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JOSEPH PHILBRICK. " To Jnº Robie Esqr"
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1848.
on the tariff, abolition, and the right to amend or repeal corporation charters, were published about 1848, at the press of the New Hampshire Patriot.
The teachers and students of Riverside academy published the Journal of Improvement, April 21, 1865. It was a literary effort, and had short sketches about Weare and its citizens. Printed by Henry A. Gage, Manchester.
Elder Thomas M. Preble, March 27, 1866, published " His defence against the charge of having squandered the property of Widow Jane Eaton." It was an interesting document to the Third Free- will Baptist church in East Weare. He also published "Two Hundred Stories for Children," "The Ten Virgins," "The Two Adams," " Let Us Make Man," "The Sabbath and Law," "The Three Kingdoms," " The Voice of God," "The Plan of Salvation," and many similar works mostly pertaining to adventism.
The Universalist Sunday school published the Weare Gazette, March 8, 1871. It was a literary and advertising sheet, printed for the benefit of the school. William E. Moore, printer.
SHEEP AND CATTLE MARKS. When good fences were rare, sheep nimble and cattle breachy, it was necessary for each farmer to have some mark by which his stock might be known and recognized. Accordingly we find the town clerk certifying that, -
Jacob Ardway's mark for cattle and sheep is a swallow's tail in the end of each ear.
Aaron Quimby's mark is a happence in the under side of the near ear, and a slit in the end of the off Ear.
William Dustin's mark, a slit in the end of the off ear, and a " whole threw the near Ear."
Jonathan Clement's, a crop on the near ear.
Thomas Eastman's, a half-crop in the near ear in the under side.
Jacob Jewell's, a crop in the near ear and a swallow's tail in the off one.
John Kimball's, a staple in the upper side of the off ear.
Ithamar Eaton's, a " knoch " in the under side of the right ear.
Stephen Gove's, two holes through the right ear.
Ebenezer Breed's, a "Duftail " in the near ear.
Timothy George's, a "Swallow Taile in the right ear, and a Croop off the left ear."
Samuel Ayer's, a figure 7 in the under side of the left ear, and John Watson's, a " Double You " in the right ear.
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GHOSTS.
1795.]
There were a great many other sheep-marks, but they were simply repetitions of the above with slight variations.
PAINTING PARSONS. In 1795, June 4th, Richard Adams, public-school master, gave John Robie, one of the officers of the town, the following curious receipt : "Received of John Robie Esquire the sum of four pounds two shillings and 7} in part for painting parsons for the town of Weare." The state had made a law that the towns should maintain guide-boards at the forks of all roads, and this is what Master Adams called them, for they, like some ministers, always pointed the way and never seemed to go. Weare was a large town; had a hundred roads or more, and it took a large number of parsons. In 1807, Daniel Graves painted three ; in 1808, Daniel Bailey thirteen; in 1809, several men twenty-one, and Daniel Bailey four. Guide-boards have been kept up in Weare for about one hundred years.
GHOSTS. They were plenty, and hundreds of people within the memory of the present generation saw them. Now they have all gone away somewhere and have forgotten to come back. John Hodgdon, one of the early settlers, used to tell how he saw one. He was coming home on horseback from Hillsborough one dark, windy night. When he got near his place he looked over into his corn-field and saw, standing upon a knoll, a white object that made his flesh crawl and his hair stand up. It stood still for a moment, then disappeared in the darkness; there was a strange, weird sound. He thought it was gone, but just as he was starting on it resumed its position on the knoll. Mr. Hodgdon dismounted, climbed the fence, and walked straight to the little hill to get an introduction to the "shade." He found that his men had left a large basket there, that the wind would blow it up in sight from the small hollow beyond, then when there was a lull it would roll back. He said there was just as much foundation for his ghost story as there was for any of them, if only investigated.
Winthrop Clough had two daughters; one married a Gitchell, and was the mother of that celebrated character, Winthrop Gitchell. Her husband died, and she married David Purington. She died, and Purington married her sister Betsey. They lived in an old shanty near Rockland mills, and one winter were terribly troubled with ghosts. Mary Peaslee, wife of Moses, called there to hear the strange noises. Soon after her arrival they began in the unfinished room overhead. There was a ghostly rapping, then
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1800.
bump, bump, bump, then rap, rap, rap, again. Purington got up from his chair and said, "Winthrop Clough, what in the name of God are you troubling this house for?" and all the family turned pale. Mrs. Peaslee got a ladder to go up. The others did not dare go. She found an old hen, its legs had been frozen, could not walk well, and it made the bumps by falling, the raps by picking up something. The hen was carried to the room below, and that ghost was laid.
There was a haunted house at East Weare. A minister had lived in it, but had moved away. People heard the strangest noises there, saw objects flitting by the window, and at night there were ghostly, lights. No one dared go near it. Sylvester C. Gould tells that he with other boys were passing one day just at dusk, they heard the noise, the front door rattled, and they ran for their lives. By and by all these ghostly sights and sounds ceased. Some one ventured in. A cat which the minister had left was found there dead. Its cries and its efforts to get out were all there was to the ghost of the haunted house.
A Mr. Eaton was out one autumn night with others by Raymond cliff, hunting 'coons. They had poor luck, and in the gray of the morning Eaton wandered down into the hill-pasture of Jacob Carr. He stopped to rest, leaning on his gun, when out of the mist "that o'er the valley was stealing," came an apparition and stood before him. He could see the sunken eye-balls, the worm-eaten face, the shrivelled hands, and he shook with terror. Just then Jacob Fol- lansbee came along, roused him, asked what was the matter, when he told of the frightful ghost he had seen. He told the same at Oil Mill. Many believed him; but some cruelly said they guessed he had swallowed too much "'coon bait."
CHANGE OF NAME. John Hogg, of Dunbarton, moved into Weare about 1800, and soon after got his name changed to Ray- mond. He erected mills, and had many lawsuits with Mr. Stewart, of Dunbarton, who generally won by false testimony.
PRICES in 1800: Cotton yarn, $1 a pound; sheeting, forty cents a yard; calicoes, fifty cents a yard.
SHEEP-STEALING. Under the house once occupied by Abra- ham Fifield, about 1801, was found a large hole, -not a part of the cellar; a trap-door from the parlor led to it. It was full of " sheep's bones." Many tenants had lived in the house, and no one could tell who stole the sheep.
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RAISINGS.
1808.]
PROPRIETORS' CLERKS. The state passed a law in 1808 that they should reside in the town where the proprietors' land is situate.
RAISINGS. They were great occasions for the first generations, and the whole town attended. There was plenty of rum and also an abundance of cider, and these may have induced many to come as well as a disposition to help a neighbor. Framing was done by the "scribe" rule then, each piece being fitted to its place. The square rule was not used by country carpenters.
In putting up large buildings it required all the help that could be got. Whole broadsides were pinned together and raised at once. Men brought pike-poles, pitch-forks and iron bars for raising; the first to lift with when the broadside should be well up in the air, and the bars to hold against the foot of the posts to slide them into the mortises of the sills.
The men take a drink at the start; then the sills having already been placed, they bring together the timbers, -the posts, girts, braces, studding and plates, - and all are securely pinned, making a whole broadside. They all take another drink, and the master- builder marshals the yeomanry, cool-headed men with the iron bars, strong and experienced men where they are the most needed, the crowd side by side at the plate. The master gives the word, "All ready ; heave 'er up!" and creaking and groaning the great broadside slowly rises; a pause; the stout following-poles hold; the pike-poles and pitch-forks are applied, and then all lifting; a crowd of men and boys boosting at the following-poles; and again the broadside goes up; the iron-bar men at the foot of the posts, bracing with all their might; higher, still higher; a hush on the anxious crowd; up to the perpendicular, and then all breathe freer as the tenons slide into the mortises and the huge timbers settle firmly into their rest- ing places. And now, with no laggard hands, the remaining broad- side is raised, the cross-timbers are put in, the lighter ends go up, the roof goes on, and the ridge-pole, tightly pinned, crowns the whole.
The broadsides of Moses Peaslee's barn were eighty-four feet long and of large timber. It took an immense crowd to raise them. They got the southerly side up without difficulty, but the northerly side had to be placed on a great platform, and the workmen lifted at a disadvantage. They raised it a few feet; it was too heavy for them; they blocked it, and then got every man, woman and child
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1797.
large enough to lift, present, and in that way hoisted it up. The frame was green from the woods, to supply the place of one lost by fire, and the ridge-pole was a present from Dunbarton; got out in that town, a single stick, eighty-four feet long, hewed from a tall pine, and drawn by twenty oxen.
Abner Hoit raised a large, two-story house on the long south slope of Barnard hill, to supply the place of one burned. He was in a hurry for it. He went into the woods with his men, cut the tim- ber, hewed it, and in just eleven days, he had the house up and boarded in.
In those days when a building was raised, and the rum-pole, as the ridge-pole was called, was put in place, two men who had been previously furnished each with a bottle of rum, took their places, standing on the ends of the pole. They brandished the bottles in the air as one shouted, " Here is a fine frame without any name, and what shall we call it?" The other repeated the question. The first then gave a name. "The flame of Chaseville," or "The pride of Slab City." The two men then freely drank of the contents of the bottles, threw them in the air and began a shout, which was taken up by the people below and continued till the men reached the ground, each trying to get down first. Then followed wrestling and drinking till more or less of the young and middle-aged made crooked paths going home. Even church members in good standing were excusable for getting a little " shiney " on raising days.
In 1797 Richard Maxfield built the large, two-story house on Barnard hill, where Willard Johnson now lives. After the frame was up, Abel Webster, nimble as a squirrel, climbed to the ridge- pole, took a sip from the bottle, and said loud and distinct : -
" Here is a house both tall and large, It is in sight of old Kearsarge; Some build great, and some build small, I think Dick Maxfield beats them all."
This was so much better than the usual " namings," that it was greeted with vociferous shouts, and part of the company adjourned to Edmund Barnard's for a dance and breakdown. Another large crowd met in a store-room back of the dance-hall. They and the goods were too heavy for the floor, and they all went into the cellar in one promiscuous mass. Fortune favored them, no one was injured, and they literally had a dance and a breakdown.
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MILITARY COMPANIES.
1820.]
When William Dustin, one of the first settlers and a soldier of the Revolution, lived where is now Dearborn's tavern, he had an old saw-mill framed over, and raised it for a shed. Of course it had to be named, and one of the men pretty full mounted with the bottle, swung it and said, " Here is an old frame without any name, what shall we call it -"? He stopped, he was stuck, he could not think of the rest of it, no one prompted him, when Dustin sang out at the top of his voice, " Call it old Bill Dustin's folly." The answer was appropriate, every body was pleased, and a loud cheer closed the exercises.
MILITARY COMPANIES. There were many other military officers besides those mentioned in Chapter XLV of this history. They were of the second and eighth infantry companies and the cavalry.
SECOND COMPANY.
CAPTAINS.
Nathan Gutterson'. .1820 Enoch Cilley .1827 | William Woodbury ..... 1833
Edmond Johnson. .1823 | Lewis Felch .1828
LIEUTENANTS.
Daniel Jones ............ 1820 | Thomas Felcli .1823 | Joseph Marshall. .... 1833
EIGHTH COMPANY.
CAPTAINS.
Cyrus Lufkin. .1819
Jacob Sargent. .1838
George W. Şanders. .1845
Amos W. Bailey. .1828
John B. Bailey. .1839
Almon Lufkin .1846
Peter Dearborn .. .1829
Alvah Philbrick .1840
Josiah Philbrick. .1847
Moses Dearborn. .1833
Jonathan G. Colby. .1841
Ezekiel W. Moore
.1849
John L. Hadley. 1834
Alvin Whittaker.
1843
Daniel B. Hoyt.
.1850
Edmond G. Eastman ... 1835
LIEUTENANTS.
William Eastman .. .. 1819
Ebenezer Mudgett. .1830
John Bartlett .1835
Benjamin Danforth .... 1819
Moses Dearborn. .1830
Hiram H. Favor .1850
Elijah Gove.
.1825
George E. Morrill
.1834
Willis Philbrick
.1850
CAVALRY.
CAPTAINS.
Samuel Baker .1832
Elijah Purington .1837
Abner L. Hadley 1845
David Dow 1835
Jason Philbrick .1839
Enoch Holt 1847
Ezra Dow .1836
James Carnes. .1842
George E. Fifield
.1848
LIEUTENANTS.
William Hadley .1828
Moses Cram .1839
David H. Jones. .1845
Kilburn Hoyt. .1829
E. Frank Gove. .1842
Pike Sleeper .1845
William Clark. 1835
Ethan Smith. .1844
John Melvin.
.1846
Paige Muzzy. 1837
CORNETS.
Abner L. Hadley .1838 | Levi C, Cram. ...
... 1842 | William Follansbee .... 1844
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1802.
BOUNTIES FOR CROWS. In 1802, paid ten cents a head, amounting to $23.75; 1803, twenty-five cents, amounting to $18.24; 1804, twenty-five cents each, amounting to $35.25; 1817, twelve and one-half cents.
NEWBURYPORT FIRE. Aug. 31, 1811, the town chose a committee of thirteen to receive subscriptions for the sufferers.
TRAVEL, as late as 1815, was nearly all on horseback.
THE FIRST WAGON was brought to Weare by Dudley George, of Hampstead. He manufactured them there and brought them to sell about 1815.
HOTELS, in 1815, were plenty, one in each three miles or oftener. Feed for a horse was: half-baiting of hay, four cents; whole baiting, eight cents ; two quarts of oats, six cents.
PRICE OF LABOR in 1815 was: women and girls, fifty cents a week and board; good farm hands, $9 to $10 a month; car- penters, $1 a day ; journeymen carpenters, $15 a month; appren- tices usually served six to seven years to learn their trade, receiving $10 for the first year, $20 for the second, and clothed themselves.
CATTLE FAIRS. Early in the present century, several fairs were held on Purington's plain, north of Weare Center. Farmers exhibited their stock and agricultural products ; their wives brought their butter, cheese, home-made cloth and specimens of fine needle- work. There were great gatherings ; men's ideas were sharpened, good husbandry was promoted. Hon. Charles H. Atherton, after- wards a United States senator, delivered in 1820 an able address at a cattle fair on Purington plain, which was published.
Many fairs were also held at Cork plain in Deering, and Weare people were in the habit of attending. An account has come down to us of how Uncle Samuel B. Tobie,* a generous contributor and staunch supporter of agricultural fairs, once won a prize there for the strongest oxen. The pulling matches at fairs were great centers of attraction at that time (1820-25), and consisted of draw- ing a drag heavily loaded with stone with one yoke of cattle.
After all who wished to compete had taken their turn, some pulling the load a short distance, and others not able to start it,
* From an indenture, signed Sept. 1, 1767, we learn that Samuel Brooks Tobie, then of Hampton Falls, was born Oct. 16, 1749, and that he was the son of Isaac (then de- ceascd) and Elizabeth (Brooks) Tobc. He bound himself, his mother assenting, to Jonathan and Kezia Dow for three years one month and sixteen days to learn the art, trade or mysteries of a husbandinan, and was to receive for his services food, clothing, education, and at the end of his term one of three specified lots of land as he might choose. He signed his name " Samuel Brooks tobe," and his mother made her mark.
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THE FIRST STAGE.
1824.]
Uncle Tobie hitched on. His oxen were a small, very compactly built pair, and one could see that they were full of fire and life. There was a brisk breeze blowing, and they had got to pull right in its teeth. The old man did not hurry, he waited for a lull. Stand- ing close up to his cattle, he took hold of the bow with one hand, touched them in his light, peculiar way with the brad of the long goad he held in the other, and spoke to them in low but exciting tones.
Thus he stood dallying, his oxen becoming more and more nervous. Soon the crowd lost their patience and commenced hurling all manner of speeches at him. "Go it, old white head !" " Why don't you start?" " Oh, come ! he knows he can't pull it, and he ain't going to try." Uncle Toby did not mind them. When he thought his team was worked up to the right pitch for a hard pull, he reached over, touched the off ox lightly with the goad, and in a sharp, decisive tone shouted, "Hur Berry ! up !" The oxen, instantly starting into a trot, the old man hat off, white hair streaming in the wind, on the run, pushing at the bow, hurled their whole weight against the load and bore it many rods away. In a moment the feeling of contempt and derision on the part of the spectators turned into the most un- bounded enthusiasm. There was cheer after cheer, ending in one grand shout, the like of which old Cork plain and the hills around never heard before or since. The honors there won made Uncle Tobie the hero of the fair for years afterwards.
This incident shows the character of the man, and also how little it takes to change the whole current of thought and feeling of a promiscuous crowd.
THE FIRST STAGE through Weare, from Nashua to towns north of us, was started in 1824. Samuel H. Train was driver. Its route was from Nashua through Amherst, Francestown, New Bos- ton and Weare, to Henniker. It passed through Weare on road one hundred and eleven, and changed horses at Whittle's tavern. It ran at first three trips a week, up one day and back the next, then six trips, up and down every day. This stage was well patron- ized, traders from all the northern towns going to Boston on it, when they bought their supplies of goods.
The second stage route through Weare was opened Jan. 1, 1829. That day on wheels the stage ran from Amherst over the new road through Mount Vernon, New Boston and Weare, to Deering. May 18, 1829, it began to carry the mail. Mical Tubbs was driver of
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1824.
the coach ; he had a pair of matched horses bought of Moses Hodg- don, for $180, and his only passenger was John Hodgdon, bound for Bangor in the state of Maine. These routes continued until the era of railroads, and were then discontinued.
A third stage route was through Oil Mill village, up the valley of the Piscataquog, by Peaslee's tavern, and so north to Hopkinton. This was not so well patronized as the first.
PECULIAR PEOPLE. Weare, like all other towns, has had a few of them. Some were noted for their wit, others for the lack of it, and others for their strange habits.
JONATHAN KIMBALL was so bashful that when he saw a woman coming he would get out of the road and go round through the fields, so as not to meet her.
THOMAS GIDDINGS was a man of immense stature, and was in the habit of telling the most improbable stories. He was known and spoken of all the country round as "God's Truth."
KINK CILLEY was a man who used large words without knowing their meaning. Once he had trouble to yoke his steers. He asked some one to help him, who declined, and when he got them yoked, boastingly remarked, "Well, I have done it without any of your constitution !" One day he could not chop; some one asked him why. "Well," said he, "the wind blowed so hard it wavered my axe."
DANIEL HOOK lived for many years in South Weare. He dressed shabbily, drove a forlorn-looking horse, and his wagon and harness were in the most dilapidated condition. Riding one day in a neighboring town, he was uncertain about the way, and meeting a man, said, "Sir, will you tell me where this road leads to ?" "It leads to hell," replied the man. "Well," said Mr. Hook, "by the lay of the land and the look of the people, I should think I'd got most there ! "
MRS. WINTHROP CLOUGH, with her husband, came to Weare in 1771. They were at once warned out of town. They "squatted" on Barnard hill by Lily pond, and cultivated an island for a garden. They had several children. She said that one day she heard her boy, Andrew, making a terrible outcry down by the pond; that she ran down with all haste and found that a big bull frog had Andrew by the hind leg and was dragging him into the water. She said the frog was as big as her bonnet. She often told how, one year, her husband sowed some flax which came up and looked nicely, and
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1800.]
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there came a frost and killed every spear. "Then the worms took it and eat it all up; then the drouth took it and killed it all, and when they come to pull it, they did n't have half a crop. After that they rotted it, and Clough done out some of it, and it wa'n't good for nothing. They let it lay a year, and it was the best flax she ever see."
She used some of this flax to make cloth for Mr. Clough's shirts. She said "it was cotton-linen cloth ; it was tow warp, and the warp was filling, and the blue was yaller, and it was dyed in huckleberry, and it was thick as the table. It wore splendidly; and Clough liked the shirts so well that he wore them all out in a fortnight."
WINTHROP GETCHEL, usually called "Wint," was the grandson of Mrs. Winthrop Clough, inherited many of her peculiarities and could almost equal her as a story-teller. He wrestled with Calvin Chase, and said, "I throwed Mr. Chase, but he existed, and before I got him to the ground, he turned me right over. If he hadn't existed, I should have throwed him."
When he was a young man he acquired the power of "rhodo- mancy," or "dowseying" with a witch-hazel rod. He could dis- cover water and precious metals in the earth by means of the rod, which would turn in his hands of itself and point down when he came to the right place. Once he found where an immense amount of gold had been buried -Pirate Kidd's treasure, maybe. He took a num- ber of reliable men into his confidence, and one night, by the flickering light of a tallow candle in an old tin lantern, they went to the spot to dig. One of the requisites was, that they should work in perfect silence; a word spoken, and the treasure was lost. They dug away for hours, - a weird group in the dim light. They were nearing the gold; their excitement was intense. All at once they struck with a spade a ringing rock. "Thank heaven ! we have found it !" ejaculated one of the men. "Great God ! it is gone !" said Getchel. "You have spoken, and Kidd's ghost has spirited it away." Great holes, found in many wild, out-of-the-way places, made nobody knows by whom, show how many silent parties have dug in the night for Kidd's gold.
EDWARD FLANDERS, familiarly known as "Eddard," was one of Weare's odd geniuses. He long lived in a little cabin which stood by the old road that led to " Mountain Daniel " Gove's, on Mount Misery. It stands on the Nathan Sawyer place now, and is used as a farm building. His grandmother, who died at a great age, lived
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HISTORY OF WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
[1831.
with him for many years. After her death he lived alone. He was simple-minded, good-natured and inoffensive; led an idle, shiftless life, gathering nuts and berries in their season, sometimes dressed flax for the neighbors and helped them about the lighter farm work. In the spring he made a little syrup and sugar from a few maple trees that grew near his dwelling. Hunting and fishing were too laborious for him, but he was acquainted with all the wild animals that lived in the woods about him, and knew their habits well. "I van; now sartin" was a common expression with him when he wished to be impressive. "I van; now sartin I saw a fox, I did." "Mountain Daniel" once agreed with him to harvest some beans " at the halves." Eddard promptly pulled his half, and then told " Mountain Daniel" that he could pull the other half. He made frequent calls in the neighborhood, expecting small gifts, in return for which he retailed much harmless gossip. He was very neat about his person and his house, spun and wove his own cloth and made his own clothes, sheets and other bedding. In religion he was a Baptist, and attended meeting constantly, always arrayed in a calico garment something like a surplice, of a gay pattern, colors the brightest, and a soft felt hat, turned up at the sides, with a gay ribbon and fancy buckle. When his grandmother died the clergyman who attended the funeral asked what sort of a woman she had been. Eddard said, "She spun flax for the neighbors, and they did not complain of her work." John Hodgdon was asked the same question. He replied, "Eddard is right," and the minister was greatly enlightened. On the way to the grave the horses sud- denly started, and Eddard shouted, "Don't shoot granny out !" A little further on he spied a squirrel, and hollered, "There goes a stripe, Dan !" Eddard died at a good old age, and was buried by the side of his grandmother.
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