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1 Bouton's Concord, 284.
3 Ibid, 281.
2 Ibid, 561.
4 See Funeral Expenses in note at close of chapter.
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sympathy with the practical and even commonplace life of those less favored among whom his lot was cast. Hence, he enjoyed the affec- tion of the people. Weight of character and accompanying personal dignity won universal respect for the blue-eyed, portly parson of medium stature, wearing, according to the fashion of his day, the powdered wig, three-cornered hat, short clothes, and buckled shoes.1 This respect had one manifestation in the custom of his parishioners to remain standing after the Sabbath service, till their minister, with courteous bowing, had passed out of the church. The similar feeling used to be forcibly enough expressed by Ephraim Colby, the Revo- lutionary veteran and sturdy fisticuff and wrestler, when he said, " Parson Walker is the only man the Almighty ever made that I am afraid of." But the dignity of this serious man was without morose- ness ; and it is reported of him that " though not talkative, he was agreeable in social intercourse, and occasionally facetious."1
A "moderate Calvinist," orthodox according to the Westminster Catechism, and tenacious of Puritan Congregationalism, Mr. Walker desired to keep his people united in religious faith and practice, and succeeded in doing so throughout his long ministry. His preaching, however, was more practical than doctrinal, and was embodied in half- hour sermons, carefully written, and calmly, yet effectively, delivered. Moreover, the religion of Concord's first minister embraced love of his country as well as of his God. His patriotism was genuine and ardent; the American cause, during its Revolutionary ordeal,-the actual, though not the formal, close of which he lived to see,-was in his prayers, and its triumph in his hopes-nay, in his faith. This triumph he had foreseen from the beginning of the struggle; but when the tidings of Bennington came to him, he could, with fervent assurance, exclaim, as he did: "Blessed be God ! the country is saved-I can now die in peace !"2 And in that peace did die, five years later, the aged Christian and patriot.
But the venerable pastor, whose efforts had contributed so much to rescue, in 1765, his municipality from chaos, did not live to see its legal name of Town restored. For nineteen years, Concord, much to the distaste of its inhabitants, held the title of " Parish of Bow," . and, in vain, desired a restoration of "the bounds of Rumford." But, at last, on the second day of January, 1784, a legislative act- mentioned in the preceding chapter-annexed " a part of Canterbury . and Loudon to the parish of Concord," thus partially restoring the ancient bounds ; while in the same act, the sensible and desirable provision was added, "that the Parish of Concord be henceforth called the Town of Concord, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary
! Bouton's Concord, 557-8, " Annals of Concord, 44.
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notwithstanding." 1 Thus was restored the proper municipal desig- nation of which the settlement-first, as Rumford, then as Concord- had been deprived for the more than forty years it had been under the jurisdiction of New Hampshire.
NOTES.
Locations. The "middle way " location of the school "in the town street " was a few rods north of the modern Opera House, or the site of Gass's American House. Captain John Chand- ler's residence stood upon the site occupied a century later by Ham- ilton Perkins, and, in 1900, by General Joab N. Patterson. The site of Lot Colby's residence was later occupied by Joseph S. Lund. Bouton's Concord, 244.
Sarah, Countess of Rumford. Dr. Bouton, in History of Concord, 573, gives the following sketch of the eventful life of this lady :- "She was born in the family mansion-the Rolfe house-October 18, 1774. A portion of her early life was spent with her paternal grandmother, at Woburn. After the death of her mother, in 1792, she went to Europe, at her father's invitation, and was introduced into the polite and fashionable circles of Bavaria, of Paris, and of London. Between the death of her father and her own decease she visited this country two or three times ; but her principal residence was at Brompton, near London, in a house which she inherited from her father. A portion of her time she spent in Paris, where she had funds invested. In 1845 she returned to the spot where she was born, to live and-to die. Here she remained in great retirement, having, as her only companion and the solace of her declining years, a young lady whom she adopted when a child, at Brompton." [This young lady was Miss Emma Gannell. She afterwards married Mr. John Burgum of Concord, who was a native of Birmingham, England.] "Occasionally the countess attended public worship at the North church, and visited her family relatives and friends, but spent most of her time in adorning the grounds about her house and fitting things to her taste. By her habits of strict economy the property she inherited, together with her pension of about eight hundred dollars, had accumulated to a very considerable sum at the time of her decease-all which she disposed of by will, partly to family con- nections, but mostly for charitable objects.
1. To the Rolfe and Rumford Asylum, in Concord, $5,000 which she founded-with all her real estate,
apprised at 5,000
2. To the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insanc, 15,000
1 Acts of 1784, p. 531.
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3. To the Concord Female Charitable Society, $2,000
4. To the Boston Children's Friend Society, 2,000
5. For the Fatherless and Widows' Society, Boston, 2,000
She left a legacy of $10,000 to Joseph Amedee LeFebre; a son of her natural brother, Captain LeFebre of the French army, on con- dition that he would. assume the name of Joseph Amedee Rumford. The executor of her will was James F. Baldwin, of Boston, who was a neighbor and personal friend of the countess in youth, and her financial agent in later years. The paintings which she inherited from her father, consisting of a portrait of the Elector of Bavaria, and Prince Maximilian, afterwards king of Bavaria; also, of several ladies of the court, and several of Count Rumford, representing him at different periods of life-were given to Joseph B. Walker, to de- scend at his decease to his son, Charles Rumford Walker. A beau- tiful marble monument is erected to her memory in the old burying- ground, near the Walker family."
Concord Men at Bunker Hill. In Captain Abbot's company were : Joshua Abbot, captain ; Abiel Chandler, second lieutenant ; Jeremiah Abbot, sergeant; Samuel Davis, sergeant; Nathaniel C., Stephen, Reuben, and Amos Abbot ; Jonathan Bradley, Ephraim Colby, Eze- kiel Dimond, Moses and Stephen Hall, William Mitchell, Richard Flood, William Straw, Peter Chandler .- IN Captain Hutchins's com- pany were: Gordon Hutchins, captain ; Daniel Livermore, lieutenant ; Benjamin Abbot, sergeant; Simeon Danforth, corporal; William Walker, corporal ; Robert Livingston, Isaac and Peter Johnson, Abraham Kimball, Thomas Chandler, Joseph Grace, Samuel Straw, Levi Hutchins, fifer; Michael Flanders, drummer ; Ezra Badger .- IN Captain Kinsman's company were: Aaron Kinsman, captain ; Eben- ezer Eastman, lieutenant ; Samuel Thompson, corporal. Most of this company were from other towns .- BESIDES those named above, there were at Bunker Hill the following Concord men: Jonathan Currier, Edward Evans, William Fifield, Timothy Simonds, and Andrew Stone; but to which of the three companies they respectively be- longed is uncertain .- ABIEL CHANDLER, the Concord schoolmaster and surveyor, who led the men who flew to the front at the Lexing- ton alarm, is recorded both as a lieutenant in Captain 'Abbot's com- pany and as adjutant of Stark's regiment. Adjutant-General's Re- port, Vol. II (1866), pp. 265-6 .- CAPTAIN GORDON HUTCHINS was wounded in the battle. His son Levi, fourteen years old, accom- panied him to the front as a fifer, but was not allowed by his father to be present in the battle, though he witnessed it at a distance. The youth was afterwards in service with his father in New York. See Autobiography of Levi Hutchins.
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Continental Service, 1775-6-7. The names of the following eight men were reported by Timothy Walker, Jr., and Benjamin Emery, selectmen, as being in the Continental service for the years 1775-'76 : Jeremiah Abbot, Nathaniel C. Abbot, John Kinkson, William Straw, Andrew Stone, William Walker, Nathaniel Eastman, Jr., and Moses Hall .- IN Colonel Timothy Bedel's regiment, operating in Canada in the spring of 1776, and in the companies commanded respectively by Captains James Osgood and Ebenezer Green, were Concord men. In Captain Osgood's company were: John Webster, lieutenant ; Richard H. Osgood, sergeant; Hubbard Carter, sergeant: Joshua Danforth, corporal ; Nathaniel C. Abbot, Nathaniel Walker, Joseph Lund, Joseph Giles; Ezra, Elias, and Philip Abbot ; Benjamin Fifield, Ezekiel Eastman, Nathan Kinsman, Benjamin Kenniston, Daniel Chandler, Samuel Danford, and William Simonds; in Cap- tain Green's company were Irad Glines, Ebenezer Hall, and Joseph Chanler. Some of the above-mentioned were taken prisoners on the 19th of May, 1776, at the fort called "the Cedars," and were stripped of most of their clothing, and all of their equipments and utensils for camp and field. Among those faring thus were Elias, Ezra, and Philip Abbot, and Benjamin Fifield .- IN a company com- manded by Captain Benjamin Sias of Canterbury, and belonging to Colonel David Gilman's regiment, on service in New York in 1776, were Philbrick Bradley, Peter Blanchard, Amos Abbot, Jr., Daniel Carter, and Richard Flood .- IN 1776 the following Concord men stood enrolled in Captain Joshua Abbot's company : Abiel Chandler, lieutenant; Ephraim Colby, ensign ; Timothy Hall, Jonathan Hasel- tine, Philip Page, Amos Barnes, Terence McColley, Beriah and Moses Abbot, Stephen Hall, Peter Chandler, John Merrill, Seth Spring, John Blanchard, Benjamin Powell, Hezekiah Colby, William Walker, Phinehas Stevens, Jonathan Johnson, Samuel Worthen, Moses Hall, Peter Carey, Jonathan Bradley, and Ephraim Fisk .- FOR Captain Benjamin Emery's company, in Colonel Nahum Bald- win's regiment, of which Gordon Hutchins was lieutenant-colonel, and which reinforced the Continental army in New York in 1776, Concord furnished the following named persons: Aaron Kinsman, ensign ; Israel Glines, Ezra Badger, John Carter, Jonathan Currier, Simeon Colby, Ephraim Kinsman, William and Ezekiel Stickney, Jacob Carter, Solomon Gage, Benjamin Elliot, and Bruce Walker .- IN 1777, in Captain Daniel Livermore's company of the Third New Hampshire regiment, the following Concord names were enrolled : Robert Livingston, sergeant ; Amos Flood, corporal; Abner Hogg, Phinehas Stevens, Daniel Chandler, Philip Rowell, Samuel Worthen, Abiel Stevens, Solomon Fisk, Obadiah Kimball, Abner and Ebenezer
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Farnum, Beriah Abbot, William and Jacob Eastman, John Straw, and Samuel Colby .- AT Ticonderoga, in 1777, the company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Webster of Salisbury, and belonging to Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment, contained the following named Concord men : Richard Herbert, lieutenant; William Simonds, Timothy Bradley, Simeon Danforth ; Isaac, Elias, John, and Ezra Abbot ; Phinehas Stevens, Ezekiel Dimond, John Peters; Nathaniel, John, and Stilson Eastman ; Ebenezer Farnum, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., Abial Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, and Benjamin Rolfe.
Relief of Ticonderoga. In Lieutenant-Colonel Gerrish's regiment, raised in Concord and vicinity, and which marched July 5th, 1777, for the relief of Ticonderoga, and having marched seventy-five miles, was met by the news of the evacuation of the fort, and turned back to be discharged on the 12th of July, were the following men from Concord : Richard Herbert, lieutenant; William Simonds, Timothy Bradley, John Chase ; Richard, Joseph, Nathaniel, John, and Stilson Eastman ; Simeon Danforth, Isaac and Elias Abbot, Daniel and Ebenezer Farnum, John Peters, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., Abial Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, Phinehas Stevens, Ezekiel Dimond, and Benjamin Rolfe. (With these are set down the following who may not have belonged to Concord : Jacob Heath, Stephen Haines, John Cross, and Peter Blanchard.)
Committees of Safety. The Committees of Safety for the three years following 1776 were: For 1777, John Kimball, Thomas Stickney, Reuben Kimball, Benjamin Emery, and Richard Herbert; for 1778, Lieutenant Joseph Hall, Captain Josh- ua Abbot, John Kim- ball, James Walker, and Lieutenant John Chand- ler; in 1779, Lieutenant John Chand- ler, Colonel Thos. Stick- ney, and Cap- tain Aaron Kinsman. -- Town Rec-
" Elm-Croft."
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ords, 153, 164, 172. Philip Eastman, of East Concord, was chairman of the first committee, or that of 1776-the members of which are named in the text. The committee meetings were frequently held in the southeast corner room on the first floor of the well-built, capacious house erected by Mr. Eastman in 1755; a house, which-it may be here added in passing-was to be occupied by his descendants in direct line to the fourth generation, and to stand, in the possession of Jonathan Eastman Pecker, in 1900, a finely preserved type of a colonial mansion, bearing the name of " Elm-Croft."
Association Test of 1776. The following is a list of the subscribers to the Association Test, the words of which are given in the text :
Reuben Kimball,
Joseph Hall,
Amos Abbot, jr.,
John Kimball,
Richard Hazeltine,
William Coffin,
Thomas Stickney,
Joseph Hall, jr.,
Joseph Abbot,
Peter Green,
Benjamin Fifield,
Jonathan Merrill,
Timy Walker, jr.,
Reuben Abbott,
James Mitchell,
John Bradley,
Nathan Chandler,
Lot Colby, Jonathan Eastman, Daniel Chase,
Ezra Carter, Asa Kimball,
Aaron Stevens,
David George,
Timothy Bradley, jr.,
James Walker,
John Stevens,
Joseph Eastman,
Robert Davis,
John Virgin,
Phineas Virgin,
Benj. Hanniford,
Phineas Stevens,
William Currier,
Daniel Gale,
Jabez Abbot,
Ebenezer Simond,
David Hall,
Benjamin Abbot,
Dan Stickney,
Simon Danforth,
Ebenezer Hall,
Josiah Farnum, jr.,
Nathaniel Abbot,
Henry Martin,
Elisha Moody,
Nathaniel Rolfe,
Timothy Simonds,
Benjamin Eastman,
Stephen Greenleaf,
William Fifield,
Jacob Green, Benjamin Farnum,
Samuel Thompson, John Gage,
Samuel Butters,
Ebenezer Virgin,
Moses Eastman, jr., Jacob Carter,
Henry Beck,
Edward Abbott, Jonathan Stickney,
John Fowle, Ilis Levi X Ross, mark
Oliver Hoit,
Eph'm Farnum, jr.,
Jeremiah Bradley,
Ebenezer Farnum, Ephraim Farnum, John Steven, (?) Moses Eastman,
William Virgin, Obadiah Hall, George Abbot, Josiah Farnum, Joseph Farnum, Stephen Kimball,
Daniel Hall,
Abner Flanders,
.
Timothy Bradley, Ephraim Farmmin, Cornelius Johnson, Philip Eastman,
Chandler Lovejoy, Samuel Kinkson, Caleb Buswell,
Timo. Walker, [Rev.] Ephraim Potter,
Benjamin Rolfe,
Theodore Farnum,
Peter Green, jr., Amos Abbot,
Reuben Abbott, jr.,
Jonathan Emerson,
Benjamin Emery,
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Daniel Abbot,
Richard Eastman,
Nathan Abbot,
Richard Flanders,
Solomon Gage,
Jesse Abbot,
Joseph Farnum,
Ezekiel Dimond, jr.,
Joseph Eastman, jr.,
Isaac Abbot, His John X Trumble, Ephraim Abbot, mark. Joseph Colby,
Timothy Symonds, Philip Kimball,
Stephen Abbot,
George Abbot, jr.,
Ephraim Fisk,
Timothy Kimball,
Stephen Farnum,
Nathaniel Green,
John Farnum,
Daniel Farnum,
Thomas Wilson,
Ezekiel Carter,
Daniel Chandler,
Isaac Walker,
Richard Hood,
Philip Carigain,
Ezra Badger,
Henry Lovejoy,
Daniel Carter,
Richard Flanders,
Lemuel Tucker,
Joseph Clough,
Timothy Farnham,
Jacob Goodwin,
Richard Herbert,
Ezekiel Dimond,
George Graham, Jeremiah Wheeler,
Gordon Hutchins,
Joseph Haseltine,
Zephaniah Pettey,
William Haseltine,
Robert Ambros,
Zebediah Farnum,
Simon Trumbel,
Benjamin Sweat,
Samuel Goodwin,
John Chase,
Abiel Blanchard,
Abner Farnum,
John Shute,
Jacob Shute,
Benjamin Elliot, James Stevens,
Thomas Eaton.
James Haseltine,
Phineas Kimball,
Bennington. Of Colonel Thomas Stickney's regiment in General Stark's brigade at Bennington, August, 1777, there were, from Con- cord : Thomas Stickney, colonel ; Richard Herbert, lieutenant ; Jesse, John, Elias, Ephraim, Ezra, and Stephen Abbot ; Timothy Johnson, Benjamin Ambrose, Philbrick Bradley, Simeon Danforth, Reuben Dimond, Benjamin Elliot, Theodore Farnum, Richard Flood, Abner Flanders, Samuel Kinsman, John Peters, Ephraim Fisk, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., David George, Solomon Gage, Israel Glines, Abial Hall, Anthony Potter, Phinehas Stevens, William Simonds, Simon Trum- ble, and Gilman West. Of those named above Philbrick Bradley was wounded in the battle. John Abbot, uncle of the subsequent mayor of Concord, received a ball on the breast-bone, which fell harmless at his feet. He was the stoutest young man in Concord, as well as one of the tallest, standing six feet seven inches without shoes. Bouton's Concord, 629.
Saratoga. In Captain Joshua Abbot's company of volunteers that marched to reinforce the Northern army at Saratoga, in September, 1777, were: Reuben Kimball, lieutenant; James Mitchell, sergeant ; Moses Abbot, sergeant ; Amos Abbot, corporal ; Jacob Carter, drum- mer ; John Farnum; Moses, Stilson, Jonathan, and Joseph Eastman ; Ezekiel Dimond, Phinehas Virgin, Daniel Farnum, Chandler Love- joy, Enoch Coffin, James Johnson, Reuben and Philip Abbot, Ezekiel
Richard Potter, .
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Stickney, Timothy Hall, John Peters, Michael Flanders, Isaac Di- mond, John Sillaway, and Benjamin Rolfe.
Rhode Island Expedition, 1778. In Colonel Stickney's regiment, raised for the defense of Rhode Island, were Peaslee Eastman, Jacob and Josiah Flanders, and Josiah Chandler.
New Levies in 1780. These were in service six months. Of these were : Joshua Graham, Thomas Carr, Daniel Stickney, Aaron and Peaslee Eastman, John Peters, Jonas Wyman, Benjamin Thompson, and Jonathan Moulton.
For Three Months' Service in 1780-'81. In Captain Aaron Kins- man's company of Colonel Stickney's regiment were enlisted the fol- lowing persons: Elias Abbot, Gilman and Edward West, Reuben and Joseph Blanchard, Ephraim Fisk, John Dow, Keyes and Benjamin Bradley, Josiah Flanders, Ebenezer Gray, Elisha Virgin, William Eastman .- IN July, 1781, the following persons enlisted with no special assignment recorded: Jeremiah Virgin, Jeremiah Chandler, Moses Read, Phinehas Ayer, Joseph Blanchard, David Eastman, Millen Kimball.
Ranger Service, 1782. In Captain Webster's company for defense of the frontiers, were : Abner Flanders, sergeant; Henry Eastman, private .- IN general conclusion to the preceding notes of the pres- ent chapter, containing lists of Concord men, who, under various assignments, served in the Revolution, may be added the names of some whose times and places of service-with one exception-are not known. They are: David Davis, fifer; Simeon Locke, John Thompson, Joshua Thompson (aid to Lafayette), Moses Chase, Eben- ezer Foss, Samuel Walker, Thomas or Benjamin Powell, Salem Colby (negro), Eliphalet Caswell, Nathan Shead, Thomas Pitts, Joseph Hale, Ephraim Hoyt, Nathan Stevens, Timothy Abbot, David Blan- chard, Jonathan Chase, Peter Manual, Benjamin Chase, Enoch Bad- ger, and Moses Reed. Possibly some of these were not citizens, but were only " hired " for Concord.
Dr. Carrigain. On the 13th of June, 1777, a special committee of the house, appointed to consider what was the best to be done with " John Maloney and Dr. Callighan, persons suspected to be inimical to the liberties of this State," reported that "they be com- mitted to the gaol in Exeter for safe-keeping." Journal of House, State Papers, Vol. VIII, 585. There is no further record. "Dr. Callighan " probably meant Dr. Carrigain ; and it is reasonable to suppose that the good Concord doctor was not held long in durance vile.
" Merchant Stevens." John Stevens was an Englishman by birth, and a gentleman of good education. He came to Concord from
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Charlestown, Mass., and went into trade with Colonel McMillan, in the store on the northwest corner of Main and Pleasant streets. He built an addition, and fitted the upper story into a hall which was variously used, and, occasionally, as a place of meeting for the house of representatives. He bought for his wife the house built by Stephen Farrington, and situated near what was afterwards to be the northwest corner of State and Pleasant streets (in 1900-'01 the site of the Wonolancet Club House). His purchase included the adja- cent field .- How the merchant was arrested and imprisoned for alleged Toryism is told in the text; also that he never forgave the town for prosecuting him on what he declared was a false charge. He died on the 25th of December, 1792, in the forty-fifth year of his age. "Some time before he died," says Dr. Bouton, " he said to his wife, -. Wife, I am a justice of the peace, and I wish you to make oath, before me, that when I am dead, you will see that I am buried between those two apple-trees [pointing them out] ; that no citizen of Concord shall follow me to the grave ; no minister be present ; that you will pay one crown apiece the four men who bear out my body and bury it.' His wife demurred to taking the oath, but promised to do as he wished. He was buried accordingly. His bearers were Zenas Wheeler, Job Page, Daniel Page, and . Several years afterwards, when the house owned by Col. William Kent was moved on to the spot [just west of the Farrington house ], the bones of Stevens were dug up, put in a box, and re-interred in the back part of the same lot, where they remain unknown to this day."
Maximum Prices. The following were some of the maximum prices established in 1777, " to prevent monopoly and oppression," as mentioned in the text. Wheat could " not exceed the price of seven shillings per bushel ; " rye, five; Indian corn, four ; oats, two shill- ings and sixpence ; potatoes, in the fall of the year, one shilling and fourpence-at any other season, two shillings ; butter, ninepence, per pound ; cheese, sixpence; salt pork, nincpence-fresh, fourpence three farthings ; veal, threepence ; beef, grass-fed, threepence-stall- fed, fourpence ; grass-fed mutton, fourpence ; oak wood on the town street, eight shillings a cord; men's neat leather shoes, nine shillings a pair ; women's, seven shillings and threepence; flip and toddy made of New England rum, one shilling per mug or bowl ; victuals at the tavern, one shilling per meal; cider, at the press, eight shill- ings per barrel-other seasons of the year, in proportion-and three- pence per mug ; flax, one shilling per pound; wool, two shillings and sixpence ; yarn stockings, seven shillings a pair ; English hay, of best quality, six dollars per load in the field ; farming labor in the best season, three shillings and sixpence a day-at other seasons, in pro-
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portion ; shoeing a yoke of oxen, four shillings ; a horse, steel-corked, seven shillings-in other ways, in proportion ; plow irons, one shill- ing per pound ; hoes, six shillings apiece ; chains and yoke irons, one shilling and threepence per pound ; carpenter's labor, four shillings per day ; joiner's, three shillings and sixpence ; tailor's, three shill- ings-the making of a full suit of woolen clothes, one pound four shillings ; woman's common labor, two shillings and sixpence per week ; wool hats, nine shillings apiece ; mason's labor, four shillings and sixpence ; men's half boots of the best sort, thirteen shillings and sixpence per pair ; tow cloth a yard wide, two shillings and sixpence per yard-other widths, in proportion ; the best of all-wool cloth, dressed fit for men's wear, three-quarters wide, nine shillings per yard.
Judge Walker's Store. This historic building was afterwards re- moved to the west side of Main street, upon a site not far from the junction of Main and Penacook streets, where it has stood, occupied as a dwelling, to the present time (1900).
Recorded Assignment of Pews. In March, 1784, the parish raised a committee consisting of Captain Reuben Kimball, Colonel Timothy Walker, Lieutenant John Bradley, John Kimball, and James Walker, " to vendue the pews, and finish the meeting-house"; with instruc- tion " to proceed to finish the outside of the same the ensuing sum- mer."-Town Records, 216-17. On the 21st of March, 1786, the town clerk was " directed to record the pews in the meeting-house to those persons who " had " purchased and paid for the same."-Town Records, 226. The following is the record of pews, with their re- spective numbers prefixed to the names of the persons entitled thereto, as, in substance, set down in Town Records, 229-30 :
On Floor. No. 1. Reserved for use of minister; 2. Col. Timothy Walker ; 3. Timothy and Philbrick Bradley; 4. Nathan and Jesse Abbot ; 5. Stephen Farnum ; 6. Lieut. Joseph Haseltine ; 7. Lieut. Benjamin Farnum ; 8. Capt. Richard Ayer ; 9. Lieut. Timothy Dix ; 10. Thomas Wilson ; 11. Ensign Ephraim Colby ; 12. Abel Harris ; 13. Major William Duncan ; 14. Capt. Benjamin Emery ; 15. Will- iam Coffin ; 16. Dr. Peter Green; 17. Benjamin Hannaford ; 18. John Blanchard ; 19. John Souther ; 20. Ensign John Odlin ; 21. Abel Harris ; 22. Stephen Kimball ; 23. Isaac Abbot ; 24. Lieut. Richard Herbert ; 25. Ebenezer H. Goss and Nathaniel Rolfe, Jr. ; 26. Col. Thomas Stickney ; 27. Lieut. Robert Davis ; 28. David Hall; 29. James Walker; 30. Capt. Reuben Kimball ; 31. Lieut. Joseph Farnum ; 32. Ezra Carter; 33. Ebenezer Dustin ; 34. Rich- ard Haseltine ; 35. Col. Peter Green ; 36. Licut. John Bradley ; 37. Ebenezer Hall; 38. Benjamin Rolfe and Ephraim Farnum; 39. En-
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