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Of the first settlement of the town but little is known with accuracy or certainty. The first settler was William Thornton, probably in the year 1852. His daughter, Molly Thornton, it is said, was the first child born in the township. He remained but a few years,-it is not known how long,-when he abandoned his settlement, it is supposed through fear of the Indians, and never returned. He was a brother of Matthew Thornton, who was the first named, as he was by far the most distinguished, of the proprietors of the township, and was much the largest land- owner in it, having, at one time, it would ap- pear, twenty-eight shares, or eighty-four lots.
The settlers who next came into the township were Scotch-Irish, as they were called, being the descendants of Scotch people who had settled in the north of Ireland, whence they came to this country, and established themselves at Londonderry and elsewhere, and, at a later date, settled in Peterborough and numerous other towns. As early as 1760, or thereabouts, there were in the town, of this description of persons, John Alexander, William McNee, Alexander Scott, and William Scott, his son; James Taggart, and his son, William Taggart ; and perhaps others. They came mostly from Peterborough. Henry Strongman came at a. later day. With the exception of him, none of this class of settlers became permanent inhabit- ants of the township. They left probably at different times, but all prior to the year 1771, as none of them are found upon the tax-list of that year. Most or all of them returned to Peterborough. This William Scott is the same Captain William Scott, of Peterborough, who, in his youth, served in the French War, and who signalized himself by gallant achievements dur- ing the War of the Revolution, and by no less heroic deeds in scenes of danger afterwards.
As early as 1762 several of the settlers from Sherborn, Mass., were in the township, and worked upon the roads. Probably none of them established themselves here that year. During the next two years several became per- manent inhabitants. Among the earliest settlers were Thomas Morse, Levi Partridge, William Greenwood, Samuel Twitchell, Joseph Twit- chell, Jr., Ivory Perry, Benjamin Mason, Moses Adams, Silas Stone and Eli Morse.
Of the first settlers, Captain Thomas Morse appears to have been the leading man. He was doubtless the oldest person in the settlement, being sixty-three or sixty-four years of age when he came to reside here. He was a man of stability and force of character, and, it is said, of remarkable shrewdness. Withal, he was ardently attached to the cause of liberty. He was the first captain of the earliest military
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company in the town. His commission bore date June 2, 1774.
From 1763 the population of the township increased with considerable rapidity. New settlers came in from various places,-Sherborn, Natick, Medfield, Holliston, Framingham, Temple, Amherst and elsewhere. Of the ear- lier settlers, by far the greater number came from Sherborn. There is no means of asver- taining what was the population of the town at any date prior to 1775, when it was three hun- dred and five. A census of New Hamp- shire was taken in 1767 by the selectmen of cach town and place; but there is no return from this township. There was probably no formal organization existing at that time, and consequently no officers to take the census.
A political organization of the inhabitants was effected in 1768, as appears by a record among the old papers of the town, which recites that, "at a meeting of the inhabitants of Monadnock, No. 3, by order of the General Court," held November 16, 1768, John Goffe, Esq., moderator, the following officers were chosen : Moses Adams, Eli Morse, John Muz- zey, assessors ; Joseph Greenwood, clerk ; Henry Strongman, collector; Moses Adams, commis- sioner of assessment. Appended, of the same date, is a certificate of the justice that the above officers were legally chosen, according to an act of the General Court, and were sworn to the faithful discharge of their respective offices. This John Goffe is presumed to have been Colonel John Goffe, of Bedford. The organi- zation thus established was preserved, and like officers were chosen annually, in March, till the town was incorporated.
The incorporation of the town took place in March, 1771. The petition for the purpose, to the Governor of the province, appears to have been signed by Josiah Willard, Jr., as " the agent for and in behalf of the inhabitants and settlers." It sets forth, as the main ground of the application, that Dublin is rated among the towns and parishes in the province for the
province tax, and that the place "is not legally qualified to raise and collect said taxes, whereby they may be construed delinquents if the same should be omitted." The petitioner also begs leave to suggest to His Excellency "that the said Dublin is presumed to be sufficiently in- habited and convenient for incorporation." The petition was dated March 25th, and a char- ter was forthwith granted, bearing date the 29th of the same month.
For his services in this behalf Mr. Willard received from the town thirty-two dollars, as appears by his receipt, dated Keene, October 10, 1771. To meet this expenditure, the town, at the second town-meeting, held May 29, 1771, made a specific appropriation, though it seems they had not got their ideas up fully to the exigeney of the case, as the sum they appro- priated was less by two dollars and a half than the amount of the bill. Besides the money paid him by the town, he received, as is shown by his receipt, seven shillings and six-pence, " in full satisfaction for services done the pro- prietors of Dublin in obtaining a charter."
The charter thus granted was, doubtless, sub- stantially the same as was usually granted to towns in those times. It issues in the name of " George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, De- fender of the Faith, and so forth.". It contains a reservation of all white-pine trees upon the land "fit for the use of our Royal Navy." This reservation of pine ship-timber was in pursuance of acts of Parliament relating to the preservation of His Majesty's woods in America. We do not, however, learn that any requisition for the article was ever made upon the town- ship, either prior or subsequent to the act of incorporation.
The town was incorporated by the name of Dublin. In the petition for incorporation it is described as a tract of land "commonly called and known by the name of Dublin (or Monad- nock, No. 3)." When or how long it had been commonly known by the name of Dublin does
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not appear. Up to that time the name does not occur, so far as I have seen, in any of the papers of the proprietors or of the township. It is commonly understood that the town was named from Dublin, Ireland. Why it should have been is not obvious, as it is pretty mani- fest that, before the incorporation of the town, all the Scotch-Irish who had ever been resident in it had removed, with the exception of one,- Henry Strongman. But he, it is said, was born in Dublin, and that circumstance may have set- tled the point. At all events, it is just as hard to tell why it should not have been so named, since it must necessarily have some name, and it might as well be ealled Dublin as anything else.
In the deed of grant from the proprietors the township was described as "North Monad- nock, or Number Three," the names being in the alternative. In the papers of the original proprietor's clerk, Joseph Blanchard, Jr., and others emanating from non-residents, it is styled, pretty uniformly, " The North Monadnock Township." By the residents it appears to have been called, commonly, " Monadnock, No. 3." Sometimes the two designations were run together, making it " North Monadnock, No. 3."
To understand why either the "North " or the " Number " should have been applied, it is to be borne in mind that "Monadnock " was a name of pretty extensive use in these regions. Thus, Rindge, otherwise called Rowley Canada, was Monadnock, No. 1; Jaffrey, called Middle Monadnock, or sometimes Middletown, was Monadnock, No. 2; Dublin, or North Monad- noek, was Monadnock, No. 3; Fitzwilliam, Monadnock, No. 4; Marlborough, called orig- inally New Marlborough, was Monadnock, No. 5 ; Nelson, formerly Packersfield, was Monad- noek, No. 6 ; Stoddard, which was Limerick, was, it is presumed, Monadnock, No. 7; and Washington, formerly Camden, was Monad- noek, No. 8.
The meeting for the organization of the town, under the charter, was called, as provided
in the instrument, by Thomas Morse, and was held May 6, 1771. Mr. Morse was moderator. The first Board of Selectmen, then chosen, were Thomas Morse, Henry Strongman and Benja- min Mason. Joseph Greenwood was chosen town clerk.
Mr. Greenwood, for twenty years or more next after this time, was by far the most prom- inent business man in the town. He was town clerk in 1771, and from 1776 for seventeen years successively, during which time he was also selectman ten years and town treasurer some part of the time. He represented Dublin in the convention of delegates which met at Ex- eter, May 17, 1775. He was likewise a noted schoolmaster. Furthermore, he was the first justice of the peace in the town. For some years they had been obliged to send for a jus- tice of the peace from a distance when one was required. In the treasurer's account, settled in 1776, is found an item : " Paid Esq. Hale, for swearing town officers, two years, twelve shil- lings." Precisely when Mr. Greenwood was appointed does not appear ; but it was before May, 1777.
At the second town-meeting, held May 29, 1771, the town granted fifteen pounds for preaching. The money appears to have been ex- pended in the course of the summer, as, in Sep- tember of the same year, they voted to have a month's preaching that fall and granted nine pounds for the purpose.
The whole number of voters in Dublin in 1770 was only twenty-three. A list of these voters, certified by Joseph Twitchell and John Muzzey, two of the assessors of that year, con- tains the following names : Levi Partridge, Thomas Morse, Eli Morse, William Green- wood, Joseph Greenwood, Joseph Adams, Asa Norcross, Henry Strongman, Silas Stone, Ivory Perry, Samuel Twitchell, Moses Mason, Joel Wight, Joseph Twitchell, Ebenezer Twitchell, Reuben Morse, Daniel Morse, Benjamin Mason, Moses Adams, John Muzzey, Eleazer Twitch- ell, Joshua Lealand, Edward West Perry.
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The qualification for a voter at that period was " twenty pounds estate to one single rate, beside the poll." Following is tax-list for 1771 :
£
S.
d.
" Levi Partridge 2
0
6
Thomas Morse. 3
10 6
Eli Morse 3
1
6
Joshua Lealand 1
2
6
William Greenwood 3
7
0
Joseph Adams 2
6
6
€
S.
d.
Asa Norcross. 1
15
0
Joseph Greenwood
2
2
0
Rye and malt, per bushel
4
0
Josiah Greenwood. 1
4 6
Indian corn, per bushel.
0
3
0
Caleb Hill 0 11 6
Oats, per bushel. 0
1
8
Henry Strongman. 2
6
0
Peas, per bushel.
0
6
0
Silas Stone
1
14
0
Beans, per bushel.
0
6
0
Ivory Perry.
L
18
0
Cheese, per pound.
0
0
6
Isaac Bond.
0
3
0
Samuel Twitchell.
2
0
6
Carriage of salt, for every ten miles land carriage, per bushel. 0
1
0
Simeon Bullard
1
5
0
Flax, per pound. 0
0
10
Joseph Twitchell
1
12
6
Sheep's wool, per pound .. 0
2
2
Benjamin Learned.
1
1
0
Yarn stockings, per pair 0
6
0
Simeon Johnson
1
6
0
Men's all-wool cloth, well-dressed, per yard ..
0
8
Ebenezer Twitchell. 1
15
0
Joseph Morse .. 0
14
0
And by the day. 0
3
0
Reuben Morse. 1
18
6
May, June and September, per month. 2
10
0
Thaddeus Mason 1
14
0
And by the day 0
2
6
John Ranstead.
0
18
0
April and October, per month 1
15
0
Daniel Morse ..
1
16
0
And by the day. 0
2
3
Benjamin Mason
2
11
6
February, March and November, per month.
1
1
0
And by the day 0
2
0
December and January, per month. 0
18
0
Carpenters and house-joiners, per day. 0
1
0
John Muzzey 1
17
0
Mill-wright and mason, per day. 0
4
6
Elias Knowlton.
1
0
6
Hay in the field, per ton. 1
10
0
John Knowlton
1
2
6
Hay after secured, per ton. 2
0
0
Robert Muzzey 1
8
0
Making men's shoes, per pair. 0
3
0
Ezra Twitchell
1
15
6
And others in proportion.
l'asturing a horse, per week. 2
Pasturing oxen, per week. 0
2
6
Jonathan Knowlton 0
18
0
A yoke of oxen, per day's work. 0
1
6
Samuel Ames, jun 0
4
0
Daniel Wood ..
0
18
3
Rufus Huntley
0
18
0
Nathaniel Bates.
0
18 0
Gershom Twitchell 0
18
0
Joseph Turner 0
3
0
Joseph Drury
0
4
0
Benoni Death 0
1
6
John Swan .. 0
4
0
Caleb Greenwood
0
2
0
Thomas Muzzey.
0
18
0
John Morrison. 0
1 6
" Sum total €72 18 6
" Or $246.42."
The following is a list of prices in 1771 :
" Dublin, July 10, 1777 .- We, the subscribers, being appointed by the town of Dublin to state the prices of sundry commodities, transferrable from one person to another, having met and considered the matter, have resolved that the prices hereafter annexed shall be the prices for all such articles within our town, viz :-
" Wheat, per bushel. 0
6
0
" HENRY STRONGMAN,
Committee."
" WILLIAM GREENWOOD,
0
8
Keeping a horse by hay, per night. 0
1
0
Oxen a night by grass. 0
1
0
Oxen a night by hay.
0
1
6
Two quarts of oats. 0
0
3
A meal of victuals. 0
0 10
Lodging, per night.
0
0
3
Boarding a man, per week 0
6
0
Good flax-seed, per bushel .. 0
6 0
Joseph Mason. 1
0
0
David Johnson.
0
18
0
Daniel Greenwood.
0
18
0
Pasturing a cow, per week .. 0
1
Daniel Morse.
1
10
6
Moses Adams.
4
8
0
William Beal.
1
1
John Wight
1
9
6
Moses Johnson 1
3
6
0 Men's farming labor, July and August, per month. 3
0)
0
Eleazer Twitchell 0
13
0
Butter, per pound. 0
0
9
Moses Mason. 1
9
0
Reuben Morse and Moses Adams, members of the above committee, did not sign the report.
0
Pasturing a horse, per night .. 0
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CHAPTER II.
DUBLIN-(Continued).
MILITARY HISTORY.
War of the Revolution-Resolutions of the Town -- The Asso- ciation Test-Names of Signers-List of Soldiers-War of the Rebellion-Names of Soldiers.
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION .- The first refer- ence in the old town records to the War of the Revolution is under date of November 28, 1774, when twelve pounds was voted for town stock of ammunition.
In March, 1775, the town chose a Committee of Inspection, who were to see that the resolves of the Continental Congress were enforced.
" Dublin, July 25, 1775 .- Whereas the Committee of Inspection in this town have this day met to con- sider of the complaint made by Ebenezer Hill against Willard Hunt, wherein said Hill complains that said Hunt hath in an unjust manner seized his property in taking possession of some hay which he had on a meadow belonging to Samuel Ames, Jr .; and it ap- pears to us by evidence that the hay is Hill's property, and that Hunt hath seized on it in an unjust and vio- lent manner :
" Therefore, Voted that said Hunt immediately de- sist and let said Hill enjoy his property, or he shall be treated as a disorderly person and an enemy to the peace and good order of society.
" Voted that the above pass as a resolve of this com- mittee.
" BENJA MASON, Chairman."
In March, 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolve recommending to the several assemblies, conventions and councils, or Com- mittees of Safety, of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all persons to be dis- armed, within their respective colonies, who were notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who refused to associate to defend, by arms, the colonies against the hostile at- tempts of Great Britain. A copy of this reso- lution was transmitted to the selectmen of the several towns by the Committee of Safety for the colony of New Hampshire, with a circular from them bearing date April 12, 1776, of the following tenor :
"In order to carry the unwritten Resolve of the honorable Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all males above twenty-one years of age (lunatics, idiots and Negroes excepted), to sign the Declaration on this paper ; and, when so done, to make return thereof, together with the name or names of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly, or Committee of Safety of this Colony.
" M. WEARE, Chairman."
The declaration referred to was as follows :
"In consequence of the above Resolution of the Continental Congress, and to show our determination in joining our American brethren in defending the lives, liberties and properties of the inhabitants of the United Colonies :
" We, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the united American Colonies.
" John Swan. Silas Stone, jun.
Richard Gilchrest. Ezra Morse.
Thomas Morse.
Isaac Morse.
Eli Morse.
Isaac Bond.
Joseph Greenwood.
Silas Stone.
Moses Adams.
Thomas Alden.
Daniel Morse.
Josiah Greenwood.
Joseph Twitchel.
Moses Greenwood.
Ebenezer Twitchel.
James Rollins.
Samuel Twitchel.
James Chamberlain.
Stephen Twitchel. Simeon Johnson.
Samuel Williams.
Ivory Perry.
Ebenezer Hill.
Benjamin Learned.
Abijalı Twitchel. Nathaniel Bate.
John Morse.
Henry Strongman.
William Strongman.
Joseph Adams.
William Yardley.
Benjamin Mason.
John Wight.
William Greenwood.
Thomas Muzzey.
Moses Pratt.
Gershom Twitchel.
John Knowlton.
Simeon Bullard.
Phinehas Stanford.
John Muzzey.
Nathan Burnap.
Moses Johnson.
Gershom Twitchel,jun.
Reuben Morse.
Gardner Town.
Richard Strongman.
Ithamer Johnson.
Oliver Wright."
Dublin had four men, at least, at Bunker Hill, namely : Jonathan Morse, Richard Gil-
Thomas Lewis.
Levi Partridge. Timothy Adams. Eli Greenwood.
Caleb Stanford.
Jabez Puffer.
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christ, Thomas Green and John Swan. The last-named of these, it is said by Mr. Dun- bar, in his " History of Peterborough," was on duty but not in the battle. Mr. Gilchrist prob- ably saved the life of his friend Green, who was severely wounded, bearing him off upon his back, in a fainting and almost expiring state, from the field of battle to Medford. Mr. Dun- bar puts down Gilchrist, Green and Swan as belonging to Peterborough. But they were all three taxed for a poll-tax in Dublin in 1775, and must, therefore, have resided here on the 1st of April of that year. Mr. Gilchrist, it is presumed, never lived in Peterborough.
John Swan was one of the most patriotic eiti- zens of the town.
Jonathan Morse must have been out during the greater part of the war. The author of the " Memorial of the Morses" represents him to have been in the battles of Bunker Hill, Ben- nington, Ticonderoga and Monmouth, and to have signalized himself by deeds of daring and aets of magnanimity, some of which he re- counts, and coneludes with saying, "In short, Jonathan was so humane and honest, so rough and ready, that, had he lived to this time, he might have been President of the United States."
Thomas Hardy was in the service for some time. There is a note given to him by the se- leetmen, on behalf of the town, dated April 17, 1778, for sixty pounds, payable within ten months ; and one of like amount, date and tenor, to Jonathan Morse.
In April, 1777, the town voted " to give one hundred dollars to each man sent for to this town to join the three battalions now raising in this State."
In August of the same year they made a con- tribution of " material aid " to the cause, which, though not of great magnitude, was of a kind to make some noise in the camp. The receipt shows what it was :
"Dublin, August 3, 1777. Received of the Com- mittee of this town, two tin kittles, for the yuse of
Genral Starks Briggade, Prised 14 shillings. Re- ceived by me,
"SAMSON POWERS."
At the March meeting, in 1779, a committee was chosen to hire three soldiers for the Con- tinental battalions during the war. The sol- diers were not forthcoming, it would seem. In February, 1781, a committee was chosen to hire the town's quota of men, to serve in the Con- tinental army for three years, or during the war, and empowered to engage, on behalf of the town, for payment of their hire.
The three soldiers appear to have been found, eventually. One was Jonathan Morse ; one was John Stone. The terms on which the lat- ter was hired appear, in part, from a receipt given by him to the committee. It is dated March 19, 1781, and sets forth that whereas he had received from the committee three notes (the amount of them is not stated), for which he was to serve three years in the Continental army, unless sooner discharged, he promises that, if he does not serve above six months, he will have the contents of but one note ; if not above eigh- teen months, the contents of but two notes ; and if he is gone two years, he will have but two notes. Mr. Stone probably died in the war or soon after its elose, as in December, 1788, the town passed a vote, " that the selectmen make such consideration to the widow Stone as they may think reasonable, on account of the advantage the town had of the depreciation ot her late husband's wages,"-a very proper and honorable vote, certainly.
The other soldier was probably Hart Balch, as we find that in November, 1787, the town voted him five dollars for the damage he had sustained by not having the land cleared ac- cording to bargain, which the town was to clear for him for his service done in the army. There is also a receipt of his, dated April 26, 1784, acknowledging the receipt from the town of keeping for a cow, fire-wood and house-room for one year.
It was a part of the arrangement, that the soldiers' work upon their land, and the like,
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should be carried on in their absence by the town. In April, 1781, a committee was chosen to appraise the labor to be done for the soldiers for the year, and to divide the town into classes, " so that each man may know what he is to do and where to do it,"-a very practical, common- sense reason. The same course was pursued in subsequent years. In 1783 the town voted to receive rye, at five shillings a bushel, for pay- ing the soldiers' hire. Rye, by the way, was common currency in those days. Not only did private individuals make their contracts payable in that article, but the town treasurer frequently gave and received, on behalf of the town, notes and obligations payable in the same way.
To provide the means of supporting its sol- diers in the army, it became necessary for the State to levy taxes upon the towns. Some- times the taxation was in the nature of raising a stated amount of specific articles, instead of money. Thus, they had a "beef-tax ;" and in August, 1781, an act was passed for supplying the Continental army with ten thousand gallons of West India rum,-of which the share assessed upon Dublin was forty-six and a half gallons. Any town neglecting sea- sonably to furnish its proportion was to for- feit " one Spanish milled dollar or other silver or gold equivalent, for each gallon in arrears." Instead of the West India, "good New Eng- land rum, in the proportion of six quarts of the latter to one gallon of the former," might be furnished as a substitute. It appears that Dublin, for some cause, failed to furnish its proportion of the article,-as the receipt of a deputy sheriff shows the payment, at a subse- quent time, by one of the selectmen, of the amount of the town's "rum-tax and cost," upon an extent, or execution. We can hardly, in view of the prevailing sentiments and customs of the times, pay our ancestors the compliment of supposing that their omission to provide the article, in specic, arose from any conscientious scruples on their part, as to the propriety of the use of it.
The following is a list of Revolutionary sol- diers from this town :
John Swan.
Nathaniel Bates.
Richard Gilchrest.
Samuel Twitchell:
Thomas Green:
Lieut. Robert Muzzey:
Thomas Morse.
Hart Balch.
John Morse.
James Mills.
Henry Strongman. Joshua Greenwood (1).
William Greenwood.
Jonathan Morse.
Eli Greenwood.
Micah Morse.
Reuben Morse:
Micah Morse (1)
Richard Strongman.
Jabez Puffer.
Ithamer Johnson.
Thomas Hardy.
Ezra Morse.
John Stone.
James Chamberlain.
Benjamin Mason:
CHAPTER III.
DUBLIN-(Continued).
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY:
Unitarian Church-Congregational Church-Physicians- Masonic-Post-Office-Social Library-Civil History- Town Clerks from 1771 to 1886-Representatives from 1790 to 1886.
THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY (UNITARIAN) .- The first meeting-house was built by the proprietors by taxes assessed upon their shares. At their first meeting held in the township, in September, 1764, they fixed the place where the meeting-house should stand " by marking a tree and cutting down several small trees, near the east line of the eleventh lot in the sixth range, where the land is to be set off for the purpose, as also for a burying- place and training-field." The spot thus selected, and on which the meeting-house was eventually built, is upon the high ground, across the old road, northerly from the burying-ground. Nothing appears to have been done about the matter the next year, and nothing the year suc- ceeding, beyond choosing a committee to measure off the ten acres and put up bounds.
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