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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, 120-13I
French founded first colony north of Florida (Port Royal), 2, 5 French or Dutton Brook, 113 French forces, 14
French and Indian War, 11, 14 French possessions, 10
Game, 472 Garden vegetables, 473
Gazeteers, Farmer and Moore's, 451 Fogg's, 386 Merrill's, 451
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, 441
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 North 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, 491 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, 411 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, 621 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 from 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, I02
Physician, first in town, 535 Physicians, other, 622 Picnics and recreations, 541 Pine Grove House, 504, 51I 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, 141 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., 31I
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 011, 29 River, Connecticut, 41 Merrimac, 41 Pemigewasset 15
Penobscot, IO 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, 8 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, 112
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, 471
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- 241 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, 114
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- ril1, 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, 14I 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, 152
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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