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Literary treatment of the region under scrutiny needed to be reviewed, either for history or for the usages it might contain or suggest, but this literature is not large except for the White Mountains, which are not within Tamworth's boundaries. Frank Bolles, our own Chocorua resident and nature writer, left three titles which are pertinent (all Hough- ton Mifflin in the nineties). These are At the North of Bear- camp Water, Land of the Lingering Snow, and Chocorua's Tenants (Chocorua's tenants are birds). Later came Cor- nelius Weygandt's three: The White Hills (Holt, 1934), New Hampshire Neighbors (Holt, 1937), and The Heart of New Hampshire (Putnam's, 1944). LeGrand Cannon Jr.'s Look to the Mountain (Holt, 1942) was laid in the Chocorua region. Ernest Poole's The Great White Hills of New Hamp- shire (Doubleday, 1946), a very gusty source book, and his The Nancy Flyer (Crowell, 1949) for the stagecoach period, were of definite help; also George Woodbury's John Goffe's Mill (Norton, 1948) for mill information. Here should be
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included for early Wonalancet history Arthur T. Walden's Leading a Dog's Life (Houghton Mifflin, 1931).
For the South Tamworth region the poet Whittier must be read, and a modicum of Lucy Larcom. Musgrove's an- thology The White Hills in Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 1912) covers the early ground pretty well. Of the very few memoirs, printed diaries or accounts of limited periods, first in import- ance for this work was the Memoir of Rev. Samuel Hidden, by E. C. Cogswell (Crocker and Gilman, Boston, 1842). Next perhaps comes Albert Boyden's study of his family and Stevenson Hill called Here and There in the Family Tree (privately printed, 1949). The Vittum Folks, by Edmund Vittum, has Tamworth interest as well as Sandwich; also A Crosby Family, by Nathan Crosby, has Tamworth lights in it. Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Little America (Putnam's, 1930) is essential to the sled-dog lore. Emma Cogswell's diary and one written by one Benjamin Chase who was not of Tam- worth were avidly seized upon for the light they shed upon their periods respectively.
Secondary books of various sorts that offered some value to this project were such as Customs and Fashions in Old New England (Scribner, 1894), by Alice Morse Earle, and her Home Life in Colonial Days; Stagecoach North (Macmillan, 1941), by Lee W. Storrs; Colonial Meeting-Houses of Amer- ica, by Eva A. Speare, and in collaboration New Hampshire Folk Tales, 1932; Hands that Made New Hampshire (Ste- phen Daye Press, 1940), a New Hampshire Writers' Project; the excellent Treasury of New England Folklore (Crown Pub- lishers, 1947) ; Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont, by Francis Chase ( Claremont, 1956) ; and lastly the gory Indian book beloved in our fathers' youth Our Pioneer Heroes and Daring Deeds, by D. M. Kel- sey (Pelton, 1883).
For method town histories were read. These vary very much in usefulness. Those from which help or suggestion of one kind and another could be profitably had were Allen
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Chamberlain's The Annals of the Grand Monadnock (Con- cord, 1936) ; Pigwacket, by George Hill Evans (Conway, 1939); History of Wolfeborough, by Benjamin F. Parker (1891); J. D. Squires's Mirror to America (New London, 1952) ; A Town that Went to Sea, by Aubigne Lermond Pack- ard (Falmouth House, 1950) ; and some in pamphlet form. A most useful book was Vermont Tradition, by Dorothy Can- field Fisher (Little Brown, 1953), if only pointing up the dis- tinctions between Vermont history and New Hampshire's. And the education deeply seated in Sarah Orne Jewett's work, especially The Country of the Pointed Firs, or in the Patten Diary, and hardly less in a privately circulated pamphlet The Legacy of Folklore where William Gould Vinal is interpreting old diaries of Scituate (1955), must not be overlooked.
Five large black cloth library boxes hold the accumulated magazines with articles pertinent to the subject, Appalachia, The Troubadour, the Granite Monthly, White Mountain Life (long extinct monthly devoted to social life, published from Littleton) ; Tamworth Town Reports; publications of the New Hampshire Historical Society; the admirable bulletins of the Sandwich Historical Society; the now scarce 1946 Annual Report of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, con- taining the C. F. Harte monograph concerning the Hudson River chains; also photographs, family and house histories, special correspondence, Old Home Week booklets, Fair book- ets, state advertising publications, programs, posters, and the like, pertaining definitely to Tamworth. A card index of some 1,600 items has been compiled for this work.
Seven large looseleaf books gathered for the purpose contain :
1. Oral interviews with those of the elder memories available in the region - what Belknap calls "the verbal in- formation of aged and intelligent persons" - nearly eighty of these put into typescript, and perhaps the most continuous support the project has had; 2. a very crowded book of clip- pings; 3 & 4. historical data and informal matter of many
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kinds gathered and preserved from every source stumbled upon in the survey; 5. a digest made of James Welch's unpublished reminiscences; 6. a book of Chocorua recollections gathered by William James; 7. a typed transcription of the entire first volume of Tamworth town records of the years from the charter 1766 to 1804, a long labor contributed by Lilian Mc- Grew and under constant reference.
In addition the town of Tamworth or the Tamworth Historical Society possesses the following manuscript books: all early town records from the beginning written by hand in the original cowhide ledger books; the record book of the original Social Library with Constitution, set up in 1796 in Reverend Samuel Hidden's handwriting (gift of Mr. Cor- nelius Weygandt) ; the record book of the Town Liquor Agent 1855-1857; the Tamworth Temperance Society book 1830 to 1849; the Chocorua Social Circle book 1858 to 1874 (found in a partition in an old house) ; the daybook of Mer- rill Brothers' store at Tamworth Iron Works 1845 to 1847; daybooks of Joseph Gilman, Wyatt Gilman the shoemaker, and Bradbury & Beede, from Forrest Ayer's attic; most of the school reports from the beginning; and a growing collection of family papers, notes, genealogies, etc., which it is hoped will be built into a permanent department of the Historical Museum.
Besides such sources as these, information has dripped into the writer's office like gutter-drops into a rain barrel: "You know how that ell got moved off?" "I'll tell you some- thing; Christine Nilsson sang here once, I heard her." By mail: "I found the enclosed account of Civil War times, thought you might like it"; by solicitation: "Haven't you got old papers in your attic we could see?," a source still only partially tapped; by visits: "My name is John Smith, I heard you were interested in history. I don't live here but my folks first came here in 1810"- what a warm welcome meets the John Smiths !
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It is too late to recover riches that might have been mined by beginning twenty or thirty years ago, even ten years ago. In all interviews the first response has been usually, "You should have asked my father; I've heard him tell plenty of times but now it's all gone from me." A book written a gene- ration ago, however, would have had to be two or three times as full, and the goal, a small book, harder to attain even than now. Better on the whole to put out what account we can, regardless of errors and incompleteness, while some frail con- nection remains with earlier witnesses.
No one can be more aware of errors and incompleteness than the writer. When no further sources or memories can be found to consult, and there is still some conflict in narra- tives, a compiler must sometimes fall back on his own judg- ment among alternatives. There will always be readers to say "I heard it different." Their version may always be right. Where there is doubt we must hope for tolerance.
It would be difficult to cite by name all who have helped toward creation of this volume. The idea of any book on Tamworth's life or its times waited to be kindled by Professor Norman H. Dawes, to whom the author owes much gratitude for giving the manuscript his careful attention from its begin- ning. The Tamworth Historical Society has stood behind the enterprise and kindly lent its ear to occasional readings from the text in first draft. A small advisory committee has given help. Through kind librarians, volunteers as reading parties have combed the files of the Granite Monthly in the Laconia Library and the Carroll County Independent in the Conway Library. At the New Hampshire Historical Library in Con- cord which holds some early Tamworth records, notably of the Congregational Church, reading and copying with type- writer have been oblingingly facilitated. Mr. Philip N. Guyol, director of that institution, has twice given his time to come up to talk with us, and valuably advised the infant project. Miss Charlotte Conover, the librarian there, has also clarified
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important points. Neither of these officers are to be held re- sponsible, however, for anything which appears here.
The bulk of the personal interviewing was shared by Lilian McGrew who made the notes and the typescripts there- from. The amateur historian was relieved of the main labor of setting up the files and locating elusive items by Eleanor Ripley who volunteered as research assistant over a long period; without this invaluable aid the book itself would have dragged disastrously.
Acknowledgments are due to James Welch for permis- sion to quote from his unpublished memoirs; to Professor Louise Hall of Duke University for photostatic maps and special researches in Washington; to Marian Greene Barney for preparing the 1775 survey map; to Thomas and Ida Leary for much volunteer typing; also to Francis Cleveland for de- tailed attention to matters of photography. Lastly thanks go to John Finley Jr. and to Earle Remick, who have each read and advised on the manuscript as a whole.
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Tamworth's Charter
[TAMWORTH CHARTER, 1766.]
*Province of New-Hampshire. *3-146
GEORGE THE THIRD,
Tamworth
P. S.
By the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith &c.
To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.
KNOW YE, that We of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and meer Motion, for the due Encouragement of settling a New Plantation within our said Province, by and with the Advice of our Trusty and Well-beloved BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, in New-England, and of Our COUNCIL of the said Province; HAVE upon the Conditions and Reservations here- in after made, given and granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, do give and grant in equal Shares, unto Our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New-Hampshire, and Our other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever, whose Names are entred on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into Sixty Eight equal Shares, all that Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said Province of New-Hampshire, containing by Admeasure- ment, Twenty three Thousand & Forty Acres, which Tract is to contain Six Miles square, and no more; out of which an Allowance is to be made for High Ways and unimprovable Lands by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers, One Thousand and Forty Acres free, according to a Plan and Survey thereof, made by Our said Governor's Order, and returned into the Secretary's Office, and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, Viz. Beginning at the Easterly side Line of that Tract of Land granted as Addition to the Township of Sandwich at the place on ye said Line where the Head or western side Line of Mason's Patent, so Call'd, intersects the said Line of the said Additional Grant to Sandwich, & from thence runs Easterly by ye aforesd Patent Line, six miles thence No Six miles, then turning of at right Angles & runing West abt five miles & an half mile till it Comes to the Easterly side Line of Sandwich Addition aforesd or to a line Extended No of the said Easterly side Line of Sand-
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wich Addition aforesd, then runing So by Sandwich Addition aforesd to the place began at. And that the same be, and hereby is Incorporated into a Township by the Name of Tamworth And the Inhabitants that do or shall heareafter inhabit the said Town- ship, are hereby declared to be Enfranchized with and Intitled to all and every the Priviledges and Immunities that other Towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy: And furth- er, that the said Town as soon as there shall be Fifty Families resident and settled thereon, shall have the Liberty of holding two Fairs, one of which shall be held on the And the other on the annually, which Fairs are not to
continue longer than the respective following the said
and that as soon as the Town shall
*3-147 consist of Fifty Families, a Market may be *opened and
kept one or more Days in each Week, as may be thought most advantagious to the Inhabitants. Also, that the first Meet- ing for the Choice of Town Officers, agreable to the Laws of our said Province, shall be held on the First Tuesday in Novemr next which said Meeting shall be Notified by Collo Andrew Todd Esqr who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting, which he is to Notify and Govern agreable to the Laws and Customs of Our said Province; and that the annual Meeting for ever hereafter for the Choice of such Officers for the said Town, shall be on the Second Tuesday of March annually, To HAVE and to HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, upon the following Conditions, viz.
1. That every Grantee, his Heirs or Assigns shall plant and cultivate five Acres of Land within the Term of five Years for every fifty Acres contained in his or their Share or Proportion of Land in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional Cultivations, on Penalty of the Forfeiture of his Grant or Share in the said Township, and of its reverting to Us, our Heirs and Successors, to be by Us or them Re-granted to such of our Subjects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same.
II. That all white and other Pine Trees within the said
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Township, fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully pre- served for that Use, and none to be cut or felled without Our special Licence for so doing first had and obtained, upon the Penalty of the Forfeiture of the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, to Us, our Heirs and Successors, as well as being subject to the Penalty of any Act or Acts of Parliament that now are, or hereafter shall be Enacted.
III. That before any Division of the Land be made to and among the Grantees, a Tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee of the Contents of one Acre.
IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us, our Heirs and Successors for the Space of ten Years, to be computed from the Date hereof, the Rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the twenty-fifth Day of December annually, if lawfully demanded, the first Payment to be made on the twenty-fifth day of Decem- ber. 1767
V. Every Proprietor, Settler or Inhabitant, shall yield and pay unto Us, our Heirs and Successors yearly, and every Year forever, from and after the Expiration of ten Years from the abovesaid twenty-fifth Day of December, namely, on the twenty- fifth Day of December, which will be in the Year of Our Lord 1777 One shilling Proclamation Money for every Hundred Acres he so owns, settles or possesses, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Tract of the said Land; which Money shall be paid by the respective Persons abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same; and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and Services whatsoever.
In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq; Our Governor and Commander in Chief of Our said Province, the 14th Day of October In the Year of our Lord CHRIST, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Six And in the Sixth Year of Our Reign. B'Wentworth-
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By His EXCELLENCY's Command, With Advice of COUNCIL
T: Atkinson jr Secr'y
Province of New Hampshire Octor 14th 1766
Recorded according to the Original Pattent under the Prov- T Atkinson Jun Secry
ince Seal
*3-148 *Names of the Grantees of Tamworth.
Lieut. Jno Webster
Jona Merrill
Willm Coffin
James Cochran
Jno Cochran
Rt Barnett
Enoch Webster
Saml Cochran
Jno Kimball
Jas Cochran Junr
Alexander Lessly
Jno Noyes Esqr
Jno Merrill Stephen Holland
Thos Wallis
George Abbitt
Abel Lovejoy
Robt Rogers jr
Willm Rogers
Joseph Emery
Moses Coffin
Jno Moore
Jona Cochran
Phineas Virgin
Andw McMillan
Moses Barnett
Saml Dickey
Saml Osgood
Jas Wallis
Jo Barnet Jr
Jas Osgood
Abel Chandler
Jno Webster Esqr
Willm Cochran
Timy Walker jr
Jas Dwyer Enoch Coffin
Jona Stickney
Jno Davison
Israel Gilman
Thos Stickney
Hamilton Davison
Saml Gilman
Josiah Miles
Jona Morrison
Colo Todd
Joseph Hall Junr
Thos Clough
Lt Colo Barr
Saml Moore
Jas Head The Honble George Jaffrey
Danl Stickney
Wm Bryent jr Esqr Danl Rindge
Esqrs
Walter Bryent Esqr
Peter Coffin
Jona Warner
Joshua Abbott
Robt Fulton
Jacob Fowler
Jno Webster Junr
Isaac Cochran
His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr a Tract of Land to Contain Five hundred Acres as mark'd B W in the plan which is to be accounted Two of the within Shares. One whole Share for the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts, one share for a Glebe for the Church of Eng- land as by Law Establishd. One share for the first settled Minis- ter of the Gospel & one share for the benefit of a school in said Town for Ever-
Province of New Hampshire Octr 14th 1766-
Recorded from the back of the Original Charter for Tam- worth under the province Seal .--- T Atkinson Jun Secry-
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West abt five + an Quarter
Part of Sandwich
Sandwich Addition
South by Sandwich Addition
Plan of Tamworth 23,040 Acres
North Six miles
BW
Easterly Six miles from Sandwh
the supposed Head Line of Mason's Patent
Province of New Hampshire Octr 14th 1766 Copy of the Plan taken from the back of the Charter of Tam- worth under the Province Seal. T Atkinson Jun Secry
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INDEX
A
Ames, Elder Charles Gordon, 217 apple-bees, 152, 176
Aunt Head, 215-16
B
Baker, Prof. George P., 226 Baptist Church: founding, 215-17
Barnstormers Theatre, 137, 297-99
barter: account-book described, 75; typical farmers' daybooks, 214
bartering: exchange values discussed, 74-75; examples, 135-36
Bartlett & Son: rake mill, 168-69 Bearcamp River: logging on, 167-68 bear: trapping of, 138-39; John San- born's method in trapping, 271
Belknap, Jeremy: description New Hampshire virtues, 2; comment on Indian plague deaths, 19; error in prophecy, 66-67
Benevolent Association, 219-21
Bennett, Charlie: memories of Dicey's Mills, 125
Berry Harry, 168
Biblical and Literary Institute: first Baptist seminary New England, 163 Birch Intervale, 15. See Wonalancet Birch Intervale School, 242-43
blacksmiths: Arthur Page last one, 65; plentiful in past, 70; Tamworth village, 124; few records left, 134; South Tamworth, 172
Blaisdell, Jacob: head Eaton group boundary petition (1796), 40; char- ter member Social Library, 114; founder Tamworth Iron Works, 202, 203
Bolles, Frank: influential in naming Chocorua community, 210; poet, naturalist, 225-26
boundary : disputes, 48-53; final changes Tamworth, 53. See peti- tions
Bowditch family: story of establish- ment in Chocorua, 223
Bowditch-Runnells State Forest, 223- 24
Bowl, The: preservation source of concern to Tamworth, 248; Gov- ernment purchase, 250
Boyden, Albert: reminiscence of Dur- gin's Mill, 130
Boyden, Dr. Joseph: helpless against spotted fever, 83, 84; charter mem- ber Social Library, 114; avid reader, 116, 191
Boyden, Dr. Wyatt: first Tamworth graduate Dartmouth, 192
Boyden, John: unusual person, 193
Boyden, Roland: "the Great," 194-95
Boyden, William C., 192, 193
Bradley, John: affidavit by, re Tam- worth lines, 50-51, 60
Brick School: Henry Hodgkins, teacher, 159-60; most distinguished, 163-64. See Village District School Brown, George Washington, 280-82 Bryant, Walter: early settler, 60, 66; rule of thumb for currency prob- lems, 75; his daybook (1790's), 76; descendants' battle-cry, 180
Butler's Bridge: how named, 170
Butler's Bridge District school: 1865 report, 154
Byrd, Admiral: comments on Arthur Walden, 259-60; story of Chinook's death, 260-61; memorial, 267
C
Campbell, Cornelius: and Chocorua, 17
carding mills, 133
Carrigain, Philip: handwriting, state documents, 42; mountain named for, 45
Carroll County Kennel Club, 267 Carroll County Timber Cooperative, 299-301
Carter, Locreta: first caretaker Tam- worth meetinghouse, 91
Catholic Church, 275
cattle drives: trading, 71; crews, 71
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cemeteries: burial ground laid out by Ann Elizabeth Jewell, 252; private, 283; town, 284
Central Temperance Society. See Tamworth Temperance Society Chandler, Abiel: original surveyor of Tamworth, 50, 60
Chapel at Wonalancet: restored by volunteer labor, 241
Chinook: lead dog, 257-58, 259; death of, 260-61
Chinook Kennels: inauguration, 257; training base for Antarctic expedi- tion dogs, 259, 265-66, 267; bought by Milton Seeley, 262; carried on by Mrs. Seeley, 267
Chinook Trail: naming of, 261
Chinook trophy: memorial to Arthur Walden, 264
Choate, Jonathan: one of four first Tamworth settlers, 64
Chocorua: family names associated with, 64; writers and professional men of distinction in, 227-29. See also Tamworth Iron Works
Chocorua (Sachem) legend, 16-19 Chocorua Cornet Band, 221 Chocorua Grange, 301-02
Chocorua Library, 230-31
Chocorua Mountain Club, 230, 253
Chocorua Tennis Association, 310
cider: the universal drink, 211
Civilian Conservation Corps: work accomplished by, 282-83 Civil War, 290-91
Clarke homestead, 277
clearing acreage: methods, 67-68
Cleveland-Finley families, 196, 199
Cogswell, Thomas: head of Tam- worth group, boundary petition (1796), 40-41
Cogswell family from Gilmanton, 66
Cogswell homestead: Joseph, last owner of, a kindly man, 278
Cold River District school: 1865 re- port, 157-58
committee (1792) to inform Parson Hidden ministry offer: fifteen mem- bers listed, 86-87
Concord coaches, 172-74
Congregational Church, 91-94
conservation: none in early days, 15; ignorance concerning, 67, 68; none, cutting mast pine, 71; lack of, fatal to white pine stands, 73; Bowditch- Runnells State Forest, 223-24; idea
of regarded with scorn, 247; Weeks Act, 248; Wonalancet watershed preserved, 249-50; Hemenway Res- ervation, 277
Cook District school: 1865 report, 158 Cook Library: Larkin Mason dedica-
tion speech, 116; maintenance, 117. See Social Library
country store social center, 133
Crosby, Dr. Asa, 91
Crosby, Nathan: bartering system described by, 75
Crothers, Dr. Samuel McCord, 226- 27
Cummings, Elmer: tells of Paugus Mills, 126-27
cures, early: for cancer, 83; for drop- sey, 83
Currier, Benjamin: house crossed boundary line, 240
Currier, Captain John: and whipping post, 239-40; and elephant, 240
Currier: family name associated with Wonalancet, 64
Currier, Hi: influence of, on Arthur Walden, 240-41
Currier, Roland: tells of Paugus Mills, 125
D
Dicey's Mills, 124-25
dissenting statement: re final vote Tamworth meetinghouse site, 90
district schools: brief statement of each from 1865 report, 154-55, 156- 57
divorce: curious vote of 1841 con- cerning, 82
doctors in Tamworth, 84
Dodge, Captain George: on commit- tee to Parson Hidden (1792), 87; his land proposed site for meeting- house, 88; caretaker Tamworth meetinghouse (1805), 91; first chaise in town, 94; original member So- cial Library, 114
Dodge, Mrs. George: prime mover Female Cent Society, 94
dog races, 257-58 "Donations," 219
Downs District school: 1865 report, 157
Drew, Emma: affectionately remem- bered, 160 drovers: cattle, 70, 71
328
Dudley, Captain John: report on road built by, 29, 30; land speculator, 31; letters to Proprietors, 31-34
E
East Bridgewater, Mass .: parent town early settlers, 66
Eastman, William: one of selectmen (1778) complaining to General Court, 40; first permanent settler in Tamworth, 64; hog reeve and con- stable, 78; on committee to Parson Hidden (1792), 87; his land pro- posed site for meetinghouse, 88; caretaker for meetinghouse, 91 electricity at Chocorua, 211
Elwell, John: mill owner, 130; black- smith shop, 130; struggle with ele- ments, 130-31; introduced circular saw, 132; teaming business, 132; danced clogs, 133
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