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The address (remonstranee) is here given in full, with no desire to parade the arguments by which the people of the present Sanbornton sought to maintain the geographical " integrity " of the old town, still less to rekindle any sectional differences which then may have been engendered ; but chiefly for the information which the document itself' contains, as confirming or supplementing the previous statements of this history .. (See also Additions and Corrections, Appendix J.)
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HISTORY OF SANBORNTON.
The town of Sanbornton and three hundred and thirty eltizens of that town, remonstrating agalist Its division as proposed lu the petition of Alexander HI. 'Tilton and others, feeling that the report of a majority of your committee 1> fonuded upon au Insufficient and nusatisfactory Investigation and considern- llon of the thets, resultlug lu a great measure from lusufficiency of notice, as hereafter stated, and If adopted will operate upjustly and oppressively upon their most vital Interests, earnestly sollelt the attention of the Legislature to the following statement of facts proved before that committee : -
Sanboruton was Incorporated lu 1770.
Population of Sanbornton [same as given in Chap. XXXI. p. 326, from 1775 to t860].
Sanbornton's proportion of public taxes In 1800, 812.65; In 1808, $13.83; In 1516, 813.01; In 1520, $12.39; in 1530, $9.50; In 1856, 87.14; In 1868,:$0.09, - showing a relative decrease of wealth and population In the last sixty years of more than one half as compared with the rest of the State.
Sanbornton contains 31,659 acres, equal to Ilfty-four square miles and one hundred and twenty-ulne acres. If It were seven and one half miles square It would contain 36,000 acres, egnal to fifty-six square miles and one hundred and sixty acres; so that the town is in fact less than seven and one half miles square by 1,311 acres, equal to two square miles and thirty-one aeres, and ouly nine and one fourth miles from extreme point to extreme point, while the extent of the farthest Inhabited portions is much less than that, and it is considerably smaller in territory than a large number of towns in the State, Including many of the more wealthy and populous, as must be within the per- soual knowledge of most of the members of the Legislature, and as will be seen by an inspection of any map on which the boundaries of the towns are delineated.
By the proposed division the new town will contain . 11,800 acres. Leaving in the ohl town . . 22,889 acres. .
The present town house Is located three fourths of a mile south of the geographical centre of the town, and that distance nearer the proposed new town than to any other section of Sanbornton.
The proposed division line runs within about sixty rods of the present lown house; and if the town be divided, as proposed, the old town will continue to occupy the old town house, as no other location will so well accommodate its inhabitants.
Valuation of proposed new town, polls and estate $375,078 Valuation of old town, if' divided as proposed, polls and
estate .
$395,851
Difference in valuation
$19,853 .
Number of voters in Sanbornton . .
Number of voters in proposed new town 298 .
With a Democratic majority of
Voters left in old town . 570
With a Democratic majority of
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The valuation of seventy-seven polls - excess of voters in the old town above those in the new - is $11, 530, which deducted from $19,353, the excess
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of valuation in old town over the new, leaves the valuation of 22,889 acres of land, with the buildings thereon in the old town, only $7,803 greater than the valuation of 11,800 acres of land, with its buildings, in the new town, provided the inventory of personal estate in the two proposed towns is substantially equal.
The population and wealth of the proposed new town have constantly increased since 1820; while the population and wealth of the remainder of the town have as constantly diminished since that perlod.
Of three hundred and eighty-seven buildings, designated on the map of Belknap Conuty as occupied in 1859, in what will be the old town if the proposed division takes place, more than sixty-two have since been demol- ished, removed, or abandoned; so that in less than ten years, one sixth part of all the buildings in what will be the old town have ceased to be inhabited, while the farms connected with those buildings have been converted into pasture, or suffered to grow up to bushes. The decrease in population and in the value of real estate, by entting off wood and timber, in what will be the old town, has been even greater than indicated by the abandonment of buildings.
If Sanbornton be divided as proposed, the new town will contain all the villages and possibility of villages, all the valuable water power and all the railroad and possibility of railroads, and all the capacity of future increase in population and wealth ; while the old town will be left with a disproportionate share of expensive roads and bridges, a heavy burden of debt, and a continu- ally diminishing population and property.
The extent of roads In what will be the old town is three or four times as great as in the proposed new town, in much worse condition, and far more expensive to keep in repair.
Large bridges in new town, as proposed . 3114 feet. Brook bridges in same 168 feet.
Total bridges supported by town in new town . 470g feet.
Large bridges in old town, as left if divided . 387 feet.
Brook bridges in same . ·
819 feet.
Total bridges supported by town in old town . 1,200 feet,
or ucarly three times as great an amount of bridges as In the proposed new town, by actual measurement.
The present indebtedness of Sanbornton is about . $85,000
If' this be divided as provided in the bill asked for by the petitioners, it will leave to be paid by the new town, $41,035, and by the old town, $43,965; or between eleven and twelve per cent of the entire valuation of polls and estate of the old town!
The amount of railroad tax received by Sanbornton on account of the loca- tion of the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad therein, in 1868, while the whole tax upon that road was only some $8,000, was $168.67. As the value and tax of that road increases, this local tax, ou account of the right of way and buildings thereof, will be a perpetually increasing fund for the benefit of the new town.
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JUSTORY OF SANBORNTON.
The number of names upon the three principal petitions in this Case Is . 173
Of these six signed the remonstrances . G
Left town since petition signed 11 Paupers .
Sigued twice .
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220
Leaving on these petitions legal voters . 153
Of these pay no tax whatever 13
Pay only poll tux . 50
- 63
Leaving on these petitions voters who puy tax on property
90
Valuation of proposed new town . 8375,978
Valuation of petitioners, $143,180, less that of remon- strants, $1,876 141,304
Leaving valuation of new town opposed to division 8234,074
Whole number of voters in new town . 203
Number of voters on the principal petitions 153
Leaving legal voters in the new town not on these petitions
140
Six or eight voters signed a petition subsequently presented.
Only a small majority of the legal voters of the proposed new town ask the division, although the petitions signed by them contain an express provision that no petitioner shall ever be required to pay any portion of the expense of prosecuting them, the funds necessary for that purpose having been raised by voluntary subscription !
No oue residing in what will be the old town has signed the petitions asking for a new town; but the voters there are almost unanimous against the division.
Of the citizens of Sanbornton, three hundred and thirty-two have signed the remonstrances, - fifty-five of them residing within the limits of the pro- posed new town.
Voters in old town alinost unanimous against proposed division . 370
Voters in new town not on three principal petitions (203 less 153) . .
. 1.40
Totai voters in both towns against division .
510
or dedneting those who signed subsequent petition, more than five hundred out of six hundred and sixty-three voters in the whole town are opposed to division.
The proposed division line is obviously made irregular and crooked for the purpose of leaving in the old town the Mosquito Bridge, four hundred and eighty-six feet in length, and a pauper-producing neighborhood in its immedi- ute vicinity.
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The voters on more than half the territory of the proposed new town out of Samboruton Bridge village are better accommodated by the present towu house than they would be by a new one at Sanborntou Bridge.
Valuation of new town, not asking for division . 8234,074 Valuation of old town, almost unanimously opposed to
305,331 division
Total valuation opposed to division .
$030,005
as against $141,304 In Its favor, as indicated by the principal petitions.
The town of Sanbornton had no notice of the petition until the month of April, and no action was had by the town till the eighteenth day of May, 1869, when, although the people in some parts of the town had no actual notice of the meeting, by a majority of fifty-one votes out of two hundred and sixty-oue votes east, they Instructed the selectmen to employ couusel to oppose the division. Relying upon the advlee of counsel that no legal notice having been given, no hearing at this session could reasonably be expected, the town inade no preparation for a hearing until after the committee decided not to postpone the matter on Wednesday of the second week, sinee which they have not had time to make that preparation which the maguitude of the inter- ests involved requires.
Distance from Sanbornton Bridge to town house by nearest road, less than three and one hall' miles; by one of the best roads In town, less than four mlles.
The existence of any sectional hostility, or of any disposition to oppress, on the part of the people of what will be the old town toward those of the pro- posed new town, was fully disproved; and It was clearly shown that since 1800, town meetings In Sanbornton had been uniformly quiet and orderly, and no difficulty or disturbance whatever in the transaction of town affairs.
In vlew of the foregoing and a variety of other facts in evidence before the committee, the town of Sanbornton aud a very large majority of her citizens feel that great and irreparable Injustice will be done them If the prayer of the petitioners shall be granted, and their ancient, compact, well-accommodated, and highly respectable municipality be dismembered and forever destroyed.
APPENDIX F.
(Sec p. 333.)
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TABLE OF LONGEVITY.
This will consist of an alphabetical list of persons known to have lived and died in the original town of Sanbornton who were cach in their ninetieth (ciglity-ninth) year or upwards at the time of their death, or who are now living at nearly or above the age of ninety years. Material for this list has been derived from the Genealogies (Vol. II.) and from other sources. The number following each desig- nation is the year of age which the individual had reached, and which would have been or will be completed on the succeeding birthulay. Of the total umuber given (eighty-four), fifty-live are females, aud twenty-nine males ; and of the females, fifty-three are widows.
Of the eighit centenarians of Sanbornton (only two being known to have exceeded one hundred years), three are mentioned in Farmer and Moore's Gazetteer, published in 1823 ; and the fact is there or else- where stated that two of these, Mrs. Copp [19] and Mrs. Smart [71], at nearly the age of one hundred, were living together in the same house, - that of Solomon Copp, Jr., - the one being his own mother, and the other the mother of his former wife. This will be confirmed by a reference to the Genealogies, - at least the probability of the statement will be shown. That volume has been carefully searched, in order to make the following list as nearly complete as possible ; but a few names, even there, may have escaped our notice.
1. BRAN, MRS. BETSEY (Bickford), widow of David Beau, 94. (Vol. II. p. 30 [39 ].)
2. BLODGETT, AMOS, 90. (Vol II. p. 174 [152].)
3. BRIMMALL, MRS. SARAH (MeDaniels), widow of Sylvester Brinhall, and former widow of Simou Gilman, 101 (100 years 21 days). (Vol. II. p. 306 [8]-)
4. BURLEIGH, PETER, 92. (Vol. II. p. 66 [120].)
5. BURLEIGH, MES. SARAH (Ames), widow of Wm. Burleigh, 90. (Vol. II. p. 61 [33].)
C. CALEF, SAMUEL, 91. (Vol. II. p. 83 [41 ].)
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7. CAWLEY, MRS. ELIZABETH (Cole), widow of Jonathan Cawley, 91. (Vol. II. p. 87 [7].)
8. CAWLEY, MRS. POLLY (Shaw), widow of Rev. Benjamin Cawley, 00 (?). (Vol. II. p. 90 [32].)
9. CHAPMAN, ELISHA, 92. (Vol. II. p. 113 [23].)
10. CHAPMAN, MRS., widow, and mother of the preceding, 100. Said to have died in this town at about that age; traditional.
11. CHASE, MRS. MARY (Craighton), widlow of Jonathan Chase, 90. (Vol. II. p. 122 [110].)
12. CHASE, MRS. PHEBE (Piper), widow of Dea. Wiu. Chase, 91. (Vol. II. p. 115 [8].)
13. CLARK, MRS. CHARLOTTE (Burleigh), widow of David II. Clark, 90. Still living at Franklin Falls. (Vol. II. p. 141 [168].)
14. CLARK, DAVID, JR., 90. Still living in Tilton. (Vol. LI. p. 139 [142].)
15. CLARK, MRS. JANE (Samboru), widow of John Clark, 96. (Vol. 11. p. 132 [42].)
16. CLARK, DEA. TAYLOR, 91. (Vol. II. p. 133 [71].)
17. CLAY, MES. DOROTHY (Robie), widow of Stephen Clay, 92. Still liv- ing as the oldest person in Tilton, March, 1882, in the remarkable possession of her powers, both of body and mind. (Vol. II. p. 153 [3+].)
18. COLBY, MRS. GRACE (Browu), widow of Barnard H. Colby, 89. (Vol. II. p. 174 [140].)
19. COPP, MRS. ELIZABETHI (Davis), widow of Solomon Copp, 100 (less 13 days). (Vol. II. p. 182 [1].)
20. CRAM, MRS. RACHEL (Rundlet), widow of Wadleigh Cram, 90. (Vol. II. p. 188 [16].)
21. DUDLEY, SAMUEL. C., 91. (Vol. II. p. 230 [12]. )
22. DUDLEY, MRS. MERCY (Thorn), widow of the last, 97.
29. DURCIS, LIRUT. JOHN, 93. (Vol. II. p. 234 [43].)
24. EASTMAN, Miss, a sister of Ebenezer Eastman, 92. (Vol. II. p. 219 [2].)
25. EDGERLY, MRS. ABIGAIL (Gilman), widow of Jonathan Edgerly, 90. (Vol. II. p. 201 [1].)
20. ELLSWORTH, MRS. JANE (Raudlett), widow of John Ellsworth, 90. (Vol. II. p. 260 [16].)
27. FOLSOM, JOIN, 96. ( Vol. II. p. 281 [5].)
28. FORD, MRS. ELIZABETH (Hiltou), widow of Win. Ford, 93. (Vol. 11. p. 283 [4].)
20. GAGE, THADDEUS, 22. (Vol. II. p. 290 [32].)
30. GORDON, MRS. ALICE (Copp), widow of Dea. Samuel Gordou of New Imuptou, 99. (Vol. II. p. 183 [15].) Being a native of Sanborntou, she is HOW (March, 1882) its oldest inhabitant. A kind Providence having returned her for a temporary visit nt Mr. Henry Q. Dalton's, East Tilton, at or near the very spot of her birth, she was there, on her ninety-seveuth birthday (1851), called upon by many of her friends in Sanbornton and Tilton; and from these unid others at a distance, she was made the recipient of as many dollars as she had seen years! ffer ninety-ciglith birthday was more quietly observed (hur health being feeble) by a few friends at her boarding place, Mr. George J. Johnson's, in East Sanbornton, within a stone's throw of the spot where she taught her first school, three quarters of a century before!
31. HERSEY, Mus. POLLY (Smart), widow of Win. Hersey, 95. (Vol. II. p. 340 [30].)
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32. Horr, MRS. ANNAN (Stuart), widow of Barnard Holt, 97. (Vol. II. p. 361 ( 60].) At the age of ninety, she had just spun, woven, and made up a dress, which she duished the morning of her ninetieth birthday ; and putting It on, she walked the smue day the distance of one mulle to visit her daughter, and returned.
33. Hereniss, MRS. HANNAH (Greene), widow or Col. Joseph Hutchins, and former widow of Joli Pericy, 100. (Vol. II. p. 533 [9].)
34. JAQUES, MRS. ELIZABETH (Conner), widow of Shuon Jaques, 90. (Vol. II. p. 395 [23].)
35. JOHNSON, MRS. MARY (Plper), widow of John Johnson, 91. (Vol. II. p. 403 [25].)
36. JOHNSTON, MRS. MERCY (Smith), widow of Bracket Jolinstou, 91. (Vol. II. p. 409 [1].)
37. KENISTON, WILLIAM, 93 (92 plus 20 days). (Vol. II. p. 414 [10]. )
38. KIMBALL, MRS. MERCY (Judkins), widow of Lieut. Abner Khuball, and former widow of Anthony Colby, 99. (Vol. II. p. 417 [1].)
39. KIMBALL, MRS. RACHEL (Chase), widow of Joseph Kimball, 90. (Vol. II. p. 420 [38].)
40. LAKEMAN, MRS. MARGARET (Kimball), widow of Samuel Lakeman, Sen., 90. (Vol. II. p. 431 [1].)
41. LANG, MISS SALLY, 99. (Vol. II. p. 452 [+].)
42. LANG, STEPHEN, still (1882) living in Tilton, 90. (Vol. II. p. 455 [53].)
43. MARSTON, MRS. MOLLY, widow, 100. Is reported, only, to have died at the alinshouse, about 1855 or 1856, at that age.
44. MORRISON, MRS. ANNA (Page), widow of Abraham L. Morrison, and former widow of John P. Morrison, now residing at Tiltou village (March, 1882), the oldest resident there, 90. (Vol. II. p. 509 [176].) Like her vener- able neighbor just across the river In Northfield, Mrs. Anna Tilton (Vol. II. p. 802 [74]), she rallied with wonderful vigor from an attack of pneumonia in the fall of 1881.
45. MORRISON, DAVID, 94. (Vol. II. p. 496 [34].)
46. MORRISON, MRS. HANNAH, widow of Ebenezer Morrison, and former widow of Dea. Benjamin Darling, 100. (Vol. II. p. 405 [23].)
47. MORRISON, JONATHAN, 89. (Vol. II. p. 498 [47].)
48. MORRISON, MRS. ESTHER J. (l'erkins), widow of the last, 95 (94 plus 21 days).
49. OSGOOD, MRS. LUCY (Fogg), widow of Chase Osgood, 93. (Vol. 11. p. 538 [14].)
50. PAGE, MRS. HANNAIL (Batchelder), widow of John Page, 92. (Vol. II. p. 541 [10].)
51. PAGE, MRS. SUSANNAH (Pearey), widow of Simeon Page, 94. (Vol. II. p. 540 [1].)
52. PALMER, MRS. ANNA (Samboru), widow of Joseph Palmer, 96. (Vol. II. p. 543 [1].)
53. PERKINS, CAPT. JOHN B., 06. (Vol. II. p. 551 [17].)
54. PERKINS, LIEUT. JONATHAN, 92. (Vol. II. p. 550 [10].)
55. PHILBRICK, DEA. BENJAMIN, 95. (Vol II. p. 559 [58].)
56. PHILBRICK, JOSIAN, 91. (Vol. II. p. 559 [70].)
57. PILBRICK, MRS. SARAH (Page), widow of Benjamin Philbrick, Sen., 98. (Vol. II. p. 335 [G].)
58. PLUMER, MOSES, 91. (Vol. II. p. 581 [26].)
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59. PRESCOTT, MRS. ILANNAN (Thompson), widow of Asa Prescott, 89. (Vol. II. p. 302 [82].)
60. PRESCOTT, MAJOR JOSEPH, 90. (Vol. II. p. 587 [8].)
61. RANDLET, MRS. HANNAL (Ellsworth), widow of Reuben Randlet, 92. (Vol. II. p. 618 [8].)
62. ROLLINS, MRS. ELIZABETH (Smuith), willow of Reuben Rollins, 94. (Vol. II. p. 611 [10].)
63. SANBORN, MRS. CATHARINE (Sattalee), widow of Nathan Sanborn, 100 (lacking 5 days). (Vol. II. p. 689 [718].)
64. SANBORN, JOHN, 93 (92 plus 9 days). (Vol. II. p. 673 [529].)
65. SANBORN, MRS. HULDAM (Smith), widow of Dr. Benaiah Sanborn, 97. (Vol. II. p. 039 [252].)
66. SANBORN, NATHAN, JR., 90. (Vol. II. p. 689 [720].)
67. SANBORN, MES. PRUDENCE ( Haines), widow of Col. Josiah Sanborn, 91 (90 plus 7 days). (Vol. II. p. 631 [117].)
68. SANBORN, MRS. TABITHA (Page), widow of Sergt. John Sanborn, 90. (Vol. II. p. 630 [112].)
69. SANBORN, MRS. TABITHA (Sauborn), widow of Joslah Sanborn, 91. (Vol. II. p. 667 [469].)
70. SANBORN, WILLIAM, 91. (Vol. II. p. 676 [563].)
71. SMART, MRS. SARAII, widow of' Robert Smart, 101 (100 years and 8 months) ; being the oldest person known to have died in Sanbornton. (Vol. II. p. 715 [21].)
72. SMITH, MRS. AMY (Copp), widow of Jeremiah Smith, and former widow of Joseph Thomas, 99. (Vol. II. p. 735 [159].)
73. SMITHI, MRS., widow of Reuben Smith, 95. (Vol. II. p. 736 [174].)
74. STEELE, BENJAMIN, 92. (Vol. II. p. 743 [1].)
75. THORNE, PHINEILAS, 91. ( Vol II. p. 792 [9].)
76. TUCKER, MRS. SARALI (Fogg), widow of Jolin Tucker of Gilmanton, and former widow of Juines Osgood and of Ebenezer Swain, 91. (Vol. II. p. 746 [43].)
77. WADLEIGH, JOSEPHI, 93. (Vol. II. p. 816 [17].)
78. WADLEIGH, MRS. PHEBE (Dustin), widow of Dea. Joseph Wadleigh, 90. (Vol. II. p. 817 [31].)
79. WARD, DEA. GEORGE C., 94. (Vol. II. p. 820 [13].)
80. WEEKS, MRS. REBECCA (Sanborn), widow of Moses W. Wecks, 91. (Vol. II. p. 836 [84]; see also Deaths in "Supplement to Vol. II.")
81. WOODMAN, DEA. JOHN, 97. (Vol. II. p. 862 [81].)
82. WOODMAN, CAPT. JOSHUA, 92. (Vol. II. p. 860 [61].)
83. YOUNG, MRS. BETSEY (Lord), widow of John C. Young of Ossipee, 97. (Vol. II. p. 863 [89].) Additional.
84. LANG, MRS. NANCY (Dudley), widow of Johu Lang, 92; now resides (1882) with Stephen Lang, in Tilton; the oldest person but one in that town. (Vol. II. p. 454 [42].)
APPENDIX G.
(Sve p. 334.)
THE POST-OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS OF SANBORNTON.
AFTER several efforts - repeated during six months - to obtain from the Post-Office Department in Washington, D. C., a complete list of the postmasters appointed in Sanborutou, and the dates of their appointment, we have at last (February, 1882) received such a list, through the persevering kindness of Ebenezer Morrisou, Esq., a resi- dent of Washington, just in season for this appendix.
The mystery is now solved in reference to John A. Harper, Esq. (Vol. II. p. 327 [10]), - how he could have been the first postmaster, if, as at first supposed, the office was established near the time of the petition which the town directed the selectmen to draw up to the Postmaster-General in 1798. (See p. 334 of this volume.) It now appears that the petition was not really granted till eight years after- wards, when the said Harper was twenty-five years of age. He kept the office, in all probability, at the building then occupied as a store, below his father's, near the present residence of Henry P. Wilson, and nearly opposite the old Centre Cemetery.
In the lists which follow, the names and dates under cach office are precisely those received from the Post-Office Department, the whole being interspersed with explanatory remarks, in reference chiefly to the places where the several ollices were kept, their changes, etc.
I. - SANBORNTON.
Office established Jan. 1, 1805.
1. JOHN A. HARPER. Appointed Jan. 1, 1805. (See above.)
2. THOMAS KIMBALL. Appointed April 1, 1808. The office was now removed to the foot of the old Meeting-House Hill, and kept in the origi- mal Kimball store, opposite the Rev. A. Bodwell's; now occupied as the dwelling-house of Herbert J. L. Bodwell (1882).
3. ABBI. KIMBALL. Appointed Aug. 4, 1812. Same location as the last.
4. DANIEL C. ATKINSON. Appointed April 6, 1816.
5. ARCHIBALD S. CLARK. Appointed Aug. 12, 1819. As the two last incui-
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bents were then living at Sanbornton Bridge, the offlee was doubtless trans- ferred to that locality for about five years.
6. ABEL KIMBALL. Appointed Feb. 15, 1821. This was his second appoint- ment (same as [3]) ; and the office was changed back to its former location, at the Square.
7. CHARLES GILMAN. Appointed May 10, 1827. Office kept at his dwell- ing, the three-story Lovejoy house, on site now occupied by Amos MI. Baker.
8. JOIN CARR. Appointed July 24, 1829. Moved back to the Dr. Carr dwelling-house, above the location of [2], [3], and [6].
9. THOMAS M. SANBORN. Appointed Aug. 12, 1841. Offee kept at the residence of Dr. Hill, with whom the incumbent had previously been studying medicine. Location, again under the hill.
10. THOMAS P. IhLL. Appointed Jan. 3, 1843. Succeeded to the preced- ing, and retained the office in the smne location.
11. JAMES B. ABBOTT. Appointed Jan. 20, 1844. Similar remark as applied to the last.
12. BARTLETT HILL. Appointed June 2, 1845. Moved down the street to the store building on the site of the present dwelling-house of Rev. M. T. Runnels.
13. THOMAS J. SANBORN. Appointed Nov. 5, 1845; keeping the office at the same place with the last named.
14. HORACE BROWN. Appointed Dee. 18, 1846. Office removed to Clark's Corner, under considerable excitement.
15. JONATHAN M. TAYLOR. Appointed Ang. 4, 1848. Offlee returned to the Square, and kept at Mr. Taylor's dwelling-house, the same as at present.
16. B. II. CARLTON. Appointed Oet. 30, 1851. Kept in the small dwelling- house and tailor's shop opposite the present post-offlee.
17. Mus. FANNY LANE. Appointed Aug. 4, 1853. Office at her house, - that of the late John M. Blaisdell.
18. MISS ELIZABETH M. LANE. Appointed March 12, 1867; succeeding to the office at the death of her mother, and keeping it for fifteen years (till her own death, March 20, 1882), at the house of Mrs. S. G. Abbott, the former location of [9], [10], and [11].
19. MRS. SARAIL G. ABBOTT. Appointed April 7, 1882; widow of [11]; same location.
II. - SANBORNTON BRIDGE.
Office established Mareh 5, 1821, though the Sanbornton post-offlee had pre- vlously been kept there, as see under I. [5].
1. ARCHIBALD S. CLARK. Appointed March 5, 1821. He seems to have kept the office for nearly twenty years consecutively, - the longest period of any one postmaster in the town, - and chiefly at the old "corner store," the identical site of the present Town Hall building, to which the post-office has at last permanently returned. This corner store was repeatedly burned out (see Vol. II. p. 149 [278]) ; and after one of these tires, - probably the second, 1838, - the office is remembered to have been kept in a shop in rear of the present Methodist parsonage.
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