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Chapman, David, 121. Paul, 133. Samuel, 111. Smith, 118.
Chesley, Joseph, 89. Philip, 125. Philip, Jr., 88. Cheswell, Thomas, 140. Wentworth, 103. Clark, Caleb, 99. Richard, 125. Coffin, Eliphalet, 88. Peter, 84. Peter, Jr., 85. Robert, 84. Robert, Jr., 86. William, 136.
Colcord, David, 136. Edward, 67. Gideon, 111. Gideon, Jr., 136. Jeremiah, 135. Jonathan, 106. Joseph, 136.
Cram, James, 113. Doe, Bradstreet, 101. John, 90. Joseph, 134. Nicholas, 105. Sampson, 90. Samuel, 94.
Drown, Samuel, 108. Thomas, 132. Durgin, Francis, 107. Ewer, Rev. Nathaniel, 114. Nathaniel, 140.
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Farr, Vincent, 119. Folsom, Asa, 127. Benjamin, 75. Ephraim, 123. James, 103. Jeremiah, 112.
Jeremy, 95. John, 75. John, Col., 116. William, 133. Fowler, Philip, 110. Philip, Jr., 110. Philip, 3d, 134. French, William, 137.
Gilman, Andrew, 122. Bradstreet, 120.
Edward, 66.
Edward, Jr., 67.
Israel, 105.
Israel, Col. 106. Jeremiah, 83.
John, 72. Joseph, 118.
Moses, 74. Robert, 97.
Glidden, Andrew, 93. Richard, 87.
Goddard, John, 22. John Jr., 64.
Hall, Edward, 92. Joseph, 76. Joseph, Jr., 91. Kinsley, 76. Ralph, 75.
Hanniford, Thomas, 137. Hartford, Nicholas, 117. Nicholas, Jr., 118. Hersey, Peter, 83. Peter Jr., 138. Robert, 83.
Thomas, 83. William, 83. Hill, Benjamin, 140. Gen. James, 121. Valentine, 70. Hilton, Daniel, 109. Daniel, 126. Edward, 59, 127.
Edward, Jr., 77.
George, 134.
Ichabod, 119.
Jonathan, 97. Josiah, 118. Richard, 80. Richard, Col., 129. William, 79. Winthrop, 128.
Winthrop, Jr., 140. Winthrop, Col., 78. Jacob, Joseph, 97. Jenness, Isaac, 139.
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NARRATIVE INDEXES.
Early settlers-continued:
Judkins, Joseph, 124. Kidder, Nathaniel, 122. Lyford, Stephen, 106. Marsters, John, 119. Mcphaedris, Archibald, 90. Mead, Benjamin, 132. Jeremy, 133. John, 101. Merrill, Joseph, 104.
Mitchell, Robert, 141.
Moore, William, 86. Murray, Timothy, 139. Neal, Hubartus, 105. Hubartus, Jr., 129.
Samuel, 129.
Walter, 96.
Walter, Jr., 139. Zabulon, 119.
Nutter, Hatevil, 65.
Pease, Samuel, 111.
Perkins, John, 109. William, 93. William, Jr., 93.
Pettit, Thomas, 66.
Pike, Robert, 95. Robert, Jr., 129.
Prasson, Richard, 137.
Racklif, Roger, 112.
Renton, William, 113.
Robertson, Jonathan, 117.
Rogers, Nathaniel, 126. Shute, John, 135. Michael, 119. William, 126. Sinclair, James, 121.
Smart, John, 68. Joseph, 117.
Smith, Benjamin, 104. Daniel, 133. James, 119. John, 133. John M., 135.
Joseph, 96.
Joseph, Jr., 137, 138. Joseph H., 138. Samuel, 109, 138. Walter, 140. Winthrop, 104.
Starbuck, Edward, 64. Swain, Francis, 66. Symonds, Samuel, 82.
Tash, Thomas, 69. Taylor, Edward, 124. John, 124. Nathan, 124. William, 107. William, Jr., 124. Tilton, Henry, 138. Tomb, Rev. Samuel, 141.
Wadleigh, Jonathan, 89. Robert, 71. Wall, James, 62. Wardell, Thomas, 122. William, 122. Warren, John, 66.
Wason, Dudley, 128.
Wedgewood, John, 88. Wiggin, David, 117. Henry, 128. Henry, Jr., 130. Michial, 130. Thomas, 118.
Wilson, Humphrey, 69.
Young, Joseph, 99. Maj. Joseph, 127. Thomas, 94.
Ecclesiastical committee chosen to hire preaching, 318; council in interest of harmony a failure, 318; East and West societies united, 316; history begins, 4; persons dissenting exempted from paying rates, 318; resignation of pastors ac- cepted, 318.
Elect ladies, 402.
Electric lighting of streets, 362.
Enemies, act to prevent return of, 251.
Errata, 420, 686.
Exemption from pay ministerial rates, 318.
Exeter, a frontier, 57; bi-centennial, 57; church and civil compact formed, 13; divisions, 16; given liberty of freemen, 24; named, 13; order and law, 24; ordinances, 23; principal garrisons, 57- 58.
Exeter Gazette, article reflecting on town, 249; committee of safety asked concerning, 249.
Expedition to Pemaquid, 3.
Families of soldiers aided, 357.
Fence viewers, 294.
Ferry and bridge over Squamscot, 165; Hil- ton petitions for, 165; also, Jonathan Wiggin, 165-66; hearing suspended, 166; Hilton summoned, 166; petition granted, 166; Andrew Wiggin petitions for ex- tension, 167; other parties petition, 168; Andrew Wiggin, Jr's, remonstrance, 168.
Feudalism retained, 51. Field driver, 294.
meetings, 52.
Fifield, Rev. Winthrop, pastorate and death, of 387.
Fire-arms voted, 236, 260.
Fire, destructive, 402. Fire-rafts, accounts for labor on, 246.
Fish for commerce, 335. Fitts, Rev. James, pastor, 388; prosperity under, 388; extensive repairs, 388.
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NARRATIVE INDEXES.
Folsom, Ephraim, granted land, 49.
Jeremiah, petitions against, as Lt .- Col., 237; remonstrance against, 240; hearing ordered, refuses to resign and dismissed, 240-41.
Forests extensive, 335. Fort Sumter fired upon, 345.
Flax raised, 56. Franklin Seminary, 330. Fraternal Orders, 398.
French and Indian War, 160; Fort William
Henry capitulates, 160; Edward Fox petitions for pay due, 161; bill for Chase Wiggin's sickness, 161; John Gilman petitions for soldiers, 161; Crown Point, surrender, 162; Gov. Wentworth's order, 162; petition for expense of sickness and use of horse, 162; death of Montcalm and Wolfe, 162-63; war transferred to Europe and treaty of peace signed, 163. French prisoners, vote for paying for, 230. Garrisons, principal, Exeter, 57, 58. maintained, 53, 57.
General Court, all power vested in, 52. Gifts, 391-92.
Gilman, Charles, granted land, 46. Jeremy, granted land, 49. John, Jr., granted land, 46.
Moses, granted land, 46, 48; forfeited, 46. Moses, Jr., granted land 49.
Godfrey, James, granted land, 46.
Golden Cross, 398.
Good Templars, 399.
Gove, Edward, jury for trial of, 31.
Government, convention to form permanent plan of, 251; inhabitants warned to meet to consider, 252; third form sent out, 254. Grange, 398.
Grants of land, price paid, 25.
Great Britain, treaty with consummated, 254. Half-century of changes, 340.
Hall, Edward, highly esteemed, 201; his service in running lines, 201-02; member of House, 203; brings action against Fowler, 204.
Joseph, granted land, 46, 49; sold land, 50. Ralph, granted land, 46. Samuel, granted land, 49. Hall's ferry, granted, 169. Harness-maker, 337.
Hatter, 337. Hay scales, 399.
Hearse and house, 404.
Highway, petition for, 359. surveyors, 301.
Hilton brothers agreement, 81
Edward, estate inventory, 46; made deputy, 4; goes to General Court, 6; granted land, 43; granted petition, 43.
Edward, Jr., receives deed of Wadononamin 44.
John, granted land, 43. Katherine, deed of, 47.
patent granted, 2; extent of, 34.
William claims sustained, 39; letter of, 1; received many land grants, 2; civil honors conferred, 2; arrival of wife, 3, 8; baptism of child, 3, 8; burial of, 7; commissioner in small cases, 14.
Winthrop, commissioned colonel, 19; let- ter of, 19; death of, 19.
Hiltons not mere adventurers, 10; their plantation sold, 10; again sold, 11; lovers of good men, 11.
Hogreeves, 294.
Home lot, 52.
Houses made of logs, 55; unpainted, 59; fur- niture of, 55; facing the river, 400.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, excommunicated, 13 Improvements, 387
Incorporation act, 244.
Indenture, binding our apprentices, 205.
Indian attacks on haymakers, 150; deed given Wheelwright, 34; kill and are pursued, 152.
Indians discovered, 58.
Intemperance abounds, 320.
Intoxicating beverages, 341.
Iron fixtures, 338.
Iron foundry, 338, 401; building of, 341. Iron works, 337-38, 341.
Jurors, grand, 294; petit, 294.
Justices of Courts, 289.
Justices of the peace appointed, 234.
King George's War, 156; involved the colo- nies, 156; Hilton in expedition to Louis- burg, 156; preliminaries of peace signed, 156; muster roll of Capt. Smith's men, 157-60; Robert Barber captured, 160. King Philip's War, 142-44: Indians peace- able 50 years, 142; Wampanoag ambi- tious to exterminate, 243; joins Philip's hostile confederacy, 143; frontier inva- sion, 143; 60 killed and buildings burned, 143; peace concluded with Squando, 144; meeting houses fortified, 144.
King William's War, 144-48: French incite to hostilities, 144; Hilton's garrison assaulted, 145; Dow's letter to Maj. Pike, 145; house built in fort, 146; able bodied men impressed, 146; Oyster River attacked, 146; men in garrison service, 147; treaty of peace signed, 148.
King's writ, 199; amendment to, 200; lita- gation long, 200; case defaulted, 201. Ladies of note, 390; sewing circle formed, 386. Lake, Rev. George E., pastor, 389. Lamprey River named, 39.
church established, 326; organized, 380; Methodists build church there, 326; first Baptist meeting house, 327.
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692
NARRATIVE INDEXES.
Land boundaries traced yearly, 52; held
under manor law, 52; tenure, 51; be- queathed, 204, 206; conveyances, 204, 206.
Land grants:
Biggs, Thomas, 42.
Bursley, John, 42.
Chesley, Philip, 45.
Clarke, John, 49.
Coffin, Peter, 49.
Cornish, Thomas, 42.
Dudley, Biley, 46.
Dudley, Theophilus, 46.
Folsom, Ephraim, 49.
Gilman, Charles, 46.
Gilman, Jeremy, 49.
Gilman, John, Jr., 46.
Gilman, Moses, 46, 48.
Gilman, Moses, Jr., 49.
Godfrey, James, 46.
Hall, Joseph, 46, 49.
Hall, Ralph, 46.
Hall, Samuel, 49.
Hilton, Edward, 43.
Hilton, John, 43.
Hilton, William, 2.
Lare, Cornelius, 46. Leeson, Nicholas, 42, 46.
Legat, John, 40.
Magoon, Henry, 49.
Moore, William, 48.
Parker, Thomas, 50.
Pettit, Thomas, 42.
Robinson, David, 49.
Sanders, John, 40. Smart, Goodman, 41, 42. Smart, John, 40.
Smart, Robert, 43, 46, 48.
Swaine, Francis, 42.
Wadleigh, John, 49.
Warren, John, 42.
Wheelwright, John, 40.
Wiggin, Thomas, 44. Young, John, 49.
Landed estates, customs of, 51.
Lare, Cornelius, granted land, 46.
Leeson, Nicholas, granted land, 42, 46.
Legat, John, granted land, 40; purchases of Sagamore, 41.
Leveridge, Rev. William, first pastor, 4, 11, 12. Librarian, 334. Library, 332.
Lights of early settlers, 55; diet of, 55.
Liquors freely used, 56.
List of polls, 185, 367.
Livery of seisin, exemplified, 51.
Locomotives, Fifield's, 339.
Lot layers, 294; report of, 39.
Lottery for bridge, 252; proceedings not legal, 253; reasons of persons dissenting, 253; petition for, 177, 179; ticket, 187.
Lovell's War, 155; Tiltons captured in boat and escape, 155; home of Hiram Rollins attacked, 155; peace proclamation made, 156.
Magistrate, 289; assistant, 289.
Magoon, Henry, granted land, 49.
Marriage fee, 384.
Marriages, 373; oldtime, 302.
Marsters, John, petitions for release from jail, 251.
Mason, Robert T., issues writ of election, 47; sues Wm. Ardell, 48.
Mason's claims, bounds of, 37; extent of, 35; protest against, 230.
Masts, arrests for cutting, 29; for king's navy, 335.
Mast trees, care of, 289; marking, 198. Measurers, 295.
Medcalf, Rev. Alfred, employed, 323.
Meeting house built, 4, 12, 17, 27; enlarged, 385; location of, Exeter 18; never painted nor heated, 59; one sold, 314; conditions of sale, 314; new one authorized, 313; location and description of, 315; articles for raising, 315; building auctioned off, 314; deeded, 314; purchasers of pews, 313; repairs voted, 325; opened to any respect- able minister, 322; voted to sell, 328.
Memorial for admission of inhabitants, 203; vote regarding, 203. Day decorations, 404.
Methodist church, 391; repairs, 392; minis- ters, 392; female benevolent society formed, 393; members in the ministry, 393.
schools, 394. society, 371.
Military officers chosen, 234; filling vacan- cies, 236.
Militia act voted, 203.
Mills, 335.
sites granted, 195; annual rents for occu- pancy, 195; set apart for the ministry, 195; sawed lumber floated to Ports- mouth, 195; first corn mill in N. E., 195; miller's toll established, 195; agreement with Edward Gilman, Jr., 195-96; record made, 196; grants made, 197-98; mark- ing mast trees, 198.
Minister must be orthodox, 322.
Ministerial convention organized, 213; and society, 324.
Ministry, dues for maintenance, 26.
Moccasons voted, 230.
Moderators, 295, 364.
Moody, Rev. John, ancestry of, 223-25; character and results of labor, 223; min- istry of, 208; call to, given, 208; accepted 209; agreement with, 209; proclamation to people, 209-10; land for meeting house quitclaimed, 211; parsonage celebrated,
693
NARRATIVE INDEXES.
212; Revolution disheartens, 212; min- isterial convention organized, 213; char- ter for school sought, 213; committee reports, 213; temporary failure, 214; committee again reports, 214-15; work of Mr. Moody, 215; charter for Dart- mouth college secured, 215; Moody's land transactions, 216-17; disaffection of his people, 217; resignation requested, 217; his refusal to join in calling council, 216; ex parte council called, 218; coun- cil convenes, 218; letter to council, 218-19; council made mutual, 218; adjourns for instructions, 219; instruc- tions received, 220: council reassembles, 220; result of 220-22.
Moore, William, granted landed, 48.
Moor's Indian Charity School, 214.
Morality of early inhabitants, 5.
Mt. Wollaston establishment broken up, 9; Morton, its founder, exiled, 10.
Musters, 344, 401.
Name of town changed, 360; act amended, 362.
New England named, 7.
Newfields' iron foundry, 371.
New Hampshire a district province, 30; troops highly commended, 270, 272. New lights, 311.
Newmarket, men of enlisted in battalions, 1777, 249; on pay roll of Capt. Z. Gil- man, 249; absentees, 250; names in return of companies, 239; on muster roll of Gordon's company, 247: sugges- tion of name, 226; incorporated, 226; council board's transaction relating to, 228; freeholders' petition, 229; election illegal and new one held, 229; census of, 232-33; representatives of, 232, 234; selectmen called to answer for neglect, 237; number of polls, 1777, 251.
Norfolk county formed, 5.
Numbering districts, 360.
Nutt, John, buys land of Indians, 43.
Nutter, Rev. Hatevil, accepts fence, 16, 17. Odd Fellows, 399.
Odlin, Rev. John, minister, Exeter, 18. Officers, General, 289. Town, 290.
Orthodoxy burdensome to some, 311.
Osborne, Rev. John, labors of, 318.
Otis, Rev. Israel T., supply, 387.
Overseers of pipe staves, 290.
Oyster River, attacks on, 163. church organized, 20.
Parish and Church matters, 341. of Newmarket incorporated, 208. reorganized, 385.
Parishes, ecclesiastical bodies, 53.
Parker, Thomas, granted land, 50.
Parsonage, procuring a, 324; renting author- ized, 322; repaired and rented, 385; present one built, 385; repairs, 386; purchased, 321.
Pascataqua, meaning of, 2. Pastors, Congregational, 390. Methodist, 392.
Persons suspected have liberty restricted, 235. Petition for appointment of peace, 254;
for bridge, 169; others for same, 170; against granting, 171; Exeter's objec- tions, 171-73; reply to, 173-75; granted, 175; committee's report on site, 175; approved with amendments, 175; act passed, 175; neglect to build shown, 176-77.
for division of parish, 311; granted, 312. for protection, 32.
to be free from Massachusetts, 28.
Pettit, Thomas, granted land, 42.
Pickering, Rev. George, missionary-at-large, 323.
Pipe staves, overseers of, 290.
Piscassic largely by itself, 325; deacons and ministers, 325-26.
Plymouth Council, grant of, 35; conflicts with Pascataqua grant, 36; foundation of all grants of Dover and vicinity, 36; given the management, 8; their charter the basis of all after grants, 8;
grant territory to Gorges and Mason, 8. Polls, list of, 367.
Post office, 341; postmasters, 685; riders, 54. Pound keepers, 295.
Pounds required, 53, 58.
Preachers, early, 382.
Presidential check-list, 371.
Prices of food, 276, 284.
Pring, Capt. Martin, visits America, 7.
Prisoners, memorial of, 250.
Productions, early, 1. Professional men, 389.
Province rates, 22.
Provost marshal, 290.
Public conveyances, 54. worship, how sustained, 6. Puritan defined, 3.
Queen Anne's War 148-55: bounties offered for Indian scalps, 148; Indian invasion, 148; several persons slain, 148; Gov. Dudley's command, 149; expedition to . Pequacket, 149; Council's orders, 149; seashore nightly patrol, 149; expedition to Norridgewock, 149; lack of provisions prevents scouting, 150; Indians attack haymakers, 150; Robert Barber killed, 151; men ordered to Hilton's house, 151, deserters to be arrested, 151; Indians kill and are pursued, 152; expedition to Pequacket, 152; Winthrop Hilton killed
694
NARRATIVE INDEXES.
153; bill for boarding soldiers presented, 153; muster roll of Hilton's garrison, 153; persons killed and captured, 154; peace proclaimed, 154; soldiers in Davis's scouting party, 154-55.
Quit rent, 51.
Randolph, Edward, complaint to king, 31.
Regimental coats, money for received, 268.
Representation recommended, 241; plan adopted, 241.
Representatives, 295, 364. chosen, 230-31.
right and method of sending 231.
Resolutions adopted, 358. Retailors of liquors, 297.
Retreat of army from Chnada, 270.
Revival, 386.
Revolution, 257-87; capture of Fort William and Mary, 257; convention of delegates, 258; acts of congresses, 258; pay roll of Poor's regiment, 259; fire-arms voted, 260; Newmarket men in Capt. S. Gil- man's Co., 260-61; Reed's regiment kept as guards, 261; regimental order, 261; battle of Bunker Hill, 262; account for losses, 262; minute men enlisted, 262; Newmarket, list of, 263; persons suspected of toryism, 263; Com- mittee of Safety, executive power of government, 264; give orders to ten, each to enlist a company, 264; give 1 several orders, 264-67; provide dinner to Mr. Gerry, 267; other orders, 267; shoes furnished, 268; also money for coats, 268; men drawing rations, 268; going to Quebec, 269; Conn. forces refuse to tarry, 269; N. H. men asked to fill their places, 269; commended for bravery, 270, 272; retreat of army from Canada alarms, 270; Newmarket men in Capt. Marston's Co., 270; in Capt. Badger's Co., 271; in Capt. Gordon's Co., 271-72; vote to raise 1000 men, 271; to draft 500, 272; loyalists, 272; Elisha Thomas pensioned, 273; Capt. McClary killed, 274; Jonathan Mason taken prisoner, 274; enlistments, 274-76; 1 prices of food and drink, 1777, 276; muster roll, Capt. Z. Gilman's Co., 276- 77; men in Capt. Parson's Co., 276; in Capt. Pike's Co., 277; at Saratoga, 277; enlistments, 278; on pay roll, Capt. Hilton, 279; Nathaniel Church, for wound, asks for relief and half pay, 279; supplies furnished several, 280; John Barter receives bad wound, 280; return of men, 283; prices, 1779, 284; money advanced by town, 284; James Cobbey wounded. 285; James Colby pensioned, 285; return of three years' men, 285; business done by barter, 285; currency
depreciation, 286; old and new tenor, 286; issuing paper money, 286; rebellion of Shay, 286; ring leaders jailed, 287. Road making, 340.
Roads, early, 190-92; Hall's mill road, 193; mistake in laying out highway, 193; report of committee on, 193-94; turnpikes and toll gates, 194.
Robinson, David, granted land, 49.
Roman Catholic church, 396.
Royal charter vests power, 52. Rulers, 290.
assistant, 290.
Rundlet, 56.
Sabbath School Union formed, 383; members, 383.
Sacraments, conditions of admission to, 6. Sambo makes threats and is fined, 202.
Sanders, John, granted land, 40.
Sawmill, liberty for, granted, 42.
School committee, 297, 366.
house voted, 362.
Schools, 327; old school law, 327; taught in private houses, 328; house built, 328; first school, Newfields, 328; vote to hire schoolmaster 328; flag presented and raised, 328; school removed, 330.
Scipio killed, 212. Sealers of leather, 298.
of weights and measures, 298.
Selectmen, 298, 365.
given power to abate rates, 317.
Separatists, 311.
Settlers largely dissenters, 11; mostly con-
formists, 4; never persecuted, 4; cheer- ful church supporters, 25; hardy, 57. Sewing circle formed, 386.
Ship-building, 336.
Shoes furnished, 268.
Shute, Mrs., captivity of, 163.
Silversmith, 336.
Smart, Goodman, granted land, 41, 42. John, awarded land, 40.
Robert, granted land, 43, 46, 48.
Smith, Capt. John, monument to, 7. Rev. Bezaleel, appointed to Newfields, 382. Rev. Elias, ordained, 317.
Societies, East and West, union legalized, 316. Soldiers, South Newmarket, Civil War, 345- 56:
Second regiment, 345.
Third, 347.
Fifth, 348.
Sixth, 349.
Eighth, 349.
Ninth, 350.
Tenth, 350.
Eleventh, 350.
Thirteenth, 355.
Strafford Guards, 355.
U. S. Marine Corps, 355.
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NARRATIVE INDEXES.
U. S. Naval Service, 355. in Massachusetts regiments, 356. money expended for, 356. substitutes furnished, 357. prices paid for, 357. in Spanish War, 358. families, votes to aid, 357. Spanish War, 358. Squamscot Indians, 57.
Stage lines, 340.
State convention, delegates to, 289.
Stone pound, 399.
Stratham-Newfields bridge, 371.
Street lights, 401.
Students in P. E. A., 331-32.
Suits against the Hiltons, 48.
Sunday School, first in Newfields, 324. Surveyors of highways, 301. of lumber, 301.
Swaine, Francis, granted land, 42. Swamscot Machine Co., 338-39, 371. in hands of receivers, 339. shops opened, 342. Swimming the Hudson for rum, 163.
Tash, Thomas, petition for appointment as field officer, 238-39; appointed colonel, 247. Tavern, Pike's, 400. Stinson's, 400.
Taverns, 54, 340. Exeter limited to two, 54. keepers, 301.
Tax, ministerial and town, separated, 316; refusal to pay, levied by distress, 316.
Taxation exemption, 361. religious resented, 311. Tax-list, 368. non-resident. 371.
Tax-payers, 320. Teamsters ford the Squamscot, 58. Tenor, old and new, 216, 286. Tide-mill, 400.
Tithingmen, 301.
Thomas, Elisha, allowed for wound, 248; petition of, 256; pensioned, 273; peti- tioned for reprieve, 256; wounded, 273. Throat distemper prevails, 211.
Thurston, Rev. James, ordained, 319; begins labor under discouragement, 320.
Toleration act, 324; exempted from church taxation, 341: salary of Mr. Thurston increased, 321; requests dismission, 322; installed at Manchester, 322; his son James, 322.
Tomb, Rev. Samuel, called as colleague, 316; ordained, 316.
Tomb-stones, old, 403.
Tories, N. Y., sent to committee of safety, 248; petition to detain in prison, 248; required to give bonds, 236.
Town clerks, 297, 367. house, 400. made dividends of land, 52. meeting, called, 359. officers, 363. outgrowth of people's wants, 53.
Towns had right to make grants, 37.
Townsmen, 290.
Township plan in N. E., 52.
Townships, power granted to, 52.
Trade by barter, 57.
Trainings, 344. Transportation by water, 400.
Treasurers, 367.
Treaty of peace, 288.
Tree planting, 401.
Treworthie, Samuel, receives deed of land, 47. Troubles of 1637, occasion of, 5; settlement of, 5; release from county rates, 6.
Trust funds, cemetery, 404.
Tucker, Rev. Elisha W., pastor, 386.
Turnpike, first, 55.
Turnpikes, 340.
Two-mile streak, 50; granted, 337.
Universalist church, 394; organization, 394, 396; members of, 394-95; edifice dedi- cated, 395. Social Union, 394. State convention, 395.
Uplands, division of, 38.
Village separation agreed upon, 342.
Wadleigh, John, granted land, 49. Robert, granted land, 46, 49.
Wadononamin, deeds land, 44.
War of 1812, 287-88; enlistments few, 287; roll of Peter Hersey's Co., 287-88; treaty of peace signed, 288.
Warren, John, granted land, 42. Warship presented to France, 335.
Well, agreement to dig, 207.
Wentworth, Rev. William, ministry of, 18; asked to continue, 33. Wesleyan academy, 330. West Indies, trade with, 311. Society, 311; members of, 312.
Wheelock, receives Indian pupils, 214.
Wheelwright, Rev. John, called to Exeter, 20; removed to Wells, Me .; 21; his com- pany good men, 22; house purchased, 25; children of, 12; granted land, 40; Indian deed, 34; Fast-day sermon criti- cised by the Court, 12; banished, 13; banishment revoked, 15; deed of, 13. Whipping-post, 58. Wiggin, Thomas, granted land, 44.
Wilson, Humphrey, buys land of Sagamore, 41. Wolves troublesome, 53; bountyf or killing, 54. Woman preacher, 324.
Worship, Congregational, 4.
Young, John, granted land, 49. Peoples Christian Union, 396.
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NARRATIVE INDEXES.
II. NAMES.
Abbott, Isaac, 367. Richard S., 378. Achmuty, Robert, 199.
Ackinson, James, 158.
Adams, Captain, 270-71.
Charles W., 351, 367-68.
Hugh, Rev., 20, 92, 94, 226-28, 309.
John, Rev., 392-93.
John F., 374.
John W., Rev. 392-93. Joseph, 238, 297.
Joseph, Rev., 105, 212.
Josiah, 115, 131, 136, 244, 251, 277, 283-84, 296-97, 300, 311, 313-14, 323.
Josiah, Rev., 366.
Mary, 329.
Nancy, 132.
Sally, 329. Sarah H., 131.
Sophia W., 323.
Winborn, 131, 234, 257, 260.
Aisten, Reuben, 302.
Aldrich, George, 236.
Allen, Governor, 78. John, 239, 270.
Joseph, 368.
Samuel, 89.
Ambrose, Nathaniel, 276.
Ames, Daniel, 102, 111, 138, 170, 232. David, 170.
Jacob, 170, 194, 245, 255, 303, 312.
John, 238, 244, 255.
Joseph, 170.
Nathaniel, 111-12, 170, 194, 237, 244, 246. Nathaniel, Jr., 238, 244.
Rhoda, 303.
Samuel, 158-60, 277.
Sarah, 303. .
Simon, 112.
Anderson, Addie M., 376. Partha M., 374. André, Major, 129.
Andrews, George, 332-33. Joan, 128. John, 128.
Anne, Queen, 148.
Ardell, William, 48, 89.
Armet, Captain, 137.
Armstrong, George T., 350. James, 356. Arnold, Benedict, 259.
Arringotine, Jeremiah, 153.
Asbury, Bishop Francis, 406.
Ashby, John L., Rev., 390.
Atkinson, Bert F., 379.
Joseph, 108. Atwell, Benjamin, 128.
Atwood, Harry G., 371. Averill, Charles F., 375. Ayres, Edward, 188-89. George, 307. John, 307. Thomas, 306.
Bacon, William, 368.
Bachiler, Jonathan, 169. Stephen, Rev., 6, 14, 15, 25.
Backus, Isaac, Rev., 114.
Badger, Abigail, 73. Ellen G., 378.
John, 74.
Joseph, 271, 304.
Rebecca B., 420.
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