History of Salisbury, part 3 :Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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The following history is from "The History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, 
New Hampshire". Edited by D. Hamilton Hurd and Published in 1885.

CHAPTER  III.
SALISBURY---(Continued).

INDIAN HISTORY.

As there has been so much written about the killing of Sabatis and Plausawa,
by the Bowens, and the trouble which arose from it, we will not burden this
volume with a repetition of it, but refer the interested 
reader to the New Hampshire State Papers, or Dearborn's "History of
Salisbury," pp. 225-239, inclusive.

For several years previous to 1754 Indian depredations had been committed in
the vicinity. On the llth of May, 1754, the Indians made their attack on
Nathaniel Maloon and family, who had some time previously removed to
Stevenstown (Salisbury). Maloon was captured in Contoocook (Boscawen). He
was taken to his home, where they took, as prisoners, his wife, his children
(Mary and Rachel, John and David; also Sarah, then an infant of thirteen 
months). The eldest son, Nathaniel P., was at work in a field a short 
distance from the house, planting corn. The father was ordered to call him,
which he did; but the son saw the Indians, and, understanding by the
signification of his father's voice that he wished him to escape, he dropped
his hoe, fled to the woods, swam the Blackwater and reached the fort at
Contoocook.

The Indians plundered the house and then returned to St. Francis, Canada,
with their captives. After suffering great indignities they were shipped in
a French vessel for France. The ship was captured by a British man-of-war.
Maloon and his family were landed at Portland, and from that place they
returned to their former home, having been gone nearly four years.

Rachel was not redeemed until 1763, and David not until 1761.

On the 16th of August, 1754, an attack was made ou Philip Call's house,
which stood near the Salisbury fort. Mr. Call, his son Stephen and Timothy
Cook were at work on the farm. The savages suddenly appeared at the door of
the dwelling-house and as Mrs. Philip Call opened it she was struck down,
killed and scalped. Stephen Call's wife, being within, concealed herself
and infant, John, behind the chimney and was not discovered. Both Philip
and Stephen escaped. Timothy Cook was pursued, and, in crossing the
Merrimack River, was fired upon and killed.

Samuel Scribner and Robert Barber had located within half a mile of our
northern boundary line, near Emerystown (Andover), and were then our most
northern settlers. They had got out the timber to build a house, and at the
time of their capture were mowing in the meadow now owned by Elbridge Shaw.
Scribner's back was to the Indians. Barber saw them coming and shouted out
to Scribner, "Run, Scribner; run, for God's sake! Run ! the Indians are upon
us! " But he did not hear him, and he was grasped from behind by an Indian. 
Barber ran, but went directly into an ambush of the savages. An Indian,
holding up a scalp before Barber, asked him, in broken English, if he knew
it. He said, " Yes ; Mrs. Call's." The Indians took them along as prisoners,
and, after a journey of thirteen days, reached St. Francis, Canada. Scribner
was sold to a Frenchman at Chamblee. Barber was sold to a Frenchman about a
mile from St. Francis, and on the 26th of September, 1775, made his escape.
After Scribuer's return he built the large two-story house at North road.

Early in the winter of 1755, Governor Wentworth ordered Colonel Joseph
Blanchard, of Dunstable, to raise a regiment of six hundred men, and to
rendezvous at the Salisbury fort. It is impossible to state when this fort
was built, but it was between 1746 and 1750. It was located about forty rods
southerly of the cemetery on the Webster intervale, and surrounded by eight
acres of cleared land which was early cultivated. It is quite evident that
the regiment arrived in April, 1755, and Blanchard spent about six weeks in
preparing boats for transporting his troops up the river. Before they left,
the State authorities ordered the enlistment of three hundred men to take
their place. They were mustered into service about the 20th of September, 
1755, and were discharged at the end of three months.

In these regiments we find many of our early pioneers who settled in the
town, viz.: Benjamin Sanborn, Benjamin Baker, Samuel Judkins, John Bean,
Robert Smith, Tristram Sanborn, Andrew Bohonon, Henry Ad. Elkins, John
Webster, Thomas Welch, Jacob Hancock, Nehemiah Heath, Ebenezer Johnson,
Tristram Quimby, Samuel Lovering, Iddo Webster, Benjamin Huntoon, B.
Clifford, Edward Eastman, John Wadleigh, Jeremiah Quimby and John Fellows.

In 1756, Colonel Meserve raised a regiment for the Crown Point 
expedition, among his men being found the following, who located in the
town: Jonathan Fifield, John Ash, Samuel Scribner, J. Blaisdell and Daniel
Stevens.

In Meserve's regiment, raised in 1757, we find the following soldiers, 
who afterwards became residents in Salisbury: J. Merrow, Joseph Webster,
Benjamin Pettengill, John Sanborn and Stephen Webster.

In 1757, Major Thomas Tash enlisted a battalion of two and three months'
men. We append the following names found in this battalion : 
John Cross, Samuel Scribner, Robert Barber and Matthew Pettengill.

In 1758, Colonel John Hart raised a regiment of six hundred men for the
Crown Point expedition. Upon the roll appears the names of the following,
who settled in Salisbury : Moses Garland, Moses Sanborn, Benjamin Shaw,
Samuel Scribner, James Johnston, William Hoyt and Nathaniel Nelson.

In Captain Trueworthy Ladd's company we find the names of Joseph Bean,
Ebenezer Webster, Philip Flanders, Onesiphorus Page, Iddo Webster, John
Wadleigh and Moses Tucker.

In Colonel John Goff's regiment we find Ebenezer Webster, orderly sergeant;
Tristram Quimby and Stephen Webster, corporals; privates, Rowell Colby,
Robert Smith, Benjamin Webster, Elisha Quimby, Richard Tucker, D. Rowe,
Moses Tucker, Benjamin Collins and Jonathan Roberts, all settled in
Salisbury.

CHAPTER  IV.
SALISBURY---(Continued).

MILITARY HISTORY.

THE REVOLUTION.---The people of Salisbury caught the first echo of the shot
at Lexington, and, although not in season to participate, they were at
Bunker Hill. They went, too, uninvited to that banquet of death and fame
which was celebrated on the 17th of June, 1775.

When hostilities commenced at Lexington there were but five hundred
inhabitants in Salisbury. There was one company of militia, consisting of
about seventy-five men, organized and officered, between the ages of sixteen
and sixty years. This company was commanded by Captain Ebenezer Webster, who
had first received his commission in 1774. Robert Smith was his lieutenant,
Moses Garland, for a short time, and then Andrew Pettengill was the ensign.

Upon the alarm of the Lexington conflict, without any authority from the
State, they repaired to Cambridge. They there met the Massachusetts
Committee of Safety, also John Stark, James Reed and Paul Dudley Sargent.
These three men received colonels' commissions from the State of
Massachusetts. Stark enlisted eight hundred men, or fourteen companies,
while Reed and Sargent had enlisted four companies each. The regiments were
Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Colonel Stark had command of the First, Enoch Poor of the
Second and James Reed of the Third. The First and Third Regiments were 
engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill.

Salisbury men enlisted into three or more of the companies of Stark's
regiment. Among the early enlistments are the names of Peter Severance,
Jonathan Cram and Jacob Morrill; in Captain Henry Dearborn's company,
Abraham Fifield, John Bean, Joseph Lovering, Samuel Lovering, Moses Welch,
E. Raino, Daniel Stevens, Edward Evans, Moses Garland, Moses Fellows, John 
Bowen, John Jemson, Benjamin Howard, Reuben Greeley and Samuel Scribner.
Two of these men, John Bowen and Moses Fellows, joined Captain Dearborn's
company, and, in the autumn of 1775, made a part of Arnold's regiment, that
marched through the wilderness of Maine to Quebec. Twelve of the above
number enlisted for the term of six months and encountered the perils of
the siege.

Of the Salisbury men who participated in the aid to Connecticut, we have
been unable to obtain their names. Certainly there was quite a number.

Our next enlistment for 1776 was for the relief of the northern army. In
Captain Osgood's company we find the name of Captain John Webster, of
Salisbury, as his lieutenant, and Edward Sawyer, as private.

Upon the evacuation of Boston by the British, part of their army soon after
invaded New York. Another portion, commanded by Burgoyne, invaded Canada, by
way of Quebec. The New Hampshire regiments which had been at the siege were
ordered to New York, and thirteen Salisbury men were in Colonel Stark's
regiment, viz.:

John Bosford, James Bosford, John Bayley, Wells Burbauk, Rowell Colby,
Reuben Hoyt, Jr., Jonathan Huntoon, Philip Huntoon, Samuel Loverin, Joseph
Loverin, Ebenezer Scribner, Simon Sanborn and Israel Webster.

Another regiment was raised for six months, to reinforce Washington at New
York. Salisbury furnished ten men for James Shepard's company of Canterbury,
---

John Bean, ensign ; Benjamin Huntoon, orderly sergeant; Privates, Cutting
Stevens, Stephen Call, James Johnson, Samuel Scribner, Philip Flanders,
Jonathan Scribner, Jonathan Foster, Robert Wise.

After the disastrous battle of Long Island, Washington again appealed to New
Hampshire for aid. Salisbury had furnished her full quota. Captain Ebenezer
Webster was appealed to furnish men. Ten men holding militia commissions,
and some others, volunteered to serve as privates, and were mustered into
service September 20,1776. They were Lieutenant Robert Smith, Ensign Moses 
Garland, Orderly Sergeant Andrew Pettengill, Ensign Andrew Bohonon, Edward
Eastman, Joseph Fifield, Edward Fifield, Joshua Morse and Stephen Bohonon.
Captain Webster resigned the office of selectman to take a private's place
in this campaign. Joseph Bean and Nathaniel Huntoon enlisted in Captain
Goff's company of the same regiment. They participated in the battle of
White Plains.

In 1777 the town was obliged to offer bounties of seventy dollars each to
meet its quota. John Ash, who had enlisted March 8,1777, to serve during the
war, was discharged December 31, 1781, and Ananiah Bohonon, Philip Flanders
and John Bowen,who had enlisted March 13,1781, were discharged the following
December.

The following men enlisted for three years in Colonel Alexander Scammell's
regiment:

Moses Fellows, orderly sergeant; Ephraim Heath, Reuben Greeley, Reuben Hoit,
Matthew Greeley, Philip Lufkin, William Bayley, Daniel Felch, Benjamin
Howard, Joshua Snow, as privates.

These fourteen men were our quota of Continental soldiers for three years,
and were mustered into service in March, 1777.

The following is the list of soldiers from Salisbury who were in Captain
Ebenezer Webster's company, which fought in the battle of Bennington, on the
16th of August, 1777:

Edward Evans, one of the staff officers of Colonel Stickney's regiment;
Captain, Ebenezer Webster; Lieutenants, Robert Smith, Andrew Bohonon ;
Fourth Sergeant, Abraham Fifield; Third Corporal, Samuel Lovering; Fourth
Corporal, Joshua Morse ; Drummer, John Sanborn; Fifer, Jonathan Foster;
Privates, Elder Benjamin Huntoon, William Searle, Richard Piermont, Iddo
Scribner, Benjamin Scribner, Peter Severance, Rowell Colby, John Fifield, 
Joseph Fifield, Edward Flfield, Jonathan Fifield, Jacob Bohonon, William
Calef, Edmund Sawyer, John C. Gale, Jacob True, John Jemson, Robert Barber,
Joseph Tucker, Moses Elkins, John Smith, William Newton, Israel Webster,
David Pettengill, Abel Elkins, James Johnson, Jacob Garland, George Bayley,
Moses Welch, Daniel Brottlebank, Matthew Pettengill, Edward Eastman. Rank 
and file from Salisbury, forty-one men.

To this number add Enaign Andrew Pettengill, who served in the Concord and
Boscawen company. We also had three other men in Colonel George Reed's
regiment, viz.: Samuel Saunders, Jacob Morrill and Joseph Maloon, making, of
the Continental and militiamen in actual service in the summer of 1777,
forty-five militiamen and seventeen regular troops, a total of sixty-two
men.

Though the Salisbury men were largely exposed, and though Saunders was
reported among the missing at Hubbardton, Pettengill wounded at Stillwater,
yet no death resulted except that of Andrew Pettengill. Early in 1778
disease began to thin the ranks of our veterans, and in March and April we
lost four of our men in camp at Valley Forge, viz.: Ephraim Heath, Reuben
Greeley, Philip Lufkin and William Bayley.

In August, 1778, the expedition to Rhode Island was organized and executed
under the command of General Sullivan. Colonel Moses Nichols raised a
regiment to serve about a month in General Whipple's brigade. Captain
Ebenezer Webster commanded the Third Company in this regiment. Elder
Benjamin Huntoon was his orderly sergeant and Edward Eastman corporal. The
following Salisbury men were privates in his company:

Lieutenant Robert Smith, Ensign Andrew Bohonon, Joseph Fifleld, Samuel
Scribner, Benjamin Pettengill, James Johnson, William Calef, Jonathan
Fifield, Shubael Fifield, Joseph Hoit, Winthrop Fifield, Ensign Moses
Garland, Jeremiah Bowen, John Sanbom, Moses Welch, Benjamin Eastman and
Phineas Bean. Also in Colonel Center's regiment, Joseph Bean, Joseph Webster
and Daniel Gilman,---total, twenty-two rank and file.

In July, 1779, Stephen Bohonon and James Johnson enlisted for six months to
serve in the Rhode Island campaign. In June, 1780, George Hackett, David
Greeley, Jonathan Fifield and Joseph Webster were mustered into the
Continental army to serve during the war. During the year 1779, John Bean,
of Salisbury, was wounded at Newton, N. Y., and afterward received half-pay.

In 1780, Captain Ebenezer Webster commanded the Fourth Company in Colonel
Moses Nichols' regiment, raised for the defense of West Point, and was
stationed there for eight months. From Salisbury we recognize Captain
Webster's old companions, Robert Wise, Stephen Bohonon, Jethro Barber,
Joseph Hoit, Benjamin Eastman, S. Fifield, Winthrop Fifield, Benjamin
Ingalls and Joseph Welch.

In 1780 the term of service of the three years' men expired, and it became
necessary to re-enlist some fifteen men, to take the places of those
discharged. In addition to the four men who took the places of those who
died at Valley Forge, the following men were secured. They enlisted for
three years from the spring of 1780:

Joshua Snow, John Smith, Moses Fellows, John Fellows, Jr., John Ash, George
Nichols, Josiah Mason, Benjamin Howard, William Lufkin, Ananiah Bohonon,
Josiah Smith and Thomas Cross.

For Colonel George Reed's regiment the following men were obtained: Samuel
Saunders, Edward Scribner, Jethro Barber, Joseph Maloon and S. Fifield.

The following men were enlisted from Salisbury to reinforce the army in New
York, and served in various companies in Colonel D. Reynolds' regiment:

Moses Webster, Peter Whittemore, J. Judkins, Peter Severance, Edward
Eastman, Thomas Challis, J. Fifleld, Benjamin Sanbom, Abel Morrill, Jacob
Morrill, Henry Elkins, Samuel Maloon, S. French.

In November, 1781, the following soldiers enlisted for three months, and
were returned to Colonel Stickney's regiment:
Moses Fellows, Matthew Greeley, Benjamin Sanbom, Elisha Shepard, Levi
Lufkin, John Smith and Samuel Saunders.

In 1782, Captain Ebenezer Webster performed a six months' service in the
north part of this State. Jeremiah Bowen was the only private from the town.

THE WAR of 1812.---One of our active officers in the army of the United
States during the war, :and in the campaign against the Western Indians
antecedent to this war, was Captain John Smith. His brother, Jabez Smith,
had the rank of major in the First Regiment of the United States Volunteers.

In 1814 our seapor, Portsmouth, was threatened by the British navy, and our
militia were called upon more than once to defend this port.

Those who mustered from Salisbury for three months from the llth day of
September, 1814, were the following, viz.:

Captain Jonathan Bean and his son, Phineas Bean, as waiter; Privates,
Benjamin Fifield, Moses Fifield, Enoch Fifield, Samuel Fifield, Jonathan P.
Sanborn, Nehemiah Lowell, Matthew T. Hunt, William Johnson, John Johnson,
Nathaniel Stevens, John Webster, Jesse Wardwell. Moses Osgood, Jr., enlisted
in the United States service.

Of the sixty days' men who enlisted October 2, 1814, in the company
commanded by Captain Silas Call, of Boscawen, we find the following
Salisbury men:

Lieutenant, Samuel Quimby; Orderly Sergeant, Timothy Hoit; Corporal, Thomas
Chase; Musician, A. B. Bohonon; Privates, Nathan Tucker, Jabez True,
Theodore George, Samuel Webster, Jonathan Mornll, Isaac Proctor, Joseph
Fifield and Joseph Adams.

In Colonel Davis' regiment, in the company commanded by Captain Thomas
Currier, we recognize the following soldiers, who served one year, as
belonging to Salisbury:

Daniel Woodard, Sergeant Jeremiah Bean, Samuel Fifield, William Frazier,
Amos George and Jeremiah Gove. In Captain Mason's company, Joel Judkins,
Jonathan Johnson, John Sanborn, J. Quimby, Edward West, Ebenezer Webster
Bohonon, Ithamar Watson (was a captain of Minute-Men).

The following soldiers are credited to Salisbury:
James Currier, Joseph Stevens, Moses Morse, Abel Wardwell, Samuel Kezir,
Matthew Sanborn, Paul Greeley and Richard Greeley.

WAR OF THE REBELLION.---On the 27th day of December, 1860, the Confederates
seized Forts Moultrie and Pickens. On the 9th day of January, 1861, they
fired their first shot, from Fort Moultrie and Morris Island, into a
government vessel carrying troops and supplies to Major Anderson, who had
transferred his entire force to Fort Sumter. In accordance with the
requirements of law, the selectmen for 1861 transmitted to the Secretary of
State a list of the names of men liable to do military duty, numbering one
hundred and two. Accepting this basis, Salisbury furnished not only the
required number, but a small surplus. Salisbury furnished no soldiers until
the Tenth Begiment was raised under the call of 1862. Michael T. Donahoe, of
Manchester, was appointed colonel. Company E was raised at Andover, and was
commanded by Captain Aldrich B. Cook, who was succeeded by Captain Thomas C.
Trumbull, who, in turn, was succeeded by Captain James A. Sanborn. The
following men enlisted from Salisbury:

Sergeant, John C. Carter; Privates, William C. Heath, Calvin Hoyt, Anson W.
Glines, Willis W. Kenniston, Alfred Sanborn, Harry Scott, William
Whittemore, Nathaniel Hodge, Henry M. French, George Atwood, George W.
Chase.

In the Sixteenth Regiment, Company E, enlisted the following men from
Salisbury:
Sergeant, Benjamin Gale;  Corporals, Alonzo D. Davenport, George F. Smith;
Privates, Evan M. Heath, Harrison V. Heath, Moses Colby, William R. Dimond,
Ferdinand M. Daysburg, Benjamin L. Frazier, Charles E. Heath, Albert A. S.
French, Henry C. George, Charles Colby, Meshech W. Blaisdell.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Corporal Madison B. Davis, enlisted In Troop I, First New England Cavalry.
Bugler Cyrus C. Huntoon, enlisted in Troop I, First New England Cavalry.
William Bayley and Andrew J. Colby, enlisted in Company H, Eighth Regiment.
John Meller, enlisted in Company F, Second Regiment.
Lieutenant Joseph C. Clifford, enlisted in Company E, first Regiment.
Jonathan J. Bayley, enlisted in Company K, Fourth Regiment.
M. H. Whitmore, enlisted in Company G, Fifth Regiment.
Clinton A. Shaw, enlisted in Company G, Twelfth Regiment.
John G. Maxfield, enlisted in Company E, Seventh Regiment.
Henry Sanborn, enlisted in Company F, Second Regiment United States
Sharpshooters; re-enlisted September 12,1862, in Company E, Tenth Regiment.
Frank Stevens, enlisted in Eighteenth Regiment New Hampshire Infantry.

The following residents of the town were also in service, but we have little
knowledge concerning their record beyond the fact of enlistment:
Frank D. Kimball, Company E, Fourth Regiment; John Woodard, Ebenezer Farnum,
James Farnum, Charles Bruce, Caleb B. Smith, Henry Moores, Benjamin S.
Heath, Joseph Ladd, Read Huntoon, James W. Gardner, Daniel W. Shaw, C. O.
Wheeler, George H. Whitman, W. C. Whitman.

The following soldiers were either natives or residents of the town of 
Salisbury at the time of their enlistment, but enlisted out of the town or
State:
Amos S. Bean, credited to and enlisted from Manchester, in Company A, Heavy
Artillery.
George E. Bean, credited to and enlisted from Manchester, Company A, Tenth
Regiment.
Albert Kilburn, enlisted in Boston in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of
three months' men ; re-enlisted at Minneapolis, Minn.; afterwards in the
employ of the government as a carpenter; died at Vicksburg, Miss.
Abraham S. Sanborn, credited to Manchester, Company G, Fourth Regiment.
Samuel Sleeper, credited to Canaan, Company D, Fourth Regiment,
Rufus Emerson, enlisted in Company C, Second Vermont Regiment.
Elbridge G. Emerson, enlisted in Company C, Second Vermont Regiment.
Nathan S. Corser, enlisted in Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry.
Charles W. Corser, enlisted in Sixth Massachusetts Infantry.
George (or Henry) Elkins, enlisted in Second Regiment.
Silas Holmes, enlisted in Sixth Massachusetts.
John Shaw.
David F. Bacon, enlisted in Company E, Second Vermont,
Charles H. Bacon.
Daniel R. Calef.
John Alfred Calef.

SUBSTITUTES.---The following substitutes performed their engagements with
the town of Salisbury; they honored themselves and the cause they supported:
Thomas Fleming, Company G, Fourth Regiment; Hamilton Carr, Company C, Fourth
Regiment; Octave Vezina, Company B, Ninth Regiment; John Robinson, Company
B, Ninth Regiment; James Dolan, Company A, Ninth Regiment; Robert Brown,
Company A, Ninth Regiment; James McDonald, Company E (or D), Seventh 
Regiment; Daniel P. Morrison, Company D, Seventh Regiment; James Carroll,
Joseph Storms, Henry Miller, Jerry Potter, Charles Sutton, Peter Carroll,
William Loverin, James Meamix, John Murphy, Warren Dinslow, Nathan Lackey,
Michael Connors, James Moran, George Perry, James Durgin, Corporal Nelson
Davis, William B. Winship, J. F. Coburn, William Williams, Robert Allen, H. 
C. Rock, Henry McCarty.

Twenty-two additional substitutes were enlisted in 1863 and 1864, but are
recorded as deserters. Having degraded themselves as soldiers, we shall not
allow them to disgrace the town that employed them, by publishing their
names.

In 1680 a militia company was organized in this State, consisting of one
company of foot in each of the four towns of Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter and
Hampton, one company of artillery at the fort and one "troop of horse."

After the Declaration of Independence a new militia system became necessary,
and we will only follow its history so far as it relates to Salisbury, which
was one of the towns that helped form the Twenty-first Regiment, the
regimental officers being Lieuteaant Colonel Philip Greeley, commander;
Major Joseph Gerrish, First Battalion; Major Timothy Darling, Second
Battalion. The following list comprises colonels of the Twenty-first
Regiment, so far as known, who resided in Salisbury :
1787, Ehenezer Webster; 1802, John C. Gale; 1813, Benjamin Swett; 1819-20,
Jonathan Bean; 1821-23, John Greeley; 1824, Cyrus Chase; 1848. John C.
Smith: 1851-53. Gustavus V. Webster.

ROADS, TURNPIKES, BRIDGES and FERRIES.---The earliest highway in the town
was one along the west bank of the Merrimack River, which was intended to
open communication with the Coos country. The three rangeways of the town
extended, in an easterly and westerly direction, nearly the entire length of
the town.

The South Rangeway extended from Shaw's Corner, through the location of
South Road village, and continued westerly over Kearsarge into Warner. It
was surveyed in 1763 by William Calef.

The Centre road, occupying the rangeway limits very fully, was surveyed by
Mr. Calef in 1768. It commenced by the Webster Cemetery, at the river,
extended over Searle's Hill, crossed the turnpike road a little southeast
of Centre Road village and extended to the western boundary.

The road corresponding, in part, with the North Rangeway was surveyed in
1763 by Mr. Calef. Only a few sections of it were ever built. As early as
1774 a road commenced at the eastern bound of Dr. Joseph Bartlett's
home-lot, east of South Road village, and continued northward to the Centre
road, just west of the old meeting-house on Searle's Hill.

North road was constructed in 1770, between Shaw's Corner and Benjamin
Huntoon's. It was soon after extended to Andover line.

Bog road was built as a substitute for the Dr. Bartlett road already
referred to. Raccoon Hill road extends the whole length of Raccoon Hill,
and was built in 1781. Mill's road extends westerly from the Centre Road
village, continuing to Prince's Mill, where it then turns slightly and
terminates at the foot of the hill west of Frank Whittemore's. A branch of
this road turns south at Prince's Mill, continues south past the Union
Meeting-House and leads into Webster. Another branch of this road passes
the Glines place and comes out at the South Range road east of Blackwater
River bridge.

A road begins west of Alpheus B. Huntoon's, and continues over Beach Hill
into Andover. Bay's road extends from Shaw's mill, in West Salisbury, around
the eastern shore of " the Bays" and intersects the College road. A
cross-range road extends from D. C. Stevens' to Centre Range road at
Harrison V. Heath's New road to Franklin begins on the Bog road, one
half-mile north of Thompson's school-house, turning eastward to the North
road, which it intersects south of the " Birth-place." It was laid out in
1869. Cross-Range road, the northern terminus of which is at Centre Road
village, continues southerly and intersects Brattle Street, its northern 
extension leads to Raccoon hill. Mutton road extends south from South Road
village to Corser Hill, in Webster. It was built in 1819. Water Street
commences near the Academy and continues southerly to Boscawen. The new
road to North Boscawen, where it connects with the River road, was built in
1849. The new road from Shaw's Corner to Franklin was built in 1823-24. The
petition for the College road was presented to the General Court in 1784,
and an act was passed authorizing a committee to lay it out. It was not
built just where the court ordered it. The route through Salisbury was
circular, and we will not follow its windings, as most of the road has
become continuous with other roads.

The Fourth New Hampshire turnpike charter was granted at the fall session of
the General Court in 1800. It extended from the northwest corner of the
bridge just north of the mouth of the Contoocook River to the Connecticut
River in Lebanon, and had a branch to Hanover. There was a toll-house in
nearly every town, the gate in Salisbury being kept by Deacon Daniel Parker.
Amos Pettengill, of Salisbury, carried this corporation, by his personal
influence, through many a dark day. He invented a snow-plow that was often
drawn through the deep snow by thirty yoke of oxen, cutting a path a rod
wide.

In 1840 an order was issued by the court declaring the southern portion of
it free to public travel, Salisbury paying the corporation six hundred
dollars as its share of indemnity to the stockholders.

The first important bridge in the town was built over the Blackwater River
in 1776, and was probably on the line of the south rangeway where it
cross's the stream. The second bridge was over the same stream, but on the
centre rangeway. It cost thirty-nine dollars, and was built in 1777.

The first bridge over the Pemigewasset River waĞ built in 1802, thereby
affording the means of communicating with Sanbornton. Previous to this the
stream was crossed either by ferries or by fording the stream with teams,
the crossing being just north of the Republican bridge.

An act of incorporation was obtained in 1800 for building a bridge over the
Pemigewasset River, which, in later years, was called Republican bridge.
Ebenezer Webster was authorized to call the first meeting, and the bridge
was built at the above date (1802). The bridge was carried away by the great
February freshet of 1824, and the great winter freshet of 1839 again
demolished it. The following summer the present bridge was erected at a cost
of seven thousand dollars. It continued a toll-bridge until 1845.

In 1800 there were two ferries over the Merrimack, --the upper one known as
Wise's, and farther down stream was Cross's. They furnished communication
with this town, Northfield and Canterbury.

It is generally understood that the first saw-mill in the town was the 
Webster, or proprietors' mill, located on Punch Brook. At a meeting of the
proprietors held March 22, 1759, a committee was chosen to lay out one
hundred acres of land to Captain John Webster for building a saw-mill. The
site was located and the mill completed by the 1st of October, 1761. The
mill was erected on land belonging to Ebenezer Webster.

One-half the use of the mill was voted to Captain John Webster for three
years, he to saw the proprietors' lumber at the halves, keep the mill in
good repair, and, at the expiration of three years, to leave the mill in
good repair. Ebenezer Webster and Eliphalet Gale were each voted a
quarter-share of the saw-mill on the same conditions as given Captain John
Webster. November 3, 1764, it was voted to give Ebenezer Webster the use of
the mill for three years from date, he to saw the proprietors' lumber at
the halves. Mr. Webster continued to conduct the mill until his removal to
his interval farm, when Stephen Sawyer, conducted it in connection with the
grist-mill, and, in addition, put in a clothing-mill.

In 1764 efforts were made to build a grist-mill, and the year following two
hundred acres of land were voted to the projectors (who were Benjamin
Sanborn and Ebenezer Webster) to put in a mill. This mill was built in one
end of the proprietors' saw-mill, and for many years did all the grinding,
not only for the settlers of this lot, but the surrounding towns, people
bringing their corn from Perrystown (now Sutton) on their backs. It is said
the mill-stones were drawn up from below on an ox-sled in the winter of
1765.

Andrew Pettengill was the first blacksmith in the settlement, his shop 
standing just east of Thomas D. Little's residence.

The first hotel in town was erected at the South Road as early as 1768, and
was owned by Lieutenant Andrew Pettengill. The first one at the Centre Road
was built by Abel Elkins, and is now occupied as a residence by Caleb E.
Smith.

The first hotel at the East village (now Franklin) Was built by Ebenezer
Eastman on the site of the present " Webster house."

It is traditional that Major Stephen Bohonon had the first store in town, it
being situated in one of the front rooms of his dwelling, which stood on the
site now occupied by the Congregational parsonage. He sold out to Andrew
Bowers.

The first store at East village (now Franklin) was erected by Ebenezer
Eastman previous to 1803.

William Hoyt had the first store at the Lower village (now Orphans'Home,
Franklin).

The above were the first stores in the several parts of the town, but the
principal store, and the one which continues to do the largest business, is
the old Greenleaf store at South Road, owned by David G. Bean, and conducted
by Andrew E. Quimby. In 1793 there were five merchants scattered throughout
the town, who paid the following taxes on stock in trade: John C. Gale,
£300; William Hoit, £130; Luke Wilder, £250; Andrew Bowers, £180; Nathaniel
Noyes, £50.