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. 2. THOMAS CURRY. Appointed Jan. 20, 1841. Odlee kept in a shop near his dwelling, north of the present Town Hall, on School Street.
3. JOHN TAYLOR. Appointed April 20, 1843. Office, under this and the
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next Incumbent, kept In the old Clement or Follansbee block, opposite present hotel, and near the mills.
4. AMos II. JONES. Appoluted Jan. 3, 1846.
5. B. M. COLBY. Appoluted Jan. 25, 1850. Kept In the Colby building, west of the hotel, where chletly continued till after the division of the town.
6. CARLOS CLARK. Appointed Jan. 27, 1853.
7. AMIOS H. JONES. Appointed (second) April 23, 1853.
8. JAMES P. TILTON. Appoluted April 13, 1861.
J. BRADBURY M. MORRILL. Appointed April 19, 1869.
Office changed to TILTON, July 21, 1869.
10. JEREMIAH C. Tu.rox. Appointed Jan. 23, 1871. Office at the corner store again, prior to Its last burning, in 1875.
11. GEORGE W. TILTON. Appointed July 15, 1872. Again at the Colby building.
12. DANIEL E. HILL. Appointed March 10, 1877 ; who is the present incum- bent (March, 1882), having retalued the office in the suine location with the lust till removed to its present ample and duely furnished accommodations at the new Town Ilall.
III. - EAST SANBORNTON.
Office established Dec. 8, 1828.
1. JOSIAH C. PHILBROOK. Appointed Dec. 8, 1828. Ile had the office at his tavern stand, on the left corner of the street as one turns from the Bay road (now Mudgett's store).
2. ALPHEUS C. PHILBROOK. Appointed Jan. 23, 1840.
3. CHARLES W. SANBORN. . Appointed Dec. 20, 1841. At the corner store, opposite [1].
4. BRACKETT L. JOHNSTON. Appointed Dec. 7, 1848. Office kept in his store, south of [2], near the late Mrs. Lakeman's.
5. JOIN PATTEN. Appointed May 28, 1850. At his house, south of [1], same side of street, where of late Lester Philbrick has resided.
6. CHARLES W. SANBORN. Appointed (second) Oct. 30, 1851. Again kept at his store, on the corner. (See [3].)
7. JOIN A. MARTIN. Appointed July 10, 1854.
8. ANDREW A. PHILBROOK. Appointed March 24, 1855. Served till within a week of his death, the July following. Had the office at the location of [1]. 9. JOSIAH C. PHILBROOK. Appointed (second) July 3, 1855. Father of the preceding; and office in the same location.
10. JACOB BAMFORD. Appointed Dec. 17, 1856. Office at his shop, near the railroad station.
11. JOSHUA A. ROBINSON. Appointed Aug. 19, 1861. Offee returned to the street at the present house of A. Chesley Philbrook.
12. JOHN PHILLBRICK. Appointed Jan. 13, 1864. Where his store was burned (?), opposite the Freewill Baptist Meeting-House.
13. ENOCH G. PHILBRICK. Appointed July 2, 1867. Kept at his store, where now the present post-office, near the rallroud station.
14. CHASE ROLLINS. Appointed Nov. 23, 1868; who is the present incum- bent (March, 1882). (Sce last.)
Office changed to EAST TILTON, July 21, 1809.
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IV. - NORTH SANBORNTON.
Office established Aug. 7, 1848; first, at Clark's Corner, when the oldl Centre office was restored to the Square. Was kept by [1], [2], and [4], in the ohl store building ; by John II. Clark, Esq., at his house. Removed to the North Sanbornton Mills in 1864. Kept by the two last-named postmasters at the dwelling-house of euch.
1. HORACE BROWN. Appointed Aug. 7, 1848.
2. JAMES THOMPSON. Appointed April 14, 1849.
3. JOHN H. CLARK. Appoluted Jan. 29, 1850.
4. CHARLES C. CHASE. Appointed Jan. 20, 1862.
5. JONATHAN B. KELLY. Appointed April 10, 1864.
6. THOMAS WEBSTER. Appointed May 1, 1860; who is the present incun- bent (March, 1882), having served nearly sixteen years continuously, - the longest period but one of any postmaster in Sanbornton.
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APPENDIX H.
WE here append a document, recently brought to light, in confirma- tion of what is elsewhere stated (as on p. 330) respecting the sterling moral and religions character of many of the earlier inhabitants of Sanbornton ; yet all were not of the same stamp, else the evils here specitied would not have been found to combat. Besides being of some general historical valne, this document may show the deep inter- est upon the subject of good morals which pervaded the minds of the leading men in town, and the moulding influence they sought to exert upon the people generally, and especially on the rising generation. It may stand in our history as a protest from the fathers against all the leading forms of immorality, some of which, both named and unnamed, we have reason to apprehend are quite as prevalent now as at the time the protest was made. We are informed that the society here referred to maintained a flourishing existence for several years ; and without further introduction we will now let the document speak for itself. The long s (f) is nsed, as in the original, except when that letter is a capital or the final letter of a word.
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CONSTITUTION OF The Sandbornton Society FOR THE REFORMATION OF MORALS, Instituted December 29, 1814.
Art. 1. . This Society fhall be called the Sand- bornton Society for the Reformation of Morais.
Art. 2. The object of the Society fhall be the fuppreffion of immorality of every defcription, par- ticularly Sabbath-breaking, Intemperance, Profanity, and Falfehood.
Art. 3. The officers fhall be a Prefident, Secre- tary, Treafurer, and Executive Committee confitting of five members ; all of whoin fhall be chofen by ballot. The Prefident, Secretary, and Treafurer, thall ex officio be members of the Executive Com- mittee.
Art. 4. The Society fhall meet annually on the laft Thurfday of December, at which a public Dit- courfe fhall be delivered, if it be convenient ; and public notice of the annual meeting fhall be given two weeks previous.
Art. 5. The Executive Committee fhall meet at leaft once in two months, and oftener if it be thought expedient, to confult on the beft meafures to correct exifting immoralities, or any cuttoms and practices which have an immoral tendency : and they thall make report of their doings to the Society at each annual meeting.
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Art. 6. The Prefident fhall prefide at the annual Inceting, and alfo at all incetings of the Executive Committee. The annual meetings thall be opened with prayer by fome perfon, whom the Committee fhall appoint. The Secretary fhall keep a record of all votes and refolves of the Society, and of the Executive Committee ; and the Treafurer thall keep any property belonging to the Society, and be ac- countable for the fame. If it be neceffary to raife money for the ufe of the Society, it thall not be raifed by a tax on the members, but by voluntary contribution.
Art. 7. Any perfon, who withes to promote the objects of the Society, may, by a vote of the Ex- ecutive Committee, become a member. He fhall fign the Conftitution, and the Secretary thall record his name with the members of the Society.
Art. 8. Should any member be guilty of grofs immorality, or manifelt a fpirit that is hoftile to the objects of the Society, he may, by a vote of two thirds of the members, be difmiffed at any annual meeting.
Art. 9. It thall be the duty of all the members to exert their influence to fupprefs immorality of every defcription, particularly Sabbath-breaking, Intemperance, Profanenefs, and Falfehood ; to en- deavor to reclaim the immoral by friendly adıno- nition ; to aid and fupport Tithingmen, and all civil officers, in the faithful execution of the laws; and finally to encourage the rifing generation in a conftant attendance on public worthip, in habits of fobriety, morality, and induftry.
Art. 10. Amendments to this Conftitution may be propofed by the Executive Committee at any an- nual meeting, and if approved by two thirds of the members prefent, thall be adopted.
NATHAN TAYLOR, Prefident.
JOSHUA LANE, Secretary.
APPENDIX J.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I.
PAGE 1, third paragraph. The area of Sunborntou, "about one hundred square miles," is here given from the former aunallst of 1841. It Is evidently a rough computation, and it would have proved hupossible to give the dimen- sions of a town thus bounded with entire accuracy, except after the most pro- longed and expensive surveys. The author of the remonstrance against the division of the town In 1869, given in Appendix E, p. 450, states the area of Sanbornton, without the corner of Franklin, -i. e., before the formation of Tilton, - as only fifty-four square miles. If that estimate is correct, being formed upon the same basis as the former, and including in like manner the waste or unoccupied lands at the north end of the town, it must be concluded that this earlier computation of one hundred square miles was considerably too large, and that seventy-five square miles would have been n nearer estimate.
Page 2, last paragraph. The statement respecting the sahnon of Salmon Brook should be slightly modifled to correspond with the facts as afterwards ascertalued. (See p. 280, last paragraph. )
Page 3, first paragraph. To the list of brooks may be added Taylor Brook, which flows from the Square southwest into Gulf Brook (referred to on p. 298), and Danforth Brook, flowing into the Winnipiscogee, near the Plains, and named after the first settlers in that part of the town. This brook, in former years, has proved one of the best for trout. Though short in its course, David T. W. Clark has sometimes taken eighty, at one fishing, from this alone.
Page 15, last paragraph. To the notice of Sanbornton minerals should be added the following from Person C. Shaw : About the year 1852, Win. Iluse, theu living on the mountain road, discovered nlca on that peak of the Salmon Brook Mountains sometimes called Shaw's Mountain. Mr. Shaw has since been intending to open a mine; and in the fall of 1881, having associated his son, Frank B. Shaw, and his son-in-law, G. II. Admus, with himself, the com- pany proceeded to employ an expert, Mr. 11. Drew, and make investigations. One hundred dollars were expended before winter set in. Specimens of mica Were procured eight inches square that were pronounced " perfect," and Mr. Drew concludes that the * show is as good as that of the famons North Groton mine."
Page 21. "Yamoyden." Most of the poetical or other headings of the chapters give the names of the authors quoted; in this and one or two other cases, the name of the poem instead. "Yamoyden" celebrates in verse an Indian chieftain, the poem being plaimed by Rev. James W. Eastburn, and
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written by himself und Robert C. Sands, humorist, essayist, and poct. Mr. Eastburn had been pursuing his theological studies at Bristol, R. I., near the scene of the poem, but died on a voyage to Santa Cruz for his health, Decem- ber, 1319, In his twenty-second year. The basis of the work and purt of Its composition are his. Mr. Sands made additions, and published It in 1520.
Page 53. Heading of Chap. VIII. For this quotation from the " Fore- fathers' Song," the author is indebted to Prof. Edwin D. Sauboru's " Illstory of New Hampshire," pp. 237, 238.
Page 199 (note). And still they come, - those historle bridges of Sanborn- ton across the Wiunlpiscogee! The uecurate memory of the now venerable Joseph Warren Sanborn gives us assurance of bridge No. 12 spanning the river at Tilton village direct from the point now occupled by west end of the middle rallroad bridge, above the Island, to the Northfield side, in front of the present Granlte Mlil. It was not a very substantial structure, and Mr. Sanborn vividly recalls the " teetering " sensation he experieneed on driving across it, in 1822 or 1823, when a lad of fourteen i
Page 199 (note). The two Iron bridges alluded to ure now (April, 1882) successfully completed. . Their cost to both towus was $5,500; that of the upper, $3,250 (of which Mr. Charles E. Tilton paid $500, equally divided between the two towns, Tilton and Northitleid); that or the lower bridge, $2,250. Tilton's expense for the stone work of both bridges was a000. The upper bridge is the more elaborate and ornamental, with high, arch- ing truss, and bearing two plates upon the elevated cross-pieces, with these inscriptions : -
"Erected 1881. Patented April 10, 1878. Corrugated Metal Co., Builders, Eust Berlin, Conu.
[Adding, to those who approach the bridge from the north, ]
"HORACE SANBORN, RICHARD FIRTH, Selectmen of Tilton.
W. II. II. ROLLINS,
[And, to those approaching from the south, ]
JAS. N. FORREST, - JASON FOSS,
Selectmen of Northfield."
GAWN E. GORNELL,
Page 223, fifth line from bottom. For " whose," substitute " where," - let- ting the whole sentence read : " The distillery was Lovejoy's, at the Square, where also were most of the stores."
Page 231. The list of business places in Tilton, as here given, within the short space of six months preceding April, 1882, has been subjected to several changes, thus proving the mutability of all human affairs. The most impor- tant of these changes are here announced. The sudden and lamented deaths of T. W. Long, December (?), Iss1, at Hopkinton, and of George Nelson, alias George N. Gigar, "our popular barber," in Northfield, April s, Iss2, cansed the entire and final suspension of their business operations. The firm of C. I'. Herrick & Co. has been succeeded by that of l'hilbrick & Hill (for- merly of Hill's Block), general merchandise. The business of Win. A. Colby has changed hands, and the Lord Brothers have established a new and popu- lar drug store in their building. A neut and commodious passenger railroad
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station has also been erected, a little east of the old one, at a cost of about 86,000 (though not yet occupied or fully completed), lucluding $2,500 for the site. " It will be ready for use early in June " ( 1882).
Page 233, last line. There should be added to the conspicuous residences of Franklin Falls village (Sanbornton side) that of Hon. A. W. Sulloway, - an elegant and thoroughly constructed dwelling-house, with delightful sur- roundings, near the river, a little above the present Federal Bridge.
Page 234 [V.]. The business sites of the village of Union Bridge, or East Tilton, should also receive the following aecessions : -
9. The blacksmith's shop of Nathan P. Moulton, near the head of the street.
10. The store of John Philbrick, half-way down, nearly opposite the Free- will Baptist Meeting-House.
11. The tannery of Stephen D. Shirley, a little back from the river, between the two bridges.
Page 243. 14. J. WARE BUTTERFIELD, Esq., may be added to the lawyers practising within the limits of Sanbornton. He was a native of Andover, - the son of Samuel Butterfield; commenced the practice of law at the Bridge, in copartnership with Charles C. Rogers, Esq., July 25, 1861, and thus continued till Oct. 31, 1864. This included his time of servlee In the army of the late War. (See p. 184 [52]. ) He is now (1882) established as a lawyer and land agent in Florence, Kansas.
We also, while reading proof, insert the latest possible intelligence re- specting the lawyers of Tilton (adding still another to the list), from the Tiltou correspondents of the Laconia Democrat, May 5, 1882, and of the Belknap Tocsin, Muy 4: "James O. Lyford, Esq., of Tilton, was married May 2, at Concord, N. II., to Miss Susan A. Hill. The ceremony was per- formed by Bishop Niles. The newly wedded pair received their invited friends at the home of the bride, and started ou the bridal tour at 7.20 r. M. Miss Ilill is a granddaughter of the lute Governor Hill, and daughter of W. Pickering Hill, Esq., of Concord, and niece of Mrs. Senator Rollins. It is uu- derstood that Mr Lyford will, while making his home in Tiltou, be engaged in one of the departments at Washington, which will not only be remunera- tive, but afford excellent advantages for study in certuin specialties of law."
15. " WALTER D. HARDY, ESQ, of Franklin, has associated himself with J. O. Lyford, Esq., in the practice of law, and will become the active man in the office. Mr. Ilardy brings strong recommendations as to capacity in law, for a young man. Ile has had excellent advantages fromn office practice with E. B. S. Samboru, Esq., of Franklin."
Page 312 [81]. The attention of the unthor has been lately called by Mr. Jacob D. Sanboru, of Frauklin, to three epitaphs in this cemetery (previously overlooked) which have un interesting history, and are probably among the very curllest inscribed in town. They were engraved by Jeremieh& Sanborn during his leisure hours while attending his grist mill, within a few years after the severe ufflictions which visited his family in 1798 (see Vol. II. p. 634 [161]). The stones were massive, and the lettering was evidently done with great care und painstaking, though by hands unused to that kind of work. Each epitaph was a tribute of pure affection; but unfortunately those upou the stones of his sister (Mrs. Anna Cawley) and his daughter cannot now be deciphered. That upon his wife's stone proves, after diligent inspection, to be the immortal lines of Watts : -
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" Unveil thy borom, faithful tomb, Take this now treasure to thy trust ; And give these sacred relicks room To seek a slumber in the dust."
Well worthy was that noble ancestor of the enduring granite monument which his grandchildren and descendants have erected to his memory, in the same cemetery.
l'ages 321, 322. The west boundary line of Sunbornton, needing no peram- bulation, was strictly the line of low-water mark on the west bank of Peml- gewasset River, thus giving the Islands to our town. We have It on the authority of the late Mr. Jeremiah Weeks, that a man, Emerson (?) by name, was once living on the west side of the river, his home being divided by the east and west boundary line between Andover on the south and New Chester or HIill on the north, these two towns being respectively In the countles or Merrinmek (formerly Hillsborough ) and Grafton. Ile baffled the efforts of each county on two different occasions, when the officers of each were trying to arrest lihin, by passing from one part of his house to the other. A third the, when both sheriff's were after him, he stepped luto the river, and there detled them both, being then In another town and county, - Sanbornton and Strat- ford. Finally, by the coming to his house of the three sherid's at the same time, his arrest was effected.
Page 323, last paragraph. The latest Sanbornton organization to be noticed is that pertaining to the "Town Fair." A movement was first made, after the adjournment of the annual town meeting In March, 1882, for the forming of a new agricultural society, and providing for a town fair, to be held the following September. At an adjourned meeting in the Town Hall, March 22, it was voted to organize the agricultural soclety. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, and the first board of offleers elected : viz., Herman T. Hale, . Esq., president ; Albert M. Osgood, secretary ; Joseph N. Sauborn, treasurer; a corps of fifteen vice-presidents, and a board of sixteen directors, one of cach from each of the several school districts in town.
In this connection may be mentioned one of the last benefactions of Mr. Charles E. Tilton for the good of the public In his native village and town; viz., the purchasing of seven und one half aeres of land on the north side of the Franklin road, opposite the Park Cemetery, for the general purposes of a park or pleasure ground for popular resort. The cost of this land was $830, and some $400 or $500 have already been expended in improvements. A small brook with its wooded glen runs through the centre from north to south, and good driveways have been built around the outskirts and through the pine groves in various directions.
llere, too, as an appendage to the " Salmagundi" chapter (Chap. XXXI.), may the encouraging fact be noted that the town of Sanbornton, at its annual meeting, March, 1832, very liberally voted $500 " to aid in the finishing" of this History; and the town of Tilton, likewise, $300 for the same purpose : it being understood that the money is to be expended for the map of the old town, and for other illustrations in the present volume.
Page 366. Lot No. 13. Add at the end (house sites) : 4. JENNINGS HOUSE (1874).
Page 379. Lot No. 4, Second Division. Add at the end (house sites) : 4. CAWLEY HOUSE, No. 2 (south of E. D. Weeks's).
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Page 395. Lot No. 79. Add at the end (house sites) : 5. GODFREY or Til- COMB HOUSE.
Pages 397 to 400. To show how the list of school-teachers In Appendix B inight have been enlarged, if time and opportunity had been found to "inter- View " the elderly people in each of the several school districts, the following twelve are remembered by Mr. Joseph W. Sauborn to have taught in the San- born Road District (of Tilton) alone, besides several others already named in the Appendix : -
CLARK, JAMIES; son of Moses.
EMERY, WOODMAN ; first teacher in the present school-house.
FITZ, NATHAN.
LANE, JOSEPH (Rev).
MORRILL, ALPHEUS (M. D.), then of Canterbury.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM.
SANBORN, DANIEL S. SANBORN, NATHAN (M. D).
TEBBETTS, HENRY, of Northileld.
LANCASTER, DOLLY (Mrs. Jacob Perkins). Mr. Sanborn's first teacher in the old school-house, whose threatening "string " is vividly recalled !
LANCASTER, SALLY ( Mrs. Jolin Lune).
LANE, ABIGAIL E. (Mrs. Aaron Rollins).
To these we may also add, as suggested at the eleventh hour, the late, -
BENJAMIN F. LANE.
ASA WEEKS (D. C., 1846) ; and the three COLBY sisters,
SARAHI (Mrs. John B. Batchelder).
MARY (Mrs. Curtis B. Burley ).
MARTHA (Mrs. Albert M. Whipple).
Page 403, second column, twenty-fourth Ilne. For Joseph B., read Joseph P. Dearborn.
Page 415 (Lot Layers), second column. Joshua W. Clement should undoubtedly read Joseph W. Clement; whether mistaken by the town clerk of that time or a later transcriber.
SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. II. GENEALOGICAL.
THE seeming incongruity of printing a supplement to Vol. II. at the close of Vol. 1. will be readily excused on the ground that by this taking advantage of circumstances, we make the genealogical records as a whole more full and correct than they would otherwise be left. This supplement will, therefore, contain (1) the genealogies of a few new families, or branches of families ; (2) notices of marriages, births, and deaths, - chiefly those occurring during the year 1881, and four months of 1882 ; (3) additions and corrections to Vol. II. All refer- ences to pages and consecutive numbers iu this supplement will be understood as made to Vol. II. of the History, unless otherwise stated.
I. - NEW GENEALOGIES.
The families here introduced (eleven in number) comprise all those in any way connected with Sauborutou, of which the records came too late for printing in Vol. II. ; and all those, likewise, in reference to which regrets have been expressed to the author from any source that they did not appear in that volume, or the desire has been manifested that they might, if possible, appear in this.
In regard to his own genealogy, the author has yielded to the clamor of his friends far and near, and has therefore departed from his origi- ual design (as stated on p. viii, Vol. II., Introduction) of excluding his family name altogether. The genealogies of the other families are meagre or full, according to the amount of material accessible during the brief time allotted, and the interest taken in furnishing the records.
THE BOYNTON FAMILY.
1. WILLIAM W. BOYNTON was b. in Northfield, Nov. 10, 1807 ; m., 1st, Sarah B. Hlowe, of Canterbury, July, 1829, who d. Aug. 20, 1856, at Weymouth, Mass. ; m., 2d, Mrs. Charlotte (Iowe) Prince,
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of this town, Sept. 19, 1862, a native of Canterbury. Ile rem. hither (to Sanbornton ) the same day she d., Dec. 8, 1874, where still resid- ing, in the east part of the town. Children (1st wife) :
2. CHARLES IL., b. Nov. 21, 1830, in Canterbury ; in. Demila P. Cushing, of Weymouth, Mass. Children : - 1. Charles F., d. young. 2. Louis Osborn. 3. William B. (two last still living).
3. SARAN B., b. June 29, 1834, in Canterbury ; m. Gustavus A. Smith, of Holderness, March 23, 1856. Children : - 1. Hattie F. (Smith), b. April, 1861. 2. Augle M., b. 1871
4. ELIZA J. (Boynton), b. Nov. 30, 1837, in Canterbury; m. George C. French, of Weymouth, Mass., Sept. 30, 1859. Child : - George B. (French), b. April 12, 1870.
5. NATHANIEL BOUTON (Boynton), b. June 24, 1844, in Concord; now lives in Sanbornton; unm.
6. LUCY M., b. June 8, 1846, in Canterbury ; res. unm. with her father in Sanbornton, 1882.
THE BROWN FAMILY.
II. (ADDENDA.)
1. BENJAMIN F. BROWN (p. 52 [78]), instead of Benjamin, served an apprenticeship with Damon & Clark, of Cambridgeport, Mass., from 1842 till he went to the Watertown Arsenal, in April, 1846. Ile there continued till his death, April 17, 1865, ac. 43-7. He was an architect of some note ; made the draughts and patterns for the Rodman gun ; also the plans for the new shops, storehouses, ollicers' quarters, cte., built at Watertown, 1862-64. IIe was master of ord- uance in the arsenal from 1856 till the time of his death. Ile was m.
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