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13. Robert Peaslee, .
14. Joseph Parker, 5
28. Nathaniel Peaslee, 3
All the foregoing lots are numbered from the upper end down Merrimack river.
4. LOWEST INTERVAL-ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER.
Lots numbered from the town line up Merrimack river.
NO.
ACRES. NO. ACRES
1. Nathaniel Peaslee, 43 4
2. Joseph Hall, 43
4
18. Ammi Ruh Wise, 21,
43 3. Nicholas White, 19. Thomas Blanchard, 4
4. Jonathan Pulsipher, 43 4
5. Obadiah Aver, . 43 21. Isaac Walker,
6. Nathaniel Clement, 43%
4
23. Joseph Page,
24. Nathaniel Sanders,
25. John Wright,
4
26. Nathaniel Page,
Zachariah
11. John Osgood, 5
12. Joseph Hale, . 21
13. John Peabody, 215
14. Edward Winn, 215
15. Josiah Jones, 216
16. Joshua Bayley, .
21
31. John Merrill, . 5
N. B. There is to run a drift-way of three rods through the westerly end of the thirty-one lots last mentioned, as nigh to Merrimack river as may be with convenience.
5. RATTLE-SNAKE PLAINS.
These lots are numbered up Merrimack river.
NO. ACRES. NO.
ACRES.
1. David Dodge, . 5 5. Jacob Abbott, 5
2. Samuel Toppan, . 5
6. William Whittier, 5
3. Christopher Carlton, 5
7. Thomas Page, . 5
4. Nehemiah Carlton, 8. John Austin, .
4
4
22. Nathan Simons,
7. William White, . 437
4
8. Benjamin Gage, 43 4
9. Richard Hazzen, Jr., 4.
10. Ephraim Hildreth, 43
27. Nathan Fisk, alias Chandler, 5
28. Solomon Martin, 5
29. Samuel Kemball, . 5
30. William Gutterson, 5
7. John Jagnes, 21
8. Benjamin Carlton, 21
9. Andrew Mitchell, 21
17. Jonathan Hubbard,.
20. Moses Hazzen, 22222
12. James Parker, . 5
5 27. Joseph Hall, 3
5
1. Benjamin Niceolls, . 3 9. Ephraim Davis,
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PROPRIETARY RECORDS.
ACRES
9. Henry Rolfe, . 4
10. Benjamin Parker, 4 14. James Simons, . 2
21 11. Thomas Perley, for Nathaniel 15. Robert Kimball, Cogswell, 4 16. Joseph Davis, 21.
12. Samuel Jones, 4 |17. Richard Urann,
3
N. B. There is allowance in these lots for a highway to run through them till it comes to Urann's lot.
6. DIVISION AT " FROG PONDS."
ACRES. NO.
ACRES.
NO.
1. Enoch Coffin, 5 9. Moses Hazzen,
(?)
2. Samuel Phillips, . 5 10. Thomas Blanchard,
3. Nathaniel Page, 21 11. Ammi Ruh Wise, 21.
4. John Wright, . 2 1. 12. Jonathan Hubbard, 21 ..
5. Nathaniel Sanders, 91 13. Joshua Bayley, 215
6. Nathan Simons, . 1 14. Josiah Jones, 1
7. Joseph Page,
15. Edward Winn,
222
Laid ont to Nathaniel Abbot, " all that swamp betwixt his first division of interval and Merrimack river, containing one acre and a quarter, more or less."
To Joseph Hale, two acres of swamp adjoining Abbot's.
To David Wood, one acre of swamp adjoining Hale's.
To Benjamin Niccolls, one acre of swamp adjoining Wood's.
To Jolin Austin, one acre of swamp adjoining Niccolls'.
To Ebenezer Stevens, four and a half aeres of land, bounded on Benjamin Parker's lot, on one side, and Horse-shoe Pond and the brook that runs out of it, on the other.
To William Barker, all that land lying betwixt the highway that runs by his interval lot, and the brook that runs through Horse-shoe Pond, containing thirty- five poles, more or less.
To Ebenezer Virgin, the land betwixt his first division of interval and the brook that runs out of Horse-shoe Pond - forty poles.
To Timothy Johnson, the land lying betwixt his first division of interval and Horse-shoe Pond brook - one acre and a half.
EXPLANATION OF THE "TWENTY ACRES" DIVISION.
This division of land was made between the 14th of September, 1732, and the 18th of June, 1734, agreeable to a vote of the proprietors, " according to our best judgment," by Ebenezer Eastman, John Chandler, Jeremiah Stickney, Jo- seph Eastman, Edward Abbott, Benjamin Rolfe, committee.
No plan has been preserved of this division. The lots were laid off in differ- ent parts of the township. The original bounds are recorded in the Proprietors' Records, Vol. II., but only a part of them can at the present time be recognized by the description there given. Ten twenty acre lots were laid off north of what was called the Contoocook [Boscawen] road -extending from the north end of Main street into the neighborhood of the West Village. Ten more were laid off on the Hopkinton road, in the vicinity of the new jail, westward, beyond the monument. Several were laid off west of the " second range," on Main street. In many cases, however, the original lots are known only by tradition, and by records of conveyances, &c.
NO.
ACRES. NO. 13. Thomas Larned, . 216
8. Isaac Walker,
16. John Peabody, .
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THIE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
"EMENDATION LOTS."
These lots were laid out in different quantities, and frequently in different seetions, in order " to make the interval lots belonging to the proprietors equat as to quantity and quality." The bounds are recorded in Proprietors' Records, Vol. II., but must be recognized mainly, at this time, by family tradition, and by written conveyances. This division was made between the 14th of November, 1732, and the Ist of December, 1734, by vote of the proprietors, and " according to our best judgment," by Ebenezer Eastman, Abraham Bradley, Joseph East- man, committee.
"EIGHTY ACRES DIVISION."
A division of common and undivided land was ordered (14th of March, 1736,) to be made to the several grantees, "as large as the committee shall think the good land will allow of" -to be laid out in one or more pieces. This is called the " eighty acres " division, though the lots varied from eighty acres to one hundred and fifty, or even more, according to quality. The lots were laid off, in many cases, in different pieces, remote from each other. Plans of these lots are preserved among the Proprietors' Records, Vol. III., with the roads and drift-ways reserved which ran through them. The division was made by Benja- min Rolfe and John Chandler, committee.
Special grants of land were made as follows :
To Nathan Simonds -mill grant, one hundred acres, on the east side of the river.
To Cutting Noyes, for doing blacksmith work, forty acres, on the cast side of the river, and ten acres on the west side, opposite Lot No. 23, first range of house lots.
To Henry Lovejoy and Barachias Farnum -mill grant on Turkey river - one hundred and forty acres.
To Col. John Wainwright, for services as clerk, one hundred acres.
To John Merrill, for keeping ferry, twenty acres.
No. 2.
THE STATE AND CONDITION OF THE SETTLEMENT
IN OCTOBER, 1731.
[COPIED, ALPHABETICALLY, FROM THE ORIGINAL REPORT.]
NATHANIEL ABBOT. He had a house built and his family there.
JACOB ABBOT. He had a house built and inhabited.
JOHN AUSTIN. IIe had a house built and inhabited.
SAMUEL AYER. He had a house framed, and twelve acres of land fenced, mowed and ploughed.
OBADIANI AYER. He had a house built and inhabited.
JOHN AYER. He had a house inhabited.
JOHN BAYLEY. He had a house erected, but not finished.
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PROPRIETARY RECORDS.
NATHANIEL BARKER. He had a house built, and the lot improved by James Varnum, an inhabitant.
ZEBEDIAN BARKER. He had a house and barn well finished and inhabited.
WILLIAM BARKER. He had a house well finished and inhabited, and a good barn.
JOSHUA BAYLEY. He had a house built and inhabited.
THOMAS BLANCHARD. He had a house built and inhabited.
MOSES BOARDMAN. He had a honse built, but not quite finished, but tenant- able - six acre lot fenced in and under improvement.
NATHAN BLODGETT. He had a house inhabited.
CHRISTOPHER CARLETON. He had a house built and inhabited.
BENJAMIN CARLETON. He had a house built, and the order of Court com- plied with by Jeremiah Stickney, an inhabitant.
NEHEMIAH CARLETON. He had a house erected, and the order complied with by Abner Hoit, an inhabitant.
JOHN CHANDLER. A house built and inhabited - the order fully complied with.
NATHANIEL CLEMENT. He had no house and no inhabitant -three aeres ploughed.
JOHN COGGIN. He had a house erected, but not finished - twelve acres of land fenced and improved.
EDWARD CLARK. He had a house built - not finished - a man inhabiting there-twelve acres within fence, mowed and ploughed.
ENOCH COFFIN. He had a house built, and the order complied with by Jon- athan Danforth.
THOMAS COLMAN. He had a house built and inhabited.
RICHARD COOLEDGE. He had no house, but land improved, and order oth- erwise complied with by Ens. John Chandler.
JOSEPH DAVIS. He had a house built and well finished.
EPHRAIM DAVIS. He had a house built, and the order was complied with by his son.
SAMUEL DAVIS. [Blank.]
MOSES DAY. He had a house built and inhabited.
DAVID DODGE. He had a house built - not finished.
JACOB EAMES. He had a good dwelling house -six acre lot fenced in and broke up.
EBENEZER EASTMAN. He had six sons on the spot - six men in his family. Ile paid the charge of building a corn-mill ; and he has broke up, cleared and mowed upward of eighty acres of land, and had very considerable buildings, out-houses, barns, &c., there.
STEPHEN EMERSON. He had a house built, and the order complied with - no inhabitant.
EPHRAIM FARNUM. He was an inhabitant and had a house built.
NATHAN FISK. He had a house built and inhabited, and the order complied with by Z. Chandler.
ABRAHAM FOSTER. Ile had a house built and inhabited.
JOHN FOSTER. He had a house built, and the order complied with by his son.
BENJAMIN GAGE. He had a house built and inhabited.
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THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
JOHN GRANGER. He had a house built and finished - order complied with by John Russ, inhabitant.
SAMUEL GRAINGER. He had a house built - order complied with by George Abbot.
WILLIAM GUTTERSON. Ile had a house built, and the order complied with by John Merrill.
JOSEPHI HALE. He had a frame standing on the house lot.
JOSEPHI HALL. He had a house built and inhabited.
MOSES HAZZEN. He had a house built and inhabited.
RICHARD HAZZEN, JUN. He had a house built, and the order complied with by Dea. Osgood.
NEHEMIAH HEATH. [Blank.]
EPHRAIM HILDRETH. He had a frame, not raised, but ready, and land ploughed.
JONATHAN HUBBARD, for DANIEL DAVIS. He had a house built and inhab- ited.
JOHN JAQUES. He had a house built and inhabited.
TIMOTHY JOHNSON. He had a house built and inhabited.
NATHANIEL JONES. He had a honse built, and order complied with by his son.
DAVID KIMBALL. He had a house built - an inhabitant.
ROBERT KIMBALL. He had a house - the order complied with - his son an inhabitant.
SAMUEL KIMBALL. He had a house built -not finished - the order com- plied with by his son.
ISAAC LEARNED. He had a house - man dead.
EBENEZER LOVEJOY. He had a house, but uninhabited.
NATHANIEL LOVEJOY. He had a house erected -not finished.
JOHN MATTIS. He had a house and barn, and inhabited.
JOIN MERRILL. He had a house built - an inhabitant.
ANDREW MITCHELL. He had a house erected - not finished -twelve aeres fenced and ploughed.
BENJAMIN NICHOLS. He had a house built and inhabited.
JOHN OSGOOD. He had a house built and inhabited.
STEPHEN OSGOOD. He had a house - ten acres fenced and mowed - cleared - nothing ploughed.
THOMAS PAGE. [Blank.]
JOSEPHI PAGE. Hle had a house built and inhabited.
NATHANIEL PAGE. He had a house built, finished and inhabited.
JOSEPH PARKER. He had a house, but not finished - orders otherwise com- plied with by Ezekiel Walker, an inhabitant.
NATHAN PARKER. He had a house built and inhabited.
BENJAMIN PARKER. He had a house partly covered -ten acres feneed and improved by ploughing and mowing.
JAMES PARKER. He had no house - the land plonghed, mowed and feneed by Lt. Farrington, an inhabitant.
JOHN PEABODY. He had a house up- negro man, inhabitant - orders oth- erwise complied with.
NATHANIEL PEASLEE. He had a house -order complied with by John Merrill.
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PROPRIETARY RECORDS.
ROBERT PEASLEE. IIe had a house and inhabited.
JOHN PECKER. He had a house built and inhabited.
REV. SAMUEL PHILLIPS. He had a house up - not finished - order for im- provement complied with by William Peters.
JONATHAN PULSIPHER. He had a house built and inhabited.
THOMAS PERLEY, for NATHANIEL COGSWELL. He had a house built and was an inhabitant.
SAMUEL REYNOLDS. He had a house erected, but not finished, and land fenced and improved - no inhabitant.
HENRY ROLFE. He had a house built and inhabited.
JOHN SANDERS. He had a house built and inhabited.
NATHANIEL SANDERS. He had a house built and inhabited.
JOHN SANDERS, JR. He had a house built -land ploughed, mowed and fenced.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY. [Blank.]
JAMES SIMONDS. He had a house built and inhabited.
NATHAN SIMONDS. [Blank.]
EBENEZER STEVENS. He had a house and barn built, finished and inhabited.
ZEROBBABEL SNOW. He had a house up, inhabited by Isaac Walker.
BENJAMIN STEVENS, ESQ. He had a house and barn - improved by Ebene- zer Stevens.
BEZALEEL TOPPAN. He had a house built and inhabited.
SAMUEL TOPPAN. He had a house inhabited - order complied with by - Danforth.
RICHARD URAN. He was an inhabitant, and had land mowed, ploughed and fenced.
EBENEZER VIRGIN. He had a house and inhabited it.
ISAAC WALKER. He had a house up -not finished - was an inhabitant, with his family - twelve acres fenced, mowed and ploughed.
WILLIAM WHITE. No house frame ready - three acres ploughed -that's all.
NICHOLAS WHITE. Frame raised -possessed by - Call, an inhabitant there.
THOMAS WICOMB. He had a house built, and had a man there.
WILLIAM WHITTIER. No house nor inhabitant.
EDWARD WINN. He had a house up -not finished.
JOHN WRIGHT. He had a house almost finished - an inhabitant.
AMMI RUHAMAH WISE. He had a house built and inhabited.
DAVID WOOD. He had a house and a man on the spot - ten aeres fenced, mowed and ploughed.
Total - 100.
The above is the account of the present state and circumstances of the Plan- tation of Penny Cook, taken there by as careful a view as we could, and the best information of the principal settlers and inhabitants.
October 20, 1731.
JOHN WAINWRIGHT, JNO. SANDERS.
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THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
No. 3.
A STATEMENT
OF EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE SETTLERS, FROM 1725 TO 1733. £ S.
For the privilege of admittance, 20s. each, 100
00
For right to a lot, €5 cach, . . 500 00
To Obadialı Ayer, for examining records, 2 00
For expense of committee, surveyors, &c. - first division - 40s. each, . 200 00 For laying out second division of interval, 26 00
For block-house and canoes, . . 113
17
For preferring a petition to the General Court, . 0
20
To Mr. John Sanders, for his services, in part, 0 15
For mending the highways to Penacook, .
14 02
To Rev. Bezaleel Toppan, for preaching, &c., 1 10
To heirs of Rev. Enoch Coffin, 4 00
To Mr. Henry Rolfe, for a ferry-boat over Suncook river, 5 00
For " and toward " settling the first minister, 100
00
For a grist-mill, (10s. each,) . 50
00
To Mr. John Sanders, in part pay for his services, 3 00
31
10
To Jolin Wainwright and John Sanders, for services,
4 00
-
Abated, .
£ 1157 14
500 00
It appears, however, that £500 - toward which each settler gave a bond of .€5 for his right to a lot - was, upon petition, abated. Beside these expenses- which, it would seem, were promptly met- each settler met his own charges in building his house, clearing and fencing his land ; and, after Rev. Mr. Walker's settlement, paying his salary and other current expenses of the community - all which shows that they were, in general, men of substance, and "well able " to prosecute their noble and hazardous enterprise.
BRIEF NOTICES
OF THE PROPRIETORS AND EARLY SETTLERS, INN THE ORDER OF THEIR NAMES.
ABBOT.
Nathaniel Abbot, son of Nathaniel, son of George, the ancestor of the Abbots, of Andover, Massachusetts, was born in Andover in 1696. He married Penelope Ballard; was about thirty years of age when he came to Penacook. They had thirteen children. His house lot was No. 12, second range -where the North Congregational Church now stands. He was the first constable of Penacook, (1732/3,) - an efficient, enterprising, nseful citizen, and member of the church.
For ordination expenses, .
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PROPRIETARY RECORDS.
At the commencement of the French war, (1744,) he entered the service, and joined the rangers under Maj. Robert Rogers. He held a lieutenant's commis- sion in 1755, in Capt. Joseph Eastman's company, in the expedition against Crown Point, and was a lieutenant in Capt. Richard Rogers' company of rangers, in Fort William Henry, at the time of the massaere, 1757. In 1746 he had command of a company in defense of the town against the Indians. He died in 1770, aged 74. [See Register of Abbot family.]
Edward Abbot, eousin of Capt. Nathaniel ; son of Timothy, son of George. of Andover, married Doreas Chandler; was one of the first selectmen of Rumford. In 1746 his house was a garrison that stood on the spot where Dr. Thomas Chadbourne now lives -south-east corner of Montgomery and Main streets. Edward, his son, was the first male ehild born in Penaeook. (7th of January, 1731,) and Dorcas the first female child. [ See Town Register.]
Jacob Abbot, eonsin of Nathaniel and Edward; son of Benjamin, son of George, of Andover. He died in the French war, 1760.
AUSTIN.
John Austin, probably a descendant of Thomas Austin, from Andover, where was Samuel Austin (1714,) who died 1753, aged eighty-three.
AYERS.
Obadiah, Samuel and John Ayers, or Ayer, were from Haverhill. Obadiah was a graduate of Harvard College, 1710; was employed to "examine the General Court's records, to see if there be any former grant" of the township; was "one of the principal inhabitants of Haverhill." Samuel and John were of the same family -young men -and were among the most active and enterprising settlers. [See Family Register.] They were all descendants of John, who was of Salis- bury, 1640, of Ipswich, 1648, and at Haverhill, 1657.
BLANCHARD.
Thomas Blanchard, from Andover, was a son or grandson of Samuel Blan- chard, who came from England, in 1639, with his father, Thomas, on the ship Jonathan, and settled in Charlestown. Thence Samuel removed to Andover, in 1686, and died April, 1707, aged seventy-seven. Thomas, the proprietor of Penaeook, died in 1759, aged eighty-five.
BARKER.
William, Nathan and Zebediah Barker eame from Andover. William, son of Richard Barker, one of the founders of the church in Andover, 1645, was unele to Nathan and Zebediah - the one, son of Ebenezer, and the other of Stephen Barker, brothers of William. [See Family Register. ]
BAYLEY.
Capt. Joshua Bayley is named in the Proprietors' Records as "one of the prin- eipal inhabitants of Haverhill." Probably came to Haverhill from Newbury ; born the 30th of October, 1685, and a descendant of John Bayley, who eame from Chippenham, England, (a weaver,) and settled in Newbury, 1650. [See Coffin's Ilist. of Newbury, App., p. 294.]
BOARDMAN.
Moses Boardman - unknown.
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THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
BLODGETT.
Nathan Blodgett was probably from Woburn.
CLEMENT. Nathaniel Clement was from Haverhill.
CHANDLER.
John Chandler, son of Capt. John Chandler, of Andover, who died in 1721, and grandson of Capt. Thomas Chandler, who died in 1703, was a leading and influential man. Zechariah Chandler was a cousin of John, son of William, son of Capt. Thomas. The first Capt. John was a powerful, athletic man, of great muscular strength and cool, indomitable courage. The late Nathan Chandler, great-grandson of Capt. John, used to relate, that on one occasion, when his ancestor, Capt. John, of Andover, went to Newburyport, he was impressed by three of the king's officers- saying to him, as they laid hands on his shoulder : " The king needs your service." He wished to be excused ; saying that his family required his care and attention, &c .; to which the reply was : " We can- not help that ; the king needs your services ; yon will go with us." Apparently yielding, he walked quietly along with them till they reached a spot where a honse had been burned down, and where was a deep cellar withi ashes and half consumed timber. Turning quickly around, he seized them one by one, and threw them into the cellar, where he left them and went on his way.
CARLTON.
The Carltons - Benjamin, Nehemiah and Christopher - were relatives, proba- bly from Andover and Haverhill. Mirick, in his History of Haverhill, says, " Christopher Carlton was among the original proprietors of Penacook ;" but the late John Farmer, Esq., said that Christopher Carlton was son of John Carl- ton, of Andover. The name was common in both places.
COOLIDGE.
Richard Coolidge - unknown.
COGGIN.
John Coggin is believed to have been of Woburn. None of the name are now in Concord.
CLARK.
Edward Clark was from Haverhill.
COFFIN.
Rer. Enoch Coffin was son of the Hon. Nathaniel Coffin; born at Newbury, Massachusetts, February 7, 1695 / 6; graduated at Harvard College in 1714; died Angust, 1728. He received a call to settle in Dunstable, N. H., as suc- cessor of Rev. Thomas Weld, but declined it on account of his health. Mr. Coffin accompanied the honorable Committee of the Court and surveyors when they came to l'enacook to lay out the land, in May, 1726, and preached twice on the Sabbath after their arrival, in a tent, on Sugar Ball Plain. His father, Nathaniel, was son of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury, whose father, Tristram Coffin, was born in Brixham Parish, town of Plymouth, England, in 1609. In 1642 Tristram Coffin came to this country with his mother, wife, two sisters, and five children - Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James and John. Peter Coffin, son of this Tristram, was born in 1630; resided the principal part of his life in
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PROPRIETARY RECORDS.
Dover, N. H., and was concerned in the trucking house, in Penacook, in 1668. He died the 21st of March, 1715, at Exeter, aged eighty-five. Tristram Coffin was the aneestor of a numerous race, to which belong Samuel Coffin, Esq., of Concord, and those of the name in Boscawen. [See Coffin's Ilist. of Newbury.] The first settlers of the name in Concord, after the death of Rev. Enoch, were William and Peter, sons of John, of Newbury. Peter afterward settled in Bos- eawen, from whom those of that name there have descended.
COLEMAN.
Thomas Coleman was of Newbury, probably a descendant of Thomas Coleman, or " Coultman," as he wrote it, (laborer.) who was born 1602, in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, and came to Newbury in the James, 1635. He died at Nantucket, 1685, aged eighty-three. Coleman forfeited his lot, by not paying, to Henry Rolfe, Esq.
COGSWELL.
Nathaniel Cogswell's right was drawn and carried on by Thomas Perley. " Perley " was, and still is, a common name of Boxford, Massachusetts.
DAY.
Moses Day was from Bradford. One of the same name was deacon of the church in the West Parish of Bradford, 1730, and also 1750. Probably one of them was the proprietor in Penacook. [See Rev. G. B. Perry's sermon, December 12, 1820.]
DAVIS.
Ephraim, Joseph and Samuel were from Haverhill. Ephraim was the only one who finally settled in Concord. He was born the 20th of March, 1697 - son of Ephraim, son of John, a descendant of Thomas, who was of Marlborongh, Eng- land, and was in Newbury, 1641 ; then in Haverhill, 1642, where he died in 1683, aged eighty. [See Family Register.]
DODGE.
David Dodge - not known from whence he eame -none of the name now resident here.
EASTMAN.
Capt. Ebenezer Eastman was from Haverhill; one of the most enterprising and useful of the proprietors. He settled on the east side of the river. His house was a garrison in 1746 - sitnated west of the present residence of Robert East- man. On the old honse lot, which is now divided by the track of the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad, several ancient apple trees are still standing, which Capt. Eastman set out with his own hands. [See biographical notice.]
EAMES.
Jacob Eames was from Andover.
EMERSON.
Stephen Emerson was from Haverhill.
FOSTER.
John and Abraham Foster were from Andover -descendants of Andrew Foster, one of the first settlers in Andover, who came from England, and died 1685, aged one hundred and six years. John was son of Ephraim, who died 1746, aged eighty-eight. Abraham was probably a consin of John.
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THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.
FARNUM.
Ephraim Farnum, from Andover, was son of Ephraim, son of Ralph Farnum, who married Elizabeth Holt, in 1658. He drew house lot No. 15, which was the spot where the house of the late Dr. Green stood. He afterward settled on the land now owned by Dea. Benjamin Farnum and by Moses H. Farnum, who are descendants. Ephraim Farnum was chosen deacon of the church Au- gust, 1731. How long he served is unknown. But, " desiring a dismission from the office, at a church meeting, he was dismissed, and George Abbot chosen in his room." He died in 1775, aged about eighty. His descendants in Concord are many. [See Farnum Family.]
GRANGER.
John and Samuel Granger were brothers from Andover; sons of John Granger, who was born in 1655, and died in 1725, aged seventy - who was probably a son of Lancelot Granger, of Newbury, ancestor of the late Gideon Granger, Post- master General of the United States.
GAGE.
Benjamin Gage was from Bradford.
GUTTERSON.
William Gutterson was from Andover - son of John Gutterson - probably a descendant from an early family in Ipswich.
HEATHI.
Nehemiah Heath was from Haverhill.
IHEDRETH.
Ephraim Hildreth was probably from Chelmsford, where many of the name have resided.
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