Milton Observer

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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By Muriel Bristol | July 27, 2025

Benaiah Dore was born in Lebanon, ME, February 2, 1764, son of John and Charity (Wentworth) Dore.

Historical Memoranda. … Children of John and Charity (Wentworth) Dore were: Daniel, John, Jonathan, Hannah, Elizabeth, Charity, Joseph, Beniah, Philip, Wentworth, Paul, Sarah, Andrew and Dorothy (Dover Enquirer, June 4, 1868).

Benaiah Dore of Lebanon, ME, enlisted as a private, in December 1781, in Capt. John Fuller’s Company, in Col. William Shepards’ Fourth Massachusetts Regt., which was raised for the defense of West Point. He appeared in a muster roll there, in February 1782, and there until discharged in August or September 1783.

I, Joshua Pray of Lebanon in the County of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, testify and say that in the year A.D. 1781 I inlisted Seven men in Said Town of Lebanon into the Continental Service of the United States to be engaged in the Service of Said State in the war of the revolution and I further Say that Benaiah Dore, now of Milton in the County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire did enlist in the service as aforesaid in the Spring or Summer of Said year and that Said Dore did to my knowledge pass muster and was in Said Service for a number of Months but how long I cannot now recollect but I think for Considerable more than one year. Joshua Pray.
Strafford Ss. the 18th day of May A.D. 1818, the above named Joshua Pray personally appeared and made Sollom [Solemn] Oath that the Above declaration by him Subscribed was Just and true before Me. John Fish, Justice of the Peace.

Benaiah Dore of Milton, aged seventy-five years, testified in an affidavit, July 3, 1837, given in support of the Revolutionary pension application of Elizabeth (Witherell) Burrows, widow of Sgt. Jonathan Burrows of Lebanon, ME, Dore testified that he and six others had been recruited by Sgt. Burrows, in 1781, for the term of three years in the Continental service. (Jonathan Burrows died in Lebanon, ME, January 2, 1817).

“I, Benaiah Dore of Milton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy five years, depose, testify and say, that I enlisted into the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution, in the year 1781, at the time of my enlistment I lived in Lebanon in the County of York and provence [Province] of Maine, now State of Maine, and in the neighbourhood of Jonathan Burrows late of said Lebanon deceased, said Burrows had previously been ingaged [engaged] in the service, had been and [an] orderly sergeant, and was then a recruiting officer. I enlisted for three years with six others, none of the others are now alive to my knowledge. Soon after our enlistment, we all marched to Boston with said Burrows where we were to pass muster, the muster master refused at first to take me, as I was young and rather slender, but after sergeant Burrows had drild [drilled] me a few dayes, I went again before him, he then said we will take him, and if we can do nothing else with him we will make a drummer or fifer of him; after having pas’d muster I was attached to the fourth Massachusetts Regiment, Commanded by Col. [William] Sheappard in Capt. John Fuller’s Company, Capt. Fuller resigned I think in 1782 and Capt. [Jesse] Holister took his place. Mr. Burrows was joined to the fifth Massachusetts Regiment, we continued in Boston about one week, and then marched to West Point and joined the army. Sergeant Burrows had a brother by the name of David in the service with him, who was taken sick with the small pox and died. I had the same disorder at the same time and was sick in the hospital with said David Burrows, the said Jonathan Burrows was in to see us about every day and appeared to manifest great worriment of mind about his Brother and after his death appeared to be discontented, and wished to return home, and after having served about one year and a half as near as I can now recollect, he got a substitute, one Joseph Stevens to serve out the remainder of his three years enlistment and returned home to Lebanon aforesaid where he lived until his death, which took place about twenty years past. I do further depose and say, that my belief is that the said Jonathan Burrows acted as orderly sergeant untill he left the army ~ Benaiah {his x mark} Dore. Signed in presents [presence] of James Roberts
Strafford County ss. July 3rd 1837, personally appeared Benaiah Dore above named (who I certify is a creditable witness) and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true ~ Before me James Roberts Justice of the Peace.”

Benaiah Doore married (1st) in Berwick, ME, October 1, 1786, Experience Andrews, he of Lebanon, ME, and she of Berwick, ME.

(The known children of Benaiah and Experience (Andrews) Dore were: Benjamin Dore (1787-1877)).

Son Benjamin Dore was born in the Northeast Parish, Rochester, NH, March 22, 1787.

Beniah Door headed a Rochester, 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 [Benjamin Door], and three females [Experience (Andrews) Dore, and two others]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mark Miller, and James Berry. (See Northeast Parish in the First (1790) Federal Census).

Father John Dore died in 1796.

Brother Daniel Dore was one of twenty-four petitioners from Wakefield, Rochester & Dover, as well as Massachusetts, that signed the Salmon Falls sawmill petition of June 1797. (See Salmon Falls Sawmill Petition – 1797).

Beniah Door headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Experience (Andrews) Door], one male aged 10-15 years [Benjamin Door], one female aged 10-15 years, one male aged under-10 years, and two females aged under-5 years. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Former company commander Capt. John Fuller (1731-1801) died in Lunenburg, MA, February 4, 1801, aged seventy years.

Elder brothers, Jonathan Dore and Daniel Dore, both signed the Rochester Division Petition of 1802. For whatever reason, Benaiah Dore did not so sign.

Beniah Door was assessed in the Milton School District No. 3 of Paul Jewett in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

Experience (Andrews) Dore died in 1806. Benaiah Dore married (2nd) in Lebanon, ME, July 18, 1807, Mary “Polly” Pray. Rev. Zebulon Delano of Berwick, ME, performed the ceremony. She was born in Berwick, ME, circa 1780.

(The known children of Benaiah and Mary (Pray) Dore were: Eliphalet Pray Dore (1808–1868), Samuel Dore (1810–), Ebenezer P. Dore (1814–1841), Alice Dore (1817-), Isaac Benaiah Dore (1821–1891)).

Son Eliphalet Dore was born in Milton, July 26, 1808. Son Samuel Dore was born in Milton, July 4, 1810.

Mother Charity (Wentworth) Dore died circa 1810.

Benaiah Dore headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Mary (Pray) Dore], one male aged 16-25 years, one female aged 10-15 years, one male aged under-10 years [Eliphalet P. Dore], and one female aged under-10 years [Mary H. Dore]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Josiah Moulton and Henry Miller.

Son Benjamin Dore married (1st), December 25, 1811, Mary Brackett.

Son Benjamin Dore was among those that petitioned the NH General Court, in or around June 1814, seeking incorporation of the Milton Congregational Society. (See Milton Congregational Society Petition – 1814).

Son Ebenezer P. Dore was born in Milton, in 1814. Daughter Alice Dore was born in Milton, in 1817.

Former regimental commander Col. William Shepard (1737-1817) died in Westfield, MA, November 16, 1817, aged eighty years.

DIED. At Westfield, on the 16th of inst., William Shepard, aged 80. – He will be recollected as a brave and respectable officer of the Revolutionary army, and afterwards as Commander of the 4th Division of the Militia, during the rebellion of 1785 & 6, in this Commonwealth. – While in the service of the United States he received a wound in his neck. – He died possessed of unsullied reputation as a Christian, fair fame as a Soldier, and undeviating integrity as a Citizen. In addition to his various military employments, Gen. S. was appointed by the suffrages of his fellow citizens to many highly important trusts in the civil department of government. – for several years he held a seat in the Council and Senate of this state, and in the Congress of the United States. Such appointments were evincive of the esteem in which he was held and the general confidence placed in him (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), November 1817).

Daughter-in-law Mary (Brackett) Dore died July 8, 1818. Son Benjamin Dore married (2nd) in Shapleigh, ME, January 3, 1819, Deborah Brackett. She was born in Acton, ME, in 1779, daughter of Nathan W. and Mary (Heard) Brackett.

Benaiah Dore aged fifty-three years, resident in Milton, applied for a Revolutionary war veteran’s pension, in May 1818. He swore an affidavit in support of that application, March 16, 1819, before David M. Durrell, Strafford County Court of Common Pleas Justice,

… That he the said Benaiah Dore enlisted in said service in March or April 1781 in the state of Massachusetts to serve three years, that he joined the American army at West Point, & was attached to the company commanded by Capt. Fuller of the 4th Massachusetts Regt. commanded by Col. Shepard, that he continued to serve in the corps aforesaid, in the service of the United States, till August, or September 1783 when, in consequence of ill health, he was discharged from said service at West Point, in the state of New York ~

(Maine had then been a “Province” of Massachusetts). Benjamin Stevens gave an affidavit of his personal knowledge that Benaiah Dore of Milton had enlisted in the land service of the United States in 1781, for the term of three years. Levi Jones, justice-of-the-peace & of the quorum attested, July 10, 1819, that Stevens was a Gentleman whose character for truth and veracity had not to his knowledge been impeached.

David Knox testified that he too had served at West Point and that Benaiah Dore had joined him there as early as February 1782, and had remained there until discharged about the last of August or first of September 1783.

When the pension was approved, it commenced at the rate of $96 per annum retroactive to May 2, 1818. 

However, the earliest Revolutionary war pension statutes and provisions required also that the pensioner be in “reduced circumstances,” as well as been a Revolutionary veteran. Benaiah Dore was dropped from the pension roll over this issue after the March 1820 payment.

Benaiah Dore, aged fifty-five years, a resident of Milton, appeared in Dover, NH, July 4, 1820, in order to present an account of his being in “reduced circumstances.”

53 acres of land with an old dwelling house and barn on the same ~ 2 oxen ~ 3 cows ~ 3 hogs & 2 shoats [piglets], one half of a pair of wheels ~ one plough & one half of one harrow ~ one axe & one hoe ~ Iron hollow ware, nine chairs ~ one loom and two wheels, 3 tables, 1 chest & 1 case of drawers ~ one heifer one year old ~ $25 income. Beniah {his x mark} Dore. Attest Levi Jones, Fred Ballard.

Dore described also the names and ages of his family members, and their ability to contribute to their own support, as being

… a wife named Polly aged forty years ~ one son aged 12 years, unhealthy and not able to earn a living, named Eliphalet Dore ~ 1 son 10 years old Samuel Dore in good health ~ one son 5 years old named Ebenezer Dore in health ~ one daughter 3 years of age named Alice Dore ~ that his wife is in a low state of health and poorly able to labour ~ that he is indebted to several persons $43 ~

Son Isaac Benaiah Dore was born in Milton, in 1821.

Benaiah Dore of Milton filed the following schedule of his property, February 13, 1829, in support of his application to resume his monthly pension.

Schedule of my property. 53 Acres of poor Land in Milton in said County with an Old house & Barn thereon, three Old tables, ½ doz. old Chairs, one Tea Kettle, 1 pot (cracked), 1 two pail Kettle, ½ doz. Knives & forks, one yoke of small Oxen, one yoke Steers, three Cows, 11 Sheep, 2 Spring Pigs, and I am indebted to sundry persons in the sum of eighty Seven Dollars. Beniah {his x mark} Dore.

Benaiah Dore published a notice of his emancipation of his still-minor son, Samuel Dore, in 1830. (Samuel Dore would have been about eighteen or nineteen years of age).

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. I, THE subscriber, to hereby relinquish to my son, SAMUEL DORE, a minor, all right, title and claim to his future earnings, and allow him to transact business as of his own right, and shall not hereafter pay any debt or debts of his contracting. BENAIAH his x mark DORE. Attest, JOSHUA G. HALL. Milton, June 21, 1830 1* (Dover Enquirer, June 29, 1830).

Beniah Dore headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Mary (Pray) Dore], two males aged 20-29 years, one male aged 15-19 years, one female aged 15-19 years, one female aged 10-14 years, and one male aged 5-9 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Daniel Hayes, Jr., and Deborah Ricker. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Benj. Dore 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 30-39 years,  two males aged 15-19 years, one female aged 15-19 years, two males aged 10-14 years, one female aged 10-14 years, one male aged 5-9 years, one female aged 5-9 years, one male aged under-5 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Phineas Wentworth, and Beard T. Varney. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Brother Daniel Dore died in Milton, January 31, 1831.

Former company commander Capt. Jesse Hollister (1756-1831) of Lenox, MA, died in Burlington, VT, January 19, 1831, aged seventy-six years.

DEATHS. In Burlington, Capt. Jesse Hollister, aged 76, a soldier of the Revolution (Working Man’s Gazette (Woodstock, VT), February 2, 1831).

Bennaiah Dore headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 70-79 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Mary (Pray) Dore], one male aged 30-39 years, two males aged 20-29 years, two females aged 20-29 years, one male aged 15-19 years, and one male aged under-5 years. Five members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Benjamin Dore and Phineas Wentworth. It included a Revolutionary pensioner, Bennaiah Dore, aged seventy-five years, i.e., the householder himself.

Benjamin Dore 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 40-49 years, one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 20-29 years, two males aged 15-19 years, one female aged 15-19 years, two males aged 10-14 years, two females aged 5-9 years, and one female aged under-5 years. Six members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Mary Miller and Bennaiah Dore.

Son Eliphalet Dore married in Dover, NH, in 1840, Augusta H. Fox, he of Milton and she of Dover, NH. She was born in Acton, ME, in May 1813, daughter of James and Sally (Whitehouse) Fox.

Married. In this town, Mr. Eliphalet Dore of Milton, to Miss Augusta Fox, of this town (Dover Enquirer, November 10, 1840).

Son Ebenezer P. Dore died in 1841. Brother Wentworth Dore died in Milton, August 24, 1845.

Beniah Dore, a farmer, aged eighty-five years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary [(Pray)] Dore, aged sixty-seven years (b. ME), Isaac B. Dore, a farmer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), Abby [(Howe)] Dore, aged twenty-eight years (b. ME), John D. Dore, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Samuel Dore, aged five years (b. NH), and Mary Jones, aged forty-seven years (b. ME). Isaac B. Dore had real estate valued at $1,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Eliphalet Dore, a shoemaker, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and Noah Merrow, a marble worker, aged thirty-three years (b. NH).

Eliphalet Dore, a shoemaker, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Augusta [(Fox)] Dore, aged thirty-eight years (b. ME), James F. Dore, aged six years (b. NH), and Ella M. Dore, aged eight months (b. NH). Isaac B. Dore had real estate valued at $800. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Benjamin Dore, a farmer, aged sixty-three years (b. ME), and Beniah Dore, a farmer, aged eighty-five years (b. ME).

Son Eliphalet P. Dore of Milton made his last will, December 3, 1852. He bequeathed to his beloved wife, Augusta Dore, the improvement of all his property, both real and personal, so long as she remained his widow. He bequeathed that same property, after the decease of his widow, in equal shares to his three children, Nathaniel Hanson Dore, James Freeman Dore, and Ella Maria Dore. He named his brother, Isaac Dore, as executor. Reuben Buck, Asa N. Witham, and Susan Dore signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 80:147).

Benaiah Dore died in Milton, February 2, 1854, aged ninety years. His widow, Mary [(Pray)] Dore, a resident of Milton, aged seventy-three years, applied for a Revolutionary veteran’s widow’s pension, June 6, 1854. She stated that

… she was married to the said Benaiah Dore on (or about) the eighteenth day of July, A.D. 1807; that her said husband died on the second day of February A.D. 1854; that she was not married to him prior to the 2nd of February eighteen hundred, but at the time stated. She further declares that she is now a widow ~ Mary {her x mark} Dore. Attest, Daniel Otis, Wm H. Hatchett.

(Mary {her x mark} Dore made a similar statement before John L. Swinerton, J.P., March 30, 1854, as did Asa Fox (Strafford County Probate, Old Series, 16775)).

Mary Dore, widow of Benaiah Dore, a Revolutionary war private, was placed on the Federal pension roll, from April 2, 1854, at the rate of $96 per annum.

Benjamin Dorr, a farm laborer, aged seventy-four years (b. ME), headed a New Hampton, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Deborah [(Brackett)] Dorr, aged sixty-eight years (b. ME), Deborah A. Dorr, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Martha Dorr, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). Benjamin Dorr had real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $150.

Eliphalet P. Dore, aged fifty-one years, headed a Milton (“Milton Mills P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Augusta H. [(Fox)] Dore, aged forty-seven years, Nathl H. Dore, aged nineteen years, James F. Dore, aged sixteen years, and Ella M. Dore, aged ten years.

Isaac B. Dore, a farmer, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Abba [(Howe)] Dore, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), Mary [(Pray)] Dore, aged seventy-eight years (b. NH [SIC]), Phinehas Howe, a farm laborer, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), A.S. Shaw, a farm laborer, aged nineteen years (b. NH), and E.G. Chamberlin, aged forty-three years (b. NH). Isaac B. Dore had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $600. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Eliphalet P. Dore, a farmer, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and George Howe, a shoemaker, aged thirty-one years (b. ME).

John C. Dore, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“Milton Mills P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Samuel E. Dore, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Julia A. [(Corliss)] Dore, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), H.A. Dore, aged three years (b. NH), and Susan [(—-)] Dore, aged forty-five years (b. NH). John C. Dore had real estate valued at $800 and personal estate valued at $300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of David Wallingford, Jr., a farmer, aged forty-one years (b. NH), and Benja Roberts, a farmer, aged sixty-six years (b. NH).

Isaac B. Dore of Milton registered for the Class II military draft in Milton, in June 1863. He was a shoemaker, aged forty-two  years (b. NH).

Mary (Pray) Dore died in Milton, November 17, 1863, aged eighty-one years.

Daughter-in-law Deborah (Brackett) Dore died in Lebanon, ME, November 26, 1865, aged seventy-three years, ten months.

Brother Andrew Dore died in Milton, December 17, 1866.

Son Eliphalet P. Dore added a codicil to his last will of December 1852 (see above), January 23, 1868. In this codicil, he revoked the one-third equal share of his daughter, Ella Maria Dore, and instead allocated the reversion of his property to his two sons, Nathaniel H. Dore and James F. Dore, in equal halves. His daughter, Ella M. Dore was to have $50 and a home with her mother and brothers so long as she remained single. Rufus W. Brackett, Nicholas H. Roberts, and Isaac B. Dore signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 80:148).

Son Eliphalet Dore died in Milton, February 10, 1868, aged fifty-nine years.

DIED. In Milton, Feb. 10, Eliphalet Dore, aged 59 years (Dover Enquirer, March 26, 1868).

The last will of Eliphalet P. Dore, and its codicil, were proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Somersworth, NH, June 2, 1868 (Strafford County Probate, 80:148).

Benjamin Dorr, a retired carpenter, aged eighty-three years (b. NH), headed a New Hampton, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Martha J. Dorr, a tailoress, aged thirty years (b. NH), Deborah H. [(Dorr)] Hubbard, a housekeeper, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and John M. Hubbard, aged eight years (b. MA) (b. NH). Benjamin Dorr had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. Martha J. Dorr had personal estate valued at $500.

Nathaniel H. Dorr, a farm labourer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Augusta H. [(Fox)] Dorr, a housekeeper, aged fifty-six years (b. ME), Ella M. Dorr, works in woolen mill, aged twenty years (b. NH), James F. Dorr, a farm labourer, aged twenty-six years (b. NH), and Lizzie S. [(Maddox)] Dorr, works in woolen mill, aged twenty-five years (b. ME). Nathaniel H. Dorr had real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $450. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nicholas H. Roberts, a farmer, aged sixty-eight years (b. ME), and Isaac B. Dorr, a farm laborer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH).

Isaac B. Dorr, a farm laborer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Abbie [(Howe)]  Dorr, aged forty-nine years (b. ME). Isaac B. Dorr had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $350. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathaniel H. Dorr, a farm laborer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Lizzie A. Howe, keeping house, aged forty-eight years (b. ME).

Son Benjamin Dore died in Lebanon, ME, November 20, 1877, aged ninety years, eight months.

Daughter-in-law Susan (—-) Dore died October 17, 1878, aged sixty-five years, eight months, and twelve days. (“A Faithful Friend”).

Augusta H. [(Fox)] Dorr, keeping house, aged sixty-five years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Her household included her children, Nathaniel H. Dorr, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Ella A. Dorr, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), and James F. Dorr, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), his daughter-in-law, Sarah E. [(Maddox)] Dorr, aged thirty-six years (b. ME), and his granddaughters, Lillian R. Dorr, aged seven years (b. NH), Gracie E. Dorr, aged four years (b. NH), and No-Name [] Dorr, aged one year (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Edmund Drew, a farm laborer, aged fifty-five years (b. ME), and Edmund Horn, a farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH).

Isaac B. Dorr, a day laborer, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household (“Village of Milton Mills”) at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Abby [(Howe)] Dorr, keeping house, aged fifty-eight years (b. ME). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Freeman E. Stevens, runs steam engine in mill, aged thirty years (b. NH), and Cyrus F. Hart, a farmer, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH).

Granddaughter Ella M. Door died of an ovarian tumor in Milton, June 21, 1889, aged thirty-nine years, eight months, and fourteen days. She was a single houseworker. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Son Isaac B. Door died of heart failure in Milton Mills, July 1, 1891, aged seventy years, five days. He was a married laborer. W.E. Pillsbury, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Daughter-in-law Abigail (Howe) Dore died of a cancerous tumor, April 21, 1895, aged seventy-three years, eleven months. She was a widowed housewife. She was born in Newfield, circa 1822, daughter of Phineas and Hannah (Ham) Howe.

Augusta H. [(Fox)] Dore, a farmer, aged eighty-seven years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her son, James F. Dore, a grain dealer, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), her daughter-in-law (of twenty-nine years), Sarah E. [(Maddox)] Dore, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), and her grandchildren, Grace E. Dore, a weaver (wool) aged twenty-three years (b. NH), Charlotte P. Dore, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Augusta M. Dore, at school, aged seventeen years (b. NH), and Winnie B. Dore, at school, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Augusta H. Dore owned their farm, free-and-clear. She was the mother of three children, of whom one was still living. Sarah E. Dore was the mother of six children, of whom four were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James H. Horne, a farmer (general farm), aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and Lena F. Drew, a farmer (general farm), aged sixty-three years (b. ME)..

James D. Dorr, a farmer (general farm), aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included his mother, Augusta [(Fox)] Dorr, aged ninety-seven years (b. ME), and his sister[-in-law], Elizabeth [(Maddox)] Dorr, a weaver (woolen mill), aged sixty years (b. ME). James D. Dore owned their farm, free-and-clear. Augusta Dore was the mother of two children, of whom two were still living. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James H. Horne, a farmer (general farm), aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and Lena F. Drew, a farmer (general farm), aged sixty-three years (b. ME).

Daughter-in-law Augusta H. Dore of Milton made her last will, March 7, 1913. She devised $850 to her granddaughter Grace E. Evans. She devised $250 to her daughter-in-law, Lizzie Dore, and whatever might remain in her Norway Plains Savings Bank account (Passbook 4908). She devised to her granddaughter, Augusta M. Henderson, her homestead farm, with buildings, and appurtenances. That granddaughter was to care for her daughter-in-law, Lizzie Dore. She appointed Charles D. Fox of Milton to be executor. Lena F. Drew, Calvin S. Haines, and Charles D. Dox signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 140:241).

Daughter-in-law Augusta H. (Fox) Dore celebrated her one-hundredth birthday on May 13, 1913.

Former Maine Woman Centenarian. Milton Mills, N.H., May 9. – “I am not a bit tired, but I am afraid some of the rest of you are.” These were the words of Mrs. Augusta H. Dore to her granddaughters after she had received the congratulations of 300 of her friends and neighbors at a reception at her home in Milton Mills, Tuesday, in honor of her 100th birthday. The children of the neighborhood public school to the number of 80 marched to her home early in the day to greet her, bearing 100 pinks. A shower of letters and cards from all parts of the country was received. Mrs. Dore was the recipient also of three birthday cakes, which with other refreshments, she served to her guests. Late in the afternoon she enjoyed an auto ride and at the close of the day’s observance her pastor, Rev. James W. Williams of the Free Baptist church, spoke words of congratulations and offered prayer. Mrs. Dore was born in Acton, Me., about two miles from her present home, being a near neighbor of Ralph Farnum, the last survivor of the battle of Bunker Hill. Her maiden name was Fix [Fox]. Seventy-five years ago she married Eliphlet Dore and removed to her present home, close to line between Maine and New Hampshire. Her husband died 30 years ago, since which time her only child, James F., cared for her until his death, five months ago. A granddaughter has since resided at the home place. Mrs. Dore has each summer done work out of doors, in her garden, and has been active in the work of the home. All her faculties are acute, and she gives little evidence of her advanced years. For more than 80 years she has been a member of the Free Baptist church in Milton Mills (Kennebec Journal, [Wednesday,] May 14, 1913).

Daughter-in-law Augusta H. (Fox) Dore died of heart failure in Milton Mills, April 2, 1914, aged  one hundred years, ten months, and twenty-seven days.

MRS. DORE, AGED 101 YEARS, DEAD. New Hampshire’s-Oldest Woman, a Native of Acton, Me., Passed Away at Milton Mills. Mrs. Augusta H. Dore, of Milton Mills, N.H., passed away at her home April 2, after a few days illness. Her age was 100 years, 10 months, 27 days. She retained all her faculties up to the last, and spoke a few moments before the end. She was very tenderly cared for by her granddaughter, Mrs. Arthur Henderson, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. J.F. Dore. Funeral services were held at her home, Sunday, April 5, conducted by Rev. J.W. Williams, former pastor of the Free Baptist church, of which she has been. a member for 83 years. He was assisted by Rev. Mr. Southwick, and Mrs. Minnie Buckley of Milton sang. Floral tributes were many and beautiful (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), April 10, 1914).

The last will of of daughter-in-law Augusta H. Dore was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Somersworth, NH, May 19, 1914 (Strafford County Probate, 140:).

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By Muriel Bristol | July 20, 2025

Joseph Plummer [Jr.] was born in August 13, 1786, son of Beard and Susanna (Ham) Plummer. He was a namesake for his paternal uncle, Joseph Plummer [Sr.].

Maternal grandfather Jonathan Ham died in Rochester, NH, in 1793. Mother Susanna (Ham) Plummer died in Milton, February 20, 1803.

Father Beard Plummer and his brother, Enoch Plummer, were assessed in the Milton School District No. 1 of another brother, Joseph Plummer, in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

[Lewis Plummer was born in Milton, June 6, 1809. (N.B. Though some have posited him to be a son of Joseph Plummer, through a first marriage to Anna “Nancy” (Cram) Plummer (1787-1814) of Newburyport, MA, she was not a first wife of this Joseph Plummer, nor the mother of Lewis Plummer)].

Joseph Plumer, Jr., married in Hampton Falls, NH, October 8, 1810, Sarah “Sally” Brown, he of Milton and she of Hampton Falls, NH. Rev. Jacob Abbott performed the ceremony. She was born 1785, daughter of Nathan and Miriam (Smith) Brown.

(The known children of Joseph and Sarah (Brown) Plummer were: Jonathan Plummer (1811-1812), Caroline Plummer (1813-1865), Enoch W. Plummer (1815-1896), Beard Plummer (1817-1902), Joseph Plummer (1820-1907), Sarah Plummer (1821-1894)).

Father-in-law Nathan Brown of Hampton Falls, NH, made his last will, November 15, 1811. He devised a one-third  part of his farm and its building while she remained a widow. He directed his sons, John Brown and Josiah Brown, to provide her with as much firewood as she might need for her comfortable support, cut and hauled to her door, as well as a horse and chaise whenever she shall occasion to use them. He also bequeathed his furniture to her- excepting his clock – for her own proper use forever. Were she to remarry, she was to receive two cows and $100.

Nathan Brown bequeathed $15 each to his daughters, Sally Plummer and Nancy Berry, at his death and a further $40 each within two years. He devised other real estate to his son, Benjamin Brown, namely the farm on which he now lives (purchased of Levi Healey); the 20 acres of land situate in Exeter near Susanna Leavitt (purchased of Moses Pike); the 2 acres of land situate in Exeter, to be taken off that side adjoining Abner Sanborn, to be of equal width at both ends (purchased of O. Peabody &  G. Lamson); the five acres purchased of Samuel Tilton; and the 4 acres of salt marsh in Hampton (purchase of one Folsom). He directed his son, Benjamin Brown, to pay the legacies mentioned, as well as $100 to his brother, William Brown, in part of what I owe him; and the payments and performance due to Sarah Healey as her life estate.

Nathan Brown bequeathed $150 to his eldest son, John Brown. He bequeathed all the rest and remainder in equal shares to this his eldest son, John Brown, and to his youngest son, Josiah Brown. He named those two sons, John Brown and Josiah Brown, to be his joint executors. Benjamin Sanborn, Zephaniah Brown, and Levi Lane signed as witnesses (Rockingham County Probate, 40:322).

Son Jonathan Plummer was born in Milton, November 5, 1811. He was a namesake for his great grandfather, Jonathan Ham. He died in Milton, March 21, 1812.

Father-in-law Nathan Brown died December 1, 1811, aged fifty-eight years. His is said to have died or been lost at sea while serving as chief officer of the ship Monk (Salem Gazette, May 21, 1811). His last will was proved in a Rockingham County Probate Court held in Exeter, NH, January 6, 1812 (Rockingham County Probate, 40:323).

Daughter Caroline Plummer was born in Milton, January 9, 1813. Son Enoch W. Plummer was born in Milton, April 4, 1815.

Father Beard Plumer and his brother, Joseph Plumer, signed the Milton Congregational Society petition of June 1814. (See Milton Congregational Society Petition – 1814).

Paternal grandfather Hon. John Plummer died in Rochester, NH, November 19, 1815, aged ninety-six years. (Columbian Centinel, November 29, 1815).

Beard Plumer, Esq., of Milton made his last will in Milton, October 5, 1816. He devised a life estate in a chamber and another room in his new house, along with support, to Achsah Plumer. He devised $100 to his son, Enoch Plummer; $1 to granddaughter Mary Plummer (daughter of deceased son Jonathan Plummer), and an additional $99 when she became eighteen years of age; $500 to daughter Betsy Hall (wife of Joshua G. Hall); $500 to daughter Susanna Plummer, along with $300 worth of neat stock and furniture, and two feather beds and bedding; land in Milton, and a half a pew on the “town floor” of the Milton Meeting-House, to son Joseph Plumer; $600 to son Beard Plumer when he became twenty-one years of age; and a one eighth and one-half share of a one-eighth share of Lot #120 in the Fourth Division (purchased of Joseph Plumer, Jr.), and the use of his “wall pew” in the Milton Meeting-House. He named his two sons, Joseph Plumer and John Plumer, as executors. Joseph Plumer, Ann Nutter, and Levi Jones signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 17:525). (See Milton Town House – 1804).

Father Beard Plummer died in Milton, October 7, 1816, aged sixty-two years.

OBITUARY. In Milton, New Hampshire, Hon. Beard Plumer, aged 62 (Christian Disciple (Boston, MA), November 1816).

(See also Hon. Beard Plummer Autopsy – 1816).

Son Beard Plummer was born in Milton, August 16, 1817. He was a namesake for his paternal grandfather, Beard Plummer. Son Joseph Plummer was born in Milton, March 11, 1820.

Joseph Plummer, Jr, signed the Milton anti-division remonstrance of June 1820. He signed also the Milton militia division petition of November 1820. (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).

Benjamin Scates, Theodore C. Lyman, and Joseph Plumer, Junr, signed as witnesses to the last will of Joseph Plummer, March 12, 1821 (Strafford County Probate, 24:506).

Uncle Joseph Plummer died in Milton, April 27, 1821. His last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Wolfeborough, NH, May 29, 1821 (Strafford County Probate, 24:509).

Daughter Sarah Plummer was born in Milton, November 18, 1821. She was a namesake or “Junior” of her mother, Sarah (Brown) Plummer.

The Milton Selectmen of 1823 were H. Hayes, H. Meserve, and Jos. Plumer.

Mother-in-law Miriam (Smith) Brown died in Epping, NH, January 16, 1824.

Uncle John Plumer died in Rochester, NH, May 13, 1824, aged sixty-two years.

Joseph Plumer of Milton, husbandman, made his last will, June 18, 1825. He devised $1,000, his horse and chaise, and his household furniture, excepting that furniture otherwise devised, to his beloved wife, Sally Plumer. He devised a life estate in a lower front room and chamber in his house to his wife, Sally Plumer, and daughters, Caroline Plumer and Sarah Plumer. He devised his real estate, excepting the rooms mentioned already, to his sons, Enoch W. Plumer and Joseph Plumer, when they reached the age of twenty-one years; and his sawmill right, when they reached the age of twenty years. He devised $3,000 to his second son, Bard Plumer. He devised $1,000 and a featherbed to his eldest daughter, Caroline Plumer, when she either married or reached the age of twenty-one years. He devised all the rest and remainder to his children, Enoch W. Plumer, Joseph Plumer, Bard Plumer, Caroline Plumer, and Sarah Plumer. He named his brother-in-law, Joshua G. Hall, as guardian of his minor children. He named his wife, Sarah Plumer, as executrix. Levi Jones, Levi Wentworth, and Joseph P. Jones signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 34:24).

Joseph Plummer [Jr.] died in Milton, January 3, 1826, aged thirty-nine years. His last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court, January 26, 1826 (Strafford County Probate, 34:26).

DIED. In Milton, on the 3d inst., Mr. Joseph Plumer, son of Hon. Beard Plumer, aged 39. The deceased was one of the most useful and respectable inhabitants of the town. He has left an afflicted wife, a family of young children, and an extensive circle of friends and relations, to lament their loss.

Sarah [(Brown)] Plummer headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 40-49 years [herself], one female aged 15-19 years [Caroline Plummer], one male aged 15-19 years [Enoch W. Plummer], two males aged 10-14 years  [Bard Plummer, and Joseph Plummer], one female aged 5-9 years [Sarah Plummer], one male aged 20-29 years, and one female aged 20-29 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Levi Jones and Jos. P. Burrows.

Son Bard Plummer married (1st) in Rochester, December 5, 1839, Mary Ann C. Horlor, he of Milton and she of Rochester, NH. She was born in Bath, England, circa 1816, daughter of William and Ann Horlor.

Married. In Rochester, on the 5th inst., by Rev. Mr. Willey, Mr. Bard Plumer, of Milton, to Miss Mary Anne C. Horlor, of Rochester (Dover Enquirer, December 17, 1839).

Son Enoch W. Plummer and Thomas Chapman were the Milton Delegates to the NH State Whig Convention, which was held in Concord, NH, Tuesday, November 21, 1837 (Times & Dover Enquirer, November 28, 1837). (See Milton’s Ante-Bellum Party Affiliations).

Sarah [(Brown)] Plumer headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 50-59 years [herself], five males aged 20-29 years [Enoch W. Plumer, Bard Plumer, and Joseph Plumer, and others], one female aged 20-29 years [Caroline Plumer], and one female aged 15-19 years [Sarah Plumer]. Five members of her household were engaged in Agriculture. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of Benjamin Roberts and Levi Jones.

Daughter Caroline Plummer married, March 31, 1840, David Porter Wentworth. He was born in 1814.

Son E.W. Plummer  and Joseph Pearl were the Milton Delegates to the NH Fifth Senatorial District Whig Convention, which was held at the Jonathan T. Dodge Hotel in Rochester, NH, January 18, 1841. The Convention selected Daniel Winkley, Esq., of Strafford, NH, as their preferred candidate (Times & Dover Enquirer, January 26, 1841). (See Milton’s Ante-Bellum Party Affiliations).

Son Bard Plummer appeared in a list of persons enrolled in the militia of Newburyport, MA, in 1842.

NH Governor Henry Hubbard appointed son Enoch W. Plummer as Colonel of the 33rd NH Militia Regiment, in June 1843. He appointed Jonathan Sanborn as Lt. Colonel, and John Churchill as Major (Dover Enquirer, July 18, 1843).

Son-in-law David Porter Wentworth died in Ossipee, NH, September 14, 1844, aged twenty-nine years.

Son Joseph Plummer married (1st) in Somersworth, NH, October 30, 1844, Adaline Frances Baker, she of Somersworth, NH. She was born in Somersworth, NH, May 24, 1820, daughter of Moses and Sarah “Sally” (Thoms) Baker.

Marriages. In Somersworth, on the 30th ult., by Rev. Mr. Willey, Mr. Joseph Plumer of Milton, to Miss Adaline F. Baker, daughter of Hon. Moses Baker of S. [Somersworth] (Dover Enquirer, November 12, 1844).

Son Bard Plummer appeared in a list of persons enrolled in the militia of Newburyport, MA, in 1845.

Son Bard Plummer [of Newburyport, MA,] was part owner of the 110-ton brig Thoosa, of Newburyport, MA, in November 1846. (In Greek mythology and the Odyssey, “Thoosa” was the sea nymph mother of the Cyclops).

THOOSA, brig, 110 tons; built Essex, 1833; length, 73 ft.; breadth 19 ft. 4½ in.; depth 8 ft. 10 in.; billet head. Reg. Jan. 13, 1845. Benjamin P. Dow, Nicholas Varina, owners; Nicholas Varina, master. Reg. Nov. 1, 1845. Benjamin P. Dow, Nicholas Varina, both of Newburyport, owners; Stephen Goodwin, master. Reg. Nov. 6, 1846. Bard Plummer, Josiah Bradley, Woodbury Masters, owners; Samuel D. Hoyt, master.

The brig Thoosa, was “cleared,” or authorized to depart, from its home port of Newburyport, MA, on its way to Havana, Cuba, in November, 1846.

HOME PORTS. NEWBURYPORT, Nov. 13 – Cld brig Thoosa, Hoyt, for Havana (New York Herald, November 16, 1846).

The brig Thoosa arrived in New Orleans, LA, on December 13, 1846, with crewmen rescued from a sinking ship.

From Havana – Seven Days Later. The brig Thoosa, arrived on the 13th from Newburyport, had on board the Captain, Mate, and six men belonging to the ship Everton, which was found leaking badly and in a sinking condition on the 28th November, in lat. 36° North, long. 629 West. The Everton experienced a severe gale on the 23d, whilst on her voyage from Boston to St. Jago, with a cargo of ice. During the gale she lost all her sails and part of her rigging (New Orleans Daily Delta (New Orleans, LA), December 26, 1846).

The brig Thoosa arrived in Charleston, SC, January 26, 1847, having traveled from Marielle, Cuba, via Havana, Cuba, with a load of molasses.

ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Brig Thoosa, Hoyt, Marielle via Havana, 7 days. Molasses. To J.M. Shackelford. Off Cape Florida spoke brig Quincy from Havana for Boston. Left at Marielle brig Sea Boor and schr. Civilian, waiting. The brig Carribee, from Frankfort, (Me.) arrived 15th inst. The brig Fawn, for Boston sailed from Marielle 14th inst. (Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC), January 27, 1847).

NEW CROP WEST INDIA MOLASSES. – 118 hhds. and 14 tierces of very superior quality, cargo of brig Thoosa, from Mariel. For sale by JAMES M. SHACKELFORD, Corner Fitzsimons’ wharf and East Bay. Ja 27 (Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC), January 27, 1847).

FOR NEW-YORK.– Wanted a DECK LOAD of Cotton for the Brig THOOSA, Hoyt master; to sail in a few days. Apply on board, at Exchange wharf, or to JAMES CHAPMAN, Exchange-st. Ja 29 (Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC), January 29, 1847).

EXPORTS. NEW YORK – Brig Thoosa, 84 bales Upland Cotton, and 235 bbl Rice (Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC), February 5, 1847).

The brig Thoosa would stop subsequently at the Delaware breakwater, Philadelphia, PA, and New York, NY, before heading south to Cuba again.

DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Feb 18 – The brig Thoosa, 17 ds fm Charleston, for N York, put in here yesterday, and remains at the anchorage in com with the vessels mentioned yesterday (NY Evening Post (New York, NY), February 20, 1847).

Son Bard Plummer [of Newburyport, MA,] was part owner also of the 98-ton schooner Gladiator, of Newburyport, MA, in 1847-48. He sold his interest in or around December 1848.

GLADIATOR, sch., 98 tons; built Duxbury, 1837; length 73 ft.; breadth 19 ft. 1 in.; depth 7 ft. 8¾ in.; billet head. Reg. Nov. 3, 1847; Woodbury Masters, of Hampton Falls, N.H., Bard Plummer, owners; Samuel D. Hoyt, master. Reg. Dec. 19, 1848. Woodbury Masters of Hampton Falls, N.H., Thomas Chase of Seabrook, N.H., Benjamin P. Dow, owners; Samuel D. Hoyt, master. Reg. Oct. 19, 1852. William Sanborn of Seabrook, N.H., Isaac H. Boardman, owners; Christopher Morey, master (Essex Institute, 1837).

Son Bard Plummer was a director of the Boston and Newburyport Mining Company in March 1849. This company was evidently formed to participate in the gold rush of 1849. They traveled to California by sea.

BOSTON AND NEWBURYPORT MINING COMPANY. Sailed from Boston, March 2, 1849, on schooner Edwin, for Chagres [Panama] to cross the Isthmus. Bard Plummer, Albert W. Goodwin, and William W. Huse, directors; George E. Allen, treasurer; G.B. Tibbets, physician; W.W. Allen, surgeon (Howe, 1923; Boston Evening Transcript, March 1, 1849).

Son Bard Plummer of Newburyport, MA, became a partner in a grocery store in San Francisco, CA, during the gold rush of 1849. Capt. George Cook, who had traveled to California by sea, and then sold his ship, met him there.

A few days after I arrived, as I was strolling along Montgomery street, carefully picking my way through the bogs, I was accosted by a person calling me by name; he was dashing along through the mud in boots that reached to his thighs, corduroy trousers, a fustian coat, hickory shirt, and a Mexican sombrero, and looked like a dismounted hussar. He was Mr. Bard Plummer, from Newburyport. He invited me down to his store. I found him engaged in the grocery business with two young men from Boston, under the style of Plummer, Kieth & Co. They had been established about seven months and had been very successful.
Their store was a rough-boarded frame building about fifteen by twenty-five feet, situated in a mud puddle near the foot of Sacramento street. In one corner of the building, a space eight feet by ten, was partitioned off with rough lumber; in it were three bunks or shelves. This was their lodging and counting room. For this miserable apology for a store they were paying a rent of $1,000 a month, and this always in advance, which at ten per cent. per month for money, makes a grand total of $25,000 per year (Cook, 1908).

Another “Forty-Niner,” also from Newburyport, MA, wrote home to his parents from San Francisco, CA, September 27, 1849. He told them that his passage from Boston had taken 170 days, which he had heard was a better than average time.

… I have seen a number of Newburyport men, Captain Bradbury, Bard Plummer, two of the House sons, John O.W. Brown, Anthony Hale. He has been sick and is getting well fast (Hendrickson, 2017). 

Enoch Plumer, a farmer, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Orinda [(Ayers)] Plumer, aged thirty-three years (b. NH), John T. Plumer, aged eight years (b. NH), Joseph E. Plumer, aged seven years (b. NH), Mary B. Plumer, aged five years (b. NH), Beard Plumer, and four years (b. NH), Sarah Plumer, aged two years (b. NH), Sarah [(Brown)] Plumer, aged sixty-six years (b. NH), and Sarah Plumer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH). Enoch Plumer had real estate valued at $6,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of David Wallingford, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and David D.A. Robinson, a shoemaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH).

Joseph Plumer, a farmer, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Adaline S. [(Baker)] Plumer. aged thirty years (b. NH), and Moses B. Plumer, aged two years (b. NH). Joseph Plumer had real estate valued at $4,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between Nathaniel W. Burnham. overseer of the alms house, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and Nahum Tasker, a farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH).

Son Bard Plummer had one of the San Francisco, CA, merchant firms that agreed to accept Page, Bacon & Co. certificates as money in exchange for merchandise, in February 1855.

New Advertisements. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25th, 1855. WE, the undersigned, merchants of San Francisco, hereby agree to receive certificates of deposit on Page, Bacon & Co., at par, in payment of merchandize. Arrington & Co., Moses Ellis & Co., Pickett & Mount, J.H. Pinner, Eugene Kelley & Co., Henry Julian, Dow, McRuer Co., Loud &  Hosmer, Bard Plummer, Henry Hugg & Co., Sherry, Janes & McCrea, W.C. Allen & Sawyer, Johnson & Co., Jackson McKinty, Geo. Dietz & Co., A.B. McCreery, R. McKee & Co., Haynes & Lawton, Earl & Co., Woodworth & Co., Wm. T. Coleman & Co., A.L. Edwards & Co., Hussey, Bond & Hale, Harrold, Randall & Co., Story, Redington & Co., De Long, McNiel & Co., & T.L. Horn, Lowe, Ebbets & Co., W.W. Backus. Beck & Elam. Country papers copy. [20-1m (Georgetown News (Georgetown, CA), March 1, 1855).

Daughter Sarah Plummer married in Wakefield, between April 30, 1854, and April 30, 1855, George A. Neal, she of Milton and he of Wakefield, NH. He was aged forty-one years and she was aged thirty-three years. Rev. Nathaniel Barker performed the ceremony. George A. Neal was born in Wakefield, NH, circa 1813.

Bard Plummer, a merchant, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), headed a Winchester, MA, household at the time of the First (1855) MA State Census. His household included Mary A. Plummer, aged thirty-five years (b. England), Florence L. Plummer, aged one year (b. MA), Margaret McLaughlin, a domestic, aged thirty-five years (b. Ireland), and Dorcas A. Knight, aged fifteen years (b. MA).

Daughter-in-law Mary Ann C. (Horlor) Plummer died of consumption in Winchester, MA, May 8, 1858, aged forty-two years.

DIED. In Winchester, Mass., May 8, of consumption, Mrs. Mary A.C. Plummer, wife of Mr. Bard Plummer, and daughter of Wm. Horlor, Esq., of Berwick (Union & Journal, May 21, 1858).

Daughter-in-law Adaline F. (Baker) Plummer died of neuralgia in Milton, June 30, 1858, aged thirty-eight years, one month, and six days.

E.W. Plumer, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Orinda [(Ayers)] Plumer, aged forty-two years (b. NH), John T. Plumer, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Joseph E. Plumer, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Mary B. Plumer, aged fifteen years (b. NH), Bard B. Plumer, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Sarah Plumer, aged twelve years (b. NH), Fanny W. Plumer, aged nine years (b. NH), Susan Plumer, aged six years (b. NH), Sarah [(Brown)] Plumer, aged seventy-five years (b. NH), Caroline [(Plummer)] Wentworth, aged forty-six years (b. NH), and Thomas Wentworth, aged twenty years (b. NH). Enoch Plumer had real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $1,500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Plumer, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), and Charles Jones, a farmer, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH).

Joseph Plummer, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Moses B. Plummer, aged eleven years (b. NH), Joseph Plummer [III], aged eight years (b. NH), J.L. Gerrish, a farm laborer, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH), Irene Gerrish, a housekeeper, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), and Charles Hammons, a boarder, aged sixty years (b. NH). Joseph Plummer had real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $2,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of an unoccupied house (with Albert Nason, a farmer, aged forty-five years, just beyond), and [his brother,] E.W. Plummer, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH).

George A. Neal, a clerk in store, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed  a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sarah P. [(Plummer)] Neal, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH). George A. Neal had personal estate valued at $500, and Sarah P. Neal had personal estate valued at $1,200.

Son Joseph Plummer married (2nd) in Saxonville, [Framingham,] MA, October 1, 1863. Hannah D. Clark, he of Milton and she of Framingham, MA. He was a farmer, aged forty-three years, and she was aged thirty-two years. Rev. George E. Hill performed the ceremony. She was born in Sanbornton, NH, December 18, 1830, daughter of John and Betsy (Taylor) Clark.

MARRIAGES. In Saxonville, Mass., 1st inst., Joseph Plumer, Esq., of Milton, to Miss Hannah D., daughter of John H. Clark, formerly of Sanbornton (Dover Enquirer, October 15, 1863).

Son B. [Bard] Plummer married (2nd) in Portsmouth, NH, October 13, 1863, Ellen Tarlton, he of New Orleans, LA, and she of Portsmouth, NH. He was aged forty-two years and she was aged thirty years. Rev. James D. Normandie performed the ceremony. She was born in Newcastle, NH, circa 1827, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Neal) Tarlton.

MARRIAGES. In Portsmouth, Mr. Bart. Plummer of New Orleans, to Ellen Tarlton, daughter of Thomas Tarlton, Esq. (Dover Enquirer, October 22, 1863).

(The riverine approaches to New Orleans had been captured by Federal forces under Admiral Farragut, in late April 1862, and the city itself had been occupied by General Butler, on May 1, 1862).

Daughter Caroline (Plummer) Wentworth died of cancer in Milton, May 31, 1865, aged fifty-one years.

Son Bard Plummer, of Plummer & Daniels, in New Orleans, LA, testified in a multilateral dispute between the Freedmen’s Bureau, in Hamburg, AR, the Harris Plantation, and its tenant agent or overseer, B.J. Adams, in December 1866.

Miss Sue Harris, owner of the Harris Plantation, complains that Adams, who has the plantation rented, is Boiling the Cotton as fast as he can preparatory to shipping it to New Orleans & selling it & thus defrauding the Negroes & her of their portion of the cotton.
Bard Plummer, Commission Merchant, New Orleans, reports to me today that by Miss Harris’ consent the cotton has been divided. That the negroes got 11 bales, 4 of which the civil officers have seized to pay for supplies sold Adams for the Negroes by Hosea & McBride. That Adams had [gone] off without settlement with either him or the Negroes. That the 4 bales of the cotton has been taken by civil officers to pay Hazard’s debt is sold & But 7 bales are left for the Freedmen. That Adams has proven himself a swindler & great rogue.

COURT NOTES. Judgement for thirteen thousand three hundred dollars was rendered in the Third District Court against Eliza S. Compton, foreclosing mortgage on a plantation in the parish of Madison. By consent of parties execution was stayed until the 1st of January, 1868. The suit was brought by Adams Daniels and Bard Plummer, holders of promissory notes in the above amount secured by mortgage (New Orleans Times (New Orleans, LA), February 2, 1867).

Sarah “Sally” (Brown) Plummer died of dropsy in Milton, July 27, 1867, aged eighty-two years. She was a widowed farmer.

Son Bard Plummer appeared in the New Orleans, LA, directory of 1869, as having his house at 46 Carondelet [street].

Son Bard Plummer was an original incorporator of the Feliciana Savings and Exchange Bank, when the Louisiana Assembly charted it in April 1870.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That following named persons, their successors and assigns, viz.: John P. Mumford, William H. Stirling, H.S. Welton, David J. Riley, T.H. Noland, William B. Cornell, Bard Plummer, Henry L. Birge, L.B. Jenks, and Carlos Wilcox, are hereby created and constituted a corporate and politic under the name and title of the “Feliciana Savings and Exchange Bank,” with all the rights and powers forth in the following articles, viz.:
Article I. The name and title of the said corporation shall be “Feliciana Savings and Exchange Bank,” and its domicile is established in the town of Bayou Sara, parish of West Feliciana, and State of Louisiana; but said corporation may establish with like powers and privileges in the towns of Jackson and Clinton, in the parish of East Feliciana, in said State. It shall exist for term of fifty (50) years from the passage of this act. It shall power to contract, sue and be sued, and shall have and use a common seal of such device as may be deemed proper … (Brandao, 1870; New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, LA), April 27, 1870).

Enoch W. Plummer, a farmer, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Orinda [(Ayers)] Plummer, keeping house, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), Mary B. Plummer, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Bard B. Plummer, a farm laborer, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Sarah Plummer, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Fanny W. Plummer, aged nineteen years (b. NH), Susan Plummer, aged eleven years (b. NH), and George I. Whitehouse, a farm laborer, aged seventeen years (b. NH). Enoch Plumer had real estate valued at $6,000 and personal estate valued at $4,340. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Plummer, a farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH), and Charles Jones, a farmer, aged thirty-six years (b. NH).

Joseph Plummer, a farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Hannah D. [(Clark)] Plummer, keeping house, aged forty years (b. NH), and Joseph Plummer, a farm laborer, aged nineteen years (b. NH). Joseph Plummer had real estate valued at $9,000 and personal estate valued at $4,240. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Enoch F. Mason, a farm laborer, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), and [his brother,] Enoch W. Plummer, a farmer, aged fifty-five years (b. NH).

George A. Neil, a bookkeeper, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Plummer)] Neil, keeping house, aged forty-eight years (b. NH). George A. Neil had personal estate valued at $400.

Son Bard Plummer appeared in a list of registered voters of Newton, MA, in October 30, 1877.

Granddaughter Florence L. Plummer died of phthisis in Auburndale, [Newton,] MA, November 30, 1877, aged twenty-three years, four months. (Born in Winchester, MA, daughter of Bard Plummer (b. Milton, N.H.) and Mary A.C. Plummer (b. Bath, England)).

DEATHS. PLUMMER. – In Auburndale, 30th ult., Florence L. Plummer, only daughter of B. Plummer, 23 years, 4 months (Boston Globe, December 8, 1877).

Son Bard Plummer appeared in a list of registered voters of Newton, MA, October 24, 1879.

Enoch W. Plumer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Orinda [(Ayers)] Plumer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Bard B. Plumer, a farmer, aged thirty-three years (b. NH). Their residence appeared between those of Joseph Plumer, a farmer, aged sixty years (b. NH), and Enoch S. Mason, a farmer, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH).

Joseph Plumer, aged sixty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Hannah D. [(Clark)] Plumer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), and his help, Minnie M. Langley, at house, aged fourteen years (b. NH), and Lafayette Rines, at house, aged eighteen years (b. NH). Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Lydia Varney, keeping house, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), and Enoch W. Plumer, a farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH).

Bard Plummer, a merchant, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), headed a Newton, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Ellen T. [(Tarlton)] Plummer, keeping house, aged forty-two years (b. NH). They resided on Hancock Street.

George A. Neal, a carpenter, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time o the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Sarah P. [Plummer)] Neal, keeping house, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH).

Son-in-law George A. Neal died November 2, 1880, aged sixty-six years.

DEATHS. In Wakefield, Nov. 2, George Neal, aged 65 yrs. (Dover Enquirer, November 4, 1880).

Bard Plummer of Newton, MA, was an agent for the Northwestern Mutual Company of Milwaukee, WI, in 1881.

Bard Plummer of this city, i.e., Boston, MA, was portrayed by artist Alfred Ordway in September 1893.

Art and Artists. Mr Alfred Ordway has just completed a fine portrait of Bard Plummer of this city. It is one of the best of Mr Ordway’s productions, being excellent in drawing, strong in color, and portraying the characteristics of the man with fidelity (Boston Globe, September 24, 1893).

Son Bard Plummer and his wife, Ellen (Tarlton) Plummer, were mentioned in a Tarlton family genealogy (of 1900) as spending more time in traveling and visiting winter resorts during his retirement.

Ellen Tarlton married Oct. 13, 1863, Bard Plummer of Milton, N.H. He went to California in 1849; was afterward interested in shipping and cotton business. He has retired from active business, and they spend some time in travel and at winter resorts. No child (Tarlton, 1900). 

LOCAL MENTION. Mr. Bard Plummer, traveler, capitalist and a genial son of New Hampshire, visited Mr. Kimball at Olivewood on Sunday. He is accompanied by his wife, and after making a visit to San Francisco will return here to settle (National City Record (National City, CA), January 4, 1894).

Daughter Sarah P. (Plummer) Neal died of pneumonia in Milton, February 8, 1894, aged seventy-two years, two months, and twenty-three days. She was a widow. M.A.H. Hart, M.D., signed the death certificate.

Telegrams for the following persons are at the Western Union company’s office in this city: Leo F. Heckhouse, Bard Plummer, John Williamson (Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, CA), September 19, 1895).

Son Enoch W. Plumer died of cirrhosis of the liver in Milton, June 18, 1896, aged eighty-one years, two months, and fourteen days. M.A.H. Hart, M.D., signed the death certificate.

RECENT DEATHS. … Mr. Enoch W. Plummer, one of the oldest citizens of Milton, N.H., died Thursday. He was born in the town April 4, 1813. He was identified with the Volunteer Militia, and held the commission of colonel for several years. He filled many town offices, representing the town in the New Hampshire Legislature. For over forty years he was a deacon of the Congregationalist Church, and at the date of his death the oldest Church member (Boston Evening Transcript, June 20, 1896).

AT THE HOTELS. John H. Barker of Toledo, Bard Plummer of Boston, William F. Vernier of Philadelphia, and J.C. Parkes of Galveston are at the Astor (New York Times (New York, NY), October 24, 1896).

Son Baird Plummer, a landlord, aged eighty-two years (b. NH), was a lodger in the Boston, MA, household of William Childs, a lawyer, aged fifty-one years (b. MA), at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. William Childs rented their house at 23 Claremont Park.

Lucretia Tarlton, aged eighty-five years (b. NH), headed a Portsmouth, NH, houshold at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Her household included her sisters, Dorothy Tarlton, aged eighty-two years (b. NH), Ann Tarlton, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), Ellen [(Tarlton)] Plummer, a widow [SIC], aged seventy years (b. NH), and her niece, Emma F. Tarlton, aged forty years (b. at Sea). Lucretia Tarlton owned their house on Supervisor Street.

Joseph Plumer [Jr.], a farmer, aged eighty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-seven years), Hannah B. [(Clark)] Plumer, aged sixty-nine years (b. NH). Joseph Plumer owned their farm, free-and-clear. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Bard B. Plumer, a farmer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), and Calvin Mason, a farmer, aged fifty-three years (b. NH).

Son Bard Plummer died of a complication of diseases (including cancer) at 470 Lake Avenue in Manchester, NH, September 7, 1902, aged eighty-five years, twenty-one days. He was a married merchant.

PERSONAL MENTION. Ex-Sheriff Bard Plummer of Milton came here on the early train this morning and accompanied by the Knights Templar on their excursion (Foster’s Daily Democrat, September 9, 1902).

Son Joseph Plummer, [Jr.], died of progressive muscular atrophy at Plummer’s Ridge in Milton, March 5, 1907, aged eighty-six years, eleven months, and twenty-five days. He was a farmer and a lifelong resident of Milton. James J. Buckley, M.D., signed the death certificate.

LOCAL. Mr. Joseph Plummer of Milton, one of the most respected men of this county, has passed away at the age of eighty-five years (Farmington News, March 8, 1907).

Ann Tarlton, own income, aged eighty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Portsmouth, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. Her household included her sister, Ellen T. [(Tarlton)] Plummer, own income, aged eighty years (b. NH), and her niece, Emma F. Tarlton, none, aged forty-five years (b. Bay of Bengal, India (U.S. Citizen)). Ann Tarlton owned their house on Livermore Street, free-and-clear.

Daughter-in-law Ellen (Tarlton) Plummer died of apoplexy at 46 Livermore Street in Portsmouth, NH, February 12, 1912, aged eighty-four years, six months, and eight days. She was a widow.

Mrs. Ellen T. Plummer Dead. PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Feb. 12 – Mrs. Ellen Tarlton Plummer, aged 84, widow of Bard Plummer, died today. She was the daughter of Capt. Thomas and Dorothy Tarlton and is survived by a niece, Miss Emma F. Tarlton, who has always resided with her, and by several nephews (Boston Globe, February 13, 1912).

Hannah D. (Clark) Plummer died of chronic valvular disease of heart at Plummer’s Ridge in Milton, September 2, 1912, aged eighty-one years, eight months, and fifteen days. She had resided in Milton for forty-five years, i.e., since circa 1867, with her previous residence having been in South Framingham, MA. James J. Buckley, M.D., signed the death certificate.

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By Muriel Bristol | July 13, 2025

James Chesley Hayes was born in Dover, NH, January 29, 1760, son of Ichabod and Elizabeth (Hayes) Hayes.

The next settlement is believed to have been made upon Plumer’s Ridge in 1772 or 1773, or very near that time, and probably by Benjamin Scates. Beard Plumer and his brother Joseph, sons of the Hon. John Plumer of Rochester, however, were very early settlers, and it has been sometimes questioned whether they were not the first in this locality. James C. Hayes, David Wallingford, William Palmer, Elijah Horn, Moses Chamberlain, and others, very soon followed and opened up settlements in this neighborhood (Scales, 1914).

Father Ichabod Hayes was among the one hundred ninety-eight men who signed the revolutionary Association Test in Rochester, NH, June 1, 1776.

WE, the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will, to the utmost of 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 (Batchellor, 1910).

Twenty-two Rochester men “refused” to sign. Another twenty-two Rochester Friends, i.e., “Quakers,” did not “choose” to sign, i.e., they were conscientious objectors.

James C. Hayes married, circa 1789, Betsy Twombly. She born in the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, June 4, 1762, daughter of Jonathan Twombly.

The date of Mr. [Jonathan] Twombly’s settlement is obtained from the birth of his daughter, Betsey, who afterwards married [in 1789] James C. Hayes. She was born June 4, 1862 [1762], and is believed to have been the first white child born in town (Scales).

(The known children of James C. and Betsy (Twombly) Hayes were James Hayes (1790–1845), Hanson Hayes (1792–1851), Abra Hayes (1795–1879), Chesley Hayes (1798–1835), and Sally Hayes (1803–1828)).

Son James Hayes was born in the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, December 27, 1790.

James C. Hayes was one of eighty-five inhabitants of Dover, Rochester, Somersworth, Barrington, and elsewhere, that proposed that a lottery be held in order to raise the 300 they estimated would be necessary to rebuild the Cocheco Bridge in Dover, NH, which had been swept away by the memorable freshet of October 1785 (Hammond, 1882).

Son Hanson Hayes was born in the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, January 13, 1792. Daughter Abra Hayes was born in the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, June 14, 1795.

Father Ichabod Hayes died in Dover, NH, October 15, 1794. Mother Elizabeth (Hayes) Hayes died in Dover, NH, October 28, 1795.

William Palmer, Esq., received $90.58 in tax money, collected by J.C. Hayes, December 5, 1795, and $29.86 in tax money, collected by James C. Hayes, in 1796.

Son Chesley Hayes was born in the Northeast Parish of Rochester, NH, July 11, 1798.

James Hayes headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Betsy (Twombly) Hayes], three males aged under-10 years [James Hayes, Hanson Hayes, and Chesley Hayes], one female aged under-10 years [Abra Hayes], and one female aged 16-25 years. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

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

Daughter Sally Hayes was born in Milton, March 31, 1803.

James C. Hayes, Caleb Wingate, and Benjn Miller were one of nine Milton district school committees in 1804. (See Milton School Committees – 1804).

James C. Hayes purchased Pew No. 23 in the newly-constructed Milton Town House, for $12.50, in 1804. It was situated on the east side of the Gallery balcony, between a vacant pew, Pew No. 22, and that Saml Nash, Pew No. 24. (See Milton Town House – 1804).

Ens. James C. Hayes was assessed in the Milton School District No. 1 of Joseph Plumer in 1806 (See Milton School Districts – 1806).

James C. Hayes died in Milton, February 27, 1809, aged forty-nine years. It would be related, many years later, that he had been killed suddenly …

… by the rolling of a log upon him (Dover Enquirer, April 15, 1845).

Betsy [(Twombly)] Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 45-plus years [herself], two males aged 16-25 years [James Hayes and Hanson Hayes], one female aged 16-25 years [Abra Hayes], one male aged 10-15 years [Chesley Hayes], and one female aged 10-15 years [Sarah Hayes]. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

James Hayes, Jr., married in Milton, January 28, 1817, Apphia Chard [Card]. Levi Jones, J.P., performed the ceremony. She was born on Seavey’s Island in Kittery, ME, September 11, 1786, daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Neal) Card.

Son Hanson Hayes married in Dover, NH, July 3, 1817, [Mrs.] Sophia (Swasey) Hanson, both of Milton. Rev. Joseph W. Clary performed the ceremony. She was born in Dover, NH, January 5, 1796, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Somersby) Swasey (Dover Historical Society, 1894). (Her first husband had been John Hanson, who died April 30, 1814).

Daughter Abra Fish married in Milton, March 6, 1820, Ira Fish. He was born in Milton, January 4, 1790, son of John and Rebecca (Ober) Fish.

Daughter Sally Hayes married, March 3, 1822, Rufus Junkins, he of Wakefield, NH. He was born in Scotland, York, ME, December 16, 1797, son of Eleanor Junkins.

The NH legislature authorized incorporation of the Milton Social Library by nine Milton men, including son Hanson Hayes, June 14, 1822. Gilman Jewett was empowered to call its first meeting and preside over it as its moderator pro tem.

Son Chesley Hayes, and sons-in-law Rufus Junkins and Ira Fish, were among the inhabitants of Wakefield, NH, and vicinity that petitioned the NH legislature, in 1824, seeking to have Wakefield’s northern militia company disannexed from the 27 Regiment of militia and annexed instead to the 33rd Regiment of militia.

Son Chesley Hayes married, in June 1825, Betsy Sherman. She was born in Tamworth, NH, March 8, 1802, daughter of Thomas and Betsy (Keith) Sherman.

Daughter Sally (Hayes) Junkins died in Milton, July 12, 1828, aged twenty-five years.

Widowed son-in-law Rufus Junkins married (2nd) in Wakefield, NH, July 16, 1829, Temperance P. Adams, he of Wakefield, NH, and she of Milton. Rev. Saml Nichols performed the ceremony.

Jas. Hayes, Jr., headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Apphia (Card) Hayes], one male aged 20-29 years, one female aged 15-19 years, one male aged 10-14 years [Benjamin F. Hayes], one male aged 5-9 years [Charles C. Hayes], one male aged under-5 years [Cyrus A. Hayes], and one female aged 60-69 years [Betsy (Twombly) Hayes]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Moses Chamberlain and Levi Jones.

Hanson Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Sophia ((Swasey) Hanson) Hayes], one male aged 10-14 years, one female aged 10-14 years [Susan A. Hayes], two females aged 5-9 years [Mary D. Hayes and Sarah E. Hayes], one female aged under-5 years [Clara J. Hayes], one male aged under-5 years [John H. Hayes]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Moulton and Moses Chamberlain.

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

Rufus Junkins headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Fourth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Temperance P. (Adams) Junkins], one male aged 20-29 years, one male aged 15-19 years, one female aged 15-19 years, and two males aged 5-9 years [Rufus A. Junkins].

Ruel Washburn reported that Mr. Jabez Bradbury had paid Chesley Hayes for $12.50 for his expenses, as per bills No. 20, 21, and 22, for 1832. Mr. Bradbury was a Maine state agent upon the Mattanawcook road, the Baring and Houlton roads, and the Lincoln road, in 1831 and 1832 (Kennebec Journal, April 23, 1834).

Son Chesley Hayes died in Lincoln, ME, February 20, 1835, aged thirty-six years.

Chesley Hayes signed the petition for the first [Lincoln] town meeting, and was the first Town Clerk, serving three years. He bought much real estate in Lincoln, built a house and kept the first hotel. His early death was much regretted (Fellows, 1929).

Widowed daughter-in-law Betsy (Sherman) Hayes married (2nd), in Lincoln, ME, April 17, 1836, Joel Sampson. He was born in Tamworth, NH, December 20, 1789 (Fellows, 1929).

Son James Hayes, Jr., sold his father’s 140-acre farm to the town, which was situated between Plummer’s Ridge and Branch, for use as Milton’s Poor Farm, in 1839.

Note: This place is linked to a bit of interesting history. In 1837, it was voted to deposit with the States, payable to the Sec’y of the Treasury of the United States on demand, the U. S. Treasury surplus, accumulated from tariff after the debt was paid in excess of $5,000,000. Three of four installments to the states were paid when the financial crash of 1837 came. New Hampshire divided what it received among its towns. Milton received its share 14 Mar. 1837 and decided to buy a “town farm” with it. The James Chesley Hayes farm of 140 acres was bought of his son James Hayes, Jr., for $500 (Richmond, 1936).

Timothy Fuller, Treasurer of the School and Ministerial Fund of Lincoln, ME, in 1840, foreclosed on a mortgage given to his predecessor as Treasurer, son Chesley Hayes (back in 1834).

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE. WHEREAS Owen Stinson, on the seventeenth day of 1834, by his deed of mortgage which is recorded in the Penobscot Registry, Book 52, page 51, conveyed to Chesley Hays, Treasurer of the School and Ministerial Fund in the Town of Lincoln, or his successor in said office, a certain lot of land situated in said Lincoln, being lot numbered ten in the fourth range of lots in Township numbered three, containing one hundred acres, more or less. Notice is hereby given that the conditions of said Mortgage have been broken and remain unfulfilled, by reason whereof I claim to foreclose the same. TIMOTHY FULLER, Treasurer of the School and Ministerial Fund in the town of Lincoln. w3w Jan. 14 (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, Bangor, ME), January 20, 1840).

Son-in-law Ira Fish was noticed, in April 1840, for $55.46 in 1839 taxes due on his home farm, and the Wiggins and Whitehouse lots, in Lincoln, Penobscot County, ME.  Joel Sampson was noticed also, for $35.14 due on his home farm, the Buker farm, and his village lot and buildings (Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME), April 15, 1840).

A Penobscot County Probate Court held in Bangor, ME, April 28, 1840, appointed Ira Fish of Lincoln, ME, as guardian for his nieces, Frances E. Hayes, Sally J. Hayes, and Hannah S. Hayes, minors and heirs of Chesley Hayes, late of Lincoln, ME (Penobscot Probate, 2:540).

James Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Apphia (Card) Hayes], one male aged 15-19 years [Charles C. Hayes], one male aged 10-14 years [Cyrus A. Hayes], one female aged 10-14 years [Sarah C. Hayes], one female aged 5-9 years [Mary J. Hayes], and one female aged 70-79 years [Betsy (Twombly) Hayes]. Three members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of David M. Corson and John Nute.

Hanson Hayes headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female aged 40-49 years [Sophia ((Swasey) Hanson) Hayes], one female aged 15-19 years [Sarah E. Hayes], one female aged 10-14 years [Clara J. Hayes], one male aged 10-14 years [John H. Hayes], and one male aged 5-9 years [Andrew J. Hayes]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Sarah Chamberlain and Asa Brackett.

Joel Sampson headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one male aged 30-39 years, one female aged 30-39 years [Betsy ((Sherman) Hayes) Sampson], two females aged 10-14 years [Frances E. Hayes], one female aged 5-9 years [Sally J. Hayes], and one female aged under-5 years [Hannah S. Hayes]. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Jones and Royal E. Remick.

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

Rufus Junkins  headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Fifth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 40-49 years [himself], one female age 40-49 years [Temperance P. (Adams) Junkins], two males aged 15-19 years, one female aged 15-19 years, one female aged 10-14 years, one female aged 5-9 years, one male aged under-5 years, one female aged under-5 years, and one female aged 60-69 years. Two members of his household are engaged in Agriculture.

The heirs of son Chesley Hayes were among those noticed of delinquent taxes on his house, barn and farm in Lincoln, Penobscot County, ME, in 1841.

COLLECTOR’S NOTICE -LINCOLN. NOTICE is hereby owners given to of the lands resident and and non-resident proprietors and real estate in the town of Lincoln, in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, that the same are taxed for the years A. D. 1839 and 1840, for State, County, Town and School District No. 3 Taxes, and also for Delinquent Highway Taxes for 1838 and 1839, committed to me to collect as Collector for 1839 and 1840, by the Assessors of said town, in the sums following, and that the same remain unpaid in the bills, as follows, viz. in Township No. 3. …
Heirs of Chesley Hayes, house, barn and farm, 210 [acres], 485 [value], 10.67 [cash tax for 1840], 10,67 [total tax]. …
The said Collector will proceed according to law to sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder, at the tavern of John T. Nute, in said Lincoln, on Wednesday, the sixteenth day of June next, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, so much of said lands and estates as shall be sufficient to discharge said taxes and the necessary intervening charges, and if no person shall appear on or before that time to discharge said taxes and charges. BENJAMIN G. MONRO, Collector of Lincoln. Dated at Lincoln this 5th day of Feb. 1841 (Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME), February 17, 1841).

Betsy (Twombly) Hayes died in Milton, October 16, 1844, aged eighty-two years.

DEATHS. In Milton, Oct. 16, 1844, widow Betsey Hayes, relict of Mr. James C. Hayes, who was killed suddenly some years since by the rolling of a log upon him, aged 82. She had a long, painful sickness through the operation of a cancer, on the part of the face over the eye, which she endured with the greatest patience, and died in a most desirable state of tranquility and hope. Being an early settler in the town where she had lived so long, and having witnessed the desolations which death had already made among her early associates, she was willing to go hence, especially as she contemplated so calmly an end to the trials and sufferings she had endured and the lasting enjoyment of rest which is provided for the faithful in Christ (Dover Enquirer, April 15, 1845).

Son James Hayes, Jr., died in Milton, February 18, 1845, aged fifty-four years.

DEATHS. In Milton, Capt. James Hayes, aged about 50 (Dover Enquirer, March 4, 1845).

And continued from his mother’s obituary, of April 15, 1845 …

DEATHS. Also in Milton, on the 18th of February following, Capt. James Hayes, jr., eldest son of the above, aged 54 years. The last hours of the son were cheered with the same consolations and hopes of religion that sustained the spirit of his departing Mother. Though but little past the meridian of life, and an anxious wife and children about him, not all of mature years in life, to hold him to earth, he still submitted himself to the will of God, and received the summons to depart with the greatest tranquility of mind. At the time of his death he was one of the Selectmen of Milton, the duties of which office he had well discharged for nearly two years successively. B.G.W. (Dover Enquirer, April 15, 1845).

Apphia [(Card)] Hayes, aged sixty-four years (b. NH [SIC]), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Charles Hayes, a farmer, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and Sally Hayes, aged nineteen years (b. NH). Charles Hayes had real estate valued at $900. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those Comfort Laskey, aged seventy-four years (b. NH) and Daniel M. Corson, a farmer, aged sixty-two years (b. NH).

Hanson Hayes, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Sophia [((Swasey) Hanson)] Hayes, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and Andrew J. Hayes, a farmer, aged seventeen years (b. NH). Hanson Hayes had real estate valued at $2,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of David M. Corson, a farmer, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), and James A. Ricker, a farmer, aged forty-six years (b. NH).

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

Joel Sampson, a farmer, aged sixty years (b. MA), headed a Lincoln, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Betsey ((Sherman) Hayes) Sampson, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), Sarah J. Hayes, aged twenty-two years (b. ME), Hannah S. Hayes, aged eighteen years (b. ME), and Mary A. Sampson, aged ten years (b. ME). Joel Sampson had real estate valued at $1,000.

Rufus Junkins, a blacksmith, aged fifty-two years (b. ME), headed a Wakefield, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Temperance [(Adams)] Junkins, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), James H. Junkins, a shoemaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH), Rufus A. Junkins, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Sally H. Junkins, aged twenty years (b. NH), Elizabeth Junkins, aged eighteen years (b. NH), Eleanor Junkins, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Edwin W. Junkins, aged twelve years (b. NH), and Priscilla Junkins, aged seven years (b. NH). Rufus Junkins had real estate valued at $500.

Joel Sampson died in Lincoln, ME, July 20, 1850, aged sixty years.

Son Hanson Hayes died in Milton, December 1, 1851.

Widowed daughter-in-law Sophia ((Swasey) Hanson) Hayes married (3rd) in Milton, January 29, 1854, Ebenezer Adams, both of Milton. (Her pension claim gave the marriage date as February 15, 1854). He was aged sixty-one years and she was aged fifty-eight years. Rev. Loren E. Gordon performed the ceremony. He died in Milton, April 4, 1855.

Son-in-law Rufus Junkins died in Union, Wakefield, NH, April 17, 1854, aged fifty-four years.

DEATHS. In Wakefield, Mr. Rufus Junkins, aged about 60 (Dover Enquirer, May 9, 1854).

Daughter-in-law Betsy ((Sherman) Hayes) Sampson died in Lincoln, ME, August 8, 1856, aged fifty-four years (Fellows, 1929).

Aphie [(Card)] Hayes, aged seventy-two years (b. NH [SIC]), headed a Milton (“Milton P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Her household included Sarah C. Hayes, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH). Aphie Hayes had person estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of [her son,] Chas. C. Hayes, a farmer, aged thirty-seven years (b. NH) and Samuel G. Chamberlain, a farmer, aged thirty-two years (b. NH).

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

Aphia [(Card)] Hayes, aged eighty-two years (b. NH [SIC]), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. She shared a two-family dwelling with the household of [her son,] Charles C. Hayes, a millwright, aged forty-seven years (b. NH).

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

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

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

Daughter-in-law Apphia “Effie” (Card) Hayes died of a brain hemorrhage in Milton, October 4, 1878, aged ninety-two years, and twenty-three days.

Union. There has been several quite sudden deaths in this and the neighboring towns with the past ten days, as follows: Mrs. Effie Hayes died at the residence of her son, Charles C. Hayes, Esq., in Milton, on the 4th inst., at the age of 92, of paralysis; she was a sister of the late venerable Thomas Carr [Card] of your city and the oldest person but one in Milton (Dover Enquirer, October 17, 1878).

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

Daughter-in-law Sophia (((Swasey) Hanson) Hayes) Adams died in North Berwick, ME, November 25, 1881, aged eighty-four years, ten months.

MAINE NEWS GLEANINGS. York. NORTH BERWICK. – The Biddeford Journal says that Mrs. Sophia Adams of North Berwick died Friday evening after years of sickness and suffering, at the advanced age of 87 years and 10 months (Lewiston Sun-Journal (Lewiston, ME), December 3, 1881).

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Find a Grave. (2021, July 28). Abra (Hayes) Fish. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/94349615/abra-fish

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Find a Grave. (2014, May 26). James Chesley Hayes. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/130395278/james-chesley-hayes

Find a Grave. (2022, March 7). CPT James Hayes. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/237336842/james-hayes

Find a Grave. (2018, April 15). Sally Hayes Junkins. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/188848524/sally-junkins

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By Muriel Bristol | July 6, 2025

William Wentworth Lord was born in Berwick, ME, February 18, 1761, son of Ebenezer and Martha (Emery) Lord.

Mother Martha (Emery) Lord died May 5, 1773, aged forty-eight years. His father married (2nd), in 1774, Jane (Hight) Plaisted.

William W. Lord married (1st) in Rochester, NH, October 13, 1783, Mary (Garland) Allen. She was born circa 1763.

(The known children of William W. and Mary ((Garland) Allen) Lord were: Mary Lord (1783-183?), Sally Lord (1784-181?), Rebecca Lord (1786-1812), and Jane Lord (c1793-1835).

Daughter Mary “Molly” Lord was born February 28, 1783. Daughter Sally Lord was born circa 1784. Daughter Rebecca Lord was born October 16, 1786.

William W. Lord headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], and four females [Mary ((Garland) Allen) Lord, Mary Lord, Sally Lord, and Rebecca Lord]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Benja Pierce and Moses Pierce.

Daughter Jane Lord was born circa 1793.

Wm W. Lord headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Mary ((Garland) Allen) Lord], one female aged 16-25 years [Mary Lord], two females aged 10-15 years [Sally Lord and Rebecca Lord], one female aged under-10 years [Jane Lord]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Ebener Ricker headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Deborah (Pinkham) Ricker], one male aged 16-25 years [Charles Ricker], one male aged 10-15 years [Shapleigh or Smith Ricker], two males aged under-10 years [John Ricker and Ebenezer Ricker], and three females aged under-10 years [Betsy Ricker, Patience [Ricker], and Sally M. Ricker]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Lemuel Ricker headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [Lemuel Ricker], one female aged 45-plus years [Dorothy (Knox) Ricker], one male aged 26-44 years [Jerediah Ricker], two males aged 16-25 years [Joshua Ricker and Ezekiel Ricker], two females aged 16-25 years [Dorothy Ricker and Joanna Ricker], and two females aged 10-15 years. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Gershom Downs headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Elizabeth Downs], one male aged 16-25 years [Aaron Downs], one female aged 16-25 years, and one male aged under-10 years. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

William W. Lord signed the Rochester division petition of May 28, 1802. (Soon to be son-in-law, Jerediah Ricker and his father, Limuel [Lemuel] Ricker, signed too).

Daughter Sally Lord married in Rochester, NH, February 16, 1803, Jedediah [Jerediah] Ricker, both of Milton. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony. Ricker was born in Dover, NH, March 2, 1773, son of Lemuel and Dorothy (Knox) Ricker.

Will W. Lord and his son-in-law, Jerediah Ricker, were among “a number of respectable inhabitants & freeholders” that sought a special Town Meeting to reconsider the proposed Meeting House site. They thought that the site should be instead ninety or a hundred rods lower down, on the south side of the brook at the head of the Northwest Pond. The special Town Meeting was held at the home of Lieut. Elijah Horn, September 1, 1803, and that meeting decided not to change the proposed Meeting House site.

Wm Lord purchased Pew No. 7 in the newly-constructed Milton Town House, for $30, in 1804. It was situated on the east side of the ground floor, between those of Caleb Wingate, Pew No. 6, and P. Hantscom, Pew No. 8. At that time, son-in-law Jeh [Jerediah] Ricker purchased Pew No. 18, for $28.25. It was situated on the west side of the ground floor, between those of J. Scates, Pew No. 17, and D. Burnham, Pew No. 19. (See Milton Town House – 1804).

William W. Lord was one of fifty-two Milton petitioners that sought to have Jotham Nute appointed as a Milton justice-of-the-peace, in August 1805.

Daughter Rebecca Lord married in Rochester, September 4, 1805, Aaron Downs, Jr., she of Milton and he of Rochester, NH. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony. Downs was born in Rochester, NH, June 22, 1780, son of Gershom Downs.

Daughter Mary Lord married in Rochester, NH, March 11, 1810, Charles Ricker, both of Milton. Rev. Joseph Haven performed the ceremony. Ricker was born in Milton, June 7, 1784, son of Ebenezer and Deborah (Pinkham) Ricker].

Wm W. Lord headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Mary ((Garland) Allen) Lord], one male aged 26-44 years [Charles Ricker], one female aged 16-25 years [Mary (Lord) Ricker], one male aged under-10 years, and one female age under-10 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Nathl Pinkham and Garshom Downs. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Jeremiah Ricker headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included on male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Sally (Lord) Ricker], and one female aged 10-15 years.

Aaron Downs headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Rebecca (Lord) Downs], one female aged under-10 years [Sarah A. Downs], one male aged under-10 years [Luther Downs]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Garshom Downs and Stephen Hendrn. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Father Ebenezer Lord died February 19, 1812. Daughter Rebecca (Lord) Downs died in Milton, in 1812.

Son-in-law Charles Recker [Ricker] served also as a Corporal in Capt. William Courson’s Milton militia company when it marched to Portsmouth, NH, in September 1814 (See Milton in the War of 1812).

Widowed son-in-law Aaron Downs married (2nd) in Newington, NH, May 29, 1816, Martha P. Nutter. She was born in Newington, NH, October 26, 1788, daughter of Thomas Nutter.

William W. Lord and his sons-in-law, Charles Ricker and Jerediah Ricker, all signed the April 1820 petition requesting the appointment of James Roberts as a Milton justice-of-the-peace. (See Milton Seeks a Magistrate – 1820).

William W. Lord and his sons-in-law, Aaron Downs, Charles Ricker and Jerediah Ricker, all signed the June 1820 remonstrance petition requesting that Milton not be divided in two parts. (See Milton Anti-Division Remonstrance – June 1820). William W. Lord and son-in-law, Aaron Downs, both signed the Milton Militia Division petition of November 1820. (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).

Stepmother Jane ((Hight) Plaisted) Lord died in Berwick, ME, April 10, 1822, aged eighty-six years.

The NH legislature authorized incorporation of the Milton Social Library by nine Milton men, including son-in-law Charles Ricker, June 14, 1822. Gilman Jewett was empowered to call its first meeting and preside over it as its moderator pro tem.

William W. Lord of Milton, yeoman, made his last will, December 17, 1822. He devised a life estate in his real estate to his beloved wife, Mary Lord, with the reversion after her death or remarriage to his grandson, James A. Ricker. He devised a cow and three sheep to his daughter, Molly Ricker, who was also to received one-half of his furniture after his wife’s decease, excepting one feather bed and bedding which he reserved for the said James A. Ricker. He devised a decent comfortable living at his house to his daughter Jane Lord, while she remained single, and a cow, three sheep, and the residue of the furniture thereafter. He devised $1 to his grandson, Ezekiel Ricker, together with what had already been given to his late mother, Sally Ricker. He devised $1 each to his grandsons, Aaron Downs and Simon E. Downs, together with what had been already given to their late mother, Rebecca Downs. He devised all the rest and residue of his real and personal estate to his grandson, James A. Ricker, whom he named as joint executor with his wife, Mary Lord. Timothy Roberts, Rebecca H. Roberts, and James Roberts signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 41:273).

Mary ((Garland) Allen) Lord died between December 1822 and October 1828.

William W. Lord married (2nd) in Rochester, NH, October 14, 1828, Mercy (Corson) Langton, he of Milton and she of Lebanon, ME. Rev. Isaac Willey performed the ceremony. She was born in Rochester, NH, 1763, daughter of Ichabod, Jr.,  and Mary (Allen) Corson.

Wm W. Lord headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Mercy ((Corson) Langton) Lord], one female aged 30-39 years [Jane Lord], one male aged 20-29 years, one male aged 10-14 years, one female aged 10-14 years, and one female aged 5-9 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Aaron Downs and Jas Roberts. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Jedediah [Jerediah] Ricker headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], two females aged 40-49 years, and one female aged 80-89 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Sally Downs and Joshua Handson. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Chas Ricker 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 [Mary (Lord) Ricker], one male aged 15-19 years, two females aged 10-14 years, one female aged 5-9 years, one male aged under-5 years, and one female aged under-5 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jas Bragdon and John Drew. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Aaron Downs 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 [Martha P. (Nutter) Downs], one male aged 10-14 years [Eri G. Downs], one male aged 5-9 years [John R. Downs], two females aged 5-9 years [Sarah A. Downs and L. Margaret Downs], and one female aged under-5 years [Rebecca S. Downs]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Saml Blaisdell and Wm W. Lord. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

NOTICE. THIS may certify that I have given my son SIMON EMERY DOWNS, his time, and declare him free to act and trade for himself, and I shall claim none of his earnings nor pay any debts of his contracting after this date. AARON DOWNS. Witness – JOHN KNOX, jr. Milton, December 2, 1830 (Dover Enquirer, December 7, 1830).

William W. Lord died in Milton, February 13, 1831, aged sixty-nine years, eleven months, and twenty-five days.

DIED. In Milton, on the 13th ult., Mr. WILLIAM W. LORD, aged about 70. By this dispensation of DIVINE PROVIDENCE a wife is deprived of an affectionate and tender companion; children of an indulgent and worthy father; and society of one of its best members. – “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” – [Com. (Dover Enquirer, March 1, 1831).

The last will of William W. Lord was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held on March 9, 1831 (Strafford County Probate, 41:275).

Dorothy (Knox) Ricker died in Milton, November 26, 1831, aged eighty-four years.

DIED. In Milton, on the 26th Nov., Mrs. Dorothy, widow of Mr. Lemuel Ricker, aged 84 years (Dover Enquirer, December 20, 1831).

Daughter Jane Lord died in Milton, in November 1835, aged forty-two years.

Died. In Milton, Miss Jane Lord, 42. The day preceding her death, she attended to her domestic concerns as usual; retired to bed about nine, and in the morning was found a lifeless corpse (Dover Enquirer, November 17, 1835).

Son-in-law Charles Ricker died in Milton, September 15, 1836, aged fifty-two years.

DIED. In Milton, on the 15th inst., Mr. Charles Ricker, aged 52 (Dover Enquirer, September 27, 1836).

Son-in-law Jerediah Ricker occupied a farm slated to be sold at auction on Saturday, April 22, 1837.

A Farm at Auction. WILL be sold at public auction on the premises, on SATURDAY the 22d day of April next at one of the clocks in the afternoon (unless previously disposed of at private sale) the farm now occupied by Jerediah Ricker situate in Milton, on the Teneriff road, so called, containing about 100 Acres of EXCELLENT LAND suitably divided into mowing, tillage and pasturing, about forty acres of which is covered with an excellent growth of Hard Wood.
The buildings are new consisting of house 26 by 34 ft. and Barn 30 by 36 feet. There is a good orchard and a well of water on said farm. Any person wishing a good bargain in a farm will do well to call and examine the same.
Conditions liberal and made known at the place of sale. For particulars enquire of Joseph Gerrish, Great Falls, Jerediah Ricker on the premises, or the subscriber.
STEPHEN M. MATHES. Milton, March 14, 1837 (Dover Enquirer, March 21, 1837).

Aaron Dow[ns] 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 [Martha P. (Nutter) Downs], one male aged 15-19 years [Eri G. Downs], one female aged 15-19 years, and one female aged 10-14 years [Rebecca S. Downs]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John H. Roberts and Nathaniel Clark.

Aaron Downs, a farmer,  aged sixty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Martha [(Nutter)] Downs, aged sixty-two years (b. NH), Eri Downs, a farmer, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), Matthias Nutter, a shoemaker, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Rebecca S. Downs, aged twenty-one years (b. NH). Aaron Downs had real estate valued at $1,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jacob Staples, a shoemaker, aged forty-three years (b. ME), and James C. Roberts, a farmer, aged forty years (b. NH).

Son-in-law Aaron Downs died July 14, 1850.

Supreme Judicial Court. Geo. W. Merrill vs. Aaron Downs and Simon E. Downs. In this action a verdict was taken by consent of parties for the plaintiff. Exceptions taken to the rulings of the Court and the case transferred to the full bench for decision. Christie & Sanborn for plaintiff; Woodman and Bell for defendant (Dover Enquirer, October 6, 1859).

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References:

Find a Grave. (2022, February 3). Rebecca Lord Downs. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/236455035/rebecca-downs

Find a Grave. (2012, June 22). Jane Hight Lord. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/92405308/jane-lord

By Muriel Bristol | June 29, 2025

Pelatiah Hanscom, Jr., was born in Kittery, ME, December 28, 1777, son of Pelatiah and Susanna (Cole) Hanscom. His father was a Revolutionary soldier. “Pelatiah” is a male given name from the Bible, which means “deliverance of the Lord.”

Paltiah Hanscum headed a Kittery, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His  household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], three males under-16 years [Pelatiah Hanscom, Jr., Samuel S. Hanscom, and John Hanscom], and three females [Susanna (Cole) Hanscom, Susanna Hanscom, and another]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Ephehm Scammond and Saml Shapley.

Pelatiah Hanscom [Sr.] was among the first to settle at Three Ponds in Rochester’s Northeast Parish, in the 1790s. He died before 1800.

Among the first who settled at Three Ponds were Samuel Palmer, Levi Burgen, John Fish, Paul Jewett, Pelatiah Hanscom, Robert McGeoch, and others (Scales, 1914).

Pelatiah Hanscom [Jr.] headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included three males aged 16-25 years [himself, and brothers Samuel Hanscom and John Hanscom], two females aged 16-25 years [Susanna Hanscom], one female aged under-10 years, and one female aged 45-plus years [Susanna (Cole) Hanscom]. (See Northeast Parish in the Second (1800) Federal Census).

Peltiah Hanscom signed the Rochester division petition of May 28, 1802.

Pelatiah Hanscom married in Berwick, ME, August 22, 1803, Betsy Tibbetts. She was born in Berwick, ME, June 11, 1780.

(The known children of Pelatiah and Betsy (Tibbetts) Hanscom were: Samuel Hanscom (1804-1834), Ivory Worster Hanscom (1806–1885), Susan Marie Hanscom (1808–1877), Catherine J. Hanscom (1810-1831), Albe Cady Hanscom (1816–1845), Adaline Hanscom (1819–1856), James Hearl Hanscom (1822–1890), Elizabeth “Betsy” Hanscom (1825–1888)).

P. Hantscom purchased Pew No. 8 in the Milton Town House, for $31 in 1804. It was situated on the east side of the ground floor, between those of Wm Lord, Pew No. 7, and W. Jones, Pew No. 9 (See Milton Town House – 1804).

Son Samuel Hanscom was born in Milton, November 1, 1804. Son Ivory Worster Hanscom was born in Milton, August 1, 1806.

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

Daughter Susan Marie Hanscom was born in Milton, August 19, 1808.

Palatiah Hanson [Hanscom] headed a Milton household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Betsy (Tibbetts) Hanscom], two males aged under-10 years [Samuel Hanscom and Ivory W. Hanscom], one female aged under-10 years [Susan M. Hanscom], and one female aged 45-plus years [Susanna (Cole) Hanscom]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Thos Wentworth and Wm Jones. (See Milton in the Third (1810) Federal Census).

Daughter Catherine J. Hanscom was born in Milton, October 27, 1810.

Pelatiah Hanscom served as a Sergeant in Capt. Andrew Pierce’s Company of detached militia, May 24, 1814. Pierce’s Company served in Major Edward Jenning Long’s Battalion command of militia artillery. His Portsmouth-based command “… was stationed mainly at Fort Washington, but portions of it were at Forts Sullivan and Constitution.” Sgt. Hanscom served until July 3, 1814 (NH Adj. Gen., 1868).

Pelah Hanscom was among those that petitioned the NH General Court, in or around June 1814, seeking incorporation of the Milton Congregational Society. (See Milton Congregational Society Petition – 1814).

Pelatiah Hanscom served also as a Sergeant in Capt. William Courson’s Milton militia company when it marched to Portsmouth, NH, in September 1814 (See Milton in the War of 1812).

Son Albe Cady Hanscom was born in Milton, March 25, 1816. Daughter Adaline Hanscom was born in Milton, August 2, 1819.

Pelah Hanscom signed the Milton anti-division remonstrance of June 1820. He signed also the Milton militia division petition of November 1820. (See Milton Militia Dispute – 1820).

Son James Hearl Hanscom was born in Milton, March 25, 1822.

Mother Susanna (Cole) Hanscom died in Milton, January 9, 1823.

Pelah Hanscom signed the June 1823 petition requesting that Gilman Jewett be appointed as a Milton coroner. (See Milton Seeks a Coroner – June 1823).

Daughter Elizabeth “Betsy” Hanscom was born in Milton, January 10, 1825.

Peltiah Hanscum headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Betsy (Tibbetts) Hanscom], one female aged 40-49 years [Susan Hanscom], one male aged 20-29 years [Ivory W. Hanscom], one female aged 20-29 years [Susan M. Hanscom], one male aged 10-14 years [Albe C. Hanscom], one female aged 10-14 years [Adeline Hanscom], one male aged 5-9 years [James H. Hanscom], one female aged 5-9 years [Betsy Hanscom]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Jas. Pinkham and Steph. Drew. (See Milton in the Fifth (1830) Federal Census).

Son Ivory W. Hanscom married (1st), probably in Milton, circa 1830, Huldah Goodwin. She was born in Milton, August 6, 1813, daughter of James and Mary “Polly” (Wakeham) Goodwin.

Daughter Catherine J. Hanscom died in Milton, February 27, 1831, aged twenty years, four months.

DIED. In Milton, Miss Catherine, daughter of Mr. Pelatiah Hanscom, 30 [20] (Dover Enquirer, March 29, 1831).

Son Samuel Hanscom married in Milton, November 18, 1832, Eliza Hanson, he of Milton and she of Lebanon, ME. She was born in Lebanon, ME, March 11, 1807, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Moody) Hanson.

MARRIED. In Milton, Mr. Samuel Hanscom, to Miss Eliza Hanson, of Lebanon, Me. (Dover Enquirer, December 4, 1832).

Daughter-in-law Huldah (Goodwin) Hanscom died in Milton, in January 1833, aged twenty years.

DIED. In Milton, Mrs. Huldah, wife of Lt. Ivory Hanscom, and daughter of Mr. James Goodwin, of Milton, aged 20 (Dover Enquirer, January 29, 1833).

Son Samuel Hanscom died in Milton, February 25, 1834, aged twenty-nine years, four months.

Died. In Milton, Mr. Samuel Hanscom, aged 29 (Dover Enquirer, March 11, 1834).

Sister Susanna Hanscom of Milton made her last will, July 5, 1834. She bequeathed all her real and personal estate to her beloved niece, Susan [M.] Hanscom of Milton, single woman, who she also named as executor. Pelatiah Hanscom, Luther Wentworth, and James Roberts signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 52:139).

Pelatiah “Pelah” Hanscom officially emancipated his son, Albe C. Hanscom, as he became nineteen years of age.

Notice. TO whom it may concern. This certifies that I the subscriber have given to my son, Albe C. Hanscom, his time, to act for himself, and shall not exact any of his earnings nor pay any debts of his contracting after this date. PELAH HANSCOM. Witness—JOSEPH NUTE, IVORY W. HANSCOM. Milton, March 18, 1835 (Dover Enquirer, March 24, 1835).

Sister Susan Hanscom died in Milton, January 18, 1837, aged fifty-one years, eight months. Her last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Rochester, NH, May 13, 1837 (Strafford County Probate, 52:139).

Son Albe C. Hanscom married, circa 1839, Mary Ann Pray, both of Milton. She as born in Milton, circa 1817, daughter of Joshua and Kezia (Wentworth) Pray.

Peltiah Hanson [Hanscom] headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Betsy (Tibbetts) Hanscom], two males aged 20-29 years, one female aged 20-29 years [Adaline Hanscom], one male aged 15-19 years [James H. Hanscom], one female aged 15-19 years [Betsy Hanscom], and one female aged 5-9 years [Mary Hanscom]. For members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Lucy D. Hartford and Joseph Nute.

Alba C. Hanscom headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 20-29 years [Mary Ann (Pray) Hanscom], and one male aged under-5 years [Charles P. Hanscom]. One member of his household was engaged in Manufacture and Trade.

Daughter Betsy Hanscom married, circa 1843, Charles F. Horne. He was born in Milton, February 18, 1822, son of James H. and Huldah (Roberts) Horne.

Pelatiah Hanscom died in Milton, January 14, 1844, aged sixty-six years, one month.

Son Albe Cady Hanscom died in Natick, MA, April 15, 1845, aged twenty-nine years.

Widowed daughter-in-law Mary Ann ((Pray) Hanscom married (2nd) in Chelsea, MA, March 31, 1847, William P. Mason. He was aged twenty-seven years, and she was aged twenty-seven years.

Son James H. Hanscom married, circa 1848, Sarah Jones. She was born in Milton, in 1820, daughter of Nathan and Susannah (Davis) Jones.

Son Ivory W. Hanscom married (2nd) in Milton, December 6, 1849, Judith Foss, both of Milton. Rev. James Doldt performed the ceremony. She was born in Milton, circa 1807, daughter of William and Mary (Downs) Foss.

Betsey [(Tibbetts)] Hanscomb, aged seventy-one years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. Her household included Susan Hanscomb, aged forty years (b. NH), Adaline Hanscomb, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), Mary Hanscomb, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Thestah D. Hanscomb, aged four years (b. NH). Betsy Hanscomb had real estate valued at $300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Elisha H. Hersom, a carpenter, aged thirty-eight years (b. ME), and Joseph Nute, a laborer, aged fifty years (b. NH). (Mary Hanscomb, was the daughter of Ivory and Huldah (Goodwin) Hanscom).

Ivory W. Hanscomb, a shoemaker, aged forty-four years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time o the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Judith [(Foss)] Hanscomb, aged forty-two years. Ivory W. Hanscomb had real estate valued at $200. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Moses Downs, a farmer, aged fifty years (b. NH), and Samuel Foss, a farmer, aged forty-five years (b. NH).

Wm P. Mason, a mariner, aged thirty-two years (b. ME), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Mary A. [((Pray) Hanscom)] Mason, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), Charles P. Hanscom, a laborer, aged nineteen years (b. MA), Mary Hanscom, aged nine years (b. MA), Abby J. Hanscom, aged five years (b. MA), and W.W.E. Mason, aged two years (b. MA). They shared a three-family residence with their landlord, Ruel Morse, a farmer, aged sixty-six years (b. MA), and Onvra Taylor, a shoemaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA).

James Hanscomb, a shoemaker, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed a MIlton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census, His household included Sarah [(Jones)] Hanscomb, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH), Violetta A. Hanscomb, aged one year (b. NH), George B. Jones, a shoemaker, aged sixteen years (b. ME), David R. Jones, a shoemaker, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and Delana F. Wentworth, aged seventeen years (b. NH). James Hanscomb had real estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John P. Jones, a shoemaker, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), and Moses J. Downs, a shoemaker, aged thirty-three years (b. VT).

Charles F. Horn, a mechanic, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), headed an Ossipee, NH, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Betsy [(Hanscom)] Horn, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), James H. Horn, aged five years (b. NH), George E. Horn, aged one year (b. NH), and John H. Cram, a shoemaker, aged thirty-six years (b. NH).

Son-in-law William P. Mason died of consumption in Natick, MA, October 24, 1852, aged thirty-five years, four months.

Widowed daughter-in-law Mary Ann ((Pray) Hanscom) Mason married (3rd) in Natick, MA, June 3, 1855, Joseph Critcherson. He was a cordwainer, aged thirty years, and she was aged thirty-six years. Elias Nason performed the ceremony.

Daughter Adaline (Hanscom) Kimball died in Milton, March 26, 1856, aged thirty-six years, eight months.

Susan Hanscom, a dressmaker, aged fifty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Her household included Betsey [(Tibbetts)] Hanscom, aged eighty years (b. NH [SIC]), and Thestesh D. Hanscom, aged fourteen years (b. NH). Susan Hanscom had real estate valued at $400 and personal estate valued at $500. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Warren Parlin, a painter, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), and Alonzo Corson, a shoemaker, aged twenty-nine years (b. NH).

Joseph Critcherson, a shoemaker, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Mary A. [(((Pray) Hanscom) Mason)] Critcherson, aged forty years (b. NH), Charles P. Hanscom, a shoemaker, aged twenty years (b. MA), Mary P. Hanscom, aged nineteen years (b. MA), and Abbie S. Hanscom, aged fifteen years (b. MA). Joseph Critcherson had personal estate valued at $500.

James Hanscom, a shoemaker, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Jones)] Hanscom, aged thirty-nine years (b. NH), V.A. Hanscom, aged eleven years (b. NH), E.C. Hanscom, aged eight years (b. NH), J.A. Hanscom, aged ten months (b. NH), Ivory W. Hanscom, a shoemaker, aged fifty-three years (b. NH), C. Brackett, a shoemaker, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and M. Nutter, a carpenter, aged seventy years (b. NH). James Hanscom had real estate valued at $100, and personal estate valued at $500. M. Nutter had real estate valued at $1,000, and personal estate valued at $100. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of John P. Jones, a shoemaker, aged forty-one years (b. NH), and Stephen Downs, a farmer, aged fifty-two years (b. NH).

[Judith Foss, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. Judith Foss had real estate valued at $600 and personal estate valued at $100. Her household appeared in the enumeration between those of Samuel Foss, a farmer, aged fifty-four years (b. NH), and John P. Jones, a shoemaker, aged forty-one years (b. NH)].

John P. Jones, works for shoe fact., aged fifty-one years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Louisa M. [(Wentworth)] Jones, keeping house, aged fifty years (b. NH), Susan A. Jones, works in cotton mill, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Mary J. Jones, at home, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Joshua R. Jones, at school, aged eleven years (b. NH), Lydia E. Jones, at school, aged six years (b. NH), and Ivory W. Hanscom, works for shoe fact., aged sixty-three years (b. NH). John P. Jones had real estate valued at $400 and personal estate valued at $200.

Charles P. Hanscome, works in shoe factory, aged thirty years (b. MA), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Eldora I. [(Perry)] Hanscome, keeping house, aged twenty-five years (b. MA), Eva C. Hanscome, attends school, aged six years (b. MA), Joseph Critcherson, works in shoe factory, aged forty-three years (b. NH), and Mary A. [(((Pray) Hanscom) Mason)] Critcherson, keeping house, aged fifty-one years (b. NH). Charles P. Hanscome had personal estate valued at $200; and Joseph Critcherson had personal estate valued at $300.

James Hanscom, works for shoe fact., aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Sarah [(Jones)] Hanscom, keeping house, aged forty-nine years (b. NH), Violette A. Hanscom, works in cotton mill, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Emma C. Hanscom, at home, aged eighteen years (b. NH), and Willie W. Sanborn, works for shoe fact., aged twelve years (b. NH). James Hanscom had real estate valued at $1,000 and personal estate valued at $544.

Joseph H. Avery, works for shoe factory, aged twenty-five years (b. ME), headed a Milton household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His his household included Thesta [(Hanscom)] Avery, keeping house, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Hermon A. Avery, aged three years (b. NH), Addie Avery, aged two years (b. NH), Betsey [(Tibbetts)] Hanscom, aged ninety years (b. ME), and Susan M. Hanscom, aged sixty years (b. NH). Susan M. Hanscom  had real estate valued at $300. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Stephen Drew, a physician, aged seventy-nine years (b. NH), and Moses J. Downs, works for shoe factory, aged fifty-three years (b. VT).

Betsy (Tibbetts) Hanscom died in Milton, May 13, 1873, aged ninety-two years, ten months, and twenty-two days.

The wife of Mr. James Hanscom of Milton, while engaged in milking a cow last Monday night, was kicked in the head by an ugly steer standing by, breaking her skull, and rendering her entirely senseless. The accident, if such it may be called, is a very bad one indeed, but it is thought that Mrs. H. will recover. Mr. H. was away from home or he would have done the milking himself, as usual, and the accident would not have occurred (Dover Enquirer, May 31, 1873).

THE DEMOCRATS OF NATICK. The Democratic voters of Natick have chosen the following delegates to the conventions about to be held: To State Convention, Walter N. Mason, H. Perry, George G. Hammond, Daniel Keiley, Dr. J.A. Doke, Nathan U. Gay, Charles W. Gleason and James McManus; Congressional Convention, Calvin H. Perry, John B. Walcott, Walter N. Mason. Dr. A.H. Bryant, William McCullock, William W. Pray, Warren Bird and Daniel Keiley; Senatorial Convention, Noah L. Hardy, Peter Hogan, S.W. Hardy, George Hall, George Brock, Isaac D. Morse, N.U. Gay and Alfred P. Allen; Councillor Convention. John Everett, Thomas Curry, Joseph Critcherson, Edward McManus, Warren Bird, Eliot Walker, E.F. Perry and Calvin H. Perry (Boston Globe, September 8, 1874).

Daughter Susan M. Hanscom of Milton, single woman, made her last will, December 27, 1877. She bequeathed to her beloved sister, Betsy Horne, one bed and bedding, to be selected by her, and also her wearing apparel, one table, and a warming pan. She devised her homestead to her beloved grandniece, Addie May Avery. (Addie M. Avery was a daughter of Joseph H. and Thesta D. (Hanscom) Avery, and a granddaughter of [her sister,] Adaline Hanscom). She was to hold it free of all control of her husband, should she ever marry, and in case of her decease before marriage and leaving no closer heirs, the homestead property should pass instead to her beloved niece, Emma Catherine Hanscom. (Emma C. Hanscom was a daughter of [her brother,] James H. Hanscom, and would become the second wife of Joseph H. Avery). She devised all the rest and residue to her beloved grandniece, Addie May Avery. She appointed Charles F. Horne as her executor. Charles F. Horne, James Hanscom, and Melinda K. Gilmore signed as witnesses (Strafford County Probate, 89:379).

Daughter Susan Marie Hanscom died in Milton, October 29, 1878, aged seventy years, two months. Her last will was proved in a Strafford County Probate Court held in Somersworth, NH, November 6, 1878 (Strafford County Probate, 89:381).

Executor’s Notice. THE subscriber hereby gives notice to all concerned, that he was, on the 6th day of November, A.D., 1878, duly appointed and allowed to be Executor of the last will and testament of Susan M. Hanscom, late of Milton, in the County of Strafford, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust, and has given bond as the law directs. Dated this 3rd day of December, A.D., 1878. CHARLES F. HORNE (Dover Enquirer, December 19, 1878).

Ivory W. Hanson, a laborer, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), was one of one hundred sixty eight inmates and prisoners at the Strafford County Farm, at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. (See Milton’s Poor Farm – 1839-1867).

Simeon H. Waters, a watchmaker, aged thirty-eight years (b. MA), headed a Natick, MA, household t the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Mary T. Waters, keeps house, aged thirty-seven years (b. MA), his son Arthur H. Waters, aged four years (b. MA), and his boarders, Joseph Critcherson, a billiard hall liquor saloon, aged sixty years (b. NH), and Mary A. [(((Pray) Hanscom) Mason)] Critcherson, aged fifty-five years (b. NH). 

James Hanscom, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Sarah [(Jones)] Hanscom, keeping house, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), his daughters, Vilette A. Hanscom, works in cotton mill, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), and Emma C. Hanscom, works in cotton mill, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), and his brother [?], John H. Crane, at home, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence with the household of John P. Jones, a shoemaker, aged sixty-one years (b. NH).

Charles F. Horne, a farmer, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Rochester, NH, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Betsey [(Hanscom)] Horne, keeping house, aged fifty-five years (b. NH), his boarder, Daniel F. Nye, a conductor, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH), his boarder’s wife, Ida Nye, aged twenty years (b. ME), his boarder, Samuel K. Scott, a tailor, aged twenty-five years (b. England), his boarder’s wife, Josephine Scott, aged twenty-five years (b. Ireland), and his boarders, John J. Moore, a carriage maker, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), John Newton, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Mary Corson, aged forty-seven years (b. NH).

Son Ivory W. Hanscom was reported as missing, presumed dead, in the fire that destroyed the Strafford County Farm, in Dover, NH, January 7, 1881.

PAUPERS BURNED TO DEATH. COUNTY FARM HOUSE DESTROYED – INMATES LOCKED IN THEIR ROOMS. DOVER, N.H., Jan. 7. – A fire was discovered in the main building on the Strafford County Farm about 4:30 o’clock this morning. At the time of the discovery the flames had made great headway and many rooms were filled with smoke. One hundred and sixty-nine persons were in the building at the time, and great difficulty was experienced in getting them out, some of them having to be dragged to a place of safety. Thirteen persons are missing, and probably lost their lives. Their names are Frank Jones, Asa Hall, Peter Sargent, Burnham Nute, Jeff Holland, Thomas McDermott, Ivory Hanscom, Joseph Cook. Charles Riley, Sadie Abbott, Martha Jewell, Lizzie Wilson, and Clara Scates. The loss is estimated at $70,000; insured for $25,000. If the weather had not been unusually warm the loss of life would have been much heavier. The inmates who escaped are now clothed and sheltered through the generosity of neighbors and citizens of Dover. A fire engine sent from Dover, four miles away, was unable to reach the scene of the conflagration on account of the heavy snow on the ground. The fire caught from a furnace. The County Commissioners have been on the ground all day and have made arrangements for the protection and shelter of the inmates. The Water-works were rendered useless by extreme drought, and no water could be obtained. Perhaps this could not have been avoided, but there seems to have been mismanagement somewhere. Most of the inmates were locked in their rooms, and there was no one to let them all out. All the sick were saved, and of others rescued nearly all were able to go about. There was no watchman on the premises, and the fire had made great headway before being discovered. Several able-bodied paupers rendered great assistance in saving the sick and feeble. The loss on the county building is estimated at $65,000. Nothing further can be done toward recovering the bodies until the mass of debris cools. No water can be applied. There were two fire escapes on the building, but the doors leading thereto were shut, and that circumstance is subject to no little unfavorable comment (NY Times, January 8, 1881).

But he apparently survived the fire, as he died later of old age in Milton, August 6, 1885, aged seventy-nine years. He was a widowed farmer.

A burglar robbed the Natick, MA, house of grandson Charles P. Hanscom, in May 1881.

NATICK. NOTES. … Thursday evening the house of Charles P. Hanscom, on Reynold avenue, was broke into while the family were away, and a coat, watch case, a pocketbook containing $2 or $3, also $125 which was in the bedroom, stolen (Boston Post, May 28, 1881).

Son-in-law Charles F. Horne won his lawsuit against the town of Rochester, NH, in 1882.

SUIT FOR DAMAGES Against a Town Allowed. DOVER, N.H., Sept. 15th. The case of Charles F. Horne, against the town of Rochester to recover $4,000 for injuries received by being thrown from his carriage, the horse taking fright at the cars, standing on the Eastern railroad track near the street crossing in Rochester, was given to the jury yesterday. They came into court this forenoon, rendering a verdict of $725 (Lewiston Sun-Journal, September 15, 1882).

Daughter Betsy (Hanscom) Horne won her lawsuit against the town of Rochester, NH, in 1888.

New Hampshire Items. … Mrs. Charles F. Horne of Rochester has sued the town for $1000, claiming damage to her property near Rochester hill, from overflow of water from the highway (Portsmouth Daily Chronicle, February 6, 1888).

Daughter Betsy (Hanscom) Horne died in Rochester, NH, June 11, 1888, aged sixty-three years, five months, and six days.

Daughter-in-law Sarah (Jones) Hanscom died in Milton, September 24, 1889, aged sixty-eight years, eleven month, and twelve days.

Son James H. Hanscom died January 29, 1890, aged sixty-seven years, ten months, and four days.

Son-in-law Charles F. Horne died in Rochester, NH, June 18, 1894, aged seventy-one years, one month.

Joseph Critcherson, aged seventy-four years (b. NH), headed a Natick, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty-five years), Mary A. [(((Pray) Hanscom) Mason)] Critcherson, aged eighty-two years (b. NH). Mary A. Critcherson was the mother of seven children, of whom three were still living. They shared a two-family residence with the household of John J. Mortimer, a driver, aged forty-seven years (b. MA).

Daughter-in-law Mary Ann (((Pray) Hanscom) Mason) Critcherson died of organic heart disease at 68 Pond Street in Natick, MA, January 17, 1904, aged eighty-six years, two months. She was a widow.

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By Muriel Bristol | June 22, 2025

Milton gained its independence from its parent town, Rochester, NH, in 1802, during what historians have called the “First Party System,” which ran between about 1792 and 1824. The two political parties competing during this period were the Federalist-Republicans, or “Federalists,” as formed by Alexander Hamilton, and the Democratic-Republicans, or “Republicans,” as formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. 

With a few notable exceptions, Milton tended to vote Federalist during the time of the “First Party System.” The Federalists favored a stronger national government, with a central bank, assumption of the Revolutionary War debts of the states, a national army and navy, and a focus on manufacturing and mercantile issues and interests. The Democrat-Republicans favored instead stronger state governments, with state-level banks, a militia military, and a focus on agrarian issues and interests. The Federalists tended to be stronger in the northern states, especially in New England, while the Democrat-Republicans were stronger in the southern (and western) states.

These political differences played out against a backdrop of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in Europe. Napoleon established his anti-British economic “Continental System” and the British blockaded that Continental economic bloc. The Federalists tended to be somewhat pro-British (or anti-French), while the Democrat-Republicans tended to be somewhat pro-French (or anti-British). 

At its inaugural Town Meeting, held in the tavern of Lt. Elijah Horne, August 30, 1802, Milton voted for a replacement U.S. Representative to complete the 1801-02 term of Federalist Rep. Joseph Pierce, Esq., who had resigned.

JOSEPH PIERCE, Esq., has resigned his seat as one of the Representatives of New Hampshire in the Congress (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), July 5, 1802).

Milton voters gave 71 votes [92.2%] for Federalist Samuel Hunt, 4 votes for Jonathan Steele [5.2%], and 2 votes for Democrat-Republican Nahum Parker [2.6%].

PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) AUGUST 7. FEDERAL TICKET. Members of Congress. To fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Joseph Peirce, esq., SAMUEL HUNT, esq., Charleston.
For the Next Congress.-SAMUEL TENNEY, Exeter. SAMUEL HUNT, Charleston. CLIFTON CLAGGETT, Litchfield. SILAS BETTON, Salem. DAVID HOUGH, Lebanon.
Nothing under heaven is wanting to secure the handsome majority to this ticket but a tolerable share of activity in the Federalists throughout the State – and shall this be withheld? while the most precious of our elections, our representation in Congress is pending, shall Federalists quietly retire to repose? Shall New-Hampshire be given up without one struggle on their part to maintain her weight and respectability – while their enemies are at the work of misrepresentation at morning, at noon, and at night, are they to be idle? God forbid! Let every one then repair to his post and act – Let the system pursued in the last session of Congress stiffen every breast, give double activity to every mind. Let it be the duty. of every one to expose the conduct of public measures – Let truth circulate free as the wind, and we need not fear the result (US Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), August 17, 1802).

At that same Town Meeting, they voted also for U.S. Representatives for the upcoming 1803-04 term. Milton gave a mode of 65 votes [86.7%] to the five Federalist candidates and 10 votes [13.3%] to the five Democrat-Republican candidates. (New Hampshire had then five at-large Congressional seats). Federalist Samuel Tenney of Exeter, NH, led the other four Federalist candidates in Milton with the higher total of 68 votes [90.7%].

Milton gave 103 votes [76.9%] for incumbent Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman, and 31 votes [23.1%] to Democrat-Republican John Langdon, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1803.

ELECTIONS. By the late papers, it appears that His Excellency, JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, is chosen Governor of Newhampshire, by a much larger majority than at the last election (Green Mountain Patriot, March 16, 1803).

Democrat-Republican President Thomas Jefferson directed his envoys, James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston, to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans from Napoleonic France in July 1803. Their efforts would lead to the purchase of the much larger Louisiana territory.

Milton gave 22 votes [57.9%] for incumbent Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman, 15 votes [39.5%] to Democrat-Republican John Langdon, and 1 vote [2.6%] to John Bridger, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1804. Governor John Taylor Gilman won re-election.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. PORTSMOUTH, June 11. On Wednesday last, the Legislature of this state convened at Concord. The Hon. NICHOLAS GILMAN was elected President of the Senate. The votes for Speaker, were, for Hon. JOHN PRENTICE, 71 – Hon. JOHN LANGDON, 83. On Tuesday the votes for Governor were canvassed – of which His Excellency Governor GILMAN had 12216, Hon. JOHN LANGDON, 12039; Majority for Gov. GILMAN, 177. The votes of Society Land, Piermont, and Strafford were lost, being illegal, or not returned in season. There were only 27 scattering votes. Or the Counsellors three are federalists, and two are democrats. The Executive is therefore wholly federal; and as it requires two-thirds of each branch of the Legislature to pass any law to which the Governor may dissent, there is no danger that any violent democratic measure will have the stamp of law in New Hampshire this year (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), June 18, 1804).

Democrat-Republican Vice President Aaron Burr shot and wounded Federalist former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, NJ, July 11, 1804. Hamilton died the following day.

DEEP LAMENTATION. Died Yesterday afternoon, GENERAL ALEXANDER HAMILTON, of a wound which he received on the morning of the preceding day, in a duel with Col. Burr. Never was a death more sincerely and justly lamented; and his loss will be sensibly felt throughout the United States. – In him were united the most splendid talents and the strictest political integrity. There was no man more universally beloved by those who knew him, and in whom such unbounded confidence was placed. The circumstances which occasion the melancholy event of his death, and deprived this country of its first citizen, will no doubt be fairly and fully stated; the public voice demands it; his character will be drawn; and his name go down with the highest honours to all posterity. The General, during his short illness, expressed his strong abhorrence of the practice of duelling, and has left in writing (as is said) his testimony against it; he partook of the holy sacrament; and died in the explicit profession of his belief in the Christian religion, and a declaration that he had “a tender reliance on the mercy of Almighty God, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ.” The ships in the harbour will show the respect which is due, the merchants are recommended to shut up their stores, and the citizens attend the funeral of one of the greatest and most beloved of men. From Lang’s Gazette (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), July 23, 1804).

(George Clinton replaced Aaron Burr as Vice President on the Democrat-Republican ticket for Jefferson’s re-election campaign).

Milton gave 71 votes [73.2%] for the electoral college electors pledged to Federalist Charles C. Pinckney and 26 votes [26.9%] for the electors pledged to incumbent Democrat-Republican President Thomas Jefferson in the Presidential election of November 1804. (There were multiple electors. Others were elected along the same party lines, 69-28). This election would have been the first to be held in the Milton Town House. President Thomas Jefferson won re-election.

Beard Plumer was Milton’s NH State Representative in 1805-08. He was a Democrat-Republican.

Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807, and President Jefferson signed it in December 1807. It was not popular in mercantile New England and the declining opposition Federalists would experience a bit of a political revival due to their opposition to it.

Letters from Washington, are extremely contradictory: – While some talk of an embargo, and of inevitable War; others state the strongest probability of an accommodation, in the event of reparation being made for the attack on the Chesapeake; that some points, which cannot be settled, will be postponed indefinitely; and that the Non-Importation law, and the various offensive and defensive measures reported and talked of, will die abortions. We have seen letters, as late as the 11th, which hold out the prospect of accommodation. Perhaps the opinions of the writers, on both sides, have been influenced by their wishes. – Whether or not – we think the crisis is at hand. – Ere this, the Administration must be in possession of all the intelligence it can want, to decide on Peace or War. – Mr. Munroe, Mr. Rose, the British King’s Proclamation, and the dispatches by the Revenge must all have reached Washington, on the heels. of each other. The uneasy, tiptoed expectation of the public cannot therefore long remain unsatisfied. Dec. 23. (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield. MA), December 28, 1807).

Milton gave 58 votes [70.7%] for incumbent Democrat-Republican Governor John Langdon, 21 votes [25.6%] for Federalist William Hale, and 3 votes [3.7%] for Samuel Nute, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1808. Governor John Langdon won re-election.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE RISING. Very pleasing accounts have lately been received from New Hampshire.- The profound sleep in which the once active and patriotic Owners of the Soil in that State have been wrapped for two or three years, is found not to have been the sleep of death. – The Embargo night-mare has broken their repose ; and they begin to open their eyes. Awake, they have removed from their Councils many blind persons who mis represented and betrayed them; and have chosen and men, who have the use of their eyes; and who in the better days of WASHINGTON and ADAMs, devised things which insured the industrious Husbandmen a rich return of their labors. These men will, in time, restore the golden days which have been gone by. Complete changes of Representatives, we are told, have been made in many towns, and in district No. 12, the Hon. Mr. Payson, an enemy to unnecessary War, and ruinous Embargoes, has been elected a Senator in the room of Mr. Bedel – a democrat. These changes have been spontaneous; and though not perhaps sufficient to a complete change in the State, are the first fruits of a federal harvest the next year. The votes for Gov. Langdon cannot be considered a test of the politics of the State. The Friends of Peace did not nominate any candidate for Governor; and many of those friends who attended the elections to vote for Senators and Representatives rather than throw away their vote for Governor, voted for Langdon. Cent. (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), March 28, 1808).

Milton gave a mode of 97 votes [84.3%] to the five Federalist candidates and 18 votes [15.7%] to the five Democrat-Republican candidates in the U.S. Representatives election of August 1808. (New Hampshire had then five at-large Congressional seats). Federalist William Hale of Dover, NH, led the other four Federalist candidates in Milton with the even higher total of 106 votes [92.2%].

New Hampshire Election. An election of 5 Representatives to the XIth Congress, by a general ticket, was held on Monday last, in the State of New Hampshire. The votes, in 74 towns which we have heard from, stand – for the Federal Ticket, 7227; Demo. Do., 4421. Federal Majority, 2806 (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), September 5, 1808).

Election. It is reduced to a certainty, that the Federal Ticket for Members of Congress in Newhampshire, has been carried by a majority of between 3 and 4,000 votes. It consists of Nathaniel A. Haven, William Hale, James Wilson, John C. Chamberlin, and Daniel Blaisdel, Esqrs. (Vermont Watchman (Montpelier, VT), September 23, 1808).

Milton gave 84 votes [68.3%] for the electoral college electors pledged to Federalist Charles C. Pinckney and 39 votes [31.7%] for the electors pledged to Democrat-Republican Secretary of State James Madison in the Presidential election of November 1808. (There were multiple electors. Others were elected along similar party lines).

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. We have the satisfaction to learn from information collected from every part of the Union, that one common sentiment prevails among the Federalists with respect to the Candidates for the two first offices in the National Government, and that the men selected by the approving voice of the whole AMERICAN PARTY, to preserve the Union and prevent a calamitous war, are, for President, the Hon. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, of South Carolina, and for Vice President, the Hon. RUFUS KING, of New York (Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA), October 24, 1808).

Democrat-Republican Secretary of State James Madison won the Presidential election.

On Friday, December 2, 1808, Democrat-Republican Rep. Beard Plummer voted with the House majority (96-68) that disagreed with Democrat-Republican Governor Langdon’s November 1808 address supporting the Federal Embargo Act of 1807.

Beard Plummer ran for NH State Senator (for the district (District 5) that included Milton) on a Republican ticket, i.e., a Democrat-Republican ticket in 1809. He won the election and served in that position between 1809 and 1813.

PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) June 17. The following officers bear rule in New Hampshire this year -His Excellency John Langdon, (elected by 17552 out of 32094 votes.) Hon. Elisha Hall, Nathaniel Upham, J.K. Smith, Ithamar Chase, Jona. Franklin, Counsellors. – Hon. Wm. Ham, Wm. Plummer [President.] Wm. Adams, Josiah Sanborn, Beard Plumber, Samuel Quarles, Wm. Fisk, Joshua Darling, Josiah Wilder, T.C. Drew, Caleb Ellis, and Moore Russel, Senators. – Hon. Clermont Storer, speaker of the house, Samuel Sparhawk, Efq. secretary of state -Nathaniel Gilman, Esq. Treasurer (Greenfield Reccorder (Greenfield, MA), July 2, 1811).

The United States declared war on Great Britain, June 18, 1812. In the Congressional and Presidential elections of that year, the Federalists presented their candidates as being the “Peace Ticket” while the Democrat-Republicans were presented by them as being the “War Ticket.”

New-Hampshire Election. – We have seen returns from twenty-four towns in New-Hampshire, which give for the Peace Ticket – 4007; War do. – 2169; Majority – 1838. In the election of governour in March last, the same towns gave for Gilman – 3451; Plumer – 2197; Federal Majority – 1254. (US Gazette (Philadelphia, PA), November 12, 1812).

Milton gave a mode of 118 votes [86.8%] to the six Federalist candidates and 18 votes [13.2%] to the six Democrat-Republican candidates in the U.S. Representatives election of November 1812. (New Hampshire had then six at-large Congressional seats). Federalist William Hale of Dover, NH, again led the other five Federalist candidates with the higher Milton total of 134 votes [98.5%]. Federalist Daniel Webster won a seat at the mode level of 118 votes.

Milton gave 123 votes [95.3%] for the electoral college electors pledged to Democrat-Republican DeWitt Clinton and 6 votes [4.7%] for the electors pledged to incumbent Democrat-Republican President James Madison in the Presidential election of November 1812. (There were multiple electors. Others were elected along similar same party lines). President James Madison won re-election.

Milton gave 102 votes [58.6%] for incumbent Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman, and 72 votes [41.4%] to Democrat-Republican William Plumer, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1814. Governor John Taylor Gilman won re-election.

Eastern Elections. JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN is re-elected Governor of New Hampshire by a majority of about 500 votes (Pennsylvania Gazette, May 4, 1814).

Milton gave a mode of 94 votes [71.2%] to the six Federalist candidates and 38 votes [28.8%] to the six Democrat-Republican candidates in the U.S. Representatives election of August 1814. (New Hampshire had then six at-large Congressional seats). Federalist Daniel Webster was among those that won a seat.

Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman called out the militia for the defense of Portsmouth, NH, in September 1814.

The Governor of Newhampshire has ordered 1200 militia to repair to Portsmouth without delay. The citizens of Portsmouth are actively engaged in fortifying and making preparations for defence (Portland Gazette (Portland, ME), September 19, 1814).

Milton sent a company of militiamen to Portsmouth, NH, under Capt. William Courson, in September 1814. (See Milton in the War of 1812).

MARRIED. At Exeter, N.H., on Thursday evening, 29th ult., His Excellency JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, Governor of the state of New Hampshire, to Mrs. CHARLOTTE HAMILTON (NY Evening Post, January 10, 1815).

Milton gave 104 votes [63.4%] for incumbent Federalist Governor John Taylor Gilman, and 60 votes [36.5%] to Democrat-Republican William Plumer, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1815. John Taylor Gilman won re-election as the last Federalist Governor of New Hampshire.

ALL IN A SNARL! Federalism, never exhibited itself in a condition so disconcerted and confused, as at present. Since the confusion of tongues among the builders of Babel, there never has appeared such a complete Jargon, as the present various and contradictory opinions of federalists. One insists that Mr. Madison’s speech and measures are federal, and that he has himself turned federalist; yet keeps up his opposition, notwithstanding. Another insists that Madison is the same abominable Democrat, in federal disguise, yet recommends a cessation of opposition, and declares federalism to be at a “stead stand!” One wants Rufus King to be run for President, all against a Democratic leader, though all democratic leaders have adopted federal principles! Another wants De Witt Clinton; another Mr. Crawford. Indeed, we have not time to enumerate call their clashing notions. We know of but one thing in which they entirely agree – they all want to get into office! It is expected, however, that some uniform policy will be soon re-established. The federal forces will soon be disbanded, or put into a, train of rigid discipline; probably the latter. They will, in this case, drop the ides of the federal policy of the Democratic administration; for that would figure very ridiculously by the side of a federal opposition! (Vermont Republican (Windsor, VT), January 22, 1816).

Milton gave 99 votes [56.6%] for Federalist former Senator James Sheafe, and 76 votes [43.4%] for Democrat-Republican former Governor William Plumer, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1816.

The Federalists of New Hampshire have agreed to support James Sheafe as their candidate for governor in March next. We have no doubt but the Republicans will elect Mr. Plumer (Susquehanna Democrat (Wilkes-Barre, PA), February 9, 1816).

And so it happened. Despite Milton’s preference, it was Democrat-Republican William Plumer that won the election statewide.

Democrat-Republican Beard Plummer of Milton was elected again to the NH Senate for the 1816-17 term. His death in office, October 7, 1816, upset the Democrat-Republican majority in the NH State Senate.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE. … In the Senate of this State there are of the Legislature, two vacancies, one occasioned by the acceptance of a judiciary appointment by the Hon. B. Badger, and the other by the decease of the Hon. Beard Plumer. These vacancies are likely to occasion some embarrassment in the government of that state. They are required by the constitution to be filled by election by the other House, from the two remaining highest candidates in their several districts. In each of the present cases it is said that the highest remaining candidates are federalists, so that the other House, though democratic, will be under the necessity of supplying the vacancies with federalists, an event which would destroy the predominance of the democratic party in the Senate, and give the federalists a check upon the proceedings. Another report is, that there are no two highest candidates in either distinct, all the votes in each being given to one man, except that two other persons in each district had each one vote (Burlington Gazette (Burlington, VT), December 5, 1816).

Milton gave a mode of 51 votes [59.3%] to the six Federalist candidates and 35 votes [40.7%] to the six Democrat-Republican candidates in the U.S. Representatives election of November 1816. (New Hampshire had then six at-large Congressional seats).

Milton gave 57 votes [58.8%] for the electoral college electors pledged to Federalist Rufus King, 39 votes [40.2%] for the electors pledged to Democrat-Republican Secretary of State James Monroe, and 1 vote [1.0%] for the electors pledged to Democrat-Republican Secretary of Treasury William H. Crawford in the Presidential election of November 1816. Secretary of State James Monroe won the election.

IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. The entire republican ticket has prevailed by a majority probably as great if not greater than at the last spring election. By this glorious result, six republicans will take their seats in the next Congress in the place of six federalists; and New Hampshire will give 8 votes for James Monroe as President, and for Daniel D. Tompkins as Vice President of the United States -thus evincing, here as elsewhere, the truth of the axiom, that “federalism sinks as the country rises.” The gentlemen elected to Congress are Hon. Messrs. Josiah Butler, John F. Parrott, Nathaniel Upham, Clifton Clagett, Salma Hale and Arthur Livermore; and the Electors are Hon. Thomas Manning, Benjamin Butler, William Badger, Amos Cogswell, Richard. H. Ayres, Jacob Tuttle, Thomas C.. Drew and Dan Young (Bangor Register (Bangor, ME), November 23, 1816).

The Federalist party more or less dissolved after 1816. Some of its members would become anti-Jackson Democrat-Republicans. Others would become, after a time as independents, National-Republicans or Whigs, when that party formed. Some of those that had become for a time anti-Jackson Democrat-Republicans, would also become Whigs.

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)). Simon Chase would be on the Executive Committee of the Strafford County Anti-Slavery Society in May 1836 (The Liberator (Boston, MA), May 7, 1836). He would cast a vote in Rochester, NH, nearly sixty years later for Republican candidates [Rutherford B.] Hayes & [William A.] Wheeler, in the Presidential election of 1876 (Dover Enquirer, November 23, 1876).

Milton gave 90 votes [72.0%] for Democrat-Republican Governor William Plumer, 30 votes [24.0%] to George Sullivan, and 5 votes [4.0%] to John Witham, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1818. William Plumer won the election.

Milton gave 60 votes [95.2%] for Democrat-Republican incumbent Governor Samuel Bell, 2 votes [3.2%] to NH Attorney General George Sullivan, and 1 vote [1.6%] to William Hale, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1819. (George Sullivan had formerly been a Federalist NH State Representative and NH State Senator). Samuel Bell won the election.

Milton gave 103 votes [51.5%] for Democrat-Republican incumbent Governor Samuel Bell, 90 votes [45.0%] to Independent Richard Odell, and 7 votes [3.5%] to NH Attorney General George Sullivan, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1820. (George Sullivan had formerly been a Federalist NH State Representative and NH State Senator). Governor Samuel Bell won re-election.

State Elections – In New-Hampshire, Excellency SAMUEL BELL is again nominated as candidate for Governor. No opposing candidate has yet been proposed. Election the second Tuesday in March next (Vermont Journal, February 21, 1820).

Milton gave a mode of 30 votes [100.0%] to the six Democrat-Republican candidates in the U.S. Representatives election of November 1820. (New Hampshire had then six at-large Congressional seats). Federalist Josiah Butler of Deerfield, NH, led the other five Democrat-Republican candidates with the higher total of 32 votes.

Milton gave 33 votes [100%] for the electoral college electors pledged to Democrat-Republican incumbent President James Monroe, in November 1820. President Monroe had no major opponent, which accounts for the Milton’s low voter turnout.

One of those Democrat-Republican electoral college electors, William Plumer, formerly a NH Representative, NH Senator and NH Governor, and a U.S. Senator, as well having been formerly a Federalist, refused to cast his electoral vote for James Monroe, and instead voted for John Quincy Adams. Nevertheless, President James Monroe won re-election.

Gov. PLUMER – It is stated in a New-Hampshire paper, that the only vote given against Monroe and Tompkins, during the late Presidential election, was given by Governor Plumer, of that state.; and the reasons assigned by that gentleman for his vote are, that Mr. Monroe had “mismanaged the finance of the country, and that Mr. Tompkins had neglected his official duties.” Had these reasons emanated from a political opponent, they would hate been ascribed to those feelings of irritation and of error which have been so long enlisted against the republican officers of the union; but we must confess our inability to discover what motives could have induced a republican, possessing the esteem of the Union like Gov. Plumer, not only to have disappointed the expectations of his fellow-citizens in his vote, but to justify himself by reasons so much at variance with common sense, with justice, and his own character (Pittsfield Sun (Pittsfield, MA), January 3, 1821).

The U.S. Post Office Department appointed Lewis Hayes as the first Chestnut Hill [West Milton] Postmaster, March 17, 1821. (See Milton’s First Postmasters (1818-c1840)). Lewis Hayes would be later a National-Republican delegate in 1828.

The U.S. Post Office Department appointed Norton Scates received appointment as Milton’s second postmaster, April 8, 1822. (See Milton’s First Postmasters (1818-c1840)).

Milton gave 57 votes [62.0%] for the electoral college electors pledged to anti-Jackson Democrat-Republican John Quincy Adams in the Presidential election of November 1824. The Federalist party had by this time dissolved and the four contestants represented – or were supported by – four differing factions of the Democrat-Republican party. They were Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and William H. Crawford. The electoral college results were inconclusive and a contingent election took place instead in the US House of Representatives, which selected John Quincy Adams.

The U.S. Post Office Department appointed John Nutter as Milton Mills’ first postmaster, November 13, 1826. Then President John Quincy Adams was a National-Republican. (See Milton’s First Postmasters (1818-c1840)). Nutter would be later a National-Republican delegate in 1828.

The U.S. Post Office Department appointed Benjamin Gerrish as Milton’s third postmaster, April 16, 1826. James M. Twombly received appointment as Milton’s fourth postmaster, September 18, 1827. Both men served during the term of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. President Adams was a National-Republican. (See Milton’s First Postmasters (1818-c1840)). Twombly would be later a Whig delegate in 1840.

Milton gave 173 votes (93.5%) to National-Republican Sheriff John Bell of Chester, NH, and 12 votes (6.5%) to Democratic-Republican Gov. Benjamin Pierce of Hillsborough, NH, in the NH Gubernatorial election of March 1828. Bell won the election. In the following year, Milton gave 138 votes (77.1%) to incumbent Gov. Bell and 41 votes (22.9%) to Pierce. This time Pierce won the statewide election.

New-Hampshire Election – The annual election in New-Hampshire took place on the 11th inst. There are two entire tickets, one supported by the friends of the Administration, and the other by Mr. Isaac Hill and the friends of Gen. Jackson. Mr. John Bell is the candidate of the former party for Governor, and the present Gov. Benjamin Pierce is the candidate of the other party (Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, MA), March 12, 1828).

The U.S. Post Office Department appointed Israel Nute as the second Chestnut Hill [West Milton] Postmaster on August 3, 1828. Jotham Nute and David Nute stood surety for him.

Levi Jones represented Milton at a District Meeting of the “friends of the present National Administration.” The “present National Administration” was that of President John Q. Adams (Dover Enquirer, September 30, 1828).

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Continued in Milton’s Ante-Bellum Party Affiliations.

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