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The Young family living on the Crown Point road about one mile north of the Free-Will Baptist Church were among the first settlers. Stephen, who now oc- cupies the old homestead, is eighty-one years of age. His grandfather, Benjamin, came from Dover, and had seven children, among whom was Elder Win- throp Young, born in Strafford, 1753; consequently this part of the town must have been settled by the family over one hundred and twenty-nine years.
Stephen Young's father's name was Jonathan, and had eight children, of whom two, Stephen and John F., are now living. Stephen had five children ; John F. Young had four. John F. Young, Jr., is a prom- inent physician in the city of Newburyport, Mass.
Deacon Charles Scruton lives on the Crown Point road, near the top of the Blue Hill.
His great-great-grandfather's name was William ; came from Ireland, and died in Barnstead with his daughter, Mrs. Drew. His son Thomas was born while crossing the water, settled in Strafford, where Deacon Charles now lives, died and was buried there.
Michael, son of Thomas and grandfather of Deacon Charles, was born on the home place Dec. 30, 1774, also died and was buried there.
Thomas Scruton, son of Michael, born Ang. 11, 1304, and now lives (1882, Ang. 16th) with his son, Deacon Charles Seruton, on the old homestead.
Oliver Foss, who lives on Strafford Ridge, on the farm reclaimed from the forests by his ancestors, is one of our best and neatest farmers. The soil by na- ture is excellent, and the best of care is taken of it. His great-grandfather, George, first settled in Ports- mouth, then in Barrington, finally on the farm where Oliver now lives. Died and buried there in 1807, aged eighty-six. Had eleven children.
Oliver's grandfather had eight children. He lived, died, and was buried on the farm also. Oliver's father had five children,-Tobias (minister), Warren, William, Oliver, Mary. Oliver has one daughter, Helen, who married John C. Hayes. They live with Oliver, and have five children. These generations, most of them, settled in Strafford and vicinity.
Cotton Foss lives near the top of the Blue Hill, on the Ridge road. His father's name was George, who
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cleared up the farm where Cotton now lives. They have deeds showing the settlement of the farm, one hundred and two years ago. No road over the Blue Hills at that time. This branch of the Foss family settled first in Portsmouth, afterwards in Barrington, then in the part now called Strafford.
Bears were plenty at that time. Cotton's father the first year on his farm killed thirteen. Moose also were killed on the mountain.
George Cotton's father had six children, among them one daughter, Betsey, the only female, I am told, that was ever born on this farm for the one hun- dred and two years of its settlement. Cotton has three children living,-Paul M., in Boston, and Cot- ton, Jr., and Henry R., living on the homestead.
Paul Perkins lives near the top of the Blue Hill on the Ridge road, and now owns the home of his fathers. Lemuel Perkins, the great-grandfather, set- tled on the place one hundred and two years ago.
His grandfather's name was Paul, his father's name John. Five generations now lie in the graveyard near the house. Ilis grandfather voted at every elec- tion for sixty-three years, and went twelve miles, part of the time on foot through the terrible snows and storms of March to reach his voting-place in Barring- ton. His father, John, voted fifty-five times without missing an election. Paul has voted thirty-one times, and through these generations not an election has been missed. They all always voted the Democratic ticket.
The Hon. Samuel P. Montgomery, a great-grand- son of John Montgomery, one of the earliest settlers on Strafford Ridge, was born Jan. 9, 1806. His great- grandfather came to Strafford, settled on a farm, cleared it up, and his son Jonathan, grandfather of Samnel P., inherited it from his father, and John, the father of Samuel; succeeded to the property, and Samuel and David K. received it from their fathers. It has now gone out of the name.
Samuel P. was a noted teacher. He held all the offices of trust and responsibility in town several times over, also senator and representative to the Legislature. This family was among the first, if not the very first, to settle in Strafford.
John Caverno, one of the first settlers, a son of Arthur Caverno, of Scotch-Irish descent, from whom originated the Caverno family, came from the north of Ireland to this country about 1835.
John, son of Arthur, born in New Foundland in 1742, settled on the Canaan road about a mile south of Bow Lake, when the country was all a wilderness ; married Sarah Tibbetts, of Barrington, 1746. They had two children,-Molly and Jeremiah. Jeremiah married Margaret Brewster. They had ten children, -John, Sarah, Lydia, Jeremiah, Polly, Arthur, George W., Margaret, Sullivan, and David B. Jere- miah succeeded his father on the old homestead.
John and George bought farms in the immediate neighborhood of the old homestead, upon which they
lived and died, which are now occupied by their im- mediate descendants. Arthur was a Free-Will Bap- tist minister of note, settled and died in Dover. Sul- livan is a prominent lawyer, and lives in Lockport, N. Y. The only male descendants living in town are Arthur and Jeremiah, sons of John Caverno, and George S., son of George W. Caverno. The Cavernos have always occupied a prominent position socially and politically.
Elijah Tuttle, Jr., son of Elijah Tuttle, of Barring- ton, was born July 10, 1774; married Sally Tasker April 5, 1798. The Tuttles were originally from Eng- land. He was the first man in Strafford that ever received a collegiate education.
lle was an expert in surveying, and did most of the business in that line in the westerly part of the town. His children were Samuel, William, Mary, Jehoah, Sarah, Asa, and Ester; nearly all lived and died in Strafford. His descendants still live on the old home- stead, which is situated near Bow Lake.
. Rufus Hall, son of Israel Hall and grandson of John Hall, lives on the Province road near the upper end of Bow Lake; married Mary Ann Young, of Barrington. They had two children,-David O. and Frank H. Frank lives with his father; married Josephine Elliot, of Barnstead; have one child, John, the grandfather of Rufus, born Jan. 18, 1739; cleared up the farm where Rufus now lives. His father, Israel, born July 20, 1768, also lived and died on the homestead. They have been an industrious, frugal, and respectable family.
Aaron Waldron, one of the first settlers, born Aug. 4, 1749, took up his farm near the northwesterly part of the town. Hannah, his wife, was born March 29, 1750, by whom he had thirteen children, namely,- Azariah, Aaron, Isaac, John, Abram, Robert, Abram (2d), William, Hannah, Richard, Lovey, Zachariah, and Sarah. the only living child, who married James B. Foss, of Strafford Ridge. Azariah, the eldest, was the first representative of the town after its sepa- ration from Barrington. These children settled in town, and all the Waldrons in Strafford are descend- ants of Aaron. The grandchildren now living in town are Jonathan C., Azariah, and William W. Waldron.
This family is one of the most numerous and re- spectable in town. We have endeavored to trace the history of some of the prominent early settlers, have consulted the most reliable records and many of the oldest inhabitants, and after all much, at this late day, must depend upon tradition. Every one who has given the subject thought knows the difficulties in the way.
We might mention among other prominent families of the early settlers the Pershleys, Brocks, Hams, Scotts, Babbs, Stileses, Slopers, Taskers, Huckinses, Ifolmeses, Boodys, Buzzels, Caverlys, Caswells, Cates, Critchets, Evanses, Hills, Jennesses, Pillsburys, Rob- erts, Shackfords, Smiths, Swains, Browns, Twomblys, Leightons, Joueses, and Walkers.
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Many of the sons of Strafford occupy places of re- spectability and trust in various parts of the country. Among them may be mentioned Drs. Joshua O. Stan- ton, Jr., John F. Young, Jr., Stephen Young, E. Frank Foss, George H. Montgomery, Jeremiah C. Garland. Lawyers, Robert B. Foss, Winship Twombly, Charles Caverno, Zachariah B. Caverly, Secretary of Legation to Peru ; Levi B. Tasker, Free-Will Baptist clergy- men ; Tobias Foss.
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Ecclesiastical and Educational .- The Free Bap- tist Church at Strafford Corner (then called Crown Point, Barrington) was organized in August, 1779, under the supervision of Rev. Edward Lock. It was composed of a branch of the Calvin Baptist Church of Berwick, Me., numbering about forty, joined by a number of converts, the fruit of a revival at Strafford. It was constituted an independent body of Christians, taking the name of " Baptist Church" only.
Rev. Tozer Lord was its first pastor. Rev. Benjamin Randall, the founder of the Free Baptist denomina- tion, was then a member of the Berwiek Calvin Baptist Church in good standing. He applied for a letter of dismission to go with the branch of said church to form the " Free Church" at Crown Point, as it was called. But no notice seemed to be taken of his request. In the month of March following, he united with said Free Church without a letter. Having preached quite successfully for more than three years in several places in and around Barring- ton, the church with which he had just before united and "many of his townsmen," requested lis ordina- tion. He was accordingly set apart as an evangelist at New Durham, on the 5th of April, 1780. The or- dination sermon and charge to the candidate was by his pastor of the Barrington Church, the Rev. T. Lord.
Although the New Durham Church, being the first that Randall organized, is called the "first" and " mother church" of the Free Baptists, yet the church at Strafford Corner, N. H., was really the first and pio- neer body of the sect of Christians called Free Baptists. It was organized on precisely the same principles as at New Durham, about ten months before that was, and gave to the world one of its members as the founder of said denomination. By its vote and through its pastor it ordained and gave ecclesiastical authority to the honored leader to found other churches, and to administer the ordinances of the church. Randall had the oversight of said church, and preached more or less to it for many years, and once, when scattered and nearly destroyed by "Shakerism," nine of its members signed a request to the church at New Dur- ham for "help." Randall soon went to their aid. He probably reorganized them into a church, as the records soon speak of this as the "second church." The record of said reorganization and of a few sub- sequent years cannot be found ; but of said reorgan- ization there is no doubt, for the Free Baptist history (page 69) says of this point, " The London and Can- terbury churches could do no otherwise than follow
the example of the Strafford church ;" ... "these reorganized churches continue unto the present time" [date of history, 1861].
So the proof of this claim of the Strafford Corner Church to be the oldest and " mother of us all" is clear.
This church has kept on its course, with a few reverses, now (1882) for one hundred and three years. Soon after its organization it was much weakened and reduced to a few in number by secession for cause before named. But extensive revivals under Ran- dall and others gathered many into this fold of Christ. At times more than one hundred and sixty members have been reported. A few years after it was formed two other churches, composed in part of members dismissed from this, were organized, one at the south- ern part of the town of Barrington and one in the northern part, now called the "Strafford and Barnstead Church." Later, two others were constituted in town, one at the centre of Strafford and the other at Bow Lake. Still the "mother church" has (in 1882) a membership of eighty-five. Whole number of meni- bere in the four churches in town is three hundred and forty-three.
It is claimed by the oldest inhabitants in the com- munity that " the first persons baptized by immersion in the town [Strafford then was included in Barrington ] were Ralph Hall, an aged man, Mrs. Anna Young, wife of Benjamin Young, and Miss Abigail Daniels, a young lady." This was in about 1776. Rev. E. Smith admin- istered the ordinance, an " opposing multitude" wit- nessing the services. Mr. Hall joined " the free church" at Strafford Corner. He lived, died, and is buried with his wife on the place where Mr. John Hall lives, his great-great-grandson. Four generations have lived there in succession, all members of the church, and its firm and liberal supporters. A granddaughter of the first-named Ralph, Miss Sarah Hall, married Rev. Mr. Boardman, D.D., of the Baptist mission in Asia, and after his death she married Rev. A. Judson, D.D., the celebrated pioneer in said mission.
Among the laymen of this church there were per- sons of marked ability. We have space to name but one, the Hon. Jobe Otis. (See his name elsewhere in this history.)
This church has sent out a number of ministers who have done good service for the world, among whom are Benjamin Randall, Micajah Otis, Winthrop Young, Nathaniel Berry, Enoch Place, John Nutter, Eph- raim H. Heart, Hiram Holmes, John C. Holmes (brothers), and perhaps others, all of whom are dead, leaving an honorable record so far the writers know.
Benjamin Randall, the first named, was the founder of the Free Baptist denomination. For more ex- tended information of him the reader is referred to " The Life of Randall," and the "History of the Free-Will Baptists," published by the Free-Will Bap- tiet printing establishment, Dover, N. H.
We make a short extract from history : " Randall was a man of medium size, or a little below, erect and
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gentlemanly in appearance. His features were sharp, his eyes of a hazel color, and the general expression of his countenance was grave and dignified. Ilis deep piety and fervent spirit gave a characteristic sweetness to his voice, and he usually wept as he preached. Ilis gestures were few, and as a speaker he was calm, argumentative, and very impressive. His perception was great, and his memory strong. He was somewhat nervous in temperament, quite sanguine in his opinions, very conscientious in what lie thought was right, and his reproofs were often ad- ministered with entting severity. He had a good business education for his times. He studied the works of men, but was emphatically a man of one book, and that was the Bible."
At first, religions meetings were held in school- houses and private dwellings. A few years after its organization, the church, in connection with a school district, built what was called "The Temple," the pews being arranged on the three sides of the house, and the school desks in the centre. It was located a few rods southeast from where Benjamin F. Winkley, Esq., now lives (1882), on the opposite side of the road. It is now removed. Their meeting-house, re- cently put in good repair, was erected in 1835.
The names of the pastors of the Strafford Corner Church and the time of service, as near as can be as- certained, are as follows: Revs. Tozer Lord, from 1779 to 1781; Benjamin Randall, associated with Micajah Otis from 1783 to 1821; Enoch Place, till 1853; D. L. Edgerley, till 1857; A. R. Bradbury, till 1858; E. Place, till 1861; N. C. Twombly, till 1863; B. Van Dame, till 1865; B. B. Smith, till 1868; William T. Smith, till 1869; N. C. Lothrop, till 1873; Ezra Tut- tle, till 1874; S. N. Brooks, till 1876; C. C. Foster, till 1878; E. Tuttle, till 1882; Francis Reed, the pres- ent pastor, and compiler of the foregoing history of Strafford Corner Church.
Third Free-Will Baptist Church in Strafford .- This church was formerly a part of the First Free- Will Baptist Church.
Jan. 20, 1819, a request was made by the people of Strafford Ridge to the New Durham Quarterly Meet- ing for a separation and for the organizing of a sep- arate church at that place, not because of any diffi- culty among them as to divisions or disputes, bat for convenience and better accommodations. This re- quest was granted, and Elders Place, Merrill, and Peavey were appointed a committee to meet the peo- ple at the Ridge on the first Saturday in February, 1819, to acknowledge them the Third Church and to assist them in organizing.
The meeting was organized on the above date by choosing Rev. Enoch Place moderator, and Rev. J. L. Peovey clerk. (From the records.) "Now when the brethren had gathered together at the school- house on the Ridge, on the 1st Saturday in February, 1819, agreeable to appointment, they came to the fol- lowing conclusion by the Grace of God.
" We, whose names are hereafter subscribed, having given ourselves unto the Lord, do give ourselves to one another in the Lord, by the will of God, consid- ering ourselves a church of Christ, intending to watch. over one another in love, striving together for the things which make for peace and things whereby we may edify one another. Owning the Scriptures to be our rule of faith and practice and all the saints of God our brethren, we intend to comfort ourselves in the Lord together and edify one another even as also we do. And to know them which labor among us and are over us in the Lord and admonish, and to esteem them very highly for their work sake and be at peace among ourselves. To warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient to all men. To render not evil for evil to any man, but ever follow that which is good, both among ourselves and to all men, praying the God of love and peace to aid us in all our journey from this to the eternal world, and preserve us blameless soul, body, and spirit unto his heavenly kingdom."
Ebenezer Kelley. Priscilla Foss.
John Winkley. Mary Caverly.
John B. Foss, Jr. Anna Drew.
Jerusha Foss. Sarah Drew.
Timothy Foss. Mary Drew.
Jane Foss.
George Foss, Jr.
Joshua Foss, Jr.
Mary Huntress.
Joseph Hill.
Ilannah Foss.
William Foss (3d).
Sarah Foss.
Richard B. Foss.
Amy Foss.
Joseph lluckins.
Abigail Foss.
Samuel Kelley. Sarahı Foss. .
James Foss (4th). Judith A. Shepherd.
Mesech Drew.
Sally Shepherd.
Simon Foss.
Eliza Shepherd.
Moses Sawyer.
Sally Hill.
Joshua Foss (4th).
Polly IJill.
Kathrine Hill.
Susan Hodgdon.
John Tuttle.
Betsey Pearcy.
Woodbury Foss.
Sally Foss.
James C. Cate.
Betsey Foss.
James Tuttle (3d).
Betsey Daniels.
John Rowe.
Elizabeth Brown.
Sarah Foss.
Olive Twobly.
Mary Huckins.
Anna Drew.
Hannah Huckins.
Deborah Kelly.
Elizabeth Foss.
Sarah Tuttler.
Eleanor Muncy.
Sally Tuttle.
Esther Tuttle.
Polly Hall.
Elizabeth Foss.
Rhoda Clark.
Saralı Foss. Alice Clark.
Alice Foss.
Sarah Rowe.
Abigail Foss.
Mary Smith.
Hannah Foss. Lydia Smith.
Abigail Foss.
Sarah Smithı.
Sarah Foss.
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Joseph Roberts.
James Tuttle.
Alice Foss.
Eliza Foss.
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The following is a list of ministers who have been settled over this church, with date of settlement: Revs. Enoch Place, 1819; Ammi R. Bradbury, 1855; Arthur Caverno, 1858; D. P. Harriman, 1859; Uriah Chase, 1865; I. M. Bedell, 1866; Caleb C. Foster, 1872; C. E. Handy, 1873; S. C. Kimball, 1875; L. II. Winslow, 1880.
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During the thirty-six years' pastorate of the Rev. Enoch Place he preached but one-half the time, two Sabbaths per month ; the other Sabbaths the pulpit was occupied at intervals by Elders Sherburn, P. S. Burbank, John Winkley, Nathan Caverno, and others.
The first clerk of this church was William Foss (3d), 1819, succeeded by Rev. Enoch Place, 1821; Wil- liam B. Foss, 1842; J. H. Montgomery, 1845; Warren Foss, 1848; Alfred Tasker, 1877, present clerk.
The first church was built in 1800. It was a large church, with square high-backed pews, and a gallery running round three sides of the house. There were no means of lighting or heating; evening service and service during severe weather being held in the academy. The pulpit was high and elaborate.
This church was taken down in 1857, and a new church built, in which service is held at the present time.
The Bow Lake meeting-house was erected in 1843, as a Union Church, and occupied as such till 1859.
Rev. John Caverly and Enoch Place, Free-Will Baptists, and the Rev. George W. Ashby, Baptist, occupied the pulpit.
In 1859 the Bow Lake Free-Will Baptist Church was organized, with Rev. Levi B. Tasker as pastor, William P. Hall, deacon, and Orin T. Hill, clerk.
The meeting-house was dedicated to the Free-Will Baptists, Nov. 14, 1859. The church, when organized, consisted of twenty-four members, as follows: L. B. Tasker, M. H. Tasker, W. P. Hall, Eliza Hall, C. M. Thompson, Dyre Hall, Daniel D. Caverly, Orin T. ITill, Mary E. Hill, Reuben Critchett, Betsey Critchett, George W. Buzzell, Mary Babb, Jeremiah Caverno, Dolly H. Caverno, Almira J. Hill, Elizabeth Roberts, M. A. Huckins, C. A. Hill, A. W. Hill, Susan Rob- erts, William Thompson, Mary Tasker, and Deborah Thompson.
The Rev. L. B. Tasker presided over the church as pastor for three years, and was succeeded by Rev. Joseph Brown.
In 1864, Samuel B. Gray was chosen second deacon. Rev. Joseph Brown remained as pastor till 1865. Since then the successions have been Revs. C. C. Ed- gerly, Levi Bracket, Thomas Keniston, D. I. Quint, Frank Browne, Edwin Smith, Royal McDonald, and W. F. Young.
Deacon William P. Hall died June 17, 1873, and William Cate was chosen his successor Sept. 17, 1873. Present membership sixty-four.1
A church was organized in North Strafford, con- sisting of seventy members, early in the summer of 1781, and Elder Joseph Boody was its pastor for thirty years, since which time what few records there are are singularly deficient in anything that can be called church history.
Strafford Union Academy, situated on Strafford Ridge, was incorporated in 1832. The names of the individuals who procured the act of incorporation were William Foss, Daniel Winkley, Job Otis, Enoch Place, Samuel P. Montgomery, John Caverly, B. W. Jenness.
The act was changed, and the name adopted was Strafford Academy. The change was made to enable the corporation to hold more property than the first act permitted. The institution was very successful for many of the first years of its existence. A Mr. Austin, of Portsmouth, N. H., left to the institution a legacy of five thousand dollars.
There arising some division among the stockholders, the money never has been received. In the mean time the academy has ceased to be what it was in its early days. It is considered a Free-Will Baptist in- stitution.
There was a Methodist Church organized, and a meeting· house built, half a mile above Strafford Cor- ner, about fifty years ago, but the church and the meeting-house have long since been numbered among the things that were.
DANIEL WINKLEY, sou of Deacon John Winkley, was born on the "old home" in what is now the town of Strafford, N. H., May 26, 1792. His ancestor, Samuel Winkley (spelled sometimes Winckley), was the origin of the large family of that name in America. He came from Lancashire, England, to Portsmouth, N. H., about 1680. The family coat-of-arms is thus described : " An eagle displayed, counter etranged : argent : gules. Motto, 'sper.'" Samuel settled first in Kittery, Me., where, in 1684, he married Sarah, dangh- ter of Francis Trickey. They lived on Crooked Lane, on a lot of land granted to her father by the town of Kittery in 1656. They afterwards removed to Ports- mouth, where he engaged in trade and commerce, and died in 1736, over seventy years old. They had children,-Samnel2, Francis1 (born 1689, died April 22, 1776), Nicholas, William, Sarah (married Tobias Langdon, father of Governor John Langdon), Eliza- beth (married Samuel Weeks, of Boston). His will, dated Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 13, 1722, contains a clause giving his son Francis a Bible which was his father's, and this Bible is now in possession of a de- scendant in Barrington. Francis Winkley succeeded to the land of his grandfather Trickey, in Kittery. His occupation was boat-building. His brothers all dying young, he also is the common ancestor of all the Winkleys of this stock. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Rev. John Emerson, of Portsmouth. They had seven children,-John (born 1726, died March 31, 1811, aged eighty-five), Elizabeth (born 1728, died at
: The history of this church was kindly furnished by Samuel B. Gray, clerk.
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Barrington, 1806, aged seventy-eight), Samuel (born March 9, 1731, died Nov. 29, 1807, aged seventy-six), Francis2 (born 1733, died Oct. 9, 1818, aged eighty- five), Mary (born 1736, died in Boston, Dec. 1, 1776, aged forty), Emerson (born 1738, died at Barrington, Sept. 17, 1810, aged seventy-two), and Sarah (born 1740, died Feb. 6, 1803, aged sixty-three).
Samuel Winkley, son of Francis1, was a joiner, serving his time with Mark Langdon, of Portsmouth. He married Mary, daughter of Samuel Brewster and Margaret Waterhouse, l.is wife, of that place, and, tra-
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