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By 1836 Giles Marvin had a woolen factory here with the following equipment: 4 cashimere looms, 1 warper and dresser, 2 spinning jacks, 1 wool picker, 1 double carding machine, I single do, I naper, 1 shearing machine, 1 press and screw and bar, 1 copper kettle containing 150 gals., 1 fulling mill, 1 brushing machine, 1 gig, 50 jack spools, 6000 bobbins. In 1837 he had the following stock: 37 pieces cassimeres containing 869 yds .; a lot of fleece wool containing 2200 lbs. wool, 1200 lbs. carding and spin- ning waste.
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Marvin had bought from the Putnam heirs in 1835. Finally in 1839 Lucy Putnam (widow of Jacob) sold for $1000 to Samuel Nichols, Wil- liam Bellows and Philip Peck; Nichols heirs 1860 to Haskell F. Hartwell; his heirs to Francis Gleason; 1866 he and his wife Emeline F. to Charles B. Bond.
Thus, all the water rights west of the Turnpike except those owned by the Fishers came into the hands of the Bonds. They manufactured pill boxes, first the brothers Charles B. and William A. Bond, then the lat- ter's sons, Edward S. and David J.
"W. A. and C. B. Bond of Drewsville, in 1846, commenced the manu- facture of pill boxes for David Janes & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa., and have continued the business to the present time (1880). They manufacture 45,000 gross annually, besides manufacturing picture frames for adver- tising, of which they have made 300,000. Considerable job-work is also done at their shop-sometimes necessitating the employment of several workmen." (Aldrich, p. 178)
The 1900 spring freshet damaged the Bond dam, making it necessary to rebuild the part near Alstead bridge before the mill could be run.
In 1901 David J. Bond sold the property to Oliver J. Butterfield; 1902 to Copley Amory who also bought more from Martha Ellen Lovell Smith Shrimpton and sold all 1925 to Ashuelot Gas & Electric Company, along with the Fisher mill property; 1926 to Public Service Company of New Hampshire; 1944 to Gilman Frye.
625. GILMAN FRYE: When Nehemiah Chandler bought here in 1808 there was already a dwelling house, probably on the cellarhole where the lilacs and roses are growing at the west end of the clearing west of Gil- man Frye's present house. It may have been occupied by the various mill owners, but in 1826 it is definitely referred to as Putnam's (Jacob) dwell- ing, in 1838 as Cram's (Henry). When William A. and Charles B. Bond bought the property in 1846 there was a dwelling, probably this same one. The 1858 map is not specific here. Perhaps something happened to the old house, and W. A. and C. B. Bond built a new house a bit west of Gilman Frye's present house. It was probably rented, the ownership be- ing in hands of those more interested in the water power. Hazel Buswell remembered Knight who ran the mill living here. It was a small red house, old and weathered. It burned November 1927, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Harl (or Hal) Moultrope, an elderly couple, who lost every- thing they had. Gilman Frye bought the property in 1944 and built a new house.
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626. H. KENNETH HAYES: While Hayes owned the mill property on the east side of the highway, he built a new house south of the road to Alstead.
WEST SIDE OF COMMON
The places west of the Common all came out of the Drew property.
627. CARROLL CELLARHOLE: South of the road from Drewsville to Bellows Falls, about opposite the Koson house, was the cottage of Patrick Carroll. In 1860 Hope Lathrop sold him the house lot here. In 1886 the property passed to his wife Catherine. Thomas Taunt bought 1887 and it became a part of the tavern property, nothing here now.
Next east of the Carroll house there was a blacksmith shop which was moved to the tavern site after the fire.
628. RALPH E. WHITMAN-TAVERN LOT: According to Aldrich, Thomas C. Drew manufactured brick in Walpole Village and intended to build himself a house there, "but owing to some unpleasant occurrence between Drew and some of the leading men of the village, he resolved to abandon his project of building in the village and immediately removed his brick to the east part of town and erected the commodious building now owned by Thomas Taunt, and occupied as a hotel. After its completion it was opened for the accommodation of the public by Mr. Drew, and thereafter, till his death, he continued to keep it open. As a house of public entertainment it was favorably known, and many a jolly hour was spent by the Colonel, with such men as Gov. Henry Hubbard, Aldis Lovell, Esq., and others of like kith, who were in the habit of occasionally congregating there." (AH 130)
It was built 1810 and was famous in its day when stages and large freight wagons took passengers and merchandise to and from Boston.
The tavern property remained in the Drew family until Thomas Taunt bought it in 1875. After he was burned out at his old boarding house down by the mill, he kept tavern here. John W. Prentiss wrote: "Taunt was a remarkable man. He was unable to read or write, but was shrewd in all business transactions. He loved fine horses and always had one or more on hand, doing considerable trading on the side. A runner greatly admired a mare that Taunt had, and finally bought her after being told by Taunt that she could go a mile in three minutes. On his next trip, the runner complained that Taunt had misrepresented the mare's speed. 'You told me she could trot a mile in three minutes, and a
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mile in four minutes is the best she can do.' Says Taunt, 'You must be in a hell of a hurry if you can't wait a minute.' "
He named the old tavern the Mountain House, sold 1886 to Henry A. Huntley; his widow who had married Hope L. Lovell, sold 1895 to John J. Pierce; 1907 to Dennis Brennan. It was not a particularly profitable business, the income derived largely from the sale of liquor. While Bren- nan owned it the old place burned. The fire broke out at 2 A.M. all at once, the whole building enveloped in one blaze. Hazel Buswell was on the roof of their place opposite to keep sparks from catching when her hair caught fire; first she knew, they squirted water on her.
The New England Box Company bought the land here, sold this cor- ner lot 1908 to Henry E. Putnam; 1912 his widow Cleora P. to David A. Mann who built the present house; 1918 to Carl E. Mann; 1921 to David A. Mann; estate to Ralph E. and Emma G. Whitman.
629. DOROTHY SPENCER SOWERBY: Second south of the tavern was the Hope Lathrop cottage. In 1836 Thomas C. Drew sold the lot to Lathrop who later became his son-in-law. Lathrop probably built the house. In 1874 Ellen Matilda Pease owned briefly, sold to David J. Bond; 1896 to Sarah E. B. Lovell, willed to Hope Lovell; 1909 to M. Ellen Shrimpton; 1910 to Lessie A. Chase unmarried; 1911 to Julius H. Porter of Langdon (see Langdon History 625). He died Nov. 1, 1919, estate sold 1920 to Fred C. and Henry O. Porter; 1921 to Nelson and Nellie Burnell; 1931 to Albert C. Halladay; 1940 to Russell W. and Billigene D. Hosmer; 1943 Natt Divoll owned briefly, Dr. Charles A. and Josephine Dalrymple Knox; 1947 to A. Ray and Rosemary M. Spencer. She died about 1949. He died, now owned by second wife.
630. DOROTHY SPENCER SOWERBY: Between the Lathrop cottage and the tavern, Thomas Taunt sold 1883 to Edwerta P. and Edward S. Bond; 1895 to Abbie Lovell. There was a two-story frame house here, which must have burned while Lovell owned it. Her heirs sold 1910 to Hope L. Lovell; 1920 to Raymond Wyker (Weiker); 1921 to the Burnells and it has continued with the place next south.
631. DR. THOMAS J. HAGAN: Next south is the old Hitchcock house. In 1834 Thomas C. Drew sold a house lot here to Samuel Nichols, said Nichols to keep the fences around the lot so long as Drew should own the adjoining land. In 1860 his heirs sold to Benjamin Hitchcock. Prentiss wrote: "The Hitchcocks were a fine family. Hiram Hitchcock Sr. was at one time associated with Mr. Vilas and ran the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
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New York, one of the most noted in the country. Hiram Hitchcock, a nephew of the senior Hiram, lived with them."
In 1863 the place came to Hiram Hitchcock; 1890 to Fanny H. May- nard; 1893 to George H. Hitchcock; 1899 to Emily H. Howe (Hitchcock); 1907 to Mary Alice Scanlon who had previously owned next south of the Mansion; 1919 to Raymond and Annie G. Wyker; 1925 she to Eva M. Royce (Mrs. Leland Royce); 1928 to Charles A. and Daisy B. Jefts of Sullivan; 1938 estate to T. J. and Margaret M. Hagan.
632. GEORGE E. WHITON: Parsonage lot-Thomas C. Drew left this prop- erty in trust for the use and benefit of St. Peter's Church, rented for years. In 1945 it was partially destroyed by fire, trustees petitioned to be allowed to sell, Mary Elizabeth Hagan of Baltimore, Maryland, sister of Dr. Hagan, bought; 1953 to H. Booth and Clara C. Wood of Bellows Falls; 1959 to George E. Whiton.
633. JOHN A. MANSUR: In 1836 Thomas C. Drew sold this place to Wil- liam Bond Jr., who was already living here; 1842 to William A. Bond; 1887 to Thomas Taunt (1892 rented to B. Supple); 1897 to Lora A. Bel- lows (Mrs. Charles L.) who moved in to take care of Taunt; 1905 to Enoch Bowe. His wife was Antossia Bandio, both born Russia. He worked at Railroad Roundhouse and died Keene March 18, 1952 (72). He sold 1909 to George and Alice E. Allison; 1910 to H. Herbert Buswell.
In November 1893 Herbert Buswell leased the Drew Farm, store and dwelling near the post office of Bolivar Lovell estate, opened a variety and general store. In November 1894 he assigned his property to his creditors, the first failure in Drewsville for 60 years. However, in April 1895 he reopened the store and continued in business, amassing consid- erable property. His daughter Hazel remained at home and helped with the business. She was a rich source of information concerning Drews- ville. Mr. Buswell was also an auctioneer. Their house here remained in the family until it was sold 1960 to Gilbert E. and Janice M. Gay; 1961 to John A. and Agnes R. Mansur.
634. TOLE CELLARHOLE: Hope and Sarah E. Lathrop sold the next place south to members of the Tole family, first 1859 to Mary and Margaret, 1865 to Charles W. who raised his large family here. In 1874 Charles and Mary sold to Samuel Mellish whose daughter Augusta (Mrs. William Chandler) had it. She rented it. It burned Sept. 1903 while W. W. Wilder lived there. The land now belongs to Robert Ball.
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EAST OF COMMON
635. DOROTHY SPENCER SOWERBY: On the corner south of the road to Alstead Center Samuel Nichols bought a house lot from Thomas C. Drew in 1831, had a store here for many years. He was born in Stoddard Dec. 10, 1787, son of Thomas. "When ten years of age he came with his par- ents to Walpole, and, with the exception of two or three years, resided in town during life. ... He was brought up a farmer, but was engaged in teaching ... for sixteen years. During the War of 1812 he enlisted in Col. Bellows' company and went to Portsmouth and was secretary to the colonel of the regiment. . .. In 1821 he settled in Drewsville where he engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits. ... He took an active and prominent part in the political and civic interests of the town, and was many times elected to fill various town offices. . .. He was a Baptist in religious sentiment, and labored hard to establish a permanent society in Drewsville." (AH 341-2) "At the time the Episcopal chapel was built or immediately thereafter (1837) at his own cost he built a small chapel for the Baptist denomination, where meetings were held for sev- eral years; but after a while the interest waned and the meetings were suspended. During the church's palmiest days it is said the membership was some thirty or forty." (AH 142-3) The building is still standing but was used for a time as a carpenter shop, more recently as a garage. The old panelled door remained for many years.
In 1864 his heirs sold to Alvan Allen of Alstead; 1868 to Charles A. Witt; 1906 heirs to Miss Rose S. Webster; 1919 to George E. Pratt; 1928 his son Leon E. to Henrietta E. and Mary E. Heselton; 1956 to A. Ray Spencer and wife Dorothy. Dorothy Spencer married again after death of A. Ray Spencer.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH: In 1834 Thomas C. Drew gave to the Protestant Episcopal Society the lot next south. Meetings had been held for some years in Mr. Drew's public house. In 1836 the present stone chapel was built and consecrated, Bishop Alexander V. Griswold officiating. At that time the name was changed to St. Peter's Church. In 1867 the inside of the chapel was altered and repaired at a cost of $2000. The church edifice now stands unused.
636. WARREN WHITMAN: In 1815 Thomas Drew had sold the two acres next south to Gilbert Griswold. In 1829 when his estate was put up to auction, his son George S. and daughter Rebecca bought, probably a house here then. They sold 1834 to Samuel Hartwell; 1835 to Aldis
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Lovell. His son Willard (Willie) A. inherited. He married 1861 Julia A., daughter of Lyman Chandler of Alstead, was drowned in Cold River 1872. Mrs. Julia Lovell kept summer boarders here and later in Walpole Village. She later married Fred A. Wier. The Wiers sold in 1913 to Charles E. and Stella M. Whitman; 1955 other heirs to Warren H. and Marion T. Whitman.
637. SAVINGS BANK OF WALPOLE: In 1815 Thomas Drew sold the one acre lot next south to Josiah Bowtel of Charlestown; 1818 to Josiah Flint; 1819 to Joseph Bond; 1832 to Josiah Flint with house and barn, Flint already residing here; 1833 to Eliza A. Baker; 1900 heirs to Julia A. Wier; 1907 to Leslie H. Chandler who probably came here after his farm build- ings burned. On the south side of the lot Hollis Chandler built a house for his son about 1937; 1941 Hollis G. Chandler sold to Mary E. Hagan; 1943 she sold the old house (over 100 years old) on the north to John G. and Mary V. Hall; 1961 to Savings Bank of Walpole.
638. CARLTON H. NELSON: In 1944 Mary E. Hagan sold the new house on the south to Carlton H. and Margaret H. Nelson.
CEMETERY: East of these lots was the land which Thomas Drew gave to the Town of Walpole in 1816 for a cemetery.
639. DONALD R. MORRISSEY-OLD BURT PLACE: The lot at the southeast corner of the Common Thomas C. Drew seems not to have sold, it staying in the family until M. Ellen Shrimpton sold in 1909 to Fred E. Crosby. However, this was known as the Burt Place. Aldrich wrote of Holland Burt: ". . . learned the cabinet-maker's trade and married Nancy, the only daughter of Alexander Watkins, and located in Drewsville and built the large dwelling now standing on the southeast corner of the common". He later removed to the village, but this place always bore his name even though there is no deed recorded in his name. Aldis Lovell lived here (1892). The big two family house, which stood where the lilacs are now, burned in 1909, Cooks living here at the time.
In 1911 Crosby sold to Charles D. and Elizabeth Cook. In 1911 he moved his cottage from Church Street over the cellarhole; 1922 to Charles A. and Rose Varmette of Langdon; 1923 to Allen J. Bean of Rocking- ham; 1924 to Phoebe Mann; 1925 to Estha W. Wetmore, to Clara J. C. Chandler. In 1926 her heir, Walter L. McCaslin of Longmont, Colorado, sold to Estha W. Wetmore of Keene; 1929 his heirs, Cassius B., Nellie A., and Gus Wetmore, Marion A. Brooks and Bertha B. Ramsdell, all of
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Keene, sold to Raymond M. Galloway of Alstead; 1937 to Donald R. and Hester M. Morrissey of Bellows Falls.
640. ARTHUR L. PINARD-THE MANSION: At the south end of the Common was the old Hope Lathrop house. Soon after her father's death Sarah Lathrop Lovell built her mansion around the old square house (Septem- ber 1880).
Thomas Drew had sold 11/2 acres here to Joseph Bond in 1815 who sold to Hope Lathrop. In 1910 M. Ellen Shrimpton sold to George A. Brown of Everett, Mass .; 1911 to Annie E., wife of Frederick A. Higgins of Newton, Mass .; 1912 to Galon H. Howard of Alstead; 1919 his heirs Mabel A. Sawyer of Worcester, unmarried, Ruth N. Bergeron of Keene, Ethel M. Buswell of Alstead sold to Ralph D. and Belle H. Halladay; 1945 to Arthur L. Pinard of St. Albans, L. I., and Elmer M. Nelson of Springfield, Vt .; 1947 to Pinard.
641. JOHN J. WILK: In 1834 Thomas C. Drew sold this house lot to Martha Rice of Boston. In 1841 there was an indenture recorded between Josiah Flint, Martha Rice and Hope Lathrop. Josiah and Martha were contemplating marriage, but she wished to reserve this property to her own control and also the following personal property: 1 cow, 1 note against Charles Rice secured by a mortgage of yoke of oxen and cow for $109; 1 note against Samuel Nichols $40 and interest, $50 in Savings Bank of Boston, 1 bed and bedding, 1 bureau, 1 timepiece, iron ware, crockery ware, and furniture now in house on premises. ... Marriage intentions were recorded Nov. 25, 1841. On Feb. 14, 1854, Martha Flint married Thomas Nichols and in April they sold this place to Ezra A. and Jerusha E. Turner; 1863 to Oralin Tuttle; 1873 to John Tole who died leaving a widow and minor child; 1890 to Kate Tole; 1900 estate to Mary Alice Scanlon; 1908 to Joseph Porter of Alstead; 1921 estate to Kittie J. Leach; willed to Stella E. Patterson, Nelson B. Ober and Hazel E. Buswell, the two former selling their rights to the latter in 1941; 1960 estate to John J. and Marjorie E. G. Wilk.
642. ROBERT S. BALL: This came out of the old Drew property, Thomas D. Bond selling land and buildings 1843 to George W. F. Bellows.
Robert Ball owns house here, set back some distance from the road. Toward the highway is a neat cellarhole.
"Benjamin Bellows, son of Joseph, came to Walpole to live in 1786, and married in 1791 Lucy Cox (sister of his brother Salmon's wife). He lived for a time in Rockingham, for two or three years in Drewsville, and finally settled on a farm in Walpole Valley.
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The house still standing (1898), is the first house on the road leading from the 'Squire's woods' on the Drewsville road to the Valley." (Bellows Gen. 146)
"About 1826 he removed to Lennoxville, Canada ... of his children only one, George Washington, remained permanently in Walpole."
According to Bellows Genealogy 324 George Washington Bellows (1794-1873) was a wheelwright and farmer, and resided in the cottage now owned (1898) and until lately occupied by his son, Charles Lowell Bellows. He married 1820 Philetta Lowell, sister of Ziba W. Lowell of Drewsville who served in the War of 1812 in Capt. Josiah Bellows' Company of Artillery.
"Charles Lowell Bellows was engaged in the livery business in New York with his brother George Franklin until the business suffered from the death of the latter in 1872. Charles returned to Drewsville and engaged in manufacturing and farming. He is an ingenious and skilful mechanic, making with his own hands the vehicles needed in his farm work, and designing and carrying out himself improvements and additions to his buildings. He has resided until lately (1898) in the cottage in which he was born, and still lives nearby." He married 1890 Lora Anna Dunham of Westminster, no chil- dren. (Bellows Gen. 527-8)
643. ROBERT S. BALL: Thomas Nichols had the southeast corner of the tract which Amasa Allen sold to Thomas C. Drew et al., east of the Turn- pike, probably resided here. His wife Prudence, or Pruda, Thompson died July 23, 1849 (66) and he married second Martha Rice Flint who lived in the next place toward Drewsville.
Thomas and Prudence sold the place 1849 to Henry R. Willson; 1860 to James Chandler. "At the end of the village towards the Valley was the large, square roofed yellow house of James Chandler. I remember them mainly on account of their son, Bill Chandler, who was a natural clown with great ability as a comedian. He had a sense of humor which at the present time would mean a fortune." (Prentiss)
Mrs. James Chandler was Mary B. Tuttle and in 1860 they sold the place to Laura and Sarah A. Tuttle. The buildings burned December 1886. In 1889 Mary B. Chandler sold to her daughter-in-law, Augusta H. Chandler; 1892 to James T. Holmes; 1898 estate to Abbie A. Lovell; 1899 to Willard and Amelia O. Newton of Athol, Mass. He probably cut the timber, then in 1901 sold to Etta Barnes Ball, inherited by Rob- ert S. Ball.
ALSTEAD CENTER ROAD
644. J. L. BAKER: In 1798 Levi Hubbard and Joseph Jones bought of Thomas Sparhawk the 246 acres in the Atkinson strip from the Bellows 100 acre tract south to the Atkinson south line. In 1806 they divided the tract, Jones (cooper) taking the west half and Hubbard the east. Jones died 1813 (41) leaving his wife Mary with six children ranging from 15
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years down to infancy (or perhaps a posthumous child). About 35 acres in the northwest corner, south of the road from Drewsville to Alstead Center, was set off as the widow's dower, including about half of the house and barns on her east line. She married a Fenton and in 1845 re- sided in Alstead when she sold to John P. Maynard and Aldis Lovell; 1846 Maynard to Lovell; 1861 to Matthew Tole; 1870 Tole (Margaret) to Moses H. Knight of Langdon; 1883 Knight (Emeline L.) to Cleora P. Put- nam; 1913 to Estha W. Wetmore of Plainfield; 1916 to Fred J. and Mar- guerite Canton Avery of Rockingham; 1922 to J. L. and Hattie Baker of Boston.
645. JONES CELLARHOLE: West of Norma Koson's place. South of the road near the east line of the Baker lot was the Joseph Jones house. The widow sold her half to Aldis Lovell. Through transactions with Samuel Adams it came into William Cross' hands in 1855. Catharine Hubbard, widow of Daniel who died 1839, owned the west half of the house as her dower and lived here. Still in Walpole until 1887, she died Rutland at the home of one of her children that same year. It is not clear what be- came of her half, but in 1858 William Cross owned. The house does not appear on the map in 1877. It now belongs with the Norma Koson property.
646. NORMA KOSON: Next east and close by was a house probably built by Samuel Hubbard sometime prior to 1834. He sold 1842 to John P. Maynard; 1857 to Henry Lane. Carley Lane lived here. His name may have been Charles, so listed in census and deeds, but referred to as Carley in other records. He was a wool puller and farmer, probably worked for Maynard in the tannery. Their son Henry resided in Boston, and bought the place for his parents. In 1894 Nellie M. Wallace bought the place. In 1918 sold to Charles S. Chandler; 1938 to Mildred R. Whit- ney Moultrop (Charles A.) who kept store Drewsville 1938; 1938 to Alice Lewis and George O. LeDuc; 1939 to Nina M. Switzer of Bernardston, Mass .; 1941 to Jacob Koson Jr. and Norma, wife; 1952 to Norma Koson. The Jones house site is now included in this property but it has not come down the same all the way. The Jones house was opposite the Maynard house; this Lane house opposite the tannery.
647. HITCHCOCK CELLARHOLES AND TANNERY: In 1815 Caleb Bellows sold to Ora M. Burk and Jacob W. Kendall, tanners, of Woodstock, Vt., an acre of land near the brook, north of road; 1816 Kendall sold out to Burk; 1918 Burk (Sally) to Oren Rawson of Alstead, to Ira Emerson. One won-
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ders if the tannery showed a profit, judging by the changes in ownership. Nathanial Vilas, Henry Slade, Samuel Mellish owned at times. Perley Emerson sold in 1839 to John P. Maynard who is said to have come from Holden, Mass. in 1836, perhaps leased until he bought 1839. He also owned the other land north of the road out of the Bellows tract and built a house next west of the tannery. His son Augustus had a house next west, both here 1858. This was a large white house, struck by light- ning and burned about 1900. Lilacs mark the spot. This was known as Oakdale.
J. W. Prentiss says that Augustus Maynard "had a large building in which he carried on the wool pulling and tanning of sheep pelts, also doing farming on a small scale, but very efficiently." In January 1902 the tannery was pulled down, having outlived its usefulness. The founda- tions remain. The millpond was south of the road.
648. CLYDE L. STEVENS: In 1943 Clyde L. Stevens bought from Sydney D. Harris of Langdon what was the southeast corner of the Bellows tract southeast of the road plus a small piece which had been a part of the Hubbard-Jones farm adjacent along the road "near the pond and oppo- site the tannery". He built a house.
The east part of the Hubbard farm, south of Clyde Stevens, the other heirs sold to Daniel Hubbard in 1834; 1835 to John P. Maynard and Hiram N. King (Julia A.); 1835 to Charles L. Cooper of Langdon; 1837 to Asa Holman Jr. of Bolton, Mass .; 1840 to Benjamin Elwell (Harriet H.) of Langdon; 1844 to Samuel Waldo of Acworth. While Waldo owned it, it began to be referred to as a farm; sold 1849 to David Converse and Francis Phillips of Langdon south part; 1849 main farm (north part) to David Fisher, apparently continued to occupy for a time; Mary Fisher sold 1906 to John W. Prentiss. There is an open field here, where might be a cellarhole.
649. THOMAS C. MANN: Out of that part of the Atkinson strip east of the Bellows 100 acres and the Jones-Hubbard land, Levi Bellows bought 1795 the north part, 1796 Samuel Grant and Levi Bellows the south part. Most of this tract finally went with farms over the line in Alstead, or was just woodlots; no homesteads except the following in the northeast cor- ner of Walpole.
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