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In November, Bailey Starkey, son of Luna, married Betsey, daughter of Jonathan Clark. They resided a short time in the Bush house, afterwards removed to the Luke Whitney place; but in 1845, Mr. Starkey bought the house he now occupies, of Charles Coolidge, and from that time he has been a resident of the village, and worked in the pail-shop. Children: 1, Mary Jane, born Feb. 12, 1840, married Joseph Haskell, Jr., Sept. 25, 1858; 2, Ellen, born March 13, 1842, married George Ripley; 3, Maria, born Nov. 21, 1845, died Feb. 17, 1847; 4, Anna M., born May 21, 1849; 5, Vienna, born Dec. 14, 1851; 6, Warren, born Oct. 8, 1853; 7, Walter, born Dec. 23, 1858.
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1839.
JONATHAN CLARK, Representative.
ABEL BAKER,
THOMAS WRIGHT, Selectmen.
JOHN W. BELLOWS, 1
DAVID W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
February 21st, Luke C. Clark, son of Thomas, mar- ried Abigail Lowe of Fitzwilliam, who was born July 20, 1814. Mr. Clark located on the farm with his father, and resided there about one year, then bought the farm he now occupies, of Nathan Winch. Children: 1, Lyman T., born Oct. 22, 1839; 2, George W., born Jan. 16, 1841; 3, Francis L., born April 16, 1843; 4, Charles D., born Dec. 29, 1845; 5, Abbie E., born Aug. 8, 1851; 6, Warren N., born May 7, 1858.
In March, Ira Boyden came to Troy and built a house near the line between Marlboro' and Troy. He is the son of Eli Boyden, and was born at Chesterfield, April 18, 1801, married Thirza Coburn, Jan. 1, 1826, and resided in Chesterfield and Winchester till 1839. In 1845, he removed to the village, into a house he pur- chased of Nathan Putney. Mr. Boyden is a carpenter, and one of the most useful citizens of the town. Chil- dren: 1, Sarah A., born Feb. 9, 1827, died March 14, 1847; 2, Persis H., born Jan. 21, 1829, married David E., Cutler of Newark, N. J .; 3, Alfonzo W., born Dec. 2, 1831, died Aug. 12, 1833; 4, William Judson, born June 7, 1836; 5, Charlotte A., born July 29, 1838.
August 29th, Isaac Aldrich, Jr., son of Isaac, mar- ried Abby M. Everett of Fitzwilliam, and resided in that
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town a few years, and worked at carriage-making. Af- terwards he returned to Troy and occupied the Bush house a short time; then in company with his brother, Julius C., he built the brick-house he now occupies. Children: 1, George E., born June 11, 1840; 2, Abby Maria, born April 24, 1843, died Jan. 26, 1844. Mr. Aldrich is a blacksmith and carriage maker, and at the present time holds the office of Deputy Sheriff.
October 2d, Joseph Alexander, Jr., married Prudence Bowen, and located on the farm formerly owned by Stephen Farrar, and resides there at the present time. Children: 1, Caroline L., born May 26, 1840; 2, Louisa A., born March 24, 1842; 3, Mary E., born Jan. 20, 1847; 4, Emma M., born April 28. 1849; 5, Ellen E., born Nov. 18, died Nov. 26, 1852; 6, Viola A., boru Nov. 26, died Nov. 29, 1853.
1840.
ABEL BAKER, Representative.
JOHN W. BELLOWS,
JOSEPH M. FORRISTALL, Selectmen.
CHARLES COOLIDGE,
BROWN NURSE, Town Clerk.
Up to this time, the only approach to the saw-mill, then owned by Col. Lyman Wright,* was by a narrow path on private ground; but in the fall of this year, the Selectmen, on petition of Charles Carpenter and others. laid out a new highway from the Meeting-House to the mill.
* Now (1859) owned by Charles Carpenter,
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1841.
ABEL BAKER, Representative.
ABEL BAKER,
CHARLES COOLIDGE, 1 Selectmen.
SOLOMON GODDARD,
DAVID W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
February 18th, Sampson Wheeler, brother of Stephen, married Mirenda, daughter of Reuben Newell, and com- menced keeping the public house in the village. After- wards he resided on the Flint place, but at the present time he occupies the house which was recently the resi- dence of Stillman Newell.
In March, Eri J. Spaulding became a citizen of Troy. He was born in Jaffrey, Oct. 19, 1821, and on coming to Troy, commenced working in the pail-shop for Charles Coolidge, and labored there two years, then bought the pottery of Capt. S. Goddard, and was engaged in the manufacture of earthen ware five years. He married first, Betsey F. Holt, Sept. 3, 1844, who died Aug. 8, 1847: second, Lucy A. Jones, May 28, 1848, who was born Nov. 30, 1821. He resided in the house with his brother, Erastus, a short time, afterwards occupied the Winch house, but in 1850, he built his present residence. He is a carpenter, although a part of his time is em- ployed in tilling the soil. Children: 1, Diantha R., born Sept. 1, 1845; 2, Medora T., born April 19, 1847; 3, Lucy A., born March 19, 1849; 4, Lorenzo C., born Sept. 25, died Sept. 30, 1850; 5, Ellen C., born Aug. 16, 1851; 6, Albert E., born May 7, 1853; 7, Abbie C., born Aug. 24, 1857.
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Erastus Brown, a blacksmith, also located in Troy this year, and made edge tools in the shop now occupied by A. W. Baker. He was a native of Winchendon, but had resided in Rindge some time previous to his mar- riage, Sept. 29, 1832, after this he lived in Fitzwilliam till 1841. He died Sept. 17, 1845, and the following is taken from an obituary notice published at that time: "The death of Mr. Brown was occasioned by an injury which he received at his mill on the Monday previous. Owing to a defect in the floor, he fell, his arm became entangled in the machinery and was crushed in a shock- ing manner; amputation at the shoulder joint became necessary. But this did not avail to save his life. Af- ter some forty-eight hours of intense suffering, which was borne with patience and christian fortitude, he died. Mr. Brown was an honest man and a christian. His life was above reproach." Children: 1, Maria, born Nov. 4, 1833, married Chancy N., son of Abel Garfield, Sept. 6, 1853; 2, Martha J., born Sept. 1, 1837, died Nov. 4, 1838; 3, Henry J., born Feb. 25, 1840; 4, Helen J., (twin), born Feb. 25, 1840; 5, Martha A., born Sept. 11, 1844.
Howard Clark, eldest son of Thomas, came here about this time and bought the Abner Haskell farm. He was born Jan. 14, 1803, and Dec. 23, 1827, married Dolly Bemis, who was born June 13, 1805. They first lo- cated in Bethlehem, but in March, 1830, they removed to Swanzey, where they resided till 1841. In 1856, Mr. Clark sold the Haskell farm to his son, Howard T., and bought the house in the village, where he now re- sides. Children: 1, Jonathan B., born Aug. 22, 1828, married Amanda Derby, March 23, 1855, resides on the Dea. Lyon farm; 2, Betsey L., born Sept. 19, 1830, married A. B. Hubbard, Sept. 19, 1854; 3, Howard T., born Jan. 12, 1834, married Sarah E. Nott, of Bar- nard, Vt., Oct. 20, 1855; 4, Harvey A., born Aug. 7,
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1838; 5, Harriet A., (twin), born Aug. 7, 1838; 6, Mary, born Dec. 25, 1841.
June 6th, John Lawrence, Jr., married Adeline Good- now of Winchendon, and resided a short time on the farm with his father; afterwards he moved to Fitzwilliam, where he remained till 1857, when he returned to Troy. Children: 1, Clara Jane, born Nov. 28, 1843; 2, Em- ma Frances, born Aug. 7, 1846; 3, John Henry, born July 31, 1849; 4, Amos Oscei, born Feb. 21, 1855.
June 29th, David W. Farrar, eldest son of Daniel W .. married Hannah, daughter of Stephen Wheeler, and resided one year in the Winch house and five years in the Maxcy house, but in 1848, he built the house in which he now resides. The most of his time has been spent in the store, where in his early years he was un- der the instruction of his father, than whom no one knew better how to manage business there to advantage. He is now in the prime of life, has amassed a large property, and does much to support the religious, and other public enterprises of the town. Children: 1, Henry Warren, born April 21, 1842; 2, Hannah Maria, born Sept. 27. died Oct. 3, 1843; 3, Charles David, born Oct. 3, 1847 : 4, Helen Maria, born Aug. 13, 1854.
In August, John Wheeler married Roxana Clark of Clarendon, Vt .. and located in the Bush house. He is a son of Preston Wheeler, and was born in Westmore- land in 1812, came to Troy in 1838, since which time he has worked in the pail-shop. In 1847, he bought the house he now occupies, of Benjamin Rogers. They have a son, John Harris, born July 1, 1851.
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1842.
ABEL BAKER, Representative.
JOHN W. BELLOWS,
CHARLES COOLIDGE, Selectmen.
JOSEPH M. FORRISTALL,
DAVID W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
April 7th, Henry A. Porter, son of Asa, married Czarina, daughter of Joseph M. Forristall, and located in Waltham, but soon moved to Boston, where he resided till 1853, then purchased of Isaac Stowell the farm on which he now resides. Mr. Porter is one of the best farmers in Troy, and has served several years as one of the selectmen. Children: 1, Henrietta J., born Nov. 2, 1850; 2, Charles Henry, born Oct. 17, 1855.
April 15th, Levi Whittemore, Jr., married Lucy, daughter of Easman Alexander, and located on the Wil- liam Farrar farm. Mrs. Whittemore died the 10th of August following; and Mr. Whittemore married Mary M. Rockwood, Feb. 23, 1844. In 1846, he bought the Caleb Winch farm, upon which he resided till 1857, since which time he has resided in the village, where he has worked as a stone mason. Children: 1, Emma M., born Dec. 11, 1846; 2, Henry Martin, born May 30, 1849.
April 27th, Lyman Spooner of Brooklyn, married Almira, daughter of Lemuel Brown, and located in Brooklyn, where he remained a few weeks only; after- wards he resided a short time in Barre and Sudbury, Mass. In the fall of 1842, however, he returned to Troy, where he has since resided, and devoted the most
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of his time to house-painting. In 1853, he bought the Cutting saw-mill of Warren McClenathon, but sold it the following year to Edwin Mann. They have one daughter, - Caroline A., -born Sept. 9, 1843.
May 24th, Samuel G. Whitney, eldest son of Dr. Charles, married Abigail N., daughter of Salmon Whit- temore, and located in the house now owned by Mrs. Lydia Whittemore. He traded a short time in com- pany with David Frost, afterwards built the store now owned by E. P. Kimball: and he traded in this till 1846, when he became a clerk in the store of David W. Farrar, and remained there till 1858. He now resides in Bowen's Prarie, Iowa. Children: 1, Sarah Antoin- ette, born April 17, 1843, died April 11, 1858; 2, Charles Henry, born Sept. 30, 1845; 3, George Sal- mon, born Oct. 16, 1847; 4, William Hutchins, born Jan. 9, 1850; 5, Lemuel Page, born April 23, 1851; 6, Edward Griffin, born Aug. 17, 1856, died Aug. 31, 1857.
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1843.
JOHN W. BELLOWS, Representative.
ABEL BAKER,
LEONARD FARRAR, Selectmen.
EDWIN BUTTRICK,
DAVID W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
In the early part of this year, Francis Foster became a citizen of Troy, and resided some time in the house now owned by Edwin Buttrick. The Foster family is
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said to have descended from the renowned Miles Stan- dish, but we cannot trace them back farther than three generations. Calvin Foster, the father of Francis, was born in Dudley, Mass., in the year 1782, married and resided some time in Worcester, but died in Colebrook
in 1830.
His widow is now living, at the age of seven-
ty-seven. Calvin Foster's father was a native of Har- vard, and died there in 1782. Francis, the subject of this notice, was born in Worcester in the year 1812, and married Susan W. Packard, March 11, 1835. Mrs. Foster's father, Jonathan Packard, was born in Oakham in 1790 and died in 1856. Her paternal grand-father, Caleb Packard, was born in Oakham in 1764, and died in 1847. Her great-grand-father, Ichabod Packard, was a native of Bridgewater; her mother is a native of Oak- ham, where she still resides, at the age of sixty-seven. Her maiden name was Susan Crawford, and her maternal grand-father was born in Oakham, her great-grand-fath- er, in Rutland, Mass., her great-great-grand-father, in Ireland. Her great-great-great-grand-father was a na- tive of Scotland, where he remained till he married; he then set out for America, but the laws were such at that time as to prevent his coming, and consequently he went to Ireland, where his son, the ancestor of Mrs. Foster, was born. Mr. Foster is a tanner and currier, and since re- siding in Troy, has had the principal management of the business which has been carried on by the firm of Wright & Foster. In 1852, he built the house in which he now resides; and since then, he has made great improvements upon the grounds about his residence. Children: 1, Susan Maria, born Aug. 8, 1836; 2, Lucy Jane, born Sept. 27, 1838; 3, Martha Allamanzas, born Dec. 27, 1841; 4, Mary Caroline, born Aug. 15, 1844; 5, Frank Eugene, born June 30, 18-18; 6, Addic Isabell, born July 12, 1853; 7, Julia Gertrude, born June 21, 1856. April 6th, Winthrop Knights, a mechanic, married
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Lydia, daughter of Isaac Fuller, and settled on the place formerly owned by Jabez Butler. He is the youngest son of Joel and Betsey Knights of Sudbury, who had fourteen children, eight sons and six daughters. The mother is still living, in the eighty-fourth year of her age, and has been permitted to see eighty grand-children and thirty-seven great-grand-children. Upon the stream near his house, Mr. Knights erected a shop a few years since, and in this he manufactures sashes, blinds, &c., partially by the aid of machinery propelled by water. Children: 1, a daughter, died in in infancy; 2, a son, died; 3, Arthur Pearl, born Sept. 1, 1858.
June 15th, Gregory Lawrence, son of Jonathan, Jr., married Emily, daughter of Capt. Lemuel Brown, and located on the Silas Wheeler farm. He is a very indus- trious man, a model farmer, and meddles with no one's business but his own. Children: 1, Alfred G., born April 24, 1849; 2, Harriet R., born April 6, 1855.
August 29th, David Frost married Abigail T., daugh- ter of Capt. Stephen Wheeler, and commenced house- keeping where Jacob Boyce now lives. He is the son of Sylvester Frost of Marlboro', and was born Aug. 11, 1818, and removed with his father to Troy, March 28, 1827. He was employed in Dexter Whittemore's store in Fitzwilliam about three years, but commenced trade in Troy in April, 1841, and continued in the store here till 1851. He moved from Troy to Fitchburg in 1853. They have had one daughter, Abby Ann. born Nov. 15. 1846, dicd Dec. 15. 1851.
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1844-
JOHN W. BELLOWS, Representative.
ABEL BAKER,
LEONARD FARRAR, Selectmen.
EDWIN BUTTRICK,
DAVID W. FARRAR, Town Clerk.
Several Town Meetings were held this year, and we take the following from the records of these meetings :
" Voted, That the Taxes be collected by the first of March next, or the collector receive no pay for collect- ing.
Voted, To discontinue the old Turnpike road, run- ning from near Amos Stearns' house towards Elijah Bowker's, to the boundary line of the town.
Voted, That the Bell be cast over and made into a new one.
Voted, That an agent be appointed to get the Bell repaired, and that seventy-five dollars be appropriated for that purpose.
Voted, That Daniel W. Farrar be the said agent."
Calvin Alexander, son of Joseph, married Abby Ann Murphy of New-Ipswich, and located where his brother Charles now lives; the house he built the year previous. He resided there eight or nine years, then moved to Marlboro', but early in 1858, he returned to Troy and built the house in which he now resides. He is a shoe- maker, carpenter, and farmer, and in one of these occu-
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pations always finds employment. Children: 1, George D., born July 3, 1847; 2, Abby Frances, born Nov. 27, 1854.
September 19th, Austin B. Gates married Samira, daughter of Joseph M. Forristall, and commenced house- keeping where L. Warren Brown now lives. He is the son of Levi and Permelia Gates, and was born in Marl- boro', March 8, 1821. Since residing in Troy he has been engaged some part of the time in the manufacture of clothes-pins. Children: 1,.A. Maria, born Sept. 10, 1846; 2, Isabell Victorin, born Dec. 2, 1850.
December 1st, Rev. Luther Townsend became a resi- dent of Troy-born in Fitzwilliam, Aug. 12, 1813. He is the eldest son of Aaron Townsend, who was born in Fitzwilliam, April 1, 1779, and deceased with his son Luther, in Troy, -with whom he had lived nearly four years, -Dec. 26, 1854. Aaron was the sixth son of Nathan Townsend, a blacksmith, probably a native of Hopkinton, Mass., and removed to Fitzwilliam abont the year 1778. He deceased Nov. 8, 1809, aged sixty- seven years. His wife, and the mother of Aaron, was, be- fore marriage, Sarah Putnam. Aaron Townsend married Sylvene, the third daughter of Benjamin and Mary Da- vison, -before marriage, Mary Brigham, -Feb. 19, 1811. Sylvene Townsend, the mother of Luther, died at Fitzwilliam, March 8, 1851. Luther Townsend mar- ried Laura Maria, eldest daughter of Matthew and Lucy Nims of Roxbury, Sept. 4, 1845. They have an adopt- ed daughter, Marianna, who was born June 12, 1854.
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1845.
JEREMIAH POMEROY, Representative.
ABEL BAKER, LYMAN WRIGHT, 1 Selectmen.
JONATHAN CLARK,
BROWN NURSE, Town Clerk.
In April, Joseph Jones became a citizen of Troy. His father, Benjamin Jones, was born in Ipswich, Mass., Aug. 18, 1751. His mother, Elizabeth Cleaves, was born in Beverly, Oct. 20, 1752. They were married in May, 1773, and removed to Lyndeborough, where he settled as a physician, and gained considerable celebrity in his profession. They had ten children, and all but one grew to manhood and became professedly pious. The grand-father of Benjamin was a native of Wales. Joseph married Ann Richardson, Sept. 11, 1811, who was born at Billerica, Mass., Aug. 19, 1788. She died in Lyndeborough, May 19, 1827; and Mr. Jones mar- ried Mrs. Clarissa Page of Burlington, Vt., daughter of Dr. Isaiah Whitney of Rindge. Mrs. Clarissa Jones died Feb. 16, 1844; and Mr. Jones married Sophronia, daughter of the aforesaid Dr. Whitney of Rindge, Sept. 28, 1844, and resided in Lyndeborough one year, then came to Troy, where they have since resided in the house built by Lucius Bryant. Children: 1, John, born Sept. 12, 1812, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1833, studied Theology at Andover, and was settled over a Congregational church at Chittenden, Vt., but in a few years was dismissed at his own request, after which he was employed two years by the Home Missionary
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Society to preach as a missionary in Indiana, at the ex- piration of which time he removed to Sandusky, Ohio, and from thence to Earlvill, Illinois. He is now labor- ing as an Evangelist; 2, Joseph, born Sept. 2, 1818, entered the College Institute at Oberlin, Ohio; but after about two years' study, he was obliged to leave on account of ill health, and he is now a commission merchant at Chicago; 3, Benjamin Cleaves, born March 30, 1824, has for four years past been freight clerk at a rail-road station in Chicago; 4, Clarissa Ann, born Nov. 9, 1828, married William R. Hurlbut, 1849, lives at Cambridge Port, Mass .; 5, Isaiah Whitman, born Nov. 12, 1829, is a mechanic in Northfield, Vt.
Lovell Rugg came to Troy about this time, and pur- chased a part of the Samuel Farrar farm of Mr. Howard. He had resided several years at Royalston, from which place he removed to Fitzwilliam about the year 1842. He married Mary Bradley, by whom he has had the fol- lowing children: 1, Albert Williams, born June 22, 1837; 2, Jane Adelia, born Aug. 1, 1841; 3, Laura Maria, born May 19, 1843; 4, Martha Eliza, born Feb. 22, 1845; 5, George N., born July 29, 1846; 6, Mar- garet B., born May 19, 1848; 7, Mary Ann, born March 11, 1854; 8, Wright L., born Aug. 3, 1855; 9, Chloe Augusta, born July 25, dicd Oct. 21, 1857.
September 23d, Edwin Mann of Jaffrey, married Car- oline M., daughter of Capt. Amos Sibley, and resided some years in Jaffrey, but in 1855, he bought the saw- mill which had been owned by Lyman Spooner, and re- moved to Troy. He was drowned in the flume at his mill, April 29, 1856, at the age of thirty-five years, seven months. Children: 1, Melissa E., born July 18, 1846; 2, Lewis M., born Dec. 6, 1848; 3, Ella C., born May 1, 1852; 4, Walter E., born April 24. 1855.
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1848_
THOMAS WRIGHT, Representative.
ABEL BAKER,
LYMAN WRIGHT, Selectmen.
JONATHAN CLARK,
BROWN NURSE, Town Clerk.
This year, the following Regulations were established by the firewards :
"By virtue of the authority in us vested by law, wc the subscribers, a majority of the firewards in the town of Troy, in the county of Cheshire, do establish the fol- lowing Regulations respecting the kindling, guarding and safe keeping, and for the prevention and extinguish- ment of fires to be in force in said town :
1st. All persons are requested to furnish themselves with Ladders and Buckets according to the State law. as adopted by said town.
2d. No person shall place and keep any dry ashes in any wooden vessel under the penalty of five dollers for each offence.
3d. No person shall keep a wooden door at any fire- place under the penalty of five dollars for each offence.
4th. No person shall carry any lighted pipe or cigar into any barn stable or shed, or into any building while finishing, or into any cabinet or house joiner or wheel- wright's shop, nor shall any person carry any lighted candle or lamp into any barn, unless the same be in- closed in a lantern, under the penalty of three dollars for each offence.
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5th. The foregoing regulations shall take effect and be in force on and after the 15th of May, A. D. 1846.
CHARLES COOLIDGE, ) OLIVER HAWKINS, JOSEPH JONES, THOMAS WRIGHT,
SALMON WRIGHIT,
DAVID W. FARRAR,
EDWIN BUTTRICK,
Board of Firewards."
January 1st, George Fairbanks, son of Cyrus, marr- ied Abigail Wright, and located in Troy, as a shoemak- er, and resided here till the death of his wife, Abigail, Aug. 27, 1848. He married Nancy Watkins of Wal- pole, October, 1849, who died July 27, 1858. From 1849 to 1857, he resided at Bellows Falls. Children : 1, Charles Henry, born March, 1847, died Nov. 29. 1848; 2, Charles Henry, 2d, born May 17, 1851.
June 2d, Stephen B. Farrar, son of Stephen, married Persis Twitchell of Northfield, Mass., who was born Sept. 16, 1827. Mr. Farrar located on the home farm, where he has ever since resided, and is an active, enter- prising farmer. Children: 1, John S., born May 23, 1848; 2, Charles, born Aug. 10, 1850.
September 1st, John Grimes became a citizen of Troy. He was born in Keene, Jan. 1, 1819, and resided there the most of the time until the spring of 1846. He is the son of Alexander Grimes, who when a boy, left his native town-Pelham, N. H. - with his father, -John Grimes, -and located in Keene, near where he now re- sides. He was a grand-son of Alexander Graham, who is supposed to have been a Scotch immigrant, and came to this country about the year 1740; he died about twenty-five years since, in the town of New-Boston, at the advanced age of one hundred years. Mary Louisa Grimes was born in Tyre, N. Y., March 10, 1820, and
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at the age of four years, came to Keene with her mother, and resided there the most of the time till March 12, 1846, when she was married, and since September fol- lowing has resided in Troy .* Mr. Grimes is Station Agent at Troy, for the Cheshire Railroad Company.
September 15th, Franklin B. Forristall, son of Joseph M., married Martha A., daughter of William Lawrence, and located where he now resides. Children: 1, Mari- etta M., born Dec. 12, 1847; 2, Hannah E., born Jan. 20, died April 3, 1851; 3, Sarah Jane, born April 13, 1852; 4, George Henry, born Sept. 17, 1853.
December 31st. Luther Whittemore, son of Levi, mar- ried Abby, daughter of Easman Alexander, and settled on the farm which had been owned by his father, and the same upon which he now resides. He is a stone mason, and his time is divided between his farm and trade. They have an adopted son, Curtis A., who was born Nov. 6, 1844.
* Mrs. Grimes died at Troy, July 9, 1859.
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1847.
THOMAS WRIGHT, Representative.
JOHN W. BELLOWS; MOSES S. PERKINS,
NATHAN WINCH,
Selectmen.
THOMAS WRIGHT,
*JONAS BEMIS,
BROWN NURSE, Town Clerk.
March 4th, Algernon S. Butler, son of Simon, mar- ried Harriet Goddard of Rindge, who was born in Athol, Jan. 30, 1820. For some time after their marriage, they resided in Troy, but moved to Rindge, where they remained till 1855, when they returned to Troy, and now reside on the farm recently owned by Elijah Bemis. Children: 1, Lysander S., born Jan. 21, 1848; 2, Ella H., born June 9, 1854; 3, Marietta J., born Dec. 1S, 1858.
April 8th, Abel W. Baker, son of Abel, married Mary W., daughter of Joseph Haskell, and after resid- ing one year in Marlboro' and about as long in Jaffrey, Troy, South Orange, and Fitchburg, he returned to Troy, where he still resides. Children: 1, George Washington, born July 4, 1848; 2, Abel Warren, born July 14, 1851; 3, Fred Henry, born June 11, 1855; 4, Ida Mary, born Dec. 10, 1857.
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