History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 187

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


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" By order of the Lt Governor & Councill. " WM REDFORD : Deputy Sec'ty."


The apprehensions of further violence were unhap- pily realized. Not all of the body who attacked Oyster River returned immediately. While one por- tion under Toxus, a Norridgewock, went westward, a smaller party crossed the Pascataqua and killed Ursula Cutt (widow of the President Cutt) and three others, haymakers. That day Col. Richard Wal- dron had promised to dine with her, but the arrival of friends prevented it. While at dinner in his own house he beard of her death.


In July, 1695, two men were killed at Exeter. On the 7th of May, 1696, John Church was killed and scalped at Cochecho. Various persons were killed at Portsmouth on the 26th of June, and the recapture of Breakfast Hill, in Rye, took place the next day, of


which an account is here unnecessary. On the 26th of July the people of Dover were waylaid and fired upon as they were returning home from meeting. Nicholas Otis, Mary Downs, and Mary Jones were killed; Richard Otis, Anthony Lowden, and Expe- rience Heard were wounded ; John Tucker, Nicholas Otis, Jr., and Judith Ricker were captured. As these persons all appear to have lived between Waldron's Garrison and Garrison Hill, it is probable that the attack was between the upper falls and the brow of the hill before reaching Otis's Garrison.


Of affairs at Exeter, of the killing of Maj. Frost at Kittery, of the threatened invasion by sea, our pur- pose forbids minute accounts. Dover soil was no more molested during that war, and the war itself soon ended.


The peace of Ryswick, concluded in Europe, Sept. 20, 1697, forced the French Governor Frontenac to withdraw his protection and assistance from the In- dians, as France and England were no longer at war. He advised the Indians, therefore, to bury the hatchet, and peace was concluded at Casco, Jan. 9, 1699. Among other promises, it was agreed that cap- tives should be returned. Some, indeed, had, in 1695, been ransomed. Among these were John Keyser and John Key, Jr., of Cochecho; Elizabeth Smart and Cisca Brackett, of Oyster River. Others in the hands of the French at that time, memorials of the fate of Cochecho in 1689, and Oyster River in 1694, were Abi- gail Willey, Judy Willey, Elizabeth Willey, John Skyly, Sarah White, and Samuel Rand (a boy), of Oyster River; Grizel Otis, Christina Otis, John Otis (a boy), Rose Otis (a gir}), Stephen Otis (inhabitants of the ill-fated Otis Garrison), John Anthony (a boy), and Obadiah Phebe, of Cochecho ; and Joseph Perkins (a boy), Abigail Curlin, Lydia Langley (a girl), Mary Swarten, Abigail Brackett, Elizabeth Squir, John Per- sons (a boy), Roland Young (a boy), Ruth Persons, Mary Sayward, Esther Sayward, and H. Short (a boy), of Dover, butof unknown locality. How many of these ever returned it is impossible to tell. Christina Otis returned ; Rose, her sister, did also, and married John Pinkham ; John Otis probably remained in Canada ; Stephen Otis certainly did; so did their mother-in- law, Grizel, who married there. Others doubtless did also, and so were finally lost to their friends.


CHAPTER CXV.


DOVER .- (Continued.)


Tax-payers in 1733 .- The town had early made grants or sales of lands to settlers, according to the powers of towns which owned the unoccupied lands within its limits. In 1733 the town made a final dis- posal of such as it did not wish to retain for public uses, retaining such as the " Landing" below the falls


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HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.


of the Cochecho. The following list, occasioned by this final distribution, shows the names of tax-payers in that year, and in some measure their relative prop- erty interest :


Whereas M' John Cerney, Sam1 Cearl, James Nnte, John Tasker, John Hayes, John Horn, Capt Thos Wallingford, Jeremiah Rawlings, and John Winget were Chosen a Committee at a Publick Town Meet- ing holden at the Meeting-House at Cochecho in Dover the 27 of Feb"y 1732-3


To Consider of some proper Methods to be taken to Dispose of the Common Lands within the Town of Dover to the Inhabitants of said Town, and to propose the Method or Methods which they should agree upon to the Town in Publick Town Meeting for the Towns acceptance, if the should see fit, which service the above sd Committe did accordingly per- form, and likewise made Report thereof to the Town . in a Publick Town Meeting holden at the Meeting House at Cochecho in Dover on the 4th Day of June 1733, at which Meeting the Town did Vote that the Proporteoning of the Common Lands in said Town, amongst the Inhabetants thereof, as it was performed and offer'd to the Town by said Committe, should be good and Valid.


Which Proportioning was as follows, viz. That all those men whose names are mentioned in the first List which is next Recorded should have a full share in ye Division of the above said Commons, viz.


Ye Estate of Cap" Benja Wint-


Benja Weymonth. .. 265


worth


172


John Hall. 95


John Ricker. 209


Meturin Ricker .. 207


W'm Stiles. 287


Jeremiah Rawlings 417 Thos Downs. 171


John Roberts ... 182


Benja Mason .. 403


James Clements


Thos Nock. 20


Zach Nock. 46


Kichd Hammock.


To ye Estate of Jos. Ham


18


Eben' Downs.


165 . Jos. Varney


311


Sam! Jones. 346


Benja Ham.


Jos. Riker.


Lt Love Roberts.


Derry Pitminn


315


Ensg John Tibbits. 117


Benja Twombly


John Roberts Jur 273


Thos Layton 208


Thon Hall.


51


Jos. Twombly Jur 285


The Men whose Names are mentioned in the Second List which is next Recorded were appointed it to have two thirds of a full Share in ye Division of Common Lands in Dover by ye Committe Choosen for the Pro- portioning of the Same.


Mr William Tompson. 173


Ww Ellis ....


327


Daniel Mishaivy Jur 231


James Hukkins 258 Sanı' Alle .. 23


Edwd Ellis 407


Banja Ilall. 296


Eph Wintworth 60 Ralph Hall 349


Isaac Watson. 47


Jos. Pirkins. 244


To ye Estate of Ww Hayes. 138


Tobias Hanson Jur. 409


Zach Elgerly


92


Jos. Hanson Jur 69


Daniel Feild


145


John Ileard. 211


Jos Chesley


288


W'm Horn Jur. 392 Robt Evans Jur 345


94 Sam! Young. 136


32


John Varney


270


Epb 11.im


Mark Giles. 240


Stephen Varney 1×9


21


John Church 302


Israel llodgdon jnr 26


John Waldron Jur


39


Stephen Otis, 152


Wm Twombly Jr


137


Jos. Ester ..


John Clements


339


Saml Wintworth .. 59


Epl Ricker. 146


Sam! Rendal


114


Moses Tibbits


159


John Pirkins


329 Daniel Goodin.


115


Sam' Wille Jnr. 17 Benja Stanton


John Young. 248 Mr George Ricker.


Wm Downs 394


216


Edwd Evens.


38


Thus Wille ..


344


13 Le Jos. Jones 341


81


Maturen Ricker Ju 317


Richd Wintworth


232


Thos Hoin. 147


Tho" Drew 419


Thus Ash. 259


Elear [Eben]] Wire 298


1


Capt John Waldron. 214


60


Joseph Jenkins 134


Capt Robert Evens.


128


Ensr Istael Hodydon. 90


164


Lt Trist Heard


14


Jacob Allen. 286


26


Sam' Austin 367


Job Clements


129


Jus Tibluts 338


Richd Pinkham


John Pinkhan 3-


Joshua Roberts.


66


James Nute.


John Layton 169


27


Benja Ansten


Jeremiah Tibbits.


381


L' John Winget.


:40


John Feild. 166


Daniel Titcom. 203 Sam' Cenney, jur.


364


Capt Tho" Tibbits


103 325


Sam' Davis ... 142


150 | John Bickford 423


Moses Winget 133


Eph Tibbilty.


163


John Davis 68


Jos. Daniel. 271


Eli Demerrit Jnr 2-


404


John Starbord 361


Ichabod Hayes 262


Wm Twombly. 98


Jona Young. 118


.Jos, Evens. 418


Nat Hanson 196


ye Estate of Benje Evens. 104


John Cook


Eliar Young 388


Peter Hayes. 314


Daniel Ilorn.


331


Howard Henderson 415


34 John Tibbits. Nath' Anstin 121


John Hayes,


10 62


Thos Roberts Jur 151


Nat! Roberts .. 269


Thos Roberts .. 354


Capt Panl Wintworth Esqr 49


416 Ye Revd Mr Jame Pike ... 35


Jos. Austin


Eph Tibbits ... 82


Collo Time Gerrish, Esqr .. 96


Richd Waldron, Esqr. 332


Jos. Cenney 30


The Revd MT Jona Cnshing 106


Mr Gershon Downs .... 264


Eli Demerrit.


283


Jos. Hanson .. 31


Sam! Chesley 109


Sam1 Beard 386


212


Lt John Horn


Sol- Pinkbam 218


James Pinkhanı 305


Henry Tillits. 391 Eben Garland 421


John Bampton 200 Sam Stagpole. 143


W'm Horn 186


Wm Fost. 355


153


John Cromwell 58


Elisha Clark


John Mason 71


Nath' Pirkins 53


Joshua Pirkins.


Richd Cenney 396


Jos. Hall. 130


15


Saml Hayes. 36


424


Jos. Hussey 277


Natl Lumas.


Henry Tibbits Jur. 19-


Benja Wintworth 370


Tobias Hanson. 44


Nat Young


633 Sam' Nute


347


Jabez Garland


Daniel Misharvey 160


Saml Starbord 420


Thos Tuttle. 276


Richd Scammon 225


Capt Thos Millit.


141


L' James Davis.


261


158 W'm Dam.


4


Ichabod Tibbits. 297


29- Tho" Hobbs. 414


Clement Drew


36


Philip Yraton Wm Wjutworth 48


175


Otis Pinkham 111


351


James Clark 30]


[p. 215] Mr William Hill Jnr Timo Moses ..


253


Mr John Bickford jn". 11


Jos. Hick


Thos Bickford.


16


Edwd Evens jnr


John Demerrit.


372


Sam? Heard.


Abraham Nute.


84 Wm Weimoth je 251


Zach Pitman.


226


Tımº Robinson. 291


Capt Sam! Tibbitts. 335


Mr Sanı Cearl 102


Edwd Whithouse 25


John Tasker. 405


Nicholas Harford


Thos Cenney. 379


Lt Jos Robberts.


Joshua Cromwell 275


Thos Whithouse. 41


Gershom Wentworth. 192


John Cenney ... 238


Sam' Willee. 97


Ww Weymoth 208


156


Jos. Roberts Jur


Ye Estate of John Hamon 188


279


John Horn 241


Anos Pinkham 247


Eben' Varney


Abraham Clark 263


John Bussel Jun 3


James Hobbs. 323


Francis Pitinan 108


James Guppy


303


John Huckins


Benja Ilanson.


287


Sam' Tibbits Jur


119


Stephen Roberts.


362


Solv. Perkins, 93


129


Jos Rankings. 267


James Cenney ..


John Drew 183


John Pearl ...


Mr David Watson .. 385


Lt Thoª Davis 310


Thos Drew Jur


Tin Tibbitts 356


Edwd Tıbbity, 204


Moses Varney


260


John Giles. 229


Capt Trist Coffin 101


John Twombly. 374


Eben" Tuttle.


Micael Emerson 309


123 John Layton Jur


John Tuttle


Jolın Ham Jur


312


Jos. Hall 348


7


John Evens. 352


Ebeur Varney Jur


Thos Hamon ..


283


Paul Giles. 252


Ebenr Wintworth


Ezek Wintworth


402


The Estate ot Sam' Cromwel .. 322 The Estate of Benje Varney ... 206


Richd Ilussey 113


John Bnssell. 398


124


James Jleard 181


John Hall, Jur


Sam' Cenney


James Hanson.


Thos Pinkbam ..


The Men whose Names are Mentioned in the Third List which is now Recorded were appointed to have one third part of a full Share ... the Division of Common Lands in Dover by the Comitte Choosen for ye Proportioning of the Same


Job llussey


131


Peter Cook


112


Sam' Downs. 320


289


Capt Thos Wallingford. 293


205


37


Mr Silvanus Nock 29


Eph Wintworth 272


Thos Tibbits 330


Wu Demerrit 69


Jus. Daniel Jur. 365


Benja Hayes.


Collo Paul Gerrish, E-qr .. 413


Sam Roberts 281


24 Philip Stagpole. 328


799


DOVER.


Mr Sam Dam ..


83


James Tuttle 380


James Wellmet


170


John Feild Jur. 122


Maul llanson 79


John Gerrish. 215


Wm Hanson .. 357


Benje Hanson Jur 282 W'm Bussel. 30


Jos Jackson 126 Benja Peirce Jur. 52


Dudley Watson ...


Wm Whitehouse.


373


Sam1 Heard Jur 349 3.3


Jos. Conner


James Chesley.


22


Nehemiah Kimball. 300


Ezra Kimball


Nath1 Varney 411


Timo Hanson 378 Thos Horn Jur 400


89 Spencer Wintworth


12 John Hayes Jur


Edwd Allen 120 299 Sam' Allen. 190 John Tilints Jur


Richd Waldrou 242


John Horn Jur. 157 Wm Jones ..


Thoª Varney. 384 Ebenr Roberts 387


John Carter 376 Thos Stevens 227


Ichabod Horn 197


Daniel Clements 246


Jos. Peirce 408


Thom Mason. 67 Eben" Nock 127


Jos. Harford 148 Sam1 Nock 100 Mr Jos. Tibbits Inr 995 Benja Peirce. 922


Benja Roberts. 144


Gerson Downs Jur 116


Paul Roberts 99 Ww Brackstone 220 45 Thos Waits. 30 John Tibbits Jur Timo Robinson Jur 87 Jus. Evens, Tert 353


Sam' Cearl Jur . 257 Abner Young. 88 Richmond Ilenderson 249 Josiah Clark 61 72


Sum Hall


Thoa Roberts, Ters 194 375 Ilumphrey Fost. 333


Benja Roberts Jnr.


Elijah Tuttle.


324 Sam' Weymouth 184


Joshua Cenney.


77


To the Estate of Morrice Hobbs 140


174


Edwd Clowtman


107


John Cloutman


43


Benja Demerritt 406


Panl Cenney


217


Wm Hussey


191


Ichabod Cenney


254


Henry Bussel.


187


James Bussel


336 319


To the Estate of Tristram


Solo Emerson 334


401


Thos Wille Jur


168 To the Estate of Sam Tibhits .. 185 To the Estate uf Zach Boody. 256 Benja Jones. 112 John Jones 40


Jos. Cromwell. 73


Sam' Cromwell


Simon Winget


210


[p. 217] James Layton 292 Daniel Plummer. 149


Richd Plummer 86 Francis Drew 365


Daniel Jacobs 234 Jobn Harvey 55


Zach Bunker. 337


Sam Jackson 74


Daniel Bunker. 110


Benja Cenney 236


9


Wm Norroway .. 177


Timo Cearl 326


Wm Wellard.


1- 250


Hatevil Hall


316


Stephen Wille


Eben® Pinkham 377 Jona Young, Jn 161


Richd Pinkham Jur 383


Sam! Jones Jur


307


Sam1 Varney 280 Benja Allen. 54


Nat1 Ham. 139 Jos. Tibbits, Tert 359


Isaac Ilanson. 397 Nicolas Tuttle 371


The Men whose Names are Mentioned in the fourth List which is Next Recorded were appointed to have one sixth part of a whole Share of the Commons Lands in Dover by the Committe Choosen for the Propor- tioning of the Same.


Capt Jolin Gage. 395


Wm Busby 389


180 IIngh Conner ... 343 Mr Sam' Lamb


Mr John Yeaton 213 Isaac Libbee .. 308


Hatevil Layton. 223


John Yeatou Jur 333


Sam Walton .. 390 Natt Frost. 245


Morrice Fowler. 360 Benja Bodge. 64


Thon Miller. 363 John Brown 202


John Row. 350


John Mnckkleroy 239 Nich Brock 57


James Witherel. 8


Sam Merrow 178 Moses Stevens 56


CHAPTER CXV1.


DOVER .- (Continued.)


John Foy. 76


Mesheck Drew 167


John Daniel Jur. 155


Benje Evens. 369


Jos. Evens Jur, 132


Robert Hansen 209


Nath Garland 313


Henry Bickford


221


8 ... ' Ham [Horn ?]


Mr John Garland ...


201 230


Jos. Wentworth 321


Thos Wentworth. 85 Richd Gooden. 176


42 Jon& Merrow. 195 Jos. Bickford


Sam Holden. 229 5 Sam1 Stiles.


James Nute, Jnr


410


Wm Allen .. 382 75


To the Estate of Francis Drew


To the Estate of John Bunker


To the Estate of Benje Hanson


Job Demerritt.


Benedictus Tar .. 135


Henry Rines 19


105 Anthony Jones


W'm Brown


255


Benja Bunker. 225


Thos Pinkham Jur 243


Zach Field.


Jon& Church. 219


Elear Wrar, Jur


278


Shadrach Hodgdon. 16


lleard. 358


James Jackson


Paul Gerrish, Jur.


Tinie Muses Jur. 198


French and Indian War .- The last year in which Dover blood was shed upon Dover soil was in 1725. Benjamin Evans and William Evans were the last victims. The Indians had been gradually driven back. Not long after the year 1700 they abandoned Pequaw- ket and returned to Canada. To carry the war into Canada was the defense of lower New Hampshire. The French provinces partially felt what they had inflicted upon others. We ean stop only to say that men of our ancient Dover were in the assault on Port Royal, in 1707, where Maj. Shadrach Wal- ton, an ancestor of the writer of this sketch, and a son of an carly Dover settler, and Capt. Chesley, of the Durham seetion, did the only ereditable thing there; they formed their companies on the open beach, charged on the enemy, who were behind a sea- wall, and carried the position by assault. Dover men were in the attack on Norridgewock in 1722. They were scouts in all the wars following. In 1745, at the capture of Louisburg, Dover furnished a company, in which, as lieutenant, was Thomas Westbrook Wal- dron, great-grandson of the old major slain in the massacre of 1689, and the one who built the Waldron house, still standing on Second Street, and a company led by Capt. Samnel Hale. Old Dover furnished two companies for Crown Point, in 1755, and another the same year for Albany, under Paul Gerrish. In the expedition against Crown Point, in 1756, Samuel Ger- rish led one company, and brave John Titeomb another,-that John Titeomh who lived in the original building which grew into the Dover Hotel, and of whose descendants is the wife of Prof. John R. Var- ney. In 1757 the western part of Dover sent a com- pany, and John Titcomb commanded a second. It was part of this battalion which, after the surrender of Fort William Henry, was abandoned by Montcalm to the Indians, who killed eighty out of the one hundred and twenty New Hampshire men. Immediately old Dover furnished more men, and stout Maj. Thomas Tash led a battalion, the brave soldier who became a colonel in the war of the Revolution, whose great- grandson, George W. Tash, is now a citizen of Dover. John Titcomb was lieutenant-colonel of still another regiment raised in New Hampshire, on whose rolls were many Dover men. Col. Atkinson's regiment, for Canada in 1759, which served at the reduction of Fort Niagara, had Dover recruits. In Col. Goffe's regiment for the invasion of Canada, in 1760, was one company whose roll is full of Dover names. Dover men were at the capture of Ticonderoga, and in the reduction of Canada.


The muster-roll of Capt. Samuel Hale's company was preserved by his grandson, William Hale, of Dover, whose father, William Hale, was member of Congress, and the roll transferred to Nathaniel Low,


800


HISTORY OF STRAFFORD COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.


a captain in the recent war, great-grandson of Capt. Samuel Hale.


Belknap, speaking of the New Hampshire Volun- teers, says, " By the 17th of February two hundred and fifty men were enlisted for the service." New Hampshire furnished in all three hundred and fifty men, under command of Col. Samuel Moore; not in- cluding one hundred and fifty men raised in our province, but in the pay of Massachusetts. New Hampshire furnished one-eighth of the entire force raised in New England, a less proportion than at ! Bunker Hill, where more than one-half were from our State.


The paper is a regular muster-roll, made out for payment, with printed title, headings, and rules; the print occupying twelve inches in breadth and fifteen in height.


The printed title reads thus, a blank for name of captain being filled with the pen :


" A Muster-Roll of the Company in His Majesty's Service under the Command of Samuel Hale Captain.


Then come, on ruled columns, the following head- ings, and in the following order, the numbers being prefixed by us :


1. Men's Names.


2. Quality.


3. Of what Town.


4. Names of Fathers and Masters, of Sons under Age, and Servants.


5. Time of Entrance in the Service. Months. Days.


6. Till what Time in the Service. Months. Days.


7. Whole Time of Service. Weeks. Days.


8. Province Arms. Weeks.


9. The whole of Wages due to each Man.


10. What each Man received of the Commissary, etc.


11. Balance due to each Man.


In the first column there are fifty-three nanies, as below. The residences, when Dover, we omit.


The "Time of entrance in the Service" is given only in the case of the captain, but apparently is in- tended to include the whole company, viz., February 13th.


"Till what Time in the Service" is given in but twenty-two cases. These we note below.


"The whole of wages due to each Man" and " Bal- lance due to each Man" are blank.


A solitary indorsement on the outside says, " N.B. The prices of things in this Muster Roll are Set down in old Tenor. S. H."


Other items we note in each case :


Samuel Hale, Captain, Dover. Entrance Feb. 13. In the service till Octr 1,-32 weeks, 6 days. Received of the Commissary, 19 shil- lings, 6 pence. Moses Wingett, Lieutenant.


Clement Ham, Ensigu.


Eleazar Young, Sergeant.


Benjamin Lebby, Sergeant. a. Samuel Heard, Sergeant. a. c.


John Bussell, Sergeant.


John Giles, Corporal. a. c. Samuel Tihbets, Corporal. c.


Thomas Perkins, Corporal. Rochester.


Reuben Gray, Corporal. a.


John Hubbard, Drummer. Samuel Merrow, Rochester.


Jacob Bussell. Father John Bussell.


Ichabod Hill. a. d.


John Titcomb. c.


John Hussey.


Benjamin Stanton. Father Ben. Stanton. a. Josiah Clark. Father Josiah Clark. a.


R. Kenny Waldron. a.


Stephen Evans. Master Elilm Hayes. a.


Ebenezer Cook. c.


Joseph Abbot. Samuel Watson. c. Daniel Wingett.


Thomas Ash. b.


Archibald Smith.


Daniel Lebby. Master, David Daniels. a. d.


William Glidden.


John Forse. a.


William Thompson, Rochester.


Nicholas Grace. Master, William Gerrish. a. d.


Joseph Berrey. a.


Paul Nute.


Love Kenney. Morrice Fowler.


David Kinket. Master, Wm. Damm. a.


Zebulon Drue. c. John Gowell.


Richard Harris. a.


Jacob Hossom. a. c.


John Smith.


Thomas Roberts. Master, Samuel Roberts. a. d. Nathaniel Perkins. Master, Samuel Roberts. a. d.


D. Henry Sleeper. Portsmouth. Master, Joseph Buss.


D. Sam. Indian, Portsmouth. Master, Richard Salter.


D. Samuel Hunt [Huntress on another slip], Portsmouth.


D. Eliphalet Ring, Portsmouth.


D. Joseph Nelson, Portsmouth. Master, Charles Hoit.


D. Jonathan Stoodley, Portsmouth.


D. George Damm. Portsmouth. Master Solo- mon [? Reede].


D. Theophilus Damm, Newington.


Benjamin Bunker, Clerk, Durham. a. Louisburg, Octr 1st, 1745.


Errors Excepted.


Sam11 Hale.


Wm Wi ..... .... Commissary.


801


DOVER


a. In service until October 1,-32 weeks, 6 days.


b. In service until May 20,-13 weeks, 5 days.


c. Received of the Commissary, one pair of Moga- sons.


d. Received of the Commissary, one pound four shillings.


D. "Dranghted Men."


It was through such conflicts that these genera- tions were prepared for the war of the Revolution.


CHAPTER CXVII.


DOVER .- (Continued.)


The Revolutionary War .- The sympathies of Dover in the Revolutionary struggle were almost without exception upon the patriotic side. It had few office holders tosympathize with their employers. The teachings of Rev. Jeremy Belknap from the pulpit were bold and inspiring.


The first utterance which is found from Dr. Belk- nap bearing upon the subject which was beginning to enlist the thoughts of our fathers occurs in a ser- mon which he preached Nov. 10, 1772, before His Majesty's Governor, John Wentworth, Esq., at a re- view of the Second Regiment of Foot in Dover. New Hampshire had been inured to military service through its long period of war with the Indians. An old law required every male inhabitant from sixteen to sixty years of age to own a musket, bayonet, knapsack, cartridge-box, one pound of powder, twenty bullets, and twelve flints. This militia was organized into companies and regiments, and subject to frequent drills. The muster-day and the review was a great occasion. Dover was a centre of this military stir. At this gathering here in November, 1772, the royal Governor, John Wentworth, came up from Ports- mouth. Capt. Walderne, a member of this church, and a staunch friend of his pastor, had invited Dr. Belknap to preach to the troops. The subject chosen by the preacher was " Military Duty." In the course of the sermon he spoke as follows on the necessity of self-defense :


" IIas the all-wise and merciful Parent of the uni- verse furnished the brute and reptile creation with the necessary instruments of defense, and does the instinct which he has implanted in them prompt them to make use of these weapons for their own subsist- ence and security ? and has He not implanted in man- kind a natural courage or martial spirit and given them skill and power to provide themselves with all the necessary instruments of defense, and can it be supposed that we must make no use of these gifts of nature, even when Providence points out the neces- sity ? Do we guard our fields from devouring beasts, our houses and bodies from the rigors of the weather, and shall we not have the privilege of defending our


lives, our liberties, our property, our families, our civil government from hostile invaders? Must we tamely yield to every lawless usurper and suffer tyrants to sport with the lives and estates of man- kind? Must all these laws, which the wisdom and experience of ages have founded, must the sacred bonds of society, the peace, the welfare, the happiness of mankind be sacrificed to the impetuous rage of a foreign conqueror ? Forbid it, reason and conscience ; forbid it, ye heroic worthies of old, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of liars, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens."


The officers of the Second Regiment of Foot were so pleased with this address that they asked a copy for the press.


The General Assembly of New Hampshire was in session in May this year, 1774. Conformably to the proceedings of the Assemblies of other colonies, the representatives in this province appointed a Commit- tee of Correspondence. Governor Wentworth inter- fered. He adjourned the Assembly. The members met again. The Governor with a sheriff came among them. He declared their meeting illegal. The sheriff made proclamation for all persons to disperse and keep the king's peace. The members met again, and determined to send letters to all the towns and parishes in the province, requesting them to send deputies to a convention at Exeter, who should choose delegates to a General Congress to meet at Phila- delphia. This was the first movement for rallying the whole of the people of New Hampshire in the great contest. Attached to this most important letter to the several towns was this brief proclamation : "Considering the Distressing situation of our public affairs, Thursday, the 14th inst., is recommended to be kept as a day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer through this Province."


The day was observed here in Dover with special religious solemnity. On that occasion, July 14, 1774, Dr. Belknap preached a sermon which bears this title, "On Account of the Difficulties of the King." The text was from 1 Sam. viii. 18: " And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you ; and the Lord will not hear yon in that day." A most pertinent text. In this sermon he says :


" It is, my brethren, a very dark day to these Amer- ican colonies. Burdens and taxes are laid upon us by the Parliament of Great Britain, and the most forcible attempts are made to bring us to a submis- sion, and what further is intended we know not, but we have reason to fear much, considering how highly they are incensed against us, and what power they have to carry their determination into execution. . .. When a ruler departs from these principles, and sets up any other rule of government than the laws and




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