TITLE: Notice of Early Families of Candia:  

SOURCE: HISTORY OF CANDIA: Once known as Charmingfare; with notice of Some 
	of the Early Families, by F.B. Eaton, Press of the Granite 
	Farmer, James O. Adams, Printer, Manchester, N.H.  ©1852

				BUSWELL, SAMUEL

Came to Candia from Salisbury, Mass., about 1763, and the next year married 
Betsey Underhill, of Chester.  They had eight children:  John, Moses, Sarah, 
Richard, Samuel, William, Hannah and David.  John staid on the home farm, 
married Mehitable McCluer in 1792, -- they had five children who attained 
years of maturity:  Samuel, Jacob, Mahala, Nancy, Richard.  He died in the 
summer of 1851, aged 84.  His wife during the past season received a visit 
from her only surviving sister, who came alone from a distance of over eighty 
mile, at the age of 81.  The two then took the stage and visited some friends 
in Raymond. Moses, a physician, died in Maine, Sarah in Chester, Richard was 
drowned, William was, when last heard from in Cantebury, and David in Bradford.
	Mr. Samuel Buswell was a carpenter by trade, and before he had served 
out his time enlisted in the French War, and was at Cape Breton.  He is said 
to have been very small, not weighing over ninety pounds, but was as brave 
as many bigger men.  He afterwards served in the War of the Revolution, where 
he became acquainted with Gen. Stark, and after the peace helped finish off 
his house in Derryfield.  One time, having occasion to carry a grist to mill, 
he visited the General.  He was received with cordiality, and the customary 
hospitality of the times was by no means neglected.  Mrs. Stark, with busy 
hand, sat plying her wheel, while the general and his old comrade sipped their 
beverage and cracked jokes on olden times.--"I’ve been a thinking," says
John, looking on his better half, "that if my wife should ever die, I should 
be obliged to have her coffin made large enough to put in her linen wheel, 
or she would never stay contented."  "And what do you think," was the quick 
reply, "that I should do for John?  I’ve been a thinking that his coffin 
should be made large enough to put in a keg of rum! or he would never stay." 


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