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Looking over a sheaf of old letters, I find one from Elias Sturtevant to his son John in Gasport, dated Westport, April 7, 1851, in which he gives this, with other bits of news : "Mr. Hunter has built a steam saw- mill at Rock Harbour and sold it to Moses Felt for 85000 with 300 acres of land." It was this mill which ate away all the magnificent first-growth pine of North Shore, which was rafted away by water. The forest which now covers it is, I am told, all a second growth.
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1852.
Town Meeting at H. J. Person's.
Daniel W. Braman, Supervisor.
Barton B. Richards. Clerk.
Phineas N. Hartwell. Superintendent of Common Schools.
Asa Aikens and Cyrus W. Richards, Justices.
Harry J. Person. Assessor.
William Richards. Highway Commissioner.
Dennis B. Stacy. Collector.
Peter Farris and Benjamin F. Holcomb. Poer Masters.
Miles M'F. Sawyer. David R. Woodruff and Freeboru H. Page, Inspectors.
Dennis B. Stacy. Ira Downey. Aaron Clark, Richard Brown: Lew W. Pollard, Constables.
Henry H. Holcomb, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Pathmasters. -- Hinkley Coll. Israel Pattison, Archibald Pattison, Augustus Holt. Asa Loveland. William MeIntyre. Darius Merriam. James Marshall. Elijab Angier. George W. Sturtevant. Jason Bramau, Joel Whitney. Arzy Finney. Artemas Hartwell. Joshua Slaughter. Johnson Hill. John R. Nichols. Asa Smith. Platt Sheldon, Horace Atwood. John Ormston. Joseph Atwood. Julius Ferris, Orren Cronk. Steven Jaekworth, Orren Taylor. Leonard Wares. D) M. Niebols, Jobu Stour. Edward Truesdale. John Miller.
Adjourned to the Inn of William Richards.
Whatever. the early history of Free Masoury in Westport, it is certain that the present lodge was estab- lished in 1852 by recommendation of Morning Sun Lodge, No. 142, which had been established iu Port Henry four years before. At this time Westport was in the high tide of prosperity. the centre and source of which was the iron business and the fue new Sisco furnace, therefore it seemed appropriate to recognize this in the name of the new lodge, and it was called Siseo Lodge, No. 259. The first officers were George H. Blinn, W. M .; John Bowers, S. W .; Charles B. Hatch, J. W. George J. Blimu bad been one of the
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first officers of the Port Henry lodge, being J. W. in 1848 and W. M. in 1819, therefore it would seem that he had moved into Westport not long before this time. The lodge meetings were held here only four years after organization, declining with the decline and fall of the Sisco furnace after which it had been named, since Jackson's failure occurred in 1857, and the lodge meet- ings were held in Whallonsburgh from 1856 to 1870. Up to that time the Masters had been George H. Blinn, * Asa P. Hammond of Wadhams Mills, Lewis Cady of Whallonsburgh, John Burt, Jr., of Essex, Willett E. Rogers of Whallonsburgh, Eli W. Rogers of Whallons- burgh, and Philetus D. Merriam, Westport. In 1870 the meetings began to be held in Westport again, where they have been held ever since, the successive Masters being in every case Westport men. John J. Greeley has held the office, not continuously, for over fifteen years, varied by occasional terms of service from George C. Osborne, Henry I. Stone and Nelson J. Gibbs.
The Mason's hall was in the second story of the build- ing on the corner of Washington and Main, (formerly occupied as the printing office of the Westport news- paper,) until the burning of the whole block, Ang. 15th, 1876. When the block was rebuilt, the Masons owned the northern third, renting the lower floor and occupy- ing the second floor as a hall. A new charter was granted June 27th, 1877, and on September 26th the new hall was dedicated. About five hundred Masons were present on that occasion, from lodges on both: sides of the lake, with the De Soto Commandery
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Knights Templar of Plattsburgh, the Knights Templar of Burlington, accompanied by the Queen City band. The wives of the Masons of Sisco Lodge provided re- freshments, and the social occasion was a great success. Afterward, when the Westport Inn was opened, this block was sold, and the lodge moved onee more, to the rooms in the flat over the post office, which it still oc- cupies. Lodge·meetings are held ou the first and third Saturdays of the month.
The name of Augustus Holt in the town records re- minds us that Alva Holt had now come from Keene, and was living in the stone house at the forks of the road south of the village, formerly occupied by the Rogers family. Alva Holt had four sons, Charles Holt of Keene, Smith Holt of Willsboro, Henry Holt of Bo- quet, and Augustus, who is still living in Westport, · having been supervisor of the town. His daughter Carrie is now Mrs. Shelley, of New York, and his son, Charles, has practiced dentistry in his native place for several years. Mrs. Reuben J. Ingalls is a daughter of Alva Holt.
1858.
Town Meeting at H. J. Person's.
Ralph A. Loveland, Supervisor.
Hiram H. Downey, Clerk.
Jason Braman. Justice.
Arebibaid Pattison, Assessor.
Samuel Root. Highway Commissioner.
Peter Ferris and Luther Angier. Poor Masters.
William MeIntyre. William Douglass. William P. Mer. ciem, Inspectors of Election.
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Dennis B. Stacy, Ira Downey. Richard Brown, Harry N. Cole. Constables.
Pathmasters .- Alpheus Stone. Israel Pattison. Hiram Cole, S. Wheaton Cole, Jeremiah Flinn. John Greeley. Joseph James, Merlin Angier, Luther Angier. George W. Sturtevant, J. R. Whitney. Joel Whitney, B. F. Sprague, D. R. Woodruff, Samuel Storrs, Harvey Smith, Barney Boyle. William Downey, Eli Wood. Eleazer Welch, Jesse Sherman. Solomon Stockwell, Julius Ferris, Moses Felt. Franklin Bennett, Leonard Ware. D. N. Nichols, James Fortune. Edward Truesdale. Hirain Howard.
Town Meeting adjourned to the Inn of William Richards.
This year was built the steamboat Canada, the larg. est yet built on the lake, 260 feet long, 30 feet wide and 103 feet deep, with a speed of 17 miles an hour. Capt. S. R. Foster stood on her deck, and as she rau until 1870, many of us can remember her right well as she came grandly to the wharf every day in summer, the delight of all the youthful population to whom the ar- rival of the line boats, and their discharge of freight and passengers, will always be a most interesting event.
1854.
Town Meeting held at the Inn of William Richards.
Ralph A. Loveland, Supervisor.
Freeborn H. Page, Clerk.
John Hatch Low, Justice.
Guy Stevens, Collector.
D. L. Allen and Calvin Fisher. Assessors.
Elijah Wright. Highway Commissioner.
Abram M. Olds, Superintendent of Common Schools.
Titus M. Mitchell and William Melutyre, Poor Masters.
Harry N. Cole, Joel F. Whitney, Harvey Pierce, Inspec- tors of Election.
Guy Stevens, B. F. Holcomb. J. F. Whitney, Ira Downey. John Mitchell, Constables.
Edwin R. Person, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
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The Highway Commissioner reports that it will be bec- essary to raise $200,00 the present year.
Pathmasters. - Alphous Stone, Heury E. Warren. Arch- ibald Patterson. Harry N. Cole. John Mitchell, William McIntyre, P. D. Merriam, James Marshall, Luther Angier, George W. Sturtevant, Levi Cross, Cieero Sayre, B. T. Sprague, David R. Woodruff. Calvin Pratt, Harvey Smith, Asahel Havens, Leouard Avery. Eli Wood. Eleazar Welch, John Ormiston, Ira Allen, Lee Prouty, Titus Sherman, George Bennett, Willard Hartwell. George Vaughan. James Fortune, Edward Truesdale. Edwin Thompson.
Adjourned to the Inn of H. J. Person.
Phineas N. Hartwell resigned the office of Superintend- ent of Common Schools and Abram Marsball Olds was ap- pointed in his place.
Survey of road to Young's Bay. "Beginning on the eastern boundary of the highway leading from Westport to Archibald Patterson's thirty-eight links northerly from the south corner of Andrew Frisbie's farm, to the lake shore." J. K. French. Surveyor.
This year James A. Allen bought the southern or Hatch wharf, and for about twenty-five years either of our principal wharves might be spoken of as "Allen's wharf," since D. L. Allen had owned the northern or Douglass wharf since 1845. The Hatch wharf was sold to Capt. Samnel Price in 1879, and then to David Clark, who now owns it. The Douglass wharf was sold to Daniel F. Payne in 1880, and is still in his possession.
1855.
Town Meeting at the Inn of H. J. Person's.
Cepbas Bradley, Supervisor.
Benjamin F. Holcomb. Clerk.
Miles M'F. Sawyer, Justice.
William L. Wadbams. Assessor.
Daniel M. Howard. Highway Commissioner.
William MeIntyre and Artemas Hartwell. Poor Masters. Lorenzo Gibbs. Hinkley Coll, Dan W. Braman, Jospec- lors of Erection.
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· Ira Henderson, Collector.
Horace Barues. Joel F. Whitney, Ira Henderson, Alvin Davis, Richard Brown, Constables.
Pathmasters. - Alpheus Stoue, Heury E. Warren, Levi Frisbie, Isaac D. Lyon, Jonathan Holcomb. D. L. Allen. Joseph James, James Marshall. Newell Knowlton. George W. Sturtevant, Elijah Wright, Joseph E. Smith, Sylvester Young, Austin Bigelow, Howard H. Farnsworth. Harvey Smith, Asabel Havens, Asa Smith, Albert Carpenter, Al- vin Peasley, F. B. Howard, John McConley, Lee Prouty, Cyrus Royce, Leonard Taylor, William Pierce, George Vaughan, James Fortune. Edward Truesdell, Edwin Thompson.
Alva S. Holt was appointed Pathmaster in the place of Isaac D. Lyon.
Road district No. 26 was newly formed. and began "at the west line of the lot of Eleazer Welch. and running west to the west line of the land of William P. and Philetus D. Merriam." P. D. Merriam was pathmaster of the district.
This means a new road district in the Iron Ore Tract, on the road to Seventy-five, where W. P. & P. D. Mer- riam had their coal kilns, and where the trail went in to the ore bed at Nichols Pond, just now beginning to be worked. The owners of the ore bed had need of a good road out to the highway, as an outlet for their ore and an inlet for their mining supplies and machinery.
Another tragedy upon the water. Four young men came up the lake from Montreal in a pleasure yacht. Two of them were brothers named Webster, relatives of the Ferrises, and of the third wife of Judge Charles Hatch. One day, in November, John Ferris and his son Peter joined the party in the yacht, and they sailed southward. Near Crown Point the boat was upset, and the six men clung to the boat sides and rigging and floated about, calling for help, until completely chilled
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and exhausted. One by one the four young men from Montreal lost each his hold and sunk from sight. John Ferris was an older man and a hardier, and his strength held out until help arrived .* Peter Ferris was rescued in an unconscious condition, only saved by the singular fact that the fingers of one of his hands were stiffened, from the effects of a scalding in infancy, so that he had no power to straighten them. This hand was hooked over a rope or some part of the boat and held him there after he became insensible.
After Mr. Peter Ferris died I was permitted to look over some of his papers, and among them there was such a pathetic letter from the father of the two young Websters who were drowned, written to John Ferris immediately after. In it he says, "I sincerely thank God that he has spared you your only son, although we have lost all of ours,"-a resignation, it seemed to me, more piteous than the most clamorous grief.
It would seem from the fact there had been no camp meeting held in town for eleven years that these out- door gatherings for religious exercises had fallen some- what into disfavor. Luxury and refinement of living had greatly increased since the early days of immense
*One not accustomed to our waters will find it hard to realize the chill of the icy waves of November. Fresh water has not the buoyancy of salt water, and it is more difficult to swim or to float in it on that account. Its effect is also more ener- viting. A few summers ago a young lady at Rock Harbor swam across the lake from Basin Harbor to Calamity Point, a distance of one mile and twenty rods This was a much more difficult feat than may appear to a person accustomed only to salt water. It was accomplished in safety, but followed by alarming chills and exhaustion. If we have not the dangers of the surf and the undertow, neither have we the exhilaration of the ocean waves.
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attendance at camp meetings, and doubtless a genera- tion had arisen which would not brave the discomfort of primitive camp life, in all weathers, for the sake of preaching which might as well be heard, perhaps, in- side their commodious churches. Nevertheless, this year a camp meeting was held, not as before near the lake shore, but in the northern part of the town, on land of Frank Bennett's, west of Wadhams Mills, And these meetings were no longer representative of all denomi- nations, as in the early days, but now belonged almost entirely to the M. E. church.
In Joseph Cook's history of Ticonderoga we find that the first mower in that town, which was also the first in the Champlain valley, was used in June of 1855. I am inclined to think that none were used in Westport until two years later.
1856.
Town Meeting at the Inn of H. J. Person's.
Cephas Bradley. Supervisor.
Dan S. Cutting. Clerk.
William F. Chatterton, and Richard C. Gardner, Justices. David L. Allen. Assessor.
Vietor C. Spencer. Superintendent of Schools.
Guy Stevens. Collector.
Moses Coll, Highway Commissioner.
Artemas Hartwell and Orrin B. Howard. Overseers of the Poor.
Orange Gibbs, Philetus D. Merriam, James W. Eddy. Inspectors of Election.
Guy Stevens. Horace Barnes. Ilinkley Coll, Aaron Peas- lev. Thomas Dickerson, Constables.
These entries in the town book are certified to by three Justices, John H. Low, Miles M F. Sawyer and Jason Bra- man.
Pathmasters. - William Stevenson. Samuel Root. Peter Ferris. Asa Kinney, Charles W. Holcomb. William Meln.
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tyre, Darius Merriam, James Marshall, Cyrus Royce, George W. Sturtevant. Dorr W. Howard, Joseph F. Smith, Augustus Hill. David R. Woodruff, Calvin Fisher. Mont- ravill Hill, Marcus Hoisington, Asa Smith, Daniel M. How- ard, Aaron Peasley, Alvin Burtt, John McConley, Jr .. Luman Hubbard, Jonathan Braisted. John E. Smith, Franklin Bennett. William Pierce. Samuel Pierce, James Fortune, Edward Truesdale, Edwin Thompson.
Asa Kinney had just come in from Jay. His father was Josiah Kinney, a Revolutionary soldier in Counecti- cut, and Asa Kinney had fought in the battle of Platts- burgh, spending some time in hospital at Burlington while down with camp fever. He was buried in West- port, and his grave should be remembered as that of one of the soldiers of the war of 1812. His son Fred- erick and his grandson Warren still reside here.
Not until 1856 did Charles Hatch die, at the age of eighty-eight, having lived in the town for fifty-four years. Born a subject of King George he saw two wars with Great Britain, and lived to see John Brown, perhaps, stepping off some boat upon his wharf with a little party of negroes bound for the colony in North Elba -- the first warnings of the Civil War. No one had done more than he -- perhaps no one had done so much -- to change the little clearing at the head of Northwest Bay which he found here in 1802, to the busy and prosperous village which he saw the last year of his life. Were the old Squire's life written, ex- aetly as it ran, it would make a volume as varied and romantic, with as interesting situations, as the last new novel of the school of realism.
The autumn rains of this year caused unusually de-
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'structive floods, especially upon the upper course of the Boquet, in Elizabethtown. There the tale will always be told that October 1 was the wedding night of Mat- thew Hale and Ellen Hand, but the day before the river rose and carried away the bridge by which the groom must cross to the wedding. By great exertions a tem- porary foot bridge was thrown across the river, but one so frail and unsteady that the groom and one of the wedding guests slipped off in attempting to cross and were carried down the swollen stream. Rescued, with much danger and difficulty, the wedding came off just the same, and if it had happened in the Scottish high- lands, what a ballad would have been sung by some ancient bard to his harp that night !
: Some of our old people remember that in Septem- ber of '56 they went to the County Fair at E'town and heard Horace Greeley speak. They usually add, per- haps partly to show their own superiority, that they did not consider him a very effective orator.
1857.
Town Meeting at H. J. Person's.
David L. Allen, Supervisor.
Charles H. Eddy, Clerk.
Jason Braman, Justice.
Jonathan Holcomb, Collector.
Elijah Wright, Highway Commissioner.
Peter Ferris and Jesse Sanders, Overseers of the Poor. Joseph E. Smith. Freeborn H. Page and James M. Bow- man, laspectors.
Noel Merrill, Assessor.
Jonathan Holcomb, Oscar Taylor, Joel F. Whitney. Jere- miah Flinn, Augustus Holt, Constables.
Pathmasters, - Alexander Stevenson. Reuel W. Arnold.
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Noel Merri !!. Orrin B. Howard. Nathaniel Allen. Willard Ingalls, William P. Merriam. Merlin Angier. Luther Au- vier, George W. Sturtevant, Cyrenus R. Pavue. Cicero Sayre. Joel K. Freveb. D. R. Woodruff. Norman Stores. Montravill Hill. Patrick Bovle. Justin Prouty, Albert Car- peuter, Warren Pooler, F. B. Howard. Apollos Goodspeed. Lee Prouty. Martin Pierce, James Fortune. Franklin Ben- nett. Curtis Bennet. Martin Pierce. James Fortune. Ed- ward Truesdale, Edwin Thompson.
This year Ralph A. Loveland was State Senator and John L. Merriam. County Treasurer. Soon after this Mr. Loveland was conducting a large lumber business in Albany, with partners, under the firm name of White, Loveland & Co. After some years he removed to Janes- ville, Wis., then to Chicago in 1869, and then to Sagi- naw, Michigan, where he died in 1899.
It was in this year that Dr. George T. Stevens began practicing medicine at Wadhams Mills. In 1861 he married Harriet, daughter of William L. Wadhams. During the Civil War he was Surgeon of the 77th regi- ment, N. Y. V. He afterward removed to Brooklyn. where he became well-known as a specialist in diseases of the ese. He has written a number of books upon scientific subjects.
Joseph Cook, then only a promising young man from Ti, delivered a lecture here upon "Alcohol and the Hu- man Brain."
Of all our stories of shipwreck, I know of but one which occurred upon the ocean. After the discovery of gold in California in 1849, there was a great rush from all the eastern states to the Pacific coast, and one of the men who went from Westport to seek his for-
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tunes in the gold mines was Benjamin Mayhew Sheldon. He had married Harriet Barber, daughter of Hezekiah, and they had four little children, Silas, Rose, Edith and Emma. He went to California by water. Arrived at the mines, he succeeded in getting quite a small fortune for those days, about five thousand dollars, it was be- lieved. Receiving a letter from his wife in which she spoke of being ill, the desire to see his family again overcame the desire for riches, and he went to San Francisco and there took the same steamer upon which he came out, the Central America, Captain Herndon. The ship made the greater part of the return trip iu safety, touching at Aspinwall, rounding Cape Horn, and > arriving at Havana, which she left September Sth, 1857. Three days afterward a great gale came up, and the ship sprung a leak. The pumps were kept going, the passengers taking their turn with the crew, but the wa- ter rose so rapidly that it put out the fires under the boilers, and the ship lay at the mercy of the waves. At two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a brig was sighted, the Marine, and signaled for help. Five boat-loads of passengers were taken from the steamer to the brig, the women and children being taken first. Then the waves rolled so high, and the two vessels had drifted so far apart that the steamer was abandoned to her fate, and was thought to have gone down at about eight o'clock that evening. Captain Herudon went down with his ship. In the mails there was over a million dollars in specie, besides large quantities of gold carried by indi-
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vidual passengers. Of the 163 men who went down with the ship, Benjamin Sheldon was one.
Another life sacrificed to the search for California gold was that of Abraham Wadhams. He lived to see his home again, but contracted ship-fever on the voyage, and died immediately upon his return. Others who went, and brought back more or less of a burden of wealth were Reuben Ingalls, Orrin Howard, Jonathan Braisted, and the sous of Elijah Newell. The latter did not return to Westport, but made their homes in the south.
1858.
Town Meeting held at the Inn of H. J. Persons.
David L. Allen, Supervisor.
Charles H. Eddy, Clerk.
John H. Low. Justice.
David R. Woodruff. Assessor.
Daniel M. Howard, Highway Commissioner.
Peter Ferris and Levi H. Cross. Poor Masters.
Joseph E. Smith. Ruel W. Arnold and Heury I. Estey, Inspectors of Election.
James M. Bowman, Collector.
Hepry H. Holcomb, Cyrenus R. Payne. Willard Ingalls. Jonathan Holcomb, Dan S. Cutting, Constables.
Voted to allow A. M. Olds $12.00 for an error in school money.
Patbmasters. -- Granville Stone, R. W. Arnold. Archi- bald Patterson, Harvey Pierce. Josiah Pierce, Jobu Gree- ley. William P. Merriam. Samuel Anderson. M. P. Whal- Jon. George W. Sturtevant, Elijah Wright. Orrin F. Hardy, Arz Phinney. D. R. Woodruff, William Laurence, Harvey Smith. A. M. Olds, Leopard Avery. Platt Sheldou, Abram Greeley. Alvin Burt. Solomon Stockwell. Luman Hubbard, Abram Sherman, Franklin Bosley, Franklin Bennett, Jul- jus Vaughan. George Vaughan, James Fortune.
This year there was plenty of business for the "Fever Viewers. " The name of this oldl office bad been long
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dropped, but its duties were performed by the Highway Commissioners. Moses Coll and Elijah Wright were obliged to settle a dispute about a line fence between land of James W. Coll's and James Pects', and theu another, in the same neighborhood, about a line fence between Archi- bald Pattison and Reuel Arnold.
It is interesting to compare the census of 1858 with that taken thirty years before. Then about one-fifth the land was reported as improved, now it is more than half under cultivation. Real estate has risen in value from $86,423 to $375,537, and personal property from $1,590 to $16,250. In Joseph Cook's history of Ticon- deroga, he remarks upon the fact that the real estate of Westport increased in value more than four times in 30 years. Population has increased from 1322 to 2011. Then 424 children were taught in the schools during the year, now there are 814. In one thing there is an immense reduction. From 9985 yards of cloth of do- mestic manufacture in 1829, the record falls to 285 in 1858.
This year there were 396 dwellings in town, 408 fam- ilies, 207 free-holders and 12 school districts. 498 horses, against 237 thirty years before, and 5,231 sheep against 3,801. Now there were also 1022 working oxen aud calves, 623 cows, and 506 swine. The town pro- duced 31,500 bushels of grain, 3000 tons of hay, 12,999 barrels of potatoes, 6,815 barrels of apples, 45,713 pounds of butter, and 8,377 pounds of cheese.
The New York Gazetteer of 1860, using the statistics of this year, reports as our chief characteristics, "iron, leather and lumber largely manufactured. Westport
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contains the Essex County Academy and 456 inhabi- tants. Wadhams Mills has twenty-five houses."
1859.
Town Meeting held at H. J. Person's.
David L. Ailen, Supervisor.
Hiram H. Downey. Clerk.
David S. McLeod, Justice.
Harry N. Cole, Assessor.
Israel Patterson, Highway Commissioner.
James A. Allen, Collector.
Philetus D. Merriam and Peter Ferris. Poor Masters.
Hinkley Coll. Orlando Sayre and Barton B. Richards, Inspectors of Elections.
James A. Allen, Jobn R. Stacy. Cyrenus R. Payne, Jona- than Holcomb, Hinkley Coll. Constables.
Voted that the money in the bands of the Supervisor should be used to purchase the Revised Statutes.
Pathmasters .- District No. 1 for the first time since 1849. Orrin Howard, Alexander Stevenson, R. W. Arnold. George Patterson. Harvey Pierce, Elijah Newell. William Riebards, W. P. Merriam, Merlin Angier, Cyrus B. Royce, G. W. Sturtevant, Elijah Wright. O. F. Hardy, Sylvester Young, F. Johnson, A. F. Sberman, Harvey Smith. Pat- rick Boyle, Harriman Daniels, E. J. Smith. Warren Pooler. John Ormston. John McConley. Julius Ferris, Henry B. Royce, John F. Smith, Franklin Bennett, William Pierce. Samuel Pierce. James Fortune.
In the highway districts we find mentioned "along the plank road to the wharf of Hatch and Allen, thence up the hill to the corner of F. H. Page's store."
This year came in a quaint and unusual industry, that of making clay pipes by hand. At , the mouth of the Raymond brook, on Bessboro, near the island of Father Jogues, stands an old house, on the site, it is believed, of one of the dwellings of the ancient settle- ment of Raymond's Mills. Here, in one end of the honse, was the shop, communicating at the back with
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