History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 80

Author: Hazlett, Charles A
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 1390

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Regiment; enlisted December 30, 1863; discharged July 8, 1865. Jeremiah F. Boyd, Company F, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted January 4, 1864; dis- charged June 14, 1865. John Englebrick, Company F, Fourteenth Regi- ment ; enlisted August 5, 1864; absent, sick, supposed discharged. Hial F. Eaton, Company K, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted February 2, 1865; died June 7, 1865. Charles R. Gove, Company I, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted December 30, 1863; discharged July 8, 1865. William H. Sanborn, Com- pany I, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted December 30, 1863; died February 3. 1864. John N. Brown, second lieutenant, Company D, Fourteenth Regi- ment : enlisted October 9, 1862; resigned March 9, 1863. Lemuel M. Richardson, Company E, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Newell F. Dow, Company I, Fourteenth Regiment ; enlisted December 30, 1863; died March 18, 1864. Charles H. Clark, Company I, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted August 3, 1864; died October 15. 1864. Eucher Boisvert, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862. Robert Final, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862; transferred headquarters troops July 24, 1863. Charles Grosette, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment ; enlisted October 31, 1862. Hugh McGuire, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862; transferred to headquarters troops July 24, 1863. Paul Mignot, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment ; enlisted October 31, 1862. Theophel Paradis. Com- pany H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862. Frank Jones, Com- pany H, Fifteenth Regiment: enlisted November 8, 1862. John Loudon, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Charles F. Laurence, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Charles Pratt, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. James Barton, Seventeenth Regiment ; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. William J. Gardiner, Seventeenth Regiment ; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Felix Stone, Seventeenth Regiment; en- listed November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Kendall W. Cofren, Company H. Seventeenth Regiment ; enlisted November 26, 1862; died July 30, 1863. Moses Quarter, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 26, 1862; not officially accounted for. George Ava, Seventeenth Regiment ; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. George Brown, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. George C. Spaulding, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 26, 1862. Gaton C. Ross, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted Decem- ber 29, 1862: not officially accounted for. George J. Busher, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 29, 1862; discharged October 9, 1863. Benjamin F. Foster, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 18, 1862; not officially accounted for. Reuben W. Price, Company M, H. A .; enlisted October 13, 1864; promoted to assistant surgeon October 12, 1864; discharged June 15, 1865. William Jones, U. S. C. T .; enlisted October 8, 1864 ; date of discharge unknown. James Bean, U. S. C. T. ; enlisted October 7, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Thomas Ladson, U. S. C. T .; enlisted October 5, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Abraham Dow, V. R. C .; enlisted August 23, 1864 ; date of discharge unknown. John Francis, V. R. C .; enlisted August 5, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Samuel Eaton, V. R. C .; enlisted January 13, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Nicholas Gaynon, V. R. C .; enlisted January 6, 1864; date of discharge unknown.

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Alvin A. Gove, V. R. C .; enlisted January 2, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Stephen F. Knowles, navy; enlisted February 6, 1862; date of discharge unknown. George W. Randall, navy; enlisted December 19, 1862; date of discharge unknown. George Rowe, navy, enlisted December 19, 1862; date of discharge unknown. John R. Beckman, navy; enlisted Decem- ber 19, 1862; date of discharge unknown. Edward Austin, enlisted Septem- ber 14, 1862; date of discharge unknown. Charles Phillips, enlisted September 19, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Almon Eaton, enlisted September 9, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Michael Corbett, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Joseph E. Wilder, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Charles Welsh, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Joseph Byard, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. William Segarson, enlisted September 1, 1863; date of discharge unknown. September 8, 1863; date of discharge unknown. November 8, 1862; date of discharge unknown. September 14, 1863; date of discharge unknown. September 14, 1863; date of discharge unknown. September 7, 1863; date of discharge unknown.

James McNeil, enlisted, Abraham Ross, enlisted William Henry, enlisted George Blake, enlisted Charles Hinds, enlisted Antrus Lopez, enlisted September 9, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Jacob Roker, enlisted Sep- tember 7, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Daniel Kating, enlisted Septem- ber 8, 1863; date of discharge unknown. George Dunn, enlisted September 14, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Peter Shields, enlisted October I.I, 1864; date of discharge unknown. George Taylor, enlisted October 8, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Robert Mckinley, enlisted October 9, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John C. Clark, enlisted October 12, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John D. Brandt, enlisted October 17, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John Brown, enlisted October 7, 1864; date of dis- charge unknown. William Ramsey, enlisted October 1, 1864; date of dis- charge unknown. P. M. Caventor, enlisted October 11, 1862; date of dis- charge unknown. James P. Whitefield, enlisted August 12, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Daniel McEllery, enlisted August 10, 1864; date of discharge unknown. William Murphy, enlisted August 2, 1864; date of discharge unknown.

Brown Memorial Library, Seabrook .- In November, 1890, Mrs. C. P. Jackson, assisted by several other women of Seabrook, inaugurated a public reading room at her residence, and gave the use of her library. Brown Memorial Library is the outgrowth of that movement. A society composed wholly of women, known as the Reading Room Circle, was formed and seventy-five volumes were collected, when Mr. Sewall Brown of Salem, Mass., a native of Seabrook, generously donated 175 volumes and $100 towards a building fund. In January, 1892, Mr. Brown suddenly died, and his cousin, Mr. David Pingree of Salem, wishing to perpetuate the memory of the deceased, proposed to erect a suitable building, which was accordingly built and gratefully accepted. The building was formally dedicated September 12, 1893, as the Brown Memorial Library, and passed into the possession of the Brown Library Association. Mr. Pingree has given a total of about sixteen hundred and twenty-five volumes, which have been card-catalogued by an expert. In January, 1896, Mr. Pingree and his two sisters gave $1,570 as a permanent fund, the same being their mother's share in the estate of Augustus S. Brown.

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Other donations of books have been received, and the library now con- tains 2,116 volumes, exclusive of Government and state reports. The library is free and has received no aid from state or town.

F. D. W. Colcord and G. R. Fellows are the physicians.

The societies are: John A. Logan Post, G. A. R .; Woman's Relief Corps; Gov. Weare Council, U. O. A. M .; Passaconaway Council, Junior O. U. A. M .; Good Will Grange; Alfred N. Dow Camp, S. of V.

CHAPTER LIII

SOUTH HAMPTON

Geographical-Topographical-Incorporation of the Town-The Charter- Documentary History-The Churches-The Association Test-Military Record-Public Library.

South Hampton lies in the southwestern part of the county, and is bounded as follows: on the north by East Kingston and Kensington; on the east by Seabrook; on the south by Massachusetts; and on the west by Newton. The population in 1910 was 279.

The surface of the town is rolling and the soil fertile. Agriculture is the principal occupation of the inhabitants. It is the fourth town in the county to bear the name of Hampton.

Incorporation of the Town .- Prior to 1741 the boundary line of New Hampshire and Massachusetts was what is called the Shapley line, the present northern boundary of South Hampton being the state line, hence the town was wholly a part of Amesbury and Salisbury, extending from the Atlantic on the east to the Town of Kingston on the northwest; thence south two and a quarter miles to the Mitchel line, so called, embracing the present Town of South Hampton, nearly two-thirds of the area of Seabrook, and the easterly portion of the Town of Newton. The town was chartered May 25, 1742, by Benning Wentworth, governor of the Province of New Hampshire in the reign of George II. The first meeting was authorized to be warned and called by Joseph Jewell, John Flanders, and Henry Currier on June 7, 1742.

The following is a copy of the charter :

Province of New Hampshire, George the Second, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland, Defender of the Faith.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting-

(L. S.) Know yee, That we at the Humble Suit and Petition of Sundry of our Leidg Subjects Inhabiting a Tract of Land within our Province of New hampshire in New England as hereinafter described, Butted & Bounded, Bordering on the Northern boundary Curve Line of the Prov- ince of the Massachusetts Bay, to be incorporated into a District Parrish, have for divers good causes & considerations us moving, Granted & con- firm'd to the said Inhabitants & their successors. And by these Presents of our Special Grace, certain knowledge & meer Motion for the well ordering & Regulating the affairs of the said Parrish Do Grant & confirm unto the Said Inhabitants & their Successors to be a Town or Parrish Incorporate by the name of South-Hampton within the bounds following, viz Begining at the Atlantick Sea or Ocean on the East, at the distance of three miles North

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of the mouth of the River Merrimack, & from thence to run Northerly to the bounds of that part of the Town of Hampton called Hampton Falls, & thence Westerly pursuing the Bounds of the Said Parrish of Hampton Falls to the Parrishes of Kensinton & Kingstown as has been reputed to have been heretofore agreed upon between the said Towns & Salsbury & Amsbury & Kingstown, till it meets a White Pine Stump in a Line commonly called Shapleys line, & from P. White Pine Stump due South two miles & one Quarter of a mile till it meets a Stake in Mitchells Line that Stands in a hollow or vale, at the North end of a Road & on the Easterly Side of the Said Road that leads from Amsbury across the Childrens Land (so called) Said Stake Stands three miles & a half South Seventy Seven degrees & half West from the Southwest corner of the New Meeting House in Said Parrish, Including all the inhabitants & their Estates from the Said three Miles North of the River Merrimac begining at the Atlantic Sea or Western Ocean on the East, & running Northerly from Mitchels Line (as determined by his Majtie in Council) to the bounds of Hampton Falls Parrish & then Westerly on the Bounds of Kensington & Kingston aforesaid until it meets with the Said White Pine Stump in Shapleys line So called, & from Said Stump due South two miles and one Quarter of a mile to the Stake aforesaid in Said Mitchels Line neare the Childrens land ( Excepting the Lands Estates & Poles of Jacob French, John True, Jonathan Hoit, Joseph Tucker, Joseph Page, Samuel Eaton, Ephraim Eaton, Richard Smith, Joseph Todd, Thomas Selly, David Fowler, Tristam Collins, Samuel Fowler, Samuel Watson, Jeremiah Wheeler, Benjamin Hoit, James Jackman, Elihu Dow, John Eaton, Noah Dow, Benjamin Collins, Bildad Dow, Judah Dow, Benony Selly, Samuel Selly, John Eaton, Jr., *

* who are hereby annexed to the Parrish of Hampton Falls & in all Respects incorporated into the Parrish of Hampton Falls, for their well ordering & being Regulated for Parrish affairs,) To have and To hold all the Priveledges & Imunities of a Town Corporate & to be ruled & Governed in all Respects for the Said Town affairs, by the laws of the Province of Newhampshire as other Towns are. The first Town Meet- ing Shall be called by Joseph Jewell, John Flanders, & Henry Currier, the Seventh day of June, Next by Notification in Writing by them Signed & affixed to the Meeting House Dore Seven day's at least before the holding of Such Meeting & afterwards the Town Meetings Shall be called at Such times as the affairs of Said Town may Require in Such Manner as the Laws of the Province of Newhampshire hath prescribed for Towns. And We do further by these Presents for us our Heirs & Successors, Grant, Establish and Ordaine, That yearly once in a Year & forever hereafter namely the first Monday in March Yearely there shall be held and kept by the Free- holders and Inhabitants of Said Town a Town Meeting at their Publick Meeting Place in Said Town, & there by a Majority of the Freeholders & Inhabitants presents Legally Qualified to Vote, to make Choice of all Town Officers for the Ensuing Years, and to transact any other affairs of the Town as other Towns & Parishes, according to the Laws of the Said Prov- ince do * In Testimony whereof we have caused the Public Seale of our Said Province to be hereunto affixed .- Witness Benning Wentworth Esq., Governour and Commander in Chief in and over our Said Province of

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Newhampshire the twenty-fifth day of May in the fifteenth yeare of our Reign, Annoqr Dom, 1742. B. WENTWORTH.

Province of

November 24th, 1742.

New Hampse S

By his Excelencys Comand

With the advice of the Council

THEODORE ATKINSON Secy

We omit a petition of sundry persons to be set off in 1742 and a long memorial of inhabitants of South Hampton relating to the settlement of a minister as they are printed in full in the state records. The following refers to the settlement :

At a meeting of ye Inhabitants of ye town of South Hampton, Jan'ry ye 15th 1742-43, Joseph French was chosen Moderator. At ye same meeting it was put to vote wheither the Town would chuse the Rev. Mr. Odlin and the Rev. Mr. Gookin and their messengers to be assistant in Council with ye other Ministers for gathering a Church and carry on ye ordination among us, and ye vote was past in the affirmative.

A true copy.

Attest, Reuben Dimond, Town Clerk.

We voted that we would pay back again all their part of ye extraordinary charges that should arise to them by finishing ye Meeting house, setteling a minister and building for him when they should be thought capable to maintain ye Gospel of Christ among them: but then there was a condition annext to that vote : it was provided that they did not molest or hinder us in our speedy setteling a Gospel minister among us; but now they have opposed us from place to place, and from time to time they have entered their con- trary desents once and agen against our Regular proceedings in an orderly way to settle a Gospel minister among us, and then put us to a great deal of trouble and to an extraordinary charge in calling in that Grand Council which set at ye time appointed, and the Rev. Mr. Caleb Chusing was moderator, and our Desenting brethren appeared in Council and objected against some of ye Council; and ye moderator ask them who they were and they said Mr. Joseph Parsons, Mr. Samuel Parsons, and Mr. Fogg; the Moderator ask them what they had against them men; they sd they wear akend; and ye Moderator ask them what they had against ye man that was to be ordained as to his life and conversation or his Doctrin, and they eledge nothing; but they said ye Province line would be moved and then they should lose the money that they had expended with us, and they had not a convenient way : The Moderator told them as to ye removing ye line that could be no bar as to setteling ye minister, for if ye lines should be moved then we must petition ye Massachusetts Court for a Parrish, and as to a way, their law provides how they should get high ways; so notwithstanding all ye objec- tions and allegations they could make the Rev. Council did not see but ye way was clear to settel a minister among us.

All these molestations, interruptions and oppositions we have met with from our Desenting brethren since we offerd them that vote; yet now they would skreen themselves under that vote, that we are willing they should go off when they have never fullfilld ye conditions of ye vote in any one article; for if our Desenting brethren had agreed with us, we should have had none occasion to have been at so much trouble and of such an extraordinary charge

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in sending from town to town and from one Parish to another about ye country to call in that Grand Council, for two or three of ye neighbouring ministers would have done our business in ye morning before ye ordination.

South Hampton March ye 29, 1745.

Daniel Brown

John Ordway

Joseph French

Nathaniel Morrill

Reuben Dimond

Samuel French

Daniel Carter

Joseph Chandler

Henry Currier

Abner Morrill

Samuel Straw

Daniel French

Henry French

Ephraim Carter

Joseph Morrill

Joseph Jewit ?

Nathan Gould

Richard Fitts

Joseph Gould

Samuel Barnard

Moses Richason

Josiah Flanders

Elezer French

Ezekiel Hoyt

Joseph Jones

Joshua Clow

Ephraim Carter

Samuel Morrill

Jonathan Jewet

Orlando Weed?

Ephraim Brown

Jonathan Flanders

Paul Morrill

Elijah Rowell

The Congregational Church .- Previous to 1742 the people at Loggin Plain (South Hampton Hill) worshiped with the Second Church in Salis- bury, now known as the Rocky Hill Church. Rev. Joseph Parsons was the pastor. The meeting-house was then located about one mile north of the present church. A movement was made as early as 1735 to have the meeting- house moved to some other location, but it was not voted till 1784, when it was removed to the present location.

The Rocky Hill Church was gathered November 17, 1718, and Rev. Joseph Parsons was called to the pastorate. He was pastor for twenty years.

The church received 300 members during his pastorate. In August, 1742, Rev. Samuel Webster, D. D., accepted the call of the church, and died in 1796, in the fifty-fifth year of his ministry. Upwards of three hundred people joined the church during his ministry, fifty-three on January 4, 1756, and seventy-nine during that year. Rev. Andrew Beatie was pastor from June 28, 1797, to March 16, 1801. His successor was Rev. William Balch, who was pastor from 1802 to 1816. From 1816 to 1830 there was no settled pastor. At that time Rev. Benjamin Sawyer was called to the pastorate, and continued in charge of the church until his death in March, 1871.

In November, 1735, the Town of Salisbury voted that they would not hire a minister to preach a third of the time above Powow Hill, at Loggin Plain, although land for the support of the minister had been set off in this division. In December, 1738, the town of Salisbury voted that the meeting- house should not be moved to Stillson Allen's, nor anything be allowed for the support of preaching to those inhabitants living above Powow Hill.

Upon the death of Rev. Joseph Parsons, in 1739, Henry French and sixty-six others at Loggin Plain, above Powow Hill, remonstrated against the settlement of another pastor of the West Church in Salisbury, unless the meeting-house was moved to better accommodate them. March 10, 1740, ten persons are named in the records as excused from paying minister rates in Salisbury, if it would better accommodate them to attend and support the meeting at the East Parish of Kingston.

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The parsonage land of Salisbury, in what is now South Hampton, at that time was divided into six divisions.

At a legal meeting held December 27, 1742, it was voted to give Rev. William Parsons a call "to settle in the work of the gospel ministry among us," and a committee was chosen to carry the town's offer to him and to receive his answer on January 3, 1743. It was voted that we build a con- venient house and barn for the use of Reverend Mr. Parsons. His salary was "the income of the South Parsonage, with privilege to cut wood for fire on North Parsonage, and forty-five pounds in bills of credit on either province, at silver at six shillings and eight pence per ounce."

The church was organized February 22, 1743, with Rev. William Parsons, Thomas Merrill, and twelve others. One month later, on Lord's day, March 20, 1743, thirty-nine were admitted by letter from the Rocky Hill Church and three new members. From this date to the resignation of Mr. Parsons, in 1762, sixty-one were admitted to the church by letter and I 14 new members. Reverend Mr. Parsons' pastorate closed October 6, 1762. For nearly twenty years he had been laboring with the people, and the records show that he had baptized 344 children and solemnized 155 marriages. It was during his ministry that the great revival in New England was enjoyed. He was a native of Boston, a graduate of Harvard College class of 1735, and died in 1797, aged eighty-two years. After his dismissal at South Hampton he removed to Gilmanton, N. H., where he continued preaching, and also engaged in teaching.

He was succeeded by Rev. Nathaniel Noyes in 1763, who remained until December 8, 1800. During the ministry of Mr. Noyes sixty-one were added to the church by letter, 114 on profession; 189 children were baptized, and 310 marriages solemnized. Rev. Nathaniel Noyes was born in Newbury, Mass., August 12, 1735, graduated at Yale College in 1759, studied theology with President Davis, was pastor at South Hampton nearly forty years, and died at Newburyport in 1810, aged seventy-five years.

For several years after Mr. Noyes' pastorate at South Hampton closed the Congregationalists held meetings in the town a portion of the time; Rev. Elias Hull, of Seabrook, Reverend Mr. Hoitt, of Ipswich, and Rev. Benjamin Sawyer frequently preached.

The Baptist Church .- The first Baptist sermon delivered in this town was in 1774, by Dr. Samuel Shepherd. He was born at East Salisbury, Mass., in 1739, converted in early life, and united with the Congregational Church July 4, 1756. He was baptized and taken into the Baptist Church in June, 1770, and immediately began preaching. He was ordained at Stratham, September 25, 1771. Elder Shepherd commenced his work in this town in 1774. Here in 1780 was organized the Branch Church. Until 1787 the meetings of the Branch Church were all, or nearly all, held in this town, and from 1787 to 1793 the Sunday services were held all the time at South Hampton, and two-thirds of the time at Salisbury. No reference is made on the Brentwood Church records till 1790 of meetings in Salisbury. In 1793, and forward probably till 1801, the Sunday services were held one-half the time at South Hampton, and one-half at Salisbury; after 1801 at Salis- bury all the time, at what was known as the "Shoestring Meeting-House," and the Baptists of this town had the use of the old meeting-house from 1801 to 1833, when the Baptist meeting-house was built, an average of one-third

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part of the time, Elder True supplying the Baptists here most of the time. Thus there have been more or less each year Baptist meetings held in this town on the Sabbath from 1774 to the present date.

The Baptist Church of South Hampton was organized September 29, 1830, with the following members: Thomas Flanders, Samuel Flanders, Priscilla Flanders, Elizabeth Flanders, Elizabeth Dow, Lydia Jewell, Sarah Barnard, Sarah Barnard (2d), Hannah Sawyer, and Betsey Flanders.' The first deacon of the church was Thomas Flanders.

The old meeting-house was occupied when it could be obtained, but other denominations had a right to occupy it a portion of the time, and when it was not to be secured the commodious dwelling-house of Moses Tuxbury was freely offered, and was occupied by this church.

In the summer of 1832 the frame of the building for the new church was raised and the corner-stone laid. October, 1832, the church was formally admitted to the association by letter and delegate.

January 16, 1833, the house of worship was dedicated. The sermon upon that occasion was by Rev. Elijah Foster, of Salisbury. The enterprise of building the meeting-house was accomplished by six brethren-Moses Tuxbury, Thomas Flanders, Samuel Flanders, Joseph Stockman, Benjamin Currier, and Charles Jewell.

The pastors of the church have been as follows: Jabez True, Samuel C. Gilbert, Otis Wing, Samuel Cook, George Ashby, Samuel Ladd, Palmer C. Hines, John K. Chase, Samuel Ladd, C. H. Pierson, E. A. Edwards, S. E. Brown, Erastus Willard, Joel Wheeler, S. S. White, E. A. Edwards, J. E. Brown, James W. Searll, Frank W. Tolman, E. L. Scott.

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History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and representative citizens, Part 80

Author: Hazlett, Charles A Publication date: 1915 Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold Number of Pages: 1390

Author: Hazlett, Charles A
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : Richmond-Arnold
Number of Pages: 1390