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499, 538 Rev. Daniel, 39, 40, 141, 142, 144
Elisha, 271, 272
Joseph, 67, 133, 139 Jotham, 490
William & Mary (King and Queen) 13 Williams, Roger, 5 Isaac, 26, 30
Jonathan, 26 Hilliard, 27 Thomas A., 409, 531, 532 Williamson, 3, 8 Wilson, Ensign Abiel, 272 Albro, 5II
Charles H., 510
Joseph, 154 Millard, 540 Sarah, 636
Winn, Frank, 436, 496, 516 Rev. Fred E., 305 George E., 236, 508, 532 Wolf, Herman, 240 Woodbridge, 74 Woodbury, Josiah, 157, 486, 627
Woods, Rev. John, 302 Mrs. Stella E., 536 Woodward (Place), 436 Aaron, 293, 360 Adoniram, 494 Anson, 408
Artemas, 516 Mrs. Artemas, 636 Charles, 539
Woodward, Daniel, Sr. 113, 293, 300, 323, 409, 481, 491, 532, 540, 636 Daniel, Jr., 312, 408, 448, 481, 531,532,540 David, 293 David, 2nd, 534 Eleazer, 97, 154, 159, 165, 266, 273, 292, 295, 355, 467, 493, 530 Eleazer, Jr., 293, 442, 530, 535 Elizabeth, 535 Ephraim, 523
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Ephraim Putnam, 226, 231 Ethan A., 512 Foster, 116, 437, 492 493, 513, 535 Major George T., 237 239, 530 Hannah, 293, 534 Hannah P., 293 Henry M., 564 Israel, 273, 293, 360, 493, 534
Ithamar, 162, 165, 168, 251, 273 Jacob, 496
Jacob N., 496
Jacob A., 106,207,276, 388, 455, 458, 529, 530, 544, 577, 650 Rev. James W., 291 James G., 408 John, 118, 165, 292, 518 Josie, 535 Levi H., 224, 225, 535
Woodwell, Rev, W.H., 302 Worcester, Francis, 272 Wright,Julien E.F.,53I Wyeth, Rev. John, 282 Wyman, Collins, 636
York, Duke of, 30, 31 Young, Charles, 516 Quincy, 508
William, 509, 516, 520 William W., 411,412, 435, 504, 514
PLACES *
Acworth, 633
Amherst, 39, 40, 46, 70, 89, 92, 94, 133, 135, 145, 155, 158, 300, 302- 306, 309, 325, 342, 368, 423
Post Office, 434 North West Parish, or Mont Vernon, 254, 270, 280, 286, 291, 297, 515, 521 Andover, Mass., 72, 298, 302-306 East, 353 Ashuelot Towns, 32, 429
Bangor, Me., Seminary, 30I
Barnes' Falls, 32, 541
Bay Colony, 34 Bay State, 39
Bedford, 283
Beech Hill, 454 Bennington, Vt., 302, 304, 305
Boston, Mass., 4, 5, 13, 14, 15I
Bowdoin College, Me., 305
Boylston, Mass., 306
Braintree, Mass., 14 Breda, Treaty of, 10
Bridgewater, Mass., 298
Brown University, Prov. R. I., 398 Brookline, 303; 305 Burlington, 306
Cambridge, Mass., 350, 413 Canada, 12-24
Castleton, Vt., 632
Charlestown, Mass., 2, 5
Chelmsford, Mass., 61
Chelsea, Mass., 511, 514
Cocheco, 9 Concord, 304, 306, 633
Connecticut, 13, 14, 17, 32
Coos, 165, 166, 169, 170 Crown Point, 207
Dover, 4, 5, 9, II Dutch Colony, 2, 5, 16 Dunstable, 19, 41, 55, 79, 84, 87 Duxbury School Farm, 23-25, 48, 135, 153, 156, 252, 255, 256 Driscoll Hill, 433 Deering, 30I
East Bridgewater, Mass., 306 England, 13 Exeter, 4, 11, 15, 21, 150, 151, 529
Fishkill, N. Y., 169
Florida, 2, 4, 5
Francestown, 70, 94, 102
France, 13, 39 Franklin, N. H., 15
Greenfield, 84, 243, 250, 297, 304, 350, 436 Greenville, 305, 369
Haverhill, Mass., 42 Hampton, 15, 16
Hillsborough, 41, 338, 339
Hancock, 462, 515, 516
Hollis, 270, 279, 280, 283, 286
Holland, 13
Hudson, 146 Hyde Park, Mass., 413
Ipswich Hamlet, 73
Jamestown, Va., 2, 5 Jaffrey, 302 Johnson's Corner, 116, 117, 118, 281, 537 Keene, 280, 339 Kennebec River, 3, 9 Kittery, Me., 9
Danvers, Mass., 39, 71, 78
Laconia, 8, 12
*Many of the places named on this and the following pages are given as the resi- dences of those who rendered some service in or for the benefit of the town.
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Lake Champlain, 13 Lemington. Me., 301 Lexington & Concord, Mass, 151, 265 Litchfield, 41 Londonderry, 145, 283 Lowell, Mass., 17, 545 Lunenburg, Mass., 286, 506 Lyme, 417 Lynn, Mass., 588
Maine, Province of, 4, 12, 28 Manchester, 103
Marblehead, 27, 28, 61
Marlborough, 339
Mason (Township No. 1), 46, 291 Massachusetts Colony, I-3, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 61, 74 State, 270
Melrose, Mass., 350
Michigan, 350 Mile Slip, 153, 156
Milford, 103, 255, 256, 297, 323, 338, 365, 461, 507, 521, 526, 528
Monson, 46 Montreal, 14
Mont Vernon, 103, 252, 254, 302, 304, 305, 309, 454, 494, 497, 507, 538
Nantasket, 14 Nashua, 280, 286, 304-306, 340, 410, 529 New Boston, 15, 41, 47, 49, 50, 70, 76-78, 98, 99, 102, 135, 254, 291, 297, 300, 338, 434, 494, 515, 631 Newbury, Mass., 15
Newburyport, Mass., 17, 306
New England, 2-4, 6, 10, 103
New Fairfield, Conn., 302
New Hampshire, 2-4
New Ipswich, 46, 66, 89, 286, 411 New Jersey, 15
New Netherlands, 2
Newport, 302
New York, 10, 13-15 North Lyndeborough, 104, 425, 427, 434, 437, 458, 476, 541
North Town, 280
Norwalk, Ct., 634
Norwich, Vt., 291
Nova Scotia, 2, 10, 15 Number Two, or Wilton, 54-57, 62
Old Colony, 2 Orleans, Mass., 298 Ossipee Lake, 22
" Parsonses Corner," 156, 252 Pawtucket Falls, 16, 17 Pemaquid, Me., 10, 13 Pepperell, 279, 280, 286 Peterborough, 41, 84, 302, 339, 350, 436, 519, 634, R.R.
Peterborough Slip, 46, 48, 135 Philadelphia, 15I
Piscataqua Colony, 2-4, 7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21 Plymouth, 2, 7 Port Royal, 2, 13
Portsmouth, 2, 4, 5, II, 21, 29, 72, 74, 75, 80, 86, 89, 274
Province of Maine, 3, II
Purgatory, 98, 103, 115, 116, 454
Putnam Corner & Hill, 458, 277, 428, 498, 523, 635
Quebec, 13, 14
Raby (Brookline), 46
Reading, South, 527
Rhode Island, 5, 15
Richmond, 16
Rindge, 16, 66
Rowley, Mass., 291
Saratoga, 163 Salem, Mass., 2, 5, 25, 27, 28, 41, 61, 70, 74, 78, 140
Salem-Canada, 15, 106, 107
Salisbury, 16
Society Land, 77, 84
Souhegan Valley, 521 .
Souhegan West (Hudson), 48, 49, 279, 280 South Lyndeborough, 32, 102-104, 302, 304, 305, 458-462, 503, 365, 636
Stow, Mass., 291
Stoneham, Mass., 540
Strawberry Bank (Portsmouth), 6
St. John's, 162 .
St. Christopher, 10
St. Lawrence Shoals, 14
St. Lawrence Valley, 103
Swanzey, 339
Temple, 102, 103 Ticonderoga, 162, 168 Trenton, N. J., 168
Weare, a Canada Township, 16
Wayland, Mass., 306 Wells, Maine, 301
West Point, 165, 166
Weston, Mass., 264
West Somerville, Mass., 302
West Medford, Mass., 304 White Plains, 162 Wilton, or Number 2, 46, 305
Wilton, Maine, 305
Winter Hill, 167, 168 Winchendon, Mass., 306 Woburn, Mass., 28, 29
Yypsilanti, Michigan, 350
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SUBJECTS
Academies, 366
Account, for labor on Meeting- house, 35, 36
Acres, Ten, controversy, 325
Act, favoring toleration, 294
Addition, Lyndeborough, 68, 70 New Boston, 68, 70, 76
Advertisement, 25
Admiral's flag shot away, 14
Agent of Masonian Proprietors, 59
Agents to treat with Purchasers of Wallingford's Right, 80 Thanked for vigilance, etc., 83 Agreement with soldiers, 159, 229 Aid for Soldier's families, 232
Alarm, 153
Those who went on, 162, 163, 167 Those who returned, 167
Alliance, 39 American vessels, 228
Apple-blossoming time, 470
Application for share of the minis- try fund, 331 sq
Army Beef, 160 Disbanded, 160
Articles relating to worship to be voted on by the town, 157
Artillery, 209 Heavy, 239 Lafayette, 207, 209, 240
Ashuelot Towns, 429
Association, Religious, 310, 31I Authors, 623-625
Average of military service, com- mittee, and report on the same, 158, 167, 169
Baked beans, 474 Baker, tin, 473 Barns, 478, 479 Beef, army, 160
Bennington soldiers, 163
Birthright, coveted, 153
Boarding the teachers, 444, 446, 447 Books and newspapers, 467 Boots, 47I
Boundary line controversy, 15-17 Bounty to enlisted men, 154 Bounty for service, 158 Brass Band, North Lyndeborough, 541, 542
Brick-manufacture, 459, 460 Brick ovens, 466, 473 Bridges, 438, 496 Bridge, Gulf, 635 British ships ordered out of United States waters, 228 British injuries to American sea- men, 229
Brook, Badger, 453 Bear, I13
Beasom, 113, 114
Brandy, 115
Cold, 116
Duncklee, 113, 115 French or Dutton, 113
Buildings, public, 439 Bunker Hill, our wounded at battle of, 152 Buttrick's Mill, 634, 637
"Cabinet, Farmers," 299, 348, 351, 422, 456, 460
Canada, Revolutionary quota for, 153 Expedition of 1690, I, 12-15, 22- 24 First English captives carried to, I2 French Governor of, 12 Candles, 467
Cartloads of silver, 14
Cavalry of the 22nd Regt., 225-227
Celebrations of 150th Anniversary, 544-569 Celebration of Centennial of L. A. Co., 574-578
Cemetery, Centre, 498, 501 Crosby Place, or Butler family, 499 Dolliver, old, 502
Dolliver, new, 502,
Fuller, 502
Johnson Corner, 498, 499
North Lyndeborough, 500
Perham Corner, 50I
South, 498 Whittemore, 500
Charters, The Masonian, 48-52 Provincial, Copy of, 134-136 Expense of, 138 Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, 369 Chesapeake, American ship, 228
Church, Congregational, influence of, 277 Evidence of its piety, prayer and fasting, 279
Invites ministers from abroad to assist, 279
Organized, 280, 635
Seventh in county, 635
Refused aid from Proprietors toward building meeting-house 28I
Votes to seek incorporation of town, 28I
Lists of members of, 287, 288, 292 293 Records of, no criterion of its character, 288
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Heads of families given a voice in its business enterprises, 289 A new draft of its covenant, 289 This draft accepted, 290 Church and state separate, 294 Warming arrangements, 295 Carrying footstoves to, 296
Support, 296
Pastor also acted as clerk, 298 Membership of, 306, 308
Records wanting for 23 years, 306 Choir, 311-313
Charges presented against pas- tor, 290
Answered by pastor satisfactorily and dismissed by church, 290
Chorister's assistant, 289
Other religious bodies seek share of ministerial fund, 33I
Congregational church's original right to, unquestioned, 331
Attendance at, a mark of char- acter, 320, 321, 336
Loyalty to, 323
Distinction between church and town, 334
Baptist, History of, 337-350 Beginnings of Baptist meetings 337, 338 Organized, 338
Names of constituent members, 338, 339
Meetings in school houses, 338 Rev. Charles Cummings, first pastor, 339 Other pastors, 340 Christian, constituted, 352, 353 Rev. G. W. Hutchinson, pastor, 353
Location of Congregational meet- ing-house created difficulty, 282 Difficulty compromised and fin- ally settled by commissioners, 283
Location of Baptist meeting- house decided by the largest contributions, 339
Society, The Baptist, 1819, 337 The First Baptist Society in Lyndeborough, 1831, 348
The First Congregational Or- thodox, 299, 332 The First Universalist, 351
Circulating Library, 386, 387 Citizens' Hall, 440 Civil War, Roll, 234-240 Men, 242 Expenses, 242
Debt and its reduction advised, 242 Club, Debating, 392-394 Club Reform, 418, 419 College graduates, 625
Colony, First, north of Florida, 4 Colonies, New Hampshire's rela- tion to 4
Combinations in N. H., 7
Commissioners on Boundary Line, 15, 16, 18
Committee to close up the Proprie- tors' affairs, 79
To report to the committee on claims, 158, 166
To enlist quota for the army, 159 Of General Court, advice com- promise, 245
Of General Court report favor- ably, 247
Make another report, 250 To buy a "Poor Farm," 273
Commons, or common lands, 65
Congress of the States, Connecti- cut, Massachusetts, New York, I3 Continental, 151
Constables and collectors of taxes, 265
Constitution adopted, 79
Continental soldiers, and those Continental currency withdrawn from circulation, 160
Copper, ten trucks of from Eng- land, 14 who hired them, 164, 165
Coos soldiers, and those who hired them, 165, 166, 169, 170
Corner, Bevins', now Perham, 282, 527 Houston's, 76-78
Johnson's, 281, 282, 428, 448, 454, 492, 494 Beech Tree, 422
Four Towns, Lyndeborough, Franceston, New Boston and
Mont Vernon, 318
New Boston, 76, 78
Lyndeborough's North West, 81, 94, 244-247 Old Lyndeborough, 76, 77 Parson's, 243
Perham's, 434, 501, 528
Putnam's 458, 503
Corps, Relief, auxiliary of G.A.R., 440 Reserve, 239 Marine, 239 County History, Hillsborough Co., 368, 369
Damage, strongly spelled, 54 Great by intruders, 83 Dartmouth College, 302 Deacons of Congregational Church, 310 Deacons of Baptist Church, 344 Deeds, Old, 482-489
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Defenceless towns, 41
Derry men's encroachments, 69, 70 Diet of early settlers, 471-473 Disturbances, 28, 29, 61 In Boston, 151 Delinquent taxes, 62
Disagreement about location of the meeting-house, 58
Dissenters from Congregational Church free to support their own, 331 Dissenters seek share of ininis- terial funds, 331 Distribution of ministerial funds, 333
Districts, public school, and resi- dents of, 357-363
Real estate and residents in Dist. No. 1, 442, 530
No. 2, 534
No. 3, 442, 445, 520
No. 4, 445, 535
No. 5, 446, 517
No. 6, 447
No. 7, 448, 537
No. 8, 448, 449
No. 9, 449 No. 10, 450
Divisions, Lots consisted of First and Second, 29
Donation visits, 480, 481
Donors of Communion Service and Organ, 303, 304
Drawers, woolen, 470
Drinks, 474, 475
Education, Board of, 366
Encroachments on Lyndeborough by the purchasers of Walling- ford's lot, 63, 64
English Colonists, the Penacooks embittered against them, 10 Revolution of 1689, 13
Colony of Jamestown, Va., 5 Forces, 14
English Goverement disavowed the flagrant attack on the Chesa- peake, but never made prom- ised reparation, 228 Enterprise, The Milford, news- paper, 365, 461 Episcopal Minister in Dover, 15 Expedition of 1690, to Canada, 12- 14, 22-24
Fever, Spotted, or Cold Plague, 308, 633 Fight, Sham, 9, 11, 12 Financial grievance, 146 First English captives in Canada, I2 Fishkill soldiers, 169 Flora of Lyndeborough, 120-131
French founded first colony north
of Florida (Port Royal), 2, 5 French or Dutton Brook, 113 French forces, 14
French and Indian War, II, 14
French possessions, 10
Game, 472 Garden vegetables, 473
Gazeteers, Farmer and Moore's, 451 Fogg's, 386 Merrill's, 45I
Geology, Prof. C. H. Hitchcock's, 102 Gilmore Ledge, 105
Girls, Employments of, 469
Glacial Drift, 103
Glass Company, 453, 460-462, 634
Golden wedding, 44I
Gores, Groton, 46, 55 Lyndeborough, 71, 72
Between Lyndeborough and Derry men, 71
Grand Army of Republic; 398, 440 G. A. R. charter members of, 399 Commanders of, 400
Grange, Pinnacle, No. 18, Histori cal Sketch of, 402-407
Grantees of Lyndeborough, 27
Grantors of Lyndeborough to de- fend through the law, one ac- tion to King and Council, if need be, 51
Grape culture, 528
Great Britain, declaration of war against, by U. S., 229
Greenfield, common lands of, 87, 92, 96, 99
First mention of, 84, 102, 103
Incorporation of, 243, 250, 297, 304, 350, 436
Corrects her boundary, 250
Gets farms of Moses Lewis and John Stiles, 250
Loses to Francestown her two eastern ranges of lots, 251, 518, 519, 520
Grievance against church and pas- tor, 334 Guardian over spendthrift, 420 Gulf Bridge on R. R., 635 Gulf, Department of, 235 Gun of the Lafayette Artillery Co., 210
Hall, Armory, 440, 510 Citizens', 440, 441, 510 Tarbell's, 440, 510 Town, 439 Mercantile, over the old Centre store, 532 Union Lecture, at Nortlı Lynde- borough, 318-320
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Harvard University, 120 Hibernian Burlesque, in verse, 16 Highways necessary were to be laid out, 50 Hills, Hadley, view from, 108 Putnam, 277, 428, 498 Log House, 49I Crooked S., 499
Hiring men for Revolutionary Army, 161
History of Hillsborough County, 368
Historical Sketch of Congrega- tional Church by Rev. J. White 306
Hopyard, 477 House for public worship of God, 50, 61 Forest, later Pine Grove, 41I Pinnacle, 434, 492, 534, 541 Hillside, 522
Hymn, Original, sung at dedica- tion of new church at the centre in 1837, 298
Improvement Society, 392 Impressed American seaman, 229 Indian tribes in New Hampshire, 8-12
Massacres of whites, none in New Hampshire for fifty years after its settlement, 24, 27
War, 39, 51
Massacre of whites, supposed to be instigated by the French, II Indians of New Hampshire, Mo- hawks hired against, 10 And French on friendly terms, 13 Cherokee and Choctaw, 369
Industries, earliest in town, 455 Infantry, Light, 209 Captain of, 226
Inoculation, 632 n
Installations of pastor, Ivory Kim- ball, 300 Theophilus P. Sawin, 302 A. C. Child, 304 Owen E. Hardy, 305 Arden M. Rockwood, 305, 306, Intemperance, Action against, 417- 421 Insurance Company, 397, 398 Irish, Encroachments on Lyndebor- ough, 71
Jurisdiction over New Hampshire, not conferred on Massachusetts but usurped by her, 17, 18 Judge of Probate, petition to, with- drawn, 89, 92
King Philip's War, 22, 24 William's War, 31
Labor, price of, on highways, 146 ; Ladies' Societies, Circle, 309, 310 Circle, Baptist, 349
Lafayette Artillery Company, 207- 218 Incorporated, 212 Rosters and Flags, 212, 218
Members, 1833-38, 213 Captains of, 214-218 Lamps and torches, 467
Lands for the ministry sold, 328, 329 Lawsuit concerning the "Ten Acres," 327 Settled, 328
Ledges, Lucas, Gilmore, Putnam and Hartshorn, 105
Leopard, British ship, 228
Letters and books were few, 422 Were left at Amherst P. O. and advertised in the "Farmers' Cabinet," 423
Of Benjamin Lynde and others, 68
From John Pierce Esq., 80
From John Pierce, placed on Records of Lyndeborough Pro- prietors, 86
Of Rev. Sewall Goodridge, 85, 285
Of Dr. William Walter, 76, 89, 92 Of Lyndeborough Proprietors, 59, 278
Library, Circulating, 386 Franklin, 383-386 Public, 387 Social, 382
License for sale of liquor not granted, 419
Licentiate for the ministry by Bap- tist Church, 343, 344 Light Infantry of 22nd Regiment, 209 Sketch of, 218-223 Alarm List, "Slam Bangs," 223- 225 Lights, fire and candles, 467, 468 Line, Boundary between Mass. and N. H., 9
Linen, 468 Liquor, 475 Log cabins, 466
Lord's day, trespassing on, 295 Losses of settlers adjusted, 62, 85 Losses by Masonian Proprietors, 68 Lots, plan of, in Salem-Canada, 64 Second Division, retained their dimensions and numbers, 65 Lugpoles and cranes, 472 Lyceums considered helpful, 381, 390-392 The first, 389
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Lyndeborough, Mountain described 102, 108
North Line, farther north than Peterborough's, by 200 rods, 73 A farming township, 109
Under Masonian Charter, 48-52, 57, 103, 104 Versus No. 2, or Wilton, 54, 56
Gore, 70, 71, 84
Proprietors generous, not liti- gous, 76 Under Provincial Charter, 132
Revolutionary Captains in, 148, 170
In the Civil War, 232, 242
South Village, 102
North Village, 104, 458, 635
Lenticular hills in, 103, 104
Ponds and streams, 105
Glass Works, 104
Name, whence derived, 243
Addition, what and why, 243
Hacked and peeled, 243
Opposes temporarily the forma- tion of Greenfield, 244-250
Loses more than 1,000 acres to Mont Vernon, 254-255
Loses to Temple more than 900 acres, 251, 252
Concedes the Howard farm to Milford, 255
North Lecture House, built, 318- 320
Teachers, from printed reports, 369-380
In the " Olden Time," 463
Lynx, Canadian, 118
Mails, routes, stages, carriers, etc., 422-427
Maine, Province of, 4, 12, 28
Massachusetts, Province of, 270 Claims inadmissable, 7, 13, 15, 16, 21
Government and soldiers, 10, 14, 22
Treasury bankrupt, 14
Feigned patriotism, 16
Boundary Line of, 15, 17
Alliance, 13
Usurped jurisdiction over New Hampshire, 17
Refused to aid in running the Boundary Line, 15-17
Was severed from N. H., 18
Grants in N. H., 21, 22
Records, Extracts from, 21-25, 27 Wisely assisted N. H. with guard against the Indians, 42
Mason's title to New Hampshire valid, 19
Right offered for sale to New Hampshire Government, 19
Claims repugnant to and defeated by N. H. citizens, 17
Right sold to a Portsmouth syn- dicate of twelve men, 19, 40 Masonian Proprietors, or Grand Proprietors were thus consti- tuted, 19, 40, 42, 44, 47, 52, 57, 61, 66, 72, 75, 76,
Matches, Friction introduced, 474 Meadows in Lyndeborough, Little Meadow, 430, 431
Manuel, or Lucas, 457
Senter's, 116
Stephenson's, 116
Whittemore, 112
Meeting-house, the first location, 34 The second location, 57, 58
The first house and grounds, 34, 277
To be underpinned, raised, etc., 35
Accounts of work on, 35, 36
Contract for building, 37
Postponement of building, and causes for the same, 38, 39
Required by piety, expediency, and necessity, as by agreement, 33
The first was not finished, 278
A new place for, sought, 278, 281, 282
The second location unsatisfac- tory, 283
The location finally decided by a mutual Commission, 283
Set where the Town Hall now stands, 283
Dimensions of and sale of pews, 283
Description of, 283, 284
Repairs of, 322-324
Care of, 324
The old house sold, 284, 324
Last worship in, 298
First service in present, 298, 300, 324
Struck by lightning, 300
Present house remodelled, 308
Grounds caused controversy, 324- 327
Baptist, 339, 340
Baptist repairs, 345, 346
Baptist ownership disputed, 346- 348 Meeting of Proprietors in Lynde- borough, 80
Men of '76, and those who hired them, 161
Who served for other towns, 169, Metes and bounds of school dis- tricts, 361
Merchants and stores at Centre, 408 409
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And Stores at South Lyndeboro', 409-414 First, at South Lyndeboro', 409 Militia, 151, 207, 208 100,000 called for, 229 "Milford Enterprise," 386
Mills and Industries, 451-462
Mine, " Scataquog " Silver, 395-397
Mineral Spring, 527
Mineralogy, 105
Minister prayed for, 279
Orthodox, encouraged to settle, 59, 61
And Ministry, 22, 49, 51 Ministry land sold, 329 Respected, 290
Supported by tax, 293
Taxation for support of, opposed 294 Fund held as exclusive, 331 Fund finally distributed, 333 Minute-man, his pay while drilling, 152
Ministers who were natives, 620, 62 I Ministry students who died before completing their studies, 621, 622 Money of five kinds, 14, 150, 160 Voted for soldiers of Civil War, 232 Voted for Revolutionary soldiers, 153, 154, 159, 160 Great scarcity of, 423
Mont Vernon Band, 543
Monument, Soldiers', 240, 241
Mortuary Record, as in Town Re- ports, 638-645 Mountains, division of, Boffee's (now Winn), 138, 492, 493 Rose, 492 Pinnacle, 493 "Scataquog," 116, 395
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 397-398 Improvement Society, 292
Music receipts, for playing at mus- ters, 227 Musical Instruments, 227 Instruments in "choir," 312 "Mutilation" of old Salem-Canada, 55, 56
Nails, cut at furnace, 457, 466 Wooden pins used instead of, 466 " Necessities of life," Committee to set value on, 157 N. E. Magazine, 264
New Hampshire, Relation to other colonies, 2-4 Its territory, etc., 1-4, 7, 9, 10.12, 15-17 A Royal Province, 10, 18
Gains twenty-eight townships by the King's decision of the State Line, 17, 38
Citizens opposed Mason's claims, 17-19 Patriot, newspaper, 633
New London Literary and Scien- tific Institution, 369, 389 New York, men who served in, 168, 169
Office, Post, 41I Ordinations, 280, 286, 291, 297, 305- 307, 330 Organ, Mason & Hamlin, 303 Organizations, local, 395-407 Orthodox Congregational Society, 299 Ossippee Indians, 22, Otter, trapped, 119 Overseers of the Poor, 270
Pack Monadnock, 102 Pastor was also church clerk, 298 Pastors, three called, but none chosen, 330 Penacooks, 8, 9
Pequackettes, 8, 22
Pequods, 14
Petition to Governor Wentworth for guard, 37
For relief, repeatedly made by soldiers of the Expedition of 1690 or their heirs, 43
Of Samuel Dustin, 42
Of Nicholas White and Nathaniel Bartlett, 42, 44
For aid in support of preaching, 58, 137 Response to, 59, 140 For aid in settling a pastor, 59, 140 For ten acres as meeting-house grounds, 88, 326
For Provincial Charter, 133
That half a mile in width fron east side of Lyndeborough be joined to Amherst Northwest Parish, 158
From Parsons Corner people to be set off to form a new town, 156 Pensioners, Revolutionary, 205, 206 Pews vendued, 322, 323 Physical features of Lyndeborough, 102
Physician, first in town, 535 Physicians, other, 622 Picnics and recreations, 541 Pine Grove House, 504, 5II Pinnacle Mountain, 102, 541 Pinnacle House, 492, 534 Piscataquog River, 116
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Piscataqua, 2-4, 7
Plan of the town lots, 64
Pleasures and enjoyments, 477
Plotting and scheming, 18
Plows, 465
Plymouth Company and Council, 1, 3, 6, 7, 10 Pond, Badger, 103, 110 Beaver, 60 Burton, 102, III
Poor who belonged elsewhere warned to leave town, 270, 27I In 1775, amount expended for, 272 Overseers of, 270
Care for, 273
Farm bought and sold, 273, 274 Farm, Superintendents of, 273, 274
Population, source and stock, 626 Portsmouth, serving at, for two months, 165
Post routes, rates of postage, stamps etc., 422-424 Masters at the Centre, 424-426 Masters at North and South
Lyndeborough, 427
Potholes, 103
Potash works, 459
Potatoes, 465
Pottery, earthenware, 467 Pound built, 149
Powder, balls and flints purchased, 150
Preaching sustained in town, 139 In private dwellings, 58
Allowance of Proprietors for, 58 Preaching held at Jacob Cram's, 282, 297 Price of labor on highways, 146
Procession at 150th anniversary, 545 At Centennial of Lafayette Artil- lery Co., 575-577 Town Agricultural Fair, 542 Professional men, 620, 621
Proprietors, Masonian or Grand, or the Lord Proprietors of Mason's Claims, 19, 42, 66, 82, 83
Proprietors were rarely settlers, 67 Meetings, where held and how called, 61
Protest against paying bounty to soldiers who served for other towns, 154
Fires, sufferers by, aided, 274
Protest against both meeting.house and place for, 282
Relating to meeting-house grounds, 326, 327
Province Land, 23, 24
Providing for preaching, 278 For by tax, or voluntary subscrip- tion, not always easy, 297
"Psalm," Persons chosen to "set the," 289, 311 Purchasers of Wallingford's lot, 80- 82, 91, n Pulpit Committee, 14I Public buildings, 439
Questions, 2 Quota of town for Revolutionary War, 153, 154, 159 For War of 1812, 230 For Civil War, 232-234, 242
Railroad cut described as to soil, 102, 104
B. & M., 411, 513, 514
Peterborough Extension, 633, 634 Raisings and rum, 277, 479
Raising, the first without rum, 480
Rand lot, 281, 482-484, 494, 533
Redress of grievance, petition for, 272
Reform Club, 418, 419 Referees as to meeting-house grounds, 325
Regiments of early militia, 207, 208 Ninth, 208 .Twenty-Sixth, 209 Twenty-Second, 210-227 In the Civil War, 234-240
Regulars, call for, 25,000, 229 Relation of N.H. to other colonies, 4 Religious character of the Puritans, 276 Remodelled meeting-house de- scribed, 309
Remonstrances, 244, 247-249, 253, 254 Repairs on Cong. church, 322-324 On Bapt. church, 345, 346 Resurvey by Benjamin Lynde, Jr., 64 By others, 90 Agitation in Mass., 4
Association like the C. E., 310 Association, its constitution, members, etc., 3II Revivals in the Cong. church, 307 In the Bapt. church, 344
Review of action on the "ministry fund," 333, 334
Revolution, its precursors and
success, 150, 160
Review of Town expenditures for Civil War, 242 Rights in township, charges on, 29 River, Connecticut, 41 Merrimac, 41 Pemigewasset 15 Penobscot, 10 Rocky, 32, 513, 518, 519, 635 St. Croix, 10
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Roads, earliest, 31-33 And bridges, 428-438
Rocky Hill or Ledge, 60
Roll of Revolutionary soldiers, 170- 205 Of soldiers in Civil War, 234-240 Rose Frigate, 10 Roswell's grant, 3 Rum, crusade against, 475, 476 Russell's Station, 103, 113
Saco River, S Sagadahoc River, 7
Salem-Canada. 15, 27, 31, 43, 44, 106, 498, 522, 526
Proprietors, 61
Plan of lots in, 64
Described and bounded, 106, 107
Settlers disturbed, 49
Streams, II2 Saw mill lot voted, 29 Saw mills, 31, 32
Salt and molasses affair, 627, 628 "Scarecrow case " tried by church, 295
Scalps, A bounty on, 12 Scataquog Hill, 94
Schools, 312, 313, 481
School lot, Committee to sell, 152, 354, 355 Districts formed, 153, 154 Schools, Committee to inspect, 360, 361 Superintending Committee of, 360, 361
First extended report of. 363
Committee's Reports, 1852-1880, 364, 365
School Districts, at first seven, 355 Limited, 356-360 " Metes and bounds " of, 361
High maintained, 363, 364 Law changed, 366 Teachers in early days, 367-369
Master to teach in four places and in eight, 355
Mistress, 354 Houses, 441-450
Seminary, Andover, referred to, 303, 305, 306 Sermon Historical, 298 Shoemaking, 47I Silver, Mining for, on "Scataquog" 395-397 Silex Company, 460 Singers's seats assigned, 158 Singing in choir, uneasiness about, 289, 290 Small-pox in 1792, 629 Poem, 630, 631 Scare in 1853, 631, 632 Snow falls of 23 years, 470 Social Library, 308, 381
Sociables, 480 Society, First Baptist and success- ors, 337, 338, 348, 349
Congregational Orthodox, 332, 333 Universalist, 350, 352 Soldiers' bonnties, 166
Of the Revolution, Roll of, 170- 205 Of 1812, agreement of and list of, 229-23I
Of Civil War and Monument, 234- 24I Sons of Temperance, 419 - Of Veterans, 440
South Sea, 15
Souhegan River, 23, 116, 521
Source of our original settlers, 626
Stage routes and mails, 426, 427
Stony Brook or Rocky River, 102, 103, II4 Stores and merchants at the Centre, 408
And merchants at So. Lyndebor- ough, 410-414
Strategy, 27
Strife, 19
Striped frock, 469
Students for the ministry who died before completing their studies 621, 622 Subscribers to Temperance Fund, 418 Subscription Book, an old relic, 275, 347 Summer Boarders, 522
Survey, general, 4 Survey, Fletcher's, fell short, 63
Tanneries, 458 Taxes, delinquents in paying, 62 Collection of, 265-267
Refused for support of Mr. Mer- rill, 294, 337 Tax List of 1786 (not indexed), 267 Time of uncertainty to settlers, 79 Tinder-box, 474
Tools for farming, 465
Topography, 106
Town, proposition to divide it at Boffee's mountain, 138 Cow sold, 272, 273 Treasurers, 275
Town opposes request, 247-249 Hall, Cost of, estimated, 439 Fairs and celebrations, 541-544
Town meeting, The first, 136 How notified or warned, 138, 141 Change in form of warning, 265, 266
Considers the request of the peo- ple of its Northwest corner, 246, 247
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Towns called "Canada Towns," why? 16
Granted by Mass. had their char- ter annulled, 19
Townships added to N. H., 17 Tradesmen, 623
Training Band drills while their fellow-citizens fight at Bunker Hill, 208, 152 Treachery to the Indians, 9
Trestle on railroad, 634
Trespassers, Committee to prose- cute, 84 Turkeys, wild, 119
Turns of military service appraised 154
Turnpike, Second N. H., 422
Union, Articles of, approved, 154 United States Colored Troops, 239 Union Veterans' Union, Appendix Usurpation, 16
Veteran Reserve Corps, 239 Veterans, Sons of, Appendix
Volunteers, 50,000 called for, 229
Vote neither reconsidered nor an- nulled, 154
Votes regarding bounties and aid to the families of soldiers, 232- 234
Regarding substitutes and quota in the Civil War, 233
Wages of militia men, 229, 230 War, Indian and French, 8
Revolutionary, and Roll of sol- diers, 155, 170-205 Of 1812 and its causes, 228, 229
Of 1812, Lyndeborough soldiers in, 230, 231 Mexican, 231
Of Rebellion, quota and expendi- tures for, 232-242
Warning town meeting, changes in style of, 265, 266
Out of town people of other towns likely to become a bur- den, 141
Warrant lost by court causes the town very heavy and unjust expense, 272
Watts Psalms and Hymns per- mitted for use in church, 158 W. C. T. U. organized, 420
Weare, one of the Canada town- ships, 16
White pines reserved for His Maj- esty's navy, 51
White Plains, Soldiers at, 162
Wilton versus Lyndeborough, 46, 54-56, 81, 82, 102, 103, 135, 153
Lands adjoining north line of, sold, 82, 83, 94 Mentioned, 270, 271, 286, 291, 338, 340, 369, 423, 435, 436
History, 458, 495
West Village, 462
Highlands, 521, 525, 528
Meeting-house frame, fall of, 147- 149 Wounded and killed at fall of frame, 149
Winter Hill men with Capt. Spauld- ing, 167
March to Canada and return to Trenton fight, 168
Worship, last in old meeting-house. 291 Wool and woolen underwear, 468, 469, 470
Wolves, 118
Wood, " 12 cords of hard dry wood" as a part of minister's salary, was thought too hard a condi- tion and defeated his call, 291 Woodshed, first in town, 474
Wooden pegs used instead of nails, 466 Woodchuck, 264 W. R. C., 440
For organization of, seeAppendix Wounded mortally at Bunker Hill, 15.2 Young Men's Christian Association 342
Errata.
Page 19, last paragraph. For Chapter V. read Chapter III.
Page 76, twenty-third line. For Wellingford read Wallingford.
Page 140, near the bottom of page. For Caston's read Coston's. Page 310, twelfth line. Insert Merrill after Rev. Nathaniel.
Page 385, after David Holt insert John W. Whittemore, 5 shares.
Page 429, third line. After Stiles's insert and.
Page 725, last line. For Oct. 1, 1885, read Oct. 5, 1885.
Page 726, third line. For Irwin E., read Erwin E.
Page 751, fourteenth line. For Maj. Peter and Hannah (Epes) Clark, read John and Margery (Hayward) Clark. See page 705.
Page 772, tenth line. For 1891 read 1893.
Page 786. To the children of Joseph A. and Mary L. (Steph- enson) Johnson add Isa V., b. Nov. 9, 1857, m. Ephraim Provo of Salem, Mass.
Page 830. To the record of Charles E. Putnam add, m. Sept. 2, 1903, Minda A. Buswell of Bedford, N. H. Children, born at Wilton : Donald E., b. May 26, 1904 ; James A., b. July 13, 1905.
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