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on the south-west slope of Chevey hill, west, over the Piscataquog and Dudley brook, up Hadlock brook to Deering.
59. Dec. 12, 1784- Led from the west end of the bridge, by Jacob Carr's, south on the right bank of the Piscataquog, to the north end of road one, laid out in 1764 to Joshua Maxfield's land.
60. March 26, 1785- Ran from road fifty-six, by Samuel Brooks Tobie's, on Toby hill, south, over Peacock brook, to road forty-two. It has been mostly discontinued.
61. Sept. 17, 1785 - Two rods wide; led from road eight, near Jedediah Dow's, west, through what is now Slab City, by the Friends' north meeting-house, to Josiah D. Chase's on Chevey hill.
62. Sept. 28, 1785-Two rods wide; ran from road twenty- two, south-west, across Felch brook to Peaslee's mill on the Pis- cataquog, across the river, on road fifty-two to Ezekiel Kimball's near the center east-west rangeway. From the mill, south, was only a relaying of road fifty-two.
63. Oct. 1, 1785 - Two rods wide; led from Winthrop Colby's, near Currier brook, across this stream, east, to road thirty-three, thence in the latter to road two near John Jewell's. The first part of this road was never built.
64. June 22, 1786-Led from road sixty on the east side of Toby hill, east, across the branch of the Peacock that comes from Chevey hill, by Nathan Greenleaf's, then north to what is now Clin- ton Grove. It was called the Greenleaf road, and has long been discontinued.
65. Nov. 18, 1786-Two rods wide; led from road sixty-one, by Nathan Chase's, north, down the hill over the Piscataquog, by the old Tobie store to road eight near Widow Daniel Paige's land.
66. Jan. 19, 1788-Two rods wide; led from road nine, by Lemuel Paige's tan-house, north, between Burnt hill on the east and Rattlesnake hill on the west, to Hopkinton line. David Tilton lived by it in old times (1768), and William C. Vitty lives by it now.
67. March 11, 1788 -Three rods wide from end to end ; led from road fourteen, near Nicodemus Watson's, by Mount William pond, north, down the valley between Mounts Wallingford and William, east of Duck pond, and by the old Quaker meeting-house, it being a relaying of part of road eight.
68. May 23, 1788-Two rods wide; ran from the end of road fifty-three, near John Philbrick's, to road five, that leads to New Boston line.
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69. Nov. 15, 1788 - Two rods wide ; led from Ebenezer Breed's, north of Mount Wallingford, east, over the David C. Breed brook, south of Duck pond, over Center brook to road eight.
70. Feb. 19, 1789 - Ran from the east end of road nineteen, at Richard Griffin's, south-east to the house of Jonathan Philbrick, Jr., near the westerly affluent of Meadow brook.
71. Feb. 20, 1789-An open road; led from Jonathan Phil- brick's, on the ridge between the Peacock and Ferrin brook, north, to road fifteen, that led by Jabez Morrill's in the gore.
72. 1789-Led from road fifty-five, by Samuel Worthen's, on the long, south ridge of Barnard hill, west, over the sources of Hoit brook, across the Otter, near the cold spring at Thomas Worthley's, to road two.
73. May 7, 1791 -Two rods wide; led from road eight, over Emery brook, north-west, on Craney hill, to Deering line, at the north-west corner of Weare.
74. Aug. 21, 1791 - Led from road twenty-nine, south-west, through what is now East Weare village, over the Piscataquog, where is the present bridge, south, on the rangeway, to road twenty- seven, near Thomas Emerson's.
75. Aug. 27, 1791 - A rangeway laid out two rods wide; led from road forty-eight, north, on the long, south ridge of Barnard hill, shunning a great ledge by curving to the west to road thirty- eight, by Follansbee Shaw's.
76. Nov. 23, 1791 - Ran from road seventy-four, near Thomas Emerson's, south-west, by a great rock on land of Joseph Huse, to John Huntington's, near road twenty-seven on Barnard hill.
77. November, 1792- Led from road fifty-seven, north, by the Browns', to Horace Chase's. This road is on what is sometimes called Brown hill, and has been discontinued in part.
78. April 24, 1793 - Ran from road two, south, on the left bank of Meadow brook, to road four. This is the present road from South Weare post-office to Dearborn's tavern.
79. June 3, 1793- Led from road forty-eight, on the rangeway by Daniel Emerson's, on the south ridge of Barnard hill, west down the hill over the source of Hoit brook to Thomas Colburn's.
80. Sept. 23, 1794- Three rods wide; ran from road twenty- three, near the north end of Jacob Carr's land, south by his house to the old bridge, west over the Piscataquog to road fifty-nine.
81. Sept. 23, 1794-Two rods wide; ran from road twenty-
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nine, on the west side of the parsonage lot, range six, east by Benja- min Cilley's, Jr., across Choate brook to Dunbarton line.
82. Sept. 23, 1794 - Two rods wide; ran from road eighty-one, on the line between lots fourteen and fifteen, range six, south, to road twenty-nine. The north part of this road was discontinued about 1835.
83. Sept. 19, 1795 - Two rods wide; led from road two, near Elijah Gove's, the John Jewell place, west of the Peacock, south- east to road thirty-three, near Salmon Cooper's.
84. April 30, 1796-Two rods wide; led from road twenty- nine, on the rangeway near Bassett mill, south on John Hogg's land, in the path as then trod to the north end of road eighty, on Jacob Carr's land, east of the Piscataquog.
85. June 8, 1796 - Two rods wide; ran from road forty, on the south-west slope of Chevey hill, south-west to road sixty or fifty- six, near David Chase's, on Toby hill, by Mr. Tobie's.
86. 1796-Laid out by the court's committee, Samuel Dana, Aaron Greeley and Robert Parker; led from road twenty-nine, near Peasley's tavern, north-east to Dunbarton line. It was a part of a great road to connect Hopkinton and Amherst, when each was a half shire town.
87. March 28, 1797 - Two rods wide ; led from road ninety- four, on the center east-west rangeway, on lot fourteen, range four, Isaiah Green's land, south-east over Burrows brook and Maxfield brook, by the place where Abraham Melvin lived so long, to road thirty-eight, on Barnard hill.
88. June 20, 1797 - Two rods wide; led from road sixty-two, near Joseph Jones', south, to road fifty, near Ebenezer Peaslee's.
89. Aug. 16, 1798-Two rods wide (laid out by the court's committee, Jeremiah Paige, Robert Wallace and Moses Little) ; ran from road forty-two, south, to the west of Mount Misery, and to the east of Boar's Head, by the place where Asa Heath, Nathan- iel Weed, Thomas Nichols and Daniel Breed once lived, to road two, at the mountain.
90. Nov. 8, 1798- Led from road two, in the valley of the Otter, south on the west bank of the stream, then south-east over the stream to New Boston line. Simon Tuttle, Stephen Tuttle and Thomas Worthly, 3d, once lived by it.
91. Aug. 20, 1804 - Led from road twenty-four, on the north- south center rangeway, near the house of Nathan Kimball, east,
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and over a rough country to road sixty-two, by Joseph Jones'. This road for many years was known as the turnpike. Benjamin Felch, John Watson, Jr., James Brown and Daniel Gove, 2d, lived or owned land near this turnpike.
92. April 11, 1808 - Ran from Henry Tuxbury's, in the gore, on the hill west of the Peacock, west to road seven, that led from James Buxton's to Asa Sargent's.
93. April 15, 1808 - Two rods wide ; led from road fifty-seven, just west of Emery brook, west seventy rods, to farms of Elijah Brown, on what is sometimes known as Brown hill, a part of Craney hill.
94. June 25, 1808 - Three rods wide, and four rods wide part of the way; led from Amos Stoning's, near or on the center, east- west rangeway, west by Stephen Gove's, over Horse Meadow brook, by Solomon Hanson's shop, to Center Square. This road was first laid out in 1770, from the south-west corner of Isaiah Green's land, now Weare Center, to Ezekiel Kimball's. The road was substantially where it is now; relaid in 1808, and its boundaries more definitely defined.
95. Aug. 30, 1808- Two rods wide; led from road twenty or thirty-four, at what is now Clinton Grove, north to road sixty-one, where is now Slab City.
96. Sept. 8, 1808- Two rods wide; led from road west of Samuel Eaton's house, south-west to road by Abner Hoit's orchard, on Barnard hill. This was a mere alteration of the road on the north end of the south school lot.
97. Oct. 15, 1808 - Two rods wide; ran from road three, on the north-east slope of Mount Odiorne, near Joseph Philbrick's, north to the west of Mine hill, up the Peacock, across it to Clinton Grove, thence on the ridge east of Thorndike brook in road twenty, to the Piscataquog.
98. Dec. 22, 1808-Two rods wide; led from Henniker line, south up Sall brook, a little west of Mount Ararat, across road seventeen, over the Piscataquog, south a hundred rods, to road eight. It was the old stage and team road from Henniker, through Weare to Amherst and Salem market.
99. June 13, 1811 - Ran from Francestown line on Candle- wood hill, north-east to road eighteen, which led from road two to Deering.
100. Sept. 13, 1811 - Led from road eighty-six, near Abraham
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Melvin's, on Barnard hill, north-east to road seventy-four, near East Weare village.
101. Nov. 12, 1814 - Ran from a cherry tree in road one, by Emerson bridge, north on the east side of the Piscataquog, to Ste- phen Emerson's.
102. Nov. 3, 1815 - Led from road thirty-nine, on the south side of the Piscataquog, at Rockland, north, over the bridge to road seventeen. This road was first laid Aug. 12, 1771, and was road twenty-four, which continued to Henniker line.
103. May 29, 1817 -Two rods wide; ran from road twenty- four, south side of the bridge, at Rockland, south-easterly down the right bank of the Piscataquog, to road fifty-two, near Peaslee's mill, on the mill lot.
104. June 2, 1817 - Was an alteration of about thirty rods of the east end of road ninety, the old turnpike, near Joseph Jones' house.
105. June 16, 1817-Two rods wide, straightened road twenty- two, that ran east and west, south of Sugar hill. It was twenty- seven rods long, and east of Joseph Felch's house.
106. May 29, 1818 - Two rods wide; led from road forty, near Joseph Flood's, across the Piscataquog, north to Winthrop Dow's, to road fifty-eight, and made part of that road from Clinton Grove to Deering.
107. July 6, 1818- Led from road eighty-four, above the present Everett railroad station, north-east to Dunbarton line.
108. Oct. 17, 1818 - Two rods wide; ran from road forty-four, near Daniel Paige's land, south across the Piscataquog, up Townly hill, to road near Samuel Osborn's, on Chevey hill.
109. Dec. 8, 1821 - Led from road forty-seven, on the west side of the Otter, by Moses George's, south down that stream to road two.
110. May 18, 1824-Led from road eight to Jonathan Collins' house on the south-west slope of Craney hill.
111. June 18, 1824-Three and one-half rods wide; was a relaying of roads ninety-eight and eight from Henniker line through Weare Center to New Boston. It was eight miles, two hundred and eighty rods long in town, and ran on a straight course west of the present North Weare meeting-house, through Weare Center by Mount William pond, through South Weare by Philbrick's tavern, now Dearborn's, and kept on the east side of the Dustin meadow to
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New Boston. The distances were, from Henniker line to Puring- ton's inn nine hundred and fifty-eight rods, to Whittle's hotel sixty rods, to old town-house three hundred and twenty-six rods, to Wal- lace's store, the present post-office, six hundred and seven rods, to Jeremiah Philbrick's tavern, now Dearborn's, three hundred and ninety-three rods, to New Boston line three hundred and seventy- nine rods, in all two thousand eight hundred and forty rods. This road was a great thoroughfare from Vermont through Weare to Amherst, Nashua and the seaboard towns. It was better liked than the Francestown turnpike or any other road in this vicinity and had more travel.
112. 1828-Laid out by the court's committee, led from road twenty-nine near Bassett mill, north in the valley of Choate brook to Hopkinton line; Peasley's tavern was at the south end of it.
113. 1829-Laid out by the court's committee, led from East Weare up the Piscataquog, across the river at the place now known as " Boston " to road fifty-two; near Peaslee's mill on the mill lot. A road had been laid in 1818, connecting the two points, but was not wholly built, the town in the mean time opposing and trying to get it discontinued. It was built up as far as "Boston," with a bridge across the river in 1820. John Peasley, who kept the tavern near Bassett mill, drove over the whole length of it in a "two-wheeled shay " with his two daughters, the west part of it not so good as an ordinary cart path, when he went to town-meeting to vote for An- drew Jackson in 1828. It was not completed till 1839, and then at " Boston " it was on a different route, with a new bridge.
Moses Johnson built a section of it. He was blasting rocks and went to ignite the charge, when a spark from his torch accidentally fell on the powder. With great presence of mind, quick as thought, he turned round and stooped close to the ground. A stone that would weigh nearly two tons passed over his back and knocked off his hat, others went wonderfully near him, but strange to say he did not receive the slightest injury.
114. March 1, 1830-Led from Samuel B. Tobie's house east to the highway on Toby hill.
115. June 1, 1830 - Led from road three west of Mine hill, north-west to road ninety-seven, near the house of Ezra Sawyer, who lived there then.
116. June 17, 1840-Led from road fifty, near Moses Peaslee's, north-east about two hundred rods to road sixty-two. This road
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was a substitute for a part of road sixty-two that went by the Jones place.
11. October, 1840 - Laid out by the court's committee, led from Oil Mill Village, by the south road, by Dearborn's tavern at South Weare, by the Hodgdon place to Deering line and so on to Hillsborough Bridge. It followed old roads where practicable, and much new road was built. Robert Peaslee surveyed the road for the committee.
CHAPTER LXV.
DIVISION OF THE TOWN.
Gov. BENNING WENTWORTH's charter reserved the right to divide Weare into two or more towns. To us this seems to have been an unhappy suggestion. Every generation has continually considered it. Like the religious societies who were constantly dividing, some of the citizens have seemed infatuated, for the sake of holding office or other reason, to divide the town and weaken the sections.
The first attempt to make a division of any kind was in 1773, when, May 21st, they warned a town-meeting, to be held June 9th, " to see if the town will set off the easterly side of said town to be a town or parish; from the south-west corner of Hopkinton, by the center line to New Boston line." At the meeting the town voted not to make the division.
In 1778 the voters did divide the town into two militia districts, as we have said. These stood till 1793, when there were three militia districts.
The subject of building new meeting-houses came up in 1785, and the question of dividing Weare into parishes or two towns was debated sharper than ever. Dec. 17th, a special meeting was called "to see if the citizens will vote to divide the town into two distinct parishes as petitioned for, or to set off a parish from said town and to divide said town." A simple statement.
At the meeting held Jan. 2, 1786, voted viva voce not to make any division. Then a poll was demanded, and it was decided to divide the town east and west. The people who wanted a new town went
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home happy from that meeting. They did not let the matter rest ; they knew that the vote did not divide, only the legislature could do that, and they at once got up a petition to that body, in which they said they labored under great inconveniences in settling a " Gosple " minister " by Reason of a Large Society of Quakers Nigh the Senter of Said town and the Remainder of Said town So Remote from us that We Cannot be Convened in one Society," and they asked that they might be set off " A perish " invested with town privileges, and that their territory might extend east and west from Center road to Dunbarton, and north and south from Hopkinton to New Boston.
The petition was signed by fifty men,* they voted to send it to the General Court, and chose Lieut. Ithamar Eaton, Obadiah Eaton and Samuel Paige a committee to present and support it. The house of representatives, Feb. 4th, sent it to a committee, and a hearing was ordered for the next session.
The town debated the question all winter, and it came up at the annual meeting, March 14th, and " there was a pool taken," to see how many were for and how many against a division. Fourteen voted in favor, and one hundred and eighteen against it.
Then Jonathan Dow, Samuel Philbrick and John Hodgdon, three of Weare's most influential men, were made a committee to attend the General Court in behalf of the town and against the petition. A
* PETITION FOR A PARISH IN THE EAST PART OF TIIE TOWN, 1786.
" Your Hunble Pertitioners Inhabetants of the Easterly End of Weare Shewetli that We Labour under Great Inconveniences of Settling a Gosple Minister With Us by Reason of a Large Society of Quakers Nigh the Senter of Said town; and the Re- mainder of Said town is So Remote from us that We Cannot be Convenned in one So- ciety ; therefore our prayers is to your honours that you Would Set us off A perish in Said town Invested with town priviledges on the Easterly Sid of the Senter Road So Called, beginning on Hopkinton Line and to Extend South by Said Senter Road and by Dunbarton to New Boston or as far as it Shall be made to appear to your honours to be for the public benefit of your Pertitioners; and your Pertitioners as in Duty bound Will Ever Pray -
" Weare January 25th 1786.
" SAMUEL PAIGE NATHANIEL FIFIELD ABNER HOYT
DAVID BARD
ITHAMAR EATON
BENJAMIN SELLEY
LEMUEL PAIGE
MOSES BOYNTON EDWARD FIFIELD
LEVI HOVEY
ELIJAH BROWN
ENOCH JOHNSON
SAML PAIGE JR
ROBARD JOHNSON
BENJAMIN COLLINS
MOSES GEORGE
JOHN AYER
JOHN BROWN
SAMUEL AYER
MOSES FAVER
JOSHUA MAXFIELD MOSES FIFIELD
WILLM AYER EZEKIEL CARR
JOHN HUNTINGTON
ISAAC LIVINGSTON JONATHAN BROWN
JOSEPH WEBSTER
SAMUEL ROWEL MARDEN EMERSON
TRUSTRAM JOHNSON SAMUEL STRAW LEVI COLBY
TIMOTHY GEORGE
JOSEPH PILSBURY
THOMAS EVANS
OBADIAH EATON JAMES HOGG JOHN PAIGE
NATHAN KIMBELL
DANIEL PEASON "
DANEIL GOOLD JOHN FEVER
JONATHAN PAIGE
- Town Papers, vol. xiii, p. 640.
JONATHAN GOOLD
JOSEPH MARSHALL
FOLANSBE SHAW
JOHN SELLY JACOB CARR
THOMAS FOWLLINSBE
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hearing was had before a legislative committee in the summer, and at a special town-meeting Aug. 7th, the citizens voted that their own committee cause "a paper to be carried through the town to see how many will sign against the division, to lay before the Gen- eral Court."
The Eatons and Col. Samuel Paige had more influence than the agents of the town with the legislative committee, and they reported* that the prayer of said petition be so far granted, that the petitioners be set off as a separate town. The bounds of the new town were thus stated by the report in the clearest manner. They were to be- gin at Hopkinton line and extending southwardly so far as to in- clude six ranges, exclusive of the public land, and three-eighths of that to go to the new town. The committee were Ebenezer Web- ster, probably the father of the "God-like Daniel," John Duncan and Robert Wallace.
The town's committeet were not men easily discouraged ; they worked with all their energy; they labored with the whole General Court; when the vote was taken the report was rejected, and the town was saved as a unit.
But the people in the north-east part of the town, in the neigh- borhood of Sugar hill, could not remain quiet. In 1788 they brought the matter in another form. June 7th they had a special town-meet- ing, warned to see if the town will establish a parish line, the same as the militia line, that the town might proceed as two distinct par- ishes to build meeting-houses and settle ministers by legal authority. The majority of the town were opposed to this and voted not to divide, by the militia line, into two parishes.
The matter slumbered twelve years. Then the Congregationalists woke it. Jan. 18, 1802, they tried to have the voters divide the town into two parishes, but they voted by a large majority not to do it. But they were not to be put down so easily ; they had a hearing on the subject at the annual town-meeting in 1803, again asked that
* REPORT OF A COMMITTEE ON THE FOREGOING.
" The Committee On the Petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of the town of Weare Agree to Report Aas Our Openion that the Prayer of Said Petition Be So Far Granted As that the Petitionars Be Set off As A Seperate town Beginning at Hopkin- ton Line And Extending Southwardly So far as to include Six Ranges Exclusive of the Publie Lands And Also Be intitled to three Eights of All the Public Lands in Said Weare- Which is Submitted By Us- EBNR WEBSTER,
" Rejected.
JOHN DUNCAN. ROBERTWALLACE."
- Town Papers, vol. xiii, p. 441.
+ " Paid Samuel Philbrick for attending the General Court. 2-4-5-0
" Paid John Hodgdon for attending the General Court. 2-4-5-0"
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the town might be so divided by a line that began at Rattlesnake hill and ran southerly by Center road to New Boston, and again they were refused.
Then they went to the General Court once more, and the town chose a committee, John Hodgdon, Ebenezer Peaslee and Samuel B. Tobie, "to oppose the setting off of the north-east part of the town into a parish by those crooked lines or any other way."*
The legislature refused their request, and they let the matter rest for two years, when, in 1805, they went at it again.
The town sent Capt. George Hadley and Samuel B. Tobie to oppose, but the General Court, as we have seen, incorporated the Congregationalists, set them off as a "poll parish " by themselves, and Hadley and Tobie's labor went for naught. But this Congrega- tionalist society soon died out, and their " poll parish " was forgotten.
Jonathan Gove led off in the next move to mar the fair propor- tions of Weare. He with others, in 1814, petitioned the legislature for a division. Their plan was to take portions of Weare, New Boston and Goffstown and make a new town, with Oil Mill village for its center. It would have made a very pretty, but small and weak hamlet. Of course a majority of the citizens would oppose such a scheme. At the annual town-meeting, March 9th, they chose Squire Streeter agent to attend the legislature and fight it. He did so successfully, and the town's unity was not again threatened for twenty-five years.
In 1839, another generation of men, ambitious to hold office, had articles inserted in the warrant for a special town-meeting, first, to see if the citizens will vote to divide the town of Weare east and west near the center, and second, to provide for petitioning the state legislature for a division of the town as shall be thought proper.
At the meeting the voters had much town pride, were patriotic. They dismissed both articles and summarily dissolved the meeting.
The next generation tried again. The citizens of the south-east corner of the town wanted to be annexed to Goffstown. They peti- tioned the selectmen in 1876,t and the following article was inserted
* The committee prepared a large map of the town, showing the proposed divi- sion line. They used for said line and the boundary a wide heavy black tape and . presented the map thus dressed in mourning before the legislature. This had the desired effect; it killed the project without further effort.
+ TAX-PAYERS, 1870.
Abbott, C. H. Andrews, Daniel Ash, Moses
Bailey, Amos W. Daniel, Ebenezer,
Bailey, W. Scott Baker, James James, W.
Baker, Michael Balch, Henry William P.
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in the warrant for town-meeting: "To see what action the town will take in relation to severing a portion of the south-east corner of Weare and annexing the same to Goffstown." At the annual meeting, March 14th, the town adopted the following resolution : " Resolved, That the selectmen be authorized and required to take such measures as they may deem advisable to oppose the object of the petitioners in being set off from this town to Goffstown, em-
Ballou, Charles O.
Chase, Josiah D.
Daniels, John S.
Edmunds, Alfred
Baptist society,
Nathaniel J.
Darling, Welcome Davidson, Charles Davis Charles E.
David F.
John,
Page M.
Sarah,
Sidney B.
Day, George
Emerson, Albert W.
Barrett, Jacob James W.
Stephen,
Dearborn, A. R.
George L.
Bartlett, Eben B.
Cheney, Lyman H.
George W.
James, H.
Enoch,
Cilley, Benjamin F.
Henry P.
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