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. IV, Part 41

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: 878

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(II) Thomas, second son and fifth child of John and Jane Clough, was born May 29, 1651, in Salis- bury, Massachusetts, and resided in that town. He subscribed to the oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1677, and was a soldier in the defensive army of the period. With his second wife he was admitted to the Salisbury church, July 27. 1718. He was styled "yeoman" in 1730, and was probably still living as late as 1738. He was married, March 10, 1680, in Salisbury to Hannah, daughter of Samuel Gile. She died December 22, 1683, and he was married (second), in 1687, to Ruth, daughter of Cornelius and Sarah Connor of Salisbury. His children were : Samuel, Thomas, Jeremiah, Ebenezer (died young ), Ebenezer, Zaccheus, Isaac, Rebecca, Han- nah, Judith and Martha. (Thomas and Zaccheus and descendants receive notice in this article).

(III) Samuel, eldest child of Thomas and Han- nah (Dyer) Clough, was born December 5. 1680, in Salisbury and resided in that town. He was called "Sergeant Samuel," probably because of his services in the militia. He died in August, 1728, in his forty-eighth year. His wife's Christian name was Sarah, but her family name is not discovered. She was married (second), March 25, 1730, at the second Salisbury church, to Ezekiel Morrill, who died soon after and she was married (third), Jan- uary 10, 1734, at the same church to Captain Joseph Taylor, of Hampton. She was living in 1755. Ser-

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geant Clough's children were : Theophilus, Eli-

phalet, Hannah, Abigail. Samuel, Daniel (died young ), Daniel, Sarah, Mehitabel and Miriam. (Daniel and descendants receive mention in this article).

(IV) Theophilus, eldest son of Samuel and Sa- rah Clough, was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, November 28, 1703, and was baptized October 19, 1718, at Salisbury Church. He settled in Kingston, New Hampshire, where he was living in 1755. He married at Salisbury (second church), January 4, 1728, Sarah French. Many settlers in Salisbury, New Hampshire, Enfield and vicinity were from Kingston and vicinity. Both the Clough and French families were represented in the settlers at Enfield directly after the Revolution.

(V) Theophilus (2), son of Theophilus (I) and Sarah (French) Clough, was born about 1730. He was a soldier in the Revolution, stationed in 1777 at Fort Washington, and in 1778 took part in the Rhode Island expedition in Captain Joseph Dearborn's company (Chester), Colonel Moses Nichols's regiment. He signed a petition of the noncommissioned officers and privates at Fort Washington in 1777 praying for relief from inade- quate pay, etc. Just after the war he settled in Enfield, New Hampshire. According to the federal census of 1790 there were besides himself two adult men in his family and one son under sixteen; also five females (probably four were daughters). Chil- dren : I. Richard, was married and had a family in Enfield in 1790. 2. Henry, mentioned below. Another son and four daughters unknown.

(VI) Henry, son of Theophilus Clough, was born about 1775. He removed in his youth to Enfield, New Hampshire, with the family. His wife was probably a Currier. In 1790 we find in Enfield with families Theophilus, Richard and Jonathan Currier. Henry Clough married and had a son, Theophilus Currier, mentioned below.

(VII) Theophilus Currier, son of Henry Clough, was born about 1800 in Tamworth, New Hampshire, where his parents were then living. He was edu- cated in the district schools of his native town. He operated a woolen mill at Enfield, New Hampshire, for a number of years. When gold was discovered in California he disposed of his business and set out for the new El Dorado with the "Forty-niners." He fell ill on the way and died on the Isthmus of Panama. He was a member of the Universalist Church, and an earnest advocate of temperance re- forms. In politics he was a Whig. Children: Ed- win A., Angelina B., Emily, Warren Currier, men- tioned below.

(VIII) Warren Currier, son of Theophilus Currier Clough, was born in Enfield, New Hamp- shire, September 25, 1843. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. His father died when he was only six years old and he had to rely largely upon his own efforts for advance- ment. He engaged in business on his own account in 1869, as a merchant, dealing in boots and shoes and small wares, in Enfield. He enjoyed a large and thriving business for many years, retiring finally in 1906. He was a member of the Enfield Universalist Church; of Social Lodge, No. 50, Free Masons, of Enfield; of St. Andrews Royal Arch Chapter, of Lebanon, New Hampshire; Washington Council, No. 10, Royal and Select Masters; Mount Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar, of Concord, New Hampshire, and Bektash Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Concord, New Hampshire. He is also a member of Titigaw Tribe, No. 38, Independent Order of Red Men, of Enfield. In politics he is a Republican,

and he represented the town of Enfield in the legislature in 1905: was town treasurer several years ; was postmaster from 188o to 1885, holding office three years under Cleveland's administration; treasurer of village precinct at the present time ; also of the Cemetery Association and of the Uni- versalist Society. He is one of the best known men of the vicinity, and commands the fullest confidence and esteem of his townsmen.

He married, November 14, 1867, Sarah Elizabeth Currier, of Enfield, New Hampshire. She was born February 26, 1845, the daughter of Dennison and Laura Currier, of Manchester, New Hampshire. Their only child is James Currier Clough, born September 19, 1881, at Enfield, educated in the public and high schools of his native town, and at Dean Academy, Franklin, Massachusetts, where he was graduated in 1904.

(IV) Daniel, fifth son and seventh . child of Samuel and Sarah Clough, was born July 19, 1718, in Salisbury, and was baptized on the 19th of Oc- tober succeeding. He resided in Salisbury until after 1753, when he removed to the town of White- field, New Hampshire, and was later a resident of Meredith in the same state. His last years were passed in Henniker.

(V) Oliver, son of Daniel Clough, was a native of Meredith and went with his parents to Henniker in early childhood. He enlisted in the Third New Hampshire Regiment, under the command of Colonel Alexander Scammel, for service in the Revolution- ary war, and in common with his companions in arms, endured the privations and exposure suffered by the American patriots during the struggle for national independence, and in his declining years hc was granted a pension by the Federal government. After his return from the army he settled in Mere- dith, New Hampshire, and his death occurred in that town November 27, 1847.

(VI) John Kenney, son of Oliver, was born in Henniker. When a young man he went to Maine, and for a time resided in the town of Gray, but in 1842 he returned to his native state, locating permanently in Meredith. He married Ellen Lunt Libbey, a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of John Libbey, who was born in England in 1602. emigrated in 1630, and settled in Scarboro, Maine, where he died in 1682. He was the progenitor of most of the Libbeys of New England. Of this union there were four sons: John F., a resident of Man- chester and one of the Hillsboro county commis- sioners ; Edwin H .. who is now postmaster at Man- chester ; Henry B .. also a resident of that city ; Frank E., who resides in Meredith; and William O., who is referred to at length in the succeeding paragraph.

(VII) William Oliver, son of John K. and Ellen L. (Libbey) Clough, was born in Gray, Maine, July 14, 1840. His preliminary studies in the Meredith public schools were augmented with an advanced course at Rev. Hosea Quimby's Academic School, and at the age of sixteen years he began the activities of life as an errand boy in a jewelry store in Boston, where, in an unusually short space of time, he obtained a clerkship. In 1860 he ac- cepted a position as salesman for the Cape Cod Glass Company, whose headquarters were then lo- cated on Milk street, Boston, and he retained his connection with that concern for nine years, or until its suspension in 1869. During his residence in Boston he was an active member of the Mercantile Library Association, serving upon its board of di- rectors for a period of seven years and attending regularly its evening school ; also officiating as chair-

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man of its committee on dramatic, declamatory and musical entertainments, and as editor of its paper, The Tete-a-Tete. When the Park Street Church Library Association was organized he en- tered into its work with spirit, serving as its first secretary and its third president. His taste and capacity for journalism developed early in life and was fostered by his connection with The Tete-a-Tete and as a contributor to other publications, so that when the Cape Cod Glass Company went out of existence he found no difficulty in profiting by his experience, entering the newspaper field as city editor of the Nashua Daily Telegraph, and retaining that posiiton until May, 1892, a period of twenty- three years. After severing his connection with the Telegraph he became staff correspondent of the New Hampshire Republican and was subsequently its political editor. Purchasing a controlling inter- est in the Nashua Daily Gasctte, in October, 1895, he renamed that organ in the following November the Nashua Daily Press, and he also changed its political aspect and general policy. Although forced to struggle for existence and compelled at one time to suspend publication, he succeeded in recalling the Press to life, placed it upon a substantial basis, and, with the exception of a few months, continued as its editor and manager until the summer of 1905, when he sold his interest to the Telegraph Publishing Company, who were prompt, however, to avail themselves of his services as an editorial writer. Aside from his connection with the local press, he was for twenty-five years a regular corres- pondent of the Boston Journal, under the nom de plume of "Nashoonon," contributed many serials and stories, essays, sketches, etc., to various news- papers and magazines, and edited the biographical section of the "History of Nashua." In political, educational and other matters outside of his pro- fession, Judge Clough took an earnest interest and his efforts in behalf of the city in general, its government and its institutions were both spontane- ous and invigorating. From 1876 to 1881 he served as city marshal, was an assessor from 1893 to 1897, and for nearly thirty years was associate justice of the Nashua municipal court. He also served the city for a period of thirteen years as principal of an evening school. When the old-line insurance companies left the state without protection, he readily joined with others in organizing the Indian Head Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of which he was a director and its last vice-president. Another Nashua institution in which he was deeply interested is the Building and Loan Association, and he was one of its most efficient directors. Probably his most valuable service to the city was as associate justice of the municipal court, to which position he was appointed by Governor Cheney in 1878, and he retained it continuously for the remainder of his life, gaining the implicit confidence of the people as a whole, and lawyers in particular, for the care with which he weighed all evidence submitted to him and the impartiality displayed in rendering his decisions. Judge Clough was made a Mason in Columbian Lodge, Boston, and was advanced to the Royal Arch degree in St. Andrew Chapter, that city ; was one of the original members of Israel Hunt Council, Royal and Select Masters, and its first illustrious master; was a member of St. George Commandery, Knights Templar; and had attained the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite. His domes- tic life was an ideal one, made so by his affectionate nature and kindly disposition, and although suffering from the ravages of an incurable disease during the last two years of his life, he retained his customary

cheerfulness to the end, which came on the morning of March 25, 1906. His passing away was not only a severe blow to his family and immediate relatives, but was also keenly felt by the community in general and his journalistic and fraternal associates. He was a leading member and an official of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and his solicitude for the welfare of that parish will be long remembered. On January 16, 1868, Judge Clough was married in Manchester, to Miss Julia Moore, daughter of Jona- than H. and Hannah (Van Sleeper) Moore. She is a lineal descendant of John and Janet Moore, Scotch- Irish immigrants from county Antrim, Ireland, who settled in Londonderry, New Hampshire, about the year 1721. John Moore died January 24, 1774, and his wife died March 8, 1776. Their children were: Deacon William, Elizabeth, Colonel Robert and Colonel Daniel. Colonel Robert Moore, the next in line of descent, was appointed lieutenant-colonel, September 1, 1775, in Colonel Samuel Hobart's regi- ment of the New Hampshire Continental line. He died in October, 1778. Colonel Robert Moore's youngest son, Robert, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, September 20, 1769, and died August 16, 1803. He married Jeannie Rolfe, who was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 22, 1771, and died February 16, 1852. Their son, Jonathan Holmes Moore, was born on Shirley Hill, Goffstown, in June, 1802, and died in Manchester, November 12, 1869; he married Hannah Van Sleeper of Knickerbocker descent, who died August 3, 1858. They were the parents of eleven children, and among them were Hon. Orren Cheney Moore, and Julia, who married Judge Clough, as previously stated. Judge Clough is survived by his widow and two daughters: Charlotte Moore, a grad- uate of the New Hampshire State Normal School, and now the wife of Chester T. Cornish, of New Bedford, Massachusetts; Christine Rolfe, who is residing with her mother in Nashua.

(III) Thomas (2), second son and child of Thomas (I) and Hannah (Gile) Clough, was born December 9, 1681, in Salisbury. He was a shoe- maker by occupation, and resided in that town as late as 1738, probably removing to Kingston, New Hampshire. He is supposedly the Thomas Clough who was married January 15, 1706, in Haverhill, to Mary Gile, daughter of Ephraim and Martha (Bradley) Gile, and granddaughter of Samuel Gile, of Haverhill, a pioneer emigrant who resided in Salisbury. Part of his children are on record in Salisbury, but not all. His estate was administered November 13, 1749.

(IV) Jeremiah, second son of Thomas (2) and Mary (Gile) Clough, was baptized May 28, 1710. On reaching manhood he went to Kensington, New Hampshire. and was there married, February 16, 1738, to Sarah Elkins, by the Rev. Jeremiah' Fogg. He was the pioneer settler of Canterbury, New Hampshire, locating there soon after the town was granted, and maintained for many years a garri- son for the settlers. The colonial records show that in 1745 he rendered an account of the ex- penses for provisions, ammunition and wages of himself and ten men in maintaining the garrison, and at the same time presented a bill of ten pounds and six shillings for "medisens and Tendence." Again in 1746 and 1747 he rendered an account which covered a total service for himself and five others of two hundred and ninety-seven days. and the bill for ammunition, provisions and wages amounted to sixteen pounds, fourteen shillings and three pence. Because of his military experience he raised a company for the Revolution, being one

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of the ten commissioned for that purpose, for Col- onel Enoch Poor's regiment. each being required to muster a company of sixty-two able-bodied men. This commission was issued May 24, 1775, and Cap- tain Clough's company was completed on June 13 of that year, composed of men from Canterbury, Loudon, Northfield, Sanbornton, Tamworth, Moul- tonboro, and one from New Britton, in Hillsboro, making a total of sixty-three men. This company was at Medfield. October 4. 1775, where the men resided for coats promised them by the provincial congress. On account of his age Captain Clough probably did not continue long in the military ser- vice, as we find no record of him after that day. The records say that he was justice of the peace in 1776, and a selectman in 1782. In the vital rec- ords of Canterbury he is always referred to as "Esq'r Clough." No mention of his wife appears in these records, but his children are named as follows: Jeremiah, Deliverance, Hannah, Thomas, Leavit, Henry, Joseph, Sarah and Abner.

(V) Leavit, fourth son and fifth child of Cap- tain Jeremiah and Sarah (Elkins) Clough. was born July 21. 1751, and died August 13, 1825, in Canterbury, and resided through life in that town. He married Hannah Fletcher, who died January 8, 1782, and he subsequently married Peggy Mason. The children of the first marriage were: Sarah and Leavit.

(VI) Leavit (2), eldest son and second child of Leavit (1) and Hannah (Fletcher) Clough, was born October 30, 1778, and passed his life in Can- terbury where he was a farmer. He was married, October 27, 1800, in Canterbury, to Abigail Mor- rill, of that town. Their children were: Henry, William Patrick, Mary Ann, David Morrill, Mi- randa, Leavit M .. Thomas C .. Daniel Webster, Abraham and Isaac (twins), Elizabeth and Mar- tha (twins).

(VII) Colonel David Morrill, fourth child and third son of Leavit (2) and Abigail (Morrill) Clough, was born on his grandfather's farm in Canterbury, June 9, 1805, and died in Canterbury, January 28, 1885, aged almost eighty years. He was educated in the district school and at Gilman- ton Academy, attending the latter institution three terms. He learned rapidly and thoroughly. was able to express himself well, and at the age of eighteen began teaching a winter school. This av- ocation he continued for some years. At the age of nineteen he was commissioned in the state mil- tia. Two years later he was promoted to a captaincy and after five years' service was made a colonel. After the death of his father he had to aid in the settlement of his estate. In 1832 he removed to Gilmanton, where he remained ten years, and then returned to Canterbury, and settled in the vicinity of his old home. In 1848, desirous of determining whether it was expedient to take Horace Greeley's advice and "go West," he made a tour of inspec- tion and discovery through the states of Ohio, In- diana, Illinois and Iowa. After spending several months in this effort he returned with the convic- tion that New Hampshire offered as many in- ducements to the farmer as any state in the Union. He bought a little farm near the home of his boy- hood, which he improved and sold in 1856. In the autumn of that year he bought the five hundred- acre farm upon which he resided the remainder of his life. a place on the Merrimack Intervale. be- tween the Canterbury and Boscawen stations, the same that his great-uncle. Joseph Clough, once owned. Upon this he expended energy and money, but both were applied with judgment and skill, and

in thirteen years the farm he had bought for $4,600 was worth $17,000, and instead of twelve cattle, over one hundred were supported on it. To this he added from time to time as circumstances per- mitted, outlying places of "sprout land" until he owned about 1500 acres. His average crop of corn on the car was about 3,000 bushels, and he kept about 120 head of cattle, over a hundred sheep, and six horses.

A man of Colonel Clough's ability and wealth could not escape the notice of his fellow citizens, and in the selection of candidates for office, his name was often mentioned, and not unfrequently appeared on the ballots of his party. In politics he was a Free-Soil Democrat, and attended the national convention which nominated that illustrious son of New Hampshire, John P. Hale. the apostle of freedom and human rights. After the abolition of slavery he gave his adherence to the Democratic party. He served the town of Canterbury as select- man four years, and as representative to the general court two years. The nomination for member of governor's council was given him three times by the Democratic party. and he was elected during Governor Weston's first term. While a member of the legislature, Colonel Clough never lost sight of an opportunity to legislate in favor of the in- terests of agriculture, and he was an earnest and able advocate for the establishment of the Agri- cultural College, and was one of its board of trus- tees for some years. When the order of Patrons of Husbandry was introduced in the state, he was one of the first to perceive the possibilities of such an organization, and gave it his earnest support. He was a charter member of the Merrimack River Grange. and a charter member of the State Grange, `of which he was treasurer six years, and on whose executive committee he filled a place for a long time. He was a member of the Merrimack County Agri- cultural Society, for two years its president and a life member of the New Hampshire Agricultural Society.

He joined the Free Will Baptist Church of Canterbury with his wife, in 1832, and for many years was clerk of the society. He was a life long advocate of temperance and abstained from all in- toxicating drinks, including cider, and also from the use of tobacco. Colonel Clough was a cham- pion of the farmers' rights, and an aim and am- bition of his life was to dignify the farmers' voca- tion, and by experiment to develop the science of agriculture in the state. He was possessed of the great elements of success in life: Opportunity, ability, critical judgment, habits of industry and energy. These made him a successful man and a leading farmer upon whom the epithet of "the Corr King of New Hampshire" was right worthily be stowed. As a citizen he enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellowmen. He was upright in all his dealings, and one in whom the sterling qualities of manhood were always observable, and at the end of a long and useful life he laid down the bur- den of years mourned by every honest man who had the honor of his acquaintance.

He married (first). October 25, 1828. Almira Batchelder, who was born June 7. 1805, and died November 5, 1851. daughter of Ebenezer Batchel- der, of Canterbury ; (second), June 17, 1856, Mrs. Caroline (Gibson) Tallent. His children, all by the first wife, were: Anna Maria, who was born in 1830. and died young: Henry Leavitt, February 17, 1834: Mary S., 1836, who died in 1838; Edwin D .. 1843: and Charles Newell, the subject of the next paragraph.

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(VIII) Charles N., youngest child of David M. and Almira E. (Batchelder) Clough was born Jan- mary 15, 1850, on the old Ames farm, in Canter- bury, which his father then owned. Since 1857 he has lived on the farm he now owns. He lived at home and attended the district school until he was eighteen years of age, when he went to Elmwood and attended the high school, and later to Man- chester, where he took a course in a commercial school with the view of entering mercantile life, but yielding to the wishes of his father he re- turned to the homestead. where he has since re- sided, devoting his energies to general farming and to the raising of cattle and to dairying. In this latter branch he does a large business, making and selling annually about fifteen thousand pounds of butter. He has considerably improved his farm, and has a handsome residence which he erected in place of the one burned down some twenty years ago. He is a Republican and an attendant of the Congregational Church. He shared his father's in- terest in the grange, of which he early become a member, and was for twenty years overseer in the State Grange. In 1887-8-9 he was a member of the school board, and selectman in 1896-7. About 1874 he became a member of Horace Chase Lodge, No. 72, Free and Accepted Masons, of Penacook. in which he has filled the senior warden chair. Mr. Clough is a shrewd, farsighted and successful man, and enjoys the respect and confidence of his neigh- bors and townsmen. He married, January 15, 1874, Emma T. Morrill who was born June 6. 1854, daughter of John B. and - - (Hoague) Morrill, of Canterbury. They have two children: David M: born May 16, 1879; and Caroline G., born Sep- tember 4, 1888.

(III) Zaccheus, sixth son and child of Thomas Clough and fourth child of his second wife, was born February 17, 1692, in Salisbury, and was bap- tized August 5, 17IT. He was admitted to the Sec- ond Church of Salisbury. January 4, 1734, and later removed to Fremont. New Hampshire, where he died July 30, 1757. He was married, January 21, 1714, to Sarah Page, who was born October 12, 1691, in Salisbury, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Smith) Page, of Salisbury. John was the son of Onesiphorus and Sarah ( Morrill) Page. and grand- son of John and Mary (George) Page, of Hingham and Haverhill, Massachusetts. Five of Mr. Clough's children were baptized, April 5, 1724, in Salisbury, Namely : Benjamin, Hannah, Betsey, Jabez and Zaccheus.

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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. IV, Part 41

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: 878

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: 878