History of Carroll County, New Hampshire, Part 113

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Boston : W.A. Fergusson & Co.
Number of Pages: 1124

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Belgium, South America, China, Japan, Mexico, and Australia. In 1888 their sales amounted to over ninety-two thousand bushels, which represents seventy- five different sizes, from a very tiny peg to those two inches in length. Their annual sales amount to forty thousand dollars. They also manufactured last year seventeen thousand barrels of two sizes, one of six bushels capacity, and one of four, of net cost thirty cents per bushel. They are receiving large orders from Christiana, Norway, and Hamburg, Germany, one reaching the enormous amount of ten thousand bushels of pegs. The business is rapidly increasing, and will add much to the growth of this beautiful village. That keen observer and veteran mountain explorer, H. W. Ripley, writes thus : ---

Bartlett may very truthfully be called the very gateway of the great Crawford Noteh of the White Mountains. As you lose sight of the charming valley of the Saco river at Frye- burg, and the beautiful and diversified scenery of mountains and valley of North Conway, to approach this place, one is more fully impressed with the solid grandeur of the everlasting hills. On the right the pyramidal Kearsarge and Double Head are passed when the train stops in the centre of the great ampitheatre of the chain of mountains that encircle this most attractive village, nestled among the White Mountains. Now, reader, if you will in imagina- tion join me in a short walk from the depot of about five or ten minutes, through the lovely maple grove and across the bridge to the little knoll on the opposite bank of the Saco, you will see a picture on Nature's great enfolding canvas that surpasses anything in loveliness to be taken in at one glance with the least effort to be found in any village of New England. From this point you look into the great gorge of the Carrigain Noteh and Hart's Ledges while the eye, ever busy, stretches far up and down the valley of the Saco. It is the centre of a picturesque ampitheatre of mountains, having Carrigain, the Nancy range, Tremont, and Lowell on the west; Hart's and Willoughby ledges, Mounts Parker, Crawford, Resolution, Langdon, and Pickering on the north; Kearsarge and Mote on the cast, and 'Table and Bear mountains on the south. Numerous excursions may be made from this point over the adjacent peaks. Champney made his celebrated painting of Mount Carrigain years ago from near the old mill, a short distance from the station. While we look about and see so many signs of prosperity among the enterprising business men who have located here since the Portland & Ogdensburgh railroad run its first train into Bartlett in 1872 or 1873, with a continued increase of summer travel to and from the White Mountains, the thought naturally suggests itself to me that greater facilities for accommodation between this point and the Crawford House must in the near future be made. I would especially at this time call the attention of first-class hotel men and capitalists to this most magnificent and eligible location here at Bartlett for a large first-class modern-built hotel, which location for either summer or winter travel is second to none in any part of New Hampshire, and for the natural scenery of its surroundings is unsurpassed in all New England. Broad acres of natural growth rock-maples, and some one hundred and fifty carefully planted in rows from ten to twenty years ago. Indeed, there is no village between Portland and Fabyans that can boast more charming shade-trees or beautiful grounds than are seen here. As I look out of the hotel window this summer atter- noon, with a temperature of seventy-two degrees at three P.M., upon the broad plat of rich greensward, dotted with maples in full leaf, with numerous thrifty apple and pear trees in full blossom, and the circle of mountains lifting themselves above me, one is almost forgetful of everything else save of that divine power whose mighty arms span the heavens and the earth and streteh from sea to sea. The rides and walks from this point are most charming, either long or short. It is twelve miles over a fine road to North Conway, six miles to Bemis (Old Crawford place), and fourteen miles through the Notch to the Crawford House. A short and very charming ride is to eross the Saco at this point and drive up river some three miles

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and then recross at "Sawyer's Rock," and return. There is also a good bridle-path to the summit of Mount Langdon, two miles, from which you obtain a charming view of the Saco valley beyond North Conway, as well as some of the grandest scenery through the Crawford Notch.

Frank George built his house for a farmhouse in 1856, and soon began to entertain travelers. In 1872 he enlarged his house to its present size and accommodates fifty guests. Mr George comes of the old stock of Saco Valley settlers ; his grandfather, Captain Austin George, coming to Conway in early days. He settled on the west side of the Saco, kept tavern, and was the first postmaster of Conway. Frank George, son of Benjamin F. George, is a native of Bartlett, and has been for many years one of the town's representative men. In 1877 he made a bridle-path to the summit of Mount Langdon.

Arthur L. Meserve and John R. Gillis, the present station and express agent, commenced trade as grocers about the time work was begun on the railroad. Eben O. Garland succeeded to the business about four years since, and now conducts it. C. F. Buffum has conducted a general store here for six or seven years. The railroad furnishes employment to about thirty employés, and a new engine was built in the shop in 1888. A railroad restaurant and several minor business interests exist here.

Glen Station. - Centre Bartlett has attained business prominence since the opening of the railroad. In the summer a hundred horses attached to various vehicles, from the gaudy six-horse coach to the dog-cart, await the passenger train. The passenger business averages $3,000 in the summer, and from $200 to $400 in winter. Freight received amounts to from $400 to $800 per month : freight forwarded, from $500 to $800. One hundred carloads of lumber have been shipped monthly before the burning of the Heywood and Abbott mills in Jackson. M. E. Jones & Co. and J. H. Hall & Co., lumbermen, are the largest shippers. A magnificent station has been built this season. Alvah W. Burnell, the gentlemanly station agent, combines the duties of station and express agent, telegrapher, postmaster, and town clerk. There is no hotel, but Mrs Stilphen has a summer boarding-house, and one or two stores afford a chance for traffic. A small gristmill has recently been put in operation.

Several capacious and charming hotels and summer boarding-houses are scattered through Lower Bartlett. The artistic Pendexter House, under the capable management of Mrs C. C. Pendexter, is a favorite stopping-place. Across the street the Langdon House has John Pendexter for its host. Farther up is the rightly named Fairview Cottage of Cyrus A. Tasker, a descendant of the old Revolutionary soldier, Sergeant Jonathan Tasker, who came here in the earliest days. Next comes Mrs Vickery's Pequawket House, opened by her father Hazen Pitman thirty-five years ago, on the former place of Rev. James Kilgore. It has been enlarged several times, and accommodates forty guests. The new and very convenient Pitman House, built

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this season by Walter Pitman, is on the south side of East Branch, and under the care of Mrs Pitman promises entertainment of a superior order. Last, but by no means least, is the popular East Branch House of Pitman Brothers on the north side of the melodious stream that gives it name. Here are united many of the conditions for a family hotel, where children can roam in secure freedom. "A little way beyond the Intervale is the singular colony of Inter- vale Park, founded three or four years ago by Dr Charles Cullis, of Boston, as a summer residence for religious people who prefer to spend the summer in devotional exercises and in the glorification of God. It occupies the crest and slopes of a foothill of Bartlett Mountain, commanding very beautiful views over the valley of the Saco and its imposing walls. There are several avenues, with a score or two of cottages, a large dining-hall, a tabernacle, and other buildings. Prayer-meetings are held every day in the week ; and one day in seven is set aside for prayers for the sick." The elegant private residence occupied by Dr Cullis was destroyed by an incendiary fire October 23, 1889, and the dining-hall set on fire.

Bartlett has advanced much since the advent of the railroad which gives the advantage of three railroad stations - Intervale, Glen, and Bartlett - and affords access to the commercial centres, and brings the summer visitor to enjoy the beauty of the glorious scenery of this incomparable region. Material wealth is present here as well as æsthetic riches. One of the richest bodies of iron ore in the country is here only waiting for favorable conditions to be an invaluable source of wealth. In 1872 the committee of the Portland and Ogdensburgh railroad reports : "Bartlett has an area of 38,000 acres, of which 28,000 are wooded. 150,000,000 feet of spruce and hemlock are ready for the lumberman. Bark for tanning is available in unlimited quantities. Maple, birch, beech, and poplar are abundant. There are six water-powers ; one, Goodrich Falls, on Ellis river has one hundred feet descent." Fruit has ever been a sure crop, and sixty years ago the people of Upper Coos bought apples by the wagon-load, coming down through the Notch for that purpose. The town is prosperous, and bids fair to improve still more rapidly. The population in 1850 was 761; in 1860, 735; in 1870, 629; in 1880, 1,043. In 1888 there were 5,000 pounds of butter made; 10,000 gallons of milk sold; 500 pounds of wool grown, and the annual revenue of the town is increasing annually in the increased amount of money paid by summer boarders. There are no large mercantile establishments and none are needed. Josiah Eastman and Joseph Mead have traded at Glen station. Austin L. Stillings at the " Maples " on the Jackson road below the farm of Mark W. Pierce, deputy sheriff. M. E. Jones & Co. have a store in connection with their mill. George P. Dinsmore is in trade near Intervale Park. Rufus Weeks, a native of Bartlett, is in trade at Intervale, where he was postmaster from January, 1885, to July, 1889.

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Freewill Baptist Church. - This was organized in 1818 with a membership of thirty-five. Sixteen united with it in 1825, but in 1834 it was so dead that the quarterly meeting voted to drop it from its number : but a committee sent to inform the church of this vote found some living members, and organized a new church with eighteen members, which was received into the quarterly meeting in October, 1834. A revival season ensued, and thirteen members were added. In 1843 thirty-four became members, increas- ing the number to sixty-two. Three years later a committee was sent by the quarterly meeting to visit the church and found it " in a low, scattered, and divided state." Committee after committee were afterwards sent as counselors and advisers. One, in 1855, advised the church "to get a new book of records, to adopt the covenant of the . Treatise,' to walk in gospel order, and cultivate a spirit of mutual forbearance and concession towards each other, to be more prompt in religious duties, and to report themselves to the quarterly meeting." In 1856 a committee was sent to see if this advice was complied with. Several years passed ; the membership in 1859 is bnt twenty-three; in 1862 thirty members were added to the fifteen then belonging to the church. It is dropped from the quarterly meeting in 1883. The Second Bartlett church was organized in 1836 ; received into the quarterly meeting January, 1837, and in 1838 had a membership of thirty. In January. 1841, the quarterly meeting historian says, "Considered no church, though there are a few worthy Christians in it. Died at the age of four."

Methodist Episcopal Church. - A Methodist Episcopal society was organ- ized and incorporated by an act of the legislature in 1827. In an old record- book of this church, dating back to 1832, is this heading: "History of the Church on this circuit." Under it in pencil, "Should be collected from the Baldwin [Bartlett ?] church book & from the oldest members on the circuit. I have no time to do it. G. G. Moore." Below this the page and succeeding pages are blank. We learn, however, that at this time (1832) Conway was embraced in the Fryeburg circuit of the Maine conference, and a branch of the church of Bartlett. The official members were Rev. G. G. Moore, preacher in charge ; Rev. James Kilgore and Rey. James McMillan, local preachers ; Moses Davis, James Kilgore, John Seavey, William Meserve, Thomas Merrill, Thomas Farrington. Samuel Emerson, stewards ; Stephen Burbank, Jonathan Hall, James McMillan, James Kilgore, Isaac Hanson, Enoch Merrill, John Stanley, Uriah Dresser, class leaders. There were then 179 members of the Bartlett charge, according to a list which has been preserved. The Bartlett charge included Bartlett, Jackson, and Conway. North Conway had no services. There is nothing in the list of names here given of members to indicate the towns where they were residing.

Rev. James Kilgore, Rev. James McMillan, Jr, Mehitable Kilgore, Timothy Stearns, Mary Stearns, John Pendexter, Sukey Pendexter, Edward Carlton, Sarah Carlton, Rosanna

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Carlton, Sarah McMillan, John Pitman, Abigail Pitman, Betsey Meserve. Judith Meserve, Elizabeth Meserve, William C. Meserve, Joanna Rogers, Mary Dinsmore, Polly Weeks, Eliza- beth Dolloff, Betsey Lovejoy, Susan Wentworth, Samuel Pendexter, Lydia T. Pendexter. Mary D. Pitman, John Lney, Eliza Pitman, Mary Pitman, Alice M. Pendexter, Clarissa S. Carlton, Sammel Smith. Simon Seavey, Joshua Weeks, Polly Weeks, 2d. Mary Carlton, Sally Philbriek, Hannah Woddess, Martha Stilphen, Hannah Densmore, Susan Pitman, Submit Chubbuck, Mary Chubbuck, Susan Pendexter, David Carlton, Jane Carlton, Hannah E. l'endexter, William W. Stackpole, Judith G. Stackpole, Richard II. Ford, Betsey Gardiner, George Pendexter, Amelia A. Pendexter, Ilazen Pitman, Jonathan Hall, Lydia E. Hall, Sarah A. D. Hall, John Seavey, Joshua Rogers, Abigail D. Ilall, Hannah F. Hall, Abigail Allen. Thomas Hart, Zoah Hart, Betsey M. Harriman, Rebecca Stokes, Joseph Hall, Ebenezer L. Hall, Martha Hall, Belinda B. Seavey, Phineas Parker, Rebecca Parker, Mary AA. Hall, Sally W. Rogers, Joseph Mead, Simon Fifield, Mary Fifield, Phebe Fifield, Martha Irish, Mehitable Irish, Ruth Sterling, William Haley, Susan Haley, Elizabeth Osgood, Sophia Osgood, Hanna Abbott, Roxana Yonge, John Stanley, Mary Stanley, Thomas Pitman, Elizabeth Wilson, Hannah Hueking, Ann Chase, Betsey Chase, Dorothy Whitaker. Mary Roberts, Sophila Ann Roberts, Hannah Sargeant, Eliza Sargeant, Lydia Lang, Ann Colby. Betsey Colby, Abigail Colby. Mehitable Shirley, Dorothy Shirley, Betsey Piper, Lydia Weeks, Sarah Hutchings. Matilda Plant, Stephen Burbank, Sophia Burbank, Moses Davis, Lucy Palmer, Sally Tuttle, Molly Ordway, Arthur Burbank, Naney Carlton, Isaac Hanson, Abiah Carlton, Ezekiel Went- worth, Betsey Wentworth, Susan Boston, Betsey Hanson, Abiah Carlton, 2d, Abigail Hanson, Martha Bean, Sophia A. Knox, Florilla Eastman, Sarah Bean, Lois Knox. Dolly U. Merrill, Samuel Knox, Jr, Abigail Chase, Thomas Merrill, Enoch Merrill, Sarah Garland, Sarah Merrill, Daniel Thompson, Merriam Thompson, Charles Thompson, Hannah Thompson, John Thomp- son, Cyrus Eastman, Eliza Eastman, Isaac Whitney, Olive Whitney, Lucy Mc.Alester, Lydia MeAlester, James McKeen, Mary MeKeen. Samuel MeKeen, Joseph Hastings, Thomas Farrington, Putnam Farrington, JJames Eastman, Samuel Knox, Olive Knox, Christiana Knox, Thomas Haley, Susan Haley, Josiah Pride, Hanna Pride, Abigail Whitaker, Mehitable Chand- ler. Abigail Folsom, Sally Farrington, Hannah Recy, Hannah Abbott, JJames H. Hall, Uriah Dresser, Edward Webb, Betsey Abbott, Eliza Farrington, Sally Dresser, Ephraim Davis, Sally Davis, Samuel Emerson, Hannah Emerson.

In 1837 Bartlett had become a circuit, with three classes in Bartlett, one in Jackson, and three in Conway. In 1838 there were twenty-seven members of this society residing in this town, belonging to the best families. A lot was purchased this year on which to build a meeting-house, and a church erected in 1839 still occupies the site. It is a plain, unpretentious, wooden structure, and has been several times repaired and refurnished. From 1839 to 1853 there is nothing on record of value. This latter year we find Rev. A. B. Lovewell preacher in charge of " Bartlett circuit," which has five classes.

No. 1. Lower Bartlett, Daniel E. Pendexter, leader ; members : Samuel Pendexter. Lydia Pendexter, Joseph Pendexter, Lydia Pendexter, James Kilgore, Diantha A. L. Kilgore, Betsey MI. Pendexter, Martha J. Pendexter, Mary Pitman, Eliza Pitman, Harriet Carlton, Benjamin Pendexter. James C. Willey, Abigail Willey, Ruth Seavey, Mary Chandler, Caroline Merrill, Lydia Merrill, Abigail Pitman, Martha Stilphin, Eliza Tasker, David C. Pitman, Edward Carlton, Rebecca Gardner, Emily N. Lovewell, Lovina Stilphin. No. 2. Middle District (Centre Bartlett), Rev. Jonathan Gale, leader; members : Jolin Deering, Hannah Deering, Hazen Pitman. Polly Pitman, Stephen Carlton. Rosanna Carlton, Nathaniel Carlton, Abiah Carlton, Jane Carlton, Harriet Meserve, Zoa Hart, Betsey Wentworth, Elizabeth Dolloff, Eliza Gray. No. 3. Upper Bartlett, John Seavey, leader; members : Joshua Rogers, Eliza Seavey,

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Lydia Hall, Robert Brown, Eliza Hanson. No. 4. Kearsarge, John O. Eastman, leader; Olive Eastman. Mary Eastman, Stephen Wheeler, Adaline Wheeler, Simon Seavey, Betsey Seavey. George Freeman Eastman, Mary Eastman, Hannah Eastman, Martha Rendall, Mary Vincent, Nancy Pugsley. No. 5. Conway, Dean F. Dinsmore, leader; John Lucy, Polly Lucy, Alfred Lney, Nancy Lucy, George Stilphin, Nancy Stilphin, Sophia Dinsmore, Sarah Bean, Daniel Chase, Abigail Chase, Hasket Eastman, Amelia Eastman, Phebe Berry. Sarah Garland.

In 1856 Fryeburg was connected with Bartlett and Conway, and, later, Bartlett and Conway. Bartlett and North Conway, comprised the circuit. Among the prominent members of " Bartlett circuit " in the past were James Kilgore. an ordained local deacon, father-in-law of Bishop H. W. Warren : Hon. John Pendexter : Samuel Pendexter, father of Rev. M. C. Pendexter, of the Maine Conference : Rev. James McMillan, from 1843 till his death in 1874 a member of the Maine Conference : Simon Seavey ; Daniel E. Pendexter : Rev. B. D. Eastman ; Rev. Thomas Stilphen ; Mary Stilphen, who became the wife of Rev. J. B. Foote, of Central New York Conference.

Chapel of the Hills. - The erection of this building is one of interest. A party of Bostonians stopping at the Mount Crawford House were desirous of advancing the cause of religion in this section. One of their number wrote an article for The Christian Witness, which attracted the attention of Mrs Snow, who was much interested in the American Sabbath-school Union, and she offered two hundred dollars toward the building of a "Sabbath-school chapel " for the children "among the hills." Rev. Mr Souther made known this offer to the people of Upper Bartlett, and secured their cooperation in this good work. As the result a comfortable place of worship was soon built near the old Obed Hall tavern stand, and dedicated January 21, 1854. Mrs Snow died before the chapel was completed, but her work lives. This is the only church of Upper Bartlett, and although a regular minister is not established, a Sabbath- school is kept in active operation.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THE PENDEXTER FAMILY. . "AND he maketh the wilderness to bud and blossom like the rose." The brave pioneers who made their home on the Intervale a century and more ago builded better than they knew. Little did they think when in the bitter cold

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of winter they traveled the long, weary miles from Portsmouth and Lee to this then almost uninhabited section, where the primeval forests were standing in all their loftiness, where the solemn, grand, mysterious mountains seemed like sentinels to guard the way, where the wild beasts were lurking in their fastnesses, that they were laying the foundation of what to-day is a veritable garden of Eden.

The Pendexters are of Norman-French origin, and were originally from the Isle of Jersey and of noble birth, the name being spelled Poingdestre. Arms : " Per fess azure and or, in chief a dexter hand clenched ppr. with a cuff of gold, in base a mullet of azure. Crest, an esquires helmet ppr. Motto : Nemo me impune lacessit."

Hon. John Pendexter and his wife Martha (Jackson) Pendexter were among the first settlers of Lower Bartlett. They came from Portsmouth probably in the winter of 1775 and 1776. Mr Pendexter resided in the town until his death, at the age of eighty-three, honored and respected. Mrs Pendexter was his fitting companion and helpmeet, and worked in all ways to make their home comfortable and pleasant. She died aged ninety-two. Here in this beautiful spot they experienced many joys and sorrows ; here they dispensed a generous hospitality : and here, after active and useful lives, the evening shadows fell, and night came upon them.

The following sketch of John Pendexter and genealogical record is contributed by Hon. Edward F. Johnson, mayor of Woburn, Mass. : "John Pendexter first built a house and barn on the Intervale, and it was there his first child, Alice, was born. The location of these buildings was some five hundred feet south of the present highway to Jackson, and to the right of the driveway leading from Mrs C. C. Pendexter's barn across the railroad, down to the Intervale. A sweet-brier bush is growing near the site. The uprisings of the Saco and some of its tributary streams soon warned Mr Pendexter of the dangerous situation of his homestead ; and prior to May 17, 1778, he removed his family to higher ground and built the nucleus of the large family residence now known as the Pendexter mansion. Here all his children but Alice were born, and in it John Pendexter the father, Samuel Pendexter the son, and Charles C. Pendexter the grandson, its successive owners, have all lived and died.

" At the first town-meeting of Bartlett, John Pendexter was chosen first selectman, and rechosen the next year. He was also elected surveyor of high- ways, an office which he held for many years. In 1792 he was chosen treasurer and also chairman of a special committee appointed to lay out roads in the new town. In 1801 and in 1805 he was elected moderator and first selectman. In 1803 he was chosen chairman of a committee · to sit in a convention to be holden in Conway relative to a new county.' In 1806 and for several years thereafter he held important county offices; in 1820 he was chief justice of the

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court of sessions. The official responsibilities and honors thus conferred upon him are gratifying testimonials of his worth and abilities.

" In personal appearance Mr Pendexter was about five feet ten inches in height, stout, large-boned, and muscular. Mr Willey speaks of him as 'a plain, earnest man, who for years was especially useful in the region where he lived as a carpenter.' He was a very hard-working man all his life, and even when advanced in years he would be at his work at sunrise, although it were several miles away from home. Self-reliant and thoroughly independent. he was a man of great executive ability, and one who could brook no opposi- tion to his proper behests and commands. Among his family and with his employés his word was absolute law. He enforced a strict observance of the Sabbath-day in his household, and was a very earnest, conscientious Christian.

" The descendants of John Pendexter have been so prominently identified with the growth and interests of Bartlett and neighboring towns that this genealogical record of his children and grandchildren is of interest.

" John Pendexter, b. August 21, 1752, d. November 17. 1835, married Martha Jackson, b. January 16, 1733, d. August 11, 1846. They had issue : 1. Alice, b. May 28, 1776, married March 31, 1797, Colonel Jonathan Meserve, and died April 19, 1872. Their children were: General George P., b. April 11, 1798, married Harriot, daughter of Richard Eastman, and died Septem- ber 19, 1884; Captain Daniel, b. December 5, 1801, d. June 17, 1880; Martha P., b. July 31, 1804, married Captain Joshua Triekey, original proprietor of Thorn Mountain House, Jackson, now Wentworth Hall, died March 28, 1881 ; John P., b. November 19, 1812; Major Andrew J., b. March 19, 1815, d. January 17, 1882; Alice, died in childhood. 2. Nancy, b. May 18, 1778, and d. unmarried March 30, 1798. 3. Sally, b. June 18, 1780, married Benjamin Pitman. 4. Susanna, b. August 16, 1782, married Stephen Rogers, and d. September 27, 1828. 5. John, b. July 29, 1784, married Susan Eastman October 8, 1806, and d. May 21, 1840. Itis wife was b. May 17, 1786, and d. May 29, 1844. Their children were : George, b. June 14, 1808, married Ursula Cushman, of New Gloucester, Maine, September 2, 1839, and d. April 14, 1882; Alice M., b. May 11, 1812, married Rev. Henry Butler, of Cornish, Maine, December, 1834; Hannah Eastman, b. March 25, 1814, married Rev. Thomas Hillman, both dead; Susan, b. May 24. 1816, married Dr J. S. Farnum and resides in Brockton, Mass. ; Amelia Ann L., b. March 31, 1819, married Hasket D. Eastman, February 8, 1844, both living in Minneapolis, Minn. ; Daniel E., b. December 9, 1822, married Harriet O. Cushman. Ile resides in Conway, and is proprietor of the Pequawket House; Benjamin, b. July 2, 1824, married Esther P. Dinsmore, both living in Mechanic Falls, Maine; Lydia P., b. January 27, 1827, married Samuel Shack- ford May 8. 1848. 6. Joseph, b. September 23, 1786. married Lydia Dinsmore, and d. March 29, 1855. llis wife d. November 22. 1856. Their children were : Solomon D., b. April 21, 1813, married his cousin, Mary D. Meserve, September 4, 1838, and d. December 21, 1868; Eliza D., b. April 13, 1817, married Cyrus A. Tasker June 13, 1850; Mr Tasker is proprietor of Fairview House, Intervale; Martha J., b. 1819 and d. unmarried March 7, 1886; Nancy. married George P. Stilphen, October 23, 1837; John, b. June 24, 1822, married Melinda Chase. b. in Fryeburg, Maine, June 5, 1840. He is proprietor of Langdon Ilouse, Intervale; Mary D. (Polly), married Hazen Pitman; AAbigail, married James C. Willey; HI. Augusta, b. 1834, and d. unmarried May 24, 1860. 7. Betsey, b. January 11, 1789, married Daniel Meserve, November 18. 1804. d. February 7, 1880. Daniel Meserve was born September 3. 1778, and d. September 26, 1829. Their children were: Eliza Pendexter, b. January 12, 1805, married Joseph O. Emery, May 5, 1825; Jonathan, b. September 6, 1808, and d. June 17, 1831; Samuel Pendexter, b. November 27, 181I, married Lucia J. Rowell March, 1845, and d. February 22, 1872; Mary

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History of Carroll County, New Hampshire, Part 113

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew Publication date: 1889 Publisher: Boston : W.A. Fergusson & Co. Number of Pages: 1124

Author: Merrill, Georgia Drew
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Boston : W.A. Fergusson & Co.
Number of Pages: 1124