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118. Thomas Wiggin, son of Cornet Thomas, with his son, Thomas, petitioned for a bridge, 1746; was representative for Stratham, 1752, 1755 and 1760; with his son, Thomas, signed the Association Test at Epping, 1776; was a soldier, 1775 and 1812; and sexton, Congregational Society, 1836. His wife, Elizabeth, died December 1, 1837, aged 88.
119. Joseph Gilman, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, and grand- son of Capt. Jeremiah, petitioned for a bridge November 2, 1746; and signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776.
120. Josiah Hilton, older brother of Capt. Edward, peti- tioned for a bridge across Squamscot River, November 21, 1746; and for a lottery in aid of bridge, 1760. As lessee of Edward Hilton, he sued Philip Fowler for 56 acres of land, including homestead, 1760; petitioned for a bridge at Newfields, 1766; Hall's mill road passed through his land, 1766; was credited with labor on rafts at Newington, October 22, 1775; signed the As- sociation Test, July 12, 1776; was on committee of parish to dis- miss Rev. John Moody, April 28, 1777 ; constable, 1784 and 1786; bid off pew No. 21, in the meeting house, October 24, 1791; active in parish affairs, 1791, 1793-94, 1797 and 1799; lived at the "Four Corners;" owned a sawmill at Haine's Falls or below, and "used to come home to dinner while his saw made a run."
121. William Renton married Elizabeth Mason, March 2,
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1775; was ensign in the army, July 4, 1776; and signed the As- sociation Test, October 12, 1776.
122. Zabulon Neal, son of John, refused to sign the Associa- tion Test July 12, 1776; sold house and land to William Badger, October 24, 1786; which Badger sold to Ebenezer Wilson, Jan- uary 14, 1790, and petitioned the selectmen with reference to the location of the new meeting house March 10, 1791. His wife's name was Comfort.
123. Dr. John Marsters petitioned for bridge, 1766 and 1772; refused to sign the Association Test, 1776; was arrested as a Tory, 1777; petitioned the New Hampshire Committee of Safety for release from jail, September 5, 1777 ; active in parish affairs, 1797 and 1799; petitioned the selectmen in reference to the loca- tion of the new meeting house, March 10, 1791; his bill for doc- toring Eliphalet Colcord allowed April 1, 1799. He lived by the river. The railroad near the station passes over the cellar of his house. He was buried in the Hilton field. He had a wife, Mary, in 1769.
124. Michael Shute, son of Michael and Welthea Shute, was a ship-builder; petitioned for bridge, 1760 and 1772; refused to sign the Association Test, 1776; was received to membership in the West Religious Society, April 12, 1779 ; sold pew in Stratham meeting house to Theophilus Smith, June 28, 1782; and died December 18, 1784. His wife, Elizabeth, and son, Benjamin, were baptized at Stratham May 6, 1759, and daughters, Anna and Mary, September 6, 1767.
125. Vincent Farr, son of Vincent, from Devonshire County, England, was born in 1758. He was a soldier, 1775-76; active in parish affairs, 1791 and 1798-99; bid off pew No. 47 in the meeting house, 1791; and had tax abated March 13, 1804, on account of his son's sickness.
126. James Smith, perhaps son of Edward, and brother of Walter, was appointed justice of the peace, 1784; sold land to John Bennett, 1785; bid off pew No. 39 in the meeting house, October 24, 1791; was on committee to secure a candidate to preach, 1793; active in parish affairs, 1791, 1794, 1798 and 1803; and witness to deed of parsonage, May 30, 1803.
127. Ichabod Hilton, grandson of Lieut .- Col. Winthrop, was born June 22, 1740; married Susanna Smith November 24, 1763;
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moved into the new house now occupied by Miss Brodhead and Miss Sanborn; petitioned for lottery in aid of bridge, 1760; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; was auditor, 1784; selectman, 1785-96 and 1804-05; assessor, 1802; on committee of parish, 1789, 1791, 1793-94, 1796-97, 1803 and 1817-18, and to sell the old meeting house and build a new one, March 28, and to receive deed of land for the new meeting house, No- vember 7, 1791; bid off pew No. 25, in the meeting house, Oc- tober 24, 1791; was on committee to repeal act of division, 1793 ; active in parish affairs, 1799-1800, 1803, 1805 and 1807; on committee for procuring parsonage, 1801; tithingman, 1805 and 1818. He died, March 25, 1822, aged 82.
128. Bradstreet Gilman, son of Capt. Israel, petitioned for a bridge at Newfields, 1766; was a soldier in Capt. James Hill's company, November 5, 1775; on committee of parish for the dis- mission of Rev. John Moody, April 28, 1777; was connected with the "Particular auto-pedo-baptise Church of Christ in Brint- wood with its branches;" was moderator thirty times, 1780- 1816; exhorter, committee, messenger, delegate to sister churches thirteen times, 1794-1818; ordaining councils, four times, 1795- 1806; ruling elder, 1780-1820; petitioned for lottery to repair bridge, 1780; constable, and on committee to build the meeting house, 1789 ; selectman, 1790-91; bid of pew No. 28, and gallery pew No. 16 in the meeting house, October 24, and was on com- mittee to receive deed of land for the meeting house, November 7, 1791; assessor, 1793, 1803, 1813, 1815 and 1818; active in parish affairs, 1794, 1796 and 1798; justice and solemnized a marriage, 1822; and was deacon in Elder Samuel Shepard's branch church at North ( ?) River; selectman, 1804-05; tith- ingman, 1805-06, 1809, 1814, 1817-21; auditor, 1818; collector, 1816-17 ; school committee, 1822. He had a distillery in the cor- ner of his garden, where George B. Wiggins now lives, and made whisky from potatoes, which his girls, when spinning, and his neighbors, used freely. He wore a red cap and short clothes with knee buckles; and died November 11, 1834. He married Mary Marshall, who died May 5, 1823, aged 83.
129. Nicholas Hersey, son of Peter and Polly (Colcord) Her- sey, was born August 14, 1749; petitioned for bridge, 1772; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; was on committee
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of parish, 1789; active in parish affairs, 1793; on school com- mittee, 1813; collector, 1815; and died August 1, 1822. He married Betsey Colcord.
130. Gen. James Hill, son of Benjamin, and descendant of Valentine, was born December 20, 1734; was a shipbuilder; soldier, 1754-55; delegate to the Provincial Congress April 21, 1775; captain in the Revolution, 1775; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; was lieutenant-colonel in the militia, 1777; on committee of parish for the dismission of Rev. John Moody, April 28, 1777 ; representative, 1779, and seven times after ; com- missioned colonel, 1785; general, 1789; was in company with John Shute in shipbuilding, 1785; on court martial for the trial of insurgents in Shay's Insurrection, 1786; auditor, 1786-87; on committee for locating meeting house, October 26, 1789; petitioned the selectmen in reference to its location, March 10, 1791; offered land, May 30, which he deeded November 7, 1791, for the meeting house; bid off pew No. 2, and gallery pew No. 14, October 24, 1791; was on committee to secure a candidate to preach, 1793, and to purchase parsonage, 1801; active in parish affairs, 1794, 1797-1800, 1805 and 1810; representative, 1799- 1802; licensed taverner, 1806; moved onto the Rev. John Moody estate. He married (1) Sarah Coffin, January 1, 1760, who died, 1774, (2) Sarah (Hoit), widow of John Burleigh, Jr., who "died in the full belief of the Christian religion" December 10, 1789, aged aged 43, (3) Martha (Wiggin) Brackett, widow of Col. John Folsom, April 6, 1790, who died June 12, 1812, aged 84. He died August 22, 1811, aged 77. His son, John Bur- leigh, was born June 3, 1776; lived at Portsmouth and was treas- urer of the Rockingham Charitable Society, 1818-20.
131. James Sinclair was born April 23, 1764, son of James and Rachel (Folsom) Sinclair. The Sinclair family received many grants of land, 1664-1725. They settled early near the corner of Newmarket, Epping and Brentwood. Here they long held, and gradually pushed back, the savage border line of wood, Indian, wolf and bear. James joined the Baptist Church at Brentwood, September, 1800, and was on a committee of the church in a case of admonition, May 28, 1805.
132. David Chapman, son of Samuel, and brother of Benja- min, was born December 7, 1753; on committee of parish, 1789,
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1791, 1793 and 1803; petitioned with reference to location of the meeting house, 1791; received of Gen. James Hill deed of land on which to place it; bid off pew No. 15, and gallery pews Nos. 3, 11, 13, 17, 21 and 25, October 24, 1791; sold land to Joseph G. Bennett, 1793; was active in parish affairs, 1794, 1797, 1799- 1800, 1803, 1805 and 1807-09; licensed retailer, 1809; constable, 1811, auditor, 1815 and 1818, and moderator, 1818.
133. Dea. John Bennett petitioned for bridge, 1746; was sol- dier, 1757; credited with labor on fire rafts October 22, 1775; signed Association Test July 12, 1776; was compensated for ap- prehending a deserter from the army, March 13, 1780; called "Deacon" in records, 1787; active in parish affairs, 1789, 1791, 1793 and 1799-1800; bid off pews Nos. 19 and 38, in the meet- ing house, October 24, 1791. He died, June 17, 1819.
134. Dr. Nathaniel Kidder was on committee of parish, 1784 and 1789; active in parish affairs, 1791, 1793, 1796-99; on com- mittee to secure repeal of act of division, May 29, 1793; and to purchase parsonage, 1803; on school committee, 1803 and 1814; auditor, 1804; assessor, 1805 and 1808-09. His son, Nathaniel, was active in parish affairs, 1810 and 1814. He died, Novem- ber, 1828.
135. Andrew Gilman, son of Col. Israel, was lieutenant in the army, 1775; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; petitioned the selectmen with reference to locating the new meet- ing house, March 10, 1791; was selectman, 1792-93; on com- mittee of the parish, 1793-94; active in parish affairs, 1791, 1794, 1797-1800, 1805 and 1809-10; on committee to secure repeal of act of division, 1793; tithing-man, 1792, 1802, 1804 and 1810; auditor, 1810 and 1821; assessor, 1811; selectman, 1818- 19. He wore a wig, and was chorister "to pitch the tunes and deacon the hymns of which the version of the 62d Psalm by Isaac Watts was a favorite." He died unmarried April 23, 1836, aged 80.
136, 137. Thomas and William Wardell, supposed to be broth- ers, joined the Boston church,-Thomas, November 9, 1634, and William, February 9, 1634. Both were disarmed in 1637, as supporters of the Antinomian party, and emigrated to Exeter in 1638; dismissed and recommended by the Boston church, "to the church of Christ at Piscataqua Falls," January 6, 1639; re-
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ceived uplands and marshes in the first division of lands, De- cember 4, 1639; signed the Exeter combination, April 2, 1640, and left with Mr. Wheelwright in 1643. The court at Exeter, March 6, 1640, ordered "That noe wines or Strong watter shal be Sould by retaile to the English but by Thomas Wardle." William Wardell's proportion of lands, December 4, 1639, was ten acres, fifty poles upland and one hundred twenty poles marsh on Squamscot River towards Mr. Hilton's, and one hun- dred twenty poles of marsh "at Lamp. Riuer." He was com- missioned by Massachusetts to try small cases in 1643.
138. Ephraim Folsom, the son of John and Mary (Gilman) Folsom, was baptized at Hingham, Mass., February 25, 1654, and was the first person of the name to locate at Lamprey River, settling near the falls on the Piscassic, on land still owned in the family. He signed in favor of continuing with Massachu- setts, 1677. His name first appears on the town books, April 1, 1678; and received grants of land in 1681 and 1700. Timber and lumber, the property of Ephraim Folsom and his brother- in-law, John Gilman, was attached in the interest of Robert Mason, April 14, 1684. He petitioned against Governor Cran- field in 1685; for the government and protection of Massachu- setts, February 20, 1690; and was killed by an Indian at New- fields near sunset, June 11, 1709, as he was riding home on horse- back from the village of Exeter. His wife was Phaltial, daugh- ter of Ralph Hall.
139. Josiah Burley, son of Josiah, was born in 1728; is men- tioned in his father's will, dated February 3 and probated Feb- ruary 25, 1756; sold and moved from the Doe-Perkins-Chesley place and built, in 1768, the house on Bald Hill now occupied by his great-grandson, Harrison G. Burley ; was credited with haul- ing pitchwood for fire rafts to defend Portsmouth harbor, October 22, 1775; was a member of Capt. James Hill's New- market company on Pierce's Island, November 5, 1775; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; and became a member of the West Religious Society, January 10, 1778. He married Judith, daughter of Nicholas Tuttle, who died June 15, 1801, aged 73. He died November 20, 1808. Their daughter, Mary, married Elder Elias Smith, January, 1793, and became the mother of Revs. Daniel D. and Matthew Hale Smith.
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140. John Taylor was on garrison duty at Oyster River, 1695- 96; and at Fort William and Mary, July 12, 1704; was wounded among Col. Winthrop Hilton's haymakers, July 1, 1706. He had a wife, Mary, 1750; was a soldier under John Goffe and Jo- seph Blanchard on the Connecticut River, 1754; selectman of Stratham, 1773; signed the Association Test, September 3, 1776.
141. Nathan Taylor was on garrison duty under Capt. Kinsley Hall, April to August, 1696; was granted 30 acres of land, Feb- ruary 21, 1698; and apportioned 30 acres of common land, 1725. He married Mary, daughter of Robert Barber, 1731.
142. William Taylor, son of William probably, was on garrison duty under Kinsley Hall, August 31, to September 28, 1696, and granted 20 acres of land, February 3, 1698. It was ordered that "ye schoul master to keep scoul at Richard Hil- ton and Willm Taylers, the men above named to provide sª schoul master with house rome-fier wood convainient," 1703; with his son, Joseph, took up 10 acres apiece of swamp land on the south side of Exeter River, April 7, 1717; and was appor- tioned 80 acres of common land, 1725. He died in 1736. The settlement of his estate mentions wife, Margaret, son, Joseph, administrator, and five daughters.
143. Edward Taylor was killed by the Indians, and his wife, Rebecca, and son captured at the lower Piscassic, April 26, 1704; Mrs. Taylor was saved from death at the hands of her brutal master by the intervention of the chief, Bomaseen, and returned home. Administration on his son Edward's estate was granted to Nathan Pillsbury, his son-in-law, September 7, 1727, with Andrew Glidden and Thomas Young as appraisers, who made return of inventory, November 22, 1727. Another son-in-law was Aaron Rollins, who settled on the Taylor place; he was granted 100 acres of land April, 1706; on scout of Capt. James Davis, 1712; and was also killed by the Indians, and his family broken up on the night of May 29, 1723. The old cellar of his homestead is still pointed out near the lower falls of the Piscassic.
144. Dea. Joseph Judkins, son of Joseph and Abigail (Folsom) Judkins, married Widow Sarah Foss; was in Captain Light's company at Louisburg, 1745; served in Capt. Jethro Pearson's company, Col. Peter Gilman's regiment, to reinforce the army at Lake George from September 19 to December 11, 1755; a
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Quaker soldier at Brentwood, 1759; bought land in Nottingham, 1768, and died, 1770. His will was dated February 22, and probated March 28, 1770. It contained this "Item: I give & bequeath unto the church of our Lord Jesus Christ in New Mar- ket, whereof my antient, Cordial & faithful friend the Rev. Mr John Moody is now Pastor, a handsome Silver Communion Cup at the Discretion of my Executors in Convenient time after my Decease." The Congregational Church of Newfields is the old church of Newmarket, organized in 1730 when Newfields was a part of Newmarket.
So the cup has come down to us-a beautiful memorial of the good deacon's helpful piety. The will further names wife Sarah, cousin James Folsom, brother Joel, deceased, and his son Joseph, daughter-in-law Molly Foss, son-in-law Jacob Foss, sister Cath- erine Quimby, late brothers Samuel, Job, John, Benjamin and Jacob Judkins, late sisters Mary Welch, Sarah French, and Han- nah Webster, and Executors Wentworth Cheswell and James Folsom.
145. Richard Clark, son of Richard, the emigrant from Eng- land, was born in Greenland about 1693; settled in Newmarket where he was assigned forty acres of land in 1727, and ten acres August 9, 1738; "Constable for the Parish of newmarket," 1729; and petitioned for bridge at Newmarket, November 21, 1746; and with his son, Richard, for a bridge at Newfields, 1766. He mar- ried a Marston who died September 19, 1767. He died in 1784.
146. Philip Chesley, the emigrant was of Dover neck as early as 1642, and at Oyster River, 1644; rated there September 22, 1659 ; with others petitioned the king to be "goved by the known laws of England and enjoy the use of both the sacraments wch they have ben too long deprived of," July 26, 1665. This is the Philip Chesley who put "Nineteen Moose Skins" on board the vessel for Samuel Hall.
147. Arthur Bennick was of Dover in 1665, and appears as a witness in 1674. On June 13, 1679 "wae Arthur Benick and Mary my wife of or neare that part of Douer comonly caled Piscasick, said Arthur then being in prison upon Execution, .
mortgaged to Nicholas Harrison of Foxpoint, Douer, estate which formerly belonged or appertained unto our Honored Father Mr. John Goddard of that part of ye aforesaid Douer
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commonly called Lubberland our now Dwelling hous, orchard and garden, as likewise our part of ye Sawmill of said Piscassick together with all ye ground and lands thereunto belonging." An inventory of the estate of Arthur Bennick, deceased, was ordered January 20, 1682, taken by James, Thomas and Benjamin York, January 2, and returned April 11, 1683, upon oath of Mary, administrator of the estate. He married Mary, daughter of John Goddard.
148. Nathaniel Rogers, son of Dr. Nathaniel Rogers, was born November 24, 1745, and married Elizabeth Carpenter; settled in Newfields; supposed to have built the Benjamin Lovering house on Main Street, having for his office the present house of Mrs. William Paul; petitioned for bridge, 1772; was appointed jus- tice, February 2, 1773; selectman, making return of census, 1773 and 1789; arrested as a Tory, 1775-76; refused to sign the Association Test, 1776; was selectman, 1784 and 1789-90; rep- resentative, 1787-91; on committee to locate meeting house, 1788; was delegate from Newmarket to the convention at Exeter which adopted the Federal Constitution, February 13, 1788; senator, 1789; moderator, 1790, 1792 and 1794; counsellor for Exeter, 1791; auditor, 1794 and 1802; active in parish affairs, 1791, 1794, 1797 and 1799-1801; bid off pews Nos. 2 and 26 in the meeting house October 24, 1791; on committee to purchase parsonage, March 30, 1801; judge of probate, 1802-15; became unreliable in banking business on account of intemperate habits, and died May, 1829, aged 83. His son, John, of Exeter, was on the executive committee of the New Hampshire Society for the promotion of temperance, 1829.
149. William Shute married Phebe, daughter of Joseph Jew- ett. He petitioned for bridge, 1760 and 1766; had account with Jacob Jewett, December 23, 1769; refused to sign Association Test, 1776; and was active in the parish, 1799. He and his wife owned the covenant at Stratham, and their daughter, Anna, and son, William, were baptized, respectively, December 5, 1762, and June 22, 1766. William, Jr., married Nancy, "an exem- plary Christian woman" who died June 14, 1818, aged 48. He died February 14, 1820, aged 53.
150. Daniel Hilton, son of Dudley, petitioned for bridge, November 21, 1746, 1759-60 and 1766; for Hall's Mill road,
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1765; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; was active in the parish, 1799, and died January 6, 1800, aged 75. His wife, Ann, died March 26, 1808.
151. Maj. Joseph Young, Jr., son of Joseph, was born April 5, 1754, and married June 16, 1774, Dorcas Ewer. He was cred- ited with labor of men and oxen on fire rafts, October 22, 1775; mustered with Capt. David Copp's company, November 25, 1775; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; was on the roll of Capt. Samuel Wallingford to reinforce the army of New York, from December 5, 1776, to March 15, 1777; selectman, 1784; auditor, 1785-86, 1791, 1802 and 1804; constable, 1788; bought of Walter and Jeremy Bryent all their right in Wad- leigh's falls and mills, December 11, 1777; on committee for the location of the meeting house, October 26, 1789 ; active in par- ish affairs, 1791, 1793, 1797-1800, 1808 and 1810; bid off pew No. 5, and gallery pews Nos. 26 and 27, October 24, 1791; planned with others to rebuild the sawmill on Lamprey River, October 22, 1792; was assessor, 1793; protested as a Presbyte- rian against the vote of the parish to hire Rev. Seth Noble, 1798; was elder in the Presbyterian Church, 1800, and member of the Congregational Church, 1801; bought land in Durham, June 11, 1800; moderator of parish, 1803; active in parish, 1808; and died, July 6, 1812.
152. Edward Hilton, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Folsom) Hilton, was credited with labor of men and oxen on fire rafts to defend Pascataqua harbor October 22, 1775; is mentioned in his father's will June 1, 1776; signed the Association Test, July 12, 1776; was captain in the Revolution in Col. Joshua Wingate's regiment, going to Rhode Island, 1777-78; on com- mittee of the parish, 1788-89; active in the parish, 1791, 1793- 94, 1796, 1804, 1810 and 1815; bid off pew No. 35, in the meet- ing house, October 24, 1791, was assessor, 1813, 1817-18 and 1821; and overseer of the poor, 1815. His home was at Grape Hill on the Grant Road, where later Josiah Hilton lived.
153. Asa Folsom, son of Nathan and Elizabeth, was born Sep- tember 24, 1757; inherited the homestead; was credited with la- bor on fire rafts, October 22, 1775; signed the Association Test July 12, 1776; was a lieutenant in the Revolution; on committee to locate the new meeting house October 26, 1789, and of parish,
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1789 ; active in parish affairs, 1791 and 1799; bid off pew No. 48, in the meeting house, October 24, 1791; was an intelligent Christian man, and died a Revolutionary pensioner at Deerfield, July 15, 1842.
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154. John Andrews of Kittery died in 1671, leaving a son John and a widow Joan, who probably became the wife of Ben- jamin Atwell. John of Newmarket lived on Hilton's mill grant in 1696, and died there. Was a witness in 1730.
155. Henry Wiggin, son of Simon, was born May 8, 1740. He petitioned for bridge at Newfields, November 25, 1755, 1766 and 1772 ;. was a soldier in Amos Gage's Company, Maj. Thomas Tash's battalion, August 21, and discharged October 29, 1757; refused to sign the Association Test, 1776; furnished the plan, and with his sons, Michial and Henry, built the new meet- ing house, for $2,500, 1791-92, the three making only 50 cents a day as wages. He bid off pews Nos. 20 and 51, October 24, 1791; assessor, 1791-92; auditor, 1793; was on committee of parish, 1793; selectman, 1796; active in parish affairs, 1796-98; and removed to Tuftonborough, 1798.
156. Dudley Watson was born in Exeter, February 2, 1756; was on the muster roll of Capt. Daniel Gordon, September 20, 1776; bid off pew No. 10, in the meeting house October 24, 1791; was active in parish affairs, 1797, 1804 and 1807-9; assessor, 1803, 1806 and 1816; representative, 1814; and rented to Andrew Wiggin the Gerrish place on the Grant Road. He died June 26, 1828.
157. Winthrop Hilton, son of Winthrop, was born September 26, 1766. His mother, Sarah, was the daughter of Col. Joseph Smith. He settled on the Capt. Edward Hilton estate on the Grant Road, which he finally sold to Josiah Hilton and went West; was active in the parish, 1791, 1799, 1805 and 1812; con- stable and collector, 1800; and selectman, 1815. He died July 6, 1826.
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158. Samuel Neal, son of Samuel, was born June 8, 1749, and married Abigail Conner, who died September 22, 1827. He petitioned the selectmen respecting the location of the meet- ing house, March 10, 1791; was on committee to procure a can- didate to preach, 1793; constable and collector, 1795 and 1804-05; constable, 1811-12; active in parish affairs, 1798-99; and member of the Congregational parish, 1824. He died Feb- ruary 19, 1824.
159. Capt. Robert Pike, son of Robert, was born in 1747; petitioned for a bridge, 1772; was first sergeant on the muster roll of Capt. Samuel Gilman from May 26 to August 1, 1775; received four dollars for a regimental coat October 4, 1775; signed the Association Test, 1776; was appointed first lieu- tenant January 16, 1777; received enlisting orders, with head- quarters at the Elm House, and received £25 bounty, June 26, 1777; had a pay roll from February 11, to March 14, 1778; was first lieutenant and captain in Colonel Scammell's regiment at the battle of Saratoga; was at the execution of Major André October 2, 1780; served in the war seven years; was constable, Newmarket, 1790-93 and 1797; active in parish affairs, 1791, 1793, 1797-98, 1800, 1803 and 1809-10; collector, 1797; select- man, 1800-01; deeded parsonage to the parish, May 30, 1780; and died, February 3, 1819.
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