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Electric Co-operative, Inc. Its high-tension transmission line comes in from the Nutting district at South Sunapee, perforce keeping away from town roads, which are already under fran- chise. Excellent service is rendered in localities not developed by Mutual Public Service. This is particularly true at the Rand's Pond area and Goshen Center.
Enterprises Created by the Automobile
H. M. Booth
Of the new stores designed primarily for the needs of the new age of gasoline and rubber-tires, that of Horace M. Booth, was easily first and foremost. While still continuing his blacksmith- ing on a part-time basis, he had entirely rebuilt the "Gran'sir Keyes" house at the north end of the street and in 1914 he built a new store and lunch-room directly opposite it. Here he put in the first gasoline-pump (hand operated then) to be owned in town; groceries and autoing accessories were on sale, in addition to the lunchroom business which was carried on actively for fifteen years. Following the Great Hurricane (1938) he set up a saw-mill a short distance east of the store and by this means sal- vaged his own fallen timber.
L. Y. Bowlby
Not since the days of "Uncle John" Chandler had a carpenter built so many houses in town as did Lenly Y. Bowlby. That his name is included among the storekeepers is due to a brief diversion in 1927 when he purchased of Charles Vadney the old Reddington place at the intersection of Routes 10 and 31. Not that his carpentering was suspended, but directed toward a new purpose. The long, rambling house with its fading red paint was entirely reconstructed into an attractive home of Dutch Colonial type. A lunch room and store closely adjoined, flanked by gas-pumps. The location was well-chosen and he began the development of a cabin-court. However, the restrictions imposed by his new role were not to his liking and upon completion of his original plan, he sold the property, to return to full-time building.
The Chas. W. Hendrickson house, a new development, and
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TOBACCO AND AUTO. SUPPLIES
Loaned by Mrs. Minnie Booth
Gas Station of Horace M. Booth, about 1918; Mr. Booth at pump, H. B. Welch, center, a photographer of New Haven, Conn., who summered at the Chas. A. Newton's, with Mrs. Booth and Burk and Marvin at left.
Loaned by Mrs. Minnie Booth
F. L. Hanson Store and Post Office, 1906. The Washington-Newport Stage awaits mail and passengers, with Charles Trow, veteran mail-carrier, driving.
Loaned by Mrs. Minnie Booth
North Main Street of Village, showing old Mills in center, with Oak Hill in background.
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the Maurice Tenney place, in a similarly scenic setting; also the two houses at the Corner, nearly identical, belonging to George E. Ayotte and Richard N. Pierce, are examples of his handi- work. In addition to these new houses he contracted numerous remodeling jobs, many so extensive as to practically constitute a new building. Among these must be noted: the Village Store, while owned by J. G. Pike; the Col. Dingwall farmhouse at the Center; the Former Althine F. Lear residence, now Edith F. Pike's.
He m. March 3, 1900, Miss Inez A. Trow, dau. of Henry P. and Jennie (Gregg) Trow; b. 1880; d. 1950. He was b. 1875; d. 1951.
Cook's Sugar River Farm
New proprietors, Charles B. and Mildred Cook of Glen Ridge, N. J., purchased the Bowlby property in 1937, naming it "Sugar River Farm." The lunch-room promptly gained fame for its southern-style foods and excellent service. A gift-shop was opened. New cabins were built, with the accommodations and improved appearance demanded by the changing times. Grounds and quarters were meticulously kept. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cook and their sons, Collier and Richard, took an active part in church and community life. Mr. Cook was one of the prime movers in making and erecting signs appropriately lettered "Land O' Goshen" at points where town-lines crossed the main roads. The family removed from town in 1943.
College Hi-Way Cabins
The present owner of the Cook property is Nils Ronning, Norwegian by birth, who bought from Charles DuPre in 1953. Buildings and grounds had deteriorated somewhat and Mr. Ronning applied himself at once to necessary repairs and re- painting with noticeable results. He makes many of the gifts and novelties displayed for sale in the shop and both he and Mrs. Ronning are known for their hospitality to the traveling public. Following the deer-hunting season during the first three weeks of December, when the region swarms with hunters, the place is closed until spring.
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C. C. Mactavish, Signs
The several existing town-industries, though small in them- selves, are contributing to the welfare of many while proving Goshen's artisans to be in the forefront of their respective classes. A convincing illustration of this is furnished by the artistic signs of Clarence C. MacTavish, retired Chicago businessman. The signs are to be encountered at almost every turn in the Mount Sunapee-Lake region. His studio is at the brick house in the North district.
Louis Wood Products
In 1941 Louis Ayotte, carpenter and builder by trade, returned to Goshen after several years' absence and purchased the vacant Coutermarsh store-building from the Citizen's Bank of Newport, temporary custodian. He immediately opened a garage, obtained the Postmastership of the Goshen office and a contract for driv- ing the school-bus. This highly-successful business was sold in 1947 to Walter Stevens, a native of Bradford. In 1952, however, Mr. Ayotte again resumed the property, this time transforming it into a woodworking shop with the title, Louis' Wood Products. Adapting the production-methods learned in the machine-shop, he has built up an extensive and lucrative business. Outdoor picnic tables and folding lawn chairs have occupied his attention largely during the past summer, in addition to custom building of fine furniture and filing-cabinets of various sizes and styles. Lumber used is expensive veneers and kiln-dried stock brought in from wholesale-firms in Massachusetts. He has also found time to insert large picture-windows around the living-rooms of the Village Store, combined with interior decorating, having pro- duced much of the material needed, such as mouldings and sash, in his own shop.
W. R. Nelson, Wheelbarrows
See a wheelbarrow painted brown in Rochester, Millsfield, Pembroke or Cornish and it's a ten-to-one chance it was Nelson- made in Goshen. A couple of thousand of them have been dis- tributed throughout New Hampshire by the Merrimack Farmer's Ex., Inc., and are in current demand.
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Wheelbarrow-beginnings were laid in 1933 in the old Nelson cooper-shop (1882-5), still tucked away in its cove beside the Gunnison Brook. They were an aftermath of the Great Depres- sion, in some degree, and followed a long line of articles made from native woods. There had been folding saw-horses (1904-07) made of white maple from the Henry Gilman lot and shipped to Boston wholesalers at $1.75 per dozen. There were lawn-swings, also of white maple, (1908-15), very popular and showing a margin of profit not accruing to the saw-horses. A patented chain- hanging cow-stanchion, with original features which were later adapted for use by a nationally-known barn-equipment manu- facturer, was next brought out (1915-17) but failed to gain de- mand.
The building of Nelson Bros. butter factory nearby, in 1916, interrupted the wood-working, which had been part-time at best, until 1932, when the door of the weathered old shop, stud- ded with hand-made nails of a previous century, opened for business again, with a few lawn-swings and a wheelbarrow now and then, to be peddled about Lake Sunapee. A quite elaborate novelty was launched in 1935-6, Mother Goose Decorative Cro- quet Wickets, hand painted wooden characters after the nursery classics, with re-inforcing hoops. Electricity and new machines had been installed meanwhile, replacing water-power and its later supplement, the gasoline-engine. The decorative wickets might have proved a success had funds been available for ad- vertising on a national scale. A fortunate placement of wheel- barrows with the young and growing co-operative gave them ade- quate distribution. Steel wheels, with which the earlier barrows were equipped, have been since relegated to minor sale by the demand for rubber tires. All the iron braces required in assem- bling are forged out at the shop. Output is necessarily limited.
Camp Soangetaha, Y.M.C.A.
An early project of the Sullivan County Y.M.C.A., a summer camp for teen-agers, was first inaugurated in 1912 at the Baynes Bird Sanctuary in Meriden. The following year, however, a tract of land bordering the east and south shores of Rand's Pond in Goshen was leased from George B. Bartlett. A lodge was immedi-
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ately erected in the spruce-grove and troops of youngsters, boys in July and girls in the month of August, made their appearance in the broad playing-field adjoining, and filled the Village church at Sunday morning services, with camp-cars, as well as locals, shuttling hurriedly back and forth to provide transportation. The distance, about two miles, was finally decided too great for practical consideration and chapel-services were instituted at the camp.
In Feb., 1926, the "Y" group purchased the tract involved and a constantly expanding program has been furthered, until the plant now includes, in addition to the lodge, an infirmary, director's cottage, seven cabins, a store building, arts and crafts building, pump-houses and two new tent-units. One of the finest sandy beaches to be found anywhere extends across the south- west shore and is a prime attraction.
Directors who remained for a period of years became much beloved by their youthful charges. Of these, Maynard L. Car- penter, "Al" Davis and Leland ("Lee") Brigham were outstand- ing.
Norman F. vanGulden of Claremont is the present director.
The '30's were memorable for their slowly-recovering financial economy, the W.P.A. and the C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corps). A rather extensive C.C.C. camp was located on the Mummery Brook in Goshen, consisting of a half-dozen frame- buildings built to the west and north of a drill-oval and filled with youths from the New England area. Discipline under U. S. Army officers was maintained and the building of the camps furnished local carpenters a measure of highly-needed employ- ment. The camps were practically deserted within a space of three years and were soon torn down.
Less wholesome, though equally illustrative of the "New Deal" no doubt, was the surplus commodities distribution, made first under the direction of the selectmen, later by a truck which arrived on specified days at the library. The jollity and fraternal chatter of the waiting group was presumably hard enough for their more self-denying neighbors to bear, but when the dried
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fruit, butter, flour and various foodstuffs borne by the truck was generously portioned out it made many a thoughtful citizen wonder if the thing he saw was good.
Rising Values in Real Estate-Development at Rands Pond, etc.
For two decades local real-estate dealers and loan-agencies have been aware of a fact, little publicized, that Goshen property brought a higher sales price than similar properties in the sur- rounding area. Explanations for this might differ, some saying it was because of uniformly-good roads; to others it was the active church and grange that made its appeal, or that accessibility to employment was offered. But to townsfolk the reason was sim- plicity itself-Goshen was a good place in which to live!
A praiseworthy development has come about at Rand's Pond, where for years the Y.M.C.A. Camp Soangetaha quite understand- ably discouraged the exploitation of adjacent shores. Begin- ning with a few very modest cottages at the southwest approach to the pond in 1912-15, an access-road was slowly extended by the town util, in 1949, Arnold G. Purmort of Newport bought the Morey-Hawkins lot to the north and began its development.
When all his shore-lots had been successfully sold, his brother, Richard Purmort, associated with "Jed" Hitchcock of Newport, purchased (1955) the Eckberg property, formerly the old Rand farm, and initiated a vigorous program of development. This purchase completed the shore-line remaining around the north and east sides of the pond and abutting against the "Y" land. Lots, of standard 100-ft. water-frontage, have been laid out and sold practically as fast as surveyed, under safeguarding restric- tions that assure only attractive structures. Electric service has been brought in.
On Morrison Hill, slightly west of the Mount Sunapee State Park, two rather elaborate new houses have been recently built, one by R. W. Mortensen, the second by Geo. A. Dorr, Jr., both men being associated in the Dorr Woolen Co., of Guild. The same peerless panorama of mountain and valley seen from the chair-lift is here spread to west and north far across the state of Vermont, yet the situation is but a short distance from the black-top road leading to Edgemont. Actually they are both
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served by a rejuvenated section of the Province Road.
Another new house, with its view but slightly shortened by reduced altitude, has been built by Ralph Galpin, a Dorr em- ployee, a quarter-mile to the west, opposite the little cemetery.
More houses seem assured to follow these on the old thorough- fare, the Province Road, preserving as it does an old-time at- mosphere, with modern necessities readily available. An im- proved roadway is being extended by allocation of T.R.A. funds.
Resident Voters of the Town and Elected Officials, 1956
Moderator - John H. Newman
Selectmen - William H. Brown Arthur W. Nelson, Jr. Roscoe H. Scranton
Representative to the General Court, 1955 Session - Walter R. Nelson
Town Clerk and Tax Collector - Helen A. Brigham
Treasurer - Cloie B. Young
Road Agent for Town Roads - Harold I. Hodgman
Constable and Chief of Police, Charles S. Abbott
Fire Warden, Arthur W. Nelson, Jr.
Overseer of the Poor, Olive Mcclellan
Supervisors of the Check List and Trustee of Trust Funds - Otho L. Nelson, Imri G. Crane, Harry G. Bartlett
Expenditures for Town Purposes, Year of 1955 $11,707.86
Amount Raised for School purposes 14,619.59
Tax Rate, $47.00 per $1,000
Total gross valuation before exemptions allowed
$449,618.00
Less Soldiers' Exemptions
31,800.00
Net valuation on which Tax Rate is computed $417,818.00
Certified Check List of Goshen voters in Presidential Election, November 6, 1956:
(188 votes cast; Eisenhower 139; Stevenson 49)
NOTE: For purposes of identification, the wife's name follows that of her husband:
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Abbott, Adelle Abbott, Charles S. Marjorie T.
Ayotte, Adelard
Edward V.
Eva E. Ayotte, Louis A. Albina M.
deMonseigle, Anna
DeRobertis, Albert A.
Camille F.
Ayotte, Alfred Daisy O. Ayotte, Louis A. II
Baker, Edwin I. Phyllis M.
Faughnan, Michael Mary P.
Barker, Harold E. Lucy B.
Felton, Charles A. Elizabeth C.
Field, Carson M.
Bartlett, Harry G. Sarah A.
Fritschy, Emil Claire M.
Benes, Emil Edna L.
Berquist, Frank J. Gladys P.
Berquist, David A.
Cecilia F.
Blanchard, Winslow R. Annie A.
Gladue, Louis J. Edith L.
Gladue, Marguerite
Bonneau, Lillian
Goyette, Beatrice
Brunner, Ralph Elma B.
Goyette, Eugene J. Corrine
Gregg, George C. Ethel A.
Gobin, Robert Hazel
Hall, Walter R.
Harold, John
Harold, Neil F.
Hatch, Harold Mabel
Carr, Elizabeth
Carter, Bertrand Marjorie A.
Chartier, Edwin C. Alvina
Childs, Clyde F. Eleanor C.
Clements, Ina
Crane, Imri G. Ada M. Currier, Andrew H. Muriel V.
Dandrow, Lottie E. Dane, George W.
Bertha A.
Danielson, Edwin Dagmar
Ayotte, George E. Nellie J.
Dickerman, Gerald Betty D. Dubois, Floyd C. Hilda B.
Bartlett, George B., Jr. Lillie M.
Dorothy P.
Galpin, Ralph W. J. Frances E.
Gauley, William M.
Booth, Wilhemina
Brigham, Helen A.
Brown, William H. Maude W.
Bullock, Frank
Campbell, Wilbur F. Lorraine H.
Caron, George J. Rachel G.
Henault, William Lena M.
Henderson, Ronald C. Catherine Hendrickson, Charles M. Elmi Heusner, Robert C. Hill, Herschel E. Ada B. Hodgman, Frank H. Ievonne
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Hodgman, Harold I. Rae N. Holm, William M. Hunter, Daniel W. Hazel A. Huot, Yvette
Johnson, Frank J. Minnie A. Kathan, Elmore A. Joan E. Keach, Gertrude
Kempton, Wilson S., Jr. Julia M.
Kingsbury, Armentes B. Gladys La Pointe, Gedeon E. Emma M.
Leavitt, Albert O. Dorothy M. Lewis, Arthur B.
Lund, Frank W. Mary A. MacTavish, Clarence C. Lillian M.
Mason, Harry J. Hazel A.
Mason, Howard C. Josephine M.
Mantere, Kenneth R.
Mcclellan, Maurice E. Olive M. McGhee, Jack S. Janet
Merrigan, Paul H. Ruth S.
Michaelson, Oscar Alice C.
Morse, Fred L. Lillian
Morse, Malcolm Arline Morse, Carrie C.
Mortensen, Charles A. Grace E. Mortensen, Rudolf W.
Mullineaux, Harry O. Mullineaux, Minnie C. Nelson, Arthur W., Jr. Elizabeth T. Nelson, Otho L.
Alice E. Nelson, Walter R. Elizabeth M.
Newman, John H. Doris N. Neufeld, Edith
Newton, Charles S. Lucy E. Oliphant, Claude J. Marjorie N.
Parks, Arthur C. Stella E.
Pertusio, Rene H. Grace L. Pelletier, Patricia F. Pierce, Richard M. Betty A.
Pike, John G. Mabel K.
Pike, Edith F.
Pratt, Howard M. Elizabeth G.
Purmort, Richard A. Rita E. Pysz, Eugene
Jean E.
Richardson, Bernard T. Dorothea E.
Richardson, Josephine M.
Richardson, Maurice T. Robbins, Paul L. Katheryn L.
Rochford, Paul M.
Ronning, Nils C. Marie G.
Rollins, Bernard S. Alice M.
Roper, William E.
Rosenthal, Karl
Rossiter, Edward W.
Rossiter, Marjorie A. Robillard, Brayton Margaret A.
Scranton, Inez V.
Scranton, Ivan E. Ruth A.
Scranton, Roscoe H. Grace M. Scranton, John H. Scranton, Robert E.
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Skinner, Robert A.
Tenney, John M.
Margaret G.
Towle, Annie
Stelljes, John Barbara
Trudeau, Amos, Jr. Aldea Warburton, Harry A. Virginia
Stevens, William H. Lois M.
Steele, John C. Shirley H.
Wex, Helmut H. Erika G. M.
Tatro, Martin T. Pearl Teague, Fred E. Adeline H.
Williamson, Stanley H. Esther G.
Young, Cloie B.
Tenney, Maurice E. Helen S.
CHAPTER XXX
Military
More Revolutionary Data
S ERVICE records of the men resident in Saville-Goshen dur- ing the Revolution have already been given in detail. Many who had served in the Colonial forces from other towns later settled in Goshen and lived, died and are buried here. To them equal honor must be given. As accurately as possible, their names and records will follow.
Under date of June 4, 1777, Capt. Eliphalet Daniel's Com- pany of Mattrosses united in a protest to the General Assembly, then sitting at Exeter, alleging that after being in the service of the state "near a twelvemonth past," inflation brought on by the war had caused their wages (forty one shillings per month) to be practically cut in half and asked for relief. Three, at least, of the signers of this petition, Thomas Rogers, Hatevil Dame and a nephew, Edward Dame, became residents of Goshen in ensuing years.
Rogers was reticent in after life to make capital of his war service, saying that it was merely home guard duty at Fort Sullivan, on the harbor. He was living at Kittery, Me., in 1818- 19; of Eliot, Me., 1820, aged 59 years, with wife Eunice, 63 yrs. of age and nephew, John Place, 8 yrs. old; was pensioned for service; living in Goshen in Sept., 1823. (N. H. Pension Papers)
James Libby, of Portsmouth (1777) Hopkinton (1818) and Goshen (1821) was "one of the guards of the Canadian soldiers who were taken at the capture of Burgoyne," statement verified by Thomas Thurber (Ibid). Dec. 6, 1821, the selectmen of Goshen, John Currier and Oliver Booth, certified to his need of a pension, and on the 12th of the following February, 1822, Samuel Sischo and Wilson S. Pike added their affidavits in like vein; pension was allowed. He was a farmer and lived to an advanced age. June 1, 1840, at 89 yrs. of age, he was residing
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with Samuel White of Goshen (See Libby). Sixty five years had passed since Bunker Hill, but there were four other Revolu- tionary pensioners living in town in 1840:
Mary Chase, 76 (probable widow of John Chase, private, N. H. Militia; pensioned March 4, 1831, age 78.)
Lydia Mclaughlin, 78, residing with Ebenezer Stevens.
Edward Dame, priv. and drummer; moved from Kittery, Me., to Goshen, in 1787; died March 4, 1843, aged 87.
Samuel Sischo, 84, residing with Samuel Sischo.
Mrs. Grindle, at ninety four, applied for a pension July 17, 1839. Pension was allowed; widow's certificate No. 4028.
Abel Blood, a Revolutionary veteran, removed from Maine, subsequent to the war, and settled on Blood Hill in Bradford Center. The General, as he was known by his townsmen, came to his son Lemuel's, in Goshen, soon after 1840, where he died Aug. 19, 1852, at the age of 94. His wife, Hannah, d. Nov. 9, 1850, aged 91 yrs .; both buried at North Goshen. The "Gen- eral" was a frank and jovial soul who delighted to appear on public occasions wearing a cocked hat or some other memento of his martial career .*
In one skirmish, of which he often told, his detachment had sought shelter from the British fire in a barn, when a ball came splintering through the building. He at once sat down with his back to the hole made by the ball, saying, "They can't hit this hole again!" It is told that he regularly came to town-meetings, where he was assisted up the town-house steps by a relative or bystander, and then, pulling off his tasseled red cap, would go up to vote with a lusty huzzah! while twirling his cap above his head.
This penchant for publicity had become celebrated in Brad- ford. It was during General Lafayette's last visit to America that his journeyings brought him to Bradford in late June, 1825. He was met at the Warner line by a group of distinguished citizens. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and upon his ar- rival in the village old Gen. Abel Blood, arrayed in a suit of
*Hon. Bainbridge Wadleigh, Bradford Centennial Celebration.
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regimentals, became so transported with emotion at the sight of his beloved commander that he flung his cocked hat into the carriage, striking Gen. Lafayette in the face, but inflicting no serious injury. Lafayette was taken into the hall of the Raymond House and seated upon a platform and the people were pre- sented to him. When Gen. Blood was introduced, Lafayette grasped his hands warmly and both veterans burst into tears as the memory of the olden time came back to them. Gen. Blood then turned to his Revolutionary compatriot, Andrew Aiken, who had annoyed him by making light of his prediction that Lafayette would remember him, and triumphantly ex- claimed, "There, old Aiken, what do you think now?"
Dea. Stephen Bartlett, b. 1745, Pembroke, was 2nd. Lieutant, in a return of officers in Col. Waldron's Reg't., March 6, 1776, stationed at Temple's farm, in Brig. Gen. Sullivan's Brigade. He bore the same rank when mustered July 22, 1776, Capt. Wil- liam Barron's Co., N. H. Line, raised for Canada service. Buried at the Corners cem.
Lieut. Joseph Cochran, b. 1740, settled in Pembroke; d. in Goshen, March 20, 1816. Corners cem.
Benjamin Hudson, b. Pepperell, Mass., 1757. Corners cem.
Moses True, served from Salisbury, Mass .; d. Goshen, July 10, 1811, aged 70. Corners cem.
William Story, signed the Association Test in Lempster. Buried at the Corners.
Capt. William C. Meserve, privateer out of Portsmouth. North cem.
Samuel Gunnison, Jr., of Kittery and Fishersfield. Buried at North cem.
Thomas Rankin of Londonderry, Sgt., Ist Co., Col. George Reid's Reg't., 1781. (Rev. Rolls, Vol. 3, p. 271). Was living in Goshen in 1797, when Joseph Cutts was appointed agent to see if the state would assume care of Mr. Rankin, "provided he do it at his own cost" (Town records). It is evident this appeal failed, for May 4, 1798, the town took over. During the year 1800, Rankin was cared for by Ephraim Gunnison, at a total cost of $42.10. Attempts were again made by the town, in 1801,
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to induce the state to support its needy veteran. It must be as- sumed that Rankin died in Goshen, although location of his grave is unknown.
Joseph Thayer enlisted June 13, 1778; disch'd., Jan. 4, 1779, Capt. Simon Marston's Co., Lt. Col. Stephen Peabody's Reg't. (Rev. Rolls, Vol. 2, p. 471). Was cared for by the town of Goshen from March, 1798, to Feb. 26, 1799, Daniel Grindle being paid for thirty-seven weeks' board and care at 68c per week (Town records). As with Mr. Rankin, it must be deemed probable that Mr. Thayer is buried here, but grave unknown.
The sad records of these veterans, in their declining years, constitute a practical reminder of the advantages enjoyed by living veterans of today, with adequate pensions and hospital- ization provided by the Federal Government.
War of 1812
A scarcity of records mars the annals of the second war with Great Britain. Because of it a reconstruction of Goshen's con- tribution is made very difficult.
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