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Horfes and oxen of five years old at 3/.
Cows of five years old
2.
Horfes and cattle of four years
1/6
Ditto
of three years 1/.
Ditto of two years 6d.
Orchard land per acre
1/6
Arable ditto
1/.
Mowing ditto 1/.
Pafture ditto 5d.
Mills, wharves and ferries at one twelfth part of the neat yearly income. All other buildings, and all uncultivated land at half of one per cent. of the * real value.
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Stock in trade according to its real value.
Money at intereft, at three fourths of one per cent.
If any perfon refufe to give an invoice of his rate- . able eftate, it is in the power of the felectmen 'to ' fet down to fuch perfon as much as they judge ' equitable, by way of doomage ; from which there is ' no appeal.'
County taxes are laid by the juftices of the quar- ter feffion, and the county treafurer iffues his war- rant to each town, fpecifying its proportion.
Town taxes are either voted by the inhabitants in town meetings, or laid by the felectmen, at their dif- cretion.
Every town choofes one or more collectors, to whom the feveral tax bills are committed, with fuf- ficient warrant to take property by diftraint, or com- mit delinquents to prifon.
The State tax for the year 1790, amounted to £1050, of which the feveral counties paid the fol- lowing proportions.
Rockingham
£349 1
Strafford
165 19 7
Hillfborough 266 15 10
Chefhire 181 13 11
Grafton 85 15
Locations
14 8
£1050
By the conftitution, the Prefident is captain gen- eral and commander in chief of the militia. In his military character he acts without the advice of the executive council, excepting when he grants com- miffions for executing martial law.
The Prefident and Council appoint general and field officers of the militia. Major Generals appoint
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their Aids, and Brigadiers their Majors of brigade. Field officers recommend Captains and fubalterns to the Prefident, from whom they receive their com- miffions. Commanding officers of regiments con- ftitute Adjutants and Quarter-mafters ; Captains and fubalterns appoint their non-commiffioned offi- cers.
All able bodied men from fixteen to forty years of age, are enrolled in the training band ; excepting members of Congrefs and the legiflature ; civil offi- cers ; clergymen ; deacons ; church wardens ; in- ftructors, graduates and ftudents of colleges and academies ; fchoolmafters ; quakers ; felectmen ; commiffioned officers and non-commiffioned officers of more than thirty-five years of age ; fhip mafters ; phyficians and furgcons ; ferrymen ; millers ; in- dians, negroes and mulattoes.
Each regiment has one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and two majors. Each company confifts as nearly as may be of fixty-eight rank and file ; com- manded by one captain, two licutenants, and one enfign.
Men capable of bearing arms, from forty to fixty years of age, and who are'exempted from the train- ing band, are called the alarm lift ; excepting mem- bers of Congrefs, and the legiflature, clergymen, of- ficers and ftudents of colleges and academies, quak- ers, ferrymen, indians, negroes and mulattoes. Thefe are formed into companies ; the officers are elected by the companies, and have the rank of field offi- cers.
By the militia law, every non-commiffioned offi- cer and private, both of the alarm lift and training band, is to have in readinefs a mufquet and bayonet, with all the neceffary appendages, accoutrements and ammunition, fuitable for a marching foldier.
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The training band is to be muftered four times, and the alarm lift twice in a year.
Courts martial are inftituted for the trial of difo- bedience and other offences. In time of invafion or of war, draughts are made from the militia, unlefs a fufficient number appear as volunteers, which is generally the cafe. The forces when drawn into ac- tual fervice are fubjected to the regulations of the late continental army.
The militia at prefent is formed into twenty- five regiments of infantry, which are divided into five brigades ; three regiments of cavalry, which make another brigade ; one independent corps of light horfe ; and one regiment of artillery.
The ftaff confifts of one captain-general, two ma- jor-generals ; fix brigadier-generals ; one adjutant- general, and one commiffary-general.
The forces of the State are computed as follows : Twenty-five regiments of training band
18750 at 750 each $ Total of the alarm lift 7500
Three regiments, and one independent 1000
corps of cavalry
One regiment of artillery 300
Total 27550
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CHAP. XVII.
Edacution, Literature, Religion.
THE old laws of New-Hampfhire re- quired every town of one hundred families to keep a grammar fchool; by which was meant a fchool in which the learned languages fhould be taught, and youth might be prepared for admiffion to a univerfity. The fame preceptor was obliged to teach reading, writing and arithmetic ; unlefs the town were of fufficient ability to keep two or more fchools, one of which was called a grammar fchool by way of diftinction. Formerly, when there were but few towns, much better care was taken to ob- ferve the law concerning fchools than after the fet- tlements were multiplied ; but there never was uni- form attention paid to this important matter in all places. Some towns were diftinguifhed for their carefulnefs, and others for their negli- gence. When the leading men in a town were themfelves perfons of knowledge and wifdom, they would provide the means of inftruction for chil- dren ; but where the cafe was otherwife, methods were found to evade the law. The ufual way of do- ing this, was to engage fome perfon to keep a fchool, for a few weeks before the court term, and difcon- tinue it foon after. It was the intereft of ignorant and unprincipled men, to difcourage literature ; be- caufe it would detract from their importance, and expofe them to contempt. The people in fome pla- ces, being thus mifled, thought it better to keep their children at work, than provide fchools for their inftruction.
Several inftances occur in the public records, as far back as the year 1722, juft at the beginning of
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an Indian war ; that the frontier towns petitioned the affembly, for a fpecial act, to exempt them from the obligation to maintain a grammar fchcol, dur- ing the war. The indulgence was granted them, but only on this condition, ' that they fhould keep a fchool for reading, writing and arithmetic,' to which all towns of fifty families were obliged. In later times the conduct of the fame towns has been very different. During the late war with Britain, not only thofe, but many other towns, large and op- ulent, and far removed from any danger by the en- emy, were, for a great part of the time, deflitute of any public fchools ; not only without applying to the legiflature for permiffion ; but contrary to the exprefs requirements of law, and notwithflanding courts of juftice were frequently holden, and grand jurors folemnly fworn and charged to prefent all breaches of law, and the want of fchools in partic- ular. This negligence was one among many evi- dences of a a moft unhappy proftration of morals during that period. It afforded a melancholy prof- pect to the friends of fcience, and of virtue ; and excited fome generous and philanthropic perfons to devife other methods of education.
Among thefe the Honourable JOHN PHILLIPS, Efq. of Exeter, was the firft to diftinguifh himfelf, by founding and endowing a feminary of learning in that town ; which, in the year 1781, was by an act of affembly incorporated by the name of ' Phillips's ' Exeter academy.' It is placed under the infpec- tion of a board of truftees ; and is governed by a preceptor and an affiftant. In this academy arc taught the learned languages, the principles of ge- ography, aftronomy, mathematics, and logic ; be- fides writing, mufic, composition and oratory. Par- ticular attention is given to the morals of the ftu- dents and their inftruction in the principles of nat-
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ural and revealed religion, and the exercifes of pie- ty and virtuc. The fund belonging to this 'infti- tution, is valued at nearly ten thoufand pounds. About one fifth part of this fund, lying in lands, is at prefent unproductive ; but the actual income amounts to £480 per annum.
The appropriations are as follows. To the fupport of a preceptor £133 8
ditto of an affiftant 70
Intended for a profeffor of divinity
133 6 8
To the maintenance of indigent fcholars 120
£456 13 4
The firft preceptor was Mr. William Woodbridge. The prefent preceptor is Mr. Abbot.
In the following table the number of fcholars be- longing to this academy in each of the four laft years is noted in the fecond column ; and of them, the number whofe parents refide in Exeter is noted in the third column.
Years. No. of Students. Refidents in Exeter. 1787 14
24
1788
30
14
1789
50 27
1790
53
29
It has been thought by fome, that the tendency of fuch inftitutions is to difcourage Grammar Schools in their vicinity. In fupport of this fenti- ment it is alleged that before this academy was founded, the town of Exeter fupported two gram- mar fchools ; and that now it fupports but one. In anfwer to this argument it is obferved, that though one grammar fchool is difcontinued, yet its place is fupplied by a fchool for reading, writing and arith- metic ; and there have been, during the laft and
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prefent year, fix fchools kept in the moft populous part of that town, for the inftruction of finall chil- dren, befides thofe which are fupported in the ex- treme parts. In addition to this obfervation it ought to be remembered that the academy was firft infli- tuted, at a time, when there was a general neglect of town fchools in many places ; and had it not been for this and other fimilar inftitutions, the neglect might have increafed by infenfible degrees, till ig- norance had overfpread the country.
Since the eftablifhment of this academy feveral others have been erected. One of which is at New- Ipfwich. It was incorporated in 1789. Its fund is about one thoufand pounds. The number of ftu- dents is generally between forty and fifty. The price of tuition is one fhilling per week and of board- ing five fhillings. The preceptor is Mr. John Hub- bard. This academy is fo far from difcouraging town fchools, that the fum of one hundred pounds is annually raifed in the fame town for that purpofe.
There is another academy at Atkinfon, founded by the Honourable NATHANIEL PEABODY Efq. and incorporated by the General Court in the year 1790. The preceptor has been chiefly fupported by Mr. Peabody, and he has endowed the academy with a donation of one thoufand acres of land.
Similar inftitutions have been begun at Amherft, at Charleftown and at Concord ; which though at prefent in a ftate of infancy, yet afford a pleafing profpect of the increafe of literature in various parts of the State.
A law has been lately made which enforces the maintenance of fchools by a peculiar fanction ; the felectmen of the feveral towns are liable to have the fame fum diftrained out of their eftates, which would be fufficient to fupport a fchool, during the whole time in which they neglect to make that provifion.
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This law is fo recent, that no judgment can as yet be formed of its operation. It fhews however that the legiflature are attentive to this moft important branch of their duty, the education of children.
As a farther evidence of the progrefs of fcience, focial libraries are eftablifhed in feveral towns ; and within the year paft a medical fociety has been in- corporated by an act of affembly. The Prefident of the State being a gentleman of the faculty, is at the head of this focicty.
By an article in the conftitution of the State it is declared to be ' the duty of legiflators and magif- ' trates, to cherifh the intereft of literature and the 'fciences, and all feminaries and public fchools ; to ' encourage private and public inftitutions, rewards ' and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, ' arts, fciences, commerce, trades, manufactures and ' the natural hiftory of the country ; to counte- ' nance and inculcate the principles of humanity and ' general benevolence, public and private charity, ' induftry and economy, honefty and punQuality, 'fincerity, fobriety, and all focial affections, and ' generous fentiments among the people.' As far as public rulers conform to this article, they promote in the moft effectual manner, the true intereft and profperity of their country.
The eftablifhment of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE in the weftern border of the State, has proved a great benefit to the new fettlements and to the neighbouring State of Vermont. During the late war, like all other feminaries of litera- ture, it lay under difcouragement ; but fince the peace, it is in a more flourifhing fituation.
Its landed intereft amounts to about eighty thou- fand acres, of which twelve hundred lie contiguous, and are capable of the beft improvement. Twelve thoufand acres are fituate in Vermont. A tract of
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eight miles fquare beyond the northern line of Stu- art town was granted by the affembly of New-Hamp- fhire in 1789 ; and in the act by which this grant was made, ' the Prefident and Council of the State ' for the time being are incorporated with the truf- ' tees of the college, fo far as to act with them in 'regard to the expenditures and application of this 'grant, and of all others which have been or may ' be hereafter made by New-Hampfhire.'
The revenue of the college arifing from the lands, amounts to one hundred and forty pounds per an- num. By contracts already made it will amount in four years to four hundred and fifty ; and in twelve years to fix hundred and fifty pounds. The income arifing from tuition money is about fix hun- dred pounds per annum.
The firft building erected for the accommodation of the ftudents was a few years fince burned. A lottery was granted by the State for raifing the fum of feven hundred pounds ; which has been applied to the erection of a new building, much more con- venient than the former. It is conftructed of wood, and ftands in an elevated fituation, about half a mile eaftward of Connecticut river in the townfhip of Hanover ; commanding an extenfive and pleafant profpect to the weft. It is one hundred and fifty feet long, fifty feet wide, and thirty fix feet high ; and contains thirty-fix chambers for ftudents. The number of ftudents who were graduated in the firft nineteen years amounts to two hundred and fifty- two, among whom were two Indians. In the year 1790 the number of undergraduates was about one hundred and fifty.
The ftudents are divided into four claffes. The frefhmen ftudy the learned languages, the rules of fpeaking and writing, and the elements of mathe- matics.
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The fophomores attend to the languages, geogra- phy, logic and mathematics.
The junior fophifters, befide the languages, en- ter on natural and moral philofophy and compofi- tion.
The fenior clafs compofe in Englifh and Latin ; ftudy metaphyfics, the elements of natural and po- litical law.
The books ufed by the ftudents are Lowth's En- glifh Grammar, Perry's Dictionary, Pike's Arithme- tic, Guthrie's Geography, Ward's Mathematics, At- kinfon's Epitome, Hammond's Algebra, Martin's and Enfield's Natural Philofophy, Fergufon's Af- tronomy, Locke's Effay, Montefquieu's Spirit of Laws, and Burlemaqui's Natural and Political Law.
Befides thefe ftudies, lectures are read to the fchol- ars in theology and ecclefiaftical hiftory.
There is an examination of each clafs once in the year, and thofe who are not found qualified for their ftanding are put into a lower clafs.
The annual commencement is held on the fourth Wednefday in Auguft. There are two vacations, one following commencement and continuing fix weeks and two days; the other beginning on the fourth Monday in February, and continuing five weeks and five days.
Among the benefactors to Dartmouth College, the following names are confpicuous.
His Majefty George III. King of Great Britain. The Earl of Dartmouth.
The late Countefs of Huntingdon.
The Prince of Orange.
The Baron of Hafarfwoode.
The late Grand Penfionary of the United Nether- lands.
The late Governor Benning Wentworth.
The late Governor John Wentworth.
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Paul Wentworth, Efq. Dr. Rofe,
John Thornton, Efq.
of London.
Mr. Forfyth,
Dr. Ralph Griffith,
The late Dr. Franklin.
- . John Adams, Vice Prefident of the United States. John Jay, Chief Juftice
The Hon. John Phillips, of Exeter.
The late and prefent officers and truftees of the college are as follows ; Prefidents. 1770. Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, D. D. died 1779, ÆEt. 69. 1779. John Wheelock, L. L. D.
Profeffor of History. John Wheelock, L. L. D.
of Mathematics and Beza Wood- Natural Philosophy, S ward Efq.
of Languages Rev. John Smith.
and Librarian, S Truftees.
His Excellency John Wentworth, Efq. removed, * Hon. Theodore Atkinfon.
* Hon. Daniel Pierce.
Hon. George Jaffrey, refigned.
** Hon. Peter Gilman.
* Hon. William Pitkin.
** Rev. Benjamin Pomeroy, D. D.
* Rev. James Lockwood.
Rev. Timothy Pitkin, refigned.
Rev. John Smalley, refigned.
* Rev. William Patten.
Hon. John Phillips.
Beza Woodward, Efq.
Hon. John Sherburne, refigned.
Hon. Elifha Paine.
Rev. Eden Boroughs.
Hon. Samuel Phillips, refigned.
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Rev. David M'Clure. Rev. Jofeph Huntington, D. D. refigned.
Hon. Simeon Olcott. Rev. Levi Hart, refigned. Hon. John Langdon.
* Rev. Sylvanus Ripley.
Mofes Fifk, A. M.
** Rev. Bulkley Olcott. Hon. Peter Olcott. Rev. John Smith. Rev. Job Swift.
An Alphabetical TABLE of the Towns in each County of New-Hampfhire,
With the dates of their incorporation : The names of the several MINIS- TERS of the GOSPEL of every denomination, the times of their set- tlement, death or removal, and their age at the time of their death as far as either can be ascertained. Also,
The number of people in each town in the years 1775 and 1890. The number lost out of each town in the late war, as far as it could be col- lected. The proportion which each town pays to £.1000 tax. The Literary Academies in each county, and some historical and topo- graphical remarks.
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COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM. :
ferons.
Ministers.
. Numbers.
Proportion of
Historical and topographical
incor- fiorat- ed.
namics.
set- tled
namics.
died or remor - ed.
1 ge 1775 1790 in
Taxes to £1000.
Remarks.
war
Allen's town
1767 Atkinson
1772 Stephen Peadody
575
79
4 10
1727 Bow
1742 Brentwood
B
1752 Nathaniel Trask 1775 Samuel Shepard
1789
67 1100, 976
12|10 17
5
part of Haverhill cut off by the line. Indian name Penacock. part of Exeter.
Q
1765 Candia
(177) |David Jewett 1782 Joseph Prince 1790 Jesse Remington 1761 Abiel Foster 1791 Frederick Parker
r. 1780
744 1040
3
2
4
part of Chester.
1727 Canterbury
1722 Chester
1731 Moses Hale
5. 1734
1599 1909
26 16
2 10
1780
76
418
491
3
4 9
1727 Chichester 1765|CONCORD
1736 Ebenezer Flagg 1734 John Wilson 1791 Josiah Carpenter 1730 Timothy Walker 1789|Israel Evans 1772 Timothy Upham Peter Coffin - Cutler
1782
78 1052 1747
12
12
1738 East-Kingston 1741|Epping
r. 1772
358
4
1569 1233
13
1
1 5 12
7 11 Indian name Penacook, granted by 2 2 Massachusetts, and called Rumford. S 3 11 part of Nottingham. 4. 2 6 part of Kingston. part of Exeter
1758 Josiah Stearns 1761 John Tucke.
1790
r. 1774
9871 799)
d.
5. 8. 1 8
149
254
350, 568
3 4
6
r. 1789
r.
723 1038
8 4
P
1766 Deerfield
929 1619 428
1727Epsom
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Most
COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Towns.
Ministers.
Members.
Proportion of
Historical and topographical
porat- cd.
names.
set- tled.
names.
remov-03 1775 1790 rd.
var.
1638 EXETER
1638 John Wheleright
r. 1643
1741 17221
38
S . 15 1@
first called Swamscot falls.
1650 Samuel Dudiey
1685
77
1698 John Clarke
1705
35
1706 John Odlin
1754
72
1743|Woodbridge Odlin
1776
57
1776 Isaac Mansfield
r. 1787
1790|William Fred. Rowland
1748 Daniel Rogers
1785
79
1738 John Tucke
1775
1715|William Allen
17 60
84
4.41 759
93 634
6
6 part of Portsmouth.
1749 Hamstead 1638 Hampton
1752 Henry True
1782
768
724
5 19
1638 Stephen Batchelor
r. 1641
862
$53
6
$ 19
1639 Timothy Dalton
1661
1647 John Wheleright
166@ Seaborn Cotton
1686
53
1696 John Cotton
1710
57
1710 Nathaniel Gookin
1734
48
1734 Ward Cotton
r. 1765
1766 Ebenezer Thayer
Hampton-falls 11712 Theophilus Cotton
1726! 45 |
6451 541
6.
d. 2
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
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Indian name Winicumet, first settled under Massa- chuse tts.
1 5 19 5| part of Hampton.
227
died or
lost
Taxes to £1000
Remarks.
Ebenezer Hazeltine
* A fishing town on the ) Isle of Shoals, formerly called Appledore.
2d Parish * Gosport Greenland
1756 Samuel Macclintock, D. D.
COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Towns.
Ministers.
Numbers.
Proportion of
Historical and topographical
incor- fiorat- ed.
names.
net- led.
names.
lied or remov- .d.
age. 1775 1790
lost in war.
Taxes to £. 1000
Remarks.
1727 Joseph Whipple 1757 Josiah Bailey
1757
57
1762
29
1763 Paine Wingate
1780 Samuel Langdon, D. D.
1763 John Page
1783
43
504 797
420 800
8 16
9
part of Kingston. part of Ilampton.
1694|Kingston
1725 \Vard Clarke 1737 Joseph Secombe
1737
34
961
906
8 11
1
1762 Amos Tappan
Elihu Thayer
1729
52 2590 2622 19
20 15 S
1729| Matthew Clarke
1738
1
17911
81
ed Parish
1732 Alexander Thompson 1740 William Davidson 1737 David M'Gregore
1777|
67
1773 Loudon 1693| New castle
1783|William Morrison 1789 Jedediah Tucker 1704 John Emerson 1712 William Shurtleff
fr. 1712
349 1084 449 534
1
5
9
ir. 1752
1732 John Blunt
117 50 Stephen Chase
17751
y. s. d.
1760 1737
:. 1771
Hawkc Kensington
4 17 3
1737 Jeremiah Fogg
1789
78
1771
1722 Londonderry I | 17 19 James M'Gregore
HISTORY OF
6 14 8
part of Canterbury.
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COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Towns
Ministers.
Numbers.
Proportion of
Historical and topografiliical
incor- forat- ed.
names.
set - tled.
names.
died or remov- age. led.
-
1775 1790
lost in war.
Taxes to 6. 1000
Remarks.
1784|Oliver Noble
Newington
1715 Joseph Adams 1787 Joseph Langdon
1783
93
552 542
4 17
9 |part of Portsmouth & Dover.
1727 Newmarket
17 30 John Moody
1778
73
1289|1137
9 16
part of Exeter.
1749 Newton 1780 Northfield
N. Hampton
1739|Nathaniel Gookin
1766
652
657
6 2 11|
part of Canterbury. part of Hampton.
1742
1767 Joseph Stacy Hastings 1776|David M'Clure
Ir. 1774
r. 1784
1773 |Northwood B | 1779 Edmund Pillsbury
313
744
2
5 19
3
part of Nottingham. 1
1722 Nottingham
1742 Stephen Emery
r.
999 1068
8 15
61
1758 |Benjamin Butler
r. 1770
749
791
4
61
1746 |Pelham 1759 |Pembroke
1736|Aaron Whittemore 1768 Jacob Emery Zacheus Colby
1767
744
956
7 10 11| Indian name Suncook, grant- ed by Massachusetts 1728 and called Lovewell's town.
P.
1749|Plastow
1760 -Mitchel 1730|James Cushing
575| 521
4 5 5| part of Haverhill cut off by
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9
1759 Jonathan Eames
1791
540
530 606
3 16
3 18
1|
1784 Benjamin Thurston
1765 | Amos Moody
Nathaniel Ewer
COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Towns.
Ministers.
Numbers.
Proportion of
Historical and topographical
incor- porat- ed.
names.
- set- tled.
namcs.
died or fremov-lage. ed.
1775 1790
lost in war.
Taxes to £. 1000
Remarks.
1764 |Poplin 1693 |PORTSMOUTH
1671 Joshua Moody 1699 Nathaniel Rogers 1795 Jabez Fitch 1747 Samuel Langdon, D. D. 1779 |Joseph Buckminster 1715 John Emerson 1732 William Shurtleff
1723
1746|
r. 1774
1732
62
1747
1749 Job Strong 1752 Samuel Haven, D. D.
1751
Episcopal
1736 Arthur Browne 1787 John C. Ogden
1773
73
3d Parish
Samuel Diowne Joseph Walton
1770
49
5 7
633 727 865| 35
0 6
4 8
2 3 9
part of Chichester. part of Chester,
230
HISTORY OF
1782 |Pittsfield 3764 Raymond 1719 |Ryc
-- Page
1726|Nath. Morrill 1736 Samuel Parsons
fr. 1734; 17891 78
$70
G. s. d.
1765 Gyles Merrill
the line. part of Exeter.
1697
65
552} 493 4590 4720
5 8
2
26 15
3
54 73
ad Parish
2
COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM.
Towns.
Ministers.
Numbers.
Proportion of
Historical and topographical
incor- porat- cd.
names.
set- tlcd.
names.
died or remov- lage. ed.
lust 1775|1790 in 1
Taxes to £. 1000
Remarks.
wvar.
£. 8. d.
1750 Salem
B.
1756|Sandown
1781
459
56]
5 5
5
l'.
r. 1775
607
715
4 9
4
formerly part of Hampton.
1742 S. Hampton.
:693 Streatham
1743 \Villiam Parsons 1763|Nathaniel Noyes 1718 Henry Russ 1756 Joseph Adams 1786 Jsmes Miltimore -Johnson
r. 1762
498
448
5
5 12
6|formerly part of Hampton.
1749
63
1137
S82
17
9 11
Swamscot patent, part of it called by the Indians IFinicot
Windham, P.
11760
SJohn Kinkeed Simon Williams
r.
529|
653
5 8 8
1766!
LITERARY ACADEMIES
Date of Institution.
T'owns.
Value of Funds.
Jumis of Precefitors.
1781
Exeter
£. 10,000
-
William Woodbridge Benjamin Abbott
1789
Atkinson
1790
Concord
1034 1218|
31
9
2 ]
cut off from Methuen and Haverhill by the line. part of Kingston.
1768 Seabrook, P. Q.
|1784|Hunting Porter 1740 Abner Bailey 11780/Samuel Fletcher 1759 Josiah Cotton Samuel Collins 1765 Samuel Perley -
17 85
66
1
1741
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
231
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COUNTY OF STRAFFORD.
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Ministers.
Numbers.
Proportion of
Historical and topografihical.
incor- horat- ed.
names.
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names.
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