History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 49

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

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Edward Colcord, Vet. Res. Corps; enl. Dec. 2, 1863; date of discharge unknown now.

('harles Freeman, U. S. C. T .; enl. Jan. 3, 1865; date of discharge un- knowo now.

Edward Davis, U. S. C. T .; enl. Dec. 30, 1864 ; date of disch. noknown. Henry H. Titcomb.

Amos F. Varney, sergt., Co. G, 18th Regt .; enl. Nov. 16, 1864 ; reduced to ranks March 13, 1865; disch. July 29, 1865.

Fraok Clark, enl. July 28, 1864, three years; credited to town ; no fur- ther record given."

David Roberts, enl. July 29, 1864, three years; credited to town; no further record given.

Abel Gale, enl. Ang. 2, 1864, three years; credited to town; no further record giveo.

John Smith, el. Nov. 17, 1864, three years; credited to town; no fur- ther record given.

Jamies R. Grey, corp., Co. C, Gth Regt .; enl. Nov. 27, 1861 ; disch. Jan. 22, 1×64.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

JOHN SANBORN.

John Sanborn, son of John and Abigail (Rowell) Sanborn, was born on the Sanborn homestead in East Kingston, N. H., June 1, 1800. He commenced when quite small to work on the farm and in the tannery of his father, having only limited common-school education, and remained at work there until he was thirty-two years old, when (1832) he went to Virginia to visit an uncle in medical practice at the "Dismal Swamp." He remained in the Sonth until 1837, " tramping" on foot over Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisiana, crossing the Alle- ghany Mountains twenty-one times. In 1840 he

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moved to Amesbury, Mass., and ran a tan-yard there for three years, when he engaged in lumbering, fol- lowing that profitably to quite an extent until 1864, when he removed to the place in Amesbury Mills where he is at this date resident, and has not been in active business since. His mind was not satisfied with moral. He is prudent, economical, and is possessed of a shrewd common sense in business matters. The following extracts from his voluminous diary show that he is a man of more than ordinary command of language, and, if he could be induced to publish it, would give the world a humorous and valuable addi- the steady ebb and flow of life in the quiet New Eng- tion to its works on travel. The following expressive pen-picture of life in Cairo is ample single proof of this :

land community where he had cast his lot, and he determined to see the historic places of transatlantic lands and know from bis own observation the story which they told. He married, Aug. 16, 1842, Mercy E., daughter of Ebenezer and Eunice ( Merrill) Mor- rill. She was a native of Salisbury, Mass. In 1862 he visited the London Exposition, remaining in Lon- don thirty-nine days, then visited Paris, then Rome, then back to England and Scotland, which he thor- oughly viewed from Highlands to Lowlands, spending three most pleasant weeks; from thence to Liverpool, whence, Aug. 16, 1862, he took passage for New York on the "Great Eastern." She ran on the rocks off Montauk Point, and soon had twenty-five feet of water in her hold. The passengers were not injured, how- ever, and were landed in New York Aug. 27, 1862, and Mr. Sanborn arrived at South Amesbury in safety. Previously he had made a trip through Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick, visiting Niagara Falls and many points of interest in that portion of British America. Sept. 30, 1873, accompanied by his wife, he embarked for Liverpool, his ultimate destination being the Pyramids of Egypt. Arriving in Liverpool Oct. 12, 1873, he remained about six weeks, visiting London, Brighton, Hastings, Dover, etc. November 24th, they went to Paris, en route for Florence, Italy, passing on their way through the Mont Cenis tuu- nel. Jan. 4, 1874, they started for Cairo, Egypt, taking cars to Brindisi, where they went on a steamer for Alexandria, and were five days on the Mediterranean. They remained in Egypt about a week, looking at Alexandria, Cairo, with its famous citadel of oriental alabaster, the Pyramids, the Sphinx; returned to Alexander; saw the Pacha's Garden, Cleopatra's Needle, and the other scenes of the curious city of that old curious land, then setting their faces home- ward they took steamer for Naples, enjoying the Mediterranean scenery and the beauties of the Bay of Naples, remaining at Naples one week, then off for Rome for another week, then for various points of intelligent interest, Pompeii, Herculaneum, etc., and to Florence. In the healthful atmosphere of that beautiful city they remained about six weeks, and February 24th left for Paris, thence March 12th for London, seeing on that journey the first snow they had seen that winter. After three enjoyable weeks in London they sailed from Liverpool for Boston April 16, 1874, arriving there April 29th, reaching Ames- bury the same day.

Mr. Sanborn is a pleasant and instructive conver- sationalist; sees everything with a practical New England eye, and can point every story with a fitting

" Egypt, smitten and accursed, has lost all strength and energy. Long oppression has taken from her the power and the will to advance. In Egypt there is no middle class, no nobility, clergy, merchants, nor land- lords. Where once stood the palaces of the Pharaohs the people have built mud-walled huts, in which they now live. Some of the features are camels, donkeys, fleas, lice, dirt, and odors not wafted from 'Araby the Blest.' The architecture of the business portion of the city is that of Paris, stately edifices of hewn stone. In the suburbs you find primitive oriental mud hovels,-a hole in the roof for the chimney, and another in the wall for door and window. The ground is the floor, a rush matting serves for door. You see men, women, naked children, dogs, goats, pigs, chickens occupying the same premises. The men wear camel's-hair shirts, which serves for coat, cloak, and night-gown, all in one. The women wear long cotton frocks, dyed with indigo, without erino- line."

The other extract is of family interest : " Amesbury, Mass., Oct. 20, 1880. Forty years ago to-day I was in Yallabusha County, Miss., and took up a newspaper, Brother Jonathan, published in New York under date of Sept. 25, 1840, and saw the following about my grandmother, Abigail Rowell: 'The. Exeter News- Letter chronicles the death, at East Kingston, N. H., of Widow Abigail Rowell, aged one hundred years, eleven months. She left eight children, twenty- seven grandchildren, sixty-five great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. '"

JAMES M. SANBORN.

The first known ancestor of the numerous families of Sanborn was John (?) Sanborn, who married, in England, a daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachelor ; died early, leaving his widow and three sons to the care of her father. Rev. Mr. Bachelor was born in England about 1561, took Episcopal orders, was rejected for non-conformity, went to Holland, and afterwards to America, landing at Boston, June 5, 1632, and set- tling for a few years at Lynn, where he, then over seventy, discharged the duties of a pastor over a church he had gathered together. Difficulties in the church arising, partly from his eccentricities, he, with quite a following, removed to Ipswich, then to New- bury, and in 1638 settled in Hampton, N. H., and was regularly installed as first pastor of its Congre- gational Church. Here John and William Sanborn

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lived and died. The name was originally, in Eng- land, Samborne, or Sambourn, derived from the parish of Sanborn. (Another authority gives it as Sand- borne.) The John above mentioned was lieutenant, many years a selectman, representative to the Gen- eral Court, etc. From him is descended James Mon- roe Sanborn, the line of descent being John, Tristram, Tristram, John (who, born July 30, 1743, settled in Kingston, had six sons and daughters, and became one of the leading men of the town), and John. James Monroe Sanborn, son of John and Abigail (Rowell) Sanborn, was born on the homestead of his ancestors in East Kingston, N. H., Aug. 2, 1819. He was reared a farmer, had the educational advantages

of good common schools, supplemented by one term's : pal Church, Aug. 21, 1873, had children, Elizabeth attendance at Hampton Academy. He was youngest in a family of twelve children, and remained on the farm with his father, learning of him the trade of tanner and currier, in which he was doing a large business. He entered as a youth into labor, and from early years earnestly carried both agriculture and tanning forward vigorously. His active tempera- ment, business qualities, and warm social nature caused him to be extensively and favorably known. He was a successful farmer, and an intelligent and enterprising promoter of the interests of agriculture, and stood in the van of the working officers of the leading agricultural societies of the State; was one of the first members of Rockingham County Agri- cultural Society, and for many years one of its trus- tees. He was largely intrusted with positions of trust and honor, and was probably the most influential ! For nearly half a century Mr. Sanborn was accus- tomed to walk the streets of his native town, mingling with its people in social, business, and church rela- tions, and never did malice or suspicion whisper aught against his integrity. He was emphatically an honest man, and the vacuum made by his loss can- not be filled by another. citizen of his town. Living and dying on his native homestead, by his actions he commanded the confi- dence and esteem of the community, and never was that confidence misplaced or forfeited. He had a generous heart and genial disposition, and a practical benevolence which was always controlled by the spirit of Christianity. He purchased the tannery of Moses Sanborn, at Little River, Kingston, and carried on an extensive business for about ten years.

During nearly his entire business life he was placed in various offices in the government of his town, both in its material and educational interests. Whig and Republican in belief, as such he was selectman, town clerk, justice of the quorum, representative, and in all matters his judgment was respected as superior to others, and his honesty above suspicion. He was licensed as a local preacher of the Methodist Episco- pal Church in 1855, and ordained a deacon May 3, 1857, by Bishop Morris. As a preacher he was plain, practical, and of easy address, and his ministry was exercised gratuitously whenever occasion offered. He was nine years manager of and one of the most effi- cient members of the executive committee of the Hedding Camp-Meeting Association at Epping at the time of his death. which occurred July 5, 1875. He married Julia A., daughter of Reuben W. and Lois (Stevens) Currier, Dec. 1, 1842. There were two ehil-

dren by this marriage, -- Areanna Evelyn, born April 9, 1845, married Edward A. Holmes, resides in Bos- ton, aud has one child, Lois M .; James M. died in in- fancy. Mrs. Sanborn died Feb. 7, 1849. His second marriage wax Sept. 25, 1850, to Elizabeth H., daughter of Jonathan and Lydia ( Hammond ) Fletcher, who sur- vives him. There children were (1) James Fletcher, born March 30, 1853, graduated at Comer's Com- mercial College, Boston, married Mary J., daughter of Elbridge and Mary Judkins, of Kingston, Oct. 15, 1874, has two children, Winfred J., and Henry C .; (2) Julia Augusta, born March 23, 1855, graduated at Robinson Female Seminary, Exeter, married Rev. John Wentworth Sanborn, of the Methodist Episco- M. E. and John W., Jr., and died at Gowanda, N. Y., Aug. 14. 1877; (3) Sherman Hammond, born May 5, 1857, educated at Tilton, New Hampshire Confer- ence Seminary, was graduated as Doctor of Dental Surgery at Boston Dental College, May I, 1879, mar- ried Clara T., daughter of Atherton H. and Emily E. ( Bradley ) Stevens, of East Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 22, 1880, and is in practice of his profession at Wo- burn, Mass .; (4) Mary Abbie died in infancy; (5) John Munroe, born April 9, 1863, educated at Kings- ton and Cushing ( Ashburnham) Academies, sue- ceeded his father as farmer on the old homestead, married Clara N., daughter of Amos C. and Hattie E. (Draper) Chase, of Kingston (see biography of A. C. Chase, Kingston) ; (6) Moses Manson, born Dec. 4, 1865.

In public and private life he was modest and unassuming, courteous and gentlemanly in his de- meanor, sympathetic and benevolent to the dis- tressed, and warmly attached to his friends. He was firm and unflinching in the discharge of duty, energetic and indignant against any appearance of chicanery or fraud. In his death his family lost a kind and tender husband, a loving and indulgent father, and Rockingham County one of its most prominent and honored citizens, whose life and influ- ence were inseparably connected with all prominent events in the county during the last quarter of a cen- tury, and whose memory will be cherished and re- spected more largely than that of almost any towns- man who survives him. His widow resides with her son on the old homestead, and, like her la- mented husband, enjoys a warm place in the hearts of many whom her benevolence has befriended or her Christian influence reached.

Samuel E. Browny

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THE BROWN FAMILY.

Rev. Samuel E. Brown, son of Abraham and Betsy (Ring) Brown, was born Sept. 13, 1806. In addition to an English education, he spent one year in the study of Latin and Greek at the academy in Kingston. He taught school twelve years, with long intervals of vacation, in which he pursued his studies. He com- menced his religious life in 1827, was baptized in 1828, began to preach in 1829, was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry by elders of the Christian denomi- nation, among whom was Rev. Elijah Shaw, April 24, 1833, at Kensington, N. H. He joined the Associa- tion of Regular Baptists in 1850. He preached fifteen years in Portland, Me., in two pastorates; ten in Hampton Falls, in two pastorates; and six in South Ilampton. In his early ministry he preached in Kensington, East Kingston, and other towns in Roek- ingham County, and in Haverhill, Salisbury; and other towns in Essex County, Mass., and for a brief period as an evangelist. His whole service as a min- ister was thirty-three years.

During the early part of his ministry he did the double work of teaching school and preaching the gospel. He had good natural parts, which, with se- vere self-discipline, constant study, and exercise of his gifts, made him more than an average seholar and speaker. But more and above all was the unetion with which he was favored and the power with which he spoke. He was easy and fluent as a speaker, able and suceessful as a minister, and as a man he was re- speeted and beloved. We give in this work an en- graving taken from a small photograph, and though it is by no means such a likeness of the original as is desired, it will be recognized readily by those who knew him thirty years ago.

He was at East Kingston, on his way to that service, when struck down by typhoid fever, oeeasioning his im mediate return to his mother's home in Lowell, and his death occurred there Aug. 5, 1877. He was a brilliant scholar and a devoted Christian man, whose memory lives in the hearts of many of this and other lands.

JEis remains were brought here for interment near his father in the ancestral lot.

Rev. Charles Rufus Brown, the second son of Rev. Samuel E. Brown, was born at East Kingston, Feb. 22, 1849. He entered the Naval Academy at Annap- olis, Md., in 1865, remaining there and in the naval service till 1875. He graduated from Harvard Col- lege in 1877, and from the theological institution at Newton, Mass., in 1879, having passed the last year of his course at the Union Theological Seminary, in New York City. Ile then spent two years in study in Germany, and after a brief period with his friends, and preaching in various places, he was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry, Dec. 30, 1881, in Franklin Falls, N. H., where he is now pastor of the Baptist Church.

Of the other sons of Rev. Samuel E. Brown,-

WILLIAM EDWIN was born in Portland, Me., Oet. 23, 1853; is married ; resides in Concord, N. H., and is in a hardware-store.

FRANK WARREN was born in South Hampton, Jan. 12, 1857, and is in an agricultural warehouse in Boston.

GILMAN ABRAHAM was born in South Hampton, Oct. 31, 1861. He is in the agricultural warehouse with his brother in Boston.

RUFUS BROWN.

Rufus Brown, son of Abraham and Betsey (Ring) Brown, was born in East Kingston, N. HI., June 23, 1812. His ancestors were English, several brothers coming from the north of England and settling at the mouth of the Merrimac River, and Henry Brown, in 1639, had a lot of land in Salisbury. He married Abigail , had several children, one of whom, Abraham (1st), was born in 1649. Ile married Eliza-

He married Elvira L. Small, of Portland, Me., by whom he had six children, and who bore his name till her death, in Lowell, Mass., Oct. 11, 1879. He , beth Shepard in 1674, resided in Salisbury, was died in South Hampton, June 26, 1862, and was buried at East Kingston, with the generations who have passed away. He left five sons. a eooper by trade, and died in 1733, aged eighty- four. One of his children, Abraham (2d), born March 21, 1690, settled on what is known as the "Peak," in REV. S. EMMONS BROWN, oldest son of Rev. Samuel E. Brown, whose biography we have given, was born in Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1847. He graduated from Harvard College in 1870, and from Rochester, N. Y., Theological Seminary, in 1873. He then went to Ger- many, and passed three years at the universities of Leipsic and Halle and in traveling through parts of Europe and the East. He then accepted the chair of New Testament Greek at Rochester, N. Y. The day of his ordination in the Baptist Church, of which he was a member in Exeter, N. H., was fixed for July 17,1877. South Hampton, had a captain's commission, mar- ried Hannah Morrill, had three sons and five daugh- ters, purchased a part of the present farm of Rufus Brown, in the town of East Kingston, March 16, 1716, led an active, industrious life, and died on his sixty-eighth birthday. Samuel, born April 7, 1716, settled in East Kingston in early life, built the house where Rufus now lives, was an energetic man of business, owned mill and other property in Brent- wood and elsewhere, and died in 1774. He had two sons-Abraham and Moses-and five daughters, some of whom married and settled in this vicinity. Abra- ham, born Oct. 8, 1745, married Mary Emmons, Dec. 3, 1770, had three sons-Abraham, Samuel, and Abel -and two daughters, and died in 1781, after a short illness, indueed by exposure or an assault given by reason of his pronounced religious opinions and earnest labors. His oldest son, Abraham, born Dec.

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28, 1773, married Betsey, daughter of Page Ring, Esq. (born in 1774, died May 11, 1852), May 14, 1798, inherited one-third of his father's estate, purchased the remaining two-thirds, and was a quiet, old-fashi- ioned farmer all his days, and died Feb. 28, 1845. He had eight children, all of whom are dead but Abraham R., born April 27, 1810, and Rufus. the city of Lawrence, Mass., was laid out, and when the whole place was a waste field, and the dam furnishing the water-power was only in process of construction, and there were no streets there, he began dealing in lots, buying, selling, building, and renting, and by sound judgment and shrewdness was quite successful. For a time he engaged in the grocery trade, but only The Ring'family came early from England. Robert1 Ring took the "freeman's oath" Aug. 9, 1640; was an active man in Salisbury ; had a son Jarvis2, who was great-grandfather of Page Ring, born in 1743, and whose line of descent was Jarvis3, Jr., Jonathan4, Page5. Robert died Dec. 3, 1705. Rev. Stephen Bachilor, so prominent in early Hampton history, had one grandchild, Deacon Nathaniel B., who lived in Hampton near the old meeting-house. His son Ben- jamin married Susannah Page, and settled where Hon. Warren Brown now lives. Benjamin had a " baker's dozen" of children. His daughter Susannah married Ebenezer Webster in 1738 ; removed to East Kingston in 1740 (or earlier). She was the grandmother of Hon. Daniel Webster and Hon. Ezekiel Webster. Esther, another daughter, married Jonathan Ring, of Salisbury ; had one son, Page (named for his grand- mother), who was father of Betsey (Ring) Brown. Su- sannah (Batchelder) Wehster and Esther ( Batchelder) Ring being sisters, their children, Ebenezer Webster3 and Page Ring, were cousins; llon. Daniel Webster and Betsey ( Ring) Brown, second cousins; and Capt. Fletcher Webster and Rufus Brown, third cousins. for about a year. Still holding to his real estate and his tenements, in 1852 he moved to Concord, N. H., as a contractor in the iron-shops of New Hampshire State prison, under Wardens Dow and Webster. Here he stayed three years, making general ma- chinery, steel springs, axles, etc. Returning then to his ancestral home in East Kingston, he devoted himself to farming and the improvement of his farm- land, that had been heretofore waste and unproduc- tive, was brought rapidly into productive meadow, fields were cleared of their encumbering stone, which furnished material for strong walls, and his example in this direction became of benefit to others. He also thoroughly renovated and repaired and almost rebuilt the dwelling occupied by five generations, and made it the pleasant place it 'now is. Here he has resided ever since, a representative farmer, not ashamed but justly proud of his avocation, and the care of his estate, with his other diversified business, has been all the labor he has cared to do. Of vigor- ous health and active temperament, he is never idle, labors himself in the field, believes fully that "he who by the plow would thrive, himself must either Rufus Brown had but limited opportunites for edu- cation, but these were improved sufficiently to enable him to transact business, and while reared a farmer, when about fourteen, he began to accompany his uncle, Abel Brown, a book publisher of Exeter, in his trips around the country, and assist in his auctions of his works. This gave him a practical business hold or drive." He early appreciated the advantage of machinery on the farm, brought into use the first mower in the town, and is quick to observe and turn to utility any labor-saving invention. His word is as good as his bond, and he has never failed to pay "one hundred cents on the dollar." His home farm comprises one hundred acres in a high state of culti- education of the best kind for him, as experience vation. His business engrosses his attention. When and observation have ever been his best teachers. about twenty-two years old he was selectman, and has been highway surveyor; but he leaves to others more aspiring the dignity and honors of official pre- ferment. In the fall of 1857 he and his wife passed a year of travel in Europe. This, with the relaxation afforded by short trips to the seaside, Boston, etc., has been almost the only respite from constant labor during his seventy years of life. His brother Abraham was also engaged from his four- teenth year with his uncle. After the death of Abel, which occurred before Rufus was twenty-one, the two brothers purchased the stereotype plates, stock, etc., of the uncle's estate and continued the business, Abraham doing the office duty, and Rufus attending to the traveling and sales. All these years he was on the farm with his father whenever business slackened or need for his help was urgent. After closing the publishing, Rufus started a little dealing in the line of patents, first taking a washing-machine, next a thrashing-machine, both of which he owned, manu- factured, sold machines, and also " rights." He con- tinued in this for two years.

Plain and frank in manners and speech, he is a man of the people, and a typical New England farmer, who has made more than "two blades of grass" grow where only one grew before. In early life a Democrat, he has been a Republican from the first. He married, (1) 1843, Harriet S., daughter of Amos Bacheldor, of East Kingston ; she died March 15, 1846, aged twenty-nine; (2) March 12, 1851, Ann E., daughter of Watkins Roberts, of Shanballymore House, Shanballymore, County Cork, Ireland, of a family of good repute, dating its occupancy of its

Before he was of age he began lumbering, and from that time to the present he has been more or less en- gaged in that. Having accumulated some fourteen hundred dollars by sticking to business and the old home, after caring for his parents, he conceived the ' land from the Norman conquest ; she died Sept. 14, idea of making some money in real estate, and when . 1875, aged sixty-three; (3) Nov. 12, 1878, Affa E.,

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daughter of Joseph S. and Betsey A. (Tenney) Floyd. She was born in Centreville, Me., and was for more than twenty years a resident of Boston. Mr. Brown ! has been very prosperous. He has left his impress in many affairs of life, and the agricultural interests of his native town have gained much by his work, and he to-day stands in the front rank of its wealthy ag- riculturists, and enjoys the esteem of a large circle of the leading business men of an extended area. Jeremiah Leavitt, of Gilmanton, N. H.), Betsey (Mrs. Bernard French, of South Hampton, had two chil- dren, George and Fred), Emily (married John Lover- ing, of Kensington; had children, one of whom attained maturity, is married, and now lives in Salis- bury, Mass.), and Polly (died young). Benjamin lived, a hale man, to a good old age, and never felt disease until his last illness. Ile was a spare man, of good height; was a minute-man in the war of 1812, loved his home, and never cared to be away from it. He was a Jeffersonian Democrat, positive in his con- CHARLES E. MORRILL. victions, and firm in his adherence to them. A suc- Charles E. Morrill is of an honorable line of de- scent. A description accompanying a coat of arms of the Morrill family, now in possession of J. F. Mor- rill, of Newburyport, Mass., is, "He beareth Azure, two Griffins rampant, or supporting a Diamond, argent, by the name of Morrill, granted ye Fifteenth year of ye reign of Queen Elizabeth, to Sir Hugh Morrill, of ye County of Devon, first son of Sir Robert Morrill, Inner Temple, London, son of Thomas Morrill, West Riding of England." Abraham Morrill, the emigrant, died at Salisbury, Mass., in 1682. He had lived there thirty-two years and reared a family. He must, there- fore, have come from England prior to 1650. His second son, Jacob, also was a resident of Salisbury, and, on authority of W. S. Morrill, of Marlow, N. H., a close and accurate genealogist, we give among his children Ezekiel, Hannah, Thomas, Ruth, Jacob, Jr., Aaron, and Susannah. This Aaron had children,- Elijah (or Abijah, as copied by Mr. Morrill from cessful farmer, he kept adding gradually to his estate. His social nature made him many friends, and his fireside was much sought by young people as a place where they could fully enjoy themselves, and the name he was generally known by was " Uncle Ben." Amos, son of Benjamin, was born in East Kingston in 1796. From very early life he was a great student. He acquired a very good English education, began the study of medicine, but, discontinuing it, became a teacher, and teaching many years, was universally known as " Master Morrill." He was a great mathe- matician, and especially fond of surveying. His wife he first met as a student in his school in Amesbury, Mass. She was Sarah E., daughter of Enoch Nichols, of that place. After their marriage they settled on the place in East Kingston now the summer residence of his son Charles, which was bought from one Graves. Their children were Mary Ann (Mrs. D. E. Eastman, of Manchester), George N. (a promising Salisbury record), Theodate, Aaron, Jr., Theodate | youth of the same scholastic tastes as his father, who died when about sixteen), Charles E., Sarah E. (Mrs. Andrew Hoyt, of Newton, N. H.), Laura O. (Mrs. F. J. Philbrick, of East Kingston), and Allan Amos (another child of promising intellect who died young, of typhoid fever).

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History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 49

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

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