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SEABROOK
Gove's Garrison: Site of Gove's garrison, built in 1703, is on the Lafayette Road, south of the entrance to New Zealand Road. This was a typical old garrison house, with overhang for shooting down at invaders. An oil painting was made of this building before its destruction.
On one occasion a man named Dow ran through the street crying "Indians!" A Mr. Gove, hearing the cry, mounted a stump, and saw thirty-two Indians crawl out of a hiding place. ... The widow Mussey, a leader among the Friends, was killed; also Thomas Lancaster, on his way to mill. Lancaster's cries "were heard by some men who were building a garrison near by; they ran to his assistance, but finding the Indians superior in numbers, they fled." Others were killed in this attack. (New Hampshire As It Is, p. 384.) Belknap gives the date, August 17, 1703.
STRATHAM
Barker Garrison: A story-and-a-half building, long con- sidered in the Wingate family to be a garrison, now stands near the Burton G. Saunders house (formerly the Wingate homestead) at the juncture of Portsmouth and Newmarket. Roads. Its original site was on high ground beside the Mill
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Brook, on the land of Major Benjamin Barker. Major Barker, born in 1730, had very early a fulling mill near this house. The so-called garrison was purchased by George Wingate about 1808, and later moved to its present site. (Miss Isabel C. Wingate, Miss Elizabeth H. Baker.)
Dearborn Garrison: The site of the Dearborn garrison house is on Stratham Heights, near the present home of Mr. St. Denis (1937). On the 1802 map of Stratham, the house is marked "J. Dearborn." It was a typical two-story garrison, the upper story extending out beyond the lower. It was burned about 1900. Mrs. Richard M. Scammon has a photograph of the house.
SWANZEY
Captain Nathaniel Hammond's Garrison: Very soon after the settlement of Swanzey was commenced, grave apprehensions of the settlers' safety from Indian attacks were entertained, forebodings that were soon verified. As early as 1738 the building of a fort was commenced, re- building and stockading Captain Nathaniel Hammond's dwelling for this purpose. And on November 6th of this year, the proprietors voted that eighteen pounds of powder and thirty-six pounds of lead be purchased for a reserve stock. Subsequently it was voted to finish this fort, and to build two more.
John Evans's Garrison: One of the above two forts was built about the house of John Evans.
Fort on Meeting-House Hill: The other of the two forts was built upon Meeting-house Hill.
The wisdom of these precautions was soon made mani- fest, for Indian depredations became frequent and deadly. During the period from 1741 to 1747, several of the inhabi- tants lost their lives, and a number were made prisoners. In the spring of the latter date, it was decided by those who remained in the territory, to brave these dangers no longer. Accordingly, they collected together their household effects, and all such valuables as would not admit of easy trans- portation, buried them in the ground, concealing all traces under leaves and trees, and fled to Massachusetts. A Bible is now in the possession of one of the inhabitants which is said to have been buried under a brass kettle. The savages visited the town soon after, and destroyed everything they could find, leaving but a single house standing.
With the close of the Cape Breton, or first French and Indian War, these dangers ceased, and a few of the settlers returned to the scene of their pioneer labors.
(From Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N. H., 1736-1885, Nathaniel Child, p. 435.)
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WALPOLE
John Kilbourn Garrison: The site of the palisaded home of John Kilburn, the first settler, in 1749, is about one- third of a mile south of the Gold River Bridge, on the Monadnock Road, and is marked by a granite monument erected by Abigail Stearns Chapter, D. A. R. His family at the time of the Indian attack consisted of his wife, Ruth, and two children, Mehitable and John. Here occurred, in 1755, the Indian attack and siege which "was one of the most heroic and successful efforts of personal courage and valor recorded in the annals of Indian warfare." A par- ticular account of "the Defense of Kilbourn's garrison" is given in the Collection New Hampshire Historical Society, Vol. II, pp. 55-57. (History of Walpole, 1749-1879, George Aldrich.)
WINCHESTER
The early settlers of Winchester (1744), who were left in a large degree unprotected, as the newly established province line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts had severed them from Massachusetts' protection, and New Hampshire had not found it expedient or convenient to assume their protection, ... were entirely dependent upon themselves (to protect their homes and families from the Indians). Every occupied house was turned into a gar-
GARRISON HOUSE, BUILT ABOUT 1645.
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rison. . .. No man walked abroad unarmed, and it soon became unsafe to step outside a stockade to milk a cow or feed an animal, and no field labor could be performed. Their harvests were destroyed and their horses and cattle killed. Then they abandoned their estates and buildings to their fate, and in the autumn of 1745 returned to Lunen- burg (Mass.), where they remained until the spring of 1753, when they returned, rebuilt their desolated homes and began re-cultivating their wasted lands. Among these families were the Willards and the Alexanders.
Gazetteer of Cheshire County, 1736-1885, by Hamilton Child. The History of Charlestown, N. H., on p. 31, refers to Willard's Fort, in Winchester, 1746.
GARRISONS
"In every frontier settlement there were more or less garrison houses, some with a flankart at two opposite angles, others at each corner of the house; some houses surrounded with palisadoes; others, which were smaller, built with square timber, one piece laid horizontally upon another, and loop-holes at every side of the house; and be- sides these, generally in any more considerable plantation there was one garrison house capable of containing soldiers sent for the defense of the plantation, and the families near, whose houses were not so fortified. It was thought justifiable and necessary, whatever the general rule of law might be, to erect such forts, castles, or bulwarks as these upon a man's own ground, without commission or special license therefor." (History of the Colony of Massachu- setts Bay, Vol. II, p. 67, Thomas Hutchinson; quoted by Samuel Adams Drake in Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast, 1879, p. 139.)
History of Rochester, N. H., page 20:
"Garrisons were built two stories in height, the lower story being of solid timber with strong window shutters fastened upon the inside. The upper story projected three or four feet upon all sides, so that water could be poured down to extinguish flames in case the house should be fired, while an enemy who came near was exposed to certain death. Loop-holes were provided large enough on the out- side for a gun-barrel to be pointed through them, and hol- lowed or beveled upon the inside to allow the gun to be aimed in different directions. The second story was built according to the fancy or ability of the owner. In the Richard Wentworth garrison it was made of thick planks,
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dovetailed together at the corners like a chest, and without any frame, except a few braces. The cellars of the public garrisons were divided by walls into many apartments for the accomodation of different families; this was the case with the one at Gonic. As an additional protection, often- times the whole building was surrounded with a rampart or palisade formed of timber or posts set in the ground. To these fortified houses the men, when driven from their labor in the field, retreated; here they left their women and children when they went abroad; and here they were compelled to pass much of their own time in inactivity, while perhaps the cattle were being killed in the pastures near by, and the crops remained unharvested or were be- ing destroyed by the enemy.
"A few anecdotes will illustrate the cunning of the In- dians and the necessary caution of the settlers. One day the cattle were discovered in the cornfield at Colonel Mc- Duffee's. The boys were starting at once to drive them out, when they were stopped by the colonel, who said he knew the fence was strong, and the rascally Indians must have laid a plot to trap them. No one was allowed to move out of doors for a day or two, but when it was safe to venture forth, the place of concealment contrived by the Indians was discovered, and it was evident that they had broken down the fence, driven the cattle into the field, and placed themselves in ambush to kill or capture whoever came out. At one of the garrisons a large number of hogs were kept, which were suffered to roam about during the day to feed upon acorns and such other food as they could find, and were called home at night. One evening they were called a long time, but none made their appearance. In the night, when it was quite dark, the hogs seemed to return sud- denly, and a grunting as of a large drove was heard all around the building. The family, however, were too wary to be deceived, and at once suspected the truth, that the Indians had dispatched the hogs and were now imitating their grunts to entice somebody out of the garrison. These are only a few out of many tricks and treacheries of their crafty foes. More than once a hatchet was found sticking in the garrison door, as a token of threatening and defiance. That the imagination of the settlers sometimes magnified the real danger or excited needless fears is very probable. It could hardly be otherwise; for little would be required to produce alarm after a few persons had fallen victims to these wily and savage foes."
COLONIAL FORTS
Although this collection was prepared in honor of the men and women who built and defended their own wooden castles through desperate times, a few forts ordered by the government enter into the story sufficiently to be missed if omitted. With these are included others built by non- resident Proprietors to induce settlers to enter or remain upon the grants, and some larger forts built by towns.
ALTON
The site of the colonial fort, erected in 1722 on a point of land near the entrance to Alton on Lake Winnepesaukee, is known as Fort Point. The order for building this fort reads thus: " ... the fort at Winnipesake be one hundred feet square and fourteen foot square for the flankers, lower part, and seventeen foot upper part, jutting over." (Win- nepesaukee Lake Country Gleanings, by Edgar H. Wilcomb, pp. 24-26.)
BOSCAWEN
In the year 1739, this feeble colony, harrassed with fear, ... appealed to the proprietors of the town, - men of Newbury, Massachusetts, who on December 6, 1739, "unani- mously agreed forthwith to build a fort one hundred feet square, ten feet high, of timber and other materials for the defense of their settlers. This fort to be built on the school lot, near the meeting house, on King Street, which was completed in the course of the winter, and for more than twenty years proved a commodious garrison for all the in- habitants. Being furnished with muskets and ammunition, they were able to protect themselves, while they improved their farms." (From A Chronological Register of Bos- cawen, from the Settlement of the Town to 1820, by Ebe- nezer Price, pastor of the Second Church. Printed in 1823, p. 31.)
The site of the old fort is marked by a granite tablet, inscribed : "Site of First Fort, A. D. 1739. One Hundred Feet Square. Built of Hewn Log's." This is on the right side of the main street going north. (Mrs. Marjorie R. Emery, Librarian.)
CANTERBURY
The proprietors voted, March 15, 1744, to build a fort in Canterbury. This fort was constructed of hewn white oak timber, and was located on the hill near the house occu-
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pied by Billy E. Pillsbury. Captain Jeremiah Clough was chosen to take command. His dwelling is said to have stood near the fort. Scout and garrison duty was constantly performed by the settlers, and by soldiers sent to the neigh- borhood by the provincial government.
A letter written by Thomas Clough, in 1758, saying that "inhabitants hardly dare stir from one garrison to another without a large company together," would indicate that there was more than one garrison in Canterbury. Those outside of the main fort, built by the proprietors, may have been only stockades, but that there were several fortified enclosures called forts is shown by a vote at a town meet- ing, March 16, 1758, when, in appropriating money for schools, it was provided "that each fort's people shall enjoy the benefit of their own money in their own fort." (His- tory of the Town of Canterbury, 1727-1912, James Otis Lyford, pp. 28, 42.)
CHARLESTOWN Old Number Four
When Old Number Four had been settled about three years the inhabitants began to consider building a fortifi- cation, or fortifications, in the township for the defense of
GARRISON HOUSE IN KING WILLIAM'S WAR,
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the people. At a meeting held at the house of John Spaf- ford, Jr., November 24, 1743, the erection of the fort hav- ing been decided upon, several votes were taken regarding the labor on the fort, the charge of building the fort, and that the committee be allowed £5:10s for setting up the house at the northwest corner of the fort and completing the same. The house was Lieutenant Witherby's. That John Hastings be allowed £25 for the benefit of his house and the damage of his land, and the use of one of the rooms in the house now building on the east of the fort so long as it holds peace, he not to take his house from the fort. It was also voted that Captain Spafford, Lieutenant Stevens and John Hastings be the committee to keep the fort in repair and take care that no person come to dwell in any of the houses within the fort but such as they, the committee, shall approve. The men who had houses in the fort were Captain Spafford, Lieutenant Stevens, Moses Willard and Lieutenant Witherby.
The fort was constructed in the manner of other forti- fications of the time, which were only intended to afford a defense against musketry. It covered about three-quarters of an acre. (History of Charlestown, Old No. 4, Rev. Henry H. Sanderson, 1876, pp. 14-52.)
DOVER
The second meeting house was built about 1654, on the summit of Nutter's Hill on Dover Neck. A stockade, or fort, was ordered built around the meeting house as the following town record shows :
"By ye sellecktmen ye 4th 5th mo (67) It is Agried with Capt. Coffin to Buld the forte about the metting house on Dover Neck, one hundred foot square with two Sconces of sixteen foote square, and all the timber to be twelve inches thick, and the wall to be eight foot high, with sells and Braces; and the sellektmen with the mellatory ofecers have agreed to pay him one hundred pounds in days workes, at 2 shillings 6 pence per day, and to all persons concerned in the worke, one day to help Rayse the worke at so many one day as he shall appoint."
The fortification was completed in some year before 1675. The upright timbers of the fort were set in the earth; at the northwest and southeast corners were the sconces, or projections, which were built higher than the palisade. (History of Dover, 1923, by John Scales, pp. 118, 120.)
Marjorie Sullivan Chapter, D. A. R., erected a face
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wall along the eastern side of the meeting house lot, in which they placed a bronze tablet giving the history of this site, and including the outline of the old fort.
EXETER
Great Fort: Mention is made of a "great fort" in the town records of Exeter, typed copy of the Second Book of Exeter Town Records, p. 35.
At a town meeting on the 20th of January, 1695, . . "ye magor part of ye Towne saw Cause to Erect ye sª hous (meeting house) one ye Hill betwene ye Grat fort & Natll ffoulshams barne and so it was parficted by a voat of ye freehoulders of ye towne att ye same meeting it was voated yt Capt Peter Coffing Samll Leauitt Moses Leauit Ware Chosen a Commity to a Gree with sutable persons to erect ye hous aboue mentioned and to make Report to ye towne of ye same."
FRANKLIN
The settlement of Salisbury, 1750, marked the begin- ning of the village which was to become Franklin. Twelve years later Andover and Northfield were established, and in 1764 the first settlers came to Sanbornton. The little group of villages, presenting a solid front to the wilder- ness, and protected by a small garrison in the fort, were relieved of the necessity of bending all their energies to self-preservation.
("Franklin, a Town, 1828, - a City, 1896." Article in Granite Monthly, 1923, Bound Vol., p. 153.)
GILMANTON
Block House: The site of the first block house, eighteen feet square of hewn logs, built by the proprietors, June, 1736, was a little west of the residence of Jeremiah Wil- son, Esq. This block house was named White Hall, and the rock which served as the fireplace at the original camp (of the builders) is yet to be seen. (History of Gilmanton, Daniel Lancaster, 1845, p. 39.)
Block House: The site of the second block house, four- teen feet square, built in June, 1736, was at the Wares (weirs) near the outlet of Lake Winnepesaukee. (p. 39.)
GROVETON
Fort Wentworth: The site of Fort Wentworth, built in 1755 by Rogers' Rangers on their famous expedition against the St. Francis Indians, was on the bank of the Connecticut River about half-way between the village of
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Northumberland and Groveton, near the mouth of the Am- monoosuc River, on the farm of Judson C. Potter (1937). In 1775, the fort was rebuilt by Captain Jeremiah Eames. (Mrs. G. W. Marshall.)
HAMPTON
On the 8th of July, 1689, following the Indian mas- sacres at Dover and Oyster River, the town of Hampton voted "that all those who were willing to make a fortifica- tion about the Meeting House, to secure themselves and their families from the violence of the heathen, should have free liberty to do it." A fortification was accordingly built, which, about three years afterward, the town voted to en- large so as to afford room "to build houses in it according to custom in other forts." How many houses were built is not known, but it was voted that a small house (14 by 16 feet) should be built there for the use of the minister, and when not occupied by him to serve as a school house. (His- tory of Hampton, Vol 1, p. 225, King William's War, 1689- 1693.)
KEENE
A fort was erected in Upper Ashuelot (Keene) in 1738. On the 23d of April, 1746, the town was attacked and all who could took refuge in the fort, and remained there for a year, their houses having been burned by the savages. The town was then abandoned for several years, the set- tlers returning in 1750-1752. (History and Description of New England, Coolidge & Mansfield, Boston, 1860, p. 539.)
As described in the Granite Monthly (Vol III, p. 549), this fort was ninety feet square, and contained two ovens and two wells. It was built of hewn logs. "In the interior, against the walls, were twenty barracks, each having one room. On the outside they were two stories high; on the inside but one, the roof over the barracks sloping inward. In the space above ... were loopholes. ... There were two watch-houses, one at the southeast corner and one on the western side, each erected on four high posts set upright in the earth. The whole was surrounded by pickets."
LYNDEBOROUGH (Salem - Canada)
Interrupting the building, or finishing of their meeting house, the inhabitants of Salem - Canada, in fear of being obliged to abandon their settlement on account of Indian attacks, petitioned, on June 26, 1744, "his Excellency Ben- ning Wentworth, Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Hampr", thus :
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"The petition of the Inhabitants of Salem - Canada in said Province, Humbly Shows.
"That your petitioners live in a place greatly exposed to the Indians and have not men Suffucuent to defend us, That tho' there be but few of us yet we have laid out our estates to begin in this place So that we shall be extremely hurt if we must now move off for we have there by the Bless- ing of God on our labors a fine crop of corn on the ground and tho' we have a Garrison in the Town Built by Order of Maj. Lovell yet we have nobody impowered so much as to set a watch among us nor men to keep it; we would therefore pray your Excellency that we may have some assistance from the Government in sending us some souldiers to Guard and Defend us as in your wisdom you shall think proper. Tho' we are but newly added to this Government yet we pray your Excellency not to disregard us but so to assist us that we may keep our estates and do service for the government hereafter & your Petitioners as in duty Bound shall ever pray. ... This petition was signed by eleven men, five by the name of Cram. (History of the Town of Lyndeborough, 1735-1905, Rev. D. Donovan and Jacob A. Woodward, p. 37.)
The above petition shows that there was an early fort, or garrison, built in the town of Lyndeborough.
MANCHESTER
A fort for protection of the inhabitants of Goff's Falls, then known as Moore's settlement, and for those residing at Amoskeag Falls, was built in 1746 by Lieutenant Archi- bald Stark, father of General John Stark. It stood about two miles from the City Hall in Manchester, west of the Londonderry Road at the outlet of Nutt Pond. The site of the fort and its well was marked by Molly Stark Chapter, D. A. R., in 1929. (Mrs. Arthur F. Wheat.)
NEW CASTLE
Fort William and Mary: Ordered built by the Governor and Council under royal orders in 1666. June 19, 1666, "At a general towne meeting for the better carrying out of the fortification at Fort Point, it was voted that every dweller and liver in the towne above sixteen years of age shall and do here promise to worke at the same one whole weeke betwixt this and the last day of October next en- suing." This old fort is now called Fort Constitution. (Brewster's Rambles, p. 336.)
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PETERBOROUGH
In a petition dated September 28, 1750, and addressed to the General Court assembled at Boston, the Proprietors and Inhabitants of a Township called Petterboro' Most Humbly Show that the said Township lyes exposed to the Indians it being a Frontier Town and but about Six Miles North from the line parting this Government and that of New Hampshire and Several Indians have appeared in said Township and last Sabbath day some of them broke open a house there and none of the family being at home Riffled the same and Carried off many things. And the Inhabi- tants are put in great fear and terror of their lives .. . and as the said Township is so Situated that if the inhabitants should leave it, Townsend, Hollis Lunenburg Leominster and Lancaster would be exposed to the Cruelty of the In- dians and would become an easy prey to them. . . . Your petners therefore most humbly pray Your Honours would be pleased to ... Allow them Liberty at the Charge of the Government to build Block houses or a Fort and supply them with fifteen or twenty men. (Quoted in N. H. As It Is, p. 344.)
STAR ISLAND, or GOSPORT
There existed for many years a small fort on the point of Star Island, commanding the harbor, on which were mounted two great guns. This fort had probably been con- structed and the guns placed on it about the year 1653, when an effort was made by the people of the Shoals, as well as those of the Piscataqua region, to fortify these places "against any forraine assaults that may be attempt- ed." After a neglect of almost forty years, the great guns still remained, but Captain Willy found them "without any platforme or carriage fitt to travis them on and without powder bullet or match." March 19, 1691-2, Captain Willy was stationed at Star Island with a company of forty sol- diers. During the war with the French and Indians, in 1745, the old fort at the point of Star Island was repaired and mounted with nine four-pounders. On the outbreak of the Revolution, and the dispersion of the Islanders, the fort was at last dismantled, and the guns sent to Newburyport, but the ruins of the ancient fortification are still (1873) discernible. (The Isles of Shoals, an Historical Sketch, John Scribner Jenness, 1873, pp. 123, 191-199.)
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STRATFORD
A boulder with bronze tablet marks the site of an In- dian trading post, and old fort, inscribed thus :
"Upon this site, 1768, was established the first Indian trading post upon the northern frontier. In 1775, a log fort was built upon the farm of James Brown by the first settlers upon the 'Bluffs' facing north on the Connecticut River."
(Mrs. John C. Hutchins.)
SUNCOOK
The General Court of New Hampshire soon ordered (after the Indian attack in 1747) a garrison of eight men to be stationed at Suncook for the protection of the inhabi- tants. Although the attacks of the Indians were less fre- quent, the government did not relax its efforts for defense, but sent out scouts and reinforced garrisons. Ebenezer Eastman had a company of fifteen men on duty at Penna- cook in the winter of 1747-48, and Captain Moses Foster had a company of twenty-six men guarding the fortress at Suncook in 1753. (Bow in the History of Belknap and Merrimack Counties, Hurd, p. 268.)
See short sketch of the Indian attack upon Robert Buntin and his son, Andrew, and James Carr, - same page.
WALPOLE
Colonel Benjamin Bellows erected his house in Walpole in 1752, and brought there his wife and five children in 1753. It was built sufficiently strong for defense and was shaped like the letter L, being about one hundred feet in the arms and twenty feet broad, of heavy logs and earth and surrounded by a palisade. The site was near the spot where, in 1885, stood Thomas Bellows's horse-barn, a little north of his dwelling.
Colonel Bellows drew men and supplies for his fort at the public expense. His fort had been, with others in the chain of defenses, supplied with a heavy iron cannon by the royal government for public protection. He had also caused a lookout to be constructed from the top of his fort into the forks of a large elm standing near by, which com- manded an extensive view in all directions. There was also another fort on the river bank, west of Mrs. Joseph Wells's residence, to protect the settlers in going back and forth from the upper part of Westminster which was settled early. (Walpole, As It Was and As It Is, 1749-1879, George Aldrich, pp. 18, 23.)
INDIAN FORTS
It is interesting to find that the Indians had at different times built defenses to protect themselves against hostile tribes.
HINSDALE
The remnants of fortification, erected anterior to the settlement of the town, may be seen on a point of a hill a short distance from the Connecticut River. A deep trench, extending to the river, divides the site of the fort from the plain at its back, and would prove a very strong obstacle to an enemy in case of attack. (His- tory and Description of New England, p. 528.)
OSSIPEE
Near Ossipee Ponds, . . . the Indians had a strong fort of timber fourteen feet high, with flankarts, which they had a few years before (before 1676) hired some English carpenters to build for them, as a defense against the Mohawks, of whom they were always afraid. (History of New Hampshire, Jeremy Belknap, p. 77.)
SANBORNTON
At the head of Little Bay are still to be seen the remains of an ancient fortification. It consisted of six walls, - one extending along the river and across a point of land into the bay, and the others in right angles, con- nected by a circular wall in the rear. Within the fort have been found numerous Indian relics, such as imple- ments of war, husbandry, cooking utensils, &c. When the first settlers of Sanbornton arrived, these walls were breast high, and within the enclosure large oaks were growing. (New Hampshire As It Is, Edwin A. Charlton, 1857, p. 380.)
INDEX
The names listed below, of builders or occupants, are those by which the garri- sons were known. The towns appear alphabetically in the text, under their modern names.
Page
Page
Abbot, Benjamin 14
Copp
47
Abbot, Edward
13
Cummings 40
Abbot, George
13
Cutt, President John 46
Adams, Charles
21
Alexander 53
Dam, John 43.
Ames, Daniel 41
Damme-Drew 18
Daniels, David .38
Davis, David 26
26
Barker 50
Barr, Samuel 15
Beard, William
20
Beck, Henry .46
Bellows, Colonel Benjamin .62
Berry, William 48
Bickford, Thomas 22
Downing, John
42
Blodgett, Joseph 36
Bridgman, Orlando. .33
Brown, James .62
Bunker, James
22
Dudley, Stephen 10
Burnham, Robert 22
Dunstable, see Nashua and Pelham
Durgin, William 23
Call, Philip 30
Cate, William 9
Chadbourne, William 46
Chesley, George .26
Chesley, Jonathan 25
Chesley, Joseph. 25
Chesley, Philip .25
Chesley, Captain Samuel 25
Clark, Abraham .38
Coffin, Captain Peter .17
Coffin, Tristram 17
Colburn, William
.40
Cooper, Robert 33
Eastman, Captain Ebenezer 13
Eastman, Jonathan 13.
Edgerly, Thomas 23
Evans, John. 38
Evans, John.
33
Farnum, Barachias 12
Field, Zacharias 19
Flagg, Eleazer 34
Fletcher, Captain Robert 36
Folsom, Jeremiah
41
Forts, Indian
63
Forts, Provincial and Proprietary .55
20.
Dearborn, John
44
Dearborn
51
DeMerritt, Eli.
38
Derryfield, see Manchester
60.
Doe-Fox
37
Drew, see Damme
Drew, William.
23
Dudley, Nicholas
10.
Butler, John 45
59
Ashuelot, Upper, see Keene
Ayer, Captain Ebenezer 50
Davis, Jabez
Davis, James
Page
Fox, see Doe
Furber, Lieutenant William 42
Galusha
40
Garland, John 49
Garrisons, un-named, in: Amherst, Bed- ford, Derry, Epping, Ep som, Newfields, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Swanzey.
Gault, Samuel
34
Gerrish, Captain John
18
Gerrish, Captain Paul 38
Gilman, Councilor John 28
Goddard, John
24
Goffe, John
9
Goodwin 47
Gove
50
Graves, William 11
Green, Stephen
36
Gregg, Captain James
15
Hall, Captain Edward
41
Hall, Joseph. 13
Hammond, Captain Nathaniel 51
Harrison, Nicholas 42
Harwood
40
Hayes, John. 19
Heard, Captain John 16
Hill, Valentine 24
Hills, Benjamin
11
Hills, Nathaniel
.35
Hinsdell, Rev. Ebenezer 33
Hilton, Colonel Edward 42
Hilton, Captain William 41
Huckins (Huggins), James
20
Hunking, Captain Mark
9
Johnston, Colonel Charles.
32
Jones 37
Jones, Stephen 26
Kilbourn, John
52
Kimball, Lieutenant Aaron.
35
Lawrence, David
27
Locke, John
48
Londonderry, see Derry
Longfellow, Jonathan 15
Page
Lovejoy, Henry 13
Lund, Thomas. 40
Main, Rev. Amos 47
Marshall, Henry 10
Mathes
24
McClary, Captain Andrew 27
McGregor, Rev. James 15
Meader, Captain John 24
Meserve 19
Meserve, Daniel 39
Monson, see Milford
45
Moore, James
Morse, Peter
30
Newichwannoc
47
Norton, Bonus
32
Nottingham West, see Hudson
Number Four
56
Nutter, Anthony
42
Osgood, James.
13
Otis, Richard
16
Peabody, William
39
Peaslee, Daniel
49
Penacook, see Concord
Pendergast
25
Philbrick, Thomas
.31
Pike, Rev. James
48
Pinkham, Richard
18
Portsmouth Plains
46
Prescott, James
32
Putney, John
.35
Putney, Samuel
35
Queen's
40
Rand, John
25
Randall, Captain Nathaniel
37
Rawlins (Rollins)
47
Rollins, Aaron
42
Salem-Canada, see Lyndeboro
Salisbury, see Franklin
Sanborn, Richard .
27
Sanborn, Ensign Tristram.
37
Page
Sanborn, William, see Philbrick
Sartwell, Josiah 33
Sewall, Edward 29
Shattuck, Danie !. 33
Sleeper, Aaron 36
Sligo, Garrison 47
Smith, Captain John 43
Solendine, John 40
Souhegan West, see Milford
Squamanagonic
47
Stark, Archibald 60
Stickney, Lieutenant Jeremiah.
13
Tasker, William 39
Taylor, Edward, see Rollins
Taylor, John
36
Tebbets
47
Thompson, David, Great House 4.5
Tibbetts 18
Tilton, Daniel 32
Tolford, Major John
11
Toppan, see Wingate
Page
Torr. Benedictus 18
Tozier, Richard 50
Twombly, William 39
Walderne (Waldron), Major Richard 16
Walker, Robert 8
Walker, Rev. Timothy 12
Walker, Timothy, Jr. 13
Weld, Rev. Thomas 40
Wentworth, Ezekiel
20
Wentworth, Richard 17
Wentworth, Rev. William 17
Whiting 41
Whittemore, Rev. Aaron 45
Willard
53
Wingate-Toppan 31
Woodburn 14
Woodman, Captain John 24
Woodman, Joshua 27
Woodwell, David 35
Young, Daniel 29
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