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Paltiah, Serena. William Brown, Jr., died September -, 1849, aged 69.
JONATHAN WAITE was an ingenious blacksmith. He served the town as selectman, and was twice elected repre- sentative. In his decease his family as well as the public suffered a severe loss. His sons, George and James, carry on his establishment.
BENJAMIN TWISS was a substantial farmer, and resided on a lot adjoining that of Rev. Walter Harris. His son, J. P. Twiss, now occupies his farm.
BENJAMIN MARSHALL was born in this town on the old Perley place. His father dying soon after his birth, he was, while an infant, conveyed by his widowed mother to Ipswich, Mass., where she afterward married a Mr. Pearson. After reaching years of maturity Mr. Marshall returned to settle in Dunbarton. He became an experienced and independent agriculturist. He was once induced to serve as a selectman. One year's experience, however, convinced him that the position was not one to be desired, and that his well cultivated farm was an object more worthy of his attention. He left a handsome estate. He was born in 1775, and died February 25, 1858.
Dunbarton records contain the following : "January 8, 1802. Married Benjamin Marshall, of Ipswich, to Betsey Goodhue, of Dunbarton." Children : Eunice P., b. July 6, 1804 ; Elizabeth and Mary D., b. March 21, 1806 ; Sa- rah, b. January 6, 1808 ; Benjamin, b. December 12, 1809; Hannah, b. May 18, 1812; Lydia M., b. November 29, 1813 ; Harriet N., b. August 31, 1817 ; Enoch P., b. No- vember 24, 1819; Charles H., b. March 11, 1823.
JOHN DODGE, once an inhabitant of this town, was col- lector in 1817. He published a pamphlet, addressed to Rev. Walter Harris, in defence of Universalism.
Children of James and Esther Morse : True Morse, b. February 26, 1799 ; Sally, b. January 22, 1801.
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Capt. JOSEPH LEACH, a veteran soldier of the Revolution (also a sea captain), was a high-spirited, valued citizen, and a strong Jeffersonian republican. He was several years representative and selectman. His death (1815-16) was occasioned by the running away of his team in the hay season. While springing from his cart to stop his cattle, he was caught and crushed between the wheel and a bar post. His widow died June 20, 1849, aged one hundred and two years. His sons were Joseph, Samuel, John and Andrew. He had also several daughters.
BENJAMIN PERLEY, Jr., resided in the south-eastern part of the town. His son's, Warren and Humphrey C., within a few years deceased, each served the town several years as selectmen and representatives.
Children of Benjamin and Lois Perley : Lois, b. Jan- uary 18, 1792; Patty Gould, b. June 28, 1793 ; Benjamin, b. February 15, 1795; Hannah, b. October 12, 1796 ; Humphrey C., b. March 31, 1798; Warren, b. September 3, 1799 ; Gilman, b. August 27, 1801; Eliza, b. December 22, 1802 ; Anna, b. November 26, 1804; John, b. July -, 1808; Elbridge, b. October 29, 1810.
When he was very old the house of Mr. Benjamin Per- ley, senior, caught fire. He went to the attic to extin- guish it, and being unable to get out, perished in the flames. His great-grandson, Jeremiah, son of Warren Perley, was slain, after a brave defence, by a party of In- dians in California.
ELIPHALET R. SARGENT, from Goffstown, who has resided in this town about twenty-five years, is an intelligent, industrious husbandman. He has held town offices of responsibility, and owns the farm first occupied by Capt. William Parker.
JOSHUA F. HoYT was a hard-working, thrifty farmer, and an extensive dealer in cattle. He was chosen select- man and treasurer several times. He was also an agent
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for the purchase of the town farm, agent for the surplus revenue, and representative. His son, Joseph G., gradu- ated, with a high reputation for scholarship, at Yale Col- lege ; was for a time tutor at Phillips Academy, Exeter, from which town he was chosen a delegate to the State convention for amending the Constitution. He is now chanceller of a literary seminary in Missouri. Benjamin, the youngest son of Mr. Hoyt, has been selectman, and in 1859 and 1860 was elected treasurer. He occupies his father's former residence, and is, like him, the cultivator of a considerable farm, as also an extensive dealer in cat- tle and lumber.
THOMAS TEWKSBURY owned a farm bordering upon Hopkinton, which he managed with great industry, econ- omy and profit. He was a cooper, and in that capacity made several voyages to the West-Indies. He died at a very advanced age. None of his family now reside in town. His farm was lot No. 19, in the first range, origin- ally laid out to John Quigg.
Children of Thomas and Anna Tewksbury: Anna, b. (at Manchester) January 18, 1786; Betsey, b. (at Man- chester) November 14, 1787; Molly, b. May 23, 1791 ; Thomas and Jacob, b. September 16, 1792; William, b. April 3, 1795.
Captain JOHN GOULD was born at Hampton, Mass., in 1740. He was an efficient agent in the early affairs of the town, before and after the Revolution. In 1775 he was one of the " Committee of Safety." He died Janu- ary 3, 1806. Mrs. Rachel Gould, his wife, born at Pitts- field, N. H., died October 10, 1809.
Hon. JOHN GOULD was born August 15, 1769, at Dun- barton (another account states August 15, 1767, at Ames- bury, Mass). He was a man of much capacity for busi- ness, slow, sure and methodical, and held for many years every important position in which the votes of his towns-
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men could place him. He was also elected Senator for the 3d District, in 1820 and 1821. He belonged to the Republican party. Several years ago the Federalists car- ried all the offices in town except one. The one Demo- crat elected was John Gould. His opponents jocosely remarked that they had cleared out all the Democrats but " one old stump," and they would root him out next year. The time came round, and the Democrats reelected the " old stump," as also their whole ticket. Mr. Gould pos- sessed sound judgment, and exerted a powerful influence over the town and its affairs. Being an excellent prac- tical surveyor, he was well known throughout the county. He was a man of reading and reflection, as well as a fair scholar, considering the limited advantages within his reach. He studied men as well as books, and his active mind supplied many deficiences in his common school ed- ucation.
He published several pamphlets on the subject of Uni- versalism. His eldest son, John, was educated at Dart- mouth College, but did not live to graduate. His second son, Edward, was young when he first engaged in public affairs. He is a man of abilities, and has passed the round of all important town appointments ; was selectman, treasurer, and twice returned to the Legislature. Wil- liam C., his youngest son, now resides in Bow.
Children of John and Dorothy Gould: John, Jr., b. April 12, 1794 ; died September 6, 1815; Edward, b. Au- gust 15, 1796; Sally, b. December 17, 1797 ; Clymenia, b. January 16, 1806; Lewis, b. July 28, 1809; Lovina, b. August 25, 1813; John Harris, b. October 23, 1816; Wil- liam C., b. June 2, 1820. Hon. John Gould died Febru- ary 1, 1852.
A friend has furnished the following remarks, which we add to this notice in nearly the words of the writer:
" John Gould was born in Amesbury, Mass., August 15, 1767 .* His father moved to Dunbarton when he was a mere boy of five or six years of age. He settled upon the
* Another statement is, " Dunbarton, August 15, 1769."
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farm where John Annis now lives. The site of the old house is but a few feet back of Annis' house. The place where he located himself was a wilderness. He struggled along in poverty, and raised a family of nine children- seven boys and two girls.
John Gould was the third child-one boy and two girls being his seniors in age. He served an apprenticeship with a blacksmith named Gwinn, in Derryfield, near the old Amoskeag bridge. He commenced work for himself at the age of 24, and bought an acre of land, upon the corner, across the wall, near Johnson's house. He erected a house where the shop now stands, and also a shop south of the barn, on the corner where his house had been erected. He married Dorothy Head, a poor servant girl, and moved into his new house, their effects being con- veyed thither in a bushel basket.
His father was a very hard-working, industrious man, of good natural abilities, but possessed very little learn- ing. He could read and write, but very indifferently. His mother could read and write better than her husband.
John Gould, their son, went to school but four weeks in his life. He said the first copy ever set for him was writ- ten by his mother on a piece of birch bark; yet I can say of him that he possessed the most thorough common English education of any man I ever knew: that is, in the branches generally taught in his day, which were read- ing, writing and arithmetic. I never saw him at fault in parsing or puzzled by a sum in arithmetic. Being much with him I frequently received his assistance in those par- ticulars while myself acting as a teacher, and he invaria- bly " helped me out when against a snag."
When a boy I attended a singing school at Dunbarton Centre, where the teacher proposed this question : " What will fill one third of a measure in common time ?" He allowed his pupils until the next meeting to prepare au answer. I studied some time upon the question, and gave it up. Squire Gould, however, answered it in ten min- utes, and with his information I went to school the next
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evening in good spirits. The answer was called for; and none could give it but myself. Our old friend - called out, " told you." I did not own up at the time, but it was nevertheless true. This goes to show that although of different politics our friend duly appre- ciated his abilities.
His letter to Mr. Harris was an able production. I have looked over his writings in manuscript, to see if I could discover a misspelled word or an ungrammatical sentence. I have never discovered any, although hours have been expended in the search.
'Squire Gould was a self-made man. His knowledge was acquired from books and observation, without a teacher, or such text books as you and I have had the privilege of perusing. Dilworth's Spelling Book, the Psalter, Pike's Arithmetic, and Alexander's Grammar, were the principal works at his command. He was sin- gular in his boyhood. He seldom mingled with other boys in their sports, but preferred retiring by himself with his book for his companion.
He did not, however, deny himself all sports and recre- ations, for he was personally very active and agile. He was an expert wrestler. He would never, however, en- gage until the bully of the ring had thrown all others ; then he would step in and throw the bully.
I have heard him say he never was thrown after he was twenty. He could jump higher than any person in his vicinity. He could leap over a line as high as his head. He was six feet in height, and generally weighed one hundred and eighty pounds. A principal reason that he did not appear more prominently in the world was his diffidence. When he was nominated for town-clerk, 'he said it occurred to him that he should have to read before the meeting, and he should not be able to eat or sleep on account of nervousness.' He always stood back, and never put himself forward as an office-seeker."
From what we have known of Mr. Gould, we confi- dently indorse the foregoing statements. He was a
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worthy citizen, and fulfilled honorably all his duties to the public, and the obligations incumbent upon him as a member of society.
We insert with pleasure the following extract from a letter just received from William C. Gould, Esq., of Bow :
" My father was born in Dunbarton, August 15, 1769. He died Feb. 1, 1852. His oldest diary in my possession dates back to. 1820. He was that year Senator from Dis- trict No. 3. He was emphatically a self-taught man, having had no advantages of education beyond his own fireside. His father was sternly opposed to any thing like progress, and my father had but little chance for improvement while under him. I have heard him say that he made shingles and bought a dictionary, but was obliged to peruse it secretly ; for his father had declared that the book would be the ruin of him. He once said ' that all his boys were good to work, and could take care of themselves except John, and he did not care for any thing but an old book.'"
As for the pamphlets he has written, I know of but few. He wrote a letter to Mr. Harris and Rev. Mr. Cowles ; also, one small pamphlet on the subject of capital punish- ment, about the time Daniel Farmer was hung at Am- herst. He wrote several articles for the newspapers in defence of Universalism, which were published, but most of his writings never went to the press. My brother John died while a student at college, five years before I was born.
I have, since writing the above, learned that my grand- father was born in Hampton, Mass., in 1740, and my grandmother in Pittsfield, N. H., in 1743. My father wrote a pamphlet to the Shakers, the title of which I do not recollect."
NOTE. In the description of Dumbarton Castle (page 39), Renfrew is mentioned as a royal burgh, classed with those of Dumbarton, Glasgow and Ruther Glen, in electing a member to the British Parliament.
" Lord Renfrew" is the title which Queen Victoria directed the Prince of Wales to assume during his travels in America.
APPENDIX.
ON the 30th of January, 1746, John Tufton Mason sold his interest in the Province to a company composed of the following gentlemen, viz :
" Theodore Atkinson, Richard Wibird, John Moffat, Mark Hunking Went- worth, Samuel Moore, John Odiorne, Jr., Joshua Pierce, Nathaniel Meserve, George Jaffrey, Jr., John Wentworth, Jr., Thomas Wallingford, and Thomas Packer."
To the above named persons, and the officers of government, lots were set apart in all granted townships .* The assent of the applicants being declared in regard to this arrangement, companies of respectable individuals experienced but little trouble in obtaining township grants.
A liberal allowance of farm lots was invariably bestowed upon the Governor, his Secretary, and Treasurer, or other friends by them designated, " to them and their heirs for ever." The American Revolution, however, a convulsion unanticipated as well as unprecedented in the history of the world, “ indefi- nitely postponed" many of these admirably contrived schemes for future wealth. Confiscation settled the account of many of these thus easily acquired grants of lands.
List of Individuals to whom Land Rights were granted at the Proprietors' Meeting on Monday, March 2, 1752.
Archibald Stark, William Stark, John Stark, Archibald Stark, Jr., all of a place called Amoskeag.
Rev. David MeGregore, Robert McMurphy, William Rankin, William Stin- son, John Cochran, James Evans, Hugh Dunshee, John McCurdy, John Carr, John Cochran, Hugh Jameson, David Stinson, Joseph Scoby, Matthew Thorn- ton, Daniel MeCurdy, John Carr, John Cochran, Dr. Alexander Todd, Wil- liam Hogg, James MeGregore, David Leslie, George Clark, William Rankin, William Stinson, James Rogers, James Cochran, John McDuffie, James Mc- Gregore, Nathaniel Todd, David Craig, all of Londonderry.
Thomas Mills, Samuel Hogg, Caleb Page, Jr., Nathaniel Richards, Thomas Follansbee, Jr., all of Hampstead.
Jeremiah Page, William Elliot, John Hall, Adam Diekey, all of Derryfield. Joseph Blanchard, Esq., Joseph Blanchard, Jr., both of Dunstable.
Joseph Putney, James Rogers, their eldest sons for one right, all living on the tract of land hereby granted.
William Putney and Obadialı Foster, of the same place, for one hundred aeres, and the remaining part of the share or right to Hugh Ramsay, of said Londonderry.
John Morton and George Massey, of Portsmouth. William Stark (above named) having three rights. Samuel Emerson, Esq., James Varnum, both of
* Several grants of this character will be found in the following list.
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Chester ; John Campbell, of Haverhill; William Hyslop, of Boston, William Gault, of Canterbury ; Samuel Fulton, of Londondery .- Prop. Records.
In the foregoing list a few names are several times inserted. In these cases, more lots than one were granted to the same person.
A List of the Lots in Dunbarton, with the names of the Orig- inal Grantees, as assigned them in 1752.
First Range.
No. of Lot.
1. John Stark.
2. Alexander Todd.
3. Alexander Todd.
4. John Stark.
5. Thos. Wallingford and Thos. Hill.
6. A. Cunningham and A. Stark.
7. William Stark.
8. School lot, and John Moffat.
9. D. McGregore and John Craig.
10. Moore and Pierce.
11. Samuel Hogg.
12. Common lot to build M. H.
13. David Craig.
14. David McGregore.
15. Archibald Stark.
16. Archibald Cunningham.
17. John Odiorne.
18. John Hogg.
19. John Quigg.
Second Range.
1. George Clark.
2. Common lot to build M. H.
3. Thomas Hall.
4. Thomas Wallingford.
5. William Stinson.
6. John Moffat.
7. John Hogg and James Odiorne.
8. John Quigg and George Clark.
9. Caleb lage, Jr., and Law lot.'
10. Samuel Rankin.
11. Richard Wilson.
12. Col. Meserve & Co.
13. Sam'l Stinson (cellar & apple-tree). 14. James Caldwell.
15. William Gault.
16. Samuel Emerson.
17. Samuel Hogg, Moore and Pierce.
18. John -, Law lot, pine 7 feet in diameter.
19. J. McAlister and Matthew Ramsey. Third Range.
1. John McDuffie.
2. Joseph Pierce.
3. David Stinson.
4. Thomas Follansbee.
5. James Cochran, Hugh Dunshee.
6. Hugh Jameson.
7. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., and Hugh Jameson.
8. Parsonage.
9. School lot, camp (A A).
10. Wm. Carr, Wm. Parker, oak 7 ft. d.
11. Theodore Atkinson, Jr.
12. Law lot.
13. Sam'l Emerson and David Stinson.
14. Wm. Carr and James Stinson.
15. John Horsul and William Stark.
16. Matthew Ramsay, pine 10 ft. d.
17. John McAlister, elm & oak 6 ft. d.
18. Caleb Page, Jr., fort.
19. Parker and Law lot.
Fourth Range.
1. James Rogers.
2. James Cochran.
3. Wm. Carr and Thomas Follansbee.
4. Samuel Rankin and Wm. Stinson, mill.
5. Common.
6. Matthew Thornton, Thos. Parker.
7. Scoby, March and Geo. Jeffrey.
8. First minister, Walter Harris.
9. Parsonage (meeting-house).
10. James Rogers.
11. Samuel Todd.
12. John Stark, grant for first mill.
13. Alexander Gault.
14. James Adams.
15. John Stinson.
16. Wm. Rankin, Wm. Parker.
17. James Carr.
18. Common.
Fifth Range.
1. John Pierce.
2. Wm. Gould and Samuel Caldwell.
3. Sam'l Stinson, Harvey & Co.
4. Common.
5. Richard Wilson, Archibald Stin- son, Jr.
6. James Rogers and Joseph Putney. 7. George Massey.
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8. J. T. Mason and Putney and Rog- | 11. George Massey. ers' eldest son.
9. John Ramsey.
10. Joseph Seoby.
11. Adam Dickey.
12. Joseph Cochran.
13. Thomas Parker.
14. Joseph Blanchard.
15. David Leslie, pine 6 ft. d.
16. Jos. Blanchard and David Leslie.
17. Common.
Sixth Range.
1. John Morton.
2. John Morton.
3. Hugh Ramsay.
4. Jos. Scoby, John Ramsay, mill.
5. Joseph Scoby.
6. Joseph Putney.
7. James Rogers.
8. J. Rogers and J. Putney's eldest son (apple-tree, 1747) .*
9. Matthew Thornton.
10. Archibald Stark, Jr.
11. Hugh Dunshee.
12. George Jeffrey.
13. Scoby and March.
14. Hugh Ramsay.
Seventh Range.
1. Sam'l Fulton and James Varnum.
2. Wm. Elliot and John Hall.
3. John Hall.
4. William Elliot.
5. James Varnum.
6. Common.
7. Samuel Fulton.
8. J. T. Mason and John Cochran.
9. J. Adams.
10. J. Adams, both fragments of lots.
12. Alexander Gault.
13. Samuel Todd.
Eighth Range.
1. Samuel Richards.
2. Dr. John Cochran.
3. John Cochran.
4. John Cochran.
5. Samuel Richards.
6. James McGregore. Ninth Range.
1. Daniel McCurdy.
2. James McGregore.
3. Mark Hunking Wentworth. Tenth Range.
1. Daniel McCurdy.
2. Matthew Morton.
3. Matthew Morton.
Eleventh Range.
1. Mark H. Wentworth.
Twelfth Range.
1. Jeremiah Page.
2. Jeremiah Page. Thirteenth Range.
1. Common.
2. Common.
3. John Wallingford and John Went- worth.
Fourteenth Range.
1. Todd.
2. School lot.
3. John Wentworth.
4. Vacant.
The following persons from this town were educated at College :
Abraham B. Story,
Dartmouth. | Caleb Stark,
Harvard, 1823. Dartmouth.
Samuel Burnham,
Caleb Mills,
Abraham Burnham,
William Parker,
Amos W. Burnham,
Leonard Parker,
66
John Burnham,
John Tenney,
Union.
Charles G. Burnham, John Stinson (2 years),
Walter H. Tenney, Dartmouth.
Thomas Jameson,
Thomas Jameson, John Jameson,
Nathaniel H. Hardy,
¥
Harrison Page,
John Whipple,
Joseph G. Hoyt,
Yale.
Jeremiah Stinson,
John Gould,
Dartmouth.
Nathaniel Fisher Harris,
Mark Bailey,
* This tree was probably planted several years prior to 1746.
William Stark, 66
Henry Page,
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David B. Kimball, Charles H. Marshall, George H. Twiss, Ephraim O. Jameson, Abraham Burnham,
Dartmouth. Wabash, Ind. Dartmouth.
Now in College.
Dartmouth. 66
William E. Bunten,
Henry M. Putney, Frank A. Putney,
66
Persons formerly residents of this town, who have died at and beyond the age of 70 years. Those designated by a star (*) were past 70, their exact ages being unknown.
Archibald Stark, Jr.,
90 | Capt. Phinehas Bailey,
His wife,
*
Stephen Palmer,
Capt. Caleb Page,
80 Simeon Palmer,
Major Caleb Stark,
78 Levi Palmer,
Mrs. Sarah Stark,
72 Susannah Palmer,
Capt. William Stinson,
78
Betsey Palmer,
His wife,
*
Alpheus Goodwin,
Archibald Stinson,
85
James Goodwin,
His wife, Sarah Page S.
84
Thomas Tewksbury,
* * *
Major John Stinson,
81
His wife,
84
John Stinson, Jr.,
81
Capt. Joseph Leach,
*
James Stinson,
82 Mrs. Leach, his wife,
102
Janette, his wife,
92 Joel Wheeler,
*
Thomas Stinson,
*
Thomas Caldwell,
88
Rev. Walter Harris,
82
Israel Clifford,
89
Thomas Mills, senior,
70
Abraham Burnham,
72
Major John Mills,
77
John Burnham,
*
Margarette, his wife,
81 Asa Burnham,
79
Lieut. Thomas Mills,
88
His mother, Hannah Choate Burn- ham, *
John Bunten,
76
Major William Brown, 85
*
Henry Putney,
* Benjamin Marshall,
83
David Putney,
* Mrs. Marshall,
73
Asa Putney,
* Mrs. Benjamin Twiss, Ebenezer Woodbury,
91
David Alexander,
71 Rev. Abraham Burnham,
*
Martha, his wife,
75
Dr. Symmes Sawyer, 90
* *
Dea. John Church,
97 Hannah, his wife,
90
Dea. James Clement,
75 Samuel Stinson,
*
Mrs. Mary McGwinn,
82 John Gould,
83
David Story,
88 Job Rowell,
77
Thankful, his wife,
76 Mrs. Eleanor Combs,
77
Daniel Kimball,
* Theodore Combs,
76
Agnes Stewart,
93
Jeremiah Page, senior,
77
John Holmes,
73 Jeremiah Page, junior,
86
His wife,
70
John Page,
70
Col. Robert Holmes,
83 Peter C. Page,
75
Mrs. Holmes,
80 Samuel Leach,
Oliver Bailey, senior,
* Thomas Stickney,
75
Capt. Oliver Bailey,
82 His wife,
73
Robert Alexander,
93
Paul Healey,
93
Robert Hogg (Master),
His second wife,
92 Robert Hogg,
William Beard,
80
Deliverance, his wife,
70 His wife, Elizabeth Cutler B.,
86
Joseph Putney,
* His wife,
William Stinson,
75 Jonathan Ireland,
Henry M. Caldwell,
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Mr. Gile, John Mills (son of Caleb),
*
Esther D. Hammond,
90
72
Thomas Hammond, 80
Dea. John Wilson,
79 Mrs. William Smith, *
William Tenney,
Alexander Gilchrist,
Deacon Sargent,
Jonas Hastings, *
Deacon Matthew S. McCurdy,
Moses Carr,
74
Lieut. John McCurdy,
Eleazer Butters,
* *
Squire Andrus,
*
Daniel Story,
71
Benjamin Perley, senior,
Widow Mary Ladd,
8!
Benjamin Perley, junior,
72
Mrs. Susannah Dow,
70
Robert Chase,
78
Israel Perkins,
81
Simon Bailey,
Mary, his wife,
75
Jonah Bailey,
Elizabeth Hammond,
83
Daniel Bailey,
Hannah Jameson,
79
Peter Mills,
Margaret Jameson,
82
John Howard,
82
Mrs. Tamar, wife of C. Mills,
S5
Mrs. Thomas Ayre,
Capt. Nathan Burnham,
74
Isaac Bowen,
Hannah, his wife,
79
His wife,
Sarah Brown,
82
Capt. John Ferguson,
Eunice Kelley,
76
Samuel Hogy,
Reuben Mills,
87
Robert Stark,
Mrs. Mary Burnham,
73
John Stark,
Mrs. Anna Stiason,
86
Sarah Healey,
·
*
years, 1 month and 11 days.
Jonathan Hammond,
83
The oldest persons now living in town are Thomas Aver, 90 in May last. Jonathan Clifford will be 85 September 23, 1860. John Duke, supposed to be 83 or 84. Mrs. Guile is the oldest woman living in town.
Moderators, Proprietors' Clerks, Town-Clerks and Treasurers.
Moderators,
1806. John Mills, until
1765. Caleb Page, until
1808. David Story, until
1769. Robert Hogg.
1812. Richard H. Ayer, until
1770. Jeremiah Page, until
1824. John Leach.
1780. Jeremiah Page.
1830. John Mills, Jr., until
1783. David Story.
1847. Paltiah Brown, until
1784. Jeremiah Page.
1853. Samuel B. Hammond.
1785. David Story, until
1854. William C. Gould.
1787. Moses Hacket .;
1855. Samuel B. Hammond.
1788. David Story, until
1790. Ebenezer Hacket.
1791. Caleb Stark.
1792. Jeremiah Page, until
1794. William Tenney.
1795. Jeremiah Page.
1796. Joseph Leach, until
1799. John Mills.
1800. Joseph Leach.
1801. David Story, until
1803. Caleb Stark.
1804. David Story, until
18
1823. Caleb Stark.
1778. John Hogg, until
1825. Edward Gould, until
1781. John Hogg.
1833. Edward Gould, until
1782. Jeremiah Pagc.
1837. Nathan Gutterson, until
1856. Samuel S. Page.
1857. John Burnham, until
1859. Samuel B. Hammond.
1860. Samuel B. Hammond.
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