History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Part 162

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1168

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The following were in the battle of Bunker Hill :

Jeremialı Andrews, Timothy Avery, Samuel Bredeen, Peter Brown, Abraham Dinsmore, Z. Emery, Samuel Griffin, John Hillsgrove, Sammel Hutchins, Wilder Kidder, John Matthews, Aaron Oliver, Benjamin Smith, E. Severance, John Temple, Arthur Kirkwood, F. Miller, Josiah Stone, Thomas Patterson.

The following belonged to the two months' militia in 1775:

Jonathan Avery, Seth Cobb, S. Cobb, Daniel Drury, Peter Davis, Z. Emery, Joshua Foster, E. Goodale, Joseph Kidder, Eliot Powers, Gideon Powers, Joseph Richardson, Sile Rich Stickney, Benjamin Smith, John Todd, Peter Wheeler, David Townsend, Z. Densmore.

The following were in Captain Ezra Towne's com- pany :

Samuel Avery, Jonathan Avery, Samuel Bredeen, Zedekiah Drury, John Hillsgrove, Thomas Patterson, James Hutchinson, Wilder Kidder, William Mansur, John Matthews, Benjamin Smith, F. Miller, Samuel Wheeler, Peter Felt, William Ilolt, E. Taylor.

In July, 1777, the following marched to Benning- ton :

Benjamin Byam, Caleb Bancroft, James Foster, Nathaniel Shattuck, Joseph Heald, John Everett, Paul Powers, Benjamin Severance, E. Brown, S. R. Sticknee, E. Severance, Peter Wheeler, Samuel Wheeler, Needham Drury, Wilham Upton, Benjamin Cragin, Daniel Foster.

The following marched to Saratoga, in Captain Drury's company, in September, 1777 :

Francis Cragin, John Cragin, Peter Felt, William Drury, Z. Drury, Joseplı Kidder, Sitas Angier, Joseph Richardson, Abiel Holt, Samuel Burnap, Caleb Maynard, Enos Goodale, Stephen Parlin, Jeremiah An- drews, John Toud, Samuel Howard, Peter Wheeler, Z. Dinsmore, Cap- tain G. Drury.

The following went to Rhode Island in 1778 ; absent twenty-three days :

Gershom Drury, Robert Fletcher, Joseph Kidder, Daniel Heald, Gideon Powers, Paul Powers, Joshua Foster, Joshua Richardson, S. R. Sticknee, Samuel Felt, David Townsend, Jonathan Marshall, Benjamin Severance, Samnel Wheeler, James Perry, Nathaniel Jewett, Josiah Stone.

Sixteen men, as follows, "marched on the alarm at Coos, at ye time Royalston was burnt : "

Gershom Drury, William Drury, Abiel Holt, Samuel Holt, Paul Stick- nee, Nathaniel Jewett, Francis Cragin, S. R. Sticknee, S. Parlin, D. Heald, Simeon Cragin, B. Cragin, John Burnap, Z. Emery, S. Walker, 1. Cumings.

The above were absent four days.

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War of the Rebellion .- During the War of the Rebellion Temple responded promptly to the various calls for meu, and the record of the town through that conflict was an honorable one; men and money were promptly furnished.

Ecclesiastical History. - It is probable that preaching was commenced in this town prior to its incorporation. The first minister was Rev. Samuel Webster, ordained October, 1771. He died August 4, 1777. After the death of Mr. Webster, various per- sons filled the pulpit until October, 1782, when Rev. Noah Miles was ordained " in ye new meeting-house not yet finished." He died November 20, 1831. His successors were as follows : Revs. Leonard Jewett, Walter Follett, George Goodyear, George Williams, Isaiah P. Smith, Royal Parkinson, S. D. Clark, W. L. S. Clark, J. S. Bassett, John W. Haley, John Mellish.

AN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH was formed here in 1832, under the name of the Union Society, and the distinguished Hosea Ballou was the first pastor. A church edifice was erected soon after.

Glass-Factory .- Mr. Blood, in his "History of Temple," says : "Strange as it may seem to us, there is little doubt that the first American manufactory of glass was erected in the town of Temple." The builder and owner was Robert Hewes, who was born in Boston in 1751. He was a " celebrated bone- setter and fencing-master." The factory was sixty- five feet square. It was started in 1780.

Families .- The following family names, identified with the history of the town, are taken from Blood's " History of Temple ."

Ball, Barker, Blood, Boynton (Captain Elias Boynton was in the battle of Bunker Hill), Brown, Burnap, Child, Colburn, Cragin, Crombie, Cum- ings. Edwards (Captain Ebenezer Edwards was with the company of the Acton Minute-Men at " the Bridge," when they met the British), Far- rar. Felt, Fisk, Foster, Gardner, Heald (numerous family ; Peter Heald, of the Deacon Peter Heald family, was the first male child born in Tem- ple), Howard, Hawkins. Jewett, Keyes, Kidder, Kingsbury, Laws, Man- sur, Mason, Miles, Miller, Patten, Pierce, l'atterson, Piper, Powers, Pratt, Searle, Shattuck, Sherwin, Spalding, Spofford, Walton, Wheeler, Whytynge, and Whiting.

Physicians .- The earliest physicians in Temple were Drs. Silas Durkee, Brown and Taylor. Dr. James Crombie located here in 1798, and remained until 1820. Other physicians have been Drs. S Fobes, S. Cumings, Nathan Jones. A. H. Wilder, Raymond, Nathaniel Kingsbury, D. S. Prescott, G. A. Phelps, Henry J. Young and J. M. Blood. There is no resident physician in the town at the present time.

Wheeler, Charles E. Rockwood, A. B. Davidson, J. O. Whitcomb, Thomas Derbyshire.

Civil History .- The following is a list of repre- sentatives from 1776 to the present time:

Francis Blood, 1776 to 1783.

Francis Cragin, 1784, '85, '86, '90, 192.

Benjamin Cragin, 1788.

Abijah Wheeler, 1794.

E. Richards, 1796, 197, 198, 1800, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07,'08, '09, '10.

Daniel Searle, 1811, '12, '13, '14. David Patterson, 1815.

James Crombie, 1816, '17. A. Cummings, 1818, '19, '20, '24. Jesse Spofford, 1822, '23.

David Stiles, 1825, '26, 127.

Simon Farrar, 1828, '29, '30, '31, '32.

Nathan Wheeler, Jr., 1833, '34, '35, '36.

John Cragin Jr., 1837, '38.

Nathan Wheeler, 1839, '40. Nathan Kingsbury, 1841, '42.

Thomas W. Smith, 1813, '44, '55.

Isaac Kimball, 1846, '47, '48. Herman Buss, 1849, '50, 151. George Whiting, 1852, '53. E. G. Cutter, 1854, '56, '57. Daniel Felt, 1855. (No choice in 1858). James Killam, 1859. Elbridge Cutter, 1860. James Killam, 1861. Francis Whiting, 1862-63. Warren Keyes, 1864-65. Elbridge C'utter, 1866. Rev. George Goodyear, 1867-68.

Moses M. Balch, 1869. Isaiah Wheeler, 1870, '71, '72. Freeman J. Holt, 1873, '74. George E. Colburn, 1875, 76. Supply W. Edwards, 1877, '78. Charles N. Colburn, 1879, '80. Brooks M. Heald, 1883, '84.

TOWN CLERKS FROM 1768 TO 1886.

Captain Francis Blood, 1768,'69,'70 Samuel Howard, 1771-99.

Ebenezer Edwards, 1799-1802.

Daniel Searle, 1802-20.

Nathan Wheeler, 1820, '21, '22, ':25, '26, '27.

David Stiles, 1823,'24.

Jonas Davis, 1829, '30, '31, '32, '33, '34, '35, '36, '37.

Nathan Colburn, Jr., 1838, 39, '40, '41, '42, '58, '59.

Martin Heald, 1843, '44, '45, '46, '47, '48, '49, '50, '51, '52, '53,'54, '55, '56, '57.

Josiah M. Blood, 1860.

Charles P. Hayward, 1862 to pre- sent time.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

MAJOR SUPPLY W. EDWARDS.

Major Supply W. Edwards is the fifth child of Nathaniel and Sarah (Wilson) Edwards and was born in the town of Temple, N. H., April 9, 1817. His grandfather, Captain Ebenezer Edwards, was born in Acton, Mass., March 23. 1757. He was a member of the Acton Company of Minute-men under com- mand of Captain Davis, and did service during the War of the Revolution. He was on Dorchester Heights at the siege of Boston, and after the evacua- tion of that city worked as a carpenter on the fortifi- cation of the harbor, at the same time doing military duty. He removed to what is now Sharon, in 1777, and to Temple, N. H., in 1780. About 1786 he built what is now known as the "General Miller House," and resided there until about 1819. He was a man of character and importance in the town, and the records show that he held all the principal offices in its gift. He was twice married, first to Lucy Wheeler, of Lincoln, Mass. They had eleven children; she died November 20, 1800. His second wife was Mary Flint, also of Lincoln, Mass. She bore him four chil- dren,-Captain Edwards died March 21, 1826. Na-

Schools .- The first reference to educational mat- ters is under date of March 4, 1771, when it was " Voted to have schooling and voted to raise £8 L. M. for schooling." From that early day to the present time Temple has kept abreast with the rapid stride of educational progress. The last appropriation for support of schools was seven hundred dollars. The present Board of Education is as follows : Charles P. thaniel, his fourth child, was born May 26, 1785. He

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married June 16, 1808, Sarah Wilson, of New Ipswich. Their children were Sarah, Mary, Abby, Susan W., Supply W., Elizabeth, Nathaniel P. and Charles W.

Major Supply W. Edwards had no advantages for education in his youth beyond what the public school of his native town could furnish, and his attendance to this was limited to the winter terms. Being one of a somewhat numerous family, in moderate circum- stances in life, he was taught to labor as soon as his growing strength could make his services of any value. As soon as he was of sufficient age he learned the trade of stone-masonry, and this he has made the principal occupation of his life. He made it a rule at the beginning to do whatever he undertook con- scientiously and well, and to that rule he has adhered through life ; and to this may be attributed the suc- cess he has attained. His work may be seen in his own and all the surrounding towns and villages. In addition to his work at masonry, he purchased a farm near his grandfather's old homestead, and has carried on farming quite extensively and with marked success. His farm buildings are among the best in the county.

He married, December 10, 1840, Elizabeth Winn. She was born August 2, 1820. Their children are John Wheeler, born May 28, 1844; Charles Warren, born January 12, 1847 ; George Walter, born Febru- ary 14, 1849 ; Edwin Brooks, born May 3, 1851; En- ma Josephine, born January 8, 1853; Alma Jane, born January 13, 1856.

Mrs. Edwards died September 11, 1883. Major Edwards has practically retired from active business. His son-in-law, who resides with him, conducts his farm for him.

In 1876-77 he represented his town in the State Legislature, and has, at different times, held various minor offices. In 1840 he was chosen major of mili- tia under Colonel Little, and served in that capacity four years. Among the prominent traits of Major Edwards' character may be mentioned perseverance and punctuality. He is prompt in performing what- ever he promises or undertakes to do, and is a man much respected by his neighbors, among whom his life has been spent.

HISTORY OF WEARE.

BY WILLIAM LITTLE.

CHAPTER I.

Topography .- Weare is in latitude 43º +' north, longitude 71° 44' west. It is fifteen miles from Con- cord, the State capital, eighteen miles northwest of Manchester and seventy miles from Boston. It is bounded north by Henniker and Hopkinton, east by Dunbarton and Goffstown, south by Goffstown, New Boston and Francestown and west by Francestown and Deering. Its area is 33,648 acres and it has 23,- 392 acres of improved land. The length of the town is about seven and one-half miles, the breadth six and one-half, and in territory it is the largest town in the county of Hillsborough.

Weare has four mountains in the central part of the town on a line running nearly northeast and southwest,-Mt. Dearborn (1229 feet high), Mt. Wallingford (1213), Mt. William (1108) and Mt. Mis- ery (1026). There are also thirteen hills, each about 1000 feet high,-Kuncanowet, so called by the Indians from Kunnaway (a bear), wadehu (a mountain) and et (a place), meaning "the mountain place of the bear", Sugar, Burnt, Rattlesnake, Craney, Hogback, Chevey, Mine, Toby, Odiorne, Boar's Head, Barnard and Raymond cliff.

Two rivers flow through the town,-the Piscataqnog and Middle Branch. The Indians gave the name to the first, and it is from Pos (great), attnek (a deer) and quoag (a place), meaning " great deer place," or "a place of many deer." The correct spelling of the word is " Poscattaquoag." In Deering the stream is sometimes called Nomkeag from Namaos (a fish) and keag (a place), meaning " fish place."

Twenty-nine brooks enter these two rivers,-Cram, Ferrin, Lily-pond, Emmons, Eight-Loads Meadow, Currier, Peacock, Meadow, the Otter, Huse, Alex- ander, Bassett, Choate, Felch, Cilley, Bog, Chase, Huntington, Trinity, Getchel, Breed, Half-Moon Meadow, Center, Dustin. Thorndike, Putney, John- son, Dudley and Hadlock.

There are three considerable ponds,-Ferrin, Duck and Mt. William. The latter contains one hundred and twenty-eight acres and is forty feet deep.

Geology .- The oldest rock in Weare is porphyritic

gneiss. It forms what were once two islands standing out of the sea,-North Weare and Raymond cliff Lake gneiss abounds in the northwest part of the town, also near Clinton Grove, Mt. Dearborn, Odiorne Hill and the east base of Mt. Misery. Mica schist forms Rattlesnake Hill ; there is an outcrop of it two miles north of Clinton Grove; also near Mt. Misery and Odiorne Hill. Ferruginous schist is found on the summit of Mt. Wallingford and throughout the west part of the town. It reddens the mica schist rocks. Fibrolite schist makes the top of Mt. Misery. Rock- ingham sehist forms the huge masses of Mts. Wal- lingford and William, and it rests upon the lake gneiss underneath. Mont Alban rocks are on the Kun- canowet Hills. Steatite or soapstone crops out on the east slope of Mt. Misery. Crystallized radiated bunches of tale are disseminated through the soap- stone and with it are minute bits of pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, asbestos and crystals of feldspar.

There are many remains of the glacial period to be seen in Weare. Stride are on all the rocks. Lenticular hills abound in the southwest part of the town. Boulders by the thousands are strewn thick on the land. The Elephant boulder on Mt. Wallingford, the Trav- eler and the Dolmen on Barnard Hill, are curiosities; some of them will weigh two thousand tons or more each. Embossed rocks (Roches Moutenes) are abund- ant. Precipices on the southeast slopes of the hills show where the ice fell down like an avalanche. Ter- races made of the material ground up by the ice sheet are in the river-valleys. Kettle-holes are common in the great beds of drift, and pot-holes worn in the solid rock are high up on the hills.

Flora -There are thirty-eight native trees,-white pine, pitch pine, red pine, black spruce, balsam fir, hemlock, larch, red cedar, arbor vitae, white maple, red maple, rock maple, striped maple, beech, black birch, yellow birch, white birch, gray birch, white oak, red oak, chestnut oak, serub oak, chestnut, elm, butternut, walnut, hickory, basswood, white ash, brown ash, leverwood, ironwood, poplar, white pop- lar, willow, black cherry, buttonwood. Eleven or more foreign ones have been introduced,-Lombardy poplar, locust, horse chestnut, balm of Gilead, thorn,

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quince, apple, pear, peach, plum and cherry. There are a great number of shrubs and a multitude of other plants.

Fauna .- In early times moose, deer, panthers, wolves and bears were very plenty. These have dis- appeared. Wolves at times were a great pest; the State offered large bounties for their heads, and Weare in 1780 was so much troubled with them that it was proposed to offer an additional bounty for their de- struction. The otter, hedgehog, raccoon, with its cunning, half-human face ; rabbit, two kinds ; red fox, black fox, woodchuck, skunk, musquash, mink, stoat, weasel, squirrel, four kinds; bat, mole, rat and mouse now abound. Two or three kinds of wildcats occa- sionally visit the town.

Indians .- The valley of the Piscataquog was a noted hunting-ground for the Indians. It was their great place for deer. The tribe who occupied all this region was the Nipmuck, a name derived from nipe (still water) and auke (a place), theletter "m " thrown in for sound, and meaning "Fresh-water Indians." They were divided into numerous clans, each elan bearing the name of the particular place where it happened to live.

The Indians built their wigwams on the meadows by the streams, where they could plant, hunt and fish. Many of their stone implements have been picked up by the farmers.

Moses A. Hodgdon found several arrow-heads on his farm at the fork of the Peacock ; they were of a light slate color ; he also found a mortar pestle or stone to dress hides and some stone axes. Mr. Gove, who lives near by him, found a few arrow-heads. Thomas and John Follansbee, on their farm by the Piscataquog, found a stone-knife, spear-heads, a skinning-stone, a mortar of stone in which they pounded their corn, and on an intervale several old fire-places, paved with stone. The Felches found a stone axe near Hogback Hill.

In the time of King George's War, 1744-47, Timothy Corliss, a hunter from Haverhill, Mass., had his camp on the meadows of the Peacock. A party of Indians, who were prowling about the border settle- ments, found, captured and carried him away to Canada. He came back after the war was over and eventually settled in Weare.

Explorations .- The first white men to visit Weare were, no doubt, hunters and trappers. Captives taken by the Indians may have journeyed through the land. During the Three Years or Lovewell War, Massachu- setts offered a bounty of one hundred pounds for every Indian scalp brought in. There is a tradition that Captain John Lovewell, the celebrated Indian fighter, marched through our town with a party of scouts, killing a black moose on the way, and went as far as Mount Lovell, said to have been named for him in Washington. This was in 1723. He, with his men, afterwards killed ten Indians in the night, by a small pond in Wakefield, getting a thousand pounds for

their scalps, and was himself killed by Paugus and his braves at Lovewell Pond, in Fryeburg, Me.

Lovewell's great success roused others to hunt the Indians, and no less than seventeen scouting-parties went marching through these northern woods.

Captain Daniel Pecker was captain of one of these, and, as he and his company are the first recorded white men who ever set foot in Weare, we shall give his "Scout Journal " in full. The company was raised in Haverhill, Mass., and the following is the journal of its march :

"CAPT. PECKER'S JOURNAL, DEC. 12, 1723.

[The above is written on the back of the original].

" A journal of my proceedings in my Second March after the Indian Enemy.

" 1723. Novbr. 23 .- Victualed part of my Company-

"24 .- Sabbath day --

" 25 .- Victualed the other part of my Men-

"26 .- Marched from Haverhill-Westward 14 miles-

"27 .- Marched further Westward-12 miles-

"28 .- We got to Dunstable,-8 miles-Thanksgiving Day-

"29 .- Lay by, by reason of bad Weather-

"30 .- Marched to Nashua River,-8 miles-

"Dec : 1 .- Marched up to Pennechuck Brook about Northwest, being 10 miles-

"2-Marched about N : W : up to Souhegan & so crossed the River, - 12 miles-

"3 .- Marched by Unhenonuck hill, -14 Miles-

"4 .- Steering Northward to a Great Mountain & so sent out a Scout to the hill to see what they could Discover, being 8 miles-

"5 .- Steering about North & by East up to Poscattaqnoag River & 80 crossed Said River,-12 Miles-

"G .- Steering about N : E : over another part of Poscattaquoag River, about 10 a Clock, I sent Eight Men, under the Command of Jonathan Robin, up to Contoocook River & to return the third day to me at Sun- cook River, and then went with the rest of my Company to Black Brook, -14 Miles-

"7 &8 .- lay Still by reason of bad Weather-

"9,-Marched from Black Brook down to Merrimack River, against Suncook, being a Stormy Day of Snow, the Scout returning to me at night, & told me they had marched up to some of the Southerly Bran- ches of Contoocook River (10 miles) & Discovered Nothing-

" Marched from Annahookset hill, Crost Merrimack River & So Steer- ing a South Easterly Course, Marched to Great Massapisset pond,-16 miles-

"11 .- Marched from Massapisset pond to the Northermost part of Che- shire,-16 miles-

" 12 .- Marched from thence to Haverhill, -18 miles-

" DANIEL PECKER."

Grants .- Previous to 1740 all the territory west of the Merrimack River was claimed by Massachusetts. New Hampshire also laid claim to a part of it, and the case having gone on for a long time, Massachusetts be- gan to think she might be beaten, and, to give her citizens the profit that might arise from the sale of the lands, about 1725 began to make grants. She tried to hide her avarice by a show of patriotism, and on the pretense that she needed a line of towns on the fron- tier to keep out the French and Indians, laid out and gave grants of a double row of nine towns from the Merrimack to the Connecticut, and four more towns on the east side of the latter stream.

Then she voted nine towns as a bounty to the heirs of the men who fought in the Indian War with King Philip in 1675, and these were known as the nine Narraganset towns, but only seven of them were laid out.

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To reward the men who went with Sir William Phips, in 1690, to fight the French and Indians in Canada, a score or so of towns were granted, called Canada townships, one of which was our town of Weare. Those in New Hampshire were known as Canada to Beverly, Weare; Canada to Dantziek, Bow; Canada to Salem, Lyndeborough ; Canada to Ipswich, New Ipswich ; Canada [to Harwood, Peter- borough ; Canada to Sylvester, Richmond; Canada to Rowley, Rindge ; and Canada to Baker or Stevens, Salisbury.

Weare was granted to Captain William Rayment and company, on the petition of Colonel Robert Hale and others, by the General Court of Massachusetts, May, 1735. The grantees had five years to settle the town ; each one was to build a house on his re- spective lot or share, eighteen feet square and seven feet stud, plow and bring to English grass fit for mowing six acres of land, settle a learned orthodox minister, build a convenient meeting-house for the public worship of God, and each was to give a bond of twenty pounds to do these things. The town was to be laid out at once at the charge of the province. Colonel Ilale and John Wainright were a committee to do this, and William Gregg, of Londonderry, sur- veyor, with Isaac Gray and Jeremiah Butman as chainmen, went to Weare and did it. They made a plot of the town and returned it with a short descrip- tion under oath February 17, 1736.

The town was divided into shares, many sales were made and, that the deeds might be properly recorded, "the township granted to Captain Rayment and company," with other townships near by, were de- clared to be a part of the county of Middlesex, in the province of Massachusetts. This act was passed February 2, 1737. Many deeds of lands in Weare are recorded in the registry of that county. What these proprietors ever did towards the settlement of the town we have never been able to learn.

Halestown was the first name of Weare, so called from Colonel Robert Hale; "to Beverly " appears as its name on Thomas Jaffrey's map of New England, and this name was given because most of the grantees resided in Beverly. "Beverly-Canada," or "Canada to Beverly" were other names for Weare, which are found in "Douglass' Summary," written in 1746-49.

The settlement of the line in 1740 between the two provinces, located our town in New Hampshire, and the Masonian proprietors, who had bought out Robert Tufton Mason, granted it September 20, 1749, to Ichabod Robie and seventy-nine others. "Robie's town" was, more or less, the fifth name for Weare for the next fifteen years.

By the terms of the grant thirty families should be settled on said grant in four years, having a house, sixteen feet square or more, and three acres of land cleared and fitted for mowing and tillage. Ten families more should be settled in town in the next two years, A meeting-house for the public worship

of God should be built in six years and constant preaching maintained after twelve years. A good saw-mill should be built and all white pine trees fit for masting the royal navy should be reserved to his majesty's use forever. If these things and some others are not done in times specified the grant shall be forfeited, but if an Indian war should break out the time the war lasted was not to run.

Settlement .- The proprietors went to work at once to comply with the terms of the grant. They laid out the town into lots and divided them ; they cut out a way to the Centre Square and built a bridge over the Piscataquog.

. Then they built two log cabins and hired two men to go and live in them ; the men never went, but in 1750 they succeeded in getting one man to move into town.

Nathaniel Martin was the first white settler of Weare. He was from Bedford and had married the daughter of Colonel John Goffe, one of the proprietors who probably got him to move into town. He settled on the east bank of the Piscataquog, about fifteen rods from the river and one and one half miles above the present Oil-Mill Village. He built the first saw- mill at the latter place about 1760.

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History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, Part 162

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis Number of Pages: 1168

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1168