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In answer to a petition of the inhabitants of Souhegan West, praying that they might be incorporated as a town, Gov. Wentworth, with the advice and consent of the Coun- eil, granted the following charter :
" PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,
Greeting :
Whereas, our Loyal Subjects, Inhabitants of a Tract of Land within our Province of New Hampshire, known by the name of Souhegan West, on the western side of Merrimack, have humbly petitioned and requested us that they may be erected and Incorporated into a Town- ship and Infranchised with the same powers and privileges which other Towns within our said Province by law have and enjoy. And it appearing to us to be conducive to the general good of our said Province, as well as of the said Inhabitants in particular, by main- taining good order and encouraging the culture of the land, that the same should be done. Know Ye, therefore, that we, of our special Grace, certain knowledge, and for the encouragement and promoting the good ends aforesaid, By and with the advice of our trusty and well beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq., our Governor and Commander-in- chief, and of onr Council for said province of New Hampshire, Have erected, and ordained, and by these Presents for us, our heirs and successors. Do Will and ordain that the Inhabitants of the Tract of land aforesaid, and who shall inhabit and improve thereon hereafter, the same being Butted and Bounded as follows: viz .. Beginning at Souhegan River, thence running north 1º west on the townships of Merrimack and Bedford six miles, thence running west on Bedford and a tract of land called New Boston six miles, thence South about five miles and a half to Souhegan River aforesaid, thence by said River to the place where it began : Be, and hereby are, declared and ordained to be a Town Corporate, and are hereby erected and Incor- porated into a body Politic and Corporate, to have continuance until the first of January, 1762, by the name of AMHERST, with all the Powers and Authorities, Privileges, Immunities, and Franchises, which any other Towns in said Province by Law hold and enjoy, to the said inhabitants, or who shall hereafter inhabit there, and their successors for said term; always reserving to us, our Heirs and Suc- 4
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cessors, all White Pine trees that are or shall be found growing and being on said tract of land fit for the use of our Royal Navy; Reserv- ing also to us, our Heirs and successors, the power and the right of dividing said town, when it shall appear necessary and convenient to the Inhabitants thereof. Provided, nevertheless, and it is hereby declared, that this Charter and Grant is not intended, and shall not in any manner be construed to extend to or effect the Private Property of the soil within the limits aforesaid. And as the several towns within our said Province aforesaid are by the laws thereof enabled and authorized to assemble and, by the majority of voters present, to choose all such officers and transact such affairs as are in the said laws declared :- We do by these presents nominate and appoint Lient .- Col. John Goffe to call the first meeting of said Inhabitants, to be held within said town at any time within forty days from the date hereof, giving legal notice of the Time and design of holding such Meeting,- After which. the Annual Meeting in said Town shall be held, for the choice of Officers and the purposes aforesaid, on the second Monday in March, annually.
In testimony whereof, we have caused the Seal of our Province to be hereunto affixed.
Witness, Benning Wentworth, Esquire, Our Governor and Com- mander-in-chief of our said Province, the eighteenth day of January, in the Thirty-Third year of our Reign, and in the Year of our Lord Christ One thousand and seven hundred and sixty.
B. WENTWORTH.
By his Excellency's Command, with advice of Council:
THEODORE ATKINSON, SEC'Y.
A meeting for the organization of the town, under the charter, was held at the meeting-house, 20 February, 1760, at which Col. John Goffe, who was appointed to call the meeting, read the charter.
Solomon Hutchinson was chosen town-clerk, and was immediately sworn to the faithful execution of the duties of the office.
Col. John Goffe was chosen moderator, and the town voted to accept the charter.
Solomon Hutchinson, William Bradford, Reuben Mussey, Reuben Gould, and Thomas Clark, were chosen selectmen,
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David Hartshorn and Nathan Kendall, tithing-men, and the other usual town officers, were elected.
Gen. JEFFREY AMHERST, from whom the town derived its name, was born at Riverhead, County of Kent, England, 29 January, 1717. He early devoted himself to the pro- fession of arms, and received an ensign's commission at the age of fourteen years.
At the age of twenty-five he was engaged in the wars in Europe, serving on the staff of Lord Ligonier. At a later date he served on the staff of the Duke of Cumberland. In 1756 he was in command of a regiment of foot. In 1758 he was appointed to the American service, with the rank of major-general. He sailed from Portsmouth, Eng., 16 March, 1758, with the forces destined for the siege of Louisburg. That fortress surrendered on the sixth day of July following, and he speedily took possession of the whole of the island of Cape Breton.
Soon after this, he succeeded Gen. Abercrombie in the command of the British forces in North America. In November, 1758, he planned and executed the capture of Fort DuQuesne. The capture of Niagara and Ticonderoga soon followed. Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, was taken 14 October, 1759, soon after the conquest of Quebec by Wolfe; and on the eighth day of October, 1760, Montreal was surrendered to the British forces.
Shortly after this, he was made Governor-General of Canada, Knight of the Bath, Lieutenant-General, and a member of His Majesty's Privy Council.
He resigned his command in America soon after the close of the war, in 1763, and returned to England.
In 1770 he became Governor of Guernsey ; was sworn of the Privy Council in 1772; and in 1776 was advanced to the peerage, when he took the title of Baron' Amherst, of Homesdale, in the County of Kent. In 1787 he received another patent, as Baron Amherst, of Montreal. From 1772 to 1782 he acted as Commander-in-chief of the British
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forces. In 1782 he received the golden stick from the King.
Upon a change in the administration, the command of the army was put into other hands, but in 1793 it was restored to him. In 1795 he was superseded in the com- mand by the Duke of York, then a young man, who had never seen any service. He was then offered an earldom and the rank of field-marshal, both of which he declined ; but in the following year he accepted the appointment of field-marshal. He died at his seat at Montreal, 3 August, 1797.
He was possessed of a collected and temperate mind ; had but little liking for show or parade; was a strict dis- ciplinarian, but a friend to the soldier. He was twice married, but left no children, and his title and'estates passed to a nephew.
RESIDENT TAX-PAYERS IN AMHERST, SEPTEMBER, 1760.
Ephraim Abbot,
Benjamin Davis,
Joshua Abbot,
John Davis,
Josiah Abbot,
Benjamin Dresser,
Ebenezer Averill,
Ebenezer Ellinwood,
Thomas Averill,
Ebenezer Ellinwood, jr.,
Andrew Bixby,
Jedediah Ellinwood,
Joseph Bontele,
Joseph Ellinwood,
Kendal Boutele,
Francis Elliott, Elisha Felton,
Samuel Bradford,
Simeon Fletcher,
William Bradford,
Nathan Fuller,
Richard Gould,
David Burns, John Burns,
Samuel Gray,
Joseph Butterfield,
David Hartshorn,
Oliver Carlton,
John Harwood,
Benjamin Clark,
Ephraim Hildreth,
Joseph Clark, jr.,
Amey Hobbs,
Thomas Clark,
William Hogg,
James Cochran, John Cole,
Ebenezer Holt,
Ebenezer Holt, jr.,
Jacob Curtice,
J. Holt,
Andrew Bradford,
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Isaac How,
Solomon Hutchinson,
William Jones,
Jolm Shepard, jr., Joseph Small, John Smith,
Nathan Kendall,
Timothy Smith,
Jonathan Lamson,
Joseph Steel,
Samnel Lamson,
Caleb Stiles,
Samuel Lamson, jr.,
John Stuart,
William Lancy,
Robert Stuart,
Abijah Lovejoy,
Samuel Stuart,
Benjamin Lovejoy,
Benjamin Taylor,
Hezekiah Lovejoy,
Israel Towne,
Joseph Lovejoy,
Israel Towne, jr.,
Ephraim Lund,
Moses Towne,
Ebenezer Lyon,
Thomas Towne,
Jonathan Lyon,
David Truel,
John McClernand,
Moses Truel,
Timothy MeIntire,
Caleb Upton,
William Melendy,
Thomas Wakefield,
Reuben Mussey,
William Wallace,
William Odall,
Davis Walton,
John Patterson,
Reuben Walton,
William Peabody,
John Washer,
John Pettengill,
Stephen Washer,
Joseph Prince, Robert Read,
Daniel Weston,
Alexander Robinson,
Ebenezer Weston,
Samuel Robinson,
Ebenezer Weston, jr.,
Hannah Rollins,
George Wiley,
James Rollins,
Amos Wilkins,
Hugh Ross,
Benjamin Wilkins,
Andrew Seaton, John Seaton, Samuel Seaton,
Lucy Wilkins,
William Wilkins,
John Shepard,
Mary Wilkins,
One hundred and ten in all.
Among the heaviest tax-payers were William Peabody, whose tax was £46, 18s., 3d .; Nathan Kendall, £39, 11s., 6d .; Israel Towne, £34, 1s., 9d .; Joseph Prince, £31,7s., 9d .; and Joseph Steel, £30, 14s., 3d. A poll tax was £3, 7s., 6d.
Daniel Wilkins,
John Wasson,
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A regiment of eight hundred men was raised in New Hampshire this year (1760) to serve in an expedition for the invasion of Canada. It was under the command of Col. John Goffe, and marched from Litchfield, through Monson, Peterborough, and Keene, to Charlestown, on Connecticut river, thence they cut a road twenty-six miles, through the wilderness, to the Green Mountains, after which they fol- lowed the road cut the previous year by Stark and the rangers to Crown Point. They were forty-four days in cutting the road to the Green Mountains. A large drove of cattle, for the army at Crown Point, followed them.
A severe drought prevailed in the year 1761, by which the crops were cut short in the frontier towns, and supplies of provisions had to be obtained from abroad. It is related that one of the settlers in Amherst, named Clark, walked from this town to Charlestown, Mass., and purchased a bushel of corn from a vessel lying near the ferry. This he carried on his shoulder to Lovewell's mills, in Dunstable, where it was ground into meal, which he carried home on his shoulder. The whole distance out was about fifty miles.
A tax of £561, old tenor, was assessed upon the tax- payers of Amherst this year (1761), as the town's proportion of the cost of the expedition to Crown Point in 1760, and the reinforcements sent there, and for the expenses of promoting and carrying on an expedition against His Majesty's enemies in North America.
For the payment of this tax the following articles were to be received at the prices specified, the same being delivered to the Province treasurer at the expense of the owner : Bills of credit ; Spanish milled dollars, at 15s. each, new tenor ; gold and silver, in proportion ; good bar iron, at £3 per hundred weight ; hemp, at 1s. per pound ; Indian corn, at 10s. per bushel ; pork, at 7d. per pound ; flax seed, at 1s. per pound ; pease, at 10s. per bushel ; and codfish, at £1, 10s. per quintal.
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REVIVAL OF THE TOWN CHARTER.
The charter of the town expiring by limitation, on the first day of January, 1762, the following petition for its renewal was forwarded to the Governor and Council by the selectmen :
"To His Exelency Benning Wentworth, Esqr., Governor in chief in and over His Majestie's Province of New Hampshire, and to the Honorable the Counsell.
The Memorial of us, the Subscribers, the Select Men of the Town of Amherst, in Province aforesaid, IIumbly sheweth that we, with the Lowest Submission, Sollicitously pray that your Excelency and Honours would lengthen out the life of the Charter of our Town; and we doubt not but your Excelency and Honours, in your Great wisdom and Clemency, will do it, during the King's pleasure ; and so your Memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
REBUEN MUSSEY, Selectmen, THOS. WAKEFIELD, in behalf of WILLIAM PEABODY, the Town.
AMIIERST, Dec'r ye 15th, 1761."
"N. B. We, the Subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Amherst, Nominate and appoint Col. John Goff, Esqr., to represent to his Exel- ency the Governor and the Honorable Counsil our Memorial, above specified, to prolong our Town Charter."
The prayer of the selectmen was graciously answered by the royal Governor, in the name of his master, as follows :
"PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Whereas, our Late royal Grand-father, King George the Second, of Glorious memory, of his special Grace and upon the Petition of the Inhabitants of a Tract of Land in our said Province of New Hamp- shire, heretofore known by the Name of Souhegan West, and for the maintaining good order & encouraging the culture of the Land there, by his Letter Patent, or Charter, under the seal of our said Province, Dated the 18th day of Jan'ry, in the 33d Year of his reign, did erect and incorporate into a Body Politic, and Corporate, by the name of AMHERST, the Inhabitants of the said Tract of Land, or those that should inhabit therein thereafter, which tract is butted and bounded
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as in the said Patent, or Charter, is expressed, and was to have con- tinance till the first day of Jan'ry, 1762, which Time being elapsed, and the Inhabitants having again petitioned to have the said Charter Privileges renewed, and it appearing necessary to answer the good End proposed, as well as to Enable the Inhabitants aforesaid to assess and collect their rates and Taxes,
Know Ye, that We, being willing to promote the good End pro- posed, have of our Further Grace & Favor, By & with the advice & Consent of our Trusty & well beloved Benning Wentworth, our Gov- ernor & Commander in Chief, & of our Council for said Province, revived & regranted unto the said Inhabitants and their Successors on the s'd Tract of Land all the Powers & Authority, Privileges, Immunities, & Franchises, in the said Charter mentioned, as they enjoyed the same while that Charter was in force, and to have con- tinnance until we thall please to Approve or disallow the same, and signify such our approbation or disallowance.
In testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of the Province afore- said to be hereunto affixed.
Witness, Benning Wentworth, Esqr., our Governor & Commander in Chief, this 7th day of Jan'ry, in the second year of our reign, Annoq Domini, 1762.
B. WENTWORTH.
By His Excellency's Command, with advice of Council :
THEODORE ATKINSON SEC'Y.
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ANNEXATION OF MONSON.
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CHAPTER V.
ANNEXATION OF A PART OF SOUHEGAN WEST TO MERRIMACK. -MONSON .- PETITION FROM MONSON FOR THE ANNEXATION OF A PART OF SOUHEGAN WEST TO THAT TOWN .- VOTE OF THE TOWN OF HOLLIS IN REGARD TO THE DISMEMBERMENT OF MONSON .- PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF MONSON TO BE ANNEXED TO HOLLIS .- MR. WILKINS REMONSTRATES .- SIGN- ERS TO THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE INHABITANTS OF AMHERST .- ACTION OF THE TOWN OF AMHERST .- MONSON DIVIDED BETWEEN AMHERST AND HOLLIS .- DISSATISFACTION OF MONSON PEOPLE .- PETITIONS FOR A TOWN TO BE COM- POSED OF THE MILE SLIP, DUXBURY SCHOOL FARM, AND PARTS OF LYNDEBOROUGH AND AMHERST .- EFFORTS FOR A DIVISION OF THE TOWN INTO PARISHES .- PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH-WEST PART OF THE TOWN TO BE INCORPORATED AS A SEPARATE PARISH .- INCORPORATION OF THE PETI- TIONERS AS A POLL PARISH .- PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND PARISH .- SETTLEMENT OF MR. BRUCE .- INCORPORATION OF THE SECOND PARISH BY METES AND BOUNDS .- BOUNDARIES CHANGED BY THE GENERAL COURT .- VARIOUS VOTES OF THE SECOND PARISH .- MEASURES TAKEN FOR THE INCORPORATION OF THE PARISH AS A TOWN .- ACTION OF THE TOWN OF AMHERST .- MONT VERNON INCORPORATED .- ITS BOUNDARIES, AND NAMES OF THE TAX-PAYERS, 1 APRIL, 1804 .- PETITION FOR THE INCORPORATION OF A POLL PARISH IN THE SOUTH- WEST PART OF THE TOWN .- ACTION OF THE TOWN OF AMHERST .- INCORPORATION OF THE THIRD PARISH .- ITS ORGANIZATION, AND VOTES OF THE PARISH IN RELATION TO BUILDING A MEETING-HOUSE .- MOVEMENTS TO BE SET OFF AS A PARISH BY METES AND BOUNDS .- THE THIRD PARISH INCOR-
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PORATED BY METES AND BOUNDS .- ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH .- VOTE OF THE PARISH IN REGARD TO THE INCORPO- RATION OF THE THIRD PARISH WITH DUXBURY SCHOOL FARM, AND THE MILE SLIP, AS A TOWN .- ACTION OF THE TOWN OF AMHERST .- MILFORD INCORPORATED .- ITS BOUNDARIES, AND FIRST TAX-PAYERS. - ANNEXATION OF ANOTHER PART OF AMHERST TO MILFORD .- REPORT OF A COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE TOWN OF AMHERST IN REGARD TO A PROPOSED TOWN, TO BE FORMED OF PARTS OF AMHERST, NEW BOSTON, BEDFORD, AND GOFFSTOWN.
The first dismemberment of Souhegan West took place 1 June, 1750, when, by the amended charter of Merrimack, a strip of land and water, some 1,380 rods in length, and averaging about 125 rods in width, was taken from Souhe- gan West, and annexed to that town.
This change seems to have been overlooked by Gov. Wentworth at the time the charter of Amherst was granted, its boundaries, as therein described, being the same as those given in the original survey in 1728.
This boundary was the source of some contention between the towns, and remained unsettled until the autumn of 1832, when it was settled by a committee consisting of Benjamin M. Farley, of Hollis; Jesse Bowers, of Dunsta- ble ; and John Wallace, of Milford.
AMHERST AND MONSON.
The town of Monson received a charter from Gov. Went- worth, 1 April, 1746. It was formerly a part of the town of Dunstable, as chartered by the General Court of Massa- chusetts, 16 October, 1673, and came under the jurisdiction of New Hampshire on the establishment of the boundary line between the Provinces in 1741.
The town of Hollis formed its southern boundary, and the Souhegan river, its northern boundary.
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In 1754 a petition was presented to the Governor and Council by the selectmen and other inhabitants of the town of Monson, asking that a portion of Souhegan West, adjoin- ing that town, and embracing about one third of the area of the township, might be annexed to Monson. A petition from persons inhabiting the territory asked for, asking to be annexed to Monson, was presented at the same time ; but the request was not granted.
The town of Hollis, at a meeting held 2 March, 1761, voted to petition the town of Monson for a strip of land, one and a half mile in width, or thereabout, from the south side of that town, which the town of Monson voted to grant them, at a meeting held 23 March, 1761.
On the 18 October, 1762,
Daniel Bayley,
Thomas Nevens,
Robert Colburn,
William Nevens,
William Colburn,
Zaccheus Shattuck,
William Colburn, jr.,
Joseph Stearns,
Samuel Hayden,
Samuel Stearns, jr.,
Daniel Kenrick,
Daniel Wheeler, and
Abraham Leman,
James Wheeler,
Onesiphorous Marsh,
inhabitants of Monson, petitioned the Governor and Coun- cil to be annexed to Hollis. A hearing on their petition was ordered in April following, but was postponed to the next June, in order to give the petitioners time to make further arrangements with the towns of Amherst and Hollis. After hearing the parties concerned, the petition was dismissed 3 June, 1763.
This movement for the dismemberment of Monson found but little favor in Amherst at first.
Pastor Wilkins was strongly opposed to it, as the follow- ing memorial will show :
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MEMORIAL OF REV. DANIEL WILKINS.
To His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esquire, Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, and the Honorable His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled :
This Memorial humbly sheweth that the Towns of Hollis and Monson was lately notified of a Petition preferred to the General Court, to annex the south side of Monson to Hollis, by an act, which, when done, I humbly conceive will leave the Remainder under such circumstances as that they cannot subsist alone (their town then being but three miles in width, and very small in number, not exceeding twenty settlements), so that it will be necessary that they be annexed to us, or part of us to them, the consequence of which will not only prove fatal to our Town, but to me also, as it will not only throw an immense cost upon them, in pulling down our present Meeting-House (which is as large as meeting-houses commonly are in the country, lately finished, and situated to accommodate more people than any one meeting-house can in the town, or in Monson), and cause them to build two, instead of one,-too heavy a burden at present for Amherst.
And also, this scheme will prove very fatal to me, for it will remove the meeting-house far from me, at least ten miles, the travel of which will be too great a fatigue for me, now in the decline of life; and to purchase and build again, I am not able. And besides, the present scheme will doubtless kindle a fire that will not go out in this age, if ever, so that, if the difficulties of travel could be removed, yet, may it please your Excellency & Honours, I must conclude to live in the flames of contention, or else haul up stakes, with a numerous family, now in the decline of life, the latter of which I shall choose. In a word, I am aware of one great argument they will use to enforce their Petition, and it is this: viz., that the centre of their Town is such a broken piece of land that they can't, without a great expense, be accommodated with roads. To this, with submission, I reply, that within half a mile of the north side of our Meeting-House there begins a Break of land and extends to the Northern line of our town, across which a great number of families must travel if we have two meeting-houses in the Town, which break of land I am so well acquainted with that it appears as practical to me to make a road over the eminence of Joe Englishe's Hill as to make a road feasible for travelling over said break of land. That this may more plainly appear to your Excellency and Honers, the Selectinen of the town went to look out a road across part of it, the better to accommodate
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some of our Inhabitants, and found it impracticable. Now when your Excellency and Hon'rs, in your great wisdom, consider how I began with this people when they were small in number, but fourteen families, and also the great fatigues and difficulties that I endured for many years to build them up such a flourishing people, especially, in the last war before this, encouraging a small number of families, not exceeding thirty, to keep their Possessions, which, if I had deserted, the whole Town would have disbanded and perhaps had been a howling wilderness to this day, as is the case with other deserted places, whereas now it is a flourishing Town, capable of bearing a considerable part of the Province Taxes, and would be a place of great unanimity, were it not for the scheme of splitting to pieces to satisfy the avaricious desire of some particular Gentlemen, as also the miserable condition that myself and my numerous family will be in if I am obliged to leave the people by this means. I am well assured that your Excellency and Honours, in your great wisdom and clem- ency, will favor no scheme that has any tendency to make your most dutiful subject miserable.
And so your Memorialist, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
DANIEL WILKINS.
Dated at Amherst the 28th March, 1763.
At about the same time another memorial was presented to the General Court, from inhabitants of Amherst, protest- ing against the annexation of a part of Monson to Hollis, in which many of the arguments were used against the measure that Mr. Wilkins advanced in his remonstrance.
This memorial was signed by
Joshua Abbot,
John Burns,
Josiah Abbot,
Oliver Carlton,
John Averill,
Benjamin Clark,
Thomas Averill,
Thomas Clark,
Moses Barron, jr.,
James Cochran,
Andrew Bixbee, John Cole,
Joseph Boutell,
Jacob Curtice,
Kendal Boutell,
Benjamin Davis,
Samuel Bradford,
John Davis,
William Bradford,
Jacob Dresser,
David Burns,
Francis Elliott,
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Ebenezer Ellinwood,
William Melendy, jr.,
Ebenezer Ellinwood, jr.,
John Mitchel,
Jedediah Ellinwood,
Renben Mussey,
Joseph Ellinwood,
William Odell,
Rollandson Ellinwood,
Joshua Pettengill,
Elisha Felton,
John Patterson,
William Felton,
Nathan Phelps,
Simeon Fletcher,
Joseph Prince,
Nathan Fuller,
Hugh Ross,
John Harwood,
Oliver Sanders,
David Heartshorn,
John Seccombe,
Jacob Hildreth,
Andrew Seetown,
William Hogg,
Samuel Seetown,
Ebenezer Holt,
Andrew Shannon,
Ezekiel Holt,
Timothy Smith,
Abner Hutchinson,
John Stuart,
Solomon Hutchinson,
Caleb Stiles,
Jonathan Lampson,
Benjamin Taylor,
Abijah Lovejoy,
Thomas Towne,
Benjamin Lovejoy,
Amos Truel,
Benjamin Lovejoy, jr.,
David Truel,
Hezekiah Lovejoy.
Moses Truel,
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