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2
15
6
Philemon Blake
10
5
1 4
5
Moses Blake
5
4
11
5
Israel Blake.
5
2
11
0
Timothy Blake, Jr.
3
3
6
9
Aaron Blake
4
6
Jacob Basford
10
1
1
4
2
James Basford.
2
8
6
9
Capt. Joseph Cass
14
0
1
19
10
John Clifford
12
1 13
0
Israel Clifford, Sen
6
6
13
7
Jacob Clifford.
13
0
1
9
3
Israel Clifford, Jr
3
6
1 13
1
Zachariah Clifford
2
2
4
6
Samuel Cass
0)
8
4
Benjamin Cram, Sen
10
1
1
5
0
Thomas Cram.
9
4
1
1
11
John Cram, Sen.
18
5
2
3
4
Benjamin Cram, Jr
12
0
1
7
3
John Cram, Jr ..
6
4
15
6
Joseph Cram ..
9
9
1
3
7
Thomas & John Chase
1
14
10
4
12
6
Jabez Colman
Philip Chase
2
2
0
Mehitable Dow (widow of Simon).
4 10
14
6
290
291
PROVINCE RATE, JUNE, 1709.
€ s.
d.
S.
d.
John Dow
9
8
1
1
2
Josiah Dow
12
9
1 10
9
Thomas Dow
5
0
10
7
Samuel Dow, Jr.
7
10
16
7
Joseph Emmerson
6
2
17
11
Benjamin Fifield.
3
7
7
7
Jonathan Fifield
14
1
1
1
9
Holdredge Kelley
1
6
John French
18
11
2
10
1
Widow Fellows
9
4
1
1
8
Peter Folsom
1
1
9
1
John Folsom
1
1
9
1
Capt. Jacob Green.
1
8
8
3
10
11
Isaac Green.
1
4
2
3
4
9
Abraham & Nathan Green.
1
2
11
2
10
1
John Green
10
11
1 4
11
Benjamin Green
2
2
4
6
Ens. John Gove.
1
9
0
3
14
7
Ebenezer Gove
18
3
2
6
5
Jacob Green, Jr.
3
1
1
4
Timothy Hilliard
16
10
2
3
8
Benjamin Hilliard
11
3
1
7
3
Samuel Healey
13
0
1
8
0
Mr. Huckley
3
7
7
6
Nehemiah Heath
7
6
15
10
Ephraim Hoyt.
6
1
12
10
Stephen Hussey
3
1 10
3
John Eaton
5
4
11
4
Edmund Johnson
11
2
1
7
0
Samuel Leavitt.
0
11
3
9
Benjamin Leavitt
3
9
David Lawrence.
1
4
11
4
Samuel Melcher
10
6
1 2
8
John Morgan
6
1
12
10
Bonus Norton
1
5
11
3
8
1
Jonathan Nason
7
15
10
Jonathan Philbrick
1
2
6
2
17
1
Thomas Philbrick
3
2
6
9
Christopher Pottle
15
2
1
17
1
James Prescott, Sen
15
5
1 17
4
Jonathan Prescott
14
8
17
0
James Prescott, Jr.
13
0
1 10
3
John Prescott.
8
1
17
S
Nathaniel Prescott.
7
6
16
4
Caleb & Benjamin Perkins
15
0
1 15
7
Jonathan Robinson
0
4
3
0
4
15
3
Henry Green.
James Leavitt.
292
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS.
£
S.
d.
£
S.
d.
Robert Row, Sen.
6
5
13
7
Robert Row, Jr.
2
2
4
6
John Sanborn, Sen.
1
0
4
2
18
10
Benjamin Sanborn
11
6
1
19
1
Nathaniel Sanborn.
10
11
1
6
7
Joseph Sanborn.
1
1
2
2
7
7
Joseph Shaw.
14
9
1
16
10
Dea. Samuel Shaw
1
1
6
2
12
8
Caleb Shaw
15
4
1
16
4
Benjamin Shaw, Jr.
13
3
1
9
9
Theophilus Smith.
1
9
15
2
Lieut. Joseph Swett.
1
1
3
2
16
6
John Stanyan
1
3
10
3
S
10
James Stanyan
1
6
1
10
0
Jacob Stanyan
9
4
1
1
10
Moses Swett
9
9
1 2
0
Joseph Swett, Jr
3
3
6
9
William Shepherd.
5
4
11
4
Jabez Swain
3
3
8
9
Ens. Daniel Tilton
1 0
S
2
9
8
Samuel Tilton
9
10
1
3
4
Joseph Tilton.
13
9
1 10
6
Daniel Tilton, Jr.
6
7
14
4
David Tilton
9
6
1
1
7
Nathaniel Weare, Esq.
16
0
2
3
7
Lient. Peter Weare ..
1
6
1
3
7
0
Ens. Nathaniel Weare.
19
5
2
3
8
Widow Wilson
3
4
11
4
Henry Williams
4
6
9
7
Edward Williams
7
12
0
Henry Ambrose
4
10
15
1
Nathaniel Ambrose
4
4
5
0
Sanders Carr.
S
1
6
5
Joseph Dow & Jos., Jr
12
6
1
10
3
Joseph French.
4
8
1
Andrew Greeley, Sen.
11
6
1
0
2
Andrew Greeley, Jr
9
8
1
2
8
Robert Smith
11
6
1
4
2
Israel Shepherd
5
7
19
4
Joseph True ..
9
4
1 10
3
John Arnell.
10
6
0
Ephraim Eaton
6
2
1
0
9
John Webster
4
8
6
Joseph Norton
2
2
6
0
Thomas Harris
2
2
6
0
Joshua Puddinton
15
3
Job Burnham
5
11
7
John Shepherd.
15
1
293
PROVINCE RATE AND INVENTORY.
INVENTORY OF THE TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS, MARCH 18, 1726-7. 224 POLLS.
Polls.
Houses.
Cultivated
acres.
Oxen.
Cows.
Horses.
Hogs.
Jethro Tilton, blacksmith
2
52
4
2
4
Benjamin Hilliard.
10
1
Benjamin Prescott.
1
1
Benjamin Moulton
3
1
11
6
1
2
Samuel Tilton
1
1
4
2
1
1
1
Colonel Weare, 1 negro.
4
1
36
5
5
3
1
James Lowell .
1
1
Deacon Benjamin Sanborn.
1
1
18
3
1
4
Reuben Sanborn.
1
1
19
3
2
1
Widow Nathan Sanborn
1
10
2
5
2
Joseph Sanborn
1
2
20
4
1
2
Enoch Sanborn
1
1
3
1
1
Abner Sanborn.
1
1
26
4
1
3
Timothy Blake
1
1
1
1
5
2
4
1
John Brown
2
1
8
2
1
Abraham Brown
1
1
1
2
3
1
Moses Blake, Jr.
1
1
1
Moses Blake.
1
1
11
2
2
1
3
Caleb Moody
1
1
5
2
3
Jacob Green
1
1
18
2
4
Jacob Garland
1
9
?
4
1
Israel Clifford
1
10
3
1
1
Samuel Prescott
1
10
4
1
3
John Cram.
3
1
30
5
2
Benjamin Cram
2
1
20
5
1
Samuel Melcher
3
1
16
4
1
1
Philemon Blake
3
1
20
2
5
3
3
Captain Joseph Tilton
3
1
3
1
2
2
Sherburn Tilton
1
2
1
1
1
13
2
3
1
2
Estate of Benjamin Healey, I negro
1
1
36
3
1
David Tilton
2
1
27
2
2
4
John Sanborn .
1
1
5
4
1
2
1
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
Jonathan Prescott
1
1
10
1
1
Nathaniel Prescott.
9
2
1
Thomas Dearborn
2
9
1
1
Joseph Prescott
1
1
John Hardy
1
1
6
2
1
Deacon Nathaniel Batchelder
3
1
48
8
2
5
Joseph Batchelder
1
1
20
1
1
1
Jacob Basford
1
1
S
2
1
Philip Pervear
1
1
1
Zachariah Philbrick
1
4
1
Samuel Shaw. .
1
5
1
1
Jonathan Batchelder
1
6
3
1
Benjamin Veazey
1
1
56
4
John llall.
1
1
16
4
I
12
3
1
1
James Prescott.
1
20
1
5
5
Samuel Selden .
1
1
4
2
Enoch Colby
1
1
10
2
1
1
John Tilton
1
1
8
Samuel Lane
2
1
6
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
5
Jeremiah Prescott
3
Elisha Prescott .
2
Nathaniel Healey
Samuel Healey
. .
I
Benjamin Shaw
1
James Moulton.
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HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS.
INVENTORY OF THE TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS, MARCH 18, 1726-7. 224 POLLS .- Continued.
Polls.
Houses.
Cultivated
acres.
Oxen.
Cows.
Horses.
Hogs.
John Batchelder
1
1
10
2
5
1
1
Moses Swett
3
1
10
3
1
3
Ichabod Roby
1
1
9
3
1
Nathan Longfellow.
1
1
13
3
8
2
3
Joseph Emmons, shoemaker
1
11
1
Samuel Emmons
1
2
1
Thomas Hunt .
1
1
James Stanyan .
1
1
4
3
1
....
Edward Williams
1
1
1
Jonathan Nason
2
1
12
2
4
2
....
John Sillea ..
1
1
5
2
1
1
..
1
1
6
2
1
1
George Connor.
1
1
1
Charles Treadwell
2
2
23
5
1
Benoni Forg.
1
1
5
10
1
John Boulter.
1
1
James Perkins. .
1
1
1
1
William Healey.
1
1
4
3
1
Thomas Leavitt ..
1
1
11
4
1
... .
2
1
12
2
2
2
1
1
7
2
4
1
3
1
1
14
2
3
1
Daniel Weare ..
1
1
5
2
1
1
William Norton
1
16
6
Jonathan Cass.
1
7
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
2
3
1
1
Ralph Butler.
1
8
2
3
1
3
John French
1
1
15
6)
3
1
1
Benjamin Perkins, aged man.
1
15
3
1
Caleb Perkins .
1
1
1
Widow Sarah Dow.
1
10
2
1
1
Amos Cass, stranger
1
Ebenezer Cass. .
1
John Gove, Sen.
1
1
17
2
4
1
1
Nathan Cluff
1
Jonathan Gove.
1
1
15
2
4
2
Samuel French.
1
1
47
4
1
Edward West ..
1
1
Ebenezer Knowlton.
1
1
1
Aaron Blake
1
1
2
1
Edward Gove.
1
1
5
Benjamin Green
1
1
17
2
3
1
Thomas Cram .
1
1
12
3
1
Jonathan Fifield.
1
20)
2
3
2
Richard Swain ..
2
1
1
John Dow ..
2
1
10
4
1
1
1
John Weare ..
1
1
8
5
1
2
John Dow, Jr.
1
4
1
I
Widow Ann Brown
Jonathan Palmer.
1
1
17
2
3
2
1
Samuel Buswell.
1
1
1
1
Isaac Green ..
1
1
2
1
25
2
3
John Brown, Quaker.
3
1
Benjamin Brown, aged man.
1
1
1
Samnel Cass, aged man.
Jeremiah Gove.
Jacob Brown.
Jonathan Philbrick
Robert Rowe, Jr
John Swain ..
Edward Tuck
1
Edward Palmer
..
295
PROVINCE RATE AND INVENTORY.
INVENTORY OF THE TOWN OF HAMPTON FALLS, MARCH 18, 1726-7. 224 POLLS .- Continued.
Polls.
Houses.
Cultivated
acres.
Oxen.
Cows.
Horses.
Ilogs.
Jonathan Brown"
1
1
5
2
1
Jeremiah Brown
1
1
Jonathan Chase.
1
1
13
2
1
Ebenezer Gove ..
1
1
20
3
4
2
Ebenezer Gove, Jr.
1
1
Simon Fogg ...
1
1
1
1
1
Joshua Purington
1
1
6
2
Henry Green.
1
1
8
1
1
Elisha Chase .
1
1
10
2
Widow Chase
3
Thomas Philbrick
1
1
8
Thomas Brown.
1
1
10
2
1
1
Capt. Joseph Cass
1
1
10
Ephraim Hoyt, Jr.
1
1
1
1
20
3
1
1
Charles Steward, blacksmith.
1
1
1
1
Jonathan Dow
1
1
John Gove, Jr ..
1
1
14
4
2
1
Joseph Norton ...
1
15
4
1
1
1
Joseph Cass, Jr.
1
1
4
2
1
1
John Page.
1
4
Philip Griffin.
1
1
3
3
3
Elisha Purington.
1
1
1
1
1
John Chase ..
1
7
Nathaniel Weare
1
1
48
2
5
?
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
1
·
1
Ephraim Hoyt, Sen
1
8
1
.
John Eastman. Ebenezer Prescott
Jeremiah Brown, Jr.
COLLECTOR'S WARRANT, 1756.
IN the warrant for the collection of taxes issued to Nathan Tilton, constable, 1756, we find that the following may be taken in pay- ment of taxes:
It may be paid in new tenor bills of credit, or in coined silver at six shillings and eight pence per ounce, Troy weight, of sterling alloy, or in coined gold at four pounds eighteen shillings per ounce, or in the following commodities, being of the province or manufactures of said province, at the prices herein respectively set to each commodity, viz .:
£
s. d.
Merchantable Hemp per cwt.
5 12
0
Winter and first fare Isle of Sable merch Codfish per quintal
1 10 0
Merchantable white pine boards per M.
2 15 0
Tanned sole leather per lb.
0 2 0
Indian corn per bush
0
6 0
Turpentine per Bbl.
2
0
0
Flax per lb.
0 1 0
Rye per bush.
0 6 0
Joist per M.
2 10 0
Barley per bush
0 6 0
Pitch per Bbl.
1 10
0
Beeswax per lb.
0 2
0
Peas per bushel.
0 10
0
Bar iron per cwt.
3 0
0
Wheat per bushel.
0 10
0
Pork per lb.
0 0
7
Bayberry wax per lb.
0 1
6
Beef per lb.
0 3
Tar per Bbl.
1 5 0
These articles were to be delivered to the treasurer, at the cost of the owner, before the last day of December. If not paid by that time it was to be taken by distress.
The taxes were payable in gold, silver, new tenor bills of credit, or in commodities, in about the same manner for a number of years after 1756.
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297
COLLECTOR'S WARRANT, 1756.
The same year two hundred and twenty-three pounds four shil- lings, new tenor bills of credit, were called for and raised by an act of the General Assembly, passed April 11, 1755, entitled "An act for granting unto his most excellent Majesty the sum of thirty thousand pounds, for and towards the building a fort near Crown Point." This was in addition to the parish taxes assessed for other purposes, collected in 1756.
COLORED PEOPLE.
THERE were quite a number of negroes living here in the early days of the town. There were some slaves; some were given their freedom. All slaves had either died or received their freedom before 1800. We find the marriage of Andrew and Dinah, Mr. Worth's negroes, recorded September 22, 1736. The Millers, who lived upon Murray's Row, were mulattoes. Many of the colored people were members of the church. Special seats were assigned them in the meeting-house and they were expected to confine them- selves to the seats given them. The following will be of interest to people living at the present time:
To all people to whom these presents may come, Know ye that I, Abigail Brown, widow of John Brown, late of Hampton Falls, deceased, in the province of New Hampshire in New England, Know ye that I do by these presents do for me and my heirs, executors, administrat- ors, and assigns, every one of us, clearly and absolutely promise, release, and forever quit you the said negro man Caesar from me and my heirs forever, after the service of four years, which four years will be ended on the fourteenth day of March and in the year 1751 & 2, and in confirmation of what is above written, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this ninth day of May in the twenty first year of the reign of King George the Second.
ABIGAIL BROWN. (L. s.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us.
JACOB BROWN.
JEREMIAH PEARSON.
Mrs. Abigail Brown was a Quaker and probably, like others of her sect, did not believe in slavery. We find that in 1756 Cæsar, a negro freeman, was rated, province tax, £5 10s. 11d .; school tax, £3 4s. 4d .; which is the only mention made of him after receiving his freedom. He must have been possessed of some property at that time, as there are many in the list whose rates were much less than his. Cæsar appears to have moved to Pittsfield, when he ceased to be rated here.
298
STATE LINE.
FROM the earliest settlement there had been considerable con- troversy in relation to the proper location of the line between this province and Massachusetts. In 1737, Governor Belcher, who was at the head of both provinces, attempted a settlement.
The king was to appoint twenty persons, selected from the com- missioners of New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Nova Scotia, and five were to constitute a quorum. They were to meet at Hampton (Hampton Falls) on the first day of August, 1737. The course of proceeding was fully marked out, and the parties notified.
Eight of the commissioners met at the time appointed, and after hearing certain statements from the parties adjourned for one week. They met again, according to adjournment, in adjoining towns, and within five miles of each other. The assembly of Massachusetts met at Salisbury. The house where they remained while in Salisbury is still, or was a short time ago, standing, and was called the state house. The assembly of New Hampshire was at Hampton Falls.
A cavalcade was formed from Boston to Salisbury and the gov- ernor rode in state, attended by a troop of horse. He was met at Newbury ferry by another troop, who were joined by three more at the supposed divisional line, and conducted to the George's tavern in Hampton Falls, where he held a council and made a speech to the assembly of New Hampshire. The George's tavern was sup- posed to have been situated near where the brick house now stands, owned by the heirs of Cyrus Brown.
After this pageant the commissioners failed to immediately estab- lish the boundary line in which we were most interested.
The final decision was adverse to the claims of Massachusetts, cutting off a large territory from her jurisdiction. South Hampton and a part of Seabrook are a portion of the territory lost.
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300
HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS.
Perhaps the incident cannot be better described than in quoting the effusions of some witty poet who sings thus:
Dear paddy, you never did behold such a sight, As yesterday morning was seen before night. You in all your born days saw, nor I didn't neither, So many fine horses and men ride together. At the head the lower house trotted two in row, Then all the high house pranced after the low; Then the governor's coach galloped on like the wind, And the last that came foremost were troopers behind, But I fear it means no good to your neck and mine. For they say 'tis to fix a place for a line.
THROAT DISTEMPER.
-
IN June, 1735, there commenced a terrible disease in Kingston, called the throat distemper, and in that town in fourteen months there were one hundred and fourteen deaths, ninety-six of whom were children under the age of ten years.
The Kingston record says, "This mortality was by a kanker- quinsy which mostly seized young people, and it has proved exceed- ingly mortal in several other towns."
In the parish of Hampton Falls the throat distemper raged most violently. Twenty families lost all their children. Twenty-seven persons were lost out of five families, and more than one sixth of the inhabitants of that place died within thirteen months. The num- ber of deaths from throat distemper in this town for fourteen months preceding July 26, 1736, was 210; of these, 160 were under ten years of age; 40 between ten and twenty; above twenty, 9: above thirty, 1. It should be remembered that at that time Hampton Falls included what is now Kensington and Seabrook. The major- ity of those who died were buried in the old cemetery on the plains.
Lient. Joseph Batchelder and wife, who lived where Warren Brown now lives, lost all their children, twelve or thirteen in num- ber, it is not known which, as Mrs. Batehelder afterward was unable to decide whether she had twelve or thirteen children. The whole number who died in the province during the fourteen months named was upward of a thousand. Only two houses in Hampton Falls where there were children escaped its visitation. One of them was where John T. Batchelder now lives; the other is now unknown.
There was an old record that the disease originated from a sick hog which was killed at Kingston. I should not have mentioned this had not the same statement been revived lately in a newspaper article. There is probably no truth in its originating in this way. It appears to have been epidemic in form. The first person seized was a child, who died in three days. About a week after, another
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HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS.
family four miles distant was attacked and three children died in three days. Of the first forty who were attacked, all died. In Angust it made its appearance at Exeter, six miles to the northeast, and in September at Boston, fifty miles south. In October it reached Chester, the nearest settlement on the west of Kingston.
The doctors were powerless in their efforts to check the disease. The epidemic soon became known as the "throat distemper," or "throat ail," and is spoken of as the "putrid sore throat." It is now supposed to have been a malignant form of diphtheria. Pro- fessor William Francis Webster of Kingston, when in Germany, found in a medical work there the statement that the first recorded instance of this disease was in the town of Kingston. New Hamp- shire. There was another visitation of the disease in 1754. We have no account as to the number who died in this town, but there were many. At this time forty-three persons died in Hampton.
Only one physician made any progress in arresting its ravages, Dr. Josiah Bartlett of Kingston, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He treated it with Peruvian bark, which was in opposition to the treatment of the other doctors, who were inclined to ridicule his method.
THE SMALLPOX.
THE smallpox originated in Arabia, A. D. 569. It was at first confounded with scarlet fever and measles, and supposed to be a species of one or the other of those diseases. The movements of Mahomet and his followers are said to have caused its rapid spread to other countries. For a long time the danger from smallpox was greatly aggravated by the methods of treatment. Before the dis- covery of vaccination, inoculation was quite general in England. The mortality under this system was small, not more than one in six hundred or more. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, ninety-eight of every one thousand deaths were from smallpox in England. By the general introduction of vaccination this mortal- ity was reduced before 1850 to eighteen in a thousand. Since 1850, the mortality in most European countries has been reduced to only two in a thousand.
Vaccination was discovered and put in practice by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796. Like all other great discoveries, the introduction of vaccination met with great opposition.
The prevalence of smallpox did much to demoralize and reduce the armies in the War of the Revolution, and was during the eight- eenth century a much dreaded and fatal disease. It visited Hamp- ton Falls in 1760, and again in 1782. At the latter visitation a pest house was established on Great hill and those who had the smallpox were taken there for treatment.
Two lines were drawn around the house at a considerable distance from it, called the outer and inner, the outer being one rod from the inner. All supplies were delivered at the outer line, and no outside person was allowed to cross it or come within the lines. Cats, dogs, or other domestic animals coming within the inclosure met with instant death. Outside persons who wished to communi- cate with the inmates must come to the windward. Great hill was selected because of its elevation, as from this cause there would be less danger of its being communicated to the people of the town.
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HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS.
The attendants were persons who had had the disease at some previous time and had recovered and were not liable to have it again. In 1:60 they appear to have been cared for in different places. A number of deaths occurred at that time. Among them was that of Green Longfellow, son of Nathan. We have seen no account of the mortality in 1782. Elisha Quimby died in 1760.
The following are the items paid for the smallpox in 1760: £
s.
d.
Pd. Capt. Sanborn for sundries found for Green Longfellow 2
12 8
Pd. Samuel Shaw for nursing Green Longfellow and wife 18 0 0
Pd. Francis Marshall for nursing 45 0 0
Pd. Katharine Bryan for nursing.
27 16 0
To John Sanborn for sundries he did.
To Meshech Weare to sundries found by him
30
5
11
To Meshech Weare for attendance.
2
5 0
For warrants for Impressing houses &c.
2 5 . 0
To Jonathan Fifield, Jr., for sundries he found.
4
3 9
To his attendance
2
10 0
To Samuel Collins for some things he found. 0
2
10 0
To Nathan Tilton for things he found and attendance.
0 13 6
To Mr. John Green for wood and sundries
11 0 0
To Daniel Sanborn for a coffin.
1 10
0
To Winthrop Gove for coffins.
1 10 0
To the Widow Philbrick for use of her house
12 13 5
To Wade Stickney for his trouble removing.
2
0 0
To Nathan Cram for his help in moving &c
0
13 6
To two bed sacks. 1 13 6
2
0
0
To Capt. Williams for use of his house.
2 5
0
Pd. for two blankets.
2 10 0
To Mr. Michael Hodge for use of his house.
3 0 0
To Nathaniel Sinklar for use of barn.
0 15 0
To Capt. Benj. Swett for his team &c.
0
15 0
To Nathl Gove for wood.
3 0 0
To Henry Felch for sundries he did.
0 5 0
To Abner Sanborn, Jr., for service
0 5 0
Selectmen's time and expense.
36 9 3
To sundries found for Jos. Norton.
3 18 3
To Samuel Collins sundries he found
4 14 9
To his attendance 3 11 3
To Francis Marshall, Nursing. 21 0 0
To Isaiah Row, Nursing.
12 10 0
To charge of sending his clothes to him.
0
17 0
Dr. Emery's bill not yet paid
36 10 0
Total
304 9
2
1 5 0
17 5
To his attendance
To Benjamin Connor for use of his house
305
THE SMALLPOX.
Owing to the absence of the invoice book from 1773 to 1787, we are unable to give the cost of the smallpox in 1282. The following bill, receipted by Caleb Sanborn, April 1, 1782, may interest the reader at the present time.
s. d.
s.
d.
To 11/2 mugs of flip ..... 1
6
1 qt. molasses
1
0
To 3 lbs. beaf @ 6.
1
6
Cyder
0
6
To 21/2 lbs. pork @ s. . .
1 S
1 pint wine 2
0
To 1 pint of rum ..
1 2
3 lbs. cheese 1 6
To barley & bread.
2
0 Barley
0
9
To Breakfast
1
0
1 pint rum. 1
2
To 1 lb. sugar.
0
S
1/2 lb. candles 0
6
To 1 mug of flip
1
0 1 pint rum. 1 2
To 1 pint of wine
2
0
1/2 lb. candles
0
6
To cyder
0
6
53/4 lbs. beaf @ 6. 2
3
4
1 qt. molasses ..
1
0
1 pint rum ..
1
2
1 pint wine, cyder.
2
S
2 qts. cyder 0
6
1 Ib. coffee.
1
6
1/2 peck meal. 0
2
0
1 pint rum
1
2
1 pint rum.
1
2
1 pint wine
2
0
7
1 doz. beets. 1 3
1 qt. soap.
0
3
1 gal. cyder
1
0
1 pint rum, 2 qts. cyder.
2
6
2 qts. Vinegar.
1
0
2
6 1/2 lb. Brimstone
1 0
3
2
11/2 pints rum
2
0
0
11
1 mug flip.
1
0
2
6
Cabbage & Potatoes 1
1
0
1 mug flip to Weare.
1
0
1 doz. beets.
1 3
10 lbs. beaf.
3
0
11/2 pints rum.
2
0
41/2 lbs. pork. 2
1
0 11/2 pints wine
3
0
11/2 pints wine
3
0 1 gal. cyder, 1/2 mug flip
1
6
11/2 pints rum
2
0
3 pints rum.
4
0
1 lb. coffee. 1
6
1 lb. coffee 1 6
0
6
1 lb. candles
1
0
1 pint rum 1
2
1 gal. cyder.
1
0
6 lbs. pork
4
0
1 doz. beets.
1
3
6 lbs. beaf. 3
0
151/2 lbs. veal @ 5.
0
1 pint rum 1
2
1 pint rum.
0
1 lb. sugar, Cyder
1
2
1 gal. cyder.
1
0 1 lb. sugar 0
8
11/2 pints rum
2
0
1 pint rum. 1
2
5 lbs. pork.
3
4 Lard
0
3
11/2 pints wine, 1 gal.cyder 3
0 5 lbs. beaf. 1
6
1 pint of rum 1
2
5 lbs. pork
1 lb. sugar
0
S
1 pint wine
0 2 qts. cyder. 0
6
6 beets
11/2 pints rum, Cyder .... 1 pint rum, 1 pint wine .. 2 qts. Cyder, 1/2 lb. sugar 11/2 pints rum, cyder .... 21/2 lbs. pork.
1
S
1 gal. cyder.
10 21/2 lbs. cheese
1
3
1 gal. Cyder
10 lbs. fislı. 1
3 Cyder
0
0
9
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HISTORY OF HAMPTON FALLS.
S. d.
S. d.
1 doz. beets. 1
3 4 lbs. pork. 1
8
1 lb. candles 1
0 51/2 lbs. pork 3
8
1 gal. vinegar 2
0 6 lbs. beaf.
3
0
1 lb. coffee. 1
6 2 qts. rum
4
0
18 gals. milk. 18 0
Rum, cider, and wine, being simple remedies, must have been con- sidered good for the smallpox, and were probably agreeable to take, and not nauseous, as are many of the medicines which are prescribed for less dangerous diseases at the present time.
CEMETERIES.
THE land for the old cemetery on the plains above the hill was granted by the town of Hampton in 1704. Additional land was granted at the time the common was granted, in 1722. This was the first cemetery ever in the town. Those who died here previous to that time probably were buried at Hampton. In this cemetery rest the mortal remains of Hon. Meshech Weare, Rev. Messrs. The- ophilus Cotton, Joseph Whipple, and Josiah Bailey, the first min- isters of the town. For many years this was the only burying place in the town, and great numbers have been buried here. In 1735, when the throat distemper visited the town and 210 persons died, tradition says that nearly all of them were interred here. If all the people who lie here were alive it is doubtful if they could stand in the inclosure. This is the only place in town which can properly be called a town cemetery. The town has always voted money cheerfully to keep it in order.
After the new meeting-house was built in 1768, it was thought advisable to have a parish cemetery, convenient to the church, and land was bought of Jeremiah Lane, which is now the old cemetery on the cross road. We find the following upon the records in relation to it:
Propose to give a deed of half an acre of land off, across the west- erly end of my lott, by Benjamin Hilliard's, for a burying place for the use of the parish for the consideration of the sum of fifteen dol- lars, upon giving the deed, and the parish, or individuals making up the fence in decent order, suitable with timber on the wall, and a good gate against the road to enter in at, And likewise a good stone wall to separate it from my lott, after the crop is taken off, So as to be wholly enclosed, as a burying place ought to be.
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