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George A. Pillsbury, the subject of this notice, went to Boston in 1836 as a clerk at the Boylston Market, but returned to Sutton in 1837, and before he was 21 years of age was engaged there in the stove business.
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In this he continued till 1840, when he came to War- ner as a clerk in the store of John H. Pearson. For about eight years he was actively engaged in mercan- tile business in Warner; then for a year or more he was in a wholesale dry-goods house in Boston. In 1849 he reentered the mercantile business in War- ner, having bought Ira Harvey's stock of goods, and taken a lease of his store. In the spring of 1851 he sold back his interests to Mr. Harvey, and went out of mercantile business entirely.
Mr. Pillsbury served as post-master at Warner from 1844 to 1849, as selectman in 1847 and 1849, and as representative in 1850 and 1851. He was chairman of the committee, appointed by the Merrimack county delegation in 1851, for building the new jail at Con- cord. In the fall of the same year he was appointed purchasing agent of the Concord Railroad Corporation, which position he filled for nearly twenty-five years. During this time his purchases amounted to from one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand dollars per annum. He removed to Concord in 1852. In 1866 he was elected president of the First National Bank, of Concord, and he held this position till March, 1878, when he resigned on account of leaving for the West. At this time the bank was the strongest in the state. He was elected in 1867 the first president of the National Savings Bank, at Concord, and he held this position till 1874, when he resigned. He was
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several times elected a member of the city council of Concord. In March, 1876, he was elected mayor of the city by a large majority, and was reelected to the same office in March, 1877. He gave to the city of Concord the fine-toned bell now on the Board of Trade building. He and his son, Charles A., substan- tially paid for the new organ in the First Baptist Church, of Concord, which cost $4,000. In March, 1878, he sold out his real estate interests in Concord, and removed to Minnesota.
Mr. Pillsbury, May 9, 1841, married Margaret S. Carleton, and they have had born to them two sons and one daughter,-viz., Charles A. [see College grad- uates], Mary Ida, born at Warner, April, 1848, died May, 1849, and Fred. Carleton, born August, 1852.
Fred. C., in 1872, went to Minneapolis as a clerk for his uncle, John S. Pillsbury, and he is now a mem- ber of the large firm of C. A. Pillsbury & Co.
At an adjourned meeting, June 4, 1849, the committee on the town house presented a report which was accepted.
Voted to adopt so much of the Committee's report as relates to the removing of the old house and repairing the same.
Chose N. A. Davis, C. Marshall and Philip Colby a Committee to remove and repair the same.
Voted to leave it discretionary with the committee as to the length which the posts shall be cut.
Voted to leave the selection of a site for the house to the above committee.
Voted that the Selectmen be authorized to borrow $800 of the surplus revenue to alter and repair the town house.
On the 6th day of June, 1849, Benjamin Wadleigh,
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Asa Page, and John Pillsbury, all of Sutton, as a com- mittee for that purpose, met at the town-house in Warner, heard all persons who desired to be heard, and appraised the pews in the town-house at 75 cents each. The number of pews being fifty-six, the sum total was $42.
At a legal meeting, held Aug. 11, 1849, the commit- tee chosen to rebuild the town-house declining longer to serve, a motion to adjourn was made, which was decided in the affirmative. So the "house under the ledge" was left on its foundations.
RAILROAD OPENING. 1
On the 21st day of September, 1849, the Concord & Claremont Railroad was formally opened to War- ner, and the event was duly celebrated. A train of nine cars was run down to Concord in the morning, carrying 500 people from Warner and other towns. ยท At eleven o'clock, the train, augmented by the addi- . tion of some nine cars and 800 passengers, started on . the return. So heavy was the train that two locomo- tives were required, one being placed in front and the other at the rear. The front cars were open stake cars. There was a crowd of persons standing on the front end of the first car, and supporting themselves by putting their hands upon the tender. At the crossing by the new prison the coupling between the head locomotive and the front car broke, the engine
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shot ahead, and those who were leaning on the tender fell forward upon the track. The train was forced forward by the locomotive at the rear. Matthew Harvey Gould, a young man about twenty years of age, a son of Col. Enoch Gould, and brother of the con- ductor, Moses E. Gould, fell in such a position that both legs were crushed and nearly cut off below the knee. Two or three others were severely but not fatally injured. The wounded were immediately taken back to Concord, and surgical aid was summoned. Young Gould died a few minutes after reaching Concord, and before amputation could have been performed.
This sad affair cast a dark shadow over all the sub- sequent proceedings of the day. But the train went on to Warner, where it arrived at one o'clock. A pro- cession was immediately formed, under the guidance of Daniel Bean, Jr., as marshal, which marched through Main street, led by the Fisherville band, and back to the stand provided for the speakers near the depot. After bountiful refreshments, provided by the citizens of Warner, had been partaken of, Gov. Hill, Col. Cyrus Barton, M. W. Tappan, E. B. West, W. Harriman, J. A. Gilmore, and Gen. Low (the president of the road), all made speeches of an encouraging and congratulatory nature.
Late in the afternoon the train returned to Con- cord, with nothing further to mar the festivities of the occasion.
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ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1850.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Wm. Carter, Jr., town-clerk.
For Governor.
Samuel Dinsmoor, 320
Nathaniel S. Berry, 56
Levi Chamberlain, 26
Representatives.
Walter Harriman, George A. Pillsbury.
John Currier, Jr.,
Origen Dimond, Selectmen. James Bean,
Ira Dimond was appointed collector.
Superintending School Committee.
R. W. Fuller, S. S. Bean, Parsons Whidden.
William Carter, Jr. (son of William, senior), was en- gaged in trade, first at the George stand in the Lower Village, then at the Robertson stand at the Centre. His wife was a daughter of Elliot C. Badger, and his only surviving son is William S. Carter (now of Leba- . non), who served in the Eleventh N. H. Regiment. Mr. Carter died in 1851, aged about 36.
Capt. Origen Dimond was a son of Isaac, and a grandson of Ezekiel, one of the proprietors of Warner. He was born in that district called Joppa, and he remained on the old homestead till advancing years began to unfit him for the management of a large farm, when he secured a few acres and a pleasant cot- tage in the village, where he now resides.
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James Bean, a son of Nathaniel, junior, and a grandson of Nathaniel, senior, is one of the leading farmers of Warner. He was born, where he has al- ways resided, at the foot of Monument hill. His first wife was Marinda Stewart, who died young, and his second is Mary, both daughters of Capt. John Stewart. Two of Mr. Bean's sons were in the army during the Rebellion.
Having now reached, in the town records, the mid- dle of the century, and approximated the present, these brief notices of persons elected to office will be generally omitted.
THE BANKS.
At the June session of the legislature of 1850 a charter was obtained for the Warner Bank, with a capital of $50,000. The bank was soon organized. Its presidents were Joshua George, Dr. Jason H. Ames, Franklin Simonds, and N. G. Ordway. Its cashiers were Francis Wilkins and George Jones. The latter served two years in the state senate.
This bank was closed, and the Kearsarge National Bank, with a like capital, was organized in 1867. The first president of this bank was N. G. Ordway. He was succeeded by Joshua George, at whose decease Mr. Ordway was again elected president, which posi- tion he still holds. The cashiers of this bank have been George Jones and Gilman C. George.
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In 1874 the Kearsarge Savings Bank was organized in connection with the National Bank, and the two are substantially under one and the same manage- ment.
JOSHUA GEORGE was born at the Lower Village, where Jonathan Badger now resides, March 24, 1791. He was a son of John and Mary (Harriman) George, who were natives of Haverhill, Mass., and who, after their marriage, settled in Hopkinton, N. H. They afterwards moved from Hopkinton to Warner, and from Warner to Topsham, Vt., where they died.
At the time the family removed to Topsham, Joshua was fourteen years of age. At the age of twenty- two he commenced driving cattle and sheep from Topsham to Brighton, a distance of 150 miles. He took down a drove through Hanover and New Lon- don, over Kimball's hill, through Warner, Hopkinton, Nashua, &c., to Brighton, usually once in two weeks. He followed this course for seven years, making each trip without assistance. He began to buy in Warner while living in Topsham, and when thirty years of age he came to Warner and settled at the place which was ever after his home. His first wife (a Miss Cres- sey of Bradford) lived but a year after her marriage. His second wife, Miss Ann F. Upton, was also of Brad- ford. She died in middle age, and all her children died young, except John, and Mrs. Frank Wilkins. Several years after her decease, Mr. George married,
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Joshua Beange
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for his third wife, a daughter of Col. Moses Gerrish, of Boscawen.
The subject of this notice was an active, persever- ing man during his whole life. He dealt largely in cattle, and was always ready for a trade of any kind. He was president of Warner Bank for a number of years after its organization in 1850. He was also president of the National Bank, in which office he continued till his death, at the age of 84. He was always prompt to the minute to meet every engage- ment, and he had no patience with a dilatory man. He was very particular and exact in all his official duties. If he owed a debt he paid it when due, though he had to ride all night for that purpose, and if a man owed him he exacted pay according to con- tract. He valued every dollar he earned. He was an " everlasting talker," but if he saw difficulty ahead, he at once became silent. He shunned a quarrel as a pestilence. He was no politician, and was never a candidate for office. He had a keen sense of the ridiculous, and the man who could outdo him in story- telling was rarely found. He was genial and kind in his family.
His son John fitted for college, studied law with Chief-Justice Perley, and with George, Foster & San- born, at Concord, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. In 1863 and 1864 he served on the staff of Gov. Gilmore, with the rank of colonel. His father had
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large real estate interests in Chicago and Sycamore, Ill., and for sixteen years, as his father's attorney, he was directly and indirectly attending to those inter- ests. He is now living at the old homestead in War- ner. Mrs. Wilkins, the daughter of Joshua George, died in 1878, aged 43.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
At a legal meeting, held Oct. 8, 1850, Abner B. Kelley and Leonard Eaton were chosen delegates to the constitutional convention of that year.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1851.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Moses D. Wheeler, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Samuel Dinsmoor, 242
John Atwood, 128
Thomas E. Sawyer, 20
Representatives.
Geo. A. Pillsbury, Leonard Eaton.
John Currier, Jr.,
Origen Dimond, Selectmen.
James Bean,
Ira Dimond, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
Dr. Whidden, S. S. Bean, H. H. Harriman.
HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
The sense of the qualified voters was taken on the following question :
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Is it expedient for the legislature to enact a law to exempt the homesteads of families from attachment and levy or sale on execu- tion, to the amount of $500 ?
The result in Warner was, yeas, 114; nays, 134.
The question had been submitted to the people by the legislature of 1850. In the state the affirmative . of the question prevailed, and the law was enacted in June, 1851.
The sense of the voters was also taken on the ques- tion of accepting the new state constitution which the convention had framed. The constitution was divided into fifteen sections or parts, and each part was voted on separately. There was an average of about 20 votes, in Warner, in favor of these propositions, and an average of about 250 votes against them.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1852.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Robert Thompson, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Noah Martin, 280
John Atwood, 67
Thomas E. Sawyer, 34
Representatives.
Leonard Eaton, H. H. Harriman.
Levi Collins,
Wm. R. Sargent,
Selectmen.
Abner Woodman,
Daniel Savory, collector.
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Superintending School Committee. A. B. Kelley, E. B. West, S. W. Colby. TOWN-HOUSE AGAIN.
Chose N. A. Davis, Erastus Wilkins, and R. Thomp- son a committee to take into consideration the ques- tion of a new town-house, and to report at a subse- quent meeting.
After the defeat of the state constitution in March, 1851, the convention reassembled, and presented cer- tain amendments which were submitted to the people in three questions. The result in Warner was as fol- lows :
1. On the question of abolishing all religious tests from the constitution, there were 22 yeas and 157 nays.
2. On the question of abolishing a property quali- fication, there were 33 yeas and 109 nays.
3. On the question of having amendments in the future proposed by the legislature instead of a con- vention, there were 11 yeas and 146 nays.
The second proposition (and that only) was carried in the state, and the property qualification fell from the constitution.
Voted to instruct the Selectmen to get the Town Hall insured, when said House passes into their hands.
Voted that an agent be appointed to sell the old House when the actual pew-holders can be settled with for 75 cents a pew.
Fra Harvey
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ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1853.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Robert Thompson, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Noah Martin, 301
John H. White, 56
James Bell, 12
Representatives.
H. D. Robertson, Ira Harvey.
Levi Collins,
Reuben Clough, Jr., Selectmen.
Robert Thompson,
George Savory, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
A. B. Kelley, E. B. West, H. O. Howland.
IRA HARVEY. David Harvey, with his family (in- cluding his son Abner), came from Amesbury. They settled on an excellent farm on Tory Hill. Abner occupied the family homestead during his lifetime, and was a forehanded farmer. He had a large family of sons and daughters. The names of the sons were David, Abner, Jr., and Ira.
Ira, the youngest but one of twelve children, was born December 3, 1809. In childhood and youth he suffered from infirm health, and gave evidence of being unsuited to the hard, out-door labors of the farm. He attended the schools of his own district
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punctually, and lengthened out his school-days by going into adjoining districts. He also attended school at Hopkinton academy one term, in the fall of 1828.
In September, 1829, at the age of nineteen, he went as clerk into the store of Jeremiah Paige at Bradford, and remained till June, 1834. Then, after spending a few months at home on the farm, he be- came a clerk in the store of Nathan S. Colby at War- ner. Here he remained till February, 1837. From April to July, 1837, he acted as clerk for Robert Thompson ; then hired the Colby store, and com- menced a successful business for himself on a very small capital. He continued at this stand most of the time till 1873, when he retired finally from active business. He has served frequently as town-clerk, , and has also represented the town in the legislature.
Mr. Harvey was married, Sept. 11, 1838, to Mary, daughter of James Bean, and the children of these parents are Mrs. Baxter, Mrs. Wilson, Frederick, Ab- bie, and Dr. Luther.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1854.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. R. Thompson, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Nathaniel B. Baker, 257
Jared Perkins, 75
James Bell, 24
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TOWN RECORDS.
Representatives. H. D. Robertson, Levi Collins.
Samuel W. Colby, Lewis Holmes, Selectmen.
J. M. Harriman, Wm. R. Sargent, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
H. O. Howland, S. S. Bean, N. J. Pinkham. ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1855.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. George T. Watkins, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Ralph Metcalf, 177
Nathaniel B. Baker, 245
Scattering, 10
Representatives. Levi Collins, Benjamin C. Davis.
Lewis Holmes,
J. M. Harriman,
Selectmen.
Reuben Clough, Jr.,
George Savory, collector. Superintending School Committee.
H. O. Howland, N. J. Pinkham, A. B. Kelley.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1856.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Geo. T. Watkins, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Ralph Metcalf, 183
John S. Wells,
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Representatives. Benjamin C. Davis, Lewis Holmes.
A. W. Harriman,
E. M. Dunbar, Selectmen. S. C. Pattee,
George Savory, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
H. O. Howland, N. J. Pinkham, L. Willis.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1857.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Geo. T. Watkins, town-clerk.
For Governor.
William Haile, 185
John S. Wells, 279
Representatives.
Lewis Holmes, Samuel W. Colby.
A. W. Harriman,
E. M. Dunbar, Selectmen. . S. C. Pattee,
Franklin Simonds, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
A. B. Kelley, H. H. Harriman, L. W. Collins.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1858.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Geo. T. Watkins, town-clerk.
For Governor.
William Haile, 195
Asa P Cate,
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TOWN RECORDS.
Representatives. Samuel W. Colby, .Walter Harriman.
Stephen C. Pattee,
Moses J. Collins, Selectmen. George Foster,
Franklin Simonds, collector.
Superintending School Committee. L. W. Collins, E. M. Dunbar, W. Harriman.
Chose Levi Savory to take charge of the town hall. Voted that the town hall shall not be let short of $5 per even- ing, and shall be free for the use of the town people.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1859.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. Gilman A. Bean, town-clerk. For Governor,
Ichabod Goodwin, 198
Asa P. Cate, 278
Representatives. Cummings Marshall, Ephraim M. Dunbar.
George Foster,
John Rogers, Selectmen. Jacob R. Sargent,
. H. H. Harriman, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
S. C. Pattee, Oscar B. Harriman, B. Warren Couch.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1860.
H. D. Robertson, moderator. G. A. Bean, town-clerk.
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For Governor.
Ichabod Goodwin, 217
Asa P. Cate, 279
Representatives.
C. Marshall, E. M. Dunbar. 1 Nathaniel A. Davis,
Moses J. Collins, Selectmen.
J. M. Harriman,
H. H. Harriman, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
S. C. Pattee, B. W. Couch, Samuel Davis, Jr.
HARRISON DARLING ROBERTSON, whose name has frequently appeared on the preceding pages, was a native of the adjoining town of Hopkinton. The public records inform us that John Robertson came from England and settled at Salisbury, Mass., and that he was killed by the Indians at that place Oct. 21, 1676. Also, that Wm. Robertson came from Eng- land and settled in Concord, Mass., as early as 1670, and that both of these left many descendants.
Harrison D. Robertson was probably a descendant of one of these families. He was born at Hopkinton (old village) in 1806. His father's name was John, and his mother was a Darling. Mr. Robertson came to Warner when a youth or young man, and engaged in the mercantile business, which occupied his atten- tion, more or less, through life. He also carried on
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the coopering business on an extensive scale. He was one of Warner's most active and influential men a great many years, and was much in public life. He held the office of post-master fourteen years, of repre- sentative four years, and of moderator and selectman a great number of years.
His first wife was a daughter of Hon. Benjamin Evans, and his second (who survives him) a daughter of Dudley Bailey. He died in 1862, aged 56, leaving one son,-John E. Robertson, now of Concord. Mrs. E. H. Carroll, of Warner, is his grand-daughter.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1861.
Walter Harriman, moderator. G. A. Bean, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Nathaniel S. Berry, 194
George Stark, 271
Representatives.
Augustine W. Harriman, Stephen C. Pattee.
Samuel W. Colby,
John P. Colby, Selectmen.
Hezekiah B. Harriman,
H. H. Harriman, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
S. C. Pattee, B. W. Couch, S. Davis, Jr.
Voted that interest be charged on all taxes unpaid on the first day of January next after the taxes are assessed.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE WAR-STATE AID-BOUNTIES TO SOLDIERS-RAISING THE BID-BOUNTY-JUMPERS-MORE MEN-THE ARMY MOVES.
. ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1862. Walter Harriman, moderator. Gilman A. Bean, town-clerk
For Governor.
Nathaniel S. Berry, 191
George Stark, 238
Paul J. Wheeler, 26
Representatives. A. W. Harriman, S. C. Pattee.
Samuel W. Colby,
John P. Colby, Selectmen.
H. B. Harriman,
Charles P. Rowell, collector.
Superintending School Committee. Rev. Henry Stetson.
STATE AID.
Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to make diligent in- quiry, and if they find any families that desire and need assist- ance, who come under the Laws passed last June in regard to fur- nishing aid to volunteers in the U. S. service, that they should furnish such an amount as in their opinion shall seem just and proper.
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BOUNTIES TO SOLDIERS.
At a legal meeting, held Aug. 21, 1862, to act on the petition of Reuben Porter and others in regard to paying bounties to volunteers, Stephen C. Pattee act- ing as moderator,-
Voted to adopt the resolution introduced by George Jones, which is as follows :
Resolved, That the town of Warner will pay each volunteer $150, to be paid when the soldier is mustered into the service of the United States to fill up our quota under the first call of the Pres- ident for three hundred thousand volunteers, agreeably to the warrant.
Voted to authorize the Selectmen to borrow a sum of money not exceeding $10,000, to pay the bounty to volunteers agreeably to the foregoing resolution of George Jones.
At a subsequent meeting, held Sept. 15, 1862, Sam- uel Davis, Jr., acting as moderator,-
Voted that the town of Warner indemnify the Selectmen from all loss, cost or expense to which they may be subjected by rea- son of borrowing money on the credit. of said town, agreeably to a vote passed by said town on the 21st day of August, 1862, to pay volunteers $150 each.
The reason does not appear why indemnification was thought to be necessary in this case more than in others ; nor can the reader understand how the second vote could indemnify the selectmen more than the first, as a vote of instructions carries indemnification with it.
Voted that the Selectmen be instructed to pay Walter Harri- man $150 as town bounty.
[The individual referred to here has never called for nor received said bounty.]
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ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1863.
Robert Thompson, moderator. G. A. Bean, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Joseph A. Gilmore, 96
Ira A. Eastman, 261
Walter Harriman, 103
Representatives.
John P. Colby, Hezekiah B. Harriman.
Samuel W. Colby, -
Moses D. Wheeler, Selectmen.
Elijah R. Gilmore,
Charles P. Rowell, collector.
Superintending School Committee.
Henry Stetson, S. C. Pattee, L. W. Collins.
Voted to instruct our representatives to oppose the purchase of a County Poor Farm.
One person who received votes for governor at this election was not a candidate of any organized party, . but was voted for by such as were dissatisfied with the regular candidates, or with one of those candi- dates.
At a meeting, held Sept. 19, 1863, to act on the petition of Gilman A. Bean and others,- '
To see if the Town will vote to pay $300 to each drafted man or his substitute,-on motion of B. F. Harriman, Voted to in- struct the Selectmen to pay each conscript, or his substitute, $300, ten days after being mustered into the service of the United States.
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Voted that the Selectmen are hereby authorized and directed to borrow the money and give town notes sufficient to pay each drafted man, or his substitute, $300, agreeably to the resolution of B. F. Harriman, as just passed.
A subsequent meeting was held Dec. 4, 1863, and the selectmen were authorized to fill the quota of the town, " under the last call of the president for 300,000 volunteers," and to advance the bounty money offered to volunteers by the United States and by the state of New Hampshire; also, to borrow a sufficient sum of money on the credit of the town to pay the same.
ANNUAL MEETING, MARCH, 1864.
Robert Thompson, moderator. G. A. Bean, town-clerk.
For Governor.
Joseph A. Gilmore, 195
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