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Winthrop Hilton of Newfields, born in 1761, was a distin- guished officer in the wars with the Indians and killed by them June 23, 1710. He was appointed Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in 1706 and Councillor just before his death, but he never took his seat before the council board.
February 21, 1709, Biley Dudley certifies to the committee "seting at Portsmouth to examine the province depts" that he "subsisted" one of Lieutenant Bancroft's soldiers about five months, Lieutenant Bancroft being commander-in-chief at Exeter in 1690. Lieutenant Peter and Susanna Folsom attest the fact.
Also a blanket "prest by the order of Peter Coffin esquire for the Cuntry sarves when the soldiers went to pigwockit under the Command of Capn John Gilman," the blanket having been appraised at 16 shillings.
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On June 11, 1709, as Ephraim Folsom was riding home from Exeter to Newfields on horseback with a grist of corn, about nightfall, he was fired on by an Indian and killed.
February 21, 1710, Francis Lyford of Exeter presents his bill to the committee of disbursements for boarding soldiers dur- ing the Indian War: namely two men at Captain Kinsley's gar- rison under the command of Captain Bancroft, eight weeks, and ten men at Mr. Moses Gilman's garrison, five months.
The following is the muster roll of soldiers at Colonel Hilton's garrison July 3, 1710, which were in the detachment under com- mand of Captain Gilman, the last three serving 14 days, and the rest 7 days.
Daniel Eames
Jonathan Young
Samuel Bean
John Munsey
Cornelius Lary
Thomas Lowel John York
Bartholemew Thing Jeremiah Arringotine
Samuel Lovering Armstrong Horn Thomas Lary
They were paid at the rate of six shillings for seven days.
Col. Winthrop Hilton was slain by the Indians July 23, 1710. Accompanied by a party of 17 men he had gone out to peel some hemlock logs he had cut for masts the previous winter and which were liable to be injured by worms unless stript of their bark. They were lying several miles to the westward of his house on what is now known as the mast road in Piscassic. The day had been stormy, and while busy about their work they were fired on by a body of Indians in ambush and Colonel Hilton and two others were killed. Two others were taken cap- tive, and the rest, intimidated by their loss and finding their wet guns unserviceable, fled.
The next day 100 men marched in pursuit of the Indians, but discovered only the bodies of the fallen. The enemy in their triumph had struck their hatchets into the brain of Colonel Hilton and left a lance sticking in his heart. His body was brought to his home, and buried with every mark of respect and honor.
The party were under the command of Capt. Nicholas Gilman, and the place of the ambush was between Piscassic and
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Washucke. Besides the three killed, Dudley Hilton and John Lougee were captured. Lougee was carried to Canada, then to England, and afterwards returned to Exeter. The same day John Wedgewood was captured with three daughters of Rich- ard Dolloff, and John Magoon killed in the very place where he dreamed, a short time previously, he would be slain by the In- dians.
On May 5, 1711, additional soldiers were ordered to Richard Hilton's garrison.
News having arrived July 27, 1711, of "a Great fleet from France likely to make their Impression upon this Coast," Gov- ernor Dudley "judged it necessary that the fort be strengthened with forty men, and the halfe of the Militia be drawn and made ready for a march from Hampton, Exeter and Dover to the Bank and New Castle at a minutes warning."
The golden news of peace was proclaimed at Portsmouth, October 29, 1712, and a treaty was made with the beligerent tribes July 11, 1713. New Hampshire and Massachusetts had lost hitherto 6,000 young men killed, and boys captured without being recovered.
The following is a list of the soldiers in a scouting party under the command of Capt. James Davis in 1712, with the number of days' service of each, at one shilling per day.
From Major Smith's Company. Capt. Michael Gilman's Company.
Days.
Days.
Benjamin Dow
18 Tho : Lary
13
Job Chapman
18 Jer: Conner 12
Israel ffolsam
14 Jer: Folsom 12
Jonathan Dearborn
14 Joshua Gilman
10
John Wedgewood
14 John Beane Junr 10
Nath : Drake
14 John Beane 12
William Lane
14 Jona: Dudley
12
Samuel Brown
12 Richd Yourk
12
Abra : Folsom
12
Irusterem Coffin
9
John Yourk 12
Capt. Green's Company.
Jona : Prescot
18 Capt. Davis's Company.
Jacob Browne
14 Sampson Doe 9
William Sanborn
12 Joseph Dudly 9
Robert Wadleigh
12 Benj: Pinnar 9
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Days.
Days.
From Col. Vaughan's Regiment.
Jeremiah Beane
11
Joseph Mead
10 John Clark 11
SammIl Brown
6
Daniel Smith
18
Larye Noble
12
Nich Meed
12
Nich : Hartford 8
Capt. Week's Company.
Sammuel Bennick
12
Israel Folsom
6
Samll Neale 9
(Scouts, 1712)
Robert Bryent 11
John Neal
8
Christo : Noble
10
Christo: Keniston
12
Samll Manson
12
Joseph Hill
12
Capt. John Gilman's Company.
Walter Meals
16
Aaron Rawlins
13 Joseph Hill 12
The account was allowed May 9, 1713.
The Council learning that the Indians were planning a new attack upon some point in New England, another scout was ordered March 20, 1716, to set out eight days hence into the woods under pretence of hunting to "see what discovery might be made of the Indns & their motives," each soldier to be al- lowed four shillings per day for their service, they furnishing their own provisions.
Lovewell's War, 1723-25. By July, 1722, another war with the Indians began, and continued to disturb the Pascataqua settlements for three years. The enemy now attacked the coast in shallops, sloops and schooners which they had seized. The bounty on Indian scalps was increased to £100 each.
The previous June Captain Tilton and his brother, while fish- ing from a boat at Damaris Cove, were boarded by Indians under Captain Samuel. The Tiltons were bound, but cutting them- selves loose overcame the five Indians on board, and, a light breeze springing up, sailed away. Captain Tilton used to tell the story at Newfields about 1750.
In the spring of 1723 eighteen Indians fell upon the family of Aaron Rollins in their home, they having neglected to retire to the garrison for greater security, resulting in the killing of Mr. Rollins and his eldest daughter, and the carrying away cap- tive of Mrs. Rollins, a son and the other daughter, to Canada. Mrs. Rollins was redeemed after a few years.
Capt. Tebbet's Company.
Capt. Phip's Company.
Capt. Westbrook's Company.
John Keniston
8
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In September, 1724, Peter Colcord was captured and carried to Canada. In the spring of the following year Capt. John Lovewell and 46 men were ambushed. Sixteen were killed and eighteen escaped. Paugus was slain.
In June, 1725, hostilities ceased, and articles of peace were signed December 15, 1725, at Casco. Peter Weare of Hampton Falls was one of the commissioners on the part of the New Hampshire House of Representatives to ratify this treaty with the Indians, at Exeter, August 5, 1726.
The Council, September 2, 1726, ordered that "Hampton, Exeter, Kingston, Dover and Derry be served wth a copy of a Proclam.ª of Peace, to be sent to ye chief Military officer in each town to be proclaimed by beat of Drum." And on October 31, 1726, it was ordered that a Thanksgiving Proclamation "be is- sued out for a Thanksgiving day ye 10th November next; and ye Gen.1 Assembly be prorogued till ye 21st 9br."'
On July 12, 1731, Governor Belcher issued a captain's com- mission to Peter Gilman and Samuel Gilman, and a lieutenant's to Israel Gilman.
King George's War, 1744-48. France joined with Spain against Great Britain, and consequently involved the colonies in the conflict, but the frontier settlements were removed further inland. The Pascataqua forces performed signal service in the reduction of Louisburg, the Gibraltar of America, which capitu- lated June 17, 1745. Thirty years after, Pepperill's engineer, Colonel Gridley, laid out the entrenchments on Bunker Hill and the same old drums beat again on June 17, 1775.
William Hilton was in the expedition to Louisburg, and died during the winter of 1745. His name by mistake was omitted from the muster roll, but his widow, Joanna, was by vote of the government paid an allowance of seven pounds and ten shillings.
The Spanish Armada was destroyed in 1746. The same year Capt. Nathaniel Drake of Hampton, with a squad of 14 of his troopers, went on a scout of 10 days into the woods of Notting- ham.
Preliminaries of peace were signed at Aix La Chapelle April, 1748, and the Definitive Treaty was ratified in October, 1748. Hostilities ceased, prisoners were released without ransom, and all conquests were mutually restored.
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INDIAN WARS.
We give below a muster roll of men that enlisted in his Maj- esty's service in 1744 out of the "Second foot Company" under the command of Capt. Theo. Smith.
Enlisting May 21 for 28 days.
John Edgerly
John Rollins
Hezekiah Swaine Winthrop Blake
Joseph Gowel
Enlisting June 25 for 14 days.
Sergt. Samuel Fogg
Jabez Smith
Samuel Norris
James Calfe
Daniel Smith
Enlisting July 23 for 14 days for Canterbury.
Corp. Daniel Lovering
Richard Beane
Benjamin Folsom
Josiah Folsom
Josiah Sanborn
Timothy Gordon
William Sanborn
Joseph Leavitt
Daniel Gilman
Joseph Wadleigh
Joseph Wadleigh, Jonathan Fogg and Peter Hersey were in Captain Dudley's troops of Exeter from July 29 to August 7, 1745, scouting to Nottingham, and on the frontiers in that neighborhood.
Enlisting April 10, 1746, for Canterbury.
Caleb Gilman Aaron Rollins John Leavitt
Enlisting June 3, for Canterbury to carry provisions for three days.
Clerk Joseph Rollins, with horse Josiah Robinson, with horse
Josiah Sanborn, with horse
Wadleigh Cram, Jr., with horse
Sergt. Jonathan Robinson
Joshua Folsom
Sergt. Benjamin Smith
Samuel Hall
Joseph Leavitt, with horse
Jeremiah Bean
Samuel Norris, with horse
Daniel Grant
Josiah Rollins, with horse
Thomas Kimball
Josiah Folsom, with horse
Enlisting June 29 for Nottingham for 14 days.
Henry Steele John Moody Jonathan Cilley Seth Fogg
Benjamin Graves Benjamin Gorden George Dutch Josiah Fogg
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Enlisting August, 1746, to scout in Epping for six days.
Sergt. Jonathan Robinson
Benjamin Sinkler
Josiah Rollins
Joseph Leavitt
Joshua Rollins
Jeremiah Beane
Nathaniel Robinson
Richard Beane
Benjamin Norris
Daniel Grant
Benjamin Smith
Samuel Hall
John Pike
Theo : Gilman
Wadleigh Cram
Thomas Kimball
Daniel Clark
Antipas Gilman
Dudley Leavitt
Enlisting May 4, 1747, for Nottingham. First two for 14 days, the rest for 28 days.
Daniel Thurston
Joseph Knight
Joseph Mudgett
Antipas Gilman John Pike James Adikison
Enlisting June 1, 1747, for Nottingham for 28 days, except the last two, 14 days.
Joseph Taylor, Jr.
Thomas Edgerly
Joseph Smith
Joseph Lawrence
Carty Gilman
Samuel Ames
Enlisting Angust 24, 1747, for Nottingham, the first four for 14 days, the others for 28 days.
Sergt. Caleb Kimball
Sergt. John Kimball
Nathaniel Leavitt
Wadleigh Cram John Scribner Samuel Magoon, Jr.
Jonathan Leavitt
Enlisting September 21, for Nottingham for 14 days.
Joseph Scribner
Edward Scribner, Jr.
John Glidden
Nathaniel Glidden
Joseph Thing
James Gorden
Joseph Robinson
Josiah Folsom
Enlisting April 21, 1748, for Canterbury for six months at fifteen pounds per month, including the province wages.
Carty Gilman John Rollins
Jonathan Crosby, hired by Samuel Hall
Jeremiah Bean
May 19, 1748, hired for five months. Joseph Mann Timothy Knox
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INDIAN WARS.
Ellis Tarlton was a guard for Rochester and Barrington under Capt. Job Clement June 3, 1748.
April 21, 1748. Money paid to hire soldiers for Canterbury during the year 1748.
S
£
S
Capt. Theo: Smith
7
0 Benjamin Smith 7
0
Lt. Robert Light
7
0 Corp. Theo Gilman 3 10
Ens. Oliver Smith
3
10 Samuel Engels 3 10
Sergt. Benjamin Smith 3 10 James Rundlett
3
10
Sergt. Joseph Leavitt 3
10
Simon Drake
7
0
Joseph Lovering
7
0 Josiah Rollins
3
10
Samuel Dudley
7
0 Daniel Clark
3
10
Dudley Leavitt
3
10
-
April 22, to hire.
Carty Gilman 7 0 John Rollins
7 0
May 19.
Joseph Mann
7
0 Carty Gilman
15
10
Timothy Knox
7
0 John ( ?) Rollins
15
0
Carty Gilman
7
10 Timothy Knox
13
0
John Rollins
7
0 Joseph Mann
13
0
October, 1748. Money paid, old tenor.
Ens. Oliver Smith
1 7
6 Benjamin Sinkler 4 0 0
Sergt. Jonathan Robinson 1
2. 6 James Rundlett
3
10
0
Sergt. Benjamin Smith 0 11 3 Daniel Folsom
7
0
0
Sergt. John Kimball 3
10 0 James Calfe
3
10
0
Joseph Knight
3
0
0 Joseph Scribner
1
7
6
Joseph Thing
3
10 0
0
Henry Little
1
7
6
Jabez Smith 3 10
0 Lameaguah Calfe, Jr.
3 0
0
Sergt. Caleb Kimball
3 10
0 Benjamin Folsom
3
0
0
Daniel Grant
3
10 0 George Dutch
1
7
6
William Sanborn
3
10 0
Joseph Robinson
4
0
0
Thomas Kimball, Jr.
3
10
0
Corp. Peter Folsom
4
0
0 Total
76
16
3
Daniel Smith
1
7
6 Amount brought up
77
£151
16
3
Abner Doloff
1
0
0 Daniel Lovering
2
12
0
Samuel Ames
1
0
0 Joseph Lamee
3
10
0
0
Ens. James Leavitt
3
0 Edward Scribner, Jr.
3
10 0
Joshua Wilson
2
0
0 Samuel Norris
0
10
0
Benjamin Kimball
3 10 Total £77
.
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Enlisting September 24, 1747, as volunteers to scout for three days and find themselves, and no wages, under Capt. Theo : Smith.
Capt. Theo : Smith
Joseph Scribner
Ens. Oliver Smith
Joseph Scribner, Jr.
Clerk Joseph Rollins
Richard Glidden
Sergt. Jonathan Robinson
John Glidden
Sergt. Benjamin Smith
Joseph Kimball
Sergt. Joseph Leavitt
Henry Steele
Corp. Timothy Gordon
Ebenezer Lovering
Corp. Josiah Robinson
Daniel Gilman
Nathaniel Gilman
Joseph Taylor 3d
Samuel Norris
Joseph Smith
Moses Leavitt
Thomas Edgerly
Dudley Leavitt
Joseph Magoon
Josiah Fogg
Joseph Mudgett
Seth Fogg
Benjamin Smith, Jr.
Aaron Rollins
Joseph Doloff
Daniel Clark
Joseph Wilson
Thomas Dean
James Ouer
Samuel Hall
Emerson Leavitt
John Hall
Edward Wadleigh
Robert Barber of Newmarket was taken by the Indians at Bakerstown and sold to a Frenchman near St. Francis, Canada, in 1754, and the Legislature voted £150 for his release and that of others.
The French and Indian War, 1756-63. England formally de- clared war against France, May 18, 1756. Hostilities, however, began much earlier, again throwing the colonies into anxiety and distress. The scene of the conflict was now transferred to the Connecticut, Champlain and St. Lawrence waters. When Fort William Henry capitulated to the French, August 3, 1757, the New Hampshire battalion suffered severely in this bloody Indian massacre consequent on the perfidy of the French gen- eral, Louis Joseph Montcalm. Amid the general consternation that followed, Jeremiah Marston of Hampton enlisted as lieu- tenant from August 19 to October 30, 1757, in Capt. John Ladd's company, Maj. Thomas Tash's battalion, stationed at No. 4 [Charlestown, N. H.].
Corp. Caleb Kimball
Carty Gilman
Daniel Smith
Samuel Ames
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Edward Fox of Newmarket was in the service of the Province in 1756, under the command of Capt. Abraham Perry, and as by some mistake he was not credited on the roll with the full time of his service, he petitioned for the balance of pay due him, and received it.
Chase Wiggin of Newmarket was at Fort Edward under Colonel Meserve in 1756, and on his return home from the army where he had been all summer, he was taken sick of smallpox about December 3, of that year. His bill for expense of sick- ness amounted to £198, 10s., old tenor, and he was allowed £7, 18s., 9 1-2d., sterling.
In 1758 Jonathan Blunt of Chester presented to the General Court a bill for the care of Benjamin York who was a soldier in Colonel Meserve's regiment, and was allowed £271, 10s., old tenor.
In 1758 Capt. Thomas Tash was in Col. John Hart's regiment in the Canada expedition to Crown Point.
Maj. John Gilman of Colonel Meserve's regiment, in behalf of the soldiers of the regiment under Lieut. Col. Goffe at Fort Edward, petitioned the General Assembly June 20, 1757, as follows :
Shews, That the said Troops were ordered to March from No. 4, (where with much fatigue they had arrived) to Fort Edward and in their Way rested a while at Albany Flatts from which by order of Said Colonel & the Request of the Captains Emery Moony & Bayley your Pe- titioner Came to Represent the Condition & Circumstances of said Troops which are greatly Fatigued & Dispirited by Such a Long & unexpected March & want of Necessary Supplies-That there is need of a Tent for the Officers of Each Company & one for Every Six Soldiers-Kettles, Cantoons, & Beds for the Sick-An allowance of Rum & Sugar-Store of Shirts, Waste Coats Shoes Stockings-Some farther allowance for fresh Provisions-Provision for their Relief in Case the Small Pox Should Prevail & Spread among them it being very General at Albany & in all Probability at Fort Edward whither they are Bound-Billeting from the time of Enlisting till they Marched-An Armourer a Doctor a Chaplain-A Baker An allowance for the Officers Table-Money to pay the Extraordinary Charges in Marching up to Fort Edward & other Incidental & contingent Charges-These being the most Material Ar- ticles of which the Said Troops stand in Great Necessity Your Petitioner Humbly Prays Pursuant to his order That the Premises may be Consid- ered that Speedy Relief therein may be Provided that the Said Troops may not be Dispirited and their Present uneasiness & Discontent may be Removed - And your Petitioner Shall Ever Pray, &c.
11
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HISTORY OF NEWFIELDS.
In 1759 Ticonderoga, Niagara and Crown Point surrendered to the English. Captain Marston was again in command of a company drafted out of Col. Meshech Weare's 3d regiment of militia. The several companies rendezvoused at Dunstable and marched by way of Worcester, May 25, and Springfield, where they were mustered, and Albany, to serve at the reduction of Fort Niagara. Governor Wentworth's order to Captain Marston is preserved.
Province of New Hampshire.
To Capt. Jeremiah Marston:
You are hereby directed to assemble the company of foot, raised for the Canada expedition, and under your command, without loss of time, and march them to Dunstable, where you will receive orders from Col. Lovewell for your further proceeding towards Albany. If your whole company can not be got together at once and the same time you are to have a prudent and careful person to collect them and follow you to Dunstable.
Josiah Wiggin of Newmarket was a soldier in Capt. George March's company, Colonel Goffe's regiment, in 1760, came home and had the smallpox, and petitioned for payment of his bill of expense amounting to £188 old tenor, and was allowed £7, 10s., 5d., sterling.
On February 18, 1761, the selectmen of Newmarket, Hubartus Neal, John Burleigh and Peter Folsom, petitioned the governor and General Assembly for reimbursement of the expense in- curred in the sickness and death from smallpox of Lieut. Sam- uel Baldwin and David Doe, amounting to £394, 12s., 6d., and £128, 3s., old tenor. This request was granted and the town was allowed £20, 8s., 2 1-2d., sterling.
The same year Maj. Thomas Tash petitioned for payment for the use of a horse of Trueworthy Ladd impressed to send a courier to inform the government of the condition of the forces under his command at No. 4 on Connecticut River, many of the men having deserted. On the return by hard riding the horse fell lame, and was left at a tavern in Peterboro, the whole expense amounting to £38 old tenor. This petition seems to have been dismissed June 18, 1761.
Gen. James Wolfe met Montcalm on the Heights of Abraham, September 13, 1759. Both generals fell in battle, but victory
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rested with the English. Five days after, Quebec, the strongest city in America, surrendered.
Jeremiah Marston was again captain in the regiment of Col. John Goffe of Derryfield in the campaign of 1760, and was present at the surrender of Montreal. With that surrender, hostilities ended. The war was now transferred to Europe much to the relief of America. A treaty of peace was signed at Paris, February 10, 1763, by which Nova Scotia, Canada and the islands in the gulf and river of St. Lawrence were ceded to Great Britain. Great and universal joy spread throughout the colonies. From this time may be dated the flourishing condition of New Hampshire. Population and cultivation progressed with unprecedented rapidity. The people made themselves ready for the War of the Revolution a decade later.1
Attacks were made by the Indians upon Oyster River as fol- lows : 1675; 1675; August 18, 1690; 1693; July 17, 1694; August, 1703; April 25, 1704; May-July, 1704; August 11, 1706; April 27, 1707; May 22, 1707; July 8, 1707; September 15, 1707; June 30, 1709; 1711; spring of 1711; 1712; April, 1724; 1724. For some reason that place was made to suffer more than any other in the vicinity from the invasion of the savages.
Capt. Robert Clark had a brother who swam the Hudson river from buoy to buoy along the chain stretched across, tapped a barrel of rum on the wharf watched by a sentry, filled his canteens, and swam back again unobserved.
As Mrs. Fanny Shute spent the last years of her life at New- fields it may interest some to learn the particulars of her cap- tivity. She was the daughter of Lazarus Noble who lived with his father-in-law, James Whidden, on Swan's Island in the Ken- nebec River. The Indians used to visit Mr. Whidden at the gar- rison for the purpose of trading. One morning shortly after daybreak two boys went out of the garrison leaving the gate open. Upon this 90 Indians lurking in the vicinity entered the garrison and took Noble, his wife and seven children prisoners. Mr. Whidden and wife concealed themselves and escaped cap- ture. The Indians with their prisoners and plunder immediately started for Canada, and all but one child arrived there safely.
1 Lists of Exeter men engaged in these various Indian wars may be found in Bell's History of Exeter, pp. 218-19, 224-31, 233-34.
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HISTORY OF NEWFIELDS.
Fanny Noble, afterwards Mrs. Shute, was then about 13 months old. She was taken to the house of Mons. St. Auge Charles, a French merchant. His wife going into the kitchen found Fanny crawling on the floor in dirt and rags, and pick- ing apple parings out of the cracks. The child caught hold of her dress and burst into tears. Madam St. Auge had lately lost a child by death, was touched by her cries, and at length bought her of the Indians, and cared for her as kindly as for an own child. She had her baptized by the name of Eleanor, and brought her up a Catholic.
When four or five years old she was enticed to Three Rivers and taken back to the Indians by the old squaw who had at first sold her to Mr. St. Auge. Lamenting her separation from her French parents she was at last restored to them in Montreal, and kept secreted from the English who were searching for captives to redeem them. Her own father returned to Montreal to seek those of his children who remained there, and saw her through the window. She withdrew from his gaze, and he returned home without seeing her again.
She was put into a school attached to a nunnery and remained several years and was taught geography, needlework, painting, etc. At the age of 11 or 12 she was sent to Quebec to a school of Ursuline nuns to complete her education. She did not like the strict discipline and was taken back to the school at Montreal.
In her fourteenth year she was demanded by an agent of her father to be restored to her home. Her French parents tried to keep her, and she herself resisted the removal, making the en- forced parting affecting and painful. She was taken to Quebec and thence sailed for Boston, arriving there just before she was fourteen. Her father died soon after her return, and she went to Newbury to live with a relative of her father's. She became a teacher for a time at Hampton, and there met Mr. Jonathan Tilton and married him about 1776. He died in 1798, and in 1801 she married John Shute of Newmarket, and lived in New- fields till her death, September, 1819. She was highly re- spected and lived and died a Christian.
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Chapter XI.
FERRY AND BRIDGE OVER SQUAMSCOT RIVER.
Previous to the year 1700 the crossing of Squamscot River at Newfields was probably by fording at low tide, or transient ferriage. This often doubtless occasioned inconvenience and de- lay, and led Richard Hilton, June 12, 1700, to petition the Gen- eral Assembly and Council for the privilege of establishing a permanent ferry, as follows :
Humbly Sheweth
That there being a great occasion for travellers and other persons Liveing neare yor petitioner to transport themselves & horses over the River from Swamscott to the other side opposite to yor Petitioner's House; for the cutting the way by severll miles short to Lamperell River and other parts, and there being noe ffery settled; yor petitioner Humbly prays that yor Honrs would be pleased to Grant unto him Lib- erty for keeping a ffery betwixt Swamscott and his owne House for the tearme of fifty years and that he have Liberty to keep a public House as is accustomed to all fferyes.
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