History of the town of Candia, Rockingham County, N.H., from its first settlement to the present time, Part 39

Author: Moore, J. Bailey, (Jacob Bailey), 1815-1893; Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Manchester, N.H., G. W. Browne
Number of Pages: 689


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:31. Samuel Morrill, 2d, Samuel Woodman, (from Kingston), George S. Trickey, Louis Westover.


32. Levi Robie, A. J. Robie.


33. Ichabod Robie, Levi Robie, sr., Asa Robie, Samuel B. Robie.


34. Capt. Benjamin Cass, Benjamin Cass, 2d, Aaron Cass, True French, Moses F. French, son of Sargent French.


35. John C. Fifield, Mrs. J. C. Fifield, A. Jackson Fifield.


36. Site of a house built and owned many years ago by Benjamin Fowler.


27. A man by the name of Hibbard built a house on the north side; Joseph Wiggin lived here a few years.


38, Edward Martin.


39. A brother of Stephen Fifield, Jonathan Cass, Mrs. Jonathan . Cass, John M. French .


40. A new house owned by Charles S. French, son of John M. French.


41. Jonathan Collins, Jonathan C. French, John C. Fiffeld, Parker Morrill, Sumner Fifield, John Fifield, Edwin Fifield and others, Samuel A. Davis.


42. Stephen Fifield, sr., William Fifield, Nancy Fifield, heirs of Nancy Fifield, Abraham Sanborn, Peter E. Cross.


43. Jethro Hill, Reuben Fitts, his son-in-law, John Fitts, John Lane Fitts.


44. Sherburne Rowe, Benjamin Rowe, Shepard Bean, Lewis Bean, Joseph Bean, Johu Colby of Hooksett, Matthew Cate.


45. John Fitts, John Carter, John Jones, Stephen Fifield, John T. Nelson. 46. George Fifield.


47. Jonathan Brown, Peter Fifield, James Morrill, J. Henry Brown, son of James Brown.


48. Albert W. Brown.


49. Cyrus Batchelder, Mrs. Stephen Baker.


50. Aaron Brown, sr., brother of Jonathan Brown, came from Kensington, Aaron Brown, jr., George H. Brown ..


51. John Martin, David Brown, jr., Daniel McDuffie, John Baker.


52. Joseph Hubbard, sr., Elias Hubbard and Joseph Hubbard, jr.


53. Joshua Hubbard, Ira Rowe, Joshua Fitts, Lewis Cate.


54. Benjamin Hubbard, Benjamin Hubbard, jr., George Evans, William G. Fitts, Edward J. Harrington.


55. Benjamin Rowe, jr., Joseph Matthews, Stephen Marsh, Samuel Wood- man, Matthew Cate, James Foss.


56. David Brown, son of Caleb Brown, sr., John M. Brown, Joseph Cate, John P. Cate.


57. Silas Cammett, John Cammett, Nehemiah Brown, Ira B. Ordway.


58. Philip and Moses Morse, brothers, Moses Bursiel, sr., Moses Bursiel, jr. Horatio Rowe, Mrs. Elbridge Baker, Joseph Tufts.


59. Lewis Worthen, Thomas Cate, Matthew Cate.


60. Aaron Towns, George Towns.


61. John Prescott, Samuel Clough, John P. L. Rowe, Amos Polly.


On the road leading from the upper end of High Street to Rowe's Corner Varnum Kemp built a house forty years ago. Caroline Woods owned the place. Frederick Saunders is the present owner. 1


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DONIVAN ROAD.


William Donivan, from Hampton Falls, Augustus Hartford, William Nelson, John C. Fifield.


MERRILL ROAD (Leading from near the upper end of High Street to North Road. -


Dea. Samuel Cass, son of Capt. Benjamin Cass, Moses Cass, Dea. John Merrill who came from Hudson, D. Tyler Merrill, Stephen C. Merril, Mr .. and Mrs. William Norton.


The small house near the corner of the Merrill and North Roads. Stephen C. Merrill and D. T. Merrill resided.


KNOWLTON ROAD (Going North from High Street.


No. 1. Alonzo Wicum, Edwin Rowe, James Clark.


2. Eder Evans, John Clark.


3. Chellus Cass, William Knowlton, Henry Jones.


4. Enoch Worthen, Henry Jones,


TOWER HILL (Going Northwest).


Daniel McDuffie, who came from Chester and settled on the south side of Tower Hill. He married Ann Shirley and had five sons, viz : Hazen, Samuel Archibald, Daniel and David.


No. 1. Samuel built a house and engaged in the business of making staves. A Mr. Conant, a few years later, bought the place. The present owner is Peter Butler, a native of Vermont who served in the War of the Rebellion and lost an arm,


2. Samuel and Hazen McDuffie built a house here. The place was owned by various parties. About fifteen years ago a Frenchman named Michael Rivers with his wife came to the town and lived on the place several years when it was sold to Charles Deming. Mr. Rivers was said to have been nearly a hundred years old.


3. Peter Neal lived many years on the west side of the top of the hill. After his death William S. Brown had the place. George Colby is the present owner.


4. Peter Neal, who for some time owned the place gave it to his son John Neal, J. Frank Neal was the next owner and built a new house.


5t This place was first owned by John Neal. Archibald McDuffie and his. son John McDuffie have owned the place.


THE TURNPIKE.


No. 1. Samuel Anderson built a house and kept a tavern when the Chester Turn- pike was opened in 1805. George Anderson, his son, lived on the place. several years. It is now owned by Andrew Mead.


2. Many years ago Paul Eaton built a house on the Turnpike about a mile west of Anderson's tavern. His son-in-law Josiah French resided there several years. About the year 1824, he removed to the house on High Street now owned by Frank W. Eaton.


3. Samuel Mc. Duffie was the first owner of this place. Lowell McDuffie, a son of Archibald McDuffie, is the present owner.


4. Horace McDuffie.


5. Lorenzo McDuffie, son of Hazen McDuffie.


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6. William Langley, a son of David Langley, built the house and soon after- ward died suddenly of heart disease.


7. David Brown, William Langley.


8. Archibald McDuffie.


9. Joshua French, son of Moses French, sr., Mark Pray, Edmund S. Lang- ley. After the death of Mr. Langley the place was sold to watson L. Olmstead of Manchester.


10. David B. Langley, son of Edmund S. Langley. He built the house in 1860.


11. Dearborn French, son of Moses French, 2d.


12. Moses French, 3d, son of Moses French, 2d. He died of cancer in 1882.


13. Col. Samuel Cass, son of Dea. Samuel Cass, built this house in 1816. In 1825 he sold the place to Moses French, 2d, and removed to the Knowles place on the Colby Road.


14. J. Sullivan Brown, who came from Lexington, Mass., about the year 1827 and built the house.


SOUTH ROAD (South from Meeting House.)


1. Eleazer Knowles, son of Amos Knowles, sr., E. Quimby Knowles, James Varnum.


-2. Dr. Samuel Foster, Thomas B. Lane, Eben Eaton, Osgood Page, A. J. Edgerly, T. Clow.


3. William Duncan, John D. Patterson, D. Fellows, Edward P. Prescott, George Brown.


4. Richard Buswell, Otis Colcord, John Harris.


5. Moses Varnum, Webster Varnum.


6. Samuel A. Davis, Edmund Winship, Mrs. Ira Rowe, George F. Cass.


7. Levi Sanborn, Herbert Reno.


8. Phineas M. Swain.


9. Austin Cass.


10. Matthew Ramsey, Amos Knowles, sr., Amos Knowles 2nd, Ebenezer Nay, Asbury Buswell, Charles G. Pettingill.


11. Ezekiel Knowles, Joseph Foster, Thomas Emerson, Henry S. Eaton, George Melville from Concord, William Crane.


12. Site of house once owned by Timothy. Bagley, a clothier, and the father of Charles Bagley the clothier at the village.


13. Asahel Quimby, Paul Eaton, Col. Henry T. Eaton, Sally Eaton. Mrs. Mary Moore, a grand daughter.


14. Site of a house on the Col. Eaton farm, near Pine Hill road, where Isaiah Rowe lived a short time after he came to the town.


15. Capt. John Sargeant, Josiah Shannon, Capt, John Webster, Willard Harris


16. Capt. John Sargent, Andrew Mead, David Tabor, Daniel B. Langley.


17. Thomas Anderson, Ingalls Bunker, Amos Whitney.


18. Dea. Caleb Prince, son of Rev. Joseph Prince, Moses Sargeant.


19. John Prince, Moses Sargent, Jesse Sargent.


20. Henry Eaton, son of Ephraim Eaton, who came from Salisbury, Mass., Henry M. Eaton, Ellen Eaton.


:21. Site of the house built by Benjamin Batchelder, the first owner of the Ephraim Eaton lot.


22. Josiah Sargeant, sr., brother of Capt. John Sargeant, Josiah Sargeant, jr., David Rowe, George W. Robinson, George Young, Gardner Sherburne.


-23. Benjamin Cass, jr., Joseph Pease, Robert McDaniels.


24. Rufus Sargent, Rufus Hall, Benjamin Cass, sr., Asa S. Dutton, Frank Haselton.


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25. A few rods south of the place last mentioned is the site of the first house- owned by Samuel Buswell, sr., The house was torn down many years ago.


26. On the road leading to the school house John Buswell, Daniel McDuffie,, Daniel B. Langley, John H. Moore.


27. Jacob Buswell, son of John Buswell, Daniel Jones, Watson Prescot Jeremiah Lane, heirs of Jeremiah Lane.


28. Site of house of Walter Robie, 2d, John Robie, his son.


29. Walter Robie, esq., sr., Walter Robie, 3d, John Robie, Asa Truel.


30. Samuel Sargeant, son of Moses Sargeant, sr., who was a grandson of En- sign Jacob Sargent of Chester, Charles P. R. Sargent, William Pecker.


31. Samuel Buswell, his son, Samuel Augustus Buswell.


32. Dea. John Hills, who was present at the battle of Bunker Hill; Parker- Hills, Dea. Edmund Hills.


33. Daniel Hall.


34. Jonathan Brown, Nathaniel G. Hardy and other owners.


35. Maj. Jesse Eaton, Jacob Mead, Thomas Johnson, Samuel Hardy.


36. Near the intersection of the South Road with the road leading to the- Borough there is the site of a house which was owned by James Eaton, ax Revolutionary Soldier.


COLBY ROAD (Going east.)


No. 1. Levi Knowles, Samuel Cass, Quincy Cass. George F. Cass now owns the" place.


2. On the south side of the road east of the Cass place is the site of a house which is said to have been built by Stephen Clay before he lived on the- place near the Congregational church now owned by the heirs of John Ewer. A man by the name of Flagg, whose daughter married Ichabod. Robie, brother of William Robie, lived there several years. The house was torn down many years ago.


3. Enoch Colby, sr., who came from Chester in 1750. He was succeeded by Nehemiah Colby, sr., Nehemiah Colby, jr., Rev. James Adams, heirs of Rev. Mr. Adams.


4. Nehemiah Colby, jr., Rev. James Adams and the heirs of Rev. Mr. Adams owned the place which has been occupied solely by tenants.


5. Capt. Jacob Libbee, who came from Rye, Barnard Libbee, Levi Barker, B. B. Bunker, John Rowe.


6. House near the corner of the Chester Road owned by John W. Cate and. occupied by tenants.


BAKER ROAD.


No. I. Site of a house where Stephen Marden, one of the first settlers lived. His daughter, Sally Marden, who married Enoch Baker, had the place. After- her death the house was torn down.


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5. Site of a house owned by Caleb Brown, jr., Rodney Brown, Thomas Dear- born, George Brown. The house wa's burned nearly twenty years ago.


3 Site of a house which was built many years ago on a lot west of the Caleb Brown place by Levi Cass. The house was torn down fifty years ago.


LIBBEE AND ANDERSON ROADS.


No. 1. Arthur Libbee settled near the corner of the Libbee Road and Anderson Road. He was a soldier of the Revolution. Isaac Libbee, Gilman Libbee .. The house was torn down forty years ago.


2. Moses Sargeant, son of Winthrop Sargeant, Moses Sargeant, jr., Charles. Smith, who came from Loudon, Edmund E. Smith.


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3 Luke Hall, a Portuguese, lived on this place. ITis heirs now own the property.


4. William Anderson, Willianı Bailey, Charles Aldrich, Charles L. Flint, son of Luther Flint.


5. Site of a house owned by William Anderson, sr.


6. Thomas Anderson, son of Samuel Anderson, Levi Flint, Luther Flint, widow of Luther Flint.


7. Site of house built by Thomas Anderson, sr., Samuel Anderson, jr,


CHESTER ROAD (From Depot Village Going South.)


No. 1. Moses Emerson, son of Samuel Emerson, came from Chester in 1762, Abraham Emerson, Moses F. Emerson.


2. Thomas Benton Turner, son of William Turner, resides on a part of the 1 homas Wilson lot.


3. Thomas Wilson, who came from Chester, his son, Samuel Wilson, Daniel F. Emerson.


4. Site o . house of John Robic, came from Chester, William Robie, his son.


5. Francis Patten, son of William Patten, Aaron Francis Patten.


6. Jacob Quimby, James Varnum, Joseph Palmer, Thomas Alfred Palmer.


7. William Cushing.


8. Samuel and Thomas Towle, from Chester, John Robie, son of Walter Robie, jr., Nathaniel D. Robie, Henry Dutton, Asa S. Dutton, Samuel G. Wentworth.


9. Zebedee Berry, who came from Greenland, Col. Coffin M. French, son of John French, sr., Dea. John French.


10. Jonathan Hill, William Dolber, Otis Colcord.


11. Simon French, sr., came to Candia in 1765 and bought one-half of lot No. 51, second part of second division, for 133 Spanish dollars. John French, sr , Simon French, jr., George Seavey, Cyrus Prescott, Isaac Underhill.


12. Israel Dolber, Israel Dolber, jr., John Dolber, sr., heirs of John Dolber. Mrs. Mary Colby is the present owner.


13. Capt. Moses Dustin, Mrs. Moses Dustin, Jonathan Dustin, Mrs. George Scavey, David Brickett, Mrs. Sally Gardner.


14. Sally Dustin, daughter of Moses Dustin, built a house here about 1805. Joseph Rand, Isaac Underhill.


15. Jonathan Emerson built a house here in 1825. His successors were Charles Lovering, George Davis and James W. Plaisted.


16. John Dolber, William Dolber, heirs of William Dolber,


17. On the cross road leading from the Chester road to the southeast corner of Candia Cornelius Driscoll built house on land formerly owned by Maj. Simon French. Jeremiah Crowley also built a house near that of Mrs. Crowley.


PANCAKE LANE.


No. 1. About seventy rods north of the residence of Moses Palmer, and on the same side of the road, there is the site of a house once owned and occupied by Israel Dolber.


2. Site of a house first owned by Richard Clark. His successors were Ed- ward Prescott, sr., Cyrus Prescott, Thomas Dearborn, son of Samuel Dearborn, 2d, William Hoit, Willard Kent, Heirs of Albert Palmer.


3. S. Jenness, who came from Northfield; Samuel Hardy, who came from Rye; Samuel Dearborn, 2d; Benjamin Dearborn, J. Franklin Folsom, Walter H. Huntoon, Moses Palmer.


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4. At the corner of Pancake Lane and the road that extends from the South Road and intersects with the Borough Road near the Chester line is a house which has been owned and occupied by the following persons : William Norton, Edward Prescott, Jacob Mead, Charles R. Robie, Walter Foss, Dyer Foss, the father of Sam. Walter Foss, the distinguished poet, and David E. Brown, grandson of the first David Brown of High Street.


5. On the north side of the cross road leading to South Road is a large, one- story house which has been owned by Solomon Stevens, Henry Dockham' the tailor; Jonathan Smith, Addison Seavey and A. J. Butterfield. George W. Brown is the present owner.


PATTEN ROAD (Commencing at the North Side of the Depot Village, going southeast.)


1. On the corner, Col. Nathaniel Emerson, first settler, Nathaniel Emerson, 2d, Freeman Parker, John W. Cate.


2. Samuel Emerson, son of Col. Emerson, Phineas Colby, Jonathan Colby, Hiram C. Matthews, George Warner.


3. Jonathan Ring, Jacob Libbee, Artemas Skelton, Nathaniel Emerson, 2d. George Emerson, Andrew J. Edgerly, David Miller.


4. Daniel Whittier, Moses Emerson, 2d, Charles S. Emerson, heirs of Charles S. Emerson.


5. Capt. Moses Baker, who came from Epping about the year 1763 and re- moved to Campton in 1778, Jonathan Currier, Esq., Jonathan Brown, son of Nathan Brown, sr., George B. Brown, tenants.


6, Luke Cunningham.


7. John Moore, son of Joshua Moore, William Daniels, John Cunningham.


S. Joshua Moore, Silden Moore, his son, Samuel Gile.


9. Edmund Batchelder, Moses Patten, sr., David Patten, his brother, Rufus E. Patten, Robert Foss, George Hosely, M. Fairbanks, James W. Preston. Levi Beaudroy.


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11. Thomas Patten, who came to Candia in 1774, Samuel Patten, sr., the father of Rufus E. Patten, Moses Patten, brother of Samuel Patten, sr., Samuel G. W. Patten, heirs of Samuel G. W. Patten.


12. Rufus E. Patten, John H. Nutting, son-in-law of R. E. Patten.


13. Site of the house of David McClure, who was the first settler, accord_ ing to Eaton's history of the town, James McClure.


14. Site of the house owned by Samuel Patten, Widow Lydia Patten.


ABBOTT ROAD (Going North from the Patten Road to the Railroad Track.


1. John Abbott, sr., Joseph Dearborn, John Abbott, jr., Rufus Abbott.


2. Samuel Seavey. Josiah Whittier, John Emerson, Joseph Abbott,


3. Joshua Moore built a small house on the east side near the north end of the road many years ago and lived there.


4. Simon N. Healy occupied a house on the road near to that of Joshua Moore.


JERSEY ROAD (Extending from the Portsmouth Railroad Track near East Candia Depot to Chester Line Going South.


No. 1. Jacob Sargeant, son of Ensign Jacob Sargeant, sr., of Chester, David Heath, John Willard, Rufus Abbott, Jefferson Healey, John Healey.


2. Cotton Ward, Frank P. Langford.


3. Joseph L. Brown, James G. Brown, Luther S. Brown.


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4. Jonathan Healey, John Atkins.


5. Rufus Ward, William O. Reynolds.


6. David Gile, Charles Gile.


7. Caleb Pillsbury, John Dearborn.


8. Asa Dearborn, Charles Dearborn.


9., George Sanborn.


10. Elias Wendell, Asa Dearborn.


11. William S. Brown, Joseph Brown, George H. Brown, J. B. Morrison.


12. John Wason, J. Osgood Wason.


LANGFORD ROAD (East Candia, Going Southeast.)


No. 1. On the corner of the Raymond road William Towle, John Robinson, Cot- ton Ward, Leonard F. Dearborn, Augustus Mulliken, Ira Dearborn.


2. Aaron T. Bagley, Reuben H. Dunn, Cyrus R. Dunn.


3. George W. Seaward, David Collins.


4. William Morrill, J. E. Morrill.


5. Jonathan Smith, jr., son of Jonathan Smith, sr., Charles H. Smith.


6. E. Gale, who came from Salisbury, Mass., Stephen Gale, David Richard- son, Frank Richardson, Stephen Adams, Samuel Sargent, John Clifford, Frank Lakin, Jacob Holt.


7. James G. Fitts, a brother of J. Munroe Fitts, Jonathan Smith, Sylvester Griffin, Frank P. Brown.


8. Addison Bean, Sylvester Griffin, Thomas Clifford.


9. Humphrey Hook, Simon Ward, Anthony Kelley, Josiah Fitts, who came from Southampton in 1830, J. Monroe Fitts.


10. James G. Fitts, John C. Dearborn, heirs of J. C. Dearborn.


11. Benjamin Edgerly, Jacob S. Morrill, James Woodman, John C. Dearborn who came to Candia in 1830, Woodbury Dearborn.


12. Sargent Currier, Munroe S. Currier.


13. John Walter Langford.


14. Anthony Langford, a native of England who came to Candia from Ports- mouth about 1820, Joseph C. Langford, Mrs. Harriet C. Hubbard.


15. Anthony Clifford, William Griffin, John Brown.


16. William Clifford, Lewis Dearborn.


ROAD FROM EAST CANDIA SCHOOL HOUSE TO RAILROAD STATION.


No. 1. Jeremiah Brown.


2. Tenement house owned by Frank P. Brown.


3. Also Tenement house owned by Frank P. Brown.


4. Formerly owned by J. C. Langford, Mrs. Joseph B. Roberts, tenant.


5. Owned by Jeremiah Brown. Mrs. Joseph Healey.


RAYMOND ROAD (Going East.) -


No. 1. Enoch Rowell was the first settler on the lot on the south corner of the road where the Masonic Hall is located, He was a soldier of the Revolu- tion and died at Ticonderoga in 1776. Various parties owned the place and about the year 1820 John Sargeant, who was a son of Jacob Sargeant, jr., and a grandson of John Sargeant, sr., who was the first settler on the B. P. Colby lot, bought the place. He sold to Henry M. Eaton. When Mr. Eaton retired the place was owned by varions persons. Moses D. Richardson owned it several years and on his death it fell to his heirs. Mrs. Thomas Bean and her son, Gilman Bean, have resided there a few years:


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2. John Sargeant, sr., who owned the eighty acre lot on which the old B. P. Colby house stands, gave his son John an acre of land on the corner where the Methodist church is located and built him a house. Benjamin Pillsbury owned the place many years and rented it to tenants, among whom were James Sargeant and Elisha Huntoon. John Bean owned the place forty years ago and sold it to the proprietors of the Methodist church .


3. Moses Lane lived on a spot below the Masonic hall. John Gile now owns the place.


5. John Sargent, sr., gave his son, Jacob Sargeant all of the east part of his lot ex- cept the acre on the corner which he had given his son John and built the house where Abraham Barker resides. Dr. John Pillsbury and Stephen Robinson also owned the place.


5. Theophilus Sargeant, a brother of John Sargeant, sr., owned the eighty acre lot adjoining that of Enoch Rowell and lived in house which was demolished many years ago.


6. Ephraim George bought of Dr. Nathaniel Wheat the gable-roofed house which , stood on the spot now covered by the residence of the late Albert Bean, near the old Congregational meeting house and hauled it to a situation on the Theo- philus Sargeant lot now owned by William Stanley. Among its recent owners were John C. Wheeler and David Potter.


7. This house was hauled from the village a few years ago. Mrs. Eliza Libbee was the first owner, Daniel Straw is the present owner.


8. Thomas Hobbs, a second cousin of John Hobbs, came from Northampton, Andrew Moore, John Moore, 3d, his sun, Coffin Moore, J. Wesley Lovejoy, Samuel Myrick, heirs of Samuel Myrick.


9. John Moore, a soldier of the Revolution, his son, Andrew Moore, Charles Bick- ford. Mr. Bickford tore down the old house and built a new one. By his will he gave the place to the Congregational society. In 1892, John Khor, of Mel- rose, Mass., bought the place for a summer residence.


10. Charles Weeks.


11. Benjamin Smith, Sr., one of the first settlers, Benjamin Smith, jr., Capt. John . Smith, son of Benjamin Smith, jr.


12. Robie Smith, son of Capt. John Smith, William Robinson, Mrs. William Robinson.


13. French Smith, son of True Smith.


14. True Smith, son of Benjamin Smith, jr.


15. Samuel Bagley, Moses James, Owen Reynolds, Daniel B. Robinson. Willis


Patten bought It for a tenement house many years ago. His son, John S. Patten is the present owner. Jesse E. Gile now resides on the place.


16. Edward Morrill and John Dunn have owned and occupied the first house on the road which turns to the left towards the village at the Island.


17. Jonathan Smith, A. Bean Smith, Tristram Brown, G. N. Robinson ..


18. John Robinson, George Willey.


ISLAND VILLAGE (Going East).


No. 1. Oliver Merrifield, Clara A. Jones and various tenants. Jacob Holt now owns the place.


2. Daniel S. Robinson, Charles Robinson, Charles Jones.


3. Joseph Beane built the house for parties in his employ. Freeman Young was an owner. Samuel Critchett is the present owner.


4. This house was built by David Benne, a son of Den. Abraham Reane, for the accomodation of partles employed by him upon his farm. There have been many tenants upon the place.


5. This house was built by David Beane for a store. The place came into the pos. session of his heirs, Nathan Worthen, the next owner, Bradley Aldrich of Manchester owned the place several years and sold It to Abraham Nelson.


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6. Divid Beane's residence, John Beaue, his son, Elihu Chase, Frank Chase. John Anderson is the present owner.


7. Joseph Beane, son of Dea. Abraham Beane, built this house for a residence many years ago. Christopher Champagne now owns the place.


S. Dea. Gordon Beane, son of Dea. Abraham Beane, erected this house more than fifty years ago. Loring Ladd owned the place a few years and sold it to Carl Johnson, a Swede.


9. Dea. Abraham Beane, son of David Beane, sr., built the hou-e more than seven- ty-five years ago. Gordon Beane resided there several years. Joseph Johnson is the present owner.


10. Abraham Beane, 2d, owned this place many years. Dadiey Lougee was an owner some time and conveyed the place to Frederick Lougee, the present owner.


11. Near the east end of the street which leads to the Colcord Road, John Gleason built a dwelling house. The place is now owned by J. Tucker Dudley, Frank Felton.


12. Joseph H. Johnson.


. CLARK HILL ROAD (Going North).


No. 1. Robert Patten, who came from Chester, Willam Patten, Willis Patten, George F. Patten.


2. Theophilus Clark, Joseph Clark, Jesse Towle, Charles W. Towle, Henry Clark, er., Henry Clark, jr., Henry G. Clark, Henry Gould, Ezekiel A. Thompson, John Eckford.


3. Benjamin Wadleigh, Emery Currier, Dr. J. O. Haines, Cyrus P'rescott, William Brown, Oscar Abbott, Luther S. Monroe.


COLCORD ROAD (Going East.) -


Jeremiah Bean, Joseph Bean and Jonathan Bean, who were brothers, came from Brentwood previous to 1760. They belonged to a different family of Beans from those represented by David Beane, sr., Abraham Beane, sr., and Reuben Beane, who lived at the Island and vicinity.


No. 1. Jeremiah Bean bought more than 600 acres of land in the north part of Candia, including the north section of Candia Village. He built a house which stood a few rods north of the west end of the Colcord Road and East of the road leading to Deerfield.


2. Josiah Bean, a son of Jeremiah Bean; a Mr. Brown was the next owner, then Hosea Chase, John P. Smith, Levi Smith. .


3. Hosea Chase, Thomas B. Dearborn, George W. Marden, widow of George W. Marden.


4. Jeremiah Bean built this house. He was succeeded by his son, Benjamin Bean. Betsey Glidden, Plumer Sanborn and Thomas McCarty have owned the place.


5. Samuel Dearborn, sr., a brother of Thomas Dearborn, who was killed in the war of the revolution, Moses Dearborn, Stephen M. Bean, Cyrus T. Lane, George Goss and George Clark have owned the place.


6. Site of a house built by John Taylor, John Moore, Mr. Young, Frank Richardson, Richard Blaisdell, Edmund R. Ingalls, John H. Moore.


7. A small cottage, built for tenants, by John Moore, Esq., James Burnham, Adolphus Richardson.


8. Jonathan Melloon, Betsey Bean and Phinehas Bean, John Beau, Ephraim Davis, Mrs. Benjamin Perkins.




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