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 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 By C. S. LEBOURVEAU. 
 
 Being an Mistorical Account of the First Settlement of the 
 
 Township of Eaton. 
 
 At that time situated in the County of Buckingham, in the District 
 of Three Rivers, Province of Lower Canada. 
 
 I find it up-hill work to gather reliable 
 tatistics with regard to the first settle- 
 ment of Eaton, and have had to rely 
 •rincipally upon what has been handed 
 lown from mouth to mouth, as I find but 
 'Cry few records to assist me, those few 
 )eing family and church records. I shall 
 sndeavor, however, to make as few eiTors 
 4 ])ossible. I shall try to give brief 
 i^etchea of some of the hardships, priva- 
 dons and inconveniences the early settlers 
 lad tf) endure, so that the rising genera- 
 tion may see what their forefathers had 
 ;b contend with, and the courage they 
 !|iust have had to have carried the burden 
 which they took upon themselves in 
 ij|earing up the farms which their succes- 
 sors enjoy. Where I find descendants of 
 ^e same name now living I shall give 
 tteir genealogy as correctly as possible. 
 
 H CHAPTER I. 
 
 1 shall commence with Sawyerville, as 
 t^e first settlement commenced there. 
 
 Mr. Josiah Sawyer, after making two 
 or three trips through the wilderness to 
 Quebec, succeeded in obtaining a charter 
 of a large i^ortion of the township. His 
 issociates were Israel Bailey, Orsamas 
 Bailey, Amos Hawley, Ward Bailey, John 
 ^erry, John Cook, Royal Learned, 
 Jjjlamuel Hayes, John French, Levi French, 
 itiniothy Bailey, Abnor Osgood, Waltham 
 
 Baldwin. Benjamin Bishop, Jessie Cooper, 
 Abner Powers, Samuel Beach, Jules 
 Baldwin, John Gordon, Charles Cutter, 
 Royal Cutter, James Lucus, Philip 
 Jordan, William McAllister, Abel Bonet, 
 Geors^e Rimball, Calvin Rice, Charles 
 Lothrop, Apthorp Caswell, and Peter 
 Green Sawyer. In 17!)o Josiah Sawyer, 
 in company with Augustus Hurd, came 
 into the county and felled ten acres f)f 
 trees on the place now known as the 
 Dudley Williams' place in Newport, 
 thinking it was in Eaton. In the fall a 
 hunter passed that way, and he was very 
 much surprised to find it there, and as it 
 was a very dry time thought it would be 
 very good trick to fire it, which was a lit- 
 tle more trouble for him to do then than 
 it would be at the present time, as he had 
 to strike fire with steel, fiint and pimk, 
 there being no matches then. As there 
 are a good many to day that do not know 
 what i>nnk is, I will tell them, as it is a 
 matter of history. It is a tough, spongy 
 piece of wood, mostly found in maple. 
 
 The result of the fire was that every- 
 thing was burnt but the logs, and when 
 Mr. Sawyer and Mr. Hurd came the next 
 sprintr they were more surprised than the 
 hunter to find their slash burned, but it 
 was a joyful surprise, and as our fore- 
 fathers were a little given to superstition, 
 they thought the Lord had sent the 
 lightning and burnt their slash fci them, 
 but later on when they heard who burned 
 
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 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
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 it, they niiide him a pi'eseni of a pair of 
 boots. 
 
 In the Bu.nmer of '97, Mr. Sawyer, hav 
 ing found out his ujiatake, and fearing he 
 might not got his charter if he did not 
 locate in the proper township, built a log 
 house in Sawyerville. In the summer he, 
 in company with Mr. Samuel Heyes, Mr. 
 Israel Hailey and Abner Power, broufjit 
 their families into town, and they were 
 the four first families that ever wintered 
 in the town? hip. I will mention a little 
 incident which is characteristic of the 
 pioneers of Eaton, and is proof that their 
 wives were the first women in the town- 
 ships. Mr. Powers had just married his 
 second wife, and when they were coming 
 in they stayed over night where Mr 
 Powers knew the landlord, so he intro- 
 duced his wife. She was a very plain 
 looking woman. He looked at her a 
 moment and said. " where did you get 
 that homely thing ?" And ju»t before 
 they got to the Ea^on line it seems the 
 women had a race to see which would be 
 the first woman in the township. Mrs. 
 Powers, being a little the smarter, got in 
 ahead, and sent back word to the land- 
 lord that she was once the handsomest 
 woman in the town of Eaton. 
 
 Now, as we have it that these four 
 familes were the first sef-lers, we will try 
 to give what we can of their histories. 
 
 \Ve will start with Jnsiah Sawyer. He 
 married Nancy Rice, daughter of Calvin 
 Rice. Mr. Sawyer always lived on the 
 place where he first located, where his 
 grandson William now lives. He had four 
 sons and three daughters. His sons were 
 Peter Green, Josiah, Rufus and John, all 
 of whom settled in the township. John 
 had two sons, William and John. William 
 married Julia .Smith. They have no 
 children. He owns the mill located where 
 his grandfather built the first mills in 
 town, called Sawyer's mills. He has al- 
 ways been a thorough business man, as 
 were his forefathers before him. He was 
 elected to the provincial legislature four 
 times, once by acclamation, and has also 
 held oflices of trust in the township, and 
 is ever ready to help in any good cause. 
 
 John, when young, showed signs of 
 being a thorough business man and look- 
 ed forward to the future with a joyous 
 heart, when his hopes were blighted by 
 the sudden death of Maria French, as fine 
 a flower as ever graced a home in the 
 township of Eaton, who was soon expect- 
 ed to share life's joys as well as its sorrows 
 
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 with him. It cast a cloud over hiaf^'p*, 
 which it was hard for him to remov'®/^", 
 he had but little relish for business, a^ 
 understand he fitted himself for the t**"^ 
 istrj', and shortly after wpnt west a>®^ ,1 
 now editor and proprtetor of a denon , ^ 
 tion paper published at Cherry Va?^ *" y 
 
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 I will here relate a little incident w"* ^?^ 
 goes to show the make up of the first '^^P 
 tiers. Mr. Josiah met with an accii^' . ^. 
 when young, which turned his nose r<*».y^^" 
 on one side. As he was going round f^ ,®" 
 house to house on horse back, as they*^^ " 
 no roads, nothing but bridle paths, ^^^^\ 
 when they came to a house they ha( ^ "''^'^^ 
 enquire the way to the next one. He t »*™^ 
 up to a house ro make enquiry "•f^^'ri^'n 
 woman within asked where he \\ante(^p ^ ^ , 
 go to i He said, follow my nose. It i.'Y V'.^j 
 use to tell you then, you will be back* \^ 
 the house before you are half way to [ ^^^^Ij 
 
 woods. ^^"^;i 
 
 Rufus Sawyer married Ruth AL^^" 
 August, 1823. In 1841 he removed"*^ ^"Y 
 Austinburge,Ohio. They had six childijjf.' , 
 Rufus Felton, born July 28th, 1824. .^! ^^^.^ 
 died in his senior year at Western Rese' *^ ^ 
 College, Hudson, Ohio, in March. 18*^"^f ", 
 " He was," said the President in '^^''^' " 
 funeral address, "a matchless scholar «i>,,j.jij^ ] 
 a model man." ftled on 
 
 Martin Alger died in infancy. .,, ^ ^ 
 
 Robert Hurd received a legal educati'T* , y 
 and engaged in business in Stratford, iJ^i?:' , \, 
 H. He was elected to the legislature"**^ ?.j^ 
 a ruling eider in the Presbyterian churcl^^^^^j. 
 and was a high officer among the Fr'r^l'/ ^^,^ 
 Masons. He died in 1876. ^ t .^y^f 
 
 Robbin Augustus, born July 13th, 18S'. ^^^^.^^ 
 graduated at Western Reserve Collet^ ■. j.^.^ 
 Hudson, Ohio, and at the Union The^ ^^nw 
 logical Seminary, New York City. iTj ^'j, 
 entered the ministry of the Presbyteric^. ^^^ 
 church in 1858. As late as 1876 he wg ^.'^^^ 
 pastor of the Presbyterian church ^ '^^^ ^ 
 Irvington, N. Y. In 1872 he receivtfl^ 1 
 the honorary degree of D.D. from W. i the fi 
 
 (^<^^^^S^- .etween 
 
 Ruth, bom November 1th, 1837, mai^nt- C 
 ried E. C. Miller, June 14th, 1866. Srg^ j 
 was liberally educated, and for two yeai j^^f 
 was principal of a seminary. t Sand 
 
 Mary Ella, born Aug. 4 th, 1843, niaL|rj,gjj 
 ried Edward C. Wade, of Jefferson, Ohii 
 June 22nd, 1864. Died March, 1867 
 
 Israel Bailey was one of the four firs- 
 settlers that wintered in the townshi, 
 '97 and '98. He was brother to Orsaiii' 
 us. He wintered at Sawyerville the fin 
 
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A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 * cloud over hiaf''' w^®" ho settled on the place 
 
 r him to remo\-»® ^''^- Henry Taylor now lives. 
 
 8h for businens -.^ ^^^ ^^"'^ sons. One of them, in 
 
 himself for the P**"y ^^^^ another man, built a 
 
 ;er went west a.'®T ^^ ^^^ brook just opposite 
 
 rtetor of a denon Catholic church in Cookshire. 
 
 at Cherry Va*^^®'^^*^''^^ moved up on to the road, 
 
 ily sold out to Mr. Wilford and went 
 
 little incident w"* ^"^ ^^ noar as can bo ascertained 
 e up of the first ''^^^^'^ family went with him. 
 st with an acoi('^- -A^'"^'^r Powers, another of the first 
 jrned his nose r(*» ^^'^*'®'^®'^ ^" the township at Saw- 
 as going round M^^®- T'l® next I hear of him ho was 
 'se back, as they'^*''^ ^^^ ^^^ place where R. H. Pope 
 t bridle paths '^ ^^^'^^ in Cookshire. Soon after he 
 house they ha'c^^^^S^d his farm with John Pope for 
 3 next one. He i i^^^^ where Ezra Frizzle now lives, 
 
 ke enquiry an^F"^ '*^ *'h® Eros Lebourveau place at 
 (here he wantef"? Hill He afterward sold back to 
 w my nose. It if'f P"pe, when he and his 8<m Manly 
 ou will be back*^®'^ j"^*' south of Sand Hill, where 
 *re half way to ^ cemetery now is. Later Manly sold 
 b to Mr, Abra.u Moe, and the family 
 ried Ruth Ah ^'^"t west, and I cannot learn of there 
 41 he removecil'^S any other descendants in the town- 
 
 jyhadsixchildiilf-, 
 
 ly 28th, 1824. ^it" regard to Mr Hughes very lit- 
 t Western Re'se' ^^ '^"'^^"' ^" ^ can but give hi;u a 
 1 in March. 18*^"^§ notice. He settled west of Saw- 
 President in i^ii^*^' but soon after went west. 
 
 hless scholar a_ 
 
 RuFiTs Labfrke came to Eaton in ]'7f>7 
 
 infancy. ttled on lots 13 and 14 in the 5th range, 
 
 a legal educati'^^ ^ '"^ bouse, and cleared a small 
 in Stratford **^'^' '" 1798 he brought in his family, 
 jhe legislature*'^^"" ^*'''*' *^" ^^^ ^^^'^ '^^ June. When 
 ibyterian churc^'^^'^ arrived at the gulf just east of the 
 iraong the Fr^P^''*'*'''^ west of Eaton Corner, they had 
 J6. »i. shovel the snow to get through it. 
 
 I July 13th ig,''^' ^*''^'''^®*^ ^^""^ evidently one of the 
 Reserve Collee'i^^ settlers, but it's hard to tell who 
 le Union ThSf^^'^'^ ^^^^ ^^^^ blow. It is evident that 
 fork City, m- S'^'Wyer, Mr. Powers, Mr. Bailey 
 he Presbvteri/?' ^^' '^"y^^ Were the first to bring 
 as 1876 he wl*^'' families into the township, and if 
 rian church Sawyer had not made the mistake 
 
 li did he would have struck the first 
 w. He or Mr. Hurd would have fell- 
 
 '(J the first tree . As it is it seems to lay 
 1th 1837 mi'®^^^^" ^^^' ^^'b*'^^®' John French and 
 tth,'l865.' SK*P^' ^"'^'^• 
 
 i for two ve^ii Labaree had four sons, John, Hen- 
 
 y^ f, Rufus and Benjamin. John settled 
 
 th, 1843 mii^ Sand Hill on the farm where his son 
 efferson 'ohir^^'^^'^ "*^^ ^^^^^' ^^ married — Pope, 
 [arch 1867 ^ter of John Henry Pope's ff ther. They 
 the four fir ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ '"""^ daughter. Loander 
 the fcownsh s ^'^^'^'^^ Sally Johnson. Alfred married 
 ler to Orsaii'il*''y Farnsworth. They raised up a fam- 
 •rville the fi ■ % before she died. He married a second 
 
 '72 he receivtL 
 •D. from W. JT 
 
 wife. He is still living on the old place, 
 f "\d the only one living. 
 
 Mr. Laba/oe was born on June Ist, 
 1787. Died 183t', .tged 49. 
 
 Rufus settled on the place where his 
 son Rufus now lives on Jordan Hill road. 
 Born August 14th, 1792. Married Anna 
 Rice. 
 
 Benjamin, born June 14th, 1794, went 
 to Upper Canada. Henry, born Decem- 
 ber 25th, 1797, remained on the old 
 place where his daughter, Mrs. Joseph 
 Taylor, now lives. He has one son liv 
 ing at Sawyerville, Joseph Laberee. 
 Theodota married C. Chambers, Sophia 
 married Capt. John Pope, Martha mar- 
 ried C. Chan)bers, Cynthia married Chas. 
 Hawley, Lydia married Thomas K. Ough- 
 tred, Eliru married Benjamin Lebour- 
 veau. 
 
 It will give the readers a little idea of 
 the hardships the early settlers had to go 
 through, when I state that the seccmd 
 year Mr. Laberee was here, he, with the 
 help of his boys John, 12, and Henry, 8 
 years old. managed to get in some 8 or 
 ten acres of wheat, said to be the first 
 wheat sown in the township. After they 
 had all done putting in the crop in the 
 spring they held a family <;onpultation 
 (there wure then six children in the fam- 
 ily, ("he eldest i3 and the youngest 2 years 
 old^, to see if they should take what they 
 had, go to New Hampshire and buy 
 bread, or try and live on what they could 
 gather in the woods, such as barks, roots 
 and game, and rough it through till har- 
 vest. They chose the latter, as tliey 
 wanted to save their money to buy a cou- 
 ple of two year oid heifers in the fall, as 
 they thought they ccjuld winter them on 
 their wheat straw, and then they would 
 have milk the next year. They had just 
 one half bushel of corn left after planting. 
 All the bread stuff they had of any kind 
 they took to a one horse mill at Sawyer- 
 ville. The water was so low they Jould 
 not grind it, but the miller tolled it, and 
 before the water came they had a new 
 miller, and he tolled it the second time. 
 This was all the bread material they had 
 to carry them through to harvest. 
 
 Such food would sustain life, but did 
 not satisfy tiunger. About the time the 
 wheat was in tlie milk Mrs. Laberee had 
 a dream. She thought she saw some of 
 the nicest white bread she had ever seen, 
 and she was so hungry she must have 
 some of it. She could not steal it as that 
 would be wicked, but there could be no 
 
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A HI.STORY OF EAToN. 
 
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 harm in taking a mouthful, and she made 
 a grab for it, and instead of the bread she 
 bit her husband's shoulder so that it bled. 
 H<) got up, took his money and went to 
 Now Hauipshir-j ff)r provisions, but they 
 got their heifers all the same, from which 
 sprang some as good cittle as were ever 
 raised in the tf)wn3hip for hardhihood or 
 milk, known ps the Labaree breed. 
 
 The first settlers had to be continually 
 on the watch to protect themselves from 
 the ravages of wild lieasts. One evening 
 as M)'. Labei'ee was sittir.j' by the fire he 
 heard the sheep running in the yard. 
 He took his gun and ran out. He thought 
 he saw stjuiething black making ott". He 
 iircd and heard something drop. Ho 
 went back into the house, got his old tin 
 lantern and his boys, and went out to 
 reconnoitre, when he found he had killed 
 a good fat bear, and the bear had killed a 
 good fat sheep, so they had the meat of 
 both. 
 
 Mr. Laberee was a great hunter, hunt- 
 ing sable, mink, black-cat, otter, aiid all 
 kinds of fur ])earing animals. In the fall 
 he used to set up a line of traps for 3 or 
 4 miles in length, called sable line, and 
 set traps for mink, otter, and muskrat on 
 the Ktream. He was very successful. 
 One fall he killed 11 moose. 
 
 John French, born in Enfield, Conn., 
 in 173!), married Abigal Sage, born 1741, 
 i)i some place, came into Eaton by a spot- 
 ted hue as far as Eaton Corner. His eldest 
 son came with him and they cleared a spot 
 suiHcient to plant a peck of potatoes on 
 what is called the Alger sugar place, 
 which can now be identified by the second 
 growth. They came in the ffall and dug 
 them, had a good crop and buried them 
 ready for next spring. Not bringing any 
 hoe they cut a chip cut of a piece of map- 
 le, shaped it with their axe, made a hole 
 through it with their jack-knife, put in a 
 handle and planted their potatoes with it 
 instead of a hoe. This is supposed to be 
 the first clearing or planting done in the 
 township. In 1798 he and two of his boys 
 came in, went as far as Cookshire, settled 
 on the east side of the river, put in some 
 crop, and built a log house near where 
 the Jack Alden house now stands. In 
 the fall he moved his family in. They had 
 4 sons and 3 daughters. 
 
 His son Levi, married Matilda Osgood 
 in 1805. He .settled on the place just 
 east of his fathers where John Bailey 
 now lives. They had 5 sons and 3 daugh- 
 ters. Hiram, born 1808, died 1892 ; 
 
 
 Jonas, born 1810, died 1821 ; Levili^hip, 
 urdson, born 1812, died 1835, unmar kintl 
 Caroline Matilda, born 1815, died l^iies a 
 Mary Ann Sage, born 1820, died l%()le, a 
 Adaline Isabella, born 1823, died l^iears o 
 Calvin, born 1825, died lb()9 ; Luie on t 
 born 1828 the only one living. nioutl 
 
 Hiram married Sarah P(jnd Willjped up 
 in 1832, She died the first day of M;. tears 
 1883. Their children were Hiram James 
 bridge, born 1833 ; Levi William, if 75 y 
 1834 ; Ellon Matilda, born 1836 ; CjJ 75 y 
 Eames, born 1838 ; married, Mary \ijel, w 
 born 1840 ; Dudley Allen, born isJed on 
 Seymour, born 1845, died 184fi ; Saifn the 
 Henry, born 1848 ; Jonas Ludiah, Va i 
 1850. ,« sold 
 
 Caroline Matilda married Ahira jd, wh 
 liam's and settled in Cookshire, ^l^just v 
 Ann Sage married Thomas Fainswo Craig 
 They settled on the place where theii iflied ii 
 Horace now lives. Cynthia, born l^rdBa 
 died 1856, unmarried ; Mary, born H8 16. 
 died 1832 ; Luther, born 1775, died l^a Hall 
 Levi, born 1777, died 1859 ; Anna, g bori 
 married James Hall, was born 1779 hen 4 j 
 1854 ; John B., born 1780, drowned j father 
 24, 1815 , Ludiah, born 1783, died la wood- 
 They were all born in Enfield. ide tluM 
 
 Luther, mentioned above, settled ly three 
 Eaton river at or just above its juncooneo 
 with north river. He built a saw lich wfis 
 grist mill on the Eaton branch just aloe of tl 
 the basin as it was then called, takingi^re I v 
 water from the head of the falls ae nnjr* 
 above. In 1830 the bulk head binie and 
 through and being nothing out sand ime, th( 
 whole channel of the river was let thmro week 
 and it being very high water it swv throu 
 everything before it, saw mill and la^ket \ 
 mill and came near taking his farm biiyenteei 
 ings. Its force turned the channel ofak at ] 
 river away from Mr. Page's, who hacl? phyi 
 carding machine and fiiUing mill on »i]^penc( 
 falls, which were left on dry land, hat to 
 was a severe loss to both Mr. French cought 
 Mr. Page and also a great loss to me the 
 township. They never built up agoiae on 
 Some few years after Benjamin y loved 
 bourveau in company with Lockart lad froi 
 built the mills just above, known as > mar 
 Lake Mills. '©rsis n 
 
 They had six daughters, Adaline eth Ar 
 eldest, Amanda, Abigail, Emily, Maria fied un 
 Mary. Cyrus 
 
 Orsamus Bailey and his wife, Marsf Luth 
 et Sunbury, came into Eaton in the y Mr. ^ 
 1798. They settled on the place wh'«»rs. 
 his grandson, Charli'^ Fraaier, now livGyrus 
 He built the first framed house in lid 10 
 
. t 
 
 k HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 ,11 QQ- ' '^^■^'^Aliip. 
 tl liiJo, unmar liind 
 
 ■11 1815, died 
 
 1820, died 
 
 said tf) be the oldest house of 
 now standing. The original 
 
 l%»iea with the fire places, oven and 
 
 l'1»ole, are all standing, being nearly 
 
 l^j^^-i, aied l.^arsold. The bricks for them were 
 
 led l^dO ; Luie on the banks of the river lUst above 
 
 10 hvmg. vMmt\\ ui mill brook. Mr. Bailey 
 
 rail Pond Wil],pud up a large farm and spent his 
 
 first day of M; years with his daughter Abigal, wife 
 
 ' "ore Hiram James Frasior. Ho died in 1834, 
 
 evi William, tf 75 years. His wife died in 184?, 
 
 born 18;35 ; Cj 75 years. They had four sons:- 
 
 arried, Mary \i|el, who married Betsey Sunbury and 
 
 Allen, born Isjjed on the east side of the river be- 
 
 died 184(5 ; Sai^n the Jc^hn Bailey place and Slab 
 
 )na.s Ludiah, \^ now called Mill Brook, but a little 
 
 »f sold out and went to the States. 
 
 arriod Ahira jij, who married Miss Strobridge,set- 
 
 Cookshire; ]\f just west of his father's and east of 
 
 lomas Fainswo Craig road. They had no children. 
 
 lace where theii died in 18(J5, aged 75 years. 
 
 ynthia, born It^rd Bailey married, Ist Sarah Rodgers 
 
 ; Mary, born Hsifi. She dying soon after ho married 
 
 iT-^'"''^' ^'^^^ I'la H-*ll' widow of John French. He 
 
 18o9 ; Anna, s born in Lemington, Vt., 1794.' 
 
 1^^ A °^" "^'^^^ ***>" ^ y^''^''^ ^^'-^ h® c**"^^ ^^ Eaton with 
 1/80, drowned J father, travelling 3(5 miles through 
 rn 1783, died la woods with only a spotted line to 
 Enfield. i^e them. He could remember when 
 
 above, settled ly three houses stood in Sherbrooke, 
 above its juncd one of them was the Court House, 
 ! built a saw lich was used for a barrac'.'s in the 
 II branch just alae of thePapineau rebellion in 1836-37, 
 n called, takingj^re I was stationed two weeks with 
 of the falls ae more from Eaton until ten more 
 bulk head binle and took our places and let us go 
 hmg out sand nhe, they to be relieved at the end of 
 verwas letthroro weeks the same as we were, and so 
 1 water it swv through the winter The nearest 
 *w mill and i^tket was Three Rivers. When but 
 :ing his farm biiyenteen years old Mr. Bailey was taken 
 the channel of ji at LaBaie and was given over by 
 ages, who hati;' physician, when Stephen Burrows 
 fulling mill on kjpencd to come along and told them 
 on dry land, hat to do and how to treat him, and 
 h Mr. French rought him through all right. At that 
 reat loss to me the travel to market was mostly 
 • built up agoile on the ice in the winter. Mr. Bail- 
 r Benjamin jr loved to tell of the narrow escapes he 
 ith Lockart lad from going under the ice on his trips 
 k^e, known as ) market, they had four children, 
 'arsis married John Henry Pope, Eliza- 
 i;ers, Adaline eth Ann married Albert Pi>pe, William 
 , Emily, Maria ded unmarried. 
 
 Cyrus married Emily French, daughter 
 lis wife, Maruf Luther French. 
 
 Eaton in the y Mr. Ward Bailey died 1866, aged 72 
 the place wh'ters. 
 
 rasier, now livCyru8Bailey,who married Emily French, 
 id house in tad 10 children. They settled on the 
 
 old farm where his father lived before 
 him. The children wen : William, the 
 eldest, married Naomi Weston. He is 
 foreman for the Cookshire Mill Co., also 
 mayor of Cookshire. 
 
 Horace, who married Elisa, daughter of 
 Edwin Laberee, and holds a government 
 otlice at Ottawa. Maria married Charles 
 French and is now living at Scotstown. 
 Ellen married Walter VVarren and went 
 Wt^st. 
 Charles who married Ella Pope, daughter 
 of Craig Pope. He has a jeweler's store 
 in Cookshire, and also holds the office of 
 deputy American consul. Arthur died 
 young. Abby was unmarried. Emma 
 married Malcolm McAulay and lives at 
 Scotstown. Ann is unmarried.* Lauria 
 married Fred Osgood, hotel keeper at 
 Cookshire. Alvin married Cora Barwis 
 and lives on tha old Tioonard Coat's place 
 at Birchton. Mr. Cyrus Bailey lived and 
 died on the place where his father lived be- 
 fore him. He died Jan. 3rd, 1894, aged 
 72 years, 11 months. He was a promin- 
 ent man in the Eastern Townshii^s, and 
 was secretary-*-,reasurerof Compton Coun- 
 ty for a number of years and justice of 
 peace. His widow is still living at the 
 old home with her two unmarried daugh- 
 ters- 
 
 Ruf us, who married Sally or Polly Cook 
 in 1823. He settled on the river just above 
 Frasier's Crossiig. They had four child- * 
 ron:-John married Hannah Colby, Orsam- 
 us married Fanny Garvin, and is in the 
 west. Esther married George Addie 
 from Dudswell. John is the only one 
 i->ing in the Township. 
 
 Amanda, the noted singer, is living in 
 Boston and never married 
 
 Deacon Samuel Farnsworth, born in 
 1751, and Anna Wasson, his wife, born 
 in. 1'751, came into Eaton in 1799. They 
 settled on l<jt 14 in the 8th range, now 
 owned by R. H. Pope. They had three 
 sons, viz. : John, David and Samuel. 
 John first started in business in Stan- 
 s'cead as a trader, and remained there a 
 few years, when he closed out about the 
 year 1827, came to Cookshire and bought 
 the Spaulding place on the river, just 
 north of the fair ground where John 
 Farnsworth now lives. 
 
 He built the first store in Cookshire on 
 the hill opposite John Goodwin's, where 
 George French now lives. He remained 
 here a few years, when he sold out and 
 went west with his whole family. They 
 had £ sons, James and John, and four 
 

 6 
 
 A HISTORY OP EATON. 
 
 daughtf'rs, Mary, Charlotte, Sarah and 
 Eunice, 
 
 James married Achsah Hudson, and 
 went west with hia father 
 
 John and ChHrlf)tto are still living. 
 John is a lawyer and was colonel in the 
 American rebellion as well as member of 
 Con^iesE. 
 
 Deacon Samuel Favnsworth died in 
 1831, aged 80 years. His wife died in 
 18i2, aged 01 years. 
 
 David, the sec->nd son of Samuel Farns- 
 worti., learned the shoe makers trade 
 from his father. He marrieu Plioebe 
 Li)t!irop of Dudswell. He settled on 
 lot 9 in the 7th range, just south of Cook- 
 shire on the Craiij road, as it was then 
 called, where he worked at his trade and 
 did some farming. Later on he sold out 
 and moved to Dudswell. They had 
 four sons and two daughters, Charles, 
 Albert, Willium, Lorenzo, Catherine and 
 Eleanor. 
 
 Charles (s(ni of David Farnsworth) 
 having accjuired his father's trade, follow- 
 ed it at Eaton Corner for a good many 
 years. He married Adeline Flaskill from 
 Lennoxvil e. She died some f<;ur years 
 arter he married her, and soon after he 
 moved to Conipton whore he now lives. 
 He held the oilice of secretary-treasui'er 
 for tiie town of Compton until age and 
 poor health compelled him to resign. 
 
 Albert, second son of David Farns- 
 worth, married Dorothy Stevens, of 
 Lennoxville, and setiled in J'landers 
 whcie ho is still living. 
 
 V/illiam, third son of David Farns- 
 worth, never married. 
 
 Lorenzo, fourth son of David Farns- 
 worth, went west and married out there. 
 Catherine, daughter of David F;irn.sworth, 
 married Henry Bishop of Dudswell ; 
 Eleanor, second daughter of David 
 Farnsworth, married Elisha Kingsley of 
 the same place. All are dead but Chaiios 
 and Albert. 
 
 Samuel, son of the deacon, married Taba- 
 tha Barlow and remained on the old 
 place. Be was one of the first cattle 
 buyers. His market was at Quebec, 
 which at that time was the market for 
 the no»'Lherr part of Vermont and Hew 
 Haivipshire, espeoially for heavy grade 
 cattle, which w.as mostly driven through 
 from Canaan, through Eaton and crossed 
 the basin through the wot ds to New Ire- 
 land, thence on to Quebec, a good deal 
 of the way with nothing l)ut a bridle 
 path through the A'oods. Samuel and 
 
 witl 
 
 Tttbatha Farnsworth had 5 sona 
 daughters. f,, , 
 
 Thonifis, son of Karouel Farnsw**^."®^' | 
 married Rlary Ann Sage French, dfi ^" 
 tor of Deacon Levi French, and settlf*® ^"'^i 
 the farm and lived there up to the ^'^^ L 
 of their deaths, where their son yooas| 
 lives. "♦ ^^ 
 
 Thomas Farnsworth had two son//'**"\ 
 two daughters. The boys both max •♦^'*^^'l 
 Maria is unmarried and ha?^ taugli . 
 fiftieth school and over ; so she entJ***^ . 
 CO a pensioii. Helen is married. ^' . , 
 
 Mary, daughter of Samuel, marriec^'-''^**^, 
 fred Labaree, of Sand Hill. Nf^"^ *' 
 daughter of Samuel, married Jonas'?^®'^ 
 good, of Cookshire. They have ono^ 
 Ste})hen, who is postmaster for C"" 
 shire. Ellen, daughter of Samuel, 
 west and married out there. Samue 
 Joel, sons of Samuel Ffirnsworih, \" 
 west over 40 years ago, and have i; 
 been heard from. They are supi 
 to be dead, George, son of 
 
 lirel 
 
 omp 
 
 ht b 
 
 ther 
 
 ccc 
 
 ed 
 
 iparpe 
 
 .SanuuOnt pe 
 
 living in Dudswell, and never niarrioj ^."^ 
 
 Eunice, daughter of Deacon Fa* ''"V 
 worth, as near as I can learn, miu®?"*" 
 Asa Grovenour, who built a small ^,"' , 
 at Eaton Corner, said to have been -f-. . 
 
 first store in to vn, on the ground w* 
 
 A„ ., — 'two 
 
 T 
 
 , e died 
 
 Stpiire'a hotel now stands. As near 
 can learn he soon .ifter sold out to > , 
 
 olson and went west, which in tL ' 
 days was like lieing buried so far as > 
 
 ;)2. H 
 
 'r. Th 
 tied 01 
 
 their friends hei'e expecting to see 
 again. 
 
 Deacon Samuel Farnsworth was di - 
 major in rhe American revolution. '- 
 came from Stodard near Charest< ^ , 
 No. 4. His children were all born tli^^* - 
 It is claimed he imported the first slil 
 
 into town from N.U. Ho bought 
 
 ^e she-jp in the winte.: and ha ' 
 them 111 a high pen to protect t-|iem li 
 wild beasts. It is said he went out 
 morning in Apr:l and fo-uid six lamli 
 the pen. His wife drew a pension i 
 number of years after he died. ,. 
 
 wh 
 
 I 
 
 i«e h( 
 
 'li^dal 
 
 ewe she-jp in the winte." and had to i ^ . 
 1 ment 
 
 Vlflive 
 
 jfc beii 
 
 bad on 
 
 >pUBit( 
 
 Stephen Farnsworth, son of Sani;^^^ 
 married a Miss Blodget, daughter <'fZ?^n 
 iver. He died and she married GJard'^g^g 
 Hyde. She has one son by her first lij^j,g, 
 band, now living in California, wli j j i 
 they have been stopping through ' j, 
 
 winter. Imoni 
 
 John Leboi'rveau came into the un , , 
 .ship in 1793, worked for Josiah Sawyl'j, . 
 building his mill and running it for 1^ 
 about two years. While there he bee.' * . 
 acfjuainted with Sally Stratton, who "^'"^^^ 
 
 J . 
 
A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 aond 
 
 th had 6 _ 
 
 with David Metcalf in Newport, 
 
 ►Samuel Farnsw**^®^' *^* L(i*i!i»n Metcalf who is now 
 Srtge French, df*< ^" Sawyerville in his 93rd year, 
 Fronch, and se'ttlf*® ^"'^ ^^ *'^° years John Lebour- 
 there up to the ^'^^ Sally Strattou went through 
 lero their son .^^oods on horseback with only one 
 b, to N.H. were they wero raarried. 
 rth had two son/ ^J**"® back and settled at Slab city, 
 le boys both mar ^own as Mill Brook, stayed there 
 ' and ha" tau»h<* ^^*^ years, when they finally set- 
 >ver ; so she enti*"^' north of ^,he John Learnard 
 n is married. ^t where he built a pearl ash factory 
 f Samuel, marrie(#"^®'^ "" '^^® busineas for quite a 
 Sand Hill. Is"^!^^ "^ yfears, taking the pearl £.sh to 
 niarried Jonas"^®^ 3"^*^ below Angus, and boating 
 
 They have ono! 
 )st-master for C'^ 
 iter of Samuel, 
 It there. Saniuei 
 3l Farnsworrh, \^ 
 "igo, find have n ' 
 
 hree Rivers. Th..y had to carry it 
 
 ompton Falls both ways, as they 
 
 he back supplies for the town. He 
 
 there up to the time of his death, 
 
 cccured Nov. 7th, 1846, when he 
 
 ed 70 years. He was a mill wright 
 
 They are .supi" '''^^^P^"^'^'^ ^y ''^*'^^" ^® was an ex- 
 ^0, son of Sannu'**^ pennmn and was called upon to 
 Hid never niarric*^^*^^ ^'''^^ ^^ tovn business. He 
 of Deacon pj^il the office of clerk of the commission- 
 can learn mai^'^'^*' f^"*" ^^^ commencement up to 
 built a su'iall - ^^^^ *^^ ^'^ death. He was always 
 Id to have beeii^;'' *^^ '^^^P "' **"> S"'xi work. H s 
 a the "•round w® ^^^'^ March 12th, 1855, at her son, 
 ta.ids. '^ As near'**" Lebourveau s, at the age of 75 
 er sold out to IS*"" T'^^y ^^^ "i"® Idren, seven 
 St, which in t^» and t-fo girls, namely, 
 )uried so far as ^^^ ^^** ^^^"^ *^ ^^^^ '^^^-y N**^- '^^'^« 
 pectint' to ' see t^* ^^ married in 1822 Sabrina Bar- 
 K They had no children. They lifst 
 nisworth was di^^ ^^ *-^® place near where Samuel 
 ;an revolution!^ W^^ ^^^ lives, and lived there a few 
 near Charesti.^ when in 1826 he and his brother 
 wore all born tli^'i*^ bought of John Pope the place 
 jrted the first si'''?® ^^^ ^" """^ living wivh Mr. Frizzle. 
 Ho bought tflbd^l married Dama Caswell and sold 
 'e: and hadVo l''*" ^"^ brother Eros, and made a set- 
 ' l)rotoot frhem f'"^®"^ "'^ *'^^° place v.here Mr, Butler 
 d he went ou^ W^i^^^j j'^^*' ^*^8t of the Chesin" place, 
 fo'uid six laniV^ being very strong he sold out \nd lo- 
 ■ew a i)ension f^ "" * ''® nortli side of the brook on the 
 he died posite side of the road leadiufj; from 
 
 h Son of Sani'^" Comer to Cookshiro. His wife 
 it, daughter ' of ^^'^ ^^'^^ alcor, he married Rebecca 
 10 married Gard*'***^'^' "^ Newpovt, Vermont. He died 
 on by her first li ^®*^' "^*^^^ '^'^ years. He left three 
 California, wl"'^'^®" ''y ^"^ ^^^^ ^^^''' ^^""^y* Almond 
 )pinfr throutrh '^ John, and by his last wife two chil- 
 ° *' -en, Martha and Lucy. Mary is dead, 
 
 •nmo infr. fii.^ r „linond is in Massachussets, John is in 
 or .Tosiah Sawv'* Johnsbury Centre, Vt. , Martha lu ni 
 unning it for 1^"*^'^' ^'^'^y ^* i" CRlifornia. 
 ile there he bec" '""*' <^a"8*^^«*" "^ •^"•"» Lebourveau, 
 Stratton who '^^-^ied Ovid French, and they settled an 
 ' pfarm east of the Levi French place. 
 
 They had two sons and four daughters, 
 namely, Irene, Sarah, William, Jane, 
 Persis and John. Irene married Ephram 
 Ward. Sarah married Albert Haseltine. 
 William married Ellen Lampkina, of 
 Waterville. J^ane married John Winslow. 
 Persia married 1st, Albert Rodgers, and 
 2nd, Jason Powers, from Burke, Vt. 
 John married Achsah Brown. 
 
 Sarah is dead. William is out west. 
 The other four all live in town. 
 
 Pecais married Erastua Caswell on Nov. 
 24th, 1830. They settled on the place 
 just south of the Rufua Pope place on 
 Lennoxville road. They had two children, 
 Erastua and Amanda. Persia died in 1833 
 when Amanda was but a few days old. 
 
 Benjamin married Eliza Labaree March 
 13th, 1834. They started lif? on the home 
 place just north of the Learned place 
 and stopped there some two or three 
 vears, when he sold out to his brother 
 John and moved to Flanders on to the 
 farm where his son Henry now lives, 
 which at that time was owned by his 
 wife's father. They had six children : — 
 George, born June 8th, 1836, married 
 Eliza Lyon 1 ()7. Henry born Oct. 
 2nd, 1837, married Phebe Currier 
 1859. Horace, born May 19th, 1840, 
 married Ellen McCaffety, 1869 Rufua, 
 born Aoril 15th, 1842, died May 17th, 
 1867. Ellen, bom May 12th, 1844, mar- 
 ried Sylvester Aunabal 1862. Benjamin, 
 born Jan. 5th, 1848, unmarried. Hor- 
 ace died March 8th. 1880. 
 
 Their father died September 27th, 
 1884. Their mother died December 
 13th, 1866. She fell dead while spinning 
 at her wheel. 
 
 Zenos, married Jane Butler. They 
 had seven children, Ovid, Charles, 
 Marian, Robert, Alvin, Al^'red and 
 Willis. He settled in Lapingham, 
 now better known as Learned Plain, 
 where he cleared up the farm Fred Bow- 
 en now lives on. Ho was born 1817, and 
 died June 15th, 1878. His widow is still 
 living. Their children are all cut of the 
 country but Alvin 
 
 John married Frances Cummiugs, 
 daughter of William Cumming, sr. They 
 are no.v living at Eaton Corner. He waa 
 born Feb. 19th, 1815. They had three 
 sons. Ellsworth and Franklin are in 
 California, Stewart is living at Eaton 
 Corner. 
 
 Moses was bom July 13th, 18i7. His 
 first wife was Lovisa Haskell. They had 
 four sons : Alonz'" \> ho settled west ; 
 
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 B 
 
 A HI':T0RY of EATON. 
 
 Stednian Avery, a lawyer, cettled in 
 Montreal. Sylvester, who lives in Sher- 
 brooke, and Edwin who is not married. 
 
 Charles, born Oct. 28th, 1819, married 
 Lucy Winslow, Dec. 9th, 1841. She was 
 born Feb. 20th, 1820, in Lyndonville, Vt., 
 and died July 24th, 1890, at Cookshire. 
 He is living with his daughter, Mrs. 
 Willard, in Cookshire. They had ten 
 children. Cynthia Merva married Dexter 
 "Willard, who was killed in the mill at 
 Cookshire. Samuel Charles, who fell 
 from a load of hay and was killed 
 when twelve years of age ; Eros Franklin, 
 who went to Bradford, Maine, and mar- 
 ried there. His wife died when he re- 
 turnpd to Eaton. He married Martha 
 Caswell, sister of George Caswell, <Blto 
 died L Huntingville, April 16th, 1875, 
 and was buried there. John Henry, 
 born Dec. 23rd, 1848, died Jan. 28th, 
 lc<49. Li^kCiA Maria, born Feb. 1st, 
 1850, married George Caswell. They 
 a^-e now living at .Juhnville. Daniel, 
 born Augu.st 2oth, 185.3, is now liv- 
 ing in Massachusets. Willard Gordon, 
 born March 6th, 1«67, died Feb. 19th, 
 1860. Albert Waringcon, born Dec. 7th, 
 1858, died Sept. 19th, 1860. Charles 
 Stewart, born April 3rd, 1864, married 
 Hattie Thompson, of Lyndonville, Vt., 
 at which place they now reside. John 
 Marsh, born July 15th, 1857, married 
 (iertie Morier, of LyndonviJlo. They 
 are also living there. He is train de- 
 spatcher on the B. & M. Railroad. 
 
 Deacon Edmond Alger married Hul- 
 dah Lothrop, Dec. 28th, 1786, and in the 
 month of March, 1801, removed to Eh • 
 to'i. He settled just south of Eaton 
 Corner. He was afflicted witli blindness, 
 as was his father before him. His wife 
 died Dec. 16th, 1836. He died on the 
 21st of the same month in the same 
 year. They had seven children, viz., 
 William, born Nov. 5th, 1787, married 
 Joaiuia Kee. Huldah, born Oct. 6th, 
 1790, married Elisha Baldwin, of Nor'-^h 
 Sratford. Enos, born Aug. 30th, 1793, 
 married Charlotte Baldwin. Asa, born 
 Feb. 7 th, 1796, married Abigal Sawyer. 
 Eawin, born May 11th, 1796, married 
 Hannah Per val. Ruth, born Jan. 24th. 
 1802, man J Rufus Sawyer. Josiah, 
 born June -Jfch, 1804, married Nancy 
 Malloy. All are dead so far as I can 
 learn. 
 
 William, the eldest son, moved in 1836, 
 some 2(5 years after he was married, to 
 Ohio, where his wife died May 13th, 
 
 1863, and he dipd April 11th, j-^|,,j 
 They had 11 children. I cannot ^.s;;-: 
 that there are any of their descendtij(,,.n* 
 the township. j, 
 
 Enos Alger was about seven yeiig (,]ii 
 when his father came here, Hi,„(i 
 Sept. 13th, 1873. He held the ot 
 justice of the peace for a good 
 
 
 pear 
 M ot 
 •(H^ino 
 
 years. They had five children 
 mond, born Dec. 2nd, 1825, di'Uj. 
 April 20th, 1866 ; Jabez, born Oct.^,* \^[ 
 1827, married Lucinda Baldwin. \\ ^jge 
 E., born Jan. 12th, 1829, maried M;^,j \ 
 Foss. He now li\?es at Johnvilkq^^ 
 owns the grist mill where Livers bui,to | 
 first saw mill built in that part (.: 
 township. Lucy L., born March 1, 
 married Nathan W. Sherrill, hilf In, 
 of the Rev. Mr. Sherrill, who was, 
 gregationist minister in town. in' 
 W., born Jan. 30th, 1824, married 
 Ellen M. French, 
 French, daughters 
 
 Fienrh. William is the only one iflnne 
 in town as near as I can learn . out 
 
 Asa Alger settled on the hill just ^i,, 
 of Eat(jn Corner, where Mr. VV,j^,,7i; 
 Lindsay and his wife live with thei^ ^ aj] 
 Mr. Asa Alger and his wife celeUg ,,vc 
 their golden wedding in 1868. Tht'he tivi 
 seven children : Maria, born Nov nghiij 
 1818, died in 1829. Emily, born :\ na,,-. 
 
 t 
 
 ur 
 Hii 
 
 h. 
 in 
 
 an;. 
 
 If 
 
 and 2nd, Mai«f .sh 
 of the late Iggfor 
 
 "QTS 
 
 L 1 
 
 20th, 1820, married William Liu 
 June 20th, 1842. Horace, born itch 
 13th, 1822, married Jane Ross. 11 j^ 
 born Oct. 16th, 1823, married t-yina 
 Miranda Williams, 2nd, Surept;ri|uils 
 Hurd. Ruth, born September ongh 
 1826, unmarried. Lyman, born vjlle, 
 3Uth, 1831, married Mariam W., dan, a i,ri 
 ')f Lewis Looniis, of Colebrooke, >|i^ \{, 
 Persia, born Oct. 6th, 1837, niaiajus 
 Eben Gooding, of Providence, Iver. 
 Jan. :?4th, 1866. from 
 
 Edwin Alger married Hannah PeiVjp^pnu 
 of Compton, N.H., Jan., 1826. Shup^io, 
 
 Hi'nafejth 
 
 the 16th of some month in 1873. 
 in 1837. They had six children : Hiij^j^ 1 1 
 born Oct. 9th, 1826, died in 1832. ]\1) and 
 born Oct. 20th, 1827, married II nee t 
 Rodgers, of Eaton, Sept. 30th, hkini' 
 July, born May, 1831, died 1832. Imuch 
 younger children died in infancy, mox' 
 
 Ruth Alger's family history vvil verb 
 found in the Sawyer records. f of t 
 
 Josiah married Nancy Malloy 1 82;") or, 
 died Juno 19th, 1836. She died in <ethe 
 1841. They had seven children : Lui igatcc 
 born April 20th, 1828, died Oct., Itlons 
 Lucinda N., born Jan. 23rd, 1830, ^re t<> 
 
A HISTORY OF FATON. 
 
 9 
 
 ^d April 11th, |-^|,,j Q Treat. Adaliixj. born Nov. 
 
 fl' ■ , *'*""'^^ l«-"52, in.'uried John Philips. Hul- 
 of their descencl(^(„,nFy,j 15th, 1834, married A. P. 
 
 , , r. Tho other two died iu infancy. 
 
 about seven yeaQ cliildren ..f Deacn Edniond are 
 came here. H 1,^(1 
 ^ He held the 01'^,,.^^. ^^ j ^an learu, the family as 
 
 fi^'' ^-1^° ** others SMW hard times when they 
 nve children :Qg,„^ ^^^^^^ tl,^, townahip. At one 
 
 T 1" ' u ^^^'^"^'Mr. Alger waa down in N.H. work- 
 
 JHDez, born Oct.,,| i,i^ family, wife and seven child- 
 
 .imk Baldwin \V ;j>^c,„,^ he return xl their provis- 
 
 1, A^Sg inaned M,,^„ „^,t, and they had to yo to bed 
 
 y^f ^^ i^.^"villtoyj their supper.' l}ut they were of 
 
 1 wliere Livers biii,i;jPui.itH„ stock, and having cast 
 
 r I" ,x P'^^ '• burdens ui)on the Lord, fully trust- 
 
 '«K •S?'',''*''.^'J|JIi'"> that He would hell, them 
 
 -.neiTUJ, hilf hiih In the nu.rmng AJrs. Alger 
 
 slierrill who wasj ,^,„i ,vent to Mr. Labaree's to get 
 
 if^iao^ "^" .^''i'iii^' f<'r breakfast. She had just 
 
 ' , \ "f ^";^''^lf pint of meal. She divided with 
 
 , ana ^nd, iViaiH she went home, mad;; some por- 
 
 s c>t the late tajf,,^. breakfast, made the other half 
 
 IS the only one ^jj^uei. and they went to bed a-^ain 
 
 loan learn ^^ f^l^^j^. ^^pper. About midnight 
 
 K i'" Jf' Alger came with a back load ' of 
 
 Where Mr. V\,igi,,„s ^ylji,,li he had carried on his 
 
 delive withtheij^ill the way from Colbrook, as 
 
 -i^'ff ''m^^''^ -ve-e no roads for a team to pass. 
 
 ng in l»b8. Tnohe liist {.rcK^es verbal of a road in the 
 
 laria, born Nov aship was made by a supervisor of 
 
 ^ wS' T^n»'"- '^f Whitcher, fr.mi Three 
 
 ed William Lui^ps. brother of the late Charles 
 
 Horace, born (U],,.,. „f Sherbrooke. In J812 he 
 
 loon -^'"^'^- ^^ W^ i'>"t^ «H- continued the Craig road, 
 
 I8/0, married t^.^^ Mien called, from the north line 
 
 i, 2nd, Surept;,]|ud,swell, to Canaan, Vt., passiny 
 
 rn September .'^h Cookshire, Eat.,n Corner, Saw- 
 
 Lyman, born y«ie. Clifton and Hereford. He als.> 
 
 p /"'i'", ^*^-''^^'"'-.i branch road, leading from this road 
 
 rn iI-> ' ^% l^.ger's place to Luther French's 
 
 bth, 18o7, nia^^^ust above the mouth of the North 
 
 i'rovidence, I{,e|, Another branch was made lead- 
 
 . , -J ^oin the same place, running obli(jue- 
 
 riea Hannah Pei(„^,,utii westerly to the Rufu.'* Laber- 
 
 ••'■^"•.' ^f^^: Shc^|ee, where .losei^h Taylor now lives ; 
 
 ^"^ vii ' ■^^'f^thence, running northwest till it 
 
 IX children : Hii,^ the cop(;ession line between ram,'- 
 
 , died in 1832. ]\lj ind (5 at the town line, and from 
 
 8^7, married lince to Lennoxvil'e. Mr. Whitcher, 
 
 ' *^P*' 30th, hkin;^ that Eaton was going to derive 
 
 Jl, died 1832. ImtJch more beneht from the road than 
 
 •/" u""'""^' ;mt)x\ille or Ascot, put into the pro- 
 
 uly history w:l verl)al that Eaton should build one 
 
 'records, f of the brilgt; across the IVIa.s.sawippi 
 
 incy Malloy l82r.oy^ This proces verbal had to go be- 
 
 fO. She died in i^tthe court at Three Rivers to l)e hom- 
 
 ," children: Luci,g|ted, and in order to make any ol)- 
 
 ' 00 Oct., Jgpgns a journey to Three Rivers would 
 
 Jl. 23rd, 183U, ^to be made. They struck out the 
 
 clause that Eaton was to help build the 
 bridge and sanctioned the rest. He also 
 laid out what was called a bridle path, 
 leading from Learned's hotel to the river, 
 with right to use gates. There was only 
 the John French family living east of 
 the river at that time. 
 
 To go from Cookshire in the summer 
 to L. French's mills', at the time this 
 road was laid out, they had to go up the 
 hill to vvhvU-e Ezra Taylor used to live, 
 opposite Mr. Rankins, turn down the 
 hill by the Chas. P'rasier place, where 
 Ursamus Bailey first settled, to the Bail 
 ey landing, cross over on to the Frasier 
 me.idow (which at that time Avas an vs- 
 la tid) cross over the east side go nearly 
 uf^ Slab City (now Mill Broojc) cross 
 back to the west side f>f the river, foUoVir 
 nearly up the North river, crnss 
 on the east side of the river^ tiien 
 cross the north civer. tlience uj) to the 
 mill. The road was only passable on 
 horse back or for .sleds. What they call 
 roads then it would be impo.ssible to 
 drive nver to day with any of the convey- 
 >u. jes they have to-day. 
 
 The road leading from tiie Wells Rog 
 er's jJace to Lennoxville .vhich was after- 
 wards continueti to Eaton Corner, was a 
 very liad road ; esjiecially that p-art lead- 
 ing tlirough Hard Scrabble from wliieh it 
 derived its name. Well I remembeV, 
 when about ten years of age, going out 
 to visit my brother, Eros, who lived at 
 what is now called Sand Hill. We were 
 on horse back, and I was riding behind 
 my brother. In the swamp, just liefore 
 I got there, there was a place wliere the 
 water crossed the road. It lieing a coivl- 
 aroy, or what was then called a causeway, 
 there was some four or five feet of it 
 where hjgs where floating. Tin; horse 
 jumped acro.ss, but I, being on liehind, 
 landed on the logs, striking my nose on 
 one of them, and did a little painting for 
 a few minutes. There were no turnpike 
 roads at that time. I he road through ,\s- 
 cotswam[) being almost impas:!able in 1831 
 they obtained a grant of §t)0() N) be laid 
 out on the road from Lennoxville to Eat 
 on line. In 1832 they obtained a gr.int 
 of 6<)00 ; Eaton also obtained a grant of 
 §<)<)() to be expended on the road leading 
 from the town line through to Eaton 
 Corner (where the njad now is) where it 
 connected with the Craig njad. Tyler 
 Spartbrd and Eros Lebourveau were ap- 
 p<nnted commissioners for laying out this 
 money, which made the roads passable, 
 
10 
 
 A HISTOKY OF EATOX. 
 
 
 but it was a good many years before it 
 was anything like whar it now is. 
 
 To give you a little idea of what the 
 early settlers had to go through to get to 
 market, I will give you an account of a 
 trip my brother Eros once took to Mon- 
 treal in the winter of 181G, when but 14 
 years old. Father was manufacturing 
 pearl ash at that time, as this was the 
 time of the cold season when the frost 
 killed everything for two years, and they 
 were necessitated to go Montreal for 
 flour. Old Mr. Learned was to take a 
 load of pearlash and bring bark a load of 
 flour. Father rigged up a one horse 
 team for my brother. They went to Len- 
 r oxville ; thence to Stanatead Plain ; 
 from there to Copps ferry ; (now Georg- 
 ville) thence to Bolton, and from there 
 to Longueil, crossed over into Montreal, 
 left the ice just below a large stone mill, 
 had their pearl ash inspecfed and weigh- 
 ed, went out, sold their peail ash for $12 
 per cwt., loaded up with flour, (paying 
 $14 per barrel) and started for home, 
 making the round trip in l4 days When 
 in Montreal they i)Ut up at an hotel hav- 
 ing Brock's monument on top of it. 
 Whether it was called Brock's hotel he 
 could not say. He says he can reniera- 
 ber to-day how the rattling of the old 
 sword kei)t him awake nearly all night. 
 The pearlash before this was mostly 
 drawn to the river just below Angus, p,nd 
 then taken by boat to Three Rivers. It 
 was on one of these trips that John 
 French and John Hurd were drowned 
 while trying ^o run the empty boat over 
 Brompton falls instead of letting it down 
 with a tow rope as they formerly had 
 done. 
 
 The first bridge built across the river 
 at Cookshire was built by the British 
 American Land Company, as near as I 
 can earn, in 1834, and was built by Ben- 
 jamin Lebourveau, his father having laid 
 out the work and overseeing it. It was 
 a trestle bridge. There was a bridge 
 built before this on the road leading from 
 the Wells Roger's place to the Luther 
 trench mill. I think the mill waj wash- 
 ed away the year before the bridge was 
 built at Cookshire, and the channel of 
 the river was changed and left the bridge 
 on dry land. 
 
 Wolves were very numerous and bold 
 when the first settlers tame here. I will 
 here quote a little from Selkirk. "They 
 were so unacquainted with man their 
 tameness was shocking to sue. Mrs, 
 
 leil 
 Reuben Coats was sitting in her k at] 
 one night after sunset with the sEiidl 
 cooking, when one came, put his iiW)i| 
 at the door, took a snifl" or two, i), 
 there by the smell of the meet whicM 
 cooking. Not fancying the looks i 
 he turned and walked away. Her tv 
 band and Mr. Colby had 26 sheep, ji 
 ing near neighbors they pastured m 
 together. There was a little strwrl 
 woods that partly hid the pasture piel 
 the House They turned them ou:IUb| 
 morning, and went out to get thebht 
 yard them at night and found the vi 
 'lad killed every one of them. The\ cai 
 not trust their little children out <> 4111 
 yard or out of sight ; they had to ive< 
 them as well as the sheep. Well ifeiy 
 remember, when I was a small boy" ^^ 
 the wolves used to congregate iif di 
 swamp between my father's place an* ^v 
 river and begin to howl, calling oriO h 
 other together, and when they gi/ ni 
 gether you would think they wete )zeii 
 ing a regular Indian pow wow. fi*lj 
 made all sorts of noises ; you ^<%N 
 think they were hopping up and d m^\ 
 some making a noise like childreni^^ \ 
 ing, some like men halloing, somug ^ 
 dogs barking, and the dogs would 
 begin to bark to add to the music, t^^ 
 used to say they did this to find' wh 
 where the dogs were. Well I remeis^ ' 
 sleeping with my brother Benjamiiit^tc 
 bed being near a front window. Ji'^*^ 
 break of day we heard the sheep rui»l% ' 
 through the yard in front of the wiiisM,** 
 we rose up in bed, and saw three w^il 
 after them, passing not ten feet froiiWfl 
 window. They had driven the sheej^tt* 
 of the barnyard to the spring, froni*^!^ 
 spring to the house, and from the l'^ 
 to the barn. Father seeing them ;r©0< 
 same time jumped out of bed and fii:>"* 
 ed them to the barn. Just before lii*'^ 
 to the bars one wolf came out thi^© 
 the V)ars and joined the other two v* 
 were waiting for him a few rods aipi 
 My brother had to go up-stairs f i ii^ ' 
 gun, conse({uently was too late to .; '"< 
 shot at them. They went to the sw^ ^ 
 lying between the road and the n*^' 
 ■f he whole township rallied and 8urriii>''^ 
 ed the swamp, and two compariles, oi;' ' 
 each end, went in to drive them ^?J 
 which they did about noon. Some li ^ 
 chance to snap their guns at them, *"' 
 they all got away. They did not I'^'^l 
 guns such as they have to day ; luckv ^ 
 the wolves they had not. 
 
A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 11 
 
 ght and found the v 
 one of them. The) 
 
 ittle children out o 
 
 iight ; they had to 
 the sheep. Well 
 
 ' I was a small boy 
 to congregate ii/ 
 
 ifn I was living with my brother, 
 was sitting in her k; It Sand Hill, we got up one morn- 
 sunset with the so^ found eleven sheep lying dead, 
 1 one can»B, put his mere than ten rods from my brother's 
 'Ok a sniff or two, #, and about six from Mr. Peter Ow- 
 leiJ of the meet whicaouse. The sheep belonged to Mr. 
 fancying the looks i who forgot to yard them that night. 
 i^?i *way. Her two or three of them were mangled. 
 ■'Olby had 26 sheep, just barely bit the throats of the 
 :>ors they pastured .ip and sucked their blood. My 
 re was a little str^fr drew one of the mangled ones on 
 iy hid the pasture Riece of ploughed ground where he 
 'y turned them our|i|Bt sown some wheat, set his trap, 
 ent out to get thej^e next morning he had a wolf in it. 
 
 hed 96 lbs., the heaviest one he 
 ught. He caught either seven or 
 1 on his own farm, for which ho 
 d a bounty of ^10 per head. 
 
 were roving animals ; you never 
 when to look for them, but when 
 „ , , - -OT i'l come they stayed from one to 
 niy father's place ani^|weeks, then you would hear no 
 io howl, calling on^from them for a month. They were 
 ■'^" w^hen they g</ military in their movements. Half 
 I think they wete )as#n or so of them would pass through 
 ndian pow wow. ftjuld in the winter ; you might follow 
 of noises ; you iwfor half a mile and you could not 
 hopping uj) and d l^at there had been more than one 
 loise like childreni^ as they went single tile and Step- 
 hen halloing, somug^ the same track, one after the oth- 
 1 the dogs would v 
 
 idd to the music, ^member Eros Lcbourveau caught 
 ^ did this to findi "fihich he found and hung in an old 
 ere. Well I reineuip fence. He took off his frock, got 
 brother Benjaminnpehed stick over his neck and drew 
 front window. ,Ji> j^ock sleeve over his nose, tied it 
 leard the sheep rui»il!f' and took him, trap and all, on his 
 m front of the winjfeand carried him to the house, where 
 i, and saw three W'l^pi- him chained all day. No dogs 
 g not ten feet froii^ilP g" »t)ar him. 
 
 id driven the shee|^iherst .Jeffora Mainard came into the 
 ' the spring, froniV&hip in .January, 1798, and settled in 
 e, and from the l:>W^ort on North river, where .John 
 ler seeing them aSflch now lives. He liad two sons : — 
 out of bed and fijl>J!||ih, who was born in Worcester, 
 n. Just before hia*-, and Yorrick. 
 
 >lf came out thivBferiah married Eliza Hammond. They 
 
 town- 
 Ber- 
 
 ve one daughter living in tlie 
 
 d the other two 
 
 im a few rods ni'J^ the widow of .Joseph Coatf? 
 
 > go up-stairs forf* Was a great hunter, and went in the 
 
 was too late to <rfl4*^"*'*^^ some two or three months in 
 
 sy went to the swr^jftH "f tht; year. He was a coijjjer by 
 
 road and the ri'^i making pearlash barrels, sap tubs, 
 } rallied and surriii>rK barrels, etc. Hi; was very success- 
 two companies, ovA^ hunting mink, sable, otter, and 
 
 to drive them ^W^*) wolves, etc. 
 
 it noon. Some li, Yorrick was sun])osed to be the first 
 [•guns at them, ^W bora in the township. He was 
 
 They did not l^j?!* •'i»'i'-' '^th, 1798. Mfirriod Mittie 
 »ve to day ; luc\^yJeik\i'v., daughter of .fohn Walden, one 
 
 not. 
 
 of the pioneers of Clifton. She lived 
 with old Mr. Hodge from the time she 
 was a little girl until she married Mr. 
 Mainard. They had three children : — 
 Amherst, who is now in the States ; Lyd- 
 ia, who married Samuel Hall, of Duds- 
 well ; Ann Maria, who married Charles 
 Barlow, now living in Cockshire. They 
 have two children, V^ illis, who is now in 
 California ; Alma, who married a Mr. 
 Brown fromN.H. It seems Mr. Mayn- 
 ard settled in Newport, thinking he was 
 in Eaton, but iiis son Yorrick was born 
 in a camp at Sawyerville, while the fam- 
 ily were waiting for the father to get h's 
 house ready to move into. 
 
 Co . .John Pope hrst settled on what is 
 known as the Eros Lebourveau place. 
 He married Sophia Laberee. Later he 
 traded with Manly Powers for the place 
 in C' okshire where his grandson, Rufus 
 Henry Pope, M.P., now lives, and he re- 
 mained there up to his death in 1866, 
 aged 76 years. His wife died 1870 aged 
 79 years. They had four sons and one 
 daughter : — Eliza married Jonathan 
 French Taylor in 1838 
 
 Rufus married Hannah Garvin in 1837. 
 They had three daughters : — Mary Ann 
 married Francis Keenan ; Eliza married 
 Alden Learned, proprietor of the Cook- 
 shire hotel ; Sarah married Lyman 
 Brown ; Mary Ann and Eliea are both 
 living. .John Henry married Persia 
 Bailey in 1845, and remained on the old 
 place up to the time of his death. He 
 was born Dec. 19th, 1819. Died April 
 1st, 1889. He started out in life with 
 but a common school education, but hav- 
 ing the gift of s^ieech and vim to back it 
 up, he soon made his murk in the world. 
 He was elected mefnber of parliament 
 from Compton County in 1857, and held 
 the seat by acclamation until confedera- 
 tion. In 1867-71-72 he was returned by 
 acclamation. He was Minister of Agri- 
 culture, later Minister of Railways. He 
 visited England in company with Sir 
 John McDonald and Sir Charles Tupper, 
 to take part in negotiations whicli led to 
 the C.P.R. contract. He was the instig- 
 ator and promoter of the Intercolonial 
 Railway, or in other words, it was 
 through his inHuence and push that it 
 was carried thiougli to completion and 
 finally transferred to the C.P.R. His 
 widow still survives him. He died April 
 1st, 1889, aged 70 years. They had two 
 c-hildren : —Elizabeth married Hon. Mr. 
 Ives, of Sherbrooke. Rufus Henry mar- 
 
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 12 
 
 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 I t 
 
 ried Lury Noble, daughter of C. Noble. 
 At his father's deatli he was elected by 
 acclamitiou to fill his father's place in 
 the Dominion Legislature, and has held 
 it up to tlie ))resent time. He is one of 
 the i)Voprietor8 of the Cookshire Mill Co., 
 both liere and at Sawyerville. He is also 
 largely interest jd in the paper mills at 
 Angus. He also has one of the largest 
 farms in town, and does a good deal of 
 experimental fanning. He runs a cream 
 ery of over 100 cows M? his own besides 
 some ftutsiders. He has a model farm 
 and is what might be called a model 
 farmer. He has a piggery on his place 
 of sufficient cajjacity for 200 shoats. He 
 has steam power which contains a motor 
 to run his creamery and do his threshing, 
 etc. 
 
 Albert married Mary Ann Bailey 
 .settled in Cookshire and l)uilt the store 
 just north (jf Learned hotel where Thom- 
 as Macrae's store now is. They had two 
 8(ms, both living in Cookshire. Horace 
 runs the meat market in connection with 
 the meat cart. 
 
 William Cunnnings first settled in Len- 
 nox ville on what is called the Elliot 
 place. In 180!> he traded with a man of 
 the name of Beafort for the place now 
 owned by R. H. Pope, situated on the 
 east side of the Lennoxville road. The 
 old house is standing now in good sfiape, 
 known as the old Cummings house. The 
 farm extended to and took in the ! r 
 
 bush on the north side of the i tie 
 
 married Dolly Rodgers. He kept;, inall 
 store for ten or twelve years in part of 
 his house, which was the first store kept 
 in Cookshire. Mr. Cummings died 1840, 
 aged 53 years. His wife died in 1868. 
 
 They had two daughters and one son : 
 Annette, born 1830, married Phineas 
 Hubbard, of Stanstead ; Jane, born 1815 
 married Allen Williams ; Mary, l)orn 
 1817, married Burges Beach, Canaan, 
 Vt. ; Adaline, born 1818, married Augus- 
 tus Sawyer ; William, born 1822, married 
 Arraminta Laberee ; Francis, born 1826, 
 married John Lebourveau. 
 
 Mr. Cummings was a prcminent man 
 in church, town and school matters. 
 
 Rev. Jonathan Taylor came to Eaton 
 about 1814. He married Miss Wood. 
 He died in 1852, aged 69 years. He was 
 the first settled minister and pastor of 
 the first church in the township. He 
 was hired to preach and teach school, his 
 time to be divided betw len the two par- 
 ishes, north and south, with a salary of 
 
 $200, to be paid in meat, stock ancirJ 
 It appears there were three cli-, ^ 
 Episcopal, Presbyterian and Coi 
 tionist, all united in supporting hi^aii 
 I find he signed himself at this tiijtll 
 Rev. Jonathan Taylor, minister >\^ 
 Presbyterian congregation. AVoure 
 finding it hard work for his parispaj 
 to raise his salary, and also dithcim' 
 him to m;iko tne two ends meet, amtl 
 Episcopals having built a chiip ol 
 thinking he could ilo move good an. nb| 
 it easier for the parish by going <i pt 
 them, as he would draw a salary, b]! 
 the Royal institute of as much as ijy 
 then getting. He went over to tlu til 
 the most of his parish went Avitliaii 
 where he remained up to the tini'j -jeji 
 death, long enough to hury most if^ 
 first settlers and marry the most ( ■>q. \ 
 sons and daughters. He was a ini^r 
 good Christian character, visiting; I 
 parish .^ners, encouragnig the siclie i 
 sjieaking words of comfort to the I1..7. 
 ed. A man respected by all, old as,^ 
 as young. He first lived in tlud^ 
 house, which stood about where tliajje 
 office now is, later known as the i^' 
 Taylor house. As near as I can lu 1 
 was the second house built in Cofik^ 
 and was built by Hannant Hills. Ijaet 
 year 1830 he built the brick house \Thc 
 Mr. Colin Noble now lives. Tl r J 
 eight children:- French, who U' l^is 
 Eliza Pope in 1838. She died in 1 % 
 He settled on the farm where htiJt^: 
 lives with his son, Col. Henry 1' of 
 He is the only one living in town. qf 
 Oliver married and settled in Mon;n«i 
 Martha married Rev. Samuel Rcbff 
 Mary Ann married Alexander Miieti 
 Lucy married Rev. Mr. Simpson ; ll8fe 
 en married Miss Lonsdale ; Hannali ?elk 
 ried Alexander Mclver ; Hebor ni.ilSO 
 
 daughter 
 
 Miss Short, 
 Sherbrooke. 
 
 The church at Cook.shire 
 1820. 
 
 of John Sia ' 
 
 182 
 
 was bui be 
 
 len 
 
 They built another English churt ft 
 Eaton Comer and finished it in 1825 c&l 
 the Rev. Jonathan Taylor was to d n 
 his time between the two, but the oitloJ 
 the Corner being burnt in 1827 he .ed 
 his whole time to Cookshire. it* 
 
 I will now give some of the first clinn 
 records that I have been able to fimliih 
 
 will give them as 1 found them. 
 
 "John StrJ^ton was hurried Dec 1 
 1815. Buried by me, minister of 
 first Presbyterian congregation of Eat 
 
A ULSTOKY OF EATON. 
 
 m 
 
 iclinmeat sfockaiujlst baptism on record, "The 
 tic jvure three clv^,^y of Juno, 181(5, William An- 
 le.^hyterian and Coi * '■— .v .' ..., 
 
 ted ill supporting In 
 d himself at this ti 
 
 Taylor, minister 
 ongregation. AVour, 
 work for his i)ari.s 
 ii'y, and also ditiin, 
 le two ends meet, 
 M"g bui't a chii^ 
 lid do mors g(jod an 
 
 parish by going ., 
 iild draw a salary 
 tute of as much as ]' 
 He went over to the 
 
 parisli went witli 
 ned up io the tim 
 ugh to bury most 
 1 marry the most <,t. 
 ^ters. He was a 1113 
 
 character, visitiii:;! 
 
 fborn 1807. Oct. 7th, Mary 
 ' |nt, born Sept. 22nd, 1801), and 
 Shows, born March 22nd, 
 Idren of Daniel Loveland and 
 usana, baptized by me, Jon- 
 ylor, miiiister of die Hrst Pres- 
 church, Eaton." 
 marriage on record. "In the 
 ur Lord 1828, on the 8th of 
 er Wadley Leavet, farmer, and 
 rcival, of St. Paul's Parish, 
 inster, were united in mar- 
 bans. Married by me, minis- 
 he Episcopal Church, Rev. 
 Taylor. 
 
 rs that this was about the first 
 ylor having authority to marry, 
 this they mostly went to N.H. 
 irried, and some went to Stans- 
 . find a numl)er of records later 
 ^couraging the sicl:yji register dated way back to 18) '5 
 »i comfort to the l,,^ As near as I can learn there 
 
 i of those married in the States 
 
 their marriage legalized, and 
 
 dated back to the time they 
 
 married, as T think legislature 
 
 act legalizing all such mar- 
 
 •ected by all, old as., 
 
 hrst lived in tJud 
 'I'd about where tli- 
 tir known as the p'| 
 ^n near as I can le 
 louse built in CooJ, 
 
 Hannant Hills. 
 It the brick house 
 e now lives. T: 
 
 French, who m:: 
 38. Slie died in 
 5 farm where he 
 n, Col. Henry T, 
 le living in town, 
 id settled in Mont] 
 
 Rev. Samuel Rd 
 ed Alexander Mel 
 ^ Mr. Simpson ; fl. 
 jonsdale; Hannah pH 
 
 elver 
 
 er Learned, married Oct. 18th 
 |ead(jta Smith, widow of his 
 [James. Settled on the farm 
 grandson now lives, just south 
 lair ground in Cookshire. He 
 1842, she died in 1848. He was 
 if strong mind and filled at tines 
 trust in town. He was coiii- 
 of the court some ten or twelve 
 ore his death. i'iiey had seven 
 :— Royal born 1801, died Nov. 
 1 ; Alden born March 31st 1803, 
 . 25th 1882 ; Polly born Nov. 
 
 111.11805 ; Flavia born Sept. 27th 1807 
 
 , " ' ilebor m.^itjufu ; navia uorii oepr. 2;vtn iou< ; 
 filter of John Sta ;born Augst. 8th 1809, died Oct. 
 , , , . 1881 ; William born July 6th 1812 ; 
 
 ookshire was bui: born April 2nd 1814. 
 , ij, ,. '*'* broke the forest some three 
 
 Her .bnghsh churc feom any inhabitants, at what is 
 finished It in 1825 sifted Learned Plain, at that time 
 1 laylorwasto d:n'"as Lopingham. He lived a 
 ne two, but the onlast for some few years when ht 
 mrnt in 1827 he .«*, Polly Mallory, of Lennoxville, 
 ^ookshire. ^ of Dr. Simeon Mallory. He 
 
 ome of the first clunlrried July 12th 1832. They had 
 I been able to fimiialren :— Ebeneaser born Dec. 7th 
 found them. , Bves 
 w^as hurried Dec 1 Nov. 
 me, minister of July 
 >ngreg ation of Eat 1840, 
 
 at Learned Plain ; Samuel 
 20th 1834; Sarah Marina 
 
 3rd 1836 ; Royal born Dec. 
 died in 1846 ; John More 
 
 born .July 3rd 1846, lives at Learned 
 Plain. # 
 
 Flavia married Hiram Sunbury, car- , • 
 penter, settled in Coo! shire. 
 
 William married July 27th 1841 : 
 Margaret Keenan and always lived on 
 the home place. They had three sons : — 
 Alden, born Oct. 15th 1842, married 
 April 20th 1868 : Elisa M. Pope, daugh- 
 ter of the late Rufus Pope, brother of 
 the Ho'i. John Henry Pope. He is land- 
 lord and proprietor of the Learned hotel. 
 
 William Henry born May 14th 1845, 
 married July 1876 •, Alwilda E. Fisher ; 
 He is in the employ of the Cookshire 
 Mill Co., at. confidential clerk and gen- 
 eral store manager. Ex-Mayor of Cook- 
 shire by resignation. John married 
 Emma Cor)k, and sticks to the old farm 
 which his grandfather cleared up ff)r him. ' 
 Royal, Polly, Marina and Israel died 
 unmarried. Royal and Marina died be- 
 fore their parents. William and ^srael * 
 alwaj's lived and worked together, both 
 occupyim; the same house. William t'ied 
 May 7th 1874, his widow died Feb. 28th 
 1894. Israel died March 27th 1877. 
 
 I will here citpy a little from the his- 
 tory of the Learnard's, written liy Ald- 
 en, son of Ebenuzer, in 1876. He says 
 "he was born 1803, on the farm on the 
 "south half of lot 13 in the 9th range. 
 "The first he could remem))er there was 
 "about fifteen acres cleared, a log house 
 "with stone chimney with two fire places 
 'and an oven, and it was divided into two 
 "rooms with three six paned windows, 
 "two in the large and one in the small, 
 "the glass being tJ^yll. There was a 
 "framed barn 26x30 with stable, fioor 
 "and bay : no floor in the stable. Uncle 
 "Royal settled on north half of same 
 "lot. His buildings and clearings were 
 "not in sight, the only buildings in sight 
 "were on lot No. 12, same range, occu- 
 "pied by Elias Gates, Esq. At that time 
 "my father owned a pair of steers, two 
 "cows and three or four sheep. The cattle 
 "had to pick up their living in the woods 
 "in the summer. The sheep occupied a 
 "small pasture near the house, where 
 "they could watch them. My father and 
 "Uncle Royal owned an old horse be- 
 "tween them. It got its shoulder hurt 
 "carrying salmon wood, which disabled 
 "him so they had to kill it soon after. 
 •'(This salmon wood is pitch, pine or 
 "spruce used for jack lights in spearing 
 "salmon). In 1799 my father married 
 "my brother James' widow. She had 
 
' 
 
 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 "four children and at this time there were 
 "three of us. My father and mother 
 "must have had a hard time in providing 
 "for themselves and seven children, sit- 
 "uated as they were. The spring of 1816 
 •'was late, but the ground was dry soon 
 "after the snow left. We got our crops 
 'in on the ploughed ground and cleared 
 "six acres of new land and .sowed it to 
 "wheat. It was near the first of June 
 "when we tiniahed harrowing, and it 
 "rained the last two or three days and con- 
 "tinued wet till the 6th, when it turned 
 "cold as winter, froze hard nights, and 
 "snowed through the day for three days. * 
 "The leaves were all killed on the trees, 
 "and most of the small birds we could 
 "pick up by the dozen after the snow 
 "left. Father and James wenttoDrum- 
 "mondville after spring work to work on 
 "a government road. Royal and I did 
 "the hoeing, cleared a smalUpiece and 
 "sowed it to turnips ; took care of every- 
 "thing till haying, when they came home. 
 "I do ncjt remember the exact date we 
 "had the hard frost, but it spoiled all our 
 "new If d wheat. We reaped and bound 
 "it. There was a heavy growth of straw. 
 "We threshed some of it and got a little 
 '•frost bitten stuff not fit for human food. 
 "Father got disheartened ; he could not 
 "make the farm produce enough to sup- 
 "port his family, and wheat was from 
 "two and a half to three dollars a bushel ; 
 'flour from fifteen to eighteen doU-rs 
 "per brl ; and his stock of cattle getting 
 "much reduced he wanted to sell his 
 "farm and go to Ohio where he had a 
 "brother-in-law, from whom he kept re- 
 "ceiving glowing accounts of the country. 
 "He would have sold for one tenth what 
 "it could be bought for to-day, but he 
 'could not find a Ijuyer at any price. 
 There were some in Newport that got dis- 
 "couraged, left thtir farms and went 
 "west. Nearly one half of the settlers 
 "left. Father fitted James out with 8100 
 "and with what money he earned in the 
 "summer he started for Ohio Nov. 12th, 
 "1716. Father was to follow as soon as 
 "he could sell li!S fnrm. The next year 
 "we had pretty j'ood crops. Wvs had two 
 "acres of potatoes which gave a bushel to 
 "twelve hills. 
 
 "About the middle of Novemlier fath- 
 "er and Royal went to work with John 
 "Spaulding and .Joliu (lamsby on Farrow 
 "Hill, now known as Spaulding Hill. 
 "They each had a boy about my brother 
 "Royal's age making salts. They camp- 
 
 
 ai 
 
 ' '1- 
 
 1— 
 "ed on the spot, worked about s 
 
 "when they had made and cani^m. 
 
 ''pearlash fifty hundred of sal hes 
 
 "$220 cash, 875.33 a piece." T^u 
 
 fows a lengthy report of sickiui^ 
 
 family which made it very hardj||B 
 
 all, which goes to show the niaifgn 
 
 veniences the early settlers had i|ig 
 
 with. (It is here I learn of tint 
 
 tor in town. Dr. McReach. I'^Miff 
 
 will not be very interesting to t,o|ie 
 
 I will omit it. ) But there is one )if i^ 
 
 cumstance I will mention. Thci ^1 
 
 been sick for some time and thi^i 
 
 was attending her, and as shf ^ in 
 
 tinually running down her fathtnke a 
 
 doctor that he thought his meil:j^ 
 
 doing her no good, that she was Ijfjh 
 
 without it. The doctor laughed ^ t 
 
 "You need not fear the cost, Tlitjay 
 
 going to get well and pay it in \vj wl 
 
 Mr. Alden Learned's narratfnarl 
 tinues : "The spring of 1820.tion 
 early and fine. Wheat was sow; jn i 
 of April and the most of the gra 
 by the 1st of May. It was t 
 steady, warm, summer I ever knt| 
 had some watermelon .seeds $fyn 
 brought from Portland and rai8it».tl 
 els of them as large as small pi;|S|d 
 but that kind never grew to perft^s 
 after years. pB^ 
 
 In 1821 Royal taught the sn "^ 
 Cookshire ; he obtained his educa 
 der Priest Taylor. He gave 
 faction. The spring of 1821 o]ii 
 same as the spring before, early 
 and father gave up ti7ing to sell '^ 
 and turned his attention to w' 
 stock and to building a more coi 
 house . The house was finished i 
 It was 28x36. In this year ther 
 move made to get up a- company 
 airy and Mr. .T(^hn Pope was a) 
 captain, and the 4th of July was 
 appointed f(jr organization. Roy:^ 
 and Eros and Lindal Lebourvea|i||ie 
 other foolish boys, thought bestoB 
 and wake him up early. We vn^l; 
 there about three o'clock and niaitjla 
 siderable noise, and he took us jwf 
 treated us handsomely, then weij^ 
 and got ready and rode in the ca yfr 
 day, and took dinner with the rojl^ 
 There was cucumbers on the taM ■§( 
 had grown up whooly in the <'!iM^ 
 which proves that the spring Ii of C 
 early and the weather warm." hiicl 
 
 1 will here give the readers rtfe 
 idea of how pearlash is inanufacti j fi 
 
 irt, 
 
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▲ HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 19 
 
 iot, worked about si 
 
 lad made and carri 
 
 y hundred of sain 
 
 p7o.33 a piece 
 
 ly report of sickne, 
 
 made it very hard 
 
 s to show the man 
 
 early settlers had 
 
 Here I learn of the 
 
 Dr. McReach 
 
 ry interesting to t 
 
 But there is one 
 
 vill mention. The( 
 
 some time and th,, 
 
 her, and as sht- 
 
 ng down her fathe 
 
 e thought his med 
 
 l^ood, that she was ^ 
 
 he doctor laughed] 
 
 )t fear the cost, TIi ' 
 
 ell and pay it in w 
 
 Learned's 
 
 They ai*e made from hard 
 ts, elm being considered the 
 ictive. The ashes were put in- 
 holding about six bushels 
 m wet down with hot water, 
 ining into a trough at the bot- 
 is continued till the strength 
 
 then 
 
 of the ashes. The lye 
 
 igh the same process as sap, 
 
 ed down to salts when they are 
 
 'n, or what they call scorching 
 
 hen they were done they were 
 
 ish or snufF color. They are 
 
 nto tlie oven, which was some- 
 
 a baker's oven with arch on 
 
 nd the fire kept continually 
 
 a man continually stirring the 
 
 they became white like chalk, 
 
 are supposed to be perfectly 
 
 hen cool were ready to barrel 
 
 narrattijlirket. I have written this from 
 
 wu"^ of 1820,^ns gathered from watching the 
 
 Wheat was sow 
 lie most of the gra 
 May. It was ti 
 summer I ever km] 
 iter melon .seeds 
 Portland and raist- 
 large as small 
 
 m 
 
 my father's pearlash when a 
 i\s I had the question asked 
 ^ately what use they made of 
 will just say when mother 
 mething tf> raise biscuits from 
 they sent for a pound of pearl- 
 d of a pound of soda or baking 
 never grew to perf^^^s they all originated from pearl- 
 , pirt;ash. Potash is manufactured 
 
 yal taught the .sting the salts down till when cool 
 obtained his educ^aeonie like crystal, when it isbrok- 
 lor. He gave gumla put in barrels. I have written 
 spring of 1821 <,],, ^ig reason. If lu the early days 
 ring before, early fllBt settlers a man wanted to re- 
 e up tiyuig to sell 1 his pocket salts was about all he 
 I attention to ii, fell back upon. They sold for 
 Hiding a more c(;!i$9 per cwt. at the pearlashery 
 ouse was linishcd jdn John Cook married Esther 
 Jn tins year tlu it.- They were among the first seb- 
 ?et up H. company f |he township. He settled in the 
 Jhn Pope was npiw-t of Cookshire, on lots 11 and 
 a 4th of July was -Jie Hth range. They had their log 
 rgriiuzation. Royigg burned soon after he came, 
 Liindal Lebour\L,ihe erected a framed house, about 
 ys, thought hvi^ntf: the John French house was 
 up early. Wo mthe year 1810. Mr. Cor)k lived to 
 Be o clock and m jp a large farm and accumulate a 
 and he took us jrftporty. He died in 1820. He 
 3omely, then w\i le of the very earliest settlers. He 
 the ( ,i vrery prominent man in town, al- 
 the ratidy to take the lead in any good 
 and very persevering in whatever 
 ' idertook ; in honor of which the 
 of Cookshire was named after him . 
 hl|d seven children : — Mary or Pol- 
 riled Rufus Bailey. Susan married 
 H Sawyer. Louis married Noble 
 wtL Craig married Harriet Osgood. 
 
 tal 
 
 lid rode in 
 inner with 
 ubers on the 
 hooly in the ^ 
 at the spring I 
 Jathor warm." 
 ve the reader.s 
 laah is inanufaci 
 
 David, who died when but 15 years old. 
 James married Mary Osgood ; Esther 
 married Green Sawyer. They are all 
 dead. Craig settled on the old place on 
 the south side of the river, where his son 
 (reorge now lives. James settled on the 
 north side, where his son John now lives. 
 John married Maria Rice. George mar- 
 ried Endora Thomas. 
 
 Ephraim Barlow, son of Joseph Bar 
 low, (who was one of the first settlers in 
 Stratford, N.HJ andXtrustea<» of the 
 town) voted his wife ^1000 for being 
 the first woman with children mov- 
 ing into the township. They had 
 three sons, Abner, Ephraim and 
 Nathan. .phraim came to Eaton 
 as one of the first settlers and lo- 
 cated on lot 15, range 11, on the road 
 leading from Cookshire to Angus. He 
 married, 1st Sally Holbrook. "Thev had 
 two children, Elishah and Tabatha. 
 Elishah remained in N.H. Later on his 
 three boys, George, Horace and Charles 
 all settled in Eaton. George and Hor- 
 ace are both dead. Charles is now living 
 in Cookshire. He married Ann Maria 
 Maynard. Her father, Yorrick Maynard, 
 was said to be the first child born in the 
 town of Eaton, but a' his father settled 
 in Newport on North river. I shall not 
 give their history any farther than in re- 
 gard to his birth. His father moved in- 
 to a camp at Sii\vyerville whilst he was 
 setting his house ready to move into, and 
 he was born there, thus robbing a gen- 
 uine settler of his birthright. 
 
 Tabatha married Samuel Farnsworth. 
 Her mother dying when they were 
 young he married 2nd, Mary Smith, of 
 N.H., in the year 1800, and came to Can- 
 ada. They had seven children Lucin- 
 da married Jareb Moulton. They have 
 one daughter now living in the township, 
 widow of the late Prosper Coats. Ep 
 hram married Adaline Lawrence from 
 Shipton. They have a daughter now 
 living in the township, widow of the late 
 Charies Warner, and mother of Edson 
 Warner with whom she is living. Sa- 
 brina married Eros Lebourveau. They 
 have no children. Joseph, who was 
 drowned in company with Joseph Kil- 
 bourn about 1830, on the falls at Angus. 
 He was about 22 years old and unmar- 
 ried. George married Williams, 
 
 He remained on the old farm for a good 
 many years, sold it and bought the hotel 
 at Eaton Corner. Soon after his son-in- 
 law, Alexander Taylor's death, he sold 
 
 ^^l^€^ 
 
 ■ ■■ iS 
 
out and retired from businesa, he being 
 over 80 years of ni^a. They bought the 
 Albert Rodger's jjlace, where they in 
 conipHny with their daughter the widow 
 Taylor, are peacefully enjoying the fruits 
 of their labors. Maria married John 
 French ; she was the mother of George 
 French, of Cookshire. Mr. George Bar 
 low was a great hunter as well as fisher- 
 man . iVIany a bear and wolf fell a vic- 
 tim to his trai), the salmon t(> his spear 
 and the trout to his hook ; but he never 
 neglected his farm. 
 
 John (iamsby settled just south of Ep- 
 hraui Harlow, now known as the Nelson 
 Ganihby place. Be married Miss Lucina 
 Smith, sister of Mrs. Barlow. They had 
 three suns, John, Guy and Jones John 
 married a Miss Moulton and settled in 
 Ascot near Capelton Guy uiarried and 
 went west. Jones lived on the old place 
 for a number of years when he married a 
 Moulton and went west. Mr. Gamsby 
 had one daughter. Lucina She married 
 Allen McDougal and settled on Moult(m 
 Hill. They had four sons and one daugh- 
 ter, Geori^e, John, Charles and lloUis. 
 The boys are all dead but Charles, who is 
 now landlord of the College li(.>tel. Len- 
 noxville. The daughter is still living. 
 
 John Spaulding settled on lot J5 in the 
 lUth range, what is now known as the 
 Thomas Farnsworth place. He married 
 and raised a large family About 18.'i0 
 he st)ld out to Samuel Faiusworth', and 
 he and his Imys broke the forest at 
 Spaulding Hill, at rhat time known as 
 Farrow Hill. What finally liecamc of 
 the family I aui unable to say. I cainiot 
 learn whether any of their descendents 
 are in the townshijj. 
 
 Capt Hennaniah Hiill came from 
 Keene, N H. He married Mary Osgood. 
 He gave the land for the old part of the 
 cemeterj' to the town of Eaton for a 
 burying ground. He built one of the 
 first framed houses in town. It stood 
 near where Mr (,).sgood's store now 
 stands. Some time in the teens he sold 
 out to Priest Taylor. He then settled 
 on w hat is now known as the Jonas (Os- 
 good place, where Steplien O.sgood now 
 lives. .They lived there n\) to the time of 
 their deaths. He died in 1840, aged 82 
 years. S" e died in 1841, aged 81. They 
 had seven children ; Naham married a 
 cousin of the late Col. Ponu'oy of Comp- 
 ton. They have one son living in Mon- 
 treal. His father was at one time in- 
 spector of Hour, but afterward g i;ng into 
 
 the bakery business he had t'l 
 James married Aniiie French ;i| 
 to Whitby in Upper Canada. I 
 ried Green Sawyer of Newp( 
 married Ist, John French, 'fi 
 three children : Abigal, Hoi 
 John. In 181(; Mr. French was^ 
 at r.rompton Falls, and on thi 
 June 1820, she married Wan, 
 Haunaniah married Louisa llaiK 
 two children, Maria and Gsgi 
 lived on the home place with li 
 f<jr a good many years. He 
 saw mill on the brook, the ruins ^ 
 are now plainly to be seen, .h 
 ourveau built the mill, or raU>ei 
 millwright. Mr. Hall later on 
 to his brother Lock hart, and went S 
 well Maria married Elishah 1,; 
 Gsgood married Abigal Frazier. 
 
 Luther Hall married Anna 
 She came from Belfast, Englaii i 
 settled in Quebec. His wife dy 
 after he came back here, and he w 
 by a tree in Bury They had t\ 
 ren, James and Mary .Ann. Jan 
 to U])per Canada ; Mary Ann 
 Mr. Henry Chaddock, who is ii' 
 with his son on what is known 
 Dawson place on North river, lu 
 it connects with Eaton river. 
 
 Lockhart Hall married Ist. 
 Kingsley. She dying he marrii 
 Lindsey in 18.'!o. He had three 
 by his iirst wife, Mary, Naham a 
 hart Mary married Samuel 
 Lake's Mill. She is dead. 1 
 learn anything or Naham s whei 
 Lockhart married the daughter < 
 Gilbert and is now I'ving in Sin 
 
 David Hodge, born in Burney, 
 married Catherine Sunbury, [■■ 
 Massachusetts. Hc^ came to E 
 18(.)0, and first worked for Orsam 
 ey. It is claimed he felled the i. 
 on what is known as the Wari 
 meadow in Cookshire. He Sf 
 lots and 7 in the 7th range, \ 
 cleared up one of the finest t 
 town, now OLOUjjied by two of his 
 scms, Alonso and Alton. He bni! 
 line home. In the year 18G1 lib 
 was burned, the loss being estiiii 
 $7000. The house was full of most 
 thing that a farmer could raise or 
 er's wife and daughters could mak 
 as sugar, of of which there were 
 three tons. Some of it in the but 
 the family tub was over 40 years nl' 
 had never been empty. There wv 
 
 
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A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 17 
 
 less ho hud 
 jiuiic French 
 (per CfinHila, I 
 
 ^^er (if Newpo 
 
 lin French. 
 
 Abigul, Bin 
 l^fr. P>ench whs 
 Is, Jinddn tli( 
 married Wan 
 !ed LouisH llain 
 aria and Osn, 
 I>lfice with 
 years. He 
 )<)k, the ruins 
 ' ''e seen. J, 
 mil], or raUu 
 
 Hall later on J, 
 khartjand weni 
 ried Eiishah I 
 f>ic,'al Frazier. 
 '•'iried Anna 
 elfast, Eni^daiii 
 His wife d\ 
 here, and he'u 
 They had tv; 
 'iry Ann. Jnu 
 ; Mary Ann 
 i"ck, who is 11, 
 what is known, 
 North river, n. ^' 
 Eaton river. 
 
 inarried Ist. ^' 
 King he uiarrir 
 He had three 
 1-iry, Nahain ai 
 'led Saninel 
 - is dead. 1 
 Nahani s wher, 
 the daughter o! 
 ' I'ving in Sliei 
 >rn in Burner, 
 i Sunbuiy, !i 
 e came to L 
 ced for Oraani;: 
 le felled the tii 
 IS the Waril 
 ijre. He sefi 
 7th range, w 
 the finest fa 
 hy two of hi.s 
 tun. He biiil 
 'ear 1861 hjs 
 being estims 
 fis full of lilUS 
 :<>u]d raise ni' 
 irs could ni.il, 
 there were 
 
 ids, pcjtatoes, butter, pork and 
 
 ,h piles uf clfjthea, bot*^ woolen 
 
 which went to show tne woni- 
 
 lot been idle. There was no in- 
 
 He then built the house in 
 
 lonzo now Uvea They had ten 
 
 Charles, the eldest, married 
 
 rble and made his first settle- 
 
 ot 8 in the 8th range, afterwards 
 
 lace where his son now lives. 
 
 It of Birchton, on the Lennoxville 
 
 at used to be the Reuben Coats 
 
 ouis inarried Jonathan Jordan. 
 
 married Ann Oamsby and settled 
 
 in the 6th range He is now 
 
 ith his son, and is in his 85th 
 
 Georgiana married John Hasel 
 
 illiam married Harriet Sunbury 
 
 Jed on lot 23 on the Lennoxville 
 
 Beach married Louis Hall from 
 
 land and settled on the meadow, 
 
 rt uf his father's farm ; James 
 
 Almeda Colby. Wells married 
 
 Lindsay. Soj)hia married Scott 
 
 , who is living at Lennoxville. 
 
 and Sophia are the only two now 
 
 8 near as I can learn The dead 
 
 uried in the township. At one 
 
 . Hodge was consitlered one of 
 
 hhies^ men in t'>wn. He was a 
 
 diLstrinus man, never letting his 
 
 t ihead of him. It was said he 
 
 hnd a set price for everything. It 
 
 he never would sell a ton of hay 
 
 ^'13 nr under 88, and so it was 
 
 erj thing, and that is claimed to 
 
 reason why there waa so much 
 
 away in the house at the time it 
 
 rned.. 
 
 Todd married Olive Day, of 
 
 Stratford, N.H. His father came 
 
 ngland just before the revolution - 
 
 T and settled in Rumney, N.H. 
 
 irried the Widow Hodge, mother 
 
 d Hodge. He afterwards moved 
 
 ^Johns^ury, Vt., and settled on the 
 
 ihat was later called the Todd farm. 
 
 as bom there in 17^^3, and was 
 
 to be the first child born in St. 
 
 ury, Vt,, and that the town was 
 
 after him. His mother dying and 
 
 er marrying again when fourteen 
 
 Id, he came up and lived with his 
 
 ther, David Hodge, till he was 
 
 fter he was married he settled on 
 
 afcis now known as the Joseph Mark 
 
 ■ce on North river. They afterwards 
 
 Munchester place near 
 
 ^er 40 von ». i ^^^^ '"^ the luuncnester pmue near 
 
 y. There? '''**'*"^- They both died there. They 
 
 ^* i iieven children. Uselia married Wil 
 
 injSu7ibury. Emergiene married Eld 
 
 or Tyler. (Jlive is unmarried and hves 
 at .Johnville. Jiihn married Frances 
 Brown from Ijjper Canada. Cyrus mar- 
 ied a Miss Fleming ; Ralph married 
 Anne Lyon ; Hubbard married Adelade 
 Aldrich. They are all living. 
 
 Elishah, brother of .John, came froun 
 St. Johnsbury, Vt., al)our the same time 
 that John came. He married Sally Wil- 
 lard and settled where his son A lonzo 
 now lives. They had five children : 
 Horace married Jane Coats, daughter of 
 Leonard Coats. Lucinda married David 
 Pope. Sarah married A if red Coats. 
 Mary married Wellingtcm Lotiirop from 
 Dutlswell. Alonzo married a Miss Luth- 
 er. 
 
 Reuben Cfiats mai'ried Mehital)el 
 Hodgman and settled on the place now 
 known as the Charles Hodge place, on 
 the Lennoxville road, (me half mile from 
 Birchton, where Hollis H(jdge now lives. 
 They had nine children : David married 
 Polly Colby ; (Jlive married William 
 Pope ; Benjamin married Theodata 
 Colby ; Abigail never married. .Fohn 
 married Persia Pope ; Reuben married 
 Caroline Kingsley ; Lucinda never mar- 
 ried. Sylvester married Sarah Mitchel ; 
 Sophia married Freeman Smitb of .Jnlni- 
 ville. All are dead but Sylvester and 
 Soj)hia. Mr. Coats had tv.<> luothi'is 
 who came about the same time, Leonard 
 and Charles. I cannot collert any re- 
 cords in regard to them. L« uiard set- 
 ted at Birchton. wh* re Alvin Baby 
 now lives, and generally foU'wcil te lin- 
 ing for a living, but did some farming. 
 Apthorp Caswell was married. His 
 wife's name 1 am not able to learn. He 
 settled on lot 27, range 6. They had five 
 sons : — Asaph married Louis Chase. They 
 had two sons and one daughter : Henry 
 Mason, and Nelly. He settled on lot 
 28 in the 4th range, and built a .saw mill on 
 Bog Brook, which was a great conven- 
 ience at that time. B.ngham married 
 Nelly Chase, sister of Asaph's wife. They 
 were born in Sutton, Vt. He settled on 
 the west half of lot 26 in the .5th range. 
 They had six children : Julia inarried 
 Jedson Lindsey. She dying lie married 
 Louis and they are now living at Cook- 
 shire. 
 
 Susan married Benjamin Farwell, now 
 Jiving at Capelton. Armenia married 
 George Lindsey. She dying he married 
 
 Helen . Denison married Miss 
 
 McLary. They had two children ; 
 Charles, who lives on the old place . Sere 
 his father and grandfather both died. 
 
I 
 
 ■♦, 
 
 1 1 
 
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 18 
 
 A HIMTOKY OF EATON. 
 
 ru 
 
 His gmiulniothur li\ os in the houBu with 
 liim m hur MOth ywir, and is hWl' to 8j)iii 
 her (liiy'ti \vi»rk »i wool liiid do hur owu 
 work. Krrtstus uuirried Porsis Luhour- 
 vertii. Refer to the LeI)ourveftu for 
 further records. 
 
 Lyndolph married Betsey Smith, 
 diiu'.'hter of l*hine)is fc>mith, of .lohuville 
 He stopped at home a few years when he 
 Hokl out to his brother in law, Mason 
 Terr}', who married hiH sister Sopionia, 
 when he settled at Johnville on the place 
 wliere Arthur Huntnig und M. Haniilion 
 now live. He built the house where Mr. 
 Hunting now lives. They had two sons 
 and four daugiiters : (Jeorge and Hor- 
 ace, (^ieorge married ^abriiia Lebour- 
 veau. They hav»^ two children, (iustie 
 and Ray both at home. Geori,'e first 
 .settled and built the house where Mr. 
 Hamilton now lives, and afterwards mcjv- 
 ed to where he now lives. Horace went 
 to Boston and married there. He is in 
 the ice business Susan married Exekiel 
 liowen, blacksmith, and now lives at Is- 
 land Brook. Harriet married (JrJando 
 Haseltine. They have no children. 
 Martha married Eros Le1)ourveau. ,Aman- 
 d . married .John Mallory, from Hunt- 
 inyville. Thej' went west where she was 
 taken sick and came home and died at 
 heJ sister's, Mrs. Fred Elliott, at Len- 
 noxville. Apthorp married Fanuy Adams 
 and went west 
 
 There were four girls in the family : 
 Hannah married Samuel Wadlej' in 1823, 
 and went west. Caroline niiirried Eben 
 Allott end also went west. Saprona mar- 
 ried Mason Terry. Sabrina never mar- 
 ried. She was deaf and dumb. 
 
 .Joseph Bijah Smith, of Gillmantown, 
 N.H., born 1786, married Anna Gerrish 
 (born 1782) from Boscawer, N.H. They 
 were married at her home 1812. Mr. 
 Smith came into town in 1811 and felled 
 ten acres of trees on lot No. 13 in the 7th 
 range, now owned by R. H. Pope. The 
 next year he came in with his wife. They 
 had two children : Mary born Feb. 8th, 
 1813. Marthar Ann borii .July 12th, 1814. 
 Mrs. Smith died Sept. 22nd, lol5, aged 
 32 years. Mr. Smith married for his sec- 
 ond wife Mary Laberee, born in Charls- 
 ton. May 3rd, 1786. They married July 
 3rd, 1816. Mrs. Smith organized the 
 first Sabbath school in Cookshire about 
 1815, and as near as 1 can learn taught 
 one or two terms of school at the same 
 time. They had four children, Hannah, 
 bom May 19th, 1817. Isaac born Jany. 
 12th, 1820. Julia born Jany. 4th, 1822. 
 
 George born Aug. 23rd, 1821' 
 Smith second died Nov. 16th, iM: 
 3H yearu. Mr. Smith for his thii' 
 married Widow Susana Lobdtl.'* 
 Ai.ril 5th, 1786). They were^-l 
 March 8th, 1825 The childrei.f'l 
 John, horn Ai>ril 5th, 1827 ; C"" 
 bom A])ril 14th, 18;i2 ; Mary A 
 Isaac Piiill)rook ; Martha marriLi^**] 
 Wood, Henry settled on the phu ^*' 
 Col. Henry Taylor now lives. I 
 married Lucian Metcalf. Julia i 
 William Sawyer. l.»aac niarrii '**' 
 Lindaey and settled on Jordai'"* 
 George married Abigail Lindsey, **^' 
 er her death, .Fane Coats. He si ^ 
 .lohnville. .John married Carol, i^* 
 hay and settled at .lohnville. i^ 
 married Elisa Bowen and built ti-"* 
 
 store ui .Johnville, now occupied 
 nephew, Reginald Smith, son ot 
 Mrs. Smith, the third, died .J;i 
 
 18<)1, aged 
 Smith died 
 
 V9 years 
 Dec. 20th, 
 
 8 month- 
 1866, 
 
 ied 
 Th 
 ,jnr 
 wh( 
 3d 
 ss 
 
 years. 
 
 I forgot to mention that soon i^^''W 
 Smith married his second wife hi' y"! 
 to Johnville and bought out the s "~ 
 called the Liver's mill, now kntjwi "JJ= 
 Alger mill, owned by William ' 
 where he spent the remainder of hi*: 
 
 John Jordan married a Miss H ?^^ 
 They were among the first settki Hrr 
 located on lot 13 in the 4th rai .'r" 
 Jordan Hill, and it was from li 
 place toc^k its name. It is the san 
 where his son Calvin now lives, 
 is the only one of the family now 
 They had eight children : Chark 
 ried Laura Chandler, and settled 
 12 in the 4th range just east of li 
 er's. John married Louis Hod. , 
 settled on lot 17 in the 4th range. ; , 
 ip married Susan Hammond. V. 
 married Anna Waldon ; Calvin i: . 
 Catherine Sunbury. They live " « 
 old place. He has one of the ttnt|. 
 chards in the country and one of tl' . 
 farms in the township. Martha Ujj 
 
 ted 
 
 mai 
 
 in 
 
 '<rad 
 
 ; I 
 
 yrm 
 
 Tie* 
 
 Horace Sunburv ; Caleb marrieil 
 Sunbury. They settled on lot 11 1 
 5th range. He was a noted cattle 
 
 re, 
 .ra 
 
 doing the greatest business in the j 
 line of any man in Compton C .^^^ 
 They all settled in the township, al^^^^ 
 ried in the township, and all died \^^ 
 township. j_j 
 
 Jonathan Leavitt married Rhoda q| 
 man and came in the township i, , 
 1801 or 1802. They settled on loi ' 
 the 3rd range on Jordan Hill. Tht 
 
 ^1 n 
 
 tfi-*/",^ 
 
A HISTORY OF RATON. 
 
 ^^ 
 
 Aug. 23rcl, 182 i 
 died Nov. 16th, Is: 
 1-. .Smith fur his thi 
 "»■ Susaiiu Lubdtl.'l 
 ■^*'). They were ; 
 ^-fj The childroi 
 ^-I'l'il ">tli, 1827 ; (' 
 Ifli, 1H;J2; Mary 
 k ; Miirthd inarriK 
 
 irt'ii. Ndthanit'l niHrnud a Miss 
 
 ff Melhoujne. He died Anril, 
 
 d !M) yeurs Olive married How- 
 
 rop, whc first built i\ saw mill, 
 
 ins of which are to be seen at 
 
 He afterwards sold out and 
 
 t He was at one time a Bap- 
 
 8ter, and afterwards joined the 
 
 idAdventists. She is still 'ilive. 
 
 ^ 1 cannot say anything in rotjard 
 
 "son married a Miss Davis ; Ed 
 
 settled on the plat 
 
 ajlor now lives. iMirried >i Miss Ord ; Adaline mar- 
 Metcalf. Julia i^'ii'y Kingsley ; Fanny married 
 yt'r. l.<aac marrii "'t^'"**'^ ! ^^"^*^" married ; 
 
 settled on Jordai'*^''^'*""^^'^^ ** Miss Simpson from 
 
 d Abiirail Lindsey 
 fane Coats. He si 
 hn married Car. 
 ed at .Johnville. ( 
 Bowen and built, t! 
 lie, now occupied 
 aid Smith, son 
 
 t 
 
 QJIrne ; .Jonathan was not married ; 
 married a Miss Whitcomb and 
 ist to Minnesota ; Wnithrop mar- 
 
 rina Ward , Ruth married ; 
 
 married a Miss Davis ; Adaline 
 Henry Kingsley ; Fanny mar- 
 onias Coats, 
 ic third, died ,J;ii*l^ ^uid)ury was born in Germany 
 * years H montli^"'^" ''" came to this continent hrst, 
 3C. 20th, 18(56 ,1^ *" Luninber^, Vt. He married 
 •f Whiteman. He came here in the 
 lention that soon af''|l*^^*^"^®"^ *^' ^^^ townships and 
 his second wife Ik •^''" ^^^ William Brown place on 
 d bou<,'ht out the s '*^'^® *'"^ Eaton roa<l, just south of 
 r's mifl, now knowi!'^^'^'^ place. It is claimed he grew 
 vned by William ' ^^ seeds the first apples raised in 
 " ^ They had live sons and twf< 
 rs : Henry married a Miss Buck- 
 settled on lot 10 in the 5th range, 
 h the Eaton Corner cemetery is 
 They had nine children : Hir- 
 ied Flavia Learned. They set- 
 Cookshire. He was a carpenter 
 ,e. Betsey married Artemus Saw- 
 arry married Martha Walden. 
 a blacksmith by trade. Heman 
 his wife in the States. Ivelena 
 Jack .Jordan James. Sophrona 
 Lindsey Smith ; Sarah Anii mar- 
 hu Page. Nicolas Sunbury mar- 
 dy from Connecticut ; William 
 Sally Todci ; John married Char- 
 bdd ; Daniel married Polly Otis ; 
 ine married David Hodge ; Betsey 
 " Daniel Bailey. 
 
 Ard Wilford was a native of York- 
 
 ngland. In 1810, when but ten 
 
 il|||ld, he came to Canada and lived 
 
 ptoii a while with Mr. Pennoyei', 
 
 Pennoyer's father. From there 
 
 t to Sherbrooke and learned the 
 
 nam 
 the remainder of hii% 
 
 married a Miss Hi§! 
 ng the first settler " 
 3 in the 4th raiL^ 
 d it was from h 
 *iiie. It is the sani.' 
 alvin now lives. < 
 of the family now 
 children : Charle- 
 idler, and settled 
 tige just east of liii 
 .rried Louis Hodi; 
 
 in the 4th range. 
 3an Hammond. 1 
 Valddn ; Calvin i 
 ury. They live 
 las one of the fiiit 
 intry and one of tl:'' 
 nship. Martha n.f 
 
 ; Caleb married 
 
 settled on lot 11 i 
 vas a noted cattle 
 it business in the ■ 
 I in Compton C 
 
 hip and all died^i**''* ^"^^"^^^ "^ William R. Willard. 
 ' oiKtethere he came to Cookshire and 
 
 itt married Rhoda!^- """^ Chandler and Bailey, who^had 
 
 n the townshii^'fj^ ^^'^ 
 hey settled on lor"^ f 
 Jordan Hill. The # 
 
 tannery in town. They 
 ui a temporary one, on the brook 
 
 just sou til of file burying ground, aiul 
 afterwards built <>ne up on the ro.id. the 
 one they sold to Wilff>rd. He married 
 Maria Hawley, daughter of Amos Hawley, 
 in 1828. He died in 185.'}, aged 5.'} years. 
 His wife died in 1891. They had nine 
 children, five sons and four daughteis : 
 Richard, the eldest, born in 1821), mar- 
 ried Eliza Dexter in 1852, and is in trade 
 at Island Brook. He has carried on the 
 gold mining business to some extent up 
 in Ditton. Maria l)orn in 1837 married 
 Dr. Abram Hojikins, of Cookeliire ; Sus- 
 an Adaline, bom in 1834, married Ed- 
 ward Moles ; John Lowel, born in 1836, 
 never married ; Persia H., born in 1838^ 
 died in 1857 ; William C, born in 1841, 
 married Maria Hurd ; (-reo-ge F., born in 
 1843, d ed in 1865 ; Walter H , born in 
 1846, married in 1H73 ; Ellen E , born in 
 1850, married Thomas B Terrill. 
 
 Ephram Abbott and his wife settled on 
 lot 28 in the 6th range They came hero 
 soon after Capt. Cook- They had two 
 sons, Samuel and Eben. Samuel mar- 
 ried Sally Chase from Sutton, Vt., and 
 they remained on the old place up to the 
 time of their deaths. They had one 
 daughter, Amelia. She married Edgar 
 Haseltine. who died in the insane asylum 
 at Beauport. She is still living all alone 
 Oil part of the old place. Eben married 
 Caroline Caowell and went west. I do 
 not know whether Mr. Abbott had more 
 than one daughter or not. One married 
 Charles GrifHn. The mother of the wid- 
 ow, Craig Pope, is now living with her 
 daughter, Mrs. C. Bailey, in Cookshire. 
 
 Orvis Page married Fanny Strooridge, 
 daughter of Henry. He built the first, 
 carding machine in town, also rhe fulling 
 mill in connection therewith, on the falls 
 just below Lake's mill, just hthnv whero 
 Mr. Luther French took the water for 
 his grist and saw mill. When Mr. 
 French's mill was washed away it left Mr. 
 Page without any power, as the river had 
 left him. I think as near as I can learn 
 he s<Jon after went west. 
 
 George Wood married Harriet Hawley 
 in 1817, and first settled just south of her 
 father's place, but he did not stop many 
 years in the township. He was a broth- 
 er of Mrs. Jonathan Taylor. 
 
 Lucian Metcalf son of David, was 
 born in Newport near Sawyerville. Whea 
 15 years old his father moved to Corinth, 
 Vt. Lncian came back in 1831 .md mar 
 ried Hannah Smith, daughter of Joseph 
 B., and has a^w^ays resided in Eaton ever 
 since. He was born July 12th, 1801. and 
 
 .% 
 
S I 
 
 .H 
 
 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 is supposed to be the oldest man in town. 
 He is now living with hi& daugliter at 
 Sawyerville and he ht)pes to vote at the 
 next provincial election, ae he has net 
 missed one since he became a voter. 
 Although h(. is past his labor he has left 
 many buildings in town that testify to 
 the thorougli manner in which he did his 
 work He was a carpenter by trade, and 
 was a man never afraid of hard work, 
 but when old age came creei)ing on it was 
 with reluctance he had to givu it up. 
 
 Calvin Rice about the year 1798 or 
 17'y.), settled on the place now occupied 
 by Henry Lebourveau. He had one son, 
 Israel, who, aft'-r his father died, sold 
 out to Squire Laberee and moved tf» 
 Hani, ei^ht miles south of anj' inhal)i- 
 tant and twenty miles north of a neigh- 
 bo , and nothing but ,i br'dle path at 
 that. There hi- uffered all tlie hardships 
 of forest life, gi\ iiiu succor to many i;a- 
 migrants who wore on their way from 
 Quebec, looking for employment or 
 homes. It was said he saved some from 
 perishing with cold and hunger. He was 
 a man that would expose himself to manj' 
 hardships to help his brother-man in 
 tr.jubl3, wliich was characteristic of about 
 all the pioneers of the townshij). He 
 settled in Ham in 1830. He has one 
 son iviug with his daughter, Mrs. John 
 Cook, in Cookshire 
 
 Eaton Corner, situated on the Maine 
 Central, abo^l^ half way between Cook- 
 shire and Sawyerville, was the first as 
 well as the leading village of the town- 
 ship for a good many years, but about 
 1837, when the British American Land 
 Company first connnenced operations out 
 east, Cookshire, being on the line 
 leading from Sherlirooke, began to 
 draw upon the business future of the 
 Corner. Still it kept up, or nearly held 
 its own, til! about the time the Inter- 
 national Railroad was built, as it passed 
 through Cookshire and left Eaton Corner 
 three miles on one side. The latter began 
 to go down fast, and Cookshire having 
 the advantage of location drew most of 
 the business away from it, but when the 
 Maine Central patsed through Eaton 
 Corner it revived in a measure. 
 
 There was a time when there were no 
 other stores in town than those at Eaton 
 Corner. Mr. Pond is supposed to bo the 
 first store keeper. They were not called 
 merchants in those days but merely store 
 keepers. Afterwards, Mr. C. P. Mal- 
 lory, Fobs and Ellis, Nicholson and More 
 commenced business. Of the latter three 
 
 #, 
 
 I have not been able to learn wl 
 first, but I s'lould say by what 
 learned that it was Mr. Nichi 
 company afterwards with Col 
 More. They sold out to Josh 
 and Mr. Ellis, but some claim t 
 Mallory was there before Foss an 
 Since then there have been a goini 
 different f)nes, but I shall give vht». 
 of but a few : Morey and Mi 
 Lockhart Hall, Moses Lebourvei 
 some few others. 
 
 Mr. Nutt's is the only one now 
 place. They have a Congrt;- 
 Church, town hall, school house, i 
 shop, and blacksmith's shop. M 
 iTiOnd built the first blacksmitli 
 the township of any note, at Eat( 
 er, at leant he was cc>nsidered the 
 liable one there, though there mi^' 
 been some small affairs there just 
 venience. Tl.'3y also have a sttii 
 mill owned by Messrs. Nutt & 
 doing good lousiness. Also a iiceii 
 tel with Mr. Scjuires as landli 
 stands on the ground where the ti 
 ern (as it was then called) ||j 
 wae built in the township. It wasl 
 Aaron Hill. There is a harn 
 kept by Charles Osgood. An urn 
 er"s shop by Jr>hn Lebourveau. Thy 
 have a daily .mail over M.C.R., dil 
 ted by Moses Lebourveau, who ii; 
 their post master for ovei 29 year 
 or of the township of Eaton 12 yoai 
 warden of the County of Comptou^ 
 years. Col. John More built tli 
 still for the manufacture of potato 
 ey at Eaton Corner, near where th 
 station now is, though some claii 
 the first one was built at Sand Hillii 
 secretary-treasurers of school conniil 
 ers office, for the town of Eaton, i^ 
 Corner, and they meet there to 
 all business. The council for th( ? «0|ib 
 ship of Eaton has also met thei^****^*" 
 Cookshire became a municipality iw*if>n, 
 self, for the transaction of niii**"^' 
 business. '** * 
 
 The first school in Cookshire w;i.l ^ ^U 
 by a man of che name of Pre "•*^^'^' 
 what was called the Gates house, W ^^ 
 stood back in the field on the north iW 
 the road between Cookshire ""'l ' 
 
 iiectic 
 
 Mr. 
 
 will 
 
 oya! 
 
 Btruc 
 
 up 
 
 s I 
 
 He 
 
 had 
 
 eR( 
 
 1. m! 
 
 beri 
 
 as 81 
 
 ,ce ii 
 
 the 
 
 fron 
 
 il till 
 
 An} 
 
 ny 1 
 
 ;o gel 
 
 e. 
 
 the 
 froi 
 nar 
 ma 
 renc 
 net 
 icl tl 
 witl 
 
 TOV 
 
 and 
 
 Learned's. This was about 1810. >Wf' 
 that time up to 1814 or 1815, at th.^'^,^' 
 Rev. Jonathan Taylor commenced, 
 not learn that they had any school, 
 was about the time the hrst school 
 was built, near where Mr. Kurd's 
 smith shop now stands. It was bu 
 
 ,Dt 
 
A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 21 
 
 lie to learn wH 
 
 Uy by what 
 
 lis Mr. Nichd 
 
 Ms with Cfl; 
 
 out to Josliii 
 
 some claim t^ 
 
 Ibefore Foss m 
 
 ive been a go(J 
 
 1 1 shall give thi 
 
 Torey and M| 
 
 |)se.s LehourxefJ 
 
 only one now! 
 e a Congre'; 
 school house, i 
 til's shop. M\9, 
 let blacksmith 
 y note, at Eatoj 
 considered the , 
 lough there mii;ii 
 fairs there just^ 
 'so have a stua 
 vsrs. Nutt & 
 
 Also a licui 
 ures as land) 
 nd where the M 
 
 then called) 
 /nship. It was 1 
 re is a harms 
 Osgood. An uiii 
 jebourveau. Tlu-^ 
 )vor M.C.R., dii 
 )urveau, who n 
 or over 29 yeai>,< 
 of Eaton 12 yoa: 
 iity of Comptou 
 More built ti 
 icture of potato 
 ', near where tin 
 ugh some claiiJ 
 Jilt at Sand Hill 
 } of school comiiil 
 )wn of Eaton, isi 
 leet there to t ' 
 council for the 
 also met then 
 k municipality 1 
 isaction of ran 
 
 lecticut style, with stjuare or 
 
 Mr. Taylor continued until 
 
 winter term of 1821 was 
 
 loyal Learned, who received 
 
 istruction from Mr. Prebble, 
 
 up under Mr. Taylor. In 
 
 IS K. Oughtred came from 
 
 He taught some 11 or 12 
 
 had a license and drew a sal 
 
 le Royal Iiistitute. He had a 
 
 j)l, many coming from adjacent 
 
 iring sometimes as high in 
 
 as 80. He was a man of great 
 
 ice in school or out, always 
 
 the well being of those under 
 
 i from the time they left their 
 
 ^il tliey returned to their ln)mes 
 
 Any one using profane lan- 
 
 iny misdemeanor on the way, 
 
 |o get reprimanded or punished 
 
 le. I thought I would try and 
 
 the number of teachers that 
 
 from his school, but I cannot, 
 
 name some of the tirst : — Ada- 
 
 unada French, daughters of 
 
 French ; Hiram French ; Em- 
 
 mette Cummings. It was from 
 
 )1 that the township wns soon 
 
 iwith teachers for its primary 
 
 lere give a copy of his letter of 
 >n found among my father's pa- 
 ^ch goes to show the straight- 
 
 lanner in which Mr. Thomas K. 
 
 ahyays acted. 
 
 |e proprietors of the eleuuaitary 
 
 I. 3), in the township of Eaton- 
 
 n : As the time is fast ap- 
 
 when the school in y(jur dis- 
 
 Uy commencjis, it seems to be 
 
 that I rihouid make soi^e state- 
 
 ou, respectin;,' the course which 
 
 to pursue in regard thereunto. 
 
 lable to attend to the duties <jf 
 
 ion in conse((uence of severe in- 
 
 n, it is necessarily incnmbent 
 
 at 1 either resign my charge or 
 
 substitute. I have already sig- 
 
 the visitors that it seemed to be 
 
 to pursue the former course, in- 
 
 the probable long continuance 
 
 complaint may incapacitate 
 
 discharging the duties of a 
 
 ter for some time to come 
 
 'espect to the apijointment 
 
 bstituce I am not aware that 
 
 my power to procure a suit- 
 
 KfB<m in this township, and as I 
 t lii'tleaccjuaintance in other parts 
 ds. It was bu'* District, am unable co inform you 
 
 I Cookshire w.iife) 
 lame of Pre.' 
 
 Gates house, 
 Id on the nortli 
 Cookshire and 
 iS about 1810 
 
 or 1815, at tin 
 ar commenced, 
 tad any school. 
 he hrst schoo 
 e Mr. Hurd 
 
 whether I shall, or shall not be able to 
 procure one elsewhere ; however, should 
 it be your wish as formerly expressed, 
 that I still continue to hold the license 
 for your school, I will do so with your 
 assistance in procuring a teacher, al- 
 though It should not be one farthings ad- 
 vantage through the winters term. 1 
 cheerfully submit the (|uestion to jou 
 which course in your opinion would 
 be most conducive to the interest of the 
 community, and shall consider myself 
 bf)und to conform to y<^ur decision what- 
 ever it may be ; premising however that 
 if a substitute be procured i nd no profit 
 accrues to me, 1 shall be guaranteed not 
 to lose in con8e(]uence ; or should you 
 think expedient that I should resign my 
 license, I shall consider that by so doing 
 you are only accepting the projK)sal which 
 I have frequently made, and not that 
 you lire depriving me of a privilege which 
 I still wish to retain when unable to dis- 
 charge the duties of my calling. 
 
 I avail myself of the present u^)portuni- 
 ty of fervently thanking you f(jr the firm 
 and generouH support which I have re- 
 ceived during the eleven years that I 
 have taught your scliool, hoping chat my 
 humble endeavours in teaching the young 
 idea how to shoot, have not been un- 
 successful, and retaining that solicitude 
 for the future welfare of my pupils, 
 which a teacher onlj' can duly appreci- 
 ate. 
 
 I have the hf)nor to be 
 
 jfour most obadient servant, 
 
 Thos. K. Ol'ohtked. 
 
 Eatcm, N(jv. 25tli, 1835. 
 
 From this time up to the time the 
 Model 8Chof)l was built, thoy had different 
 teachers Robinson, brother of Thomas, 
 kept some two or three terms. 
 
 In 1883 Henry Learned, Harry 
 Planche and William Bailey, the com- 
 mittee, conceived the idea of buildiii" 
 and establishing a Model school, and 
 tl rough their influence and push, backed 
 by others, it was carried through to 
 completion and attained the high 
 standing and popularity which it now 
 enjoys. The first part was built in 1884. 
 In 1890 the committee finding their 
 school had increased beyond their ex- 
 pectations, found they had to have u.ore 
 room. In 1891 the new part was built 
 and the school is still increasing. The 
 present teachers are Mr. Keller, princip- 
 al, Miss Hill, Miss Ayerst and Miss 
 Milbor. Miss Hill was here as principal 
 
22 
 
 A HI.STOKY OF EAVON". 
 
 some few terms wheii she went away. 
 She was succeedecl by Miss Seroggie, 
 who was 3ucce3tled in 1889 by Mr. Kel- 
 ler, who has been here ever since. Miss 
 Ayerst has been here about three years. 
 Mr. Keller has resignr I and who his 
 suocessDr will be I will leave for the noxt 
 histor^ to tell 
 
 I will give you a little idea <jf the man- 
 ners and customs of the early settlers. 
 In the first place they had n'> lawyers, 
 loafers or bycicle riders, as they had no 
 use for thtsm nor any place to use them. 
 Every man who was not a farmer had a 
 trade, such as shoemakers, who went 
 round from house to house — what they 
 called whipping the cat, making boots 
 and shoes for the whole family, every 
 man providing his own leather. They 
 took their hides to the tannery, and had 
 to wait a year and sometimes eighteen 
 months for their leather, the tanning of 
 which is now done in one or two weeks. 
 Then there were the carpenter, the coop- 
 er, the blacksmith and the tailor, and 
 all their work had to be done by hand. 
 No plainers, no sewing machines, no cir- 
 cular saws, no tub factories, no mowing 
 machines, ho tedders or speeders, nohorse 
 rakes, where you could ride all day and 
 do your work. So you see every child 
 that was big enough to pick up chips had 
 to do something to help keep the wolf 
 av.ay from the door. Everybody had to 
 work from ten years and up . Boys of 
 that age had to take an axe, go into 
 the woods and help clear the forest and 
 help put ill a crop, and in the fail take 
 their sickle and help reap the grain. 
 
 Now let us take an inside view of the 
 log cabin or house. There you would 
 see the grandmother, — if there was one 
 — and most all houses had one — sitting at 
 the little wheel spinning linen or tiax, as 
 it was then called, the younger girls 
 spinning tow, the elder ones W(jol, and 
 the mother upstairs with the loom weav- 
 ing it into cloth to clothe the family. 
 They were a very social class of people, 
 very fond of visiting one another from 
 house to house ; — no doubt their loneli- 
 nesT had something to do with it. They 
 were always ready to help one another. 
 If a man wanted to put up a house or 
 barn all ho had to do was to set the day, 
 notify his neighbors, get a gallon of whis- 
 key, and they would be there early in the 
 mornintr, and before night would have it 
 up, the roof covered with spruce bark, and 
 the gables boarded with same. And the 
 juvenile classes looked forward to the 
 
 day with as much anticipation as they do 
 to-day to a circus or a fair. If a man had 
 a piece to log off in the spring and no 
 team, he would (especial'y if it was get- 
 ting late) make the same preparations as 
 for the log house, with like results, those 
 that had teams bringing them. Such 
 gatherings were called bees. Perhaps 
 some will say it was the whiskey that 
 brought them together, but it was 
 not, as most everyone kept it at home, 
 but it was the spirit of neighbourly kind- 
 ness They thought no more of giving a 
 man a drink of whiskey then than they 
 would to-day giving him a drink of milk. 
 They did not have some dark corner to 
 take you to, way back through two or 
 three dof)rs, but they set it right on the 
 table, no matter who was there, even if it 
 v,^as the minister of the pari.sh. If he 
 was there he must be the first one served. 
 I do not say this with any disparagement 
 to the clergy, as the ministers of that day 
 were just as conscientious as they are to- 
 day, but merely to show the change that 
 has taken place in the last sixty years in 
 the customs of the people. But they 
 could lie do'.vn at night just as conscience 
 free as the people of to-day. 
 
 There were Congregationalists, Pres- 
 byterians and t!ie English, and some few 
 Baptists, mostly church going people, 
 but no one sect able to support a minis- 
 ter of their own, so they all united and 
 hired the Rev. Jonathan Taylor, who 
 was to preach one half of the time in the 
 north parish, the other half in the south 
 parish, also to teach school five days out of 
 the week, with a salary of £50 per an- 
 num, barely enough to keep up a home 
 to-day, to say nothing about food and 
 clothing, and other incidental expenses. 
 People did not go to church then to show 
 their new bonnet or new suit, for if they 
 had one they had to make it themselves, 
 but they went to hear the gospel and 
 meet their old friends and neighbors, and 
 have a good social chat with them during 
 the hour at noon, as it was about all the 
 chance they had. It was nothing strange 
 to see a whole family come in having 
 come on foot three or four miles. You 
 would see those, that had a horse, come 
 to church, the mother with baby in her 
 arms on the horse, daughter behind her, 
 father and boys walking beside them. In 
 the winter you W(3uld see them coming, 
 whole families, on ox sleds. In the sum- 
 mer children coming barefooted to Sun- 
 day school. I merely mention this so 
 that the people of to-day can see the con- 
 
A HISTORY OF EATOX. 
 
 23 
 
 venieiicea and privilegtss which they have 
 oyer and above their forefathers, or the 
 pioneers of the township. 
 
 They ha,d no stoves ni those days. 
 Every house had a fire jjlace in which 
 they did their cooking, roasting potatoes 
 in the ashes, or boiling them in a kettle 
 hung on a crane over the tiro, frying 
 meat in what was called a spider, with 
 three legs to set on the hearth over the 
 coals. The}' mostly had a brick oven in 
 cnnnection with their fire place, which 
 '•hey would heat up once or twice a week, 
 where they could bake a dozen loa-es of 
 bread or more at a time, or as many jMes, 
 also bake a pot of bnans. When they 
 wanted to roast a sparerib they hung it 
 ui .n front of the hre with a sUinu fast- 
 ened to the ceiling over head, with a 
 large pewter platter underneath to catch 
 the dripping. Well I remember one 
 Christmas morning, when e.bout ten years 
 old, sitting back of one with pudding 
 stick in my hand, to keep it turning 
 round so thatit would not scorcli. 
 
 I will give the readers a little descrip- 
 tion of tl;e pudding stick. It v/as about 
 two Lo two and one half feet lf)ng, made 
 in the form of a paddle, the blade about 
 eight inches long, used for stirring what 
 was then called pasty pudding, which was 
 made of water, salt and covt) meal, and 
 was a very common article of food in 
 those days. Well I can remember when 
 my mother got her tirst tin baker that 
 she could set before the tire and bake 
 bread, biscuit and meat, what a wonder- 
 ful thing she thought it was. This was 
 about the tirst start in the line of im- 
 provement in conveniences for cooking, 
 but it was soon su[)erseded ))y the cook 
 stove, which has ever since 1)een striving 
 for perfection. 
 
 I will say a little in regard tt) the 
 f.rausement which rhey had in those days, 
 such as -locial gatherings, etc. The first 
 hall in town was built in the .lohn French 
 house on the opposite side of the river, 
 where they used to hold a new year's 
 ball every year, old as well aa young, 
 generally taking the aft ernoon and 
 whole night for it :— no music but the 
 violin — generally two, one to spell the 
 other. Then the ladies had their (luilt- 
 inga, the gents invitea in the evening 
 for a good social dance l)y paying the 
 fiddlers bill, varying from fifteen to 
 twenty-five cents. They had no circus, 
 no caravan, nor cattle shows nor fairs. 
 No amusement got up then *^o raise 
 money for any purpose. Bail play- 
 
 ing was the principal outdoor amusement, 
 such as long-lmll, but mostly round-ball, 
 which was jilayed similar to the base-ball 
 of to-day, only using a soft, ball. To get 
 one out you had to catch him out or hit 
 him between bounds. Wrestling would 
 generally suiiercede the ball game. 
 There is one thing more 1 will just men- 
 tion, that was checker playing and card 
 playing, which was one way they had to 
 amuse themselves when visiting from 
 house to house, to while away the lonely 
 hours in the forest. Children did not 
 have tti slj' away fr<.)m their parents to 
 steal a game of cards, liut they all play- 
 ed together old and yountf. 
 
 Since writing the hist^ny of the Deacon 
 Samuel Farnsworth s family. I have, 
 through the courtesy of Miss Maria, 
 daughter of Thomas Farnsworth, and 
 great grand-daughter of the Deacon, 
 come into possession of some more re- 
 cords in regard to John, the Deacon's 
 son, who went west about 1830, with his 
 whole family. She has just returned 
 from Illinois where she has been visitinsf 
 the tamil}'. John had two sons, .James 
 and ./ohn ; four girls, M;.ry, Charlotte, 
 Sarah and Eunice. As John was an old 
 school mate of mine and he was a noted 
 man in his State, I used to hear or see 
 his name in the paper occasionally. I 
 gave n'hat I could of his history from 
 observation. He was a Colonel in the 
 last war nearly the whole camptiign, also 
 a United States Senatt)r. He married a 
 Miss Chase ; has <»ne son .John, they are 
 living at Washington city. Mary marri- 
 ed .John Cotton and left one son. Char- 
 lotte married M. Holden and left one 
 son. Sarah died unmarried. Eunice 
 married Dr. Hard and had one daughter 
 Jennie, they both died and she became 
 the ward of her uncle John. .lames was 
 the eldest but I have left him for the last. 
 They had two sons Elon and Robert. 
 Robert is living in Chicago. Their father 
 and mother were both natives oi this 
 town and were married in town just before 
 starting for the west. 
 
 Miss Farnsworth gave me the record 
 of the Thomas Farnsworth fnmily, of 
 which she is a member, and as it is more 
 complete than what I gave it, I will re- 
 peat it, or in other words correct it. 
 Charles French born March 19th, 1843, 
 died July 6th, 1862. Achsah Maria, 
 born April 11th, 1845, unmarried, 
 Emma Jane born January 22nd, 1847, 
 married Edwin B, Beach, of Guildhall 
 Vt. They have three sons and three 
 
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 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 ■■•, .f 
 
 daughters, Samuel Walaon born Novem- 
 ber 15th. 1848, died June 28th, 1852, 
 Elon Berney born February 17th, 1851, 
 died August 6th, 1852, Albie Ann Sage 
 born September 30th, 1853, died Sep- 
 tember 19th, 1856, Thomas Franklin 
 born February 20th 1856, died Septem- 
 ber 21st the same year. John Avery 
 bom April 4th, 1858, married Maggie 
 R. Edwards and has throe daughters : — 
 Ellen Elmeda born May 11th, 1860, 
 married Robert B. French, they have one 
 son, Horrr,ce Stephen Thomas, born 
 August 13th, 1863, married EUinor 
 Fanny Wright, they have one son. All 
 children of Thomas Farnsworth and 
 Mary Ann Sage French 10 in all. 
 
 I cannot do better than copy a poem 
 kindly lent me by Miss Farnsworth, 
 which .shows the high esteem in which 
 Elon Farnsworth was held. 
 
 A TRIBUTE. 
 
 To the memoi'ii of EIdu J. Farnaviorth. 
 
 The following tribute to the memoty 
 of the brave and galliuid General El<jn J. 
 Farnsworth, son of Mr J. P. Farns- 
 worth- of this city, who was killed at 
 Gettysi '-g, was written by a member of 
 the Signt Illinois Cavalry, of which or- 
 ganization Gen. Farnsworth had V)een a 
 member as Captain of C(j. K. It was 
 the purp<jse of the writer to have the 
 poein read at the annual reunion of the 
 survivors of the Eight regiment last Sep- 
 tember, but through some cause it was 
 not done. It is proper to say that Cap- 
 tain Farnswortli was a beau ideal sr^ldier 
 and v-as the idol of the eighth, and it has 
 always been held by the survivors of his 
 old regiment that his death was the 
 direct result of a jealousy on the part of 
 Gen. Killpatrick, his ranking officer, be 
 cause of Gen. Farnsworth's rapid pro- 
 motion solely through merit. — CI .infi. 
 IiMjeisoll, Ed. of Biioit Frcv Press, and a 
 membtr of Co. G. 8th III. Cav. 
 
 Far too long was traced in dust 
 Name and fame of Farnsworth ; 
 
 We were recreant to our trust, 
 While others sang of Ellsworth — 
 
 Worthy deed and noble name, 
 But to-day with (jnr acclaim 
 
 We will cheer for Farnsworth. 
 
 He is ours by every tie 
 
 That binds the past to bye and bye — 
 Martyr, hero in the van 
 
 Of the men who died for man. 
 
 Bravest of her manly boys — 
 
 Cheer him., men of Illinois. 
 Grant and Sherman, Logan, Mead — - 
 
 Knightly men of knightly deed, 
 Eaa^i have had their songs of praise ; 
 
 But to-dfty the flag we raise ; • ,- 
 Shall be one to Farnsworth. ; ' 
 
 Knight hlin, men Oi Illinois, 
 
 Noblest of your manly boys ! 
 We have cheered for Sheridan 
 
 Hurrah ! hurrah for horse and man ! 
 But our leader in the van 
 
 And our cheer for horse and man 
 Now shfiU be for Farnsworth. 
 
 We, that knew him at his worth. 
 Love the land that gave him birth, 
 
 All brave men from south to north 
 Cheer the name of Farnsworth. 
 
 We have sung of good John Brown, 
 
 Hrw his soul was marching on, 
 And of Sherman's Bummers free ; 
 
 From Atlanta to the sea 
 Theirs a name and theirs a fame 
 
 That shall never perish. 
 E(i'.ial name with equal fame — 
 
 We will Farnsworth cherish ; ,■' 
 Others sing of scjuthern braves, 
 
 Call them kn'ghts of chivalry, 
 But to-day our flag still waves 
 
 Over Farnsworth's cavalry. 
 
 Theirs were men who fought for slaves ; 
 
 Ours died to free them. 
 Theirs now sleep in traitors' graves ; 
 
 Ours in those of free men. 
 Ours are they who sleep to rest 
 
 With all their country's wishes blest. 
 Illinois is proud to boast 
 
 Of the three we love the most 
 Who t.j-day shall we name fourth. 
 
 If not gallant Farnsworth i 
 
 Some may shout for little Phil, 
 
 Cheer him with a right good will, 
 But my hero's Farnsworth, 
 
 He's my captain in the van 
 Where men, dying, died for man. 
 
 Cheer the name of Farnsworth ; 
 He is ours by every tie 
 
 That links the pa«t to bye and bye ; 
 Cleanse his .sabre from its rust. 
 
 Raise his guidon from the dust, 
 Hail the name of Farnsworth. 
 
 We can tell you how that he 
 
 Saved the day at Beverly, 
 When Clark and Smith and others fell, 
 
 And the rebels with their yell 
 Drove us all so cleverly. 
 
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 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 26 
 
 As he came riding with a shout, ' 
 
 'Halt there, men, and face about ! 
 
 Form here, Duckworth, Buahnell, 
 Wesson, 
 Let: us give thoae chaps a lesson.' 
 
 And we faced, and so did they, 
 And with ringing cheer and shout 
 
 We turned the rascalh inside out — 
 Turned their victory to rout. 
 
 We remember how he stood 
 
 A!l day by the river's flood. 
 At the ford of Rapidan, 
 
 Self-appointed guardian, 
 When Stonemaii's nervelesL horse and 
 man 
 
 From their raid returned again ; i 
 Bade each tired man and horse 
 
 Up the stream to hold his course. 
 Lest the river's rapid flow 
 
 Should carry them the ford below. 
 And in the surging waters tossed 
 
 Horse and rider should be lost ; 
 With cheering word and stem command 
 
 Brought them in safety to land. 
 
 Of these and many more could tell, 
 
 But time flies — I may not uwell ; 
 On whatever sea we sail 
 
 Swept by fierce or favoring gde. 
 On whatever shore we're tossed. 
 
 Let this ever be our boast. 
 That we rode with Famsworth. 
 
 He, who never knew defeat 
 Whose bugle never call >d retreat. 
 
 Hail our chief — no braver man 
 !E'er was chief of tribe or clan. 
 
 So our story still we tell, 
 
 And our tribute still we urge. 
 How our hero fought and fell 
 
 In the fight at Gettysburg, 
 He was one of three bright stars. 
 
 What a brilliant cluster ! 
 Who before had won their spurs — 
 
 Famsworth, Merritt, Custer, 
 Every one a son of Mars. 
 
 How they guild our brightest page 
 With thair glorious luster. 
 
 Ours, the brightest ot the three. 
 Was market for jealous rivalry. 
 
 And by some cruel fate assigned 
 To Killpatrick's c;ivalry. 
 
 Hear the order : 'Take your men 
 And charge to yonder devil's den.' 
 arnworth'a oya b;i\v at a glance 
 Where Wood's army lay entrenched 
 
 Behind a wall of good stone fence- 
 Saw at a glance there was no chance. 
 
 Horse and rider must go down, 
 Saw at once its full intent, 
 
 Knew just what the order meant — 
 Go and die. 
 
 Then he plead, but plead in vain, 
 
 Not for himself, but lives of men. 
 Comrades, hear the tauntmg foe ! 
 
 'I'll take your men and I will go, .. .. 
 If you're afraid.' 
 Famsworth, turning in bis track, 
 
 Shouts, 'Ki)lpatrick, take that back,' 
 Well, he did, and quickly too. 
 
 But, ah ! he knew, this cruel foe, 
 His vengeful dart had pierced 
 
 This loyal, faithful heart. 
 Had pierced the heart of Famsworth. 
 
 Famsworth to his rival said. 
 
 As he turned his horses head : 
 'Where I lead men, you cannot go ;' 
 
 Then waved his hand in mute farewell. 
 Said, 'Men this is either heaven or hell,' 
 
 And gave the order, 'Forward.' 
 Now, my comrades, see him nde — 
 
 No other man could gain his side ; 
 Riding as a man might ride 
 
 Galloping to meet his b^ide. 
 Ah ! too soon his star went down. 
 
 We lost a star. He gained a crown. 
 For such as he there is no death, 
 
 His star went down to rise upon a 
 fairer shore, 
 And bright in Heaven's jewelled crown, 
 
 It shines forever more. 
 
 Let his monument then be 
 
 Horse and rider staiiding free, 
 With his banner all unfurled — 
 
 Monument to all the world. 
 Let it stand to mark the ground 
 
 Where our brightest star went down ; 
 Let it show how Illinois 
 
 Loves to honor her best boys. 
 Draw your sabres, men of war, 
 
 Sa'ute his memory, G. A. R. 
 
 — Alden Brown. 
 
 Since writing the history of the Sawyer 
 family, I have come in possession of some 
 records, one generaticm farther back. 
 
 Josiah sr., married Susannah Green, 
 of Lancaster, N. H., sister of the cele- 
 brated Dr. Green of that place. They 
 had two sons, William Green and Josiah, 
 the former was for many y^ars cashier of 
 the Plymouth Bank, Plymouth, N.H.. the 
 latter came to Eaton and is the mentiv^ned 
 at the commenceipont of my history. 
 
 As near as I can ascertain a lodge of 
 Free and Accepted Masons was first 
 organized in ^he township of Eaton in 
 
A HISTORY OP EATON, 
 
 the year 1812, called Friendship Lodge, 
 No. 18. Its members were Alner Powers, 
 William Hudson, John LeBourveau Luth- 
 er French, John Farnsworth, Amos 
 Hawley, Levi French, Johnathan Ladd, 
 John French, jr., Nathaniel Graves, 
 Josiah Hall, James Brown, David Met- 
 calf , James Strobridge, Benjamin 08$i;ood, 
 Asaph Williams, Moses Rolf, Manly 
 Powers, Esra t^pears, Jeremiah Ames 3rd, 
 Joseph B. Smith, Samuel Farnsworth, 
 Jonathan Taylor Tillotson, H. Hill, 
 Lonarley Willard, jr., Bradford Ham- 
 mond, Hennaiah Hall. 
 
 James Ladd mentioned above, died 
 may 24th, 1818 ; Nathaniel Graves re- 
 moved to near Montreal in July 1814 ; 
 Josiah Hall removed tc Dixfield, Maine, 
 1818 ; James Brown moved to Water- 
 bury, Vt., 1816 ; David Metcalf, fatner 
 of Lucian Metoalf and grandfather of 
 David, moved to Corinth, Vt., 1817 ; 
 Esra Spears moved to Belona, Vt., 1817. 
 It is claimed by some that Manly Powers 
 is still living, it so, me must be very near 
 his hundredth year if not over. You will 
 see by this that nearly all the f'rst set- 
 tlers were Free Masons. This lodge 
 found it up hill work with but 27 mem- 
 bers to keep the wheels rolling and it on- 
 ly run for some five or six years when it 
 broke up. They gave up its warrant and 
 expired about the year 1820. This was 
 supposed to be the first secret order in 
 town. In 1879 the Grand L(idge granted 
 a warrant No. 66 Cookshire for the estab 
 lishment of the Lodge which is now here. 
 It assumed the old ones name Friend- 
 ship, and it has been more prosperous 
 than the former, having a membership of 
 one hundred or over. 
 
 As near as I can ascertain the first 
 lodge held its meetings in the Hall over 
 the river from Cookshire in the John 
 French house. 
 
 The bears were very troublesome, not 
 only to sheep and e /en young cattle, but 
 would sometime destroy whole fields of 
 green corn about the time it was in the 
 milk. They beemed to have less fear of a 
 man than the wolf. ^They would some- 
 times come into the corn field in the day- 
 time and pluck the ^reen corn and the 
 same wi th green oats, which were their 
 favorite food. I will here give a little 
 bear story. There had been a very large 
 bear seen both in Eaton and Newport 
 and there had been some depredations 
 BuppoBod to be committed by him, mostly 
 in Newport ; but as he was hunted down 
 and killed in Eaton, I will take him in. 
 
 It seems he had killed a young creature 
 in Newport during the night and think 
 ing they had stood his depredations as 
 long as they could, they made a rally of 
 both townships to try and hunt him down. 
 They started out with dugs and guns, 
 axes and pitchforks, etc. They chased 
 him two days, firing » good many shots at 
 him. On the morning of the third day 
 they drove him into Cookshire, where as 
 he was making his way down the run to- 
 wards the river, as he went to jump over 
 a log a man by the name of Mitchell was 
 so near he struck hin across the small 
 of the back with the h^ad of the axe. The 
 bear turned and caught him by the arm, 
 tore the flesh nearly oflf before they could 
 beat him off", when he made for the river 
 with guns cracking on both sides ; swam 
 the river but before he got up the hill 
 they dropped him, thus ridding the coun- 
 try of one of the biggest bears ever known 
 in this section. It was claimed he weigh- 
 ed over 700 lbs., but I think they must 
 have weighed the lead that was in him, 
 as it was said there were over 40 bullet 
 holes through his hide. 
 
 Mr. RufuFi Laberee was sitting before 
 his fire one evening when he heard his 
 sheep running. He took his gun and 
 ran out. He thought he could see some 
 thing black. He fired and thought he 
 heard something drop. He went back in 
 and got his old tin lantern and two boys 
 went out to reconnoitre. He found he 
 had killed a good nice fat be^ir and the 
 bear had killed a good fat sheep, which 
 made quite an addition to their larder. 
 They were very plentiful when the coun- 
 try was first settled, they had not only to 
 guard their sheep and cattle against them- 
 but mothers had to guard their children 
 from them, but I am thankfnl that I have 
 no case of children having been destroyed 
 by them to chronicle, but the settlers 
 hunted them in moat every way, — with 
 steel traps, deadfalls, and by watching by 
 night in their corn or oat fields to shoot 
 them. It was nothing strange to see tme 
 in a field of oats along just before sun- 
 down dining on green oats I remember 
 one time going after the cows when about 
 ten or eleven years old in compaiiy with 
 my next elder brother. As we were pass 
 ing a field of oats on the road opposite 
 the Spalding meadow, a largeone rose up 
 on his hnwi feet just over the fence, not 
 more than two or three rods from us, 
 looked at us a moment, gave a snifiT, 
 dropped down, made off" through the oats 
 and through the river and disappeared in 
 
A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 27 
 
 the woods ; for which I was thankful. 
 
 In giving the history of John French's 
 family, that of John French jr., waa not 
 earned out, and I will now give it. He 
 came into town with his father when but 
 eight years old. He married Ama Hall, 
 they had three children, Abigail, Horace 
 and John. He was drowued iu 1815 at 
 Brompton Falls, while on hia way to 
 Three Rivers with a boat load of pearl- 
 aah. Abigail married Tyler Hurd and 
 always lived on the old place where her 
 grandfather first settled in 17!>7 or 98 ; 
 Their children were, Sarah bom 1835, 
 married William Frasier, John born in 
 1838, died 185J. He was accidentally 
 killed by the discharge of a gun in the 
 hands of an Indian boy while hunting to- 
 gether on the meadow near the house. 
 William born 1841, died young. Well- 
 ington born 1843, married Esther Cook, 
 Cjnthia born 1846, died 1852, Leander 
 born 1848, died 1852, Theodore born 
 1850, married 1st Ansora Bell Aid en 2nd 
 Widow Luke Pope, Charles bom 1853, 
 died 1855, Frederic born 1857, married 
 Ist Hattie Davis 2nd Agnes Baker, 
 making eight children in all, children of 
 Tyler Hurd and Aligail his wife. Mr. 
 Hurd WHS born in Newport in 1806 ; his 
 wife in Cookshiro in 18' i. They are 
 both dead. 
 
 Horace son of John jr., married Har- 
 riet Ward March 5th 1838 and settled on 
 the place where Samuel Taylor now lives 
 on Bury road. He afterwards changed 
 his place with Esra Taylor, for the place 
 on top of the hill on the west side of the 
 road leading from Cookshire to Eaton 
 Corner, just opposite the street coming 
 up from C. Frasiers. In 1850 he built 
 the first hotel in Cookshire, now known 
 as the Learned hotel. They had nine 
 children, John L. born 1839, Cynthia 
 P. bom May 28th 1840, Herbert H. born 
 April 16i h 1841, Maria born July 22nd 
 1843, Charles born August 5th 1845, 
 Sarah A. born June 16fch 1848, Ama E. 
 bom August 9th 185"^ Pervis L. born 
 December 31st 1865, Wellington H. born 
 November 20th 1860, all children of Hor- 
 ace French and Hariet his wife. John 
 married Ellen. Gilbert, daughter of Dr. 
 (Gilbert, October 25th 1864, Herbert 
 married Susan E. Cook April 25th 1865, 
 Ama married Dr. R. F Booney January 
 1st 1873, Charles married Maria Bailey 
 May 31st 1873 as his first wife, and sec- 
 ondly married Katherine Moy. Charles 
 is now living at Scotstown, his mother is 
 dead and his father is living with him. 
 
 The rest are all in California. 
 
 John French, son of John French jr., 
 married Esther Maria Barlow in 1841, 
 they had one son George, born 1842. 
 His wife died some two oi three yearn 
 later when he married Esther Ward, 
 sister of the wife of his brother Horace. 
 He died some ten or twelve years ago, 
 and his widow is now living in Cook- 
 shire. 
 
 George married Adaline Lothrop, 
 daughter of the late Edwin Lothrop, of 
 Dudswell. He is now living in Cook- 
 shire. 
 
 I will now give what was considered 
 some of the most staple productions of 
 the township in its earliest days. The 
 one that was most relied upon was the 
 manufacture of salts, as these brought 
 cash. They sold here at the pearlashery 
 for five dollars per cwt, where they were 
 manufactured into pearlash, and as there 
 were no summer roads they hid to be 
 taken on sleds to the St. Francis river 
 just below Angus, and from thence to 
 Three Rivers by boat, having to be car- 
 ried by Brompton Falls, where the boat 
 was let down with ropes. It was on one 
 of these trips that John French and John 
 Hurd were drowned while attempting to 
 run the empty boat over the falls. Pearl- 
 ash sold in the market at that time from 
 12 to 14 dollars per cwt. The farmers 
 saved all their ashes when clearing their 
 land. In the winter they would some- 
 times club together, 3 or 4 of them go 
 into the woods, select a heavy growth of 
 hard wood big elms, where they could 
 find them, as they were the moat pro- 
 ductive (the^oresta were free plunder at 
 that time).. They would take their 
 kvjttles in with them, hunt round, find 
 a hollow tree to make their benches, 
 then go to work making ashes and con- 
 verting them into salts, which was done 
 by going throngh the same process as 
 they do in converting sap into sugar, 
 boiling the lye. They did all this by 
 themselves. All they had to pay out was 
 for their kettles, and when they once 
 had them they would last a good many 
 years. Another cash product at that 
 time was the game of the forest, such as 
 fox, sable, blackcat, mink, otter, beaver 
 and bear, all of which were quite numer- 
 ous, and their furs were cash articles. 
 They would make trips through the woods 
 in the fall of the year spotting a line, 
 settmg up sable trajs, with now and then 
 a larger one for blackcat, also setting 
 traps on the streams and round the ponds 
 
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 A HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 and lakes for otter, bea\'er and mink, 
 sometimes extending their lines for some 
 five or ten miles into the woods, dragging 
 a piece of meat of some kind behind them 
 from which they would bait their traps. 
 They had to go over these traps about 
 twice a week, sometimes with good results 
 and sometimes not. Some of the best 
 hunters would go back into the forest, 
 take a backload of provisions and be gone 
 bome five or six weeks and bring back a 
 backload of fur. As the country began 
 to get cleared up the fur-bearing animals 
 began to disappear and there are but a 
 very few left to-day, and there is but 
 very little game of any kind left in the 
 forest. At that time bears and wolves 
 were quite plentiful, but their fur was 
 not very saleable Moose and deer were 
 also very plentiful and were valuable for 
 their meat. 
 
 Foxes, wolves and bears were hunted as 
 much for their destructive nature as for 
 their fur, as the fox was very destructive 
 among the poultry, sometimes taking 
 geese out of the barn yard. Well I re- 
 member one evening when the moon was 
 shining bright, hearing a goose squall. 
 We ran to the bam and there was a fox 
 some six or eight rods away running as 
 fast as he could on the crust with the old 
 gander by the neck. We ran after him 
 and made him drop it, but not 
 until he had killed it. He had taken it 
 out of a little pen where they used to sit 
 through the night, going in out of the 
 barnyard, and the wolves and bears were 
 equally as bad on sheep. 
 
 Later on as the township improved and 
 they were raising abundance of potatoes 
 and there was no market for them, they 
 went to manufacturing them into what was 
 called p Dtato whiskey. There was a distill- 
 ery built at Eaton Corner near where the 
 M. C, station now stands. The first I can 
 remember about it, it was owned by Col. 
 Moore and a man by the name of Nicol- 
 son. They used to fat some thirty or 
 more large oxen during the winter from 
 the puniceapter, extracting the whiskey. 
 I thought I would '■"''l how they made it, 
 but upon second thoughts concluded not 
 to do so, as there are too many know 
 already, but at that time this was 
 mostly a cash business. What whiskey 
 the town did not require, was sent out of 
 town to market, and it brought in cash. 
 The fat cattle, after turning them out to 
 grass a while in the spring, were driven 
 through to Quebec and sold to the 
 government for the use of the garrison. 
 
 There was but very little sale for small 
 beef at that time. There was a small 
 still at Sand Hill, near where Alfred 
 Laberee now lives, as near as I car. learn, 
 it was owned by Peter Owens and a man 
 by the name of Carhill. Some claim this 
 one was built before the one at Eaton 
 Corner. All that 1 have to rely on as to 
 Owens & Carhill owning the still together 
 is a story I heard when a boy. Ow^en 
 found a horse-shoe in the road, (horse- 
 shoes were worth more then than to-day) 
 They got into a wrangle over it, Carhill 
 claiming they were in company in the 
 still and half the horse-shoe belonged to 
 him, but Peter could not see it in that 
 light, but Carhill said so much that he 
 said "well begat, you shall have it," laid 
 it down on the chopping block and then 
 caught up Carhills axe and cleft it in 
 twam and handed one half to Carhill. 
 At this time salts, heavy beef, furs and 
 potatoes composed the most of tha cash 
 producing products of the town. 
 
 There was no foreign nor outside mark- 
 et for sheep or lambs at this time. About 
 the first cash sale of horses made in town 
 was made in about 1837, when the gov- 
 ernment sent out two men to buy Artill- 
 ery horses. They had to be such a 
 height, no matter how coarse they were. 
 The price was one hundred and ten doll- 
 ars ; no more, no less, no Canter. If 
 they came up to their stick you got your 
 money ; no words at all . I think they 
 took away some dozen or fifteen, they 
 were all what were called Page colts and 
 a homely looking lot at that. Orvis 
 Page some five or six years before 
 brought a large stock horse into town 
 and nearly all his stock was of the stand- 
 ard height. It was called the Page horse. 
 Every man in town was measuring his 
 horses, and if they found one that did 
 not lack but little thej would take him 
 to the shop and have heavier shoes put 
 on to bring it up, but when they took 
 them to Sherbrooke to have them measur- 
 ed they found they had made a mistake as 
 they did not measure the shoe. Every- 
 one was wishing they had a Page colt. 
 If one man met another the first thing 
 he would say was, "don't juu wish you 
 had a Page colt, " till it almost became a 
 by word. There are two men living in 
 town who had two that were allnght, 
 Ert.3 Lebourveau and George I Barlow. 
 It was not many years after this when 
 the market for beef, horses, sheep and 
 lambs was turned to the southern market 
 where there was a market for all lambs, 
 
4 HISTORY OF EATON. 
 
 29 
 
 goint; up from one to two and three 
 dollars apiece. 
 
 As thf-y got their farms cleared up, so 
 they had pasturage for their cows, they 
 made butter and cheese, raised pork and 
 poultry, and just befure Christmas they 
 would load up their teams with what of 
 these they had to spare and go to Mon- 
 treal, exchanging them for such articles 
 as they needed. Cheese bringing from 
 six tti eight cents per pound, butter from 
 twelve to fifteen cents. As to pork 1 am 
 not able to say. About this time they 
 had got roads to Montreal, so they could 
 make the round trip m from fix to eight 
 days, what is now made in from twelve 
 to fourteen hours. 
 
 I will here give a little more in regard 
 to Thomas R. Oughtred. He came from 
 Yorkshire, England, to Canada in 18, 4, 
 having been engaged by the Royal In- 
 stitution of learning as master and teach- 
 er of the school in St Peter's Parish, 
 which position he held most acceptably 
 for eleven years, till his health failed. 
 
 His school resords have the names of 
 over seventy pupils in a year. He was 
 teacher in the Sabbath school and leader 
 in the choir. After his health failed so 
 that he was unable to teach, he did much 
 public writing. He died in July 1839, 
 aged 36. 
 
 He married Lydia Laberee in 1828. 
 She died in 1883, aged 72. 
 
 They had three daughters, Susan mar- 
 ried John Goodwin They live on the 
 Oughtred homestead. She taught school 
 for 26 years. Harriet married Samuel 
 Taylor. Eliza married Horace Metcalf. 
 She died in 1889. 
 
 I will now give a little more in regard 
 to the Hodge family, which I have gath- 
 ered since writing what I could in regard 
 to David's fanily. Moses Hodge, of 
 Stewartstown, brother of David, had a 
 large family of boys and girls. Barrilla 
 Brainard was born in Hereford, Canada, 
 Jan. 13th, 1809, while his mother was 
 there on a visit from Stewartson, N.H. 
 He married ISarah Courrier Elliott, Dec. 
 26th, 1825, in Dorchester, N, H , where 
 her parents lived, having moved there 
 from Warren, N. H They had four child 
 ren, Elizabeth Ann, born in Dorchester, 
 N.H., Oct. 4th, 1827 ; Stephen, born in 
 Dorchester Nov. 2nd, 1880 ; Elliot Bern- 
 ard, born in Eaton, P.Q., Nov. 14th, 
 1838, and Allan Timothy born in Eaton, 
 Jan. 6th, 1841. 
 
 Mr. Hodge, after living a few years in 
 Dorchester, removed from Colebrook and 
 
 from thence to Eaton, Canada, and first 
 settled near Johnville. He afuerward 
 moved to a smtll farm on the road lead- 
 ing from Chaddock's mill to Lennoxville. 
 There, in a log house which he built, his 
 two youngest children were born. He 
 lived there a few years under the great- 
 est hardship «nd ditticulties, clearing his 
 own land and working for his neighbors, 
 taking his pay in corn, wheat, or some 
 kind of provisions, carrying them on his 
 back sometimes to the grist mill and 
 home again. Those were the times that 
 tried men's courage as well as muscle. 
 He next leased a large farm from his 
 cousin, Beach Hodge, for three years. 
 When the lease expired he moved to a 
 new house he had built at Millbnjok, 
 now owned and occupied by Moses Des- 
 rochers, and a few years later he bought 
 a meadow farm, formerly owned by Reu- 
 ben Green, where new buildings had 
 been erected and where he spent the re- 
 mainder of his days He died March 
 12th, 1872, his wife having died just 
 eight days before him. Their daughter, 
 Elizabeth Ann, married Asa Knapp at 
 Brompton. They had three children. 
 Wallace married Alice Simonds and lived 
 on his father's farm near Bulwer in Ea- 
 ton. They had no children. Sarah was 
 never married. She lived in Bideport, 
 Me., and died there. Theodore lived in 
 Plymouth, N.H., and worked for his un- 
 cle Col. E. R. Hodge, at the fish hatch- 
 ery, where he learned his businiesa He 
 married his wife in Plymouth, N. H., and 
 is now living in vv'indham. Conn., v/here 
 he has charge of a private fish hatchery. 
 Stephen Hodge, after his parents deaths, 
 sold what he owned at that time and 
 bought out his brother, Allen, who had 
 removed to Lowell, Mass. He married 
 Maggie Lyons, and had one daughter, 
 Ella Kate, now the wife of Herman A. 
 Stevens, rt Learned Plain. He worked 
 at his trade (shoemaking) nearly up to 
 the time of his death, Feb. 27th, 1891. 
 His widow is livhig with her daughter at 
 Lear'.td Plain, 
 
 Col. Elliott B. Hodge : He first learn- 
 ed the photograph business and lived at ' 
 Waterville, P. Q., for several years. 
 I cannot give any better account of his 
 history than by copying from a memorial 
 of his death published in N.H. He died 
 Dec. 5th, 1893. 
 
 ELLIOTT BERJIARD HODGE. 
 
 Col Elliott Bernard Hodge, of Ply- 
 mouth, died at his residence near Liver- 
 more Falls, Tuesday afternoon, after an 
 
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 A HISTOEY OF EATON. 
 
 illness of several months, aged 55 years. 
 
 Col. Hodge was bom in Eaton, P.Q., 
 Nov. 13, IfiSs, his parents being natives 
 of New Hampshire, then residing iti Can- 
 ada. He was educated in the public 
 schools of the provinee, and Colebrook 
 Academy, Colebrook, N. H., and married 
 Miss Marie DoUoff of Dorchester. He 
 was a photographer when engaged in bus- 
 iness pursuits in Canada and while there 
 also served in the Dominion Militia. In 
 1874 he came to Plymouth, N. H., and 
 established a photographic studio, and in 
 1833 was appointed on the Board of State 
 Fish and Game Commissioners. By the 
 joint action of this Board and of the 
 Board of Massachusetts Commissioners 
 he was made superintendent of the Fish 
 hatchery belonging to the two states, 
 ocated near Livermore Falls, and before 
 very long it became apparent to every 
 one that he was the right man for the 
 place. 
 
 As Fish Commissioner and superinten- 
 dent of the hatching station Col. Hodge 
 acquired a reputation for minute know- 
 ledge of pisciculture that extended far 
 beyond our state borders. In fact he 
 was nationally recognized as one of the 
 experts in that science and his contribu- 
 tion to periodicals and publications C)f 
 various kinds have engaged wide atten- 
 tion. 
 
 From being of little consequence in 
 its line, to the proud position of 
 one of the leading Fish Commissions to 
 the United States, our Commission is 
 more indebted to the active, intelligent 
 efforts of Col. Hodge than to any other 
 man, and his work will iive as a monu- 
 ment to his memory that will endure for 
 years to come. 
 
 He was an enthusiast on all matters 
 pertaining to the culture of fish, and no 
 work however laborious was too severe 
 for him whenever it promist:'d to be of 
 advantage to the state, or to the credit of 
 the Commission on which he served, and 
 it was through this strict adherence to 
 duty that the illness, eventually result- 
 ing in his deatn, was brought about. 
 
 He has done much for the state of New 
 Hampshire : Much in che lines on which 
 the future prosperity of the people mnst 
 rest, and our eyes are opened more and 
 more to the importance of developing the 
 attractions of our state, as a place of sum- 
 mer resort, the work' of Col. Hodge will 
 be more and more appreciated. 
 
 He was a mason of high standing, be- 
 longing to the Blue Lodge of Plymouth, 
 
 to Pemigewasset Chapter, and Omega 
 Council, in which he has held nearly all 
 the offices at different times. He has 
 been Most illustrious Master of the Grand 
 Council of New Hampshire. 
 
 His funeral was yesterday from the 
 Methodist church, with both Episcopal- 
 ian and masonic services, the former by 
 Rev. Loren Webster, rector of the Chap- 
 el of the Holy Cross, and the latter by 
 Olive Branch Lodge. During the time 
 services were being held, all business in 
 town was suspended and the stores were 
 closed. The pall-bearers were Hon. Al- 
 vin Burleigh, Genl. Georsre H. Adams, 
 B. E. Sinythe, John Mason, J. P. Huck- 
 ins and M. A. Batchelder. 
 
 A number from out of town were in at- 
 tendance, among them being a brother 
 from Lowell and other relatives, Fish 
 and Game Commissioners Shurtleff and 
 Wentworth, Col. T. P. Cheney of Ash- 
 land, Col. S. S. Jewett of Laccmia and 
 other prominent represent tive men. 
 After the services in the church the in- 
 terment was in Holderness church yard. 
 
 Allen T. Hodge was educated at the 
 district school and the Cookshire Acad- 
 emy. He learned the carpenters trade 
 of Lucian Metcalf, worked for several 
 years and removed to Bideford, Me., 
 where he married Mary Wina Haley 
 (widow of Nathan Burton) and had three 
 children. Frank Robinson, born in Ea- 
 ton July 28, 1866 Burton Allen, born 
 in Eaton July 4, 1868. Fred Ediott, 
 born in Chelmsford, Mass., April 1st, 
 1877- Their father, Allen T., served 
 two years in the Cookshire Cavaliy un- 
 der Capt. James Cook. After he remov- 
 ed to Bideford, Me., he enlisted in the 
 1st Battalion Heavy Artillery, Mass, 
 Vol., Oct. 29th, 1863,. in Co. C, Capt. 
 Charles F. Livermore commanding, and 
 was honorably discharged at the close of 
 the war. Returning ;o Canada he en- 
 gaged in his trade and in the manufac- 
 ture of washing machines. He helped 
 recruit the 10th Co. B8th Battalion Vol. 
 Militia of Canada, and was appointed 
 Lieuc.-Capt , Horace Bailey command- 
 ing. He served for two years in that 
 capacity and was called into active ser- 
 vice during the Fenian raid, and was ap- 
 pointed captain on the resignat'on of 
 Capt. Bailey. He received his certifi- 
 cate from the Board of Military Examin- 
 ers and won the approval of Adjt- Gen'l. 
 Ross and other efficers as an efficint of- 
 ficer and drill instructor. Having ten- 
 dered his resignation he removed to Low- 
 
A HISTORT or EATON. 
 
 31 
 
 ell, Mass., where he now residtts engaged 
 ed in the business uf tire insurance. His 
 •on Frank (as well as all his children) 
 was educated in the public and high 
 schools of the city of Lowell. He be 
 came a practical carpenter and draughts- 
 man, and is now ruHiding in Atlanta, 
 Ga He married Surah Scott, of Lowell, 
 Mass. Burten Allen n;arried Fresetta 
 Harden, of Philips, Me. Ho engaged in 
 grammar school teaching and resides in 
 Lowell. Fred Elliot Hodge, youngest 
 son of Allen and Mary, his wife, is a 
 graduate of the Varnum grammar school 
 of Lowell. He is at home with his par- 
 ents. 
 
 I will say old Mrs. Knapp is living 
 with her son, Wallace, in East Bridgewa- 
 ter, Mass. 
 
 When the town was first settled the 
 soil was very productive, wheat averag- 
 ing from twenty to thirty bushels per acre, 
 sometimes going as high as forty, giving a 
 heavy growth of straw. All kinds of 
 grain were very productive such as bar- 
 ley, oats and rye. Potatoes were very 
 productive yielding three to four hun- 
 dred bushels to the acre, sometimes going 
 as high as five hundred, without any man- 
 ure, and of the very best quality The 
 old English white was about the only 
 potato at that time. They were a large 
 round potato, very nearly. I can describe 
 them no better than to compare them 
 when on the table to a dish of popcorn 
 only to size. Indian com was a good crop 
 at that time. They used to plant it 
 among the logs. Beans aud turnips were 
 a good crop. It was a good fruit pro- 
 ducing town. What was called the na- 
 tive apple was quite productive. Straw- 
 berries, raspberries, cherries, plums, 
 butter nuts, etc., were very plentiful. 
 When I was a boy I can remember mow- 
 ing where in places the ground would be 
 red with strawberries where my scythe 
 had cut through them. All these pro- 
 ductions had no enemies at that time but 
 the frost ; no worms, no flies, no potato 
 bugs ; not much to fear but frost. Cu- 
 cumbers and watermelons grew in abun- 
 dance when the frost did not trouble 
 le them. They would plant round where 
 they burnt their log heaps. There is an- 
 other product of the soil which was very 
 beneficial and of great advantage to the 
 people, which I had almost forgotten, 
 that was flax, from which they made their 
 linen cloth for their summer clothing, 
 also sheets, pi low cases, towels, table 
 linen, handkerchiefs, in fact most every- 
 
 thing where cotton i^ used to day. There 
 were men that went round the first of 
 winter getting out the flax, preparing it 
 for the wheel, when the women took it 
 in and made it into cloth, which they 
 were proud to show their neighbors when 
 they came on a visit. This was a great 
 blessing to them at that time. Well 1 
 can remember the linen sheets, as they 
 were about like ice on a cold night to get 
 into. They had what was called a warm- 
 ing pan with a long handle. They put 
 coals in it, shut down the cover, and ran 
 it between the sheets in very cold weath- 
 er before getting into bed, to take off the 
 chill, but they soon got to making blank- 
 ets for the winter. The old grandmoth- 
 ers made some very fine dimity, such as 
 table linen, towels, handkerchiefs, etc., 
 which showed great skill in their handi- 
 work with the inconveniences they had 
 to do with. Some of these their descen- 
 dants have preserved to-day as old keep- 
 sakes. 
 
 About 1830 the native apple be- 
 gan to die out, and within a few years 
 many orchards entirely disappeared, aud 
 what remained became scurvy, so thoy 
 were of an inferior quality, and they were 
 superseded by the grafts, from which 
 there is some nice fruit raised to-day. 
 
 When the township was first settled it 
 was heavily timbered with pine, spruce, 
 tamarac, hemlock, maple, birch, elm and 
 ash, (both brown and white) also some 
 good butter nut. The pine was mostly 
 destroyed by fire. The others were 
 burnt to clear the land and make into 
 ashes for salts. What patches of forest 
 that are left, such as sugar bush and for 
 woodland are not near so majestic. The 
 old trees dying out and the new do not 
 seem to be so thrifty. 
 
 If Eaton was timbered to day as it was 
 then, before a blow was struck, with all 
 the facilities for market it now has it would 
 sell for more than it would as it is to-day, 
 although it is one of the finest farmmg 
 towns in Compton County. Very few of 
 the first settlers had time pieces of any 
 kind. The first I can remember some 
 had what was the Winchester clock, made 
 in Winchester, Mass.. with weights run- 
 ning down nearly to the floor, some with 
 cases, some without. There are a few of 
 them in the township to-day. You could 
 hear them tick alf over the house, and if 
 the door was open when they struck you 
 could hear them quite a distance from 
 the house . Most everyone had a noon 
 mark. When the surveyors came round 
 
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 A HISTORY or EATON. 
 
 they would have them give tnam a north 
 and south line in their door bo they culd 
 regulate their clock or get their dinner 
 by it when the sun shown. About 1835 
 a man came roun^'l peddling clocks, or 
 what he called time pieces. They wore 
 similar to thd brass time pieces to-dav 
 which can be bought for about two dol 
 lars only. They had wooden gear instead 
 of brass. They sold as high as trom 
 thirty to forty dollars apiece. I remem- 
 ber my brother, Eros, giving forty bush- 
 els of wh it for one, and I think it is all 
 right to-day. Time was worth some- 
 thing then, and people had to improve it 
 too. A clock ut that time was almost 
 considered a luxury. The most of the 
 change from that time is from wood to 
 brasa. 
 
 In giving the histoiy of Col. John 
 Pope's family, Sophia, the eldest, through 
 mistake was omitted. She married John 
 Sawyer, who was born at Grand Isle, 
 Vt., July 17th, 1799, c«me to Sawyer- 
 ville, Eaton, 1829 or 'yO, opened a store 
 in a red houss built by Rufus Sawyer, 
 and now owned by \Villiam Sawyer. SJie 
 was born April 28th, 1813. Th°iy were 
 married Feb 14th, 18.34. In 183u they 
 moved to Cookshire, where he opened a 
 store on the top of the hill where George 
 French now lives, which was built some 
 five or six years before by John Farns- 
 worth. In 1841 he bought the mill prop- 
 erty owned by Rufus Sawyer, consisting 
 of mills, shops and farm, where he re- 
 mained up to the time of its death, Sept. 
 12th, 1844, when she sold out to William 
 Sawyer, the present landlord, and re- 
 turned to Cookshire and built the house 
 where Jedson Lindsay now lives, where 
 she died Feb. 17th, 1876. They left 
 three children ; Irene, the eldest, born 
 Nov. 22nd, 1834, married Joshua Nurse 
 March 9th, 1853. They have three child- 
 ren all living. Maria, the next eldest, 
 was born Sept. 11th, 1837, married C. F. 
 Jorda!!, and died May 29th, 1861, Mr. 
 Jordan dying a few months later. They 
 left one son. 
 
 Horace, son of John married 
 
 Maiy Pennoyer, daughter of C. Pennoy- 
 er, Jan. 1866. They have four children 
 all living in Cookshire. 
 
 Johnville was first settled by Mr. Liv- 
 ers who obtained a grant of timbered 
 land, and built a sawmill on lot 28 in the 
 Ist range. William Sunbury and John 
 Todd on lot 28th in the Ist range, a man 
 by the name of Green on lot 27 in the 
 2nd range, it being the west corner of 
 
 the town. PhinenB Smith, Jonathan 
 Coats and Reuben Coatn, settled on lot 
 28 in the 3rd range, now occupied by 
 Freeman Smith, Warren Smith, Widow 
 Warner, Arthur Hunting, Mr. Hamilton 
 and Mr. Stone. William Elger owns the 
 grist mill on the site where Mr Liver's 
 built, which is a great convenience to the 
 west part of the town. V The lower floor 
 is fitted up as a union hall for church 
 services, the upper floor is for public use. 
 Mr. Reginald bmith has a store which 
 was built by his uncle, Charles Smith. 
 They have a Methodist Church, sjhool 
 house, creamery, and carriage shop. The 
 C.P.R. passes through and has a small 
 station. 
 
 Ephraim Beabee settled on lot 25, Mr. 
 Barrows on lot 24, in the 2nd range ; 
 Jonathan Hatch on lot 24 in the 3rd 
 range ; John Sanborn on lot 27 in the 3rd 
 range This takes in the most of John- 
 ville contained in this township. I for- 
 got to mention Mr. Smith is postmaster 
 with ofiice in his store. 
 
 Bulwer is a small place on the C.P.R. 
 The first settlers were Ralph Lindsay 
 and Ruel Whitcomb Both settled on 
 lots 19 in the 3rd range ; William White, 
 Dr. McKeach on lot 18 in the 4th range ; 
 Alner Colby on lot 18 in the 4th range. 
 It is now owned by Jedson Lindsey and 
 occupied by his son Morrill. These con- 
 stituted the first settlers of the place. 
 They have no station, barely sttjpping to 
 let passengers off and on. They have a 
 store, post ofiice, union church, creamery, 
 etc. 
 
 Birchton is a small place east of Bul- 
 wer, situated on the C.P R. They have 
 a station, store, cheese factory, stej^m 
 sawmill, blacksmiths shop, school house 
 and union church. 
 
 The first sch.'il house built in town 
 was built \v S; wyerville about 1807. 
 They now havH a fine model school, built 
 in 1892. They have a school roll of over 
 one hundred, 2 model and 1 elementary 
 teacher. The building is two storey with 
 school room on both flats, and cost 02900. 
 It is 56x30, having the latest improved 
 seats, and is situated in the heart of the 
 village surrounded by fine grounds, the 
 whole of which is due to the untiring 
 zeal and push of Ruggles Cunningham, 
 backed by William Sawyer and a few 
 others. They have four churches in 
 town, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist 
 and Catholic. 
 
 The Cookshire Mill Co. have a large 
 staam saw mill. Mr. William Sawyer 
 
A HIMTkRY of EATON. 
 
 38 
 
 has a Hawmill and grist mill. There is a 
 hay caj) factory, carriage Hhtip, also furn- 
 iture Bhop and hlacksinirh'H shop, two or 
 three stores, hotel, with Lockart Willard 
 as landlord and proprietor. It has also 
 a iiuuiher of other l .astries wliich I 
 have not mentioned, and when they are 
 all in operation they make businesti live- 
 ly. ' 
 
 At Cookshire they have a lart^e steam 
 sawmill, sash and door factory, machine 
 shop, flourinji uiill, some eight or tv'n 
 stores and shops, also electric lights, and 
 are now putting in water works for fire 
 protecHon, etc They ha'e three church- 
 es. Catholic, Episcopal and one that was 
 built as a union church, but now con- 
 trolled by the Methodists. There are 
 custom grist mills in town, one at Saw- 
 yerville, one known as Lake's Mill, on 
 Eaton River, between Eaton Corner and 
 Cookshire, and one at A scot Corner. 
 
 In conclusion I wish to say that my 
 whole aim in writing this history was, 
 Ist, that the rising generation might be 
 able to look back and see what their fore 
 fathers had to endure, the hardships and 
 difticulties they had to master in clearing 
 up the forests, removing the stumps, 
 
 levelling and preparing the soil, for the 
 mower, reaper horse rake tedder and all 
 modern improvements, which a good 
 share of them never lived to see, all of 
 which we now enjoy, and should apprec- 
 iate by doing ( ur best in preparing the 
 way for the finer machines which will 
 surely supercede those of to-day, just as 
 soon as the surface of the ground is pre- 
 pared ; so let the next generation, or 1 
 might have said let our children have as 
 much reason to be thankful for what we 
 we have done as we have to be thankful 
 to your forefathers, and in so doing make 
 this Uwn p.:: it AVere the garden (not 
 Eden) of the whole Eastern Townships. 
 
 My second reason is love of country. 
 It was my native town where I was rais- 
 ed up to manhood ao I became endea:od 
 to it in my youthful days, and desire to 
 have it kept in remembrance from its 
 birth up. Now I hope someone will take 
 it before it gets old again, better quali- 
 fied to do the work, and I would ask a 
 favor of every citizen in town for the 
 benefit of my successor. — Keep a family 
 record of all passing events. 
 
 C. S. Lebourveau, 8r. 
 
 July 28th, 1894. 
 
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