History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 58

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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The youngest, Georgianna Eliza, was born October 10, 1867. He married for his second wife Mrs. Mary A. Kilton.

Mr. Kimball traces his paternal ancestors back to the eighth generation. His grandfather's name was Richard. Richard's father's name was Caleb, then John, Joseph, another John, and still another, this last John making the eighth.

COLONEL DAVID MORRILL CLOUGH.

A town depends more upon the character of its in- habitants for fame than upon its natural advantages. Canterbury was originally settled by strong men, who have left their impress on the present generation. They were the Cloughs, Gibsons, Fosters, Blanchards, Mor- rills, Kimballs, et al., of the present generation. Col- onel David M. Clough is one of the most energetic, enterprising, successful and noted farmers within the Granite State, and has deservedly earned the title of " the Corn King" of New Hampshire. The colonel is the great-grandson of Jeremiah Clough, who set- tled in Canterbury in 1727 and built the old garrison. Here the hardy pioneer raised a family of five boys and three girls. He was a man of superior ability and great physical force and energy. The children all became prominent, and were noted for building large two-story honses, carrying on large farms and having much influence in their day. The oldest boy, Jeremiah Clongh, succeeded to his father's home farm. Henry Clough joined the Shakers and became a leading man in that denomination, being one of the founders of Lebanon (N. Y.) Community. Thomas Clough settled on Bay Hill, in Northfield, and left no issue. Abner settled on "Clough Hill," in London, giving name to that section of the town, and has left numerous descendants. Joseph Clongh settled on the farm now owned by Colonel Clough; he married a Lawrence, from Epping ; had no children, but adopted his wife's niece, who married a Gerrish and be- came owner of the farm. Leavitt, the grandfather of the colonel, settled on the farm lately owned by Ed- ward Osgood. One of the sisters married a Gerrish, of Boscawen, and left a numerous progeny. Leavitt Clongh married, first, Hannah Fletcher, of Loudon ; second, Peggy Mason, of Chichester. Leavitt was a re- markable man-powerful physically, strong intellectu- ally, energetic, prompt to keep his engagements, trusted by the community, a devout Christian, a successful and wealthy farmer. Sally, his oldest daughter, married Abner Clough, of London Hill. Hannah, another daughter, married Josiah Haines, of Canterbury, and Susan, the third daughter, married Jeremiah Clough. Leavitt, Jr., was their only son. Leavitt Clongh, Jr., was born October 30, 1778 ; married, October 27, 1800, Abigail Morrill, the youngest daughter of Deacon David Morrill, and aunt of Hon. David Morrill, a prominent citizen of Canterbury. She was born February 8, 1779, and died May 10, 1853. He was held in high esteem by his townsmen, was a justice of the peace, selectman and representative when he died, August 13, 1825. She was a woman of great natural ability and skill, and took great interest in all that

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was happening in the outside world. Like his father and grandfather, Leavitt Clough was orthodox in creed and carefully attended to religions observances. Toward the close of her life Mrs. Clough was liberal in her views. The children of this couple were (1) Henry Clough, born September 17, 1801, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1823, and died in Mary- land August 28, 1824; (2) William Patrick Clough, born October 25, 1802, married and settled first in Canterbury, but later in life moved to Andover, and for many years lived with his only danghter, Cornelia, who married the late Rev. Howard Moody ; (3) Mary Ann Clough, born January 8, 1804, married, in April, 1825, Deacon Jonathan Brown, of Gilmanton ; (4) David M. Clongh ; (5) Merinda Clough, born February 14, 1808, married Jonathan Prescott, of Gilmanton ; (6) Leavitt Morrill Clough, born September 10, 1809, who went South and disappeared about the time of a noted steamboat explosion, and never having been heard from, was supposed to have been lost; (7) Thomas Carmel Clough, born February 16, 1812, a promising young man, who married Martha Emery, of Concord, and was one of the first settlers on the Western Reserve (Ohio), he died in early manhood, and left one daughter; (8) Daniel Webster Clough, born August 17, 1814, is unmarried and lives in Hill.

Colonel David M. Clough was born on his grand- father's farm June 9, 1805, and succeeded to the home- stead on coming of age. His education was received at the district school, supplemented by three terms at Gilmanton Academy. What he was taught he was able to impart to others, for at the age of eighteen he was engaged in teaching winter schools; at the age of nineteen he was commissioned in the State militia, promoted to captain at twenty-one, and to the rank of colonel after five years' service. At his father's death it devolved upon him to help settle the estate, and thns early in life he became immersed in business. In 1832 he settled in Gilmanton, re- maining there ten years, when he returned to the neighborhood of his old home. In 1848 he took a trip of inspection and discovery through the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, and after an absence of several months returned with the firm conviction that New Hampshire offered as many inducements to the farmer as any State in the Union, and accordingly purchased a small farm near his early home, which he brought to a higher state of cultivation and sold in 1856. He bought, that very fall, the farm he now owns on the Merrimack Intervale, between the Can- terbury and Boscawen stations, paying four thous- and six hundred dollars, it being the same farm that his great-uncle, Joseph Clough, formerly owned.

To this farm of some five hundred acres he gave work and capital. In thirteen years he brought its market value up to seventeen thousand dollars, and its supporting capacity from twelve cattle to that of over one hundred. He has added outlying pieces as they have come into the market, until he now owns about twelve hundred acres of land. His average crop of corn on the ear is some three thousand bush- els. He has now one hundred and twenty head of cattle, one hundred and fifteen sheep and six horses.

He has served the town of Canterbury as selectman for four years, and as representative two years. Three times he received the nomination of the Democratic party for member of the Governor's Council, and was elected during Governor Weston's first term. During his term in the Legislature he was a strong advocate for the establishment of the Agricultural College and was one of the board of trustees for several years. In politics the colonel has been a Free-Soil Democrat, attending the National Convention which nominated John P. Hale. After the abolition of slavery he gravitated into the Democratic party. In agricultural, rather than in political circles has Colonel Clough been most prominent. He was a charter member of the Merrimack River Grange and a charter member of the State Grange, of which he was treasurer for six years and for a long time one of the executive committee. He is a member of the Merrimack County Agricul- tural Society, for two years its president, and a life- member of the New Hampshire Agricultural Society.

A great aim and ambition of his life has been to give dignity to the farmers' vocation, and, by experi- ment, to develop the science of farming in his native State. By precept and example he has been a cham- pion of the farmers' rights and a pioneer in every ad- vance. He has been a prosperous and successful farmer; he has made two blades of grass grow where one grew before.

In 1832 he, with his wife, joined the Free-Will Baptist Church of Canterbury, and for many years was clerk of the society. He has always been a ten- perance advocate, abstaining from cider as well as from stronger drinks, and also from tobacco all his life.

As a citizen in his neighborhood, in his town, in the county and in late years throughout the State, he has enjoyed the respect and confidence of his fellow- citizens. He has been thoroughly upright in all his dealings, scorning dishonesty in politics and in busi- ness, and in his ripe old age is surrounded by com- forts and luxuries well earned and well deserved. He married, first, October 25, 1828, Almira Batchel -. der, daughter of Ebenezer Batchelder, of Canterbury. She was born June 7, 1805; was the mother of five children; died November 5, 1851. He married, second, June 17, 1856, Mrs. Caroline (Gibson) Tal- lent. His children are as follows :

1. Ann Maria, born in 1830; died August 9, 1838. 2. Henry Leavitt, born February 17, 1834; has been prominent in business and political circles of Con- cord; a candidate for high-sheriff of Merrimack County, and now resides with his father ; unmarried. 3. Mary S., born in 1836; died August 2, 1838.

4. Edwin Davis, born October 5, 1843; married Eliza Couch, daughter of Elder Couch, of Concord ; has had two children (one of whom is living), and is a member of the firm of E. D. Clough & Co., of Con- cord.

5. Charles Newell, born January 15, 1849; married Emma T. Morrill, and has one child,-the colonel's only grandson, David Morrill Clough, Jr.

D. M. Clough

HISTORY OF CHICHESTER.

BY D. T. BROWN.

CHAPTER I.

CHICHESTER, Merrimack County, is bounded on the north by Pittsfield, on the east by Pittsfield and Epsom, on the south by Pembroke and on the west by Loudon. It is about six miles long and three miles wide, and contains about eleven thousand nine hun- dred and seventy-eight acres. Distance from Concord to centre of town, eight miles. It is watered by the Suncook River, which forms its eastern boundary for about one mile, affording excellent water-power at several points, only one of which is at present util- ized. Another small stream, known as Lynxfield Brook, flows out of a pond by the same name, sit- uated in the southwesterly part of the town, and fur- nishes the power to drive Sanders' board, shingle and lath-mills, and flows into the Suncook in the easterly part of the town. Another small stream flows through the northeasterly part of the town, known as Gilman- ton Brook, and furnishes the power to drive Fellows' mills, and also flows into the Suncook. It was upon this stream that the first saw-mill in Chichester was erected by the early settlers. There are no mountains

in town, and the only hills of note are Bear Hill, situ- ated in the westerly part of the town, and Garvin's Hill, situated in the southerly part of the town, from the top of which, on a clear day, the White Mountains can be seen. The original growth of wood is pine, hemlock, chestnut, beech, birch and maple. When the town was settled, a large proportion of its surface was covered with a very heavy growth of wood and timber. For the first fifty years after its settlement the original owners devoted a considerable portion of their time to cutting down and burning up the growth of wood and lumber, preparatory to breaking the soil and fitting it for cultivation ; and within the last twenty-five years, more especially, the lumbermen of this and other towns have invaded our forests, and are making sad havoc with the original growth of pine, hemlock and chestnut until, to-day, there is but little of it remaining in town. Looking from the summit of the surrounding hills, the surface of this town appears to be muchi broken and uneven; still, there are many highly-cultivated farms, especially that of Charles H. Carpenter, Esq., lying on both

sides of Suncook River, which is one of the largest and most productive farms in Merrimack County. The soil is generally good, and in some parts is very fer- tile. Farming is almost the only employment ; trade, manufacturing and mechanic arts are carried on to a very limited extent. Population, seven hun- dred and eighty-four; number of polls, two hundred and sixty-four.

ORIGINAL GRANT OF TOWN.

"George, by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France and Ire- land, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.

"To all People to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting : Know ye that we of our special Knowledge and meer motion for the Dew En- couragement of Setling a new Plantation By and with the advise and Consent of our Councill have Given and Grauted and hy these Presents as far as in ns Lies do Give and Grant in Equall Shares unto Sundry of our beloved subjects whose Names are Entered in & Schedule hereunto szexed that Inhabit, or Shall Inhabit, within the Ssid Grant within- our Provence of New Hampshire all that tract of land within the fol- lowing bounds, viz. : To begin on the South west Side of the Town of Barnsted, and from thence Runing South westerly on the head of the Town of Nottingham untill Eight miles be accomplished, and then North west Eight miles, and then North East Eight miles, and then South East by the said Town of Barnstead to the Place where it first began, and that Ye same be & Town Corporate by the Name of Chichester to the Persons affore Said for Ever. To Have and To Hold the Snid land to the said Grantees and their heirs und assigns for ever, and to such associates as they shall admitt upon the following Condition : (1) that the Pro- prietors within three years Buld, or Cause to be Bolt, Sixty Dwelling Houses and Settle families in the Same. and Cleare three acres of Ground Fitt for Planting or mowing, and that Each Proprietor Pay his Propor- tion of the Town Charges when and so often as occasion shall Require ye same. (2) That a meetting house be Built for ye Publick Worship of God within the Tearm of four years. (3) That upon Default of any Per- ticular Proprietor in Complying with the Conditions of this Charter upon his Part, such Delinquent Proprietor Shall forfeit his share of ye said land to the other Proprietors, which shall be disposed of according to the major vote of ye Suid Proprietors att a Legall meetting. (4) That & Proprietor's share be Reserved for a Parsonage, and another for ye first minister of the Guspell that Shall be there settled and ordained, and another Proprietors Share for ye Bennifitt of a Scoole in ye Said Town, provided nevertheless that ye Peace with ye Indiaus continue for ye Space of three years, but if itt Should happen that a warr with ye Ir .. dians Should Commence before the Expiration of the affore Said Tesrm of three years that then ye Said Terme of three years Shall be allowed the Proprietors after ye Expiration of the warr for ye Performance of ye affore Said Conditions Rendring and Paying there- for to us our heirs and Successors, or Such officer or officers as Shall be appointed to Receive the Same, the anuall Quitt Rent or Acknowledgment of one Pound of Hemp in ye Said Town on ye last wendsday in march yearly for Ever if Demanded. Reserving also uuto us our heirs and Successors all mast Trees Growing on Said Tract of land according to acts of Parliment in that case made and Provided aud for ye beetter order Rule and Goverment of ye Suid Town we do by these Presente and for our Selves, our heirs and Successors, Grant unto the Said men lohabitants, or those that Shall Inhabitt Said Town, that

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yearly and every yeare npou the Second Wendsday in march for Ever Shall meett to Elect and Chuse by the major part of the Proprietors then Present, Constable, Selectmen and other Town officers according to ye Laws and useages of onr afforesaid Province with Power, Priveleidges and authority as other Towns and Town officers within our afforesaid Province have and Enjoy, and for ye Notifiing and Calling of ye first Town meetting we do hereby appoint Peter Weare, Esqr., John Saoboru and Jacob Freese to be the first Selectmen, and thay to Continne in Said Respective office as Selectmen untill ye Secoud Wendsday in ye month of march, which Shall be in ye yeare of our Lord one thosand Seven hundred and Twenty Eight, and nutill other Select med Shall be Chosen and appioted in thare Stead in Such manner as is in these Presents Ex- presed, In Testimony where of wee have Caused the Seale of our Said Province to be hereunto affixed.

"Wittness, John Wentworth, Esqr., onr Lineftenant Governor and Comander in Cheife in and over our Said Provence att our Town of Portsmouth, in onr Said Provence of New Hampshire, ye Twentieth Day of may, in the thirtenth of our Reigne, auto Domine 1727.

"By order of his honour the Leiftenant Governor with the advice of the Counsell.

" JOHN WENTWORTH.

" RICHARD WALDON, Clerk of ye Counsell."

On the 13th day of March, 1728, the original pro- prietors of the town of Chichester held their first annual meeting at the house of Captain Wingate, in Hampton, and elected William Stanford clerk, and Benjamin Perkins, Benjamin Lambre and Jethro Tilton selectmen, chose Peter Gilman, Captain John Gilman and Nathaniel Healey surveyors, and Deacon Weare, John Sanborn, Peter Gilman, John Robinson and Samuel Martin a committee to lay out the town. For some reason this committee did not act. They held other meetings, and chose other men with no better success, until December 24, 1728, when they held a meeting at the house of Captain Wingate, and chose Simeon Martin, Samuel Martin, Jeremiah San- born, Captain Tilton and William Stanford a com- mittee to lay out the town, and Ichabod Roby a surveyor; the committee to have ten shillings per day, and the surveyor fifteen. This committee, it seems, attended to the business assigned to them im- mediately; for we find them back to Hampton again January 28, 1729, when another meeting of the pro- prietors was held at the house of Captain Wingate, to pay them for services rendered. Their pilot, William Hill, received five pounds, seventeen shillings, Cap- tain Tilton six pounds, Simeon Martin six pounds, Samuel Martin six pounds, Jeremiah Sanborn and William Stanford six pounds each. This committee run what they supposed to be the line between what was then Nottingham and Chichester, and Pembroke and Chichester. Beginning at a birch-tree at the south corner of Barnstead, which they found marked with "B" and other letters, they run eight miles southwest to a beech-tree; this tree they also marked. They then run eight miles northwest to a white oak tree; having marked this tree and others near by, they returned. This running, although according to their grant, took in a part or all of Epsom. We can account for this only in this way: When the county was mostly covered with forests, grants were made without any definite ideas of exact locations. Char- ters often overlapped each other or left irregular strips of land between them. In this case it seems that the

same territory was granted to Epsom and Chichester; but as the grant to Epsom antedated that of Chiches- ter by a few days, Chichester lost, and Epsom gained the land in dispute. It seems by the record that the proprietors of Chichester did not willingly relinquish their claim to this portion of the territory embraced within their grant; but it was the source of a great deal of perplexity and vexation, if not of actual liti- gation, and committee after committee were chosen to settle the matter with Epsom, and finally a com- mittee was chosen to represent their situation to the Governor, and, if possible, get him to grant them new territory equivalent to what Epsom took from them; but their efforts in this direction seem to have been fruitless, as there is no record of any territory being annexed to Chichester afterward.

At their annual meeting, held March 12, 1729, a committee was chosen to lay out a bridle-path through the town of Nottingham to Chichester, and also select some desirable site for a settlement. This committee employed a surveyor, and reported as fol- lows: They took their departure from the end of Bow Street, in Nottingham, at a great white pine tree; thence running northwesterly through Notting- ham; thence northwest about two miles to little Suncook River (now Epsom); here they concluded was a desirable place for a settlement. Soon after the return of this committee the proprietors held a meeting, and appointed a day upon which to come up through the way just laid out, and fell the trees, and clear up the rubbish, and prepare a bridle-path, and those men who went were to receive six shil- lings, and those who remained were to pay six shil -. lings. After the bridle-path had been prepared, Peter Weare, Jabez Smith, Ichabod Robey, Josiah Moulton and Jasper Blake were chosen a committee to fix upon a spot for a settlement, lay out house-lots and highways to accommodate them, locate a block- house, etc. This committee came up and laid out the following road:

" Beginning at the Snucook River, abont forty rods below where little Suncook ruos into the main river, and run east-contheast three hun- dred rods, thence southeast one hnudred rods, thence east two hundred and forty rods, thence southeast one hundred and seventy rods, thence east-southeast four hundred and twenty rods."

They then selected a spot for a centre, or meeting- house lot, "about one mile upwards, on the fifth course of the above highway." They then laid out around this centre twenty-acre lots, one for each proprietor, and numbered them. This location for a settlement was in Epsom, but probably made before the proprietors were aware of the fact. The commit- tee then returned to Hampton, made a plan of the highways and house-lots, with the numbers of each lot, submitted their plan to the proprietors, who ac- cepted it, and immediately drew their lots; but none were allowed to draw their lots until they had paid their proportion of the expenses incurred in laying them out. At a meeting held at Hampton, March 11, 1730, it was voted that "ye proprietors build a

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meeting-house thirty-five foot long and twenty-five foot wide, and to be eleaven foot stud;" said house to be completed on or before the last day of Novem- ber next. "Voted, that Daniel Weare, Captain Win- gate and Nathaniel Healey be a committee to let ont ye meeting-house." Jannary 30, 1731, it was voted "that the meeting-house should be twenty-five foot long and sixteen foot wide, with nine foot stud, being built with timber six inches thick, and shall be called a log house." The price to be paid for this house was fifty pounds. The proprietors found no difficulty in finding men who, for pay, would come up and survey house-lots and highways, locate meet- ing-houses and forts; but when they looked for men who were willing to leave their comfortable homes in Hampton and vicinity, and come up here into the forest to fell the huge trees, and break the untried soil, and build for themselves rude log honses, through the cracks and crevices of which the snows of winter and rains of summer would beat, surrounded, in many cases, by hostile savages, and endure all the privations and hardships of the frontier settlers, they were not very plenty. So we find them holding meeting after meeting and taxing their inventive faculties to the uttermost to devise some plan which should offer sufficient inducement to families to settle in the new town.

At one of the meetings they voted that if sixty men of the proprietors, or men procured by them, should forthwith settle in said town of Chichester, and continne here for the space of three years, they should receive two hundred pounds the first year, to be paid upon their first settlement, and one hundred and fifty pounds yearly for the next two years. May 3, 1733, it was voted "that if fifteen men, or under, would go and speedily settle in Chichester, they shall have a full Proprietor's share throughout ye town of Chichester." There is no evidence that any one ac- cepted this offer of the proprietors. For several years we find them holding their annual and other meet- ings and discussing different plans for settling the town, also the difficulty with Epsom in relation to the dividing line between the towns. Finally a com- mittee was chosen to petition the General Court to establish the line. The committee carried the matter to the court, and the line was established, which gave the original twenty-acre house-lots, meeting-house lot and highways which the proprietors laid out soon after the grant of the township to Epsom. This made it necessary for the proprietors of Chichester to start again; hence we find them, with characteristic zeal, pushing ahead and making preparations for another survey ; and on the 26th day of June, 1749, they chose Obadiah Worth, James Prescott, Jeremiah Sanborn, Nathan Clongh and Jonathan Swett a com- mittee to come up and lay out a fifty-acre lot for each proprietor. The committee employed a surveyor, came up and laid out the first division of lots in Chichester as follows :

" We begun on Canterbury road, about three-fourths of a mile west of Suncook river, st & large white Pine tree, standing on the North East Side of said road, and pitch pine tree ou the Southwest Side of said road, which trees Stand about fifty rods distant, about Northwest from a brook, and we numbered each of Said trees with No. one. Theo from said trees, which trees are four rods distant each from the other, on a North East and by North and Southwest and by South Point of the com- pass, which is the course that divides one lot from the other through the whole division, We run Northwest and half of one point more North- erly up said Canterbury road, That being the course of said road nearest, and when we had so run fifty rods, then we marked a tree thet stood two rods distant Northeast and by North from the aforesaid North West half North line with the number one again, and then four rods distant from said last mentioned tree South west and by South we num- bered a tree anmber one ; also then we went on Northwest half North fifty rods and marked & tree that stood two rods distant from said North- west balf North line with number two, and over against suid tree, two rods from said line, we numbered another tree with number two, and then fifty rods and numbered two other trees standing, in course aod dis- taat as the trees as before described, with number three on each of said trees, all the numbers are in figures, and we layed ont seventeen lots on each side of said Canterbury road, 'The numbers increasing from one to seventeen, as afore mentioned. Then we returned to the two trees first mentioned in this return, and run South west and by South one hundred and sixty six rods and there marked a tree with letters HI. W. for a higli- way, then fonr rods for said way, then measured one hundred and sixty six rods, and then marked a tree again with the letters H. W., and then run up North west half North a tree before we began to run North west half North with the numbers one, two, both numbers on one tree, the anmber one on the North East side of said tree, and quaiber two on the South west side of said tree, and then run fifty rods and marked another tree with one, two, as before, then fifty rods and marked another tree with the numbers three, four, then fifty rods sod marked a tree five, six, and so ou to number thirty fonr, and the road hereof four rods wide, it lays on the South west side of the numbered and spotted trees, and then we re- turned again to the trees first mentioned in this retura standing ou Can- terbury road, and from the tree that stands on the North East side of said Canterbury rosd, we run North East and by North one hnadred and sixty six rods, and marked a tree with the letters H. W., and then measured four rods on the road ; all the roads that are upon the North East side of Canterbury road, which is the road between the third and fourth range, lays on the North East side of the spotted and anmbered trees. All the eight ranges begin their numbers at the South East end thereof and increase their numbers as they go North westward. The fifth range are all eaven numbers from two to thirty four. The second from number one to thirty three all odd oumbers. Rage the third is numbered from one to seventeen, both even and odd numbers. Range number four is likewise. Range number five is numbered from two to twenty-eight, all even numbers. Range number six is numbered from one to twenty seven, all odd anmbers. Range quaiber seven is a010- bered from two to twenty eight, all even numbers. Range number eight is numbered from one to twenty seven, all odd numbers. All the lots are ominhered at each end, and are one hundred and sixty six rods long and fifty rods wide. The ranges are anmbered from the South west W the North East. Range number one is the South westerly range. Then next is range number two. Theo next is range three, which lays on Canterbury road, on the South west side thereof, and so on North Eastward. The first cross road, which is four lots distant Northwestward from the South Easterly end of the ranges, is two rods broad. The second cross road, which is four lots distant from the road last mentioned, is four rods broad, and where said rosd crosses Canterbury road there is a center square, of abont four acres, which takes off a corner from each of the four lots adjoining to said roads. The center square is to extend twenty five rods on the end of each of the four lots, and twenty five rods on the side of each of said four lots adjoining to said roads, and then ex- tending a straight line from the end of said twenty five rods, in a tri- angular foriu. The third and last cross rosd is four lots distant North Westward from the last mentioned four rods road, and is two rods broad, and in all of this return we have regard to a Plan of said division drawn by Walter Bryant and received this day.

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History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 58

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