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HISTORY OF DUBLIN
David Townsend and Judith Townsend. March 9.
David Townsend and Abigail Townsend. May.
Thaddeus and Marcy Gaffield;
Hepzibath and Mary Gaffield. Joseph Barrett. October.
Bezaleel Barton. Feb. 16.
Henry and Sarah Stewart; Sarah, Lucy, and Polly Stewart. From Amerst, June.
Hart Balch, Joel and Nathan Balch, and Sally Williams. October.
David and Hannah Elliot. Jan- uary 9.
Priscilla Twitchell. June 9.
Ebenezer and Elizabeth Emes; Betsey Emes. July 18.
John and Rachel Elliot; Merriam and Andrew Elliot. May 2.
Polly Waite. Oct. 26.
Lydia Leman. Aug. 21.
1780
Setlı and Catharine Cobb; Cath- arine, Ithamer, Lydia, David Perry, and Simeon Cobb. From Packersfield, March.
William and Lucy Haven. March 10
John Whitney. March 10.
Submit Farwell; Hannah Far- well. March 7.
Stephen Bent. March 28.
Mary Wheeler. March 29.
Mary Bent. Dec. 8.
Joel Winship; Azubah Green- wood.
Thomas and Ruth Neal.
Phebe Norcross. June 20.
Joanna Springer; Thomas Winch. January.
Philip and Anna Mills. January. Ichabod and Sarah Rowell; Sa- rah, Jacob, Hannah, Richard,
Mary, Philip, and Dorothy Rowell. July.
1781
Thomas and Mary White; Mary, Esther, Susanna, and Oliver White. Jan. 5.
Ezra and Anna Winch. March 30.
Joseph and Rebecca Hayward.
July 1. Charles Prescott, Re- becca, Betty, and Lucy Hay- ward. Jan. 19.
Jonathan Wiley; Tamesin Wiley; Benjamin Wiley. March.
Isaac Greenwood. January 28.
William and Sarah Maxwell; William and Mary Maxwell. March.
Rebecca Wilson. March.
James and Phebe Houghton; Silvanus, Rinde, Bethiah, Ase- nath, Experience, and Molly Houghton. July.
Joseph Eaton and Catharine Eaton; Joseph Eaton, Jun. June.
Thomas and Betty Bryant; Chan- dler and Reuben Bryant. June.
1782
David and Anna Ames. March. Richard and Lydia Wheeler; David and Hannah Wheeler. February.
Abel and Hannah Wilder; Abel and Betsey Wilder.
Mary Winch; Sarah Morse.
Jonathan and Hannah Adams; Joseph Adams. Richard and Oliver Phillips.
Rebecca Evans.
Thomas Goof, D. Goof, and Thomas Goof. Nov. 25. Stephen and Jane Ames. May 15.
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Samuel Hogg and Sarah Hogg;
Mary, Joseph, Nancy, and Rachel Hogg. April 29. Jonathan Ames. April.
1783
Francis Blood. March 25. Elizabeth Bent.
Samuel Derby. Feb. 18.
Lydia Hinds. July 15.
Daniel Simonds.
John and Mary French; Abigail, Rebecca, William, Ebenezer, Whitcomb, and John French, Jun. March 28.
Edward Simonds; Abigail Gross. Feb. 20.
1784
Phinehas Gleason, Daniel Glea- son. March.
John and Susannah Barrett, and Arethusa Barrett. From Ma- son, October.
Aiah1 Hinds, Lucy Hinds, Lydia Hinds. October.
Oldham and Deborah Gates. June.
Jonathan and Eunice French. October.
Robert and Elizabeth Fisk; Rob- ert Fisk. June.
Jonathan Barrett, Phebe Bar- rett; Moses, Elias, and Phebe Barrett. August.
Fortune Little; Benjamin Hills; Zephaniah Tubbs. December. 1785.
Betty Williams. From Amherst, March.
Alexander Emes. March.
Amos and Betty Babcock. March.
1786
Sally Smith. September.
James Houghton, Jun. May. Elijah and Sarah Kemp; James Kemp. August.
Joseph and Betty Abbot; Joseph Abbot. June 15.
Joseph Robbins; Polly Robbins; Fanny, daughter of Polly. July.
1787
Aaron Swan. From Jaffrey, Feb- ruary.
Israel and Deliverance Maynard; Dilly Maynard. January.
Abel and Margaret Maynard; Lucinda and Betsey Maynard; Judith Nicholas. Jan. 20. Lucy Stewart. March 2.
1788
Daniel and Hannah White; Dan- iel, Nathaniel, Hannah, and Anna White.
James and Elizabeth Taggart; Barbara, William, Elizabeth, Margaret, Rebecca, James, John, and Washington Tag- gart.
James and Anne McDaniels; Alexander and John McDan- iels.
Stephen and Sarah Russell; Jede- diah, Stephen, Andrew, Sarah, and Rebecca Russell.
John and Phebe Wright; Tal- latha, William, Betty, Katy, and Ruth Wright.
Mary and Hannah Whitney. Moses Marshall.
Nathan Adams.
Abraham Jackson.
Lydia Jackson. Rhoda Wetherbee.
1 Probably a misreading of manuscript for Abiah or Abijah Hinds.
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The following names appear for the first time in the town- records at the years annexed: -
Andrew Allison
1781 Thomas Hardy 1785
Benjamin Smith
1785
Asa Pierce 1788
Asa Fairbanks
1786
Samuel Fisher 1787
James Mills .
1781
John Stone
1787
From the date of incorporation to the commencement of the Revolutionary war, the business of this town appears to have been chiefly concerned with making and repairing roads, set- tling a minister, and providing a house for public worship. The difficulties, which began soon after Mr. Farrar's settlement, must have proved a severe trial to a people so recently estab- lished on new lands; and the additional expense for councils and various incidentals was a matter of no small consideration. Much labor had been bestowed upon the ministerial land, and its value was thereby increased. One right, or three lots, be- longed to the first minister; and it was purchased of him by the town, and afterwards became a source of income. The second minister was settled in the midst of the Revolution; and to raise money for paying soldiers, besides paying the minister's salary, and all ordinary expenses, was no easy task for the managers of their municipal affairs. In consequence of the various prices of labor, and of the articles for subsistence and clothing, a committee was chosen to establish and limit prices. As a matter that may be interesting to some persons, we insert the report of the said committee: -
"DUBLIN, July 10, 1777. - We, the subscribers, being appointed by the town of Dublin to state the prices of sundry commodities, transferable from one person to another, having met and considered the matter, have resolved that the prices hereafter annexed shall be the prices for all such articles within our town, viz .: -
£
S.
d.
Wheat, per bushel
6 0
Rye and malt, per bushel
0 0 0
4 0
Indian corn, per bushel
3 0 Oats, per bushel
0
1 8
Peas, per bushel
0
6 0
Beans, per bushel
0
6 0
Cheese, per pound
0 0 6
Butter, per pound
0 0 9
Carriage of salt, for every ten miles land carriage, per bushel
Flax, per pound
0 0 0 1 0 10
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£
s.
d.
Sheep's wool, per pound
0
2
2
Yarn stockings, per pair
0
6 0
Men's all-wool cloth well dressed, per yard
0
8 0
Men's farming labor :
July and August, per month 3
0
3
0
May, June, and September, per month
2
10 0
And by the day
0
2 6
April and October, per month
1
15
0
And by the day
0
2
3
February, March, and November, per month
1
4
0
And by the day
0
2
0
Carpenters and house joiners, per day
0
4 0
Mill-wright and mason, per day
0
4 6
Hay in the field, per ton
1 10 0
Hay after secured, per ton
2
0 0
Making men's shoes, per pair And others in proportion
0
3
0
0
2
0
Pasturing oxen, per week
0
2
6
Pasturing a cow, per week
0
1 0
A yoke of oxen, per day's work
0
1 6
Pasturing a horse, per night
0
0 8
Keeping a horse by hay, per night
0
1 0
Oxen a night by grass
0
1 0
Oxen a night by hay
0
1
6
Two quarts of oats
0
0
3
A meal of victuals
0
0 10
Lodging, per night
0
0 3
Boarding a man, per week
0
6 0
Good flax-seed, per bushel
0
6
0
"HENRY STRONGMAN WILLIAM GREENWOOD
Committee"
Reuben Morse and Moses Adams, members of the above committee, did not sign the report.
0
0
And by the day
December and January, per month
0 18 0
Pasturing a horse, per week
CHAPTER VI
DUBLIN IN THE REVOLUTION AND THE LATER WARS
THE main points of interest, with regard to the part taken by the people of Dublin in the War of the Revolution, are noticed by Mr. Mason in the address which constitutes the first chapter of this work. Since the former History of Dublin was published, a vast amount of material pertaining to the Revolution has been dug from the national and state archives and published for the information of the public. By the aid of these records, we are enabled to determine more fully the part taken by Dublin in that momentous struggle, and to furnish a list of Revolutionary soldiers from Dublin containing more than twice as many names as appear in the list printed in the former history.
The first indication which the clerk's records give that the town anticipated war, and meant to be prepared for it, is a vote passed, Nov. 28, 1774: "Granted twelve pounds to pro- vide a town-stock of ammunition." It was not until the fol- lowing spring that we find a record of further public action by the town. To understand that action, the following historical facts should be stated.
The "First Continental Congress," which convened at Phila- delphia, September 5, 1774, composed of delegates from twelve of the "thirteen original colonies," proposed and adopted what they called an " Association," whose nature may be learned from the following extracts (the document being too long to be copied in full) :
Continental Congress.
Thursday, OCTOBER 20, 1774.
The Association being copied, was read and signed at the table, and is as follows:
We, his Majesty's most loyal subjects, the Delegates of the several Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the three Lower Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, deputed to represent them in a Continental Congress, held in the City of Philadelphia, on
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the fifth day of September, 1774, avowing our allegiance to his Maj- esty; our affection and regard for our fellow-subjects in Great Britain and elsewhere; affected with the deepest anxiety and most alarming apprehension at those grievances and distresses with which his Majesty's American subjects are oppressed; and having taken under our most serious deliberation the state of the whole continent, find that the present unhappy situation of our affairs is occasioned by a ruinous system of Colony Administration adopted by the British Ministry about the year 1763, evidently calculated for enslaving these Colonies, and with them, the British Empire. In prosecution of which system, various acts of Parliament have been passed for rais- ing a Revenue in America, for depriving the American subjects, in many instances, of the Constitutional Trial by Jury, exposing their lives to danger by directing a new and illegal trial beyond the seas for crimes alleged to have been committed in America; and in prose- cution of the same system, several late, civil, and oppressive Acts have been passed respecting the Town of Boston and the Massachu- setts Bay, and also an act for extending the Province of Quebec, so as to border on the Western Frontiers of these Colonies, establishing an arbitrary Government therein, and discouraging the settlement of British subjects in that wide extended country; thus by the influ- ence of civil principles and ancient prejudices to dispose the inhab- itants to act with hostility against the free Protestant Colonies, whenever a wicked ministry shall choose so to direct them.
To obtain redress of these Grievances, which threaten destruction to the Lives, Liberty, and Property of his Majesty's subjects in North America, we are of opinion that a Non-Importation, Non-Consump- tion, and Non-Exportation Agreement, faithfully adhered to, will prove the most speedy, effectual and peaceable measure; and, there- fore, we do, for ourselves, and the inhabitants of the several Colonies whom we represent, firmly agree and associate, under the sacred ties of Virtue, Honour, and love of our Country as follows:
1. That from and after the first day of December next, we will not import into British America from Great Britain or Ireland, any goods, wares, or merchandise, whatsoever, &c.
2. That we will neither import nor purchase any Slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the Slave Trade, and will neither be concerned in it our- selves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our Commodities or Manu- factures to those who are concerned in it.
3. As a Non-Consumption Agreement, strictly adhered to, will be an effective security for the observation of the Non-Importation, we, as above, solemnly agree and associate, that from this day we will not purchase or use any Tea imported on account of the East India Company, or any on which a duty hath been or shall be paid; and from and after the first day of March next, we will not purchase or use any East India Tea whatsoever; nor will we, nor shall any
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person for or under us, purchase or use any of those goods, Wares, or Merchandises, we have agreed not to import, &c.
4. The earnest desire we have not to injure our fellow-subjects in Great Britain, Ireland, or the West Indies, induces us to suspend a Non-Exportation until the tenth day of September, 1775, at which time, if the said Acts and parts of Acts of the British Parliament herein after mentioned, are not repealed, we will not, directly or in- dividually, export any Merchandise or Commodity whatsoever to Great Britain, Ireland, or the West Indies, except Rice to Europe.
5. Such as are Merchants and use the British and Irish trade, will give orders as soon as possible to their Factors, Agents, and Corre- spondents, in Great Britain and Ireland, not to ship any goods to them, on any pretence whatsoever, as they cannot be received in America, &c.
6. That such as are Owners of vessels will give positive orders to their Captains, or Masters, not to receive on board their vessels any goods prohibited by the said Non-Importation Agreement, on pain of immediate dismission from their service.
7. We will use our utmost endeavors to improve the breed of sheep, and increase their number to the greatest extent, &c.
8. That we will, in our several stations, encourage Frugality, Econ- omy, and Industry, and promote Agriculture, Arts, and the Manufac- tures of this Country, especially that of wool, and will discountenance and discourage every species of extravagance, and dissipation, espe- cially all horse-racing, and all kinds of gaming, cock-fighting, exhibi- tions of plays, shows, and other expensive diversions and entertain- ments; and on the death of any relation, or friend, none of us, or any of our families, will go into any further mourning dress than a black crape or ribbon on the arm, or hat for gentlemen, and a black ribbon and necklace for ladies, and we will discontinue the giving of gloves and scarfs at funerals.
9. That such as are venders of Goods or Merchandise, will not take advantage of the scarcity of Goods that may be occasioned by this Association, but will sell the same at the rates we have been respec- tively accustomed to do for twelve months last past, &c.
10. In case any Merchant, Trader, or other person, shall import any goods or Merchandise, after the first day of December, and be- fore the first day of February next, the same ought forthwith, at the election of the owner, to be reshipped or delivered up to the Commit- tee of the County or Town wherein they shall be imported, &c.
11. That a Committee be chosen in every County, City, and Town by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legis- lature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this Association; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such Committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this Association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the
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case to be published in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the rights of British America may be publickly known, and univer- sally contemned as the enemies of American Liberty; and thence- forth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.
12. That the Committee of Correspondence, in the respective Col- onies, do frequently inspect the Entries of their Custom House, &c.
13. That all Manufactures of this country be sold at reasonable prices, so as no undue advantage be taken of a future scarcity of Goods.
14. And we do further agree and resolve that we will have no Trade, Commerce, Dealings, or Intercourse whatsoever with any Colony or Province in North America which shall not accede to, or which shall hereafter violate this Association, but will hold them as unworthy of the rights of Freemen, and as inimical to the liberties of this country.
And we do solemnly bind ourselves and our constituents, under the ties aforesaid, to adhere to this Association until such parts of the several Acts of Parliament passed since the close of the last war [the old French War], as impose or continue Duties on Tea, Wine, Mo- lasses, Syrup, Paneles,1 Coffee, Sugar, Pimento, Indigo, Foreign Paper, Glass, and Painters' Colours, imported into America, and extend the powers of the Admiralty Courts beyond their ancient lim- its, deprive the American subjects of Trial by Jury, authorize the Judges' certificate to idemnify the prosecutor for damages that he might otherwise be liable to from a trial by his peers, require oppres- sive security from a claimant of Ships of Goods seized, before he shall be allowed to defend his property, are repealed - and until that part of the Act of the 12th George III., ch. 24, entitled "An Act for the better securing his Majesty's Dockyards, Magazines, Ships, Am- munition, and Stores" by which any person charged with committing any of the offences therein described, in America, may be tried in any Shire or County within the Realm, is repealed - and until the four Acts, passed in the last session of Parliament, viz .: that for stopping the Port and blocking up the Harbour of Boston, that for altering the Charter and Government of the Massachusetts Bay - and that which is entitled An Act for the better Administration of Justice, &c., and that for extending the limits of Quebec, &c., are repealed. And we recommend it to the Provincial Conventions, and to the Commit- tees in the respective Colonies, to establish such farther Regulations as they may think proper for carrying into execution this Association.
The foregoing Association being determined upon by the Congress, was ordered to be subscribed by the several Members thereof; and thereupon, we have hereunto set our respective names accordingly.
In Congress, Philadelphia, October 20, 1774.
PEYTON RANDOLPH, President.
[The names of the delegates from the various colonies follow.]
1 From the Spanish panelas. Cakes of brown sugar from the West Indies.
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The Second Provincial Congress of New Hampshire, held at Exeter, January 25, 1775, issued an address, which was sent to every town, recommending the kind of conduct which it was desirable that all citizens should observe, and advising a com- pliance with the wishes of the Continental Congress, as ex- pressed in the preceding "Association."
In obedience to the request of the Continental Congress, ex- pressed in clauses 10 and 11 of the "sacred ties" of the Asso- ciation, and as recommended in the address issued to the citizens by the Second Provincial Congress of New Hamp- shire, before mentioned, the town of Dublin, on March 5, 1775, chose a "Committee of Inspection," "to see that the resolves of the Continental Congress be observed." The committee chosen consisted of William Greenwood, Samuel Twitchell, Joseph Greenwood, John Swan, and Benjamin Mason. At an adjourned meeting, on May 31, Thaddeus Mason and James Chamberlain were added to the above-named committee.
We are not informed that this committee ever had any occa- sion to exercise its functions, except, perhaps, a watchful over- sight of the conduct of the citizens with respect to their attitude towards the British government. From the fact that every man in town is represented to have signed, at a later date, what was called the Association Test, it may be presumed that all the inhabitants of Dublin were loyal to the cause of the colonies.
The editor of the former History of Dublin confused the duties of the committee named above with those of the select- men, who, in the following year, obtained the signatures to the Association Test.
The Second Continental Congress, in session at Philadelphia, on March 14, 1776, passed the following resolution:
" Resolved, That it be recommended to the Several Assemblies, Conventions, and Councils, or Committees of Safety of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all persons to be disarmed, within their Respective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to defend by ARMS, the United Colonies, against the Hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Armies."
In obedience to this resolution of Congress, the Colony of New Hampshire issued to the selectmen of the various towns the following circular:
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"Colony of New Hampshire
"IN COMMITTEE OF SAFETY,
April 12, 1786.
"In order to carry the underwritten RESOLVE [the preceding reso- lution] of the Hon'ble Continental Congress into Execution, you are requested to desire all Males above Twenty one years of age (Luna- ticks, Idiots, and Negroes excepted) to sign to the DECLARATION on this Paper; and when so done, to make Return thereof, together witlı the Name or Names of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly or Committee of Safety of this Colony.
M. WEARE, Chairman."
The "DECLARATION on this paper" was the following:
"In Consequence of the above Resolution of the Hon. Continental CONGRESS, and to show our Determination in joining our American Brethren, in defending the Lives, Liberties, and Properties of the In- habitants of the United Colonies:
"WE, THE SUBSCRIBERS, DO HEREBY SOLEMNLY ENGAGE, AND PROMISE, THAT WE WILL, TO THE UTMOST OF OUR POWER, AT THE RISQUE OF OUR LIVES AND FORTUNES, WITH ARMS, OPPOSE THE HOS- TILE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH FLEETS AND ARMIES AGAINST THE UNITED AMERICAN COLONIES."
This important and extraordinary paper, which the men of New Hampshire of twenty-one years of age or upwards were asked to sign, was known as the ASSOCIATION TEST, because it was a sequel of the ASSOCIATION formed at Philadelphia by the First Continental Congress, and because it was a TEST of the loyalty of the citizens to the cause of the United American Colonies. It was signed by 8,199 persons in New Hampshire. The lists returned to the General Assembly reveal the names of 773 persons who refused to sign it.
This pledge has been called "the Declaration of Independ- ence of New Hampshire." It was a "similar act to that of the Patriots who signed the National Declaration on the 4th of July, 1776. It preceded that event, and seems to have been a sanction or an encouragement to those who contemplated it. It was a bold and hazardous step in subjects thus to resist the authority of one of the most powerful sovereigns in the world. Had the cause in which these men pledged their lives and for- tunes failed, 'it would have subjected every individual who
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signed it to the pains and penalties of treason; to a cruel and ignominious death!'"
The copy of the DECLARATION sent to Dublin was returned with the following endorsement: -
"In Compliance with your Request we have Desired all the males in our town above twenty one years of age to sign to the DECLARA- TION on this Paper; which they all Did without any Dispute.
"test - Selectmen JOSEPH GREENWOOD SIMON BULLARD JOHN MUZZY of Dublin."
[Names of the signers follow, as spelled on the original paper.]
John Swan
Silas Stone, Junr.
Richard Gilchrest
Ezra Morse
Tho. Morse Eli Morse
Isaac Bond
Joseph Greenwood
Silas Stone
Moses Adams
Thomas Alden
Daniel Morse
Josiah Greenwood
Jos. Twitchel
Moses Greenwood
Ebenezer Twitchel
James Rollins
Samuel Twitchel
James Chamblen
Stephen Twitchel Simeon Johnson
Samuel Williams
Ebenezer Hill
Ivory Perry Benjamin Learned John Morse Henry Strongman
Abijah Twitchel Nath1 Bate
Joseph Adms? Benja Mason
John Wright
William Greenwood
Thomas Muzzy
Levi Partridge Timothy Adams
Gershom Twitchel
Eli Greenwood
Caleb Stanford
John Knowlton Simeon Bullard John Muzzy
Lube Puffer
Phinehas Stanford
Moses Johnson
Reuben Morse
Richard Strongman
Ithamar Johnson
Nathan Burnap
Gershom Twitchel, Jun.
Gardner Town Oliver Right.
Some of the misspellings are obvious. Twitchel should be Twitchell. Joseph Adms should be Joseph Adams. In the place of Isaac Adams, the former History of Dublin (page 149)
Thomas Lewis
William Strongman
William Yardly
Moses Pratt
Isaac Adams
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has Isaac Morse. The only Isaac Morse whom we can discover to have been living in Dublin at that time was Isaac, the son of Eli Morse, who, according to the records would have been only sixteen years of age. He may have manifested his zeal by signing the paper, although about five years under the age of those whose signatures were required. Among the names added to the tax-list in 1774 was that of Isaac Adams, and he is probably the person who signed the declaration, instead of Isaac Morse, as stated in the former history. James Chamblen should, obviously, be James Chamberlain. Yardly was later spelled Yardley. John Wright is a misreading for John Wight, who was a citizen of Dublin at that time. There was a John Wright who moved to Dublin twelve years later. Lube Puffer is a misreading for Jabez Puffer, and Oliver Right is a mis- spelling of Oliver Wright.
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