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"Impr. I give to my son in law, Jonathan Jennison, a cow and heifer two years old, and what money he owes to me .
"In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-third day of June, Anno Domini 1777.
"Signed, pronounced and declared this my last will and testament in presence of Elisha Harding.
B. Bellows (Seal)
Martin Ashley Joseph Douglas
The foregoing will was proved in the usual form by
Thos. Sparhawk, J. Probate.
Recorded by Ichabod Fisher, Redgr. Probate."
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PURCHASERS OF PEWS IN NEW MEETINGHOUSE ON PROSPECT HILL (1792)
First Floor-
Amasa Allen
3 John French
1
John Mc Farland 1
Nathaniel Baker
1 Asa Gage
1
Minister's Pew
1
Benj. Bellows
13 Const. Gilman
1 Thomas Parker
1
John Bellows
2 Josiah Goldsmith
2 Geo. Sparhawk
1
Thomas Bellows
1 John Graves, Jr.
1 Thos. Sparhawk
2
Asahel Bundy
1
John Griswold
1 Ephraim Stearns
1
Isaac Bundy
1 David Hogg
1
Nicanor Townsley
1
John Dennison
1 Abraham Holland Levi Hooper 1
1
Samuel Trott
1
Nathan Dennison
1 Jonas Hosmer
1 Roger Walcott
1
Manoah Drury
2 Levi Hubbard
1 Christopher Webber
I
Roger Farnham
1 John Jennison
2 Daniel Whipple
1
John Flint
1 Jona. Jennison
1 Thomas Fessenden
1
Eliphalet Fox
1 Dr. Kittredge
1 Jona. Royce
1
Upper Floor-
Benj. Bellows
1
James Eastman
1
Peletiah Hall
1
Col. Bellows
2
Timothy Eaton
1 Abraham Holland
1
Isaac Bundy
1 Benj. Flood
1 Jonas Hosmer
1
Amos Butterfield
1 Elisha Fullam
4 John Jennison
1
Daniel Dennison
1 Const. Gilman
I Daniel Merriam
1
Manoah Drury
3 Jona. Hall, Jr.
1 Nicanor Townsley
1
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1 Sylvanus Titus
1
Nathan Bundy
SOLDIERS IN INDIAN WARS: John Kilburn
Col. Benjamin Bellows
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS IN WALPOLE CEMETERY:
Ebenezer Wellington
Gen. Benjamin Bellows
Ephraim Stearns
Gen. Amasa Allen
Dea. Jonas Hosmer
Moses Burt
Col. Joseph Bellows
Capt. Phineas Hutchins
Palatiah Hall
Lt. Aaron Hodskins
Col. Christopher Webber
Cornelius Warren
Samuel Salter
John Denison
Jeduthan Russell
Thomas Russell
Lt. Roger Wolcott
Daniel Marsh
Aaron Graves
Nathaniel Baker
Eliphalet Fox
Asahel Bundy
Lt. Elias Bundy
Lt. Isaac Bundy
Capt. Levi Hooper
Jonathan Hall
David Hall
Elisha Hall
Capt. John Jennison
Capt. Joseph Fay
Jonathan Fletcher
Col. John Bellows
Dea. Roger Farnham
Lt. Gilbert Griswold
Capt. Benjamin Floyd
Alexander Watkins
IN DREWSVILLE CEMETERY:
Thomas Nichols
OTHER REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS CONNECTED WITH WALPOLE:
Ens. Ebenezer Swan ·
Lt. Samuel Nichols
Ens. Joseph Lawrence Crain
Surg. Martin Ashley Fay Timothy Messer
Jonathan Hall, Jr.
DeBell
John Merriam, Jr.
John Howland
John Kilburn
John Martin
Uzziah Wyman
Wm. Lathwood
James Campbell
Moses Mead
Theodore Bellows
ACTUAL RESIDENTS OF WALPOLE ENLISTING IN WAR OF REBELLION:
John M. Pike
Clement G. Lane
Otis P. Kraetzer
Edward R. Pratt
Chas. H. Gilbert
Henry Reason
Samuel F. Holbrook
Charles H. Brown
Albert T. Wilkins
J. Wesley Barnet Lewis Hooper George Weymouth Bellows Emerson
John F. Kraetzer George Perigo
Chas. Moultrup John J. Johnson
George R. Tower
Elnathan R. Templeman
Austin H. Wolf
Albert D. Scovill Warren D. Fay John B. Hooper Charles Hinds
Lucius B. Wright
Benjamin Gates, 2d
Quincy A. Emerson
Chandler A. Wilber
James Stack George M. Snow William Flynn
Charles H. Jennison Chas. A. Green Wm. A. Barker
Alfred G. Keyes Edward H. Livingston Geo. A. Sherman Geo. S. Wetherby
Eugene Henderson
Willard E. S. Bragg John S. Farnsworth Henry H. Hooper
Edward Carpenter Charles Lawrence Isaiah Pratt
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John E. Mitchell John L. Houghton A. Mason Adams
John L. Hubbard Dennis Griffin Geo. H. Bellows
Jonathan Turner Ellery C. Benson Amasa T. Bundy
Frank B. Graves
John M. Bixby Patrick Hyde
Wilson W. Colburn
Joseph Mason, Sr.
John Massey
PERSONS ENLISTING IN REGIMENTS OUT OF STATE BUT CREDITED TO WALPOLE:
Owen Burns
Henry G. Irish
Leonard Lawrence
John Faxon
William Livingston
Edward Weymouth
Patrick Tole
Ferdinand Smith
George Bellows
Edward Bellows
Charles Titus
Perley Tower
Charles Isham
Julius Kraetzer
Frederick Graves
Curtis Emery
Walter Mellish
Ira R. Graves
John W. Keyes
Hubbard B. Newton
WAR OF REBELLION SOLDIERS RESIDING IN WALPOLE 1895:
Henry C. Bandell
Jas. T. Holmes
Hubbard Newton
Wm. J. Hall
John L. Hubbard
Robert W. Walsh
Ist Lt. Waldo F. Hayward
Henry C. Podwin
Harry Thomas
Lucius S. Howe
Geo. Weymouth
Michael O'Connel
Chas. H. Knapp
Jos. L. Sylvester
Edward Moran
Wm. Warn
Dennis Griffin
L. S. Howe
1st Lt. Geo. L. Kibbe
Wm. S. Hawks
Leander Harriman
Leonard S. Cady
John L. Houghton
Rhodolphus Clement
Sgt. Chas. W. Hathaway
WAR OF REBELLION SOLDIERS BURIED IN WALPOLE:
Jacob S. Pierce
Isaiah Pratt
George Gassett
John F. Kraetzer
Geo. A. Fuller
J. Wesley Barnett
Geo. W. Fisher
John S. Farnsworth
Benj. J. Lawrence
Oscar W. Rogers
H. H. Hooper
Wm. A. Barker
Leonard W. Lawrence
Edward H. Livingston
Benj. Gates, 2d
Ira R. Graves
Warren Dana Fay
Chas. H. Titus
Russell Hutchins
John E. Mitchell
Clement Holt
Richard Knapp
Lt. W. F. Hooper
Ira W. Hooper
Henry G. Irish
PERSONS SERVING IN WORLD WAR I FROM WALPOLE:
Lt. Copley Amory, Jr. Robert S. Ball
John F. Amory
Lt. Walter W. Amory
Harry J. Barry
John M. Blake
Joseph Blake
James Blake Nelson Brown
Glenn T. Boynton Gerald Carroll
Thomas W. Carroll
William J. Carroll
Harold T. Cheney
Raymond W. Cheney
Corp. Burton M. Clough
Harold J. Coffey
Lawrence G. Cole
Corp. Theodore Cole
Capt. Willie P. Craig, M.D.
Tony Crozansky
John M. Delaney
William F. Donegan
Elmer D. Ellis
Thomas J. Crowley Francis Donegan Ernest Fitzgerald Joseph P. Gallagher Ernest Hamilton Basil E. Harvey
George Fitzgerald Colgate Gilbert Edward J. Hankard Corp. Edward A. Houghton
John P. Flavin Patrick Griffin John J. Hankard Edward C. Howard
Oliver J. Hubbard
Lt. Edward L. Journey John F. Keefe
James H. Keane John J. Keefe
James R. Keefe Patrick J. Keefe
William T. Keefe
Timothy T. Kennedy
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Peter T. Blake
Lt. Thomas J. Brickley Henry Burrows, Jr.
Francis M. Cahalane
Thomas P. Kennedy Vlastow Kotoloski Joseph Lyons Charles J. Mclaughlin Rodger Moynihan
Hector F. Nivison William F. O'Brien* Frederick F. Owens William J. Pierce* William C. Riley
Fred J. Shaughnessy
Capt. Lee L. Smalley
Ernest L. Snow Burton M. Stevens Galen G. Tiffany
Homer G. Wallace
George M. Wieber
Charles F. Whitney
Toney Yosha
Sgt. Maj. Chauncey A. King* Lt. Arthur C. Liston, M.D. Clarence Marlow
Michael F. Moynihan Martin W. Murray
Thomas J. O'Brien
William O'Connor
James P. Pheur Bernard Larkin Riley Corp. Arthur H. Sawyer Maxwell W. Smalley Michael W. Stack George A. Sylvester James W. Usher Thomas J. Walsh
Sgt. Edgar J. Wells Irving J. Whitney
* Buried at sea.
PERSONS SERVING IN NAVY IN WORLD WAR I:
Reginald F. Cahalane George O. Godsoe
Kenneth J. Owen Albert H. Fletcher Edward J. Owens
NURSES SERVING IN FRANCE IN WORLD WAR I: Helen Stowell Ethel Smith
PERSONS SERVING IN WORLD WAR II FROM WALPOLE (Taken from 1945 Town Report) * Died in service.
Archie Abaire
Harry Blake
Alfred Bushway
Felix Aldrich, Jr.
Lawrence Blake
Bernard Bushway
Wayne Allbee
Wallace Blake
Edward F. Bushway
William Audette
John Blicharz
Ernest Bushway Harold Bushway
Charles S. Bain Dean Bates Everett Bacon
Albert Boucher
Raymond Bushway
Ernest Baldasaro
Matthew Boucher
Lester Cameron
Guy Baldasaro
Harry Boudrieau
Sedley Campbell
John Baldasaro Joseph Baldasaro, Ist
George Bowe John Bresland
Albert Capron John Capron Theodore Capron Charles Coffee
Joseph Baldasaro, 2d
Donald Bresland
Patrick Baldasaro James Baldasaro
Harold Ball
* Hudson E. Bridge George L. Bridge, Jr. Edward Burnham
Richard Collins Charles Corneau
Dana Costin
Bernard Bixby Charles Blackwell
* William T. Burrows
Paul Costin
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Ernest Aumand
Freeman Blood
Maurice Booska
John Bushway Melvin Bushway
Charles Booth
Leonard Boudrieau
John H. Williams, Jr.
Francis F. Fitzgerald
Sgt. Lawrence M. Smith Stanley Stanick John W. Taylor William P. Usher Lester Warren Louis D. Wheeler John N. Wolfe
William P. Kennedy Sgt. Claude Lindstrom John J. Mahoney Edward W. Millerick* Sgt. Edward H. Murray Edward P. O'Brien William L. O'Brien Norman A. Parkinson Albert H. Pyne* Lt. (Rev.) Lewis W. Sanford
Ernest Cota Henry Cray Paul Cray Walter Cressy
George Crockett
Gerald Crotty Clayton Curtis Albert Damore
Dennis Griffin
Katherine Griffin Thomas Griffin Enrico Grippo Raymond Hadley
* Forrest Kimball Frank Kimball . Oliver Kimball
Daniel Kiniry
Charles Davis
Ernest Hall
William Delaney
Robert Hall
Justin Diggins
Arthur Hammond
Edward Kolesnik
Paul Dowling
George Harris
Klim Kolodjiez
Edward Doyle
* Philip Harris
Walter Kolodjiez Gardner Larson
Thomas Doyle Fred Dugay
Warren Hayes
Raymond Dunn
Lawrence Hearne
Kendall Durell, Jr.
Thomas Hearne
Francis Durward
Walter Hearne
Francis Fennessy
Edward Hennessey
* Harold Lorange Charles Lynch Leon Lynch Paul Lynch
Martin Fennessy
Harold Hill
Philip Lynch
William Fennessy
Dana Hooper
Walter Lynch
Hubert Fitzgerald
Dorothy Houghton
William Lynch
James Fitzgerald
Edward Houghton
Donald Mack
Jerome Fitzgerald
Leslie Howe
Reginald Mack
John Flanders
Richard Howc
Evelyn Marlow
Tony Fortez
Donald E. Hubbard
Francis Marlowe
Mary Foster
John Hull
Fred Mason
Robert Foster
William Jackowski
Francis McDermott William McGuirk
Raymond Fournier
John Jackson
Robert Fowler
Chester James
Albert McKenven
Josephine Fuller Robert Gale
Martin James
Daniel McMahon
Dominic Gallagher
Wallace Janiak
John Gallagher
Clarence Jeffrey, Jr.
Morin Gallagher
Merle Jeffrey
Raymond P. Galloway
Roy Jeffrey
Hermon Michaud
Albert Galway Bruce F. Garwin
J. D. Johnson, Jr.
Ernest Mitchell
Eloise Gilbert
Leon Jones
Lucy Mitchell
Fred Gilbert
William Juda
William Mitchell
Roger Gilbert
Harold Kanc
Joseph Molaski
Alfred Gilbo
James Kane
Stanley Molaski
* Bruce A. Gilbo Robert Giles
Chester Karnacveicz
Clark Kathan, Jr.
Donald Moreau
Floyd Goodnow Charles Goodrich Lewis Goodrich
Earl Kathan
Roger Moynihan
James Kecfe
Vincent Moynihan
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Michael Kelley John Kennedy John Kenney Harold Kenyon Vernon Kenyon Lawrence Kilburn Robert Kilburn
Carl Damore John Damore Joseph Damore Norbert Daniels
T. J. Hagan
Elwyn Hall
*Edward Kiniry Joseph D. Kiniry Malcolm Kiniry
James Doyle
Chauncy Hartnett
James Harty
Clark Libby James Lindstrom John Lindstrom Carroll Lloyd
James Fennessy John Fennessy
Richard Henry
Henry Hildreth
Leon James
Nelson McKenven
Andrew Meancy James Merino Peter Merino
Howard Johnson
John Miller
Bernard Karnacveicz
William Montgomery Albert Moore
Robert Goodrich Edward Graves John Graves William Graves Joseph Gregonis
James Mulcahy Martin Murray, Jr. *Edward Nachozski John Nachozski Alexander Nogy Carl Nogy Theodore Nogy Edward O'Brien Gerald O'Brien John O'Brien John O'Hearne Robert O'Neil Edward Ostruski
John Ramsay Kenneth Ramsey Gilbert Ranter Russell Reed Daniel Relihan
Kenneth Reynolds
Charles Robbins
Michael Tolaro
Maurice Robbins
Joseph Rogenski
Philip Tolaro Elmer Tole Harry Tole
Harry Rogers
Warren Rogers
Myra Tucker, Jr.
Charles Royce
Nancy Tucker
Josephine Ostruski
William Rumbley
John Usher
Horace Palmer
Sidney Sabins
William VonLackum
Walter Parkinson
Roland Sabourin
George Walker
Lester Parks
John Sanborn
Henry Walker
*Donald Parrott
Freeman Sargeant
Norman Parrott Oliver Patnaude Hubert Peck
Thomas Schaffer Royal Scudder
Edward Shaughnessy
Benjamin Warn
George Shaughnessy, Jr.
Richard Warn
James F. Shaughnessy
James W. Shaughnessy
Arthur Watkins Jack Watkins Helen Waysville
William Phipps
Stanley Smith
John Waysville
Edward Pickering
Joseph Sombric
Peter Waysville
Frank Pivowar
Walter Sombric
William Waysville * William Weeks Almon Welch Carl Westcott
Gerald Pomroy
Gordon Spinnelli
James Spinnelli .
Clarence Westcott
Stephen Stambo
Earl Westcott
Walter Staniszewski
William Whitman
John Stevens
* Hoyt Wilson Sidney Wilson Donald Wood
Robert Stevens
Eugene Stryjiski
Clarence Swain
Ernest Wood
John Swain
Francis Wood
Neil Swift
Casius Wright
Percy Swinnemer
Leland F. Wright
Vygmond Ponick Edward Powers Emil Powers Kenneth Powers Thomas Powers Clark Prentiss Carl Pryblo Charles Pryblo John Pryblo Marshall Putnam James Quinlan
John Spain
Marion Podwin Ralph Podwin
William Spain
* Raymond Wallace William Wallace Harold Walsh Vincent Walsh
* Maurice Pelton Raymond Pendergast Shepard Perry John Pheur Joseph Pheur
George Skinner
Paul Savi
Thomas Turker
Donald Royce
Forrest Tetford George Tetford Spencer Tetford Galen Tiffany James Tolaro Joseph Tolaro
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STATE SENATORS FROM WALPOLE:
John Bellows 1785-87, 92-94 Amasa Allen 1804 Roger Vose 1809-10, 12 Thomas C. Drew 1811, 20-21 Josiah Bellows 1813 Stephen Johnson 1825-26 Frederick Vose 1847-48
Henry A. Hitchcock 1872-73
Thomas Nelson Hastings 1897, Pres. 1899 John W. Prentiss 1911, 13 Clarence W. Houghton 1933 Harold O. Pierce 1945, 49 E. Everett Rhodes, Jr. 1957
MEN ON GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL FROM WALPOLE:
Benjamin Bellows 1777-80, 81-84 Thomas Sparhawk 1782-84 Thomas Bellows 1794-99
Thomas C. Drew 1824 Stephen Johnson 1832, 34 George Huntington 1851
Samuel Grant 1818
MEMBER OF CONGRESS:
Roger Vose 1813-17
REPRESENTATIVES TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GENERAL COURT-TO EXETER:
Thomas Sparhawk 1775 (6 mos.)
John Bellows 1775 (6 mos.)
Christopher Webber 1776-77 Ephraim Marsh 1778
Josiah Goldsmith 1779
John Graves 1780 (to Windsor, Vt. during Vermont Controversy)
Josiah Goldsmith 1781 Manoah Drury 1782, 84 Levi Hooper 1785 Amasa Allen 1786-87 Aaron Allen 1788-91
AFTER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE WAS ADOPTED IN 1792 THE FOLLOWING SERVED:
Thomas Bellows 1792-94 Thomas Sparhawk 1795-96, 98, 1801, 03 Samuel Grant 1797, 99, 1817, 38
Joseph Bellows 1800 Thomas C. Drew 1802, 1804-05, 07-09 Amasa Allen 1806 Josiah Bellows 1810, 19-20
Daniel Merriam, Jr. 1842 Edwin Hosmer 1843 Luther Proctor 1844-45
John P. Maynard 1844-45
Stephen Johnson 1812 Isaac Redington 1813-14, 16 David Stone 1815 Roger Vose 1818
Chas. Sparhawk 1846 Elijah Kilburn 1846 Farnum Lane 1847-48 Sam. Nichols 1847-48
Daniel W. Bisco 1821-22
Jacob B. Burnham 1849-50
David Buffum 1849-50 Jesseniah Kittredge 1851
David Fisher 1852 Peletiah Armstrong 1852
Aaron P. Howland 1853-54 David C. Thompson 1853-54 Augustus Faulkner 1855-56
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Josiah Bellows, 3rd 1823-25 Wm. G. Field 1826-29 James Hooper 1830 Leonard Bisco 1831-32, 35-36 Frederick Vose 1833 Thomas Bellows 1834, 51 Lemuel Starkweather 1834, 37-38 George Huntington 1835-37
Stephen Stearns 1839, 42 Henry S. Tudor 1839-41, 43 William Bellows 1840
Ebenezer Morse 1841
Ozias S. Morris 1855 Henry Mellish 1856-57 Thomas G. Wells 1857 Henry A. Hitchcock 1858-59 Frederick Kilburn 1858-59 Augustus F. Maynard 1860-61 Oliver Martin 1860-61
Edwin Seabury 1890 Chas. E. Beckwith 1892
Wm. J. King 1894, 1920, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 36 Geo. H. Angier 1894
John W. Prentiss 1896, 1908
James Barrett 1896 Cornelius J. Sullivan 1898
Waldo A. Burt 1900
Ira W. Ramsey 1902, 04
Geo. E. Sherman 1902, 04
Dan. Connors 1906
Russell G. Graves 1910, 12
Cyrus M. Clough 1914
Edgar J. Wells 1914
Leonard B. Holland 1868-69
Wm. H. Lane 1916
Benjamin E. Webster 1870-71
Geo. F. Sanders 1916
Fred O. Smalley 1918
Chas. H. Barnes 1918
Arthur E. Wells 1920, 22, 28
Frederick Watkins 1874-75
Timothy H. Bowen 1924
Wm. G. Buffum 1874-75
Clarence W. Houghton 1926, 28
Henry C. Brown 1876-77, 88
Harry J. Jennison 1930, 44
Henry Burt 1876-77 Allen Dunshee 1878 Henry C. Rawson 1878
John W. Graves 1934
Donald J. Kiniry 1934
George H. Holden 1880
James T. Relihan 1936, 38
James H. Heald 1880
Henry E. Putnam 1882
Harold O. Pierce 1940, 42, 46
Patrick E. Griffin 1882, 84, 86
Arthur H. Chickering 1942
Winslow B. Porter 1884
Harold T. Killeen 1944, 46, 48, 52
Edward A. Watkins 1886
E. Everett Rhodes 1948, 50, 52, 54
William H. Kiniry 1888
John E. Aylard 1950
Chas. J. O'Neil 1890, 1900, 06, 08, 10, 12
Louis S. Ballam 1954, 56, 58, 60
Curtis R. Crowell 1890
Robert L. Galloway 1956, 58, 60
(From 1880 on the dates are year of election.)
Walpole is in the Tenth State Senatorial District; the Fourth Councilor District; the Second Congressional District and is entitled to two Representatives to the General Court.
Latitude of Walpole 43º 5'; Longitude 72° 25'.
Population of Walpole on census years (after 1790):
1767
308
1820
2020
1870
1830
1920
2553
1773
549
1830
1979
1880
2018
1930
2287
1775
658
1840
2015
1890
2163
1940
2400
1790
1245
1850
2034
1900
2693
1950
2536
1800
174
1860
1868
1910
2668
1960
2825
1810
1894
659
Major J. Britton 1862-63
John W. Hayward 1862-63 Silas M. Bates 1864
Joshua B. Clark 1864-65 A. Herbert Bellows 1865-66 John Hooper 1866-67 Seth Huntley 1867 George Rust 1868-69
Sherman Watkins 1870-71
George Aldrich 1872-73 Christian Lucke 1872-73
Albert F. Chickering 1930, 32, 38
Francis Doucette 1940
SELECTMEN OF WALPOLE:
Theodore Atkinson 1752-53 Benjamin Bellows 1752-58, 60-66, 68-73 Samuel Johnson 1754 Robert Powker 1754 John Kilburn 1755-58, 60 Daniel Twitchell 1755 Nathaniel Powers 1756 John Hastings 1759 Fairbanks Moor 1759 Nathaniel Hovey 1760-61 Thomas Chandler 1762 Wm. Smeed 1762-66 Timothy Delano 1763
John Graves 1764, 68, 72, 81
Benjamin Bellows, Jr. 1765, 74, 76
John Marcy 1765-66, 69, 71, 73 Abraham Smith 1765-66
Samuel Trott 1766 James Bundy 1768 Asa Baldwin 1769 Eliad Graves 1770
Jonathan Hall 1770 Thomas Sparhawk 1771-73, 76-77, 80-82, 89, 90-91
Lemuel Holmes 1773-74, 79
Amos Babcock 1774
Christopher Webber 1775, 79
Jonathan Burt 1775
Ebenezer Swan 1775-77
John Bellows 1777, 82, 85-86 Elisha Marsh 1778 Wm. Joyner 1778
Joseph Mason 1836 Samuel Starkweather 1837
Jonathan Emerson 1838
George Bundy 1839, 46, 53
Henry S. Tudor 1840, 45
Jesseniah Kittredge 1840
John P. Maynard 1840-41 Daniel Merriam, Jr. 1841-42
James Lewis 1784, 87-88
Roger Farnham 1784-86 Moses Stearns 1784
Josiah Goldsmith 1784
Amasa Allen 1786
Abraham Holland 1787 Jonathan Royce 1787-88, 93, 96-97, 1801, 03-07 John Denison 1788 Thomas Bellows 1789-95, 1801 Josiah Griswold 1789-90 Jonas Hosmer 1791-92 Thos. Sparhawk, Jr. 1792-95, 1800
Samuel Grant 1794 Jonas Fairbanks 1795-97, 1801 Nicanor Townsley 1796-1800 Noah Heaton 1798-99 Eliphalet Fox 1798-99 Caleb Bellows 1800
Alexander Watkins 1802 Asa Sibley 1802
Isaac Redington 1803-08, 10 Levi Allen 1803-04, 06-14 Joseph Fay 1805, 09
Stephen Johnson 1808-11, 24 Silas Angier 1811-12
Daniel W. Bisco 1812-13, 18-20, 24
Salmon Hooper 1813-17 Thos. Seaver 1814-17, 21-23
David Bisco 1815 John Barnett 1816-17
Josiah Bellows, 3rd 1818-23, 27-30
Ebenezer Morse 1824, 38-39, 41
Wm. Buffum 1825-26
Matthew Dickey 1825-26 Martin Butterfield 1825-26 Dan. Brooks 1827-28, 33 John Dunshee 1827-28
Stephen Stearns 1829-30
Leonard Bisco 1829-37, 42-43
John Turner 1831-32
Sam. Nichols 1831-32, 45
Lemuel Starkweather 1833-35, 37-39
David Fisher 1834-37, 48-49
Aaron Allen 1778-79, 82, 1801
John Jennison 1779, 82, 85
Sylvanus Titus 1779
Levi Hooper 1780-82
Jonathan Hall, Jr. 1783-84 Aaron Hodskins Jr. 1783 Isaac Bundy 1783
David C. Thompson 1842-44 Stephen Tiffany 1843 James Hale 1844
Charles Sparhawk 1844-45, 47 George W. Grant 1846 Robert Barnett 1846-47
James M. Burroughs 1847 Peletiah Armstrong 1848-50 Sherman Watkins 1848-50 Oliver Martin 1850, 57-58 Warren Daniels 1851
Harrison G. Smart 1851 Henry A. Hitchcock 1851
660
Lyman Watkins 1852 Isaac F. Bellows 1852 Lewis Dickey 1852 Edward Crosby 1853-56 Francis Locke 1853-54, 58-60 Elias Hardy 1854 Ephraim A. Watkins 1855 John Hooper 1855-56 Augustus F. Maynard 1856-58 John W. Hayward 1857-61 Joshua B. Clark 1859-60, 62, 67 Alfred W. Burt 1861-62, 64-66, 78, 80-81 Lewis Thompson 1861 George H. Gilbert 1862-65 Benj. H. Hitchcock 1863 Henry Allen 1863 Wm. W. Guild 1864-65 Wm. B. Mason 1866-77
Samuel D. Learned 1867
Benj. E. Webster 1868-69, 73, 78 Sherman Watkins 1868-69
Chas. Fisher 1868-72 Frederick Watkins 1870-72, 79 Nehemiah Royce 1870-74
Wm. A. Maynard 1873-74
Henry Burt 1874-7, 1882-83
Dares A. DeWolf 1875-77
Albert F. Nims 1875-76
Henry C. Rawson 1876-77, 87-88 John C. Brown 1878 Winslow B. Porter 1879 Jefferson Wilson 1879
Henry E. Putnam 1880-82, 84-85
James H. Heald 1880-81, 90 Curtis R. Crowell 1882-84 Alba A. P. Robinson 1883 Leonard B. Holland 1884
John W. Prentiss, Jr. 1885-94 Herbert J. Watkins 1885-87, 96 Chas. W. Tole 1886 Hiram Watkins 1888-89 John J. Fitzgerald 1889 Ira W. Ramsay 1890, 96, 1901, 14-15, 17-18 Wm. H. Kiniry 1891-94, 96, 98-1901, 11-14 John C. Howard 1891-94
Daniel Connors 1895, 1905-06, 10-12 Edwin K. Seabury 1895, 1904
George W. Kingsbury 1896-1902, 16-20
Nathaniel W. Holland 1897, 1902-03, 07
Chas. E. Seward 1902-04, 20-29
Patrick E. Griffin 1903, 05 Fred O. Smalley 1904, 06 Chas. H. Slade 1905-06, 10
Alfred E. Godsoe 1907-09 Wm. J. Hall 1907-09
Fred A. Ramsay 1908, 21, 37-45
Arthur R. Wells 1909
Harry J. Jennison 1910-13, 15
R. S. Sawyer 1913 C. M. Clough 1914
Wm. J. Corbett 1915-19, 22
Wm. J. King 1919-21
Clarence W. Houghton 1922-30
Daniel Moynihan 1923-34
Russell G. Graves 1930-32
Harry J. Stowell 1931-36 John W. Prentiss 1933-47 James T. Relihan 1935-39
James W. Shaughnessey 1940-43 John E. Aylward 1944-58 Lawrence W. Graves 1946- Louis S. Ballam 1948- Harold T. Killeen 1959-
TOWN CLERKS OF WALPOLE:
Benjamin Bellows 1752-53, 55-58 Col. Josiah Willard 1754 Benjamin Bellows, Jr. 1759-77, 80-82, 84-94 Amos Babcock 1778-79 Nathan Goddard 1783 Nicanor Townsley 1795-1806, 08-26 Daniel Bisco 1807 Wm. G. Field 1826-28 Josiah Bellows, 3rd 1829-30 Walton Mead 1831-37 Wm. Ruggles 1838-58 Harvey Ball 1859-61 John W. Lovejoy 1862-3
Ransom L. Ball 1864-8 Abel P. Richardson 1869-99 (Curtis R. Crowell appointed and served while Dr. Richardson was in California, Thos. B. Peck was elected 1895, resigned before the end of the year, Russell G. Graves finished out Dr. Richardson's last term) John W. Hayward 1900-13 Wm. J. Hall 1914
Carlton Sparhawk 1915-22 Margaret MacG. Sparhawk 1923-48 Josephine Woodward 1949-51 Margaret M. Ballam 1952-
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MODERATORS OF WALPOLE:
Until 1892 the moderator was elected at each meeting, after that date at the biennial election. The early moderators listed are those who served at the annual meeting.
Benjamin Bellows 1752-53, 55-63, 65-66, 69-73, 75-76
Samuel Johnson 1754
Josiah Bellows, 3rd 1832-41
John Graves 1764, 68
Daniel Merriam, Jr. 1842, 54
Thomas Sparhawk 1774, 77
George Huntington 1843, 46, 48-53
Benjamin Bellows, Jr. 1778, 80
Aaron P. Howland 1844-45, 47, 55-62
Lemuel Holmes 1779
John W. Hayward 1863-68
Elisha Marsh 1781
George Rust 1869-71 John B. Russell 1872
Josiah Goldsmith 1782, 84-86
Jonathan Hall, Jr. 1783
John Bellows 1787-88
Curtis R. Crowell 1873-97 (Albert C. Dickey served 1887 while Crowell was Town Clerk)
Abraham Holland 1789
Jonathan Royce 1790, 1804
John W. Prentiss 1898-1911, 32-45
Charles H. Barnes 1912-13
Jonathan Fairbanks 1793
Wm. H. Kiniry 1914-19
Andrew French 1794, 97
Wm. J. King 1920-21
Amasa Allen 1798-1802, 05-06
Thomas Bellows 1803, 09-10, 12-14
Asa Sibley 1807-08
Herbert Tucker 1946-55
Stephen Johnson 1811
John E. Aylward 1956-59
Holmes Whitmore 1960-
TOWN TREASURERS OF WALPOLE:
Benjamin Bellows 1755-63, 65-74, 76 Wm. Smeed 1764
Thomas Sparhawk 1777
John Graves 1778-81
Sam. Trott 1782, 85-86
Amos Babcock 1783
Thos. B. Buffum 1876-1903
John Crafts 1787-90 Thos. Bellows 1796
Harry B. Hurd 1904 Frank A. Spaulding 1905-31
Dan. W. Bisco 1811-12
Emma J. Sabin 1932-33
Josiah Bellows 1813-14, 24-28, 30-34, 37 Isaac Redington 1815-24 Josiah Bellows, 3rd 1829
Wm. Buffum 1835-36 Leonard Bisco 1838
Ephraim Holland 1839-41 Otis Bardwell 1842-43 Jesseniah Kittredge 1844-51, 53-69 David Buffum 1852 Benj. F. Aldrich 1870-75
Helen L. Knowlton 1934-39 E. Everett Rhodes 1940-50 Lillian Smith 1951-62
Harley E. Smith 1962-
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Josiah Bellows, 2nd 1816-18, 27-28, 30-31 Roger Vose 1819-25
Henry Foster 1826 Wm. G. Field 1829
Fred A. Ramsay 1922-27, 30-31
Harry E. Stowell 1928-29
Jonas Fairbanks 1791-92, 95-96
POSTMASTERS AND DATE OF APPOINTMENT:
Samuel Grant David Carlisle
* April 1, 1795 April 9, 1797
John Hubbard
* January 1, 1799
Alexander Thomas
*October 1, 1799
Gurdon Huntington
*October 1, 1802
Francis Gardiner
*October 1, 1804
William Pierce Oliver Allen
*July 1, 1808 August 12, 1816
Josiah Bellows, 3d
January 5, 1826
George Allen
January 26, 1842
Theron Adams
June 19, 1845
Joel H. Tracy
June 4, 1847
Nathan G. Babbitt
July 28, 1847
Edward Crosby
April 14, 1849
Amherst K. Maynard
April 2, 1853
William C. Sherman Philip Peck William C. Sherman
October 24, 1866
January 8, 1867
Ransom L. Ball
April 19, 1869
Leonard B. Holland
February 19, 1889
Frank A. Spaulding
April 27, 1889
James L. Holland
March 31, 1893
Annette Brown
April 10, 1895
Carleton E. Sparhawk
April 27, 1899
Russell G. Graves
January 7, 1914
Carleton E. Sparhawk
December 9, 1922
Thomas W. Kiniry
+August 1, 1936
Raymond J. Lloyd
November 15, 1951
December 31, 1951
Oscar H. Woodward, Jr. Gertrude R. Wallace
September 30, 1952
* Date of first return from the deputy postmaster to the Postmaster General.
Information after 1929 was furnished by the Post Office Department. Date of establishment of Post Office not shown.
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*July 1, 1807
David Stone
July 31, 1861
WALPOLE LIBRARIANS
Village
North Walpole
Hon. Jeremiah Mason 1795-97 Joseph Dennie 1797- Pliny Dickinson ?- 1823 David Buffum 1823- Jennie M. Ball in 1860's Louisa A. Pierce 1872-73 Ransom Ball 1873-83
Flora M. Crowell 1883-85
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