History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 104

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1714

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Number of People in Atkinson and Plastow 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 (Sup- posed) .- 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 Joseph Welch

Daniel Emerson

John Copp

Nehemiah Heath

Moses Orway

Abner Plummer

Enoch Johnson

Job Eatton

John Stevens

1789, Atkinson sends. 1843. Stephe Budger.

1790. Joseph Smith.

1844. Rutin Peaslee.

1791. Atkinson sends.

1845. Joseph N. George.

1792. Jonathan Wingat.

1846. Not represented.

1793. Atkinson sends.

1847. Levi B. Tucker.

1794. Abil Foster.

1848. Daniel Ilarriman.

Joseph Smith

Stephen Flanders

1795. Atkinson sends.

1849, Levi B. Tucker.

1796. Jonathan Payson.

1850. Ephraim White.

1797. Atkinson sends.

1851. Joseph Noyes.

John Pollard

James Huse

1852. Joseph Noyes.

Daniel Ayer

Samuel Dow

Simon Follansbe

John Trusel

Edmond Pilsbury Widow Dow

The Hole of ye Inhabitence Besides the above men- tioned 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 organ- ized Nov. 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 Dec. 2, 1730, and continued as pastor for thirty years. He died May 13, 1764. He was suc- ceeded in the pastorate by Rev. Sylas Merrill, or- dained March 6, 1764, and died April 27, 1801. After the death of Mr. Merrill this church was without a settled pastor twenty-five years. Dec. 26, 1826, Rev. Moses Welch became pastor and served until Feb. 2, 1831. He was followed by Rev. S. H. Peckham, who was installed Feb. 23, 1831, and remained until 1838. After Mr. Peckham's removal, Rev. David Oliphant 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 to present time.

In 1837 a neat and commodious church edifice was erected in place of the old structure, which had be- come unfit for use.

The Baptist Church was organized in the year 1836. Pastors, Benjamin Wheeler, James W. Rus- sell, 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, present pastor. Church erected 1840.

REPRESENTATIVES FROM 1775 TO 1882.

1775. Joseph Welch. 1828. Henry Tucker.

1776. No record. 1829. Atkinson sends,

1777. Atkinson sends instead of Plaistow.

1830. Moses F. Peaslee.

1831. Atkinson sends.

1778. Joseph Welch.

1832. Moses F. Peaslee.

1779. Atkinson sends,

1833. Atkinson sends.

1780. Ezekiel Gile.

1834. Moses F. Peaslee.

1781. Atkinson sends.

1835. Nathaniel Clark.

1782. Nathaniel Peabody.

1836. Nathaniel Clark.

1783. Atkinson sends.

1837. Joseph Pollard.

1784, Nathaniel Peabody.

1838, Joseph Pollard.

1785. Atkinson sends. 1839. John B. Peaslee.

1786. Joseph Welch. 1840, James G. George.

1787. Atkinson seuds. 1841. James G. George.

1788. Nathaniel Peabody. 1842. Rutin Peuslee.

Bartholomew Ileath

Stevens Merrill

Joseph Harriman

Ebenezer Noyes

Joseph Harriman Jr

Selvenes Noyes

Jantes Bly

Moses Stevens Jun.

Jonathan Smith

Samuel Welch

1799. Atkinson sends.

1853. Richard Welch.

1800, John White.

1854. Jolın E. Bly.

1801. Atkinson sends.

1865. Not represented.

1802. Joseph Welch. 1856. John E. Bly.

1803. Atkinson sends.

1857. Hiram Smart, Jr.

1804. Ezekil Gile.

1858, lliram Smart, Jr.

1805. Atkinson sends.

1859. Nathaniel K. Kelley.

1806. James Noyes,

1860. Nathamel K. Kelley.

1807. Atkinson sends.

1861, William H. Ilills.

1808, Nathaniel Clark.

1862. Willianı H. Hills.

1×63. Stephen Bodger.

1810. James Noyes.

1811. Atkinson sends.

1866. Isairah A. Hurd.

1812. Nathan Kimball.

1866. Amos C. Clement.

1867. Amus C. Clement.

1868. Gilman Harris.

1869. Gilman Harris.

1816. Rutin Praslee.

1870. John N. Sleeper.

1817. Atkinson sends.

1871. John N. Sleeper.

1818. Henry Tocker.

1872, Charles Il. Bradley.

1819. Atkinson sends.

1873. Hezekiah H. Cheney.

1820, Rutin Peaslee.

1874. Moses B. Dow.

1821. Atkinson sends. 1875. Moses B. Dow. 1822. Henry Tucker. 1876. James MI. Davis.

1823. Atkinson sends. 1877. James M. Davis.

1824. Henry Tucker. 1878. Charles W. Cass.

1825. Atkinson sends.

1879. Charles W. Cass.

1826. Edward Brown.

1880. Thomas J. Nichols.

1827. Atkinson sends.

1881. Thomas J. Nichols.

Atkinson sends representatives one year and Plais- I tow the other until 1835 or 1836.

1809. Atkinson sends.

1864. Isairah A. Hurd.

1813. Atkinson sends.

1814. Nathan Kimball.

1815. Atkinson sends.

1798. Ezekil Gile.

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MILITARY RECORD, 1861-65.

Frederick P. Eaton.

Hale Gage.

Jacob F. Stevans.

Andrew Sweatser.

Isaiah Kelley.

Jesse E. Harriman.

Alfred Kelley, Jr.

William H. Tripp.

George F. Colden.

Charles Godkin.

James D. Colden.

Nathaniel Thompson. Elbridge G. Theker.

Frank W. Shannon,

Charles W. Cass.

George E. Shannon.

Moses Kimball,

Greenleaf C. George.

Charles W. Bradley.

Capt. Jesse E. George.

Benjamin G. Flanders.

George M. Wilson,

Stephen F. Godkin.

Isaac Howard Hall.

Herbert H. Sargent.

Richard H. Brunell.

Isaac N. Cass.

Warren Clough.

James W. Drew.

Capt. Richard Welch.

Charles A Dow.

Heraiu Carleton. Jr.

Henry A. Dow.

Walter S. Shannon.

George W. Kelley.

Isaac B. Clifford.

Edward A. Sleeper.

Ingram J. Cummings.

Charles Sprague.

Greenleaf R. Cummings.

Frank Roberts.

Franklin Burnham.

Samnel Hall.

Rendal F. Cass,

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.

NATHANIEL K. KELLY.

Among the representative physicians of the gener- ation just passing from our midst, Dr. Nathaniel Knight Kelly has been one of whom some words should be said in this connection. Plain, unassum- ing, attentive to all duties, with love to God shown in his painstaking care of any whom he could re- lieve, he may well be called, par excellence, " the beloved physician." None have enjoyed stronger friendships or won the lasting love and esteem of a better class of people. Better than any words of ours, we subjoin, as typical of the man, a short auto- biographical sketch furnished for this purpose :

"I was born Sept. 14, 1800, and consequently I am now about eighty-two years old. My parents were poor, and although quite willing, yet they were unable to help me to get an education. I had some two months in a year in which I could go to our dis- trict school for about ten or twelve years. In the year 1821 I entered the academy at Atkinson, then under the care of Francis Vose, but after a few weeks I left to take charge of the winter school in my own district. This was my first effort at school-teaching, and my main qualification was that I thought I knew a very little more than my few little ones. My compensation was ten dollars per month, and my father boarded me free. In the spring, with about

twenty dollars in my pocket, I went back to Atkin- son and paid up for my board and tuition the last fall, and entered the academy again, then under the care of Jacob Cummings, a most excellent teacher. I commenced Latin, with the intention of fitting for college; and thus, studying in summer and teaching in winter, I nearly made ends meet, and with such

helps as my parents could give as to clothing I got along some two or three years, until I was nearly fitted for college. But in June, before entering, I was taken down with fever, and did not resume my studies until late in the summer; and although fitted for college, I made no attempt to enter, fearing that my health would break down. By the advice of friends, but sorely against my will, and with poverty staring me in the face, I entered my name, with some four or five others, as a student of medicine, under the care of Dr. I. B. Hovey. With him, and under the care of some of the teachers of the Medical School of Maine, I spent nearly four years, and graduated honorably at Bowdoin College in the year 1828. I went immediately into a hard country practice in my native town, and soon into the surrounding towns, and I was never in want of business. I had the eare of nearly every family in town for more than fifty years, and for a great part of this time I had nearly as much more business in adjoining towns. This was no doubt owing, in part at least, to the fact that I never cared much about money. Medical fees forty years ago were very moderate, yet I was nearly up with my neighbors as to price: but I always de- termined that my patients should get well, cost me what it would. I never left a patient because he was poor.

" It was a custom in early days to attend professional men and their families free. During the war of the Rebellion I never charged returned sick soldiers anything.

"There is only one remarkable thing in my case, and that is, I am out of debt.

"When I was a pupil I read Prof. R. Murrey's ad- dress to his class, in which he says, 'If you practice medicine, make it your whole business.' This has always seemed to me good common sense; and with the exception of two short terms of absence in the New Hampshire Legislature, 1859 and 1860, and some years' service on school committee in my native town, I have followed Dr. Murrey's advice to the letter. I united with the Congregational Church of Plaistow in 1827, and have, without neglecting my patients, attended nearly all the regular church ap- pointments for more than fifty years, although I have lived two miles from my place of worship. I have no sympathy with those who have so much business that they cannot attend church. 'Where there is a will there is generally a way.' I have been wonder- fully blessed in my domestic affairs. I was married the first time, Sept. 19, 1836, to Miss Anna Dow, daughter of the late John Dow, Esq., of Atkinson, N. H. She died Ang. 25, 1863. My second marriage was to Mary S. Peaslee, June 8, 1868, who still lives. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Peaslee, of Kingston, N. H. (see biography of L. D. Peaslee, Kingston), and was a teacher in Brooklyn, N. Y., for twenty-eight years. I know not the objeet or need of this sketch of my life, and must say ' Cui bono ? until

David Langmaid.

Nathanach Tonight Kelly

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these lines are made to show some 'footprints on these sands' below.

"I am old, my sight is poor, and my hand so un- steady that I have written this imperfect sketch with much pain."

CHAPTER LXV.

RAYMOND.1

Geographical-Topographical-Purchase of the Town-The Survey-

First Settlements-Names of Pioneers-Incorporation of Town-First Town-Meeting-Officers elected-Documentary History-Early Fami- lies-Physicians.

THE town of Raymond lies 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 sixteen thousand three hundred and seventeen acres. The surface is generally level and the soil fertile.

Dudley's Purchase. - The territory embraced within the present bounds of this town was pur- chased of the ludians by Col. Dudley in 1817. The grantors were Penniwit and Abigail, his squaw.

In March of the following year, Col. 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 disposed of four hundred acres more of his purchase.

The First Settlements were made between the years 1720 and 1730. As is seen, Col. 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 one hundred and forty lots of one hundred aeres 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, Samnel 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 Dan- ville.

In 1752, Lieutenant Benjamin Bean came from Kingston.

Jedediah and Jonathan Brown, from Seabrook, came to the Page road.

Maj. Josiah Fogg, from IIampton.

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. Ile had lived below, but was disposed to move west- ward 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.

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 Ray- mond 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 farm the Merrills flour- ished, and in 1795, Gideon Currier, from Chester, came into possession. He became, in his day, per- haps the largest landholder 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 Fre- mont, then to what is here known as the Lovering place, about the commencement of the Revolutionary war. His son Daniel, a grandson, the late Capt. 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 Bean's, not only the town-meetings were held till a meeting-house was built, but the meetings for preach- ing.

Near George S. Robbie's, Stephen Prescott, from Hampton, built a honse in the woods about 1775. Some years later he raised a barrel of potatoes, which was then thought a great crop. Stephen Osgood, a grandson, 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. Moultou's place, near the Gove school-

1 Condensed principally from the late Joseph Fullonton's excellent " History of Raymond."

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house. Afterwards John and Ebenezer changed farms. John, in time, moved to Pittsfield.

Easterly of the school-house, where the old road was, lived Joseph White. A man np north, Capt. John Fullonton, lost his wife, who charged him, be- fore her death, not to marry Molly, who lived at Dea- con 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 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 Capt. 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, . and fifty years ago. in Exeter, and his father was Jonathan Cass. Eliph- ! alet Folsom came from Exeter in 1770. His brother John dwelt at the foot of Oak Hill. On the Hill, besides Holman, already named, lived Jacob Smith, who moved from Epping to Nottingham, then here. The Abbotts have a large dwelling on the place. Half a mile above John Bachelder 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. Bachelder 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 Sanborn 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 Epping 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. Ste- vens' first house was back towards the river, after- wards the old Stevens honse on the road.

Where Griffin's mill is a saw-mill 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 set- tled. His son Alexander lived on the late Martha McClure's place, beyond the "Long Hill."

Nicholas Gilman, from Kingston, was an early settler. Ilis first dwelling was in the woods.

Isaac Tucker, grandfather of the late Barnard and Gen. H. Tucker, went first from Philadelphia to Portsmouth ; thence 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 school-house lived Jesse Gile, from Haverhill, Mass., and at the right David Brown, from Chester. John Leavitt early settled nearly opposite the llodgkins place.

Manoah Scribner, from Fremont, came to the Scrib- ner place about 1787. A Mr. Palmer lived at the northwest of the pond, and Jonathan Smith, father of Dean Smith, had a log bouse near Healy's Moun- tain. 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

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 Gite school-house settled the Bachelders, from Hampton Falls,-Josiah, Jona- than, and David. South of Hazen Bachelder'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 Hamp- ton about 1775. His son David followed, but after- ward moved to Candia.

Early Roads .- The first road laid out in Ray- mond was March 10, 1748. It began near where Mr. Knowles now lives in Chester, and followed a path through the Branch district to what is now Fremont line, below J. Elliott's.

Sept. 22, 1749. From a road on the north of wath is now Chester to Wason district to Candia line. This passed a saw-mill 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.

Ang. 21, 1752. Fremont line to Freetown Mills.

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Oct. 18, 1757. North of Capt. 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 Cen- ter, 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 school-house near Timothy Osgood's.

June 14, 1760. Outlet of Jones pond to Center. Sept. 3, 1760. Dudley's Mill to Candia line near Mr. Critchet's.

Dec. 9, 1761. Page road.

March 24, 1763. North side of Chester to where Henry D. Lane lately lived.

Incorporation of Town .- The first recorded ac- tion of which we have any record concerning the or- ganization of this town was a vote of the town of Chester, Jan. 26, 1763, " that a part of said township, commonly called Free Town, might be incorporated into a new parish."

March 1, 1764, a petition for the incorporation of the town was presented to the Governor and Provin- cial Assembly, signed by the following persons :

Daniel Gordon, Jr.

Daniel Holman. Elisha Towle.

Alexander Mel (McClure).

Jonathan Brown.

Stephen Fogg.

Simeon Berry. Noah moulton.

James Fullouton.

Wadleigh Cram.

Samuel Cram.

Joseph glgiles (Giles).

John Stevens.

Daniel Lane,

Benia Bean (Benjamin)

Ezekiel Lane. David Lane.

Curtis Bean.

Nathan Moulton.

Isaac Clifford.

Paul Smith Marston.

Josiah Fogg. Daniel Clay. Stephen marden.

Benjamin Prescott.

John Fullonton.

Obadiah Griffin.

John Wells.

Moses Sauborn. Caleb Rowe.

William Todd.

Robert Page. John Sweet.

Ezekiel Smith. David Bean.

Daniel Robie. James ( 'Jay.

Alexander Smith.

Stephen Wilson.

Barton Pollard.

David Bean, Jr.

Jethro Batchelder. Benj. Whittier.

Nathaniel Ethridge.

Clement Dollof.

Enoch Fogg.

The First Town-Meeting .- The first town-meet- ing was held at Benjamin Bean's inn May 29, 1764, when the following officers were elected : Moderator, Samuel Dudley ; Town Clerk, Ezekiel Smith ; Select- men, Caleb Rowe, Samuel Dudley, and Robert Page ; Constable, Benjamin Whittier; Auditors and Asses- sors, Stephen Fogg, Joseph Dudley, and Ezekiel Lane; Surveyors of Highways, Josiah Fogg, Jonathan Dear- born, Joseph Dudley, Simon Bayard, and Clement Dolloff; Haywards, Stephen Thurston, Jonathan Dearborn, Joseph Smith, Curtis Bean, Samnel Phil- brick, and Daniel Scribner; Tithingmen, James Ful- lonton, N. Ethridge, Moses Whittier, and Joseph Dud- ley ; Decr Inspectors, John Sweatt, John Stevens;

Surveyors of Lumber, Benjamin Bean and Alexander Smith ; Pound-keeper, John Smith.

Early Families .- The Dudley family. This family has been identified with the history of this town from the earliest date to the present. It has a noble his- tory in the town, in the State, in some other States, and in England, before any of them came across the waters. We have seen what offices the town con- ferred here. One also was judge. In colonial times two were Provincial Governors, and in the okl country it was an English historical name. There were barons, bishops, and knights of Dudleys, from 1376 to 1460. And later, one wore a crown for a few days.

The ancestor of the Dudley family here was Thomas Dudley, who came to Massachusetts in 1630, and was Governor of the province. Joseph Dudley, son of Governor Thomas, was also provincial Governor. Governor Thomas Dudley was son of Capt. Roger Dudley, slain in a war in England. Governor Joseph Dudley was popular in New Hampshire. His por- trait is in the Council chamber in Concord.

We are concerned only with Stephen, son of Rev. Samuel by his last wife. He married twice, and had eleven children. Of them we need name Stephen, who was a cordwainer, and married Sarah Davidson, of Newbury, Mass. He purchased Raymond of an Indian sagamore, as has been named in its proper place. He died in Exeter in 1734, aged forty-six. Ilis brother James was born at Exeter, in 1690, and was the father of Judge Dudley, of Raymond. John, a younger brother, was killed by the Indians in what is now Fremont, in 1710, at the age of eighteen. This was the same year that Col. Winthrop Hilton, of Newmarket, was killed, with others, near the "mast way," in Epping.

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History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 104

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis Number of Pages: 1714

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis
Number of Pages: 1714