The history of New-Hampshire, Part 52

Author: Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798. cn; Farmer, John, 1789-1838, ed. cn
Publication date: 1831
Publisher: Dover [N. H.] S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh
Number of Pages: 546


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APPENDIX.


-


TABLES.


Chief Magistrates of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts from 1641 to 1830; with the Kings of England from the first settlement of N. H. in 1623, until the separation of this country from Great-Britain, and the Presidents of the United States from the adoption of the Federal Constitution.


COLONIAL GOVERNMENT.


A.D.


Kings of England.


Governors of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts, while united.


1623


1625


James I. Charles I.


1641


1642


1644


1645


Thomas Dudley,


1646


1649


The Commonwealth.


1650


John Winthrop. John Endecott. Thomas Dudley. John Endecott.


1654


1655


Richard Bellingham. John Endecott. 66


Richard Bellingham. John Leverett. ¡Simon Bradstreet.


PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT.


A. D.


Kings of England.


Chief Magistrates of New-Hampshire.


-


Chief Magistrates of Massachusetts .*


1680


Charles II.


John Cutt Richard Waldron Edward Cranfield Walter Barefoote Joseph Dudley


Simon Bradstreet


16SI


1682


1685


James II.


1686


1687


1689


William III.


Edmund Andros Simon Bradstreet


Joseph Dudley Edmund Andros Simon Bradstreet


* Massachusetts did not become a Province until the charter of William and Mary was granted in 1691.


1673


1679


66


Richard Bellingham. John Winthrop. John Endecott.


1651


1660


Charles II.


1665


408


APPENDIX.


1692 1697


William III. 66


66


66


Anne.


George I.


Samuel Shute


Samuel Shute


George II.


William Burnet


66


Jonathan Belcher


1741


66


1757 1760 1767


George III. 66


John Wentworth 66


1770


1774


1775


The British government terminated.


William Phips


Tho. Hutchinson Thomas Gage


REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.


A.D. | United States.


Pres. & Gov's. N. H.


Governors of Mass.


1776|


Meshech Weare 66


1780


1785


Continental Congress.


John Langdon John Sullivan


John Langdon


1789


Presidents U. S. G. Washington


John Sullivan Josiah Bartlett* John T. Gilman


66


1790


17941


66


John Adams.


66


66


John Langdon 66


66


James Sullivan Christopher Gore Elbridge Gerry Caleb Strong


1812


66


66


John Brooks 66


James Monroe


Samuel Bell Levi Woodbury David L. Morril 66


William Eustis 66


1824 1825


John Q. Adams 66


Levi Lincoln 66


1827


Benjamin Pierce John Bell


66


1829


A. Jackson


1830


Benjamin Pierce Matthew Harvey


John Hancock James Bowdoin


John Hancock


Samuel Adams Increase Sumner Caleb Strong 66


1797 1800 1801 1805 1807 1809 1810


Tho. Jefferson 66


James Madison


Jeremiah Smith John Langdon William Plumer John T. Gilman William Plumer 66


1813 1816 1817 1819


1823


66


1828


66


John Usher William Partridge Samuel Allen Earl of Bellomont Joseph Dudley


1698 1699 1702 1714 1716 1727 1728 1730


Earl of Bellomont Joseph Dudley


Benning Wentworth


William Burnet Jonathan Belcher William Shirley Thomas Pownal Francis Bernard 66


1786 1787 1788


* From 1793, the chief magistrate of N. H. has been styled Governor.


409


APPENDIX.


DEATH AND AGES OF THE PRECEDING.


KINGS OF ENGLAND.


James I.


8 April, 1625,


58.


Charles 1.


30 January, 1648,


47.


Charles II.


6 Feb. 1685,


54.


James II.


16 Sept. 1701, 68.


William III.


16 March,


1702,


52.


Anne


1 August, 1714,


50.


George I.


11 June, 1727,


67.


George II.


25 October, 1760,


77.


George III.


29 January, 1820,


81.


GOVERNORS,


WHILE MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW-HAMPSHIRE WERE UNITED.


Richard Bellingham,


7 December, 1672,


80.


John Winthrop,


26 March,


1649,


61.


John Endecott,


15 March, 1665,


76.


Thomas Dudley,


31 July, 1653,


77.


John Leverett,


16 March,


1679.


Simon Bradstreet,


27 March,


1697,


94.


CHIEF MAGISTRATES,


WHILE NEW-HAMPSHIRE WAS A SEPARATE PROVINCE.


John Cutt,


27 March, 1681.


Richard Waldron,


27 June, 1689, 80.


Edward Cranfield,


about 1700.


Walter Barefoote,


about 1688,


53.


Joseph Dudley,


2 April,


1720,


72.


Edmund Andros,


February, 1714.


John Usher,


5 September, 1726,


78.


William Partridge,


3 January, 1729,


74


Samuel Allen,


4 May,


1705,


69.


GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW-HAMPSHIRE,


UNTIL THE REVOLUTION.


William Phips,


18 February, 1695,


44.


Earl of Bellomont,


5 March, 1701.


Samuel Shute,


15 April, 1742,


80.


William Burnet,


7 September, 1729,


41.


Jonathan Belcher,


31 August, 1757,


75.


William Shirley,


24 March, 1771.


Benning Wentworth,


14 October, 1770,


75.


Thomas Pownall,


25 February,


1805,


S3.


Francis Bernard,


June,


1779


John Wentworth,


8 April, 1820, - 84.


Thomas Hutchinson,


3 June,


1780,


69.


Thomas Gage,


April,


1787.


54


410


APPENDIX. 1


GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW-HAMPSHIRE, SINCE THE REVOLUTION, WHO HAVE DECEASED.


Meshech Weare,


15 January, 1786, 73.


John Hancock,


8 October, 1793,


56.


John Langdon,


18 September, 1819, 79


John Sullivan,


28 January, 1795,


54.


James Bowdoin,


6 November, 1790,


64.


Josiah Bartlett,


19 May, 1795,


65.


John T. Gilman,


31 August, 1828,


75.


Samuel Adams,


2 October, 1803,


81.


Increase Sumner,


7 June,


1799,


52.


Caleb Strong,


7 November, 1820,


75.


James Sullivan,


8 December, 1808,


64


Christopher Gore,


1 March, 1827,


69


Elbridge Gerry,


23 November, 1814,


70.


John Brooks,


1 March, 1825,


73.


William Eustis,


6 February, 1825,


75.


PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES,


WHO HAVE DECEASED.


George Washington,


14 December, 1799,


67.


John Adams,


4 July,


1826,


91.


Thomas Jefferson,


4 July,


1826,


83.


A CATALOGUE OF THE COUNSELLORS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, FROM 1680 TO 1830.


UNDER THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT.


[The ages of those with this mark tare conjectured. Where a dash precedes a name, the time of appointment is uncertain.]


App. |


Counsellors.


Residence.


Died.


IAge


1680|John Cutt


Portsmouth


27 March, 1681


1


Richard Martyn


Portsmouth


1693


1


William Vaughan


Portsmouth


1719


Thomas Daniel


Portsmouth


1683


John Gilman


Exeter


24 July,


1708 841


Christopher Hussey


Hampton


1685


175+


Richard Waldron


Dover


27 June,


1689


Elias Stileman


New-Castle


19 Dec.


1695


78+


Samuel Dalton


Hampton


22 August, 1681


1681 |Job Clements


Dover


1717


Robert Mason2


New-Castle


1688 58


Richard Waldron


Portsmouth


30 Nov.


1730 80


Anthony Nutter


Dover


19 Feb.


1686


-


(1) These four would probably average 70 years each. (2) He died at Eso- pun, in New-York.


411


APPENDIX.


App. |


Counsellors.


Residence.


Died.


IAge.


1682|Walter Barefoote


New-Castle


1688 or 1689|53


Richard Chamberlain


1683 Nathaniel Fryer Robert Elliot1


New-Castle New-Castle


13 August, 1705


John Hinkes2


New-Castle


ret. to England.


1684 James Sherlock


Francis Champernoon4 Robert Wadleigh


Exeter


1685


Henry Greene


Hampton


5 August, 1700 80


1692 John Usher


Boston


5 Sept. 1726


78


Thomas Graffort5


Portsmouth


6 August, 1697


John Walford


Portsmouth


John Love


Peter Coffin6


Dover


John Gerrish


Dover


1714 68


Nathaniel Weare


Hampton


13 May,


1718 87


1697 William Partridge 1698 Joseph Smith


Hampton


9 Nov. 1717:64


Kingsley Hall


Exeter


about


1736


Sampson Sheafe5


New-Castle


1724


76


1702 Samuel Penhallow


Portsmouth


2 Dec.


1726 61


John Plaisted


Portsmouth


about 1707


Henry Dow George Jaffrey7


New-Castle


13 Feb. 1707 69


1710 Mark Hunking


Portsmouth


12 Dec.


1730 59


1715 George Vaughan 1716 Richard Gerrish


Dover


1717


Theodore Atkinson


New-Castle


6 May,


1719 50


Shadrach Walton


New-Castle


3 Oct.


1741 83


George Jaffrey


New-Castle


8 May,


1749 66


Richard Wibird


Portsmouth


Oct.


1732


Thomas Westbrook


Portsmouth


1736


1719|Thomas Packer


Portsmouth


1723


1722 Archibald Macpheadris


Portsmouth


1728


1724 John Ffrost8


New-Castle


25 Dec. 1732 51


(1) Living in 1745. (2) Living in 1707, and probably in 1722, when there is a deed from John Hinkes on record in Rockingham county.


(3) Randolph returned to England. (4) Champernoon was cousin to Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He lived sometime in York, Maine.


(5) Graffort and Sheafe removed to Boston and died there.


(6) Living in 1714 at the age of 83. (7) Died at Col. Appleton's in Ipswich.


(8) He was son of Major Charles Ffrost, who is noticed page 143. It might have been there stated that the major was born 20 July, 1631, the son of Nicholas Ffrost of Kittery, who was born at Tiverton,in England, in 1589, came very early to New-England, and died 20 July,1663, aged 74. John, the grandson above mentioned, was born 1 March, 1682 .- His wife was Mary, sister of Sir William Pepperell. After his death, she married successively Rev. Benjamin Colman, D. D., of Boston, and Rev.


1707 73


1712 John Wentworth


Portsmouth


Portsmouth


Dec. 1725 49


Peter Weare


Hamp .- Falls


Hampton


6 May,


Portsmouth


3 Jan. 1729 74


Edward Randolph3


Portsmouth


about 1686


412


APPENDIX.


App. |


Counsellors.


1


Residence. -


Died.


¡Age


1724|Jothain Odiorne


New-Castle


16 Aug.


174873


1728 Henry Sherburne


Portsmouth


29 Dec.


1757 83


1732 Richard Waldron


Portsmouth


23 Aug.


1753 60


Joshua Peirce1


Portsmouth


7 Feb.


1743 72


Benning Wentworth?


Portsmouth


14 Oct.


1770 75


Ephraim Dennet


Portsmouth


Theodore Atkinson2


New-Castle


22 Sept. 1779 81


1733 Ellis Huske


Portsmouth


1755


Joseph Sherburne


Portsmouth


3 Dec. 1744 64


1739


Richard Wibird


Portsmouth


25 Sept. 1765 63


1740 John Rindge


Portsmouth


6 Nov.


1740 45


John Downing


16 Sept. 1745


85


Samuel Smith


2 May, 1760 74


Joseph Blanchard


Dunstable


7 April,


1758 53


Sampson Sheafe


New-Castle


1772 91


1753


Daniel Warner


Portsmouth


1778


1754 Joseph Newmarch


Portsmouth


1765


1759 Mark H. Wentworth


Portsmouth


19 Dec.


1785


James Nevin


Portsmouth


6 Feb.


1769 60


1761|John Nelson3


Portsmouth


1787


1762


William Temple


Portsmouth


28 Oct.


1769 33


1765


Peter Livius4


Portsmouth


1795 68+


1766


Jonathan Warner


Portsmouth


15 May,


1814 87


Daniel Rindge


Portsmouth Portsmouth


4 Dec.


1773


George Jaffrey


Portsmouth


25 Dec. 1802 86


Henry Sherburne


Portsmouth Somersworth


30 March, 1767 58


Paul Wentworth


Exeter


1 Dec. 1788|84


Thomas W. Waldron


Portsmouth


3 April, 1785 63


1774 John Sherburne


Portsmouth


10 March, 1797 76


John Phillips


Exeter


April,


1795 76


1775|George Boyd5


Portsmouth


1787


Benjamin Prescott, of Danvers, Mass. She died in 1766. Mr. Ffrost had seventeen children. George, the 11th child and the sixth son, was a coun- sellor three years in the time of the Revolution, and a delegate to the old Congress. To his son George Ffrost, Esq., of Durham, the editor is indebted for the facts contained in this note.


(1) Sworn into office 18 January, 1733.


(2) Not sworn into office until 12 Oct. 1734. Gov. Belcher, in a letter, da- ted 15 Aug, 1734, speaking of the expense of their mandamuses, says, " I am told W. and A.'s mandamuses have already cost them about 100 guineas a piece."


(3) He went to Grenada, where it is believed he died about 1795.


(4) Died in England. W. Winthrop.


(5) He left the state, and was included in the act proscribing 76 persons, passed in 1778, and died on his return from England to this country.


1789


Theodore Atkinson


Nathaniel Barrell


Portsmouth


12 Jan. 1799 68


Daniel Peirce


Daniel Rogers


Portsmouth


1772 Peter Gilman


Samuel Solley


Portsmouth


1737 57


Benjamin Gamling


Portsmouth


413


APPENDIX.


UNDER THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.


App. |


Counsellors.


| Residence IIn office.I


Died.


ĮAge


1778|Meshech Weare


Hamp .- Falls 8:15 Jan.


1786|72


Matthew Thornton


Londonderry


1:24 June,


1803|89


William Whipple


Portsmouth


1 10 Nov.


1785 54


Josiah Bartlett


Kingston


8.19 May,


1795|65


Nathaniel Folsom


Exeter


1 26 May,


1790 64


John Wentworth


Dover


8,10 Jan.


1787|40


Ebenezer Thompson


Durham


5 15 Aug.


1,02 65


Wyseman Clagett


Litchfield


1| 4 Dec.


1784 63


Jonathan Blanchard


Dunstable


3.16 July,


1788 50


Samuel Ashley


Winchester1


4 18 Feb.


1792 71


Benjamin Giles


Newport


1 9 Dec.


1787|70


John Hurd


Haverhill


1


1777 Nicholas Gilman


Exeter


7


7 April,


1782 52


George Atkinson2


Portsmouth


3 13 Jan.


1805|66


Timothy Walker


Concord


3 5 May,


1822|85


Matthew Patten


Bedford


2 27 Aug.


1795|76


Benjamin Bellows


Walpole


3


4 June,


1802 62


1779|Moses Nichols


Amherst


1 23 May,


1790 50


Jacob Abbot3


Wilton


2 5 March, 1820 74 1 See 1777.


John M'Clary


Epsom


4 16 June,


1801


82


New-Ipswich 1


Charlestown


1|24 August, 1799|66 2


Charles Johnston


Haverhill


1} 5 March, 1813 76


Portsmouth


3 13 Jan.


1805|66


Durham


3 21 June,


1796 76


Hollis


1 1791 60


Wyseman Clagett


Litchfield


2 See 1776


Benjamin Bellows


Walpole


3 See 1777


Francis Worcester


Plymouth


1


1782|Timothy Farrar


See 1780


2


Jacob Abbot


Wilton


2 See 1779


Thomas Sparhawk


Walpole


2 31 Oct.


1802 64


Charles Johnston


Haverhill


1 See 1780


1783 Francis Worcester


See 1781.


1


UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.


1784|John M'Clary


Epsom


16 June,


1801 82


Joseph Badger


Gilmanton


14 Jan.


1809 61


Francis Blood


Temple


1 Nov. 1814 79


Moses Chase


Cornish


1|18 Oct. 1799 73


Nathaniel Peabody


Atkinson


1|29 June,


1823|81


1785 John Sullivan


Durham


-


23 Jan.


1795 54


Matthew Thornton


Merrimack


1 See 1776


Amos Shepard


Alstead


2 1 Jan.


1812


1780|George Atkinson


Portsmouth


Timothy Farrar


Samuel Hunt


Enoch Hale


Walpole


1781|Woodbury Langdon George Ffrost John Hale


(1) Afterwards of Claremont. where he died. (2) His name was originally George King. (3) Died at Brunswick, Maine.


414 .


APPENDIX.


App. |


Counsellors. 1


Residence. | In office. |


Died. ¡ Age.


1785|Moses Dow


Haverhill


2|31 March, 1811 64


1786 Christopher Toppan


Hampton


1|28 Feb. 1818,83


Joshua Wentworth


Portsmouth


1 19 Oct. 1809 67


Robert Means-


Amherst


1 24 Jan.


1823 80


1787|Joseph Gilman


Exeter


1


1806 68


Ebenezer Thompson


Durham


1|See 1776


Daniel Emerson


Hollis


1 4 Oct.


1821 75


Moses Chase


Cornish


1 See 1784


John Pickering


Portsmouth


1|11 April,


1805|67


1788 Peter Green


Concord


1 27 March, 1798 52


Ebenezer Smith


Durham


1


1 Jan.


1815 66


Josiah Richardson


Keene


1 25 Feb.


1820|74


William Simpson


Orford


1


1823|81


1789 John Pickering


Portsmouth


1 See 1787


Ichabod Rollins


Somersworth


131 Jan. 1800


Charles Barrett


New-Ipswich


1 21 Sept.


1808 63


Jonathan Freeman


Hanover


8 20 August, 1808 63


Joseph Badger


Gilmanton


3 See 1784


Robert Wallace


Henniker


13 See 1788


Lemuel Holmes


Surry


4 died in Vermont


1791 Nathaniel Rogers


Exeter


I


May,


1829 83


1792 Phillips White


S. Hampton


2 24 June,


1811 82


1793 Ebenezer Smith


See 1788


3


1794 Christopher Toppan


Hampton


3 See 1786


Thomas Bellows


Walpole


5


1795


Joseph Badger


Gilmanton


2 See 1784


1797


Joseph Cilley


Nottingham


2 Aug.


1799 65


Aaron Wingate


Farmington


6 24 Feb.


1822 78


Russell Freeman1


Hanover


5 27 Dec.


1805 57


1799 James Sheafe


Portsmouth


1 6 Dec.


1829,74


Samuel Stevens


Charlestown


6|17 Nov.


1823 |88


1800|Joseph Blanchard


Chester


2


1802|Levi Bartlett


Kingston


6 30 Jan.


1828 64


David Hough


Lebanon


1


1803 William Hale


Dover


2


Benjamin Pierce


Hillsborough


6


Daniel Blaisdell


Canaan


5


1805


Joseph Badger


Gilmanton


See 1784


Nahum Parker


Fitzwilliam


2


1807 Amasa Allen


Walpole


2


1 July,


1821 69


Daniel Gookin William Tarleton


Piermont


2 26 March, 1819 68


1809 Elijah Hall


Portsmouth


8 22 June,


1830 87


Richard Dame


Rochester


2 19 Sept.


1828 72


Samuel Bell


Amherst


1


(1) Murdered by Josiah Burnham.


1


Sandford Kingsbury


Claremont


1790 Christopher Toppan


Hampton


1 See 1786


Robert Wallace


Henniker


N. Hampton


1


415


APPENDIX.


App.


Counsellors


| Residence. | In office. |


Died


IAge.


1809|Caleb Ellis


Claremont


9 May,


1816|49


Benjamin J. Gilbert


Hanover


Amherst


4 17 Dec.


1828 58


1811 Nathaniel Upham


Rochester


2


10 July,


1829 56


Ithamar Chase


Cornish


5


August, 1817|55


Jonathan Franklin


Lyme


2


1813|Nathan Taylor


Sanbornton


1


Enoch Colby


Thornton


5


1814 Samuel Quarles


Ossipee


3


Benjamin Pierce


See 1803


2


1816


Levi Jackson


Chesterfield


2,30 August, 1821 49


1817


John M. Page


Tamworth 3 May,


1826


48


John Bell, jr.


Chester


5


1818 Richard H. Ayer


Hooksett


5


Samuel Grant


Walpole


1


Jeduthun Wilcox


Orford


1819 Aaron Matson


Stoddard


Landaff


3


1820|Richard Odell


Conway


3


Keene


1


1822


Hunking Penhallow Elijah Belding Ezra Bartlett


Haverhill


3


1823


Daniel C. Atkinson


Sanbornton


2


Jonathan Harvey


Sutton


2


1824 Thomas C. Drew


Walpole


2


Daniel Hoit


Sandwich


2


1825|Langley Boardman


Portsmouth


2


John Wallace Caleb Keith


Wentworth


4


1826 |Jotham Lord


Westmorela'd


1


Andrew Peirce


Dover


2


1828


Langley Boardman


See 1825


1


Matthew Harvey


Hopkinton


2


1829 Francis N. Fisk


See 1827


Benning M. Bean


Moultonboro'|1


Joseph Healey


Washington


Stephen P. Webster


Haverhill


1830 Thomas E. Sawyer Jesse Bowers


Dover


Dunstable


2 24 Sept.


1826 60


Swanzey


2


Milford


3


1827


Francis N. Fisk


Concord


John French


1821 Samuel Dinsmoor


Portsmouth


1810 Jedidiah K. Smith


.


416


APPENDIX.


SECRETARIES OF STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, FROM 1680 TO 1830.


[This list may not be complete, as the Council Records are missing for a number of years from the Secretary's office.]


App.


Names.


Discont'd


Died.


-


Age.


1680


Elias Stileman


1695


1682


Richard Chamberlain


1692


Thomas Davis


1696


Henry Penny


1709


1699


Sampson Sheafe


1724


76


1669


Charles Story


1714


1726


61


Richard Waldron


1753


60


-


Theodore Atkinson


1779


81


-


Theodore Atkinson, jr.


1769


33


Theodore Atkinson


as above


1775


Ebenezer Thompson


1802


68


1786


Joseph Pearson


1805


1822


85


1805


Philip Carrigain


1809


1809


Nathaniel Parker


1810


1810


1810


Samuel Sparhawk


1814


1814


Albe Cady


1816


1816


Samuel Sparhawk


1825


1825


Richard Bartlett


1829


1829


Dudley S. Palmer


TREASURERS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, SINCE THE REVOLUTION.


App. |


Names.


Residence.


| Dis.


1775


Nicholas Gilman


Exeter


1783


1783


John Taylor Gilman


Exeter


1794


1794


Oliver Peabody


Exeter


1805


1805


Nathaniel Gilman


Exeter


1813


1813


William Austin Kent


Concord


1816


1816


William Pickering


Greenland


1829


1828


Samuel Morril


Concord


1829


1829


William Pickering


Concord


1830


1830


Abner Bayley Kelly


Warner


DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, DURING THE CONFEDERATION OF THE STATES."


Name.


Residence,


-


Death.


| Age.


John Sullivan


Durham


22 Jan.


1795|54


Nathaniel Folsom


Exeter


1789


Josiah Bartlett


Kingston


19 May,


1795 65


John Langdon


Portsmouth


18 Sept.


1819|79


* Some of the following were elected a second and third time. The re- cords show that several others were elected, who declined the appointment.


Samuel Penhallow


417


APPENDIX.


Name.


Residence.


Deatlı.


IAge.


William Whipple


Portsmouth


28 Nov.


1785 54


Matthew Thornton


Londonderry


24 June,


1803 89


George Ffrost


Durham


21 June, 1796|76


Nathaniel Peabody


Atkinson


29 June,


1823 81


Woodbury Langdon Paine Wingate


Portsmouth


13 Jan.


1805|66


Samuel Livermore


Portsmouth


May,


1803


71


Abiel Foster


Canterbury.


Feb.


1806


71


Nicholas Gilman


Exeter


7 April, 1782


52


John Wentworth


10 Jan.


1787


142


Phillips White


S. Hampton


24 June,


1811


|S2


John Taylor Gilman


Exeter


31 Aug.


1828 75


Jonathan Blanchard


Dunstable


16 July,


1788|50


Peirce Long


Portsmouth


31 March, 1789


DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION OF THE UNITED STATES, IN 1787.


John Langdon,


Portsmouth.


Nicholas Gilman,


Exeter.


SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS UNDER THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.


SENATORS.


Commenced.


In office.[Commenced.


In office.


1789|John Langdon


12 1813|Jeremiah Mason


4


1789|Paine Wingate


4 1814 Tho. W Thompson


3


1793 Samuel Livermore


8 1817 Clement Storer


2


1801


Simeon Olcott


4 1817|David L. Morril


6


1801 James Sheafe


1 1819 John F. Parrott


6


1802 William Plumer


5 1823 Samuel Bell


1805|Nicholas Gilman


9|1825|Levi Woodbury


6


1807 Nahum Parker


3 1831 Isaac Hill


-


1810 Charles Cutts


31


55


Stratham


148


APPENDIX.


REPRESENTATIVES.


Commenced.


In office. Commenced.


In office.


1789|Samuel Livermore


4 1811 John A. Harper


2


1789 Abiel Foster


2 1811 Samuel Dinsmoor 2


1789 Nicholas Gilman


8|1811 Obed Hall


2


1791 |Jeremiah Smith*


6|1813 Samuel Smithį


1


1793 John S. Sherburne


4 1813 Daniel Webster


4


1793|Paine Wingate


2 1813 Bradbury Cilley


4


1795


Abiel Foster


8 1813 William Hale


4


1797 Jonathan Freeman


4 1813 Roger Vose


4


1797


William Gordon


3 1813 Jeduthun Wilcox


4


1797 Peleg Sprague


2 1815 Charles H. Atherton


2


1800|James Sheafet


1 1817 John F. Parrott


2


1800 Samuel Tenney


7 1817 Salma Hale


2


1801 George B. Upham


2 1817 Clifton Clagett


4 4


1802 Samuel Hunt


1 1817 Josiah Butler


6


1803 Silas Betton


4 1817 Nathaniel Upham


6


1803


David Hough


4 1819 Joseph Buffum, jr.


2


1803


Clifton Clagett


2 1819 William Plumer, jr.


1805 Thomas W Thompson


2 1821


Matthew Harvey


6 4


1805|Caleb Ellis


2 1821 Aaron Matson


4


1807|Daniel M. Durell


2 1821


Thomas Whipple


8


1807 Clement Storer


2 1823 Arthur Livermore§


2


1807 Jedidiah K. Smith


2.1823


Ichabod Bartlett


6


1807 Francis Gardner


2 1823


Titus Brown


· 4


1807|Peter Carleton


2 1823


Joseph Healey


4


1809 William Hale


2 1823 Jonathan Harvey


1809 Nathaniel A. Haven


2 1827 David Barker, jr.


2


1809 James Wilson


2 1829 John Brodhead


1809 |John C. Chamberlain


2 1829 Joseph Hammons


1809 Daniel Blaisdell


2 1829 Thomas Chandler


1811 Josiah Bartlett


2 1829 Henry Hubbard


1811 George Sullivan


2 1829 John W. Weeks


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* Mr. Smith resigned his seat after attending the May session of 1797, and Mr. Sprague was elected to supply the vacancy.


t Mr. Sheafe was elected in the place of Mr. Sprague, resigned, and took his seat in January, 1800.


# Mr. Smith resigned in 1814, and the vacancy was not filled.


§ Mr. Livermore was chosen in March, 1830.


1801


Joseph Pierce


1 1817 Arthur Livermore


TABLE shewing the Oficers of Government in New-Hampshire in 1773 ; the authority by which they held their places ; their annual salary or compensation ; and the mode of their appointment.


Office.


Names of Officers.


The authority by which they| The annual value in proclamation! held their places. or current money.


Mode of their appointment.


Governor & Commander in Chief.


JOHN WENTWORTH.


By the King's commission un- der the great seal of England.


£700 salary, voted annually by the By the King. assembly, and about £100 fees.


Counsellors.


Theodore Atkinson, Daniel Warner, Mark HI. Wentworth, Peter Livius, Jon- athan Warner, Daniel Rindge, George Jaffrey, Daniel Rogers, Peter Gilman, Thomas W. Waldron, Paul Wentworth, (one vacancy.)


By the King's Mandamus.


7s. per diem, while they set as part of the Assembly, and nothing when they set as a Council of By the King. - State, which was near as often as in their former capacity.


Court of Appeals, and also of Supreme Probate.


The Governor and Council.


By President Cutt's commis- 28s. to the Gov. and 6s. to each By the King's sion and by laws of the Prov- ince.


Counsellor actually sitting in Mandamus as the case, for each action. About Counsellors. 5 entries in a year.


Justices and Clerk of the Theodore Atkinson, Meshech Weare, By Laws of the Province. Superior Court. Leverett Hubbard and William Parker. Clerk, George King. By ditto.


£60 salary, annually voted by the By the Governor Assembly, and about £24 fees, to with adv.council each. £5 more to Chief Justice. App. by Court.


Rock- ( Daniel Warner, Clement March. ing- Jno. Phillips & Chris. Toppan. By Laws of the Province. ham. Clerk, Isaac Rindge.


£60, arising out of fees established By the Gov. with advice Council. Elect. by Conrt. by law. £100 ditto.


Justices and Clerks of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas.


Straf- John Wentworth, George Ffrost, ford. Otis Baker & John Plummer. Clerl., Ebenezer Thompson.


By Laws of the Province.


£25 per annum, as above. 50 per annum, as above.


As above.


Hills- Matth. Thornton. Sam'l Hobart, boro' John Shepard & Samuel Blodget. By Laws of the Province. Clerk, Stephen Holland.


£30 per annum.


As above.


£50 per annum.


APPENDIX.


419


Office.


Names of Officers.


1 or current money. The authority by which they! The annual value in proclamation held their places.


Mode of their appointment.


Che- Daniel Jones, Samuel Ashley, shire. Elisha Marsh, Benja. Bellows. Clerk, Simeon Jones.


By Laws of the Province.


Ezu per annum. £50 per annum.


As above.


Graf- ( Jolin Hurd, Asa Porter, David ton. Hobart, Bazaleel Woodward. Clerk, John Fenton.


By Laws of the Province.


£50 per annum.


Rockingham,


John Parker.


£100 per annum.


Strafford, Theopilus Dame.


Hillsborough, Benjamin Whiting. Cheshire, Josiah Willard. Grafton, William Simpson.


By Laws of the Province.


£ 70 per annum.


£ 50 per annum.


Rockingham,


John Sherburne.


£ 65 per annum.


Strafford,


Henry Rust.


Hillsborough, John Goffe.


Cheshire, Simeon Olcott.


£ 24 per annum.


Grafton,


John Fenton.


£ 18 per annum.


Rockingham,


William Parker.


£ 65 per annum.


Strafford,


John Wentworth.


£ 30 per annum.


Registers of Probate.


Hillsborough, Joshua Atherton.


As above.


£ 25 per annum.


Cheshire, Thomas Sparhawk. Grafton, Jona. M. Sewall.


£ 24 per annum.


£ 18 per annum.


Admiralty


Judge. Register. Marshal.


Robert Auchmuty.


Charles Russel. John Beck.


By Lords Com'rs Admiralty. By ditto. By com'n from the Judge.


£600 sterling. Fees on causes tried. Fees on business.


By the King. do. By Judge Adm.


Rockingham, Strafford, Thomas W. Waldron.


£ 25 per annum.


By the Laws of the Province.


£ 30 per annum.


Recorders of Deeds.


Hillsborough, Samuel Hobart. Josiah Willard. John Hurd.


£ 40 per annum. £ 30 per annum.


Elected annually by the Governor, Council and As- sembly.


420


APPENDIX.


As above.


Judges of Probate.


£ 70 per annum.


£ 65 per annum.


Sheriffs.


£10 per annum.


As above.


By the Governor and Council, ap- pointed and com- missioned.


By the Governor's commis- £ 30 per annum. sion and Laws. £ 25 per annum.


As above.


Joseplı Peirce.


£ 65 per annum.


Cheshire, Grafton,


County Treasurers.


Rockingham, Strafford, Hillsborough, Cheshire, Grafton,


Peter Gilman. Thomas W. Waldron. Justices of the Quarter Ses-


sions.


£ 50 per annum. £ 20 per annum. £ 20 per annum. £ 20 per annum. £ 20 per annum.


By warrant.


Prov. Judge Admiralty.


Register


do.


Advocate.


Marshal.


William Parker. Jolin Sherburne. Samuel Livermore. John Beck.


The Gov's com'n as Vice-Ad. do. do. do.


Generally about 8 guineas, arising By commission from Governor. from fees.


Secretary of Province.


Theodore Atkinson.


By mandamus from the King.


£100 per ann. including office, By commission fire, candles, &c. £60 salary, from Governor. granted annually by the Assem- bly, and £40 fees.




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