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Such a course encroached upon the limits of the latter colony, by withdrawing from it the following towns. The dates annexed to the towns denote their incorporation ; italics express their In- dian names ; and Roman letters their former English names.
"Portsmouth, 1653. Piscataquack, Strawberry Bank .- Settled under David Thompson, 1643; patronized by Sir Fernando Gorges
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and Capt. John Mason and others. The first house was built at Little Harbor, called Mason Hall. It was incorporated by a char- ter of 1633.
Dover, Sept. 8, 1642. Cochecho and Winnichahanat, Hilton's Point, Northam .- Settled under Edward and William Hilton, 1623, by order of an association in England, denominated the Company of Laconia. The proprietors of Dover and Portsmouth assigned their jurisdiction over these places to Massachusetts, June 14, 1641.
Exeter, May 10, 1643. Swamscot (Falls.)-Settled, 1638, by Rev. John Wheelwright and others exiled from Massachusetts for pro- fessing the Antinomian principles of Anne Hutchinson.
Hampton, Sept. 4, 1639. Winnacunet or Winnacowett .- By or- der of Massachusetts, a house was erected here as a sign of possess- ion, 1636, by Nicholas Easton, commonly called the 'Bound house.' It was settled in 1633.
Oyster River, May 17, 1675 .- Part of Dover. It is now Dur- ham. Its inhabitants petitioned to be a town in 1669.
Great Island, Oct. 15, 1679 .- Part of Portsmouth. It is now Newcastle.
These six towns, except Portsmouth, were incorporated by Mas- sachusetts."
At the time New-Hampshire became a separate jurisdiction, it appears that Oyster River was again considered a part of Dover, and Great Island again as part of Portsmouth. October 16, 1672, Massachusetts, in addition, granted Portsmouth a village, about the bounds of Dover, which is thought to have been Newington. At the time Charles II acknowledged the claim of Mason to New- Hampshire, he also acknowledged his claim to the tract extending from Merrimac River to Naumkeag River, in Salem, and called Mariana.
Wanalaset, chief sachem on the Merrimac River, sold a large tract of land, November 5, 1685, which was afterward assigned to New-Hampshire. The purchasers, of him, were Joseph Dudly, Sam- uel Shrimpton and Richard Wharton. The territory, thus pur- chased, extended six miles on each side of the Merrimac River, and from Souhegan River on one side, to Brentou's Farm, or Littleton, on the other, up to the southerly part of Lake Winnipiseogee. By order of Massachusetts, a reservation of three miles square was laid out, for certain Indians. Twenty proprietors, who were to
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hold equal shares, obtained the title for a company. To effect this, they acquired of Robert T. Mason a relinquishment of the claim he made to it, and entered into a mutual agreement, May 12, 1686, for the control of the whole territory. This was called the million acre purchase. .
June 14, 1728, the General Court of Massachusetts, after pro- tracted consideration, agreed that the vote pertaining to townships in New-Hampshire, Dec. 13, 1727, should be carried into effect. The vote was, for the better protection of the inhabitants, and to diminish the cost of defence in war, townships, each of six miles square, be laid out, by committees, in a straight line, from the north-east cor- ner of Northfield, to the north-west corner of Dunstable, northward of the said line ten miles, to the south-ward five miles, on both sides of Merrimac River, east of said river three miles, and west of it six miles, from the north part of Dunstable to the south part of Con- cord. Jan. 15, 1736, the Legislature of Massachusetts accepted the report of a committee. It proposed that, for protection and defence, a line of towns from the north-west corner of Rumford or Concord, to the Great Falls of Connecticut River, and from these falls, on the east side of said, river, to Arlington, and one or two towns, between these falls, and the equivalent land on the west side of this river, be laid out.
The necessity of the times demanding a further prosecution of their object, the Legislature passed, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1737, the following order :- "In the House of Representatives. Whereas several townships, heretofore granted, are now settling, and many inhabitants have actually got on Asheuelot River, and on a town- ship granted to Josiah Willard, Esq., and others, lying on or near Connecticut River, and also other people are settled on several townships, on or near Merrimac River, which have not as yet been laid to or declared in what county they lye, and it being necessary that those people know in what county they be in order to have their title recorded, the King's peace preserved, and common jus- tice done therein, as other his Majestie's subjects within this prov- ince ; wherefore, voted that the said townships, granted to Josiah Willard, and commonly called Arlington, the two townships on Asheuelot River, the township granted to Sylvester and company, the several townships to the westward of Connecticut River, the four townships on the east side and adjoining to Connecticut River, and also three, four, eight and nine in the line of towns, and the lands
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lying and being within the same, shall and are hereby declared to lie within and be accounted part of the county of Hampshire, and that the several townships following, the Narragansett towns, called number three and five, the Canada towns, granted to Capt. King and company, the townships granted to Capt. Rayment and com- pany, the township granted to the late Capt. William Tyng and company, that granted to John Simpson and others; that granted to the inhabitants of Ipswich, the township granted to Capt. Gor- ham and company, Canada soldiers, the township granted to the late Capt. John Lovell and soldiers at Suncook, the township granted to Mr. John Coffin and others, and number one, two, five, six and seven in the line of towns, shall be and are hereby de- clared part of and belonging to the county of Middlesex together with the lands and farms, lying within and adjoining any other of the said townships, and that the Canada township granted to Capt. Withington and company, and the township granted to Capt. Tilton and company, that were in the Canada Expedition, 1690, with the lands between these townships and others, belonging to Worcester county, shall be and are hereby declared to belong to the county of Worcester, and be accounted as part thereof for the future.
In Council Read and Concurred. Consented to, J. BELCHER.
Soon the arrangement was interrupted. As countenance had been given, at the Court of St. James, to the claim of Mason, a more explicit questioning of the territory belonging to Massachu- setts, on Merrimac River, the agent for New-Hampshire, John Ringe, while in England, stated the following: That Massachu- setts, in the reign of Queen Anne, taxed the people of his colony, who resided five miles north of the Merrimac, and, in 1719, claimed all land for three miles on the same side of this river, from the mouth thereof to its head, which they called Winnipiseogee Lake; and, in 1731, declined to relinquish jurisdiction over the townships that they had granted, which made their bounds eleven miles and three quarters north of said river. The plea made on these grounds, by Commissioners before the King in Council, with his own dislike for the political policy of the Bay Legislature, led him to decide, April 9, 1740, far more favorably to New-Hampshire than they had even expected. This decision was, that the northern
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boundary of Massachusetts, be a similar curve, pursuing the course of Merrimac River at three miles distance on the north side there- of, beginning at the Atlantic Ocean, and in a straight line from thence due west, until it meets with his Majestie's other govern- ments. By such a determination, expressly contrary to the plain- est language of our first charter, the ensuing towns, which had been granted by our commonwealth, were assigned to New-Hamp- shire. The subsequent marks, prefixed to the dates after these towns have the following significations, namely : * granted ; } plat accepted ; ¿ settled. No mark, so placed, indicates incororpation. The Indian names of towns are printed in italics, and their former. English names in Roman letters. New Style is used as to the years.
Amherst, + Dec. 18, 1728. (West) Souhegan, Salem Narra- ganset, No. 3 .- Granted for service in the Narraganset Expedition April 26, 1733 and confirmed in 1733.
Bedford, +Feb. 26, 1734. (East) Souhegan, Narraganset, No. 5 .- Granted to Benjamin Smith and others, June, 1732, for service in the Narraganset Expedition, 1675. Settled about 1737.
Boscawen, * Dec. 8, 1732. Contoocook .- Granted to John Coffin and others.
Bow, 7 Feb. 1, 1737. Dantzick .- Granted for service in Canada . Expedition of 1690.
Charlestown, + Feb. 27, 1734. No. 4 .- Took its name from the first one of Sir Charles Knowles, who presented a sword to Capt Phineas Stevens, for his brave defence of its fort in 1747.
Chesterfield, + Jan. 15, 1736. No. 1.
Concord, * Jan. 17, 1726. Pennicook, Rumford .- Granted to Salem, 1663. Irish settlers were here, and claimed Pennicook, by right of grant, March 22, 1724. Purchased of Massachusetts in 1725. Settled about 1727. Incorporated March 4, 1734.
Dunbarton, and part of Weare, + March 20, 1736. Beverly Canada, or Hale's Town. Stark's Town .- Granted for service in Canada Expedition of 1690.
Dunstable, * Oct. 15, 1673 .- Settled about 1672.
Francestown, July 18, 1673 .- Granted to Joseph Green, Isaac Walker and others, for lands in Stockbridge. Acceptance of plat not signed by Governor.
Goffstown, + Feb. 26, 1734. Narraganset No. 4, Amoskeag Falls Township .- Granted for service in the Narraganset Expedition
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of 1675. A committee of its proprietors dated a notice for their meeting at Dighton, in 1736.
Henniker, Jan. 15, 1736. No. 6, Todd's Town .- Granted, 1735, to John Whitman and others.
Hillsborough, Jan. 15, 1736,-Granted to people of Plymouth, who sold it to John Hill and others.
Hinsdale, + Dec. 1, 1736. Fort Dummer, Bridgman's Fort .- Settled before 1683. It was part of Northfield. Resettled, 1739. (Township, above Northfield, was granted to John Pynchon and others, June 18, 1685. His petition for it that he proposed the re- quest to prevent " ye incroachments of ye French vpon vs on Con- necticut River, above Sqvakeag, who vndovbtedly, according to what intelligence I have met with, are designed to possess yt place at Coassit."
Hollis, į 1731. Nissitisset .- West Parish of Dunstable. Peter Powers, born at Littleton, Ms., and his wife, Anna Keyes, born at Chelmsford, and their children, settled at Hollis, Jan., 1731.
Hopkinton, Jan. 15, 1736. No. 5, New Hopkinton.
Keene, t June 21, 1734. (Upper) Ashuelot .- Ordered to be laid out, June 24, 1731.
Lempster, Jan. 15, 1736. No. 9, Dupplin .- Granted to Samuel Lyscom and others.
Litchfield, July 4, 1734. Natticott, Brenton's Farms .- Granted about 1656. Regranted, July 9, 1729.
Londonderry, ¿1719. Nutfield .- Settlers warned away by Mas- sachusetts, Dec. 1, 1720.
Lyndeborough, f June 17, 1736. Salem Canada .- Granted to Samuel King and others, for services in Canada Expedition of 1690.
Merrimac, June 6, 1733 .- Part of Dunstable and Bedford.
New Boston, + March 20, 1736. Piscataquog, Lane's Town .- franted to Andrew Lane, John Simpson, and others. Had sixty houses and a meeting-house, etc., 1740.
New Ipswich, * Jan. 15, 1736. Ipswich Canada .- Granted for service in Canada Expedition of 1690 to John Wainwright and others. Plat accepted March 20, 1736.
Nottingham, ¿1710 .- Part of Dunstable. Incorporated Jan. 16, 1733.
Pembroke, * Aug. 6, 1728. Suncook, Lovewell's Town .- Granted to men for service, under Capt. John Lovewell, at Pigwacket fight.
Peterborough, t June 16, 1738 .- Granted to Samuel Harwood and others, for service in Canada Expedition of 1690.
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Richmond, July 6, 1736. Sylvester's Canada .- Granted for service in Canada Expedition, 1690.
Rindge, * Feb. 3, 1737. Rowley Canada .- Granted to John Tyler, Joseph Pike, and others, for service in Canada Expedition of 1690. Plan of it laid before General Court, Jan. 23, 1739. Appropriation made for a meeting-house, 1743.
Salisbury, * Feb. 3, 1737. Baker's Town, and Stevens's Town .- Granted for service in Canada Expedition of 1690, under Captains John March, Stephen Greenleaf, and Philip Nelson. Plat con- firmed, Jan. 2, 1740.
Swanzey, + Feb. 21, 1734. (Lower) Ashuelot .- Ordered to be laid out, June 24, 1731.
Tyng's Town, 7 May 1, 1736. "Old Harry Town."-East of Bow and Goffstown. Granted in 1735 for service, under Capt. William Tyng, in 1703, by "pursuing the Indian enemy into their own country on snow shoes," the first attempt of that kind. Soon settled after 1738.
Walpole, Jan. 15, 1736. No. 2, Great Fall, Bellows Town .- Granted to John Flint and others, Nov., 1736. Marked on a map No. 2, but called No. 3 in a petition of its proprietors.
Warner, * 1735. New Amesbury.
Washington, Jan. 15, 1736. New Concord, Camden.
Westmoreland, Jan. 15, 1736. No. 1, Great Meadow.
Winchester, + June 21, 1733. Arlington, to its incorporation .- Granted to Josiah Willard and others. Incorporated, June 20, 1739.
" Besides these towns, Massachusetts by the decision in favor of New-Hampshire, Guildford, granted for service under Capt. Samuel Gallop, in Canada Expedition of 1690, and its plat accepted, Feb. 3, 1737, and other towns subsequently of Vermont; Groton Grant, or equivalent of 10,800 acres, for what was included by Littleton, Major Willard and Reed's Farms, and for loss in Indian wars, granted, April, 1735, and confirmed, June 15, 1736; portions of Salisbury, Amesbury, Haverhill, Methuen, Townsend, Ashburn- ham, Bernardstown, Colerain, Conway, and other territory."
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CHAPTER II.
Brief history of the War of the Revolution, Federal Constitution, and of the Great Rebellion, Regiments, Officers, etc.
THE war of the Revolution originated through the persistent determination of the mother country to tax the colonies, without their consent. The colonies maintained that taxation and repre- sentation were inseparable; and that, as they had no voice in the English Parliament, it had no honorable right to tax them. The first tax imposed, was in 1765, and called the "Stamp Act," which ordained that, upon all business documents and newspapers, stamps should be fixed, which the colonies were obliged to purchase of the government. This Stamp Act met with such opposition that it was repealed in 1766, but Parliament at the same time asserted the right to bind the colonies in all cases whatever. The next year they imposed a tax on tea, and several other imports. Like the Stamp Act, it was met with powerful opposition. This tyran- nical course of England the colonies refused to assent to; and when two or three cargoes of tea arrived in Boston the people were determined that it should not be landed, and, on the night of De- cember 16, 1773, a party, disguised as Indians, boarded the vessels and threw three hundred and sixty-two chests of tea into the harbor. The English government were indignant, and were determined that the colonies should yield to their requests, and the colonies were quite as determined not to submit to any laws they had no part in making. At length, the troubles between the mother country and her colonies culminated in bloodshed, on the nine- teenth day of April, 1775, at Lexington, Massachusetts, and ter- minated by the colonies becoming a free and independent nation.
The people of New-Hampshire had always been loyal to the mother country, but, when their liberties were at stake, they were quite as zealous to defend their rights as those of their sister states
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and furnished their full quota of men to secure our American inde- pendence. But our limited space will not permit us to give any extended history of the war of Independence; neither is it required, for every reader is conversant with the history of the American Revolution.
The Revolution produced, of course, its own heroes; and New- Hampshire, to-day, feels proud of her Langdons, Weare, Sullivan, Stark, Scammel, Hale, and many others, who lent a helping hand in this great struggle for American liberty. On almost every northern battlefield, the blood of New-Hampshire's sons ran freely. At Bunker Hill, Long Island, Monmouth, Bennington, Stillwater, Saratoga, and in many other smaller battles, they assisted in sealing our independence with their blood.
FORMATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.
At the close of the war of the revolution, our country-what is now called the United States-was divided into thirteen colonies or States, with separate, organized state governments. For five years the states lived under a national confederate compact ; but it was soon found that this compact had no strength in itself to maintain a national government. The confederated Congress could declare war and contract debts; but it had no power to pay those debts, only to advise the several states to pay their respective shares of debts thus contracted by Congress.
In May, 1787, delegates from the several states (with the excep- tion of Rhode Island) met in Philadelphia to form a National Con- stitution. After a session of four months of careful consideration, and looking at the several interests of the respective states, the Constitution of the United States, under which we now live, was drafted, and signed by the members of the Convention, September 17, 1787, and received the assent of the requisite number of states early in the summer of 1788. George Washington was the unani- mous choice of the people for the first President under the new Constitution, and was inaugurated in the city of New York, April 30, 1789, as President, and John Adams as Vice President of the United States of America.
As the central government of the nation is part of the history of New-Hampshire, and for future reference of our readers, we here-
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with append a list of all the presidents and vice presidents of the United States up to the present time.
PRESIDENTS.
Term of Age when
Where Born.
Date of Birth.
Office. term expired
Died.
George Washington,
Virginia,
Feb. 22, 1732.
1789 to 1797.
66
Dec. 14, 1799.
John Adams,
Massachusetts,
Oct. 19, 1735.
1797 to 1801.
66 July 4, 1826.
Thomas Jefferson,
Virginia,
Apr. 2, 1743.
1801 to 1809. . 66 July 4, 1826.
James Madison,
Virginia,
Mar. 5, 1751.
1809 to 1817. 66 June 28, 1836.
James Monroe,
Virginia,
Apr. 2, 1759.
1817 to 1825.
66 July 4, 1831.
John Q. Adams,
Massachusetts,
July 11, 1767.
1825 to 1829.
62
Feb. 23, 1848.
Andrew Jackson,
South-Carolina,
Mar. 15, 1767.
1829 to 1837.
70
June 8, 1845.
Martin Van Buren,
New-York,
Dec. 5, 1782.
1837 to 1841.
Wm. H. Harrison,
Virginia,
Feb. 9, 1773.
1841 to
69
Apr. 4, 1841.
James K. Polk,
North-Carolina,
Nov. 2, 1795.
1850 to 1853.
53
Franklin Pierce,
New-Hampshire, Nov. 23, 1804.
1853 to 1857.
53
Oct.
8, 1869.
James Buchanan,
Pennsylvania,
Apr. 13, 1791.
1857 to 1861.
60
June 1, 1868.
Abraham Lincoln.
Kentucky,
Feb. 12, 1809.
1861 to 1865.
56
Apr. 15, 1865.
Andrew Johnson,
North-Carolina,
Dec. 29, 1808.
1865 to 1869.
61
Ulysses S. Grant,
Illinois,
Apr. 27, 1822.
1869
VICE PRESIDENTS, AND THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE.
John Adams, Mass., Apr. 30, 1789 to Mar. 4,1797. George M. Dallas, Penn., Mar. 4, 1845 to Mar. Thomas Jefferson, Va., Mar. 4, 1797 to Mar. 4, 4, 1849. 1801.
Millard Fillmore, N. Y., (President after death of Z. Taylor, July 9, 1850) Mar. 4, 1849 to Mar. 4, 1853.
Aaron Burr, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1801 to Mar. 4, 1805 George Clinton, N. Y. (died Apr. 20, 1812) Mar. 4 1805 to Mar 4. 1813.
Elbridge Gerry, Mass., (died Nov. 23, 1814) Mar. 4, 1813 to Mar. 4, 1817.
John C. Breckinridge, Ky., Mar. 4, 1857 to Mar. 4, 1861.
Daniel D. Tompkins, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1817 to Mar. 4, 1825.
Hannibal Hamlin, Me., Mar. 4, 1861 to Mar. 4, 1865.
John C. Calhoun, S. C., Mar. 4, 1825 to Mar. 4, 1833.
Andrew Johnson, Tenn., (President after death of A. Lincoln, Apr. 15, 1865) Mar. 4, 1865 to Mar. 4, 1869.
Richard M. Johnson, Ky., Mar. 4, 1837 to Mar. 4, 1841,
Schuyler Colfax, Ind., Mar. 4, 1869 to Mar. 4, 1873.
John Tyler, Va., (President after death of W. H. Harrison, Apr. 4, 1841,) Mar. 4, 1841 to Mar. 4, 1845.
Henry Wilson, Mass., Mar. 4, 1873 to Mar. 4, 1877.
THE GREAT REBELLION.
Every reader is conversant with the cause and origin of the late rebellion, and it is enough to say that the people of the Southern States were determined not to submit to the rule of Abraham Lin- coln as President of the United States, and, soon after his election in the Fall of 1860, took measures to absolve themselves from the original union, and form a separate government for the Southern States. In this crisis of our nation's history, President Buchanan was not equal to the emergency. A portion of his Cabinet were in known sympathy with the South, and were suffered to remain in office and wield their official power in the interest of their Southern brethren, A large portion of the members of Congress from the
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Jan. 17, 1862.
Zachary Taylor,
Virginia,
Nov. 24, 1784.
1849 to 1850.
65
July 9, 1850.
Millard Fillmore,
New-York,
Jan. 7, 1800.
1845 to 1849.
54
June 15, 1849.
John Tyler,
Virginia,
Mar. 29, 1790.
1841 to 1845.
59 July 24, 1862.
William R. King, Alabama, (died Apr. 18, 1853) Mar. 4, 1853 to Mar. 4, 1857.
Martin Van Buren, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1833 to Mar. 4, 1837.
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Southern States openly declared, in their seats, the right of seces- sion, and their intention of resigning their seats in the national Congress, and returning home to sustain it.
The first hostile demonstration made against our national Govern- ment was the firing upon the steamer "Star of the West" which was sent with provisions to supply Maj. Anderson, stationed at Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. The next was the bombardment of that fort and its capitulation to the Southern forces, April 13, 1861.
The firing on Fort Sumter created a great indignation throughout the whole North, and, on the fifteenth day of April, the President called for seventy-five thousand troops, to serve for three months.
Thus commenced one of the greatest rebellions that ever occurred in any civilized nation, which continued for four years, and over five hundred thousand men sacrificed their lives, doubtless they all thought, for the good of their country. But this national calamity brought forth some good fruits. African slavery, that had been the scourge of the nation for so many years, was forever prohibited, and to-day every person in our nation enjoys, under the law, every blessing which his Creator intended for him.
New-Hampshire promptly responded to the call of the President, and the first New-Hampshire Regiment of U. S. Volunteers was armed and equipped and ready for the field, May 25, 1861. The officers of the First New-Hampshire Regiment were Mason W. Tappan, Bradford, Colonel; Thomas J. Whipple, Laconia, Lieu- tenant Colonel ; Aaron F. Stevens, Nashua, Major ; Enoch Q. Fellows, Sandwich, Adjutant; Richard N. Batchelder, Manchester, Quartermaster ; Moses K. Hazelton, Bradford, Paymaster ; Al- pheus B. Crosby, Hanover, Surgeon ; Henry C. Shaw, Hanover, Assistant Surgeon ; and Stephen G. Abbott, Bradford, Chaplain.
Space will not permit us to give a full list of the Company officers. The first regiment did not see much fighting, but their duties were quite as arduous, if not as dangerous. They were on picket duty on the Potomac, the larger portion of the time on the Maryland side of the river. When Col. Tappan with his regiment marched through Pennsylvania Avenue, he passed the White House, in review before President Lincoln, and thence two and one- half miles to his camp. They had scarcely reached their quarters, before a messenger arrived from the President, complimenting Col. Tappan as having the best and most thoroughly appointed reg-
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iment that had thus far reached Washington. They were mustered out at Concord, August 9, 1861.
New-Hampshire had in the service, through the rebellion, eight- een regiments of Infantry ; N. H. Battalion of New-England Cav- alry ; First Regiment N. H. Volunteer Cavalry ; New-Hampshire First Battery ; First Regiment New-Hampshire Heavy Artillery, eighteen hundred men; Company "E" First Regiment U. S. Sharpshooters ; Co's. " F" and " G" Second Regiment U. S. Sharp- shooters ; National Guards ; Martin Guards ; Lafayette Artillery ; and attached Company of New-Hampshire Volunteers. The last four companies were stationed at Fort Constitution in Portsmouth harbor, making in all that served against the rebellion, nearly thirty-three thousand men.
The Second Regiment were three years men, and went into camp at Portsmouth, and arrived on the field just in time to participate in the first battle of Bull Run. The officers of this regiment were Gilman Marston, Exeter, Colonel ; Francis S. Fisk, Keene, Lieu- tenant Colonel ; Josiah Stevens, Jr., Concord, Major ; Samuel G. Langley, Manchester, Adjutant; John S. Godfrey, Hampton Falls, Quartermaster; and Henry E. Parker, Concord, Chaplain.
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