Month: August 2025

By Muriel Bristol | August 31, 2025

Joseph Rines was born in Lebanon, ME, February 15, 1784, son of Henry Jr. and Mary (Falls) Rines.

Henerey Rines headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included two males aged 16-plus years [himself and Henry A. Rines], seven females (Mary (Falls) Rines, Judith Rines, Mary Rines, and others], and two males aged under-16 years [Nathaniel Rines and Joseph Rines]. His household appeared between those of Solomon Lord, and David Farnham.

Sister Judith Rines married in Lebanon, ME, January 12, 1797, Thomas Applebee (“Appleby”). He was born in Durham, NH, circa 1757, son of Hawley and Hannah (Welch) Applebee. She was his second wife. Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the ceremony.

Henry Rhines headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-25 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years, one male aged under-10 years, one female aged under-10 years. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

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 (Hurd, Duane H., 1882).

Joseph Rines, Henry Rines, and Henry Rines, Jur, were assessed in the Milton School District No. 3 of Paul Jewett in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

Joseph Rines married in Wakefield, NH, November 20, 1806, Sally Remick, he of Milton and she of Kittery, ME. He was a blacksmith. She was born in Kittery, ME, December 27, 1785, daughter of John and Susanna (Cole) Remick.

(The children of Joseph and Sally (Remick) Rines were: Elizabeth Rines (1808-1859), John Rines (1810–1826), Louisa Rines (1812–1812), Louisa “Lois” Rines [II] (1814–1900), Nathaniel Rines (1816–1900), Samuel Fall[s] Rines (1818–1897), Lydia M. Rines (1820-1860), Mary Jane Rines (1822-1865), and Joseph G. Rines (1824–1907)).

Daughter Elizabeth “Eliza” Rines was born in Milton, January 21, 1808. Son John Rines was born in Middleton, NH, January 30, 1810.

Henry Rines 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 [Mary (Falls) Rines],  one male aged 16-25 years, one female aged 16-25 years, two males aged under-10 years, and one female aged under-10 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Hattevil Nutter and Wm Applebe. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

John Rines headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-25 years [himself], and one female aged 16-25 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Henry Miller and John Smith. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Daughter Louisa Rines was born in Milton, June 13, 1812. She died in Milton, June 29, 1812.

Daughter Louisa “Lois” Rines [II] was born in Milton Mills, June 8, 1814.

Father Henry Rines died in Milton Mills, October 15, 1815, aged eighty-five years.

Son Nathaniel Rines was born in Milton, February 25, 1816. Son Samuel Fall Rines was born in Milton, May 23, 1818. Daughter Lydia Rines was born in Milton, July 27, 1820.

Daughter Mary Janes Rines, born in Milton Mills, August 15, 1822.

Father-in-law John Remick died in 1823. Mother-in-law Susanna (Cole) Remick died in 1824.

Son Joseph George Rines was born in Milton, May 12, 1824.

Son John Rines died in Milton, August 26, 1826, aged fifteen years.

Daughter Elizabeth “Eliza” Rines was a founding member of Milton’s First Christian Church, March 3, 1827. (See Milton’s Christian Church Elders – 1827-1845).

Mother Mary (Falls) Rines died in Milton Mills, May 17, 1828, aged ninety-five years.

Jos. Rinds [Rines] 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 [Sally (Remick) Rines], one female aged 15-19 years [Lois Rines], two males aged 10-14 years [Nathaniel Rines and Samuel F. Rines], one female aged 10-14 years [Lydia Rines], one female aged 5-9 years [Mary J. Rines], and one male aged 5-9 years [Joseph G. Rines]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Thos. Wentworth and Lucy D. Hartford. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Daughter Elizabeth Rines married, circa 1833, Gilman C. Melcher. He was born in Milton, in 1812.

Joseph Rines headed a Milton 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 [Sally (Remick) Rines], two males aged 20-29 years, two females aged 20-29 years, one male aged 15-19 years, and one female aged 15-19 years. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture and two members were engaged in Manufacture and Trade. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mary Page and Moses Nason.

Gilman C. Melcher headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Elizabeth (Rines) Melcher], one male aged 5-9 years, and two females aged under-5 years. Five members of his household were engaged in Agriculture.

Son Samuel F. Rines married in Wakefield, NH, December 24, 1840, Susan Remick. She was born in Milton, April 13, 1820, daughter of John D. and Abra “Abbie” (Applebee) Remick.

Daughter Lydia M. Rines married in Medford, MA, May 1, 1842, Charles F. Clark, both of Medford. Rev. A.F. Baker performed the ceremony.

Son Nathaniel Rines was married in Milton, November 24, 1842, Olive Remick, both of Milton. Rev. Joseph Spinney performed the ceremony. She was born in Milton, July 18, 1822, daughter of Thomas and Olive (Abbott) Remick.

Daughter Mary J. Rines married in Boston, MA, October 6, 1844, Frederick M. Knights. Rev. Edward Beecher performed the ceremony. He was born in Portland, ME, May 17, 1824, son of Winslow and Margaret Knights.

Joseph Rines, a farmer, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sally [(Remick)] Rines, aged sixty-five years (b. ME), Samuel F. Rines, a farmer, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Joseph G. Rines, a farmer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), Susan [(Remick)] Rines, aged thirty [twenty] years (b. NH), Sarah E. Rines, aged seven years (b. NH), Abby J. Rines, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), and Samuel Remick, a shoemaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH). Joseph Rines had real estate valued at $2,300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Applebee, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and Brackett Merrill, a lumber dealer, aged thirty-four years (b. ME).

Gilman C. Melcher, a tinworker, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Lancaster, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Rines)] Melcher, aged forty-five years (b. NH), John B. Melcher, a farmer, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Eliza Melcher, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Sarah J. Melcher, aged eleven years (b. NH), Charles G. Melcher, aged nine years (b. NH), George M. Melcher, aged five years (b. NH), and Mahala Melcher, aged two years (b. NH).

Nathaniel Rines, a blacksmith, aged thirty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Olive [(Remick)] Rines, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), Eliza J. Rines, aged six years (b. NH), Mark Rines, aged two years (b. NH), and George Rines, aged fourteen years (b. NH). Nathaniel Rines had real estate valued at $1,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mary Miller, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and Amos Cook, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH).

Daughter Lois Rines [Louisa Ryan] married in Beverly, MA, December 25, 1850, Madison Rogers, both of Beverly, MA. She was aged thirty-one years, and he was a cordwainer, aged fifty years. Rev. C.W. Reding performed the ceremony. Rogers was born Nova Scotia, December 25, 1799, son of Bryant and Jane Rogers. His first wife had died in Beverly, MA, October 12, 1848, and this was his second marriage.

Son Joseph G. Rines married in Milton, in 1853, Sarah J. “Sadie” Sanborn. She was born in Acton, ME, September 26, 1836, daughter of William and Sally (Crockett) Sanborn.

MARRIAGES. In Milton, Mr. Joseph G. Rines, to Miss Sarah J. Sanborn (Portsmouth Daily Chronicle, August 19, 1853).

Son in -law Gilman C. Melcher died in Lancaster, NH, May 20, 1854.

Sally (Remick) Rines died in Milton, February 12, 1855.

Madison Rogers, a cordwainer, aged fifty-four years (b. Nova Scotia), headed a Beverly, MA, household at the time of the MA State Census of 1855. His household included Louisa [(Rines)] Rogers, aged forty-four years (b. NH), Madison Rogers, a cordwainer, aged fifteen years (b. MA), and Caroline Rogers, aged eleven years (b. MA).

Fredk M. Knights, a trader, aged thirty-five years (b. ME), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the MA State Census of 1855. His household included Mary J. [(Rines)] Knights, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), Mary F. Knights, aged nine years (b. MA), and Mary A. Glinn, aged twenty-three years (b. Ireland).

Sons Nathaniel Rines and Samuel F. Rines appeared in the Milton Business directories of 1856, and 1860, as Milton Mills blacksmiths. (Ebenezer Osgood appeared also as a Milton Mills blacksmith).

Daughter Elizabeth (Rines) Melcher died in Lancaster, NH, January 25, 1859, aged fifty years, and four days.

Daughter Lydia M. (Rines) Clark died in childbirth in Boston, MA, March 17, 1860, aged thirty-nine years, eight months. (The mortality schedule of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census reported the same information).

Joseph Rines, aged seventy-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included S.F. Rines, a farmer, aged forty-two years (b. NH), Susan R. [(Remick)] Rines, aged forty years (b. NH), Sarah E. Rines, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Abba J. Rines, aged twelve years (b. NH), Mary Miller Rines, aged five years (b. NH), and James W. Burrows, a farmer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH). S.F. Rines had real estate valued at $1,600 and personal estate valued at $1,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Alpheus Remick, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH), and William F. Cutts, a farmer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH).

Maddison Rodgers, a day laborer, aged fifty years (b. Nova Scotia), headed a Beverly, MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Louisa [(Rines)] Rodgers, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), and Caroline Rodgers, aged sixteen years (b. MA). Maddison Rogers had real estate valued at $450 and personal estate valued at $50.

Nathl Rines, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Olive [(Remick)] Rines, aged thirty-seven years (b. ME), Eliza J. Rines, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Mark W. Rines, aged twelve years (b. NH), Olive A. Rines, aged seven years (b. NH), and Hattie O. Rines, aged one year. Nathl Rines had real estate valued at $3,400 and personal estate valued at $2,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Edmund Hurd, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. ME), and J.N. Witham, a farmer, aged forty-four years (b. NH).

Fredk M. Knights, a millinery goods dealer, aged forty years (b. ME), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary J. [(Rines)] Knights, a milliner, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), Mary F. Knights, aged fourteen years (b. MA), Lizzie M. Knights, aged twelve years (b. NH) (b. NH), Sarah J. Melcher, aged twenty-one years, and Emma Hart, a servant, aged twenty-three years. Fredk M. Knights had real estate valued at $11,000 and personal estate valued at $8,000.

Joseph G. Rines, a laborer, aged thirty-six years, headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sarah J. [(Sanborn)] Rines, aged twenty-four years (b. NH). Joseph G. Rines had personal estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of [her father,] William Sanborn, a farmer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and James N. Palmer, a superintendent [of the Poor House], aged thirty-eight years (b. NH).

Frederick M. and Mary J. Knights of Broadway street in Boston, MA, joined the Dorchester Street Methodist Episcopal Church, by certificate, October 14, 1860. Amasa Fitch was their “class leader.”

Joseph Rines died in Milton, August 19, 1861.

Joseph G. Rines, a mason, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), registered for the Class II military draft, in June 1863. (See Milton Class II Draft List – 1863).

Son Nathaniel Rines appeared in the Milton Business directory of 1865, as a Milton Mills blacksmith. (Ebenezer Osgood appeared also as a Milton Mills blacksmith).

Madison Rogers, a laborer, aged sixty-five years (b. Nova Scotia), headed a Beverly, MA, household at the time of the MA State Census of 1865. His household included Loisa [(Rines)] Rogers, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), Carrie Rogers, and thirty-one years (b. MA), and “Infant” Rogers, aged two months (b. MA).

Frederick M. Knights, a merchant, aged forty-five years (b. MA), headed a South Reading, MA, household at the time of the MA State Census of 1865. His household included Mary J. [(Rines)] Knights, aged forty-three years (b. NH), Lizzie M. Knights, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Mary F. [(Knights)] Green, aged nineteen years (b. MA), Alban F. Green, a clerk, aged twenty-three years (b. NY), and Ella Vanamings, aged five years (b. MA).

Daughter Mary J. (Rines) Knights died of cardiac dropsy in Reading, MA, November 12, 1865, aged forty-four years, three months. She was married.

Sons Nathaniel Rines and Samuel F. Rines appeared in the Milton Business directory of 1868, as Milton Mills blacksmiths. (Ebenezer Osgood and Alvah Runnells appeared also as Milton Mills blacksmiths).

Widowed son-in-law Frederick M. Knights was a vice president of Boston, MA, Ward Seven Grant Club, which was organized to promote the Presential Campaign of former General Ulysses S. Grant, in 1868.

Grant Club in Ward Seven. At a meeting of the Republicans of Ward 7, held at the ward room on Monday evening last, a Grant campaign club was organised with the following named officers: President Stephen A. Stackpole; Vice-Presidents Alvah Simonds, Job T. Cole, William W. Allen, Charles H. Bieler, Frederick M. Knights, Walter E. Hawes, Robert L. Sweetland, William Ellis, Robert Miller, Ivory Harlow; Secretary Charles H. Cole; Treasurer George W. Parker; Executive Committee William W. Doherty. J. Albert Johnston, Daniel Harrington, Benjamin F. Toombs (Boston Evening Transcript, June 7, 1868).

According to Scale’s History of Strafford County, the Methodist Church of Milton Mills organized itself in June 1869 and erected its “neat and tasty” meeting-house in 1871. Son S.F. Rines was chosen to be both a steward and trustee.

The Methodist Church of Milton Mills was organized in June, 1869. The first officers were Asa A. Fox, clerk, John Brackett, treasurer, Harris Brown, sexton, Alpheus Remick, collector; Stewards A.B. Shaw, John Brackett, E.C. Abbott, S.F. Rines, W. Hapgood, J.N. Witham, B.S. Butler, H.L. Mitchell, A.A. Plumer; trustees, A.B. Shaw, B.S. Butler, J.B. Dow, J. Brackett, S.F. Rines, J. Lewis, J.N. Witham, G.E. Hart, W. Patten (Scales, 1914).

Madison Rogers, a laborer, aged seventy years (b. Nova Scotia), headed a Beverly, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Lois [(Rines)] Rogers, keeping house, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH). Madison Rogers had real estate valued at $1,000.

Nathaniel Rines, a blacksmith, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Olive [(Remick)] Rines, keeping house, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), Mark Rines, a farm laborer, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Amanda O. Rines, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Hattie Rines, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH). Nathaniel Rines had real estate valued at $5,000 and personal estate valued at $2,500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Thomas Dufton, a cloth dresser, aged twenty-eight years (b. England), and Mary Archibald, keeping house, aged forty-eight years (b. ME).

Samuel F. Rines, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Susan [(Remick)] Rines, keeping house, aged fifty years (b. NH), and Mary Miller, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Samuel F. Rines had real estate valued at $1,700 and personal estate valued at $585. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Alpheus Remmick, a farmer, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and Ann M. Row, keeping house, aged sixty-one years (b. ME).

Joseph G. Rines, a brick mason, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sarah J. [(Sanborn)] Rines, keeping house, aged thirty-three years (b. ME), Clara M. Rines, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH), and Jennette A. Rines, aged one year (b. NH). Joseph G. Rines had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $361. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Luther D. Trefren, works for shoe factory, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), and Warren Foss, a farm laborer, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH).

Son-in-law Madison Rogers died in Beverly, MA, May 13, 1872, aged seventy-two years.

Sons Nathaniel Rines and S.F. [Samuel F.] Rines appeared in the Milton Business directories of 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1880, as Milton Mills blacksmiths. (Ebenezer Osgood appeared also as a Milton Mills blacksmith).

Son J.G. [Joseph G.] Mason appeared in the Milton Business directories of 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1880, as a Milton Mills mason.

Louisa [(Rines)] Rogers, keeping house, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), headed a Beverly, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household included her boarders, Helen Rogers, keeping house, aged thirty years (b. MA), Willie R. Brooks, at school, aged fifteen years (b. MA), William Davis, a coachman, aged thirty-five years (b. New Brunswick), and Louis Parsson, a coachman, aged eighteen years (b. Sweden).

Nathaniel Rines, a blacksmith, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Olive [(Remick)] Rines, keeping house, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), and his children, Mark Rines, a farm laborer, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and Harriet Rines, at house, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Asa Fox, a farmer & trader, aged seventy years (b. ME), and Thomas Murray, a wool sorter, aged sixty years (b. Ireland).

Samuel F. Rines, a blacksmith, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Susan [(Remick)] Rines, aged sixty years (b. NH), and his hired hand, William P. Drew, a blacksmith, aged eighteen years (b. ME). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of William Sanborn, a farmer, aged seventy-six years (b. ME), and Josiah N. Witham, a farmer, aged sixty-four years (b. NH).

Joseph G. Rines, a brick mason, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Sarah J. [(Sanborn)] Rines, keeping house, aged forty-three years (b. ME),  and his daughter, Jennette A. Rines, at home, aged eleven years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Susan R. Jones, a housekeeper, aged sixty-three years (b. ME, and Samuel Remick, a farmer & stone mason, aged fifty-six years (b. NH).

Sons Nathaniel Rines and S.F. [Samuel F.] Rines appeared in the Milton Business directories of 1881, 1882, 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1880, as Milton Mills blacksmiths. (Ebenezer Osgood appeared also as a Milton Mills blacksmith).

Son J.G. [Joseph G.] Mason appeared in the Milton Business directories of 1881, 1882, 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1880, as a Milton Mills mason.

Daughter-in-law Susan (Remick) Rines died of enteritis in Milton, September 23, 1890, aged sixty-nine years, five months, and ten days. She was a married housekeeper. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Son S.F. [Samuel F.] Rines appeared in the Milton Business directories of 1894, and [posthumously in] 1898, as a Milton Mills blacksmith.

Son-in-law Frederick M. Knights died in Burlington, VT, January 31, 1894, aged seventy-four years.

DEATHS. KNIGHTS – At Burlington, Vt., Jan. 31, Frederick M. Knights, 74 yrs (Boston Evening Transcript, February 2, 1894).

Son Samuel Fall Rines died of pneumonia in Milton, December 18, 1897, aged seventy-six years, six months, and twenty-five days. He was a married blacksmith. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Son Joseph G. Rines of Milton made his last will, April 30, 1898. He devised $5 each to his daughters, Clara M. Flanders and Jennette A. Page. He devised a life estate in his dwelling house and land to his beloved wife, Sarah J. Rines. She was to have also the rest and residue of his real and personal estate. His daughters were to have the reversion of his real estate after the death of his wife. He named his wife, Sarah J. Rines, as executrix. Charles H. Looney, Francena M. Postleton, and Eva M. Corson signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 127:62).

Daughter Lois (Rines) Rogers died of broncho-pneumonia (following grippe) on Hale Street in Beverly, MA, March 12, 1900, aged eighty-six years, two months, and four days. She was the widow of Madison Rogers.

Nathaniel Rines, a farmer, aged eighty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Olive [(Remick)] Rines, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH), and his daughter, Hattie M. Rines, aged forty-one years (b. NH). Nathaniel Rines owned their farm, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mark Rines, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), and John Wentworth, a farmer, aged seventy years (b. NH).

Joseph G. Rines, a mason, aged seventy-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Village”) household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-six years), Sarah J. [(Sanborn)] Rines, aged sixty-three years (b. ME). Joseph G. Rines owned their house, free-and-clear. Sarah J. Sanborn was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George A. Page, a day laborer, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and Durel Berry, a leather-board worker, aged fifty years (b. NH).

Son Nathaniel Rines died of softening of the brain in Milton, December 15, 1900, aged eighty-four years, nine months, and twenty days. He was a married blacksmith. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.

MILTON, N.H. Mrs. Joseph Rines visited in Rochester last week (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), October 31, 1902).

Son Joseph G. Rines, Jr. died in Milton, June 10, 1907, aged eighty-three years.

MILTON, N.H. Joseph G. Rines died Monday fore-noon after an illness of months, though for a short time, a few weeks ago, he seemed to rally, and did even get out of doors. He was 83 years old, and one of the oldest men in this part the town. He was a brick mason by trade until the infirmities of age prevented. In early life, he lived at the Milton Mills end of the town, where he married his wife, who survives. He is also survived by a daughter, Mrs. George Page, and several grand-children. The funeral was held last Wednesday at the late home on Remick street. Mr. Rines was a devout Christian and a good citizen (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), June 21, 1907).

The last will of Joseph G. Rines was proved in a Strafford County Court held in Dover, NH, October 1, 1907 (Strafford County Probate, 127:63).

Daughter-in-law Olive (Remick) Rines died of a heart lesion in Milton Mills, August 28, 1908, aged eighty-six years, one month, and ten days. She was a widowed housewife, and lifelong resident. J.A. Stevens, M.D., signed the death certificate.

MILTON MILLS. Mrs. Olive Rines, widow of Nathaniel Rines, died Friday morning most Suddenly. She was a very aged lady and has kept very closely to her home for many years. She was a member of the Free Baptist church. She is survived by one son, Mark, and two daughters, Mrs. Amanda Hurd of Brockton, Mass., and Miss Hattie Rines, who has always lived at home with her mother (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), September 11, 1908).

George W. Page, a mason (odd jobs), aged forty-six years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-three years), Jeannette A. [(Rines)] Page, aged forty-one years (b. NH), his children, Angie E. Page, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Marie L. Page, aged twenty years (b. NH), Bernice L. Page, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Doris M. Page, aged fifteen years (b. NH), his mother-in-law, Sarah J. [(Sanborn)] Rines, aged seventy-three years (b. ME), and his boarder, Arthur Bernick, a stripper (leather-board mill), aged twenty-seven years (b. NH). George W. Page owned their house, free-and-clear. Jeannette A. Page was the mother of four children, of whom four were still living. Sarah J. Rines was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Walter H. Webster, a draughtsman (engineer office), aged thirty-five years (b. NH), and John M. Currier, an evangelist, aged thirty-three years (b. Michigan).

Daughter-in-law Sarah J. (Sanborn) Rines died of chronic nephritis in Milton, August 28, 1916, aged seventy-nine years, eleven months, and two days. She was a widowed housewife. B.B. Mansfield, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Mrs. Sadie Rines, aged over sixty years, widow of Joseph Rines, is dead at her home in Milton after a long illness due to Bright’s disease. The deceased had resided in Milton the greater portion of her life and made many friends. She is survived by a daughter. The funeral is being held this afternoon and the arrangements are in charge of Undertaker Homer Lowe of Derry (Dover Enquirer, August 30, 1916).

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By Muriel Bristol | August 24, 2025

Nicholas Hartford [III] was born in Eliot, ME, October 22, 1738, son of Nicholas, Jr., and Mary (Ferguson) Hartford.

Nicholas Hartford married, April 1, 1762, Abigail Brackett. She was born in Newmarket, NH, June 17, 1745, daughter of Samuel and Hillemara (Weeks) Brackett.

(The known children of Nicholas and Abigail (Brackett) Hartford were: Martha W. “Patty” Hartford (1762–1836), Mary “Polly” Hartford (1764–1848), Joshua Hartford (1767–1801), Nicholas Hartford [IV] (1769–1796), Brackett Hartford (1771–1795), Daniel Hartford (1774–1829), Samuel Hartford (1774–1797), Jeremiah Hartford (1780–1819), James Hartford (1783–), John Brackett Hartford (1786–1813), and Robinson Hartford (1786–)).

Daughter Martha W. “Patty” Hartford was born in Newmarket, NH, September 8, 1762. Daughter Mary “Polly” Hartford was born in Newmarket, NH, September 20, 1764.

Son Joshua Hartford was born in Newmarket, NH, January 15, 1766 [1766/67]. Son Nicholas Hartford was born in Newmarket, NH, July 18, 1769.

Son Brackett Hartford was born in Newmarket, NH, July 21, 1771. Son Daniel Hartford was born in Newmarket, NH, October 16, 1774.

Nicholas Hartford signed the Association Test in Newmarket, NH, April 12, 1776.

We, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise that we will, to the utmost in our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with Arms, oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies, against the United American Colonies (Fitts, 1912).

Son Samuel Hartford was born October 22, 1777. Jeremiah Hartford was born November 5, 1780.

John B. Hartford was born, between 1780 and 1786. Robinson Hartford was born July 17, 1786.

[James Hartford was born April 10, 1783. John Hartford was born January 12, 1786]

Daughter Martha W. “Patty” Hartford married in Rochester, NH, October 16, 1785, Benjamin Palmer, both of Rochester, NH (NHGS, 1908). He was born in Rochester, NH, August 5, 1766, son of Barnabas and Elizabeth (Robinson) Palmer. He was baptized in Rochester, NH, November 13, 1766, by Rev. Avery Hall (successor to Rev. Amos Main)..

[Nicholas Hartford headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], four females [Abigail (Brackett) Hartford], and two males aged under-16 years].

Nicholas Hartford headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included nine males aged 16-plus years [himself], and one female [Abigail (Brackett) Hartford]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Benjn Palmer and John Down [Downs]. (See Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).

Benja Palmer 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, and five females [Martha (Hartford) Palmer]. Their household was enumerated between those of Nicholas Wentworth and Nicolas Hartford. (See Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).

Benjamin French headed a Newmarket, NH, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], one male aged under-16 years, and one female [Mary (Hartford) French].

Son Joshua Harford [Hartford] was a subscriber of the Rochester Social Library in 1792, as were his sons, Col. Jonathan Palmer, Samuel Palmer, and Lt. William Palmer. Levi Jones, Jotham Nute, Beard Plumer, and Joseph Walker subscribed also (McDuffee, 1892). (The military titles of his sons would have been their post-war militia ranks).

The valuable mill privilege at the [Milton] 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).

Son Nicholas Hartford [IV] was among the one hundred thirty sailors, on thirteen vessels, that had been captured by Algerine or Barbary corsairs or pirates. He was captured in October 1793, while a part of the crew of the brig Polly of Newbury, MA.

A list of the American vessels and their crews, captured by the Algerine corsairs in July 1785, and in October and November, 1793. … Brig Polly, of Newbury, captured in October 1793. Michael Smith, master, Samuel Bailey, supercargo. Benjamin Edwards, mate, John Foss, Enoch Rush, Nicholas Hartford, Moses Brown, John Holliday, Thomas Stafford, mariners. Total 9 (Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA), October 22, 1794).

Son Joshua Hartford married in Northampton, NH, October 5, 1794, Lucy Mead, both of Newmarket, NH. She was born August 8, 1770, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Dearborn) Mead.

Son Nicholas Hartford’s shipmate and fellow Algerine captive, John Foss, sent a letter home to his mother in Newburyport, MA, in April 1795. Hartford was identified in recent accounts as having died.

American Intelligence. Massachusetts. BOSTON, August 1. FROM ALGIERS. Extract of a letter from Mr. John Foss, prisoner in Algiers, to his mother in Newbury-port, dated Algiers, April 12, 1795.
“I am a slave to the Mahometans, as I have before informed you, and in a most deplorable situation; and when I shall find relief God only knows. About three or four months ago we had some hopes of relief, but our hopes were soon over. We were informed that Col. Humphreys was in Spain, and was coming here to treat for peace between the regency of Algiers, and the United States; and were afterwards informed that he was called home to America – the news of which almost broke our hearts; and now I despair of all hopes of ever finding any relief! But God alone knows, by his hand we were brought here, and by his hand we can be taken away, John Harms and Thomas Stafford died in July with the plague – [The death of these persons, together with others, their fellow sufferers, have been previously published.]
“There is in all 14 Americans dead already, and how soon it will come to my turn God only knows. The plague has not been here yet this year; but when it does come, it sweeps a great number off. – The number of Americans remaining here is ninety-nine; our country allows us three dollars a month, and with the Help of that we make out to buy a small trifle of provisions, which keeps us from starving but not having an opportunity of buying it ourselves, we are obliged to get the Jews, or Moors, or Turks, to buy it for us, and must pay them for going, after they have cheated us of near half, and often-times more. At first they beat us more than they do now, because we could they not understand when they told us what to do; and said, if we could not understand with words, we must with a stick. Now we have got to speak their language we think ourselves well used if we do not get beat more than four or five times a day, and that without any offence. We have but two days in the year to rest, which are Christmas and Easter Sunday which days the Christian Consuls in this place pay for our time; and them days they allow us three ounces of bread, and nothing else. We are obliged to wear a shirt without collar or wristbands, and trowsers with one short leg as high as our knees. All the cloaths they give us for a year, won’t last six weeks to do our work. Our case is far worse than can tongue express, or pen describe, or heart conceive. I hope that the cries of the widow and the mothers deprived of their children, will have some effect on Congress to cause them to take us away from this place.
“Samuel Bayley desires that you would give his duty to his parents.  His master will not allow him to write.
“The following persons remain alive and well, at present – formerly belonging to the brig Polly, Michael Smith, master, Samuel Bayley, Benjamin Edwards, John Foss, Nicholas Hartford,* Enoch Rust, Moses Brown.”
*Published as dead in late accounts (Independent Gazetteer (Philadelphia, PA), August 12, 1795).

Son Brackett Hartford died on board the ship Adventure, November 11, 1795, aged twenty-three years.

Son Daniel Hartford married in Hallowell, ME, March 13, 1796, Mary Livermore. She was born in Leicester, MA, August 4, 1775, daughter of Jason Jr. and Mary Livermore.

Son Nicholas Hartford died of plague in Algiers, June 2, 1796, aged twenty-seven years.

By the brig Betsey, from Lisbon, letters have been received in this city from Algiers, dated June 16, from one of which the following is an extract: “The plague still rages here, Nicholas Hartford, Abraham Simmonds and Joseph Keith, have died of it; Benjamin Lunt, and John Thomas, are in the hospitals, among others of our unfortunate fellow citizens – of whom ninety remain still here in captivity” (Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), September 13, 1796).

Other accounts listed Nicholas Hartford “of New Hampshire” among those that had “Died at Algiers, since the Treaty, [but] before the Redemption” [July 12, 1796] (Independent Gazetteer (Philadelphia, PA), November 4, 1796).

Son Samuel Hartford died at sea, August 2, 1797, aged twenty-two years.

Nichs Harford headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. One male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Abigail (Brackett) Hartford], and two males aged 16-25 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Theodore Ham and John Hanson. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Benjn Palmer headed a Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. One male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Martha (Hartford) Palmer], and two males aged 10-15 years. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Benja French headed a Newmarket, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. One male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Mary (Hartford) French], and one male aged 16-25 years.

Joshua Harford headed a Dover, 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 [Lucy D. (Mead) Hartford], one female aged 16-25 years, one male aged 10-15 years, one female aged 10-15 years, and three males aged under-10 years.

Daniel Hartford headed an Augusta, ME, 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 (Livermore) Hartford], one male aged 10-15 years, and two females aged under-10 years.

The Selectmen of Rochester, NH, laid out the town’s cemetery in August 1800, which abutted land of Maj. Solomon Perkins and son-in-law Benjamin Palmer.

Return of Burying ground. Agreeable to a vote of the Town of Rochester passed, we have laid out of the Town’s land for a burying place as follows, beginning near the clay pits on a line extended from the lower side line of the lot sold Hatevil Knight North 82° east four rods from said Knights corner and run on said line about eleven rods to some land sold to Maj Solomon Perkins & Benjamin Palmer then by said Perkins & Palmer land twenty rods – then Towns land South 48° east nineteen rods to a stake then by land left for a four rods road south 50° east eleven rods to the first bounds containing about one acre & fifty five square rods – also we have agreed with Jabez Dame Esq and with Joseph Hanson to move their lots lower down 2 rods to open a pass to & from said Burying yard between said Jabez Dames lot & land of Widow place laid out this 25th day of August 1800. Richd Dame, Beard Plummer, Joshua Allen } Selectmen (McDuffee, 1892).

Son Joshua Hartford of Dover, NH, trader, made his last will, August 27, 1801. As was customary he sought to have his executor pay his just debts. In service of that end, he recommended that “… all my goods on hand, together with all my Lumber, and my gondola” be sold at auction. (“Gondola” was an alternate spelling for a flat-bottomed “gundalow” sailing barge). He designated a life estate in a one-third share of his estate, generally known as the “widow’s third,” for his beloved wife, Lucy Hartford. He bequeathed the remaining two-thirds of his real and personal estate and, after the decease of his beloved wife her remaining third also, to his children, Joshua Brackett Hartford, Benjamin Mead Hartford, and Samuel Bernard Hartford. He recommended that his store on Dover Landing be leased or let or the benefit of his wife and children. He named Daniel M. Durrell as his executor and named his wife, Lucy Hartford, and Durrell as joint guardians of his children. He recommended that the children “… be properly educated and instructed in some regular trade or occupation that they may be Honourable and blessed in their day and generation.” Edmund Curtis, Stephen Patton, Jur, and Gilman Jewett signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 6:457).

Son Joshua Hartford died in Dover, NH, September 15, 1801, aged thirty-four years. The last will of Joshua Hartford, late of Dover, NH, trader was proved on Dover, NH, October 14, 1801 (Strafford County Probate, 6:457).

Nicholas Hartford signed the Rochester division petition (or Milton separation petition) in what was then Rochester, NH, May 28, 1802.

Son John B. Hartford married, May 15, 1803, Kezia Howard. She was born in Dover, NH, in June 1779, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hanson) Howard.

Nicholas Hartford was assessed in the Milton School District No. 5 of John Fish in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

Son-in-law Benjamin Palmer died in Augusta, ME, January 25, 1806.

Son Jeremiah Hartford married in Boston, MA, May 4, 1806, Miss Mary Clark.

Nicholas Harford [Hartford] 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 [Abigail (Brackett) Hartford], one female aged 26-44 years, one male aged 16-25 years, and one female aged under-10 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Simon Chase and Gilman Jewett. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Benjn French headed a Newmarket, NH, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 25-plus years [himself], one female aged 25-plus years [Mary (Hartford) French].

Daniel Hartford headed an Augusta, ME, 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 [Mary (Livermore) Hartford], one male aged 16-25 years, two females aged 10-15 years, two males aged under-10 years, and two female aged under-10 years.

Son-in-law Benjamin French died in Newmarket, NH, March 19, 1811.

Nicholas Hartford died in Milton, in 1812.

Grandson Joshua B. Hartford was an ensign in the U.S. 33rd Infantry Regiment, during the War of 1812. He was at Milton, May 1, 1813; at Ossipee, NH, May 8, May 15, May 22, May 29, and June 5, 1813; at Berwick, ME, June 12, 1813; Saco, ME, June 19, June 26, and July 3, 1813.

Son John B. Hartford was a Sergeant in Lt. H. Hayes’ Company, in the U.S. 33rd Infantry Regiment, during the War of 1812. He died in Burlington, VT, September 28, 1813.

Grandson Joshua B. Hartford was promoted to 3rd Lieutenant, in the U.S. 33rd Infantry Regiment, February 10, 1814. He was “slightly wounded” in the “Action at La Cole Mill, on La Cole River, Lower Canada,” March 30, 1814; and was furloughed at Plattsburg, NY, “for the recovery of his health.”

The American force in this action, according to Armstrong, amounted to 3000 men, greatly superior in numbers to the British Garrison defending the mill, but not so in strength, when the defensive qualities of the mill are take into account. The British force in the mill under Major Hancock, was about 200 men. Their loss was 10 men killed and 2 officers and 44 men wounded.

The American force, under Maj. Gen. James Wilkinson, lost 16 men killed and 122 men wounded.

From the Middlebury Columbian Patriot, April 6. At a late hour last evening, we were politely favored with the perusal of a letter from gentleman in Plattsburg, to his friend in this town, dated Friday morning, April 1. Its great length renders it impossible for us to give any thing more than a hasty summary of its contents: –
The important facts communicated, are that our army advanced into Odletown on the 30th ult. with a view of attacking the enemy at La Cole Mill; that having proceeded about two and a half miles, it was found they had mistaken the road to Montreal for that of the mill; that on wheeling to regain the road they had missed, they were attacked by a picket of 30 regulars and 100 militia, who were sheltered in a barn. They were soon dispersed by the fire of a piece of light artillery, with the loss of one taken prisoner, and three deserted. Our loss was twenty killed and wounded; among the latter, ensign Parker through the breast – Majors Bernard and Totten had their horses shot under them.
The army proceeded by a cross road to La Cole Mill, where they arrived between three and four  P.M. with the light artillery and one 12 pounder; the 18’s being prevented coming up by the badness of the roads. The 12 pounder was opened upon the mill, which sheltered the enemy, with some little effect; they made a sally to take it, but with loss – Capt. M’Pherson commanded the peace [piece], and was wounded through the neck and hip; the latter supposed to be mortal. After his fall, lieut. Sheldon of the heavy artillery, took command of the piece. He fought till every man about him was either killed, wounded or driven away, when he loaded and, fired the peace [piece] himself, discharged it (the match, being gone) with the flash of a musket. (He was soon supported by infantry. The attack continued until after sun-set, when, no impression being made on the mill, a retreat was ordered to Odletown. The heavy artillery, arrived at Champlaign that night.
Our loss is computed at from 100 to 150 killed and wounded. No officer was killed. The wounded are captain M’Pherson, lieuts. Larrabee, and Green of the artillery, ensign Parker of the infantry, and ensign Carr of the rifle corps.
The writer of the letter of which the forgoing is a brief summary, says he was an eye witness of the facts therein stated (Harrisburg Chronicle (Harrisburg, PA), April 18, 1814).

Grandson Joshua B. Hartford, of Berwick, ME, Esq., “a Nephew of John B. Hartford, late a private in Capt. Drew’s company in the thirty third Regiment of the United States Infantry,” sought letters testamentary for the estate of his late uncle, and was appointed administrator by a New York Surrogate Court held at Clinton, NY, April 8, 1814. He was appointed administrator also over the estates of the late Samuel Adams, Thomas Burrows, Ichabod Pray, and Shadrach Shorey, who had been also privates in Capt. Drew’s company.

Son Jeremiah Hartford appeared in the Ward Twelve tax records on Boston, MA, in 1814. He had real estate valued at $100, for which he was taxed $0 by the state and $0 by the town and county; and personal estate of $200, for which he was taxed $0 by the state and $0 by the town and county. He was assessed also a poll tax of $0.14 by the state and $1.36 by the town and county.

Grandson Joshua B. Hartford was Ossipee, NH, in July and August, 1814; Plattsburg, NY, November 30, 1814, January 24, and January 25, 1815. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, February 11, 1815 (backdated to September 1, 1814). He was in Lt. James Willey’s Company in Plattsburg, NY, February 28, 1815, and April 30, 1815.

Son Jeremiah Hartford appeared in the Ward Twelve tax records on Boston, MA, in 1816. He had real estate valued at $300, for which he was taxed $0 by the state and $0 by the town and county; and personal estate of $200, for which he was taxed $0 by the state and $0 by the town and county. He was assessed also a poll tax of $0.14 by the state and $1.36 by the town and county.

Son Jeremiah Hartford appeared in the Transfer list of the Ward Twelve Tax Records of Boston, MA, in 1816. He was a jnr [joiner] carpenter, assessed for a poll tax, $300 in real estate, and $200 in personal estate. The real estate taxes were “transferred” to the owner, one Saml D. Parker.

Son Jeremiah Hartford appeared in the Transfer list of the Ward Twelve Tax Records of Boston, MA, in 1817. He was a joiner, assessed for a poll tax, $200 in real estate, and $200 in personal estate. The real estate taxes were “transferred” to the owner, one John Byrnes.

Daughter-in-law Kezia (Howard) Hartford married (2nd) in Milton, February 3, 1819, William Hatch. Levi Jones, J.P., performed the ceremony.

Son Jeremiah Hartford died of consumption in Boston, MA, December 1, 1819, aged thirty-nine years.

Mary [(Clark)] Hartford headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fourth (1820) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 45-plus years [herself], one female aged 16-25 years, and one male aged under-10 years. They resided on Broad street.

Grandson Joshua B. Hartford paid a poll tax in Savannah, G, in 1821.

Grandson Joshua B. Hartford married in Richmond County, GA, June 3, 1823, Eliza Olivia Powers.

Grandson Samuel B. Hartford signed the June 1823 petition requesting that Gilman Jewett be appointed as a Milton coroner. (See Milton Seeks a Coroner – June 1823).

Daughter-in-law Mary [(Clark)] Hartford, appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1823, as a widow, with her house on Pearl street. Mary B. [(Clark)] Hartford, appeared in the Boston, MA, directories of 1825, and 1826, as a widow, with her house on Pearl street.

Grandson Joshua B. Hartford died in Augusta, GA, November 13, 1826, aged twenty-eight years.

DEATHS. At Augusta, (Geo.) on the 13th last, Capt. JOSHUA B. HARTFORD, aged 28, a native of Dover, N.H. (Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC),  November 18, 1826).

DIED. At Augusta, (Geo.) sometime within the last Autumn, Capt. Joshua B. Hartford, late merchant of Savannah, and a native of Dover, N.H. (Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), December 9, 1826).

Son Daniel Hartford of Augusta, ME, made his last will, August 27, 1829. He bequeathed to his beloved wife, Mary Hartford, a life estate in all his real and personal property, while she remained a widow. He bequeathed his shop and tools to his son, Joshua Hartford. After the decease or remarriage of his wife, he divided his property between his children, excepting Abigail Norton, wife of Zebulon Norton, and the children of said Abigail Norton. Hannah Hartford was to have $100 out of what upon an equal partition would fall to the share of my said grandchildren; and Mary Hartford was to have $50 out of what would fall to the share of Lucy Hartford. In all other respects the division of the property remaining at the time thereof is to be equal and the several devisees are to old the same as tenants in common. He named his wife, Mary Hartford, as executor. William [Emerson], Sarah Pitts, and Sarah Craig signed as witnesses (Kennebec County Probate).

Son Daniel Hartford died in Augusta, ME, September 2, 1829, aged fifty-five years.

DIED. In this town, on Wednesday last, Mr. Daniel Hartford, aged 55 (Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), [Friday,] September 4, 1829).

Lucy D. [(Mead)] Hartford headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 60-69 years [herself], and one female aged 80-89 years [Abigail (Brackett) Hartford]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jos. Rinds and Jas Pinkham.

Mary [(Hartford)] French headed a Newmarket, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 60-69 years [herself], and one female aged 15-19 years.

Mary [(Livermore)] Hartford headed an Augusta, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 50-59 years [herself], one male aged 20-29 years [Joshua B. Hartford], two females aged 20-29 years [Martha (Soren) Hartford, and Lucy Hartford], one female aged 15-19 years [Hannah Hartford], and one male aged 5-9 years.

Daughter Martha W. (Hartford) Palmer died in Berwick, ME, March 10, 1836.

Abigail (Brackett) Hartford died in Dover, NH, In March 1840, aged ninety-six years.

Died. In this town, Mrs. Abigail Hartford, aged 96 (Dover Enquirer, March 24, 1840).

Benjamin French [Jr.] headed a Newmarket, 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 [Mary (Ewer) French], two males aged 20-29 years, two females aged 20-29 years, two males aged 15-19 years, two females aged 15-19 years, two females aged 10-14 years, and one female aged 70-79 years [Mary (Hartford) French].

Lucy D. [(Mead)] Hartford headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 60-69 years [herself]. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of Stephen Drew and Paltiah Hanson [Hanscom].

Joshua B. Hartford headed an Augusta, ME, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself]. one female aged 40-49 years [Martha M. (Soren) Hartford], one male aged 5-9 years, one male aged under-5 years, and one female aged 60-69 years [Mary (Livermore) Hartford]. One member of his household was engaged in Manufacture and Trade.

Daughter Mary “Polly” (Hartford) French died in Newmarket, NH, February 29, 1848, aged eighty-four years. She was a widow.

Daughter-in-law Kezia ((Howard) Hartford) Hatch died of consumption at 86 Charles Street in Boston, MA, April 13, 1850, aged seventy years, ten months. She was the wife of William Hatch.

Joshua B. Hartford, a carpenter, aged forty-seven years (b. ME), headed an Augusta, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Martha M. [(Soren)] Hartford, aged forty-nine years (b. England), Mary [(Livermore)] Hartford, aged seventy-five years (b. MA), and Lucy Hartford, aged forty years (b. ME). Joshua B. Hartford had real estate valued at $1,200. They shared a two family residence with the household of John Heath, a pilot, aged thirty years (b. ME), Hannah [(Hartford)] Heath, aged thirty years (b. MA), and George E. Heath, aged eight years (b. ME).

Daughter-in-law Mary (Livermore) Hartford died in Augusta, ME, December 13, 1850, aged seventy-five years, four months, and eleven days.

DIED. In this city, Dec. 13th, widow Mary Hartford, after an illness of 13 years, aged 75 (Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), January 2, 1851).

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By Muriel Bristol | August 17, 2025

Fred Plummer Jones was born in Milton, October 21, 1859, son of Charles and Betsy (Varney) Jones.

Father Charles Jones died in Milton, May 8, 1873, aged thirty-nine years, nine months, and mother Betsy (Varney) Jones, died in Milton, February 28, 1878, aged forty-one years.

State of New Hampshire. STRAFFORD, SS. – To Fred P. Jones, Nellie V. Jones and Charles D. Jones, minor children of Charles Jones, late of Milton, deceased, and all other persons interested therein: YOU are herby notified that Zimri S. Wallingford and Charles A. Varney, Executors of the will of Betsy Jones, late of said Milton, deceased, who was Guardian of said Fred P. Jones, Nellie V. Jones and Charles D. Jones, will exhibit their account of her said Guardianship, at a Court of Probate to be holden at Somersworth, in said county, on the first Tuesday of November next, when and where you may appear and be heard on said account. And it is ordered that said Guardian give notice, by causing the foregoing citation and this order thereon to be published three weeks successively in the Dover Enquirer, printed at Dover in said county, the last publication whereof to be at least seven days before said court. Given at Dover in said county, this first day of October, A.D. 1878. JOHN R. VARNEY, Reg. 40 (Dover Enquirer, October 3, 1878).

Fred P. Jones, a farmer, aged twenty years, headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his sister, Nellie V. Jones, keeping house, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Charles D. Jones, at school. aged sixteen years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence with the household of James W. Nutter, a farmer, aged fifty-one years (b. NH). Their households appeared in the enumeration between those of Josiah N. Witham, a farmer, aged sixty-one years (b. NH), and Lydia Varney, keeping house, aged fifty-one years (b. NH).

Fred P. Jones married in Lebanon, ME, November 20, 1881, Emma Jane Cowell, he of Milton and she of Lebanon, ME. He was a farmer, aged twenty-two years, and she was a teacher, aged twenty-two years. She was born in Lebanon, ME, in 1859, daughter of Edmond E. and Elizabeth J. ((Chamberlain) Hussey) Cowell. (Her brother, Allen E. Cowell, was at the time of their marriage running the Milton Classical Institute). Rev. Benjamin Dodge performed the ceremony.

MARRIED. Lebanon – Nov. 20th, Mr. Fred P. Jones, of Milton, N.H., and Miss Emma Cowell, of Lebanon (Lewiston Sun-Journal (Lewiston, ME), November 26, 1881).

(The known children of Fred P. and Emma J. (Cowell) Jones were: Charles Jones (1885–1956), Robert Edmond Jones (1887–1954), Philip Cowell Jones (1891–1977), Elizabeth J. Jones (1894–1975), Alice Varney Jones (1896–1958), Marjorie Jones (1899–1900)).

Son Charles Jones was born in Milton, February 12, 1885. Son Robert Edmond Jones was born in Milton, December 12, 1887.

Sister Nellie V. Jones was a teacher in Clinton, CT, in 1889-90. She had attended earlier the Framingham Normal School, i.e., teachers’ school, in Framingham, MA.

MILTON. Miss Nellie Jones, who has been teaching in Clinton, Conn., has returned on a vacation (Farmington News, July 4, 1890).

A year later, in Summer 1891, she was recruited to teach in a private school in Oakland, CA, run by Miss Sarah W. Horton (1844-1920).

… Miss Horton has just returned from the East, where she has spent the vacation in visiting schools, seeing all that is newest and best in the educational world and selecting with the greatest care two new teachers adapted to the work in her own school. These ladies, Miss Nellie V. Jones and Miss Charlotte F. Center, are both graduates of a famous Eastern normal school in which, there as well as elsewhere, they themselves afterwards became teachers. They may, therefore, be accepted as educational adepts, and we may congratulate ourselves upon this acquisition to the body of educators in Oakland. Under their skilled direction the teaching of the natural sciences will once more characterize the work of the school – a subject which, properly presented, has not its equal, as is conceded, in interesting and developing the powers of the young mind in their natural order of observation, comparison and inference (Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), August 1, 1891).

(Nellie V. Jones was a teacher, resident in Oakland, CA, when she applied for a U.S. passport, December 21, 1898, so that she might travel abroad. She was then thirty-seven years of age, stood 5′ 5″ tall, with dark brown hair and grey eyes. She had a medium full face, with a low forehead, small chin, medium mouth, and a large nose. She had a dark complexion).

The Milton Selectmen of 1891 were O.F. Marsh, L.F. Corson, and F.P. Jones.

Son Philip Cowell Jones was born in Milton, August 31, 1891.

The Milton Selectmen of 1892 were F.P. Jones, C.W. Gross, and W.T. Wallace.

Daughter Elizabeth J. Jones was born in Milton, August 21, 1894. Daughter Alice Varney Jones was born in Milton, June 23, 1896.

Mother-in-law Elizabeth J. ((Chamberlain) Hussey) Cowell and fifteen other women of Lebanon, ME, petitioned the Maine State Legislature seeking better protection for girls (Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), March 3, 1897).

MILTON NEWS-LETTER. … The pupils of Mrs. Fred P. Jones gave a piano recital in the Free Baptist church last Saturday afternoon, assisted by B.O. Danforth, an accomplished vocalist of Cambridge, Mass. The entire program was finely rendered and the two songs by Mr. Danforth were a rare treat to all lovers of vocal music. Among well known guests present were Hon. Charles S. Whitehouse, Mrs. Charles Brown, Mrs. Fannie H. McDuffee, J. Edgar McDuffee, of Rochester; Mrs. and Miss Shapleigh of Lebanon, with the Ole Bull carriages, and parties from Union and Dover. Miss Prescott of Milton Mills, Miss Annie Kimball, Master Mark Dickey, Miss Mamie Marshall and Miss Moulton of Boston were among those whose talent was specially noticeable (Farmington News, June 11, 1897).

MILTON. “Limit of the Law” Presented by the Dramatic Club. The Milton Dramatic Club presented the drama, “Limit of the Law,” in A.O.U.W. hall Monday and Tuesday evenings to good audiences. The drama was given for the purpose of purchasing a piano for the hall, and a neat sum was realized as the result of the entertainment. The piano was placed in the hall Saturday evening and was used for the first time Monday night, Mrs. Fred P. Jones rendered fine selections between acts. The parts taken by Samuel G. Sweet, Allie May Hodgdon and Minnie Hussey were well taken. Miss Mamie Marshall, the sweet little singer, drew forth as much applause as usual. Milton audiences never tire of hearing her sweet voice, and a bright future seems certain for her in the musical line. Following Is the cast of characters: Asa Dunlap, senior partner of the firm of Dunlap & Son, S..E Drew; Robert Dunlap, his son and junior partner, Harry J. Howard; Richard Lloyd Dunlap, his adopted son, Guy Demerit; Ike Foot, interested in the base-ball pennant, S.G. Sweet; Jimmy Keyes, F.E. Norton; Emanuel Cushing, a lawyer, George Paey; Beatrice Lloyd, all that is noble and good, Allie May Hodgdon; Theresa D’Armyn, all that is not, Mrs. Nettie Demeritt; Christina Dunlap, Asa’s sister, Mrs. Laura Whitehouse; Bridget Mahoney, imported, Miss Minnie Hussey; Trissy, Beatrice’s child, Effie Howard (Farmington News, July 2, 1897).

Father-in-law Edmond E. Cowell died in Lebanon, ME, in 1899, aged seventy-for years.

Daughter Marjorie Jones was born in Milton, March 15, 1899. She died in Milton, April 30, 1900, aged one year.

LOCAL. Mrs. Fred Jones, formerly Miss Emma Cowell, of Milton, gave her very fine work as a pianist to the exercises held on occasion of the Lebanon academy anniversary on July 19 (Farmington News, August 4, 1899).

Fred P. Jones, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of eighteen years), Emma [(Cowell)] Jones, aged forty years (b. ME), and his children, Charles Jones, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Robert Jones, aged twelve years (b. NH), Phillip Jones, aged eight years (b. NH), Elizabeth Jones, aged five years (b. NH), and Alice Jones, aged three years (b. NH). Fred P. Jones owned their farm, free-and-clear. Emma Jones was the mother of five children, of whom five were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Wrett L. Sanborn, a farmer, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), and Bard P. Plummer, a farmer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH).

MILTON. Mrs. Fred P. Jones of Milton gave a fine musical entertainment in A.O.U.W. hall in that town on Monday evening, May 27. Mrs. Grace Coffin and J.G. Coffin of Rochester with B.O. Danforth of West Lebanon (formerly of Cambridge) assisted as vocalists; Miss Annie Kimball, violinist; W.H. Willey, cornetist; Mark Dickey, pianist (Farmington News, May 31, 1901).

MILTON. Charles Jones, eldest son of Fred P. and Emma Cornell [Cowell] Jones of Plummers Ridge and Annie Blanche Kimball of this village went to Ashburnham, Mass., Monday, to attend Cushing Academy under the instruction of Prof. H.S. Cowell. Mr. Jones is a graduate of the Nute High School and expects to spend some of his time in tutoring. Miss Kimball will continue the study of music with Prof. Whitcomb of Fitchburg, Mass. (Farmington News, September 13, 1901).

Grangers. Eastern N.H. Pomona Grange will meet next Wednesday, April 23, with Lewis W. Nute grange at Milton with the open session at 2 o’clock. The exercised are to be: Invocation, Rev. M.P. Dickey; piano duet, Mrs. Emma C. Jones and Ruth Fall; greeting by Fred P. Jones, master of L.W. Nute grange; response, Special Deputy G.R. Drake; recitation, Lura Berry; address, Agricultural Education, Prof. W.D. Gibbs, Durham; vocal solo, George Palmer; discussion, Of what advantage is a good education, and Does the farmer need special education? Mrs. Nellie D.W. Sanborn, Irving B. Berry; vocal solo, Dr. M.A.H Hart; address, Chaplain Edwin Blake of Crown Point; paper by Dr. F.I. Smith; Cornucopia Vol. 17, No. 4, Mrs. Emma C. Jones; vocal solo, George H. Tilton. The closed session will be at 7.30 o’clock p.m. Mrs. Anna O. Weeks, lecturer. Miss Lucia Gordon of Farmington is lady assistant steward for this Pomona grange (Farmington News, April 18, 1902).

MILTON. Mrs. Fred P. Jones was in Durham last Thursday, to attend the meeting of Eastern New Hampshire Pomona grange. Her son, Robert E. Jones, played a violin solo and she accompanied him on the piano (Farmington News, April 8, 1904).

MILTON. Mrs. Fred P. Jones and her pupils will give a recital in A.O.U.W. hall, Monday evening, May 23 (Farmington News, May 20, 1904).

MILTON. Mrs. Alice Gerrish and Mrs. Ripley are at Mrs. Fred P. Jones‘ on the Ridge, for the summer (Farmington News, July 1, 1904).

Son Charles Jones graduated from Harvard University with its Class of 1906. In a later twentieth anniversary publication, he was said to have been both a teacher and athletic director at the Irving School in Tarrytown, NY, in 1906 through 1912 (Harvard College, 1926).

MILTON. Charles Jones has returned for the summer vacation from his position as Latin instructor at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, N.Y. (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), June 28, 1907).

Brother Charles D. Jones died of typhoid fever in Milton, July 2, 1908, aged forty-four years, nine months, and ten days. (The following obituary attributed the cause of his death to malarial fever).

MILTON. Death of C.D. Jones – Rev. M.P. Dickey’s Farewell Sermon. This community suffers a real loss in the death of Dr. C.D. Jones, one of its leading businessmen and prominent citizens. Dr. Jones has spent his winters in Southern Pines and Pinehurst, N.C., for several years, on account of his wife’s ill health, and he himself has not been a well man for a long time. This year he contracted a case of malarial fever before he started north, but insisted on coming home, and he arrived here about a month ago. Several years ago he dispensed with his drug business. For many years he was town clerk, until his going south made it impossible to attend to the official duties. He leaves a family of wife and five children, the youngest an infant of three months, also a brother, Fred P. Jones, who resides on the old homestead, and a sister, Nellie Varney Jones, a teacher in Oakland, Cal. He was 45 years old. Funeral services were conducted at the home Saturday afternoon, which were very largely attended. For a time after his return he was about, and thought to be improving, but about a week before his death his condition became serious and he failed rapidly until his death, Thursday morning, the 2nd. Dr. Jones was the son of Charles Jones and was born on the homestead at Plummer’s Ridge. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and studied medicine and practiced for a while, and also established a store, combination drug store and dry fancy goods … (Unattributed Newspaper Clipping [Rochester Courier?], July 1908).

Sons Robert E. Jones, Charles Jones, and Philip C. Jones returned to their respective schools  and positions after their summer vacation in Milton in 1908.

MILTON. Robert E. Jones has returned to his studies at Harvard University. Charles Jones returned last week to Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y., where he is one of the masters in the Irving school for boys. His brother Philip went with him, to pursue a course of study there (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), October 9, 1908).

MILTON. The music class of Mrs. Fred P. Jones observed the centennial of Mendelssohn’s birth Wednesday by a recital in the Nute high school (Sanford Tribune-Journal (Biddeford, ME), February 12, 1909).

MILTON. Robert E. Jones is home on a short vacation. Elsye Wallace, of Rochester, visited Mrs. Emma Jones last Sunday, and gave an excellent vocal solo in the Congregational church in the morning. Miss Wallace‘s singing is very popular in Milton (Sanford Tribune-Journal (Biddeford, ME), February 19, 1909).

MILTON. Fred P. Jones had been appointed forest fire warden for this town (Sanford Tribune-Journal (Biddeford, ME), September 24, 1909)

Fred P. Jones, a farmer (general farm), aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-eight years), Emma C. [(Cowell)] Jones, aged fifty years (b. ME), his children, Robert E. Jones, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Philip C. Jones, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Elisabeth J. Jones, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Allice V. Jones, aged thirteen years (b. NH), and his servant, Henry M. Bowens, a laborer (farm), aged fifty-five years (b. Canada). Fred P. Jones owned their farm, free-and-clear. Emma C. Jones was the mother of six children, of whom five were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John M. Nutter, a farmer (general farm), aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and George B. Quint, a laborer (ice houses), aged fifty-four years (b. NH).

Son Philip C. Jones was elected captain of the NH College football team, in November 1911. (New Hampshire College being now the University of New Hampshire (UNH)). (See Milton in the News – 1911).

Philip C. Jones of Milton, N.H., was Thursday elected captain of the New Hampshire college football team at Durham, N.H., for next season (Bangor Daily Commercial (Bangor, ME), November 17, 1911).

MILTON. Charles Jones of Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, is the guest his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones. … Philip Jones of Durham College is at home for the summer. He took part in the ball game Saturday. … Saturday night the members of Lewis W. Nute Grange were entertained by the children. The exercises were in charge of Mrs. Emma C. Jones and Mrs. Lucia Jones, which goes to say it was first class in every respect. There were vocal instrumental selections and recitations. The special features of the evening were the parasol girls, our boy’s band and the flag march, which closed with “America” (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), July 5, 1912).

MILTON MILLS. Eastern New Hampshire Pomona grange met with Pleasant Valley grange last Thursday. The public session in the afternoon was well attended. Prof. Lumsden’s illustrated address on “European Truck Farming,” readings by Mrs. Maude Andrews, a farce, “Considerable Courtship,” by Rochester patrons, the usual “Cornucopia” by Mrs. Cora Hayes, piano solo by Miss Marion Dame, whistling solos by Mrs. McNeall, violin solo by Miss Alice Jones were all very good. The evening session was well attended by people from neighboring granges. Five people took the fifth degree (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), July 5, 1912).

ACTON. … Miss Elizabeth Jones, of Milton, N.H., was the guest of her classmate at the Nute High School, Miss Eva Stevens, at “Well Sweep Farm,” last week (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), November 1, 1912).

Son Charles Jones was said to have been both a teacher and faculty coach at the Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA, in 1912 through 1918. (His 1914 marriage to Beulah E. Tompkins was mentioned also) (Harvard College, 1926).

PHIL JONES SPEAKS HERE TOMORROW. Philip C. Jones of New Hampshire College comes tomorrow. He has some of the best stuff up his sleeve that the boys of the city have ever that the opportunity to hear. Fresh from the games with Wesleyan and Williams college he will bring the feeling of the basketball floor directly to us. Mr. Jones is more than basketball player, he is a third baseman on the baseball team, and gathers them in to the envy of the bunch. Jones speaks to the boys tomorrow at the Y.M.C.A., at 3:30 in the afternoon (Bridgeport Times & Evening Farmer (Bridgeport, CT), February 8, 1913).

Daughter Elizabeth J. Jones taught the Nute Ridge school for the Spring term of the 1913-14 academic year. (See Milton’s Nute Ridge Teachers – 1897-47).

West Milton. Nute Ridge school will reopen for the Spring term on next Monday, March 30, with Miss Elizabeth Jones of Plummer’s Ridge as teacher (Farmington News, March 27, 1914).

Son Charles Jones married in Cloversville, NY, June 27, 1914, Beulah E. Tompkins. She was born in Red Hook, NY, March 31, 1888, daughter of Charles E. and Ella C. (Vosburgh) Tompkins.

Miss Tompkins a Bride. Miss Beulah. E. Tompkins, formerly of Poughkeepsie, and a graduate of Vassar College in the Class of 1911, has been married to Charles Jones, Harvard ’06, of Worcester, Mass. Miss Tompkins is the daughter of Mrs. Ella C. Tompkins, who formerly [had] a dry goods store on Main Street, and she has many friends in Poughkeepsie. The wedding took place at the First Baptist Church at Gloversville, and the news of it reached Poughkeepsie Tuesday. The ceremony was performed by the pastor of church, Rev. Albert B. Sears, and the wedding music was played by Prof. George Coleman Gow, of Vassar College. Mr. Jones is an instructor in Greek and Latin at Worcester Academy (Poughkeepsie Eagle-News (Poughkeepsie, NY), July 1, 1914).

Claremont. Secretary Philip C. Jones of the Y.M.C.A. is enjoying a vacation at his home in Union, the work of the Y.M.C.A. being suspended for the rest of the summer (Springfield Reporter (Springfield, VT), July 31, 1914).

Fred P. Jones of Milton was part of the “hung” jury in the civil suit of Titcomb vs. the B&M Railroad, in November 1914.

JURY OUT ALL NIGHT. Fail to Agree in Titcomb Suit of $12,000 Against the Boston & Maine Railroad. After being out all night the jury in the action of Edward H. Titcomb, administrator of Charles R. Gray of Rochester vs. the Boston and Maine railroad, came in shortly after seven o’clock this Saturday morning and reported to Judge Aldrich in the U.S. district court that they had failed to agree, and were discharged. Gray was killed at a crossing of the railroad on April 15, 1914, and his administrator sought t0 recover $12,000. Remick and Jackson appeared for the plaintiff and Leslie P. Snow and George T. Hughes for the defendant. The following were the Jurors: William V. Entwistle of Portsmouth, foreman; Albert B. Etch of Mason, Arthur D. Child of Hanover, Frank T. Dickey of Manchester, George F. Smith of Meredith, William W. Goodale of Amherst, William H. Reynolds of Manchester, William O. Dodge of New Boston, Lewis S. Swan of Exeter, Prank E. Avery of Londonderry, Fred P. Jones of Milton, Perley W. Hadley of Temple (Portsmouth Herald, November 14, 1914).

Son Philip C. Jones was engaged as assistant pastor of the First Congregation Church in Meriden, CT, in August 1915.

PHILIP C. JONES NEW ASSISTANT PASTOR AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL. Philip C. Jones, of Milton, New Hampshire, has been secured by the standing committee of the First Congregational church as assistant pastor to Rev. A.J. Lord. Mr. Jones, who has specialized in Sunday school work, will come here September 6. He is a graduate of the New Hampshire State college and also of the Springfield Training school. Mr. Jones is a young man and has studied Sunday school work at Silver bay, Lake George. He is there now finishing his course. Mr. Jones will have charge of the Sunday school at the First Congregational church, of the young people’s work, the Boys’ club, and other work which he has made himself familiar with by study (Meriden Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), July 15, 1915).

The First Congregational Church, Meriden. Conn., Rev. A.J. Lord, pastor, has engaged as assistant to work among boys and young people, Philip C. Jones, a graduate of New Hampshire State College and of Springfield Training School (Boston Evening Transcript, August 21, 1915).

City Items. Miss Alice Jones has returned to her home in Milton, N.H., after A visit with her brother, Philip C. Jones, of this city (Meriden Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), March 4, 1916).

Son Robert Edmond Jones registered for the WW I military draft in New York, NY, June 5, 1917. He was a self-employed theatrical decorator & designer of community [theatre], aged twenty-nine years (b. Milton, NH, December 12, 1887), resident at 51 W. 10th Street. He was of tall height, with a slender build, brown eyes, and brown hair.

Son Philip Cowell Jones registered for the WW I military draft in Meriden, CT, June 5, 1917. He was a pastor’s assistant, for the First Congregational Church, & student at divinity school, aged twenty-five years (b. Milton, NH, August 31, 1891), resident at 78 Pleasant Street, Meriden, CT. He was of medium height, with a medium build, brown eyes, and black hair.

Mother-in-law Elizabeth J. ((Chamberlain) Hussey) Cowell appeared in a photograph of women in Lebanon, ME, knitting for the American Red Cross.

PATRIOTIC WOMEN OF EAST LEBANON DOING THEIR BIT. … The second woman from the left is Mrs. Elizabeth J. Cowell, who is 87 years old, and who is able to do her own housework besides knitting for the soldiers. She was a schoolteacher for many years and as mentally active today as she ever was (Portland Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME), February 3, 1918).

(Among any other venues, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Cowell taught at the Milton Classical Institute in the 1880s).

Son Charles Jones, whose application stated that he was a teacher, with a permanent residence in Union, [Wakefield,] NH, applied for a U.S. passport in Springfield, MA, July 10, 1918. He was a son of Fred P. Jones of Milton. He was thirty-three years of age, stood 5′ 11″ tall, and had an oval face, a medium forehead, round chin, and straight nose. He had a dark complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, and a mustache. The index finger on his right hand had been broken (and presumably healed). He stated his intention to depart from New York, NY, in August 1918, and visit France and England on behalf of the Y.M.C.A. The United States had entered WW I several months before. Jones had been rejected by the U.S. army due to poor eyesight. The U.S. War Department signified their lack of any objection. It was later said that he obtained a commission as an officer in the French army, and served with them in France, North Africa and the Middle East.

WEST MILTON. Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Jones of Plummer’s Ridge were in this vicinity, Thursday (Farmington News, August 23, 1918).

Son Phillip C. Jones married in Meriden, CT, November 25, 1919, Elsie Baldwin Schunack. She was born in Meriden, CT, April 1, 1893, daughter of Charles E. and Rhoda A. (Baldwin) Schunack.

JONES-SCHUNACK. At 5 o’clock this afternoon the marriage of Miss Elsie Baldwin Schunack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Schunack of 21 Cook avenue, and Philip Cowell Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Jones of Milton, N.H., will take place at the home of the bride, with only the immediate families present. The Rev. Dr. Albert Lord, pastor of the First Congregational church, will perform the ceremony. Mrs. William Watson House, of New Britain, sister of the bride, will be maid of honor. The best: man will be Francis L. Bacon, principal of the local high school. A wedding supper will be served at the home of the bride, following the ceremony, with Haberstein of Hartford catering. After a brief motor trip Mr. and Mrs. Jones will reside with the bride’s parents until February 1 when they will be at home at 29 Cook avenue. Mr. Jones is a student at the Yale School of Religion and is assistant to the pastor of First Congregational church (Meriden Journal (Meriden CT), November 25, 1919).

In an article describing general Y.M.C.A. efforts to introduce American-style physical education to post-war Europe and the Near East, a Y.M.C.A. athletic director named Charles Jones described his own efforts in Greece and Constantinople. 

Teaching French Children to Play. … This is but a brief sample of the work in physical education that is springing up all over France. Now Belgium and Poland have caught the idea, and turning to American athletic directors sent over by the Y.M.C.A. to put the new system into execution. Nor are children forgotten in the Near East. “Next Saturday I visit a Greek orphanage at Halki and begin work with 700 children there.” writes Charles Jones, Y.M.C.A. athletic director in Constantinople. “I am also introducing basket ball into the Turkish Athletic club at Fenerbaytshe, and I have been asked officially by the Armenian Society of Physical Culture to take personal charge of the work for all their Boy Scout and athletic clubs.” In this part of the world the territory to be covered is too great for one man, or even a large number of men, to superintend personally. The best that can be accomplished is for the Y athletic directors to go from village to village, visiting a school today, and tomorrow a hospital, or perhaps spending a couple of days at one of the new athletic clubs which are springing up, as if by magic, in the most remote places (Springville Journal (Springville, NY), November 20, 1919).

Son Charles Jones applied for and received an emergency replacement U.S. passport at the U.S. consulate in Alexandria, Egypt, November 18, 1919. He was a teacher, whose permanent residence was in Milton, NH (born there February 12, 1885). He had left the U.S., August 15, 1918, in order to perform Y.M.C.A. duties in France and Italy. He sailed on the S.S. Rotterdam, from Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, December 6, 1919, for New York, NY, arriving there, December 18, 1919. His ships’ passenger entry gave his birthplace as Milton, NH, May [SIC] 12, 1885, said Milton being given also as his home address. An accompanying handwritten notation mentioned “Cairo, Egypt.”

Son Charles Jones was said to have been a Y.M.C.A. physical director, while being attached also to the French army, in France, then North Africa, then the Near East, in 1918 and 1919 (Harvard College, 1926).

Fred P. Jones, a lumberman (owner), aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Emma C. [(Cowell)] Jones, aged sixty years (b. ME), and his children, Charles Jones, Y.M.C.A. work (physical director), aged thirty-four years (b. NH), Robert E. Jones, a designer (theater costumes), aged thirty-two years (b. NH), Elizabeth Jones, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Alice V. Jones, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). Fred P. Jones owned their house on the Plummer’s Ridge Road, free-and-clear. Alice V. Jones had been attended school during the year. Their household appeared in the enumeration  between those of Charles E. Perkins, a teamster (lumberman), aged fifty-three years (b. NH), and Bard P. Plummer, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH).

Robert E. Jones, an artist (painting), aged thirty-two years (b. NH), was a lodger in the Lafayette Hotel, at University Place, in Manhattan, New York, NY, at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census.

Charles E. Schunack, a manufacturer (boxes), aged sixty-one years (b. Germany), headed a Meriden, CT, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Rhoda [(Vosburgh)] Schunack, aged sixty years (b. CT), his son-in-law, Philip C. Jones, a clergyman (parish), aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), his daughter, Elsie [(Schunack)] Jones, aged twenty-six years (b. CT), and his maids, Marth Corsack, a maid (private family), aged fourteen years (b. CT), and Annie Anderson, a maid (private family), aged thirty-seven years (b. Sweden). Charles E. Schunack owned their house at 21 Cook Avenue, free-and-clear.

Son Charles Jones was said to have been a Boy Scout executive, in Cumberland County, NJ, in 1920 through 1923 (Harvard College, 1926).

Son Philip C. Jones accepted a call to the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, OH, in 1922.

Philip Jones Accepts Call To Large Cleveland Church. Assistant To Pastor Of First Congregational Church To Graduate In June And Go West. Philip C. Jones, who for the last six and a half years has been assistant to the pastor of the First Congregational church accepted a call to the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian church in Cleveland, Ohio, and will take up his duties there on August 15, next. The Euclid avenue Church in Cleveland is a union of the former Euclid avenue church and the Second Presbyterian church, of the same city, making one of largest churches in the city, the membership being over 1,500. The church building is a very, handsome one, constructed of limestone in the Gothic style of architecture about 12 years ago and at a cost of about a million dollars. The church stands at the corner of Euclid avenue and Cornell road, and is right in the center of the Western Reserve university and is closely associated with the life of the university. The annual budget of the church is about $90,000, one half of which is devoted to mission work and the other half to the expenses of the church. Church Has Two Pastors. When the two churches united, both pastors were retained. The Rev. Paul F. Sutphen, D.D., the senior pastor, was for many years the pastor of the Second church. He was a very ardent advocate of the United States going to the aid of the allies in the world war, long before such action was finally taken by the government. During and after the war he was much in demand as a speaker at patriotic gatherings. The Rev. Alexander McGaffin, D.D., pastor of the former Euclid avenue church also is retained, and the engagement of Mr. Jones will make the third clergyman of the staff of this big church. Mr. Jones’ title in the Cleveland church will be director of religious education and of young people’s work. In addition to the three clergymen, there are four women employed by the church as clerks and stenographers. Mr. Jones will be in complete charge of the Sunday school and of two active troops of Boy Scouts. It will be his duty to organize promote all young people’s work of the church. Mr. Jones’ Career. Mr. Jones graduated from the New Hampshire State college in 1913 with the degree B.S., and received his B.H. degree from the Springfield Y.M.C.A. college in 1915. In the latter year he came to Meriden to fill the position at the First church, and from the beginning of his service here, he was extremely popular with the young folk of the church, as well as their elders. When the United States entered the war, he became a private in the United States army, in which he served for 13 months, being discharged as a first lieutenant of infantry. While continuing his duties at the First church, he has, for the three years, taken a complete last course at the Yale Divinity school, and will graduate in June with the degree of B.D. Mr. Jones has been of great assistance to the Y.M.C.A. during his stay in Meriden, and will be missed by the young men that organization. Under his leadership Troop 7, Boy Scouts, of the First Congregational church has grown to be one of the best troops in the state, and made a remarkable showing last year in competition with a crack New Jersey troop. Leaves Here June 15. Mr. Jones will finish his term of service as assistant to the pastor of the First Congregational church on June 15, and will take two months’ vacation, before taking up his new duties in Cleveland. He has been studying hard and carrying on his work at the same time, and in order to be in the best of condition to take up his new work, feels that he should have a good long vacation. While his friends in Meriden will regret losing him, all unite in congratulating him upon the fine opportunity which has been placed before him. The church to which he has taken very great pains in selecting a man to fit in to the work there and no less than 20 of the interested members of the church have been east to see Mr. Jones and make his acquaintance, before finally offering him the place (Meriden Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), April 8, 1922).

Mother-in-law Elizabeth J. ((Chamberlain) Hussey) Cowell died at Plummer’s Ridge in Milton (twenty years’ residence), May 18, 1923, aged ninety-three years, five months, and twenty-four days.

Sister Nellie V. Jones died in Oakland, Alameda, CA, August 28, 1925, aged sixty-three years.

DIED. JONES – In Oakland, Aug. 28, 1925, Nellie Varney Jones, daughter of late Charles and Betsy Varney Jones, a native of Milton, Mass. [NH]. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services Saturday afternoon, Aug. 29, at 4 o’clock at her late Aug. residence, 964 Eighteenth street, Oakland. Interment private (Oakland Post Enquirer (Oakland, CA), August 28, 1925).

Son Charles Jones was said to have been a Boy Scout executive in Yonkers, NY, in 1924 through the “present,” i.e., 1926. Jones, then aged forty-one years, left the following entry in the 1926 twentieth anniversary Harvard publication:

I find it extremely difficult to write anything brief enough for this book. The last twenty years have meant interest, variety of experience, what most people call romance, reasonable success in my own work, physical trial, economic struggle, much information if not education, and confirmation of boyhood philosophy.
The last five years have been spent in the effort to rediscover control, after the common experience of all who went overseas, and have been profitable to a certain extent. Superficially life seems a kaleidoscope – many beautiful and striking combinations, but not much to hold to. My favorite book is the “Education of Henry Adams,” which seems to tell the whole story.
Few of my classmates knew me in college, and I have had few chances to meet them since those days. Some of them will read this, and I want them to know something hard to express, but most earnestly believed. You fellows, to a rather forlorn, diffident kid from the backwoods, stood for all that was fine. No envy, but sincere admiration was my feeling for the men in my class and in my college who did things. They helped me by showing me that boys my age could do things. Ever since I have been strengthened by my faith in many of you – whose names I am tempted to mention, and would if I did not know you would be horribly embarrassed. In many a queer corner of the world I have thought of some chap who wouldn’t know my name, and have been cheered by the memory of he tackled something in the old days. And so I can’t help using this medium to say that the tradition of 1906 is a real living thing, that grows every year, and is one of the great intangible but powerful factors in one life that I know of, and many that I am sure of though I cannot prove it. Hope to see you in June (Harvard College, 1926).

UNION. Mrs. Fred P. Jones was a caller in town recently (Farmington News, June 29, 1928).

Son Philip C. Jones accepted a call to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York, NY, in 1929.

Rev. Philip C. Jones To New York Church. Rev. Philip C. Jones, assistant pastor of the Euclid avenue Presbyterian church in Cleveland, has accepted a call to become assistant pastor of the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, Madison avenue and Seventy-third street, New York, of which Rev. G.A. Buttrick is pastor. The Madison avenue church is one of the outstanding churches in the denomination and a call to its service is a recognition of the candidate’s exceptional ability. Mr. Jones will take up his new work in a few weeks (Meriden Record Journal (Meriden, CT), March 13, 1929).

Fred P. (Emma C.) Jones appeared in the Milton directory of 1930, as a farmer, Union R.D. [Rural Delivery]. Daughter Elizabeth Jones appeared as a poultrywoman, Union R.D.

Fred P. Jones, a farmer (general farming), aged seventy years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-eight years), [Emma] Cowell Jones, aged seventy years (b. ME), and his daughter, Elizabeth Jones, a poultrywoman poultry farm), aged thirty-five years (b. NH). Fred P. Jones owned their house on Plummer’s Ridge, which was valued at $5,000. They had a radio set. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Frank Ramsey, aged forty-six years (b. NH), and Bard B. Plummer, a farmer (general farming), aged fifty years (b. NH).

Charles Jones, a salesman (general insurance), aged forty-five years, headed a Yonkers, NY, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Beulah T. [(Tompkins)] Jones, aged forty-two years (b. NY). Charles Jones rented their house or apartment on Caryl Avenue, for $65 per month.

Son Robert E. Jones married in Greenwich, CT, June 21, 1933, Margaret (Huston) Carrington. She was born in Orangeville, Canada, August 29, 1879.

MONTECITAN WEDS STAGE DESIGNER. Mrs. Margaret Huston Carrington of Villa Riposo, Montecito, was married Wednesday to Robert Edmond Jones, noted stage designer. wedding took at the home the bride’s sister, Miss Nan Huston in North Greenwich, Connecticut, according to a telegram received from New York. Mrs. Jones, who is the widow of the late William Theodore Carrington of New York and Montecito, is a former opera singer and sponsor of the American Opera company. She has trained many noted American singers and has coached many actors and actresses for the stage, including the Barrymores and Katherine Cornell. She has taken a keen interest in musical and dramatic affairs in Santa Barbara. Her home in Montecito has been the scene of many musicales. She is a sister of Walter Huston, well known stage and screen star. Mr. Jones, who has been a frequent guest at the Carrington home, is one of the best known stage designers in this country. He designed the setting for “Hamlet,” “The Green Pastures,” “The Jest,” and many other plays. This summer he will be associated with E. Delos Chappell in the production of “The Merry Widows,” at the old opera house at Central City, Colorado (Santa Barbara Moring Press (Santa Barbara, CA), June 23, 1933).

Son Philip C. Jones delivered the baccalaureate sermon at the New Hampshire College commencement ceremony of 1936. (New Hampshire College and New Hampshire University (NHU) being now the University of New Hampshire (UNH)).

Pres. Sills to Speak at N.H.U. Commencement. … A New Hampshire graduate, Rev. Philip C. Jones, B.D. ’13, now associate pastor of the Madison Ave. Presbyterian church, New York City, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, June 14. Jones, a leader of many campus student organizations and prominent athlete while here, took his master’s degree at Springfield College and later matriculated at the Yale Divinity school. (Lewiston Sun-Journal (Lewiston, ME), May 7, 1936).

MILTON MILLS. Mrs. H.E. Anderson, Mrs. Richard Jewett, Mrs. Halton Hayes, Mrs. Grace Townsend and Miss Elizabeth Jones are attending the flower show in Boston (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), March 24, 1938).

Fred P. Jones, aged eighty years, headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included Emma C. [(Cowell)] Jones, aged eighty years (b. ME), Elizabeth Jones, aged forty-six years (b. NH), and Alice V. Jones, aged forty-four years (b. NH). Fred P. Jones owned their house, which was valued at $5,000. They had all resided in the “same house” in 1935, except Alice V. Jones, who had resided in New York, NY. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Frank E. Ramsey, a laborer (farm), aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and Bard B. Plummer, a farmer (home), aged sixty years (b. NH).

Charles Jones, a broker (life insurance), aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Yonkers, NY, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Beulah T. [(Tompkins)] Jones, aged fifty-two years (b. NY). Charles Jones rented their apartment at 48 Caryl Avenue, for $60 per month. They had resided in the “same house” in 1935.

Robert E. Jones, a stage design artist, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Greenwich, CT, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Margaret H. [((Huston) Carrington)] Jones, aged fifty-four years (b. Canada (Fr.)), his personal servant, Mae L. Anderson, a personal maid, aged fifty-five years (b. Sweden), and his housekeeper, Hilda Gullstrand, a housekeeper, aged forty-one years (b. Sweden). Robert E. Jones owned their house on Quebec Ridge Road, which was valued at $75,000.

Phillip Jones, a minister (pastor of church), aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a New York, NY, household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Elsie S. [(Schunack)] Jones, aged forty-seven years (b. CT). Phillip Jones rented their apartment on East 88th Street, for $175 per month.

Emma J. (Cowell) Jones died in Milton, April 13, 1941. Fred P. Jones died in Milton, November 10, 1941, aged eighty-two years.

Rochester Locals. Private funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the home on Plummer’s Ridge in Milton for Fred P. Jones, 82, who died at the ancestral home late Monday night. He was born in Milton, the son of Charles and Betsy (Varney) Jones and was a lifelong resident of that community. He leaves three sons, Charles, Robert Edmund and Philip Cowell Jones and two daughters, Mrs. [Miss] Alice M. Varney [Jones] and Miss Elizabeth Jones. Burial was in the family lot on the Jones property (Portsmouth Herald, November 13, 1941).

Son Charles Jones of 48 Caryl Avenue, Yonkers, NY, registered for the WW II military draft in Yonkers, NY, April 25, 1942. He was fifty-seven years of age (b. Milton, February 12, 1885), and was employed Travellers Ins. Co., at 30 S. Broadway, Yonkers, NY. His telephone number was YOnkers 3-8585, and his permanent contact was Mrs. Charles Jones, 48 Caryl Ave., Yorkers, NY. He had gray hair, hazel eyes, and a ruddy complexion. He had a broken forefinger on his right hand.

Son Robert Edmond Jones of 760 Park Avenue, New York, NY, registered for the WW II military draft in New York, NY, April 27, 1942. He was fifty-four years of age (b. Milton, December 12, 1887), and was employed as a stage designer. His telephone number was BU 8-5958, and his permanent contact was Charles Jones, 48 Caryl Ave., Yorkers, NY. He stood 6′ tall, weighed 165 pounds, and had brown hair, hazel eyes, and a light complexion. He had a small scar on his right thumb, a scar on his right foot, and others.

Son Philip Cowell Jones of 111 E. 88th Street, New York, NY, registered for the WW II military draft in New York, NY, April 26, 1942. He was fifty years of age (b. Milton, August 31, 1891), and was employed by the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, at 921 Madison Avenue. His telephone number was SAcramento 2-5486, and his permanent contact was Mrs. Elsie S. Jones. He stood 5′ 7½” tall, weighed 172 pounds, and had black hair, hazel eyes, and a sallow complexion.

Daughter-in-law Margaret (Huston) Jones died in Greenwich, CT, August 1, 1942.

Obituary. MRS. MARGARET H. JONES. Sister of Walter Huston, Actor. Mrs. Margaret Huston Jones, wife of Robert Edmond Jones, the scenic designer, and sister of Walter Huston, actor, died yesterday at her Summer home in Greenwich, Conn. A native of Toronto, Mrs. Jones was a singer in her youth, and later, as an expert in diction, coached John Barrymore and other stars. Her home in New York was at 760 Park Ave. (Daily News (New York, NY), August 2, 1942).

Charles Jones, an insurance broker, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a Yonkers, NY, household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Beulah [(Tompkins)] Jones, aged sixty-two years (b. NY). They resided on Caryl Avenue.

Robert E. Jones, an artist, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Manhattan, New York, NY, household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. He lived in Apartment 3B. He was a widower

Philip C. Jones, a minister (religious) aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a New York, NY, household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Elsie S. [(Schunack)] Jones, aged fifty-seven years (b. CT). They resided on East 88th Street

Elizabeth Jones, aged fifty-five years, headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. Her household included her sister, Alice V. Jones, a weaver (hand weaving), aged fifty-three years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Bard B. Plummer, a farmer (farm), aged seventy years (b. NH), and Frank E. Ramsey, a caretaker (private home), aged sixty-six years (b. NH).

Careers at Home. Pin-money is one thing, a full time paying career another, and when we meet a new craftsman, sooner or later, polite or not, we find ourselves asking always the same question, “Do you entirely support yourself from this craft?” “Definitely yes,” was the answer of Alice Varney Jones, a vivacious brunette whom we interviewed this week in the farmhouse that her great-grandfather Eli built and in the ell of which she carries on a business in hand-woven fabrics. When Miss Jones, the youngest of six children, left New York to come back to peaceful Union, N.H., to take care of her ailing parents she wanted something to take her mind off sickness. Her brother, Robert Edmond Jones, the notable designer for the theatre (there’s talent in the Jones’ blood stream, at least two of six children have made good in the creative arts) after Summering in Canada came home with the idea that his sister take up weaving which he had seen so beautifully done in the provinces. So off to Ogonquit went Alice to take five easy lessons from Maine’s famous weaver, Peggy Ives, who has sent two children through college and who keeps six weavers busy building her a very prosperous life. “Right from the first one makes salable objects,” says Miss Jones. And now, of course, everything she makes finds a customer. Hard as it to believe, Alice Varney Jones insists that the bulk of her sales are done right there in this out of the way rambling old farmhouse to “satisfied customers” and listen, they must be plenty because, day in and day out, five yards of cloth wend their way out of Alice’s loom in the way of suiting for capes. coats or square dance skirt materials or curtains or tablecloths. They are always exquisite as to color and workmanship and are bought by those who want only the best. The yarn for each five yards is weighed and then the retail price per yard is set up at four times the cost of the yarn. This markup takes care of finishing, setting up the loom, shrinking, mailing, etc., which are all time-consuming. Prices run around eight dollars a yard and up – “mostly up.’ Miss Jones, you can see, really does support herself entirely from her loom, but don’t you agree that much of her success is due to the fact that whether she feels like working or not she does turn out those five yards a day? Some time ago we offered a plastic mold formula for making candy novelties. If you are now making these candy animals, do let us know if you have perfected this item (Boston Globe, July 22, 1951).

Son Robert E. Jones died in the family home on Plummer’s Ridge in Milton, November 26, 1954, aged sixty-six years.

Obituary. Robert Edmund Jones. MILTON, N.H., Nov. 26. (AP) – Robert Edmund Jones, 66, a pioneer in modern stage design, died today after a long illness. Jones, born here, was associated early in his career with Eugene O’Neill in many productions of the Provincetown Playhouse. Jones designed sets for John Barrymore’s “Richard III” and “Hamlet.” He also designed sets for the productions of O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms” and “The Iceman Cometh.” His most recent production was a revival in 1951 of Marc Connelly’s “Green Pastures.” He also had designed the sets for the original production. Jones wrote several books on stagecraft and theater design, and had a hand in one of the earliest color motion pictures, a 1935 short called “La Cucaracha.” In 1933 he married Margaret Huston, a well known theatrical coach and a sister of Actor Walter Huston. She died in 1942. Jones is survived by two brothers, the Rev. Dr. Philip C. Jones of New York and Charles Jones of Yonkers, and two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Jones and Miss Alice Varney Jones, of Milton, at whose home he died (Hartford Courant, November 27, 1954).

Son Charles Jones died in Yonkers, NY, March 19, 1956, aged seventy-one years.

Charles Jones Succumbs; Civic, Insurance Leader. Charles Jones, an insurance broker noted for many years of community service in Yonkers, died yesterday at his home, 48 Caryl Avenue. He was seventy-one. Since arriving in Yonkers in 1923, when he took over Boy Scout activities, Mr. Jones had compiled an impressive list of civic accomplishments. Farewells To Selectees. A former president of the Rotary Club, he was recently saluted for over 32 years of perfect attendance at meetings. Through the years he has worked with the YMCA, Community Chest, Chamber of Commerce and similar organizations, usually offering leadership. Probably his outstanding community activity was his dedicated participation and leadership in a “farewell to selectees” program, continued through the war years and since then. He would be on hand bright and early, with city officials, service club leaders and others, and often he would make a brief talk. Funeral services will take place Thursday at 2 P.M. at Havey’s Funeral Home, 107 North Broadway. Burial will be private. Before coming to Yonkers, Mr. Jones had been a college faculty member, an athletic coach, semi-professional basketball and baseball player, and he was a French Army officer during World War I. An amiable man, he once said that while he did not make a fortune during each year, he has “a corking time between birthdays.” Native Of New Hampshire. Born in Milton, N.H., on Feb. 12, 1885, Mr. Jones attended public schools there and then entered Cushing Academy at Ashburnham, Mass. Later he went to Harvard, crowding four years of work into three, so that he was graduated with the class of 1905. and given his diploma in 1906. Despite his heavy schedule, he found time to coach the freshman football team. After receiving his college degree, he became a teacher and athletic director of Irving School at Tarrytown. He taught language and history there as well as coaching the teams. During these years he also was playing with the Ossining Pros, a basketball team which played the old Fourth Separate Team in Yonkers Armory in 1909. That was Mr. Jones’ first sight of Yonkers. Joins French Corps. Shortly, after that, he joined the faculty of the Worcester (Mass.) Academy and served there until 1918. Turned down for poor eyesight by the American Army, Mr. Jones traveled overseas with the YMCA. In France, he got himself a commission in the French Army special reserves. He served in France, North Africa and the Near East, before returning home. After the war he became interested in Boy Scout work and, before coming to Yonkers, he served as a Scout Executive in Cumberland County, N.J. He entered the insurance business here in 1929, joining the Travelers Insurance Company. Ten years later he was elected president of the Life Underwriters Association of Westchester County. His office was at 30 South Broadway. A few days ago he was saluted by the Rotary Club for 390 months of perfect consecutive attendance. He had served as a club president in 1934-35. In 1943 he was appointed a district governor’s aide. Headed War Drives. During World War II. he was chairman the Aluminum Drive, a member of the USO, an advisor of the Civilian Mobilization Unit of the Yonkers War Council, and treasurer of the War Chest. After the war he was a member of the Veterans’ Memorial Committee and the Veteran Service Agency. In 1950 he was appointed a member of Draft Board No. 7. Brother of Scenic Designer.  Mr. Jones had been a director of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce and was a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. He was also a director of the Amackassin Club and for years was a member of its tennis team. A Free Mason, he maintained membership in Unity Lodge in Union, N.H. He married Beulah E. Thompkins of Poughkeepsie on June 27, 1914, at Gloversville, N.Y. She survives him. Also surviving are two brothers, Robert Edmund Jones, noted scenic designer for dramatic productions, and the Rev. Dr. Philip Cowell Jones, both of New York City, and two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Jones and Mrs. Alice Varney Jones, both of Milton (Yonkers Herald-Statesman (Yonkers, NY), March 20, 1956).

Daughter Alice V. Jones died of biliary cirrhosis on Plummer’s Ridge in Milton, August 21, 1958, aged sixty-two years. She was a single (“never married”) retired restaurant manager. Leo Klinger, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Daughter-in-law Beaulah E. (Tompkins) Jones died in NY, August 11, 1965, aged seventy-seven years.

Mrs. Charles Jones Dies. Mrs. Beulah Tompkins Jones, 77, of the John E. Andrus Memorial, died yesterday after a long illness. She was the widow of Charles Jones, civic leader and insurance man here, who died in 1956. Born March 31, 1888, in Red Hook, N.Y., she was a daughter of the late Charles E. and Ella Vosburgh Tompkins. She attended schools in Poughkeepsie and was graduated from Vassar College in 1911. She was married to Mr. Jones June 27, 1914, in Gloversville, N.Y. Mr. Jones was active in reviving the Yonkers Boy Scout Council in the 1930s. He was 1934-5 president of the Yonkers Rotary Club. Mrs. Jones was an assistant in the music department of the Castle School in Tarrytown in 1911, and at Vassar from 1912 to 1914. She worked at the Worcester, (Mass.) Academy while her husband was in service during World War I. She was a past president of the Chaminade Club, an honorary member of the Clio Club, and a life member of the Up-to-Date Club. She was also a member of the Hudson River Museum Auxiliary. A Yonkers resident most of her life, she attended the First Westminster Presbyterian Church. As a hobby she was interested in mountain-climbing, about which she wrote articles and books. There are no survivors (Yonkers Herald Statesman (Yonkers, NY), August 12, 1965).

Mrs. Jones, Formerly of City. Word has been received in Poughkeepsie, of the recent death of Mrs. Charles Jones, the former Beulah Tompkins of Poughkeepsie. Mrs. Jones, who had been ill for several years, lived at the John E. Andrus Memorial Home, Hastings. The daughter of the late Mrs. E.C. Tompkins of Poughkeepsie and Gloversville, Mrs. Jones was a 1905 graduate of Poughkeepsie High School. She studied at Dana Hall, Wellesley, and was graduated in 1911 from Vassar College. Mrs. Jones taught music at Vassar College and at the Castle School in Tarrytown until her marriage in 1914. Her husband died in 1936 [1956]. There were no children. Mrs. Jones was a member of the Dutchess County Historical Society (Poughkeepsie Journal (Poughkeepsie, NY), September 7, 1965).

Daughter Elizabeth J. Jones died in Rochester, NH, October 1975.

Daughter-in-law Elsie B. (Schunack) Jones died in Branford, CT, November 11, 1976.

Mrs. Philip C. Jones. Mrs. Elsie Schunack Jones, of Crescent Bluff Ave., Pine Orchard, Branford, formerly of Meriden and New York City, died Thursday at Yale-New Haven Hospital after a brief illness. She was the wife of the Rev. Dr. Philip C. Jones, retired pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City. Born in Meriden, April 1, 1893, daughter of the late Charles and Rhoda Baldwin Schunack, she had lived in this city for many years. Her father was former president of the Puritan Bank and of the C.E. Schunack Corp. in Meriden. She was a graduate of Dana Hall in Wellesley, Mass., Class of 1913. The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Jones lived in retirement in Branford for 20 years after summering in that community for 45 years. Mrs. Jones was a member of the First Congregational Church of Branford; the Drama League of New York City; the Pine Orchard Yacht and Country Club; and several church-oriented societies. While in Meriden, she was a member of the Women’s Club. Besides her husband, she is survived by two nephews, Robert S. House of Bloomfield and William W. House Jr. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla (Meriden Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), November 13, 1976).

Son Phillip C. Jones died in Branford, CT, October 15, 1977, aged eighty-six years.

Rev. Dr. Philip C. Jones, Former Minister Here, Dies. The Rev. Dr. Philip Cowell Jones, who served as assistant minister the First Congregational Church in Meriden from 1915 to 1922, died Oct. 15 at his home in Pine Orchard. He was 86. Born in Milton, N.H., he graduated from schools there and received his bachelor’s degree from New Hampshire State College in 1913. After a period in the U.S. Infantry, he graduated from Yale Divinity School in New Haven in 1922. During his years at Yale, he served in the Meriden church primarily as minister to the youth of the congregation. During his college career, he played varsity football and baseball and was captain of his teams. He continued his interest in athletics and the out-of-doors by forming a summer church camp and serving as scoutmaster to Troop 7 here. After leaving Meriden, he served as minister of the Church of the Covenant, Cleveland, Ohio, and as assistant pastor of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church in Cleveland until he was assigned to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City as pastor in 1930. In 1940, he received a doctor of divinity degree from the College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho. While he was the minister of the New York City church from 1930 until his retirement in 1948, he was very active in both city and national committees on Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church. He was the author of “The Church School Superintendent” and of “Prophet Without Portfolio.” In 1948, he became secretary of the World Council of Christian Education and made arrangements and directed the Mid-Century World Convention in Christian Education in Toronto, Canada, in 1950. In 1954, we was a leader of a European Convention on Christian Education in Germany and in 1958 shared in the World Convention on Christian Education in Tokyo, Japan. The Rev. Dr. Jones spoke at the First Congregational Church here in 1961. He is survived by two nephews, Robert S. House of Bloomfield and William W. House of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was predeceased by his wife, the former Elsie Schunack, a Meriden native, who died in November last year. The funeral was held Oct. 18 at the First Congregational Church of Branford and burial was at Walnut Grove, Meriden. The Curtis Funeral Home, South Main Street. Branford, was in charge of arrangements (Meriden Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), October 21, 1977).

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References:

Adams, Henry. (1905). Education of Henry Adams. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=7LKxDwAAQBAJ

Find a Grave. (2022, February 3). Alice Varney Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/236459889/alice_varney-jones

Find a Grave. (2021, November 8). Charles Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/233850562/charles-jones

Find a Grave. (2021, November 1). Charles Dana Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/233615967/charles_dana-jones

Find a Grave. (2022, February 3). Elizabeth Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/236459636/elizabeth-jones

Find a Grave. (2021, November 4). Fred Plummer Jones. retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/233699063/fred_plummer-jones

Find a Grave. (2021, November 8). Marjorie Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/233851436/marjorie-jones

Find a Grave. (2021, November 8). Nellie V. Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/233851065/nellie-v-jones

[Find a Grave. (2018, June 16). Nellie Varney Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/190634799/nellie-varney-jones]

Find a Grave. (2010, April 15). Rev. Philip Cowell Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/51167425/philip-cowell-jones

Find a Grave. (2021, November 1). Robert Edmond “Bobby” Jones. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/233612569/robert_edmond-jones

Harvard College. (1926). Harvard College Class of 1906: Twentieth Anniversary Report. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

By Muriel Bristol | August 10, 2025

Some thirty-five Strafford County inhabitants petitioned NH Governor Jeremiah Smith and his Executive Council, January 2, 1810, seeking appointment of Maj. Andrew Wentworth of Somersworth, NH, as Strafford County Sheriff.

They intended that he replace the “present holder,” Col. James Carr, also of Somersworth, NH, who had been sheriff for ten years. Other petitions circulated too, including at least one in favor of incumbent Col. Carr. (See Strafford County Sheriff Petition – [January 22,] 1810).

State of New Hampshire.

To his Excellency the Governor and the honorable Council of the State of New Hampshire ~ Respectfully sheweth the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the County of Strafford, being highly impressed with the great importance to the peace and happiness of the government ~ that every officer of government Should faithfully and attentively discharge the Several duties of their respective offices ~ and in order that should be performed ~ men of discernment ~ known as men who respect the constitution and the Laws of the State, lover[s] of order and good Government, should from time to time be appointed to fill those vacancies that may be occasioned by death, resignation, or the expirati0n of their several commissions ~ understanding the Commission of the high Sheriff of the County of Strafford will expire in February next ~ the undersigned beg leave to observe to your Excellency and the honorable Council that should you be of the Opinion that the good of the State and the happiness of the Citizens of the County of Strafford would be promoted by the appointment of Some other person to fill that important office than the present holder ~ they would most respectfully Name ~ Majr Andrew Wentworth of Somersworth in the County of Strafford ~ we feel a Strong confidence in Saying he is a Gentleman whose tolerance and General Knowledge of business should enable him to discharge the Several duties of that important Office respectfully as it relates to the Government with promptness, faithfulness and humanity as respects the Citizens of the County of Strafford ~

the citizens of his own Town for many Years past have united in their suffrage in electing him their Representative in the general Court where he has ever been known as an independent member, and a firm Supporter of the Constitution and Laws of the State, as an important Militia officer, it is our duty to Say that a very Considerable part of the great improvement that has been made in the discipline of the Militia in the County of Strafford has been the result of his Knowledge, attention, and most faithful discharge of his Duty as inspector of the Militia, and as in duty bound we ever pray ~ January 2d 1810 ~

[Column 1:] Thos Cloutman, Joseph Berry, Francis Berry, Simeon Wiggin, Josiah Wiggin, Jeremiah Cloutman, James Berry, William Berry, John Cloutman, Beniah Dore, John Hart, George Young, Daniel Grant, Joseph Libbey, David Corston, David M. Corston, James Merrow,

[Column 2:] William Leavitt, Jeremiah Goodwin, Jeremiah Goodwin Junr, Jona Moulton, Caleb Wingate, Timo Wentworth, Ephraim Twomly [Twombly], William Courson, Wm S. Nutter, John Remick Jr, Joseph Dearborn, Nath Gilman, Solomon Wiggin, Nathan Jones, Daniel Cloutman, Benjamin Horn, Gilman Cloutman, John Wiggin

Another petition, which was nearly identical, but was dated January 6, 1810, circulated separately.

Gov. Smith was a Federalist, whose single-year term was sandwiched between two terms of Democratic-Republican John Langdon.

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References:

Find a Grave. (2010, August 20). Andrew Wentworth. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/57379165/andrew-wentworth

Wikipedia. (2025, July 26). List of Governors of New Hampshire. Retrieved from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_New_Hampshire

By Muriel Bristol | August 3, 2025

Simon Chase was born in Berwick, ME, September 30, 1786, son of Sgt. John and Hannah (Dennett) Chase.

Mother Hannah (Dennett) Chase died in 1806.

The valuable mill privilege at the Three Ponds naturally made this the [Milton] 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).

Simon Chase headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-25 years [himself]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jno Fisk and Nicholas Harford. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Simon Chase married in Milton, October 28, 1813, Sarah Wingate, both of Milton. She was born in West Milton, in 1794, daughter of Enoch and Mary “Molly” (Yeaton) Wingate. Rev. Solomon Sias performed the ceremony.

(The known children of Simon and Sarah (Wingate) Chase were: Betsey Shannon Chase (1814–1886), Enoch Wingate Chase (1817-1897), George W. Chase (1819–1820), John Dennett Chase (1821-1863), Mary Yeaton Chase (1823-1911), Harriet Louisa “Hattie” Chase (1827–1887), Charles Kittredge Chase (1830–1887), Infant Chase (unknown–1833), Sarah Frances Chase (1834–1899), Maria Josephine Chase (1838–1851)).

Daughter Betsy Shannon Chase was born in Milton, August 4, 1814.

Simon Chase was among the ten Milton inhabitants that petitioned the NH General Court, in 1816, seeking a road weight limit. There were also four petitioners from Middleton, six from Rochester, and nine from Farmington, NH. (See Milton Road Weight Petition – 1816).

Son Enoch Wingate Chase was born in Milton, April 20, 1817. He was a namesake for his maternal grandfather, Enoch Wingate.

The U.S. Post Office Department appointed storekeeper Simon Chase as Milton’s first postmaster, March 3, 1818. (See Milton’s First Postmasters (1818-c1840)).

Son George W. Chase was born in Milton in 1819. He died in Milton in 1820.

Son John Dennett Chase was born in Milton, March 6, 1821.

[Simon Chase] removed to Rochester in 1822, and went into business in company with Jonathan Torr. In 1825 he bought Torr’s interest in the business, and built a new brick store. The same year he bought the house on Central Square which was his home until his death (McDuffee, 1892).

Daughter Mary Yeaton Chase was born in Rochester, NH, June 25, 1823.

Simon Chase was one of thirteen inhabitants of the northwesterly part of Rochester, NH, that petitioned the NH Governor and Executive Council, June 9, 1825, seeking appointment of Ebenezer D. Trickey as a Rochester justice-of-the peace.

Father John Chase died in North Berwick, ME, December 11, 1826, aged seventy-seven years.

Simon Chase was one of the original twenty-two incorporators of the Rochester Academy, when it was chartered June 30, 1827.

State of New Hampshire }
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE SUNDRY PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE PROPRIETORS OF ROCHESTER ACADEMY.
[Approved June 30, 1827. Acts, vol. 24, p. 127]
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That an Academy for the instruction of youth in the various elementary branches of useful education, be established in Rochester, and that Isaac Willey, Hatevil Knight, William Hurd, William G. Webster, John McDuffee, Jun., Joseph S. Hanson, David Barker, James Tebbets, D. Barker, Jr., I.H. Woodman, Nathl Upham, Charles Dennet, Joseph Cross, I.H. Torr, John Greenfield, Simon Chase, James C. Cole, Moses Hale, Joseph Hanson, Jr., John Smith, John Roberts, Jr., and William Barker, and their associates and successors, be and they hereby are incorporated and made a body corporate and politic forever, by the name of the Proprietors of Rochester Academy, and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and be prosecuted, defend and be defended to final judgment and execution; may, for the use, benefit and support of said Academy and for no other purpose, receive, purchase and hold, grants and donations of real and personal estate to the value of ten thousand dollars; may erect, build and repair suitable buildings for the use and accommodation of said Academy; may choose and appoint all necessary officers, and make such by laws, rules and regulations as they may think expedient for warning and holding the meetings and conducting the business of said corporation, and may elect and appoint at such times, and for such terms as they shall think proper, trustees of said academy not exceeding twelve in number, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, who shall have power to hire, appoint and compensate such instructors as they may judge necessary, and to make, ordain and enforce such by laws and ordinances as may be necessary for the well government of said institution; provided such by laws, rules and regulations and ordinances be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State. And said corporation may have and use a common seal, and the same may break, alter and renew at their pleasure and may possess and exercise all the powers and privileges incident to corporations of a similar nature.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, That said corporation may forever elect and receive additional members thereof in such manner and under such restrictions as they may think proper.
Section 3d. And be it further enacted, That David Barker, Jr., I.H. Woodman, and Hatevil Knight, or any two of them, may call the first meeting of the corporation, by posting up notifications for that purpose, in two or more public places in Rochester, specifying the object of said meeting, fifteen days prior to said meeting, and may preside in said meeting till a moderator shall be chosen (NH Secretary of State, 1921).

Daughter Harriet Louisa Chase was born in Rochester, NH, November 25, 1827.

APPROVED SCHOOL BOOKS. EMERSON’S INTRODUCTION, do. SPELLING-BOOK, PUTNAM’S INTRODUCTON to the Analytical Reader, do. ANALYTICAL READR, do. SEQUEL, do. MURRAY’S GRAMMAR. The above popular School Books, used in most of the towns in this county, are kept for sale at Dover prices, for cash, by J.G. Chase & Co., Great Falls; Torr and McDuffee, and Simon Chase, Rochester; Watson Hayes, Barrington; S.M. Mathes, and John Nutter, Milton; Wm Sawyer, jr., John Wingate, and D.G. Rollins, Wakefield; Jeremy Wingate, Farmington; and Rev. S. Hidden, Tamworth. Also, by the subscriber, in Dover, who has likewise for sale, on the lowest terms for cash or approved credit, all other School Books used in this section of the country, wholesale and retail. Dec. 29. S.C. STEVENS [27] (Dover Enquirer, January 5, 1830).

Son Charles Kittredge Chase was born in Rochester, NH, March 17, 1830.

Simon Chase headed a Rochester, 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 [Sarah (Wingate) Chase], one female aged 15-19 years [Betsy S. Chase], one male aged 10-14 years [George W. Chase], one female aged 10-14 years [Harriet L. Chase], one male aged 5-9 years [John D. Chase], one female aged 5-9 years [Mary Y. Chase], one female aged under-5 years [Harriet L. Chase], and one male aged under-5 years [Charles K. Chase].

FARM FOR SALE. GREAT BARGAIN. A FARM situated in Rochester, on the main road leading from Norway Plains Village to Dover, occupied by Col. John Meserve, containing nearly SIXTY ACRES with good BUILDINGS, will be sold at about Eight Hundred Dollars, on a long credit to close company business — Possession given immediately. For further information inquire of SIMON CHASE, or JOHN GREENFIELD. Rochester, April 6, 1830. 42tf (Dover Enquirer, April 13, 1830).

COLBY’S AXES. FOR Sale at the Manufacturer’s prices, singly or by the dozen, by SIMON CHASE, Rochester The Manufacturer would recommend them as of a very superior quality. Customers are requested to examine for themselves. THOMAS COLBY. Rochester, Nov. 16, 1830 3w (Dover Enquirer, November 16, 1830).

Daughter Sarah Frances Chase was born in Rochester, NH, October 2, 1834.

ROCHESTER BANK. The following gentlemen have been selected as Directors of this institution: – James Farrington, Moses Hale, John Greenfield, Simon Chase, Charles Dennett, Nehemiah Eastman, John A. Burleigh. James Farrington has been appointed President, and John McDuffie, Jr., cashier. The bank we understand, goes into operation on the 22d of June next (Dover Enquirer, March 17, 1835).

Simon Chase was chosen one of seven members of the Executive Committee of the Strafford County Anti-Slavery Society, when it was formed in Gilmanton, NH, February 27, 1836.

ANOTHER COUNTY SOCIETY. A meeting to form an Anti-Slavery Society for the County of Strafford in New-Hampshire, convened at Gilmanton on the 27th ult. Forty-one delegates were present, representing fifteen towns. The meeting was addressed by a number of distinguished gentlemen of the county, and by Rev. Mr. Curtis of Pittsfield, Mr. Lewis of Providence, and others from abroad. The influence of the New Hampshire Patriot, and its mobocratic disciples was not felt at Gilmanton, ergo there was no disturbance. On the contrary, every thing passed off with great unanimity, and with perfect good feeling. A Society was formed with the following officers: Asa Freeman, Esq., President; Rev. Mr. Scott, Jonathan Clarke, Esq. Rev. Enoch Place, Rev. J.D. Quimby, Rev. Jared Perkins, Vice Presidents; Rev. David Root, Simon Chase, Enoch Mack, Thomas Beach, William Burr, John A. Richards, Esq., Rev. E. Goodell, Executive Committee. The Society voted to establish a depository for antislavery publications at Dover. Yours, N. SOUTHARD (The Liberator (Boston, MA), May 7, 1836).

(The portmanteau term “mobocratic” for the NH Patriot newspaper and its “disciples” implied that it was a pro-slavery Democrat newspaper and its readers were a violent pro-slavery Democrat “mob”). (See Milton and Abolitionism).

Daughter Maria Josephine Chase was born in Rochester, NH, in 1838.

Son Enoch W. Chase married in Rochester, NH, July 31, 1839, Martha Jane Roberts, both of Rochester, NH. Rev. Francis Pike performed the ceremony. She was born in Rochester, NH, May 6, 1817, daughter of John and Lois (Dame) Roberts.

Daughter Betsy S. Chase married in Rochester, NH, September 19, 1839, Dominicus Hanson. He was born in Rochester, August 13, 1813, son of Joseph and Charity (Dame) Hanson.

Married. In Rochester, Dominicus Hanson, Esq., to Miss Betsy S. Chase, daughter of Mr. Simon Chase (Dover Enquirer, October 15, 1839).

Simon Chase head a Rochester, 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 [Sarah (Wingate) Chase], two females aged 15-19 years [Harriet L. Chase and Mary Y. Chase], one male aged 10-14 years [Charles K. Chase], one female aged 10-14 years [Harriet L. Chase], one female aged 5-9 years [Sarah F. Chase], and one female aged under-5 years [Maria J. Chase]. One member of his household was engaged in Commerce.

Dominicus Hanson headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], and one female aged 20-29-years [Betsy S. (Chase) Hanson]. One member of his household was engaged in Commerce.

Enoch W. Chase headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], and one female aged 20-29-years [Martha J. (Roberts) Chase]. One member of his household was engaged in Commerce.

Son Enoch W. Chase received appointment as a Major in the 39th NH Militia Regiment in July 1841.

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments have been made by the Governor and Council; – Samuel Burnham, Major General, 2d Division;—William Chesley, Brigadier, 2d Brigade, 2d Division. 2d Regiment. – Daniel C. Gile, Colonel; Thomas Stackpole, Lt. Colonel; William H. Alden, Major. 27th Regiment. – Asa Pitman, Colonel; James J. Hersey, Lt. Colonel; Thomas L. Nudd, Major. 39th Regiment. – Jeremiah Roberts, Colonel; Charles Y. Meserve, Lt. Col.; Enoch W. Chase, Major (July 13, 1841).

Son John Dennett Chase of Rochester, NH, was a Senior at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, during the 1841-42 academic year.

ON the 12th day of August, 1842, I took possession for condition broken, for the purpose of foreclosing a mortgage made by Andrew Robinson to me, dated June 29, 1839, of a parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated in Rochester, in the County of Strafford, and State of New Hampshire, bounded easterly by the Wakefield road, northerly by land of Stephen M. Mathes, westerly by land of Asa Y. Goodwin and southerly by land of David Barker, of Jonathan T. Dodge and of John Richardson. ENOCH W. CHASE. Rochester, Sept. 15, 1842 *15 (Dover Enquirer, September 27, 1842).

Son John Dennett Chase married in Middletown, CT, December 27, 1842, Catherine R. Ward. Rev. John R. Crane performed the ceremony.

Daughter Mary Yeaton Chase married in Rochester, NH, July 20, 1843, Dr. Stephen Watson Drew, she of Rochester, NH, and he of Haverhill, MA. He was born in Milton, August 15, 1818.

Marriages. In Rochester, on the 20th inst., by Rev. Mr. Willey of Milton, Dr. Stephen W. Drew of Haverhill, Mass., to Miss Mary Y. Chase, daughter of Simon Chase, Esq. (Dover Enquirer, July 23, 1843).

Simon Chase appeared in a NH Bank Commissioners Report of 1844, as President of the Rochester Bank.

ROCHESTER BANK. Simon Chase, President; John Greenfield, Charles Dennett, Watson Hayes, Jeremy Wingate, John A. Burleigh, and James C. Cole, Directors. None of them owe the bank any thing as principal. $280 only is due from them, as sureties. John Mc Duffie, Jr., the Cashier, has given a good bond for $20,000, and owes the bank nothing. Dividends have been made semi-annually, amounting in 1841 to 7 per cent, in 1842 to 6 3-4 per cent, and in the first six months of 1844 to 3 per cent. The directors make the discounts, but they have never made a very thorough examination of the bank. They have stated meetings every Monday. $2,660 loaned on pledge of stock. Charter expires, September 1, 1854 (NH General Court, 1844).

Simon Chase appeared twice in a March 1846 list of subscribers for stock of the Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway Railroad. There were 3,002 stock shares overall and Simon Chase had a block of 100 shares and another block of 600 shares. His son-in-law, Dominicus Hanson, appeared also, as having a block of 100 shares (NH General Court, 1849).

Simon Chase opened a Great Falls, i.e., Somersworth, NH, dry goods store, in April 1846, in addition to his existing Rochester, NH, store.

NEW STORE. I HAVE opened the Store formerly occupied by Geo. W. Orange, a few doors west of the Great Falls Hotel, on the north side of High street, where I shall offer for sale an assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Pork, Lard, Butter, Cheese, & c. Genesee and Ohio Flour, Corn and Rye Meal. Shovels, Hoes, Manure and Hay Forks, Scythes, Nails, & c. Timothy, Clover and Red Top Seeds in season. A prime article now on hand. The public are respectfully invited to call and examine my assortment of Goods before making their purchases. SIMON CHASE. Great Falls, April 20, 1846. 46 (Dover Enquirer, April 21, 1846).

Mother-in-law Mary “Molly” (Yeaton) Wingate died in Rochester, NH, June 1, 1849.

DEATHS. In Rochester, June 1st, widow Mary Wingate, in the 96th year of her age (Dover Enquirer, June 12, 1849).

Simon Chase, a merchant, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Wingate)] Chase, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), Harriet Chase, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Charles Chase, a merchant, aged twenty years (b. NH), Sarah F. Chase, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Josephine Chase, aged twelve years (b. NH). Simon Chase had real estate valued at $4,800.

Dominicus Hanson, a trader, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included  Betsey S.C. [(Chase)] Hanson, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and Charles A.C. Hanson, aged five years (b. NH). Dominicus Hanson had real estate valued at $5,000.

Enoch W. Chase, a trader, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Martha J. [(Roberts)] Chase, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), Simon F. Chase, aged ten years (b. NH), Helen M.A. Chase, aged six years (b. NY), and John F. Chase, aged two years (b. NH). Enoch W. Chase had real estate valued at $600.

Stephen W. Drew, a physician, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Woburn, MA, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Chase)] Drew, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), and Grace McDuffet, aged twenty years (b. Ireland). The shared a three-family residence with the households of Gilman A. Bean, a mason, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Betsy Winn, aged fifty-two years (b. MA).

J.D. Chase, an M.D., aged twenty-six years (b. NY [NH]), headed a Subdivision #94, i.e., Washington, GA, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Catharine [(Ward)] Chase, aged twenty-six years (b. NY [CT], Harriett Chase, aged four years (b. GA), and Charles Chase, aged two months (b. GA).

Daughter Harriet L. Chase married in Rochester, NH, February 25, 1851, James Farrington, both of Rochester, NH. He was aged twenty-three years and she was aged twenty-one years. He was  born in Conway, NH, in 1827, son of Elijah and Lois (Lang) Farrington. Rev. J.E. Farwell performed the ceremony.

MARRIAGES. In Rochester, Tuesday, Feb. 25, by Rev. J.E. Farwell, Dr. James Farrington, Jr., to Miss Harriet Louisa Chase, daughter of Simon Chase, Esq., Merchant (Dover Enquirer, March 4, 1851).

Daughter Maria Josephine Chase died in Rochester, NH, in 1851.

A CARD. THE Officers and members of Cocheco Engine Co. No. 1 would return their sincere thanks to Messrs. J.H. Woodman and Simon Chase, Esqs., for the very acceptable supply of Refreshments furnished them at the fire this morning. Also to Gonic Co. No. 3, for their valuable assistance in subduing the raging flames and last but not least to Co’s No. 1 and 4 of Great Falls for the hearty good will shown in so promptly responding to our call for assistance in time of need. Per order of the Company, GEO. W. BARKER, Clerk. Rochester, Aug. 21st, 1851 (Dover Enquirer, August 26, 1851).

Son Charles K. Chase married (1st) in Rochester, NH, April 22, 1855, Ella M. Burleigh, he of Rochester, NH, and she of Sandwich, NH. Rev. S. Holman performed the ceremony

Simon Chase, a trader, aged seventy-three years (b. ME), headed a Rochester (“Farmington P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Wingate)] Chase, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), Sarah F. Chase, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Helen M. Chase, aged fifteen years (b. NY). Simon Chase had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $3,000.

Enoch W. Chase, a farmer, aged forty-three years (b. NH), headed a Holland, WI, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Martha J. [(Roberts)] Chase, aged forty-one years (b. NH), Hellen N. Chase, aged sixteen years (b. NY), and John F. Chase, aged twelve years (b. NH). Enoch W. Chase had real estate valued at $1,200 and personal estate valued at $175.

Stephen W. Drew, a physician, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Woburn, MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary Y. [(Chase)] Drew, a housewife, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), Mary P. Drew, aged twelve years (b. MA), Harriet W. Drew, aged six years (b. MA), and Nancy Holland, a servant, aged eighteen years (b. Ireland). Stephen W. Drew has personal estate valued at $1,000.

John D. Chase, a physician, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Washington, GA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Catherine R. [(Ward)] Chase, aged thirty-five years (b. CT), Hattie L. Chase, aged twelve years (b. NY), Charlie A. Chase, aged ten years (b. GA), William A. Chase, aged six years (b. GA), and John W. Chase, aged two years (b. GA). John D. Chase had real estate valued at $4,000 and personal estate valued at $6,000.

James Farington, a physician, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (“Farmington P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Harriet L. [(Chase)] Farington, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), Ellen F. Farington, aged five years (b. NH), Josephine C. Farington, aged nine months (b. NH), Lydia Sausman, aged forty-five years (b. NH), Mary E. Strange, aged fifteen years (b. England). James Farington had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $4,500. Lydia Sausman had personal estate valued at $500.

Charles K. Chase, a trader, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (“Farmington P.O.”), NH household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Ellen M. [(Burleigh)] Chase, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), Charles S. Chase, aged three years (b. NH), Winneford Lynch, aged twenty-six years (b. Ireland), Mary A. Lynch, aged three years (b. ME), Catharine Lynch, aged two years (b. NH), and Ann Bradley, aged thirty years (b. Ireland).

Son John D. Chase, M.D., volunteered to serve as Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon for a Wilkes County Georgia volunteer regiment being formed in March 1861.

Washington, Wilkes County, Ga.
7th March 1861.
Hon. Joseph E. Brown.
Dr. Sir: I see a notice posted up in our town this morning for the election of a Col. for the reg. to be formed in our county. My object in writing to you is to solicit the appointment of Surgeon to this Reg. or if I may not be appointed to our Wilkes Reg. to some other in which you may have the appointing of Surgeon or Assistant Surg.
I am a graduate of college as well as medicine having graduated in medicine (about) 1846 I think. I am a northerner by birth but having lived in this county for the last 11 years I am a full blooded Georgian in principle, feeling and interest.
I have been in my profession ever since graduating either as a practitioner or Druggist – for a number of years past have been the latter, it being a more lucrative business. Respectfully Yours, John D. Chase.

Simon Chase, James Farrington, and Charles K. Chase, were among those calling for a public meeting in Rochester, NH, April 18, 1861, after the bombardment of Fort Sumter.

PUBLIC MEETING. Fellow Citizens! The time has come when by the bombardment of its Forts and organized resistance to its authority – War exists against a Government which has conferred only benefits. The President calls upon the country for aid to maintain that Government and its authority. In this trial hour which test our capacity for self government – when an armed conflict is upon us – political differences should give way to patriotism, and all who recognize the ballot box as the rightful means of revolution in a free government – who prize the blessings of LIBERTY over usurpation and anarchy – should unite together to sustain the Government. All citizens animated by such a purpose, are invited to meet at the TOWN HALL In Rochester, Thursday Evening, April 18th, to take such action as they may deem proper.
WATSON HAYES, BENJA BARKER, SIMON CHASE, NICHOLAS R. VARNEY, DANIEL McDUFFEE, GEO B. ROBERTS, BENJA HOBBS, F. McDUFFEE, M.B. WENTWORTH, CHARLES K. CHASE, JOHN LEGRO, WALTER B.K. HODGDON, JOHN MANSON, J.N. WILKINSON, CHAS E. BLACKMAR, IRA DOE, J.O. HOWARD, CHAS W. FOLSOM, DAVID AUSTIN, R. McDUFFEE JR, HARRISON HALE, JOHN STOTT, B. FLETCHER, J.D. PILLSBURY, J. WESLEY HORNE, T.C. DAVIS, JABEZ DAME, W.K. KIMBALL, J. FARRINGTON, EPHRAIM HAMMETT, S.D. WENTWORTH, JACOB H. ELA, DAVID J. FOLSOM, JOSIAH B. KIMBALL, JAMES H. EDGERLY, J.D. EVANS, JOHN FOLSOM, EDWIN WALLACE, JOHN McDUFFEE, JOHN W. SANBORN, E.G. WALLACE, G.D. PLUMER, JOHN CORSON, J. WENTWORTH, SILAS HUSSEY JR, SAMUEL JELERSON, T. BROWN, CHAS DENNETT, E.J. MATHES, S.H. FEINEMAN, REUBEN TILTON, E.L. GLIDDEN, GEO F. GUPPY, THOS H. HUSSEY, DAVID J. SANBORN, F. FEINEMAN, CHAS HENDERSON (McDuffee, 1892). 

Son John D. Chase made his last will in Washington, Wilkes County, GA, July 28, 1863. He bequeathed the house and lot in Washington, where they had resided, along with its furniture and other contents, to his beloved wife, Catherine Chase. She was to receive also his storehouse and merchandise. He bequeathed the rest and residue to his five children. He appointed his wife as executrix. D.G. Cotting, J.D. Smith, and Wm. M. Booker witnessed his signature. His will was proved in a Wilkes County Probate Court, December 10, 1863. (His gravestone features the abbreviation “C.S.A.” for “Confederate States of America”).

Daughter-in-law Mrs. C.R. Chase of Washington, GA, paid a $2 U.S. Excise Tax on her piano in 1865.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. The people of Rochester are taking legal measures to pay Charles K. Chase for damage done to his store and stock of goods by the agents of the liquor sellers and also to ferret out and punish the criminals and execute the prohibitory law hereafter (Springfield Daily Republican (Springfield, MA), June 4, 1866).

Sarah (Wingate) Chase died in Rochester, NH, June 14, 1870, aged seventy-five years, eight months.

DIED. In Rochester, June 15, Mrs. Sarah Wingate, wife of Simon Chase, aged 75 years and 8 months (Dover Enquirer, June 23, 1870).

Simon Chase, aged eighty-three years (b. NH [SIC]), headed a Rochester (“Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sarah F. Chase, keeping house, aged thirty years (b. NH). Simon Chase had real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $300.

Dominious Hanson, an apothecary, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (“Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Betsey S. [(Chase)] Hanson, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), and Charles A. Hanson, aged twenty-five years (b. NH).

E.W. Chase, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Sterling, MN, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Martha J. [(Roberts)] Chase, a housekeeper, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and G. Fred Chase, farming, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH). E.W. Chase had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $150.

S. Watson Drew, a physician, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Woburn, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Mary Y. [(Chase)] Drew, keeping house, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), Mary J. Drew, at home, aged twenty-two years (b. MA), Harriet W. Drew, at school, aged sixteen years (b. MA), Caroline B. Drew, aged three years (b. MA), Benjamin Gould, a laborer, aged twenty-five years (b. VA), and Kate Doherty, a servant, aged twenty years (b. Ireland). S. Watson Drew had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $1,500.

Catherine [(Ward)] Chase, keeping house, aged forty-three years (b. CT), headed a Washington, GA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. Her household included Hattie L. Chase, aged twenty-two years (b. NY), Chas A. Chase, clerk in store, aged eighteen years (b. GA), Wm H. Chase, clerk in store, aged sixteen years (b. GA), John D. Chase, at school, aged twelve years (b. GA), and Frank M. Chase, aged seven years (b. GA). Catherine Chase had real estate valued at $4,200 and personal estate valued at $10,000. hey shared a two-family residence with the household of Peter Long, a domestic servant, aged forty years (b. GA). (Peter Long and his wife, Lucy Long, aged thirty-five years (b. GA) were “black”).

Jas. F. Farrington, a physician, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Harriette [(Chase)] Farrington, keeping house, aged forty-two years (b. NH), Nellie F. Farrington, at home, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Josephine G. Farrington, aged ten years (b. NH), and Lois [(Lang)] Farrington, aged seventy-six years (b. NH).

Charles K. Chase, retail dry goods, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester (Gonic P.O.”), NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Ellen M. [(Burleigh)] Chase, keeping house, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Charles S. Chase, at home, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Gracie M.J. Chase, aged ten years (b. NH), Henry W. Chase, aged one year (b. NH), Dana Mathes, a clerk in dry goods store, aged nineteen years (b. NH), and Charity Nutter, a domestic servant, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH).

Daughter-in-law Ellen M. (Burleigh) Chase died in Rochester, NH, in 1874.

Son-in-law Stephen W. Drew died in Woburn, MA, February 18, 1875.

Local Matters. Moses Jenness, aged 93, Simon Chase, 90, and John F. Lougee, 90, were three veteran voters who cast their centennial vote for Hayes & Wheeler at the Rochester polls on the 7th (Dover Enquirer, November 23, 1876).

Charles K. Chase married (2nd) in Rochester, NH, December 26, 1876, Abbie (McDuffee) Whitehouse, both of Rochester, NH. He was a merchant, aged forty-six years, and she was aged thirty-six years. She was born in Rochester, NH, August 27, 1840, daughter of John and Joanna (Hanson) McDuffee. Rev. S.G. Kellogg performed the ceremony.

Local Matters. Wallace Brothers have bought the residence and lot of Simon Chase, in Rochester, on Market Square with a view of erecting a business block (Dover Enquirer, May 10, 1877).

Simon Chase of Rochester, NH, made his last will November 27, 1877. He bequeathed $500 to his daughter, Betsy Hanson, and $50 to his grandson, Vharles C.A. Hanson. He bequeathed $100 to his son, Enoch W. Chase, and $50 each to his grandchildren, Fred Chase and Helen Chase. He bequeathed $500 to his daughter, Harriet L. Farrington, and $50 each to his granddaughters, Nellie Farrington and Janie Farrington. He bequeathed $600 to his daughter, Mary Y. Drew, and $50 each to his granddaughters, Jossie Drew, Hattie Drew, and Clara Drew. He bequeathed $100 to his son, Charles K. Chase, and $50 each to his grandchildren, Charles S. Chase, Gracie Chase, Harry Chase, Harriete L. Chase, Charles A. Chase, William L. Chase, John D. Chase, and Francis M. Chase. He bequeathed his household furniture and $50 to his daughter, Sarah F. Chase. He bequeathed $50 to Martha Chase, wife of his son, Enoch W. Chase. He bequeathed all the rest and residue to his daughter, Mary Y. Drew, and his daughter-in-law, Martha Chase (wife of Enoch W. Chase), and named Dominicus Hanson of Rochester,  NH, as executor. George F. Palmer, Dudley B. Waldron and William Rand signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 89:293).

Simon Chase died in Rochester, NH, February 7, 1878, aged ninety-one years.

OBITUARY. SIMON CHASE, a well-known businessman of Rochester, N.H., died recently, aged 91 years. He had been a merchant in that town for sixty years (Boston Post, February 9, 1878).

DIED. In Rochester, N.H., Feb. 7, Simon Chase, 91 yrs. (New England Farmer (Boston, MA), February 16, 1878).

His last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Dover, NH, March 5, 1878 (Strafford County Probate Court, 89:295).

Dominicus Hanson, an apothecary, aged sixty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Betsey S.C. [(Chase)] Hanson, keeping house, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), and his son, Charles A.C. Hanson, a clerk, aged thirty-one years (b. NH). They resided on Wakefield Street.

E.W. Chase, a farmer, aged sixty-three years (b. NH), headed a Sterling. MN, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included Martha J. [(Roberts)] Chase, keeping house, aged sixty-one years (b. NH). E.W. Chase shared a two-family residence with the household of J.F. Chase, a farmer, aged thirty-two years (b. NH). J.F. Chase had measles and a son, Frank P. Chase, at home, aged one year (b. MN).

Mary Y. [(Chase)] Drew, housekeeping, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Woburn, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household included M. Josephine Drew, works in dry goods store, aged thirty-two years (b. MA), Hattie W. Drew, works in dry goods store, aged twenty-six years (b. MA), and Carrie D. Drew, at school, aged thirteen years (b. MA). They resided on Pleasant Street.

Cathrine R. [(Ward)] Chase, a housekeeper, aged fifty-four years, headed a Washington, GA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Charles A. Chase, an express agent, aged twenty-eight years, William H. Chase, a farmer & drug, aged twenty-six years, John D. Chase, an express messenger, aged twenty-two years, and Frank M. Chase, at school, aged seventeen years, and her servants, Johanna Opia, a cook, aged thirty-four years (b. GA), William B. Opia, aged five years (b. GA), Samuel Opia, aged three years (b. GA), and Joseph B. Green, a laborer, aged twenty years (b. GA). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Henry B. Kemm, a dentist, aged thirty-eight years (b. SC), his wife, Hattie L. [(Chase)] Kemm, aged thirty-one years (b. NY), and their two children.

James Farrington, a physician, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Hariett S [(Chase)] Farrington, keeping house, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), his mother, Lois L. [(Lang)] Farrington, at home, aged eighty-six years (b. NH), his son-in-law, George McDuffee, wholesale grain store, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), his daughter, Ellen F. [(Farrington)] McDuffee, at home, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), his son-in-law, Arther V. Sanborn, furniture store, aged twenty-one years (b. ME), his daughter, Josaphene C. [(Farrington)] Sanborn, at home, aged twenty years (b. NH), and his servant, Annie Day, housework, aged twenty-four years (b. Ireland).

Charles K. Chase, a dry goods merchant, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Abbie [((McDuffee) Whitehouse)] Chase, keeping house, aged forty years (b. NH), and his children, Grace M.J. Chase, at home, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Harry W. Chase, at school, aged ten years (b. NH), Sarah A. Chase, aged two years (b. NH), and Jess Chase, aged eleven months (b. NH), and his servants, Mattis Main, a servant, aged twenty years (b. NH), and Sarah Grace, a servant, aged forty-eight years (b. NH).

Daughter Betsy S. (Chase) Hanson died in Rochester, NH, April 8, 1886.

Son Charles K. Chase died in Rochester, NH, February 13, 1887, aged fifty-six years, eight months, and twenty-seven days. He was a married merchant.

Death of a Prominent Rochester Man. Rochester N. H., February 14. Charles K. Chase, a prominent citizen, died last night aged 57. During the first year of the war he was elected one of the committee to pay funds due the families of soldiers. He took a decided stand for temperance. Last election he was nominated by the temperance party as representative to Congress (Boston Daily Globe, February 14, 1887).

Daughter Harriet L. (Chase) Farrington died April 7, 1887.

Mary Y. Drew appeared in Dover, NH, in the surviving Veterans Schedule of the Eleventh (1890) Federal Census. She was the widow of Stephen W. Drew, who had been a Surgeon in the 9th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, for a year between August 30, 1861 and September 1862.

Son Enoch W. Chase died in Barnesville, MN, April 6, 1897.

Daughter Sarah F. Chase died of locomotor alexia in Rochester, NH, January 15, 1899, aged sixty-four years, three months, and thirteen days. She was a single housekeeper. J.E. Whitney, M.D., signed the death certificate.

ROCHESTER. Died, in Rochester, Sunday, Jan. 15, Sarah F., daughter of the late Simon and Betsey [Sarah] Chase (Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, NH), January 16, 1899).

ROCHESTER. The late Sarah Frances Chase left no will, and her property is to be divided. The heirs are a sister and several nephews and nieces (Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, NH), January 26, 1899). 

Dominicus Hanson, a landlord, aged eighty-six years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his son, Charles A.C. Hanson, aged fifty-five years (b. NH). Dominicus Hanson owned their house at 11 Wakefield Street, free-and-clear.

Mary Y. [(Chase)] Drew, aged seventy-six years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Harriet W. Drew, a clerk (bank), aged forty-six years (b. MA). Mary Y. Drew was a widow, who had married fifty-seven years ago. She was the mother of three children, of whom three were still living. They resided at 58 Silver Street.

James Farrington, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included Nellie F. Farrington, aged forty-five years (b. NH), George McDuffee, dealer (furniture), aged fifty-four years (b. NH), Mary C. Crowley, a servant, aged forty-five years (b. England), Katherine O’Day, a servant, aged thirty-eight years (b. Ireland), and James F. Sanborn, a clerk (rubber factory), aged nineteen years (b. NH). James Farrington owned their house, free-and-clear. They resided on Wakefield Street, next to Dominicus Hanson.

Daughter-in-law Martha J. (Roberts) Chase died in Wenatchee, WA, in 1904.

Son-in-law Dominicus Hanson died of influenza at 11 Wakefield Street in Rochester, NH, June 1, 1907, aged ninety-three years, nine months, and eight days. He was a widowed retiree, and lifelong resident. Charles Blazo signed the death certificate.

ROCHESTER. Dominicus Hanson, one of the oldest, wealthiest and best known citizens of this city and stale, died Saturday afternoon at a little after 3 o’clock at his home on Wakefield street. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him and by the city as a whole. He was man that was honest, kind, sympathetic and charitable and to know him was a pleasure. He always liked to help those whom he could, but he was never telling what he did do. Mr Hanson’s death was caused by old age, but was hastened by his getting a cold a few weeks ago. Mr. Hanson was born in the house where he always lived which is one of the oldest houses in the city, but has been kept up among the best, on August 13, 1813. He was the son of Joseph and Charity (Dame) Hanson, the father being born in Dover. He attended the schools of this city and later Rochester Academy, Parsonsfield Seminary and Pembroke Academy, some of the best known schools of that time. In 1830 he went into the drug business with his brother-in-law, Dr. Smith, with whom he stayed for two years and then he purchased the doctors’ share and managed the business until 1880 with the exception of a few years when he was attending some of the schools. At the time this was the best drug store in the northern part of the state and people came here from everywhere to get their drugs. Mr. Hanson was considered. reliable In 1880 his store was destroyed by fire and with his advanced age he gave up the business but he had the store and block rebuilt and it has always been run as a drug store ever since. During the Civil war he issued $6000 worth of script money in tens, twenty-fives and fifty cent pieces which were circulated all over the New England States and never were refused at that time. He was known as honest Dominicus Hanson and never was known to cheat a man or woman out of a cent. In politics he was a strong Democrat and always voted that ticket. He first voted for Martin Van Buren for President and when a little before twenty-one years of age unknown to himself he was appointed postmaster of this city by President Jackson and he held the office under Jackson, Van Buren and Harrison. He was one of the first directors of the Norway Plains Savings bank which office he held up to the time of his death. He was a man that took a good deal of interest in this city and was always willing to help. Mr. Hanson was a large property owner and was the heaviest tax payer in the city. He owned and maintained Hanson street and the land where several of the blocks are located. He has given the city the free use of the street and kept it in repair, closing it up at the end of the time period just long enough to clear the law. In 1901 at his own expense of $5,000 he paved the street with granite and made it one of the best in the city and has always taken pride in the same. In 1839 he was married to Bessie S., the daughter of Simon Chase, then of Milton, and they lived a very happy life until the death angel called her in 1884. Two children were born, Charles A.C. Hanson, who is now the only living son, and George, who died when very young. Mr. Hanson was a smart man of his age and always was seen on the street when he was able and was very cheerful. By some he was thought to resemble Mark Twain in face, manners and wit. His age was 93 years, 9 months and 28 days. He leaves a son, Charles A.C. Hanson, of this city, and one brother, Asa A. of Newton City, Iowa, who is ninety years of age and who is the last one left of a family of ten. He is in the city to attend the funeral of his brother. The funeral will be held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon  at 1 o’clock. He was a regular attendant of this church when he was able to, and his wife was a member of the same (Foster’s Weekly Democrat & Dover Enquirer, June 7, 1907).

Mary Y. [(Chase) Drew, aged eighty-six years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included Harriet W. Drew, a clerk (bank), aged fifty-six years (b. MA), and Caroline B. Drew, aged forty-three years (b. MA). Mary Y. Drew was the mother of four children, of whom three were still living. She rented their house at 58 Silver Street.

Daughter Mary Y. (Chase) Drew died of pneumonia in Dover, NH, November 2, 1911, aged eighty-eight years, four months, and seven days. She was a widow.

Mrs. Mary Y. Drew Dead. Mrs. Mary Y. (Chase) Drew, widow  of S. Watson Drew, died this morning at her home, 58 Silver street, aged 88. The cause of her death was heart failure following a week’s illness from pneumonia. Mrs. Drew was born in Rochester, June 25, 1823, daughter of Simon and Sarah (Wingate) Chase. She came to this city from Woburn, Mass., 29 years ago. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. A.O. Mathes, and Misses Hattie W. and Caroline B. Drew, and a granddaughter, Miss Lura Mathes, all of this city. The funeral arrangements are not complete at this writing, but it is learned that there will be a prayer service at the house Saturday morning and the body will be taken to Woburn for burial in the family lot (Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, NH), November 2, 1911).

Daughter-in-law [Mary] Abigail ((McDuffee) Whitehouse) Chase died of angina pectoris on Wakefield Street in Rochester, NH, April 12, 1926, aged eighty-five years, seven months, and fifteen days. She was a widowed housekeeper.

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