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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXIII.
DIVISION OF THE TOWN 253
Decidedly opposed at the outset. - Remonstrance of 1825. - The harmony hitherto existing. - The school and parsonage fund benefits endangered. - Present mit- ural boundaries and favorable location. - Other unprecedented grievances. - Persevering opposition of Saubornton. - Final lawsuit : Franklin es. Saubornton. - Controversy settled. - Original movement for a second division. - Claims of the village precincts. - Various schemes annulled. - The action of 1869 and tinal restult. - Act constituting the town of Tilton. - Division of the town prop- erty.
CHAPTER XXIV.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN SANBORNTON AND TILTON 60
The first pound. - The powder-house. - Prominence of the old town meeting-house. - Youthful impressions concerning it. - Town's right relinquished. - Later Sauhoraton Town House. - Peculiar internal arrangements. - Tilton Town Ilall. - F. J. Eastman's account of its inception. - The gift of Mr. Charles E. Tilton. - Its material and dimensions. - Post-office accommodations. - Size, style, and finish of the hall itself. - Cost and oversight of the construction. - Meeting-house steeples. - The old school-houses supplanted. - That of No. 11, as described in the N. H. School Superintendent's report. - The latest rebuilt by C. S. Morrison, 1881.
CHLAPTER XXV.
THIE TOWN'S POOR. - FINANCES 207
Bidding off the poor. - Towu's votes respecting the poor. - Alinshouse first content- plated in 1817. - Report of committee recommending the same, 1828. - Reports of purchasing committees, 1830. - Informers or complainants. - Inmates and keepers of the house of correction. - Pauper settlements abolished. - Town's farin sold in 1869. - Expenses and finances. - Early charges moderate. - Town's care of its securities. - Regulations instituted in 1810. - Earliest tax list on record. - Wealthiest men in Sanbornton. 1809. - The most common names then in town. - Early financial reports. - Abstract of the first recorded in 1824. - The auditors of 1533 not "magnifying their office." - Chief financial items in 1835. - The U. S. surplus revenue. - Devoted to school purposes. - Loaning of the town's funds. - Prices current in 1840. - Falling off of the funds. - Various financial matters from the records. - Stockholders of the C'it- izens' Bank, 1854. - Counterfeit money burned. - Fire-engine appropriation. - Manufacturing corporations exempted from taxation. - Divisions of the parson- age interest. - Final indebtedness of Sanbornton, 1881.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE FISHING INTERESTS OF SANBORNTON 276
Importance to the first settlers. - Early legislation. - The weirs for cels. - Their construction described. - Seenring the fish. - James G. Sanborn's testimony. - A big haul. - Nocturnal raids. - The old " shad times." - Time and mode of capture. - Gibson's Falls a favorite resort. - James Shirley's adventure. - Trout fishing. - The salmon of Salmon Brook. - T. R. Morrison's account of fishing in the same. - The pickerel of Little Bay. - Fishing operations of the Clark Brothers. - Other fish in the bays.
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CHAPTER XXVII.
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT . 283
Drinking customs of the past. - Dr. J. C. Bodwell's allusions in address. - Capt. J. B. l'erking's maiden speech. - Former standard of respectability. - The social stand early taken by Rev. and Mrs. A. Bodwell. - A struggle against tobacco .- License certificates from the town records. - The taverners and storekeepers of Sauboruton. - Licenses for special occasions. - The dawning of reform. - Tem- perance resolutions in town meeting. - The liquor agency, 1855-60. - Amusing incidents. - Posting the tipplers. - More serious results. - Mr. Kuapp's temper- ance reminiscence. - Sanboruton and Gilmanton Temperance Society. - Church and Sunday-school temperance work at Union Bridge.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
FRUIT CULTURE. - FARMING NOTES 200
Benjamin Colby's apple seeds. - Apple-trees as affected by soil and location. - The Thompson orchard. - Its yield in 1881. - List of the varieties raised hy Smith & Sanborn. - Deductions from their experience. - Other fruit. - The Carr grapevine. - The large Sanbornton vine. - Additional varieties of grapes. - Premiums at fairs. - The Wadleigh pear. - A profitable cherry-tree. - The Pemigewasset nursery. - The old Hlersey nursery (note) .- Tomato and small-fruit trade of the Messrs. Shaw. - Farming notes. - Wheat for export. - Corn upou the hills. - L. B. Hathon, one of the largest coru producers. - The first silo in Sanbornton. - The use of ensilage. - Cattle-raising ; Meredith vs. Sanborutou. - The famous oxen of William Sanborn, 1799. - Contrast with the present. - The big porker of one hundred years ago. - Present weights. - Dairy products. - The establishments of T. W. Taylor and G. IL Browu. - A fertilizing "mine " discovered. - Farming improvements of the Messrs. March. - New barns. - Silk culture once attempted. - The Farmers' Club.
CILAPTER XXIX.
QUAINT SPECIMENS OF SANBORNTON POETRY. - BOOKS AND NEWS- PAPERS 300
Why introduced. - James Cate's elegy on the family of Benjamin Sauborn. - A uarrow escape. - Rev. Moses Cheney's " Farewell to the Old Hemlock Tree." - The "poetry " of William Knapp. - Rhymes against the " preachers." - Ste. phen Smith's satirical verses. - His proposed epitaph. - Samuel Smith's com- paint against a legal decision. - Impromptu at the mill. - Fourth of July marching song. - Books and newspapers. - Books published at the Square. - Family Bible. - Extent of the printing and book-binding business. - The Weekly Visitor. - News of the day, 1824. - The Strafford Gucette.
CHAPTER XXX.
CEMETERIES 308
Two customs in the selection of burial places. - Decay of the old Sanhornton celli- eteries. - Object of this chapter. - Sanbornton cemeteries, by districts. - Tilton cemeteries, by districts. - Franklin cemeteries. - Deserted burial places in San- borntou. - Earliest deaths in town. - Centre Square Cemetery. - Nameless graves - Cemetery improvements, - Art es. Nature. - Village cemeteries vi Franklin and Tilion. - The Park Cemetery Association. - Original siquers. - Officers and lots. - Records of the association. - Officers, 1881. - M. B. Good win's description. - Receiving tomb, presented by Hon. A. H. Tilton.
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SALMAGUNDI
CHAPTER XXXI. 319
Additional Indian relies. - Hunting exploits. - " Ear-marks " on the town records. - l'erambulation of town lines. - The selling of lands for taxes. - Surveying relies of Sergt. Jolant Sanborn. - Old forms of receipts. - Early water works. - Town seal. - Strays. - Saubornton aud the State constitution. - Delegates to constitucional conventions. - Juror town meetings. - Fire regulations. - Village police ; boats. - Extract from the Workly Visitor. - Earliest census table. - Popu- lation at later periods. - Musical organizations. - Secret benevolent societies. - The " Washington Benevolent Society," 1812. - Sunbornton Mutual Fire In- surance Company. - The Sanborntou Town Library. - The burning of infidel literature. - Sanborntou's apportionment and valuation. - Alleged Puritan influence. - Industries : shook-making. - Picking cotton wool. - Ilat braiding and seaming stockings. - The business of teaming. - First Lowell operatives from Sanbornton. - Permanence es. change. - Vital statistics. - Rev. A. Budwell's record of deaths. - " Crying " the marriages. - A case of somnambulism. - l'eculiar furniture. - Blaisdell's refrigerating cupboard. - Bradstreet Moody's first check-list. - Earliest and later mail facilities.
CHAPTER XXXII.
TIIE TOWN CENTENNIAL, 1876 330
Preliminary arrangements. - Memorial observance on the evening of July 3. - l'ro- cessions to the tent on the Fourth. - The forenoon exercises. - A collapse. - Afternoon at the Town Hall. - General satisfaction. - The historical address, by Rev. Frederic T. Perkins: "The lleroism of Our Ancestors." - Poem, by Edwin W. Lane : "Columbi:L"
APPENDIX A.
A Description of the First Division of Lots . ·
364
A Description of the Second Division of Lots . .
. 378
APPENDIX B.
School Teachers in Sanbornton
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397
College Graduates from Sanbornton . .
. 400 .
APPENDIX C.
Town Officers
401
Votes of the Town for Governor, etc.
-121
Representatives in Congress and Electors .
420
APPENDIX D.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Highways or Roads laid out in Sauboruton, 1770-1875 . .
· 429
APPENDIX E.
Division of Sauboruton
119
APPENDIX F.
Table of Longevity .
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CONTENTS.
APPENDIX G.
The Post offices and Postmasters of Sanborntou 45S
APPENDIX II.
The Sauborutou Society for the Reformation of Morals . 462
APPENDIX J. .
Additions and Corrections to Vol. 1.
465
SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. II.
GENEALOGICAL
The Boynton Family
The Brown Family (addenda ) 471
The Bruce Family ( addenda) 4722
The Cobb Family ( addenda) 473
The Forrest Family . +it
476
The Page Family 477
478
The Robertson Family
478
The Runnels Family .
479
Marriages .
481
Births
483
Deatlıs
Additions and Corrections to Vol. Ii.
491
Additional Records 498
Final Additions to Vol. I.
500
INDEX I.
Nanies
501
INDEX II.
Generalities
531
MAP INDEX I.
Building Sites still occupied, 1882
.
542
Population, 1882 ·
. 543
MAP INDEX II.
Abandoned Building Sites, 1882
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555
Summary .
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.
558
MAP INDEX III.
Streets, etc., ou the Village Plaus of Tilton and Franklin Falls
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568
MEMORANDA AND FAMILY RECORDS. ( To be continued.)
Memoranda, Marriages, Births, Deaths
570
470
470
The Godfrey Family .
The Pike Family (addenda) 477
The Randlet Family (addendit)
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ILLUSTRATIONS. - VOL. I.
SUBJECT.
STYLE.
ARTISTS.
PAGE FING.
Moves T. Bunuels
Steel Plate.
F. T. Stuart.
Title, i iii
Charles E. Tilton .
Tiltou Village (Saubornton Squ the distance) .
Photo-eng.
F. J. Moulton aud E. ( A. Samuels.
1
utains Outline of Salmon Brook Mot
A. P. Ayling and E. I A. Samuels.
(from Frankliu) .
A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
5
View from Parsonage Lot (east)
A. P. Ayling and E. A. S.innels.
6
Kearsarge Mountain (from Lot No. 7, Second Division)
A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
7
Diagram of Mountains.
Wood-eut.
H. N. Kinney. C. H. Hitchcock.
13
Diagram of Geological Stratu
F. J. Moulton and E.
16
The Big Bowlder .
Woud-cut.
A. P. Ayling and E. } A. Samuels.
83
First Baptist House of Worship
A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
83
Second Baptist House of Worship (Bay)
A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuel.s.
83
A. P. Ayling and E. 1 A. Sammels.
85
A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
88
§ A. P. Ayling and E. A. Sammuels.
89
F. J. Moulton and E. A. Samuels.
3
Methodist House of Worship (Tilton) .
New Hampshire Conference Seminary Buildings .
..
125
Residence of T. W. Taylor
131
The Woodman-Wilson House
131
Aikeu Avenne (Franklin)
- E. A. Samuels.
193
A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
193
American Bauk 1 1
207
Note Co.
F. T. Stuart.
.. 10
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10
Diagram of the Indian Fort . Original Plan of Sanbornton (copy) . Chair from the Original First Baptist Meeting. House .
Photo-eng.
A. Samuels. F. J. Moulton and E. A. Samuels. A. G. Westou. M. T. Runnels.
22
38
Third Baptist House of Worship (North Sanboruton) . Freewill Baptist House of worship (Kast Tilion) . . Methodist House of Worship (East Tilton) . Congregational House of Worship (Tiltou) . . . Episcopal House of Worship (Tilton) .
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A. P. Ayling and E. { A. Samuels. . F. J. Moulton and E. { . A. Sanmels. F. J. Moulton and E. { A. Samuels. F. J. Moulton and E. A. Saiunels. F. J. Moulton and E A. Sumuels.
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Photographer nuk'u.
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Old Inscriptions ( Franklin Falls Cem- etery) . Alvahı W. Sulloway (Vol. II. p. 213) . Warren F. Daniell ( Vol. II. p. 213) =
.6
Steel Plate.
Outline of Mountains (north)
Simon R. Morrison House and Elm
Photo-eng.
9
125
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IL.LUSTRATIONS. - VOL. I.
BUMILCT.
STYLE.
ARTISTA.
Suboruton Square from the South (Taylor Elin) . .
Photo.eng.
Colby-Leavitt House
224
Ward-Lovejoy House
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From an old painting .! E. A. Samuels.
2:13
Residence of M. T. Ruunels .
-
A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
2.28
Hill's Brick Block (Tilton)
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F. J. Moulton and E. A. Samurl+.
231
B., C. and M. R. R. Passenger Sta- tion (Tilton) .
J. Batchelder and E. t A. S annols. -
231
Residruce of Walter Aiken (Frauk. liu)
Photographer nuk'n. I E. A. Namnels. 1
2333
Residence of Warren Daniell ( Frank- lin) .
Howard Kimballand E. A. Samuels. -
2.13
Residence of C. B. Burley
F. J. Moniton and E. { A. Samuels.
035
Store aud Residence of J. J. Burley .
A. P Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
235
Monument Square aud Street (Tiltou).
J. Batchelder and E. A. Samuels.
258
Original Satchel Clark House
- A. Samuels.
263
New Town Hall (Tiltou)
F. J. Moulton and E. A. Samuels. F. J. Moulton and E. -
203
New Town Hall (interior view) .
A. Samuels. F. J. Moultou and E A. Samuels.
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205
Residence of D. C. Clough
Photographer nuk'n. E. A. Samuels
205
Public Buildings at Saubornton Square . .
F. J. Moulton and E. A. Samnels A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samuels.
337
School-house, District No. 11
337
Frederic T. Perkins
F. T. Stuart.
310
Residence of A. W. Sulloway (Frank- lin) .
Photo-oug.
C. L. Hunt and E. } A. Samuels.
107
Residence of J. W. Johnson (Vol. II. p 505) ..
F. J. Moulton and E. A. Samuels. F. J. Moulton aud E. 1 A. Samuels.
467
View in Tilton from the Island . . Historical Map of. Sauboruton . . .
Lithographi.
Runuels and Ayling, { and G. H. Walker. Runnelsand Ayling, t and G. H. Walker. Runnelsaud Ayhug and (. 11. Walker. I Runuels and Avling, and G. H. Walker \ Runuels aml Ayling, ! and G. 11. Walker. Runtels and Ayling, ( and G. H. Walker. Ruunels and Ayling, ! and G. H. Walker. \ Runnels and Ayling, and G. H. Walker.
542
Pocket.
Plan of Sanboruton Square. S. I.
Plau of the Chapel Village. S. II. .
. Plan of Salmon Brook. S. III. Plan of North Sauborntou. S. IV. . Plan of Tiltou Village. T. I. . . . Plan of East Tilton. T. II. . . . Plan of Franklin Falls Village (San- boruton side). F. I. . . =
F. JJ. Moulton and E. A. Samnurls. A. P. Ayling and E. A. Samnels.
224
S. A. Clark and E.
264
Residence of J. B. Calef
Steel Plate.
ILLUSTRATIONS. - VOL. II.
SUBJECT.
STYLE.
ARTISTS.
PAGE FACING.
Nathan Taylor
Steel Plate.
J. A. J. Wilcox.
Title, i
The Perkins Group
Heliotype.
Boston Heliotype Print- 1 ing Co.
vii
Daniel C. Atkinson
Electrotype.
N. E. P'hoto-electrotype Co.
13
Abraham Bodwell .
Steel Plate. ..
F. T. Stuart.
191
Win. P. Cross
..
( Galaxy Publishing Co., I Philadelphia.
200
Theodore H. Ford
F. T. Stuart. =
..
380
Heury Lovejoy
Heliotype.
ing Co.
-
471
Person C. Cheney
Steel Plate. .. ..
A. H. Ritchie. J. A. J. Wilcox.
550
Sanborn Coat of Arms
Wood-ent. Steel Plate. ..
F. T. Stuart.
800
James P. Tilton .
:
J. A. JJ Wilcox.
¥03
Alexander H. Tilton
F. T. Stuart.
804
17
Persons
20
HIeliotypes .
2
Residences
18
Electrotype
1
Public Buildings.
14
Photo-engravings
42
Village and Landscape Views
5
Wood-cuts .
Outlines and Diagrams
Map and Plans
8
Plans and Miscellaneous
13
Total
Total
S. A. J. Wilcox.
40)
Daniel C. Burleigh
Jolin Crockett
255
Luciau Hunt .
Boston Heliotype Print-
49%
John B. Perkins
621
Samuel Tilton
Steel Plates
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INTRODUCTION.
PERSONAL.
ABOUT fifteen years, not of irksome, unrequited toil, but of pleasant and profitable pastime, in the intervals of other duty, have been de- voted to the preparation of this llistory. Not an hour of drudgery - not a eheerless hour - has ever been employed upon it! A conversa- tion with the venerable Capt. Chase Perkins - telling his graphie story of Sanborntou's Revolutionary heroes, and giving substantially that picture of the " Square " which appears on pp. 224-228 - first sug- gested to the author that the " History of Sanboruton " was worthy of being written. He therefore began immediately to employ his leisure time in collecting material for such a history, which some one might eventually write. For several years this collection of material was all he aspired to, till at last a guiding Providence seemed to propose the issuing of these volumes.
The pecuniary profit of the enterprise has all been given to the publie, as the low price of the History evinees ; but the satisfaction which the author has taken in every department of the work, from first to last, the aid imparted to himself for his pastoral duties, and an increased knowledge of human nature in general, and of the good people in particular among whom his lot was east as a minister of the gospel, have proved an ample compensatiou.
Though aiming at strict fidelity to all the documents and records coming to hand, yet the fact of not being " to the manor born " may well account for numerous mistakes and misconceptions respecting matters of its past history, of which a native of the town would have been informed. It must be continually borne in mind that seventeen years ago (May, 1882) the author was as ignorant of Sanbornton and its people as of a similar district in Kamtschatka.
On deciding to publish the History, its compiler promised to himself' and others that the whole should be made so clear in arrangement, and be so copiously furnished with index and other facilities, that it might be readily consulted even by the youngest. Ilence, in Vol. 1. espe- cially, there is more simplifying and dividing of the subject-matter thau in most books of the kind ; the tables of contents are all indented upou
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the margins of the pages ; and the fulness and variety of the indexes, it is confidently believed, will leave nothing to be desired in this de- partment. The book, therefore, aside from the pleasure it may give to the citizens and absent sons of Sanbornton, is recommended as an educator to the youth of the town in present and future generations. This is on the principle now carried out in the primary schools of Ger- many, and some parts of our own country, of more readily interesting the minds of children in geography and history by beginung with the very localities in which they reside, exciting a taste for those branches in reference to familiar objeets around their own homes, and afterwards letting the circle widen as their intellects expand. With this partly in view, the design of the author has further been to make the work before us purely a local history ; alluding to other places and more general history, as of the State or nation, only in those points at which the town of Sanbornton or its people seemed to be connected with them. This will be seen noticeably in Chapter XV., on the Revolutionary Wir.
It might almost appear like a departure from this principle that more full accounts should not be given of the manners and customs of the early times, and of the natural history of the town, with lists of its fauna, flora, etc. But here a desire not to enlarge unduly upou things familiarly known, and not to repeat what has been so well and often told in minerous similar works, as well as in school text-books, gazetteers, and general histories, has prevailed in the author's mind. In these particulars he has almost wholly confined himself to the notice of such things as have seemed, in a sense, peculiar to the town of Saubornton.
SOURCES OF MATERIAL FOR THE PRESENT WORK.
Previous contributions to the " History of Sanbornton " were both meagre and fragmentary.
The Hon. Samuel L. Knapp (see Vol. II. p. 423 [10]) is said to have commenced a history of the town, as his boyhood's home ; but none of his papers have ever come to light. The most important " sketches of Sauboruton," and the only ones ever known to have been published, are alluded to on page 300 of this volume They first appeared in the Werlily Visitor, 1824 ; were afterwards given nuder .. Saubornton " m Farmer and Moore's " Historical Collections," and were finally enlarged and published in a pamphlet of twenty-four pages by Charles Lane, Esq .. being styled .. Aunals of the Town of Sandborntou, Bel- knap Co., New Hampshire, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1841 ; with Biographical Notices of some of the Earliest Settlers : by a
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Citizen." That citizen was probably Col. Lane himself, who, before his death, kindly made over the free use of that pamphlet to the present writer, with a few supplementary manuscripts. The facts and state- ments of this valuable pamphlet -where not obtained from more original sources - are all woven into the following History, usually with a direct reference to the " Annals of 1841," or the " former " or " citizen anualist," and in a few cases, as on pp 24 and 63, with quite extended quotations made from the same. The " Biographical Notices," promised on its title-page, were never published, with the exception of one or two in the shape of newspaper articles a few years later.
The " Town Records " consulted for this History have been the fol- lowing : -
(a) The " Proprietors' Records " (see p. 43).
(b) " Town Records, Vol. 1.," 1771-1794 (1800), an oldl flexible- covered volmine seven inches by twelve, 200 pages, and the first fifteen pages missing.
(c) " Town Records, Vol. II.," 1800-1821, same size as last, 36-1 pages.
(d) " Town Records, Vol. III.," being largely births and mar- riages. with family records grotesquely scattered.
(e) " Town Records, Vol. IV.," 1821-1846, the largest of the Town Books, ten inches by fifteen, 521 pages. And finally,
(f) "Town Records, Vol. V.," 1846-1856, the most elegantly bound of the older town record books, 160 pages.
The above, with A. G. Weston's " Historical Facts" of Sanborn- ton (MS.), and a few published newspaper sketches, pamphlet ad- dresses, gazetteer descriptions, etc., have constituted, together with the special sources of genealogical record mentioned in the Introduc- tion to Vol. II., the chief literary storehouses from which the materials for this Ilistory have been drawn.
PLAN OF THE PRESENT WORK. (VOL. I.)
Starting with Cowper's beautiful distinction between " the country " and " the town," we have,
(a) The territory of Sanbornton in its primeval or natural charac- teristies, Chapters 1. and II.
(b) The anterior occupation of this territory by wild animals and Indians, Chapters III. and IV.
(c) Its first connection with white men, as " claimed," in part.
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under the Massachusetts jurisdiction ; and " planned " into a town by the proprietors before settlement, Chapters V. and VI.
The town being at last " made," we have,
(d) Its actual settlement and incorporation, Chapters VII. and VIII.
. A letter from Prof. E. D. Sanborn, LL. D., of Dartmouth College, received at this stage in the arrangement of the chapters, contained the following most timely and valuable hint : " I think it would be a good idea in a town history to treat at some length on the 'corner- stones of American liberty,' as Jolin Adams called them [the ' corner- stones of the Temple of Liberty,' as elsewhere quoted], viz., "The Church, the School, the Town Meeting, and the Militia.'" Hence was suggested, in continuance of the plan,
(e) The Church, or ecclesiastical affairs, Chapters IX. and X.
(f) The School, or educational affairs, Chapters XI. and XII.
(g) Town Meeting Notes, and other " Annals " (the word unnals being here taken as yearly occurrences, in a more literal or restricted sense than in the title of Vol. I.), Chapters XIII. and XIV.
(h) The Militia, or military affairs, chiefly in connection with cach of the three principal wars of our country, Chapters XV. to XVII.
But little of a logical connection is attempted in the arrangement of the remaining chapters, XVIII. to XXXII., save that the last is quite appropriately devoted to the "Town Centennial Celebration " iu 1876.
Those chapters were printed, for the most part, in the order of their being finished or prepared for the press. As the historian of Gilsmn remarks, respecting those who may be fastidious in regard to the arrangement of his chapters, they " can easily satisfy their more logical minds by reading the chapters in the order of their own choice."
The appendix and supplementary matter, being chiefly for refer- ence, needs no further explanation.
NEW MATERIAL.
Since the completion of the Ilistory, our attention has been called to two apparent allusions to events transpiring on Sanboruton soil, in " Osgood's White Mountain Hand-Book," edited by M. F. Sweetzer. The first is on p. 365. Speaking of Lake Winnisquam (" Beautiful Water"), it adds : " Farther to the S. is Little Bay, where the Pro- vincial troops erected the strong bulwark of Fort Atkinson in 1716.
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Near this bay was a more uncient Indiun fort, with six walls. Both of these martial momments have been demolished for materials to be used in building dams and other works."
The second is on p. 392, as follows : " In the antmunn of 1746, after the destruction of the French Armuda, Col. Atkinsou's New Hamp- shire regiment was ordered into the Winnipesaukee region to form winter quarters and to defend the frontiers against the French and Indians from Canada. They built Fort Atkinson in Sunbornton, at the head of Little Bay and W. of Union Bridge. The earthworks re- mained for over a century, and were generally supposed to have been Indian remains; but the masonry was all carried away to build into a dam. The troops remained here for about a year in idleness, and under the lax discipline of the Provincial commanders. Much of their time was spent in hunting and fishing excursions among the mountains, and ont on Luke Winnepisaukee, during which the character and eapa- bilities of this hitherto unexplored country were minutely studied."
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