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James R. Smiley
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lic schools in that town. In his later life he has helped establish a Division of the Sons of Tem- peranice, and he is one of the charter members of the Sutton Grange. An Old-Liue Whig and a stanch Republican, he has held intelligent and decided views upon all the great public issues which have entered into the history of the country for the last half- century.
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FREDERICK EATON.
Sutton has been honored by her sons who went from her rocky farms into the business sphere as well as by those who engaged in the professions and in the affairs of state. Frederick Eaton, of Toledo, Ohio, is one of her sons who, at the age of seventeen, went out from his father's farm on Kimball Hill to begin a remarkable career as a merchant. His edu- cation was limited to what the old red school-house in his district had furnished and to one term's attend- ance at an academy in Thetford, Vt. But the Sutton rocks are disciplinarians as well as are the teachers in her schools. No lad can haul lumber and logs out of her woods in the deep snow and drive loaded carts over her side-hill pastures and swing the scythe in her stony fields without having his mind trained to alertness, concentration and nice discernment. In this vigorous schooling, where the pitiless rocks held the ferule, young Fred put in early and late hours summer and winter. He was born February 10, 1835. His first continuous service in merchandising was as a clerk to Messrs. Daniel & William A. Carr, in Bradford. With them he served three years, his salary for the first year being a little less than one dollar a week and his board. From there he went to Manchester and engaged in the dry-goods store of Mr. Otis Barton. In the mean time his brother, now Gen- eral Jolın Eaton, United States commissioner of education, had become the superintendent of the Toledo public schools. In 1856 he joined his brother in that city, where he has ever since resided. He found employment as a dry-goods clerk at ten dollars a week and continued to work in that capacity a few months. In August, 1857, having received the loan of six hundred dollars from his father, he engaged in the retail dry-goods business on his own account, with the exception of a silent interest his brother John had in the enterprise. His opening stock of goods amounted to only three thousand dollars in value and his first year's sales to only twelve thousand dollars. The financial crash of 1857 came the very month his store was opened, and hard was the fate of all the merchants throughout the country. Toledo's popu- lation was then between six thousand and eight thou- sand. But the new enterprise weathered the storm. Mr. Eaton has battled with all the calamities which, in war and peace, in the past twenty-eight years have at times crushed commerce and manufacture and agriculture and sent giaut millionaires to poverty ; but
he has never takeu shelter under insolvency or bank- ruptcy laws; and, what is wonderful, his own note has never gone to protest. He has pushed his business so vigorously that some years his sales have exceeded one million dollars,-a sum which but few Boston merchants outran twenty-five years ago. As indica- ting the expense of doing business in the West within his experience, it should be recorded that the interest on money-bank discounts-was fifteen and eighteen per cent. for several years and never less than ten per cent. up to 1879. New York exchange cost in the earlier years from a quarter of one per cent. to five per cent. Freight from New York and Boston to Toledo has been as high as one dollar per hundred pounds. Mr. Eaton does his business in two immeuse double stores situated a square apart on Toledo's main street. He has given to his city's prosperity a great share of his generous heart and immense energy. He is a stockholder in thirteen of her manufactories, a director in the Merchants' and Clerks' Savings-Bank and vice-president of the Merchants' National Bank and a like officer in the Toledo Mower and Reaper Company, which is the owner of the wonderful plat- form grain self-reaper and binder. His money has helped build nearly all the churches in the city and he is a liberal supporter of her charities. He has been a member of the First Congregational Church since 1858 and is a trustee of the same. He is a member of the advisory board of managers of the Protestant Orphans' Home. In politics he has always been a Republican. On March 8, 1861, Mr. Eaton married Miss Mary H., daughter of R. M. and Sophia Shirley, of Goffstown. The only child (a daughter) born to Mr. and Mrs. Eaton died, in 1876, at the age of ten.
Kimball Hill is five or six miles directly south of Kearsarge Mountain. It receives its name from Caleb Kimball, who settled there from Hamstead with his wife-Miss Sarah Sawyer-about one hundred years ago. His children were Mrs. John Eaton, the grandmother of the subject of this sketch ; Jacob Kimball, of Montpelier, Vt .; Mrs. Moore, mother of the Moores of Canterbury ; Mrs. Adams, mother of the Adamses of Highgate, Vt .; Mrs. John Adams, of Sutton, mother of a large family ; Mrs. Haddock, of Franklin, mother of the Haddocks of Chicago ; Mrs. Pinkerton, of Boscawen; and Mrs. Dr. McCrillis, of Sandwich, mother of Hon. W. H. McCrillis and of Mrs. Dr. Griswold, of Bangor, Me.
John Eaton, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled on this hill a short distance east of the Kimball mansion. On a ledge near this point the school-house stood. He was a silversmith and for a time kept a store of general merchandise. Over this hill was the main road south of Kearsarge, for the travel north and south to Concord, and Kimball's mansion became a tavern. On Kimball's broad field east of the house the militia had their annual muster. Indeed, the business of Sutton first centred on and
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around this hill. On the western spur of this hill, called Potash Hill, because a potash establish- ment flourished there, was reared the family of Tay- lors, three of whom became clergymen, one of whom, William, was one of the founders of a Baptist college in Kalamazoo, Mich.
John Eaton's father, Nathaniel, was a native of Haverhill, Mass., and commanded a company at Bunker. Hill and served through the Revolutionary War. He married Mary Dodge, of Lunenburg, Mass., and first settled on the bank of the Merrimack, where are still the remains of the chimney of his house by a brook of his name near Pennycook, not far from the spot where Mrs. Dustin killed her Indian captors. Two brothers of John Eaton, Elijah and Nathaniel, joined him in Sutton and settled easterly on the same road, where they also reared large families. Carlos Eaton, son of Elijah, still occupies the homestead. Nathaniel lived to celebrate his one hundredth birth- day, and was the father of George, who still occupies the homestead.
John Eaton, the grandfather above mentioned, is described by the venerable Levi Bartlett, of Warner, and others who remember him, as a man above the usual stature, of fine physique and strong mind and a leader of men. He was convivial, and though full of vigor and activity, was not thrifty.
Mary Kimball Eaton, his wife, was a woman of rare powers and extraordinary Christian faith and piety. Eleven of the children of John and Mary Eaton survived to active life, as follows :
Frederick ; Ruth (Mrs. Robert Sherburn, of Con- cord) ; Rebecca, unmarried, teacher ; John, father of the subject of this sketch; Sarah (Mrs. Samnel Dresser); Hiram, unmarried ; Lncretia K. unmarried ; Jacob S., M.D., still resident of Harvard, Mass .; Charles, unmarried ; Lucien B., now living in Fre- mont, Ind .; Rev. Horace, D.D. (see memorial by his wife, Mrs. Anna R. Eaton, of Palmyra, New York).
John Eaton, the father of the subject of this sketch, married Janet Cole Andrews, of whose chil- dren there survive:
John Eaton, born December 5, 1829; Caroline,. born July 10, 1831; Nathan Andrew, born April 11, 1833; Frederick, born February 10, 1835; Lncien Bonaparte, born March 8, 1837; Christina Landon, born August 23, 1839; James Andrew, born Sep- tember 30, 1841 ; Charles, born on the 28th of Angust, 1843.
John Eaton, the father of the subject of this sketch, became possessed of the estate of his mother's father, Caleb Kimball, and to the same he added farm after farm till he owned at one time eighteen hundred acres. He inherited the sturdy frame and stronger mental characteristics of his father. His children above named still retain the greater por- tion of his Sutton lands and have enlarged and improved the old mansion on Kimball Hill and occupy it as a summer resort. Being owned and enjoyed by them in common, they call the mansion . Eaton Grange.
HISTORY OF WARNER.
BY FRED. MYRON COLBY.
CHAPTER I.
The Grant and the Settlement .- The township of Warner is situated in the western portion of Merri- mack County and is bounded as follows: North, by Sutton, Wilmot, Andover and Salisbury ; east, by Sal- isbury and Webster; south, by Hopkinton and Hen- niker; west, by Bradford and Sutton. The area of the town comprises thirty-one thousand eight hun- dred and fifty-one acres ; the number of acres of im- proved land is about twenty-one thousand. The centre of the town is eighteen miles from the State- House at Concord in a northwesterly direction.
The territory now embraced in the present limits of the town of Warner was granted in 1735, by the Gen- eral Court of Massachusetts, to Thomas Stevens and sixty other inhabitants of Amesbury and Salisbury of that province, under the name of "Number One." The terms of this grant were that each grantee should, within three years, clear and fence in five acres of land and build a house thereon, erect a church and "settle a learned orthodox minister ;" otherwise it would revert to the province of Massachusetts.
In April, 1737, the several grantees met. The township was rechristened "New Amesbury," in honor of the home of the larger number of the pro- prietors, and by June of the following year the allot- ments had been made and sixty-three house-lots, con- taining about five acres each, had been laid out. These lots were near the extreme southeast part of the town, at what is now called Davisville, where are located several excellent mill privileges. On March 21, 1739, the proprietors " Voted to pay Orlando Col- by, Joseph Jewell and John Challis, Jr., £120 in Province bills of the old tenor to build a good saw- mill." The mill was erected in 1740. It was at Davisville. The men who built it camped near the stone watering-trough below that village In the hut which they used as a camp the proprietors held their first meeting in town, May 28, 1740. At this meeting Joseph Jewell was chosen moderator and Ezekiel Morrill clerk. These were the first men elected to office in Warner.
Strong inducements were held forth to colonists, twenty pounds being offered by the proprietors to
each man who would settle upon the conditions of the grant. As late as 1749, however, only four houses had been built on the five-acre building lots in Davisville. These houses stood some distance west of the store at the corner, stretching along on the five-acre lots. The persons who built them were Thomas Colby, Moses Morrill, Jarvis Ring and Gideon Straw. The begin- ning of the French and Indian War put an end for the time to all projects for settlement. The saw- mill and the cabins were destroyed by the Indians and the progress of civilization was stayed for a dozen years.
During the time that this first settlement was going out in smoke and ashes the Masonian proprietors granted the territory to seventy-six men, mostly res- idents of Rye and Newcastle.1 Many of these gran- tees bore the name of Jenness, and the town was ac- cordingly sometimes called Jennesstown. A sharp controversy now arose between the Amesbury pro- prietors and the inhabitants of Rye, which assumed at one time a serious aspect. The question was final- ly settled by arbitration in 1769, the Amesbury pro- prietors agreeing to pay a certain sum for a quit- claim. Controversy still continued as to the sum to be paid, but it was ended in 1773 by the decision of the arbitrators, who awarded one hundred and forty pounds. The General Court of Massachusetts, to re- munerate the Amesbury proprietors for their loss, gave them one-half of the townships of Solon and Poland, in Maine.
The terms of this grant from the Rye proprietors to the Amesbury proprietors indicate the same care for religion and education which was noticed in the charter granted by Massachusetts. Some of these
1 RECORD OF THE PROPRIETORS' MEETING, 1741.
"att a meeting of the Propritors of the Township No. one, in the line of towns held by an Adjurnment from the 18th day of Jannary, 1741, for first day of february folowing and then met att the house of Jonathan Barnard, Inholder in Almsburey.
" Att the Same meeting voted That Thomas Rowel, Esq., and Joseph Juell Be a Committee to prefer a Petition, in the name of the proprietore, to the Governour and Council, in the province of New Hampshire, in order to obtain orders and directions therefrom to bringe foward the Set- tlement of Sd Township.
" A true coppy, as attst. by me,
"JONATHAN BARNARD, Proprietors' Clark."
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terms were that the grantees "lay out three rights or shares of land-one for the use of the first minister of the gospel who should be ordained or settle there; one for the use of the ministry in the town forever ; and one for the use of a school, for and towards the support thereof forever; each of said rights to be laid out in lots as the grantees manage the other rights, and to be free from the charge of settlement or any public taxes to that end." Also, "that they build a meeting-house and maintain constant preach- ing there from and after the term of three years from the date thereof."
The first permanent settlement was made in 1762 by Daniel Annis and his sons-in-law, Reuben Kim- ball and Daniel Floyd. Mr. Annis' house was in Di- mond's Corner District, on the north side of the high- way, a little west of the Paine Davis buildings. Reu- ben Kimball at first lived near by, on the south side of the highway, some twenty rods from where it now runs. Daniel Floyd (or Flood), afterwards known as Captain Floyd, lived on what is now Denny Hill. Annis, Kimball and Floyd all came in under the Rye proprietors and had probably lived in the neighbor- hood of Rye. Hannah, daughter of Daniel Annis and wife of Reuben Kimball, came into Warner in 1762. She was the first English female who ever lived here, and her son Daniel, born October, 1762, was the first English child born in town. Mrs. Kim- ball died in Warner February 23, 1823, aged eighty- three. Daniel Kimball died in Enfield July 29, 1843, aged eighty years.
In 1763 the proprietors voted to give each of the first ten settlers a forty-acre lot of upland and five acres of intervale. Some engaged to settle on these on similar conditions. Isaac Waldron, his two sons, Isaac, Jr., and Theodore, and Paskey Pressey, came in early in 1763. We cannot name the exact order in which the settlers came afterwards. At the end of 1763 those named above and the following persons, withtheir families, constituted the population: Thomas Annis (from whom Lake Tom took its name), Moses Annis, Solomon Annis, David Bagley (who was town clerk thirty-nine years, holding office for a longer period than any other man in town), Enoch Blaisdell, Elijah Blaisdell, Isaac Chase, Daniel Chase, Abner Chase, Joseph Currier, Daniel Currier, Theophilus Currier, Moses Clark, Hubbard Carter, Moses Colby, Francis Davis, Daniel Flanders, Ebenezer Eastman, Stephen Edmunds, Eliphalet Danforth, James, Chris- topher and Philip Flanders, Jeremy Fowler, Joseph Foster, Jonathan Fifield, Seth, Richard and Ezekiel Goodwin, Robert Gould, Nehemiah Heath, Barnard Hoyt, David Gilmore, Samuel Roby, Theodore Ste- vens, Thomas Rowell, Jos. Sawyer, Jonathan Smith, Jacob Tucker, Nathaniel Trumball, Parmenas Wat- son, Daniel Young and Abner Watkins.
These settlers, so far as we are able to ascertain, re- sided as follows : Davis and Gilmore lived at Davis- ville; Th. Annis, Moses Annis, Solomon Annis
and Fifield, at Dimond's Corner; Smith and Bagley, at Bagley's Bridge; Heath, Hoyt, Joseph Currier, Daniel and Christopher Flanders, at the Lower vil- lage; Watson Fowler, Moses Clark and Daniel Cur- rier, at Joppa ; Roby, Trumball, Philip Flanders and Seth Goodwin, at Schoodach; Joseph Sawyer, Abner Chase and Richard Goodwin, on Kelly Hill; Joseph Foster, in the Kimball District ; Gould, Stevens, Row- ell, Theodore Currier and Ezekiel Goodwin, on Wal- dron's Hill ; Moses Colby and James Flanders, on Burnt Hill; Isaac Chase, on Pumpkin Hill ; Edmunds and Carter, on Tory Hill; Abner Watkins, in the Gore; Daniel Young, at the Levi Bartlett place, on the Joppa road; and Jacob Tucker, near thesite of the Kearsarge Hotel, at the Centre village. By 1770 about fifty-five families were settled in Warner, or New Amesbury, as it was then called,
The habits of the early settlers, their privations, snfferings and endurance, possess a fascinating inter- est. Their first dwellings were rude and simple. As " late as 1773 there were none but log honses. David Bagley built the first frame house at Bagley's Bridge, a little after this date. Francis Davis and Renben Kimball built the next earliest ; Mr. Kimball also built the first frame barn. Rev. William Kelley, the first settled minister, erected the first two-story frame house in 1774. Money was scarce; watches and clocks were few. When houses were built, compasses were set to square them by, so that the sun might shine in at the front doors when it was noon. They had also nine o'clock marks, one o'clock marks and others. These rude time-pieces, of course, were available only on sunny days.
The fare of the first inhabitants was plain and simple. Bean porridge, Indian corn, rye, pumpkins, turnips, fish and game were the most common articles of food. One barrel of potatoes was considered a large quan- tity for one family to store for winter use. Sometimes, when provisions were scarce in the summer-time, boiled beech-leaves were substituted. For a number of years after the place was settled the people went to Concord to grind their corn, drawing it upon hand-sleds or car- rying it upon their shoulders. Captain Daniel Floyd used to carry two bushels at a time on his shoulders to that place, and bring it back in the same way. Another settler, Jacob Collins, carried the boards of which to build his rye-bins on his shoulders from Waterloo, through the woods and over the hills, to the edge of Bradford, because no team could go by the wood-path. The first grist and saw-mills were erected in 1765, and they stood at Davisville.
Some of the first roads laid out in town were the main road to Perrytown (now Sutton), which ran over Denny Hill and south of Frank Bartlett's, crossing the Tory Hill road about a third of a mile up; the road to the North village, by the first meeting-house and Levi Bartlett's; the one from the first meeting- house, by Kimball's Corner and the Major Hoyt place, to Henniker; the one through Joppa; the one
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through Schoodach, which crossed the river at Bag- ley's Bridge; and the Pumpkin and Burnt Hill roads. The first bridge built in town was across the river at the Lower village. It was built in the autumn of 1774, and a part of its cost-forty dollars-was contrib- uted by Councilors Daniel and Jonathan Warner, of Portsmouth.
The first public meeting of the inhabitants of the town was held December 27, 1770. At another meet- ing held July 14, 1774, among other actions it was " Voted that Captain Francis Davis shall go and get the town incorporated, if the Proprietors will find the money to do it with." The proprietors were accord- ingly consulted, who found the necessary funds, and a petition was drawn up asking for a charter and pray- ing that the town be named Amesbury. Ezekiel Evans, of Salisbury, Mass., agent for the proprietors, and Captain Davis, who was also a proprietor, together journeyed to Portsmouth and presented their petition to Governor Wentworth and his Council. They se- cured a charter, but the Governor and Council named the new borough Warner. This was by no means an exceptional case, as Governor Wentworth named sev- eral other towns to please himselfand honor his friends, regardless of the wishes of the inhabitants or pro- prietors. The town was incorporated September 3, 1774, receiving its name in honor of Hon. Jonathan Warner, of Portsmouth, the Governor's most intimate friend, his cousin hy marriage and a member of the Royal Council.
The Corporate Town,-The first town-meeting of the legal town of Warner was called a month later, October 4, 1774. The first civil officers of the town as elected that day were as follows, viz .: Moderator, Isaac Chase ; town clerk, Daniel Flanders; selectmen, Daniel Floyd, Jacob Waldron and Isaac Chase. The number of voters at that time was forty-eight; the population was probably in the vicinity of two hun- dred and thirty souls. The records of the Committee of Safety, published December, 1775, furnish some interesting facts as to the population at the breaking out of the Revolution. By the census ordered to be taken by the Provincial Convention held at Exeter, August 25th of that year, Warner had, of white males, 78 under sixteen years of age, 45 between the ages of sixteen and fifty not in the army, and 6 above fifty, 126 females and one negro,-total, 262. Ten men from Warner had joined the patriot army before Bos- ton. The town reported twenty-one fire-arms fit for service, and twenty-six instances in which fire-arms were wanting. At a town-meeting held that summer the inhabitants had " Voted that the selectmen should provide powder, lead and flints for a town stock, and as many fire-arms as should be found wanting in town." At another meeting held at the meeting- house on the old parade, August 3, 1775, Captain Francis Davis, Captain Daniel Floyd and Daniel An- nis, Sr., were chosen a Committee of Safety.
Warner sent no representatives to the General As-
sembly of the province or the State until 1776, the first election for that purpose being held November 19th of that year. Captain Francis Davis was then chosen; in 1777, Daniel Morrill; and in 1778, Cap- tain Daniel Floyd. The General Assembly met in those days at Exeter. Representatives to that body were required by law to possess real estate to the value of two hundred pounds, lawful money. The following is a list of those who have served as representatives of the town from 1779 to 1885:
Thomas Rowell, 1779; Isaac Chase, 1780; Captain Tappan Evans. 1781 ; Nathaniel Bean, 1782-83; Captain Francis Davis, 1784; Warner, Sutton and Fishersfield elected Mathew Harvey, of Sutton, representa- tive in 1785 ; the same towns elected Zephaniah Clark, of Fishersfield, in 1786 ; the three towns elected James Flanders, of Warner, in 1787-89 (this was the end of the class representative business; hereafter Warner elected and sent her own'representative, as before) ; James Flanders, 1790-94; Aquilla Davis, 1795-98 ; Joseph Bartlett, 1799-1801 ; Aquillt Davis, 1802-5 ; James Flanders, 1806-7 ; Richard Bartlett, 1808-11 ; Ben- jamin Evans, 1812; Richard Bartlett, 1813; Benjamin Evans, 1814; Philip Flanders, 1815 ; Henry B. Chase, 1816-17 ; Benjamin Evans, 1818 -19 ; Richard Bartlett, 1820; James Bean, 1821 ; Benjamin Evans, James Bean, 1822 ; Benjamin Evans, Henry B. Chase, 1823 ; Henry B. Chase, Ahner B. Kelley, 1824; Timothy Flanders, Caleb Bnswell, 1825; Benja- min Evans, Daniel George, 1826 ; Benjamin Evans, Abner B. Kelley, 1827-28 ; Abner B. Kelley, Nathan S. Colhy, 1829; Nathan S. Colby, Zebulon Davis, 1830; Zebulon Davis, Benjamin E. Harriman, 1831 ; Ben- jamin E. Harriman, Daniel Jones, 1832 ; Daniel Jones, Nathan & Colby, 1833 ; Nathan S. Colby, Timothy Davis, 1834; Timothy Davis, Philip Colby, Jr., 1835 ; Philip Colby, Jr., Mitchell Gilmore, Jr., 1836 ; Mitchell Gilmore, Jr., Nathan Davis, 1837 ; Nathan Davis, Abner Woodman, 1838 ; Ahner Woodman, Abner Watkins, 1839; Abner Watkins, Ara Pattee, 1840 ; Asa Pattee, Robert Thompson, 1841; Robert Thompson, John Stewart, 1842 ; H. D. Robertson, Robert Thompson, 1843 ; H. D. Robertson, Enos Collins, 1844; Enos Collins, Daniel Bean, Jr., 1845 ; none elected, 1846 ; James M. Harriman, Daniel Bean, Jr., 1847 ; J. M. Harriman, Franklin Simonds, 1848 ; Franklin Simonds, Walter Harri- man, 1849; Walter Harriman, George A. Pillsbury, 1850; George A. Pillsbury, Leonard Eaton, 1851; Leonard Eaton, H. H. Harriman, 1852 ; H. D. Robertson, Ira Harvey, 1853 ; H. D. Robertson, Levi Collins, 1854 ; Levi Collins, Benjamin C. Davis, 1855; Benjanun C. Davis, Lewis Holmes, 1856; Lewis Holmes, Samuel W. Colby, 1857 ; Samuel W. Colby, Walter Harriman, 1858 ; Cummings Marshall, Ephraim M. Dunbar, 1859 ; C. Marshall, E. M. Dunbar, 1860; Augustine N. Harriman, Stephen C. Pattee, 1861-62; John P. Colby, Hezekiah B. Harriman, 1863-64; Elijah R. Gilmore, John Rogers, 1865-66 ; Samuel Davis, Moses J. Collins, 1867-68; Christopher G. McAlpine, Lemnel W. Collins, 1869-70; Charles Currier, Moses D. Wheeler, 1871-72 ; John E. Robert. son, John W. Clement, 1873-74; John H. Dowlin, Nehemiah G. Ordway, 1875-76; N. G. Ordway, Henry C. Davis, 1877 ; Henry C. Davis, 1878 ; Augustus R. Putnam, 1880 ; Harlan S. Willis, 1882 ; none elected, 1884.
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