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who married Mary Shackford. Their daughter, Mary Shackford Gookin, was the mother of the subject of this biography, who, in 1861, married E. Jenette Belknap, daughter of William Belknap, of Lisbon, N. H. They have four sons, viz., Belknap, Goldwin Ichabod, Arthur Hale, and Rufus W., Jr. He has held the various town offices, and represented the town in the Legislature.
CHAPTER XLIII.
GOSPORT.
THE town of Gosport is one of the cluster of islands known as the "Isles of Shoals," lying in the Atlantic Ocean, about twelve miles off the coast of Portsmouth, and with the exception of Appledore Island are within the jurisdiction of the State of Maine. Appledore
forms the town of Gosport, Rockingham Co.
From a very early period in the history of this section of country these islands have been known as quite famous fishing-grounds, and were settled at au was Sarah C. Cotton, daughter of Rev. Ward Cot- | early date. In 1728 the inhabitants paid sixteen
pounds as their proportion of the province tax of one thousand pounds.
The Pioneer Preacher .- As early as 1650, Rev. John Brock held religious services on this island. The following story is related of him by Mather : " Mr. Brock brought the people into an agreement that, exclusive of the Lord's day, they would spend one day every month together in the worship of our Lord Jesus Christ. On a certain day, which by their agreement belonged unto the exercises of religion, the fishermen came to Mr. Brock and asked him if they might put by their meeting and go a-fishing, because they had lost many days by reason of foul weather. He, seeing that without his consent they resolved upon doing what they had asked of him, re- plied, ' If you will go away, I say unto you, catch fish if you can. But as for you that will tarry and wor- ship the Lord Jesus Christ this day, I will pray unto him for you, that you may take fish till you are weary.' Thirty men went away from the meeting and five tarried. The thirty which went away, with all their skill, could catch but four fishes; the five who tarried went forth afterwards, and they took five hundred. The fishermen after this readily attended whatever meetings Mr. Brock appointed them."
Appledore and Star Islands are famous summer re- sorts, and not often is it the fortune of the summer tourist to drift into pleasanter waters than those that break upon the Isles of Shoals. Here are located the Appledore and Oceanic Hotels, both owned by Laigh- ton Brothers & Co.
The islands are nine in number,-Appledore, Ha- ley's or Smutty Nose, Duck, Malaga, Cedar, Star,
The ancestors of Rufus W. Weeks on the paternal side came from England about the year 1620 and set- lies within the boundaries of New Hampshire, and
Rufus W. Wieles
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Londoner's, Seavey's, and White Island, on which stands the light-house. Haley's Island has the safest harbor at the Shoals, and is the principal fishing port, many quintals of fish being cured there annually. During Mr. Haley's life a rope-walk was in existence upon this low-lying rock, and in it were made fishing lines and cordage. A wind-mill also turned its sails to the breeze, and a bakery furnished bread to all the islands. Of all these things no trace remains, but the handful of fishermen who inhabit the place keep up a brisk business while the season lasts, and the flitting back and forth of graceful fishing crafts makes glad the eyes of the artist and the lover of beauty.
Appledore had at one time a population of six hundred souls, it being one of the first points settled in New England. Traces of an ancient town are yet to be found upon its southern portion,-a ruined cel- lar here, a garden inclosure there, a half obliterated turfy burial-ground,-unmistakable evidence of lives which have passed away. Some of the Englishmen who made the first settlement christened it "Apple- dore," after a village in Devonshire, and the old name yet clings to the island.
Star Island held for many years the little village of Gosport safe above the tide. That quaint and most original and peculiar little town is now a thing of the past ; hardly a trace of it is to be seen upon the island except the historic church.
CHAPTER XLIV.
HAMPSTEAD.
Geographical-Topographical-Petition for a Parish-Names of Early Settlers-Petitions-The First Settlements-Miscellaneous-Congre- gational Church-Military Record.
THE town of Hampstead lies in the southwestern part of the county, and is bounded as follows: on the north by Sandown and Danville, on the east by Kingston and Plaistow, on the south by Atkinson, and on the west by Derry.
This town lies partly on the ridge of land between the Merrimac and Piscataqua Rivers. The soil is generally fertile.
Petition for a Parish .- The first measures taken for the formation of Hampstead as a parish was a petition presented to the Governor and Council, Jan. I, 1743-44, signed by fifty-four inhabitants, as fol- łows:
To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Gov- ernor and Commander in Chief In and Over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New Eng- land, And to the Honourable His Majesties Coun- cil and house of Representatives in General Court Assembled, Jan. 1, 1743-4.
The Humble petition of the subscribers Inhabi- tants in the Province aforesd, Sheweth.
That the greater part of your Petitioners are In- habitants of the Land in Controversie between Kings- town and Haverhill-That one part of us hold our Land of Haverhill and the other of Kingstown. That However the Right of the soil may be disputed, we are without Dispute of New Hampshire Govern- ment. That your Petitioners are at such a Distance from every Parish Meeting house as Renders our at- tending publick Worship upon the Sabbath in any of our Neighbouring Congregations Exceeding Diffi- cult, and to many of us quite Impracticable. That we are therefore obliged to procure some person to preach to us or else to live without the Benefit of that Ordinance. May it therefore please your Ex- cellency and Honours to take our case under your Wise consideration, and either Vest us with Parish Powers with the following bounds, viz. Beginning at a Crockred red oak tree standing in Londen Derry line from thence runing Eastwardly three miles on Bryants line Thence Northwardly to a bridge called Capt Ingalls Bridge thence westerly so as to compre- hend the Dwelling house of one Jacob Wells from thence to the Corner Beach tree on Chester line and from thence upon London Derry line to the bounds first mentioned, Or If this may not at present be granted at least to pass an Act to Impower us for a time to assess and Levie Taxes upon the inhabitants within the bounds above sd for the support of the Gospel and other Incident Charges and your Peti- tioners as in Duty bound shall every pray.
Subscribers.
John Hoog
Daniel Johnson
William Moulton
Thomas Croford
William Stevens James Mills
Peter Easman
Zecheriah Johnson
Michell Johnson
William Hancock
Hugh Tallant
James Heatb
John Atwood
Steven Emerson
Israel Huse
Benjamin Emerson
Nathaniel Harriman Caleb Heath
Samuel Worthen, Jr
David Heath
George Little, Jr
William Heath
Samuel Watts
Robert Ford
Benjamin Philbrick
John Kezar
Jonathan Kimball
George Kezar
Ezekiel Little
Otho Stevens
Jeremiah Eatton
James Johnson
Sam" Stevens, Jr
Obediah Davis
John Johnson
Josiah Davis
William Eastman
Joseph Little
David Copps John Muzzy
John Bond
Jonathan Bond
Joseph Stevens, Jr
Daniel Roberds
Daniel IIebberd
Daniel Roberds, Jr
James Graves
Ebenezer Gill
James Cook
Nathaniel Heath
Jonathan Gile
Samuel Stevens
Joseph Stevens
Moses Tucker
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HISTORY OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
In the House of Representatives April 18th 1744. The within Petition Read and Voted that the Peti- tioners (at their own charge) serve the Selectmen of | cost and charge hired a minister to preach amongst Kingston with a Coppy of this Petition and the Votes ; them and at the same time been Excused from paying thereon that they may appeare the third day of the , any thing towards the support of the Revª Mr James sitting of the General Assembly after the first day of Cushing. May next. JAMES JEFFREY, Cler. Assm
Vote of Kingston setting off certain persons for a new Parish, d.c.
Prov. of New Hamp.
At a Legall meeting of the Inhabitants & freehold- ers of Kingstown held the 24th of September, 1746,
1st Levt John Swett was chosen moderator of that meeting. 2ª Voted, That we do hereby as far as in us lieth sett off
Moses Tucker . John Straw
Israel Huse
Jonathan Colby
James Huse
Daniel Hibbard
James Graves Daniel Kidd
John Bond Jacob Gurdy
Jacob Wells David Straw
Meshach Gurdy
Reuben Clough
John Straw, Jr Israel Huse, Jr
William Straw
John Pressey
Philip Wells Benjamin Tucker
Jacob Tucker John Hogg &
Joseph Dow
Orlando Colby
of Kingstown above 'sd with a certain Tract of Land in sª town for a Distinct Parish or Precinct Bounded as followeth viz : beginning at the Beach tree which is the Dividing Boundary between London Derry and Chester sª tree standing on ye west line of sª Kingstown and Running Southerly on sd Kingstown said Line as heretofore settled between sª London Derry & sª Kingstown to the Islands Pond (so called) then Running East and B South three miles. Then Northerly Till a North & B West Course will strike sª Kingstown line where it crosses the mill Brook (so called ) as heretofore settled between sª Kingstown & sª Chester & from thence viz where sd Line Crosses sª mill Brook to run Southerly on sª line to the Beach tree first mentioned.
This is a true copy, taken out of Kingstown Book of Records.
Attest JED. PHILBRICK, Town Clerk.
Petition of Richard Hazzen, &c., about support of Rev. James Cushing.
To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Gov- ernour & Commander in Cheif in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire in New Eng- laud & to the Honble his Majesties Councill & House of Representatives in Generall Court assembled at Portsmouth for sª Province, May 1748. Humbly Shews.
Richard Hazzen for himself and in behalfe of the Inhabitants of that Part of Haverhill district com- monly called Timberlane,
That the inhabitants of said Timberlane have for the greatest part of fifteen years past at a verry great
That the Revª Mr Cushings Hearers (Exclusive of said Timberlane) live about two thirds of them on the North Side of the Boundary Line and in this Province and the other third on ye other side on which side lyes also the greatest part of his Personage or Glebe Lands.
That at a meeting of the District in November last Pursuant to the selectmens warrant it was agreed & Voted that the inhabitants living on this side of yo line (meaning those who lived out of Timberlane limits) should pay the Revª Mr Cushing Two Hun- dred pounds for his support this year, Old Tenor on consideration of the Depreciating of the money &c which would have been a small matter more than what they paid last year.
That some time afterwards at a Legall meeting of the afore sª Districts, The inhabitants of Timber- lane were by vote set off from Mr Cushings Parish and near the same lines which a committee Sent By your Excellency & the Honble Council thought proper to be done as appears by their Report.
That notwithstanding the meaning & intent of the afore sª Vote respecting M' Cushings Support by which the Inhabitants of Timber lane ought to have been excused from paying any thing thereto & after they were set off from Mr Cushings Parish as much as the District had a power to do, The assessors have rated us to Mr Cushing and thereby made their own Taxes much less than last year, & taken away our money from us which we should have had to pay our own minister.
That we have been thereby necessitated to make a Rate amongst Our selves to pay our minister but as we had no legall power to do it some refuse to pay, so that we are now in a verry deplorable Condition un- less your Excellency & Houours will Interpose on our behalfe.
We therefore Humbly & Earnestly request your Excellency & Honours to compassionate our circum- stances & give Such Orders that we may be excused from paying to ye Revª Mr. James Cushing & at the same time that he may not be cheated and defrauded of his honest due, & that we may be Impowered to raise a Tax amongst our Selves to pay our own min- ister or that you will afford us Such other Relief as to your Excellency & Honours shall think best for us.
And for your Excellency & Honours your Humble petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c RICHARD HAZZEN
for himself & in behalf of ye Inhabitants of Timber- lane.
May 12th 1748.
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HOMESTEAD OF DR. ISAAC TEWKSBURY, HAMPSTEAD, N. H.
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HAMPSTEAD.
Petition of Edward Flint and others to be annexed to Hampstead.
To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq. Gover- nour & Commander in Chief in & over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire in New England & to the Honble the Councill of said Province, Humbly Shews,
The petition of Edward Flynt, Samuel Stevens & others the Subscribers that your petitioners Liveing in that part of Ilaverhill District commonly called Timberlane have always together with the other In- habitants chearfully paid their Taxes & when a peti- tion was preferrd by the said Inhabitants to your Ex- celleney & Honours to be incorporated into a Town- ship, your petitioners signed ye said petition & hoped that when the Township was incorporated that not only your petitioners Houses but their estates also would have been taken within ye charter being much more for the Interests of your petitioners than to be put any where Else.
But so it is may it please your Excellency & Honours that by the Charter of Hampstead lately Granted, your petitioners Estates are so Divided that near one half lye within the Town of Hampstead & the other half is left out notwithstanding these lands have for many years past been fenct in and improved & being so Divided & Split by the said Lines it is to the very great damage of your petitioners.
We therefore earnestly request your Exeelleney & Honours to annex our whole lands to Hampstead according to our first petition.
And for your Excelleney & Honours your Hum- ble petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.
EDWd FLINT. SAM STEVENS.
NEHEMIAH STEVENS.
DAVID STEVENS.
SEMª STEVENS.
Wm STEVENS. JOSEPH STEVENS.
Hampstead, February 14th, 1749.
The first settlement by white men in Hampstead was made prior to the year 1728 by a Mr. Ford, who is supposed to have been the pioneer. In 1728 a Mr. Emerson settled in the south part of the town. Prior to the division line between the States of Mas- sachusetts and New Hampshire this territory was embraced in Amesbury and Haverhill, Mass. It was granted Jan. 19, 1749, and named after the pleasant village of Hampstead, in England, a short distance north of London. It included within its grant a portion of Kingston, which created a long dispute between the two towns, which was finally settled by Hampstead paying one thousand pounds, old tenor.
The town is well supplied with railway facilities, the Worcester and Nashna road passing the western part.
The resources of the town are principally from the productions of the soil and mechanical labor.
There is a flourishing high school in Hampstead, founded by the liberality of B. D. Emerson.
The present physicians are J. C. Eastman and Ben- jamin Woodman. Postmasters, Hampstead, Thomas Foote; West Hampstead, J. D. Ordway ; East Hamp- stead, H. S. Martin.
The Congregational Church1 was organized June 3, 1752, with sixty-eight members. The first pastor was Rev. Henry True, who served (till the day of his death) thirty years. The church was then without a pastor ten years. The second pastor was Rev. John Kelly, who served forty-four years; third pastor, Rev. J. M. C. Barkley, served twenty years; fourth pastor, Rev. Theodore C. Pratt, served ten years ; fifth pastor, Rev. Ebenezer W. Bullard, served five years ; sixth and present pastor, Rev. Albert Watson, was installed March 23, 1876.
The church first worshiped in an edifice built by the town over one hundred years ago. In 1837 the society built a new church and dissolved partnership with the State. The old church was then remodeled and made available for town purposes, and ever since : has been used as a town hall, and with a little repair- ing seems good for fifty or one hundred years more. The church built in 1837 was found to be in an unsafe condition after being used a little over twenty years. In the year 1860 it was taken down, and the follow- ing year the present commodious edifice was built upon the same site. The church is in a prosperous condition, and has a membership of one hundred and fifty-six.
Military Record, 1861-65 .- The following is a list of soldiers, residents of the town, who served dur- ing the late Rebellion, and was contributed to this work by Mr. Aaron H. Davis :
2Charles E. Frost,
Aaron H. Davis.
Heury A, Noyes.
John C. Kimball.
Jolın H. Pingree. Caleb J. Hoyt.
2Charles M. Newbegin.
Thomas D. Barter.
2Daniel L. Sawyer.
Charles II. Shannon,
"George W. Keeser.
James Johnson.
Charles W. Clowe.
George Allen.
Simeon S. Clayton.
Allen B. Martin.
William II, Clayton.
Horace R. Sawyer.
William R. Cowel.
Charles H. Grover.
George Clayton.
Frank S. Eastman.
Simeon D, Hinds.
George W. Bickford.
David B, Hinds.
Nathaniel Corson.
Samuel Morse. Samuel Jolinsou.
Thomas W. Morse.
Frank H. Little.
E. Jones Cullins.
George H. McDuffee.
Marquis J. Brewster.
Henry C. Little.
2 Leander Harris.
Albert C. Brickett.
James T. Hall.
Linus 11. Little.
Horace Barney.
Henry B. Thorne.
Nathaniel H Bushbey.
Thomas M. Arnold.
John Wast.
William Barrett.
George W. Conner.
20. D. Nicbole.
George R. Dow,
Hazen L. Hoyt.
Thomas O'Connel.
William H. Davis.
John L. Woodsum.
Nathaniel Frost.
Josiah C. Eastman, M.D.
David L. N. Hoyt.
Elbridge G. Wood.
2William L. S. Tabor.
1 Contributed by Rev. Albert Watson.
2 Served in more than one regiment.
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Leonard Hutchings.
Albert H. Ayer.
Joseph J. Calef.
Charles E. Atwood.
Benjamin G. Currier.
Lewis Legacy.
Warren A. Kimball.
Daniel J. Wilson.
William H. Johnson.
Charles W. Williams.
Lncian M. Nichols.
John F. Johnson,
Avender Carson.
Charles Stevens.
William II. Minot.
Fred. P. Shannon.
Adin T. Little.
The town also hired thirty-eight substitutes.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
DR. J. C. EASTMAN.
J. C. Eastman, M.D., son of Dr. Joseph and Miriam (Calef ) Eastman, was born in Loudon, N. H., April 22, 1811. His grandfather, Timothy Eastman, was a farmer in East Kingston, born, however, in Raymond, and was descended from an old English family of high repute. He married Abigail, daughter of Col. Gale, of East Kingston. The mother of Dr. Eastman was a daughter of Joseph and Miriam ( Bartlett) Calef, and granddaughter of Hon. Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and President and Governor of New Hampshire for three years, who brought her up from fifteen months of age as his own child (her mother dying at that time). The doctor unites, therefore, in his veins the blood of two of the most distinguished families of the United States. (For full history of Bartlett family, see Judge Bartlett's genealogy of the same.)
Joseph Eastman was a graduate of Dartmouth ; was born in East Kingston, and died in Meredith, N. H., in every generation high official positions in the dif-
at the early age of thirty-three years, having already acquired celebrity in his profession. Two of his chil- dren are now living,-Dr. J. C. Eastman and Susan (Mrs. Lorenzo Bachelder), of Derry. Another child, Joseph, became a physician, spent some years in Cali- fornia, and retiring to New Hampshire died in Hamp- stead.
Dr. J. C. Eastman was educated at Kingston, At- kinson, and Saco (Me.) Academies, taught district school eight years, and was graduated from Dart- mouth with honors in 1837. For a short time he practiced as a physician at Newmarket, and about 1839 located at Hampstead, N. H., where he has ever since been, except during his military life, in active practice. He has been a member of New Hampshire State Medical Society over forty years, and its presi- dent in 1860, at which time the photograph from which the accompanying engraving was made was taken. IIe is a member of Rockingham Medical Society, and was twice its president. He is also an honored member of the American Medical Association, attending its meetings at Washington, Baltimore, New York, and other leading cities, and frequently as delegate from New Hampshire.
During the Centennial Exposition (1876) there was an International Medical Congress held at Philadel-
phia. It consisted of seven hundred different mem - bers, representing sixteen nationalities, and each State of the United States had therein the same represen- tation as in the House of Representatives. Dr. East- man was one of the three who had the honor to rep- resent the State of New Hampshire. His favorite branches of practice are surgery (both major and minor operations) and obstetrics. He has witnessed the births of over forty-five hundred children who have lived and of which he has kept a record.
Aug. 20, 1861, he was appointed by Governor Berry surgeon of the Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, with rank as major. He accom- panied the regiment to Washington, Annapolis, Port Royal, Hilton Head, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville, and did active and laborious service for two years, when on account of illness in his family he resigned his commission and returned to Hampstead. Shortly afterwards he was offered the colonelcy of a new regiment, which position he declined, although a military career would have been not only in accord with his tastes, but also one in which he would doubt- less have made a brilliant record. As evidences of this we would say that when a mere lad he was chosen by the sagacious Hon. Levi Woodbury as a cadet at West Point Military Academy, but though longing to go, through the pleadings of a widowed mother he refused the appointment so congenial to his nature. We would also mention that in old militia times he was promoted through every grade from private to colonel. In politics he has been ever unswervingly a Democrat. His ancestors have held
ferent political parties. He also has been highly honored with political trusts. In 1845 was county treasurer. Renominated in 1847, he declined the nomination (equivalent to an election). He repre- sented Hampstead in the Legislature in 1848, 1849, and 1850 (five sessions). Served his district as State senator in 1853-54; elected by twenty-three votes over the joint Whig and Free-Soil vote united on Thomas J. Melvin ; was renominated and elected as senator in 1854 over Melvin ( Whig) and Hoyt ( Free- Soiler) by thirty-eight majority. (In 1855, Melvin was placed in candidacy by the Know-Nothings against Hon. N. Colby, Democrat, and elected by nearly one thousand majority.)
While he was in the Senate the Know-Nothings, concluding to nominate a Democrat for Governor, sent a committee to Dr. Eastman urging him to join their party and accept the nomination, and they would make him Governor. This proffered bribe he indignantly refused. They nominated Ralph Met- calf, and elected him hy several thousand majority. This illustrates the strength of political principle possessed by Dr. Eastman.
Had the Democratic party since that time been the majority party in this State, it is highly probable that ere this he would have filled the gubernatorial chair.
I.C. Eustman
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He has been for years one of the standard-bearers of the Democratic party, and its candidate for counselor at two elections. He was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated Gen. Mcclellan for the Presidency, and also to the convention that nominated for President that distinguished and honored states- man ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New York. study of medical works. In 1817 he commenced the practice of his profession in Hampstead, N. H., where he remained for thirty years. On May 2, 1824. a diploma was conferred upon him by the faculty of Dartmouth College, signed by Reuben D. Muzzey, president ; Josiah Crosby, Thomas Chadbourne, censors; Peter Bartlett, secretary. In the same year he joined the He married (first) Ann A., daughter of Capt. Leon- ard Wilson (a pensioner of 1812) and Elizabeth Gregg, his wife. She was daughter of Nathaniel Warner, Esq., of Derry. Their children are Mary Bartlett (Mrs. Lavosier Ilill, of New York City) and Ella. Second, Mary Helen, daughter of Dr. Jerome Harris and Mary Tewksbury, his wife, of Amesbury, Mass. Their children are Josiah Bartlett and Susie A. The New Hampshire Medical Society, and for several years held the offices of councilor and censor. In the second year of his practice he entirely discarded the use of mercury, and entered his protest against it as a deleterious medicine, in consequence of which he encountered fierce opposition from prominent and popular physicians, but he firmly faced their hostility and established a high reputation as a medical prac- doctor has held various official positions, which the . titioner. In 1847 be removed to Lawrence, Mass., where he still resides, and, in the eighty-seventh year of his age, is now actively in practice, retaining all his faculties of body and mind to a remarkable de- gree; and at this advanced age illustrates the advan- tage of a temperate and well-ordered life by the ex- hibition of a "sound mind in a sound body." The early companion of his days has long since passed to her repose, and whose place is now filled by another, to share the joys and sorrows which attend his days' de- cline. A somewhat numerous family of children are living, some of whom are residents of New England, and others are in distant portions of the country. In his religious opinions he is evangelical, and in religious and political opinions conservative.
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