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(10) Abigail, daughter of Benjamin, married Mr. Rowe of Allenstown.
Mojes Hill
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HILL FAMILY.
Moses Hill was born in Warner, May 5, 1805. His fath- er's name was Benjamin, born in Hopkinton. His mother was Mary Hoyt, also of Hopkinton. Dr. Hill was em- ployed much, in his early manhood, in teaching, being highly successful. He taught the academy at Salisbury one year, and studied medicine with Dr. Peter Bartlett, of that place, two years, than whom few physicians could be of better service to a young man, then having an extensive practice, quick in perception, zealous in his profession, and thoroughly alive to every improvement in the treatment of diseases. Dr. Hill graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth College in 1831, Dr. Mussey being at the head of that school of medicine. He began the practice of medicine in Chichester in the same year, and removed to Northwood in 1832, where he established a reputation for uprightness of Christian character, as well as being es- teemed the " beloved physician," making himself useful to the schools and helpful to the church. Here he married Elizabeth B., daughter of the late David Clark, Esq. His children were here born : Margaret, born June 8, 1835, became the wife of Joseph Neally of Burlington, Ia., Jan- uary 5, 1859, where they now reside ; Mary Frances ; Eliz- abeth C., born October 26, 1843, died January 22, 1867. It was a sad day for Northwood when, in July, 1844, Dr. Hill removed to Manchester, mainly for the purpose of se- curing better facilities for the education of his children. Hon. John Harvey, a wealthy citizen, proposed to endow an academy in town if the people would erect a suitable building, and Dr. Hill pledged himself to lay the founda- tions and erect the frame, of any dimensions the people desired, if they would finish the structure. But, in spite of strenuous efforts, the enterprise failed, because the build- ing could not be located in the neighborhood of each man's door. From that day, Dr. Hill made arrangements to re- move. In Manchester, he took an active part in all the
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interests of that growing town. In 1849, he went to Cali- fornia, sailing round Cape Horn, and returned in 1852. In 1857, he removed to Burlington, Ia., and died January 27, 1875, near East Baton Rouge, La., in his seventieth year, leaving a host of strongly attached friends to mourn that they no more shall see his genial countenance, nor again hear his merry laugh, nor be helped by his Christian influ- ence.
His widow still resides in Burlington, Ia., with, or in the neighborhood of, her two surviving daughters. Dr. Hill will long be remembered for the part he took in the erec- tion of the present Congregational Church in Northwood ; also in the erection of two Congregational churches in Burlington, Ia., and a Presbyterian in Louisiana, of which Rev. Mr. Young is pastor.
HOITT FAMILY.
Among the early settlers of this town were Daniel, Ste- phen, and Joshua Hoyt. They were the descendants of John Hoyt, who was one of the original settlers of Salis- bury, Mass., whose age at the time cannot be accurately de- termined, but, from the fact that he had two children born previous to 1639, it seems probable that he was born about 1610-15; that John, 2d, and Thomas were the sons. The son of Thomas was Benjamin, who was the father of Ben- jamin, Moses, Enoch, Daniel, and Joseph. The said Dan- iel, Stephen, and Joshua were the sons of Daniel, who married Judith Carr, of Carr's Island in the Merrimack River, June 24, 1736, then residing in Salisbury, where he reared the above sons with others, and removed to Epping about the year 1752. Four of their children were bap- tized in Salisbury, and the rest in Epping ; and he died about the month of November, 1757. Soon after his death, Daniel, who was born January 13, 1741, went to work with a Mr. Barber in Epping, at wages, until he accumulated sufficient funds to purchase a lot of one hundred and sixty
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acres of land in Northwood, nearly adjoining the two Batchelders, the first settlers, paying twenty-five cents per acre. He commenced clearing a portion of it for a farm, and, for a long time, brought his week's provision from Epping in saddle-bags, on his shoulders, returning to Ep- ping on Saturday nights, and back in the same way on Monday mornings. In the course of a year or so, he reared him a small house, and soon after married Thank- ful Weeks of Greenland, and, second, Mary Bartlett of Kingston. Lieut. Daniel at one time became a great land- owner in this town, having eleven hundred acres; there- fore, he settled his son Benjamin on the farm now owned by William H. and George F. Manning; his son Philip on a farm east of Saddleback Mountain, occupied by James W. Hoyt, his grandson ; his son Daniel, on a farm west of the Mountain, now occupied by his son David ; his sons Nathan and Richard he kept at home, and gave them the old homestead ; Richard's half of the same is owned by his son Richard, and that of Nathan by David M. Smith. He had a family of nine children ; was selectman in 1777; and signed the Association Test in 1776.
Stephen came a few years after, and settled upon a tract of land at the easterly end of Jenness Pond ; cleared up a farm, the same now owned by the heirs of the late Abra- ham B. Cilley ; he lived in Northwood most of his days. He was born about the year 1744, baptized in Epping by the Rev. Mr. Cutler ; married, first, Lydia Buzzell; second, Widow Rachel Piper, January 10, 1795, and, third, Widow Hannah Clapham, December 7, 1809 ; had a family of three daughters and three sons. He also signed the Association Test in 1776.
Joshua came here soon after, and purchased the land and mill privilege near the Narrows, upon which he cleared up a farm, erected mills, and run a grist-mill, to the last of his days. He was born August 15, 1750; baptized in Ep- ping, by Mr. Cutler ; married Betsy Gerrish ; reared a fam-
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ily of three sons and three daughters ; was selectman in 1792 and 1800. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, four of the six brothers, viz., Lieut. Daniel, Richard, Benjamin, and Stephen, took arms and went into the war ; and after serving the required time, Benjamin died, but Daniel, Richard, and Stephen returned to their several homes. Richard, tradition says, lived here a short time after his return, but where he went, and died, no record shows. A daughter of his, by the name of Judith, married one Silas Burnham, March 2, 1785.
The other three brothers became solid men of this town,. good citizens, accumulated good estates, and raised respect- able families. They were a very strong and hardy race of men, and so were their ancestors. Their uncle Benjamin was a very tall man. It is said he was a carpenter, and once held up the whole side of a building and prevented it from falling upon other individuals. He and a neighbor were once hoeing in adjoining fields. After a while, his. neighbor said to him, " I have hoed as many hills as you, lacking two." It turned out, however, that Benjamin had hoed two rows at a time, and had thus done more than. double the work of his neighbor. At another time, he carried a large stone into a mill, where it remained a long. time, serving as a trial of strength. At last one man was found wlio carried it out, though not as easily as Benjamin carried it in. It was also said that while he was at Cape Breton, during the French war, in 1744, the soldiers were obliged, at one time, to supply the fort with water by car- rying it in barrels, two men to each barrel. They com- plained of its being too heavy work, but Benjamin took up two barrels and carried them into the fort (a distance of twenty rods), and back, on a wager. He was taken sick shortly after, with a " nervous fever," and soon died.
Most of his children were noted for their great strength. Their uncle Joseph, brother of Benjamin, was a stout, heavy man, thoughi not very tall, and was much noted for
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his strength. It is said that he carried a barrel of water from the river to his house in Boscawen, where he lived, about thirty rods, when he was over sixty years old. He was a soldier in the Indian and French wars, and many sto- ries are told of his strength and bravery. There is another told by his descendants, of Joseph, Benjamin, and another man, all very stout and strong, wishing to play off a joke upon a press-gang who were lurking in the vicinity of Salis- bury, and were at the tavern for that purpose. The land- lady told them they had better be going, for a press-gang would be along pretty soon, but they only laughed at it, and still remained. Eight men soon came in, appeared ex- tremely friendly, treated all round, and, at last, invited them to take a walk. All now started off towards the shore, locking arms, but in such a manner that each sup- posed dupe was guarded by a pressman on each side. After walking till they came to an old cellar, overgrown with brambles, one of the Hoyts said, "Brother, haven't we come about far enough ?" The other replied, " Yes, I guess we have." The pressmen laughed well at this, but not at what followed, for they were all suddenly pitched into the old cellar, while their intended victims started for home.
Joseph's name heads the " Association Test " from the town of Boscawen, 1776. He removed to Boscawen about 1761, and was a deacon of the Congregational Church there.
Son of Lieut. Daniel and Thankful Hoyt: (1) Benjamin, born September 8, 1766, married Sarah Pillsbury Novem- ber 27, 1787; lived in Northwood. Their children were : Enoch, who died about 1810; Thankful, married George P. Newhall, died about 1840; John H., about 1797, married Lydia Cook and lived in Deerfield ; had a large family of children.
Children of Lieut. Daniel and Mary Hoyt: (2) Philip, born September 11, 1771, married Dorothy Godfrey Sep-
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tember 2, 1790 ; lived in Northwood; died 1819. Their children were : (1) Jonathan, born February 6, 1791, mar- ried Dorcas Taylor ; resided in Northwood upon his father's farm ; their children were : Dorothy, who married Rufus Swain ; John, who married Judith Hoitt, daughter of Rich- ard ; Philip, who married, first, Mary Furness, and, second, Elizabetlı Sherburne ; James W., who married, first, Ellen Clark, and, second, a Stearns of Deerfield ; Betsy B., un- married ; Mary Ann, who married David Kimball of Brad- ford, Mass., who died ; Sarah D., who married Francis J. Hanson ; Martha married John C. Hanson ; she died, leaving a daughter ; Laura, who married Andrew J. Emer- son of Barnstead. All live in Northwood except Laura. (2) Abigail, born December 15, 1793, married Jonathan Stokes and lived and died in Ossipee; left children. (3) Daniel G., born March 13, 1797, married Polly, daugliter of Samuel Hill ; had one son. The father died in November, 1821. The widow married John Oaks, and removed to New Salcm, Mass .; since died, and also her son by her first husband. (4) Polly, born March 29, 1804, married Jacob Morrill; lived and died in Pittsfield, leaving children. (5) Lucinda, born October 19, 1807, married Benjamin Giles, lived and died in Deerfield, leaving four sons ; the father is also dead.
(3) Thankful, daugliter of Licut. Daniel, born June 9, 1774, married Jonathan Chesley ; removed to Rome, Me., and died there, leaving a large family of children.
(4) Hannah, born November 8, 1775, died in 1808, un- married.
(5) Daniel, born March 1, 1778, married Dolly Knowlton June 2, 1803 ; lived in Northwood ; children : Lydia D., born November 6, 1803; not married ; lives with her brother David on the Mountain ; Irene J., born February 15, 1805 ; not married ; died in August, 1855; David, born September 12, 1807, married Mary Foss, resides on his father's farm in Northwood ; has one daughter, Marrilla ;
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Jonathan K., born July 19, 1809, married Nancy Wood- man, is a justice of the peace, has been a representative, and several times one of the selectmen ; has one son, Mar- tin W., who graduated at Dartmouth College 1872, and was principal of Pembroke Academy for a time ; Jeremiah Bartlett, married Angeline Magoun in 1845, became a teacher in this and many other towns, and was in trade in Newmarket, Manchester, and Boston ; was engaged in the insurance business in Boston at the time of his death, in Medford, in 1869; left a wife and one daughter.
(6) Judith, born May 4, 1780, married Richard Carr Hoitt. He was a successful school-teacher; was sent to Canada some time in 1803 on some important business, and died in Stanstead, leaving a son. His widow lived here, and died April 2, 1867.
(7) Nathan, born September 4, 1782, married Charlotte Knowlton ; lived in Northwood, and died November, 1821 ; his children are : Eliza, married Nathaniel Knowlton of Northwood ; Hannah, married Danicl B. Robinson of Can- dia ; Harriet, married Joseph W. James of Deerfield ; Nathan B., married Emily A. Bennett, resides in North- wood ; John S., married Louisa B. Foss, resides in Chiches- ter ; Hosea C., married Mary N. Durgin, lives in Newton Upper Falls, Mass. ; Abigail, married Jonathan Chesley of Epsom.
(8) Richard, born August 18, 1785, married Nancy Robinson in 1804 ; lived in Northwood, and died February 2, 1868. His children are : Joshua, born August 15, 1805, married, first, Lucy M. Huntress, and, second, Nancy B. Morrison ; lives in Northwood ; has one daughter by his first wife and a sou by his second ; is an industrious and wealthy farmer ; Polly F., born April 5, 1808, married Nicholas D. Hill ; lias two daughters ; one married George W. Furness, who resides in Newton, Mass. ; the other, George E. Hanson, and lives in Portsmouthı; Sarah B., born February, 1812, married, first, Jolin Knowlton, and,
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second, Barnard Smith ; they are all dead ; she leaves one son here, Lyman W. Smith, and twin daughters, one the wife of a Mr. Foss of Pittsfield, and the other the wife of the Rev. Mr. Jones of North Berwick, Me. Judith, born September, 1813, married John Hoitt, son of Jonathan ; he has been dead some twenty years; she is still a widow ; her children are : Lyman W., married Elizabeth Williams, lias several children ; Susan married Charles E. Dow, and resides in Farmington, lias one daughter ; Ellen, married B. Curtis Giles, has three children, and resides in North- wood ; Abbie married Frederic J. Davis, lias one child, and resides in Northwood. Richard, born August, 1817, mar- ried Mary J. Morrison ; resides in Northwood ; has been a representative one year and selectman two years ; heired a large estate from his father ; he succeeded his father as deacon of the Baptist Church ; has been in trade a number of years, and makes farming his business ; has one son, Orin A., who succeeded his father in trade for a short time, and is now in business in Farmington. Nancy J., born July, 1821, married John M. Taylor, formerly of this town, but now resident of Waltham, Mass. ; she has no chil- dren. Lyman W., born January, 1825, drowned at Exeter July 4, 1842, while on a visit at Ira B. Hoitt's, then of Exeter. Charles H., born November, 1826, died young.
(9) Mary, born May 6, 1788, married Nathaniel Giles, April 7, 1805, died January 10, 1860, had a family of eight children, all dead but Paul S., and he resides in the State of Wisconsin.
The children of Stephen and Lydia Hoitt were : -
(1) Samuel, married Betsy Piper ; moved from North- wood to Portsmouth in 1809, to Madbury in 1814, and to Lee, April, 1816 ; died May 3, 1819, leaving four sons and one daughter. Mrs. Hoitt married Abraham Batchelder in 1829, and died December 4, 1864. Their children are : -
Col. Gorham W., born March 5, 1804, married Abbie P. Lock, July 4, 1824, died September 5, 1868 ; in 1835 and
Bulford Boston
Richard Hoyt
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1836 was a member of the legislature; was an aid to Gov- ernor Steele, and, as sheriff of the County of Strafford, he executed Andrew Howard, July 8, 1846. He had nine children : one son, Ira G., graduated at Dartmouth College, now and for many years a successful teacher in Califor- nia, at a salary of $3,000 a year; another son died while at the Exeter Academy ; was about to enter college ; an- other son, a machinist in Lowell many years ; and another son in business in Boston; five daughters, three of them married to good husbands, the others unmarried; Mary, a prominent school-teacher, has had charge of the academy at Derry several terms. Their father was a smart, active, enterprising man in his day, and a successful farmer.
General Alfred, born in Northwood, married Susan De- meritt of Northwood ; now lives in Durham, and formerly in Lee ; has thirteen children living. The following state- ment of the family gathering on one Thanksgiving Day appears in the " Democratic Press," printed in Dover, of December 5, 1875, which gives a full history of his family at present : -
The family gathering at Gen. Hoitt's on Thanksgiving was a re- markable one, for these latter days at least. Gen. Hoitt and wife, who have been married forty-eight years, have reared a family of thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters. All are now living, the young- est twenty-seven years of age. Three sons and six daughters are mar- ried, and the entire family, including all the grandchildren, twenty-one in number, making a total of forty-two with the general and his wife, assembled at the paternal home to celebrate the annual Thanksgiving holiday.
We doubt if another such family as Gen. Hoitt's can be found in New England. Both sons and daughters are all smart, capable, intel ligent, and well situated in life, - true "chips of the old block." The average weight of the entire family - father, mother, sons, and daugh- ters -is one hundred and eighty-six pounds each, and their mental powers are commensurate with their bodily vigor. Gen. Hoitt and wife commenced the labor of life together with only their own efforts to rely upon for success. Their prosperity in every essential respect proves their reliance was not a vain one.
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The general was a member of both branches of the legislature while he resided in Lee, and, by his indefatiga- ble industry, has made himself rich, as well as many of his sons. He also represented the town of Durham in the legislature of 1874. He has proved himself more than a common man in his day, and retains his faculties remark- ably.
Joseph R. W., married Mary E. Wyman ; for many years keeper of the American House in Brunswick, and now lives in Portland; has one son, who is a sea-captain.
William K. A., born November 7, 1815, married Sarah C. Swain of Northwood, March 30, 1843 ; resides in Dover ; has one son, Charles W., a graduate of Dartmouth College, and late engrossing clerk of the legislature, and resides in Nashua.
Mary Eliza, married William Clark ; lived in Dover ; he is dead ; the widow resides with her two daughters, who are married, in Dover.
(2) Richard Carr, who was a son of Stephen Hoitt, and Judith Carr, who was a daughter of Lieut. Daniel Hoitt, were the father and mother of Ira Bartlett Hoitt, who was born on the thirteenth day of February, 1802; through the assistance of his mother he obtained a common-school educa- tion at sixteen years of age ; then went to live with Joseph Coe, Esq., of Durham, as a clerk in his store, and stayed there until he became of age, and then, through the assist- ance of Mr. Coe, went into business in Northwood, in the spring of 1823. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Samuel Huntress of Newington, August 20, 1823. In March, 1826, he was elected town-clerk of Northwood, and held the office until the spring of 1831, and on the 1st of November, 1827, he was appointed a deputy-sheriff of the County of Rockingham by the Hon. John Bell, sheriff, who was governor the next year; and by the Hon. William Badger for the County of Strafford, who was afterwards governor ; and by the Hon. Jacob B. Moore, sheriff of the
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County of Merrimack ; which offices he continued to hold about seven years, or until the January term of the court of common pleas, 1834, when he was appointed clerk of the court, and also clerk of the superior court of judica- ture within and for the County of Rockingliam, and soon entered upon the duties of these offices, and in the following spring moved his family to Exeter, and continued to hold these offices about twenty years. He was appointed a justice of the peace in June, 1827, and has continued to hold the office, and for most of the time a justice throughout the state, for forty-eight years, a notary public for nearly thirty years, and for twenty-five years a trial justice in Exeter, and has probably tried more causes, civil and criminal, than any magistrate in the county now living. Upon his resignation of the clerks' offices, he was soon after appointed sheriff, which office he held about two years, and then conducted the pro- bate office in Rockingham County as assistant-register four years and a half. He then gave up all offices and returned with his family to Northwood, his native place, upon his farm, where he has carried on the same successfully, giving his special attention to probate business. His family con- sisted of eight children, only three of them now living, as follows : (1) Charles William, his eldest son, was born June 22, 1824, and was a clerk in the clerk's office with his father for a number of years ; then was employed as a clerk and bookkeeper in Boston for a length of time, and for five years a clerk in the York County Fire Insurance office at South Berwick, and in the month of December, 1861, en- listed at Concord in the New-England cavalry, under com- mand of Capt. John J. Prentiss ; left immediately for the seat of war, and continued in the service during three years ; then took an honorable discharge and came liome ; but, at the solicitation of Dr. O'Leary, he went back, and was detailed as chief-clerk of the hospital at Portsmouth Grove, R. I., where he remained about nine months. He now resides in Northwood, unmarried. (2) His second
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son, John Samuel, born September 10, 1826, after obtain- ing his education at Phillips Exeter Academy, served an apprenticeship in Boston, and, in October, 1849, he went to California, arrived there in May, 1850, and died in Sacramento, June 28, 1852. (3) His third son, Gard- ner Jamcs, born March 19, 1830, was about two years advanced in college at Phillips Academy at Exeter ; was about to enter Harvard College, when his health failed him, and after regaining it in a great measure he served as a bookkeeper in Boston for about five or six years, and died on the seventh day of June, 1855. (4) His oldest daugh- ter, Lucy A., was born May 10, 1828; after obtaining her education at the Young Ladies' Seminary at Exeter, mar- ried Henry C. Moses of Exeter, in September, 1849; her liusband has been very successful in business, and has made for himself a fortune ; their only son, Herbert, was prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, entered the Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y., graduated there about one year since, and is now in business with his father ; their only daughter, Dora Walker, was educated at the Robinson Female Seminary at Exeter, and, having graduated, has become one of the teachers in the sem- inary. (5) His daughter Mary Elizabeth, born January 7, 1832, married John C. Scripture, then of East Cam- bridge, Mass., in October, 1850 ; had two children born to them, but they soon died, and the husband died some time in the fall of 1858 ; she still remains a widow. (6) His daughter Emma Frances, born August 17, 1840, died at Exeter, May 26, 1871, aged thirty-one years. Two other children died carly.
(3) John was a popular school-teacher ; taught school in Salem, Mass., and for some time in Portsmouth, where he died in 1809.
(4) Sally married William Lock, February 21, 1803 ; lived in Northwood many years, afterwards in Lee, where they died, leaving a family of nine children ; only one sur- vives them.
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(5) Lydia married Simon Griffin; after residing here and in other places, removed with their family to Canada, where they both died, probably leaving descendants.
(6) Nancy married Micajah Sinclair of Stratham; re- moved there; both have been dead many years ; left chil- dren.
The children of Joshua and Betsey Hoyt were : -
(1) Daniel married, first, Rhoda Rawlings, December 9, 1809, and second, Nancy Twombly, lived in Northwood most of his days, died in Rochester ; his children are : -
(1) Betsey married Joseph Hoyt of Newton, and died June 11, 1863.
(2) Judith married Joseph M. Tucker of Portsmouth, and died there in 1843.
(3) Joshua, born March 30, 1812, married Data Pills- bury, November 16, 1836, and in the month of August, 1862, enlisted in Company G, Tenth Regiment New-Hamp- shire Volunteers, under the command of Capt. G. W. Towle; was in the battle of Fredericksburg and was wounded ; con- tinued in the hospital awhile, came home on a furlough, and in June following was discharged, and is now a pen- sioner. Three of his sons were with him in the war, as follows : Charles Henry, in the navy, on board the United- States ship " Brooklyn," in the spring of 1861, was dis- charged from the ship, came home, and immediately en- listed and was at the battle of Ball's Bluff ; was fatally wounded, and died at Point Lookout, in 1864. James Wil- liam enlisted in Company B, Second Regiment, in 1861, was in the battle of Bull Run, and, on account of injuries and sickness contracted at that time, was soon after dis- charged. Augustus J. enlisted in the Fifth Regiment New- Hampshire Volunteers, in 1861, and went into the war as a private ; by his bravery and meritorious conduct, he was in a short time promoted to a captaincy, and served through the war with distinction in that capacity ; was in sixteen battles, and at the surrender of Gen. Lee at Fredericks-
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