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The annual product is about eighty tons and 't is said that one hundred tons have been made in one season in town. Quite a good many of the farmers of Sandwich make from fifteen hundred to two thousand pounds annually, and several make about three thousand pounds each. The sugar and syrup find a ready market in the large cities as a luxury, and the town derives quite a revenue from the sale. One farmer, William MeCrillis, of Whiteface, has kept an account of the sugar he has made since 1841, and the aggregate is 80,770 pounds. The largest amount he made in any one year was 3,900 pounds in 1879. John Cartland this year, 1889, made 400 gallons of syrup and some sugar. O. L. Ambrose made 2,700 pounds of sugar. Herman H. Quimby, John Foss, Charles Foss, Herbert E. Moulton, Jonathan Tappan, Gilman Moul- ton, Stanley F. Quinby, Charles O. Smith, B. F. Fellows. Samuel Chase, George W. Smith, Noah S. Watson, George Beede, Lewis Q. Smith, Larkin D. French, Sumner Watson, and perhaps others, make from 1,500 to 2,500 pounds annually. Although not producing so large a quantity as some of the above mentioned, George H. Smith should have the credit of making sugar of the finest quality ever obtained from the maple-tree.
Other Resources of Carroll County. - In addition to the timber and lumber and maple-sugar interests, there are other resources of the county. But far
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transcending all others are the scenery, the salubrious atmosphere, and the sports of fishing and hunting. The latter is however of little avail except in the wilderness region, but the streams are still alive with trout and the lakes with various varieties of edible and "gamy " fish, pickerel, bass, and lake-trout. Public policy and individual benefit would seem to indicate that a vigorous course of game-protection should be rigorously maintained, and that every means should be adopted to make the plains, mountains, and valleys of Carroll county appropriate portions of one vast park wherein the multitudes of sum- mer visitants, who now flock into every town, would be but the pioneers of still greater and ever-increasing numbers coming out of the heated and over- crowded cities. These cities are increasing yearly in population by thousands of inhabitants who must have country enjoyment and a playground some- where. No other section combines the features of pleasantness to all as does Carroll county, and every resident should labor to add to its charms and attractiveness.
Healthfulness. - Malarious diseases, embracing the various forms of inter- mittent, remittent, and autumnal fevers, and those febrile ailments coming from miasmatie sources, are almost entirely unknown. There is sufficient humidity, and in places sufficient accumulations of vegetable matter in the soil to give origin to these affections, but the low summer temperature and the influences of the mountain breezes forbid their generation. Epidemics and infections, such as cholera and yellow fever, can never prevail here, except in isolated cases by direct importation, as the three essential conditions for their develop- ment are absent. These are a high temperature, great moisture, and a stagnant condition of the atmosphere, and are found here rarely and only for a day or so at a time, causing entire exemption. The conditions for freedom from pul- monary diseases are eminently found here. Air highly oxygenized and charged with ozone gives life and soothing to the lungs inhaling it, and with proper care from undue exposure carries healing with it to those who come from other places with lungs already diseased. Sufferers from asthma and hay-fever find great relief in many instances.
Why manufacturers should locate here. -- It is well known that the burden of the day's work is felt by the operative to be much heavier in summer than in winter. The winter's cold can be so guarded against or mollified that throughout the whole establishment average temperature can be secured most contributing to vigorous exertion. But the heat of summer pervades and penetrates everywhere. Brought in at every window or opening for the neces- sary supply of fresh air it cannot be shut out or qualified. It oppresses the worker with a languor rarely experienced in out-of-door avocations, and renders it impossible for him to do so much or do so well as he can easily do in cool weather. Here where the summer temperature is low, where it rises above the point of comfort only a few days in the whole season, operatives can perform
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ten per cent. more labor under the same conditions than can be done in sections not possessed of this cool atmosphere. All along the railroads are magnificent water-powers idle or only partially used, and everywhere fuel for steam-power can be procured at a merely nominal figure. Already at Union and Wolfe- borough, blanket, shoe, and excelsior factories are located, while in Conway, Tamworth, etc., peg and spool mills do a thriving business.
Emigration should tend hitherward. -- Immigrants from northwestern Europe, British Isles, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, and Den- mark incur far less risk to their health in removing to such a climate as that of Carroll county than to the interior, western, or southern portions of the United States. Much of the lands now considered worthless in the wilderness moun- tain districts are better adapted to cultivation and will produce better crops with less labor than many sections of Scandinavia or Germany.
CHAPTER XX.
STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Delegates to Constitutional Conventions- Early Representatives -Classed Representa- tives - Members of Congress - State Councillors - Presidents of the Senate-State Senators - Justices of Court of Sessions - Justices of Court of Common Pleas - County Justices - Clerks of Superior Court, Court of Common Pleas, and Supreme Court -Judges of Probate - Registers of Probate and Deeds - Treasurers - Solicitors - Sheriff's - Commissioners.
D ELEGATES TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS. - None of the Carroll county towns were represented at the Convention of 1778. Among the delegates to the convention at Exeter, February 13, 1781, to "consider the Constitution formed by a Convention of the United States " were : Sandwich and Tamworth, Daniel Beede; Conway, Eaton, Burton, etc., David Page; Wake- field, Effingham, etc., Nicholas Austin ; Moultonborough, Tuftonborough, Wolfeborough, and Ossipee, Nathaniel Shannon. James Brewer, of Sandwich, etc., appears also on record as a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1781.
The Convention of 1788 which adopted the Federal Constitution was com- posed in a great measure of the state's strongest men, and there was much diversity in their counsels. Some thought that it conferred too many powers upon the general government, and were jealous of the rights to be relin- guished by the state. Those of the delegates from our territory who believed
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thus and voted against adoption were: Conway, Eaton, Burton, and Loca- tions, David Page, Esq .; Wakefield, Effingham, etc., Nicholas Austin. Those for adoption were : Sandwich and Tamworth, Daniel Beede ; Moultonborough, Tuftonborough, Wolfeborough, and Ossipee, Nathaniel Shannon.
1791. Sandwich, etc., Daniel Beede ; Moultonborough, etc., Colonel Nathan Hoit ; Wakefield, etc., Captain David Copp : Conway, etc., David Page.
1850. Albany, James Ham ; Bartlett, G. W. M. Pitman; Brookfield, John Churchill; Chatham, Russell Charles ; Conway, Joel Eastman; Eaton, Joseph E. Perkins ; Effingham, Jeremiah Leavitt ; Freedom, Elias Rice ; Moulton- borough, Jonathan S. Moulton ; Ossipee, John Brown, Sanborn B. Carter ; Sandwich, Joseph Wentworth, Lewis Smith; Tamworth, True Perkins ; Wakefield, Thomas W. Mordough ; Tuftonborough, Abel Haley ; Wolfebor- ough, Thomas L. Whitton, Henry B. Rust.
1876. Albany, Hiram Mason: Bartlett, George W. M. Pitman, Frank George ; Brookfield, Dudley C. Colman ; Chatham, Osborn Anderson; Con- way, Hiram C. Abbott, Jeremiah A. Farrington ; Eaton, Benjamin F. Wake- field ; Effingham, John V. Granville ; Freedom, Stephen Danforth; Hart's Location, John O. Cobb; Madison, James J. Merrow ; Moultonborough, W. H. H. Mason ; Ossipee, Sanborn B. Carter, Samuel D. Quarles ; Sandwich, John H. Plumer, Paul Wentworth ; Tamworth, Nathaniel Hubbard ; Tufton- borough, Marquis D. L. McDuffee ; Wakefield, John W. Sanborn ; Wolfebor- ough, Jethro R. Furber, Thomas L. Whitton.
1889. Bartlett, G. W. M. Pitman; Brookfield, etc., Dudley C. Colman ; Chatham, Charles H. Binford; Conway, Lycurgus Pitman, John B. Nash ; Eaton, Francis M. Hatch ; Effingham, Francisco W. Barker; Freedom, William H. Furbush ; Jackson, Hart's Location, etc., Charles W. Gray ; Albany and Madison, Augustus Lary ; Moultonborough, Wesley J. Wilkins ; Ossipee, David W. Davis ; Sandwich, Joseph H. Quimby ; Tamworth, Arthur E. Wig- gin ; Tuftonborough, James A. Bennett; Wakefield, John W. Sanborn ; Wolfeborough, Alvah S. Libbey, George F. Mathes.
Members of the House of Representatives for the colony of New Hampshire, January, March, June, September, and November sessions, 1776. Leavitts- town, Wakefield, and Middleton, Mr Nathaniel Balch ; Moultonborough, Sand- wich, and Tamworth, Daniel Beede, Esq. Wolfeborough was classed with New Durham, etc.
1776-December session, and to December, 1777. Leavittstown, etc., Simeon Dearborn ; Moultonborough, etc., Jonathan Moulton, Esq. Conway classed with Upper Coös.
1777-1778. Leavittstown, Mr Nathaniel Balch; Moultonborough, etc., Bradley Richardson, Esq .; Wolfeborough, etc., Thomas Tash. No other towns represented.
1778-1779. Conway, Thomas Chadbourne, Esq .; Sandwich, etc., Daniel
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Beede, Esq .; Wakefield, etc., Simeon Dearborn, Esq .; Wolfeborough, etc., Thomas Tash, Esq.
1778-1780. Wakefield, etc., Simeon Dearborn, Esq. ; Sandwich, etc., Jona- than Moulton, Esq .; Conway, Thomas Merrill; Wolfeborough, etc., Matthew S. Parker.
1780-1781. Wakefield, etc., Simeon Dearborn; Sandwich, etc., David
Folsom, Esq. Wolfeborough and Conway not represented.
1781-1782. Wakefield, etc., Captain David Copp; Sandwich, etc., Daniel Beede; Conway, etc., David Page.
The treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States of America was signed in Paris, September 3, 1783. The constitution containing bill of rights and form of government agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of New Hampshire in a convention held at Concord on the first Tuesday of June, 1783, had been submitted to and approved by the people, and established by their delegates in convention, October 31, 1783, to take effect in June, 1784.
June 2, 1784, the first legislature under the State Constitution met at Concord. It was perhaps as distinguished a body of men as ever met for council or deliberation in the limits of this state. Those from the towns of Carroll county were : Sandwich and Tamworth, Daniel Beede, Esq .; Moulton- borough, Tuftonborough, and Ossipee Gore, Colonel Bradbury Richardson ; Wakefield, Effingham, etc., Captain David Copp; Conway, Eaton, Burton and Locations, Colonel David Page. These members were paid six shillings a day for their services.
CLASSED REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1805.
[COMPILED FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE REGISTERS BY ARTIIUR R. KIMBALL, OF THE STATE LIBRARY.
A. 1805. - Adams, Chatham ; Loca-) tions and Gores: - T. Chadbourne's, Gaffer's, M. Il. Wentworth's, Rogers and Treadwell's, Martin's, Theo. Dame's, Sherburne's, et. al., Jno. llurd's, Stephen Hol- land's, Arch Stark's, Samuel Hale's, Francis Green's, Rindge and Pierces', Vere Royce's, Wm. Stark's, Philip Bailey's, Robert Fur- nass's, Samuel Gilmans, McMillan's, David Gil- man's, Gridley's, Gray's, Nash and Sawyer's.
Silas Meserve.
1806. - Same as A, 1805, and Bartlett, Silas Meserve.
1807. - Same as A, 1806, save) Theo. Dame's Loca- (Silas Meserve. tion. 1808. - Same as A, 1807, Silas Meserve. 1809. - Class A, 1807, Silas Meserve. 1810. - Class A, 1807, Silas Meserve. 1811. - Class A, 1807, Silas Meserve. 1812. - Class A, 1806, save the ) several Locations and ! Gores therein men- David Badger. tioned (Adams, Chat- 1 1 ham, and Bartlett). 1813. - Ciass A, 1812, save Chat- ham, Adams, and (David Badger. Bartlett. 1814. - Class A, 1813, JJ. Pendexter. 1815. - Class A, 1813, JJ. Pendexter.
1816. - Class A, 1812, Asa Eastman. 1817. - Class A, 1812, J. Pendexter, Jr. 1818. - Class A, 1813, Jonathan Meserve.
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1819. - Class A, 1813, Jonathan Meserve. 1820. - Class A, 1813, J. Pendexter, Jr. 1821. - Class A, 1813, Stephen Meserve. 1822. - Class A, 1813, Stephen Meserve. 1823. - Class A, 1813, Stephen Meserve. 1824. - Class A, 1813, Stephen Meserve. 1825. - Class A, 1813, Stephen Meserve. 1826. - Class A, 1813, J. Pendexter, Jr. 1827. - Class A, 1813, Stephen Meserve. 1828. - Class A, 1813, Stephen Meserve. No classed towns in 1829 and 1830.
1831. - Burton and Chatham, Samuel Dearing. Jackson and Bartlett, George P. Meserve. 1832. - Burton and Chatham, L. Richardson. Bartlett and Jackson, George P. Meserve. 1833. - Albany and Chatham, David Allard, Jr. 1834. - Albany and Chatham, J. K. Eastman. 1835. - Albany and Chatham, Samuel Dearing. 1836. - Albany and Chatham, Reuben Wyman. 1837. - Albany and Chatham, Samuel W . Merrill. 1838. - Albany and Chatham, Reuben Wyman. 1839. - Albany and Chatham, Samuel W. Merrill.
1840. - Albany and Chatham, Russell Charles. 1943. - Albany, etc., Charles like. From 1843 to 1879 no classed towns.
1879. - Jackson, Livermore, and { Geo. Hackett. Hart's Location.
1880-81. - Jackson and Liv- { Onslow P. Gilman. ermore, 1882-83. - Albany and Madison, Josiah Il. Hobbs. Hart's Location Cyrus F. Perkins. and Jackson.
1884-85. - Albany and Madison, James O. Gerry. Jackson and Hart's { J. B. Trickey.
Location. 1886-87. - Albany and Madison, William Kennett. Jackson and Hart's Loca- Onslow P. Gilman. tion, etc.
1888-89. - Albany and { Langdon M. Atkinson. Madison.
Jackson and Hart's { Chase B. Perkins. Location.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. - Obed Hall, Bartlett, 1811 ; Benning M. Bean, Moultonborough, 1833-1837.
STATE COUNCILLORS. - Samuel Quarles, Ossipee, 1814, 1815, 1816 ; John M. Page, Tamworth, 1817, 1818, 1819 ; Richard Odell, Conway, 1820, 1821, 1822 ; Daniel Hoit, Sandwich, 1825, 1826; Benning M. Bean, Moultonborough, 1829; Richard Russell, Wakefield, 1832 ; Henry B. Rust, Wolfeborough, 1840, 1841; John C. Young, Wolfeborough, 1846 ; Zebulon Pease, Freedom, 1847, 1848 ; Abel Haley, Tuftonborough, 1853, 1854; Thomas L. Whitton, Wolfe- borough, 1858, 1859; John W. Sanborn, Wakefield, 1863; John M. Brackett, Wolfeborough, 1864, 1865; Ezra Gould, Sandwich, 1870; Alphonso H. Rust, Wolfeborough, 1871 ; Moulton H. Marston, Sandwich, 1875, 1876 ; Arthur L. Meserve, Bartlett, 1881, 1883.
Presidents of The Senate. - Benning M. Bean, Moultonborough, 1832; George W. M. Pitman, Bartlett, 1871 ; John W. Sanborn, Wakefield, 1875.
STATE SENATORS. - Nathan Hoit, Moultonborough, 1797, 1798, 1799; Nathaniel Shannon, Moultonborough, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1817, 1818 ; Samuel Quarles, Ossipee, 1810, 1811, 1812; Daniel Hoit, Sandwich, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823 ; Benning M. Bean, Moultonborough, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1831 ; Ezekiel Wentworth, Ossipee, 1829, 1830; Henry B. Rust, Wolfeborough, 1830 ; Jona- than T. Chase, Conway, 1835, 1836; Neal McGaffey, Sandwich, 1837, 1838 ; Zebulon Pease, Freedom, 1843, 1844; Artemas Harmon, Eaton, 1846; Abel Haley, Tuftonborough, 1850, 1851 ; Joseph Pitman, Bartlett, 1851 ; Obed Hall, Tamworth, 1854, 1856; Larkin D. Mason, Tamworth, 1855; Samuel Emerson, Moultonborough, 1859; W. H. HI. Mason, Moultonborough, 1865 ; Edwin Pease, Conway, 1868; Ezra Gould, Sandwich, 1869; G. W. M. Pitman, Bartlett, 1870, 1871; Otis G. Hatch, Tamworth, 1873; John W. Sanborn, Wakefield, 1874, 1875; Levi T. Haley, Wolfeborough, 1883 ; Asa M. Brackett, Wakefield, 1885; Lycurgus Pitman, Conway, 1887.
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JUSTICES of Court of Sessions. - John Pendexter, Bartlett, C. J., 1820; Samuel Quarles, Ossipee, 1821, 1822 ; Samuel Quarles, Ossipee, and John M. Page, Tamworth, 1823; Samuel Quarles, C. J., Ossipee, and John M. Page, Tamworth, 1825.
Justices of Court of Common Pleas. - John Pendexter, Jr, Bartlett, 1833, 1842; (First District) Samuel Quarles, Ossipee, 1821. [Henry B. Rust, Wolfeborough, Strafford county.]
County Justices. Court of Common Pleas. - Obed Hall, Bartlett, 1805; Nathan Hoit, Moultonborough, 1809, 1810, 1811 ; Silas Meserve, Bartlett, 1811; Nathaniel Rogers, Wolfeborough, and John Crocker, Eaton, 1841, 1842; Nathaniel Rogers and Thomas P. Drake, Effingham, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846 ; Thomas Rust, Wolfeborough, and Thomas P. Drake, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854.
CLERKS of Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas. - Francis R. Chase, Conway, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848.
Clerk of Superior Court. - Francis R. Chase, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855.
Clerks of Supreme Court. - William M. Weed, Sandwich, 1856 to 1874; William A. Heard, Sandwich, 1874 to 1887; Aldo M. Rumery, Ossipee, 1887, present incumbent.
JUDGES of Probate. - Henry Rust, Wolfeborough (Strafford county), 1773; Ebenezer L. Hall, Bartlett (Coos county), 1811; Jonathan T. Chase, Conway, 1841 to 1856; Joel Eastman, Conway, 1856 to 1868; Larkin D. Mason, Tam- worth, 1868 to 1874. G. W. M. Pitman, Bartlett, 1874 to 1876; Larkin D. Mason, Tamworth, 1876 to 1880; David H. Hill, Sandwich, 1880, present incumbent.
Registers of Probate. - Obed Hall, Tamworth, 1840 to 1851; Sanborn B. Carter, Ossipee, 1851 to 1856; Daniel G. Beede, Sandwich, 1856 to 1872; C. W. Wilder, Conway, 1872 to 1876 ; Samuel B. Wiggin, Sandwich, 1876 to 1879; Jeremiah A. Farrington, Conway, 1879 to 1883; J. C. L. Wood, Con- way, 1883 to 1885; Edgar Weeks, Ossipee, 1885 to 1887; Dana J. Brown, 1887, present incumbent.
Registers of Deeds. - Isaac Thurston (appointed) served from February 15, to April 20, 1841 ; Joseph Wentworth, Sandwich, 1841, 1842; Loammi Hardy, Wolfeborough, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873 ; Sanborn B. Carter, Ossipee, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880: Aldo M. Rumery, Ossipee, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887; James O. Gerry, Ossipee, 1887, present incumbent.
TREASURERS. - George P. Meserve, Jackson, 1839, 1840 : John P. Pitman, Bartlett, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844; Zebulon Pease, Freedom, 1841, 1842;
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Brackett Wiggin, Ossipee, 1843, 1844; Joshua N. Cate, Brookfield, 1845, 1846 ; Dudley Pike, Brookfield, 1847, 1848; Moulton HI. Marston, Sandwich, 1849, 1850; Stephen W. Perkins, Eaton, 1851, 1852; Elias Towle, Freedom, 1853, 1854, 1855; Daniel Brackett, Wakefield, 1856; Aaron G. Smith, Tam- worth, 1857, 1858; Moses Merrill, Ossipee, 1859, 1860; John G. Robinson, Tamworth, 1861, 1862; Benjamin M. Mason, Moultonborough, 1863, 1864; Alvin M. Davis, Freedom, 1865, 1866; Thomas Nute, Ossipee, 1867, 1868, 1869; Jacob Manson, Ossipee, 1870, 1871; Joseph W. Goodwin, Wolfe- borough, 1872, 1873; John Haley, Tuftonborough, 1874, 1875; Joseph Q. Roles, Ossipee, 1876, 1877, 1878; Charles W. Fall, Ossipee, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883; Henry W. Furber, Wolfeborough, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887 ; George I. Philbrick, Freedom, 1887, present incumbent.
Solicitors. - Zachariah Batchelder, Wolfeborough, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845; Sanborn B. Carter, Ossipee, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850; Samuel Emerson, Moultonborougli, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855; Luther D. Sawyer, Ossipee, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860 ; Charles Chesley, Wakefield, 1861, 1862, 1863; Josiah H. Hobbs, Madison, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873; Oliff C. Moulton, Ossipee, 1874, 1875; Buel C. Carter, Wolfeborough, 1876, 1877 ; Paul Wentworth, Sandwich, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880; John B. Nash, Conway, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884; Frederick B. Osgood, Conway, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888; Paul Wentworth, 1889, present incumbent.
Sheriffs. - Obed Hall, Bartlett, 1812; George P. Meserve, Jackson, 1839, 1840, 1841; James Garvin, Wakefield, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845; Jonathan Wedgewood, Effingham, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850; Joseph Wentworth, Sandwich, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855; Enoch Remick, Tamworth, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860; Charles H. Parker, Wolfeborough, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864; Leavitt H. Eastman, Conway, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873; Levi T. Haley, Wolfeborough, 1874, 1875; John Demeritt, Effing- ham, 1876, 1877, 1878; Levi T. Haley, Wolfeborough, 1879, 1880, 1882 to July 1, 1883 ; Andrew J. Milliken, Wakefield, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, present incumbent.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. - G. W. M. Pitman (Bartlett), John N. Lord (Freedom), Augustine D. Avery (Wolfeborough), 1856, 1857 ; John N. Lord, G. W. M. Pitman, Charles Nowell (Wolfeborough), 1858; G. W. M. Pitman, Charles Nowell, Arthur C. Quimby (Sandwich), 1859; Charles Nowell, Arthur C. Quimby, Christopher W. Wilder (Conway), 1860; A. C. Quimby, C. W. Wilder, Joseph Q. Roles (Ossipee), 1861 ; C. W. Wilder, J. Q. Roles, Ebenezer Garvin (Wakefield), 1862; J. Q. Roles, E. Garvin, Cyrus K. Drake (Effingham), 1863; E. Garvin, C. K Drake, Joseph E. Perkins (Eaton), 1864; Philip D. Blaisdell (Tuftonborough), C. K. Drake, J. E. Perkins, 1865; P. D. Blaisdell, J. E. Perkins, Joseph B. Trickey (Jackson), 1866; P. D. Blaisdell, J. B. Trickey, Alphonzo H. Rust (Wolfeborough), 1867 ; Joseph B.
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Triekey, A. H. Rust, Bennett P. Strout (Conway), 1868; A. H. Rust, B. P. Strout, Joseph Pitman, Jr (Bartlett), 1869; B. P. Strout, J. Pitman, Jr, John M. Emerson (Moultonborough), 1870; J. Pitman, Jr, J. M. Emerson, Her- bert F. Stevens (Wakefield), 1871; J. M. Emerson, H. F. Stevens, George F. Lord (Freedom), 1872, 1873; G. F. Lord, Silas Snow (Eaton), Asa Chan- dler (Chatham), 1874; Jonathan W. Sanborn (Brookfield), S. Snow, A. Chandler, 1875; A. Chandler, J. W. Sanborn, Arthur L. Meserve (Bartlett), 1876: A. Chandler, J. W. Sanborn, A. E. Meserve, 1877; A. L. Meserve, John H. Plumer (Sandwich), Charles H. Osgood (Conway), 1878; Hezekiah Willand (Wolfeborough), J. H. Plumer, C. H. Osgood, 1879; H. Willand, J. H. Plumer, C. H. Osgood, 1880; Jacob Manson (Ossipee), Lowell Ham (Tamworth), James O. Gerry (Madison), 1881 to July, 1883; John F. Fox ('Tuftonborough), Edwin F. Brown (Moultonborough), John Hodge (Jack- son), 1883 to 1885 ; Jeremiah A. Farrington (Conway), Alfred Brown ( Wolfe- borough), Robert H. Pike (Wakefield), 1885 to 1887; R. H. Pike, Edwin Snow (Eaton), Walter A. Sherburne (Wolfeborongh), 1887 to 1889; Edwin Snow, W. A. Sherburne, Samuel G. Wentworth (Moultonborough), 1889 to 1891.
CHAPTER XXI.
COURTS AND COUNTY BUILDINGS.
History of the Courts - The Superior Court of Judicature - The Inferior Court of Common Pleas - The Court of General Sessions of the Peace - Probate Court - Trial Terms - Court-House - County Farm, House, and Jail.
H ISTORY OF THE COURTS. - Previous to 1770 the whole of New Hampshire, for all financial and judicial purposes, was a single court. All business of a public nature was transacted at Portsmouth, Exeter, and Dover; and the bulk of it at Portsmouth, which had a population of over four thousand, was the residence of the royal executive officers, and practically the provincial capital. As the province increased in population, other and smaller political divisions, with suitable courts, were demanded by the people. John Wentworth, the second of that name, was appointed governor in 1767, and one of his first measures considered the formation of various counties in the province, and the creation of a judicial system of adequate proportions. The matter was debated in several sessions of the assembly, favored by the governor as calculated to develop the province (an object to which he devoted all his energies), and opposed by the
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residents of the three principal towns and contiguous country, with the plea that it would increase the provincial expenses without corresponding advan- tages. The discussion was finally ended by a division of the province into five counties, with an ample judiciary system. The aet constituting these took effect in the spring of 1771, and was entitled " An Act for dividing the Province into Counties, and for the more easy administration of Justice." This act created three courts of justice - the Superior Court of Judicature, the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of General Sessions.
The Superior Court of Judicature had cognizance of all questions of law and divorce, and finally was clothed with equity powers, and was intended as the supreme tribunal of the province. It existed until 1813, when the Federalists, then in power in the state, to get rid of politically obnoxious judges, abolished it, and erected the Superior Judicial Court, which was over- turned in 1816 by the Democratie Republicans, and the Superior Court of Judicature reerected. No attempt was made to interfere with this court of last resort until 1855, when, under the brief term of power of the "Know-Noth- ing" party, it was again abolished and the Supreme Judicial Court re-created. This was superseded in 1874 by the Superior Court of Judicature, which continued in being until 1876, when it was succeeded by the present Supreme Court. It would appear that the legislature could, constitutionally, get rid of obnoxious judges by changing the name and some of the minor functions of a court ; and the great height to which partisanship has been carried has almost caused this court to be a mere shuttlecock in the hands of the legislature.
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