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Alexander was a physician, and was killed by the falling of a tree. Ann married Thomas White, son of Dea. Robert White, and lived in Vermont, he dying in Hopkinton, and she in Antrim.
William lived in New York, died there, and left children.
Daniel lived and died in Pennsylvania, and left children.
Robert lived and died in Rising Sun, Indiana, and had chil- dren.
Annanias has lived in Vermont, but now is in New Boston, and is the father of Jonathan Gove Kelso, of Charlestown, Mass.
Elizabeth was Mrs. Parkinson, mother of Rev. Royal Parkin- son, of Randolph, Vt. Thomas died in Canterbury, on his way to Columbia, of spotted fever. Mary married Asa Dustin, and lived in Columbia, and died leaving one child, Daniel. David married Mary, daughter of Wm. Campbell, and for his second wife he married widow Andrews, daughter of Dea. Joseph Cochran. Jonathan Gove married Letitia, daughter of James Cochran.
Alexander, another brother of the first-named William settled where Mrs. Achsah Dodge now lives, marrying Nancy Guiness, of Amherst ; their children being Anna, Sally, and Catherine.
John Kelso, son of Daniel, was born July 14, 1771; by
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trade he was a clothier, and carried on the business for many years in New Boston. He married Dorcas Cleaves, of Mont Vernon. Their children are : John, who was born Nov. 1, 1804, married Susan Bradford, of Fitchburg, Mass., and has three children, William, Marion, and John ; he resides in Benning- ton, Vt., and is a manufacturer of woollen goods. Augusta, born July 13, 1808, became the wife of Micah Lawrence, of Ashby, Mass., Feb. 15, 1834. Mr. Lawrence, in company with Waterman Burr, when he was a young man commenced trade in the Upper Village, subsequently continued the same busi- ness in the Lower Village, and in retired life is enjoying the fruits of his successful enterprise. Their children are : Helen, who became the wife of Charles A. Wood, Esq., Sept. 27, 1863. Mr. Wood is a native of Hancock, N. H., and now a success- ful lawyer in Madison, Wisconsin ; he served as Lieut. Col. over two years and was at the siege of Vicksburg ; immediate- ly after his marriage he sailed for a tour of Europe. Sarah became the wife of Charles H. Bixby Sept. 16, 1862. Mr. Bixby is son of Levi Bixby, formerly of Francestown, and late of Surinam, South America ; he graduated at Williams College in 1858, and soon after went to Europe, and studied the modern languages in France and Germany ; immediately after his mar- riage he, in company with his wife, sailed again for Europe, spending nearly two years in Germany, France, and Italy. George O., born July 27, 1841, became connected with the Naval Department of the West in Oct., 1862, and now holds an important position in the Medical Department. Eliza C. was born Nov. 15, 1843. John K. was born Nov. 13, 1847.
David, son of John Kelso, born Aug. 25, 1814, is a mason by trade, and resides in New Boston. Sarah was born Aug. 20, 1816, became the wife of Neil McLane, Esq., Aug. 14, 1849, re- sides in New Boston, and has one daughter, Marion A., born May 24, 1854. Adeline, born Jan. 20, 1819, became the wife of Joseph Warren in 1844, and resides in New Boston ; her chil- dren are H. Frank, John K., and Emma ; Frank enlisted in 1862, in the 13th Regt. N. H. V., and has proved a brave and valiant soldier, shrinking from no danger and complaining of no hardships.
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JOHN MCALLISTER. - He came from the North of Ireland, and settled where William Kelso now lives, about 1748. He married in Ireland, and had one son four years old, whom he left, and a daughter, named Mary, was born during the passage across the ocean, and married Daniel Kelso, whose son John was the father of the present David Kelso, Mrs. Micah Law- rance, Mrs. Neil, McLane, and others. She was an excellent woman, and a great help to those who early settled in the neighborhood of Joe English. She was witty, and loved to make all around her happy. The Rev. Mr. Moor when he first visited her, inquired of her if she were born in Ireland. " No, indade, I was not," was the reply. " Were you born in England ? " inquired he. "No, indade, I was not, sir." " Then you must have been born in America ?" "An' I was not born in America, neither, sir." "Then where upon 'arth were you born ?" " An' indade, sir, I was not born on the 'arth at all, sir." As Mr. Moor was a man of great good na- ture, and loved a joke as well as any of his parishoners, the mystery was satisfactorily explained.
Mr. McAllister had three sons : Archibald, who was born in Ireland, Agnus and Daniel. Archibald lived on the homestead at first, then moved to Francestown, where he died. Agnus settled where James Dexter now lives, near the late Dea. Peter McNeil's ; subsequently he moved to Pequawkett, an Indian name applied to a considerable tract of country now includ- ing Conway, N. H., Fryeburgh, Me., and some of the adjacent towns. Here he died some years since. Daniel settled near his father, and sold his farm to the father of the present Capt. Jolın Lamson, and moved to New Brunswick on the Passama- quoddy Bay, where he died.
John McAllister was an early proprietor, and had a fine tract of land. He was a man of great energy of character, and was en- trusted with various offices in the town, and took great interest in its settlement, and the permanent establishment of the institu- tions of religion. When an old man he removed, with his son Archibald, to Francestown, where he died in a good old age. It is related as a singular coincidence that his daughter Mary, who married Daniel Kelso, had twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, while Archibald, her brother, had twelve chil- dren, but nine of them were daughters and three were sons.
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DEA. ROBERT WHITE. - He settled on the height of land now owned by Abram Wason. He was among the earliest set- tlers in the vicinity of Joe English, and took an active part in the settlement of Mr. Moor. His wife, Mary, is remembered as an excellent woman. Mr. White was one of the earliest elders in the Presbyterian Church, associated with Archibald McMillen, John Smith, Thomas Cochran, William Moor, James Ferson, and William McNeil, in the Session. His children were : Andrew, born Jan. 20, 1759 ; Jane, born May 2, 1761, who married a Mr. Willson ; William ; Robert, born Feb. 25, 1766 ; Thomas, born July 11, 1773, who married Ann, daugh- ter of Daniel Kelso, and lived in Tunbridge, Vt. ; Solomon, William, and John Craige. Dea. White sold his farm to John Lamson, and tended John McLaughlen's grain-mill for many years ; subsequently he removed to Goffstown, tending a mill there, where he died in 1809. Dea. White was a good man, and highly esteemed by his contemporaries. Mr. Lamson, who bought his farm, carried on the business of a tanner and cur- rier ; he kept a store in a part of his house, also a tavern.
WILLSONS. - Three brothers, sons of Robert Willson, came from Londonderry, and settled on an elevated tract of land in the east part of the town now called Willson's Hill, but for a long time called Egypt, because during years of scarcity corn could always be liad of the Willsons, whose lands were very productive, and they had more pecuniary means than most of the early settlers. Thomas Willson settled the farm just east of Almus Warren's, which is now owned by John B. Warren ; James settled northeast of his brother Thomas's farm, where Robert Crombie lately lived ; and Alexander settled near his brother James, on land now owned by Micah Lawrance ; David was the son of Thomas, and lived where Almus Warren now lives, one of whose daughters became the wife of Rod- ney McCollom, and another of John B. Warren. James Will- son, Esq., who lived where Peter Jones now resides, was another son of Thomas, marrying a daughter of Dea. Jesse Cristy ; his other children were Elizabeth, Alexander, Robert, David, and Jane. The children of James (the first James) were Robert, James, David, Molly, John, Samuel, Hugh, Jane, and Marga- ret, who became the wife of William Batchelder Dodge, and
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was the mother of Mrs. Solomon Dodge, and of the first wife of Jacob Richards, Esq., also of the wife of James Cristy, now living in New York ; Alexander (the first) had a son Alexander, also a son William, who graduated at Dartmouth College in the Class of 1797, studied law, and went to Ohio, where he was made Judge and elected a member of Congress, and died while returning home from Washington. He was a man of fine tal- ents and great energy.
ROBERT WILLSON, who settled in the northeast part of the town, near the Plains, was a distinct branch of the Willsons, known as the " Black North Willsons," while the others were called " Curly Willsons."
DEA. WILLIAM McNEIL. - He was born March 28, 1746, in the town of Bellemoony and County of Antrim, Ireland, being the son of Abraham and Jane. He came to this country with his parents in 1750, and settled at what was then called Derry- field, now Manchester. His father died in 1752, and he came to New Boston in 1765, accompanied by his mother and two sis- ters, and settled on a fifty-acre lot of wild land on the south side of Joe English. He married, Dec. 15, 1774, on her 22d birthday, Rachel Patterson, daughter of Peter Patterson, of Lon- donderry. Their children were: James, born June 1, 1776; Jane, May 26, 1778 ; Grissel, April 6, 1780 ; Abraham, July 24, 1782; Rachel, Oct. 26, 1784; Peter, Dec. 5, 1786 ; John, Nov. 14, 1788 ; Betsey, Sept. 26, 1790 ; Sally, Sept. 5, 1793; Jennette, Feb. 4, 1796. Three sons and three daughters grew up, and the remainder died young. Abraham lived in Antrim for many years, subsequently in Lowell, Mass., where he died ; Peter lived with his parents on the homestead, and married Mary Stiles, of Amherst, Sept. 23, 1818, by whom he had eleven children, six daughters and five sons - Mary Jane, H. Elizabeth, William, C. Granville, John, James, Rachel Patterson, Abby Stiles, Peter Patterson, Harriet Newell, and Lydia Shaw ; Mary Jane married N. Farnum, of Francestown, having had one child, Nahum Hardy, deceased ; H. Elizabeth married Fuller R. Tal- bot, and lives in Lacy, Iowa, and has seven children - James F., Mary E., John, Hardy F., George, Abby J., Albert S .; William married Sarah Barnes, of Hillsborough, and lives in Clarence, Iowa, and has five children - Scott, Kate, Frank, Fred, Dora ;
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C. Granville married Martha A. Holt, of Andover, Mass., and lives in Tipton, Iowa, and has seven children - Charlotte E., Abby M., Sarah E., George Granville, Elbridge G., Claria Jane, and Peter Patterson ; he holds the office of deacon, and is a man of much activity and usefulness in the church of Christ ; John married Mary L. Pratt, of Chelsea, Mass., where he re- sides, having four children - Annie C., Mary Alice, Caleb H., and Hattie C .; James married Jane Willson, of Factoryville, Pa., and lives in Bates County, Mo., and has four children - Abby Jane, John, Willson, and Thomas S. ; Rachel P. married Capt. James M. Tuttle, and lives in New Boston, having two children - James P. and Granville J. ; Abby S. died at the age of 19; Peter Patterson married Sarah Elston, and lives in Elston, Missouri, having three children - Mary, Abby, Hattie N., and Arthur, who was chosen deacon in the Presbyterian Church in 1828, and died February 15, 1849, aged 62; John lived in the south part of Antrim, and died there ; Jane married Abra- ham Smith, of Nottingham West (now Hudson), where she died, having had twelve children; Grissel died unmarried, aged 55 ; Betsey was married to John Burns, a jeweller, of Milford, Nov. 25, 1817, by whom she had no children, and was, after Mr. Burns's death, married to Piam Orne Oct. 31, 1822, and their children were: Joseph Milton, born Sept. 11, 1823, who married Climena Bartlett, and lives where his father died, July 30, 1843 ; William, born Oct. 8, 1825, who married Almeda Bartlett, and lives on the farm settled by Ninian Clark, || Esq. ; and Sarah Elizabeth, born Sept. 28, 1828, and died Oct. 14, 1846. Mrs. Orne yet lives, possessed of great activity both of body and mind, for one aged 73. Dea. William McNeill was a noble man, calm, dignified, yet genial and affectionate. As a christian he was exemplary and devout, cherishing large charity, and always ready for every good work. He sustained his pastor by all the influence he could exert, and sought to strengthen the things that remained. He successfully reared his family, and left his posterity an example which they can safely follow. When he died, devout men and women made great lamentation over him, because they had lost from the church a man of faith and prayer. His decease transpired Jan. 15, 1823, when in his 77th year. His widow survived
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until April 20, 1837, attaining the good old age of 84, exerting a blessed influence while living, and in dying left assurance that a life full of good works and kindly endeavors shall end with the comforts of hope and glimpses of celestial light.
DEA. ROBERT PATTERSON. - He was born in Londonderry, being son of Peter Patterson, and brother of the wife of Dea. William McNeil. He settled where Allen Leach, his grandson, lives, marrying Susanna Miller, of Londonderry. Their chil- dren were seven, three sons and four daughters ; the oldest son died young, and the oldest daughter, Mary, married Robert Crombie, afterwards deacon of the Presbyterian Church, and lived in the west part of the town; Rachel married Joseph Leaclı, and lived in the eastern part of New Boston ; Gizzel married John Kelso, father of the present Robert Kelso ; Jane married William Mackintosh, and lives in Bethel, Vt .; Samuel went into Pennsylvania, where he married, and has seven chil- dren ; and John died unmarried. Dea. Patterson was an ex- cellent man, being chosen deacon before Mr. Moore's death, and serving many years during the pastorate of Mr. Bradford. He was exact in his notions, and slow to conform to new customs, yet was a man in whom there was no guile. He died in 1828, greatly lamented.
DEA. ROBERT WASON. - He was born in Nottingham West, now Hudson, June 14, 1781, being the son of Thomas Wason ; his mother was Mary Boyd, of Londonderry. He came to New Boston April, 1803, to live with Robert Boyd, his uncle, who settled on Lot No. 30, near Joe English, being then ad- vanced in years. He was married Dec. 26, 1808, by Rev. Mr. Bruce, to Nancy, daughter of John Batchelder, of Mont Vernon, born Oct. 13, 1789; their children are Elbridge, Louisa, Hiram, Nancy, Mary, Robert Boyd, Adeline, Caroline, and George Austin. Elbridge married Mary Stickney, of Boston, April 24, 1851, who died Aug. 15, 1863, and he has his residence in Brookline, Mass., and is of the firm Wason, Pierce & Co., in Boston. Hiram graduated in 1838, at Am- herst College, studied theology at New Haven, Ct., married, Oct., 1844, Betsey R. Abbot, daughter of Timothy Abbot, Esq., of Wilton, went to Indiana, in which State he still resides at West Creek, Lake County. Mary married Nathaniel Carr
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Nov. 13, 1850, and lives in Boston, Mr. Carr belonging to the firm of Dexter, Robie & Co. Robert Boyd resides in Boston, and is with his brother Elbridge, one of the same firm. Ade- line married John Batchelder Sept. 5, 1843, and lives in Sprague, Conn., their children being Emma, Louisa, and Herman. M. Batchelder is the inventor of a sewing-machine, and was the first to devise the most essential and practical parts of all sewing-machines in this country. He is also the inventor of a machine for stamping bags, etc., which is of great utility. Austin inherits the homestead, and is a progressive farmer ; he married Clara L., daughter of Mr. Sidney Hills, Sept. 17, 1863. Caroline, who had been a teacher for many years in Boston, died June 23, 1864, greatly beloved, useful in life and happy in death.
Deacon Wason reared a highly interesting family, none of whom has forsaken the faith or rejected the principles that characterized the worthy men of earlier days. He was social and affectionate, and always aimed to cultivate the intellect and improve the heart of his children. He united with the Presbyterian Church in 1815, and a few years after was elected an elder, which office he held at his death. Dea. Wason was a man of great energy, and entered with zeal upon every en- terprise adapted to benefit the church or the community, so that he was a " doer of the word " as well as a hearer; and when he died, Aug. 7, 1844, aged 63, his deathi was greatly lamented, and the loss of his influence was seriously felt. His venerable widow, enjoying a peaceful home and the affection- ate ministrations of her children, survived until July 28, 1863, having been a faithful mother and a sincere christian.
DEA. ARCHIBALD MCMILLEN. - He came to this town as early as 1756, and settled on the south of Joe English. He was elected a deacon in the Presbyterian Church as early as 1768. He was chosen to represent New Boston and Frances- town in 1777, at Exeter, in the General Court; also at Con- cord in 1778, and was chosen Moderator at a meeting of the town Dec. 4, 1780. He served in the war of the Revolution at different times, and was at the battle of Lexington. He subsequently went into New York on business and died ere he could return. He had children, among whom was a son,
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Hugh, who was born April 26, 1763, and married Eunice who was born Jan. 19, 1761, and their childron were : Archi- bald, born Dec. 24, 1787; Aaron, Hannah, Abraham, Mary, Eunice, Mercy, Asa, Betsey, Andrew, Elenor, and Abner, born Aug. 17, 1804.
This Hugh was an excellent house carpenter ; he was eccen- tric in character. He obtained access to some old medical books of Dr. Codman, at Amherst, and from them learned to compound certain medicines which effected some marked cures, gained for him some celebrity, and secured for him the popular title of doctor. He gained some knowledge of chem- istry, and acquired the art of converting the softer metals into shining silver coin. His laboratory was an object of great in- terest, where for some time he drove a brisk business. His son Abraham succeeded him in the compounding and use of his medicines.
DEA. THOMAS COCHRAN. - He was grandson of the first Dea. Thomas, and son of James, who was killed by being thrown from a vicious horse. Dea. Thomas came into posses- sion of the farm on which his grandfather settled. He was born March 25, 1759, and married Margaret Ramsey, of Lon- donderry, April 13, 1784; she was born Dec. 29, 1762, and died July 21, 1829, aged 66; and he died Dec. 30, 1852, aged 94. Their children were : James, born Dec. 4, 1785 ; Mary C., born April 24, 1793; Nancy, born Nov. 16, 1797 ; Lydia, March 15, 1788; Anna, July 1, 1795 ; Letitia, Nov. 13, 1799 ; William C., June 3, 1802 ; and Margaret R., Sept. 23, 1804. James married Abigail Buxton, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Buxton, May 26, 1815. She was born Oct. 8, 1796. They lived on the homestead with his parents. Their children were eight : Edward Buxton, the first born, married, in 1852, Clara Bonham, of Michigan, where he now lives; Mary Flint mar- ried, Dec. 31, 1851, Mr. Charles G. B. Ryder, of Dunbarton, and their children are Charles Ellenwood and Bayard Cochran ; Sylvester lives in Sandstone, Mich. ; Charlotte Abigail married John C. Carroll in 1863, and they live in Jackson, Mich .; James Richmond was born Sept. 9, 1832, graduated at the Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1856, and was. shot dead Nov., 1861, in Missouri, in the street, by one An-
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drew Burritt, because he would not swear allegiance to the Southern Confederacy. The miserable traitor has since died in the rebel army. The rest of Mr. James Cochran's children died young. He died of consumption May 2, 1849, and his wife, of the same disease, died Aug. 28, 1850.
William C. married Harriet, daughter of John Crombie, for his first wife ; and their children were John C., Thomas Ram- sey, and Lydia C. ; for his second, he married Ann Clark ; and their children are Mary Abbie and Margaret Ann. Deacon Cochran's children are all dead but William C., residing near the Presbyterian Church.
Dea. Cochran was highly esteemed as a citizen, being a kind neighbor and upright in all his ways. As a christian his influ- ence was always good, and as an elder in the Presbyterian Church he magnified his office ; he died as if falling into a gentle repose, as some of his children had who preceded, and as those have who succeeded him. The peacefulness of his life and the guilelessness of his heart made him deserving of high commendation, and his death was greatly lamented.
LIEUT. SOLOMON DODGE. - He was born in Andover, Mass., Aug. 13, 1747, and died May 8, 1799. His wife was Sarah Dodge, born Aug. 20, 1752, to whom he was married Jan. 23, 1772. She died Dec. 23, 1845. He settled where his grand- son, Israel, now lives, coming here when a young man, and performing his appropriate part in the settlement of this new region. He seems to have been a man of much energy, and highly esteemed for his manly virtues. His children that came to maturity were: Amos, who settled in Johnson, Vt. ; Solo- mon, who remained on the homestead ; Hannah, born Sept. 13, 1779, who married Dr. John Whipple, of New Boston, and who now, a venerable widow, enjoys great vigor of body and mind, living to do good, and is loved as a mother by all who know her; Daniel, who settled in Johnson, Vt .; Sally, who became the wife of Jacob Hooper, Jr. ; Alice, who became the wife of Thomas Hooper, and lived in Johnson, Vt. ; Phineas, who was born Oct. 30, 1793, and is now living in New Boston ; and Aaron, who married Lydia Irwin, and lived in Johnson, Vt., dying March 18, 1862, aged 64 years.
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DEA. SOLOMON DODGE. - He was the son of the foregoing, born August 1, 1777, and died March 16, 1853 ; May 25, 1805, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Dodge, who was born January 13, 1783, and died December 6, 1840, - their children were: Lydia, who became the wife of Rev. John Atwood, of New Boston ; Solomon, who lives near the old homestead and married Mary, widow of Charles Buxton, and daughter of Jacob B. Dodge; Sarah, who became the wife of Phillip F. Pettee, of Goffstown, and died May 5, 1859 ; Amos, a successful merchant in Concord, who married Emily Everett, of New London ; Benjamin, who died, unmarried, October 10, 1852, aged 34; Israel, who married Priscilla, daughter of Israel Andrews, and lives on the homestead ; and Ann E., who became the wife of Isaac Manning, of Johnson, Vt., and died in 1848.
Dea. Dodge was a genial, large-minded man, upright in his conduct, commanding the confidence of all. He was a Deacon in the Baptist Church for many years, and by his ardent piety and consistent life gave great strength to that body. He suc- cessfully reared a large family, and is remembered with venera- tion by all his children, and his name is fragrant in all the church. October 31, 1829, his dwelling and other buildings were all consumed by fire ; and the good man bowed without a murmur beneath the stroke, and gave God glory in the midst of his affliction.
Solomon, son of Dea. S. Dodge, was born February 27, 1808, and married Mrs. Mary Buxton March 14, 1834. Their chil- dren are : Margaret Elizabeth, born March 5, 1835, and who died an infant ; Solomon, born May 28, 1836 ; Charles Franklin, born July 2,.1838; William Bachelder, born April 22, 1840 ; Julian Percival, born September 29, 1842; Edward Buxton, born April 8, 1845; and Albert Ernest, born August 26, 1848.
Solomon married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain John Cristy, August 9, 1862. He enlisted August 12, 1862, for three years in the Company P. 9th Regiment N. H. Volunteers, and his brother William is in the same regiment. Julian enlisted Oct. 1862, in the second regiment of Berdan's Sharpshooters, under the lamented and greatly beloved Capt. Henry M. Caldwell, of Dunbarton.
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Mrs. Dodge, wife of Solomon Dodge, Sen., was the widow of Charles Buxton, to whom she was married April 5, 1820. She was born February 20, 1803, and their children were : Charles Franklin, born October 26, 1821, died June 26, 1823 ; Mar- garet, born October 14, 1823, died January 14, 1827 ; Eliza Jane, born December 14, 1826, became the wife of Robert M. Gregg December, 1850.
Mr. Buxton died March 25, 1834, aged 40.
LUTHER RICHARDS. - He was born in Sharon, Mass., Nov. 23, 1774; his father and grandfather were each named Wil- liam ; his mother was Joanna Cummings. Mr. Richards's father had seven sons : William, Jeremy, John, Oliver, Luther, Samuel, and Solomon ; and three daughters : Susan, who mar- ried Elijah Briggs ; Anna, who married Mr. Leonard ; and Sally, who became the wife of Samuel Waters. All the sons were married and left large families of children, and all are dead but Samuel, who lives in Winthrop, Me.
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