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Parker, Mark A. Parkhurst, Christopher
Welch, Lawrence Welch, Thomas Welch, John
Fuller, Hiram
Lindsey, John
Tubbs, Thomas
Mulhall, Edward
Symonds, William F.
Hunt, Melvin O.
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Wilkins, John C.
Wason, Eugene
Wood, John H.
Woodward, James
Wheeler, William A.
Woodman, Israel D. Whitney, Fred
Given under our hands, at said Hancock, this 22d day of February, 1889.
JAMES S. HAYWARD, ANDREW B. STONE, CLARENCE H. WARE, Supervisors of the Check List .*
NOTE IV.
POPULATION OF HANCOCK AT DIFFERENT PERIODS.
1790.
634
1830
.1316
1860. 844
1800.
.1120
| 1840.
1345
1870. 692
1810.
1184
1850
.1012
The greatest number of inhabitants was probably in 1842, when Benning- ton was incorporated. Like most of the farming towns in New England, Hancock has lost in population since 1840, while Bennington has gained about as many inhabitants as Hancock has lost.
NOTE V.
CHURCH CENTENNIAL.
In December, 1886, it was voted that "the church observe the centennial of its organization in August, 1888, by a memorial service."
At the annual meeting of May, 1887, it was voted that the pastor should commence to collect facts for the occasion, and at the next annual meeting, in May, 1888, Dea. Orland Eaton, Mrs. Alfred Barber, and Dea. Asa D. Wood were chosen a committee of the church to make the necessary ar- rangements for the occasion. In the mean time the society and other citi- zens of the town took measures to thoroughly repair the audience-room of the church.
The committee having the matter in charge arranged a programme, which was neatly printed by Bro. James T. Weston, as was also the following card of invitation :
" HANCOCK, N. H., August, 1888.
"DEAR BROTHER :
" The one-hundredth anniversary of the Hancock Congregational church occurs on the 28th of this month. The church has decided to commemorate the event by centennial exercises on that date, as per enclosed programme, and fraternally invite
* This is the corrected copy .- W. W. H.
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Wood. Asa D.
Wood. Frank A.
1880. 689 1820. 1178
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your presence and co-operation in making the season as profitable and pleasant as possible.
" If circumstances forbid your visiting us, will you please send us words of help and cheer by letter?
" In behalf of the church.
ORLAND EATON, MRS. ALFRED BARBER, ASA D. WOOD,
" Committee."
The account of the meeting that we give in this place is mainly copied from the pastor's report, as recorded on page 115 of the church records.
HANCOCK CHURCH CENTENNIAL, AUG. 28, 1888. PROGRAMME. OPENED AT 9 A. M.
1. WORDS OF WELCOME.
By Dea. Henry Knight, of Peterboro', president of the day.
2. SINGING.
3. DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES. Reading of the 84th Psalm, by Rev. H. Gulick. Prayer by Rev. Quincy Blakely, of Marlboro'.
4. SINGING.
5. "ADVANCE MADE AND NEEDED BY THIS PEOPLE." Address by Rev. T. C. Pratt, of Auburn.
Mr. Pratt commended the improvement in the interior of the church, in- cluding the new organ and new hymn books, and also the shortening and simplifying of the confession of faith of the church. He thought that the choir ought to be brought to the front, and that a parsonage ought to be built, after which he recommended that the position of the horse sheds be improved and the sheds be put into proper repair. He urged an advance in Christian charity and Christian activity with the beginning of the new cen- tury of the life of the church .*
6. SINGING.
7. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE BY THE PASTOR.
Isaiah 46: 9-" Remember the former things."
No report of this excellent sermon is given, but its facts are mostly re- corded elsewhere in this work.
8. SINGING.
9. "THE TOWN IN ITS RELATION TO THE CHURCH."
Address by Rev. W. W. Hayward, of South Framingham, Mass.
* We regret that a copy of his address is not in our hands.
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Mr. Hayward, after offering his congratulations to those present, allud- ed to the early hour of the meeting, not common in our time, but one hun- dred years ago seventeen consecrated men and women met at 8 o'clock in the morning. in a private house, to organize this church.
The relation of the town to the church is the proper way to state the sub- ject, for in the early settlement of New England the church was first, and the town second. The church and state have, as far as organization is con- cerned, been separated. Abuses in the Old World, and dangers that might arise in the New, have brought about this state of affairs. Plymouth, Sa- lem. Boston, Concord, Hartford, and many other towns that might be men- tioned, were established as churches. Intimately interwoven are and have been the interests of the two organizations. Changes have taken place. To some minds the church has seemed to have lost something of its prestige, yet in almost all the great questions that concern the body politic, as in the past. so in the present, the church comes to the front. Hancock was not one of those towns that were established as churches. No wise pastor like Robinson, or leader like Bulkley or Hooker, led our fathers into this wil- derness. As individuals they came - English Puritans or Congregational- ists and Scotch Presbyterians -they were not unmindful of their ob- ligations, their responsibilities. They recognized the fact that no previous training would suffice. Without the salutary and restraining influence of religious teachings, any people will sooner or later relapse into barbarism. This axiom the fathers accepted. They organized this church, not made up of perfect men and women, but of such as God sent here, and its influ- ence has ever been helpful. In educational matters its influence can not be overestimated. Rev. Mr. Paige was a man of culture, and the entire com- munity felt the influence of his life. The Emerson family were brought here by the fame of the superior educational advantages of the town. Nor have his successors been unworthy.
In the cause of temperance Rev. Mr. Burgess was a pioneer. Thus, in a variety of ways, have the church life and the life of the town been intermin- gled, but the most potent forces of the church can not be measured. Its beneficent influence has been constant. Like the sunshine and the pure air we breathe, we do not realize its value, because we have never been de- prived of it. The manly fiber of those who have gone out from this town can be traced directly to this source. And this influence has been steady, uninterrupted for a hundred years.
The influence of the church building must also be taken into considera- tion. No greater calamity could befall the town than its loss. Its present condition speaks eloquently concerning the present condition of the town life. The catholic spirit that this church has ever manifested, never more pronounced than to-day, shows that one hundred years ago the founders " builded better than they knew."
10. SINGING.
11. PRAYER AND BENEDICTION.
Rev. George Dustin, of Hartford, Conn.
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COLLATION AT 12, M.
12. SINGING, AT 1.30, P. M.
13. PRAYER.
Rev. Moses T. Runnells, of East Jaffrey.
14. "HANCOCK FACTORY CHURCH." (Bennington.) Address by Rev. J. H. Heald, of Bennington.
Mr. Heald alluded in well-chosen words to the organization of the HIan- cock Factory church, and questioned whether a Congregational church would have existed in Bennington had there not been a strong one at the Center when it was organized. He also alluded to the fact that one of his deacons was a grandnephew of Rev. Reed Paige, and that the other one chose for his wife a child of Hancock parents.
15. SINGING.
16. SERMON.
By Rev. W. R. Cochrane, of Antrim.
Mr. Cochrane chose for his text the last part of the fifteenth verse of the second chapter of Philippians, " In the midst of a crooked and perverse na- tion, among whom ye shine as lights in the world." Subject : The light-giv- ing, saving influence of the church, in community and nation.
1. The church as a law-keeping, virtue-promoting element in the nation.
2. The further good influence of the church in the training of its chil- dren.
3. Christians as a nation-preserving force in their influence on those out- side the families of the church.
4. The special power of the church, as supplying most of the strong, reliable leaders in every enterprise for the public good.
5. The special blessed influences of a hundred years of a true church in a town like this. (1.) By way of saving souls to virtue and to God. (2.) By way of maintaining the Sabbath and the Ordinances. (3.) By way of educating the people. (4.) By way of promoting acquaintance and union among the people.
The speaker closed with an earnest appeal and with the following poem :
A HUNDRED YEARS OF PRAYER.
Oh! what a chain of holy light Is reaching back to-day To where, on yonder mountain hight, This flock began to pray! What varied scenes, what steps of grace, What rounds of weary care, Through which God's changeless mind can trace A hundred years of prayer!
There's many a link within the chain, And many a parting tear; And many a bitter cry of pain Has reached our Father's ear!
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But all His answering gifts of love, That children's children share, Bear witness how He holds above A hundred years of prayer!
I know not whose the voices now, Nor whose the bended knee; Nor see the heads that then did bow, Our Father's God, to Thee! But this I know, though trouble-bound, No people need despair Behind whom on God's roll are found A hundred years of prayer!
So on toward God and heaven we fly, Inspired by all the past, To take our places in the sky With those old saints at last ! And when upon that blessed shore The crowns of life we wear,
What joy they'll bring forevermore - A hundred years of prayer!
17. SINGING.
18. GENERAL REMARKS.
By Rev. Bros. Runnells, East Jaffrey; Goodhue, Pembroke; Dustin, Hartford, Ct .: Cochrane (Presbyterian), Antrim; Hardy (Methodist), Peterboro'; Heald, Bennington; Hayward (Universalist), South Framing- ham, Mass .; Ruland, Greenfield; Pierce (Unitarian), Dublin; and Bros. G. Henry Whitcomb, Worcester, Mass. ; Timothy C. Whittemore, Lawrence, Mass. ; Walter D. Woods, Bennington ; Hon. Shepherd L. Bowers, Newport ; and others.
Deacon Eaton read some facts as to the sixteen persons who had served as deacons of the church.
19. PRAYER AND BENEDICTION.
20. COLLATION, ETC.
Rev. Mr. Gulick closed his report as follows : "The day was fair, the at- tendance large, and the occasion one of great interest as the One Hundredth Anniversary of the church of Hancock. An added interest was given to the occasion from the fact that the services were the first held in the church edifice after its renovation, at a cost of about two thousand dollars. The renovation consists of the putting in of suitable heaters for the warming of the house, frescoing the ceiling and walls, painting the seats and wood- work, re-cushioning the seats and re-carpeting the floors, lowering the desk and platform and enlarging the same, and richly and beautifully furnishing it, and in short thoroughly renewing the interior of the house." A fine centennial memorial tablet, executed by Miss Lelia J. Wood, and by her presented to the church, added much to the interest of the occasion.
Letters expressing their regrets for unavoidable absence were received from Rev. G. W. Rigler, pastor of Baptist church, Antrim; Rev. Oscar A.
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Emerson, pastor of Methodist church, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Rev. Albert Bowers, Huntington, West Va .; Rev. S. F. Emerson, Burlington, Vt .; Bros. W. II. Weston, M. D., New York city ; Hon. E. D. Putnam, Montpelier, Vt. ; Hon. A. N. Clark, Beverly, Mass .; Charles B. Pearsons, Brooklyn, N. Y .; and Sisters Mrs. Lucinda Taft, Franconia, and Miss Kate A. Whitney (grand- daughter of Rev. Mr. Paige), Oswego, N. Y., which were read at an adjourned meeting.
The following poem, written by the venerable E. D. Boylston of the Am- herst Cabinet, came to hand too late for use on the centennial day :
A hundred years have passed by Since here a little band, Amid the howling wilderness, Were joined in heart and hand.
Their purpose and their hopes were one : That naught might come between The love they owed to God and man - That noble seventeen.
They joined in holy covenant To walk in truth with God; And each with each in fellowship, According to His Word.
And how has heaven honored Those worthy ones of old ! Of good that from their lives has flowed The half can ne'er be told!
The one, to-day, is half a score, Yea, more than that are here; And what the future doth enfold, It doth not yet appear.
May those who gather in this fane At next centennial, Of covenant mercy, through God's grace, Have richer things to tell.
On page 117, church records, the pastor records as follows : "Sept. 2, 1888, -the first Sabbath services in the renovated house of worship, and the first Sabbath of the second century of the church of Hancock. These facts noted by the pastor with a view to a re-dedication of the house of worship, and a re-consecration of those who statedly worship in it, and especially of the members of the church. The attendance was large; the text selected (Acts 1:8) with a view to inquire into the reasons for the existence of an organized church, and more especially the reason and pur- pose for which this church exists, and to enforce that reason in order that this church might be led to realize more fully the purpose of its existence in the coming than even in the last century."
The pastor carefully revised the list of church members on this occasion and reported one hundred and thirty-seven members, of whom twenty re- side out of town.
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NOTE VI. ADDITIONAL ANNALS.
March 8. 1887. Moderator, Joshua S. Lakin; town clerk, William F. Symonds :* selectmen, Adolphus G. Foster, George W. Goodhue, Charles G. Matthews. Voted 8900 for the common schools, and $200 for one term of high school. Voted 856 for further aid to town history.t Voted $25 to Ephraim Weston Post, G. A. R., for the proper observance of Memorial Day.
March 31, 1888. Moderator, Andrew B. Stone; town clerk, William F. Symonds ; selectmen, George W. Goodhue, Charles G. Matthews, Xeno- phon W. Brooks.#
Nov. 6, 1888. Moderator, John P. Hills; supervisors, James S. Hay- ward. Andrew B. Stone, Clarence H. Ware; representative, George W. Goodhue; delegate to constitutional convention, George I. Hayward; presidential electors : for Cleveland, 99 votes; for Harrison, 105 votes ; governor, David H. Goodell. 96 votes; Charles H. Amsden, 102 votes ; member of congress, Oren C. Moore, 105 votes; Edward F. Mann, 100 votes.
March 12. 1889. Moderator, John P. Hills; town clerk, William F. Symonds ; selectmen, Charles G. Matthews, Xenophon W. Brooks, John P. Hills. Voted 8900 for schools, 825 for Memorial Day, $25 for support of street lamps. The town gave a majority of its votes for each of the seven amendments of the state constitution that were prepared by the con- stitutional convention.
At a special meeting, held April 6, 1889, Andrew B. Stone, moderator, Adolphus D. Tuttle. Orland Eaton, and Henry F. Robinson were chosen a committee to act with the selectmen, to ascertain what improvements in our streets and common are practicable and desirable, said committee to re- port to the town at a future town-meeting. This action was taken in anti- cipation of the receipt of a legacy of $10,000 from Adolphus Carter Whit- comb (q. v.), for the improvement and enlargement of the common. One half of said legacy can be used at once when received, and the income of the balance can be used from time to time in continuing and increasing these improvements. At this town-meeting the following resolve was passed : "· Resolved, That the town will gratefully accept, and take care of, a building for the preservation of ancient articles, and its contents, when ready for de- livery, and accepted by the selectmen." Henry F. Robinson§ was chosen by the town to solicit and store articles for preservation in this building.
* The same person who has been chosen town clerk has invariably been chosen town treasurer, for the past twenty years or more.
t This money was used to procure the portraits of Abijah Hadley and Ebenezer Hubbard for insertion in this work.
t As this was regarded as a special town-meeting, no appropriations were voted besides those required by law.
§ Mr. Robinson was an efficient manager of the antiquarian department at the town centennial. The frequent notices made by absent friends of the same, with an expressed wish that such a collection be preserved, were the causes of this action of the town.
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NOTE VII. SCHOOLS.
At the time of the adoption of the town system of schools, several of the school-houses in Hancock were in a dilapidated condition. This was es- pecially true of the one at the Center, and those at Nos. 2, 3, and 4. At the annual meeting of the town school district, March 1, 1889, Joshua S. Lakin declined serving longer as a member of the school board, and Orland Eaton was chosen a member of the board for three years, by a large majority. At this meeting it was voted to build a school-house at the Center, with two departments, and to remove the old school-house and use such of the materials as were desirable in building the new one and in repairing out- lying ones. Voted, to raise $2,800 to build a new school-house at the Cen- ter and to repair the outlying ones. Chose John Newell, George W. Good- hue, George I. Hayward, and John F. Eaton a committee, to act with the school board, in carrying out the wishes of the district. Voted, to grate- fully accept any donations offered towards building at the Center, or repair- ing outlying houses, if the conditions of the gifts seem desirable to the building and repairs committee and the school board .*
At its annual meeting the town voted to grant the use of the spot at or near the place marked "C. Turner," as the site of the new school-house.
At the special meeting in April, the town voted to give the building com- mittee and the school board the choice of any spot on its common they might select, for locating the new school-house, if approved by the select- men. At this meeting the town voted to donate the stone wall of its pound, for use in the basement of the new school-house. The place selected for the school-house is near "Grange Hall," and the work will probably be begun this month (August, 1889). Progress has also been made in the repairs of the other school-houses.
* $500 have already been offered towards building at the Center, by A. D. Tuttle. (q. v.)
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INDEX TO PART I.
Act of incorporation of Hancock, S.
granting a special tax to build the meeting- house. 98.
to set off Joseph Putnam and his estate from So- ciety Land and incor- porate the same with the town of Hancock, 117.
Address, centennial, 14.
of Rev. Daniel Goodhue, 47.
of Rev. Wm. Clark, D. D., 36.
of Joshua S. Lakin, 13. of C. B. Pearson, 38.
of Carl E. Knight, 43.
of Dea. Henry Knight, 45. of Rev. Josiah L. Seward, 37.
of H. F. Robinson, 29. of Dr. W. H. Weston, 39. Allen proprietors, 2, 4. Antrim mountain, 57. Animals, wild, 70, 71. Annals of the town, 85. Antiquarian room, 12. Bald mountain, 57. Baptist church, 204, 205, 206, 291.
Bennington, history of, 280. Birds, 70.
Brooks, Davis, 59, 82. Ferguson, 59, 84. Hosley, 59, 82, 83, 84.
Moore, 59, 67, 74, 83, 84, 274. Skatutakee, 59. Catholics, 207, 293.
Cemeteries, 18, 86, 93, 118, 134, 153, 168, 170, 249, 250. Centennial committee, 8, 11.
contributors to expenses of, 9.
programme of, 10. doings of the day, 11. church, 1061.
Certificate,Mr. Cummings', 118. Claim of Rev. John Wheel- wright, 2. Common schools, 22, 47, 153, 224-228, 232, 233, 293.
Common, deed of, 97. Communication of C. A. Whitaker in Peterboro' Transcript, 49.
Consent of the inhabitants of the east side to the incorporation of Han- cock, 7.
Contoocook river, 6, 7, 55, 56, 58, 59.
Continental beef, 17, 87, 91. Copy of a deed of a pew in the meeting-house, 118. Congregational church, or- ganization of, 188.
covenant, 187.
renewed covenant, 192.
confession of faith adopt- ed, 192. amended, 197, 201. deacons, 202.
centennial, 1061.
Congregational church of Bennington, organiza- tion of, 281, 291.
pastors, deacons, and membership of, 292.
Charcoal burning, 75.
Christian Endeavor, Socie- ties of, 244, 292.
Crotchet mountain, 57.
Cultivated crops, 76, 77.
Dark day of May, 1780, 72.
Dogreeves, 117.
Early settlers, 67.
Elevation of Hancock above the sea, 55, 56. Fire companies, 154, 243. First glass window, 70. Fish, 70.
Flax, 76, 77.
Flora of Hancock, 60.
Fruit, 78, 79.
Good Templars, 244.
Grand Army of the Repub- lic, 179, 246.
Grange, 245. Granite, 56. Grand Monadnock, 57. Grass, 77.
Grasshopper year, 147.
Hancock, Gov. John, 15, 100, 110, 115. Hancock academy, build- ing for the use of, 207.
Hancock academy, object of, 231.
organization of, 230.
trustees, instructors, and students of, 231. Hancock high schools, 25, 228, 232. Hancock Artillery, 23, 42, 234.
Hancock Light Battery, 11. Hills, Nahor, 57. Norway, 56, 57. White, 57. Hogreeves, 81, 99, 120.
Income, sources of, 74.
Indian fire hearths, 60.
Instructions to Major Brooks in regard to the Stamp Act, 123.
Inventory of 1788, 19. of 1793, 115.
of 1798, 124.
of 1808, 135.
of 1815 and 1816, 139.
of 1819 and 1820, 144.
Lake Nubanusit, 57.
Latitude and longitude of Hancock, 55.
Legacy of Ebenezer Hub- bard, 168.
of Abijah Hadley, 173.
of Miss Salina Hills, 179.
Letter from A. B. Baldwin, 54. from Rev. Asahel Bige- low, 198.
from Rev. Albert Bowers, 51.
from Rev. Archibald Bur- gess, 195.
from Alvah Copeland, 53. from Hon. John A. Cum- mings, 52.
from Judge I. W. Gates, 51.
from Rev. Hervey Gulick, 200.
from J. F. Keyes, 53.
from Rev. Reed Paige, 111. from Jas. P. Pearson, 54. from Hon. Charles A. Robbe, 37. from Hon. A. W. Sawyer, 44.
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Letter from Hon. W. B. Washburn, 53. from Mr. and Mrs. Frank Washburn, 53. Literary and Scientific in- stitution, charter grant- ed, 229. object of, 229. instructors and students, 230. trustees in 1838-9, 229. permission granted to locate on the common, 151.
Live stock, 79.
Lumber, 75. Maple sugar, 75, 76.
Manufactures, domestic,80. Marriages, 207.
Marks, legal, of cattle and sheep, 123.
Masonian proprietors, 2. Masons, Altemont lodge of, 140. residing in town, 247.
Meeting-house, building of the first, 18, 19, 86, 91, 94-114. burning of the, 142.
building of the present, 143.
dedication of the, 144. removing, etc., 158. Methodist, 247.
Meeting-houses in Society Land and Bennington, 204, 292.
Memorial Day, 247.
Memorial relative to the incorporation of An- trim, 5. Methodists, 22, 207.
Militia, New Hampshire, 234. Mills and manufactures, 81, 283.
Miller's mountain, 56, 57. Mount Skatutakee, 56, 57. Norway band, 244.
Nubanusit river, 59. Odd Fellows, 247.
Officers of the town of Han- cock, etc., 181. of the town of Benning- ton, etc., 289.
Ordination of Rev. A. Bur- день, 196. of Rev. Reed Paige, 191.
of Rev. Hervey Gulick, 201.
of Rev. L. Tandy, 206.
Patent granted by James I to the Duke of Lenox, Sir Fernando Gorges, and others, 1.
Petition for the incorpora- tion of the town, 7. for the appointment of a committee to locate a meeting-house, 95.
for authority to levy a tax, etc., 98.
for a special tax, etc., 99. for a special tax to be paid in money, etc., 101. relative to taxes, 7.
to establish a new school district, 126.
to unite the several school districts in the town, 232.
to disannex a part of dis- trict No. 6 in Hancock and annex it to district No. 10 in Dublin, 161. of Joseph Putnam to be annexed to Hancock, 116.
Plumbago, 56.
Poem, centennial, 26. of D. K. Boutelle, 47. of W. D. Woods, 45.
of Rev. W. R. Cochrane, 1064.
of E. D. Boylston, 1066. Pond, Half-moon, 58-60. Hunt's, 58. Juggernaut, 57-60. Jack's, 58, 59. Mud, 58.
Norway, 56, 57, 60. Spoonwood, 57.
Pond, Tenney, 58. Willard's, 57. Population at different pe- riods, 1061. Post-offices, 274, 293. Potash, 75.
" Poverty year," 140. Pound-keeper, 99. Railroads, 170, 172, 173, 274, 287, 288. Roads and bridges, 251. Society Land, 4, 7, 116, 275, 280.
Soil of Hancock, 56. Soldiers' Aid Circle, 246.
Soldiers of the French war, 235.
of the Revolutionary war, 235.
of the war of 1812-15, 237. of the war of the Rebel- lion, 239.
Spiritualists, 207.
Storm, great, of March, 1888, 1059.
Sunday school, 203, 204. Survey of Rob't Fletcher, 3. Tax-payers of 1786, 1058. Telegraph lines, 274.
Temperance society, Han- cock, 243.
Temple mountain, 57.
Timber, 75. Topographical items, 55.
Town-meeting, first, 85.
Tythingmen, 90, 154.
Unitarians, 194, 207.
Universalists, 22, 206, 293.
Valuation of the town in 1881, 176. in 1885, 179.
Village of Bennington, 293. of Hancock, 247.
of Hancock Factory, 153, 279-281, 284.
Voters of 1889, 1059.
Warning out of town, 92.
Warrant for annual town- meeting of 1781, 89. Whitcomb Town library, 174, 177, 178, 242.
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