History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 50

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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" MEDFORD, June 10th, 1775.

" Permit Mr. Cressy and one more, to pass the guards from head- quarters and repass.

" JOHN STARK, Coll."

"CAMP ON WINTER HILL, Nov. 16th, 1775.

" Richard Cressy has leave of absence for ten days. "JOHN STARK, Coll."

The following relic of the old first town-house in Bradford is also interesting: the door-latch, made by Richard Cressy. The handle was plated with brass. Two angels are carved on the thumb-piece, and an angel's head and wings are engraved on the handle. Just above this last-mentioned is engraved this senti-

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ment : " While Truth and Benevolence reign within, the Angels keep the door,"-a very pretty sentiment. Let us believe that our forefathers in council here always deserved and enjoyed the protection of in visi- ble door-keepers.

ISAAC DAVIS came from Plaistow ; probably settled in Bradford, as his descendants claim, abont 1760. He came three summers in succession and made im- provements on his land before he brought his wife here, so says a local tradition. The fire of 1859, which destroyed the buildings at the old homestead, destroyed nearly all the old records. Mr. Davis was probably in Bradford some five years before the grant to John Pierce and George Jaffrey, in 1765.

He bnilt near the " pond," now called Lake Massa- secum. The house was in the style of those days; it had no cellar ; it had seats running the whole length on each side, and for seven or eight years it answered the purpose of a country store and a hotel.

Mr. Davis had a mill a few rods above the house, on the brook that runs near and discharges into the lake. "The old road " ran much nearer the house than the present Henniker road. Mr. Davis married Katnria Woodward ; she died in or about 1811. He died about 1808. All their children were born here, with the possible exception of the first. Their child- ren were,-

I. Betsy, born December 29, 1760; married Stephen Ward; lived in Bradford.

II. Molly, born May 31, 1762; married Abner Ward, of Bradford.

III. James, born February 24, 1764.

IV. Daniel, born February 4, 1766; married Mary Brown.

V. John, born December 21, 1768 ; died young.

VI. Susan, born Jannary 7, 1770; married Moses Bailey, who settled on the farm now owned by Shar- ron Jameson. Mr. Bailey afterwards removed to Washington, Vt.

VII. Sally, born April 17, 1772; lived with her sis- ter Betsy ; unmarried.

VIII. John, born August 14, 1774; had his name changed to John Washington Davis; married Sally, sister of Stephen and Abner Ward. Their children were John S., Gardner, Harrison, Calvin, Hannah, Julia, Fanny and Preston.

James, son of Isaac, born February 24, 1764; mar- ried - Brown. Their children were,-

1. Daniel, married Betsy Davis, of Charlestown, N. H.

2. Polly, married Samuel Jackman, of Enfield.

3. Catharine, married Isaac Ward, son of Abner.

4. Betsy, unmarried.

5. Sally, married John Ward; settled in Clare- mont.

6. Dolly, married Heman Burpee, of Enfield, N. H.

7. James, married Lucy, daughter of Joshua Davis, of Charlestown.

ficers in the Mexican War. He was in the Union army in the War of the Rebellion, and lost his life there.

9. Sophronia, married Benjamin, son of Joshua Davis, of Charlestown, Mass.

Daniel, son of Isaac, born February 4, 1766 ; mar- ried Mary Brown. She died January 11, 1851. He died November 6, 1842. They had,-

1. Samuel, born March 19, 1790.

2. Enoch, born August 22, 1791; died March 22, 1792.

3. Enoch, born January 6, 1793; removed to Cam- bridge, Mass. Soap manufacturer there. Died Sep- tember 17, 1832.

4. Dorcas, born January 23, 1795; died February 28, 1876.

5. Eliphalet, horn December 16, 1796; removed to Cambridgeport, Mass., in 1811; he was a soap manu- facturer, and acquired a fortune and a world-wide re- nown in that business.

6. Lydia, born January 4, 1799; died August 20, 1821.

7. Dimond, born April 25, 1802; died in Sutton, December 5, 1861. He was a noted and successful physician there.

8. Hiram, born February 24, 1807; died in Febru- ary, 1872.

9. Lyman, born October 11, 1809; died April 1, 1860.

10. Isaac, born June 18, 1811. Successful soap manufacturer in Cambridge, Mass.

11. Curtis, born February 11, 1814. Successful soap manufacturer in Boston. The only survivor of the family.

The marriage of Daniel Davis, who was born in 1766, to Mary Brown, born in 1771, was an unusually good combination of the physical and mental forces. Out of eleven children, ten grew up to mature age, and were, as a family, remarkably intelligent, indus- trious, honest, economical, and consequently prosper- ous citizens of the various communities where they lived. Of the sons who remained in Bradford, Sam- uel lived at the south end of Lake Massasecum, near the Warner town line. His children were Ebenezer Harriman (mentioned among the physicians of Brad- ford), Gilbert, Lydia, Elizabeth and Franklin, who inherited and occupied his father's farm.

Eliphalet is represented in this town by his son, Charles Frederick Davis, who owns and occupies the original homestead of Isaac Davis, mentioned else- where. Charles Frederick was born in Cambridge- port, Mass., January 30, 1837. He married, January 29, 1860, Frances Sawyer, daughter of William and Jeannette MeKeith Wilson George, who was born in Topsham, Vt., December 7, 1838. Their children are :-

1. Clara Jeaunette Allen, born in Cambridge, Mass., March 26, 1861 ; she died March 19, 1868.

2. Florence Bartell, horn in Cambridge, Mass.,

8. Stephen. He was one of General Scott's staff of- | August 7, 1863.

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3. Lewis Warner, born at Deer Isle, Me., August 21, 1865.

4. Arthur Wilson, born in Claremont, N. H., March 7, 1867.

5. Ida Carleton, born in Bradford, April 6, 1869.

6. Marian Frances, born May 29, 1871.

7. Sarah Wentworth, born March 28, 1878.

8. Marshall Graham, born February, 1882.

The last-mentioned three were born in Bradford.

Hiram Davis, born February 24, 1807; married, November 28, 1832, Marietta Ferrin, who was born December 27, 1809. Children,-

1. Caroline Salome, born September 6, 1833; mar- ried, November 8, 1858, Frederick Martin.

2. James Warren, born December 28, 1834; died February 5, 1835.

3. Mary Jane, born February 1, 1836; married Jacob Jones.

4. Harriet Newell, born February 17, 1839; mar- ried, March 8, 1858, Ira Sargent, of Bradford.

Lyman Davis, born October 11, 1809; married, January 20, 1841, Mary Eliza Palmer, who was born August 11, 1826. Mr. Davis was named for the cele- brated Dr. Warren Lyman. His children are, --

1. Curtis, born August 6, 1842 ; died November 11, 1866.

2. Homer Eliphalet, born November 27, 1845; died July 12, 1865.

3. Dorcas Jane, born February 14, 1848.

4. Walter Farsons, born June 6, 1850.

5. Caroline Elizabeth, born October 20, 1852.

6. Samuel Dimond, born December 31, 1854.

7. Joseph Hiram, born March 28, 1857.

8. Lydia Frances, born March 5, 1859.

WILLIAM DOWLIN was born in 1720, and came to New England in 1753. He married Sarah (probably danghter of John) Norris, of Epping, N. H. He died February 24, 1811. His children were,-

I. Anne, born November 16, 1755.

II. Timothy Leavitt, born February 4, 1762.

III. Elizabeth, boru May 15, 1764; died November 22, 1768.

TIMOTHY LEAVITT, son of William Dowlin, was born February 4, 1762. He married, July 24, 1790, Elizabeth Collins, and lived on the farm lately occu- pied by Amaziah Hall. He was a thrifty farmer and large land-owner. He gave his sons each a farm and his daughters money instead of land. They had twelve children,-

The first (born December 14, 1791) and the second (born March 11, 1793) lived but a few days.

3. Samuel, born February 11, 1794 ; had a farm on Goodwin Hill.

4. Deborah, born March 25, 1796.

5. Dolly, born March 17, 1798; died December 30, 1798.

6. Timothy, born October 8, 1799; married, June 7, 1824, Catharine, daughter of Farrington Hawks. He settled on the farm since owned by Nathan Pierce,

near the Pond Brook. Afterwards the family lived where William Cressey now lives. He died there March 24, 1844. His wife died March 30, 1872. They had nine children, --

I. Elizabeth Collins, born January 3, 1826; she married, February 10, 1848, Moses E. Gonld, of War- ner. They settled at Mill village. One son, Fred., attorney-at-law, Concord, N. H.

II. Timothy Leavitt, born February 17, 1828; he married, November 17, 1868, Sarah Jane Ingraham, and first settled in Warner.

III. John Hawks, born July 17, 1829 ; married, De- cember 14, 1853, Ella Frances Colby, of Warner, and settled and now resides in that town.

IV. Sarah Jane, born March 2, 1831; married, March 3, 1851, Alfred Colburn Smith, and settled at Robin- son's Ferry ; they afterwards removed to Barnstead, where Mr. Smith died. They had three children, two of whom reside at Pittsfield, N. H. The other, a son, perished in a snow-storm on the Western plains.

V. Mary Ann, born August 20, 1832 ; married - Flanders, of Manchester, N. H., and settled there.

VI. Abby Hawks, born August 24, 1834; married, December 31, 1854, Ezra Dow Cilley, of Manchester, N. H. She died there May 3, 1869. One son, who lives with John H. Dowlin, of Warner.

VII. George Washington, born September 23, 1836 ; has been a miner in various States beyond the Rocky Mountains; also saddler and collar-maker in Con- cord, N. H.

VIII. Marshall Richardson, born September 15, 1839; married Sophia Ann Magoon ; harness-maker and saddler, Westfield, Mass.

IX. Louisa Catharine, born November 11, 1841 ; married - Bradstreet, and resides in Rowley, Mass.

7. (Resuming the list of William's children ) a child born January 20, 1803.

8. William, Jr., born April 9, 1805. He removed to Lempster, N. H.

9. A child born March 23, 1807.

10. Polly, born February 14, 1809; died March 5, 1810.

11. Caroline, born May 11, 1811 ; married Cum- mings Pierce.

12. Irene, born September 9, 1813. She was a very successful teacher of the winter and summer terms of district schools. She was a pious and active Christian worker, and an earnest exhorter in religious meetings. She married Patrick Scully and lived at Mill village.

JOHN FELCH, born in Weare, N. H., June 27, 1794. He married, March 18, 1818, Sally Clark, of Hopkin- ton, who was born January 6, 1789. He settled on the farm adjoining that of John Brown, near the Cor- ner. He had an excellent farm and managed it well. He died May 22, 1858. His wife died November 17, 1870. Their children were,-

I. Horace C., born April 28, 1824. He married, in

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1856, Helen H. White, of Stanstead, P. Q., and settled in Bradford. Have two children, -

1. Fred. R., born July 15, 1860; married, Decem- her 25, 1884, Jennie L. Lund. He is an attorney-at- law and resides at Derry Depot, N. H.

2. Emma B., born October 18, 1870.

OFFIN FRENCH was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. On his return from the army he mar- ried and moved to Bradford, making the journey on horseback. He bought a lot of wild land and cleared a farm, and built the house where he spent the re- mainder of his days, and where all his twelve children were born. The farm is a little east of the centre of the town, next beyond that of Joshua Jewett, and is now owned by the widow of Elder Holmes. Some of his neighbors were Timothy Emerson, Captain Sawyer, Josiah, father of Rial Rowe, Nehemiah Colby and Mr. Hale. Ten of his children lived past middle age; two died young. His children were,-

1. Offin, married Phebe Eaton ; lived awhile in Canada ; removed to Newbury ; had four children.

2. Ruana, married Jonathan Muzzy, of Weare; they had three children.

3. Paskey, died unmarried.

4. Sceera, married James Gilmore, of Hillsborough ; died there.

5. Daniel, married Abigail, daughter of John Cressy, of Bradford; lived on his father's farm till 1833. He then bought a farm of Hazeltine, who moved to Ohio. He afterwards sold this farm to Eben Wright, and moved into the village. His children were,-

Mary Jane, married Joshua P. Marshall.

Ira, married Hester Goewey, of Lansingburg, N. Y .; was engaged in trade in Bradford several years ; removed to Lansingburg, and died there in May, 1883. His only daughter, Hattie, was born in Bradford.

Sabria A., married Frederick, son of Stephen Che- ney; they live on the west side of Massasecum Lake.

Christina P., married Thomas Little ; settled in Bradford.

John, married Emma, daughter of Ward Day ; live at the Corner.

6. Phebe, became second wife of Jonathan Muzzy, of Weare.

7. Susan, married Jonathan Peaslee, of Weare.

8. James, married Hannah Eaton ; settled in Alex- andria; afterwards removed to Michigan, and died there.

9. Judith, died in Hillsborough ; unmarried.

10. Aaron, at the age of twenty-one, removed to Charlestown, Mass .; removed from there to Provi- dence, R. I., where he deals in honey ; unmarried.

FARRINGTON HAWKS, son of David and Sarah Colburn, of Dunstable, Mass., was born in that town April 21, 1770. He married, first, Sarah, a sister of David Knowlton, of Newburyport, Mass., by whom all his children were born. He first settled in Hud- son, N. H., where his oldest children were born. In

1796 he removed to Warner, having purchased of Reuben Gale, of " Almesbury," "lot No. 7, in the second division of 80-acre lots." This is probably the Shepard Davis place, near Massasecum Lake. Here he lived in a log house, procuring water from a spring near by, and threshing out his grain on a smooth, flat ledge of rock, still known as the " thresh- ing-rock." He probably lived there about two years, sending his two oldest children to the Pond school-house, near the Daniel Sargent place. He then purchased an eighty-acre lot of wild land in the westerly edge of Warner, next to the Bradford line, On this tract he had cut down fourteen acres of the forest, when he sold the whole lot to Enos Collins, of Warner. In April, 1802, he bought half of lot 43, in Bradford, of Richard Marshall, the half lying south of the road to the pond, and west of the Bible Hill road. The next purchase made by Mr. Hawks was the place where he spent the remainder of his days. The deed was given by John Pierce, of Ports-, mouth, December 4, 1802, in which the tract is de- scribed as follows :

"A certain lot of land in Bradford, containing one hundred acres, more or less, and is lot number forty-two in the original town as first laid out, and was drawn and recorded to the right of Joshna Pierce, as may he found by the records of the Masonian Proprietors, reference there- unto being had."

The price paid was three hundred and fifty dollars.

Mr. Hawks built and occupied a log house on the northeast corner of his lot, near where the present house stands on Bible Hill. Mr. Hawks was tall, erect, strong and healthy ; he was in his day a cham- pion mower and wrestler. He was very fond of hunting, trapping and fishing. His first wife had a good edu- cation for a woman at that time. She died in August, 1829. He married, second, Widow Sarah Young, of Pelham, N. H., April 12, 1831. He died November 15, 1859. His children were, --

I. Abigail, boru May 5, 1792; married Nathan R. Marshall. She died March 11, 1867.

II. Colborn, born April 14, 1794.

III. Farrington, born June 5, 1796; removed to Cambridgeport, Mass., where he died March 31, 1832. His widow and son Henry still live there (1885).

IV. Catharine, born August 11, 1798 ; married, June 7, 1825, Timothy L. Dowlin ; she died March 30, 1872.

V. John, born October 26, 1801; removed to New York; married, and removed to Ohio. He was a farmer. He died November 20, 1868. His children,- Abigail, born August 11, 1834, and Elhanan Win- chester, born July 8, 1836-lived in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1885.

VI. David Knowlton, born May 7, 1804.

VII. Daniel, born August 25, 1806. He was a farmer and worked in Massachusetts. In the Mexican War he was a member of Company K, New England Regiment. He died in hospital in San Angelos ; unmarried.

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VIII. Moody, born February 25, 1809. He was a farmer ; worked in West Cambridge, Mass. ; married there and removed to Kirtland, N. Y. He was in the same regiment with Daniel in the Mexican War. He died September 11, 1849, His wife died October 16, 1848. Their children were Frederick Henry, Abigail Lamira, Albert Winn, Sarah Hall. Albert was killed in battle in 1862.

Colburn, son of Farrington, born April 14, 1794, in Hudson, N. H. He married, March 7, 1826, Clarissa, daughter of Dudley Brown, of Wilmot. He died July 26, 1869. He was of slight frame and below the medium in stature, his usual weight being one hundred aud ten pounds. He was a farmer, industri- ous, economical and fairly successful. He bought his father's farm, and built the house now standing in 1823. From this homestead can be seen Kearsarge, Sunapee and Lovell's Mountains, and hills in Warner, Sutton, New London, Newbury and Washington.

Mr. Hawks had surrounded and partitioned off his rocky hillside farm with several miles of stone walls, some of them of great thickness.

His widow still survives (1885). Fully half the credit of acquiring and saving a competency is due to her prudence and economy. Their children were all born and reared on the homestead above mentioned. are, ----

I. John Milton, born November 26, 1826. Educated in the district school and at the "High School " at the Mill village. He taught school in New Hampshire, New York and Georgia. Read medi- cine with Dr. G. H. Hubbard, of Bradford Centre ; attended lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and gradu- ated at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1848. He practiced medicine in Manchester, N. H., from 1848 to 1861, having, in the mean time, visited Florida twice and the West Indies once. In March, 1862, he went out to the Sea Islands of South Carolina as a physician to the freedmen. From July till October, 1862, he was acting assistant surgeon United States army on General Saxton's staff. In October was commissioned assistant surgeon in the First Regiment of South Carolina Colored Infantry. This was the first colored regiment ever mustered into the United States service, and was afterwards numbered Thirty-third United States Colored Infantry. In October, 1863, Dr. Hawks was commissioned as surgeon of Twenty-first United States Colored Infantry, where he served until December, 1865, when he resigned, since which time he has lived most of the time in Florida. He married, October 4, 1854, Esther Hill, of Brentwood, N. H. She graduated at the Boston Female Medical College in 1857; assisted in the military hospitals at Jackson- ville, Beaufort and Charleston ; is a successful prac- titioner in Lynn, Mass.

II. Bartlett, born March 3, 1828; died young.

III. Robert Bartlett, born October 16, 1829; a farmer. On the old homestead he salts the sheep and cattle on the same granite ledges where his father

and grandfather salted them, and cultivates the same fields they first cleared and then cultivated. Invalid ; unmarried.

IV. Helen Maria, born June 26, 1832; married, November, 1853, Prescott Colby, of Bradford, and lives on the Moses Colby farm. They had four children. The first, a daughter, was poisoned in infancy by chewing friction matches ; the second, Belle, married J. Currier, of Bradford, and settled on the David Durrell farm, and now live near it; the third, Jesse Prescott, married Clara, daughter of Moody Gilling- ham, and first settled on the Gillingham place; re- moved to Danvers, Mass .; the fourth, Flora, resides with her parents.

V. Sarah Knowlton, born September 17, 1835 ; in- valid; lives on the homestead.

VI. Miner, born January 28, 1845; married, first, Georgia, daughter of Edwin Bailey, of Bradford; they had one son, Ralph, born July 30, 1869; died October, 1883. She died of consumption. Second, Medora, daughter of Wellman George. They had Mertie, who lives in Manchester. Mrs. Hawks died of internal tumor. Miner died June 22, 1884.

The following biographical sketch is copied from the Manchester Daily Mirror :

"Captain Miner Hawks, of Bradford, whose death, on the 23d of June, was mentioned in this paper, has an excellent, and, in soms respects, an oxceptional military history. He enlisted as a private in Co. K, 1st Rhode Island Cavalry, Oct. 31, 1861, when but little over 16 years old, and served with that regiment until his discharge from a general hospi- tal in Washington, Dec. 21, 1862. A part of the next year he attended the academy of New London ; but on the invitation of the surgeon of the 3d Reg't S. C.Colored Infantry he left his studies and enlisted as hospital steward in that regiment, then stationed at Hilton Head, S. C. On May 24, 1864, he was promoted as 2d lientenant in Co. D, 34th Reg't, U. S. colored troops, commanded by the noted Col. James Montgomery of Kansas, and June 17, 1865, he was commissioned as Ist lieutenant ; Nov. 6, 1865, as captain of Co. E, in the same regiment. For a portion of the time till the muster out of his regiment, Feb. 28, 1866, Capt. Hawks was commander of the post at Palatka, Fla. At the expiration of his mili- tary service Capt. Hawks, then but 21 years old, commenced the study of law in the office of Cooper & Bisbee, Jacksonville, Fla. HEaving lost his available funds in an unfortunate investment, he entered the employ- ment of a company at Port Orange, which failed soon after, and Capt. H. returned to Bradford, where he married a daughter of E. M. Bailey, and removed to Conocil Bluffe, Iowa. In 1864 he returned to Bradford, where his wife died the next year. In 1873 he engaged in the druggist's business in Allston, Mass,, and afterwards in Manchester, where he re- sided until the death of his second wife. For the last five years he has carried on the farm of his aged mother. Capt. Hawks was a finent and graceful speaker and writer. He was at various times reporter for the Mirror and American and the Union. He wrote sketches of travel in Florida for the Saturday Times and has contributed articles to the Golden Rule, Youth's Companion and other Boston periodicals."

David Knowlton, son of Farrington Hawks, born May 7, 1804; a competent cabinet-maker. He married, about 1825, Susan Straw, and lived a while at the old homestead on Bible Hill. Then for several years in the "Farrington house," which he built at Ray- mond's Corner ; then several years at the Mill village, where his wife died of cancer, October 10, 1854. Mr. Hawks enlisted in the Seventh New Hampshire Vol- unteers at the age of fifty-six. His children were, ---

I. Emeline, born about 1826; married Orlando Bailey ; died in Manchester, N. H.

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II. John, a hatter by trade, died in Derry, N. H., April 18, 1855.

III. Hartwell, a teamster, died in Boston.

IV. William, a seaman, married an English wo- man; lost at sea.

V. Frederick was in the United States navy during the Rebellion; married ; has a daughter ; lives in New York.

VI. Esther, worked at Manchester; removed to Boston.

VII. Helen, married Burke Belknap, of Newport. They live in Lawrence, Mass. One son, Lawrence.

JOHN HOWLET, of Henniker, married Phebe John- son, of that town. Their children were,-

1. Mary, died unmarried.

2. Betsy, married Nehemiah Knight.

3. Enoch, married, second, Hannah Metcalf, and settled in Freedom, N. Y., where his family still resides.

4. Sally, married Benjamin Flint, and lived in Hillsborough.

5. Thomas, married Eunice, daughter of Enos Collins, of Warner. Their children were John, Perley, Enos, Elizabeth and Sarah.

6. John, horn July 22, 1795; married Plebe Cressy. Mr. Howlet is probably the oldest living man in town.

7. Alice, married Israel Andrews.

8. Stephen, removed to Sutton and married there.

9. George, married Marinda Cram; died on the home farm.

10. Perley, died at twenty years of age.

11. James, married Dorcas Stevens ; lived and died in the next house to John; no children.

12. David, died young.

13. Benjamin, died at twenty-one; unmarried.

14. Caleb, died at two years of age.

15. Phebe, died an infant.

STEPHEN HOYT was born in Hopkinton, N. H., Angust 30, 1769; he married Phehe, daughter of Deacon William Presbury, born July 20, 1772. "She was the first white child born in the town of Brad- ford." She died July 29, 1847. General Hoyt, as he was usually called, was a man of marked ability and activity. He built and operated mills, cleared np farms, built houses and in various ways left the im- press of his energetic spirit on the social and busi- ness life of the town. His children were,-

1. William P., born April 4, 1794; died Jannary 19, 1867.

2. Stephen, Jr., born August 27, 1795; died No- vember 10, 1859.

3. John, born October 3, 1797 ; died at sea Septem- ber 28, 1851.

4. Hiram, born December 17, 1800; died October 26, 1825.

5. George W., born January 12, 1803; died October 10, 1826.

6. Olive P., born May 18, 1806.

7. Elisha E., born October 12, 1808.

8. John Raymond, born September 2, 1811 ; died December 24, 1858.

9. Elbridge Gerry, born September 6, 1814; he married, December 20, 1843, Mary Anne Spaulding, of Warner, who was born November 30, 1814. He lived on his father's homestead ; died August 29, 1879.

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History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 50

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