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Mr. Whittle was an active member of the Universalist society at Weare Center and did much for that denomination; also a member of Aurora lodge of Free Masons. He was often an agent for the town to carry on important matters, and was prominent in building some of the main roads north and south through Weare which gained and retained the great tide of travel that existed before the era of railroads.
He married Rachel Parker, of Dracut, Mass., and they had eight children, five sons and three daughters, six of whom were born in Weare. Two of them now survive, John Whittle who owns the tavern and store of his father at Weare Center, and Mary Whittle Peterson, widow of Dr. Samuel Peterson, who was long Weare's respected and most successful physician.
Mr. Whittle died at Weare Center, Feb. 17, 1830; his wife May 18, 1844.
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[1837.
the lodge gradually declined. Masonry about this time grew unpop- ular, the Morgan scandal was abroad in the land, and the members got discouraged. May 15, 1837, they sold all their furniture at public vendue for $12.26; twenty-seven aprons brought $1.90, and Charles Chase was chosen to keep the jewels without expense till the lodge calls for them.
The last meeting was held May 19, 1845, at the hall of Bro. John Cheney. Daniel Paige, John Cheney, Charles Chase, Moses Hun- tington and John Chase, Jr. were present. They chose officers, elec- ted Moses Huntington representative to the Grand Lodge, and after transacting some minor business closed without ceremony. The lodge never met again .*
There are now a goodly number of Masons living in Weare. They are gradually increasing and it is hoped that in the near future Golden Rule lodge may be revived.
CHAPTER LIII.
TEMPERANCE.
ALMOST every one drank intoxicating liquors in the last century. As soon as the county of Hillsborough was organized the Court of General Sessions began to license liquor-sellers. In 1771 Aaron Quimby was licensed as a taverner in Weare, and Ebenezer Mudgett and Samuel Philbrick as retailers. Mr. Quimby, as we have said, drew the first barrel of rum to Weare on a spruce-pole jumper. The selectmen in 1792 and subsequent years licensed a great many men to keep tavern, and to mix and sell spirituous liquors, for the
* MASTERS.
Joseph Philbrick,
Charles Chase,
Daniel Paige, Squire Gove,
Amos Cheney.
Samuel Huntington, Josiah Danforth,
SECRETARY. Moses Huntington.
MEMBERS. Charles Gove, Jacob Paterson,
Nathaniel Boynton,
Richard M. Cummings, Squire Gove,
Joseph Philbrick,
Isaae J. Caldwell,
Josiah Danforth, Ezra Dow,
David D. Hanson,
Allen Sawyer,
Charles Chase,
Moses Huntington,
Thomas Wait,
John Chase, 2d., Amos Cheney,
Jonathan Dow, Josiah Edwards,
Samuel Huntington, Allen Waldo,
Hugh Jameson,
John Walton.
John Cheney,
Oliver Edwards,
Daniel Paige,
Samuel Barker,
Nathan Cheney,
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TEMPERANCE.
1784.]
term of one year. The town clerk's book of that time is filled to a large extent with a record of these licenses.
At the commencement of the present century New England rum was the common drink. No man could run a grocery store with- out keeping a barrel on tap in the back room, where all customers could help themselves. At all trainings and musters, bridge rais- ings and the like, the town furnished the rum. At all ordinations, installations, councils and other great religious meetings, the church provided it. Ministers treated all who called upon them, and apologized for not having more and better stimulants. Church members and all others treated the minister when he called, and he often went home at night very boozy. The odor of rum was sure to be present at all town-meetings, raisings, sheep-washings and shearings, huskings and log-rollings. It was common at funer- als, and the decanter and glasses were often placed on the head of the coffin as a token of the liberality of the mourners. In those old days it was highly commendable to get gloriously tight ; now it is a great sin, to be repented of in sackcloth and ashes. Two hundred years ago it was an awful crime in the sight of God not to hang a witch. At the present time, if a person should be hung as a witch, it would be a dastardly murder.
So alarming had this rum-drinking habit become that thinking men began to talk and act. The Friends were the first to move in Weare. As early as 1784 they made it a part of their discipline that none should use ardent spirit. Every three months they were reminded of the rule, by its being read at their business meet- ing, and a truthful answer as to how it was observed was made out and sent to a superior meeting. The early Methodists also took up the cause of temperance. People came to see the evils of rum- drinking ; that it was the principle cause of crime; that it filled the poor-houses, jails and state prisons, made wretchedness and misery in all the homes in the land, begat rheumatism, gout and scrofula, ruined the health, led to early death and suicide, besotted the intel- lect, made men brutes and hindered the cause of religion, high moral culture and civilization,
Enoch Breed, a worthy member of the society of Friends, was one of the first to take an open stand against rum. When ready to put up a new barn-frame, he gave notice that he should furnish no liquor, but lemonade in its stead. The knowing ones winked and predicted that the frame would not go up, but it did, and with-
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1819.
out any difficulty. Moses Sawyer when ready to raise his mill said he should provide no rum. The mill went up as did the barn. A barn was raised at Sugar hill without rum. The next morning the frame was minus the ridge pole. It was standing on end in the well, thus suggesting that it was a cold-water pole, and not a rum- pole. Levi Gove decided to do his haying without rum. It was predicted his hay would go to seed in the field. It went into the barn in good season, but not wholly on the cold-water plan, con- siderable cider was used. It is said that Enoch Paige* was the first to do his haying without rum or cider. These examples were soon followed by others, and soon sheep-washing and shearing were accomplished by some without rum.
The question was brought up in a town-meeting in 1819.1 The
* ENOCH PAIGE was the son of Samuel and Mary (Johnson) Paige. His father died when he was a small boy, and he came to Weare with his widowed mother, two older brothers, Eliphalet and Johnson, and his only sister, Hannah, about 1772. Mrs. Paige, who was an energetic woman, bought a lot of land about a mile west of what is now Clinton Grove, cleared with the help of her sons a few acres, and built a small, rude cabin of logs in which they lived many years. Eliphalet kept the home- place, Johnson bought the lot next north, cleared it and made a home for himself, and Enoch bought the lot still farther north, and while clearing his first few acres boarded with his brother Johnson. He soon built a house, and then married Cornelia Breed, of Weare. They lived very simply at first, and after the style of the carly times, never took their food at a table. Their children usually ate their bread and milk or bean porridge by the door in summer, and by the chimney corner in winter. So used were they to this, that any other arrangement would have been unpleasant. Mrs. Paige said, " Those were happy days, that they had enough for all the necessities of life, that all were on an equality as regards the lack of luxuries, and every year brought added comforts and increased means." Mr. Paige is described as a man of refinement and intelligence, was a preacher in the Society of Friends, and was noted for his liberality and charity. He had a love for the beautiful, and his Quaker brethren sometimes chided him for such vanities. At one time when taking his two daughters to Amesbury, Mass., to attend the Friends Quarterly meeting, he drove several miles out of his way that they might for the first time see the ocean. For this he was " reproved " or " dealt with "; but it had no effect on him, and he continued to encourage in his children a love of nature and of art. He was known far and near for his kindness, and his home was a very cave of Adullum, in which the homeless always found a refuge. His wife was no less charitable than himself. Whenever a case of real want came to their knowledge, the person or family was visited and materially aided. Their charities were so frequent and so quietly attended that the recipient often took them as a matter of course. Said one of the Friends to a poor neighbor, "Uncle Enoch is very kind to thee." The man replied in surprise, " Its no more than he ought to do and more, too." He died in his sixtieth ycar of mortifica- tion, caused by washing wheat in cold water. There was a slight wound on one of his hands, it soon became inflamed, and in a short time it was evident that death must ensuc. When this was known his friends came to see him from all parts of the town, and on the day of his death he shook hands and talked with more than one hundred different people.
Mr. Paige was born at Kensington, June 6, 1764; he married Cornelia Breed, Sept. 10, 1794.
Their children were: Abey, born Dec. 23, 1795, died May 1, 1853; Daniel, born Nov. 3, 1798, died July 7, 1875; Mary, born July 7, 1800, died Oct. 7, 1862; Abigail, born April 13, 1807, died April 4, 1862; Elizabeth, born March 27, 1810, dicd March 24, 1867. Mr. Paige died May 11, 1823.
+ TAX-PAYERS, 1820.
Alcock, Benjamin
Alley, Henry Joseph,
Bailey, Ebenezer Ebenezer, 2d Jacob,
Baker, Dr. John Barnard, Edmund
John,
Jacob,
Atwood, Dolly, Wid.
James, Jesse,
Bailcy, Amos W. Clark, Daniel,
Baker, James James P.
Jonathan & son, Morrill, Oliver, Reuben,
Barnard, Tristram Barrett, David
Bartlett, John Beck, Clement Boynton, David John,
425
TAX-PAYERS, 1820.
1820.]
warrant for the annual town-meeting had an article, " to see if the town will pass a vote prohibiting all the store-keepers in town from retailing rum and all other spirituous liquors, excepting those licensed to keep a public tavern." This was one of the earliest efforts, but at the town-meeting the rumies were too strong for the temperance men, and " voted to dismiss the article."
But the sentiment against the use of ardent spirits continued to increase. Ministers began to preach against it; church members began to pray to be delivered from its curse. Temperance lecturers went up and down the land denouncing rum-drinking as the vilest of crimes. Public sentiment was revolutionized in a few years.
Colby, Abigail, Wid. Dow, Stephen & son Follansbee, John
Clark,
Winthrop,
Jonathan,
Elizabeth, Wid.
Winthrop, 2d
Thomas,
Breed, Daniel
Ichabod,
Winthrop, 3d
Foster, Amasa Samuel P.
Enoch & son,
Jacob,
Eastman, Ichabod
Frye, Elisha
Isaiah,
James,
Ichabod, Jr.
Gale, Jolın
Jonathan,
Jonathan,
James,
Samuel,
Stephen & sons,
Marden,
Moses,
George, Charles
Brown, Benjamin Elijah,
Obadialı,
. Samuel,
Moses,
Elisha,
Samuel,
Thomas,
Timothy, Worthen,
Josiah,
Thomas,
Eaton, Eliz., Widow Gibson, John B.
Josiah,
William,
Humphrey,
Gile, Daniel & son
Simon,
Collins, John
Jacob,
Goodrich, Stephen L.
Buxton, David
Jonathan,
Mary, Widow,
Gould, Barnard
James,
Reuben,
Moses,
Daniel,
Joseph,
Richard,
Reuben,
Daniel, Jr.
Buzzell, Hezekiah D.
Samuel,
Samuel,
John,
Caldwell, Jacob I.
Tristram,
Tristram,
Stephen,
Carr, Aaron
Corliss, James Samuel,
Washington,
Gove, Abner Charles,
John E.
Cram, Daniel
Edmunds, Jonathan
David,
Jonathan.
Eliphalet,
Jonathan, Jr.
David, 2d
Trueworthy, Zebulon,
Joseph,
Oliver,
Daniel, 3d
Chase, Amos
Lowell,
Emerson, Anna
Daniel, 4th
Charles,
Nathan,
Billey,
Ebenezer,
Chevey,
Nathan, Jr.
Daniel,
Edmund,
David,
Richard,
Jonathan,
Enoch,
Hosea,
Thomas,
Joseph,
Ezra,
John,
Thomas, Jr.
Marden,
Jesse,
John, Jr.
Cross, Cleaveland
Moses,
John, Jr.
John, 2d
Christopher, David,
Samuel,
Jonathan,
Peter,
Cunningham, Nathan Stephen,
Josiah,
Steplien,
Currier, Benj. B. Hannah, Widow,
Thomas,
Levi,
William, Winthrop,
Levi,
Emery, Caleb
Moses,
Cheney, John
Mehitable, Nathaniel,
Thomas, Jr.
Pelatiah,
John, Jr.
Josiah,
Zebediah,
Squire,
Jonathan,
Day, John
Felch, Benjamin
Swett,
Jonathan, 2d
Dearborn, Jonathan Josiah,
Curtis,
Thomas N. William,
Philip,
Dow, Asa
Joseph,
Grant, Isaac
Richard,
David, Jr.
Jonathan, Thomas,
Green, David
Samuel, Seth N.
Elijah, 2d
Fifield, Jonathan G. Dorathy,
Clark, Jonathan
John,
Molly, Wid.
Elisha & son,
Clement, Jesse ·
John, Jr.
Flanders, Jonathan
Eliphalet,
Clough, Robert
Samuel S.
Fletcher, William B.
Isaiah,
James,
Simon P.
William,
Nathan,
Page,
Samuel, Jr.
Edwards, Josiah
Daniel, 2d
Nathan G.
Obadiah,
Johnson,
Lieut. Stephen,
Joshua,
Cilley, Enoch John,
Danforth, Benjamin Favor, John
Samuel,
Joshua,
Jabez,
Gray, Dodevah H.
Elijalı,
Evans, Osgood
Obadiah,
James,
Wheeler,
Jacob,
Boynton, Moses Nathaniel, Samuel,
Ebenezer & sons,
Ichabod, Jr.
Zacheus,
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1841.
Hitherto temperance only meant abstinence from drunkenness, not from drinking. No total-abstinence pledge had been advocated. The first approach to this was in 1841. James Peterson, the then popular physician of the town, wrote the following document, and with ninety others signed it: "Dissolution of Copartnership. The firm heretofore existing and doing business under the name of Rum, Gin, Brandy, Wine and the subscribers is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Being convinced that the welfare of all parties will be generally enhanced by this dissolution we cheerfully de- clare it by our signature ; May 18, 1841."
The great Washingtonian movement which was begun in Baltimore
Green, John
Johnson,
Kimball, Joseph Joseph, Jr. Samuel, Thomas,
Mary, Widow Moses,
Shaw, Jonathan Simons, Christopher Enoch, Joseph, Southwick, Taylor L. Stevens, Thomas
Levi,
Kinreck, Samuel
Osgood,
Moses,
Kinson, Joseph
Reuben,
Stone, Col. Phinehas
Hadley, George George, Jr.
Locke, Benj.
Caleb & son,
Straw, Abiah, Wid.
Jesse, William,
Lufkin, Cyrus
Hannah, Widow Israel,
Daniel, Samuel,
Hadlock, Richard
Lull, David
James,
Tenney, William
Hanson, David D. Solomon,
Jesse,
James, 4tlı
Towne, Capt. Thomas
Harwood, David
John,
John,
Tuttle, Jesse Simon,
Hazzen, Jesse John,
Moses,
Nathaniel & sons, Tuxbury, George H.
Moses, Moses, Jr.
Marsh, Samuel
Samuel, Stephen, Peavy, Thomas
Webster, Abel
Hodgdon, John Moses,
Jonathan, Joseph,
Philbrick, Beulah David,
· Cotton,
Hogg, Benjamin
Martin, Jesse Jonathan,
Ephraim,
father,
Hoyt, Aaron
Nancy, Widow Stephen,
John,
Dustin,
Abner, Jr.
Merrill, Jacob
Jonathan H.,
Henry,
Francis,
Morrill, Abraham Eleanor, Morse, True
Lucinda,
Whittle, John Jonathan P.,
Huntington, Abner
Mudgett, Moses, Jr. William,
Richard,
William,
Betsey, Widow
Muzzy, Dimond Thomas,
Priest, Abel Jr. John,
Ebenezer,
Huse, Ebenezer Moody, Obadiah,
Nichols, Humphrey Simeon, Thomas,
Purington, Amos Dilla, Widow
Harriman, Moses, Woodbury, Andrew
Johnson, Amos
Ordway, Jonathan Osborn, Daniel John,
John,
Samuel & son,
Jessie, Widow
Jedediah,
Jonathan,
John,
Jonathan, Jr.
Obadiah,
Moses,
Robert,
Samuel,
Raymond, Jere. P. Thomas, Robie, John John, Jr.
James,
Susanna, Widow Tristram,
Samuel, 2d
Rowell, David
Jonathan,
Jones, Abner
Daniel, Joseph,
Eliphalet & son,
Enoch & son,
Hannah, Widow John & son,
Sawyer, Ezra Humphrey, Nathan,
Wright, Abcl John R.
Thomas, Jr.
Kimball, Benjamin Benjamin, Jr. Jonathan,
Paige, Dr. Abner Danicl & son, David,
Sargent, Jacob Samucl, Saunders, James
Nathan,
Moses,
Wood, Andrew
Samuel,
Melvin, John
George,
John, White, Aaron,
Abner,
Nathaniel,
Nathaniel, 2d
Waldo, Allen
Hemphill, James
Marshall, Asa Benjamin,
Perkins, Joseph
Amos,
Whitaker, Jesse &
Hovey, Timothy
Howard, Dr. Nath'l
Lewis,
Moses,
Wallace, James
Watson, John
Hobson, Jonathan
James,
James, 2d
Tobie, Samuel B.
Gutterson, Nathan
Leighton, Ephraim James,
Tristram B.,
Peaslee, Abner
Stoning, Amos
Lowd, Mark
Paige, John, 2d
Josiah,
Lydia,
Moses,
Edmund,
Worthen, Daniel
Deborah, Widow
Worthley, Betsey, Widow
John,
.Jesse, John,
Moody,
Benj. & sons,
Samuel, Thomas,
Wilson, Joseph, Samuel,
Joseph,
James,
Jeremiah,
Putney, Nathan Thomas,
Thomas,
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UPRISING AGAINST RUM.
1840.]
by reformed inebriates, April 2, 1840, reached Weare in 1841. The Weare Washingtonian Society was formed in January, 1842. Most of the leading citizens of. the town went into this movement. Nearly all the common drunkards signed the pledge, but to the sor- row of the workers they soon began to return to their drink and were again in the gutter. It was then realized that the pledge must be re-enforced by the closing of the drinking places. To this end all effort was directed, "No trade with stores that keep rum," was the first war cry. At this time seven public drinking places were in full operation in the north part of the town. So well directed was the effort that all one after the other closed the liquor- trade .*
Up to 1845 but little had been said against cider. Every body drank it, and it was impolite not to pass the mug to callers. Men went from house to house for the sake of getting a drink. Osgood Evans, father of Newell Evans, would swallow a quart without once stopping to breathe or taking his lips from the pitcher.j Elizabeth and Sarah Carr, daughters of Jacob Carr, the celebrated story teller, drank a barrel of cider in a week, and they were not accounted great
* The following are some of the acts of the town in relation to rum :-
1799. " Paid Eleazer Greeley for liquor for repairing the bridge by Peaslee's mill, $3.72."
1807-12. A great deal of liquor was furnished the militia.
1818. B. B. Currier and fourteen others were licensed to sell rum for two days at the great muster on Purington plain.
1825. "Voted, that no liquors shall be sold near the town-house on town-meeting days."
1827. The temperance people were in the majority; they stopped, to a large ex- tent, the sale of liquor, and paid back the money that rum-sellers had paid for licenses.
1828. The town voted to pay back to Perry Richards the money " he had paid for a license to mix and sell liquors."
1838. "Voted, to enforce the law against the sale of ardent spirits near the town- house."
1839. " Voted, to prosecute liquor-sellers."
"Voted, that the selectmen be instructed not to license any person, except taverners, to sell in a less quantity than one pint."
1841. "Voted, that the selectmen put the license-law in force."
1843. This year the temperance party were in a large majority, and they voted not to license any one to sell liquor.
1844. " Voted, to license one person to sell ardent spirit for mechanical and medic- inal purposes only." Dr. James Peterson was licensed.
1845. The town, by vote, thanked E. W. Osborn for removing the cider from his shed near the town-meeting and from land of the town.
1848. The town voted for a prohibitory liquor-law; that only one man should be licensed, and he to sell for only mechanical, chemical and medical purposes.
1852. The representatives were instructed to use their influence to get the Maine liquor-law passed.
1872. Zephaniah Breed introduced the following resolution, which was adopted : " Resolved, that the selectmen of Weare be requested to enforce the law of the state in regard to the sale of spirituous liquors, especially on all public occasions."
t Daniel Emerson, generally known as the " doctor," was very fond of cider, and often took something stronger. One day he was hoeing-in rye and had the liquor in a little black jug. He tasted it pretty often, and when some one remonstrated said he wished he had a stream of "knurr rum " (he always put " knurr" to it) as large as a knitting-needle running down his throat all the time, it tasted so good. He died of too much " knurr rum " more than forty years ago.
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[1876.
drinkers either. At a celebration held at the Baptist meeting- house in North Weare, over the close of the last rum-shop, the sub- ject of cider-drinking was introduced in a way that created quite an excitement. Moses A. Cartland, the then popular teacher of Clinton Grove school, and a most enthusiastic reformer, rose in the audience, his erect and manly form attracting general attention, and said, " It is well we celebrate our victory over rum, but let us not forget another foe, the cider barrel, on which I believe the Quaker society is going down to perdition." Many of the audience were members of that society with him. From that time cider had a black eye. Father John Robie sent his hired man, Jimie, who had signed the pledge, to cut off the cider taps in his cellar. From an opposer of the reform Robie became an apostle of temperance in a large circle of towns. His temperance talks and songs won many to the pledge, and old cider-guzzlers soon were of a past generation.
And now no church would have a minister who drank liquor, and every church in Weare had a temperance plank in its platform. All drunkards were expelled.
Temperance societies were formed in different parts of the town. There have been several at East Weare. The Mechanics Lodge of Good Templars was instituted Jan. 20, 1876, with twenty-nine char- ter members .* The lodge has been very prosperous, has had about two hundred and fifty members, and two other lodges have been formed from it. The present members number about seventy. The Mount Odiorne Lodge is also doing a good work at South Weare. It was instituted June 17, 1878, has had one hundred and twenty- three members, and its present membership is about thirty-two.j
J. K. Osgood came to Weare in 1877, and arraigned cider, beer and ale as the devil's kindling wood. He met a hearty reception; a reform club was formed, and its first meeting was held Oct. 27,
* C. Arthur Black, Etta L. Smith,
Delia A. Jewell,
Georgianna Gould,
John W. Bohonan, Lizzie Carter,
Story A. Smith,
Ellen J. Moulton,
Maria Hamilton,
Frank B. Cilley,
Elbridge Putnam,
Ella F. Leach,
Ida Follansbee, Andrew J. Hood,
Elvira J. Eaton,
William M. Warner,
John Paige,
Sarah Hood,
Samuel Follansbee,
M. Belle Daniels, Louis Schwartz,
Mary A. Marshall,
t Mount Odiorne Lodge, Good Templars, South Weare. Organized June 17, 1878.
NAMES OF FIRST BOARD OF OFFICERS.
David Moulton, C. T.
George H. Cochran, M. Rose P. Bacon, D. M.
Mary Thorpe, N. T.
Jason P. Dearborn, C. M. Lizzie Eastman, R. S.
Eva Moulton, S.
Harvey G. Colby, I. G. E. Anna Dodge, L. S.
George H. Hazen, F. S.
John N. Cochrane, O. G. Francis Eastman, P. C. T.
Charles A. Thorpe, W. T.
Nellie M. Cram, A. S.
Whole number of members who have belonged to it 117.
Mary M. Cilley, William R. Warner,
Charles H. Moore,
Dana K. Marshall,
Lucy A. Jewell, Nettie M. Daniels. William Sheffmire,
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THE CRANEY HILL FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH.
1830.]
1877. This club continued in operation till July 3, 1881. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is now in a flourishing con- dition and is doing much work.
The temperance agitation has been productive of great good to Weare. It is estimated that at the beginning of the present century the yearly cost of the rum drank was $20 to each inhabitant. At the present time it is not over sixteen cents. Weare for the last forty years has had as few criminals and paupers as any town of the same size in the state, and after so long and so happy an ex- perience without saloons her citizens will be very careful that none shall be opened.
CHAPTER LIV.
THE CRANEY HILL FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH.
THE Freewill Baptists on Craney hill were strict Sabbatarians ; yet they did not quite live up to such old Sabbath laws as these, which early were in force in New England : -
" No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair or shave on the Sabbath day."
"No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or fasting day."
"No one shall run on the Sabbath day or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting."
"No one shall cross a bridge on the Sabbath."
And for every day in the week it was the old law that "No one shall read common prayer-books, keep Christmas or set days, make mince-pies, dance, play cards or play on any instrument of music, except the drum, trumpet or jews-harp."
But there were some on Craney hill who did not keep the Sab- bath, although all as a general thing ceased from their usual work.
The Craney hill Freewill Baptist church was formed a short time It was called by Joseph Philbrick, "The little
before 1830 .*
* TAX-PAYERS, 1830.
Addison, Jane John,
Bailey, Daniel D. Daniel, 2d
Baker, Edward Enos, James, Dr. John,
Samuel,
Tristram, Jr.
Bailey, Amos W. Clark, Daniel,
Phinehas,
Solomon,
Barnard, Daniel John,
Barnard, John, 2d Morrill, Oliver, Tristram,
Alley, Joseph
Atwood, Mehitable
Jacob, Jesse,
Sarah, Widow
Barret, David Jacob, John,
Alcock, Albert
Ebenezer, Ebenezer, 2d
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1830.
church in the north-west corner of the town." It was really the second Freewill Baptist church in town, for the next one formed after this was named the Third church. It was never large, but was a necessity to the people on the southerly slope of Craney hill, the meeting-houses at South and East Weare being so many miles
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