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JOSEPH BLAKE CRAM.
Son of John S. and Lucy Ellen (Blake) Cram. He was born in 1870 and was educated in the common school. He was select- man in 1903 to 1906. He is a successful and up-to-date farmer. His skill as a farmer was acquired without outside assistance, but by observation and experience.
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WILLIAM EVERETT CRAM.
Son of Rev. William A. and Sarah (Blake) Cram. He was born in Hampton Falls on June 27, 1871, and was educated in the town school and by home study. He is a farmer, naturalist and author. He has contributed to the Popular Science Monthly, The New England Magazine, The Ladies' Home Journal and other publications. He is a writer and illustrator of ornithological works at Hampton Falls, the author of Little Beasts of Field and Wood, and More Little Beasts, published by Small, May- nard & Co., Boston, Mass. He is co-author of American Animals, published by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, and which was written in collaboration with Wilmer Stone of Philadelphia, Pa.
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GEORGE JANVRIN CURTIS.
Son of Dr. W. W. and Dorothy A. (Janvrin) Curtis. He was born 1858, and was educated in the town school. He is a farmer; was selectman in 1887-89 and 1912-13; was representative in 1895-96. He is a member of Rockingham Lodge of Odd Fel- lows.
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DR. WILLIAM WALDO CURTIS.
The second son of Simeon and Sarah Allen Curtis. He was born in North- field, Vt. After attending the schools of his native village he studied with Dr. William Burnham, a noted physician and surgeon, later entering Worcester Medical College where he received his degree and was graduated with honors. He practiced his profession successfully in Lowell, Mass., and in Exeter, N. H.
Dr. Curtis was twice married. His first wife was Dr. Lavinia Ford of Worcester, Mass. Some years after her death he married Dorothy A., eldest daughter of George Janvrin, by whom he had two children, George J., a for- mer representative of Hampton Falls, and Sarah D., wife of N. Dearborn Marston of Everett, Mass.
Dr. Curtis moved to Hampton Falls in 1861 and made farming his main pursuit, gradually withdrawing from professional practice. He held various offices in town and was highly esteemed. He died June 14, 1904, in his ninetieth year.
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CHARLES NEALEY DODGE.
Son of James D. and Harriet (Hadley) Dodge. He was born in 1862, and was educated in the town school. He kept a general country store from 1884 until 1914. He was postmaster for thirty years; town treasurer for five years until 1907. He mar- ried Annie F. Healey in 1908.
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HORACE A. GODFREY.
1841-1905.
Son of Maj. Jeremiah and Sally (Perkins) Godfrey. He was educated in the town school and Hampton Academy. In early life he engaged in the express business. In 1876 he entered the railway postal service and continued with little interruption until his death, running much of the time from Boston to Bangor, Me. In politics he was an ardent Republican. He took an active interest in the affairs of the town and in the schools. In all public matters he was progressive and public spirited. .
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JOHN H. GOVE.
1813-1887.
John Harrison Gove was a lineal descendant of the eighth generation from Edward Gove of pre-revolutionary fame; born in Weare, N. H., May 29, 1813, the fourth and youngest child of John and Hannah (Chase) Gove. About 1822 they removed to Lincoln, Vt., where he purchased a farm and sawmill; two mills were carried away by spring floods, and ten years later the family removed to Lynn, Mass. John H. was educated at Friends' School, now Moses Brown School, Providence, R. I., and after- wards taught as assistant in the school of which Moses Cartland, a noted educator of that day, was principal. Constructive work, and out-door life had greater attractions for him, and mechanical skill made him a successful builder, especially of railroad bridges, before the days of structural iron work.
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In 1856 he settled at Hampton Falls and engaged in farming: gardening, fruit and flowers being his recreation; he was inter- ested and successful in the propagation of new and superior varieties of fruit, especially grapes. In politics he was always a Republican and held various town offices.
Mr. Gove was twice married, first to Martha J. Kenyon of North Providence, R. I., a granddaughter of John Wilbur, leader of the "Wilburite branch" of the Society of Friends; second, to Sarah Philips Wells, daughter of Moses and Hannah (Dow) Wells, and had one daughter, Sarah Abbie, who resides in the ancestral home, built by her great-grandfather, Joseph Wells, in 1786. It was here the poet Whittier passed the summer of 1892, and where he died, September 7, the families having been intimate from his boyhood. Mr. and Mrs. Gove were birthright members and highly esteemed in the Society. of . Friends. The high moral principles that distinguish the Friends made him one of the best citizens in the community. He died, December 1, 1887, aged seventy-four years and seven months, four years after the death of his wife.
His distinguished ancestor, Edward Gove, who was born in England in 1630, came to New England in 1640 with his father, mother and brother John; his father's name was also John. They settled in Charlestown and Cambridge, Mass. He mar- ried, about 1660, Hannah Titcomb and had thirteen children.
Edward came to what is now Seabrook, N. H. (then Hampton) about 1665. He was a member of the first New Hampshire Assembly after New Hampshire was made a Royal Province in 1679, and remained in office until after Governor Cranfield dis- solved the Assembly in January, 1683. Then Edward Gove, with several from Hampton and Exeter who joined him, tried to arouse the people to active opposition to the tyrannical royal governor, and for this they were arrested for treason. Edward, as leader, was adjudged guilty, and was the first to suffer punish- ment in New Hampshire for adhesion to the principles of liberty. The horrible sentence of the law was passed upon him-that he be hanged, drawn and quartered, etc. The sentence was not executed, but he was sent to England and imprisoned in the "Tower of London " three years; he was pardoned by King James II and released from prison in April, 1686.
Mr. Frank B. Sanborn, a native of Hampton Falls, wrote:
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"All New England followed his example when they drove Andros off in 1689." Early history has not generally done him justice for the records then kept of his doings were mostly statements of his enemies, the royal party. "Had he lived just before the Revolutionary War, he would probably have been hailed as a hero and a martyr to the cause of liberty. After the overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros as governor, New Hampshire was without a government; then Edward Gove was appointed a commissioner with five other Hampton men to meet with other towns, January 20, 1690, and resolve upon some method of gov- ernment."
Edward Gove died July 29, 1691, his health having been greatly impaired by the confinement in the Tower.
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FRANK S. GREEN.
Son of Silas and Nancy (Batchelder) Green. He was born June 8, 1852, and was educated in the town school and Dearborn Academy. He was selectman in 1879-80, 1893-94; representa- tive in 1891-92. He is an Odd Fellow and Granger.
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CHARLES A. HARDY.
Son of Reuben and Lavina (Ramsel) Hardy. He was born April 28, 1839, and was educated in the town school He is a. farmer. He is the last male representative of one of the town's early settlers, John Hardy, who was rated here in 1726. He was a large landholder, owned what is now known as Great Hill, called at that time Hardy's Hill.
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JEROME A. HARDY.
Son of Charles A. and Abbie A. (Fogg) Hardy. He was born June 28, 1876 and was educated in the town school and the Putnam Free School of Newburyport, Mass. He entered the employ of the Towle Manufacturing Company of Newburyport in 1893. He was steadily promoted and was elected treasurer of the company in 1917. He is an Odd Fellow and a member of St. John's Masonic Lodge, Newburyport.
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GEORGE CLIFFORD HEALEY.
Son of Wells W. and Sarah Elizabeth (Dodge) Healey. He was born in 1853 and was educated in the town school and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He was town clerk in 1881-84; selectman in 1885-86, 1912-13; representative in 1889-90; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1910. The Healey family were among the earliest settlers of the town. George C. is the only representative of the name in the town at the present time.
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BERTRAM THOMPSON JANVRIN.
Son of Edwin and Annie (Thompson) Janvrin. He was born in 1869 and was educated in the town school, Putnam Free School of Newburyport, Mass., and business college. He was selectman in 1895-96, 1907-11; representative in 1911-12. He was engaged in the lumber business with his father, which he still continues. He has taken some of the higher Masonic degrees.
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EDWIN JANVRIN. 1836-1913.
Son of David and Mary (Towle) Janvrin. He was educated in the town school and Rockingham Academy. He was selectman in 1869-70-76; representative, 1883-84. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity. All his life he had been engaged in the lumber business and made it a success.
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JOHN F. JONES.
Son of Moses and (Falls) Jones. He was born in Seabrook and attended the town school. He was a blacksmith and had a shop near Morton Hill. He was a good horseshoer and a neat job workman. He was town clerk in 1857; repre- sentative in 1876-77; selectman in 1879-80. He was a charter member of Rockingham Lodge of Odd Fellows, organized in 1848. He died in 1889.
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HENRY HARRISON KNIGHT.
1841-1907.
Mr. Knight was born in Hampton Falls July 20, 1841,-the son of Stephen T. and Abigail (Dow) Knight-and spent his entire life on the Knight home- stead. His prominence in the town and his interest in it are shown by his service in the town affairs. As moderator, representative, selectman a num- ber of times and chairman of the board five times, and other less important offices he served his town faithfully-in every office keenly following the inter- ests of the town.
On May 19, 1870, he became a member of the Star in the East Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and later joined the St. Alban Chapter, R. A. M., at Exeter, in which organizations he was held in highest regard. Mr. Knight was a farmer and for many years, until falling health compelled his retirement, a director of the Rockingham Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was an attendant of the Unitarian Church, a man of fine qualities and sterling worth, with the truest devotion to his family.
On December 10, 1879, he married Ruth Green of Kensington and they had three children, Grace G., Agnes R. and Mildred F. Knight.
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LEVI EDWIN LANE. 1819-1900.
Son of Esq. Levi and Anna (Batchelder) Lane. He was edu- cated in the town school and Rockingham Academy. He was a farmer; selectman in 1860-61 and 79-80; representative in 1866- 67. In politics he was a Republican. He attended the Unit- arian Church.
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GEORGE F. MERRILL.
Son of Enoch and Mary E. (Jones) Merrill. He was born at Newburyport, Mass., August 1, 1857, and was educated in the public schools of his native city. He came to Hampton Falls in 1885, and bought and lived on the Fifield farm. He was five years manager of the Swift plant in Newburyport. He bought the store business of Charles N. Dodge at the hill, and was ap- pointed postmaster in 1915. He has been prominent and held high offices in the Grange.
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GEN. CHARLES A. NASON. 1822-1900.
Son of Maj. Jonathan and Mary (Gordon) Nason. He was educated in the common school. He was a farmer; selectman in 1850-51; representative in 1860-61; was prominent in military matters. At one time he was next in military rank to the gov- ernor of the state. The Nason family was one of the oldest in the town. Jonathan Nason was rated in 1709. With the death of Charles A. the name which has appeared on the record con- tinuously since that time became extinct.
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EDWIN PRESCOTT.
Son of Aaron and Lucy Maria Prescott. He was born Feb- ruary 16, 1841, in Hampton Falls, at the Prescott homestead, now owned by Grant B. Sanborn. He is a direct descendant, through father and mother, of the original James Prescott who came from England in 1665, and settled on the farm after- ward owned by the late Wells Healey, Esq., and later by Mr. Walter B. Farmer.
Until the death of his father in 1853, he attended school reg- ularly. The rest of his education he obtained in the winter terms of the country school, and afterward by evening work at Comer's College, and from wide reading, supplemented by a good memory and a keen interest particularly in things scientific. For about. ten years he engaged, principally as foreman or as superintendent,
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in various lines of mechanical and constructive work, in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, in New York City and Boston, and later at Hampton Falls in shoe manufacturing, and in the lumber business in partnership with the late James D. Brown.
In 1873 he married Ellen F. Thompson of Epping, daughter of Levi Thompson and Climena Rundlett. In 1880 he moved to Massachusetts to conduct his business in Boston and make his home in Arlington.
Already he had become interested in inventions, and for his door-hangers had formed a company, which sold over five hundred thousand of them before the business was given over to a western firm. He has taken out about a hundred patents, including door-hangers, wagon-jacks, cattle-stanchions, the "Loop-the- Loop" and blind operators. In Arlington he served on the school board for five years, and was chairman of the committee that equipped the high school for manual training.
He has three children-Arthur Thompson, an engineer of New York City; Charles Edwin, superintendent of Meadow Farm, Hartsdale, N. Y., and Lucy Maria, a first assistant in one of the high schools of New York City. Mr. Prescott is a member of Boston Commandery of Knights Templar, a Republican and a Unitarian.
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WARREN JAMES PRESCOTT.
Son of True M. and Sarah (Pike) Prescott. He was born April 4, 1842, and was educated in the common schools and Rockingham Academy. He is a farmer, auctioneer and an undertaker. He was representative in 1897-98.
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NATHAN HENRY ROBIE. 1835-1898.
Son of Henry and Sarah (Towle) Robie. He was educated in the town school and Hampton Academy. He was a farmer, auctioneer, trial justice, having settled many estates; he was an Odd Fellow, and Democrat. Being in the minority party he never held office in the town, yet he had considerable influence in town matters.
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A snapshot of Frank B. Sanborn standing in the door of the old house where he was born. Taken on his last visit to this town, September, 1916.
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GEORGE BERRY SANBORN.
1833-1893.
Son of Levi and Mary (Berry) Sanborn. He was educated in the town school, Rockingham and Pittsfield academies. In early life he was a shoemaker; later, a prosperous farmer. He took a great interest in political matters as a Republican. He was selectman in 1859-60, 83-84; representative in 1874-75.
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JOHN CHANDLER SANBORN. 1834-1916.
Son of John P. and Sally (Cram) Sanborn. He was educated in the common schools and Hampton Academy. He was an up-to-date farmer; selectman in 1862-63, and 1881; representa- tive in 1879-80. He had three sons and five daughters.
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HON. JOHN NEWELL SANBORN.
Son of Levi and Mary (Berry) Sanborn. He was born in 1843, and was educated in the common school. He is a farmer and cattle dealer; selectman in 1872-73; representative in 1885-86; elected to the senate from the twenty-first district in 1908. In the legislature session of 1909 the direct primary law was passed. Mr. Sanborn was opposed to this bill and on a roll call in the senate he voted alone in the negative (twenty-three in favor, one against). He has been commended by public sentiment all over the state for voting his honest convictions instead of being carried away by popular clamor which enacted a law not liked by the majority of the voters of the state, irrespective of party.
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ROSCOE FRANKLIN SWAIN.
Son of Frank B. and Belle (Fitts) Swain. He was born in 1881, in South Hampton, and was educated in the town school, San- born Seminary and New Hampshire State College. He came to Hampton Falls in 1908. He is a dairyman. He married Mildred, daughter of Hon. Warren Brown. The Swain family were among the earliest settlers of the town. William Swain was drowned in the wreck of Rivermouth in 1657. The name dis- appears about 1800. One hundred years later it reappears on the record, some of the descendants having returned.
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ENOCH J. TILTON.
1833-1884.
Son of Caleb and Lucy (Sanborn) Tilton. He was educated in the town school and Rockingham Academy, and was engaged in trade at the store at the hill for a number of years after 1860. Leaving here he was in trade for a time in Marshalltown, Iowa. Later he was in trade in Newburyport under the firm name of Tilton & Gerrish until a short time before his death. He was town clerk in 1866-71; postmaster under Lincoln and Grant. . He was a Royal Arch Mason, and a man respected in the com- munity as an honest and upright citizen.
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EMMONS BROWN TOWLE. 1835-1905.
Son of Capt. Caleb and Sarah (Swain) Towle. He was edu- cated in the common school and Rockingham Academy. He was a successful market gardener, a Granger, and an Odd Fellow; selectman in 1867-8; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1889.
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CHARLES F. WADLEIGH. 1856-1896.
Son of Capt. William H. and Hetty A. (Marshall) Wadleigh. He was born in Kensington. He married Annie, daughter of Levi E. Lane, and came to Hampton Falls and carried on the Lane farm with great success. He had one son and three daughters. He died suddenly in October, 1896.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WEARE.
Son of John and Lydia (Buzzell) Weare. He was born May 29, 1833, and was educated in the town school. He is a farmer, a Congregationalist, a Republican; selectman in 1865-66; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1903; proprietor of the Weare mills.
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DR. FRANCIS EDWARD CLARK.
Born in Aylmer, Quebec, September 12, 1851; clergyman. While pastor of a Congregational Church at Portland, Me., he organized the first Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor, February 2, 1881, which organization has since become world wide. As he married a lady who was a native of Hampton Falls, we are much pleased to present his portrait and Mrs. Clark's in our collection.
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HARRIET ELIZABETH (ABBOTT) CLARK.
Many are those who were native of the town who have gone out into the world and made a record of which we are proud, and by no means the least of them is Harriet Elizabeth Abbott, daughter of Rev. Sereno T. and Sarah (French) Abbott, born December 10, 1850. After the death of Mr. Abbott, in 1855, the family removed to Andover, Mass., where Miss Abbott re- ceived her education and later became the wife of Rev. Francis E. Clark who originated the Society of Christian Endeavor. Mrs. Clark is credited with having originated the idea and the success of the movement was largely due to her. We are able to present the following from the Golden Rule.
(From The Golden Rule, March 30, 1893,) MRS. FRANCIS E. CLARK.
Mrs. Clark, in the days when she was Harriet Abbott, was a school teacher at Andover, Mass. She is from a generation
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of preachers. Her father was a New Hampshire pastor, who died when she was quite young. Her grandfather and great-grand- father were clergymen, also.
As a school teacher Miss Abbott showed the same ardent love for children that still possesses her. It is a delight to watch her with them. Her rich fund of humor, imagination, and sympathy draws them to her in crowds. A friend says of her: " Wherever she went, children came to the surface as if by magic. It was wonder- ful how many she could find, and how easily she made them do her bidding, and moulded them according to her will. No sooner had she gathered them about her than she organized them for singing or some kind of work." This is especially noticeable in her travels. Chinese urchins, toddling Japs, shy-faced Hindoo maidens make friends instinctively with the bright-faced foreign lady, and chatter away to her as if to a friend long known.
Dr. Clark himself has said that his wife "rocked the cradle in which the Christian Endeavor Society was born." Four years before that eventful second of February, 1881, Mrs. Clark or- ganized the "Mizpah Circle." This may well be called the first Junior Society, though not yet of "Christian Endeavor,"-with the capital letters, at any rate. This was a missionary society, for the children. Christian Endeavor began in a revival; it began also with missions. It has remained true to both beginnings.
This Mizpah Circle of Mrs. Clark's was faithful to its church, To quote from Dr. Clark's successor at Portland: "The stained- glass window in the front of Williston Church is a memorial to the devotion of this little band. Under the wise leadership of Mrs. Clark they also raised money for the 'Book of Psalms,' which, for more than a decade has been used in the responsive service of the church. To the delight and surprise of the congregation, these responsive readings were found one Sabbath morning in the pews, ready, as a symbol of youthful love and ardor, to contribute new life to the worship."
Those who have heard Mrs. Clark know her to be a pleasing and effective speaker. As Dr. Clark makes his journeys to foreign lands and around the world, Mrs. Clark is of the greatest assistance to him in furthering the main object of his journeys. She makes frequent addresses, especially before gatherings of pastors' wives and missionaries, to whom she explains, with fulness and en- thusiasm, the joy and profit of Christian Endeavor work, and the blessing it has been to so many young people the world around.
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GEORGE MOULTON.
Son of Capt. Nathan and Sarah (Brown) Moulton. He was born August 26, 1842, and was educated in the common school and Hampton Academy. In early life he was a farmer on the ancestral farm; later he engaged for a time in mechanical work at Exeter. He resided for a time in Illinois, and went to New- bern, N. C., in 1884, and has since made his home there. He married, in 1885, Mary D., daughter of Hon. William and Mary (Byard) Clarke of Newbern, and has three children. For four- teen years he was a commercial traveler, and is now engaged in the photographic business at Newbern.
INVOICE OF TOWN.
The valuation, resident and non-resident, of the town of Hampton Falls, N. H., assessed April 1, 1916, was published by vote of the town and is as follows:
RESIDENT INVOICE.
AIKEN, MARY D.
6a field
$240
11a pasture .
170
2265 fowls
1,750
vehicles
800
13a Winslow land 450
1 horse 50
stock in public funds
6,240
stock in banks and other corporations 2,300
AKERMAN, CHARLES I., poll.
buildings
800
4a homestead 200
1 horse 100
2 cows
80
vehicle
250
ATTERDERFER, GERALD, poll.
AVINS, CHARLES, poll.
APPLECREST FARM.
42a N. W. Healey home- stead .
1,470
N. W. Healey buildings 5,000
N. W. Healey cottage . .
200
64a N. W. Healey pasture. 960
11a Tilton field 385
28a G. B. Sanborn field . 1,120
30a G. C. Healey homestead
1,100
G. C. Healey cottage. .
200
42a G. C. Healey pasture. . 500
12a marsh. 60
5za Batchelder pasture 85
elevator and mill
3,500
poultry houses 2,500
1 horse . 150
2 mules $400
BATCHELDER, ARTHUR D., poll.
BATCHELDER, DAVID F., poll.
17za homestead 600
buildings
2,700
25a pasture 375
3a marsh 24
10a Merrill pasture 150
wood 300
4 horses 750
7 cows.
280
1 neat stock
50
vehicle
50
mill 125
BATCHELDER, JOHN A., poll. 1 cow 0.30
BATCHELDER, NATHANIEL M., poll. 30a homestead 900
buildings 1,800
30a field and pasture 450
wood 200
7 horses 1,200
6 cows . 260
1 neat stock 40
vehicle 400
mill . 700
BATCHELDER, SARAH N. (soldier's widow) 5a homestead and buildings 475
2 cows
90
2a marsh . 24
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BATCHELDER, WARREN H., poll.
24a homestead .
$760
buildings 1,800
73a pasture and wood 1,100
12a marsh 96
8a Godfrey lot
200
3 horses
300
8 cows
300
1 neat stock. 35
1 mill
125
BATCHELDER, PAUL E., poll.
20a field and pasture .
340
1 horse
100
2 mules
400
2 cows
80
BIRTWELL, CHARLES W., poll.
6a Akerman land
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