Month: June 2022

By Muriel Bristol | June 26, 2022

Isaac Worster was born in Berwick, ME, April 11, 1772, son of Lemuel and Mary (Woodsum) Worster.

(His known siblings were George Worster (1775-1828), Dorcas Worster (1779-1831), Mary “Polly” Worster, Betsy Worster (1785-1839), John Worster (1787-1862), Lemuel Worster, Jr. (1789-1876), Sally Worster (1793-1863), and Lydia Worster (1795-1863)).

Their original surname of Worcester, as in Worcester, England, was also written as Worster and even Wooster. The Boston, MA, directory of 1873 suggested that for “Worster see Worcester and Wooster.”

Lemuel Worster headed a Berwick, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included two males aged 16-plus years [himself and George Worster], four females [Mary (Woodsum) Worster, Dorcas Worster, Mary “Polly” Worster, and Betsy Worster], and two males aged under-16 years [John Worster and Lemuel Worster, Jr.]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Israel Hodgdon and Lydia Worster.

Isaac Worster married in Berwick, ME, July 19, 1797, Tamsen Frost. She was born circa November 1773.

Elijah Horn was doubtless the first blacksmith [in Milton], but was soon followed by Isaac Worster at the Ponds, and later by Solomon Land and Joseph Rines at Milton Mills (Scales, 1914).

A blacksmith might be described as someone that fabricates tools and other articles from iron, as opposed to a whitesmith, who does so with tin, a goldsmith who does so with gold, and a silversmith, who does so with silver. (Paul Revere was a silversmith). One might go to a blacksmith for horseshoes, fabrication and repair of tools, hardware, such as nails, hinges, hooks, etc., and all those things that are now generally termed “wrought iron,” i.e., things that are “wrought” or created by a smith as opposed to things that are made by pouring or casting molten iron.

An English legal definition explained the smithing process as making things in a “hammery way.” At the simplest level, it would be the blacksmith that does the hammering and shaping, with his hammer and anvil, but this contemporary advertisement suggests more advanced possibilities: using waterpower to drive a triphammer mechanism, as well as driving the blacksmith’s bellows and grindstones, rather than more labor-intensive hand hammering, and foot-treadle grindstone.

ATTENTION BLACKSMITHS! THE subscriber now offers for sale, or to be let, that large and convenient BLACKSMITH-SHOP & FORGE, together with the privilege of water sufficient to carry the Bellows, Triphammers and Grindstones, as the whole has been heretofore improved by Mr. Amasa Bancroft, situated in the Northeastern part of this town, and is one of the most eligible stands for a Blacksmith in the State. SAMUEL RICH. Montpelier, Dec. 13, 1806 (Vermont Precursor (Montpelier, VT), January 5, 1807).

(In the 1830s and beyond, access to waterpower would be the issue driving son James Worster’s fierce opposition to growing monopoly control of water resources).

Daughter Dorcas Worster was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, August 22, 1797. (She was a namesake for her paternal aunt, Dorcas Worster).

Sister Dorcas Worster married in South Berwick, ME, May 24, 1798, Phillip Yeaton, Jr. Rev. John Thompson performed the ceremony. Yeaton was born on Somersworth, NH, June 18, 1772, son of Richard and Experience (Pray) Yeaton.

Sister [Mary] “Polly” Worster married in Rochester, NH, November 25, 1798, John Scates, both of Rochester, NH. He was born in Lebanon, ME, 1774, son of Benjamin and Lydia (Jenness) Scates.

Daughter Mary Worster was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, December 24, 1798. (She was a namesake for her paternal grandmother, Mary (Woodsum) Worster, and her paternal aunt, Mary “Polly” Worster).

Lemuil Worster headed a Berwick, ME, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], two females aged 45-plus years [Mary (Woodsum) Worster and another], one male aged 26-44 years, two females aged 26-44 years, one female aged 16-25 years [Betsy Worster], one male aged 10-15 years [Lemuel Worster, Jr.], two females aged under-10 years [Sally Worster and Lydia Worster].

Isaac Worster headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Tamson (Frost) Worster], two males aged 10-15 years, and two females aged under-10 years [Dorcas Worster and Mary Worster]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Son Isaac Worster [Jr.] was born in Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, August 8, 1801.

For whatever reason, Isaac Worster did not sign the Rochester division petition of May 28, 1802.

Mother Mary (Woodsum) Worster died, probably in Berwick, ME, sometime before November 28, 1803.

Son James Worster was born in Milton, January 8, 1804.

Father Lemuel Worster married (2nd) in Berwick, ME, July 4, 1805, Lydia (Gowell) Wentworth. She was born in Berwick, ME, in 1747, daughter of John and Mary (Adams) Gowell. (She was the widow of Samuel Wentworth, Jr. (1742-1798)).

Lemuel [Worster] married second at Berwick on 4 July 1805 Lydia (Gowell) Wentworth, widow of Samuel Wentworth (Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy, 24; will of Lemuel Worster, Strafford County wills, 29:136) (Anderson, 1990).

Son Mark Worster was born in Milton, June 20, 1806.

Daughter Sophia Worster (I) was born in Milton, September 22, 1808.

The Milton selectmen of 1809-10 were William Palmer, John Remick, Jr., and Isaac Worster.

Isaac Worcester headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Tamson (Frost) Worcester], one male aged 16-26 years, two females aged 10-15 years [Dorcas Worcester and Mary Worcester], three males aged under-10 years [Isaac Worcester, James Worcester, and Mark Worcester], and one female aged under-10 years [Sophia Worster (I)]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joshua Jones and Jonathan Pinkham.

Son George Worster was born in Milton, March 3, 1811.

On 3 April 1812, Lemuel Worster conveyed to Isaac Worster, of Milton, N.H., the homestead in Berwick “which I purchased of my late father John Worster” (id., 93:279). On 26 February 1820, Isaac Worster of Milton recovered judgment against Lemuel Worster of Milton and claimed 12 acres of the Worster lands in Berwick (id., 105:24) (Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy, 24; will of Lemuel Worster, Strafford County wills, 29:136) (Anderson, 1990).

Sister Betsy Worster married in Milton, December 1, 1811, Isaac Scates, both of Milton. Rev. Asa Piper performed the ceremony. He was born in Lebanon, ME, July 17, 1785, son of Benjamin and Lydia (Jenness) Scates.

The Milton selectmen of 1814 were Isaac Worster, T.C. Lyman, and [brother-in-law] Isaac Scates.

Son Lewis Worster was born in Milton, April 4, 1815.

Sister Sally Worster married (1st) in Rochester, NH, November 12, 1815, Samuel E. Wallingford. He was born in Rochester, NH, in 1790, son of David and Sarah (Corson) Wallingford.

Daughter Sophia Worcester (I) died in Milton, December 15, 1815, aged seven years, two months. Son Lewis Worster died in Milton, December 18, 1815, aged eight months. (His nephew, Lewis W. Nute (1820-1888), would be named after him). One might suspect they died during an outbreak of some childhood disease, such as whooping cough, measles, etc.

Daughter Dorcas Worster married, September 19, 1816, Ezekiel Nute. He was born in Milton, August 22, 1794, son of Jotham and Sarah (Twombly) Nute.

Daughter Sophia Worster (II) was born in Milton, July 29, 1817.

Father Lemuel Worster of Milton, yeoman, made his last will, August 14, 1820. He devised to his wife, Lydia Worster, one cow and one hog, “now in my possession,” all the furniture formerly belonging to her, all the bedding made in the house during her residence with him, provided she relinquish her dower rights, and $25. He devised $1 to his son, Isaac Worster; one bed and bedding to his daughter, Lydia Worster; and all the rest and residue to be equally divided among his children, excepting the aforementioned son, Isaac Worster. He named [sons-in-law] John Scates and Isaac Scates as his executors. Gilman Jewett, Thos Leighton, and John Fall signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 29:136).

Father Lemuel Worster died in Milton, August 14, 1820. His will was proved in a Strafford County Probate court held in Rochester, NH, November 29, 1920 (Strafford County Probate, 29:136).

Isaac Worster signed the Milton anti-division remonstrance of June 1820. Isaac Worster and his son, Isaac Worster, Jr, signed the Milton militia division petition of November 1820.

Daughter Adeline E. “Elizabeth” Worster was born in Milton, February 18, 1822.

The NH legislature authorized incorporation of the Milton Social Library by nine Milton men, including Isaac Worster, June 14, 1822.

Daughter Mary Worster married, probably in Milton, in 1823, Mordecai Varney, she of Milton, and he of Farmington, NH. Rev. James Walker performed the ceremony. Varney was born in Dover, NH, September 24, 1796.

Isaac Worster was one of twenty-three Milton inhabitants who petitioned to have Gilman Jewett appointed as a Milton coroner, June 12, 1823. (See Milton Seeks a Coroner – June 1823).

Brother-in-law Samuel E. Wallingford died in Milton, August 11, 1826, leaving a widow, Sally (Worster) Wallingford, and four children.

Son Isaac Worster, Jr., married in the Second (Congregational) Church in Berwick, ME, January 11, 1827, Julia Hilliard, he of Somersworth, NH, and she of Berwick, ME. Rev. Joseph Hilliard performed the ceremony. She was born in Berwick, ME, April 14, 1800, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Sarah (Langton) Hilliard.

Son Mark Worcester married in Somersworth, NH, November 29, 1827, Rachel Donnell. Rev. Aaron D. Gage performed the ceremony. She was born in Brunswick, ME, circa 1809, daughter of Joshua and Hannah Donnell.

Son James Worster married in Berwick, ME, March 1, 1828, Sarah Fernald. She was born in Lebanon, ME, May 21, 1803, daughter of James and Sally F. Fernald.

Ezekl Nute headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female, aged 30-39 years [Dorcas (Worster) Nute], one male aged 15-19 years, one female aged 15-19 years, two males aged 10-14 years [Cyrus W. Nute and Lewis W. Nute], one male aged 5-9 years [Isaac F. Nute], and one male aged under-5 years [Samuel F. Nute]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of [his father] Jotham Nute and John Jenkins.

Isaac Worcester headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Tamson (Frost) Worcester], one male aged 15-19 years [George Worcester], one female aged 10-14 years [Sophia Worcester (II)], and one female aged 5-9 years [Adeline E. Worcester]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John H. Varney and Thomas Cosan [Courson].

Jas Worcester headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 20-29 years [Sarah (Fernald) Worcester], and one female aged 5-9 years. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Isaac Worcester, Jr, and Richd Gerrish.

Sister Mrs. Sally (Worster) Wallingford married (2nd) in Milton, November 24, 1831, Col. Levi Jones, both of Milton. (She was the widow of Samuel E. Wallingford (1790-1826)). Rev. Isaac Willey performed the ceremony (NEHGS, 1908)

Son George Worster married in Somersworth, NH, August 2, 1835, Mary Jane Rowell, both of Somersworth, NH. Rev. Arthur Caverno performed the ceremony. She was born in Pembroke, NH, June 18, 1814, daughter of Charles and Mary “Polly” (Davis) Rowell.

Son James Worster broke down parts of a Great Falls Manufacturing Company dam situated at Milton in April 1837. This occasioned a lengthy lawsuit that continued through various appeals up to July 1844 (NH Superior Court, 1851). Over time, he would become involved, even so much as to be thought a ringleader, in a movement that opposed mill dams obstructing river traffic and flooding abutting lands, as well as opposing water resources being controlled by out-of-state interests.

Isaac Worcester of Milton, blacksmith, made his last will, March 8, 1838. He devised $1 each to his sons, Isaac Worcester, James Worcester, Mark Worcester, and George Worcester, and $1 each to his daughters, Dorcas Nute and Mary Varney. He devised all the rest and residue of his estate to his son, Isaac Worcester, in his capacity as executor, with the proviso that his wife, Tamson Worcester, and daughters, Sophia Worcester and Elizabeth Worcester, retain the use of the real estate until it might be sold. Once sold he should invest the money and pay its interest to Tamson Worcester, for so long as she lived or until she remarried. In either case, he should pay over one-fourth of the interest to each of the two daughters for so long as they should live or until they married (at which point they should receive a one-time payment of $60). The other half of the principal, and the remaining half (one-fourth and one-fourth) when that should become available, should be equally divided among all the children. James Roberts, John H. Varney, and Amos Gerrish witnessed his signature (Strafford County Probate, 53:154).

Isaac Worster died in Milton, March 11, 1838, aged sixty-five years, eleven months. His last will was proved before Judge Daniel C. Atkinson in a Strafford County Probate court held in Rochester, NH, May 19, 1838 (Strafford County Probate, 53:154).

During the pastorate of the Rev. Mr. Willey, – in 1841 – a parish house, which, with subsequent renovations, is the present parsonage was erected on a lot purchased of Isaac Worster. In 1860 the remainder of the Worster lot was purchased, and soon after the present meetinghouse was built. It was dedicated Jan. 9, 1862. In 1886 repairs, the expense of which was $1,000, were made on the meetinghouse and parsonage. In 1895, the interior was remodelled, and renovations, made the whole expense amounting to $1,200. Mr. Lewis Worster Nute whose mother was born where the present church now stands, bequeathed $10,000 to the church making the present funds about $11,000 (Mitchell-Cony, 1908). 

Ezekiel Nute headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Dorcas (Worster) Nute], one male aged 15-19 years [Isaac F. Nute], and one male aged 10-14 years [Samuel F. Nute]. Three members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of David Nute and John Jenkins.

James Worcester headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Sarah (Fernald) Worcester], one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 10-14 years, one male aged 5-9 years, and one female aged under-5 years. Two members of his household was engaged in Manufacture and the Trades. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Francis Looney and George Worster.

Mark Wooster headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Rachel (Donnell) Wooster], one male aged 10-14 years [Lewis Wooster], one female aged 5-9 years [Hannah Wooster], and one male aged under-5 years [Charles H. Wooster]. One member of his household was engaged in Manufacture and the Trades.

George Worster headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 20-29 years [Mary J. (Rowell) Worster], one male aged 10-14 years, and two females aged under-5 years [Amanda T. Worster and Mary E. Worster]. One member of his household was engaged in Manufacture and the Trades. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Worcester and John H. Varney.

Son Isaac Worster, Jr., became a committed abolitionist from at least 1844, when he offered to contribute towards a new printing press for an abolitionist newspaper. (See Milton and Abolitionism).

[He] .… was a prominent man in Strafford county, N.H., for many years, where he was closely connected with the Abolition party, was firm and outspoken in his views against slavery, and was the personal friend and counselor of many of the noted leaders of the anti-slavery movement at a time when it required strong moral stamina and some personal risk to defend his convictions (Reno, 1901).

Son James Worster broke down part of a Great Falls Manufacturing Company dam situated on the Salmon Falls River between Somersworth, NH, and Berwick, ME, in December 1847.

James Worster had experience breaking down dams. In December 1847, while still living in Dover, New Hampshire, he tore off an abutment, chopped down planking, and removed stone from a dam across the Salmon Falls River in Somersworth, New Hampshire. The dam and factories belonged to the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, a Boston Associates’ venture since the 1830s. Claiming damage to land he leased, Worster sought to abate the nuisance himself – an action that was legal at the time. The Great Falls Company appealed to the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature to issue an injunction barring Worster from doing any further damage. In July 1853, the court granted the request (Steinberg, 2014).

James Worster appeared in the Dover, NH, directory of 1848, as a blacksmith, with his house on Cedar street.

Daughter Sophia Worster (II) married in Milton, April 12, 1848, Daniel W. Dame, both of Rochester, NH. (She was his second wife). Rev. Edward F. Abbott performed the ceremony. Dame was born in Sandwich, NH, February 8, 1820, son of Richard and Abigail (Page) Dame.

Son Mark Worster died February 3, 1849, aged forty-two years.

Adeline E. Worster sued the Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company for flooding their land in Tuftonborough, NH, in 1849. (This source misidentified her relationship with James Worster as being that of father and daughter, rather than brother and sister).

In 1849, his daughter [sister], Adeline E. Worster, took the company to court for flooding her land in Tuftonborough, on the northeast side of Lake Winnipesaukee. She owned the land jointly with her father [brother] and claimed the Lake Company’s dam at Lake Village had raised the water in the lake and damaged the property. The Lake Company demurred, a move that led to the dismissal of the case in 1852 (Steinberg, 2014).

Ezekiel Nute, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Dorcas Nute, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), Samuel F. Nute, a farmer, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and Warren W. Bodge, a farmer, aged twenty years (b. NH). Ezekiel Nute had real estate valued at $4,500. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John C. Wentworth, a laborer, aged twenty-three years (b. ME), and Ira Varney, a farmer, aged forty-seven years (b. NH).

Isaac Worster, a hoe & foils manufacturer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Julia [(Hilliard)] Worster, aged fifty years (b. ME), Sarah E. Worster, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Joseph H. Worster, aged twenty years (b. NH), Kenny K.W. Worster, aged nine years (b. NH), Isaac Howard, aged two years (b. NH), Charles Worster, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Tamson Worster, aged seventy-five years (b. ME), and Ezra Varney, aged sixty years (b. NH). Isaac Worster had real estate valued at $6,500. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Francis Looney, a manufacturer, aged forty-eight years (b. England), and George Carlysle, a trader, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA).

James Worster, a blacksmith, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Fernald)] Worster, aged forty-three years (b. ME), Susan M. Worster, aged twenty years (b. NH), George O. Worster, a store clerk, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Sarah J. Worster, aged twelve years (b. MA).

Widowed daughter-in-law Rachel [(Donnell)] Worster, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Hannah D. Worster, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Charles Worster, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Arzelia W. Worster, aged eight years (b. NH), and Mark P. Worster, aged four years (b. NH). Her house appeared in the enumeration next above that of Samuel Pray, physician, aged eighty years (b. NH). (He being the Dr. Pray who had attended upon a wounded Norton Scates in 1807 (See Milton Militiaman’s Petition – 1807)).

George Worster, a machinist, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary J. [(Rowell)] Worster, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), Tamson A. Worster, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Mary E. Worster, aged ten years (b. NH), Isaac Worster, aged eight years (b. NH), George A. Worster, aged three years (b. NH), and William Blake, a laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. Ireland). George Worster had real estate valued at $3,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Mathes, a carpenter, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and James Twombly, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH).

Richard Dame, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Daniel W. Dame, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH), Sophia [(Worster)] Dame, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), Julia Dame, aged four years (b. NH), Hannah Dame, aged eighty-six years (b. NH), and Moses S. Dame, aged eleven years (b. NH). Richard Dame had real estate valued at $3,000.

Son Isaac Worster [Jr.] of Milton donated $2 to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, in or around May 1851. Son George Worster of Milton donated $1, and Stephen Shorey of Milton donated 50¢ (Liberator (Boston, MA), June 13, 1851).

Daughter Adeline E. Worcester married in Millbury, MA, June 21, 1852, Elijah Hanson, she of Milton, NH, and he of Millbury, MA. He was a machinist, aged twenty-seven years, and she was aged thirty years. Rev. J.E. Farewell of Rochester, NH, performed the ceremony. Hanson was born in Ossipee, NH, circa 1824, son of Aaron and Sarah Hanson.

James Worster continued his legal struggle over water privileges with the Lake Company.

Meanwhile, in the period from 1849 to 1853, James Worster made several land transactions: He leased a parcel of meadowland in Sanbornton, a farm bordering Paugus Bay in Gilford, and had a mortgage for a third share of Rattlesnake Island in Lake Winnipesaukee. It is hard to say precisely why he chose these particular tracts of land. Yet one thing is certain: The land seemed destined to bring him into conflict with the Lake Company. On 14 April 1853, Worster threatened to destroy the company’s dam at Lake Village, claiming it injured land he owned and leased in neighboring towns. To protect its property, the Lake Company sought an injunction from the superior court in 1854 (Steinberg, 2014).

Tamson (Frost) Worster died in Milton, May 18, 1855, aged eighty-one years, six months.

J. Worster of Dover, NH, donated $1 to the American Anti-Slavery Society, in July 1855 (Liberator, July 27, 1855).

Son James Worster appeared in the Concord, NH, directory of 1856, as residing at 5 Green street.

Barred from tampering with the dams at Lake Village and Somersworth, [James] Worster moved to Concord, New Hampshire. For the moment, he kept out of the way of the Lake Company, but he had in no way given up his fight. Between 1856 and 1858, Worster obtained property in Hooksett, New Hampshire – land bordering the Merrimack River. The land, which was probably prone to flooding, lay upstream from the Amoskeag Company’s dam in Manchester. Once again, Worster seemed to be inviting conflict with a Boston Associates’ venture (Steinberg, 2014).

Daniel W. and Sophia (Worster) Dame moved to Illinois, circa 1857. Elijah and Adeline E. (Worster) Dame moved there also, in 1858.

At the age of five years he [Charles S. Dame] came to Illinois with his parents [Daniel W. and Sophia (Worster) Dame], Dixon being the end of their railway journey. They were met by a relative, Mr. Bede, and conveyed by wagon to the Bede home, where they spent the summer while Mr. Dame built the house on the tract of prairie land which he had purchased part from the state and part from the Illinois Central railway. This farm has been known as the old Dame homestead, is now operated by the Joe Pheil family and is in a high state of cultivation. Here Charles Dame spent his boyhood. Their nearest town was Polo and the post office was at the Belding farm on the Telegraph road. In his young manhood he engaged in the live stock business and followed It most of his life (Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, IL), July 27, 1929).

At half past six on the morning of 7 March 1859, [James] Worster and another person appeared at the Amoskeag Company’s dam. The watchman on duty spotted them and ordered them to leave. They refused to go and, after having words, the watchman pitched a piece of ice at them. A fight broke out and Worster was knocked down three times before he left the dam, sending for a doctor to dress his injured nose (Steinberg, 2014).

Son-in-law Ezekiel Nute died in Milton, April 14, 1859, aged sixty-four years.

CONSPIRACY TO TEAR DOWN THE DAM OF A MANUFACTURING COMPANY. In the Police Court at Manchester, N.H., on Friday, Joseph Mitchell, Oscar N. Goodale, Edwin K. Goodale, Joseph Mitchell, Jr., James Worster, Jr., John Harvey and John Lury, all of Hooksett, were arraigned on a complaint of conspiracy to tear down the dam across the Merrimac River at Amoskeag Falls, with intent to extort money from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. Several ineffectual attempts were made to have the complaint quashed (Boston Evening Transcript, August 1, 1859).

Water privileges were of the utmost importance to mill owners, but it was not the businessmen of Laconia who held fast to their lingering anger with Lake Company’s control of local waterways. A good number of local residents and farmers possessed a growing amount of resentment towards the company. Their discontent was continually fueled by an activist named James Worster, who reportedly owned riverside properties on the Winnipesaukee River and Merrimack. He had already carried out attacks on several dams in the state after his properties had been flooded; however he continued to focus most of his attention on the Lake Village Dam. On September 28, 1859, he had little trouble rounding up a sizeable group of furious locals, who then proceeded to the dam with the goal of destroying it. The malicious attack became forever known in local annals as the Lake Village Riot. The fruitless assault on the dam paled in comparison to the fight that broke out between the attackers and the officials of the Lake Company. Worster was arrested, charged with attempted murder, and, after a lengthy legal battle, spent time in jail. The Lake Company was the clear winner and never relinquished any of its water rights until water power was no longer necessary to power factories and mills (Anderson, 2014).

Before his role in the attack had been settled, [James] Worster was jailed on another offense. Sometime before the autumn of 1859, Worster physically resisted the Merrimack County sheriff in a dispute over a stolen horse. In 1860, Worster pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to thirty days in jail the following year. When he heard the news, French wrote: “He ought to be in jail or in an Insane Asylum. Perhaps the latter place would be the most humane and proper.” Worster was eventually released but returned to jail two years later after being convicted of contempt for his part in the 1859 attack on the dam. The sentence included three months of incarceration and a five hundred dollar fine. The Lake Company had finally succeeded. James Worster was to cause the company no further trouble (Steinberg, 2014).

Son James Worster appeared in the Concord, NH, directory of 1860, as residing at 7 Tahanto street. His son, George O. Worster, appeared also, as boarding at J. Worster’s.

Paul Reynolds, aged sixty-one years, headed a Milton (“West Milton P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Salley Reynolds, aged sixty-two years, Ida Herrick, aged five years, Ada Herrick, aged two years, and Dorcas [(Worster)] Nute, aged sixty-two years. Paul Reynolds had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $300. His household was enumerated between those of Ira Varney, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), and William Chamberlain, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH).

Mordica Varney, a farmer, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary W. [(Worster)] Varney, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), Sarah E. Varney, a tailoress, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), Beard P. Varney, a farmer, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Hannah Varney, aged twenty years (b. NH), Tamson E. Varney, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Peter L. Cook, a shoemaker, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). Mordica Varney had real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $700.

Charles Jones, a farmer, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Betsey [(Varney)] Jones, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Fred P. Jones, aged eight months (b. NH), Salley [((Worster) Wallingford)] Jones, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), Lydia Worster, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), Abba Corliss, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and F.E. [Frank E.] Wallingford, aged eight years (b. NH). Charles Jones had real estate valued at $16,000 and personal estate valued at $6,000. Salley Jones had personal estate valued at $1,000. His household was enumerated between those of E.W. Plummer, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH), and William Sanborn, aged fifty-six years (b. NH). (Baby Fred P. Jones (1860-1941) would become the father of Robert E. Jones (1887-1954). Lydia Worster (1795-1863) was a sister of Salley ((Worster) Wallingford) Jones. Frank E. Wallingford (c1852-1914) was an orphaned son of Ira and Delania D. (Thompson) Wallingford, his father having died in 1853 and his mother having died only several months before).

James Worcester, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Concord, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sarah W. Worcester, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), George O. Worcester, a map peddler, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Sarah J. Worcester, aged twenty-two years (b. NH). James Worcester had real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $200.

Rachael R. [(Donnell)] Worster, aged fifty years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Her household included Orange B. Otis, a currier, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Hannah [(Worster)] Otis, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Arzelia Worster, aged eighteen years (b. NH).

George Worster, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed an Allenstown, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary J. [(Rowell)] Worster, aged forty-six years (b. NH), Isaac Worster, aged nineteen years (b. NH), George A. Worster, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Ida M. Worster, aged seven years, and Charles Rowell, aged seventy-five years. George Worcester had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $200.

D.W. Dame, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Rock Creek, IL, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sophia W. [(Worster)] Dame, aged forty-three years (b. NH), Julia A. Dame, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Chas. S. Dame, aged eight years (b. NH), Richard Dame, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH), William Horrigan, a farm laborer, aged twenty-six years (b. England), and Frank Canada, aged twenty-two years (b. NY). D.W. Dame had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $2,500.

E. Hanson, a farmer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Wysox (“Elkhorn P.O.”), IL, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included [Adeline] Elizabeth Hanson, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Ella Hanson, aged four years (b. VT), and Howard Wooster, aged twelve years (b. NH). E. Hanson had real estate valued at $1,600 and personal estate valued at $500.

Another attack was made on the Amoskeag dam at Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday afternoon. A party of four attempted to knock the flashboards off, when one of the party was arrested. The mobocrats stated that they were hired by parties at Hooksett (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), August 18, 1860).

Sister Sally ((Worster) Wallingford) Jones died in Milton, January 12, 1863, aged sixty-nine years, five months, and twenty-one days. Sister Lydia Worster died in Milton, June 6, 1863, aged sixty-seven years, seven months, and fifteen days.

Son James Worster appeared in the Concord, NH, directory of 1864, as residing on Spring street.

Son-in-law Mordecai Varney died in Farmington, NH, April 12, 1864, aged sixty-seven years.

Son Isaac Worster, Jr., died, probably in Rochester, NH, between 1860 and 1865. Daughter-in-law Julia [(Hilliard)] Worster filed an administratrix’s bond in York County Probate court, September 5, 1865, for the settlement of the York County portion of the estate of her husband, Isaac Worster, late of Rochester, NH. John Worster of Rochester, NH, and Joseph H. White and James Chadbourne, both of Alfred, ME, stood as her sureties (York County Probate, 19:145). She reported having sold two parcels of land in York County to Charles Jones of Milton, for $10 and $40, October 3, 1865. Julia Worster, and her sureties, Joseph F. Hilliard, and Ebenezer Worster, both of Berwick, ME, appeared; and Joseph D. Worcester and Mary D. Knight signed also as witnesses (York County Probate, 19:46).

James Worcester appeared in the Concord, NH, directories of 1867-68, and 1870, as a lumber dealer, with his house on Spring street, near Pleasant street.

Son-in-law Elijah Hanson of Amboy, IL, aged forty-two years, made his last will, April 27, 1867. He devised all his real and personal estate to his beloved wife, Adeline E. Hanson. William B. Andruss and Rufus H. Mellen, both of Amboy, IL, witnessed his signature (Lee County Probate, 7:1389).

Daughter Dorcas (Worster) Nute died in Milton, December 11, 1869, aged seventy-two years.

Joseph H. Worcester, a lawyer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH (“Gonic P.O.”), household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included [his mother,] Julia [(Hilliard)] Worcester, aged seventy years (b. ME), and [his sister,] Sarah E. Worcester, aged forty-two years (b. NH).

James Worcester, a lumber dealer, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), headed a Concord, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sarah J. Worcester, aged sixty-four years (b. ME), and Sarah J. Worcester, aged thirty years (b. NH).

Orange Otis, a shoe cutter, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Hannah [(Worcester)] Otis, keeps house, aged thirty years (b. NH), Lottie Otis, attends school, aged ten years (b. MA), Maud Otis, at home, aged ten months (b. MA), Rachel [(Donnell)] Worcester, no occupation, aged sixty years (b. ME), and Lill Worcester, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH).

George Worster, a farmer, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed an Allenstown, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary J. [(Rowell)] Worster, keeping house, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), George A. Worster, a jeweler, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Phosia [(Fessenden)] Worster, keeping house, aged twenty-four years (b. MA), Mary Worster, aged three years (b. NH), and Benjamin F. Worster, aged eight months (b. NH, September). George Worster had real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $300.

Elijah Hanson, a locomotive machinist, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed an Amboy, IL, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included [Adeline] Elizabeth [(Worster)] Hanson, keeping house, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), Mary Duffey, a domestic servant, aged eighteen years (b. PA), Henry Mcgraw, a R.R. engineer, aged thirty-nine years (b. NY), Jane Mcgraw, a milliner, aged twenty-nine years (b. Ireland), Bernard Truesdell, an attorney at law, aged thirty-seven years (b. NY), Sarah Truesdell, aged thirty-three years (b. NJ), Fanny Patridge, a music teacher, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA), and George Wells, a clergyman, aged thirty years (b. NY). Elijah Hanson had real estate valued at $12,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. Henry Mcgraw had real estate valued at $500; Jane Mcgraw had personal estate valued at $2,000. Bernard Truesdell had real estate valued at $10,000 and personal estate valued at $10,000.

Danl. W. Dame, a farmer, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Rock Creek (“Lanark P.O.”], IL, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Worster)] Dame, keeping house, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), Chas. S. Dame, works on farm, aged eighteen years (b. NH), John Kendall, a farm laborer, aged thirty-five years (b. MD), Edwd. Newcomer, a farm laborer, aged twenty-five years (b. NY), Lycinda Pratt, a domestic servant, aged seventeen years (b. IL), and Richard Dame, a farm laborer, aged seventy-six years (b. NH).

Son-in-law Elijah Hanson died in Amboy, IL, November 23, 1871, aged sbout forty-seven years. His last will was proved in Lee County Probate court, November 30, 1871 (Lee County Probate, 7:1390).

Son James Worcester appeared in the Concord, NH, directory of 1872, as a lumber dealer, with his house on Spring street, near Pleasant street. He appears to have died, probably in Concord, NH, at sometime between 1872 and 1875, when his wife was described as being a widow.

Daughter-in-law Julia [(Hilliard)] Worcester made her last will, June 2, 1873. She devised one of her newest large silver spoons to her son, Henry K. Worcester. She devised a silver teaspoon to her son, Isaac Howard Worcester. She devised all the rest and residue of her estate to her son, Joseph H. Worcester, who was to hold it in trust and pay out its interest for the comfortable support and maintenance of her daughter (his sister), Sarah E. Worcester, during her natural life. He was to have the principal of the trust upon her decease, and was named as executor. (She signed as Julia Worster). Paul A. Hurd, Charles S. Ela, and Guielma M. Varney signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 89:177).

Daughter-in-law Rachel R. (Donnell) Worster died of paralysis in Haverhill, MA, May 19, 1874, aged sixty-five years.

Daughter-in-law Sarah W. (Fernald) Worcester, a widow, died of pneumonia in Chelsea, MA, February 12, 1875, aged seventy-one years.

MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. To Sarah W. Worster of Chelsea, in the County of Suffolk and to any and all parties interested in the premises hereinafter described: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: THAT By virtue of power of sale contained in a certain mortgage, given by said Sarah W. Worster to William C. Thompson of Lynn, in the County of Essex, dated November 26, 1874, and recorded with Suffolk Deeds, libro 1244, folio 239, and for condition of breach of the said mortgage, by the non-payment of the interest due on said mortgage will be sold at public auction upon the said premises, on FRIDAY, the seventh day of January, A.D., 1876, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, A certain tract or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in Revere, in the County of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, bounded and described as follows, to wit: … being the same premises conveyed to said Sarah W. Worster by George O. Worster. WILLIAM C. THOMPSON, Mortgagee (Boston Globe, December 22, 1875).

Daughter Mrs. Mary (Worster) Varney died of “disease unknown” in Farmington, NH, March 26, 1877, aged seventy-seven years.

DIED. VARNEY – In Farmington, N.H., Third mo. [March] 26th 1877. Mary W. Varney, widow of the late Mordecai Varney, aged 77 years, 3 months; an esteemed member of Dover Monthly Meeting. She was of a meek and tender spirit, useful in life, patient and resigned to the divine will, and we believe that through the mercy of Christ her redeemer, she is at rest in glory. Friends’ Review please copy (Christian Worker, Fourth Month [April] 22, 1877).

Daughter-in-law Julia (Hilliard) Worster died, probably in Rochester, NH, between June 1873, when she had made her last will, and when it was proved at a Strafford County Probate court held in Farmington, NH, April 3, 1877 (Strafford County Probate, 89:179).

George Worcester, a farmer, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), headed an Allenstown, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary J. [(Rowell)] Worcester, keeping house, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), his servant, Horace Brown, works on farm, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), and his boarder, Martha A. Lake, a schoolteacher, aged twenty years (b. NH).

A.E. Hanson, keeping house, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed an Amboy, IL, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census.

D.W. Dame, a retired farmer, aged sixty years (b. NH), and Sophia W. [(Worster)] Dame, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), were among the eight boarders residing in the Lanark, IL, household of Louisa Lawson, a boarding house keeper, aged thirty-six years (b. VA), at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census.

Daughter Sophia (Worster) Dame died in IL, June 5, 1886, aged sixty-eight years.

Son George Worster died of heart disease in Allenstown, NH, November 10, 1886, aged seventy-five years. Dr. G.H. Larabee signed the death certificate.

Son-in-law Daniel W. Dame died in Lanark, IL, December 10, 1895. Daughter-in-law Mary Jane (Rowell) Worster died December 6, 1898, aged eighty-four years.

Daughter Adeline E. (Worcester) Hanson died in Amboy, IL, May 1, 1897.

Mrs. Adeline E. Hanson, an aunt of Chas. S. Dame of this city, died at her home in Amboy, on Saturday, May 1st. Mr. and Mrs. Hanson came to this county in 1858 and for a few years resided in Wysox. One daughter was born to them who died in 1864, and the husband and father departed this life in 1871. The family is well remembered by many of our older citizens (Lanark Gazette (Lanark, IL), May 5, 1897).

Daughter-in-law Mary J. (Rowell) Worster died of old age in Allenstown, NH, December 6, 1898, aged eighty-four years, six months.

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References:

Anderson, Carol L. (2014). A History of the Belknap Mill: The Pride of Laconia’s Industrial Heritage. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing

Anderson, Joseph C. (1990). Woodsum (Woodsome/Woodsom) Family in America: The Descendants of Joseph Woodsum of Berwick, Maine. Maine: Gateway Press

Find a Grave. (2005, July 6). Sophia C. Worcester Dame. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/11300702/sophia-c-dame

Find a Grave. (2017, November 23). Adeline E. Hanson. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/185421387/adeline-e-hanson

Find a Grave. (2017, October 16). Sally Worcester Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/184333250/sally-jones

Find a Grave. (2016, September 14). Dorcas Worster Nute. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/169916475/dorcas-nute

Find a Grave. (2013, September 11). Mary W. Varney. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/116931532/mary-w-varney

Find a Grave. (2013, August 11). John Worcester. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115275060/john-worcester

Find a Grave. (2022, February 3). Lydia Worcester. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/236461190/lydia-worcester

Find a Grave. (2009, June 7). George Worster. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/38051181/george-worster

Find a Grave. (2004, December 25). George Worster. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/10173118/george-worster

Find a Grave. (2020, October 22). Isaac Worster. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/217582723/isaac-worster

Find a Grave. (2007, November 29). Lemuel Worster [Jr.]. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/23170855/lemuel-worster

Find a Grave. (2016, April 1). Mark Worster. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/160342454/mark-worster

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By Muriel Bristol | June 19, 2022

At my request, Rep. Bailey visited the NH State Library in Concord on a break and photographed the financial report of Milton’s Centennial celebration as printed in the Milton Town Report of 1903.

The expenditures listed in that report might be compared with the events of the day in a contemporary account of the event.

Rumford Press of Concord, NH, printed invitations, while Joseph H. Avery and Harry L. Avery supplied postage and stamps. Courier Publishing Co. of Littleton, NH, also printed something, perhaps programs. W.H. White provided a register, possibly some sort of event guest register.

Walter McIntyre (1875-1934), John Pass (c1834-1907), H. Rendell [Herman Randall (1868-1923)], and John Woodbury were paid for their labor over one or more days, likely setting up tents and other necessities and, presumably, breaking them down again. H.S. Williams (c1886-1917) was paid for the use of his tent and dishes. Teamsters H.W. Downs (1848-1916) and J.D. Pinkham (1866-1937) were paid for trucking. E.L. Wentworth (1864-1944) was paid for “watching,” perhaps acting as night watchman between the setup and the event.

Charles L. Bodwell was paid for the use of his team for one or more trips to Rochester, and Fred B. Roberts was paid for the use of his horse. Mrs. R.M. [Carrie E. (Willey)] Kimball (1866-1949) boarded invited out-of-town guests.

There was a bonfire on Mt. Tenerife on the night before the Centennial.

The Centennial day itself – Saturday, August 30, 1902 – began at dawn with bell ringing and cannon salutes. J.A. Goodwin was paid for firing thirty-three cannons, then and several other times throughout the day.

Next came field and water sports. The sports committee was reimbursed for prizes given out.

After the amusing sports of the early morning, the street parade was made from the square at the railroad station to the broad campus of the Nute high school. The parade was as follows: Marshal – Maj. Charles J. Berry. Aids – Samuel E. Drew, Fred S. Hart, Clifford Berry, Walter Holtden, Charles Mason; Hanson American band of Rochester, 32 pieces, T.J. Manning, leader; 

The Hanson American Band of Rochester, NH, gave a concert in the “upper square.” They were paid for playing at several locations throughout the day.

Teamster William G. “Willie” Hurd (1867-1939) had been paid to sprinkle water on the dirt streets, to keep the dust down. J.P. Kelley provided badges for officers, perhaps auxiliary police officers. Another supplier provided parade badges. C.S. [C.J.] Berry was paid for his services as parade marshal, and Charles Mansur (1878-1946) and his wife [Rosamond (Guptill) Mansur] were paid for their services as aides. Somersworth, NH, hotelier S.F. Greenwood (1855-1931) was paid for the use of his team.

A New England dinner was served for lunch. It was a ham dinner. Confectioner C.A. Davis (1855-1921), farmer W.A. Pulsifer (1862-1953), butcher L. Rines (1862-194?), butcher G.E. Wentworth (1868-1944), and the Worcester County Creamery provided food and drink (milk). Whitehouse Bros., and Joseph D. Willey provided supplies, likely including food supplies. C.D. Jones provided sundries. Mrs. [Emma (Hall)] Douquette (1872-1958), Mary Leighton, Mrs. Otis S. [Lizzie (Pattee)] Thompson, Addie Tuck (1884-) and her sister, Lilla Tuck (1889-1910), were paid for their labor. One might suppose they decorated the venues or prepared and served the meals.

After lunch commemorative ceremonies and speeches took place. Avery, Jones & Roberts had supplied lumber, perhaps for a daïs and bench seating. Former Nute principal A.T. “Thad” Smith was paid a speaker’s fee.

Leftover bread and ham were sold, as well as a set of cutlery.

REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

RECEIPTS

Received contributions, $1.75
–for bread sold, 1.19
—-wood sold, 1.00
—-hams sold, 2.00
—-knives and forks sold, 2.00
–of treasurer of Milton, 478.16
$486.10

EXPENDITURES

By paid for knives and forks, $6.00
–for parade badges, 7.80
—A.T. Smith, address and expenses, 50.00
–committee on sports, prizes, 12.00
–J.P. Kelley, badges for officers and expenses, 16.50
–H.S. Williams, use of tent and dishes, 20.00
–E.G. Knight, mileage, .36
–G.E. Wentworth, for 255 lbs. ham, 36.98
–L. Rines, milk, .80
–John Woodbury, 2 days labor, 3.00
–J.D. Pinkham, trucking, 3.00
–W.G. Hurd, sprinkling streets, 10.00
–J.A. Goodwin, firing 100 guns, 64.00
–C.A. Davis, bread and express, 12.25
–H. Rendell, labor, 1.00
–Whitehouse Bros., supplies, 6.08
–E.L. Wentworth, watching, 1.50

By paid H.W. Downs, trucking, .50
—Avery, Jones & Roberts, lumber, etc., 15.58
–freight and express, 5.65
–W.A. Pulsifer, milk, 3.20
–Mary Leighton, labor, 1.50
–Walter McIntyre, labor, 3.75
—J.D. Willey, supplies, 2.77
–Mrs. Douquette, labor, 1.00
–Rumford Press, invitations, 15.00
–W.H. White, register, 4.75
—J.H. Avery, stamps, 9.53
–John Pass, labor, 2.00
–Addie and Lilla Tuck, labor, 2.00
—H.L. Avery, postage, 1.75
—C.D. Jones, sundries, 7.95
–G.I. Jordan, cash expenses, 1.65
–Mrs. O.S. Thompson, labor, 1.00
–Courier Publishing Co., printing, 14.00
–Worcester County Creamery, butter, 7.20
—M.A.H. Hart, cash expenses, 2.55
–Hanson American Band, 89.00
—F.M. Chamberlain, feeding horses, 6.00
–Reuben Page, soliciting food, 2.75
—C.S. Berry, services and expenses as marshal, 8.00
–S.F. Greenwood, use of team and expenses, 12.50
—C.L. Bodwell, team to Rochester, 2.00
–Mrs. R.M. Kimball, board of guests, 1.50
–Charles Mansur and wife, labor, 3.50
—F.B. Roberts, use of horse and cash, 3.65
$486.30

Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES D. JONES, Treasurer

References:

Historic New England. (2022). Trade card for The Rumford Press, Concord, New Hampshire, undated. Retrieved from www.historicnewengland.org/explore/collections-access/gusn/266291/

By Muriel Bristol | June 12, 2022

Twenty-three Milton inhabitants requested appointment of Gilman Jewett of Milton Mills as Milton coroner, June 12, 1823.

To His Excellency the Governor and the Council of the State of New Hampshire,

We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Milton, respectfully represent that it would be proper that some person on the great main road leading from Portsmouth to Lancaster within said town of Milton should be appointed to the office of coroner as there is not any person holding that office from Rochester to Wakefield comprising a distance of twenty miles and the person now holding said office in this town is living at the extreem part of the same. Therefore, thinking that such an appointment would be expedient, we cherefully recommend Mr Gilman Jewett as a Gentleman well qualified to fulfil the said office. Therefore, we humbly solicit that he should be appointed to that trust and we as in duty bound will pray ~

Milton, June 12th 1823

[Column 1:] Nathaniel Pinkham, Ebenezer Ricker, Jr, Samuel B. Hartford, Timothy Roberts, Isaac Worster, Wm Jones, Stephen Henderson, John Wentworth, Jr, John Wentworth, Pelah Hanscom,

[Column 2:] Stephen Drew, Joseph Walker, Thoms Wentworth, James H. Horn, David Wallingford, Jerediah Ricker, James Pinkham, Ebenezer Ricker,

[Column 3:] William Sargent, Saml Jones, Hopley Meserve, Isaac Wentworth, Joshua Jones.

The reverse side bore a title – Milton Pet. for a Coroner, Gilman Jewett, – the third column, and a notation that his appointment was “To be Postponed indefinitely.”

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References:

Find a Grave. (2013, July 29). Gilman Jewett. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/114597023/gilman-jewett

NH Department of State. (n.d.). New Hampshire, Government Petitions, 1700-1826: Box 47: 1819-1820

By Muriel Bristol | June 5, 2022

John Fish [III] was born in Mendon, MA, February 26, 1766, son of John [Jr.] and Deborah (Sheffield) Fish.

At some point, the Fish family left Mendon, MA, and the Ober family left neighboring Upton, MA, and both removed to Townshend, VT, a distance of about 120 miles.

John Fish married, probably in Townshend, VT, circa 1788, Rebecca Ober. She was born in Upton, MA, July 5, 1766, daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Fiske) Ober (given elsewhere as October 12, 1766, perhaps a baptism). (Her mother had died in Upton, MA, December 22, 1780).

Ira Fish, son of John and Rebekah Fish, was born in Townshend, VT, January 4, 1790. (The Ninth (1870) Federal Census gave his birthplace as having been “Townsend, Vt.,”, i.e., Townshend, VT).

John Fish Junr headed a Townshend, VT, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], two females [Rebecca (Ober) Fish and another], and one male aged under-16 years [Ira Fish].

His father, John Fish, headed also a Townshend, VT, household at that same time. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], two females [Deborah (Sheffield) Fish and another], and three males aged under-16 years; while father-in-law, Ebenr Ober, headed yet another Townshend, VT, household. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], two females, and two males aged under-16 years.

Sophia Fish, daughter of John and Rebekah Fish, was born in Townshend, VT, April 6, 1792. (Census records and, at the end of her life, her death certificate gave her birthplace as having been “Vermont State”).

Townshend, VT, delineated its school districts in May 1793. The house of John Fish, Jr., stood within the new Fifth District, while those of his father, John Fish, and his father-in-law, Ebenezer Ober, stood within the adjoining Sixth District.

The Fifth District to include all the families within the following described lines, viz: Beginning at the south-easterly corner of the fourth district, and running on the easterly line of said Townshend, to the southeast corner of said Townshend; thence, turning and running on the southerly line of said Townshend so far as by turning northerly in the most convenient place will include the families of Razey, and Nathan Wood; then, running a straight line from said Wood’s to the house of John Hazeltine, Jr., including said Hazeltine; from thence, by a straight line, to the house of John Fish, Jr., including the said Fish; thence, by a straight line, to the house of Jesse Murdock; to be known by the number of the Fifth District.
The Sixth District to include all the families within the following described lines, viz: Beginning at the house of Ensign Fish, Jr., and running down the road that leads to John Fish’s, including said John Fish’s family; thence, along the road to Ebenezer Ober’s, including the families on said road; thence, west, to the east bank of West River; thence, up said river, to the farm belonging to Dr. Wheeler, including the same; from thence, north, to the line of the second district; thence, easterly, by the lines of the other districts, till it strikes Brookline road, so called; from thence, by the line of the fourth district, to Jesse Murdock’s house; from thence, to the place of beginning; to be known by the number of the Sixth District (Phelps, 1877).

At some point, between 1793 and 1794, the younger John Fish’s family left Townshend, VT, and removed to the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, i.e., Milton Three Ponds, a distance of about 130 miles.

Among the first who settled at Three Ponds were Samuel Palmer, Levi Burgen, John Fish, Paul Jewett, Pelatiah Hanscom, Robert McGeoch, and others. Daniel Door and Jonathan Door settled at the head of the Pond quite early. The old tavern house at Three Ponds, burned a few years ago, was built by Robert McGeoch in 1786 or 1787, and was perhaps the first tavern in town (Scales, 1914). 

(The births of all of the children of John and Rebekah [(Ober)] Fish were recorded in Milton vital records, including the first two who had actually been born in Townshend, VT. It would not have been unusual for an existing family record, such as a bible record, to be copied all at once into local town vital records, regardless of geography).

At the time of Milton’s Centennial (in 1902), visitors were shown John Fish’s house at Milton Three Ponds, which was said to have been built in 1794 (Mitchell-Cony, 1908).

The valuable mill privilege at the Three Ponds naturally made this the trading center, and a considerable village gradually sprang up, its growth being accelerated, at periods, by the prospect of large manufacturing establishments. Among the earliest traders were Joshua Hartford, John Fish, and a Mr. Hovey. In 1810 Simon Chase, who had been a clerk with Joseph Hanson in Rochester, commenced business there being the only trader at that time. There was a fulling mill operated by John Fish, and the houses of Hartford, Gerrish, Fish, Palmer, and perhaps one or two others (McDuffee, 1892).

FULLING, in the manufacture of textiles, process of shrinking or condensing woolen and worsted fabrics to render them firmer and stronger. The primitive method of fulling cloth was to tread it with bare feet in water. It is said that our surnames of Fuller, Walker, and Tucker all came from the fact that those who performed this labor, variously called fulling, walking, and tucking were called by these names.
The present process of fulling is understood more readily by one to whom the condition of woven fabrics as they come from the loom is familiar. Many of the fabrics admired and found serviceable by reason of their close, firm weave appear loose, elastic, and almost flimsy before the fulling process. The shrinking of blankets and woolen garments, whereby they lose elasticity and gain in thickness and hardness, is avoided carefully by the housewife. The fulling process performed in the manufacture of the very fabrics from which these garments are made is, however, a necessity. Not only the beauty, but in many instances the durability and warmth of a material would be lacking were this process omitted.
Fulling is effected by the application of moisture, heat, and pressure. The cleansing and scouring of the fabric is accomplished ordinarily at one operation with the fulling. This scouring rids the cloth of the oil used previous to spinning, and of the sizing used in dressing the warp. The cloth is well saturated with hot water and soap and, in the fulling mill, as the machine is called, is pressed and squeezed between wooden rollers partly immersed in water. Twelve hours in the mill will shrink ordinary cloth two-fifths in breadth and one-third in length. The goods are taken out of the mill frequently, and are stretched, turned, and inspected. Experience and judgment are required by the fuller, as the length of time cloth should be fulled varies. After fulling, the soap is washed from the fabric, and it is tentered, that is, stretched carefully that it may dry evenly (Welles Brothers, 1912).

Here one may find several contemporary descriptions of similar fulling operations (complete with ancillary clothing shops, i.e., trading,) in Hartland, VT, and Pittsfield, MA.

A FARM FOR SALE, IN HARTLAND, ON the great River road four miles north of the Court House in Windsor, containing 5 acres of excellent land, with a convenient Dwelling House, Barn and Store – together with a Clothier’s Shop, and Fulling Mill and tools, new and in good repair, with a good dam and floom, built for other mills; said dam is founded on a rock bottom and sides, and is as good a stand for a Clothier as any in the State – and said farm is as good a stand for a tavern, of trader, or both, as any on the river, as it has answered a valuable purpose for both; and is now licenced the present year for a tavern. The whole will be sold together, or the Clothier’s works with accommodations by itself, or the other premises in the same manner – Some part of the pay down, and the other on undoubted credit. For particulars enquire of BLISS CORLISS, Living on the premises. N.B. Said place will be let if not sold by the 1st of September. Hartland, August 3d, 1797. 32tf (Vermont Journal, September 22, 1797).

Clothier’s Business. The Subscriber takes this method to inform the Public, that he has erected A new Fulling-Mill and Clothier’s Works, at an Old Stand in the west part of Pittsfield, formerly occupied by Elder Volintine Rathbun, and is ready to DRESS CLOTH of all kinds, and all sorts of Colors, in the best and neatest manner, for all those that will favor him with their custom – and all favors received will be gratefully acknowledged, by their humble servant, DAN MUNROW. AUGUST 28, 1801 (Pittsfield Sun, September 1, 1801). 

John Fish, son of John and Rebekah Fish, was born in Rochester, NH, January 15, 1795. He was a namesake for both his father and grandfather.

Hannah Fish, daughter of John and Rebekah Fish, was born in Rochester, NH, September 3, 1797. She was a namesake for her maternal grandmother, Hannah (Fiske) Ober.

Deborah Sheffield Fish, daughter of John and Rebekah Fish, was born in Rochester, NH, April 1, 1799. She was a namesake for her paternal grandmother, Deborah (Sheffield) Fish.

Son John Fish died in Rochester, NH, June 2, 1799, aged four years, four months, and seventeen days.

John Fish headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Rebecca (Ober) Fish], one female aged 16-25 years, one male aged 10-15 years [Ira Fish], and three females aged under-10 years [Sophia Fish, Hannah Fish, and Deborah Fish]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Father John Fish headed still a Townshend, VT, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Deborah (Sheffield) Fish], and one female aged 26-44 years. (Other Townshend households were headed by his other sons Jacob Fish and Ward Fish). Father-in-law Ebenr Ober headed another Townshend, VT, household at that same time. His household included only one male aged 45-plus years [himself].

For whatever reason, John Fish did not sign the Rochester division petition of May 28, 1802. He would be elected nevertheless as one of the first three Milton selectmen.

The first town meeting in Milton was called by William Palmer, Esq., and held at the dwelling-house of Lieut. Elijah Horn (now the dwelling house of Lewis B. Twombly) on the 30th day of August 1802, at which meeting Beard Plumer was chosen moderator; Gilman Jewett, town clerk; and William Palmer, John Fish, John Remick, Jr., selectmen (Hurd, 1882).

He served also on the meetinghouse building committee in 1804. (See also Milton Congregational Society Petition – 1814).

The first meetinghouse in Milton was erected on the Ridge in accordance with a vote passed at the annual meeting in 1802. John Fish, Beard Plumer and Gilman Jewett, were the executive committee. The lot on which the building was erected was purchased of Thomas and Aaron Downes for $26. The meetinghouse was completed at a cost of about $2,400, by Caleb Wingate, Capt. Daniel Hayes and Gilman Jewett. The net cost of the church, however, was not so large, as the pews were sold for nearly $2,000. The first service was held in 1804 and from that time until after 1830, the meetinghouse was constantly in use. The first preachers to occupy the pulpit were Rev. Gideon Burt and Rev. Christopher Page both of whom were here in 1804 (Mitchell-Cony, 1908).

John Fish, son of John and Rebekah Fish, was born in Milton, March 9, 1803. He was a namesake both for his father and paternal grandfather, but also for an older sibling that predeceased him.

Milton sent John Fish to the NH state legislature as its NH State Representative in 1804. He was both preceded and succeeded in that office by separate terms of Beard Plumer.

Jacob Fish, son of John and Rebekah Fish, was born in Milton, April 26, 1805. He was a namesake for his paternal uncle, Jacob Fish of Townshend, VT.

Ebenezer Clifford (1746-1821), Esq., of Exeter, NH, invented an improved diving bell, with which he and Capt. Richard Tripe (1756-1817) of Dover, NH, experimented as early as 1803. (Several Milton residents, including John Fish, would become associated with these men and this technology in other salvage ventures in future years).

He [Clifford] was an ingenious mechanic, studied architecture, and made scientific experiments outside of his regular calling. He manufactured a diving bell, with which he brought up from the bottom of the sea valuable property from one or more wrecked vessels (Antiques, August 1960).

THE DIVING-BELL. The diving-bell consists of a heavy vessel in the form of a bell with the mouth downward and generally constructed of cast iron or of wood, the latter loaded with weights to make it sink. It is usually furnished with shelves and seats on the sides for the convenience of those who descend in it; and several strong glass lenses are fitted into the upper part for the admission of light. There is likewise a stop-cock, by opening which the air, rendered impure by respiration, may from time to time be discharged and rise in bubbles to the surface of the water; and provision must be made for the regular supply of fresh air, which may be sent down through pipes from one or more large condensing syringes, worked on the deck of a vessel above or by the person in the bell. The bell must be properly suspended from a crane, or cross-beam, furnished with tackles of pulleys, that it may be lowered raised or otherwise moved according to circumstances (Gale, 1834).

By 1805 Ebenezer Clifford was hard at work retrieving bar iron from a sunken gundalow boat beneath the harbor at Portsmouth, NH.

In Vol xxii of the American Journal of Science is an interesting account of the experiments made with a diving bell in Portsmouth Harbor, N.H., in 1805. The bell inside was 5 feet in diameter at the bottom, 3 feet at the top, and 5¾ feet high. Two men descended in it at a time; when about 12 feet below the surface, the painful sensation experienced in the ears would pass away with a sudden shock, and this would be repeated at each interval of about 12 feet. It might, they found, be avoided by having the bell raised a foot or two every 8 or 10 feet of the descent. The greatest descent made was about 72 feet. “In a clear day, with an unruffled sea, they had light sufficient for reading a coarse print at the greatest depth, as they moved the pebbles with their gaff at the bottom of the river, fish in abundance came to the place like a flock of chickens and as devoid of fear as if it was a region where they had never been molested by beings from the extra-aquatic world. From the description of the adventurers, no scenery in nature can be more beautiful than that viewed by them in a sunshiny day at the bottom of the deep Piscataqua. It does not appear that the health of either of the men was in the least impaired by their submarine excursions. Their pulsations were quick and their perspiration was very profuse under water; and upon coming out of it they felt themselves in a fit condition for a comfortable sleep.” One of the men, it is further stated, found himself much relieved of rheumatic complaints, from which he had been suffering, which was attributed to the great heat produced in the bell, which was like that of a steam bath (Preble, 1892).

No prismatic colors, no cave of Antiparos, no changes in the Kaleidoscope, no woodlands bending with icy sleet, are equal in beauty to the scenery described by the adventurers, at the bottom of the Piscataqua (Boston Post, August 23, 1832).

Father-in-law Ebenezer Ober died in Townshend, VT, August 17, 1806.

John Fish was Milton’s second town clerk, from 1807 to 1810. He succeeded Gilman Jewett in that office and would be replaced in his turn by Levi Jones.

Father John Fish died in Townshend, VT, in 1808.

Milton sent John Fish to the NH state legislature as its NH State Representative in 1809-10. He was preceded in that office by Beard Plumer and succeeded in it by Theodore C. Lyman.

By the summer of 1809, Ebenezer Clifford of Exeter, NH, and his associate or partner, Samuel Palmer of Milton Three Ponds, were together salvaging cannons from ships scuttled by the Massachusetts Navy in Maine’s Penobscot River during the disastrous Penobscot Expedition of 1779. (Maine was until 1820 a non-contiguous “province” of Massachusetts). Palmer was a son of Maj. Barnabas Palmer and elder brother of William Palmer, Esq.

A Diving Bell, invented for the purpose of raising property from the deep, has been found on experiment in Massachusetts to be very valuable. Two persons can remain in it under water nearly two hours and labor advantageously. From a vessel sunk opposite Frankfort, a brass howitzer worth 200 dollars has been raised by its aid; from a vessel sunk between Hampden and Orrington, 28 pieces of iron ordnance of 6 lbs. calibre have also been raised (Vermont Gazette, October 30, 1809).

DIVING BELL. We understand that Ebenezer Clifford, of Portsmouth, (N.H.) has invented an improved and ingenious Diving Bell, of a new construction; in which labourers can descend with great ease and safety, to almost any depth, and work with convenience. During the last summer he has been industriously employed in weighing the ordinance in Penobscot river, from the wrecks of the vessels lost and destroyed in the unfortunate expedition in the time of the American revolution, against Bagaduce, on that river. He has already weighed thirty-six pieces of artillery and one brass howetzer, together with several tons of cannonball; all of which, it is said, were more than sixty feet below the surface of the water. We hope such ingenuity and enterprize will be suitably rewarded (Sentinel & Democrat (Burlington, VT), February 9, 1810).

Daughter Sophia Fish married in Milton, December 25, 1809, Samuel Twombly. He was born in Milton, March 26, 1780, son of Samuel and Mary (Burrows) Twombly.

John Fish was one of sixty-four Strafford County inhabitants who recommended that Colo James Carr be reappointed as Strafford County sheriff, January 22, 1810. Wm Palmer, John Plumer, Junr, Jonas C. March, and Joseph Plumer signed also.

Jno Fish headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Rebecca (Ober) Fish], one male aged 16-25 years [Ira Fish], three females aged 10-15 years [Sophia Fish, Hannah Fish, and Deborah Fish], and two males aged under-10 years [John Fish and Jacob Fish]. His household was enumerated between those of Saml Palmer and Simon Chase.

Son-in-law Saml Twombley Jun headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Sophia (Fish) Twombly].

Massachusetts did reward or pay Ebenezer Clifford and Samuel Palmer in February 1810, for the cannons they had raised from naval wrecks at the bottom of the Penobscot River, in the previous summer.

February 22, 1810; On the petition of Ebenezer Clifford and Samuel Palmer, Resolved That the Quarter-master-general be, and he is hereby directed, to purchase of the said Clifford and Palmer, thirty-six pieces of cannon, and one brass howitzer, and several tons of cannon balls, recovered by them, by the use of their diving bell, from the bed of Penobscot River, if the said several articles of ordnance, or any of them, are wanted for the use of the Commonwealth, and can be had at a reasonable price (MA Secretary of State, 1810).

As we have seen, Samuel Palmer had become an associate of diving bell inventor Ebenezer Clifford. John Fish and Theodore C. Lyman, both of Milton, became also associates of them, or of Palmer only, or succeeded them in similar ventures.

Samuel Palmer and John Fish engaged in several diving bell adventures, endeavoring to raise the cargoes of sunken vessels, one at Portsmouth, and one upon a western lake, but were unsuccessful (McDuffee, 1892).

By January 1811, Milton’s Theodore C. Lyman and John Fish petitioned the U.S. Congress for salvage rights in any public property that might be lying at the bottom of Lakes George and Champlain in New York state. (U.S. Representative William Hale (1765-1848) of Dover, NH, presented their petition).

Mr. Hale presented a petition of Theodore C. Lyman and John Fish, of the State of New Hampshire, stating that they have invented a machine for exploring the bottoms of Lakes Champlain and George; and praying that they may have the exclusive property in all articles which belonged to the public prior to being lost, and which they may recover. Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufacture (US Congress, 1826).

That summer, a party led by Samuel Palmer descended in a diving bell on the wreck of the British frigate HMS Huzzah, which had sunk off Hell Gate, a strait separating New York harbor from Long Island Sound, during the Revolutionary War. (One may note with some amusement the gentile substitution of Hurl-Gate for Hell-Gate).

By a gentleman ho came in town yesterday morning, we learn, that Mr. Palmer, who directs the DIVING BELL, on board the gun-boats, now in Hurl-Gate, and who has been for some months past, without avail, endeavoring to obtain a part of the wrecked British frigate Huzza, which sunk there during the revolution – on Saturday last succeeded in getting up her rudder. The quantity of copper which is on it, together with the chains and bolts, will be of considerable value. The greatest difficulty Mr. P, met with, is now surmounted; as the rudder, from the situation in which the ship lays, heretofore prevented them from taking her to pieces, which they now confidently expect to do. The Huzza was a frigate of 28 guns, and was going to Boston with money to pay the British troops then there, when she struck upon a rock a short distance below the country seat of John Graham, Esq., and soon afterwards sunk.
She is described, by those, who went down in the Bell, to lay on her larboard side, with her keel towards the Morrissina shore, from which she is not distant more than 180 yards. Neither time or the water have made any perceptible impression on the copper of her sides, and her timbers still remain so strong and tight that two men, who went down with axes, wedges, and other tools, could make no impression. One of the divers stated, that he had rubbed his hand over the top of one of the cannon, which, from its peculiar smoothness, he conceived to be brass. The copper bolts which were taken out of the rudder, were so perfect that many would not believe they had ever been used; and the wood (which is of oak) one inch from the surface of the rudder, is as solid as when the ship was built. The aid and assistance which the government has afforded to the company who own the Diving Bell, give us reason to hope that the industry and perseverance of this sub-marine exploring party will be well rewarded, as there is little doubt they will get up the cannon, and a great portion of the imperishable articles that were on board when she foundered (Pittsfield Sun (Pittsfield, MA), July 27, 1811).

Thursday, May 21. Mr. Bartlett presented the petition of Ebenezer Clifford, praying Congress will grant to him all cannon, &c. which he may recover from the bottom of rivers and water courses by means of a diving bell, of which he is the inventor. Referred to a select committee (Washingtonian (Windsor, VT), June 1, 1812).

John Fish received an appointment as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, June 24, 1814. (He would have been due for a renewal in 1819, but at that later time the record acquired instead the bare notation that he was “dead.” (See Milton Seeks a Magistrate – 1820)).

Daughter Hannah Fish married in Rochester, NH, September 22, 1817, Israel Nute. He was born in Milton, May 12, 1792, son of Jotham and Sarah (Twombly) Nute. (See Milton Seeks a Magistrate – 1805).

The Norton Scates family took over John Fish’s house at Milton Three Ponds after his death, which would seem to have taken place in or around 1819. Eri N. Scates was born in the “Fish House” in Milton in 1820.

He was a son of Captain Norton Scates and was born in Milton at the “Fish house,” where his father dwelled and kept the post office in the early twenties (Farmington News, July 28, 1899).

The “Fish House” had nothing to do with fish, as such. It was instead the former residence of John Fish, who was said in April 1820 to have “recently been removed by death.” (See Milton Seeks a Magistrate – 1820). Several married Fish daughters remained in Milton, but the bulk of their siblings removed first to Wakefield and other places in New Hampshire, prior to settling in Penobscot County, Maine. (Maine became independent of Massachusetts, as of March 1820).

Son Ira Fish married in Milton, March 6, 1820, Abra Hayes. She was born in Milton, June 14, 1795, daughter of James C. and Betsy (Twombly) Hayes.

Son Ira Fish was one of nine Wakefield, NH, residents who joined with a greater number of Middleton and New Durham, NH, residents, May 12, 1820, in recommending appointment of John Hill of Middleton, NH, as a Middleton justice-of-the-peace.

Daughter Deborah Fish died of a fever in Jamaica Plain, MA, November 8, 1821, aged twenty-three years. The local church records identified her as “a stranger from Milton, New Hampshire” (Roxbury, MA, Third Parish Church Records).

Son Ira Fish is said to have moved to Lincoln, ME, and he and his brother, Jacob Fish, to have built its sawmills in 1824-25.

In the fall of 1825 Ira Fish came to Mattanawcook from New Hampshire to build saw-mills on the Mattanawcook Stream. He was the agent of the Wendell brothers, manufacturers and merchants of Portsmouth, N.H. There were three brothers whose names appear in connection with the Mattanawcook enterprise, namely, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Wendell, sons of John Wendell.
Work was begun on the upper ·mills in September, 1825, seventeen men that Mr. Fish brought with him and some others being employed. Israel Heald, who was employed by Mr. Fish to clear the stream preparatory to the building of the dam, has told the writer’s father that, after removing everything, not a drop of water was found running in the stream. Fish argued strongly that a dam would· not be useful where there was no water. It was realized, however, that the preceding season had been one of unusual conditions, which might not arise again. Fish hesitated, and finally he secured the services of an Indian as guide and went up to the ponds. They were found to be all well filled with water and he decided to proceed with the work. A like condition has never arisen since, though at times the water has not been sufficient to run the mills. The dam and the mill were constructed mostly during the fall and winter, Mr. Reddington of Vassalboro acting as engineer and superintendent. The following spring the work was completed and the sawing of logs began. During the next summer, 1826, a saw-mill was erected at the location always known as the lower mill. This was raised in June and was known as the double mill, having two runs of saws (Fellows, 1929).

[LINCOLN] INDUSTRIAL ACCOUNT. As we have already shown, Ira and Jacob Fish erected the first saw mills in town, in 1824; connected with this was also a grist mill. This mill stood on the site of the old dam near the postoffice, and was the center of activity for some years. It was operated chiefly by Ira Fish, he naming the mills “Mattanawcook,” while the place was for many years known by the residents as “Fish’s Mills.” Wm. R. Ayer succeeded Mr. Fish in operating the mills, continuing for many years to manufacture lumber extensively. Finally the old mills were vacated, and have decayed, but the old stones used to grind the early grist are now used by Mr. Haynes in his new mill (Mitchell, 1905).

Son Jacob Fish married in Tuftonboro, NH, November 12, 1826, Sarah “Sally” Canney, he of Moultonborough, NH, and she of Tuftonboro, NH. She was born in Tuftonboro, ME, May 30, 1806, daughter of Joseph and Anna (Kinnison) Canney.

Son Ira Fish was one of the first selectmen of a newly incorporated Lincoln, ME, in 1829, as his father had been of a newly incorporated Milton, in 1802.

In response to a petition made by six of the leading men of the town, Ira Fish, Esq., issued his warrant, dated March 30, 1829, calling the inhabitants to assemble in town meeting in the school house at “Mattanawcook Mills” on Monday, April 6, following. At this meeting the necessary town officers were chosen, Mr. Fish serving as moderator. After the election of Chesley Hayes for clerk, the meeting was adjourned to Mr. Fish’s barn, probably for room. Ira Fish, Benj. Chesley, and Israel Heald were chosen selectmen and assessors and Chesley Hayes treasurer. Joseph Hammond was made collector and constable, collection to be made at 8 per cent. The selectmen were chosen a committee to district the town for schools and highway districts (Mitchell, 1905).

Son Ira Fish headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [Ira Fish], one female aged 30-39 years [Abra Fish], two males aged 20-29 years, one male aged 15-19 years [Ezra O. Fish], one female aged 15-19 years, and one male aged 5-9 years [Ira D. Fish]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Forbes and Hiram Wiley.

Ira Fish was an extensive land owner and lumberman in [Lincoln] town, and Fish Hill was named for him. It is sometimes called Lindsay Hill (Bailey, 1950).

Son-in-law Samuel Twombly headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Sophia (Fish) Twombly], two males aged 15-19 years [Thomas B. Twombly and Josiah F. Twombly], one female aged 15-19 years, one male aged 5-9 years [Ira F. Twombly], two females aged under-05 years [Sophia Twombly and Rebecca Twombly], and one male aged 80-89 years [Samuel Twombly Sr.]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of John Wentworth and Wentworth Dore.

Son-in-law Israel Nute headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Hannah (Fish) Nute], one male aged 15-19 years, one male aged 10-14 years [John F. Nute], one male aged 5-9 years [Frederick E. Nute], one female aged 5-9 years [Deborah Nute], one male aged under-5 years [George Nute], and one female aged 60-69 years [Rebecca (Ober) Fish].

Son Jacob Fish headed a Moultonborough, NH, household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], two females aged 20-29 years [Sarah (Canney) Fish], one male aged 15-19 years, and two females aged under-5 years [Harriet N. Fish]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of N.V. Shannon and Joseph Hoyt.

Mrs. Rebecca [(Ober)] Fish joined the Congregational Church in Lincoln, ME, at some point between its founding in 1831 and her death in 1849 (Fellows, 1929).

Jacob Fish kept a store and, perhaps later, a hotel, in Lincoln, ME. His nephew, John Fish Nute, worked in the store for seven years from circa 1836. (This would have been just after the death of his father, Israel Nute).

At the age of seventeen years our subject entered the store of his uncle, Jacob Fish, at Lincoln, Maine, where he remained seven years and developed an aptitude for the mercantile business, which induced him to start in trade for himself. This he did in the same village and soon had built up a large and paying business. He continued this store for twenty-one years (Lewis, 1900).

Son-in-law Israel Nute died in Lincoln, ME, February 15, 1836, aged sixty-three years, nine months, and one day.

Israel Nute learned the trade of carpenter and followed that business for many years in Great Falls, when failing health obliged him to seek other employment, and he chose agricultural pursuits as being at once healthful and remunerative. He was elected to the office of justice of the peace, a position he held for many years, discharging the duties of the office in a manner which elicited the commendation of all. The maiden name of his wife was Hannah Fish. She was a daughter of John Fish and came from the state of Vermont. Six children were the fruits of this union, three whom are living, namely: J.F., our subject; Frederick E., a resident of Maine, and George H., of Easton, Pennsylvania. The family were reared in conformity to the teachings of the Congregational church, of which Israel Nute was a consistent member; and his death, which occurred in 1836, was sincerely regretted by a large circle of friends (Lewis, 1900).

WANTED. A FEW good Men to work on the Aroostook road, to whom fair wages will be paid. For particulars call on the subscriber at Lincoln or the Land Office, Bangor. IRA FISH. june27. lwd&w (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, June 29, 1837).

STATE OF MAINE. Land Office, Bangor, April 30, 1S38. } The twelfth section of “an act additional to promote the sale and settlement of the public lands,” passed March 24, A.D. 1835, making it the duty of the Land Agent “to advertise the settling lands in market, once a year, for two months, in one paper in the city of Boston, one in Concord, N.H., and in one paper in each county in the State, describing the quality and situation of said land and the terms of sale,” the Land Agent hereby gives public notice that Township number 4, in the fifth range of Townships west from the cast line of the State, has been lotted for settlers, and is now in the market for sale and settlement under the provisions of the following law passed at the last session of the Legislature. The price will be from fifty to seventy-five cents per acre, according to the quality and situation of the lots. The lots average 160 acres each. The soil in this township is good, being remarkably free from stones, and the land lying in moderate swells. The location of this township is favorable for settlement, as the Aroostook road passes within one mile of the western line of the township. There are between 40 and 50 settlers in the adjoining township No. 4 in the 6th Range, and a good saw mill and grist mill have recently been built there by Ira Fish, Esq., only one mile distant from this township (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), August 15, 1838).

Son Ira Fish headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [Ira Fish], one female aged 50-59 years [Abra Fish], one male aged 20-29 years [Ezra O. Fish], two males aged 15-19 years [Ira D. Fish], one male aged 5-9 years [Charles Fish], and one female aged under-5 years [Louisa Fish]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Emery and Israel Hall.

Son-in-law Samuel Twombly headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Sophia (Fish) Twombly], one male aged 15-19 years [Ira F. Twombly], two females aged 10-14 years [Sophia Twombly and Rebecca Twombly], one male aged under-5 years [Samuel Twombly], and one male aged 90-99 years [Samuel Twombly Sr.]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joshua Hanson and Dudley Wentworth.

Daughter Hannah [(Fish)] Nute headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1840) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 40-49 years [herself], two males aged 20-29 years [John F. Nute and Frederick E. Nute], one female aged 15-19 years [Deborah Nute], one male aged 10-14 years [George Nute], one female aged 5-9 years [Hannah A. Nute], and one male aged 5-9 years [Charles W. Nute]. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of Chas. H. Dunklee and James Huntress.

Son Jacob Fish headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1840) Federal Census. His household included two males aged 30-39 years [himself and another], one female aged 30-39 years [Sarah (Canney) Fish], three males aged 20-29 years, three females aged 15-19 years, two females aged 10-14 years [Harriet N. Fish], one male aged 5-9 years [John A. Fish], and one female aged under-5 years [Frances R. Fish]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Winthrop Frost and Timothy Fuller.

IN THE HOUSE. Petitions presented and referred – Jacob Fish and 242 als. for a new County to be taken from the north part of Penobscot and to be called Mattanawcook (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, January 27, 1840).

LOST, ON the 14th instant, at Oldtown, by the subscriber, a calf skin pocket book, containing $21 in bills, one of $10 on the Bank of Bangor, one of $5, on the same, six ones, banks not recollected. Also, a note of hand, against W.H. Smith for $50, dated July, 1839, payable to the subscriber at Oldtown. One note against William Smith for $130, $60 endorsed on same given in July, 1836. Also, one signed by Ira Fish for $7 as Agent of Maine and Massachusetts, and one against I. & J. Wadleigh for $50 $25 being endorsed on same, and some other small notes. Whoever will return the same to the subscriber at Oldtown, shall be handsomely rewarded, and all persons are cautioned not to purchase either of the above notes, as their payment has been stopped. JAMES WALCH. Sept. 17, 1840 (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, September 18, 1840).

Washington Philbrook, and Isaac C. McColister were arrested at Lincoln and examined on Monday last before Justice Jacob Fish for passing counterfeit bills on the Eastern Bank of this city. They were ordered to recognize in the sum of $1000 each to appear at the Supreme Court to be holden in this city in June next, and for want of security they were yesterday brought to this city and committed to Jail. After arriving here one of them tried the virtue of his legs in an attempt to get away from, the officer but was soon secured (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, May 4, 1842).

Timothy Fuller and Jacob Fish were advertised as the local Lincoln, ME, agents, i.e., shopkeepers, selling Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills – 25¢ per box – in September 1842 (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, October 6, 1842).

Daughter Mrs. Hannah [(Fish)] Nute married (2nd) in Lincoln, ME, April 28, 1844, Dr. Daniel Forbes. He was born in Bangor, ME, August 15, 1802, son of William and Lucy (Griffin) Forbes. (His first wife, Olivia, had died in Lincoln, ME, April 15, 1842, aged thirty-two years).

Mrs. Rebecca (Ober) Fish died of old age in Lincoln, ME, December 21, 1849, aged eighty-three years, two months, and nine days.

Son Ira Fish, a lumberman, aged sixty years (b. VT), headed a Patten, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Abra Fish, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and Charles Fish, a student, aged seventeen years (b. ME).

Son-in-law Samuel Twombly, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Fish)] Twombly, aged fifty-eight years (b. VT), and Samuel Twombly, aged thirteen years (b. NH). Samuel Twombly had real estate valued at $3,500. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mark H. Hart, a farmer, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Dudley Wentworth, a farmer, aged fifty-five years (b. NH).

Son-in-law Daniel Forbes, a physician, aged forty-six years (b. ME), headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Hannah [((Fish) Nute)] Forbes, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), George H. Nute, aged twenty years (b. NH), Amanda Nute, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Charles W. Nute, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Daniel Forbes had real estate valued at $400. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of [her son-in-law,] Asa K. Bither, a merchant, aged thirty-one years (b. ME), and David S. Plumley, a merchant, aged thirty-six years (b. PA).

Daughter-in-law Sally [(Canney)] Fish, aged forty-three years (b. NH), headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Edmund Dorr, a clerk, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), Harriet M. [(Fish)] Dorr (b. NH), aged twenty-one years, John A. Fish, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Frances R. Fish, aged thirteen years (b. ME), Sophia Fish, aged nine years (b. ME), Oscar Fish, aged seven years (b. ME), Mary E. Fish, aged four years (b. ME), E.B. Pike, a physician, aged forty-three years (b. ME), Albert Pearson, aged thirty years (b. ME), Thomas Lewis, a joiner, aged forty-five years (b. NH), Benjamin Gaston, a laborer, aged twenty-eight years (b. England), John Tobin, a laborer, aged twenty-five years (b. Ireland), Stephen Davis, a laborer, aged twenty-six years (b. ME), Charles Giddens, a laborer, aged twenty-five years (b. England), Charles Knowls, a cabinetmaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. England), Reuben Damon, a laborer, aged twenty-four years (b. ME), Eliza Coffey, aged fifty years (b. Ireland), Susan Mills, aged eighteen years (b. ME), and A. Hamilton, a carriagemaker, aged forty-five years (b. NY). A marginal notation indicates that her residence was a “Hotel.” Meanwhile, her husband, Jacob Fish, a waiter, aged forty [forty-five] years (b. NH), appeared on the staff of another hotel in Lincoln, ME, one run by Samuel B. Jameson, an innholder, aged twenty-six years (b. ME).

Son Jacob Fish died of erysipelas in Lincoln, ME, March 1, 1850, aged forty-five years. He had been employed as a merchant and in a hotel.

Son Ira Fish, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. VT), headed a Patten, ME, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Abra Fish, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), Maxey Ordway, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and Geo Voyer, aged sixteen years (b. Canada). Ira Fish had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $300. Maxey Ordway had real estate valued at $300 and personal estate valued at $300.

Son-in-law Samuel Twombly, a farmer, aged eighty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Fish)] Twombly, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH [SIC]). Samuel Twombly had real estate valued at $10,000 and personal estate valued at $5,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Henry D. Witham, a farmer, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and Benjamin F. Hayes, a farmer, aged forty-three years (b. NH).

Daughter-in-law Sally A. [(Canney)] Fish, keeps hotel, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Her household included John A. Fish, aged twenty-six years (b. ME), Frances B. Fish, a teacher of music, aged twenty years (b. ME), Sophia Fish, a common school teacher, aged seventeen years (b. ME), Oscar R. Fish, aged fifteen years (b. ME), and Mary E. Fish, aged fourteen years (b. ME).

Son Ira Fish of Patten, ME, lent his name to a patent medicine for “catarrh” symptoms in February 1862.

The following letter from the Hon. Ira Fish, aged 80 [72], of Penobscot Co., Me., speaks for itself: DR. LIGHTHILL, 8 BOLSTON PLACE, BOSTON. Dear Sir – For several years I have been afflicted with catarrh. I have tried many prescriptions for it without receiving any benefit therefrom. I have taken your medicine about two months, and it has cured me. I would recommend to those afflicted with the disease, that they apply to you. I am confident that if they will strictly follow your directions a cure will be effected, however inveterate the case may be. IRA FISH. Patten, Feb. 24, 1802. lw (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), March 22, 1862).

Daughter-in-law Sarah (Canney) Fish died in Lincoln, ME, June 30, 1865, aged fifty-nine years, one month, and three days.

Son-in-law Daniel Forbes is said to have died in Florida, in September 1865, aged sixty-three years.

He was Assistant Surgeon in the army during the latter part of the Civil War, and died while in charge of a hospital in Florida, in September 1865 (Fellows, 1929).

(A David Forbes died of anthrax in a Florida military hospital, September 29, 1865, but he was listed as a cavalry private, rather than an assistant surgeon, and aged twenty-five years, rather than sixty-three years).

A Hannah Forbes filed for a Civil War widow’s pension, November 7, 1866, for the service of her husband, Daniel Forbes, in Co. E. of the 2nd ME Cavalry Regiment.

Son-in-law Samuel Twombly died of consumption in Milton, November 26, 1868, aged eighty-eight years, eight months.

Son Ira Fish, a farmer, aged eighty years (b. Townshend, VT), headed a Patten, ME, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Abra [(Hayes)] Fish, keeping house, aged seventy-five years (b. Milton, NH), and Sarah Hayes, a domestic, aged fifty years (b. Lincoln, ME). Ira Fish had real estate valued at $900 and personal estate valued at $200. Abra Fish had real estate valued at $1,000.

Benjamin F. Hayes, a farm laborer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [(Twombly)] Hayes, keeping house, aged forty-three years (b. NH). They shared a two-family dwelling with the household of [her mother,] Sophia Twombly, keeping house, aged seventy-eight years (b. VT). Benjamin F. Hayes had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $757. Sophia Twombly had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000.

Son Ira Fish died in Patten, ME, May 24, 1872, aged eighty-two years.

Death of an Aged Citizen. Hon. Ira Fish of Patten died a few days since at the advanced age of 82 years. In 1824 Mr. Fish moved from New Hampshire to Lincoln, where he remained about twenty years, when he moved to Patten, which has since been his home. He was one of the most prominent and influential business men in that section of the county, had been several times elected to both branches of the Legislature, and frequently held other offices of public trust. He was respected by his neighbors, friends and acquaintances for his many excellent traits of character, as was especially testified by the immense throng which gathered to pay the last tribute of respect to their departed friend (Bangor Whig & Courier, May 31, 1872).

Daughter Sophia (Fish) Twombly died of old age in Milton, March 30, 1874, aged eighty-one years, eleven months. (She was said to have been born in Vermont State).

Daughter Hannah [(Fish)] Nute [Forbes] died of stomach paralysis in Ionia, MI, September 26, 1874, aged seventy-eight years.

Daughter-in-law Abra (Hayes) Fish died in Patten, ME, February 1, 1879.

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