NHROCKIN MESSAGE BOARD POST done by [email protected] This was too long for the mailing list so will be sending several posts This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iQB.2ACE/664 Message Board Post: I recently purchased an 1831 newspaper (the October 24, 1831 edition of the NH Patriot and State Gazette) which I carefully scanned, and have added the following notices to my web site at: http://www.nh.searchroots.com/newspaper.html These articles hold some real genealogical treasures for people researching their families in New Hampshire around 1821. BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF SCANNED ARTICLES: ALTON, NH - Public Notice: Ezekiel Hayes regarding his son William H. Hayes, a minor. Witnesses, Aaron Clough and Ezra Ham BEDFORD, NH - Piscattaquog Village - A store to let, contact is John Parker Jr. BOSCAWEN, NH - Notice - proprietors of BOSCAWEN BRIDGE to hold annual meeting at the toll-house in Canterbury NH. Ad posted by WILLIAM W. GAGE, Proprietor's Clerk. BOSTON, MA - Advertising: Fairbanks, Loring & Co., corner of Kilby and Milk Streets for Hard Ware and Sadlery BOSTON, MA - Advertising: Gordon & Stoddard, 78 and 80 State Street, Woolen, Cotton, Linen and Stuff Goods BOSTON, MA - Advertising: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook. Promotes Blake's New Geography for Children, by Rev. J.L. Blake BOSTON, MA - Advertising: Suffolk House, situated on Elm Street "opposite Mr. Wild's; description of boarding house/hotel. Ad placed by Phinehas Adams, and Charles West from Concord NH. BOSTON, MA - Advertising: Whiton & March, No. 21 Central Street, Boston; foreign and domestic goods; ad placed by James M. Whiton and Andrew S. March. NEWS ARTICLE - mentions Boston newspaper, "Liberator," and an indictment to the Grant Gury against William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp, the editor and publisher for its circulation and publication, regarding insurrection among slaves. CAMPTON, Grafton Co., NH - Public Notice - taxes due, # lots, division range, etc. Mentions the names of Moses George, John Little, Elijah Smart Jr., Moody Bartlett, Giles Merrill, William Thornton, Ebenezer Burbank, Walter Willey, Timothy Chases, Eben T. Whitney, John Smith, William Moses, E. Kinneston, William Home, George Avery. Ad posted by David Webster, collector. CAANAN, (DAME'S GORE), Grafton Co, NH - Public Notice - Auction of a farm in this location. Ad posted by Josiah R. Haynes. CAANAN, Grafton Co. NH - Public Notice of Taxes Due, and public auctions to be held at Guilford Cobb's Inn in Canaan. Includes size, location and description of properties. Owners names include Ira Gates, Samuel Willis, William Hayward, Richard and Nathan Currier, Cyrus B. Hamilton, Joseph Burleigh, Zachariah F. Lory, Tristram Sanborn Jr., Jeremiah Wilson, Simeon Chase, Nathaniel Warner, Charles Mayridge, Dudley Bailey, Daniel Gile, Samuel Stevens, heirs of Joshua Stevens, heirs of Riley James, James Dwinnels, Benjamin Flood, David G. Webster, Stephen Kendrick, and James Stevens. Also has nonresident unimproved list showing William Fox Jr., William King, William Wentworth, George King. Ad posted by Jonas W. Smith, collector.