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In April, Stephen Harris came to Troy, and resided one year with his father-in-law, Daniel Ball. Mr. Har- ris was the son of Stephen Harris, and was born at Richmond 1791, and in March, 1816, he married Patty, daughter of Daniel Ball, and located in Richmond, where he resided three years. He moved from Troy to Swan- zey in 1820, and resided there till 1838, when he bought the farm on which he now resides and returned to Troy. Mrs. Harris died in 1852, and since then, Mr. Harris has resided in Richmond, till recently he has married
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Sally Whitcomb, and now occupies the Ball farm. Children: 1, Elisha, born Sept. 29, 1817, died in 1846; 2, Stephen, born Oct. 24, 1820, married Almira Fuller, July 16, 1846; 3, Willard, born June 3, 1823; 4, William A., born Aug. 29, 1826, married Sarah E. Fife, Oct. 25, 1849; 5, Lucy, born Feb. 16, 1829, married Welcome Ballou, June 2, 1852; 6, Lydia, born Sept. 9, 1832, married Luther Alexander, Sept. 7, 1848.
Charles Davis, a native of Hancock, came here this year, and purchased an old house which had stood some years on the farm now occupied by John Flagg, and re- moved it to the west side of the road, near where the rail-road bridge now is, and but a few rods from the Newell house. Mr. Davis was a hatter, and a part of his house was finished for a hat-shop; and it was the first establishment of the kind in Troy. He work here some ten years, then moved to Holden.
Timothy Kendall, who had resided here since 1814, built, this year, the house now occupied by Stephen B. Farrar, and resided there till 1831, when he exchanged farms with Stephen Farrar. In this trade he reserved the house lots now owned by Mrs. John Lawrence, and built the house now occupied by Earle Clark, and lived there two years. In 1833, he built the house in which A. W. Baker now resides, and lived there till 1845, when he moved to Fitzwilliam.
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1820.
DANIEL CUTTING, Representative.
DANIEL W. FARRAR,
SALMON WHITTEMORE, Selectmen.
TIMOTHY KENDALL,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
Simon Butler came here this year, and bought the farm formerly owned by Stephen Russell. He was a na- tive of Lancaster, Mass., and married Olive, daughter of Joseph Butler, March 5, 1817, and settled in Marlboro'. In 1820, he came here and resided six years, then re- turned to Marlboro', where he remained ten years; but in 1837, he came to Troy again, and located on the farm first purchased, and where he now resides. Children: 1, Lovell P., born Nov. 14, 1817; 2, Simon O., born March 30, 1819, married Ruth E. Haskell, April 12, 1854; 3, Algenon S., born Sept. 23, 1822, married Harriet Goddard of Rindge, March 4, 1847; 4, Charles, born Jan. 5, 1826, married first, Sarah P. Haskell, who died Sept. 13, 1856: second, Maria L. Haskell, Nov. 19, 1857; 5, Ira M., born Dec. 5, 1829, married Eliza J. White, resides in Marlboro'; 6, Mary Jane, born Nov. 9, 1835, married Edward F. Starkey.
In June, Asa Brewer, son of Asa before mentioned, married Rachel Knights of Sudbury, Mass., and located on the Morse farm, -now the Jonathan Clark place, - where he resided three years, then bought the farm now owned by William Whitcomb, but in a few months he sold his possession in Troy and removed to Fitzwilliam, where he now resides. Children: 1, Joel K., born Jan.
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27, 1822, resides in Charlestown, Mass .; 2, James, born Jan. 25, 1825, resides in Topeka, K. T .; 3, Harriet, born March 20, 1827, deceased; 4, George S., born Nov. 18, 1828, resides in Rindge; 5, Gardiner S., born Oct. 11, 1829, resides in Boston; 6, Rachel, born April 10, 1833, deceased; 7, Harriet R., born June 3, 1835, resides in Springfield, Vt .; 8, Elizabeth A., born June 21, 1837; 9, Henry H., born March 19, 1841; 10, Calvin B., born Sept. 17, 1844; 11, Emarancy H., born Dec. 29, 1846.
November 15th, Moses S. Perkins, son of Moses, married Cosby, daughter of Abraham Coolidge, and lo- cated on the farm now owned by Edmund Bemis, where he resided till 1850, then moved to Jaffrey, where he is now living. Children: 1, Sarah, born Sept. 7, 1822, married Merrill P. Farrar of Romeo, Mich., Sept. 12, 1848, died Jan. 19, 1854; 2, Phebe, born Nov. 17, 1824, married James L. Bolster, Nov. 2, 1847; 3, Hart, born Sept. 26, 1828, married Phebe P. Flowers, July 25, 1854; 4, Charles, born Oct. 27, 1833; 5, Dorcas, born June 24, 1835, married James S. Lacy, July 24, 1855; 6, Cosby, born June 28, 1838, married John V. Tenney, Jan. 1, 1859; 7, Mary, born May 21, 1840.
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1821.
DANIEL CUTTING, Representative.
DANIEL CUTTING, TIMOTHY GODDING, Selectmen.
AMOS SIBLEY,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
This year, Timothy Fife, seventh son of Silas, mar- ried Mary Jones of Framingham, and located on the farm with his father, and resided there till the death of the latter, when he came in possession of the farm. In 1848, he sold this farm to William A. Harris, and pur- chased of George Bemis the farm on which he now re- sides. Children: 1, Daniel J., born Aug. 11, 1823. married Loney A. Garfield, Sept. 23, 1851; 2, Betsey T., born Dec. 24, 1824, married Jacob Harrington, Oct. 25, 1849; 3, Sarah E., born May 23, 1826, married William A. Harris, Oct. 25, 1849; 4, Mary M., born Aug. 18, 1827, died Aug. 19, 1847; 5, Rachel, born Oct. 30, 1828. Mrs. Fife died Feb. 10, 1856.
April 18th, Abel Baker, from Marlboro', married Cordelia, daughter of Caleb Perry, and located on the Whitcomb farm, now owned by Amasa Aldrich. Mr. Baker is of English descent. His great grand-father, John Baker, came from England about the year 1738, and with a large family of children settled in Waltham, Mass., where he resided five or six years; then with a part of his children he removed to Killingsley, Conn., but three sons and two daughters remained in Massachu- setts. Richard, the youngest son, was ten years of age when he arrived in this country. At twenty-nine years of age he purchased a tract of wild land in Westminster,
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Mass., and intended to take up his abode there, but in 1757, he was pressed into the British service in the French and Indian war for one year. The whole com- pany in which Mr. Baker served were from the same town. At the expiration of the year, the English offi- cers refused to give them their discharge from service, and retained them against their consent. They prepared themselves with snow-shoes, and the whole company, consisting of about seventy men, left the camp at Albany about midnight, intending to cross the Green Mountains to Massachusetts. But they got lost, wandered several lays among the mountains, but finally found Deerfield River, and followed it to Coleraine, where they found in- habitants, after having been out nine days without pro- visions, except a small dog which they killed the fifth day, and having the snow, which was some four feet deep, for their bed. Mr. Baker reached home in safety, and soon married Mary Sawyer of Lancaster, raised up a numerous family of children, and lived to a good old age.
Mrs. Baker's grand-father, Thomas Sawyer, was one of the first settlers of Lancaster. He built him a house surrounded by a fort, and a saw-mill, to which the in- habitants of his village resorted in case of Indian hostili- ties, which were very common from 1670 to 1710. At one time, supposed to be between 1675 and 1680, his garrison was attacked by the Indians, and all were killed except Mr. Sawyer and two women. Night came on, the women loaded the guns and Mr. Sawyer continued to fire from the port-holes till nearly mid-night, at which time the Indians withdrew from the place. Mr. Saw- ver went and caught his horse, and after setting fire to his house, which contained shocks of grain, the women mounted the horse, and he walked by their side until they reached a place of safety. On the 15th of October, 1705, Mr. Sawyer, with his son Elias, and John Bige- low were taken captive by the Iudians, at his saw-mill,
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a little after day light, whither he had gone to commence the labors of the day, and the savages immediately set out with their prisoners for Canada. On their journey they treated Mr. Sawyer with great cruelty, but on ar- riving at Montreal, he observed to the governer, whose residence was at that place, that there was a good site for mills on the river Chamblee, and that he would build him a saw-mill, on condition that he would procure his. his son's, and Bigelow's redemption. The governor readily closed in with the proposal, as at that time there was not a saw-mill in all Canada, nor artificers capable of building one. He accordingly applied to the Indians. and very readily procured the ransom of young Sawyer and Bigelow, but no sum would procure Mr. Sawyer's redemption; him-being distinguished for his bravery. which had proved fatal to a number of their brethren- they were determined to immolate. The victim was ac- cordingly led forth and fastened to the stake, environed with materials so disposed as to produce a lingering death. The savages surrounding the unfortunate prison- er, began to anticipate the horrid pleasure of beholding their victim writhing in tortures amidst the rising flames : and of rending the air with their dismal yells. Sudden- ly a Friar appeared, and with great solemnity, held forth what he declared to be the key to the gate of Purgatory. and told them that unless they released their prisoner. he would instantly unlock that gate and send them headlong thereinto. Superstition prevailed and wrought the deliverance of Mr. Sawyer; for they at once un- bound him and gave him up to the governor.
In one year from that time he completed the mill, when he and Bigelow were discharged. They detained his son Elias, one year longer, to instruct them in the art of saw- ing, and keeping the mill in order. He was then amply rewarded and sent home to his friends; and both he and his father lived to an advanced age, and were gathered 14*
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to their graves in peace. Bezeleel Baker was the fourth son of Richard and Mary Baker, and was born at West- minster, Mass., in 1768. He came to Marlboro' in 1787, purchased a tract of land, and in 1793, after he had made the necessary arrangements, married Abigail, daughter of Dea. Nathan Wood of Westminster. Dea. Wood, a descendant of William Wood, who came to America in 1638, and settled in Concord, Mass., mar- ried Rebecca Haynes of Sudbury, May 2, 1750, and removed to Westminster in 1756. He was active in opposing those measures of the British government which led to the Revolution, and the struggle for independence; was a member of the first congress, which met at Cam- bridge, and encouraged resistance to the arbitrary acts of the English Crown; but he died June 19, 1777, and his fifteen children followed his remains to the grave. His posterity have since settled in almost every State in the Union, and among them have been many clergymen.
Thus it will be seen that Dea. Abel Baker has descend- ed from an honorable ancestry; and no one. acquainted with him, will suppose that the blood has been in the least contaminated, by passing through his veins. Dea. Ba- ker resided on the Whitcomb farm-before mentioned- eight years, then bought the Perry farm, formerly owned by Dea. Silas Fife, and to this he removed his family, and has resided there to the present time. Children; 1, Orissa, born Aug. 28, 1822, died Sept. 6, 1823; 2, Cor- delia, born Dec. 27, 1823, married John F. Humphreys of Athol, Mass., Dec. 1, 1845; 3, Abel W., born April 28, 1825, married Mary Haskell, April 8, 1847; 4, Caroline B., born Jan. 5, 1827, married F. S. Parmen- ter of Athol, June 6, 1848; 5, Myra A., born Feb. 24, 1832, married John U. Beers, Dec. 10, 1856; 6, Mary W., born May 21, 1836. Mrs. Baker died Aug. 4, 1839, and Dea. Baker married Mrs. Sarah C. Bush, daughter of Alphous Crosby of Jaffrey, Nov. 16, 1840.
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July 18th, William Whitcomb, son of Zopher, mar- ried Clarissa, daughter of Edmund Bemis, and resided one year on the farm owned by Josiah, son of David Wheeler. In 1822, he moved to the farm now owned by Simon Butler, and lived there till 1824, then rented the farm now owned by Jotham H. Holt. In 1826, he moved to Londonderry, Vt., where he resided till 1829. then returned to Troy, and bought the Newell farm of Russell Waters, and here he has since resided. Chil- dren: 1, Elliott, born Aug. 19, 1822, married Eliza- beth P. Darling of Jaffrey, April, 1851; 2, Luther, born July 21, 1824, married first, Lucy Ann May of Winchendon, February, 1849, who died Jan. 25, 1851 : second, Caroline Wright, January, 1853, he died Oct. 24, 1854; 3, Elsina, born Dec. 25, 1830, died Oct. 18, 1839; 4, Charles, born July 7, 1833, died Nov. 17, 1855; 5, Franklin, born Dec. 19, 1836.
December 30th, Aaron Hodgkins married Rhoda Per- kins, and located in the house near Stanley's mill. Af- ter residing there some years, he bought the farm now owned by Lee Rosebrook, where he resided till his death, April 30, 1856. Children: 1, Harriet A., born July 10, 1825; 2, Christopher, born Jan. 6, 1829, married, resides in Marlboro'; 3, Ambrose, born Jan. 20, 1831; 4, Mary, born Dec. 25, 1832; 5, Frederick, born March 4, 1835; 6, Cyrus, born Jan. 24, 1837; 7, Ermina B., born March 19, 1839. Mrs. Rhoda Hodgkins died in 1851; and Mr. Hodgkins married Mrs. Alfreda T. Brown, Jan. 15, 1852, who is now a widow again.
Alpheus Crosby, a blacksmith, located in Troy this year. He is a descendant of Josiah Crosby, who immi- grated from England and settled in Billerica, Mass., previous to the breaking out of the French and Indian war. In that war he joined a company of volunteers and marched to Swanzey, to assist the inhabitants of that town in repelling the Indians. Their route lay
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through a wilderness, and on arriving at the border of the town, the company discovered an Indian in the top of a tree. They proceeded cautiously till within shooing distance, when several guns were levelled at him, but in an instant, the whole company were fired upon by a large party of savages who lay in ambush, and were completely routed. Mr. Crosby, with a few others who escaped, swam the Ashuelot, and took shelter in a fort at Hinsdale. Probably about the year 1768, he moved from Billerica to Amherst, N. H., then a wilderness. Here he drove a few stakes into the ground and con- structed a sort of Indian wigwam, in which he resided two or three years, then built what was more common - a log-house. He was in the American army in the Revolutionary war, and during a part of that time, had command of a company. He had ten children, seven
sons and three daughters. Alpheus, the fourth son, was in the army several years with his father; but about the year 1786, he came to Jaffrey, where, after residing about two years, he married Elizabeth Gilmore and set- tled for life. He also had ten children : Betsey, Esther, Mary, Nancy Ann, Sarah, Alpheus, Asa, Franklin, Porter, and Josiah. Alpheus, learned his trade of John Stone of Jaffrey, married Mary Fox and settled in Troy as before mentioned. He resided a short time in the house now owned by E. P. Kimball, and worked in the shop formerly occupied by Nathan Wheeler. After- wards he resided in the tenement under the Congrega- tional Meeting-House. But in 1837, he built the stone- house now owned by Mrs. Dodge, and in this he resided till just before he removed to the West in 1854. The brick-shop now owned by Isaac Aldrich, Jr., and the stone-shop near the Meeting-House, were built by Mr. Crosby. Children: Mary Louisa and Emily, who died in childhood; Joseph, George, Mary, Emma Caroline, Frederick Lowe, Abby Crocker.
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1822.
DANIEL CUTTING, Representative.
DANIEL CUTTING,
TIMOTHY GODDING, Selectmen.
AMOS SIBLEY,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
April 7th, Asher Coolidge, son of Abraham, married Olive Starkey, and resided about one year in the house with his father-in-law, William Starkey. After chang- ing his residence several times, he died in the Ward house-now (1859) occupied by Joseph Vanness-in November, 1834. Mrs. Coolidge died at Keene, Septem- ber, 1848. Children: 1, William, born November, 1824, died May 11, 1826; 2, Elbridge, born May 15, 1826, married Sarah M. Whittemore, May 25, 1854, who died Feb. 7, 1859; 3, Olive Ann, born 1828; died 1841; 4, William E., born June 17, 1830; 5, George, born Feb. 6, 1833; 6, Sarah, born January, 1835, married George W. Billings, October, 1855, died 1858.
Abel Garfield, the seventh son of John, married Mar- tha Fuller, and located on the home farm with his father, and has resided there to the present time. Children: 1, George Washington, born 1825, married Augusta L. Harvey of Marlboro', Oct. 31, 1852; 2, Chancy N., born 1828, married Maria Brown, Sept. 6, 1853; 3, Sarah, born 1832, married Andrew Aldrich; 4, Hep- zibah, born 1835, married Isaac Fuller of Marlboro'; 5, Martha L., born 1839, married Delano H. Sibley, Dec. 23, 1857; 6, Mary Ann, born 1842.
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1823.
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Representative.
DANIEL CUTTING,
GEORGE FARRAR, Selectmen.
TIMOTHY KENDALL,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
January 9th, Enoch Garfield, ninth son of John, mar- ried Lucy, daughter of Hezekiah Hodgkins, and located on the farm which he had purchased of Enoch Metcalf, and the same that was formerly owned by William Nurse. He resided there till the death of Mrs. Garfield, Dec. 29, 1854. Children: 1, Elizabeth Ann, who mar- ried Charles Scholley of Gardner, Oct. 10, 1843; 2, Sally H., born Nov. 22, 1823, died Jan. 10, 1828; 3, Amos, born July 22, 1825, died Feb. 19, 1845; 4, Sarah H., born May 11, 1828, married Lorenzo Dex- ter, Feb. 16, 1854; 5, Loney A., born July 8, 1823, married Daniel J. Fife, Sept. 23, 1851.
May 22d, Leonard Cobb, who was born July 21, 1800, married Nancy Osborne, who was born Nov. 12, 1798. They located on the farm which had long been owned by Talmon Knights. Mr. Cobb resided there till
his death, April 18, 1856. Mrs. Cobb is still living on the farm. Children: 1, Farwell O., born March 10, 1824, married Louisa M. Woodward, March 14, 1850; 2, Sybil, born May 23, 1826, married Theodore J. Dyer, Jan. 1, 1849; 3 and 4, Albert and Alvin, -- twins, -born Aug 11, 1829; 5, Leonard D., born May 14, 1832, married Mary Ann Chase, Oct. 11, 1853.
December 1st, Moses Ballou removed with his family
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from Smithfield, R. I., to Troy, and located in the Max- cy house. He was the son of Moses Ballou, and was born in Smithfield, June 2, 1781, and married Martha, daughter of John Randall of North Providence, Dec. 28, 1818. He died at Troy Oct. 3, 1838. Mrs. Ballou in now living in Swanzey. Children: 1, Deziah C., born March 20, 1821, married Benjamin Read of Swan- zey, Dec. 20, 1842; 2, Moses D., born Dec. 2, 1822, married Eunice L. Lane; 3, Albert R., born Dec. 8, 1824, married Mary M. Mason of Swanzey.
Lemuel Brown, a native of Sudbury, came here this year, and purchased the Daniel Cutting farm of Levi Daggett. He was accompanied by his father, Abel Brown, and a younger brother, George W. Mr. Brown resided a short time in the old house which stood a little south-west of the present buildings; but it had become so dilapidated that it was found necessary to build a new one, and the house in which Mr. Brown now resides was built by him in 1832. Children: 1, Almira, born Oct. 6, 1818, married Lyman Spooner, March 27, 1842; 2, Emily, born April 3, 1820, married Gregory Lawrence, June 15, 1843; 3, Harriet, born Jan. 9, 1831, married Warren McClenathon, Nov. 5, 1850, died Nov. 19, 1854; 4, Caroline, born Oct. 4, 1832, died Oct. 24, 1839; 5, Lemuel Warren, born October, 1835; 6, Charles W., born Jan. 30, 1839.
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1824.
DANIEL CUTTING, Representative.
DANIEL W. FARRAR, AMOS SIBLEY, 1 Selectmen. CALEB PERRY,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
This year, Moses Bush, a tanner, built the house north of E. P. Kimball's, and now occupied by Mrs. Sarah Haskell. Mr. Bush was a native of Templeton, where he spent his minority, and learned his trade, but came to Troy in 1816, and formed a co-partnership with Col. Lyman Wright. April 26, 1825, he married Sarah Crosby of Jaffrey, and moved into the house he had just completed, and died there the following year.
March 11th, Elijah Bemis married Lucy Butler, and located on the farm formerly owned by Hugh Thompson, but afterwards by Jonathan Lawrence, Jr. Mr. Bemis resided on that farm till his death, Nov. 1. 1852. Chil- dren: 1, Edmund, born 1824, married Mary M. Kim- ball of Rindge, Aug. 13, 1846; 2, Caroline, born Jan. 13, 1826, married David Robbins of Winchendon, died May 17, 1849; 3, Loring, born April 6, 1827, married Ellen Hall of Plymouth, Vt., March 2, 1854; 4, Elijah, born March 2, 1829, married Susan H. Kimball of Rindge, June 2, 1852; 5, Gilbert C., born June 23, 1830, married Ellen Metcalf of Rindge, Oct. 19, 1854; 6, Susannah, born March 30, 1832, married Simeon Merrifield of Fitzwilliam, April 1, 1850, died Oct. 1, 1853; 7, Lucy Ann, born Sept. 22, 1835, married Derby of Fitzwilliam, July 4, 1859.
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Jonathan Clark, son of Thomas. was born June 3. 178S, married Mary Brewer in 1812, and resided in Keene till near the close of the year 1824, when he re- turned to Troy and purchased the farm* upon which his father-in-law, Asa Brewer, had lived some years. He resided there till his death, Aug. 20. 1850. Children: 1, Asa, born Sept. 4, 1814, married Martha Howe of Fitzwilliam, in 1837, is living in Swanzey; 2, Jona- than, born April 10, 1816, married Lovina Starkey, 1841, died Oct. 14, 1852; 3, Betsey, born Sept. 20. 1820, married Bailey Starkey, 1840; 4, William, born June 8, 1825, married Martha Bolles, 1851, resides in Swanzey; 5, Daniel W., born Feb. 25, 1831, married Maria Whitcomb of Swanzey; 6, Henry C., born March 8, 1838.
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1825.
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Representative.
DANIEL CUTTING,
AMOS SIBLEY, 8
Selectmen. CALVIN STARKEY,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
June 30th, Stephen Tolman, the seventh son of Ben- jamin, married Hannah Martin of Worcester; but the union being an unhappy one, they were divorced; and Mr. Tolman married Lorentha Fisher of Vermont, June 5, 1837, and she died Sept. 27, 1843. Mr. Tolman married Susan Fisher, sister of his second wife, April 13, 1844, with whom he is now living on the farm for-
* This was the tavern stand once owned by Henry Morse.
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merly owned by his venerable father. Children : 1, Arvilla Ann, born Oct. 16, 1828, died May 13, 1849; 2, Alvah, born Aug. 13, 1840; 3, Lorenzo, born Sept. 19, 1843; 4, George Andrew, born Dec. 2, 1844; 5, Emily Lorenza, born June 5, 1849, died Sept. 22, same year; 6, Henry Emerson, born Jan. 15, 1850; 7, Laura Marilla, born Aug. 2, 1853; 8, Ella Rosina, born April 18, 1855.
1826_
Rev. EZEKIEL RICH, Representative.
AMOS SIBLEY,
SALMON WHITTEMORE, Selectmen.
CALVIN STARKEY,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
This year, Asahiel Wise, blacksmith, bought the house and lot which had long been occupied by Thomas Tol- man. He was a native of Winchester, where he learned his trade, but worked several years in Fitzwilliam, and at this time he married Hannah, daughter of David White, and located in the Tolman house. In 1838, he removed the house to its present location, and thoroughly repaired it. He was a man of considerable energy and perseverance, and took great delight in training vicious horses: and possessing great strength of muscle, he could hold the foot of the most powerful horse, and shoe him with apparent ease. He died in 1840. Children : 1, Mary Ann, married George Boutelle of Bellows Falls; 2, Lydia, died at an early age.
In September, Oliver Hawkins became a citizen of
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Troy. He was born at Winchester, Feb. 6, 1801, mar- ried Johannah H. Foster, Sept. 1, 1824, and resided two years in his native town. Soon after coming here, he bought the location now owned by Calvin Bemis, and resided there till March, 1851, when he removed to Rindge. The last few years of his residence here, he was one of the firm of Goddard, Buttrick & Co., in the manufacture of tubs and pails. He now resides in Fitz- william. Children: 1, Lucy F., born July 3, 1826; 2, Johannah, born April 15, 1823, married first, Willard Holt, August, 1847, who died: second, Jesse Pike, June, 1857; 3, Ann Lany, born Oct. 18, 1830, married Al- fred R. Harris, November, 1852; 4, Fanny, born Sept. 9, 1832, married Alfred T. Colony, May, 1854; 5, Nancy E., born June 10, 1834, married Nathan B. Bout- well, November, 1958; 6, Oliver P., born July 21, 1836; 7, Marshall P., born March 8, 1839; 8, Susan A., born Feb. 22, 1845; 9, John H., born July 14, 1846.
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1827.
DANIEL CUTTING, Representative.
DANIEL CUTTING,
CALVIN STARKEY, Selectmen.
LYMAN WRIGHT,
DANIEL W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
This year the town, by vote, instructed the Selectmen to lay out a road from Silas Wheeler's house, westerly to the Turnpike, and to contract for the building of the bridge.
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