History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 42

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


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His life has been a very active one, and it is char- acteristic of him that whatever he undertakes to do !


he does thoroughly. He is strict in the performance of his duty, but withal a kind-hearted man and warm friend, honest and honorable. He is an attendant of the Congregational Church, of which Mrs. Sawyer is a member. Mr. Sawyer's sons left home for Dubuque, Iowa, in 1874, where they remained about two years. The youngest traveled quite extensively in a business capacity, but both are now settled at Lead City, Dak., ness. The daughter has attended Packer Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y., but is now at home.


As the territory of Derry formed a large and im- portant part of "Nutfield," or Old Londonderry, its history, down to the time when division became a ne- cessity, is to be found in connection with that town. Derry was incorporated July 2, 1827. Prior to that time the town-meetings had been held alternately at the East and West Parish Meeting-houses with equal division of the offices. It was found, however, that the large size of the town made it very inconvenient to attend the town-meetings. The East Parish there- fore called for a division, the West opposed it; but after a short, sharp, but decisive contest the New Hampshire Legislature divided the town. In the autumn of 1827 a meeting was held, officers were chosen, and the new town put upon its course. The basis of division gave to Derry three-fifths of the valuation of the old town and three-fifths of the population. The number of inhabitants in Derry at that time was about twenty-two hundred, and al- though there has been no increase great advance has been made in the material interests of the people. Many elegant and costly houses have been built, the large number of fine farms in town greatly improved, and evidence is seen on every hand of the general prosperity and wealth that attend upon intelligence, labor, and capital.


The Pinkerton Academy in Londonderry was founded by the brothers Maj. John and Elder James Pinkerton, sons of John Pinkerton, who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Londonderry in 1738 or 1739, "the Scotchman who passed over from Scotland to Ireland, and after the battle of the Boyne emigrated to New Hampshire, introduced the culture of the potato and flax and the manufacture of linen, both thread, sheeting, and diaper." John and James Pinkerton were for fifty years leading merchants of that region. "They were both men of more than ordinary financial ability, uniting in their character Scotch prudence and stability with Yankee enterprise.


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They were distinguished, moreover, by their strict entered upon his duties as preceptor of the academy in October, 1819, and resigned in 1846. He died in Somerville, Mass., Oct. 6, 1864, aged seventy-one years. moral and religious principles and habits." These gentlemen contributed as permanent funds of the academy fourteen thousand five hundred dollars, which afterwards accumulated to sixteen thousand. Space is not allowed to give the honored names of gentlemen who have successively and nobly filled the | office of preceptor or assistant in this school, nor of the long list of students who have received their earlier education here. Several thousands is their number. Very many of them have been greatly A charter was obtained June 15, 1814, and the school opened in December, 1815. An act of incorporation was secured " by the name of the Pinkerton Academy in Londonderry." This name was afterwards changed to "Pinkerton Academy." It was given "for the purpose of promoting piety and virtue, and for the ; useful in the different walks of life; a large propor- education of youth in such of the liberal arts and Sciences or Languages as the Trustees hereinafter provided shall direct."


The trustees named and appointed by the act of incorporation were "the Rev. William Morrison, John Pinkerton, Jr., Esquire, John Burnham, Es- quire, Isaac Thorn, Esquire, Deacon James Pinkerton, Rev. Edward L. Parker, John Porter, Esquire, Alan- 1 son Tueker, Esquire, and Doetor Robert Bartley, all


successively as vacancies oeeurred thirty-one other gentlemen, including usually the ministers for the time of the original East and West Parishes of Old Londonderry, and of the Congregational society in the village, also those of Windham and Chester and of some other towns more distant, and with these a considerable proportion of laymen, who have from the beginning rendered essential service to the in- stitution and the interest which it is designed to promote.


The first president was Elder or Deacon (for he was called by both titles) James Pinkerton, the younger of the original fonnders. Then followed, in 1819, Rev. Edward L. Parker, the minister of the East Parish. In 1822, Rev. Daniel Dana, then minister of the West Parish, and afterwards president of Dart- mouth College. Dr. Dana was succeeded in 1826 by Hon. William M. Richardson, of Chester, long the chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Rev. John H. Church, D.D., of Pelham, became president in 1838, and Rev. Edward L. Parker, the second time, in 1840. On the deeease of Mr. Parker, in 1850, John Porter, Esq., of Derry, "an eminent jurist," was chosen his successor. In 1858, Samuel' H. Taylor, LL.D., of Andover, Mass .; in 1871, John M. Pinkerton, Esq., of Boston; and in 1881, Rev. Ebenezer G. Parsons, of Derry, were successively elected to the office on the demise of their predeces- sors.


The first preceptor was Samuel Burnham, Esq., who had been teacher of a classical school many years in the Upper or East Village. Mr. Burnham resigned in 1818. Mr. Weston B. Adams was pre- ceptor one year, and was followed by the most re- nowned of the teachers who have successively filled this ehair, Abel Fletcher Hildreth. Mr. Hildreth was born in 1793, fitted for college at Phillips' Exeter Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1818. He


tion of them have been eminent in the professions or pursuits in which they have engaged. One hundred and thirty of them are included in the roll of honor reported at the semi-centennial anniversary, which gives the names of former members of the school who served in the late war, and of whom many laid down their lives for their country.


Pinkerton Academy was originally a mixed school. This arrangement continued until the opening of the of said Londonderry." To these have been added ' Adams Female Academy in the Upper Village, now East Derry. It was then changed into a boys' school, and remained such till 1853, when it was again opened to both sexes. The ladies who were here educated in the earlier times have mostly passed away. But their education did much to make them the intelligent and noble women they were, and to fit them to exert a re- fining and quickening influence upon their families and the communities of which they formed so influ- ential a part.


The semi-centennial anniversary of this institution was celebrated Sept. 12, 1866, by special services com- memorative of its founding, history, and influence. The citizens of Derry and Londonderry engaged in it with zeal. A great crowd of the members and friends were present, including a number of those who were members of the school in its earliest years.


The chair was taken by S. II. Taylor, LL.D., of Andover, Mass., president of the board of trustees, who, after prayer by Rev. P. B. Day, D.D., of Hollis, made the opening address. This was followed by an oration by Rev. James T. McCollom, of Medford, Mass.


The audience having listened with intense interest to the address and oration, sang together a psalm of thanksgiving, beginning, " Bless, O my Soul, the liv- ing God," when other gentlemen who were connected with the academy at different periods gave, with de- lightful effeet, reminiscences of the times when they were pupils here.


Among the older alumni who made addresses were Lient .- Governor George Washington Patterson, of the State of New York, Rev. William C. Dana, D.D., of Charleston, S. C., Hon. Gerry W. Cochrane, of Bos- ton, Hon. Daniel S. Richardson, of Lowell, Hon. Elias Hasket Derby, of Boston, and many others of more recent connection with the school. The pro- ceedings of the day were published in a neat pam- phlet, under the direction of the trustees, entitled


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" Semi-Centennial of Pinkerton Academy." The oc- casion was most thoroughly enjoyed, and was a solid benefit to the institution.


The permanent funds of the academy, derived from the bequests of the brothers John and James Pinker- ton, amounted, in the year 1848, to sixteen thousand one liundred and eighty-five dollars and eighteen cents ($16,185.18), of which not a dollar is known to have been lost. This sum, mainly by judicious invest- ments and a prosperous school, has become twenty thousand dollars. It was provided in the deeds of gift by the original donors that the surplus income of any year shall be added to the permanent funds. With the means in their hands the trustees have been enabled, during the sixty-seven years of the existence of this institution, to contribute very greatly to the best interests of the communities around it and of the world by " the promotion of piety and virtue" in the country and the thousands of youth who have re- sorted hither and received their early " education in liberal arts and sciences and languages."


A recent princely bequest of two hundred thousand dollars to the funds of the academy by John Morison Pinkerton, Esq., of Boston, son of the younger of the original founders, a trustee since 1850, and president from 1871 until his death, makes it desirable that The present trustees (1882) are Rev. E. G. Parsons, president; William Anderson, Esq., treasurer ; Rev. David Bremner, Rev. Benjamin F. Parsons, secretary ; Rev. Robert Haskins, Rev. Charles Tenney, Nathan B. Prescott, Esq., William G. Means, Esq., John P. Newell, Esq. some notice be given here of so eminent a benefactor. He was born in Derry, N. H., Feb. 6, 1818, and died Feb. 6, 1881. He fitted for college at the academy, graduated from Yale in 1841, was a teacher two years in Lunenburg County, Va., pursued the study of law in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Wil- Adams Female Academy .-- This is the first acad- emy in New Hampshire that received incorporation from the Legislature as an institution for the educa- tion of young ladies alone. They had been allowed the privileges of the Pinkerton Academy for a few years after its establishment, but when a change was made allowing only males to attend the school the citizens thought best to have an academy where their daughters as well could get a suitable education. Hence the origin of the Adams Female Academy. A classical school had been taught for several years previous in a building erected about 1793, on the liam Gray, Esq., and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1846. In the same year he united with the Mount Vernon Congregational Church, under the pastorate of Rev. Edward N. Kirk, D.D. Those who knew him best say " he made religion of his business and busi- ness of his religion." His own words to a friend but two or three days before his death are the expression of his own most serious thoughts: "There is nothing that seems so desirable as moral and spiritual worth, which makes a man love to do things which flesh and pride and covetousness hate to do, and never will do. This power comes from on high, and can be had if .East Parish Meeting-house common, near the ceme- wanted in dead earnest."


His hand of charity and benevolence was always open. During the later years of his life his gifts to these objects exceeded one-third of his net income. Mr. Pinkerton was a profound student of the Bible and of all within his reach that could illustrate its meaning. He read through the Greek Testament six times in twenty years, and had proceeded more than half the way on the seventh reading when death over- took him. There are in the possession of his late pastor, Rev. S. E. Herrick, D.D. (from whose most interesting "Memorial Discourse" a large part of these paragraphs have been taken) "more than a dozen books, containing in the aggregate doubtless some thousands of pages, filled with the results of careful


thought and study upon the Bible. They cover the whole range of revealed truth. There is no dry commonplace in them. They are dewy in their freshness, original, bristling, piquant. There are single words compact with meaning in every page. He did not know how to be superficial. He was a man who kept abreast with the thought of the time, who did not hold to the past merely because it was old nor take up with the new because it was new, but who loved the truth, old or new, because it was truth, and therefore of God. He was a man so strong as to have no fear of the boldest questioning ; so generous as to sympathize with all earnest doubt that asks for light ; so wise as to detect and expose all sophistry ; so liberal-minded as to recognize and give due credit to all excellence in opposing or differing opinion, and withal sure of his own intellectual and spiritual foot- ing." The addition of Mr. John M. Pinkerton's be- quest to the permanent fund is not immediately avail- able for the purposes of the school. The income, ex- cept certain annuities to relations, is to accumulate until a sum is secured from this source sufficient for the erection of a new building which may be adequate to the requirements of the new era of its enlarged usefulness.


tery. The first teacher in this school was Z. S. Moor, subsequently president of Williams and Amherst Colleges. His successor was Samuel Burnham, a noted teacher in his day, who held the position more than twenty years. In 1814 a new and larger acad- emy was built on the site of the old one, then gone to decay. The donation Maj. Pinkerton made after- wards to the academy in the Lower Village, and which took his name, was originally intended for the school "on the Hill," but in consequence of a little sharp practice on the part of those who had charge of the bill when before the Legislature for incorporation the gift was diverted from the Upper Village to the Lower.


In 1823, upon receiving a bequest of $4000 from


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the estate of Jacob Adams, the school was ineorpo- rated by the name of the " Adams Female Academy." The next year it went into operation under charge of Miss Zilpah P. Grant, assisted by Miss Mary Lyon. After three years' continuanee with the school, during which it enjoyed great prosperity, they resigned. Following are the names of the successive teachers : Charles P. Gale, ten years ; John Kelley, three years ; | Miss Laura W. Dwight, three years. In the winter of 1841-42 extensive repairs were made upon the building. The next teacher was Edward P. Parker, who had charge of the school four years. He was succeeded by Miss Mary E. Taylor, afterwards the wife of Governor II. Fairbanks, of Vermont; Rev. E. T. Rome, Henry S. Parker, N. E. Gage, Miss E. C. Bubier, A. J. Marshall, Jennie M. Bartlett, and Mary A. Hoyt.


In 1860, Miss Emma L. Taylor took charge of the school. She held the position seventeen years. Miss E. F. Billings followed her, and she again was suc- ceeded by Miss Carrie Clark. The school is now under the direction of Mrs. David S. Clark. The academy celebrated its semi-centennial July 1, 1873.


Banks .- In 1829 a bank was incorporated in the town by the name of " Derry Bank." Alanson Tucker was chosen president, and James Thom, cashier. They were chiefly instrumental in its organization, and held their positions respectively as president and cashier until the expiration of the charter in 1849. Mr. Tucker was born in Bridgewater, Mass., Jan. 25, 1777, and died at Derry, June 16, 1863. He was for about seventeen years a successful merchant in Boston, Mass. He retired from business at middle life, came to Derry, then Londonderry, with an ample fortune, and pur- chased the historic Livermore-Prentice-Derby estate, upon which he resided for a time. Subsequently he built the large mansion now owned by his grandson, Edward MeGregor, where he passed the closing years of his life. James Thom, born in Londonderry, Aug. 14, 1785, was the son of Dr. Isaac and Persis (Sargent) Thom. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1805, studied law, and practiced his profession in his native town until chosen cashier of the bank. He served as cap- tain for a short time of a company during the last war with England. He possessed fine conversational powers, a social disposition, and had large influence in town. He died Nov. 27, 1852.


Derry National Bank was chartered in 1864, with a capital of $60,000. The first cashier was David Currier, from Chester, N. H., who was succeeded by his son, George C. Currier, John P. Newell, and Fred. Johnston Shepard. June, 1881, the banking-house was removed from Derry Depot to Bartlett's new build- ing at Derry village. The present directors are John W. Noyes, Chester, president ; N. B. Prescott, George Moor, Joseph Montgomery, William H. Shepard, Frank W. Parker, and H. C. Matthews, of Derry.


Cemetery .- There is but one in all the large town of Derry. The old part is on land laid out to Rev.


James McGregore. It was the first land in the old town used for burial purposes, and has date very near the first settlement. There were deaths shortly after the settlers set foot upon the soil, and nothing is known of other places of burial. Three additions have been made, one in 1826 and another about 1845, and in 1852 a cemetery association was formed, and land pur- chased on the western side of the old yard. The new part occupies all the ground between the resting-place of the fathers and the highway. No more beautiful repose for the dead can anywhere be found. All that art, money, and taste can command has been sum- moned to the task of fitting a place


" Where the long concourse from the neighboring town, With funeral pace, and slow, can enter in, To lay the loved in frauquil silence dowu, No more to suffer, and no more to sin."


It is, however, to the middle part of this cemetery that the steps of the antiquary are directed. Here he will find much to gratify his taste and stimulate his peculiar lines of thought. The curiously-carved stones with the quaint inscriptions carry him back to the "good old times" so much celebrated in story and in song. Let us pause for a moment at the grave of John Wight, whose wit and skill as a maker of headstones for his contemporaries have survived the rough discipline of one hundred and seven years. His stone, a single one, with two heads for man and wife, with a dividing line down the middle, evidently the work of his own hands, stands very near the entrance of the cemetery, " Here lies the body of John Wight, who died Dec. 3, 1775, aged 72 years." He lived on what is now the Thomas Bradford place, where he plied his calling as a gravestone cutter. The tradi- tions of the town delight to recall the sharp repartee he made to Dr. Matthew Thornton a few months after the doctor came to Londonderry. It is well known that Thornton had an endowment of wit that often cropped out. Riding up one morning on horseback to the shop of Wight, who was busily engaged on a stone, the doctor accosted him, "Good-morning, Mr. Wight, I suppose you quarry out your headstones, and finish them so far as to cut the words 'In memory of,' and then wait till some one dies, when you complete it with the appropriate name." " Well," replied Wight, " that used to be me practis till one Dr. Thornton come to town, but now when I hear that he has called upon any one I just keep right on." Many of the grantees of the town are buried in this cemetery, and the first six ministers of the East Parish lie among the people to whom they ministered. Rev. David Mc- Gregor, the first minister of the West Parish, found also his last resting-place here. Very few of the stones furnish any history of the sleepers who lie beneath. The inscription on the stone placed to the memory of the wife of John Barr very nearly fixes the date of the emigration of the Barr family : "Here lies the body of Jean Barr, who died Nov. 11, 1737, in the 66 year of her age, who lived 17 years in this


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land." On the east side of the old part of the ceme- tery is a stone inscribed as follows :


" ITere lyeth the Body of the Revend Mr. James Morton Minister of Glasg ows daughter Gr izel. She died June 22, 1746."


Post-offices and Postmasters .- The first post- office was established Sept. 30, 1795, and Dr. Isaac Thorn appointed postmaster. He kept the office in the house taken down by Hon. William H. Shepard, at the time he built the house he now resides in. Feb. 20, 1817, the office was removed to Derry Lower Village, on the turnpike, and Daniel Wiltmore ap- pointed postmaster. He was succeeded by Charles Redfield, March 19, 1821, and he again by Richard Melvin, July 11, 1826. On the 18th of August, 1827, shortly after the division of the town, the name of this office was changed to Derry. Mr. Melvin was continued in office till May 28, 1830, at which time Lucien Harper became postmaster. From that time to the present the succession of postmasters in that office is as follows: David A. Gregg, Sept. 5, 1835; Joseph A. Gregg, Feb. 26, 1840; George W. Pinker- ton, May 18, 1841; Joseph A. Gregg, Oct. 26, 1844; David A. Gregg, Dec. 14, 1848; Robert M. Bailey, June 6, 1849; Robert Chase, Jr., Jan. 6, 1852 ; Joseph A. Gregg, April 11, 1853 ; Lucien Harper, Sept. 18, 1854; Ithamar Hubbard, Feb. 5, 1855; William W. Poor, April 13, 1861; George W. Barker, Jnne 3, 1863; W. W. Poor, June 12, 1863 ; Arthur T. Learned, July 21, 1869; Seneca Pattee, March 31, 1875.


POST-OFFICE AT DERRY DEPOT .- The first post- office "set up" at this place was on the 18th of Sep- tember, 1854, Samuel H. Quincy, postmaster. The office was discontinued Feb. 6, 1855, but restored Nov. 5, 1860, and the Hon. James Priest appointed postmaster. He kept the office at the depot of the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad. July 21, 1869, it was removed across the road to the store of Henry E. Eastman, who was postmaster until the appoint- ment of George S. Rollins, June 2, 1876. He was followed March 21, 1877, by Hiram C. Matthews. The commission of L. H. Pillsbury, the present post- master, is dated Oct. 23, 1879.


EAST DERRY POST-OFFICE .- This office was es- tablished, and Frank W. Parker appointed postmaster, Massachusetts, on the south. It is here we find the April 7, 1870.


Derry Fair .- This in its day was a matter of great importance to the people, and until it fell into abuse was of much service before stores had been " set up" for the public accommodation. It had its origin in the charter, which granted the " privilege every Wed- nesday in the week forever to enjoy a market for the selling and buying of goods, etc." Also two fairs annually, one in the spring and the other in the autumn. It does not appear that much account was ever made of these privileges except the last, which


was held on the 8th day of October annually, unless that day fell on Sunday, in which case the fair began on Monday, the 9th. Many are the sayings and doings told of Derry Fair. Beside the usual accompani- ments of such gatherings, horse-racing was the favorite pastime. The west end of the course was opposite tho home of the late David Bassett, and the track terminated where the dwelling of Mrs. Beede stands, better known as the Dr. Farron place. The fair was continued until about 1834 or 1835, when it was trans- ferred to the tavern stand of Capt. Reuben White, in the north part of Londonderry, he claiming a right to hold a fair under the provisions of the charter. No- thing but evil resulting from it, the citizens of Lon- donderry procured a repeal of that part of the town's charter relating to the matter, and "Derry Fair" passed into history.


Masonry .- St. Mark's Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, No. 44. This lodge was chartered June 14, 1826, and the following officers installed : Learned M. Barker, W. M .; William Anderson, S. W .; Per- kins A. Hodge, J. W .; James W. Nesmith, Treas .; Eben French, Sec .; John Moor, S. D .; James Thorn, J. D .; Clement Parker, Chap .; Robert Mack, S. S .; J. W. Adams, J. S .; Zenas Cushing, Tyler. Of the original members, William Anderson, Esq., alone sur- vives at the ripe age of eighty-five years. The lodge now numbers seventy-five members, and the officers are Joseph R. Clark, W. M ; Jobn E. Webster, S. W .; William Clark, J. W .; Nathan B. Prescott, Treas .; G. C. Bartlett, Sec .; G. K. Bartlett, S. D. ; Frank P. Bradford, J. D .; S. F. Whidden, Chap .; Alder B. Smith, Marshal; Edward L. Jones, Organist ; W. P. Horne, S. S .; G. A. Webster, J. S .; J. E. Taber, Tyler; A. B. Smith, representative to Grand Lodge.


Derry East Village .- This place, for many years the most important part of the old township, has never lost the beauty of its immediate situation or its surroundings, although business has sought more con- venient localities. From here the eye takes in a pros- pect that won the admiration of Gen. Lafayette at his visit in 1824. The view extends from Kearsarge on the north, and sweeping over the valley of the Merrimac, includes the lesser summits of the Unco- noonocks in Goffstown, the historic Jo English hill in New Boston, and the loftier heights of the Temple and Peterborough Mountains, to the Wachusett, in




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