A memorial of the town of Hampstead, New Hampshire : historic and genealogic sketches. Proceedings of the centennial celebration, July 4th, 1849. Proceedings of the 150th anniversary of the town's incorporation, July 4th, 1899, Volume I, Part 26

Author: Noyes, Harriette Eliza, b. 1848, comp
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Boston : G.B. Reed
Number of Pages: 676


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1847, and remained until age necessitated his giving up his large practice, when he returned to Hampstead to reside with a daughter, Mrs. Coker. He died Jan 25, 1885, aged ninety years. He retained his faculties of body and mind to a re- markable degree, and even in his last days illustrated the advantage of a temperate and well ordered life by the exhi- bition of a "sound mind in a sound body." This anniversary year his children have erected a monument to his memory in the village cemetery.


The ISLAND in the Island pond, formerly known as the " Is- land farm in Perch pond " has been a place famous for its pic- turesque beauty. It has been owned by people distinguished in both countries, from the time when Hon. Richard Saltonstall of Haverhill received it as a partial gift from the proprietors of Haverhill, for the valuable services he gave them in the spring of 1731 ; the island has lost no interest to the residents in each generation in our town.


Its first owner was born in Haverhill, June 24, 1703, grad- uated from Harvard College, 1722, commissioned as colonel, 1726, judge of the Superior Court, 1736, and for several years in his majesty's council. A man of great talent and learning, he died after a lingering illness Oct. 20, 1756.


Gov. Benning Wentworth purchased the farm in April of 1741, and it seems probable that the mansion was built by him or his family. The ruins are a place of interest to all, even to this day. From a military history of New Hampshire we quote from the life of Gov. Wentworth, that shows he was a lover of the beautiful Lake Wentworth in Hampstead (with- out words).


" He was born in 1695, the oldest son of Lieut. Gov. John Wentworth. He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1715. After graduation he entered his father's counting room to learn the mysteries of trade. He performed several voyages as supervisor of his father's vessels, and soon took command of them, preferring a sailor's life to that of a mer- chant. Soon after his father's appointment as governor, Ben-


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ning left the ocean and took charge of his mercantile affairs. He was chosen a representative from his native town in 1730 and was appointed councillor by mandamus from the king in 1734. Upon the removal of Gov. Belcher in 1741, Went- worth was appointed governor of New Hampshire. His ap- pointment was very acceptable to a majority of the people, and during his long administration of twenty-five years, the province made rapid strides in prosperity and wealth. Gov. Wentworth was ever prompt to do his duty and it was owing to his unwearied exertions, thatin the old Indian war the expe- dition of Louisburg and the Seven Years' war, the quota of troops from New Hampshire were ever filled and ready to be led where danger demanded." He died Oct. 4, 1770, having resigned his office in favor of his nephew.


From the register of deeds office and papers in the posses- sion of Wm. H. Hills Esq., of Plaistow, and private papers loaned, I find many transfers of the Island farm as follows, with one or two breaks in the records. Proprietors to Sal- tonstall, 1731; Saltonstall to Eastman, Green, Corner and Woodbridge, 1734; Corner and Woodbridge to Gov. Went- worth, 1741 ; Wentworth's heirs to Tristram Dalton of New- buryport, 1780 ; Dalton to Jona. Wright 1799 ; Ruth Wright to J. and E. Wright, 1799 ; Jacob Wright and heirs to Thomas Huse, 1802; Thomas Huse to Isaac Colby, Oct. 6, 1810-11; Isaac Colby to Gov. Edward Everett, of Massachusetts (whose brother occupied the farm and died in Hampstead), Sept. 8, 1815 ; Everett to Kimball et als. 1818 ; and to Moors in 1818 ; Moors to Gilman, 1820 as mortgagee ; then followed several transfers to the bank and to Gilman and Porter and Dearborn and others from 1838 to 1855 when Maynard took a deed ; Maynard sold to Tappan Carter of Hampstead in 1864, who disposed of the heavy growth of wood and timber to a good extent, and sold it to William and Nathaniel Little of New- bury, Mass., for pasturage and investment.


A pest house was situated on the island, Oct. 8, 1778. It is also recorded that when it was first deeded it was called to


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contain two hundred acres, but it is told that by actual survey it contains five hundred acres, and water and land nine hun- dred acres.


The beauties of Lake Wentworth surrounding the island known as Governor's Isle, have been told in the following lines by Dr. George R. Bennette of Lakeview.


LAKE WENTWORTH.


On fair Lake Wentworth's silvery tide, The water lilies blow. The wild ducks through the waters glide That close along its wooded side, In rank profusion grow.


The smiling hills, that girt it round, In softest beauty swell, With shady grove, and sunny mound, Where many a modest flower is found, And many a ferny dell.


Its lapping waters rippling flow By soft green islands fair. While glancing bird-forms come and go, Through all the hours, to and fro, Within the ambient air.


The Indian in his soft canoe, Once glided on its waves, Its wooded shores his warwhoop knew As through the air his arrows flew, The welcome of his braves.


How often on its glassy breast, We've pulled the laboring oar, While floating echoes from the crest Of " Eagle cliff," our lungs confessed For all the listening shore.


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From " Pleasant point," by " Marble's cove," We passed "Old Gunner's isle," Through "Peaty bog," to " Chase's grove," Are banks where finny legions rove, The sportsmen to begnile.


The " Lone Pine " stands in stately pride Close by its gushing spring, While " Blackstone " answers as a guide, By which to reach " Old Boston's " side, " Twin Islands " rocky ring.


By " Escamorswets' " wooded height. We next will take our way. Where " Hundred Islands " sylvan bright, Lie sleeping in the evening light, Reflected in the bay.


The "Red-gate's " toilsome " Strait " is passed, With many a weary sigh, Until we find ourselves at last, Safe back again, with anchor cast, "Point Pleasant " lying nigh.


And when about the camp-fire's light, We pass the time along, And wake the voices of the night, With song and jest, and laughter bright, We'll sing this little song :


The moon runs high, And the mists lie low, On the waters blue, where the breezes blow, And my spirit there Is light and free, As moonbeams fair on the greenwood tree.


When the moon runs low, And the star fires glow, And I list to the rippling waters flow, Oh ! my heart is light, As a bird in flight, Ah ! I love the quiet, dreary night.


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The pioneer of the Pillsbury family was Joseph, who mar- ried Mary Kelly, who while one of the petitioners for the in- corporation of Hampstead, made his home in Sandown, in the lane west of the residence of Alden Pillsbury near Angly Pond. His son, Benjamin, built his home close by, but in Hampstead. From this Pillsbury home descended Lyman, the father of Alden. He has children, Frank Newton, who married Mary Alice Cutter, in 1899 ; and Gertrude, both grad- uates from Hampstead High School. The following sketch was prepared by a great great grandson of the pioneer.


BENJAMIN L. PILLSBURY was born in East Hampstead, married Mary Sargent of West Amesbury, Mass., and began life in their new home near by the old homestead which was built about 1750. They had been brought up in the Puritan faith and at once became identified and were regular atten- dants of Parson Kelly's church ; any old resident now living can well remember the yellow painted chaise, every Sabbath morning, week by week and year after year, going its solitary way over the hills to the old church-the only family for years from their neighborhood. Mrs. Pillsbury was soon ap- pointed a teacher in the Sunday School, which class continued under her devoted care forty-one years, until she moved to Hyde Park, Mass. A few of the members continued with the class the entire time, Miss Hannah Howard, Mrs. Merrill and Mrs. Brown were among her pupils.


Mr. and Mrs. Pillsbury were both teachers in public schools in their earlier days and were greatly interested in the educa- tion of their children as well as the young people of their neighborhood. Through their efforts a high school was opened at different times in the school house at East Hamp- stead, taught by Ralph Emerson of Andover, Mass., son of Prof. Emerson, Rev. L. C. Kendall, who was then a student in Andover Seminary, also later by Miss Celina French, now Mrs. J. N. Fitts of Newfield, N. H. At other times a private school for their children and those of the neighborhood was


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held several winters in one of the rooms of Mr. Pillsbury's own house. Who can estimate the great value and influence of their noble, quiet, earnest, devoted lives ?


One who knew them well, said of them " They were abreast of their times." Their two sons and two daughters are all living, Dr. H. H. Pillsbury, physician, Palo Alto, Cal., two sons, one, Ernest Sargent Pillsbury, is Professor in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, San Francisco, Cal.


D. S. Pillsbury, New York, merchant, has two daughters.


Mrs. Emma L. Lane, Hyde Park, widow of Rev. J. P. Lane, two sons and two daughters.


Mrs. Abbie Thurman, wife of Sylvanus Thurman of Red- lands, California.


The first mention of a Putnam at. " Putnam Place " was in a deed given May 3, 1802. Oliver Putnam of Newbury- port, Massachusetts, merchant, bought of Epes Sargent of Hampstead, for $2750, eighty-eight acres on road leading from Haverhill to Chester, at a corner and leading by a road to Hampstead Peak, north-easterly, occupied by land of Josiah Grover and bounded by Epes Sargent's land adjoining Robert Emerson and Daniel Kelly. Oliver Putnam, merchant, was the seventh generation from John Putnam, the founder of the family in New England, from Buckingham, England, to Sa- lem, Mass., (now Danvers) 1636. The line being 1John, 2Thomas, 3Edward, 4Joseph, 5Oliver, whose son 6Oliver, was born in Danvers, Feb. 13, 1755. He married Sarah, daughter of Eleazer and Sarah (Perkins) Lake. His name appears in the list of enrolled men under command of Capt. Moses Newell, stationed in Newburyport, from Nov. 1775, to Jan. 1776. Their children were as follows :


I. Oliver, born Nov. 17, 1777, died in Hampstead, July 11, 1826, unmar.


II. Sarah, born Sept. 9, 1779: d. y.


III. Elizabeth, born Mar. 6, 1785, married Dr. Philip W. Hackett, of Hampstead.


IV. Thondike, born Feb. 23, 1787, married Mary Chase of Hampstead.


v. Thomas, born Jan. 29, 1789.


VI. Sarah, born Nov. 12, 1790, married Jeremiah Poor of Atkinson.


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VII. Charles, born Jan 28, 1793, died Oct. 25, 1834.


VIII. Lucy, born July 12, 1795, died July 30, 1839, unmarried.


IX. Joshua, born July 23, 1789, died at sea, lived at Ilampstead several years, unmarried.


Oliver Putnam Jr., found employment in the extensive im- porting houses of Newburyport, as confidential clerk for a number of years, and afterwards made several voyages to South America and Europe, and acquired a great wealth, but failing health compelled him to abandon business, and after a brief respite in Boston, he purchased the farm just referred to, and made a home for himself, his parents and brothers Thondike and Joshua, and sister Lucy. His mother died here in 1811, and his father in 1818. His will dated July 11, 1825, and proved in the County of Suffolk, Mass., August 14, 1826, contained the following bequest :-


" To my brother Thondike, his heirs and assigns, I give, bequeath and devise the farm in Hampstead, on which he now resides, with the stock and implements belonging to it and the buildings thereon with whatever they contain belong- ing to me." Upon the farm was his store which was situated a short distance from the house on the same side of the way. It was a general store much patronized in the early days of this century. From our records it is seen that " Oliver Putnam was a suitable person to be a retailer of Foreign liquors at his store for one year," dated May 31, 1814. His store was afterwards moved to the farm of the late Moody Brickett, and used as a hatter's shop, since removed from the farm.


After paying several bequests, the residue of his wealth was bequeathed for the establishment of a free English school in Newburyport, Mass. The fund was allowed to accumulate until it reached the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and in 1838, the General Court of Mass. incorporated the Putnam Free School. The school building was dedicated in 1848, " as open for the instruction of youth wherever they may belong." The fiftieth anniversary exercises of the founding of the school,


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were celebrated in 1898 and recently published, containing a silhouette of Oliver Putnam, an heirloom in the family now residing at " Putnam Place." A memorial tablet inscribed :


In memory of OLIVER PUTNAM Founder of the Putnam Free School Born in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 17, 1777, Died in Hampstead, N. H., July 11, 1826. This tablet was erected In grateful acknowledgment


of his liberal and philanthropic bequest For the advancement of learning And the instruction of youth Wherever they may belong.


Thondike and Mary (Chase ) Putnam, had children, 1 Hen- ry, born Feb. 28, 1817, married Maribah (Hale) Ayer, born Nov. 8, 1820, died Jan. 2, 1878. She died Aug. 3, 1863. They had children : Helen Maribah, born May 28, 1841, married William E. Buck. She died Oct. 30, 1865; and Oliver, March 1, 1844, married Mary Emma, widow of Adin T. Little, and died Oct. 16, 1897, leaving children who re- ceive the old home from their father, grandfather, and great- grandfather, and once occupied by their great-great-grand- father. They are Thondike, b. Aug. 12, 1882, belonging to the class of 1900, of Hampstead High School. Howard, born Oct. 5, 1886, and Maud, born Mar. 4, 1888, both of the town schools. A daughter, Helen May, born May 1, 1881, died Oct. 15, 1881.


Henry Putnam and Oliver Putnam both held important offices of trust in town, Oliver being town treasurer and col- lector at the time of his death.


Thondike and Mary (Chase) Putnam had a daughter, Laura A., who married Moody H. Brickett, resided in Hamp- stead and later in Haverhill. A daughter, Susan E., married George E. Merrill of Haverhill, Mass.


Thondike Putnam died May 21, 1858, aged 71 yrs., 2 mo., and 28 days. Mary Chase, his wife, died Dec. 13, 1870, aged 81 yrs., 1 mo., and 15 days.


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The relics which the inhabitants of the place have held sacred for generations, are interesting and cherished by the descendants ; even the story of the family horse is told as il- lustrative of the faithfulness and intelligence possessed by the pride of Oliver Putnam, the first owner of the farm, and it is said he expressed a wish that those bearing the name of Putnam in town might be as faithful to every public and private duty as the faithful beast. It is related that the horse having served its day and generation faithfully, was re- tired to pasture, but true to long habit, and possibly averse to giving up privileges, cleared the fence when church bells rang, went to church, and returned to pasture at the close of service. The horse died at the age of thirty-three.


JAMES ORDWAY was in Newbury, Mass., about 1649, was made a freeman there in 1668. He married Ann Emery and had four sons and five daughters. Judge Sewall mentions him in his diary as " an aged man," in 1648.


One of the sons, Hananiah, born Dec. 2, 1663, married Abigail Merrill. Their son Nathaniel, born July 3, 1695, married Sarah Hale, April 3, 1736, whose son Joshua, born May 18, 1756, married Sarah Pike Downer.


John, son of Joshua and Sarah (Downer) Ordway, after serving in the Revolutionary war, enlisting in 1777, and again in 1779, left the home of his ancestors in Newbury (that part now West Newbury) in 1788. He married Sally Rogers and located on Governor's island, then owned by Tristram Dal- ton of Newburyport.


In 1794 he bought the farm in West Hampstead, which has since been in the Ordway family, now owned by a grand- son, Nelson, nearly opposite the present residences of the family.


John and Sally (Rogers) Ordway had six children. The third, John, born July 4, 1792, on the Island farm, married Jan. 19, 1819, Eliza Sanborn Chase, who was born Feb. 27, 1792, and died Jan 21, 1873. They had six children :


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I. Nelson, b. July 31, 1821, m. Elizabeth Perkins Choate March 21, 1851.


II. Dana, who died at three years of age.


III. John Dana, b. Aug. 3, 1828, m. Louisa M. Kent; 2nd, Martha San- born.


IV. Daniel H., graduated Dartmouth college, class of 1852, d. 1864.


V. Emma, died, 1857.


VI. Elvira, died, 1857.


JOHN ORDWAY, early in the present century, established the mercantile business at the store bearing the sign John D. Ordway & Son, now being carried on by A. J. Spollett. It is told that he at first sold goods from a small table but soon enlarged, until before 1830, his store was one of the largest and best known to the mercantile trade in southern New Hampshire. From Chase's history of Chester, we read that " Daniel Pressey was a wool hatter, and resided be- low Ingalls' hill in Sandown. He had a brother-in-law, Mason Lincoln, also a hatter, who worked with him, and was the inventor, or brought out the art of getting out the stuff, and making what was called . poplar hats,' and with the aid of Micah Rogers of Chester, set up the tools for the purpose ;" a gauge with several spurs at suitable intervals from one sixteenth to one-eighth of an inch, was passed heavily over a piece of poplar wood about 18 inches long, then a joiner with the iron lying flat, cut the stuff off, which was braided with seven strands and sewed into hats. This was in 1806. About that time, Jonathan Bond of Hampstead, who lived where the late Ezekiel Currier resided, got sight of the tools and did a great business in getting out the stuff on an improved plan. John Ordway did a great business in dealing in these hats in all the region about, nearly all the women and children working for him. The hats were many of them sent south and west. At first they sold for fifty cents apiece, but after a time for only five cents. They were light, good summer hats, and in the rain would swell, so as not to leak badly. The business was overdone as to quantity and quality.


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with William Hazelton of Chester. There they met Mr. Jabez Bryden of Dedham, Mass., who had purchased the hats of Mr. Ordway very extensively, to ship to foreign ports. From an account of Mr. Ordway, it is related that Mr. Bryden in- formed them that the first he ever knew of the palm hat busi- ness was in 1823-4. He was engaged in the sennit or braided poplar hat trade, and used to go to Rhode Island with them. One day at a tavern at Newport, some one asked him why he did not hire a man by the name of King in that place, who knew how to make palm leaf hats braided whole ? King had been a sailor and captured by the Spaniards, and put into prison, where he learned the art of braiding hats from palm leaf. He hired King and taught the girls in Dedham to braid his hats, which cost him for the first hat about fifty dollars, so he said. After he had got more into the business he sold the hats for from three to five dollars each. Mr. Ord- way arranged to have King come to Hampstead and teach the women and girls here. King stayed about four months, and instructed the girls at two dollars each. About fourteen girls learned the trade at that time, and from this beginning grew a very large and successful business. At first the leaf was split with a knife by hand and the hats pressed also by hand. At first they got the leaf from South Carolina but found it not so strong, so they chartered a schooner from Salem, Mass., and got a cargo from Cuba. They had a large South American trade, and all of the merchants about Hamp- stead dealt largely in these hats, giving employment to a large number of women and children for miles about us, and it was a leading industry for several decades. In 1846 his son Nelson became a member of the firm John Ordway & Son. He was representative in 1846 and 1854. Served in the Sen- ate in 1857 and 1858. For many years he was president of Derry Savings Bank, and was one of the original trustees of Hampstead High School. He died November 8, 1881.


NELSON and ELIZABETH PERKINS (Choate) ORDWAY have one son :


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I. Henry Choate, b. Ang. 8, 1856, m. Fanny H. Scudder Oct. 20, 1885. He fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Grad- uated Yale college 1SS0, Columbia Law school in 1882, and was ad- mitted to the New York bar the same year. They have four chil- dren, the youngest being Emma Frances. They reside in Win- chester, Mass.


JOHN DANA and LOUISA (Kent) ORDWAY had five chil- dren, of whom only one is living :


I. John Kent, b. Apr. 26, 1852, m. Clara Cox of Baltimore, Md., re- sides in Dorchester, Mass.


II. Daniel Fairbanks, b. Jan. 9, 1855, m. Eugenis Safford, second Elenor True Randall. He d. Apr. 28, 1885. An only child, Clarence Eugene, b. Nov. 12, 187S, has since 1SSS made his home in the family of Henry C. Ordway in Winchester, Mass. He is a grad- uate of Winchester High school, and of the class of 1900 in Yale college, preparatory to a medical course.


III. Charles Edwin, b. Aug. 25, 1863, d. Nov. 27, 1866.


IV. George Eldridge, b. Oct. 30, 1867, d. July 11, 1872.


V. Emma Louise, b. Apr. 24, 1870, d. July 22, 1886.


Mr. Ordway was for many years a leading merchant in the store now bearing the sign John D. Ordway & Son. He rep- resented the town in the Legislature, chairman of the select- men, town treasurer and moderator many times (see town officers ), and held many other places of trust. He died June 11, 1888.


CHARLES HENRY RANDLETT, born in Benton, Maine, son of Charles and Nancy Randlett, married Susan, daughter of Par- don and Roxanna (Colby) Tabor of Hampstead; they have children :


I. Elmer Edward, b. Aug. 17, 1861, m. Myra C. Townsend. Have children: Alice, Maud, Guy and Clyde.


II. Helen Adelaide, b. Oct. 21, 1863, m. Charles E. Page of Haverhill. Children : Mary, Emily, Helen, John, Carrol and Doris.


III. Orrin Brown, b. Apr. 5, 1866, mn. Cora B. Sherman, Lowell, Mass. Children: Bessie .and Elsie.


IV. Albert Henry, b. Nov. 24, 1868, m. Fannie Horton, Mechanic Falls, Me. Children : Elsie and Roland.


V. Ada Mabelle, b. May 19, 1871; at home.


VI. Carrie Etta, b. June 28, 1873, m. Lyndell Pressey, Derry, N. H. Children: Edna and Zelda.


VII. Lillian Davis, b. May 9, 1876; at home.


VIII. Charles Royal, b. July 11, 1879.


IX. Grace Pearl, b. May 7, 1SS5.


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THE MARSHALL HOMESTEAD was built by Capt. William Mar- shall, who married Sarah Buswell, before the incorporation of the town, and four generations of the name have descended to the home-William, Silas (married Ruth Fellows ) and Caleb, to his children. From this homestead have gone out into the world many descendants worthy of the town's remembrance, who have been prominent in every calling in life. It is now occupied by Miss Ellen Marshall.


THE OLD HUTCHENS HOME was built exactly on the "twelve rod way tract," upon land bought of Lemuel Tucker, as his share in the first division of land by the Haverhill proprietors, and afterwards a portion of it sold to Jacob Bailey of New- bury, who sold the remainder to Hezekiah Hutchens, of New- bury, in Oct. 26, 1763, who also purchased one hundred and fifty acres of Jacob Bailey, Nov. 5, 1764. This constituted the farm of Capt. Hutchens, and where he brought his wife, Annie (Merrill) Sweet, and where their nine children were born. In later years he sold a portion of it to his son-in-law, Thomas Reed, a lieutenant in the Seventh regiment of troopers of New Hampshire militia, which command took effect June 24, 1797, and who resided under the brow of the " Pinnacle " with his wife, Patty Hutchens, and where some of their chil- dren were born. His portion of land subsequently became a part of Mr. Tristram Little's homestead. Other parts of the old Hutchens' farm were sold until it now is a farm of only thirty-six acres, belonging to Edward F. Noyes.


For years while owned by Hutchens, and later by Caleb Harriman, who had married the widow of a son (Richard Hutchens ) it was " a tavern stand," and hundreds of traders on their way from the upper country, as far as Montreal in Canada, to Salem, Newburyport, and other seaport towns, patronized it as a famous hostelry. Capt. Hezekiahı Hutchens died June 13, 1796. His military career is told in other sketches.


The sycamore tree in the view was removed in Jan., 1898.


HOSEA BALLOU CARTER.


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" The Bailey elm " stands on the opposite side of the street from the house, and was, until recent years, accompanied by a famous willow tree. It has been related that a willow and an elm tree standing side by side, were a sign of a tavern stand wherever seen in our state, and in Hampstead several such signs were seen.




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