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SCALES FAMILY.
Abraham Scales was one of the first settlers in Notting- ham. His ancestors came from England to Massachusetts about 1640. He was born September 1, 1718, and died in 1796. He was a house-carpenter, and learned his trade in Boston, and was famous for his skill in the business. About 1740 he bought lots Nos. 39 and 41 on Summer Street, which lie in the south-east corner of Nottingham, and adjoining Lce line, four miles from Nottingham Square, and one and one-half miles from Lee Hill. In 1747, July 8, he married Miss Sarah Thompson of Durham, and com- menced housekeeping in a log house on the farm. In 1754 he built the house which is at present (1878) standing on the farm. It is twenty-eight by thirty-eight feet, and two stories high, and was the first two-story framed house built in the town, and is, without doubt, the oldest dwelling-
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house at present standing in the town. It is constructed of very large pine timbers, and put together in the most substantial manner. It is as good as the average of farm- houses now, and it must have been the wonder of the town when it was built, in those days when the war-hoop of the Indians was yet heard by him and his family. In front of the house, and a few rods from it, is a very large apple-tree, which is known to have borne apples during more than a century, and so late as 1876 it bore more than forty bushels of excellent fruit ; and it has been known to bear sixty bushels of apples in a year. Six generations of the Scales family have eaten its fruit. In 1756, he bought lot No. 37 on Summer Street, and paid eight hundred pounds, old tenor, for it, thus making his farm to consist of three hun- dred acres, nearly all of which remained in the possession of the Scales family until 1854, and a small part of it is still in their possession.
He was an active man in town and church affairs; was moderator in town meeting's at various times; chairman of the board of selectmen in 1754- 55; and one of the com- mittee to meet with the " council " in reference to dismiss- ing the Rev. Benjamin Butler. After 1770, he appears to have changed his views somewhat, and joined the Baptists, and attended church at Lee Hill, and owned a pew in the church there. In 1776, he refused to sign the " Associa- tion Test," - promising to take up arms to resist England, -- but he furnished money to send others, although he would not obligate himself to go in person. He was probably influenced somewhat by his Baptist friends, many of whom refused to sign on account of their religious scruples. His oldest son, Samuel, however, did sign.
His children were : (1) John, born September 9, 1748, died 1754; (2) Sarah, born August 8, 1750, died Septem- ber, 1754; (3) Abraham, born August 17, 1752, died Sep- tember, 1754 ; these three children died of a disease now called diphtheria ; (4) Samuel, born September 9, 1754, mar-
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ried Hannah, daughter of Samuel Langley of Lee, in 1775, died Mareh, 1778; (5) James, born May 1, 1757, died Sep- tember, 1760; (6) Mary, born October 19, 1759, died Sep- tember, 1760; (7) Hannalı, born August 2, 1761, married Nathan Clough of Loudon, December 30, 1784; (8) Abi- gail, born January 29, 1764, married Elijah Cartland of Lee, July 13, 1786; (9) Ebenezer, born November 6, 1766, died February 18, 1855, married Anna, daughter of Gideon Mathes of Lee, February 17, 1789 ; (10) Lois, born Deeem- ber 20, 1769, died in Lee, March 2, 1849, married Gideon Mathes of Lee.
The children of Samuel Seales, born September 9, 1754, were : (1) Mary, born 1776, died 1782 ; (2) Samuel, born April 20, 1778, died September 21, 1840, married Hannah, daughter of Moses Dame of Lee, in April, 1799. He always lived with his grandfather, Abraham, and when the latter died he came into possession of the Scales farm, and re- tained it till 1840, when it fell to his oldest son, Samuel, who retained it till 1854.
The children of Samuel, 2d, were : (1) Samuel, born July 18, 1800, died January 12, 1877, married Betsey, daughter of Benjamin True of Deerfield, December 28, 1828; (2) Mary, born February 22, 1802, died 1874, married Hugh Thompson of Lee ; resided in Lee, afterwards in San Fran- eiseo, Cal., where she died ; (3) Naney, born August 18, 1803, died 1872, married Daniel Tuttle of Nottingham ; resided in Nottingham. Her husband was one of the active business men of the town ; held all the important town offiees ; was famous as a land-surveyor ; and was a skillful and energetie manager of whatever he took hold of. They had four children, Levi Woodbury, Anna, Leonora, and Jay. The oldest son, Levi, was graduated from Bowdoin Medieal College, and is now a praetieing physician in Sa- tartia, Yazoo County, Miss. ; (4) Levi, born February 13, 1811, died August 4, 1847, married, November 28, 1835, Martha Cilley, daughter of Hon. Bradbury Bartlett of Not-
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tingham; resided in Nottingham. Their children were Horace, Elizabeth Ann, Mary True, and Bradbury Bartlett. The widow resides on Nottingham Square, with her son Bradbury.
Samuel Scales, 3d, born July 18, 1800, was captain in the New-Hampshire militia; chairman of the board of selectmen of Nottingham in 1844-45; represented Not- tingham in the legislature in 1849-50; was justice of the peace a great many years, and did considerable business in that office. From 1851 to 1870 he resided on the Judge- Hale farm in Barrington; from 1870 till his death he resided in Lee. He was a man of the strictest honesty and integrity, of superior ability and sound judgment, and always active and energetic throughout his whole life. His children were : (1) True, born January 20, 1830, married Mary Bird Shattuck in 1853 ; resides in Cambridgeport, Mass. ; (2) Israel, born September 6, 1832, died August 8, 1833 ; (3) John, born October 6, 1835, married, October 22, 1865, Ellen A., daughter of Deacon Alfred Tasker of Strafford ; he fitted for college at the New London Lite- rary and Scientific School, at New London; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1863 ; received the degree of A. M. in 1866; he was principal of Strafford Seminary, Center Strafford, 1863 - 64; principal of Wolfeborough Academy, 1864-65 ; principal of Gilmanton Academy, 1866 - 67 ; and has been principal of Franklin Academy, Dover, since May, 1869, which position he now (1878) holds ; his children are Burton True and Marianna Lilian; (4) George, born October 20, 1840, graduated from the New London Literary and Scientific School in 1861; entered the First Company New-Hampshire Sharpshooters, Septem- ber, 1861; and served in the Union army under Mcclellan till he was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862 ; he was in battles for six successive days, and fell at the final repulse of the rebel army. He was a young
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man of superior ability, excellent character, and fine schol- arship, loved and respected by all who knew him.
Rev. Ebenezer, son of Abraham Scales, born November 6, 1766, resided in Nottingham, on the Scales farm, till 1796; then he moved to Kearsarge, and resided till 1804; then he moved to Wilton, Me., where he resided till his death, February 18, 1855. He was ordained as minister of the gospel at the Anson (Me. ) quarterly mecting of the Freewill Baptist denomination, October 21, 1804. He pos- sessed a strong constitution and a resolute mind, and was enabled to accumulate property sufficient to support and cducate a family of cleven children, and to assist each one respectably when they became of age. He was always deeply interested in the cause of truth ; he possessed good, native talents, and spoke with boldness and energy, and threw his whole soul into his sermons, so that he carried conviction to the minds of his hcarers. Besides attending to his farm and local pastorate, he traveled and preached extensively, and was eminently useful in promoting revivals and establishing churches. He was a progressive man, always prompt in the march of benevolent and Christian effort, but decided and uncompromising with what he deemed wrong or sinful. He was one of the founders of the Freewill Baptist Biblical School, which has been sucli a power for good in advancing the usefulness of the de- nomination. He married Anna, daughter of Gideon Mathes of Lee, February 17, 1789; their children were : (1) Han- nah, (2) Abigail, (3) John, (4) Anna, which four were born in Nottingham, on the Scales farm; (5) Abraham, (6) Gideon, (7) Sarah, who were born in Kearsarge; (8) James B., (9) Enoch, (10) Lois, (11) Lorinda, who were born in Wilton, Me. These all lived to grow up and be- came prosperous and successful in their various callings. One of the sons became a minister of the gospel of Christ, Rev. James B. Scales, who was born February 4, 1804, and now resides in Milan.
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SIMPSON FAMILY.
Andrew Simpson first settled on Fish Street, so named because this was the street or road on which the early set- tlers started for the Merrimack to obtain salmon and shad, which then abounded in that noble river, especially in the region of what is now Manchester. Mr. Simpson's lot on this street was not far from the Square, upon which is now living one of his granddaughters at the advanced age of eighty-five years. Mr. Simpson married Elizabetlı Patton of Candia, who was murdered by the Indians in 1753. She was a large, fleshy woman, and withal quite lame. The In- dians were prowling about Nottingham and other towns, giving much alarm, and occasionally committing violence. Most of the inhabitants of Nottingham had taken refuge in their block-houses. On the day of her death, Mrs. Simpson went home to churn and bake, intending to return before night to the place of refuge. Here, thus employed, two Indians fell upon her in their usual manner and inhumanly put her to death. The same day they killed Mr. Beard, and Folsomc. It is believed that these two Indians were Sabatis and Plausawa. Tradition has it, that these In- dians went to Boscawen, to a place known as Indian Bridge, where they boasted, under the influence of rum, that they had killed three persons, two men and one woman, in Not- tingham; that the latter was " big," and, when they killed her, "she blatted like a calf." They spent the night at the house of one Peter Bowen. They drank freely and be- came communicative, and Bowen, fearing trouble from them, contrived to draw the charges from their guns. The next morning, Bowen, at their request, started to carry the packs of the Indians on his horse, when Sabatis proposed to run a race with Bowen's horse. Bowen consented, but allowed Sabatis to outrun him. At length, as they went along towards the river, Sabatis proposed a second race ; and, as soon as Bowen had a little outrun Sabatis, a gun was heard to snap behind him, and Bowen at once saw the
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smoke of the powder and a gun aimed at his head ; leaping from his horse, he plunged his tomahawk into the head of Sabatis. Plausawa took aim with his gun at Bowen, but, by the latter's precaution, the gun flashed without doing harm, and Plausawa shared the fate of Sabatis. This was done in the road on the bank of Merrimack River, near the northerly line of Boscawen. Bowen, aided by one Morril, hid the dead bodies under a bridge, where they were de- voured by beasts of prey, and their bones lay on the ground. Dr. Belknap says a bill was found against Bowen and Mor- ril by the grand jury at Portsmouth, but a crowd, on the night before the trial, armed with axes and crows, led by men of influence from Nottingham, forced the prison in which they were confined in irons, and carried them off in triumph, to the evident satisfaction of all, as it was believed they had suffered death deservedly, though in violation of law. The bodies of Mrs. Simpson, Beard, and Folsome were buried on the Square.
This Andrew Simpson had, for children, (1) Josiah, (2) William, (3) Nancy, (4) John, (5) Joseph, (6) Andrew, (7) Betsey, and (8) Robert.
Josiah was eight years in the French, Indian, and Revo- lutionary wars. He was in the fearful conflict at Fort Hamnar, Ohio; he was a courageous soldier, and shrank from no labor or peril. He ultimately removed to Maine, where he married, and became the father of ten children, most of whom moved to Ohio, and one of whom became a judge.
William moved to Machias, Me., engaged in lumber trade, married a Miss Hanson of Durham, and had children, two of whom are merchants in New York.
Nancy married and lived in Machias, Me.
John settled on the homestead ; married Abigail, daugh- ter of John Gile, who was a major in the Revolution, and held important offices in the town. This John Simpson had ten children, (1) Nancy, (2) Joseph, (3) Betsey (4)
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Mary, (5) Sally, (6) John, (7) Sarah, (8) Andrew, (9) William, and (10) Albert.
Nancy lives on the homestead unmarried ; born in 1792.
Joseph died in St. Ann, Mich. ; married and had six children, some of them now living.
Betsey died at Lawrence, being the wife of Thomas Parsons, leaving three children, Thomas, Mary, and Abbie.
Mary, born February 18, 1798, married Nathaniel Rand- let of Lee, who died in 1868. She now lives at the Square, having no children. A son of her husband by his first wife, named Jasper Randlet, an extensive manufacturer of carriages, in Dover, married Mary Ann, daughter of the late Maj. William B. Willey of Northwood.
John married Comfort Stevens of Chichester, lived on the homestead, had, for children, Sarah, Samuel (who died in the late war, in Mississippi, in a company commanded by Capt. Tilton of Raymond), Susan, Mary, and Willie. John's widow lives on the homestead.
Sarah married Peter Lane of Chester, and has two chil- dren, John Albert and Lizzie.
Andrew married for his first wife Lizzie, daughter of John Harvey of Northwood ; for his second, Almira Gage of Concord, where he now resides.
William married and lives in Sandusky, O.
Albert married Jane Sleeper of Bristol, lives in Epping, having two daughters, Loversia and Carrie.
This Andrew, the first settler in Nottingham, had two brothers, Thomas and Patton. Andrew and Thomas were agents of tlie towns of Nottingham and what is now Deer- field, when the latter was incorporated into a separate par- ish, in dividing the line between the two towns. The Gen- eral Court was in session at Exeter ; these brothers were to be there to see that a line, doing justice to both parties, should be established when the act of incorporation might be agreed upon. Thomas went early from Deerfield, not
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calling on his brother in Nottingham, met the appropriate committee of the General Court, and arranged the line to suit himself, taking in the rich agricultural districts and leaving out the mountainous and barren lands wherever it could be done, making the line irregular and greatly to the advantage of Deerfield ; started for home and met Andrew on his way to the General Court. " Well, brother," said Thomas to Andrew, "I have been down to Exeter, and am going home. It is not worth while for you to go farther ; nothing can be done now ; we must wait until another time ; the court is full of business." And so Andrew and Thomas go home, only to learn, in a few days, that the General Court had set off Deerfield on a line that made Nottingham poor and Deerfield rich ; and the unjust landmarks have not been changed to this day.
STEVENS FAMILY.
Joshua Stevens, born 1737, died September 16, 1816, aged seventy-nine years, was the first of the name to settle in Nottingham. He came from Stratham, and settled where his grandson, Daniel Stevens, resides. He married Anna, daughter of Robert Harvey, born August 12, 1741. They had children : (1) Molly, (2) Thomas, (3) John, (4) Robert, and (5) Nancy.
Joshua married for his second wife Anna Watson ; their children were (1) Hannah and (2) Harvey.
Molly married Elijah Mathes of Lee, and lived in Canter- bury, having children, Joshua, Nancy, Mary, Betsey, and John. This Joshua Mathes lived in Columbia, and repre- sented his town in the state legislature, and was highly esteemed ; while his brother John lived in Canterbury, and in like manner represented his town, and held various other offices within the gift of his town.
Thomas, born February 2, 1764, died September 24, 1847, married Betsey, daughter of Daniel Barber of Epping, and lived on the homestead. Their only son was Daniel
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Barber, born March 14, 1803, married, March 2, 1827, Betsey M., daughter of Capt. John Butler, and their chil- dren are: (1) Elizabeth Barker, born August 5, 1828 ; (2) Thomas, born February 16, 1830 ; (3) Amanda, born April 16, 1833 ; (4) Joshua Butler, born October 19, 1837 ; (5) Charlotte Butler, born March 9, 1840; (6) Joanne Mary, born February 17, 1842 ; (7) Walter Daniel, born November 10, 1849.
Elizabeth married, November 2, 1854, Col. John Badger Batchelder, and they reside in Chelsca, Mass. ; and their only child, Charlotte Butler, born May 16, 1861, died June 2, 1874, aged thirteen years. Col. Batchelder is an author and publisher, and, by his rare descriptive powers and ar- tistic skill, has done much towards illustrating some of the battle-scenes of the war of the Rebellion ; among these are Gettysburg and others.
Thomas married Sarah Jane Sanborn of Deerfield, and they live near the homestead, having four children : Blanche, born January 11, 1851 ; Edward S., born December 16, 1855 ; Alice B., born February 22, 1863 ; and Andrew B., born, January 21, 1867. This Thomas Stevens has been largely in town business.
Amanda resides with her parents.
John B., married Jennie, daughter of Thomas Lucy, and they live in San Jose, Cal. ; he was in the Second Regiment, and was wounded, in the second battle of Bull Run.
Charlotte B. has been a successful teacher, is now in Washington, D. C.
Joanne Mary taught school, and died in Pennsylvania, April 11, 1869.
Walter Daniel married Martha Gault Shute of Derry, November 16, 1871, and they reside in Chelsea, Mass., and have two children : Mabel B., born July 29, 1874 ; and Bessie Butler, born February 15, 1876.
John, son of Joshua, married Mary Avery of Deerfield, and they had, for children, John, Hendrick, Nathaniel,
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and Robert. This John married Lydia Sanborn of Epping, and died in Chester.
Robert, son of Joshua, married Mary, daughter of Mark Gile of Nottingham, and their children were : George W., who was a lawyer, and married a daughter of Hugh Kelsey ; Sally A., who married Melancthon Chase of Deerfield ; Laura J., who married Hobart Stevens of Deerfield ; Row- land M., who married G. W. Demerritt. This Hendrick and Nathaniel, sons of John, died unmarried.
Nancy, daughter of Joshua, married Robert Harvey, and they had three children, who died unmarried.
TUTTLE FAMILY.
Stoten Tuttle was born September 30, 1739 ; his father's name was Nicholas, and settled in Nottingham, after much hard service in boyhood. He enlisted in the " Old French War" when sixteen years old. He bought, January 29, 1759, a book, in which he recorded incidents that might be of interest to him. And herein we find it recorded, that " he sailed from Boston May 6, arrived at Halifax the 10th ; he sailed from Halifax the 22d, arrived at Lewisburg the 26th ; sailed from Lewisburg June 4th, arrived at Quebec the 24th of June, and landed the 27th."
He served five years. He lived a while at Lee-Hook, where his brother George lived. He married Lydia Ste- vens of Lee, and subsequently settled in Nottingham, where the late Elder Tuttle died. Afterwards he lived on the old Mast Road, so called, where Alexander Tuttle resides. Subsequently he built the house in which the present Stoten Tuttle lives. He owned the grist-mill near his house, which was originally owned by Nathaniel Chesley of Durham. Here he died in September, 1812. His first wife died September 20, 1807, and their children were: (1) Olly, born October 12, 1761; (2) Deborah, born February 7, 1764 ; (3) Joseph, born July 26, 1766; (4) Hope, born June 10, 1769 ; (5) Samuel, born June 17, 1771 ; (6) John,
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born January 7, 1773 ; (7) Lydia, born February 28, 1775 ; (8) Nicholas, born January 25, 1778; (9) Stoten, born March 20, 1780 ; (10) Nathaniel, born July 30, 1782.
(1) This Olly married Samuel Dame of Nottingham, and lived where Joseph Colcord resides. Their children were : John, who lived where Samuel Dame resides ; Samuel, who traded many years with Joseph Demerritt, and died in Auburn ; Louis, who married Asa Burnham; Abigail, who married Nathan Knowlton of Northwood ; and Mary, who married Joseph Colcord.
(2) Deborah married Jacob Davis, and died in Vermont, rearing his family where James Thompson lives. Their children were Nathan, Drusilla, Betsey, Lydia, Jacob, Susan, Hannah, Deborah, Thompson, John, and Ira. This Jacob was one of the original founders of the " Morning Star," a paper having the special patronage of the Freewill Bap- tists ; he died in Waterville, Me. Ira lives in Laconia.
(3) Joseph married Hannah Lucy, and their children were Joseph S., Jacob H., Benjamin L., Daniel, Alexander, David, and Hannah. This Joseph, son of Joseph, was a man of influence, and died where David Alley resides. Daniel, who died October 26, 1874, was a surveyor of land, a justice of the peace, and did much business, and was highly esteemed as a citizen. His son Levi is a physician in Mississippi, and another, Jay, lives in California, as well as his daughter Ann, who married Perry Harvey. Alex- ander, another son of Esquire Daniel Tuttle, was a Baptist minister.
(5) Samuel married Eunice Lucy, daughter of Col. Alex- ander Lucy, lived on the old Mast Road, was a mechanic, and their children were John, Sally, Thomas, Noah, Samuel S., Stoten, William, and Emily. This Samuel lives in Charlestown, Mass., an extensive building-contractor.
(7) Lydia married Benjamin Lucy, and their children were Alexander, John T., Sally, Noah S., Hannah, Mary, Eunice, and Lydia.
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(8) Nicholas married Rachael Lucy. Their children were Mary, Ebenezer, James, Lydia, Jeremiah, Fanny H., Wil- liam, Japheth, Ezra, and Aura S. This Ezra is a Freewill Baptist minister of West Lebanon, Me.
(9) Stoten married a Miss Stokes for his first wife, their children being Lydia, Hannah, Benjamin, Mary, and Brad- bury Cilley. His second wife was Sarah Bean, and their children were : John, who built Booth Mills in Hamilton, Mass., dying in Boston in 1877, leaving a large estate ; Gil- man ; and Samuel.
(10) Nathaniel married Joanna Davis, and lived where his son Stoten resides ; he died January 22, 1863 ; she died January 14, 1867. Their children were Oliver, Miles, Nancy B., Esther Y., Nathaniel, Lydia S., Stephen S., George W., Stoten D., and Francis E.
Oliver married Sarah Ham of Dover, and lives near Freeman Hall. Their children are Melissa A., Alonzo F., Oliver B., Sarah J., Esther Y., Lydia P., Nathaniel H., Henry B., and Walter S.
Miles married Lucinda Davis, and lives on the Paul-Davis farm on the Gee-big Road. Their children are Lorenzo D., George W., Shephard F., Ambrose J., Joseph E., Orman B., Lorenzo J., and Granville.
Nancy B. married Moses Davis, September 18, 1832, and their children are Amanda J., Eliza A., and Sarah E.
Nathaniel married Martha A. Ham of Dover, June 19, 1836, lives on the Gee-big Road; and their children are Albert H., Lucy C., Mary F., Joseph E., Charles I.
Lydia S. married James M. Haines, December 3, 1834 ; she died November 22, 1807, in Auburn ; their children being George K., Lydia J., John E., Charles E., and Emma A.
Stephen S. married Mary G. Watson, October 17, 1841, lives in Portsmouth ; children : William R., Charles C., Vienna H., Mary A., Frank, Emma, Charles F., Stephen B., and Elmer E.
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Stoten D., born April 26, 1823, married, May 12, 1846, Elizabeth J. Taylor, born March 18, 1821, daughter of Jo- sephi Taylor of Northwood ; they live on the homestead ; have one son, Henry O., born September 28, 1847, married, November 18, 1869, Nettie T. Cummings of Dover, born August 3, 1848 ; resides on the homestead with his father ; have one son, Louis A., born September 2, 1873.
Frances E., born November 11, 1825, married David H. Watson, and they have three children, Harriet A., Alvinza, and Abbie J.
The Tuttles mostly settled in the neighborhood of what is known as Tuttle's Corner, where they have a store, a pleasant hall, erected a few years since, known as Free- man's Hall, used for a place of worship for the Freewill Baptists on the sabbath, and for the meetings of a lodge of Odd Fellows. Gee-big Road is here, over which much ship timber was drawn in the early period of the town's history. The neighborhood called " Chebucto " is so called from the name of an Indian, once a chief of a tribe in this vicinity. There was a mill here near Charles Batchelder's mill, known as the Chebucto Mill.
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