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


				CASS, BENJAMIN

Was the son of Jonathan Cass, of Kensington, and the youngest of a family of
seven, one of whom, Joseph, was grandfather of Hon. Lewis Cass.  He came to Candia in 1759, and settled on the place now owned by True French, Esq.  He 
was a tanner and shoemaker by trade, but farmed mostly after coming to this 
town.  He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and served in Rhode 
Island.
	Samuel, son of Benjamin, married Dorothy, daughter of Lieut. Abraham
Fitts, by whom he had nine children:  Daniel, Samuel, Moses, Betsey, Sarah,
Polly, Aaron, Benjamin and Dorothy.  Daniel lives at Bridgewater, NH, Moses 
at Roxbury, Mass., Betsey at Hebron, NH, Sarah died at Roxbury, where Aaron 
now lives; Dorothy died young.
	About 1793, Mr. Cass moved into the northwest part of the town and 
commenced a clearing on the farm now owned by Mr. Tyler Merrill.  The 
neighborhood was then somewhat infested with rattle snakes, and it is told 
that once on a time when the children were small, as Mrs. Cass and a few 
friends were having a social chat, one of these unwelcome visitors intruded 
his head as if meditating an attack, but Mrs. C., nothing daunted, threw the
"sifting stick" at him, and her husband fortunately coming from the field, 
despatched the critter with his hoe.  Mr. Cass was a deacon of the church 
under the Rev. Mr. Jones, and until his death, in 1820.  His widow married 
Dea. Samuel Nay in 1827 and died in 1836, in Raymond.


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