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The business men of Derry, Candia, Auburn and Manchester contributed much to the success of the parade.
Nevers' Band of Concord and Rainey's Cadet Band of Man- chester furnished music throughout the day.
There was also a program of sports for the younger people on the French Memorial Field.
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THE MAIDEN AT CHURCH.
Suggested on Seeing a Maiden Lady at Church, Whom the Author has Seen There Ever Since He Can Remember.
BY BENJAMIN BROWN FRENCH.
There doth she sit-that same old girl Whom I in boyhood knew; She seems a fixture to the church, In that old jail-like pew !
Once she was young-a blooming Miss, So do the aged say; Though e'en in youth, I think she must Have had an old-like way.
How prim, and starched, and kind she looks, And so devout and staid !
I wonder some old bachelor Don't wed that good old maid !
She does not look so very old, Though years and years are by
Since any younger she has seemed, E'en to my boyhood's eye.
That old straw bonnet she has on, Tied with that bow of blue,
Seems not to feel Time's cankering hand, 'Tis "near as good as new."
The old silk gown-the square-toed shoes, Those gloves-that buckle's gleam; That silver buckle at her waist, To me, like old friends seem.
Live on-live on-and may the years Touch lightly on thy brow; As I beheld thee in my youth, And as I see thee now ;
May I, when age its furrows deep Have ploughed upon my cheek, Behold thee in that pew, unchanged, So prim, so mild, so meek!
FROM "THE NEW HAMPSHIRE BOOK," 1842.
THE HISTORY
CHAPTER I.
EARLY PROPRIETARY RECORDS AND THE ROYAL CHARTER.
HE earliest record extant in regard to Chester is a minute of a meeting of "The Society for Settling the Chesnut Country, held at said Country the fifteenth day of October 1719."
This Society, composed principally of Hampton people, with a few from Portsmouth, had probably been in existence for some time, for the Council Records of Sept. 24, 1719, show the following petition for a grant of land, signed by 110 persons, only 59 of whom appear in the list of 132 grantees in the Charter issued under date of May 8, 1722.
(Council Records, Sep. 24, 1719, p. 388.)
"Mr. Clement Hughes prefered a petition to this board directed to His Excellency the Gov" and council, signed by ab* 100 Persons, praying for a township above Kingstown as on file, which being read, it was resolved that the Same should be considered when His Excellency comes next into this province."
At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Chesnut Country, held at Greenland the 16th day of March, 1719-20:
"I13, Col. Packer Chosen moderator. "213, Joseph Tilton Chosen Clark.
"3"", The form" Committee are Confined in their place wth the Same power as formerly.
"41y, The former Lott Layers are confirmed.
"513, Capt. Sherburne chosen Receiver.
"617, That whereas there was a petition formerly pre- fered to the Governm' for the Granting the Chesnut Country for a Township to the Society, That the same be withdrawn and another prefered when there is a convenient Season.
"71", Voted, That our Annual meeting to chuse prudential men Shall be on the third Wednesday in March, yearly."
At a meeting of the Committee, April 25, 1720:
"Voted, That a home Lott and a Farm of five hundred acres be given to His Excellency our Govern", or fifty pounds in money.
"Voted, Also a home Lott and a Farme of five hundred Acres to his Honn" our Lt. Govern"."
By the Council records this company seems to have the
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preference over other parties desiring grants, yet it was appar- ently deemed a wise policy to hold out the foregoing inducement, which looks a little like bribery; but we do not know what in- ducements were offered by the other parties.
(From the Council Records of 1719.) PETITION FOR GRANT.
A petition for a township in ye Chestnutt County, signed by about 100 hand, prefered by Mr. Hughes, Sept. 24, 1719. Minuted-Read again, Apr. 28, 1720.
To his Excellency Samuel Shute, Esq., Capt. Gen11 & Commander in Chief in an over His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, &c., and the Honbie the Council, now sitting in Council at Pourtsmouth, in and for said Province: The humble petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of sª Province Humbly sheweth That y' Petitioners have associated them- selves together to settle a certain tract of waiste land contain- ing Eight miles square, laying in the Province of New Hampshire aforesª, and adjoining on the East to Kingston and Exeter, and on the South to Haverhill, and on the West and North to ye woods.
And forasmuch as y' Petitioners are informed that sundry persons belonging to severall Towns in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay design to petition yr Excellency & Hon's to have the same lott of land granted to them for a township,
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that they may have the preference (having been at a vast expense of blood and treasure to maintain the same against the Enemy), and that the said tract of land may be granted a township to them, and as many more as are willing to settle the same, so as to make up the number of one hundred (and twenty five) persons, under such limitations for the settling of it as yr Excellency & Hon's will in your great wisdom see convenient for the speedy settling thereof, and yr Petitioners ever will pray as in duty bound.
Sept. 24, 1719.
Tho8 Phipps,
Benj. Fogg,
Jos. Pierce,
Joseph Love,
Tho. Packer,
Jacob Gilman,
Joseph Tilton,
Joseph Young,
Nath11 Batchelder, jr.,
Ephrahim Hoit,
John Cram,
Abraham Sanborn,
Philemon Blake
Israel Blake,
Jacob Stanyan,
William Healey,
Robt. Row, Sen",
Charles Stuart,
David Tilton,
Enoch Sanborn,
Reuben Sanborn,
Daniel Lovering,
John Morrison,
Ebeneezer Lovering,
Sam11 Blake, jr.,
Daniel Tilton,
Nath1 Healey,
Thomas Veazi,
Nath11 Sanborn,
Joshua Prescott,
Joseph Batchelder,
John Cass,
John Sealy,
Daniel Ladd,
Jethro Tilton,
Ichabod Robie,
Abner Harriman, Sam" Prescott,
HISTORICAL COMMITTEE Jennie P. Hazelton
Celestia S. Goldsmith Martha T. Learnard
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Edward Sanborn,
Nath11 Bachelder, senr.,
John Prescott, jr.,
John Ladd,
Zachariah Clifford,
Oliver Smith,
Joseph Batchelder, jr., Sam11 Blake, senr.,
Edward Fifield,
John Gilman, jr.,
Edward Gilman,
John Knowles,
Jolın Searll,
SamIl Veazi,
William Godfree,
Benj. Veazi,
Nehem™ Leavitt,
Nicholas Norris,
John Morrison,
John Norris,
Sam" Elkins, Rob' Wade, jr.,
Thomas- Rollins,
Jeremiah Sanborn,
Joseph Lorrane,
Henry Shurburne,
John Roberts,
Benj. Gambling,
Moses Norris, senr.,
Jos. Sherburne,
Jona Robinson,
Clement Hughes,
Reuben Smith,
Sam1 Plaisted,
Thomas Veazi, jr.,
Elez' Russell,
Nath11 Stevens, jr.,
Samuel Hart,
James Leavitt,
John Preston,
Jona" Plummer,
Benj. Sanborn,
John Smith,
Joseph Sanborn,
Benj. Tole,
James Prescott,
Caleb Tole,
Jonathan Prescott, jr.,
Abraham Drake,
Richard Sanborn,
Sam11 Smith,
Richard Clifford,
Thomas Garton,
George Veazi, jr.,
James Purckins,
Jonathan Sanborn,
Jacob Moulton, Jonathan Nason,
Sam11 Sanborn,
Elisha Smith,
Jacob Green,
Jonathan Dearborn,
Henry Dyea.
Thomas Leavitt,
Benj. Fifield,
James Fogg.
Sherburne Tilton,
(Council Records, April 28, 1720, p. 148.)
The petition Prefered by Mr. Hughes at the Sessions in September last, signed by about 100 persons, and suspended till this Time, and also another signed by Capt. Henry Sherburne and Mr. Clem Hughes and compa as a Supplement To the aforesaid petition, prefered this day, was read at the board, praying for a Township in the waste land adjoining Kingstown, &c.
Ordered, that the Clerk give notifications to Such persons as have claim upon the Said land or have anything to object against the making a Township according to the tenor of the above petition, To appear before His Honor the Lieut. Gov' and Council, to whom the matter is referred.
(Council Records, May 24, 1720, p. 154.)
The Petition of Clement Hughes and Henry Sherburne prefered last session in behalf of themselves and sundry others, praying for a township at a Place called Cheshire read at ye board; also another petition from sundry persons of Exeter and Haverhill, praying to be joined with the first petitioners in the settlement of the township, was read as on file.
Nathan longfellow,
Wm. Stevens, Porchth,
Eph™ Dennett,
Nicholas Seavy,
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(Proprietors' Records, May 24, 1720.)
This day the Committee (agreeable to a vote of the Society of ye 16th of March last) prefered a Petition to the Govern' and Council for withdrawing the form" Petition and a grant of a Township in the Chestnut Country of ten miles Square, wª Lys under consideration till next Term.
(Council Records, August 26, 1720, p. 169.)
The petition of Messrs. Henry Sherburne, Clement Hughes and comp", prefered May 24, praying for a township &c., is granted, and Col. Hunking, Capt. Wibard, Capt. Henry Sherburne and Capt. Tilton appointed to lay out the lands.
Apparently an actual settlement had been made some time previously for under date of Oct. 23, 1717, Samuel Smith of Haverhill deeded a right in Kingstown to Samuel Ingalls of "Cheshire," which would indicate that Ingalls was than on the ground, the possibility being that he had made a settlement in order to hold possession for parties desiring to pre-empt a claim. Here it may be noted that Clement Hughes, the first Clerk of the Society, spells the name "Checher," while it is styled the "Chest- nut Country," and in the grant receives the present name of "Chester."
The Hampton people were not the only parties who desired possession of this territory as there were other petitioners for a grant, as shown by the following extracts from the Council Records.
In Council,
August 24, 1720. "The petition of John Calf & Compa. prefered to this board, praying for a township above Exeter, was read."
This was by Massachusetts men, Mr. Calf being an inhabitant of Newbury.
In Council,
Oct. 26, 1720. "A message to the board by Mr. Speaker, and Lt. Col. Wear, praying that the Consideration of the petition of Mr. John Calf and Company be suspended for the present."
In board,
"Ordered that the Petition of Mr. John Calf and Company praying for township north westward of Exeter be suspended till the land disposed of in that part of the province be laid out and bounded to prevent interfering of bounds.
Richard Waldron, Cler. Con."
In Council,
April 19, 1721. "A petition signed by about one hundred persons was prefered to this board by Messrs. Ezekiel Walker, John Calf and Elisha Story, praying for liberty and Encouragement to settle a town on a certain tract of land North westward from Exeter, lying partly between Cheshire and New Portsmouth and partly above new Ports- mouth adjoining Cheshire line, containing the Quantity of ten miles Square, upon Such Conditions as in Said petition as is on file is con- tained: Wherefore it is ordered in Council that the petitioners have liberty To build and Settle upon the said tract upon the Conditions in
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Said petition mentioned, provided it in no way infrinfe on or Interfere with any former grants or possessions or propertys.
Richard Waldron, Cle. Con."
"Mr. Calf's former petition was probably for Cheshire, which being postponed, he with others now petitioned for Nottingham."
Stephen Dudley of Freetown [Raymond], who was of Exeter before and afterwards, obtained a deed from an Indian named Peter Penuet, and Abigail his squaw, of a tract of land at Free- town, as appears by a deed recorded on Rockingham records, dated May, 1722, wherein, in consideration of affection, Dudley conveys to Francis James of Gloucester "his right in four hundred acres of land in Freetown to be taken out of that tract bought of Peter Penuet and Abigail his squaw, by deed dated Jan. 17, 1718-19, also in virtue of a power of attorney from John Vickers of Charlestown." The deed to Dudley is not on the records. This was probably a move for color of title and possession for some of the parties.
The record of the Proprietors' meeting of October 15, 1719, follows :
"Ist, Voted, That Capt. Henry Sherburne be Moderator. "2ªly, Voted, That Joseph Tilton be Clerk of the Society.
Voted, That Capt. Henry Sherburne be Receiver. thly. Voted, That Joseph Tilton, Ichabod Robie, Caleb Tole, Clement Hughes, Capt. Henry Sherburne, Eph. Dennet and Jacob Stanyon, be a Committee to manage the affairs of the Society; And That the sd Committee Shall have power to Call meetings of the Society as often as they Shall Think Necessary, and to act in all other matters that they Shall Think proper for the good of the whole Society.
"Ethly, Voted, That Ichabod Robie, Jacob Stanyan, Caleb Tole & Michael Whidden be a Committee to Lay out the Lotts.
6th13, Voted, That all privileges of Streams shall be Reserved for ye Use of the Society.
"ythly, Voted, That the Number of the Society for the settling Shall not Exceed ninety persons.
"gthly, Voted, That the Committee Shall have power to admit Such as they Shall Think proper till the aforesd number of ninety be Completed.
"gthis, Voted, That Three men Shall be kept upon the spot at the charge of the Society."
At a meeting of the Society for settling the Chestnut Country, held at Hampton the 20th of December, 1719:
"Voted, That in case of a warr with the Indians before the Three years Limited for the Settling of the Chestnut Country be Expired, the Same Time of Three years shall be allowed after a conclusion of a Peace with the Indians for the sª settlement."
"At the Same Time the Propri's drew their home Lotts."
The home lots of twenty acres had been laid out since the October meeting, but the list of those who drew does not contain any
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names of the Massachusetts men who afterwards became pro- prietors. There are the names of eighty-nine persons who drew their home lots at this time, eleven of which are erased as having sold out, or forfeited their rights.
Joseph Small died,- his wife was a daughter of Col. Thomas Packer, and her husband's right was voted to her, and her home lot exchanged for one near her father's. Thus came a woman to be a proprietor. She kept a public house in Portsmouth, and many of the committee meetings were held there. There is a deed on the Rockingham records, Book 14, page 20, in which Thomas Packer conveys to Susannah Small one "negro girl."
There is recorded in another place in the Proprietors' records, those "Propriet" y' did not draw for their Home Lotts at the first." The list contains thirty-nine names, a large portion of whom were those taken into the Society from Massachusetts.
While the petition for the grant called for a tract eight miles square, the return of the committee appointed to lay it out specifies that they had located two of the side lines and that "the other two Lines being run parralell to these two Lines will make a Tract of Ten miles Square, Agreeable to the Petition proffered by Henry Sherburne, Clem' Hughes & Compa to and Granted by His Exsellency the Governour & Council. Dated at Portsmouth,
Jan' 4th, 1720-I."
(Signed by) Thos Pierce, Eph™ Dennet, George Pierce, Jos Tilton.
Prov. of
N. Hamp".
Whereas, we the Subscribers were appointed by His Excellency the Govern" & Council a Committee to Lay out a Tract of Land of Ten miles Square adjoyning to Haverhill & Kingston & Exeter, for a Township, and after having duly considered how the Said Tract of Land ought to be Layd out Consonant to the Petition prefered to His Excellency the Gov' and Council by Henry Sherburne, Clem Hughes & Compa, and that the Land may not Infringe on any Former Grant, and having Chosen Capt. Jos Tilton, Capt. Thos Pierce, m' Ephraim Dennet, mr George Pierce, m' Ichd Roby & mr. Jacob Stanyan to run the Lines for ye bounds of ye above Township, we did order and direct them the sª Capt. Tilton, &c., to run the Lines as is Expressed in their return on ye other side; & being persuaded yt ye same will not Infringe on any former Grant, we do allow & Confirm ye s" return as far forth as it Lyes in our Power, and pray that ye same may be allowed and Confirmed by His Excellency the Governour & Council.
Unlike the adjoining town of Londonderry, whose grantees were actual settlers, and on the ground before they procured their charter, the settlement of Chester was a business venture, some- what like the promotion schemes of these later days.
The grantees were non-resident and a very small proportion of them ever resided within the limits of the original grant and
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can be placed in several classes. Of the 125 original grantees only 13 became actual settlers.
First, the original association for settling the "Chestnut Country" formed at Hampton, or Hampton Falls, which included in addition to residents of those places some from Portsmouth, Exeter and Kingston.
Second, people belonging in Haverhill, Bradford and other towns in Massachusetts who were proprietors or purchasers in Haverhill and set up some claim to the Chestnut Country, wishing to procure a grant of it and trying to gain possession, and admitted proprietors by desire of the government.
Third, the Governor and Council and their friends in and about Portsmouth, many of whom secured their places in the lists of grantees as a matter of personal favor, or by such means as might be expected to have influence in those days, as at the present time.
Then there were some who did not properly belong to either of the classes named, not being petitioners, and some joined in the petition but did not become grantees.
The first class had some men prominent in public life but the majority of this and the second class were the substantial men of their towns, the farmers, mechanics and merchants. A few be- came actual settlers at an early date and others settled their sons there but the great majority soon sold out their rights either for the financial gain or to get rid of paying bills without any chance of immediate profit.
The third class were induced to become interested on the expectation of soon disposing of their holdings at a profit, but it is probable that their lots were in such locations that their ex- pectations were never realized.
The grantees soon found that while they had succeeded in getting a title to the desired territory they were not to have immediate undisputed possession. There was much uncertainty about bounds and connecting lines and disputes in regard to same soon ensued, with Haverhill, Exeter, Kingston and Londonderry and it was a matter of over fifty years before a final adjustment was made.
The Society appears to have made a considerable effort by spending time and money to establish their claim even to the building of an enclosing fence around the territory.
The Committee had a meeting June 15, 1720, and examined and allowed various accounts, including one for "Mens days fenc- ing the Chestnut Country and going there to Oppose the Haverhill people."
There were 484 days allowed at an expense of £144-18 which would indicate by the amount and the short time elapsed since their meeting in October that they had begun to enclose their prospective grant before the October meeting referred to.
The Society records show various expenditures on account of law suits as early as the meeting of June 15, 1720, followed by
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others reported at a meeting in 1723. At the 1720 meeting a charge appears for "47/2 gallons of rum, 6 lbs. of sugar of Capt. Sherbune, weh was given ye men at work in the Country," £1-16-6. The whole amount of their account current at this date was £247-7-6.
"At a meeting of the Committee the following persons were admitted proprietors in the Town of Checher agreeable to the Desire of the Govern', viz :
William White, Jona. Clough,
Jona. Emerson,
Thos. Whiting,
Jno. Packer,
Jno. Jaquish,
Jona. Kimball,
Wm. Daniels,
Steph. Webster,
Step. Johnson,
Thos. Silver,
the Rev. Thos. Simms,
Sam1. Ingalls,
Richª Haselton,
James Fales,
Nathan Webster, of Bradford,
Jno. Littlehale,
Richard Jaquish.
Eph. Guile,
At a meeting of the committee Nov. 20, 1720, the following persons were admitted proprietors, viz :
"Capt. Henry Sloper, Jacob Gilman,
James Boid, Ed. Gilman,
Benning Wentworth,
Thos. Smith, in the
Wm. Crosswait,
Room of Richard Swain,
Clem Mishervey,
Robert Ford,
the Revª Nath1 Rogers,
Amos Cass,
Samuel Sherburne, in ye
Room of Wm. Stivens,
Eben' Eastman, Luther Morgan,
Jos. Young, Samuel Thompson."
The first, and a part of the second list, were Massachusetts men, and a part were Exeter men, including probably the petition- ers mentioned May 24, 1720, and was a matter of compromise and put an end to the contest with Haverhill people.
"At a General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Town of Checher held at Hampton the IIth day of January, 1720-1," "Voted, Colº Packer moderator.
"Voted, That each propr that does not Settle pay ten Shillings per year during three years, the whole to be Divided yearly among them that Settles.
"Voted, To Collº Packer, Collº Wiar, Caleb Tole and Sam11 Ingalls the whole Priviledge of the upper Falls on the great Brook forever, to build a Sawmill or mills on, and also ten acres of land gratis on Each Side of sª falls for the sª mills conveniency, with condition that the sª mill shall be fitt to Cutt boards in a Twelve month from this time and that they shall saw at halves the Prop's Loggs, So much as they shall have Occasion for, for Building.
"And those prop"s that Shall have Occasion to buy boards shall be supplied with So many as they shall have occasion for at the Rate of thirty shillings per thousand deld at the mill.
"And if the making of a pond or ponds for sª mill damnifie any of the prop"", the Town shall make good the Damage.
"Voted, that as soon as Thirty Householders are settled there
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Shall be a minister of the Gospel maintained by the whole proprietary : and as soon as fifty families are Settled there shall be a meeting House for the Publick Worship of God built by the Whole Proprietary."
This was a grant of the privilege of the "Old" (Haselton's) sawmill. Samuel Ingalls was one of the grantees, and the Haverhill people were quieted before this.
Thus early, too, was provision made for preaching, and a meeting-house.
At a meeting of the Committee, Jan' 25, 1720-I :
"Voted, that whereas the number of proprietors is con-[a part of this word is torn off] and no provision made for a school master, that the next proprietor that shall Forfeit his Lott the Same Shall [be] appropriated for a School."
At a meeting of the Committee, March 15, 1720-I, "The following accots were recd & allowed of. Act of charges about ye bridge the first time." There are the names of persons and the days worked amounting to sixty-two days.
"Accot of Charges about the Bridge the Second time," eighteen days. "The third time," twenty seven days, the whole amounting to £134:IOS.
This was on the bridge between Sandown and Danville, which was always called "Cheshire Bridge."
"Acct of time Searching the Country," thirty days by five per- sons, £9.
"Acct of Charges in Running the Line." There were twelve men five days each; seven hands four days each, and one man three days, -- £38:16s.
"Accot of Charges Looking and cutting the way,* and keeping possession, &c." There were twelve men six days each; fifteen men four days each; seven men six days each; amounting to £48:12S.
The committee had a bill for settling, from three to ten days each £16:6s., besides collecting the assessments, &c.
Joseph Tilton charges "six days attending the Gov' & Council." "Acc' of Time laying out ye Haverhill mens lots,"- four men six days each, £9:12s.
"Account of Charges Repairing the possession fence,"- seven men two days each, two men four days each, £6:12S.
"Acct of time to Give Evidence at Court,"-two men two days each, fI.
"Acct of time to find if any Trespasª upon the Society,"- four men three days each, £3:12S.
"Account of what allowed the Committee appointed by the Gov- ernor to Lay out ye Town,"- four men one pound each, £4.
*There was probably no kind of a road this side of Kingston Plain, and when they first came to the Chestnut country they must have come through the wilderness on horse-back, if not on foot, and therefore kept south of Exeter river, and come up on to Walnut Hill. But they afterwards looked out and cut a way over Beech Plain, and built some kind of a bridge acress Exeter river, to come through the north part of Sandown.
At the June Term of the Court of Sessions, 1736, the grand jurymen from Londonderry represented that there was no highway from Kingstown to Chester. An order of notice was served on the selectmen of Kingstown, who appeared in 1737, and prayed for time.
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Clement Hughes' charges.
To Attendance on the Govn' 2 days £o:12 To do. on Courts 3 days 0:18
To Pª Dan1 Levit for two horses that run away from people left in the Country to keep possession 7:10
To drawing 2 new mapps
and many other items.
£10:00
Capt. Henry Sherburne charges.
To a book 9s. 6d .; pair of marking irons 3s 6d. 0:13
To a mapp
To So much paid Mrs. Small for expenses wth ye IO
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