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390. FIRST LOT NORTH OF LOT #4: November 7, 1793, George King Sparhawk sold for £15 to William Morrison. It was known as the Thompson Lot and was supposed to be 100 acres. By a road survey in 1802 Morrison's barn stood where the power line crosses the road. Probably his house stood nearby, near the brook.
The land was absorbed into adjoining farms.
391. LOT NEXT NORTH OF LOT #5: July 16, 1789, Daniel Humphreys for £135 sold to Ephraim Kendall of Alstead and Nathaniel Parker of Wal- pole, this 100 acre lot. It belonged to John Carlisle in 1793; to James Knapp; 1800 to Luther Knowlton from Framingham; 1844 to Elias Knowlton; 1889 to Daniel G. Clark for $2000; 1896 to Cassius C. Farmer for $500; 1909 to Ed. T. Stevens for $600; 1914 to Kusta Winter and Henry Jamsa, Fitchburg; 1916 to William P. Abbott and Walter C.
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Hadley of Bellows Falls; 1918 to William F. Hammond; 1921 to George E. and Hildred V. Edwards, now George E. Edwards Jr.
The buildings stood south of the March Hill Road, at some distance up the hill, with a view to the northwest across the Seward pasture and a gap in the hills to the distant Vermont hills, a view unsurpassed even in Walpole. The buildings burned.
392. LOT NEXT NORTH OF #12: Oct. 7, 1790, Daniel Humphreys sold to Aaron Rice, for £42 the west 35 acres in the 95 acre lot next north of #12 and #13, next to the Bellows hill lots. The same day he sold to Samuel March of Londonderry for £72 sixty acres, being the east part of the lot.
In 1793 March sold to Smith Emery of Atkinson, New Hampshire; 1794 to Allen Watkins; 1794 to James Knapp; 1796 to Aaron Hodskins Jr .; 1797 to Joseph Heaton; 1798 to Thomas Buck; 1800 to Noah Heaton; 1800 to David Thompson (see AH 367); 1810 to Luke Thurston (AH 368); 1833 to Luther D. Knowlton whose father owned the next farm east; 1867 to Andrew Roy; 1882 to William E. Roy; 1921 to Fred A. Moses; 1922 to Henry O. Porter. After his death the property was broken up and the land has been absorbed into adjoining farms.
The buildings on this farm stretched along the north side of the road, clinging to the side of the hill. They burned in the night after Roy sold and only foundations and sumac remain.
The #6 schoolhouse here finally fell in. There had been an earlier school farther east.
The Aaron Rice land, west part of the lot, was sold to Thomas Messer and joined to the farm which he owned on the Maple Grove Road, later owned by Moses Fisher.
393. SECOND LOT NORTH OF #4: June 15, 1790, Daniel Humphreys sold to Samuel Morrison, for £125; 1819 to Samuel Morrison Jr. a one-half interest; 1822 to James C. Cristy of Grafton, Vermont, one-half interest; 1827 Cristy lost on a judgment and one-half interest sold to Benjamin E. Webster who in 1831 bought the other half interest; 1836 to Mark Web- ster (Eunice Knowlton); 1860 to son Edwin Webster; 1891 to John W. Prentiss; 1894 to Edward T. Stevens who sold to Winter and Jamsa (see #391). Now owned by George Edwards.
SECOND LOT NORTH OF #5: January 29, 1796, George King Sparhawk sold this 100 acre lot in the northwest corner of the Atkinson Tract, east side of Maple Grove Road, to Jonathan Royce. No record of any buildings.
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GRAVES ROAD
394. CHARLES S. MAURICE: LOT #7 IN 5TH RANGE: In 1779 Mary Bellows sold this lot to Roger Farnam; 1816 to Recompense Hall (with exception of west 30 acres which had been sold to Graves); willed to Henry P. Hall; inherited by Jennie L. Hall Hodskins; 1916 Jennie Hodskins of Buffalo, N. Y. to Clifford Sturtevant; 1917 to George Cuzick; 1930 to Arthur Chickering Jr .; 1931 to Mary J. Walker; 1939 to present owners.
395. CALEB FARNAM CELLARHOLE: In 1816 Roger Farnam sold to Caleb Farnam one acre, Caleb already having buildings here; 1821 to Recom- pense Hall; 1832 to Caleb Farnam; 1843 to Emerson K. Rice of Worcester (wife Maria, daughter of Caleb); 1853 to John C. Farnam for his parents, Caleb and Hannah Farnam to occupy for their natural lives.
Buildings here as late as 1858.
396. JOHN A. STUART: In 1956 Lawrence S. Britton sold this houselot out of the old Stowell farm to John A. Stuart who built the house.
KINGSBURY ROAD
This was one of the roads surveyed in 1781. It went from the Graves Crossroad, east of Stuart Graves', northeasterly to the then Keene road which at that time passed direct from the Hooper Golf Club through the woods to a point near Lawrence Britton's. The junction was a short distance east of Mrs. Reynolds'. The northeast end of the Kingsbury road was added when the Third N. H. Turnpike was built where the present Keene road is. This road crossed Lots #6 and #5 in the 5th Range, the south part of said lots belonging early to Nathan Watkins and the north to Aaron Hodskins Sr.
397. WILLIAM KINGSBURY: In 1774 Benjamin Bellows sold to Joseph Fay the south 20 acres of #5 in the 5th Range, having bargained the land next north in the lot to Daniel Bixby. In 1779 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold to Nathan Watkins 100 acres, including the Fay lot and #6 to the south. Watkins also bought 25 acres of the east end of #8 in the 4th Range from William Moore in 1790 (part of Josiah Griswold lot). In 1797 Nathan gave one-half of his farm to his son Allen who sold in 1800 to his brother Edward. He sold immediately to Aaron Hodskins Jr. who had married his sister Rhoda. Of their children Willard had the old Aaron Hodskins place next north (Reynolds) and Asahel Bundy Hodskins had the home place. His daughter Ellen married George D. Kingsbury who bought the farm. It is still owned by descendants.
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398. E. EVERETT RHODES JR .: When Asahel B. Hodskins sold his home- stead to his son-in-law, George D. Kingsbury, he reserved 45 acres here and lived on the place the rest of his life; 1888 estate to Oren N. Ramsay; 1924 to Etta F. Rhodes who made it over in 1935 to her son, E. Everett Rhodes Jr.
Buildings burned December 30, 1925, while family was away at a Christmas tree party. Mrs. Rhodes Sr. has northeast house, Everett the other house; both new.
The Kingsburys own an old bridle path which runs from the Everett Rhodes place down through the lot and comes out between the brook and the old Stowell place on Watkins Hill road. It has been used for hauling wood from Hodskins' woodlot on Derry Hill.
399. STAPLES CELLARHOLE: North of the Kingsbury house there is the Jacob Staples lot, northwest of road, the cellarhole a bit east of the middle of the field where bricks keep cropping out. In 1777 Joseph Fay sold 71/2 acres here to Stephen Haines "being part of land Jacob Staples lived on."
400. WENTWORTH HUBBARD: This is in the 40 acre lot where Daniel Bixby was living 1777. Benjamin Bellows left it to his daughter Abigail; mortgaged in 1804 to Stephen Rowe Bradley; 1810 to Aaron Hodskins Jr. He and his heirs owned it until William Kingsbury sold two small parcels here 1939 and 1945 to Maurice Robbins. Robbins erected the buildings; 1953 to Wentworth Hubbard.
The Bixby house stood on the opposite side of road from Hubbard, just a bit farther east.
401. ANGELE I. REYNOLDS: In 1774 Benjamin Bellows gave title to Aaron Hodskins for 41 acres where the Reynolds place is now. Probably Hodskins cleared the land and erected buildings. In 1788 Aaron bought the 30 acres next north of his place, and in 1789 ten acres where Paul Savi lives now. He was a carpenter as well as a farmer, and perhaps also a miller. In 1797 he bought another ten acres near the Savi place, and in 1800 the house and blacksmith shop of John Watkins, standing on his land on the main road to Keene, a short distance east of the Reynolds house. The road on which the blacksmith shop stood was the old county road to Keene, crossing the Kingsbury Road east of the Reynolds' buildings. William Kingsbury remembers that in the days of the Model T, when the present road there got muddy, they churned up charcoal from the old blacksmith shop. That part of the Kingsbury road east of this point was
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not built until 1802 after the Third N. H. Turnpike was built farther east.
Willard Hodskins (son of Aaron Jr.) had the Reynolds place; 1860 his daughter Harriet and husband Joseph E. Burt of Brimfield, Ill., sold to George D. Kingsbury; 1910 his grandson Walter W. of Malden, Mass. to Grace R. and Alice L. Canfield of Cambridge, Mass., daughters of Rev. Charles T. and Louisa Hayward Canfield; 1935 Grace R. to present owner from Brooklyn, N. Y. On the slope south of the house the lupines grow luxuriantly.
402. WOODWORTH JAMES: This was the northeast corner of Lot #5 in the 5th Range. Aaron Hodskins bought 1788 from Benjamin Bellows' estate. Aaron's widow Eunice had this. The James' house was perhaps the house John Watkins (who also had a shop) built on Aaron's land, and Aaron bought in 1800. In 1839 Joshua and Judith Hodskins March owned this part of the Hodskins estate. Joshua and Judith may have been living here even before he died in 1841, aged 79. He was a miller and had had a mill in the Hollow at the foot of March Hill on the March Hill Road. Judith was living on the Kingsbury road in 1842, probably in this house. She died 1852 aged 77. Probably Hannah and Rebecca March lived on here after their mother Judith died.
In 1885 Hannah N. March sold the place to Frances A. Mann (David A.); 1898 to Herbert W. Smith; 1923 estate to Walter E. Moody; 1946 estate to Eleanor M. Sawyer; 1947 to Esther M. James of Brookline, Mass.
PROSPECT HILL
The second meeting house stood at the top of the hill where the Hooper School now stands, and the roads radiated from here in all direc- tions: (1) from the Village to Keene, the very earliest road in town, probably cut by the first proprietors 1738, made a town road 1762, sur- veyed 1774, Third N. H. Turnpike 1802, then a county road 1822; (2) a road before 1781 from Ramsay Hill to Wentworth road, the old Chap- pell Hill Road finally discontinued 1914, had been replaced in 1799 by the present Hooper Road southwesterly to Wentworth Road (that road caused as much discussion and vote changing as any road in town); (3) 1788 a new road from the Reservoir Road, discontinued 1869 when there was no longer a meeting house here and a new road had been built farther east in 1856 (North Road).
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403. WILLIAM BURROWS: In 1786 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold one acre here to Thaddeus Collins, weaver. Collins erected buildings and sold 1788 to Edmund Brewster, tailor; 1790 to Joel Chaffin, carpenter; 1797 to Elijah Kilburn, carpenter; 1799 to Stephen Mellish, innholder and cabinet maker. On the southeast side of this lot there stood a small red house where Mellish lived up to September 1800. He had built another on the site of present Burrows' house, moved into it and sold the other to Macey Adams, who was living there October 1800. Probably the first house was south of the shop, the new one to the north. Collins may have built the shop and the first house. In 1805 Mellish sold to Alexander Watkins and Asa Sibley; 1807 to Ruggles Watkins, oldest son of Alex- ander; 1830 to George S. Fisher (Betsy S.) and James B. Fisher (Abigail L.), wheelwrights, of Medway, Mass .; 1831 to William Jennison (Phebe), per- haps for his son Edwin who became minister of the new church on the hill; 1834 to Simeon Ballou; 1836 to Ephraim F. Towns; 1836 to Henry Wetherby of Sherburne, Mass .; 1837 to Lyman Stearns (probably a shoemaker, son of Aaron Stearns); 1848 to John Bunting; 1875 to John Selkirk who pulled down the old house and built a new two story house. This house burned Aug. 19, 1918, occupied by Harry Phillipson. In 1920 Selkirk's daughter Mrs. Lizzie R. Guild of Claremont sold to William T. Burrows, carpenter, who built on site of burned house.
404. MRS. HENRY (JENNIE) BURROWS: In 1801 Stephen Mellish sold to Macey Adams, painter, the small red house on the south side of his lot; 1812 to Ransom Lawrence. His widow, Betsey, married William Ruggles. They sold the place in 1829 to Asa Griffin of Swanzey, took it back 1831; 1832 to Stephen W. and Calvin Marcy; 1837 to Alfred Marcy; then back to Ruggles; 1841 to Moses Fisher who lived up on Maple Grove Road; 1862 his heirs to William J. and Martha Watkins Shipmen from West- minster, Vermont. Their daughter Emma C. was living here in 1886, and sold to her mother's sister Hannah Watkins Towns of Rockingham, Vt. In 1907 Ellen Bishop Ruggles, widow, of Reading, Mass., bought the place; 1911 to Henry and Jennie Burrows.
405. HAZEL CUMMINGS: In 1797 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold to Benjamin Garfield, tanner, somewhat over an acre on the southwest side of the high- way and on the northeast side 691/2 rods with buildings and a tanyard thereon, probably on the little brook that flows through the premises. Timothy Garfield was then living in the house; Jan. 13, 1800, to Allen Watkins (son of Nathan); Apr. 26, 1800 to Horace Floyd. Benjamin
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Garfield was still living in the house. In September Simon Buel was living here. Oct. 10, 1801, Horace sold to James Fuller.
In 1818 Fuller sold the north 1/4 acre to William and Oliver Hunting- ton. There was a building here according to the deed, perhaps the old shop. William Huntington removed to Derry and Oliver sold 1832 to George Watkins 2nd (or 3rd).
The south part of the Floyd land Fuller sold in 1824 to Anson Lawrence. (He was living here as early as 1823.) His son Henry F. married Amy Elnora, daughter of Charles Watkins, and it is possible they in- herited this property, she the north and he the south; 1920 Henry F. Lawrence (single) of Waltham, Mass., to John L. Hubbard of Brattleboro, Vt .; 1922 to George E. and Eunice Dame. Mrs. Dame was Hazel Boynton Cummings' grandmother. Mrs. Boynton and her children lived with the Dames in the house across the street.
Probably Hazel Cummings' house was where the Huntingtons lived. In 1858 it was shown as "Mrs. Watkins", and 1865 was occupied by Isaac Graves, 1892 by Henry Lawrence. No records have been found to sub- stantiate conclusions so transfer may have been by will.
406. IRENE A. CHICKERING: Nicanor Townsley had this place from Benja- min Bellows; 1794 to Joel Chaffin, carpenter; 1799 to Joseph Heaton; 1806 to James Campbell. (See AH 223-4.) The house in which the Campbells lived stood on the site of the house here in 1880 in which Isaac Graves lived. James Campbell's office of Cheshire County Register of Deeds became the woodshed of the later house. The Campbell heirs sold in 1826 and 1827 to Holland Fay; 1830 to Anson Lawrence; 1895 heirs to George E. Dame; 1922 to A. Burton Brown; 1943 Geraldine P. Brown (widow) to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1943 to Leslie J. and Rose O. Swain; 1945 to Charles Cleveland; 1958 Mrs. Grace McMenimen to Irene A. Chickering.
In 1961 Irene A. Chickering sold land north of her house to Robert L. Galloway Jr., who built a new house.
407. NORMAN N. SCHOFIELD: Norman Schofield bought this land in 1954 from Cleveland and McMenimen and built the house. This was part of Lot #3 in the 5th Range which Benjamin Bellows left to his daughter Abigail. Her son, Seth Hunt of Willsborough, N. Y., sold in 1820 to Stephen Rowe Bradley. Bradley must have sold to Anson Lawrence, since the Schofield land was part of the dower of his widow, Sally, in 1865; 1895 her heirs to George E. Dame of Bellows Falls. It has had the same
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sequence of owners as the Chickering place on the other side of the highway.
408. ELEANOR H. BURDICK: For early history see 409. Apollos Gilmore owned the place from 1807 until his death. In 1903 Harriet E. Barnett (daughter of Harriet G. Barnett, daughter of Eunice, third wife of Apol- los Gilmore) sold to Frances A. Mann; 1906 to Carl U. Smith; 1927 to Harry N. Matthews of Newton, Mass .; 1931 to Elizabeth F. McVay of Boston (single); 1945 to Harry N. and Anne P. Matthews of Newton, Mass .; 1948 Anne P. Matthews (widow) to present owner.
409. LORENZO PRESSEY CELLARHOLE: In 1788 Benjamin Bellows sold this place and the next north to John French; 1789 to James Knapp, cabinet maker; 1794 to William Hewes, painter, and John Jennison Jr., shop joiner; 1795 to Noah Heaton. In 1807 he sold the north part to Apollos Gilmore. The south part was sold after his death to Dr. George Sparhawk in 1814; 1851 to Lorenzo Pressey; 1872 to Jane Bundy; 1881 her heirs to Andrew J. Roy; 1905 Mary J. Roy (single) to Herbert E. Wells. The house burned Oct. 22, 1912, and land sold 1912 to George L. Hooper.
It appears that John Cooper had sold this to Samuel Fuller prior to 1788.
410. HOOPER GOLF CLUB-LOT #4 IN THE 5TH RANGE: Jonathan Bixby resided here before 1779 when Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold to Antipas Har- rington. The south part of the next lot north, #3 in the 5th Range, be- longed to Daniel Denison. He was in town as early as 1765. No records were found as to when or from whom he bought and when and to whom he sold. The 1781 crossroad (Chappell Hill Road) from John Marcy's to Wentworth Road followed his south line. About 10 rods from his south- west corner the road looped to the north. In 1779 he sold the corner southwest of the road to Widow Bridget Hudson. In 1794 she sold to Alexander Watkins.
Denison was here 1781, but in 1786 John Bellows sold to Antipas Har- rington. In 1788 Harrington sold the farm to Alexander Watkins.
The place remained in the Watkins family until 1859 when Henry J. Watkins sold to Benjamin E. Webster of Boston; 1891 to Frederick H. Hooper of New Bedford, Mass. His daughter, Mary Hooper Weymouth (Henry), lived here but her brother George Hooper owned. He left it to the town. Walpole built the Hooper School with Hooper funds and leases most of the farm to Hooper Golf Club.
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The Club House was the tavern of Alexander Watkins who built it and lived here until his death 1824.
411. TOWN OF WALPOLE: This place was in Lot #3 in the 5th Range, op- posite the Common and the Pound. In 1802 Alexander Watkins sold one acre with buildings to Levi Child, blacksmith; 1802 to Asa Sibley; 1802 to Matthew Dickey; 1806 to John Pratt, blacksmith; 1809 to Levi Allen; 1810 to John Pratt (Polly); 1817 to Ebenezer Ash, cordwainer. He adver- tised it thus for sale: "Opposite Meeting House Originally built for blacksmith shop, 2 forges, 1 ox frame, etc., good dwelling house, barn, outhouses, never failing well, 1 acre, fenced". In 1823 Ash sold to Lewis Gilmore; 1826 to Daniel E. Pratt; 1843 (Pratt then of Boston) to Isaac Nourse; 1877 to Mary S. Pressey; 1900 her son Eugene E. of Worcester to Cutler F. Winchester of Ayer, Mass .; 1907 the Winchesters sold to George L. Hooper of Lowell, Mass. He left to the Town of Walpole.
HILL MEETING HOUSE: In 1787 the new meeting house had been built on land of Antipas Harrington where the Hooper School now stands. Three acres were deeded for the Meeting House and the Common "To have and to hold so long as the same shall be
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used and improved as part of a Common whereon a meeting house shall stand for public worship for said Walpole or any parish or religious society of said town."
412. ELEANOR MORSE SAWYER: This place was included in the 100 acres Benjamin Bellows sold to Josiah Hubbard 1771. Probably he did not fulfill his contract and Bellows took it back, although as a rule these transactions were not recorded until the terms had been met. In 1781 John Bellows deeded all but about 25 acres to Isaac Bundy who lived down on the Thompson Road; 1790 he deeded this part to his brother Elias Bundy who lived on Lawrence Britton farm; Elias sold 10 acres here in 1789 to Aaron Hodskins.
Tabitha Hodskins, daughter of Aaron, married Elijah Turner. They sold the property 1817 to James Campbell.
Campbell lived down on Prospect Hill, and his heirs sold to Anson Lawrence; 1844 to John S. March.
John S. and wife Abby S. March both died 1890. The estate was sold 1891 to Albert Dickey; 1921 to Duane F. Ellis; 1926 to Byron Hartley O'Brien; 1929 to Mrs. Eleanor Morse Sawyer, now of Charlestown. Her son Paul Savi occupies.
THOMPSON ROAD
Among the roads surveyed 1781 there was one which began near the foot of Ramsay Hill, passed southwest of Gerald Hill's house, crossed the present road and continued toward Great Brook, then, near the foot of the hill, turned southwest and finally came into the Keene Road some 100 rods south of the present road. This road was discontinued 1821 when the present road was made from Albert Fletcher's to Lawrence Britton's.
BUNDY
Sometime prior to 1766 James Bundy bought of Benjamin Bellows what was supposed to be 200 acres. The farm included land on the east side of the 5th Range from a point on the Maurice (Graves) Road to a little north of the Thompson Road. Originally the south line was along the northwest boundary of the Atkinson Tract, extending northeasterly to a point about midway of Lot #20 (Fay), in line with the east line of what was later the Asahel Bundy farm. However, when the deed was finally recorded 1770 the farm extended east to the west line of the Parker farm (Gerald Hill home farm), and the Drury farm had been taken out along the Atkinson line.
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James Bundy died April 1772 and the farm was divided as follows among four of his sons. According to AH he would have then been 87:
Nathan: Southwest corner, formerly belonging to James Bundy's son-
in-law, Ithiel Hoadley; later known as Aaron Hodskins' Flint farm. Elias: Lawrence Britton home farm.
Asahel: Farm now owned by Ruth Thompson.
Isaac: Dr. Stephen Johnson place, now Lawrence Stone.
The next lot north, 100 acres, Benjamin Bellows sold to Josiah Hub- bard, but it eventually came to the Bundys and was divided among the various places around it.
James, one of the Bundy sons, was a blacksmith in the village and does not seem to have received any part of the farm.
413. LAWRENCE BRITTON HOME FARM: Lt. Elias Bundy lived on the home place. He sold in 1800 to Aaron Allen who died 1804, and in 1812 Levi Allen sold the farm to David Thompson. He lived here until he died 1851 and was followed on the place by his son Lewis Thompson who never married. Lewis sold 1866 to Alpheus Clark; 1878 to Alonzo Jen- nings; 1884 heirs to Charles A. Jennings, to George A. Chickering of Westmoreland; 1946 his daughter, Florence A. Knight, to Arthur H. Chickering Jr .; 1947 to Evelyn and Parker Albee; 1947 to Lawrence S. and Yvonne D. Britton.
Probably the buildings are where James Bundy first located, and may be more or less the same.
414. FLINT FARM: This was part of James Bundy's original grant, his son-in-law Ithiel Hoadley (Sarah) living here. Bundy left to his son Nathan; 1774 to Hoadley; 1778 to Leonard Brigham of Fitzwilliam; 1795 to Apollos Gilmore of Framingham, Mass .; 1797 to Asa Sibley of Wood- stock, Conn. Sibley is said to have been a silversmith and/or blacksmith. In 1806 he sold to Levi Allen, who sold to Josiah Flint, who, in turn, sold to Aaron Hodskins Jr. He sold to his daughter Almira Hodskins (Mrs. Ebenezer E. Stowell). In 1879 Ebenezer sold to Charlotte B. and George W. Murdough who deeded it back; 1883 to Anna E. Fletcher of West- moreland who agreed to support the Stowells; 1891 Lewis Dickey took a mortgage. (Anna had become Anna E. Hammond.) In 1895 to George A. Chickering and it became part of the Thompson Farm.
Mrs. Weymouth could remember when she was a child attending #5 School and playing in and around the house which was then used only for storage. It stood west of Watkins Hill Road.
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In April 1962 John N. and Margaret Latham bought the old building site and erected a house.
415. JOHN P. RILEY: According to the Bellows-Atkinson Derry Hill de- scription, in 1766 James Bundy owned here, but by Heywood's survey in 1781 Manoah Drury owned. By a road record Jonathan Stow was here in 1774, no deed found.
Apparently the Drurys improved the farm extensively, for in 1805 they sold to Ephraim Sherman for $3120.
In 1817 the Shermans sold this place to Stephen Johnson; 1834 to Stephen Tiffany; 1859 to Eli Graves; 1895 to Harriet N. Davis of Chester- field; 1904 to George Chickering; 1935 his daughter Florence Knight sold the house and a small piece of land to John P. and Barbara Riley and the rest of the farm to Arthur Chickering Jr. The farm land now goes with the Lawrence Britton farm.
416. RUTH THOMPSON: Asahel Bundy had this farm by his father's will 1772. His son Philip E. Bundy stayed on the home farm. He sold the farm in 1835 to David and David C. Thompson and it is still in the family, belonging to Ruth Almira Thompson. Warren Thompson added considerably while he owned it.
417. LAURENCE S. STONE: Isaac Bundy received this farm in 1772 by his father's will. In 1794 he sold to Noah Heaton and probably moved to Columbia, New Hampshire.
Heaton was a gentleman from Framingham, Mass .; 1797 to Aaron Hodskins Jr .; 1799 to Allen Watkins; 1800 to Moses Mead of Waltham, Mass. There is a great deal of confusion in these deeds. Apparently the trouble came from mortgages and bad money (see AH 326-7). In the end Dr. Stephen Johnson owned the place. He left it to his daughter Sally, unmarried, and his wife, Piercy (Persis Webber) (see AH 296-8). Sally left her property to her nephew Frederick J. Clark, son of Alpheus Clark. Mrs. Persis Johnson and Frederick Clark were dead before 1851. Alpheus Clark and his wife Philinda lived on the place 1852-65.
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