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Second Generation.
ELISHA LOUGEE came to N. from Sanbornton and purchased the home of James Dearborn Wadleigh, opposite the old meeting-house, and a part of the Glidden farm up the hill across the road. The building was moved whole and new sheds and barns were built, making it almost an ideal farmer's home in all its appointments. He was b. March 15, 1800.
His wife was Thirza Philbrook of Union Bridge, now East Tilton, and they had four children. His two sons seeking other employment, he sold to Moses Garland and returned to Sanbornton. He m. (second), Pamelia Glines of N. (see Glines gen.), May 15, 1867. He d. Aug. 28, and she, Oct. 17, 1886, at N.
GILMAN LOUGEE, cousin of the above, was b. at Gilmanton June 25, 1820. He m., Nov. 14, 1844, Cynthia P. Elkins of Gilmanton. They came to N. in Dec., 1866, and bought the Jesse Rogers farm. He d. suddenly Dec. 13, 1886. Mrs. Lougee still resides there. They had three sons and a dau.
Second Generation. (Children of Elisha and Thirza Philbrook Lougee.) (All b. in Sanbornton.)
TRUEWORTHY LOUGEE, b. Oct. 13, 1825; m., Nov. 7, 1853, Abbie R. Gil- man of Gilford. He served in the Civil War (see Boys in Blue) and was a farmer and carpenter. They had three sons who constituted the firm of Lougee Bros. at Laconia for many years. He d. of apo- plexy July 28, 1879.
SARAH JANE LOUGEE, b. Nov .. 29, 1827; m. (pub.), Nov. 17, 1850, Nathaniel Batchelder of Sanbornton. He was a carpenter and builder at Oshkosh, Wis., until 1860, when he went to California and she re- turned home. She d. at Laconia Aug. 27, 1874, leaving two sons and a dau.
THIRZA P. LOUGEE, b. Aug. 10, 1830; m., July 3, 1856, Augustus Williams of West Concord. She now resides at Penacook. She was educated at the Seminary and was a teacher before her marriage. He was an overseer at Holden's Mill and also at Tilton. They have four children, b. at West Concord: Harry A. of Franklin; Herbert O. of
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Penacook; Irving, a shoe dealer in Boston; and Ida P., wife of Nahum Abbott of Penacook. Mrs. Abbott d. in 1895.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams reside at Penacook, where he is employed at the Concord Axle Works.
SAMUEL FERNALD LOUGER, b. July 1, 1837; m., Jan. 1, 1861, Hattie L. Robinson of New Hampton. He was educated at the Now Hamp- chire Conference Seminary and prepared for the ministry, holding several appointments at Hill and elsewhere. He was an evangelist in the parishes of his native and surrounding towas. He d. suddenly of heart failure at work in the field, leaving three nons.
[Children of Gilman and - Cynthia Filkins Lougee.)
CURTIS J. LoverE, b. at Gilmanton Aug. 18, 1845; m. (first), Jeanie M. Johnson of Wolfeborough, Jan. 4, 1871. She d. June 22, 1877. He m. (second), Nellie Hall of Buxton, Me., Nov. 27, 1879. Thay had two children, Harry C., & Spanish War veteran, now of Lebanon, and Arthur, who d. at Lynn, Feb. 9, 1902. He was a painter. Mr. Longse m. (third), May 25, 1899, Mrs. Anna Hale of Tilton, and has one non, Floyd, b. 1900. He is a painter.
ALONZO JOSEPH LovaLE, b. at Gilmanton May 1, 1849; m. Mary Brown of Manchester, Feb. 18, 1874. He was a painter at the latter place and had four children. He d. Nov. 9, 1883. A son, Charles, a clerk, resides at Cambridgeport, Mass.
. . FRED GILMAN LoveZE, b. March 8, 1858; m., Sept. 18, 1880, Georgia A. Staples. of Tilton. (See Staples gen.) Mr. Lougee has been in the employ of O. & E. G. Morrison for 15 years. They have one son. HELEN J. LovarE, b. Dec. 25, 1861; d., June 18, 1881.
Third Generation. (Child of Fred and Georgia Staples Lougee.)
BARLE FRED LOUGEE, b. Dec. 2, 1887; resides with his parents and is a student of Tilton Seminary. He is a fine pen artist.
LOVEJOY.
REV. OLIN LOVEJOY Was b. in Landaff April 16, 1851; m., in the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, Tilton, Aug. 18, 1872, Marcia A. Rollins. He was educated at Lisbon and at the New Hampshire Conference Som- inary. He was pastor of the Methodist Church at Surry, Jefferson and Lake Village.
In 1878 they removed to Ottawa, Ill., where they remained for four years. Later they cared for her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. Winslow, where they now reside. He was pastor of the Free Baptist Church at Contoocook and later was for three years at West Peru, Me. They had Bix children, three of whom d. in infancy. He has served on the school board for two terms.
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Second Generation.
MOSES CHANNING LOVEJOY, b. June 15, 1873; d. at Ottawa, Ill., aged six. ELSIE AGNES LOVEJOY, b. Jan. 2, 1875; m. John Johnson of Lowell, Mass. She d. at Lowell April 8, 1905.
MARCIA DAWN LOVEJOY, b. June 16, 1876; m., June 29, 1905, Kirby Hyde and resides in Lowell, Mass.
ROY LEON LOVEJOY, b. June 18, 1880.
LOVERIN.
ALBION LOVERIN came from Manchester on his wedding day, Nov. 19, 1885, having previously purchased the Chase Wyatt farm in East N.
In 1902, after 17 years' stay, he sold to Judge Davis of Washington, D. C., and removed to Park St., where he is a wood and coal dealer.
JENNIE MCDOWELL LOVEBIN was b. at Highgate, Vt., May 18, 1857. They have two children.
Second Generation.
GRACE BELLE LOVERIN, b. Feb. 25, 1890, is a student at Tilton Sem- inary. She has read much in public and gives promise of fine elo- cutionary powers.
HELEN WINONA LOVEBIN, b. April 13, 1899, is a student in the Union Graded School.
LUDLOW.
CORNELIUS LUDLOW was a native of Pennsylvania. He had been & Revolutionary soldier and was looking over the country. Being taken sick, he was cared for at the home of Abraham Glines of Canterbury, and, Feb. 19, 1826, m. Phebe, his dau., and resided near the Oak Hill schoolhouse, where he tended the grist, oil and plaster mill on the Cross Brook, below the Davis sawmill. They had five children. He was accidentally drowned while cutting trees . for Daniel Herrick on the steep river bank at Factory Village. She m. (second), Alexander Braley and d. at N. July 24, 1876.
Second Generation.
MOSES LEAVITT LUDLOW, b. June 4, 1824; m., May 8, 1848, Louisa Collins and had four children. He was a natural mechanic and was a carpenter by trade. He d. at his son's in N. April, 1904. She d. April 5, 1901.
WHITTEN LUDLOW was in the Mexican War. He enlisted at Ports- mouth, where he had gone with two friends, who, as soon as he had signed his name, treacherously withdrew and returned home. He joined the army and d. at Corpus Christi, Mexico.
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NANOY LUMLOW, b. in Danbury Feb. 4, 1827; m. (first), Simon Far- Well of Sanbornton Bridge and resided there. A son, Charles Alonso, d. in 1855, and a dau., Nellie F., d. in 1876. She m. (second), John Keniston of N. (See Keniston gen.)
ALICE LUDLOW m., June, 1856, Thomas Austin and had two children. (See Austin gen.) She m. (second), Frederick Keniston. (See Ken- iston gen.)
LUOY ANT H. LUDLOW m., April 22, 1851, Peter Paro. She m. (000- ond), Albert Keniston and removed to Altoona, Wis. They have a son, Charles, of Everett, Wash., and a dau., Alice, of Minneapolis. .
Third Generation. (Children of Leavitt and Louisa Collins Ludlow.)
KENDRICK LUDLOW, b. March 13, 1848; m., Aug. 4, 1867, Eunice Clay of Wilmot, b. Aug. 4, 1847. He was trackman for.the Boston & Maine Rafiroad and later purchased the farm of the late David Dearborn, where they now reside. They have three children.
MARY LUDLOW m. John Currier of Manchester and resided there until his death in 1895. They had one son, Arthur. She m. (second), George Law of Portsmouth, where they reside. A dau. resides in Manchester.
WHITTEN LUDLOW, b. July, 1856; m., 1875, Electa A. Dow. (See Dow gen.) After many years of service for the railroad at N. Depot he weat to perform the same service at Concord. He is now employed by the Boston & Maine Railroad on the Concord street car tracks and resides there. They have six children. Mrs. Ludlow d. at Concord in 1895. The children all reside at Concord.
PHEBE LUDLOW m. Jonathan Glines of Canterbury. After various dwelling places they reside at N. Depot, where he is a trackman on the Boston & Maine Railroad.
Fourth Generation. (Children of Whitten and Electa Dow Ludlow.)
BERTHA LUDLOW, b. at N. March, 1876; resides in the home at Con- cord.
CARBOLL LUDLOW, b. June, 1877; m. Grace Ray of Concord, and is employed on the railroad. They have one child.
ETTIE LUDLOW, b. Aug., 1879; m. Edward Page of Concord.
MARIA LUDLOW, b. 1882; m., July, 1903, Peter Johnson of Concord, and has one son.
EMILY E. LUDLOW, b. 1895.
(Children of Kendrick and Eunice Clay Ludlow.)
NETTIE M. LUDLOW, b. April 20, 1869, at Canterbury; m., Jan., 1894, James Featherstone of Manchester, where he is employed in the rail- road yard.
LEON H. LUDLOW, b. at N. Nov. 21, 1881.
GENEVA LUDLOW, b. at N. June 16, 1887.
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LYFORD.
It is believed that all persons in the United States bearing this name are descendants of Francis Lyford, who came to Boston from England and was a shipbuilder.
THOMAS, who came to N. and m. Hannah Hall, April 7, 1793, was the son of John, b. 1720, who was the son of Thomas, the son of the above- named Francis.
LIEUT. THOMAS LYFORD Was b. Nov. 12, 1768; m., April 7, 1793, Han- nah Hall, probably of Canterbury. They lived on what is now called Zion's Hill and had a family of five children.
Second Generation. (All b. at N.)
ANNA LYFORD, b. Dec. 9, 1793; 'm., Feb. 10, 1814, Ebenezer Morrison of Sanbornton. (See Morrison gen.)
SUSANNAH LYFORD, b. Dec. 9, 1796; m., Feb. 4, 1819, Robert Gray, a native of Salem, Mass. (See Gray gen.)
POLLY LYFORD, b. May 6, 1798; m., Dec. 29, 1816, Enoch Gile of N. (See Gile gen.)
HANNAH LYFORD, b. 1800; m., Feb. 3, 1820, Amos C. Hannaford of N., b. May 12, 1797. (See Hannaford gen.)
THOMAS DEARBORN LYFORD, b. March 15, 1803; m. (first), Dec. 18, 1825, Sally Gilman of N., b. Dec. 18, 1803. She d. July 20, 1851. They remained on the homestead until past middle life. They had a son and a dau. Later he erected a house at Tilton and removed there. He m. (second), Nov. 16, 1854, Mrs. Mehitable Gerrish of Boscawen, and d. Nov. 16, 1867. She d. at Penacook Feb. 15, 1877.
JEREMIAH HALL LYFORD, b. at N. Oct. 19, 1808; m., July 16, 1834, Mary Ann W. Haines of Canterbury, b. Jan. 13, 1812. He was a grad- uate of Dartmouth Medical School in 1833 and practised first at Ra- venna, O., and later at Port Byron, Ill., where he d. Jan. 28, 1878. He is succeeded by his son, William, who received his degree from Rush Medical College and is the father of 14 children.
Third Generation. (Children of Thomas and Sally Gilman Lyford.) (B. at N.)
SABAH ANN KENT LYFORD, b. March 4, 1827; d. at Evanston, Ill., March 19, 1891; m., Oct. 22, 1846, Benjamin Chase Sargent of Sanbornton Bridge, b. Sept. 27, 1825. One dau., Sarah T., b. at N., m. Clayton Dart of Anawan, Ill. Mr. Sargent went to California in 1849 but returned and located at Anawan, going later to Evanston in 1882. He d. there in Jan., 1905.
JOSEPH GILMAN LYFORD, b. July 8, 1830, remained on his father's farm until 1853, when he removed to Illinois and engaged in the grain business. He m., May 13, 1856, Mary A. Shannon of Groveland, Ill.,
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and had two some, John T. and Clarence I., both of whom d. ta in- fancy. He m. (second), Annie M. Brown of N., Dec. 17, 1886, and resided in several parts of the Far West until 1885. Mrs. Lyford was a member of the school board of Hebron, Neb., and was its president for a term of years. She was a graduate of New Hampshire Conformes Female College, class of 1860. They have four children, all bat ome re- siding near their parents in Bridgeport, Conn., where the some, Jay and Fred, are engaged in the clothing business. May is the wife of F. H. Bmith of Quincy, Maes., and Belle is a stenographer in Bridgeport. Mr. Lyford has always been a Republican and active in local at- fairs. Ho served a term as mayor of Wilton, Ia., and was county commissioner while at Hebron, Neb.
MARDEN.
JOSIAH MARDER came from Chester to N. when the country was an unbroken wilderness. While he was clearing his farm and preparing his home he often returned on foot for the Sabbath.
His father was Stephen Marden, b. in 1786. He erected & small house, which he later enlarged, and m. Mehitable Mussay of London and had a family of five. He lived to see his 92d year, dying March 23, 1855. She d. Feb. 27, 1860. They were Christian people, both having been baptised by Elder Winthrop Young three quarters of & century before.
Second Generation. (B. at N.)
EBENEZER MARDEN, b. March 24, 1797; m., Jan. 1, 1806, Almira Brown of Canterbury and had seven children. He remained on the home farm, which has always been called the "Marden Settlement."
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Third Generation. (B. at N.)
HULDAH MARDEN, b. May 1, 1824; m. Ira Rowe and removed to Can- dia. They had one dau., Mary.
MARY J. MARDEN, b. June 4, 1826.
MEHITABLE MARDEN, b. Feb. 4, 1831; m. Charles Gile of Jamestown, Belmont, and had five children.
JOHN B. MARDEN, b. May 29, 1838; m., Aug. 10, 1862, Frances Moody of Belmont, b. Dec. 27, 1842. They resided on the home farm until 1876, when he bought the Ambrose Woodbury farm on Sondogardy Meadow, where he conducts a milk farm. They have four children, all b. in N.
Fourth Generation. (B. at N.)
HERBERT L. MARDEN, b. Oct. 19, 1867; m., Sept. 15, 1897, Edna W. Potter and resides in Providence, R. I. They have a dau., Mary, b. June 4, 1899.
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GEORGE M. MARDEN, b. Feb. 9, 1871; m., June 30, 1892, Josie M. Wyatt. They reside at Ashland, where he is a house builder.
CHARLES E. MARDEN, b. Aug. 24, 1874; m., Aug. 8, 1895, Annie J. Manning of Vermont, b. April 26, 1869. They have a dau., Alice, b. March 30, 1896.
J. FRANK MARDEN, b. Sept. 24, 1878. He resides at home and is a farmer.
MARTIN.
ROBERT MARTIN, called Dr., was b. at Alexandria in 1822 and, after living in Hill and Bristol, came to N. in 1875 and bought the house now owned by Fred B. Lord on Park St., where he was a dealer in horses and conducted a teaming business. He joined the army as a fifer in the Twelfth Regiment. (See Boys in Blue.)
He was leader of the troop of cavalry that distinguished itself at the N. centennial.
He sold to Francis W. Thompson and removed to Dakota.
He was a brother of Samuel Martin, who ran the sawmill on the Holmes dam.
Dr. Martin visited his old home a few years since in good health and mental condition, although well past 80 years of age.
MASON.
SIMEON MASON came from Moultonborough to N. in 1870. He was b. at Sandwich Oct. 6, 1817; m., Dec. 1, 1839, Susan S. Mooney, b. Jan. 1, 1814. He was a carpenter and farmer. They had one child. Mr. Mason lived on the Alvah Hannaford place, where he suffered an attack of smallpox. He removed later to the John Mooney house, where both d .; he, Oct. 7, 1883; she, April 6, 1890.
Second Generation.
CHARLES W. MASON, b. at Sandwich Nov. 1, 1842; m., Dec. 14, 1887, Emma R. Morse, b. at Sandwich in 1865. He is a farmer at the Centre, doing also an extensive poultry and dairy business.
MASON.
DAVID B. MASON Was b. at Loudon in 1840 and m., Feb. 24, 1863, Rosilla Weeks. She was b. at Sanbornton Nov. 10, 1831. He was a soldier in the Civil War. (See Boys in Blue.) He d. at N. May 28, 1865. They have one dau., with whom Mrs. Mason resides. She owned a home and resided for sometime on Gale Ave.
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Second Generation.
ExDORA MASON, b. at Sanboraton July 15, 1864; m. Ned W. Marth ton, b. at Sanbornton April 18, 1860, where they now reside. They have four children.
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McDONALD or McDANIEL.
NEHEMIAH MODANIEL of Barrington bought land of the Canterbury tax collector, March 20, 1746. Jeremiah and John, his sons, perhaps, bought original lots, Nos. 9 and 10. Sarah, a sister or dan. of Nobe- mlah, came from Pembroke, where she had been brought up by her uncle, Colonel Cochrane, and became the wife of Robert Forrest. (800 Forrest gon.)
Second Generation.
NEHEMIAH MODONALD, JR., m., Feb. 16, 1804, Patty Glines and had three children. He m. (second), Abagail Ferguson of Sandwich (pub.), Aug 23, 1821, and had one dan. . His name drops from the tax list in 1827.
ARABAIL MODANIEL, b. ; m., Feb. 26, 1805, Imac Glines of N., b. 1778. (See Glines gen.) . ยท SUSAN MODANIEL, b. 1767; m. (pub.), John Glines, b. 1766. (800 Glines gon.)
Third Generation. (Children of Nehemiah and Martha Glines McDonald.)
JONATHAN MCDANIEL, b. July 10, 1804; m. Charlotte Foss and had a dau., Citana, who m. Eben Hutchins of Canterbury.
JOHN ELLISON MODANIEL, b. May 16, 1808; m., July 2, 1829, Mra. Betsey Gile Glines (see Glines gen.) and had a family of six. He d. June 22, 1851. Mr. McDaniel served on the board of selectmen and was a farmer.
WILLIAM MCDONALD, b .April 7, 1806; m. Sally Dow and resided mostly in Canterbury. They had three sons.
(Child of Nehemiah and Abagail Ferguson McDonald.)
SARAH MODANIEL, b. April 18, 1827; m. (pub.), June 6, 1848, Edward Presby, Jr., b. Feb. 4, 1827. They had four children. (See Presby gen.) She m. (second), Hiram Cross of N. and had four children. (See Cross gen.)
(Children of Allison and Betsey Gile Glines McDaniel.) (All b. at N.)
BETSEY MODANIEL m. Simeon Kimball, b. 1810, being his second wife. After his death in 1865 she cared for her brother-in-law, John Hanna- ford. (See below.)
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MARTHA MCDANIEL, b. 1832; m., Jan. 2, 1858, Thomas M. Towns and resides in Tilton. He is a watchmaker and, of late, a dealer in coal. They have three children: Charles, a furniture dealer and undertaker at Tilton; Rebecca (Mrs. Ansel Arnold); and Ella.
REBECCA MCDANIEL, b. 1837; d., 1858.
JOHN MCDANIEL, b. 1839, served in the Civil War in Company D, Eighth Regiment. (See Boys in Blue.)
ALBERT MCDANIEL, b. 1842, served in the Civil War in Company H, Fifteenth Regiment. (See Boys in Blue.)
SARAII A. MODANIEL, b. 1834; m., Nov. 27, 1856, Jonathan T. Hanna- ford, b. at Sanbornton, 1829. They had six children, of whom only two survive, Fred and George.
(Children of William and Sally Dow McDonald.)
JOSEPH MCDANIEL was employed on the railroad for many years .. Later he bought a farm in Sanbornton, where he m. and has four chil- dren, two sons and two dau. Of the sons, Andrew is a farmer at. home and Joseph is employed by the Boston & Maine Railroad.
HENRY MCDANIEL m. Susan Bailey of Franklin. He has been a mill hand but recently taken up the business of farming.
TRISTRAM MCDANIEL m. Lydia Streeter and resides in Canterbury. They have a son, George, of Salisbury, and a dau., Mrs. George Heath,. of Tilton. Mr. McDaniel was for many years a trackman on the B., C. & M. R. R.
McCRILLIS.
CAPT. MICHAEL MCCRILLIS was first taxed in 1801. He built the house. on the knoll below the Centre schoolhouse. He m. Sally (Sarah) Hancock Dec. 12, 1799. She was a sister of Joseph Hancock on the- Merrimack intervale. He had the fine old Irish idea of hospitality and is said to have kept a kettle of "bean porridge good and warm" for even the most casual caller. He had many a call from the scholars in the cold winter mornings and recesses. Mrs. Thomas Simonds was a sister to Mrs. McCrillis. (See Simonds gen.)
They moved to East Boston, Mass., where she d. Other members of the family lived in Canterbury. They had four children: Martha and Bowdoin, who settled in Buffalo, N. Y., where the latter was a merchant; Adaline, who m. - Moore of Canterbury and went to New Mexico; and Napoleon, who was a lawyer and lived in the West.
McDUFF.
WILLIAM J. McDUFF came to N. from Hamden, P. Q., in 1883. He was. b. at Perthshire, Scotland, Nov. 18, 1835, and m., Oct. 15, 1867, Cynthia. Symmes, b. at Ryegate, Vt., Oct. 1, 1843. He was a farmer and owned the Joseph Dearborn place. They had eight children. He was a mem- ber of the Masonic Lodge at Wells River, Vt.
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Second Generation.
OSCAR JAMES MCDUFF, b. at Ryegate, Vt., May 28, 1868; m., June, 1898, Della Stone of Pennsylvania. He is a merchant at Starrucca, Pa.
WILLIAM JOHN McDUFF, b. at Wells River, Vt., April 7, 1870; m., June 24, 1901, Blanche E. Kelton, b. at South Boston, Mass., in 1873. He is the manufacturer of the McDuff gasolene engine at Lakeport, where they now reside. He is a member of Doric Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Tilton.
MABEL JANE McDUFF, b. at Wells River, Vt., May 24, 1872; m., July 18, 1896, Luther H. Morrill. (See Morrill gen.)
ROBERT S. McDUFF, b. at Hamden, P. Q., May 23, 1875; m., Sept. 13, 1898, Annie M. Perry. They have one child, Louise E. He is a ma- chinist and now resides at Leominster, Mass.
SARAH MARGARET McDUFF, b. at Hamden, P. Q., Jan. 23, 1878; d. at N. Aug. 25, 1894.
EMMA F. McDUFF, b. at Hamden, P. Q., 1880; d. there in May, 1882.
AGNESS FIRTH MCDUFF, b. at N. Feb. 14, 1884. She is a telegraph operator at Meredith.
HARBIET CATHERINE McDUFF, b. at N. April 30, 1887, graduated at Tilton Seminary, class of 1905, taking the Latin Scientific course.
McQUESTEN.
GREENOUGH MCQUESTEN was b. at Plymouth June 5, 1804. He m., Sept. 28, 1828, Myra, dau. of Stephen Chase, b. at N. Dec. 14, 1801. They had four children. He was associated in trade with Isaac Whit- tier and later was a clerk in various stores in Tilton, going to his home in Plymouth in 1838. He resided some years later in Fisherville, now Penacook, and finally entered the employ of the Concord Railroad as bookkeeper in their construction and repair shops at Concord, which place he held to extreme age. He was a deacon of the Congre gational churches at Tilton and Concord. He d. Aug. 24, 1890. Mrs. McQuesten d. Dec. 28, 1888.
Second Generation.
WILLIAM GREENOUGH MOQUESTEN, b. June 5, 1829; m., July 17, 1856, Elizabeth Fudge of St. John, N. B., b. Jan. 17, 1828. They had three children. He d. Jan. 29, 1880. Mrs. McQuesten d. Sept. 29, 1875.
MYRA CHASE MOQUESTEN, b. April 24, 1831; d., March 29, 1891.
EVABTS MCQUESTEN, b. at N. March 9, 1837; m., Sept. 2, 1863, Elizabeth Knight of Boothbay, Me., b. Jan. 20, 1840. He is a dealer in groceries, meats and provisions in Concord. They have three chil- dren and three d. in infancy.
PETER ROCKWOOD MOQUESTEN, b. Sept. 29, 1839; m. Emma Sanborn of Henniker. He graduated from Columbia University, New York, was
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ordained to the ministry and went West. Later he located at Fall River, Mass., and is now at Annandale, N. J. He has two children, Walter, who is in the insurance business in New York, and Ada.
MERRILL I.
NOAH LANE MERBILL Was b. at Deerfield. He m. Melinda Tibbetts, b. Aug. 18, 1803 (see Tibbetts gen.), and resided in N. and later in Man- chester. They had five children.
Second Generation.
ARTHUR T. MERRILL, b. at N. Jan. 22, 1840; m., April 16, 1862, Arianna E. Dearborn (see Dearborn gen.), and had three children. He served in the Seventeenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, during the Civil War (see Boys in Blue) and d. at Lake Providence, La., March 8, 1868. She d. at N. March 6, 1868.
DE WITT MERRILL, b. at Manchester June 2, 1842. He also served in the army (see Boys in Blue) and has resided at Ashland since 1881. BRADBURY MERBILL d. in Macon City, Mo.
NOAH LANE MERRILL, JR., had his name changed to J. C. Tibbetts.
Third Generation. (Children of Arthur T. and Arianna Dearborn Merrill.)
(B. at N.) .
FANNIE L. MERBILL, b. July 25, 1863; d. at Lowell, Mass., Jan. 22, 1889. Her name was changed to Fannie L. Brown. ESTELLA T. MEBBILL, b. May 11, 1865; d. at three years of age. WILLIE ARTHUR MEBBILL, b. March 22, 1867, is now engaged in mining in California.
MERRILL II.
FRANK H. MERRILL, b. in Rumney Oct. 29, 1855, learned his trade at Medford, Mass., where he m., Aug. 7, 1880, Mary Elliot of Medford, Mass. After a short stay at Bristol, he came in 1887 to N. and pur- chased a tinsmith's and hardware business, which he conducted for nearly 15 years. Mrs. Merrill d. Feb. 8, 1892. They had one son, George Lake Merrill, who graduated from Union Graded School and d. one year later, March 21, 1902. Mr. Merrill m. (second), Emma S. Pike of New Hampton, Jan. 1, 1896. His health failing, he went to Denver, Col., where he d. June 15, 1902.
He was a member of Doric Lodge, A. F. and A. M., a member also of Harmony Lodge, I. O. O. F., and also of the Society of United Work- men. Mrs. Merrill m., March 15, 1905, Samuel Howard at New Hamp- ton, where they now reside.
MILES.
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LIEUX. JORDAN MIEM, b. Ang. 4. 1710, was a resident of the Counter try north folds long before the Revolutionary War. Ho pitched kis at om what became the Rogers farms near Mount Tug. His wife, Lizabeth, was b. June 11, 1724. They were m. in 1742. His death is corded as occurring "Mar ye 81 1777."
At a meeting held in Canterbury, March 17; 1766, Josich Miles was Ited and granted 70 acres adjoining his lots and 50 more for "getting @ Richcords into shape"-820 in all.
His "pitch lots" must have been taken by him before the survey of le town, as they lip on the map diagonal to the rest and no record found of their being granted to him or any one cise.
On the seventeenth day of March, 1757, they also voted and granted Lieut. Josiah Miles "70 sores joining Sounduggady South & Heather 'sadow for $184 10s (old tenner on demand)." They were living here . 1758. The cabin was probably in the northeast corner of the lots. a old cellar more than 100 years ago had an old decayed apple tree in . It was here that the trouble with the Indians, Sabattis and Christo, sourred. (See Indian Legends.) There was another Josiah Miles, Med Captain Josiah, who ran the boundary of the new town three lars after his father's death.
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