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It is also related that at one time some of the more daring of the young people looked into her windows one evening, when they saw her very busily engaged in turning a bowl with something in it, apparently in the shape of a boat. At last she turned it over, and exelaimed, "There, the devil has got the imps !" That night news came that Peter Johnson, carpenter, and James Philbrick, mariner, were drowned at the same hour from a boat in the river, near the ereek now known as Cole's Creek. The drowning of these men, who were much lamented, increased the fear and hatred of the old woman.
On the Rockingham County records 'is the follow- ing : " At a Quarter Court held at Hampton, in the Province of New Hampshire, 7 Sept. 1680, Maj. Richard Waldron Pres., Eunice Cole, of Hampton, by Authorite, committed to prisson on suspition of being a witch, & upon examination of Testimonys the Court vehemently suspects her so to be, but not full proof is sentenced, & confined to Imprissonment, & to be kept in durance untill this Court take further ords with a loek to be kept on her legg. In meane while the Selectmen of Hampton to take care to pro- vide for her as formerly that she may be retained. " The testimony put on file."
She lived in a little hut in the rear of the academy, and upon her death the people dragged the body to a hole and covered it up with all speed, and then drove a stake through it with a horseshoe attached, to pre- vent her from again troubling the good .people of Hampton.
The fear of her name would alarm the most cour- ageous or subdue the worst temper from generation to generation.
Persecution of the Quakers .- The persecution of the Qnakers in New England during the middle and latter part of the seventeenth century is too well known to be repeated here. This honored town did
not escape the fanaticism of the day, as we have re- corded evidence that "three vagabond Quakers, Anna Coleman, Mary Tompkins, and Abie Ambrose," were made fast to the " cart's tail" and whipped upon their naked backs through the town. This decree was ordered by Richard Waldron, dated "Dover, Dec. 22, 1662." It was sent to the varions constables in the towns from Dover to Dedham, that those Qua- kers should be conveyed from constable to constable, receiving ten stripes in each town "till they are out of this jurisdiction." This order was only executed in Dover, Hampton, and Salisbury. In the latter town Walter Barefoot, under the pretence of deliver- ing them to the constable of Newbury, secured them from further cruelty by sending them out of the provinee.
CHAPTER XLVII.
HAMPTON .- ( Contiuned.)
First Vote conceroing British Oppression-Tea Act Resolves-Provincial Congress-Guard-Committee of Safety-Soldiers' Bounties-List of Revolutionary Soldiers-Soldiers of the Rebellion.
THE first recorded action of the town of Hampton concerning the war of the Revolution was under date of Jan. 17, 1774, when a series of resolutions were passed called the "Tea Aet Resolves." They stigma- tized the tea tax as "unreasonable and unconstitu- tional," and, further, that " it must be evident to every one that is not lost to virtue nor devoid of common sense that if they are submitted to will be totally destructive to our natural and constitutional rights and liberties, and have a direet tendency to reduce the Americans to a state of actual slavery."
At this meeting the following committee of corre- spondence was chosen : Mr. Philip Towle, Capt. Jo- siah Moulton, Amos Coffin, Esq., Mr. William Lane, and Josiah Moulton (3d).
July 18, 1774, Col. Jonathan Moulton, Col. Chris- topher Toppan, Capt. Josiah Moulton, and Mr. Josiah Moulton (3d) were chosen delegates to the Provincial Congress to be holden at Exeter on the 21st inst. to chose delegates to the Continental Congress."
Aug. 7, 1775, it was “ voted to set a guard of four men each night upon the Beach until the Fall of the year."
July 29, 1776, four pounds was voted to each man who should enlist, in addition to the bounty given by the colony.
List of Revolutionary Soldiers .- The following is a list of Revolutionary soldiers from this town :
" A roll of the company who enlisted under Capt. Henry Elkins and went to the assistance of the Mas- sachusetts colony (the next day after the fight at Concord) as far as Ipswich ; the following is a list :
Captain, Henry Elkins; Lieutenants, James Per- kins and John Dearborn ; Privates, Simon Sanborn,
HOMESTEAD OF MARY A. BATCHELDER, HAMPTON, N. H.
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Edmund Mason, Philip Marston, John Lamprey, Jr., Jabez Towle, Jonathan Marston, Jr., Daniel Phil- brick, Jr., John Sanbur, of Epping, Jonathan Moul- ton, Jr., Amos Knowles, Jr., John M. Moulton, Sam- uel Hobbs, John Dow, Samuel Marston, Edward Moulton, Jonathan Shaw, Carter Batchelder, John Taylor, Jr., John Sanborn, Abner Sanborn, Joshua Towle, Jr., Joseph Freese, Edmund Philbrick, Na- thaniel Foster, Jonathan Knowles, Simon Towle, Daniel Tilton, Simon Philbrick, Simon Moulton, James Hobbs, and James Tuck.
Hampton, April 20, 1775.
The following are the names of the soldiers who went to Portsmouth in October, 1775:
Lients. Cotton Ward and John Dearborn ; Privates, Abner Page, Joshua Towle. Jethro Blake, Moses Brown, Jacob Palmer, Daniel Tilton, Benjamin Page, Robert Drake, Noah Lane, Small Moulton, and John Dow.
List of men who went to Ticonderoga in July, 1776: Samuel Nay, captain ; John, John M., and Josiah Moulton (3), Micajah Morrill, Jr., Edmund Philbrick, Zacchens Brown, John Drake, Jr., David Moulton, Samuel Lamprey, John Murphy, Samuel Marston, Simeon Philbrick, Jonathan Palmer, Samuel Hobbs, and James Hobbs.
Lieut. Joseph Dearborn served in 1777, and his son in 1775. Sergt. Joseph Freese served in 1775.
The following is a list of those who went to Sara- toga in October, 1777 : Colonel, Jonathan Moulton ; Captain, John Dearborn ; Clerk, Josiah Lane; Ser- geants, John Sanborn, Moses Elkins; Lieutenant, John Taylor; Corporals, Joshua Towle, Abner Page, and Nathan Brown; Privates, Jonathan Philbrick, Abner Sanborn, Samuel Marsten, Benjamin Page, Jacob Palmer, Noah Lane, Jabez James, Josiah Ma- son, Jonathan Godfrey, Jeremiah Ballard, Batchelor Brown, Jonathan Marston, Jabez Towle, Samuel Drake, Jacob Moulton, John M. Moulton, Joseph Nay, James Lane, and Jethro Blake.
The following enlisted in 1781 for three months, for twenty-five bushels of Indian corn per month or money equal thereto : Amos Garland, Thomas Church- hill, Zadoc Sanborn, Josiah Dearborn, Jr., Simon Doe, Jr., William Batchiler, Josiah Dearborn, and Isaac Godfrey.
Samuel Batchiler, Tristram Godfrey, and William Moulton enlisted for the term of six months. On July 10, 1780, the following enlisted for a term of three months: Batchiler Brown, John Dearborn, John Marston, Zaccheus Brown, Amos Brown, Joseph Freese Dearborn, Thomas Moore, Samuel Marston, and Simon Ward.
SIGNERS OF THE ASSOCIATION TEST IN HAMPTON.
Small Moulton
Jamee Hobbs
Thomas Leavitt
Samuel Dow
Robert Molton
John Moulton
John Lamprey
Henry Elkios
Josuth Dearbon
John Moulton 5
Josiah Monlton
John Dow
Edward Shaw
Samuel Shaw
Oliver Wellington Lane
Jonathan Tucke
Jonathan Tacke Jr.
Nathaniel Towle
Joshua Towle
Jonathan Shaw Benjamin Batchelor
Joshna Towle, Jr.
Elisha Marston
Jonathan Marston Jr
Carter Batchelder
Amos Towle, Jr.
Elisha Towle
Joseph Nay
Ebenezer Thayer
Jolin Nay
Jona Moulton
Josiah Towl
Josiah Moulton Jr
Daniel Philbrick, Jr
John Moulton
George Freese Joseph Freese
Joseph Johnson
Jeremiah Ballord
Nathaniel Johnson
John Dearbon
John Bacheldor
Jonathan Garland Jr
John Lane
Robert Drake, Jr.
Jereb Shaw
Jeremiah Towle
John Johnson
Nathan Dearborn
Jos. Munlton bis
Ephraim Marston Philip Towle
Joseph > Garland
Philip Towle, Jr. Winthrop Sanborn
mark
Amos Coffin
Thomas Jennese
Thomas Woodman
John Moulton, Jr.
Joshua James
Nathan Brown
Stephen Page
Jonathan Marston
Thomas Page
Simon Towle
Samuel Drake
Jereb Marston, Jr.
Samuel Drake, Jr
Nathan Sanboru
John Drake, Jr
Benj. Brown Shaw
Joshua Tenney
Hent Fifield
John Jeness Jr
Sam Brown
Christo Topp'an
Samuel Brown, Jr.
Benjamin Page
John Allaman, Jr.
Willm Branscombe
Morris Hobbs
Abner Page
Jonathan Locke
Sinon Dow
Nathan Moulton
John Marston
Jolın Moulton The 3d
James Johnson
Samuel Page
Andrew Mace
John Tack
Ephraim Moulton
James Perkins
Jacob Palmer
John Lamprey, Jr.
Sammel Philbrick
Zecheriah Brown
Jamies Philbrick
Thomas Nudd
Gideon Shaw
Samuel Nicole.
Nathaniel Lamprey
Moses Brown
Reuben Lamprey Jon& Dowst
John Crosbie Simon Lane
William Moulton
William Lane, Jr.
Samuel Lock
Benja Moulton
Jeremiah Know les Amos Knowles
Joseph Towle, Jr.
Amos Knowles, Jr.
Benjamin Mason
Philip Marston
Josialı Mason
Elisha Moulton
Jonathan Elking
Jeremiah Sanborn
Moses Elkins
Simon Sanborn
John Towl
Ezekiel Moulton
Samuel Blake
John Fogg
Ebenezer Lane
John Sanborn
Josiah Lane
Benjamin Tucke
Nathan Blake
John Taylor
Jonathan Blake
Henry D. Taylor
Lemuel Toulle
Micajah Morrill
Abrm Perkins Towle
John Taylor, Jr. Joseph Philbrick
Jethery Blake David Moulton James Towle
Jonathan Towl Nathaniel Batcheler
Robert Drake
John Drake
John Moulton 6
Abner Sauboro
Jonathan Godfree
Jonathan Moulton, Jr. Edward B. Moulton.
Jonathan Sanborn Jonathan Leavit
Simon Marston Slmbel Page
John Philbrick
Stephen Fifield
Joshua Shaw
Amos Towle
his John X Readmian mark
Anthony Emery
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Ward Lane
William Lane Jona Garland
Sammel Nay Daniel Lamprey Edmund Mason Samuel Marston
John Randell
Cotton Ward
Elisha Jobnson 174.
Joseph Dow
Colony of ) Pursuant to the within Request we New Hamp'sr ) the Subscribers, Select men of Hamp- ton have Desired all males within said Hampton above twenty one years of age (Lunaticks Idiots & Negroes Excepted,) to sign to the declaration on this paper and these are that have refused to sign the same, (viz) Capt Jeremiah Marston & Daniel Phil- brick. 2.
Given under our hands, Dated at Hampton afore- said. June ye 4th 1776.
WILLIAM LANE JOSEPH DOW
JOSIAH DEARBORN JONATHAN GARLAND COTTON WARD
Select men of
Hampton
To the Honble General Assembly or the Committee of Safety of said Colony of New Hampshire.
Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion.1
SECOND REGIMENT.2
Joseph S Gillespie, Co. B, June 1, 1861 ; sergt., June 13, 1865; re-en- listed ; drowned in James River, Va.
THIRD REGIMENT.
Charles F. Dunbar, capt., Ang. 22, 1861 ; resigned.
O M. Dearborn, 2d hent., Ang. 22, 1861 ; 1865.
J. C. Dunbar, Ist sergt., Ang. 23, 1861 ; July 31, 1862 ; disability.
Geo. Perkins, sergt., Ang. 23, 1861 ; killed in action.
D. P. Marston, sergt., Ang. 23, 1861 ; March II, 1862; disability.
J. W. Akerman, corp., Aug. 23, 1861; 2d lieut., July 28, 1863; resigned. Abram Dow, corp., Aug. 23, 1861 ; sergt., Nov. 5, 1862; disability. William E. Lane, corp., Aug. 23, 1861 ; Ang. 23, 1864. J. S James, corp., Ang. 23, 1861 ; capt., July 20, 1865.
W. H. Blake, Ang. 23, 1861 ; Aug. 23, 1864 ; wounded.
G. T Crane, Aug. 23, 1861 ; sergt., June 26, 1865; disability.
J. N. Dow, Aug. 23, 1861 ; eergt., Feb, 20, 1862; died of disease.
H. B. Dearborn, Aug. 23, 1861 ; July 20, 1865.
S. W. Dearborn, Aug. 23, 1861 ; Aug. 23, 1864.
W. L. Dodge, Aug. 26, 1861; 1st lient., Oct. 16, 1864 ; resigned. James Fair, Aug. 23, 1861 ; killed in action, June 16, 1862.
G. W. Goss, Ang. 23, 1861 ; sergt., May 20, 1865 ; wounded.
W. H. Godfrey, Aug. 23, 1861 ; Aug. 23, 1864.
J. F. Hobbs, Aug. 23, 1861 ; corp., Mareb 15, 1865 ; died of disease.
G. W. Marston, Avg. 23, 1861 ; July 20, 1865.
David W. Perkins, Ang. 23, 1861 ; pro. to Ist sergt., May 13, 1864 ; killed in action.
J. E. Palmer, Ang. 23, 1861 ; May 16, 1864 ; killed in action.
S. N. 'Lamprey, corp., Ang. 23, 1861; pro. to 1st lieut., Aug. 16, 1864; died from wounds.
A. J. Towie, 2d lient .; not mustered.
J. W. Dow, sergt., rejected at Concord, N. H .; disability.
Excepting Simon N. Lamprey, who was in Co. B, the above went out as part of Co. D. Lieut. Towle was counted out by additions from other places, and not mustered. Sergt. J. W. Dow could not pass medical examination ; both served with company three months while at Fort Constitution, N. H., previous to its going to the Third.
John S. James, G. T. Crane, H. B. Dearborn, G. W. Goss, J. F. Hobbs, and G. W. Marston re-enlisted in 1864. Of the twenty-five, four were killed in action, one died of wounds, two of disease, and two were wounded. Twelve served three years, and three were with regiment at final muster. Ten out of the twenty-five are alive to-day, only six of which served three years or more.
FIFTH REGIMENT.
0. W. Blake, Co. D, Oct. 23, 1861 ; Oct. 25, 1862 ; disability.
A. W. Shaw, Co. D, Oct. 23, 1861; Nov. 20, 1862; wounded.
SIXTH REGIMENT.
T. H. Dearborn, Co. D, sergt., Nov. 27, 1861; capt., Nov. 27, 1864 ; re- signed.
J. Elkins, Co. D, musician, Nov. 27, 1861 ; musician, June 24, 1862; disa- bility.
A. J. Davis, Co. D, Nov. 27, 1861 ; Nov. 29, 1864. SEVENTH REGIMENT. W. Dearborn, Co. K, Dec. 11, 1861 ; June 26, 1862; disability.
EIGHTIl REGIMENT.
J. C. Davis, Co. B, Nov. 22, 1861 ; Jan. 17, 1865.
NINTH REGIMENT. D. Godfrey, Co. G, May 17, 1864 : Oct. 22, 1864; died of disease.
ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
F. K. Stratton, chaplain, Sept. 3, 1862; chaplain, May 5, 1865; resigned.
D. A. Moniton, Co. I, corp., Sept. 3, 1862 ; sergt., June 4, 1865; wounded.
J. Batchelder, Co. I, Sept. 3, 1862; July 30, 1864 : missed in action.
FOURTEENTH REGIMENT.
J. C. Perkins, Co. D, sergt., Sept. 23, 1862.
S. S. Page, Co. D, corp, Sept. 23, 1862: July 8, 1865.
P. A. Emery, Co. D, Sept. 23, 1862; July 18, 1865 ; wounded.
J. T. Godfrey, Co. D, Sept. 23, 1862; July 8, 1865.
O. H. Godfrey, Co. D, Sept. 23, 1862; July 8, 1865.
J. A. Gillespie, Co. D, Sept. 23, 1862; July 7, 1865; wounded.
P. Ileffrou, Co. D, Sept. 23, 1862; July 8, 1865.
0. II. Marston, Co. D, Sept. 23, 1862; July 8, 1865.
M. Marston, Co. D, Sept. 23, 1862; Sept. 19, 1864 ; killed in action.
FIFTEENTH REGIMENT.
D. F. Nudd, Co. I, sergt., Oct. 24, 1862; Ang. 13, 1863.
A. B. Blake, Co. I, Oct. 24, 1862; Ang. 13, 1863.
T. Dunbracke, Jr., Co. I, Oct. 24, 1862; Aug. 13, 1863.
J. Elkins, Co. 1, Oct. 24, 1862; Aug. 13, 1863.
J. L. Godfrey, Co. I, Oct. 24, 1862; Aug. 13, 1863. Charles Godfrey, Co. I, Oct. 31, 1862; Aug. 13, 1863.
B. F. Goodwin, Co. I, Oct. 31, 1862; Ang. 13, 1863.
G. W. Leavitt, Co. I, Oct. 24, 1862; Ang. 13, 1863.
R. B. Laird, Co. I, Oct. 24, 1862; Aug. 13, 1863.
J. D. Lamprey, Co. I, Oct. 31, 1862: July, 1863; killed in action.
C. G. Perkins,4 Co. K, Oct. 16, 1862; Ang. 13, 1863.
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.
E. J. Hobbs, Co. K, sergt., Oct. 25, 1862 ; sergt., Aug. 20, 1863. T. Fisher, Co. K, Oct. 25, 1862; June 15, 1863; died of disease. C. M. Perkins, Co. K, Oct. 25, 1862; Aug. 20, 1863.
J. D. Perkins, Co. K, Nov. 13, 1862; Ang. 20, 1863.
EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.
O. L. Blake, Co. G, Jan. 6, 1865; July 29, 1865.
J. W. Mace, Co. G, Jap. 7, 1865 ; July 29, 1865.
J. W. Lewis, Co. D, Sept. 20, 1864 ; June 10, 1865.
1 Prepared by William Ladd Dodge.
2 The first date indicates date of muster; the last date of discharge, unless otherwise indicated
3 J. C. Perkine absent, sick, when regiment was minstered, and die- charged from hospital date unknowu. S. S. Page was captured and con- fined for a time in Libby Prison. Parker A. Emery and J. A. Gillespie were wounded and transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps and discharged from there.
* +C. G. Perkins also served during the war in First Regiment Maine Cavalry.
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G. Dearborn, Troop " M," Dec. 24, 1861; missed in action Oct. 12, 1863 ; died in Andersonville Prieon July 25, 1864.
M. 11. Godfrey. Troop " M," Jan. 8, 1862; re-en1. Jan. 5, 1864 ; died from sunstroke in Virginia July 2, 1864.
J. W. Lewis, Troop " M," Jan. 20, 1862; June 25, 1862.
J. D. Lamprey, Troop " M," Feb. 17, 1862; Nov. 17, 1862.
FIRST REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY.
HI. N. T. Blake, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864; Jone 15, 1865.
W. T. Blake, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864; June 15, 1865.
A. B. Blake, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864; June 15, 1865.
C. W. Brown, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864 ; June 15, 1865.
C. W. Drake, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864 ; June 15, 1865. G. O. Leavitt, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864; June 15, 1865. D. Y. Moulton, Jr., Co. K, Sept. 17. 1864 ; June 15, 1865, D. B. Johnson, Co. K. Sept. 17, 1864; June 15, 1865. J. A. Philbrick, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864 ; June 15, 1865.
J. G. Mace, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864; June 15, 1865. A. W. Shaw, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864; June 15, 1865.
D. A. Towle, Co. K, Sept. 17, 1864; June 15, 1865.
UNITED STATES NAVY AND MARINE.
Everitt D. Blake, enlisted for three years ; died of disease. G. E. Blake.
T. S. Blake.
J. C. Dunbar, enlisted for three years.
Charles Godfrey, enlisted for one year.
D. Godfrey, enlisted for three years; killed in action.
C. M. Hobbs.
J. Lamprey, enlisted for three years.
L. S. Lamprey.
J. Locke, enlisted for one year.
J. W. Mace, enlisted for one year.
J. H. Nudd.
J. E. Riley, enlisted for three years.
A. M. Steveus.
F. W. Stevens, died of disease.
Those serving in other than New Hampshire regi- ments :
J. A. Blake, Mass.
J. T. Moulton, Ist Maine Cavalry ; lost an arm.
J. D. Palmer, 12th Mass .; killed in action. Samuel Palmer, Mas6.
J. Page, Mass.
E. S. Perkine, 30th ; killed in action.
A. J. Philbrick, 2d District Columbia.
D. T. Philbrick, 22d Mass .; missed in action.
G. B. Wingate, Ist Mass. Cavalry; died in service from dssease con- tracted io Libby Prison, Va.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
HAMPTON .- (Continued.)
ECCLESIASTICAL-MISCELLANEOUS.
Congregational Church-Methodist Church-Baptist Church-Adveut Church-Physicians-Hampton as a Summer Resort-Incorporation of Town-Original Territorial Limits-List of Representatives from 1639 to 1883-Town Clerks.
Congregational Church. - The Congregational Church of Hampton is the oldest existing church in the State, and was the seventeenth formed in the colony of Massachusetts. A church in Exeter was formed the same year, but it existed only a few years.
The organization of the church was co-existent
with the settlement of the town. In fact, the pioneers were united in church covenant before coming to the new settlement.
The first pastor was Rev. Stephen Bachelor, then seventy-seven years of age, who had been a minister in England for many years. ITis descendants are numerous in this vicinity.
In the early days of the settlement the church wor- shiped in a log building which stood near the present academy. The first recorded action found concern- ing the erection of a framed church building was under date of April 6, 1840, when the town voted "to build a meeting-house 40 feet long, 22 Feet wide, and 13 Feet high 'between Joints.' A place to be fixed for a Bell now given by the Rev. Pastor Batcheldor."
This primitive structure was built by voluntary con- tribution, and many years elapsed before it was com- pleted. When it was first occupied as a house of wor- ship is not known. The first churches were without pews.
The third meeting-house was erected in 1675, near the site of the old one. By an order of the town all the inhabitants of more than twenty years of age were required to assist in its raising. During Mr. Gookin's ministry, in 1719, the fourth church edifice was erected. It was first finished with one pew for the minister's family. Others were subsequently added. The fifth church building was erected in 1797.
Pastors .- As mentioned above, the first pastor was Rev. Stephen Bachelor, who remained until 1641. In 1639, Rev. Timothy Dalton became associated with Mr. Bachelor in the pastoral office, and upon the latter's dismissal in 1641, Mr. Dalton succeeded him and was sole pastor of the church about six years, when the celebrated Rev. John Wheelwright became his associate. He was subsequently dismissed, and Mr. Dalton again ministered alone to the little settle- ment. Mr. Dalton gave to the church and town of Hampton the property from which the ministerial funds of Hampton, Hampton Falls, and North Hamp- ton were derived.
Mr. Dalton died in 1660, and he was succeeded as pastor by Rev. Seaborn Cotton, a son of John Cotton, the celebrated New England divine. He continued in the ministry until his death, in 1686. After the death of Mr. Cotton the church was destitute of a pastor about ten years. The next regular pastor was Rev. John Cotton, who was ordained Nov. 19, 1696, and continued in the ministry until his death, March 27, 1710. Rev. Nathaniel Gookin was the next pas- tor, from 1710 to 1734. The next pastor was Rev. Ward Cotton, from 1734 to 1765. He was followed, in 1766, by Rev. Ebenezer Thayer, who remained until his death, in 1792. Soon after the death of Mr. Thayer a division arose in the church, and a majority declared themselves Presbyterians, held the old church building, and called Rev. William Pidgin to the pas- toral office, who accepted and was ordained Jan. 27, 1796, and remained until 1807. The minority built a
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church edifice; and called Rev. Joseph Appleton in 1797. In 1807, Mr. Appleton was elected president of Bowdoin College, and both churches were thus destitute of pastors. They were then rennited, the Presbyterian being merged in the Congregational, and Rev. Josiah Webster installed pastor July 8, 1808, and continued in that office until his death, in 1837. The pastors from that time to the present have been as follows : Erasmus D. Eldredge, 1838-49 ; Sol- omon D. Fay, 1849-55; John Colby, 1855-63; John W. Dodge, 1865-68; James McLean, 1870-72; F. D. Chandler, 1873-75; John S. Batchelder, 1875-78; William 11. Cutler, 1878, present incumbent.
The present house of worship was erected in 1843, and dedicated in January of the following year.
Methodist Episcopal Church.1-Methodism was introduced into the town of Hampton in the year 1835 by the Rev. James M. Fuller, at that time sta- tioned at Lamprey River, Newmarket, who some time in December came to Hampton and preached one Saturday evening in the North school-house, and the Sunday following in the old meeting-honse, at that time unoccupied. The Rev. Mr. Fuller was fol- lowed in two weeks by the Rev. James H. Patterson, then stationed at Newfield, Newmarket, after which there was no Methodist preaching in town until July, 1836, when the Rev. Mr. Fuller once more visited the place and spoke to the people about "the way of life and salvation." From July until November there was preaching regularly once in two weeks, the pulpit being supplied by ministers from the body known in Methodism as "local preachers." Such was the en- couragement given to these regular services by the people of the town that the friends of Methodism de- cided in November to hold a "protracted meeting," as a result of which about twenty professed conver- sion and were gathered into a " class," which may be said to be the beginning of the Methodist Church in Hampton. The society had been worshiping during these months in the old meeting-house above men- tioned, a church formerly occupied by the Christian Society, but then owned by Messrs. Fogg and Lam- prey. In the spring of 1837 the house was given to the Methodist Society for their use while they should occupy it as a place of worship, and after due repairs it was dedicated to the worship of God, May 22d, the Rev. Mr. Fuller preaching an appropriate serinon from Psalms xciii. 5: " Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever."
The church and society being now quite well estab- lished it was thought best to move forward a little, and at the session of the New Hampshire Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which met at Great Falls, July 4. 1837, Hampton was joined with the Seabrook Station, and received its first regularly appointed ministerial supply in the services of the Rev. E. D. Trickey and the Rev. John Brodhead, who
were stationed on the circuit, but as the Rev. Mr. Brodhead confined his labors almost entirely to Hamp- ton from "Conference" until his death, which occurred at his home in South Newmarket, April 7, 1838, he may be said to have been the first Methodist preacher stationed in Hampton. In 1838 Hampton was con- nected with Greenland, and the Rev. E. D. Trickey and William Padman were appointed to the circuit. The Rev. Mr. Padman, however, gave most of his services to the Hampton Church, and during the year there was a revival of religious interest and quite a number of additions were made to the church. In 1839 Hampton was joined with Rye, and the Rev. S. A. Cushing was appointed to the circuit, one to be supplied, and the Rev. A. M. Osgood was appointed by the presiding elder to assist Mr. Cushing on the circuit, and they labored alternately in each place from week to week until January, 1840, when the Rev. Mr. Cushing was released from the circuit, and Mr. Osgood directed to finish the year at Hampton, which he did, with some considerable success attending his labors.
Since 1840, Hampton has been an independent sta- tion, and has been served by the following pastors : 1840, A. M. Osgood; 1841, Abraham Folsom; 1842- 43, H. N. Taplin ; 1844, John F. Adams; 1845, J. M. Young ; 1846, C. H. Chase; 1847-48, Henry Nutter ; 1849, A. M. Osgood; 1850, Ira A. Sweatland ; 1851, Matthew Newhall.
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