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Gilbert C. Bemis Dec. 27, 1884. Z. A. Boyce. Oct. 27, 1885.
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HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
MANUFACTORIES AND SHOPS.
Howe & Sweetser Two at Howeville.
Jacob Simonds
At Lower Howeville.
Elijah Bowker.
At Bowkerville.
Geo. W. Simonds
Scott Mill.
Elisha Chaplin.
June 18, 1883, where the first saw-mill in District No. 1 was built by Sam- uel Divol.
John Kimball
Blacksmith shop.
Asa S. Kendall
Tannery, on old Troy Road.
Moses A. Allen.
Store-house, formerly the dwelling- house of Nahum Howe, Sr .; was built by him.
BARNS, ETC., CONSUMED.
ON FAY PLACE.
W. D. Loeke
J. S. Adams
Aug. 20, 1878.
D. T. Moore.
Nathan Whipple . .
School-house, in District No. 1, 1808 ? 66 " 11, 1845 ?
FITZWILLIAM SAVINGS-BANK.
This history would be incomplete withont a brief notice of this important institution.
It was not organized to bring riches or influence to its pro- jectors and officers, for all engaged in conducting its affairs, with the single exception of the treasurer, serve the public in this capacity without compensation ; but its design, as set forth upon the last page of each depositor's book,
is to enable the industrious of all classes to invest such part of their in- come as they can conveniently spare in a safe and profitable manner. It is intended to encourage the industrious and prudent, and to induce those who have not been such to lessen their unnecessary expenses, and lay up something for a period of life when they will be less able to pro- vide for themselves. Every clerk, apprentice, domestic and child should have an account with some bank of this kind.
365
FITZWILLIAM SAVINGS-BANK.
Two facts led to the establishment of the Fitzwilliam Sav- ings-Bank.
1. The inconvenience that the people of this town must al- ways encounter in making deposits in and drawing their funds from other savings-banks, because they are located at such a distance from Fitzwilliam.
2. Because of the nature of some of our industrial pursuits, notably the granite business, there is, and for many years to come will be, a large number of persons in this town who should enjoy the benefits of such an institution.
These considerations led a number of the business men of this place to apply for a charter of a savings-bank to be located in Fitzwilliam, which was granted in the usual form July 13th, 1871, with Stephen Batcheller, Amos A. Parker, Phillip S. Batcheller, Josiah E. Carter, John Whittemore, George W. Simonds. Charles C. Carter, Silas Cummings. Norman U. Cahill, Anson G. Beebe, Amos J. Blake, and George A. Whittemore as corporators.
A constitution and by-laws were adopted, and the first board of officers chosen as follows :
President, Stephen Batcheller.
Vice-Presidents, Josiah E. Carter, Daniel R. Spaulding.
Secretary and Treasurer, Milton Chaplin.
Trustees : Silas Cummings, Amos J. Blake, Edward P. Kimball, John Whittemore, John M. Parker, Samuel Kendall, Abner Gage, Norman U. Cahill, Reuben Angier, George W. Simonds, Aaron R. Gleason, William Wright, Ambrus W. Spaulding.
Financial Committee : Daniel R. Spaulding, Amos J. Blake, John M. Parker.
The institution has been satisfactorily successful, fully meet- ing the expectations of its friends and projectors.
The amount due to depositors January 1st, 1887, was one hundred and fifty thousand, nine hundred and eighty-nine dol- lars and thirty-six cents, with a surplus and guarantee fund of eight thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety- six cents, making a total amount, as standing in the books, of one hundred and fifty-nine thousand, five hundred and thirty-
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HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
three dollars and thirty-two cents, but with an actual market value of one hundred and sixty-three thousand, three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifteen cents.
The officers for 1887 are :
President, Amos J. Blake.
Vice-President, Josiah E. Carter.
Secretary and Treasurer, Stephen Batcheller.
Trustees : John M. Parker, Kimball D. Webster, Aaron R. Gleason, Samuel Kendall, Elbridge Cummings, Wright Whitcomb, Charles Byam, Edwin N. Bowen, Chauncey Davis, Melvin Wilson, Edmund Bemis, Herbert E. Wetherbee, Reuben L. Angier.
Board of Investment : John M. Parker, Charles Byam, Renben L. Angier, Amos J. Blake, Stephen Batcheller.
POST-OFFICES.
So far as the Records of the Post-Office Department show, the Fitzwilliam Post-Office was established in 1805, and Jonas Robeson was appointed postmaster.
The following is a list of the persons who have held the office of postmaster to the present time, with the date of their commissions :
Jonas Robeson Angust 23, 1805.
Curtis Coolidge December 25, 1819.
Gideon C. Noble March 28, 1837.
Jared D. Perkins May 23, 1842.
Phillip S. Bateheller October 16, 1849.
Silas Cummings March 27, 1855.
Phillip S. Batcheller May 1, 1861.
George A. Whittemore November 2, 1866.
Phillip S. Batcheller December 10, 1866.
Elliot K. Wheelock July 14, 1885.
Thomas B. Burns October 22, 1885.
John J. Allen, Jr., was appointed in 1849, but as he did not qualify, he never received his commission.
367
LOCATION OF THE POST-OFFICE.
This office was made a money order office in 1884, and as such it is a great convenience to many.
In 1866 a post-office was established at Fitzwilliam Depot. Postmasters as follows :
Elbridge Cummings March 27, 1866.
Calvin B. Perry. August 24, 1885.
This office is kept in the store of Mr. Perry.
As Mr. Robeson had a store in the village when he became postmaster, the office was doubtless kept in it, at first in the house known afterward as the Everett House, and later in the two-story wing of his dwelling, when the store was removed to that place. Mr. Coolidge kept the office in the same place.
When Dr. G. C. Noble became postmaster he removed the office to the building now owned and occupied by Messrs. P. S. & S. Batcheller, and it remained in the same place for about forty-eight years, with the exception of about five years, when Dr. Cummings, as postmaster, kept it in the Robeson store and a few weeks while George A. Whittemore was post- master, when it was kept in the store of D. Whittemore.
At present the office is located in the store so long occupied by John Whittemore, Jr.
When the Fitzwilliam Post-Office was established in 1805, and for some years after, there do not appear to have been post-offices in some of the neighboring towns, particularly in Richmond and Rindge, and the mail for the people of those towns came chiefly through the Fitzwilliam office. The Rindge office was established in 1815, Richmond in 1812 .*
That this town had good postal facilities so early is accounted for by the fact that the "Great Road " from Boston and vicinity to Keene and the Northwest passed through this town, tlms inviting the establishment, very early, of a regular line of stages.
* From the History of Jaffrey :
Owing to the fire which burned the Department Bullding at Washington, Dec. 15, 1836, in which the earliest books of the office were destroyed, the exact time of the establishment of the Post-Office in Jaffrey cannot be ascertained. The first quarterly accounts began April 1, 1801. The Fitzwilliam office may have been established before 1805.
368
HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
In the New Hampshire Sentinel, bearing date April 23d, 1808, the following advertisement appeared :
" List of Letters remaining in the Post Office Fitzwilliam N. H. April 1. 1808 :--
Fitzwilliam. Capt. John Bowker. ' Miss Rizpah Whipple.
Richmond. Capt. Benjamin Crooker.
Rindge. Doctor Stephen Jewett, 3.
Talman Jennings 3, John F. Munro, Daniel Lake, John Bancroft, Asa Rand, Daniel Page, Doctor Josiah Whitney.
Jonas Robinson P. M."
A similar advertisement, dated July 6th, 1810, is signed " Jonas Robeson P M"
At a little earlier date some of the post-offices served a much wider extent of country. The office in Worcester, Mass., sub- stantially served nearly the whole of Worcester County. In the Massachusetts Spy, 1801, the Postmaster of Worcester ad- vertised letters for nearly all the towns in the county, and for some of the towns in the adjoining counties.
The location of the Fitzwilliam post-offices is such that the people generally are well served by them, with the exception of some of the inhabitants of School District No. 1, who are better accommodated through the office of Winchendon, Mass.
POPULATION.
A brief statement relative to the population of New Hamp- shire, while it was one of the American provinces of Great Britain, will not be inappropriate in this connection.
The settlement of this province commenced early, but its growth was slow when compared with the States and Terri- tories of our Union that have been organized within the last sixty years.
No general census of the United States was taken before 1790, so that for nearly one hundred and fifty years the fig- ures representing the population of New Hampshire were mostly a matter of computation. The calculations of differ-
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POPULATION AT VARIOUS PERIODS.
ent persons equally well qualified to judge were not the same, but in general it may be supposed that there were in the prov- ince in 1640 a little less than one thousand inhabitants. In 1690 there may have been five thousand, and forty years later ten thousand.
The first counties were organized in 1771, when the prov- ince contained less than seventy thousand inhabitants. In 1775 the number had increased to eighty-two thousand two hundred. During the Revolutionary War New Hampshire furnished twelve thousand four hundred and ninety-seven men, and a rapid increase of population could not have been expected in that period. Nevertheless, in 1790, according to the United States Census, New Hampshire had not far from one hundred and forty-two thousand inhabitants.
Fitzwilliam was one of the last towns settled in Southern New Hampshire, and in 1762 the single family of Benjamin Bigelow contained the entire white population.
It is proposed to present here, at a single view, the popula- tion of this and the adjoining towns at the various periods when a reliable enumeration has been made.
Date.
Fitzwilliam.
Troy.
Marlborough.
Rindge.
Jaffrey.
Richmond.
1767
93
. ..
93
298
.
338
1773
214
275
604
303
745
1775
250 Incor-
322
542
351
864
1786
Sto porat-
618
759
1,250
1790
1,038, ed in
786
1,143
1,235
1,386
1800
1.240 1815.
1,185
1.196
1,340
1,390
1810
1,301
1,142
1,226
1,336
1,290
1820
1,167
676
766
1,298
1,339
1,391
1830
1.229
676
822.
1,269
1,354
1,301
1840
1,366
683
831
1,161
1,411
1,165
1850
1,482
759
887
1,274
1,497
1.128
1860
1,292
761
915
1,230
1,453
1,014
1870
1,140
767
1,017
1,107
1,256
868
1880
1,187
796
1,286
934
1,267
669
24
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HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
In June, 1877, Everard Whittemore, a native of Fitzwill- iam, took a complete census of the town, and this was printed for circulation by his father, George A. Whittemore. This gives the name of each inhabitant of the town, with the date and place of birth, and is arranged alphabetically. The total population was found to be thirteen hundred and fourteen, which exceeds the United States enumeration of 1870 by one hundred and seventy-four, and that of 1880 by one hundred and twenty-seven. This difference is probably to be accounted for by supposing a more careful and nearly perfeet enumera- tion of the inhabitants on the part of Mr. Whittemore, rather than by concluding that there had been such a change in the population of the town as these figures would indicate.
The statement of ages given is as follows :
Under 10 years. 268 241
From 50 to 60 years. 112
From 10 to 20 years.
60 to 70 " 78
20 to 30
208
6: 70 to 80 60
"+ 30 to 40
186
80 to 90 60 19
40 to 50 66
140
90 to 100 2
The enterprise of all the parties concerned in taking and printing this census of 1877 was highly creditable.
The census of 1773, taken about the time of the incorpora- tion of the town and preparatory to it, showed of unmarried men eighteen, married men forty-four, persons under sixteen years of age, fifty-five, females married forty-four, females unmarried fifty-three, total two hundred and fourteen.
The population in 1775, as given in the table, was not re- turned by the town officers, but was estimated and filled in by the officials, probably at Exeter, acting under the authority of the Convention which met in that place. The population was probably a little less than the round number given -- two hun- dred and fifty. The census of 1773 was taken by John Mellen and Edward Kendall, selectmen. That of 1786 was taken April 20th by John Fassett, Abner Stone, and Caleb Wineh. The entire population at that time was white.
When Troy was incorporated in 1815 Fitzwilliam lost about forty-five hundred acres of land, or about one sixth part of its
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CEMETERY AND BURIALS.
territory, and not far from two hundred and ten of its inhab- itants, perhaps two hundred and twenty. The loss of the neighboring town of Richmond at the same time and for the same reason was small, perhaps one ninth or one tenth as large as that of Fitzwilliam.
A glance at the table of population given on page 369 will show that, considering all the circumstances of the case, and especially the diminution in the number of its inhabitants by the incorporation of Troy, Fitzwilliam has well maintained its population, while the loss experienced by some of its neighbors, notably Rindge and Richmond, has been very considerable.
CEMETERY AND DEATHS.
In the early years of Fitzwilliam the remains of eight or ten persons were buried in a lot belonging to a Mr. Warner, in School District No. 1, and tradition asserts that there were two other burials in private ground in that part of the town. Twelve or fifteen persons were buried on Lot 20 in Range 11. now within the limits of Troy. This place was originally enclosed by a stone wall, except at the place of entrance, but the wall is now very much broken down, and the lot is over- grown with trees. A number were buried also in what is now the old cemetery of Troy, before the incorporation of that town, but how many it is impossible to say, though it is not supposed that such cases were numerous.
Occasionally, in the case of persons dying from small-pox, there are supposed to have been burials in unknown places, as the safety of the community might demand. And in later years there have been a few burials in Winchendon from the southeast part of the town.
With these exceptions, the old cemetery on the hill (with the additions made to it in later years) has been the single burying-place of the dead of Fitzwilliam from the beginning.
The history of the laying out of this burying-ground has been already given in Chapter V., but it may be remarked in this place that a committee of five, appointed by the propri- etors in 1768, after a careful examination, reported in 1770, in
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HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
favor of placing the meeting-house and locating the cemetery on the easterly part of Lot No. 13, in Range 7, and that " five acres of land be laid out for public use where Jason Stone- child is buried."
Thaddeus, son of Jason Stone, died, April 30th, 1769, from being scalded, and was the first recorded death in Monadnock No. 4 ; and the burial of this child in that place was doubtless in anticipation of the act of the proprietors in locating as they did the cemetery.
That there was a great lack of regularity and convenience of access in the arrangements of the ancient lot is not a matter for surprise, when we recall the circumstances under which the earlier interments were made.
In 1846 it was deemed necessary to provide additional land for the cemetery, as the ground originally laid out was nearly all occupied. The land required was purchased of Mr. John Kimball, and it gave an opportunity for extensive and much- needed improvements.
This cemetery was doubtless located where it is chiefly be- cause of its central position, and this will always be a most weighty reason for enlarging those grounds rather than seek- ing a new locality, if more space shall be needed. On every account it is very desirable that the interests and associations connected with the burial of the dead in a town like Fitzwill- iam shall be gathered around a single place. In many towns in New England nearly every school district had originally its cemetery, with the result that many of these present to-day a most unsightly appearance. Not a few towns could be named with ten or twelve burial-grounds, besides several family yards, and in nearly all such cases the stranger who looks for neat- ness, care, and refined taste in a burying-ground, too often will discover evidence of culpable neglect, if not of positive and unchecked dilapidation.
No pains have been spared to make the table that follows accurate, but that it is perfectly so cannot be supposed. All the early pastors, especially Revs. Messrs. Brigham and Sabin (whose ministry covered nearly seventy years), appear to have made full and faithful records of the deaths that occurred dur-
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EXPLANATIONS OF THE TABLE OF DEATHS.
ing their respective pastorates, while in later times a number of individuals have preserved lists of the mortality of the place, all of which have been used to a greater or less extent in preparing and correcting this table.
It is confidently believed that few towns, if any, in New England have the means of making up so full and so nearly a correct list of deaths, covering a period of one hundred and eighteen years, as is here presented.
The first column in the table gives the total number of deaths in each decade. The last period, however, includes but eight years.
The second column gives the years.
The third column gives the whole number of deaths in town during the year.
The columns four to fifteen classify deaths according to ages, so far as ages are known.
The columns sixteen and seventeen give the number of deaths with no ages recorded, the column sixteen giving the number designated as, or supposed to have been, children, and the column seventeen giving the number known or supposed to have been adults.
The column eighteen includes all those who, dying else- where, are known to have been buried in Fitzwilliam. The number of these, especially in later years, has been large, but such cases are not included in the sum total.
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HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
1
2
3
5
6
10 to 20.
20 to 30.
30 to 40.
40 to 50.
50 to 60.
60 to 70.
50 to 80.
80 to 90.
90 to 100.
Over 100.
Children.
Adults.
Died elsewhere ; in- terred in Fitzwilliam
1769
1
20
1771
1772
2
2020
1774
0
1775
2
1
1
1776
4
1
1
2
1777
12
1
1
1
1
- CO
1
1779
2
1
1
1780
10
4
1781
9
6
1
1
1
1782
6
1
1783
8
3
1
1
20
1
1784
9
3
2
1
3
1785
10
6
1786
11
1
1
1
1787
3
2
1
1788
9
5
1
1
2
1789
10
8
1
1
1
1790
24
7
1
1
3
12
1
1791
18
8
1
1
3
5
1792
9
6
1
1
1793
16
6
1
1
1
3
4
1
1794
11
4
2
1
2
2
1795
29
8
3
1
14
16
1796
9
5
1
1
1
1797
13
6
1
1
1
1
3
154 1798
15
13
4
1
4
3
1800
17
4
20
2
1
5
1
1801
14
9
2
1802
15
5
1
2
1
1
1 -7-71
2010 -20
1805
20
8
3
12
1
1
1
1
1
152 1808
20
9
1
2
1809
14
4
20
1
1
2
1
1
1810
10
4
1
2
1
1
1811
12
C7
1812
28
10
9
2
1813
8
4
2
10
11
12
13
14
15
17
16 Age not stated.
'Total deaths for each decade.
Total number of death-
in the year.
Under 5 years of age. +
5 to 10.
6061
1
31 1778
6
2
1
1
11
4
2
1799
13
3
1
1
1
1
1
1806
11
2
3
1807
13
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1804
16
2
1
10 - 20 00 20 - 20
16
172168
2
1
2
1
1
OC
9
1770
1773
4
3
4
1803
375
TABLE OF DEATHIS.
1
2
3
OT 5 6
Under5 years of age. +
5 to 10.
10 to 20.
20 to 30.
30 to 40.
40 to 50.
50 to 60.
60 to 70.
70 to 80.
80 to 90.
90 to 100.
Over 100.
Children.
Adults.
Died elsewhere ; in-
terred in Fitzwilliam |
1814
14
6
3
1
1
1
1
1
1815
20
11
?
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1817
17
9
1
1
1 3
1
1
2
1
1
1820
24
1
2
1
1
1
6
4
1
1
1
1
1821
21
8
1
3
1
1
3
1
1
1
1822
23
13
3 1
1
1
1
3
1
1
2
3
1
1
1827
19
S 5
1
1
4
1
1
3
1
1
1829
15
5 6
2
1
1
2
6
2
1
1832
21
9
2
3
3
2
4
1
2 2
1 6 2
1
1835
19
4
1
2
1
2
1
2
4
2
1
1
1837
39
12
5
5
3
2
1
1
1
1
2
223 1838
25
10
1839
19
4
1
4
2
1
2 3
1
1
2 1
3
1842
25
11
3
2
2
1
1 4
4
1 3 1
2
1
1846
15
5
1
2 1
4
5
5
1
2
1
1
1
1
3
1849
32
13
3
5
3
1
1
1
3
1
1
4
1850
30
11
1
1
4
2
3
1
1 3
2
4 4
1
1853
35
11
2
4
3
1
3
2 3
1
2 3
1
2
1854
30
10
1
2 3
3
3
1855
20
-7 00
2
3
3
3
2
1
1
4
1857
35
12
2
3
3
1
3
4
3
1
4
259 1858
18
3
1
1
2
3 3
1
1|
1
1.
1
1
8
-2
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
1
1
1
1819
19
17
5
6
2
2
1
2 3
1
1
3
1
1
?
1
1830
13
19
5
1
1
1 2
1
1
3
1
1
1836
23
8
1
1
1
1
4 3
1
1 1
1 2 2 3
1
1843
24
9
1
3
1
5
1844
29
9
2
5
4 2
1
3
1 ·2 3
3 1
2 1
3
1
1
6
1847
40 24
15
1
3
3
3
2 4
2
1
1
3
1851
20
10
2
1852
14
2
1 4
2 2
2
3
1
1
3 2 4 4
1
1841
31
4
1
3
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1834
27
8
2
1
4
1
11
1840
11
1
4
3
1
1
1824
1
1825
17
4
8
1
4
1
1
2
1
1
203 1828
17
C
i
1
-2
00
1
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16 17
Age not stated.
Total deaths for each decade.
Total number of deaths
in the year.
1
1
1
3
1816
1
1
·2
149 1818
18
1 3
1
1
1823
1826
24
1
3
1 1
1 1 3
1 5
1
1
1
1845
21
4
1
2
2 3
2
1
5 3
4
1
1856
25
3
245 1848
1 2
1
2
1831
1
1
1833
8
3
2
1
1
1
3
376
HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
Total deaths for each decade.
2
3
5
6
10 to 20.
20 to 30.
30 to 40
40 to 50.
50 to 60.
60 to 70.
70 to 80.
80 to 90.
90 to 100.
Over 100.
Children.
Adults.
Died elsewhere ; in-5 terred in Fitzwilliam|
1859
25
5
1
1
1
2
5
1860
21
4
1
1
3
2
5
1861
28
2
1
4
4
2
4
2
3
5
1
5
1862
26
8
3
3
2
9
1863
41
9
9
2
1
2
4
5
3
2
2
1
1
13
1864
38
12
2
6
6
2
3
3
1
1
1
1
9
1865
33
4
1
2
2
3
3
5
4
4
1
11
1866
26
9
5
1867
18
4
1
2
4 1
1
1
2
1
1
1869
18
2
1
1
2
1
3
1
3
4
2
1870
23
3
1
2
1
1
2
5
2
2
2
1
12
1872
17
3
2
2
1
1
2
3
1
1
1
12
1873
18
8
2
1
1
2
1874
14
5
1
1
2
6
2
1
3
1
15
1876
24
5
3
2
1
1
2
4
3
1877
23
3
3
1
1
2
1
4
7
1
5
1879
16
2
2
1
2
1
1
1
4
1
1
8
1880
17
3
1
1
3
3
2 2
2
1
13
1882
29
5
1
3
1
3
6
1
12
1883
17
4
1
2
1
1
2
3
1
2
4
1884
19
4
2
1
4
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1885
20
4
2
2
4
4
4
7
157 1886
16
2
1
2
3
3
3
1
1
6
The table includes a period of 118 years, and the total num- ber of deaths recorded is 2114.
Under 5 years
649
50 to 60 125
5 to 10.
111
60 to 70. 139
10 to 20.
138
70 to 80. 182
20 to 30
160
80 to 90.
160
30 to 40
116
90 to 100.
44
40 to 50.
110
over 100
4
Children-age not stated
104
Adults-age not stated .
72
Died elsewhere, but interred in Fitzwilliam 300
4
1871
20
4
1
1
3
3
3
1
3
4 1
2
1875
22
7
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
3
1881
23
5
1
3
2
3
1
4 4 3
2 3
3
271 1868
15
3
2
2
2
1
6
4
5
1
1
3
4
3
16 Age not stated.
17
Total number of deaths
in the year.
Under 5 years of age. +
8
9|
10
11
1
12
13
14
15
1
192 1878
13
5
7
7
2
4 4
3
5 to 10.
377
DEATHIS OF AGED PERSONS.
Died in Fitzwilliam and inchided in the foregoing table, but were interred elsewhere, about 160. Of this mimber, over 30 were Roman Catholics, who were taken away to be interred in consecrated ground.
PROFESSIONAL MEN WHO HAVE DIED IN FITZWILLIAM :
Clergymen : Benjamin Brigham, June 5th, 1799, æ. 57 ; Darius Fisher, September 24, 1834, æ. 63; Ezekiel L. Bas- com, April 2d, 1841, æ. 64; James II. Sayward, January 13th, 1844, æ. 35 ; John Sabin, October 14th, 1845, æ. 75 : John Woods, May 4th, 1861, æ. 76; Abraham Jenkins, Jr., August 4th, 1861, æ. 50 ; Luther Townsend, a native of Fitz- william, d. at Troy, February 9th, 1862, æ. 48 ; was buried here.
Physicians : Peter Clark Grosvener, December 14th, 1794 ; Amasa Scott, May 16th, 1821, æ. 38 ; Jared Perkins, October 7th, 1824, æ. 31; Ebenezer Wright, March 16th, 1829, æ. 67 ; Thomas Richardson, August Sth, 1852, æ. 86; James Batcheller, April 14th, 1866, æ. 74; Silas Cummings, June 30th, 1882, æ. 78.
Lawyer : Luther Chapman, August 15th, 1856, æ. 77.
LIST OF DEATHS IN FITZWILLIAM OF PERSONS AGED SO YEARS
AND UPWARD :
1778 Dec. 30. Mrs. (Mary [?]) Buckman 81
1794 Mar. 30. Mrs. Kendall, widow of. 89
1802 July 24. Mrs. Ruhama Pratt, mother of Job (?). 93
Sept. 19. Joseph Hemingway 83
1805 Mar. 10.
John Camp 95
Dec. 17. Mrs. Elizabeth Davison, mother of Benjamin, Sr. (?) 85
1807 April 15.
Abraham Rice. 82
1808 Sept. 27. Mrs. Sampson, mother of Capt. Benjamin 96
1809 April 12.
Zechariah Davis 95
1812 Feb. 8. Joseph Nurse. 89
Mar. 25. Sylvanus Hemingway. 85
378
HISTORY OF FITZWILLIAM.
1814 Mar. 8.
Robert Ware. 81
1815 Feb. 11.
Mrs. Lydia Paine. 84
1816 April 20. Abigail Deeth, widow of Caleb. . 85
1817 Feb. 15. Capt. Samuel Patch 87 S4
1818 July 18.
Henry Rice.
1819 April 27. July 22.
Relief Patrick, widow of Samuel (?) Michael Sweetser
84
Nov. 4.
Stephen Harris.
1820 Jan. 16. Mary Sweetser, widow of Michael
80
April 15. Mr. Moody
85
July 6. Susanna (Wilder) Rice, widow of Abraham
90
Aug. 18.
Richard Gleason
Nov. 20.
Susanna Wallace, widow of.
82 80
1821 Mar. 14.
Sarah Fisher, mother of Mrs. Francis Fullam 于6
Sept. 7.
Benjamin Batchelder.
86
1826 April S.
Anna (Miles) Knowlton, widow of Ezekiel
85
Dec. 3.
Abner Stone 90
1827 May 5.
Molly Hemingway, widow of Syl- vanus.
SỐ
1828 Sept. 29.
Elizabetli Stiles, mother of Mrs. Timothy Blodgett.
SS
1829 Jan. 26.
Mary (Angier) Harris, widow of Stephen
Mar. 30.
William Loeke
1831 Jan. 16.
Mrs. Susanna Chase.
Dec. 15. Rebecca (Barrett) Locke, widow of William.
87 82
1833 April 21.
James Gibson
1834 Jan. 1.
Anna (Stacy) Stone, wife of Samuel .. 82
Jan. 12. Dea. John Fassett. 94
Feb. 2.
Philip Amidon 85
Aug. 14. Jonas Woods S2
Nov. 30. Anna (Smith) Carter, widow of Joseph 84
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