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Dearborn and Anna Longfellow were : (1) Elizabeth, born June 30, 1771, married a Mr. Lord of Epping, and died March 29, 1815 ; (2) Sewell, born February 26, 1773, married Sally Dow, April 14, 1801, died March 9, 1854, aged eighty- one years ; and this Sally Dow was born at Brentwood, March 22, 1781, and is now living in Deerfield (1878); (3) Nathaniel, born January 15, 1775, died August 31, 1869, aged ninety-four years ; he married, July 12, 1795, Com- fort Palmer, born August 5, 1770, who died in 1849; (4) Susanna, born November 15, 1776, married, September 3, 1799, David Clark ; (5) Samuel, born September 8, 1778, married, June 20, 1800, Rachel Page ; (6) Henry, born May 11, 1780, married, 1801, Polly Wiggin ; (7) Mary, born March 5, 1782, died unmarried, September 17, 1798 ; (8) Nancy, born February 10, 1784, married Nathan Fitts of Candia in 1805 ; (9) Nehemiah, born December 6, 1785, died July 22, 1786 ; (10) Hannah, born May 13, 1787, married John Moores, July 18, 1805 ; (11) Edward, born January 19, 1790, died January 27, 1809.
Sewell Dearborn and Sally Dow had, for children : (1) Melinda, born February 26, 1802, and married, March 11, 1824, Elbridge Tilton ; (2) Samuel, born August 13, 1805, married, November 24, 1829, Lucy Currier, and died Feb- ruary 6, 1866, aged sixty years ; (3) Mary, born May 4, 1807, died November 8, 1826; (4) Joseph Jewett, horn March 8, 1818, married, for his first wife, Sarah, daughter of Richard Jenness ; for his second, Hannah, daughter of Col. Gilbert Chadwick ; (5) Edward H., born October 21, 1823, died November 8, 1826 ; (6) Melinda, married, 1824, Elbridge Tilton ; (7) Samuel, married Lucy Currier of Loudon, and their children were : Julia, who married John S. Robinson, and has three children, Grace Gertrude, John Edwin, and Julian ; (8) Lydia Ann, who married William Gerrish, and they live in Lynn ; (9) Rebecca, who married Levi Philbrick, and they have two children, Mary Louise and Hattie ; (10) Mary, who married John Paul;
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they live in Lynn ; she died without issue; (11) Isabel is a teacher in Mount Carmel, in Illinois.
Sewell Dearborn's widow was ninety-six years old, March 22, 1877, still retaining much mental vigor.
EASTMAN FAMILY.
Jeremialı Eastman, born December 9, 1732, the son of Jeremiah Eastman of Kensington, was a descendant of the first male child born in Salisbury, Mass. He married Anna Quimby, and in 1762 removed from Kensington to Deer- field, settling upon a large tract of land on the south-west- ern shore of Pleasant Pond.
He was early identified with all the more important in- terests of this town, and ever proved himself active and efficient in advancing them ; was selectman from 1772 - 74. In 1766 he was chosen one of a committee of seven to fix upon the site for a " meeting-house," and, the following ycar, one of a committee of nine for the same purpose. Again, in 1769, one of a committee of nine "to carry on the building of a meeting-house."
For six years, 1775-79 and 1781, he was elected a deputy to represent the parishes of Deerfield and North- wood in Congress at Exeter. He was also, for two years, 1783 - 84, elected a representative to the General Assembly at Concord. His name appears as one of the signers to the declaration made April 12, 1776, in response to a call from the Committee of Safety. For twenty consecutive years, from 1775 to 1795, he served as town clerk, and often held other public offices of trust and honor.
He was a practical land-surveyor, and was repeatedly employed in this capacity in his own and adjacent towns. The compass used by him more than a century ago, in de- termining the boundary line between Deerfield and Not- tingham, has very recently (1875) been used in making surveys in a western city, and has been found to be per- fectly accurate. Mr. Eastman was a worthy, consistent
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member of the Congregational Church. He died in 1802, aged seventy years, leaving five sons and two daughters.
Jacob, his second son, born August 5, 1766, was the sec- ond male ehild born in Deerfield. Two sons, Jeremiah and Benjamin, settled upon the homestead ; the latter with his parents, the former upon a portion of the farm about one- half mile distant.
The wife of Benjamin was Anna, daughter of Tristram and Anna Simpson Cram. He died February 10, 1836, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. The remains of his eight children rest with those of their parents and grandparents in the Eastman family burying-ground at Pleasant Pond. One granddaughter, Mrs. Volana Kilton of Andover, still lives.
Jeremiah Eastman, the eldest son, married Sarah, daugh- ter of Joseph and Mary Peverly Ham, and died February 19, 1835, aged seventy-three years. Three grandchildren are his only surviving descendants.
FREESE FAMILY.
Jacob Freese was born Oetober 10, 1716, Old Style, and died April 20, 1780, in the sixty-third year of his age, in Epping. Andrew, his son, was born in Epping, October 1, 1747, came to Deerfield October 19, 1773, and died Octo- ber 19, 1814, aged sixty-seven years. His wife was Shuah Thurstin of Epping. They were married December 14, 1769. She was born February 8, 1748. He settled near where John M. Freese now resides. Their children were : (1) Sarah, born October 11, 1771, at Epping, and died Oe- tober 27, 1772; (2) Sarah, born May 23, 1774 ; (3) Anne, born August 7, 1776 ; (4) Jaeob, born October 29, 1778 ; (5) Gordon, born May 26, 1781 ; (6) Dudley, born October 16, 1787. Sarah married Isaiah Langley, and lived in An- dover. She died February 6, 1853, leaving ehildren, one of whom, Dudley F., lives near St. Paul, Minn. Anne married James Tucker, and lived in Deerfield, near the een-
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ter of the town, and died August 27, 1849. For many years they kept a public house. Their children were : Charles, who lived on the homestead, kept a public house ; his widow became the wife of Sandy Smith of New Bos- ton, and recently died. This Charles was the father of Charles Clinton, now living on the homestead, and of My- ra, who became the wife of George H. Chandler of New Boston, and has recently died. Harriet married Dyer H. Sanborn. Dudley F. married Martha, daughter of Rev. Josiah Prentice of Northwood, where they now reside. Eliza married a Mr. Dame, and lived in Utica, N. Y. ; her second husband was a Mr. Main, and she is now living in New York. Franklin Gilman, married in Lynn, is still living, having, for children, Josephine and Sarah Franees. Mary Anne married De Witt Clinton Butler, son of Hon. Josiah Butler of the South Road; resides in Boston, having three daughters. John True lives in Deerfield.
Jacob, son of Andrew, married Euniee, daughter of Ben- jamin James, and lived where his son John resides, on the North Road. Their children were: (1) Andrew, who mar- ried Sally True Jenness of Deerfield, and was a merchant at the Parade awhile ; removed to Bangor, Me. ; was keeper of jail in Bangor ; died there ; and one of his sons, Andrew Jackson, is a sea captain ; (2) Benjamin James, who mar- ried Sally Morrill of Northwood for his first wife, and for his second, Jane Canfield ; he died May 12, 1872, having one son by his last wife, John Perley ; (3) Joseph Warren, died young ; (+) Jacob, died young ; (5) Jackson, married Martha Hanscomb of Deerfield, and lives in Pittsfield ; (6) Eunice James, married Gilbert Robinson of Deerfield ; she died, leaving one son, Jacob Freese, now a merchant in Ep- som ; his wife was Emma Durgin of Pittsfield, and they have one daughter, Edith Blanche ; (6) John McClary, lives on the homestead, unmarried ; has been representative repeatedly, and held other offices ; (7) Clara Ann, lives on the homestead, with her brother.
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Gordon, son of Andrew Frcese, married Hannah Allen of Epsom, and removed to Levant, Me., where he died, leaving children, one of whom is a successful teacher in Cleveland, O.
Dudley, son of Andrew Freese, married, December 3, 1810, Ruth, daughter of John Stearns of Deerfield, and lived on the homestead of the first Andrew. He taught schools for some years ; was sclectman, representative, road commissioner ; appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1832, which office he held at his death, April 15, 1843. The children of Judge Freesc were: (1) Sally Stearns, born August 7, 1812, who married, November 10, 1835, William Norris, for her first husband ; lived in Low- ell, Mass., and died May 24, 1875, having, by Mr. Norris, three children, one of whom is a merchant in New York City, whose wife was Julia Fay ; and they have two children, William F. and Delia F .; this Sally Freese married, Au- gust 14, 1843, for her second husband, George W. Norris, brother of her first, and they live in Lowell, Mass., having three children, Sarah M., Clara G., and Celia A. ; (2) Dud- ley, born March 23, 1814, traded at the Parade, and died June 14, 1838, unmarried ; (3) Mary E., born September 9, 1817, married Enoch F. Stevens of Deerfield, November 17, 1836, and they live at the Parade, where Mr. Stevens traded for some years. They have twelve children : (1) Horace St. Clair, keeper of the Prospect House in North- wood ; (2) Mary E., died young; (3) Hobert W., lives in Deerfield, has two children; (4) Dudley F., lives in Haverhill, Mass. ; (5) Enoch W., lives in Haverhill, Mass. ; (6) George N., died young ; (7) Mary E., married Horace Bean. and lives at the Parade, having two children ; (8) Sa- rah G., married Edward Sherburne of Portsmouth, and has one child ; (9) George F., married Florence M., daughter of Winthrop T. Prescott, and lives at the Parade, having one child : (10) Frank P., lives at the Parade ; (11) Clara Belle, lives with her mother at Haverhill ; (12) Fred E., is with his brother, in Northwood.
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(4) Abigail, born July 26, 1819, married Rev. Jeremiah D. Tilton, now of Rumney, December 31, 1840, died June 3, 1858, having eleven children : Austin B., who now, a Baptist clergyman, resides in Amherst ; Ruthena, who mar- ried John Wadleigh, and lives in Sanbornton ; Sarah True, who married Lyman Jackson of Coneord; Sarah Frances and Sally Freese, twins ; Harriet I., who married John Ober of Amherst; Carey F., who married Helen Brown, and traded in Concord, dying in 1875, having two sons, Oscar Irving, who died young, and Albert F., who married, and lives in Waterville, Me., a watchmaker and jeweler ; Josiah O., who is a teacher in New Jersey ; Mary E. ; and Willie F. (5) Caroline S., born June 19, 1821, married Nathan Griffin of Deerfield, January 17, 1843, and died August 4, 1865, leaving four children : Laroy F., who is a teacher in New Jersey ; Nathan D., who is a teacher in Beverly, Mass .; Roger B., a graduate of Burlington College, Vt., and re- sides in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; and Carrie L.
(6) William G., born June 24, 1823, married Susan E. Batchelder, daughter of John B., January 9, 1850; lives where Andrew and Dudley Freese lived and died, and has four children : Dudley, living in Deerfield, married Jen- nie Harvey of Nottingham ; John Frank, living in Walpole, Mass. ; Willie E. ; and Olive E.
(7) Martha Winkley, born May 10, 1827, married, Jan- uary 22, 1851, Winthrop T. Prescott, son of Stephen P. of Deerfield, and they live on the North Road, and their ehil- dren are : Martha Florence, born December 14, 1851, mar- ried George F. Stevens, March 1, 1873, and lives at the Parade ; Charles Herbert, born July 1, 1853, living in Wal- pole, Mass. ; Bertine Odell, born January 13, 1859 ; and Nel- lie Rose, born April 7, 1869.
Mrs. Judge Freese is still living, aged eighty-six in No- vember, 1875, with physical energies yet quite firm, and mental powers but slightly impaired by age. She was born November 6, 1789.
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FRENCH FAMILY.
Benjamin French, son of Nathaniel French and Anna, his wife, was born in South Hampton, August 11, 1750; Mercy Barker, daughter of John Barker and Mercy, his wife, was born in Stratham, April 27, 1749 ; Benjamin French and Mercy Barker were married December 21, 1774. Their children were : David, born in Deerfield, October 20, 1775 ; Nathaniel, born January 13, 1778 ; John, born April 14, 1780 ; Polly, born September 1, 1782; Peter Peirce, born December 13, 1784, married Sally Stevens, September 3, 1806, who was the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Stevens. Said Peter had eleven children, and the youngest of the family, John S. French, now lives on the old home- stead. House built by his grandfather, 1774.
FURNALD FAMILY.
Charles Furnald, tradition says, was born in Kittery, Me., March 12, 1752; married Abigail Trickey, who was born March 21, 1751; moved to Nottingham, where he lived a while, and about 1774- 75 moved to Northwood, on the farm subsequently owned by his son Timothy Furnald, where he died, April 8, 1828, aged seventy-six years. His wife died October 4, 1832, aged eighty-one years. Their children were : -
(1) Abraham, born February 17, 1776, died December 4, 1830, aged fifty-four ; unmarried.
(2) Betsey, born April 15, 1778, married Stephen Moul- ton, the father of Mrs. Collins Fogg. Mrs. Moulton died April 12, 1815, aged thirty-seven years.
(3) Ezra, born April 25, 1787, married, October 21, 1813, Susannah Fogg, who was born August 4, 1785. He was selectman in 1825-26, and held various other offices of trust in the town of Deerfield, where he resided. He died June 20, 1833, aged forty-six years ; his wife died July 23, 1843, aged fifty-eight years.
(4) Timothy, born December 29, 1789, married Polly
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Osgood ; they have seven children living, among whom is David O., of the firm of Plumer, Chandler, & Co., of Man- chester. Timothy died at the residenee of his son, David O., at Manchester, January 24, 1867, aged seventy-eight years.
(5) Nathan, born February 23, 1792, married Tabitha Mudgett; he died February 15, 1817, aged twenty-five years.
(6) Rhoda, born May 14, 1798, married Israel Durgin ; she died in 1850, aged fifty-two years.
The children of Ezra Furnald and Susannah Fogg are : (1) Dudley S., born August 11, 1814, married, 1837, Martha Dalton, who was born April 23, 1817 ; (2) Climena, born May 14, 1819, married Joseph T. Tilton, born January 1, 1822, died March 12, 1859.
The children of Dudley S. Furnald and Martha Dalton are : (1) Martha W., born February 25, 1838 ; married, 1854, Alvin T. Yeaton, who was born January 6, 1834 ; they reside with her father at Deerfield.
The children of Climena Furnald and Joseph T. Tilton are : (1) Charles T., born November 23, 1844 ; (2) Susan E .. born August 3, 1846 ; (3) Dudley N., born October 10, 1848 ; (4) Anson F., born September 27, 1857.
The children of Martha W. Furnald and Alvin T. Yeaton are : (1) Cora A., born September 12, 1856, married, 1874, John A. Dow, who was born January 6, 1852; (2) Dana O., born July 4, 1858, died January 27, 1859 ; (3) Edson F., born February 4, 1862 ; (4) Clara B., born January 4, 1872.
GERRISH FAMILY.
Samuel was the first of the name who settled in Deer- field. He came from Nottingham, son of Paul of Malden, Mass., who is believed to be the son of Benjamin. Paul died some sixty years since. Samuel settled near the line separating from Northwood, where his son Joseph resides. This Samuel married Sally, daughter of Thomas Knowlton
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of Northwood, and they had seven children : (1) Benjamin, (2) James, (3) Samuel, (4) Joseph, (5) Betsey, (6) Da- vid, and (7) Eben.
Benjamin was born in 1804, June 2, married, February 12, 1829, Miss Olive R., daughter of Ebenezer Tilton of Deerfield. She was born August 30, 1708. They settled on North Road, and have had four children : the first dying early ; the second, James Barnaby, born March 29, 1831, died September 9, 1832; the third, William H., born April 21, 1833, married Lydia Ann, daughter of Samuel Dear- born, and resides in Lynn, having one daughter, Arabel ; the fourth, Elbridge F., born July 3, 1836, married Angie, daughter of John Wason of Chester, and they reside with his parents on the homestead, having one daughter, Alice Mary, born August 21, 1858.
This Benjamin has been an officer in the troop of the Eighteenth Regiment, and one of the selectmen of Deerfield.
Samuel first married Martha Allard, and spent the greater part of his life in Deerfield, they having three chil- dren : Elizabeth, Charles, James E. He married for his second wife Caroline Davis of Nottingham, who, after his death, married Josiah Garland of Northwood. This Sam- uel died in Northwood.
Joseph married Mary Smith of Newington, lives on the old homestead, having, for children : Sarah, who married Daniel Paul of Newington, where they reside, having two children ; Edwin, who resides in Northwood, married Lu- cinda Babb of Deerfield; Ida, who married Fred Frank Webber ; Julia D. ; and Samuel.
Betsey, daughter of Samuel, married William Jenness of Nottingham, where she died, leaving three children ; viz., Hannah, who married Charles Shute, now of Newmarket ; Josephine, who married Aurin J. Gerrish of Deerfield, and they reside in Lynn ; Louella, who married John Holmes of Nottingham, where they reside, having one son, Arthur.
David, son of Samuel, born May 9, 1817, married Susan
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W., daughter of Eben Tilton, March 1, 1843, and their children are : Aurin J., born March 17, 1846, married Jo- sephine S., daughter of William Jenness of Nottingham, and they reside in Lynn, having one son, James B., born Feb- ruary 10, 1850, who resides with his parents; Ida A., born April 10, 1854; and Susie A., born September 13, 1858.
Eben, son of Samuel, married, first, Mary McCrillis of Nottingham, and he resides in Northwood, having one child ; his second wife was Widow Leighton of Northwood, and they have children.
On this North Main Road, so called, is school-district No. 6, in which there have been reared two physicians : Thomas Marston, son of Samucl, who died in Texas ; and Collins Green, son of True, who lives in Boston. There have also been five Calvin Baptist ministers sent out from this dis- trict ; viz., Albert F. Tilton, son of Josiah, who died in Tennessee; Josiah H., brother of Albert, living in Massa- chusetts ; Jeremiah D., brother of the preceding two, now preaching in Rumney ; David Burbank, son of Thomas, who died at the West ; and Reuben James, son of Enoch, who died in 1876 in Kansas.
There has been one lawyer, Dudley James, son of Enoch, practicing law in New York.
In this district was built, in 1873, at a cost of five thou- sand dollars, and presented to the district, a model rural school-house. It was the gift of Frederic P. James of New York City, who takes pleasure in expending some of his large accumulations in educating the youth of the place of his nativity, as well as the home of his childhood.
This district has been taught nine months each year, for three years in succession, by Walter E. King, a native of Hubbardston, Mass., and a graduate of Coe's Northwood Academy, the district raising about one hundred and sev- enty-five dollars annually, and Mr. James paying the bal- ance of the salary of tlie teacher.
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GILMAN FAMILY.
Arms : Argent, a man's leg in pale, couped at the thigh ; sable.
Crest : A demi-lion issuing from a cap of main- tenance.
Motto: Esperance .*
Stephen Gilman, born February 4, 1733, died September 17, 1803, married Rebecca Coffin, born in Newbury, Mass., ESPERANCI March 1, 1740, and settled in Deerfield ; died December, 1824. He was a descendant of Edward Gilman, who came to New England from Hingham, Nor- folk County, Eng., the family having been a prominent one in that place for more than two centuries. Edward sailed from Gravesend, April 26, with his wife, three sons, two daughters, and three servants, in the ship " Diligent," of Ipswich, captain, John Martin, and arrived in Boston, Mass., August 10, 1638. He settled in Hingham, Mass., whence he removed to Ipswich, Mass., and from there to Exeter, N. H., where he and his sons, Edward, John, and Moses, permanently settled. Stephen Gilman probably came from Exeter, where he is said to have been born, to Deerfield, about the year 1755. His wife is said to have received a marriage-gift of twenty cows from her father. She was a descendant of Tristram Coffin of New- bury, and subsequently Salisbury, Mass., who came from Plymouth in Devonshire, Eng., to New England, in 1642, bringing his wife and five children, his mother, and two sisters, Eunice and Mary. The name of Stephen Gilman appears upon the records as a selectman of Deerfield dur- ing the years 1768, 1770, and 1771, also as auditor of the town several years. He removed to Gilmanton and settled in 1781, near the Iron Works. He was for a time in the employ of Gov. Benning Wentworth, at his place in Wolfe- borouglı.
* Arms of the Gilmans of Norfolk County, England.
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The children of Stephen Gilman and Rebecca Coffin were : (1) Moses, born in Deerfield, January 5, 1756, died October 22, 1813; married Sarah Bean of Candia, born August 13, 1760, dicd March 22, 1839, and settled in Alton, near the Gilmanton line ; he was a farmer and accumulated con- siderable property ; he took an active part in the Revo- lutionary war, was first corporal at the battle of Bunker Hill, and went with Gen. Arnold's expedition to Canada, and, while en route to Quebec, he and a companion in arıns subsisted for three days on a striped squirrel and two ounces of pork; on returning from Quebec, he drove a six-ox team in the winter season from Portsmouth, N. H., to Albany, N. Y., loaded with lead for the army ; he was a handsome mail, having fine features and a well-formed body ; after his death, the Rev. Isaac Smith, of the First Parish Church in Gilmanton, who officiated at his funeral, alluded to the goodly countenance of the deceased ; his text, also having reference to the subject, was from the last clause of Job xiv. 20 : " Thou changest his countenance and sendest him away ; " (2) Dudley, born in Decrfield, Feb- ruary 19, 1758, died January 5, 1819 ; married Mary Har- riman, born 1761, died 1832, and settled on a farm in Gilmanton, whence he removed to Canaan, and from there to Brome, P. Q., Can. ; he was a Revolutionary soldier, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill ; he was a tall, thick-set, and very strong man ; (3) Eunice, born in Deerfield, June 20, 1760, married Simeon Haynes, a Revo- lutionary soldier, and settled near Sanbornton Bridge ; died June, 1854; they had eleven children : Rebecca, Mary, Lydia, Dudley, Stephen, Simeon, Tristram, Moses, Priscilla, Lucy, and David; (+) Mary, born in Deerfield, June 20, 1762, married Stephen Dudley, born in Gilmanton, 1757, a descendant of Gov. Thomas Dudley ; settled in Alton, near the Gilmanton line ; dicd November 22, 1850. Stephen Dudley was a Revolutionary soldier, and dicd 1811 ; they had five children : Stephen, who married his cousin, Priscilla
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Haynes; Samuel ; Gilman; Mary, who married Hosea Hatch ; Clara, who married Enos Bean of Dover.
The children of Moses Gilman and Sarah Bean were : (1) David, born in Alton, August 19, 1779, died Septem- ber 30, 1847 ; married Rhoda Hunt of Gilmanton, born Sep- tember 27, 1779, and settled in East Alton ; he attended the school of Dudley Leavitt, mathematician and astron- omer ; he was elected to the state legislature thirteen years ; also town clerk and selectman ; (2) Sally, born in Alton, March 4, 1787, died May, 1813; married Jonathan Coffin and settled in Tuftonborough ; (3) Stephen, born in Alton, April 1, 1789, died October, 1828; married Mary Gale of Gilmanton, and settled on the homestead in Alton ; and had Moses, who married, first, his cousin, Rhoda Gil- man ; second, Miss Horne ; and lived on the homestead in Alton ; (4) Moses, born in Alton, January 11, 1792, died September 21, 1863, married Patience Chase Clough of Gil- manton, born March 18, 1792, died January 12, 1876, and settled in Alton, whence he removed to Sangerville, Me .; he was agent several years for Mr. Sanger, owner of most of the township, and was the first settler in what is now South Sangerville village, of which he was postmaster many years ; he received a good education, was well read in law, and had strong moral and religious principles, so that he took a leading part in town affairs; and by his influence settlers came, roads and school-houses were built, religious services held, and temperance promoted. He attended Gil- manton Academy ; (5) Jonathan, born in Alton, February 6, 1797, died January 8, 1870 ; married his cousin, Lucy Haynes, and settled in Alton, whence he removed to Sall- gerville, Me.
The children of Dudley Gilman and Mary Harriman were : (1) Anna, born in Gilmanton, July 3, 1780, died March, 1870 ; married Oliver Hunt of Gilmanton, born June 8, 1780, died November 26, 1857, and settled in Gilman- ton, whence they removed to East Alton, and from there
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