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About all we know of Nathaniel Bucklin is that he lived a few years on the west side of the road just north of the "Bishop place," but our oldest inhabitants cannot tell when he settled there. He left the town in 1800.
About this time, or perhaps a few years earlier, a man by the name of Newton, a steel-yard maker, built a house near the site of the one now owned by Daniel Far- rar. His shop stood a few feet north-east of the house, in the corner of the orchard. He resided there but a short time, and was succeeded by William Nurse, who lived there one or two years. Edward Foster .was the next occupant, but we know but little of either of these men except William Nurse of whom some account has already been given. Jonathan Capron, a blacksmith, next settled there, and he built a shop a few rods south of the house. He came from Attleborough, where his grandfather settled about the year 1680. Mr. Capron worked there at his trade some ten or fifteen years. His children were: 1, Jonathan, who built a house and lived some years where David W. Farrar's house now
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stands. This was the ninth house built in the village. He was a blacksmith, and his shop stood where Mrs. Dodge's garden now is; 2, Curtis, settled in Marlboro'; 3, Walter, learned the trade of his father, and settled where his brother Jonathan first located, and carried on business here till 1806, when he sold his place to Jonas Robinson, and removed to Marlboro'; 4, Sarah, married Frost; 5, Putman, died on the homestead.
In 1796, Christopher Harris purchased the tavern which had been built and kept some years by Jonathan Ball. He was a native of Rhode Island, and when a child, he came to Richmond and resided there during the remainder of his minority. In -1787, he married a young lady who had also hailed from Rhode Island. He continued to reside in Richmond until the time above mentioned, when he took possession of the tavern. At that time the farm connected with it was much larger than now, and much more productive. It then contained one hundred and thirty-six acres, and yielded a large income; but in later times several lots have been severed from it, and the remnant has been so neglected that it possesses but little of its pristine productiveness. Mr. Harris resided here fifteen years, and then moved to Rockingham, where he died in 1828. Children : 1, Polly, married Henry Tolman: 2, Luke, married Whitney; 3, James, married Eunice Foster, settled in Vt., then moved to Homer, N. Y., was killed by the cars at the depot in Troy 1856; 4, Daniel, married Page, settled in Courtland, N. Y .; 5, Oliver, married, lives in Plymouth, Mass .; 6, Nancy, married Barak Coolidge, died in Stirling: 7, Joseph, married Mary Ann Wheeler, lives in Michigan.
The next year Elijah Fuller, of Hubbardston, pur- chased of James Dean the farm immediately north of that which had been owned by William Barker. He was a carpenter and wrought at his trade a large propor-
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tion of the time. Mrs. Fuller was a native of the State of Pennsylvania, where she spent the earlier part of her life, and witnessed some of the memorable events which transpired during the stormy period of the Revolution. She is still living at the advanced age of about ninety, and retains her faculties remarkably well for a person of her years. Mr. Fuller died in 1822. Their children were: 1, Isaac, married Temperance Hinckley, died in Troy ; 2, Martha, married Abel Garfield, lives in Troy ; . 3, Lydia, married - Jackson, died in Vermont; 4,
Lucretia, married.
Isaac Fuller, brother of the preceding, came here only a few months later. He had resided in Holden a short time, from which place he came to Marlboro', and lived a few months in the school-house which then stood near his brother's. After this he moved several times, but eventually settled on the farm which he purchased of the heirs of William Barker. He was also a carpenter and is said to have been a skilful workman, but the farm made so large a draft upon his time, that he devoted but little attention to his trade. On returning from the vil- lage one stormy night in the winter of 1819, he perished in the storm. His wife was Martha Howe, of Holden. Their children were: 1, Amasa, married, first, - Bemis and settled on the Felton farm (so called), where his wife died and he married second, Mary Jackson, who died: third, Mrs. Mary Hager, from whom he was di- vorced: fourth, Mrs. Lovey P. Kidder, and now lives in Marlboro'; 2, Lucretia, married Ezra Alexander and lives in Fitzwilliam; 3, Martha, married David Jackson and moved to the West, where she was killed by light- ning; 4, Nancy, married Andrew Sherman, lives in Keene; 5, Lydia, married Rufus Jackson, lives in Lud- low, Vt .; 6, Eliza, married L. Sherman, lives in Mass .; 7, Isaac; 8, Stillman. The last two died in childhood.
June 1st, Asa Brewer, son of James, became a resi-
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dent of Troy, then Fitzwilliam. He married Deborah, daughter of Samuel Sargent of Marlboro' in 1793, and settled in Roxbury, where he resided four years, then came here and located on the farm recently owned by Enoch Garfield. In 1828, he removed to what we now call the Jonathan Clark farm, and after residing there ten years he moved to Barton, Vt. Children : 1, Polly, married first, Jonathan Clark, who died: second, Isaac Stowell, who also died, and she is now living in Swanzey, a widow; 2, Asa, married Rachel Knights of Sudbury, Mass., is now living in Fitzwilliam; 3, Deborah, mar- ried Calvin Bemis, now of Troy; 4, Silas, married Lo- vina Woodward of Swanzey, lives at the West; 5, Bet- sey, married Benjamin Garry of Jaffrey; 6, Persis, married Samuel Cross of Salem.
Zopher Whitcomb settled here about this period. He was born in Framingham, and in 1781; when he was but a youth he came to Marlboro' and lived in the fam- ily of Joseph Cutting, with whom he spent a large pro- portion of his minority. In 1795, Cutting gave him the land comprising the farm now owned by Amasa Aldrich; and young Whitcomb commenced immediately to erect buildings thereon. May 7, 1797, he married Mehitable Tenney of Marlboro', and took possession of the new domicile. Their children were: 1, Asa, lives in Ver- mont; 2, Abigail, died at the age of 30; 3, William, mar- ried - Bemis, lives in Troy; 4, Eliza, married Na- thaniel Parker, died in 1849; 5, Luke, died in 1838; 6. Nancy, married Nathaniel Parker, now lives in Jaf- frey, a widow. The father died in 1847, the mother in 1832.
Nathaniel Joy came here, as near as can now be as- certained, in the year 1798, or possibly one or two years earlier. He married Sally, the eldest daughter of Reuben Ward, and built a house on the farm now owned by Henry A. Porter. The land was owned by his fath-
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er-in-law, who did not relinquish his title to it during his life. Joy lived there but a few years, but long enough to clear a considerable part of the land and to erect comfortable buildings, and he then moved to Ver- mont, and after this the farm passed into the possession of Levi Ward, who resided there a few years.
About the time that Joy located as above mentioned, one Joseph French settled on the lot adjoining on the cast. He is supposed to have come from Attleborough, where his grand-father settled about the year 1720. The lot upon which French settled here is now the farm own- ed by Pelatiah Hodgkins; and the house stood a little east of Mr. Hodgkins's barn, and on the same side of the road. He resided here until 1808, then sold his farm to Hezekiah Hodgkins and left the town. His children were: Arethusa, Sarah, and Bridget, the latter of whom married Samuel Thurston of Marlboro'. There was also one son who died carly in life.
Hugh Thompson came here about the year 1798, but from what place we have not been informed. He mar- ried Polly, the eldest daughter of Daniel Lawrence, and purchased of Nathan Barker that part of the farm which came into the possession of the latter by the will of his father, William Barker. The deed of this purchase was in consideration of five hundred dollars and was dated July 9, 1799. Thompson built a house and other build- ings on the swell of land south-east of the former resi- dence of William Barker, and lived there a few years, then sold his farm to his brother-in-law, Daniel Law- rence, Jr., and bought the land now constituting the farm owned by Sidney A. Butler. He cleared several acres of his land, and erected a part of the buildings now on the farm; but after residing there a short time he removed to the State of Maine.
John* and David Garey of Leominster, Mass., came * John, in early life, was a noted school teacher.
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here some time prior to 1799, and settled on the farm now owned by Luke C. Clark. John married Betsey, the eldest daughter of Caleb Winch, to whom the land which Garey improved formerly belonged. In 1800, the two brothers rented the Tolman tavern, and kept a public house in the village one year, and then returned to Leominster. In 1807, John returned to Fitzwilliam in company with Joseph, another brother, and they bought of Edmund Bemis the farm which had been purchased by the latter, of James Brewer. The house, which was a one story building, was removed to the spot just south of the house recently owned by Leonard Osborne, and, after receiving an additional story and undergoing ex- tensive repairs, was opened as a tavern. They kept this house two or three years, and again moved to Leominster. The tavern, together with the farm, came into the pos- session of Robinson and Farrar, who reserved a part of the land, and sold the remainder with the buildings to Timothy Kendall.
CHAPTER VII.
ARRIVAL OF NEW SETTLERS; FROM 1800, TO THE INCORPORATION OF TROY IN 1815.
NATHAN WHEELER was born in Holden, Mass., where he spent the early part of his life. He was a sol- dier in the American army during the Revolutionary war, after which he married and settled in his native town. In 1800, he came to Marlboro', and resided a few years in the Bacon house, (so called), but did not at this time purchase any real estate. After this he moved to Fichburg, where he lived two or three years. and then went to Saco, where Mrs. Wheeler died. Mr. Wheeler again returned to Fitzwilliam and lived with his daughter, Mrs. Hayden, and, when the latter in 1835, moved to Keene, he accompanied her, and died there the following year. His children were: 1, Polly, married Reuben Newell; 2, Adelia, married Nathan Newell; 3, Jonathan, married Lucy Whipple and set- tled in Fitchburg; 4, Eliza, married first, Elnathan Gorham, who died in 1821: second, Moses Hayden, who died in 1851: third, John Lawrence; 5, Clarissa, died at the age of thirty-six; 6, Nathan, lives in East Boston.
John and William Brown, from Fitchburg, came here about this period, and purchased the clothing-mill and worked at their trade, as clothiers, a short time, but not succeeding according to their expectations, they sold the mill to Thomas Binney and moved back to Fitchburg.
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Binney* had before resided in another part of Marl- boro', but on coming here married Lucinda, daughter of Richard Roberts, and lived a short time in the Bacon house, then in the Warren house, and finally in a part of his mill. He remained here some three or four years, then left the place.
In 1801 or '2, William Barnard, of Lancaster, pur- chased of Daniel Farrar, sen., the house which had been built by the latter for his son-in-law, Nathan Platts. Barnard was a blacksmith, and during the time he re- sided in the village he worked in the shop formerly occu- pied by Jonathan and Walter Capron. In 1808, he sold his location and moved into the house formerly owned by Reuben Ward. About this time he built a shop near the Ward bridge-so called-and here he constructed a trip-hammer and other machinery which were propelled by water. But after carrying on business here a short time, he formed a co-partnership with Moses Aldrich and built a scythe manufactory, on the spot which had been occupied by the grist-mill, rebuilt by Silas Wheeler. This was the first scythe manufactory in the town. Al- drich built the house near the shop-the same that was recently owned by Alfred Lawrence. This was for some years the only house where there is now the rudiments of a village. In 1816, they sold their shop and house to Amos Sibley, and Barnard moved to Cavendish, Vt.
In 1801, Thomas Clark, Jr., son of Thomas of whom some account has been given, married Roena Phillips, of Richmond, and settled on the home farm, where he resided until 1848; he then purchased the farm upon which his son Alvah S. now lives, and resided here until his death Oct. 14, 1856. Mrs. Clark died June, 1857 Their children were: 1, Howard, born Jan. 14, 1803, married Dolly Bemis, lives in Troy; 2, Fuller, born * The fulling-mill was burnt soon after Mr. Binney came here, and he rebuilt it.
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Oct. 26, 1804, married Adaline Porter, lives in Marl- boro'; 3, Louisa, born May 7, 1807, died Dec. 2, 1832; 4, Luke C., born Aug. 22, 1809, married Abigail Lowe of Fitzwilliam, resides in Troy; 5, Lovina, born Nov. 8, 1812, died Aug. 2, 1816; 6, Lyman T., born April 29, 1817, was burned to death Dec. 4, 1834; 7, Wil- liam, born May 5, 1822, died May 2, 1823; 8, Alvah S., born Aug. 29, 1824, married Serepta A. Brooks of Framingham.
In 1802, Josiah Morse bought of Thomas Tolman a small lot of land and built the present tavern .* We know but littlet of him previous to the time he came here, other than that he had lived some years in Swan- zey, and that his wife was a daughter of Levi Maxcy of Attleborough. He kept a public house here until about the year 1812, when he sold his location to Constant Weaver, and removed to Attleborough. During the most of the time he resided here there were other public houses in the vicinity, so that on account of the compe- tition, it was impossible for him to do a very lucrative business.
In 1803, Hezekiah Hodgkins bought of Simon Piper the farm now owned by Edmund Bemis. He was a na- tive of New-Ipswich, where his early years were spent, but on the breaking out of the war he responded to his country's call and was in the army several years. After obtaining his discharge he married Lydia Cummings of Topsfield and settled in his native town, where he worked at his trade, as a cabinet-maker. In 1788, he came to Marlboro', and lived a few years a little south of the old meeting-house. After moving several times he purchas- ed the farm as above mentioned, and built a saw and grist-mill where Mr. Stanley's mill now is. He also
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built the house and barn now on the farm, and made many of the improvements which inhance the value of it. In 1808, he sold the farm and mill to Edmund Bemis, sen., and bought, of Joseph French, the farm now owned by. his son Pelatiah. The next year he built the house in which his son now lives, but continued some time to reside in the old house, using the new one as a shop, in which to manufacture rakes, a business which he followed in his later days. He had eleven children: 1, Lydia, married Corbin of Rochester; 2, Stephen, born
1782, married Corbin, died in Albany in 1827; 3, Pelatiah, born 1784, married Mehitable Adams, lives in Troy; 4, Sarah, born 1786, died in 1817; 5, Lydia, born in 1789, died the same year; 6, Amos, born 1792, died the same year; 7, Lucy, born 1793, married Enoch Garfield, died in Troy in 1854; 8, Lydia, born 1796, died in 1817; 9, Aaron, born in 1797, married first, Rhoda Perkins, who died: second, Mrs. Brown, died in Troy in 1855; 10, Elizabeth, born in 1804, died in 1812; 11, Sarah, born in 1810, married Almon Wright, died in 1843.
In 1804, Reuben Newell, the third son of Jacob, married Polly Wheeler and settled on the farm now owned by William A. Harris. The land was given him by his father, and he erected the most of the buildings now on the farm. He resided here until 1815, when he moved into a house which had been built for him by his father, just in front of the house now occupied by Charles Butler. This, on account of some peculiarity in its con- struction, was called the "plank house." Some years after, Reuben built the house now on the premises, and died there in 1844. His children were: 1, Stillman, born in 1806, married Lucy Clark, lives in Northbridge; 2, Miranda, born in 1807, married Sampson Wheeler, lives in Troy ; 3, Pearson, born 1808, perished with cold on board the schooner Hudson in returning from
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New-York in 1832; 4, Harlow, born 1810, married Mary E. Simons, lives in Wisconsin ; 5, Mary, born 1811, married Horatio Lawrence, lives in Weston, Vt .: 6, Eliza, born 1817, married William Whitman of Troy. N. Y .; 7, Sarah, born 1822, married Sumner Taylor of Richmond.
Edmund Bemis came here at the period at which we have now arrived. He was born in Westminster in 1765, and, at the age of thirty-four years, married Su- sannah Graves and lived in Fitchburg about five years : but in 1804, he purchased of James Brewer the farm which is now mostly owned by Stephen B. Farrar. He lived here three years, then sold the farm to Garey, as already mentioned, and moved on to the Ward farm, where he lived one year. In 1808, he bought of Hez- ekiah Hodgkins the farm which had been purchased by the latter of Simon Piper. The next year he sold this farm to Jonas Garey, and bought the one now owned by his son Jonas, and here he resided till his death Feb. 11, 1857. His children were : 1, Clarissa, married Wil- liam Whitcomb, lives in Troy ; 2, Elijah, died at the age of two years ; 3, Elijah 2d, married Lucy Butler, died .Nov. 5, 1852; 4, Susannah, married William Jackson of Wallingford, Vt., died Dec. 5, 1826; 5, Jonas, mar- mied Fanny Lawrence, lives on the homestead; 6, Pol- ly, married George W. Brown, lives in Troy ; 7, Sum- ner, married R. Ann Thompson, who died in 1855, he now lives in Troy.
Of the descendants of the first settlers we should men- tion Jonathan Lawrence, son of Jonathan of whom some account has been given. In 1798, he married Dorothy. daughter of Moses Cutting and lived some years on the Goodenough place-so called-now in the edge of Marl- boro. At about the period we are now considering he purchased of Hugh Thompson, the farm now owned by Sidney A. Butler. He resided here till within a few
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years of the close of his life, when he went to live with his brother William. He died in 1837. His children were : 1, Alfred, born June 2, 1799, died Oct. 14, 1841; 2, Belinda, born July 12, 1802, married James Downing of Dedham; 3, Sophronia, born Jan. 29, 1804, lives in Troy ; 4, Horatio, born May 17, 1807, married Mary Newell, lives in Vermont; 5, Austin, born Dec. 25, 1809; 6, Dorothy, born Nov. 26, 1812 ; 7, Gregory, born Feb. 23, 1816, married Emily Brown, lives in Troy.
At this period William Lawrence, fifth son of Jona- than, married Patty Haskell and settled on the home- stead, where he has since resided till within about two years. In 1856, he moved with his son, Joseph E. Lawrence, to the place purchased of Austin B. Gates, where he is now living. His children are : 1, Calvin, born April 10, 1805, married Mary Ann Merrifield Nov. 8, 1838 ; 2, Mary, born Aug. 15, 1807, married first, E. Perkins, who died : second, Asa Boyden of R. I .; 3, Joseph, born Dec. 22, 1809, died Dec. 25, 1820 ; 4, Fanny, born Sept. 25, 1812, married Jonas Bemis, lives in Troy ; 5, William H., born Sept. 29, 1815, died Jan. 10, 1817 ; 6, William, born July 15, 1817, lives . in New-York; 7, Luke, born July 2, 1819, lives in Rhode Island; 8, Martha Ann, born Nov. 24, 1827, married B. F. Forristall, lives in Troy ; 9, Joseph E., born Dec. 9, 1829, married Harriet E. Fuller, lives in Troy ; 10, Alfred, born Jan. 24, 1834, married Caro- line Streeter, lives in Troy.
Zalmon Howe of Holden, came here this year also, (1804), and bought the farm upon which Joseph Alex- ander is now living. He obtained it of Elijah Alexan- der, whose son, Gideon, bought it of one White, the first settler there. Howe married Phebe Holt of Holden, and resided on. this farm four or five years and erected the present buildings. After this he resided four years
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on the Barker farm, two on the " Amasa Fuller place," two where George Farrar lives, and three where Joseph Alexander, Jr., now lives, and then moved to Fitzwil- liam, where he died in 1855 .* His children were : 1. Asenath, married John Simons of Brattleboro, Vt .; 2. Nelson, married first, - Sweetser, who died : second, Angeline Platts, is now living in Boston ; 3, Sally. married - Sweetser of Fitzwilliam, both now dead : 4, Mary, married Harvey Blanding, lives in Troy ; 5. Martha, married Asa Clark of Swanzey ; 6, Harriet. married Gideon G. Willis of Swanzey ; 7, Joel, married Richardson, resides in Fitzwilliam.
In 1805, John Lawrence, son of Daniel, married Irena, daughter of Jacob Newell Jr., and settled on the homestead, where he is now living at the age of seventy- four, and retains much of his youthful vigor. Children : 1, Louisa, born in 1806, died at an early age; 2, Anna. born in 1807, lives in Attleborough; 3, Clarissa, born in 1809, died at the age of thirteen months; 4, Irena, born in 1810, died in 1842; 5, Simon, born in 1812, married Eliza Buffum, lives in Fitchburg; 6, Betsey, born in 1814, married A. B. Harrington, lives in Troy ; 7, John, born in 1816, married, lives in Troy; 8, Houghton. born in 1818, lives in Troy; 9, Cynthia, born in 1820. died in 1840; 10, Sarah, born in 1822, died in 1849: 11, Harvey, born in 1823, lives in Illinois; 12, Almira. born in 1826, lives in Indiana. Mrs. Lawrence died in 1749, and he married second, Mrs. Eliza Hayden, with . whom he is now living.
November 28, 1805, Henry Tolman, son of Benjamin of whom mention has been made, married Polly, daugh- ter of Christopher Harris, and formed a co-partnership with his father-in-law in the business of the tavern. He lived there one and one-half years, then moved to Derry. Vt., where he resided three years, after which he re- * Mrs. Howe is now (1859) living in Fitzwilliam.
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turned and lived some time where William Whitcomb now lives. After this he kept a public house two years where Amasa Fuller now lives, and again returned to the Whitcomb place. He worked at brick-making three years in the yard now owned by Thomas Wright, then moved into the house now occupied by Sampson Wheel- er, and resided there sixteen years; and after moving once or twice more he settled in Stirling, Mass., where he resided until his death March 6, 1851. Mrs. Tol- man died Aug. 5, 1857. Their children were: 1, Charles M., born Jan. 21, 1807, married Lydia Love- joy; 2, Nancy, born June 17, 1808, married Luther Towns, lives in Amherst; 3, Henry, Jr., born Aug. 13, 1809, married Harriet Rhodes, lives in Wisconsin; 4, Elisha H., born June 17, 1811, married Rusina Bay- . ard of Fitzwilliam, lives in Troy; 5, Daniel, born Nov. 7, 1812, married Almira Davis, lives in Wisconsin; 6, Mary, born May 5, 1814, married Isaac Jackson, lives in Wisconsin; 7. Jacob N., born Jan. 2, 1816, married first, Eliza Ann Osborne, who died: second, Abby Mo- ses, lives in Worcester; S, James, born May 6, 1817, died Jan. 28, 1821; 9, Philander, born June 13, 1819, married Laura Kelton, lives in Maine; 10, Sarah Ann, born Dec. 31, 1824, died Nov. 2, 1844; 11. Amanda, born May 11, 1828, married Augustus Leach, lives in Stirling, Massachusetts.
Joseph Butler, a native of Bolton, came here this year, (1805), and bought of Rufus Russell the farm south- cast of Simon Butler's, and now at some distance from the public highway, but formerly on an old road leading from Silas Fife's to Hugh Thompson's. His wife's maiden name was Temple, and they had lived in Bol- ton about eighteen years after their marriage. They resided here about thirty years, then moved to Marl- boro', where they died. Their children were: 1, Betsey, born Sept. 28, 1791, married Elias Mann, who died in
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1857, and she is now living in Jaffrey, a widow; 2. Amos, born Dec. 13, 1793, married Polly Sargent of Lancaster, lives in Plymouth, Vt .; 3, Joseph, born March 10, 1794, married Polly Mason, lives in Boyls- ton, Mass .; 4, Olive, born Oct. 11, 1795, married Si- mon Butler, lives in Troy; 5, Abigail, born June 3, 1798, married Levi Daggett, is now living in Rindge; 6, Lucy, born June 3, 1800, married Elijah Bemis, who died Nov. 5, 1852, and she is now living in Troy; 7, Asa, born June 15, 1802, married Julia Butler, is now living in Avon, Ill .; 8, Jabez, born Nov. 14, 1803, married Betsey Boyden, lives in Plymouth, Vt .; 9, Le- vi, born July 7, 1809, married Sophia Sargent, lives in Worcester.
In the fall of 1806, Aaron Holt bought of Daniel Lawrence Jr. the farm upon which Hugh Thompson first settled, (since called the Brooks place), the deed being dated the 12th of September of that year. Mr. Holt was born Oct. 27, 1776, at Holden, where his father, from Andover, settled at an early period. In the spring of 1807, he came to Marlboro', with his fam- ily, and settled on the farm above mentioned, where he resided ten years. After this he lived one year on each of the farms now owned by Alvah S. Clark and William Whitcomb; he then bought the farm now owned by Hamilton Parker, and resided there three years. In 1822, he lived on the farm now owned by Levi L. Pierce, and in 1823, on that owned by Sidney A. But- ler, but in 1824, he moved on to the Gove place, (so called), south of the Jonathan Clark place. In the fall of 1826, while passing down the hill, near the present residence of Lyman Harrington, he met a young man riding one horse and leading another. The horse which was being led was a vicious animal, and refused to go, and Mr. Holt, in attempting to assist the stranger in conquering his unruly beast, was kicked in the region of
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