History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 86

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 WAR OF THE REBELLION .- The commence- ment of the Rebellion found the people of Hen- niker still patriotic. One of the first men to enlist when the call was made for volunteers to fill up the First Regiment was Enoch W. Goss, who was at the time quietly pursuing the avocation of a machin- ist at Concord. He was commissioned second lieu- tenant in Company I, First Regiment, New Hamp- shire Volunteers, and upon the formation of the Thirteenth Regiment, he was commissioned first lieu- tenant of Company K, in that regiment, and was shortly afterwards promoted to be captain of Com- pany I. He was killed October 27, 1864, in Virginia, whilst in command of a battalion of sharpshooters attached to the First Division of the Eighteenth Army Corps. The following roll contains the names of men who enlisted from Henniker, in the several regiments of this State and of other States :

FIRST REGIMENT. Captain Enoch W. Goss, Company I.

SECOND REGIMENT.

Nelson Hurd, Company G ; Proctor Collins, Company H ; Charles E. Goodwin, Company Il ; llenry Bowman, Company II ; Clarence M.

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Hill, Company H : George L. Chase, Company II ; Horace Page, Com- pany H ; Charles Brown, Company B; Charles Wilkins, Company B ; Loren D. Hemphill, Company B.

THIRD REGIMENT. Eben Adams, Company H.

FIFTH REGIMENT. Matthew H. Perry, Company D.

SIXTH REGIMENT.

Alphonso Page, Company I ; William W. Heard, Company I.

SEVENTH REGIMENT.

James H. Caldwell, Company D; Lyman H. Cheney, Company D ; John S. Elliott, Company E ; George W. Elliott, Company E; William P. Dwinnels, Company H ; Lorenzo Connor, Company E ; Lewis Sey- mour, Company E; Winford L. Repley, Company E ; Charles Seymour, Company E; Alpha C. Smith, Company E ; Frederick H. Barnes, 1 Com- pany E.

EIGHTH REGIMENT. Thomas H. Rogers, Company E; Thomas B. Adams, Company E.

NINTH REGIMENT.

Orlando Flanders, Company F ; William H. Stone, Company F ; Hiram H. Clark, Company G ; Horace Page, Company G (second enlistment) ; Samuel E. Tucker, Company F ; Lendall A. Conner, Company G ; George W. Gove, Company G.

ELEVENTH REGIMENT.

Leander W. Cogswell, Thomas L. Sanborn, Josepb A. Modica, Al- phonso B. Mood, Hamilton F. Green, Robert D. Rice, Israel Adanie, Rufus S. Howe, George E. Barnes, Alfred A. Barnes, Frederick II. Barnes, Tompkins Baker, Charles A. Bean, Charles H. Bell, Arthur A. Brown, Albert A. Bowers, Fitz E. Cogswell, James M. Colby, Lewis Childs, George S. Clark, Thomas M. Davis, Warren Farren, George H' Green, Charles C. Hill, William G. Harriman, Charles Knott, John H. Ordway, Joshna Ordway, James W. Ripley, William H. Rice, Charles E Wood, William II. Wadsworth, all of Company D.

THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. Enoch W. Gose, Company I (second enlistment).

FOURTEENTH REGIMENT.

Charles C. Carr, Company D ; Edward W. Barnes, Company II.

SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.

Jonathan Flanders, Company D; Francis B. Scribner, Company D Nelson D. Knight, Company D ; Frank B. Modica, Company K ; George M. Wilkins, Company K.

EIGHTEENTHI REGIMENT.

Charles H. Andrews, George Il. Ordway, Charles Seymour (second enlistment), all of Company A; Lewis Gibson, Company E; Daniel McDole, Company B.

SHARPSHOOTERS.

Frank H. Carr, Company G ; Charles F. Stevens, Company G ; Chester Bailey, Company E.

FIRST REGIMENT CAVALRY.

Henry C. Goodwin, Troop C; Renben M. Gregg, Troop M.

FIRST NEW ENGLAND CAVALRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE BAT- TALION. Robert Campbell, Troop I.

FIRST REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY. Henry W. Gordon and George A. Gordon, Company C

UNITED STATES NAVY.

Robert Wallace and William Wallace.

MUSICIAN.

Jacob R. Foster, Second Brigade, Tenth Corps Band. RE-ENLISTED VETERANS.

Robert Campbell, Clarence M. Hill, Eben Adams, Lewis Seymour, Frank H. Carr, Thomas H. Rogers George W. Elliott,

ENLISTED IN OTHER STATES.

Daniel E. Nichols, William Breed, Ezra T. Folsom, Edson Tucker, George Morrill, Jonas Bacon, Thomas A. Gorman, James H. Ellis, Gawn Wilkins, Freeman E. Colby, Newton G. Colby.

Number enlisted for the town

Number enlisted in the navy. 2

Number re-enlisted . . 7

Number enlisted in other States 11

Number of substitutes . 51

Whole number furnished by the town. 163

Under a vote of the town :

45 men were paid $150 each. $6,750

44 men were paid $300 each 13,200

15 men were paid $475 each 7,125

8 men were paid $1,000 each. 8,000

3 men were paid $200 each 600

Total amount paid $35,675

Of the number of men who enlisted for the town, thirty were killed in action or died in the service. Of the thirty-one original men from Henniker in the Eleventh Regiment when it left the State, only nine were present when it was mustered out,

Educational .- The first money raised by the town after its incorporation was at the annual meeting held March 1, 1773, when the town " Voted Nine . Pounds Raised to support a Schule." "Voted to have a Schule this year."

For the first eighteen years after the incorpora- tion of the town only two hundred and thirty dollars was raised by the town for schooling. During this time, however, many private schools were taught. The first school-houses were built of logs. The town was districted first in 1788, and in 1800 again dis- tricted, substantially as they have remained since. In 1808 the first female teacher was employed. Lib- eral sums have, from time to time, been appropriated by the town in addition to the amount required by law, and much interest has been manifested in pro- viding suitable school buildings, and at this time every district in the town, save one, has an excellent school-house-most of them being new- and the valu- ation of the school property of the town is exceeded by only two towns in Merrimack County.

HENNIKER ACADEMY .- Henniker Academy was erected in 1836. The matter of having such an institution in the town had been under discussion for some years, to a certain extent, hut not until this year did it culminate. The building was erected by voluntary subscription, the people contributing very liberally towards it. A committee was chosen early in this year to procure a plan and contract for its erection. Horace Childs was its builder, and an act of incorporation was obtained from the Legislature, and the following-named gentlemen were chosen the first board of trustees : Rev. Jacob Scales, Dr. Nathan Sanborn, Hon. Joshua Darling, Samuel Smith, Esq., Page Eaten, Abel Connor and Horace Childs, of Henniker; Col. Stephen H. Long, of Hopkinton ; Rev. Jubilee Wellman, of Warner; John Grimes, Esq., of Deering; Rev. Orlando G. Thatcher, of Bradford ; and Gen. Anthony Colby, of New London. Tht first term was taught in the spring of 1837, Breed Batchelder, teacher.

For thirty years, save two, the school was continued,

1 Discharged soon after mustering, being under age.

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one to three terms being taught yearly. From 1867 until 1884 several terms were taught by different teachers, but not continuously. In 1884 an arrange- ment was made with the trustees whereby the town ob- ligated itself to appropriate a fixed sum for the purpose of modernizing the upper school-rooms in the build- ing, and appropriate five hundred dollars yearly, for five years, towards paying the salarics of competeut teachers, and an excellent school is again in progress. Notwithstanding all the hindrances, a large number of students have pursued their studies in this institu- tion and become graduates of some college. Amongst the more prominently known graduates of this insti- tution are Hon. James W. Patterson, ex-Senator in United States Senate; Hon. James W. Childs, State Senator of Michigan ; Rev. Addison Childs ; Rev. Augustus Berry, five years principal of the institution ; Rev. Nathan F. Carter, Rev. Heury E. Sawyer, Rev. Addison P. Foster and Edna Dean Proctor.

The towns of Henniker, Hillsborough, Deering and Society Land (uow Bennington) were classed for the purpose of choosing a representative, and No- vember 14, 1774, Captain Joseph Simonds, of Hills- borough, was chosen for one year, and Captain Tim- othy Gibson, of Henniker, was then chosen; then Captain Simonds, who was succeeded by Isaac An- drews and James McCalley, respectively, of Hills- borough, by Robert Alcock, of Deering; then Cap- tain Simonds was again chosen. Hon. Robert Wal- lace was then chosen for the next four years ; then Gen. Benjamin Pierce, of Hillsborough, for two years ; then William Wallace, Esq., of Henniker, for the ensuing two years, since which time the town has had one or more representatives yearly, as follows :

William Wallace, Francis Bowman, Aaron Adams, Jodas Bowman, Timothy Gibson, Joshua Darling, John Smith, Joho Sawyer, Oliver Noyes, Moses Brown, Robert M. Wallace, Artemas Rogers, Enoch Dar- ling, Jacob Rice, William L. Woods, Lewis Smith, James Straw, Oliver Pillsbury, Harris Campbell, Carleton S. Dodge, Israel P. Chase, Leao- der W. Cogswell, William E. Cogswell, Henry A. Emerson, Joho H. Albio, George W. S. Dow, Col. Imri Woods, Jacob Straw, Daniel C. Gould, Parrott Marsh, Micah Howe, Zebulon Foster, Jr., Joha S. Craig, Nathan Sawyer, Titus Wadsworth, Oliver C. Fisher, Alfred Winship, Jeremiah Foster, Jonas Wallace, Cyrus Goss, Zadok Dnstoo, George W. Rice, Oliver H. Noyes, Walter B. Barnes, Harrison Merrill, Francis Hills, Daniel F. Wymao, Lavoard M. Peabody.

TOWN CLERKS FROM 1768 TO 1885.

Silas Barnes, Amos Gould, William Presbury, Aaron Adama, Timothy Gibson, David Clough (nineteen years), William Wallace, Joshua Darling, John C. Proctor, Isaac Rice, Josiah Morse, Imri Woods (sixteen years), Daniel C. Gonld, James Caldwell (sixteen years), Horace Gibsoo, Iliram Marsh, Williato E. Cogswell (twelve years), David S. Carr, George C. Preston, Walter T. Sargent.

PHYSICIANS.

Georgs Morgan, Dr. Roberts, John Hunter, Amos Whitney, John Clements, Thomas Eaton, William Diosmore, Jacob Whitcomb, Thomas D. Brooks, Daniel Hongh, Zadok Bowmano, Dr. Cook, Paschal P'. Brooks, John Stafford, Dr. Barnard, Dr. Johnson, Solomon Warde, Dr. Tubbs, George W. Cook, William H. Hackett, Nathan Sanboro, Jacob Straw, Israel P. Chase, John Hurd, William Gaylord, Wesley W. Wilkins, Leonard W. Peabody, George H. Sanborn,

GRADUATES.

Tilliua Howe, Elisha Morrill, Benjamin Darling, David C. Proctor, Jacob C. Goss, Aaron Foster, Nathaniel B. Baker, Josiah W. Pillsbury, Gilbert

Pillsbury, William Wood, Socrates Smith, Addison P. Foster, Jamies W. Patterson, Henry E. Sawyer, Nathan F. Carter, Edward P. Scales, Thomas L. Sauborn, William B. Fisher, Frank B. Modica, Robert M. Wallace, Solomon Warde, Timothy Darling, Augustus W. Berry, Oliver Gould.

Clergymen .- The following natives or residents became clergymen :

Tillius Hows, David C. Proctor, Solomon Warde, Jacob C. Goss, Parker Pillsbury, Stephen Whitaker, Joshua Colby, Silas Gove, Aaron Foster, Josiah Hill, Nathan Page, James W. Patterson, Nathan F. Carter, Addison Childs, Richard T. Searle, Addison P. Foster, Augustus M. Berry, Henry E. Sawyer, S. Koight.

MISSIONARIES.

Timothy Darling, William Wood, Socrates Smith, Elizabeth Darling, Cassandra Sawyer, Mary L. Wadsworth, M.D., Emma Sanborn, Abigail Hill.

TEACHERS OF MUSIC.

Samuel Mansfield, John Connor, Imri Woods, Daniel C. Gould, Fred- erick Whitney, Imri S. Whitney, Harria W. Campbell, Joho Jackman, Euoch L. C. Colby, Oliver Pillsbury.

LAWYERS.

John Kelley, Artemas Rogers, Samuel Smith, Lewis Smith, Joho H. Albio, John J. Preotiss, Timothy Darling, E. B. S. Sanboro, Warren Clark, Robert M. Wallace.

JUDGES. Robert Wallace, Luther J. Howe, William Cooner, Joshna Darling.

TRIAL JUSTICES.

Jonathan Sawyer, William Wallace, Imri Woods, David Clough, Jacob Straw, Oliver C. Trisher and William O. Folsom, who was also the very efficient register of deeds for Merrimack County from April, 1867, to April, 1869, and High Priest of Woods Chapter, No. 14, R.A. Masoos.

Social Organizations .- Aurora Lodge, No. 43, A. F. and A. Masons, was instituted June 24, 1825, and has been in continuous existence since. Enoch Dar- ling, first W. M.

Woods Royal Arch Chapter was instituted June 7, 1867. Judge Horace Chase, First High Priest.

Bear Hill Grange, No. 39, was instituted December 4, 1874, and is a prosperous organization.

Crescent Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 60, was instituted July 28, 1876, and an encampment was instituted in 1879, both of which are prosperous organizations.

Henniker Division, Sons of Temperance, is a flour- ishing organization.

Business Industries-CONTOOCOOK VALLEY PA- PER COMPANY .- This company purchased the water- power at West Henniker in 1871. Extensive im- provements were made, including a large, new dam and an entire new mill, at an outlay of fifty thousand dollars, and the company was incorporated June, 1872. Large additions have been made to the prop- erty since, and although some changes have been made in the members of incorporation, it has, with the exception of a few months, been substantially under the management of Henry A. Emerson, one of the three original owners of the property, assisted, since 1881, by William N. Johnson, a member of the company.

The goods manufactured at this mill have taken a high rank in the markets of New England and the Middle States, their book-paper being pronounced by experienced and competent judges to be of the very first class. The value of the goods manufactured yearly is fully one hundred thousand dollars.

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This company now own the entire water-power at West Henniker, which is one of the most valuable on the Contoocook River.

FLOURING-MILLS .- John Gutterson purchased the lower mill property in 1862, and erected thereon a first-class grist and flouring-mill. In November of 1864, Mr. Gutterson purchased and brought to town a car-load of corn, containing four hundred and six- teen bushels, the first car-load of corn ever brought into the town. He now averages sales of corn of seven thousand to ten thousand bushels, and fifty tons of shorts. Connected with his mill is a saw-mill, where half a million feet of lumber are manufactured yearly.

COURSER & SON are owners of a first-class mill on the upper mill Pond, disposing of large amounts of grain and shorts yearly. Connected with their mill is a thresher, with which they thresh several thousand bushels of grain yearly ; and also they make cider, and saw shingles and clapboards. They are also owners of the water-power on the opposite side of the river from them, upon which they have erected a building used as a saw-mill. The largest part of the wheat raised within a radius of fifteen miles is manufactured into flour at these two flouring-mills.

DRY MEASURES .- Gage & Co. have a large mill near Long Pond, at which a very large amount of dry measures, nest boxes, piggins, covers, etc., are manufactured yearly, which find their way into the far West and South, as well as to the nearer home markets. The saw-mill attached to their mill man- ufactures half a million feet of lumber annually.

KIT MANUFACTORY .- George W. S. Dow has a large, first-class mill and machinery, in which seventy-five thousand kits are made yearly ; he also has machinery for dressing lumber and for sawing shingles.

GEORGE E. BARNES has a shingle, clapboard and cider-mill, near Long Pond, at which two hundred thousand shingles and a large amount of clapboards are sawed yearly, and hundreds of barrels of cider made.

JAMES WILKINS & DANIEL E. PUTNEY have carriage-shops, manufacturing and repairing carriages and sleighs.

C. C. RICHARDS has an extensive tin, iron and cop- per establishment.

Traders .- William O. Folsom, G. C. & A. G. Pres- ton, Oliver H. Noyes and Samuel M. Currier, as traders, dispose of goods to the amount of one hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars yearly.

The several industries of the town furnish employ- ment for a large number of hands, and manufacture and dispose of goods yearly to the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The productions of the soil amount annually to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The inhabitants of the town have on deposit in the different saving-banks of the State two hundred and

twenty-five thousand dollars, are the owners of rail- road bonds and stocks of the value of thirty thousand dollars, and have invested in government and State bonds and other securities not mentioned above fully one hundred thousand dollars, and the people receive yearly from summer tourists several thousand dollars.

Any improvements of the water-power or any en- terprise bringing capital and business into the town is exempted from taxation for ten years.

Early Families .- In addition to the early families already mentioned, are the following :

Adams, Alley, Bowman, Breed, Brown, Chase, Connor, Cogswell, Colby, Clough, Dodge, Darling, Foster, Trachem, Gove, Gould, Gibson, Goodnow, Gordon, Harriman, Howe, Huntington, Kimball, Livingston, Merrick, Marsh, Morse, Morrison, Newton, Noyes, Page, Patten, Pear- ley, Pillsbury, Proctor, Plummer, Ray, Rogers, Rice, Sawyer, Simmons, Temple, Tucker, Wallace, Whitney, Wilson, Whitman, Wood, Woods.

Cemeteries .- At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town held March 26, 1770, it was "Voted that the. burying-place shall be upon the Senter lot." "Voted that Josiar Ward, Ezra tucker, Silas Barns is a Com- mete to look out the spot of ground to bury the Ded in." "Voted that Josiar Ward should Dig the graves this year." The lot selected was the only burial-place for many years, and in it lies a large number of the early settlers, very many of them having no tablets to mark the spot where they are buried. Burial- yards in the southeast, southwest and northeast parts of the town were established : but the old cemetery, near the old meeting-house, which was laid out in 1810, was the chief place of burial until the new cemetery was laid out. In this old yard lie the re- mains of a larger number than the entire population of the town at this date. The Friends have a burial- place near their meeting-house, in the south part of the town.

NEW CEMETERY .- An effort was made, in 1862, to enlarge the old burial-yard by adding to it a portion of the common adjoining it ; but no favorable action was taken, and a number of individuals incorporated themselves into an organization known as the Henniker Cemetery Association, and purchased several acres of land east of the main village, of which association Jeremiah Foster was president, George W. Rice vice- president, William O. Folsom clerk, James Straw treasurer. The lot was laid out into avenues and burial-lots, a large proportion of which have been sold. A large receiving vault was erected, and the associa- tion voted that it should be forever under the control of its members. The members of the association are never to exceed thirty. A large sum of money has been expended in monuments and improvements, and it is indeed a place " beautiful for situation."

Census .- The first census of the town was taken in 1775, and the population was three hundred and sixty-seven. In 1783 another census was taken, and there were found to be 749; in 1790, 1127; in 1800, 1476; in 1810, 1608; in 1820, 1900; in 1830, 1725;

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in 1835, 1709; in 1840, 1715; in 1850, 1690; in 1860, 1500; in 1870, 1288; in 1880, 1326.

The mortuary records of the town show the average of deaths, yearly, since 1775, to be twenty-five; that one-third of the deaths have been children under ten years of age, and more than one-half under thirty years of age. Hannah Hardy died at the age of one hundred and three years; Mrs. Ruth Hemphill, one hundred years and three months; Jeremiah Crocker (colored), one hundred years. Nearly or quite fifty persons have died in the town aged over ninety years, and nearly two hundred persons have reached the age of eighty years and upwards.

Musicians .- Christopher C. Gibson, the eminent violinist, was a native of this town. He gave concerts in his best days in many large cities of this country, and at the Peace Jubilee held in Boston, in 1872. Mr. Gibson was the only American first violinist re- tained throngh its entire session, receiving many encomiums for his wonderful melody, which fully earned for him the title given him,-the "Ole Bull of America."

EMMA ABBOTT .- Seth Abbott, the father of Emma Abbott, the celebrated prima donna, was born in Henniker, resided there many years, and then settled in Illinois. Her grandfather, Dyer Abbott, was a celebrated singer and teacher of music and chorister in Concord and Henniker very many years.

Henniker has furnished one Governor of this State -Hon. Nathaniel B. Baker ; one United States Sena- tor-Hon. James W. Patterson; two Representatives in Congress for the Stateof Maine-Hons. Rufus King Goodenow, in the Thirty-first Congress in 1849, and Robert G. Goodenow, in the Thirty-second Congress in 1851. Another brother, Hon. Daniel Goodenow, was Speaker of the House of Representatives in Maine in 1830, was Attorney-General of the State in 1838, and a justice of the Supreme Court of the State from 1855 to 1862. Two other brothers, John B. and William G, were eminent lawyers in Maine. Henniker has furnished several State Senators for other States ; one judge for Michigan, and one for New York-the former, Hon. William Conner, and the latter, Hon. Luther J. Howe. Hon. Robert Wallace was a judge in this State from 1803 to 1815, and Hon. Joshua Darling was a judge for many years, from 1816. Hon. Timothy Gibson, Hon. Robert Wallace and Captain Jonas Bowman were prominent men in the councils of the town and the State during the Revolutionary war. Hon. Samuel Tyler, a son of Henniker, made his home in the Argentine Republie, in South Amer- ica, and was the pioneer of the Sonth American trade, and shipped the first cargo of wool brought from Buenos Ayres to an American port, amassing a large fortune in the trade, and settled in Portland, Me, where he died in 1879.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

ABEL CONNOR.

William (1), the original ancestor of the Connor family, came from England in the ship "Fortune " in 1621. The Plymouth records mention his division of land in 1623. The name was then spelled Coner. Cornelius (2), his son, was in Exeter in 1637. Thence removed to Salisbury, Mass., and married Sarah -, by whom he had Sarah, born August 23, 1656 ; John, born December 8, 1660 ; Samuel, born February 12, 1662; Mary, born December 27, 1663; Elizabeth, born February 27, 1665; Rebecca, born April 10, 1668; Ruth, born May 16, 1669; Jeremiah (3), born No- vember 6, 1672; and a daughter, probably Ursnla. Jeremiah (3), one of the proprietors of Exeter, mar- ried, July 3, 1696, Ann Gove, daughter of Edmund Gove, and their children were Jeremiah, Jonathan (4), Philip, Samuel, Benjamin, Hannah and Ann.

Jonathan (4) married Mehitable Thing, born July 19, 1706, daughter of John and Mehitable Thing. Their children were Anne, born September 15, 1724; Mehitable, born December 5, 1726, died August 30, 1736 ; Jeremiah, born February 8, 1730-31 ; Jonathan, born October 14, 1737; Anne, born December 10, 1739; Mehitable, born July 27, 1742; John Thing, born July 18, 1745. These two daughters became Mehitable Thing and Anne Giddings.

Jeremiah, sou of Jeremiah the proprietor, settled with his family in Gilmanton, January 19, 1763, and was the eleventh family in that township. Jonathan (+), his brother, was a practical surveyor of lands, and gave much assistance in surveying the lots in Gil- manton. Jonathan (+) was born in Exeter Decem- ber 5, 1699. He was commander of a scouting com- pany during the French and Indian Wars. Thursday, December 4, 1746, the House of Representatives, then in session at Portsmouth, passed the following vote :

" Toted that there be allowed eight pounds, eleven shillings & three pence in full, to Capt. Jonathan Connor & fourteen others under his command, scouting at Nottingham ten days from ye 7th Aug. last, to be pd out of ye money in ye Treasury for ye Defence of ye Government."

John (5) Thing Connor, son of Captain Jonathan (4), born in Exeter July 18, 1745, married Susanna Kimball, of Exeter, and removed to Hopkinton, where his children were born, and where he resided until near the close of the Revolution, when he came to Henniker and settled upon the farm where his grand- son, A. D. L. F. Connor, now resides. He was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary War, and the powder-horn carried by him is in the possession of his grandson, John K. Connor. We copy his discharge from the service,-

"Corp. Jnothing Connor, a soldier of the first N. Hampshire Regt., for- merly an Inhabitant of Hopkinton, County of Hillsboro, and State of N. Hampshire, having honorably and faithfully served Three years in the service of the United States, being the term of his inlistment, is hereby

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discharged from the Army and is permitted to return to the State of N. Hampshire. " JNO. CILLEY, Col.

"Camp Danbury, April 5, 1780. To whom it may concern."

The children of John Thing and Susanna, born in Hopkinton, were Mehitable, born April 13, 1770; George, born August 9, 1773; Anna, born July 9, 1775 ; John, born September 28, 1779; Abel (6), born November 23, 1782; Susan C., born March 8, 1789, in Henniker.

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History of Merrimack and Belknap counties, New Hampshire, Part 86

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