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Dea. Matthew Miller (378), Capt. George Shepard, his son, Silas, Ephraim C. Hardy, Hiram Mace, Alford Jones, Edwin Whitford, and William McAffee lived where George L. Walsh, son-in-law of Mr. McAffee, now lives. Mr. McAffee went to California in 1849.
John P. Houston (379) built and lived where Thomas Shepard, John H., and Charles F., sons of Thomas, lived, and where George F., son of Charles F., now lives. Mr. Houston bought the land from Deacon Aiken. It was the west end of his farm. The mills had been carried on by Mr. Aiken, and in them Mr. Houston sawed out house frames and sent them to Lowell, all ready to put up. There were some fine pine trees here. Mr. Perry cut four very tall, straight sticks, and carried them to Nashua by ox teams at the time the Uni- tarian church was being erected. They now form the four fluted columns in front of the edifice which stands near the armory build- ing.
East, on the north side of the old road from Shepard's mills to Aiken's, James Gardner (380) built and lived, where Solon D. Pol- lard, William F. Conner, and Albert M. Jenness later lived. The house is unoccupied.
About one fourth of a mile north of Shepard's mills, on the west side of the range line road, Isaac Mckean (381), John Arbuckle, Robert Campbell, and Page Campbell successively lived.
North, on this road, Barney Cain (382), John Morrison, and Will- iam Campbell lived. This place has been known as the McGaw and Clark place, being formerly owned by these parties, but never occu- pied by them. North, on the same side of the road, Patty Campbell (383) lived. These houses are gone.
On the north side of the road, east from Shepard's mill and east of the range line road, stands No. 9 schoolhouse. East, on this same road, Clinton Bixby (384) built and lived where Frank Colby later lived, and where Seth P. Campbell now lives. This was formerly the Jesse Walker house, mentioned in District No. 7.
On a cross-road leading northwest from the Amherst road, George Fletcher (385) and James Gardner lived where Mrs. Louisa A. Web- ber and her son, Eugene, now live.
On the north side of the road, Joshua Bailey (386), Samuel Need- ham, George W. Campbell, Horace S. Campbell, and Newton I. Peaslee lived where George E. Gault now lives.
Seth Page (387) built and lived where Seth Campbell, David Page, Horace Campbell, Daniel S. Campbell, Corwin J. Parker, Charles H. Gault, Louis Marchant, Loren E. Charles, Albert Chase, and Conrad Myers later lived, and where George H. Gault now
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lives. The present house was built by Daniel S. Campbell, and stands at the end of the road.
William Campbell (388), Garnet Rowell, Benjamin Proctor, and Solomon Manning lived where his son, Solomon, now lives. This house stands on the south side of the North Amherst road.
William S. Manning (389) built where he now lives, near his father. William Campbell, who introduced the hop plant into this town at an early period, lived on this farm.
DISTRICT NO. 10.
On the Joppa road, on the east side of the road, about one fourth mile north of Jenness corner, James Mann (390), father of Eleanor Mann, Rufus Parkhurst, and his widow, Mrs. Louisa Parkhurst, lived where Henry L. Peaslee now lives. Mr. Mann was one of the early settlers of Ohio.
Bert L. Peaslee (391), son of Henry L. Peaslee, built where he now lives, on the west side of the road.
Joseph Flint (392) built and lived a few rods north of this place on the east side of the road. The house was moved by Putnam Jenkins to where Joseph S. Parkhurst now lives in District No. 1.
James Campbell (393) and Nathaniel Flint lived where Milton N. Flint now lives. The house was rebuilt and also a new barn was erected by Milton N. Flint.
Edward Lyon (394), Eber Pike, Reuben Bugbee, and Albert Jen- ness lived where Frank Colby now lives. The place is now owned by Milton N. Flint.
William Flint (395), Ezekiel Abbott, and George Parkhurst lived where William Schwartz now lives. This is the last house in Bed- ford on the road leading southwest from the Joppa road to Am- herst, and is on the west side of the road.
No. 10 schoolhouse stands on the east side of the Joppa road near John M. Sargent's house.
Asa Barnes (396), one of the original proprietors, lived where the late Nathan Barnes, Gardner Nevins, his son-in-law, William Bailey, Oliver Clark, and Charles Tarbell later lived, and where Thomas D. Sargent, and his son, John M., now live. The house stands on the Joppa road, a few rods south of Bedford Center road.
Blanchard Nichols (397), Mr. Ferson, William H. H. Nichols, and Frank Nay lived where James Sargent now lives. The build- ing was formerly the Joppa store, and stands on the west side of the Joppa road north of the cross-road.
John Richardson (398), David Stevens, Stillman A. Shepard, his widow, Mrs. Jane Shepard, and her son, Harry A. Shepard, and Alonzo H. Bowdoin lived where Samuel Adams now lives, opposite the cemetery.
At the junction of the road to the Pulpit and the road to Tinker's corner, Stephen Nichols (399), brother of Benjamin and Blanchard,
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John Shepard, a blacksmith, and his son, John W., formerly lived: The house is now occupied by William C. Adams. Jesse Worces- ter (400), father of J. E. Worcester, the philologist and geographer, lived in a house which stood opposite the one where Benjamin Nichols (401), his son, B. Walter, lived, and where his widow, Mrs. B. Walter, and her son, Benjamin W., now live. The house is about one half mile north of Joppa on the road to Tinker's corner. The following is an extract from a poem by John O. French :
" There Worcester that (noble name) From whom a bright descendant came. He lived just over ' Joppa hill,' And, as you cross a rippling rill, You rise a summit, there's the spot (Where Nichols now has cast his lot), Where Joseph E., in boyhood days, Indulged in many prattling plays, Not dreaming, ere his locks were gray, Our Anglo-Saxon he should sway."
Cornelius Barnes (402), brother of Asa, lived between the grave- yard and the foot of the hill. The house is now gone. This loca- tion is on the road from Joppa to the Pulpit, on the south side of the Bedford Center road.
Capt. Ebenezer Perry (403) built and lived where Deacon John French, Deacon James French, Leonard J. Brown, Josiah Taylor, Charles Clement, and Samuel Adams lived, and where H. I. Faucher now lives. Nathan Barnes (404), the original proprietor, lived in a house just east of the present one, afterwards occupied by Thomas Tay, a traveling shoemaker.
Nathan Barnes, Nehemiah Kittredge, Ned Lyon, James Campbell, and others hauled clay from the south part of the town, and burned brick on the farm of Deacon John French. Kittredge said they went over stones in the road as high as the hub of the wheel. The custom was, in those days, to haul the clay and burn it into brick near the building where it was to be used.
Mrs. McQuaid (405), Adam Butterfield, and William Adams lived at the foot of Joppa hill on the north side of the road. The house is now gone. The original house was burned, and was rebuilt by William Adams. On the south side of the road the widow of Robert Adams (406) lived where her sons, Thomas and Reuben, now live. About fifty rods northeast from here, in the field, Ezekiel Gardner (407) and James Campbell lived. The house is now gone.
At the top of the hill, on the north side of the road, Page Camp- bell (408), Ira Campbell, Horace Campbell, Samuel Adams, and William C. Adams lived. This house was formerly the Mckean house which stood on the cross-road near Shepard's mills, and was moved here by Page Campbell.
On the Center road, going east from Joppa, John Rand (409), John Orr Houston, Seth Campbell, Samuel Adams, and William
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Cotter lived where Horace Campbell and his sons, Edward and Ai, now live.
Isaac Campbell (410) lived east of this place at the top of the hill, on the north side of the road. The buildings were a part of the Simeon Chubbuck house. They are now gone. The progenitors of the Campbell family came to this town from New Salem or that vicinity.
The following upon this subject relative to Piscataquog village is taken from the History of 1850 :
"At the village of Piscataquog William Parker first built and lived near where the tavern now stands. He afterwards built, lived, and died on the west side of the road, on the hill where Lewis F. Harris, a son-in-law, now lives. The corner store is the second one on the same place. Samuel Abbot, a celebrated scythe maker, lived on the rise of ground where the widow of the late Robert Parker now lives. Abbot afterwards lived in Antrim and Francestown, where he manufactured scythes for Peter and Mark Woodbury. Samuel Moore lived in the mill yard a few rods west of the present mills, now owned by Widow David Hamlet. Thomas Parker built and lived where Gen. William P. Riddle now lives. Jonathan Pal- mer, son-in-law of Mr. Parker, a merchant, built, lived, and died where Israel Fuller now lives. His funeral, July, 1825, was the second attended in this town by the present pastor (Mr. Savage), Capt. Nathan Barnes being the first. James Parker, Esq., built, lived, and died where James Walker now lives. Jotham Gillis lived a few rods south of Dr. Henry C. Parker's; he kept a house of enter- tainment. Daniel Mack, Daniel Parker, Frederick G. Stark, Widow David Hamlet, Jonas B. Bowman, Benjamin F. Wallace, and Noyes Poor built the houses they still occupy. Mace Moulton built and
lived where Samuel Brown now lives. Dr. William Wallace lived in the house opposite Daniel Mack, now occupied by Mr. Barnes.
" David Riddle built and lived where Widow Lund now lives. John Moore lived where Ephraim and James Harvill now live. Robert Gilmore where Dea. Samuel McQuesten lives."
Fatal Casualties, Remarkable Cases of Preservation, etc.
Many accidents, both serious and fatal, have undoubtedly occurred within the town from time to time since its settlement. Some have gone to oblivion, but the record of others has been preserved. Matthew Patten's diary states, perhaps, one of the most singular incidents of preservation, as follows :
March 30, 1755. Our son John was taken very bad in after- noon, so that we almost dispared of his life. He was eased in the afternoon by giving him chamber lye and molasses, sweet oyl and neatsfoot oyl.
He served as lieutenant in the American army in the Revolution- ary war and died at the age of twenty-one.
Also this entry :
June 2, 1766. John Frain was found in the eddy below Patter- son's Brook, and I was notified as a selectman to go and see him buried.
Sept. 9, 1768, Alexander McCormick of Bedford was killed by the fall of a tree; the coroner's inquest is still in existence and reads as follows :
Province of ) An Inquisition Indented Taken at Bedford within said
New Hamp Province the ten day of september in the eighth year of his Majestyes Reign George the 3d &c 1768 Before James Underwood Esqr one of his Majestyes Justices of the Peace for said Province upon View of the Body of Alex" McCormack of Bedford in sd Province then & there being Dead by the oaths of John Goffe Esqr foreman William Moor Daniel Moor John Mc Quig Thomas Murdough Gane Riddle Richard Me Allester John Aiken Hugh Orr James Smith Charles Black Robert Morril Alex' Grag & Jacob Me Quiad Good & Lawful men of Bedford & Litchfield within the Prov- ince aforesaid who being Charged & sworn to enquire for our said Lord the King when & by what means & how the said Alex" McCormack Came to his death who upon there oaths say that yesterday the sd Alex"
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Me Cormack Came to his death by the Providence of God by the fall of a tree AND so the Juriors afore- said say upon there Oaths that the aforesd Alex" McCormack in manner & form aforesd was killed and Came to his Death by miffortune IN witnefs whereof as well & the Justice aforesaid as the Juriors aforesd to this Inquifition have Interchanably put to our hands and seals the day & year abovesaid
John Goffe
William Moore
Daniel Moor
John Me Quig
Thomas Murdough
Gan Riddell Richard mcAllster
John Aiken
Hugh Orr
James Smith
Charles Black
Rob' Morrill
Alex' Quegg
Jacob Mc Quaid
James Underwood Justice of Peace
July 16, 1770-Joseph Moor was killed at the raising of Piscat- aquog bridge.
May 5, 1775-John Patterson was killed at the raising of Lieut. John Little's barn. At another time, his brother, Robert Patterson, had been at the raising of Matthew Patten's barn and on the same day was drowned in the Merrimack river near the big rock at the mouth of Crosby's brook. Several individuals at different times have been drowned in this river. In one instance, a party were crossing in a boat in the evening after attending an infair at Deacon Dole's. The boat was upset and Mrs. Griffin and her hus- band were drowned. Mrs. Griffin was a daughter of Major John Goffe.
About 1776 or 1777, Luke Eagan, who at the time was keeping school in Bedford at or near Capt. Thomas Chandler's, was return- ing one Sabbath evening in the winter from Londonderry where he had been to spend the Sabbath with the Rev. Mr. Davidson. After crossing the river he was misled into a wood path and was found dead next morning not far from John G. Moore's, probably over- come by the cold. This man had been well educated in the Roman Catholic faith and had taken priest's orders, but having become a Protestant had been excommunicated. He had served a short time in the Revolutionary army. On Monday morning after his death, the scholars assembled as usual, and about ten in the morning his body was discovered by some men who were passing.
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A man named Samuel Truell was drowned in the Merrimack river at Colonel Goffe's ferry May 1, 1783; also a son of Dea. Jonathan Rand.
Lieut. Whitefield Gilmore was killed accidentally May 12, 1786. There was in a field on his farm a boulder, partly buried in the earth. After removing the dirt around it, several yoke of oxen were hitched on, and with long levers it was pried out on the bank. After unhitching the oxen, and in removing the levers, the bank on which the stone rested caved in, and it fell back on the levers, one of which flew against Mr. Gilmore with such force as to cause his death, in the forty-first year of his age.
December 11, 1788, William Patterson was drowned in the Mer- rimack river at Goffe's Falls. His body was brought to Capt. Samuel Moore's house where an inquest was held.
About the year 1791 or 1792, at a training in the Center, Joseph Bell had his ankle shattered by the firing of a cannon. He was. lame for life.
This account of extremes of temperature has been kept :
On May 19, 1780, occurred the famous "dark day," which cast its gloom and dread of the judgment day over a large area, includ- ing the whole of New England and westward as far as Albany, N. Y. It extended along the sea-coast southward, and as far as settlements extended northward. In the morning a dark cloud, accompanied by thunder, was noticeable in the west and northwest. At 9 a. m. the darkness began, and noontide was dark as evening; candles were lighted; the farmyard fowls went to roost; cattle eagerly sought refuge about the barns, and various night birds appeared. Objects could be seen but a short distance away, and the clouds had a strange brassy color. By 3 p. m. the darkness had disappeared, leaving only the appearance of an ordinary cloudy day, but returned at evening with still greater intensity, and continued until midnight, even though the moon was full the night before. The darkness lasted in all about fourteen hours, and was attributed to the smoke from many fires westward, combined with a heavy fog from the sea.
A "yellow day," also thought to be the result of great fires farther north, occurred September 6, 1881. The yellow, brassy color of the clouds was noticed in early morning; by noon artificial lights were necessary; the sun was only occasionally visible, and then of a bright red color; grass seemed more intensely green and colors of all kinds were unnaturally vivid ; fires and lighted lamps burned with a white light. This, like the "dark day," caused apprehension in the minds of many; parents came for their children in school, and in some places schools were closed for the afternoon. Natural conditions returned about 5 p. m.
The "great white frost" of 1794 was an event long remembered by those who suffered from its destructiveness. It seems the spring was remarkably forward that year, so that on May 17 winter rye on
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burnt ground was in bloom and apples about the size of small marbles had developed. On the morning of May 18, the rye was killed to the ground and the apples wholly destroyed, except where they had been protected by coverings, or by burning brush fires. It was remarked, in some localities of the state, where the, canker- worm had become troublesome, they met the same fate as the apples ; thus the farmer had at least one source of satisfaction in contem- plating the general destruction of crops. In this town, but few pieces of corn escaped, and these were located on very high ground ; one cornfield was on the high hill north of the residence now occu- pied by Solomon Manning, another on Morrill hill east of the same residence. Tradition relates that corn from these fields was sold for seed at $10 and $12 per bushel, illustrative of the trait in human nature which leads men to take advantage of the misfortunes of others.
On the morning of January 19, 1810, it is said a change in tem- perature of 50 degrees took place in 18 hours, thus making the day memorable as "cold Friday." It is related of a former resident, that he started out that morning to labor in the woods, but before proceeding ten rods from his home found his cheeks badly frostbit- ten and his noon-day lunch frozen solid. A fierce wind prevailed all day. The thermometer registered but -15° or -20°.
In 1816 snow is said to have fallen every month in the year.
April 6, 1804-Mrs. Isaac Riddle, daughter of Captain James and Margaret Aiken, was killed by falling from her horse. Her death was very sudden. She was going on horseback to visit her brother- in-law, William Riddle, who had broken his leg in the sawmill. Her neck was dislocated, and she died in an hour at the age of 40.1
1 Extract from Rev. Mr. McGregore's sermon on the death of Mrs. Riddle. The occasion of it is thus stated.
" Sermon delivered at the funeral of Mrs. Ann Riddle, whose death was occasioned by her horse falling with her to the ground at her own door; she survived the injury she had received in consequence of the fall scarcely an hour, when death came, cut asunder the slender thread of life and closed the melancholy scene."
The text is :- " Truly as the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death."
After an introduction and remark on the text, the sermon proceeds:
" Last Thursday at Mr. Bell's funeral, you will doubtless remember that I endeav- ored to enforce the duty of watchfulness in the way of habitual and actual prepara- tion for death from these words, 'Watch, therefore, for ye know not the hour your Lord doth come.' Mrs. Riddle was then present, but could she have supposed that she had not twenty-two hours to live? Could she have supposed it more than any other person who was there present that day? Was not her health as firm, and had she not as good grounds, to all appearance, to presume on a few years of time as any person has who is here this day? Yet how short the transition from life to death! And how applicable were the words of our text that day to her situation! For one moment gave the cruel wound, one hour sealed her eyes in death and she shall not awake from this sleep of a temporal death until the Heavens are no more.
" But oh! the dismal scene of that distressing hour which numbered her with the dead! All motionless she lay for a time, while every possible exertion was made for her relief and restoration. At length she opened her eyes, which seemed to yield a faint ray of hope to her surrounding family and friends. She then lifted her hands in devotion, and after having in broken accents supplicated mercy and com- mitted her soul to her God, her strength failed. She stretched herself upon the bed and breathed her last, without a struggle and without a groan."
Towards the close of the sermon, the mourners are thus noticed:
"I shall now close the discourse by an address to the relations and friends of the deceased. And to you, dear sir, the husband of the deceased, I would observe that your prospects last Friday morning were very different from your prospects and expectation that day fifteen years before. Fifteen years ago last Friday morning
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March 26, 1822-Dr. P. P. Woodbury was called to the son of Capt. Rufus Merrill, two years old, who was suffocating, apparently, from some foreign substance in the trachea, or throat. A probang was passed into the stomach through the esophagus or swallow, but to no good effect. The child had frequent fits of suffocation, and would lay perfectly senseless. The doctor performed the operation of tracheotomy. An incision being made into the windpipe, a white bean of the largest size was extracted, perfectly dry; it had been in the trachea two hours. During the operation the child was sense- less, and had no need of being held, and was to all appearances dead, exhibiting no motion whatever. In less than three minutes the child was playing with a watch. Not twenty drops of blood were lost in the operation ; the child recovered and the wound healed, without any untoward symptoms.
July 24, 1824-Doctor Woodbury was called to visit Miss Edie McIntire, who had been taking away rye in the sheaf, on the beam of a barn. By some misstep, she fell the distance of seven or eight feet, and struck directly on the sharp point of a stake, erect in a cart below, from which situation one man was not able to extricate her. So completely was the girl transfixed with the stake that it was nec- essary to break it off at its insertion in the cart body, and it was car- ried, with the girl upon it, some distance from the barn before it was taken from her. The stake first struck on the fleshy part of the ischium, and passed laterally into the lower bowels about two inches, thence through the rectum to the left, up the body in an oblique direction, and out at the left breast, about three inches from the nip- ple. It fractured three ribs in its passage, the stake passing through the body twenty-seven inches. It was five inches in circumference at largest end. It came out of the breast six or seven inches, so that she could take hold of it with both hands while the stake was in her. It was made of a young hemlock, and the bark with the knots was just stripped off. The stake is now deposited in the medical institution at Dartmouth college. Edie was a grown girl, large size, aged fifteen.
you doubtless beheld the partner of your joys with raptures of delight as the mother of your first-born, and it was then you doubtless began to flatter yourself with the pleasing prospect of a rising family, but oh! sir, little did you think on that joyful occasion that you should behold the darling of your bosom exactly at the close of fifteen years from that time, lying a lifeless corpse by such a sudden, surprising and unexpected proof of Divine Providence.
"The companion of your bosom has gone. She whose tender care and watchful- ness over your children seemed to protect them from harm; she whose prudence, industry, and skill secured your interest; she who was always generous without profusion and always friendly without affected fondness; she who was benevolent and hospitable without ostentation, who could rationally rejoice with those who rejoice and feelingly weep with those who wept; and finally she whose greatest pride was to make you comfortable and happy, is no more. She sleeps in death, and though dead, yet she as a silent monitor informs you there is but a step between you and death."
After addressing the children, the parents of the deceased are thus exhorted:
"To you, the parents of the deceased, I maysay with peculiar application, there is but a step between you and death. You are now b th advanced in years; you doubtless begin to feel your journey in your bones. Last week one of you was called upon to lay a brother, and this day the other a daughter in the grave. You see then the aged and middle-aged are laid in the dust. According to the course of Nature, your steps toward death are almost accomplished. 'Be ye, therefore, also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh.'"
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"On my arrival," says Dr. Woodbury, "I found her on a bed with her common clothes on,-her friends thought her dying. I was requested not to do much for her for fear she would die with more pain ; her pulse was scarcely perceptible; her breathing short and hurried, with a cold sweat on her skin; she had an extremely ghastly countenance; did not incline to say much; submitted to what was done for her without any apparent concern or sensation. She said she had no pain-made no complaint-but was very faint. There was but a trifling hemorrhage from the wounds. After the application of simple dressings to the wounds I endeavored to excite the system. She soon began to breathe better-her pulse began to be more per- ceptible, and her skin grew more moist and warm; I now left her for the night. Without more particulars, suffice it to say, she recov- ered. In her first attempts to walk, her body inclined a little to the left, but she soon became erect. Six weeks from the time of the accident she was able to attend school, sixty rods from home. Dur- ing confinement I bled her five times. She subsisted seventeen days wholly on water, in which Indian meal had been boiled. The next year I saw the girl, robust and hearty, living at the house of Mr. Thomas Shepard, where she was when the accident happened."
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