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REV. JOSEPH DAVIS, called on town record "Joseph Davis, 2d," son of James and Meribah (Morse) Davis of Methuen, Mass., was born in that town in 1792. His parents were married March 18, 1781. Left an orphan in infancy, on growing up he worked his way, went through Andover Academy and the seminary, and entered at once upon the life of the ministry. He settled first in Nottingham, next in New London, next in Weare, and next in Antrim, coming here in 1832 and remaining till 1852. He came as pastor of the Baptist Church in the old brick house over east, but did not preach there continuously, being for considerable part of the time in service elsewhere or disabled by sickness. After leav- ing this town Mr. Davis preached in Manchester a short time, likewise in Rochester, whence he went to Hebron, Ohio, and was pastor of the Baptist Church there at the time of his death, Oct. 4, 1854, at the age of sixty-two. Mr. Davis was held in high esteem in this town; was at one time town clerk; was occasionally on school committee of the town, and represented Antrim in the legislature in 1841, 1842, and 1844. Mr. Davis married, in 1823, Miss Aphia Goldsmith, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah Goldsmith of Andover, Mass. Her daughter writes of her:
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"She was one of a family of eleven children, seven girls and four boys, all strong in the Presbyterian faith." She was the mother of all his chil- dren, and died in this town Aug. 14, 1850, aged forty-nine. Her last words were: " They are calling me - oh! 'tis sweet to die!" He mar- ried, second, Susan B. Eaton of Weare, in the autumn of 1853. His chil- dren were: -
1. JOSEPH C., [b. Nottingham July 2, 1824 ; m. Emily Barber of Bradford, Vt. ; is a broker and trader in Boston. ]
2. BENJAMIN F., [b. New London July 4, 1826 ; m. Caroline S. Averill of Mont Vernon ; has been trader in fancy goods, and resides in that town.]
3. SARAH A., [b. in Weare March 24, 1829 ; unm. ; lives in Man- chester.]
4. JAMES G., [b. in Antrim May 17, 1833; m. 1st, Frances Stevens, 1851 ; 2d, Sarah C. Farnsworth of Harvard, Mass. ; is agent of Ripha Cotton Mills, Philadelphia, Penn .; is a Christian, very active in temperance and evangelistic work.]
5. GUSTAVUS J., [b. here Nov. 16, 1837 ; m. Emily Hunter of Salem, Mass. ; lived in Lowell, but went into the Union army, and died in the service.]
HIRAM DAVIS, son of Thomas M., and grandson of Jonathan Davis of New Ipswich, married Jane Whittier of Warner; was deputy sheriff ; came here from Henniker in 1866, and took the mill, now Park- hurst's, at the Branch, living in the " Mill House ; " moved to South Vil- lage in 1871, died there June 25, 1873, aged sixty-five. Had six children :
1. GEORGE R., [b. 1834 ; killed by the " bursting of a swivel," July 4, 1852.]
2. SARAH J., [m. Lewis P. Hanson, 1856 ; lives in Henniker.]
3. JULIA, [b. Warner 1838 ; m. Cyrus Goodwin of New Boston, 1869.]
4. THOMAS M., [b. in Henniker, 1842; assistant in insane asylum, Washington, D. C.]
5. MELISSA M., [b. in 1845 ; m. Harris P. Lewis in 1872; lives in Hillsborough Upper Village.]
6. HIRAM F., [started to go out hunting, laid down the gun in a neighbor's door-yard as he called for a hired man there to go with him ; then coming out and drawing his gun toward him, it was accidentally discharged into his bowels, making a terrible wound, from which he died in two or three hours. This occurred Sabbath morning, Oct. 10, 1869. His age was 21.]
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DAY.
THOMAS DAY, a Revolutionary soldier, came here from New Salem, Mass., in 1783, immediately after the close of the war. He built a log house southeast of the Dinsmore place, where he lived many years. He afterwards lived in a house (gone many years) between the Orren Carr and Combs places. He went back to New Salem, Mass., in his old age, and died there in 1824, aged seventy-five. His wife was Hannah Davis of Danvers, Mass., who died in 1821, aged seventy-five. Their children were : -
1. BETSEY, [b. April 9, 1784; m. John Thompson July 25, 1811, and d. in 1868.]
2. HANNAH, [b. July 15, 1787. Nothing can be learned of her except that she went to Cleveland, Ohio, with her brother James, and d. there at a good old age.]
3. JAMES M., [b. March 10, 1791. He was in the war of 1812, and molded bullets in the chimney-corner all the day be- fore he started. January, 1816, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and m. there.]
ROBERT DAY, son of Joseph and Esther (Truel) Day of Greenfield, and grandson of Robert Day of Andover, Mass., was born Nov. 23, 1807 ; is cabinet-maker by trade; married Lydia N. Carr, Dec. 4, 1832, and moved here from Peterborough, April, 1874, into the Dimond house at North Branch (built by John Dunlap in 1806). Their children are : -
1. GORMAN, [b. April 17, 1834 ; m. Hannah C. Forbush Oct. 9, 1861, and is now living in Peterborough. ]
2. EDWIN, [b. in Peterborough July 5, 1836 ; m. Binnie Barton of Windsor, Me., Aug. 15, 1872; he was a photographer in Waltham, Mass., afterwards in Exeter, and came here from the latter place in 1876. He has one child : Harry B., (b. here in October, 1876.)]
3. MARY, [b. Sept. 8, 1838, and m. S. S. Sawyer of this town May 18, 1861.]
4. LOUISA, [b. Feb. 9, 1841 ; now Mrs. Horace Gowing of Wake- field, Mass.]
5. HARRY, [b. Jan. 21, 1845; d. Aug. 17, 1865.]
DERUSH.
JOSEPH DERUSH, a Frenchman, came here in 1825, as a farm laborer. He married Hannah Stuart Aug. 7, 1826. Married, second, Mrs. Lucinda (Bowen) Walker. Lived in various places in town, and died in May, 1859, aged sixty-five. Children : -
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1. NANCY J., [m. John S. Hadley July 6, 1842.]
2. JAMES M., [entered the army in the Mexican war and was killed. Enlisted at the age of eighteen.]
3. ANDREW J., [served in Union army in the late war, m. Mary A. Cilley of Orange, and now lives in Canaan. ]
4. FRANK L., [by second wife ; m. Diantha Atwood, went to California, and, it is supposed, d. in the general hospital there, March, 1877.]
DICKEY.
There were several families of this name in the State, all Scotch, and, no doubt, all of one stock. There were three James Dickeys in the Rev- olutionary army from this State; one from Londonderry, one from Raby (Brookline), and one from Antrim. In these several branches we find Williams and Johns and Adams and Samuels, etc., over and over, so as to render it difficult to keep them distinct. Two of these families, as being connected with Antrim people, I will briefly notice.
WILLIAM DICKEY and his wife Elisabeth came over in 1725, and settled in Londonderry, on one of the best and most attractive farms in that town, - a farm still in possession of the family. He died Oct. 9, 1743, aged sixty, and his wife, Oct. 20, 1748, aged seventy. They left children: Samuel, Elisabeth, and Elias. The last settled in New Boston, where several de- scendants now reside. Elisabeth married John Hall, and her descend- ants reside in Manchester. Samuel, the oldest, remained on the home- stead, married Martha Taylor, who died Oct. 15, 1775, aged seventy-two, and married, second, a Mrs. Parker of Society Land (Greenfield). Samuel Dickey left the homestead to his youngest son, and moved with his sec- ond wife to Greenfield, where he died about 1780. He left seven children as follows : Adam, who was born April 17, 1740, married Jane Nahor, and after a few years went to Vermont; Betsey, who married James Betton, and was mother of Hon. Silas Betton, member of Congress from this State in 1803-1807; Nancy, who was the mother of David Parker of Antrim; Mary, who married Robert Boyd of New Boston; Martha, who married John Cochran of New Boston; and Robert, who married Hannah Woodburn, June 10, 1776, and received the homestead. This Robert was remarkable for physical strength; and in a trial of strength, common in those days, he unintentionally killed his antagonist. Robert was a peace- ful and excellent man. He died in middle age and left a large family, most of whom have attained to great age. Their names were: Samuel, John, Martha, Mary, Joseph, Robert, Susan, Janette, David W., Adam, and Roxanna. Of these eleven children, I will only add, that Samuel settled in Warren, Ohio; John married Margaret Woodman, and lived and died in Londonderry; Martha, who was born Aug. 11, 1780, became second wife of William Boyd of Antrim, and died recently at the age of ninety-nine ; Mary married Edward Ela; Robert married Jenny Mor- rison and died in Londonderry at the age of eighty; Susan married John
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White of Litchfield; Janette married, first, Samuel Gregg, and second, Da- vid Dickey, and died aged eighty-eight, mother of Mrs. Samuel Baldwin of Bennington; David W. settled in Salem; Adam went to Claremont; and Roxanna married Robert Stevens of Manchester.
Capt. Joseph Dickey, fifth of those named above, was born May 5, 1784, married Fannie D. Montgomery, April 7, 1813, and died Aug. 30, 1878. He inherited the homestead of his fathers, and left the same to his children. Was a quiet, peaceful, industrious, Christian man, of the old school, hospitable, and honest to the core. His clear memory, reaching back more than ninety years, has been of substantial value in the prepa- ration of these papers.
JOHN DICKEY and his wife Margaret came over in 1729 and settled in Londonderry. This Margaret was probably a sister of Gen. George Reid. They had seven children. The oldest was Margaret, who mar- ried Thomas Jameson of Dunbarton, and was mother of all the Jamesons of Antrim. The second child was Adam. He was born in 1722. The third was Matthew, grandfather of Hon. George W. Patterson of West- field, N. Y., and of Mrs. Abraham Smith of Antrim. John, the fourth child, was killed in battle with the French, about 1750. Three daughters died unmarried.
Adam, named above, married Jane Strahan, and had thirteen children. He was out in the French war and also in the war of the Revolution. Of his children we can only say, that Margaret, the oldest, married Col. John Duncan of Acworth; John died unmarried; James, known as " Capt. James," married Mary Pinkerton and settled in Acworth in 1790; Adam, the fourth child, settled in Acworth; Benjamin married Isabel Marsh, went to Acworth, thence to Holland, Vt .; Sally married Robert Dinsmore of Francestown ; Eleanor, the seventh child, married Dea. Jonathan Nesmith of Antrim, and died in 1818; Mary married James Dinsmore of Antrim; Isabel married Thomas McCluer of Acworth; Matthew married Elisabeth Marsh, and settled in Walpole; Joseph, the eleventh child, married Barbara Nelson of Ryegate, Vt., lived in that place and in Burke, Vt. The two youngest children died unmarried. From this large family have descended some of the ablest and best men of the State and country.
James Dickey of Antrim was connected with the family of John and Margaret Dickey, as the old people always said, and names indicate; and also, more remotely, with that of the first William Dickey named above. But I have not been able to give the connection. Nor can I determine who were the parents of this man. . There is a tradition that he lived awhile in Francestown before coming here, which probably is incorrect. A John Dickey was selectman in that town in 1775.
JAMES DICKEY came here from Londonderry in the fall of 1773, and began the Reuben Boutwell place in the east part of the town. He brought his wife, Mary Brown, and three children, and soon became greatly endeared to the few inhabitants of Antrim. Was ensign in the first military company formed here, probably in the fall of 1775. The
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next year he went into the army; was posted as sentry in September, 1776, just before the battle of White Plains; and as he was never after heard of, it is supposed he was carried off by the British or Indians, and murdered. He was a patriot of the truest stamp, young, ardent, and fear- less. He was most worthy and valuable as a citizen, and was greatly lamented. His widow, called " MISS. Dickey " in the old records, and de- scribed as a rare and blessed woman, remained on the farm and trained up her five children. The town exempted her from taxes many years by unanimous vote. They moved to Columbus, N. Y., in 1801, and she died there very aged, in 1831. The children of James Dickey and Mary Brown were : -
1. ADAM, [b. in Londonderry, Dec. 18, 1767, m. Nancy Simpson as early as 1788, since he and his wife were among the original members of the church formed that year. Was a most respectable and devoted man. To the great grief of the people, he moved to New York, as above, in 1801. He d. Sept. 1, 1847. He left eight children : -
James, (b. Feb. 24, 1791, d. unm. at great age, in the State of Kentucky.)
John, (b. Nov. 14, 1793, m. Catherine Chamberlain, d. in Syr- acuse, N. Y., June, 1843.)
Mary, (b. Sept. 7, 1795, m. Jonas Greenwood in 1820, d. in Baldwinsville, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1846.)
Betsey A., (b. April 2, 1797, m. Bulkley Waters Feb. 1, 1821, lives in Loughborough, Canada.)
Nancy, (b. Nov. 25, 1800, m. John James Aug .29, 1831, d. in Rockvale, Ill., May 31, 1876.)
Rev. David, (b. after parents left Antrim, at Columbus, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1802, m. Minerva Wilcox, 1825; missionary of Seamen's Friends' Society, Rochester, N. Y., thirty-five years; a most excellent record. Is an able and devoted minister.) Adam, Jr., (d. unm. in Utica, N. Y., in 1832, aged 28.) Harry, (m. Mary A. Wilcox in 1833, d. at Mount Morris, N. Y., April 1, 1852, aged 46.)]
2. BETSEY, [b. in Londonderry, Feb. 24, 1770, m. Thomas Aiken, a teacher and land surveyor, son of Ninian and Margaret (McLaughlin) Aiken of Deering, 1789. They moved to Edmiston, Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1791. There she d. in 1803. The father, with his family, moved to Emerson, Io., in 1819, and d. there the following year. Several of their children have come to honor. David D. Aiken, their third child, was several years judge in the state court of Ohio,
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and d. in that office a few years ago. Mary D. Aiken m. Samuel Morse, a relative of him of telegraphic fame, and is now living, about ninety years of age, in Emerson, Io. James Aiken, Esq., youngest of the family, resides unm. in Lewisburg, Penn. He evinced great interest in the history of these families. A brief poem from his pen will be found among the centennial papers. ]
3. JAMES, [b. in 1772, d. young.]
4. DAVID, [known among the kindred as "Dea. David," was b. in Antrim March 27, 1774, being the third child born in this town. His own words are worthy of a place here : -
The place being new and settlements effected slowly, there were no schools. When eight years old, I attended a school kept in a pri- vate family one month, and at ten years of age another month, and at twelve, another month. When I was fourteen, a district school was commenced in the place (1788), which I attended for three months. Then I continued to improve what little school there was till 1790, when I taught three months in the winter and three months in the summer, being then sixteen years old. March 1, 1791, I started for New York with my sister and family. The next- July I commenced chopping on a piece of land I intended to live on, and had worked but a few hours when my leg was broken by the fall of a tree. We sent the man who was with us four miles through the woods for a man to go for a doctor eleven miles farther. My brother-in-law, Aiken, carried me half a mile through the woods to a spring of water, leaned me against a tree, and brought me water in my hat ! That water tasted sweet ! Then Mr. Aiken carried me to the cabin of logs in which we lived, just ten feet square !
I ought to tell you about my first going to mill. We had to go to Cherry Valley - more than forty miles ! I walked seventeen miles to hire a horse ; bought three and a half bushels of grain, had it ground, brought it home on the horse's back, took the horse home, and then walked home myself, having spent just one week's hard work going to mill once !
Mr. Dickey came back to his native town and m. Peggy McMaster Feb. 17, 1794, a brave and worthy woman, who d. Jan. 15, 1840. He was deacon in the Congregational Church, Columbus, N. Y., thirty years. In 1845 he went with his daughter to Belvidere, Ill., and was at once ap- pointed elder in the Presbyterian Church there. In that place he d. Dec. 31, 1850. He was a man singularly lova- ble and pure. He lived to follow all his thirteen children to the grave save one, Mrs. Sidney Avery, now living in Bel- videre. With them his wife's mother died and also an
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adopted daughter aged sixteen, so that when he went, an old man, with his only living child to the West, he left a row of fifteen graves, many of them fresh and new ! His life, so full of adventure, affliction, honor, and "joy and peace in be- lieving," constitutes a record more wonderful than romance.] 5. ANNA, [b. after her father's death, April 19, 1777, m. Elijah Holt, d. Columbus, N. Y., March 20, 1854.]
DIMOND.
EPHRAIM DIMOND was born in Vershire, Vt., Aug. 19, 1797; mar- ried Sophia Wells of Goffstown, April 19, 1824, and came here from Goffs- town the same year. In 1825 he built a shop under the bank, above Moor's mill (all now gone), had a trip-hammer, and was a smart blacksmith, having excellent skill in making edge-tools. He bought what is now the Day house (built by John Dunlap in 1806), where he lived much of his later years alone until shortly before his death, which occurred at Wind- sor, May 26, 1872. His wife died at Wentworth, Oct. 10, 1861, aged sixty- four. They had five children, all born in Antrim: -
1. ALONZO F., [b. Sept. 8, 1825 ; m. Roansa Swain of Antrim, Nov. 13, 1851, who d. here in 1854; m. 2d, Sarah M. At- well. He d. in Wentworth June 10, 1868, where the widow still resides.]
2. ALANSON, [b. Jan. 6, 1828; d. unm. in this town, Jan. 12, 1860.] 1
3. SYLVIA I., [b. Oct. 30, 1832; d. here unm. Aug. 3, 1858.]
4. CELIA B., [b. Jan. 15, 1834 ; m. Albert S. Hammond of Wentworth, Nov. 12, 1856, and lived there till 1871, when they moved to Concord, where he is now a prominent mer- chant, and deacon in the South Congregational Church. They have one son, the only grandchild of Ephraim Dimond : -
Harry D. Hammond, (b. at Wentworth, Jan. 4, 1862.)]
5. ABBY S., [b. July 11, 1840.]
DINSMORE.
JOHN DINSMORE of Achenmead, Scotland, near the river Tweed, emigrated to Bellywattick, in the county of Antrim, Ireland, and there died. All the Dinsmores in Ireland and America sprung from this man. His oldest son, John, came to this country about the same time with the first company of settlers at Londonderry. For some reason he was landed at a place called Georges, in what was known as the " District of Maine." In this place was an English fort. Here he built a house; and the Indians (Penobscots) soon became very familiar with him, calling
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him and themselves, " all one brother." But soon the French stirred up the Indians to hostility, and one day when Mr. Dinsmore was shingling his house, suddenly the war-whoop was sounded; he was ordered to come down, and they said: "No longer one brother -you go Canada." He was a captive three months, and gained great favor with the chief. In the absence of the latter he was accused on one occasion of parleying with the English, and having some plot in view. At once they decided that he should be burned. They bound him to a tree, built up a pile of wood and dry brush around him, and were just ready to apply the torch when the chief returned. He commanded the execution to be delayed, and soon proved the charge false. Mr. Dinsmore after this was the ser- vant and companion of the chief. When they crossed a river it was his business, as soon as the chief got in and got seated, to push off the canoe and then jump in. On one occasion the chief refused to let him in. He begged not to be left, but the chief said: "No; you much honest man, John - you walk Boston." Then he told the captive how to avoid the Indians, where to hide, and what course to take. Following his direc- tions, he found the hiding-place just in season, and lay there three days and three nights ; saw the savages pass by tribe after tribe, then almost starved he pressed on his way, supporting life by a few cranberries found on the banks of a stream, till after about a week he reached an English fort on the shore. He did not attempt to reach his house, but took passage for Boston, and thence came at once on a visit to his old friends in Nutfield, now Londonderry. They had all known him in Ireland. At once they called him ." Daddy Dinsmore." It was a term of reverence and respect. Afterwards he always went by this name, unless sometimes a few called him the "Indian captive." For old friendship's sake and on account of his losses and sufferings, the proprie- tors of Londonderry gave him a hundred acres of land. This land is in possession of the family to the present time. He settled upon it imme- diately; being a mason by trade he built on it a stone house, and when everything was ready he sent over to Ireland for his wife and the two children. They all arrived safe in 1730. In the many years of his ab- sence both his children had matured and married. The son, Robert, married in Ireland Margaret Orr, and brought over with him four chil- dren. The daughter married John Hopkins, and they brought over two children with them. She afterwards had children: John, Robert, Nancy, and Ruth, the last, born in 1743, and becoming the wife of Dea. Isaac Cochran. "Daddy Dinsmore " divided his farm between his two chil- dren, and died in 1741.' He was held in respect by all who knew him. With his son Robert, who was also a mason, he built most of the old stone garrison-houses in Londonderry, the remains of which may be seen at the present day. Robert's children were John, Mary, Elisabeth, Rob- ert, and William. The last was born this side of the water in 1731; mar- ried Elisabeth Cochran in 1755 (sister of Dea. Isaac Cochran); was a leading man in the town of Windham; was a military officer; was father of Gov. Samuel Dinsmore, and of Dea. Robert Dinsmore, the " Rustic Bard," and died in 1801. Robert's oldest child, John, was born in Ire- land; married Martha McKeen. (This Martha was daughter of Justice
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McKeen by his second wife, Annis Cargil; was sister of John McKeen, the father of Robert McKeen of Antrim; and was half-sister of Jenny McKeen, Dea. Isaac Cochran's mother.) John and Martha Dinsmore lived in Windham, and raised a large family, - five of whom we will mention below.
The first child of John and Martha we will notice was Hon. Silas Dinsmore, who was in Antrim considerably in early life, and was thirty years in public employ as government agent to the Cherokee Indians, and other places of honor and trust. He married Mary Gordon of Hamp- stead, in 1806, and died at Bellevue, Boone Co., Ky., 1847, aged eighty- four. He graduated at Dartmouth College, 1791. For a time Mr. Dins- more lost his office by a joke, as is shown by the following correspond- ence: -
ยท " Dear Sir, - Please inform this department, by return mail, how far the Tombigbee river runs up.
" Respectfully,
"J. K. PAULDING, " Secretary of the Navy."
" MOBILE. " HON. J. K. PAULDING.
" Dear Sir, - In reply to your letter just at hand, I have the honor to say that the Tombigbee river don't run up at all.
" SILAS DINSMORE, " Agent."
The next mail brought Mr. Dinsmore a dismission from office. But in this the secretary exhibited his own weakness, besides showing inac- curacy in the use of language not very creditable to his high position. Dinsmore was a man of wit and learning. Gen. Jackson threatened to " tear him up by the roots " because he would not allow him to carry slaves through the station without the permit required by law. (See " Parton's Life of Jackson.")
The second child of John and Martha coming under our notice was Dea. Robert Dinsmore; was representative and held various town of- fices. He married Sarah. Dickey, sister of Dea. Jonathan Nesmith's wife; lived in west part of Francestown (now Bennington). He died Dec. 17, 1830, aged seventy-four; his wife died Nov. 12, 1832, aged eighty. Had eleven children, one of whom, Betsey, married John Dodge, Esq., of Bennington; was mother of John C. Dodge, Esq., Mrs. N. W. C. Jameson, Mrs. Reed P. Whittemore, and others. Robert Dinsmore's family were very intimate with Antrim people, and came here to church. One daughter, Martha, aged six years, lies buried on Meeting-House Hill. She died Nov. 30, 1789.
The third child of John and Martha, we speak of, was William Dins- more, who married Katherine Brown of Boston, was a merchant in that city, and was father of Hon. William B. Dinsmore of New York, who was one of the donors of the Center vestry, and has made many liberal gifts in this town and Bennington. Hon. William B. was one of the founders of the express business in this country, has amassed great
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wealth, and is a man greatly respected and loved. He married Miss Au- gusta M. Snow of Boston; and has two children, William B. and Clar- ence G.
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