USA > New York > Erie County > Sardinia > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 40
USA > New York > Erie County > Collins > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 40
USA > New York > Erie County > Concord > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 40
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Emeline, married Philip Ferrin ; lives in Springville.
Eliza, married Robert Yates ; lives at East Concord. Charles C., married Aurelia Wilcox ; lives at East Concord. Horace, died Sept. 25, 1853, aged twenty-five years.
Wilber H., married Harriet L. Cranston ; lives in Spring- ville.
Jane M., died Nov. 22, 1855, aged twenty-two years.
Almon W., married Helen Weeden ; lives in Buffalo. Clorinda, died Sept. 18, 1859, aged twenty-one years.
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Ursula, died Aug. 30, 1859, aged eighteen years and eight months.
Mr. Stanbro was married a second time about 1850 to Mrs. Amy Greene, by whom he had four children :
Loraine, married A. D. Jones ; lives in Springville.
Estelle, married Henry Curtis ; lives at East Concord.
Warren H., lives West.
May, married W. D. Jones, lives in Springville.
Almon W. Stanbro.
Almon W. Stanbro, son of Amos Stanbro, was born in Con- cord April 6, 1835 ; he obtained his education in the common schools and in the Springville academy ; he taught school, both common and select ; he studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession in Springville and in Buffalo. He held the office of Justice of the Peace in Concord for sev- eral years, and was elected Supervisor of the town for the year 1867, and also for the year 1869. He married Helen Weeden, daughter of Jabez Weeden. They have one son living, and they had a daughter who died young. Mr. Stanbro now re- sides in Dakota.
" Governor " William Smith.
" Gov." William Smith came from Vermont to this town in the Spring of 1810, and moved into an empty log house that he found standing on lot four on the farm where Harrison Pin- grey now lives. The " Governor" selected land down on the Cattaraugus creek on lots fifty-six and fifty-seven, where S. E. Tefft now lives ; here he built a log house and did some chop- ping and in the Fall he moved his family down. The " Gov- ernor " was physically a strong man and a good worker, and in a few years had quite large improvements. While he lived here the bears and wolves were thick and committed many depredations on his sheep and hogs. On one occasion a bear came and was trying to get a hog out of the pen. The " Gov- ernor" not being at home, Mrs. Smith and the hired man went out and succeeded in driving him off and saved the hog. In 1816 or 1817 he sold out that place to Stephen Williams for cash down, receiving his pay in silver, of which there was nearly
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one-half bushel. He then located on lot forty nine, where Frederick Clark now lives ; while he lived here his son Stephen died. He lived here a few years and cleared up a number of acres of land ; he sold out to Varney Ingals, and located on the south part of said lot forty-nine ; he staid there a few years and then moved to lot forty-one, by the big spring, where he lived a number of years; after this he lived on the Catta- raugus creek at Ashford Hollow, and on lot forty-five, Sharp street.
Of his five children, Stephen, William and Calvin died in this town.
Deborah married Samuel Wilcox and died Nov. 15, 1850, in Concord, aged fifty years and five months.
Sally, married Clement Carney and moved to Michigan.
"Governor" William Smith died Oct. 9, 1857, aged eighty years.
Hannah, his wife, died Dec. 29, 1853.
Calvin Smith.
Calvin Smith was born in Vermont Sept. 30, 1803. His father came to this town in the Spring of 1810; he lived that Summer on lot four, where Harrison Pingrey now resides, and his children, William, Calvin and Deborah, attended school to Annie Richmond, which was the first school ever taught in this town. As chopping was the principal business at that time, young Calvin and his brother became experts, and when only fourteen or fifteen years of age, besides aiding their father, took many jobs of the settlers; they chopped a great deal of the timber where the Village of Springville now stands. When about twenty years of age he bought his time of his father and located on the north part of lot forty-two, on Sharp street. March 12, 1826, he was married to Harriet Mayo, and a few years after moved to the northeast part of lot forty-three ; here he cleared up the farm where his son Stephen R. now lives, where he lived twenty-five or thirty years ; he then moved to the central part of lot fifty, now owned by David S. Ingals ; afterwards he bought land on the west part of lot forty-one, where he resided at the time of his death. He was a good neighbor, a good citizen and an honest man, and acquired a
CALVIN SMITH.
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good property by hard and honest toil ; he was a worthy mem- ber of the Free Baptist church, and contributed liberally to the fund for building the house of worship for that denomination in Springville.
They reared a large family of children, as follows :
Cynthia, born Jan. 20, 1827 ; married Abram Patch ; died Jan. 28, 1863.
Malvina, born Sept. 18, 1828 ; married Archibald Preston : lives in Yorkshire.
Stephen R., born June 27, 1830: married Mary Guardinier ; lives in Concord.
Lucy Ann, born Dec. 23, 1832 ; married A. J. Backus ; lives at North East, Pa.
Jeremy, born March 3, 1836; married Mariam Palmer; lives in Springville.
Calvin C., born Sept. 27, 1838; married Josephine Flem- mings ; lives in Springville.
Lorinda, born Dec. 29, 1840. died Oct. 28, 1842.
Celinda, born Nov. 6, 1842 ; married Yates Guardinier ; live in Concord.
Philena M., born Dec. 2, 1855 ; married Murray Chandler : live in Concord.
Zelia M., born May 17, 1859 ; married John H. Melvin ; live in Springville.
James Stratton.
James Stratton settled on Townsend hill in 1811. His wife's maiden name was Betsey Wheeler ; they lived here a few years and then removed to Little Valley, Cattaraugus county. They were among the very first settlers in that town. They reared a family of children and lived to a good old age.
Charles C. Stanbro.
Charles C. Stanbro was born in Concord in 1826, and has resided there ever since. He obtained his education in a com- mon school on Townsend Hill and in the Springville Academy. He afterwards taught several terms of school, both common and select. He has been a farmer and cheese-maker, and has kept a general store for several years in East Concord. He never preached for pay, but formerly occupied the pulpit at
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times and does so still, especially on funeral occasions, where his services are always acceptable and satisfactory to his audience. He has been twice elected Justice of the Peace, which office he now holds.
The Townsend Family.
Jonathan Townsend, from whom Townsend Hill takes its name, was born in 1765, in New Salem, Franklin county, Mass. His father's name was Jonathan Townsend, and his mother's maiden name was Huldah Newton. When he became of age, he married, accumulated property, and owned a farm in Massa- chusetts. He came to this town and purchased land in 1810; he moved part of his family here in 1811, and the remaining portion in 1812. He came into town on the Genesee road, and had to cut it out part of the way. He was about .forty-five years of age when he came ; had a large family and more prop- . erty than the new settlers had generally. He built a frame house on the southeast part of lot four, township seven, range seven, on the spot where the frame part of B. F. Williams's house now stands.
In 1816, he built a grist mill on Smith brook, on the south part of lot eighteen, township seven, range seven, in what is now called Wheeler Hollow. It was located about eighty rods below the Wheeler mills. This mill did quite a good business and frequently had to be run night and day to accommodate its customers, who sometimes came quite long distances. He also built a distillery afterwards on the same lot, in the vicin- ity of the mill.
In 1819, he commenced keeping hotel.
In those days, the mail route and main traveled road from Springville to Buffalo was over Townsend Hill.
In 1822, he built a two-story brick house in front of and con- nected with his frame one. This was the first brick house built in town. The upper story contained a hall, which in those early days was a new and rather desirable thing to have. Here for many years the town meetings were held, and the voters old and young, met to elect town officers ; here the town officers met to transact business for the town ; here the voters of the vicinity voted at the Fall election.
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For ten or fifteen years succeeding 1815, Jonathan Town- send undoubtedly did more business than any other man in this town. Besides his farming operations, he run a hotel and blacksmith shop on Townsend Hill, and built and run a grist mill, blacksmith shop and, in part, a distillery in Wheeler Hol- low.
In 1835, Mr. Townsend sold his farm to the great land specu- lator, Alanson Palmer. of Buffalo. He removed from this town and purchased and settled on a lot of wild land in the Town of Collins, a mile and a half or two miles west of Wood- ward's Hollow.
He died in the Town of Collins, Oct. 21, 1838, aged about seventy-three years.
Mr. Townsend was twice married. His first wife, Mary Has- kell, died in Massachusetts, at the age of twenty-four years, leaving two children. Olive Finney, his second wife, came here in 1812, and shared the privations and hardships of the pioneers, and lived until June 4, 1862, when she died in this town at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Alanson Wheeler, aged about ninety-three years.
Three of their eleven children are still living: Huldah, El- vira and Hosea W.
Their children were :
Sally, born June 1, 1785.
Jonathan, born May 15, 1787.
Uzial, born Nov. 2, 1790.
Suel, born Jan. 27, 1793.
Olive, born July 7, 1795.
Huldah, born Dec. 15, 1797.
Noah, born Feb. 12, 1801.
Elvira, born Aug. 30, 1803.
Hosea W., born March 30, 1807.
Diadamia, born May 13, 1810.
Adin, born Aug. 16, 1813.
Jonathan Townsend, Jr., married Betsy Davis, in Massachu- setts ; he died in this town, June, 1857, aged seventy years ; she died in this town, June 1868, aged seventy-seven years ; no children.
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Uzial Townsend married Patty Wheeler in Massachusetts. They came to this town in 1811, and were here one Winter be- fore the rest of the family came. They located on Townsend Hill, and lived there about twenty-five years, when they removed from town. They lived on the reservation near Buf- falo several years, where she died in 1846. About twenty-five years ago, he went to Illinois with his son, Gilbert W. Town- send, where he died Aug. 13, 1864, aged seventy-four years. He left one son and several grandchildren. He was a farmer.
Suel Townsend married Polly Wheeler. He was a miller and blacksmith, and lived in Wheeler Hollow. He died fifty years ago ; they raised two sons.
Olive Townsend married Kendall Johnson, of Collins. He lived near Mansfield. She died in 1826, aged thirty-one years ; she left five children.
Huldah Townsend married Enoch Sinclair in 1816, in this town. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and lived on Town- send Hill; they left this town and moved to McHenry county, Ill., in 1845, and, in 1864, removed from there to Hampton, Franklin county, lowa, where he died in 1873 aged eighty- three years ; but she is still living, at the age of eighty-six years. There were seven children in their family.
Noah Townsend married Acsah Wheeler, daughter of Ben- jamin Wheeler, deceased. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and lived on the farm where his widow now resides, on Town- send Hill. He sometimes held town offices ; could have held more but declined. He was an intelligent and respected citi- zen. There are six children in the family. He died in 1853, aged fifty-two years.
Elvira Townsend married William Owen; she has not lived in Concord for more than fifty years ; she now resides in Crawford county, Penn. She has one son ; her husband is dead.
Hosea W. Townsend resides in Buffalo ; has six children ; is seventy-six years old.
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Diadamia Townsend married Alanson Wheeler. They both died in March, 1883.
Adin Townsend married Electa Michell; he died in 1844, aged thirty-one years ; he left four children.
Asa R. Taber.
Asa R. Taber was born in the year 1833, in the Town of New Bedford, Mass ; came to the Town of Eden, Erie county, N. Y., and settled in Springville in 1857 : occupation a merchant ; was married in 1857, to Laurette N. Taber, daughter of Camden S. Lake. He received the greater part of his education at the Springville Academy.
His father's name was Asa Taber ; his mother's maiden name was Sarah Washburn ; his grandfather's name was Joseph Taber ; his grandmother's maiden name was Rebecca Mason; his mother was of French and his father of Welsh descent. All settled at an early day in the old Town of Dartmouth, Bristol county, Mass. His grandfather Lettice Washburn was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and his uncle Lettice Wash- burn was a clergyman and Chaplain in the War of the Rebel- lion.
Benjamin C. Trevitt's Statement.
My father moved to this town in 1817, from Bennington county, Vt .; Joseph Hanchett had settled on the place where I now live before the War: my father bought him out for four hundred dollars, and he moved to Ohio.
My uncle, Channing Trevitt, settled where the Wheeler brothers are, about ISII, and built the first mill there in 1812 or 1813; he was pressed into the service of the Government with his team to draw cannon from Buffalo to Erie at the time Commodore Perry was fitting out his fleet there, and was taken sick and died soon after he returned home.
Jonathan Townsend built his grist-mill in 1816.
Jonathan Spaulding moved here in 1815, and Asa Philip in 1817.
My sister Electa taught school one Summer in Cooper's barn ; I think it was the first school taught in the district. Mrs. Persons taught two Summers in her own house. William Owen
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taught two Winters; I think Sinclear taught one, then David Bensley, and then a man by the name of Judson.
My father, Benjamin Trevitt, died in this town in 1857, aged about seventy.six years ; my mother died in this town in 1835, aged fifty-nine.
Electa married Daniel Philips, and died in 1825, aged twenty- four.
Asa R. married Polly McLen ; she died: he lives in East Hamburg.
Amanda died in 1851, aged forty-three years.
Acsah married Flecher Fairbanks.
Hiram C. married Jane Cooper ; he died in 1845, aged thirty- three years.
Benjamin C. Trevitt's Family.
Benjamin C. Trevitt married Martha Olcott. Their children are:
Amelia, married Frank Hoffman ; lie died ; she lives at her father's.
Electa Ann, married George Davis, and resides in the town of Aurora.
Viola, married William Woodward, lives at Woodward Hol- low.
Alfred lives at his father's.
Milton lives at his father's ; married Leona Adams.
Hattie S., married Adelbert Tyrer ; lives in this town.
Benjamin C. Trevitt died April 3, 1883, aged seventy-nine years, six months and sixteen days.
Roswell Olcott.
Roswell Olcott came to this town in 1817 from Pompey, Onondaga county, and settled on lot twenty, township seven, range seven. He afterwards lived on the Cattaraugus creek near Fryes. He moved to McHenry county, Ill., about 1847 He was constable and collector in this town for several years. Mr. Olcott died in Illinois in 1876. His children were :
Mary Ann-she is dead.
Martha, married Benjamin Trevitt, and lives in this town.
Lebus died in consequence of a wound received in the army. Acta L., Carlos and Fanny are married and live West.
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Mrs. L. H. Twichel's Statement.
My father, Asa Philips, came out here intending to go out farther West. He brought for Mr. Townsend's people and others who came from the same place in Massachusetts that he did, let- ters from their friends in the East, and Mr. Townsend and others persuaded him to locate here, which he did. He bought of Nicholas Armstead one hundred acres of land, with a few acres improved, the frame of a saw-mill up but no house. Father's family moved here in 1817, from New Salem, Mass .; came with two yoke of oxen, a span of horses and two cows. They started on the first day of October and arrived here on the last day of the month. We first moved into a small log school-house that stood on top of the hill, west of George Spalding's house on his land. We remained there six weeks, when they wanted school to commence and we moved into Mr. Townsend's black- smith shop in Wheeler Hollow. Sometime in the Winter father got a frame up, planked it, shingled part of the roof, laid down loose boards for a floor, and we moved into it without any doors or windows. A fireplace was built up as high as the mantel-piece, and was used so till next Summer: the smoke went up and out free and unconfined by any chimney. Next Summer he bought brick of Samuel Cooper and finished up the chimney, and finished shingling the house. The settlers in that part of the town when we came were, Frederick Wood, Thomas Magee, James Russel, Ambrose Cram, Jonathan Spaulding, Enoch Sinclair, Carey Clements, Roswell Alcott, Ephraim Barker, Samuel Cooper, Mr. Mitchell, Joseph Herrick, Sen., Asa Herrick, William Herrick, Samuel Eaton, Samuel Sampson, Emery Sampson, Daniel Persons, Benjamin Trevitt. John Andrews, James Tyrer and the Thompsons.
Sally Spaulding married Isaac Kibbie, and they, with old Mr. Kibbie and his wife and Daniel Spaulding, eldest son of Jonathan Spaulding, went over to the Alleghany river and built what they called an ark, and lived in it during the Winter, and in the Spring floated down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers, and went to the far South, and before a year had passed word came that they had all died with the fever except one child. I remember that I was up at Mr. Spaulding's soon after and saw
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Mrs. Spaulding crying for the death of her children far away in a strange land.
The big swamp west of our place was a great resort for bears and wolves. I have often laid and listened to the prolonged howlings of the wolves out there in the night time. Our cows frequently went into the swamp and the boys, when they went after them, would sometimes send the dog in to bring them out. One time they sent the dog into the swamp, but instead of bringing out the cows he drove out a large bear. The boys were frightened and started to run ; one of them could not get along very fast, and the others tried to assist him up a tree but could not succeed ; they screamed and the bear changed his course and did not molest them.
The Thompson children once found a small cub asleep beside a log, and Unice took it in her apron and carried it to the house, and made a pet of it. It would follow the children around and play with them like a young dog. It was very mischievous also. One day while the family were all out of the house. he crawled up the ladder and found a tub of molas- ses sitting up stairs, and being very fond of sweets he tried to get some, and tipped over the tub ; the chamber floor was loose boards, and when the family returned they found the molasses mostly on the furniture and floor below. The cub had to die.
Some of the school teachers who taught in our district in early times were Electa Trevitt, Sally Spaulding, Enoch Sinclair, William F. Owen, David Bensley, Mr. Sweetland, Rebecca Canfield, Wells Brooks, Morris Fosdick, Cephas R. Leland, Dudly O. Stephens, Robert G. Flint, Ezra Chaffee, Elam Booth, Mr. Gilbert, Henry Ackley, John G. House, Jonathan Briggs, Laura Ann Carr, Mary Gardner, Laban A. Needham, Mariam Twichel. William Twichel, Catharine Southworth, Mary Ann Sampson, Warren Fisher, A. C. Adams, Mr. Pierce, Emo- gene Smith.
Asa, died Nov. 13, 1842, aged seventy-one years, eight months.
Rhoda, his wife, died October, 1842, aged seventy-one years, nine months.
Rhoda Herrick, daughter of Asa Philips, died in 1832, aged thirty-two.
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Mary Chase, daughter of Asa Philips, died in 1874, in Little Valley.
Arba, married Anna Russel ; died in Ohio in 1844.
Susanna, married Johnson Chase ; lives in Machias. Marcus, married Asenath Herrick ; lives in Ohio.
Hannah, married Lemuel H. Twichel; lives in Concord. Asa, married Sarah Ann Petton ; he lives in Lockport, N. Y.
Amos, died in 1831, aged twenty years.
Sarah married Samuel Stevens, and lives in this town.
Lemuel H. Twichel.
My father came from Massachusetts to Madison county, this state ; remained a few years, then came to this town. My brother, Royal and I, came here in 1821 with an ox-team, two cows and ten sheep, and had but five dollars in money. We paid our way mostly by selling wooden dippers that we made before we started. Next year father and the rest of the family came. We lived the first year in the Stratton house on the lower part of the Fay farm, on the Genesee road. My father bought of Mr. McLen, the land known as the Heacock farm, on lot thirteen, township seven, range seven, and now owned by N. B. Moore. We moved on to it and lived there eight or nine years. Sold the farm to Calvin Blake and bought land on lot fifteen, township seven, range seven, near the creek road to Boston, and moved onto it. Besides working at farming my father made spinning wheels for spinning linen and wool. Also made rakes, sometimes made cabinet ware, &c. My father's name was Lemuel Twichel, my mother's maiden name was Esther Seaver. Father died in this town October 2, 1856, aged eighty-two years; mother died in this town August 7, 1870, aged about ninety- two. Their children were :
Royal, born 1801 ; married Ruth Field. She died. He is also dead.
Lemuel H., born Dec. 31, 1804 ; married Hannah Phillips. lives in this town.
Joseph S., born Oct. 8, 1806. Lives in Boston.
Adaline, born Feb. 24, 1809; married Moses Leonard, and died about 1873, in this town.
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Lucy, born March, 1811; married Franklin Twichel ; he died. She lives in Boston.
Mariam, born Jan., 1813: married L. A. Needham. Lives in this town.
Enos, born Dec. 1814 ; married Eliza Jones. He was killed by the fall of a tree in Otto.
William, born Dec. 1816; married Mary Winship ; she died. He died in the Fall of 1865.
In 1823, I helped cut out the Genesee road, four rods wide, from Mr. Ferrens on East, towards Griffith's Corners. The road had been traveled some years but was only cut wide enough for teams to pass through.
One time when we lived on the Heacox farm, Joseph and I found three bears, three-fourths of a mile north-east of our house, in their den, under the roots of a tree which was turned up in such a way as to form a suitable place for them. I went for the gun but I had but one charge of powder. I could see the old bear's white teeth as she growled in the dim light of the den, and I took sight accordingly and fired and killed her. Joseph went up to Mr. Ashman's for help, and Mr. Ashman and Mr. Briggs, father of Erasmus Briggs, came down. One of the bears came out and tried to escape but Mr. Briggs shot and killed him. All three were killed. We let Mr. Benjamin Fay have the skins, and Mrs. Fay made some muffs, capes, &c. Some of those articles are in existence, now after the lapse of over fifty years.
I moved down on the Eighteen-mile creek, near the valley road to Boston, in 1826, and commenced building a saw-mill that Fall. I lived there about thirty years, manufactured lum- ber and carried on farming; kept dairy part of the time. I moved to Little Valley, staid one year, came back, located two miles south-west of Springville ; lived there till Spring of 1865 and then moved to Vaughn street where I now reside. Lem- uel H. Twichel's children were :
Marcus E., born Oct. 2, 1839 ; died in 1855.
Erastus, born Aug. 22, 1841 ; married Francis Garlock, of Auburn. Lives in Burdet, Schuyler county ; is a Presbyterian clergyman.
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Esther, born June, 1846; married Albert Bement. Lives in Colden, Boston.
Lucy, born, May 14, 1848 ; married D. W. Bensley. Lives in Springville.
Asa, born March 7, 1850; married Carrie Palmer. Lives in Concord.
Lemuel H. Twichel died June 30, 1881, aged seventy-six years, six months.
Lewis Trevitt's Statement.
Lewis Trevitt is now living on his farm in the north-west part of the town on the road, over Townsend Hill to Boston. He has lived on that farm about sixty-five years and he is over ninety years of age. He says :
" I was born September 10, 1790. I came to this country in 1810 ; I was about twenty years old and unmarried. I worked before the war in Boston part of the time, and part of the time in Concord. I had a job of winrowing forty acres of tim- ber for Captain Hanchet who lived on the south part of the farm that Benjamin C. Trevitt now owns and occupies. I also chopped a job for Samuel Cooper, who then lived on the G. Spaulding farm. The chopping I did was down on the flat, on the south part of the farm. When I came, there was no saw- mill, grist mill, grocery store or hotel, in town.
The settlers in the north-west part of the town, before or during the war, were John Ures who lived on the farm I now own, on the west side of the road north of my house. He died before the close of the war. His wife was sister to Ben- jamin Fay, and afterwards married Joseph Yaw, of Springville. Jessie Putnam also lived on this farm, north of my house, on the east side of the road. He and his wife afterwards lived and died on the Heacock farm, lot thirty-eight, township seven, range seven, west of Adams'. Isaiah Pike was here a single man. Lyman Drake and family lived down on the creek, near the town line. May Barrett lived about a mile north-west of my place, and Mr. Killom down at the foot of the hill, New Boston.
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