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TOWN OFFICERS.
REPRESENTATIVES AND VOTES FOR GOVERNOR.
At this time the lines of party were drawn, and those names with a star indicate Republicans, while the others are Federals. I have also given the votes for Governor, indicated in the same manner.
The old parties were dissolved under Monroe's second term.
1803, Henry Sweetser,*
1824, Samuel Aiken,
John T. Gilman, John Langdon,*
57
William Graham, Levi Woodbury, David L. Morril,
128
1804, Henry Sweetser,* J. T. Gilman, J. Langdon .*
158
1825, Samuel Aiken, Samuel D. Bell, David L. Morril, 202
1805, Henry Sweetser,* J. T. Gilnan, J. Langdon .*
143
1826, Samuel D. Bell,
Samuel Aiken, David L. Morril, 88
1806, Henry Sweetser, * Jolin Langdon,*
119
Benjamin Pieree,* 91
Levi Bartlett,
63
1827, Samnel Aiken, Jesse J. Underhill,
1807, Henry Sweetser,* John Langdon, Levi Bartlett.
115
Benjamin Pierce,* David L. Morril,
9
1808, Henry Sweetser,* John Langdon,* J. T. Gilman,
11
Jolm Bryant, Jolın Bell, Benjamin Pierce,*
263
1809, John Folsom,
136
1829, John Bryant,
Jeremiah Smith,
211
John Folsom, John Bell, Benjamin Pierce,*
296
Jeremiah Smith, John Langdon*
143
1830, Jolin Folsom, Samuel Aiken, Timothy Upham, 256
1812, John Folsom ..
196
Jolın Bryant,
William Plummer,*
126
Ichabod Bartlett, 242
Samuel Dinsmore,* 90
1813, John Folsom, John T. Gilman, William Plummer,*
197
1832, David Currier, Jr., Samuel Aiken,
1814, Jolm Folsom,
211
Samuel Dinsmore, *
93
J. T. Gilman, William Plummer,*
175
1833, David Currier, Jr., Stephen Dearborn, Samuel Dinsmore,*
127
216
1834, Stephen Dearborn,* Jesse J. Underhill, William Badger,* 164
1816, John Folsom,
William Moore,
187
James Sheaf,
214
1817, William Moore,
Benjamin Fitts, William Plummer,*
174
James Sheaf,
166
96
1818, William Moore,
Benjamin Fitts,
1837, Isaac Tompkins,
William Plummer,#
135
David Currier, Jr., Isaac Hill,*
99
1819, John Folsom,
1838, Isaac Tompkins,
Charles Goss, *
Joseph Chase,
Samnel Bell,*
James Wilson, Jr.,
274
William Hale,
25
Isaac Hill,*
121
1820, John Folsom,
1839, Isaac Tompkins,
Charles Goss,*
Joseph Chase,
Samuel Bell,*
250
James Wilson, John Page,* 115
1821, Samuel Aiken, Charles Goss, * Samuel Bell,*
260
Isaac Tompkins,
1822, Samuel Aiken,
Enos Stevens, John Page,*
159
William Moore, Samuel Bell,*
236 1841, John W. Noyes,
1823, Samuel Aiken,
John S. Brown, Enos Stevens, 200
Levi Woodbury,
159
John Page,*
131
Samuel Dinsmore,*
67
Matthew Harvey,* 87
1831, Samuel Aiken,
1811, Henry Sweetser,* John Langdon,* Jere. Smith,
173
146
J. T. Gilman,
126
Ichabod Bartlett,
194
1815, John Folsom, William Moore, J. T. Gilman, William !Plummer,*
152
William Plummer,*
1835, Jesse JJ. Underhill, Ephraim Oreutt, Joseph Healey, William Badger,*
155
137
1836, Ephraim Orcutt, David Currier, Jr, Isaac Hill,* Joseph Healey,
26
William Hale,
60
200
1840, David Currier, Jr.,
178
William Graham,
81
1828, Jesse J. Underhill,
118
59
John Langdon,*
1810, John Folsom,
164
146
75
70
129
177
111
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HISTORY OF CHESTER.
1842, John W. Noyes,
Nathl. B. Baker, * 108
David Pillsbury,* Henry Hubbard,*
Jared Perkins, F. S. 20
147
1855, Edmund Sleeper,
Enos Stevens,
91
James Bell, 37
Nathl. B. Baker,* 105
Ralph Metcalf, 155
171
1856, John Loek,
Anthony Colby,
146
Ichabod Goodwin, 30
1844, David Pillsbury,*
Stephen Dearborn,*
Ralph Metcalf, Rep. 136
John H. Steel,*
200
1857, James M. Kent,
84
Daniel Ifoit, " Free Soil,"
26
John S. Wells,* William Haile,
152
1845, John Folsom,
1858, Osgood Richards,
Asa P. Cate, *
90
Anthony Colby,
225
William Haile,
166
Jolın II. Steel,*
201
1859, Jacob Chase,
Daniel Hoit, F. S.,
19
Asa P. Cate,* 106
1846, G. W. Everet, F. S.,
Ichabod Goodwin,
162
Jared W. Williams,* Anthony Colby, Nathl. S. Berry, F. S.
39
Ichabod Goodwin, 193
1847, Thomas J. Melvin,
123
George Stark,*
90
NathI. S. Berry, F. S.,
37
1862, Henry Moore,
159
162
George Stark,* Paul J. Wheeler,
20
1849, William Greenough,
26
Joseph A. Gilmore,
92
1830, Thomas J. Melvin,
132
Joseph A. Gilmore,
70
1851, Thomas J. Melvin,
Frederick Smyth,
179
Samuel Dinsmore, *
97
Edward W. Harrington,*
78
Thos. E. Sawyer,
92
1866, William Tenney,
John Atwood, F. S.
11
Frederick Smyth,
190
1852, Thomas E. Sawyer, Noah Martin .*
135
John G. Sinclair, *
78
John Atwood, F. S.
34
Walter Harriman, John G. Sinclair, *
88
James Bell,
155
1868, David L. Bachelder,
208
John H. White,
25
Walter Harriman, John G. Sinclair,*
101
1834, John W. Noyes,
1860, Rufus W. Moore,
James Bell,
148
Onslow Stearns, 183 John Bedel, * 74
TOWN OFFICERS IN AUBURN.
MODERATORS.
1846. Stephen Dearborn,
1859, Franklin Crombie, 1860, Elisha A. Heath,
1853. '54, Andrew F. Fox,
1861 to '63, Andrew F. Fox.
1855. '56, Franklin Crombie,
1864 to '69, Franklin Crombie.
1857, '58, John F. Patten,
TOWN CLERKS.
1816 to '49, Samuel Anderson,
1862, Luther Brown,
1850 to '54, Harrison Burnham,
1863, Harrison Burnham,
1855, Jacob Lufkin,
1864 to '66, Evander G. Preston,
1:55 to '58, Nathl. Brown,
1867, Harrison Burnham,
1859, John Moore,
1868, '69, Evander G. Preston.
1860, '61, Samuel Dame,
131
1867, David L. Bachelder,
204
1853, Jolin W. Noyes,
10
1863, William Crawford,
62
1864, William Crawford, 210
Samuel Dinsmore, * Levi Chamberlain, Nathl. S. Berry,
.
144
Edward W. Harrington,*
79
133
1863, Silas F. Learnard, 124
Nathaniel S. Berry, F. S., Samuel Dinsmore, " Levi Chamberlain,
133
Jra A. Eastman, *
199
NathI. S. Berry,
1848, Thomas J. Melvin, NathI. S. Berry, F. S., Jared W. Williams, *
121
Nathıl. S. Berry,
174
Jared W. Williams,* Anthony Colby,
113
Asa P. Cate, * 93
1861, Daniel Bell,
139
1860, Parker Morse,
Anthony Colby,
172
Ephraim Oreutt,
John S. Wells,* 101
1843, Jesse J. Underhill, William Brown, Jr., Henry Hubbard,*
1847 to 1852, Franklin Crombie,
Noah Martin, *
131
Walter Harriman,
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TOWN OFFICERS.
SELECTMEN.
1858, David L. Osgood, William 11. Murray, Nathan B. Goldsmith.
1859, Hugh Crombie, William H. Murray, Enoch G. Watson.
Stephen Dearborn.
1848, Pike Chase,
Geo. P. Clarke, Andrew F. Fox.
1860, Elsha A. Heath. Stephen Kimball, Alfred T. Wood.
1849, Pike Chase, William Hoyt, Frederic A. Morse.
1861, Andrew F. Fox, Alfred T. Wood, Hidden Brown.
1850, Stephen Dearborn, Andrew F. Fox, Elisha A. Heath.
1862, Andrew F. Fox, Stephen Emery, Nathan K. Harwood.
1851, Andrew F. Fox, Elisha A. Heath, Gilman C. Smith.
1863, Andrew F. Fox. Eben. M. Leavett, Abraham Hook.
1852, Elisha A. Heath, James Underhill, Willard G. Watson.
1861, John Moore, Hugh Crombie, Foster Berry.
1853, Elisha A. Heath,
James Underhill, Willard G. Watson.
1865, Franklin Crombie, Moses C. Clark, Edwin Plummer.
1854, Andrew F. Fox, Oliver Miles, George G. Griffin.
1866, Franklin Crombie, Moses C. Clark, Edwin Plummer.
1855, Hugh Crombie, William Hall, William B. Brown.
1867, Andrew F. Fox, Jacob Lufkin, Charles C. Grant.
1856, Franklin Crombie, William B. Brown, Paschal Preston.
1868, Jacob Lufkin, Charles C. Grant, Arthur Dinsmore.
1857, Franklin Crombie, David L. Osgood,
1869, Charles C. Grant, Arthur Dinsmore, Ilenry Dockham.
REPRESENTATIVES AND VOTES FOR GOVERNOR.
1846, Samuel Anderson,
1857, Hugh Crombie,
Jared W. Williams,*
85
William Haile, 107
Anthony Colby,
John S. Wells,* 80
Nath. S. Berry, Free Soil,
14
1858, William W. Leighton, 108
1847, Samuel Anderson,
78
William Haile, Asa P. Cate,* 89
Jared W. Williams, * Anthony Colby, Nathl. S. Berry,
24
Ichabod Goodwin, 101
1848, Franklin Crombie,
Asa P. Cate,* 101
Jared W. Williams,*
Nathl. S. Berry,
106
Ichabod Goodwin, Asa P. Cate,* 116
79
1861, Geo. P. Clark,* 122
85
George Stark,*
Nathl. S. Berry, 110
1850, Hidden Brown,*
1862, William Vincent,*
97
Nathl. S. Berry,
14
1863, William Vincent,*
1851, Hidden Brown,*
Ira A. Eastman,* 111
Samuel Dinsmore, *
89
Joseph A. Gilmore, 77
Thomas C. Sawyer,
73
Walter Harriman, 23
John Atwood, F. S.,
31
1864, Paschal Preston,
1852, Andrew F. Fox,*
Joseph A. Gilmore, 113
Noah Martin,*
83
Edward W. Harrington, * 91
Thomas E. Sawyer,
57
John Atwood. F. S.,
32
Frederick Smyth, Edward W. Harrington,
67
James Bell,
56
Frederick Smyth, John G. Sinclair,*
71
1854, Elisha A. Heath,*
1867, Pike Chase,
Nathl. B. Baker,*
89
Walter Harriman, 104
James Bell,
52
John G. Sinclair,* 89
Jared Perkins, F. S.,
37
1868, Rev. James Holmes, Walter Harriman, Jolın G. Sinclair,* 9T
111
1855, Voltaire E. Lary, Nath. B. Baker,* Ralph Metcalf,
93
1856, Hugh Crombie,
Onslow Stearns,
Ralph Metcalf, Repub.,
119
John Bedel .* 79
John S. Wells,*
84
1865, Paschal Preston, 96
1853, Andrew F. Fox,* Noah Martin, *
89
1866, Samuel F. Murry, 108
Jolın H. White, F. S.,
25
1860, George P. Clark,* 113
1849, Franklin Crombie,
Levi Chamberlain, Samuel Dinsmore,* Nathl. S. Berry,
14
85
75
George Stark,* Nathi. S. Berry, 81
Samuel Dinsmore,* Levi Chamberlain,
,8
1859, John Clark,
Wm. W. Leighton.
116 1869, Jacob Luikin,
105
1846, James Brown, James Hoit, Samnel Murray. 1847, David Currier, Pike Chase,
CHAPTER XVII.
A NOTICE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS, OR THE GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF CHESTER.
AIKEN.
JOHN AIKEN was born in Ireland about 1689, and came to this country, it is said, with John Tolford, who was in Bradford in 1724. Ile appears first on Chester records in 1730, when a grant of land is made to him to encourage him to build a grist-mill, and a road was laid out across his home lot No. 145, where he then lived, and on the northeast end of which he built the first grist- mill in Chester. He afterwards purchased two other lots, Nos. 58 and 146, where he afterwards built. The subsequent occupants of the first lot have been his son John, Jr., Moses Hills, and John Hlaselton; of the last, Josiah Dearborn, Benjamin. Hills, Read and Peabody. He appears to have been an energetic business man, and his wife, whose maiden name was Karr, is reported to have been a very shrewd manager after his decease, and that they gave their children a good education for the times. They had two sons, John and James. John, Jr., was a millwright, and married. They had five daughters :- Margaret, m. William Gra- ham, Sen., and came to the Long Meadows; Martha, m. John Waddel, of Londonderry, and d. March 23, 1817, a. eighty-eight; Jane, m. James Crosett, at the Long Meadows, and went to the Mohawk country; Elizabeth, m. a Taylor, of Derry, and has de- scendants there; Mary, born 1739, m. John Karr, of the east part of Derry. She had two sons and four daughters, the young- est of whom, Elizabeth, m. Edmund Adams, of Derry, at the mills, whose children yet reside there. John Aiken's will is dated Nov. 22, 1750. He d. Dec. 1, 1750; will proved Dec. 26, 1750; personal estate, £1982; real, £4000.
SAMUEL AIKEN was a younger brother of John; and there was another brother, William, an educated clergyman, who d. in Ire- land before Samuel came over. Samuel m. a Young in Ireland, and came over about 1736, and had a very long passage. They
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GENEALOGY - AIKEN.
came into Portsmouth, and lived a while in Greenland, and then came to Chester. June 22, 1738, he purchased one half of No. 82, 2d P., 2d D., and settled where Charles C. Grant now lives in Auburn. They afterwards purchased the other half of the lot, and settled, James on the northeast end, where Deacon Brigham lately lived, and Peter on the southwest end. There were, at the time of his settlement, two families of friendly Indians living near. They probably had two sons b. in Ireland.
I. William, settled at the "Neck," between Severance and Spofford, and went to Passamoquoddy, and was with his wife drowned, leaving a dau. Sarah, and sons, William, James and Robert, who lived with their grandfather. James and Robert went to Bunker Hill and never returned. (Mrs. Whittier.)
II. James, m. Mary, dau. of Andrew McFarland. Children :-
Andrew, b. 1755; William, d. young; Margaret; Samuel, b. 1761, m. Martha, dau. of William Graham; James, b. 1762 ; John, b. 1764, m. Betsy, dau. of Archi. McDuffee, d. July 1801; Mary, b. 1774, m. Stephen Heatlı. James, Sen., Andrew, James, Jr., and John, are said to have been in the Revolutionary army. James and James, Jr., d. there, and Andrew was wounded. The widow d. April 2, 1818, a. 85.
III. Peter, b. on the passage from Ireland, used to say that he was not born on the face of the earth. He m. Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Fowler; lived on his father's lot, and on the southwest end of No. 83, where Benjamin Crosett had lived. Children :-
Rebecca, m. John, son of Jona. Emery; Peter; Thomas; and Samuel, m. Sally Coffin, about whom there was a lawsuit between Chester and Derry. They all went to Canada. Peter Aiken d. Oct. 21, 1806; Rebecca d. 1796.
IV. Sarah, m. Robert Witherspoon.
V. Samuel, m. Isabella McDole, of Goffstown, and lived on the homestead. He d. Jan. 4, 1825, a. 76; she d. March 18, 1837, a. 78. Children :-
1. Rosanna, b. March 2, 1784, m. Alex. McGregore and Dear- born Whittier; d. Nov. 23, 1867. She had a very retentive mem- ory, and gave much tradition about the Aiken families, and Long Meadow people generally. Her grandmother lived till she was twelve years old, and she used to read for her the old letters re- ceived from John Aiken and John Tolford to them in Ireland.
2. Samuel, b. Jan, 10, 1786, m. Nancy Marston, of Hampton, Oct. 15, 1811. He was famous as a teacher, was a military officer, and a magistrate; was representative several times, and held various other offices, and was a trader. HIe d. March 30, 1840; she d. Aug. 6, 1867, a. 85. They had several children who d. young. Those who survived were
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HISTORY OF CHESTER.
Nancy, b. April 3, 1816, m. John W. Noyes; Jane, July 16, 1818, m. Prof. Daniel J. Noyes; Isabel, b. Dec. 16, 1820.
Samuel and Isabella also had
3. Lucy, b. June 7, 1788, m. Alvin Jones, of Boston, m. (2) James Ray, d. Sep. 20, 1854; 4. Jane, b. Aug. 6, 1790, u.m .; 5. John, b. Jan 2, 1793, went to Belfast; 6. William, b. April 25, 1795, m. Betsy, dau. of Archi. McDuffee; 7. Katharine, b. April 14, 1798, d. suddenly of some malignant disease, Sept. 9, 1819; 8, Mary, b. June 20, 1800, m. Levi Whitney, of Boston; is now alive; 9. Robert, b. Feb. 5, 1804.
AMBROSE.
NATHL. AMBROSE was the son of Henry and Hannah, and was b. at Salisbury, Mass., Dec, 14, 1677; m. Sarah Eastman, Dec., 1697. Children :-
I. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 2, 1698, m. Sampson Underhill and Benj. Batchelder.
II. Henry, b. Ang., 1701, came to Chester, d. 1746.
III. John, b. Sept. 28, 1707.
IV. Sarah, b. June, 1716, m. a Veasey.
V. Abigail, m. Joshua Prescott.
Nathl. Ambrose and his sons Henry and John, and daughter Abigail, probably came to Chester in the fall of 1731. Mr. Am- brose bought the H. L. No. 110, of Alexander Craig, and lived a little west of the old Presbyterian meeting-house. Ilis will was dated June 3, 1745, proved. June 26, 1745. His son Henry seems to have had no permanent place of residence in Chester, is not named in the will, and is taxed for nothing but a poll in 1741.
John's wife was Elizabeth. Ile settled on Add. No. 97, a little west of Francis Hill's. He had six children, Robert, the oldest of whom, b. March 6, 1732, m. Mary Ethredge, a grand- daughter of John Calfe, and sister to Joshna Hall's wife. John gave to Robert one half of his farni, but he sold out and moved to the East Village at Concord, where the family have been con- spicuous.
ANDREWSON OR ANDERSON.
THOMAS ANDREWSON, as he is called in the early records, or Anderson, the present name, came from Ireland at the same time with David Dinsmore at the age of 13 years. IIe m. Jean Craige and settled on No. 132, 2d F. 2d D., where Luther Flint now lives in Candia. In 1762 there was an article in the warning of the town-meeting to see what the town would do about a road, he
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GENEALOGY -BASFORD.
having lived in town more than five years and had no road. It is said that he was a very strong, courageous man and once killed two bears with a pitch-wood knot. He d. Oct. 10, 1804; she d. June, 1780. Children :---
1. William, b. Aug. 6, 1756; m. -; lived on No. 133, 2d P., 2d D .; d. Sept. 19, 1808.
2. Joseph, b. June 17, 1758.
3. John, b. Dec. 19, 1759; went to Ohio.
4. Thomas, b. June 19, 1762; m. Elizabeth, dau. of James Gra- ham, and lived at the Long Meadows, on the Archi. Miller place, No. 81, 2d P. 2d D. He d. Jan. 5, 1841; she d. Aug. 1854, a. 79.
5. Agnes, b. May 14, 1764; m. Thomas Wilson of Candia; d. April 5, 1803.
6. Joseph, b. Oct. 28, 1766; went to Maine.
7. Allen, b. Feb. 25, 1769; moved to Holden, Mass .; d. June, 1839.
8. Samuel, b. Aug. 23, 1771; m. (1) Anna, dau. of Moses Sar- gent ; m. (2) Mary, sister of his first wife. He lived first on the homestead and after Chester turnpike was built he built there, and was widely known as a landlord. See "Fires." He d. 1850; his first wife d. 1817.
9. Margaret, b. Dec. 9, 1773; m. (1) Jolm Crawford; m. (2) Jonathan Sanborn; d. July 21, 1847.
10. David, b. Jan. 1, 1779; m. Lydia Ayer; lived at Lebanon, N. H.
ROBERT ANDREWSON was an early settler on No. 15, 4th D., in Derryfield (the Daniel Hall place). On the Derryfield records is " Robert Anderson, son of John and Gien his wife, married Sarah McQuestion, dauter of Hugh, Decr 2, 1742." There are the births of " Mary and Gien."
ARWIN.
HENRY ARWIN was in Chester in 1757, lived and kept tavern after the Hatter Underhill style, on the old road, on No. 110, 4th D., and sold to Ezra Badger.
BADGER.
EZRA BADGER bought Arwin's tavern stand; kept a tavern in the same style, the guests sleeping on the floor. Mrs. Badger was a long time a pauper, and d. very aged, July 27, 1815.
BASFORD.
JACOB BASFORD was a grantee, and his wife was Elizabeth, and they lived at Hampton. In 1729, he deeded his estate in Hampton to his eldest son JAMES, then of Dover, who was baptized May 9, 1697. James, about 1730, came to Chester, and settled on
30
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HISTORY OF CHESTER.
H. L. 146, since owned by Moses Hills, Jacob Hills, now Calvin Hills. He owned three lots, and at one time a large share of the old saw-mill and the saw-mill grant, and seems to have been a trading man, though not very thrifty, as there are a large number of cases of debt on the court records against him, which were de- faulted, and his mother became a town charge. In Oct., 1735, he deeded his farm to his son Jacob, and Jan., 1737, he deeded to Moses Hills. His name is not on the inventory of 1741, but there is a John, probably his son, rated for a poll.
JOSEPH BASFORD, probably another son of Jacob, m. Elizabeth, dan. of Jona. Goodhne, Jan. 8, 1746, and settled at the Long Meadows, on No. 73, 2d P., 2d D., where Wells C. Underhill now lives. The old house was taken down in 1851. They had Jona- than. Joseph, Jacob, Benjamin, Elizabeth, James and Aaron, but nothing is known of them. In March, 1760, he joined with Nathaniel Wood and Elizabeth (the Wid. Goodhine), in selling to Jabez Hoit HI. L. No. 3, the Goodhue or Clay place. The same year he sold to Wood, and in 1769 to Moody Chase, and in 1771 to Wells Chase, his lands at the Long Meadows. An anecdote is related of him, that while residing at the Long Meadows, some one told him that his mother had fallen into the well. He replied that he would " light his pipe and hasten!"
JACOB BASFORD, probably another son of the grantee, purchased the east half of No. 18, 2d P., 2d D., March, 1737, and settled near where Charles Stevens now lives; he married Abigail Silver, at Haverhill, April, 1734. He went into the French war and died, 1760. The inventory of his estate was returned, Feb., 1761. Children :-
I. John, b. 1741, lived on the homestead, and went to Maine.
II. Ebenezer, born Nov. 9, 1744; m. (1) Mary Richardson, Feb. 14, 1765 : lived near the homestead. Children :-
1. Sarah, born 1765. 2. Moses. 3. Abigail. 4. Ebenezer. 5. and 6. David and John, 1772. 7. Reuben. He m. (2) Wid. Me- hitabel Young. Children: 8. Betsy, b. 1781, m. William Hoit, Jr., d. 1807. 9. Nathaniel. 10. Walter, b. July 22, 1785, m. sarah, dau. of John Knowles, Jr. Ile d. Ang. 30, 1865; she d. Oct., 8, 1859. 11. Lucretia, born 1787, d. 1865. 12. Mary, 1790. 13. Amy, b. Nov. 10, 1794.
Ebenezer d. Sept. 21, 1816. Mehitable d. April 10, 1836, a. 84. III. Abigail, b. Jan. 2, 1748.
IV. Jacob, born April 22, 1750; m. Abigail, dan. of Jonathan Moulton, and lived on a gore between Add. Nos. 111 and 17, 2d P., 2d D., N. E. side of Great Hill. Children :-
1. Jonathan, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Geo. Marden. 2. Abigail, m. John, son of Dominicus Prescott, d. 1816. 3. Rebecca, m.
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GENEALOGY - BACHELDER.
Robert Knowles, d. Feb. 2, 1850. 4, Josiah, b. April, 1785, m. Betsy Osgood and lived on the homestead; d. Nov. 13, 1835. 5. Richard, born 1789, m. Betsy, dau. of Master Morrice Gibbons ; lived near the homestead for a time, but went to parts unknown.
Jacob d. 1813; his widow m. Jonathan Brown; d. 1841. V. James, born Aug. 8, 1754.
VI. Mary, b. 1758.
BARTLETT.
When John Calfe sold his homestead in 1745, it was bounded by SAMUEL BARTLETT, who lived on H. L. No. 37. He had a dau. Elizabeth; m. Jethro Colby, and lived there. They had a dau. Lydia, m. Edmund Sleeper and lived there. Mr. Bartlett had a dan. Abigail, m. Lieut. Ezekiel Worthen. He d. March 25, 1762, a. 57 ; she d. April 1, 1801, a. 85.
BACHELDER.
PAGE BACHELDER was a son of Benjamin B. and Susanna Page, and was baptized July 20, 1707. In 1731, when the road by Asa Wilson's was laid out, he owned HI. L. No. 104, and prob- ably lived near school-house No. 4, in Chester, and about that time had a mortgage of James Basford's place. He afterwards settled on Add. No. 55, afterwards owned by Capt. Edward Preston, W. H. and W. P. Underhill. He m. Elizabeth Hill March 24, 1744 (perhaps a second wife). He d. 1756.
BENJAMIN BACHELDER was a brother of Page; baptized June, 1708, and lived on H. L. No. 138, on Chester Street, about where the house owned by Mr. Sargent stands. He m. for a second wife Elizabeth Ambrose, the widow of Sampson Underhill. He also owned the land opposite where Mr. White lived, which was sold by his administrator to Dr. Thomas Sargent in 1782. Hannah, the wife of Dr. Sargent, bought the homestead in 1785. There have since lived there, Dea. John Webster, John Kimball, the teacher of singing, and James French.
JETHRO BACHELDER. There was a man of that name b. at Hampton in 1698; m. Dorothy Sanborn in 1721, who, I think, must have been too old to be the settler in Chester.
On Chester records is Jethro Bachelder and Abigail, his wife. Chil., Mary, Daniel and Nathaniel. He lived in Raymond on 122 O. H., on the Todd road, and was a petitioner for the incorpora_ tion of Raymond.
BEAN.
DAVID BEAN, b. 1725, m. Mary Judkins of Kingstown in 1748, d. 1793. He settled in Epping and built a set of buildings which
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were soon destroyed by fire. He then settled and built a house in Raymond, and thence removed to Candia, at, or near the Island, and bought Eastman's mills, which were destroyed by fire from the woods. He raised a family of ten children, six sons and four daughters, all but one of whom married and had families. Dea. ABRAHAM m. Mary, dau. of Nicholas Gordon of Poplin, and lived on the homestead, and had four sons, Joseph, David, Abraham and Gordon who all settled on the old homestead. He also had six daughters. David is named in a deed as of Chester in 1755, and was probably then in Raymond. He was surveyor of lumber in Candia in 1768. Abraham d. Oct. 29, 1833.
Reuben Bean, son of Darid, had a son Moses, who learned the art of tanning and shoemaking, and set up at what is now Candia Village, and may be considered, in a sense, the father of the place, as it was the commencement of the shoe business there, and Dea. Samuel Dudley learned his trade of him. He also built the first meeting-house and was pastor of the church several years. He went to St. Joseph, Mich., and d. 1838.
BELL.
JOHN BELL, though not of the first colony to Londonderry, in 1719, had a grant of land made to him in 1720, in Aiken's range, on which he settled and spent the remainder of his life, and where his son John lived. After commencing a clearing and building a cabin, he returned to Ireland for his wife and two sur- viving children, in 1722. He was b. in the county of Antrim, 1678, m. Elizabeth Todd, and had two sons and two dau. b. in Londonderry. He d. July 8, 1743; she d. 1771. The daughters, Letitia, Naomi, Elizabeth and Mary, all m. men by the name of Duncan. Samuel, b. Sept. 28, 1723, removed to Cambridge, N. Y .; m. Sarah Storrow. John, b. Aug. 15, 1730, m. Mary Ann Gilmore, dau. of James Gilmore, Dec. 21, 1758. He held various respon- sible offices. He d. Nov. 30, 1825; she d. April 1, 1822, a. 85. Children : -
I. II. JAMES and EBENEZER, d. in youth.
III. JONATHAN, m. Sarah W., dau. of Josiah Flagg, Esq., lived and traded at the Toppan Webster place, in Chester; d. 1808. The widow m. Daniel French, Esq.
IV. JOHN, b. July 20, 1765. He received his early education in Londonderry, and when he arrived at manhood, being of an en- terprising disposition, he dealt for a time in the products of Can- ada. In this business he had occasion to make repeated journeys to Montreal, which were then no holiday excursions, but tvilsome, and not without danger. At a later period he established himself in trade in Chester, where he resided during the remainder of his
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