History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 161

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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mouth College in 1835, and died while a member of Bangor Seminary. James Madison Putney, son of Amos and grandson of Asa, Sr., studied at Dart- mouth and entered the Episcopal ministry. Isaac D. Stewart, son of John Stewart and grandson of Deacon Isaac Dalton, entered the ministry of the Free-Will Baptist denomination in 1843. Marshall G. Kimball, son of John Kimball and grandson of Daniel Bean, Sr., studied at Dartmonth and Cam- bridge Divinity School, and entered the ministry of the Unitarian denomination in 1855. Elliot C. Cogs- well, son of Dr. Joseph Cogswell and grandson of Elliot Colby, entered the Congregational ministry about 1822. John C. Ager, son of Uriah, born in 1835, is settled over the New Jerusalem Church at Brooklyn, N. Y. John George, son of Charles and grandson of Major Daniel, is in the ministry of the Free-Will Baptist denomination. Rev. George W. Savory, son of Cyrus Savory and grandson of Ben- jamin E. Harriman, was ordained in the Congrega- tionalist ministry, and is settled over the church at Stratham, N. H.


CHAPTER III. WARNER-(Continued).


MILITARY HISTORY.


WARNER did not participate in the old French and Indian Wars, for the township was not then set- tled. When the War of the Revolution commenced she was not behind her neighbors in patriotic ardor and enterprise. Upon the first alarm at Lexington and Concord ten of the citizens seized their arms and hurried to the scene of action. Among these were James Palmer, John Palmer, Richard Bartlett, Jona- than Roby, Francis Davis and Wells Davis. These men were never organized into any regiment and probably returned home. The State allowed the town for their services as follows : "Lexington ten men, 1775, £22 10s," which was about $7.50 to each man.


Five Warner men were in the battle of Bunker Hill, namely,-William Lowell, Amos Floyd, Fran- cis Davis, Wells Davis and Jonathan Roby. In the same year Richard Bartlett and Charles Barnard (the latter settled in Warner after the war) participated in a skirmish with the British near New Brunswick.


ROLL OF DANIEL FLOYD'S COMPANY, 1776.


" Daniel Floyd, captain ; Thomas Rowell, first lientenant ; Philip Flan- ders, second lientenant ; Joseph Currier, ensign ; Privates, Abner Chase, Abner Watkins, Christopher Flanders, David Bagley, Daniel Currier, David Annis, Ebenezer Eastman, Ezra Flanders, Edmund Sawyer, Fran- eis Davis, Jr., James Palmer, Isaac Chase, Isaac Waldron, Jr., Jonathan Gould, Joseph Foster, Jonathan Fifield, James Flanders, Jonathan Smith, John Palmer, Moses Call, Moses Clement, Nathaniel Trumbull, Richard Goodwin, Robert Gould, Stephen Edmunds, Samuel Trumbull, Thomas Annis, Wells Davie, Zebulon Davis, Theophilus Currier.


" Gone Into the Service.


" Jacob Waldron, Jacob Tucker, Isaac Walker, David Gilmore, Dan- iel Young, Hubbard Carter, Moses Clark, Paskey Preesy.


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" Alarmı-List Men.


" Daniel Annis, Daniel Flanders, Daniel Aonis, Jr., Francie Davis, Isaac Waldron, Joseph Sawyer, Jonathan Palmer, Jacob Hoyt, Nehemiah Hesth, Parmedas Watson, William Kelley, Benjamin Currier, Samuel Roby, Seth Goodwin.


" Sir,-I have sent you a return of my company according to your or- ders wee mustered, and Cao not make out to Chuse any Serjante as yet ; as for fire-arme wee have not got half enough, and where to get them wee koow not. Our men Saith they Cannot get guns for they are not in the Country and shall see you next week.


" This from you to serve,


"DANIEL FLOYD.


" To Major Chandler, in Hopkinton."


Of these men, Hubbard Carter enlisted for the war and Isaac Walker, Paskey Pressey, Daniel Young and John Palmer as militiamen. , Three Warner men- Aquilla Davis, Amos Floyd and Philip Rowell-en- listed for a term of three years. At the expiration of the service of these men, William Lowell, Isaac Low- ell, Stephen Colby and Ichabod Twilight, a mulatto, were enlisted to succeed them. During Burgoyne's campaign several of our citizens were in service at Bennington and Saratoga. Elliot Colby, Francis Da- vis, John Palmer, Ezekiel Goodwin. Samuel Trum- bull, Paskey Pressey, Robert Gould, Abner Watkins and perhaps others took the field at that time.


We copy the following from Hammond's " Town Papers: "


SOLDIERS' DEPOSITION RELATIVE TO BACK PAY.


" November ye 8, 1777 .- Then Paskey Pressey, Ezekiel Goodwin, Samuel Trumbul, Francie Davis, all of Warner, in the State of New Hampshire, in ye county of Hillsborough, yeomen, personally appeared, and Being Duly Examined and Corshened made Solemn Oath that they Sarved as Soldiers in Capt. William Stilleon Company, in Colo. Wyman's Regiment, at Mount Independence in the year 1776, for five months, and Rec'd ower Pay until the month of November, and never Rec'd any Pay for said November, not by ower Selves nor orders, direct nor inderact, and that they never Rec'd any Travelling Mouey nor aney Sans 1 Money During Said Sarves Except ower Travelling Money from hom to said Mount Independence, which we rec'd, and tharefore Prays that Honora- ble house of Representatives or Committee of Safety of Said Stats would Said Mooth Pay and the Remaining Part of ower travelling money and Saus money.


" Examined aod sworn before me,


"Coram JEREMIAH PAGE, Justice of Peace."


RETURN OF SOLDIERS, 1780.


" WARNER, June the 30, 1780.


" Agreeable to an act passed June the sixteenth, for raising Six hun- dred Good, able-bodied men out of this State for to fill up the battalion of this State in the Continental Army, in Compliance thereto, wee have raised said men, which two was on proportion, as followeth: Isaac Daltoo, James Pressey."


" This is the return of Capt. Daniel Floyd :


" Colo. Stickney,-I am afraid Said men Caunot get ready So Soon as is required of them by reason of having my orders so late."


"STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.


" WARNER, July the 8, 1780.


" Persuant to orders Dated July the first for to raise five man out of any Company, andaccording to orders, I have proceeded, have raised four men for to joyn the armey at Amherst by the 12 Day of this month, as follows: Joho Palmer, Nathaniel Trumbull, Israel Rand, Simon Palmer.


" I have also Draughted EbenEzar Eastman for to go to Haverhill, io Cooe, and ordered him to be at Concord by the tenth of this Instant to pass muster and then to proceed on to Coos, there to remain till further orders.


"To Colo. Thomas Stickney, in Concord."


" DANIEL FLOYD.


Ebenezer Eastman was not the only Warner man who was raised for the defense of Coos. When, in October, 1780, an eruption of British and Canadian Indians swept over the eastern part of Vermont, plun- dering and destroying the settlements, New Hampshire was alarmed for the safety of her own soil, and raised a volunteer force to proceed to the threatened locality. Warner furnished fifteen men for the expedition, the greater number being old men and boys under age. Jacob Hoyt, mine host of the first hotel, was one of these volunteers. The names of the others are not known, as there are no rolls of these men in existence. Their term of service was short, for the invading army took the alarm and made a hasty retreat. They were allowed by the State the sum of £12 17s., or $2.62 each.


CERTIFICATE OF SIMON WARD'S SERVICE.


" This may certify that Simon Ward has served the United States in Capt. Chase's Company, Second New Hampshire Regiment, one year being the time he engaged for. And is hereby discharged the service. " West Point June 25, 1780.


" CALEB ROBINSON, Capt. Commanding 2d N. H. Regt. " Whom it concerns, civil or military."


"WARNER, Jan'y 23rd, 1789. "We do hereby relinquish all our right and title to any emolument that may be due to Simon Ward for doing a short turn of service in the Iate American army, for this town, of about nine or 12 months, in the year 79 or '80.


" BENJAMIN SARGENT, ) Selectmen of


" RICHAHO BARTLETT, S Warner."


Warner Soldiers in the War of 1812 .- There were two hundred and sixty men enrolled in the town in 1812 as capable of doing military duty. Of these, between eighty and ninety did service at one time or another during this second war with the mother-country. The following is the muster :


ROLL OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH SMITH'S COMPANY.


Enlisted February 1, 1813, for one year.


Joseph Smith, captain ; Daniel George, fiirst lieutenant ; James Bean, second lieutenant ; Richard Patter, ensigo ; Stephen George, sergeant ; Philip Osgood, sergeant ; David Straw, sergeant ; Daniel Floyd, sergeant ; Benjamin Evans, corporal ; Daniel Beao, corporal ; John Barnard, pro- moted to corporal ; Ezekiel Roby, promoted to corporal ; Samuel Roby, promoted to corporal; Jeremiah Silver, musician ; William Barnard Walker, musician; David Bagley, Robert Bailey, Timothy B. Chase, Timothy Chandler, Moses F. Colby, Charles Colby, Phineas Danforth, Zadoc Dow, John Davis, Jesse Davis, Joshua Elliott, Stephen G. Eaton, Moses C. Eaton, Enoch French, Amos Floyd, Mariner Floyd, Thomas W. Freelove, David Hardy, James Hastings, Richard Hunt, Isaiah Hoyt, David E. Harriman, Ezra Jewell, Winthrop M. Lowell, William Little, James Little, Joseph Maxfield, Joho Morrill, Nehemiah Osgood, Eben Stevens, Royal W. Stanley, Samuel G. Titcomb, Abraham Waldron, Plumer Wheeler, Samuel Wheeler, James Wheeler, Ebenezer Woodbury, Humphrey Bursiel, John Smith, Ambrose C. Sargent, Jonathan Stevens, privates.


In Captain Jonathan Bean's company of Salisbury Warner had fifteen men, as follows:


Nicholas Evans, sergeant ; Joel B. Wheeler, corporal ; Isaiah S. Colbay, Mariner Eastman, Joseph Goodwin, Seth Goodwin, John Goodwin, Na- thaniel Hunt, David H. Kelley, James G. Ring, Jaluce H. Stevens, Stephen Sargent, Thomas Thurber, Abner S. Colby, Jacob Harvey, pri- vates.


In Captain Silas Call's company of Boscawen there were six Warner soldiers, who enlisted October 2, 1814, for forty days. They were Reuben Clough, en- sign ; Christopher Sargent, musician ; Marden Seavey,


1 Money was furnished soldiers, sometimes, to purchase vegetables, which was called hy them "sauce-money."


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sergeant; John Hall, Simeon Bartlett and Jacob Colby, privates. There were four Warner men in Cap- tain Josiah Bellows' company of Walpole, who were enlisted September 26, 1814, for sixty days, namely : David Harvey, Samuel Page, Benjamin Spalding and Daniel Wheeler. Other Warner men served in various companies. The following are their names :


Winthrop D. Ager, sergeant-major in the regular army ; Daniel Pills- bury, corporal ; Obadiah Whittaker, corporal; Dudley Trumbull, Na- thaniel Jones, Benjamin C. Waldron, Joseph Burke, privates.


In conformity to the suggestion of the Governor, the Legislature, December 22, 1812, passed an act establishing the pay of men detached, or to be de- tached, including the pay from the general govern- ment, at the following rates : Sergeant-major, $13 per month ; quartermaster-sergeant, $13 per month ; prin- cipal musician, $12 per month; sergeant, $12 per month ; corporal, $11 per month ; private, $10 per month ; and it was also provided that the towns that had paid, or should pay their detached soldiers extra pay to the amount paid by the general government, should be refunded by the State to the amount per month for each soldier, as specified above.


The citizen of Warner most prominent in this war was General Aquilla Davis, son of Captain Francis, the first representative, and a large mill-owner and lumberman. In 1812 he raised the First Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, enlisted for one year, and was chosen and commissioned its colonel. The law for raising volunteers having been re- pealed January 29, 1813, by Congress, the First New Hampshire Regiment of Volunteers was mostly trans- ferred to and formed the Forty-fifth Regiment of United States Infantry, and Colonel Davis was com- missioned its lieutenant-colonel. It is related of Colonel Davis that, while stationed on an island in Lake Champlain, he mounted a battery of huge guns, and kept the British at a respectful distance from the shore by his formidable battery. The chagrin of the British officers was not small when, too late to profit by the knowledge, they discovered that the Yankee in command had exercised his mechanical skill, and had improvised a battery of huge guns from pine logs, hewn, fashioned and painted in imitation of "the real article." General Davis retired after the war to his mills, and spent the rest of his life in his avocation. He died February 27, 1835, while on a journey to Sharon, Me., aged seventy-four years. He was prominent in the old State militia, was lieutenant- colonel commandant of the Thirtieth Regiment from 1799 to 1807, and brigadier-general of the Fourth Brigade, from 1807 to 1809.


The first man to hold a military commission in Warner was Francis Davis, father of General Aquilla, who was commissioned a captain by His Excellency, John Wentworth, in 1773. The earliest military trainings in town, were at the Parade, near the First Church. Here, in the last days before the Revolution, Captain Davis used to call together the Twenty-


second Company of Foot, in the Ninth Regiment of militia. Here, for years and years, those liable to military duty were warned to appear "armed and equipped as the law directs." There were two train- ings, generally, each year, in May and in September.


The militia laws of the State, passed in 1792 and remodeled in 1808, remained the laws of the State, without any very essential modification, nearly forty years; and perhaps our militia was never better organ- ized or in a more flourishing condition than for the twenty years succeeding the War of 1812-15. But innovation and change are natural laws. Forty years of peace made men forgetful of that truth embodied in our Bill of Rights, that a " well-regulated militia is the proper, natural and sure defense of a State." Our militia, by legislative enactment of July 5, 1851, became a mere skeleton, and that existing only upon paper. The days of the old-fashioned musters were over.


The following is a partial list of general and field officers which Warner furnished the State militia from 1792 to 1851:


Brigadier-General, Aquilla Davis; Colonels, Richard Straw, Simeon Bartlett, Isaac Dalton, Jr., James M. Harriman, Johu C. Ela ; Lieuten- ant-Colonels, Hiram Dimond, Timothy D. Robertson, William G. Flan- ders, John A. Hardy, Calvin A. Davis, Bartlett Hardy ; Majors, Dauiel Runnels, Joseph B. Hoyt, William H. Ballard, Joseph Burke, Daniel George, Joseph S. Hoyt, Eliezar Emerson, Stephen K. Hoyt ; Captains, Jacob Davis, Timothy Flanders, David Harriman, Nathaniel Flanders, Nicholas Evans, William Currier.


Warner in the Civil War .- When the Rebellion broke out, in 1861, and New Hampshire raised a regi- ment to proceed to Washington, this town sent seven men who were mustered May 2, 1861. This first regi- ment were three-months' men, and were discharged August 9th of the same year. Five of the Warner men enlisted again in other regiments. New Hamp- shire raised, from first to last, seventeen regiments of infantry, two battalions of cavalry, a regiment of artillery and one of sharpshooters, embracing in all thirty-four thousand five hundred men. Warner had men in most of these organizations. The wholenumber furnished by the town was two hundred, of which one hundred and twenty-four were citizens and seventy- six were recruited abroad. Three Warner men were mustered in the Second Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, of three-years' men; one in the Fifth Regiment; two in the Seventh Regiment; forty-six in the Eleventh Regiment ; thirty-one in the Sixteenth Regiment, nine months; eight in the Eighteenth Regiment, nine months; two in New Hampshire Bat- talion, First New England Cavalry ; six in the First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Cavalry ; three in the First Regiment Heavy Artillery ; eleven men in the First Regiment United States Sharpshooters ; four others served in various organizations out of the State.


Of the citizens who held prominent positions in the service during the War of the Rebellion, was, first, Walter Harriman, who was commissioned colonel of


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the Eleventh Regiment August 26, 1862. He fought with his regiment in the battle of the Wilderness, and entered Petersburg in command of a brigade of nine regiments. March 13, 1865, he was appointed brigadier-general by brevet, for gallant conduct during the war. General Harriman subsequently went into civil life, became Secretary of State, 1865 and 1866, and was elected Governor of the State in 1867 and 1868.


Samuel Davis, who served as major of the Six- teenth New Hampshire Volunteers, was born in Bradford, but has been a citizen of Warner since 1859. He was educated at the military academy at West Point, and in 1853 and 1854 he was in the North Pacific Railroad exploration and survey, under the late General I. I. Stevens as engineer, and for one thousand miles had charge of the meteorological department. He studied law in the office of Hon. Herman Foster, of Manchester, and is now engaged in the practice at Warner.


David C. Harriman, a brother of General Walter, both sons of Benjamin E. Harriman, Esq., was com- missioned second lieutenant September 4, 1862 ; pro- moted to first lieutenant February 27, 1863; resigned July 1, 1863 ; appointed first lieutenant of the Eigh- teenth Regiment October 6, 1864; mustered out as captain June 10, 1865. Charles Davis, Jr., enlisted as first sergeant September 2, 1862; promoted to second lieutenant, and then to first ; appointed cap- tain September 20, 1864. Philip C. Bean was com- missioned second lieutenant November 4, 1862.


Manufacturing Interests .- The inhabitants of Warner are principally employed in farming, but manufacturing is an important and growing interest. The town is watered by Warner River, a pleasant and rapid stream, which takes its rise in Sunapee Mountains and in Todd Pond, Newbury. From Newbury it passes through Bradford and enters War- ner at the northwest corner; thence running in a northeasterly direction through the town, separating it in nearly two equal parts, and uniting with the Contoocook River in Hopkinton. In its passage through Warner it receives a considerable stream coming from Sutton. This river affords abundant water-power in its passage through the town, and during two or three miles of its course the water can be used over every thirty rods. At Melvin's Mills, at Waterloo, and at Davisville there are excellent privileges, which have been utilized more or less since the first settlement of the town. More than a hundred years ago there were saw and grist-mills at Waterloo (Great Falls), and at one time since the little borough could boast of a tannery, a clothing-mill, a trip-hammer and .a paper-mill. The latter factory was in operation from 1816 to 1840, manufacturing all grades of paper from the finest note to the coarsext wrapping.


At Melvin's there was also a saw and a grist-mill, a bedstead-factory, a chain-factory and a woolen


cloth factory, all of which did considerable business. The grist and saw-mill are still in operation, the woolen-factory was destroyed by fire, the others have discontinued business. At Davisville there was an iron foundry, at which clock-weights, hand-irons and like articles were manufactured. Old iron was run up and used for these purposes instead of ore. The business was discontinued about the year 1830. There was also a woolen-factory at the same place, but the cloth-mill was washed away by the great freshet of 1826.1


Notwithstanding the decay and suspension of sev- eral manufactures, it is believed that the manufac- turing which is done in town at present will equal, if not surpass, that of any previous period. The lead- ing manufacturing industry is probably at Davisville. Here the Davis Brothers are engaged in the manu- facture of straw-board. The firm consists of Walter S. Davis and Henry C. Davis, grandsons of General Aquilla Davis. They began business in 1871, and at present employ about forty hands. They manufac- ture some seven hundred tons of straw-board annually, amounting in value to seventy-five thousand dollars. The firm also own a grist-mill and a saw-mill, and this very year have commenced the manufacture of boxes. Five hundred thousand feet of pine timber is now lying in their yard for this purpose.


At the Centre village the Merrimack Glove Com- pany has established a very thriving business. The company procured, on favorable terms, the commo- dious building near the freight and passenger depots of the Concord and Claremont Railroad, which had been erected by the defunct Boston Boot and Shoe Company, and established its business in the early part of 1883. Late in the fall of the same year a large tannery was erected in connection with the fac- tory. During the year 1883 the factory was run eight months, turning out some twenty-five hundred dozens of different kinds and qualities of buckskin gloves, which were sold to the largest jobbing-houses from Maine to California, giving perfect satisfaction and finding no superior in the market. The man- agers, having perfect confidence in the success of their enterprise, in 1884 increased the business more than one hundred per cent., and manufactured five thousand, employing some thirty-five hands. The amount paid for help during the year was fifteen thousand dollars. The company purchased, during the time, eighty-five thousand pounds of deer-skins; and the entire product of the factory, five thousand dozen gloves and mittens, were sold to different par- ties throughout the country. A cash dividend of six per cent. was paid the stockholders January 1, 1885. The stockholders of the company are as fol- lows: A. C. Carroll, W. H. H. Cowles, George Savory,


1 This was the same freshet that destroyed the Willey family at the White Mountain Notch. All the bridges of Warner were carried off by the flood, and the crops on the lowlands wero entirely destroyed. Au- gust 28th is still remembered as the day of the " Great Freshet."


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B. F. Heath, L. W. Chase, E. H. Carroll, Ira Har- vey, J. R. Cogswell, R. S. Rogers and A. G. Marsh. The directors are A. C. Carroll, W. H. H. Cowles, George Savory, L. N. Chase and E. H. Carroll.


The Warner Glove Company, located on Depot Street, are doing a large and increasing business. The company employ about fifteen operatives, and do an annual business of ten thousand dollars. The stockholders are A. P. Davis, P. C. Whecler and H. M. Giffin. Another enterprising firm is that of Bartlett Brothers, who manufacture coarse and fine excelsior at Melvin's Mills. This firm began busi- ness in 1871. They have six thousand dollars in- vested, and do a business amounting to seven thousand dollars annually. Number of employés, seven.


At Rohy's Corner O. P. & C. W. Redington are engaged in the manufacture of hubs. They have a large establishment, employing some ten or a dozen men, and do a business of fifteen thousand dollars annually. The Kearsarge Fruit Evaporating Com- pany have erected two large buildings at the centre village, containing five evaporators of the capacity of five hundred bushels of apples per day. They em- ploy between fifty and sixty operatives during three months of the year, and sometimes evaporate forty thousand bushels of apples per year. Arthur Thomp- son is general manager. The total value of manu- factured goods annually produced in town is not far from four hundred thousand dollars.


An article of this description would hardly be com- plete without some allusion to the more interesting features of Warner. The main street is situated in a valley, through which flows the Warner River with graceful, sinuous curves, while on either side the hills rise grand and green and beautiful, towering far above the spires of the churches. There is not, of a verity, a pleasanter or a more picturesque ham- let in the county of Merrimack. The streets are wide and beautifully shaded by maple and elm. Neatness and thrift characterize the whole surroundings. It is only eight miles to the summit of Kearsarge Moun- tain, which affords some of the finest scenery in New Hampshire. Summer tourists have had their atten- tion attracted by the fine scenery of the adjacent country, and have visited the town in large numbers. The income from this class amounts to more than three thousand dollars.


Warner is famous for its picturesque nooks and rural drives. One of the most charming drives in Merrimack County is on the road from Warner vil- lage to Bradford. The distance is about nine miles, following the river valley and crossing the stream several times. Three little hamlets are passed on the route, each dignified on the map as railroad-stations, namely: Waterloo, Roby's Corner and Melvin's Mills. The former contains some twenty or twenty-five houses, a saw-mill, depot, post-office and school- house. Ex-Governor N. G. Ordway, of Dakota, and ex-Secretary of State William E. Chandler have


very fine summer-residences at this place. The name Waterloo was bestowed upon this little rural neigh- borhood in honor of that great battle whose issue decided Napoleon's career forever. When the result of that conflict was announced, most of the citizens were collected at a mill-raising. The victory of the Allies was pleasing to those few individuals, and one, in the excitement of the moment, broke a bottle of rum (they drank liquor in those days), and chris- tened the mill and the village with it,-Waterloo. The name has "stuck."




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