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3. SIMEON, [lived at first in a log house on the Dea. Parmenter place, on the old road west and near the orchard. After some years he built on the spot now occupied by the Jonas White brick house. He m. Jean White, March 18, 1790, and had two daughters b. in Antrim : -
Mary, (d. unm.)
Sarah, (m. Silas White of New York, and afterwards James Eaton of Deering. She is the mother of Hiram Eaton, and now lives in ripe old age in South Antrim.)
In 1794 Mr. George moved to Salem, N. Y., where a numerous family were born to them. He d. there of spotted fever in 1812.]
4. MOSES, [went West about the year 1800, and was never heard from. ]
5. SALLY, [m. Moses Flanders, and went to Rochester, N. Y.]
6. EUNICE, [m. Samuel Downing, and lived and d. near Saratoga Springs.]
GIBSON.
CHARLES GIBSON (formerly Charles G. Draper) married Elisabeth S. Jones of Milford, in 1855, and now lives in South Village. He has one child :
1. GEORGE C., [b. March 25, 1864, in Bennington.]
JOHN P. GIBSON lived in Antrim nearly six years, moving back to Hillsborough in January, 1873. He owned and occupied the Austin, or
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Danforth place in the northeast part of this town. He was son of Rod- ney and Minerva (Hosley) Gibson, and grandson of Samuel and Mary (Miller) Gibson. The family were from Merrimack. He was born in Hillsborough, Sept. 6, 1835. He married, first, Almira S. Brown of Hills- borough, who died Oct. 1, 1877;" married, second, Eva A. Gilman of Go- shen, Dec. 13, 1878. He is now a merchant in Hillsborough Lower Vil- lage, Is chairman of the board of selectmen of that town. Children : -
1. JOSETTA A., [b. July 15, 1861, in Hillsborough ; d. in Antrim Aug. 24, 1872.]
2. HARRY S., [b. in Hillsborough June 15, 1863 ; d. in Antrim Jan. 31, 1871.]
3. J. FRED, [b. in Hillsborough June 28, 1865.]
4. WALTER S., [b. in Hillsborough April 8, 1877.]
GILLIS.
JOHN GILLIS, son of Thomas and Nancy (McCowan) Gillis of Mer- rimack, settled in Deering. He married Hannah, daughter of Dea. Wil- liam Aiken of that town. She was a most noble woman, one of the old order, vigorous, generous, fearless, and devoted. She died in Benning- ton Dec. 16, 1859, in good old age. They raised a large and noteworthy family, all born in Deering, but so connected with Antrim as to justify a brief notice here. They were nine in number, as follows : -
1. WILLIAM, [b. Jan. 3, 1803, m. Dorcas Pattee of Methuen, Mass. Has lived in Bennington since 1831.]
2. COL. MARK, [m. Elvira Wilson of Stoddard ; was deputy-sheriff many years ; was landlord of the noted Indian Head House, Nashua ; was a man of considerable note in New Hamp- shire ; d. in Nashua Jan. 26, 1862, aged 57 ; left no chil- dren.]
3. HON. THOMAS W., [m. 1st, Rhoda Fuller of Milford; 2d, Elis- abeth French of Bedford. Was twenty years agent of the Nashua Manufacturing Co. ; was trustee of the State Reform School, and mayor of Nashua ; now lives in Milford. His son John F. was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1854, but soon after died.]
4. JOHN, [settled in Hudson, and there resides ; m. Jenny Ful- ton of Deering.]
5. HON. DAVID, [m. Susan Merriam of Shirley, Mass. Was seven- teen years agent of the Amoskeag Co., Manchester. Was presidential elector in 1860. Is trustee of the State Reform School, and also of the New Hampshire Insane Asylum. Resides in Nashua. ]
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6. JAMES M., [m. Martha Woods of Hollis ; d. in Nashua Sept. 19,1830.]
7. CHARLES G., [m. Deborah Knowlton of Lancaster, Mass. ; d. in Milford May 1, 1856, aged 35.]
8. HORACE, [b. Aug. 9, 1817, m. Elisabeth Tuttle of Antrim ; was for many years clerk of the Indian Head House, Nashua. Has lived in this town perhaps twelve years in all. Occu- pied the Cram place from 1854 to 1856. Lived a few years on the E. L. Vose farm. Their only child, Lizzie M., was b. in Manchester, Dec. 25, 1846, and m. Samuel G. Newton, April 27, 1871, residing now in Ashburnham, Mass.]
9. HANNAH G., [m. Reuben Boutwell of this town ; now lives a widow in South Village.]
GILMORE.
JOHN GILMORE came here from Bedford as early as 1778 and be- gan the Weston place, now Cyrus J. Whitney's. He was the son of Dea. Robert Gilmore of Bedford, who came directly to that town from over the water, and was not very closely connected with the Gilmores of Lon- donderry. Some of Dea. Robert's children seem to have been born in the old country, and were as follows : Robert, Jr., who settled in Goffs- town, went into the Revolutionary army and lost his life in the service; John of Antrim; James, who settled in Acworth; Peggy, who married a Gilmore and remained in Bedford ; and Martha, who married Maj. John Dunlap of Bedford. Dea. Robert, father of all these, died in Bed- ford April 14, 1778, aged sixty-eight. John, who came here, married Hannah -; remained on the farm he cleared until 1795, when he sold; run the clothing-mill in South Village a short time, and then moved to some place in New York. Thence after some years he moved, it is thought, to Ohio. But little can be learned of him at the present time. One child, William, was born here, Aug. 1, 1781. The following occurs in the Bedford records : -
" Robert Gilmore and Elisabeth Gilmore, son and daughter to John and Hannah Gilmore, were born the fifth day of July, 1772."
These children, Robert and Elisabeth, were probably brought here, and perhaps others were; William, born in Antrim, appearing to be the youngest of the family. There is a family of Gilmores in Cambridge, Washington Co., N. Y., who I think are descendants of John of Antrim. This has at least been claimed. But I have no evidence rendering it cer- tain. All the parties are people of worth and high standing.
GOODELL.
DAVID GOODELL, son of David and Elisabeth (Hutchinson) Goodell, and grandson of David Goodell of Amherst (now Milford), was born in Amherst, Sept. 15, 1774; married Mary Raymond of Mont Ver-
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non; lived most of his life in Hillsborough, where all his children were born; moved to this town to live with his son in 1844, and died here in 1848. His wife died May 17, 1864, aged eighty-five. Children: -
1. GEORGE D., [b. in 1799; m. Rebecca Andrews of Windsor ; lived in Hillsborough, and d. in that town in 1867. He was the father of Dr. John Goodell.]
2. JOHN, [d. in 1816, aged 13.]
3. DEA. JESSE R., [b. Feb. 12, 1807 ; m. Olive A. Wright of Sullivan ; came here in 1841 and bought of James M. Wil- der the Dea. Joseph Boyd farm. Has extensively improved the buildings and surroundings, making the situation now one of the most desirable in the county. Has been for many years a deacon in the Baptist Church. His wife, younger than himself by only sixteen days, d. June 13, 1877. Hem. 2d, Mrs. Ruth (Wilkins) Bennett. Dea. Goodell has but one child : -
David H., (b. in Hillsborough, May 6, 1834 ; m. Hannah J. Plummer of Goffstown, Sept. 1, 1857; remained on the homestead with his father, and was chosen treasurer of the Shovel Company at the early age of 22. He has been for recent years largely engaged in manufacturing apple-parers, cutlery, etc. Is at the head of the Goodell Company; was inventor of the " lightning apple-parer," patented in 1864. Some more particular information concerning his inventions and enterprises will be found in the chapter on manufactures. A writer in the Manchester " Mirror " thus speaks : -
David H. Goodell, the head of the company, and the owner of more than five-sixths of its stock, happened to be brought up in Antrim, where his father owned a large farm, and, as he was an only child, his father naturally wanted him to stay at home. At that time South Antrim, where the farm was located, was not much of a place. It had a store, a church, a post-office, and a few houses. It was seven or eight miles from any railroad, and a considerable distance from the main road to anywhere. A brook ran through the village, making a descent of several hundred feet on the way, and furnishing a reliable though small water-power. On this brook there were a saw-mill or two and a shovel-factory. Goodell wanted to stay at home, but did not want to confine himself to the farm; so, as there wasn't much else to take to, he took to the water; in other words, he connected himself with the shovel-factory. In process of time the parties who owned the factory were bankrupted by specu- lations elsewhere, and the concern passed into Mr. Goodell's hands. Then he abandoned the shovel business, and turned his attention
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to the manufacture of apple-parers and other labor-saving machines, and went on adding to the list of his productions and the capacity of his shops until to-day he gives employment to one hundred and twenty operatives, to whom he pays about four thousand dollars per month. Among the articles for which the factory is noted are sev- eral varieties of apple parers, slicers and corers, peach-parers, cherry- stoners, and the Cahoon seed-sower; but the leading production is table-cutlery of all descriptions, which is known and commands a ready sale all over the country. We need more such men as David H. Goodell, and more such industries as the one of which he is the master-spirit, in our State.
Mr. Goodell is an extensive and successful farmer, is prominent as an agriculturist, and was several years presi- dent of the Oak Park Association, an institution started to promote mechanics and agriculture ; has done much to en- large and improve the village. He has been school com- mittee, town clerk, moderator,. and representative. Is a liberal giver to religious and educational objects ; is presi- dent of Antrim Temperance Association. Has two children : Dura Dana, who was b. Sept. 6, 1858; and Richard C., who was b. Aug. 10, 1868.)]
ASA GOODELL, son of Asa and Ruth (Butterfield) Goodell, and grandson of David and Elisabeth (Hutchinson) Goodell, was born in Wilton, Me., Aug. 7, 1808; was brought up in Hillsborough with his cousin Jesse R. Goodell, now of Antrim, and married Sarah Smith of Mont Vernon, daughter of Dea. William Smith. He came here from Windsor on to the William Stacey place in 1844, where he lived five years. Then he sold the Stacey place and bought the Steele place (William Cur- tis's), and lived on this last five years. Thence he moved to Hillsbor- ough, and thence to Windsor, where he now resides. Is a man of wealth and a very extensive land-owner. Children: -
1. GEORGE, [b. May, 1845 ; d. at the age of 5.]
2. ELMIRA, [d. same time with her brother, at the age of 3.]
3. OLIVE JANE, [m. Melvin Temple, and they now live near her parents in Windsor.]
GOODHUE.
EBENEZER GOODHUE, born in Littleton, Mass., married Sarah Potter, lived some five years on the Zadok Dodge place, and moved to Hancock in 1790. He died in 1853, aged ninety-nine years, nine months, and nine days. He had no children born here, but Ebenezer, his eldest son, quite a lad when his father came here, married Mehitable Knights, daughter of Benjamin Knights, and lived many years on the old Wiley place, next south of the Capt. Worthley place, west of the pond. He
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moved to Hancock in 1827, and died in 1869, aged ninety. His children, all born in this town, were : -
1. LYDIA, [b. Dec. 1, 1803, m. Samuel Knights Nov. 26, 1822, and lives in Hancock.]
2. SALLY, [b. Sept. 18, 1805, m. Warren Clark, and lives in Han- cock.]
3. MEHITABLE, [b. June 27, 1807, m. Avery Clark, went to Han- cock and d. there.]
4. PRISCILLA, [b. May 10, 1809, m. Asa Simonds, lived in Han- cock, and d. in 1839.]
5. EBENEZER, [b. May 17, 1811; m. Almira Dane, daughter of Dea. Samuel Dane of New Boston, in 1844. He was a car- penter by trade, and was killed by falling from a roof in Nashua, in 1862.]
6. RODNEY, [b. Aug. 26, 1813, m. Susan Davis, and for some years owned the Willey mills in Hancock, from whence he moved to Peterborough.]
7. GARDINER, [b. July 30, 1816, supposed to have d. in infancy.]
8. BENJAMIN, [b. in 1818, m. Caroline Andrews of New Boston in 1841, and now lives on her father's place in that town. Is there held in high esteem by all, and is often elected to office by the town.]
9. REV. DANIEL, [b. in 1820 ; was ordained over the church in Bradford, in 1846 ; m. Mary P. Morrill of Gilford in 1848; was settled subsequently in Danbury, and was afterwards acting pastor in Greenfield, and in Troy. He now supplies in Burlington, Vt.]
10. LUCY, [m. Orren Nelson and went to Sutton, and afterwards to Stoddard, but is now living in Hancock.]
11. FANNY, [b. in 1827, m. John Bullard of Peterborough, and both are now dead.]
GORDON.
JOHN GORDON and his brother Daniel, when nearly grown up, being on their way to school one morning among the Highlands of the county of Inverness, Scotland, were seized by a band of troopers, and with others impressed into the British service. Anxious parents waited in vain for their return, and they never met again. This being at the opening of the French war, they were sent over to fight in this country. Daniel died on the passage. John served through the whole war, clos- ing in 1763. In the service he became acquainted with some soldiers from Londonderry, and when discharged he came directly there. Thence he came to Antrim in 1769, but made no permanent location till 1772,
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having spent a year or more of this time in New Boston. He married Mary Boyce of Londonderry, and established his log house on the Dea. Weston place at the Branch, now Oliver Swett's, making the fifth family in town. The first summer a bear killed his cow. His nearest neighbor was Maurice Lynch on the William Stacey farm; the next was James Aiken on a place now in South Village, - four miles; and no roads any- where. The usual frontier hardships and perils were met and overcome. When the Revolutionary war broke out and the men of Antrim all marched toward the scene of conflict except Mr. Gordon, it is supposed that he hesitated on account of having so recently fought for the king, since he had been under Gen. Wolfe at Quebec, and had done good ser- vice as a loyal subject. But he soon after enlisted in the American army and served most of the time till the close of the war. Was in most of the important battles and many skirmishes, and was never seriously hurt. After the war he remained on his farm at the Branch till 1786, when he moved to Windsor. A few years later, in order to get possession of a tract of land awarded him for service in the French war, he moved his family to Chelsea, Vt., and leaving his family there went to Canada to claim his land. While on this service he was taken sick, and died at Quebec. This was in 1798. His son John seems to have obtained the land in question. John Gordon was a tailor by trade. He seems to have owned land in New Boston, and to have lived there part of the time, probably working at his trade some part of each year there, for some time. He signed the call to Rev. Solomon Moor in that town, Aug. 25, 1767; and also, April, 1778, he signed a protest against the " Town's med- dling with a dispute between Rev. Solomon Moor & his Dissatifyed hear- ors." Gordon's second wife was no doubt Esther Snow. Some of the family say Margaret, but she signed a deed as Esther Gordon, Dec. 1, 1788. It appears that the first wife had five children and the second : three, as follows: -
1. MARGARET, [who was b. early in the year 1765. Was not quite seven years old at her mother's death, which event probably occurred in New Boston. Margaret was taken into the family of Gen. John McNiel of Hillsborough to live, where she made her home till her marriage to James Dodge, when she went to Goffstown. They settled on the west slope of the Uncanoonucks in that town, where she lived to good old age and d. Sept. 5, 1849, aged 84. She raised a large family, among them the late Daniel Dodge of Windsor, and John G. Dodge, now one of the wealthiest citizens of Goffstown.]
2. DANIEL A., [m. 1st, Sally Temple ; 2d, Azubah Munroe of Carlyle, Mass. Had a son James who m. Belinda Tubbs, and settled in Goshen, where both d. I have no knowledge of other children. Daniel A. Gordon lived chiefly in Wind- sor, but somewhat in neighboring towns; and after many
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changes and reverses, came back alone to Antrim to end his days. He lived but a few weeks after his arrival here, dying Nov. 17, 1850, aged 84. A modest stone marks his grave in the southeast corner of the Center yard.]
3. JOHN, JR., [went to Canada with his father, and resided there most of his days. He m. Jerusha Barnard ; had children : John, Charles, Alexander B., Mary, Sarah, Daniel, Electa, Margaret, and Ann. A. B. Gordon, Esq., of Otsego, Can- ada, the third son, has kindly given much information con- cerning the family. John, the father, d. in 1844, aged 76.]
4. JAMES, [killed near Branch village at a chopping-bee, by the fall of a tree. He was a lad of considerable age. The pre- cise place or time cannot now be ascertained. ]
5. ALEXANDER, [nothing definite known. The marriage records of New Boston have the following, referring no doubt to this man : " Feb. 15, 1796, Alexander Gordon & Mary Hosston both of New Boston." The latter name was no doubt Houston. It may be added that a Mary Gordon m. Phinehas K. Dow of Goffstown, Nov. 16, 1796. Possibly there was this sister whose name we had not received, as the names of all John Gordon's children are given from memory of aged persons, with no records to lean upon. The marriage referred to occurred in New Boston.] .
6. SAMUEL, [by second wife ; m. 1st, ; 2d, Mary Wells, and lived in Ogdensburg, N. Y.]
7. WILLIAM, [settled in Stanbridge, Canada. His son William was sheriff of Broome county.]
8. HANNAH, [b. Feb. 11, 1786 ; m. Ethan Allen, nephew and namesake of the Vermont general, in August, 1805. She d. in 1862. Her husband was from Washington, Vt.]
GOULD.
ELIJAH GOULD, son of Stephen . Gould, was born in Boxford, Mass., in 1780. He came to Antrim in 1800, on to the Maj. Riley farm, now owned by E. F. Gould. In 1804 he married Hannah Bradford of Hillsborough, and moved into the McCoy house, some rods nearer the mountain than the present brick house, which he built in 1822, having a year or two before moved up the Jameson store for the wooden part. Mrs. Gould died April 24, 1814. He married for his second wife, Mrs. Hannah (Spalding) Chapman of Windsor, Sept. 18, 1823, and in 1840 bought the Smith tavern to which he moved the next year, and died there in 1863. His children are as follows, the first three being by his first wife: -
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1. FRANKLIN, [b. Oct. 5, 1805, and d. unm. at the age of 70.]
2. DAVID B., [b. Sept. 3, 1807 ; m. Hannah C. Chandler, Oct. 12, 1837, and d. in Tilton, in 1874.]
3. NANCY, [b. March, 1810 ; m. Luke McClintock of Hillsbor- ough, May 12, 1835, and d. in 1861.]
4. HANNAH L., [b. Nov. 27, 1825 ; m. Reuben Colburn of New Boston, and now lives in Hillsborough.]
5. ELIJAH F., [b. Oct. 17, 1827 ; m. Elisabeth Dunklee of Dan- vers, Mass., and lives on the Maj. Riley place, formerly owned by his father. His children are : -
Addie E., (b. Sept. 5, 1855.) Henry F., (b. Sept. 16, 1857.)
Walter P., (b. June 19, 1859.)
Alice A., (b. March 8, 1861.)
Herbert A., (b. Sept. 5, 1867.)]"
6. LEONARD P., [b. April 15, 1829 ; m. Sarah E. Cooledge of Hillsborough, and lives in New London.]
7. LUTHER A., [b. April 16, 1832; m. Josephine E. Tuttle of Hillsborough, and now lives in Woburn, Mass.]
8. EMILY L., [b. July 21, 1835 ; m. Dexter O. Lincoln of Hills- borough in 1861, who d. the next year, and she came to live with her mother in this town. The mother d. Sept. 15, 1878, aged 85.]
GOVE.
SAMUEL GOVE, son of Samuel and Abigail (Newman) Gove, and grandson of Abraham and Mary (Nudd) Gove of Kensington, was born in Henniker, July 24, 1813; married Harriet N. Newman of Washing- ton, Dec. 15, 1842, who is a sister of Dea. Newman. Mr. Gove moved from Washington to Antrim in 1876, on to the Aiken or McKeen place in South Village. In 1878 he sold to George E. Whittum, and bought the E. L. Vose place at the Center. He has two sons, both residing in Antrim :-
1. JAMES M., [b. in Deering, Jan. 1, 1844 ; m. Abbie S. Wilson of this town, Oct. 11, 1877.]
2. GEORGE F., [b. in Deering, April 22, 1854 ; m. Delia B. Mer- rill, April 17, 1876.]
GRAHAM.
DR. WILLIAM GRAHAM came here about 1847 from Templeton, Mass. Nothing is known of his family, but they lived where Caleb Roach now lives. He was a "Thomsonian " doctor, made something 33
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of a breeze here, was said to be " successful in fevers," but his stay here was short for some reason. He went to Ludlow, Vt., about 1851.
GREELEY.
ALFRED H. GREELEY, son of Seneca and Priscilla (Fields) Gree- ley, was born in Hudson in 1820; married Laura F. Woods of Hillsbor- ough in 1847, and came here in 1852, into the east house on the William Stacey farm. After five years he moved to Nashua, but came back to Antrim in 1863, and bought the McKeen place (now Mr. Whittum's) in South Antrim, but soon sold to Isaac Barrett, and after several other changes bought, in 1868, the Dea. Josiah Duncan place, where he now resides. They have no children but one son, Morris Burnham Greeley, adopted in 1870.
GREEN.
LEWIS GREEN, a native of Massachusetts, was born Sept. 5, 1807, and carried to Stoddard when a child. He married Asenath Butterfield of Bennington, March 24, 1836, and had a large family, none of whom now living were born in Antrim. He came here in 1865, buying the Caleb Clark place, which he exchanged for the Jesse Combs place in 1875. His son, Reuben S. Green, was a member of the Sixteenth N. H. Regi- ment, and died in the service.
GREGG.
BENJAMIN GREGG, eighth son of John and Agnes (Rankin) Gregg, and grandson of Capt. James and Janet (Cargil) Gregg of Lon- donderry, came here in 1776 and began the Vose place at the Center. He was brother of Col. William Gregg, who commanded the advance guard in the battle of Bennington, and who built the old church on the hill, and died in 1815, aged eighty-five years. He moved his family, then consisting of wife and two children, on to said place in the spring of 1779, having in previous summers cleared his land and prepared his log house for occupation. His wife was Lettice Aiken, sister of Dea. James Aiken of Antrim. He was a mechanic of rare ingenuity; was said to be one who could plan well, and do for others, but had small force to do for him- self, and hence was poor all his life. He was a man of unsullied reputa- tion. In 1791 he sold to Samuel Caldwell and returned to Londonderry, where he died in 1816, aged sixty-eight. He had four children: -
1. JOHN, [b. in Londonderry ; wheelwright of limited means ; m. Mary Hobbs, and d. in Derry, Jan. 17, 1836, aged 65.] 2. DEA. JAMES, [b. in Londonderry. He was a wheelwright of much skill, and made the first horse-wagon in Londonderry in 1814. He was a long time elder of the Presbyterian Church in his native town ; was a great hand to write poetry, some of which was creditable; was a man of more than ordinary ability, but, having small tact in accumulating the
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things of this world, he was very poor in his old age. He m. 1st, his cousin Anna Gregg of Derry ; 2d, Betsey Ann Hop- kins of Windham, who became the mother of Prof. Jarvis Gregg, a most brilliant young man, who graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1838; 3d, Mary Glazier of Warsaw, N. Y. Dea. Gregg d. Feb. 27, 1856, aged 82.]
3. LETTICE, [b. March 4, 1780, in Antrim ; m. Thomas Caldwell ; lived in Derry.]
4. JANE, [" Jinett " on town record, and "Jeany " on grave- stone, b. here July 12, 1784, and d. March 8, 1787 ; buried on the hill.]
SAMUEL GREGG, cousin of Benjamin, came here about a year later, beginning the farm now in part Mrs. H. B. Newman's, in 1777 or earlier, as he was on the spot and had a house built in which they had a town meeting in 1778. He was a son of Samuel Gregg and Mary Moor, his wife. His grandfather, Capt. James Gregg, married Janet Cargil in Ireland, but was old enough before leaving Ayrshire, Scotland, where he was born, to learn business as tailor and linen-draper, at which he accu- mulated quite a fortune for the times, and was able to render valuable pecuniary assistance to the early settlers of Londonderry. He was one of the sixteen that originally settled that town, having embarked in 1718, and being one of the number that wintered under so many privations and sufferings at Cape Elizabeth, Me. At this time it is said of Mr. Gregg that he had " both the means and the disposition " to aid the suf- fering families in their search for a place to settle. Not long after the settlement he received a captain's commission, and commanded the first company of soldiers ever raised in Londonderry. Samuel Gregg of Antrim married Margaret Wallace, and moved his wife and six children here in the spring of 1778, having previously cleared and built. He was a man of courage, energy, and great labor. The family relate of him, that, coming home on a certain occasion just after sunset from Mr. George's (Jonas White place) with a jug of milk, he was attacked by a bear. Not being the man to run, he struck him a terrible blow on the head with the jug, breaking it in pieces, stunning the bear, and giving him a face for once perfectly white! As bruin did not understand this kind of warfare he left as soon as possible, and Mr. Gregg quietly walked home. Samuel Gregg was wealthy before the Revolution, but in the course of the war large amounts of continental paper came into his hands, by the depreciation of which he lost the bulk of his property. Years afterward this paper was redeemed as far as possible, but Mr. Gregg had buried his; and it was never known where or how much. These pecu- niary reverses are said to have shortened his life. At one time he owned the Newman place, the Eben Bass place, all the places now known as the Center, and his premises extended north to the old common, which was a gift from him to the town. He sold to Lemuel Paige in 1793 and bought the place at the outlet of the pond, now known as the Rogers place.
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