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As the town ceased to provide ministerial support after the sale and trans- fer of the parsonage, Mr. French was employed by the Congregational Society. So strongly attached was he to his people that in their period of trial he
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proposed to relinquish one-fourth part of his salary, when the entire amount was scarcely sufficient to maintain himself and family. But the people never knowingly allowed him to be in want.
The meeting-house still belonged to the town, and an unsuccessful effort was made to secure its transfer to the new society. They now began to feel that they must have a house of their own in which to worship. This feel- ing deepened, and they soon decided to build on the parsonage land. Arrange- ments were made for executing their purpose, and on the 21st and 22d of June, 1838, "the frame of the new meeting-house was raised. Prayer was offered by the pastor on the foundation before the raising commenced. No ardent spirit or other intoxicating liquor was furnished at the raising. It was accomplished without noise and without injury to any one." The house was dedicated to the worship of God on the 31st of October of the same year, the sermon being preached by the pastor from John x. 23. This was a little more than one hundred years after the first meeting-house was built in town, and seventy-seven years after the dedication of the second house. Nine years afterwards a new bell was hung in the tower, and in the year following that important addition measures were taken by the ladies to purchase the hall in the old brick schoolhouse, which years before was built for a lodge of Free- masons. This was fitted up for a vestry, and dedicated on the 3Ist of January, 1849, and was one of the many improvements secured to the church and society by the Ladies' Sewing Circle.
During Reverend Mr. French's active pastorate of fifty-one years 285 were admitted to the church, increasing the actual membership to 145. One year before having a colleague the pastor was honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Dartmouth College. On the 13th of December, 1856, he died among his beloved people and surrounded by his large family, until this time unbroken by death, at age of seventy-eight years, having been ordained over this church a little more than fifty-five years before.
Mr. John Dinsmore, from Bangor Theological Seminary, was ordained as colleague pastor on the 18th of November, 1852.
Mr. John O. Barrows from Andover Theological Seminary, by his pleas- ing address, fine culture and unquestioned piety, won the hearts of the people after a few Sabbaths' supply, and received a unanimous call from the church and society to become their pastor. He was ordained on the 9th of June, 1864. During his pastorate of two years there was considerable religious interest and thirteen were received into the church. The greater part of the parsonage farm was sold about the time of his settlement, while a legacy of $2,000 had just been left the society by Rufus Leavitt, Esq., and at a sub- sequent period Miss Olive Hobbs left $1,000 for the society. Mr. Barrows asked to be relieved from the pastoral office, and was dismissed on the 8th of September, 1866, soon afterwards being installed over the First Church in Exeter. In the spring of 1867, Rev. Thomas V. Haines, then preaching at Ossipee Center, was invited to the vacant pulpit. On the 5th of May he became acting pastor, which relation he sustained to the church until the 27th of April, 1870, when he was installed. The people caught the spirit of external improvement which was becoming quite general among the churches, and the old vestry purchased by the ladies twenty years before was inconvenient and much out of repair, and withal by some regarded as unsafe, the meeting house was raised in 1869, and large and comfortable rooms
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added as a basement for social meetings, lectures and social purposes. The dedicatory services were held on the 26th of October. In 1874 the interior of the meeting house was remodeled, finely finished, and beautifully adorned.
New furniture was provided by the generosity of J. W. F. Hobbs, Esq., who at a later period added stained windows tastefully designed. A pipe- organ was secured and set up, and the finishing touches were given, so that the rededication services were held on the 2nd of July.
Mr. Haines resigned as active pastor in 1907 and remained pastor emeritus until his death in 1903.
Rev. D. H. Evans was pastor from 1897 until April 1, 1906. Rev. M. F. Mevis was acting pastor from July 1, 1906 until July 1, 1911. Rev. Heber R. Harper was acting pastor from October, 1911, until June, 1913. Rev. Clarence H. LaRue became acting pastor July 1, 1913, and was ordained and installed as pastor in October, 1913.
In 1818, the Sunday School was started by Reverend Dr. French, in which the children repeated texts of Scripture and were catechized. It has been maintained with greater or less interest, and has grown to be a service of much importance, being promotive of earnest study of the Scriptures.
Deacon Francis R. Drake filled the office of superintendent for twenty- five years. The church and people have generally been interested in the events occurring then. They have been true to their convictions, loyal to their God and the great principles of our political Government. Some of them suf- fered much during the last French and Indian war. When the Revolutionary war began they raised minute-men, paying them $7 a month, and six out of the number were required to guard the coast of this town each night from sunset to sunrise. They furnished soldiers when called upon, and those at home deprived themselves of comforts to pay the bounties. During the great Rebellion the largely prevailing sentiment was truly loyal, and a considerable number of the young men experienced the hardships of the battlefield.
Nearly one hundred years ago a few of the people of the town lost their love for Congregationalism, and complained against paying their rates for the support of orthodox worship. They were deeply aggrieved, and on the 27th of March, 1787, the town voted to give them their minister's rates, dating back to the year 1783. The greater part of those who dissented called themselves Free-Will Baptists. They erected a small house of worship in the south part of the town some time before the close of the last century. Their meetings were held for a number of years, although they had no organization either of church or society. One of their number was regarded as the preacher, but at length the interest waned, and their house of worship was moved to Hampton.
After a considerable interval their interest revived, and the First Free- Will Baptist Society of North Hampton was incorporated on the 18th of December, 1816. Religious meetings were held for a while, but again their ardor cooled, and soon the society had only a nominal existence. But it was reorganized about the year 1834, and the interest became so great that a Free-Will Baptist Church was formed.
About this time there arose another class of Baptists who preferred the Christian persuasion. They held separate meetings, and in all particulars were denominationally distinct from the former.
In 1838 the Free-Will Baptists built a meeting-house in the east part of
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the town, where they worshiped for a few years, but as there were but few of them they soon grew weak, and abandoned their enterprise. This was their last attempt as a denomination to maintain the gospel in the town.
The Christian Baptists, who had increased in numbers and strength while they held their meetings in the schoolhouse, began to talk of building a house of worship. They saw that it might not be best to erect another house by the side of the one then unoccupied, so in 1846 they bought up the pews in the Free-Will Baptist house, and came into possession of it, and on the 22d of January, 1859, the Christian Church was organized with twenty mem- bers; but their number has considerably increased, although they have not had regular preaching all of the time since.
MILITARY RECORD, 1861-65
Philip A. Warner, Company K, Third Regiment; enlisted February 13, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John Cullen, Company C, Fourth Regi- ment ; enlisted August 10, 1863 : not officially accounted for. Albert Isaacson, Company I, Fourth Regiment : enlisted December 27, 1864; discharged August 23, 1865. Jeremiah Brown, Jr., Company B, Fourth Regiment; enlisted September 18, 1861 ; discharged February 11, 1862. John D. Hobbs, Com- pany B, Fourth Regiment ; enlisted September 18, 1861 ; discharged Septem- ber 27, 1864. Charles Smith, Company K, Fourth Regiment ; enlisted Jan- uary 4, 1865. Edward Smith, Company G, Fifth Regiment ; enlisted Sep- tember 7, 1864. Frederick Toerber, Company I, Fifth Regiment; enlisted August 10, 1863. John Williams, Company H, Fifth Regiment; enlisted August 10, 1863. John White, Company G. Fifth Regiment; enlisted Sep- tember 7, 1864. Elias H. Marston, Company D, Fifth Regiment ; enlisted October 23, 1861 ; promoted to sergeant May 12, 1863 ; promoted to adjutant July 1, 1863; discharged October 22, 1864. Robert Parrott, Company H. Sixth Regiment ; enlisted November 28, 1861 ; promoted to corporal; absent, sick ; no discharge furnished. Albert A. Batchelder, Company C, Sixth Regi- ment; enlisted September 3. 1862; promoted to first sergeant, discharged June 4, 1865. Thomas Bell, Company B, Sixth Regiment ; enlisted September 3, 1862. Leon Saladad, Company E, Sixth Regiment; enlisted December 15, 1863; absent, no discharge furnished. William Brown, Company A, Seventh Regiment ; enlisted September 21, 1864. James Daggett. Joseph S. Miles, Company F, Ninth Regiment; enlisted December 15, 1863; pro- moted to corporal; supposed to have died in a rebel prison. John Shaugh- nessy, Company G, Ninth Regiment ; enlisted June 13, 1864. Alexander Thompson, Company K, Ninth Regiment; enlisted December 15, 1863; died September 8, 1864. John Thompson, Company K, Ninth Regiment ; enlisted December 15, 1863: promoted to corporal. Henry Andrews, Company F, Ninth Regiment ; enlisted December 15, 1863. John Anderson, Company F. Ninth Regiment ; enlisted December 15, 1863; discharged October 15, 1864. John Glover, Company D, Ninth Regiment : enlisted July 26, 1862; trans- ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps September 1, 1863. Henry Andrews, Company F, Ninth Regiment ; enlisted December 15, 1863. Emery Sumner, Jr., Company G, Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted February 11, 1864 ; transferred to Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers June 1, 1865. Jeremiah Batchelder, Company I. Eleventh Regiment ; enlisted September 3, 1862 ; missing in action
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July 30, 1864. Charles Brown, Company K, Twelfth Regiment; enlisted December 15, 1863 ; transferred to United States navy, April 29, 1864. Wil- liam Smith, Company B, Twelfth Regiment; enlisted December 16, 1863; transferred to United States navy, April 29, 1864. George Wilson, Company D. Twelfth Regiment; enlisted December 16, 1863; killed June 3, 1864. James Welch, Company H, Twelfth Regiment; enlisted December 16, 1863. Joseph Woods, Company A, Twelfth Regiment; enlisted December 16, 1863. Charles Johnson, Company B, Twelfth Regiment; enlisted December 16, 1863; transferred to United States navy, April 29, 1864. Charles Brown, Company I, Twelfth Regiment; enlisted December 15, 1863 ; discharged May 18, 1865. Michael Walch, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 1, 1862. Thomas O'Neil, Company F, Fourteenth Regiment; en- listed October 7, 1862. Hugh Rainy, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted August 3, 1864; not officially accounted for. Thomas Wilson, Company F, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted November 7, 1862. William J. Bradford, musician, Company I, Sixteenth Regiment; enlisted November 1, 1862; discharged August 20, 1863. Eleazer O. Addison, corporal, Company K, Sixteenth Regiment ; enlisted November 1, 1862; discharged August 20, 1863. Samuel G. Armour, Company K, Sixteenth Regiment; enlisted November 3, 1862. Charles W. Hall, Company K, Sixteenth Regiment; enlisted November I, 1862. Ephraim H. Packer, Company K, Sixteenth Regiment ; enlisted Novem- ber 14, 1862; discharged August 20, 1863. Wm. Smith, Seventeenth Regi- ment; enlisted November 24, 1862; not officially accounted for. James P. Hall, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 13, 1862; not officially accounted for. Oliver Harriman, Company B, Seventeenth Regi- ment ; enlisted November 13, 1862; not officially accounted for. Patrick J. Kidder, musician, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 13. 1862; not officially accounted for. Michael McQueeny, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment ; enlisted November 13, 1862; transferred to Company E, Second Regiment ; discharged August 14, 1863. Henry Remick, Com- pany B, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 13, 1862; transferred to Company K, Second Regiment ; discharged August 14, 1863. James Davis, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 24, 1862; not officially accounted for. Perry C. Moore, Company A, Seventeenth Regi- ment ; enlisted November 13, 1862; not officially accounted for. James S. Townsend, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment ; enlisted November 13, 1862; promoted to corporal; discharged April 16, 1863. Charles W. Winship, Com- pany B, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 14, 1862; transferred to Company D, Second Regiment ; killed July 2, 1863. John Williams, Seven- teenth Regiment; enlisted November 14, 1862; not officially accounted for. William H. Blake, Company K, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 18, 1862; connected with Second Regiment; discharged October 9, 1863. Samuel P. Holt, sergeant, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 13, 1862; not officially accounted for. Frank Michael, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment ; enlisted December 18, 1862 ; not officially accounted for. James C. Rand, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 18, 1862; not officially accounted for. Joseph Williams, Seventeenth Regiment ; en- listed December 18, 1862; not officially accounted for. Walter Binney, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 18, 1862; connected with Com- pany I, Second Regiment, April 16, 1863. Samuel E. Sanborn, Seventeenth
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Regiment ; enlisted December 18, 1862; connected with Company I, Second Regiment; died August 20, 1863. Andrew J. Batchelder, Company G, Eighteenth Regiment; enlisted January 6, 1865; discharged July 29, 1865. Orlando L. Blake, Company G, Eighteenth Regiment; enlisted January 6, 1865; discharged July 29, 1865. John W. Mace, Company G, Eighteenth Regiment ; enlisted January 7, 1865; discharged July 29, 1865. Horace Leavitt, Company M, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted December 24, 1861; pro- moted to corporal and sergeant; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. Frank D. Hobbs, Company M, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted September 15, 1862; discharged November, 1862. John H. Elkins, Company M, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted September 15, 1862; killed June 18, 1863. Joshua P. Smith, Company M, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted September 15, 1862; discharged July 15, 1865. John W. Warner, Company M., N. E. Cav- alry; enlisted September 15, 1862; discharged July 15, 1865. William T. Bodrich, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted September 15, 1862; not officially accounted for. William J. Bowly, Company M, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted September 22, 1862; died July 25, 1864. James F. Hobbs, Company M, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted September 15, 1862; promoted to corporal; dis- charged July 15, 1865. Dana A. Torrey, Company K, N. E. Cavalry; enlisted September 22, 1862; discharged October 19, 1863. Lawrence Merefin, enlisted September 5, 1864; date of discharge unknown. William Rochford, enlisted September 1, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Walter S. Weeks, enlisted August 16, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Michael Sullivan, enlisted August 13, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Amos W. Samson, enlisted August 13, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John W. Carmichael, enlisted August 30, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John Jones, enlisted August 29, 1864; date of discharge unknown. William H. Price, enlisted August 30, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Peter Dudley, enlisted September 5, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John Morrisey, enlisted January 3, 1865; date of discharge unknown. Thomas Atkins, en- listed January 21, 1864; date of discharge unknown. William Shannon, enlisted January 21, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Samuel Jones, en- listed May 27, 1864; date of discharge unknown. William H. Horvers, enlisted July 3, 1863; date of discharge unknown. John Flynn, enlisted August 31, 1863 ; date of discharge unknown. William P. Andrews, enlisted August 31, 1863; date of discharge unknown. George Brenard, enlisted September 1, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Patrick McGrew, enlisted August 29, 1863 ; date of discharge unknown. Thomas H. Clough, Cavalry; enlisted September 21, 1862; date of discharge unknown. John Edwards, Cavalry ; enlisted September 21, 1862 ; date of discharge unknown. William F. Sanders, Cavalry ; enlisted September 21, 1862 ; date of discharge unknown.
General Henry Dearborn was born in North Hampton, N. H., February 23, 1751 ; served as captain at the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, and as major in the campaign against Burgoyne in 1777. In 1778 he fought with distinc- tion at Monmouth. He was a member of Congress from Massachusetts, 1793-97, and secretary of war under Jefferson, 1801-09. Having obtained the rank of major-general, he was in chief command of the United States army in 1812. He captured York (now Toronto) in Canada, April 27, 1813. He was United States minister to Portugal in 1822-24. He died in Rox- bury, Mass., June 6, 1829.
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In 1876, J. W. F. Hobbs a native of North Hampton, erected a school- house and town hall for the use of the town.
Abraham Drake, a prominent citizen of North Hampton, served as cap- tain in the French and Indian war and attained the rank of lieut .- colonel in the Revolution. Colonel Drake died very suddenly in his field in 1781. He left a large estate, most of it still in possession of his descendants.
North Hampton Public Library was established in 1892 with state aid. The public library building was erected in 1897 at a cost of $5,000, and the entire amount was raised by taxation. Mr. L. W. Fogg was the first librarian and continued to serve in this capacity until 1913, when he was succeeded by Miss Lucy M. Warner, the present librarian. The library contains 1,860 volumes.
CHAPTER XLV
NORTHWOOD
Geographical-Topographical-Early Settlements-Names of Pioneers- Incorporation-First Town-Meeting-Officers Elected-The Revolution -Ecclesiastical-Coe's Northwood Academy-Villages and Hamlets- Physicians-Early Families-Military-Public Library.
The Town of Northwood lies in the extreme northern part of the county, and is bounded as follows : on the north and east by Strafford County, on the south by Deerfield, and on the west by Merrimac County. The population is 1,059.
Early Settlements .- The century preceding that in which the history of this town is involved was one of comparatively small beginnings through- out New England. In the territory now known as New Hampshire small settlements, independent of each other, had been made at Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, Hampton, and elsewhere. As they suffered from the misrule of men claiming proprietorship of territory, and from the unfriendliness of some of the Indian tribes, they sought protection from the State of Massachusetts. This state had claimed that the territories of New Hampshire and Maine were included within the limits of their original charter, and willingly took these settlements under their care, which proved not a little beneficial. Immi- grants from England came in greater numbers, not only increasing settle- ments already existing, but pushing farther from seacoast into the interior, making settlements at Epping, Lee, and Nottingham. Nottingham was in- corporated as early as 1722, including what may now be known as Deerfield and Northwood, in addition to its present limits. But the eyes of the energetic and restless settlers of the lower towns did not fail to observe the high slope of land lying on a line between Portsmouth and Concord. Hunters found this region abounding in game, and gave on their return to settlements nearer the coast glowing descriptions of the excellence of the soil and the richness of the forests. A few had from time to time con- structed temporary huts and purposed permanent settlements; but they were not the men to fell the trees and rear a population so remote from any con- siderable settlement as was this tract of country long known as North Woods.
In 1762 there arrived in the east part of the town, and halted there for the night, four wearied, weather-beaten, determined. men. Three of these men-Moses Godfrey, John and Increase Batchelder-resolved here to make for themselves permanent homes, while the fourth-Solomon Bickford- resolved to look further. Accompanied by Godfrey, he spotted his way over the height, and reached the northwestern part of the town, now known as
"The Narrows." And here, too, were meadows abounding in forage and water-power ; and in sight of these, and near the gem of lakes, the Suncook, he erected his pillar and resolved to build and abide.
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Godfrey and the Batchelders naturally affiliated, being from the same neighborhood and of the same religious tendencies, and expected many others of like sympathies to follow them; while Bickford saw that it would be better for him to seize a point around which he could gather his friends and those in sympathy with him; while both parties ever afterwards sustained the friendliest relations.
Bickford and Godfrey returned to the camp, around which the Batchelders had effected a clearing, and all aided in erecting a log house for Godfrey, in a field west of the turnpike, for Godfrey was a married man, while the Batchelders were not. Having made rude beginnings, these four friends returned, Bickford to Lee, Godfrey and the Batchelders to Hampton, now North Hampton, and on the 25th day of the following March ( 1763), Godfrey, with his family, and John and Increase Batchelder returned to occupy the land they had chosen, the Batchelders boarding with Godfrey until they might build near him, where now stands the house of Francis J. Hanson. Theirs was the first frame house built in Northwood.
In December following, Bickford, with his family and his brother John, returned to possess the land at the Narrows, building where stood the dwelling-house of the late Deacon Asa Bickford, where was born to him a son, named Solomon, June 25, 1764, the first child born within the present limits of Northwood.
The next man that came was Samuel Johnson, from Hampton. He spent the first night following the day of his arrival between two rocks that had been rent one from the other, spreading over them a covering of boughs. Johnson's arrival was in November, 1765, when there were only twelve persons within the present limits of the town-five men, Godfrey, John, and Increase Batchelder, Solomon and John Bickford, and two women, the wives of Godfrey and Solomon Bickford, and five children.
These Batchelders were the descendants of the Rev. Stephen Batchelder, who arrived at Boston, June 5, 1632, having sailed with his family in the ship William and Francis. He immediately went to Lynn, where on the fol- lowing Sabbath, June 8th, he preached his first sermon in America. From Lynn, February, 1636, he removed to Ipswich, and soon after to Yarmouth, and in 1638 to Newbury. On the 6th of September, it would appear, the General Court gave him permission to settle a town at Hampton. Hither, with his family and some personal friends, he came, and was installed the first minister of Hampton. In the year 1654 he returned to England, and died at Hackney, near London, in 1660, in his one hundredth year. He left in this country two sons, Henry, who is believed to have settled in Reading, Mass., and Nathaniel, who remained in Hampton, from whom descended the Batchelders who earliest came to Northwood; for he had a son named Samuel, and his sons settled here.
It appears that these noble pioneers were soon followed by Daniel Hoy .. Jonathan, Thomas, and Ebenezer Knowlton, brothers, from Kensington ; Jonathan and Taylor Clark, brothers, from Stratham; Jonathan Jenness, from Rye; John, Simeon, and Benjamin Johnson, brothers; Joshua Furber, Abra- ham and Samuel Batchelder, and others, so that the high places of the town were taken possession of, mills had been erected, and paths with bridges had been constructed leading to the various settlements along the central line through the town from south to north in the direction of Concord, as well
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