History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 124

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


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In October, 1867, he married Jane N .. daughter of Newell and Judith (Bayley) Frost, of Seabrook, N. H. Their children are Sally G., Gideon W., John N., and Harry W., all of whom were born on the farm in Sonth Hampton, N. II.


CHAPTER LXXVIII.


SOUTHI NEWMARKET.I


Settlement-Indian Wars.


SOUTH NEWMARKET is pleasantly sitnated on the west bank of the Squamscot River. It is thirty-six miles southeast from Concord, the capital of the State, twelve miles southwest from Portsmouth, its princi- pal seaport, and four miles north from Exeter, the half-shire town of Rockingham County. It is bounded north by Newmarket; east by Stratham; south by Exeter ; and west by Epping. Area, about 6000 acres; improved lands, 3330 acres; population in 1850, 516; in 1860, 786; in 1870, 808; in 1880, 829.


South Newmarket constituted a part of Exeter till Dec. 15, 1727, and of Newmarket till June 27, 1849. Newmarket was early called Lamprey River Village. Perhaps there is a question respecting the origin of the name. It was early written "Lamprey Eel." 2 Mr. J. L. Beckett writes it "Lamprae," from John Lamprae, a Catholic hermit, who built his hut on the banks of the river. South Newmarket was called Newfields, because of the beautiful lands which border on the Squamscot River.


Rev. William Hubbard is regarded as the authority for the settlement of Edward and William Hilton at Dover Point in 1623. Edward Hilton was the first planter of Newfields. The date of its settlement is unknown. There is a tradition that it was prior to the coming of John Wheelwright and his associates to Exeter, in the spring of 1638. Wheelwright's celebrated Indian deed of May 17, 1629, to which Edward Hilton was a witness, evidently covers its


settlement at Squamscot Falls should be called Exeter. As early as " the 4th day in the first week in the 10th month," 1639, Hilton had built his house at Newfields. At that time the boundaries of his uplands were fixed and his meadows specified by " certaine Orders made at the Courte holden in Exeter."


The civil and religious character of the community depends largely upon its founders. While the Hilton brothers were enterprising planters, they also were lovers of good men. William Hilton was of Episco- pal sentiments. Edward Hilton was a Puritan. The Congregational form of worship and the first meeting- house in New Hampshire were set up at his seat at Dover Point in 1633-34. Ile was the personal friend and confidential correspondent of Governor John Win- throp in 1633 and 1638. During the early political and religious disorders at Dover he contended effi- ciently for good government and religious order. His neighbors of Massachusetts Bay thought him the man most entitled to confidence in the New Hampshire Colony. When New Hampshire, in 1641, entered the New England Confederation, he was the first named in the list of magistrates. IFe was made deputy for Dover in 1644, and assistant for Exeter in 1652.


The Hilton family was helpful in the affairs of the First Parish of Exeter. Edward Hilton, in 1645 and 1646, endeavored to purchase Mr. Wheelwright's house and land as a parsonage for Mr. Nathaniel Norerosse. Edward Hilton, Jr., in 1652, was one of the overseers to build the second meeting-house in Exeter. The younger Hilton, however, was so much in sympathy with imperialism and prelacy as in 1665, with others, to petition that they might be " governed by the laws of England, and enjoy both of the sacra- ments of which they have been too long deprived." But the action of the General Court, May 19, 1669, releasing the elder Hilton from the imposition of county rates, must be interpreted as bearing witness to its respect for his continued fidelity to Puritan ideas of civil and religions polity.


But Edward Hilton, Sr., had now become an old man. The Newfields patriarch died in the beginning of the year 1671. He had lived in the colony nearly half a century. It is supposed that he was buried in his own grounds on the sunset bank of the beauti- ful Squamscot. Here, in this field of neglected graves, the first planter of New Hampshire, the first founder of Dover, the early resident of Exeter, and the first settler of Newfields, with many of his de- scendants of seven generations, slumber together.


Indian Wars .- The aborigines were essentially of one nation with one language, though divided into numerous tribes and different dialects. The New- fields planters found only the feeblest remnant of the


1 By Rev. James H. Fitts.


" On William Wood's map of New England, in 1634, it is put down " Lampereele."


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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.


Upon the ascension of William Prince of Orange to the British throne, Feb. 16, 1689, war with France ensued. Eight persons were slain, and a lad captured at Lamprey River July 4, 1690. The next day, July 5, 1690, the Indians attacked Hilton's garrison at Newfield -. Lieut. Bancroft endeavoring to relieve the garrison, eight or nine of his men were killed. Simon Stone, one of his men, received nine wounds with shot and two strokes of a hatchet. When his friends came to bury him they perceived that life was not extinet, and upon the application of cordials he revived. In the course of one week not less than forty people were killed between Lamprey River and Amesbury. Two men were killed at Exeter in the summer of 1691. The frontier garrisons were rein- forced April 24, 1693, two additional soldiers being stationed at Edward Hilton's, and two at Lubberland. This latter garrison was resolutely and successfully defended in the attack on Oyster River, July 17, 1694. In the month of July, 1695, the Indians killed two men at Exeter. One person was slain at Lubberland Aug. 27, 1696. June 10, 1697, the inhabitants in this vicinity were remarkably preserved. The deep laid plot of the French and Indians involved a general massacre of the town of Exeter. The enemy hid in ambush waiting a favorable time for their attack. Some women and children went into the field without a guard to gather strawberries. Some men coming in from work fired a gun to cause the women to return to the garrison. The alarm reached not only the strawberry party, but spread quickly through the community, bringing the people together in arms. The Indians supposed themselves discovered and beat a hasty retreat, killing one individual, wounding another, and capturing a child.


The Piscataqua plantations felt the whole strength and fury of the French and Indians in Queen Anne's war, 1703-13.


Winthrop Hilton was the eldest son of the second Edward Hilton, and became the personal friend and firm supporter of his uncle, Governor Joseph Dud- ley. After the death of Col. Richard Waldron, June


Squamscot tribe with Wahangnonawit, their chief, in possession of the soil, and they never claimed a foot of land on any other score except that of fair pur- chase. The Squamscots were subject to Passacona- way, the sagacious and friendly sachem of the Pena- cooks. They migrated from this vicinity about 1672, and settled on the Hudson near Troy. King Philip's . shire had with the Indians. Hostilities began at the east between the Kennebec and Penobscot Rivers. The victorious squads approached the Piscataqua, marking their track with conflagration and blood, and filling the community with alarm and distress. In September, 1675, they did some mischief at Lam- prey River. On their way to Exeter one person was killed, another made prisoner, and other outrages were committed. 27, 1689, Hilton became the principal military chief- tain in New Hampshire. As early as March 4, 1702, he kept ont a scout of two men between Exeter and Lamprey River. He offered his service to the Pro- vincial Conneil to go eastward against the enemy, Jan. 27, 1704. Governor Dudley requested him to raise volunteers March 12, 1704.1 The Council instructed war in 1675 was the first serious trouble New Hamp- ' him in the matter March 27, 1704. Though the ex- pedition accomplished but little, the Council call it "an honorable service." Edward Taylor was killed, and his wife Rebecca and a son were captured near Lamprey River April 26, 1704. The captives were taken to Canada, whence Mrs. Taylor was afterwards redeemed, having endured severe hardship. Maj. Ililton joined the expedition of Col. Benjamin Church in May, 1704, and was gone all summer, marching as far as the Penobscot.


Jan. 8, 1705, Governor Dudley wrote Lt. Col. Hil- ton to get ready to march against the Indian head- quarters.2 Hilton led his command of two hundred and seventy men, including twenty friendly Indians, to Norridgewock on snow-shoes. They found no enemy, but burnt the deserted wigwams and chapel. In September, 1705, Hilton was obliged to reduce his scout of twenty inen, marching every ten days, to ten effective men, because of the failure of the towns to comply with the requirement of the law. This gave offense to the Governor, who tutored the colonel severely for it.3


1 " For her Majesty's service.


" To MAJOR HILTON, EXETER.


" Sin,-I intend with the blessing of God to raise a very considerable force to range the Eastern shore to destroy the enemy, and would be ready to march by the last of this instant. If you please to take to your assistance Gilman and Coffin, my very good ofherrs, and raise me a mimber of Volunteers to be readly against the time, they shall have all enconragement in the service-ammunition given them and sloops to convey them, and the premium for the enemy destroyed-that the | Assembly of this Province have or shall give them. I desire yon to proceed with all vigor in the affair, and let me hear from you by every post.


" I am, Sir, " Your affectionate Uncle, " J. DUDLEY. " BOSTON, 12 March, 1700-4."


2 " BOSTON, 8 Jan. 1704-5. " Sin,-I am not willing to pass the winter without a march to the Indian Head Quarters. I have 200 men with you already. I will take ente for one hundred more from hence, and I would have you raise me one company of volunteers of sixty, and see if we cannot get Norigwalk Conter with Major Walton about it, and put forward and see after your showshoes according to law ; and I will see you a fortnight hence, God please. Write to me on this head.


" I am sir, your Affectionate Kinsman, "J. DUDLEY. " LT .- COL. ILILTON."


3 " BOSTON, 24th Sept. 1705.


"Sin,-I am surprised that any body should divert you from my last order about a scont of twenty men. Upon your representation I could have abated the number, or time, or distance of marching; but I must linve no body else do it.


" I pray you to draw your men yourself, if your officers do not do it to satisfaction, as in your power, wherein Major Worell will assist you, and let me hear from you as often as you may.


" Keep close to my orders, and they will keep you.


"I amı, Sir, your humble servant, "J. DUDLEY."


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July of the following year, 1706, was a stirring month at Newfields. Hilton was so brave and active an officer that the Indians marked him for destruc- tion. For this purpose a party of twenty " French Mohawks" lurked about his house, watching all who went in and out. On the morning of July 1, as they lay in ambush, they saw ten men with scythes leave the house, go into the field, and put aside their armis to mow. Stealthily they crept between the mowers and their guns, intercepting their return to the gar- rison, and suddenly rushed on the men. Joseph Hall and one other only of the whole number escaped harm. Richard Mattoon and his son, Hubertas Mattoon, Robert Barber, and Samuel Pease were killed. John Taylor was sorely wounded, but re- covered. Edward Hall, Samuel Mighels, and a mu- latto were captured. After a time Hall and Mighels made their escape. But the fatigue, privation, and terror of recapture which they underwent are almost incredible. For three weeks together they had noth- ing to subsist on except lily roots and the rind of trees.


The Council now ordered that ammunition, pork, and biscuit be forwarded from Portsmouth and Hampton to Lieut .- Col. Hilton's, who in July led a company of sixty-four men as far as Kingston and Amesbury without meeting the enemy.


Governor Dudley made known to Lieut .- Col. Hilton, Dec. 9, 1706, his further designs against Norridge- wock.1 Iler Majesty's Council, Dec. 23, 1706, sent Hilton to Boston to consult his Excellency in the affair. The expedition consisted of two hundred and twenty men with ninety Massachusetts troops, and the chief command fell upon Hilton. About twenty Indians were slain,-a successful campaign, consider- ing the difficulty of finding their haunts. Tradition relates that a squaw, who, with her pappoose was cap- tured at this time, became an inmate of Hilton's family, and lived with them till her death.


The Governor commissioned Hilton as colonel for the expedition to Port Royal, April 23, 1707.2 Ar-


1 " BOSTON, December 9th, 1706.


" DEAR Sia,-I have determined to visit Noridgwock the 10th of Jan- uary next, and accordingly am raising in this province two hundred men to be commanded by Col. Martch, if his health will permit, whom alone I have acquainted besides yourself of my intention, thereforr de- sire it to be secret, and must expect forty men of your Province, which I would have volunteers, otherwise they must be drawn men, to be com- manded by some very good officer, and if Col. Maitch fail me, I must expect your service to command the whole party. The men must be well fixed, clothed, and shod with snow-shoes in good order. Commu- nicate this order to the Gentlemen of her Majesty's Council as soon as may be. Attend then yourself to concert the matter, that they may pro- vide vituals and blankets if need be. Our last departure will be from Casco Bay. Desire the Gentlemen of the Council to keep it secret, lest the noise of it get in the woods.


" I am yo affectionate uncle,


" J. DUDLEY.


" To the Hox. LIEUr .- COL. HILTON."


! " JOSEPH DUDLEY Esqr Captain General and Governour in Chief in & over Her Matys Province of the Massachusetts Bay & New Hampshire in New England in America, To WINTHROP HILTON Esqr, Greeting. By virtue of the power & Authority in and by ber Matys Royal Commission


rived at the place of destination May 26, 1707, the army after some ineffectual attempts to bombard it broke up in a disorderly manner. Col. Hilton, with as many officers and men as did not choose to run away, retired to Casco Bay, and there waited further orders. Governor Dudley was much displeased at this unexpected result. But Hilton had the good fortune to secure his approbation and to receive his characteristic compliments.3


On the point of sailing a second time to Port Royal, Hilton wrote home to his wife, July 16, 1707.4 But the second attempt also failed through the sickness, fatigue, and discouragement of the army.


Our own frontier was kept in continual alarm. In September Col. Hilton set out with fifty-four men as . a scout after the enemy, whom he traced from Kings- ton to Cocheco, and so towards Winnipiseogee. Re- turning he discovered traces of a new party of Indians, and followed them to within two miles of Cocheco.


to me granted, I do by these presents Reposing Special Trust and Con- fidlence in your Loyalty, Comage & good Comluet. Constitute & appoint Jon to be Colonel of the Second Regiment of the new rayseu forces for her Mays Service against the French, the Declared Enemys of the Crown of England, and the Indian Rebels, whereof John March Esqr is Com- mander in Chief, and to be Captain of One of the Foot Company's belong- ing to the sd Regiment. You are therefore to Lead, Order & Exercise the Said Hegin & Company in Arms both Inferiour Officers and Sonhliers Keeping them in good Order and Disciplined, Hereby commanding them to Obey yon as their Colonel & Captain, And with them to do & Excente all acts of hostility upon & against the sd Enemy & Rebels; And you are to Observe & follow such Orders & Directions as yon shall from time to time rrevive from the Commander in Chief of the Expedition or other your Superiour according to the Rules and Discipline of War pursuant to the Trust reposed in you.


" Given uinder my hatal & Seal at Armes at Boston the Twenty third day of April 1707, In the Sixth year of her Mats Reign.


" By his Evers Command, " ISA. ADDINGTON, Secry."


" J. DUDLEY.


3 " BOSTON, 20th July, 1707. " MY DEAR KINSMAN :


"Ialways had a just valne for you as my good kin-man, Int much more for your steady service for and love to your country. I have not neglected writing to you as being displeased, for I am not so, Jon Irving the only officer against whom I have no complaint. But truly Sir, I was never so siprised by what the enemy can do against me as I am at this intolerable, ungoverned, and base cowardice of my people. I pray you to be steady to Colonel Hutchinson and the Gentlemen in command to assist Colonel March. You have a brave Virginia prize in Port Royal haibour, and by and by will have the store-ship. And if you will be content to stay twenty days at Port Royal, they will desert and come over to you. However, let the Governor be obeyed and all will be well. " I am, your affectionate Kinsman,


" J. DUDLEY.


" TO THE HUN. COL. ILILTON, EASTWARD."


4 " CASCO FORT, July 16th, 1707.


" MY DEAR SPOUSE:


" I can't but take all opportunities to salute you. I do earnestly em- brace this as ye last before our departure. Notwithstanding a thousand dithenltys in our way, it's ordered that ye flert prepare to take y" signal for weighing anchor to-morrow. The soldiers are utterly nverse and will at best be but passive in returning to Port Royal, just as prisoners are transported ; Nevertheless, if Providence cast advantages into our hands there, they will engerly embrace them, and if we obtain victory, God will now have a much greater share in our songs of triumph, than if we had been successful at first. Dear Heart, pray hard for us, and checifully commit to ye Almighty» protection,


" Your loving, loving busband,


" WINTHROP HILTON."


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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.


Arrived home, he sent out a second seout of fifty-six fresh men, who were to tarry out five days. The next vear, on Feb. 19, 1708, Council ordered Hilton out with a good scout; on August 2d, to Fort William and Mary, with soldiers, and out with a scout of six- teen men; and on August 11th, to call out the troop and eighteen men for scouting. During the winter of 1708-9, Col. Hilton made a tedious march with one hundred and seventy men to Pequawket and places adjacent, but without discovery. During the summer of 1709 our people kept elose in garrison, and Col. Hilton performed his usual tour of duty in scouting. In 1710 the Indians still hovered on our frontier. Ililton's garrison was commanded by Capt. . Nicholas Gilman. He was out upon scout duty fre- quently through the summer,-June 21st, with twelve men, two days; June 23d, with twenty-eight men, two days; July 5th, with twenty-one men, two days.


The Indians succeeded, July 23, 1710, in their cherished plan of killing Col. Ililton, who had so long been their terror. This was the most surpris- ing and afflictive stroke of the war. This worthy officer was largely engaged in the masting business. Having several valuable trees felled the previous winter beyond Piscassic, he went out with seventeen men to peel off the bark. It is thought the party was Jess watchful than usual. While at work they were ambushed by the Indians, who rushed suddenly upon them. They were unable to make any defense, as their guns were useless from the storm of the day. At the first fire Col. Hilton and two others fell. Dudley Hilton, brother of Col. Winthrop, and an- other man were captured, and heard from no more. The rest fled without firing a gun or making the least reprisal. Flushed with this success the Indians then insolently appeared in the open road, and took four children at their play. They also captured John Wedgewood and killed John Magoon, near his brother's barn. The next day after Col. Hilton fell a company of one hundred men marched in pursuit of the Indians, but found only the mangled remains of their neighbors. With barbarous triumph the savages had scalped Col. Hilton, struck hatchets into his head, and left a lance in his breast. One of the slain was buried on the spot. The other two were brought home. When, on the 16th of August, an- other company of ninety-one men, under Capt. John Gilman, went five days in pursuit of the enemy, they had fled beyond reach.


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Thus died Col. Winthrop Hilton, one of our most estimable citizens, and one of the bravest defenders of New Hampshire. " He was a gentleman of good temper, courage, and conduct, respected and lamented by all who knew him."-Penhallow.


He was buried with the honors due to his rank and character. A large military escort did duty on the melancholy occasion. He was in his thirty-ninth year, and left a widow and children. His elegant silver-headed eane is preserved as a precious memor-


ial by his descendants. He was succeeded in her Majesty's Council by his kinsman, John Wentworth. His tombstone bears upon it the earliest date of any monument in town :


" Ilere Lieth Interd the Body of Colo1. Winthrop Hilton, Esq., Who Departed this Life June 234, A. D. 1710, In ye 39th year of his Age."


But our community had no rest. In 1711, besides exerting themselves to the utmost in the common cause abroad, they were obliged at home to keep a scout of forty men continually on the march. In 1712 new dep- redations were committed. April 16th, Mr. Cunning- ham was killed as he traveled the road from Mr. Hilton's to Exeter. On May 5th additional soldiers were stationed at Richard Ililton's garrison. The killed and captured in old Exeter during the war numbered between thirty and forty individuals. When a treaty was made with the chiefs at Ports- mouth, July 11, 1713, our people most joyfully left their garrisoned houses and betook themselves to the peaceful pursuits of industry in their own dwellings and fields.


Ten years later and Lovewell's war (1722-25) brought nameless terror to our people. In 1719 Jeremiah Folsom built his two-story brick garrison- house on the hill between Newfield and Lamprey River, where it stood till 1874, more than a century and a half.


In 1722 the enemy appeared at Lamprey River. Again, Aug. 23, 1723, eighteen Indians attacked the garrisoned house of Aaron Rawlins. Mr. Rawlins was shot through the walls of the house he was de- fending and afterwards scalped, while the head of his eldest daughter, twelve years of age, was cut off. Mrs. Rawlins was the daughter of Edward Taylor, who was killed, and of his wife Rebecca, who was captured from the same farm, April 26, 1704. She was made prisoner while attempting to escape from the house with a son and daughter who followed her. The mother was redeemed in a few years. The son was adopted by the Indians, and lived with them all his days. The daughter married a Frenchman, and when nearly sixty years old visited with her husband her native place, hoping to recover the patrimony which she supposed was left at the death of her father.


In September, 1724, Peter Coleord with others was seized and carried to Canada. He soon returned, bringing important information respecting the In- dian settlements and proceedings. In November he went on an expedition against the Indians, and the Provincial Assembly made him a present of ten pounds for his patriotism. In 1725 hostilities ceased, peace was ratified the following year, and proclaimed in town by beat of drum.


The colonists enjoyed unusual tranquillity for twenty years. In the war of George II., 1744-49, Indians


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prowled continually through the Piscataqua, Merri- mac, and Connecticut Valleys. But new settlements had sprung up. Souhegan, Amoskeag, Suncook, Con- toocook, Pemaquid now constituted the frontier. New- fields and Lamprey River soldiers enlisted in defense of other distressed communities. They were found in the command of Capt. John Gage, June and July, 1744, " to guard the mast-men ;" of Capt. Benjamin Mathes, Jan. 11, 1745, "to scont up the western branches of the Piscatagna ;" of Sergt. Joseph Raw- lins, June 3, 1746, " men and horses impressed and sent to Canterbury to carry provisions for thirty men a month ;" of Capt. Daniel Ladd, June 1 to Oct. 30, 1746, whose timely arrival, August 10th, reinforced and saved Rumford; of Col. Samuel Moores, 1744- 46, against Lonisburg, where William Hilton died; of Col. Theodore Atkinson, July 1, 1746, for the re- duction of Canada; of Capt. Joseph Thomas, Sept. 29 to Oct. 13, 1747, "twenty-eight men, sconting from Durham to Chester, Epping, and Nottingham." The story of Mrs. Fanny Shute falls into the narra- tive somewhere abont this time. She was much es- teemed, not only for her excellent qualities, but for her youthful adventures. When eighteen months old she was carried by the Indians to Canada and sold to the French. She was educated in a nunnery, and after remaining thirteen years in captivity was re- deemed and restored to her friends. "In Memory of Mrs. Frances Shnte, consort of Mr. John Shute, died Sept. 7, 1819, aged seventy-seven."-Tombstone.




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