History of Newbury, Vermont, from the discovery of the Coos country to present time, Part 81

Author: Wells, Frederic Palmer, 1850- ed
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: St. Johnsbury, Vt., The Caledonian company
Number of Pages: 935

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i. Elizabeth, d. in infancy.

ii. William, d. in infancy.

iii. William, b. May 3, 1776; d. Dec. 11, 1822.

3 iv. John, b. Aug. 20, 1779; d. July 1, 1867.

v. Betsey, (Elizabeth), b. July 1781; m. Dea. Wm. Burroughs; q. v .; d.

4 vi. Thomas, b. Jan. 9, 1784 : d. Feb. 8, 1882 ; q. v.

vii. Amy Trefry, b. Jan. 10. 1786; d. Nov. 24, 1871; she never m.

5 viii. Twisden Bowden, b. May, 1788; d. Feb. 24, 1855; q. v.

ix. Sarah, (Sally), b. June 12, 1790; m. Jacob Bayley of Jefferson Hill; d. Feb. 8, 1870 ; q. v.

2 *WILLIAM,2 (William,1), was b. in Marblehead May 3, and baptised June 15, 1777 ; went back to his birthplace for a wife, marrying Sarah Pearce, Jan. 22. 1800. In 1815, they left Newbury, stopping first near Marietta, Ohio; then, in 1818, removing in flat boats down the Ohio river to its mouth, and "cordelling" up the Mississippi to Kaskaskia. They settled in "Horse Prairic" ncar Red Bud, Randolph County, Illinois, where William d. Dec. 11, 1822. Their c. were b. in Newbury, with the exception of the last two. They were: William, b. Oct. 20, 1800; Mary, Fcb. 4, 1803: Sarah, Dec. 27, 1804; Lois, Jan. 23, 1807; Thomas, Jan. 23, 1809; Nathanicl, Jan. 27, 1811 ; Samuel, June 17, 1813; John, Nov. 6, 1818; and Eliza Ann. Oct. 17, 1820. Thomas and Nathaniel d. in childhood and the others have all followed, the last surviving one having been John, who d. at Lebanon, Ill., March 31, 1895, shortly after celebrating his golden wedding .- Many of William's grandchildren are living in Illinois and

*William Peach lived in a house which stood on the east side of the road, about half way between W. M. Rollins' and J. C. Temple's. It has been gone 70 years, or more.

J. J. PEACH.

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further West. The c. of his oldest son, William, (the one who visited Newbury in 1858), who was thrice m., and d. March 17, 1875, are: William, b. Oct. 25, 1826, now living near Greenville, Illinois; Lois, [Ehly], Jan. 24, 1829, O'Fallon, Ill., widow; Rebecca [Swift], Feb. 20, 1831, widow of the Rev. John Swift, Baptist; lives with (her youngest son, Fuller, who is also a Baptist minister and lecturer, Madison, Ind.) ;- the foregoing three by his first marriage to Priscilla Simmons, Dec. 18, 1825, (she d. Aug. 20, 1835) ; by his 2d wife, Elizabeth (Grotts), Gregory, wedded May 21, 1837, the following: Elizabeth [Elliott], b. Apr. 24. 1838; d. Dec., 1891; Samuel, May 19, 1840, Port Townsend Wash .; John, Feb. 9, 1842, O'Fallon, Ill .; Eliza Ann [Morey], Oct. 9, 1847, Mountain View, Mo .- -William's grandchildren by his son Samuel, (b. June 17, 1813; d. Dec. 17, 1888, at Waterloo, Ill.,) were: William H. (b. Aug. 20, 1845; d. Apr., 1878) ; Malinda [Daws], O'Fallon, Ill .; Mary [Moore], St, Louis, Mo .; Josie [Forester], Tonamack, Ill. ; Maggie [Evans], O'Fallon, Il1 .- William's grandchildren by his son John, (Nov 6, 1818; d. March 31,1895), are: James S., (April 10, 1845), Lebanon, Ill .; William Preston, (Feb. 26, 1848), Rogers, Ark .; Emma [Ducket], (May 29, 1850), Bogard, Mo .; Edward, (Sept. 3, 1854), Lebanon, Ill .; Cyrus, (March 19, 1857), St. Louis, Mo. Two sisters, Clara and Mary Etta, d. un-m. The widowed mother, whose maiden name was Mary Brickey. survives at Lebanon, Ill .*

3 *JOHN,2 (William,1) b. Marblehead, 1779; came to Newbury with his parents. In 1801, he, with Joshua and Noyes Bayley, began settlement on Jefferson Hill, his farm being that owned by his son, A. M. Peach. He m 1st, 1803, Jane Smith, of Scotch descent, who d. Feb. 6, 1831. He m. 2d, Anna, (Nancy), widow of Josiah L. Bayley, who d. Oct. 15, 1877. He d. July 1, 1867.

Children, all by 1st marriage:

6 i. James, b. Feb. 8, 1804; d. April 7, 1802.

ii. Anna, b. Feb. 9, 1807 ; m. Solomon Jewell, q. v .; d. Oct. 12, 1859.

iii. Jane, b. 1808; m. Aaron Morse. They lived near where Mrs. James now does, and had six c.

iv. John, b. April 17, 1812; farmer in Newbury, but rem. to Dakota in old age. He m. Betsey, dau. Josiah L. Bailey. Both d. in the west. C., two d. y. Ellen, m. Charles H. George.

v. Christian, b. 1814; m. David Jewell.

vi. Mary, b. 1816; m. John Thomas, q. v .; d. March 25, 1857.

vii. Amy, b. Aug. 30, 1818; never m .; d. April 20, 1901.

viii. Alexander M., b. Jan. 18, 1822: farmer on homestead. He was a justice of the peace and grand juror. He m. Phebe Hadley, who d. Oct. 5, 1888. Several c., only one, Martha, survived infancy. She fell down stairs and was killed, Feb. 6, 1866, in her 9th year. Mr. Peach was found dead in his house, where he lived alone, June 29, 1901.

ix. Nancy W., b. April 12, 1824; m. Alvah C. James.

4 THOMAS,2 (William,1) was a remarkable man. He was b. Jan. 9, and baptised Jan. 11, 1784, in Marblehead. He became a physician, and was a surgeon in the war of 1812, on the staff of Col. Fifield of the Vermont militia, serving from Sept. 18, to Dec. 12, inclusive, of that year. He afterwards made his home in Boscawen, N. H., where he m. Sukey Gerrish, Feb. 2, 1815. She was said to have been a lineal descendant, in the twelfth generation, of John Rogers, who was martyred at Smithfield, England. They had four c: Henry Gerrish, (Dec. 5, 1816-Sept. 6, 1858), Mary Gerrish, (Nov. 13, 1818-Nov. 8, 1837), Susann, (March 2, 1826-), and Elizabeth, (June 3, 1828-Nov. 7, 1892). Henry moved to Indiana in 1855, and his parents followed in April, 1858, only a few months before the son's death. The mother d. Dec. 6, 1871. But Dr. Thomas on April 23, of the next year, being then past eighty-eight years old, was granted a pension of eight dollars monthly, which he drew for almost ten years, until his death, at West Creek, Lake County, Ind., Feb. 8, 1882, at the extraordinary age of over ninety-eight years .- The son, Henry, m. Esther E. Coffin of

*The record of this family was supplied by the editor.

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Boscawen, April 16, 1840, and they had one son, George Henry, b. June 10, 1841, now living near Toledo, Ohio. Esther d. Oet. 28, 1843, and Henry m. Betsey C. Watson, Sept. 5, 1844, the issue being one son, Abiel Plumer, now living in Nebraska, and three daus .- Susann, m. E. N. Morey, 1846, and lives at Lowell, Lake County, Ind. Her eldest son, Thomas Peach Morey, m. her cousin William Peach's youngest dau., Eliza Ann, Oet. 17, 1871 ; they live at Mountain View, Mo. Susann had also two daus., and a younger son .- Elizabeth became the second wife of her cousin William Peach's oldest son, William, of Greenville, Ill., March 12, 1866, and their only c., Carrie, m. Emslie Peach of O'Fallon, Ill., the son of John, her father's half brother-a notable series of intermarriages of kinsfolk, but in no case of first cousins.

5 *TWISDEN BOWDEN, b. Marblehead, Mass., May, 1788; settled in Newbury, and later on the homestead, but d. while on a visit at Farmsville, Mass., Feb. 27, 1855. Buried in Newbury. He m. Dec. 31, 1811, Mary, dau. of Col. John Smith, (b. Jan. 1, 1788 ; d. Jan. 15, 1849).

Children :

i. William S., b. Sept. 20, 1815; m. Lucia Brewster, of Burlington; d. Dec. 11, 1881. Two c., George, killed by the Indians while in the army, and Hattie, who m. a Mr. Drew.

ii. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 30, 1818; m. Sylvester Lee, and lived in Milbury, Mass., but d. in a hospital in Philadelphia, while being treated for cancer. One son, Charles, lived in Newbury in boyhood; served in a Rhode Island regiment in the rebellion; taken prisoner while carrying dispatches, and confined at Andersonville, where he suffered greatly. He m. and went west after the war.

iii. Jonathan J.,3 (Twisden,2 William,1) b. April 27, 1820; he m. 1st, Phebe, dau. Daniel Richardson, of Embden, Maine; farmer on homestead, which he sold in April, 1865; served nine months, (1862, 1863), in Co. 11, 12th Vt .; went west after the war, and lived in Kansas. During a long period of hard times they became dissatisfied with the country, and wishing to return to Vermont, but being without funds, Mr. Peach built a covered vehicle containing a stove and bedding, in which he and his wife and the latter's niece returned to Vermont. They left Phillips County, Kansas, about Nov.10, 1883, went to Lincoln, Neb., crossed the Missouri at Nebraska City, through the southern tier of counties in Iowa, to Princeton, Ill., where he bought a sled, and put his wagon on it, and went through northern Ohio, northern Pennsylvania, to North Adams, Mass., and Newbury. They were on the road 74 days, with the same pair of horses, reaching Newbury the last of March. Mrs. Peach d. April 16, 1891, and he m. 2d, October, 1892, Mrs. Jones. Rem. to North Haverhill, 1898.

iv. Sarah Jenness, b. Sept. 9, 1822; m. 1st Ammaziah Holbrook, and went west where he d. at Red Wing, Minn. After some years she m. 2d, John S. Butterworth of Philadelphia, where they lived. In 1890 they came to West Newbury and opened a store where John Tyler now trades, where she d. May 15, 1891, and he returned to Philadelphia, and soon after d. there.

v. Mary Ann, b. March 20, 1826; d. Sept. 23, 1828 ..

vi. Charles S., b. May 10, 1828; went to Massachusetts about 1848, and worked in a machine shop, which was burned soon after he learned the trade; began work as "spare hand" in the Dwight Mfg. Co. at Chieopec, a cotton mill, at 61 cents per day, and remained therc 17 ycars, 7 months ; at the close of that time he received a salary of $1600 per annum. This time included the period of the Civil war. At one time the eotton mills were closed, and he entered the United States Armory at Springfield, Mass., where his expcricnee as a machinist eamc into usc. Maj. A. B. Dyar was then superintendent of the armory. After a time Mr. Pcach was appointed by Col. Thornton, the head of the ordnance department, as inspector of guns, ete., made at publie armories, retaining the position till the war closed. Leaving the Dwight Co., he became superintendent of the

*By the Editor.

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Freeman Mfg. Co.'s three cotton mills at North Adams, where he still resides. His salary was $2000 per annum. He held the position thirteen years and three months, when he resigned on account of his health. Assessor of North Adams seven years. Registrar one year. Member of Lafayette Lodge of Free Masons, and of the Berkshire Club, and a director of the board of trade. IIe m. Sept. 23, 1873, Hannah M., dau. of John W. and Emily A. Haynes, of Rowe, Mass. C., Clara Belle, b. Oct. 7, 1875, and Charles Henry, b. June 25, 1877. Mrs. Peach is a sister of Prof. Haynes, the distinguished Asiatic explorer.

vii. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 26, 1830; m. 1851, Henry F. Livesey of Milbury, Mass., where he d. Jan. 14, 1881, aged 50. C., (1) Frederick, m. Agnes Smith; d. Spencer, Mass. (2) Charles, m. 1st, Lilla Sly of Newbury; 2d, Lizzie Foss. (3) Nellie, d. at two months old. (4) Clara, m. James Morse of Hopkinton, Mass .; res. Worcester. (5) John, m. Mary Allen; lives in Spencer, Mass. (6) Samuel, in Illinois.

viii. Samuel Smith, b. June 15, 1835; m. May 7, 1867, Sophia A., dau. David Felker. Clerk some years for C. M. Morse, then for H. H. Deming at the village, then for Franklin Deming at Wells River. In 1871 he went into partnership with Ferdinand Sherwin as general merchants, later he has conducted business for himself in the Baldwin block, employing two or three clerks. In 1901 he sold out to Ora Bishop and others.

6 JAMES,3 (John,2 William,1) b. Feb. 8, 1804 ; the 1st c. b. on Jefferson Hill, where he was a farmer near his father, but afterward bought where Mr. Randall lately lived, whose house was burned in June, 1900. He m. March 28, 1828, Agnes Gardner, (b. Ryegate, June 1, 1799). He d. Apr. 7, 1872 ; she d. Nov. 25, 1883.

Children :

i. John, b. March 28, 1829, went to California and d.

ii. Mary Jane, b. Apr. 9, 1830; m. Their dau., Belle, m. 1st,

Valentine Weed, and 2d, William Whitehill.

ii. Hugh G., b. Dec. 29, 1831; m. a Miss Hadley, sister of Mrs. A. M. Peach. Farmer on the "David Jewell place ; " 7 c.

iv. William, b. Oct. 15, 1833; went to Oregon where he m.

v. George N., b. March 20, 1835; enlisted in the 3d Vermont; re-enlisted and was killed at Petersburg, Va., near the end of the war.

vi. Thomas, b. Aug. 15, 1837; went to Oregon. He m. in Newbury in 1872, Augusta, dau. Hiram and Augusta (Martin) Nutt. They went to Oregon where he d. leaving c.

vii. David, b. March 30, 1839; farmer in Newbury; went to Oregon. He m. Apr. 21, 1866, Mary Jane, dau. W. M. Brock, (b. Oct. 6, 1842; d. July 30, 1895). (On page 478 the date of their m. is incorrectly given as 1886).

viii. Hannah, b. Jan. 10, 1842; m. 1st, J. Gardner; m. 2d, William Corey, both d. Res. Newbury Center. Her c. living are Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Herbert Waldron and a younger dau.

PORTER.

SAMUEL and his wife came from the west of England in 1622, and settled at Plymouth, Mass. In the sixth generation from the emigrant was Col. Asa Porter, b. probably at Boxford, Mass., May 24, 1742, graduated at Harvard College in 1762, and became a merchant at Newburyport. He came to Haverhill before 1771, and settled on Horse Meadow, where he built the large, old-fashioned house on the Southard place, which was his farm. He was a man of great influence, and a large land owner, at one time, it is said, owning over 100,000 acres. He was a prominent tory during the Revolutionary war, and for his losses and sufferings, received from the crown, a grant of the township of Broome, in the Province of Quebec. He owned a great part of Topsham, and large tracts of land in Newbury, which still go by the name of the "Porter lots." He was Lieutenant Colonel in the colonial militia, and held many positions of trust. In his religious views he was an Episcopalian. He d. Dec. 28, 1818, and his wife, Mehitabel Crocker, Feb. 7, 1821, aged 80. They are buried at Horse Meadow.

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Arthur Livermore thus speaks of Colonel Porter: "Col. Porter's manner and mode of life were such as become a gentleman, and his discriminating hospitalities were generous and extensive. He invested very advantageously in lands in Canada, as well as nearer home, but did not live long enough to realize the magnificent estate which they would, in a few more years, have become. It might not be easy to find his equal among his numerous descendants, but they have been, to an extraordinary degree, bright, gay, graceful and winning. Col. Porter was tall and spare in his figure. He was largely conversant with men, and a great many of his pithy sayings were currently repeated seventy years ago."

Col. Porter employed a great many men, some of whom were colored, on his farm. He had a balcony built upon the roof of his house, whence he could, with a glass, survey his fields, and see if the men worked steadily. Children ;

i. John, lawyer, settled finally in Broome, P. Q.

1 ii. Benjamin, lawyer of Newbury.

iii. Mary, m. Hon. Daniel Farrand, of Newbury.

iv. Elizabeth, m. Hon. Thomas W. Thompson.

v. Sarah, m. Hon. Mills Olcott of Hanover. Of her daus., one m. W. H. Duncan of Hanover, another m. Joseph Bell, a noted lawyer of Haverhill and Boston, and a third became the wife of Rufus Choate, the great advocate. Moses Porter, the youngest of the family, d. in Haverhill.

1 BENJAMIN, was b. at Newburyport, July 13, 1771, and was m. Oct. 11, 1800, to Martha, dau. of Col. Peter Olcott, of Norwich. He was admitted to the bar, and succeeded to Mr. Farrand's practice, when the latter left Newbury in 1800, and lived in the same house, where Mrs. Miller now lives, at the Ox-bow. Some years before his death, he rem. to South Newbury, to the house which was built by John Mills, and is now very much altered, called the Davenport house. He was widely known as a lawyer and man of business, and was considered by Daniel Webster, who knew him well, as the most attractive social companion he had ever known. Benjamin Porter was town representative in 1811, 1812 and 1816. He introduced the grass generally called "witch grass," into this part of the country, in the idea that it would be of great benefit to farmers. It was formerly called "Porter grass." He visited Saratoga for his health, in the summer of 1818, and d. at the house of his brother-in- law, Mills Olcott, at Hanover, Aug. 2d, of that year, and is buried there. Mrs. Porter rem. to Hanover in 1821, and d. there May 4, 1825. She was a member of the 1st church.

Children :

i. Timothy Olcott, b. Feb. 23, 1802, graduated at Dartmouth College, 1822; was some years in the south, returned and graduated at the medical college at Hanover, in 1829. He practiced medicine awhile, then engaged in literary pursuits, and was for some years a professor in Coudert's French Academy, New York. In 1839, Dr. Porter and N. P. Willis started a weekly journal, called "The Corsair," which had for its contributors, some of the best writers of that day. In literary work until death, Jan. 6, 1852.

ii. Benjamin, b. Jan. 31, 1804; m. Rebecca Seton Maitland, a ward of Bishop Hobart. In business at Mobile, Ala., then associated with his brothers in literary work. He d. Dcc. 11, 1840.

iii. Mehetabcl, b. Dec. 28, 1805; m. a Mr. Painc, was living at Washington, D. C., in 1894.

iv. Martha, b. Dec. 5, 1807.

v. William Trotter, b. Dec. 21, 1809; learned the printer's trade at Andover, Mass .; connected with the Farmers' Herald at St. Johnsbury one year; went to New York city in 1831, and worked with Horace Greeley in John T. West's printing office. Mr. Porter and James How started a weekly sporting paper called the "Spirit of the Times" in Dec. 1831, Mr. Greeley being their forcman for a short time. This paper soon reached a very large circulation, it was carefully edited and was considered an authority upon sports of the turt. In 1845, he published a collection of sketches entitled "The Big Bear of Arkansas," which had a large sale. In 1839 Mr. Porter began the publication of the American Turf Register, an illustrated magazine. He also contributed largely to the Tribune and the magazines

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of the day, and was engaged in active literary work. He was greatly esteemed and one of the best known men of his time in New York. He d. after some months of failing health, July 19, 1857. His life was written by Francis Brinley, and published by the Appletons in 1860.

vi. Sarah Olcott, b. Nov. 16, 1811; m. Francis Brinley, a well known literary character of New York.

vii. George, b. Nov. 27, 1813; graduated at Dartmouth College 1831; studied law in New York and practiced there. Went to New Orleans in 1842, and became associate editor of the "Picayune." He had a perfect knowledge of the Spanish language; went to Mexico as reporter during the Mexican war. Hed. at the St. Charles Hotel, May 24, 1849. His death was greatly lamented.

viii. Francis, b. 1816; in a counting house in New York, 1835-37 ; in Mississippi, 1837-39; in New York with his four brothers, 1841-45; went to New Orleans and was associated with his brother, George, on the Picayune, succeeding him as associate editor. Visited Europe, 1854; d. in New Orleans of consumption, Feb. 28, 1855.

These brothers, excepting the youngest, were remarkable for their large size, being each of them over six feet four inches in height, and large in proportion.

POWERS.

WALTER was the emigrant ancestor of this family. He was b. in Devonshire, Eng., in 1640; came to Massachusetts, while young, and m. Tryal, dau. of Dea. Ralph Shepherd, of London, Eng., and Malden, Mass. He settled in Nashobah, now Littleton, Mass. They had seven sons and two daus. Of these, Daniel, b. 1669, m. Elizabeth Bates, and their c. were seven sons and three daus. Of these Peter, b. Littleton, 1707, m. Anna Keyes of Chelmsford, and settled in West Dunstable, now Hollis. Captain in the militia, and of an exploring company to the Coös country in 1754, and of the Hollis company in the Crown Point Expedition in 1755. He d. in Hollis, Aug. 5, 1757, (History of Hollis says Aug. 27), and his wife, Sept. 21, 1798, aged 90. Their c. were Peter, Stephen, Anna, Whitcomb, Phebe, Alice, Levi, Nahum, Francis, Fanny, Philip, Sampson and Farma. Stephen, Whitcomb and Levi were in the Old French war; Stephen, Francis, Nahum and Sampson served in the Revolution. Sampson, who m. Elizabeth Abbott, was the father of Rev. Grant Powers, author of "Historical Sketches of the Coos Country." Peter, the oldest son, b. Nov. 28, 1728, in Dunstable, fitted for college with Rev. Daniel Emerson of Hollis, and graduated at Harvard College in 1754, in the same class with John Hancock, John Adams and Governor Wentworth being in the class below him. He declined a call to the church at New Ipswich, N. H., and was settled over the church at Newent, now Lisbon, Conn., 1756-64 ; came to Newbury, in May, 1764; received a call from the town, Jan. 27, 1765, which he accepted Feb. 10, following. Installed pastor of the "Church of Christ at Newbury and Haverhill," at Hollis, Feb. 27, 1765, and moved his family to Newbury the following April. For further account of his ministry in Newbury see, in this volume, "First Congregational Church" and "Bibliography of Newbury," also see "Historical Sketches of the Coos Country," by Rev. Grant Powers. He rem. to Haverhill in 1781, closed his ministry there in 1783, and after preaching for some time in Cornish, N. H., rem. to Deer Island, Me., and was the first minister there, dying of a cancer, May 13, 1800, in his 72d year, and the 56th of his ministry. He revisited Newbury in 1788 and in 1796. Mr. Powers preached the Election Sermon before the General Assembly at Windsor. in 1778. The Assembly appointed a committee to receive any contributions for the preacher which might be given, and obtained £10 which was paid him. In person, Mr. Powers was above the middle height, strong and athletic. He was a ready speaker, possessing a strong voice, and a very distinct utterance. His dress on the Sabbath was a Kerseymere coat with breeches and stockings, a three cornered hat, a fleece-like wig, a white band, and white silk gloves. Mr. Powers m.

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probably in 1756, Martha, dau. of Jonathan Hale of Sutton, Mass., (See Hale Family). She d. Jan. 22, 1802, while on a visit to her c. in Newbury, being found dead upon her knees after returning from church on the Sabbath, and was buried at the Ox-bow. The figure of Rev. Peter Powers stands out from the obscurity of the early days, as does that of no other man. He seems to have been an able and faithful minister of the gospel, widely known and beloved, and won the affectionate regard of the people. He was the man for the time and place, and filled, admirably, every position to which he was called. His labors were arduous, and he must have possessed a constitution of iron to have accomplished all he did. His parish at first included all the settlements from Hanover to Lancaster; he was often called to go on long and lonely journeys through the wilderness to solemnize marriages, bury the dead, and break the bread of life to the people, and he did not shrink from any labor however great. Very little of his actual work has come down to us; a few printed sermons, which are earnest and devout, and letters, hardly more in number, concise, practical, and to the point. In his views he was very decided, and for those times, very liberal. His letter of acceptance to the church at Deer Isle, copied from the records of that town, has been much admired: "To the Church of Christ on Deer Island. Dearly beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ. You having invited and called upon me to take the paternal oversight of you in the Lord, and it appearing to be of God, after mature deliberation and prayer, I now publicly return my answer in the affirmative. I ask a daily interest in your prayers for the gracious fulfilment of that great promise, 'Lo, I am with you alway, even to the end of the world. Amen.' To the inhabitants and good people who have concurred with the church in the call and liberally offered for my support, I thankfully accept it, and promise through the grace of God to serve you all, the poor as well as the rich, according to my ability. You will, I trust, strive together with me in your prayers for me, that I may be enabled to be faithful unto the death, and present you and your dear children faultless before the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, at his coming, with unspeakable joy. Finally, brethren, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shall be with you. So prays your pastor elect. PETER POWERS."

He is buried at Deer Isle, and his epitaph reads thus :

"REV. PETER POWERS. Born at Dunstable, N. H., Nov. 28. 1728, " Died May 13, 1800. after a successful Ministry of about fifty-five years. The joys of faith triumphant rise, And wing the soul above the skies."

Their c. were as follows, the dates of birth as given by Mrs. Farr:

i. Peter, b. Oct. 9, 1757; d. at New York in the Continental army, Sept. 3, 1776, and buried there.

ii. Martha, b. May 24, 1759 ; d. Haverhill, Oct. 16, 1782.

iii. Damaris, b. Jan. 8, 1761 ; m. Samucl Grow, q. v.

iv. Stephen, b. July 15, 1762.

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History of Newbury, Vermont, from the discovery of the Coos country to present time, Part 81

Author: Wells, Frederic Palmer, 1850- ed Publication date: 1902 Publisher: St. Johnsbury, Vt., The Caledonian company Number of Pages: 935

Author: Wells, Frederic Palmer, 1850- ed
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: St. Johnsbury, Vt., The Caledonian company
Number of Pages: 935