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BETSEY GILE, b. July 11, 1798; m. (first) (pub.), Feb. 11, 1821, Jona- than Glines and had one son. (See Glines gen.) Later she m. Allison McDaniel. (See McDaniel gen.)
Third Generation. (Child of Jonathan and Hannah Haines Gile.)
HANNAH GILE, b. Feb. 6, 1805; m., Oct. 15, 1828, Sidney Forrest of Canterbury, who first established a home on Range 4 by the Rogers meadow. His ambitions were larger than his rocky farm and he soon removed West This house was moved to Sanbornton Bridge and was a part of the Deacon Hall house by the tannery. Mr. Forrest after many years returned to Belmont, where he d. in 1871. She d. July 14, 1891. They had a family of seven, all b. at Porter, O., except one b. at N., who d. in infancy. (See Forrest gen.)
(Children of Joseph and Polly Greenough Gile.) (All b. at N.) ALFRED A. GILE. (See portrait.)
ALFRED AUGUSTUS GILE was b. at N. Oct. 9, 1807, and d. at the home- stead, which was then a part of Franklin, Oct. 31, 1882. He m., 1833, Mary Lucinda Kern, b. at Pottsville, Pa., June 5, 1811, and d. at Franklin Dec. 12, 1880. They are buried at Franklin. Mr. Gile was, although a farmer, thoughtful in his work and was self-educated far in advance of the point where his school work terminated. He was an exhaustive and discriminating reader and became familiar with the classics in middle life. He was greatly interested in local affairs and as superintendent of schools took a deep interest in not only the in- tellectual but the physical betterment of the young and was especially qualified for this work. He was chairman of the board of selectmen from 1848 to 1852. The homestead overlooking the Merrimack, the Webster place, now the Orphans' Home, commanded also a fine view of Kearsarge and Ragged Mountain and is one of the most attractive in the state (see view), and the well-appointed home has been oc- cupied by some of the family for many years and kept until 1904, for over a century, in the Gile name.
MARY FLAGG GILE, b. 1810; m., about 1840, John F. Barr of Danvers, where they lived and d., he in 1872, she in 1888. A gift to Union Church in memory of her brother, Alfred A. Gile, and a bequest to the Tilton and Northfield Congregational Church keep her in grateful remem- brance. They had no children.
THOMAS GILE, b. 1814, was a farmer and on the breaking out of the Civil War followed the example of his uncle and grandfather. (See Boys in Blue.)
ABAGAIL GREENOUGH GILE, b. 1818; m. Emery Batchelder of Loudon, and d. in 1885.
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ALFRED A. GILE.
MRS. ALFRED GILE.
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(Children of Thomas and Jane Forrest Gile.) (B. at N.)
WILLIAM FORBEST GILE, b. April 3, 1820; d., unmarried, May 15, 1845. CHARLES ALONZO GILE, b. July 21, 1822; m. Mary J. Woodbury of N. and resided on the home place. They were energetic, prosperous farm- ers and had two sons and two dau. Mr. Gile d. in 1863, the result of being thrown from his carriage three days previous. Mrs. Gile still re- mains in the home.
(Children of Enoch and Polly Lyford Gile.) (B. at N.)
SABAH SHERBUEN GILE, b. Aug., 1817; m., 1835, Lyman P. Lawrence of Boston and had a son, Laroy P., now of Ocean Spray, Mass., and dau., Ellen S.
HANNAH LYFORD GILE, b. Sept. 13, 1829; m., Jan. 15, 1855, Asa Lom- bard, a merchant of Boston, now of Reading, Mass. They have three children, Nellie, Willard and Mary.
(Children of Amos and Mehitable Forrest Gile.) (All b. at N.)
WILLIAM FORREST GILE, b. June 17, 1820; m., Dec. 1, 1842, Mary Leeds of Canaan and had one dau., Helen. Mrs. Gile d. May 13, 1846. He m. (second), Harriet Lee of Hartland, Vt., and had a son and dau. He moved to Manly, Ia.
DOROTHY CAROLINE GILE, b. April 23, 1822; m., 1842, Alvah Gilman of Canaan. They had two sons, Sidney, who d. in 1866, and Horatio of Hood's Farms at Derry, and one dau., Aurilla, wife of Charles J. Rand of Loudon. Mr. Gilman was in youth captain of infantry in the New Hampshire Militia. He served as a nine-months' volunteer in the Civil War, was promoted for merit and was a corporal in Company F, Fif- teenth Regiment. He d. of malaria at Baton Rouge, La., June 3, 1863, just as he was to be discharged.
HANNAH FORREST GILE, b. June 26, 1824; m. (first), Isaac Hanscomb of Hanover. They had one son, Charles Forrest, now of Johnstown Centre, Wis. She m. (second), Dea. Washington Clark of Franklin Falls, Jan., 1874, and d. March 21, 1876.
MARY ANN GILE, b. Jan. 28, 1826; m., July 7, 1851, Rev. Nathan Jones, a Free Baptist minister at Hanover, Canaan and elsewhere.
He was also a manufacturer of hammers at Canaan, always preach- ing on the Sabbath, without pay, until the last ten years of his life at Campton, where he d. June 13, 1894. Mrs. Jones was a teacher previous to her marriage and was her husband's faithful and worthy assistant in his church work. She resides with her only child, Arden F., at Concord.
LUCY C. GILE, b. Nov. 8, 1830; d., at Canaan, in 1857.
MARIA F. GILE, b. Nov. 2, 1834; m., Nov. 12, 1857, Ira L. Gile of En-
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field. He was injured by a fall and d. a year later. She m. (second), John Worthen, now of Escondida, Cal. She d. at Enfield Aug. 27, 1877.
JOSEPH HENRY GILE, b. June 27, 1837, remained on the farm until his enlistment in the Seventh New Hampshire Regiment and went to Fer- nandina. He was at Fort Wagner. His last letter spoke of the coming . attack; he was never heard from. (See Boys in Blue.)
Fourth Generation. (Children of Alfred and Mary Kern Gile.) (B. at N.)
JOSEPH GILE, b. Oct. 14, 1835. (See Teachers of N.)
MARY MARGARET GILE, b. March 28, 1837. (See portrait and sketch, Teachers of N.)
PETER KERN GILE, b. Jan. 14, 1839; m., 1885, Olive A. Wadleigh of N. He resided in and carried on the homestead for many years, retiring on account of ill health. He bought in 1903 the Wadleigh homestead, where he now resides. He has been a specialist in fruit raising, often harvesting 3,000 bushels of choice fruit a year.
EMMA MATILDA GILE, b. Jan. 25, 1841, was educated at the New Hamp- shire Conference Seminary and was a teacher for some years previous to her marriage to John A. Brown of Philadelphia, Pa. After a real- dence at Greely, Col., she returned to the home and remained until its sale. She has one son, Alfred Brown. They reside at Franklin Falls. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS GILE, b. June 5, 1843. (See portrait and sketch in Lawyers of N.)
FRANCIS ALFRED GILE, b. July 19, 1845, served in the Civil War. (See Boys in Blue.) He m., July 9, 1870, Ann C. Gilmore of Jersey City. He taught penmanship, studied medicine and graduated at New York, where he first went into practice. He is now a physician at Orange. N. J.
HELEN C. GILE d. at six years of age.
LUCIA K. GILE, b. May 22, 1852, graduated at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, class of 1872. She later studied elocution at the Boston School of Oratory. She m. Edward F. Fassett and for a while resided at Kansas City, Mo., and later at Portland, Me. She has four sons and a daughter, viz .: Francis, Wallace, Willard, who d. at six years, Malcom, Alice and Harold.
(Children of Alonzo and Mary Woodbury Gile.)
AMANDA A. GILE, b. March 12, 1846; m., Nov. 12, 1861, Lowell M. French, a prosperous farmer of East N. They removed-his health failing-to Park St., in the spring of 1895. They are enthusiastic Grangers. They have six children. (See French gen.)
BELLE WOODBURY GILE, b. May 25, 1852, was a teacher for a long term of years. She m., Dec. 5, 1893, Frank Robertson of N. (See Robertson
RESIDENCE OF THE LATE ALFRED GILE.
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CLIFF FORBEST GILE, b. Aug. 15, 1856; m., May 22, 1883, M. Etta Hills of N., b. July 21, 1854. He had for several years a wheat ranch in Call- fornia. He returned and purchased a grain mill at Newport, where they reside. They have one child, Leland Warren, b. Dec. 11, 1883. Mr. Gile has held various town offices and is a K. of P.
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CLYDE AMBROSE GILE, b. March 6, 1860; m., Sept. 18, 1895, Mary A. Robertson of N., b. Aug. 9, 1868. They reside on the paternal acres and are general farmers .. They are members of Friendship Grange and have three children: Evelyn Ruby, b. 1898; Stanley Clyde, b. 1901; and Alonzo Robertson, b. 1904.
Mr. Gile was a charter member of Friendship Grange and has taken premiums for meritorious exhibits at the annual fairs, not the least being for the handsomest baby, Miss Evelyn.
GILMAN I.
JONATHAN GILMAN Was b. at Exeter Dec. 5, 1761. His father, Samuel, is said to have been a sailor from the coast of Maine. He bought 500 acres around Chestnut Pond. Jonathan m., Sept. 3, 1790, Sarah Whit- cher, b. May 20, 1774, and settled in N. in 1789. He had been a Revo- lutionary soldier and was at Bunker Hill. They had 14 children.
Mr. Gilman was a trusted business man of the town. He d. Nov. 25, 1847. She d. April 4, 1855.
Second Generation. (All b. at N.)
NANCY GILMAN, b. Jan. 3, 1791; m., May 14, 1820, Jonathan Clough. (See Clough gen.)
JOSIAH GILMAN d., in infancy, Dec., 1792.
BETSEY GILMAN, b. May 30, 1794; m. (pub.), June 20, 1814, Stephen Haines of West N.
SALLY GILMAN, b. July 17, 1796; m., June 19, 1814, King L. Hills, and removed to Sheffield, Vt. After his death, Dec. 22, 1863, she removed to the West. (See Hills gen.) She d. April 4, 1900.
JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, b. Aug. 30, 1798; m. Betsey Rogers, b. July 1, 1804, and removed to Columbia, where she d. in 1888. They had four children: Betsey, Jonathan, John and Sarah. He d. Jan. 11, 1882.
WILLIAM GILMAN, b. Feb. 15, 1801; m., 1831, Nancy Smith. They were farmers in various places in town and also in the West. Later in life they moved to Lexington, Mass., where they celebrated in 1881 her 70th birthday and golden wedding. (See Smith gen.)
MARY W. GILMAN, b. July 25, 1803; m., Sept. 3, 1820, John Annis of Dunbarton. They removed to Columbia, where he was a farmer.
JANE W. GILMAN, b. Nov. 6, 1805; m. Wesley Knowles and resided on his father's homestead. (See Knowles gen.) She d. Sept. 20, 1859.
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HARRIET GILMAN, b. Feb. 6, 1811; m. Charles, son of Walker Burrell, and built the house now occupied by Deacon Abbott. After some years they removed to Annawan, Ill., where he d. Mr. Buzzell was a clothier for Benjamin Chase in his early life. She lives in Chicago at an ex- treme ago.
CHARLES W. GILMAN, b. Aug. 6, 1815; m. Olive Ann Whitcher. They resided on the homestead and had a son and dau., who removed to the West with their parents in 1856. Mrs. Gilman, 1st, d. Aug., 1848. He . m. (second), Nancy Tilton of Meredith.
The farm was sold Jan. 29, 1856, to Thomas Poor of Thornton. (800 Poor gen.)
HARRISON GILMAN, b. May 30, 1818, d., in early manhood, unmarried, Ang. 19, 1884.
GILMAN II.
ANDREW GILMAN, b. 1762, came from Gilford and was a brickmaker. He carried on a mill near the present Granite Mill for some years and d. there Oct. 16, 1842. He was a Free Baptist deacon.
Second Generation.
NATHANIEL GILMAN, b. April 1, 1798, in Gilford, was a farmer on what became later the town farm. He removed later to the corner of the Sanborn road in Tilton near the Shaker Bridge, where he man- ufactured sleighs. He m. (first), Sally Smith of Gilford, who d. May 17, 1840. He m. (second), Aug. 18, 1842, Sally Philbrook, who d. June 4, 1865. He d. April 6, 1869. He had 10 children but two of whom resided in N.
Third Generation.
DEBORAH GILMAN, b. March, 1816; m., Oct. 4, 1840, David C. Tebbetts of Gilmanton. She d. 1850. (See Tebbetts gen.)
HARRIET GILMAN, b. April 2, 1818; resided at Meredith; unmarried. ALICE GILMAN d. at her father's, aged 31; unmarried.
MARIA J. GILMAN, b. May 25, 1822; m., Feb. 6, 1850, Aaron Veasey of N. (See Veasey gen.)
ALFRED COGSWELL GILMAN, b. Jan. 7, 1824; m. Hannah Mahoney, and resided in Charlestown, Mass.
ALMIRA GILMAN, b. May 20, 1829; m., Feb., 1867, George W. Riley of N. (See Riley gen.)
EBENEZER SMITH GILMAN, b. Aug. 8, 1831; d., April 8, 1861.
DANIEL SMITH GILMAN, b. Jan. 8, 1835; worked at Brooklyn, N. Y .; served in the Fifteenth Regiment; m., May 31, 1861, Abby Young. He had three children.
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GILMAN III.
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SIMON GILMAN, b. 1771, lived on the Fred Flanders place in the part of N. ceded to Franklin. He was a farmer and m., Dec. 12, 1796, Nancy Forrest, dau. of William, 4th, and had three children.
Second Generation.
SALLY GILMAN, b. at N. Dec. 18, 1802; m., Dec. 18, 1825, Thomas Dear- born Lyford of N. (See Lyford gen.)
NANCY GILMAN, b. at N .; m., Nov. 1, 1826, John Kent of N.
JOSEPH GILMAN, b. at N., 1809; m. Mrs. Lurana Gilman, his brother's widow. They had two sons, Horace and Stephen, 2d., who resided in the West. The latter is a manufacturer in Davenport, Ia.
STEPHEN GILMAN, b. at N., 1814; m. (pub.), April 20, 1836, Lurana Goodwin of East N. He d. Feb., 1845. She m. (second), (see above). JOHN MACK GILMAN was a trader at the old meeting-house and it was at his store that the exhumed body of Moses Danforth was taken. (See story elsewhere.) He fled to the West and returned but once for a short visit.
GILMAN IV.
FRANK AUGUSTUS GILMAN came to N. from Tilton in 1894. He was b. in Canterbury April 29, 1864; m., Feb. 15, 1889, Maud W. Conant of Canterbury. They resided in Tilton some years, coming later to their newly-erected home on Howard Ave. Mr. Gilman is a mason, builder and contractor and is a member of Harmony Lodge, I. O. O. F. Mrs. Gilman was educated at Lynn, Mass., and taught in Chichester, Can- terbury and Vershire, Vt, and is a Past Master of Friendship Grange. They have one dau., Marguerite.
GILMAN V.
WARD E. GILMAN, son of Joshua, b. at Gilford Sept., 1824; m. Eliza Dorr of Dover, b. 1822. He was a carpenter and came to N. in 1850 from Lawrence. They had three sons. He was in the Civil War. (See Boys in Blue.) She d. Sept. 16, 1861. He d. at N. Feb. 6, 1898.
Second Generation.
JOHN EVERETT GILMAN, b. at Lawrence, Mass., Dec. 25, 1848; m., Ori- anna J. Nudd of Canterbury, July, 1873. They have resided in N., where he was a stone mason and general farm hand; now living in Tilton. They had a family of 13; only seven survive.
SAMUEL C. GILMAN, b. at N. Nov. 25, 1851; m. (first), Melissa J. Piper (see Piper gen.); m. (second), Mrs. Caroline Hancock Tebbetts Dec 14, 1897. She d. Jan. 23, 1904. He still resides at the home on Bay St. and is employed at G. H. Tilton's hosiery mill.
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ALBERT H. GILMAN, b. at Sanbornton Nov. 5. 1854; m., Dec. 12, 1878. Eva Olena Shaw, b. at Canterbury March 24, 1854. He is foreman in the case room at G. H. Tilton's mill and resides on Hills St.
Third Generation.
(Children of John E. and Orianna Nudd Gilman.)
Twina, b. April 6, 1876; d., in infancy.
CHARLES EVERETT GILMAN, b. at Canterbury April 19, 1878, is a weaver employed by the Elm Mills Manufacturing Co
WILLIE OLIN GILMAN, b. at Belmont May 11, 1880; m. Eva M. Straw of Franklin April, 1901. They have two children and reside at Tilton. He is a weaver at Carter's Milla.
FRED Low GILMAN, b. at N. May 10, 1882, is a general farm hand. CORA MAY GILMAN, b. 1884; JOHN, b. 1887; ErLA and Error, twins, b. 1889, and Lzow, b. 1894, reside with their parents.
(Child of A. H. and Eva Shaw Gilman.)
WARD EUGENE GILMAN, b. at Canterbury, N. H., Oct. 22, 1879, resides with his parents and is employed at G H. Tilton's hosiery mill.
GILMAN VI.
LUTHER C. GILMAN came to N. in 1889. He was b. in Sanborntoa July 12, 1851; m., Sept. 17, 1887, Annie Ramsey, b. April 9, 1862, at Caspar, Fife, Scotland. They resided on Gale Ave. until their removal to their new home in Tilton.
They have one dau. His grandfather and great-grandfather were both drowned in Sanbornton Bay in nearly the same spot, and his father was killed by the cars near by.
Second Generation.
JANET MAUD GILMAN, b. at Tilton March 3, 1889, is a student at Til- ton Seminary.
GLIDDEN.
CHARLES GLIDDEN was one of the most unique characters among the early settlers of N. He was born in Maine in 1744 and became a sailor boy. In the deed to the first land purchased in town he is called mari- ner, in another husbandman and, still later, Charles Glidden, gentleman.
He served as a boy in the French and Indian War and was at the taking of Quebec by General Wolfe in 1759 and with General Amherst at the taking of Montreal in 1760 at 16 years of age.
He was at the second siege of Louisburg, it is said, and was one of the 22 who signed a memorial to the "Honorable Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire," complaining "that their food
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was insufficient; that they were kept on duty often for 24 hours in constant 'hassards' and hardships with no hot meat and no fruit." They also called the officers "tyrants" and their commissary a "griping oppressor" and ask to be heard. The petition was considered by the council and a bounty of 50 shillings voted to every volunteer at Louis- burg in addition to former bounty. Another Charles Glidden was at the first siege in 1745, a relative, perhaps, as they were both from Notting- ham.
It is not known what year he came to the north fields but his oldest daughter was b. here in 1769. His wife was Alice Mills. In 1775 his name appears as lieutenant in Col. Jeremiah Clough's regiment in the Revolutionary War, and five years later it appears on the "Larm List," with Benjamin Blanchard, Ensign Arcnilus Miles, John Cross, Gideon Leavitt, Capt. Edward Blanchard and two William Kenistons, each enlisting for three months in the "Continental Sarvice." These men were his neighbors and some of them had been with him at Louisburg and Quebec. .
During his absence in the wars, his wife, nothing daunted by the greatest hardships, added to her stock of fuel by going to the deep woods with her team of steers, felling the trees herself, hauling them home and, with the aid of the children, preparing them for the huge fireplace. She often added to the stock of family provisions by the skilful use of the old flintlock gun, for the woods were full of game.
His soldier life being at an end, he returned to his bleak and infertile acres, located far up on the foothills of Bean Hill, close by the dense forest that sloped down to Chestnut Pond. He chose this site probably on account of its proximity to water power at the outlet of the pond and the heavily timbered forest.
He cleared each summer a few acres of cold, barren land and during the long winters used to make frequent trips to Portsmouth with ox team for family supplies, doing many an errand on his way for his neighbor Wadleigh and others along the route. These days of absence were lonely and long for the wife left behind with a single female com- panion and the little ones about her knees. But she filled the hours solid with work. The log barn housed the live stock filled to the doors, while aloft, or on the stack outside, was the fodder that she must distribute to them at daybreak and again at night by the ald of the old tin, barn lantern.
It required steady nerves to remain composed when wild beasts prowled about the cabin at night or were so hungry as to steal about by daylight. This is no fancy sketch. Stories have come down to us of "Adventures that would make the stoutest quaver and the warmest blood run cold or, like the tale of Hamlet's ghost, make 'each individual hair to stand on end.'"
Mr. Glidden left his upland farm in 1787 and bought the farm of Jeremiah McDonald (or Daniel) and at once launched forth into num- berless enterprises. He erected house after house and had a personal
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grudge against any one who dared to build a larger barn than any of hia, or was elected to any town ofice. His public life, as regards ยท Northfield, began when he signed the petition for the new town in 1789. The first odce be held was "survayer of by wais," to which he was chosen the next March, 1781. The next year he was chosen "con- stabel," and the next, one of the "sessors." In fact, it is hard to find any annual meeting in which he was not chosen to fill one or more offices, varying from putting in the large blocks of stone underpinning for the meeting-house and laying the immense allis to turning the key and sweeping the house, often at the surprising figure of ten cents "a time," and when competition grew flerce would generously keep the key "for nothing."
The big "hemlock broom" must have necessitated a trip each time to the woods and the labored manufacture of stick and string must have left but little profit to so busy a man as Charles Glidden.
There was more profitable and honorable service along with this, however. He was sent in 1788 to the convention at Exeter, when the state adopted the Federal constitution, and he had been appointed justice of the peace in April, 1787. Northfield honored the mother- towa by sending a citizen of Canterbury as its first representative, so, in fact, Lieutenant Glidden was the first from the town in 1785. In the Journal of the House from June 1 to June 28, 1785, when he repre- sented both towns, his name appears no less than 37 times. He was chosen one of a committee on numberlees petitions; some dozen others were sent up by him. He held this office for five years.
He was now getting to be a man of means and had rare business ability. Beginning at Skendugoddy Brook he owned Lot 9, the parson- age, and 7 and 9 and, across the range, Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, extending from the old meeting-house to the Canterbury line. Besides his exten- sive farms, he was a stock dealer, renting out large flocks and herds to the new settlers. For a sheep he required yearly a pound of wool or to double every four years, and for the use of a cow he was to receive one every four years. At his death the rented stock was returned, and, coming from Moultonborough and Meredith, as well as the nearer towns, the highways were full of them and on being collected they filled a four-acre field.
He d. in 1811, so his tombstone records, aged 67 years. The Glidden family burying ground is at the Centre in the field back of the present schoolhouse.
Second Generation.
MARY GLIDDEN, b. 1769; m. Rev. Daniel Young and removed to Ohio, where she d.
JOHN GLIDDEN, b. 1772 and d. 1794. He was nine years old when his brother, Galusha, went to war and was nearly heart-broken because he was not allowed to go.
ALICE GLIDDEN, b. 1774; m. (first), William Smith, Jr., and had three
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sons. (See Smith gen.) She m. (second), Nov. 18, 1802, Judge Peter Wadleigh and had one son. (See Wadleigh gen.)
BETTY GLIDDEN, b. 1778; m., 1796, Jeremiah Smith, b. at Old Hampton in 1770 and d. at N. in 1867. They had four sons and one dau. (See Smith gen.) (Portrait.)
CHARLES GLIDDEN, JR., b. at N .; m., June 28, 1802, Ruth Hall (see Hall gen.), and had seven sons. He lived on the homestead with his father and shared in many of his enterprises. He was a man of ability and prominent in local affairs and served the town as representative in the Legislatures of 1818 and 1819. He erected a store by the old meeting- house and was seemingly a prosperous merchant with the usual variety found in country stores and piled high on his counters were webs of homemade cloth, table linen, coverlets, boxes of home dipped candles, pyramids of loaf sugar, while below were long rows of barrels of New England rum, West India molasses and whale oil.
He had large resources and could give unlimited credit to such as would pledge land, crops or cattle and in numberless cases he came to be the owner of whole farms, which went to feed the owner's appetite for hard cider, rum and tobacco; but, like many a man of more sagacity, he was unable to manage so many interests and financial ruin was the result. He removed to Ohio in 1831. It is said they started due West with an ox team with all their worldly possessions, getting as far as Salisbury South Road the first day. They succeeded in reaching there after a tiresome journey. Both d. there years after and their children and descendants still reside in and around Portsmouth.
NANCY GLIDDEN, b. 1785; m. Philip Clough of Canterbury and lived near the Holmes bridge and sawmill, which Mrs. Clough received from her father as a wedding gift. This was always known as the Hancock Mill. (See Hancock gen.) Their home, located near, had to be removed when the railroad track was built directly underneath it. Mr. and Mrs. Clough owned all the land bordering on the river from Colonel Cate's, which became later the property of Nathaniel Holmes, and later of his dau., whose husband, Zenas Clement, sold to the Seminary and the railroad.
Mrs. Clough m. (second), Rev. Daniel Young, her brother-in-law. He was a Methodist minister and his appearance at the brick church called out a large congregation. At the close the wedding took place. He was a man of business capacity and established the first furnace at Portsmouth, Ohio, and later two others known as Junior furnace and Franklin. He had a large family and abundant means. He was suc- ceeded by his nephew, Jefferson Glidden.
POLLY GLIDDEN, b. at N .; m. Daniel Young, 2d., and had six children.
Third Generation. (Children of Charles, Jr., and Ruth Hall Glidden.)
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