History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 149

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1520

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Early in the winter of 1755, Governor Wentworth ordered Colonel Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, to raise a regiment of six hundred men, and to rendez- vous at the Salisbury fort. It is impossible to state when this fort was built, but it was between 1746 and 1750. It was located about forty rods southerly of the cemetery on the Webster intervale, and sur- rounded by eight acres of cleared land which was early cultivated. It is quite evident that the regiment arrived in April, 1755, and Blanchard spent about six weeks in preparing boats for transporting his troops up the river. Before they left, the State author- ities ordered the enlistment of three hundred men to take their place. They were mustered into service about the 20th of September, 1755, and were dis- charged at the end of three months.

In these regiments we find many of our early pio- neers who settled in the town, viz .: Benjamin San- born, Benjamin Baker, Samuel Judkins, John Bean, Robert Smith, Tristram Sanborn, Andrew Bohonon, Henry Ad. Elkins, John Webster, Thomas Welch,

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Jacob Hancock, Nehemiah Heath, Ebenezer John- son, Tristram Quimby, Samuel Lovering, Iddo Web- ster, Benjamin Huntoon, B. Clifford, Edward East- man, John Wadleigh, Jeremiah Quimby and John Fellows.

In 1756, Colonel Meserve raised a regiment for the Crown Point expedition, among his men being found the following, who located in the town : Jonathan Fifield, John Ash, Samnel Scribner, J. Blaisdell and Daniel Stevens.

In Meserve's regiment, raised in 1757, we find the following soldiers, who afterwards became residents in Salisbury: J. Merrow, Joseph Webster, Benjamin Pettengill, John Sanhorn and Stephen Webster.

In 1757, Major Thomas Tash enlisted a battalion of two and three months' men. We append the follow- ing names found in this battalion : John Cross, Samuel Scribner, Robert Barber and Matthew Pet- tengill.

In 1758, Colonel John Hart raised a regiment of six hundred men for the Crown Point expedition. Upon the roll appears the names of the following, who set- tled in Salisbury : Moses Garland, Moses Sanborn, Benjamin Shaw, Samuel Scribner, James Johnston, William Hoyt and Nathaniel Nelson.

In Captain Trueworthy Ladd's company we find the names of Joseph Bean, Ebenezer Webster, Philip Flanders, Onesiphorus Page, Iddo Webster, John Wadleigh and Moses Tucker.

In Colonel John Goff's regiment we find Ebenezer Webster, orderly sergeant; Tristram Quimby and Stephen Webster, corporals ; privates, Rowell Colby, Robert Smith, Benjamin Webster, Elisha Quimby, Richard Tucker, D. Rowe, Moses Tucker, Benjamin Collins and Jonathan Roberts, all settled in Salisbury.

CHAPTER IV.

SALISBURY-(Continued).

MILITARY HISTORY.

The Revolution .- The people of Salisbury caught the first echo of the shot at Lexington, and, although not in season to participate, they were at Bunker Hill. They went, too, uninvited to that banquet of death and fame which was celebrated on the 17th of June, 1775.

When hostilities commenced at Lexington there were but five hundred inhabitants in Salisbury. There was one company of militia, consisting of about seventy-five men, organized and officered, be- tween the ages of sixteen and sixty years. This com- pany was commanded by Captain Ebenezer Webster, who had first received his commission in 1774. Robert Smith was his lientenant, Moses Garland, for a short time, and then Andrew Pettengill was the ensign.

Upon the alarm of the Lexington conflict, without any authority from the State, they repaired to Cam- bridge. They there met the Massachusetts Com- mittee of Safety, also John Stark, James Reed and Paul Dudley Sargent. These three men received colonels' commissions from the State of Massachusetts. Stark enlisted eight hundred men, or fourteen com- panies, while Reed and Sargent had enlisted four companies each. The regiments were Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Colonel Stark had command of the First, Enoch Poor of the Second and James Reed of the Third. The First and Third Regiments were engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill.

Salisbury men enlisted into three or more of the companies of Stark's regiment. Among the early enlistments are the names of Peter Severance, Jona- than Cram and Jacob Morrill; in Captain Henry Dearborn's company, Abraham Fifield, John Bean, Joseph Lovering, Samuel Lovering, Moses Welch, E. Raino, Daniel Stevens, Edward Evans, Moses Gar- land, Moses Fellows, John Bowen, John Jemson, Ben- jamin Howard, Reuben Greeley and Samuel Scribner. Two of these men, John Bowen and Moses Fellows, joined Captain Dearborn's company, and, in the autumn of 1775, made a part of Arnold's regiment, that marched through the wilderness of Maine to Quebec. Twelve of the above number enlisted for the term of six months and encountered the perils of the siege.

Of the Salisbury men who participated in the aid to Connecticut, we have been unable to obtain their names. Certainly there was quite a number.

Our next enlistment for 1776 was for the relief of the northern army. In Captain Osgood's company we find the name of Captain John Webster, of Salis- bury, as his lieutenant, and Edward Sawyer, as private.

Upon the evacuation of Boston by the British, part of their army soon after invaded New York. Another portion, commanded by Burgoyne, invaded Canada, by way of Quebec. The New Hampshire regiments which had been at the siege were ordered to New York, and thirteen Salisbury men were in Colonel Stark's regiment, viz. :

John Bosford, James Bosford, John Bayley, Wells Burbank, Rowell Colby, Reuben Hoyt, Jr., Jonathan Huntoon, Philip Huntoon, Samnel Loverin, Joseph Loverin, Ebenezer Scribner, Simen Sanborn and Israel Webster.

Another regiment was raised for six months, to reinforce Washington at New York. Salisbury fur- nished ten men for James Shepard's company of Canterbury,-

John Bean, ensign ; Benjamin Huntoon, orderly sergeant; Privates, Cutting Stevens, Stephen Call, James Johnson, Samuel Scribner, Philip Flanders, Jonathan Scribner, Jonathan Foster, Robert Wise.

After the disastrous battle of Long Island, Wash- ington again appealed to New Hampshire for aid. Salisbury had furnished her full quota. Captain Ebe- uezer Webster was appealed to furnish men. Ten

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men holding militia commissions, and some others, volunteered to serve as privates, and were mustered into service September 20, 1776. They were Lieu- tenant Robert Smith, Ensign Moses Garland, Orderly Sergeant Andrew Pettengill, Ensign Andrew Boho- non, Edward Eastman, Joseph Fifield, Edward Fi- field, Joshua Morse and Stephen Bohonon. Captain Webster resigned the office of selectman to take a private's place in this campaign. Joseph Bean and Nathaniel Huntoon enlisted in Captain Goff's com- pany of the same regiment. They participated in the battle of White Plains.

In 1777 the town was obliged to offer bounties of seventy dollars each to meet its quota. John Ash, who had enlisted March 8, 1777, to serve during the war, was discharged December 31, 1781, and Ananiah Bohonon, Philip Flanders and John Bowen, who had enlisted March 13, 1781, were discharged the following December.

The following men enlisted for three years in Col- onel Alexander Scammell's regiment : .

Moses Fellowe, orderly sergeant ; Ephraim Heath, Reuben Greeley, Reuben Hoit, Matthew Greeley, Philip Lufkin, William Bayley, Daniel Felch, Benjamin Howard, Joshua Soow, as privates.

These fourteen men were our quota of Continental soldiers for three years, and were mustered into service in March, 1777.

The following is the list of soldiers from Salisbury who were in Captain Ebenezer Webster's company, which fought in the battle of Bennington, on the 16th of August, 1777 :

Edward Evans, one of the staff officers of Colonel Stickney's regiment ; Captain, Ebenezer Webster ; Lientenants, Robert Smith, Andrew Boho- non ; Fourth Sergeant, Abraham Fifield ; Third Corporal, Samuel Lov- ering ; Fourth Corporal, Joshna Morse ; Drummer, John Sanborn ; Fifer, Jonathan Foster ; Privates, Elder Benjamin Huntoon, William Searle, Richard Piermont, Iddo Scribner, Benjamin Scribner, Peter Severance, Rowell Colby, John Fifield, Joseph Fifield, Edward Fifield, Jonathan Fifield, Jacob Bohonon, William Calef, Edmund Sawyer, John C. Gale, Jacob True, John Jemsou, Robert Barber, Joseph Tucker, Moses Elkins, John Smith, William Newtoo, Israel Webster, David Pettengill, Abel Elkins, James Johnson, Jacob Garland, George Bayley, Moses Welch, Daniel Brottlebank, Matthew Pettengill, Edward Eastman,-rank and file from Salisbury, forty-one men.

To this number add Ensign Andrew Pettengill, who served in the Concord and Boscawen company. We also had three other men in Colonel George Reed's regiment, viz. : Samuel Saunders, Jacob Morrill and Joseph Maloon, making, of the Continental and militiamen in actual service in the summer of 1777, forty-five militiamen and seventeen regular troops, a total of sixty-two men.

Though the Salisbury men were largely exposed, and though Saunders was reported among the missing at Hubbardton, Pettengill wounded at Stillwater, yet no death resulted except that of Andrew Pettengill. Early in 1778 disease began to thin the ranks of our veterans, and in March and April we lost for of onr men in camp at Valley Forge, viz. : Ephraim Heath, Reuben Greeley, Philip Lufkin and William Bayley.

In August, 1778, the expedition to Rhode Island

was organized and executed under the command of General Sullivan. Colonel Moses Nichols raised a regiment to serve about a month in General Whipple's brigade. Captain Ebenezer Webster commanded the Third Company in this regiment. Elder Benjamin Huntoon was his orderly sergeant and Edward East- man corporal. The following Salisbury men were privates in his company :

Lieutenant Robert Smith, Ensign Andrew Bohonon, Joseph Fifield, Samuel Scribner, Benjamin Pettengill, Jamee Johnson, William Calef, Jonathan Fifield, Shubael Fifield, Joseph Hoit, Winthrop Fifield, Ensign Moses Garland, Jeremiah Bowen, John Sanborn, Moses Welch, Ben- jamin Eastman and Phineas Bean. Also in Colonel Cenler's regiment, Joseph Bean, Joseph Webster and Daniel Gilman,-total, twenty-two rank and file.

In July, 1779, Stephen Bohonon and James Johnson enlisted for six months to serve in the Rhode Island campaign. In June, 1780, George Hackett, David Greeley, Jonathan Fifield and Joseph Webster were mustered into the Continental army to serve during the war. During the year 1779, John Bean, of Salis- bury, was wounded at Newton, N. Y., and afterwards received half-pay.

In 1780, Captain Ebenezer Webster commanded the Fourth Company in Colonel Moses Nichols' regi- ment, raised for the defense of West Point, and was stationed there for eight months. From Salisbury we recognize Captain Webster's old companions, Robert Wise, Stephen Bohonon, Jethro Barber, Joseph Hoit, Benjamin Eastman, S. Fifield, Winthrop Fi- field, Benjamin Ingalls and Joseph Welch.

In 1780 the term of service of the three years' men expired, and it became necessary to re-enlist some fifteen men, to take the places of those discharged. In addition to the four men who took the places of those who died at Valley Forge, the following men were secured. They enlisted for three years from the spring of 1780 :

Joshna Snow, John Smith, Moses Fellows, John Fellows, Jr., John Ash, George Nichole, Josiah Mason, Benjamin Howard, William Lufkin, Ananiah Bohonon, Josiah Smith and Thomas Cross.

For Colonel George Reed's regiment the following ' men were obtained : Samuel Saunders, Edward Scrib- ner, Jethro Barber, Joseph Maloon and S. Fifield.

The following men were enlisted from Salisbury to reinforce the army in New York, and served in various companies in Colonel D. Reynolds' regiment :

Moses Webster, Peter Whittemore, J. Judkins, Peter Severance, Ed- ward Eastman, Thomas Challis, J. Fifield, Benjamin Sanborn, Ahel Morrill, Jacob Morrill, Henry Elkios, Sanmel Maloon, S. Freuch.

In November, 1781, the following soldiers enlisted for three months, and were returned to Colonel Stickney's regiment :

Moses Fellows, Matthew Greeley, Benjamin Sanborn, Elisha Shepard, Levi Luf kin, John Smith and Samuel Saunders.

In 1782, Captain Ebenezer Webster performed a six months' service in the north part of this State. Jeremiah Bowen was the only private from the town.

The War of 1812 .- One of our active officers in the army of the United States during the war, and in

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the campaign against the Western Indians antecedent to this war, was Captain John Smith. His brother, Jabez Smith, had the rank of major in the First Regiment of the United States Volunteers.

In 1814 our seaport, Portsmouth, was threatened by the British navy, and our militia were called upon more than once to defend this port.

Those who mustered from Salisbury for three months from the 11th day of September, 1814, were the following, viz. :

Captain Jonathan Bean and his son, Phineas Bean, as waiter; Pri- vates, Benjamin Fifield, Moses Fifield, Enoch Fifield, Sammel Fifield, Jonathan P. Sanboro, Nehemiah Lowell, Matthew T. Hunt, William Johnson, John Johnson, Nathaniel Stevens, John Webster, Jesse Ward- well, Moses Osgood, Jr., enlisted in the United States service.

Of the sixty days' men who enlisted October 2, 1814, in the company commanded by Captain Silas Call, of Boscawen, we find the following Salisbury men :

Lieutenant, Samnel Quimby : Orderly Sergeant, Timothy Hoit ; Cor- poral, Thomas Chase; Musician, A. B. Bohonon ; Privates, Nathan Tucker, Jabez True, Theodore George, Samuel Webster, Jonathan Mor- rill, Isaac Proctor, Joseph Fifield and Joseph Adams.

In Colonel Davis' regiment, in the company com- manded by Captain Thomas Currier, we recognize the following soldiers, who served one year, as belonging to Salisbury :

Daniol Woodard, Sergeant Jeremiah Bean, Samuel Fifield, William Frazier, Amos George and Jeremiah Gove. In Captain Mason's com pany, Joel Judkins, Jonathan Johnson, John Sanborn, J. Quimby, Ed- ward West, Ebenezer Webster Bohonon, Ithamar Watson (was a captain of Minute-Men).

The following soldiers are credited to Salisbury :

James Currier, Joseph Stevens, Moses Morse, Abel Wardwell, Samnel Kezir, Matthew Sanborn, Paul Greeley and Richard Greeley.

War of the Rebellion .- On the 27th day of De- cember, 1860, the Confederates seized Forts Moultrie and Pickens. On the 9th day of January, 1861, they fired their first shot, from Fort Moultrie and Morris Island, into a government vessel carrying troops and supplies to Major Anderson, who had transferred his entire force to Fort Sumter. In accordance with the requirements of law, the selectmen for 1861 transmitted to the Secretary of State a list of the names of men liable to do military duty, numbering one hundred and two. Accepting this basis, Salis- bury furnished not only the required number, but a small surplus. Salisbury furnished no soldiers until the Tenth Regiment was raised under the call of 1862. Michael T. Donahoe, of Manchester, was ap- pointed colonel. Company E was raised at An- dover, and was commanded by Captain Aldrich B. Cook, who was succeeded by Captain Thomas C. Trumbull, who, in turn, was succeeded by Captain James A. Sanborn. The following men enlisted from Salisbury :

Sergeant, John C. Carter ; Privates, William C. Ileath, Calvin Hoyt, Anson W. Glines, Willis W. Kenniston, Alfred Sanborn, Harry Scott, William Whittemore, Nathaniel Hodge, Henry M. French, George At- wood, George W. Chuse.

In the Sixteenth Regiment, Company E, enlisted the following men from Salisbury :

Sergeant, Benjamin Gale; Corporals, Alonzo D. Davenport, George F. Smith ; Privates, Evan M. Heath, Harrison V. Heath, Moses Colby, William R. Dimond, Ferdinand M. Daysburg, Benjamin L. Frazier, Charles E. lleuth, Albert A. S. French, Henry C. George, Charles Colby, Meshech W. Blaisdell.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Corporal Madison B. Davis, enlisted in Troop I, First New England Cavalry.

Bugler Cyrus C. Huntoon, enlisted in Troop I, First New England Cavalry.

William Bayley and Andrew J. Colby, enlisted in Company II, Eighth Regiment.

John Meller, enlisted in Company F, Second Regiment.

Lientenant Joseph C. Clifford, enlisted in Company E, First Regiment. Jonathan J. Bayley, enlisted in Company K, Fourth Regiment. M. H. Whitmore, enlisted in Company G, Fifth Regiment. Clinton A. Shaw, enlisted in Company G, Twelfth Regiment. John G. Maxfield, colisted in Company E, Seventh Regiment.

Henry Sanboro, enlisted in Company F, Second Regiment United States

Sharpshooters; re-enlisted September 12, 1862, in Company E, Tenth Regiment.

Frank Stevena, enlisted in Eighteenth Regiment New Hampshire In- fantry.

The following residents of the town were also in service, but we have little knowledge concerning their record beyond the fact of enlistment :

Frank D. Kimball, Company E, Fourth Regiment ; John Woodard, Ebenezer Farnum, James Farnum, Charles Bruce, Caleb B. Smith, Henry Moores, Benjamin S. Heath, Joseph Ladd, Read Huntoon, James W. Gardner, Daniel W. Shaw, C. O. Wheeler, George H. Whitman, W. C. Whitman.

The following soldiers were either natives or resi- dents of the town of Salisbury at the time of their enlistment, but enlisted out of the town or State :

Amos S. Bean, credited to and enlisted from Manchester, in Company A, Heavy Artillery.

George E. Bean, credited to and enlisted from Manchester, Company A, Tenth Regiment.

Albert Kilburn, enlisted in Boston in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of three months' men ; re-enlisted nt Minneapolis, Mino .; afterwards in the employ of the government as a carpenter ; died at Vicksburg, Miss.

Abraham 8. Sanborn, credited to Manchester, Company G, Fourth Reg- iment.

Samuel Sleeper, credited to Canaan, Company D, Fourth Regiment. Rufus Emerson, enlisted in Company C, Second Vermont Regiment. Elbridge G. Etnerson, enlisted in Company C, Second Vermont Regiment. Nathan 8. Corser, enlisted in Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry. Charles W. Corser, enlisted in Sixth Massachusetts Infantry.

George (or Ilenry) Elkins, enlisted in Second Regiment.

Silas Holmes, enlisted in Sixth Massachusetts.

John Shaw.

David F. Bacon, enlisted in Company E, Second Vermont.

Charles II. Bacon. Daniel R. Calef.

John Alfred Calef.

SUBSTITUTES .- The following substitutes performed their engagements with the town of Salisbury ; they honored themselves and the cause they supported :

Thomas Fleming, Company G, Fourth Regiment; Hamilton Carr, Company C, Fourth Regiment; Octave Vezina, Company B, Ninth Regiment ; John Robinson, Company B, Ninth Regiment; James Dolan, Company A, Ninth Regiment ; Robert Brown, Company A, Ninth Regiment ; James McDonald, Company E (or D), Seventh Regi- ment ; Daniel P. Morrison, Company D, Seventh Regiment ; James Carroll, Joseph Storms, Henry Miller, Jerry Potter, Charles Sutton, Peter Carroll, William Loverin, James Meamix, John Murphy, Warren Dinslow, Nathan Lackey, Michael Conners, James Moran, George Perry, Jamce Durgin, Corporal Nelson Davis, William B. Winship, J. F. Coburo, William Williams, Robert Allen, H. C. Rock, Henry MeCarty.

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Twenty-two additional substitutes were enlisted in 1863 and 1864, but are recorded as deserters. Having degraded themselves as soldiers, we shall not allow them to disgrace the town that employed them, by publishing their names.

In 1680 a militia company was organized in this State, consisting of one company of foot in each of the four towns of Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter and Hamp- ton, one company of artillery at the fort and one "troop of horse."

After the Declaration of Independence a new militia system became necessary, and we will only follow its history so far as it relates to Salisbury, which was one of the towns that helped form the Twen- ty-first Regiment, the regimental officers being Lieu- tenant-Colonel Philip Greeley, commander ; Major Joseph Gerrish, First Battalion; Major Timothy Dar- ling, Second Battalion. The following list comprises colonels of the Twenty-first Regiment, so far as known, who resided in Salisbury :

1787, Ebenezer Webster ; 1802, Jobn C. Gale ; 1813, Benjamin Swett ; 1819-20, Jonathan Bean; 1821-23, John Greeley: 1824, Cyrns Chase; 1848, John C. Smith : 1851-53, Gustavus V. Webster.

Roads, Turnpikes, Bridges and Ferries .- The earliest highway in the town was one along the west bank of the Merrimack River, which was in- tended to open communication with the Coos country. The three rangeways of the town extended, in an east- erly and westerly direction, nearly the entire length of the town.

The South Rangeway extended from Shaw's Corner, through the location of South Road village, and con- tinued westerly over Kearsarge into Warner. It was surveyed in 1763 by William Calef.

The Centre road, occupying the rangeway limits very fully, was surveyed by Mr. Calef in 1768. It commenced by the Webster Cemetery, at the river, extended over Searle's Hill, crossed the turnpike road a little southeast of Centre Road village and extended to the western boundary.

The road corresponding, in part, with the North Rangeway was surveyed in 1763 by Mr. Calef. Only a few sections of it were ever built. As early as 1774 a road commenced at the eastern bound of Dr. Joseph Bartlett's home-lot, east of South Road vil- lage, and continued northward to the Centre road, just west of the old meeting-house on Searle's Hill.

North road was constructed in 1770, between Shaw's Corner and Benjamin Huntoon's. It was soon after extended to Andover line.

Bog road was built as a substitute for the Dr. Bartlett road already referred to. Raccoon Hill road extends the whole length of Raccoon Hill, and was built in 1781. Mill's road extends westerly from the Centre Road village, continuing to Prince's Mill, where it then turns slightly and terminates at the foot of the hill west of Frank Whittemore's. A branch of this road turns south at Prince's Mill, con-

tinues south past the Union Meeting-House and leads into Webster. Another branch of this road passes the Glines place and comes out at the South Range road east of Blackwater River bridge.

A road begins west of Alpheus B. Huntoon's, and continues over Beach Hill into Andover. Bay's road extends from Shaw's mill, in West Salisbury, around the eastern shore of "the Bays" and intersects the Col- lege road. A cross-range road extends from D. C. Stevens' to Centre Range road at Harrison V. Heath's. New road to Franklin begins on the Bog road, one half-mile north of Thompson's school-house, turn- ing eastward to the North road, which it intersects south of the "Birth-place." It was laid out in 1869. Cross-Range road, the northern terminus of which is at Centre Road village, continues southerly and in- tersects Brattle Street. its northern extension leads to Raccoon hill. Mutton road extends south from South Road village to Corser Hill, in Webster. It was built in 1819. Water Street commences near the Academy and continues southerly to Boscawen. The new road to North Boscawen, where it connects with the River road, was built in 1849. The new road from Shaw's Corner to Franklin was built in 1823-24. The petition for the College road was presented to the General Court in 1784, and an act was passed anthor- izing a committee to lay it out. It was not built just where the court ordered it. The route through Salis- bury was circular, and we will not follow its windings, as most of the road has become continuous with other roads.

The Fourth New Hampshire turnpike charter was granted at the fall session of the General Court in 1800. It extended from the northwest corner of the bridge just north of the month of the Contoocook River to the Connecticut River in Lebanon, and had a branch to Hanover. There was a toll-house in nearly every town, the gate in Salisbury being kept by Dea- con Daniel Parker. Amos Pettengill, of Salisbury, carried this corporation, by his personal influence, through many a dark day. He invented a snow-plow that was often drawn through the deep snow by thirty yoke of oxen, cutting a path a rod wide.

In 1840 an order was issued by the court declaring the southern portion of it free to public travel, Salis- bury paying the corporation six hundred dollars as its share of indemnity to the stockholders.

The first important bridge in the town was built over the Blackwater River in 1776, and was probably on the line of the south rangeway where it crosses the stream. The second bridge was over the same stream, but on the centre rangeway. It cost thirty- nine dollars, and was built in 1777.

The first bridge over the Pemigewasset River was built in 1802, thereby affording the means of commu- nicating with Sanbornton. Previous to this the stream was crossed either by ferries or by fording the stream with teams, the crossing being just north of the Re- publican bridge.

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An act of incorporation was obtained in 1800 for building a bridge over the Pemigewasset River, which, in later years, was called Republican bridge. Eben- ezer Webster was authorized to call the first meeting, and the bridge was built at the above date (1802). The bridge was carried away by the great February freshet of 1824, and the great winter freshet of 1839 again de- molished it. The following summer the present bridge was erected at a cost of seven thousand dollars. It continued a toll-bridge until 1845.

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History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 149

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1520

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1520