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249
Squire Leavitt.
435
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
PAGE
Representative, John Weare .
286
Joseph Weare
220, 294
Otis Wing.
244
Simon Winslow
284
Reproduction of newspaper account of balloon landing .
207
Return of members who withdrew from Rev. Mr. Wingate's pastorate.31, 136
Review of peculiar year . 195
282
Rivermouth, wreck of, 1657 356
Road building 253
signs erected by selectmen in 1915.
178
Roads and bridges .
253
Robbins, W. A., compiles Treadwell genealogy
300
Roberts, Mark, tin peddler .
276
Robie, Henry, chosen representative, 1777
134
Robie's Island .
267
Robie, Nathan Henry, biographical sketch
illustration
351
house burned, 1833 153
Robiestown (Weare) attempt to settle, 1750
176
Robinson, Jonathan, drowns, 1855
157
Mrs., dies 196
Rockingham Academy .
239, 271
burned, 1875
76-154
description of building
272
principal
234, 303
tuition.
271
division, Sons of Temperance
243
Lodge of Odd Fellows
343
Rolf, Moses H., dies
203
Ropes, Rev. Mr., pastor, Baptist Church, 1828-1830
142
Rowe, Jacob, drowns, 1855.
157
Pain, buys John Treadwell at auction
299
Rowe's Point
Rules of the church pertaining to marriage owning the covenant 117
161
Charles I. Akerman appointed carrier 161
compensation established . 161
candidates for carrier . 161
installed February, 1905
195
route laid out . 162
boxes obtained. 162
Sabbath schools called . 55
Saddle used in 1769, on wedding journey of Mrs. John Brown. 301
Salary of Rev. Josiah Bayley fixed 26
267
117
Rural free delivery of mail .
351
Revolutionary soldiers, Robert and Gideon Marshall.
436
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS
PAGE
Salary of Rev. Joseph Whipple fixed
18
Salem Normal School students 239
264
cultivation
265
hay harvested by gondolas
266
lands, prices of
265
owners .
265
Esquire Philbrick theory of origin and formation
292
time of cutting.
268
works at Hampton landing
268
Sanborn, Aaron, fruit raiser and cattle dealer
280
Abbie M., Mrs., house struck by lightning
204
Abner, chosen representative, 1783 . selectman, 1822
287
Annie Leavitt, dies
213
Charles H., M. D.
296
Frank B., appointed examiner of Brown University
309
in 1874 as chairman of Mass. State Board of Charities. 307
lecturer of Social Science at Cornell Uni- versity 307-309
307
buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
310
dies, 1917 .
310
editor, Boston Commonwealth, 1862
307
establishes private school in Concord, Mass., 1854. .
306
final session of School of Philosophy
310
friendship for John Brown .
306
graduates from Harvard University
239
illustration Frontispiece and
352
letter from, read at library dedication
166
library of
308
literary activities
309
marries Ariana Walker
306
Louisa A. Leavitt 307
memorial poem by Anne Higginson Spicer 311
organizes School of Philosophy 308
presented with gold headed cane, 1915. 307
publishes History of New Hampshire in 1904 309
Life of Thoreau .
310
secretary of Kansas committee, 1856
306
writes Recollections of Seventy Years.
308
Fred B., chosen representative . installs electric lights
177,210,294
177
Genealogy . 305
George B., biographical sketch
353
resident editor of the Springfield Repub- lican, 1871 .
137
Salt marsh . .
437
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
Sanborn, George B., illustration
353
representative and selectman
353
Grant B., buys Thomas Brown homestead.
201 .
Helen M., dies .
215
Mrs. James H., dies .
206
Prof. Jeremiah W., experimental farm
276
354
John Chandler, biographical sketch . dies .
227
illustration
354
representative and selectman
354
John E., dies . 194
selectman . 206, 210, 294
355
cattle dealer, representative, selectman, senator 177
210, 355
illustration. 355
Joseph, treasurer, receipts for parsonage money, 1832
75
Joseph L., graduate, Harvard College 239
Levi, cattle dealer 206
selectman 199-206-294
193
Mary Ann, dies
203-222
Prescott, selectman
287
Rufus C., selectman
278
Sarah E., Miss, dies. 189
261
representative
244
selectman 282
Victor Channing, writes sketch of Frank B. Sanborn
305
Sargent, Samuel P., dies.
206
Sawmill, location of Batchelder's, 1743
147
Sawmills .
253
Savage, Rev. Mr., pastor
59
Schools .
235
baseball
236
board member, Charles W. Birtwell
211
Henry Prescott
218
books used in town .
235
exhibitions and programs.
236
Schoolhouses built in 1806 140
located on Stanton's hill, 1720.
140
at Nason's .. 236
struck by lightning in 1908 175
Schoolmaster, Charles Treadwell . 299
School superintendent, Rev. Sereno T. Abbott
298
.
John Newell, biographical sketch.
Lewis T., dies
Thayer, apple shipper
School of Philosophy, final session 310 organized 308
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438
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS
PAGE
School superintendence
236
teachers wages 239
list of 235 Scythe makers, 1850 262
Scythes and mowing machines
262
Seabrook, incorporated as parish, 1768.
145
as town .
30
Seamstress, expert Mrs. Sarah Perkins
247
Secretary of Kansas committee
306
Selectmen, care of town charges.
172
chairman, accepts library gift
164
chosen .
202
elected
199
erect new guide posts, 1904 and 1915
178
instructed to provide home for the poor
124
Charles P. Akerman. 294
Joseph Akerman 282
Emery Batchelder 244, 282
John Batchelder .
282
Reuben Batchelder
282
Arthur W. Brown
295
Harry P. Brown
210
James H. Brown
222, 227, 255, 294, 295
Arthur W. Chase
199, 294
John Chase
285
Charles F. Coombs
220, 222, 225, 227
Joseph Blake Cram 199, 294, 328
George J. Curtis 218, 220, 294
Millard L. Dalton 230, 295
284
Richard Dodge
284
Albert W. Elkins
294
Aaron Gove
283
Charles Gove .
283
Maj. Jeremiah Godfrey
279
Frank S. Green .
337
George C. Healey
218, 220, 290
Wells Healey ..
280
Bertram L. Janvrin
202, 216, 294, 341
David Janvrin 284
Edwin L. Janvrin 230, 295
Joshua Janvrin .
284
William A. Janvrin .
227
William E. Janvrin .
222, 225, 295
John F. Jones
343
Henry Harrison Knight 344
30
Presbyterian meeting house built, 1763
John W. Dodge
439
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
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PAGE
Selectmen, Jeremiah Lane
286
Levi Lane .
286, 345
Squire Leavitt.
287
John Marshall .
282
Joseph Melcher
277
Samuel Melcher 244-277
Aaron Merrill.
286
Charles J. Merrill
202
George F. Merrill .
294
Nathan Moulton
277
Charles A. Nason
285, 347
Jonathan Nason.
285
Stacy Nudd .
283
Herbert Page 213
J. Herbert Page 216, 294
Capt. Nathaniel Perkins
283
Smith Prescott 287
True Prescott . 244, 287 .
Abner Sanborn
287
George Berry Sanborn
353
John Chandler Sanborn
354
John Elmer Sanborn
202, 206, 210, 294
John Newell Sanborn 355
Levi N. Sanborn 199, 202, 206, 294
Prescott Sanborn 287
Rufus C. Sanborn 278
Thayer Sanborn 282
Elroy G. Shaw
210, 213, 294
William H. Thompson
216, 218, 294
Emmons Brown Towle
358
Peter Tilton .
278
Weare D. Tilton
279
Lawrence E. Wadleigh
230-295
Benjamin Franklin Weare 360
49
Senator, John N. Sanborn chosen, 1908
John P. Sanborn. 210, 355
U. S., Jacob H. Gallinger chosen by first popular vote. 224
Rev. John Langdon chosen Rev. Mr. Wingate chosen 37
37
Separatists called Baptists . 59
Settlement recorded with Rev. Joseph Whipple. with Edmund Bayley .. 27
123
Sewing circles in Baptist Christian and Unitarian Churches. 249
Shaw, Elroy G., selectman. 210, 213, 294
Rev. Linus receives call to become pastor, First Congregational Church of Hampton Falls. 72
telephone line absorbed by People's line, 1906. 162
..
.
refuse to call town meeting 177
440
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS
PAGE
Sheep industry and shearing
246
Shipbuilding .
277
privilege at Stanion's landing in 1746. granted at Fresh Island, 1746
147
Shoemaker, Sewell Brown. 278
Short notes of people living in town, 1840-1850. 277
Signs, road erected by selectmen in 1915 178
Silos 270
Six persons chosen to take care of youths on Lord's day, 1832
generations of Batchelder family
deacons
55
Sketch of Sereno T. Abbott
297
Sketches, biographical .
313-364
Mary Dodge Aiken
320
Charles P. Akerman .
319
Moses Emery Batchelder
321
Samuel Batchelder 321
Arthur Warren Brown 323
Charles Rufus Brown
324
George Cyrus Brown
325
Harry Benson Brown
326
Jeremiah Brown
175
Sarah Gertrude Brown
318
Warren Brown.
315
Francis Edward Clark
361
Mrs. Francis Edward Clark .
362
Harriett Elizabeth Abbott Clark
362
Morrill Marston Coffin
327
Joseph Blake Cram
328
William Everett Cram
329
George Janvrin Curtis .
330
Dr. William Waldo Curtis
331
Rev. Lysander Dickerman 303
Charles Nealey Dodge 332
333
John Harrison Gove.
334
Frank S. Green.
337
Charles A. Hardy
338
Jerome A. Hardy
339
George Clifford Healey
340
Job Haskell .
176
Bertram Thompson Janvrin .
341
Edwin Janvrin
342
John F. Jones
343
Rev. Zebulon Jones
68
Henry Harrison Knight . 344
Levi Edwin Lane 345
147
122
78
Horace A. Godfrey
441
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
1
Sketches, Joseph Mayo
George F. Merrill.
346
George Moulton. .. 364 347
Gen. Charles A. Nason
Edwin Prescott .
348 350
Warren James Prescott
351
Frank B. Sanborn
305 353
George Berry Sanborn
354
John Newell Sanborn 355 356 Roscoe Franklin Swain . Enoch J. Tilton . 357 358 Emmons Brown Towle Charles Treadwell . 299 359
Charles F. Wadleigh .
Benjamin Franklin Weare.
360 201
Smith, Mrs. Albert S., dies.
Elder Charles P., ordained.
63
Elder Elias, publishes Herald of Gospel Liberty
61 75
Mary Ann, dies
218
Soap making.
258
Social activities, 1840-1850
Society of Friends
248 335 59
purchases parsonage of Dr. Sewell Brown
134
Sons of Temperance, Hampton Falls division, organized, 1848 list of members . 242
240
Rockingham division
243
Spicer, Anne Higginson, writes memorial poem for Frank B. Sanborn Spinning wool and flax
247
Spring marsh .
268
Standing order 59, 60, 141
Stanion, Jacob, leases land for shipbuilding, 1746. 147
Stanion's landing, 1746 147
176
Charles B. Brown . 176
284
Leo, balloon lands at William H. Brown's,
206
Raymond, vote for U. S. senator
224
Steel pens first used .
236
Stone, Rev. Thomas T., preaches installation sermon of Rev. Increase Sumner Lincoln. 73
Stone wall building. 246
.
Nathan Henry Robie
.
organizes Christian Baptist movement Universalist Society
61
Soldiers hired at expense of the parish, 1779.
311
Station agent, Charles P. Akerman
State senator, George H. Dodge
276
Stevens, baker's route.
PAGE
302
John Chandler Sanborn
442
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS
PAGE
Store and barn of Cyrus Brown burned, 1866.
153
Edwin Janvrin burned, 1909 155, 213
of William McDevitt burns, 1909. 155
Storm, hail, in 1902. 177
Stragglers in community 272
Strawberry growing. 260
Street car first run in Hampton Falls, 1899
180
Theophilus Cotton . 17
ordained to Rev. Joseph Whipple.
24
Suit begun by Baptists for exemption form ministry tax, 1808.
140
Suits over ministerial taxes, 1765
129
Superintendence of schools.
236
Superintendent of schools, Rev. Sereno T. Abbott Zebulon Jones
234
Supply voted to Rev. Josiah Bayley .
26
Sutherland, Rev. David, preaches as supply to Orthodox members, 1835
142
Swain's Creek . 267 178
178
Roscoe Franklin, biographical sketch .
356
illustration . 356
marries daughter of Warren Brown 178
William, drowned in wreck of Rivermouth, 1657 356
Tablets on library wall. 168
Tanners, Jacob and Henry Thresher 176
Tavern House, Burnham . 175
Tavern, Wells . 282
Tax, list of persons in 1776
148
Taxes, low in 1840-1850 276
Taylor River fishing . origin of name 293
277
Telegraph installed on Eastern Railroad.
256
Telephone, independent line from Exeter operated . 194
line, independent, established, 1904. 162
People's sold to New England Telephone and Telegraph Company . 162, 215
People's Company organized, 1906 162
Temperance meeting at Boar's Head, July 4, 1844.
243
movement, orchard destroyed by Moses Batchelder 243 resolve in town meeting warrant, 1777. 134 Sons of, Hampton division . 241
Rockingham division 243
movement, Washingtonian 243
Temple, W. H., buys Pike place. 202
dies. 225
Swain, family name appears in town records .
Swain, family records .
298
Successor called to Rev. Josiah Bayley
28
443
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
PAGE
Thatch ground alloted to parsonage
266
Thayer, Martha, married to Rev. Jacob Abbott.
47
The Breeches . 267
Long Bridge at Hampton.
173
New Hampshire Way of Life from Sanborn Genealogy
305
Weekly Rehearsal advertisement, 1732. 152
Theory of Esquire Philbrick on salt marsh land .
292
Thresher, Henry, marries daughter of Jacob Brown 176 Henry and Jacob, tanners 176
Thresher's Lane
176
Thompson, William H., selectman
216, 218, 294
Tibbetts, Rev. Mr., preaches
63
Tile drainage, book by Judge Henry F. French.
293
draining, first in town.
293
manufacture, by Joseph D. Wadleigh .
293
Tilton's, blacksmiths, 1667-1821.
176
Tilton, Caleb, last tavern keeper in town . employee Eastern Stage Company
284
David, drowned
157
Dean R., dies
191
Enoch J., biographical sketch
357
illustration 357 town clerk and postmaster . 357
Henry E., sells farm, removes from town
176
homestead buildings burn, 1904.
155
Elder John, becomes preacher in Christian Denomination.
76
Rev. John, completes course in Dartmouth College at age of sixty years
77
name continuous in town, 1667-1906.
176
disappears, 1906. 176
Peter, drowns, 1849 157
selectman .
278
Weare D., selectman, 1840. 279
276
Tobie, Richard, marries daughter of Job Haskell.
176
Toleration Act passed.
49
Toppan pasture.
266
Toppan, Christopher G., dies
223
Tornado damage, July, 1905.
197
Towle, Almira, Miss, dies . 191
252, 281
Emmons Brown, biographical sketch of
358
dies . 192
illustration . 358
member Constitutional Convention 358
selectman. 358
Lydia B., dies . 227
.
.
Capt. Caleb, custom boot and shoemaker
Tin peddler, Mark Roberts .
284
444
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS
PAGE
Town accounts first printed, 1842
244
charges, methods of handling 171
clerk, George Clifford Healey 340
John F. Jones 343
Frank H. Lord.
211, 213, 216, 220, 222, 225, 227, 230, 294
Enoch J. Tilton
357
common, interest in, by Horace A. Godfrey
invoice .
365
library building dedicated.
143, 166
books moved to new building .
163
meeting, 1844, held in Christian chapel.
244
1844-1877, held in meeting house 64
held in old meeting house . 244
1843, held in Wells Healey Building 244
to vote on bell in 1739 75
officers since 1900, list of . 294
141
records, extracts from 118
records .
171
of Swain family
178
treasurer, Arthur W. Brown. 206, 213, 216, 220, 222, 225, 227, 294
Charles N. Dodge .294, 232
William H. McDevitt . 230, 294
Tract of land offered to parish by Col. Jonathan Moulton
Transfer, Charles B. Brown, station agent to Atlantic station.
Treadwell, Charles, biographical sketch .
299
genealogy, compiled by William A. Robbins 300
John, sold at auction to Pain Rowe. 299
Sarah, marries Dr. Abraham Green . 300
True, Elder Jabez, preaches 62
Truesdale, James, dies . 211
True, John M., barn struck by lightning 197
Tuck, Henry C., dies. 216
Tuition fees at Rockingham Academy .
271
Turkey raising . 252
Turnpike road established to Seabrook and Hampton, 1811. 140
Union school program, 1851
237-238
Unitarian Church .
235
Sewing Circle 142
249
Unitarians employ Rev. Mr. Lothrop and Rev. Mr. Whitman
left in possession of church. 50
Unitarian ministers occupy parsonage, 1832
56
Unitarians separate from church . 50
Unitarian Society . 57
Universalist Society recognized in 1805. 75
38
231
purchases turnpike road, 1826
179
445
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
PAGE
Varieties of birds . 271
Vendue, arranging for care of the poor, 1779. 144
Vote for U. S. senator. 224
to abate rates to people in Seabrook, 1769 . 131
agree to alteration in eighth article of Constitution of United States, 1783. 137
aid soldiers families 134
appoint a Fast Day, 1777 133
presidential election . 229
Voted a bounty for killing wolves, 1742 124
to build new barn for Hampton Falls Church . 19
meeting house at Seabrook, 1768. 32-33
1768 130
parsonage, 1745. 125
a pound, 1753. 126
stone walls around parsonage. 124
call Dr. Samuel Langdon to settle as minister, 1780. 135
Votes cast for president, 1796 138
Voted to excuse the West Parish from ministerial tax, 1735. 123
grant land for new parish . 17
have a reading and writing school, 1752
126
hire Gospel preacher, 1773
38, 138
refuse to pay taxes, 1750. 126
make walls on parsonage land, 1752
126
mend glass in meeting house, 1730. 121
129
send representative, 1780. 135
to buy additional parsonage land, 1729.
121
permission to Rockingham Academy to locate on Public Square, 1834
142
to raise money to buy ammunition, 1775
132
pay for preaching, 1772-75. 132
Rev. Mr. Gilman, 1734 123
132
repair meeting house, 1815. parsonage, 1801 . fence, 1739.
121
relating to expense of maintaining Lord's Table.
13
liquor in elections, 1775.
133
to keep grammar school open through the year, 1756. 127
be set off from old parish, 1725-6 120
sell lower parsonage, 1794. 138
parsonage land, 1832. 142
property, 1832. 56
town right in old meeting house, 1842 56
140
139
Vote to repair Taylor River bridge, 1796.
138
support soldiers in army in 1775.
not to make division of parsonage land . print town accounts, 1845. 245
446
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS
PAGE
Vote to set Presbyterians off as a distinct parish, 1765.
129
settle Rev. Mr. Cotton's accounts, 1726. 120
tax all persons for the support of the Gospel, 1762. 129
Wadleigh, Charles F., biographical sketch . 359
illustration . 359
Frances M., marries Arthur W. Brown
Lawrence E., selectman 200
. 230, 295
Joseph D., manufacturer of drain tile
293
Wages of farm help. haymakers . 263
258
Walker, Ariana, marries Frank B. Sanborn
306
James, president Harvard University
305
Walton, William E., representative.
229, 294
Ward, Abel, marries Mary, daughter of Samuel Melcher 178 Joseph, drowns 157
family record . 178
302
Warrant to constables to whip Quakers
22
Water supply 138
273
Washington receives eighteen votes for president .
Washingtonian temperance reform movement 243
total abstinence movement . 298
Weare, Benjamin Franklin, biographical sketch
360
illustration
360
member Constitutional Convention 360
selectman.
360
Mrs., dies
216
Miss Clarissa, dies
227
farm. .
282
George Austin, dies .
213
Governor, house repaired
201
. built in 1737 by Deacon Samuel Shaw 201
John, expert Indian meal maker and representative.
286
Joseph H., collector .210, 216
representative. 220,294
· Meshech, moderator, Parish meeting, 1738. 123
delegate to state convention, 1778 134
chosen to General Congress, 1775 . 133
dies, 1786. 137
has thirty-nine votes for president, governor 137
Mills, Benjamin F. Weare, proprietor 360
monument. 8,253
(Robiestown) attempts to settle, 1750. 176 Samuel, representative 134, 136
Weather record, 1889-1916. 180
Wells, Mrs. Hannah, owner Wells Tavern. 282
Warden of state prison, Joseph Mayo
447
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
1
PAGE.
Wells, Tavern .
282
West Point, Ralph Adams Cram, architect
179
Wheel hay rakes first used about 1860 263
Wheelwright deed . Jeremiah Hobbs
260
Whig Party .
248
Whipple, Rev. Joseph, additional salary voted .
burial of . . 25
chosen as successor to Rev. Theophilus Cotton. 18
list of members received by 81-86
salary fixed. 120, 122, 124, 125
White, Rev. Charles T., address at the dedication of library 164
presides at the dedication of library 164
276
James, dies 230
246
Windmill of Colonel Lane's .
277
Wing, Rev. Otis, pastor Baptist Church 282
representative. 244
Wingate, Rev. Paine, accepts also declines call. 28
appointed justice of Superior Court, 1798 37
appointed minister, 1768. 130
37
Rev. Paine, Sr., born 1703, died, 1786
buried in Stratham.
37
called to succeed Rev. Josiah Bayley
28
chosen U. S. Senator. 37
representative to Congress 37
church record 36
death.
37
declines call .
28
dismissed from parish .
.35,171
instructed to dedicate new meeting house and preach. 34
marriage of . 36
letter of resignation
37
program at ordination
36
refuses to dedicate and preach in new meeting house . 33-34
resigns 35
Rev. Paine, Sr., settled as pastor at West Amesbury. 37
settles at Stratham 36
voted letter and dismissed to church at Strat- ham 38
Winslow, Simon, representative. 284
Withdrawal of some members from Unitarians, 1834 . 142
Withe fences 246
5
18
Wilson, farm.
Winding withes .
buried at West Amesbury 37
448
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS
PAGE
Women signers of covenant at Hampton Falls Church.
12
Worcester, Rev. Samuel M., preaches first sermon at First Evangelical Congregational Church of Seabrook and Hampton Falls 58
Wood, nine cords cut in one day by Eziekel Gove. 285
Rev. Mr., supplies pulpit . 50
Worth farm. 283
Joseph, chosen deacon 19
Wreck of Rivermouth, 1657. 4, 356
Wright, Oliver, drowns
157
John, drowns 157
Young, Enoch P., dies 213
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