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The north tier of lots came to be known as Fay Hill for Deacon Hol- land Fay who lived there for so many years. He was preceded in owner- ship there by Ingalls and Bundy. There were formerly three farms there, now all in the Webb farm.
The north corner of the tract on the March Hill Road was bought by the Morrisons and is still farmed.
In the western part of the tract the early settlers were Capt. John Emery in Lot #13 and Levi Fay in #20.
Previous to the settling of Derry Hill there was a sawmill in March Hollow, just west of the west line of the Atkinson Tract. (Josiah Hubbard and Asahel Bundy built, John Bellows sold 1779 to Phineas Hutchins.)
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Jonathan Royce owned about 1793. The road to it may have turned out of the 1781 road in Gerald Hill's pasture and followed up the brook to March Hollow.
By 1793 a road had been opened from the mill up over the hill by Capt. Emery's farm, Dickeys' and Barnetts' to the Surry line. There is no record of this road, but other road descriptions refer to it as early as 1793.
Also in 1793 a road was opened from the mill to the Asahel Bundy hill farm (now Von Lackum), then on to Fay Hill and the Alstead line.
The same year a road was also opened from the mill to Jonathan Royce's on Maple Grove Road (Malcolm Williams).
The first road up to Derry Hill from the south was from the Keene Road in District #5 along the west line of the Atkinson Tract, then east to Levi Fay's farm, Lot #20, 1791.
In August 1793 a road was opened from the Widow Fay's on the Keene Road (Floyd Jennison) across Nathan Bundy's land and Dr. Kittredge's to the west line of William Ramsay's (owned by Aaron Allen). There are foundations of old buildings here. From here one branch followed the lot line north, then northwest, to meet the 1791 road at Fay's. The main road continued northeast past the old Harry Jennison place on the left, then the Gassett place on the right, to the east line of #17. It continued north, more or less along the lot line, until it came into the Emery Road on Emery's west line. (We haven't found this road.) At the lot corners (15, 16, 17, 18), another branch continued northeast to Thomas Moore's house (toward Dickeys') in northwest corner #10. This last road seems to have been surveyed and extended into the Emery Road August 1795.
Of all the roads which lead to Derry Hill, only the one laid north from Christian Hollow in 1828 is now passable. In the words of John Prentiss "This whole region in- cluding the Cochran farm is now a wilderness. Not a house remains, yet on my first appraisal in 1883 there were a goodly number of horses, cattle and sheep.
"I have good reason to remember this. Herbert Watkins started on the trip with a horse and sleigh. The snow was so deep we left the team at Ed Smith's and walked. At the Cochran place, finding no one at home, we went into the stable and as I walked behind a pair of Oxen, one of them kicked, hitting me on the shin bone. Why it didn't break I don't know, but I will never forget the agony of getting back to the team at Smith's."
370. LOT #1: On October 26, 1791, Zebulon Streeter, a shoemaker and Universalist lay preacher of Surry, bought this lot from Daniel Hum- phreys for £72, supposed to be 100 acres (later found to be 893/4 acres); Heywood described it as "a middling good lot." It lies on a north slope
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next to the Surry line and has reverted to forest except for a field or two which have not been farmed for many years. There is a cellarhole east of the road, driveway on the south side of the house leading to sheds and/or barns. (All gone.) A second house was supposed to have been built near the first one sometime before 1850. On the 1858 map the house is shown, but it had apparently been removed before 1877. Ac- cording to History of Surry, George Rand bought the old house about 1869 and rebuilt in Surry. Across the road are the leavings from a portable sawmill.
Nov. 25, 1791, Streeter sold to Henry Scoval (Scovill) of Surry. In 1795 Scovill also bought from Josiah Bellows 115 acres next south of Lot #1 (all wooded now), and in 1796 he bought 37 acres in the south part of Lot #8.
Henry Scovill, farmer and shoemaker, came from Connecticut to Surry as early as 1784. In 1812 he sold one-half interest in the buildings and the land on the west side of the road to his son Frederick, and in 1826 the rest of the land. Frederick served from Walpole in the War of 1812, a private in Col. Josiah Bellows' Company for 60 days in 1814. He was a "good citizen, content to reap the rewards of honest labor." He removed to Surry in 1867.
In 1840 Frederick Scovill sold to David J. Goodridge of Royalston, Mass., but took back in 1847. In 1867 Frederick sold the farm to Lorenzo D. Pressey; 1894 to Addison Miller; 1894 to Harry J. Jennison; 1916 to Wilcox & Wilber; 1948 to Joseph R. and Ida M. Kelley; 1950 to George E. Putnam of Walpole.
371. LOT #2: October 29, 1793, George King Sparhawk for £90 sold Lot #2 to Daniel Marsh of Londonderry. Heywood called it "middling good."
Judging by what remains, it was a prosperous farm. The land sloped away south of the buildings, but to the north and west there were ample fields. The house was large and long with narrow end to the road. Mid- way is the foundation of the big old chimney. Blue garden grapes still ramble wildly over the old foundations. Large barns stood north of the house.
The heirs of Farnham Marsh sold 1887 to John Selkirk; 1896 to Olive S. Hatch; 1899 to John Selkirk (land and buildings); 1900 to Edward S. Taggard; 1902 to John H. Taggard. (Later transfers not found.)
372. LOT #3: October 27, 1790, Daniel Humphreys of Portsmouth, guardian of George K. Sparhawk, for £100 sold to John Barnett, late of
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HASTINGS HOUSE about 1900 (#113)
(Watkins)
HOLLAND HOUSE about 1910 (#63)
BRIDGE MANSION about 1915 (#252)
(Watkins)
ROENTSCH HOUSE about 1915 (#283)
(Watkins)
BATES COTTAGE about 1950 (#97)
MITCHELL HOUSE before 1895 (#165)
PATCH HOUSE about 1940 (#528)
BABBITT HOUSE about 1955 (#313)
(Harris)
WATKINS HOUSE about 1890 (#389)
HOUGHTON HOUSE in 1896 (#310) Abby Houghton, Jennie Selkirk Houghton
HOLLAND-HUBBARD HOUSE before 1900 (#38)
THE ELMWOOD about 1900 (#71)
THE COUNTRY CLUB ON KEENE ROAD (1914-26) (#215) Formerly Homestead Golf Club House on Amory Land (1899-1914)
6TH TEE ON LINKS OF HOMESTEAD GOLF CLUB before 1914
VIEW OF NORTH WALPOLE between 1882 and 1912
(B. F. Lib.)
RUSSELL HALL AFTER THE FIRE Jan. 29, 1949 (#N117)
(B. F. Times)
MOUNTAIN HOUSE, FORMERLY DREW TAVERN, IN DREWSVILLE before 1907 (#628)
MOUNTAIN HOUSE IN DREWSVILLE AFTER FIRE in 1907 (#628)
THE MANSION IN DREWSVILLE about 1900 (#640)
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PRENTISS' STORE IN DREWSVILLE about 1955 (#615)
DREWSVILLE SCHOOLCHILDREN about 1910
8007 % SHOE STORE
DISTRICT SCHOOL NUMBER ONE until 1854
JONAS TUFTS HOUSE about 1910 (#1)
(#58)
NUMBER SIX SCHOOL
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CHILDREN AT NUMBER ELEVEN SCHOOL about 1900
NUMBER FOUR SCHOOL
CHILDREN AT NUMBER NINE SCHOOL about 1894
WALPOLE HIGH SCHOOL in 1955 (#21)
(Harris)
HoopER School WALpole, N.H.
HOOPER SCHOOL ON PROSPECT HILL in 1955
(Harris)
Londonderry. Heywood called it "middling good." Barnett's buildings were at the east end of the road along the top of Derry Hill at the point where it curves to the south. Just around the curve east of the road is a small cellarhole where Barnett probably built his first house. According to a highway survey that was where he was living in 1802. Probably when he became more prosperous, or when his family increased, he built larger buildings on the north side of the road, just before the turn. There was apparently a large house with cellar under the west end, the well at the east end, now filled with stones; barn to the west.
February 25, 1822, as Barnett was driving a team pulling a sled-load of wood, he stumbled and fell under the sled. One runner passed over his neck and killed him. Apparently his son Robert carried on the farm until his death in 1861, having bought out Eliza, Fanny, Sophronia, John, and Mary Jane. His widow, Harriet Gilmore Barnett, sold 1861 to William T. Ramsay; 1907 estate to Fred A. Ramsay; 1951 gift to his son Charles F. and Jane T. Ramsay; 1957 to Thomas F. Johnson.
373. LOT #4: October 7, 1790, Daniel Humphreys for £125 sold to John Ingalls (Hannah) Lot #4, lying on the next hill north of Lot #3. Hey- wood called it "good land." Aldrich does not mention Ingalls, although there are references to him in the town records. His house stood north of the road near the Surry line.
John Ingalls Jr. (Clarissa) inherited from his father; 1835 to Holland Fay; 1837 to Oliver S. Fay (Deborah S.); 1853 to George W. Wilson from Boston; 1894 to Mary K. Wier; 1897 estate to Edwin J. Stevens; 1956 to Charles R. Webb (Ethel W.), who own the rest of Fay Hill.
Wilson's barn burned April 1877. House still stands, weatherbeaten and deserted. Walter Stevens was the last to reside here.
374. LOT #5: October 7, 1790, Daniel Humphreys sold for £150 to Elias Bundy. Heywood called it "middling good." In 1792-3 Bundy sold to John Carlisle; 1793 to Holland Fay, who may have been the first to reside here, added to the farm extensively. He was deacon of the old church for many years and was familiarly known as Deacon Fay.
Holland Fay had four sons. Calvin, the oldest, removed to Prattstown, New York; Luther, who had various divisions of the farm with his father, probably erected the buildings next west of the family home- stead. He committed suicide in 1830, so his father had to start all over again in dividing his property. The youngest son Oliver S. had the old Ingalls farm next on the east. The third son, Holland Dana, carried on
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the home farm, followed by his son Josiah B., who resided here with his mother until they and the other heirs sold in 1875 to James Selkirk; 1920 to Alvi T. Baldwin; 1928 to R. N. Johnson; 1956 to Charles Webb.
Luther's set of buildings Holland Fay sold 1840 to John Barnett, his brother-in-law. The buildings may have been there as late as 1892.
375. LOT #6: October 7, 1790, Daniel Humphreys for £100 deeded Lot #6 to George Barnett, Londonderry, brother of John. The land lay for the most part north of the road along the height of land. In 1799, Bar- nett and Matthew Dickey swapped some land. Barnett acquired 24 acres south of the road, and sold to Dickey 21 acres from the west side of his lot. Heywood called it "middling good."
None of the Barnett children stayed on the farm. In 1824 estate sold to Jesseniah Kittredge; 1830 to Matthew Dickey; 1835 to Clement S. Dickey (Betsey P.); 1862 to Isaiah Pratt (Vilinda); 1867 to Isaac P. Pratt; 1912 to William H. Fletcher; 1935 other heirs to Albert Fletcher.
On the north side of the road there is a large cellarhole full of lovely large white birches. There were probably sheds to the east, then large barns.
The house and barns were completely destroyed by fire Nov. 25, 1906, one of few remaining houses on Derry Hill.
School house for District #7 was in this lot, north side of road, west of the Pratt house.
376. LOT #7: February 15, 1796, George King Sparhawk sold the south 30 acres to John and Nathaniel Cross for £30. The north part seems to have gone to Matthew Dickey in 1798 and to have been absorbed into the places to the north. Cross sold to Daniel and John Marsh, the latter living east of the road north of the Cochran place; 1801 to John Adams of Franklin, Mass. What ever buildings there may have been disap- peared long ago. The land was absorbed into other homesteads.
LOT #8: The Crosses had bought this lot also in 1794. This lot too has been absorbed into other properties. According to our map, which is based on surveys, the Cochran buildings were in the northwest corner of the lot, where they seem to belong, but the deeds favor their location in the northeast corner of Lot #9.
377. LOT #9: May 9, 1790, Daniel Humphrey, guardian of George King Sparhawk, sold Lot #9 for £95 to George Cochran of Londonderry. Hey- wood rated it as "middling good land." This family is said to have
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brought the old Irish white potatoes with them and continued to plant them for many years.
The buildings nestled in a sharp bend in the road. The farm is still in the family, belonging to the children (Picard) of a daughter of Samuel Cochran.
According to the History of Surry (257-8), "a tornado hit this farm Sunday afternoon, August 4, 1822. Two barns were demolished, the house damaged, and 20 acres of woodland ruined. The fields are now growing up and the buildings in a state of collapse."
378. LOT #10: July 15, 1789, Daniel Humphreys sold to Thomas Moore for £110 Lot #10, "middling good lot," Heywood estimated. Moore also bought the east half of #15 which joined his land on the west. The build- ings stood southeast of the road about a half mile down the hill to the west of the Dickey place, only cellarhole and foundations now. The four- corners at the top of the hill between Dickey's and Moore's was known as Moore's Corner. Thomas Moore was an industrious man and spent the rest of his life on this farm, followed by his son John, unmarried.
In 1848 his estate to Stephen Fay; 1849 to Clement S. Dickey. The land is now neglected but not as grown up as some. The barn was still here as late as 1920.
379. LOT #11: December 9, 1793, Matthew Dickey bought from George King Sparhawk for £95 Lot #11. In 1798 he bought #7, and later ex- changed some land with his neighbors, Barnett on the east and Emery on the west. Heywood rated this "middling land," but it is the only land on this hill still under cultivation and yielding good crops.
Lewis Dickey remained on the farm, unmarried, left it to brother Clement; Clement left to his son Albert. It now belongs to Albert's step- grandson, Albert W. Kingsbury (Martha F.).
There was a large white house with capacious barns some distance north of the highway, commanding a wide view across the valley to the northwest and to the distant hills and Mt. Ascutney. Many had taken refuge here when overtaken by showers, and many have spread here their picnics. The buildings burned October 1883.
380. DUNSMOOR (DINSMORE) CELLARHOLE IN LOT #11: In 1799 for $133.67 Matthew Dickey sold to John Emery, gentleman, 211/2 acres, the west side of Lot #11. The road through this piece was laid out 1822, Sampson Drury owning this land at that time. There is no note of a homestead on this road until Newell, on his 1900 map, noted S. Dinsmore on the
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west side of the road. It is said to have been a long, low red house (or unpainted).
John Prentiss wrote "Starting on the Derry Hill Road, the first house was that of Stansbury Dinsmore. He raised a large family which he supported by working out for farmers by the day. He had a nice lot of grape vines and fruit trees on his small place. He had an alert mind though a little eccentric. He worked for William Ramsay frequently, and Fred tells of the time Stansbury had the 'black measles'. As he started to get better, the doctor told him a little gin would do him no harm. His uncle staying with him was going to the village and allowed he would get it for him and asked him how much to get. Stansbury considered and replied, 'I'd think a gallon would be little enough.'"
This place was in the west part of Lot #11 which Dickey sold to John Emery. Alonzo Jennings acquired it when he bought the Emery farm (see Lot #14). In 1857 Jennings sold to James T. Holmes a 41/2 acre plot here west of the road for $100. After various exchanges Stansbury Dinsmore had 6 acres here; 1906 widow Abby to son Willis H .; 1907 to Fred A. Lebourveau; 1908 to Chauncey E. Knowlton (resided here); 1920 to Frank M. Wilder of Somerville, Mass., land and buildings; 1923 to Grace L. Fisher; 1924 to Herbert H. Moore of Narberth, Pa .; 1926 to Martha A. L. Allbee; 1931 to Albert C. Morrow, land and buildings. He was the last to live here.
381. LOT #12: July 16, 1789, Daniel Humphreys sold for £150 to Isaac Bundy Lot #12 on Fay Hill, "a middling good lot." Bundy may have improved, sold all but north 15 acres 1795 to Jonathan Grout of Peter- sham, Mass .; 1796 to Benjamin Bellows 2nd and Mary Bellows; 1798 to Sherburne Hale the south 71 acres; 1802 to Allen Watkins (Patty); 1805 to Thomas C. Drew; 1813 to Samson Drury; 1814 to Stephen Johnson; 1815 to John Thurston Jr., Fitchburg, Mass. (wife Roxey); 1824 to John Marshall; 1839 to John Barnett; 1840 to John Marshall (Hannah); 1857 to John W. Marshall; 1882 to Oliver Martin; 1882 to Harrison G. Barnes; 1907 other heirs to Charles H. Barnes; 1916 to Marie Justine Fleitman of Darien, Conn .; 1921 to A. T. Baldwin, New York City, and it became a part of what is now the Webb farm.
John Marshall's house was on the north side of the Fay Hill Road near the east line of the lot, probably gone before 1892, not even a cellarhole now. John Marshall had previously lived down near Kathan place on Rt. 12; his son John W. in 1882 went down to Rt. 12, #265.
382. LOT #13: Nov. 20, 1790, Daniel Humphreys sold Lot #13 to Asahel Bundy for £150, "middling good land"; his son Joseph was occupying
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1814 when Asahel sold to Abel Downe; 1817 to Eli Hosmer, 2nd; 1823 to Edmund Marsh; 1871 to Esdras Smith; his children had after him; 1919 to Eva M. Royce; 1927 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1938 to Dr. Wm. H. Von Lackum (Lena).
South of the March Hill Road Henry Hildreth owns small piece of land where he lives. This is part of Bundy farm.
The buildings stood on the hill, the house still on the north side of the old March Hill Road, the barn, now gone, on the south. This was referred to as Asahel Bundy's Hill Farm.
383. LAWRENCE FRENCH-SOUTH PART OF LOT #13: This place is north of road to Derry Hill, laid 1822, no house here before 1900. The cellarhole of the first house was farther up the hill than location of the present house. Frank Palmer, son-in-law of Stansbury Dinsmore, built the first house which burned.
384. LOT #14: July 16, 1789, Daniel Humphreys sold Lot #14 to Elias Bundy for £25. On Oct. 7, 1790, Elias sold for £150 to Capt. John Emery "late of Londonderry, now of Walpole". According to the History of Surry Elias Bundy removed to that town. Heywood rated this lot "middling good."
Nov. 6, 1806, Emery sold his home farm of 140 acres to Samson Drury who also owned at that time the farm on which Malcolm Williams (1962) now lives. Probably he lived at one place and his father, Manoah (Martha), the other. In 1822 Drury mortgaged both places to Dr. Spar- hawk. In 1829 Anan Evans became the owner of the farm, selling in 1830 to Sterry Clark, trader, of Providence, R. I .; 1841 to Reuben Parsons of New York City; 1854 to Frederick Watkins (Sarah Ann); 1854 to Alonzo Jennings; 1886 to J. Stratton Walker of Langdon.
It appears from various bits of information that Anan Evans may have lived elsewhere since this is referred to as his hill farm. There is no evidence that Clark resided in Walpole; Evans probably worked the farm.
The house, about 25' x 25', stood north of the road in a curve at the height of land, the well north of the house. The house was here 1800, the barn still here 1840 since Evans had hay stored in it.
LOT #15: April 4, 1801, William King Atkinson of Dover sold the west 50 acres of Lot #15 to George Sparhawk and on June 8, 1801, the east half of the lot to Thomas Moore. This was rated as "middling land", but we have no record that anyone ever settled on the lot.
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385. LOT #16: In 1789 Daniel Humphreys gave Abigail, widow of John Sparhawk, £11 for this lot, and eight days later sold it for £70 to Robert Gilchrist and Winslow Warren of Walpole; 1790 they sold to Aaron Allen; 1794 to Peter Moore for £180. Peter Moore is mentioned in road records in this area and may have built a dwelling, but he didn't stay in Walpole very long. In 1797 Jehoida Moore sold the north part of the lot to Nathaniel Baker (see 344), having previously sold the south 50 acres to Edward Watkins.
Heywood considered this "good land," but it is all forest now.
In 1836 Wm. Arnold sold to Simeon Ballou; and if there was not already a house here, he must have built one. In 1841 Ballou sold to Samuel W. Griffin; 1857 to Jonas Gassett; 1857-59 Recompense Hall owned the place, then Gassett again; 1868 Lewis Dickey; 1868 Lucy Leonard. Wallace Leonard sold this in 1955 along with other tracts to Charles L. Austin.
The house stood on the south side of the road. There is now a beautiful spreading spruce growing out of the cellarhole. Probably no one has lived here since 1868.
LOT #17: Oct. 18, 1791, the Atkinson heirs sold to Aaron Allen. In 1797 a deed referred to it as "Aaron Allen's lot on which William Ramsay now lives." Road surveys refer to it as William Ramsay's land, but there is no record that he ever owned it. Heywood rated it "middling good land."
Allen sold to Thomas Moore; 1803 to Ephraim Drury who lived here; 1810 to Samson Drury and Ephraim Sherman Jr .; 1812 to John Ramsay and Eli Russell, the former taking the west half, the latter the east half.
386. HENRY JENNISON CELLARHOLE: In 1812 Eli Russell sold the east half of the lot #17 to Jonathan Jennison Jr. who remained here the rest of his life. His house stood at the head of the road from the Hollow (laid 1828) where it came into the old road from Watkins Hill to Derry Hill. Jona- than was followed by his son Henry, he by his son Josiah who sold in 1867 to Lucy Leonard; 1893 to her brother Rufus; 1902 his widow to their son Willie G .; his son, Wallace C., sold 1955 to Charles L. and Lucille Maie Austin. The buildings were probably erected by Jonathan Jennison Jr. They were still here 1907, but dilapidated.
387. RAMSAY CELLARHOLE: The west half of Lot #17 John Ramsay sold to William Arnold; 1836 to Simeon Ballou; 1843 to Henry T. Allen; 1847 to Jonas Gassett; 1852 to Alonzo Jennings; 1853 to Mason Fay; 1856 to Harrington Leonard; 1867 to Alonzo Jennings; 1867 to Josiah Jennison;
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1867 to Lucy Leonard-Jack Leonard lived here. It remained in the Leonard family until 1955 when Wallace Leonard sold to Charles L. and Lucille Maie Austin.
The house stood north of the road, barns south of road, just east of the point where the 1793 road from Watkins Hill divided. The last indication we have of a house here is the 1858 map.
LOT #18: Oct. 7, 1801, William King Atkinson sold to Levi Fay for $1100. Heywood called this lot "middling." It was broken up into smaller lots. Capt. John Emery had the northeast quarter. Asa Sibley had one-eighth on the east line south of Emery, sold to Manoah Drury; 1809 he to Amasa and Oliver Allen. It is all wooded and there is no record of any home- stead on it.
LOT #19: Heywood considered this "middling good" land, but, like #18, it seems to have been broken up. There is evidence that Samuel and/or Thomas Parker owned some, also Capt. John Emery owned the east side, Nathan Smith the west with Noah Heaton and perhaps others. No home- stead, all wooded.
388. LOT #20: There are two cellarholes here. Close to the road is a large cellarhole with neatly walled banks, lilacs and tawny lilies. To the north is a smaller one. Perhaps Fay built a small house first, and later a larger one. To the north an army of white birches encroaches on the old sloping field. A lumberman's sawdust pile stands on the south side of the road where there were probably barns.
From here the road dips to cross the brook, then continues south- westerly, downgrade all the way, to the Keene road. This is a much better, wider road than the road up the hill east and south from the Fay place. The latter was surveyed and laid out by the town, but this piece was only referred to in the records as "voted to accept of a road from Levi Fay's on or near the line between Manoah Drury and Stephen Kittredge to the Great Road". It is interesting to note that this vote was passed Apr. 27, 1791, while Levi Fay's deed is dated Oct. 13, 1792.
In 1860 Stephen Fay sold to William Arnold Jr .; 1877 to Frank T. Allen; 1899 to George A. Chickering; 1946 his heir, Florence A. Knight, to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1947 to Evelyn A. and Parker B. Albee; 1948 to Lawrence S. Britton.
LOT #21: May 30, 1787, George Atkinson sold to Francis Kittredge, surgeon, this lot for £100, "middling good" land. This may be considered
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the back side of Lot #22 and probably never had any houses on it.
389. LOT #22: (The first of the Atkinson lots to be sold.) George Atkin- son of Portsmouth sold, Oct. 5, 1781, to Francis Kittredge, surgeon, of Tewksbury, Mass., Lot #22 for 896 Spanish milled dollars.
Dr. Jesseniah, son of Francis, built the large house on the place. In 1839 Jesseniah Kittredge sold the farm to Charles Watkins.
He left the property to his son Charles Edward who in turn sold 1894 to his sons Charles H. (called Harmon) and Elmer A. Harmon stayed here; 1935 to Cless G. Davis and Eva Davis Porter; 1937 to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1947 to Evelyn A. and Parker S. Albee of N. Sudbury, Mass .; 1948 to Lawrence S. and Yvonne Britton. Land has reverted to pasture.
The north part of the property at the corner of the Fay Road, Francis Kittredge sold to his son Stephen. He died and in 1806 his heirs sold to Ephraim Sherman Jr., whose father had the old Manoah Drury place. In 1811 Ephraim sold to his brother-in-law Alexander Watkins Jr .; 1816 to Alvin Fisher; 1825 to Jesseniah Kittredge; 1842 to Jesseniah Kittredge Kidder; 1843 to Abiah Kidder; 1848 to Joseph Kidder; 1852 to Alonzo Jennings; 1867 to Holland Mason (Susan). It is generally known as the Holland Mason place. His widow in 1879 sold to George Watkins and his daughter Louisa O .; in 1923 to Ruth Murray. Louisa married her cousin Harmon who lived next door and he obtained the place after she died; 1926 Arthur H. Chickering; 1949 to Lawrence and Yvonne Britton. House has about fallen down.
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