Chapter 52 - Seabrook from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire From: Julie Dorfman - dorfmans@mindspring.com Source: History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 Page 681 CHAPTER LII SEABROOK Geographical-Topographical-First Settlements-Indian Depredations- Prominent Citizens-Churches-Civil History-Incorporation-Military Record-Public Library. The town of Seabrook lies in the southeastern part of the county, and is bounded as follows: on the north by Hampton Falls, on the east by the At- lantic ocean, on the south by Salisbury, Mass., and on the west by South Hampton and Kensington. The early history of this town will be found principally in the history of Hampton, of which Seabrook originally formed a part. The early record history, revolutionary, names of early settlers, etc., are incorporated in the history of the mother town. Seabrook is an ocean town, and has extensive plains of salt marsh. The soil is light and very pro- ductive. The inhabitants are engaged in agriculture and the manufacture of shoes. The latter industry is extensively carried on. The population in 1910 was 1,425. The first settlement of the town dates back to 1638, and among the pioneers were Christopher Hussey, Joseph Dow and Thomas Philbrick. The early settlers of this town suffered greatly from the depredations of the Indians. For a long period the people were in a constant state of alarm, and many of the prominent citizens were inhumanly massacred. Among those killed were Thomas Lancaster, Jonathan Green, Nicholas Bond, a child named Brown, and the Widow Mussey. The latter was a prominent mem- her of the Society of Friends, and distinguished as a public speaker. The Indians finally disappeared from their ocean hunting grounds, and peace settled over the struggling pioneers. Among the prominent men who have resided within this town Meshech Weare stands pre-eminent. He was the first chief magistrate of New Hamp- shire. His grandfather, Nathaniel Weare, was an agent to prosecute the complaints against the royal governor, Edward Cranfield, and spent some time in England. His son Nathaniel, father of Meshech, was also a prom- inent citizen. Both resided within the limits of the present town of Sea- brook. Edward Gove, a resident of the town, was a member of the Assem- bly which Cranfield dissolved. He distinguished himself by opposition to the Cranfield government, and was arrested and convicted of high treason, sent to England, and imprisoned in the Tower of London. At the expira- tion of three years he was pardoned and returned to Seabrook. The order for his pardon reads as follows: "James R. Where as Edward Gove was neare three years since appre- hended, tryed and condemned for High Treason in our Colony of New England, in America, and in June 1683 was committed prisoner to the Tower of London, we have thought fit to signify our will and pleasure to you, that Page 682 you cause him, the said Edward Gove, to be inserted in the next general Pardon that shall come out for the poor convicts of Newgate, without any condition of transportation, he giving such security for his good behavior as you think requisite. And for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given at our Court at Windsor the 14th day of September 1685, in the first year of our reign. By his Maj. his command, Sunderland." Civil History.-Seabrook was granted to Jonathan Weare and others in 1768. The first minister of the town was Rev. Samuel Parley, ordained in 1765, and removed in 1775. Rev. Elias Hull settled in 1779, and died in 1822. In regard to the meeting-house erected by the Presbyterians in 1763, the statement that its timbers came from six different towns is not improbable, for the parish of Hampton originally included more towns than that, and it was the custom at that time to contribute materials instead of money; and during its history of one hundred and nineteen years it has been occupied by almost as many religious organizations,-first, by the Presbyterians in 1764; second, by the Congregationalists in 1799 ; third, by the Baptists in 1828; fourth, by the Congregationalists in 1835; and finally by the Baptists again in 1859. Baptist Church.-The house of worship in Seabrook was erected in 1763, at which date the Baptist Church in Newton was the only one of that orde-r in the State of New Hampshire. Rev. Elias Hull, a Congregationalist, was installed as pastor in 1799, and continued in that relation until 1817. Seabrook was then a part of Hampton Falls, and prominent among those in attendance at this meeting were Dudley Dodge and Betsey Fifield, his wife. Mrs. Dodge at least was converted under Mr. Hull's preaching, and both united with his church, July 18. 1800. First, Mrs. Dodge became a Baptist, and then her husband was baptized in 1816. Their change of views was followed by a change in the order of the church, for we find that Elder Hull preached his farewell sermon on April 6, 18I7, and Elder True, a Baptist, preached in the same place on the 27th of that month. And from this time on the Baptists appeared to have held this ground, with occasional preaching by Elders True, Howe, Rand, Chess- well, Fernald, Adams, and Grant, the latter of whom in 1821 divided his labors for one year between Seabrook and East Salisbury. It is recorded that about this time Messrs. Danforth, Prescott, and Towle repeatedly occu- pied the pulpit as preachers. October 28, 1828, "The Baptist Church in Seabrook and Hampton Falls" was constituted with a membership of fourteen, of whom Hannah Dow, Ruth Brown, Lydia Brown, and Anna Knowles resided in Seabrook. This infant church immediately invited as their pastor Rev. T. P. Ropes, one of their constituent members, and on the 2d of December the church was pub- licly recognized by a council called for the purpose, "and preparations made for the installation of Mr. Ropes in the old meeting-house at Seabrook." In 1832 we find the second pastor of the church, Rev. Oliver Barron, preaching part of the time in the old schoolhouse at Hampton Falls. But the old meeting-house appears to have been the headquarters of the church until the completion of the academy building at Hampton Falls, in Septem- ber, I834. For the history of the Baptist interest in Seabrook from this date until June, 1859, the reader is referred to the historical sketch of the Page 683 Baptist Church in Hampton Falls. The year 1859 was an eventful one for the Baptist interests in both these places, for in Hampton Falls the Baptist meeting-house was repaired and improved at an expense of $2,000, and at Seabrook the old meeting-house was put in order at an expense of $3,562, $950 of which was paid by the town towards fitting the first story for use as a town house. The old house when new is described as "rough and un- cuth, with unplaned seats." "These were the pews of sheep-pen form, enough to break people's backs, and the seats raised during prayer time to fall with an ominous clatter at its close, with the broad galleries running around three sides of the house. Then the eyry-like pulpit, with its flight of stairs on one side only, and its high sounding-board suspended above, with the deacons' seat literally under the droppings of the sanctuary, it being a square pew under the pulpit, the front of which projected over it, * * * it having become deserted even as a place for the children to play in before it was repaired." Concerning the repairs we again quote from the published discourse of Rev. Mr. Beaman: "The old pulpit and pews vanished to give place to the modern ones. On the outside it was clap-boarded, shingled, and the doors and windows put in good condition; also the end of the house was now turned towards the road instead of the side as previously, and twelve feet were added to the front end, while the whole was surmounted by a spire." The renovated house was dedicated March 17, 1859, with a discourse by Rev. William Lamson of Portsmouth. Text, "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place wherein thou standest is holy ground." June 28, 1859, twenty-three members were dismissed from the Seabrook and Hampton Falls church to form the Seabrook Baptist Church, and in the following Septem- ber the church was publicly recognized by a council of pastors and delegates from neighboring churches. Rev. C. H. Pearson, one of the twenty-five constituent members (supplied as pastor the pulpit), from July, 1859, to March, 1860. Rev. Mr. Abbott (supplied as pastor the pulpit) from March to August, 1860. Rev. Charles H. Corey, the second pastor, came in August, 1861; was ordained September 17th, and resigned December 1, 1863. He was followed by Rev. Mr. Lyford, Rev. H. H. Beaman, Rev. Geo. Ober. Rev. C. H. Parker is the present pastor. Congregationalism in Hampton Falls and Seabrook.-Seabrook was. for fifty-seven years a part of Hampton Falls, and the leading members of the Seabrook and Hampton Falls church have always been residents of Hamp- ton Falls. The history of Congregationalism in Hampton Falls and Seabrook is a deeply interesting one, connected as it is with the birth and infancy of the towns themselves. As a church parish the territory of these two towns was first set off from Hampton, the ancient mother of towns. And under the name and authority of "the new parish in Hampton," "the church meeting in the Hampton Falls parish," and other similar designations, all town busi- ness was transacted for many years. Hampton Falls had no other act of incorporation besides a permission from the General Court in 1718, "to call a public parish meeting annually to choose selectmen and such other officers as may be convenient to manage their parish affairs, etc. And the charter of Seabrook, in 1768, was entitled "An Act for erecting and incorporating a new Parish in the Southerly part of Hampton Falls;" This was a practical Page 684 union of church and state. But useful as this union may have been at that time it appears to have been a peaceful one, only when ability and piety united to fill the pastoral office. Such a happy combination of qualities ap- pears in the case of several of the early pastors of Hampton Falls. On the 9th of December, 1711, several members of the Congregational Church in Hampton were dismissed for the purpose of being organized into a new church in the south part of the town, now Hampton Falls. Some pioneer work had already been done in that section. While the early town or parish records of Hampton Falls afford but scanty materials for a church history, and the records have been destroyed by fire, there has fortunately been preserved a small volume of church records kept by Messrs. Cotton and Whipple, the first two pastors of the church. This volume is about four inches by six in size, strongly bound in calf and boards, and composed of about two hundred pages of coarse, unruled paper. It seems to contain most of the church records during these two pastorates, embracing a period of about forty-five years. Seaborn (born at sea) Cotton and John Cotton, pastors at Hampton, were son and grandson of Rev. John Cotton, in compliment to whom the town of Boston was named, Boston, in England, being his birthplace. Theophilus Cotton, the first pastor of Hamp- ton Falls, has been considered by some as the son of Seaborn, but he was probably a cousin, being descended from another branch of the ministerial Cotton £amily which settled in Plymouth, Mass. " Title page number one is inscribed : ---Theophilus Cotton's--- Jan: 1712 The Chh Records off Hampton falls Beging January 2d 1712 By Theophilus Cotton Pastor of that chh. On the next page, "4," occurs this entry under date of l0th ofMay, 1726, three months before Mr. Cotton's death: . "I Then took col. weare along with me to the house off John Cass & before him and the mother off John casses wife, Dealt with her for with Drawing from our communion, and £or embracing the principles off the Quaquers who proving obstinate I did thereupon as Pastor of yt chh. In the name of Xt (Christ) Reject her, and Renounce her as one belonging to our communion and the good Lord have mercy on her And all hers Amen." "Theophilus Cotton was ordained Pastor of the chh. of Hampton falls. The 2d Jan :1712 : The Revd. Mr. Rogers of Portsmouth giving him the charge And the Revd. Mr. Cushing ofSalisbury giving him THE RIGHT HAND of fellowship." In 1726, the last year of Mr. Cotton's pastorate and about three weeks before his death, which occurred August 16th, he again visited the Shoals, perhaps for his health partly, and baptized seventeen children. On the second page of the back fly-leaf of the little volume we find this record, apparently in the hand of his successor, Mr. Whipple : "Hampton, August 16, 1726. Died the Revd Mr Theophilus Cotton, Pastor of the Second church of Hampton after a faithful Discharge of that office for nigh 15 years & was Decently Buried the: 18th following att the charge of the Parish." Page 685 This act indicates the love and respect of his parish, and not the necessity of his own case. The remains of this faithful minister of the gospel lie in the old parish burying lot, a part of the lower parsonage lot, nearly in front of the entrance, under a stone slab supported by brick-work. The following is the inscription cut in a slate tablet imbedded in the slab, which is of coarse freestone. The tablet has been badly cracked by the formation of ice beneath it: "HERE LYES Ye BODY OF Ye REVd. Mr. THEOPHILUS COT- TON, Ye FIRST MINISr OF Ye CHURCH AT HAMPTON FALLS, WHO, AFTER HE HAD SERVED GOD FAITHFULLY IN HIS GEN- ERATION, DECEASED AUGUST Ye 16th 1726 IN Ye 45th YEAR OF HIS AGE. " 'Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord.' " At a parish-meeting held six days after his death the selectmen were directed to settle with Mrs. Cotton; she was voted the free use of the parson- age during the summer; the selectmen were instructed to negotiate with her for the entertainment of supplies for the pulpit; and they were to "asses Every men of Estate in ye parish Excepting Quakers in order to pay the Charges of our Reverend Mr. Cotton's funeral." At a meeting November Ist it was voted to call Mr. Whipple at a salary of "one hundred and forty pounds money Annualy ," he finding himself in firewood and everything else. Deacons Nathaniel Weare, grandfather of Meshack, Benjamin Sanburn, and Nathaniel Bachilder were named as the committee to treat with him. Rev. Joseph Whipple was ordained January 4, 1826-7. In October, 1734, it was "Voted that if the people on the west part of this parish-now Kensing- ton-hire a minister for four months this winter Ensuing the charg thereof Shall be adid into our Reverend mr Whippel Rate in order to be paid by the whole parish." And at the next annual March meeting the selectmen were authorized and instructed to raise money to pay Mr. Gilman for this service. The depre- ciation of the currency was the chief disturbing cause during the ministry of Mr. Whipple, the subject appearing at most every annual meeting, com- mencing with 1732, when twenty pounds additional was voted to him for the ensuing year. "And whereas the vallue of Provision is gratly Risin & the wood on the Parsonag is allmost gon," it was voted at the annual meeting in 1738 to give him £30, on condition of his, signing a receipt in full. Said receipt appears on record February 29, 1739. In 1740 the term "badness of our money" is used, and in 1743 the annual allowance was increased to £40, and this was continued until 1747, when provision was made for the annual appointment of a committee to adjust the salary under oath, making it equal to what it was at the time of his settle- ment, December 24, 1756. The selectmen called a meeting as follows : "Whereas it has Pleased God in his Providence to visit our Revd Pastor Mr Joseph whipple with sickness so as he has been for some time past taken off from his Publick Labours In the ministry among us and there doeth not yet appear any prospect that he will be able for some time to Preach among us-Therefore to se if the Parish will agree to hire some suitable person for to Preach among us till such a time as Mr Whipple, shall be able to Preach again," &c. Page 686 Whipple's death occurred February 17, 1757, at the age of fifty- seven, just after entering on the thirty-first year of his pastorate, and at that date a meeting was called for the next day, when a committee consisting of Deacon Jona Fifield, Capt. Richard Nason, and Col. Mesheck Weare, were chosen to take charge of his burial at an expense not exceeding £400. At a meeting, March 15th, Colonel Weare and two others were chosen a committee to secure preaching for two or three Sabbaths. And it was voted that Mrs. Whipple should have the use of one-half of the parsonage-house for one year, also half of the garden, the fruit of thirty apple-trees, the use of half the barn, the pasturing of a cow at the upper parsonage, the improvement of the whole lower parsonage for pasturing a horse and cutting hay for a horse and cow, and also the full produce of an acre of rye sowed at the upper parsonage. At a meeting, May 3d, a committee was chosen to present to Mr. Josiah Bailey a unanimous call to settle with them as the successor of Mr. Whipple. And at a meeting, May 23d, he was offered a salary of fifty pounds sterling and a part of the parsonage lands. Declining to accept this offer, on the 23d of June the other lands were included, with the pro- vision that he should keep in repair at his own expense the buildings and fences. This offer he accepted in the following form: "To the Inhabitants of the Parish in Hampton falls, Gentlemen-I have calmly weighed & deliberated upon the last vote you passed for my encourage- ment to settle in the Work of the Gospel ministry over you in this place. And under a solemn sense of the great importance of this work and with humble dependence upon the Grace & good Providence of God, I hereby declare my acceptance of your invitation and offer to settle in the work of the Gospel Ministry, not doubting your readiness not only cheerfully and faithfully to make good your purposes for my outward comfort but upon every occasion to testify the same good will for me as unforeseen Providence may give occasion and above all a constant remembrance of me at the throne of grace that I may be faithful and successful in my office among you who am Your affectionate friend and humble servant for Christ's sake. "JOSIAH BAYLEY. "Hampton Falls June 30th 1757." The above is the first instance in the records where Falls is written with a capital F. And Levi Lane, a man of excellent, ability and education, con- tinued until 1861 to write it with a small f in the records of one of the religious societies. Mr. Bayley died on the 12th of September, after an illness of more than seven months. He was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1734, graduated at Harvard 1752, was ordained October 19, 1757, and died at the early age of twenty-eight, having been settled less than five years. On the day of his decease, a meeting of the parish or town was legally called for the next day, to make arrangements for his burial at the expense of the parish, and at that meeting the selectmen were instructed to proceed in the matter at an expense not exceeding £350 old tenor. Side by side in the old parish burying-ground lie the remains of the three first pastors of Hampton FaIls. All natives of the same state, two of them from adjoining towns, all grad- uates of Harvard, laboring in the same field, they together rest in the com- pany of many whose spiritual welfare they sought by precept and example. A dark slate head-stone marks the resting-place of Mr. Whipple, inscribed as follows: Page 687 "Here lies the Body of the Revd Mr JOSEPH WHIPPLE, Who having wisely and faithfully Discharged the Pastoral office, In the second Church in Hampton, Deceased Feby. 17th, 1757, In the 56th Year of his age, And 32d of his Ministry, highly Esteemed and beloved in Life, And in Death much Lamented." The lettering remains clear-cut, while that on the soft, light-colored head- stone of Mr. Bayley has begun to be obliterated. The latter is inscribed as follows: "Here are Interred the Remains of the REVd. Mr. JOSIAH BAYLEY, Third Pastor of the Church In Hampton Falls, Who after He had Wisely and Faithfully Discharged the Duties of his office for the Space Of 5 Years Was Received Into the Joy Of his LORD, SEPTr. 12, 1782. AEtats 28" Both head-stones are ornamented ( ?) with the figure of a cherub, accord- ing to the fashion of that period, We now come to the record of efforts made to secure a successor to Mr. Bayley in the pastoral office. At a parish-meeting on the 2d of Novem- her a committee of five, Deacon Jonathan Fifield, chairman, were instructed in behalf of the parish to extend a call to Mr. Paine Wingate. "At a Leagul meeting of the Free holders of Hampton falls parish held the thirty-first day of october 1763, Ily,' Voted that Col. Mesheck weare be moderator for said meeting. 2dly, Voted to renew the call to mr Pain Win- gate to settle in the work of the ministry in this parish. 3dly Voted that for an allowance to mr Pain Wingate for his salary and support During his Continuance in the work of the ministry in this Parish in case he shall settle in that work here. Then be paid him the sum of sixty-five pounds sterling money of great Britton or Equivelent thereto in the Curraincy of this Prov- ince yearly and Each year During his Continuance in said work, also that he have the use and Improvement of the parsonage House Barn orchard and gardens and about five acres of Land near mescheck weares House commonly called the Lower parsonage the Buildings and fences to be kept in Repair by the Parish or if it will be more agreeable to mester Wingate to have the Improvement of the whole personage lands and buildings Belonging to this Parish the fences and Buildings to be kept in Repair by the Parish as afore- said then he to have for his salary in money only the sum of fifty-five pounds sterling or Equivalent thereto in the Currency of this province to be paid him yearly and he to detennine at his first settlement which he will take that the parish maybe at a certainty." Mr. Wingate's answer: "To the Church and Congregation at Hampton Page 688 falls-Hond and Beloved Inasmuch as thro the permission of divine Provi- dence your attempts to resettle in order of the gospel have once and again been disappointed and your disposition towards my settling with you seems at present so far as I can learn in general not to be alienated or divided by our former parting and the Trials you have since made but rather increased contrary to my expectations. I may I think look upon your Renewed Call as a Call of divine providence notwithstanding the uneasiness of some whose dissatisfaction I cannot account a sufficient discouragement to my settling with you but hope thro' the interposition of divine goodness will soon be removed-I therefore now accept of your invitation and purpose by the will of God to devote myself to his service in the work of the ministry among you and being sensible of my own Imperfections and humbly depending on the help and grace of God I ask your prayers continually for me and wishing grace mercy and peace may be multiplied unto you I Remain ready to serve you in the gospel of our common lord. "PAIN WINGATE JUNR. "Hampton falls Nov. 7th 1763." Under date of December I4th Mr. Wingate chose to take the whole par- sonage with a cash salary of fifty-five pounds sterling. From another source it is learned that in 1763 a Presbyterian meeting- house was built in the south part of the town, now Seabrook. No allusion to the matter appears on the parish records until 1765. "Providence of New hampse: these are to Notify the freeholders and Inhabitants of the Parish of Hampton falls in said province who are by law qualified for to vote to meet at this meeting-house on Monday, the Second day of Septr next, at one of the Clock in the afternoon for the following purpose, viz. : Whereas a Number of persons in said parish have lately professed themselves of the Presbyterian perswasion, and have applied to some ministers at Londonderry, whome they Call the Boston Presbytrey, desiering to be under their care, Representing that they apprehend them- selves able and are freely willing to maintain a minister of the orthodox faith, and that is united with said ministers in the Presbyterian government, and have made some objections to paying towards the support of the settled minister in said parish, and altho' there is no just reason that the above- mentioned persons shuld in any Respect be Excused except that it may Probably be most for the peace of said parish that the above-mentioned per- sons and their Estates should be set off to act in all Respects as a Distinct Society or parish by themselves Except paying there proportion of the prov- ince tax until a new proportion thereof. Therefore to see if the parish will vote to set off the above-mentioned persons and there estates to be Incor- porated if they think proper to apply for it to act in all respects by themselves as a Distinct society or parish Except paying there proportIon of the Provence tax until a New proportion thereof, and to pay all other charges as usual untill they shall be set off as above mentioned, the line of said New Parish to be fixed by a comtte of the general Court with Liberty for such of the above-mentioned persons as shall not fall wlthm said New Parish to falloff with there Estates and Belong there to and for any who shall fall within said New Parish who are not of the Presbyterian Perswasion to fall off with there Estates, and belong to the old Parish, and for any who are of the Page 689 Presbyterian perswasion who have or shall have lands within said New Parish to poll off said Lands to belong to the parish of Hampton Falls. "Hampton Falls, August 22, 1765. Meshack Weare, Richard Nason, Nathan Tilton, Samuel Collins, Selectmen of Hampton Falls. "At a Leagul meeting of the freeholders and Inhabitants (of the parish of Hampton falls held the Second day of Septr 1765 Coll Meshack Weare chosen moderator for said meeting. "Voted that the people Called presbyterians in this parish be sett off as a Destinct Parish by themselves according to the foregoing Notification for the aforesaid meeting."-(Not signed.) The following notification bears the same date as the other : "Province of New hampse: Pursuant to a Request to the selectmen in hampton falls by thirty Inhabitants there in Desiring them to Call a parish meeting-lst to see if the Parish will Exempt the Presbyterian Society in Hampton falls from all Charges that may hereafter arise by the support of the Congregation minister or ministers in Hampton falls. 2ly to see if the parish will sett off to the presbyterian society a proportionable of the par- sonage and priviledges which belong to the Inhabitants of Hampton falls." Then follows the legal notification of a meeting for August 22d, signed by the same selectmen. The following is the record of the second meeting, held the same day: "At a Leagel meeting, etc., Col. Meshack Weare chosen moderator for said meeting. The first article in the notification was put to vote, and it was voted in the negative; and also the second article in the notification, and that was voted in the negative." Signed by the parish clerk. They next appeal to the General Assembly ,- "representing themselves aggrieved at the settlement of the Rev. Mr. Pain Wingate as a minister in said Hampton Falls, that the religious senti- ments and doctrines preached by the said Mr. Wingate are different from theirs and disagreeable to them." Therefore they pray to be set off as a separate parish and exempted from taxation for ministerial support in the other parish. As the immediate result of this action a parish-meeting was held the 30th of December, at which Col. Meshack Weare, then-and most always at this period-moderator, was chosen chairman of a committee of six to appear at the General Court in behalf of the parish- "to make a True Representation of the proceedings of the parish and to endeavor that the Petition may be Dismissed or that the petitioners may be set off in all Respects to act as a Distinct Parish by themselves." In this last clause is found the first intimation of the town or parish of Seabrook. As to the result of the first petition of the Presbyterians the records are silent; but it appears that in the final disposition of the matter the petitioners got more than they wished, while in the division of territory which followed Hampton Falls obtained the lion's share, in the opinion of some of the present residents of Seabrook. In 1767 they again petitioned the General Assembly "to be set off as Page 690 a Distinct parish for ministerial affairs only;" and on the 23d of November, Colonel Weare was again chosen chairman of a committee to appear and answer the petition, and "Represent the Inconveniences that would attend the prayer thereof being granted." At a meeting held the 25th of April, 1768, it was voted that the select- men "be a com. to wait on the com. appointed by the General Court to Divide the parish of Hampton falls to inform said com. * * * and to repre- sent to said com. what may appear necessary," etc. These records are copied from the first volume of the records of Hampton Falls, but the charter of the new South Parish does not appear on record until eleven years later. It may be found on the 123d page of the second volume, inscribed in beautiful penmanship. The following is the heading : Seabrook Charter Anno Regni Regis Georgii tertii mgnre Brittanire Francire et Hiberniae octavo "An Act for erecting and incorporating a new Parish in the Southerly part of Hampton falls in this Province." "Whereas a considerable number of the Inhabitants of tHe Southerly and Westerly part of Hampton falls have petitioned the General Assembly to be set off from the old and erected into a new Parish, which has not been opposed; &c." This act of incorporation was signed by John Wentworth, June 3, 1768. The ministry of Mr. Wingate, so peculiar in its inception, was fraught with changes in parish affairs. The dissatisfaction of some at the time of his settlement appears to have led to the final division of the parish. And the setting off of the new parish disturbed the equilibrium of the balance, and led to other important changes. On the 19th of December it was voted that a new meeting-house, 40 by 55 feet in dimensions, be built on the vacant lot near Jeremiah Lane's; that John Tilton, Abner Sanburn, and William Prescutt, selectmen, with Elisha Prescutt, Samuel Prescutt, and Jonathan Cram, be the building committee, and that this committee sell the pews to the highest bidder. Under the changed situation of the parish the meeting-house was at one end, and the majority of the parishioners towards the other end of the parish. And the result was that at a meeting called for the purpose October 20th it was voted that a new meeting-house be built near the center of the inhabitants of the parish. And the selectmen and two others, most of whom resided in the upper part, were chosen a committee to fix the location. To this action dissent was then and there made for three reasons: first, it ought not to be removed during Mr. Wingate's ministry; second, on account of the expense of land and new buildings, while by the terms of the deed the old ones could not be put to other use; third, because such hasty action has the most direct tendency to make confusion and lead into such difficulties as will probably ruin the parish. The following is the last half of a request addressed to Mr. Wingate. signed by sixty-one legal voters, and dated December 4, 1769: "And we, the subscribers, * * * your Parishioners being Desirous that the said meeting-house may be Solemnly Dedicated to the Public wor- ship of God, and that the Duties of your Sacred Function may be by you Page 691 performed there Do hereby signify to you our hearty Desire and Sincere Request that you will Come to the said house and Perform the Same. In doing which we Trust and hope you will Honour God, acquit yourself Worthily, in your Sacred Offiee, and Do Great good to your Parishioners." To which Mr. Wingate replies, December 28th, taking the ground that he had no power to change the place of worship; that the petitions of others could not convey to him that power; and that even the next, under date of May 10, 1771, is recorded the delivery of the new house to the parish by the building committee. The next document which contributes to the history of these events is dated August 30, I770 signed by Nathaniel Healey and fifty-seven others, and states that whereas Mr. Wingate refuses "to Per- form the Duties of his ministerial Function at Said new meeting-house," "agreeable to the Vote of Said Parish and the advice of Neigboring ministers," and they are obliged to hire preaching in the new house at their own expense, they "Do hereby Protest against all and Every Tax & assessment for the salary or support of the said Mr. Wingate." The following document closes the controversy between Mr. Wingate and the party of the new meeting-house. It appears that the new meeting-house party outvoted the old, but were out-generaled by Mr. Wingate: Mr. Wingate's Resignation. A Legal Document. "Hampton falls Dec 4th 1771. "To the Parish of Hampton falls. Genl and attested copy of the votes passed at your Parish meeting on the Twenty-fifth of November last has been laid before me & I have observed in them the steps taken by you in order for my Dismission from the ministry in this place and a final settle- ment Between us-and since from your proceedings I find no encourage- ment to expect peace and Quietness with you in the ministry and hoping that thro' the overruling providence of God it may be most for the interests of Religion in your unhappy circumstances & for my own Comfort and useful- ness I Do now agreeable to the decrees of the late Council ask a Dismission from my ministry among you to take place at the time & after the manner specified as follows ( viz ) That I shall receive Fifty pounds Lawfull money of the Parish to be immediately paid or sufficiently secured to me with interest until paid and shall still continue a settled minister of this Parish by virtue of the agreement made at my Settlement in this Place and shall Enjoy all ministerial Rights and privileges as heretofore except those I shall Resign by a mutual agreement Between me & the Parish-that I shall be exempt from all taxes in the Parish & shall Retain the free quiet & faith possession Enjoyment & improvement of all the parsonages Buildings & Lands now in my possession the Repairs to be kept good by the Parish, all the aforesaid right Priveledges & Enjoyments as a Settled minister of the Parish to Con- tinue secure to me for the space of four years from next March & no Longer : that I shall be wholly released from performing any ministerial Service in or for the Parish except what I shall voluntarily consent to after the usual term of the present year & shall have Liberty to resign my ministerial Rela- tion whenever I shall see fit short of the four years and Remove out of the Parish and in that case the Parish warranting to make Good the improvement of the Parsonages Buildings and Lands as above During the aforesaid term of four years the above sum of money to be paid & all the aforesaid priviledges and improvements to be continued to me as an equitable & humble compen- Page 692 ation for the secular inconvenience of my Removal and I Do not only ask a Dismission to take place at the time & after the manner specifyed But I Do hereby Give to the Parish a full acquitance from that part of their contract which is to pay to me fifty-five pounds sterling annually as a salary and I Do hereby Likewise promise & hold myself obliged in the sum of two hundred pounds Lawfull money to be well & truly paid to the Parish in case of for- feiture that I will not improve my ministerial Right and Priviledges by con- tinuing a Settled minister of the Parish any way to involve them in the Least Charge as their Settled minister except in the Respects above men- tioned or for the hindrance of a quiet & peaceable Settlement of another minister speedily-and that I will quit my ministerial Relation & Resign all the Parsonages & other privelidges as a Settled minister of this Parish at the time & after the manner specified above all which is upon condition & firm Dependence that the vote above Receited shall be truly & fully complyed with on the part of the Parish-given under my hand and seal this fourth Day of December in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and Seventy- one & in the twelfth year of the reign of king George the third of Great Britton &c "Signed Sealed & Delivered "in Presence of us Paine Wingate "Stephen Chase "Joshua Chase "attested pr Benjamin Tilton Parish Clerk" On the next page are copies of three receipts given by Mr. Wingate for notes received of the selectmen. It is with a sense of relief that we come to the close of this controversy, which has been so fully narrated for the special benefit of those people in Hampton Falls who expatiate on the good old times when there was but one church in the place, and the Congregational lion, the Unitarian lamb, the Presbyterian ox, and the Baptist walrus lay down lovingly together in Monwnent Square. Distance ever lends enchant- ment to our views. Rev. Paine Wingate, fourth pastor of the Hampton Falls Parish Church, was born in Amesbury, Mass., in 1739; graduated at Harvard in 1759; was ordained December 14, 1763, and "resigned March 18, 1776." " After his dismission he turned his attention to civil affairs, was honored with office, and was for many years one of the judges of New Hampshire. Died in Stratham, N, H., March 7, 1838, aged ninety-nine years." Mr. Wingate lived with his one wife more than seventy years, and the births of two children are recorded. When after his dismission he was a candidate for the State Senate and for Congress, he received a full vote in Harnpton Falls. At a meeting December 11th it was voted not to hire any one to preach, on probation, but it was voted to extend a call to Reverend Dr. Samuel Langdon to settle at a salary of £50 lawful money annually, or £42 and eight cords of good merchantable firewood. "Three and sixpence of said money to be as good as one Bushel of Indian Corn ; four Pence Equal to One Pound of Pork; Two Pence half Penny Equal to One Pound of Good Beef." And the buildings and outside fences of the parsonage were to be kept in repair, "as has been usual in times past," the lands to be free of taxes. Samuel Langdon's letter of acceptance was dated January 7, 1771. He Page 693 was born. in Boston, Mass., in 1723; graduated at Harvard in 1740; opened a school in Portsmouth Soon after; was settled as pastor at Portsmouth from 1746 to 1774, after acting as associate pastor for one or two years; president of Harvard from 1774 to 1780; installed pastor at Hampton Falls January 18, 1781, and died November 29, 1797, aged seventy-five, having been settled sixteen years. We copy from F. B. Sanborn's interesting pamphlet entitled "President Langdon, a Biographical Tribute, 1904," the epitaph on the tombstone at Hampton Falls : "Here lie the remains of REV.'D SAMUEL LANGDON, late pastor of Hamptonfalls; & for several years President of Cambridge University. His extensive knowledge, hospitality, Catholicism, Patriotism and Piety obtained & preserved the esteem, respect, admiration & love of the people of his charge & of his very numerous Acquaintances in this and the neighboring states. thro' a life of great usefulness to Mankind which ended Nov. 29th 1797. Aged 75." March 12, 1798, it was voted to hire Mr. Abbott five Sabbaths on pro- bation, and at the expiration of that time a call was extended to him to settle as pastor. The terms offered him were the parsonage, as usual, ten cords of pine and hemlock wood delivered at his door, $200, and his choice between six cords of good merchantable hard wood and $25. May 7th, a month later, this offer was increased to "300 silver dollars," and his lengthy letter of acceptance, on record, is dated June 2, 1798. Rev. Jacob Abbott was the only one of the six parish pastors born in New Hampshire, the rest all being natives of Massachusetts. All were graduates of Harvard, for that was then the only college in the country Mr. Abbott was born at Wilton, N. H., in 1768, graduated in 1792, was ordained August 15, 1798, and resigned April 1, 1826, after a settlement of twenty-eight years. Mr. Abbott was drowned on Sabbath day, November 2, 1834, at Windham, N. H., aged sixty-six. He preached on the day of his death, and was return- ing from meeting in a boat across a pond in company with two of his own sons, a neighbor, and his son. Two of the young men escaped by swimming, Ebenezer Abbott clung to the boat and was saved, while the two elder men were drowned. April 3O, 1827, twenty-nine persons had legally organized themselves under the name of the "First Congregational Society in Hampton falls," which title is retained today by the organization known only to those outside as the Unitarian Church or Society. Of the twenty-nine constituent members of this society only two survive, Robert S. and True M. Prescott. The final division was evidently the result of the: "half-way covenant," for preaching against which Jonathan Edwards, of immortal fame as a theologian, was driven from his life settlement at Northampton, Mass., and reduced to poverty by the sacrifice of his real estate in that place. A similar experience has been the lot of every earnest radical reformer since the world began. On the 3oth day of March, 183,) the selectmen sold the parsonage, land, buildings, and wood, and on the 8th of October the assessors of the Congre- gational Society receipted for $1,154.91, that being the proportion due said society. And at the annual meeting of this society April 4, 1836,- "It was put to vote to see if the Society would give those persons who contemplated forming themselves into a new Society to be called the Hamp- Page 694 ton falls and Seabrook Congregational Society their proportion of the fund, Passed in the negative, six voting in favor, eight against." But on second sober thought this decision was reversed, and at the next annual meeting, in 1837, it was "Voted that the funds of the first Congregational society in Hampton falls be divided into two parts according to polls and retable estate of the year A. D. 1836 provided the disaffected part of said society, with such other members of said society as may join with them, shall form a separate society, and withabove form this society, producing a certificate from the Clerk of their society that they are actual members thereof." The common fund at this time amounted to $1,500, of which the new society received $450. May 13, 1837, the following names are recorded as having withdrawn: Thayer S. Sanborn, Reuben Bachelder, Emery Bach- elder, Moses Bachelder, Samuel Bachelder, Jonathan Cram, Jr., Luke Averill, Joshua Pike, Jonathan Cram, Stephen Green, Robert S. Prescott, Josiah Bachelder, Sherburn W. Rand, Caleb Tilton, Rebecca F. Cram, and Polly Dow, of whom Deacons Emery Bachelder and Robert S. Prescott are the only survivors. Leaving to another the task of sketching the further histury of those who remained, the writer will follow those who went out. 1834. While the Reverend Mr. Jerrett was preaching in Hampton Falls a meeting was held September 18, 1834, for the purpose of "taking into con- sideration the expediency of uniting the towns of Hampton Falls, Seabrook, and Kensington into one Evangelical Congregational Society." This meet- ing was adjourned from time to time, and as a final result of the deliberations had at these meetings "the Evangelical Congregational Society at Seabrook and Hampton Falls" was formed and a meeting-house erected. This stands near the line which separates the two towns. 1835. The people of Hampton Falls united with the people of Seabrook to support the gospel. They attended meeting together at the old meeting-house in Seabrook. The Rev. Jonathan Ward preached for them during the summer. The Rev. David Sunderland was employed during the next season. He preached part of the time in the old meeting-house and part of the time in the new house. 1836. The Rev. D. Sunderland was preaching in the place when the new house was dedicated. He preached in it for several months. During the remainder of the year and a part of the next the desk was supplied by occasional preachers, prin- cipally from the theological institution at Andover. 1837, February. On the first Sabbath in February, 1837, Deacon Timothy Abbott, a native of Andover, Mass., preached for the first time in the place. He graduated at Amherst College in 1833, completed his theological studies at Andover, Sep- tember, 1836, and was licensed by the Andover Association. After preach- ing a few months he received the following communication : "REV. S. T. ABBOTT: "SIR,-I am requested to inform you that the Seabrook and Hampton Falls Evangelical Congregational Society, at a meeting on the 24th of June inst., voted that the sum of five hundred dollars for one year be given you as a salary, and, request you to settle as pastor of said society. They also request you to return an answer in writing as soon as the 1st day of July next, at which time this meeting stands adjourned. "JACOB NOYES, Clerk of said Society. "SEABROOK, June 27, 1837." Page 695 Mr. Abbott accepted July Ist and was ordained on the 12th, at which time twenty-two persons dismissed from the Hampton Falls Church, together with Widow MehKable Eaton, formerly of the old church in Seabrook, were organized into a church styled "The First Evangelical Congregational Church of Seabrook and Hampton Falls." 1855, March 28th, after an injunction was served on Mr. Abbott he preached in his own house until a few weeks before his death, which occurred March 28, 1855. It cannot be denied that he labored faithfully for the welfare of his church and community. He stood stiffly upon his ecclesiastical rights, desiring to remain where he had built himself a house and spent seven- teen years of his life; while, on the other hand, the leading men of the church probably considered that they should be pennitted to say who should minister to them. Under a more flexible system there might have been less friction. The next minister was Rev. H. A. Lounsbury. He resigned in 1857. He was followed by Rev. Frank Haley in 1876 to 1881 and he by Rev. Joseph Boardman, who commenced September 4, 1881; The successors of Mr. Boardman were: Rev. Andrew J. Small, Rev. Wm. H. Woodwell, and John w. Savage, the present pastor. The Congregational Church in South Seabrook was organized July 9, 1867, with seventeen constituent members, fourteen of whom united on pro- fession of faith. This new church was the result of a series of meetings held in the district schoolhouse, under the leadership of Mr. William A. Rand, beginning January 27, 1867. In 1868 a house of worship was erected at a cost of about five thousand dollars, outside aid being received from fifty or more churches in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. A native of Ports- mouth, N. H., Mr. Rand, at the time mentioned was studying with his brother, Rev. Edward A. Rand, pastor of the Congregational Church in Amesbury, Mass. After graduating from the Portsmouth High School, he learned the drug business with the late William R. Preston, of Portsmouth; at the age of twenty went to war as corporal of Company K, Sixteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and while in service in Louisiana was converted as the result of meetings held in camp. After he was mustered out in 1863 he was employed for two years in the wholesale drug business in Boston; then a year in a retail store in Biddeford, Me., after which he left business to commence his studies for the ministry. Mr. Rand was licensed to preach by the Essex North Association at its annual meeting August, 1867, with the church in Ipswich, Mass. Continuing to labor in South Seabrook, he deferred the completion of his studies until 1872, when he entered the Theological Semi- nary at Andover, Mass., and while pursuing his course there continued to supply the infant church with the aid of his fellow-students. Graduating from Andover in July, 1875, he was immediately ordained and settled as pastor of this church and has since continued to labor with them. Mr . Rand's work in this locality has been a unique one, for which few other men would have been so well adapted. There was need that law, order, temperance, and education should be presented as prominent features of the gospel, and this work Mr. Rand has done with marked success. Like all other good men engaged in a good work, he and his work have had their traducers. But, unmoved by these things, he has labored on, interested in hoth the spiritual and material welfare of the community in which he has Page 696 been providentially located. Through his efforts a post-office was estab- lished in that locality several years since, and in January, 1882, he received the appointment of postmaster, and was commissioned a justice of the peace. In South Seabrook Mr. Rand appears to have found his life-work at an early age, and to be content to labor on, making an indelible impression on the character of a whole community. The Methodist Denomination in Seabrook.-According to the most reliable information now to be obtained, the first Methodist preaching in this town was by preachers from the East Salisbury Church about the year 1820 at the South Village. About that date "Uncle" Robert Dow and Thomas Fowler, two earnest Methodists in that locality, fitted up a house for a church, and services were held there by Reverends Mr. Aspinwall, Amos Worthen Prescott, and, some say, "Reformation John Adams." A class was soon formed there with Robert Dow as leader, and weekly sessions were held alternately at his residence and that of Thomas Fowler. Mr. Dow lived on the place nearly opposite the Congregational Church. And near the year 1835 religious services were occasionally held in the Boyd school- house, on the Walton road, by Father Broadhead, a Methodist preacher. As the result of this preliminary work the present church building was erected in 1836, in that part of the town known as Smith's Village, at the junction of the Newburyport and Amesbury roads. And the class at the South Village then united with their Methodist brethren at Smith's Village in the formation of a Methodist Episcopal Church organized in due form. Rev. E. D. Trickey was the first preacher appointed by the Conference to the charge of this church. The present church edifice was built in 1836, at a cost of about fifteen hundred dollars. In 1862 this house was enlarged and improved at an expense of about fifteen hundred dollars. These improvements were made under the supervision of the following committee: Jeremiah Smith, Moses Eaton, Jonathan G. Chase, True Morrill, and Jonathan Walton. In 1854 a parsonage was erected at a cost of about one thousand dollars, located on the Amesbury road, a short distance from the church. The following is the list of preachers appointed to this charge by the Conference: E. D. Trickey, Warren Wilbur, James M. Young, Jacob Boyce, Rufus Tilton, Caleb Duston, L. D. Blodgett, Joseph Palmer (supply), J. W. Huntley, J. C. Emerson, F. 0. Barrows, Samuel Beede, D. W. Barber, A. C. Dutton, George W. T. Rogers, C. R. Smith, C. R. Homan, 0. H. Call, Free- man Rider, H. B. Copp, J. L. Flood, T. H. Mason, William H. Hays, Hugh Montgomery, W. C. Bartlett, Lorenzo Draper, W. C. Yanson, E. C. Berry, Joseph P. Frye, George Wesley Buzzell. Rev. William Wilkins is the present minister. SEABROOK The Friends.-Among the religious organizations in the different parishes or towns set off from the early settled Town of Hampton, none date so far back as the Society of Friends in Seabrook. This society was organized in 1701, ten years before the first colony from the Hampton Congregational Church established itself in Hampton Falls. And the earliest records of Hampton Falls, which then included Seabrook, commencing with 1718, show Page 697 that the legal position of the Friends was at that time well defined, for in the warrants for the parish-meetings occurs this clause, "Quakers excepted." The period of their bitter persecution had then passed, and we will nOt here recall it. One of their speakers, a Mrs. Hussey, shared the fate of other inhabitants of Seabrook in a murderous attack by their savage foes. Their house of worship was erected in 1765, two years after the old Presbyterian house. This society has had no local speakers since the decease of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gove. Mrs. Gove was a very gifted speaker, and her departure in 1873 was commemorated by the poet Whittier in tender and touching lines. While these good old people commanded the respect of all, their mantle appears to have fallen on none. Their first house of worship was erected in 1703. The Advent Church, Seabrook, was organized in 1868, with about forty members, and a church edifice erected in the following year. Dearborn Academy-was founded in 1854, by Edward Dearborn, an emi- nent physician and distinguished citizen of Seabrook. He endowed it with $15,000. MILITARY RECORD, 1861-65 George S. Barnes, chaplain, Second Regiment; enlisted April 17, 1863; resigned April 25, 1863. William Locke, Company K, Second Regiment; enlisted June 8, 1861; discharged June 31, 1864. John Anderson, Company A, Second Regiment; enlisted October 7, 1864; discharged December 19, 1865. John Clark, Company C, Second Regiment; enlisted October 12, 1864; discharged December 19, 1865. Albert Dusham, Company C, Second Regi- ment; enlisted October 8, 1864; discharged December 19, 1865. Israel Partington, Company F, Second Regiment; enlisted October 1, 1864; pro- moted to corporal; discharged December 19, 1865. Bernard Cosgrove, Com- pany C, Second Regiment; enlisted October IS, 1864; discharged May 27, 1865. Joseph Wright, Company I, Second Regiment; enlisted October 5, 1864. Albert Webb, Company I, Second Regiment; enlisted October 7, 1864; promoted to corporal; discharged December 19, 1865. Joseph P. Blaisdell, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; promoted to cor- poral; killed May 15, 1864. Julius C. Currier, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; discharged October 18, 1861. Alfred N. Dow, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; discharged June 22, 1862. Lowell M. Dow, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; promoted to corporal; discharged August 23, 1864. Charles W. Eaton, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; absent, sick, July 20, 1865; no discharge furnished. James P. Fowler, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; discharged November 19, 1862. George W. Gibson, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; died January, 1865. William Knowles, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861 ; promoted to corporal; absent on furlough; no discharge furnished. John W. Perkins, Company D, Third Regiment; enlisted August 23, 1861; died April 23, 1865. Joseph Wilson, Company D, Third Regi- ment; enlisted August 23, 1861; killed July 10, 1863. Robert Eaton, Com- pany D, Third Regiment; enlisted January 2, 1864; discharged May 26, Page 698 1865. Samuel George, Company B, Fourth Regiment; enlisted September 18, 1861: Henry Cook, Company H, Fifth Regiment; enlisted August 10, 1863; discharged December 15, 1863. Peter Melliot, Company I, Fifth Regiment; enlisted August 12, 1863; died August 29, 1864. Thomas H. Dearborn, sergeant, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted N ovember 27 , 1861; promoted to second lieutenant September 13, 1862; promoted to first lieutenant July 1, 1863; promoted to captain, Company A, Sixth Regiment, December 24, 1863; dlscharged November 27, I0B64. David A. Titcomb, first lieutenant, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 30, 1861 ; promoted to captain, Company K, April 18, 1862; resigned December 22, 1862. David S. Tilton, corporal, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; discharged January 22, 1864. Jacob E. Brown, Com- pany C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; discharged November 27, 1864. Robert F. Collins, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted Novem- ber 27, 1861; discharged May 23, 1865. Levi Collins, Jr., Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; died March 5, 1862. John M. Dow, Company C. Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; discharged January 9,1863. Melvin Dow, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted Novem- ber 27, 1861 ; killed August 29, 1862. William A. Eaton, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; killed September 30, 1864. Abel Eaton, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; pro- moted to corporal; discharged July 17, 1865. Samuel Eaton (3d), Com- pany C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; discharged, date unknown. Sewell B. Fowler, Company C. Sixth Regiment; enlisted Novem- ber 27, 1861; discharged November 27, 1864. James R. Fowler, Company C. Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; died February 27, 1862. Elias Felch, Jr., Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps May I, 1864. John H. Hardy, Com- pany C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861 ; promoted to corporal and sergeant; discharged July 17, 1865. Moses B. Knowles, Company C. Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; promoted to corporal and sergeant; discharged July 17, 1865. Elijah Knox, Company C, Sixth Regi- ment; enlisted November 27, 1861; discharged May 3, 1863. Francis Rowe, Company C, Sixth Regiment; enlisted November 27, 1861; discharged Jan- uary 26, 1863. Charles L. Brown, Company A, Sixth Regiment; enlisted August 10,1863; discharged July 17, 1865. James Quinn, Sixth Regiment; enlisted January 5, 1864. Charles Selkinghaus, Company K, Sixth Regi- ment; enlisted January 5, 1864. Edward A. Gove, Company H, Sixth Regi- ment; enlisted February 6, 1865; discharged May 6, 1865. Albert Schmidt, Eighth Regiment; enlisted August 12, 1863; not officially accounted for. William Rowe, Company K, Thirteenth Regiment; enlisted September 20, 1862; promoted to corporal; discharged May 29, 1865. George N. Janvrin, sergeant, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1863 ; discharged July 8, 1865. John W. Locke, corporal, Company D, Fourth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1863; promoted to sergeant; discharged July 8, 1866. Charles W. Noyes, corporal, Company D, Fourteenth Regi- ment; enlisted September 23, 1863; missing and supposed killed September 19, 1864. Walter N. Butler, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1863; discharged September 17, 1865. Francis Beckman, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1863; promoted Page 699 to corporal and sergeant; discharged July 8, 1865. Webster Brown, Com- pany D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1863; discharged July 8, 1865. Aaron E. Boyd, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 3. 1862 ; killed September 19, 1864. Lewis Boyd, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; Enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Sumner Beal, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862; dis- charged May 2, 1864. Daniel Boyd, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged June 8, 1865. Nathaniel Chase, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 26, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Stephen W. Chase, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; en- listed September 23, 1862; killed September 19, 1864. Simeon L. Dow, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 2, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Alfred B. Dow, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 2,1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Robert C. Eaton, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Morrill S. Eastman, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 10, 1862 ; rlischarged July 27, 1863. James F. Foster, Company D, Fourteenth Regi- ment; enlisted September 23, 1862 ; absent, sick, supposed discharged. Albert H. Gove, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862 ; discharged July 8, 1865. John S. Janvrin, Company D, Fourteenth Regi- ment; enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged June 28, 1865. Joseph P. .Jones, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862. Joshua Janvrin, Company D, Fourt~enth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged June 28, 1865. Charles B. Kimball, Company D, Four- teenth Regiment; enlisted October 10, 1862 ; discharged July 8, 1865. Ber- nard McCormick, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 10, 1862; discharged February 5, 1863. Frank T. Moffit, Company D, Four- teenth Regiment; enlisted October 10, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. John E. R-andall, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862 ; died August 30, 1864. George W. Swett, Company D, Fourteenth Regi. ment; enlisted September 23,1862; discharged June 11,1865. Charles Stott, Company D. Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 6, 1862 ; discharged October 16, 1862. James A. Wright, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Edwin Walton, Com- pany D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 11, 1862; died October 30, 1864. George T. Souther, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted January 2, 1864; killed September 19, 1864. William H. Randall, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted January 4, 1864; discharged July 8, 1865. Abner L. Eaton, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted January 18. 1864; discharged July 8, 1865. William T. Janvrin, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted March 15, 1864; died April 15, 1865. Daniel S. Davis, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted October 6, 1862; discharged July 30, 1863. Charles Hastings, Company D, Fourteenth Regiment; en- listed October 3, 1862; promoted to hospital steward March I, 1865. James Martin. Company F, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted August 5, 1864: dis- charged July 8, 1865. William T. Osgood, Company I, Fourteenth Regi- ment; enlisted December 30, 1863; discharged June 27, 1865. John B. Tuttle, Company F, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted January 4, 1864: dis- charged July 10, 1865. Charles Brown, Company H, Fourteenth Regi- ment; enlisted December 30, 1863. George Brown, Company I, Fourteenth Page 700 Regiment; enlisted December 30, 1863; discharged July 8, 1865. Jeremiah F. Boyd, Company F, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted January 4, 1864; dis- charged June 14, 1865. John Englebrick, Company F, Fourteenth Regi- ment; enlisted August 5, 1864; absent, sick, supposed discharged. Hial F. Eaton. Company K, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted February 2, 1865; died June 7, 1865. Charles R. Gove, Company I, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted December 30. 1863; discharged July 8, 1865. William H. Sanborn, Com- pany I, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted becember 30, 1863; died February 3, 1864. John N. Brown, second lieutenant, Company D. Fourteenth Regi- ment; enlisted October 9, 1862; resigned March 9, 1863. Lemuel M. Richardson, Company E. Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted September 23, 1862; discharged July 8, 1865. Newell F. Dow, Company I, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted December 30, 1863; died March 18, 1864. Charles H. Clark, Company I, Fourteenth Regiment; enlisted August 3, 1864; died October 15, 1864. Eucher Boisvert, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862. Robert Final, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31. 1862; transferred headquarters troops July 24, 1863. Charles Grosette, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31,1862. Hugh McGuire, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862; transferred to headquarters troops July 24, 1863. Paul Mignot, Company H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862. Theophel Paradis. Com- pany H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted October 31, 1862. Frank Jones, Com- pany H, Fifteenth Regiment; enlisted. November 8, 1862. John Loudon, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Charles F. Laurence, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Charles Pratt, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted. November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. James Barton, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. William J. Gardiner, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Felix Stone, Seventeenth Regiment; en- listed November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. Kendall w. Cofren, Company H, S.eventeenth Regiment; enlisted N ovember 26, 1862; died July 30, 1863. Moses Quarter, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 26, 1862; not officially accounted for. George Ava, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. George Brown, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted November 25, 1862; not officially accounted for. George C. Spaulding, Company B, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 26, 1862. Gaton C. Ross, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted Decem- ber 29, 1862; not officially accounted for. George J. Busher, Company A, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 29, 1862 ; discharged October 9, 1863. Benjamin F. Foster, Seventeenth Regiment; enlisted December 18, 1862; not officially accounted for. Reuben W. Price, Company M, H. A.; enlisted October 13, 1864; promoted to assistant surgeon October 12, 1864; discharged June 15, 1865. William Jones, U. S. C. T.; enlisted October 8, 1864; date of discharge unknown. James Bean, U. S. C. T.; enlisted October 7, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Thomas Ladson, u. S. C. T.; enlisted October 5, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Abraham Dow, V: R. C.; enlisted August 23, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John FrancIs, V. R. C.; enlisted August 5, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Samuel Eaton, V. R. C. ; enlisted January 13, 1864; date of dIscharge unknown. Nicholas Gaynon, V. R. C.; enlisted January 6, 1864 ; date of discharge unknown. Page 701 Alvin A. Gove, V. R. C.; enlisted January 2, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Stephen F. Knowles, navy; enlisted February 6, 1862; date of discharge unknown. George W. Randall, navy; enlisted December 19, 1862 ; date of discharge unknown. George Rowe, navy, enlisted December 19, 1862; date of discharge unknown. John R. Beckman, navy; enlisted Decem- ber 19, 1862 ; date of discharge unknown. Edward Austin, enlisted Septem- OCr 14, 1862 ; date of discharge unknown. Charles Phillips, enlisted September 19, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Almon Eaton, enlisted September. 9, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Michael Corbett, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Joseph E. Wilder, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Charles Welsh, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Joseph Byard, enlisted September 12, 1863; date of discharge unknown. William Segarson, enlisted September 1, 1863; date of discharge unknown. James McNeil, enlisted September 8, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Abraham Ross, enlisted November 8, 1862; date of discharge unknown. William Henry, enlisted September 14, 1863; date of discharge unknown. George Blake, en1isted September 14, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Charles Hinds, enlisted September 7, 1863 ; date of discharge unknown. Antrus Lopez, enlisted September 9, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Jacob Roker, enlisted Sep- tember 7. 1863; date of discharge unknown. Daniel Kating, enlisted Septem- ber 8, 1863; date of discharge unknown. George Dunn, enlisted September 14, 1863; date of discharge unknown. Peter Shie1ds, enlisted October 11, 1864; date of discharge unknown. George Taylor, enlisted October 8, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Robert McKinley, enlisted October 9, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John C. C1ark, enlisted October 12, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John D. Brandt, enlisted October 17, 1864; date of discharge unknown. John Brown, enlisted October 7, 1864; date of djs- charge unknown. William Ramsey, enlisted October 1, 1864; date of dis- charge unknown. P. M. Caventor, enlisted October II, 1862; date of dis- charge unknown. James P. Whitefield, enlisted August 12, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Daniel McEllery, enlisted August 10, 1864; date of discharge unknown. William Murphy. enlisted August 2, 1864; date of discharge unknown. Brown Memorial Library, Seabrook.-In November, 1890, Mrs. C. F. Jackson, assisted by several other women of Seabrook, inaugurated a public reading room at her residence, and gave the use of her library. Brown Memorial Library is the outgrowth of that movement. A society composed wholly of women, known as the Reading Room Circle, was formed and seventy-five volumes were collected, when Mr. Sewa11 Brown of Salem, Mass., a native of Seabrook, generously donated 175 volumes and $100 towards a building fund. In January, 1892, Mr. Brown suddenly died, and his cousin, Mr. David Pingree of Salem, wishing to perpetuate the memory of the deceased, proposed to erect a suitable bui1ding, which was accordingly built and gratefully accepted. The building was formally dedicated September 12, 1893, as the Brown Memorial Library, and passed into the possession of the Brown Library Association. Mr. Pingree has given a total of about sixteen hundred and twenty-five volumes, which have been card-catalogued by an expert. In January, 1896. Mr. Pingree and his two sisters gave $1,570as a permanent fund, the same being their mother's share in the estate of Augustus S. Brown. Page 702 Other donations of books have been received, and the library now con- tains 2,116 volumes, exclusive of Government and state reports. The library is free and has received no aid from state or town. F. D. W. Colcord and G. R. Fellows are the physicians. The societies are: John A. Logan Post, G. A. .R.; Woman's Relief Corps; Gov. Weare Council, U. 0. A. M. ; Passaconaway Council, Junior 0. U. A. M.; Good Will Grange; Alfred N. Dow Camp, S. of V. ********************************************************************** * * * NOTICE: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files t other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIORto uploading to any other sites. 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