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Know all men by these presents That I Timothy Dalton of ye town of Hampton in ye County of Norfolk in New England & hereto, Doe, uppon Due & Waty & mature consideration freely give & bequeath unto Nathaniel Batchelder of Hampton aforesaid, All the remainder of my farme as yet undisposed of unto Manuel Hilliard & Jasper Blake, both of Hampton seamen. Viz, both of my lands & meadows lying between the comons of Hampton, North & South, one head butting upon ye hither end of ye said farme formerly given towards ye east, the other head butting uppon the land Sometime Will Estos, towards the west, to have and to hold all the remainder of said farme undis-
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PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ORIGINAL DEED GIVEN BY REV. TIMOTHY DALTON TO NATHANIEL BATCHELDER, 1657.
MOSES BATCHELDER. 1782-1861.
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posed as aforesaid wth all privileges & apurtenances theron belonging to the said Nathaniel Batchelder his heirs and assigns forever In Witt. ness wherof, I have hereunto Sett my hand & seal this 10th Day of the Sth mº 1657.
TIMOTHY DALTON (L S)
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EDWARD RICHWORTH HENRY PALMER
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This deed covers the homestead of John T. Batchelder and the east end of Warren Brown's land.
Nathaniel Batchelder, son of Nathaniel above mentioned, was born in 1666, and settled here about 1690. He married Elizabeth Foss, and died in 1746. His sons, Ebenezer, Nathan, Nathaniel, John, and Phineas, settled in Kingston. Josiah, born in 1695, mar. ried Sarah Page, lived upon the homestead, and died in 1759. HIe was selectman in 1735, 1738, 1745, 1747, 1751, 1755, and 1759 ; mod- erator in 1754. David, son of Josiah, lived upon the homestead. He was born in 1736, and married, first, Elizabeth Swett, and second, Mary Emery of West Newbury, Mass. He had two sons, Reuben, already mentioned, and Moses, who succeeded to the home- stead. David Batchelder was selectman in 1770, 1780, 1787, 1797; moderator, in 1779 and 1789; town clerk, in 1778, and from 1793 to 1805. He died in 1811. Josiah and David Batchelder were men prominent both in town and church matters. Elizabeth, daugh- ter of David Batchelder, married Theophilus Sanborn; Anna, Levi Lane, Esq. Abigail married Daniel Caldwell and lived at Augusta, Me. Moses Batchelder married Abigail, daughter of Samuel Drake. Of his children, Mary, unmarried, died in 1894, aged eighty-two; Josiah lived in Amesbury; Samuel married Abigail Noyes of Sea- brook, and died in 1858; Aaron, unmarried, died in 1848; Nancy married Silas Green, son of Stephen; Moses E. lives in Illinois; Elizabeth, unmarried, lives upon the homestead; John T. succeeded to the ownership of the farm, married Emma Miles of Patten, Me., and has five daughters and one son, Nathaniel, who married Minnie Brown of Kensington. Moses Batchelder died in 1861. From the first settlement until the present time this place has descended
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from father to son. It was never deeded until Moses E. conveyed his part to John T. in 1864. For one hundred and eighty years after the family came here honey-bees were kept successfully. They died in a hard winter about 1868. Many by the name of Batchel- der in other parts of the state are descended from this family. Moses Batchelder built the house in 1837. He was representative in 1834. Six generations have been deacons of the Congregational church,-Nathaniel, Josiah, David, Reuben, Emery, and David F. A part of the old house occupied by Josiah Batchelder is still stand- ing. This was one of the two places in this town where there were no deaths from the throat distemper. Remains of an Indian habita- tion are still visible near the sawmill. Clam shells and other cvi- dences are to be seen. There is a tradition that Nathaniel Batchel- der, soon after coming here to live, was awakened in the night by cries of distress which came from a man who was on the string piece over the river at some distance back of his house and was surrounded by wolves. Mr. Batchelder answered with so much vigor that the pack ran away before he came to the rescue.
Rev. Timothy Dalton gave a deed of gift to his kinsman, Manuel Hilliard, of one hundred acres of his farm, under date of January 20, 1654. The following is a copy of the original deed now in pos- session of John T. Batchelder:
This Present obligation witnesseth by Mr. Timothy Dalton of Hamp- ton in ye County of Norfolk, Doe upon due and mature consideration freely give and bequeath unto Manuel Hilliard of ye aforsed county viz, One hundred acres of land that is to say sixte acres in fresh meadow & forty in uplands & to be on ye north side of Sagamore hill, lying between Taylors river and ye house & another pt of ye said Farme on ye south butting upon Taylors river toward the east, & pt upon pt of ye sd farme towards ye west, to give and to grant ye aforesaid premises to him his heirs & assigns forever. In confirmation wherof ye s1 Mr Dalton has set to his hand & seal this twentieth day of ye First month in ye year One thousand six hundred fifty four currant
TIMOTHY DALTON (L S) Signed Sealed and Delivered in ye presence of,
JOHN WHEELWRIGHT SETH FLETCHER
This deed, unlike the one given Mr. Batchelder, shows no evi- dence of having been recorded. A short time after this deed was given, October 20, 1657, Manuel Hilliard, who was a mariner, was lost at sea with seven others in the wreck at Rivermouth, made memorable in a poem of that name written by John G. Whittier.
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PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ORIGINAL DEED GIVEN BY REV. TIMOTHY DALTON TO MANUEL HILLIARD, JAN. 20, 1654.
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This farm was situated at Sagamore hill, which is the elevation just east of Fred Sanborn's barn. Timothy Hilliard, son of Manuel, settled here. He married a daughter of James Philbrick in 1674, and was succeeded by his son Benjamin, who married a daughter of Nathaniel Weare in 1703, and second. Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Chase, in 1706. His son Jonathan was the next occupant. He married, first, Hannah Cooper in 1732, and second, Mary Green in 1746. His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Melcher, 3d. His son Benjamin had a house near the road on the elevation in David F. Batchelder's orchard. Benjamin's farm was the land owned by D. F. Batchelder, and is still called the Hilliard land. The Hilliards continued to live upon the homestead more than a hundred years, or until 1791, when the place was sold to William Brown, son of Nathan. The Hilliards in Kensington are descended from this family.
William Brown, commonly called "Uncle Billy," married Eliza- beth, daughter of Thomas Berry of Greenland. He was prom- inent in the Baptist church. He was one of the seceders from the parish church, and did much to build and carry on the church built in 1805. He afterward became identified with the Baptist church at the hill. He was representative in 1820 and 1828. He was exempted from the highway tax in 1795 provided he kept the way in repair from his house to the road. He died in 1856. He had one son and two daughters. Nathan married Rosamond, daughter of Joshua Pickering of North Hampton, and had two daughters, Mary A. P., who married Joseph T. Sanborn, and Eliza- beth G., who married Dr. Charles H. Sanborn. Nathan died in 1866. William's daughter, Mary A., married Joseph Moulton of this town. Abigail married Dea. Greenleaf Brown of Stratham. George B. Sanborn bought the farm in 1878. He was son of Levi, and married Susan Pickard of Rowley, Mass. He was representa- tive in 1874 and 1875, and died in 1893. He had three sons, Perley A., who lives in Amesbury, George L., station agent on the Stony Brook Railroad, and Fred P., who succeeded to the homestead. The house built by William Brown in 1814 was burned on the night of June 7, 1897, and will not be rebuilt, Mr. Sanborn having purchased and removed to the house where Moses E. Batchelder formerly lived. Fred P. married Gertrude, daughter of Oliver Lane of Hampton.
Below the house above mentioned, formerly occupied by Fred P. Sanborn, on the path to the road, once lived a man named Harts-
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horn. His name does not appear upon the invoice book, so we are unable to tell when he was living there. We find among the mar- riages, July 3, 1734, that Ebenezer Hartshorn married Martha Whipple. Tradition says he was a basket maker.
On Ordination hill in Warren Brown's field probably lived Joseph Shaw, son of Benjamin of Hampton. He married, in 1705, Han- nah, daughter of James Johnson, and had eight children. He appears to have left here about 1740.
On the same field, not far from John Batchelder's house, lived Theophilus Batchelder, son of Benjamin, born in 1715. He mar- ried Maria, daughter of Moses Blake. He was rated for the last time in 1764.
Not far from where Theophilus Batchelder lived was a house built, in 1838, by Sarah Marston, who came from North Hampton, and had lived for many years in the family of William Brown. She died about 1860. The house was for many years after occupied by tenants. It was removed to the middle road in 1888, and occu- pied by William Irving.
Rev. Timothy Dalton gave one hundred acres of his farm to Jas- per Blake, who married his sister. This land was situated between that given Manuel Hilliard and the turnpike. The house stood upon what was known as the "ox pasture." Timothy, a grandson of Jasper, born in 1685, lived there. He was succeeded by his sons, Christopher, Samuel, and Timothy. The Blakes lived there until about 1790. Some of this family removed to Chester.
The house on the farm now occupied by Dea. John Brown, who came from Scotland, was built in 1852 by Samuel Palmer, who came from Hampton. He married a daughter of Walter Williams, and died about 1880. John Brown married Mary, daughter of Wil- liam Tarlton and granddaughter of Samuel Palmer.
The Tarlton house near by was built soon after by William P. Tarlton, who came from North Hampton, and married Caroline, daughter of Samuel Palmer. Mr. Tarlton died in 1892. He had three sons and two daughters. Charles P. lives at Hampton. George and John occupy the homestead. Mary married John Brown, and Abbie, Charles H. Crosby.
The Marshall place was the site of a garrison house at the early settlement of the town. A covered well found a few years ago was probably used by the garrison. Mr. Bonus Norton seems to have been living here soon after 1700. He is said to have brought some choice apple trees from England in a box and set them upon his
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farm. He died in 1718, aged sixty-one years. He was buried in the Quaker cemetery at Seabrook. He had six children. His son Joseph appears upon the record from 1747 to 1767. His daughter Elizabeth married Benjamin Swett, innkeeper, and lived at the hill. The family appear afterward to have lived in what is now Seabrook, as David and Moses Norton polled from Seabrook to Hampton Falls in 1768, and disappear after 1793. Peter Russell, who married Mary Weare, daughter of Meshech, in 1785, lived here a short time. The name of Russell had before appeared upon the record from before 1747 till 1758. After this Robert Marshall, son of Francis, lived here until his death in 1844, at the age of ninety years and upward. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and had a son, John, whose wife came from Hampton. Her maiden name was Per- kins. He built the house in 1846, and died in 1858. He had two sons. John M., who lived upon the farm, died in 1886. With his death the name became extinct in this town. He was unmarried. Benjamin F. was a soldier, and was killed by the accidental explo- sion of a shell in 1864. A daughter married John E. Sanborn. The premises are now occupied by Arthur Chase, who came from Seabrook, and married a daughter of John E. Sanborn and a grand- daughter of John Marshall.
Nearly opposite the house of Arthur Chase, on the lot where the gravel was removed for the construction of the turnpike, was a house occupied by William Blaisdell, a ship carpenter who came here from Salisbury Point. He was first rated in 1757. Some of his sons were ship carpenters. His son, Capt. John Blaisdell, was a Revolutionary soldier from this town. Some of this family were town charges for more thon sixty years. The last of the name died in 1853. The Blaisdell house was moved over the line into Hampton near the bridge, and was used as a residence for the toll gatherer when the turnpike was built. It is the house now occu- pied by John Mace.
Robert Miller was a mulatto and a ship carpenter. His house stood near the one now occupied by Samuel Cockburn. He was said to have been a man of great bodily strength. He came from Salis- bury and married Mehitable Stanyan in 1743. He was rated from 1750 till 1787, when the name disappears from the record. Jona- than Miller, probably son of Robert, was a Revolutionary soldier from this town. He married Mary Allen, June 25, 1784.
The Stickneys were ship carpenters and lived somewhere on Mur- ray's row. They were rated in 1747 and probably before, but dis-
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appear from the record in 1767. Jonathan and Levi Stickney were Revolutionary soldiers credited to this town.
The Leaches were ship carpenters and lived on the Toppan pas- ture just over the line in Hampton, near a well which can still be seen. John Leach lived in a small house which stood nearly oppo- site where Captain Cochran now lives. He was employed around the stable in stage times. He died about 1850, aged nearly ninety years. He was for many years supported by the town. He had one daughter, who married Theodore Knowles of Seabrook. The house was built in 1850 by John L. Perkins, son of Nathaniel. He kept a lumber yard for a number of years, and had a store for a time. He sent apples and other farm produce to his brothers, by schooner, who were engaged in trade at Eastport and Calais, Me. He died about 1886. Charles H. Crosby, a native of Brooks, Me., is the pres- ent occupant. He is an agent for the sale of farm implements, and is engaged in the sale of hulled corn, hominy, etc. He married Abbie, daughter of William Tarlton.
The next house south was built and occupied by Samuel Cock- burn, who came from Scotland. He married Jane, daughter of Hans Hamilton, and works at the Farragut house, Rye beach.
A house was built and occupied by John E. Sanborn, who came from Exeter. He married a daughter of John Marshall, and has one daughter, the wife of Arthur Chase, who lives upon the Mar- shall homestead.
Next south of Mr. Sanborn's is the house built in 1850 by Wil- liam A. Hopkins, who came from England and had been in this country for a number of years previous to his coming to this town. He was engaged in ditching the salt marshes during his residence here. He died about 1874. His wife was Lydia A. Bailey of West Newbury, Mass. She was noted for her remarkable conversational powers, and died in 1879. William Brown, who came from Scot- land in 1872, is the present occupant with his son Andrew. His other sons, John, Robert, and William H., are residents of this town.
The house once occupied by Sally Healey and Polly Dow, near Mr. Bentley's, was moved to Murray's row in 1874, and is owned and occupied by Robert Brown, son of William, who came from Scotland about 1870.
The old house which stood where John H. Hamilton's house now stands was built by George Marshall, son of Robert. He married Sally Chase of Hampton Falls, and died soon after. His widow became the wife of Luke Averill. Lieut. Joseph Akerman lived
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here for many years previous to his death in 1850. He married, first and second, daughters of Meshech Sanborn; third, Ruth, daughter of Walter Williams. Ilis son Meshech S. was station agent at Hampton for many years. John C. was a shoemaker. Charles E. was a physician, married Rosa Brown of Kensington, and died at North Andover, Mass. Issachar died in 1867. Mr. Akerman's family continued to live here for several years after his decease. John H. Hamilton, son of Hans Hamilton who came from Scotland in 1855, built the present house in 1880. He mar- ried a daughter of John Tuttle of Seabrook, and continues to reside here. He is a shoemaker, and has one daughter. Hans Hamilton died in 1879.
The house occupied by Joseph Drysdale formerly stood near Lewis F. Prescott's, and was there occupied by Mrs. Sally (Melcher) Sanborn. The house was moved to its present location in 1875. Mr. Drysdale came from Scotland, and married a daughter of Wil- liam Brown.
On the east side of the road on land which once belonged to the Wells farm, and now owned by John H. Hamilton, lived Andrew Webster, who married Prudence Weare in 1743. He was engaged in building vessels, and was rated from before 1747 till 1761.
The house on the east side of the road, part way up the hill, was built, in 1876, by Captain and Mrs. Cochran, who came from Scot- land in 1873. Mrs. Cochran died in 1895. The house is still occu- pied by the family.
Near where the late John C. Akerman's house now stands was where Daniel Tilton lived. He had a grant of land from the town of Hampton, in 1667, in case he would "sit down as a blacksmith." He was born in 1648, married Mehitable Sanborn in 1669, and died in 1715. He had five sons and five daughters. There is no knowl- edge of how long the business was carried on here, but the debris resulting from a blacksmith shop is still visible. He and some of his descendants named Tilton carried on the business of blacksmithing continuously for one hundred and fifty years until the death of Capt. Stephen Tilton in 1821. Nathan, father of Stephen, carried on the business near the Unitarian church. His son Benjamin, who lived where Albert S. Smith lives, was a blacksmith. The Tiltons became numerous and were influential in town matters. They owned much land on the Exeter road, and were influential in getting the road built in 1700. The premises were conveyed by Jethro Tilton, in 1719, to Zachariah Philbrick, who lived here for a
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number of years. He was born in 1689. His daughter Sarah mar- ried Francis Marshall, ship carpenter, who came from Salem, Mass., in 1750. Mr. Marshall died soon after 1800. Mr. Marshall lived here and had two sons, Gideon and Robert, both of whom were Revolutionary soldiers from this town. Gideon married Abigail Randall of Rye, and died in 1807. His widow died in 1850, in the one hundredth year of her age. Gideon had two daughters, Abi- gail, who married Walter Williams, and Eliza, who married John Falls, both of this town. Gideon, Jr., married Nancy Blaisdell. The name of Marshall became extinct in this town upon the death of John M. Marshall in 1886. The place was occupied by Currier True from 1814 to 1821, and at some time had been occupied by a man named Hart. John C. Akerman, son of Lieut. Joseph, built the present house in 1848. There were no buildings here when he came. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and carried the mail from office to station for many years. He died suddenly in December. 1895. His grandson, Charles I., lives here and is the present mail carrier.
The Green place was the homestead of Caleb Sanborn, son of Abner, born 1716. He married Mehitable, daughter of Nathaniel Weare, in 1740, and died in 1794. He was town clerk from 1761 to 1772. He had one son, Meshech, and five daughters. A tavern was kept here for a time. Lieut. Joseph Akerman married two of the daughters of Meshech Sanborn, and lived here for a number of years. He sold the premises to George Janvrin, who came from Seabrook, and built the present house in 1826. He kept a store on the corner near Jack Sanborn's house, and was rated here from 1824 to 1835. The place was afterward owned by Rev. Otis and Mrs. Wing. He preached in the Baptist meeting-house. He was repre- sentative in 1844, and died at Newton Junction in 1897, aged ninety-nine years. Woodbury and John M. Masters, sons of Mrs. Wing by a former marriage, lived here. Woodbury went to Cali- fornia in 1849, removed with his mother to Chester in 1853, and died in 1887. John M. graduated from Harvard College, was a Unitarian minister, and lived in Cambridge, Mass. A sister mar- ried William Wadleigh of Kensington. James W. Green came from Chester, married Abigail A., daughter of Thomas Brown, in 1845, and moved here in 1853. He had a store connected with his house, and was postmaster from 1853 till 1861, and from 1866 to 1869. He died in 1883. He had two sons, Thomas J., who died in 1872, and Charles C., who succeeded to the store and was post-
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master from 1876 till his death in 1885. He married Nellie, daughter of William Wadleigh of Kensington, and had two sons. Mrs. Green has since married Frank H. Lord of Salem, Mass., and they are the present ocenpants of the premises.
The house on depot road occupied by James Truesdale, who came from Scotland, was moved from Hampton beach about 1890.
The house just below was built by Alexander Cochran, son of Captain Cochran, about 1890. He came from Scotland and was a carpenter.
Near where the lane from the Sanborn place comes on to the depot road was the house of Abner Sanborn, son of Ensign John. He was born in 1694, married Rachel, daughter of Caleb Shaw, in 1:15, and died in 1780. This is the original Sanborn farm where Lieut. John settled, and has been owned by his descendants ever since. Abner Sanborn was succeeded by his son, Dea. Abner, born in 1727. He married Lucy Lowell and died April 18, 1811. His wife died three days later. His son Theophilus, born in 1761, mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of David Batchelder, and died in 1826. Dea. Abner and Theophilus were both soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Abner was representative in 1783 and 1785. Thayer S., son of Theophilus, was born in 1797, and married Deborah, daughter of Capt. Thomas Ward of Hampton. The Sanborns bought the parsonage land (five acres) which lay between their house and the post road. They removed the old parsonage house, built in 1749, and erected the present house in 1837. Thayer S. was representa- tive in 1841 and 1842, and died in 1874. His son Thomas built the house now occupied by Jack Sanborn, in 1857. He was repre- sentative in 1858 and 1859. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Micajah Green of Seabrook, and died in 1866. Joseph T. was en- gaged in trade in the store for a number of years previous to 1854, when he went to California, where he remained until 1869. He married Eliza, danghter of Jefferson Janvrin, and had one daughter, Fannie W. He was representative in 1878, and continued to live on the farm until his death in 1890. James H. was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, and was severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. He married his brother Thomas L.'s widow, and has one daughter, Lillian T. He died in 1818. Harriet, daughter of Thayer S., married Dr. Edwin Grosvenor, and had one son who was for many years a professor in a college in Constantinople, and is now connected with Amherst College. Marcia married Rev. Daniel Phillips, and died in 1896. Helen, unmarried, died in 1854.
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Thomas L. had two sons, Charles, who lives in Pittsfield, and Jack, who was principal of Hampton High School for twelve years. He lives upon the homestead and was town clerk from 1885 to 1898.
Green Sanborn, son of Theophilus, was born in 1785. He was a seaman. His wife's name was Harrod of Newburyport, and she was a sister of Miss Phobe Harrod who lived to be more than a hun- dred years old, and died at Newburyport. Lowell, born in 1787, was a seaman, and died of yellow fever at St. Thomas, West Indies, in 1811. He was unmarried. Adna, born in 1801, was a seaman in early life, and married Polly Barnard of Salisbury, Mass. He bought from the heirs of Maj. Joseph Dow their interest in the Governor Weare farm, and lived there for a time. His children were all born there. The oldest, Theophilus, was born in 1829. He married a daughter of Samuel Dow of Salisbury, and has one son. Wallace, who lives in Salisbury. Theophilus was a man of great bodily vigor and endurance. He enlisted as a soldier from Salis- bury under the first call for volunteers in April, 1861, and became a member of Company D, Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment. HIe was taken prisoner at New Berne, N. C., in the spring of 1863 and was confined in the prison at Andersonville, where he died of starvation, April 6, 1864. He was buried in a cemetery near there, and his grave numbered 392. John lived in Salisbury, and was selectman for a time. He is now deceased. David B., contractor and building mover, lived in the house with his brother John. His wife's name was Morrill, and she came from Dover. David was shot down in his doorway for the purpose of robbery by an assassin named Brown, who is now serving a thirty years' sentence in the Massachusetts state prison for murder. He left one daughter, Mrs. H. B. Currier of Amesbury. Charles, the only brother who sur- vives, lives in Salisbury, is a well-to-do farmer, and has been select- man. A sister married Elias P. Collins of Amesbury, and is now deceased.
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