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GEORGE DUNCAN of Antrim was born in Hancock, Sept. 28, 1789; was son of James Duncan, Esq., of that town. This James, Esq., or "Dea. James," was brother of " Hon. John," of Antrim, and his wife was Jane Christie, one of the smartest women of her day. She could reap more grain than any man in Londonderry, and on one occasion she won forty dollars on a wager from the smartest male reaper in that town. Her endurance and strength can be judged from this. She died July 1, 1834, aged eighty-two. George Duncan married Isabel Hopkins of Antrim, Dec. 20, 1814. Before this he had been here at work for Frederick Poor in the old Starrett tannery at the foot of the hill in South Village, and soon afterwards he bought this stand, and here carried on business till his death, Jan. 9, 1840. Mr. Duncan also had a store some years in the old low house then on the site of the present Carter House. The chief part of the latter was built by Mr. Duncan in 1820. His name often occurs in town records as moderator, selectman, or town clerk. His wife died June 26, 1864, aged seventy-seven. His children were: -
1. JAMES M., [b. Sept. 27, 1815 ; went to Boston in company with N. W. C. Jameson, but soon d. aged 23, and unm.]
2. GEORGE C., [b. April 26, 1818; tanner by trade; m. Mary E. Whiton, Nov. 3, 1841 ; built the Levi Woodbury house in 1850 ; succeeded his father in the old tannery, which was burned in 1841; he rebuilt the same, and it was again burned in 1852, but not again rebuilt. He d. Sept. 24, 1855, leaving two daughters : Kate A., who m. Edward S. Paine of Boston, Sept. 11, 1877, and Mary, who has won success as a teacher in the city schools of Boston.]
3. CATHERINE J., [b. Sept. 2, 1825 ; m. Albert Allen, and settled in Jamestown, N. Y., but now lives in Lawrence, Kan.]
4. DR. EDWARD A., [b. June 22, 1830; studied medicine with Dr. Hedges of Jamestown, N. Y., and settled in practice in that place ; he m. Jennie Hedges ; has held for many years an important position in the general land office, Washington, D. C.]
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DUNCKLEE.
HENRY DUNCKLEE came here, it is said, from Milford, and began the silk business at the Branch; sold out to Kelsea, and went to Nashua. Was here but a short time.
DUNLAP.
THOMAS DUNLAP, son of James Dunlap of Windham, was a sol- dier in the last French and Indian war; was in Fort William Henry when it was surrendered to the French under pledge of protection from their savage allies. But as soon as the English had surrendered their arms and marched out of the fort, the Indians fell upon them, and murdered several hundred in cold blood. One New Hampshire regiment of two hundred men had nearly half its whole number butchered in this way. An armed savage seized Mr. Dunlap by the hair and was in the act of splitting his head with a tomahawk when he sprung away, leaving half his hair in the monster's bloody hand, and flying back to the fort the French protected him. He came here in 1785, but became a freeholder in 1788; clearing and settling in the east part of the town on a beautiful spot, now overlooking Hillsborough Bridge and South Village. This spot is still in possession of the family, being owned by his great-grand- daughter, Mrs. Hiram Combs. Thomas Dunlap married Elisabeth -, and died March 7, 1815, aged seventy-five; was a respected and pious man. His wife died Aug. 1, 1807, aged sixty-six. His children were: -
1. SARAH, [m. Samuel Dinsmore ; d. Sept. 3, 1790, aged 26.]
2. HANNAH, [d. on county farm very aged. ]
3. POLLY, [m. Daniel Griffin of Hillsborough, March 25, 1817; d. in Nelson, aged 89.]
4. ALEXANDER, [m. Jane Gregg ; lived in Deering, but went in old age to Bennington, and d. with his daughter, Mrs. Wil- liam Roach.]
5. JAMES, [b. in 1766,; m. Jane McNeil of Hillsborough, in 1802 ; had four sons, Thomas, Daniel, James, and Robert ; inherited his father's homestead ; was several times select- man ; was feeble many years, but reached his fourscore, dying July 8, 1846. Of his four sons we add : -
Thomas, (b. Feb. 23, 1803 ; m. Mary B. Averill of Mont Ver- non, Aug. 30, 1821, and d. Aug. 17, 1865; was many times selectman. His widow d. June 18, 1874, aged 70. They had thirteen children, as follows: John, who was b. in 1822, and lives in California ; Hiram W., who was b. in 1825, and lives in California, and is judge of the probate court there ; Edwin, who d. of small-pox in Boston, May 19, 1846, aged 17 ; James S., who was out through the last war, passed through many fierce battles unhurt, but was
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murdered in Missouri in 1871; Jane, who was b. in 1831, and m. Asa B. Lyford of Lowell; Cummings, who d. of cholera in Illinois in 1854 ; Helen, who was b. in 1834, and m. James L. Howard of California ; Chillis, who was b. in 1836, and d. aged 19 ; Frances, who was twin-sister of the last, m. Henry August, and d. in California in 1875; Per- ley, a merchant, recently murdered in California ; Clara C., who was b. in 1840, m. Hiram Combs, and inherits the homestead ; Martin R., who now lives in California ; and Frank, who was b. in 1844, m. Nettie S. Little, Oct. 14, 1869, and lives in California.)
Daniel, (b. July 19, 1804 ; d. in Boston, in 1830, unm.)
James, (b. Dec. 20, 1806; went to Missouri and d. there. Little is known of him.)
Robert, (b. Aug. 18, 1809; moved to Illinois ; had a large family, and d. in 1855.)]
ADAM DUNLAP, half-brother of the first Thomas mentioned above, cleared and settled the place next west of William M. Conn's, in 1784. Had been a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and at its close married Elisabeth, daughter of Hon. William Adams of Londonderry, and came at once to Antrim. He and his wife were among the original members of the church. He was a small man, always went stooping, and was a shoemaker by trade. He died in 1823, aged seventy-three. His wife lived to extreme old age. Saw all her children dead. Afterwards it is said that her eyes actually dropped out of their sockets, and that without pain! Children: -
1. SARAH, [b. Nov. 16, 1784; m. John W. Moore of Bedford, Feb. 7, 1809 ; had two or three children, and soon d. with consumption.]
2. JAMES, [b. March 24, 1787 ; supposed to have d. in childhood.] 3. SAMUEL, [b. Nov. 16, 1789; m. Betsey Brown of Antrim, April 19, 1814 ; lived awhile at the old Reuben Boutwell place ; afterwards went to live with his wife's parents, and d. Sept. 15, 1839. Had children : -
William, (m. Millie Howe of Henniker ; was killed by burst- ing of a grindstone in a shop in Springfield, Mass., June 19, 1866.)
Lizzie, (m. Floraman Howe, brother of Millie Howe, and d. in childbirth in Henniker.)
Ira, (b. Aug. 2, 1822; m. Sarah Parker of Stoddard ; lives in Lowell.)
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Mary, (d. aged 19.)
Mark, (went West ; m. Mary L. Davis ; now lives in Texas. )] 4. MARY, [b. March 10, 1794 ; m. Samuel Weston of Stoddard ; was mother of Mrs. Amos Dodge, and d. September, 1833.] 5. THOMAS, [known as " Capt. Dunlap ;" b. April 19, 1797 ; m. Feb. 22, 1825, Polly W. Wallace of Windsor, a girl brought up by Stephen Wyman of that town. The old lady Dunlap used to say she had two sons : "Samuel and Tomuel." Capt. Thomas kept the Box tavern in Stoddard awhile. He had a daughter, Olive, who died young. Also a son, Whit- ney Dunlap, who married Abby F. Hills, and died at the house of Reuben Hills, Manchester, in early manhood. Capt. Thomas died in town, but I have not the date. He was captain of the Antrim Grenadiers; lived in various places in town, and left but one child living, Lydia, brought up by John Barker, now Mrs. Nathaniel Morrill of Law- rence, Mass. ]
6. JENNETT, [b. Oct. 23, 1799 ; d. in infancy.]
7. JENNETT, [b. Oct. 23, 1801 ; m. Nov. 12, 1822, Ammi Buck of Windsor, and moved to Alexandria.]
JOHN DUNLAP of Antrim, only remotely connected with the Dunlaps who came here before him, was born in Bedford 1784. He was the son of Maj. John Dunlap, of Revolutionary honor, and Martha Gil- more, his wife, and grandson of Archibald Dunlap, who was an officer in the Scotch army, and settled in Chester in 1740 or a little earlier. Maj. John was a famous military man in liis day. One of the earliest old- fashioned New Hampshire musters was at his house, and he entertained the whole regiment. Was a farmer on a large scale, and also a manu- facturer of furniture, and acquired a large property for that time. He first settled on what is now called Shirley Hill in Goffstown, on a beautiful slope at the present time commanding a view of the city of Manchester, and there built a large, square, two-story house, which he occupied till 1779. He then bought another tract of land a mile below in the northern part of Bedford. The great house was taken down, each piece marked, carried to the new location, and put up with such care that there was only part of one clapboard missing. Maj. John Dunlap was found dead in his bed in the forty-seventh year of his age, in 1792. His son John came here soon after becoming of age, and married, June 26, 1807, Jennie Nesmith. He built the house at the Branch now occupied by Robert Day, in 1806. There he lived and carried on the cabinet-making business for a long time. He had also looms to weave gentlemen's underclothes, considered a great novelty in those days. Afterwards he moved to the Collins Whittemore place, and there his wife died March 29, 1835. Soon after this event, he moved to South Village and put up the first-built
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part of the factory now used in the manufacture of silk. March 16, 1837, he married Abigail Spalding of Hillsborough, and in 1844 moved to Zanesville, Ohio, where he lived twenty years, then came back to Nashua and died there Dec. 15, 1869, in good old age. His body was brought here and laid beside his companion, under the shadow of the church where they had worshiped together. His children were: -
1. JONATHAN N., [d. of spotted fever in 1812.]
2. JOHN, [d. of spotted fever within a few days of his older brother.]
3. ROBERT N., [was in company with his father in building the old part of the silk-mill in South Village. He m. Martha Gil- lespie ; went in early manhood to Zanesville, Ohio, and d. there in 1861, aged 48.]
4. RACHEL E. D., [m. S. A. Lasley, Esq., and lives in Spring- field, Ohio.]
5. HON. ARCHIBALD H., [called " Harris " by the old people. He was b. in North Branch village, Sept. 2, 1817 ; m. Lucy J. Fogg of Exeter, Aug. 12, 1841 ; has lived for many years in Nashua. Mr. Dunlap has had the confidence of the people of Nashua, as shown by the fact that he has several times been called to important offices in the city government. He was a representative from Nashua in the legislature of the State two years. In 1858 he was elected railroad commis- sioner for three years. In 1864 he was chosen one of the presidential electors for New Hampshire, and when they met in Concord to discharge the duties of their office, another son of Antrim, Hon. Daniel M. Christie of Dover, was also a mem- ber of the electoral college. Thus two of the five were born in this little town of Antrim. The meeting of these two gen- tlemen under such circumstances must have been exceed- ingly happy and interesting; and they united in casting their votes for Lincoln, whom all men unite in praising now. In 1855 Mr. Dunlap was chosen deacon in the Olive-street Congregational Church, and continued in the discharge of said official duties more than twenty-two years. And after the subsequent union of his own with the Pearl-street Church he was chosen deacon in the united, or " Pilgrim Church," - all which, as indicative of confidence after a trial of years, is highly creditable. Mr. Dunlap has been known in the business world as the proprietor of " Dunlap's Garden Seeds." He may fairly be classed among the most successful sons of Antrim. His able response on Centen-
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nial Day may be found on another page, among the ad- dresses of that interesting occasion. His children are James H., Georgie A., John F., Abbie J., and Charles H. I must not omit to add that Dea. Dunlap gives a hundred dollars toward putting the steel engravings of Dr. and Mrs. Whiton into this book, " as a testimony of the high appreciation in which he held their memory and worth; and also as an ex- pression of the great regard he has for the church and so- ciety over which Dr. Whiton presided as pastor for so many years." He spoke also of the " blessed impression Dr. Whiton left on the minds of the young in his visits for many years among the schools of the town." I take the liberty to put this on record and tender the thanks of myself and a . multitude of others.]
6. DAVID R., [went to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1842; m. Harriet Wilkins of that place, and d. there in 1872, aged 52.]
7. MARGARET ISABEL, [m. Hanson Blaisdell, Esq., of Lowell, Mass. ]
8. JONATHAN D., [unm. ; has resided in California since 1849 ; resides in Los Angeles ; is assistant U. S. marshal for Southern California.]
9. MARY JANE, [m. William Andrews of Gallipolis, Ohio. Since his death in 1866, she resides in Nashua. ]
JAMES DUNLAP, brother of John, came here somewhat later. He married Rachel Dinsmore, daughter of James, in 1811; was painter by trade, and first settled in Henniker, but came here on to the farm inher- ited by his wife. After her death, as they had no children, he could not hold the estate ; but to the great credit of her heirs, they generously gave up their portions to him in his affliction. Soon after he went into the army and went through the war of 1812. At the close of the war in 1815, he located in Missouri; married again and had several children, among them two sons who lost their lives in the Union army in the late war. James Dunlap died in 1862, aged eighty.
DAN DUNLAP, cousin of John and James, who came from Bedford, was born in that town Jan. 15, 1792; came here about 1812; married, first, Mary Carr, Oct. 21, 1813; second, Abigail Combs, May 18, 1820. The first wife had three children. Having lived in various places, Mr. Dunlap built the house next east of John Moor Duncan's in 1838. He died in 1866. He had ten children in all, thus :-
1. EDWARD, [b. Sept. 10, 1814; m. Sarah Richardson ; d. April 23, 1839; no children.]
2. MARY, [b. Aug. 1, 1816 ; d. in 1836, unm.]
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3. BENJAMIN, [b. Oct. 12, 1818 ; m. Charlotte Harvey of Man- chester, and d. in Goffstown, date not given.]
4. GILMAN, [b. May 20, 1821 ; m. Lucinda Temple of Stoddard, and d. in that town, date not given.]
5. ALFRED, [b. Aug. 28, 1822; m. Sarah Goldsmith of Man- chester ; has a large family ; lives in Lynn, Mass.]
6. HARRIET, [b. Sept. 6, 1825; d. in infancy.]
7. JOHN, [b. March 5, 1827 ; date of death not given.]
8. SARAH, [b. July 26, 1829 ; m. John H. Dadman ; d. in Lynn, Mass., March 13, 1876.]
9. JAMES, [b. Sept. 20, 1831; m. Anthana Wilson, and lives in Nashua.]
10. ABIGAIL, [b. May 19, 1836 ; m. Horace Walter ; d. in Lynn, Mass., Feb. 15, 1872.]
DUSTIN.
ZACCHEUS DUSTIN, a great-great-grandson of Hannah Dustin of Indian fame, - some of Hannah Dustin's wearing apparel being still in possession of some of this branch of the descendants, - was the son of Eli- phalet and Jennet (McCollum) Dustin of Francestown. He married Mary A. Dustin (his cousin), and came here in 1812 on to the Burns place, near Reed Carr's. After some twenty years he moved to the Weston place at North Branch, where he died in 1845, at the age of sixty-six years. His children were: -
1. LUKE LINCOLN, [b. March 21, 1806, and d. Feb. 27, 1818.]
2. JANE M., [b. April 8, 1808; m. John G. Proctor of Frances- town, and moved there, where she d. in 1859, leaving one son :
George A., (who entered the Union army, and was killed at the battle of Port Hudson. )]
3. BENJAMIN F., [b. Sept. 10, 1810 ; m. Roxanna Robb, Oct. 14, 1845, and lived at North Branch until after his father's death. In 1854 he moved on to the Swain place ; thence in 1878 on to the Sylvester Preston farm. His children are : - Washington F., (b. June 5, 1846 ; m. Alfaretta Batchelder of Hudson in 1876, and settled on the Foster place, having one child, Mark W., b. in January, 1877.)
Josie M., (b. March 31, 1848 ; m. Alvin Brown, Aug. 29, 1872.)
Charles H., (b. March 3, 1850 ; m. Eliza A. White of Keene, and is now a blacksmith at Marlborough Harbor.)
Mason E., (b. March 5, 1854.)
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John E., (b. Jan. 21, 1856.) Stella A., (b. Dec. 20, 1860.) Elmer A., (b. July 12, 1863.) Herbert W., (b. Feb. 3, 1865.) Marietta R., (b. May 29, 1872.)]
4. BETSEY A., [b. Jan. 15, 1813 ; m: John Campbell of this town, Nov. 14, 1842, and now resides in New York City.] 5. CALISTA, [b. July 15, 1815; m. Stephen Holmes, June 11, 1857, and d. in Greenfield, June 18, 1877, aged 62.]
6. MARIETTA, [b. July 6, 1819; m. Alexander W. Thayer, and lives in Brookline, Mass.]
7. LUCETTA M., [b. Jan. 8, 1823; m. Daniel A. Parsons, and lives in Worcester, Mass.]
DUTTON.
HOSEA E. DUTTON, son of Reuben and Arthusa (Evans) Dutton, was born in Greenfield in 1835, and married Eliza A. Burton of Wilton in 1860. He came to Antrim in 1869, and bought the old Reuben Rob- inson place, where he was chiefly engaged in the lumber business, about nine years. Has recently moved to Francestown. He has one child: -
1. ANNIE E., [b. in 1871.]
MOSES DUTTON lived awhile on the Hiram Eaton farm. He united with the church in 1817. Little is known of him.
EATON.
HIRAM EATON, son of James and Sarah (George) Eaton, was born in Deering, Dec. 11, 1817; came to Antrim in 1841, and built, in company with Jonathan White, the old shovel-shop on the street in South Vil- lage. There they carried on blacksmithing and the manufacture of hoes, and later the celebrated "Antrim shovel" was made by them. It is claimed that this patent originated in the mind of Mr. Eaton, while it was put in execution by the skillful hand of Mr. White. They were laughed at for thinking they could weld sheet-steel ; but they succeeded, and now the best shovel in the world is thus made. Mr. Eaton married Edna C. Sweetser of Deering, March 28, 1844; moved on to the John McNiel place in 1856, which he has since occupied. Children :-
1. CHARLES H., [b. May 22, 1845 ; m. Addie L. Ellms of Scit- uate, Mass., March 11, 1871; has been several years in business in Boston. Is now one of the leading officers of the Knights of Honor in New England.]
2. LUVIA A., [.d. in 1853, aged 6 years. ]
3. WALTER S., [b. Feb. 22, 1855.]
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JAMES EATON came here from Bethlehem in 1854, into the house east of Maplewood cemetery, and died in 1860. His father, James Eaton of Deering, married, first, Martha McClure; second, Mrs. Sarah (George) White. He was the son of Martha McClure, and half-brother to Hiram Eaton named above. His wife was Olive Wilson, and his children as follows: -
1. REBECCA, [b. in 1812 ; m. Amos Hemphill of Medford, Mass., and d. in 1872.]
2. HIRAM, [d. unm. in 1853, aged 40.]
3. LUCINDA, [m. Clinton French of Lyndeborough, and d. there in 1848.]
4. ROXANNA, [m. Sewall Skinner of Laconia, and d. there in 1840.]
5. JAMES, JR., [b. in 1823; came here in 1841 to help build Poor's reservoir ; thence to Boston ; served awhile getting out oak ship-timber in Louisiana ; m. Mary C., daughter of Alexander Caldwell of Medford, Mass., in 1845 ; resided here till 1878, when he built in Bennington near the Antrim depot. Has three children living, as follows : -
Francelia A., (m. Amos Wyman of Hillsborough Bridge.)
Martha J., (m. Albert Baldwin, and lives in Brattleborough, Vt.)
Edwin L., (b. in 1853 ; m. Fannie J. Dodge in 1875.)]
6. JOSEPH, [d. in South Village, unm., in 1853, the same day his brother Hiram was buried ; he d. just while the funeral procession of his brother was on the way to the grave ; aged 33.]
7. MELISSA, [m. John Sampson of Charlestown, Mass., and d. in that place childless, in 1876.]
8. LUCETTA, [m. Henry Delano of Duxbury, Mass., and d. in 1871.]
GEORGE W. EATON, son of Isaac and Betsey (Atwood) Eaton, was born in Francestown Nov. 30, 1840, and came to Antrim when quite young to work for Mrs. Alice Woodbury. He married Mary Jeanette Dow of Antrim Nov. 4, 1860, and succeeded Lyman Dow on the Esq. Hopkins place, from which he moved to Suncook in 1868, thence to Woonsocket, R. I. All their children but the youngest were born here.
1. ANNIE J., [b. Feb. 20, 1862.]
2. HATTIE W., [b. March 17, 1864.]
3. JENNIS S., [b. July 29, 1865.]
4. CHARLES L., [b. Oct. 1, 1867.]
5. NELLIE M., [b. Sept. 30, 1870.]
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EDES.
SAMUEL EDES came here from Needham, Mass., 1791, and settled a short distance southeast of the Dinsmore place, on High Range. His father was Nathan Edes. His mother was Mrs. Sarah (Smith) Hawes. This Nathan was a direct descendant of John Edes, who was born in Lawford, England, in 1651, and who came over and married Mary Tufts of Charlestown, Mass., in 1674. The family in England was of high char- acter and position. Samuel Edes married, first, Elisabeth Baker, who was mother of all his children, and who died in Antrim Jan. 22, 1798, aged forty-five; married, second, Sarah Hutchinson, who died in Peter- borough 1816, aged sixty-four; married, third, Mrs. Mary Eaton, who sur- vived him and died in 1864, aged eighty-nine. Samuel Edes died July 10, 1845, aged ninety-two. He took an earnest part in the Revolutionary struggle. At the battle of Lexington he was in the Needham company of minute-men, out of which seven were killed. He had several narrow escapes that day. The night before the battle of Bunker Hill he was engaged driving oxen, getting ready for the morrow. He followed this all night, and there was no speaking above a whisper as the determined work of the patriots went on. The next year he became quartermaster and continued in that capacity for three years. Then retiring from the war, he lived for a time in Stoddard, but we cannot learn much more of him until his coming here, as mentioned above. His children were :-
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1. SAMUEL, [b. March 15, 1775 ; m. Mary Waite of Londonderry ; killed by fall of a timber in raising a barn in Peterborough, June 15, 1816. His widow became second wife of Robert Carr, named below. He left eight children. The youngest, left fatherless in infancy, after many hardships and strug- gles, is now an eminent physician in Cedar Rapids, Io.]
2. CATHERINE, [b. Feb. 16, 1777; m. Robert Carr of Hills- borough ; d. 1819.]
3. ELISABETH, [b. July 15, 1779 ; m. Michael Walker, and moved to Maine.]
4. SARAH, [b. Sept. 6, 1781; m. John Howe, and settled in Temple, Me.]
5. JOSEPH, [b. Sept. 10, 1783 ; was killed by one of his neigh- bors in Temple, Me., 1863.]
6. JEREMIAH, [b. Aug. 24, 1785; m. Rebecca Whitney of Ded- ham, Mass .; went to Elizabeth City, N. J., and d. there 1865.]
7. REBECCA, [b. Sept. 17, 1787 ; m. Asahel Smith, and lives in Dedham, Mass.]
8. PATIENCE, [twin-sister of Rebecca ; d. at the age of 3.]
9. DANIEL, [b. Jan. 2, 1790 ; m. Feb. 12, 1817, Jane Craige ; d. in Peterborough, June 22, 1860.]
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10. AMASA, [b. in Antrim March 21, 1792; was graduated at Dartmouth College, 1817; studied law in Belfast, Me., and then in Keene, under James Wilson, Sen. Was admitted to the bar in October, 1822. Between 1817 and 1822, while studying law, he taught a large part of the time in the academies of New Ipswich, Hancock, and Newport. In this last town he settled in the practice of law, and there he now resides in honorable and quiet old age. Is the oldest lawyer in practice in the State, and is president of the Sul- livan County Bar. The reader is referred to his letter among the centennial papers. His wife, Sarah Hart of Keene, d. Oct. 8, 1869, aged 74. Their only surviving child, Samuel H. Edes, Esq. (Dartmouth College, 1844), is a lawyer of some note, and has been solicitor of Sullivan County.]
11. ISAAC, [b. in Antrim March 31, 1795 ; m. Elisabeth Mitchell ; occupied the homestead of his father in Peterborough ; was for many years a teacher, and had a local distinction as such that was just and well-deserved ; was one of the selectmen of Peterborough in 1835, 1836, 1837, and 1838; was killed instantly by fall from a tree while picking apples, Oct. 26, 1859.]
12. POLLY, [b. in Antrim Dec. 6, 1797 ; m. Andrew Templeton, and went to New York.]
ELLIOT.
ANDREW W. ELLIOT, son of Barnard C. and Deborah Elliot, was born in Concord in 1824, married Mary J. Gregg of Antrim, came here in 1850, and went to North Easton, Mass., in 1866 to continue there the manufacture of shovels in which he had been engaged here. They had one child born in Antrim : -
1. EDWIN L., [b. April 16, 1852 ; m. Martha A. Underwood of Orange, Mass., June 28, 1874.]
EMERY.
JOHN EMERY, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Straw) Emery, was born in Henniker, Nov. 24, 1799, and married Jane Sweetser of Benning- ton in 1820. He moved here the same year into a house then standing north of the now Keene road, in the extreme western part of the town, unto which there was no road of any kind above Chester Conn's corner. The Keene road was built in 1834. In 1835, Mr. Emery moved his build ings from their old location down to the Keene road, where he now lives.
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