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The William Wyman house probably stood near the new Remick house. 588. VERNER FULLER: East of the highway, out of the old Wyman land, Robert S. Ball sold 1961 to Joseph S. Christian (Odessa D.) a house lot near the south line. Had a trailer here.
In 1950 Ball sold to Verner and Nellie M. Fuller a house lot farther north and they moved a house to this site.
NORTH OF COLD RIVER-WEST
589. FRANK W. WHITCOMB CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: Samuel Wightman remained at the old Bellows Tavern on his farm only a few years. When in 1816 he turned over to his son Israel that part of the farm south of Cold River and east of the Third N. H. Turnpike, he kept for himself the part west of the Turnpike and north of Cold River up onto the side of Fall Mountain to the south line of the Atkinson strip. He had built a new tavern on the north side of the river, now belonging to Whitcomb Construction Corporation. Here he spent the rest of his life. The follow- ing is a specimen of the many anecdotes related of the doings here during his lifetime.
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Old Wightman Tavern
"During the time deacon Wightman was keeping the Carpenter tavern, at the foot of the mountain, several lumbermen were boarding at his house. After supper, one night, one of the party told the deacon that he had found a partridge's nest that day with sixteen fresh eggs in it, and had brought them down; and if he would find rum and sugar the company should be regaled with egg-nogg, to which proposition the deacon not reluctantly assented. In the mean time one of the party went to his barn and purloined hen's eggs sufficient for the occasion. The party contrived to break the eggs unseen by the deacon. When the nogg was duly prepared, foaming in the mug, the deacon was presented with it first, in deference to age. He was not loth to accept the proffered courtesy, and grasped the mug and began to sip and taste, sip and taste, till the company began to think that he was imbibing the lion's share, when he placed the mug upon the counter, at the same time 'smacking' his lips. One of the party then asked him how he liked partridge-nogg when he replied, 'Amazing good! Amazing good! but I think it tastes a 1-e-e-tle of the wild!'" (Aldrich p. 387)
Samuel's daughter Lydia had married Zachariah Carpenter and they came to Walpole to spend their days caring for her aged parents. They had the tavern after her father's death. In turn, their daughter Caroline married Warren Daniels who continued at the old stand until they
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removed to Rutland, Vt .; 1853 to Francis Locke (Ann); 1853 to the Cheshire Railroad. In 1923 the Boston & Maine Railroad sold the farm to Alba M. Bragg (Mary F.); 1927 the buildings and the area around them to Lucy A. Whitcomb; 1936 to Frank W. Whitcomb; 1945 to Frank W. Whitcomb Construction Company. The Whitcombs built the new house up on the bank; 1945 to Earl F. Jones; 1955 to Kenneth E. and Anna Fredette.
590. EUGENE CRAY GARAGE: In 1930 L. A. and F. A. Whitcomb deeded to Charles H. Porter of Rockingham the lot next west of the old tavern where the garage now stands; 1930 to Collis Porter; 1934 to Eugene P. Cray.
591. EMERSON H. WELCH: Next to the railroad crossing, northeast of the highway, is the old grain store of John H. Byrnes. We have no deed to Byrnes, but it may be assumed that he got permission from the railroad company to erect this building. The land between the main highway and Cold River was used for cattle pens, this being a great shipping point. Harry Wright was a baggage car man for the B & M for years, beginning in 1903 and continuing on this run from Fitchburg to Bellows Falls for over 50 years. When he first came up through here, the grain store was here and Mr. Byrnes was elderly, or seemed so to him. The farmers from far around drove their animals in for shipment and bought their grain. The station agent lived in the tenement above the grain store. The Byrnes estate sold 1918 to Charles H. Garrity, the 21/2 story building and the coal shed west of the tracks. In 1937 Alba Bragg deeded the land to Emerson H. and Lily A. Welch, and Annie F. Byrnes, sole heir of Charles Garrity, gave a quit claim deed to them for the buildings.
592. GREENHEART MARINE EQUIPMENT CO., INC .: In 1928 the Braggs sold land south of the highway across from the old tavern to The American Mineral Products Co., Inc., which erected a plant for grinding the feldspar brought in from the mines in Acworth, Alstead, etc .; 1934 receiver sold to Seaboard Minerals Corporation; 1942 the corporation bankrupt, trans- ferred to General Minerals Corporation; 1946 to J. F. Morton, Inc .; 1956 to Foote Mineral Company; June 1962 to Greenheart Marine Equipment Co., Inc.
ATKINSON STRIP
When Benjamin Bellows and Theodore Atkinson divided the town between them in 1766 Atkinson's share included a 2028 acre strip extend-
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ing from the Langdon line south as far as the Welch place (#586) south of Drewsville, and from the Alstead line west to Connecticut River, except that the southwest corner, including the Cold River Meadows, went to Bellows. This tract Atkinson and/or his heirs sold in five large tracts, plus a small one on the Connecticut River. (1) The 100 acre piece at Drewsville was sold to Gen. Benjamin Bellows in 1782. This extended from the foot of the falls on Cold River a half mile easterly and from the Langdon line south to the road to Alstead Center, roughly. (2) Thomas Sparhawk sold in 1798 to Levi Hubbard and Joseph Jones 246 acres extending from tract 1 to south line of strip. (3) From these two tracts east to the Alstead line Levi Bellows had in 1795. (4) West of the Bellows and Hubbard-Jones pieces was a tract purported to be 650 acres (more likely 560 acres), the full width of the strip, and extending west to include the present town dump. This was sold by Sparhawk in 1800 to Stephen R. Bradley; 1804 to Amasa Allen. He reserved a 250 acre strip off the south side of the tract, sold the rest 1806 to Thomas C. Drew, Asa Sibley, William Pierce and David Stone. Thomas Drew eventually had all of it. (5) The tract next west Samuel Sparhawk sold 1804 to Jonathan Royce. (6) Six acres along the Connecticut River George Atkinson sold 1782 to Enoch Hale.
ROAD NORTH OF COLD RIVER, WEST TO EAST
593. HERBERT O. WOOD: This is part of the old Wightman farm, northeast corner. In 1853 Warren Daniels (Caroline) sold 80 acres here to Francis Locke (Ann); 1853 to Cheshire Railroad; 1919 Fitchburg Railroad to Boston & Maine; 1923 to Alba M. Bragg; 1927 to present owner who built two-story house with barn, south of highway.
594. NOBLE WILLIAMS: This is part of the Elisha Royce farm north of Cold River, out of the old Atkinson strip which Thomas Drew took on a bond from Royce 1822. The part west of Griswold Brook (which comes down off the south end of Fall Mountain) Drew sold 1834 to Thomas Tole (Julia Murphy) of Langdon, 100 acres. He came from Ireland about 1823, located in Drewsville, then Langdon. Apparently Julia was called Judy. She and son John sold the farm in 1854 to son-in-law Jonathan Putney. The house, probably built by Tole, stood north of the road opposite #594 and #595. It was struck by lightning September, 1893, burned to the ground.
In 1895 son William Putney took the property north of the road, daughter Minnie took that on the south side, built a house 1899; 1900
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Minnie sold land to William J. Cairns (Ermind A.); 1904 to Anton Wolfel (Mary Hecker); 1946 Mary to Noble and Elsie Wolfel Williams.
595. IRENE WOLFEL ESTATE: In 1884 Jonathan Putney sold to his sisters- in-law Margaret A. and Mary E. Tole a piece of land south of road and they must have built the house here, next east of Williams house, perhaps Minnie lived with them. They sold in 1900, the year before they died, to Leola L. Clark (Scott W.) of Rockingham; they lived here; 1920 to Walter C. Hadley of Rockingham; 1920 to Milan D. Royce of Putney; 1925 his guardian to Anton P. Wolfel. It is now in a state of disrepair, unoccupied.
The land north of the road in 1907 William Putney sold to J. Whitney Buckminster; 1908 to Whitcomb Manufacturing Company; 1910 to Anton P. Wolfel Jr. who divided it as follows:
596. ARTHUR L. PARRIS: In 1951 from the Mountain Road east along the road to Gilbert's sawmill, to Sidney G. Sabins; 1955 to Arthur L. Parris (Pauline M.) house up on side of mountain, road to it.
597. RICHARD A. GILBERT: In 1946 185 ft. along the road to Richard A. Gilbert.
598. JOHN PONEK: In 1941 to Forest S. Horner (Helen A.); 1944 to Leon Woodbury (Lucinda R.); 1945 to Sidney G. Sabins; 1946 to John Ponek (Madeline K.); Abbie Sabins Greene lived here 1961.
599. ABBIE SABINS GREENE: In 1941 to Leon W. Woodbury; 1945 to Sidney G. Sabins; 1947 to Sidney P. Sabins; 1957 to Abbie E. Sabins Greene.
The northeast part of the old Elisha Royce farm became known as the Cobb lot, extending north from the bank north of the "Plain" to the Langdon line, and from the intersection of the town line with the road north of Cold River west to Griswold Brook. When Joseph Cobb (Jerusha) sold to Joseph Wells in 1853 he reserved the part of his farm north of the river (see #606). In 1854 he sold to Lyman (Abigail) and Henry J. (Emeline) Watkins; 1856 to Peyton R. Chandler (Levinah) of Rocking- ham; 1857 to Alphonso Jefts (Elmira), William W., William and Don Clough of Putney; 1860 to Robert Elwell of Langdon. (Jefts was then of Langdon.) Elwell had also bought from Samuel Slade the Slade piece 50 rods along the Langdon border, 32 rods deep. Exactly where along the line this piece was situated is not made clear in the deed, probably near the northeast corner of the Cobb lot. This land remained in the Elwell family until Robert Elwell's daughter, Mary E. Stanley of Greenfield,
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Mass., sold in 1915 to Alba M. Bragg; 1918 to John A. Duncan of Rocking- ham, Vt .; 1920 to Anton P. Wolfel. Wolfel broke it up as follows, west to east:
600. CHARLES WESTCOTT: 1939 to Charles C. Westcott and Nellie A., strip 300 ft. wide through to river; little white house, back from road. 601. JOHN A. LOWERY: 1932 to Charles B. Martin of Gilsum; 1945 to Arthur L. Lottes (little piece next to river at east end of tract); two pieces next east of Westcott and another piece by the river 1943 and 1945 to Arthur L. Lottes and Ruth M. of New York City; 1958 all their hold- ings to Ruth Marion New of New York City; 1960 to John A. Lowery of Rockingham. House on side road up mountain.
602. PERLEY SMITH: 1936 sold 950 ft. along road; 1946 all east of Lowery that he did not already own to Perley Smith (Amelia B.).
603. DONALD K. ROUNDS: In 1946 Smith sold to Donald K. and Elizabeth Rounds 200 ft. along the road, north side.
604. ALFRED G. WILSON: Smith sold to Alfred G. Wilson 200 ft. along road, next east. There was a cellarhole on this lot. This may have been the Slade lot-the only place that lot could have been on the highway, although it could conceivably have been the Cobb cellarhole. Nothing is shown on the 1858 map.
ROUTE 123 EAST FROM HATCH'S CORNER
605. FLOYD C. PETERSON-PEEP O'DAY: In 1804 Jonathan Royce bought from Samuel Sparhawk of Portsmouth all that remained unsold of the 2028 acres Atkinson strip west and northerly of Jonas Fairbanks and Samuel Wightman. The southwest corner of this, next to Wightman, he sold in 1819 to Levi Jennison, eighth child of John.
In 1824 Levi bought additional land so that he had about 75 acres. He had built a house on the first land north of road; 1826 sold to Daniel Anderson of Langdon, later moved to Drewsville, then Alstead; 1827 to Robert Cochran who sold to his daughter Jane who married Mason Fay; 1832 to Josiah Simons (Lydia C.); 1850 to James Chandler Jr. (Mary B.); 1858 to Reuben Clough (Cynthia M.); 1866 to James and Augusta Fuller of Charlestown; 1868 to Edward R. Pease of New York City; 1874 to daughter Edwerta Pease Bond (Edward S.); 1883 to Louis Frisch; 1884 to Wesley M. Huntley of Rockingham, Vt., came to be part of the brewery property. December 1886 the farm buildings of Wesley M. Huntley
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burned, known as "Peep O'Day," occupied by James Martin. In 1916 Harry Ball bought from the brewery interests; his widow Etta sold in 1937 to son Robert.
In 1941 Robert Ball sold to Herbert R. Westcott a house lot north of the highway near the northeast corner of the Roman Catholic Cemetery. He built a house here, sold 1948 to Floyd C. and Isabelle W. Peterson. The old cellarhole is west of the Peterson house.
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Cemetery, south of road, is out of the Jennison farm, consecrated August 1891.
606. COLD RIVER SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY: The Atkinson south line crossed Route 123 (diagonally) about 50 rods northeast of the fork in the road east of Hatch's Corner and crossed the Walpole-Drewsville (Hub- bard) Road about the same distance north of the Four Corners. The line was at an angle 12 degrees north of west. It extended westerly (crossing the power line) to Tole's land, then northerly crossing Cold River at about the same place as the power line, northerly to the edge of the woods at the base of Fall Mountain, then westerly over the mountain to Con- necticut River.
The rest of the tract that Jonathan Royce bought of Sparhawk, other than what he sold to Levi Jennison, he sold to his son Elisha. Elisha's house stood on a road which connected the road on the "Plain" with the Brewery Road, all excavated now. There was also a road that came down from Jennison (Ramsay) Hill and crossed Route 123 east of the Catholic Cemetery (still evident now because a barricade has been built across it where it comes into Rt. 123). It continued down to the Bellows Mill on Cold River in 1783. All traces of a mill have been destroyed south of the river; on the north there is an old dugway down to the river. Loca- tion is indicated by road records.
In 1823 Elisha sold his land on the plain to his brother-in-law Nehemiah Royce. It remained in the family until Grace Royce Welling- ton finally inherited and sold 1932 to Hermon O. Woodward; 1950 to Frank W. Whitcomb Construction Company. There is nothing in the records to indicate that there were any buildings here after Elisha left.
The north part of the farm Elisha lost to Thomas Drew 1822; 1838 to Joseph Smith (Hannah) of Alstead; 1840 to Sarah E. Lathrop (Mrs. Hope); 1841 to Thomas D. Bond; 1842 to Joseph Cobb of Alstead.
In 1853 Joseph Cobb sold that part of his farm south of Cold River to Joseph Wells; 1870 (then known as Cobb lot) to brewery interests which held in one name or another until 1915; to Herbert F. Nelson of Sharon,
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Mass .; 1915 to George E. Whitcomb of Swanzey; 1916 to Alba M. Bragg (Mary F.); 1917 to Wallace L. Gillett (Bertha M.); 1948 to Nelson W. and Orella A. Lesure; 1950 to Frank W. Whitcomb Construction Company.
In 1954 both Whitcomb tracts were transferred to the Cold River Sand & Gravel Corporation. This remarkable deposit of gravel has been so completely excavated that there will never be any traces of what has been.
South of Rt. 123 Andrew Barr lived for a time. He had been flooded out below North Walpole. His incomplete house burned Jan. 2, 1946. He died Nov. 11, 1953 (83) alone in his little house.
BREWERY ROAD, WEST TO EAST
607. GORDON H. PRATT: This was part of the Levi Jennison farm, became a part of the brewery property; 1916 Whitcomb Manufacturing Company sold to Alba M. Bragg; 1917 to Wallace L. and Bertha Gillett; 1948 to Nelson Lesure (Orella A.), who built a house; 1955 to Leonard F. Barry; 1957 to Gordon H. and Anna E. Pratt.
608. EUGENE VEGA: In 1934 the Gelletts sold to Mrs. Ina Ravey of Rock- ingham, Vt. land and buildings at the intersection of the Cobb Lot Road and the Brewery Road; 1952 her heirs to Eugene Dante Vega (Shirley Madeline) of Dorchester, Mass., house south of Brewery Road.
609. MARION SABINS: The site where the brewery stood south of Cold River and north of the road was divided into lots A (west) and B (east). In 1915 Adelheide Wessell bought the A lot with a 11/2 story house; 1920 to Walter C. Hadley; 1921 to Sidney G. Sabins (Marion E.). The B Lot with the brewery boarding house and bottling house Wessell seems to have had also; sold in 1917 to Truscott Fuller; 1929 to Sidney G. Sabins. There was more to it, but this is the substance.
In 1931 Sidney G. Sabins deeded property here to the Mountain Spring Trout Club, Inc. They stayed in existence until May 1, 1941, when they deeded it through their secretary Marion Sabins to Frederick L. Osgood, since the club had forfeited its right to exist through failure to pay charter taxes. This through the years has been the site of many large outings, picnics, and clambakes. There were four cottages and two log cabins.
The south part of the Atkinson tract next west of Drewsville the Allen heirs sold in 1830 to Ephraim Holland. Most of the land is wooded, but out of this tract are these two homesteads on the "Plain" north of the Four Corners.
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610. ELLEN H. AMSDEN: In 1860 Nancy M. Holland sold to Ivah N. Farr and Allen Wells of Westminster 125 acres more or less; 1871 10 acres here to James T. Holmes who built a house; 1890 W. A. Bond took the place, Holmes removed to Drewsville Village; 1890 to Eunice M. and Harry E. Tarbell; 1893 to William W. Stone; 1897 estate to Hope L. Lovell; 1897 to Morton A. Snow; 1900 to Abbie A. Lovell; 1908 to Henry W. Porter; 1910 to Nicholas Angelo; 1922 to Carrie L. Buswell; 1959 to Leon A. and Ellen H. Amsden. Now about 30 acres. Leon A. Amsden died 1961. In 1910 Angelo built a new house. In 1961 Ellen T. Amsden, widow, sold a lot north of her house to William G. and Alice R. Geer who have a trailer.
611. JOSEPH WILK: There was a house here in 1858, marked E. Holland, but there is no way of knowing who lived here. In 1861 Nancy Holland sold 92 acres to James McDonald; 1865 to John Ryan who had been up in what is now the Seward pasture; 1867 his widow Ellen to Harriet A. Buxton; 1879 Harriet A. Rugg to Moses and Ferdinand S. Elliott; 1889 Moses Elliott to James A. B. Smith of Langdon; 1891 to Edward S. and David J. Bond; 1896 Edward S. Bond to Henry S. Frost of Rockingham, Vt .; 1907 to Enoc Bowe, single; 1910 to Henry W. Porter; 1914 to Joseph Wilk. Charles Rice resided here probably about 1870.
ROUTE 123
TOWN DUMP: This came out of the old Fairbanks farm (or Drew farm or Cold River Farm), from the 24 acres that Hope Lathrop sold from Thomas C. Drew's estate 1849 to Aaron P. Howland. The northeast corner was at the intersection of Cold River and the Langdon line, the lot about 26 rods wide on the Drewsville-Bellows Falls Road, the river the north boundary. In 1912 the Howland estate sold to Chauncey J. Newell; 1918 to Harry A. Ball. His son Robert S. sold 1950 to the Town of Walpole, now used as the town dump.
612. FAIRBANKS CELLARHOLE: North of Rt. 123, perhaps a third of the way from the dump to the intersection with the Hubbard Road from Walpole to Drewsville, is the cellarhole where Mrs. Fairbanks' house stood in 1858. This we have not been able to explain. The 1858 map is reliable and shows ownership of homesteads, but there are no deeds indicating that a Fairbanks ever owned here. Perhaps Uri (or Jonas) Fairbanks settled here as a squatter before Atkinson started selling the land, and was suffered to remain, and this was his house. Aldrich wrote
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that Drew bought a square mile of Uri Fairbanks, but there are no records to substantiate such a statement. The nearest is a quit claim deed that Jonas Fairbanks gave to Stephen R. Bradley in 1800 for $5, quitting any claim he had to the Cold River Farm, the 650 acre tract. The name Fairbanks Farm clung to the tract, particularly the north part.
The old #12 school was in the clump of pines north of road, a nice boiling spring not far away. Prentiss said ". .. About 20 rods from the corner at the stone quarry towards Drewsville, I attended school here a few terms when there was no school in the Valley."
DREWSVILLE
Drewsville as a village did not come into its own until after the building of the Cheshire Turnpike from Charlestown and Langdon through this hamlet and Walpole Valley to Surry and Keene. W. P. Porter wrote thus of the Cheshire Turnpike in the Walpole Gazette, October 22, 1891:
"I could sit in my seat in the old, anciently constructed schoolhouse and look out of the window opposite my seat and often see from one to six 2, 4, 6, and even 8-horse teams at one time loaded with merchandise and other products going and coming on the old Cheshire Turnpike to and from Boston. This was the great thoroughfare from the north. . .. This was the mode of transporting goods from Boston to supply these towns. ... It was a universal custom among the farmers in town to go to Boston, Nashua, and Lowell with their pork, beef and grain, and exchange them for six months supply of West India goods, groceries of all kinds and such dry goods as were not man- ufactured at home .... Wetherbee collected toll every 10 miles or less. .
"Drovers used to drive large droves of cattle, sheep and swine on this road to market. I remember seeing droves of turkeys and geese with hundreds in a drove. ... But usually the farmers did not sell their poultry until winter when they dressed it at home and carried it to market with their beef and pork. It took them 2 or 3 weeks to go to Boston and return. ...
"This Turnpike also afforded quite a little source of income to the farmers situated along beside it, in furnishing their oxteams to assist the heavy loaded wagons to pass up the steep Walpole and Surry hills, and when a teamster called upon them they left all other business to perform the required assistance, having stated fees for doing this work."
Another factor in the development of Drewsville was the water power at the Falls on Cold River. There were, as late as 1840, three woolen mills running at the same time, as well as various woodworking enter- prises and gristmills. There were two stores, a hotel, a church, a school. It is said that from 1820 to 1830 more business was done in Drewsville than in Walpole Village. After the freeing of the Turnpike and the
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passing of the mills, Drewsville settled back into the role of pleasant residential country village.
NORTH SIDE OF COMMON AND NORTH ON TURNPIKE TO RIVER
613. JOHN JACOB KOSON: This place in Drewsville Village was the old Drew farm, a part of the holdings of Thomas Drew et al. Thomas Drew's son Francis Gardner Drew lived here, died without issue, so the farm went to the heirs of his sister Sarah Eliza who had two sons Josiah and Thomas D. Bond. Both sons resided in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After Sarah Eliza Drew's first husband, Dr. Joseph Bond, died, she married Hope Lathrop who had two daughters Sarah E. B. (Mrs. Bolivar Lovell) and Lucia (Mrs. Norman Farr).
This property remained in the family until Martha Ellen Lovell Smith Shrimpton sold in 1910 to David A., Francis A., and Carl E. Mann; 1938 Carl E.'s widow, Phoebe, to Kenneth R. and Evelyn R. Towle; 1943 to John, Mary and Charles F. Koson. Charles died and his widow Gonoefa Koson of Cavendish, Vt., sold 1950 to John and Mary Koson; 1959 to John Jacob and Helen Koson. Place rented to Smith.
614. HARLEY PRENTISS: Between the Drew farmhouse and the store is Harley Prentiss' new house on what is known as the Queen Ann Cottage lot. Various members of the Drew-Lathrop-Lovell family owned through the years, others lived here. In 1892 it was two old ladies named Pease who were Bond relatives.
In 1909 Martha Ellen Lovell Smith Shrimpton sold to Maria A. Lovell (second wife of Hope Lovell); 1917 to Dan B. and Flossie Williams; 1920 to David G. Raymond. It must have burned while Raymond owned for he sold 1925 to Herbert G. Barber for $200; 1926 to Edna G. Raymond; 1931 to Ellen A. Buxton; 1935 to Grace D. and William H. Swasey of Acworth; 1937 to Ralph S. and Eleanor H. Vining; 1946 to Harley Prentiss.
615. STORE-HARLEY PRENTISS: In 1814 Thomas C. Drew sold 1/4 acre to Gilbert Griswold Jr. and Ira White. Judging by the increase in price when Griswold sold his share to White in 1815 it may be inferred that they had erected a building. He styled himself then as merchant. In 1816 White sold to John F. Wilcox of Surry (wife, Sally); 1818 to William Porter (Martha), plater; 1823 to Thomas H. Heaton (Mary). At that time the site was described as being on the Turnpike (Cheshire) and the "State
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Road leading from Geer's (probably Geyer's) bridge in Walpole to McGregor's bridge in Goffstown. ... "
In 1825 Heaton sold to Martin Butterfield Jr. and Alva Walker "Also all privilege I have to piece of land leased to me by Thomas C. Drew together with the potash standing on said piece, reserving to myself right of removing the kettles from said potash." He also reserved the store long enough to close out his business. In 1826 sold to William King of Lang- don; 1828 to James Chandler of Alstead; 1831 to Thompson Chandler & Francis G. Drew. King obtained judgment against Chandler & Drew, and sold 1832 to Thomas C. Drew after several manipulations; 1846 left to his sons Charles C. and Francis G. Drew, they to Hope Lathrop who kept store here for many years. Sarah E. B. Lovell left to Hope Lovell; 1909 to Martha Ellen Lovell Smith Shrimpton; 1910 to Cleon R. Demerse; 1911 to Elmer G. Buswell of Alstead; 1919 to Charles L. Moultrop; 1928 to Raoul J. and Emma M. McKenven. The house and store building, con- nected, burned while McKenven owned it. In 1930 McKenven sold to Ellen A. Buxton of Concord; then see transactions for house next west. Harley Prentiss now owns.
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