Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 111

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876

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(IV) Elihu, second son and child of Hezekiah and Margaret (Cate) Hayes, was born August 18, 1757, in Barrington, New Hampshire, where he was a farmer. He was married in that town, April 28, 1772, to Elizabeth Davis, daughter of Samuel Davis and granddaughter of James Davis, one of the earliest settlers of Madbury. (See Davis, III). She was born March 2, 1753, at Madbury. They had four children, namely: Jonathan, Sarah A., who married Nicholas Pike; Elizabeth, who became the wife of her cousin, Deacon Soloman Hayes ; and Reuben, who settled in Alton.

(V) Jonathan, eldest son of Elihu and Elizabeth (Davis) Hayes, was born April 25, 1774, and mar- ried Mary Ham, July 3, 1794. She was born in Barr- ington, April 11, 1773. They lived in New Durham for three years, and in 1797 moved to Madbury which became their permanent home. He died March 27, 1851. His wife died December 25, 1859. Their children were: I. Elizabeth, born December 19, 1794, married Hezekiah Hayes, February 1, 1816, who died March 29, 1816. She married Paul Ran- dell, December 9, 1817, and lived in Lee, New Hamp- shire; she died October 4, 1843. 2. Samuel Davis, described below. 3. Margaret, born May 4, 1800, married, January 24, 1822. Jacob K. Hayes, born in Barrington, New Hampshire, November 10, 1796. Their children were : Sophiah, born March 22, 1823, married George Wiggin, and lived at Green Hill, Barrington, New Hampshire. Elizabeth Lucy, born June 22, 1826, married Horace G. Cater, and lived at Green Hill. Mary Ann, born November 30, 1828, married Henry Paul, and lived in Rollinsford, New Hampshire. Eleazer Cate and Margaret Jane, born July 20, 1832; the former married Lizzie A. Cater, May 16, 1858. and lived on the home farm, being the third generation, and the latter died March 14, 1888. 4. Mary, born July 4, 1802, married, May 7, 1835, at Madbury, George Caverno, who was born in Strafford, New Hampshire, July 29, 1803. They lived at Bow Leake, a small village in the town of Strafford. Their children were: Jonathan H., born May 5, 1836, died at Thetford, Vermont, June 10, 1855. George S., born July 1, 1842, married Ida S. Hanson, of Dover, January 30, 1867, and lives in

Durham, New Hampshire. George Caverno died March 2, 1875; his wife died in Durham with her son, George S. Caverno, January 11, 1892. 5. Sophiah born December 14, 1805, died October 20, 1820. 0. Sarah Ann, born April 29, 1808, married, May 4, 1836, Oliver Cromwell De Meritt, who was born . in Madbury, New Hampshire, December 10, 1801. The early part of their life was spent in Durham, New Hampshire, and in 1855 they moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He died May 14, 1872, and she died February 25, 1890. They had one child, Ellen Eliza- beth De Meritt, born April 30, 1839, and lives in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lydia, born January 17, ISII, died January 25, 1817. Charles, born April 3, ISI4, married Claraugusta McDuffee Stevens and lived in Madbury, later in Dover, New Hampshire. They had one child, Nellie A., born in Madbury, November 15, 1851, and died February 6, 1897. He died November 24, 1887. She died November 15, 1897.

(VI) Samuel Davis, second child and eldest son of Jonathan and Mary ( Ham) Hayes, was born in . New Durham, April 8, 1796. His parents moved to Madbury two years later, and that place was his home during the remainder of his life of eighty- eight years. In 1814 he went as drummer with the Madbury company of state militia to the defense of Portsmouth. He afterward held all the company offices in the militia. He was seven times elected selectman, and he held other town offices. He mar- ried Comfort Chesley, third daughter of Samuel and Nancy Chesley, of Madbury. She was born October 8, 1806, married July 1, 1827, and died August 0, 1870. Immediately after their marriage they moved to a new and comfortable home on a farm adjoining his old homestead. This house was the successor of the original log garrison, and the farm, until their occupancy, had been occupied by three gener- ations of the Daniels family to whom it had been originally granted by the English crown. Samuel D. and Comfort (Chesley) Hayes had three children : Ann Sophia, born November 4, 1829, died January 15, 1902; married John S. F. Ham, and lived in Dover, New Hampshire; he died December 2, 1903 Samuel Chesley, whose sketch follows. Charles Woodman, whose sketch follows. Samuel D. Hayes died February 1, 1884, out living his wife fourteen years.

(VII) Samuel Chesley, second child and eldest son of Samuel D. and Comfort ( Chesley ) Hayes, was born in Madbury, February 18, 1834. Instead of adopting the occupation of his ancestors he en- tered the field of commerce, and established himself as a flour and grain merchant in Boston, residing in that city until his death, which occurred June 20. 1904. He married Elizabeth Susan Joitt, daughter of General Alfred Hoitt, formerly of Lee and later of Dover, and commanding officer of the state militia prior to the Civil war. She died in January, 1900. The only children of this union are : Harry E., an electrical engineer in the employ of the American Telegraph & Telephone Company, residing in Allerton, Massachusetts; and Alfred S., of Boston.

(VIH) Alfred Samuel, youngest son of Samuel C. and Elizabeth S. ( Hoitt) Hayes, was born in Boston, May 14, 1869. He attended the Phillip, Grammar School and the Boston Latin School, was graduated from the academic department of Har- vard University with the class of 18or, from the Harvard Law School in 1894, and was immediately admitted to the Suffolk county bar. Establishing hin self in the practice of his profession in Boston. he is now well advanced on the road to success, hay- ing bitilt up a large and lucrative general law busj-

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ness, In politics Mr. Hayes is a Democrat, and has represented ward twelve in the lower house of the Massachusetts legislature. He was an advanced Mason, and affiliates with the higher bodies in that order, including De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, and Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine. He married Sarah M. Bartlett, daughter of Edward Bartlett, of Rockland, Maine. Mrs. Hayes, was a graduate of the Boston University, is a lady of social prominence, and a member of several clubs.

(VII) Charles Woodman, second son and young- est child of Samuel D. and Comfort ( Chesley ) Hayes, was born in Madbury, New Hampshire, September 11, 1836. He met with a thrilling ex- perience in his childhood. When he was two years and nine months old, while out in the pasture with his brother, strayed off and was not seen after four o'clock in the afternoon. All night the search for him continued and the next morning at eleven o'clock he was discovered mired in a swamp a few rods from the Bellamy river, about one and one- half miles from home. After a public school atten- ance he fitted for college in the Military Gymnasium. at Pembroke, New Hampshire, and graduated from Dartmouth College. Chandler scientific department, in 1858. Ile taught school nearly ten years. While teaching in Eliot and Baring, Maine, he took an active part in religious matters, acting as leader of the choir and superintendent of the Sunday school. In 1866 he returned to Madbury to take care of the old people and cultivate the farm. He at once be- came actively interested in the affairs of the town, especially educational and religious matters. He held the office of superintendent of school committee six years and member of school board eight years. In June, 1869, he canvassed the town for the estab- lishment of a religious meeting and Sabbath school at Madbury town house. The people united with the Congregational society at Lee Hill in the sup- port of a minister. For ten years services were held at Madbury, during which time Mr. Hayes filled the position of leader of the choir, superintendent of the Sabbath school and chairman of the financial (VI) John Alfred, fifth child of Frederick and Sarah ( Hurd ) Hayes, was born in Berwick, Maine, March 27. 1839. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, at West Lebanon (Maine) Academy, and the New Hampton (New Hampshire) Institution. He began the study of medicine in 1858, in the office of Dr. J. S. Ross, of Somersworth, New Hampshire, took three courses of lectures at Dartmouth Medical College and Jef- ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and was grad- uated from Dartmouth Medical College in the au- tumn of 1861. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession as assistant physician to the New Hampshire Insane Asylum at Concord, . and acted in that capacity until August 26, 1862, when he en- tered the army as assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, with the rank of major. He participated in the battles of Fred- ericksburg, Jackson, the siege of Knoxville, the Wilderness. Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Har- bor, Petersburg, Popular Spring Church, Weldon Railroad, Hatcher's Run, Sailor's Creek, and the en- gagements leading up to the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. He had charge of the field hospital of the Second Division, Ninth Corps, at Fredericks- committee. He has practiced engineering and land surveying in Madbury and neighboring towns since 1858; was collector of taxes in 1872; and town treasurer twenty-two years. On November 8, 1866, he married Ellen Maria Weeks, daughter of Wil- liam and Mariah ( Clark) Weeks. She was born April 29, 1843, at Strafford Corner, New Hampshire. William Weeks was born in 1812, and married, May 12, 1842, Mariah Clark, daughter of Hezekiah and Hannah (Ham) Clark. Ellen Maria Weeks is a granddaughter of Elisha and Polly ( Potter) Weeks, and a great-granddaughter of Daniel Weeks, of Gilford, New Hampshire. Charles W. and Ellen M. (Weeks) Hayes have had four children, all daughters. Nellie Marie, born May 4, 1870, was married, October 30, 1895, to George H. Crosby, superintendent of the Brookline Gas and Electric Light Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Anna Lillian, born October 11, 1873, was married June 19, 1901, to Charles Sumner Fuller, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, manufacturer of the Fuller-Greene chocolates. Cora Eunietta, born December 25. 1877, died April 17, 1879. Clara Comfort, born July 12, 1886, is a graduate of the Dover, New Ilampshire, high school, where she is now taking a post graduate . burg, White House and City Point for about eight course. In the fall of 1898 they moved to Dover, New Hampshire.

(II) Peter, second son of John Hayes, married Sarah, daughter of John Wingate, and grand- daughter of the immigrant, John (1) Wingate.

(III) Elijah, seventh child of Peter (2) Hayes,

was born about 1728, married Elizabeth Chadbourne, and removed to Berwick. Maine. He was a noted man in town affairs, and a member of the general court of Massachusetts from the district of Maine, 1785. On town records he is named as Captain Elijah Hayes.

(IV) Elijah (2), son of Captain Elijah Hayes, born July, 1767, married, March 28, 1793, Mary Grout.

(V) Frederick, seventh child of Elijah Hayes, Jr., was born December 3. 1806, in Berwick, Maine. He had a common school education, and was a farmer, wood and lumber dealer. He was a select- man, and held other offices of trust in the town. Ile was for many years a deacon and active member of the Free-Will Baptist Church. In politics he was originally a Whig, and connected himself with the Republican party at its organization. He died May 5, 1889. He married, 1830, Sarah Hurd, born in Berwick, Maine. October 13, 1807. She was a direct descendant of Captain John Heard, shipmaster, who came from England to Dover New Hampshire, in 1639. John Heard, married, about 1642, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Joseph Hull, of York, Maine, a minister of the Church of England. Master John Heard died January 17, 1689. Elizabeth, his widow, was a grave and pious woman, a mother of virtue and purity, and the mother of thirteen children ( Pike's Journal). She died November 30, 1706. Benjamin, their eldest son, was born in York, Maine, February 20, 1643. He removed to Salisbury, Mass- achusetts, where he died February, 1710. In his will he gave to his son James all his "lands and livings" at Fresh creek, Dover. James died there in 1748, and in his will gave all his property at Fresh creek to his son Benjamin. He sold the property to James Guppy, mariner of Portsmouth, and on August II, 1767, bought fifty-two acres of land in Berwick, Maine, on Beach Ridge, and several other tracts of land which he gave to his sons. Benjamin, his son, married Joanna Chadbourne, and they were the parents of Sarah Hurd.

months ; and also had charge of the provisional camp at Alexandria, Virginia. after the surrender at Ap- pomattox. The camp contained about seventeen thousand invalid soldiers from the armies of the Potomac and the Cumberland. Surgeon Hayes was brevetted lieutenant-colonel of United States Vol-

Charles W Hayes.

JOHN A. HAYES.

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unteers, March 13, 1865, "for faithful and meritori- ous services," upon the following recommendations :

"This is to state that Dr. John A. Hayes, late surgeon Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, served for a year under my immediate supervision in connection with the depot field hospital of the Army of the Potomac, at Fredericksburg, White House and City Point, and that he finally acted as executive officer at Burkeville, Virginia. He was a first-rate officer, and was entrusted with the most responsible duties, in the performance of which he was most reliable and untiring. I cordially recom- mend him as deserving the brevet of lieutenant- colonel.

(Signed) "ED. B. DALTON,

"Late Surgeon U. S. Vols., Bvt. Col., formerly in charge of Depot Field Hospital, Army of the Poto- mac."

After his return from the war, in the autumn of 1865, Dr. Hayes commenced the practice of his pro- fession in Biddeford, Maine, where he remained until 1869, when he removed to Somersworth, New Hampshire, where he now resides. He was United States examining surgeon for pensions from 1867 to 1890, and town physician for eighteen years. He is a member of the Somersworth Medical Society, the New Hampshire Medical Society, and the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a member of the Con- gregational Society of Somersworth, and in politics is a Republican.

Dr. Hayes was married, in Somersworth, March II, 1869, to Mary A. Rollins, who was educated in the public schools of Somersworth and at Abbott Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Her father was David L. Rollins, a mechanical engineer for many years in the employ of the Great Falls Manufactur- ing Company. ( See Rollins, VII). The children of Dr. John A. and Mary A. (Rollins) Hayes are: I. Frederick L., born in Great Falls, now Somersworth, March 1, 1870, see forward. 2. John E. R., born in Somersworth, April 3, 1873, see forward. 3. Mary, born September 2, 1880, died in infancy. 4. Helen Louise, born December 14, 1883, died July 14. 1894.

(VII) Dr. Frederick L. Hayes was graduated from the Somersworth high school in 1888. and from Dartmouth College with the class of 1892. His

professional studies were pursued at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1895, and during his senior year was president of his class. He is a well known medical practitioner in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is a member of the Congregational Church, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was married in 1906.

(VII) John Edward Rollins Hayes, second son of .Dr. John A. and Mary A. (Rollins) Hayes. was born in Great Falls (now Somersworth) April 3. 1873. His early education was acquired in the Somersworth schools, including the high school, from which he graduated in 1891, and entering Dart- mouth College the same year he took his bachelor's degree with the class of 1895. In 1896 he became a Jaw student at Harvard University, was graduated a Bachelor of Laws in 1899 and shortly afterward was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He has ever since practiced his profession in Boston, making a specialty of patent and trademark laws, and is now connected with the firm of Clarke, Raymond & Coale. Mr. Hayes resides in Melrose, Massachusetts. He is a member of the New Hampshire Club, the Mel- rose Club, the Melrose and Wakefield Golf Clubs, and other organizations, including college fraterni- ties. In his religious faith he is a Congregationalist,

and prior to leaving Somersworth united with the church in that town. Mr. Hayes is unmarried.

(II) Ichabod, fourth son and child of John Hayes the immigrant, was born March 13, 1692, in Dover and resided at Littleworth. He was killed by a mill log, June 1, 1734. His wife's name was Abigail, and they had children : Sarah, Ichabod, Ezekiel, Daniel, Moses, Aaron, Abigail and Hannah.

(III ) Moses, fourth son and fifth child of Icha- bod and Abigail Hayes, was born January 30, 1726, and resided in Rochester, New Hampshire. He was an ensign of militia. No record of his wife appears, but his children were: Sarah, Anna, Peter, Enoch, Abigail, Moses, Joshua, Jacob, Hannah, Mary, Hezekiah, Elizabeth, Molly, John and Stephen. It is probable that he had two wives.

(IV) Hezekiah, son of Moses Hayes, was born November 7, 1778, and resided in Dover.

(V) James, son of Hezekiah Hayes, was born in Dover and resided in that town. He married Rhoda Quimby of Dover.

(VI) Susan Ann, daughter of James and Rhoda (Quimby) Hayes, was born November 5, 1828, in Dover, and was married in 1847, to Solomon Cook of Concord. (See Cook, II).

(II) Benjamin Hayes, of Rochester, seventh son of John Hayes of Dover, New Hampshire, born September 6, 1700, married Jane, widow of Tristram Snell and had children. among whom is believed to have been a son Joseph.

(III) Joseph Hays, was born in the early part of the eighteenth century. Little indeed of his life and family history can be gleaned from existing records and even uncertain tradition furnishes little information concerning him. He must have been an early settler in Rochester, and it is certain that lie married and that one of his children was named George. Benjamin may have been another.

(IV) George Hays, son of Joseph, was a native of Rochester, New Hampshire, and married Hawkins. Their children were: Isaac, John, Clem- ent and George.

(V) John Hays, second son of George and

(Hawkins) Hays, was born in Rochester, January 9, 1792, and died April 24, 1871. He married, June 17, 1819, Elizabeth Plumer, born July 15, 1708, died June 28, 1880. They had children as follows : Maria, Jeremiah (died young), Alvin W., Ivory, Jeremiah, Edward, Eliza T., Luella P., Benjamin and Joseph.

(VI) Ivory Hays, third son and fourth child of John and Elizabeth ( Plumer) Hays, was born in the town of Rochester, New Hampshire, June 13, 1826. His opportunities for obtaining an education were indeed limited, but he did manage for a few winter terms to attend the country district school. His principal occupation in life has been that of farming, although he learned shoemaking when a young man and worked at it for some time, in the intervals of busy farming seasons, for he always was an industrious man and could turn his hand to several mechanical employments. For many years he lived in Massachusetts, where he engaged in farming and shoemaking, but now, having pas-ed his eightieth year he lives with his aged wife at North Barnstead, New Hampshire. in what is known as the "Audubon Lodge," a delightful home, pro- vided with every comfort of life through the kind- ness of his daughter, Mrs. La Favre, of Boston, who has expended many thousands of dollars to secure to her father and mother all things needful for their perfeet contentment. Mr. Hays married, April 27, 1854, Valeria O. Morrison, born in Alton, New

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Hampshire, May 19, 1831. Their children are Clara F., Arthur E .. Fanny C. (Mrs. La Favre), Eddie, Grace E., besides one other, who died in infancy.

(IV) Benjamin Hayes settled before the Revo- lution on a farm near Gonic, Rochester, which has ever since heen the homestead of succeeding genera- tions of his posterity.

(V) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) Hayes, inherited the homestead and spent his life there en- gaged in agriculture. He married Martha Evans, and they had eight children: Mary, Betsey, James, Abiah, Caroline and Adaline (twins), Stephen E. and Lucy. The first two died single; Abiah married John Hayes, of Wolfboro; Caroline, married Addi- son Burleigh; Adaline, married David Blake; Lucy, married Stewart N. Clifford; Stephen E. is the sub- ject of the next paragraph.

(VI) Stephen Evans, youngest son of Benjamin (2) and Martha (Evans) Hayes, was born on the homestead of his ancestors, November 24, 1813. He learned the trade of machinist and worked at that for some years; then went into the employ of a marble cutter and sold tombstones ; and some time before his death he acquired a farm adjoining the homestead, and was a farmer. In politics he was a thoroughbred Democrat, and held the office of select- man of Rochester in 1861. He died in Wolfboro. August 27, 1905, aged ninety-two. Ile married Amanda M. Paul, who was born February 23, 1820, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Tarlton ) Paul, of Newfield, New Hampshire. They had three chil- dren : Martha, Clara F. and Frank R. Martha mar- ried Greenleaf Rundlett; Clara F., married Ben- jamin F. Burleigh, of Wolfborough; Frank R. is the subject of the next section.

(VII) Frank Russell, youngest child and only son of Stephen and Amanda M. (Paul) Hayes, was born near Gonic, November 7, 1855. At seventeen years of age he began to learn the pattern maker's trade while in the employ of the Swampscott Ma- chine Company, of South Newmarket, now New- fields, and remained with that firm sixteen years. In 1888 he returned to the ancestral homestead to look after the affairs of his invalid uncle, James D. Hayes, and has since continued to perform the duties of the position, giving his attention principally to the care of the farm. He inherited the political faith of his fathers, and votes with the Democratic party. He served as clery of ward three one year, was member of the council three years, member of the schoolboard two years, and member of the legis- lature one term, 1907. He is a member of Star in the East Lodge, No. 59, Free and Accepted Masons, of Exeter, and Temple Royal Arch Chapter, No. 20, of Rochester. He married, at Rochester, Alice Z. Martin, daughter of Frank Martin. of Somersworth. They have two children. Theodore E. and Henri- etta.

(I) Joseph Hayes was born May 1, 1746, and died at Strafford, July 30, 1816, and was a lifelong farmer. He married Peggy Brewster, who was born September 2, 1745, and died May 11, 1801. Their children were: Mercy, David. Lydia, Lemuel, Went- worth, Daniel B., Joseph and Margaret.

(II) Joseph (2), seventh child and fifth son of Joseph (1) and Peggy ( Brewster) Hayes, was born August 1, 1783, and died in Dover, March 21, 1872. aged eighty-nine years. While active he was a farmer in Strafford, where he was an energetic worker in the Methodist Church, and was instru- mental in building the church at Crown Point. He marri d. January 7, 1808, Lois Demeritt, who was born January 10. 1790, and died May 16, 1874, in the nely with year of her age. They had twelve

children : Brewster, David, Demeritt. Daniel, Jo- seph, Mark D., John Stark, Charles Henry, Eliza- beth W., George W., Lydia M. and Asa B.

(III) Charles Henry, eighth son and child of Joseph (2) and Lois (Demeritt) Hayes. was born in Strafford, November 4, 1824, was a farmer in the carly part of his life, and later was employed in the woolen mills at East Rochester, where he died De- cember 19, 1891, aged sixty-seven. He was a mem- ber of the Methodist Church, and of Cocheco Lodge, No. 39, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. of East Rochester. He married Sarah J. Foss, who was born September 18, 1826, and daughter of Benjamin and Patience ( Ham) Foss, granddaughter of John Foss. She died August 10, 1903. They had three children: Sidney B., of whom see below; George L .; and Mary E., born December 16, 1862, married, April 15, 1884, Rev. Henry H. French, of Malden, Massachusetts.

(IV) Sidney Benjamin, eldest child of Charles H. and Sarah J. ( Foss) Hayes, was born in Straf- ford, June 10. 1850, and educated in the common schools and in the commercial department of the Edward Little Institute at Auburn, Maine. He was clerk for S. H. Feineman & Brother, of Rochester, three years, and then went to East Rochester where he became a clerk in the office of the Cocheco Woolen Manufacturing Company. In 1873 he was made clerk of the corporation and paymaster, and has since filled that position. He is also a trustee of the Norway Plains Savings Bank, and president of the Rochester Building & Loan Association. He is a Republican, and has filled several political offices. He was a representative in the general court in 1876-77, a member of the city council for six years, 1895-1901. and for some time member of the school board. He has been a member of the Methodist Church since 1873, is one of the stewards of that denomination at East Rochester, and superintendent of the Sunday school. He joined Humane Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons, and has since become a member of Temple Royal Arch Chapter, No. 20, and Orient Council, Royal and Select Mas- ters, also of Cocheco Lodge, No. 39. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand ; and of Norway Plains Encampment. No. 4. He married (first), November 19, 1872, Emma A. Stone, who was horn November 4, 1840, and died October 15. 1893. Married ( second), October 31, 1895, Rose A. ( Hersey ) Gowell, born October 8. 1862. daughter of Preston and Ann M. Gowell, of Pittsfield.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 111

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 876

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876