History of the town of Antrim, New Hampshire, from its earliest settlement to June 27, 1877, with a brief genealogical record of all the Antrim families, Part 64

Author: Cochrane, Warren Robert, 1835-1912
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Manchester, N. H., Mirror Steam Printing Press
Number of Pages: 942


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1. MARY, [d. in 1831, at the age of about three years, and was buried on the hill.]


2. JACOB, [b. in 1834 ; d. in infancy and was buried on the hill.] 3. SOPHRONIA A., [b. Jan. 26, 1832, and d. in 1851.]


4. TRISTRAM M., [b. April 25, 1836 ; m. Lizzie M. Whitmore of Salisbury on Thanksgiving Day, 1868. He bought the bedstead-factory in Clinton of Charles S. Brooks, and car- ried on the business until the factory was burned Feb. 8, 1876. He has no children.]


5. DEA. ENOCH C., [b. Oct. 20, 1839 ; m. Harriet E. Parmenter, daughter of George F. Parmenter, Feb. 21, 1861. He bought the Dodge mills in 1859, and engaged in the manu- facture of bedsteads, cradles, etc. Then sold out, and shortly after, in 1862, he entered the army in the Ninth Regiment. Near the close of the next year he was " sent home to die, but says he isn't dead yet !" After his recovery he bought the Hastings house and privilege (mill burned before), put up the small part of the mill, and again commenced the manufacture of bedsteads.' In about five years he sold to Mr. Hastings, and soon after built the George B. Paige


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house, now house of Henry Rogers ; then bought the Cum- mings shop, where he manufactured some fourteen kinds of cribs and cradles. He built the house by the shop in 1870, and occupied the same till 1880, when he sold to Abbott F. True, and bought the brick house known as the Cummings house. Built a new mill in 1880 on the spot where that of his brother had been burned, and continues similar manu- factures there. He was appointed deacon in the Presby- terian Church in 1876. Dea. Paige m. 2d, Lizzie C. Flem- ing of Bennington. His children are,: -


Clara E., (b. July 30, 1862.).


Bertolette, (b. March 3, 1865.) Morton, (b. July 15, 1867.)]


A family of Paige brothers, not known to be closely connected with the preceding, came to Antrim from Hudson in 1808. There were John, Jacob, Isaac, Seth, Ezekiel, Daniel, and David. John was killed in bat- tle in the Revolution. Jacob settled in Litchfield; Seth in Bedford; Isaac remained in his native town; and the three last came here. Fan- nie Paige, a daughter of Jacob, was brought up by Samuel Marshall of Antrim, married Moses Robb of Stoddard, and is now living very aged in that town.


EZEKIEL PAIGE, of whom we know almost nothing, succeeded Mc- Dole on the Foster place, now Washington Dustin's, in 1808, and moved to some place in Vermont in the fall of 1815, beyond which we cannot trace him. He-was collector and also constable of Antrim in 1809. Of his children we learn only this, though probably he had quite a family : -


1. DEBORAH, [m. Jesse McAllister April 20, 1815.]


DANIEL PAIGE, born in Hudson Nov. 14, 1777, came here about the same time as Ezekiel, and lived south of the pond in a pasture after- ward Capt. Worthley's. There never was any road to this humble home. It has been gone many years. He married, in 1801, Elisabeth Robinson of this town, who died April 8, 1817, having had eight children and being thirty-seven years old. He married, second, Mrs. Sarah (Hartshorn) Riddle of Merrimack, and by her had four children. He died at Amos- keag, April 21, 1838. He moved from Antrim to Bedford about 1810, and the five oldest of the children were born here. They were : -


1. DANIEL, JR., [d. in infancy in 1803.]


2. REUBEN R., [b. in 1804, m. Mary Smith of Henniker, and d. at Beaver Dam, Wis., in 1873.]


3. SARAH R., [b. in 1806 ; m. Mark Dodge of Henniker ; moved to Monticello, Io., and d. there in 1872.]


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4. ELIZA, [b. in 1809 ; m. Simon Jenness of Bedford, and d. in that town in 1868.]


5. JOHN R., [b. in 1810 ; m. Mariam Elliot of Boscawen, and lives in Manchester.]


6. WARREN, [b. in 1812, m. Martha H. Roby of Merrimack, and d. in Manchester in 1868.]


7. HORACE C., [b. in 1814 ; m. Sarah W. Davis of Concord, Nov. 7, 1841; lives in Manchester ; is surveyor of lumber on the corporations, and is a man worthy and highly es- teemed. ]


8. MARY H., [b. in 1816 ; m. Robert Sloan of Maine; went to Monticello, Io., and d. there.]


9. JERUSHA H., [b. in 1818 ; d. aged 10.]


10. HANNAH M., [b. in 1820 ; m. Frank Raymond of Hopkinton, and d. in that town.]


11. CLARISSA R., [b. in 1822 ; m. Benjamin Hartshorn of Man- chester, and d. there in 1863.]


12. DANIEL, JR., [b. in 1824 ; d. in Amoskeag, aged 16.]


DAVID PAIGE came here probably somewhat later than Ezekiel and Daniel, and lived several years on the Isaac Brown place at the end of the road in what was called the " city. " Later he lived on the Samuel Weeks place in the east part of the town, and perhaps in other places. He was in Stoddard from 1828 to 1835, in the east part of that town near Antrim line, where there is no house now. He married, first, - who died of spotted fever in March, 1812; second, Polly Witherspoon of Antrim, Dec. 11, 1812; third, it seems, a Mrs. Richardson, at one time of Peterborough. The last survived her husband, and died in Henniker. David Paige had a large family, of whom but little is known. The first wife left three children.


1. DAVID, JR., [went from here to Hudson.]


2. WILLIAM, [went to the Mormons and became a preacher among them.]


3. POLLY.


4. ACHSAH, [m. and d. in Nashua.]


5. HARRIET, [m. Joseph Copp.]


6. DUSTIN.


7. LOVISA.


8. HORACE, [lived awhile in Hillsborough. ]


PARKER.


WILLIAM PARKER, son of William Parker, came here in 1787, from Dracut, Mass. His father, then quite aged, came with him, and died


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here a few years after. He settled the farm now John Munhall's; went to the South Village in 1809, and tended the grist-mill many years. He married a Widow Harvey, had no children, and moved to Anson, Me., about 1820.


CAPT. ALEXANDER PARKER, long a selectman of Society Land and Greenfield, came here in his old age to live with his son David. He died here about 1815, aged about eighty-seven, and was buried, it is said, on the hill, though his wives lay elsewhere.


DAVID PARKER, son of Alexander and Nancy (Dickey) Parker of Litchfield, afterwards of Greenfield, and grandson of Alexander Parker, an emigrant from England to Nashua, was born in 1766; came here in 1792, and began the farm, now unoccupied, next south of the old Thomas Jameson place (George Butterfield's). The old house was burned in 1873. Mr. Parker married Martha Ramsay of Greenfield, and died at the age of eighty-eight, March 19, 1854. Their children were as fol- lows : -


1. ALEXANDER, [b. June 8, 1795 ; was out in the war of 1812 ; m. Nancy Smith of Deering, April 13, 1824, and lived some years on the old farm ; then lived some thirty years where Charles Appleton now lives, and d. in 1872. His fourteen children were as follows : -


Harrison, (b. Jan. 11, 1825, and d. in childhood.)


Milton, (b. Aug. 12, 1826, and d. in childhood. Harrison and Milton both d. in one day.)


Capt. Allen, (b. Jan. 13, 1828 ; m. Amorette Preston Nov. 1, 1848 ; lived on the old place and d. there, Nov. 29, 1857, being fatally injured by blasting rocks under his barn. He was captain of the grenadiers at the time of his death. His widow became second wife of David W. Bowman of Henni- ker, Nov. 17, 1874. The latter d. Nov. 8, 1877. Capt. Parker left four children, as follows : Ella J., who was b. Oct. 18, 1849, m. Enoch E. Jackson Aug. 29, 1877, but lived only two days; Charles, who was b. March 6, 1852 ; Lizzie L., who was b. April 17, 1854 ; and Georgia A., who was b. June 17, 1857.)


Judson, (b. March 15, 1829 ; in. Elizabeth McColley, and lives in St. Paul, Minn., being mail agent between that place and Chicago.)


Nancy J., (b. Oct. 8, 1830; m. Charles Appleton, Dec. 17, 1850.)


Margaret A., (b. Jan. 13, 1833 ; m. Albert Fisher ; moved to Weare, and d. May 30, 1859.)


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Mary S., (b. April 24, 1834, and d. Oct. 30, 1860.)


Sarah M., (b. May 29, 1835 ; m. James H. Favor, and lives in California.)


Milton, (b. June 2, 1838; went to California many years ago and is supposed to be dead.)


Almira, (b. Dec. 21, 1839; m. William Brandon, and lives in Champlain, Minn.)


Mindwell, (d. in childhood.)


Ruhama, (b. Feb. 16, 1841; d. at age of 20.)


Alfred, (b. June 13, 1844; now lives in the West.)


Eben, (b. May 12, 1846 ; lives in Texas. )]


2. MARTHA, [b. Dec. 1, 1796 ; m. William Carr. ]


3. JANE, [b. June 30, 1802; d. unm. aged 35.]


4. LINN, [twin-brother of Jane; m. Ruth Holden of Orange, Mass., June 23, 1835, and moved on to the Stephen Wood- bury place. The children are : -


Edward E., (b. March 26, 1838; m. Mary Ballard of Ware, Mass., and d. there Sept. 17, 1874, aged 36.)


Helen A., (b. Aug. 15, 1841 ; m. Henry A. Waite, and lives in Greenfield.)


Abbie J., (b. Sept. 2, 1847 ; d. May 24, 1878.)


Emma A., (b. Dec. 23, 1849, and d. Nov. 5, 1869.)]


5. EBENEZER, [b. July 18, 1804; m. Deborah Robinson, and lives in Charlestown, Mass.]


6. ALMIRA, [b. April 8, 1806; m. Alvah White; went to Fran- cestown, and d. there Dec. 21, 1838.]


NATHANIEL PARKER, the only colored man in town, son of Cæsar and Margaret (Spear) Parker, was born in Weare in 1802, and came here at the age of seven to live with David McCauley. He has lived in Antrim most of the time since; has never married; is a kind, indus- trious, and smart man, whose memory has been of great service in pre- paring this book.


JONAS PARKER and his sister Lydia, simple-minded and amiable souls, came here from Methuen, Mass., about 1810, and lived in a small house, opposite the town-house, where a store had formerly been kept by Robert Butler, and both died there very aged. They were cared for by the neighbors with great kindness, being invited here and there in turn, and always having the best of Thanksgiving dinners, - all of which exhibited a most commendable trait of character in the people, which trait is very apt to show itself among them to this day ! After their death the house stood empty, and out of repair; and as no one seemed to have any business with it, one moony night the boys quietly took it to


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pieces and piled it up. Nobody appeared to hear the sound or know any- thing about it ; and if any inquiry was made as to who did it, the answer always was, " Dr. Whiton and Mr. Pratt !" The latter was an aged invalid at the time, and the former the minister of the town !


LUTHER C. PARKER, son of William and Susanna Parker, came here from Groton, Mass., on to the William Parker place (Munhall's); married Relief Bowers of Hancock; died Aug. 21, 1824, aged thirty-eight. His wife died Feb. 12, 1843, aged fifty-one. Had children : -


1. JOHN, [m. Cynthia Bullard, Jan. 13, 1841; lived in many places in town ; d. June 11, 1874, aged 60. His wife d. May 21, 1872, aged 70. They had children : - Melissa, (d. March 1, 1873, aged 29.)


Martha E., (d. Nov. 23, 1861, aged 16.)]


2. MARY A., [m. Dexter Symonds; d. in Lowell, March 18, 1855.]


3. LUTHER, [d. unm. in early life.]


OREN D. PARKER, son of Silas and Alvira (Keyes) Parker, came here from Hillsborough; married Elisabeth A. Webster; lived in several places in town, and then moved to Stoddard Box, and died there in 1862, ' aged thirty-two. His children were all born in this town, and were as follows: -


1. CARRIE E., [b. Oct. 26, 1851; m. G. F. Crowell of Hillsbor- ough, who is now a druggist in Indianapolis, Ind.}


2. LUVA A., [b. Feb. 24, 1853 ; m. Andrew S. Mack, and lives in Rice county, Kan.]


3. CHARLES C., [b. Jan. 17, 1860 ; now lives in Windsor. ]


4. EDDIE O., [b. June 7, 1861 ; now lives in Antrim, Minn.]


PARKHURST.


DANIEL J. PARKHURST, son of Luke and Laurana (Priest) Park- hurst of Troy (part formerly Marlborough), and grandson of Josiah and Nancy (Jones) Parkhurst, was born in 1833. The family came from Fram- ingham, Mass. He was taken to Fitzwilliam to live at the age of fourteen years; married Ellen M. Rugg in 1853, and came here in 1873, and bought the Wallace mills at the Branch. These he has enlarged, re- paired, and improved, and filled with new machinery. Is every inch a driving, live man. Employs five or six men, and does a smart business in sawing lumber, manufacturing shingles, staves, pail-handles, etc., etc. His wife died Jan. 23, 1876. She was amiable, smart, and universally loved. He married, second, Margaret J. Wood of Antrim, Feb. 20, 1879. He has one child : -


1. FRANK L., [b. May 12, 1855; m. Sina M. Carr; is in com- pany with his father in manufacturing.]


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PARKINSON.


REV. ROYAL PARKINSON lived on the farm now Franklin Rob- inson's through most of the year 1855. He was son of Robert and Eliza- beth (Kelso) Parkinson, and grandson of Henry and - (McCurdy) Parkinson, and was born in Columbia Nov. 8, 1815; was brother of Hon. Henry Parkinson, county commissioner, recently killed by the cars in Nashua; was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842; at Andover Theological Seminary in 1847; ordained over Congregational Church in Cape Elizabeth, Me., Oct. 18, 1848; married Joanna Griffin of Bruns- wick, Me., Nov. 21, 1848; came here in feeble health, but after partial recovery had a call to West Falmouth, Me., whither he went from An- trim ; and was afterwards for years pastor at Randolph, Vt. He had a family of six sons, but buried two from scarlet fever in Falmouth in 1858. The others were : -


1. JOSEPH G., [b. in Cape Elizabeth, Me., Aug. 10, 1849 ; lost hearing by scarlet fever ; graduated at the National Deaf- Mute College, Washington, D. C., in 1869 ; went into Patent Office and was promoted to a chief-examinership ; is now a lawyer in Washington ; received degree of A. M. from Dart- mouth College in 1873.]


2. ROBERT H., [twin-brother of Joseph ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1870; is law-partner of his brother Joseph in Washington.]


3. GEORGE B., [b. in Nashua, March 5, 1852 ; graduated at Dart- mouth College in 1875 ; is now a lawyer in Boston.]


4. WILLIAM D., [b. in Falmouth, Me., Aug. 10, 1857 ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1878 ; is law-student in Nashua.]


PARMENTER.


The name Parmenter signifies " a mountaineer." They were French Huguenots, and fled to England in 1520 to escape massacre. John Par- menter (whose father John came over with him) came from England in 1635, and became one of the first proprietors of Framingham, Mass. He had a son George, who married Hannah Johnson, and died in 1727. Amos, son of this George, married Mary Wood in 1715, and, besides other children, had a son Phinehas, who was born in 1717, married Zebulah Parmenter, and they had but one child, Amos, born in 1736, who was the father of Dea. Amos Parmenter of Antrim.


DEA. AMOS PARMENTER, son of Amos and Mary (Berry) Par- menter, was born in Framingham, Mass., in 1769. (The town records of Framingham show that he was four years older than his tombstone indi- cates.) He married, first, Tryphena Bannister of Framingham in 1798, and came from that place to Antrim in 1800. He had great difficulty in finding the town, then called in common talk " Enterum," a pronuncia-


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tion not yet dead. He traveled several miles northwest of Antrim, was displeased with the land, and was on his return home; but, on being told again of this township, he turned back and bought twenty-five acres on the spot now owned by his son, George F. Parmenter, on which there was then a small house in the corner of the field northwest of the present house, which seems to have been built and occupied some years by Tay- lor Joslin. The rest of his large farm he subsequently bought and cleared. His wife died Feb. 2, 1818, aged thirty-six, and he married, . second, Mrs. Hannah Heald of Carlyle, Mass., in 1821. In 1827 he built the brick house; was appointed deacon in the Presbyterian Church in 1825. He was a live, wide-awake man, doing business for other people constantly, and filling many important places during his long life. Held all the offices the town could confer. His second wife died Dec. 29, 1859, aged eighty-six, and he survived her, dying Aug. 15, 1865, as easy as a child drops to sleep. Thus he entered on his ninety-seventh year. His children, all by the first wife, were : -


1. NANCY, [b. in Framingham, Sept. 21, 1798 ; m. Isaac Proctor April 22, 1828 ; settled in Bennington, where she d. in June, 1880.]


2. PRESCOTT, [b. April 26, 1800; m. Nancy Smith of Provi- dence, R. I., and followed the sea many years, but finally settled on the Cram place, where he d. Nov. 24, 1868. His widow d. Aug. 22, 1872, aged 71. They left but one child : -


Charles H., (m. Jennie E. Haskins ; lives in San Francisco.)] 3. LUKE, [b. March 1, 1802, m. Mary A. Pitcher, and d. at the age of 26, leaving one daughter who is a resident of Rhode Island.]


4. JOHN S., [b. Jan. 18, 1804, and in early life worked as a har- ness-maker in Canada; m. 1st, Eliza Muzzey of Weare, June 20, 1829, and moved into the house at the Center where he d., which was the old Paige house, moved and fitted up by him, with harness-shop beneath, about 1829. His wife d. Nov. 29, 1831, aged 22. He m. 2d, Caroline E. Tenney, April 5, 1832. She was found dead in her bed Dec. 31, 1867, and in the fall of 1868 Mr. Parmenter m. 3d, Mrs. Ruth E., widow of Erastus W. R. Huntley. Mr. Par- menter was a very genial, agreeable man, an excellent singer, and member of the Center choir nearly forty years. He was also sexton of the Center church many years, a member of the same, and his smiling face and gentlemanly bearing will long be remembered. He d. May 3, 1874, after a long and distressing illness, in Christian peace and hope. His


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children were as follows, the eldest being the child of his first wife, and the others by his second wife: -


Eliza A., (b. June 12, 1831 ; m. John Moor Duncan of Antrim, Dec. 16, 1851.)


Amos, (d. at the age of 7.)


Martin L., (b. October, 1836 ; m. Edna S. Munroe of Wash- ington ; was in the army, and d. in service Jan. 11, 1863, leaving one son, Frank M., b. in East Washington May 20, 1862. The widow m. Lyman Cram and now lives in Mar- low.)


Mary C., (b. March 9, 1840, m. Dr. Levi J. Pierce Feb. 19, 1861, and d. very suddenly April 15, 1863.)


Dr. Amos Irving, (b. Aug. 17, 1841 ; was in a drug-store at


- -, several years; during the war was steward in a hospital, and soon after commenced the practice of medi- cine in Winchester, where he remained until failing health compelled him to come home to die. He d. Aug. 17, 1868, aged 27.)


Edwin A., (b. Sept. 7, 1846; m. Mary S. Pierce of Winches- ter, June 26, 1877 ; is a merchant in Fitchburg, Mass.)


Fred C., (b. July 4, 1849. Was a merchant-tailor with store in Antrim for a time.)]


5. LAWSON, [b. Dec. 8, 1805 ; d. in infancy.]


6. CHARLES A., [b. March 10, 1807 ; m. Mary Barnes of Green- field, and moved to Bunker Hill, Ill.]


7. HORACE, [b. Dec. 13, 1808 ; m. Betsey Glover of Leominster, Mass., and resides in Lowell.]


8. GEORGE F., [b. July 4, 1810 ; m. Lucinda F. Green of Pitts- field, May 15, 1835 ; lived some years in Dover ; moved on to the old homestead in 1844, which he still retains in thrift and vigor. He is a seventh-son doctor, going far and near for many years, and credited with many cures. Their chil- dren are all dead save one, and in their repeated afflictions they have the sympathy of the whole community.


Olive, (b. Jan. 18, 1836 ; d. Sept. 10, 1838.)


Charles F., (b. Aug. 23, 1838 ; d. in the army, at New Orleans, . La., Feb. 12, 1863, and brought home for burial.)


Mary Tryphena, (b. July 16, 1840 ; became second wife of Theodore Graves of Boston, Jan. 16, 1866, where she d. Sept. 3, 1868. Katie A. Graves, b. in 1863, a daughter of Mr. Graves by his first wife, has lived with George F. Parmen-


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ter since the death of her step-mother, loved and cared for as an own child.)


Harriet E., (b. March 3, 1842, m. Dea. Enoch C. Paige Feb.


21, 1861, and d. Feb. 6, 1879.)


Abbie L., (b. Dec. 7, 1846 ; m. Bill Butterfield.)


Ann M., (b. June 5, 1850 ; d. in infancy.)]


9. ALMIRA, [b. April 16, 1812, m. Daniel Story Sept. 24, 1835, and d. July 25, 1846.]


10. GARDINER, [b. Jan. 18, 1814 ; m. Mary A. Huggins of New- port, and went to Bunker Hill, Ill. ; was one of the donors of the Center vestry. Is a furniture-dealer, and is a lead- ing man in that place.]


11. HARRIET, [b. July 24, 1815, m. Dimon Twiss Oct. 30, 1834, and d. Dec. 2, 1844.]


12. TRYPHENA, [b. Feb. 11, 1818; d. Dec. 6, 1818.]


PARSONS.


DR. WILLIAM M. PARSONS was son of Josiah and Judith (Bad -. ger) Parsons of Gilmanton, and grandson of Abraham and Abigail (Bur- leigh) Parsons of Newmarket, and was born in Gilmanton Dec. 30, 1825. Judith Badger was sister of Gov. Badger of this State. Dr. William, or, as he was known in all this section, " Dr. Bill," studied at Gilmanton Academy, and with his brother, "Dr. Jo," and subsequently attended medical lectures at Dartmouth College, and at Woodstock, Vt., and was graduated at the latter place in 1851. Came to Antrim and established himself in practice in 1855, and continued in the same for about fifteen years, when he went West. Is now in practice in Manchester. Was reputed an excellent and skillful physician, and in difficult cases was called long distances into other towns. Dr. Joseph Parsons, brother of Dr. William, practiced in Bennington and Hillsborough, had a very marked reputation, is spoken of as holding the highest rank in his pro- fession, and died Sept. 2, 1859, aged thirty-nine. Another brother is Hon. Daniel Parsons, a lawyer of Rochester. Another brother, Prof. Chase Parsons, has just died in Evansville, Ind. A sister, Emily Par- sons, is the wife of Rev. Dr. Charles Tenney of Chester. Another sister, Elisabeth Parsons, married Rev. E. N. Hidden, formerly of Milford.


PATCH.


DAVID A. PATCH, son of Asa and Elizabeth (Averill) Patch, was born in Westfield, Mass., in 1783; married Susannah Parker of Groton, Mass., in 1804, and came here in 1815, bringing with him five children. He was a carpenter, and lived a few years in the McFarland house, then in the old Knights house, moved to Deering in 1820, and died in Lowell, Mass., in 1839. His children, of whom little can be ascertained, were as follows: -


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1. SUSAN C., [b. in Charlestown, Mass. ]


2. DAVID, [b. in Charlestown, Mass. ]


3. WILLIAM, [b. in Jaffrey.]


4. ELISABETH, [b. in Jaffrey.]


5. CAROLINE, [b. in Jaffrey.]


6. MARY JANE, [b. in Antrim in 1818, m. James M. Hopkins in 1836, and d. in Mont Vernon in 1863.]


7. ISRAEL B., [b. in Deering, m. Susan H. Whittemore in 1839, went to Milford, and d. in California in 1852.]


8. FANNIE B., [b. in Deering; m. John W. Hutchinson in Mil- ford in 1843, one of the famous Hutchinson singers. ]


9. MARTHA A., [b. in Deering, m. Joseph C. Duncklee, and d. in Boston in 1865.]


10. LOUISA M., [b. in Deering, m. Samuel Gould, and d. in Bos- ton in 1869.]


PATTEE.


HON. LEMUEL N. PATTEE, son of Peter and Polly (Merrill) Pat- tee of Goffstown, and grandson of John and Hannah (Hadley) Pattee, was born in that town Feb. 5, 1804; married Vashti Little in 1827. They had only one child, Mary F., born May 29, 1828, who graduated at the New Hampton Seminary, and married John B. Woodbury, March 6, 1849, and died Oct. 15, 1858, leaving three children, whose names are given under the Woodbury family. Mr. Pattee was appointed register of probate in 1841 for Hillsborough County, and held the office ten years, residing at this time in Amherst. He then removed to Antrim. Was moderator here for four March meetings; was representative for Antrim in 1855, 1859, and 1860; was secretary of state for New Hampshire in 1853, 1854, and 1855. He moved back to Goffstown in 1861, and died April 1, 1871.


PATTEN.


SAMUEL PATTEN, son of Samuel and Mary (Bell) Patten, and grandson of John Patten who came from Ireland in 1728, and nephew of Hon. Matthew Patten, who was appointed probate judge of this county in 1776, was born in Bedford in 1752; married Deborah Moore, and came here with two children in 1780. He cleared and settled on the top of the hill that bears his name. Was known as "Capt. Patten." Was occa- sionally in town office, and moved to the State of Maine in 1800, to the general regret of the community. Every mark of his old home save the cellar and rocks is now gone. Capt. Patten died in Norridgewock, Me., in 1809, and his widow died in 1815. Their children, all born in Antrim except the two oldest, were :-


1. JOHN, [b. Feb. 6, 1778, m. Betsey Hilton of Embden, Me., and d. in 1860.]


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2. JENNIE, [b. Nov. 26, 1779 ; d. at the age of 16, and was buried on the hill.]


3. JOSEPH, [b. Nov. 8, 1781 ; m. Joanna Harlow, daughter of Rev. John Harlow of Norridgewock, Me. ; was a merchant, and was a conspicuous and devoted citizen. He d. in 1858 in Skowhegan, Me.]


4. MARGARET, [b. Nov. 9, 1783 ; d. at the age of 16, and was buried on the hill.]


5. DEBORAH, [b. Nov. 19, 1785 ; m. John Dinsmore of Norridge- wock, Me., in 1802, who was clerk of county court twenty years. She d. in 1862.]


6. SARAH, [b. May 6, 1788, m. Rev. Moses French of Solon, Me., and d. in 1852.]


7. MARY, [b. April 28, 1790, m. Dr. David Raymond of Skow- hegan, Me., and d. in 1842.]


8. OLIVE, [b. April 16, 1792; m. Daniel Stewart, a merchant of Anson, Me., and d. in 1868.]




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