A history of the town of Sullivan, New Hampshire, 1777-1917, Volume I, Part 23

Author: Seward, Josiah Lafayette, 1845-1917
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: [Keene, N.H., Sentinel printing Co.]
Number of Pages: 888

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1844, Nov. 4. For 16th ad. (15th election), Wm. Badger, John McNeil, Elijah R. Currier, Isaac Hale, Elijah Sawyer, John L. Putnam, each 23, Democrats, who voted for POLK (IIth

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P.) and DALLAS. Also, Jos. Low, Jos. Healey, John Rogers, Ben. M. Farley, Rufus Parish, Sam. Garfield, each 67, Whigs ; Jesse Woodbury, Peter Clark, Noah Piper, Dan. Adams, Reu- ben Porter, Isaac Crosby, each 13, Free Soilers.

1848, Nov. 7. For 17th ad. (18th ad. after Fillmore's accession, although 16th election), Sam. Tilton, Jesse Bowers, Jos. H. Smith, Jona. Eastman, Richard H. Ayer, Simeon War- ner, each 18, Democrats, voted for Cass and Butler, but TAYLOR (12th P.) and FILLMORE (13th P. after Taylor's death), Whigs, were elected. Also, Jas. Bell, Wm. Haile, John B. Wentworth, Richard Bradley, Edmund Parker, Jona. Kittredge, each 27, Whigs; Arthur Livermore, John Kelley, Sam. E. Coues, Dan. Abbott, Thos. M. Edwards, Enos Stevens, each 16, likewise Whigs on a bolting ticket : John Page, Dan. Hoit, John Dow, Thos. Perkins, Salma Hale, John H. White, each 21, Free Soilers. 1852, Nov. 2. For 19th ad. (17th election ), Henry Hub- bard, Sam. Jones, Jabez A. Douglass, Sam Webster and Nat. B. Baker, each 21, Democrats, voted for PIERCE (14th P.) and KING. Also, Thos. M. Edwards, Wm. H. Y. Hackett, Austin F. Pike, Aaron H. Cragin, Dan. M. Christie, each 41, Whigs ; Aaron Quimby, Sam. Griffin, Alonzo Smith, Alva Smith, Nat. S. Berry, each 14, Free Soilers. Mr. Pierce was the only President of the United States furnished by New Hampshire, and will probably be the only one for many years yet to come. He was an able thinker, scholar, and statesman. He held his high office at a critical and dangerous period in our history. Political feeling was bitter and intensely partisan. Mr. Pierce was severely criti- cised by his opponents for some features of his administration. Time has proved the validity of many of the criticisms. At the same time, competent judges will pronounce him honest in his intentions. In his earnest, but fruitless, efforts to avert the impending and awful crisis, which burst upon the country in its terrible fury in 1861, he may have conceded too much to South- ern sentiment. His enemies almost called it treason. The truth probably is that he wished, without compromising the honor of the nation, to concede all that was possible to avert the sanguin- ary conflict which he was in a position to foretell with an almost unerring certainty. He tried to spare the nation, but he mis- understood Southern feeling. Mistakes at such a time were

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almost inevitable. Notwithstanding adverse political sentiments, Mr. Pierce was a worthy son of New Hampshire and should have a statue to his memory in front of the government building at Concord, as should also Salmon P. Chase, a former Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.

1856, Nov. 4. For 20th ad. (18th election), Wm. H. H. Bailey, Thos. L. Whitton, Dan. Clark, Thos. M. Edwards, John H. White, each 76, Republicans, voted for Fremont and Dayton, but BUCHANAN (15th P.) and BRECKENRIDGE, Democrats, were elected. Also, Dan. Marcy, Jona. T. Chase, Horace Chase, David Buffum, Eleazar Martin, each 23, Democrats ; Wm. Choate, Rufus C. Stevens, Isaac Riddle, Dan. W. Farrar, Chas. B. Had- dock, each 1, old-time Whigs and Free Soilers. Open-air mass- meetings, especially in country places, with processions from town to town in carriages, usually with 31 young ladies in white to represent the then 31 states, were marked features of this breezy campaign.

1860, Nov. 6. For 2Ist ad. (19th election), John Sullivan, Ebenezer Stevens, David Gillis, Nat. Tolles, Dan. Blaisdell, each 75, Republicans, voted for LINCOLN (16th P.) and HAMLIN. Also, Henry P. Rolfe, Geo. W. Stevens, Wm. C. Clarke, Thos. W. Gilmore, John G. Sinclair, each 13, Democrats of the Doug- las and Johnson type. Sullivan cast no votes for any candidate of the Southern Breckenridge and Lane type, nor for anyone of the "Constitutional Union " party, who had nominated Bell and Everett. This was a solemn and serious period in our national history. The Harrison and Tyler campaign was noisy and rough, the Pierce and Buchanan campaigns were lively and exciting, but this campaign was a matter of thoughtful anxiety and timid forebodings to all reflecting persons. The writer of this book was then a student, in Westmoreland, at a private seminary of Rev. (later Rev. Dr.) S. H. McCollester. He re- calls the deep, sober, and serious solicitude with which all classes of citizens looked forward to the impending struggle. Political and partisan feelings were deep and bitter. No such solemn anxiety about the national politics was ever known before (at least since the Revolution), and may, perhaps, never be known again. The students were filled with the thoughts of the time. Their lyceum exercises and debates were replete with political

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allusions and forebodings. It is worth much to have lived in that time and to have known the feelings and passions which moved men then. The political affairs of the present time, though of the greatest importance, and of world-wide conse- quence, are tame in comparison with them. The defeated party in this campaign felt great disappointment, but it would be diffi- cult to find a Northern man, and almost equally difficult to find a thoughtful Southerner, who does not feel that the hand of Divine Providence was never more signally manifest in any event of American history than in the election to the presidency of the immortal LINCOLN.

1864, Nov. 8. For 22d ad. (23d ad. after Johnson's acces- sion, although the 20th election), Wm. H. Y. Hackett, Dan. M. Christie, Archibald H. Dunlap, Allen Giffin, Henry O. Kent, each 62, Republicans, voted for LINCOLN and JOHNSON (17th P. after Lincoln's death). Also, Albert R. Hatch, Abel Haley, Geo. Stark, Geo. Huntington, Harry Bingham, each 24, Dem- ocrats.

1868, Nov. 3. For 24th ad. (2Ist election), Amos Paul, Joel Eastman, Mason W. Tappan, Edward L. Goddard, Albert M. Shaw, each 56, Republicans, voted for GRANT (18th P.) and COLFAX. Also, John S. Bennett, John W. Sanborn, Franklin Tenney, Edmund L. Cushing, John Bedel, each 21, Democrats.

1872, Nov. 5. For 25th ad. (22d election), Lyman D. Stevens, Ben. J. Cole, Phinehas Adams, Wm. Haile, Ben. F. Whidden, each 60, Republicans, voted for GRANT and WILSON. Also, Wm. P. Wheeler, Mason W. Tappan, Frank Jones, Waterman Smith, Jos. A. Dodge, each 10, Democrats.

1876, Nov. 7. For 26th ad. (23d election), Zimri S. Wal- lingford, John J. Morrill, Moody Currier, Levi W. Barton, John M. Brackett, each 72, Republicans, voted for HAYES (19th P.) and WHEELER. Also, Edmund L. Cushing, John W. Cloutman, Sam. K. Mason, Edson Hill, John W. Sanborn, each 22, Dem- ocrats.

1880, Nov. 2. For 27th ad. (28th ad. after Arthur's acces- sion, although the 24th election), Aretas Blood, Ezra H. Win- chester, Albert S. Eastman, John A. Spaulding, Henry L. Tilton, each 76, Republicans, voted for GARFIELD (20th P.) and ARTHUR (2Ist P., after Garfield's death). Also, Geo. B. Chandler, John

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C. Moulton, Dan. Marcy, Frank A. Mckean, Don H. Wood- ward, each 22, Democrats.

1884, Nov. 4. For 29th ad. (25th election), Geo. W. Lib- bey, Jas. E. Larkin, John B. Smith, Marshall C. Wentworth, each 62, Republicans, voted for Blaine and Logan, but CLEVE- LAND (22d P.) and HENDRICKS, Democrats, were elected. Also, Frank Jones, Wm. W. Bailey, Jos. C. Moore, Jas. A. Weston, each 18, Democrats; Edgar L. Carr, Asa S. Kendall, Jas. M. Bean, Roger E. Dodge, each I, Prohibitionists ; Geo. G. Berry, John E. Norwood, Philip B. Holmes, John W. Batchelder, each I, Greenbackers.

1888, Nov. 6. For 30th ad. (26th election), Geo. W. Nes- mith, Chas. D. McDuffee, Chas. S. Whitehouse, Frank A. Cofran, each 65, Republicans, voted for B. HARRISON (23d P.) and MOR- TON. Also, Thos. Cogswell, Harry Bingham, Geo. VanDyke, Walter Aiken, each 15, Democrats.

1892, Nov. 8. For 3Ist ad. (27th election), Augustus A. Woolson, Geo. W. Abbott, Jos. A. Walker, Abraham P. Olzen- dam, each 59, Republicans, voted for Ben. Harrison and Reid, but CLEVELAND (24th P. according to almanacs and political manuals, although he would remain as the 22d person who became P.) and STEVENSON, Democrats, were elected. Also, Marcellus Eldredge, John M. Mitchell, Cyrus Sargeant, John Dowst, each 16, Democrats.

1896, Nov. 3. For 32d ad. (28th election), Frank P. May- nard, Stephen N. Bourne, Hiram A. Tuttle, Thos. H. VanDyke, each 61, Republicans, voted for McKINLEY (25th P., according to political lists and manuals, but the 24th person to become P.) and HOBART. Also, Wm. O. Hutchins, Sidney B. Whittemore, Gilman Clough, Nathan C. Jameson, each 2, Democrats ; Harry Bingham, John S. H. Frink, Warren F. Daniell, Roger G. Sulli- van, each 4, National Democrats.

1900, Nov. 6. For 33d ad. (34th ad. after Roosevelt's accession, although the 29th election), Wm. J. Hoyt, Seth M. Richards, Jos. O. Hobbs, Wm. H. Mitchell, each 69, Republi- cans, voted for MCKINLEY and ROOSEVELT (26th P., according to manuals, but 25th person to become P., after the death of McKinley). Also, Nathan C. Jameson, Jas. C. Norris, Gilman Clough, Frank B. Preston, each 4, Democrats ; Frank K. Chase,

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I, Prohibitionist. The man who voted that ticket probably put his cross against Chase's name instead of in the place that would cause the whole ticket to be voted. The other candidates for electors on that ticket were Allan W. Wark, John C. Berry, and John J. Abbott.

1904, Nov. 8. For 35th ad. (30th election), see appendix.

CHAPTER V.

ROADS, BRIDGES, POUNDS, AND COMMONS.

I. ROADS.

From the first settlement of the soil now constituting Sulli- van, for thirty years or more, the roads were hardly more than bridle paths. They were passable for ox-teams and carts and, in winter, for sleds. Travelling was on horseback, at first. The earliest carriages for riding purposes were the so-called " boat wagons." Such wagons were used previously to 1810, but had not displaced the more general custom of horseback riding, till late in the 19th century. Light loads were carried upon the horse's back, and a woman often rode behind a man, upon a pillion.

When Sullivan was incorporated, several roads, sufficiently good for the purposes above specified, had been constructed.

I. The first road into the territory now called Sullivan was accepted by Keene, Nov. 17, 1768, the same year that settlements began upon our territory. From the text of the lay-out, it would seem that it was about the same as the old road now leading past the old Roswell Osgood place, but it seems to have started

" at the Hill on the East Side of the Mill Brook [evidently Beaver Brook, and probably about where the old Bridge place was] near the North East Corner of

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Thirty acre lot No. Thirty Four, then runs North Eastwarly Thro Land belong- ing to Nath1 Wright and then runs upon Common land the same course and crossing the Brook Formerly called Ferries Brook Near the Falls of Sd Brook, then runs North eastwardly on Lands Belonging to Rhoda Sanger & Capt. Jere- miah Hall to Gilsum line and comes to Said Line on the East Side of Sugar Hill so called."

The road was to be two rods wide. It was discontinued, Mar. 24, 1772, and replaced by the road here described as No. V., but within the limits of the present Sullivan the roads I. and V. were about the same thing, especially north of the bridge over Ferry Brook. It is the road by the Roswell Osgood place.

II. The second road certainly known to have been laid out was the one through District No. 3, from the Stoddard line to the line originally forming the boundary between Stoddard and Packersfield (just below where Mr. Dunn lived). It was laid by the Masonian Proprietors, in September, 1770, in the interest and at the expense of the settlers of Monadnock No. 7 (now Stoddard). The committee, consisting of John Varnum and Samuel Stevens, whom the Masonian Proprietors appointed to lay out this road, rendered a report in language so quaint and comical that we cannot refrain from quoting it :

" We have also viewed the Road by us Laid out In September Last from the Center of Manadnock Nº : 7 : & Extends through the North Westerly part of Nº : 6 : & through part of Gilsom & thenc to Keen and is an Exceeding Good Road & Runs through a Tract of Excellant Good Land. We have Caused the Same to be Exceeding Well Cut till it Comes to ye South Borders of our sd Town. We applyed to ye Inhabitants of Nº : 6 [Packersfield, now Nelson] to be So Kind as to open that part of sd Road that Leads through sd Nº : 6: but Without Success ! Have therefore Contracted With Mr Jos : Dodge one of our Settler to Cut ye same through sd Nº : 6 : at ye Expence of ye Grantees of Nº 7. As We have been always Generously Leading the Way In Opening & Clearing Roads in this Wilderness for the publick Utility We Resolved Not to Scringe in So Noble a Work -: & as the Same Was Left With us to manage & Deter- min for Sª Grantees. We applyed to ye Inhabitants of Gilson & Keen To open a Road through their Respective Town In ye. Best Way and Maner for the Good of ye publick till it Cums to ye Great Road that Leads to ye Center of Keen & they Generously promis to meet With us With pleasure In the best Way and maner Imagineing That it Will be a Great Road and that it Will be Greatly Servicable to ye publick. We have the Roads (tho at great Expence) So Well Calculated and Cut that Invy it Selfe must Stop her mouth & one that We have out Stript all that have Gone before us in the new planta- tions In Cleareing Roads for the Good of the publick : The Inhabitants of Keen and Gilsom Rejoyce in our progress and prospect of prosperity."

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This road, when Gilsum and Keene had completed their lay-outs, formed the great thoroughfare for many years from Stoddard (also the north part of Nelson, a little later) to Keene, by way of the old first meetinghouse site, the Four Corners, and the Joshua (later Roswell) Osgood place. For twenty years, it was the only road between those places. At the time of the incorporation, the eastern portion only had been properly con- structed, from Stoddard line to near the Packersfield line, just above where Mr. Dunn lived. The Sewards settled their farms in 1781, and Grindall Keith came to what is the Pompey Wood- ward place about the same time. Mar. 27, 1783, a Stoddard town meeting directed the construction of roads laid out by selectmen "the past year". Most likely this road, then only a bridle path, was "constructed ", under this vote. Aug. 29, 1783, Stoddard, at a town meeting, distinctly ordered the construction of the road to be continued to Jona. Burnham's, which was above the Dunn place. This was as far as the road had been suitably built at the incorporation of Sullivan. The whole road to that point is still used, excepting the piece from near the Pompey Woodward place to No. 3 schoolhouse, which was discontinued, Mar. 13, 1894, in exchange for a new piece of road.

III. The third road was most likely the old " Gulf Road ", so called, which led from the old first Gilsum meetinghouse east- wardly, across Beaver Brook, north-west of M. J. Barrett's pres- ent house, then southeasterly up the hill, past where Mr. Barrett lives, past the old Proctor and Leland places, to the top of Hubbard Hill, then down the hill to the east, past the Corner, to the site of the present Town Hall, thence north-easterly up the hill, to the old Rowe place, thence easterly to the Patent Line. The letter of the committee, just quoted, describing the preceding road, announced that Gilsum made a "promis " of it, as also of the road from Hubbard Hill to Keene. The men who laid road No. V. (see further on) say that Gilsum had laid a road to Keene. This was early in 1772. The "promis" was made previous to August, 1771, and was fulfilled before Feb., 1772. It is likely that the lay-out was accepted at the March meeting of 1771 (certainly not many months from that date). The records of Gilsum town meetings are all lost previous to 1789. The portions of this road still used are the piece from Mr.

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Barrett's to the "West Road," the piece from the east end of the old Proctor Road to the top of Hubbard Hill, and the piece from the old cemetery to the Town Hall. The last piece might perhaps be called the "Main Street" of the town. The piece from the old Winch place to the Patent Line was discontinued, Mar. 13, 1821. The piece from the old Winch place to the site of the present Town Hall was discontinued, Sept. 21, 1803, in exchange for the road from that place to where Mr. Jewett lives. The piece from the old cemetery to the top of Hubbard Hill, where the road leads up from the Leland place, was discontin- ued, Nov. 7, 1876, but is still a good private road. The piece from Gilsum line to near where Mr. Barrett lives, where the old road led to the D. B. Brooks place, was discontinued, Sept. 13, 1813. Excepting the part from the old Winch place to the site of the Town Hall, which was exchanged for another piece, it would be possible, even today, to drive in a buggy over the entire route of this road, so far as lay in Sullivan, by removing bars, and also the wire obstruction at the top of Hubbard Hill.

IV. The town of Gilsum, probably at the same time that they laid the preceding road, laid the road from the top of Hub- bard Hill to what was then the south line of Gilsum (north of the Roswell Osgood place), to meet No. I., laid by Keene. As was said under No. II., this road by the old Osgood farm was a thoroughfare many years. It was discontinued, Nov. 7, 1876.

V. On Mar. 24, 1772, Keene accepted a road, laid by their selectmen, on Feb. 28, 1772, leading north from James Wright's (later Geo. K. Wright's) past the old Osgood place, then owned by Jeremiah Stiles, to what was then the Gilsum line. So far as the limits of the present Sullivan are concerned, it was prac- tically the same as No. I., and the continuation of No. IV. After being used more than a century, it was discontinued, Nov. 7, 1876.

VI. The next road was laid by Keene, and accepted by that town, Mar. 7, 1775. It is the road still used from the guide- post north of the house of the late Geo. K. Wright in Keene to the brow of Nims Hill in Sullivan, where the old house of Eliakim Nims stood.

VII. The next road within the limits of the present Sulli- van was the road from the Four Corners north, past the Rawson

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and Boynton places, to the Corey place and beyond. Jonathan Baker and John Chapman both settled their farms in 1777, and Samuel Corey began his clearing in 1781. It is highly probable that this whole road was laid and accepted by Gilsum as early as the March meeting of 1778, although their early records are lost. A deed made in the summer of 1880 alludes to it as the road to " Boyington." A man named Boynton had settled north of the Corey place in Gilsum. The portion from John Farrar's to Gilsum line was discontinued, Mar. 13, 1832; but relaid, Apr. 30, 1833. The portion from the north line of the old C. W. Rawson farm to Gilsum line was discontinued, Mar. IO, 1903. The remainder is still open and in good condition. There was a slight alteration of the route, Oct. 27, 1800, for a few rods, at a point north of the old Isaac Rawson place.

VIII. Nathan Bolster settled his farm about 1782 or 1783. It is probable that one of the roads accepted by Stoddard, Mar. 27, 1783, as already laid by the selectmen, was the road to his house, from the place known as the Pompey Woodward place. It is still the road to Mrs. Preckle's.

IX. Bezaleel Mack settled the Dea. Gibbs place about 1784. Daniel Peck bought the place where Mr. Wheeler lives in 1784, and seems to have been there two years earlier. Charles Rice was on the farm where Mr. Moore lives as early as 1784. Judging from these dates and the custom of promptly opening new roads to houses of settlers, we infer that the road leading past those places, once known as the " Bingham Road," must have been accepted by Gilsum as early as the March meeting of 1785, or not far from that time. It led (in what is now Sullivan ) from the Gilsum line, north-easterly, to where Mr. Moore lives, then along the present highway to where W. H. Bates lives and beyond, to the road leading past the Corey place. The part from Gilsum line to where Mr. Moore lives was discontinued, May 16, 1805. The rest of the road is used, but the part from the house of W. H. Bates to the road by the Corey place is practically dis- used, though never, to our knowledge, officially discontinued.

X. James Locke, who was still in Townsend, Mass., in 1783, settled the farm afterwards occupied by C. P. Locke about 1784, if not the year before. The road from near where J. N. Nims now lives, leading easterly to the C. P. Locke place, was

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probably opened to the latter house about the same time that the preceding road was built. Thos. Morse probably settled where F. B. Nims lived later (his house being a few rods south, in the present pasture) about 1777. It is quite possible that he had a rough road to his house which followed nearly the path of the present road, but his house was south of the present road. The Gilsum annual meeting in March, 1778, or thereabouts, may have ordered this road to be built. An alteration in this roadway was ordered by the town of Sullivan, Oct. 27, 1800. The whole road was discontinued, from the Gilsum road to the old Seth Nims place, Mar. 12, 1878, and from there to the C. P. Locke house, Mar. 13, 1877.

XI. Mar. 14, 1786, Keene accepted a road from the house of Capt. Eliakim Nims to the then Keene and Sullivan line, just beyond where the " Hubbards have dug a well." The road had been laid by the selectmen, in November, 1784. This fortunate little observation in the lay-out, helps to fix the date of the arrival of the Hubbards. They had got a well dug in the fall of 1784. This was obviously the date of their settlement. The well was that of Roswell Hubbard, with whom Erastus lived until his marriage.

XII. There was one other road before the incorporation of Sullivan. It was probably a private road, as there is no record of any discontinuance. It led from what we always called the " balance gate ", north of the F. A. Wilson house, south-easterly, to a point below the orchard, where Wm. Burnham once lived. He had a child which was born there in 1786. He probably built this road himself, about that time.

The remaining roads of the town were laid after the incorporation, and upon the dates given were accepted by the town.

XIII. June 3, 1788. The "Stoddard Road," from the Patent Line, past Mr. Morse's, and the places where Judson White and Martin Rugg afterwards lived, across the brook, and on to where Stoddard had left the construction, near the place where Edwin J. Dunn built his house. It was really a part of road No II., laid by the Masonian proprietors in 1770. The only portions of this road (so far as laid on the date here given) now travelled are the piece from near where E. J. Dunn lived to the beginning of the new road below the Dunn house and the

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piece from Mrs. Comstock-Guillow's house to where Malachi Barnes lived. The piece from the latter place to where the new road begins, below the Dunn house, was discontinued, Nov. 8, 1864. The piece from where Judson White lived to where Martin Rugg lived was discontinued, Mar. 12, 1811. The piece from the Patent Line to the road leading south to the Wilson farm was discontinued, Mar. 13, 1838. Road No. III. was the westerly continuation of this route. See that road.

XIV. June 3, 1788. The "Mack Road," from Bezaleel Mack's (who lived opposite the present house of L. R. Wheeler ) southerly to where the schoolhouse No. 5 stands, then easterly to the road past Chapman's (afterwards C. W. Rawson's) house. The portion from No. 5 schoolhouse to the Rawson road is still used. It was discontinued, Mar. 10, 1829. We fail to find any record of a reopening, although it is still travelled. The piece from No. 5 schoolhouse to where Mr. Wheeler lives was discon- tinued, Mar. 14, 1837.

XV. June 3, 1788. The " South Part Road," from Sulli- van Four Corners south to Roswell Hubbard's, to meet the road, No. XI., laid by Keene to that point. This is still an important road.

XVI. Sept. 14, 1790. A change in the " Gulf Road," No. III., being a new piece between what we know as the Proctor place and the Abel Allen place where M. J. Barrett lives. It was about eight rods north of the original road, which was exchanged for this. It is a part of the road from the "West Road " to Mr. Barrett's. It also included a few rods east of the " West Road " towards the Proctor place, discontinued, May 31, 1851, when the highway leading past the Proctor house was discontinued, from its eastern intersection with the "West Road" to its western intersection with the same road. That Proctor road has always been used as a private road, however.

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A history of the town of Sullivan, New Hampshire, 1777-1917, Volume I, Part 23

Author: Seward, Josiah Lafayette, 1845-1917 Publication date: 1921 Publisher: [Keene, N.H., Sentinel printing Co.] Number of Pages: 888

Author: Seward, Josiah Lafayette, 1845-1917
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: [Keene, N.H., Sentinel printing Co.]
Number of Pages: 888