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Oliver Thones, 14th Regt .; enl. Aug. 5, 1864; not officially accounted for.
James H. Robinson, corp., Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862; disch. Ang. 13, 1863.
George R. Russell, sergt., Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862; disch. Ang. 13, 1863.
Josiah Morris, sergt., Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862; disch. Aug. 13, 1863.
Lorenzo D. Cate, Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862; disch. Aug. 13, 1863.
Frank A. Colby, Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862; died, date un- known.
Frank W. Gould, Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862; disch. Aug. 13, 1863.
James F. Hazeltine, Co. E, 15th Regt. ; ent. Oct. 9, 1862; disch. Aug. 13, 1863.
Edward Hemmel, Co. E, 15th Regt .; en1. Oct. 9, 1862; disch. Ang. 13, 1863.
George B. Lane, Co. E, 15thi Regt .; enl. Oct. 17, 1862; disch. Aug. 13, 1863.
Lewis W. Sinclair, Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862; died July 25, 1863.
Marcus MI. Tuttle, Co. E, 15thi Regt .; enl. Oct. 15, 1862 ; deserted, date unknown.
Mark Carr, Co. A, 1st Cav .; enl. April 14, 1864; pro. to sergt .; disch. March 20, 1865, on account of wounds.
Joseph W. Chuse, Co. B, Ist Cav. ; enl. March 24, 1864; cap. Jnoe 29, 1864 ; no discharge given.
George Yonng, Co. B, Ist Cav. ; enl. April 14, 1864; deserted April 17, 1864.
David E. Brown, Co. C, Ist Cov .; enl. April 5, 1864 ; diech. July 15, 1865. Horace S. Flanders, let Co. HI. Art. ; enl. July 22, 1863 ; disch. Sept. 11, 1865.
John H. Carr, Ist U. S. S. S., Co. E, corp .; enl. Sept. 9, 1861 ; pro. to sergt. Jan. 29, 1863; Sept. 20, 1863.
Charles O. Copp, Co. C, 11th Regt .; en]. Ang. 21, 1862; pro. to corp. May 1, 1865; disch. June 4, 1865.
Andrew Jackson, -, U. S. C. T. ; enl. Ang. 24, 1864 ; no record here of him.
William Burrows, enl, Ang. 23, 1864; company and regiment unknown. John J. Stallard, enl. Ang. 23, 1864 ; company and regiment unknown. John E. Dunbar, enl. Aug. 10, 1864; company aod regiment unknown. James Miller, eal. Aug. 11, 1864 ; company and regimeot unknown.
Simon Brown, en1. Aug. 13, 1864 ; company and regiment unknown.
Thomas Morrison, enl. Sept. 1, 1863; company and regiment unknown, James Tracey, enl. Jan. 4, 1865; company and regiment unknown.
William Desell, Co. A, 5th Regt .; enl. Aug. 26, 1864; disch. June 28. 1865.
William Barrows, Co. H, 5th Regt .; enl. Aug. 23, 1864 ; des. gained from desertion ; disch. June 14, 1863.
E. B. W. Stevens, Co. 1, 5th Regt .; enl. Sept. 18, 1862; killed July 2, 1863.
Jonathan S. Rowe, Co. I, 5th Regt .; eal. Sept. 18, 1862; missing Dec. 13, 1862.
James Maloney, Co. F, 2d Regt. ; enl. Oct. 5, 1864]; deserted Feb. 4, 1865. William Fisher, Co. I 2d Regt .; enl. Dec. 2, 1863; deserted Feb. 3, 1864. Ambrose E. Rowell, Co. B, 3d Regt .; enl. Feb. 22, 1864; pro. to sergt .; disch. July 20, 1865.
George W. Bean, Co. B, 7th Regt. ; enl. Dec. 17, 1861 ; pro. to corp. June 12, 1862; sergt. Dec. 22, 1864; disch. July 20, 1865.
George A. Robinson, Co. B, 7th Regt. : eal. Sept. 17, 1862; disch. June 28, 1865.
Charles Hall, Co. B, 11th Regt .; enl Dec. 18, 1863.
Nat Wolf, Co. II, 11th Regt .; enl. Dec. 18, 1863.
James McKee, 11th Regt; enl. Dec. 19, 1863.
Andrew l'. White, Ilth Regt .; enl. Dec. 19, 1863.
Henry Harkins, 11th Regt. ; enl. Aug. 19, 1864.
John F. Brown, Co. I, 11th Regt .; enl. Feb. 14, 1865; trans. to 6th N. H. V .; disch. July 17, 1865.
Lonis Douche, Co. K, Ist Cav .; enl. March 8, 1865; disch. July 15, 1865. John F. Dudley, Co. E, 2d Regt .; enl. Jnoe 3, 1861; pro. to sergt. Aug.
1, 1862; disch. June 21, 1864.
Freeman Stockman, Co. C, 6th Regt .; enl. Nov. 27, 1861 ; dischi. May 18, 1863.
John W. Clark, Co. H, 7thi Regt. ; eol. April 13, 1864; absent sick July 20, 1865 ; no discharge furnished.
Josiah Norris, sergt., Co. E, 15th Regt .; enl. Oct. 9, 1862 ; disch. Aug. 13, 1863.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ROBERT ROWE.
Robert Rowe was born in Brentwood, N. H., June 12, 1810. He is descended from one Robert Rowe, who resided in Kensington, N. H., prior to 1739. This original Robert was a farmer. He had twelve children, ten sons and two daughters ; he was a cap- tain of militia, and it may be mentioned as a remark- able fact that at one time all of his ten sons were members of his militia company. One of his sons was named Robert, born in Kensington in 1726, mar- ried in 1749 a Miss Abigail Tilton. They had two sons and two daughters,-Robert and Simon, Lovey and Aphia. He also was a farmer, and came to Brentwood between 1739 and 1749, and settled on the farm which the present Robert now owns. He was many years deacon of the Congregational Church, and was very rigid in his behavior and deportment, par- ticularly so in his observance of the Sabbath. He was selectman of his town, and held varions other town offices. Simon, his son, was born in Brentwood 1751, and in 1776 married Mary Morrison, of Haver- hill, Mass. Their children were Jonathan, Simon, David, Benjamin, Anna, and Miriam. The last named of the sons is still living in Gilford, N. H. He (Simon) was a farmer, and died in the prime of life. Jonathan, his eldest son, was born in Brent- wood, 1777 ; he married, in 1805, Anna Robinson,
Robert Roue
SAMUEL MORRILL.
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daughter of Joseph Robinson, of Brentwood. They had three sons,-Robert, whose portrait appears in connection with this sketch ; Simon, born March 28, 1806; and Joseph, born Aug. 6, 1813. Jonathan was a farmer and surveyor; he was also a teacher of music, and for many years a teacher in the common schools. He led the choir in the Baptist Church forty consecutive years. In politics he was a Fed- eralist and Whig, was selectman many years, and was one of the prominent local men of his day. He died 1845, his widow surviving him. The present ! Robert Rowe received whatever educational advan- tages the district schools of his town could furnish, and in addition to this private instruction from his father, under whose tutelage he learned surveying and other branches not then taught in the common schools. He resided on the farm with his father until his seven- teenth year, when he apprenticed himself to one John Fifield to learn carpentering. This apprenticeship continued three years, when young Rowe went to Lynn, Mass., where he worked at his trade three summers, returning home during the winter months and manufacturing clap-boards, having introduced the first machine for that purpose ever used in the town of Brentwood. He continued this business winters and carpentering summers a few years, when he started business where he now continues. He began by manufacturing clap-boards, shingles, doors, sash, and blinds ; this he followed several years, when he added the manufacture of wheels. The business has now grown to large proportions, and under the firm;name of Robert Rowe & Sons they manufacture wheels, bodies, seats, and gears. They employ from fifteen to twenty workmen, and their sales amount to twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars per year. He married, Dec. 25, 1834, Sally T., daughter of Henry Sinclair, of Brentwood ; she was born Sept. 18, 1813. Their children are Harriet E. (deceased), wife of Aaron Brown, of Fremont; she died leaving one daughter named Nellie. Jonathan S., who enlisted in Company I, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers, and lost his life at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va .; James H., Joseph R., and George R. These three sons are in business with their father, and as an evi- dence of the standing of the family in the community, it may be stated that the father and each of the three sons is an incumbent of some town office. In politics Mr. Rowe has always been an outspoken Democrat. Belonging to the weaker political party, he has fre- quently been chosen as its candidate for county offices, and always ran ahead of his ticket, thus showing con- clusively the esteem in which he is held by his fellow- citizens. He is a trustee of the Swampscot Savings- Bank of Exeter, and has been from its organization. He is an attendant and supporter of the Baptist Church, and has been through life an enterprising, industrious, persevering man, conscientious in his dealings, economical in his habits, sincere in his friend- ships, unassuming in his manners; with a justifi-
able and commendable pride of character and family, he stands a representative of the better type of New England's worthy manbood. Of his three living sons, James H., born Sept. 1, 1844, married, August, 1868, Emma P., daughter of David Little. They have two children, Annie and John M. Joseph R., born Jan. 1, 1846, married, Sept. 6, 1871, Abby, daughter of John R. Robinson. They have one child, Lillian. George R., born Feb. 22, 1849, married, July 3, 1870, Betsy J., daughter of Lewis B. Gordon. They have two children, George Russell and Robert G.
SAMUEL MORRILL.
Samuel Morrill is descended from one Abram Mor- rill, who came from England to Boston, and belonged to what was then called the "Honorable Artillery." William Morrill, Esq., grandfather of Samuel, was born 1735. He was a farmer ; was a Federalist in politics. Married Lydia Trask ; they had eight chil- dren, viz .: Abram, William, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Nancy, Sarah, Eleanor, and --. He died Jan. 28, 1812. William Morrill, his son, was born in 1768 ; was reared on farm ; was twice married, first to Mary Gordon, born 1768, died May 26, 1799. They had four children,-Nathaniel, born July 23, 1791, died Nov. 3, 1791; Dolly,-born April 6, 1794, married Samuel Dudley, died July 30, 1832; Zebedee, born July 10, 1796, married Lucy Potter, died Oct. 18, 1854; and Mary, born April 25, 1798, married Capt. John Fifield, died Oct. 4, 1861.
Capt. William Morrill married for his second wife Elizabeth Dudley, born 1775, died 1865. They had seven children, viz. : Sally Dudley, born April 25, 1798, married Henry Marshall ; Samuel, born March 29, 1803 ; John Dudley, born July 25, 1805, married, first, Lavinia Robinson, second, Ruth Stevens, died July 10, 1875; Anna, born July 20, 1807, died Dec. 30, 1869; William, born April 2, 1810, married Mary Ann Tuck, Dec. 20, 1838, died Nov. 7, 1842; Wash- ington, born Jan. 3, 1813 ; Frederick, born Ang. 24, 1815, married Mrs. Annie Hungerford, died Dec. 29, I872.
Capt. William Morrill derives his title from having been captain of a militia company. In politics he was a Whig; he held the various town offices in his time, and was a member of the Congregational Church. He died Aug. 22, 1838. William Morrill, Jr., had three children,-Catharine Louisa, born Nov. 5, 1839; Marietta, born March 31, 1841; William Henry, born Oct. 5, 1842, was a member of Company E, Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, and lost his life in the battle of Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862, aged nineteen years.
Samuel Morrill, whose portrait appears herewith, grew to manhood on the farm with his father, receiv- ing only such educational advantages as the schools of his native town afforded. At the age of twenty- one he left the paternal home and went to Gilford,
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N. H., and engaged in farming, remaining there about twenty years. He married Miss Lydia Sanborn, of Brentwood, born December, 1802. They have two children,-Chester C., born Aug. 3, 1827, and Caroline F., born July, 1831. Chester C. married Arvilla O. Robinson, daughter of Jonathan Robinson, and re- sides now in Sparta, Wis.
Mr. Morrill is a Republican in politics, and was representative to Legislature in 1851-52. Has held various town offices, and stands high in the respect and esteem of his acquaintances. He is spending life's autumn at the old homestead, which has been in the possession of the family more than ninety years.
JONATHAN MORRILL.
Jonathan Morrill is eighth in line of descent from Abraham Morrill, who emigrated from England and settled in the town of Salisbury, Mass., about the year 1660. He was one of the pioneers of that ancient settlement, a man of sterling character, and noted for his many virtues. Jonathan Morrill was, born May 28, 1786, in Brentwood, N. H. He received a fairly liberal education for that day, and as he grew up to manhood developed in a marked degree the many virtues for which his ancestors had been noted. He was a farmer, and also for several years was engaged in manufacturing carding-machines for carding wool. He held the office of selectman thirteen years, between the years 1818 and 1845, and also other town offices. He represented Brentwood in the Legislature .two years, and was elected to the State Senate in 1843 and 1844. Mr. Morrill was an enterprising and pub- lic-spirited citizen, honest and upright in all his deal- ings, and highly esteemed for his sterling worth and the strict integrity of his character. In politics he was a Democrat. He died leaving behind him one daughter, Sarah M., born May 27, 1834, died May, 1880. She was a very intelligent lady, and among other effects left at her death quite an interesting and extensive cabinet of natural curiosities and an- tiquarian specimens.
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Justus J. Bean, who inserts accompanying portrait and pays this tribute to the memory of Jonathan Morrill, was born in Danville, N. H., Jan. 28, 1830. He resided there until about six years of age, then went to Raymond, where he remained a while; thence to Fremont, where he lived till the age of twenty-one. He lived with Albert Brown fifteen years, then came to live with Esq. Morrill, and remained with him to the time of the old gentleman's demise. Upon the death of Mr. Morrill his property descended to his daughter, and a few years later she, dying childless, rewarded the constancy Mr. Bean had shown to the family by bequeathing to him the entire estate, valued at several thousand dollars.
SAMUEL PRESCOTT.
Samuel Prescott was born Nov. 10, 1809. His father was Jeremiah Prescott, who was a farmer, and who lived and owned the land where the county farm is now located. He was twice married, and had seven children by first wife and two by latter, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Chase. Samuel was one of the children by this second marriage. His father died when he was about seven years of age, and the family being left in poor circumstances, Samuel at the tender age of eight years stepped from under the ancestral roof to seek and carve his own fortune. ' He passed through many vicissitudes and changed his home many times before he arrived at the age of man- hood. He managed, however, to secure a fair educa- tion at the common schools of his town, and on Jan. 15, 1838, he married Mary E., daughter of Eliphalet Robinson, of Brentwood. She was born Dec. 10, 1818, and they were married by Rev. John Gunnison. Im- mediately after his marriage he went to Newport, Me., and engaged in farming. His health became very poor, however, and after four or five years he gave up farming. IIe lived in Maine about fourteen years, then returned to his native town and engaged in farming, milling, and also occasionally worked at carriage-building. Their children were as follows: James B., born Oct 8, 1838; Samuel C., born April 10, 1843, died Dec. 3, 1854; Mary E., born Oct. 31, 1849; an infant, born June 16, 1859, died a few weeks later; Howard L., born April 11, 1864. James B. married Hannah D. Clifford, in Boston, Dec. 29, 1860. They have one child, George B., born Aug. 2, 1862. Mary E. married Charles Snyder, of New York City, Nov. 24, 1870, in Brentwood, by Rev. C. D. Sweatt. Children . Charles B., born June 19, 1872, and Byron P., born Sept. 27, 1874. Charles Snyder was born Oct. 8, 1837, in New York City. When he grew up he learned carpentering, and engaged in business with a partner. They were for a time very successful, but just prior to the civil war, when the great financial panic came and nearly all business in New York was suspended, he closed out his shop. Nothing better offering, he enlisted in the Metropolitan police force. In about a year he was appointed to the position of detective, and shortly after to roundsman. After a year or two he was appointed sergeant of police, which position he held to the time of his death, which occurred very suddenly from paralysis. He died in New York City, Nov. 12, 1880, and was brought to and interred in Brentwood Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Prescott reside with their daughter, Mrs. Snyder, at the old homestead, and to Mrs. Snyder's credit be it said she surrounds them with all the comforts and conveniences calculated to make their remaining days pass as pleasantly as possible.
She has two promising boys, and is giving them the advantages of an education, reasoning rightly that it is the best legacy she can bequeath them.
Jonathan Marvel
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CANDIA.
CHAPTER XX. CANDIA.1
Geographicsl-Topographical-Names of Early Settlers-Bounds of the Town-First Town Meeting-Officers Elected-Documentary History -Ecclesiastical History-Free-Will Baptist Church-Methodist Epis- copal Church-Educational-Early Roads-College Graduates-Mili- tary History.
THE town of Candia lies in the western part of the county, and is bounded as follows : On the north by Deerfield; on the east by Raymond: on the south by Chester and Auburn; and on the west by Merrimac County. The surface of the town is elevated, and the soil hard of cultivation.
The town of Candia was settled in about 1743. Among the pioneers were Daniel MeClune, William Turner, Benjamin Smith, Winthrop Wells, John, Theophilus, and Jacob Sargent, Dr. Samuel Moore, Enoch Rowell, and Obededom Hull. William Turner purchased his lot in 1741, and there is a tradition that his daughter Sarah was the first white child born in the town.
A petition was presented to the General Assembly, dated March 22, 1763, praying to be set off as a dis- tinct parish, signed by the following persons, who probably constituted most of the voters in town : Benjamin Bachelder, Samuel Moores, Jonathan Hills, Samuel Towle, Nicklus Smith, Jonathan Towle, Na- th' Ingalls, Theophilus Clough, John Karr, Thomas Chretchet, Samuel Eastman, John Clay, Moses Baker, Theop. Sargent, Stephen Webster, Joseph Smith, Jeremiah Bean, Zebedee Berry, Phineas Towle, Wil- liam Turner, Winthrop Wells, Abraham Fitts, Sher- burn Rowe, Asel Quimby, Gilman Dudley, Zachariah Clifford, Enoch Colby, Moses Smart, Nath1 Emerson, John Sargent, Jonathan Bean, Benj. Smith, James McClure, Stephen Palmer, Jacob Sargent, Ichabod Robie, Elisha Bean, David Hills.
The prayer was granted and a charter given, dated Dec. 17, 1763. The boundaries were as follows :
" Beginning at the North East Corner of said Parish, on the Line of the Township of Nottingham at a Hemlock tree, at the head of the Old Hundred-acre Lotts; then runs Sonth twenty Nine Degrees West, join- ing to said lotts as they are Entered on the Proprietors' Records, about four miles to a stake and stones; then West North West to a Maple Tree, being the North East bounds of the Lott Number forty-three, io the Second part of the Second Division, and continuing the same course by towerhill pond to a stake and stones, what completes five miles and a half upon this course; then North Twenty Nine Degrees East to a Pitch Pine, which is the South West Boundary of the Eighty acre lott in the Third Division, Number one hundred twenty-three; then North twenty Nine Degrees East to Nottingham Line, and then on that Line to the Hemlock Tree first mentioned."
Samuel Emerson, Esq., was appointed to call the first meeting. The meeting was holden March 13, 1764.
Moderator, Dr. Samuel Moores. Parish Clerk, Dr. Samnel Moores. Constable, Winthrop Wells.
1 Condensed from Rev. Benjamin Chase's excellent "History of Chester."
Selectmen, Lieut. Benjamin Bachelder, Jolın Sar- gent, Jeremiah Bean.
Tythingman, John Clay.
Surveyors of Highways, Lieut. Samuel Towl, Moses Baker, Elisha Bean, Zebedee Berry.
Fence-Viewers, Matthew Ramsey, Stephen Web- ster.
Hawards, Stephen Palmer, Moses Smart.
Deer Inspectors, Theophilus Clough, Jonathan Bean.
Committee to Examine the Selectmen's Accompts, Stephen Webster, Walter Robie, Nathaniel Emerson. On the first leaf of the old records is the following:
" A Parish Book of Records, No. 1, Kept by Samnel Moores, Esq., from the Incorporation of said Parish np to October, 1793, and st his Decease succeeded by Samuel Moores, Jr., and kept until March, 1798; and then by Walter Robis, Esq .. until March, 1806; and then by Richard Emer- son until the month of October, 1806, when he Deceased; and then by John Lane until March, 1820; and then by Peter Eaton until March, 1831; and then by Frederick Fitts until March, 1832; and then by S. A. Sargent until March, 1836; and then by Dr. Samuel Sargent until Feb. 1840."
The old book closed in 1807.
The selectmen the first year charge: "Paid Asahel Quimby for a constable's staff, £4." This was old tenor, equal to about sixty-seven cents. The staff is now in possession of Edmund Hills, Esq. It is of hard wood, abont eighteen inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter, stained black, with a pewter ferule about three inches long on one end. It was a badge of office.
The town was formerly called Charmingfare, the first visitors being so well pleased with its site as a place of residence. It received its present name in honor of Governor Benning Wentworth, who was once a pris- oner on the Isle of Candia in the Mediterranean Sea.
Building the Meeting-House .- At a meeting of the parish, held Sept. 8, 1766,
" Voted, to build a meeting House.
" Voted, that the meeting house Shall be set on or near the North west corner of the Parsonage lot, so called.
" Voted, that the meeting house frame Shall be Begun upon the 22 Day of this instant September; John Clay, Walter Robie, Esq., Benja. Cass, Moses Baker, Jonathan Bean, Nathıl. Emerson, and Abraham Fitts, a Committee."
They voted to raise sixty pounds, to be paid in work at two shillings and sixpence per day for com- mon hands, or in lumber, and to hire workmen, etc., the frame to be completed by the last day of October. If any did not pay in work or lumber the constable was to collect it in money. The honse was to be forty-five feet wide and fifty-five feet long. Five ponnds lawful money was voted to be raised, to be used by the committee, if needed.
At a meeting, Oct. 20, 1766,
" Voted, that the Selectmen shall Assess a Sufficient Sum to finish the meeting house Fraim.
" Voted, That there Be Provided for Raising Supper, Codfish, Potatoes, and Butter."
At a meeting, Feb. 5, 1767, it was voted to sell the pew-ground for the wall pews, and William Baker,
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Dr. Samuel Moores, and William Turner were chosen a committee to sell it, and take care that the frame | be boarded, shingled, and underpinned. The pew- ground was sold Feb. 19, 1767.
Sept. 17, 1767, it was voted "to sell the ground for six more pews behind the men's and women's seats, ; the negative."
in order to finish the outside of the meeting-house this fall as far as said pew-ground will go." It was soll Oct. 1, 1767. The purchase was to be paid in mer- chantable pine boards at eighteen shillings per thou- sand, and shingles at seven shillings per thousand, by the first day of June. The second sale, the same articles at the market price.
Nov. 23, 1767, it was voted "that the meeting-house shall be glazed this fall, as soon as may be conveniently done by way of assessment," and liberty was given to cut timber on the parsonage and school lots to make red-oak hogshead staves to defray the expense, " to be three feet eight inches long, and delivered at the meeting-house by the tenth day of February next."
Aug. 28, 1769, voted that the meeting-house com- mittee build the men's and women's seats in the meet- ing-house.
June 15, 1773, voted that there shall be a pulpit built in six months. Jonathan Bagley dissented.
Feb. 21. 1775, it was voted to sell ground for pews in the gallery to the highest bidder, and the finishing the meeting-house to the lowest bidder.
March 9, 1779, "Voted that the Seats Shall be made in the Galleries, and the Brest work lined this season."
July 21, 1783, it was voted " that ye Brest work and seats in the Galleries in the meeting house be Built the Present Year." The committee "Shall Build a pew in the front Galleries, from Pillar to Pillar, for the use of Singers."
March 29, 1796, the question was taken about build- ing a steeple and porch, and negatived, fifty-two to fifty-nine, but a vote was passed to give up the stair- way and sell it for pew-ground, to go towards build- ing a steeple and porch, provided a sufficient number of inen can be found to build the rest of the steeple and porch. They were built.
March 9, 1802, it was voted to raise one hundred and twenty-five dollars to be annexed to what is sub- scribed towards purchasing a bell. It seems that Maj. Samuel Moore had purchased a weathercock of Mr. Jones, of Newburyport, and had failed to pay him ; in 1802 the town voted to pay him.
The old house was burned Jan. 25, 1828, and the present one built the same year.
Hiring and Settling Ministers .- In the select- men's account for 1764 is an item, " Paid John Clay for hoarding the minister, £4."
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