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Lor No. 26 (No. 5, First Division). The farmns of Arthur C. (late Jona- than) Taylor and of Samuel (late Dearboru) Taylor, eighty acres ench, are upou the north end; formerly owned by John Huse, Jr. The south uneuli- vated. being the back parts of farms at south end of No. 27. Sites : 1.School .- HOUSE. 2. Ilest House.
LOT No. 27 (No. 15, First Division). The ofil Caleb Rollins lot. The orlgl- nal Isaac Colby place (now Rufus Colby's) ou the north, the Jonathan Taylor (Stone Bridge) farm in the centre (now Cyrus Taylor's) ; also a pasture of N. J. Shinte's, centre aud southwest, and the Esq. Josiah Emery (now Rufus flowe's) and the Chase Sanborn (late Thomas Webster's) farms at the south. Sites: 1. LABY HOUSE. 2. CHASE SANBORN OF THOMAS WEBSTER HOUSE.
Lor No. 28 (No. 16, First Division). The origiuul Jewett lot, - Ilrst set- tled by Andrew Jewett, son of the grantee, on the present Noah J. Shute place, - comprising most of the south part. Fifty acres on north were oeen- pied by John Boyd's and the Aaron Ellsworth place; also forty-eight acres north end were deeded by William Prescott, Jr., to Jonathan Cawley, Nov. 10, 1798; and twenty aeres by John Folsom to the same, June 16, 1803. Site : 1. EDE TAYLOR House; formerly occupied by James aud Thomas Cawley; perhaps by Wiu. Prescott.
Lor No. 29 (No. 17, First Division). Thomas Shute first permanent settler on the south end, at the present N. Brackett Shute's homestead. Johmi W. Taylor place aud J. J. Burley's store on southwest coruer. Eben Eastman, the late Emerson Giles's heirs, and James C. Moses, owners of other parts; now niostly deserted of inhabitants. The John Ellsworth place was at the north end (formerly Prescott farm; now owned by Curtis B. Burley). Lot is crossed by Giles's Brook from east to west. Other old inhabitants at the north end, as per the following Sites: 1. SINCLAIR HOUSE; very pleasant. 2. WELCH HOUSE. 3. MILES HOUSE. 4. JOHN ELLSWORTH OF THESCOTT HOUSE. 5. AARON ELLSWORTH or BOYD HOUSE. Two last standing, merely, in 1877.
Lor No. 30 (No. 48, First Division). Renben Rollius, only son of the grantee, was earliest occupant of the south end, at and west of Clark's Corner; and deeded fifty acres of the north portion to Jonathan Cawley of Samboruton, yeoman, March 11, 1784, for £67 10s. This, with part of No. 31, couveyed to Jonathan Calley, Jr., Nov. 2, 1516 (one hundred and twelve acres), for $1,000, who gave back a " life lease" to his father, March 1, 1818. Well watered by Cawley and Rollins's louds, with Salmon Brook flowing through them, but quite swampy ; and the old Rollins orchards are now overgrown with forest trees. Sites : 1. GiLes Houst. 2. JUDKINS HOUSK. 3. ROLLINS HOUSE. 4. ROLLINS aud JmasY Sworn House. 5. CALEB BATCHELDER HOUSE. 6. BRADBURY SMITH HOUSE.
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LOT No. 31 (No. 18, First Division). Part of the Cawley farm on this lot, as per last unmber; also deed of John Lane, Jr., to Jonathan Calley, fifty acres for $225, April 29, 1500. The saute to "Jolm Lane, 4th, 46+ neres, with buildings, for $800, June 22, 1813." The place now occupied by his son, Gilman D. Lane, northwest corner of lot. South end was the Brown lot, and fitty acres of the same were attached to the Tilton farm (now Charles Calley's), as per deed of land from Jacob Hersey to Daniel L. Tilton, Feb. 1, 18+4. Sites : 1. EBENEZER CATE HOUSE; present Hiram Wadleigh's. 2. NATHANIEL CAWLEY HOUSE. 3. DANIEL TH.TON HOUSE; moved to Clark's Corner, loc7.
Lor No. 32 (No. 19, First Division). Comprises most of the so-called Lane nelgliborhood (with Nos. 31 and 33), on which Dea. Samuel Lane and his brother John originally settled. Hence Jolin Lane deeded to John Lane, 3d (same as 4th above, and afterwards John S.), "one acre, for $10, west of the latter's present land, extending twelve rods on the road " cast of the old school-house site, northeast corner, and thus determining the east side line. The present Win. R. Morrison place is near the centre, his farm of eighty-tive acres being conveyed by Jeremiah Swain, Jr., to Thomas Morri- son, "in Lots Nos. 31 and 32," for $1, 400. Sites : 1. School-HOUSE. 2. JonN LANE HOUSE. 3. DANIEL PEARSONS HOUSE. 4. WILLIAM PEARSONS HOUSE. Father of last; "no legs."
Lor No. 33 (No. 20, First Division). The Eaton place (now Herman T. Hale's) is partly on this lot, as also the Wadleigh farms and the present Angustns I[. Robinson place, - the north and south rond by these places nearly dividing the lot. The Cyrus Swain and late Joseph L. Calley farms also included, with the valuable water privileges on Salmon Brook, near Nathaniel M. Prescott's, originally Clark Gordon's (Blaisdell & Burley's refrigerators), and the Turkey Bridge (Johnson's clock factory). The " Salmon Brook Ilumlet " mostly on this lot.
Lor No. 34 (No. 21, First Division). Two neres south end struck off' to Abraham Perkins, for £4 2s. Id., taxes, April, 1779. Josiah Shaw, son of the grantee (?), probably redeemed the above, and carly settled on the west side of the lot, one half its length north from the late l'iper Corner school-house. William Weeks was the original settler of the north end, and deeded to his brother, Chase W., sixty-eight acres northwest corner, Feb. 9, 1801. Sites : I. School-llouse; moved, 1869. 2. ORIGINAL DUSTIN HOUSE. 3. JOSIAI SHAW HOUSE; afterwards Moses Kimball's. 4. LANG HOUSE. 5. WILLIAM WERKS HOUSE.
Lor No. 35 (No. 22, First Division). North end was originally settled by the two Wadleigh brothers, one of whom, James, Jr., had married Molly Blake, a probable relative of the grantee; yet the land had passed through Thomas Arnal and Joseph Wadleigh, who deeded ninety acres to James tor four hundred and thirty silver dollars. Here the Wadleigh pears tirst grew, on the original site (north part) ocenpied by Joseph; now vacant. Daniel T. only descendant now on the soil (grandson of James, south part). Seven aeres of north end were sold to William Eaton for taxes, £1 4s. 5d., July, 1781. Southwest corner of lot was the "home lot of Cole Weeks" (ou this and No. 36), eighty neres; afterwards owned by Alphens E. Weeks; now by James R. Cogswell (by Mr. Lowe, 1882). Sites : 1. MARK WEEKS HOUSE. 2. JosErn WADLEIGH HOUSE. 3. WADLEIGH HOUSE; built for son of the last. 4. Jony Momasox House. 5. Hovr House. C. PRescorr Ilousk. 7. JOHN WERKS HOUSE. 8. JOHN B. WADLEIGHI HOUSE.
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Lor No. 36 (No. 23, First Division). The Cole Weeks estate seems to have extended over the south halves both of No. 55 and of this lot ( Weeks's 110!), the north ends belug separated by n natural boundary (Colby Brook and Ravine), and found on the rise of the next hill (mountain) to the north. Joseph Chapman, afterwards Christopher S. Piper, and now Mark It. Piper, have also ocenpled sontheust corner. Sites : 1. JACOB SMITH House and TANNERY. 2. Dow HOUSE. 3. NATHANIEL CAVERLY HOUSE.
Lor No. 37 (No. 24, First Dlvislou). A valuable and formerly well- populated lot ; a road passing nearly through Its centre from south to north. Jotham Rollins, u relative of the grantee, made his beginnings near the middle (lately occupied by his grandson) ; south of whoin, the principal early settlers were John Colby (late Dyer place) and Esq. Wm. Weeks (now Norris M. Weeks) ; and on the north, Joseph Thomas and Chase Weeks (farins still in the same name) ; and at the end of road on the north, Jonathan Weeks (now Joseph Mason's). Sites : 1. SOLOMON SMITH HOUSE. 2. IRA ASH or THOMAS CAL- LEY HOUSE (with blacksmith shop of the former; carried away by the freshet of 1826). 3. JOSEPH COLBY HOUSE. 4. JOTHAM ROLLINS HOUSE. 5. BEN- JAMIN ROLLINS HOUSE. C. DUSTIN HOUSE. 7. DUSTIN HOUSE. 8. DANIEL M PireR House; burued. 9. Thomas lloUSE. 10. CHASE STEVENS HOUSE. 11. TENNEY HOUSE.
Lor No. 38 (No. 39, First Division). Nathan Sanborn was first settler, near the centre; succeeded by Chase Osgood, father and grandfather of pres- ent occupants, prior to 1803. Renben Eaton settled in 1800 on east side (now occupied by his grandson, Ezra M. Beckman) ; also Wm. Eaton, brother of the above, a little south (now Thomas Eatou's) ; Benjamin Holt having deeded to the Eaton brothers " half and half, one hundred acres, for $1,250," Feb. 15, 1800. Sites : 1. ANDREW CALLEY or BROWN HOUSE. 2. OLD SCHOOL-IloUsK. 3. ANTON DOW HOUSE. 4. BILLY Surin House; moved from the mountain ( ?). 5. JEREMIAH SANBORN HOUSE. C. Dow or WALLIS HOUSE. 7. BENJAMIN CAWLEY HOUSE ("the stiff-kneed ").
Lor No. 39 (No. 41, First Division). Six neres southeast corner "struck off' to Left. Josialı Sanborn " for taxes, £1 10s. 2d., August, 1778. The cen- tral portion of this lot is an " extensive plain " (for Sanbornton) ; early occu- pied by the farm of Samuel March (now Daniel W. Newton's). Nathan Blake was first occupant of the north end of this and No. 38, where afterwards and uow the Rev Benjamin Cawley and his son Benjamin have resided; also twenty-six and one half aeres were deeded by the Blakes to Joua. Calley, for 8400, Jan. 16, 1805; and Kinsley H. Batchelder at present occupies the old Payne Blake place. Sites : 1. CHARLES THOMAS HOUSE. 2. CHASE STEVENS HOUSE. 3. ALDRICH HOUSE (Mrs. P. Dustin's, 1859). 4. Gronde House (1859). One of the two last must also have been the JACOB HUNKINS or ILAN- COCK HOUSE. Jacob Junkins built and first occupied No. 3. 5. Mook Hotsk.
Lor No. 40 (No. 42, First Division). One of the largest lots in town, -the river here making a bend to the west, - about six hundred acres. The whole first deeded for $600 ( !) to Jeremiah Sauborn, who built a house in the sand pasture east of the present Person C. Shaw's, near where the old road came down the hill towards the ferry, west of his house. South half was redeeded to one Danforth for $1, 100; and the same, after the old-growth timber had been mostly ent off, to Nathaniel Morrill, for the same sum, in 1802 and 1803. This is the three hundred acres now owned by Folsom Morrill. The late John Shaw owned the seventy acres next north (whole width) ; Persou C. Shaw owns
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the next seventy; the Abrams place (now James E. Knox's) occuples one hundred and twenty acres, near the present llill Bridge; and finally, forty acres at north end belong to the present farm of John W. Brown. Sites : 1. JEMOnAn SANBORN HOUSE. 2. ROWELL STRAW HOUSE (NO. 1). 3. STRAW ( ?) HOUSE (No. 2). 4. EZRA YOUNG HOUSE. 5 BENNETT HOUSE; here was a "horse and rope ferry," enlled Bennett's. 6. BRIDGE HOUSE; occupied by Henry Blake and Mr. Thomas, contractors for the first bridge, twelve rods below the present, while building it, - two years, - 1804-1806. 7. DAVID FOWLER HOUSE. 8. STEPHEN CONNER HOUSE. 9. SAW-MILL; also shingle mill and grist mill on the other side of the brook. 10. School-HOUSE. 11. NATHANIEL F. MORRILL HOUSE; burned in 1809, having been built but a few years, with a delightful garden; now desolate.
LOT No. 41 (No. 50, First Division). The upper or third range of Second Division lots now commences, also like the last range, on the east or Mere- dith line. This Is u triangular lot, bounded by east side line of No. 42 (west), by the range (south), and by Meredith town line (northeast). The Johu Tay- lor and most of the Nathaniel Eastman farms are included, as proved from deed to the latter by Jonathan H. Taylor, Dec. 9, 1839; now owned and oceu- pied by George W. J. Taylor and Ebenezer Eastman. The house of the last- named overlooks the Great Bay, with a most magnificent prospect. Sites : 1. EsQ. Jony TAYLOR HOUSE; also Eliphalet Flander's. 2. EDE TAYLOR IloUSE. Another burial place on this lot, back of E. Eastman's, should have been given ou p. 314.
Lor No. 42 (No. 27, First Division). Bounded north by Meredith (line rimming sontheast to northwest), and the upper portion inchidiug a part of the Hermit Woods. The Lenvitt place is the principal farm now under culti- vation, - William Harper deeding eighty acres to Joseph Leavitt, for £72 (northwest purt of farm), Oct. 8, 1781; and Nathaniel Cheney (drst ouen- pant) to the same, for £127 10s., sixty acres, with house and barn, Feb. 20, 1702. Formerly, this lot supported several families more than at present, as per Sites 1. ABNER KIMBALL HOUSE; occupied by his family till 1823. 2 JOHN HUSE HOUSE. 3. JOIN CHENEY HOUSE. 4. ROBERT WHIPPLE HOUSE. 5. EBEN. CHASE HOUSE.
LOT No. 43 (No. 4, First Division). Hermit Woods ou the north end. This lot has now no inhabitants, though Jolin Sanders occupied southeast corner as late as 1825. (See Petition for Change of School Districts. ) Arthur C. Taylor owns forty-tive acres of pasture. Other owners, Eben. Eastman, Samuel Taylor (Sanders lot, fifty acres), Plumer and Wadleigh (the Quimby place) ; also fifty acres were deeded to Joseph Leavitt, for $120, Jan. +, 1817, by Phinchas Richardson of Salem, - "easterly half of what William Robinson bought of Stephen Clark, Esq." Sites : 1. Jons SANDERS HOU .... 2. HARPER QUIMBY HOUSE (S. P'inmer's, 1859). 3. JOSEPH W. PEARSON ( ?) 1IOUSE.
Lor No. 44 (No. 81, First Division). Hermit Brook, from Randlett Poud in Meredith, passes through this lot out of No. 43. Above this, northeast corner of lot, the Plumer neighborhood commences. The original main road through the town traverses this lot from south end to northeast corner. Levi Colby settled near the centre, more recently the Win. A. Bentou place ; and farther down is the primitive settlement of David Burley (now E. F. Pimmer's). Sites : 1. SCHOOL-HOUSE. 2. JOSIAn BURLEY HOUSE.
Lor No. 45 (No. 80, First Division). Pasture of nine acres deeded to
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Thomas Webster, Jr., In 1852, sald to be on this lot; bounded north by land of Joua. B. Kelley; cast, by Arthur C. Taylor's, Rufus Colby's, etc. The course of llermit Brook, formerly cutering Salmon Brook below the Huse mill-pond, was diverted, by an artificial channel, Into sald pond. Part of l'inmer's Pond also In the north end. Sites : 1. BARACHIAS FARNHAM HOUSE; In pasture above, or southeast of village. 2. Brown HOUSE.
Lor No. 4 (No. 78, First Division). The North Sanbornton village, mills, und poud must ocenpy the central and north portions of this lot ; so It Is din- enlt to see how Thomas Simte could have found one hundred acres of pasture on the same north end, which he deedled to Thomas Shute, Jr., for 8150, Aug. 21, 1815. Lot may have been numbered wrong In the deed; or pasture may have been west of l'humer's l'ond, and east of Site 1. Sammel C. Dudley owned a valuable farm south of the centre of this lot; now turned to pasture, and owned by Thoms Webster, Esq. Sites: 1. FARNHAM HOUSE; near turn- pike, at north eud. 2. DUDLEY HOUSE. 3. BROWN HOUSE.
LOT No. 47 (No. 75, First Division). Sixteen neres soll for taxes to Jona. Taylor, for £1 123. 6d., Angust, 1778, - " northeast corner of land that Israel Farrar owns." Thomas Cawley to John Lane, 3d, twenty-three acres, for $175, - " southwest corner, yet cast of road leading to Josiah Dearborn's" (old New Hampton), - March 11, 1822; now owned by Gilman D. Lane. Land east side of road, on the David Brown farm, Is proved to have been on this lot, by deed from Mark Plummer, March 22, 1843. Sites : 1. Routier WHIPPLE or MosEs KIMBALL. HORSE; in the present Piper pasture. 2. SAM- UEL CHAPMAN HOUSE. 3. NICHOLAS GILES, JR., HOUSE. 4. MILES HOUSE. Two last on the turnpike.
LOT NO. 48 (No. 74, First Division). Dee. 9, 1813, Ebenezer Lane derded to John Lane, 4th, fifteen acres southeast corner, for $120 (attached to the present Gilman D. Lane farm). Forty-six acres of north end (pasture on the mountain) conveyed by Simon N. Dearborn of Ilumpton to Satchel Clark, Jr., for $207, Ang. 3, 1829 ; afterwards sold to Joseph Cawley. Main farm and pas- ture of David Brown was on this lot, west side of road. Sites : 1. SAMTEL. or AARON ELLSWORTH HOUSE. 2. JEREMIAH ELLSWORTH HOUSE; from which the children were driven to perish on the " Cold Friday." 3. DEARBORN HOUSE; original. 4. Sottoof-House.
LOT No. 49 (No. 9, First Division). The pastures of the old Dea. Samanel and John Lane farms must have "run ou to the mountain," within the limits of this lot. Sonth range was opened for a road just above the Samuel Lane house, west to Jeremiah Lane's (late Capt. Jesse Sanborn's).
Lor No. 50 (No. 10, First Division). Contains the pasture (three hundred and fifty-four rods long and sixty-two rods wide ) which was deeded, March 30, 1841, by Daniel M. Piper to Jesse Sanborn, northwest of the latter's residence (formerly the Raton or Jeremiah Lane place), which is near the southeast corner of this lot, and the only house ever built upon it.
Lor No. 31 (No. 11, First Division). One of the most mountainous lots in town; and being a " Law Lot," was for three successive years (1778-80) sold for taxes, as follows : Fifteen acres, southeast corner, to Daniel Sanborn, for £1 12%. ; twelve acres to Dr. II. March, for £3 1Ss. 6d .; and nine acres to Daniel Davison, for €18 14s., - showing a rise in the value of the land. But Josiah Hersey bought twenty acres of pasture for £12, June 50, 1794, of Jona. Caler and Daniel Gale; and thirty-five acres for $175.25, Nov. 11, 1502, of l'eter llersey. Capt. Joshma March now owns a pasture of one hundred and
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twenty acres in this lot, purchased of his brother, Henry G. March, April 16, 1835, for $450. Site : 1. STEVEY SMirn House.
Lor No. 32 (No. 12, First Division). Side line between this and No. 31 is found to be some thirty rods west of the end of the Wadleigh road, -the supposed side line between Nos. 34 and 35. Thirteen acres south end were struck off to William Eaton for taxes, £1 38. 9d., July, 1781. Cole Weeks conveyed seventy-tive acres to Alphens E. Weeks, Feb. 5, 1828; and Dea. Joseph Wadleigh forty acres southeast corner (pusture) to John Wadleigh, Feb. 9, 1819 (as also fifteen acres of woodlund in No. 51), for the sum total of $550. Site : 1. DEARBORN WADtriun HOUSE; in the Evans pasture ; said to have been the AARON DOW HOUSE, Site 3, Lot No. 33, moved up there.
Lor No. 53 (No. 13, First Division). This lot is south of the peak or ridge of the Salmon Brook Mountains, - called Burley Mountain. The old residence or Col. Billy Smith must have stood near the northwest corner; and some one hundred.rods southeast of the same, in a forty-nere pasture of the late John Shaw, is another house site, whose owner or ocenpunt has never been ascer- talned, but was probably Stephen Smith. The place to which Major Joseph Prescott finally retired is thought to have been near the southwest corner, in Zach. Calley's pasture ; hence Sites : 1. Com. BILLY Sarrn HOUSE. 2. STErex SMITH ( ?) HOUSE. 3. JOSEPH PRESCOTT HOUSE; second residence.
Lor No. 54 (No. 14, First Division). James Osgood, Sen., deeded to Jona. Smith, Jr., fifty acres northeast corner, for £60, Sept. 5, 1794. The late John S. Tilton place, and hill on which situated, must be on this lot. The present Daniel F. Thompson or Robinson farm, of seventy acres (formerly Stephen Prescott's), was conveyed by Joseph Locke to Daniel F. Thompson, Jan. 11, 1823, - "a part of lots ummmbered 54 and 55, Second Division." Site : 1. TRUCKEY SMITH HOUSE.
Lor No. 55 (No. 38, First Division). The original home farm of Major Joseph Prescott, on which he settled, in the New Stute, after leaving Lot No. 19, First Division (see). `This includes the farm of the late Hillary Knox, and part of the present home place of Taylor C. Prescott. The Jona. Cawley place, and present new house of Leonard B. Hathon, also on this lot. Sites : 1. SARGENT SANBORN HOUSE. 2. ASA PRESCOTT HOUSE. 3. MAJOR JOSEPH PRESCOTT HOUSE; first residence. 4. PRESCOTT GRIST MILL. 5. MILL HOUSE. 6. PRESCOTT SAW-MILL; first built by Joseph Prescott, Jr. 7. Schoot-House (Districts 10 and 11 united), and afterwards the EUNICE LAKIN HOUSE (thirty years on same site).
Lor No. 56 (No. 40, First Division). Occupies a rough position, "slab- bing " the hills west of the Taylor C. Prescott place, and including a part or the whole of the old Wiggin and Payne Blake farms. One or two now obliter- ated highways used to pass through the lot, in part, diagonally. Land now mostly owned by T. C. Prescott. Sites : 1. STEPHEN or ASA PREScorr HorsE; built by Daniel Hill. 2. Senoot .- House; at junction of the Wallis and Stephen Prescott roads. 3. PAYNE BLAKE HOUSE.
Lor No. 37 (No. 26, First Division). April, 1799, eight acres south end were struck off to Ebenezer Morrison for E3 164. 8d., taxes; and July, His1, the same to Capt. William Harper for £1 8%. 9d., taxes. The Pemigewasset. makes quite an " ox-bow " upon this lot, leaving but a curved strip of tillable or intervale land, including the Dea. Abrams (now Brower) place, mostly, upon the south, and the old Noah Buswell (afterwards Abbott, now Isaac N. Lane) arm, three fourths of a mile north. Most of the soil is light, and surface
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broken. The Wallis homestead formerly ocenpled most of the north end, upon the now ledlatingulshable roud. On account of the supposed Inferior value of this lot, an addition of one hundred and fifty ueres, In a triangular form, directly north (" westerly end of upper range line"), was assigned thereto. Sites (main lot) : 1. MAJOR or WIDOW WALLIS HOUSE. 2. REUBEN WALLIS, SEN., HOUSE. 3. REUBEN WALLIS, JR., HOUSE. 4. NOAH BUSWELL HOUSE. 5. Jons Ansus House. On the addition : 1. EDMOND RUNDLErr HOUSE; four rods south of New Hampton line. 2. JOSIAH RUNDLETT HOUSE; son of the last. 3. COLLINS HOUSE ( 11. PIkk, ou the county map of 1859). 4. FowLER House; at end of roud; thirty rods from river. Perhaps this last must be placed on mal lot, and on the other road. Nhe houses are said to have onee been in this northwest corner of the town, where only one at present.
Lor No. 58 (No. 73, First Division). The original Gibson lot, - the fourth range of Second Division lots now commencing at Uulon Bridge or East I'll- ton, with what has usually been called the second runge, reckonlug from the south end of the old town. The Bamford famlly curly occupied the lower end of this lot, near the present railroad station and the old Indian fortifications, - Jacob Bamford, Seu., deeding seventy-four acres to John Bamford, Feb. 3, 1801; and he the same to his brother, the late Jucob, Jr., April 3, 1s28, which is still in the hands of the family. Joseph Burleigh, clothier, first Improved the milt site at the lower or Burley's Bridge; afterwards the Atkinson brothers (Hou. Dunlel C. and Silas) ; now the Excelsior MIlis, und Brown's saw-mill. Other mills stood above, at the so-called Gibson's Falls, below the Union Bridge. The Gibson place, north end, has since been in possession of the Elijah Rollins family (now William It. If.'s) ; and the Samuel Lakeman (now Capt. Jacob Sanborn) place occupies the centre of the lot. John Shirley once owned land at the head of the Union Bridge Street, and deeded hair an acre to Nathan P. Moulton for a blacksmith's shop, May 10, 1816. Sites (sce Vil- lage Plan) : 1. SIMRILEY HOUSE. 2. NATHAN P. MOULTON HOUSE and BLACK- suurrn Snor. 3. PARKER HOUSE and Sroux (attached) ; two stories; burned, 1858. 4. JAMES (?) GIRSON HOUSE. 5. MISSES GHISON HOUSE. G. GIBSON OF WILLOUGHBY DERGIN MILLS. 7. JESSE SANBORN CLOTHING MILL. 8. STEPHEN D. SHIRLEY TANNERY. 9. STEPHEN D. SMILEY HOUSE. 10. Joser BURLEIGH HOUSE. 11. ATKINSON HOUSE. 12. OMGINAL GIBSON HOUSE. 13. GION House (No. 2). 14. FIRST DWELLING-HOUSE BUILT IN TOWN; occupied vari- ously, during portions of the year, for fishing and hunting purposes, before the earliest settlement. 15. BAMFORD House; original; similar claim as for the last.
LOT NO. 50 (No. 72, First Division). Benjamin Brown settled on the north end, in 1798, where now his son Joseph; previously owned by a William Sau- born and a Mr. Curry. The Keuniston place (previously owned by Solomon Copp), and most of the James Clay (now Jewell) farm, occupy the south end, as per deed of Jonathan Morrison to James Clay, Feb. 24, 1806, -fifty acres "southwest corner of No. 59, Second Division," for $800; originally sold for $150. Bamford Brook enters northwest corner. Sites: 1. Cumy House. 2. BROWN HOUSE. 3. MICHAEL. Sonra Housk.
Lor No. 60 (No. 71, First Division). August, 1778, seven acres northwest corner sold for taxes, £1 12s., to Elijah True ; and July, 1781, tive aeres north- west corner soll for kixes, £1 18s. 3d., to Benjamin Iloit. fleury Smith, sou of grantee, occupied the north end (where now James G. Sauborn.) ; Stephen Smith, another son, the site cast of last; und Ebenezer Morrison, who
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married his daughter, Hannah Smith, the south end (now returned to a wild state). Henry S. Morrison administered on his father's estate, and sold at vendne, June 27, 1811, two pieces of land to David Philbrook, - forty + acres (one of the pieces) being in the southwest corner, next to land set off to Hannah, the widow of Ebenezer Morrison (now owned by Alonzo F. Clark). Present farin of J. W. Jolisou occupies the centre. Sites : 1. EBENEZER MORRISON HOUSE; ruoved by his widow to Site 1, Lot No. 80. 2. STEPHEN SMITH HOUSE; afterwards DEA. S. MOULTON HOUSE. 3. ROBERT DEUCE House; occupied by a negro of that name, " Bob."
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