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3. DR. GILMAN, [b. in 1804 ; m. 1st, Mary Dewar of Edinburg, Scotland ; 2d, Isabel De Fries of Nantucket, Mass. He has been for many years a very distinguished physician and sur- geon in Lowell. After fitting for college, failing health pre- - vented his pursuing the course, and after a time he deter- mined to enter at once on the study of medicine. This he accomplished chiefly at Dartmouth College, and he took his medical degree in 1827. He then studied three years abroad, leaving Paris to return to America on the very day of the famous Revolution, July, 1830. He located in Lowell, Dec. 2, 1831, where he has continued in extensive practice till the present time. He was chosen professor of surgery in the Vermont Medical College in 1840 ; was surgeon and
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superintendent of Lowell Hospital twenty-seven years; and is justly famed for surgical skill and success both in this country and England. ]
4. MARY, [b. July 5, 1807 ; m. Dr. John S. Sanborn, and settled in Elyton, Ala. Dr. Sanborn soon d. and she m. a planter by name of Carroll, who d. after a few years. She then came back and was matron of Mt. Holyoke Seminary four- teen years, and is now living in Mattapoisett, Mass.]
5. CAROLINE, [b. Aug. 1, 1809; m. George E. Sherman, a merchant of Hill, who afterwards settled in Newton County, Miss .; some years ago he d., and she came North, and now resides with her sister at Mattapoisett. ]
REV. WILLARD KIMBALL came here from Brandon, Vt., early in 1856, and soon after became pastor of the Baptist Church. He remained here six years in all; lived most of the time in the Charles D. Sawyer house in Clinton. Went back to Brandon. Went about 1870 to New- ton, Mass., in midsummer on a visit, was taken with dysentery, and sud- denly died. His wife was Amanda True. They had two children, George and Mary. The former was last known in Boston. The latter was noted 1. as a teacher, and was very successful as such, having place in the higher female institutions. She married Job Clement, Esq., of Brandon, Vt.
DR. J. R. KIMBALL, son of Jonathan and Pamelia (Holt) Kimball, and grandson of Edward and Elisabeth (McAllister) Kimball, was born in Pembroke in 1844; went to Maine in 1854, and studied at Hebron Academy in that State. He studied medicine with Dr. Phillips of Pem- broke, attended lectures awhile in Portland, Me., and graduated at Bow- doin Medical College in 1869. He came to Antrim the same year as suc- cessor of Dr. William M. Parsons; married Clara A. Phillips, daughter of Dr. Phillips of Pembroke, in 1872. After getting well established in practice, and in the confidence and regard of the community, to the gen- eral surprise and regret he removed to Suncook in 1873, where he now resides and has an extensive practice.
DEA. JOSEPH KIMBALL, son of Dea. Daniel and Abiah (Holt) Kimball of Ipswich, Mass., was born in Hancock, June 21, 1801, and died in September, 1864. Was long a deacon in the Hancock church. The family was of English descent. The father, Dea. Daniel, was one of the first settlers of Hancock, and when making his clearings he worked alone by day, and slept nights in a hollow log. Dea. Joseph Kimball married Lucy Boyd of Antrim, Oct. 20, 1831. The widow and daughters moved to South Antrim in 1867. The children were: -
1. JAMES B., [d. in childhood.]
2. JOSEPH M., [d. in 1862, aged 28.]
3. MARY F.
4. L. HELEN.
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ELIJAH KIMBALL, son of Benjamin and Susanna (Gerry) Kimball, and grandson of Benjamin and Mehitable (Parker) Kimball, was born in Hillsborough, Oct. 25, 1814. The father was born in Hillsborough in 1780, but the grandfather moved there from Topsfield, Mass., and was among the early settlers. Elijah Kimball married Caroline Stratton of Bradford, April 21, 1842. She was a daughter of Lemuel and Philippa (Jackman) Stratton, who were near relatives of Daniel Webster. He came to Antrim on to the Dr. Burnham place in 1873. His children, all born in Hillsborough, were: -
1. HENRY P., [b. Nov. 15, 1843 ; carpenter by trade ; resides on Dr. Burnham place, having greatly enlarged and improved the buildings ; m. Susan E. Towne of Peabody, Mass., April 8,1869.]
2. JOHN C., [b. Jan. 3, 1848 ; has been a successful teacher in the West; m. Mary Newman, and settled in Hamel, Ill., . where she d. March 9, 1877.]
3. ELIZA A., [b. March 26, 1851.]
KNIGHTS.
JONATHAN KNIGHTS came here from Middleton, Mass., with six children, in 1795, and bought the Dea. Worthley place (Mr. French's) of William Boyd. He died west of the pond, in 1814, aged ninety-four. His wife's name was Mary Perkins, and their children were :-
1. JONATHAN, [lived here and there in town ; m. Mehitable An- drews of Boxford, Mass .; went to Boxford, and d. there in 1845, aged 92, leaving a large and respectable family.]
2. NEHEMIAH, [m. 1st, Mrs. White ; 2d, Phebe, the widow of Lemuel Paige, Feb. 12, 1809, from whom he separated, and in 1816 went with the Robbs to New York, and d. there about 1830, aged 70, having no children. He was a very eccentric man, and gave his iron bar for digging his grave.]
3. PHŒBE, [was killed by the fall of a tree in 1799, as she was picking up wood where her brothers were chopping, near" the house, aged about 25 years.]
4. RUTH, [m. Solomon Balch of New Boston ; went to Johnson, Vt., and d. there in 1832, aged 56.]
5. ROBERT, [m. Priscilla Hutchinson of Middleton, Mass., and was killed by the fall of a tree as they were clearing land, in
1800. He was fearfully lacerated, his ax being driven through his shoulder. His widow m. Thomas Andrews of Hudson, Nov. 8, 1804, and d. there in 1818. Robert left three children, born here : -
Polly, (b. June 20, 1796 ; m. Dea. James Hartshorn, and
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lives in Nashua, aged 82. Her husband has recently d. aged 92.)
Lydia, (b. April 28, 1798, and d. in infancy.)
Jonathan, (b. Dec. 4, 1799; m. 1st, Lucy A. Putnam ; 2d, Ann M. Patten of Bedford ; 3d, Mary A. Dodge of Amherst; 4th, Mrs. Mary J. Davis of Amherst, where he now resides. )] 6. BENJAMIN, [b. in 1785 ; m. Lucy Barden; lived here and there in town, and d. in Peterborough in 1849. They had one son who d. in infancy, and seven daughters as follows: -
Phoebe V., (b. June 19, 1807 ; m. Josiah S. Morrison of Peter- borough, in 1831, and lives in Alstead. He has been en- gaged in building machinery, and has held several impor- tant public offices.)
Lydia, (b. March 26, 1809, m. Luther Darling of Dublin, March 24, 1831, and d. at Fitchburg, Mass., in 1874.)
Lucinda, (b. March 13, 1811, m. Walter W. Blake Oct. 11, 1838, and d. in Hollis in 1874.)
Esther, (b. March 7, 1813, m. Samuel W. Billings Dec. 24, 1835, and d. in Hancock in 1876.)
Mary, (b. Oct. 18, 1815 ; m. Nathaniel Morrison of Peterbor- ough ; lived in Lowell for many years, and now resides in Greenfield.)
· Mehitable, (b. March 28, 1818, m. James Mitchell of Man- chester, and d. in 1846.)
Achsa, (b. Aug. 12, 1820 ; m.Thomas Colby of San Francisco, Cal.)]
LADD.
JONATHAN LADD was the first settler on the farm now Capt. James Wilson's. His house stood on the ridge west of the present house, near the southeast corner of the field. He seems to have commenced there about 1785. He lived there nearly ten years. It is not known whence he came. He moved to a small town in Vermont, then called Tunbridge, about twenty miles from the Connecticut River, and opposite Orford. I have not been able to learn anything of his descendants.
LAWRENCE,
WILLIAM LAWRENCE, son of Jonathan and Esther (Shedd) Lawrence, was born in Groton, Mass., in 1762; married Sarah F. Farwell of that place, and came here from Washington in 1812. , He kept a hotel several years on the Gould place. He was a very respectable man, and had meetings at his house two Sundays in the year, at which Mr. Whiton preached. In 1818 he moved back to Washington, where he died in
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1830, aged sixty-eight. His wife died in 1850, aged eighty-two. Their children were : -
1. SARAH, [b. in Groton, Mass., in 1787, m. Sylvester Hubbard of Washington, and d. in Hillsborough in 1824.]
2. EDMUND, [b. in Groton, Mass., in 1793; m. Harriet M., daughter of Dea. Brainard of Washington, and d. at West Dennis, Mass., in 1854.]
3. MARY, [b. in Washington in 1795; m. Dea. Samuel Burbank of that place ; moved to Hillsborough, where she d. in 1876.]
4. WILLIAM F., [b. in 1803 ; m. Mary L. Churchill of Nashua ; kept a hotel in Washington, and was afterwards for several years a stage-driver ; was highly esteemed. He finally moved to Nashua, and there d. in 1856.]
HENRY S. LAWRENCE, son of Sherman B. and Theresa (Clark) Lawrence, and grandson of Silas B. and Azubah (Curtis) Lawrence, was born in Meriden, Conn., Jan. 30, 1837. The family was from Troy, N. Y. He married Abbie F. Carr June 26, 1867; came here in 1875; occu- pies the Oren Carr homestead; is a mason by trade.
EDWIN LAWRENCE lived a short time in South Village, and died here Dec. 20, 1862, aged forty-six. Nothing more known of him.
LAWS.
AUGUSTUS LAWS, son of Joseph Laws and Abigail Pike, was born in Brookline in 1820; married, first, Mary E. Burke, and came here to work at making hoes and shovels in 1846. He married, second, Nancy C. Robbins in 1847, and after a residence of about nine years went to Peterborough, where she died in 1871. He now lives in Marlow; had no children born here.
LITTLE.
The first family of Littles of which we have any knowledge in America descended from George Little who came from London to Newbury, Mass., in 1640. This family is large and very respectable. Some of them remain on the spot originally settled, and others are settled near by; among them Dea. Joseph Little of Newbury, and William Little, Esq., town clerk of the above place. Alfred Little, Esq., the distinguished singer and player on the melodeon, now residing in Webster, is of this stock . Also Rev. Geo. A. Little, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Plymouth, Ind. ; Rev. Arthur Little, D. D., of Chicago; Rev. Joseph B. Little, Rev. Henry S. Little, Rev. George O. Little, and Rev. Charles H. Little, pastors in the West. Many others of this family are found in professional and cultivated ranks. The Littles of Antrim and Peterborough, as indi- cated by personal appearance and tradition and favorite names, are prob- ably related to the foregoing family. They are of Scotch descent, it ap-
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pears; and the ancestor, Thomas Little, with his wife Jean and several children, came over from the north of Ireland, county of Antrim, in 1737, and settled in Shirley, Mass. His son, Thomas, Jr., was ten years old on arrival in this country. It seems to have been in his twenty-sev- enth year that he married Susanna Wallace, herself born in the north of Ireland in 1734. The old records speak of them as being married in Pe- terborough, and living there a short time several years previous to their permanent settlement in that town. They had eight children : Dr. Wil- liam, born in Peterborough, Oct. 20, 1753; Esther, born in Lunenburg, Mass., in 1755; Elisabeth, born in Shirley, Mass., in 1756, in which town the family continued to reside till 1764; Susannah, born in 1759; Joseph, born in 1760; Thomas, born May 11, 1763, married Relief White, and died in 1847; John, born in Peterborough in° 1764, married Lucinda Longley, and died Sept. 19, 1850; and Rev. Walter, born in 1766, and no- ticed below. The father of these eight children died in Shirley, Mass., while on a visit there, June 6, 1808, aged eighty-one. His widow, daughter of William and Elisabeth (Clayland) Wallace, died in Peterborough March 6, 1822, aged eighty-eight.
DR. WILLIAM LITTLE, oldest child of Thomas and Susanna, was born in Peterborough, Oct. 20, 1753, during a temporary sojourn of the parents in that place. He studied medicine with Dr. John Young, the first physician of Peterborough, and established himself as a physician in Hillsborough in 1782. He married Betsey Fletcher of Westford, Mass. She soon died, and it is believed she left but one child, Betsey F., born Sept. 27, 1775, who married Samson Keyes, went to Wilton, Me., and died there Aug. 26, 1810. Her husband was a native of Westford, Mass., born Nov. 22, 1777; died April 24, 1861. Hon. Alvah Keyes, of Clare- mont, is her son. Dr. Little married, second, Ruth, daughter of Dea. Joseph Symonds of Hillsborough, May 12, 1787, and had children : Dea .. William, named below; Martha D., who married James Campbell, May 19, 1836, and died Dec. 29, 1852, aged sixty-three; Ruth S., who died in Antrim, Nov. 28, 1838, aged thirty-nine; Lucy R., who married Bart- lett Wallace and died July 11, 1855, aged fifty-five; and Hiram, who died young. Dr. Little had a large practice, was a social, wide-awake man, of hearty friendships and much influence, but in the midst of his usefulness he came to a sudden death, being drowned Nov. 7, 1807, aged fifty-four. He had been that day to an auction on the Whittemore place near by in An- trim; the evening came on early, and very dark and cold; he started alone to walk back to the Bridge, and seems to have walked over the bank into the river at the bend close by the road. Great search was made for him, the whole town turning out for that purpose. But he could not be found; people considered his disappearance a great mystery, and his body lay in the river all winter. When the ice broke up in the spring, it floated down, and was first discovered in the north edge of the stream just above the new factory at the Bridge. On the following day, which was the Sabbath, no minister could be found in this section. Dea. John Duncan went over and offered prayer at the funeral, and the body, fresh as life, was carried to its rest in the grave.
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DEA. WILLIAM LITTLE was born in Hillsborough March 10, 1788; married, first, Abigail Wells of Goffstown in 1814; second, Mrs. Lydia S. Dow. Came to Antrim in 1815, and built the tannery at the Branch, . in which he did business more than forty years; was a leading man in town; was chosen elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1831; died Dec. 18, 1869. His second wife is yet living. The first wife died Feb. 1, 1846, aged sixty-eight; and she was the mother of his children named below: -
1. HIRAM, [b. Aug. 8, 1815 ; d. in early life ; buried on Bible Hill, Hillsborough.]
2. WILLIAM P., [known as " Plummer Little," b. May 24, 1817 ; m. Mary J. Burns, Nov. 12, 1844 ; opened a public house at the Branch in 1841, which he continued to keep till death. The building, originally the Dea. James Nesmith house on the northeastward slope of Meeting-House Hill, had been moved and put up by Jacob Tuttle about 1838. Plummer Little d. very suddenly, Sept. 1, 1869, aged 52. His chil- dren were three : - -
George P., (b. Oct. 4, 1845 ; m. Media M. McIlvaine, March 30, 1870 ; is trader at the Branch )
Nettie M , (b. April 24, 1847 ; m. Frank Dunlap, Oct. 14, 1869.) Ella E., (b. June 14, 1858 ; m. George H. Perkins, April 14, 1875.)] 1
3. JOHN, [b May 24, 1819, m. Clarinda Brackett, and lives in Cambridgeport, Mass. ]
4. JANE W., [b. Dec. 15, 1821, m. John McIlvaine April 23, 1846, and d. April 28, 1849.]
5. WILLIS, [b. Feb. 9, 1824; d Jan. 12, 1861, aged. 36.]
6. FREDERICK S., [b. July 20, 1825 ; m. Julia Keyes of Goshen ; has been noted as teacher of vocal music ; now lives in New- port ; spent several years as school-teacher in New Jersey. Has been one of the town officers of Newport several years. ]
7. ISAAC W., [b. March 14, 1829, d. aged 9.]
8. ABBY, [b. March 24, 1831; m. Randolph Gilman of Unity, Jan. 12, 1871.]
9. SYLVESTER, [b. May 28, 1833 ; m. March 26, 1860, Mary E. Vose, daughter of Dr. Samuel Vose, formerly of Antrim ; was a very efficient and successful teacher of sacred music for many years, and was a long time leader of the Center choir ; is the traveling agent of the Goodell Company. He greatly modernized and improved the house built by his father in 1824 at the Branch ; built and removed to South Village in 1879. Has children : -
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Helen L., (b. Jan. 27, 1864.) Harry H., (b. Oct. 27, 1867.) Ruth Evangeline, (b. July 3, 1872.)]
10. BETSEY K., [b. April 4, 1836 ; m. J. M. Brigham of Cam- bridgeport, Mass., and d. there Oct. 8, 1874. Was a sweet singer in the house of the Lord.]
REV. WALTER LITTLE, youngest child of Thomas and Susanna (Wallace) Little, and brother of Dr. William of Hillsborough, was born in Peterborough in 1766 ; was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1796; was the first minister of Antrim, being settled here in 1800. He was a tall, slim, dark-complexioned, fine-looking man, a smart preacher, and the church greatly prospered under his care. But his manners were dis- liked; he was considered proud and authoritative and unsympathetic, and the people got so generally against him that he resigned at the end of four years. This was his first parish and his last. Soon after his dismis- sion he went into the State of New York; preached here and there, but, failing of a satisfactory settlement, he fell into a wandering habit, roamed over the country, was considered partially insane, and on one of these tramps he died in the State of Maryland, sometime in 1815, far from ac- quaintances and friends. He was never married. Before leaving New Hampshire he had his name changed to Fullerton, but nobody ever knew a reason why. Probably it should be added that his talents commanded respect, notwithstanding all opposition and dislike. Decidedly, he was an able man. After Mr. Little was dismissed, he had his farewell meet- ing at Dea. Aiken's house. It was a week-day evening. The meeting was crowded and solemn. Mr. Little was making his closing prayer when Isaac Baldwin, a boy of eight years (afterwards Dea. Baldwin), climbed up on the high chair-back, and tipped over, chair and all, falling with such force against the minister's back as to throw him forward against the pantry-door, which opened at touch, and he fell flat on his face on the pantry-floor ! It is not reported whether he said his "amen " in that position or not. But there was great consternation in other parts of the house, and the meeting closed rather curiously for a farewell occa- sion. Mr. Little demanded that the boy be whipped on the spot; but, as it was entirely unintentional, the mother declined, whereupon he took the future deacon into another room and whipped him himself !
LIVINGSTON.
ROBERT L. LIVINGSTON, son of Robert and Mary (Leslie) Liv- ingston, and grandson of Robert and Zebiah (Sargent) Livingston, who were among the first settlers of New Boston, was born in New Boston, Sept. 12, 1797; married, first, Adeline Duncan, daughter of Dea. Josiah Duncan of Antrim, May 24, 1827. He came here in the year 1825; lived some years in the McFarland house (Jameson's), and built the house now John Butterfield's in 1834. He left town in 1850. His wife died in 1866, and he married, second, Mrs. Lucinda Mills, and is now living in Goffstown. His children, all by the first wife, and born here, were: -
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1. LUTHER, [b. April 27, 1828; his name was changed to Fred- erick L., because there were so many of the same name ; m. Libbie Ward of Norwich, Conn. ; now lives in Philadelphia. ] 2. JOSIAH D., [broke through the ice on the brook near the But- terfield place, and was drowned, March 10, 1836. He was a beautiful boy, six years of age.]
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3. HIRAM L., [b. June 16, 1832 ; is a mute ; m. Mary Pressey of Canaan, and lives in North Salem.]
4. MARY G., [d. in infancy.]
5. JOSIAH EDWIN, [b. Marchi 13, 1836 ; m. 1st, Nancy, daughter of Hon. Abel Haley of Wolfeborough ; 2d, Maria A. Ingra- ham of Springfield, Mass., and lives in North Salem. He is the inventor of a " nutmeg-grater " of great convenience and value, also inventor of a " mitring machine" which promises much.]
6. ADDIE M., [b. Oct. 17, 1839 ; m. Benton W. Cutting of Thet- ford, Vt., and lives in Manchester.]
7. SARAH E., [b. March 23, 1844 ; her name was changed to Lib- bie E. ; m. Matthew B. White, and lives in Manchester.]
8. ROBERT DUNCAN, [b. May 24, 1847; is a mute; now living unm. in Boston.]
LOVEJOY.
REV. WILLIAM W. LOVEJOY, son of William and Dorothy (Johnson) Lovejoy, was born Aug. 27, 1810. He studied for the ministry at New Hampton, and was ordained at Littleton in the summer of 1840. After preaching in several places, he came here from Bennington about 1850 as pastor of the Baptist Church. It is said of him that he was "a faithful, earnest preacher, and one of the kindest and most loving of men, happy, and lived near to God." He married, first, Hannah T. Lovejoy, who died in Antrim, May 6, 1855; second, Eliza J. White of this town, July 31, 1855. He died at Pottersville while pastor of the Baptist Church in that place, April 4, 1862, aged fifty-two. Children: -
1. RUTHVEN M., [b. Jan. 13, 1832 ; d. May 14, same year.]
2. EMILY J., [b. Aug. 14, 1834, m. Eben P. Knight of Marlow, Jan. 1, 1856, and d. Sept. 29, 1859.]
3. ANTOINETTE E., [b. in Marlow, Aug. 30, 1856.]
4. ALFARATA J., [b. in Dublin, Oct. 17, 1859.]
5. FLORA I., [b. Sept. 9, 1861, in Dublin.]
LOVEREN.
JOSIAH LOVEREN, son of John and Clarissa (Richardson) Lov- eren, and grandson of Ebenezer and Eunice (Hadlock) Loveren, was born in Deering, Dec. 4, 1817. The family came from Kensington, and were
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among the very first settlers of Deering. He married, first, Asenath Gregg of Deering, who died in 1855, aged forty; second, Nancy J. Pea- body of Antrim, Dec. 18, 1856; moved here in 1864, and bought the Pea- body mills, which he has very much enlarged, and filled with improved machinery. This is now a large establishment of its kind, and is exten- sively known as " Loveren's Mills." Has children: -
1. SAMUEL S., [b. in Deering, May 19, 1846.]
2. JAMES G., [b. in Deering, May 3, 1850.]
3. FRANK P., [b. in Deering, Nov. 28, 1851 ; m. Sarah J. Ogden, May 1, 1878 ; settled at once in Deering, but d. of fever Oct. 18, 1878. Was an excellent and amiable young man, having many friends, and his early death saddened the whole community.]
4. JOHN E., [b. Feb. 2, 1858.]
5. GEORGE M., [b. Aug. 14, 1866.]
LOVEWELL.
LYMAN T. LOVEWELL, son of Isaac and Eliza (Moulton) Love- well of Gardner, Mass., grandson of Joseph and Sally (Wilkinson) Love- well of Weston, and great-grandson of Joseph Lovewell (who was taken prisoner in the French and Indian war, but with three others escaped in so nearly a starving condition that they divided a snake between them for food), was born in Gardner, Mass., Oct. 17, 1842; married Sarah L. Stowell in 1867, and came here from Gardner in 1875, buying one-half of the Caleb Clark place, where he resides, having since purchased the other part of the farm. Mr. Lovewell was out in the Fourth Mass. Heavy Artillery, and remained till the close of the war. Has no children.
LOWE.
DANIEL LOWE came from Greenfield to Antrim, about 1817. He bought of Samuel Caldwell the Dea. Worthley place (cleared by Wil- liam Boyd). He married Hannah Kidder of Lyndeborough, and lived on the Dea. Worthley place many years, being there as late as 1848. He afterwards sold to David Starrett and moved to North Branch, where he built the Sylvester Preston house, and there died Dec. 14, 1857, aged seventy. A young girl, Mary Woodward, was brought up by them. She came here from Lyndeborough in 1819, and married Prof. Leonard Marshall of Boston, Sept. 17, 1835. Mr. Lowe left but one child : -
1. LOISA JANE, [m. Isaac C. Tuttle, Nov. 11, 1846.]
LYNCH.
MAURICE LYNCH was born in Ireland in 1738. He was educated for a Catholic priest; came to Newfoundland, renounced the papacy, and married Catherine Sheehan. Became a land-surveyor. After a residence of about two years in Newfoundland, he came to New England and set- tled in New Boston. From that town he came here in 1772, and began
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the James Wallace farm, now William Stacey's. Was the first town clerk of Antrim. Was a man of wit and many jokes, some of which have survived one hundred years in the town where he died. He sold his farm and went back to New Boston, probably in the fall of 1777, where he died Jan. 7, 1779, aged forty. His wife died March 3, 1803, aged sixty. Only three children are known of : -
1. JOHN, [b. in Newfoundland in 1766 ; came with his father to New Boston ; m. Alice McMillen of that town in 1789, and had a family of eight children. The descendants of Mau- rice Lynch by his son John are very numerous, and some of them remain in New Boston.]
2. Child of unknown name, [d. here it is believed in the autumn of 1772, being three or four years old. All the father could do was to cover up the little body in a trough, carry it in his arms three or four miles through the woods, and bury it alone as near as possible to the spot which would be the future Center of the town. Now neither name nor grave is known. But God has not forgotten the little face laid so sadly away.
" These ashes, too, this little dust, - Our Father's care shall keep."]
3. MARY ANN, [grew up in New Boston ; m. a sea-captain from Boston, Mass., about 1793, and nothing more can be learned concerning her. An old bear and nine cubs once drove Mary Ann home ; and her mother, greatly frightened and somewhat mixed from excitement, ran over to Dea. Christie's and shouted : "Deacon, Deacon, catch your dog and call your gun ; for nine she-bears and one old cub chased my Mary Ann clear from Lyndeborough woods to my own door !"]
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