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Thomas Burroughs came from Marblehead, Conn., at a very early date, and settled about one-half mile south of Newbury village, where he resided until his death, June 16, 1852, aged eighty-four years. He is said to have brought the first three clocks into the town, Dea. Buxton and Abner Bailey each having one, he retaining the other one for himself, which is now the property of his granddaughter, Mrs. Augusta (Burroughs) Eastman, and is in good condition and still ticking. He was married May 29, 1791, and had born to him ten children, as follows: John, Amy, John, Rebecca, Eliza, Sally, Thomas, Nancy, Mary Ann, and Allen. None of this large family are now living. Thomas married Miss Louisa Ruggles, of this town, and settled on the homestead with his aged parents, where he remained until his death, February 14, 1870. Mrs. Burroughs survived her husband until March 31, 1882. Their surviving children are Allen Burroughs, of St. Johnsbury, an engineer on the B. & L. R. R .; Harriet (Mrs. John Eaton) who resides in Wentworth, N. H .; Augusta (Mrs. Samuel A. Eastman) residing in this town ; and Laura, whose husband is an insurance agent in Rutland.
Ebenezer Temple came to Newbury from Hillsborough, N. H., in 1799. He married Rebecca Gibson, resided a few years on the Upper Meadow, on Connecticut river, and finally settled on a farm in school district No. 14, where he remained until his death, in March, 1858, aged eighty-eight years. Mrs. Temple died in March, 1857, aged about seventy-seven years. They were the parents of twelve children, viz .: Sally, Joel, Affa, Christian, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Betsey, John, Rebecca, Abigail and Rachel, only two of whom are living, Matthew and Luke .. Matthew married Malinda Dailey, is a farmer, and resides on road 35. Luke married Mary Ann Avery, is also a farmer in this town, and has had born to him children as follows : George W .; Ebenezer and Rebecca, deceased; Sidney, who resides in this town with his parents ; Julia (Mrs. S. W. Durand), of Piermont, N. H. ; and Vasti, of this town. Of Matthew's children, Mary, deceased, married Edwin Tuttle, and had one
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daughter, who resides with her father in this town; William married Jennie De Goosh, had born to him one son, and died in 1874; Ellen' also died in 1874; Sarah, Carrie and Matthew G. reside in this town with their father.
Roger Eastman, son of Daniel and Mima (Wortley) Eastman, was born in this town August 16, 1800. He married Mary Tucker, February 1, 1826, and settled on the Tucker farm, where he followed the occupation of carpen- ter and farmer. He spent the whole of his long life in his native town,
dying May 25, 1883. He was twice married, his first wife, who died March 8, 1864, being the mother of all his children, who were as follows : Daniel, born January 30, 1827; Samuel A., born April 30, 1828; Mary B., born January 15, 1830, died December 12, 1832 ; Judith T., born September 14, 1831, died November 22, 1833; and Duncan K., born in 1836. Daniel mar- ried Sophronia Chase, settled first on the Dr. Carter place, in West Newbury, and later on a fine farm in Bradford, where he now resides. Samuel A. married, first, Emily G. Ladd, of Corinth, May 3, 1854, who was born Sep- tember 17, 1835, and settled on a farm in Corinth, which he sold in 1863 and returned to this town. In the winter of 1866 he went to Lisbon, N. H., where he engaged in the livery business, which he continued until 1870, when he again returned to this town, where he now resides, on a fine farm on the Connecticut river. March 17, 1870, he married Augusta, daughter of Thomas Burroughs. Duncan K. married Lizzie Tibbets, and is a blacksmith in Charlestown, N. H.
James Wallace emigrated from Scotland to America in 1801, with his wife and three sons, and settled in this town on the place now occupied by John McGinnis. The neighborhood took his name and is now known as Wallace hill. Here he remained until his death, and the farm was the property of some member of the family until about 1880. Mr. Wallace settled in an al- most unbroken wilderness, where he made a clearing and built comfortable buildings, which are still standing, but in a dilapidated condition. He made the passage across the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, which took a long time to accomplish the trip. He landed at New York, and from Hartford, Conn., proceeded up the Connecticut river, on a flat boat, to Stair hill, a short dis- tance below Wells River village. His sons, William, James, Jr., and John, all settled in Newbury. William married Marion Whitelaw, of Ryegate, and located where his son Robert now lives, and where he remained until his death, January 7, 1877, aged eighty-five years. Mrs. Wallace died January 5, 1863, aged seventy-seven years. Of their children, James died in 1850 aged thirty-four years ; Christian married Hazen Ford, and is also deceased ; William married Susan Leighton, and resides at Nashua, N. H .; John mar- ried Mary Ann Leighton, settled on a farm adjoining that of his father, and later emigrated to Iowa, where he now resides ; Robert married Olivia Rich- ardson, of Chelmsford, Mass., resides on the old homestead, and is the father of one daughter, who married William M. Rollins, and resides in Newbury
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village; Jane married John Reed, and has one son, William, who resides in this town with his parents.
John Cochran, born in Londonderry, Ireland, married Lilly Kilgore, emi- grated to America, settled in Brunswick, Me., in 1718, and soon after located permanently in Londonderry, N. H. They had a family of thirteen chil - dren. Samuel, their youngest child, was born in 1729, married Agnes Mc- Crilles February 12, 1767, in Nottingham, N. H., who was born April 18, 1739. They were parents of ten children. Their oldest son was born in Londonderry, June 12, 1771. He married, in Londonderry, N. H., Agnes Wilson, February 14, 1799, a sister of James Wilson, the globe maker. In the winter of 1802 they removed to Bradford, bringing their two oldest children with them. In 1814 they removed to a farm on the eastern slope of Wright's mountain, in this town. Mrs. Cochran died on this place March 22, 1847. Mr. Cochran died at the home of his son Harvey, in Craftsbury, March 1, 1857. They reared nine children, two of whom died in infancy. Isaac, born October 21, 1799, a farmer, died in Newport, Orleans county, November 18, 1884 ; James W., born February 26, 1801, died Feb- ruary 25, 1847, in Alexandria, N. Y .; Nancy, born June 12, 1804, married Mr. John Wilson, of Bradford, and died June 10, 1885; William K., born April 10, 1806, died in Amoskeog, N. H., in April, 1878 ; Eleanor H., born January 11. 1808, married, first, Simeon Avery, February 24, 1846, who died February 19, 1858, and second, September 15, 1859, Josiah Knight, of Charles City, Iowa, where she resided until the death of Mr. Knight, in 1882, when she returned and resides in a home she purchased at Newbury village ; Harvey McC., born October 8, 1812, died in Newport, Orleans county, August 18, 1885; Andrew J., born December 22, 1814, now resides in Xenia, Missouri.
Seth Ford was born in Cornwall, Conn., March 7, 1757, was united in marriage with Mary Andross, who was born in Northfield, Mass., July 17, 1757, and settled as early as 1776 in Piermont, N. H. As early as 1778 he removed to Bradford, and eventually to Fairfax, Franklin county, where he died. He took a decided interest in the Masonic order and ranked with the highest in the fraternity. Their children were :-
(1.) Seth, Jr., born in Piermont, N. H., April 22, 1776, settled in Campton, N. H., where he lived the remainder of his life.
(2.) Polly, born in Bradford, Vt., January 27, 1778, died September 27, 1779.
(3.) Betsey, born in Bradford, February 12, 1780.
(4.) Nabby, born in Bradford, March 18, 1782, married and settled in Enosburg, Franklin county.
(5.) Polly, born in Piermont, N. H., September 17, 1784.
(6.) Sally, born in Piermont, January 21, 1787.
(7.) Zebina, born in Piermont, December 4, 1788, settled in Fairfax, Franklin county, later removed to a town near Chicago, Ill., where he died.
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(8.) Lucy, born in Piermont, June 30, 1791, married Eben Burbank, and settled in Lowell, Mass.
(9.) Ross C., born in Fairfax, Franklin county, June 7, 1793, married Miss Hannah Leighton, of Newbury, who was born March 7, 1796. He was a farmer and spent his long life on a farm in this town. He was a devoted christian and a leading member of the Methodist church, officiated as class- leader about fifty years, and was a liberal contributer to all its financial interests. He died at the home of his son, Hazen Ford, in Barnet. while there on a visit, May 5, 1874, aged nearly eightyone years. His wife died in February, 1879, at her daughter's in Lowell, Mass. The children were : Hazen, born April 26, 1815, a farmer in Barnet, Vt. Ross, born January II, 1817, was a farmer and blacksmith, and died June 1, 1885, in Newbury. Seth, born August 29, 1818, was a farmer in Barnet, an extensive dealer in horses, and run a stage line to all points of interest in the White mountains for twenty eight consecutive years, now resides at Wells River village, and is still an active dealer in horses ; married Amanda Paddleford, and their living children are Frank H., a farmer in Malcolm, Iowa, and Patience M. (Mrs. M. E. McClary), of Malone, N. Y. Dan Y., born in Newbury, September 13, 1820, married, first, Charlotte A. Wood- bury, who was the mother of one daughter, Angeline (Mrs. B. P. Wheeler), of Newbury, dying February 14, 1870; and second, Miss Ava B. Morgan, of Lyndon, Caledonia county, September 22, 1870, who is the mother of one daughter, May Belle, born May 1, 1874. Mr. Ford is an active and enter- prising farmer residing on a fine farm on the outskirts of the village of Newbury. Emily, born December 18, 1822. Jane S., born April 3, 1825, (deceased.) Mary S., born March 26, 1828, (deceased.) Eliza W., born September 26, 1832. Hannah H., born May 3, 1835, (deceased.) Lucia Ann, born July 26, 1837. Helen H., born June 22, 1842.
(10.) Hollis Ford, son of Seth, Sr., was born in Fairfax, Franklin county, August 4, 1795.
(II.) Alanson, born March 13, 1798, is now living at Cisco Bay in Can- ada, and has been much of his life in public business.
(12.) Almira, born in Fairfax, June 1, 1801, (deceased.)
Ebenezer Fisk, with his two brothers, Francis N. and Wilber, came to America from Canterbury, Eng., about 1783, and settled in the quiet old rural town of Canterbury, Merrimac county, N. H. They left the University at Canterbury, Eng., Ebenezer in the graduating class, and Francis N. and Wilber in the junior class. Upon arriving in this country Ebenezer followed teaching for some years, and never entered college in America. Francis and Wilber graduated from Yale college with honors about 1786. Ebenezer con- tinued teaching for some time, when he began the study of the law, to which he devoted himself with great energy, was admitted to the bar, and began what soon proved to be a large and successful practice. He steadily acquired the confidence of the fraternity and received the appointment of supreme
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judge, which position he held until his death, in Peru, about 1837. Wilber Fisk united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and immediately engaged in active religious duties as a preacher of the unsearchable riches of Christ. In his peregrinations through the country the people flocked to hear him, de- lighted to recognize him as one of themselves. The superiority of William Fisk was of that intrinsic character which marked a great man in anything he undertook. He was generally very effective in the pulpit-sometimes trans- cendently so. Francis N. Fisk remained in Canterbury and followed the occupation of merchant through life. Ebenezer Fisk, son of Ebenezer, was born in Canterbury, N. H., January 6, 1786, removed to Groton, Vt., where he followed the occupation of farmer until his death, October 22, 1858. Curtis Fisk, son of Ebenezer, Jr., was born in Topsham, January 6, 1807, came to Newbury in 1826, and in the fall of the same year married Sarah Cowdrey, of this town. He also followed farming through life, and died here March 28, 1880. Sarah (Cowdrey) Fisk was born in Tunbridge, July 31, 1808, and died in this town July 16, 1875. The fruits of their union were ten children, all born in Newbury, viz .: Lucindy, born November 19, 1827, died in this town November 22, 1845. Nancy B., born September 24, 1830, never married, died in Lyndon, Caledonia county, July 4, 1880. Jane M., born July 30, 1832. married William Bowditch, of Randolph, April 19, 1855, and now resides in Ryegate. Alvin F., born August 18, 1834, died March 28, 1838. Curtis B, born August 28, 1836, received a preliminary education, studied medicine, but never graduated. He is a carpenter and builder, and conducts a farm of one hundred acres. Sarah A., born April 7, 1838, married Charles Colley, of Lyndon, January 9, 1862, and still resides in that town. George R., born April 11, 1839, died October 11, 1840. Sophronia E., born April 7, 1841, never married, died May 11, 1870. Isaac E., born February 20, 1844, died June 15, 1844. Adda L., born January 6, 1847, died January 16, 1857.
Curtis B. Fisk, above mentioned, married Margaret Buchanan, of South Ryegate, Caledonia county, January 9, 1862, and they have three children, all born in this town, viz. : Alonzo Bole, born March 10, 1864, resides in Con- cord, N. H .; David Buchanan, born December 31, 1869, resides at home ; Eunice Annett, born June 8, 1878, also resides at home. Margaret (Buchanan) Fisk was born in South Ryegate, November 25, 1840. She is of Scotch de- scent ; her grandfather, Walter Buchanan, came from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1768, settled in Ryegate, where he engaged in farming until his death in 1842. Her father, Walter Buchanan, Jr., was born in South Ryegate, De- cember 31, 1810. He married Margaret Lumsden, who was born in Aber- nethy, Scotland, June 15, 1815, came to America in 1830, and died in South Ryegate, January 28, 1886. He owned the first saw-mill built in Ryegate ; was among the early gold seekers in California, where he remained four years, returning home in the fall of 1856 ; again went to California in October, 1863, dying there at Big Pines, in December, 1875.
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James Wallace, Jr., familiarly known as " Capt. Jim," was married three times, first to Anna Gibson, daughter of Samuel Gibson, of Newbury, who was the mother of all his children. He succeeded his father on the home- stead where he remained the most of his life. He later removed to Newbury Street, and eventually to Woodsville, N. H., where he died at the residence of his only son, William K., who is a jeweler in that village. His only daugh- ter, Louise (Mrs. Avery), is a widow and resides in Illinois.
John Wallace, youngest child of James, born in Scotland, married Lucia Carson, of Topsham, and settled where his son James now lives, and where he continued to reside until his death in August, 1862, aged sixty-four years. His wife, remarkably well preserved both mentally and physically, is still liv- ing (1887), at the great age of ninety-two years. Of their children, Mary Ann married Seth Magoon and died in Brattleboro, Vt .; Erastus married Mira Kapp, of Passumpsic, and resides in Topsham ; Jane married Richard Doe and resides on a farm at the Ox Bow; Anna married Frank Peeker and is now deceased ; Lucia married Samuel Danforth, is a widow, and resides at Wells River village with her son Frank; Kate, deceased, married Jackson Wallace, of Topsham ; Sarah K. is the widow of Joseph Sawyer and resides in Topsham ; James, before mentioned, is a farmer and occupies the old homestead ; Lizzie is the second wife of Seth Magoon and resides in Keene, N. H .; and Charles, a farmer, died in Bradford.
Robert Fulton, born in Scotland, emigrated to America in the old ship Commerce, in 1801, and settled in Newbury on the farm now occupied by Davis Cheney, corner of roads 47 and 48. Later he removed to the place now owned by Mrs. W. N. Daniels, and eventually to a small farm on road 60, where he died in 1852, aged seventy-six years. He was twice married, and his children were Jane, John, Eliza, George, Robert and Abigail. John married Sophia F. Ordway, of Corinth, in 1836, and located on the farm now owned by his sons D. S. and S. C., where he died July 19, 1862, aged sixty years. Mrs. Fulton died April 20, 1879, aged sixty-four years. Of their children, John F., born September 11, 1837, married Emma G. Grant, resides in Newbury village, and holds the office of selectman ; Asa C., born January 9, 1840, married Cynthia Farnham, of Hartland, Vt., is a farmer, and resides in Bradford ; Dexter S. married Miss Eva C. Gilman, of Corinth, in 1870, and resides on the old homestead, where he was born ; Robert, born October 23, 1844, married Lucy Wilson in 1876, and is a farmer in Bradford ; Stephen C., born February 3, 1847, resides on and owns with his brother Dexter S. the homestead farm ; and Henry K., born July 20, 1854, is a commercial traveler of Claremont, N. H.
Robert McAllister, of Scotch-Irish descent, son of Archibald, of London- derry, was born in New Boston, N. H., August 26, 1772. He received a good common school education, and taught both district and singing schools twenty successive winters. He married Sarah Stuart, who was born August II, 1773. In 1808 he settled in this town on the place where his grandson,
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Leonard W. McAllister, now lives, where he died March 7, 1861, aged eighty- eight years. Mrs. McAllister died October 17, 1843, aged seventy-one years. They were the parents of seven sons and three daughters, only three of whom are now living, viz .: Sarah (Mrs. M. L. Clark), of Manchester, N. H .; Har- riet, the widow of J. B. W. Tewksbury, of West Newbury ; and Archibald, the youngest of the family, who resides in this town. The latter was born May 15, 1813, married Susan S. Clark, of Greensborough, Vt., and located on the homestead, where he remained until 1875. Mrs. McAllister died January 31, 1876, and in October, 1877, he married Anna Tewksbury. His first wife was the mother of his two children, a son and daughter, as follows : Leonard W., born September 30, 1841, married Nancy Jewell, and resides on the homestead ; and Sarah L. (Mrs. Albert C. Fuller), of Fairlee.
John Corliss, son of Samuel, was born in Rockingham, Vt., in 1787, and came to Newbury, as near as can be ascertained, about 1808. He married Mary Eastman and settled in the wilderness on the farm now occupied by his son Nathan E. Soon after his marriage he enlisted in the United States army and served his country about a year in the War of 1812. On account of illness he returned to his farm, where he remained until his death, March 9, 1875, aged nearly eighty-eight years. He accumulated a competency and died universally respected. He was twice married, the children of his first wife being Susan (Mrs. David Eastman) and Nathan E., and those of his second (who was Judith Eastman, a sister of his first wife), Mary H. (Mrs. Ezra Knapp), of Buchanan, Cal., and Sarah (Mrs. E. J. L. Clark), of this town. Nathan E. was born March 31, 1817, married Sarah Jane Sargent, and has always resided in this town on the old homestead where he was born. Of their children, one died in infancy ; Julia A. (Mrs. N. B. Tewksbury) resides at Newbury Center, where her husband is a merchant ; Daniel S. graduated at Dartmouth college, entered the medical profession, located at Springfield, Vt., where he died February 13, 1879, at the early age of twenty- nine years ; Everett F. is engaged as an attendant at the hospital in Taun- ton, Mass.
Timothy Clark came to this town when only ten years of age, at the time of the Revolutionary war, and lived with the family of Gen. Bailey until he arrived at his majority. He married a Miss Ladd, of Haverhill, N. H., and reared a family of twelve children, only one of whom, Edward J. L., a farmer, resides in this town. Of the latter's children, William enlisted and served with the Union army, and died in Virginia ; Isaac resides in Worcester, Mass .; Lucy L. (Mrs. Frederick Siebert) is in New Haven, Conn .; Harry A. married Miss Nellie Evans, of Wells River, and is a farmer in this town ; and Nellie R. resides with her father.
John Waddell, born in Scotland, came to America and settled first in Barnet and later on Jefferson hill, in Newbury, where he spent the residue of his long life. He married, and his children were Betsey, Jolin, Jane, Rebecca, William, Robert, Jennette and James. John, the eldest son, married Miss
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Mary Wheeler, February 12, 1832, and settled in Boltonville, where he car- ried on the business of manufacturing carriages, sleighs and furniture. He died February 26, 1860, at the age of sixty-two years, and his wife Novem- ber 22, 1880, at the age of eighty-two. Of their five children, only one, Harriet J. (Mrs. Henry G. Rollins), resides in this town. The children of Mrs. Rollins are Mary A., Julia E., Sabra A. (Mrs. Arthur Sinclair), of Barre, Vt., Robert W., of Hartford, Conn., and Edward H., Hattie J., and Lucy J., resid- ing in this town with their parents.
Richard Patterson was born in Markinch Parish, Scotland, January 3, 1809, where he married Janet Donaldson. In 1832 he emigrated to America, making the passage in nine weeks, and landing at Montreal, thence proceed- ing to Newbury, where he located on the farm he now occupies, near the little hamlet of Newbury Center. By industry and prudence he has estab- lished for himself a comfortable home, surrounded by 330 acres of fertile land. Besides his farming interests Mr. Patterson has acted as land surveyor, has held the offices of lister and selectman, and represented his town in the Constitutional Convention in 1870. Mrs. Patterson died in 1882. Of their children, Margaret (Mrs. Gilmore) resides in Illinois; Richard N. died in 1860 ; Ellen D. (Mrs. John Buchanan) resides in this town near her father ; Washington married Elizabeth Corliss and resides on the homestead with his father; Lucy Ann (Mrs. John M. Waldron) resides in this town on a portion of the old homestead.
James Henderson, son of James, who was a native of Scotland, was born in Ryegate, in 1785. He married Elizabeth Scott Todd, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 29, 1789. They settled, about 1807, on the farm now owned by their son David T. near the little hamlet of Boltonville, in this town. Having sold a portion of his farm, including the residence, he built, in 1843, the fine residence where his son now lives, and where he died June 12, 1859. Mrs. Henderson died October 21, 1846. They were parents of four- teen children, all but two of whom grew to mature age. Their son David T., before mentioned, married Miss Mary P. Bailey, great-granddaughter of Gen. Jacob Bailey, and resides on the homestead. Their living children are Luella, residing with her parents; Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. William N. Gilfillan), of Ryegate ; Edwin, engaged in the freight depot in Boston ; and Thomas E., an employee of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. in St. Johnsbury.
Hon. Edward Hale passed most of the active years of his life in Newbury, where he died, in October, 1886, in the eighty-first year of his age. He was born November 8, 1805, in "Old " Newbury, Mass., and his parents were Thomas and Alice (Little) Hale, descendants of the early settlers of the town. He was educated in the public schools of his birthplace, and in the academy taught by Prof. Emerson, a noted educator of the day. In 1823 he entered the wholesale store of Meshack B. Trundy, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1826 he was with his brother, Rev. B. Hale, D. D., in the Lyceum, at Gardner, Me., a noted institution for instruction in the mechanic arts, etc. In the fall
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of the same year he opened a store in Sico. Me., where he remained several years. But not finding the business particularly remunerative he removed to the farm on the Upper Meadow, in this town, where he lived for so many years. January 30, 1837, he married Mrs. Elizabeth L. Brown, of Salisbury, Mass., and here he and his amiable and capable wife lived and dispensed a generous hospitality for nearly fifty years. He was a farmer on a large scale, successfully managing between 600 and 700 acres near and adjoining the homestead of the late Col. A. B. W. Tenney. He devoted himself intelli- gently and industriously to his work, and met with more than ordinary success. Satisfied with a good living and moderate returns, by carefully investing his surplus he accumulated a handsome property. The inordinate desire for gain has shipwrecked many of our farmers in these later days. To be satis- fied with moderate and reasonable gains is a lesson hard to learn ; and to be willing to prosper in a slow but sure way is too great a strain on the more actively inclined minds of young America. Mr. Hale was an intelligent and well-informed man, a steady, quiet, and thorough reader of the newspapers, of which he always took a goodly number of well-selected journals-relig- ious, agricultural, and secular. A careful study of well-selected newspa- pers is equal to an academic education, it is said; at any rate it makes the well-informed man. All who knew Mr. Hale recognized in him an honest and independent man, not afraid to make up his own mind, and to hold and express his opinions firmly and boldly, till he saw good cause to change them. He was a valuable citizen, of a class which forms the back-bone of any com- munity. He was a religious man, never ashamed of his religion, and con- tributing to its support both morally and financially. A strong firiend of temperance principles, and a man to be missed by many for his genial and social qualities, and by many more for the open and friendly hand he so often extended for the relief of poverty and want. In 1862 he purchased the handsome residence of the late Timothy Morse, about half a mile north of . Newbury village, where he passed the remaining years of his life. Mr. Hale was lame all his life, from some trouble experienced in his childhood; and but for the tender care of his parents he was threatened with more serious disability.
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