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Horace C. Bacon, captain, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted Sep- tember 4, 1862; discharged June II, 1864.
George N. Shepard, first lieutenant, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted September 4, 1862; promoted to captain May 6, 1864, Company I; discharged June 4, 1865.
Gilman B. Johnson, second lieutenant, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted September 4, 1862; promoted to quarter master April 22, 1864; dis- charged June 4, 1864.
Charles E. Bartlett, sergeant, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; promoted to second lieutenant July 25, 1864; promoted to first lieutenant February 17, 1865; discharged June 4, 1865.
James S. Plumer, sergeant, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; died of wounds December 16, 1862.
Charles E. Durant, sergeant, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; died November 17, 1862.
Willard Wilson, corporal, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; promoted to sergeant; discharged May 20, 1865.
Thomas F. Caswell, corporal, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862 ; promoted to sergeant ; died October 30, 1864.
John C. Harvey, corporal, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; transferred to Invalid Corps, January 15, 1864.
Andrew J. Coffin, musician, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; promoted to principal musician December 26, 1863; dis- charged June 4, 1865.
Henry S. Durgin, musician, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ;. enlisted August 28, 1862; died August 15, 1863.
Ezekiel B. Brown, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; died December 18, 1862.
Frank A. Bartlett, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
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David A. Burnham, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862 ; died June 9, 1863.
William F. Caswell, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. March 15, 1864; discharged August 11, 1865.
George E. Caswell, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; promoted to sergeant; discharged June 4, 1865.
John F. Gear, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged March 6, 1863.
Nelson Gillingham, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
George A. Ham, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
John H. Ham, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; missing in action at Wilderness, May 6, 1864.
George W. Hopkinson, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; transferred to Invalid Corps, September 30, 1863.
Albert Knight, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 3, 1865.
John H. Kennard, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; died November 22, 1862.
Jay P. Little, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
James H. Locke, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. September 1, 1863; discharged August 27, 1865.
David N. Merden, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
George A. Miles, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. March 31, 1864; discharged August 28, 1865.
John S. Osgood, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; promoted to corporal; discharged June 4, 1865.
Enoch Parks, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
Charles E. Parks, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
Charles F. Purrington, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged February 4, 1865.
Joshua W. Purrington, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. September 30, 1863 ; discharged August 28, 1865.
John D. Purrington, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; died December 14, 1862.
Charles A. Shepard, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862 ; discharged June 4, 1865."
Samuel T. Shepard, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28. 1862; transferred to V. R. C. March 31, 1864; discharged August 28, 1865.
James M. Sleeper, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; died December 14, 1862.
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Chandler Spinney, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged June 4, 1865.
Charles F. Stickney, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; promoted to corporal; killed July 12, 1863.
William C. Tarbox, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862.
Joseph P. Titcomb, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; died March 21, 1864.
Samuel D. Thurston, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; died February 28, 1863.
Henry J. Thurston, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; died October 12, 1863.
James Thurston, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; transferred to V. R. C. September 30, 1863; discharged August 28, I865.
William H. Towle, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged February 16, 1863.
George W. Tuttle, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; died January 12, 1864.
Thos. F. Webb, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; died December 1I, 1864.
John Willey, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted August 28, 1862; discharged May 17, 1865.
Samuel J. Willey, Company A, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted August 28, 1862; promoted to corporal; discharged June 4, 1865.
John McDonald, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted December 19, 1863; transferred to Sixth Regiment June 1, 1865.
Joseph Witham, Company A, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted March 17, 1865; transferred to Sixth Regiment June 1, 1865.
George H. Chesley, Company B, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted December 7, 1863 ; died July 2, 1864.
Dennis Coleman, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted July 28, 1864.
William Johnson, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted December 19, 1863.
William Lowring, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted July 26, 1864.
Walter S. Kelley, sergeant, Company E, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 9, 1862; discharged August 13, 1863.
Horace C. Paige, corporal, Company E, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 9, 1862; discharged August 13, 1863.
Joseph Hennel, Company E, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October IO, 1862.
James Richards, Company E, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 10, 1862; discharged August 13, 1863.
Alphonzo Caswell, Company C, Eighteenth Regiment; enlisted September 14, 1864; discharged June 10, 1865.
Ralph Carr, Company D, First Cavalry; enlisted April 22, 1864; died May 15, 1865.
John Carr, First Cavalry ; enlisted April 22, 1864.
Peter Foster, First Cavalry; enlisted February 1, 1864.
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Stephen Durgin, Company .F, Second Regiment U. S. S. S .; enlisted November 26, 1861.
John W. E. Robinson, Company F, Second Regiment U. S. S. S .; enlisted November 26, 1861.
Orrin West, Company F, Second Regiment U. S. S. S .; enlisted November 26, 1861 ; re-enlisted March 22, 1864; transferred to Fifth Regiment January 30, 1865; absent, sick, June 28, 1865; no discharge furnished.
Lewis T. Clark, Company F, U. S. S. S .; enlisted January 5, 1864; trans- ferred to Fifth Regiment January 30, 1865 ; discharged May 12, 1865.
Charles Fox, Company F, U. S. S. S .; enlisted January 5, 1864; trans- ferred to Fifth Regiment January 30, 1865; discharged June 9, 1865.
Matthew Burns, V. R. C .; enlisted April 24, 1864 ; no further record given. Jeremiah Mack, Company K, Fifth Regiment; enlisted October 12, 1861; discharged March 7, 1863.
James Peacock, Company H, Eleventh Regiment; enlisted December 5, 1863 ; transferred to V. R. C. April 17, 1865 ; discharged June 7, 1865.
Jacob Aul, enlisted September 2, 1863 ; credited to town; no further record given.
Henry Catgrover, enlisted September 23, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
Alexander Seaver, enlisted September 13, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
Frank S. Tebbetts, enlisted September 2, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
James Wardell, enlisted August 11, 1863; credited to town; no further record given ..
Barnard Marble, enlisted September 2, 1863; credited to town; no further record given.
Theodore Gressner, enlisted September 1, 1863; credited to town; no further record given.
True W. McCoy, enlisted September 3, 1863 ; credited to town; no further record given.
Timothy G. Davis, enlisted August 19, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
Isaiah W. Purinton, enlisted September 2, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
Elijah L. Purinton, enlisted October 4, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
John Valley, enlisted September 6, 1863; credited to town; no further record given.
James Seaver, enlisted October 26, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
Thomas Moran, enlisted September 9, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
Michael McGuire, enlisted September 9, 1864; credited to town ; no further record given.
Elbridge G. Bean, marine; enlisted September 3, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
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John F. Gear, marine; enlisted September 3, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
James A. Johnson, marine; enlisted September 9, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
John Connors, marine; enlisted September 9, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
George Coy, U. S. C. T .; enlisted August 11, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
John Thomas, U. S. C. T .; enlisted October 17, 1864; credited to town; no further record given.
Congregational Church .- When Epping, originally a part of Exeter, was incorporated, February 12, 1741, the parish and the town were virtually the same, and all legal business respecting the institutions of religion was trans- acted in regular town-meetings. According to the town records, volume i., among the votes passed at the first town meeting was one whereby Jonathan Norris and others "were chosen to be a committee to agree with a minister or ministers for the ensuing year." Votes are also on record "respecting the erection of a meeting house."
On the 3rd of September, 1744, it was voted that "Ensign Jonathan Rund- lett" and others "be a committee to agree with a minister to preach with us."
The town voted, March 11, 1745, that David Lawrence and others "should be a committee to agree with a minister."
Mr. Lawrence was grandfather of Hon. David L. Morrill, a native of this town, who was once pastor of the Congregational Church in Goffstown, afterwards U. S. senator, and in the years 1824-26 governor of the state of New Hampshire.
Similar votes were passed in succeeding years, showing that the early inhabitants of this town viewed the preaching of the word as indispensable.
The following "Copy of an Epping paper," sent the writer by the "Depy Secy State, as requested by ex-Gov. B. F. Prescott," is equally expressive of the same interesting point :
"To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr Captain General and Com- mander in Chief in and over His Majesties Province of New Hampshire and the Honble His Majesties Council and House of Representatives for sd Province the Humble Petition of the Free Holders and inhabitants of the parish of Epping in said Province Humbly Sheweth
"That your Petitioners Having with Great Labour and Expense Sur- mounted many Difficulties that Have Attended our first Settlement in this Place, are yet very Likely to be much Burdened by Charges Necessarily Com- ing on the Parish in order to the Settlement and Support of a Minister of the Gospel Buying Land for a Parsonage Building a Parsonage House and a House for the Publick Worship of God all which we apprehend very Necessary to be Done but our own Inability together with some other Difficulties have Caused these things ( Necessary and Desirable as they are) to be yet unac- complished. That there is Scarce one Fifth Part of the Land in the Parish Improved the owners of many Large tracts Living out of the Parish who are not Obliged by any Law in Force to bear any part of the Public Charges So that the Improvers and Settlers alone have Hitherto been obliged to bear
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not only the Burden of Taxes but to Clear and Repair the Highways and to Maintain Several very Chargable Bridges and all this under the Troubles and Hardships of the War. That the value of the Non-Residents Lands is much Increased by the Settlements which we are making amongst them in almost all Parts of the Parish. And that the Building a Meeting House and Settlement of a Minister being Designed for the Good of the Whole Parish it is Likely that many of those owners of Lands Here who are not at Present Inhabitants may be Equal Sharers with us in the Benefits accruing therefrom.
"We do therefore Humbly Petition your Excellency and Honors to take the Premises into your Consideration and if it shall appear Just and Reason- able by a Law to Impower the Select Men of the Parish Aforesd to Rate all the Owners of Lands in Said Parish who are not Inhabitants in it or to Charge their Said Lands in Such Proportion and for So Long a time as to your Excellency and Honours Shall Seem. Proper for the Ends aforesaid and your Petitioners Shall as in Duty bound Ever Pray ac:
"Epping March ye 30th 1747'
Signed by "Jacob Freeze Joseph Edgerly Jonathan folsom David Ladd Israel Blake Jonathan Rundlett Jeremiah Prescut Thomas Burley" and thirty-five others.
"In H. of Rep. May 21st 1747 Voted-That in answer to the preceding petition all ye Lands in said Epping be subjected by an act to a Tax of two pennys a acre per annum for four years next ensuing for & towards ye Build- ing a Meeting House & Settling a minister & that ye Inhabitants of sd Epping make it appear by an account to be rendered annually to ye Genl Assembly that ye money has been applyd for ye uses aforesaid on pain of refunding ye same.
D. Pierce Clk"
Our regular church records commence as follows : "Decmr ye 9th 1747
"The Rev. Robert Cutler was ordained to be pastor of the chh of Christ in Epping
-and the first pastor-"
The church is supposed to have been organized about this time. The next . record is :
"The first Church meeting-
"May ye 6th 1748. The Chh met according to de sire to choose a deacon or Deacons and to consult other affairs that might be thot : necessary."
"After serious and earnest prayer to God for direction, Jacob Freese was chosen sole Deacon."
Other business was transacted, among which was the adoption of a cove- nant, and, according to the custom of those days, a half-way covenant, being for the accommodation of persons who wished to be baptized and have their children baptized, though they were not ready to be received into full fellow- ship.
Agreeably with the advice of a council, December 9, 1755, Mr. Cutler asked for "a dismission from his people," which was granted December 23, 1755.
At the organization of the church and during Mr. Cutler's pastorate of
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8 years 240 were baptized, 34 owned the covenant, and 67 became members of the church in full fellowship.
Rev. Mr. Cutler was a native of Cambridge, Mass., and a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1741. He was settled over the church in Greenwich, Mass., February 16, 1760, where he died February 24, 1786, aged about sixty-eight years.
After the dismissal of Mr. Cutler the ordinances of the gospel were admin- istered by several ministers for more than two years. Thirty-six were baptized.
Pastorate of Rev. Josiah Stearns, thirty years and four months. A paper was drawn up, May 18, 1757, addressed to Mr. Josiah Stearns, of Billerica, Mass., and signed by "freeholders and inhabitants of the parish of Epping, with the members of the church," in all 166 men, urging the importance of his becoming their minister, and assuring him that they would vote him an "honorable support," and "do anything" for his "comfort and support during his ministry." As the result, Mr. Stearns "was ordained pastor of the church March 8, 1758."
The people were true to their engagement, and after his death, which occurred when he was in the fifty-seventh year of his age, after a pastorate of thirty years and four months, July 25, 1788, "the parish of Epping gen- erously assumed all funeral charges, and voted to continue his salary to his widow for the eight remaining months of the year." (See town records.) During his ministry 1,060 were baptized, 259 owned the covenant, and 68 joined in full.
During the four and a half years between the death of the last pastor and the settlement of another the pulpit was supplied by thirteen candidates. Pastorate of Rev. Peter Holt, twenty-eight years and two months, Rev. Peter Holt. born in Andover, Mass., June 12, 1763, and graduated at Harvard College, 1790, was ordained and installed pastor of this church February 27, 1793. In 1803 the parish of Epping erected the most commodious and finely- finished meeting house which has ever adorned this town.
Col. Seth Fogg, who died November 20, 1806, left a bequest of $100 to the selectmen of this town, the interest of which he evidently intended to be used annually towards the support of the ministry of this church.
During Mr. Holt's ministry the laws of New Hampshire were so altered as to leave it optional with each citizen to contribute towards the support of public worship or not. The old "parish of Epping" ceased and the "Congrega- tional Society" took its place. Other denominations offered ministerial serv- ices for less pay, while on the part of very many there was a growing disre- gard of all religious observances. As a natural consequence the attendants and supporters of public worship here decreased. Under these discourage- ments Mr. Holt resolved to leave this field of labor. At his urgent request his remaining people, though ardently attached to him, united with him in calling a council, which resulted in his dismission April 25, 1821. By him eighty- nine were baptized and sixty-four received into the church.
After Mr. Holt left, the people were much disheartened. No move being made to employ a preacher, Deacon Stearns gave notice that he would go to the meeting house and read a sermon. He pursued the usual order of worship.
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At his request neighboring pastors came and administered the Lord's Supper. Journeying ministers occasionally spent the Sabbath with said deacon and preached. At length he wrote to the New Hampshire Missionary Society, and they sent a minister for several weeks. Then the people raised some money and employed one minister after another.
Rev. Forest Jefferds' pastorate covered five years. He was born in Wells, Maine, August 4, 1794, educated at Bangor Theological Seminary, and ordained and installed pastor of this church October 25, 1826. When settled, the contract between him and the society "ran for five years," at the close of which time he was regularly dismissed.
Some time after Mr. Jefferds left, Rev. Samuel Utley was employed as stated supply; after him Rev. John Le Bosquet in like manner.
In the summer of 1842 the former meeting house was abandoned and a new one was built in the most compact part of the town.
Rev. Calvin Chapman, born in Bethel, Maine, November 8, 1814, grad- uated at Bowdoin College 1839, Andover Theological Seminary 1842, was ordained and installed pastor of this church December 8, 1842. He was regularly dismissed April 10, 1845.
After the dismission of Mr. Chapman the pulpit was supplied by Rev. Enoch Corser, a sound and able preacher. During his ministry, in 1846, Capt. Joseph Blake, not a member of the church, but of the society, died, leaving by will to the society about one and three-quarters acres of valuable mowing land, the income of which is to be annually appropriated towards the support of preaching in this church.
Rev. Lyman White's ministry, five years and six months. Mr. White was a native of Roxbury, a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1846, of Andover Seminary, 1849. He was employed here as stated supply September 9, 1849; was soon ordained as an evangelist, and January 4, 1854, was installed pastor of this church. He was regularly dismissed May 2, 1855.
Though the last ministry was prosperous, at its close the people were not ready for immediate, united, efficient action. They had some preaching, how- ever.
The ministry of Rev. Josiah H. Stearns was from June 16, 1857. He, born in Epping, October 1, 1812, a son of a former deacon of this church and grandson of a former pastor, became a member of said church September 3, 1830. He graduated at Dartmouth College 1840, Andover Theological Seminary 1843. Being under engagement with the Congregational Church in Dennysville, Maine, he went immediately to labor with them, and was ordained and installed pastor November 6, 1844. He was regularly dismissed, by advice of council. that he might labor with this church, and arrived here June 16, 1857. Having preached to his former people on the previous Sabbath, he preached to this people on the next following. His long pastorate continued to the year of his death in 1882. His successors have been: Rev. W. P. Clancy, 1887-93 ; Rev. E. G. Smith, 1893-1901 ; Rev. T. G. Langdale, 1901-6; Rev. C. W. Fisher, 1907-9; Rev. E. T. Pitts, 1910-14.
The church edifice was thought to be unfavorably located, and during the summer and fall of 1875 an eligible site was purchased by the society, the house was moved upon it, enlarged, and greatly improved at a cost of
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$6,717.63. This sum covers improvements on the surroundings of the house, and some finished work done soon after.
By the efforts of our own people, in which our ladies have acted a noble part. aided by the generosity of a few family friends, among whom stand prominently Mr. D. B. Fitts and family, of Newport, R. I., the premises were free of debt. In October, 1882, the church was destroyed by fire and rebuilt the following year. The parsonage was burned in 1891 and rebuilt a year or two later.
Brother Dudley Norris died March 1, 1860, leaving to this church $525, the income of which is to be appropriated to the support of preaching.
One thousand dollars, raised by subscription, was paid for a pipe organ, which was built here for the church, and ready for use August 21, 1866.
August 21, 1865, this church received from Brother Isaac B. Morrill, deceased, a bequest of five shares in a railroad company, the income of which is to be appropriated to the support of preaching. September 1, 1867, a beautiful church service was received as a present from Deacon Jacob E. Prescott.
The records of this society, which no doubt were meagre enough in those earlier days, have unfortunately been lost, and we have no written evidence of what transpired up to 1846. We can, therefore, give in this sketch only such items relating to this period as we have been able to glean from Stevens' "Memorials of Methodism," and such minutes of the Conference as we have had access to, and the uncertain recollections of some of the oldest of our people now living. Epping was no doubt connected with neighboring towns in those days, forming part of a circuit, as was the custom of the time. In 1805 and 1806, Nathan Fox was the preacher on a circuit embracing Epping, Poplin (now Fremont), and Sandown. Mr. Fox was followed in 1806 and 1807 by Rev. Henry Martin. In 1808, Rev. Wm. Stevens was the "preacher in charge." In 1809 and 1810, Revs. Asa Kent, Daniel Hyde and Daniel Wentworth were the preachers. In 1810, Salisbury, Mass., Poplin (Fremont), and Salem were connected with Epping in a circuit. Revs. Asa Kent, Benjamin Sabin, and John Jewett were the preachers. In 1811, Revs. John Williamson and Orlando Hinds were the preachers. In 1812 the circuit embracing Epping, Poplin, and Salem, Revs. B. F. Lombard and Orlando Hinds preachers. In 1814, Revs. Ebenezer Blake and Elias Marble, preachers.
We have no more record till 1826, when Rev. O. Hinds and Rev. John Brodhead were the ministers. Members reported 207 white and one "colored." In 1830, Rev. Warren Wilber preached in Epping. In 1812, Rev. S. Green and Rev. J. Woorster were the preachers. In 1833, Rev. Jared Perkins preached in Epping, and Rev. Samuel Hoyt was his associate.
Rev. Mr. Perkins was one of the most prominent ministers of the church in New Hampshire. He was for many years a presiding elder. He repre- sented the Third New Hampshire District in Congress. In 1835 Rev. Silas Green was pastor in Epping, which appears disconnected with any other towns. Sixty-seven church members were reported. In 1836, Rev. C. Fales was the pastor, and Rev. S. A. Cushing in 1837. Members, sixty-six.
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