History of Rockingham and Strafford counties, New Hampshire : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 86

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


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List of Minute-Men .- We, the subscribers, hereby enlist ourselves, aud promise and engage to serve as militia soldiers in defense of our country's rights, to be ready at a minute's warning to march to any part of the New England States to oppose the encroach- ments of our enemies, and we promise to obey such


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officers as are appointed to command ns during the time we are in the service. Joseph Clifford, Jesse Tucke, Joseph Brown, Jr., Benjamin Moulton. Ben- jamin James, Jr., Hezekiah Blake, Ephraim Fellows, Jewett Sanborn, Daniel Shaw, Benjamin Tilton, John Shaw, Joseph Wadleigh (4th), Richard Dow, Levi' Brown, Samuel Batchelder, Nathaniel Gove, Josiah Batchelder, Richard Sanborn, Samuel Prescott, John Lane, Samuel Lampre, David James, Ephraim East- man, Nathaniel Sherburne, Caleb Shaw, Jr., Si- mon Prescott, Jeremiah Moulton, Nathaniel Ward, Jonathan Ward, Edward Melchar, Benjamin Mel- char, Abram Shaw, Newell Healey, Benjamin Rowe, Jr., Surgeon Joseph Rowe, Martin Prescott, Caleb Brown, John Glidden, Weare Nudd, Elisha Blake, Jr., Nathaniel Dow, John Graves, Henry Sanborn, Abel Brown, Henry Swain, Levi Blake, Stephen Fogg, Jonathan Tilton, Jonathan Prescott.


(This paper belongs to the opening of, and was probably signed in, 1775.)


The War of 1812-14 .- We do not learn that any soldiers from this town were enlisted in the regular army, but in 1814 the militia were ordered to defend Portsmouth from the English, whose fleet was cruising along the coast. The soldiers wore tbeir citizens' dress, and as the company left the old church, the music was so slow and solemn that some one sug- gested that they have quick and lively tunes, to keep up their eourage and the courage of the friends they left behind them. They were stationed near the south rope-walk, and lodged in a school-house. Down a report came that the enemy had landed at York, and the troops were formed in a line of battle, but the alarm was false. An English officer, disgnised as a fisher- man, visited Portsmouth, but finding the defenses very strong the fleet moved away. The troops were enlisted September 11th, and discharged September 29th.


Lieut .- Col. Thomas Lovering commanded the regi- ment. Josiah Blake was sergeant-major. Capt. Stephen Brown, Lieut. Stephen Kimball, Ens. Rich- ard Dow; Sergeants, Jonathan Morrison, Benjamin Prescott, Nathan Dow, Caleb Brown; Corporals, Jacob Felch, David Prescott, Sewell Philbrick, Jeremy Bachelders; Musicians, Caleb Hodgdon, Millard Til- ton ; Privates, John Nudd, Benjamin Moulton, Jr., Jonathan Hobbs, John W. Shaw, Jonathan James, Thomas P. Fogg, Samnel Fellows, Daniel Prescott, Abraham Rowe, David Barter, Edward M. Blaisdell, Caleb F. Sanborn, Samuel Tilton, Ira Fellows, Wil- liam H. Wadleigh, Ephraim Dow, Jeremiah Wad- leigh, Sewell Wadleigh, John Blaisdell, Moses F. King, Joseph W. Healey, Edward True, Jr.


The Mexican War .- Ferdinand L. Blake; John V. Hodgdon was leader of the band on the "Ohio," Commodore Connor's flag-ship, at the bombardment of Vera Cruz.


War of the Rebellion .- Kensington sent seventy- one men to the army during the Rebellion, a part of


whom were substitutes hired in the place of drafted men. The expenses in Kensington were $19,940.09; average bounty per man was $269.70; average re- cruiting expenses per man, $1.28. The State aid to the soldiers' families would increase this sum. The following list contains most of the soldiers' names belonging to this town, with the names of some who were natives of the town but enlisted from other places :


Lowell Lock, Porter Rowe, Jonathan Shaw, Theo. M. White, Benja- min Odlin, Joseph D. Wadleigh, Lewis Gove, Nathaniel Fellows, Wil- liam S. Gale, Parker H. Willson, Joel Lane, Smith Lamprey, Gilman Lamprey, Newell Dow, Wadley Dow, Timothy Palmer, Sewell Dow, Stephen R. Brown, Levi Veasey, Jeremiah Eaton, Willard Davis, Reuben Currier, John Weare, Abel Page, Samuel Currier, Joha Page, Samnel Tucker, Jr., Amos Gove, Joseph Rowe, Moses Sanborn, George Day, Bradbury Pervier, Oliver James, Samuel Cuverly, John Scribner, Henry Eatoo.


ARTILLERY.


Lieut. Jonathan Hilliard, Sergts. Wells Healey, Samuel Tuck.


NAVY.


George Baston, Thomas Bunker, and Jeremiah Leroy Hilliard (who died in Philadelphia at the hospital in 1862).


IN THE ARMY.


Charles Rowe (was killed in Virginia, July, 1864), William II. Walton (was wounded, and died at Fortress Monroe, July, 1864), Charles E. Bachelder, James Davis (was a prisoner at the time of Lee's surren- der), John M. Malleo, Frank 11. Wadleigh (was killed in Virginia, Oct. 8, 1864), George Blake, Jeremiah K. Leavitt, Ira C. Brown (was wounded), Amos Rowell, Hyld D. Peacock, Capt. Caleb Warren Hodgdon, Jonathan B. Rowe (was wounded, and died in Virginia), David C. Smith, Rufus Eastman, George R. Cilley, Stephen Henry Brown, Joseph N. Austin, John E. Collins, William F. Blake, Andrew Gove, Warren H. Chase, Jas W. M. Brown, Joseph C. George, George 1'. Ruwe, Ferdinand L. Blake, Franklin Tilton (was wounded at Kelly's Ford), Samuel Lamprey (was taken prisoner), Lewis E. Gove, Charles Hull (was a prisoner at Andersonville), Stephen Hart Browo, Edward E. Fellows, John Brown (wounded), Amos Browa, Moses D. Dresser, Edmund M. Rowell (died of sickness), John T. Hilliard (wounded), George E. Ramsdell, Rufus Spaulding, George A. P. Wadleigh, Albert A. Bachelder, Benjamin F. Austin, John P. M. Green, John A. Currier, Edward P. Austin, James S. Austin, Weare N. Shaw, Silas M. Chase, Capt. James Mullen (col. regt. ; was killed in North Carolina), Jeremiah Franklin Dearborn, N. Jackson Shaw (was in U. S. Mounted Rifles before the war), Capt. Elijah Shaw (in Maine regt.), John II. Shaw (marched with Sherman through Georgia), William Nudd, John V. Hodgdon, George W. Hodgdon.


Much of interest must be omitted for the want of space, and our readers must be referred to the full reports of the adjutant-general, which give not only the names of the soldiers, but very interesting histo- ries of all the regiments. The soldiers and their friends should preserve the diaries, letters, and other papers relating to the war, as they may be valnable for years to come.


Temperance .- There have been several temper- ance organizations in town, which have been useful in their influence on its moral progress. The early societies for considering the evils of intemperance, the Washingtonian movement, and the Sons of Tem- perance have all been useful in improving the char- acter of the people. Hoosic Division of Sons of Temperance has had an excellent influence in im- proving the moral, intellectual, and social life in the place.


Francis Milliard


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JONATHAN TUCK.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.


FRANCIS HILLIARD.


The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Joseph Hilliard, and his grandmother's maiden name was Anna Lovering. One of the children of this couple was Jonathan, who was born in 1783. Jona- than married Mary Hodgdon, danghter of Hanson and Mary (Caldwell) Hodgdon, of Dover, in October, 1810. Mrs. Hodgdon was born in Kensington, Nov. 10, 1792. Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Hilliard had ten children, six of whom died in infancy. The remain- ing four-Rufus K., Joseph, William, and Francis- grew to maturity. Jonathan Hilliard was a carpenter by trade, and a man of moderate means. He died Dec. 20, 1827, while yet in the prime of life, leaving the care of his four children to the widow. By dint of untiring industry and the most rigid economy Mrs. Hilliard managed to keep her family together. She has lived a widow for fifty-five years. A close student of history, she is possessed of unusual information, and retaining her faculties to a wonderful degree, is able to converse readily and intelligently upon all of the topics of the day. She is now (in 1882) residing with her youngest son, Francis. Mr. Hilliard was a Whig in politics. He was at one time a lieutenant in the State militia.


William Hilliard died at thirty-four, leaving a widow and one son. Joseph Hilliard died at thirty- seven, leaving three sons and three daughters. He was an active business man, carrying on a farm, con- ducting a saw-mill, and managing business as a tan- ner and currier.


Francis Hilliard was born in Kensington, N. H., Nov. 25, 1825, two years before his father's death. He early learned to labor, and in his boyhood often worked for twenty-five cents a day. He learned the trade of a boot and shoe maker, working at it until about 1862, and employing a large number of men and women in the manufacture of these goods during the last ten years in which he was engaged in this business. In 1862 or 1863 he engaged in mercantile business, having for a partner Mr. George W. Walton for two or three years. He then sold out and engaged in business alone, making a specialty of women's shoes. Subsequently he bought ont Mr. Walton and made his business of a more general nature. Since 1867 he has conducted a large lumber business, and also carried on farming operations on a somewhat extensive scale.


Mr. Hilliard has always been active in politics, and is an ardent Republican. He has been postmaster in Kensington ever since 1864, except for two years under President Johnson. He was the selectman of his town in 1867, and a member of the General As- sembly of his State in 1878, serving on the Committee on the Asylum for the Insane. He was married July 4, 1867, to A. Maria, daughter of Rev. Julius C. and


Abigail C. Blodgett, of Kensington. Mrs. Hilliard was born Aug. 16, 1838. Their children are Marion, Nellie, Wendell P., and Mary A. In religions belief the family is Universalist.


THE TUCK FAMILY.


The paternal ancestor of all the Tuck (or Tucke) families that have lived in Hampton, Rockingham Co., N. H., and of all those that went out to other places, with their numerous descendants, came from Gorlston, a seaboard town in the northeasterly part of the county of Suffolk, England, bordering upon the county of Norfolk, from which latter county came many of the early settlers of Hampton.


The year of Robert Tuck's birth is not known. He came to New England in 1636, or a little earlier, and lived a while in Watertown, near Boston, and in Salem. In 1638 he was a petitioner (with others) to the Gen- eral Court of Boston for leave to settle at Winnacnn- net (Hampton). The petition was granted early in September, and a settlement was begun by some of the grantees the same autumn. Others appear to have waited till the spring following.


Robert Tuck, according to tradition, was of the former number. On the 7th of September, 1639, he was made a freeman, after which he held the follow- ing offices : selectman for the years 1648, 1649, 1652, and 1657; town clerk from 1647 till 1650; also, in 1649, was appointed clerk of the commissioners for small causes (that board being a court of record). He was married and had children before his emi- gration. The time of his marriage and the maiden name of his wife are both unknown to the writer. Her baptismal name was Joanna. They had four children that lived to mature age, all born in Eng- land.


Robert Tuck (surnamed Good-man) died intestate, Oct. 4, 1664, and at the County Court held in Hamp- ton in the same month administration was granted to Joanna Tuck, his widow, and John Sanborne, his son-in-law.


The widow, Joanna Tuck, died Feb. 14, 1674.


Edward? (Robert1) was born in England (the time not known); emigrated with his parents; married, about 1648, Mary, daughter of Thomas Philbrick, Sr., who had settled in Hampton not long before; and after his marriage he probably continued to re- side with his parents, or settled on some part of his father's estate. He died intestate, April 6, 1652, leaving two children,-Edward and John.


John3 (Edward2, Robert1) was born in 1652, and married, Jan. 9, 1678, Bertha, daughter of Morris and Sarah (Eastow) Hobbs, born in Hampton, Feb. 28, 1659, and died May 29, 1738, being the mother of nine children. Mr. Tuck owned a considerable quan- tity of real estate, and was to some extent engaged in the cultivation of his land. By trade, however, he was a carpenter. How largely he worked at his


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trade does not appear. He invested capital in build- ing mills, which in some instances he also operated. He and his wife Bertha united with the church on the 28th day of February, 1678, about seven weeks after their marriage.


He was chosen a deacon in the church July 19, 1715, and held the office till death, which occurred Jan. 4, 1742.


Deacon Tuck was highly esteemed both for his ability and integrity, and was often chosen to fill important offices in the town; was a selectman ten years, and town clerk about fifteen years. He was twice elected a deputy to represent the town in the General Assembly of the province.


Jonathan4 (John3, Edward2, Robert1), deacon, was born Sept. 11, 1697 ; married, Feb. 22, 1721, Tabitha, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Borden) Towle, of Hampton, horn May 1, 1697.


Deacon Tuck was farmer and miller ; resided on the paternal homestead ; died Feb. 3, 1781. His wife died Aug. 12, 1766. They were parents to ten chil- dren.


Samuel5 (Jonathan4, John3, Edward2, Robert1) was born in Hampton, March 20, 1731; married, Jan. 17, 1754, Martha, daughter of Philemon and Lydia (Boulter) Blake, of Kensington, and settled where Charles E. Tnek, his great-grandson, now lives in that town. He died in 1789. His wife was born May 15, 1733, and died in 1821. Had eleven children.


Jonathan6 (Samuel5, Jonathan4, John3, Edward?, Robert1), by trade tanner, currier, and shoemaker, was born Dec. 19, 1771 ; married, May, 1792, Dorothy, daughter of Jonathan Ladd Webster, of East Kings- ton, N. H., born Nov. 6, 1769, and died March 16, 1847. Mr. Tuck died March 3, 1848 ; residence on a part of the homestead in Kingston. Father of eight children.


Jonathan7 (Jonathan6, Samuel5, Jonathan4, John3, Edward2, Robert1), born Aug. 13, 1799; married, March 17, 1829, Sally, daughter of Stephen G. Philbrick, of Kensington and Tamworth, N. H., and remained on the homestead. She was born Aug. 5, 1799, and still living (1882). Her father lived to be over one hun- dred and two years old. Jonathan Tuck died Jan. 18, 1878. In politics a Whig and Republican. By occupation farmer, tanner, and shoemaker. He had two sons,-Henry C. and Charles E.


Henry C.8 (Jonathan7, Jonathan6, Samuel5, Jona- than4, John3. Edward2, Robert1) was born Aug. 3, 1833; unmarried, and lives on the homestead with his mother. In politics a Republican. Has been town clerk and representative in 1867 and 1870.


Charles E.8 (Jonathan7, Jonathan6, Samuel5, Jon- athan+, John3, Edward?, Robert1) was born June 15, 1835 ; married Sarah J. Eaton, of South Hampton, and resided in Kensington, where Samuel Tuck, his great-grandfather, settled and reared a large family, and where he died. His children are Charles F., Lizzie E., Frank L., and Anna.


DANIEL G. YORK.


Daniel G. York was born in the town of North- wood, Rockingham Co., N. H., April 16, 1818, and died at his residence in Kensington, N. H., Nov. 20, 1881. His father, Solomon York, was born in Allens- town, N. IL., was a farmer by occupation, married „ Patience Giles, and had ten children, of whom Daniel G. was one. He removed to Maine in the latter part of his life, where he died at the advanced age of eighty years.


Daniel G. York left his father's honse at the early age, of eight years to live with a man in Brentwood, N. H. Here he resided till he was fourteen years of age, when he went out to Deerfield, N. H., to live with Gen. Cilley, a prominent man of that town, and re- inained with him some five years, when he com- inenced to learn the carpenter's trade, which he fol- lowed some two years, then resumed farming again in Deerfield, which he followed about a year, when in 1840 he came to Kensington and worked on the farm for John Nudd, a prominent and influential farmer in Kensington. Here Mr. York became acquainted with Betsey P., the only daughter of Mr. Nudd, and they were married March 23, 1842. She was born March 23, 1819. Of this union the follow- ing children were born: Oren S., who died young; Mary A., born Sept. 29, 1848, married Arthur W. Gooch, a native of Exeter, and now (1882) a farmer in Kensington. They have one daughter, Mary Alice. John W. York, born Sept. 29, 1850, married Marcia E., daughter of Jonathan and Theodatie Godfrey, June 15, 1871. Mrs. John W. York is one of four- teen living children out of a family of fifteen chil- dren. She was born in Hampton, N. H., March +, 1854. Their children are Grace G., Frank N., Katie E. (died in infancy ), Arthur S., and Mary F.


Daniel G. York remained on the old Nudd farm in Kensington after his marriage, where by dint of in- dustry and economy he became one of the very best farmers and wealthiest men in Kensington. He was a Democrat in politics. During the years 1864, 1868, and 1876 he represented his town in the State Legis- lature. He was a man of sound judgment, kind disposition, charitable to all, envious towards none ; trugal, honest, and industrious, he was respected at home and honored abroad. In his sudden death the town lost a good citizen and his family a wise counselor, a devoted husband, and a kind and loving father. His widow still remains on the farm where she was born, which she received from her father at his death. John W. York, only son of Daniel G., carries on the old homestead where he first saw the light of day. . He bids fair to be a worthy successor of his father.


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Benjamin Moulton


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CAPT. BENJAMIN MOULTON.


Capt. Benjamin Moulton, of Kensington, N. H., is a fineal descendant of the Moultons who settled in Hampton at an early day, and whose descendants are numbered among the best citizens this county has ever produced. His grandfather, Capt. Benjamin Moulton, was born May 10, 1721, in Hampton Falls,


married Sarah -, who was born July 23, 1721. Their children were Benjamin, born May 23, 1743, Thomas, and Jemima. He was a farmer in Hampton Falls, where he lived and died. Benjamin, son of Capt. Benjamin and Sarah Moulton, was born in Hampton Falls, and was twice married,-first to Mary Sanborn, a descendant of the Sanborns of Hampton, N. H. Of this union ten children were born, nine of whom grew to maturity. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Rowe, of Kensington, N. H. By this marriage he had children as follows : Betsey, who died at twenty-nine; Benja- min, born Aug. 16, 1795; and Joseph, who died at forty-one, leaving a family at Exeter, N. H.


Benjamin Moulton (second) settled in Kensington, N. H., soon after his first marriage, and was a farmer by occupation. He died March 5, 1819, aged seventy- nine years and nine months. His second wife died July 3, 1846, in her eighty-ninth year.


Capt. Benjamin Moulton (third) had limited ad- vantages for an education. He inherited the old Moulton homestead in Kensington, N. H., where his father settled, and where he and his children have always lived. He is one of the substantial farmers of Kensington, and in his younger days was promi- nently connected with all the improvements of his native town. He has been a Whig and Republican in politics, and as such has been selectman three times and member of the State Legislature in 1837-38. In religion he is a Universalist. He married Mehit- able Brown, Oct. 16, 1817. She was born Dec. 7, 1792, and was the daughter of John Brown, of Hamp- ton Falls, and a lineal descendant of John Brown, one of the first proprietors of Hampton. (See biog- raphy of Hon. Warren Brown, Hampton Falls, N. H.) Their children are Elizabeth, born Nov. 17, 1819; Benjamin G., April 18, 1821; and Hannah S., Dec. 13, 1824.


Capt. Moulton was for a short time a soldier in the war of 1812. He has served in the various grades of the State militia from that of private to captain of a company. In all the affairs of life he has been sober, honest, and industrious, and now at the ad- vanced age of eighty-seven years retains his facul- ties to a remarkable degree, and enjoys the con- fidence of his fellow-townsmen.


JOIIN FRENCH.


John French was born in South Hampton, April 26, 1801. IIis father, Jacob, son of Henry, was born at South Hampton, and married Abigail Shaw, of


Kensington ; had a family of three children, -John, Abigail, who died at the age of five years, and Irena, who married Moses Stokes, and have four sons and one daughter. Jacob French was a hotel-keeper, drover, farmer, and teamster. He settled in Wash- ington County, Pa., in 1813, remaining nine years. He returned in 1822 to Kensington. A few months before his death he went to live with his daughter at Manchester. He died at the age of eighty, having been married three times.


Henry French was a farmer, married a Miss Jones, died in 1811 at an advanced age, leaving four sons and three daughters.


John French, the immediate subject of this sketch, was a slender youth, but after the death of his mother, in 1811, he went with his father to Pennsylvania, where he began to grow stronger. He there engaged in team- ing, and remained three years, when he took "Scotch leave" and a " bee line" for home, with only eighteen cents in his pocket. He commenced his journey homeward on the night of June 16, 1817, and after a hard day's work traveled twelve miles, and slept in an oak trough the remainder of the night. Hle begged bread, found and sold horse-shoes, slept in barns, stables, under hay-cocks, till Aug. 6, 1817, when he reached Southampton, and returned to his uncle, Barnes French, where he stayed the first winter. The following spring he began his trade as a black- smith and plowsmith, staying five months, and re- turned to South Hampton, and worked there till spring, when he again went to Exeter till fall ; from thence to Concord, and stayed two years, till he was twenty-one; worked one month for his grandfather Shaw for eight dollars; went to Concord and made two or three plows for a watch, which he sold for five dollars; put his pack on his back and started for Pennsylvania; went to Pittsburgh, found no work ; finally assisted to drive three hundred sheep to Phil- adelphia for thirty-seven and a half cents per day and board; returned to New Hampshire, having traveled some seven hundred miles on foot. He then went to Concord and made two plows for eighteen dollars; hired a shop, selling one plow for cash and one for iron ; took an apprentice, Timothy R. Shaw, and be- gan business, where he remained eight months, when he sold out, realizing a profit of one hundred and seventy-five dollars, and settled at Kensington, No- vember, 1823, and began business on Shaw's Hill, where he remained five years working at his trade. lle then, Oct. 20, 1828, bought his present place, where he has since remained. His business in- creased till he made two hundred plows a year. Till 1837 he made. plows from wrought iron. Since then made cast-iron plows. He has been twice married, -first, Oct. 31, 1826, to Harriet Brown, daughter of John and Lucy (Rowe) Brown, who was born Oct. 17,1807.


Their children are John C., Lucy A., Irena S., and Harriet A., all born in Kensington.


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Second marriage, June 19, 1864, to Irena (sister to his first wife), who was born in Kensington, March 15, 1815.


In 1828 he bought eight acres of land, to which he has added till he owns about one hundred acres, and has been very successful in business. In politics a Democrat, and has been selectman for his town. He is an attendant at the Christian Church, of which both of his wives were members.


CAPT. JOSEPH BROWN.


Capt. Joseph Brown was born in Kensington, N. H., March 9, 1802, and has always lived upon the old family homestead of about two hundred acres, fol- lowing the occupation of a farmer. In his younger days he had a taste for military matters, and belonged to a militia company, serving first as a private, but being promoted to the rank of captain. Of the brothers of Capt. Brown, Amos was a Congregational minister, Jonathan a Baptist minister, and Moses a physician. Capt. Brown was married Nov. 25, 1825. to Miss Mary Ann Weare, a danghter of Joseph H. and Betsy (Mitchell) Weare. She was born Ang. 2, 1807, in Seabrook, N. H. Their children are Joseph W. and Stephen A. The first named was born Sept. 5, 1826. He married Sarah B., daughter of Joseph C. Hilliard, and had three children,-Susan L., Sarah A. (since deceased), and Mary L. The second son, Stephen A., was born April 12, 1839, and died Ang. 17. 1856. In politics the captain was a Whig until 1858, and since then a Democrat. He has been a se- lectman, and in 1858 was a representative in the State Legislature. Both he and his wife are members of the Congregational Church.


The ancestors of Capt. Brown can be traced back in a direct line for six generations. The names were Stephen, Joseph, Jonathan, Benjamin, and John. His father, Stephen Brown, married Susan Bagley, of Salisbury, Mass., and had nine children,-Joseph, Amos, Polly, Nancy, John, Stephen, Moses, Jonathan, and Susan, all of whom grew to matnrity. Nancy and Susan died unmarried. All of the others are married and have families. Moses and Jonathan are twins. Mr. Stephen Brown was a large and successful farmer. In politics he was a Whig. He died at the age of seventy-six, and his wife at seventy-three.




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