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Following are the altitudes of hills and certain other points above the sea level taken from the United States geological survey of 1895:
The altitude of Main street, Keene, at railroad cross- ing is 481 feet.
Beech hill (" Beach " hill, previous to 1811, sometimes called East Beach hill) has an altitude at the highest point at its south end of 1,069 feet; at its north end of 1,060 feet.
West mountain-original name, "West Beach hill;" afterwards "Daniels' hill," from its first settlers; and re- cently "West hill"-has an altitude of 1,366 feet.
Grimes's hill, northwest of West mountain, has an alti- tude of 1,140 feet.
Stearns's hill, one mile northeast of Grimes's hill, has an altitude of 1,310 feet.
Gray's hill, two miles north of Stearns's, and overlook- ing the railroad at the "Summit," has an altitude of 1,385 feet.
These three last mentioned hills were named from fam- ilies who owned or lived near them for several generations. Aaron Gray and Aaron Gray, Jr., were in the militia com- panies here in 1773, the latter with two sons, William and
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Joseph, both of whom were in the Revolutionary army, and Joseph died in the service in 1776. Hugh Gray, an- other Revolutionary soldier, was probably of this family.
Bartholomew Grimes was here in 1776, and his descendants still live on the homestead; and the Stearnses have lived on their homestead for many years.
The rise in the highway-formerly longer and steeper than now-from the meadow to the site of the first meet- inghouse, where E. F. Lane now lives, was called Meeting- house hill; and a similar rise in Washington street, east of the present jail, was called Potash hill, from a potash building which stood on its west side.
Biographical Sketches
OF PROMINENT PERSONS WHO WERE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF KEENE, OR, LIVING ELSEWHERE, WERE IN SOME WAY IDENTIFIED WITH THE TOWN.
DANIEL ADAMS.
Dr. Daniel Adams was born in Lincoln, Mass, in 1766; studied medicine with Dr. Gowen, of Weston, Mass .; re- ceived the degree of M. D. in 1788; in the same year married Mrs. Sarah, widow of Gen. John Apdaile, of the British army, from Newcastle-on-Tyne, daughter of Benj. Goldthwaite1 of Boston, and soon afterwards came to Keene. Their journey was made on horseback, and the sidesaddle and whip used by Mrs. Adams are still pre- served by the family. At first they lived in the Dunbar, or "plastered" house, on Main street. He afterwards owned and occupied-doubtless built-the colonial house now No. 324 Main street, and died there in 1830. Mrs. Adams died in 1848. They had but one child, Charles Goldthwaite Adams.
Dr. Adams was a druggist and apothecary as well as physician, and prepared his own medicines. He took high rank in his profession, in which he was exceedingly apt and skilful, and for about forty years was a leading man in the town and county. Most of his earlier visits were made on horseback, and he was one of the first to use a wheeled vehicle. He was the third United States postmaster in Keene, receiving his appointment in 1799. In 1805, and for several years afterwards, he published the Medical and Agricultural Register.
1 Another daughter of Mr. Goldthwaite married Major George Ingersoll (see Ingersoll sketch), and still another, as his second wife, married Dea. James Lanman, who kept the Mount Pleasant House on Marlboro street, now the Daniel R. Cole residence.
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His father was Capt. Joseph Adams, of Lincoln-in his younger days a cornet in the British army, and his com- mission from King George II, dated in 1759, is still pre- served by his descendants. Capt. Daniel Adams (a near relative of Capt. Joseph), and Ephraim Jones-at 'whose inn the first meeting of the proprietors of Upper Ashuelot was held, June 27, 1734-both of Concord, Mass., in 1737, by order of the provincial authorities, cut a road from Townshend, Mass., to the Ashuelot river, later known as the "old military road," which can still be traced, and for which the "Great and General Court" of Massachusetts neglected to pay them-doubtless because the line estab- lished by the king in 1740 between the two provinces left nearly all that road in New Hampshire.
CHARLES GOLDTHWAITE ADAMS.
Dr. Charles Goldthwaite Adams, only child of Dr. Daniel, was born in the "Dunbar house," Keene, in 1793; attended Chesterfield academy; graduated at Dartmouth in 1810-the youngest in his class, yet ranking high ;- studied law at Litchfield, Ct., and with Samuel Prescott, Esq., of Keene; but, desiring a more active life studied medicine at Harvard Medical school, took his degree and was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in that school. He was offered professorships at Dartmouth and other med- ical schools, but came to Keene and devoted himself to regular practice, in which he was highly successful.
In 1821 he married Miss Mary Ann King, of Boston, sister of Mrs. Salma Hale.1 They had thirteen children, four of whom are still living in town. Their first residence was in the house of his father, but the young doctor soon built the house now owned and occupied by his daughter and her husband, Mr. Lemuel Hayward, and died there in 1856. Mrs. Adams survived until 1885, reaching the age of eighty-five years. Another daughter, Mrs. R. S. Perkins, has for many years owned and occupied the old Wyman tavern, about which clusters so much of historic interest.
1 The girls were orphans, sent from Boston to Miss Fiske's school in Keene, at the ages of thirteen and nearly fifteen, respectively. Both were remarkably lovely and brilliant women, and they lived side by side in Keene for forty-five years. Several others of the bright, attractive girls of Miss Fiske's school found husbands in Keene.
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Dr. Adams was not only remarkably successful in his profession-"kind, skilful, honored and trusted"-but he was a man of liberal views, charming manners and uni- form courtesy; and his home was a model of simple, gen- uine, refined hospitality. His name was connected with that of Governor Dinsmoor the younger, as being as pol- ished gentlemen as could be found in any city.
DANIEL ADAMS.
Daniel Adams, M. D., author of arithmetics and other text-books, was born in Townshend, Mass., in 1773; graduated at Dartmouth in 1797; taught school in the old schoolhouse on Main street, Keene, and boarded with Dr. Daniel Adams (of whom he was no relation); studied medicine; settled in Leominster, Mass .; published Scholars' Arithmetic and other school books; removed to Boston, 1806, and taught a private school; removed to Mount Ver- non, N. H., in 1813; published Adams's New Arithmetic; came to Keene, 1846; served three terms as state senator; died in Keene in 1864, aged ninety-one.
FOSTER ALEXANDER.
Foster Alexander, lawyer, son of Col. Reuben and Sarah (Foster) Alexander, of Winchester, N. H., was born in Winchester, in 1775; graduated at Dartmouth in 1796; came to Keene the same year and read law with Noah Cooke; was attorney and agent for the town for several years; at one time partner with Levi Chamberlain; town clerk and town treasurer of Keene in 1820-21-22; repre- sentative in 1822; for five years moderator of annual town meetings. His office was a small "ten-footer" on the site of the south wing of the present Cheshire House. He was a very tall man; never married; returned to Win- chester about 1828; practiced law, and died there in 1841.
AARON APPLETON.
Aaron Appleton, son of Dea. Isaac, of New Ipswich, and brother of Samuel of Boston and Isaac of Dublin, was born in 1768; married Eunice, daughter of Dea. Benj. Adams of New Ipswich; removed to Dublin; successful merchant there; came to Keene, 1814; engaged in glass
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manufacturing and general trade with John Elliot (his nephew by marriage and later his brother-in-law) under the firm name of Appleton & Elliot; married, second, 1842, Keziah, daughter of Nathan Bixby, of Keene; no children by either marriage; died June, 1852, aged eighty-three. He lived on the site of the present St. Bernard's church. His widow, Keziah, bought the place next north, where the Widow Ralston had lived, and employed John H. Elliot to build for her on that lot, the present " Appleton house," on Main street. She died in 1870, aged seventy-seven.
JACOB BACON.
Rev. Jacob Bacon, son of Thomas, of Dedham and Wrentham, Mass., was born in Wrentham in 1706; grad- uated at Harvard in 1731; received degree of A. M., 1734; came to Upper Ashuelot in 1737, and at a meeting of the proprietors on the 26th of October was chosen-as "the worthy Mr. Jacob Bacon"-to draw the lots for all the proprietors in their second division of meadow land. In February following, he was chosen proprietors' clerk and treasurer, and on the 1st day of May, 1738, was unani- mously chosen and settled as the first minister of the town- ship. He was ordained on the 18th of October over a church of nineteen members, organized at that time, and remained its pastor-and clerk of the proprietors- until the inhabitants were driven away and the place burned by the Indians, in 1747. He was much respected and beloved.
In June, 1749, he married Mary, daughter of Dr. David Wood of Boxford, Mass., and the same year he was settled over the Third church in Plymouth, Mass., and remained there until 1776. Seven children were born in Plymouth: Mary, Jacob, Thomas; David, born 1754, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, settled in Templeton, Mass., and died there in 1849, aged ninety-five; Oliver, born 1755, was living in Rindge in 1775-one of the patriots to rally at the Lexington alarm, afterwards a lieutenant in the Con- tinental army-settled in Jaffrey and died there; Samuel, born in 1757, Revolutionary patriot, settled in Templeton, Mass., and died there in 1838; Charles, born in 1759, died an infant.
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In 1753, he wrote a letter to Hon. Mesech Weare, president of the executive council of New Hampshire, re- counting the hardships and privations of the settlers of Upper Ashuelot, and pleading for their rights in the trans- fer from the jurisdiction of Massachusetts to that of New Hampshire; and claiming a just ownership in his lands there, valued at 1,000 pounds, to which he could show a valid title by legal deeds and bonds.
He married, second, Mary Whitney, who died in Mich- igan, in 1815, aged eighty-seven.
After leaving Plymouth, he preached eighteen months at Plympton, now Carver, and then retired to Rowley, Mass., where he died, August 14, 1787, in the eighty-first year of his age.
He has many descendants living in Plymouth and Cambridge, Mass., and in various other parts of the country.
THOMAS BAKER.
Thomas Baker, son of Thomas, of Topsfield, Mass., was born about 1730; married Sarah Hale; came from Topsfield with wife and four children in 1760; built a house (still standing) on Boston road (Baker street) ; established the first tannery in town on the meadow below, near Beaver brook; was tanner, farmer, and magistrate; did much legal business and held important offices in town. His ancestors were among the first settlers of Topsfield and were prominent in civil and military affairs. He was a sergeant in the militia company here in 1773. In 1785 he was appointed a special justice of the court of common pleas for Cheshire county. Towards the close of his life Capt. Ephraim Dorman voluntarily gave all his property to Judge Baker for his maintenance through life; and thus Judge Baker came in possession of all the Capt. Dorman lands. He died in 1806, aged seventy-six, and was buried in the old south yard. His widow, Sarah, died in 1807. Their children were: Thomas, born in Topsfield in 1752, married Mrs. Abbott; Sally, born in Topsfield in 1755, married Rev. Aaron Hall; Olive, born in Topsfield in 1759, married Joshua Prime of Swanzey; Mary, born in Tops- field in 1761, married Benjamin Ellis; Hepzibah, born in
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Keene in 1763, married Thaddeus Metcalf and lived on the present William Reed farm; Susanna, born in Keene in 1766, married Daniel Watson; David, Anna and Jonathan.
ZEDEKIAH S. BARSTOW.
Rev. Zedekiah Smith Barstow, D. D. - fifth son, sixth child of John and Susannah (Smith) Barstow, of Canter- bury, Ct .- was born in Canterbury in 1790; brought up on a farm; studied in the district school and with tutors; graduated with distinction at Yale college in 1813; taught in Hopkins' grammar school in New Haven-the most noted school in Connecticut-and in Hamilton college; re- ceived his master's degree from Yale, 1816, from Hamilton, 1817; studied theology under President Timothy Dwight; was called to the pastorate in Keene, in 1818-ordained July 1-and one month after his ordination married Miss Elizabeth Fay Blake, of Westboro, Mass.
His father was a patriot soldier in the Revolutionary war, afterwards a magistrate, and for forty years a deacon of the church in Canterbury. He was a descendant of John Barstow-the name was Burstow, originally - who came from Yorkshire, Eng., 1630-35, and settled in Cam- bridge, Mass. His mother was a descendant of Gov. Brad- ford, of the Pilgrims.
Dr. Barstow was an earnest and powerful champion of education, temperance and all good works, and had a benign influence over his people and the community for more than fifty years-"the wise and faithful friend, the courteous, Christian gentleman, the learned and cultured man of letters, the true and upright citizen." He came to Keene at the time when the strife of Unitarian secession was fiercest, and it was to the able, well-equipped, resolute young pastor, more than to any other human agency, that Keene owed the preservation of its original Congre- gational church and society. The controversy was sharp and bitter, yet no animosity was left to rankle on either síde.
While pursuing his studies in college and elsewhere he paid his expenses by tutoring, and among his pupils were President Woolsey of Yale, Salmon P. Chase, Gerrit Smith,
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Rev. Dr. Robinson, Rev. Dr. Barnes, Bishop Ives and many other distinguished men. During all his life in Keene, with the exception of the last few years, he served on school committees; was the projector and champion of the Keene academy, opened in 1837; and for thirty-seven years was a trustee of Dartmouth college, receiving his degree of D. D. from that institution in 1849. He had the best theological library in this part of the country, and the paucity of other volumes of that kind and the numerous calls of borrowers suggested to him the idea of organizing the Cheshire Theological Institute for the benefit of the clergy of Cheshire county. The institute was incorporated in 1830, with a capital stock of $1,000, in shares of $5 each, which were taken by the leading men of Keene and other towns in the county. It had a board of trustees, a librarian, and about 700 volumes of the books best adapted to the purposes of the institute. It continued for about twenty years.
He was the last minister settled by the town; and he officiated until he was eighty years old, and preached the sermon at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination. During his ministry 531 members were added to the church; 221 were dismissed to other churches; he married 379 couples and attended more than 1,000 funerals. When he came to Keene the custom of furnishing liquors at funerals was still in vogue, but he opposed it and it was soon given up.
Mrs. Barstow was remarkable for her loveliness of person and character. She was dignified, refined and capa- ble and efficient in all public and private duties-"the perfect pattern of a pastor's wife." She was a niece of Eli Whitney, the inventor.
When Mr. Barstow first came to Keene he occupied, as his study, the northwest chamber of the house on the corner of Main and Marlboro streets, now the residence of Mr. James Marsh, but immediately upon their marriage they went to live in the house fitted up for them for a parsonage-the old Wyman tavern. There all their chil- dren were born; there they celebrated their golden wed- ding, Aug. 19, 1868; and there both died-Mrs. Barstow,
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Sept. 15, 1869, aged seventy-seven; Dr. Barstow, March 1, 1873, on the fifty-fifth anniversary of his first appear- ance in the pulpit in Keene, aged eighty-two. His funeral services were deeply impressive. Their children were Tim- othy Dwight, born 1820, died Dec. 22, 1820; William, born 1822, a physician in San Francisco, Cal .; Elizabeth Whitney, born 1824, died 1832; Josiah Whitney, born 1826, married Flora Macdonald (daughter of Dr. James Macdonald, of New York city), for many years in charge of Sanford Hall, a private sanitarium at Flushing, L. I., now a physician in New York city, a man of marked ability in his profession, of polished manners and genial disposition.
SAMUEL BASSETT.
Samuel Bassett was born in Norton, Mass., 1754; came to Keene before he was twenty years old; was a member of the militia company here in 1773; was one of the thirty patriots who marched from Keene under Capt. Isaac Wyman, April 21, 1775; was fifer of that company, and remained with it under Capt. Stiles in the battle of Bunker Hill, and afterwards in the regiment of Col. Paul Dudley Sargeant, (is designated as "freamer" on the Mas- sachusetts roll) and was discharged with his company at the close of that year; enlisted as private in the company of Capt. John Houghton, of Keene, Baldwin's regiment, which marched in September, 1776, to reinforce Washing- ton's army and was in the battle of White Plains; dis- charged in December of that year. When marching to join its regiment the company halted at the house of Samuel Belding, in Swanzey, and pretty Martha Belding, nineteen years old, drew water for the men to drink. Young Bas- sett was smitten, and a marriage after the campaign was over was the result. In May, 1777, he joined the com- pany of Capt. Davis Howlett, of Keene, Nichols' regiment, which marched to the relief of Ticonderoga-was out one month and ten days. After the Revolutionary war he was a carpenter and master builder, and a captain in the mili- tia. He lived near where Hon. R. H. Porter now does, but towards the close of his life removed to 33 Marlboro street.
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In 1818 a dispute arose as to who was the real com- mander at Bunker Hill, which included a sharp controversy concerning the conduct of Gen. Putnam in that battle. Among other affidavits from those who were present in the battle was one from Capt. Bassett, which was pub- lished in the Sentinel of June 27 of that year.
He died in 1834, aged eighty. His widow survived until 1842, and died at the age of eighty-six.
His children were: Samuel, William, Massa, Patty, Polly, Elias and Nathan, born between 1778 and 1798.
NATHAN BASSETT.
Nathan Bassett, youngest son of Samuel Bassett, was born in 1798; married Harriet, daughter of Lockhart Wil- lard; had ten children; was captain of the Keene Light Infantry in 1823-4; was a noted carpenter and builder, and laid the foundations of our present city hall. He lived on Marlboro street and built the house now No. 47. His son James was drowned in Ashuelot river, July 4, 1833. He removed to Keene, Ohio.
JOSEPH BROWN. .
Joseph Brown, son of Joseph and Hepzibah Brown, was born in Keene in 1764; married 1786, Keziah, daughter of Ebenezer and Bathsheba Day; built the little old store still standing at West Keene; kept tavern in what is known as the Ingersoll house, west of the small pond; was one of the most active and enterprising men in town; died Jan. 3, 1836, aged seventy-two; and the same evening his wife, Keziah, died, aged seventy-two. Tradition says that he built the Mount Pleasant House, now D. R. Cole's, on Marlboro street.
NATHAN BLAKE .:
Nathan Blake, son of Robert and Sarah (Guild) Blake, was born in Wrentham, Mass., March 13, 1712; one of the first three settlers who attempted to spend the winter of 1736-7 at Upper Ashuelot; built the first log house in town, in 1736, on the lot at the north corner of what are now Main and Winchester streets, where his descendants of the fourth, fifth and sixth generations still reside; one
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of the original members of the church at its formation in 1738; one of the thirty-nine who were granted ten acres of upland in 1740 for having lived two years or more in the township and built a house; married, in 1742, Eliza- beth, daughter of Abraham Graves, of Lower Ashuelot, formerly of Wrentham; captured by the Indians in 1746 (see text of this history of that date); returned with other settlers in 1749 (he and seventeen others signed two peti- tions dated at Upper Ashuelot, Feb. 11, 1750), and built one of the first houses erected at that time, on the site of his log cabin, which had been burned by the Indians. Its frame was of heavy, hard wood timber, and its partitions were of yellow, or pitch pine planks two to three inches thick, set on end-evidently a sort of blockhouse for pro- tection against Indians. That house was moved a few rods down Winchester street to give place to the present brick house, built in 1833, and stood there until about 1870. His name is on the alarm list of 1773, and he signed the Association Test in 1776.
After his return from captivity in 1748, he joined Capt. Hobbs's company (or Capt. Marston's) to fight the In- dians. (State Papers, vol. 18, page 416.)
At the age of ninety-four he married Mrs. Mary Brin- ton, "a fascinating widow of sixty-four." Two of his brothers lived to the age of ninety, and one sister to that of ninety-nine.
He lived on his farm until 1811, when he died at the age of ninety-nine years and five months. His wife, Eliza- beth, died in 1804, aged eighty-three. Their children were: Esther, born 1742, married Isaac Billings, of Keene; Eliza- beth, born 1744; Asahel, born 1749, married Sarah Blake; Nathan, Abel and Abner, who died young.
He came to Upper Ashuelot in 1736 with his brother, Dr. Obadiah, and his sister Sarah, the wife of Thomas Fisher. His brother Elijah came later.
OBADIAH BLAKE.
Dr. Obadiah Blake, son of Robert and Sarah (Guild) Blake, was born in Wrentham, Mass., 1719; one of the first settlers of Upper Ashuelot, in 1737 or 1738, and one
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of those who were granted ten acres of upland in 1740 for having lived two years or more in the township and built a house; married, in 1749, Zipporah Harris; married later a second wife, Lydia; lived in the west part, where the stone farmhouse now stands, and where his descendants still reside; had seven children, all by his first wife, three of whom were: Obadiah, the third child, born 1753, a Revolutionary soldier, who succeeded his father as a physi- cian; Royal, born 1756, a Revolutionary soldier, who had ten children, and died 1827; Elijah, born 1763.
He was one of the original members of the church at its formation in 1738, was one of its first deacons, chosen in 1763, and held that position until his death-forty-seven years. In 1750-Feb. 20-he had not yet returned to this township, but, with his brother Elijah (see below) signed a petition at Wrentham for the incorporation of Keene (State Papers, vol. 12, page 309) and was one of the grantees in 1753. His name is on the alarm list of Keene in 1773, but he must have been absent in April, 1776, as he did not sign the Association Test.
He was the second physician in town, Jeremiah Hall having been the first (see sketch of Dr. Hall), and his prac- tice covered a large territory, extending as far as Hard- wick and Royalston, Mass., Westminster, Vt., and Croy- don, N. H. His journeys, on horseback, by trails or marked trees, were long, and his fees were small, and were usually taken in products of the farm. He had a jocose way of keeping his accounts, sometimes closing them with the entries: "Cancelled in full by poverty ;" "Ran away;" "Settled by death;" "Left with Noah Cooke (the lawyer) ;" and, at long intervals, "Paid in cash to me." He be- queathed his saddlebags, vials and lancet to his son, Oba- diah, Jr. He died in 1810, aged ninety-two, and was buried in the west yard, on Bradford street.
NATHAN BLAKE, JR.
Capt. Nathan Blake, Jr., son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Graves) Blake, was born in Keene, 1752; married Bath- sheba, daughter of Ebenezer Day (the story of her ride to the fort when a baby is told in the sketch of her father);
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member of the military company in 1773; signed the As- sociation Test, 1776; in Capt. Davis Howlett's company for the relief of Ticonderoga, June 29 to July 11, 1777. For some years he and his brother Abel owned and oper- ated the mills on Ashuelot river, and his house near the mills - where Josiah Colony afterwards lived-was seriously damaged by fire in 1789. He had eight children, among them Nathan, born 1784; and Elijah, born 1791. He re- moved to Vermont, and died in 1813.
ABEL BLAKE.
Capt. Abel Blake, son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Graves) Blake, was born in Keene, 1759; married Sally Richard- son of Sudbury, Mass., (Family records. The town records of births give the name Sarah Eveleth); married, second, 1805, Mrs. Jemima Hart of Chesterfield; had five children, all by his first wife-Reuel and Abel being the only sons that lived to manhood. He lived on the homestead, and built, in 1806, the wood house north of the brick one and lived in it twenty-seven years, then sold it and built the brick house in 1833 and spent the remainder of his days there. He was an active and earnest member of the church, and a zealous worker in the temperance cause. He died in 1839, aged eighty.
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