History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 24

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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According to this suggestion, the American Bible Society was organized May 8, 1816, in New York.

Of this society Bibles were purchased, and to it surplus funds donated by the State Society.

Rev. Nathan Lord, in the report of this society in 1824, suggested that Ladies' Bible Societies should be organized, and in a few years there were more than one hundred in the State, the contributions from which were not far from one thousand dollars a year.

County Bible Societies were formed as early as 1828.

The American Bible Society voted, in 1829, to furnish every destitute family in the United States with a copy of the Bible within two years. This society heartily joined in that work, and pledged twelve thousand dollars to aid it. In 1836 it was re- ported that this society, in the twenty years since the organization of the American Bible Society, had paid into its treasury $16,922.18 as donations, and $18,- 949.66 for books.

In 1845, Rev. Henry W. Adams was appointed agent of the American Bible Society for New Hamp- shire and Maine.

In 1850, Rev. Isaac Willey was chosen secretary, with instructions to watch over the interests of the society, and to present its claims at the various pub- lic meetings of the different denominations in the State. Rev. Joseph Lane, the secretary for ten years preceding, had, by great fidelity and industry, pre- pared the way for the work which Mr. Willey took up with devotion and energy.

The annual meetings were held in connection with the General Association of Congregational and Pres- byterian Churches without dissent till 1852, when it was proposed to hold them, as mass-meetings, at Concord. The proposition was not adopted till ten years later.

Deacon William G. Brown began his work as agent for the society in 1852, and as agent and superin- tendent has continued in its service.

Rev. Isaac Willey accepted an appointment as agent of the American Bible Society for New Hamp- shire, and began work April, 1853.

This society entered heartily into the second gen- eral canvass of the whole country, by the American Society in 1856, and entered vigorously into the sup- ply of the State, and contributed to the general fund.

This year it was proposed to form county societies where none existed, and reform such as were ineffi- cient. Rev. Isaac Willey entered earnestly into this work, presenting it to the people and arranging for . organization. The plan was to unite all denomina- tions, organize the work, report methods and the work done, awaken interest by discourse and discus- sion and thus give efficiency to the work, and raise money to carry it on. Fifteen of these societies were organized, and they continue to be of great aid in the work, and the meetings are now, often, gather- ings of great spiritual blessing and power.

The work of supplying the State by visiting every family in it is steadily pursued. About one-third of the State is visited yearly, and all the destitute who will, by purchase or gift, accept a Bible are supplied. Each canvass of the entire State reports about seven hundred Protestant families destitute. This work is now under the charge of the efficient superintendent, Deacon William Brown, who has had full care of it since the resignation of Rev. I. Willey as agent in 1873. The faithful labor of Mr. Willey for so many years in all parts of the State is still fruitful of good, and the work for years to come will be largely upon foundations which he laid. He died at Pembroke, October 25, 1883, aged ninety years. The report of 1871 records the death of Rev. Benjamin P. Stone, D.D., who was treasurer and depositary of the society for sixteen years.

The third general canvass of the country, in 1866, and the one began in 1882, were accepted, as were the preceding, and this society not only cared for the State, but generously aided in the general supply.

In this last canvass of this State, just completed, the superintendent reports : 246 towns visited ; 76,760 families called upon ; 704 Protestant families found without a Bible; 4143 copies given away; 18,356 copies sold.

At the seventy-third annual meeting, held in Con- cord June, 1884, it was reported that the receipts of the society since its organization amounted to $310,- 667.13. It has distributed abont five hundred and twenty-five thousand copies in this State. -

CONCORD.

The present officers are : President, Hon. Edward Spalding, Nashua; Vice-Presidents, Hon. J. E. Sar- gent, Rev. Silas Curtis, Rev. Sullivan Holman ; Directors, Rev. G. W. Norris, John C. Thorn, Moses B. Smith, A. J. Prescott; Secretary, Rev. F. D. Ayer; Treasurer and Depositary, Hon. John Kim- ball ; Superintendent, Deacon W. G. Brown; Audit- ors, Woodbridge Odlin, Hon. L. D. Stevens.

Physicians .- The first physician in what is now Concord was Dr. Ezra Carter, who settled here in about 1740. In 1742 he married Ruth, only daughter of Captain Ebenezer Eastman, who, at the time of her marriage, was but thirteen years of age. Accord- ing to family tradition, their first child was born before she was fourteen years old. After marriage Ruth retained her love for childish sports; and, on one occasion, the doctor, on returning home, found his wife playing with other children on the hay-mow.

A DR. EMERY resided here a short time, and moved to Fryeburg, Me.

DR. EBENEZER HANDER Goss, of Bolton, Mass., settled in Concord about 1770, and married a daugh- ter of Rev. Timothy Walker. He lived at the north end of Main Street, where Mr. Charles Smart resides; set out the elin-trees before the house; held important offices in town; was surgeon in the army under Gen- eral Stark; a man of eccentric habits; tall, and of strongly-marked features. He moved to Brunswick, Me., where he died at an advanced age.

DR. PHILIP MACCARRIGAIN, of Scotch descent, born in the city of New York, 1746; studied medi- cine in Haverhill, Mass .; came to Concord, 1768; died August, 1806. He married a daughter of the late Thomas Clough, Esq., of Canterbury. Dr. Carrigain had an extensive practice, and was famous for surgical skill.

DR. PETER GREEN came to Concord in 1772.

DR. SAMUEL ADAMS, from Lincoln, Mass., was a resident in Concord about 1796.

DR. G. GRIDLEY was in Concord about 1798; mar- ried a daughter of David George, Esq.

DR. ZADOK HOWE, from Franklin, Mass., was in practice in Concord about twelve years prior to 1814, when he relinquished his business to his partner, Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, and moved to Boston. He was distinguished for scientific skill.

DR. THOMAS CHADBOURNE, son of the late Dr. William Chadbourne, of Conway, came to Concord, 1814; married a daughter of Dr. Peter Green.

DR. BENJAMIN PARKER, from Bradford, Mass., was in Concord a short time-not far from 1818. He lived in a house on Pleasant Street, afterwards owned by Samuel Fletcher, Esq., where the Baptist Church stands.

DR. ALEXANDER RAMSEY, a native of Scotland, delivered lectures on anatomy and physiology in Concord and other places in New Hampshire from 1808 to 1823. He died at Parsonsfield, Me., 1824.

DR. MOSES LONG, a native of Hopkinton, N. H., 7

commenced practice in Concord East village, in 1813. He moved from Concord, 1824.

DR. HENRY BOND was a native of Livermore, Me .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1813; was tutor, 1815; received his medical degree in 1817. He practiced in Concord from 1816 until 1820, when he removed to Philadelphia.

DR. MOSES CHANDLER, a native of Fryeburg, Me., commenced practice in Concord, 1816; was a surgeon on board of a privateer that sailed out of Portsmouth in 1813. He was a tall, stout, athletic man, and devoted to his profession. He died Sep- tember 2, 1825.

DR. PETER RENTON came from Scotland and set- tled in Concord, 1822. His practice soon became very extensive, both in Concord and neighboring towns. He removed to Boston in 1843 or 1844, where he has an extensive and lucrative practice.

DR. SAMUEL MORRILL, a brother of Hon. David L. Morrill, came to Concord, 1819, from Epsom, where he had practiced niueteen years, and held important offices. In 1826 he received the honorary degree of M.D. from Dartmouth College; was ap- pointed justice of the Court of Sessions for the county of Rockingham, 1821; register of deeds for the county of Merrimack, 1823, which he held till 1828, when he was elected State treasurer. In 1829 he was chosen treasurer of the New Hampshire Branch Education Society; in 1830, treasurer of the New Hampshire Savings-Bank. He was a deacon of the First Congregational Church.

DR. RICHARD RUSSELL resided in Concord about three years previous to 1824, but spent most of his life in practice in Wakefield and Somersworth, at which latter place he died, May 22, 1855, aged about seventy.

DR. ELIJAH COLBY, son of Isaac Colby, of Hop- kinton, N. H., born June 18, 1798; graduated at the Medical College in Hanover, 1823, and the same year commenced practice in the East village of Con- cord. In April, 1838, he moved to New Bedford, Mass.

DR. EZRA CARTER received the medical degree of M.D: at Bowdoin College in 1824; commenced prac- tice in 1825, in his native town; next year he removed to Loudon; returned to Concord in 1828, where he has remained in large practice till the present time. Representative in 1836 and 1837. He was commissioned justice of the peace in 1837 ; in 1844 and 1845 was president of the Centre District Medical Society, and in 1852 president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. He was father of Dr. William G. Carter.

DR. EDWARD B. MOORE, of Lancaster, practiced in Concord about six months, in 1828.

DR. JOSEPH REYNOLDS came to Concord in 1828. DR. NATHANIEL WHEAT came from Candia to Concord in 1834, and remained till 1837.

DR. JOSIAH KITTREDGE came to Concord in 1837, remaining a year or two.

HISTORY OF MERRIMACK COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

DR. ROBERT LANE, of Sutton, came to Concord abont 1837, but remained only a short time. His daughter married George W. Ela, Esq.

DR. THOMAS BROWN was in practice in Concord from 1831 till 1837.

DR. TIMOTHY HAYNES, a native of Alexandria, N. H., born September 5, 1810; took his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical College, in Philadel- phia, 1836, and immediately after commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in Concord, where he resided until his death, a short time since.

DR. CHARLES PINCKNEY GAGE, born in Hopkin- ton April 5, 1811; took his degree at the Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1837, and remained in that city a year, when he came to Concord, where he still resides in active practice, and is the oldest physi- cian in the city.

DR. HENRY O. STONE, from Salem, Mass., had an office in Concord in 1845, and remained four or five years.

DR. DANIEL J. HOYT studied medicine with Dr. Peter Renton, and commenced practice in Concord in 1840; next year he removed to Manchester, where he died July 13, 1847.

DR. ISAAC COLBY came to Concord in the fall of 1839, and remained abont one year and a half. In 1854 he returned to Concord.

DR. MOSES CARTER came to Concord, in poor health, 1842. He had a large experience in small- pox, and was usually employed as town physician for persons in that disease. He resided in Concord till 1854, when he moved to Sanbornton Bridge.

DR. JONATHAN C. PRESCOTT came to Concord in 1843. He died, after a most distressing sickness, of disease of the kidneys, February 13, 1844, in the forty-ninth year of his age.

DR. EBENEZER G. MOORE, a native of Dorchester, N. H., came to Concord in 1844, where he resided until his death.

DR. GEORGE CHANDLER came to Concord, from Worcester, Mass., in October, 1842, as the first super- intendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the In- sane, and continued in charge of that institution until 1845, when he was appointed superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Massachusetts.

DR. BENJAMIN H. TRIPP came to Concord in 1843. He left in 1849.

DR. WILLIAM PRESCOTT, born in Sanbornton December 29, 1788. He came to Concord in 1845.

DR. MOORE RUSSELL FLETCHER opened an office in Concord in 1845. Here he remained two years.

DR. ANDREW MCFARLAND was appointed superin- tendent and physician of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane in August, 1845. In 1850 he made a tour in Europe, and after his return published an entertaining volume, called "The Escape." Dr. Mc- Farland resigned his office at the asylum in 1852, and in 1854 was appointed superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Illinois, at Jacksonville.

DR. JAMES F. SARGENT, born in Warner July 4, 1810; came to Concord 1847.

DR. EPHRAIM F. WILSON came to Concord East village, 1849. In 1854 he removed to Rockville, Conn.

DR. WILLIAM H. SMART was born in Hopkinton April 8, 1810 ; came to Concord 1849.

DR. EDWARD H. PARKER, son of Isaac Parker, Esq., of Boston, opened an office in Concord 1850; removed to New York.

DR. ALPHEUS MORRILL, a native of Canterbury, came to Concord 1849. He was the father of Drs. Shadrack and Ezekiel Morrill.

DR. BENJAMIN S. WARREN, a native of Peacham, Vt. ; gradnated at the Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio; came to Concord in 1849, and is still in prac- tice.

DR. JOHN EUGENE TYLER was superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, at Concord ; was born in Boston December 9, 1819.

WILLIAM H. HOSMER graduated from Dartmouth College in 1838; has practiced in Fisherville thirty- seven years.

C. A. LOCKERBY, Dartmouth Medical College, set- tled here in 1854.

J. P. BANCROFT graduated from Dartmouth Medi- cal College in 1845; was superintendent of the State Insane Asylum for years.

C. C. TOPLIFF, Fisherville, since 1858.

H. G. MCINTIRE graduated from Harvard Medical College ; settled here in 1860.

J. H. GALLINGER graduated from Ohio Medical College in 1858; settled here in 1862.

S. C. MORRILL graduated from Harvard Medical College in 1862, and has practiced here since.

G. P. CONN graduated from Medical College in 1855 ; settled in 1863.

A. H. ROBINSON graduated from Yale Medical College in 1863 ; practiced here since.

A. H. CROSBY graduated from Dartmonth Medical College in 1857 ; settled here in 1864.

H. B. TEBBETS, Harvard Medical College in 1835 ; not in practice.

J. C. W. MOORE graduated from Bowdoin Medical College in 1865, and has practiced here since.

E. W. ARBOTT has been here abont twenty years.

MOSES W. RUSSELL graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1863 ; settled here in 1867.

J. W. VARNEY graduated from University of Ver- mont in 1841 ; settled here in 1869.

WILLIAM G. CARTER graduated from Harvard Medical College in 1869, and has practiced here since.

E. H. FOSTER graduated from Bowdoin Medical College in 1866 ; settled here in 1872.

F. A. STILLINGS graduated from Dartmouth Medi- cal College in 1870; located here in 1872.

E. MORRILL graduated from Castleton (Vt.) Medi- cal College in 1857 ; settled here in 1874.

CONCORD.

GEORGE COOK graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1868; located in Concord in 1875.

B. R. BENNER graduated from College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York, in 1875; was assistant physician at Insane Asylum.

A. R. DEARBORN graduated from Bowdoin Medi- cal College; settled here in 1876.

C. R. WALKER graduated from Harvard Medical College in 1877, and settled here soon after.

D. E. HARRIMAN graduated from Dartmouth Medi- cal College in 1877.

CHARLES I. LANE graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1878.

E. O. PIERSONS graduated from Dartmouth Medi- cal College in 1878; was assistant physician at asy- lum.

A. E. EMERY graduated from University of Ver- mont in 1865; located in Fisherville in 1879, where he is still in practice.

HENRY M. FRENCH graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1878; settled in Concord in 1882.

The following is a complete list of the present physicians :

E. W. Abbott, Anson C. Alexander, Jesse P. Bancroft, William G. Car- ter, Joseph Chase, Jr., A. P. Chesley, G. P. Conn, George Cook, A. H. Crosby, Herbert C. Cummings, Alfred E. Emery, Edward H. Foster, Henry M. French, C. P. Gage, Jacob H. Gallinger, John B. Girnney, E. E. Graves, Mrs. Lucinda S. Hall, Robert Hall, Fred A. Hoit, W. H. Hosmer, S. D. Marden, Harvey G. MeIntire, Jolin C. W. Moore, Ezekiel Morrill, S. C. Morrill, N. C. Nutting, Abraham H. Robinson, Julia Wal- lace Russell, Moses W. Russell, F. A. Stillings, Hiram B. Tebbets, Charles R. Walker, Benjamin S. Warren, Irving A. Watson.

City Hospital .- The first meeting of the citizens of Concord interested in the establishment of a hos- pital was called July 3, 1884. At a subsequent meeting the Hospital Association was organized, a board of officers elected and a committee appointed to find a suitable location or house for a hospital. The house situated on the corner of Allison and Turnpike Streets was eventually leased for that por- pose, for a term of two years from October 1, 1884, with the privilege, during that time or at the expira- tion of it, of buying the house and land for six thou- sand dollars.

Early in October work began upon the premises, and changes and improvements have been made since, from time to time, as the necessities of the hospital required.

The hospital opened October 20th, and nine pa- tients have been treated since that time.

The present officers are as follows: Oliver Pills- bury, president; Francis L. Abbot, clerk; William F. Thayer, treasurer. Trustees: For the term ending January, 1886, Henry J. Crippin, P. B. Cogswell, Mrs. Elizabeth P. Schütz; for the term ending Jan- uary, 1887, John A. White, Joseph C. A. Hill, Mrs. F. C. Stevens; for the term ending January, 1888, Samuel C. Eastman, Mrs. Mary Stearns, Mrs. Lydia P. Lund.

Fire Department,-In about the year 1825 the Fire

Department was managed by what were called "fire wards," appointed by the town, who, on occasions of fire, bore aloft the distinguishing badge of their office, a staff five feet long, painted red and headed with a bright spire six inches long, with a blue ribbon streaming from the apex. In 1825, and for some years later, there were only two small fire-engines in the main village, one of them called the "Literary," which was worked by a brake, six men on each side, with a hose from twenty to thirty feet in length, without any suction hose. Among the engine-men of 1827 were Francis N. Fisk, John George, John Nast, Dr. Moses Chandler, Jeremiah Pecker, Orlando Brown, Richard Bradley, Robert Davis, Samnel Coffin, Charles Herbert, Richard Herbert, Luther Roby (chief engineer, 1827), James Bushnell and S. A. Kimball.

The present Fire Department is one of the most efficient in the State. It is under the management of the Hon. John M. Hill, than whom there is no more capable or efficient fire officer in New Hampshire.

The force of the department is as follows: In the precinct, at the Central Station, two second-class Amoskcag steamers,-"Kearsarge," with "Kearsarge Hose " (sixteen men), and "Governor Hill," relief steamer, with "Eagle Hose" (thirteen men). The hose-carriages are both of Amoskeag manufacture, first-class, and drawn by horses. Hook-and-ladder carriage, "City of Concord " (twenty men). All the men in these companies are call men. The perma- nent employés are steward, assistant steward and three drivers. There are six horses, besides the steward's horse, always held within reasonable dis- tance to respond to an alarm.

The " Alert Hose" (twelve men), at the north end, and the "Good-Will Hose" (twelve men), at the south end, are each provided with a horse, kept constantly at a hack-stable adjoining the hose-houses. The "Alert" uses a modern department wagon, and the "Good-Will" a second-class Amoskeag four-wheel carriage. Each has the swinging harness. The men are all call men.

The "Pioneer" steamer, at Penacook (thirty men), is a fourth-class Silsby, with a second-class Amoskeag hose-carriage. The steamer can be drawn by horses or by hand, as necessity may require. Horses are held available.

The "Old Fort," at East Concord, and the "Cata- ract," at West Concord, are hand-engines, with jump- ers for hose. Their complement of men is thirty each.

The board of engineers consists of chief and three assistants in the precinct, and one assistant each at Penacook, East Concord and West Concord. The entire force numbers one hundred and seventy-five men.

The following is the list of officers of the depart- ment for 1885 :

Chief Engineer, John M. Hill. Assistant Engineers : Precinct, Jo- seph S. Merrill, Daniel B. Newhall, Benjamin F. Tucker ; Ward ],

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HISTORY OF MERRIMACK COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

William W. Allen ; Ward 2, John E. Frye ; Ward 3, Harrison Partridge ; D. B. Newhall, clerk of board : Ehen F. Richardson, steward Central Fire Station and superintendent fire alarm; George L. Osgood, assistant at Central Station.

Kearsarge Steam Fire-Engine and Hose Company, No. 2 .- John J. McNulty, foreman ; Charles C. Blanchard, assistant foreman ; William C. Green, clerk ; James H. Sanders, engineer and treasurer. Steamer " Kearsarge" is a second-class Amoskeag, drawn hy double borses. Hose-carriage is a fonr-wheel first-class Amoskeag, drawn by single horse.

Eagle Hose Company, No. 1 .- Relief steamer "Governor Hill," No. 1, is assigned to this company, Charles H. Sanders, engineer. John H. Toof, foreman ; George W. Johnson, assistant foreman ; James Hoit, clerk and treasurer. Steamer "Governor Hill " is a second-class Amos- keag, drawn hy double horses. Hose-carriage is a four-wheel first-class Amoskeng, drawn by a single horse.

Alert Hose Company, No. 2 .- Charles A. Davis, foreman ; Henry Tucker, nssistant foreman ; Fred. Leighton, clerk ; Fred, S. Johnson, freasurer; Fred. Earl, steward. Hose-wagon is a modero department wagon of Concord manufacture,-W. S. Davis & Son. It is drawn hy n single horse.

Good-Will Hose Company, No. 3 .- William A. Bean, foreman ; John C. Mills, assistant foreman ; Frank H. Blanchard, clerk ; Samuel D. McGloughlin, treasurer. Hose-carriage is a four-wheel second-class Amoskeag, drawn by a single horse.

City ot Concord Hook-and-Ladder Company, No. 1 .- Andrew L. Lane, foreman ; Napoleon B. Burleigh, assistant foreman ; Edward E. LaDe, clerk ; Frank T. Bean, treasurer. Hook-and-ladder truck is of Concord manufacture,-Abbett-Downing Company. It is drawn by double horses.

Pioneer Steain Fire-Engine Company, No. 3, Penacook .- John H. Rolfe, foreman ; D. Warren Fox, assistant foreman ; John B. Dodge, clerk and treasurer; John W. Powell, foreman of hose; George S. Locke, engineer; Enoch E. Rolfe, steward. Steamer "Pioneer" is a fourth-class Silsby ; hose-carriage is a fonr-wheel Amoskeag; both drawn by hand or horse.

Old Fort Engine Company, No. 2, East Concord .- Joseph E. Plommer, foreman ; Harrison H. Carpenter, assistant foreman ; Clarence E. Rob- inson, clerk ; John C. Hntcbins, treasurer ; Charles C. Chesley, stew- ard. Hunnemann five-inch cylinder hand-engine, with hose jumper ; drawn by hand.

Cataract Engine Company, No. 3, West Concord .- James M. Crossmnn, foreman ; Simeon Partridge, assistant foreman ; John E. Gay, clerk and treasurer ; William A. Martin, foreman of bose ; Abial C. Abbott, steward. Hunnemann six-inch cylinder hand-engine, with hose jumper; drawn by hand.

SUMMARY OF MEMBERS. IN PRECINCT.

Engineers

Steamer and hose members 16

Hose members . 37

Hook-and-ladder members 20

Steward, assistant steward and regular drivers (3) . 5

WITHOUT PRECINCT.

Engineers

Members at Penacook 30

Members at East Concord 30

Members at West Concord 30

Total

175

Fisherville (or Penacook, as it is now called) is a thriving village, about six miles from the city, and is named in honor of the Fishers, who erected the first mill at this point. It was on an island near here where Mrs. Hannah Dustin, in 1697, killed and scalped ten Indians. The following account of this daring exploit is thus related by Dr. Bouton :

Mrs. Hannah, wife of Mr. Thomas Dustin, was confined to her bed with an infant child, seven days old, and attended by a nurse, Mary Neff. Hearing the war-whoop of the savages as they approached,

Mr. Dustin ran from the field, where he was at work, to his house, and ordered his children-seven in number-to flee; while he seized his gun, and finding it impossible to remove his wife and infant, mounted his horse and rode after his children-defending them against the savages, who were in pursuit. Supposing it impossible to save them all, his first thought was to catch up one of them-even the one that he loved the most-and save that; bnt he was unable to make a choice, and, keeping in their rear, he retreated and fired, sometimes with fatal effect, till the Indians gave over their pursuit.

In the mean time a small party of Indians entered the house, took Mrs. Dustin and nurse prisoners and set the house on fire. The babe was snatched from the hands of the nurse, and its brains dashed out against an apple-tree. Feeble, and with but one shoe on, Mrs. Dustin was compelled to travel through the wilderness, in this inclement season, till they reached the home of her Indian captors, on the island above named. The Indians on the island were twelve in number,-two men, three women and seven children, -- and with them an English boy, named Samuel Lan- nardson, who was taken prisoner about a year before at Worcester.

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History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 24

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