History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 85

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

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Dr. Jabez Dow, the son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Bachelder) Dow, was born Jan. 24, 1776. He moved to Dover, N. H., where he died Jan. 9, 1839.

Dr. Jonathan French, a native of East Kingston, was a physician in Kensington a few years.

Dr. Jeremiah Dow, the son of Benjamin Dow, graduated at the Medical School in Hanover in 1825, practiced a short time in Kensington, and removed to Hiram, Me., where he died.

Dr. Jonathan Brown, the son of Abel and Sarah (Page) Brown, was born in Kensington, July 12,

1805, graduated at the Medical School in Hanover in 1828, was a teacher in Virginia, was a physician in Greenland, St. Domingo.

Dr. Cyrus Dearborn, a native of Chester, was a physician in Kensington a few years, and removed to East Salisbury, Mass., where he died.

Dr. Jonathan Baily was a physician in Kensington a few years, but removed to East Kingston, where he died.

Dr. Joseph Otis Osgood, the son of Dr. George and Elizabeth (Otis) Osgood, of Andover, Mass., was born in Fairhaven, Mass., Dec. 23, 1782; graduated at Har- vard College in 1804; was a teacher in Milton, Mass., and Gorham, Me .; commenced the study of theol- ogy with the Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., of Hampton ; studied medicine with his father and with Dr. Miller, of Franklin, Mass. ; was a member of the Massachu- setts Medical Society ; practiced in Amesbury, Haver- hill, Boston, Mass., North Carolina, Windham ; came to Kensington, where he died Feb. 10, 1864, aged fifty- nine. He married Elizabeth Boardman, and left two

The Congregational Church was built on a lot to sons. He gave the oration at a celebration on July

4th in Kensington, gave lectures in other places, and wrote a history of St. Domingo, a work in two vol- umes, which was highly commended.

Dr. Jacob Williams came from Groton, Mass., and spent a few years in Kensington, where he died.

Education .- Schools were sustained in different parts of the town, and for a number of years a Centre school was placed near the church. In 1779 this Centre school was removed, and since that time the schools have been placed in other localities. At present the school-houses are well built, well furnished, and are highly creditable to the town. Before the Revolution the Centre school was taught by men of superior edu- cation. The Hon. William Parker, of Portsmouth, who graduated at Harvard College in 1762, was a teacher here. He afterwards was a lawyer in East Kingston and Exeter, and for many years was register of probate for Rockingham County. Ebenezer Potter, a native of Ipswich, Mass., who graduated at Harvard College in 1766, taught school here several years, and held a number of prominent offices in the town, where he died. Nathan Dow, a gentleman of education and ability, was for many years a teacher. Joseph Chase Hilliard was a well-known teacher in this and other towns in this vicinity; died March 29, 1853, aged sixty-five years.

The Hon. James W. Patterson, superintendent of schools in New Hampshire, gave a favorable report of education here. Within a few years our young women have been interested in education, and after leaving our schools passed a few years in higher in- structions of learning. Mrs. R. Akerman, who has taught with great success in various places, and writ- ten school exercises which have been highly com- mended by the leaders of education, well deserves to be noticed. Sarah Abby Green and Ellen M. Smith I graduated at the Normal School in Salem. Susan L.

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Brown, Elizabeth Hilliard, Sarah Hilliard, Clara L. Rowe, Susan S. Chase, and Agnes Badger graduated at the Putnam School in Newburyport, Mass. Clara Kimball, Emma Blodgett, Ellen M. Smith, Clara E. Kimball, and Livrie S. Titcomb graduated at the Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter. Other yonng men and women have for shorter terms sought the advantages of education in the higher schools in this vicinity.

LIST OF GRADUATES .- In 1760, Kensington sent two young men to Harvard College. Rev. Timothy Hilliard, the son of Deacon Joseph Chase and Hul- dah (Monlton) Hilliard, was born Feb. 17, 1746; graduated at Harvard College in 1764; was ordained in Barnstable, Mass .; was settled over the First Church in Cambridge, Mass., where he died July, 1790.

Rev. Daniel Fogg, the son of Daniel and Anna (Elkins) Fogg, was born in Rye, Aug. 7, 1743; re- sided with his uncle, the Rev. J. Fogg, in Kensington ; was graduated at Harvard College in 1764; went to England and was ordained as an Episcopal minister (as at that time there was no bishop in this country); was settled over Trinity Church, in Pomfret Town, in April, 1772; marrried Deborah Brinley ; died June 29, 1815, in the seventy-second year of his age, and the forty-third of his rectorship.

Jeremiah Fogg, the son of the Rev. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Parsons) Fogg, was born Oct. 16, 1749; graduated at Harvard College, 1768, and died May 26, 1808, aged fifty-nine. (See military history.)

William Fogg, the son of Rev. Jeremiah and Eliza- beth (Parsons) Fogg, was born April 30, 1755; grad- uated at Harvard College in 1774; was teacher in Fredericksburg, Va., and other places, and died, un- married, Aug. 17, 1807, aged fifty-three.

Nathaniel Healey, the son of Nathaniel and Su- sanna (Weare) Healey, was born in Kensington; graduated at Harvard College in 1777, and died in Hollowell, Me., in 1823. He was engaged in trade, and is said to have lost his property in making a canal from the Hampton to the Merrimac River.

Rev. Joseph Warren Dow, the son of Joseph Dow, was born April 8, 1779, graduated at Harvard Col- lege, 1805, and was settled in Farmingham, Mass.

Timothy, the son of Joseph and Anna (Lovering) Hilliard, was baptized Feb. 26, 1786, graduated at Harvard College in 1809, was ordained in Sudbury, Mass., studied medicine, taught school, and died in Lee, N. H., in 1847. Dr. William Osgood, the son of Dr. Joseph Otis and Elizabeth (Fogg) Osgood, was born in Kensington, March 10, 1823, graduated at Harvard College, 1850, taught the academy in Belfast, Me., graduated from Jefferson Medical Col- lege/ Philadelphia, in 1855, settled in Boston as a physician in 1855, where he has since resided. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Abraham Hilliard, the son of Joseph and Anna (Lovering) Hilliard, was born June 14, 1778, gradu- ated at Dartmouth College in 1800, studied law in

Dover, resided at Cambridge, Mass., as a lawyer and as register of probate, and died, unmarried, in 1855, aged seventy-six.

Rev. Amos Brown, LL.D. (Hobart Free College, 1858), the son of Stephen and Susan (Bagley) Brown, was born March 11, 1804, graduated at Dartmonth College in 1832, 'studied theology at the Andover Theological Seminary, was for many years principal of the academy in Gorham, Me., was ordained in 1848 at Machias, Me., where he resided a few years, and in 1852 went to Central New York. He died in Havanna, N. Y., Ang. 17, 1874. He made bequests to the church in Kensington, and also for a library and school, but the funds are not yet available.

Ebenezer Franklin Tuck, the son of Samnel and Martha (Fogg) Tuck, was born Feb. 16, 1822, gradu- ated at Dartmouth College in 1843, studied law with Bell & Tuck, in Exeter, and at the Harvard Law School, settled in Exeter, where he died May 30, 1857, aged thirty -five.

Edward Prentice Tuck, the son of Samuel and Martha (Fogg) Tuck, was born Ang. 30, 1825, edu- cated at Harvard College in the class of 1846, studied law, has been civil engineer, mechanic, teacher, hotel- keeper, and editor. On June 10, 1861, he joined the Second North Carolina Cavalry, in the Confederate army. After various battles he was taken prisoner by the Union troops, and on Oct. 23, 1863, took the oath of allegiance to the United States. He was in the Army of the Cumberland under Gen. George H. Thomas, at the siege of Nashville. He has resided in Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina, and now resides in Williamsburg County, S. C.

Dr. Henry Tuck, the son of Jonathan and Dorothy (Webster) Tuck, was born Feb. 16, 1808, studied med- icine with Dr. George Hayward, of Boston, graduated at the Harvard Medical School in 1834, settled in Barnstable, Mass., in 1834, joined the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1837, and died on a visit at Ken- sington, June 24, 1845. He was buried in Barnstable.

Rev. Jeremy Webster Tuck, the son of Jonathan and Dorothy (Webster) Tuck, was born Oct. 8, 1811, graduated at Amherst College in 1840, studied theol- ogy at the Theological Seminary in Andover and at the Theological Institute in East Windsor, Conn., was ordained in Ludlow, Mass., Sept. 6, 1843. He has preached in Thorndike, Mass., Jewett City, and Mid- dletown, Conn. He now resides in Middletown. His centennial address at Ludlow and several of his ser- mons have been printed, and he has also contributed many articles to the newspapers.

Rev. Joseph Osgood, the son of Dr. Joseph Otis and Elizabeth (Fogg) Osgood, was born Sept. 23, 1815 (the day of the great September gale), graduated at the Cambridge Divinity School in 1842, was ordained in Cohasset, Mass., October, 1842, where he has re- sided more than forty years. He is interested in edu- cation, and for several years has been the superinten- dent of the schools in Cohasset.

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George Osgood, the son of Dr. Joseph Otis and Elizabeth ( Fogg) Osgood, was born Oct. 8, 1817, grad- uated at the Divinity School in Cambridge in 1847, was ordained in Standish, Me., Dec. 22, 1853, was settled several years in Tyngsborough, Mass., has preached in Eastport, Me., Windsor, Vt., Montagne, Mass., and Lancaster, N. H., and now resides in Ken- sington. He occasionally writes for the press, and at one time was the editor of the Exeter News- Letter.

Rev. Ezra Baily Chase, the son of Ezra B. and Bet- sey (Clarke) Chase, was born Oct. 15, 1847, graduated at Marietta College, Ohio, 1873, and at the Divinity School in New Haven, Conn., in 1876, was ordained in Courtland, Ohio, June 20, 1876, and is now settled in the ministry in West Bloomfield, Ohio.

Rev. Jonathan G. Brown, the son of Stephen and Susan Bayley Brown, was born July 13, 1818, was or- dained as a Christian Baptist minister, and preached in Salisbury, Mass., New Bedford, Dartmouth, Mass. He joined the Calvinistic Baptist denomination, and has preached in Peterboro' and Hopkinton, N. H., Millbury, Mass., and other places, and now resides in Western New York.

Dr. Moses Brown (the twin-brother of Rev. J. E. Brown), the son of Stephen and Susan (Bayley) Brown, was born July 13, 1818, studied medicine with Dr. Dearborn, practiced as a physician in East Kings- ton, N. H., New Bedford, Mass., Newburyport, Mass., and other places, and now resides in Vineyard Haven, Mass.

Dr. John Angell Blodgett, the son of Elder J. C. and Abigail (Shaw) Blodgett, was born Ang. 20, 1855, educated at Phillips' Academy in Exeter, graduated at the Medical College in Detroit, Mich., in 1880, and died just as he had completed his medical studies, Feb. 20, 1880, in Detroit, sincerely lamented by his classmates and by a large circle of friends.

Dr. Daniel Fogg, the son of the Rev. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Parsons) Fogg, was born April 6, 1759, was a physician in Braintree, Mass., where he died April 23, 1830, aged seventy-one.

Dr. John Fogg, the son of Rev. Jeremiah and Eliza- beth (Parsons) Fogg, was born Feb. 26, 1764, was a physician in Northampton, where he died March 5, 1816, aged fifty-two.

Jeremiah Parsons Fogg, the son of Maj. Jeremiah and Lydia Hill Fogg, was born May 19, 1788, was edu- cated at Phillips' Academy in Exeter, was a lawyer in Stenbenville, Ohio, and died in Louisville, Ky.

Dr. John Dow, the son of Capt. Benjamin Dow, was born Aug. 23, 1796; studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Jabez Dow, of Dover, practiced in Sanford, Me., Pittston, Me., and Boston, Mass., and died in Boston, March, 1871.

Currency .- When the Rev. J. Fogg was settled and during his ministry the currency of the country varied very much in value. In 1760 his salary was fifteen hundred pounds. In 1782, John Green bid off the building of the ponnd for forty-seven Spanish milled

dollars. Deacon Jeremiah Fellows paid fifteen hun- dred dollars for an anvil which was worth only fifteen dollars in silver. In 1781 a committee was chosen to hire soldiers with either provisions, hard money, or paper currency. In 1786, when it was found to be very difficult to hire a collector of taxes, Maj. Fogg, who had been absent, came into the town-meeting and said that he would give something for the office, and paid one pound and ten shillings, and thus by his superior intelligence and forecast made an excel- lent investment. In the war of the Rebellion, when gold commanded the highest premium, intelligent and sagacious financiers and statesmen looked with confidence to the time of specie payments, when the credit of the country should be fully restored.

Slaves .- When Parson Fogg, July 17, 1739, was married to Elizabeth, the daughter of the Rev. Joseph Parsons, of Salisbury, he brought his wife on a pillion behind him to the new manse. Deacon Abraham Moulton carried behind him Phyllis Parsons, a small black girl, who was her slave. Phyllis was bright and intelligent, and as she grew up was engaged to William Mingo, a colored soldier who died on the frontier. After his death she was engaged to his brother, Eben Mingo, but refused to be married until she should be free, for she declared that "she would never bring a slave into the world." Phyllis then went to Salisbury, in the province of Massachusetts, and lived a year and a day (probably keeping dark), when the selectmen came and warned her ont of town, lest she should become a public charge. Then she made a polite courtesy and said, " Gentlemen, you are one day too late;" for by the laws of the time she had not only gained her freedom but also her residence. She taught school among the white people, saying very proudly, "It is no small thing to be brought in a minister's family." She married, had a large family of children, some of whom were quite intelligent and respectable. Primus was a slave of Madame Parsons, and lived in Parson Fogg's family.

He was a native African, and said that after he had stolen and sold a good many negroes he was stolen and sold himself. He sat on the pulpit stairs in the church, used broken language, and seemed in- terested in his master's family. When he was sent to mill with two bags of corn be wonld place one on the horse, take the other on his shoulder, mount, and think in his simplicity that he had helped the dumb animal. His master told him to tie the horse in a good place, and he tied him where the feed was very short. When reproved he said, " You say nearer de bone de sweeter de meat, so de nearer de groun' de sweeter de grass." He helped his master set out two elms in front of the house, which became large and beautiful trees. He lived to be about a hundred, and is mentioned in the family traditions as a simple, good-natured old man. He had a superstitious fear that after death he would be obliged to return to Africa, and one day when he felt sick and tronbled Madame Parsons told him he

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would go to his old master. He then got on his hands and knees, said the Lord's Prayer, and died contented and happy.

Jude Hall was a slave in Capt. Philemon Blake's family. lle was a very large man, and anecdotes are told of his great strength. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and in one battle stood behind a tree and escaped unhurt. He said that he cut the tree down the next day and obtained a basinful of bullets. The town voted to make Jude Hall a gratuity as a soldier of Kensington. He lived on the borders of Exeter, had a large family, and is well remembered by the older people.

One Sunday morning, as he found a man washing out his cider-barrels at the brook, the man, who seemed ashamed of his Sabbath-breaking, said that he looked every way to see if any one was coming, when Jude replied with his characteristic shrewdness, " Brother, did you look above?"

Population .- The present population of Kensing- ton is a little more than 600. The number of chil- dren is much less than in early times, though there are about as many families. In 1767 there were 755 inhabitants; in 1779 there were 797 inhabitants; in 1786 there were 798 inhabitants; in 1790 there were 800 inhabitants.

In 1775 the town chose John Dow, Nathaniel Haley, Benjamin Rowe, Ezekiel Worthen, and Eben- ezer Potter to meet in Exeter to choose delegates to ; the General Congress in Philadelphia.

April 21, 1775 (two days after the battle of Lexing- ton), the town chose Ezekiel Worthen and Ebenezer Potter as a committee to join the Provincial Com- mittee of Public Safety at Exeter.

In 1778, Ezekiel Worthen was chosen representative to the convention in Concord.

In 1783, Joseph Brown was chosen delegate to the convention in Concord.

In 1788, Jeremiah Fogg was chosen delegate to the convention in Exeter to consider the Federal Consti- tution.

In 1791, Jeremiah Fogg was chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Concord.

In 1850, Jeremiah Bachelder was chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Concord.

In 1878, Jonathan E. Brown was chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Concord.

Senators .- 1796, Jeremiah Fogg; 1821, Newell Healey ; 1835-36, Smith Lamprey.

Representatives .- Ezekiel Worthen was the first representative, and probably held the office from 1762 until 1771; Ezekiel Worthen, 1774-76, 1779; Benjamin Rowe, 1772-73; Nathaniel llealey, 1775; Ebenezer Potter, 1777-78, 1780-81; Moses Shaw, Jr., 1782 -86; no choice, 1787-90; Jeremiah Fogg, 1791-94, 1795 (unanimously in 1795); none in 1792; Enoch Worthen, 1796-99, 1801-5, 1813-17 ; Joseph Brown, 1798, 1800, 1808-9; none, 1805-6; Samuel Dearborn, 1810-11; Newell Healey, 1812-19, 1824-25 ; Robert

Prescott, 1818-21 ; Jeremy Bachelder, 1826-28; Smith Lamprey, 1829-33; none, 1823, 1834, 1844, 1848, 1851-53, 1855-56, 1873-74; Josiah Prescott, 1835 -36; Benjamin Moulton, 1837-38; John T. Blake, 1839-41; Lewis Grove, 1842; John Nudd, 1843; Ira Blake, 1845-46; Julius C. Blodgett, 1847; Abel Brown, 1849, 1854; Jeremiah Poor, 1850; Stephen Brown, 1857, 1863; Joseph Brown, 1858; Newell Dow, 1859; Jonathan Palmer, 1860; Daniel Prescott, 1861-62; Daniel G. York, 1864, 1868, 1876; John A. Blake, 1865-66; Henry C. Tuck, 1867, 1870; Edward Brewer, 1871; John G. Dow, 1872; Weare N. Shaw, 1875; Daniel E. Palmer, 1877; George Page, 1878 ; Francis Hilliard, 1879-80 ; · Levis B. Tilton, 1881-82.

Military History .- While Kensington was a part of Hampton, some of its inhabitants were in scouting- parties or in building forts on the frontier. Jona- than Prescott, who was born in 1675, labored at Crown Point in 1696, and was in a scouting-party under Capt. John Gilman in 1710. John Prescott was in a scouting-party in 1707 and in 1710. Na- thaniel Prescott was in his Majesty's service in 1707. Doubtless many others were engaged in defending the early settlements from the attacks of the French and Indians, or in ranging the borders, though we may not find the records of their deeds.

May 2, 1747, it was voted at the parish-meeting "that all those men who went to Cape Breton and stayed all winter should be quit from paying rates for their heads that year in the Parish."

In the seven years' war with the French and In- dians the soldiers of Kensington took an active part. In 1755, Samuel Prescott, who was born June 26, 1729, was lientenant-colonel in Col. Peter Gilman's regiment, that was raised to reinforce the army near Lake George. He died Nov. 20, 1797. Capt. Ezekiel Worthen, Moses Blake, Ebenezer Lovering, Isaac Fellows, Melcher Ward, Paine Blake, Israel James, David James, Nathan Dow, Joseph Weare, and doubtless many others were engaged in these frontier campaigns.

Capt. Ezekiel Worthen, who was born March 18, 1710, was one of the most prominent men in the his- tory of the town. At the siege of Louisburg he was ensign and lieutenant in Capt. Jonathan Prescott's company, and is said to have done good service as an engineer, building works against the enemy, proba- bly the battery on Light-house Cliff. Louisburg was taken June 17, 1745, just thirty years before the battle of Bunker Hill. .

Capt. Ezekiel Worthen commanded a company in Col. Meserve's regiment in 1756. When Fort William Henry was taken he is said to have been one of the few who escaped in the dreadful scenes of the massa -. cre. Taking a small gun, while the attention of the savages was turned away, he ran down a steep hill through the woods, and concealed himself under some bark that was piled against a log. The Indians

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passed over the log without finding the fugitive, while he, after various privations and hardships, reached his friends in an almost famished condition. The gun (which was known in the family as the Indian gun ) was presented by Warren James, of Deerfield, a few years since, to the Bunker Hill Association. Capt. Ezekiel Worthen was the first representative to the General Court from Kensington, and was for several years returned to that body. In 1775 he was the engineer in building Fort Washington and Fort Sullivan at the Narrows, abont a mile below Ports- month ; and about the same time was selected to build a bridge to Newcastle. In the Continental army he was lieutenant, captain, and paymaster, while in civil life he held places of honor and trust. After serving in three wars, after honorable service in civil life, at the close of the war that gave independence to the country he died, Oct. 17, 1783, aged seventy-three years. In the years of the Revolution recruits were sent to the regiments in the field ; soldiers were sent to man the forts at Portsmonth, and committees were chosen to supply the families of the Continental soldiers.

March 26, 1779, voted to choose a committee to over- haul the charges of the war from Bunker Hill fight to this day.

Voted to enlist twenty men to serve in the Conti- nental army.

July 5, 1779, Capt. Joseph Clifford and Lieut. Jo- seph Dow were chosen to hire the quota of soldiers to fill the Continental battalions.

Jan. 29, 1781, the parish chose a committee to hire soldiers for the Continental army with provisions, hard money, or paper currency. (See currency.)

The writer regrets that no full list of the soldiers of the Revolution is within his reach, but hopes that the adjutant-general, from the army rolls in Concord, will give a full report of every soldier. The following list has been gathered from various sources : Maj. Jeremiah Fogg, Capt. Ezekiel Worthen, Capt. Win- throp Rowe, Capt. Joseph Clifford, Lieut. Moses Shaw, Lieut. Abram Sanborn, Second Lieut. Jere- miah Bachelder, Benjamin Rowe, surgeon's mate; Daniel Fogg, surgeon's mate; Josepli Fogg, quarter- master ; Enoch Rowe, quartermaster's sergeant ; Pri- vates Winthrop Wiggin, Jude Hall, William Fogg, Henson Hodgdon, Jonathan Fellows, Nathan Fel- lows, Edward Lock, John Sanborn, Thomas Cook, Jabez Dow, Jonathan Prescott, Marston Prescott, and Edward Smith, who was shot Oct. 15, 1777.

Capt. Winthrop Rowe commanded a company, Col. Poor's regiment, and Abram Sanborn was his second lieutenant.

In 1775, Capt. Joseph Clifford and Second Lieut. Moses Shaw were stationed on Pierce's Island.

In 1777, Second Lieut. Jeremiah Bachelder was in Col. Drake's regiment. He was one of the most prominent citizens of the town, and in 1796 was col- onel in the militia.

In 1777, Capt. Robert Pike was in Lieut .- Col. Sen- ter's battalion. Benjamin Rowe was surgeon's mate in Col. Nichols' regiment in 1778. Daniel Fogg was surgeon's mate. Enoch Rowe was quartermaster's sergeant in Lieut .- Col. Senter's battalion in 1777.

Joseph Fogg, the son of Rev. Jeremiah and Eliza- beth (Parsons) Fogg, was born April 16, 1753. He was quartermaster in Col. Poor's regiment in 1775, and quartermaster in Lieut .- Col. Senter's battalion in 1777. He was appointed sub-clothier and commis- sary in 1779. After the war he moved to Ossipee, where he was a justice of the peace. He returned to Remington, where he died suddenly, April 17, 1822, aged sixty-nine. He married, first, Mary Sherburne ; second, Abigail Westwork.

Maj. Jeremiah Fogg, the son of Rev. J. and Elizabeth (Parsons) Fogg, was born Oct. 16, 1749, graduated at Harvard College, 1768, taught school in Newburyport, where he commenced the study of law with Theophilus Parsons, one of the most eminent jurists of the time. He was adjutant of Col. Poor's regiment, which was encamped on Winter Hill at the siege of Boston. In 1776 he was aide-de-camp to Gen. Poor, who died in his arms at Hackensack, N. J. In 1777 he was paymaster in Col. Hale's regi- ment, and captain in Col. Reid's regiment. 1n 1781, after the war, he retired to Remington, where he took an active part in the political movements of the time. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention, representative and senator in the General Court, and adjutant-general of New llampshire. Maj. Fogg, in 1738, married Lydia Hill, of Cambridge. It is said that when a college student he saw her christened, and playfully remarked that he meant to marry her ; and though he was then but a youth, and she an in- fant, vet after a life of adventures, and twenty years after graduation, she became his wife. She was nine years old when she saw Earl Percy's troops as they marched through Cambridge on their way to Lexing- ton, heard the guns at Bunker Hill, and well remem- bered the exciting scenes of the times ; and the young adjutant, while musing by his camp-fire on Winter Hill on the scenes of his student life at Harvard, might have dreamed of the beautiful child that was christened in the village church. As an instance of his coolness and courage, one of his soldiers said that when his command was surrounded by a superior force of the enemy, Maj. Fogg told us "to load our guns, fix our bayonets, and blaze through." He seems to have been a brave and efficient officer, while his journals and letters, though written in the camps of the army, manifest his superior education and ability. He died May 26, 1808, aged fifty-nine.

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History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 85

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