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1. WILLIAM, (b. in 1795 ; was a cabinet-maker ; m. Jane Delano of Acworth ; settled in Norway, N. Y., and d. there in 1846.] 2. FRANCIS G., [b. in 1797 ; m. Betsey Chamberlain in 1819, and lives in Newbury, Vt.]
3. JONATHAN, [m. Charity Chatman of Haverhill, and d. in Willsborough, N. Y., in 1862, aged 62. His grandson, Rev. W. C. McAllister, is pastor of the Baptist Church in Morri- sonville, N. Y.]
4. DAVID, [m. Betsey Tucker of Newbury, Vt., in 1822, and now lives in that town.]
5. SARAH, [m. Nehemiah L. Clark, and lives in Manchester.]
6. MARY, [m. Archibald Dow, and lived and d. in Hillsbor- ough.]
7. HARRIET, [m. Jeremiah Tewksbury, and lives in Newbury, Vt.]
8. ARCHIBALD, [m. Susan S. Clark, and lives in Newbury, Vt.]
MCCAULEY.
ROBERT MCCAULEY came here very early in the history of the town, certainly as early as 1777, and built on the west side of the road between William and Grafton Curtis's, east of the Branch village, and near the river, as it bends to the south. Was the first tailor in town, and followed that business here nearly twenty years. Was out in the Revolu- tionary army. Was a cripple in old age. His father was Alexander Mc-
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Cauley, brother of James, the first settler in Hillsborough, in 1741. Al- exander seems to have lived in Hillsborough for a time, and Robert came here undoubtedly from that place. James and Alexander were born in the Province of Ulster in Ireland; were genuine Scotchmen; located awhile in the vicinity of Boston after arrival in this country, and then came to Hillsborough. Alexander was born in 1707. His wife, Mary Pinkerton, born in Ireland in 1712, was cousin of the first John Pinker- ton of Londonderry. She died in Merrimack, Jan. 20, 1791. He died in the same place Oct. 11, 1788. They were parents of James McCauley, who married Isabel Jameson, and of Robert McCauley of this town, and of Sarah McCauley who married Thomas Stuart of this town. Robert married Abigail Smith of Dunbarton, July 11, 1774. She was called " Nabby," and our records call her " Neaby." He was credited with a sec- ond wife, whose name I have not been able to find, and whose existence I doubt. He is believed to have left Antrim about 1794. The house he lived in has been gone many years. She called herself (Nabby Smith) a niece of Gen. John Stark, and was his adopted daughter. Robert Mc- Cauley died in Crown Point, N. Y., 1826, aged ninety-three. He kept his payments of continental money till the day of his death. The chil- dren, as far as known, were thus given on the town record, though an older one may have been brought here on removal to this town.
1. JOHN, [b. Feb. 12, 1778 ; settled in Potsdam, N. Y. ; m. Dolly Moody.]
2. ALEXANDER, [b. Aug. 25, 1780, and d. young.]
3. JAMES, [b. May 2, 1783; went to Ashtabula, Ohio ; m. Charlotte Hancock.]
4. ISABEL PINKERTON, [b. Jan. 28, 1785 ; m. 1st, Isaac Everett, who d. in Minerva, N. Y., 1833 ; 2d, a Mr. Rose. She d. at Mendon, Mich., October, 1846.]
5. THOMAS, [b. March 1, 1787 ; went to Ashtabula, Ohio, and d. there. He m. Mary Town.]
6. SMITH, [b. April 9, 1789; d. in Crown Point, Ind., in 1862. His wife was Dorcas Dowley of Mount Holly, Vt. His son, Randall S. McCauley, Esq., is now living in Crown Point Center, N. Y., and has furnished items for these pages. A. O. McCauley of Crown Point, Ind., is a son of a 2d wife whose name was Loisa Rossey, of Athol, N. Y.]
7. MOODY, [b. Nov. 15, 1792 ; moved in 1836 to Ashtabula, Ohio. His wife was Hannah Hill of Walpole, this State. In later life he went to Wisconsin and d. there.].
8. CHARLES, [m. Rachel Barrett and went to the West. His name is not on the Antrim records, and there are some in- dications that he was the oldest instead of the youngest child.]
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CAPT. DAVID MCCAULEY, nephew of Robert, and of Mrs. Thomas Stuart, came here from Merrimack, as heir of Capt. Thomas Stuart's property, and received the farm now that of John G. Flint, Esq., at the Branch. He probably came not long subsequent to his uncle's death in 1803. He was a smart young man, and took a prominent place in town. Was much in town business. Had a store at the Branch in the Swain house, under firm name of " McCoy and McCauley." At the time of his death he had a store in the basement of the three-story house at the Branch. He took a wager to reap an acre of rye in Hiram Griffin's field east of the Branch for $2.50, to be done before noon or no pay. Won the pay, being done a half-hour before noon, but it cost him his life. He lived several months after, but was never well. His death occurred April 16, 1818, aged thirty-five. Never married. Was greatly mourned. Soon after his death, his father, Alexander McCauley of Merrimack, moved on to his farm at the Branch ; but in three years he moved back to his own' town. Capt. David McCauley was captain of the grenadiers. He had two sisters in Antrim, Mrs. Thomas McCoy and Mrs. Sutheric Weston.
MCCLARY.
JOHN McCLARY of Antrim was son of David and Rachel (Strathearn) McClary of Bedford. The parents were married in the north of Ireland, and five of their children were born there. The two youngest were born in Boston. The family came over to Boston in 1751 and resided there about eight years. They removed and settled in Bed- ford in 1759. David was constable of that town in 1771, - an office then of considerable importance. Various circumstances indicate a relation, perhaps cousinship, between David McClary of Bedford and Lieut. Da- vid McClary of Londonderry, who was killed at the battle of Benning- ton. David McClary of Bedford had children : David, Jr., Thomas, John, Molly, Sally (who married James McAllister of Antrim), Betty, and William. David, Jr., and Thomas were out in the Revolutionary army, probably from Bedford. Some of these lived in Merrimack. Some were officers in the " Training-Band and Alarm-List " of these two towns. Chiefly, however, we have to do with John, who came here. He was born in Ireland about 1735. Whom he married we cannot learn, nor aught of his early history. He came here with his family in 1775, though he had no doubt been here a summer or two previous in making preparation. The opening he made was adjoining that of his brother-in- law, James McAllister, and was the place known now as the " Madison Tuttle farm." There was a John McClary in the battle of Bennington, in the Londonderry company, - perhaps this man. John McClary was a linen-weaver by trade,- a trade then frequently followed by men as well as women, and notably so among the settlers of Londonderry and Bedford. These Scotch weavers were known far and near; and they did very supe- rior work. The death of John McClary occurred in 1796, at a good age. His children were: ---
1. JOHN, JR., [date of birth unknown. He m. a McNiel of Hillsborough, and settled in that town; but afterwards
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moved to some town in Vermont, after which we lose track of him. He had a son, David, who remained here and made his home with the Woodburys at South Village, and d. there in 1850, unm. This David was, at times in his life, greatly troubled with witches. He thought that on certain nights he was bridled and ridden by a witch. On one occasion, therefore, having borne with said witch as long as he felt disposed to, and having got a trunk ready beside his bed, at the critical moment he grabbed the bridle and threw it into the trunk. Then he put that trunk within another trunk and that within another, till there were seven trunks, and then he hid the keys. This summary and desperate process broke up the riding business of that witch! It was a wise step! The only improvement that could be suggested at this remote day would be to have put in the witch instead of the bridle ! That trunk was promised as a legacy to a cer- tain doctor in town, and would have been very valuable in those days ; but it never appeared !]
2. THOMAS, [frozen to death in 1790. He went to Hillsborough in the evening, and on his return home lost his way and per- ished. This Thomas was probably in the army, as the town "" Voted that Thomas McClearys Reats be freed," April, 1782.]
3. WILLIAM, [possibly oldest child. Don't know whom he mar- ried. He was the first settler on the Lawson White place ; had a large family ; was frozen to death on the turnpike Dec. 25, 1811. Have no means of knowing his age, but can judge somewhat by the fact that he was highway-surveyor in 1783. An old person remembers him as "sixty years old or a little more," though probably this is a high estimate. Nothing can be learned of his children. Since writing the above, I find, that, in noticing his death, the " Cabinet " of Jan. 20, 1812, speaks of him as "aged about 61."]
MCCLURE.
DAVID MCCLURE came from Scotland to Boston in 1720. In that city he married Martha Glenn, and had a large family. He moved to Candia, where he died, and David, his eldest son, married a Dinsmore, and settled in Goffstown, but in mature years moved to Deering and died there. His son, Col. David McClure of Antrim, grandson of the first David, came here in 1784, married Martha Wilson of Londonderry, and began the farm at the corner next east of the Jonathan Nesmith place.
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After some years he exchanged his farm for the one now known as the McClure place, on the old road east of Samuel Dinsmore's, where he died May 25, 1835, aged seventy-seven. His wife died Jan. 18, 1847, aged eighty-six. He was a worthy and respectable citizen; was greatly inter- ested in the militia, held many military offices, and was, a long time, commander of the noted Twenty-sixth Regiment. His family are all gone from town, and most of them from earth, but were as follows : -
1. JAMES, [b. March 23, 1788 ; m. Mary Wilson of Hillsborough, lived in that town and in Antrim, and d. here Feb. 15, 1855. Their only child, -
Newell J., (b. in Hillsborough in 1819, m. Hannah W. Chase, and lived in New York City, where he d. in 1856.)]
2. POLLY, [b. Jan. 9, 1790, and d. unm. in 1849.]
3. DAVID, [b. March 2, 1791, m. Rebecca Yewer, and lived in Boston, where he d. April 25, 1828, leaving one child : - Mary J., (who came here to live with her grandfather after her father's death, and was counted as one of the family. She m. John Barker of Henniker, Nov. 21, 1839, and lived some years in that town, and her children were born there. They subsequently moved to Boston, where he d. in 1873, and she still survives. )]
4. ELENOR, [d. in childhood.]
5. ROBERT, [b. April 14, 1794; m. Esther L. Weston in 1828; lived on the old homestead in Antrim, where all his chil- dren but Esther were born, then lived in Boston awhile, but eventually moved to Stoddard, where he d. June 6, . 1872, aged 78. His wife d. in 1835, aged 27 years. Their children were : -
Elenor W., (m. Joel Starkey Dec. 11, 1851 ; d. June 17, 1852, aged 25.)
Robert C., (b. in 1830, m. Carrie Cragin of Greenville, and d. in that place in 1858.)
Grosvenor, (b. in 1832 ; m. 1st, Lucy E. Townes of Roxbury ; 2d, Maria E. Roberts of Peterborough, and now lives in Stoddard.)
Esther A., (b. in 1834, m. George W. George of Amherst, and now lives in Washington, D. C.)]
6. SAMUEL W., [b. July 1, 1796, and d. unm. at the age of 32.] 7. BOYD H., [b. March 18, 1798; m. Roxy Peltz of Stoddard ; lived awhile with his parents in Antrim, and d. in 1869. His children are : -
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Manly, (b. in Stoddard in 1827, m. Experience Hastings, and lives in Greenfield.)
John, (b. in Antrim in 1829, m. Hannah Upton, and lives in Stoddard.)
Lucinda, (b. in Antrim in 1831, m. Samuel Dutton, and lives in Pensaukie, Wis.)
Martha J., (b. in Antrim in 1833, became 2d wife of Joel Starkey, and lives in Staffordshire, Conn.)
Boyd J., (b. in Antrim in 1836, and d. unm. in 1870.)
Caroline, (b. in Antrim in 1838, m. Dr. M. V. B. Morse, and lives in Marblehead, Mass.)
George A., (b. in Antrim in 1841, m. Sarah E. Barden, and lives in Stoddard.)
Emeline S., (b. in Antrim in 1843, m. Charles Kimball of Hillsborough, and d. in 1866.)
Augusta M., (b. in Antrim in 1845, m. Henry Bidwell, and lives in Swanzey. )]
8. CYRUS, [b. March 4, 1800, m. Nancy Davison of Framing- ham, Mass., and d. in 1847.]
9. MARK F., [b. April 4, 1802, m. Mary Vinton, and d. in 1836.] 10. JOHN, [b. Feb. 22, 1804, m. Jane H. Brackett March 26, 1840, and lives in Revere, Mass.]
11. MANLY, [b. in 1806, m. Martha Page, and d. in Mason in 1855, aged 49.]
McCOY.
THOMAS McCOY lived, in the early years of the town, near Dustin Barrett's, but nothing is known of whence he came or whither he went. The last record of him here was in 1783, when a road was laid out by his house.
ENSIGN JOHN McCOY, son of Dea. Alexander McCoy, whose ances- tors went from Argyleshire, Scotland, to Ireland, thence to Londonderry (now Windham), was born in the last-named town in 1750. He served five years in the Revolutionary war; was a privateersman, and helped capture thirteen merchant-ships, - one, he said, for every State in the Union ; marched in a company from Londonderry to join the army at. Saratoga against Burgoyne; returned from the army in 1780, and the same year married Margaret Boyd, and moved to Hillsborough, but soon came to Antrim and began the Elijah Gould place, which, in subsequent years, was long occupied as a tavern stand. There his children were born; but in his later years he bought, of Adam Nichols, the place on the hill in the east part of the town next south of George Turner's (buildings now gone). He died Jan. 9, 1823, aged seventy-two. His wife, Mar-
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garet, died April 4, 1817, aged sixty-three ; married, second, Mrs. Mary (Hutchins) Hartwell of Hillsborough, and after his death she married Obadiah Hadley of Bradford, and died in Peterborough in 1848, aged eighty-one. The children were: -
1. THOMAS, [b. March 10, 1782, m. Betsey McCalley of Merri- mack, and lived on the paternal estate. He was a man of executive ability, and was kept by his townsmen in positions of trust for many years, having been chosen selectman eighteen times. He was one of the committee to build the Center Church. He d. May 22, 1851. His wife d. Oct. 24, 1871, aged 87. Children : -
David, (b. in 1811, and d. in infancy.)
Mary, (b. in 1813, m. David W. Bell of Bennington, Jan. 28, 1836, and is now living a widow in Francestown.)
Eliza A., (b. in 1816, m. Solomon H. Griffin May 8, 1838, and d. in 1853.)
Caroline, (b. in 1818, m. James M. Appleton in 1839, and now lives in Deering.)
James Madison, (d. Dec. 31, 1826, at the age of six.)
Milton, (b. in 1824, m. Elisabeth Appleton, and lives in Deer- ing.)]
2. JOHN, [b. June 14, 1784 ; m. Hannah Taylor. April 13, 1813; settled on the Samuel Weeks place, where the large brick house by the East cemetery now stands, and which he built in 1822. After some years he sold and moved to Benning- ton, where he d. Dec. 7, 1861, at the age of 77. His chil- dren were : -
Louisa, (d. in childhood.)
Mary, (b. July 18, 1815 ; m. David Tapley, a merchant in Lowell.)
Prof. James M., (b. June 15, 1817 ; m. 1st, Alma L. Mooar of Francestown ; 2d, Annie M. Dennis of Lowell. Has been for thirty years a teacher in that city, having begun there in 1842. He entered Amherst College in 1841, but was soon compelled by ill health to leave. In 1859 he estab- lished a commercial college in Lowell, which was very suc- cessful, and of which he remains the leading officer. Has one child, Louise J. McCoy, and she is the only great-grand- child of the early settler and soldier, John, that bears the name of McCoy ; she is a student of Wellesley College, class of 1879.)
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Hannah W., (b. March 15, 1819; m. George Young of Du- buque, Io.)
John, Jr., (b. Jan. 21, 1822; was formerly a teacher in Geor- gia, but went to California in 1849, where he d. the next year, May 30, aged 28.)
Louisa J., (d. Sept. 29, 1845, aged 20.)]
3. ALEXANDER, [b. July 21, 1786 ; m. Katherine Gibson ; built the Widow Newman's house and there kept store, but after- wards engaged in trade at Hillsborough Upper Village. He lived to old age, and d. without children. ]
4. ROBERT, [was a trader in company with his brother Alexan- der, at Hillsborough, and, like him, d. there in old age, childless, June 19, 1866.]
McDOLE.
WILLIAM McDOLE came here from Bedford in the year 1779, and built his cabin on the William S. Foster place. He bought the land for twenty-five cents per acre. Here he lived till 1808, when he moved to Landgrove, Vt. Two sons, David and William, were born here, and had been at school here several winters before they moved away.
Alexander McDole, supposed to be a brother of William, Sen., and living in the same house with him, bought one of the first pews in the old meeting-house. This is all now known of this respectable family that lived here about thirty years. The town voted to have a road to " Wil- liam McDoals," March 14, 1780.
MCFARLAND.
DANIEL MCFARLAND was born in Goffstown. He came here in 1774, and settled where N. W. C. Jameson now lives. He married Mar- tha Steele, and died in 1829, at the great age of ninety-six. His wife died April 25, 1831, aged seventy-nine. Mr. McFarland was a man of many oddities and air-castles. He imagined himself to be heir of great honor and wealth in Scotland, and planned his mansion accordingly ; but he never finished it, and never got the title, and never got the money. Part of the enormous building was taken down after his death, and out of the remaining part Mr. Jameson made the beautiful residence burned in 1862. But, though he never received either the title or the treasure he dreamed of, he was generous as a prince; his great house was never fastened against anybody by night or day, and the class called " tramps," then less numerous, always found with him a fire to warm by, and a sheltering roof. In his latter days he was a great reader, and the Bible came to be the only book he read. He was a sturdy Presbyterian, and his name is signed to a petition from Goffstown in 1771 to Gov. Wentworth, to have a Presbyterian parish formed in that town. Mr. McFarland was a man of genuine Scotch wit and cunning, always turn- ing jokes on the young folks. Some of the boys remember his giving
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them apples when he would always have an old potato or a stone in his hand to slip into the boy's pocket. On one occasion he went to Dea. Baldwin's on an errand, at an hour a little later than the usual meal- time, and as they were just sitting down to breakfast they asked him to sit down with them. But he replied, " Na, na, I have my breakfast in the marnin' !" But little is known of Mr. McFarland's family. He had four sons and one daughter, but all have been long since dead, or gone from town. All known of them is as follows : -
1. JAMES, [the eldest son, m. Rena Stewart, had a son and a daughter here, and then moved to New York. The daugh- ter, Betsey, remained here, m. Oliver Dickey, and then moved to New York. The son, Henry, was the only de- scendant of Daniel bearing the name of McFarland.]
2. DANIEL, [the second son, m. Katy Miller of Peterborough, sister of Gen. Miller, but she soon d. (April 4, 1810), aged 26 ; and he went West and never returned. The " Cabinet" of April, 1810, paid her the highest possible praise].
3. JOHN, [the third son, became a lawyer, being admitted to the bar February, 1815. He practiced at Hillsborough Upper Village, and d. there unm. in 1819, aged 31.]
4. THOMAS, [d. in Antrim about 1824, aged 30.]
5. PEGGY, [m. Isaac Reess, and went to Maine.]
McGEE.
SOLOMON MCGEE came here from Lempster about 1836, and lived some years with Clark Hopkins in the McFarland house. Subsequently, he bought the Calvin Bullard house (Gibson's) in South Village, which he occupied up to the time of his death. His wife was a Wellman. He had three children: Ann, -, and Sydney. The widow and children went to New York. The following notice in the " Amherst Cabinet " about April 6, 1845, is spoken of by an aged person as "every word true " : -
" At the Washington House, Nashua, March 27, 1845, after a short but severe illness, Mr. Solomon McGee of Antrim, aged thirty-seven. Mr. McGee has for several years driven the stage between Antrim and Nashua, in which vocation he shared the utmost confidence of the com- munity. A true and ardent advocate of the cause of temperance, and an honest man, he lived and died universally beloved and respected. Some two years since, he united with the church in Bennington, and lived and died rejoicing in the Lord."
MCILVAINE.
An old record of the McIlvaine family states that Robert McIlvaine and his wife, who were Scotch emigrants to the north of Ireland, and stanch Protestants, were murdered in their bed by the Catholics in Ire-
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land. Their son, Daniel McIlvaine, then a small babe, escaped in bed by avoiding notice of the murderers, was brought up by friends, and in early manhood came over to America, and settled in Windham about 1740, where he married Mary Smith and had children, three of whom - John, William, and Robert - came to Antrim. Mrs. Mary (Smith) McIlvaine died in Antrim at advanced age, Feb. 16, 1803.
The name of this family is variously written, - MacIl'Vaine, McAlvin, McIlvin, and McIlvaine. The name was undoubtedly MacIlvaine, written in full, with double accent, - on first syllable and last. It would seem that good taste, and respect for the Scotch fathers, would combine to retain the form here placed at the head of the family. The form " McIlvin " is of recent date, unpronounced, and never seen outside of this town.
JOHN MCILVAINE, son of Daniel and Mary (Smith) McIlvaine of Windham, came here first, and settled the Boyd Hopkins place (house now gone; stood about ten rods west of school-house No. 6) in 1782. He married Mary A. Quigley of Francestown, and moved back to that town in 1794. He had no children, and died in good old age. He was selectman in this town in 1793.
WILLIAM MCILVAINE, brother of John, came here the same year (1782), and settled the John Barker place. He married Jane Quigley of Francestown (sister of Mary A. who married John), buried all their children here, and went back to Francestown in 1790, where they had other children, but all are now dead.
. ROBERT MCILVAINE, another brother, was born Sept. 19, 1748. He married Jane McAdams Dec. 30, 1773; came here in 1785, and built a house on the old road leading at that time from the present Daniel McIlvaine's to the top of Meeting-house Hill, on the same farm, and some fifty rods west of the present house, where he died March 27, 1833, one month later than his wife, who died Feb. 17, 1833, aged eighty-two. In those days, when there were almost no books, Robert McIlvaine got up a written arithmetic for his own family, and taught them. This book, in manuscript, is still in existence, and exhibits much mathematical knowl- edge and skill. The children were :-
1. ELIZABETH, [b. in Windham Dec. 29, 1774 ; d. Dec. 26, 1776.] 2. MARY, [b. in Windham Dec. 8, 1776, m. David Gregg in De- cember, 1799, and d. April 11, 1870. She was a woman of great piety and kindness.]
3. MARGARET, [b. in Windham Aug. 26, 1779, m. Robert Gregg, and moved to New York, where she d. June 14, 1854.]
4. JANE, [b. in Windham, Aug. 17, 1781 ; d. Nov. 4, 1796.]
5. SARAH, [b. in Windham Sept. 26, 1783, m. Henry Todd in first part of 1802, and d. Nov. 2 of the same year, on the . day of the birth of her only child.]
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6. LIEUT. DANIEL, [b. in Windham, Oct. 24, 1785 ; m. Hannah Barker Jan. 28, 1808, and lived on the old homestead, being the only son of a large family who lived to adult age. His descendants are numerous, and nearly all of them have set- tled in Antrim. He d. Feb. 25, 1833, in the prime of life, and highly respected. His widow d. June 15, 1867, aged 80. Their children are as follows: -
Sarah, (b. Oct. 30, 1808 ; m. Henry B. Swett, Oct. 23, 1834.) Daniel, Jr., (b. April 6, 1810 ; m. Mary A. Marshall of Brad- ford, March, 1854, and they live on the old homestead, hav- ing children : Myra E., who was b. Feb. 2, 1855 ; Ida L., who was b. March 18, 1857, and d. April 8, 1877, - a young lady attractive in person, devoted in religion, and resigned to her early death ; Mary Abbie, who was b. March 23, 1859; and Abi L., who was b. May 2, 1863.)
Moody B., (b. July 12, 1812 ; m. Mary W. Stickney, daughter of Dr. Stickney of Antrim, Oct. 29, 1835. He carried on the wheelwright business at the Steele mills, built the Esty house in 1835 where he lived some years, and then moved to the old Stickney place at Branch Village. He was engaged in trade several years, and built the George P. Little stand for that purpose in 1852. He d. Dec. 16, 1877, after a long and most distressing sickness, which he bore with great patience. Was chief-marshal Centennial Day ; a good pre- siding officer ; and was one of the pleasantest and kindest of men. His children are : Augusta S., who was b. July 3, 1837, m. Andrew J. Bennett of New Boston July 3, 1859, and lives in that town ; Louisa H., who was b. Oct. 23, 1840, m. Abner B. Crombie Nov. 29, 1860, and they live on the Stickney place at the Branch ; Almeda M., who was b. Aug. 4, 1844, and m. George P. Little of Antrim March 30, 1870 ; and Myra F., who d. Sept. 24, 1851, aged 2 years.) Jane, (b. June 23, 1814, m. Charles C. Champney Dec. 26, 1833, and d. Aug. 18, 1879.)
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