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9. Samuel Colcord, jr., heirs of S. Colcord.
10. Moses Bean, Richard Bean, Samuel Fisk.
11. Moses Bean, W. Sargent Dearborn, Capt. Nathaniel Brown, Henry Brown, heirs of Henry Brown.
12. Reuben Bean, father of Elder Moses Bean, Elihu Chase, Amos Flint, William Hudson.
13. Dudley Bean, a brother of Reuben Bean, Thomas R. Bean, Jesse D. Bean.
14. John Warren Bean.
15. Ensign Samuel Colcord, Otis Colcord, Poor farm, J. Wesley Love joy, Charles H. Parks, sr., Joseph Critchett.
16. John Gordon, Betsey Gordon, Isaac N. Critchett.
17. Oliver Gordon, Joseph M. Young, Joseph Kimball,
18. Jesse Bean, Charles H. Parks, Joseph Young, heirs of Joseph Young.
19. James Critchett, sr., the clock maker, Isaac and James Critchett, John Critchett, Isaac N. Critchett, Gardner Sherburne, William Glidden.
20. J. Wesley Lovojoy, James Critchett, jr., Freeman P. Critchett.
21. James Critchett, sr., first built a log house a few rods north of the large house, in which he lived many years.
THRESHER ROAD,
No. 1. Henry Thresher, Dana D. Thresher.
2. Nathan Bean, a son of Jonathan Bean, sr.
3. John Prescott, John Prescott, jr., Mrs. John Prescott.
4. Samuel Woodman, Stevens Colcord, Joseph Colcord.
CANDIA VILLAGE (Going North from the East End of the Burpee Road.)
No. 1. Site of a house built by William Turner from Chester, who, according to Chase's History of Chester, bought his lot in 1741. He had four children. Sarah, who was born in 1747, being the first white child born in Candia. Moses, the third child had the homestead. Benjamin Dearborn was the last owner of this house.
2. Site of a house built by Moses Turner, jr., near that which was owned by his grandfather, William Turner. Gordon, his son, sold the place to Benjamin Dearborn.
3. Benjamin Dearborn demolished both of them and built on a part of the Turner farm further north. He sold it to Edmund R. Ingalls, and he to William Bullard.
4. Thomas Dearborn, Thomas J. Morrill, Hiram Clark.
5. John Moore, Esq., built the house here about the year 1827. Jacob S. Morrill.
6. Thomas Robinson, Parker M. Towle.
7. Alvin D. Dudley built the house in 1846. Dr. E. S. Carr, George Johnson. Various tenants have lived on the place.
8. Plumer W. Sanborn, jr., Wesley Lovejoy, A. A. Whittredge, George W. Mitchell and George W. Kimball, who traded in the building, occupied the upper part as a residence.
9. Josiah Turner, David Richardson, Gilman Richardson, Joseph Richard- son, David Clay, Joseph Dudley, who came from Raymond. The Free- will Baptist Society bought the place for a parsonage.
10. Nicholas French, 2d, Samuel Tuck, Samuel Dudley Jason Godfrey, John Starbird, a tailor from Northwood, John B. Richardson, jr., J. Roland Batchelder.
11. Nehemiah Colby, Francis White, Thomas R. Bean, Frank Melloou.
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12. On the west side of the river, opposite the Freewill Baptist church, E. B. Cheney, the clothier, built a large, two-story house seventy years ago. It was owned by various parties, the last being John Moore, Esq., and his heirs. It was torn down in 1889.
13. Smith Quimby built a house near the Cheney place. John Quimby is the present owner.
14. David Bunker, a clothier, who came from Epping sixty-five years ago or more built the large house next north of the Freewill Baptist church. It was sold to William Turner and next to Samuel Dudley.
15. The dwelling house on the west side of the road and next to the grist mill on the north was owned by John Moore and his brother-in-law Daniel Taylor. The lower part was used for a store and the upper part for a residence. William Turner bouglit the place and traded there two or three years and then sold the building to Samuel Dudley. In 1847 Dea. Dudley built a tenement block which connected his residence with the building he bought of Turner. The latter building has been occupied by tenants more than forty years. All of the buildings are now owned by Joseph P. Dudley of Buffalo, N. Y.
16. On the east side of the street next the river E. B. Cheney first lived, Ben- jamin Taylor.
17. Luther Parker, a butcher, owned the first house on the north side of the river and east side of the road, Thomas Batchelder, heirs of Thomas Batchelder.
18. The large house situated next north of the grist mill was built by James and Moses Critchett, the carriage makers and wheelwrights, more than seventy-three years ago. Ira P, Godfrey, who came from Hampton fifty years ago, added a tenement on the west of the house. James Critchett jr., lived in the east part of the house many years. His widow now owns the place.
19. Elder Moses Bean built the old, one-story house, next north of the Critchett place. After Elder Bean left town, the place was sold to Judge Butler of Deerfield. Many tenants lived there.
20. The house next northi was originally Elder Bean's shoe manufactory. It was changed to a dwelling house and Alfred Higley and Thomas Noyes were owners. Joseph Taylor now owns the place.
21. Josiah Turner, Freeman Parker, the clothier, Henry Higley, Plumer Batchelder, Henry Walker, Mrs. Henry Walker.
22. Alexander Gilchrist, a cabinet maker from Goffstown, Mrs. A. Gilchrist.
23. Phinehas Bean, son of Jonathan Bean, 2d, or Master Bean, as he was often called.
24. Thomas Lang, the blacksmith, Edwin J. Godfrey.
25, Robert Moore, a saddler and harness maker, who came from Pembroke Herbert Mcore.
26. Elihu Chase and his son-in-law Carr B. Haines, who came from Maine, J. Maeder Young, sr., Arthur Critchett.
27. Joseph Bean, one of the first settlers in the town, who came from Brentwood, Daniel Bean, Bradley Bean, Bradley C. Bean.
28. William Turner, Jesse Bean, Jonathan Bean, David Richardson, William Patten, Rev. George M. Stinchfield, Rev, Silas Green, Cyrus T, Lane.
29. Joel B. Smith, J. Tuttle Bean.
30. Jonathan Bean, Richard Bean, Josiah Turner, William Clark.
31. Amos Morrison, John M. Fitts.
32. Cornelius Reagan, heirs of Cornelius Reagan.
33. Cyrus G. Bradley, Peter Lane, Thomas J. Morrill.
34. T. Jefferson Griffin, heirs of T. J, Griffin.
35. Samuel G. Moore, John Sawyer.
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36. Jonathan Bean, Betsey, widow of John Bean. The old house was torn down and Gilman Richardson built a new one on the site. Merrill Jehn, son from Deerfield bought the place.
37. Gilman Richardson built a house a few rods above the old Bean house in 1827. It was burned in 1856.
ROAD FROM THE VILLAGE TO THE DEPOT.
No. 1. Smith Quimby built the house on the corner of the Burpee road. A Mr. Carpenter bought the place and sold it to Lewis F. Buswell.
2. Peter Mooere, son of Dr. Samuel Mooers, lived on the place recently owned by William Patten. His house stood on the exact spot where Mr. Patten's was erected.
3. William Patten was the son of Robert Patten. His estate is now owned by the heirs of his wife.
4. Henry Lovell was the first owner of this place. The Freewill Baptist society bought it for a parsonage in 1850. Rev. Mr. Stinchfield and Rev. Silas Green each owned the place and the latter sold it to Ingalls Bunker, the present owner.
5. John Sargeant, sr., was the first settler here. In 1806 he sold the place to Moses * Colby, who came from Hawke, now Danville. He was succeeded by his son B P. Colby. The place is now owned by Elbridge Morrison, son of Thom_ as Morrison.
6. Stephen Palmer came to Candia from Epping in 1763. After remaining here a short time he removed to the North Road. John Wason, who came from Chester, next owned the place and kept a store at the corner. After Mr. Wason retired, Jonathan Pillsbury, sr., a brother of David and Abijah Pillsbury, bought the eighty acre lot and also the most of the eighty acre lot on the oppo- site side of the road upon which Enoch Rowell was the first settler. At a later date, he gave to bls son, John Pillsbury, a large part of the first named lot and built the house Jonathan Pillsbury, son of John Pillsbury, now owns.
7. Charles Turner, the town clerk, about eight years ago, bought an acre of land which was a part of the first Jonathan Pillsbury estate.
8. Jonathan Pillsbury, 2d, once familiarly called 'Jock' Pillsbury, bullt a house on a part of the lot on the west side of the road, which was given him by his father, Jonathan Pillsbury, sr. Heirs of Jonathan Pillsbury. There have been many tenants on the place.
9. Jonathan Pillsbury, sr., many years ago built a large and somewhat pretentious house on the spot where the house of Dr. A. M. Foster is situated. Mary Pills- bury, his daughter, Ilved there many years and died in 1869 at nearly 90 years of age. S. Tappan Sanborn and Benjamin Sanborn, hls son were bis successors. Dr. A. M. Foster.
10. Levi Barker, John H. Smith. Plumer W. Sanborn built the house. He sold the estate to Samuel F. Colcord, a son of Samuel Colcord, jr.
11. Upon a spot in the field a few rods north of Mr. Colcord's residence there Is a cellar over which there was a dwelling house which was built by Nathanlel Maxfield, who owned a part of the eighty acre lot. He was a soldier of the Revolution.
DEPOT VILLAGE (Beginning at the South Side of the Colby Road).
No. 1. John W. Cate and T. Benton Turner own the cottage near the corner of the Colby Road and the road between Candia Village and the Rallroad station which was erected for tenants.
2. Frank Lombard, who came from Manchester, bought of Nehemiah Colby his old house and set It upon a lot which he purchased of Frederick Emerson. George Greer of Goffstown, Stephen Colby, who came from Fremont. J. W. Cate and T. Benton Turner are the present owners.
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3. Perry Batchelder, a Brother of J. Roland Batchelder, Edward R. Fuller; of Lowell, Churles S. Lang.
4. N. H. Martin, who came from Goffstown, Edwin L. Martin, Stephen S. Fifield.
5. Charles Henry French.
6. Moses Dearborn of Raymond.
7. Robie Smith, Robie Smith's heirs.
8. John Rowe.
9. The hotel, Stephen B. Fitts, Barton Tilton, George W. Robinson, George W. Whittier, Martin L. Butterfield, Timothy G. Fellows.
10. Edward P. Prescott, William G. Lang.
11. Samuel A. Davis, J. Wesley Lovejoy, James Critchett, Henry W. Moore, George N. Davis.
12. Jacob L. Barker, Mark A. Dexter.
13. Gilman C. Lang, Lewis Remo, Kidder Haynes.
14. Jesse Sargent, built a house next above the Kidder Haynes place, which was burnt in 1881.
15. The house situated a few rods southwest of the saw mill was owned by Caleb Davis. It is now owned by Samuel Gile.
STUMP STREET (Going West).
No. 1. The old passenger depot building was moved here by William Pettingill.
2. Jonathan Harvey Philbrick.
3. Moses B. Smith. Joseph Watson, Mrs. J. Watson.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
NATHANIEL EMERSON.
Colonel Nathaniel Emerson was the son of Samuel Em- erson, one of the first settlers and one of the most distin- guished citizens of Chester. He was born in 1741, and came to Candia about the year 1761, and settled on the spot where Joun W. Cate now resides. He married Sarah Til- ton, and they had four sons and six daughters. Col. Em- erson was several years an officer in the militia, when New Hampshire was a province of Great Britian, and was com- missioned Colonel of the 17th Regiment by Gov. Benning Wentworth. In 1777, he was Lieut. Colonel of Col. Stick- ney's regiment and fought in the memorable battle of Ben- nington in April, 1777. In 1778, he served as Lieut. Colon- el in Col. Nichols' regiment in Rhode Island, when the American army was co-operating with the French fleet in an attempt to expel the British forces from that province, as referred to on page 91 of this volume. The attack upon the British army at that time was unsuccessful and Col. Emerson soon afterwards returned to Candia. During the whole period of the war of the Revolution he was a very efficient member of the Committee of Safety. In 1782, he served as a member of the convention which framed the first State Constitution and in 1785 and 1786, he was a Repre- sentative of the New Hampshire House of Representa- tives. He was a member of the board of Selectmen sever- al years. In 1786, he was chosen superintendent of the work of building the first meeting house and was one of the first members of the Congregational church in town. He was for many years a surveyer of land and a Justice of the Peace twenty-five years. He died, April 30, 1824.
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JOHN SARGEANT.
Captain John Sargeant, a son of Winthrop Sargeant and grand- son of Ensign Sargeant of Chester, came to Candia in 1760, to settle first on the place on South Road now owned by Gordon Sherburne. He lived there several years, when he gave the place to his son, Josiah, and bought of William Wilson the farm .on South Road now belonging to Lewis Remo. He built the house now standing on the place. He married Mary, a daugh- ter of William Turner. They had three children, Sarah, who married Dea. Josiah Shannon, Josiah and Moses. The latter first settled on the place on South Road now the property of Frank Haselton. He was prominent in public affairs. Captain John was a soldier in Captain Moses Baker's company. He was present at the battles of Saratoga and Stillwater, and witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne's army to Gen. Gates, the comman- der of the Revolutionary army. He used to relate that some "of the British soldiers were so humiliated and enraged at the surrender that they emptied their cartridges of powder and ball upon the ground. Captain John said he thought it a good idea to save some of the ammunition, so he took off his moccasins, filled them with cartridges, tied them together with a string and slung them over the back of a horse belonging to John Hills, his neighbor who was also present at the battle, and they were brought to Candia, Captain Hills having half of the spoils for. bringing them to the town. Captain Sargeant served in other campaigns during the war. He was a Captain of the militia and was the first collector of taxes in town. He died in 1834, aged 88 years.
CYRUS SARGEANT.
Mr. Sargeant was born August 24, 1824, at the place on South Road now owned by Frank Haselton. His father, Rufus Sargeant, was a son of Moses Sargeant and a grandson of Captain John Sargeant. His mother, Ruth Wadleigh, a ·daughter of Benjamin Wadleigh, was a most excellent and highly respected woman. Cyrus attended school in old Dis- Itrict No. 3, and worked upon the farm in his earlier years.
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When he was fifteen years old he was a clerk in William Dun- can's store. The next year he went to Boston and found em- ployment with Samuel Capen, a merchant on Drake's wharf. In a few years he became a commission merchant, broker and private banker. He invested his 'money in real estate in Boston and retired from active business. In 1855, he married Sarah J. Emerson of Boston, who died in 1859, leaving a daughter Caroline. The last was educated at Vassar college and in Europe. In May, 1883, she married Dr. Robert Burns of Plymouth, where she and her husband now reside, having five children. While Mr. Sargeant resided in Boston he took advantage of the public libraries of that city and was a stock- holder in the Atheneum. In 1862 he made an extended tour through Europe, being away about three years. He spent. several months at Oxford, the seat of one of England's most ancient and famous universities. At London he formed a. pleasant acquaintance with Charles Francis Adams, the American Minister to the Court of St. James at that time. At Paris, where he remained a considerable period, he met William Dayton, the American Minister to that country, and was presented to the Emperor Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie at the Tuileries. In 1873, Mr. Sargeant married Mary E., daughter of James and Louisa McQuesten of Plymouth. They had four children, two of whom died in in- fancy. Cyrus, Jr., and Louisa are living with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Sargeant have traveled much in America and in various parts of Europe. At Rome they were presented to Pope Pius IX. Since the death of Mrs. Sargeant's parents they have resided at the McQuesten homestead at Plymouth, which was once the home of Nathaniel P. Rogers, the famous abolitionist and one of the most original and brilliant writers New Hampshire has produced. It was at this house that the great anti-slavery orator and member of English Parliament, George Thompson, found a refuge for a short time in 1835 after he had been mobbed in various towns and cities in Massachu- setts and driven out of Concord, this state, by many of the leading citizens for daring to plead for justice for the down- trodden slaves of the country. Mr. Sargeant is a modest, unassuming, large-hearted and generous man and always willing
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to aid in a good cause. He attends the Congregational church. In 1890-92, he was elected a representative to the legislature from Plymouth.
ABRAHAM EMERSON.
Hon. Abraham Emerson was a son of Moses Emerson, a brother of Col. Nathaniel Emerson, a soldier of the Revolution. He was born Sept. 14, 1800, and attended school in old District No. 4. He assisted in the management of his father's farm and kept school in various districts in town and elsewhere. When his father died, in 1839, he had the homestead. In 1824, he married Abigail Dolber. The following are the names of their children : Sarah W., who married Dea. Edmund Hill, John D., Daniel F, Moses F., Lydia A., who married Jesse W. Sargeant, Luther W., Nancy Maria, who married Baxter R. Brown, and one who died in infancy. Mr. Emerson was a representative in 1836 and 1837 and a state senator from Dis- trict No. 2, in 1846. He served as a selectman four years, town clerk one year and treasurer two years. He was Captain of the Candia Light Infantry, Major and Lieut. Color.el of the Seventeenth Regiment. He was a member of the Congrega- tional church from 1823 until his death and a member of the Rockingham Lodge of Masons several years. He was a man of great industry, good business capacity and was greatly inter- ested in the cause of education. He was sincerely religious without bigotry, and to the end of his days was an earnest seeker for the highest and sublimest truths. He had a very retentive memory and retained the use of his faculties to the last, passing serenely away in the full confidence of awakening in a higher and purer state of existence.
JOHN D. EMERSON.
Rev. John D. Emerson, the eldest son of Hon. Abraham Emerson, was born May 29, 1829. He attended the public school in old District No. 4 and a high school in Candia, and was a pupil at Pembroke academy two years. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1853, after which he was principal of Pembroke academy two years. He graduated at Andover
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Theological Seminary in 1858, and was soon afterwards settled over the Congregational church at Haverhill, N. H., where he remained until 1865, when he was settled over the Second Con- gregational society at Biddeford, Me. In 1877, he was engaged as minister at Underhill and Jericho, Vt., and re- mained there six years. In 1883, he returned to Biddeford, and since that time he has been engaged in supplying pulpits in that and other places. A considerable number of his sermons, addresses and school reports have been published, among which is an address before the alumni of Pembroke academy in 1870, an address before the Maine Congregational State Missionary society. He was married to Sarah J. Dudley of Candia. They had a son, who now resides in Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Emerson died in 1862. Mr. Emerson was married for a second time to Mrs. Elizabeth Bell Emerson of Chelsea, Mass. They had a son and a daughter. The former, Rev. S. G. Emerson, is now a preacher in California. His second wife died in 1869. Mr. Emerson married for his third wife Miss Lelia Frances Kendall. They have five children.
FRANCIS PATTEN.
Francis Patten was born in the house on Clark Hill now the residence of George F. Patten, November 19, 1800. He was a son of William Patten and when he was an infant he was adop- ted by Mr. and Mrs. William Robie. He was educated at the school in old District No. 4 and a high school in the town. He became a very popular teacher of schools in Candia and some of the neighboring towns. He was a very active member of the Candia Lyceum, which was organized in 1826. He was also a member of Candia Literary Society, which established a good library in town about the same time. He was Captain of Candia Light Infantry and Major of the Seventeenth Regiment. He held the office of selectman in 1829 and 1830 ; was a represen- tative to the legislature in 1853 and 1854 and one of the superintendents of schools several years. He joined the Congregational church in 1823 and held the office of deacon until his death. He married Rebecca Knight of Hancock in 1833. They had five children, viz .: Keziah, who married
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John D. Colby, Abigail, who married Moses F. Emerson, Wil- liam R., who died in 1886, Aaron Frank, who married Ella K. Bachelder and Sarah, who married Charles A. Sykes. Mrs. Patten the mother of the above named children, died in 1867. Deacon Patten married second Mrs. Harriet Mitchell of Nash- ua in 1869. Deacon Patten died in 1889, aged 89.
JOHN T. MOORE.
John Taylor Moore, son of John Moore. Esq., was born in Candia, in 1825. He received his early education at the dis- trict school in the Village. In 1850. he was a pupil at Gilman- ton Academy three terms and in 1851-52, he attended the Normal school at Merrimack, then in charge of William Rus- sell. He studied law with Judge Chandler E. Potter and Moses Norris at Manchester, three years, after which he opened an office and soon had a good practice. He invested his earnings in tenement property and other kinds of real es- tate in the heart of the city, which in the course of time be- came greatly increased in value. He has occupied an office in Union Building near the city hall in Manchester continuously since 1856, a period of about 37 years. Mr. Moore is a Dem- ocrat, an independent thinker upon religious and all other subjects and a man of generous impulses.
JOHN MOORE.
John Moore, Esq, was born in Pembroke, November 9, 1792. He settled in Candia in 1818, and married Mary, a daughter of John Taylor, in 1820. They had six children, viz .: Mianda, John T., Henry W., Martha A., Albert D., and Horatio G. C. Albert D., died in 1866, aged 30. Horatio G. C., died in 1842, aged 6 years. Mr. Moore in connection with his brother-in-law, Daniel Taylor, kept a store in the Vil- lage in the east end of Dudley's tenement block, traded there three or four years and then sold out to William Turner. He was for several years a manufacturer of carriages at the Village and built the house recently owned by Jacob S. Morrill. He subsequently owned the farm on the Colcord Road which had
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belonged to his father-in law. About the year 1850, he bought of William Turner the place at the Corner now owned by Hen- ry W. Moore. He was a representative to the legislature in 1833 and 1834, moderator from 1834 to 1841, one of the board of selec!men 1836, 1840, and 1841, 1842 and 1853, collector in 1830 and 1832, one of the board of superintendents of schools and a deputy sheriff and crier of the County courts several years. He was also a Justice of the Peace and 'officiated in trials of numerous cases. He was Captain of the Lower Company of Infantry several years and was also an active member of the Union Baptist church .and society many years He was a man of a social disposition and was highly respected by his fellow-townsmen. He died in 1879, aged 87.
FAMILY OF EPHRAIM EATON.
Ephraim Eaton came to Candia from Salisbury, Mass , in 1773, and bought a farm on South Road of Benjamin Batchel- der. He married Abigail Perkins of Salisbury, who died leav- ing one child, a daughter named after her mother. He married, 2d, Sarah Stevens of Salisbury, by whom he had five children Molly, who married Dr. Jacob b. Moore, Sarah, Henry, who married Hannah, daughter of Maj. Jesse Eaton, by whom he had ten children-Henry M., Charles E., Susan, Sarah, Mary and Martha (twins), Hannah and Caroline-Hannah who mar- ried Moses Patten and was the mother of three children-Moses, Elizabeth and Daniel I) -and Peter, who married Hannah H., daughter of Dea. E. H. Kelly, having three children-Ephraim K., Mary J., and Francis B.
Henry M., the oldest child of Henry Eaton, was born. in 1806 He worked upon his father's farm in his younger days and attended school in old District No. 3. He taught school several years. He was married to Eliza A. Parker, by whom he had two children, Frederick P., who died at 14 years of age and Ellen S. Mr. Eaton traded at the corner several years, and on the death of his father, in 1855, he came into possession of the old homestead. Mrs. Eaton died in 1860. Mr. Eaton, like his father and grandfather, was a leading man in town and was much
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