lives, John Jr. where Allen Holmes is and Eliad where Thomas Graves is.
317. STUART GRAVES-LOT #9 IN 4TH RANGE: From Deacon John Graves the farm has descended through successive sons as follows: Eliphas, John, George W., John W., Stuart, who has sons to carry on.
318. ROBERT P. DANIELS: In 1950 Stuart Graves sold this lot to Daniels, who built the house. There was a cellarhole, but land records reveal no information. This was not on the early road. In 1781 there was the Graves crossroad and the Kingsbury Road, but the south end passed east of Stuart Graves' house. The County Road was not laid until 1822.
There seem to have been two mill privileges on what is now Stuart Graves' farm: one on Great Brook at the northeast part of the farm, probably never developed; and another on the west side of County Road. Eliphas Graves sold this one in 1811 to John Graves. Joseph, Richard, and Thomas Russell Jr. and Alfred Flint were involved in the ownership of this mill site before 1820; 1820 to Samuel Martin. The mills here took his name. Reference was made to them as Martin's Mills as late as 1836 although they were probably gone before 1834. Faulkner and Colony fore- closed 1838 and sold 1838 to Alfred A. Parmelee; 1855 to Charles H. Parmelee.
319. The mill house was on the Graves crossroad, only a cellarhole now. Parmelee was here 1858. It is now Graves land.
320. THOMAS GRAVES-LOT #8 IN 5TH RANGE: In 1764 Benjamin Bellows sold this lot to Eliad Graves, son of John. He was remembered as a diminutive man, and bent almost double in advanced life. His oldest daughter Roxana married her cousin Isaac Graves. In 1820 Eliad sold this farm to their son Caleb Paschal Graves who was "to support Eliad and his wife Abagail, providing wholesome meats, drinks, apparel, lodg- ing, washing, firewood, physics, etc., physician if needed, horse and carriage, they to have such part of the house as they choose." Eliad died
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in 1828, Abagail 1823, Caleb Paschal 1844, and his wife Rebeckah Wellington 1891, aged 94. In 1878 she made over the farm to her son William C. Graves; 1918 the other heirs to Tom Graves. This place has remained the same 100 acres with no more than minor changes. Even though there have been hard times, it never went out of the family.
ARTHUR H. BUNKER'S SILAS ANGIER FARM: We must bear in mind that the only road here up to 1822 was the crossroad from Watkins Hill to Went- worth Road. On the south side of this road was Joseph Fay's farm, formerly that of Josiah Johnson (here 1776, brother of Isaac Sr.). Next west was a 40 acre strip 140 rods north and south which Benjamin Bellows sold in 1779 to William Joyner (here 1776). This seems to have included the site of the eastern Taggard house, north side of highway. In 1785 Joyner sold "with buildings standing thereon" to David Johnson, his son-in-law.
Next west was a 50 acre strip 140 rods north and south which Thomas Sparhawk (probably had from Benjamin Bellows) sold 1777 to Isaac John- son, who had probably been occupying it for some time. He had been in Walpole at least ten years. He immediately sold to David Johnson "reserving to myself and wife improvements of one half land during natural life." In 1783 David Johnson bought of Roland Hall 151/2 acres, a jog out of his original west line. This made the 102 acre farm. David Johnson lived here, probably in the Joyner house.
In 1793 David Johnson sold the 102 acres to Aaron Allen Sr. and the Johnson family went to Vermont, later to New York State. Aaron's son Levi settled here first, then after his father died in 1804, Levi moved to Aaron's farm, selling this one to his brother Aaron, who had married 1800 Katherine Salter.
In 1805 Aaron bought his father-in-law's farm on Wentworth Road. In 1813 he sold this farm to Silas Angier. He apparently built a new barn soon after buying, for Jeduthan Russell "was killed at the raising of a barn which is now standing (1879) on the place owned by John W. Taggard, by falling from the plate to the ground May 13, 1813." In 1837 Angier sold the farm to David Russell, whose father owned the farm next south; 1870 to John W. Taggard, who had five sons. Mrs. Weymouth remembered watching them come into their pew in church, Mrs. Taggard with a shawl about her shoulders leading the way. Various members of the Taggard family owned the place until they gradually left Walpole, going to California.
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321. In 1902 the Taggards divided the farm. The east part with build- ings went as follows: John H. Jr. 1912 to Eugene Nelson; 1916 to Duane F. Ellis; 1921 to Joseph O'Neil; 1927 to John H. O'Brien; 1928 to Arthur H. Chickering, to Warren Houghton; 1938 estate to Arthur H. Bunker; 1939 to Charles Blackwell; 1945 back to Bunker. John Taggard Jr. built the house here.
322. The west part Edward S. Taggard of Porterville, California, sold in 1910 to Earl H. Burt of Chesterfield; 1912 to Clifford L. Sturtevant; 1914 to Lucy M. Davis (Mrs. Arthur M.); 1939 estate to Charles Black- well; 1945 to Arthur Bunker. John Taggard Sr. lived in the house nearer the corner.
323. ARTHUR H. BUNKER'S RUSSELL FARM: Thomas Russell (Eunice Alex- ander), according to AH, settled first on the Taggard place, but land records do not bear this out. In 1780 he bought 50 acres directly south of the Taggard farm, bordering on the east side of the 4th Range, and in 1805 added 60 more acres of land here. This "was the home of the Rus- sells for three-quarters of a century or more. In connection with his farming interests he used to make flaxen ropes and halters during the winter season". He had ten children.
David seems to have been the business man. From 1813-1870 he owned the Silas Angier place #321, and presumably lived there. In 1847 he sold his father's place to his son John B., who kept it until he sold in 1863 to William B. Mason. Probably David was settling his father's es- tate. The old man was 94 when he died, and possibly his grandson had been on the place with him.
In 1885 Mason sold to Wesley C. Foster; 1903 to Edward S. Taggard, to Wesley C. Foster, to Willis C. Foster, to Nathan G. Simpson of Lyn- donville, Vt .; 1908 to Fred A. Ramsay; 1933 to present owner.
324. ARTHUR H. BUNKER'S WELLINGTON FARM: In 1830 William Welling- ton (aged 29), bought the main part of what became his home farm from the heirs of Dr. Jesseniah Kittredge, to whom his wife Achsah Kid- der was related. The farm extended from the old Turnpike on Watkins Hill south to the woods, and included the Allen Lot next west of the big Whipple lot, part of the Plumley lot (Adams Whipple had bought the wooded east part), and some land that had formerly belonged to Ebenezer Eaton.
To this land William Wellington added other farms and lots: Car- penter Tavern farm 1850; Capt. Robert Fay farm 1843; Joseph Fay farm
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1848; Adams Whipple farm, which he sold 1866 to his son-in-law Hora- tio N. Fletcher; at least part of Widow Martha Whipple's dower, next east of his land on Turnpike, including the point between the roads, which he bought in 1850 from Marvin Bigelow and Luke N. Houghton.
In 1874 he sold his holdings to his sons Scott and Lucius Wellington. The laying of the new County Road here in 1822 opened up this land. The house which stood on the north side of the County Road burned Sept. 5, 1923, and the Lucius Wellingtons went to live in the parsonage. Arthur H. Bunker now owns the main farm, having bought 1937 from Albert M. Wellington, son of Lucius, and other land from Harry J. Jennison 1937.
325. AUNT RURIE CELLARHOLE: Just within the edge of the woods on the southeast side of the lower end of the old Wellington mowing land is a cellarhole-a lovely sight the first time we came upon it, with white birches and wood lilies so thick we thought at first they were the hemero- callis which so often mark an old home site.
This is supposed to have been Aunt Rurie's, but no one seems to know who she was. Perhaps she was a Wellington,-William Wellington bought this land in 1843 from Alonzo Hubbard. There was no home- stead here according to the 1858 map, so it must have disappeared before that date. A study of the Wellington family names does not show any who might be called Rurie.
Josiah Bellows sold this 711/2 acre tract in 1790 to Ebenezer Eaton; 1806 estate to John Emerson of Westminster, Vt .; 1811 to Josiah Flint; 1818 to Joseph Fay, who deeded the same day to his son Robert (Anna Cummings of Marlboro). From 1812-18 Josiah Flint owned the Ebenezer Stowell farm, and probably lived there, so it does not seem likely he would have had a house here. However, in 1817 a county road was laid across here to the Rapids at the Edward Watkins farm. The road fol- lowed the Rapids easterly, then went down past William Priest's farm to the Westmoreland line. The part from the County Road to the Rapids was in later years used as a winter road by Edward Watkins.
It is possible that Robert and Anna Fay built here after the new road was laid. Robert died July 22, 1826 (31) without issue. In 1834 Widow Anna Fay had a farm, probably this one. In 1843 Alonzo Hubbard and wife Anna sold the place to William Wellington, so it would appear that the widow Anna Fay married Alonzo Hubbard. There was also Clark W. Hubbard to whom they sold the place briefly in 1840.
In the division of the William Wellington farm between Scott and Lu-
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cius, this part came to Scott in 1910. About 1925, it was sold by Clifford Wilbur) to Galen Tiffany, the present owner.
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326. GALEN TIFFANY-EDWARD WATKINS CELLARHOLE: In 1782 Jonathan Cochran, then of Londonderry, N. H., bought from James Paul the 50 acres next to the Westmoreland line. In 1791 he bought 6 acres next north, still on the south side of the Rapids, from Nathan Bundy, Jr. In 1796 he bought 11 acres on the north side of the road, also from Bundy who was then of Northumberland, N. H. At that time Cochran had a barn on the south side of the road, and probably a house, although the Watkins house was on the north side of the road. There seems to be no record of how Paul and Bundy came by their land or whether they ever lived on it. Of course, Paul had the place next east, so he may never have lived here, but Cochran owned the south 50 acres nine years before he owned the section where the buildings probably were,-where we know there were buildings later. Perhaps Nathan Bundy Jr. had lived over here before he went north, then later came back to his father's farm on Watkins Hill. In 1797 Cochran sold to Jehoida Moore. Moore had sold his holdings on Derry Hill the year he bought this place; 1802 to Amos Cross from Londonderry, N. H .; 1807 to Danforth Clark; 1833 to Mason Fay (Jane Cochran). They removed to Hanover, selling the farm in 1871 to Gilbert T. Stevens who lived on the Flint farm; 1877 to Ed- ward Watkins. George B. Tiffany bought 1900; 1942 to his son Galen. There were still buildings in 1900.
327. GALEN TIFFANY-ALFRED WATKINS CELLARHOLE: In 1786 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold to James Paul 100 acres along the Westmoreland line next west of what Josiah Bellows later sold to Stephen Prentice. Paul apparently lost the property to Eliphalet Fox in 1789, who sold 1807 to Jesseniah Kittredge, but Paul seems to have continued to live here; 1831 Kittredge heirs to Abiah Kidder Jr. whose grandmother was Abi- gail Kittredge, sister of Dr. Jesseniah. Kidder, who settled in Walpole, and subsequently went to Belmont, Mass., is said to have been the third minister who preached in the Hollow. In 1834 his father (Abiah) was living on this place. From 1843 to 1848, he lived on the Holland Mason place.
In 1839 Abiah Jr. owned 128 acres, so he must have had another place somewhere. In 1842 he sold to David Esty (Mary); George Esty sold 1851 to Alfred Watkins.
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His son Edward first lived on the next farm to the west; after his first wife died, he came to live with his parents. After Edward died, the place was sold in 1911 to Harry Jennison. The Jennisons traded the farm for a creamery in Keene and went there. Joseph W. Neaves of Keene, who had bought the place, sold 1915 to Mary L. Pregent; 1924 to Ezra A. Brown. The Brown estate sold 1926 to George Tiffany; 1942 to his son Galen.
Albert Wellington took the house down, intending to use it to build where his house had burned.
328. GALEN TIFFANY-JOANNA BELLOWS CELLARHOLE: Between the Silas Williams place and the Westmoreland line, and west of the Ball farm, there was a 413/4 acre piece which Josiah Bellows sold in 1795 to Stephen Prentice, husbandman, for £40. He erected buildings on the southeast side of the road, near the curve, and probably lived here. In 1797 Stephen Prentice Jr. had a shop on Main Street, chair-making and painting. Prentice lived here for some years apparently, selling in 1822 to Levi Fay; after two months to Joseph Mason Jr .; 1830 to John Mason Adams (Ruth); February 1857 John Mason Adams went to his father's place, the Whipple farm, apparently with the thought of taking it over, but he died the following fall.
In 1857 John Mason Adams sold to Asa Gilbert; 1857 to Joanna Bel- lows, who is not mentioned in the Bellows Gen. Her son William F. Bellows, who married Sarah J. H. in 1861, was for some reason Asa Gil- bert's ward in 1858. He may have been a minor, and between 1858 and 1861 may have come of age and married. He and his wife lived on the place until they sold 1864 to Robert C. Fay; 1865 to Luther Burt; 1870 Henry Burt to Alfred Watkins, who owned the place next west and who seems to have added this property to it. There is no indication that the buildings were not still here and no record of what became of them.
329. WILLIAM PATNODE-SILAS WILLIAMS CELLARHOLE: This was the place next west of the old Gilbert (Ball) farm, a 50 acre piece south of the Whipple farm. It included the rather pleasant house site in the dip on the south side of the road, and a cellarhole on the other side of the road, beyond the turn. In 1790 Joseph Mason owned here; 1796 Joseph Munn of Rutland, Vt., innkeeper, sold to William Watkins; 1815 to Silas Williams (Christie) of Westmoreland. He probably stayed here the rest of his life to about 1860. In 1861 Jason Williams of Keene and Eliza- beth Williams at home here sold to James Comstock of Westmoreland.
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There was an orchard near the house and 20,000 oak shooks piled in the orchard and in the pasture in 1861. James Comstock apparently sold the part south of the road to his son Charles and the rest of the farm from then on went with the Whipple farm, which James had bought.
Beatrice A. and Arthur Jennison sold 1943 to Arthur Chickering Jr .; 1956 to William Patnode.
We found no record of the intervening time; no explanation of the other cellarhole. Could this possibly have belonged to Peter Casper in 1806? He lived somewhere in this section then, later was toll gatherer at the Village Bridge.
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330. HOWARD PETRIE: In 1773 Benjamin Bellows sold for £100 to his step-son Jonathan Jennison two tracts of land: 53 acres of what is now the home farm of Albert Fletcher and 100 acres of what is now the home of Howard Petrie on the Watkins Hill Road. In 1785 Jennison sold the first place to Jonas Hosmer and moved to the second place. "He lived there until he died 1835, when it was occupied by his son Thomas, then by Thomas' son John, and lastly by John Jr. Jonathan was the progenitor of all persons by the name of Jennison remaining in town .. . " in 1879. In 1876 the estate to Charles A. Watkins; 1916 to Emma M. O'Brien; 1930 to Nial Bemis. A barn burned Aug. 25, 1931, caused by lightning; 1938 to Howard S. Jeck; 1950 to George and Helen Chickering Audet; 1952 to Leslie S. and Iola Hubbard; 1954 to Algion and Mary Houghton; 1957 to Howard and Alice W. Petrie. The Petries have a gift shop "Autumn Hill" in the barn.
The Jennisons did not have the upstairs finished off, but the boys slept up there. Charlie Watkins changed the house considerably and recent owners have changed it more.
331. EVELYN STEVENS: In 1773 there is a record of the transfer from Benjamin Bellows to Nathan Bundy, husbandman, for £10, of 100 acres lying northeasterly of the Keene road and at the southwest corner of the Atkinson tract on Derry Hill. This lot was shown on the Bellows & Atkinson map.
From a record of indenture made February 18, 1811, it appears that the elder Nathan had died and the son Nathan was living in Lunenburg, Vt. Saviah (or was it Zerviah or Sophia), widow of Nathan Sr., agreed to let the farm to Nathan, he "to pay $25 worth of good wood cut and split fit for the fire to be delivered at said Saviah's now dwelling house
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each and every year during said term, and to make the fires for said Saviah if she wishes. Also deliver to said Saviah $12 worth of good mer- chantable grain each year; $12 worth of good meat each year, $8 worth of good cyder and apples each year; to keep one cow yearly for the use of Saviah, to be well kept and $6 worth of good wool and fleace yearly, and $7 in money yearly. Also Nathan covenants to use premises in careful husbandlike manner. Also provide house room for Saviah during term, being part of kitchen and one whole room in house, and pay taxes on farm." The "term" was "for natural life of me Saviah Bundy."
In 1840 Nathan sold to his son George Bundy (Jane Moor). In 1857 George sold to Rufus Leonard; 1902 Sarah E. Leonard to Willie G. Leonard; 1916 to Emma M. O'Brien of Boston; 1932 to Neil C. and Evelyn N. Stevens of Long Island, New York. This is one farm that seems to have remained intact through years except for the northwest corner which Nathan Bundy sold to Jesseniah Kittredge.
332. LEONARD CELLARHOLE: This farm extends to the east so that the southeast corner is east of the road to Derry Hill from the old Christian Meeting House, the northeast corner on the west side of the road. In this lot on the west side of the highway, up on the bank, is the cellarhole of the house where Mrs. Leonard lived in 1858, the year after Rufus had bought the property. It was probably not built before this highway was laid in 1828, and was gone before Tom Graves can remember.
333. O'BRIEN: Lt. Aaron Allen from Mansfield, Conn., and his wife Sarah were early settlers in town. In 1768 he bought from Benjamin Bellows for £30 a 50 acre lot, 50 x 160 rods, on the west side of the old county road, next north of the crossroad. To his original 50 acres he added more land so that he owned a good part of Watkins Hill as well as tracts on Derry Hill. This lot was shown on the Bellows & Atkinson Map. Allen held many important offices in the town's early settlement, and was chosen to represent the town in the Provincial Assembly at Exeter 1788-9.
His oldest son, Levi, succeeded his father here in 1804, and built the house now on the farm. "He became greatly interested in the ministrations of Elder Rollins, and was actively instrumental in building up the Christian church and society in the Hol- low. A little incident occurred at the time Elder Rollins commenced his labors in town. Mr. Allen was greatly interested in his preaching, and applied to Mr. Dickinson to allow Mr. Rollins to occupy his pulpit one Sunday, that the people of his congregation might hear him speak. Mr. Dickinson very blandly replied, 'I should be most happy to accede to your wishes, Mr. Allen, but I can't have my pulpit defiled by such a man as Elder Rollins.' This remark had a tendency to further the building up of Mr. Rol- lins' society :- it was just the food for opposition to feed upon, and the best use was
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made of it. Mr. Allen was a very honorable, high-minded citizen, and very popular with his townsmen, who kept him in office year after year for a long period. He also settled a large majority of the estates of deceased persons. He neglected his farm to do business for others, and his charges were so moderate, fearing unpopularity, that he pecuniarily ran behindhand." He sold in 1825 to Dr. George Sparhawk and with his family went west.
In 1850 Dr. Sparhawk sold to Oliver Hazzard Perry Watkins, son of Charles, who had the old Kittredge place; 1897 heirs to George O. Tag- gard; 1910 to Alfred Clarke, who tore down the ell of the house and built new; 1915 to J. Sumner Draper; 1915 to Frank E. Morse; 1915 to George H. Collyer; 1915 to Emma M. O'Brien of Newton, Mass.
334. CAPT. JOSEPH FAY CELLARHOLE: This place was on the south side of the crossroad about midway between the County Road and Watkins Hill. Joseph and Lucy Fay came from Mystic, Conn., to Walpole in 1774, and first settled on the Kingsbury Road; later moved to Watkins Hill at the northeast end of the crossroad.
In 1777 Joseph Fay bought the Josiah Johnson lot on the south side of the Taggard crossroad, mostly wooded now; but there is still one open area just inside the western boundary line, near the road.
Josiah Johnson joined the church in 1767 and probably lived here. In 1777 he was still living here when Benjamin Bellows apparently took it away from him and sold to Aaron Allen who promptly sold it to Joseph Fay. It is not certain whether Fay lived here or over on the north side of Watkins Hill Road. He went off to the war and died of wounds, leaving Lucy with four children: Joseph Jr. 14, Holland 8, Levi, Reuben 1. In 1790 Lucy sold the farm to Joseph Jr., who remained on it, adding considerably to his acreage. Probably he also had a mill on the brook, above the falls which were named for him. Holland went to Fay Hill, north part of the Atkinson tract, now Webb. Levi bought a farm on Derry Hill northeast of School #5, remained there through life. Reuben went to Windham, Vt.
Joseph Jr. and his wife Sarah Graves had 11 children, most of whom left Walpole. (See AH 248-9.) In 1848 the Fay heirs sold to William Wellington, who already owned property in the neighborhood.
In 1793 Lucy Fay bought the south corner by the crossroad on Watkins Hill. She still owned the land on the north side of the Keene Road except for a piece down toward the Hollow which she had sold to Daniel Whipple 1787; 1799 she sold both sides of the road to Nathan Bundy Jr. By a road record of 1793 she had a barn here, probably on the north side of the road. Thomas Jennison had a barn here on the south side
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of the road 1809. Aldrich says Joseph and Lucy settled here on the north side of road, and that Joseph Jr. settled on the crossroad. However, he admits that he had been able to find out very little about the family. 335. FLOYD JENNISON: In 1776 Benjamin Bellows sold to Lemuel Sargent 51 acres where Floyd Jennison lives now, and where Isaac John- son, Jr. lived then. In 1777 Sargent sold the same to Ebenezer Eaton, yeoman, of Concord, New Hampshire, who also bought more land to the south. Following are the provisions of Ebenezer's will 1805: Widow Comfort 19 acres and part of dwelling and barn; Eliphalet $1 (oldest son, settled at Maple Grove Road on his step-mother's place); Elizabeth Garnsey (or Guernsey), daughter, $80; Josiah $1; Abigail $150; Calvin, other property and executor; Susannah Heaton $100.
In 1809 estate of Calvin Eaton (Comfort must have died) was sold to Jonathan Emerson; remained in the Emerson family through Jonathan, John, George who stayed on the farm with his mother; 1918 heirs sold to Clarence E. Jennison. In 1919 Clarence bought, on the north side of the road, land which had belonged to Joseph Fay. In 1946 Mrs. Clarence Jennison, her husband having died, sold to son Floyd Jennison.
336. WILLIAM KOPACZ: In 1938 Clarence Jennison sold a house lot here to his son-in-law Jesse D. Pickering (Marjorie Jennison). The house was formerly the schoolhouse in the Hollow; 1956 to William Kopacz.
337. JOHN JOHNSON: In 1933 Clarence E. Jennison sold to his son-in-law John Johnson (Marion Jennison).
338. FLOYD JENNISON: In 1943 Clarence E. Jennison sold to Edward Pickering, his son-in-law, who sold back to Floyd Jennison a few years later.
KING LOT. Next west of Clarence Jennison's was the Obadiah King lot. This lot extended from the Taggard crossroad corner on Watkins Hill to include the north part of the field farthest west, south of the brook, in the Wellington farm. Obadiah King was here 1776. Benjamin Bellows sold 1776 to Aaron Allen. In 1793 Widow Lucy Fay bought the three acres in the north corner; sold 1799 to Nathan Bundy, Jr. No buildings.
CHRISTIAN HOLLOW. This was the meeting point of the roads from Wal- pole, Keene, the East Westmoreland Railroad Depot, and Derry Hill. Here there was a school and the Christian Church in which the social life of the community centered. Next east of the church was William Robin-
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