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The store was in the front of the building, sheds at rear. The upper story was used for storage-a wheel upstairs for drawing up the things to be stored-sleighs, etc. In 1858 this was known as the N.E.P.U. store; Herbert Buswell came here 1893, operated a variety and general store for many years. McKenven built the present store.
Hope Lathrop was a plater in Drewsville in 1819. While he had the store, he also had the post office here and the Deputy Sheriff office.
616. EDWARD R. SANTAW: In 1813 Thomas C. Drew sold to Joseph Field of Alstead the lot next east of the store; 1814 to Jonathan and Israel Brown (Nelly); 1815 to Jonathan Brown with buildings; 1816 to Otis Ballou; 1817 to Jesse Jaquith (Charlotte); 1819 to Otis Ballou (Lydia); 1822 to Joseph Field; 1827 to Jacob Putnam. He died by 1830 leaving his widow with a large family. The property remained in the family until his daughter-in-law Cleora Corbin Putnam (Mrs. Henry) sold in 1914 to Benjamin F. Brown and Sarah E. Vittum. Brown had retired from the family farm east of the village. She died soon and he sold 1914 to Henry C. Johnson; 1916 to Mary C. Clough; 1934 to Robert S. Ball; 1959 to Edward R. and Gretchen E. Santaw. House burned while Ball was here; he built new. The Post Office was here at one time.
617. BLACKSMITH SHOP-WILLARD PRENTISS: In 1822 Thomas C. Drew gave a quit claim deed to Moses Southard ". . . land and is same where a
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blacksmith shop now stands on west side of Cheshire Turnpike and is same now used and occupied by Adams Milliken." Milliken was in Charlestown for many years.
". . . Alvin Beckwith, (was) the village blacksmith, who for many years shod horses and oxen in the old shop, now Willard's (Prentiss) antique room. At his death his son, Charles C. Beckwith, who had learned the trade working with his father, carried on the business for many years. As time went on he was one of the last to shoe oxen. At this trade he was an expert, and farmers came from long distances to avail themselves of his skill." Prentiss p. 13.
EAST SIDE OF TURNPIKE OUT OF DREWS' LAND, SOUTH TO NORTH
618. MARYAN JADKOWSKI: In 1814 Thomas Drew sold to Aaron and Moses Southard (twins) two acres on the corner east of the Turnpike and north of the road to Alstead Center. They prospered in their store here; sold 1819 to Martin Butterfield Jr. and Alvah Walker. The Southards removed to Haverhill, N. H. Their account books have been available for this work. Subsequently the firm of Butterfield and Walker, which failed about 1828 or '30, was followed by Bellows & Crosby for a short time. William Bellows, a son of Josiah Sr., and Edward Crosby, a son of Parson Crosby of Charlestown, made up the firm. Butterfield and Walker sold to William King of Langdon 1826; 1833 to Josiah Bellows 3rd & Co .; 1848 to W. A. Bond who had a store here many years and the post office. This was a two-story building, with the house to the east connected. Downstairs was the Bond store, upstairs a dance hall. At one time there were three dance halls in Drewsville. The Bond heirs sold 1910 to Fred E. Crosby; 1911 to Hattie M. Comptois (Mrs. F. A.); 1917 to Stella E. Camp- bell; 1920 to Edgar C. and Susan L. Belden; 1927 to Charles A. Moultrop (Mildred); 1927 to Carroll H. Heselton of Alstead who had a garage here; 1945 to Maryan Jadkowski of Langdon. This place faces south on road to Alstead Center.
North of #618 the land drops down to a new level where there are the following five houses:
619. J. W. PRENTISS III: Next north, east of the Turnpike is the old Lowell lot. In 1813 Thomas C. Drew sold lot to Ziba Lowell, mill man, he probably built the house, originally 11/2 stories, raised about 1900. By 1851 the various Lowell heirs had sold their shares and Joseph Fisher owned and rented to others; 1855 to Mary Shackford (John) who by 1857
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had removed to Jackson, California, and sold to Timothy Isham; 1872 Isham heirs to Jerusha Cobb; 1882 her estate to Adeline M. Fisher (Joseph); 1925 Fisher heirs to Lovell B. and Ida B. Whitaker; 1929 to Katie M. Prentiss; 1949 to John Willard Prentiss III.
620. JOHN WILLARD PRENTISS III-HOME PLACE: This is the old Joseph Fisher place. The old line between the Fairbanks Farm and the Bellows 100 acre tract ran through this place. In 1812 Thomas C. Drew sold to David Fisher the part out of the Fairbanks Farm; 1814 to Oren Hall who in 1815 bought from Aaron Graves the part out of the Bellows' tract on the east; 1816 Hall to Levi Jennison. Probably a house was here then; 1822 to John Emerson; 1834 to Anan Evans; 1841 to David Fisher who lived here; 1847 to Joseph Fisher; 1927 to Charles W. Russell, judgment against Frank Fisher; 1929 to Minnie B. Prentiss 1/2 of property; 1937 other 1/2 estate of Charles Russell to John W. Prentiss Jr .; 1948 to John Willard Prentiss III 1/2 and other 1/2 in 1959.
621. ELIZABETH PRENTISS COYNE: Oren Hall had this from Thomas Drew and David Fisher. Hall resided here; 1816 to Thomas C. Drew; 1834 to David Fisher; 1842 to Joseph Fisher; 1847 to David Fisher; 1868 Charles Fisher had from his father's estate; 1869 to Willard Grant; 1878 to Samuel G. Ellis; 1879 heirs to Sarah Jane Ellis who married Marvin Tuttle and they sold 1881 to Charles Edward Beckwith; 1932 to Charles W. Russell and Minnie B. Prentiss; 1949 to Robert A. and Elizabeth N. Hart. Now owned by David and Elizabeth Prentiss Coyne. This is a very old, low red house, known as the Charles Fisher place.
622. JOHN MONASKI: In 1811 Caleb Bellows sold to Aaron Graves Jr. three acres bounding for 22 rods on the old west line of the Bellows' tract, then continuing north 12 rods along the east line of the Turnpike. The east line was the Back Road from Joseph Jones' to the mill. The point between the roads was not included. The north line was north 84 degrees west 10 rods from the east road to the west. The piece in the point is now Hayes.
The main part of his three-acre piece Aaron Graves sold 1816 to Jacob Putnam; his heirs 1838-9 to John P. Maynard who must have sold to David Fisher (no record). In 1857 David Fisher sold to Charles Fisher, along with the mill, a house east of the turnpike which came out of the Aaron Graves land to Jacob Putnam; 1869 to Oliver Martin; 1870 to Al- vin A. Beckwith; 1912 son Charles E. to Horace L. Quinton; 1922 he left property to Town of Walpole which sold to Charles S. Chandler; 1932
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his daughter Mabel B. Harriman of Northfield, Mass., her half to Harley H. Chandler of Bristol, Conn. October 13, 1935, the house was practically razed by fire; 1940 Harley Chandler (Edith) to John W. Prentiss Jr. and Minnie B. Prentiss; 1952-3 to John W. Prentiss III; 1959 to John and Lois Monaski. When the house burned, it had been unoccupied for several years. The firemen pumped water from the river to fight the fire but were hampered by heavy traffic. John W. Prentiss Jr. built the present house about 1943.
623. RICHARD C. MILLER: The next place north Aaron Graves Jr. sold 1815 to Anson Graves (Asenath); 1815 to Abel Page; in 1823 he had re- moved to Essex, N. Y., sold to Moses Fisher (Mary) with a building on it; 1823 to Martha Bellows of Charlestown; 1834 to Royal B. Milliken (Sarah) of Springfield, with understanding that she (Martha Bellows) could lease "two east rooms, one-half of northwest chamber, use and occupancy of so much of kitchen as will be necessary for washing and baking, privilege of setting and using a loom in back room, so much of cellar and woodhouse as needed .. . "; 1835 to Betsey Waldon; 1836 to Norman Cobb (Mary) of Putney, Vt .; 1836 to Royal B. Milliken; 1837 to Charles T. Wetherbee (Nancy H.); 1841 to Jonas Farnsworth; 1846 to John P. Maynard (Roxy); 1853 to Thomas Nichols; 1865 heirs to Samuel D. Cobb; 1898 to May F. Putnam of Claremont; 1903 to Joseph B. Cobb who re- tired here from his farm on Whitney Road, later his son Joseph who re- moved to Walpole Village; 1913 to Benjamin F. Brown; 1914 to Charles S. Chandler of Alstead; 1932 estate to Blanche E. and Henrietta E. Welch; 1942 Blanche's estate to John W. Prentiss Jr. and III; 1951 to Richard C. and Marjorie V. Miller of Brookfield, Mass. She is daughter of Lucius Slade.
This is very old house, originally 11/2 stories, high above the road.
624. ALBERT D. LACLAIR: This place is down over another bank from the previous places. Prentiss wrote: "There was a bowling alley at the foot of the hill close to the river, and I remember when there was also a house near it where Mr. Carpenter lived." In 1856 Jacob Putnam's heirs sold out of his holdings here, one acre with buildings to Amanda Car- penter Holbrook of Rockingham. She was Zachariah Carpenter's oldest daughter, her brother Albert lived here; 1881 her heirs sold to William J. Chandler; 1883 to Emily M. Wright of Charlestown; 1885 land and buildings were foreclosed by William A. Bond who sold to Nellie E. Douglas who later married Nelson L. Burnell; 1921 to Sidney Harris (Nellie L.); 1924 to Fred Prentiss; 1931 to Bertrand A. Bates of Charles-
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DELIVERING BARRELED APPLES TO DEPOT in 1905 Zenas Foster and H. H. Thompson
DICK KILBURN DRIVING C. H. SLADE'S TEAM
(Watkins)
AT THE WENTWORTH HOTEL, Nov. 25, 1876
MR. AND MRS. HASTINGS, MR. AND MRS. PERRY, GEORGE ALDRICH, DAN KINERY, Coachman
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L. B. HOLLAND'S TEAM
ROAD SCRAPER ON NORTH MAIN STREET about 1915
(Watkins)
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ARMAY
SIX HORSE SNOW ROLLER ON WESTMINSTER ST. about 1920
SCHOOL TEAMS about 1920
NELSON HASTINGS AND CYCLISTS
R.R Station Walpole N. H.
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WALPOLE DEPOT about 1920
10. R. R.
"THE DAVID UPTON" FORMERLY "THE PRESIDENT" built in 1851 (Foster) Served the Cheshire R.R. through Walpole
ROUNDHOUSE IN NORTH WALPOLE in 1962 "Steamtown" collection of locomotives
(Williams)
#3711, ONE OF THE LAST STEAM LOCOMOTIVES TO SERVE WALPOLE about 1945
(Driscoll)
E.S. BOND & Co.
OLD #15, EARLY 1900's (Driscoll)
STORE IN DREWSVILLE (#615)
TEAL
CHESHIRE
"THE CHESHIRE", Budd Streamliner Started Runs to Boston 1944 (Foster)
WRECK OF THE CHESHIRE, WALPOLE DEPOT Jan. 1945
J. H. DUNNING CORP. (the box company) (#N48)
(Baker)
OFFICE OF F. VOSE AND J. G. BEL- LOWS before 1872 (#167)
THE FOUNTAIN IN THE SQUARE about 1910
FILLING CHARLES H. SLADE'S ICEHOUSE (#467)
CUTTING ICE ON THE MILLPOND about 1915
ICE DELIVERY TO WALPOLE AND WESTMINSTER about 1915
(Watkins) Will Stowell Weighing a Block of Ice
H. O. WOODWARD'S CHRISTMAS WREATH BUSINESS
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HUBBARD FARMS, MAIN OFFICE AND HATCHERY in 1960 (#465) (Harris)
HUBBARD FARMS, HOME HATCHERY AND FIRST OFFICE
(Harris)
TECHROMATIC PLANT, North Walpole
(Baker)
NEW HAMPSHIRE, Hubbard Farms Foundation Stock, Earlier Years
HICKS MACHINE COMPANY S. T. Hicks at left
(#488)
IRONING ROOM, BATES & ALDRICH SHIRT FACTORY before 1876 (#14)
1ºC.S.BAIN. 2 MEAT & PROVISIONS.
BAIN'S MARKET about 1915 (#109) M. Podwin, A. Cole, S. Houghton, C. Bellows, W. Mitchell, C. Bain
S.J.CRAY PACKING CO. HOME MADE HAM BAUCH LARD IND FAUS ADECH
CRAY PACKING CO. AND UNDERPASS before 1926 (#N50)
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MOUNTAIN SPRING BREWERY, 1893-1904 (#606 and #609)
Io C.S.BAIN NEAT & PROVISIONS.
EXTRA SUPPLY OF MEAT in 1918 T. B. Buffum, Chas. Bain
MT. KILBURN INN, NORTH WALPOLE (#N19) The only hotel in Walpole in 1962
(Baker)
town; 1938 land and buildings to Harold K. Hayes (Dorothy M.); 1956 to Albert D. and Madeline B. LaClair.
DREWSVILLE MILLS
We may divide the mills at Drewsville into three groups: those east of the Turnpike which were in the Bellows' tract; those west of the Turn- pike and south of the river, also in the Bellows' tract; and those north of the river and west of the Turnpike, out of the Fairbanks Farm.
Gen. Benjamin Bellows who had mills here on the country road in 1875, willed his property here to his son Caleb except for the sawmill which he had sold to Uri Fairbanks.
MILLS EAST OF TURNPIKE
The sawmill property east of the Turnpike which Bellows had sold to Uri Fairbanks was sold 1806 to David Stone; 1807 to Thomas C. Drew, William Pierce, innholder at Keene, Asa Sibley-a 3/4 interest; 1808 Sib- ley and Stone sold their half to Nehemiah Chandler; 1810 Pierce his 1/4 to Oren Hall, chaisemaker, who sold same year to Nehemiah Chandler; 1812 Drew sold his 1/4 interest to Walpole Farmers' Cotton & Woolen Factory Company and Chandler sold his 3/4 interest to same company. In 1812 the legislature granted a charter to "Walpole Farmers' Cotton & Woolen Factory Co.", Thos. C. Drew, Moses Fisher, Nehemiah Chan- dler & Associates. Capital allowed $40,000; $10,000 for real estate and erecting buildings; residue for raw materials, machinery for spinning cotton and woolen yarn, weaving the same into cloth, coloring and dress- ing it; $20,000 of this amount tax exempt for first five years; $100 shares.
In 1843 Jason Wetherbee of Charlestown, agent for the above company, sold their property here for $1500 to Asa Davis and Dana S. Holden "be- ing same water power privilege deeded ... to Uri Fairbanks." They mortgaged "one sett of woolen machinery-4 looms, 3 carding machines, 1 spinning jack, 1 shearing machine, 1 gig, 1 press, press plates and pop- pets, 1 warper."
In 1852 they sold woolen factory and dwelling houses to Royal Shum- way of Langdon; 1855 to Thomas Taunt of Springfield, Vt., woolen fac- tory and all buildings. There followed numerous mortgages, foreclosures, etc.
Probably it was into the Walpole Farmers' Cotton & Woolen Factory that Jacob Putnam put the machinery in 1812, as recorded. That mill burned, a later mill burned, and finally Taunt's mill burned 1860. Pren-
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tiss wrote: "The woolen factory was gone before I can remember and Thomas Taunt who ran it had changed to hotel keeper, the main busi- ness of which was selling hard liquor. The hotel was a long building painted white with an ell toward the road, with a horse barn attached, so as to leave a large dooryard. The barroom was at the far end from the road, and was well patronized. . .. Taunt had a dance hall in the hotel and ran dances regularly." And from the New Hampshire Sentinel 1877 "The character of the Cold River Hotel (Taunt's) was purified by fire May 1, house, barn and shed completely consumed. The fire was discov- ered in a corner of the barn about 10 P.M., time enough to remove live- stock, what furniture was worth saving. The occupants removed to other quarters. It was supposed to be incendiary, well covered by insurance." Taunt then set up business in the old Drew Tavern.
Robert Elwell bought what was left of the property in 1880; 1882 to Henry Elwell; 1883 to Samuel D. Cobb; 1898 to Nellie E. Burnell; 1912 to Galen H. Howard; 1938 to H. Kenneth Hayes (Dorothy M.); 1954 to Calvin H. LaRue. Hayes has taken it back.
MILLS WEST OF TURNPIKE SOUTH OF COLD RIVER
According to the record of the 1783 county road, Bellows had mills here then, probably a sawmill east of the road (later Uri Fairbanks) and a gristmill on the west. In 1817 Caleb Bellows sold to John Brown of Con- cord, Mass., mills and water privileges. Of course, this did not include the Fairbanks mill east of the road, so it is possible that there were both saw and grist mills west of the road. One may still see the loop of the road that went down to these mills. In 1820 Brown sold to Jacob Putnam and Moses Fisher. In 1823 Benjamin Maltby and Maltby Fowler sold to them the right to make and use a hulling or smut machine for their grist mill during the term of the patent. Putnam was a mill man here in Drews- ville, but Moses Fisher lived over on Maple Grove, having a little mill of his own on the brook, carried out by freshet 1826. There he had manufac- tured cotton yarn and his son David peddled it about the country. After this calamity he sold his interest in the mill on Cold River to his son David. It is not evident whether Fisher ever had a woolen mill of any kind here, but about 1838 Charles T. Wetherbee had carding machines, looms, etc., probably here, and about 1839-40 he and Dana S. Holden were occupying the factory building of David Fisher, making woolen cloth with dye house west of the factory on Cold River. Asa Davis was here with Holden in 1843 and 1849 in the woolen business. The grist- mill David sold to his son Charles in 1857, a carding machine in the
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gristmill at that time. A freshet in October 1868 swept away the gristmill and carding machine establishment, a severe loss to him.
In 1834 Horace Faulkner is said to have built a shop to the south on the bank on the Fisher land (no deed). He was in business here with Hartwell. In 1837 David's son Joseph started the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds in the Faulkner shop, buying the machinery from Faulkner 1838 "water wheel, line of shafting, drums on same." He con- tinued until he sold in 1898. The gristmill property Charles sold 1869 to his father-in-law, Oliver Martin; 1879 to Joseph Fisher. One fifth of the water was allowed to go to the shop. Frederick Fisher sold in 1898 to William H. Kiniry of North Walpole; 1901 to Oliver J. Butterfield; 1902 to Copley Amory, along with the Bond water rights and land.
Prentiss wrote of these places about 1870: "At this time Joseph Fisher had a sash and blind shop on the river at the foot of the hill adjoining the saw and gristmill. Many a time I have taken (there) a few bags of corn on the ear with perhaps a bushel of shelled corn for the family corn meal. ... These trips to mill were of great interest to us youngsters. We watched the miller start up the mill stones and saw the grain in the hopper converted into golden meal, and we had time while waiting for our grist to watch with never ending wonder the saw mill, the log rolled on to the carriage, a lever pulled, and the up and down saw slowly work its way through the log, and finally see the board drop down. ... Charles Fisher, who operated the mill, had but one arm, having lost the other by an accident in the mill. This mill did a thriving business."
When people around town modernized their old houses, they bought windows at Fisher's, for example, the Ira Hubbard house.
May 1898 D. J. Bond's new dry house, filled with dry birch, took fire late in the afternoon and burned.
MILLS NORTH OF COLD RIVER, OUT OF DREW LAND
In 1808 Asa Sibley and Thomas C. Drew sold to Nehemiah Chandler seven acres in the northeast corner of the Drew farm, abutting on the northwest side of the Bellows 100 acre tract, along the Langdon line. The east line was 64 rods, the southeast corner being on the Turnpike south of the old Fisher gristmill. The following is taken from a deposition made by Nehemiah Chandler in 1852 when there was a dispute over water rights.
"Lyman Chandler of Alstead states he is owner in fee of a tract of land in Drews- ville on which is a sawmill and water privilege connected with it which land lies on both sides of Cold River, that an interest in said water privilege adverse to said Lyman
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is claimed by William A. Bond and Charles B. Bond, that David Fisher and Joseph Fisher also claim an interest in said water which may also restrict your petitioner in his lawful rights to same, that said William, Charles, David and Joseph are only per- sons supposed by your petitioner to be interested in any controversy concerned in said mill privilege. . . .
"The Deposition: Nov. 4, 1852:
"I, Nehemiah Chandler of Winhall, Vt., depose and say as follows that I was 74 years old last February, that I have lived in Winhall, Vt., 14 years last March, that from 1808 to 1817 I owned a fulling mill and water privilege on Cold River in Drewsville below the Cheshire Turnpike. In 1808 I purchased of Thomas C. Drew and Asa Sibley a tract of land of about 7 acres in said Drewsville on which was a dwelling house and sawmill and mill dam on said river. At that time the dam and flume were used for no purpose except for the sawmill. Previous to my purchase there had been a grist mill in the same building which had gone into disuse. The flume extended from the dam to the wheel and was about 70 ft. in length. My impression is that there was about 12 or 14 feet of head and fall but cannot be certain. I should think the flume was somewhere about 6 ft. wide. I built a fulling mill in 1808 in August directly against the flume and above and near the sawmill. The same building I put up is now standing on the same ground. The building was so near the flume that the caps of the flume came into it. I did not board up the building against the flume until I had got above the top of the flume. The water was taken out of the side of the flume for the use of the fulling mill and on a level with the floor of the flume. I think we used a flutter wheel for the fulling mill. I think the wheel was about 3 ft. long; it could not ex- ceed that, for a general rule it was sufficient to raise the gate from an inch to 11/2" to do the work with, we used an upright gate on the side of the flume which was raised by a lever from the inside of the fulling mill. I carried on the fulling mill from the time I erected it until 1817 except 2 years in which I rented it.
"The sawmill was carried on under my management from 1808 till I conveyed it to Ziba W. Lowell by my deed of August 1812 and afterwards by said Lowell until his death which was some years after 1817. A part of the land which I purchased of Drew and Sibley with the sawmill was sold by me to Lowell while I owned the whole privi- lege, the flume was swept away by a freshet and I rebuilt it on the same sills. I went to the privilege this morning, the flume is not so wide as when I built by 11/2 ft. or 2 ft. I should think. I did not measure it and I should think it was now about 3 ft. from the fulling mill leaving that space between the flume and fulling mill. At the time I owned the privilege the dam stood about 30 ft. up the stream from where it now does. .
"The grist mill was carried by a tub wheel which stood below the sawmill wheel. This wheel was never used after I bought it. The sawmill wheel was about the middle of the sawmill. No other machinery beside the fulling mill was carried by water in that mill while I owned it. We took water by a spout from the flume for rinsing and color- ing. The flutter wheel was built for me in 1808 by Samuel Loomis of Alstead and was similar to many others he built about the same time. The same wheel remained there until I sold. I never knew of the former position of the flume being changed until after Mr. Bond bought. When the flunie was carried off by the freshet, the sills and under- pinnings remained there. I have no knowledge that they have ever been changed. I am not certain that the water for the flutter wheel was taken out of the side of the flume but feel pretty sure that it was. There was no change in the mode of taking the water
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from the flume while I owned it nor afterwards to my knowledge. I think the opening covered by the gate was about 21/2 ft. long and about 4 inches wide. I don't know that I ever measured it. I never have made any actual measurement there. I never examined the dam at the Factory privilege below the sawmill.
"There was none there when I sold to Lowell or while I lived there. I dressed cloth there the whole year, but the principal part of the business was done from the 1st of September to January. In 1816 I employed 4 hands in the fulling mill beside myself. In 1816 I charged I think about $3000 for the cloth I dressed at the fulling mill. This was more than an average season. I rented the fulling mill 2 years to Roswell Kittredge for $200 a year. The work done there was to take the flannel, dress and color it and finish it into fulled cloth.
"I sold the premises consisting of about 4 acres of land, a house and barn with the fulling mill privilege to Hubbard and Fisher for $2100 in 1816. I sold the sawmill and privilege and about 3 acres of land to Z. W. Lowell for $400."
Ziba W. Lowell died Feb. 26, 1826 (43). In 1851 his widow Rhoda, then the widow of Simeon Hill of Waterford, Vt., and his daughters Emily R. (Mrs. Lowry D. Hill of Waterford) and Maria H. (Mrs. James H. Bigelow of Lyndon, Vt.), along with Charles and Edna R. Houghton of Windsor (whose relationship was not given) sold their rights to Lyman Chandler, land and sawmill; 1855 to Charles B. Bond.
In 1817 Nehemiah Chandler sold the fulling mill, dwelling and barn to Daniel Hubbard of Walpole and James Fisher of Alstead, clothiers, close to river, 5 rods east of Putnam's line. In 1819 Hubbard sold to James Fisher who mortgaged and lost to Levi Hubbard who sold 1822 to Richard Kimball, a mill man from Charlestown; 1826 to Jacob Putnam and Henry Cram "his stand for manufacturing and dressing cloth, to add carding of wool"; Putnam's dwelling was then near the west side of Nehemiah Chandler's original tract. Putnam died, Cram lost to Kimball who sold 1846 to William A. and Charles B. Bond (brothers), dwelling, barn, two shops, woodhouses.
Next west of Nehemiah Chandler's 7 acres north of the river, Thomas Drew sold one acre in 1814 to Elijah Sherman "with privilege of building a dam"; 1815 to Jacob Putnam. In 1818 Putnam and Marvin erected a new carding machine to do custom work for cash and produce.
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