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492. ETIENNE W. CHALOUX: In 1961 Bolles sold to Etienne W. and Barbara C. Chaloux. The house was moved here from Westminster Street, east of the Savings Bank.
493. GILBERT E. ROSS: In 1961 Bolles sold to Gilbert E. and Theresa A. Ross. The house was the former Dunham house on Depot Hill.
494. FRANK S. JACOBS: In 1955 Bolles sold Lot 8 to Francis E. and Evelyn S. Roberts who built the house; 1957 to Frank S. and Dorothy C. Jacobs. In 1960 Jacobs bought Lot 9 from Bolles.
495. GLEN T. BOYNTON JR .: In 1957 Bolles sold to Wallace E. and Alice M. Albro; 1961 to Glen T. Jr. and Genevieve L. Boynton. Albro built the house.
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496. WALLACE E. ALBRO: In 1960 Bolles sold to Lloyd and Della Harter; 1961 to Wallace E. and Alice M. Albro who built the house.
497. DAVID C. BUCKMAN: In 1961 Bolles sold to Wallace E. and Alice M. Albro; 1962 to David C. and Ronna L. Buckman.
498. WALLACE E. ALBRO: In 1962 Bolles sold to Wallace E. and Alice M. Albro.
499. RODNEY R. MACARTHUR: In 1961 Bolles sold to Rodney R. and Annie F. MacArthur. The house was the former Kiniry house on Depot Hill.
THEODORE BELLOWS' SHARE OF HIS FATHER'S ESTATE
500. FRANCIS PLUMB: Theodore Bellows' share of his father's estate lay next north of the Homestead, the south line about where Plumb's build- ings are now, the north line north of the Mack place.
In 1783 Theodore sold this to his brother Thomas whose son Isaac had what is now, for the most part, the Plumb Farm.
Isaac Bellows removed to Massachusetts and sold the farm 1858 to Charles Hooper. He built and lived in the second house south of the library in the village, operating his farm from there. According to Pren- tiss "He was a great sheep man, for many years buying every fall several thousand lambs which he sold to the farmers, who fed them through the winter, and sold them in the spring as fat lambs at a good profit from the gain in weight and price."
In 1879 he sold to William Hooper; 1898 to George D. Hooper; 1922 his heirs to George H. Hooper; 1933 to Napoleon Boudrieau; 1941 to Perlie P. and Grace M. Albee; 1947 to R. N. Johnson; 1953 to Francis E. Plumb and Miriam R. Otis.
The barn burned and was rebuilt in 1911 while George D. Hooper owned and George H. Hooper occupied. It burned again in 1938 and was rebuilt.
The road from Walpole Village north, when surveyed in 1774, did not follow the present course here but near the Bellows homestead turned northeasterly and ascended the bank diagonally near the southeast side of Hubbards' poultry range. There is a cellarhole here at the top of the bank. This would have been a part of the Theodore Bellows' strip, but there is no record of ownership other than for the farm as listed above. Possibly Theodore built himself a house here. The brook nearby acquired the name of Sikes Brook and it seems evident that it was here that Nathaniel Sikes had his mill. In 1818 Thomas Bellows referred to that
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part of Blanchard Brook which he allowed to be turned toward the mill- pond as Sikes Brook, and the point on the brook as "near the Sikes place."
In October 1797 reference is made to Nathaniel Sikes suffering losses and thanking his friends for their assistance. He then wanted an ap- prentice in the clothier's business.
501. HUBBARD ASSOCIATES-HUNTINGTON FARM: In 1852 Isaac Bellows (Elenora) sold to George Huntington 36 acres on the high land, north part of his farm, west of the road; his estate 1877 to Susan M. Barnard (John) of Watertown, Mass .; 1881 to Frederick H. Holland of Keokuk, Iowa; 1895 Frederick H. and Laura C. Holland of Millis, Mass. to Thomas Nelson Hastings; 1897 to Mary J. Leonard; 1903 Mary J. and Henry O. Leonard to Cleora M. Brigham; 1915 to Jason E. Herrick of Boston; 1915 to James H. Williams of Rockingham (Sarah); 1915 to Edward M. Herrick of Rockingham; 1917 to Lura A. Moseley of Rocking- ham; 1918 to Abraham G. and Annie Westover; 1922 to Frederick J. and Nellie M. Martin; 1924 to Ira S. and Oliver J. Hubbard. Since 1931 it has belonged to Hubbard Farms.
There was a pine grove in front of house; 1896 Rev. Bard and Pratt held Sunday afternoon meetings here; it had to be cleared away after 1938 hurricane.
502. R. N. JOHNSON: While the Brigham-Leonards were here, they built for their farmer a two-story yellow house next north. In 1903 it was re- ferred to as the cottage Mary Leonard occupied. In 1921 the Westovers sold 8 acres here to Frederica F. Knight, land and buildings. Life was tur- bulent here according to contemporary news reports. The house burned July 3, 1930, from fire crackers on the roof. The back part of the house was saved and made into a dwelling. Ralph M. Knight Jr. sold 1959 to R. N. Johnson. Now (1962) the old cellarhole is being filled, the lot graded.
503-504. R. N. JOHNSON: In 1962 The Blackboard, the old #14 School in the point between the roads, was cut in two, moved west of #502, and made into two dwellings.
Land for School #14 came out of the Theodore Bellows land. The first school stood at the foot of the hill, west of the road, north of the brook, land granted by Thomas Bellows 1839. The second school was the build- ing standing until 1962 in the fork of the roads at the top of the hill, land taken 1888 from John Houghton. When the new school was built
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in the village 1950, this schoolhouse was sold 1953 to Burleigh R. Darling; town took for taxes 1960. The Darlings operated it as a restaurant called The Blackboard.
Water for the Huntington, Houghton and Angier places came from a spring near Carl Hewitt's (1962). Once in 20 years Thomas Bellows, owner, would plug the pipes. John Houghton drilled the first well in town east of the old #14 School. It cost $2250 and produced nice soft water.
505. ADOLPHUS MACK: Next north of the Huntington farm, and out of Theodore Bellows' farm, Isaac Bellows sold 1852, 21 acres to James Benson west of the road and in 1859, 45 acres east of the road to Silas M. Bates. Benson (Lucy) sold his to Bates in 1859; Bates (Fanny) sold 1861 to Amanda Pingrey (Daniel); 1865 to John Hooper; 1884 estate to John L. Houghton. The farm descended to his granddaughters Rachel McDonald and Doris Mack, daughters of his son George. The Macks now own and occupy the homestead; 1939 sold most of the land to Hubbard Farms.
JOHN BELLOWS' SHARE OF HIS FATHER'S ESTATE
In 1755 Col. Benjamin Bellows deeded three plots to John Kilburn "in consideration of duty being done on one right or share of land. ... " One was 100 acres where Ira Hubbard now lives; one was 12 acres of meadow north of Cold River; and one was 50 odd acres "where Kilburn now lives", the area where the Kilburn marker (placed on a tree 1890, then a stone which was taken up and replaced when new road built 1961) is on Rt. 12. The two latter plots John Kilburn Jr. sold to John Bellows for £200 in 1788. In 1771 his father (Col. Benj. Bellows) gave him 700 acres here and 100 acres "at place called the Sugar Place, ... the south- west corner near path that leads from Kilburn's to Alstead. . . " This later was the Booth hill farm.
About 1792, at least by 1794, John built for his son Josiah 2nd a tavern west of the highway at Hatch's Corner (#506). Josiah was a roistering blade and his social qualities gathered around him those of the same kith. He was still here and licensed to keep tavern in 1796. This was on the State Road from Hale's Bridge to Chester and was apparently expected to be a much travelled road. This was the only bridge over the Connecti- cut River.
In 1797 John Bellows sold the 700 acres to Thomas and Isaac Reding- ton, merchants and taverners in Walpole Village. They sold the farm as follows:
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1. In 1802 to Moses Bennett the 50 acres in the southwest corner be- tween the Third N. H. Turnpike and the river, the land on the plain next south of Louis Ballam and north of Mack (1962).
2. In 1806 east of the Turnpike opposite Bennett to Charles Stratton.
| 3. In 1801 (recorded 1805) to Thomas Seaver of Townsend, Mass., the strip next north of #1 and #2, from the river to the east line of the tract, including Louis Ballam farm (1962) and the old Blanchard farm.
4. In 1801 350 acres, all north of Seaver, to Samuel Wightman.
506. DEAN AND BRESSOR'S WIGHTMAN PLACE: Samuel Wightman was well along in years when he came to Walpole with his family in 1801 from Rehoboth, Mass., and purchased from the Redingtons all but the south part of the John Bellows' tract. He lived in the house (site of Bressor 1961) which Josiah Bellows had had for a tavern. In 1816 he conveyed to his son Israel "all land south of Cold River and east of the Turnpike with buildings thereon, occupied now by Israel," except for a piece in the northeast corner on the road to Drewsville, which he had sold to Almerin Parker, his son-in-law.
In 1834 Israel conveyed a half interest to his son Herman; 1836 his son-in-law Gardner Phillips took over both halves, about 200 acres; 1843 Phillips sold out of this the meadow south of Cold River, between the stone bridge at the foot of the hill and the Turnpike bridge which was farther west, to Warren Daniels; 1834 the tract where the Abenaqui Springs were was also sold to Daniels.
In 1849 Phillips sold the farm (170 acres) to Nathan Woods of Keene; 1852 to Daniels the land east of the "Upper" road and north of the road to Drewsville, 48 acres, reserving use of barn and sheds for three years; 1853 Woods sold the farm to Thomas N. Keyes, 116 acres. The house burned about 1867; Keyes built the present house. The Keyes estate sold 1890 to Jennie M. Hatch, 7 acres, including the homestead; 1901 to Phebe S. Stratton (J. W.); 1920 to Robert L. and Marjorie M. Howard of Somer- ville, Mass .; 1925 to Olive G. Hayward; 1926 to Elroy E. and Susie W. Reed of Acworth and Charles and Grace M. Muzzey of Charlestown; 1934 (Mrs. Muzzey had died) to Maitland C. Lovell (Ethel); 1935 to W. C. and Laura Dean of Springfield, N. H. and Nellie M. Bressor of Rockingham, the same 7 acres.
Hatch had a slaughter barn; Hetty Green used to come to this farm to buy one egg at a time.
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THE FOLLOWING PLACES WERE ALL SOLD OUT OF THE ISRAEL WIGHTMAN FARM
507. WAYNE M. ALBEE: In 1851 Nathan Wood sold to Warren Daniels 48 acres east of the "Upper" Road and north from Rt. 123 to Cold River; 1854 to Frank Moore of Dorchester, Mass .; 1854 to Charles C. Moore of New York City who built the big house. He had considerable financial difficulty and Peter Hayward of Keene foreclosed 1881, Moore then of San Francisco; estate 1883 to Harriet A. Russell of Keene; 1888 to Charles W. and Mary E. Tole "tract with buildings except one that belongs to Samuel D. Tinker in front of the barn." Harriet exchanged this place for Tole's Killeen place in North Walpole (corner of River and Main Streets). Mary left her share to her brother Charles who lived here with his family until his death 1908. He was a carpenter and farmer, worked for Copley Amory. With his brother-in-law Herbert G. Royce he built several houses in North Walpole. His heirs sold the place in 1924 to Charles Comstock of Keene; 1926 to Myron J. Bowen; 1936 to Clark H. Bowen of Rockingham; 1955 to Maynard P. Albee; 1956 to Wayne M. and Elizabeth C. Albee. Now apartments.
The house was beautifully finished off with a cupola on top. Moore built it with idea of taking boarders. Mrs. Weymouth remembered a Moses Elliott family living here. The children, Ferdinand, Orlando, Ed- ward and Joseph, went to school with the Jennisons. Joseph fell into a vat of beer at the brewery and drowned. She recalled a school party here when the whole house was warmed even though the rooms were bare.
508. DANA M. MARTIN: When Harriet Russell sold to the Toles, she reserved 37 acres (woodland) which she sold 1889 to Daniel C. Howard; to Nathan G. Woodbury of Keene; heirs 1899 to Jerome C. Field; heirs 1914 to Fred T. Tole. In 1950 Violet Tole sold 2.75 acres about 20 rods east of Hatch's Corner to Dana M. and Evelyn M. Martin who have built a house here.
In 1951 Violet Tole sold the rest of the tract to William E. and Gladys M. Doyle, her daughter and son-in-law.
509. WILLIAM J. FENNESSY: In 1880 Thomas N. Keyes sold to Charles Cross an acre of land part way down the hill north of the Keyes house, west of the road. Cross probably built the house; 1893 to Miss Minnie E. Putney; 1893 to Milan D. Royce; 1905 to Wilson W. Colburn; 1906 to Charles A. and Maude Etta Moultrop; 1909 to Hattie Stearns Wilson; 1918 to Walter C. Hadley of Rockingham; 1918 to John A. and Gillian R.
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Gifford; 1922 to Patrick J. and Susan T. Fennessy; 1947 estate to John P. and Mildred Fennessy; 1951 to William J. & Marion P. Fennessy.
510. R. N. JOHNSON: In 1875 Thomas N. Keyes sold the 125 acres east of the Upper Road and south of the road to Drewsville to Herbert C. Hatch. The farm buildings were on this side of the road. The Hatches probably lived in the Philip Smith (1961) house, known as "the small Hatch house". The Hatches bought the large house after Mr. Keyes died. In 1899 Burt Chellis bought from the Hatch estate the part east of the Upper Road; 1901 to Herbert D. Ryder; 1920 to John A. Duncan; 1935, John having died, his wife, Martha A. Duncan, sold to William T. and Fred A. Ram- say. William Ramsay and his wife Josephine were in the Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston and William died. In some miraculous way Josephine got out although badly burned and was in the hospital for a long time. Fred Ramsay, father of William, gave this property to Josephine and her daughter Mary. They sold to R. N. Johnson. The Ramsays built the house here which faces on the Drewsville Road.
511. PHILLIP A. CYR: In 1901 Chellis sold the small Hatch house and lot to Minnie L. Converse (Leslie G.) of Westminster; 1902 to Herbert D. Ryder (Margaret E.) of Rockingham who also had the farm; 1903 to Mary E. Stowell; 1945 estate to Walter H. Reed; 1946 to Robert Jr. and Mar- garet A. Veitch of Rockingham; 1956 to William J. and Marion N. Fennessy; 1958 to Philip N. and Aline C. Smith of Rockingham, 1961 to Philip A. and Priscilla A. Cyr.
512. FRANCIS A. JOHNSON: West of the Upper Road the Deans & Bressors sold in 1950 a house lot to Frank B. Jr. and Era J. Easton who built house 1952; sold 1960 to Thomas J. Jr. and Margaret M. Hagan, 1960 to Francis A. and Rachel M. Johnson.
513. HERBERT G. ROYCE ESTATE: In 1884 Herbert G. Royce (no connection with Walpole Royce family, Herbert's parents came from England) bought from the Hatches a house lot south of the Hatch small house. He was a carpenter and wheelwright, built the house, where his children still live. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here in 1940.
May 1894 Royce's three-year-old child fell into a cistern of running water in the kitchen. Herbert Bellows and companion passing by came in to help. One read directions for artificial respiration while the other put them into practice as well as he could and the child finally recovered.
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514. MRS. TONY JAMES: In 1899 Chellis sold next south of Royce east of the Upper Road 41/2 acres to Charles H. Robb and Edward L. Walker (Ruth) of Rockingham; 1904 to Mary E. Stowell; 1926 to Floyd J. and Lillian M. Westcott. The north house lot Lillian sold 1950 to Tony and Martha James who finished building the house. Mrs. James lives here now.
515. SYGMOND J. PONEK: The remainder of the lot Lillian M. Westcott sold 1940 to Earl A. and Frances L. Westcott. The middle part they sold 1948 to Sygmond J. and Antoinette James Ponek who built house and reside here.
516. FREDERICK W. WYMAN: On the south part (See 515) Earl Westcott built the house; 1947 to Frederick W. and Margaret C. Wyman of Rockingham.
517. GLADYS M. DOYLE: In 1899 Burt Chellis sold to Charles W. Tole five acres next south of what was later the Westcott property. In 1924, after his death, the lot was divided, the north half to his son Fred T. Tole, the south half to his son Harry W. Tole. In 1951 Fred's widow deeded her share to daughter and husband, Gladys M. and William E. Doyle; Toles built house.
518. JENNIE M. TOLE: Jennie M. Tole, widow of Harry W., now owns the house which he built on the north part of his share.
519. HARRY A. TOLE: The south part of the Harry W. Tole lot was sold 1959 to their son Harry A. Tole and wife Irma, built house about 1947.
520. JAMES M. NELSON: Next south of what is now the Toles' property Nathan Wood sold 1850 one acre to Warren Daniels and Algernon Sydney Baxter; all to Baxter 1851, plus an additional five acres. Baxter probably built the house. He was also interested in the Abenaqui Springs. In 1855 Baxter, then of New York City, sold to Horace Baxter of Rockingham; 1859 Horace Henry Baxter of Rutland to Thomas N. Keyes. This is probably the Keyes house where William Mellish was living 1868. In 1870 Keyes sold to Ambrose S. Wilder; 1871 to George Huntington; 1871 to Owen Sullivan of Bellows Falls. Other deeds refer to this property as belonging to James Sullivan 1884, 1899. In 1896 George A. Curtis, brother-in-law of Oliver Joslin, rented. In 1907 Owen Sullivan of Rock- ingham sold this property to Eugene and William Sullivan. There is a record that Eugene and Willie Sullivan attended #14 School in 1882.
In 1907 Emma L. Muzzy of Westminster bought the place; 1917 to
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Burt A. Codding of Rockingham; 1936 to James M. and Carrie M. Nelson.
521. JAMES E. NELSON: In 1950 the Nelsons sold a house lot north of their house to their son James E. Nelson and wife Ruth E .; they built house.
522. OTIS HOWE: In 1828 Israel Wightman sold to Nancy A. Johnson, spinster, one acre east of the highway next south of the Nelson place and next to the Blanchard north line. In 1849 Mary Johnson of Mobile, Ala., sold this property to Elisha Mayo. Mayo also bought additional land from Gardner Phillips (Permelia), his brother-in-law.
The Mayos sold 1864 to John O'Connell of Rockingham (Catharine); 1865 to Eliza Ann Holton of Alstead; 1867 to William J. Hall of Rocking- ham (Avis). Hall had a shop a little north of the house, made furniture, removed to Ludlow, then back to Walpole. Hall mortgaged to George R. Jennison who sold 1878 to Oliver T. Joslin. He did market gardening, principally strawberries, onions. His father and mother, from Vermont, joined the Shakers at Enfield about 1849, their two sons two years later. Oliver withdrew in 1872, came to Walpole, lived on Pleasant Street, then this farm. The parents followed after two years. Joslin sold to Clifford Sturtevant in 1907; 1912 to Jeremiah F. Haley; 1914 to Henry W. Porter of Bellows Falls; 1914 to Thomas C. Quinton; 1921 his sister, Nancy S. Chaffin of West Acton, Mass., to Jessie L. Dearborn; 1921 to Albert H. Ward; 1922 to Lovell B. and Ida B. Whitaker; 1925 to Myron M. and Elizabeth M. Ingalls; 1944 to James A. and Mabel M. Dunlap; 1951 to Edward J. and Natalie M. Rock; 1953 to Albert J. and Dorothy L. Boudrieau; 1962 to Otis Howe.
523. R. N. JOHNSON'S BLANCHARD FARM: This was the portion of the John Bellows' farm which Thomas Seaver bought of the Redingtons in 1805, east of the Turnpike. Seaver sold 1809 to Benjamin Davis; 1815 to Jona- than Blanchard. Of their children Roswell had the west part of the farm, the buildings on the Turnpike. A daughter Louisa was confined to her bed upward of forty years with a disease of the spine. Her brother Willard stayed at home, unmarried, and cared for her. In 1884 they sold the farm to Joseph Willson who moved the old house to a site west of the road, without disturbing Louisa in her bed. Willson built a handsome resi- dence, lived here two or three years, then moved into the village for the winters. He was a retired grain and feed dealer, died 1896. In 1902 Alice B. Willson of Salem, Mass., sold to Lyman Chickering whose daughter
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Jessie Dearborn lived here. Her son James S. of Westbury, L. I., sold 1954 to Ralph N. Johnson, now occupied by his son James Johnson.
There was a barn east of the road near the north line 1801, 1805. The Willson house burned Oct. 20, 1917 while Jessie Dearborn owned it. She built the present house.
524. WILLIAM J. BROWNLEE: Alice B. Willson sold in 1897 to Minnie E. Putney, the Blanchard house west of the highway; 1904 to William T. Wentworth; 1907 to Frank J. Wheeler; 1921 his widow Lora A. to Albert H. Ward of Westminster; 1921 to Jessie L. Dearborn; 1930 to William J. Brownlee, now owned by said Brownlee and Arleen Brownlee Bemis.
525. EDWARD J. ROCK: In 1941 Jessie Dearborn sold to Helen H. Drew a lot at her north line along the east side of the road; 1944 same with build- ings to Edward J. Rock.
526. WALTER H. WRIGHT: In 1958 R. N. Johnson sold a lot in the south part of this farm, east of Upper Road, to Walter H. and Evangeline Wright who have built a house.
527. ROCK DAIRY FARM: This was the southeast corner of the land the Redingtons bought from John Bellows. More land has been added through the years. In 1806 Isaac Redington sold to Charles Stratton; Thomas Bellows Jr. resided here 1817; 1836 sold to George Huntington; 1840 to Francis Lock. He was born in Stoddard, came to Walpole at 21, worked for Josiah Bellows five years, later owned various farms, at 87 retired and was living in Claremont. He sold 1862 to George R. Jennison. The family lived here for 20 years. When George's father died, he moved to the village and had tenants on the farm. Every morning he drove a pair of chestnut Morgans to the farm here and did most of his farm work with them; keeping sheep and cattle. While he owned the farm, a graphite mine was opened in his pasture on the hill to the east. His heirs reserved one-half claim in the mine, should it ever be developed, when they sold 1909 to Harmon Whitton. The Savings Bank of Walpole sold 1918 to Adam Rock of Rockingham; 1950 his sons to Alfred P. and Louise P. Benoit of Plaistow; 1952 to Herman and Frayda Vontobel of Hempstead, New York.
The house has been somewhat changed through the years, front door moved from the side to the front. The old corn barn was the only thing unchanged in 1958. Jennison, after he moved to village, rented to Henry Slade 1887-9, then Morton Snow and others.
A new small house was built south of farmhouse by 1958 for farm help.
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528. CECIL J. PATCH: This was part of what Samuel Wightman kept. His grandson-in-law Warren Daniels sold in 1849 to Joseph Wells land between the railroad and the Turnpike, south from Cold River to the Bardwell place. Wells built the brick house standing on the place. He was a contractor for building a section of the Cheshire Railroad in Wal- pole, liked the place so well that he settled here. The place remained in the Wells family until Joseph's grandson Edgar sold in 1942 to Cecil J. and May J. Patch.
529. RALPH A. HODGKINS: In 1961 Cecil J. Patch sold 3.43 acres to Ralph A. and Gloria H. Hodgkins who built a house.
530. LESLIE ADAMS: In 1930 Arthur Wells sold a house lot east of the road to Leslie Adams who erected buildings.
531. CHARLES D. KEEFE JR .: In 1842 Warren Daniels sold to Albert Car- penter (his brother-in-law) 13 acres next south of the Patch place; 1847 to Otis Bardwell. The north acre Bardwell sold 1850 to Willard J. Sawyer; 1852 to Amos A. Sawyer (Lydia) of Alstead; 1853 to Joseph Wells; 1853 to Samuel Logan (Mary Ann), of Troy; 1859 to Otis Bardwell; 1861 to Henry C. Rawson who probably erected buildings. After his wife died, he lived with his step-daughter Mary A. Howard (Charles H.) who in- herited the place from him; 1910 to Stephen L. Dowlin of Rockingham; 1912 to Nancy E. Lawton of Rockingham; 1913 to Charles A. and Frances R. Williams; 1918 to Raymond G. and Carolyn S. Wright; 1922 to Elphege W. and Edna Morell; 1943 to Charles D. Jr. and Pearl J. Keefe.
532. JAMES C. HORTON: The south part of the lot above, Bardwell sold to Henry C. Rawson in 1861; 1897 to George S. Wilber of Rockingham; 1904 to Jonas N. Huntting; 1910 estate to Joseph Z. Aumand; 1919 to Patrick C. Cray; 1953 Margaret C. Adams, heir, to Teresa C. and Edward Bartlett Jr .; 1955 to James C. and Roberta L. Horton. Probably Rawson erected these buildings about 1851.
533. HAROLD S. LAWRENCE: In 1828 Zachariah Carpenter sold 10 acres next south of the present Horton place to Samuel W. Griffin; 1838 to Almerin Parker; his widow Nancy in 1856 to John H. Pool; 1868 his widow Sarah B. to Farquhar McRae; 1871 to Ambrose S. Wilder; 1875 to Levi Chapin; 1876 to Adeline Thompson who willed to Frances A. Hubbard. The buildings burned in August 1893, struck by lightning in the night. Hubbards sold the next spring to John R. Blood of Rockingham; 1898 to George M. Corey of Rockingham; 1899 to Philip and William de St.
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Croix of Rockingham; 1902 to Herbert A. Dedrick of Rockingham; 1907 to Edward J. Snow; 1920 Lora A. Snow to Joseph B. Gray of Orleans, Vt. (Clara J.); 1924 to Ralph C. Roundy of Rochester, N. H .; 1932 to Henry W. and Mabel G. Mathers; 1935 Mabel G., widow, to Jacob P. and Teofila A. Koson; 1940 to Harold S. and Gladys B. Lawrence.
534. LOUIS BALLAM HOME PLACE: This was the west end of the strip that Thomas Seaver had out of the John Bellows' farm, west of the Turn- pike. In 1805 Seaver sold the 51 acres to Isaac Redington; 1805 to Oliver Goodale; 1807 to Isaac Redington; 1811 to John Livingston; Asher South- worth had from his estate. The south part he sold 1818 to Stephen Tiffany; 1821 to George Sparhawk; 1839 to Otis Bardwell.
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