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12. MARY HASTINGS, Cheraw, S. C.
13. Mrs. MARY D. EMERY ( previously to 1872), Tilton.
14. JULIA E. BULLARD, Tilton.
15. ANNIE E. L. NoBus. 1881, 1882. Also instructor in French and Rhetoric, and previously, for several years, a teacher. (See Vol. II. p. 354 [5].)
FEMALE TEACHERS.
1. MARY F. PROCTOR, Northfield; and there deceased.
2. MARY J. WARREN (Mrs. Rev. M. Dustin), Xenia, Ohio.
3. Mrs. ABBIE DIXON, Tilton.
4. AGNES E. HALL (Mrs. - ).
5. SARAH E. WENDELL (Mrs. Dr. II. O. Marcy), Cambridgeport, Mass.
6. Mrs. SARAN II. DEERING. Resides in the Providence Conference.
ADA D. PALMER (Mrs. Alleu), Brooklyn, N. Y.
S. Mrs. M. S. JUDKINS, Methuen, Mass.
9. M. E. ALLEN (Mrs. - ), Bangor, Me. 9
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10. E. C. HUNTINGTON, Kent's MIHls, Me.
11. LUCY J. MERRILL (MIrs. Rev. E. A. Howard), Whitinsville, Muss.
12. MARY E. HOWARD, Gorham, Me.
13. LAURA A. HOOKER (Mrs. Rev. - ), Massachusetts.
14. LAURA A. WHIPPLE ( Mrs. Rev. E. Warriner), Long Island, N. Y.
15. LAURA J. REDDY, TIton.
16. EVA J. BERDE. Employed three years after 1872.
17. JAZZIE A. HERRICK. Instructor in Art three years after 1872.
18. MAY T. PLATT. 1881, 1882. Instructor in Art.
MUSIC TEACHERS.
1. C. W. BURNHAM.
2. ALBERT P. TASKER, Washington, D. C.
3. GEORGE D. SMITIL.
4. MARY MEDCALF, Greenland; deceased.
5. HIELEN M. LADD (Mrs. George Kendall). (See Vol. II. p. 431 [79].)
6. Mrs. ANN R. LATIMER, Boston, Mass.
7. ELLEN RAWSON (Mrs. M. W. Dexter), Philadelphia, Pa.
8. MARY F. LADD (Mrs. Juines Steel). (See Vol. II. p. 431 [82].)
9. LYDLA P. HEATH (Mrs. Rufus Tilton), Washington, D. C.
10. ELLA J. BARROWS, Lawrence, Mass.
11. CHARLOTTE ATKINSON, Concord. (See Vol. II. p. 13 [19].)
12. JENNIE M. PALMER, Tilton.
13. JENNIE M. LORD. 1877, 1878.
14. HORACE H. BEMIS. 1879, 1880.
15. LOTTIE E. SIMONDS. 1881, 1882. Teacher in Instrumental Music.
16. C. R. GOULD, M D. Teacher in Vocal Music several years, till 1879.
17. GEORGE L. SANBORN. Teacher in Vocal Music. 1880, 1881. (See Vol. II. p. 671 [519, 2].)
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RESIDENCE OF T. W. TAYLOR.
THE WOODMAN-WILSON HOUSE. (See p. 59.)
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CHAPTER XIII.
ANNALS OF THE TOWN, - 1770-1800.
" Years roll on years ; to ages, ages yield." - BYRON.
" It is the voice of years that are gone! They roll before me with all their deeds." - OSSIAN.
We propose in this chapter to notice facts and incidents of general interest between the years specified, not elsewhere included under special heads, and mostly given in chronological order from the town records and other sources.
According to the Act of Incorporation, Daniel Sanborn was to call the first meeting of the citizens within seventy days after the Act was
First town passed : i. e., some time before May 10. This first town Meeting culled, meeting was probably held near the last Tuesday of March, the time specified by his Majesty for future aunnal meet- ings. Of this meeting there is no record. We only learn, tradition- ally, that it was held at the house of Lieut. Chase Taylor ; and the exact room is still shown us in the present house of his great-grand- son, T. W. Taylor, where our fathers were thus for the first time assembled. We also know, by the subsequent record in " Returns of Roads," etc., for the year 1770, that Aaron Sauborn, Cole Weeks, and Stephen Gale were the first selectmen then and there elected by the town.
The second town meeting was warned by the selectmen to be held at the dwelling-house of Dauiel Sanborn, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, March 26, 1771. This was in part at least the house at the Square since occupied by Dr. B. Sanborn and sons, and more recently by Chase and Thomas M. Jaques, - rebuilt in 1878. Officers were chosen at this meeting, and "ye Selectmen's account" accepted. It was also voted to " rate all land that is cleared or sowed with grain or hay seed " ; afterwards (1784), excepting . new land sowed with Fall grain." There should now be noticed the last of the " Town Papers " pertaining to Sanbornton, found in the " Provincial Records " (Vol. IX. p. 757), indorsed, " Petition for Dauiel Sanborn to be a Justice of the Peace."
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" PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
" To his Estellency, John Wentworth, Hat., Captain General, Governor, and Commander in Chief, in und veer his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, in Commill:
" The Humble Petitlon of the subscribers, Proprietors of the Town of San- bornton, In sald Province, she weth : That your Petitloners hunably
l'etition of' pro-
Coueelve that it would be Greatly for the Benefit of the Inhahi-
Justice of He tauts as well as the Proprietors of said Town, to have one of the l'eare. Inhabitants of' sall Town Commissionated as a Justice of the Peace there; and having Understood that the Inhabitants have Already Peti- tloned Your Excellency that Daniel Saudborn, Esq., of that Town may be AAppointed by your Excelleney to that honorable place, we berg leave to Join them in the said request, and Pray your Excellency to Appoint him accord- ingly. . . . And your Pelltioners, as in Daty bound, shall ever Pray, Le.
" JULY 10, 1771.
"JOHN TAYLOR.
JEREMIAH SANBORN.
DAVID BURLEY. (+)
JOSEPH CLARK. (;)
SAMUEL FOLSOM. (;)
EZRA BARKER. (;)
JOSEPH LIOIT.
JOSIAH SANBORN.
THEOPHILUS RUNLET, JR. (+)
JOSIAH DEARBORN. (;)
DAVID FOGG. (+)
JOLLY DEARBORN.
JONA. RAWLINGS.
DANIEL Horr. (1)
JETHRO PERSON.
JOHN FOLSOM. (+)
EDWARD TAYLOR.
EBENEZER SAMBORN.
JOSIAH FOLSOM. (+)
JONATHAN JEWETT. (1)
JOSEPH SMITH.
JACOB JEWETT. (+)
JOHN FOGG.
JOHN SANBORNK.
WILLIAM CHASE, JR.
JOSEPH Horr, JUN.
ABRAHAM PERKINS. (+) SAMUEL FOGG.
JOHN HOPKINSON."
[NOTE. - The above twenty-nine signatures indicate many changes in the Board of Proprietors since their first petition. Those marked (;), thirteen in all, do not appear on the list of 1748. The petition of the inhabitants referred to has uever come to light. ]
At the third annual meeting (1772), voted, among various other items, . Roads, Bridges, Fishing," etc., " to improve Chase Taylor's barnyard as a pound." The " warrant" for the fourth annual meet- ing (1783) is headed, " Province of New Hampshire, Rockinghaus, ss.," and commences, " This is to notify and warn ye frecholders and other inhabitants to meet," etc., " ten o'clock in ye forenoon " being theu established, as it has ever since continued, for the hour of meet- iug ; but a warrant for a special meeting, called for Dec. 13, 1773. is headed, " Province of N. H., Strafford, ss:," indicating A new county. the new county organization of that year.
On the 11th of May, 1775, the inhabitants inet " according to ye precept of thu: Select men," and made choice of Daniel Sauborn, Esq .. as a delegate * to represent us in Provincial Congross to be couvened
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at Exeter on the 17th day of this instant May, to continue as our
Delegates to Representative for six months from s'd 17th of May."
Provincial " By order of Congress," another meeting for a similar
Cougresa, 1775. purpose was warned upon " the legal .inhabitants of San- bornton and Meredith to meet at the dwelling house of Solomon Coop" (Copp), of this town, " Dec. 11, 1775." Ebenezer Smith, Esq., of Meredith, was chosen moderator of that meeting, and also . our rep- resentative for one year in Congress," to be convened at Exeter, Dec. 21. It was also voted that " our representative be paid 5 shillings lawful for each day's attendance ; and that by his constituants . . . so far as not to draw on ye Province Treasurer for ye same " ; also that he " attend s'd Congress as little as may be, by leve of Congress, and consistant with ye interest of his constituants." Jan. 1, 1778, the inhabitants held their first town meeting (special) in the
" Giving iu rales." meeting-house, marking its completion to that stage. It was customary in those times .. to give in the head rate or other rates," - i. e., exempt individuals from poll or other taxes, - in consideration of poverty or misfortune ; March 31, 1778, e. g., his "head rate" was thus given in " to Ebenezer Morrison for a beast of his that is dead."
In 1781 Daniel Sanborn, Esq., was again designated to a public trust outside the town, being chosen a delegate to the convention at Concord for forming a plan of government for the State. This conven- tion was held on the first Tuesday of June, by recommendation front the president of the Council. In January, 1782, the ~ plan " which · had been proposed by the convention being under consid- Action upon plans of' govern- eration, " Voted to accept the plan of goverment, with went proposed. sundry amendments " made and proposed by a committee chosen for that purpose ; viz., Rev. Joseph Woodman, Daniel Sanborn, Esq., Major Chase Taylor, John Sanborn, and Lient. Josiah Sanborn. Dec. 23 of the same year, the subject being again under considera- tion, the town voted as follows: " 1st, not to receive ye plan as it how stands. 2d, not to receive a governor or privy coneil. 3d, that Je excentive power be vested in a president. 4th, that there is not sufficient provision made for y" sanctification of ye Sabbath, and sup- port of ye publie worship of God. 5th, chose as a committee to draw a form of our objection, Rev. Joseph Woodman, Daniel Sanborn, Esq., and John Sanborn."
March 25, 1783, a second plan of government having been sent out, it was " voted to comply with ye requisition of y General Court to establish y present form of government until June, 1784." Sept. 4, 1783, " Voted, 1st, that the 8th article of ye Confederation, relative to ye proportion of y" States, shall be determined by ye number of
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people. Voted, 2d [which was virtually au adoption of the new State Constitution], to accept of the address of y Convention sitting
Adoption of
to form a plan of government for y" State of New Hamp-
tle State Cou. shire ; and of the alternative, so called, iu y" Executive utitution. Department."
After the adoption of the first State Constitution, March 30, 1781, a new town clerk appears, and town representatives for the first time.
First Stute (See Lists.) There is no proof that Sanbornton took part
vlecdou, 1784. in any State election earlier than this. April 5 (same year), Thomas Siuclear, having determined to keep clear of the office of coustuble, " appeared and paid his fine." Jonathan Taylor and William Harper were successively voted in and cleared. "Meeting adjourned for half an hour to Esq. Sanborn's, and Josiah Emery finally settled upon." (See List. ) The next year voted " not to hire constables," which was reversed in 1786, voting " to hire " and " to pay back constables to the year 1781," with a commit- · tee of seven to adjust the claims, and " $17} and 17 " fixed upon as " constable's wages for the current year." No less than forty-one separate items or "articles " in the town business of that year ; one resulting in this vote : "To take y" Lord Proprietors' land into ye hands of y" town, and to empower ye" Select men to take care of said land for y" town" ! The coustable business not yet settled, the
The constable vote for 1787 being " to hire constables for this year, to muddlc.
be vandued to the lowest bidder, they providing sufficient bondsmen "; also that "y" division between y" constables shall be by y' Senter range." 1790, each district to have liberty of choosing their own constable, and the whole town to accept; 1791, George C. Ward chosen agent, " to join with the Select men in settling with the old constables " ; and finally (1792), selectmen ordered " to request the Treasurer to call on constables for back taxes."
Going back a little in our " annals," the year 1785 must be noted as an annus memorabilis, on account of the deep snows of the spring, as observed in some of the family records of Vol. II. Near the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, or from the 17th to that date, the snow, covering all the fences and heavily encrusted, gave opportunity for travelling indiscriminately on horseback and sleds over various parts of the town. This is certified by Annus memo- rubilis, 1735. several well-remembered family events : First, in the fam-
ily of Jas. Cate, it is said that Dr. Sanborn, being in their neighborhood, at Jerry Sanborn's, in Franklin, was sent for to go in haste to Benjamin Sanborn's, on the Sanborn road (in Tilton) ; that he mounted his horse and struck for the Sanborn neighborhood on the crust, rushing over fences, crossing the Gulf at the highway, and get-
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ting there in good season ! Moreover, that the old gentleman Cate's interest in his daughter Anna, about that time (see Vol. II. p. 631, [125], and p. 656 [382]), induced him soon to follow ou a light sled with a yoke of steers, and a kind of lumber box fastened upon the sled, with a chair for his wife to ride in; that they started straight across the fields and pastures on the crust, went without slumping, and made a very brief journey to their daughter's home. "Facilis descensus Averno est ; sed revocare gradum, hoc opus, hie labor est" (Easy the downward descent, but difficult the return) ! " It came on warm the next morning, and grandfather was obliged to leave grandmother and get off as soon as he could, with his steers and sled. He had to go round in the road, and it took him till nearly noon to get to Darling's Mills. He went up the Tin Corner road, slumping every step to old blacksmith John Clark's. There he stopped for dinner, and there left his sled, nnyoked his steers, put on blacksmith John's snow-shoes, took the steers' yoke upon his shoulder, and went up to his home [the late Edw. C. Wyatt's] across the range of lots. Yet there was no frost after that, and the season was as early as they had ever had."
Deep snows, yet carly spring.
Similar to this was the experience of Nathan Taylor, Esq., as related among his descendants : " The old snow was so deep and hard [April 19, 1785] that our grandfather had very early driven his oxen over fences and fields down to the saw-mill, theu back of the present Nathan Sanborn's, for a load of boards. He pro- ceeded back as far as David Lane's [ Horace Sanborn's place at pres- ent ], when the weather had turned so warm and the snow so soft that he was obliged to unyoke and drive home his cattle singly. Yet that very year the suow suddenly disappeared, the stock were ont, and they began to work upon the land before the middle of May."
1788, Jan. 21. Chose . William Harper, Esq., our Representa- tive to sit in convention at Exeter, on second Wed. of Feb. next." March 25, voted " to join with Concord in a convention to be held
New county there first Tues. of May next, to prefer petition to the
alliance sought. General Court for a new county, including Concord and adjoining towns." " William Chase and William Harper, Esq., Delegates to said Convention." This and a similar delegation to another convention for the same purpose the year following evince an early tendency to seek for new county associations towards the southwest.
1791, March 29. Selectmen authorized " to make all reasonable abatements of rates to such as apply for them." Boards and nails voted to Daniel Fitield for a house, sixteen feet by twenty-two, "if he builds on Mr. Woodman's land." Aug. 8, chose William
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Harper, Esq , delegate to convention for revising the State Con- stitution.
1792, May 7. A special meeting to vote on articles of amendment to the Constitution proposed by convention ; all were accepted article by article, save one, sixty-live being the highest mmuber of votes cust.
1793. The annual town meeting seems to have been warned differ- ently from previous meetings, or else the new town clerk, Samnel Lane, adopted a different manner of entering the record. Ben-
Warning of
lowu luecting. jamin Colby, constable, served the warrant, and his " do- ings thereon " ne certified on the records, just after the warrant, and before account of the meeting itself. Sept. 16, Jona- than Chase, of New Durham Gore, having prosecuted the town for ". his bounty," the town voted to stand a lawsuit with him, and Mr. Ward (after Esq. Harper's declining) was chosen "agent, to proceed in defence of the town."
The year 1794 was also, like 1785, a "remarkable " one. The
Another spring is said to have been unusually " forward," and
retoarkable although the dates in the following statement seem almost year. incredible, yet we give it precisely as received from our informant : -
" April 11 the road was white with apple-tree blossoms on occasion of Mrs. Michael Emery's following her brother, David Hoyt, to his grave {this was probably in one of the lower towns]; May 17 apples as large as bullets, and winter rye headed out. Yet the cold was afterwards so severe that the beech- trees lost all their leaves, and in Col. Gale's orchard there was ouly one apple. Parson Woodman saved his apples by setting the log fence on tire around his orchard."
We thus have evidence that the original apple-trees of Sanboruton had thrived well upon its new soil in twenty years.
Pertaining to this year 1794, we also gather items of interest from Father John Crockett's old account-book. It was the first year of his ministry. Like Paul, he had his trade. The price for making a pair of shoes was 2s. Cd., or 2/6. (Boots seem not to have been thought Old prices. of in town, as a general rule, though Nathaniel Burley paid £1 4s. for a pair in 1796 ; a high price for the novelty, which had come down in 1799, when Josiah Shaw paid ouly 9/ - nine shillings - for a pair.) In 1794, sixty pounds of beef cost 15/ ; a quarter of lamb, 1/9; wheat, 6/ per bushel; corn, 3/ per bushel. cider, 6/ per barrel. This was early in the season, before the influ- ence of the frost, as above, was felt.
1794, March 25. " Requested the selectmen to present a petition to Time of town the General Court for changing time of annual town meet- Inveling
changed. ing from y" last to the 2d Tuesday in March " ; and from
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the date of the next annual meeting, 1795, March 10, the same and similar petitions seem to have been respected. Voted also (last date) not to have a third collector, and that each end of the town be contined to their own district in bidding. "Vendue Master " first mentioned, Win. Harper, Esq. April 7, a vote was passed for the regulating of swine, in accordance with the State law : in
Regulating
wwiuu. effeet, first, that all swine going at large shall be well " ringed " ; second, that they need not be yoked, ". if peaccable, but if disposed to do damage they must be yoked, and damages [done] be paid by the owners " !
1796, April 4. Ilis last year's tax was given in to Josiah San- born, 5th," indicating five, at least, of that name as then in town.
1797. For the first time the annual town meeting ( March 14) was adjourned till the next day " to finish business"; a custom uniformly followed in later years, though with variations, - as March 19, 1799, "adjourned for one week." Oct. 30, at special meeting Adjouruments of town meet- for final choice of representative to Congress in place of ing. Hon. Jeremiah Smith, resigned, we find. the following singular transaction : "Sixty votes were cast for Peleg Sprague, Esq., at the meeting-house" ; and the meeting having " adjourned fifteen minutes to Mr. Conner's, nine votes were there taken for Peleg Sprague " !
1800, Feb. 5. The President of the United States having recom- inended the observance of Feb. 22 to the people, " publickly to
Washington's testify their Grief for the death of Gen. George Washing-
death.
ton by suitable Eulogies, Orations, and Discourses, or by
publick prayers." our selectmen, Jona. Chase and Brad- street Moody, called a meeting at this date -
" to choose and empower a Committee to make the necessary arrangements that the above recommended day of commemoration may be observed agreen- ble to the wish of Congress, and at the same time that we may feelingly di -- charge a duty we so justly owe to the memory of him who, under God, effected Call to the town the Godlike purpose of wresting our nation from impending by Bradstreet oppression, and making us a free, happy, and prosperous people." Mouily, boy.
The above "call" was from the pen of Mr. Moody, Jan. 31, 1800. At the meeting thus called, town voted to comply with the recounnendation, and chose " Andrew Lovejoy, John San- born, Capt. Benjamin Colby, James Hersey, Esq., Nathan Taylor, Esq., and Win. Harper, Esq., a committee of six, to make the arrange- ments. The actnal observance of the day was on this wise, as related substantially by Capt. J. B. l'erkins, then a young man of sixteen. who had just joined the ranks of the Light Infantry Company, and in 187! was the ouly survivor of the company, as existing in 1800 : -
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"Capt. Asa Currier was then commanding the company, und Esq. Nathan Taylor, being a Revolutionary officer, came up to his house a few days pre- vlously, where the company were assembled, and drilled them In such milliary tuetles and servlees us would be appropriate to the funeral solemuliles, - marching with reversed arms, ete. On the morning of what proved a pleas-
Mr. l'erkina's unt winter's day [Feb. 22], the processlon formed at Andrew
account of the Lovejoy's store, marshalled by Capt. Currier, couslisting of the cumuluswora- tlou. towu officers, committee of arrangements, and citizens generally, und marched with muffled drums up to the meetlug-house, where, the soldiers opening to right and left, their heads mournfully resting on the breeches of their muskets, the rest of the processiou filed through luto the meeting-house. There a discourse was preached by Rev. Mr. Woodman, with other appropriate exercises " (though of this part of the programme less is remembered).
1800, March 11. Selectmen were requested " to examine and settle with Esq. Harper respecting outstanding non-resident taxes, in such manner as may appear to them most for the interest of the town."
We here introduce to our readers a valuable record, but recently brought to light (1880), with which we are to become more fully acquainted in the next chapter. It is the " Memorandum kept by Joshua Lane, from the time he began to keep house till his Death."
Muster Lane's (See Vol. II. p. 439 [58].) The date and place of its
commencing are Nov. 13, 1788, at Kensington. The size introduced.
of the book is only six and one half by four inches. One page is uniformly devoted to each month. A short daily space, indicating the weather, has also brief allusions to matters and events of personal, social, or general interest, with a few lines containing a summary review of the month and peculiarities of its weather, erops, ete., at the bottom of the page.
Of course this record becomes applicable to Sanbornton only as Mr. Lane took up his residence here in 1798. Omitting items alluded to, which are noticed elsewhere (in other connections) in this history, we have for . Nov., 1798. Very coldl month. The severest snow-storm ever known in this month for some years. Aug., 1799. Dry weather 10th to 19th. Grasshoppers very plenty. June, 1500. Dividing years
of the two cen- Very dry till the 21st. No corn to be bought in town ; turivo in Sam. all carried out by buyers from Vermont." Drought con- borutou.
tinues in July, added to which the dry weather in August " has rendered it distressing to a great degree. Corn is pinched very much and wholly dried up in many places." " Fires rage over town, fences burned, and buildings endangered in many cases ; yet healthy " now, and through the year. "Sept. 3. Fast kept in this town on account of drought. Sept. 4. Fine rain." The last two entries are a verbutim transcript, the record for the two first days of September
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being "wann, good weather," and for Sept. 5, " windy and cool." It should, however, be added that " small rains " had begun to be reported during the latter days of August. Finally, the report for October gives " heavy rains," but " short crops of corn ; potatoes very light, and hardly any cider made."
CHAPTER XIV.
ANNALS OF THE TOWN, - 1801-1881.
" The town meeting which grew out of these infant states was as purely dewo- eratic as the ecclesia in ancient Athens. Here the whole body of freemen met in deliberation ; and as there then existed no religions or property qualifications for suffrage in New Hampshire, nearly every adult man was a voter, and every such voter was personally interested in the decrees of this popular assembly "
SANHORN (" History of New Hampshire ").
" Towu meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it within the people's reach ; they teach meu how to use and how to enjoy it." DE TOCQUEVILLE.
CONTINUING these " aunals," or yearly records, our design shall still be to embrace ( first) all items pertaining to the annual town meetings of Sanbornton from 1800 to the present, as also such votes and action
in those meetings as do not arrange themselves under Town Records
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