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Janice is still at it......Charlestown,NH......Old Fort #4......this one is about cemeteries. Farns10th@aol.com wrote: > Subject: Cemeteries > Source: History of Charlestown, NH - The Old Fort No. 4 by Rev. Henry H. > Saunder- > son - printed at Claremont, NH 1876 > p.707-709 > CEMETERIES > The proprietors of No. 4 at a meeting legally held May 1, 1751 > > "Voted that Capt Stevens, Capt. Spafford and John Hastings be a Committee to > purchase of the owners of some lands or house lotts where they shall think > best > for a burying place; or if they cannot purchase said lands then to pitch upon > and > buy out a burying place otherwhere where they shall think most convenient." > > Previous to this time the dead had been principally interred on "Burying > Hill," > as it was called, which was the ground lying between the present South Parish > Meeting House Lot and the opposite side of the street. On this little rise, > formerly > much higher than now, those who had fallen in defence of the place, or had > died > of sickness, had found burial. > > It had been voted by the proprietors to build their Church there, and near > the Church, in accordance with the old New England custom, was the appropriate > place for the dead to rest. Many were buried there, among whom we may number > nearly all the defenders of No. 4, who fell in the first Indian War. It was > the design > of the inhabitants to purchase of the owners the front part of some house-lots > lying contiguous to that spot, but probably their committee failed in their > endeavor > and therefore located their burying-ground where the old portion of the > Cemetery is > now. It appears that the Committee did little more than to select the > grounds and > purchase them, for we hear nothing more of the Burying Ground before 1763 in > which year the town voted that it should be fenced. > > After securing their new grounds, Burying Hill ceased to be used for purposes > of > interment, and the remains of those who had been buried there were ultimately > removed to the new spot. Their number must have been considerable, but I find > no stone erected to the memory of a single one of those first victims of war > and > sacrifice. The living had too much to do to defend themselves to have time to > devote to the preparation of monuments for the perpetuation of the memory of > those who had fallen. So they rest with graves unmarked. > > There are a number of stones in the old portion of the Cemetery without any > inscriptions. It is probable that some of these mark the resting-places of > persons > who were slain or died of disease in the first decade of the settlement; and > there > can be little doubt that the spaces in the "Old Grounds" that are without > stones > are yet thickly strown with the remains of the early inhabitants of the place. > The writer (Rev. Saunderson) of this, while superintending the laying of the > foundation of the "Johnson Monument," as it is called, found a rough, flatish > stone > about two feet below the surface, inscribed, "Ambrose Tuttel 1757." The > inscription > was a mere scratch, and might have been made with any sharp piece of iron, and > yet it remained as plain to be read as when first put into the ground. As our > excavation was only about three feet it was not deep enough to disturb any > remains; but we paused as the thought came to us that all those apparently > unoccupied grounds were full of secret graves. > > On none of the oldest stones does the date extend back beyond 1756 - sixteen > years after the first settlement of the place. There are several that bear > date > 1757, and from that time the number yearly, especially subsequent to 1760 > had a rapid increase till considerable numbers were erected with each > succeeding > year. > > To the old Cemetery there have, within a very recent period, been two > additions: > the one, on the west, extending it to East Street, the other, on the north em- > bracing all the grounds to their present limits. The earliest burials in the > first > portion were in 1836, and there were none in the last till quite a number of > years later. > > The improvements in the Cemetery which now render it so pleasant, are of > comparatively recent date, having been made within the last quarter of a > century; > and owe their inception to Henry Hubbard, Jr. Esq., who, many will regret to > learn died at his home in Bedford, VA June 11, 1876. > > A call for a public meeting at the hotel was made Feb 7, 1853, signed by Mrs. > J. > DeForest Richards, Mrs. Emily A. Olcott and Mrs. J. J. Gilchrist, in which an > invitation was extended to all citizens and ladies of the place to assemble > at a > public tea party, and take into consideration the subject of improving the > grounds > of the Cemetery, and to devise means and take measures therefor. This > resulted > in a very large attendance, who were fully united in the object in view; and a > Committee was appointed to get up a festival for the whole town on the > following > 4th of July, for the purpose of obtaining means for their intended > improvements. > At this festival four hundred dollars was the sum obtained, and the following > persons were appointed a committee to expend it. > > Deacon Moses Putnam, Henry Hubbard, Jr., Silas P. Mack, Samuel L. Fletcher > Abram D. Hull, Mrs. J. DeForest Richards, Mrs. Emily A. Olcott, Mrs. Laura > Cushing, Mrs. Helen J. Tidd and Mrs. Theodosia Evans. > > The walks were laid out under the general direction of the committee, and the > evergreens that now so pleasantly shade them were set out by their mutual > agreeement. Abram D. Hull, Esq., was employed to set out the pines, but the > balsams that are seen in the yaard were set out by Deacon Moses Putnam > and were brought by him from Unity. > > I will merely say further that the town now yearly appropriates one hundred > dollars > for keeping the Cemetery in order. Money was appropriated in 1870 for > bringing > a fountain into the enclosure and the selectmen were appointed a committee > with > others to do it, but for some reason not known to the writer it has never > been done. > > CEMETERIES AT THE NORTH PART OF THE TOWN > p.708 > The village cemetery was the only burying place in town till 1792, at which > time > the town purchased and set apart for a burial place the old ground at North > Charlestown. At this time members of families belonging to the north part of > the town who had been buried in this cemetery, were disinterred and buried > there. > This continued to be the only cemetery at the north until 1852, when the > present > one was purchased by the town. This is a very pleasant spot of elevated > ground > lying about forty or fifty rods beyond the junction of the River road with > the main > road leading to Claremont (NH). It is pleasantly laid out and contains a > fountain > for which money was appropriated at the same time that the appropriation was > made for the village Cemetery. The Cemetery also contains a number of quite > tasteful monuments, among which we may instance those erected to Mr. Jesse > and George Farwell, Eliphalet Bailey, Artimesia Westcott and John Metcalf. > The Walker monument of brown-stone is also a very handsome structure. The > name of the Cemetery is HOPE HILL and one hundred dollars is yearly > appropriated for its care by the town. Much credit it due to Horace Metcalf, > Esq., > for many of the improvements connected with this pleasant cemetery. > The following from the stone erected to the memory of Thomas Swan, speaks for > itself: > "Thomas Swan d. Nov 23d 1772 in his 28th year. Children yet unborn will > reverence his name when they find by his last will he gave the town of > Charlestown > one hundred pounds, the interest of which to be appropriated to the sole > purpose > of keeping a school in that part of said town know by the name of the town > plot." > In connection with this gift came the Park now generally called from the > donar: > Swan Park. Little is known of Mr. Swan save that he was a very intelligent > young > merchant in Charlestown who died early. He was probably one of the younger > children of Rev. Josiah Swan the 2nd minister of old Dunstable but who after > leaving Dunstable became a celebrated teacher in Lancaster, Mass and in > Walpole, NH. > __________________________________________________________________ > Transcribe by Janice Farnsworth

�George Washington - American Revolution (mention of Brig. Gen. John Sullivan of New Hampshire. http://www.sar.org/nhssar/essays/Washingt.html On June 17 and on June 19 the Congress named four Major Generals (Artemas Ward, Charles Lee, Philip Schuyler, and Israel Putnam); and thirteen Brigadiers, including among the latter John Sullivan of New Hampshire.9 These two ranks of Major General and Brigadier were the only general officer grades known during the Revolutionary War. Washington, of course, as General and Commander-in-Chief, held a unique position which, unlike the five-star rank of World War II, was never accorded to any other officer. The Attack On Fort William and Mary in 1774 Excerpts re: John Sullivan of Durham, NH (see website below for complete story) http://www.sar.org/nhssar/essays/FortW&M.html By the fifteenth of December, Portsmouth was crowded with men from nearby towns gathering into military ranks. A committee was chosen to speak to the Governor about the rumor that two regiments of British regulars were being dispatched to William and Mary. The Governor assured the committee that he knew of no such plans, but by this time upwards of a thousand New Hampshiremen, described by one writer of the time as men "of the best property and vote in the Province,"[8] had gathered in the seacoast community. The number of participants in this event is startling, considering that the usual population of Portsmouth at this time was probably only four to five thousand. John Sullivan (a delegate to the American Congress in Philadelphia and later a major general in the Continental Army and president of the revolutionary body governing New Hampshire), was apparently among the men who visited Governor Wentworth. Sullivan, perhaps in a purposeful display of duplicity, informed Wentworth that he had prevailed upon the crowd to return home, but by this time New Hampshire's largest and most cosmopolitan town had been transformed into a tense and heavily armed militia camp. � Later in the day, a committee of Americans approached the Governor to ask for a pardon of the men who had attacked the fort, or at least for an assurance that the perpetrators of the raid would not be prosecuted. Wentworth told the committee that "I could not promise them any such thing; but if they dispersed and restored the Gunpowder, which I earnestly exhorted them to do, I said I hoped His Majesty may be thereby induced to consider it an alleviation of the offence."[9] After this meeting, Wentworth was hopeful that the situation may come to an end without further violence and "expected that the gunpowder would have been restored by the morning."[9] His expectations were ill-founded. � In spite of the somewhat sympathetic language contained in his letters to Gage, Governor Wentworth did not shirk his duty as protector of the King's law in the Province. On December 15, the Governor issued an order to Captain John Dennet of the First New Hampshire Regiment of the Provincial Militia to enlist or impress into service "Thirty effective men to serve his Majesty as a Guard & Protection to his Fort William and Mary at New Castle . . ."[10] Captain Dennet took to the streets of Portsmouth and "caused the Drums to be Beat & Proclamation to be made at all Publick corners & on the Place of Parade."[11] The attempt to rally the loyal subjects of New Hampshire was a complete failure. Captain Dennet reported at six o'clock p.m. on December 15 that not a single person had responded to his plea for recruits and that he awaited further orders. � As Dennet waited, the Portsmouth committee again swung into action. A party of Durham men was rallied, under the command of John Sullivan and, according to a letter from an inhabitant of Boston, the "Parson of the Parish, who being long accustomed to apply himself more to the care of the bodies than the souls of his parishioners, had forgotten that the weapons of his warfare ought to be spiritual, and not carnal . . ." [12] Sullivan and the Durham men joined with a large number of citizens from nearby towns and, at midnight on the fifteenth of December, returned to Fort William and Mary. The men, probably numbering several hundred or more, again descended upon the fort on the night of December 15 "and took away sixteen pieces of cannon, about sixty muskets and other military stores, and brought them to the out Borders of the Town."[13] Although the attackers apparently made no attempt to occupy the garrison and allowed seventy heavy cannon to remain in the fort, the King's colors had previously been hauled from their staff and His Majesty's Fort William and Mary had effectively fallen to a band of loosely organized Americans. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SULLIVAN, John, 1740-1795 �Sullivan, John (1740-1795) Brother of James Sullivan* (see bio below) father of George Sullivan. Born in Somersworth, N.H., February 17, 1740. Delegate to Continental Congress from New Hampshire, 1774, 1780-1781; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; New Hampshire state attorney general, 1782-1786; delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention, 1782-1783; President of New Hampshire, 1786-1788, 1789-1790; federal judge, 1789. Died January 23, 1795. Interment in private or family graveyard. (See also his congressional biography.) Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivan.html Bibliography DAB; Sullivan, John. Letters and Papers of Major General John Sullivan, Continental Army. 3 vols. Edited by Otis G. Hammond. Concord, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1930-39. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Sullivan, James (1744-1808) Brother of John Sullivan; uncle of George Sullivan. Born in Berwick, Maine, April 22, 1744. State court judge, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1782-1783; Massachusetts state attorney general, 1790-1807; Governor of Massachusetts, 1807-1808. Died December 10, 1808. Interment at Central Boston Common Cemetery, Boston, Mass. (See also his congressional biography.) Grave of James Sullivan: Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU.html Central Boston Common Cemetery Boston (Suffolk County), Massachusetts Politicians buried here: �James Sullivan (1744-1808) Brother of John Sullivan; uncle of George Sullivan. Born in Berwick, Maine, April 22, 1744. state court judge, 1776; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1782-1783; Massachusetts state attorney general, 1790-1807; Governor of Massachusetts, 1807-1808. Died December 10, 1808. Interment at Central Boston Common Cemetery. (See also his congressional biography.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ �Sullivan, George (1771-1838) Son of John Sullivan; nephew of James Sullivan. Born in Durham, N.H., August 29, 1771. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1805, 1813; New Hampshire state attorney general, 1805-1806, 1815-1835; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1811-1813; member of New Hampshire state senate 2nd District, 1814-1816; Presidential Elector from New Hampshire, 1828. Died in Exeter, N.H., April 14, 1838. Interment at Old Cemetery, Exeter, N.H. (See also his congressional biography.) Old Cemetery Exeter (Rockingham County), New Hampshire �George Sullivan (1771-1838) Son of John Sullivan; nephew of James Sullivan. Born in Durham, N.H., August 29, 1771. Member of New Hampshire state house of representatives, 1805, 1813; New Hampshire state attorney general, 1805-1806, 1815-1835; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire at-large, 1811-1813; member of New Hampshire state senate 2nd District, 1814-1816; Presidential Elector from New Hampshire, 1828. Died in Exeter, N.H., April 14, 1838. Interment at Old Cemetery. (See also his congressional biography.) �Samuel Tenney (1748-1816) Born in Massachusetts. state court judge, 1793; U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, 1800-1807 (at-large 1800-1805, 4th District 1805-1807). Interment at Old Cemetery. (See also his congressional biography.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`` Source: Encyclopedia Britannica Sullivan, John b. , Feb. 17, 1740, Somersworth, N.H. d. Jan. 23, 1795, Durham, N.H., U.S.early U.S. political leader and Revolutionary War officer who won distinction for his defeat of the Iroquois Indians and their Loyalist allies in western New York (1779). An attorney, Sullivan was elected to the New Hampshire provincial congress (1774) and served at the First Continental Congress, in Philadelphia, the same year. In June 1775 he was appointed brigadier general in the Continental Army and aided in the siege of Boston. The following year he was ordered to Canada to command the retreating American troops after the death of their commander at the disastrous Battle of Quebec (Dec. 31, 1775). Sullivan shortly rejoined Gen. George Washington and, after being promoted to major general, participated in the Battle of Long Island (August 1776), where he was taken prisoner. Exchanged in December, he led the right column in Washington's successful attack on Trenton, N.J. (December 1776), but a night attack on Staten Island in August was unsuccessful. In 1779 Sullivan was commissioned to lead an expedition in retaliation for British-inspired Indian raids in the Mohawk Valley of New York. With 4,000 troops he routed the Iroquois and their Loyalist supporters at Newtown, N.Y. (near present Elmira), burning their villages and destroying their crops. He thus earned the thanks of Congress (October 1779), but ill health forced him to resign from military service soon afterward. Sullivan continued in public service for 15 years, however: as a delegate to the Continental Congress (1780-81), state's attorney general (1782-86), New Hampshire governor (1786-87, 1789), presiding officer of the state convention that ratified the federal Constitution (1788), and U.S. district judge (1789-95). ____________________________________________________________________ �Compiled by Janice Farnsworth

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Subject: Cemeteries Source: History of Charlestown, NH - The Old Fort No. 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunder- son - printed at Claremont, NH 1876 p.707-709 CEMETERIES The proprietors of No. 4 at a meeting legally held May 1, 1751 "Voted that Capt Stevens, Capt. Spafford and John Hastings be a Committee to purchase of the owners of some lands or house lotts where they shall think best for a burying place; or if they cannot purchase said lands then to pitch upon and buy out a burying place otherwhere where they shall think most convenient." Previous to this time the dead had been principally interred on "Burying Hill," as it was called, which was the ground lying between the present South Parish Meeting House Lot and the opposite side of the street. On this little rise, formerly much higher than now, those who had fallen in defence of the place, or had died of sickness, had found burial. It had been voted by the proprietors to build their Church there, and near the Church, in accordance with the old New England custom, was the appropriate place for the dead to rest. Many were buried there, among whom we may number nearly all the defenders of No. 4, who fell in the first Indian War. It was the design of the inhabitants to purchase of the owners the front part of some house-lots lying contiguous to that spot, but probably their committee failed in their endeavor and therefore located their burying-ground where the old portion of the Cemetery is now. It appears that the Committee did little more than to select the grounds and purchase them, for we hear nothing more of the Burying Ground before 1763 in which year the town voted that it should be fenced. After securing their new grounds, Burying Hill ceased to be used for purposes of interment, and the remains of those who had been buried there were ultimately removed to the new spot. Their number must have been considerable, but I find no stone erected to the memory of a single one of those first victims of war and sacrifice. The living had too much to do to defend themselves to have time to devote to the preparation of monuments for the perpetuation of the memory of those who had fallen. So they rest with graves unmarked. There are a number of stones in the old portion of the Cemetery without any inscriptions. It is probable that some of these mark the resting-places of persons who were slain or died of disease in the first decade of the settlement; and there can be little doubt that the spaces in the "Old Grounds" that are without stones are yet thickly strown with the remains of the early inhabitants of the place. The writer (Rev. Saunderson) of this, while superintending the laying of the foundation of the "Johnson Monument," as it is called, found a rough, flatish stone about two feet below the surface, inscribed, "Ambrose Tuttel 1757." The inscription was a mere scratch, and might have been made with any sharp piece of iron, and yet it remained as plain to be read as when first put into the ground. As our excavation was only about three feet it was not deep enough to disturb any remains; but we paused as the thought came to us that all those apparently unoccupied grounds were full of secret graves. On none of the oldest stones does the date extend back beyond 1756 - sixteen years after the first settlement of the place. There are several that bear date 1757, and from that time the number yearly, especially subsequent to 1760 had a rapid increase till considerable numbers were erected with each succeeding year. To the old Cemetery there have, within a very recent period, been two additions: the one, on the west, extending it to East Street, the other, on the north em- bracing all the grounds to their present limits. The earliest burials in the first portion were in 1836, and there were none in the last till quite a number of years later. The improvements in the Cemetery which now render it so pleasant, are of comparatively recent date, having been made within the last quarter of a century; and owe their inception to Henry Hubbard, Jr. Esq., who, many will regret to learn died at his home in Bedford, VA June 11, 1876. A call for a public meeting at the hotel was made Feb 7, 1853, signed by Mrs. J. DeForest Richards, Mrs. Emily A. Olcott and Mrs. J. J. Gilchrist, in which an invitation was extended to all citizens and ladies of the place to assemble at a public tea party, and take into consideration the subject of improving the grounds of the Cemetery, and to devise means and take measures therefor. This resulted in a very large attendance, who were fully united in the object in view; and a Committee was appointed to get up a festival for the whole town on the following 4th of July, for the purpose of obtaining means for their intended improvements. At this festival four hundred dollars was the sum obtained, and the following persons were appointed a committee to expend it. Deacon Moses Putnam, Henry Hubbard, Jr., Silas P. Mack, Samuel L. Fletcher Abram D. Hull, Mrs. J. DeForest Richards, Mrs. Emily A. Olcott, Mrs. Laura Cushing, Mrs. Helen J. Tidd and Mrs. Theodosia Evans. The walks were laid out under the general direction of the committee, and the evergreens that now so pleasantly shade them were set out by their mutual agreeement. Abram D. Hull, Esq., was employed to set out the pines, but the balsams that are seen in the yaard were set out by Deacon Moses Putnam and were brought by him from Unity. I will merely say further that the town now yearly appropriates one hundred dollars for keeping the Cemetery in order. Money was appropriated in 1870 for bringing a fountain into the enclosure and the selectmen were appointed a committee with others to do it, but for some reason not known to the writer it has never been done. CEMETERIES AT THE NORTH PART OF THE TOWN p.708 The village cemetery was the only burying place in town till 1792, at which time the town purchased and set apart for a burial place the old ground at North Charlestown. At this time members of families belonging to the north part of the town who had been buried in this cemetery, were disinterred and buried there. This continued to be the only cemetery at the north until 1852, when the present one was purchased by the town. This is a very pleasant spot of elevated ground lying about forty or fifty rods beyond the junction of the River road with the main road leading to Claremont (NH). It is pleasantly laid out and contains a fountain for which money was appropriated at the same time that the appropriation was made for the village Cemetery. The Cemetery also contains a number of quite tasteful monuments, among which we may instance those erected to Mr. Jesse and George Farwell, Eliphalet Bailey, Artimesia Westcott and John Metcalf. The Walker monument of brown-stone is also a very handsome structure. The name of the Cemetery is HOPE HILL and one hundred dollars is yearly appropriated for its care by the town. Much credit it due to Horace Metcalf, Esq., for many of the improvements connected with this pleasant cemetery. The following from the stone erected to the memory of Thomas Swan, speaks for itself: "Thomas Swan d. Nov 23d 1772 in his 28th year. Children yet unborn will reverence his name when they find by his last will he gave the town of Charlestown one hundred pounds, the interest of which to be appropriated to the sole purpose of keeping a school in that part of said town know by the name of the town plot." In connection with this gift came the Park now generally called from the donar: Swan Park. Little is known of Mr. Swan save that he was a very intelligent young merchant in Charlestown who died early. He was probably one of the younger children of Rev. Josiah Swan the 2nd minister of old Dunstable but who after leaving Dunstable became a celebrated teacher in Lancaster, Mass and in Walpole, NH. __________________________________________________________________ Transcribe by Janice Farnsworth

History of Charlestown, NH, The Old No. 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson printed at Claremont, NH 1876 Chapter 1 Part 3 Circumstances Connected with the Granting of No. 4 p.6 At a Great and General Court held in Boston the Twenty- fourth day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-six the following Vote passed the two Houses and was Consented to by the Governor viz't. Voted - That Thomas Wells of Deerfield, Esq. be and hereby is empowered to assemble the Grantees of the Township Number Four on the East Side and next adjoining to Connecticut River giving timely Notice to the said Grantees admitted into said Township by the Committee of this Court to meet and assemble at some Suitable Place in order to Choose a Moderator and Proprietor's Clerk and Committee to Allot and Divide their Lands and to Dispose of the same and to Pass such Votes and Orders as by them may be thought Conducive for the Speedy ful- fillment of their grants and also to agree upon methods for Calling of meetings for the future, provided none of their Votes Concerning the Dividing and Disposing of their Land that shall be passed while they are under the Care and Direction of the Committee of this Court shall be of force before they are Allowed of by the said Committee." By the words "At a great and General Court held in Boston on Nov. 24, 1736, etc," it does not mean that the above vote was passed on that day for it was not passed till the December following. The committee consisting of eleven persons from both houses of the General Court had proceeded in the discharge of their duty to lay out the specified townships on the Connecticut River and had sub- sequently in the month of September, 1736, given notice to the petitioners to meet at Concord, Massachusetts, for the purpose of complying with the conditions on which they would be granted. *A large number attended the meeting (*see Hist. of Northfield, p. 226 for names of the sixty bondsmen and also the proprietors, see Miscellany) of whom sixty complied with the conditions prescribed and were admitted as grantees. The south bound of Township No. 1, was placed at a point on the river four and one half miles and twenty rods north of the southerly end of Merry's Meadow which would be near the present dividing line be- tween Hinsdale and Chesterfield. The north bound of No. 4, was in the upper part of the present town of Charlestown, NH. The plat of these town ships know by the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 was accepted by the General Court, Nov. 30, 1736, and December 13, the following persons were appointed and empowered to call the first meeting of the several proprietors for orani- zation, viz: Samuel Chamberlain of Westford, for No. 1 (Chesterfield) Nathaniel Harris of Watertown, for No. 2 (Westmoreland) John Flint of Concord, for No. 3 (Walpole) Thomas Wells, Esq., of Deerfield, for No. 4 (Charlestown) ~~~~~~~~~~ p.7 Thomas Wells, Esq., of Deerfield, having been empowered to call the first meeting of the Grantees of No. 4, re- cords his notification as follows: Hampshire ss. Deerfield, March 29, 1737 "Pursuant to the order or authority above granted to me the Subscriber, I have caused the grantees or the prop- rietors of the Township of Number 4 above mentioned to be notified to meet at the house of Joseph Billings of Hatfield on Tuesday the Fifth of April next at Ten o'clock in the forenoon by Posting notifications of the Time, place and occasion of Said Meeting in Towns of Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, Deerfield and Sunderland the places where the Grantees dwell." This meeting was notified on the petition of Jonathan Wells of Deerfield and met at the time and place appoint- ed. Capt. Thomas Wells of Deerfield was chosen Moderator, and Benjamin Dickinson of Hatfield, Proprietor's Clerk; and the following persons viz. Capt. Thomas Wells, Capt Nathaniel Coleman, Lieut. Joseph Clesson, John Catlin, and Noah Wright were voted committee for the township, whose duty it should be, as early as convenient to re- pair to it, and inspect it, and in the first place, lay out sixty three house lots upon upland, in the most de- fensible manner they could, agreeably to the order of the General Court, in the place which had been previously selected by the Proprietors, or if on examination, any other location should be adjudged more convenient, it was left discretionary with them to lay them out there. They were then to proceed to divide the meadow and inter- val lands in the township into into one or more divisions "to and amongst the proprietors: as on inspection, they might consider most conducive to their interest; yet it was left to the direction of the committee either to make a division of the whole of the meadow land, or only a part of it, as they should judge best. The committee were also directed to lay out convenient and necessary highways in the township, and in all the divisions of the lands. They were moreover directed to ascertain convienient places for a corn mill, and saw mill, and make a report of doings in the premises for the confirma- tion of the proprietors, at their next meeting; the whole to be done at the charge of the proprietors. The following method was also adopted for calling sub- sequent meetings, viz. That Five of the proprietors of Said Township, applying themselves to the Clark (clerk) of Said Proprietors, in their application setting forth the Time, Place and and Occasion of Said Meeting; and the clerk Setting up Notifications in the towns of Northampton, Hadley, Hat- field and Deerfield, five days at least before the time of Said Meeting; Setting forth also in said Notifications the Time, Place and Occasion of Said Meeting shall be sufficient for the calling of a meeting of the Said Proprietors for the future." p.8 The following vote was also passed at this meeting. "Voted - By the proprietors that they will Choose a Committee to require an account of those persons, that were entrusted with the money for Carrying on the Petition for the afore said Township; and also to receive from the former Committee an account of their Charge in Laying view- ing the land in said township; and their charge in laying out and dividing the same, so far as they proceeded; and that the said committee, when the accounts are adjusted, to lay the Same before the Proprietors to pass thereon, at their next meeting." "Voted - That Capt. Isael Williams, Noah Wright and Nathaniel Kellogg be a Committee for the End afore Said. The next meeting of the proprietors is thus recorded in the Proprietors' Records page 11. "At a meeting of the proprietors of the Township0 of No. 4, on the East Side of the Connecticut River, at the House of Joseph Billings, in Hatfield on Tuesday, the 28th of June, Anno Domini, 1737. 1st. Voted - That Capt. Nathaniel Coleman of Hatfield, be Moderator of the Proprietors' Meeting. 2d. Voted - The whole accompts that hath been past of money expended and Labour done for bringing forward the Settlement of said Township. 3d. Voted - That the whole accompts here rendered, in proportion be paid by each man, before he draws his Lotts. 4th. Voted - The sum of fourteen pounds money, be granted to be Improved for Making and cutting a Road, as the dir- ection of the proprietors shall be hereafter. 5th. Voted - That Ensign Zach. Field of Northfield and Orlando Bridgeman of Fort Dummer be a committee with their assistants for marking and cutting a Road. 6th. Voted - That each proprietor shall pay his portions of money agreed upon by the Proprietors before he draws his Lots. 7th Voted - That the lots (viz.) No. 14, 15, and 19 to 38, that is not judged in quality, equivolent to other lots, that the committee that shall hereafter be chosen shall determine how and what land each one shall have, to make those lots equivolent to the other lots. 8th Voted - That they make choice of Joseph Billings of Hatfield, Proprietor's Treasurer. 9th Voted - That they allow Nathaniel Dickenson of Hat- field three shillings (O.T.) for bringing up the Proprietor's Book. 10th Voted - That the Several divisions of Lots that are now Laid out, be drawn for by those that have paid their money* (see miscellany for this drawing) (below) p.633 Historical Miscellany Grantees Admitted to No. 4 (Note: these are grantees - see the List of the Original Proprietors p. 634.) The following list is copied from one in possession of the Hon. George Sheldon of Deerfield, Mass., and contains the names of the persons who gave bonds to the value of forty pounds for fulfilling the conditions which were enjoined by the Act of the General Court of Massachusetts on all who were admitted as grantees. The heading is as follows: "A list of grantees admitted into the Township No. Four on the East Side of Connecticut River above the Great Falls: viz., Those that gave Bonds." Capt. Jonathan Wells; Samuel Barnard; David Field, on his father's Right; Joseph Clesson; Joseph Severance; Mary Wells, on David Hoit's Right; John Datting, on Joseph Cotton's Right; Benjamin Mun on John Mun's Right; John Nims; Thomas Wells; Thomas Wells for John Wells, heirs, John Hensdall, on John Arm's Right; Daniel Belden, on Wm. Belden's Right; Jno. Wait; Jno Fitch;, on Benjamin Field's Right; Samuel Moody on Thomas Hovey's Right; Nathaniel Coleman on John Well's of Hatfield's Right; Benjamin Field, on John Ellis's Right; Jonathan Bridgeman for James Bridgeman's heirs; Samuel Dickinson; Samuel Dickinson on Samuel Church's Right; John Smith; Martha Warner for her father, Daniel Warner; Stephen Crowfoot; Joseph Eastman for John Montague's heirs; Samuel Church for Nathaniel Warner's heirs; Joseph Wait on Benjamin Wait's Right; Nathaniel Dickinson the third; Aaron Graves for John Graves; Ebenezer Nims; Benjamin Dickinson for Samuel Foot's heirs; Daniel Russell for Thomas Russell's heirs; Jesse Warner, on Samuel Warner's Right; Samuel Gilbert on John Bridgman's Right; Joseph Smith; John Dickinson on Joseph Church's Right; Eliphalet Allis for Samuel Allis' heirs; Ebenezer Barnard for Thomas Barnard's heirs; Richard Billings; Israel Williams and Joseph Marsh for John Marsh's heirs; Nathaniel Colman, Jun., on Robert Boltwood's Right; Samuel Boltwood; Ebenezer Sheldon; Nathaniel Wait; Solomon Boltwood; Joshua Belding for Stephen Belding; Nathan Dickinson for Ebenezer Dick- inson; Ebenezer Warner; Nathaniel Ingraham for Jonathan Ingraham; Joseph Billings on Zach. Field's Right, of Hat- field; Joseph Wright; Noah Wright for his father, Joseph Wright; John Bridgman; Benjamin Stebbings; Zachariah Field, Northfield; Nathaniel Kellogg; Thomas Stearnes; Noah Jones; and Jeremiah Ballard to give bond to Col. Willard. By Order of the Committee, John Chandler, Jr. & Josiah Willard - Copy from file examined by Simon Frost. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ p.634 Original Proprietors of No. 4. Joseph Clesson, Deerfield Capt. Stevens, Rutland Stephen Crowfoot, Hadley Samuel Church, Hadley James Severance, Northfield Benjamin Stebbins, Northampton Samuel Smith, Northfield Ebenezer Nims, Deerfield Daniel Russell, Sunderland Samuel Gillit, Hatfield Daniel Belden, Deerfield Benjamin Dickinson, Deerfield Nathaniel Dickinson, Northfield Jos'a Wright, Northfield John Smith, Hatfield Benjamin Field, Hatfield Thomas Wells, Deerfield Waitstill Hastings, Hatfield Joshua Belden, Hatfield Nathanial Kellogg, Hadley Stephen Kellogg, Hadley Daniel Warner, Hatfield Nathan Dickinson, Hatfield Richard Billings, Hatfield Jonathan Bridgman Aaron Graves, Hatfield John Wait, Hatfield Jonathan Wells, Esq. Deerfield John Nims, Deerfield James Billings Hatfield Ebenezer Warner, Hatfield Noah Wright, Northfield Lieut. Wetherby Ebenezer Barnard, Deerfield Orlando Bridgman, Northfield Samuel Dickinson, Deerfield Elisha Perkins, Hadley John Fitch, Northampton Stephen Farnsworth, Groton (founder 1740) John Field, Hatfield Eliphalet Allis Nathaniel Coleman, Hatfield Joseph Smith, Hatfield Joseph Wait, Hatfield Nathaniel Coleman, Northfield Zachariah Field Samuel Field, Deerfield Jesse Warner, Deerfield Samuel Mitchel, Deerfield David Hoit, Deerfield Nathaniel Coleman, Hatfield Joseph Eastman, Hadley John Catlin, Deerfield John Dickinson, Hatfield Thomas Wells, Deerfield Author's note: It appears from the above table that there were four proprietors' rights which were not drawn. Two of these proprietors were Deacon William Dickinson of Hadley and Capt Israel Williams of Hatfield. The other two probably were Obadiah Dickinson, of Hat- field and Mr. John Hinsdell. The proprietors appear to have been among the substantial men of Hampshire County and several of them had at the time, or obtained subsequently, no little distinction. Amond whom we mention Capt. Israel Williams, Orlando Bridgman of Bridgman's Fort, Capt. Nathaniel Coleman Capt Zachariah Field, Jonathan and Thomas Wells, John Catlin, Nathaniel Kellogg and Noah Wright all of whom acted well their part in their time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Only three of the original founders so far as it has been ascertained became settlers of No. 4 (Charlestown) These were Stephen Farnsworth, Lieut. Ephraim Wetherbe (written Witherby and sometimes Wetherbee) and Capt. Phineas Stevens. Samuel Farnsworth was killed in an Indian attack at the fort and David Farnsworth returned to Groton prior to becoming a permanent resident. Lieut Obadiah Dickinson, Lieut Joseph Clesson and Lieut Joseph Billings retained their proprietors' rights for a few years. It is possible that Mr. Billings might have settled in town for a short time, as his name occurs among the proprietors under the New Hampshire Charter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ End Part 3 To be continued Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

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History of Charlestown, NH, The Old No. 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson printed at Claremont, NH 1876 Chapter 1 Part 2 p.3 After the petition of New Hampshire for a divisional line between the two provinces, during the years 1735-1736 and while the decision of His Majesty was still pending, the General Court of Massachusetts Bay granted above thirty townships between the rivers Merrimac and the Connecticut; which townships upon the running (that is determining) of the divisional line in 1738, fell with- in the Province of New Hampshire; and among them were those granted under the designations: No. 1., No. 2., No. 3., and No. 4; which are the present townships of Chesterfield, Westmoreland, Walpole and Charlestown.; which though they had fallen within the limits of New Hampshire, were all subsequently settled in dependence upon their grants received from Massachusetts. The settlers, therefore, as their grants had emanated from an authority which had no jurisdiction over the soil, had, as it was claimed, no valid title to their lands. And this they must have known, as the final decree of his Majesty fixing the boundary line, bears date March 5, 1740; and we find a petition of the proprietors of No. 4 dated Sept 29, 1740 to His Majesty, praying to be re- annexed to the Massachusetts Province, to which they had supposed they belonged. This was before any considerable settlement had been made. But notwithstanding their title was uncertain, we find that the settlement was still continued, though for the most part under differ- ent proprietors till 1753; when in consequence of the re- port of the Attorney and Solicitor General in relation to what was right and proper to be done concerning those townships which had been granted by Massachusetts, in which it was substantially recommended, that proprietors who had made improvements on their lands, should be con- firmed in the rights and privileges given them by their grants from that State, application was made by petition to New Hampshire to that effect, which was readily and cheerfully granted. Thus Charlestown was for between twelve and thirteen years after it settlement substant- ially a Massachusetts town. The circumstances which led to the granting of the above mentioned townships by the Province of Massachusetts within the limits of New Hampshire, are explained by the action of her General Court in the years 1735 - 1736. A large number of petitions having been presented to the General Court, asking for grants of townships, a committ- ee was appointed on the 14th of January 1735 and "the next day January 15th 1735, Edmund Quincy, Esq., from the committee of both Houses on the petitions for town ships etc., gave in the following report." Report. The Committee appointed, the Fourteenth Currant, to take into Consideration the several Petitions for Townships, now before the Court, and report what may be proper for the Court to do thereon, Having met and maturely considered the same, are humbly of opinion, that there be a careful View and Survey of the Lands between Merrimack and Connecticut Rivers from the North West Corner of Rumford on Merrimack to the Great Falls on Connecticut, of twelve miles, at the least, in breadth, or North and South, by a committee of Eleven Able and Suitable Persons, to be appointed by this court. Who shall after a due knowledge of the nature and circumstances thereof, lay the same into as many townships of the contents of six miles square, as the land in wedth as aforesaid will allow of; no township to be more than six miles east and west. And also lay out the land on the east side of Connecticut River, from said falls to the township laid out to Josiah Willard and others into as many townships of the contents of six miles square as the same will allow of, and also the land on the west side of the Connecticut River from said Falls to the equivalent land into one or two townships of the contents of six miles square, if the same will allow thereof, five of which committee to be a quorum for surveying and laying out the town- ships on each from Rumford to Connecticut River as a- foresaid; and Three of the Committee aforenamed shall be a Quorum for surveying and laying out the townships on each side of the Connecticut River as aforesaid. And that the said committee make report of their doings to this court at their Sessions in May next or as soon as conveniently they can, that so the persons whose names are contained in the several petitions hereafter mention- ed viz.; In the Petition of Hopkinton; In the petition of Salis- bury and Almsbury; In the petition of Cambridge; In the petition of Bradford and Wenham; in the petition of Haverhill; In the petition of Milton and Brookline; In the petition of Samuel Chamberlain and Jonathan Jewett; and in the petition of Nathaniel Harris, etc.; in the petition of Stephens and Goulden and others; In the petition of Morgan Cobb etc., Jonathan Welles etc., Lyscombe and Jonathan Powers etc., John Whitman, Esq., Samuel Haywood etc., Josiah Fassett and others, John Flynt and others, Jonathan Howard and others, of Bridge- water that have not heretofore been admitted grantees or settlers within the space of seven years last past of or in any former or other grant of a township or particular grant on condition of settling; and that shall appear and give security to the value of forty pounds to perform the conditions that shall be enjoined by this Court; may by the major part of the committee be admitted grantees into one of the said townships; The committee to give public notice of the time and place of their meeting to admit the grantees, which committee shall be impowered to employ surveyors and chainmen to assist them in surveying and laying out said townships; the Province to bear the charge and be repaid by the grant- ees who may be admitted, the whole charge they shall advance. Which committee we apprehend ought to be dir- ected and impowered to admit sixty settlers in each township and take their bonds payable to the committee and their successors in the said Trust, to the use of the Province for the performance of the conditions of their Grant, viz't. That each grantee build a dwelling house of eighteen feet square and seven feet stud at the least on their respective home lots and fence in and break up for plowing or clear and stock with English grass five acres of land within three years next after their admittance and cause their respective lots to be inhabited, and that the grantees do within the space of three years from the time of their being admitted to build and finish a convenient meeting house for the public worship of God, and settle a learned orthodox minister; and in case of the grantees shall fail or neglect to perform what is enjoined as above. The Committee shall be obliged to put the bonds in suit and take possession of the lots and the rights that shall become forfeit and proceed to grant them to other persons that will appear to fulfill the conditions within one year next after the said last mentioned grant. And if a sufficient number of petit- ioners that have no grant within seven years as afore said (viz't. sixty to each township) do not appear others may be admitted provided they have fulfilled the conditions of their former grant. The committee to take care that there be sixty three house lots laid out in as regular compact and defensible a manner as the land will allow of. One of which lots shall be for the first settled minister. One for the second settled minister and one for the School. To each of which an equal proportion of land shall accrue in all future divisions. Fryday, January 16, 1735 In the House of Representatives. Ordered: That Joseph Gerrish, Benjamin Prescott, Josiah Willard, Job Almy Esquires, Mr. Moses Pierson and Capt. Joseph Gould with such as the Honorable Board shall join be a committee to all intents and purposes to effect the business projected by the report of the committee of Both Houses to consider the petitions for townships which passed this day, viz't: On the proposed line between Merrimack and Connecticut Rivers and on both sides of Connecticut Rivers and that there be granted and allowed to be paid out of the public treasury after the rate of fifteen shillings per diem (to each of the committee) for every day he is in the service in the woods and subsistence, and ten shillings per diem for every day to each one of the said committee while in the service in admitting settlers into the said township, and subsistence to be paid as aforesaid. In council, read and concurred, and William Dudley, Samuel Welles, Thomas Berry, Joseph Wilder, and John Chandler, Jun'r., Esquires are joined with the committee of the House for the Line between Merrimack and Connecti cut Rivers, etc. _____________________________________________________ End Part 2

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica Sullivan, John b. , Feb. 17, 1740, Somersworth, N.H. d. Jan. 23, 1795, Durham, N.H., U.S.early U.S. political leader and Revolutionary War officer who won distinction for his defeat of the Iroquois Indians and their Loyalist allies in western New York (1779). An attorney, Sullivan was elected to the New Hampshire provincial congress (1774) and served at the First Continental Congress, in Philadelphia, the same year. In June 1775 he was appointed brigadier general in the Continental Army and aided in the siege of Boston. The following year he was ordered to Canada to command the retreating American troops after the death of their commander at the disastrous Battle of Quebec (Dec. 31, 1775). Sullivan shortly rejoined Gen. George Washington and, after being promoted to major general, participated in the Battle of Long Island (August 1776), where he was taken prisoner. Exchanged in December, he led the right column in Washington's successful attack on Trenton, N.J. (December 1776), but a night attack on Staten Island in August was unsuccessful. In 1779 Sullivan was commissioned to lead an expedition in retaliation for British-inspired Indian raids in the Mohawk Valley of New York. With 4,000 troops he routed the Iroquois and their Loyalist supporters at Newtown, N.Y. (near present Elmira), burning their villages and destroying their crops. He thus earned the thanks of Congress (October 1779), but ill health forced him to resign from military service soon afterward. Sullivan continued in public service for 15 years, however: as a delegate to the Continental Congress (1780-81), state's attorney general (1782-86), New Hampshire governor (1786-87, 1789), presiding officer of the state convention that ratified the federal Constitution (1788), and U.S. district judge (1789-95). ____________________________________________________________________

"An Old Town by the Sea" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich...the full text book online The complete hypertext of Aldrich's classic story of Portsmouth, NH. <A HREF="http://seacoastnh.com/aldrich/oldtownindex.html">Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- "An Old Town by the ...</A> Old Town Index Click on page number to go to story location. Adams, Nathaniel ............19, 75 Addison, Joseph .............60 Allen, Willam ...............68 Ananias .....................113 Atkinson, Theodore ..........89, 103 Austin, Rebecca .............75 Beaujolais, Duc de ..........35 Blay, Ruth ..................73 Boggs, Amos .................92 Brewster, Charles Warren ....32, 40, 51, 78, 82, 97 Bridget, Molly ..............72 Brown, Rev. Arthur ..........52 Brown, Captain Elhu D .......12 Bruce, Cyrus ................78 Burroughs, Rev. Dr. Charles .37 Byles, Rev Mather ...........102 Caroline, Queen .............29 Chadborn, Humphrey ..........7 Charles, Prince .............5 Chastellux, Marquis de ......35 Clagett, Wyseman ............94 Copley, John Singleton ......38 D' Orleans, Duc .............36 Dunyon, William .............119 Elizabeth, Queen ............63 Fenton, John ................59 Fowle, Daniel ...............76 Fowle, Primus ...............77 Franklin, Benjamin ..........43 Furber, Thomas ..............77 George I ....................60 Gerry, Elbridge .............49 Gorges, Sir Ferdinand .......6 Guast, Pierre de ............4 Ham, Supply .................43 Hancock, John ...............49 Hawthorne, Nathaniel ........11, 93 Hilton, Martha ..............51 Holmes, Oliver Wendell ......57 Holmes, Sol .................111 Jaffrey, George .............99 Jeffries, George Jaffrey ....101 Jewett, Sarah Orne ..........122 Keais, Samuel ...............67 Kekuanaoa ...................13 Kenny, Penelope .............73 Knox, General Henry .........49 Lafayette, Marquis de .......49 Laighton, Albert ............73 Laighton, Oscar .............25 Langdon, Colonel John .......34 Lear, Benjamin ..............84 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth .50, 107 Macpheadris, Archibald ......39 McDonough, James ............92 Mason, Jeremiah .............101 Mason, John .................6, 63 Mason, John Tufton ..........29 March, Clement ..............72 Mather, Rev. Cotton .........69 Meserve, George .............18 Michelangelo ................65 Mitchel, Lettice ............95 Moffatt, Catherine ..........87 Moliere .....................96 Montpensier, Duc de .........35 Moses, Joseph ...............102 Newman, Edward ..............109 Noble, Mark .................47 Odiorne, Eben L. ............32 Packer, Thomas ..............73 Peduzzi, Dominic ............119 Penhallow, Wibird ...........113 Pepperell, Sir William ......26, 80 Pepys, Samuel ...............35 Philippe, Louis .............50 Phippes, Thomas .............67 Phipps, Governor ............42 Pickering, John .............20, 65 Pitt, William ...............48 Pottle, William .............48 Pring, Martin ...............1 Quincy, Dorothy .............57 Rochambeau,Count de .........35 Rousselet, Nicholas .........87 Rutledge, Edward ............49 Serat, Leonard ..............86 Sewell, Jonathan ............74 Shakespeare .................84 Sheafe, Jacob ...............92 Sherburne, Henry ............30 Shurtleff, Mary Atkinson ....89 Shurtleff, Rev. William .....89 Simpson, Sarah ..............73 Smith, Captain John .........3 Socrates ....................90 Stavers, Dame ...............51 Stavers, John ...............45, 75 Stedman, Edmund Clarence ....26 Stoodley, James .............28 Thaxter, Celia ..............25 Thoreau, Henry David ........84 Tilton, Johnny ..............97 Towle, George William .......112 Walton, George ..............69 Warner, Jonathan ............40 Washington, George ..........34, 83 Webster, Daniel .............97 Wentworth, Benning ..........51 Wentworth, John .............39 Wentworth, John 2nd .........58 Wentworth, Colonel Joshua ...101 Wentworth, Mary .............39 Wentworth, Michael ..........54 Wentworth, Sarah ............39 Westwere, Edward ............65 Whittier, John Greenleaf ....15 Wibird, Richard .............9 Wilkins, Mary E .............122 Winn, Timothy ...............86 Wither, George ..............5 Zantippe ....................90

Source: Savage Dictionary of First Settlers (extract) PAGE, JOHN, Watertown, came in the fleet with Winthrop made constable 19 Oct. 1630, when he req. to be freem. and was adm. 18 May foll.; was from Dedham. Co. Essex, with w. and two ch. whose suffer. in the fist winter were duly thot. of by this former minister, blessed John Rogers. See Winthrop I. 47. His wife was Phebe, sister of William Paine and of the w. of William Hammond of W. name. Elizabeth who d. 25 Sept. 1677, in 87 yr.; he died 18 Dec. preced. aged a. 90 and their ch. were John, prob. one of the two brot. from Eng.; Samuel, b. 20 Aug. 1633; Daniel, 10 Aug. 1634, died very soon; and Elizabeth Mary and Phebe, of whom one may have been b. in Eng. Phebe was third w. of James Cutler. PAGE, SAMUEL, Concord, s. of first John. By his wife Hannah had Hannah, b. 10 Feb. 1668; Samuel, 5 Jan. 1671; Ebenezer, 17 Jan. 1676; Mildred; Mercy; Elizabeth; *Sarah; and Experience; and he died at Watertown. All the ch. except *Samuel, who was in S. C. agreed with their widowed mother in 1704 on division of estate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PAGE Source: Farnsworth Memorial p.204 Isaac Farnsworth b. July 4, 1701 at Groton, MA son of Benjamin Farnsworth and his wife, Mary Prescott. Isaac Farnsworth m. April l723 *Sarah PAGE dau of *Samuel PAGE of South Carolina (see Bond's History of Watertown, MA p. 383. Res: Lunenburg, MA He held various offices there. Town Clerk for l0 yrs. (see also several Page Tombstones at the Old Burying Ground, Groton, MA:) <A HREF="http://c-23.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ma/middlesex/towns/groton/cem etery/oldburial.txt">Old Burying Ground, Groton, MA</A> He d. Dec. l7, l744 (see p. 208 for their 7 children all born at Lunenburg, MA) One of their seven children was: p.209 Farnsworth Memorial Lydia Farnsworth b. July 1730 at Lunenburg, MA dau of Isaac Farnsworth and his wife, Sarah Page of Lunenburg, MA. Lydia Farnsworth m. Josiah Farwell b. ca 1726 at Groton, MA son of William Far- well. Their children: 1. Lydia Farwell b. 1751 m. Moses Willard Jr. son of Lieut. Moses Willard Sr. and his wife Susanna Hastings of Fort 4 N.H. 2. Hannah Farwell b. 1753 d. 1753. 3. Josiah Farwell Jr. b. 1754 m. (1) Susanna ___? m. (2) Mary Latham. 4. Mary Farwell b. 1756 m. Calvin Judevine. 5. Anna Farwell b. ca 1761 m. Frederick Locke. 6. Oliver Farwell b. 1763 m. Eusebia Grout 7. Deborah Farwell b. 1765 m. Nathan Allen of Fort No. 4 8. Hannah Farwell b. 1767 at Charlestown, NH Fort No. 4 m. Benjamin Labaree 9. Olive Farwell b. ca 1769 at Charlestown, NH Fort No. 4 m. Rufus Labaree 10. Henry Farwell b. 1770 m. (1) Anne Pattee and m. (2) Margaret Pattee. See all pertinent Fort 4 surnames posted at: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nh/sullivan/charlestown.htm">Charlesto wn, Sullivan County, NH Family History</A> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Source: Farnsworth Memorial Samuel Farnsworth/Mary (Whitcomb) Willard Line, Groton, MA p.358 Mary Crew Farnsworth b. Sep. l3, l707 dau of Samuel Farnsworth and his wife Mary (Whitcomb) Willard Farns- worth of Groton MA. Mary Crew Farnsworth was the sister of David, Stephen and Samuel Farnsworth, founders of Fort No. 4, Charlestown, N.H. Mary Crew Farnsworth m. at Kingston, on Nov. 8, l727 *Jonathan PAGE, Jr. of Lunenburg, MA. He b. June 5, 1710 and he d. Aug. 30, l75l. (*see his tombstone at Groton below) *p.19 Epitaphs, Old Burying Ground, Groton, MA Tombstone (Death's Head) Here Lies Buried Ye Body of Mr. Jonathan Page First Son of Ensine Jonat' & Mrs. Mary Page who Departed This Life August the 30 A.D. 175l In ye 42 year of His Age. Author's Note He was born June 5, 1710. She d. May 22, l770. He was one of the proprietors of Charlestown, N.H. Fort No. 4. p.36l Jonathan Page Jr. and his wife Mary Crew Farnsworth resided at Lunenburg MA before removing to Fort 4, Charlestown NH. It has been difficult to learn much of this family but the following are supposed to be their children born at Lunenburg: l. Peter Page b. l745 m. l765 Sarah Farnsworth b. l748 at Charlestown, NH He prob. had a 2d wife, Mary ___ He was one of the selectmen of Charlestown l778-9 and l784. He was Captain in l780 in Col. Moses Nichols' regiment, raised for the defense of West Point. 2. Phineas Page removed to Charlestown NH when a young man He m. Sarah Larabee dau of Peter Larabee, Jr. b. l2 June l754. They later settled at Fairfax, Vt. (3 children) 3. Benjamin Page m. Susanna _____and removed from Lunen- burg MA to Charlestown, NH l768 (4 children) p.363 Peter Page and his wife, Sarah Farnsworth had issue at Charlestown, NH l. Peter Page b. Feb 5, l767 m. l790 Eunice Billings Res: Charlestown, NH (3 children) 2. Parthena Page b. Dec. 6, l769 m. l788 Major Jonathan Grout son of Elijah and Mary (Willard) Grout of Lunen burg, MA Major Grout b. Apr 24, l760. Major Grout m. (2) the widow Mary (King) Prouty. She died and he m. (3) Lydia Putnam b. Dec. l0, l794. He was 73 when he m. Lydia Putnam. He d. l854 and she d. l876. 3. Patty Page b. l772 did marry. 4. Enos Page b. l774 m. Asenath West b. l780 5. Polly Page b. July l776 6. Eli Page b. Nov. l779. (see also PAGE family genealogy p.497 from the History of Fort 4 - listed below). Surname: PAGE Source: History of Charlestown NH, the Old Fort No. 4. by Rev. Saunderson p.497 Jonathan Page one of the proprietors of Charlestown under the New Hampshire charter, m. l727 at Turkey Hills, Mary Farnsworth dau of Samuel Farnsworth and wife, Mary (Whitcomb) Willard Farnsworth.� She b. l707 (see Farnsworth Memorial and Butler's History of Groton, MA p. 45l) She was the sister of Samuel, David and Stephen Farnsworth who founded Fort 4 in 1740. ________________________________________________________________

Surname: Farnsworth Source 1: Farnsworth Memorial by Moses Farnsworth Source 2: History of Charlestown, NH - Fort No. 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson p. 364 Farnsworth Memorial - Samuel Farnsworth Line Abijah Farnsworth b. Mar 12, 1770 son of Oliver Farns- worth and his wife, Elizabeth Wheeler of Charlestown, NH and Woodstock, VT. Oliver Farnsworth was the son of Stephen Farnsworth one of the three brothers who founded Fort 4, Charlestown, NH in 1740. Abijah Farnsworth m. Betsey Peck. See p.372 for their children. p.372 Farnsworth Memorial Abijah Farnsworth and his wife, Betsey Peck had issue at Windsor, VT: 1. Oliver Farnsworth b. June 18, 1796 went to Canada and learned the carpentry trade. After returning, he m. (1) in 1820 Nancy Rice; she d. 1824 and he m. (2) Jan 18, 1827 Edna King b. Apr. 11 1810 at Boston MA. He d. Dec 24 1882 near Hicksville, Ohio. (see p. 379 for the children by Rice and King) 2. Elijah Farnsworth went to Canada and became a car- penter. He is prob. the Elijah Farnsworth listed as age 47, living in Woodford Co., Illinois in 1850 with his wife, Mary Ann. William Green aged 17 was living with them, relationship, if any, unknown. 3. Betsey Farnsworth b. Nov 2, 1802 at VT m. Apr 10, 1828 Jared Pierce, Jr. b. ca 1802 at Oswego, NH and d. July 15, 1867, and was the son of Jared and Elsie (Groton) Pierce. 4. Esther Farnsworth died age 18 of spotted fever. 5. Abijah Farnsworth, Jr. b. ca 1804 m. Aug. 1826 Lucy Thomas of Woodstock, VT; she b. 1800 and d. Nov 16, 1845. 6. Samson (Sampson) Farnsworth b. ca 1803 m. Caroline (____) b. ca 1818 in NY. Between 1850 and 1880 they lived in Woodford County, Illinois. She d. before 1880 p.379 Oliver Nathan Farnsworth and his lst wife, Nancy Rice had issue: 1. Milo Rice Farnsworth b. Aug 21, 1822 m. Mar 25, 1844 Lucy S. Pardee b. Jan 21, 1822 at Cresco, IA. By his 2nd wife, Edna King, Oliver Nathan Farnsworth had: 2. Jane Augusta Farnsworth b. 1928 at Boston, MA m. March 30, 1845 at Milford OH, as his 2d wife, Royal Lord Taylor, b. 1821 in NY son of Rev. James and Liddia (Streeter) Taylor. He m. (1) June 3, 1840 Althea Parmelee who d. Apr. 1844. 3. Albert Farnsworth b. Mar 14,1830 at Boston, MA d. Apr 29, 1918 at Hicksville, OH. He m. Eliza Martin b. May 5, 1834 at Brandon, VT; d. Dec 21 1894 at Hicksville. 4. Francis Oliver Farnsworth b. Apr 2l, 1832 at Boston, MA d. Aug 13, 1923 at Hicksville. He m. 1864 Marg- aret Marrilla (Griswold) Farnsworth, the widow of his brother, Charles Henry Farnsworth (p.380) 5. Ellen Maria Farnsworth b. Feb 25, 1834 at Boston,MA d. 1907 at Hicksville. She m. 1852 at Hicksville, Clement Hulbert. 6. Eliza Ann Farnsworth b. Oct 10, 1836 in NYC d. Dec 20 1915 at Otsego, MI. She m. Nov 1, 1854 at Mil- ford, OH Jason Bradley Martin b. 1836 at Dover Ohio son of Reuben and Thankful (Bolton) Martin. 7. Charles Henry Farnsworth b. July 24, 1836 at Brook- field, OH and d. Mar 26, 1863 and buried in National Cemetery, Murfreesboro, TN. He m. Dec 24, 1861 at Dover, OH Margaret Marilla Griswold b. at Hicksville OH (she m. his brother Francis Oliver Farnsworth after his death) no children. 8. William Harrison Farnsworth b. Jul 1, 1841 a twin 9. Warren Joseph Farnsworth b. Jul 1, 1841 at Brookfield a twin to Wm H. (above) both died as infants, one month apart. 10. Lucy Minerva Farnsworth b. Jan 15, 1843 at Milford Twp., OH m. 1860 at Milford, OH Miles B. Beebe. 11. Mary Melissa Farnsworth b. 1846 at Milford, OH m. 1875 at Defiance County, Ohio, Sumner E. Johnson 1. Dwight Johnson m. Nellie ___ 1. Helen Johnson m. Merton McFeeters and had 4 children 2. Frances Johnson m. D. McClellan and had 5 children (the Johnson records end here) 12. Nathan Edwin Farnsworth b. 1849 at Milford Twp. De- fiance Co., Ohio m. 1876 at Bloomville, OH Martha Amanda Newman b. 1853 at Bloomville. 13. Edna Louise Farnsworth b. 1852 at Milfrod Twp m. Mr. Carey who d. Sep 14, 1871. __________________________________________________ Surname: Farnsworth Source: History of Charlestown, NH by Rev. H. H. Saunderson p. 341 David Farnsworth m. in Lunenburg, MA Aug 15, 1735 Hannah Hastings b. at Watertown Jan 24, 1717. (see Watertown by Bond at: <A HREF="http://sml.simplenet.com/kinnexions/bond/bondaz.htm">Bond Index </A> Hannah Hastings was the sister of Susanna Hastings who m. Liet. Moses Willard and was step-brother to the 3 Farnsworth brother who founded Fort 4. All married Hastings sisters. Stephen Farnsworth (brother of David Farnsworth, above) and Samuel Farnsworth, who was killed by the Indians at Fort 4) Stephen Farnsworth was the youngest brother and m. at Lunenburg MA Eunice Hastings b. at Watertown MA on Sep. 3, 1722 (see Bond's Watertown, MA at website given above) Their first child was Oliver Farnsworth born at Fort 4 1742 m. July 6, 1768 Elizabeth Wheeler dau of Moses and Elizabeth Wheeler b. 1750. For the History of Charlestown, NH (Fort No. 4) see my transcriptions posted at: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nh/sullivan/charlestown.htm">Charlesto wn, Sullivan County, NH Family </A> __________________________________________________________________ Files transcribed and compiled by Janice Farnsworth

Source: Farnsworth Memorial - Matthias Farnsworth Jr/Sarah Nutting Line, Groton MA 1600s p.45 Ebenezer Farnsworth b. Mar 22, 1726 son of Josiah Farnsworth son of Matthias Farnsworth, Jr. son of Matthias Farnsworth a first proprietor of Groton, MA Ebenezer Farnsworth b. 1726 son of Josiah Farnsworth and his wife Mary Pierce of Groton, MA. Ebenezer m. Sarah Walker dau of Seth Walker and his wife, Eleanor (Chandler) Walker. He settled at Charlestown, NH abt the year 1750 (the fort was founded by his 3 cousins, Stephen, Samuel and David Farnsworth in 1740) He was taken prisoner by the Indians with the Johnson family (famous for the "Memoirs of Captivity by Susanna Johnson wife of Capt. James Johnson) together with Mirriam Willard and Peter Labaree Aug 30, 1754 and carried to Canada where he remained until a short time before Montreal was surrendered to the English. Little is known of his captivity except for what is contained in the narrative of Mrs. Susanna Johnson for which see Saunderson's History of Charles- town, NH - the Old Fort No. 4 - p.445. Claudius B. Farnsworth in his monograph (available at Tuttle Books VT) p.39 says: "From there he was taken to England, whence he was sent home. After his return he joined in an expedition that was sent to Canada, during the war with France, and helped to take Isle Aux Noix, St. Johns and also Montreal; still later in the Rev. War he was in the army that made the attack on the same places, then held by the English." p.50 Ebenezer Farnsworth and his wife, Sarah Walker had issue at Charlestown, NH: 1. Levi Farnsworth b. April 1, 1763; died Jan 9, 1828 m. 1786 Sarah Jarvis b. 1768 d. Sep 22, 1753 at Westford, VT. He removed from NH to Halifax Plain, VT 1787. 2. Ebenezer Farnsworth Jr. b. July 12, 1765 d. Apr 25, 18l3 m. June 1792 Olive Hayden; she d. Dec. 24, 1820 He resided at Claremont, NH and he d. April 25, 1813 (see p. 344 Hist. of Fort 4) 3. Joel Farnsworth b. 1768 d. 1820 m. 1789 at Charlestown, NH Sarah Wilson b. 1768 d. 1839 both are buried at Westford, VT p.58 Ebenezer Farnsworth Jr. and his wife, Olive Hayden had issue at Charlestown, NH 1. Phila Farnsworth m. Jan 1815 John Parker and moved to Stowe VT He was the (probable) son of Elijah Parker and wife, Elizabeth (Farwell) Parker He was b. Feb 17, 1794 at Charlestown, NH 2. Seth Farnsworth b. 1795 grad D.C. 1822 A.B. Studied theology and ordained Oct 3, 1824 at the Congregational Church at Raymond, NH thence to Hillsboro NH He m. Amanda M. Utley He d. 1837 She d. 1838 Two daughters 3. Luman Farnsworth m. 1821 Hannah Allen 4. Ira Farnsworth b. 1799 d. 1860 at Fairfax, VT 5. Ebenezer Farnsworth 3rd b. ca 1801 6. Charles Farnsworth a blacksmith settled near Rochester, NY 7. Levi Farnsworth. p.58 Joel Farnsworth and his wife, Sarah Wilson had issue at Westford, VT 1. Ebenezer Farnsworth b. 1798 lef home in 1816 looking for work and was not ever seen again. Was reported to have been seen in northeast NY State 2. Amanda Farnsworth b. 1800 m. 1833 Heman Holmes of Cambridge, VT 3. Matilda (Martha) Farnsworth b. 1802 m. 1824 at Westford, VT as his 2nd wife, Russel L. Merchant 4. Wilson D. Farnsworth b. 1805 d. 1884 at Colchester, VT m. 1840 Mary Gallup b 1817 d. 1884 dau of Joseph and Mary (Bennett) Gallup of Cambridge, VT 5. Eunice Farnsworth b. 1807 d. 1870 m. 1841 George Dunlap of Westford, VT 1. Elvira Dunlap m. Henry McNall 2. Sarah Dunlap m. Alfred Varney 3. E. Vandor Dunlap <A HREF="http://c-23.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ma/middlesex/towns/groton/cem etery/oldburial.txt">Old Burying Ground, Groton, MA</A> <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nh/sullivan/charlestown.htm">Charlesto wn, Sullivan County, NH Family Histo...</A>

I currently have the book The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England, by Frederick Lewis WEIS. I would be happy to do look-up for those that think they have Clergy Members in the family. This covers early years (1700's) Let me know. Sue sue_fitzpatrick@amat.com

Somehow or other, Dahling, I have received parts 2 and 3 but no # 1, unless you gave it a different title. I have been saving them to my Charlestown file Thanks, Barbie ----- Original Message ----- From: <Farns10th@aol.com> To: <NHSULLIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 1999 1:56 PM Subject: [NHSULLIV-L] RANGERS PART 3 > The Rangers Part 3 > Source: History of Charlestown, NH - Fort No. 4 by Rev. > Henry H. Saunderson 1876 > Chapter 5 > p.93 > > During the continuance of the wars no permanent settle- > ment had been made north and west of Charlestown beyond > the Connecticut River. On the 3d of January 1749, Gov. > Wentworth had chartered the township of Bennington, now > in the State of Vermont, but which was then supposed to > be included in the territory of New Hampshire; and be- > tween that time and the 6th of April 1754, had made grants > of fourteen other townships, west of the Connecticut > River. But hostilities being resumed, no further grants > were asked for nor made. A few settlements had been > made west of the river and immediately bordering upon it, > which had been only temporary, as they had been broken > up during the war. > > Among these were Rockingham and Westminster. The settle- > ment which had been first made in 1744 in the present > town of Putney, and which had been renewed after the > peace of Aix la Chapelle, was also nearly if not quite > abandoned. A small settlement moreover opposite Charles- > town on unchartered lands in the present township of > Springfield, made in 1753, was given up.* > > The author footnotes here: > > * I find the following in Hall's History of Eastern Vermont, p. 116. > > "In the year 1753 before the commencement of the French > war and eight years previous to the date of the Charter > of the town of Springfield, Daniel Sawtell, Jacob Sawtell > Oliver Sawtell, Combs House, Samuel Douglas, Oliver > Farnsworth, Joseph Douglas, Noah Potter, Nathaniel Powers, > Simeon Powers, and Simeon Powers, Jr. being unable to > purchase lands in any of the inhabited towns of his > Majesty's provinces, while the lands in said Springfield > lay in the open wilderness, waste and untilled, without > yielding any revenue to his Majesty, or profits to his > subjects for the support of themselves, their wives and > their children, enter upon, till and improve part of the > lands in said Springfield. During the war they defended > their possessions at the peril of their lives and by the > loss of the lives some of their friends and neighbors > and were as a guard to those places located further down > the river which were exposed to the rage of an heathen > and savage foe. After the reduction of Canada and the > defeat of their enemies they renewed their labors > with greater energy, and succeeded in establishing a > prosperous and attractive settlement. The first charter > of the town was issued under the seal of New Hampshire, > on the 20th of August 1761." > > "At the conclusion of the war, Daniel Sawtell and his > associates petitioned Gov. Wentworth for a patent of the > lands which they had improved, or for such part thereof > as he should think fit." From some unaccountable reason > the Governor refused to assent to their request and on > the 20th of August 1761 gave a Charter of the whole town- > ship to Gideon Lyman and sixty one associates. Not one > of the original settlers was named in the instrument, and > thus they were placed entirely at the mercy of men who > were at liberty to dictate whatever terms they might > deem most subservient to their own interests." > > "Without any regard to the great dangers, and hard labor > which the early settlers had undergone in maintaining > possession of, and preparing for cultivation, the lands > which they had so long considered their own, the New > Hampshire grantees sued out writs of ejectment and ob- > tained judgements against them." Executions were then > issued, their possessions taken, they themselves were > threatened with imprisonment, in default of payment of > the costs and charges of the suits which had been de- > cided against them, and their families were thereby > brought to distress and want. Subsequently Nathaniel > Powers and twenty nine others, of whom a portion were the > original settlers, applied to Lieutenant Governor > Cadwallader Colden of New York, asking a recognition of > their right; but like the former, it met with a similar > reception and New York also finally gave a Charter to > Gideon Lyman and his associates." B. H. Hall. > > On the conquest of Canada, Walpole on the east side of > the river had only two families resident in it; those > of John Kilburn and Colonel Benjamin Bellows; and during > the war the township of Westmoreland had been entirely > deserted. But as soon as, by the reduction of Canada, it > was conceived that actual hostilities were over, most > of the original settlers immediately returned bringing > with them large accessions to their numbers; and the > forests, amid which the sounds of war only, had so long > been heard, began once more to resound with the echoes > of civilized life. > > While the wars continued with the French and Indians > numerous bodies of troops passed and repassed through > the country now known as the State of Vermont. The > soldiers perceived the fertility of the soil and immedi- > ately upon the cessation of hostilities a great crowd > of adventurers and speculators became eager for the > possession of those lands, and numerous applications > for charters of them were made to Governor Wentworth. > The applications were so numerous and the surveys were > extended so rapidly that, during the year 1761, not less > than sixty townships were granted on the west, and eight- > een on the east side of the Connecticut River. As the > Governor reserved five hundred acres in every township > for his own especial use, and often in addition, received > no inconsiderable gratuities from the grantees, he was > not less eager, on account of his personal profits in the > matter, to bestow grants than the people were to obtain > them. Therefore, scarcely two years more had elapsed, > before the number of townships on the west side of the > river amounted in all to one hundred and thirty-eight; > when it having been decided by the King, "That the > western bank of the Connecticut River from where it > enters the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, as far > north as the forty-fifth degree of latitude to be the > boundary line between the two provinces of New Hampshire > and New York." No more charters were given of townships > in that region. > ____________________________________________________ > Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth > >

THE RANGERS Source: History of Charlestown, NH - Fort No. 4 by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson 1876 Chapter 5 p. 89 It has been necessary in this history to speak frequently of "Rangers" and, as from the great changes which have been wrought in the condition of this portion of the country, similar bodies of men can never be employed hereafter, so some further description of this peculiar class of partisans, showing what they did and suffered, can scarcely be without interest. "Compared with the life of the Ranger," says B. H. Hall in his History of Eastern Vermont, "that of the frontier settler was merely the training school in hardship and endurance. In the ranging corps were perfected lessons, the rudiments of which are, at the present day, but seldom taught. Their duties were to scour the woods, and ascertain the force and position of the enemy; to discover and prevent the effect of his own ambuscades and to ambush him in turn; to acquire information of his movements, by making prisoners of his sentinels and to clear the way for the advance of regular troops. In marching, flankers preceded the main army, and their system of tactics was embodied in the quickness with which, at a given signal, they could form in file, either single or otherwise, as occasion demanded. In fighting, if the enemy was Indian, they adopted his mode of war- fare, and were not inferior to him in artifice or fin- esse. To the use of all such weapons as were likely to be employed against them, they were well accustomed, and their antagonist, whoever he might be, was sure to find in them warriors whom he might hate, but could not des- pise. As marksmen none surpassed them." Nor was their training in other things less perfect. "With a sensitiveness to sound, approximating to that of instinct, they could detect the sly approach of the foe, or could mark, with an accuracy almost beyond be- lief, the place of his concealment. Their route was for the most part through a country thickly wooded, now over jagged hills and steep mountains, and anon across foam- ing rivers or gravelly bedded brooks." When an Indian track was discovered, a favorable point was chosen in its course, and there was formed an ambu- scade, where they would lie in wait, day after day, for the approach of the enemy. Nor were mountains, rivers and foes, the only obstacles with wich they were forced to contend. Loaded with pro- visions for a month's march, carrying a musket heavier by far than that of more modern make, with ammunition and appurtenances correspondent, thus equipped with the burden of a porter, did they do the duty of a soldier. At night the place of their encampment was always chosen with the utmost circumspection, and guards were ever on the alert to prevent a surprise. Were it summer, the ground sufficed for a bed, the clear sky or the outspread- ing branches of some giant oak, for a canopy. Were it winter, at the close of a weary march performed on snow shoes, a few gathered twigs pointed the couch made hard by necessity, and a rude hut served as a miserable shelter from the inclemency of the weather. Were the nights very dark and cold, and no fear of discovery entertained, gathered around the blazing brush heap, they enjoyed a kind of satisfaction in watching the towering of its bright, forked flame, relieved by the dark back- ground of the black forest; or encircling it in slumber dreamed that their heads were in Greenland, and their feet in Vesuvius. If a comrade were sick, the canteen or what herbs the forest offered were the only medicines obtainable; and, were he unable to proceed, a journey on a litter to the place whence his company started or to the point of their destination with the exposure con- sequent thereupon, was not always a certain warrant of recovery or the most gentle method of alleviating pain. But the great object was unattained so long as they did not return with a string of scalps or a retinue of capt- ives. When success attended their efforts, the officers and soldiers shared alike the bounty paid and strove to obtain equal proportions of praise and glory. The parti- sans of the valley of the Connecticut were mostly from Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Some of them had borne for many years, the barbarities of the Indian, and were determined to hunt him like a beast in his own native woods. Not a few had seen father and mother tomahawked and scalped before their very eyes, and some, after spending their youth as captives in the wigwam, had returned, bringing with them a knowledge of Indian modes of warfare and a burning desire to exert that knowledge for the destruction of their teachers. To men in this situation, a bounty such as was offered by the State of Massachusetts was sufficient to change thought into action, and it did not require the eye of a prophet to foresee the result. Great were the dangers they encountered, arduous the labor they performed, pre- eminent the services they rendered" and to this we may add small was the reward which they received; and some modern historians without any proper appreciation of the true character of the Indian or the circumstances of the times which in the early settlements made such an order of men a necessity, would deprive them of the meed of praise, which is their due. But a due consideration of the barbarity of the enemy, by which was created an actual demand for such a class of partisans for the protection of the frontier settlements, will not only give us a higher and better view of their character, but will lead us to a cordial acknowledgement of their magnanimity and bravery, and the importance and value of the services which they rendered. End Part 1, Rangers. __________________________________________________________________ Transcribe by Janice Farnsworth