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1858, James Stevens, Levi Smith, representatives; Gideon Gilman, Francis K. Brown, Israel L. Sanders, selectmen ; Greenleaf A. Monlton (till March 8), Abram Sanborn, clerk.
1859, Levi Smith, Luther D. Sawyer, representatives; Gideon Gilman, Francis K. Brown, Israel L. Sanders, selectmen; Abram Sanborn, clerk ; John Smith, Joseph Q. Roles, Daniel Wentworth, auditors.
1860, Luther D. Sawyer, John Moulton, representatives; Israel L. Sanders, John W. Merrow, Richard Beacham, jr, selectmen; Abram Sanborn, clerk.
1861, Joseph Q. Roles, Asa Beacham, representatives; John W. Merrow, Thomas Nute, John T. Burleigh, selectmen ; Samuel D. Quarles, elerk.
1862, Asa Beacham, John Moulton, representatives; John W. Merrow, Thomas Nute, John T. Burleigh, selectmen; Thomas B. Wiggin, clerk.
1863, Joseph Q. Roles, Wentworth H. Hobbs, representatives; Thomas Nute, Nathaniel Grant, Charles Hodsdon, selectmen; Lewman G. Moulton, clerk.
1864, Joseph Q. Roles, Wentworth II. Hobbs, representatives; Thomas Nnte, Nathaniel Grant, Charles IIodgdon, selectmen; Moses Merrill, clerk.
1865, Joseph Q. Roles, Lewman G. Moulton, representatives; Thomas Nute, Nathaniel Grant, Charles Hodgdon, selectmen; Moses Merrill, clerk.
1866, Lewman G. Monlton, Thomas Nute, representatives; Charles Hodgdon, James L. Brown, Wentworth II. Hobbs, selectmen ; Moses Merrill, clerk; Moses Merrill, Israel L. Sanders, Thomas Nute, auditors.
1867, Thomas Nute, Joseph Q. Roles, representatives; Charles Hodsdon, James L. Brown, Wentworth H. Hobbs, selectmen; Buel C. Carter, clerk.
1868, Henry J. Banks, Charles Nason, representatives; Wentworth II. Hobbs, Thomas Nute, George B. Sias, selectmen ; Charles W. Grant, clerk ; Levi Smith, Charles Hodsdon, James L. Brown, auditors.
1869, Henry J. Banks, Sanborn B. Carter, representatives; Thomas Nute, George B. Sias, Allen White, seleetmen; William Roles, elerk; Sanborn B. Carter, Buel C. Carter, Joseph Q. Roles, auditors.
1870, Sanborn B. Carter, Henry J. Banks, representatives; Allen White, George B. Sias, James Nute, jr, selectmen ; Charles W. Grant, elerk; Thomas Nute, Moses Merrill, Levi Smith, auditors.
1871, Thomas Nute, Joseph Q. Roles, representatives; Moses Merrill, James Nute, jr, Frank K. Hobbs, selectmen ; Herbert I]. Browne, clerk; Charles W. Fall, superintendent school committee.
1872, Jacob F. Brown, Jeremiah P. Burnham, representatives; James Nute, jr, Frank K. Hobbs, John C. Ames, selectmen ; Herbert II. Browne, clerk.
1873, Jacob F. Brown, James Nute, jr, representatives; Frank K. Hobbs, John C. Ames, Charles F. Wiggin, selectmen; Alonzo Stillings, clerk; Thomas Nute, Levi Smith, George B. Sias, auditors.
1874, James Nute, jr, Joseph Q. Roles, representatives; John C. Ames, Wentworth K. Hobbs, Thomas Nute, seleetmen ; Alonzo Stillings, clerk.
1875, Frank K. Hobbs, Joseph Q. Roles, representatives; John C. Ames, Wentworth H. Hobbs, Thomas Nute, selectmen ; Ammi R. Quint, clerk; Ichabod Hodgdon, Francis II. Lord, appraisers.
1876, George W. Tibbetts, John C. Ames. representatives; Israel L. Sanders, John H. Beacham, John W. Folsom, selectmen; Ammi R. Quint, clerk; Sanborn B. Carter, Samuel D. Quarles, delegates to Constitutional Convention.
1877, George W. Tibbetts, John C. Ames, representatives; Thomas Nute, Loring S. Libbey, Charles E. Knox, selectmen ; Ichabod De Witt Carter, clerk ; John C. Ames, Frank K. Hobbs, Gideon Gilman, auditors; Thomas Nute, treasurer.
1878, Frank K. Hobbs, Joseph Q. Roles, representatives; Thomas Nute, Charles E. Knox, John W. Folsom, selectmen ; I. De Witt Carter, clerk; Charles W. Fall, Gideon Gilman, Frank K. Hobbs, auditors; Thomas Nute, treasurer.
1879, Joseph Q. Roles, George W. Tibbetts, representatives; Thomas Nute, John C. Ames, John W. Folsom, selectmen ; 1. De Witt Carter, clerk ; John W. Merrow, Frank K. Hobbs, auditors; Alonzo Stillings, treasurer.
1880, Joseph Q. Roles, George W. Tibbetts, representatives; Thomas Nute, John W. Folsom, John C. Ames, selectmen ; Henry C. Carter, clerk; Sanborn B. Carter, John E. Beacham, Charles W. Fall, auditors; Alonzo Stillings, treasurer.
1881, Frank K. Hobbs, Joseph Q. Roles, representatives; Jacob Manson, Wentworth II. Hobbs, Thomas Nute, selectmen ; Dana J. Brown, clerk; John H. Beacham, treasurer.
1882, Frank K. Hobbs, JJoseph Q Roles, representatives; Wentworth Il. Hobbs, Jacob Manson, Albert W. Leighton, selectmen; Dana JJ. Brown, clerk; John H. Beacham, treasurer.
1883, Joseph Q. Roles, representative; Wentworth H. Hobbs, Jacob Manson, Albert W. Leighton, seleet- men ; Dana J. Brown, clerk ; John II. Beacham, treasurer.
1884, Joseph Q. Roles, representative; Albert W. Leighton, Jacob F. Brown, Charles A. White, selectmen; Dana J. Brown, clerk; Aldo M. Rumery, treasurer.
1885, Frank K. Hobbs, representative; Albert W. Leighton, JJacob F. Brown, Charles A. White, selectmen ; Dana J. Brown, clerk; Aldo M. Rumery, treasurer.
1886, Albert W. Leighton, Jacob F. Brown, Charles A. White, selectmen; Dana J. Brown, clerk; Edgar Weeks, George A. Wiggin, Charles A. Wiggin, Daniel Abbott, fish and game wardens; Aldo M. Rumery, treasurer.
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1887, Ausbry C. Moulton, representative; Jolin G. Ham, Jefferson II. Jewell, John C. Ames, selectmen; George L. Young, clerk ; Aldo M. Rumery, treasurer.
1888, John C. Ames, Martin V. Ricker, Thomas Nute, selectmen ; George L. Young, clerk; Aldo M. Rumery, treasurer.
1889, John C. Ames, representative; John C. Ames, Martin V. Ricker, Orodon P. Ilobbs, selectmen; George L. Young, clerk; Aldo M. Rumery, treasurer.
Inventory, 1889. - Resident, $227,106; non-resident, $30,414 ; total, $257,- 520. 435 polls; 358 horses valued $20,510; 274 oxen valued $9,392; 537 cows valued $10,999; 431 other neat stock valued $7,023; 314 sheep valued $854; 6 hogs valued $64; 7 carriages valued $400; stock in corporation outside the state, $56; money at interest or on deposit, $5,450; stock in trade, $19,084; mills and machinery, $2,450 ; buildings not designated, $600.
We extract from a report made to the State. Board of Agriculture in 1889 these statistics : Pounds of butter made, 26,100; pounds of cheese made, 200; gallons of milk sold, 10,049; pounds of wool grown, 1,256; tons of ensilage used, 7; tons of commercial fertilizers used, 50; cash received from summer boarders, $3,450.
The population has steadily decreased since 1850. That year it was 2,123; in 1860, 1,997; in 1870, 1,822; in 1880, 1,782.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
THE QUARLES FAMILY.
THE Quarles family has a high antiquity, as its origin is lost in the mists surrounding early English history. It has never been office-seeking or clam- orous for notoriety, and yet every generation has shown some one to do credit to the ancestral name. Among the most widely known is the Puritan poet, whose philosophy and quaint language have had many admirers. There appears to be two American branches of the same ancestral stock, one rooting itself in the Massachusetts colony, and one in that of Virginia. From these two branches apparently come all the Quarles of the United States. The Ossipee family comes from the Massachusetts branch.
Hon. Samuel Quarles, born October 10, 1764, at Wenham, Mass., married, December 17, 1795, Lydia Very, born in Danvers, Mass., January 27, 1774, died in Ossipee in 1809. He settled in Ossipee, and soon engaged in trade with Jonathan Dodge as a merchant, and in the ownership of saw and grist mills, and "ashery " or " potash " which stood near the Poland brook bridge and opposite the old Dodge house now standing. He was in these business
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relations with Mr Dodge for many years. Later he made his home one mile west of Ossipee Corner, and carried on trade extensively there for that day. His dwelling was a one-story house, and the principal commodities sold were- rum, flour. and broadeloth. "Quarles' store " was the centre of hilarity on Independence Day and other celebration periods. In advanced life he built a set of buildings one-half mile nearer the Corner, retired from business, moved thither, and passed the rest of his life. He was a man of more than common consideration. He was selectman. clerk, representative. state senator, member of the governor's council, twice a presidential elector, once casting his vote for John Q. Adams, and judge of the court of common pleas. Originally a Democrat, he was offered the nomination of that party for governor, then equivalent to an election, but refused it, as his convictions on the tariff caused him to unite with the Whigs. He was a colonel in the old militia, and did much in building up that organization. By his first wife he had these children : Fanny, married Benjamin Sceggell ; JJoseph V .; Lydia V., married Moses P. Brown ; Jerusha, married Charles Brooks ; Samuel J. By his second wife, Abigail Knight, whom he married in 1810, he had Belinda K., Francis and Mary Frances (twins), Abigail Ann Caroline. Belinda married Josiah Dearborn, of Effingham, Mary Frances married Ebenezer French, Esq., and Abigail married Asa Beacham.
Joseph V. Quarles was a merchant at Ossipee and Centre Ossipee for some years, then removed to Wisconsin, where his sons, Joseph V. and Charles, are leading lawyers.
Captain Samuel Jefferson Quarles was born March 31. 1807, and died July 6, 1865. He located as a farmer on a portion of his father's homestead, became captain in the militia, was an old-line Whig, Freesoiler, and Republican, and held the offices of deputy sheriff and deputy United States marshal. He married Sarah S., daughter of Samuel Dalton, of Parsonsfield, Maine. Their children were Maria, Lydia, Samuel D., Sarah M. (Mrs Aldo M. Rumery), and William C.
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Dalton Quarles, son of Samuel and Sarah S. (Dalton) Quarles, was born in Ossipee, January 16, 1833. He had the advan- tages in education of Parsonsfield Academy, New Hampton Institution, Phillips Exeter Academy, teaching school and performing manual labor to obtain the funds to pay the necessary expenses. Ile won credit as a teacher, and started numbers hopefully on the road of knowledge, and held the office of county school commissioner two years by appointment of the governor. He attended Michigan University for a year, returned to Ossipee in 1858, read law in the office of Luther D. Sawyer, and was admitted to practice in October, 1861. The times were such as rouse men's souls. An imperiled country called on its sons to save it from disunion. Among the most active of the young men of Ossipee, our young lawyer showed the same energy in this new field as hereto-
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fore, and raised a company for the Fourth Regiment, but did not accompany it on account of serious illness. As soon after his recovery as circumstances would allow, he was again recruiting, and raised another company, which was mustered into the United States service at Keene, November 28 and 29, 1861, as Company D, Sixth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. Mr Quarles was commissioned captain November 30. On Christmas the regiment left for the seat of war, and on arriving at Washington was assigned to Burnside's expedi- tion. The history of the Sixth is the history of many of the severest battles of the war. It won laurels at Camden, N. C., April 19, 1862; second Bull Run, Va, August 29, 1862; Chantilly, Va, September 1, 1862; South Moun- tain, Md, September 13, 1862; Antietam, Md, September 17, 1862; Fred- ericksburg, Va, December 13, 1862; siege of Vicksburg, Miss .; Jackson, Miss .; Wilderness, Va, May 6, 1864; Spottsylvania, Va, May 12, 1864; Spottsyl- vania, Va, May 18, 1864; North Anna, Va, May 24, 1864; Tolopotomy, Va, May 31, 1864; Bethesda, Va, June 2, 1864; Cold Harbor, Va, June 3, 1864; Petersburg, Va, June 16, 1864; Petersburg, Va, June 17, 1864; Petersburg, Va, June 18, 1864; Weldon Railroad, Va, July 30, 1864; Poplar Spring Church, Va, September 30, 1864; Hatcher's Run, Va, October 27, 1864; Petersburg, Va, April 2, 1865. During many days of the Wilderness cam- paign, and for nine weeks before Petersburg, the regiment was under constant fire. Its losses were heavy. One historian says : " No regiment from the state and none in the army won a prouder name or made a more honorable record than the gallant old veteran Sixth. No regiment saw more severe campaigning, did more or better service, or was oftener under fire. Few regiments went through the war with so little internal dissension and so much harmony among the officers. Few regiments endured the hardships of the service with so much fortitude and so little grumbling, for they were men whose hearts were in the work of crushing out the Rebellion. When, at various times, calls were made for the names of men to whom medals should be awarded for gallant conduct upon the field, few names were ever given, for the reason that so many had done well it was hard to designate a small number. Captains would say that almost every one of their men might be recommended, but it would be invid- ious to name a few." The regiment closed its gallant career, and was mustered out of service July 31, 1865.
It was in this regiment of courage and reputation that Captain Quarles won honors and promotion; and it is but simple justice to state that none were more worthy of them, or bore them with greater modesty. After passing through many sanguinary battles unharmed, at Spottsylvania, May 18, 1864, Captain Quarles was severely wounded by a minie-ball which struck him just below the left side of his mouth, shattering the jaw in its passage through it, and lodged in the neck immediately back of the carotid artery. This wound was long in healing, and it was not until October 20, 1864, that he rejoined his
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regiment. He was then major, receiving his commission July 28, 1864. In his new position, Major Quarles showed the same admirable qualities that had previously characterized him, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel " for gallant and meritorious service in front of Petersburg, April 2, 1865."
Returning to Ossipee at the close of the war, Colonel Quarles married, November 26, 1866, S. Augusta, daughter of Moses P. Brown, and began the practice of law, and soon acquired a leading position at the bar, and a large and lucrative clientage. (See chapter xxii.) He has ever had the faculty of attracting and making warm personal friends, and while in his various com- mands he enforced exact discipline, his courtesy and impartiality won him the devotion of his men and the confidence and respect of his associates and supe- rior officers. Generous to an extreme degree, no appeal to his kindness or charity is ever made in vain.
Carroll county classes him as one of her most distinguished sons, and is justly proud of his record as soldier and lawyer. The engraving accompanying this sketch is made from a photograph taken before he recovered from the severe wound received at Spottsylvania, Va, May 18, 1864.
NATHANIEL GRANT, M.D.
THE Highland Scotch have ever been noted for personal courage, decision of character, determination, firmness, love of liberty, loyalty to friends and home, and strong religious convictions. For religious freedom they would shed their blood, or expatriate themselves to find on alien shores the blessings denied them in their native land. This did the ancestors of Dr Grant, who, with other families, came to America, and settled as pioneers on the forest lands of what later became "Scotland Hill " in the town of Lebanon, Maine.
Dr Nathaniel Grant is grandson of Joseph Grant the emigrant, and son of Edward Grant (born 1775; died in Ossipee, October, 1838) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Linscott) Leavitt. He was born on the ancestral acres in Lebanon, Maine, February 28, 1804, and is the only one living of the family of eight children, and, having been a resident of Ossipee so many years, interest in and friendship for the Grant family naturally centres in him. From lack of means and being of so large a family, his early life was one of almost continuous labor on his father's farm, with only occa- sional schooling. His ambition, however, prompted him to attain a good edu- cation and acquire a profession, and his struggles were constant and perplexing to obtain means to buy books, pay teachers and board, during the period of his study of medicine. He had a common-school education as a boy, and left the farm at the age of twenty-one ; he had one academic term at Limerick, Maine, and studied medicine at Hanover and Brunswick medical schools, and was
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graduated from the latter in 1829. This was accomplished by his teaching school during the winter months, working a few weeks in each summer at haying, and diligent study while not at school. He had a serious attack of typhus fever and nearly died, but recuperated, and was enabled to teach school the following winter, and, in February, started on foot from Brunswick, with his slender wardrobe and a few books tied up in a handkerchief, tramped through Sanford, Alfred, and Waterborough to Portland, and then took stage to Brunswick. Having lost three months' study through his illness, he felt doubtful of under- taking an examination for a diploma, but, being of an observant nature and measuring his attainments with those of his fellows, he determined to compete with them. Alert for success, he put forth his best efforts, receiving as a result the verdict "done well " from the faculty, and the long-coveted and much- prized certificate in 1829. The granting of the diploma to Dr Grant was the first token of intellectual worth or professional skill received by any resident of his native town.1
Dr. Grant practised medicine at Norway, Maine, for two years, and married Charlotte S. Hobbs, daughter of William and Catherine (Weatherby) Hobbs, of Norway, who has been a partner of his joys and sorrows these many years, and to-day has a countenance' radiant of the peace within, and a consciousness that she has been a worthy helpmate to a worthy man. From Norway he went to Guilford for the winter, and in 1832 came to Wakefield, remaining there in active and successful practice until November, 1836, when he came to Buswell's Mills, now Centre Ossipee, and attended to the ailments of suffering humanity in this vicinity for thirty-three years thereafter. He united to his professional duties the responsibility of merchant in 1836, with his brother Edward, who, one year thereafter, relinquished business, and Dr Grant became the sole proprietor of the store which has dispensed supplies for a period of a half-century.
Formerly a Federalist in politics, he has been a Democrat since 1837. He represented Ossipee in the legislature of 1847; was selectman in 1862-64; has been town clerk; justice of the peace from 1847 until his hand lost the power to write ; was an incorporator and president of the Pine River Bank and of the Pine River Lumber Company, and has been a member of Ossipee Valley masonic lodge since 1864. He brought the first carload of corn ever shipped from the West to this county, and the first carload shipped to this section on the Portsmouth, Great Falls, and Conway railroad.
1 The difficulties that an aspiring young man had to contend with at that day can be best illustrated by the way in which Joseph Grant, brother of the doctor, bought his first grammar. He was about eighteen years of age. The schools of that day were of little worth; many owned no books, some, very few, owned a book, some of the wealthiest pupils two or three. Joseph wished to obtain a grammar. One of the boys wanted to sell his, and Joseph gave his note for the price, fifty cents. The next March. to get funds to meet this, he took his father's team, eut a load of wood, drew it in the night fourteen miles to South Berwick, sold it for $2.50, mostly in trade, but got enough cash to take up his note. It is needless to say that such pains to acquire an education were amply rewarded. The son of Joseph, Claudius B., who also was compelled to struggle with adverse circum- stances, worked his way through the University of Michigan, and, after filling various positions of honor, is now judge of the supreme court of that state.
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The record of Dr Grant's life exhibits points of character which have given him a good name among his large acquaintanceship, and to which they may well point with pride and emulation. As a boy he labored with endurance, working for the mutual interests of his family, patiently biding the time when he might with well-earned liberty endeavor to attain an education. Against obstacles which to many would have been insurmountable, he obtained not only a fair amount of learning, but a professional degree, a good start for a lucrative and honorable living. Dr Grant has ever manifested the best traits of the hardy Scotch ancestry from which he sprang, is a man of intellectual power, has during his whole life been a diligent and reflecting reader of the best literature, thinks for himself, and holds tenaciously to the beliefs he has formulated. He expresses his ideas in clear and forceful language either vocally or in writing. Had his tastes led him in that direction, he would have made a most popular and effective lecturer. The reason that he did not attain prominence in political circles was that he was no time-server, was too out- spoken, and would not pay out money to secure either nomination or election. He is an honest man, a worthy citizen and a patriot, and now that he has attained so many years, and may be said to be on the verge of life, it is with pleasure that we write a sketch of this character.1 The children of Dr and Mrs Grant were : -
(1) William Henry Grant, born in Wakefield, October 23, 1834. Educated in New Hampton and Phillips Exeter academies, he attended medical lectures at Brunswick (Maine) Medical School, where he was graduated, and began practice in Tamworth in 1859, soon, however, removing to Centre Ossipee. When the Civil War broke upon the country, he answered the call for educated, intelligent medical men, and for three years was surgeon in Carver (D. C.) and Point Lookout (Md) hospitals. After this he returned to his home and resumed his practice later, for several years holding the office of examining surgeon in the department of invalid pensions. He is still in active practice. November 24, 1859, Dr Grant married Louisa A., sister of Chaplain T. A. Ambrose ; she died January 29, 1865. April 23, 1866, he married Fanny, daughter of Henry C. and Mehitable (Clement) Magoon. Mrs Grant unites the Dana blood with the Magoon in her ancestry, and is a lady of worth, intel- lectual vigor, and executive ability. She is now president of the Carroll County Woman's Temperance Union. Their only child, Willie Clinton, born April 26, 1867, died December 2, 1869.
(2) John Gaspar Spurzheim Grant was born February 6, 1836, in Wakefield. He was educated at Hampton and Exeter academies and Dartmouth College, and received his medical diploma from Harvard Uni- versity. After graduation he became a surgeon at Saratoga hospital, Wash- ington, D. C., and died while in service, August 14, 1865.
1 August 19, 1889, Dr Grant had a fall which caused a serious fracture of the hip. He died October 5, and was buried with Masonic rites.
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(3) Charles Whitman Grant, born October 1, 1838, and died July 3, 1877.
(4) Mary Ellen, born September 5, 1840, died in infancy.
(5) Mary Ellen, born August 29, 1842, married Charles B. Gafney, Esq., and died January 20, 1888.
(6) Charlotte M., born July 26, 1844, married Arthur L. Hodsdon. They have three children : Walter Grant, Herbert Arthur, Mary Ellen.
SANDWICH.
CHAPTER LVII.
Charter - Boundaries - Names of Grantees - Additional Grant -First Meeting of Pro- prietors- Orlando Weed : Terms of Settlement - Other Settlers -- Further Encouragement - Drawing of Lots - Daniel Beede's Survey - Committee to Prosecute Colonel Jonathan Moulton - Proprietors' Gift to Sandwich.
T HE PROPRIETORS' RECORDS, dating back to 1763, in the fine, clear, copper-plate writing of Joseph Gilman, proprietors' clerk, have been preserved in the town archives, and give a very vivid account of the first settlement of Sandwich. We have drawn largely from them.
Charter. - The original grant was in the usual formula of the charters of Benning Went- worth, ceded 23,040 acres (6 miles square), and was subject to these conditions : 1st, that each grantee should cultivate and plant five acres of land within five years for each fifty acres granted ; 2d, that " all white and other pine trees fit for masting our Royal Navy " be carefully preserved for that use, and none to be cut or felled without special license under penalty of the forfeiture of the right of the grantee and the acts of parliament then in force; 3d, that a town lot shall be laid out for each grantee, of one aere in size, as near the centre of the town as possible; 4th, to pay the King, annually for ten years, " the rent of one ear of Indian corn only "; 5th, to pay annually, forever, one shilling proclamation money for each 100 acres granted. It bears date October 25. 1763.
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