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Moody Cook, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, was a native of New- buryport, Mass., came to this town at an early day, and settled in the west- ern part of the town, on road 20. He died there, aged eighty-four years. He reared eight children, only one of whom, Amanda Ellsworth, of Water- loo, Iowa, is living. Moody, Jr., married Lucy, daughter of David Eaton, of Plymouth. Of his five children now living, Joseph married twice, first, Sarah P. Cook, by whom he had one child, and second, Eliza A., daughter of Alexander and Eliza (Barker) Kenrick, of Plymouth, N. H., has one daughter, Mrs. Sarah F. Adams, and resides in Campton Village. Arthur B .. youngest son of Moody, Jr., married Dora B., daughter of George and Deborah Foss, has two children, Nelson B. and Fannie G., and resides in Campton Village, with his brother, Daniel E.
Edmond Marsh, a native of East Haddan, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, came to this town about 1780, and was the first settler upon the farm now known as the Marsh farm, on road 14. He married Emma Cook and reared ten children, one of whom, Newton, married Lydia, daughter of John and Mary (Poor) Butler. Two of Newton's six children are now living. Of these, Christopher H. married Mrs. Mary A. Heath, daughter of Henry Plummer, and resides on the farm.
Ansel Mitchell, son of Isaac and Anable Mitchell, was a native of Camp- ton, married Malinda Flanders, of Canada, and reared nine children, seven of whom are living. George W., fifth son of Ansel, 'married twice, first,
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Annie E. Spencer, and second, Edwina, daughter of Benjamin and Martha Caldon, has one son, Fred D., and lives in Campton Village.
Frederick A. Mitchell, son of Elijah, and a native of Campton Village, married Lucretia M., daughter of Norman and Lorena (Kitteredge) Strong, of Port Hope, Ont., and has two children, Frank and Lulu. Frank is an engineer on the New York & New England railroad. Frederick A. has been engaged as railroad bridge builder and contractor for the past thirty-two years. He was a soldier in the civil war, serving in Co. B, 15th N. H. Vols., two years and nine months, and since the war, until his death a short time ago, was a resident of Campton Village.
Timothy W. Mitchell married Mary J., daughter of Luther and Mary (Dickey) Tucker, of Thornton, and had born to him six children, three of whom are now living. His son Luther P. served in the late war, in Co. D, 9th N. H. Vols., and died at Andersonville prison. Timothy W. died at the age of fifty-seven years. His widow resides with her mother, Mrs. Mary Tucker, who is at present the oldest lady in town, aged eighty-three years.
John Spokesfield moved to Thornton, from Maine, in 1795, married twice, first, Abigail Furnald, and second, Betsey Crosby, of Alexandria, N. H. His son Jonathan C. married twice, first, Keziah Foss, of Thornton, who bore him six children, four of whom are living, and settled in the Western States, and second, Jane, daughter of William and Susan Chase, of Deer- field, N. H, and is now a resident of West Campton.
Benjamin Johnson came to Campton, from Haverhill, Mass., and was the first settler upon the farm where I. T. Johnson now resides, off road 44. Joseph W., one of his five children, married twice. first, Sarah C. Wilkinson, and second, Lydia B., daughter of Henry and Abigail F. (Spokesfield) Dear- born. His son Benjamin G. served in the late war, in Co. B, ist N. H. Cav., and died in Libby prison. Mr. Johnson now resides on the farm which was first settled by Henry Dearborn, on road 3.
Thomas Elliot, one of the early settlers of Thornton, moved to Campton Village, where he run a grist and saw-mill. He married Ruth A. Burbank, and reared a family of seven children, four of them now living. He died at the age of eighty four years. His son Jason served three years in the civil war, in Co. C, 13th N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged. He married Mary, daughter of Nathan Colby. Four of his six children are living. Of these, Albert J, married twice, first, Armena H. Russell, and second, Mary B., daughter of David and Anable (Gifford) Stonecliffe, of Hager, Mich., has one daughter, Lela M., and resides in Campton Village.
Elijah Smart, a native of Coryden, N. H., was a pensioner of the Revolu- tionary war, was at the battle of Brandywine, and was wounded at the battle of Bennington. Caleb, one of his seven children, married Hannah Libby, of Gorham, Me., and reared a family of nine children. His youngest son, Lewis B., married Amanda J., daughter of Jonathan and Amanda F. Dear- born, of Thornton, and has three children, Willis E., Amy A. and Bertha
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M. He resides at Campton Village. Willis E. is a grocer at Danvers, Mass., and Amy A. is a milliner at Lowell, Mass.
David Webster, a native of Holderness, married twice, first, Olive A. Smith, and second, Phebe F. Clark, and reared a family of nine children, seven of whom are living. He finally removed to Campton, where he re- mained until his death in February, 1861. His son Alfred was in the late war, in Co. C, 13th N. H. Vols., and after three years service, was honorably discharged. He married twice, first, Susan E., daughter of Jesse and Louisa (Fellows) Kendall, and second, Lydia M., daughter of George W. and Julia M. (Durgan) Wallace, of Thornton, N. H., has five children, and resides at Campton Village, on road 7.
John Elliott moved from Shipton, P. Q., to Lowell, Mass., about 1835, and thence to Campton in 1841, where he bought a saw-mill and engaged in lumbering, and has reared four children. John F. Elliott, his eldest son, located in Lyme in 1877, where he now lives.
Ebenezer Morrison was a native of Sanbornton, N. H. His son Joseph, also a native of Sanbornton, married Olive, daughter of Abraham and Betsey Batchelder, of Louden, N. H. Three of his children, Relief R., Abram B. and Joseph W., are living. Joseph W. married Hannah F., daughter of Will- iam and Sarah Giddings, and has five children. Of these, Emily N. married Fisher Ames and resides in San Francisco, Cal. Mary J. married Dr. J. M. French, of Milford, Mass. Weld and Frank L. are merchants at Franklin Falls, N. H., and Joseph W., Jr., and his father are now leading merchants in Campton Village. The homestead is located on road 6, corner 7.
Thomas J., son of Charles T. and Martha P. (Haines) Sanborn, was born May 23, 1812, and married Relief R., daughter of Joseph and Olive (Batch- elder) Morrison. He was postmaster in Sanbornton and in Campton for twenty-five years, was elected selectmen of Campton six times, and was com- missioner for Grafton county from 1866 to 1869. He also conducted a large and popular hotel for summer boarders upon his farm in West Campton, on road 4. Mr. Sanborn died September 8, 1883. His only child, Edward H., and his mother, aged seventy years, still occupy the home farm and run the hotel. Edward H. married Julia E., daughter of William and Julia (Foss) Robinson.
Daniel Brown, son of Nicholas, came to Holderness, from Strafford, N. H., in 1828, and finally moved to Campton, where he died in 1872. He served in the War of 1812, and was at Portsmouth. He reared seven children, all living. His second son. Nicholas, married Eliza Ann, daughter of Daniel and Sabrina (Clement) Page. George O., only son of Nicholas, married Alice J., daughter of David M. and Abbie (Bickford) Roberts, and has two children, Irving H. and Amy M. He resides with his father on road 26.
Daniel Page, son of John, was a native of Kesington, N. H., and served three years in the Revolutionary war. He married Anna, daughter of Samuel Towle, of Hampton, N, H., and reared eight children, only one of whom, 14*
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Daniel 2d, is living. The latter married three times, first, Sabrina Clement, of Center Harbor, N. H., who bore him five children, second, Hannah Wyatt, of this town, who bore him four children, and third, Hannah Downing, of Ellsworth. His eldest son, Ozias M., married Susan, daughter of Reuben and Sally (Johnson) Draper, has nine children, and lives upon the farm first settled by Col. Samuel Holmes, who settled here from Hadden, Conn., in 1772, on road 14.
Pelatiah C. Blaisdell, a native of Campton, and son of John, who served in the war of 1812, and was engaged in the battle of Plattsburg Bay, married Lois Cook, and reared nine children. John M., one of the seven children now living, married Julia, daughter of Alpheus and Rosilla (Avery) Hall, of Sandwich, and has one child, Edith M. George F., brother of John M., is also a resident of Campton, on road 15.
Joel Pierce, a native of Petersham, Mass., came to Campton about 1831, married Hannah F. Rowe, and reared eight children, six of whom are living. He was engaged in the manufacture of furniture, and died in 1876. His son Nathan married Caroline M., daughter of Greenlief and Rebecca (Mitchell) Foss, of Campton, is a manufacturer of furniture, and resides in Campton Village.
Benjamin Stickney came here from Newbury, Mass., about 1838, and re- mained here until his death in 1876. He married Phebe Pulsifer, and had born to him nine children, five of whom are now living. His son William H. married Sarah O., daughter of Joseph and Almira Hogdon, and resides in the village of Campton. He was in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting August 21, 1862, in Co I, 12th N. H. Vols., and after three years' service, was hon- orably discharged.
Benjamin Stickney, a native of Newbury, Mass., married Annie Poor, of that town, and reared eight children, two of whom are living. His eldest son, Charles Stickney, married Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Bur- bank) Noyes, and had born to him five children. Of these, Samuel N. mar- ried Sarah A., daughter of Samuel P. and Sally (Judkin) Smith, has seven children, and resides in this town on a farm off road 25.
Alonzo D. Muchmore, M. D., was born in Orford, April 4, 1840, and was the second son of James Muchmore, who was born in Orford, August 4. 1810, and was a farmer and a manufacturer of lumber. James Muchmore, grand- father of Alonzo, was born at Northfield, N. H., and James, the great-grand- father of Alonzo, was born on the Isle of Shoals, N. H. His mother, Sarah J. Buntin, was the daughter of James Buntin, a soldier of the war of 1812. His grandmother, Sally Sherman, was a daughter of John Sherman, a soldier who served through the seven years' War of the Revolution. Her brother served in the War of 1812 on the ocean as officer of privateers, John Sher- man having command of one. He also commanded the first steamboat that cruised Lake Champlain. Alonzo Munchmore spent the early part of his life laboring on his father's farm or in his father's mill, but being greatly in-
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terested in the study of medicine, his leisure time was engaged by that pur- suit. He enlisted, November 30, 1861, in the 6th N. H. Vols., and, after serving several months, was discharged April 9, 1862, by reason of disease of the lungs. He was then unable to perform hard labor, but pursued his stu- dies when his health would permit, and finally, in 1879, was examined by the State censors of the New Hampshire Eclectric Medical Society, and granted a certificate. He commenced the practice of medicine at Campton, where he has a large and lucrative practice. Since then he has attended two courses of lectures in the Eclectic Medical college of Maine, where he graduated February 8, 1883, receiving the diploma of that institution. He is a mem- ber of the Campton Village Baptist church, and one of its wardens, a member of the New Hampshire Eclectic Medical Society, and one of its State board of censors, a member of Penniman Post G. A. R., of the Sons of Temperance, of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 16, F. A. M., and of the Ancient United Order of Druids. He married Effie L. Cross, of Piermont, June 16, 1870, and has one child, James Christie, born April 4, 1871.
Henry Dole, a soldier of the war of 1812, married Anna Poore, reared a family of nine children, lived in Newbury, Mass., but afterward moved to Limerick, Me. His son Henry married Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Butler, of Newbury, Mass., had born to him eleven children, nine of whom are now living. Erastus, the :. inth child, married twice, first, Samantha, daughter of Moody and Lucy (Eaton) Cook, who bore him two children, and second, Flora E., daughter of Dr. Peter L. and Elizabeth A. (Davis Hoyt. Mr. Dole came to Campton, from Limerick, Me, about 1840, and engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods, carrying on the business which is known as the Madriver Woolen Mills in the village of Campton, which he has con- tinued with great success up to the present time. His sons, Moody C. and Herbert E., are residents of Campton Village. Moses C. Dole, brother of Erastus, came to this town in 1841, and engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods with his brother, in which business he still continues. He married twice, first, Lucy, daughter of Moody and Lucy (Eaton) Cook, and second, Sarah E., daughter of Judge Walter and Eliza (Farnum) Blair. Mrs. Sarah E. Dole graduated at Newbury Seminary, Vt., and was a teacher in the high school at Concord, N. H., for ten years.
George Robinson came from Scotland at the age of sixteen years, being the first of that name who came to this country. Ezekiel, his eldest son, mar- ried Hannah Hutchins, of Killingly, Conn., and reared a family of six child- ren. His son Preserved married twice, first, Betsey Gillis, of Bedford, N. H., and second, Mahaley Kimball, of Concord, N. H. He built the first cotton mill in the State of New Hampshire. William P., one of the four children, married Julia W., daughter of Carter and Mahaley Foss, of Thornton, and had five children, namely, George, Charles, Julia, Jennie and Frank. Will- iam P., Robinson died October 27, 1877, aged sixty-one years. His widow is now at the homestead in Campton Village. Ebenezer Foss was one of the
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early settlers of Thornton, N. H. Daniel Robinson was governor of the State of Florida many years ago.
Richard Plummer, a native of Gilmanton, N. H., married Mary Boynton, and reared seven children. Richard J., one of the three children now living, married Nancy, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Hunter) Swayne, and has two children, Sarah A. Kimball, residing in Matoon, Ill., and John H , of Campton Village. The latter served in the late war in Co. E, 18th N. H. Vols. He married Nellie, daughter of Pelatiah and Mary A. Woodman Russell, of Plymouth, N. H., and has one child, Carrie E., who lives at home. Richard J. also resides in Campton Village.
Daniel Damon was a resident of Redding, Mass., and reared eight chil- dren. His seventh son, Warren, married Nancy, daughter of Samuel and Abbey ( Hartshorn) Pierson, and reared six children, three sons and three daughters. His second son, Warren, married Adeline F., daughter of Moses and Abra (Holmes) Blaisdell, of Campton, and has one son, Charles H., who resides in Boston. Warren, Jr., came here, from Lowell, Mass., in 1860. He has been in the United States military service five years, being in the Florida war in 1839.
John Cutter, a native of Woburn, Mass., came to Jaffrey, N. H., married Abigail DeMary, of Rindge, and reared twelve children. His son John was a tanner by trade, and married Betsey Crosby, of Jaffrey. Alpheus Crosby, grandfather of Charles Cutter, was a soldier in the French and Indian war, and his father, Captain Josiah, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The latter, a native of Billerica, Mass., commanded the first company raised in Amherst, Mass., and marched from that town the day after the battle of Lex. ington. He was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. Charles Cutter, one of the ten children of John, married Sarah L., daughter of Joseph and Sarah D. (Parker) Joslyn. He graduated from Dartmouth college, and since then has taught school for fifteen years. He came to this town in 1857. He was appointed school commissioner of Grafton county for 1863, and has been town superintendent several years.
Dr. John Kinsman, son of Isaac, who was an early settler of the town of Grafton, married Susan Lumber, of Lebanon, N. H., and re red nine chil- dren. Stephen D., the only one now living, married Belinda, daughter of Alexander and Sally (Bean) Rowe. His adopted son, Alanson W. Barney, was a soldier in the late war, enlisting in Co. B, 4th N. H. Vols., served four years, and was killed at Burmuda Hundred.
Simeon Knowles, a native of Seabrook, N. H., came to Grafton county in 1843, and married Abigail Rollins, of Northwood, N. H. His son, Hiram S. married Mary F., daughter of Levi Cram, and has two children, William N. and Edwin G., and lives at Campton Village.
Stephen Smith came to Thornton, from Newburyport, Mass., and reared six children. His son Stephen married Hannah, daughter of John and Mehet- able (Worthing) Foss, and had born to him six children. Freeman C., one
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of the four children living, married Marinda C., daughter of Daniel and Mercy (Priest) Jewell, has two children, Lucius D. and Wilfred, and resides in Campton Village, on Main street.
Shubael Sanborn was a native of Canterbury, N. H., and also a life-long resident of that town. He had born to him twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, one of whom, Joseph, moved to Holderness about 1830, mar- ried Cyrene Cofran, of Northfield, N. H., and reared six children. He died August 9, 1874, aged sixty-five years. Benjamin, one of the two children living, married Nettie D., daughter of Edmond and Sally (Bartlett) Cone, and resides in Campton Village. Shubael Sanborn, brother of Benjamin, married Lizzie Russell, of Thornton, and resides in Rising City, Neb.
Horace L. Thurston, son of Josiah and Martha M. (Marsh) Thurston, married Stella L., daughter of William and Asenath (Scales) Baker, has one child, Lillie M., now at home, and resides in Campton Village. Mr. Thurston was a soldier in the late war, enlisting in 1863, in Co. A, 8th N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged.
Ebenezer Foss came from Concord, and was one of the early settlers of Thornton. He married a Miss Hoyt, of Concord, and had.born to him thir- teen children, three of whom are living. His son, John H., married Eliza- beth, daughter of Moses Chase, and reared a family of thirteen children, five of whom are living. His son John R. married three times, first, Nancy M. Richards, second, Mary Wilkins, and third, Mrs. Laura A. Thompson, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Davis) Emerson, and has four children namely, Emma M., Lucia M., Edwin B. and Laura E. Mr. Foss is a resi dent of Campton Village.
David Philbrick, a native of Old Hampton, N. H., married twice, first, Jen- nie Masten, who bore him four children, and second, Hannah Graves, and had born to him three children. His son David, married twice, first Eliza Dockham, and second, Abigail Roberts. Sylvester, one of his three children married Sarah, daughter of Edward and Betsey (Pease) Wallace. His four children, Nellie E., Alice M., Byron J. and Lizzie G., reside with their mother, on the homestead, in Campton Village.
Dodavah Ham came from Barnsted, N. H., and was an early settler in the town of Ellsworth. He was twice married, and reared a family of seven chil- dren. His son, Dodavah, married Abigail, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey (Spokesfield) Hill, of Thornton, and had born to him five children, two of whom are living. His eldest son, Joseph H., resides in Campton Village with his mother. His brother Benjamin A. was a soldier in the war of the Rebel- lion, enlisted in Co. A, 6th N. H. Vols., served one year, and died in 1862, at Newport News, Va., aged eighteen years.
Simeon Sanborn, son of Ebenezer, who was one of the early settlers of Sanbornton, N. H., was born October 8, 1793, married Lucy Palmer, and had three children. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, and was the last sur- vivor of the Sanbornton soldiers of 1814. He was a highly respected deacon
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of the Congregational church, at Plymouth, N. H. He died September 27, 1883. His youngest son, Charles, married twice, first, Elizabeth Cram, and second, Ann Rowe, and has one son. He served in the late war, in Co. C, and Co. A, of the 5th and 18th N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. His son, Carroll G., married Hattie G , daughter of Gideon and Esther W. (Perkins) Moulton, and resides in Campton Village.
Thomas Robie, of Revolutionary fame, was a resident of Thornton, and was a blacksmith. He was of Scotch descent, married Jennie McDermitt, and reared seven children. His youngest son, Archie, married, May 12, 1853, Sally S., daughter of Mark and Nancy (Clark) Plummer, of Sanborn- ton, N. H., and has reared thirteen children, seven boys and six girls. He resides in Campton Village, has held the office of selectman four years, town collector three years, and has been overseer of the poor seven years. He has been a noted lumberman in the town for many years.
Joseph C. Blair, son of Peter, was born December 17, 1809, married Dolly P. Noyes, and reared four children, two now living. He died October 9, 1864. His son, Joseph C., married Christine S., daughter of Daniel R. and Eunice K. (Coffin; Burleigh, and has three children, Joseph C., Laura A., and Agnes B. He resides in this town, and is proprietor of the popular summer boarding-house, called Blair's Hotel.
Addison P. Barker was a native of Island Falls, Me., and married Susan A. Brown, of North Woodstock, N. H. Addison P .. one of his three chil- dren, married Minnie E., daughter of Louis A. and Lucy M. Young, of this town, and resides at West Campton, on road 4.
Timothy Davis, the fifth generation of that name, married Mary Coffin, of Nantucket, and resides in Boston. Mard N., one of his four children, mar- ried Lucy, daughter of Gilman and Bellona (Reed) Greenwood, has one son, Timothy, and has a summer residence in this town, on road 23. This farm was settled by Mr. Fox, the first settled in town.
Ebenezer Mitchell, a native of Maine, reared seven children, one of whom, Israel, came to Campton in 1849, and married Hepsibah P. Blair. Samuel S., one of his seven children, married Milla H., daughter of Gilbert W. and Jane C. (Bryant) Homans, has three children, and resides on the home farm. His brother, Ira C., married Mynetta, daughter of Sylvester Sweet, has three children, and resides on road I.
Benjamin Morrell, of Revolutionary fame, married Lovey, daughter of Samuel Drew, and reared ten children. His son Theophilus E. married Mary, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (James) Thorn, and reared eight children, five of whom are living. Nathan Thorn served in the Revolution- ary war. Rev. Theophilus E. A. Morrell, son of Theophilus, married Eliza, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Jones) Brown, has two children, and resides in West Campton.
John S. Hanaford, son of Peter, came to Campton, from Holderness, in 1860, married Lydia, daughter of John Clark, and granddaughter of John
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Clark, who served in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Hanaford resides in this town, on road 25.
Hezekiah Smith lived in Meredith, N. H., and reared nine children, one of whom, Moody H , came to Campton, from Sandwich, N. H. He reared a family of ten children, three of whom served in the late war. His daughter Fannie C. married J. Frank Smith. They have three children, and reside in this town, on road 3. John M., father of J. Frank, came to Campton, from Laconia, in 1853, married twice, first, Fanny Edgely, and second, Sarah Watson, of Guilford, N. H., had born to him four children, and died in 1881, aged seventy-five years. Daniel, father of John M., a soldier of the war of 1812, was a native of Gilmanton, N. H., married Mary Mudgett, and reared eight children, one of whom, Mrs. James Mudgett, of New Hampton, is living.
William Wallace, son of William, is a native of Portsmouth, N. H., mar- ried Julia M., daughter of Elisha Starks, of Hanover, and had born to him ten children. William, Jr., one of the six children now living, married Han- nah B., daughter of James and Ruth (Pulsifer) Burbeck, and resides in this town, on the homestead of James Burbeck, on road 38. The first settler upon this place was Chilliad Brainard. William Wallace served in the late war, in Co. K, 12th N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged.
Moses Shaw, a Revolutionary soldier, was an early settler of Holderness. His son Asa married Diodama York, and reared nine children, eight of whom are living. His youngest child, William H., married Charlotte E., daughter of Timothy and Esther (Cox) Marden, has three children, and now resides in Holderness.
James E. Bump, son of James, married Nancy J., daughter of Stephen and Mary (Avery) Hutchins, of Rumney, and has three children, namely, Ada M., Curtis G., and Wald J. He resides on the home farm, on road 27.
Edson P. Hart, son of Abel, married twice, first, Mary J. Morrison, and second, Mary S. Stinson, and has reared five children. Edwin A. Hart served in the Rebellion, in Co. B, 15th N. H. Vols., and died in the service, in August, 1863, aged nineteen years.
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