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88. Stephen Lyford, son of Francis, received thirty acres of land at Piscassic, "next to ye river"; was apportioned 100 acres of common land, 1725; taxed for his trade, 1731; on committee to call the selectmen to account, 1732-33; gave land for a high- way from Newfields Landing to Nottingham, March, 1733; select- man and assessor, 1734; petitioned to be joined to Massachusetts, 1737; and furnished a horse for military service, 1746. He mar- ried Sarah Leavitt.
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89. Francis Durgin entered his name at Exeter, taking up 100 acres of meadow north of "Lamperel" River about a mile above Dudley's wigwam, April 4, 1717; was apportioned thirty acres by the committee of Exeter, 1725; had seventeen acres laid out to him on the north side of Lamprey River, 1731-32; was soldier in the French War, and having "endured the brunt and hardship of the late war," petitioned for "a township any- where," 1754; petitioned for a bridge over Squamscot River, November 21, 1746; is mentioned in the records, 1763 and 1768; and signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776.
90. William Taylor is first mentioned in town books, June 26, 1650, when a portion of his corner lot was appropriated for the meeting house; he was granted twenty acres of land, January 21, 1664; an inventory of his estate was ordered December 30, 1677, and return made January 2, 1678.
91. Benjamin Taylor "served his majestie in garrison under Capt. Kinsley Hall," October to November, 1696; was granted twenty acres of land February 21, 1698; remonstrated against being set off from Exeter, September 9, 1701; and the granting of a "Township at Squamscot," December 5, 1709; sentinel in Capt. John Edmonds' company in pursuit of the Indians who killed Col. Winthrop Hilton, August 16, 1710; selectman of Stratham, 1719; and apportioned thirty acres of common land, 1725.
92. Robert Barber, son of Robert, who settled near the Pis- cassic schoolhouse and was killed by the Indians July 1, 1706, was granted by the town of Exeter, April 12, 1725, 30 acres of common land which he sold to James Marden of Rye for 230 pounds, December 13, 1744. He bought, December 2, 1726, of Israel Gilman, seven acres at Piscassic "on ye South side of ye mast way joining to sª Barbers other lands"; bought out the in- terest of heirs to the twenty acres of his father's estate, Septem- ber 25, 1731; gave land for a highway from Newfields, leading to Nottingham, March, 1733; with wife, Sarah, quitclaimed, June 13, 1734, "all right of ye real Estate yt our Hond father Jnº Bean, at the time of his death was possessed of"; bought of Israel Gilman, September 10, 1734, the Samuel Sinkler place, fifty acres, north of land formerly owned by Deacon Coffin of Newbury, forty acres of which, for love and good will, he con-
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veyed to his son, Daniel Barber, May 3, 1758; bought of Israel Gilman, October 4, 1744, two pieces of land joining lands of said Robert Barber; petitioned the General Court respecting the unfair election of Thomas Young as representative of New- market, 1745; bought ten acres joining his own lot of Daniel Leary of Exeter, September 12, 1746; petitioned November 21, 1746, for a bridge over Squamscot River and again, 1766; bought three sevenths of about fifty acres of land on Piscassic River of Benjamin Thing for 700 pounds old tenor, March 7, 1757; pur- chased two thirds of an 100-acre lot in Nottingham of John Hoag of Stratham, May 1, 1758, and conveyed one half of the pur- chase to his son, Daniel, November 27, 1758; bought of Daniel Leary for 200 pounds, two parcels of land, twenty acres, by "Broad Turn on the Mast Way," April 2, 1759; bought seven- teen and one-half acres in Newmarket, January 2, 1764; had son, Robert, and wife, Sarah, 1768; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; and sold to son, Daniel, May 3, 1779, forty acres joining the land given him May 3, 1758.
93. Samuel Drown, son of Leonard and Elizabeth (Abbot) Drown, was a soldier in the service of the province, wounded by the Indians at Rochester, May 23, 1747, and being in needy circumstances, petitioned May 28, 1747, the General Assembly for relief, and it was voted that he "be taken care of at the ex- pense of ye Province 'til further order," and a committee was appointed "to take proper suitable care of him 'til further order in ye most frugal manner with power to draw money out of ye Treasury to defray ye Expense thereof to be accounted for to the Gen1 Assembly"; was allowed August 20, 1747, and October 23, 1747, "five Pounds for his further support," and Dr. Jo- seph Pierce was allowed by vote December 2, 1747, "Sixteen Pounds, ten shillings & Seven Pence half Penny in full" for medicines, etc., and Dr. John Ross "Eleven Pounds, Eleven Shills in full" for similar service; was voted March 11, 1748, "That Docr Joseph Atkinson be allow'd fifty shillings & nine pence in full" for attendance; also May 19, 1748, "That Elizth Drown be allow'd twenty shills & Mary Drown ten shills in full of their accts for Nursing of Sam1 Drown"; was finally voted "three Pounds as a full & final Satisfaction for his being Wounded by ye Indians."
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94. Daniel Hilton, of the fifth generation through Dudley, Joseph, Edward, Edward, petitioned for bridge over Squamscot River, November 21, 1746, 1760 and 1766, and for a lottery in aid of bridge, 1760; for Hall's mill road, 1765; and bridge at Newfields, 1766; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; and died January 6, 1800, aged 75.
95. Capt. John Perkins, a descendant of William, was born 1744, and lived in the field between Ash Swamp Road and Her- sey Lane. He was a soldier in Capt. Stephen Clark's company, November 22, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; petitioned the selectmen with respect to the location of the new meeting house, March 10, 1791; was active in parish affairs, 1794, 1799 and 1810; pound keeper, 1801-13 and 1818; fence viewer, 1831; and died, 1837. His will was dated April 18, 1825, and probated September 13, 1837.
96. Lieut. Samuel Smith, son of Capt. John and Susannah Smith, brother of Col. Joseph, was born February 6, 1706; bap- tized February 28, 1720; received from his father the western part of the homestead, afterwards occupied by Robert Channel; moved to Lamprey River Village ; was town clerk of Oyster River, 1739; and soldier, 1745; was second lieutenant in Capt. Som- ersbee Gilman's company, Col. John Hart's regiment, in the Crown Point expedition ; credited with labor on fire rafts at New- ington, October 22, 1775, and adjutant in Col. Thomas Tash's regiment, September 14, 1776, and onward. The road from Lam- prey River to Durham passed through his land, 1768.
97. Lieut. John Burleigh, son of John and Mary (Eastman), and grandson of Andrew Burleigh, was born December 18, 1717, O. S .; petitioned for bridge over Squamscot River, No- vember 21, 1746, 1760, 1768 and 1770; and for lottery in aid of bridge, January 4, 1760, and 1768; and for extension of time to run the lottery, 1770; was selectman, 1761 and 1765; on com- mittee of parish, August 31, 1761, to settle arrearage of salary with Rev. John Moody; representative, 1765-68, 1770-71 and 1775; petitioned against Lieut .- Col. 'Jeremiah Folsom, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; built the mansion1 on the north of Pine Hill with its wine cellar and imported Dutch tiles, fifty of them adorning the fire-place in the north parlor;
1 Now the Tibbetts place.
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was an enterprising man, and purchased for himself and work- men, West India rum and molasses by the hogshead. A black- smith's shop afterwards used as a carriage house and barn, stood on the west side of the road south of the house. The road used to go around Pine Hill with the schoolhouse standing near the top of the hill. He died November 18, 1776.
98. Philip Fowler, of the fourth generation through Philip, Joseph and Philip, was born in Ipswich, Mass., October, 1691; purchased of Jacob 236 acres of land with two houses and two barns, probably including the garrison, February 14, 1738, and came to Newfields in May, 1743. Richard Hilton had mortgaged fifty-six acres of this land to George Jaffrey in 1713, 300 acres to Mrs. Mary Plaisted in 1717, and his whole estate to Dea. Ed- ward Hall in 1721, which Mrs. Plaisted,-in 1728 Mrs. Brown,- sold to Jacob and Jacob sold to Fowler. This transferred from the mortgagees to the Fowlers a tedious and celebrated lawsuit of fourteen years with the Hiltons. In 1768 the Fowlers were ejected, and Edward Hilton moved on the estate. Mrs. Fowler, then a widow, carrying her silver porringer with her, went to Rev. John Moody's where she found refuge.
99. Philip Fowler, son of the above, was born June 21, 1719; with Robert Smart gave land for road from the country road to the bridge, January 7, 1760; was credited with labor of men and oxen on fire rafts at Newington, October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; mustered as drummer, with Capt. Nathan Brown's company, Col. David Gilman's regi- ment, April 1, 1776; also with Capt. William Stillson's com- pany, Col. Isaac Wyman's regiment, July 4, 1776; returned with Capt. Smith Emerson's company, Col. Thomas Tash's regiment, September 16, 1776; as drummer, was mustered with Capt. Daniel Gordon's company, Col. David Gilman's regi- ment, and on its pay roll from January 5 to March 15, 1777; enlisted for two years in Captain Drew's company, Col. John McClary's regiment, February 3, 1778; when the family was dispossessed he was lodged in jail at Portsmouth till the Revo- lution in 1778 put him into possession again. He was credited with labor of men and oxen on fire rafts for Pascataqua Bay October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; committee of parish for the dismission of Mr. Moody, April
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28, 1777; was active in parish affairs in 1791, 1793-94, 1797- 99; bid off pew No. 29, and gallery pew No. 1, October 24, 1791; and died "a professor of Christianity" September 18, 1811. He was a man of sound sense and uncompromising Christian integrity.
100. Gideon Colcord, son of Jonathan, married Rachel Par- sons ; settled his father's estate; petitioned for bridge January 4, 1760 and 1772; and for a lottery in aid of bridge, 1760.
101. Dea. Samuel Pease, was son of Nathaniel and Phebe (Sanborn), and grandson of Samuel, who came from Martha's Vineyard; settled on 50 acres of land granted February 4, 1698, and laid out October 26, 1700, at Piscassie, and was killed by the Indians July 1, 1706. He was born December 14, 1727; received bounty on wolf, 1744; was a soldier, 1745; petitioned for Hall's mill road, July 3, 1765; selectman, 1776; and signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; removed to Parsonsfield, Me., prior to 1780, where he was one of the original settlers; and died January 6, 1805.
102. Samuel Chapman, son of Samuel, Jr., and Phebe (Balch), of Hampton, and Greenland, where she united with the church in 1716, was born at Hampton, December 7, 1706; baptized at Greenland, 1717; and taxed in Newmarket, 1732; petitioned for a bridge over Squamscot River, November 21, 1746, and lottery in aid of bridge, 1760; was returned as mem- ber of Capt. Nathaniel Hobb's company on Pierce's Island No- vember 5, 1775; and died at Danville, Vt., aged nearly 90.
103. Daniel Ames bought or sold lands in 1714, 1720, 1731, 1740, 1744 and 1746-47. The Ames homestead was on the Pis- cassie River near the corner of Hall's Mill and Lee road. He purchased 30 acres of this homestead of the family of Joseph Hilton, June 25, 1714; mortgaged this message and the dwell- ing house upon it, August 19, 1720, to William Hooke of Salis- bury. As a free-holder of the parish of Newmarket, September 6, 1731, sold to Richard Perryman of Exeter, 30 acres of common lands, apportioned to him by a committee of the town of Exeter; sold 150 acres of land on Piscassic River, May 3, 1740, to Nathan- iel Ames, his son, for "one thousand & two Hundª pounds in passable Bills or Credit of ye Province"; received, January 4, 1744, a quitclaim deed from Edward Hilton's "old lot" being
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part of the Piscassic mill grant; with his sons, Simon and Nathaniel, conveyed to Edward Hilton, June 3, 1746, a portion of the Piscassic mill grant; sold to Edward Hilton, November 22, 1747, "certain strips or points of land Joyning to ye sª Ameses home Place." He died about 1754.
104. Roger Racklif petitioned for lottery in aid of bridge and its location at Newfields, 1760; had his son, Roger, baptized at Stratham, January 31, 1762, and daughter, Sarah, September 5, 1764; refused to sign the Association Test, 1776.
105. Samuel Brackett, son of Joshua and Mary (Weeks) Brackett of Greenland, was baptized, 1712; had a dwelling house in 1730, near the bridge over Piscassic, and bought land of Joseph Smith on the river, on the south side of the way to Wad- leigh's mills ; bought marsh land, 1732, at "Lamperel river creek" of William and Samuel Hilton; bought of James Goodin, December 20, 1734, land on the north side of the highway lead- ing to Wadleigh's mill; of Ephraim Folsom, July 18, 1740, eight acres near the "Pontoon Bridge;" of Joshua Brackett, 1741, and of Nathaniel Gilman, 1743; of Robert Perkins, June 3, 1745, his dwelling house, barn and three acres of land on the country road; with others, quitclaimed to John and James Brackett, and others, February 18, 1751, land one mile square at Wadleigh's falls, known as the Symonds grant; bought of Robert Perkins, June 3, 1755, for 462 pounds, land, dwelling house and barn ; sold to his son, Ichabod, June 1, 1763, for 2,000 pounds, part of his homestead estate at the bridge over Piscas- sic River; and to his son, Joshua, blacksmith, land in New- · market and Durham, December 17, 1764.
106. Rev. Elipheny Chapen Brackett, son of Samuel, was born March 7, 1750; settled at Madbury, 1770-73, and later at Methuen, Mass., and Bethel, Me. He married (2) Hannah Jackman of Newbury, Mass .; and died January 20, 1814. His widow died December 15, 1839, aged 92.
107. Col. Jeremiah Folsom, son of Jeremy, was born July 25, 1719, and married, March 28, 1742, Mary, daughter of Peter Hersey. He petitioned for a lottery in aid of bridge, 1760; was innholder, 1767. He was an elder in the church, 1774; delegate to the Provincial Congress, Exeter, April 21 and May 17, 1775; and lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth Regiment
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of militia, August 24, 1775; on committee to procure firearms, July, 1775; signed the Association Test, 1776; was dismissed from office on petition of the North Company of Newmarket, September, 1776; called himself a Presbyterian in 1794 and 1798; died in 1802. He and his wife were enthusiastic follow- ers of George Whitefield, and used to drive long distances with their span of horses to attend his preaching.
108. James Cram married Mary, daughter of William, and granddaughter of Ephraim Folsom; was a blacksmith, and lived in the large house, later the Messer Tavern and Simeon Locke house; was a soldier, 1758 and 1760; petitioned for bridge and lottery, 1760, 1766 and 1768, and for a road from Lamprey River to Durham, February 11, 1768; was cred- ited with labor on fire rafts at Newington, October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776, and as selectman re- turned it to the New Hampshire Committee of Safety; tithing- man, 1789; with his son, James, demanded the polls respecting the location of the new meeting house, May 30, 1791; was active in parish, 1794 and 1798-99, and was called "Deacon."
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109. Rev. Nathaniel Ewer was the son of Nathaniel and Mary (Stuart) Ewer, and born at Barnstable, Mass., April 11, 1726. He became the second minister of Newmarket, his min- istry overlapping that of Rev. John Moody by several years; and is generaly thought, without sufficient reason, however, to have been a colleague. He was a member of the first church of Barnstable, Mass., but not a college graduate. He became a follower of Whitefield and a New Light preacher; was ordained, according to a list of "Separatist Ordinations" compiled by Rev. Isaac Backus, at Barnstable, May 17, 1750, as a separatist min- ister. It appears in his itineracy he came to Durham, Lee and Newmarket, and gathered a congregation at the Plains, where we find him as early as 1772. It is a matter of history that the family left Barnstable on account of the French and Indian War of 1756-63. It is supposed they were induced to come to New- market from the fact that Rev. Mr. Ewer was already established there. The dwelling house of Daniel Wiggin now stands near the spot where his meeting house stood. The graves to the north and west were about the church. Mr. Ewer was undoubt- edly buried here, though no stone has ever marked the spot.
Rev. Mr. Ewer joined the Presbytery of which Rev. John Murray of Newburyport was moderator at Topsham, Me., May 31, 1774. At the same time the church was received under the care of the Presbytery, and remained there "until its combina- tion with the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Londonderry in 1794." Col. Jeremiah Folsom was an elder in his church, who, with his wife, was a devout follower of Whitefield, driving here and there to hear him preach. Mr. Ewer left a list of mar- riages solemnized by him, 1774-96, which are the earliest church records extant. He was signer of the Association Test July 12, 1776. The inhabitants of Newmarket, "being divided in Religious Sentiments," met November 3, 1777, and "mutually
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agreed upon a Division between the Congregational & Presby- terian Societies by Poll." They chose Jeremiah Folsom, Josiah Adams and Wentworth Cheswell their agents to "petition the Honble Court for Leave to Bring in a Bill to recognize & es- tablish said Division : and enable said Societies respectively to transact the Prudential Affairs of their Ministry seperately in the same Manner the Town might do if united." The agents ap- peared before the Legislature, November 27, 1777, and their peti- tion was granted the same day. Sixty-two persons entered their names as members of the Western Society, January 10, 1778; thirty-two others, April 12, 1779; one other March 31, 1782; an- other April 5, 1782; and six more March 2, 1784. But the people seemed to have reached a point in religious matters where they could not be easily satisfied whether they worshipped separately or together. The old parish voted June 29, 1789, "to Receive & Except the Rev. Mr Ewer for the Ministry of the whole Town provided the two Societies in said Town shall unite." Mr. Ewer preached at least one Sabbath in the old meeting house which stood in the burying ground at the Centre. The building was now in a delapidated condition. In 1792 proprietors from the two societies built their stately new edifice near the pres- ent railroad junction. The old meeting house at the Centre was sold and removed, and Mr. Ewer's meeting house at the Plains was for a time abandoned.
At adjourned meetings of the East and West Societies at the new meeting house, May 29, 1793, a united committee was chosen consisting of Ichabod Hilton, Dr. Nathaniel Kidder and Capt. Andrew Gilman "to petition the General Court for a Repeal of an Act passed the 27th Day of November 1777, dividing the Town into Two Societies." The committee presented the peti- tion to the Legislature June 5, 1793. They say referring to the act of division, "The Operation of which from Experience has been found to be very in convenient & prejudicial to the In- terest of the parties concerned." Their prayer was granted June 13, 1793.
An effort to secure a colleague with Rev. Mr. Ewer com- menced in 1793. Rev. Jonathan Brown, born at Madbury in 1757, a graduate of Dartmouth College, 1789, and student in theology with Rev. John Murray, was "hired to assist the Rev.
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Mr. Ewer in supplying the Desk" January 7, 1793. The Pas- cataqua Association met at Rev. Mr. Gray's, Dover, June 12, 1793, "On which occasion M." Brown Candidate at Newmarket opened the public exercise." The parish invited Mr. Brown "to settle as a colleague with the Rev. Mr. Ewer in the, Min- istry," July 8, 1793, but he declined the invitation December 21, 1793, and was ordained at Derry, May, 1795. The follow- ing items of parish expenses, dated in 1795, show how candi- dates were secured.
To Ichabod Hilton for boarding Mr. Jonathan Brown seven weeks & a third, £3-6-0.
To Majr. Hill for time & Expence himself & horse to Newbury after Mr. Brown, 0-13-6.
To Daniel Hilton Jr. for horse & Expense carrying Mr. Brown to Newbury, 0-10-6.
Rev. Samuel Tomb was ordained and settled as a colleague with Mr. Ewer October 22, 1794. After a short, but stormy, ministry, Mr. Tomb was dismissed, and Mr. Ewer's salary dis- continued, July 10, 1797.
Mr. Ewer was slightly affected with paralysis some years before his death, but his interest in the religious welfare of the church and parish continued unabated. He was highly esteemed as long as he lived, and is remembered with great respect and affection. He died April, 1806. His widow died in 1810, aged 83. They were undoubtedly buried at the Plains close by the meeting house, near which they lived and in which he had so long preached. It is sad that this resting place of the fathers should remain in neglect. At the burning of the Ewer homestead it is supposed the records of the .church were con- sumed.
By the year 1787 several of the Presbyterian churches had adopted, as they say, "some material alterations in our ecclesi- astical policy making nearer approaches to the Presbyterian form, for the honor of Christ and the edification of our Chhs." Through the influence of Rev. Mr. Ewer, doubtless, the church of which he was pastor came under the care of Presbytery.
110. Col. John Folsom, son of Col. Jeremiah, was born Octo- ber 12, 1745; married, Elizabeth Smith; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; was an officer in the Revolution, 1777-80;
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on committee of the parish, 1789; active in parish affairs, 1787- 89; and died, 1820. A monument was erected to his memory on his farm half a mile east of Wadleigh's Falls. Their daugh- ter, Betsey, married Elder Israel Chesley.
111. Jonathan Roberson was born in 1745; married (1) Constance Covill, a sister of Rev. Nathaniel Ewer's wife, and (2) September 16, 1784, Elizabeth Goodsoe. He was on the roll of Capt. Samuel Gilman's company, June 6, 1775; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; tithingman, 1778, 1784 and 1792; bought land of Rev. Mr. Ewer, 1794; active in parish affairs; and an Osbornite, 1800.
112. Joseph Smart, son of Joseph at the Plains, was a soldier, 1756-57; bid off pew No. 31, in the meeting house, October 24, 1791; and was active in parish, 1794 and 1797-99. He died January 14, 1820.
113. David Wiggin, son of Simon, was born June 17, 1769; deeded the Rev. Samuel Tomb place to the committee of the parish for a parsonage, May 30, 1803. He married Mehitable Pike, who was born April 20, 1784, and died September 25, 1861. Rev. J. Henry Wiggin was their grandson.
114. Joshua Brackett, son of Samuel, bought land of his father in Durham and Newmarket, December 17, 1764; peti- tioned for lottery in aid of bridge, 1768; was credited with la- bor of men and oxen on military rafts at Newington, October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; sold to John Bennett and John, Jr., 1782, a house formerly owned by Wil- liam Simpson, was tithing-man, 1785; and collector for parish, 1815. He married Mary, widow of Adon Nye, and sister of Mrs. Levi Folsom and Mrs. Rev. Jacob Bailey.
115. Nicholas Hartford, from Captain Tebbet's company, served on the scout of James Davis from May 15 to October 12, 1712; was a householder and inhabitant of Dover, April 25, 1715, living nearer to the old meeting house on Dover Neck than the new one at Cocheco; selectman of Dover, 1723; representa- tive, 1732; and sent a remonstrance to the General Court against the division of Dover, May 13, 1729. Administration on his estate was granted to Matthew Severance - intestate, insolvent -; inventory taken July 21, 1737, and claims adjusted October 29, 1737.
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116. Nicholas Hartford, perhaps son of above, petitioned the House for a revision relating to a judgment by default in the Supreme Court, August 27, 1747; entered Capt. Samuel Ger- rish's company, May 1, 1756, for the Crown Point expedition under Col. Nathaniel Meserve; for the same expedition, was in the service with Capt. John Titcomb from March 5 to November 5, 1757; petitioned for a lottery in aid of bridge, 1768; signed the Association Test, 1776; was of Middleton, February 10, 1790.
117. Smith Chapman, son of Joseph, married Sarah Burley. He was mustered with Capt. Joseph Parson's company, Novem- ber 22, 1775; active to secure a candidate to preach, 1793; active in parish affairs, 1797-99; and tithing-man, 1810. He was brought up by Thomas Bennett and given the old Chapman place.
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