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It seems that Mr. Wheat, among other gifts and graces pertaining to his calling. had also that of verse making. As an illustration of the commendable change in the tastes and habits of the patrons of public stage coaches since the dram-drinking days of eighty years ago, we quote the closing stanza of one of Mr. Wheat's poetic effusions, giving notice to the public of his having estab- lished a new line of stages.
"Come, my old Friends, and take a seat In this new Line with Joseph Wheat, And when to your journey's end you've come, Your friend will treat with good old Rum."
*Bouton's History of Concord. p. 577.
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Another similar poetic effusion of his was the following adver- tisement of his business as a cooper.
" My advice to farmers all Is-Pick your apples as they fall. And if your cider's pure and sweet, "Please buy your casks of Joseph Wheat."
THE HOLLIS HERMITS.
DR. JOHN JONES.
There were two persons, formerly living in Hollis, somewhat famous in their day as "Hermits," viz., John Jones, commonly called "Dr. Jones," and Stephen Y. French, better known as " Leather French." Jones, the first named, according to the tra- ditions of him, was the son of a wealthy British military officer of good family, born in England in the early part of the last century. and came to this country while yet a young man. After coming to America he is said to have lived a solitary, wandering life, till he came to Hollis soon after the war of the Revolution.
Upon settling in Hollis, he bought for himself a patch of ground of about four acres in the north part of the town, at a distance from any public road, near Mooar's hill so called, and now a part of the farm of Lot Mooar. Here he built for himself a small humble · dwelling, which he called his " Lone Cottage." He set out on his grounds an orchard of choice varieties of grafted apple and other fruit trees, and also many kinds of shrubs, herbs and flowers, which he took great pains to cultivate, and it is said of him that he was the first person to introduce grafted fruit into Hollis.
In his youth Dr. Jones was crossed in love, as a result of which his mind became unsettled and distracted, and his disappoint- ment ended in his eccentricities and wayward mode of life. IIe is reputed to have been educated for the pulpit, and at the carly age of twenty, had had and accepted a call to settle in the min- istry, which was broken off by his disappointment and the untimely death of his lady love. He was a person naturally of bright intel- lect, of much humor and ready wit, reputed somewhat of a poet, and some of his effusions in verse have come down to the present day.
Before coming to Hollis, he had written and published a long bal- lad, of near forty stanzas, telling the sad story of his life and troubles, entitled the " Major's only son and his True Love." My
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limits do not allow me to copy but a few extracts from this ballad. In its first stanza; its author says.
"Come all young people far and near, A lamentation you shall hear Of a young man and his True-Love Whom he adored and prized above All riches." * * * *
This ballad was learned by heart and sung sixty years ago by hundreds of the " young people" of Hollis and the neighboring towns, and also was often sung by the doctor himself in loud, sad tones, when alone in his " Lone Cottage." It appears from the recitals in the ballad that both the father and mother of the doctor were persistently and irreconcilably opposed to his marrying the maid of his choice. as he says,
"Because she was of low degree And came of a poor family."
Angry at this opposition of the father and mother of the doctor, one day when Jones was visiting the young lady, her father said to him, as the ballad has it,
"" My daughter is as good as you," and Turned this young man without his door And told him to come there no more."
After this enforced separation the young lady took to her chamber, sickened. pined away and soon after died. Shortly before her death she sent her brother for the "young man," to whom she told the sad tale of her sickness and sorrow. Taking the engagement rings from her fingers just before her death she gave them to him, saying, "Keep them for my sake And always when these rings you see, Remember that I died for thec." * ₩
" Tears down his cheeks as fountains run, He cried, alas! 'I am undone. No comfort ever shall I have, While I go mourning to my grave.'"
The "young man" attended the funeral of his betrothed as chief mourner, as the ballad has it,
" Dressed in black from top to toe * * And after that distracted run, And so forever was undone, And wandered up and down, alone."
While living in Hollis Jones supported himself in part by raising and preparing medicinal herbs, and various nostrums from them, which he peddled in Hollis and other towns near, hence his title of
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"Doctor." In his wanderings about the country he usually wore a broad brimmed hat with a mourning weed around it. and a long. plaid dressing gown. In his thus going about, he carried with him two baskets, one in each hand, the one of which he named the " Charity," the other the " Pity basket." In these he carried for sale and barter his herbs and nostrums, and also " Liberty tea." so called, and, in their season, juniper berries, and scions for grafting. 'from his orchard, taking home with him, in the same baskets, the articles he got in exchange. He also kept for sale copies of verses written by him, including the ballad telling the story of his troubles.
Years ago, and within my own remembrance, many anecdotes were told of his impromptu verses and rhymes, and of his humor and wit. His age at his death, as inscribed on his gravestone, was sixty- nine, though he was supposed to have been somewhat older. But on this subject he was very taciturn, and inclined to keep the secret of his age to himself. At one time, an unmarried lady customer of his, to whom he had sold some of his " Liberty tea," of the name of Phebe (herself of uncertain age), took occasion to question hin upon this matter, in the hope of solving the mystery. The doctor. in reply, told her that " she might ask him just as many questions as she was years old." Nettled at this evasive answer. Phebe reproachfully called him an "old cracked fiddle of one doleful tune," and demanded of him to take back his " Liberty tea" and return her money. In reply to this demand the doctor said to her.
" Phebe, my dear, my own sweet honey, You've got your tea, and I've got my money."
It was his habit, as a spectator, to attend the courts at Amherst. where, as he used to say, the lawyers would try to get a " crumb of sport " out of him. On one occasion, having been bantered by them for one of his impromptu stanzas, he was afterwards invited by the host to eat at a second table, from which the judges and law- yers had just risen from a dinner of roast poultry. Having finished his meal, on rising from the table, in place of his customary after dinner grace, with one eye upon the lawyers. he gave expression to his sentiments in respect to his dinner and the guests at the first table in the following terse couplet,
"Cursed be the owls That picked these tow Is : And left the bones For Dr. Jones."
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For the following anecdote of Dr. Jones, I am indebted to my friend. Hon. J. B. Hill, who tells me that it was told him by his father, Rev. Ebenezer Hill of Mason, who was cotemporary with Dr. Jones, and for many years a member of the Hollis Association of ministers. The doctor, as he says of himself in his ballad, (having been educated for the ministry) at the time he lived in Hollis, was in the habit of attending the meetings of this Associa- tion of ministers, as well as the courts, not as a member, but as one of the persons styled " company" in the records of the Associa- tion. On such occasions. he sometimes proposed for discussion questions in theology, which interested him, and at one time the following, " Was there ever a man that had a tongue which never told a lie, or a heart which never had an evil thought?" This ques- tion was promptly answered by all present with a decided negative and " nailed wi' scripture." The doctor insisted on the affirma- tive-and said to them that he would prove that they were all wrong, and at once went to the door, and brought in one of his baskets, and uncovering it showed them the head and heart of a sheep, and pointing to them, exclaimed in triumph. "there is a tongue that never told a lie, and a heart that never had an evil thought, and they are both mine."
On another occasion, calling at a house where he wished for din- ner, he said to the hostess, that if she would provide him one, he would write for her a suitable epitaph, two lines of which were to be composed before dinner, and two after. This bargain being struck. he wrote for her the first two lines,"
"Good old Sarah died of late, And just arrived at Heaven's gate."
The good lady concluded that these lines would fit her case, and provided the dinner. But the entertainment not having been wholly to the taste of the doctor, on rising from the table, and with one hand on the door latch. he added to the first two lines,
" Old Gabriel met her with a club And knocked her back to Beelzebub!"
There were at that time, in Hollis. three young men to whom the doctor was strongly attached, and whom he called his adopted sons, viz., Thaddeus Wheeler, Jun., Timothy Emerson, and J. Coolidge Wheat. the last named, by trade, a stone cutter, and maker of grave- stones. During the life of Jones, and under his eye and direction, Wheat had made for him a large, neatly finished gravestone. fully (22)
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completed and lettered, except the date of his death, with the epi- taph inscribed upon it, furnished by the doctor, and copied from a stanza of his ballad. By his will dated January 1, 1791, the little estate that the doctor left was given to his three adopted sons, with the single condition, that Wheat should finish and set up his grave- stone. This gravestone is now to be found standing at the grave of the doctor, near the north end of the central burial ground in Hollis, with the following inscription :
"DR. JOHN JONES. Died July 14, 1796, æt. co.
" In youth he was a scholar bright, In learning he took great delight. He was a Major's only son, It was for love he was undone."
STEPHEN YOUNGMAN FRENCH.
Another somewhat noted hermit, a native of Hollis, was Stephen Y. French, better known by his acquired name of " Leather French," a son of Joseph French, a Hollis soldier of the Revolution, and Mary (Youngman) French, and was born in Hollis, September 23, 1781. Early in life he wandered to Exeter in the State of Maine, where for many years he lived in his little cabin as a her- mit, solitary and alone. Hon. John B. Hill. the author of the history of Mason, who was settled in his profession as a lawyer in Exeter for several years, and was well acquainted with this recluse, says of him, that he was harmless, simple minded, poverty stricken, and of feeble understanding. That it was manifest that French and work of all sorts had had a falling out at an early day. and had parted company forever. Being utterly destitute of fam- ily or friends, he took up his abode upon a tract of land in Exeter, known as the " Hurricane," for the reason that all attempts to set- tle it had been abandoned, the felled trees having been left on the ground to rot, over which fires had run, and the land itself left to an overgrowth of brushwood, brambles and weeds. Upon this desolate and forsaken spot. French built for himself a little hut. cleared off a small patch of it for corn and vegetables, and there lived a lonely, weary and poverty-stricken life until, in old age. he found shelter and a comfortable home in the Exeter alms-house. where he died, at the age of near eighty years, March S. IS58. His entire wardrobe was mainly of tanned sheepskins, hence his
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acquired name of .. Leather French." His name and fame have been perpetuated in the following pleasant stanzas to his memory, copied from a little volume of poems by David Barker, Esq., late of Bangor, Me., who was a native of Exeter.
"TO LEATHER FRENCH.
"You have haunted the dreams of my sleep, Leather French, Yon have troubled me often and long ; And now to give rest to the waves of my soul, Leather French, let me sing you a song.
"I suppose the cold world may sneer, Leather French, For it has done so too often before, When the innermost spirit has snatched up its harp. Just to sing o'er the grave of the poor.
"Never mind, let them laugh, let them sneer, Leather French, We will not be disturbed by them long, For we'll step aside from the battle of life, While I question and sing you a song.
"You were poor when you lived here below, Leather French, And you suffered from hunger and cold, And it was well you escaped from the storm and the blast At the time you grew weary and old.
"Has that old leather garb that you wore, Leather French, That you wore, in the days long ago,
Been exchanged for the robe that you named in your prayer, For a robe that is whiter than snow?
"And that dreary old hut where you dwelt, Leather French, That old hut on the ' Hurricane ' lands,
Was it bartered by you at the portals of death For a house not erected with hands?
"When the toys that I love become stale, Leather French, And my life's fitful fever is passed, Shall I safely cross over the Jordan of Death? Shall I meet you in Heaven at last?
"Tell me true, tell me all, tell me now, Leather French, For the tale you can tell me is worth More to me than the wisdom, the pleasure, the fame And the riches and honors of earth.
"Shall I meet no response to my call, Leather French? Tell me quick for I cannot wait long, For I'm summoned again to the battle of life .- Leather French, I have finished my song."
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The personal biographical sketches presented in different connec- tions in this history, it is believed, are more numerous than will be readily found in any other like town history. Still it is not to be presumed that these sketches embrace all the natives or permanent residents of the town whose names deserve honorable mention.
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Many others of the descendants of the early settlers. neith ... " graduates of college," nor known to the public as . minister .. " " lawyers." " physicians, officeholder's or politicians" are. doubt- less. equally worthy. Of these, many emigrated to other State- or towns. and by their enterprise, intelligence and personal integ- rity, became honored citizens in their new homes. More of them. " whose sober wishes never learned to stray. " settled in thei: native town. and. "content to breathe their native air on their own ground." have creditably sustained the good name of a worthy and honored ancestry.
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CHAPTER XXXI.
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NAMES OF SUCH PERSONS AS HAVE DECEASED SINCE THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY YEARS OR
MORE. WHOSE AGES WITH THE DATE OF THEIR DECEASE HAVE BEEN ASCERTAINED. .
1783, May 27, Widow Martha Hardy, Szyrs.1817, Aug. 13. Noah Worcester, Esq.,
" Oct. 14, Rev. Francis Worcester, 85 ISIS, Jan. 2, Abijah Gould,
1785, July 10, Wid. Hannah Farr, 92 IS19, Apr. 27, Jonas Flagg,
" Nov. 7, Dea. Samuel Goodhue, 90 IS23, Jan. 31, Wid. Susanna Pierce. S5 17Só, June 2, Wid. Mary Harris, St IS25, Jan. 3, Wid. Hannah Parker, 95 SS
ITS7, Dec. 13. Lt. Benjamin Farley, In his Soth y
" Feb. 13, Miss Alice Powers, .
104, 4m " June 7, Wid. Martha Flagg. St
1790, May 25, Mrs. Susanna Jewett, Sz 1$26, Sept. 25, Benjamin Saunderson, So
179:, Oct. 5, Dea. Nathaniel Jewett, SI
1793, Feb. 2, John Willoughby, S5 1827, Jan. 16, Wid. Sarah Hardy,
1795, Sept. 23, Wid. Lydia Taylor,
1797, May 20, Wid. Joanna Farley, 1798, Sept. 21, Wid. Anna Powers,
1Soo, Oct. 2, Wid. Hannah Hunt,
1Sor, Sept. 30, Rev. Daniel Emerson, 1Soz, Feb. 7, Ensign Benj. Parker, .Sos, Feb. 13, Mrs. Margaret Jewett, :
Mar. 6, James Jewett,
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Mar. 6, Lt. Amos Eastman,
Apr. 12, Mrs. Abigail Hardy, S
6. July 27. Wid. Kezia Taylor,
15og, Mar. 20, Zachariah Shattuck, S5
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Aug. 21, Wid. Catharine Thurston, 90
ISHI, Feb. 9, Capt. Reuben Dow, S
= Mrs. Esther Scott, 94
1512, Wid. Abigail Wright,
". Feb. 2S, Wid. Hannah Emerson, 90
Apr. 26, Wid. Ruth Boynton, SS
1813, Mar. 7. Phineas Hardy,
Só
May 24, Samuel Ober. So
" Nov. 12, Wid. Mehitable Eastman, SS IS:4, Sept. 24. Nicholas Youngman, 91 IS15, Jan. 10, Nehemiah Woods, $3 " Nov. S. Wid. Elizabeth Shattuck, SS : S16, Nov. 13, Wid, Alice Parker, 83
1833, Jan. William Ball.
: April 5, Lt. Caleb Farley.
102,5m1 Sı
IS34, Oct. 10, Jonathan Hobart,
" Nov. 6, Wid. Sibbel Spaulding, SS 84
" Dec. 12, Abel Brown, 1836, Feb. 19. Wid. Elizabeth Powers, : April, Wid. Sarah Eastman,
Só SA
1837. Jan. 13. Stephen Farley, .. Benjamin Abbott, SS
Dec. 12, Capt. John Clapp,
SO- -.
So " Mar. 7, Silas Spaulding,
90 IS2S, Nov. 7, Thomas Patch,
S5
1829, Jan. ; , Wid. Miriam Dix. 90 S3
" Jan. 29, Daniel Lovejoy. IS30, April 7, Wid. Sarah Holden, 90 " Oct. 3, Wid. Elizabeth Hale. IS31, May Wid. Sarah Lovejoy, 83
" May 24, Wid. Lydia Lovejoy. S4 July 2, Wid. Hepzibah Worcester, 85 Sı 1832, Feb. 28, Wid. Hannah Ames,
May 7, Phineas Hardy, Jun., Sı
66 May 22, Silas Marshall, Só
Aug. 2, Amos Eastman, Esq., S
" Oct. 26, Lt. Samuel Willoughby, So S4
So
94 S5 S
S5 SS
" Oct. 6, Lt. Ebenezer Jewett, S3
S3 " Jan. 28, Lt. Ebenezer Farley,
I7S9. Wid. Lydia Ulrich, Wid. Sarah Kemp, 90 " July'17. Wid. Lydia Dow, 93
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342 LONGEVITY. IS3S, Dec. 12, Wid. Abigail Ober, 93 yrs. 1860, Nov. 3, Ebenezer Farley, 1839, Wid. Hannah W. Shattuck, 95 1861, Apr. IS, Capt. Thomas Proctor,
. Nov. 1, Stephen Dow, Sz IS62, Jan. 2, Wid. Olive Parker,
1841, Jan. 4, Wid. Sarah Brown, S3 " Jan. 2, Wid. Fanny Lawrence,
" Oct. 10, Wid. Priscilla Blood, 95 " Oct. 18, Wid. Dorothy Wood,
: Oct. 29, Wid. Betty Austin, 99 1863, Jan. 26, Robert Colburn,
1842, Wid. Susannah Wood, S IS64, Miss Sarah Farley, Sa
" June 30, Wid. Mary Bailey,
" Sept. 3, Mary, wife of Capt. D. Bailey,
" Dec. 5, Miss Eunice Marshall,
84 93 Sı
" Oct. 30, Nathan Colburn, IS67, May 13, Moses Truell, SA
1843, Apr. 11, Silas French
June 3, Wid. Ruth Farley,
Oct. 19, Wid. Abigail Kittridge,
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Dec. S, Wid. Sibbel Proctor,
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1847, Jan. 1, Capt. William Brown, So 9!
" Mar. 13, Capt. Daniel Bailey,
' June 21, Jonas Blood,
Wid. Hannah Hubbard, 10
May 11, Rev. Eli Smith,
Nov. 25, Jonas Woods,
SS
184S, Mar. 9, Wid. Mary Rockwood, 94
" Dec. 30, Wid. Abigail Runnells,
SI
May 6, Wid. Abigail Clough,
Ang. 29, Wid. Esther Wheeler,
S5 IS:2, May za, Capt. Jonathan T. Wright, $4
" Oct. 5, Wid. Rebecca Ames, S5
1850, May 24, Wid. Mary Jewett, S4 1873, Feb. 12, Asaph Spaulding,
" Aug. 23, Jonathan Saunderson, $4
Feb. 21, Benjamin Ranger, So
IS51, Mar. 11, Wid. Abigail Colburn, 06
.. May 14, John Shedd,
" May zo, Wid. Rebecca Ball, $3
" Aug. 4, Wid. Dorcas Moor, 81
" Sept. 24, James Jewell,
Dec. 3, Dea. William Emerson,
IS74, Feb. 12, Mrs. Rebecca Baldwin,
.. Feb. 25, Dea. Isaac Farley, 00
Sì
IS53, Oct. 23, Wid. Azubah Wheeler, 101, 11 m
May i7, Miss Polly Rockwood,
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1854, July 31, Daniel Dow, Oct. 10, Dr. William Hale,
02
IS75, Jan. 24, Wid. Lydia Colburn, = Mar. LI, Wid. Betsey H. Mooar, Q2
1855, Mar. 25, Jonas Lawrence, St
Sept. 2S, Wid. Abigail Hardy,
84 " Mar. 11, Wid. Bridget French, . 97
" Oct. 8, Samuel Smith, Sı June 25, Wid. Rebecca Blood, 00
1856, May S, Phineas H. Holden, 84
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Dec. 9, Wid. Sally Hale. 94 01
Dec. 13, Ruth Hall,
S4
IS76, Jan. 31, Joseph Shattuck,
Jan. 31, Wid. Susanna Blood, 3
1857, Jan. 9, Wid. Rebecca Whiting, .. May IS, Dea. Enos Hardy,
SS
' Mar. 24, Capt. Jeremiah Dow,
SS
" Nov. 24, Wid. Sybil Holt,
So
.. July 30, Wid. Ruth Farley, So
" Dec. 22, Capt. Isaac Parker,
" Dec. 22, Lt. Edward Johnson,
ISTS, Feb. 6, Jesse Hardy,
33
185S, Aug. 19, Wid. Olive Proctor,
So Mar. 6, Ebenezer Farley, 50
" Oct. 10, Wid. Esther Hale, $6
.. Apr. 3, Wid. Abigail Smith,
1560, Mar. IS, Simon Stone, S3 1$79, Jan. 24, Wid. Elizabeth Woodward, ot
Aug. 4, Wid. Ama Smith, 91
.. Feb. a. Wid. Hannah Russell, 33
"i Aug. 4, Wid. Sarah Pool, 90 Mar. S, Wid. Sarah Austin, 93
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" April 1, Wid. Sarah Worcester, S5 ST IS71, Jan. 9, Thaddeus Wheeler, . Apr. 7, Mary Holden, 55
Apr. IS, Thaddeus Marshall,
1849, Jan. 21, Enoch Jewett, : June 4, David French,
93
Sept. IS, Simon Saunderson, SI
June 12, Wid. Sarah W. Richardson, $4 Oct. 26, James Farley, Sa
1852, Feb. 13, Wid. Sarah Blood, S5
". May 11, Solomon Hardy, Sept. 25, Daniel Merrill,
S5
92 Feb. 26, Isaac Woods,
S4 Nov. 4, Wid. Susan Fox,
" Dec. 15, Wid. Betsey Burge,
S5 1877, Apr. Wid. Nancy Wright,
88 Sept. 12, Oliver Willoby,
90 1865, Sept. 16, Benjamin M. Farley, Esq., 53 " Sept. 20, Dr. Joseph F. Eastman,
1868, Apr. 25, Daniel Shedd,
87 1869, Mar. 21, Wid. Hannah Willoby,
93 July 25, Wid. Sally Hardy, Sept. 26, Jonas Woods, 90
1844, Sept. 29, Moses Ames, So 1S70, Feb. Wid. Nancy Smith,
" Feb. 26, Maj. James Wheeler, S4
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MARRIAGES TO BE FOUND RECORDED IN THE RECORDS OF THE DISTRICT OF DUNSTABLE.
1743, Feb. 7, Elias Dickey and Rose McDaniels,both of West Dunstable. 1744, Oct. 9, Samuel Farley and Hannah Brown, =
John Brown and Kezia Wheeler,
Dec. 11, Benjamin Blanchard and Kezia Hastings, " 16 1743, Jan., Thomas Nevins of W. Dunstable and Bridget Snow of Nottingham.
.. 4, Joseph Farley of W. Dunstable and Esther Spalding of Litchfield. .6 Feb. 9, Josiah Conant of West Dunstable and Catharine Emerson of Reading.
Mar. 2, Robert Colburn and Elizabeth Leeman, both of W. Dunstable.
66 May 6, John Boynton, Jun. of W. Dunstable and Lydia Jewett of Rowley.
Nov., Jacob Blanchard and Elizabeth Lawrence, both of W. Dunstable.
36, Wm. Shattuck of W. Dunstable and Experience Curtis of Nottingham.
MARRIAGES RECORDED IN THE FIRST THREE VOLUMES OF THE HOLLIS RECORDS.
1743, May 31, Jonathan Danforth and Anna Blanchard. 1744, " 29, William Adams and Mary Spear.
Nov. 7. Rev. Daniel Emerson and Hannah Emerson of Malden.
,1747, Sept. 12, Joshua Blanchard of Hollis and Sarah Burge, Chelmsford, "publish'd."
Mar. 21, Robert Colburn of Monson and Elizabeth Smith of Hollis,
1748, Aug. 12, Nathaniel Clement of Hancock and Wid. Hannah Cummings of H. pub.
1750, Nov. I. James Wheeler and Mary Butterfield.
Dec. 4, Jonathan Melvin and Mary Brooks.
1751, Mar. 19, Peter Wheeler and Mehitabel Jewett.
1752, Dec. 37, Oliver Lawrence and Mary Cummings.
1753, Apr. Eleazer Cumings and Martha Brown.
1754. May I, Timothy Cook of Hollis and Abigail Wheat of Concord.
1754, June
2, Samuel Burge and Joanna Farley.
1755, May
6, Matthew Wallace and Jean Lesley.
.6 20, Whitcomb Powers and Mary Dolliver.
37, Samuel Whittemore and Olive Blanchard.
June 2, Josiah Fisk and Sarah Colburn.
66 Nov. 6, Aaron Colburn of Dracut and Phebe Harris of Hollis.
# 27, Josiah Blood of Hollis and Sarah Heywood of Chelmsford.
1756, Jan. 1, John Astin and Sarah Hastings, both of Hollis. = 29, Moses Smith and Mary Boynton 66
66 Mar. 25, Samuel Brown and Mary Glene
6. Apr. S, Joseph Bates of New Ipswich, and Phebe Powers of Hollis.
" 30, Nehemiah Woods of Hollis, and Sarah Lakin of Groton.
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MARRIAGES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.
1756, Nov. 16, Edward Taylor and Sarah Sanders, both of Hollis. 1757. Jan. 5, Stephen Powers of Hollis and Lucy Cumings of Danstable.
5, John Brooks and Mary Kemp, both of Ifollis.
.. Feb. 22, Noah Worcester and Lydia Taylor "
July 11, Joshua Smith of Hollis and Hannah Baldwin of Townsend ..
.. Aug. 2, James Whiting of Hollis and Mary Douglas of Pepperell.
Sept. 13, Nathaniel Blanchard and Elizabeth Rolfe, both of Hollis.
" I5, Thomas Colburn of Pepperell and Esther Flagg of Hollis. Ezekiel Jewett and Lucy Townsend, both of Hollis.
175S, Feb. 23,
Apr. 20,
Zerubbabel Kemp and Hannah Colburn, both of Hollis.
Jacob Foster and Lydia Barrett,
Nov. 16, Jonathan Russ of Hollis and Lucy Kendall of Litchfield.
William Brooks and Abigail Kemp, both of Hollis.
.. 21, Stephen Martin and Patience Worcester, "
= Dec. 6, Eleazer Stearns and Elizabeth Pierce,
1760, Feb. 7, Caleb Stiles and Elizabeth Townsend,
.. Mar. 25, Richard Warner of Pepperell and Hannah Eastman of Hollis. John Campbell of Townsend and Sarah Barton of Hollis.
Apr. 24,
July 10, Jonas Willoughby and Hannah Bates, both of Hollis.
Sept. 1, James French and Saral: Brooks,
= Nov. 13, John Atwell and Bridget Cumings, :6
" 27, Josiah French and Sarah Astin, 6 4
1761, Jan. 22, Samuel Brown and Mary Wheeler,
Apr. 2, William Shattuck of Hollis and Zilpha Turner of Lancaster.
Nov. 2, Francis Blood and Elizabeth Spalding, both of Hollis.
Dec. 24, David Wright of Pepperell and Prudence Cumings of Hollis.
1762, Jan. 7, Ephraim Burge and Anna Abbot, both of Hollis.
27, James Hobart and Hannah Cumings "
Feb. 23,
Ebenezer Kendall and Lucy Cumings " Amos Fisk and Elizabeth Flagg
Zachariah Parker and Elizabeth Brown, both of Hollis.
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