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BANK.
There has been one bank in Scituate for a long time, called the Citizens Union Bank, changed to Scituate National Bank.
PHYSICIANS.
Physicians occupy an important place in the community. In the absence of educated and settled ministers, as was the case in many parts of Rhode Island in former periods, they seem to have been the only educated class passing round in the community. Their labors must have been toilsome ; riding on horseback over the bad roads, and going great distances by night and by day.
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Such men deserve to be held in grateful remembrance. They often exercise a refining and christian influence, and have done very much to prolong life. In the Revolutionary war they distinguished themselves both in the army and at home.
Dr. Ephriam Bowen, of Providence, used to ride extensively in Scituate and the adjoining towns before the conflict of the Revo- lution. He died about sixty years ago, aged more than ninety. Contemporary with him was Dr. Benjamin Slack who lived in the extreme north-east part of Scituate. He came from Mas- sachusetts about 1750. The oldest record of him in Scituate is the birth of his daughter, Mary, Sept. 28, 1753. His first wife, Phoebe Slack, " the virtuous wife of Benjamin Slack, Esq.," departed this life July 8, 1762, as her grave-stone, the oldest with an inscrip- tion in the town, inform us. Dr. Slack was much esteemed, and his practice was great in Glocester, Smithfield, Scituate, and other towns. He left quite a large and good farm. His second wife was Miss Hannah Harris, of Johnston, whom he married, March 5, 1767, Gideon Harris, Esq., town clerk of Scituate, officiating at the service.
Dr. John Barden, in the north-west part of Scituate, three or four miles west of Dr. Slack, during, and after the war of the Revo- lution, had considerable reputation as a doctor, and used to take long rides into Massachusetts, where he had many friends and much practice.
Dr. John Wilkinson, a medical practitioner of high estimation in Scituate, was also a distinguished surgeon in the Revolutionary war.
Dr. Caleb Fiske was a man of much distinction in the town, living on Bald Hill, at the south-east part of the town. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Fiske, early settlers in the place, and was born Feb. 24, 1753. He was president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, acquired much property and left to the society $2,000, and most of the remainder to his grandson, Caleb F. Rea.
Dr. Owen Battey was in medical practice for many years, but retired in later life. He was president of the Exchange Bank, at
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Greeneville, in Smithfield, and held the office of post master in South Scituate for a long time, through many party changes. He was a gentleman of the old school and highly esteemed. His father was Joshua Battey, and his grandfather, by the mother's side, was Oliver Arnold. His great-grandfather, Owen Arnold, was a British officer who came out to this country and engaged in the French war. He died July 24, 1762, in his ninetieth year.
Dr. Jeremiah Cole, who studied medicine with Dr. Anthony, of Foster, resided about a mile and a half west of North Scituate village. He was esteemed in his practice, died suddenly, May 7, 1843, in his seventy-third year, shortly after his removal to Olney- ville.
Dr. Cyril Carpenter, in that part of Scituate now Foster, lived in the latter part of the last century, and from him descended two generations in the healing art : his son Thomas and his grand- son, Thomas O. Carpenter, a skillful doctor of great promise, who died early.
Dr. John H. Anthony practiced medicine, residing in North Scituate for many years, but his health failing him he removed to Providence, where he died.
Dr. T. K. Newhall, after practicing about seventeen years in the town, removed to Providence.
Drs. James E. Roberts, Charles N. Fisher and William H. Bowen, the present physicians in Scituate, have long enjoyed the respect and confidence of our citizens.
LAWYERS IN SCITUATE.
Jonah Titus was for more than forty years a resident lawyer of this town. He removed to Providence in 1865, where he died at an advanced age in May, 1876.
Charles H. Page is now a resident lawyer of Scituate, having lived here since boyhood. He has an office in Providence. Both have represented the town in both brances of the General Assem- bly.
HOPE FURNACE.
Hope furnace, in Scituate, for the casting of cannon, manu-
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facture of bar iron and nails, became well known before and dur- ing the Revolutionary war. They used to cast two cannon at a time. Ore was obtained from the bed in Cranston and carted to the furnace.
In 1765, the discovery of another bed of iron in the same locality caused a company to be formed and a furnace to be erected at Hope village. Thirteen new cannon, cast at the Hope furnace, were fired at the Great Bridge, in Providence, in honor of the De- claration of Independence, July 26, 1776. Stephen Hopkins was one of the earliest and most influential of the men who got up this company, and his eldest son, Rufus, who had been a sea captain, was for many years superintendent at the furnace. Wrought iron nails were also made at Hope furnace.
MECHANICS.
Some of the mechanics in Scituate in early times were the fol- lowing :
Elihu Bowen, who removed from Swanzey in 1773, was the first tanner in Scituate, having his tannery by the Moswansicut brook. He died in his eighty-eighth year, and was buried in the old Quaker burial ground. His funeral was a " large and solemn meeting."
Elihu Fiske was a good cabinet maker ; Jonathan Hill learned cabinet making of him. Mr. Fiske came from Newport and became rich; keeping also, a tavern.
Capt. Thomas Hill learned his trade as a carpenter of Hugh Cole. Richard Philips learned of him also.
Daniel Smith, blacksmith, died sixty years ago.
Thomas Field's cooper shop was well known.
Mr. Angell's blacksmith shop, near the Angell tavern, was car- ried on by a different branch of that family from the tavern keeper, and continued in the family for several generations.
THE CORLISS ENGINE.
Our own State, " Little Rhoda," as she is called, has won the proud distinction of furnishing the steam engine whose power moves the whole machinery at the Exhibition. In other respects in
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our varied and extensive manufactures on exhibition at Philadelphia this State makes a noble contribution to American workmanship, and receives commendations from all observers.
OBSERVATIONS.
It is with just pride that we have surveyed the past of Scitu- ate : and let us ever honor the memory of the men and women who have preceded us in our history, and who have bequeathed to us so many privileges and blessings : Freedom to worship God, a free representative government, the hope of Christianity, and the glori- ous anticipations of a liberty covering the whole earth with the freedom with which CHRIST makes free, are among the rich gifts which have come down to us from our fathers. As God was with them, so may He be with us.
Comparing the present with past times we find our State great- ly advanced in wealth and population; and while commerce has declined, manufactures have attained great prosperity. The old hand looms for weaving cloth, as used in families, have given place to the more wonderful machinery of our numerous mills, moved by our water falls and steam engines. The spinning wheels and hand cards are laid aside also, because of modern inventions. We can- not say as much for farming, although Americans have astonished the world in agricultural implements ingeniously contrived to re- lieve the farmer's toil and do the work better, and on a grander scale. Some good farms, well managed, and made remunerative, remain, but the larger number are still untilled, or are so much neg- lected that they are growing up to brush.
Facilities for education are much greater. The common schools are superior to those of early times.
One design in the earnest and united declaration of this cen- tennary Fourth of July is to increase the spirit of PATRIOTISM, to arouse the nation to a deeper sense of their privileges, to revive the memory of Our Fathers by repeating their deeds and by glow- ing eulogiums on their valor, love of liberty, spirit of self-sacrifice and regard for the welfare of those who should come after them.
All our revolutionary actors are in their graves-new genera-
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tions have risen, new discoveries have been made, and a new aspect has come over the land. Wealth has increased, intelligence has been diffused, large cities have grown up, manufactures and the mechanic arts have flourished, our territory has lapped over to the shores of the western sea, and our name is great among the nations as a young giant arisen upon the earth.
But all this prosperity may be our ruin, and wealth and fame and luxury, and its consequent evils, may prove a false dependence. " What constitutes a State ? Not high raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall, or moated gate;
Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports,
Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts,
Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No-men, high-minded men ;
" Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain : These constitute a State."
A nation wholly intent upon sordid gain, given up to frivolous pleasures, separate from God and holiness, forgetful of the fathers, from whom, under God, they received their blessings, is necessarily a weak and pusillanimous nation, as the history of Rome and other similar empires proves. If to these declensions are to be added, dishonesty of bankers and men in trade, corruption of men in public life, to the extent of making dishonest gain the usual concomitant of an office-holder and legislator, and bribery at the voting place, car- ried on without a blush, quite a practice, and increasingly more so, why, then there is pressing need of an awakening of the people to make the inquiry, " Whither are we drifting ?" At such a junc- ture of affairs, as believed in by many of the more thoughtful and deserving, as coming upon us as a people this present celebration, recalling vividly to mind the more simple and honest days of the Republic, and holding up for emulation the characters of the period of 1776, when persons were put into the crucible and tried, as it were, by fire, and came out pure gold, for all countries and ages to admire, and when Washington took his place as in the heavens a
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shining star for all time-a sight of all this-the entering of it, as it were, into the very souls of the people, and taking possession of them, may well be held as the sacred duty of all who are privileged to be the orators of the hour.
Before us lies a new century, on which the nation is about to enter. Great as were the perils supposed to be incident to the first, they have been gallantly met, by the several generations, and overcome. God's hand, clearly seen in colonial times, was still more visible in the national history which followed, and to Him we must look for guidance and blessing. Very timely is the Presi- dent's proclamation, and very proper and well expressed. Great would have been the oversight if it had been forgotten. It says :
" The founders of the government, at its birth and in its feebleness, in- voked the blessings and protection of a Divine Providence, and the thirteen colonies and three millions of people have expanded into a nation of strength and numbers, commanding the position which then was demanded, and for which fervent prayers were then offered. It seems fitting that on the occurrence of the hundredth anniversary of our existence as a nation, a grateful acknowledgment should be made to Almighty God for the pro- tection and bounties which He has vouchsafed to our beloved country, and humbly to invoke a continuance of His favor and of His protection."
We trust there will be a two-century life of our nation ; that we may continue united, prosperous and free up to that period, but none of us will be alive to witness it. The imagination toils in vain to picture the two-century spectacle. A hundred years more must make many changes, but what they will be no one can tell. We must pass through several generations, who will in turn come to preside, as the administration and the people. More territory may be added, and more people and more wealth acquired, and new discoveries make as great changes in the future as the steam engine and the telegraph have wrought in the past.
Civil war, a contest between the North and South, was what Washington feared, and warned the people of both sections against those who should attempt to put variances between them. But his farewell address was disregarded by both sides, and the result of civil war, naturally, and as it were, inevitably followed. Con- tests may arise in the future, but it will not come on the subject of
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slavery. It is with profound satisfaction that we to-day can look around and exclaim : "No slave breathes the air of our country." Never again will that stain make an American ashamed of his nationality.
We must cultivate love and forbearance with one another ; and especially we should, in our centennial, reach our hands over the bloody chasm and cultivate friendly relations with the South, since the rebellion has been put down and the people have submitted to the result. To-day they, with us, unite in a centennial, which is theirs as well as ours. North and South participated in the battles of the Revolution, and the South and the North unite in the rejoicings over the glory of our common heritage.
The East may feel a little sensitive at the waning of their po- litical supremacy, and the West may not a little exult that they are rising in the scale of comparative greatness, but let us bear in mind that the East has sent her children West, and that the great- ness of the West is the theme of our own glory.
4 The shores of the Pacific and the Atlantic may engender sus- picions of the unjust political favors awarded to one more than the other, but mutual concessions and kindnesses, and the rapid growth of California and Oregon will naturally, and without opposition, bring to these territories increased and increasing influence. Let us be just to all sections, and we need not fear any hostility tend- ing to disunion.
The great cry of the day is for retrenchment and economy in public and private expenditures. Honest men and able should be sought after for office, and both of the great political parties should have their proportionate share of public offices, and thus a civil service reform will be created which every patriot should encour- age.
Two great political parties should always exist, and they should be nearly equal in numbers, power and influence, that they may watch each other and correct any mistakes or frauds that may be discovered. Ceaseless watchfulness of our rulers and their do- ings is the price the people must pay for the blessings of liberty !
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The people, and the people only, in the teachings of history, can be safely trusted to preserve and hand down freedom.
In the words of our poet Longfellow, apostrophizing our country, as a ship sailing on the ocean, we may hopefully say :
" Thou too sail on, O ship of State! Sail on, O Union strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rung, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock-
'Tis of the wave, and not the rock ;
'Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale.
In spite of rock, and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,-are all with thee!"
Let the day be given to patriotic and grateful recollections of the honored dead ; the men and women who braved the perils of the sea and the wilderness, and built their homes for wives and lit- tle ones, where wild and ferocious beasts of prey and savage men roamed the forests.
Sacred to the memory, also, of those whose love of liberty impelled them, at all hazards, to enter a solemn protest against the entrance of every form of tyranny and unjust edicts, and to resist with all their might, even unto death, the armed forces sent out by Great Britain to subjugate the people.
A careful enquiry would show the nobleness of mind and patriotic devotion of the women of the Revolutionary period, who not only made no opposition, and uttered no complaint, but cheered the men, who were compelled to leave, hardly begun, the clearing of the wilderness, and the care and protection of their young fam-
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ilies, to rush to the camp and the battle field, and lay down their lives, if need be, that their children and their children's children might not come under the burdens of unjust and tyrannical govern- ments to which the world had been so long subject, and might pos- sess the free representative government, which we now enjoy.
Shame would it be !- if there were not a spontaneous and uni- versal uprising all over our land, to proclaim to the world that the sins of ingratitude and forgetfulness of our benefactors, the heroes of the Revolution, and of all who since that period have, in office and out of office, and of all political parties, who have aided in car- rying out in continued practice the principles and spirit of 1776 until now, one hundred years from the memorable Declaration, our liberties have been preserved and the threatened description of our Union averted.
Let the present generation preserve and hand down these lib- erties to those who may come after us; and watch with zealous care all tendencies of our nation to encroach upon the freedom our fathers won for us.
And let the sons and daughters of Rhode Island, here, within our borders, and abroad, wherever they may be scattered, bear gratefully in mind the intense love of freedom and hatred of wrong and oppression, that characterized the settlers of the State, and has ever since marked its inhabitants. Let the names of Angell, West, Knight, Williams, Aldrich, Westcott, Harris, Whipple, Green, Ellery, Perry, Hopkins, Ward, Greene, and other patriots be sounded, and with them the statesmen and heroes of all the other States,-Samuel Adams, James Otis, Putnam, Knox, Lee, and a multitude beside. Sound high and feelingly the name of LAFAYETTE, and remember gratefully the French nation.
The war of 1812-15, and the terrible civil war of 1861-4, added greatly to the number of these illustrious names that have adorned our country's annals, and laid down their lives willingly, that the glorious Union might be preserved, in the most deadly warfare ever waged to destroy it. Rhode Island, as distinguised for prompt- ness, bravery and gallant exploits in that war, as in previous con-
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tests, hands down her names to our admiring and grateful remem- brance, to the present and all coming time. Her officers and soldiers and seaman are enrolled on the undying scroll of our coun- try's glory, and so of other States-praise, honor, thanks, we give to all.
"One great name, that of the " FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY," will be everywhere sounded to-day ; and no poem, oration, song or melody shall be able to reach the height of his deserved praise, or add a single leaf to the wreath of his world-sounded renown.
His fame, now after the lapse of three-quarters of a century since his death, has suffered no diminution; his. star still blazes single and alone in brightness and glory in the firmament of Amer- ican Freedom ! Raised up by the Great Dispenser of Events in a critical period of the world's history, and in the birth-day of the nation destined to pour back a reflective light upon the old world, and to exert an influence in human affairs beyond that of any em- pire in the world's history, the American people hailed him as Moses was saluted by the Israelites when he led them out of Egypt.
It is the great glory of America that she has produced a WASHINGTON, and it will not be presumption to say that, with all our exhibitions to-day, in our centennial, we have nothing greater to ask the world's attention than to him.
APPENDIX.
DEPUTIES, SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, ETC.
DEPUTIES.
1731. Joseph Wilkinson, Stephen Hopkins, Zachariah Rhodes. 1732. Stephen Hopkins, Zachariah Rhodes. 1733. Capt. Thomas Angell, Stephen Hopkins. 1734. Edward Sheldon, Capt. Thomas Angell. 1735. Stephen Hopkins, Benjamin Fiske. 1736. Stephen Hopkins, Job Randall. 1737. Stephen Hopkins, Thomas Realph. 1738. Edward Sheldon, Stephen Hopkins. 1739. Job Randall, James Colvin. 1740. Job Randall, James Colvin.
1741. Job Randall, Stephen Hopkins. 1742. Job Randall, Thomas Realph. 1743. Capt. Job Randall, Joseph Knight. 1744. Capt. Job Randall, Jeremiah Angell. 1745. Capt. Job Randall, Ezekiel Hopkins. 1746. Capt. Job Randall, Charles Harris. 1747. Capt. Job Randall, John Fisk. . 1748. Capt. Job Randall, Charles Harris. 1749. Thomas Ralph, Thomas Hudson. 1750. Job Randall, Gideon Hammond.
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1751.
Capt. Job Randall,
Charles Harris. 1752. Capt. Job Randall,
1768. Gideon Harris, William West. 1769.
Job Randall,
Charles Harris. 1753.
Benjamin Slack. 1770.
Job Randall,
Job Randall,
Capt. Thomas Relf. 1754.
Benjamin Slack. 1771. William West,
Job Randall, Capt. Amos Hammond. 1755. Capt. Job Randall,
Charles Harris. 1772. Ezekiel Cornell, Rufus Hopkins. 1773. William West,
Capt. Amos Hammond. 1756. Capt. Job Randall, Gideon Harris. 1757.
Capt. Job Randall,
Jeremiah Angell. 1758.
Capt. Job Randall,
Jeremiah Angell. 1759.
Capt. Job Randall,
Jeremiah Angell. 1760. Capt. Job Randall,
William West. 1761.
Capt. Job Randall,
William West. 1762.
Job Randall,
Jeremiah Angell. 1763.
Job Randall, Charles Harris. 1764.
Job Randall,
Jeremiah Angell. 1765.
Job Randall, Jeremiah Angell. 1766. Charles Harris, William West. 1767. Charles Harris, John Fiske.
Rufus Hopkins. 1774. Ezekiel Cornell, Rufus Hopkins. 1775. Ezekiel Cornell, Rufus Hopkins. 1776. Col. William West, Christopher Potter. 1777. Job Randall, Esq., Timothy Hopkins, Esq. 1778. Timothy Hopkins, Esq., Christopher Potter. 1779. William West, Esq., Christopher Potter. 1780. Christopher Potter, John Williams. 1781. William Bhodes, Esq., Rufus Hopkins, Esq. 1782. William Rhodes, Esq., Rufus Hopkins, Esq. 1783. William Rhodes, Esq., Rufus Hopkins, Esq. 1784. Rufus Hopkins, Esq., William West, Esq.
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1785. Rufus Hopkins, Esq., William West, Esq. 1786. Nathan Bates, Thomas Mowry, Esq. 1787. Nathan Bates, Thomas Mowry, Esq. 1788.
Peleg Fiske, Esq., James Aldrich.
1789. Peleg Fiske, Esq., James Aldrich, Esq. 1790. James Aldrich, Esq., Nathaniel Medbury. Esq. 1791.
1792. James Aldrich, Esq., Nathaniel Medbury, Esq.
REPRESENTATIVES.
1792 to 1794-February Session, James Aldrich,
Nathaniel Medbury.
1794 to 1800-May Session, James Aldrich,
Job Randall. 1800 to 1805-May Session, James Aldrich,
Elisha Mathewson. 1805 to 1808-June Session, Job Randall, Elisha Mathewson.
1808-February Session,
Job Randall, Peleg Fisk, jr.
1808 to 1810-May Session,
Peleg Fisk, jr., Charles Angell. 1810-May Session,
Charles Angell,
Solomon Taylor. 1810-June Session,
James Aldrich, Solomon Taylor. 1811 to 1813-May Session, Solomon Taylor,
Clements Smith. 1813-May Session,
Charles Angell.
1813-June Session, Clements Smith. 1813-October Session, Clements Smith, Samuel Graves.
1814-October Session, Elisha Mathewson, Samuel Graves. 1815-May Session,
Elisha Mathewson,
Eleazer Relph. 1816 to 1818-May Session,
Josiah Westcott,
Isaac Field. 1818-May Session,
Josiah Westcott,
Israel Brayton. 1818 to 1820-June Session,
Elisha Mathewson,
Israel Brayton. 1820-May Session,
Elisha Mathewson,
Israel G. Manchester. 1821-May Session, ElishaMathewson, chosen Speaker Israel Brayton. 1821-October Session,
Jerry A. Fenner, Israel Brayton. 1822-May Session,
Elisha Mathewson, chosen Speaker Israel Brayton. 1822-October Session,
Eleazer Relph, 1823-January Session,
Eleazer Relph, Thomas Henry.
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1823-October Session,
Stephen Corp,
Thomas Henry.
1824 to 1826-October Session,
Thomas Henry, .
Israel Brayton. 1826-May Session,
Israel Brayton, William Smith.
1826 to 1829-October Session,
William Smith,
Nathan K. Stone. 1829-May Session,
William Smith,
Benjamin Wilbur.
1830-May Session,
William Smith,
Job Randall. 1831 to 1833-May Session,
Benjamin Wilbur,
Job Randall. 1833-May Session,
Elisha Mathewson,
Josiah Westcott.
1833 to 1835-June Session, Elisha Mathewson,
Jonah Titus.
1835 to 1837-October Session. Jonah Titus, John Aldrich. 1837-May Session,
Jonah Titus,
Wilmarth N. Aldrich. 1837 to 1841-October Session,
Elisha Mathewson, Wilmarth N. Aldrich. 1841-May Session,
Elisha Mathewson,
Josiah Westcott. 1842-May Session,
Elisha Mathewson, Senator,
Josiah Westcott, Representative,
Andrew A. Angell, 1842-June Session,
Elisha Mathewson, Senator, Job Randall, Representative, Andrew A. Angell, “ 1843-June Session, Job Randall, Senator,
Andrew A. Angell, Representative
Richard M. Andrew, 66
Israel Brayton,
SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.
SENATORS.
May, 1843,
Job Randall,
May, 1844,
Job Randall, May, 1845,
Pardon Angell, May, 1846,
Pardon Angell, June, 1846,
Pardon Angell, October, 1846,
Pardon Angell, January, 1847,
Pardon Angell, May, 1847, William B. Kimball, May, 1848, Albert Hubbard.
1849.
Josiah Wescott.
1850.
Josiah Wescott.
1851.
Pardon Angell.
1852.
Pardon Angell.
1853.
Ira Cowee. 1854.
Ira Cowee. 1855.
Isaac Saunders. 1856.
Ira Cowee. 1857. Henry W Emmons.
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1858. Henry W. Emmons. 1859. Henry W. Emmons. 1860. Abner W. Peckham. 1861.
Abner W. Peckham. 1862. Abner W. Peckham. 1863.
Abner W. Peckham. 1864.
Abner W. Peckham. 1865. Alanson Steere. 1866. Alanson Steere.
1867. Alanson Steere.
1868. Alanson Steere. 1869. Charles H. Fisher. 1870.
John H. Barden. 1871.
John H. Barden. 1872.
Isaac Saunders. 1873. Isaac Saunders. 1874. Charles H. Page. 1875. Charles H. Page. 1876. Jeremiah H, Field.
REPRESENTATIVES.
May, 1843,
May, 1847,
Andrew A. Angell,
Richard M. Andrew,
Israel Brayton.
May, 1844,
Richard M. Andrew,
Isreal Brayton,
Stephen H. Fiske.
May, 1845, Wilmarth N. Aldrich, Harley Luther,
William A. Roberts.
May, 1846, Wilmarth N. Aldrich,
Harley Luther, William A. Roberts. June, 1846,
Wilmarth N. Aldrich,
Harley Luther, Abel Salisbury. October, 1846,
Isaac Saunders, Harley Luther, Abel Salisbury. January, 1847,
Isaac Saunders, Harley Luther, William Roberts.
Albert Hubbard, John Potter, 2d,
George Aldrich. May, 1848,
Horace S. Patterson, Arthur F. Aldrich, George Aldrich. 1849. Isaac Saunders, Benedict Lapham. 1850.
Isaac Saunders, Benedict Lapham, Richard M. Andrew. 1851. William A. Roberts, Sheldon Fiske. 1852. Harley P. Angell, William A. Roberts. 1853.
Jonah Titus, Albert K. Barnes. 1854.
Jonah Titus, Albert K. Barnes.
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1855. Arthur F. Randall,
Henry Hierlihy. 1856.
Charles Jackson,
Pardon A. Phillips. 1857. Andrew A. Angell, Isaac Saunders. 1858. Andrew A. Angell, Isaac Saunders. 1859. Andrew A. Angell,
Henry A. Lawton. 1869.
John H. Barden, Ferdinand H. Allen. 1870. Hiram Steere, Richard G. Howland. 1871.
Welcome Matteson,
Henry S. Olney. 1861.
Hiram Steere, Isaac Saunders. 1872. Charles H. Page,
Welcome Matteson,
Henry S. Olney. 1862.
Harris H. Stone. 1873. Charles H. Page.
Albert W. Harris,
Henry A. Lawton. 1863.
1874.
Martin S. Smith.
Olney H. Austin, John S. Fiske. 1864. 1875.
Martin S. Smith.
Olney H. Austin, John S. Fiske. 1865.
Samuel G. Allen,
William G. Smith.
1866. William G. Smith, Andrew J. Wescott. 1867. Martin Smith, Andrew J. Wescott. 1868. Martin Smith,
1876. Benjamin Wilbour.
MODERATORS OF TOWN MEETINGS.
Stephen Hopkins, 1730. Capt. Joseph Brown, 1731. Benjamin Fisk, 1732. Stephen Hopkins, 1733. Benjamin Fisk, 1734. Edward Sheldon, 1735. Stephen Hopkins, 1737. Job Randall, 1739. James Brown, 1746. Benjamin Fisk, 1742. Capt. Charles Harris, 1747. Job Randall, 1759.
William West, 1765. Charles Harris, 1765. William West, 1765. Charles Harris, 1766. John Fisk, 1768. Ezekiel Cornell, 1768.
Rufus Hopkins, 1778. Reuben Hopkins, 1779. Benjamin Slack, 1780. Rufus Hopkins, 1780. Benjamin Slack, 1781. Timothy Hopkins, 1781.
Samuel P. Boss. 1860.
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Ezekiel Cornell, 1781. Dr. Caleb Fisk, 1781. Benjamin Slack, 1781. Rufus Hopkins, 1781. Caleb Fisk, 1783. Ezekiel Cornell, 1785. Rufus Hopkins, 1786.
Reuben Hopkins, 1787.
Col. Clemons Smith, 1825.
Jonah Titus, 1826. Clemons Smith, 1827.
Jonah Titus, 1828.
Clemons Smith, 1829.
Elisha Mathewson, 1831. Jonah Titus, 1832.
Jerry A. Fenner, 1832.
Elisha Mathewson, 1833.
Jonah Titus, 1834.
Elisha Mathewson, 1834.
Benjamin Wilbur, 1835.
Flavel Patterson, 1835. Olney Battey, 1836. John Graves, 1837.
H. S. Patterson, 1869. Alanson Steere, 1870. H. S. Patterson, 1871.
Israel Brayton, 1838.
Owen Battey, 1838.
William G. Smith, 1874.
Richmond M. Knight, 1876.
TOWN CLERKS.
Joseph Brown, 1730. Stephen Hopkins, 1732. Gideon Harris, 1741. John Harris, 1778.
Albert Hubbard, 1855. S. Patterson, 1856. A. Hubbard, 1857. Isaac Saunders, pro. tem, 1861. S. Patterson, 1861. A. Hubbard, 1865.
John Westcott, 1779. John Harris, 1780. John Westcott, pro. tem, 1809. S. Patterson, pro. tem, Dec. 1867 Josiah Westcott, 1814. S. Patterson, 1868. D. C. Remington, 1875. John A. Harris, 1845. Sylvester Patterson, 1854.
TOWN TREASURERS.
Lieut. Joseph Wilkinson, 1730. Joseph Wilkinson, 1731. Benjamin Fisk, 1732.
Flavel Patterson, 1839.
Jonah Titus, 1840.
Elisha Mathewson, 1840.
David Phillips, 3d, 1841. Isaac Saunders, 1842.
Horace Battey, 1842. Wilmarth N. Aldrich, 1845.
Jonah Titus, 1846.
Isaac Saunders, 1847. Horace S. Patterson, 1848.
Isaac Saunders, 1849.
H. S. Patterson, 1852. George W. Colwell, 1853. John H. Barden, 1855. Caleb W. Johnston, 1856. William G. Smith, 1857. Uriah R. Colwell, 1859.
Harley P. Angell, 1865.
Jeremiah H. Field, 1866. Dexter A. Potter, 1867.
Benjamin T. Albro, 1872.
Israel Brayton, 1839.
APPENDIX.
Job Randall, 1736. Capt. Job Randall, 1737. Timothy Hopkins, 1758.
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Jeremiah Angell, 1760. Jonathan Hopkins, 1779. Jonathan Hopkins, jr., 1780. Josiah Kimball, 1781.
Joshua Smith, 1825. Albert G. Field, 1850. Joshua Smith, 1851. John B. Smith, 1852.
John A. Harris, 1857. Alpheus Winsor, 1858. John B. Smith, 1860. Jeremiah H. Field, 1866. John B. Smith, 1870. Jeremiah H. Field, 1871.
David Capwell, 1873. Albert Hubbard, 1874.
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