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Samuel Little
Jonathan Page Junr.
Nathaniel Knight Jun.
Joshua Knight
Joseph Page
Ebenezer Knight
Daniel Whitticker
Caleb Page Junr. James Noyes
Joseph Noyes
Moses Belknap
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Joseph Little Junr. Humphrey Noyes
Daniel Poor
Eldad Ingalls
Thomas Hale
Jonathan Nelson
Edmund Page
Timothy Ladd
Israel Webster
Nathl Knight
Caleb Page
Jonathan Clements
Abiel Knight
John Webster
Moses Page
Robert Greenough
PETITION OF THE INHABITANTS IN THE WEST PART OF HAVERHILL DISTRICT DESIRING NOT TO BE INCORPORATED
To his Excellency Bening Wentworth Esqr. Governor and Commander in Cheaf in and over his Majesties province of New hampshirew England and to the Honourable his Majesties Council &c.
We the Subscribers being inhabitance in the South west part of Haverhill District and Included within the Boundarys of the Last Petition brought forward by Capt. John Pecker and Mr. John Watts Considering the small number of Inhabitance and the Low Sircumstances that many of them Labours under it is our Humble opinion that we are no ways able to supporte the Gos pell amongst ourselves at present therefore we Desier your Excellency and Honors to take our case under your wise Consideration and not incorporate us into a town or Distinct parrish according to the prayer of the above sd Petition till we are better abell to bare the Charges for we are obliged by Contract to the Rev. Mr. Cushen and are not as yet set of from his Parish.
Dated Haverhill District July ye 24th 1749
Benj Richards Caleb Page
Daniel Poor
James Noyes
Joseph Noyes
John Webster
Jonathan Nelson
Joseph Page Jonathan Page
Daniel Flood
John Corrier Thomas Little
Thomas Noyse Jr
Eldad Ingalls Edmund Page
HUSE AND OTHERS PETITION NOT TO JOYN WITH MR. HAZZEN ACCORDING TO HIS PLAN
To his Excelency Bennin Wintworth Esqr. and Honrable Counsel.
We your humble Pertisioners take Leave to Let you know part of our Greavies Coused by Mr. Richard Hazzen Pertisions and plan if he obtains will Cut and Carve our Land & privelage all to pieces who were Orderly Settled on Kingstown Property & have a Petition Lodg with the Select men of our town in order to be set of as a parish. We pray that we may have the opertunity to Let your Excelency and Honrable Counsel know what the town does for us who are Lawful Setlars who' can have now privelage in that Regard unless we have part of what is in his Plan.
We subscribe ourselves yoor Humble Pertisinors. Kingst September 16th 1740.
James Huse
Orlando Colby
Joseph Dow
Jacob Gordy
Moses Tucker ?
Reuben Clough John Straw
Mesac Gordy Jonathan Colby
James Graves
John Hog
John Bond
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Isrel Huse William Straw
Jacob Wells
Daniel Hiberd John Pressey
Benjamin Tucker
Daniel Kid
John Straw Jun.
Jacob Tucker
Israel Huse Junr.
Philep Wells
PETITION OF HAVERHILL DISTRICT FOR A NEW PARISH
To His Excelency Bening Wintworth Esqr. Goviner and Commander in cheaf in and over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New England and to the Honourable His Majesties Council &c.
The Humble Petition of the Inhabitance in Haverhill Destrict and Prov- ince afore sd Humbly sheweth, that we are so Remote from the Place of the Publick worship of God that we cannot attend on it unless with Greate Difficulty and our other charges No Less Difficult. May it therefore Please your Excelency and Honours to take our case under your wise Consideration and Incorporate us and all that Do or shall Inhabit with us and a sufficient Parcell of Land into a town or Distinct Parrish so that we may sit up and maintain the worship of God amongst us and Carry on Such business as shall be Nessesary with the following Boundaries. Beginning at the Stake which stands in the Province Line near Jonathan Clements Dwelling House thence Running noth notheast till it strikes Haverhill norwest Line thence by sd Line till it Comes to the angle pond thence westerly to the wash Pond and so by the Wash pond brook to the Islande pond and so westerly to London Dary Line thence by sd London dary Line till it comes to Methuen Line thence South easterly by Methuen Line till it comes to the province Line thence by the Province Line to the first Bounds mentioned and you will Gratly oblige your Humble Petitioners and we shal as in Duty bound for ever Pray &c.
Peter Pattee
Wyman Wise
Daniel Poor
Richard Heath
Daniel Whitaker
Moses Belknap
Joseph Little
Gershom Pike
Joseph Gile
Thomas Little
Nathan Morss
John Clement
Moses Page
Timothy Lad
Daniel Flood
Samuel Watts
John Corour
Jonathan Hutchins
Stephen Dole
Henry Sargent
Nathaniel Knight
Paul Duston
Abraham Annes
George Little
John Dustin
Timothy Page
John Watts
Alexander Gordon
Thomas Dustin
Joseph Noyes
Richard Patee
Obadiah Dustin
Ebenezer Knight
John Ingalls
Obadiah Eastman
Joshua Knight
Thomas Pope
Jonathan Wheeler
James Noyes
Benja Rawlings
Benjamin Wheeler
Humphrey Noyes
Caleb Page
Stephen Wheeler Abner Wheeler
Thomas Noyes John Knight
Benja Richards John Dow
Jonathan Wheeler junr
Nathaniel Knight Jun
Edmund Page
John Corrier Junr John Watts Jun
Seth Patee
Jonathan Page
Benjamin Heath
Joseph Page
Nathaniel Watts
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MEMORIAL OF COL. JAMES WHITE AND OTHERS
Province of New Hampre: To his Excellency John Wentworth Esqr Gov- ernor the Honourable his Majesties Council and Representatives of said Province in General Court assembled.
The Memorial of James White and others humbly sheweth
Whereas by a late act of Law of this Province the Town of Plaistow is Divided and part of it become a New and Separate Parish, which Includes our Houses and Lands, we apprehend that our Situation and other Circum- stances will render it very Difficult for us to become members of the said New Parish. And it being Just and reasonable to allow all men freedom and Liberty with respect to the choice of a society wherein to join in Public worhsip-
We therefore Pray that your Excellency and Honours will according to your wonted favours Enact and order that we with our Estates may be set off from said new Parish, be annex'd and belong to said Plaistow (old Parish) in the Same manner as heretofore. And we as in Duty bound Shall ever Pray.
Sepr 1767
James White Moses Page
Daniel Poor Jun.
John Webster Jonathan Webster Jonathan Page
Israel Webster
William Webster Stephen Noyes
John Webster Jun.
Daniel Whiticker Humphrey Noyes
Jonathan Eatton
Daniel Poor
Robart Greenough
Province of New Hampre : Plastow April ye 2, 1754. At the annuall town meeting this Day held by adjournment from ye Last Wensday of March Last the meeting being opened at time and place,
By vote of the town Mr. Saml Kimball is Except of to serve as Constable this year Ensuing In the Place of Mr. Benjamin Pettengel who was chosan Constabel at our Last meeting Past on the Last Wensday of March.
By vote of the town Mr. Moses Belknapp is chosen Constabel for the west part of ye town for the year Ensewing. Jonathan Page chosen tithing- man Steven Dole Hogreaf. the meeting adjourn to the 8th of Aprill Instants at 2 of the clock in the after Noon the town Clark not present
Nicholas White, Moderator
VOTE OF HAVERHILL DISTRICT TO SET OFF TIMBERLAIN
At a Legal District meeting Holden at the old meeting House in said District on february ye 9th 1747, on the behalf of a Petition from Timber- lane so called with their Desire to be set off into a Destinct Parish by them- selves as followeth viz: Beginning at Jonathan Stevens South West corner bound near the Islande Pond then Running by the Easterly Side of Clements Land to his South Easterly Bound then Running by the Northerle side of Caleb Heaths and John Dustans Land to the Brook that runs from Emer- sons mill, then Running by the Southerly side of Capt. George Littles and Thomas Littles Land to his Easterly corner Bounds which is in Cloughs Medow, then Running to the Northwesterly corner of Thomas Hales Land
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and on the northerly side of said Hale's land and from the North Easterly corner thereof to the nearest Place in Almesbury Line. The said Timber lane ware set of by a vote according to the Bounds above mentioned except- ing Capt. George Little and his Son Thomas and Joseph and their Lands to be kept on the South of their Line.
A True Coppe Taken from the Book
Thomas Hale District Clerk
"There is 130 men's Heads above sixteen in the west end of the town of Plaistow. There is eighty-seven Famalys in the west of the Town of Plaistow." (Colonial Records, December 3, 1767.)
Number of People in Atkinson and Plaistow in 1767 or '68 .- Plastow, 576 people; rateable heads, 142; rateable land, 421 acres. Atkinson, 476 people ; rateable heads, 118; rateable land, 401 acres.
List of Baptists in Plaistow in 1768 (Supposed) .- Those that Profess themselves of ye Baptist Perswation which in all Parrish afairs have appeared against ye Peace & welfair of our minister and his society are as follows :
Joseph Flint, Daniel Emerson, Nehemiah Heath, Abner Plummer, Job Eatton, Bartholomew Heath, Joseph Harriman, Joseph Harriman Jr, James Bly. Joseph Smith, Jonathan Smith, John Pollard, Daniel Ayer, Simon Follansbe, Edmond Pilsbury, Joseph Welch, John Copp, Moses Orway, Enoch Johnson, John Stevens, Stevens Merrill, Ebenezer Noyes, Selvenes Noyes, Moses Stevens Jun., Stephen Flanders, Samuel Welch, James Huse, Samuel Dow, John Trusel, Widow Dow.
The Hole of ye Inhabitence Besides the above mentioned which was Rated in ye Last minister Rate which has Ben made are 70 Seventeen of which has ben taken Notice in Town meetings to joyn with ye Baptists in voting 4 of which are widows & some stands as Nuters.
Congregational Church .- This church was organized November 4, 1730, and was originally styled "the Church in the North Precinct of Haverhill, Mass." It was composed of fifty-nine members from the First Church in Haverhill.
The first pastor was Rev. James Cushing, who was ordained December 2, 1730, and continued as pastor for thirty years. He died May 13, 1764. He was succeeded in the pastorate by Rev. Sylas Merrill, ordained March 6, 1764, and died April 27, 1801. After the death of Mr. Merrill this church was without a settled pastor twenty-five years. December 26, 1826, Rev. Moses Welch became pastor and served until February 2, 1831. He was followed by Rev. S. H. Peckham, who was installed February 23, 1831, and remained until 1838. After Mr. Peckham's removal, Rev. David Oli- phant supplied the pulpit until 1852; Rev. Charles Tenney, 1853-58; Homer Barrows, 1858-69; Calvin Terry, 1869-75; David Bremer, 1875-79; Joseph Kyte, 1879-83 ; Benj. F. Perkins, 1883-85 ; Edward F. Stone, 1885-88; George E. Hill, 1888-92; F. P. Estabrook, 1892-95; Geo. W. Lawrence, 1895-98; Leonard Dodge, 1898-1901 ; Joseph Kimball, 1901-II ; C. R. Hamlin, 1912-14.
In 1837 a neat and commodious church edifice was erected in place of the old structure, which had become unfit for use.
The Baptist Church was organized in the year 1836. Pastors, Benjamin Wheeler, James W. Russell, John M. Chick, John Peacock, Lewis Barrows, Cyrus Tibbetts, Alexander M. Higgins, Theodore W. Sheppard, Alford Colburn, William Hurlin, Oliver P. Fuller, Horace G. Hubbard, 1881-86;
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Wm. M. Weeks, 1886-88; Wm. Dugdale, 1888-89; Albert D. Palmer, 1889- 96; Wm. C. Whittaker, 1896-98; Frank Parker, 1898-1904; Charles A. Towne, 1905-12; Chellis V. Smith, 1912-14. The church building was erected in 1840.
The Catholic Church .- In the summer of 1892, the Catholics of this section of New Hampshire, including at that time the towns of Plaistow, Newton, Danville, Hampstead, Atkinson and Salem, N. H., who were accus- tomed to worship at Haverhill, Mass., and Exeter, N. H., thought they should have a church of their own, and a priest to attend to them, sent a delegation to Rt. Rev. D. M. Bradley, then bishop of New Hampshire, in order to request him to send them a priest.
After due consideration Bishop Bradley selected for this work, the Rev. D. Alexander Sullivan, who came to take up his residence here in January, 1893. He at once began to hold services in the town hall at Plaistow, but early in the spring of 1893, he began the erection of a church at West- ville, a railway station in Plaistow. The largest population of the above mentioned towns then resided at Westville, which no doubt was the reason why it was selected as the site for the church. Reverend Fr. Sullivan com- pleted the church and remained here as resident pastor for five years. Having been promoted to the pastorate of Lancaster, N. H., he was succeeded by Rev. J. J. Hogan, who made improvements on the parish property, and added a cemetery known as Holy Angels' Cemetery. The Reverend Fr. Hogan remained here until February 1, 1902, and was succeeded by Rev. F. G. Deschaies who purchased a rectory and was pastor until April, 1907, when he was succeeded by Rev. H. A. Hennon, who made improvements in the parish and remained here until June 30, 1912, and he was succeeded on that date by Rev. M. J. Moher, who is at present the resident pastor. The names of the committee selected to wait upon Bishop Bradley were: Jere- miah Kelliher, George Denoncour, Hilaire Gilbert.
Plaistow Public Library .- When the town hall was completed in 1896 three rooms were set aside for the use of the library and it was opened to public use in December, 1896. It has now 1,500 volumes in care of Mrs. James M. Davis, librarian.
E. A. Landman is the physician.
MILITARY RECORD, 1861-65.
Frederick P. Eaton, Jacob F. Stevans, Isaiah Kelley, Alfred Kelley, Jr., George F. Colden, James D. Colden, David Langmaid, Frank W. Shannon, George E. Shannon, Greenleaf C. George, Capt. Jesse E. George, George M. Wilson, Isaac Howard Hall, Richard H. Brunell, Warren Clough, Capt. Richard Welch, Herain Carleton, Jr., Walter S. Shannon, Isaac B. Clifford, Ingram J. Cummings, Greenleaf R. Cummings, Franklin Burnham, Rendal F. Cass, Hale Gage, Andrew Sweatser, Jesse E. Harriman, William H. Tripp, Charles Godkin, Nathaniel Thompson, Elbridge G. Tucker, Charles W. Cass, Moses Kimball, Charles W. Bradley, Benjamin G. Flanders, Stephen F. Godkin, Herbert H. Sargent, Isaac N. Cass, James W. Drew, Charles A. Dow, Henry A. Dow, George W. Kelley, Edward A. Sleeper, Charles Sprague, Frank Roberts, Samuel Hall.
CHAPTER XLVIII
RAYMOND
Geographical-Purchase of the Town-First Settlements-Names of Pioneers -Incorporation of Town-First Town-Meeting-Documentary History -Early Families-Ecclesiastical and Educational-Public Library.
The Town of Raymond is situated in the western part of the county, and is bounded as follows: on the north by Nottingham and Deerfield, on the east by Epping and Fremont, on the south by Chester, and on the west by Chester and Candia. It contains 16,317 acres. The surface is generally level and the soil fertile.
Dudley's Purchase .- The territory embraced within the present bounds of this town was purchased of the Indians by Colonel Dudley in 1817. The grantors were Penniwit and Abigail, his squaw.
In March of the following year, Colonel Dudley sold one-eighth of his purchase to James Dudley, Jr., father of Judge Dudley, and his brothers, Samuel and Joseph. The price paid was three pounds. In 1722, Dudley dis- posed of 400 acres more of his purchase.
The First Settlements were made between the years 1720 and 1730. As is seen, Colonel Dudley was the active spirit in the settlement, but it is doubtful if he was ever a permanent settler. He was a shoemaker by trade, and died in Exeter in 1734, aged forty-six.
The town was surveyed in 1728, and divided into 140 lots of 100 acres each.
1744. There is a record, which we think reliable, that Samuel Dudley was here at this date, his oldest son having been born about that year. He lived where the judge afterwards lived.
In 1745, Samuel Healey settled in the west part. His house was east of what is now the Jersey road, in Candia.
1750, About this date David Bean came from Kingston. He was brother of Lieut. Benjamin Bean, who came soon after.
1751. Elisha Towle was from Hawke, now Danville.
In 1752, Lieut. Benjamin Bean came from Kingston.
Jedediah and Jonathan Brown, from Seabrook, came to the Page road. Maj. Josiah Fogg, from Hampton.
Daniel Robie, from Hampton Falls, settled where the late J. Fullonton resided.
1753. Daniel Todd was originally from Ireland.
1754. Daniel Holman was from West Epping. He had lived below, but was disposed to move westward with civilization. His small house in Epping was not far from Thomas Folsom's, and was the first built west of the river. In Raymond he lived on Oak Hill, just above the Abbotts.
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1755. Robert Page was from Pagetown, in North Hampton, and about the same date, John and James Fullonton came from Epping. John built a log house which had no glass or doors, properly such. James built back from the highway.
The first operations were at Freetown Mills, and some were early in the Branch District. The veritable, shrewd, humorous "Maj. Jack Downing" said, "It is well to begin at the beginning of things, and we shall get through better." We go to the south part of the Branch road, and then progress north. On the Raymond side of Chester line Benjamin True, from Salis- bury, built a house. He was the father of the late Capt. Benjamin True, who lived in the edge of Chester. Barton Pollard lived near the Todd place, and the Moores were early on the farm still called by the name. On the Currier farin the Merrills flourished, and in 1795, Gideon Currier, from Chester, came into possession. He became, in his day, perhaps the largest land- holder in town.
About the time of the Revolutionary war, Samuel Poor and his sons Samuel and Ebenezer came from West Newbury. They began on what are now two farms still in the name of Poor.
John Prescott Lovering came from Exeter to Fremont, then to what is here known as the Lovering place, about the commencement of the Revo- lutionary war. His son Daniel, a grandson, the late Captain Daniel, and finally a son of the captain, the present Moses L. Lovering, also dwelt here.
Jacob York came from Lee to what is now called York's Corners in 1795. It is said that near this corner Clement Moody early settled. No one lived nearer than "the Rocks," in Poplin, now Fremont, and when fire was lost it was necessary to go to "the Rocks" to get it.
At the old Bean house, opposite Widow John Beans's, not only the town- meetings were held till a meeting-house was built, but the meetings for preaching.
Near George S. Robbie's, Stephen Prescott, from Hampton, built a house in the woods about 1775. Some years later he raised a barrel of potatoes, which was then thought a great crop. Stephen Osgood, a grand- son, flourished there, and for years he put much in motion in this part of the town. Ebenezer Cram, afterwards deacon, came from Hampton Falls in 1868, and located near here. His brother Benjamin located where Josiah B. Cram lives; another brother, John, on Mr. Moulton's place, near the Gove schoolhouse. Afterwards John and Ebenezer changed farms. John, in time, moved to Pittsfield.
Easterly of the schoolhouse, where the old road was, lived Joseph White. A man up north, Capt. John Fullonton, lost his wife, who charged him, before her death, not to marry Molly, who lived at Deacon Cram's. The man thus charged had a mind to do so, however, and at dusk the captain would be seen wending his way to where Molly lived. Mr. White, knowing the case, thought to frighten him out of it. So one night, as the captain was already in the door-yard, anticipating an interview with his intended bride, White appeared, wrapped in a sheet, as if the ghost of the departed wife from the graveyard below. The captain did not believe in witches, hobgoblins, or ghosts. He was aware that "true love does not run smooth," but will run regardless of difficulties. Molly he meant to have in spite of
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the devil and all his works, so he gave chase. White fled, carrying the sheet on his arm, and ran home for fear of a beating.
Lieut. Jonathan Dearborn, from Stratham, came here about 1763.
Just north of Captain Tilton's road lived Benjamin Fox,-afterwards north of Oak Hill. Down the back road, near Epping line, lived Joseph
and Moses Cass. Some confidently believe the late Gen. Lewis Cass was son of one of these. The general was born, however, in Exeter, and his father was Jonathan Cass. Eliphalet Folsom came from Exeter in 1770. His brother John dwelt at the foot of Oak Hill. On the Hill, besides Hol- man, already named, lived Jacob Smith, who moved from Epping to Not- tingham, then here. The Abbotts have a large dwelling on the place. Half a mile above John Batchelder had a house, of which the fireplace formed a considerable part. It would take in a back-log five feet long and two feet in diameter, a forestick six feet long, and other wood to match, in all nearly a cord. Mr. Batchelder was from Hampton Falls.
Going south, near the foot of the hill, Daniel Pevere, from Hampton Falls, early settled. On the place where J. Corson once lived Moses San- born resided. John Brown, father of Joseph, came later with his father John, from Hampton. A few rods north of Harriman's lived John Montgomery, from Ireland. Asa Harriman, a native of Rowley, Mass., came from Ep- ping about 1783. Opposite the Harriman house Nathaniel Dudley, son of the judge, built. After he left, James Dudley occupied the place for a time, then moved to the Branch. East, in the Blake field, lived Benjamin Prescott.
Reuben Tilton, from Hampton Falls, came to where Dudley Harriman lived for years about 1770. John Stevens came here not far from the same time. Stevens' first house was back towards the river, afterwards the old Stevens house on the road.
Where Griffin's mill is a sawmill was built, we think, by some of the Dudleys. Joseph Dudley, brother of the judge, lived there; also a Mr. Wells.
Where David Griffin owns, Alexander McClure settled. His son Alex- ander lived on the late Martha McClure's place, beyond the "Long Hill."
Nicholas Gilman, from Kingston, was an early settler. His first dwelling was in the woods.
Isaac Tucker, grandfather of the late Barnard and Gen. H. Tucker, went first from Philadelphia to Portsmouth; hence to this place about the time of the Revolution. Daniel Richardson, the ancestor of several of that name here, was from Newbury Old Town about 1765.
Caleb Smith lived in the Dudley district. He was chosen one of the selectmen.
Near the Gile schoolhouse lived Jesse Gile, from Haverhill, Mass., and at the right David Brown, from Chester. John Leavitt early settled nearly opposite the Hodgkins place.
Manoah Scribner, from Fremont, came to the Scribner place about 1787. A Mr. Palmer lived at the northwest of the pond, and Jonathan Smith, father of Dean Smith, had a log house near Healy's Mountain. Asa Heath lived northerly of the Green, and Samuel Healey in the vicinity.
Jonathan Woodman came from Candia early in the present century. He was a descendant of Peter Woodman, who lived at Kingston nearly one hundred and fifty years ago.
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John Lane, from Rye, came to Chester, a mile south of here, in 1749. He owned land here, and on it his sons Nathan, Ezekiel, Daniel, David, and Jonathan settled. Deacon Wason was from Chester about 1800. Matthias Haines lived in the Wason district. The Abbotts in town descended from Ephraim, from Fremont, who lived on the Rye road to the Green.
On the road east of the Gile schoolhouse settled the Batchelders, from Hampton Falls,-Josiah, Jonathan and David. South of Hazen Batchelder's lived Samuel Peavey. The Kimballs were from Exeter.
Josiah Moulton, the first who settled here, was from Hampton Falls. Farther down, where the road divides, lived Henry Thresher, who came from Hampton about 1775. His son David followed, but afterward moved to Candia.
Early Roads .- The first road laid out in Raymond was March 10, 1748. It began near where Mr. Knowles lived in Chester, and followed a path through the Branch district to what is now Fremont line, below J. Elliott's.
September 22, 1749. From a road on the north of what is now Chester to Wason district to Candia line. This passed a sawmill called Chatauga, a corruption of an Indian word signifying foggy place.
May 5, 1750. From below Marden's, in Chester, into Raymond, east of the Dean Smith place, called the Todd road.
May 5, 1750. Near Osgood True's, by what is called the Dudley place. August 21, 1752. Fremont line to Freetown Mills.
October 18, 1757. North of Captain Tilton's road by the gate that hung near Gilman Folsom's, by Timothy Osgood's to Epping line.
June 12, 1759. From Freetown Mills, by the Center, to Dudley's Mill in the west part.
June 12, 1759. From Gilman Folsom's, over Oak Hill, to Nottingham line.
June 13, 1759. Freetown Mill to schoolhouse near Timothy Osgood's. June 14, 1760. Outlet of Jones pond to Center.
September 3, 1760. Dudley's Mill to Candia line near Mr. Critchet's.
December 9, 1761. Page road.
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