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OLD FAMILIES.
It would be impossible within the compass of this work to give a genealogical sketch of each family that has been connected with the town. The remainder of this chapter is devoted to those who feel and have manifested an interest in preserving the records of their ancestors. For sketches received too late for insertion in this chapter please refer to a later chapter of this work.
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Austin, Truman D., was born in Rochester, December 24, 1837, the eldest in a family of three children of Joseph and Judith (Lyon) Austin. John, his great-grandfather, moved from the East and settled in Rochester on a farm now owned by Walter Scott, situated on what is known as Austin Hill. He died in Rochester, April, 1838. His son Robert married, first, Betsey Carpenter and had children as follows: Joseph, Benjamin, Elvira, Armenia and Eliza. He married, second, Polly Eastman. Their two children were John and Harriet. He married, third, Phebe Mosher. They had one child, Phebe Jane. Robert died in Rochester, November, 1861. Of his children, Joseph, father of Truman D., and the eldest by the first marriage, was born in Rochester, February 4, 1809. He married, first, Judith Lyon. Their children were Truman D., Mary Elizabeth, died single, and Milan D., lives in Breckinridge, Minn. He married, second, Mary Lucas. They had no children. His third wife was Betsey King. The children by the latter union were George E .; Amelia R., the wife of Stillman J. Perkins, died in Minnesota ; Mary E., married, first, Charles Livermore, and second, Henry Livermore. She lives in Hopkinton, N. Y. Harriet died young, and Joseph Adelbert lives in Rochester. Joseph died March 6, 1862; Judith, his wife, February 29, 1842. Truman D. Austin married, December 14, 1861, Clara M., daughter of Abraham and Lucy (Pickett) Hook. She was born July 18, 1843, in Washington, N. H. They have three children : Henry T., born September 29, 1862 ; Emma J. born July 28, 1865; Fred H., born November 17, 1870. All lived at home. Mr. Austin owns and occupies the farin on Austin Hill, in Rochester, formerly owned by his father. He has served the town as lister and select- man.
Bailey, Thomas, came from Westminster, Vt., in 1790, and located at the North Hol- low, in the town of Rochester. Of his ten children, seven reached adult age and were as follows: Hubbard; Ira, died in Granville, Vt .; Clark, died in Hancock, Vt .; Ora; Ma- tilda ; Daniel, died unmarried; Sally (deceased), married James Bemis. Ora, of this family, was born in Rochester in 1792, and died March 27, 1864. He married Hannah Thatcher, and had the following family : Harriet, died twenty-eight years of age; So- phronia, wife of James West, of Alexandria, Neb .; James, died aged two years; Clark, died at Randolph, Vt .; George, resides at Onarga, Ill .; Sarah (deceased), married James Pond; Lorenzo Dow ; Diantha and Adolphus, twins. The former is the wife of William Gove, of Alexandria, Neb., the latter died young. Lorenzo Dow, son of Ora, was born in Rochester, November 3, 1828, and married March 16, 1852, Rosalinda, daughter of Calvin and Cynthia (Morse) Pond. She was born in Rochester, November 23, 1827. They had two children, Luton Elmer and George Ora, born in Rochester, June 13, 1871. Luton E. was born in Rochester, April, 1862, and married, January 1, 1886, Luna, daugh- ter of Cummings and Diana (Richmond) Martin. She was born in Rochester, May 25, 1863. They have two children, Jessie Rose and George Dow. Lorenzo Dow died Sep- tember 9, 1884.
Chaffee, Henry H., was born in Rochester, December 12, 1840, the eldest in a family of four children of John and Roselle (Lowell) Chaffee. John, his grandfather, born in Connecticut, married Sally Evans, and had eight children, viz .: Fanny, wife of William Hunter, died in Rochester in 1849; Marcia, widow of Washington Tower, lives in Rochester; Lyman went West as a teacher, and was never heard from; Leonard, died in Rochester in 1848; Amos, also died in Rochester in 1848; Anna, widow of E. K. Richmond, lives in Newport, Vt .; and Esther, wife of William Stone, lives in Roches- ter. John, his father, was born in Rochester, May 11, 1813, and married Roselle Lowell, January 1, 1840. Their four children were Henry H .; Alice R., wife of Gilman Wright, lives in Rochester ; Edna J., wife of Dr. H. S. Noble, of Middletown, Conn .; she is the principal of the Detroit Training School of Elocution and English Literature ; Ed- win J., a Universalist clergyman, in Galesburg, Ill. John died in Rochester, April 17. 1883. His widow resides with her son, Henry H. The latter married, Jannary 1, 1867. Angusta, daughter of Thomas and Ann Eliza (Stevens) Smith. She was born May 7, 1847. Their four children are Nellie, teacher in the Detroit Training School; Alice,
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teacher in the same institution ; Harry, a student in that institution ; and Annie, died aged six.
Chaffee, Henry H., entered as corporal in Company E, Fourth Vermont Volunteers, August 30, 1861, and received his discharge as sergeant of the same company June 26, 1865. He lost his right arm at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., October 19, 1864. Mr. Chaffee owns and occupies the Chaffee homestead farm in Rochester. He has served as lister of the town many years, and as selectman four years.
Cushman, Major-General Artemas, was born in Braintree, Vt., September 15, 1806. He descends in the eighth generation from Robert Cushman, who embarked with his only son Thomas, then a lad fourteen years of age, in the Mayflower, but after three days' sailing returned to England in the Speedwell, on account of the inefficiency of the latter vessel to make the voyage. He was the leader of the party who were obliged to return, but in the following year he embarked again on the Fortune, and arrived at Ply- mouth in November, 1621. He went back to England on the return trip of the Fort- une, as agent of the colony, with the intention of returning to America, permanently, but he died there in January or February, 1625. During his short stay at Plymouth, though not a clergyman, he preached December, 1621, "the first sermon in New Eng- land that was printed." Text, 1. Cor., x. 24: " Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." The sermon was first published in London in 1622, and reprinted in Boston in 1724. His son, Thomas, born 1608, was left by his father on his return to England in the care of Governor Bradford. He married, in 1635 or 1636, Mary Aller- ton, and died in Plymouth, December 10, 1691. His wife survived him nearly ten years. He was prominent in the colony, and was popularly known as " Elder Thomas." Of his eight children the Rev. Isaac Cushman was born in Plymouth, February 8, 1647, married Mary Rickard, born 1654, died September 27, 1727, aged seventy-three. He died Octo- ber 21, 1732, aged eighty-four, and was thirty-seven years in the ministry. Ichabod, his son, born October 30, 1686, married, first, Esther, daughter of Jonathan Barnes. IIe mar- ried, second, Patience Holmes. He lived in Plymouth and Middleboro. His estate was settled by his widow, Patience, in 1736. William, second son by the last marriage, was born October 13, 1715, died August 27, 1768. He married, first, December 25, 1731, Su- sanna Sampson, and second, Priscilla Cobb, in 1751, and had five children by the first wife, and seven by the last. William, the third child by the first marriage, born April 12, 1741, married March 4, 1762, Susanna Pratt. They had four children, of whom Artemas, born at Middleboro, April 7, 1781, married July 10, 1803, Phebe Spear, of Braintree, born March 6, 1783. He died in Braintree in 1852. Their children were Holmes, Ma- jor-General Artemas, William, Content, Phebe, Philenda, Emily M., Minerva E., and Earl. Artemas lived in Braintree till he was ten years of age. He was educated in the schools of Rochester, and taught school six years. He then began merchandising in Warren, Vt., where he remained twelve years. He commenced mercantile business in Rochester in 1845, and continued in it until 1868. Since then he has employed his time in looking after his landed and other property interests. He has always taken an active part in the military and civil affairs of the State. In 1828 he was commissioned as brig- ade-inspector (rank of major) in the militia of Vermont; in 1830 the commission of lien- tenant-colonel, in 1835 colonel, in 1841 brigadier-general, and in 1847 was elected major- general. He held the office of justice of the peace from 1835 to 1851; member of the House of Representatives in 1835-36, 1842, 1861-62; member of the Constitutional Con- ventions of 1836 and 1847 ; and State Senator in 1846-47 and 1876-77. He married November 3, 1853, Clara, daughter of Henry and Ann (Rogers) Chandler, born August 17, 1826. They have two children, Henry Herbert, born April 17, 1860, married October 22, 1889, Jessie Tupper, born June 28, 1865; he is a merchant in Rochester ; and Lizzie, born April 11, 1865, married October 7, 1886, Charles E. Townsend of Burlington, Vt. They have an infant child, born May 28, 1890.
Hubbard, Benjamin F., born in Granville, Vt., September 27, 1829, the youngest in a family of seven children of Arna and Philomela (Gilligan) Hubbard. The children
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were Harvey, lives in Willimantic, Conn .; Joseph, died aged twenty-one; Charles, was killed, aged thirty-seven; Rufus, lives in Randolph, Vt .; Benjamin F .; and two who died young. Benjamin F. married April 19, 1848, Nancy E., daughter of Hezekiah and Nancy (Martin) Howe. The mother of Mrs. Hubbard was born in Rochester, the daughter of Major Thomas and Nancy Martin ; the former died suddenly, and his widow died at the home of Colonel Thomas Martin in Rochester. Mrs. Hubbard was born in Westford, Chittenden county, Vt., July 24, 1828. They had two children of their own, viz .: Benjamin F., born February 3, 1854, married July 4, 1881, Welthea A., daughter of Aus- tin and Sylvia A. (Wright) Field, who have had two children, an infant, born October 8, 1883, died unnamed, and Eva May, born September 13, 1887; Hattie E., born Septem- ber 27. 1862, died August 3, 1875; and one adopted child, Samuel Wing, born January 29, 1876. Benjamin F. died July 4, 1887. He moved from Granville and settled on the farm in Rochester still owned by his widow and son, Benjamin F. By a fall from a bridge in 1863 he received an injury which crippled him for life. He was a prominent man in the M. E. Church of Rochester, and was one of its stewards.
Huntington, Dr. Daniel, was born in Lebanon, N. H., July 17, 1781. James Hunt- ington, his father, a sergeant in the War of the Revolution, married Hannah Curtis. and they had eleven children, of whom seven reached adult age. The latter were all mar- ried, and, except one, raised families. Three besides the doctor became residents of Rochester, viz .: Mrs. Frank Washburn, John and James D. The doctor studied medi- cine with Dr. Joseph A. Denison, of Royalton, and commenced the practice of his pro- fession in Stockbridge in 1805. In 1807 he went to Albany, N. Y., where he remained one year. In 1808 he settled in Rochester and continued the practice of his profession in that town until his death, which occurred September 13, 1854. He married Mary Davis, born in Bascowan, N. H., March 26, 1771, and they had the following children, viz .: Daniel N., born January 1, 1815, living in Malone, N. Y., a justice of the peace there for twenty-five years; John died in Rochester, March 12, 1853; Mary G., born June 15, 1816, was the wife of Uriah Rice, and died in Carlton, O., in 1848; William M., born in Rochester, October 21, 1819; Olive G., born in Rochester, October 21, 1820, wife of George G. Wilson, living in Malone, N. Y .; Sarah Jane, born June, 1824, wife of F. F. Washburn, of Rochester; James D., born November 1 1827, died February 3, 1887. Dr. William M. Huntington has always been a resident of Rochester. After the district school he attended the Brandon Seminary. He began the study of medicine in 1840 with Dr. Daniel Barnes, of Brandon, and continued with him one year. He then studied with his father three years. He attended his first course of lectures in Hanover, N. H., and was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of New York March 4, 1845, and has practiced his profession in Rochester ever since. The doetor represented the town in the Legislature in 1863 and 1864. He married, June 18, 1848, Arvilla, daughter of William and Lucy (Chandler) Baker. Mrs. Huntington was born in Rochester, February 28, 1827. They have but one child living, Dr. William Daniel Huntington, born in Rochester, June 15, 1857. He was educated in the Barre Academy, and was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1881. He studied medieine with his father, and with the exception of one year in Niles, Mich., and one year in Chicago, he has practiced his profession in company with his father, in Rochester. He married Lizzie A. Pater, who was born in Burlington, January 7, 1860. They have one child, William M., born April 17, 1888. Dr. William is a member of the National Medical Association, a member of the Vermont State Medical Society, also a member of the White River Valley Medical Society. Dr. William D. is also a member of the State and White River Valley Medical Societies. Both the doctors are members of Rural Lodge, No. 29, F. and A. M., of Rochester, also of Mount Zion Commandery of K. T. Dr. William D. is a member of the Shrine.
Kezer, Fayette A., was born in Wentworth, N. H., May 1, 1848, the second in a family of three children of Ferdinand C. and Hannah (Weeks) Kezer. Lemuel, his grandfather, born in New Hampshire, married Eliza Preston. Their children were Eliza Ann, born in Wentworth, December 18, 1809, died November 21, 1828; Emele
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and Emelees, twins, born November 5, 1811, died, the former November 15, 1811, the latter November 19, 1811; Ferdinand Columbus and Fayette Columbia, twins, born August 29, 1812; Hortensia M., born November 2,1814, died January 9, 1815. Hortensia, wife of Ezra Currier, died in Wentworth. Lemuel died November 18, 1815; his wife June 18, 1847. Ferdinand C. was born in Wentworth, August 29, 1812, and married May 17, 1840, Hannah Weeks, born March 11. 1819. Their three children were Eliza A., born January 3, 1845, married June 20, 1864, Jeremiah Howard, a farmer living in Rochester, and have two children, John L. and Cora B .; Fayette A .; and Mary Cordelia, born May 1, 1848, died October 4, 1853. His wife, Hannah Weeks, died in Wentworth, N. H., May 30, 1857. He married second, May 12, 1858, Marcia Currier, of Wentworth, and by this marriage had one child, Adams C., who died January 29. 1882. Ferdinand C. died in Rochester, September 15, 1883. His second wife died in Rochester, March 29, 1881. Fayette A. was sixteen years of age when his father moved from New Hampshire and settled in Rochester on the farm now owned and occupied by J. F. Howard, his son-in-law. In 1869 Fayette A., in company with his father, purchased the grist and saw-mills located in the village of Rochester, and upon the death of his father Fayette A. became the sole owner and continues to operate them, making a specialty of ash dowels for bending purposes, used for rattan and reed chairs. Mr. Kezer represented the town of Rochester in the General Assembly of the State of Vermont in the year 1890. He married, June 17, 1874, Laura, daughter of John and Olive (Walbridge) Pierson, who was born in Rochester, February 28, 1850. They have two children, Frank F., born June 21, 1878, and Alice, born February 7, 1883.
Messer .- The families of this name in Rochester are descended from Richard Messer, who married Hannah Shotwell. Their son, Abial, born December 27, 1670, married Abigail Marsh and had a son, Richard, born November 9, 1695, who married Mehitable Smith. From the last named marriage came Samuel, born June 30, 1736, who married Sarah Howe. Jacob, a son of the last named couple, was born in Methuen, Mass., September 22, 1778. He married September 23, 1802, Catharine Smith, who was born at New London, N. H., March 15, 1783. He became a resident of Rochester in 1804, but died at Northumberland, N. Y., January 11. 1814. His wife died April 18, 1863. Their children were Deiadamia (deceased), born June 15, 1803, married James Kimball ; Lyman ; and James S., born April 1, 1811, emigrated to Illinois, where he died.
Messer, Lyman, son of Jacob, born in Rochester, June 24, 1805, married December 13, 1833, Mary Morse. She was born March 4, 1808, and died January 4, 1882. Of their eight children, all of whom were born in Rochester, one died in infancy. The others were Jacob, born January 17, 1839, was a member of Company E, Fourth Ver- mont Volunteers, and died at Manassas Junction, Va, February 13, 1862; Julius C., was born November 27, 1840, and resides at Rochester; Alpha, was born July 6, 1842, and resides at Rochester; Alton, was born June 27, 1844, and resides at Lincoln, Vt .; Mary F., was born April 29, 1846, and died March 16, 1868; Maria F., was born March 14, 1848, married Joseph G. Sargent, and resides at Bethel, Vt .; Clarence, was born March 28, 1854, and resides at Humboldt, Ia. Alpha, of the above family, married, July 5, 1871, Lizzie P. Bond, who was born in Thetford, Vt., January 15, 1843. They have one child, Annie L., who was born September 8, 1874. Mr. Messer is a farmer, and also Master of the Vermont State Grange; was engaged in teaching in his early life in the common schools in Vermont and also in Illinois. He was for two years master of the Armstrong Grammar School at Manchester, N. H., has been connected with the press for many years and is a member of the editorial staff of the New England Farmer, published in Boston, Mass.
Pierce, Chester, was born in Royalton, Vt., January 2, 1819, the youngest in a family of thirteen children of William and Hannah (Baker) Pierce. Joseph, his grandfather, moved with his family from Connecticut, settled in Royalton, and he and his wife died there. Their children were William, Elisha, Ebenezer, Mrs. Mary Tracy, Susan and Lucy. William, born in Connecticut, September 5, 1770, was under age when his father
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moved to Royalton. He married December 27, 1796, Hannah Baker, born March 6, 1777. Their thirteen children were Esther E., Desire W., William, Bester, Ira, John, Levi W., George, Hannah, Charles, Harvey B., Harriet and Chester. William died in Royalton, July 18, 1854, and his wife October 3, 1863. Chester married, first, October 26, 1842, Caroline R., daughter of Ephraim D. and Eliza (Hodgkins) Briggs, born June 24, 1822, in Rochester. Edward L., born July 26, 1843, is their only child. He mar- ried Julia A. Ashley. They have two children, Leslie Dean and Chester Earl. Caroline R., the first wife, died March 1, 1869. Chester married second, December 18, 1883, Ellen L., daughter of James M. and Hannah (Jewett) Ashley, born March 30, 1843, in Barnard. There are no children by this union. Mr. Pierce lived in Royalton until he was twenty-two years of age. When eighteen years of age he became clerk in the store of George Lyman in Royalton and continued with him three years, salary one shilling per day. He was employed one year thereafter as clerk in the store of Denison & Gleason, Royalton. For the next two years he carried on merchandising in Bethel, in company with H. N. Smith, under the firm name of Pierce & Smith. In the spring of 1843 they divided their stock, Mr. Pierce removing to Rochester, where, in company with E. D. Briggs, his father-in-law, he continued in trade eleven years, under the firm name of Briggs & Pierce. At the end of this time Mr. Briggs withdrew, and for the next thirteen years it was conducted by Mr. Pierce alone. He then sold out to Harkin, Pierce & Tilden, and withdrew from active mercantile business, and has devoted his time to the care of his property. Mr. Pierce has served as selectman, town auditor for thirty years, and represented the town in the Legislature in .1865-66, and was State Senator in 1886, on the committees of banks, elections, and House of Correction.
Sparhawk, Rev. Samuel, was born in Rochester, Vt., January 1, 1802, and was the second son of Ebenezer and Azubah (Jefferson) Sparhawk. His father was a native of Templeton Mass., and was among the first settlers of Rochester. He had nine children, one of whom died in infancy. The others were George, who died in Rochester; Pris- cilla (deceased), married Rev. Daniel Warren ; Mary (deceased), married Luther Tucker; Naomi (deceased), married Luther Tucker; Ebenezer, died in Rochester ; Louisa (deceased), married Edward Terry ; Martha (deceased), married William Allen ; and Samuel. The latter attended Chelsea Academy, and was ordained a minister in the Congregational Church at Pittsfield, Vt. He preached four years at Pittsfield, sixteen years at West Randolph, three years at Randolph Center, three years at Gaysville, and five years at Pittsfield, where he died November 9, 1879. He married, November 6, 1830, Laura, daughter of Israel and Sarah (Cook) Fitts. She was born at Leicester, Vt., January 5, 1805. They had eight children, viz .: Priscilla, died three years of age; George, a doctor, resides at Burlington, Vt .; Luther T., an artist, resides at West Ran- dolph, Vt .; Martha, born in Rochester, Vt., February 15, 1834, wife of Guy E. Graham, of Bethel; Mary, died seventeen years of age; Sarah, died in infancy ; Ellen, married, first, Charles Gibbs, second, George Rockwell, who resides in Medford, Mass .; Samuel Henry, a doctor, who resides in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
CHAPTER XXXII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CHESTER.
T HE town of Chester is located in the southern part of the county, and is bounded on the north by Cavendish and Baltimore ; east by Springfield ; south by Grafton and small parts of Rockingham and Windham; and on the west by Andover and a part of Ludlow. It is
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situated in latitude forty - three degrees, seventeen minutes, and longitude four degrees, twenty-one minutes, and is six miles west of the Connecti- cut River.
The surface is considerably diversified with hills and valleys, but the soil is generally good, and the uplands yield excellent pasturage. The intervals are rich and fertile, producing good crops of rye, corn, barley, oats, peas, beans, potatoes, etc. The roads are remarkably well laid, level and well wrought for such an uneven town. The timber is of hard wood, with some hemlock, spruce and pine.
Williams River is formed in the town by the union of three branches, which unite about a mile southeast of Chester village, affording good mill sites. About a mile north of the village a mineral spring was dis- covered in 1860, the waters of which are said to contain valuable medicinal remedies.
Early Grants .- One of the first towns in Windsor county to be char- tered by Benning Wentworth, governor of New Hampshire, was what is now comprised in the town of Chester. The grant was dated Feb- ruary 22, 1754, and comprised 23,040 acres west of the Connecticut River, beginning at the northwest corner of Rockingham and extend- ing six miles in a westerly direction; thence six miles due north ; thence six miles due east ; and from that point six miles south to the point of commencement. The grant was to be divided into sixty four equal parts and the following are the names of the original grantees : John Baldridge, Francis Smith, jr., Benjamin Flagg, Ebenezer Stearns, Na- thaniel Child, Richard Ward, Thomas Bell, Sampson Sheaffe, Ebenezer Carlisle, James Hamilton, Thomas Wheeler, Jeremiah Beath, James Stoodley, Jonathan Gates, John Wentworth, Charles Davenport, David Bellows, Isaac Stearns, Jacob Smith, Thomas Cowden, Daniel Haywood, Luke Brown, Israel Jennison, Samuel Clark Pain, Jonas Rice, Ebenezer Wiswall, Abel Haywood, Theodore Atkinson, Alexander Clark, Jacob Holmes, Abraham Wheeler, Charles Davenport, jr., John Stearns, Dan- iel Haywood, jr., Richard Wiberd, Benning Wentworth, Francis Smith, Matthias Stone, Cornelius Stowell, William Mahan, John Roberts, Na- thaniel Adams, Samuel Smith, Samuel Dunkirk, John Winters, Moses Peters, John Richey, James Carlisle, John Downing, Daniel . Warner, William Clark, Jeremiah Rice, Charles Adams, Will Johnson, John Kel- lison, Matthew Livermore, Samuel Solley, Palmer Goulding.
A LITTLE
ALBERT F. BALDWIN.
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The grant thus given was named in the charter Flamstead, and through neglect of the proprietors to fulfill the conditions stated in the charter their rights were forfeited. A second charter was granted No- vember 3, 1761, the name of the town being changed to New Flam- stead. The boundaries were the same, but it was to be divided into seventy-four equal shares. The following were the persons named in the last charter : Daniel Haywood, Jonathan Gates, John Stowell, Abiel Haywood,Charles Davenport, Adonijah Rice, Jeremiah Beath, Charles Davenport, jr., Benjamin Richardson, Asa Moore, Israel Jennison, Joseph Rugg, Cornelius Stowell, Isaac Stevens, William Crawford, Ephraim Doolittle, Charles Adams, John Brooks, Benjamin Williard, Jacob Smith, John Davis, Noah Brooks, Ebenezer Wiswall, Matthew Liver- more, Nathan Baldwin, Palmer Goulding, jr., Theodore Atkinson, Aaron Kimball, Palmer Goulding, Richard Wiberd, Joseph Williard, jr., John Goulding, Simon Davis, Windsor Goulding, Peter Brooks, Simon Davis, jr., Benjamin Winchester, Ignatius Goulding, Luke Brown, Rob- ert Gray, Peter Goulding, Theodore Atkinson, jr., Ephraim Stearns, Abel Goulding, Ephraim Brown, John Fisk, John Green, Edward Brown, Berizillia Rice, Ephraim Curtis, Thomas Barrett, Pyrus Rice, Nathan Williard, James Barrett, David Moore, William Oaks, Samuel Brown, jr., Jacob Holmes, John Morris, Hezekiah Stowell, Samuel Brooks, Solomon Woodward, Benjamin Whitney, jr., Jacob Holmes, jr., Samuel Dunkirk, Jabez Sargeant, and Silas Moore. These were each entitled to one share and Benning Wentworth was allotted three shares. One share was set aside for the benefit of the schools of the town, one share for an incorporated society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, one share for the first settled minister, and one share for the Church of England.
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