By Muriel Bristol | January 6, 2024
Samuel Shackford Wentworth was born in Somersworth, NH, August 12, 1756, son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Hodgdon) Wentworth.
Beginning at nineteen years of age, Samuel S. Wentworth served several enlistment terms as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. He served first in defending Portsmouth harbor from positions in Kittery (Seavey’s Island), ME, and New Castle (Great Island), NH; then as a part of the Continental forces besieging the British at Boston, MA, from Somerville (Winter Hill), MA; then defending Portsmouth harbor again; and finally at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain in upstate New York. (Barker’s Location was an early name for what is now a part of Lancaster, NH).
… I, Samuel Wentworth, late of Somersworth in the County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire, now [1818] a resident of Barker’s Location in the County of Coos & State aforesaid, on oath do testify & declare that sometime in the month of October, A.D. 1775, I enlisted as a volunteer soldier in the militia, as I believe of New Hampshire, for the term of fifteen days, under Capt. John Waldron, stationed at the harbour, Portsmouth, N.H., which said term of fifteen days I served out faithfully, & then immediately after enlisted again for the term of one month under Capt. David Copp, and was stationed on Seavey Island (so called) near said Portsmouth harbour, which term of one month I also served out (as I believe) faithfully, under said Copp. And at the expiration of said month I then enlisted for the term of three months under Capt. John Brewster. I was stationed on the great Island near new Castle, near Portsmouth Harbour, at which place & under said Brewster, I served out about one half of said term of three months, when I was honourably discharged from any further service at that time by said Brewster, as commanding Officer of said company. That some time in the month of January, A.D. 1776, I enlisted again as a private Soldier on the Continental Establishment in the Company Commanded by Capt. John Drew, attached to Col. John Waldron’s regiment of the N.H. Continental line, for the term of two months, & was marched from New Hampshire to Winter Hill (so called) near Boston & soon after the expiration of which, I enlisted again under Capt. Caleb Hodgdon, attached to Lieut. Col. Pierce Long’s Regiment, for the term of nine months, and as stationed again at New Castle, on Great Island (so called) near Portsmouth harbour. When I served out five or six months of said term faithfully, and then enlisted anew under Capt. Abraham Perkins attached to Colonel Pierce Long’s Regiment, for another term of one year. I was marched to Ticonderoga, in which said company, commanded by said Abraham Perkins I continued & served out my term of enlistment faithfully. And the morning after my said term of One Year’s enlistment expired, the Company to which I belonged was paraded. Our discharge was read by the Adjutant, Michael McClure. Making in the whole term which I served my Country in the War of the Revolution, about one year & ten months…
Samuel S. Wentworth married in Rochester, NH, August 16, 1781, Mary Berry. She was born in Rochester, NH, April 10, 1755, daughter of Stephen Jr. and Mary (Allen) Berry.
(The children of Samuel S. and Mary (Berry) Wentworth were: Rebecca Wentworth (1782–1857), Stephen Wentworth (1784–1854), Olive Wentworth (1786–1875), Benjamin Wentworth (1789–1854), Rosamond Wentworth (1792–1814), Shackford Wentworth (1794–1872), Joseph Wentworth (1798–1877), and Mary E.A. Wentworth (1802–186?)).
Daughter Rebecca Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, February 3, 1782. She was a namesake for her paternal grandmother, Rebecca (Hodgdon) Wentworth.
Son Stephen Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, June 28, 1784. He was a namesake for his maternal grandfather, Stephen Berry [Jr.].
Daughter Olive Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, October 24, 1786. Son Benjamin Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, September 13, 1789. He was a namesake for his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Wentworth.
Saml S. Wentworth headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], two males aged under-16 years [Stephen Wentworth and Benjamin Wentworth], and three females [Mary (Berry) Wentworth, Rebecca Wentworth and Olive Wentworth]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Timothy Ricker and John Wentworth. (See also Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).
Daughter Rosamond Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, June 20, 1792. Son Shackford Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, July 24, 1794. Son Joseph Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, May 17, 1798.
Samuel S. Wentworth headed a 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 (Mary (Berry) Wentworth), one female aged 10-15 years [Olive Wentworth], one male aged 10-15 years [Benjamin Wentworth], one female aged under-10 years [Rosamond Wentworth], two males aged under-10 years [Shackford Wentworth and Joseph Wentworth]. (There was another Saml S. Shackford household in Rochester, NH, in this same enumeration]. (See also Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).
Daughter Mary E.A. Wentworth was born in Rochester, NH, May 22, 1802.
Samuel S. Wentworth signed the Rochester Division petition of May 28, 1802. (See Rochester Division Petition – May 1802).
Milton assessed the property of Samuel S. Wentworth for its first tax in 1803. He had one poll, two oxen, three cows, one 2-year-old, one 1-year-old, three acres of mowing land, four acres of pasturage land, eighty-four acres of unimproved land, for a total value of $30½. He was to pay $3.50 in county & town tax, $0.91 in parish tax, and $3.81 in road tax, for a total tax of $8.22. (Note that, regardless of modern notions regarding church and state, compulsory parish taxation for the support of the established Congregational church was still operative at this time).
Daughter Rebecca Wentworth married in Rochester, NH, February 19, 1806, Benaiah Colby [Jr.], both of Milton. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony. Colby was born in Chester, NH, September 21, 1783, son of Benaiah and Abigail (Emerson) Colby.
The Milton Selectmen of 1806 were Levi Jones, S.S. Wentworth, and Lt. Jotham Nute. (They were all Revolutionary War veterans).
Mother Rebecca (Hodgson) Wentworth died Somersworth, NH, in April 1806.
Daughter Olive Wentworth married in Rochester, NH, May 21, 1807, Thomas Wentworth, both of Milton. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony. Thomas Wentworth was born in Milton, September 14, 1780, son of Elihu and Lois (Pinkham) Wentworth.
Saml S. Wentworth headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Mary (Berry) Wentworth], one male aged 26-44 years [Stephen Wentworth], one male aged 16-25 years [Benjamin Wentworth], one female aged 16-25 years [Rosamond Wentworth], one male aged 10-15 years [Joseph Wentworth], and one female aged under-10 years [Mary E.A. Wentworth]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Stephen Hendersn and Timo Roberts.
Benair Colby headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-25 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Rebecca (Wentworth) Colby], and one male aged under-10 years [Benaiah Colby, Jr.]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Wm Palmer and Thos Nutter.
Thomas Wentworth 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 [Olive (Wentworth) Wentworth], and two females aged under-10 years [Lavina B. Wentworth and Eliza Wentworth]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Gilman Jewett and Pelatiah Hanson.
Father Benjamin Wentworth died in Somersworth, NH, November 4, 1813.
Samuel S. Wentworth and most of his family left Milton and moved to Lancaster, NH, around 1813, although they retained some connections with their former residences, family members and neighbors. (Milton would be described later, in June 1823, as being on “the great main road leading from Portsmouth to Lancaster”).
Daughter Rosamond Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, in January 1814.
Son Benjamin Wentworth married in Lancaster, NH, August 23, 1815, Lucinda Hayes, he of Barker’s Location and she of Lancaster, NH. William Lovejoy, J.P., performed the ceremony. She was born in Milton, September 10, 1796, daughter of Clement and Joanna (Wentworth) Hayes. She was a sister of Joanna Hayes and Hiram W. Hayes.
Mother-in-law Mary (Allen) Berry died in New Durham, NH, July 22, 1816.
Samuel Wentworth of “Barker’s Location” in Lancaster, NH, was entered on the Revolutionary War pension roll at the rate of $8 per month, to commence on April 1, 1818. His pension certificate was sent to the postmaster of Lancaster, NH, April 29, 1819. He had served as a private in the regiment commanded by Col. Long of the N.H. line, for the term of one year. He served in Capt. Perkins’ company. In his declaration (quoted above) he stated that he and his wife were aged sixty-four years of age. His wife was “all the time sickly and a great Bill of expense to me,” son Stephen, aged thirty-six years, is “has had fits & much out of health,” son Shackford, aged twenty-five years, is “not very healthy,” son Joseph, aged twenty-two years, is healthy but has no property, and another, aged eighteen years, was healthy.
Samuel S. Wentworth, Stephen Wentworth, Benjamin Wentworth, Shackford Wentworth, Benaiah Colby, and Clement Hayes, were among the thirty-five inhabitants of Barker’s Location that petitioned the NH legislature for a five percent land tax on non-resident owners for making and maintaining roads in June 1818.
Saml S. Wentworth, Benjn Wentworth, Shackford Wentworth, Joseph Wentworth, and Benaiah Colby were among the nine inhabitants of Barker’s Location that petitioned the NH legislature, April 7, 1819, for annexation of their unincorporated “Gore” of Barker’s Location by the neighboring Town of Lancaster, NH.
AN ACT to annex Barker’s Location, in the county of Coos, to Lancaster, in the same county. SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the senate and house of representatives in general court convened, That the tract of territory in the county of Coos and state aforesaid, known by the name of Barker’s Location, and the inhabitants residing within said territory, be and the same hereby are, annexed to the town of Lancaster, in said county of Coos; and the inhabitants of the said annexed territory shall be henceforth entitled to the same privileges and immunities, and subject to the same liabilities which the present inhabitants of said Lancaster are liable to or enjoy. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the present amount of valuation. in the proportion of state taxes, at which the said territory called Barker’s Location now stands shall be added to the present valuation of the said town of Lancaster; and the state and county treasurers shall govern themselves accordingly in making out their precepts against the town of Lancaster. Approved June 22, 1819.
Father-in-law Stephen Berry, Jr., died in Nottingham, NH, April 4, 1820.
TAKE NOTICE. DELIVERED to me at Lancaster, N.H., a bundle of mens’ Clothes, some time the fore part of last winter, to carry to the west. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges, and take them away. June 16, 1820. ORANGE SMITH, Mail Carrier (North Star (Danville, VT), July 6, 1820).
Samuel S. Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fourth (1820) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Mary (Berry) Wentworth], one male aged 26-44 years [Stephen Wentworth], two males aged 16-25 years [Shackford Wentworth and Joseph Wentworth], and one female aged 16-25 years [Mary E.A. Wentworth]. Four members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Clement Hayes and Benaiah Colby. (Son Benjamin Wentworth was enumerated on the same page).
Benaiah Colby headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fourth (1820) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Rebecca (Wentworth) Colby], one male aged 10-16 years [Benaiah Colby, Jr.], one male aged under-10 years [Jonathan Colby], and two females aged under-10 years [Mary Colby and Rebecca Colby]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture.
Benjamin Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fourth (1820) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Lucinda (Hayes) Wentworth], and one male aged under-10 years. One member of his household was engaged in Agriculture (Father Samuel S. Wentworth was enumerated on the same page).
Son Joseph Wentworth married in New Durham, NH, September 14, 1820, Joanna Hayes. She was born in Milton, November 15, 1796, daughter of Clement and Joanna (Wentworth) Hayes. She was a sister of Lucinda (Hayes) Wentworth and Hiram W. Hayes.
Son Shackford Wentworth married in Lancaster, NH, March 18, 1821, Hannah Smith.
Benjn Wentworth, Stephen Wentworth, Joseph Wentworth, and [their cousin] Alexander Wentworth were among the twenty-five Lancaster, NH, residents that petitioned, June 7, 1825, that John W. Weeks, Esq., should be appointed as Coös County Sheriff, for the term of five years.
There was a mountain avalanche in Crawford Notch (valley) of the White Mountains on the evening of August 28, 1826. The Willey family, hearing the noise, sought shelter away from their house. Seven family members and two others were killed by the avalanche, which, ironically, spared their house. It can still be seen today.
SUMMARY. A letter from Lancaster, N.H., in giving an account of the late calamity at the White Hills, mentions, that Mr. Willey’s dog, after leaving the house with the unfortunate family, returned to it and saved his life. He was much bruised, but assisted in finding the bodies of the family which were discovered (Vermont Watchman & State Journal (Montpelier, VT), October 3, 1826).
Daughter Mary E.A. Wentworth married in Milton, circa 1827, Hiram Ward Hayes. He was born in Milton, August 7, 1803, son of Clement and Joanna (Wentworth) Hayes. He was a brother of Lucinda (Hayes) Wentworth and Joanna (Hayes) Wentworth.
Mary (Berry) Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, in 1827.
Samuel S. Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 70-79 years [himself], and one male aged 50-59 years [Stephen Wentworth].
Benaiah Colby headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years (Rebecca (Wentworth) Colby], one male aged 20-29 years [Benaiah Colby, Jr.], one female aged 15-19 years [Mary Colby], one male aged 15-19 years [Jonathan E. Colby], one female aged 10-14 years [Rebecca Colby], one male aged 10-14 years [Joseph Colby], one female aged under-5 years [Abigail Colby], and one male aged under-5 years [John W. Colby].
Thos Wentworth headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Olive (Wentworth) Wentworth], one female aged 15-19 years [Eliza Wentworth], one female aged 5-9 years [Mary A. Wentworth], one male aged 5-9 years [Samuel S. Wentworth], one male aged under-5 years [Thomas M. Wentworth], and one female aged under-5 years [Rebecca R. Wentworth]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Elizabeth Gerrish and Jose. Rinds.
Benjamin Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, 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 [Lucinda (Hayes) Wentworth], and one male aged 5-9 years [Orlando H. Wentworth], and one female aged 5-9 years [Lucette B. Wentworth].
Shackford Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Hannah (Smith) Wentworth], and two males aged 5-9 years [Othniel Wentworth and Royal J. Wentworth].
Joseph Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, 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 [Joanna (Hayes) Wentworth], and two males aged 5-9 years [Ira Wentworth and Samuel S. Wentworth], two females aged under-5 years [Olive Wentworth and Evelyn Wentworth], and one male aged under-5 years [Joseph Wentworth].
Hiram W. Hayes headed a Lancaster, NH, 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 [Mary E.A. (Wentworth) Hayes], one female aged under-5 years [Mary R. Hayes], and one male aged under-5 years.
The First Methodist Episcopal Society of Lancaster, N.H., was organized in July 1831. The following names are attached to the constitution in the record book in the hand writing of the subscribers: Wm W. Chapman, Harvey Adams, Abel Leavens, Jr., Joseph Howe, Allen Smith, John Aspenwall, David Stockwell, Samuel F. Spaulding, William Peck, Ezra Kenison, Samuel McIntire, S.P. Williams, G.C. Philbrook, Alvah Twombly, Isaac N. Cotton, Benjamin Adams, John Stockwell, James Mardin, John Smith, Benj. Wentworth, Benaiah Colby, Joseph Wentworth, Shackford Wentworth, Frederick Fisk, Daniel Field, George Howe, William Pearson, Shepard Knights, John H. Meserve (Somers, 1899).
Daughter-in-law Hannah (Smith) Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, May 13, 1835, aged forty-four years.
Son Shackford Wentworth married (2nd) in Lancaster, NH, June 3, 1838, Almira Moulton, he of Lancaster, NH, and she of Jefferson, NH. James Stephenson, J.P., performed the ceremony. She was born in Jefferson, NH, May 9, 1805.
Benaiah Colby headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Rebecca (Wentworth) Colby)], one male aged 30-39 years [Benaiah Colby, Jr.], one male aged 20-29 years [Jonathan E. Colby], one female aged 20-29 years [Rebecca Colby], one male aged 15-19 years [John W. Colby], and one female aged 10-14 years [Abigail Colby]. Seven members of his household were engaged in Agriculture.
Olive [(Wentworth)] Wentworth headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 50-59 years [herself], one female aged 20-29 years [Eliza Wentworth], one female aged 15-19 years [Mary A. Wentworth], one male aged 15-19 years [Samuel S. Wentworth], and one female aged 10-14 years [Rebecca R. Wentworth]. Three members of her household were engaged in Manufacture and Trade.
Benjamin Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Lucinda (Hayes) Wentworth], and one male aged under-5 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration just after that of Joseph Wentworth. Three [two] members of their household were engaged in Agriculture.
Shackford Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Almira (Moulton) Wentworth], one male aged 15-19 years [Othniel Wentworth], and one male aged 10-14 years [Royal J. Wentworth]. Three members of their household were engaged in Manufacture and the Trades.
Joseph Wentworth headed a Lancaster, NH, 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 [Joanna (Hayes) Wentworth], one male aged 15-19 years [Samuel S. Wentworth], one female aged 15-19 years [Olive Wentworth], one female aged 10-14 years [Evelyn Wentworth], two females aged 5-9 years [Lucinda Wentworth and Mary B. Wentworth], one female aged under-5 years [Amanda Wentworth], one male aged under-5 years [Amiel Wentworth], one male aged 80-90 years [Samuel S. Wentworth], and one male aged 50-59 years [Stephen Wentworth]. Eleven members of their household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration just before that of Benjamin Wentworth. Samuel S. Wentworth, aged eighty-three years, appeared as a “Pensioner for Revolutionary or Military Services, Included in the Foregoing.”
Hiram W. Hayes headed a Lancaster, 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 [Mary E.A. (Wentworth) Hayes], one female aged 10-15 years [Mary R. Hayes], two females aged 5-9 years [Isabelle Hayes and Melissa Hayes], two males aged under-5 years [Eldred Hayes and Edwin Hayes], and one female aged 70-79 years. Eight members of their household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared on the same page as those of Joseph Wentworth and Benjamin Wentworth.
Son-in-law Thomas Wentworth died of lung fever in Somersworth, NH, March 25, 1850, aged sixty-nine years. He was a laborer.
Benaiah Colby, a cooper, aged sixty-six years, headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Rebecca [(Wentworth)] Colby, aged sixty-eight years, Mary Colby, aged forty years, Jonathan E. Colby, aged thirty-five years, Rebeccah Colby, aged thirty-four years, Joseph Colby, aged thirty-three years, John W. Colby, aged twenty-eight years, and Abigail Colby, aged twenty years.
Olive [(Wentworth)] Wentworth, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Eliza Wentworth, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), Betsey Gerrish, aged twenty-five years (b. ME), Mary Gerrish, aged twenty years (b. ME), Hannah Brown, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Mary A. Allen, aged nineteen years, Harriet Allen, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Sarah Gerrish, aged twenty years (b. NH), Laurian Gerrish, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Nancy Pugsley, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), and Katharine Hulin, aged seventeen years (b. RI). Olive Wentworth had real estate valued at $1,500.
Benj. Wentworth, a cooper, aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Lucinda [(Hayes)] Wentworth, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), Eliza E. Hays, aged thirteen years, and Elizabeth M. Lindsey, aged twenty years. The entry for Elizabeth M. Lindsay bears the additional notation that she “belongs to Family 162,” which was the household of Isaac and Mary [(Bailey)] Lindsay, both aged fifty-two years.
Shackford Wentworth, a laborer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Almira [(Moulton)] Wentworth, aged forty-five years (b. NH), George Wentworth, aged seven years, and Julia A. Wentworth, aged four years.
Joseph Wentworth, a carpenter, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Joanna [(Hayes)] Wentworth, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), Mary B. Wentworth, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Lucinda Wentworth, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Amanda Wentworth, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Amial Wentworth, aged eleven years (b. NH), Samuel S. Wentworth, a farmer, aged ninety-three years (b. NH), and Stephen Wentworth, a farmer, aged sixty-six years (b. NH). Joseph Wentworth had real estate valued at $600.
Hiram W. Hayes, a laborer, aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary R. Hayes, aged twenty years (b. NH), Isabella Hayes, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Melissa Hayes, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Edwin L. Hayes, aged eleven years (b. NH), Clement Hayes, aged four years (b. NH), Lois Cook, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), Sarah R. Keaton, aged thirty-two years (b. ME), Harriet N. Day, aged twenty years (b. ME), Louisa Kendall, aged twenty years (b. ME), Ellen Chapman, aged eighteen years (b. ME), Paulina Hawes, aged nineteen years (b. ME), Eliza J. Patch, aged sixteen years (b. ME), Augusta Russell, aged fifteen years (b. ME), Mary Dinsmore, aged twenty-three years (b. ME), John Whitehouse, a manufacturer, aged nineteen years (b. ME), and George Goodwin, a manufacturer, aged eighteen years (b. ME).
Samuel S. Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, in 1850.
NEWS ITEMS. The White Mountains were covered with snow, Wednesday, and the ground at Lancaster, N.H., was also wrapped in a frozen fleece (Brattleboro Eagle (Brattleboro, VT), September 29, 1851).
Daughter-in-law Lucinda (Hayes) Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, May 2, 1854.
Son Stephen Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, May 13, 1854. Son Benjamin Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, December 25, 1854.
Daughter Rebecca (Wentworth) Colby died in Lancaster, NH, November 12, 1857.
The weather is rather cold at the North. Teams are crossing the ice over the St. Lawrence at Ogdensberg. At Lancaster, N.H., on Wednesday morning, at 7 o’clock, in different exposures, ranged from 33 deg. to 38 deg. below zero! (Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, MA), January 2, 1860).
Benaiah Colby, a gent., i.e., gentleman, aged seventy-six years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household appeared in the enumeration just before that of [his son,] Benaiah Colby, Jr., a farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH).
Olive [(Wentworth)] Wentworth, boarding house, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), headed a Somersworth (“Great Falls”), NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Her household included Eliza Wentworth, aged forty-three years (b. NH), Hatty Vancouver, a dresser, aged forty years (b. ME), Jane Shattuck, a weaver, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), Julia Bryant, a weaver, aged sixteen years (b. ME), Martha Bryant, a weaver (b. ME), aged eighteen years (b. ME), Alice Lord, a weaver, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), Eunice Cowell, a weaver, aged eighteen years (b. ME), Martha Carroll, a weaver, aged eighteen years (b. ME), and Sarah Small, a weaver, aged twenty-five years (b. ME). Olive Wentworth had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $500.
Shackford Wentworth, a hostler, aged sixty-six years (b. [NH]), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary A. [Moulton)] Wentworth, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), Geo. T. Wentworth, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Julia B. Wentworth, aged fourteen years (b. NH). Shackford Wentworth had real estate valued at $300 and personal estate valued at $100.
Joseph Wentworth, a farmer, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Joanna [(Hayes)] Wentworth, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), Mary B. Wentworth, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Amial Wentworth, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). Joseph Wentworth had real estate valued at $700 and personal estate valued at $300.
Hiram W. Hayes, a stone mason, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Somersworth (“Great Falls”), NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary E.A. [(Wentworth)] Hayes, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), Isabella Hayes, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), Melissa Hayes, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Edwin L. Hayes, a shoemaker, aged twenty years (b. NH), Clement Hayes, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Loring Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). Hiram W. Hayes had real estate valued at $2,500 and personal estate valued at $200. Isabella Hayes had real estate valued at $1,000.
Daughter Mrs. Olive Wentworth appeared in the Great Falls [Somersworth], NH, directory of 1867, as a widow, with her house on Fourth street.
Daughter Mary E.A. (Wentworth) Hayes died at Great Falls, Somersworth, NH, between 1860 and 1867.
Son-in-law Hiram W. Hayes appeared in the Lynn, MA, directories of 1867 and 1869, as a farmer, with his house at 43 Pearl street. E. Lyman Hayes appeared also, as a heller, with his house at 43 Pearl street. Clement Hayes appeared in the Lynn directory of 1869, as a shoemaker, boarding at 43 Pearl street.
Son-in-law Hiram W. Hayes died of kidney disease in Lynn, MA, August 9, 1869. He was a widowed shoemaker.
Beniah Colby, a cooper, aged eighty-six years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary Colby, keeping house, aged sixty years (b. NH), Joseph Colby, a farmer, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), Jonathan E. Colby, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), John W. Colby, a carpenter, aged forty-five years (b. NH), Abbie Colby, a milliner, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and Cummings Winchester, a cooper, aged thirty years (b. NH). Mary Colby had personal estate valued at $100. Joseph Colby had personal estate valued at $300. Jonathan E. Colby had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $800. Cumming Winchester had real estate valued at $800 and personal estate valued at $200.
Eliza Wentworth, keeping house, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. Her household included Joseph H. Corlis, works on R.R., aged twenty-seven years (b. ME), Helen M. [(Allen)] Corlis, keeping house, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Olive [(Wentworth)] Wentworth, no occupation, aged eighty-three years (b. NH). Eliza Wentworth had real estate valued at $1,000.
Shakford Wentworth, without occupation, aged seventy-five years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Nineth (1870) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Elmira Wentworth, keeping house, aged sixty-five years (b. NH). [There was a tick mark next to Shakford Wentworth in the column headed “Male Citizens of U.S. of 21 years of age, and upwards, whose right to vote is denied or abridged on other grounds than rebellion or other crime].
Joseph Wentworth, a cooper, aged seventy-two years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Joanna [(Hayes)] Wentworth, keeping house, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), Amiel Wentworth, a farmer, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), Martha [(Cook)] Wentworth, keeping house, aged thirty-six years (b. VT), Lillian Wentworth, aged one year (b. NH), and Wheatley Cook, a farm laborer, aged sixteen years (b. NH). Amiel Wentworth had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $500. Martha Wentworth had personal estate valued at $1,600.
R.R. Celebration at Lancaster, N.H. Twelve well-filled passenger cars left Wells River, on Tuesday last, to attend the opening of the extension of the White Mountain R.R. at Lancaster, N.H. (St. Johnsbury Weekly Times (St. Johnsbury, VT), December 6, 1870).
Daughter-in-law Almira [(Moulton)] Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, January 28, 1871, aged sixty-five years.
DEATHS. Marriages and Deaths inserted FREE. Obituary Notices FIVE CENTS per line, in either of our papers, or TEN CENTS per line if inserted in all of them. COOS COUNTY. In Lancaster, 28th ult., Almira, wife of Shackford Wentworth, aged sixty-five years (Vermont Journal, February 11, 1871).
Son Shackford Wentworth died in Lancaster, NH, March 18, 1872.
Son-in-law Benaiah Colby died August 18, 1872.
Daughter Olive Wentworth died of paralysis in Great Falls, Somersworth, NH, February 2, 1875, aged eighty-eight years, three months. She was a married [?] housekeeper. Alvin Jenkins, M.D. signed the death certificate.
Son Joseph Wentworth died in Whitefield, NH, October 11, 1877, aged seventy-nine years.
Daughter-in-law Joanna (Hayes) Wentworth died of old age in Lancaster, NH, November 9, 1883, aged eighty-seven years. She was a widow.
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Find a Grave. (2016, November 2). Joseph Wentworth. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/172120321/joseph-wentworth
Find a Grave. (2004, October 3). Olive Wentworth. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/9548949/olive-wentworth
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