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97. Site of house occupied by R. Hubbard, Jr., Evans, D. H. Mason, Tirzah (Boynton) Kingsbury and others. This property, consisting for many years of about four acres of land, contalning different buildings, on the south-east corner of the Four Corners, was a part of the "right" of Gilsum drawn by Stephen Griswold and sold by him, Sept. 24, 1776, to Joseph Ellis, Sr. At the division of the latter's property after his death, the portion of the estate of which this is a part was deeded by the heirs to Nathan Ellis, a son of Joseph, Sr., Sept, 10, 1787. Enoch Woods, who lived at 80, bought of Nathan Ellis four acres in this corner, Feb. 23, 1798. Mr. Woods erected a building here which was used for a store at first. It was afterwards a dwelling for many years. Its peculiar appear- ance will be well remembered by many residents. The first merchant was a man named Dorr. His first name is not certain. On June 1, 1801, a license to sell spirits was issued to Josiah Dorr. Some have thought that it was Joseph Dorr, who also had a store in Keene. It was more likely a relative of Joseph Dorr. John Parkhurst of Marlborough purchased the property, Aug. 3, 1801. It was
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understood that he traded here for a time after Dorr. He was back in Marlbor- ough, however, when Rev. William Muzzy bought the place of him, March 7, 1807. Mr. Muzzy sold the same to Edmund Munroe and Lemuel P. Grosvenor, mer- chants of Boston, Aug. 26, 1808. They advertised it for sale in the Keene Sen- tinel and alluded to it as having been used for a store. There is a tradition that the owners stocked it with goods and that a relative of the Muzzys operated the store for a time. CHARLES CARTER purchased the place of these Boston men, Feb. 6, 1812. He married a daughter of Enoch Woods. He was, a shoemaker. He worked at his trade here a little more than two years, having refitted the building for a dwelling. EBENEZER B. COLLESTER of Marlborough (whose last name was spelled McAlister and McCollister, by different members of the fam- ily) bought the place of Carter, Apr. 22, 1814. He was also a shoemaker and continued that business in the shop which Carter had fitted on some part of the premises. He got financially involved and deeded the place, Sept. 7, 1818, to his father-in-law, Phinehas Gleason of Dublin, and his own father, Samuel Collester (sometimes spelled McCollester) of Marlborough. Charles Carter owned the land on which the house at 98 stands before he bought this place, and it was in- cluded in the sale to E. B. Collester, and by him in the sale to the latter gentle- men. The shop was probably on or near 98. ROSWELL HUBBARD. JR., and BENJAMIN TYLER, both of Sullivan, bought this place of Gleason and Collester, Mar. 15, 1820. Hubbard was a merchant and already had a store at 234. See under 234. Tyler was a shoemaker. They divided this property between them. Hubbard kept the corner at 97, and Tyler took the lower part and built the house at 98. See 98. There are no recorded deeds to furnish the exact date of this divi- sion. Perhaps the deeds were exchanged when Hubbard sold 97 to Evans, so that he might give the latter a clear title. Roswell Hubbard, Jr., was a very brilliant young man, exceptionally capable in a business way, and a useful citizen. He removed to Crown Point in 1825, not more than a year after he had completed his new residence at 237. He had, shortly before, Oct. 14, 1824, sold the place at 97 to NATHANIEL EVANS, who came here from Concord, N. H. Mr. Evans, as we saw in the preceding paragraph, purchased Hubbard's store building at the same time and moved it here at once and placed it at g6. Mr. Evans did busi- ness here for eight or nine years and a relative of his clerked for him here for a short time after the place was sold. After leaving Sullivan in 1832, Mr. Evans located in Keene. He married for his second wife, Harriet Keyes, a sister of the merchant, Elbridge Keyes. She was a milliner. He established a store in the Wilder (now the Ball) building in Keene, using the east end of the building. His wife had a millinery store In the same place. A picture of his sign is dis- tinctly visible in the picture of that building, opposite page 413 of Griffin's His- tory of Keene. He died May 23, 1877, at Hopkinton, N. H. He had a son born here at 97, Lewis D. Evans, who was in the army. EPHRAIM FOSTER, who had lived at other places in town, bought this place of Mr. Evans, Feb, 13, 1832. He was a blacksmith. It was while he lived here that the old store building was moved from 96 to 95, and the old blacksmith shop was moved from 91 to 92. This change was effected about 1834. See 237, 196, 87, and 178, also page 614, for further notices of Mr. Foster. DANIEL H. MASON, who had been living a short time in Hancock, bought this place of Mr. Foster, May 30, 1839. He was
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also a blacksmith and, for eighteen years, worked in the shop at 92. He was the postmaster at Sullivan for the last eleven years of his residence in this house. He was a bright, ingenious man, of strict integrity, and greatly respected in the community. His wife, who was a Miss Jones of Dublin, was a capable business woman. She tended the postoffice and had a beautiful flower garden which was always much admired. FREDERICK B. NIMS, who had been living many years at 73, where his children were all born, bought this lot and the land upon the oppo- site corner of Mr. Mason, March, 28, 1857. The old shop was operated three or four years longer by William Baker, who had lost one of his eyes. He was a brother of Mrs. Solomon Smith, in whose home he lived at 101. Mr. Nims built the pretty house at 94 into which he moved the following year. See 73 for a further notice of Mr. Nims. TIRZAH (BOYNTON) KINGSBURY bought this house of Mr. Nims, including only the land immediately around it, June 24, 1858. She owned it until her death, July 30, 1881, but did not live here all of the time. Levi . Barrett was a tenant here in 1878 and perhaps longer. He now lives in Win- chester. Seth Nims purchased the place of E. C. Winchester, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Kingsbury, Jan. 11, 1882. Mr. Nims lived at 94. This house at 97 was not again occupied, unless for a few weeks by some transient family that had acquired no residence. It passed by deeds of Oct. 13 and Nov. 4, in 1899, from the heirs of Seth Nims to Bruno Theberge. The latter died as the result of an injury, Nov. 10, 1905, having willed his real estate to his wife who still holds it living at 94. Mr. Theberge removed the house. The barn which F. B. Nims built on the site of the old shop at 92 still remains.
98. Site of the Tyler, later the Hersey Wardwell, house, where.Mr. Gor- man (probably Gourmand in French) lives. This was also a part of the "right " of Stephen Griswold, which was deeded to Joseph Ellis, Sr., Sept. 24, 1776, and by the latter's heirs, at the division of the property, to Nathan Ellis, Sept. 10, 1787. Roswell Hubbard, Esy., bought the lot on which this house stands, of Na- than Ellis, Nov. 27, 1802. Charles Carter, then of Sullivan, bought the lot of Mr. Hubbard, Oct. 2, 1811. He did not live here, but may have had a small cob- bler's shop here for a time. The following winter, Feb. 6, 1812, Carter bought the place at 97. See 97. Carter sold the two lots to Ebenezer B. Collester of Marl- borough, Apr. 22, 1814, who moved to 97 and worked several years at his trade of shoemaking. He mortgaged both lots to his father and father-in-law, Phine- has Gleason and Samuel Collester, as we saw in the preceding paragraph, to whom he deeded the property, Sept. 7, 1818. Collester lived here till 1820, when the joint owners sold both lots to Roswell Hubbard, Jr., and Benjamin Tyler, both of Sullivan, March 15, 1820. They eventually divided the property between them. The exact date is not ascertained, but it was perhaps at the time that Hubbard sold to Evans, so as to give the latter a clear title. BENJAMIN TYLER, in the division, took this lot at 98. He had lived here after the joint purchase and had erected the house now standing here. While living here, he erected a shop for the manufacture of shoes at 238, and employed several men in that business. See 238. Mr. Tyler married a daughter of Roswell Hubbard, Esq., and was a man of influence in the community. He afterwards moved to Massachusetts. The next occupant was EDWARD BARTON, M. D., a graduate of the Vermont Medical College at Woodstock, who came to town as a young physician and soon
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married Harriet Wilson, a sister of C. Franklin and Dauphin W. Wilson. He afterwards became an eminent physician in Orange, Mass., and wrote the history of that town. See page 599. He bought the place of Tyler, Apr. 15, 1833. TIMOTHY L. LANE, M. D., another physician, widely known, who received his medical degree from Dartmouth College, bought this place of Dr. Barton, Oct. 20, 1834. For a fuller account of him, see page 598. EZRA WARDWELL of Nel- son bought the place of Dr. Lane, Mar. 1, 1836. He was the father of Hersey and I. N. Wardwell. He was a sturdy and industrious farmer. He had two sons, Ezra and Granville, who entered the ministry. See pages 590 and 591. Mrs. Wardwell was the granddaughter of Gen. Josiah Whitney of the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Wardwell lived here the rest of their lives. Their son, HERSEY WARDWELL, bought the place of them, July 18, 1840, with the usual obligation to care for his parents. Hersey was a shoemaker and worked at his trade, in a shop at the east end of the house, for a quarter of a century. He was the town sexton for several years and also the meeting-house sexton for a few years. He was also a town constable, collector, and member of the school board. He was a faithful supporter of the First Congregational Church. He removed to West- minister, Vt., and died in Massachusetts, but the burial was in Sullivan. Mr. Wardwell sold to GEORGE O. Dow, Dec. 25, 1865, who was to take possession, Apr. 1, 1866. He lived here between two and three years. He later lived in Keene and died there. DANIEL ADAMS NIMS, who had lived many years at 170, bought the place of Dow, Dec. 14, 1868. See 170. He had not lived here quite three years when he was killed, Nov. 21, 1871, while taking down a barn. See page 368. The place was left to his widow, who lived here until her death, Nov. 12, 1875. ' Her heirs sold it, Dec. 31, 1875, to Mrs. Emeline S., wife of EDGAR S. SEWARD, who was the son of Samuel A. Seward, who lived at 17. There was other land which went with this house-lot, making something of a farm. The Sewards lived here a few years. They sold the place, Aug. 17, 1882, to D. S. PERKINS, who had already moved to the place. Mr. Seward became a baker in Fitchburg. Perkins mortgaged the place to Mason A. Nims of Sullivan, who foreclosed it, June 11, 1884. Edouard Beauregard was a tenant here in 1890, and for a time before and after that. JOSEPH F. GOURMAND (called Gorman in English) bought the place of Mason A. Nims, Aug. 17, 1895 and has since lived there. His son-in-law, Chas. M. Dunbar, has lived with him some of the time. His son, Joseph F., Jr., has been in one of the militia companies at Keene. 99. The old Nathan Ellis, afterwards Joseph Seward, farm, where Eddie C. Stone lives. This farm was a part of the lower portion of the old Stephen Griswold " right " in Gilsum. It was deeded to Joseph Ellis, Sr., by Griswold, Sept. 24, 1776, and by the latter's heirs to NATHAN ELLIS, Sept. 10, 1787. Nathan Ellis lived on this farm twenty years. He built, about 1795, the house which became the ell of the house which Joseph Seward built, although he had probably lived four or five years at 100, then on the same farm. Mr. Ellis had several children born here. He was an uncle of the late Asa Ellis of Sullivan. Capt. Samuel Seward took a deed of this farm from Nathan Ellis, March 12, 1807, but he deeded it back to Ellis, Sept, 19, 1807. On the same day, Mr. Ellis deeded it to ELIJAH OSGOOD, who lived here for a year. See 102. STEPHEN PIERCE from New Braintree, Mass., purchased the farm of Osgood, Sept. 17,
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1808, and two days later, Sept. 19, 1808, sold it to DAVID EMERY BOYNTON. Both of these men lived in town. Mr. Boynton lived here for about two or three years, then moved to what we know as the Boynton farm, at 176. Stephen Pierce paid a land tax in town in 1809-10, and a poll tax from 1811 to 1814. His wife was a sister of Mrs. D. E. Boynton. It is supposed that both families lived in the same house for a portion, if not all, of the time that Mr. Pierce lived in town. See 176. JOSEPH SEWARD, son of Capt. Samuel Seward, bought this farm of D. E. Boynton, March 22, 1811. It continued to be his home until his death, Feb. 12, 1872, when it passed by will to his widow LOVE SEWARD, and, at her death, Jan. 26, 1891, to Mr. Seward's son, JOSEPH B. SEWARD, in whose possession it remained until his death, Sept. 9, 1905, having been in the Seward family a cent- ury, lacking five and a half years. Joseph Seward was an old-time schoolteacher and, for his day, a well educated man. He was a very influential citizen. He served as select-man, town clerk, town treasurer, collector, constable, tithing-man, sealer, and pound keeper, which last office he held 52 years (not all consecutive), the longest service in the behalf of the town ever rendered by any citizen. He was the constable who arrested Mr. Woods at the time of the Baker tragedy. No other Sullivan man ever held so many of the different town offices. He had a large family, but most of his children died in infancy. A son, Quincy A. Sew- ard, was for years a prominent merchant in Keene and Greenfield, Mass. He dealt in ready-made clothing and furnishing goods. The other son, Joseph B. Seward, was an honest, quiet, man, whose life was principally passed upon the old farm. His only child, a daughter, died a week after his own death, in a Bos- ton hospital. Mr. M. W. Hubbard, as administrator of the estate of J. B. Sew- ard, deeded the farm to EDDIE C. STONE, the present owner, Apr. 20, 1906. See 229, where Mr. Stone had previously lived.
100. Site of the old Lydia Clark house. This small lot of two acres orig- inally belonged to the farm described in the preceding paragraph. Its owners to and including NATHAN ELLIS are there given. Mr. Ellis was married in 1789. It is believed that the old house which stood here was built by him and that he lived in it four or five years. About 1795, he built a better house at 99, which became the ell of the later brick house of Joseph Seward. On May 7, 1803, Mr. Ellis sold the south end of his land, including this lot, to Elijah Carter, who lived at 228. In a little more than three months, Aug. 31, 1803, Mr. Carter sold the northern strip of his purchase, being the little two-acre lot containing this house, to Calvin Locke, who lived at 71. In a few months more, June 6, 1804, Mr. Locke deeded the same little piece of land, with the house on it, to John G. Bond, a prominent merchant of Keene in those days. ELIJAH OSGOOD, who had previously owned the farm at 161, but had been living two years at 102, since Mr. Ellis sold this lot to Mr. Carter, bought the place of Mr. Bond, Apr. 19, 1806. He doubtless lived here more than a year at least, when he purchased the farm at 99 and moved there, as we observed in the preceding paragraph. In the mean time, Mr. Osgood had sold this lot, March 2, 1807, to Rev. William Muzzy, who lived at 87. In a year and a half, on Aug. 26, 1808, Mr. Muzzy sold it to Ed- mund Munroe and Lemuel P. Grosvenor, merchants of Boston. MISS LYDIA CLARK, a relative of the Lockes, probably lived here much or all of the time that Mr. Muzzy and the Boston gentlemen owned the place. She bought it of the
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latter, June 6, 1812. She lived here a quarter of a century, perhaps longer, in- cluding some years before her purchase. She was a good woman, but a very eccentric character. Children enjoyed calling at her cottage to hear her quaint expressions. See page 543 for a more extended account of Miss Clark. After leaving this house, she was employed in different families in this and other towns. She lived for a time on the Winch (now the town) farm, at 70, and spent her last years and died in the home of Charles P. Locke, at 71. She sold this place at 100, to Ezra Wardwell, Nov. 7, 1837. Previous to this, about 1835-37, Curtis Spaulding lived here. His youngest son was born in this house. After Ezra Wardwell bought it, the land was cultivated, but the buildings disappeared. It is possible that other families may have lived here, while Miss Clark owned the house, for short lengths of time. From Ezra Wardwell this bit of land passed successively to Hersey Wardwell, July 18, 1840; to George O. Dow, Dec. 25, 1865; to D. Adams Nims, Dec. 19, 1868, and to Daniel H. Mason, Apr. 13, 1870, whose son still owns it. See 237.
IOI. Site of the Hosea Foster, afterwards the Solomon Smith, house. The little pieces of land on which this house stood belonged to that part of the old Griswold'" right," which Joseph Ellis purchased. For all owners of the land to Messrs. David Boynton and Chauncy W. Rawson see 94. While the latter gentle- men owned it, in or about the year 1843, HOSEA FOSTER leased the land and built a house here. Alden Davis, who came from Stoddard, lived in this house while the Fosters were also living in it, for a short time, soon after the house was built. Mr. Davis also lived in one part of the house at 235. He was a brother of the father of Henry and Lyman Davis, who live at 6 and 20. Samuel Win- chester bought the land of Boynton and Rawson, Jan. 10, 1845. Ephraim Foster moved his family here for a few months in 1845. Ephraim's son, Sumner C., was born here. Hosea Foster lived here more than five years, and moved to Keene in 1848. For a fuller account of him see page 614. Daniel H. Mason bought this place of Mr. Winchester, May 6, 1852. He sold it, Feb. 3, 1853, to SOLOMON SMITH. Smith lived here until he died, Oct. 15, 1859, and his widow kept the house for a home to which she could go, until her death, July 8, 1875. Mrs. Smith was an old-school nurse and was employed in many different families in Keene and elsewhere, especially as a nurse for young children. Shetook good care of her small earnings. At her death, she had over one hundred dollars in her purse, and half as much more in a savings bank. While away, families had lived in her cottage at different times. John E. Dow was living there in 1867, and George O. Dow was living there in 1871. While the Smiths lived in the cot- tage, Daniel Smith of Gilsum acquired a title to this small estate. He was a relative and doubtless took over the property in return for money advanced to them, but more particularly to keep any one else from depriving this aged couple of their home. After Solomon Smith's death, and even before his death, William Baker, a brother of Mrs. Smith, who had no family in town with him, made a home with his sister. He was a blacksmith and worked in the shop at 92 for a certain time after Mr. Mason left it. Mr. Baker died in some other place, May 27, 1861. He had lost one eye. Seth Nims had bought this place of Daniel Smith, May 14, 1878. The old buildings stood a few more years in a ruinous condition. Some rude youths posted the sign, "Parker House," over the door,
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the name of a famous Boston hotel. At last all vestiges of the cottage disap- peared during the nineties.
102. Site of the first house in town as is supposed. The old Joseph Ellis or Griswold place, later, for many years, the Samuel Locke place, where T. F. Thomas built a new house. This was the homestead of the " right " drawn by STEPHEN GRISWOLD, Sr. in the distribution of the Gilsum lots, to which the farm originally belonged. Griswold lived here about eight years and held offices under the Gilsum government as early as 1771. He sold the place, Sept. 24, 1776, to JOSEPH ELLIS, Sr., who owned all the land as far south as the north line of the Hubbard farm, east of the road, and as far south as the road leading by the cemetery, west of the central highway. His estate was large enough to pro- vide a farm for all of his five sons, one of the farms being in Keene. In the division of the estate, Sept. 10, 1787, a few days before the incorporation of Sul- livan, this place was assigned to JOSEPH ELLIS, Jr., who lived here a little more than four years. See 25 and 26. BENJAMIN DODGE of New Boston bought the land now owned by the Marstons, Dec. 1, 1791, and this farm, Apr. 19, 1792, and bought still more land near it, Apr. 29, 1792. He lived here a few months and was taxed in town and paid his poll-tax in 1792. His daughter Sarah was born here in June. ABRAHAM CLARK, Sr., of Townsend, Mass., bought both of these places of Dodge, Aug. 29, 1792. He brought a large family with him. Several of his children married while he lived here. He belonged to the church. He absented himself too frequently from the communion. Rev. Mr. Muzzy urged the tithing-man, Dea. Seward, to ascertain the reason. The deacon was very reluctant to make any report of his official action. When driven at last to do so, he said that Mr Clark's reason was that " he was dissatisfied with the min- ister." About 1803 or 1804, Mr. Clark built the house at 236, where Mr. Mars- ton lives, for his son, Abraham, Jr., who was married about that time. ELIJAH OSGOOD, June 18, 1804, bought this farm of Mr. Clark, who afterwards lived, for a few years, across the road, with his son, Abraham Clark, Jr. Mr. Osgood had previously lived many years at 161, afterwards the Kingsbury place. CALEB HUNT, who came from Stoddard, bought this farm of Osgood, May 20, 1807; and mortgaged it to Osgood. He obtained a license as innkeeper, June 10, 1807, and used the old Griswold-Ellis house for an inn. Hunt could not pay for his farm and surrendered the deed shortly after to Mr. Osgood. The latter in the mean time lived temporarily at 100 and 99. ELIJAH OSGOOD, on returning to this place, conceived the idea of opening a public house. On Jan. 3, 1809, he borrowed a sum of money of Ephraim Aplin, who lived in town, and mortgaged this farm to Mr. Aplin. He then built the large two-story house that stood here many years, in which the Lockes and A. F. Nims lived. The old house which had stood here, and which is believed to have been the first in town, formed a part of the material for the new one. But Mr Osgood, as the English proverb is, " bit off more than he could chew." He received a license as innkeeper, Mar. 27, 1809, but he got badly in debt and, being discouraged, ran away from town one night and never returned. He located in Almond, N. Y., where his family afterwards joined him. He died there in 1847. Mr. Aplin was, of course obliged to foreclose the mortgage and take the farm. Mr. Osgood had been an influential man in town. He held many of the town offices and was the first cap-
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tain of the Sullivan military company, according to information received from the late C. Franklin Wilson, who had the list of officers. On March 24, 1810, CALVIN LOCKE of Sullivan bought this farm of Mr. Aplin, but only for a business reason, for he sold it the same day to SAMUEL LOCKE, who was said to be of Boston, in the deed. He was from Fitzwilliam and was a relative of Calvin Locke, his father being a first cousin of Calvin's father. Mr. Locke occupied this old tavern house many years, always as a private house however. He was a justice of the peace and one of the most important and influential citizens of the town. He was town clerk many years, town treasurer, collector, and repre- sentative to the General Court. He discharged for many years the solemn duty of burial sexton and was the first sexton who drove the old hearse built by Wil- liam Brown, the first in town. In the latter part of his life Mr. Locke moved to 237, where he died. His son, JOHN LOCKE, continued to live upon this place many years. After his father's death, John Locke bought such interest in the estate as he did not inherit, of the heirs, May 7, 1861. He had lived here about thirty years when he sold the farm, Nov. 9, 1877, to AUGUSTUS F. NIMS. Mr. Locke was a select-man and held various other offices. He lived to be the old- est resident native of the town. He moved from here to 202. After his wife's death, he went to live with his daughter, Mrs. S. S. White, at 62, where he died in 1907. Mr. Nims was a deacon of the First Congregational Church. His accomplished wife was a daughter of Rev. Mr. Drake, a former pastor of the church at the Centre. His son Brainard graduated at the Keene High School and had started upon a course of study at the University of Pennsylvania, but his health did not permit him to complete the course. Dea. A. F. Nims was highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen. He died, March 25, 1897, and Mrs. Nims died on the sixteenth of December of the same year, at Keene. BRAINARD D. NIMS, through his guardian, W. H. Jones of Keene, sold this farm, which he inherited from his parents, May 17, 1898, to ARTHUR P. MORSE, who had married a daughter of Dea. Jewett Morse. In less than a year, on March 31, 1899, Mr. Morse sold to THEODORE FRANK THOMAS, who came here from Westmoreland. He took down the old house and built the pretty cottage now standing upon the farm. The architecture exhibits very good taste. On Oct. 31, 1903, Mr. Thomas deeded the place to George H. Eames of Keene, who still owns it. Edson Sewell Taft was a tenant here in 1907.
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