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THE
History of Holden
Massachusetts.
1684-1894.
BY DAVID FOSTER ESTES.
PUBLISHED BY THE TOWN.
WORCESTER, MASS. :
Press or C, F. Lawrence & Co., 112 FRONY STREET.
1894.
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PREFACE.
The preparation of this history was undertaken only at the
request of the citizens of Holden. After unforeseen delays,
some of which are to be expected in connection with every
such work, while others have grown out of removal and dis-
tance, it is now submitted to those at whose invitation it was
prepared. In size and scope, it far exceeds the very modest
bounds at first intended, and the labor and care required have
increased still more beyond expectation.
Even with the present size, it should of course be understood
that it has still been necessary to select what has been told,
out of more which remains untold. It is also very possible
that traditions and information have sometimes been mislead-
ing, as they certainly are often conflicting. Whatever omissions
and errors shall be found, will be in spite of patient and un-
prejudiced painstaking.
The History of Holden, prepared half a century ago, by
Samuel C. Damon, D. D., has been incorporated into this
work. The narrative portion of that work forms the second
chapter of this history, and the helpfulness of the supplemen-
tary matter in that book and of his later collections is here
gratefully acknowledged.
The American Antiquarian Society, through its Librarian,
Mr. E. M. Barton, put all its valuable materials at the service
of this work. Thanks are also due to many citizens of Holden,
too many to mention by name, for the valuable information
freely furnished. In the chapter of personal notices, much of
the matter has necessarily been furnished by relatives of those
spoken of and by others interested.
iv PREFACE.
The committee of the town on publication, arranged wi’
Mr. Cyrus P. Phelps for the photographs of streets and buil
ings, and with Mr. T. W. Marion for the preparation of tt
photographs from which most of the other illustrations hav
been reproduced, and with Messrs. A. A. Beal & Co., of Bostor
for the making of the plates.
For doing all the work in connection with the illustration:
for their judgment in relation to many points, and for the
untiring attention to all the burdensome details connecte
with publication, especial gratitude from the town, as we
as from the author, is due to this committee, Messrs. Wald
E. Austin, Charles E. Parker and Henry W. Warren.
Tue AUuTHor.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.—Ixrropucrory—Location. Boundaries.
Surface. Natural Products. Hills. Rivers.
Villages. - I-4
CHAPTER I[.—Tue Damon Hisrory, 1667—1800.—
Records of First Meeting. Report of Committee,
1668. Purchase from the Indians. First Settle-
ment. Incorporation. Hon. Samuel Holden.
First Town Business. Rev. Joseph Davis. First
‘ Settlers. French and Indian War. Earthquake.
Resolutions. The Revolution. Prices. Effects
of Revolutionary War. Events till 1800. 5-41
CIIAPTER III.—Larer History, 1S00—1841.—
Changes in Territory. Town House. Care of
Poor. Town Funds. Meeting-House. Rev. Jo-
seph Avery. Rev. Horatio Bardwell. Town and
Church. Manufactures. Fourth of July, 1806.
Politics. Temperance. A Murder. A Slave Girl. 2-50
CHAPTER IV.—Tue Crenrenntar CELEBRation.—
The Day. Preliminary Arrangements. Invitation.
The Program. The Toasts. Addresses by Messrs.
Haven and Davis. Publication of the Historical
Address. 51-6
CHAPTER V.—Anotuer Hair-Century.—Sentiment
for Freedom. The Holden Rifles. Departure and
Return. Holden’s Quotas. Memorial Hall. The
Tablets. War Expenses. Railroads. Town Hall.
Finances. The Poor Farm Association. Cele-
brations. The Cyclone. Changes. 61-72
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI.—Tne SrsquicENtENNIAL.— Preliminary
Meetings. Committee of .\rrangements. Appro-
priation, Invitations. Marshals. | Decorations.
Music. Salute. The Day. Exercises at the Church.
Address of Welcome. Hymn. Poem. Children’s
Celebration. Dinner. Sentiments. Responses by
Messrs. Walker, Harrington, Pinkerton, Forbes,
Davis. and others.
CHAPTER VII.—Hisrory or roe Cuurcuis.-—Con-
gregational Church. Baptist Church. St. Mary's
Parish. Methodist, Universalist, and Advent Work.
Sons and Daughters of the Churches.
CHAPTER VIT.—Scnoorts ann Linrary. — First
Schools and School Houses. Committees and
Superintendents. Select Schools. High School.
College Graduates. Holden Library Association.
Gale Free Library. -
CHAPTER IX.—Tue Damox Memoniar.—Tender from
Mr. Gale. Description of the Building. Presenta-
tion and Dedication. .\ddresses by Messrs. Learned,
Earle, Gale, Parker and Higginson. Ode.
CHAPTER N.—Murrary Arratrs.—Colonial Cam-
paigns. Revolutionary Soldiers. Militia Officers.
The Boysin Blue. Theron E. Hall Post, G. A. R.
CHAPTER NI.—Facinirices or ComMMUNICATION.—
Roads. Turnpike. Hotels. Railroads. Telegraph
and Telephone. Post-offices and Postmasters. »
CHAPTER NII.—Busixness snp Mancracrurits,—
Stores. Brick-making. Mills. Tannerics. Manu-
factories.
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132-142
143-160
161-1g2
193-198
199-209
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER NIII.—PrErsonaL Norices.
CHAPTER NIV —Lirr ann Deatn.—Healthfulness,
Golden Weddings. Physicians, Epidemics.
Longevity. Death Rate. Cemeteries.
CHAPTER NV.—Socieries.—Socicty for Detecting
Thieves. Knights Templar. Temperance Societies.
‘The Nondescript Club. The Holden Grange. Farm-
ers’ and Mechanics’ Club. Theron FE. Hall Post,
G..\. R. Women’s Reliet Corps.
CHAPTER XVI.—Sratistics ~xp O¥rricraALs.—Origi-
nal Proprietors. Meadows. First Tax List. First
Census. Population. Division of Lands. Pro-
duction of Grain. Valuations. Clerks. Treas-
urers. Selectmen. Representatives. School
Committees. Parties.
CHAPTER XVIL.—Tne Hotpen CAaLenDar.
CHAPTER NVIIJ.—Tire Srory Rer-Torp.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
INDEX or PERSONS.
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Congregational Church and Town Hall,
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Joseph Stanford Ames, M. D.,
Samuel Wallace Armington,
Waldo E. Austin,
Israel Manning Ball,
Josiah Warren Ball, D. D. S.,
George Washington Bascom,
Tra Broad,
Colonel Samuel Damon, ;
Samuel Chenery Damon, D. D.,
Rev. Elnathan Davis,
Ethan Davis, Senior,
Ethan Davis,
Major Paul Davis,
James Dorr, g
Rev. David Foster Estes,
Charles Flagg,
Silas Flagg,
Thomas Hennessey,
Church Howe,
Levi Hubbard Howe,
Silas Howe,
William Howe,
William Howe, D. D.,
Silas M. Hubbard,
Cyrus Kingsbury Hubbard,
Hon. Martin V. B. Jefferson,
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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
Location. — BounDaArRIEs. — SuRFACE. — NATuRAL Propucts.
— Hiuys. — Rivers. — VILLAGES.
wag, HE Town of Holden is situated in Worcester County,
«| Massachusetts, about forty miles from Boston, and
immediately adjoining, on the south, Worcester, of
which it was originally a part. Its shape is a
slightly irregular parallelogram. In view of its form and place
on the map, it has been said that “ Holden lies like a diamond
above the ‘Heart of the Commonwealth’.” Its four sides
were originally straight and nearly equal, but land has been
set off from its west side to Paxton and from its east side
to West Boylston. Its present bounds are:
Beginning at the north-west angle, at a stake and stones in
a swamp, westerly from George C. Bond’s house, near present
road to Rutland: thence north fifty-six degrees east, eight
hundred and ninety-nine rods by Rutland line to a stone post
at Princeton corner, near Quinapoxet Pond: thence north fifty-
six degrees east, one thousand two hundred and four rods
to Sterling line (making a straight line two thousand one
hundred and three rods): thence south twelve and one-half
degrees east, six hundred and thirty rods by Sterling to a
stone post on West Boylston: thence north seventy-one and
one-half degrees west, une hundred and four rods by West
Boylston to a stone post: thence south five degrees east,
one thousand six hundred and fifty-two rods by West Boyl-
ston to a stake and stones on Charles E. Parker’s farm at
2 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Worcester line: thence south fifty-seven degrees west, one
thousand five hundred and twenty-one rods by Worcester to
a stone post at Paxton: thence by several small angles on
the Paxton and Rutland lines to the first mentioned bound.
The total area of the township, according to the State Census
of 1885, is nineteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-two
acres,’ of which three thousand four hundred and eighty-three
and one-half are cultivated, eight thousand and thirty-eight and
one-fourth are woodland, seven thousand five hundred and
seventeen and one-half are permanent pasture, and nine hun-
dred and forty-two and three-fourths are unimproved. The soil
is varied, in general of a gravelly texture, and not especially
strong, though on many of the hills it is stronger and richer,
rather damp and almost stiff in texture. “An area of fifty
acres can scarcely be found containing a homogeneous soil or a
plain surface.’””
The natural forest growth consists of pine, oak, maple, cedar,
hemlock, hornbeam, ash, chestnut, walnut, beech, and_ birch.
Wild flowers abound. The May-flower or trailing arbutus
and mountain laurel grow in special profusion.
From the only quarry which has been opened, building stone
in a great variety of colors has been taken. It is supposed
that the seams of the rock have been penetrated by gases of
various compositions, so that the stone has been diversely and
beautifully colored. Specimens of quartz and traces of gold
and silver are also found in the same quarry.
There are at least a dozen hills or marked elevations in
Holden. The most conspicuous is “Stone House” Hill, so
called from the natural house formed by the projecting rocks.
Indian relics have been found here, showing that the Indians
observed and profited by the facilities for detence which it
affords. It lies in the southern part of the town, overlooking
the reservoir of the Worcester water-works, and rises to a
height of one thousand one hundred feet. Its sides are rocky
‘ According to the Valuation, 1892, Holden contains 21,2449 acres.
? Damon History of Holden, p. 126.
INTRODUCTORY. 3
and precipitous, incapable of cultivation, so that it was long a
resort for rattlesnakes, from which fact is derived the name by
which it is often called, “Rattlesnake Hill”.' The hill over-
looking Eagleville, sometimes called Davis Hill, because the
site of the famous tavern so long kept by landlord Paul Davis,
and the hill near Sterling line, rise to a height of eight hundred
feet or more. It so happens, however, that the chief elevations
lie on the borders of the town, and that the summits are in
other towns. This is the case with Pleasant Hill, bordering
on Princeton ; Malden Hill in West Boylston; Winter Hill in
Worcester; Asknebumskit Hill in Paxton; Pine Hill, also in
Paxton ; and Pound Hill and the elevation opposite, in Rutland.
The principal stream in Holden is the Quinapoxet River,
formed by two main branches, one of which rises in Quinapoxet
Pond, a body of water lying chiefly in Princeton, and Muscho-
pauge Pond in Rutland, and flows past North Woods and
Quinapoxet villages; and the other of which rises in Askne-
bumskit Pond, in Paxton, and flows through Eagleville,
Jefferson, and Lovellville, uniting with the former branch in
the meadow just below the last named village. This stream is
also fed by Trout Brook, coming in from the north, and by two
brooks from the south, one from Bryantville and the other from
Chaffinville. The Quinapoxet River flows into the Nashua
River, which in turn empties into the Merrimac. Tatnuck
Brook, in the southern part of the town, flows through Worces-
ter into the Blackstone. The city of Worcester has erected
reservoirs along this stream and controls the valley as a part
of its water supply. The waters of a single meadow in the
southern part of the town are drained partly into the Merrimac,
partly into the Blackstone.
There are several villages in town which have received
special designations, in some cases more than one. The name
Holden belongs pre-eminently to the old central village, some-
‘March 34, 1745/6. Voted that there be payd for each Rattlesnak that
Shall be killed in ye Town at their Dens & also at Stone house hill so
called in Holdin Sixpence last Emission bills of Creditt upon ye Taile being
produced to ye Town at the Town meeting.” Worcester Town Records.
+ HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
times called the “Center”. Jefferson (earlier Jeffersonville)
now includes Eagleville, often familiarly called “ Brick City”
on account of a brick house which was long the only brick
building in town. Quinapoxet village and post-office lies at the
distance of perhaps half a mile from the railroad station of that
name, between, lying the smaller village which bears the names
of Lovellville and Centerville. Quinapoxet is often colloquially
styled “French Woods”, on account of the large tract of
woodland in the neighborhood, at one time owned by citizens
of France. Unionville lies to the south, and nearer the center
the town. The little’ village in the northern part of the
town claims the name of Ruralville, though it is usually spoken
of as “ North Woods”’, a name which the railroad station bears.
The railroad stations toward Worcester. from the Center are
Dawsons and Chaffins, Dawsonville and Chaffinville lying a
little way respectively to the west and to the east of the track.
Bryantville lies close to the east of the Dawsons station.
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‘NONINOD AHL WOU HLUYON ONIMOOT ‘WALNAO
CHAPTER II.
THE DAMON HISTORY, 1667-1800,
Recorps oF First MrEtinc.—REporT oF ComMITTEE, 1668,
—PurcHASE FROM THE INDIANS. — First SETTLEMENT. —
INcoRPoRATION, — Hon. SamueL Hoipen. — First Town
Business. — Rev. Josep Davis. —First Setters. —
FRENCH AND InpIAN War.— EartTHQuakeE.— RESOLU-
‘TIONS. — THE REVOLUTION. — Prices.—ErFrercts or Revy-
OLUTIONARY War.— EVENTS TILL 1800.
pq HE history of the Town of Holden, down to the year
| 1800, may best be given in the form which it
received from Rev. Samuel C. Damon, D. D., in his
Centennial Historical Address, delivered May 4th,
1841, .and published under the title “Tur History oF
HoLpEn, MASssAcHUSETTS, 1667-1841,” which is as follows :'
“This day completes the first century since the town of
Holden was organized agreeably to the Provincial Statutes of
Massachusetts Bay. The records of that event, which we have
assembled to commemorate, have been carefully preserved upon
the town books. They read as follows :—
‘¢ Att an annueal meetting in Holden on monday yé forth of may
Anno 1741
‘Mr Simon Davis Chose modderator for s4 meetting
' The whole address of Dr. Damon is carefully reprinted, both for its own
merit and because of the interest which for fifty years it has had for the
people of Holden. In typography it is conformed to the usage of to-day
and to the rest of this work, and quotations and references have been scrupu-
lously verified. Notes, dates, and other matter, which have been added, are
put in brackets.
6 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
‘* Simon Davis John Biglo and Cyprian Stevens Chose Seelect men
‘¢ Cyprian Stevens Chose Town Clark—Sworn
“¢ Jonathan Lovel Chose Constable for the East end—Sworn
‘¢ James Smith Chose Constable for the west end—Sworn
‘¢ Samuel Clark Samuel Pairce and Samuel Haywood Chose Asses-
ors—Sworn
‘¢ William Nickels Chose Town Treasurer—Sworn
‘« Abraham Neuton Chose Tything man—Sworn
‘¢ James Gray Jotham Biglo and David Brown Chose fence vewers
—Sworn
‘¢ Jotham Biglo Chose Clark of the marckit—Sworn
‘¢ James Gray and Samuel Bruse Chose hog Reaffs—Sworn
‘¢ Joseph Woolley and Abraham Neuton—Chose field drivers—
Sworn
‘¢ Samuel Haywood Chose Sealer of Leather—Sworn
‘¢ James Caldwell and John Child Chose dear Reafs—Sworn
‘¢ John Biglo and Joseph Hubbord Chose Suruairs of hyways—
Sworn
‘¢ Simon Davis Chose Grandiverryman —”!
“In celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of a day, the
records of which have now been read, my fellow citizens, we
follow the promptings of principles deeply implanted in our
natures. It is fit and proper to exhibit a becoming and grate-
ful respect for the memory of that generation of men, who,
clearing the forests, made their homes upon the hills and in the
valleys of our town.
“The duty devolving upon me, by accepting the invitation
from the Committee of Arrangements to prepare an address
for this occasion, I shall endeavor to discharge by narrating the
history of Holden, from the period when authentic records
commence, down to the close of the eighteenth century,
concluding with an allusion to a few prominent events in the
present century.
“The earliest authentic accounts, on record, which refer to
the tract of land now embraced within the limits of the town-
ship of Holden, are co-eval with the history of Worcester.
' Town Records, vol. 1, p. 2.
THE DAMON HISTORY. y
That town originally had its north and south halves. The
General Court of Massachusetts, in May [15th], 1667, ap-
pointed a committee ‘to take an exact viewe’ of lands lying
in the vicinity of Quinsigamond Pond, and being about midway
between Boston and Springfield. Daniel Gookin, Edward
Johnson, and Andrew Belcher, members of this committee,
made the following report in October [24th], 1668 :
“© At a Generall courrt held at Boston the 24th of october 1668
For a plantation at Quansikamud now called worcester
‘¢Wee haue acording to the Courrts orrderr (heirvnto anexed)
[viewed the] place therrin mentioned and find it to bee, about 12
miles from Marrlborrough nearre the Road to Springfeild, and that
[it is] a trract of very good Chestnut trree land, a large quantitye
but [meadow] we find not so much, beecause a very considerable
quantitie of [meadow] & vpland about fiue thousand accerrs is laid
out to parrticularr p[ersons] & confirmed by this courrt.
But a[s] notwithstanding wee conceue therre may bee enough
medow forr a [small] plantation orr towne of about thirrty families
& if these farmes be anexed to it, it may supply about sixty families,
Therrforre wee [deem] it expedient, That the honoured court wilbe
pleased to rreserue it fo[r a] towne, being conueniently scituated &
wel waterred with ponds & lieing nearre mid way beetwene Boston
& Springfeild about one [day’s] ioyrny from either, For the setling
wherrof wee do offerr vnto [the] court that which followeth
‘¢1: That therre bee a meet proportion of land granted & laid out
[for a] towne in the best forrme the place wil bearre about the
[area] of eight miles squarre
‘©3: That due carre be taken by the said comittee, that a good
minister [of] God’s word bee placed therre, as soone as may bee,
that such people [as may] therre bee planted may not liue like lambs
in a large place.”!
“This report was approved and accepted by the General
Court. Another committee was appointed to carry its recom-
mendations into execution. The history of this ‘ trract of very
good Chestnut trree land . . . . wel waterred with ponds
[} Records of the Proprietors of Worcester, p. 2-]
8 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
about . . . . . . eight miles squarre
: & laid out in the best forrme the place wil bearre’,
I shall endeavor to trace through a period of one hundred and
‘thirty-two years, so far as its history refers to the original
proprietorship and settlement of Holden.
«The persons who had obtained a grant of this tract of land
from the General Court did not consider their title as valid
until, by purchase, it had been secured to them by the Indians,
the original proprietors of the soil, On the 13th of July, 1674,
John, alias Horrawannonit, or Quiquonassett, Sagamore of
Pakachoge, and Solomon, alias Woonaskochu, Sagamore of
Tataessit, together with the consent of their kindred and
people, conveyed by deed the above mentioned tract of
land to Daniel Gookin of Cambridge, Daniel Henchman of
Boston, and certain other persons, for and in consideration
of £12 of lawful money, of New England currency, or
in full value thereof in other specie, to be paid within three
months after the date of the deed. The Indians received
‘two coats and four yards of trading cloth valewed at twenty-
six shillings’, as a pledge that the money should be duly
paid. Messrs. Gookin, Henchman and others, fully dis-
charged their obligation to the Indians before the three
months had expired, and came into possession of ‘the broken
up land and woodlands, woods, trees, rivers, brooks, ponds,
swamps, meadows, mineralls, or any other thing or things
whatsoever, lying and being within that tract of land, conteyn-
_ing eight miles square or the contents thereof, to be layd out
by y® s* persons or their order in time convenient ’.’
“The district of country described in the first Indian deed,
from which extracts have been made, embraced the entire
townships of Worcester and Holden, before any portions were .
set off to form the towns of Auburn, Paxton or West
Boylston.”
{1 Damon History of Holden, Note A, p. 64.]
* «The plantation of Quinsigamond, as originally: granted, and surveyed,
extended nearly twelve miles from north to south, and six miles from east to
west. It was designed to include within the boundaries established the same
THE DAMON HISTORY. 9
“ King Philip’s war, commencing A. D. 1675, in connection
with other unpropitious events, retarded the rapid settlement
of this part of the Massachusetts colony. This circumstance
induced the General Court, at their session in October, 1682,
to pass a vote rendering forfeit and lost the grant of this
tract of land to Gookin and others, unless vigorous exertions
were speedily adopted to advance its settlement." The gran-
tees were now urged to take immediate action to preserve their
claims. It was found by estimation that about four hundred
and eighty acres of good meadow land were contained within
the limits of this grant. An agreement was made, at a meeting
of the proprietors, April 24, 1682, to divide the whole township
into as many lots as there were acres of meadow land: ‘two
hundred for planters; eighty for public uses or specific
appropriations, and the remaining two hundred to be laid out
on the northern extremity, forming a division afterwards known
as North Worcester, and subsequently rendered permanent by
the incorporation of Holden’.’
“The dividing line between North and South Worcester was
drawn during the year 1683 or 84. For a period of more than
thirty years subsequent to this division, but meagre records
have been preserved relating to the North half of Worcester.
‘For atime’, observes Lincoln, in his History of Worcester,
‘we lose sight of the town and its inhabitants. From 1686 to
1713 no record is preserved on the proprietary book of any
transactions. Neither history nor tradition informs us of the
labors, dangers and sufferings of the earlier planters. General
Gookin, the early and faithful friend of the plantation, was
called to the rewards of a long life, characterized by fervent
piety, enlightened benevolence, incorruptible integrity, and the
practice of every manly virtue, in March, 1687’.* Captain
Adam Winthrop was appointed to the office which had been so
quantity of land which would have been comprehended in a tract eight miles
square. ee As stated in the original plan, the north and south
lines were 1920 rods each; the east line 3815; the west 3760.” Lincoln's
History of Worcester, p. 160.
1 Lincoln’s History of Worcester, p. 30. ? Jb¢d., p. 30. * Lbid., p. 33.
Io ‘ HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
ably filled by the untiring exertions of the much lamented
Gookin. The Winthrop family of Boston owned extensive
tracts of land in North and South Worcester.
“I can find no records which lead me to conclude that any
settlements were made in Worcester North half previously to
1722, The solitude of the wilderness had remained unbroken,
unless the occasional report of a huntsman’s gun, or the shrill
whoop of the Indian, echoing among the hills, aroused the timid
deer or hungry wolf. Tradition reports that numbers of each
species remained in this vicinity, long after the first settlers
had made their homes in the wilderness. History as well as
tradition describes an Indian path leading from Lancaster to
Hadley, which passed through the north part of this town, near
the farm now owned by Samuel W. Hubbard. Traces of this
path I am told are still to be seen.
“One century had now elapsed, since the Pilgrims disem-
barked from the Mayflower, upon the shores of New England.
It had been a century of labors, hardships, perils and wars, to
the first settlers of the country. During this period, the colo-
nies were continually increasing in population and importance.
Every year witnessed new settlements in the wilderness.
Hardy adventurers were carrying to the westward the outposts
of civilization. The town of Worcester was incorporated June
14th, 1722.’ In the month of October following, the pro-
prietors of ‘common and undivided lands’ in the town of
Worcester voted, ‘that a Committee of five men be Chosen,
to provide a surveyor forthwith to measure the meadows in
the North half part of the Township of Worcester’? Al-
though this vote was not then carried into execution, in
consequence of certain troubles in South Worcester, yet I
deem it worthy of special notice, because from this date —
the last Wednesday of October, 1722, — authentic records of
this township have been carefully preserved.
« An incident occurred about this period — spring of 1723 —
which led, as I suppose, to the forming of the first settlement
1 Lincoln’s History of Worcester, p. 50. ® Proprietors’ Books, vol. 1, p. 1.
THE DAMON HISTORY. : It
in this town. Mr. Jonas Rice, a citizen of South Worcester,
had discovered limestone upon the farm now known by the
name of the ‘Bullard Farm’. At a meeting of the proprietors,
in March, 1723, a vote was passed granting ‘Encouragement
to the first finder of Lime Stones and Undertaker of Burning
Lime for supplying the Town’. A committee was appointed
to agree with Mr. Rice to burn lime upon the following con-
ditions, viz:
‘¢r, That the above s4 undertaker [Mr. Rice], to have a pattent
for 50 acres of Land to be alotted him, to Digg stones in for seven
years and that he hath Liberty to Cut wood for the burning of
Lime in any of the Common Land belonging to the proprietors, and
that Every body Else be forbidd Digging Lime Stones, or Cutting
Wood until the end of s4 term.
‘¢2, That the Town be allowed two pence per Bushell for all
Merchantable Lime
‘¢3, That All the Inhabitants of the Town that may have
Occasion, for their own Use in building to be used in the Town
Shall Give Twelve pence per Bushell for it and no more.
“©6, That the Undertaker be Oblig’d to goe upon the busieness
with all speed and also to Supply the Inhabitants with Lime for their
own Use when they want it as soon as may be with any Conveniency
and that they be preferred before Any Other persons belonging to
Other Towns.”!
“The lot of land, known upon the early records of the town
as the Lime Lot, was sold, in the year 1759, to Mr. Anthony
Clark.2 The avails form part of the present school fund of the
town,
Helen L. Davis,
Annie W. Fales,
oF 1890.
Waldo B. Truesdell.
or 1891.
Florence L. Johnson,
Mattie C. Johnson,
E. Frank Kelton,?
Mary E. Putnam,‘
Harris W. Moore.
oF 1892.
Charlie E. Jordan,
Maud A. Moulton,
Alice L. Parker.
have gone to college from this
town:
Jonathan Fisher, Harvard, 1792.
Joseph Cheney, Brown, 1801.
Abraham Wheeler, Williams, 1810.
Abel Manning, Brown, ‘1817.
Moses. Winch, Amherst, 1827.
Elnathan Davis, Williams, 1834.
David Fisk, Amherst, 1834.
John P. Foster, Amherst, 1834.
William Howe, Waterville, 1834.
Merrill Richardson, Middlebury, 1835.
Henry G. Darling, Williams, 1835.
Samuel C. Damon, Amherst, 1836.
Samuel D. Darling, Williams, 1836.
James H. Bailey,’ Aunherst, 1845.
John F. Bigelow,® Brown, 1845.
George Darling, Union, 1846.
Charles W. Holbrook, Williams, : 1851.
‘Mrs. Fred A. Bryant. ® Rutland. *Hubbardston. ‘Rutland. * Prince-
ton. ®Died in 1834, before graduation, 7’ Did not graduate. * Did not
graduate,
140 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Charles Brooks,! Brown, 1856.
Cyrus W. Perry, «Amherst, 1862.
Harlan W. Moore,? Amherst, 1865.
Henry W. Warren, Yale, 1865.
Arthur R. Paine, Amherst, 1871.
James W. McLaughlin,? Holy Cross, - 1879.
Mary Louisa Ball,* Wellesley, 1880.
John R. Murphy, Holy Cross, 1880.
Samuel W. Hamblen, Brown, 1886.
James M. Prendergast, | Holy Cross, 1886.
Harry C. Bascom, Tufts, 1889.
Waterman L. Williams, Amherst, 1891.
Susie L. Austin, Vassar, 1895.
Herbert L. Warren, Amherst, 1895.
The following have gone to the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute: Solon P. Davis, class of 1872; Jonathan L. Moore,
1872; Charles E. Davis, 1875; Fred C. Greenwood, 1878;
Charles W. Phillips, 1878 ; George A. Marsh, 1882; Charles A.
Bennett, 1886; Herbert E. Austin, 1890; Henry L. Phillips,
1893 ; Harris W. Moore, 1894. Charles S. Graham graduated
from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the class of
1892. Charles H. Parker entered the same college, but left
without graduating.
THe Horpen’ Liprary ASSOCIATION was organized
October 4th, 1876. Col. Isaac N. Ross was chosen President,
Horace B. Morse, Vice-President, William D. Chenery,
Secretary and Treasurer, and Mrs. Ellen Phelps, Librarian, a
position which she filled during the history of the Association.
Funds for its support were raised by subscription, public
lectures and an annual assessment of its members. It em-
braced in its membership men and women who gave to the
conduct of its affairs untiring attention and well directed effort.
"Did not graduate. * Killed in Union army, March 1st, 1864. His name
appears with his class in the catalogues of Amherst College in accordance
with a vote of the Trustees applying to all undergraduates who lost their
lives in theZCivil War. * Did not graduate. * Mrs. Loren L. Morrison.
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY. Iq
The books were widely circulated and read. It was a worthy
precursor of the Gale Free Library, in that it awakened a
desire for books and a love of them.
In July, 1888, a special meeting of the Association was
called to take action in reference to presenting the Library to
the town, which, with the books presented by Mr. Sam-
uel C. Gale, should form a Free Public Library; and it was
voted: “That the Trustees of The Holden Library Associa-
tion be authorized and directed to transfer the books and other
property belonging to the Association to the proper authorities
of the town of Holden, whenever the said town shall vote to
accept the same in accordance with the constitutional provis-
ions of the Association.” This proposition was accepted by
the town, and, in accordance with the vote, fourteen hundred
volumes were transferred to the Gale Free Library.
The following was placed on record by the town, September
26th, 1888, in recognition of the gift.
“The Town of Holden, in accepting the gift of the books belonging
to the Holden Library Association, desires to express its apprecia-
tion of the desire for culture which has made that Association so
successful, and its gratitude for the liberality with which the whole
Library has now been placed at the service of all our citizens.”
As soon as the establishment of a public library was
assured, Mr. John Wadsworth of Chicago sent a check for one’
hundred dollars, to be used in the purchase of books. The fol-
lawing is the recorded expression of thanks of the town:
‘© The Town of Holden would respectfully express its thanks to
Mr. John Wadsworth of Chicago, for the gift of one hundred dol-
lars for the purchase of books for the Gale Free Library. The
town is grateful to be remembered by a former citizen, and to
receive a gift so well-timed and useful.”
While the Damon Memorial was building, Mr. Gale gave
to the town the sum of $3,000, for the purchase of books.
Many of the books were bought and placed upon the shelves
before the presentation and dedication of the edifice. In accord-
142 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
ance with the conditions of the gift the town appointed
trustees to manage the estate and library, who voted unani-
mously that the library should be known as “The Gale Free
Library.”
The Trustees of the Library have been David F. Estes,
1888-1891, Waldo E. Austin, 1888, Alonzo K. Learned, 1888,
Charles E. Parker, 1888, Emory Rogers, 1888, Henry W.
Warren, 1888, Clifford W. Stickney, 1892. The building and
grounds were cared for by James D. Black until his death,
January 11th, 1892. Mrs. Addie Black Holden was chosen Li-
brarian immediately upon the organization of the Trustees, and
the Library was opened for the circulation of books, November
30th, 1888. The Dewey Decimal System of classification was
adopted, and a catalogue was issued March 22d, 1890. The
total number of readers’ cards issued up to March Ist, 1892,
was five hundred and ninety-nine, and the circulation of books
for home use, for the year 1891-2, was six thousand three
hundred and thirty-four. March Ist, 1892, the date of the
last report, not including public documents, there were three
thousand six hundred and ninety-seven volumes in the Library.
DAMON MEMORTAL.
CHAPTER IX.
THE DAMON MEMORIAL.
TENDER FROM Mr. GaLe.—DeEscrRIPTION OF THE BUILDING. —
PRESENTATION AND DEpICATION. — ADDRESSES BY MEssrRs.
LeEaRNED, EarLe, GaLE, PARKER AND HicGinson.— ODE.
¥]T THE annual town meeting, March 21st, 1887, the
committee, which had been chosen the preceding
November to investigate the matter of additional
school accomodation at the Center, presented to
the town the following letter :
‘¢MINNEAPOLIS, March 15, 1887.
‘© Maj. Isaac Damon, Holden, Mass.
‘* Dear Sir: I have delayed sending to you my final decision
in the matter of the public building to be erected on the Chenery
lot, until I could look up the subject thoroughly. In accordance
with your suggestion, your High School Principal has written a full
and satisfactory letter touching the needs of the High School.
‘¢T am now able to say, that, unless prevented by some misfortune,
I shall commence the present season to erect upon the Chenery lot a
building adapted to both High School and Library purposes. I
design to have the walls completed and the roof on before next
winter, and have the same fully completed ready for occupancy as
early as September, 1888.
‘¢ This building and ground, together with some books, which we
hope to add, my wife and I will present to the Town of Holden as
a free gift, subject only to some simple and reasonable conditions as
to care and support of the structure and its equipment on the part of
the town.
£44, IUSTORY OF HOLDEN.
‘¢] write this letter now, that the people of the town may have
assurance that both School and Library accommodations will be
provided for without any steps being taken by the town at its coming
meeting.
‘¢-Yours very Sincerely,
SAMUEL C. GALE.”
The following resolutions were immediately adopted by a
rising vote of the town :—
‘¢ Resolved, That our sincere thanks are hereby tendered Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel C. Gale, of Minneapolis, Minn., for their very
generous proposal, the fulfillment of which will be a perpetual
memorial of their generosity and thoughtfulness.
“ Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be sent to Mr. and
Mrs. Gale, and that they be entered upon the records of the town.”
Mr. Gale at once proceeded to carry out the plans outlined
in the above letter, and the edifice was completed in August,
1888. The cost of building and grounds exceeded forty-five
thousand dollars. The architect who furnished the plans and
supervised the construction was Mr. Stephen C. Earle of
Worcester. The building stands on a large, elevated site, next
to the Common, and nearly opposite to the Damonestate, The
style is Romanesque, of a rustic, vigorous character, suited to
the material. It is built of stone from the Holden quarry,'
laid with unusual painstaking in irregular ashlar, with seam-
faces of many tints, and is pointed with red joints. The rustic
character is emphasized by the huge uncut boulder which serves
the purpose of a buttress at the end of the steps to the main
entrance, and also by a smaller boulder built into and boldly
projecting from the tower wall, and bearing the inscription,
“Damon MEmorRIAL 1888.” For sills, lintels, arches and other
parts requiring more or less cutting, brown sandstone from
Longmeadow was used, which makes a very agreeable combi-
nation with the native granite. It is left uncut as far as
‘On the old Kendall place, now occupied by John B. Dodd.
THE DAMON MEMORIAL. 145
possible, with the notable exception of a panel five by eight
feet, placed in the middle of a large space in the south wall,
which is sculptured in bold relief. This panel, a spirited and
beautiful work, has for its motive the enlightening influence of
education, represented by an advancing figure, floating rather
than walking, carrying a flaming torch in the right hand, and
in the left an open book. In a quaint, bold inscription at the
left is the legend, “ Let there be light,” and corresponding on
the other side, “ Character is destiny.”
In ground plan the building is nearly square, being sixty-two
by sixty-five feet, relieved on the south side by a semi-circular
bay projecting nine feet, and on the northeast corner by a
clock and bell tower eighteen feet square, rising to a height of
sixty-four feet. The tower has a specially bold and massive
character, taking a firm footing on the ground with its heavy
buttresses, which run half way up its height until lost in the
face of the wall. It is kept as low as its purposes will
allow. A low arcaded belfry makes the top story, with its
pyramidal roof covered with red slate. Directly below
the belfry, on two sides, are open dials of black iron for the
Howard clock. In the belfry hangs a bell, selected by Mr.
Gale himself for its sweetness. The main building has a high
pitched, hip roof, somewhat broken by gables and dormer
windows, and covered with black Maine slate.
At the main entrance, in the middle of the east front, is a
massive round arch of fifteen feet span, and an open porch
seven by seventeen feet, with a floor of dark red tiles.
Two separate entrances from the porch have wide arched
doorways, in the stone transoms of which, respectively, are cut
the words “School” and ‘‘ Library’. The school entrance at
the right has a vestibule seven by nine feet, with tiled floor,
and opens into a spacious hall, from which a handsome stair-
way, of liberal dimensions and very easy grade, leads to the
second story, which is fourteen feet high, and is entirely appropri-
ated to the uses of the high school. Opposite the entrance is
a stained glass arched window, of simple but rich design ; over
the windows on the first landing are perforated stone transoms
146 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
filled with stained glass bull’s-eyes, geometrically arranged, and
a bit of quiet coloring is seen in the round window at the head
of the stairs.
Opposite the landing is a door to the main school room, at
the right a door to the girls’ cloak room, which is eleven by
fourteen feet, and at the left the boys’ coat room, which is
seven by fourteen feet. Both of these rooms also connect
directly with the main school room. The principal’s cosy room,
ten by thirteen feet, occupies the tower, and with windows on
three sides commands charming views to the north, east and
south. This room opens from the stairway hall. From this
hall is also a stairway leading to the tower lofts and the unfin-
ished attic. The main school room is forty by forty-six feet,
besides its semi-circular bay window, seven feet deep, project-
ing from the south side of the room, opposite the entrance.
The room is admirably lighted by five windows on the west
side and three on the south, being at the left and back of the
pupils, while a broad wall space between the south windows
and the bay, directly opposite the teacher’s platform, affords
an agreeable relief from the glare of the mid-day sun.
On the east side is a very ample fire-place of pressed brick,
with a handsome oak mantel. Connecting with the school-
room on the east is a recitation room about fourteen by thirty-
two feet, so arranged that it may be used as two rooms on
occasion, and another, sixteen by twenty-three feet, occupies
the northwest corner of the building. This room has closets
for chemical and physical apparatus. The basement of the
building, besides the steam heating apparatus for both direct
and indirect radiation, contains also a well lighted, pleasant
southeast room with a handsome fireplace and mantel, which is
appropriated to the use of the school as a lunch room. Water
is supplied for all purposes from a well sunk on the premises.
There is an outer door on the north side for the boys, and one
at the northerly extreme of the west side for the girls, with
connecting corridor and covered way, giving convenient access
to outbuilding and yard.
THE DAMON MEMORIAL. 147
Turning now to the portion of the building devoted to the
library, we enter the tiled vestibule, seven by eight feet, and
from this the space railed off from the main room, to be used
as a waiting room. The room devoted to the storage of books,
like the story throughout, is fourteen feet high, occupies the
southwest corner of the building, and is thirty-one by forty
feet. It is lighted by nine lofty windows. Shelving is now
arranged for five or six thousand volumes, and should need
arise, the book room could be arranged to accommodate twenty
thousand. It is separated from the waiting room bya screen,
the upper part of which consists of an arch of open timber
work, the lower part being the desk for the delivery of books,
and the supplementary railing. At the northwest corner of
the building, and connecting with the book room is the libra-
rian’s work room which is about twelve by twenty-five feet, and
has an outside door.
The southeast corner of the building is reserved for the
reading room, which is twenty by twenty-eight and one-half
feet, besides its semi-circular bay projecting seven feet on the
south side, opposite the entrance. It adjoins the book room
and the waiting room, being separated from each by glazed
screen work. It is a most attractive room, with its ample
fireplace and oak mantel of tasteful design, chimney corner
seat, tinted walls and delicately shaded stained glass transoms.
A low case for books of reference fills the whole of the west
side, and two large tables for periodicals stand in the room. _
The building throughout is finished with oak in the natural
color. The carpenter work was done by Emory Rogers, who
had also general charge of the whole work. Thomas Hennessey
did the stone work, Peter Carr the brick work and plastering,
and the walls and ceilings were tinted by Daniel Boyden. It
was the intent of Mr. Gale that all material and labor for the
building, so far as possible, should be derived from the town of
Holden. However considered, the structure deserves the
title which it has received, “The Gem of Worcester County.”
The formal exercises of the Presentation and Dedication of
the Damon Memorial occurred August 29th, 1888. The day
148 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
was very fine, and many visitors came from neighboring towns
and from a distance to share with the citizens of Holden in
the interest and pleasure of the day.
The public exercises of the morning were held in the Con-
gregational church, which had been tastefully decorated for the
occasion, in the presence of an audience which thronged the
church. After a selection by the Marlboro’ Brass Band, which
furnished the music for the day, Rev. William G. Tuttle
offered prayer. Mr. Alonzo K. Learned, the President of the
Day, then gave the following Address of Welcome :
“ Ladies and Gentlemen :— This morning, so bright and beau-
tiful, is indicative of the welcome we extend to each. We are glad
that, whether living by the sea, in the city, by the mountains, or on
the distant prairie, a common impulse has moved so many of the sons
and daughters of Holden to return and join in the festivities of the day
—the day of the slowly rolling century in the history of the town.
The familiar paths, the old homestead and school-house, the village
green, this old church, though mute, unite with us in cordial sal-
utation. Whether participating in the exercises of the day, meeting
with friends, renewing old associations, treading with careful step the
place
‘Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,’
or standing by the memorial raised to the memory of parents,
brother, or sister,—may all the hours be filled with pleasure, bene-
diction, and blessing to each of you.
‘* Welcome to those men and women, distinguished in the walks
of life, who are with us to-day. We feel that the occasion is in
unison with the efforts you are putting forth to lift man
‘To a purer air and a broader view.’
May the breath of the hills, the warmth of ‘our hospitality, the
spirit pervading these exercises, the bright outlook which generous
thought and generous hands have opened to the people of this
town, cheer and strengthen you.
‘¢ Cordial greeting to the honored official representative of the city
of Worcester, to the members of bench and bar, to her accomplished
librarian, to her teachers, eminent for learning and ability, to her
honored business men, to all her citizens, whose united life consti-
tutes the purity of the life of the ‘Heart of the Commonwealth’.
SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY. 149
‘* To the citizens of adjoining towns, who, in response to invita-
tion, or who, moved by neighborly feeling, are present to offer
congratulations, we extend the hand of welcome.
‘*Welcome one and all to this historic ground, given by the
Hon. John Hancock to the early settlers for a public common, and
a site for a church, where for many generations, men, in the
exercise of the rights of freemen, have met in times of peace and
prosperity, in times of danger and alarm, to transact business for
the common welfare, or to discern from a common consideration the
path of duty and of honor.
‘© Welcome to this historic and hallowed church, within whose
walls the generations of the past have met, feeling a common need,
humbly praying for a common blessing, and finding it ‘none other
than the house of God and the gate of heaven’.
‘¢ At a town meeting, the second in the history of the town, held
May roth, 1741, the legal voters first passed the following vote :
‘«¢ Voted to have the gospel preached in town’. The fourth vote
of that meeting was: ‘ Voted to have a reading and writing school.’
‘¢In happy accordance with the spirit animating those men, in
happy accord with all that noble men have planned for the public
welfare in
‘Yonder painted shingly town-house,’
in happy accord with the purest aspirations of those who have trod
‘These quiet aisles of prayer,’
is the occasion which has assembled us to-day.
‘© Yonder ‘Memorial Building’ is but the completion of the
structure, the foundations of which the men of Holden laid in r7qr.
It is the tribute which persons reared and educated in New England
gladly offer to the wisdom of the fathers in establishing a system
of free public schools for the education of the children of a free
republic.
«¢ That we may more fully understand the plans and purposes of
the donors, the beauty and utility of the structure, and learn what
workmen have wrought from foundation to turret stone, I present to
you the architect, Mr. Stephen C. Earle, of Worcester.”
Mr. Earle said :
‘© One bright March day of last-year found me, at the request of
him whose wisdom and generosity makes the occasion for this glad
150 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
gathering, viewing the site proposed for a building designed to meet
the pressing needs of this old town of Holden in two important par-
ticulars, viz., first, a public library, and second, better accomodations
for the high school. The glistening, crusted snow covered the
whole landscape, but then, as now, the fitness of the site selected
was apparent. There was the beautiful and ample lot, with its
graceful, central knoll, where the half filled-cellar told of a home of
the past, with a location all that could be desired.
‘“‘In the middle of the village, only a stone’s throw from Main
Street, nearly opposite the old Damon mansion, directly adjoining the
Common, the Damon Memorial becomes one among the group of
the town’s public buildings. In the first instructions to the architect
was the statement that the building was to be of brick or stone,
preferably the latter, a preference on the part of a client which is
always heartily seconded by the architect. Some one has said that
a brick building, however large, cannot be made grand or imposing.
Without arguing the point, it will at once be conceded that even a
small building of stone has a certain dignity, due to the materials,
whatever the treatment of it. In this building the stone has an
added value, a sentimental one at least, from its being indigenous,
coming from the granite quarry of John P. Dodd, on one of the
Holden hills, about a mile distant.}
‘‘'You may judge of the material value of the generous outlay of
those benefactors who have here built a permanent home for your
library and school, but few can have an idea of the intense and
constant interest, the loving thought and care with which they, from
their distant home, have inspired and watched every detail of design
and construction. My task has been a pleasant one, working out
with such success as I might their high ideals.
‘«Though ‘ westward the star of empire takes its way’, and with
it many of the brightest and best among us, let us be thankful that
the heart strings still bind them in love to their old eastern homes.”
Mr. Learned then introduced Mr. Gale in the following
words :
“Tt is said that Anaxagoras, beholding the Mausoleum erected
by Artemisia, Queen of Caria, to her deceased husband, Mausolus,
'The description of the building, given on this occasion by Mr. Earle,
has already been given in substance in this chapter.
THE DAMON MEMORIAL. 51
which was constructed of the most costly marbles and decorated
in the highest style of Grecian art, exclaimed, ‘ How much money
is changed into stone!’ From the statement of Mr. Earle, con-
firmed by our own observation and knowledge, we are ready, when
viewing the massive proportions, completeness, and elegance of
the Memorial, to exclaim, ‘How much money is changed into
wood and stone!’ Artemisia, in erecting the Mausoleum, would
enshrine and perpetuate the memory of her husband, thus exhibiting
one of the most beautiful sentiments of the human heart. Our
friends, animated by the same sentiment, would perpetuate the name
of a family, honorably identified not only with the history of the
town, the county, the state, and the nation, but also with the
progress of civilization and Christianity in other lands and the islands
of the distant seas, by linking it with the ‘living present’ and the
long future. Thé ‘ Memorial,’ while casting its loving shadow over
the ancestral roof, through whose garden gate five generations have
passed, welcomes to its lofty halls the youth of the present and fu-
ture generations and places in the hand of each ‘a good book, the
precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up
for a purpose of life beyond life.’”
Mr. Gale was greeted with hearty applause, and made the
following Presentation Address :
“Mr. President and Friends: Thirty-four years ago, I
came to this village to teach the district school. The frame
school-house, still standing, and in use, was then new, and was
a subject of much interest and pride. The only instruction I
received from the school committee as to the management of the
school was that I should keep the scholars from marking and
scratching the new school-house. I entirely neglected my duty
in this respect. At the end of the winter, marks and scratches
were very abundant; and I knew it was all my fault, for no school-
master ever had better boys and girls. After thinking over my
offense for thirty-four years I concluded the only suitable recom-
pense I could make was to give the town a new school-house, which
I have accordingly done. I do not say, however, there were no
other considerations and more serious, for the enterprise. Here my
wife was born and reared; and this, in the opinion of at least her
husband, entitles the place to monumental ‘honors. May I also
mention especially her brother, the late Dr. Samuel C. Damon, a
2 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
I
oan
resident of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, a great-hearted and broad-
minded man, with a deep affection for his native town. He it was
who first suggested to me the idea of aiding to establish here a public
library. It is in memory of him, and of her other kinspeople! and
other friends dear to us both, whose homes have been here’in this
and other generations, that we have sought to do this town some
good thing, so important and permanent that the inhabitants will
always kindly remember us.
‘¢Mr. President, I hold in my hands and now deliver, title papers
conveying to the town of Holden, from my wife and myself, the
new Library and High School Building and grounds. The con-
veyance is made in trust and upon the conditions that the town shall,
under the law of Massachusetts, organize a Board of Trustees to
manage the estate and library; that the town keep the building in
repair and continue the insurance of $10,000 already placed upon
it, with premium paid for five years ; that the library be also kept
insured and that both the building and library shall be restored in
case of destruction or impairment; that the grounds shall be kept in
neat and tasteful order, appropriately adorned with flowers; that
the town shall maintain a Free Public Library and Reading-room
in the building and shall appropriate and expend annually, of its
own money, not less than $200 for the purchase of new works for
the library ; that the school held in the building shall always be free
to the inhabitants of Holden, and shall be at least equal to a High
School in grade. I trust these conditions will not seem unreason-
able or burdensome. They certainly have been made after much
thought, solely to secure to the public the greatest benefit possible
from this undertaking.
‘* At the last, friends, we part with this estate, so interesting has
it grown to be to us, with something like reluctance—a glad reluc-
tance—as parting with a daughter at the marriage altar. And this
is really a nuptial day. This gift is the bride; and she carries with
herself to this people our benediction. There is a proverb of three
Latin words, ‘Qué Legit Regit’, ‘He who reads is king’.
Then let this be your palace royal. Thither, through many, many
years, through summer bloom and winter gloom, may the feet of
your children turn as to a garden of entertainments. For your
young men and young women, I pray you make this the happy,
"See Genealogical Table of the Damon Family, p. 160.
THE DAMON MEMORIAL. 153
wholesome greeting place, till books shall interest them and lure
them to stay. For the old, when they come, lead them to the
sunniest spot, the easiest chair, and show them the open page. But
most of all, for those earnest ones among you, especially if they be
poor, who hunger and thirst for books and the better things which
books lead up to, keep always the door wide open, the feast spread
and the lights burning—all this, till these rugged stones shall
crumble and be as dust.”
After the applause which followed Mr. Gale’s address had
died away, Mr. Charles E. Parker, acting as chairman of
the board of selectmen, responded for the town in the following
Address of Acceptance :
‘“*To Mr. and Mrs. Gale, whose benefaction calls us together to-
day, I desire to say that I accept these deeds on behalf of the town.
On behalf of the town I thank you. The conditions and require-
ments of the deed are reasonable and satisfactory, and I know I can
promise a ready and hearty acceptance. The library, containing, as
it does, the sum and substance of the life work of many students of
the past, and the reading room, with its home-like comforts,
supplied with papers and magazines filled with the best of the
thoughts of the writers of to-day, are factors of education of
immense advantage to the student at school and the community at
large.
‘¢ This object lesson of beauty! Who can measure its influence
for good? In behalf of the students who shall be inspired by the
harmony and beauty to a higher ambition and greater effort, I thank
you. Our fathers builded better than they knew when, in the early
history of this country, beside the church they planted the school-
house, and from time to time perfected the common school system.
We all know it to be the corner stone and foundation of the best
government on the face of the earth. With all due reverence, I
would acknowledge a higher power, and invoke its aid to paralyze
the hand that would take one stone from the foundation of our
school system. It shall be maintained, and with it shall be kept
green the memory of those who make education attractive. If he
who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a
public benefactor, how much more he, who, adding to the facilities
of acquiring knowledge, makes men wiser and better.”
154 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
At the conclusion of his address of acceptance, Mr. Parker
called upon the audience to thank Mr. and Mrs. Gale for their
gift, and all unanimously arose. The Prayer of Dedication was
then offered by Rev. David F. Estes. Mr. Learned then intro-
duced the orator of the day, Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son, as being ‘‘a resident of Cambridge and of Holden”.' Col.
Higginson spoke in part as follows :
‘* Fergusson, in his History of Architecture, says that ‘ wherever
we see any work of man truly worthy of admiration, we may be
quite sure that the credit of it is not due to an individual, but to
thousands working together through a long series of years.’ He is
speaking of the great cathedrals of Europe, which are undoubtedly
the greatest visible work of man, when we consider both size and
beauty; which were all built practically within a single century, the
thirteenth, and nearly all, in France at least, within the sixty years
from 1180 to 1240. When the traveller approaches one of these
great buildings he has in one respect the same impression produced
on many visitors hy the building we dedicate to-day. The cathedral
'Col. Higginson was for part of three years a resident of Holden,
occupying during the summer ‘‘ Pine Grove Farm,” the residence of Samuel
W. Armington. In presenting to the Gale Free Library a copy of his volume
of Essays, ‘‘In a Fair Country. Illustrated by Irene E. Jerome”, Col,
Higginson wrote, ‘‘ Some of the illustrations were drawn in Holden, while
Miss Jerome was visiting us there.” From a pine grove in Holden came also
the suggestion for his poem— ;
THE SNOWING OF THE PINES.
Softer than silence, stiller than still air,
Float down from high pine boughs the slender leaves.
The forest floor its annual boon receives
That comes like snowfall, tireless, tranquil, fair.
Gently they glide, gently they clothe the bare
Old rocks with grace. Their fall a mantle weaves
Of paler yellow than autumnal sheaves,
Or those strange blossoms the witch-hazels wear.
Athwart long aisles the sunbeams pierce their way ;
High up, the crows are gathering for the night:
The delicate needles fill the air; the jay
Takes through the golden mist his radiant flight:
They fall and fall, till at November's close
The snowflakes drop as lightly-snows on snows.
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dwarts everything around it, and seems, at first sight, almost
disproportionate, both in size and dignity. In going towards
Cologne, for instance, or York Minster, you are impressed with
the fact that, instead of drawing near to a town, you are approaching
a cathedral. The building looms in the distance, large, stately,
solid, glittering in the light or dim with shade, very much as in
crosssing Kansas and approaching Colorado, you see Pike’s Peak on
the one hand, and the Spanish Peaks on the other, the far off
prediction of wonders yet to be revealed. When you reach those
mountains, you find towns already encamped around their feet, and
so when you reach York or Cologne, you find the town encamped
around the feet of the cathedral. Even so, fifty years hence, will
the village of Holden be seen clustered around these solid walls,
which enshrine its library and its high school. It will doubtless
affect the other buildings to be hereafter erected in the town; they
will be more solid, tasteful, appropriate, for having this building in
their midst; but the Damon Memorial will be the center of the
town, as it should be, for it will be the source and center of
its intellectual life. ;
‘¢The parallel holds in other ways. Nothing comes so near the
great impulse which built, within less than a century, the vast Euro-
pean cathedrals, as the impulse which is dotting our land with pub-
lic libraries. We mistake if we suppose that those medieval glories
of the world came from a religious enthusiasm alone. They repre-
sent a great peaceful uprising of the people against the feudal sys-
tem, an impulse of which the French bishops skillfully availed
themselves to strengthen themselves against the feudal lords on the
one side and the religious brotherhoods on the other. Before the
period of cathedral building, all the great ecclesiastical buildings
were monastic ; the people had no part in them; but in the cathe-
drals the laity bore most of the expense and shared, in at least an
equal degree, their ownership and purposes. In the previous build-
ings the laity had no rights, and took no part in what was done there ;
but in the cathedrals, the people were at home. There the popular
assemblies were gathered, the local governments organized, that
were to make a stand against the feudal lords; in the cathedrals the
courts and markets were held, and not merely religious shows took
place, but even popular farces and wild buffooneries. When the
commune, or local muncipality, of Noyon, for example, was to be
organized, the bishop called together in the cathedral the men of
156 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
property, the professional and business men and the skilled artisans,
and presented to them a charter, which created for them a popular
; government (corps de bourgeo’s). Thus the cathedrals were not
merely religious but public buildings ; they had a democratic origin,
and the very oldest of them, as that of Laon, have rather the air of
municipal structures than of.churches. They were not only larger
buildings than had before been consecrated to religion, but they
spoke a new language, that of the people; and thus the whole
people joined to build them.
‘During the two summers while I have watched this building
rise, I have been constantly struck with the fact, that it represents
the same great popular impulse in the nineteenth century that the
cathedral represented in the thirteenth. The ancient cathedral and
the modern town library alike stand for the spirit of their age.
Now, as then, a single benefactor often gives the whole financial
means for the great work; we meet to-day to express gratitude to
such a donor; but he himself would be the first to admit that he
represents the great impulse of enlightenment, which is providing
every town in Massachusetts with free libraries. In a wholly
illiterate community such an enterprise would be wasted, and the
donor of this building was working unconsciously for it just as much
when he taught one of your schools in his youth, as when, in his
prosperous maturity, he feeds the demand he helped to create. And
every one who, in this town, or elsewhere, has ever worked for
public school or public library, has been one of the thousand who,
as Fergusson said, have helped to prepare the way for every great
work of man. As I have watched this building go up, it has seemed
to me to rise,—as was said, by a medizval writer, of the cathedrals—
‘built of the money of the rich and the prayers of the poor.’ Men
of almost every occupation in this town have been employed about
this building, and have worked, as they did in the middle ages, with
a zeal not measured only by the day’s wages. Those who did not
work with their hands have watched the laying of every stone, and
have contributed, without charge, sympathy enough to encourage any
contractor, as well as good advice enough seriously to embarrass him.
I am confident that no European cathedral ever had a larger share
of discussion and counsel to the square inch than the Damon
Memorial; and it may be said of it, as of the great medieval
cathedrals, that it has been ‘built of the money of the rich and
the prayers of the poor.’
THE DAMON MEMORIAL. 157
‘« And it must always be kept in view that this is but one contri-
bution to that vast movement which is covering our state with public -
libraries, as Europe was covered with cathedrals.
‘One of the favorite heroes of that eloquent man, [Mr. George
William Curtis,] I remember, is Sir Philip Sidney, and it is Sir
Philip Sidney who says in his ‘Defense of Poesy’ that ‘the
ending end of all knowledge is virtuous action.’ Action is higher
even than thought. On this principle there have been two great
days in the history of Holden within my memory. One was the
day, (April zoth, 1861,) when the summons went out from the state
house calling upon the Holden Rifles to go, at a few hours notice,
to the defense of Washington ; and they went. That was Holden’s
greatest day; this is the next; and it is pleasant to think that among
those who worked upon this building were more than one of those
who then rallied at their country’s call. Yes, action is higher than
thought ; deeds than words. The poet Keats, the most ideal of all
poets, says in one of his letters that ‘ fine thinking is, next to fine
doing, the top thing of the universe.’ It is the mission of a school-
house and a library to bring about not merely fine thinking but fine
doing.
‘‘T should like to see around the walls of the Holden Free
Library some such inscription as used to delight me in boyhood, on
the handbills of an old bookstore I used to frequent in Boston:
‘ Here you may range the world with the magic of « book, and cheat
expectation and solitude of their weary moments.’ And there will
surely remain in that hall, with or without a portrait, the memory of .
the benefactor—may I not say of the two wedded benefactors ?—
through whom its pleasures and its.advantages have been provided
for coming generations of those whom they have never seen.”
After an hour spent in social greetings, and in the examin-
ation of the edifice, a procession formed under the direction of
Chief Marshal Edward W. Merrick, and marched to the large
dining tent, which had been spread on the Damon grounds,
nearly opposite the Memorial building. Dinner was served to '
158 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
about six hundred, After the conclusion of the dinner, Mr.
Learned introduced Hon. Henry W. Warren as Toastmaster.
He presented as the first sentiment, “ Ze Commonwealth of
Massachusetts,’ to which Hon. George B. Loring of Salem,
Minister of the United States to Portugal, responded at length.
“The City of Worcester” was spoken for by Hon. Samuel
Winslow, Mayor of the city. Nathan Allen, M. D., of Lowell,
then presented a sketch of the life-work and character of Samuel
C. Damon, D. D.; Mr. Samuel S. Green, of the Worcester
Public Library, spoke to the sentiment, “ 7he Library, Gar-
nercd Wisdom of Centuries”; a poem entitled “New England
Granite,” was read by Mr. Solon P. Davis, of Hartford, and
Albert P. Marble, Ph. D., Hon. P. Emory Aldrich, Gen.
Augustus B. R. Sprague of Worcester, and Henry A. Stimson,
D. D., of St. Louis, a former pastor of Mrs. Gale, also made
brief addresses. The following Ode by Mrs. Gecrgia Allen
Peck was sung by the entire assemblage.
‘¢ Gazing on this massive splendor,
Stately, changeless, fair to view,
Fain our grateful song would render,
Gracious donors, homage due.
Let glad voices
Sound the note of praise anew.
Here, in youth’s unsullied morning,
Eager for life’s golden ore,
Dead to sloth, and folly scorning,
Lo, at wisdom’s mystic door,
Youth and maiden
Glad shall garner priceless lore.
Here the treasure of all ages,
Poet’s dream, and fancy’s flight,
Science, art and wealth of sages
In grand symphony unite.
God hath spoken—
Echo all, let there be light !
THE DAMON MEMORIAL. 159
Onward points the tireless finger ;
Progress knows nor halt nor stay,
Suns shall in their orbit linger,
Time’s swift sands their course delay,
Ere her footsteps
Falter in their upward way.
Spirits thrilled and hearts o’erflowing,
Giver of all good, to thee
Each rich gift of thy bestowing
Consecrated here shall be;
Now and ever,
Consecrated, Lord, to thee!”
At a legal town meeting, held September 26th, 1888, the
acceptance of the Damon Memorial upon the conditions and
requirements contained in the deed of gift, was formally voted.
The following expression of thanks was also adopted :
“The Town of Holden in town meeting assembled formally
accepts the ‘* Damon Memorial” Library and High School Building,
and the books presented by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Gale of Minne-
apolis, and desires at the same time publicly to express and place on
record its appreciation of the good-will, generosity and even munifi-
cence of these gifts. To the natural pride, which we have felt as
our former fellow citizens in the worth and prosperity of Mr. and
Mrs. S. C. Gale, is now added gratitude for their remembrance
and helpfulness.
‘The building most amply supplies needs already felt, and that
on a scale which indicates the large heartedness of its donors, while
the strength and dignity of its architectural structure makes it at
once an ornament to the town and a constant lesson to its citizens.
‘‘The town pledges itself to the fulfillment of the wise and fit
conditions imposed by its donors, to the careful preservation of the
property, to the enlargement of the Library, and to whatever may
make school and library better subserve the purposes of Mr. and
Mrs. S. C. Gale, and better honor their large and wise liberality.”
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“CHAPTER X.
MILITARY AFFAIRS,
CotontaL Campaicns.— REVOLUTIONARY SoLpiEers. — MILITIA
Orricers. — THE Boys 1n BiurE.— Turron E. Hari Post
G. A. R.
NGW|ILITARY affairs interested the early inhabitants of
'] Holden, not so much from choice as from necessity.
The early settler’s gun was his constant companion,
and the farmer, at an hour’s notice, turned militia-
man and soldier.
May 22d, 1744, the Town “voted that the Some of Thirty-
three pounds old Tener money be Assesed upon poles and
Estates and passed into a rate to provide powder and bulits
and flints for a Town Stock and for the transport of Sd
Stock.”
In a great share of the campaigns that preceded the revolu-
tion, Holden was represented. The ancient muster rolls still
testify to the public spirit which sent the early settlers from
their scarcely built homes and still uncleared fields into the
service of their county. In 1747, Jonathan Metcalf and
Jotham Rice served at New Rutland. In 1755, Ephraim Ben-
nett served in a Lancaster company, commanded by Asa
Whetcomb, on the Crown Point expedition, and died in active
service. Samuel Estabrook also served in 1755. In 1857,
Sergeant William Fisher, Richard Flagg, Samuel Boyd, John
Boyd, Benjamin Allen and Jacob Lindsey were out three weeks
to serve with the forces at Lake George. Samuel Bigelow
_ 162 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
served in 1757, and Henry Rice, Job Harris, Jedediah Esta-
brook and Ebenezer Fletcher in 1758. The same year the
following muster roll was made out:
‘* A muster Roll of a Detachment of men from Capt John Biglo
Company of Holdin of Cole John Chandler Jr. Regiment that
marched on the Late alarm for the Relief of fort William Henry
under the command of John Biglo as their Captain who marched
from Holdin to Sheffield being 113 mile out.”
‘‘All served 17 days closing Aug. 19 1758.”
John Bigelow, Captain, Samuel Thompson,
Samuel Hubbard, Ensign, Thomas Greenwood,
John Child, Sergeant, Samuel Boyd,
Joseph Greenwood, Sergeant, Elisha Mirick,
Isaac Smith, Sergeant, Thomas Dryden,
Simon Davis, Sergeant, William Barber,
William Flagg, Corporal, Benjamin Allen,
Andrew Smith, Corporal, Job Harris,
Paul Raymond, Corporal, Ebenezer Goodnow,
Moses Wheeler, Corporal, Jedidiah Estabrook,
Ebenezer Fletcher, Tsaac Thompson.
Gideon Fisher,
In 1759 the following served nearly nine months each :
First Lieutenant Ebenezer Fletcher, Sergeant Samuel Bigelow,
Samuel Estabrook, Jedediah Estabrook, Job Harris, Samuel
Hubbard, John Murphy, Henry Rice and Samuel Thompson.
John Woodward and Ebenezer Goodnow also served the same
year. In 1760, “Richard Miles, born in Ireland, 36 yrs”
enlisted for the reduction of Canada. In 1761, there served
in “Thomas Cowdine’s Co.” till December 2d: Noah Cotton,
enlisted June 20th; Thomas Cotton, June 30th; ‘Thomas
Crage, June 18th; James Crage, June 18th; William McMaster,
June 18th, and Robert Train, June 30th. Isaac Whitney
served from June 29th to November 17th. In the same com-
pany the next year, 1762, Sergeant Job Harris, was mustered
in March 17th; Nathan Bigelow, March 22d; James Cutler,
March 24th, and Isaiah Sprout, March 22d; the service of
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 163
all ending November t1oth. In 1766, Ithamar Goodenough
served in Captain Fay’s Company. —
When ‘the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot
heard round the world,” its echoes roused two companies from
Holden, both of which marched April 19th, 1775.
‘¢ Roll of Major Paul Raymond Company of Militia who marched
from Holden in the County of Worcester to Cambridge on the roth
of April A D 1775. Said Company belongs to the first Regiment
in said County.”
Paul Raymond, Major,
Nat. Harrington, Lieutenant,
John Child Jr., 2d Lieutenant,
Ebenezer Estabrook, Sergeant,
Elisha Mirick, Sergeant,
Samuel Chaffin, Sergeant,
Jonathan Rice,
Moses Wheeler,
Jason Gleason,
Jesse Allen,
Joseph Fletcher,
Thomas Kimball,
Aaron Broad,
Amasa Holt,
Asa Lovell,
Amos Lovell,
William Raymond,
Amos Raymond,
Timothy Morse,
David Winch,
John Potter,
David Potter,
John Symond,
David Smith,
Amos Hubbard,
William Flagg,
Zillai Stickney,
Valentine Harris,
John Mack,
John Willington,
Israel Davis, Jr.,
Daniel Black,
Samuel Estabrook, Jr.,
David Perry,
Josiah Stratton,
Amos Heywood,
Charles Heywood,
David Fisk.
‘* Roll of the minute company in Holden Capt. James Davis,
James Davis, Captain,
Samuel Thompson, rst Lieut.,
in Col. Doolittle’s Reg. Marched April 19t8 1775.”
Noah Haven, Corporal,
Seth Snow, Corporal,
Samuel Hubbard, 2d Lieutenant, Artemas Dryden, Fifer,
Francis Willson, Sergeant,
tisha Hubbard, Sergeant,
Daniel Grout, Corporal,
Henry Taft, Corporal,
Thomas Davis,
Ephraim Smith,
Samuel Row,
Jacob Black,
HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Nathaniel Sheppard,
Simon Stickney,
Joshua Gale,
Thomas Hurd,
John Oben,
Thomas Dryden,
John Winch,
Aaron Wheeler,
Isaiah Brown,
Nathan Wheeler,
Edmund Hall,
Jesse Partridge,
Paul Goodale,
Peter Hubbard,
James Cheney,
Bartholomew Stearns,
Jonathan Howe,
John McMullen,
Jonathan Fisk,
Isaiah Cheney, Jr.,
John Dodd,
Jabez Metcalf,
Jonathan Wheeler,
Elijah Rice, Jr.,
Judah Wright.
Holden soldiers served constantly and everywhere during the
whole
Continental Army was sixty-five,
Revolutionary war.
The number serving in
the
and ninety-seven others
served for a larger or shorter time as militia.
The list of soldiers in the Continental army was as follows :
Abbott, John,
Allard, Andrew,
Bailey, John,
Bartlett, Jonathan,
Blake, Jeremiah,
Boston, Philip,
Bougle, Thomas,
Brown, David,
Cheney, Ebenezer,
Davis, Levi,
Davis, Samuel,
Davis, Solomon,
Davis, Thomas, Corporal,
Drury, William,
Dryden, Artemas, Fifer,
Eaton, Samuel,
Ebet, William,
Fisk, David,
Flagg, Jonathan,
Flagg, William,
Foster, Elisha,
Fuller, Jeremiah,
Gay, Amasa,
Grant, Samuel,
Greenwood, Asa,
Griffin, John,
Harrington,! Lemuel,
Harrington, Micah,
Harrington, Nathan, rst L’t.
Harrington, Samuel,
Heard, Thomas,
Heywood, David,
Heywood, Lemuel, Captain,
Heywood, Levi,
Holt, Ephraim, Jr.
Homes, William Thomas,
'The name is also written Herrington and Herring.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 165
Howe, Abraham,
Hubbard, Abel, Corporal,
Hubbard, Samuel, 2d Lieut.
Jolls, Thomas,
Jones, Abel,
Keyes, Ezra,
Kimball, Thomas,
Lovell, Nathan,
Mahana, John,
Nichols, David,
Partridge, Peter,
Perry, Daniel,
Perry, John, ©
Peter, Simon,
Potter, David,
Potter, James,
Raymond, William,
Rice, Ezra,
Row, Samuel,
Smith, Asa,
Stearns, Increase,
Stearis, Increase, Jr.
Stevens, Thomas,
Stickney, Barzillai,
Webb, George, Captain,
Wheeler, Moses,
Wheeler, Nathan,
Wheeler, Thomas,
Williams, John.
The list of Militia men called into active service during the
Allen, Jesse,
Black, Daniel,
Black, Jacob, Corporal,
Black, John, Corporal,
Broad, Aaron,
Brown, Isaiah, rst Lieutenant,
Chaffin, Samuel, Sergeant,
Chaffin, Tilla,
Chenery, Isaac,
Cheney, Isaiah, Jr.
Cheney, James,
Cheney, Solomon C.
Child, John, Jr., 2d Lieutenant,
Clemens, Jonathan,
Crosby, Sparrow,
Davis, Edmund,
Davis, Israel, Jr.,
Davis, James, Captain,
Davis, James, Jr.
Davis, Jonathan,
''The name also appears as Howard.
war of the Revolution is as follows:
Dodd, John,
Dryden, Thomas,
Estabrook, Ebenezer, Serg’t
Estabrook, Samuel, Jr.
Fisk, Jonathan, Sergeant,
Fletcher, James,
Gale, Joshua,
Gleason, Jason,
Goodale, Paul,
Grout, Daniel, Sergeant,
Hall, Edmund,
Harris, Valentine,
Haven, Noah, Sergeant,
Heard, William, Fifer,
Heywood,! Amos,
Heywood, Charles,
Heywood, John,
Heywood, Samuel,
Hinds, Daniel,
Hinds, Nimrod,
166
HISTORY OF
Holbrook, David,
Holt, Amasa,
Howe, Jonathan,
Howe, Joseph,
Howe, Jotham,
Hubbard, Amos,
Hubbard, Attai,!
Hubbard, Elisha, Sergeant,
Hubbard, Levi,
Hubbard, Peter,
Keyes, [saac,
Keyes, Israel,
Lovell,? Asa,
Lovell, Amos,
Mack, John,
McMullen, John,
Marshall, Timothy,
Mead, Benjamin, Jr.
Metcalt, Jabez,
Mirick, Elisha, Sergeant,
Moore, Jonathan,
Morse, Timothy,
Nichols, Jonathan,
Obens, John, Sergeant,
Parmenter, Solomon,
Partridge, Jesse, Corporal,
Perry, David,
Potter, John,
Raymond, Amos,
HOLDEN.
Raymond, Paul, Major,
Rice, Elijah, Jr.
Rice, Jonathan,
Robinson, Jeremiah,
Sargent, Daniel,
Shepherd, Nathaniel, Corp’l,
Smith, David,
Smith, Ephraim,
Smith, Joab,
Snow, Aventon,
Snow, Seth, Corporal,
Stearns, Bartholomew,
Stickney, Simeon,
Symonds, John,
Tatt, Henry, Corporal,
Thompson, Phineas,
Thompson, Samuel, Corp’l,
Turner, Bezaleel,
Walker, Hezekiah,
Webb, Constant,
Wheeler, Aaron,
Wheeler, Jonathan,
Willington, John,
Willson, Francis, Ensign,
Winch, David,
Winch, Francis,
Winch, John,
Wright, Judah.
The records show that the Revolution brought heavy finan-
cial burdens. Amid the difficulties always incident to a new
settlement, the distresses and anxieties inseparable from war,
and the constant loss arising from a depreciating currency, the
little town, not forty years old and as yet numbering scarce
seven hundred inhabitants, found it no easy matter to do what
must be done in the way of furnishing and supporting troops.
‘Died in service. ? Also written Lowell.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 167
The following records will show something of what was de-
manded and done in the struggle for independence.
March 24th, 1777. ‘+ Voted a Committee of tive men to Levy
an Equal and Equitable Assessment on the Inhabitants of Holden
towards raising men for three years or During the War”
‘* Voted Twenty Pounds to Each Man that shall inlist into the
Continental Army for Three Years or dureing the War”
January 26th, 1878. ‘+ Allowed Six pounds for the Two Months
Men to Providence
‘¢ Eleven pounds five shillings for Six weeks to Bennington
‘¢ Six pounds for one month to Fort Edward
‘« Twenty Four pounds for the five first Men that went to Provi-
dence
**Samuel Heywood Ju® to have 18 pounds & John Perry to have
14 pounds Micah Harrington to have 12 pounds
‘« Kighteen pounds for the Men that went to Still Water Three
months
‘fone pound Ten Shillings for the Men that went to Hadly for
one week ”
June 21st, 1779, it was voted to raise five men for the
Continental Army and to send twelve more to Rhode Islarid.
October 20th, seven men were hired at $300 apiece. June
Igth, 1780, ten men were called for at once. September 4th,
the town was asked to supply clothing for the troops, and more
than once afterward there stands on the town books record of
the settlement for single articles of clothing, a shirt or a waist-
coat, furnished for the soldiers. October 18th, the town voted
to provide four thousand eight hundred pounds of beef.
December 25th, 1780, there was a levy of nine more men to be
met.
“¢ Voted to give the men that Shall Engage to serve 3 years in the
Continental Army 20 3 year olds or the Value thereof at the Expi-
ration of S¢ Term—and if S¢ Men Serve but one year they shall
have 20 yearlings & if 2 years 20 2 year olds 5¢ Cattle to be of
middling Size.”
This proposition, however, seems to have found no takers,
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HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
July 9th, 1781, more beef was
At the same time six soldiers must be sent to
The following statement stands upon the records of the town:
‘* The following is an account of what Cost the Town of Holden
has been at During the present war in part.
7o men the first alarm at Cambridge April 19, 1775
27 men 8 month at Winter Hill May
12 men 6 weeks at Dotchester December
12 men 2 month at Dotchester Febr
18 men 5 month at New York July
3 men one year to the North wood
4 men 5 month at Ticonderoga July
4 men 5 month at Boston July
15 men 2 month at New York Septr
T5 men 3 month at the Jersies Decem'
* § men8 month at Rhod island upon
a request of the General Court April 12.
Ir men 6 weeks at Bennington July
15 men 3 month at Still water Septer 2
7 men 2 month at Providance May
20 men one month at Fort Edward October
1 man 6 month to guard Stores at
Brook field June
‘¢ 3 men 6 month to guard Stores at
Brook field Decem™
“© g men 3 month at Rutland as guards March
‘* 3 men 6 month at Rutland July
‘+ 4 men 3 month to Dotchester Sept"
‘* 5 men 9 month to Reinforce the
Continental army July
‘+ 4 men 8 month to Peekskill May 29
*- 6 men 9 month to Rhod island March
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To the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, Holden sent few
soldiers. The records of the United States Government show
that Reuben Coombs, John Holman and Henry Lawrence
served from August 30th to October 31st, 1815, in Captain Enos
Goss’ company of Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Page's Detached
Massachusetts Militia at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor.
Charles Paul, at one time a resident of Holden, is said to have
served in the Mexican War and in Indian warfare before his
enlistment in the War of the Rebellion.
In a list of militiamen, without date,’ the names of the
following officers appear :
John Bigelow, Captain, Samuel Heywood, Ensign.
Cyprian Stevens, Lieutenant,
In 1763, we have this list :
Samuel Heywood, Captain, John Child, 2d Lieutenant,
Samuel Hubbard, rst Lieutenant, Amos Heywood, Ensign.
In 1771 this was the list :
Amos Heywood, Captain, Nathan Harrington, 2d Lieutenant,
Paul Raymond, 1st Lieutenant, John Child, Jr., Ensign.
The following persons residing in Holden received commis-
sions in the militia at the dates named:
Abbott, Chenery — Paymaster, July 7th, 1818 ; Captain, August
12th, 1826; Major, May 7th, 1828.
Abbott, Jarvis — Captain, February 15th, 1817; Major, April
21st, 1819; Colonel, May 27th, 1822.
Abbott, Lemuel —Ensign, Muy 30th, 1796; Lieutenant,
September 17th, 1798; Captain, May 6th, 1800.
1«« Must have been’ made at an early period.”—Damon History.
170 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Babcock, Avery G. — Surgeon’s Mate, September 2d, 1831.
Bartlett, Phineas T.— Adjutant, July tst, 1828; Paymaster,
May 6th, 1823.
Boynton, John — Paymaster, September 6th, 1836.
Broad, Asa—Ensign, March 15th, 1808; Captain, March
r2th, 1810,
Chaffin, Hollis — Ensign, June 28th, 1828; Lieutenant, May
13th, 1829; Captain, September 15th, 1832.
Chaffin, Samuel — Ensign, May 7th, 1816; Captain, March
7th, 1818.
Chapin,' John — Lieutenant, March 29th, 1802; Captain,
March 15th, 1808.
Cheney, Simon — Ensign, March 31st, 1812; Lieutenant, July
tith, 1812; Captain, March 25th, 1815.
Clark, William — Ensign, September 15th, 1836.
Crosby, Sparrow — Ensign, August r1th, 1827; Captain, Sep-
tember 15th, 1832.
Damon, Isaac P.—Lieutenant, September 7th, 1838; Cap-
tain, April 25th, 1839; Major, August 28th, 1839.
Damon, Samuel, Jr. — Lieutenant, August 7th, 1810; Captain,
May 4th, 1813; Major, September rst, 1814; Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, June 20th, 1816; Colonel, May 25th, 1818.
Daniels, Joseph, Jr. — Captain, March 27th, 1815.
Davis, Benjamin — Adjutant, September 3d, 1816.
Davis, Daniel — Cornet, May 7th, 1811; Lieutenant, May 4th,
1813; Captain, September 26th, 1814.
Davis, Dennis — Ensign, August 25th, 1824; Lieutenant, May
14th, 1825; Captain, June gth, 1827.
Davis, Ethan, Jr. — Quartermaster, September 2d, 1830.
Davis, Gardner — Quartermaster, August 4th, 1825.
Davis, John — Captain, October 28th, 1789; Major, Septem-
ber 3d, 1798; Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, Sep-
tember 28th, 1801.
Davis, Jones — Cornet, May 3d, 1808.
Davis, Lemuel — Quartermaster, October 21st, 1793.
' Also written Chapping.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 171
Davis, Merrill — Lieutenant, February 15th, 1817; Captain,
June §:h, 1819; Major, October 25th, 1820; Colonel,
May 27th, 1822.
Davis, Paul, Jr.— Lieutenant, March 12th, 1810; Captain,
March 31st, 1812; Major, May r4th, 1812.
Davis, Thomas J. — Ensign, December 23:1, 1820; Lieutenant,
August 21st, 1821; Captain, May 14th, 1825.
Drury, Abel — Lieutenant, September 5th, 1831.
Drury, William, Jr.— Ensign, June sth, 1819; Lieutenant,
December 23d, 1820.
Dryden, Artemas, Jr.— Lieutenant, April r4th, 1821; Cap-
tain, June 23d, 1823; Major, June 27th, 1826; Lieuten-
ant-Colonel, April 14th, 1827; Colonel, May 7th, 1828.
Estabrook, Austin — Ensign, July ist, 1835; Lieutenant,
August 6th, 1836; Captain, September 7th, 1838.
Estabrook, Eben R. — Aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General, Au-
gust 15th, 1839.
Estabrook, Ebenezer — Quartermaster, September 7th, 1789.
Estabrook, George — Surgeon’s Mate, August 29th, 1820.
Estabrook, James — Ensign, September 17th, 1790; Lieuten-
ant, April 28th, 1800; Captain, March 29th, 1802;
Major, November 27th, 1807.
Estabrook, John — Ensign, June 23d, 1820; Lieutenant, Janu-
ary Ist, 1828; Captain, June 28th, 1828.
Estabrook, Jonathan — Ensign, March 2gth, 1802; Lieuten-
ant, March 15th, 1808.
Estabrook, Jones— Cornet, February 20th, 1819; Adjutant,
August 13th, 1822.
Estabrook, Joseph — Eusign, May 6th, 1800.
Estabrook, Stillman — Ensign, September 5th, 1831 ; Captain,
April 13th, 1833; Colonel, August 15th, 1834.
Estabrook, Washington — Ensign, March 7th, 1818; Lieuten-
ant, May 5th, 1818.
Fairbanks, Winslow — Ensign, July 28th, 1827; Lieutenant,
May 15th, 1830.
Fales, Leonard — Ensign, April 13th, 1833.
172 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Farrar, Peter — Ensign, July rith, 1812; Lieutenant, March
sth, 1815; Captain, May 7th, 1816.
Flagg, George — Paymaster, February 2oth, 1818.
Flagg, Lyman—-Ensign, June ist, 1828; Lieutenant, June
28th, 1828; Captain, May 13th, 18209.
Flagg, Silas — Ensign, March 12th, 1810; Lieutenant, March
31st, 1812; Captain, June 11th, 1812; Major, February
8th, 1815.
Goulding, Jason —-Cornet, August 26th, 1823: Lieutenant,
August 15th, 1825.
Heywood, Simon — Cornet, April roth, 1815.
Holt, Joab S.—Ensign, April 13th, 1833; Lieutenant,
September 21st, 1833 ; Captain, September 25th, 1834;
Major, August 22d, 1836; Lieutenant-Colonel, Septem-
ber 14th, 1836; Colonel, July 6th, 1837.
Howe, Amasa— Ensign, September 4th, 1832; Lieutenant,
April 2d, 1833.
Hubbard, Daniel -— Captain, July 28th, 1837.
Hubbard, Peter — Ensign, May 2d, 1790.
Hubbard, Samuel — Paymaster, July Ist, 1812.
Hubbard, Willard M.— Ensign, March 25th, 1815 ; Lieutenant,
May 7th, 1816,
Hubbard, William — Lieutenant, June 12th, 1810.
Hyde, Beriah W. — Ensign, April 25th, 1839.
Kendall, Caleb, Jr. — Ensign, September 21st, 1833 ; Lieuten-
ant, September 25th, 1834; Captain, August 6th, 1836.
Kendall, James — Ensign, August 6th, 1836.
Knowlton, George—Ensign, September 7th, 1838; Lieu-
tenant, April 25th, 1830.
Mann, Jason — Ensign, May 14th, 1825.
May, Henry — Ensign, January Ist, 1834.
Maynard, John P. — Ensign, February 18th, 1817; Lieutenant,
June 5th, 1819; Captain, December 23d,.1820; Pay-
master, December 23d, 1820.
Moore, Newell— Lieutenant, September 15th, 1832.
Ormsby, Marcus —— Lieutenant,.September 15th, 1836.
Paine, William P. —Chaplain, September 6th, 1836.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 173
Parker, Timothy —- Captain, June 8th, 1836.
Raymond, James — Ensign, April 14th, 1821.
Read, John — Lieutenant, April 4th, 1806.
Robbins, Augustus —- Surgeon’s Mate, August roth, 1837.
Skinner, Aaron G.— Surgeon, September 6th, 1836.
Smith, David — Lieutenant, May 27th, 1790; Captain, Sep-
tember 17th, 1790.
Smith, John M.— Surgeon’s Mate, May 22d, 1819.
Stratton, Samuel — Lieutenant, June gth, 1827; Lieutenant-
Colonel, August 15th, 1831.
Waters, George — Chaplain, August 19th, 1837.
Wheeler, Asa — Quartermaster, April 18th, 1806.
The most of the militia service of Holden men was per-
formed in connection with a “Grenadier” company. Some
years before the Centennial of the town,’ a company of “Light
Infantry " was also organized, and the two flourished simulta-
neously for some years. Both, however, ceased to exist not
long after the Centennial. No record of the issue of any
commission has been found later than June, 1842.
About fifteen years later, a “ Rifle’ company was organized,
The commissions of its first officers bear date, December 13th,
1856. By the promptness of their response to our country’s
call and the faithfulness of their service, the “ Rifles”? have
become the peculiar glory of Holden. The term of enlist-
ment of its members expired during the civil war, and it dis-
banded.
The list of commissions in the Militia of Massachusetts
issued to members of the “ Rifle’ company is as follows :
Bascom, George — Fourth Lieutenant, May 18th, 1861; Cap-
tain, September Ist, 1862.
Damon, Augustus F.— Fourth Lieutenant, June 23d, 1860;
First Lieutenant, December 13th, 1856; Captain, Au-
gust 28th, 1858.
Flagg, Silas — Third Lieutenant, June 23d, 1860.
‘Damon History, p. 138.
74 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Gleason, Charles W.— Third Lieutenant, December 13th,
1856; Second Lieutenant, June 2oth, 1857; First
Lieutenant, August 28th, 1858.
Gleason, Joseph H.—Second Lieutenant, June gth, 1860;
First Lieutenant, April 19th, 1861; Captain, May 18th,
1861.
Hall, Theron E.— Captain, December 13th, 1856; Quarter-
master, Staff of Third Division, July 13th, 18509.
Knowlton, Charles — Fourth Lieutenant, "December 13th,
1856; Third Lieutenant, June 20th, 1857; Second
Licutenant, August 28th, 1858; Captain, June goth,
1860.
Ladd, Alfred—Second Lieutenant, December 13th, 1856;
First Lieutenant, May 2d, 1857.
Newell, Phineas R.— Second Lieutenant, April Igth, 1861;
First Lieutenant, May 18th, 1861.
Parmenter, David F.— Fourth Lieutenant, June 20th, 1857;
Quartermaster, August 27th, 1859.
The following is the most accurate list, which, after search
of Post, State and National records, it has been found practi-
cable to make of the soldiers who served in the War of the
Rebellion, going from Holden, or serving on the quota of
Holden.
Armington, Samuel W.— Company D, Fifteenth Regiment,
Enlisted January 3d, 1862.
Ball, Diah— Company B, Third Battalion ; wagoner, Company
K, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted April rgth, 1861,
re-enlisted September 2oth, 1861.
Ball, Warren J.— Company B, Third Battalion ; Company G,
First Cavalry ; Lieutenant, Company D, Second Cavalry.
Enlisted April 19th, 1861 ; re-enlisted September 25th,
1861 ; re-enlisted December r1gth, 1862.
Barden, Charles—-Company K, Thirty-fourth Regiment;
Company G, Twenty-fourth Regiment. Enlisted
December 2d, 1863 ; transferred June 14th, 1865.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 175
Bascom, Artemas D.— Corporal, Company B, Third Battalion.
Enlisted April 19th, 1861.
Bascom, George — Lieutenant, Company B, Third Battalion ;
Captain, Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. Enlisted
April 19th, 1861; re-enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Bassett, Dexter T.— Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment,
Enlisted February 15th, 1865.
Bassett, Uriah— Company A, Fifty-seventh Regiment. En-
listed January 4th, 1864. Killed on Welden R. R.
August 1gth, 1864.
Bates, John W—Company C, Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed August 23d, 1861.
Belden, Charles R.— Company RB, Fifty-first Regiment. En-
listed September 30th, 1862.
Bigelow, George T.— Company E, Twenty-first Regiment.
Enlisted August 23d, 1861. Killed at Antietam, Md.,
September 17th, 1862.
Black, Henry E.— Company B, Fifty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted January 4th, 1864. Died at Alexandria, Va.,
February 22d, 1865.
Brock, Albert L.— Company E, Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed July 19th, 1861.
Brown, George W.—-Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 5th, 1864. Died at Charlotte, N. C.,
May 27th, 1865.
Burnett, George M.— Company B, Third Battalion ; Sergeant,
Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. Enlisted April roth,
1861; re-enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Burnham, Charles L.— Company H, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted July 28th, 1862.
Callum, William J.—Company A, Fifty-first Regiment.
Enlisted September 6th, 1862.
Canniffe, Lyman R.—Company B, Fifty-first Regiment.
Enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Chaffin, Alfred — Musician, Thirty-sixth Regiment. Enlisted
August 22d, 1862.
176 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Chaffin, Frederic W.—Company A, Fifteenth Regiment.
‘Enlisted July 12th, 1861.
Chaffin, Winslow — Company G, Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed August 15th, 1861.
Chamberlain, Levi— Company A, Thirty-sixth Regiment. En-
listed August 7th, 1862. Killed at Spottsylvania, Va.,
May 12th, 1864.
Chenery, Cyrus, Jr.— Corporal, Company B, Third Battalion ;
Corporal, Company B, Fifty-first Regiment; Corporal,
Company F, Forty-second Regiment. Enlisted April
Igth, 1861; re-enlisted September 30th, 1862; re-en-
listed July 15th, 1864.
Chenery, Henry C.— Company B, Fifty-first Regiment ; Com-
pany F, Forty-second Regiment. Enlisted September
30th, 1862; re-enlisted July 15th, 1864.
Cheney, George L.—Company G, Twenty-first Regiment.
Enlisted August 1sth, 1861.
Clapp, W. Warren— Company I, Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed November 6th, 1861.
Clark, Edward— Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed September 20th, 1861. Died at Washington,
N. C., September 18th, 1863.
Clark, Edward B.— Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed September 21st, 1861.
Clark, George S.— Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment. En-
listed July 29th, 1862.
Clark, John — Company -~, —— New York Cavalry. En-
listed February 12th, 1862.
Clark, John H.— Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment ; Com-
pany A, Twenty-fourth Regiment. Enlisted December
5th, 1863; transferred June r4th, 186s.
Clark, Samuel A.— Company B, Third Battalion ; Company
K, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted April 19th, 1861;
re-enlisted September 16th, 1861.
Combs, Ariel— Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted
January 7th, 1865.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 177
Corey, George A.— Company B, Third Battalion: Company
G, Twenty-first Regiment; Corporal, Company H,
Thirtieth Regiment ; Corporal, Company F, Fifty-sixth
Regiment.: Enlisted April i1oth, 1861; re-enlisted
August 23d, 1861; transferred June 2d, 1864; trans-
ferred June 8th, 1865.
Creed, Albert F.— Company H, Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed August 23d, 186t1.
Cutting, George E.—Company F, Fourth Heavy Artillery.
Died December 26th, 1864.
Cutting, Jacob P— Company G, Eighteenth Regiment. En-
listed August 24th, 1861.
Cutting, Joseph B— Company B, Eighteenth Regiment ;
Company C, Thirty-second Regiment. Enlisted Feb-
ruary oth, 1864; transferred October 26th, 1864.
Damon, Isaac— Sergeant, Company B, Fifty-first Regiment.
Enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Davenport, Allen — Company E. Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed August 15th, 1861.
Davenport, Elisha G.— Company G, Fifty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted March toth, 1864. Killed in the Wilderness,
Va., May 6th, 1864.
Davis, Edward J.— Corporal, Company G, Forty-ninth Regi-
ment. Enlisted September 20th, 1862.
Davis, Francis E.— Company B, Third Battalion. Enlisted
April 19th, 1861.
Davis, George D.— Sergeant, Company G, Thirty-sixth Regi-
ment. Enlisted August 20th, 1862.
Defose, Charles L_— Company D, Fifteenth Regiment; Or-
derly-Sergeant, Company C, Fifty-seventh Regiment ;
Lieutenant, Company B, Fifty-seventh Regiment. En-
listed July 12th, 1861; re-enlisted February 6th, 1864;
re-enlisted June 12th, 1865.
Denny, Austin — Company H, Twenty-eighth Regiment. En-
listed December 30th, 1861.
178 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Fales, Henry M.— Company B, Third Battalion; Company B,
Fifty-first Regiment; Corporal, Company G, Fifty-
seventh Regiment. Enlisted April 19th, 1861; re-
enlisted September 39th, 1862 ; re-enlisted March 1oth,
1864. Killed in the Wilderness, Va., May 6th, 1864.
Farrar, Charles E.— Corporal, Company A, Thirty-sixth Regi-
ment. Enlisted August 2d, 1862.
Fearing, John— Company B, Third Battalion; Company G,
Twenty-first Regiment. Enlisted April 19th, 1861 ;
re-enlisted August 23d, 1861. Died of wounds at Cold
Harbor, Va., August 3d, 1864.
Ford, Charles H.— Company K, Fourth Cavalry. Enlisted
August 8th, 1864.
Fuller, Fred L.—Company B, Twenty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted September 24th, 1861.
Gammell, Andrew—Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment ;
Company A, Twenty-fourth Regiment. Enlisted De-
cember 16th, 1863; transferred June 14th, 1865.
Gibbs, Charles— Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed September 14th, 1861. Died at Annapolis, Md.,
September 13th, 1864.
Gill, Franklin— Company F, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed July 24th, 1862.
Gleason, Daniel H. L.— Captain, Brevet Major, Company G,
First Cavalry. Enlisted September 25th, 1861.
Gleason, Dexter F.— Company H, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 23d, 1861.
Gleason, Joseph H.— Captain, Company B, Third Battalion.
Enlisted April 19th, 1861.
Goodnow, James W.—Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted February 22d, 1864. Died in prison, septa
ber 25th, 1864.
Haley, James W.— Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed September 27th, 1861. Died at Holden, Febru-
ary 22d, 1864. .
Hall, Mortimer T.—Company E, Twenty-first Regiment.
Enlisted August 15th, 1861.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 179
Hall, Theron E.— Lieutenant and Adjutant, Twenty-first
Regiment, Colonel and Chief Quartermaster, Ninth
Corps. Enlisted September 18th, 1861.
Handley, John —Company H, Fifty-seventh Regiment. En-
listed January 11th, 1864. Killed in the Wilderness,
May 6th, 1864.
Handy, Edward—Company I, Fourth Cavalry. Enlisted
August roth, 1864.
Handy, George W.—Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment.
Enlisted July 31st, 1862.
Handy, William H.— Company B, Fifty-first Regiment, En-
listed September 30th, 1862.
Henry, Albert — Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment ; Com-
pany A, Twenty-fourth Regiment. Enlisted September
19th, 1863; transferred June 14th, 1865.
Henry, Edward C.— Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment.
Enlisted July 29th, 1862.
Hill, Charles R.— Company B, Third Battalion; Corporal,
Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted April
1gth, 1861; re-enlisted January 19th, 1864.
Holden, Gustavus S.—Company C, Fifty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted February 12th, 1864.
Holt, Henry M.—Company B, Filty-first Regiment. Enlisted
September 30th, 1862. Died at Holden, November
24th, 1862.
Hosmer, Dennis — Company E, Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed July 19th, 1861.
Houghton, John R.—Company G, Thirty-fourth Regiment.
Enlisted July 31st, 1862. Died at Fort Lyon, Va,
December rith, 1862.
Howe, Amasa A.—Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment.
Enlisted July 29th, 1862. Died in prison at Florence,
S. C, November 25th, 1864.
Howe, Hiram— Company B, Third Battalion; Company G,
Thirty first Regiment. Enlisted April 19th, 1861; re-
enlisted December 2oth, 1861.
180 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Hubbard, Calvin—Company G, Thirty-sixth Regiment.
Enlisted August 17th, 1862. Died in Libby Prison,
Richmond, Va, February 26th, 1863.
Hubbard, John F —Company B, Third Battalion; Sergeant,
Company B, lifty-first Regiment. Enlisted April 19th,
1861; re-eniisted September 30th, 1862.
Hubbard, Lyman A.—Company B, Fifty-first Regiment.
Enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Hubbard, Martin—Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. En-
listed September 30th, 1862.
Hubbard, Myron E.— Company E, Twenty-first Regiment.
Enlisted August 15th, 1861.
Hubbard, Stephen N.— Wagoner, Company G, Thirty-sixth
Regiment. Enlisted August 12th, 1862.
Humphrey, Henry H.—Company C, Thirty-sixth Regiment.
Enlisted August 27th, 1862.
Johnson, George T.—Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment.
Enlisted January 5th, 1862. Died in hospital, Phila-
delphia, Pa., January 4th, 1865.
Kelton, Ira J.— Sergeant, Company B, Third Battalion; Cap-
tain, Company C, Twenty-first Regiment. Enlisted
April 19th, 1861; re-enlisted October 3d, 1861. Fell.
mortally wounded at Chantilly, Va, September ist,
1862; died at Georgetown, D. C., September roth,
1862.
Kennan, Myron J.— Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. En-
listed September 30th, 1862.
Kennan, Silas F.— Company H, Thirty-first Regiment. En-
listed November 1oth, 1861. .
Keyes, Lyman E.-—Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 13th, 1861. Killed June 3d, 1864.
Knowlton, Charles H.— Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 14th, 1861.
Knowlton, Franklin A.—Company B, Fifty-first Regiment.
Eniisted September 30th, 1862.
Knox, Henry F.— Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed September 16th, 1861.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 181
Knox, Walter D.—Company A, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 16th, 1861.
Ladd, Henry C.— Company B, Third Battalion; Company —,
Fifty-first Regiment. Enlisted April tgth, 1861; re-
enlisted —
Levally, Godfrey —Company FE, ‘Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted October 12th, 1861.
Lincoln, Albert A.— Corporal, Company Bb, Fifty-first Regi-
ment. Enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Logan, John M.— Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed April 7th, 1862.
Lovell, Lewis—Company K, Fourth Cavalry. Enlisted
August gth, 1864.
Lowell, Heury H.—Company F, Forty-second Regiment.
Enlisted July 15th, 1864. Died at Alexandria, Va.,
October 5th, 1864.
Lowell, William J.— Company H, Twenty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted August 15th, 1862. '
Lumazette, Francis — Company B, Third Battalion; Company
G, Twenty-first Regiment; Company K, Thirty-sixth
Regiment; Company B, Fifty-sixth Regiment. En-
listed April 19th, 1861; re-enlisted August 15th, 1861;
re-enlisted January Ist, 1864. Died of wounds Au-
gust 13th, 1864.
McDonald, John A.—Captain, Company H, Twenty-eighth
Regiment. Lnlisted October 8th, 1861, transferred
July 26th, 1863, to Veteran Reserve Corps.
McGrath, James, Jr.— Company B, Fifty-first Regiment ; Com-
pany F, Forty-second Regiment. Enlisted September
30th, 1862; re-enlisted July 15th, 1864.
Martin, Joseph—— Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En.
listed October 6th, 1861.
May, John E.—Company B, Fifty-seventh Regiment. En-
: listed January 4th, 1864.
Mayo, John S.—Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment, En-
listed September 21st, 1861,
182 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Merrifield, Frank H.—Company D, Fifteenth Regiment
Company G, Twentieth Regiment. Enlisted March
sth, 1862, transferred July 27th, 1864.
Moore, Charles S— Company B, Third Battalion; Company
H, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted April roth,
1861 ; re-enlisted October 18th, 1861.
Moore, Franklin—Company A, First Provisional Guards.
Enlisted July 13th, 1863.
Moore, Harlan P.— Sergeant, Company K, Thirty-sixth Regi-
ment. Enlisted July 28th, 1862. Died at Camp Nel-
son, Ky., March tst, 1864.
Moses, Samuel A.— Company Bb, Third Battalion. Enlisted
April roth, 1861.
Murphy, Michael— Nineteenth Regiment, unassigned. En-
listed July 31st, 1863.
Newell, George W.— Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted April 7th, 1862. Died of wounds at Fort
Schuyler, New York Harbor, July 24th, 1864.
Newell, Hiram P.— Sergeant, Company B, Third Battalion.
Enlisted April roth, 1861.
Newell, Phineas R.— Lieutenant, Company B, Third Battalion ;
Lieutenant, Company F, Forty-second Regiment. En-
listed April 11th, 1861; re-enlisted July 15th, 1864.
Nichols, William H.— Musician, Twenty-first Regiment.
Enlisted August 23d, 1861. :
O'Brien, William — Bugier, Company K, Fourth Cavalry.
Enlisted August 8th, 1864.
Paddock, Charles F.— Company B, Fifty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted January 4th, 1864.
Paine, Seth H.—Comyany G, Twenty-first Regiment. En.
listed August 13th, 1861.
Panton, Maxie — Company B, Third Battalion; Company F,
Twenty-first Regiment. Enlisted April roth, 1861;
re-enlisted August 15th, 1861.
Parker, Edward — Company D, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed September 27th, 1862; re-enlisted February,
1864.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 183
Parker, Edwin S—Company A, Ninth Regiment; Company
A, Thirty-second Regiment. Enlisted July 13th, 1863 ;
transferred June oth, 1864.
Parker, William — Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. Enlisted
September 30th, 1862.
Parmenter, Rodney A.—Company B, Fifty-first Regiment.
Enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Paul, Charles—Company A, Fifty-seventh Regiment. En-
listed January 4th, 1864; transferred to Veteran Re-
serve Corps.
Perry, Cyrus M.— Chaplain, Twenty-fourth New York Cavalry.
Enlisted April 3d, 1865.
Perry, William C.— Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment. En-
listed July 29th, 1862. Died at Fort Lyon, Alexandria,
Va., October 21st, 1862.
Pierce, Oliver— Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. Enlisted
September 30th, 1862.
Piper, Alfred —Company B, Third Battalion; Company E,
Twenty-afth Regiment. Enlsted April toth, 1861 ;
re-enlisted September roth, 1861.
Pratt, Edwin F.— Company RB, Third Battalion; Company K,
Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted April roth, 1861 ;
re-enlisted September 17th, 1861.
Preston, Samuel— Company B, Third Battalion ; Company K,
Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted April 19th, 1861 ;
re-enlisted September 17th, 1861.
Putnam, Willard R.— Company A, First Cavalry. Enlisted
January 5th, 1864.
Riley, Michael — Company G, Twenty fifth Regiment. Enlisted
March 5th, 1864. Killed at Drury’s Bluff, May 16th,
1864.
Rivers, Edward —. Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment ;-Com-
pany A, Twenty-fourth Regiment. Enlisted December
15th, 1863 ; transferred June 14th, 1865.
Rivers, Peter — Company I, Fourth Cavalry. Enlisted August
gth, 1864.
154 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Robinson, Albert B.— Surgeon, Tenth Regiment ; Surgeon,
Forty-second Regiment. Enlisted August oth, 1862.
re-enlisted July 15th, 1864.
Robinson, Thomas— Company G, Twenty-first Regiment ;
Company K, Thirty-sixth Regiment ; Company E, Fifty-
sixth Regiment. Enlisted August 23d, 1861; re-en-
listed, January rst, 1864.
Rogers, Emory— Corporal, Company B, Third Battalion ;
Lieutenant, Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. En-
listed April roth, 1861; re-enlisted September 30th,
1862.
Rogers, Winslow B.— Musician, Company G, Thirty-sixth
Regiment. Enlisted August 12th, 1862. Died at
Vicksburg, Miss., July 25th, 1863.
Santon, Oliver— Company E, Twenty-first Regiment. En-
listed August 15th, 1861.
Savage, George E.— Musician, Company B, Fifty-first Regi-
ment. Enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Savage, John B.-—Company B, Third Battalion; Campany A,
Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted April rgth, 1861 ;
re enlisted September 12th, 1861. Died in prison at
Belle Isle, Va., March Ist, 1864.
Sargent, Ephraim H.— Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment ;
Company A, Twenty-fourth Regiment. Enlisted De-
cember 14th, 1863; transferred June 14th, 1865.
Sawyer, Alphonso B.— Company B, Third Battalion. Enlisted
April 19th, 1861.
Seaver, George H.— Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted January 11th, 1865,
Seaver, Roswell R—Company A, Fifty-seventh Regiment ;
Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted January
4th, 1864; re-enlisted January 11th, 1865.
Short, John — Company E, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted
October 12th, 1861.
Smith, Artemas C.— Company —, First Battalion; Sergeant,
Company G, Second Cavalry. Enlisted ; re-en-
listed
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 185
Smith, David — Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. Enlisted
September 30th, 1862.
Smith, George A.— Company B, Third Battalion. Enlisted
April 19th, 1861.
Smith, Herbert J.— Company B, Third Battalion. Enlisted
April 1oth, 1861.
Smith, Thoret — Company G, Thirty-sixth Regiment. Enlisted
August 4th, 1862. .
Stearns, Ezra J.— Company C, Thirty-fourth Regiment. En-
listed December 7th, 1863.
Steele, Charles H.— Company F, Second Regiment. Enlisted.
May 25th, 1861.
Steele, George W.— Company K, Fourth Cavalry. Enlisted
August 8th, 1864.
Thurston, George T.— Company B, Fifty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted January r4th, 1864. Died of wounds at
Washington, D.C., June 3d, 1864.
Thurston, Lyman F.— Company G, Twenty-first Regiment ;
Company K, Thirty-sixth Regiment; Company B,
Fifty-sixth Regiment. Enlisted August 23d, 1861;
re-enlisted January Ist, 1864.
Truesdell, Horace L.— Company B, Fifty-first Regiment;
Company I, Fourth Cavalry. Enlisted September 30th,
1862 ; re-enlisted August gth, 1864. Died of wounds,
April 15th, 1865.
Truesdell Lucius — —— New York Cavairy. Enlisted
February 12th, 1862.
Tucker, Alfred S— Company A, Thirty-sixth Regiment. En-
listed August 6th, 1862. Died at Salisbury, N. C.,
February .6th, 1865.
Turner, George H,— Company F, Forty-second Regiment.
Enlisted July 15th, 1864.
Williams, Count DeLeon — Company F, Twenty-second Regi-
ment. Enlisted August roth, 1861.
Winn, Cyrus D.—Company. B, Fifty-first Regiment. En-
~ listed September 30th, 1862.
186 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Winn, James W.—Company B, Fifty-first Regiment ; Com.
pany F, Forty-second Regiment. Enlisted September
30th, 1862; re-enlisted July 14th, 1864.
Wright, Frank — Sergeant, Company A, Twenty-fifth Regi-
ment. Enlisted January roth, 1864.
A list is given in the Report of the Selectmen for 1864,' of
those who had enlisted between October, 1863, and February,
1864. Most of the names appear in the above list, but of the
following it has not been possible, after diligent inquiry, to
learn anything beyond the fact stated above:
Charles Badew, Franklin H. Tolman,
Latham Burt, John W. Winch.
Robert Clark,
The following is a list of such residents of Holden, before or
since the war, as are known to have served in putting down the
Rebellion :
Aldrich, Frank A.— Company H, First Rhode Island Light
Artillery.
Allen, Dwight D.—Sergeant, Company H, Fifty-seventh Regi-
ment. Enlisted June rith, 1864. Killed July 3oth,
1864, at Petersburg, Va.
Allen, James H.—Company E, First Vermont. Enlisted May
2d, 1861.
Armington, Alonzo C.—Company C, Third Vermont. Killed
at the battle of Savage Station, June 29th, 1862.
Armington, Henry C.— Company K, Ninth Maine. Killed
before Petersburg, July 30th, 1864.
Ball, Oscar C.— Sergeant, Company F, First Missouri Engi-
neers. Enlisted September 23d, 1861.
Bates, Ira D.— Principal Musician, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 12th, 1861. .
‘«To make known to all the patriotism of our citizens in answering the
demands of our government, we give the names of those who have volun-
teered and entered the service of our country since October last.” Selectmen
of Holden in their report for the year ending February 22d, 1864.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 187
Bennett, Austin C.— Company F, Fourth Regiment Heavy
Artillery. Enlisted August gth, 1864.
Berry, Joseph — Company B, First Regiment Heavy Artillery,
Enlisted December 15th, 1863,
Betterley, Edward S.— Company A, Fifteenth Regiment;
Twentieth Regiment. Enlisted August 2d, 1861;
transferred July 27th, 1864.
Bixby, Jacob W.— Company C, Twenty-sixth Regiment. En-
listed August 12th, 1862.
Bracewell, Joseph— Company B, Twenty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted August 28th, 1862.
Chaffee, G. Edwin — Company I, Fifty-third Regiment ; Com-
pany E, Forty-second Regiment. Enlisted September
6th, 1862; re enlisted July 22d, 1864.
Chaffin, Harry W.-— Company K, Ninth Regiment, United
States Volunteers.
Chaffin, Willard — First Battery, Light Artillery ; Ninth Bat-
tery, Light Artillery. Enlisted August 28th, 1861 ; re-
enlisted December 24th, 1865 ; transferred March 12th,
1865.
Clark, Simeon C.— Acting Third Assistant Engineer, United
States Navy, on S. S. Vixen. Enlisted November 2oth,
1862.
Clark, Thaddeus S.—Tenth unattached Company, Heavy Ar-
tillery ; transferred to United States Navy, serving on
S. S. Princeton and Monitor Tunxis. ‘Enlisted August
5th, 1863.
Cole, Stephen T.— Company B, Twelfth Regiment ; Company
E, Fourth Cavalry. Enlisted May 15th, 1861 ; re-en-
listed January 4th, 1864.
Comstock, Albert M.— Musician, Company B, Seventy-second
New York. Enlisted May 28th, 1861.
Cooley, Marius S.— Company G, Second Regiment. Enlisted
August 14th, 1862; transferred to Veteran Reserve
Corps. :
Creed, Isaac — Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment. Enlisted
April 7th, 1862.
188 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Davis, Alden G.— Company B, Twenty-third New York. En-
listed June ist, 1863.
Dean, Paul I— Company D, Fourth Regiment Heavy Artil
lery. Enlisted August 17th, 1864.
Dockham, Daniel— Company G, Twelfth New Hampshire.
Enlisted March 29th, 1864.
Dunker, George.
Durdeen, Smith— Company F, Fifth Regiment. Enlisted
May 28th, 1864.
Gardner, Andrew J.— Company C, Fourth Rhode Island. En-
listed September gth, 1861.
Geer, Roman J.— Corporal, Company K, Seventh Connecticut.
Enlisted September 12th, 1861.
Graham, George S.— Company D, Fifty-third Regiment. En-
listed September 2d, 1862.
Harrington, Dennis —Company E, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted June 3d, 1862.
Hill, William — Corporal, Company A, Second Vermont.’
Enlisted July — 1863.
Howe, Church — Sergeant, Company G, Sixth Regiment ; Cap-
tain, Company K, Fifteenth Regiment; brevetted Major ;
Senior Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sedgwick. En-
listed April 16th, 1861.
Jordan, William A.— Company C, Eighty-eighth Illinois. En-
listed August loth, 1862.
Kendall, Herbert I.
Kilburn, William W.— Lieutenant. Killed at the battle of
Williamsburg.
Ladd, George H.— Corporal, Company F, Forty-second Regi-
ment. Enlisted July 11th, 1864.
Lamb, Edward P.—Company B, Third Battalion ; Corporal,
Company F, Eighteenth Wisconsin. Enlisted April
Igth, 1861; re-enlisted February sth, 1862.
Lane, Benjamin H.— Company H, One Hundred and Forty-
ninth Pennsylvania. Enlisted August 26th, 1862,
MILITARY AFFAIRS. 189
Leslie, Charles H.— Company C, Thirty-fifth Regiment ; Cor-
poral, Company C, Twenty-ninth Regiment. Enlisted
August 11th, 1864; transferred June gth, 1865.
Loring, Silas H.— Company A, Fifty-first Regiment. En-
listed September 3d, 1862.
McCabe, John M.— Company B, Second Regiment. Enlisted
May 11th, 1861.
McCarty, Edward.
Mellsop, James—Company D, Fifty-first Regiment. En-
listed September 30th, 1862.
Merriam, Horace— Company C, Twenty-fifth Regiment. En-
listed October roth, 1861.
Moore, Marcus— Company F, Fifty-first Regiment. Enlisted
October 14th, 1862.
Moore, Thomas— Company I, Tenth Rhode Island. Enlisted
May 26th, 1862.
Moran, Thomas— Company D, Thirty-fourth Regiment. En-
listed 1865.
Morse, Horace B.— Corporal, Company I, Thirty-ninth Regi-
ment. Enlisted August 4th, 1862.
Murphy, James— Company K, Third United States Infantry.
Enlisted July 2d, 1861.
Nado, Michael— New York Cavalry. Enlisted February
12th, 1862.
Newton, Nahum.
Paddock, John D.'
Padelford, John W.— Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 16th, 1861.
Parker, Warren C.—Company D, Fifty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted January 4th, 1864.
Parmenter, Cyrus T.—Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 16th, 1861.
Parmenter, Henry H.—Company G, Eighteenth Regiment.
Enlisted October 3d, 1861 ; died in hospital at Sharps-
burg, Va., November 4th, 1862, from wounds received
at the battle of Antietam.
1 Served in a South Carolina Regiment.
190 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Parmenter, Joshua R.— Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment.
Enlisted September 16th, 1861.
Parmenter, William A.— Company E, Fifty-second Regiment.
Enlisted October rith, 1862.
Partridge, Daniel W.— Company G, Thirty-sixth Regiment.
Enlisted August 7th, 1862.
Peacock, James— Company D, Fifteenth Regiment; Lieuten-
ant, Company D, Fifty-seventh Regiment. Enlisted
July 12th, 1861; re-enlisted April oth, 1864.
Putman, Austin— Company A, Thirty-fourth Regiment. En-
listed July 22d, 1862.
Rood, James T.— Assistant Surgeon, Twenty-eighth Regiment.
Enlisted August 11th, 1862.
Sault, Julius— Company A, First Vermont Cavalry. Enlisted
December 5th, 1861.
Sawyer, John G.— Company —, First Regiment Heavy Artil-
lery. Enlisted August 14th, 1862.
Schofield, John E— Company D, Fifty-first Regimnent. En-
listed October 14th, 1862.
Skiff, Austin E.— Sergeant, Company F, Fifty-seventh Illi-
nois. Enlisted October 17th, 1861.
Spaulding, J. Calvin — Sergeant, Company F, Twenty-fifth
Regiment. Enlisted September 16th, 1861.
Streeter, Edwin H.— Corporal, Company I, Ninth New Hamp-
shire. Enlisted August 4th, 1862.
Strong, Luther W.— Company C, Fifty-first Regiment; Ser-
geant, Company D, Fourth Regiment Heavy Artillery.
Enlisted August 20th, 1862; re-enlisted August 25th,
1864.
Thompson, William — Seventy-ninth New York. Enlisted
March Ist, 1865.
Truchon, Charles L.— Sergeant, Company E, Forty-second
Regiment. Enlisted September 30th, 1862.
Turner, Charles F.— Company F, Thirty-seventh Regiment.
Enlisted: August Ist, 1862.
Tuttle, Fred H.
MILITARY AFFAIRS. IQl
Verry, Herbert W.— Company A, Twenty-third Regiment.
Enlisted January 3d, 1864.
Whitney, Jonas L.—Company A, Twenty-third Regiment.
Enlisted September 2oth, 1861.
Whittemore, Hezekiah P.— Corporal, Company E, Fourth
Cavalry. Enlisted January sth, 1864.
Woodbury, Robert — Company B, Frontier Cavalry. Enlisted
December 31st, 1864.
A post of the GRanD ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC was organized
in January, 1869, with seven charter members, which has been
designated as Theron E. Hall Post, No. 77. Seventy-three
comrades have in all been mustered into the ranks of this Post.
It has disbursed considerable sums in aid to needy members,
and has performed a public service of still greater value as an
object lesson of patriotic purpose and service. Its members
have thus not only perpetuated loyal memories, but have also
inspired loyal devotion to the flag and the country.
The Commanders of the Post have been: Samuel W. Arm-
ington, January to July, 1869; Emory Rogers, July to Decem-
ber, 1869; Phineas R. Newell, 1870; John G. Schofield, 1871 ;
Isaac Damon, 1872; Alfred Chaffin, 1873-4; Joseph H. Glea-
son, 1875-6; Hiram P. Newell, 1877-9; Joseph H. Gleason,
1880-1; Isaac Damon, 1882-3; George S. Graham, 1884-7 ;
Thaddeus S. Clark, 1888-90; Gustavus Holden, 1891-2.
Memorial Day has been regularly observed by the Post, usu-
ally with public exercises in which the public generally have
joined. For some years past an appropriation has been made
from the town treasury to aid in defraying the expenses of the
celebration. Addresses have been given on these occasions as
follows: 1869, Major Theron E. Hall; 1871, Colonel Joseph
A. Titus, of Worcester; 1872, Rev. A. J. Rich, of North
Brookfield ; 1873, Mr. Frank M. Sprague, of Worcester ; 1876,
Samuel C. Damon, D. D.; 1877, Rev. Henry M. Rogers ;
1878, Rev. Amos B. Kendig, of Worcester; 1879, Rev. Joseph
F. Lovering, of Worcester; 1880, Rev. Isaac S. Hamblin ;
1881, Mr. Alonzo K. Learned; 1882, Hon. Theodore C. Bates,
y
192 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
of North Brookfield; 1883, Mr. William C. Whiting; 1884,
Captain Alonzo A. White, of Worcester; 1885, Hon. Carleton
C. Coffin, of Boston; 1886, Rev. Sullivan L. Holman, of Provi-
dence; 1887, William A. Gile, Esq., of Worcester; 1888,
Rev. David F. Estes; 1889, Rev. Melvin J. Allen; 1890,
Rev. Charles H. Pendleton, of Worcester; 1891, General
Augustus B. R. Sprague, of Worcester; 1892, Rev. Benjamin
H. Lane.
CHAPTER XI.
FACILITIES OF COMMUNICATION,
+
Roaps. — TurNpIKE. — Horers. — Rartroaps. — TELEGRAPH
AND TELEPHONE. — POST-OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS.
KG|LONG with schools, roads have always demanded and
f| received constant attention and liberal provision
from the Town of Holden. The four public high.
ways, which were ordered by the Proprietors, have
been almost yearly increased, both in number and extent, until
the entire town is veined with a network of roads, which, on the
whole, very well accommodate the people of the town, and
as a rule, are kept in excellent condition. The yearly cost of
the maintenance of highways is at present fully two thousand
dollars, which is expended under the control of a board of three
Highway Commissioners. The highway tax was allowed to be
worked out till 1861; since then it has been payable in money.
The Sixth Incorporated Turnpike of Massachusetts formerly
traversed the town, passing through the Center. The charter
for this road was granted June 2Ist, 1799, and was relinquished
August 11th, 1828. It extended from Shrewsbury to Amherst,
being forty-three miles, one hundred and twelve rods in length,
was constructed in a single summer, and cost about thirty
thousand dollars. The old toll-house used to stand a little west
of the Center, near where the house of Deacon George S. God-
dard now stands. In the olden time the route through Holden
was a great thoroughfare of travel to and from Boston, for
northwestern Massachusetts and the neigboring districts of
194 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
New Hampshire and Vermont. If the tavern books of Land.
lord Paul Davis and the Abbotts had not, unfortunately, been
destroyed, they could tell a story that would surprise many to-
day as to the extent of the traffic which then passed through
our borders, and the distance which some of the tavern guests
must travel to reach their homes again.
The first house of public entertainment in town was kept by
John Child, near the Bullard place. For forty years, during the
latter part of the last century and the earlier part of the pres-
ent century, “ Landlord Paul Davis” kept tavern in a building
long since removed, on the summit of the hill overlooking
Eagleville. The most tamous hostelry in Holden was, how-
ever, “the old Abbott Tavern.” This famous building was
erected in 1763, and was occupied as a Tavern more than a
hundred years. The house was kept by Abbotts of three
successive generations, and was all this time in the hands of
the family, except for two years, when it was leased to Samuel
Davis. It has been said, “It is no exaggeration to state
that Abbott’s Hotel was known from the Pacific to the At-
lantic Ocean.” The house was first kept by John Abbott,
from whom it passed to his son, Captain Lemuel Abbott.
His son, Major Chenery Abbott, in turn succeeded him in
the management of the hotel. Though a score of years have
passed since the aged landlord closed his doors on the last
departing guest, there are still many who remember the pecu-
liar flavor of the beer which he brewed, and the rare quality of
the flip which he prepared in a way of his own, and many
others still kindly remember the abounding humor of Holden’s
last great landlord.
In 1875, Amasa Howe opened as a hotel, under the name of
the Central House, the large brick dwelling at the corner of
the common, built by Lemuel Davis. He was succeeded in the
managment by Lewis F. Hubbard, John M. Welch, Charles
W. Foote and others, and, finally, by James C. Allen, who now
occupies the building as a private residence.
A hotel was opened many years ago at Eagleville by John P.
Maynard. Among others, Ethan Davis and Peter S. Winn
FACILITIES OF COMMUNICATION. 195
managed it at different times, but it has not been found possi-
ble to secure anything like a correct list of the proprietors in
former years. For some time previous to 1865 it was con-
trolled by Dustin Hall. In that year he sold to Edward F. Witt.
The real estate has since been owned in turn by Martin V. B.
Jefferson, Edward F. Merrick and Lyman G. Petts. The hotel
has at different times been in charge ot George Wright, Myron
Kennan, Elijah Kennan, Sparrow Crosby, Alfred J. Kirby,
Calvin Underwood, A. A. Whitney, W. Muzzey and Lyman G.
Petts, the latter at four several times. When purchased by
Mr. Petts the name was changed from the “ Brick City Hotel”
to the “Eagleville Hotel.”
To Colonel Jarvis Abbott, Holden is under great and pe-
culiar obligations. In his old age tree-planting became
almost a mania with him, and to this fact we owe the well-
grown shade trees which now adorn both the common and the
old cemetery, and much more of the foliage which so beauti-
fully embowers the village. It were indeed by no means to be
regretted, if the sound sense of all our citizens tended as much
to village improvement and the general advantage, as did the
failing powers of Colonel Abbott.
Sidewalks had been provided by individuals opposite their
respective premises, as authorized by vote of the town in 1849,
but there was no public expenditure for the purpose, or con-
certed effort looking to extension or improvement of sidewalks,
until 1890. In November, 1889, the Holden Village Improve-
ment Society was organized by: a few public-spirited citizens
at the Center. Similar societies were soon organized at Jef-
ferson and Quinapoxet. The following spring and summer, fairs
were held in each village, which resulted in the raising of a
large amount of money, which was expended at the Center and
Jefferson for sidewalks, and at Quinapoxet for street lights.
These societies sti]l maintain their organization, and continue
their work of carrying forward and indirectly stimulating vil-
lage improvement. In three years several thousand dollars
have been raised or secured by these societies, and expended
196 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
for improvements ; many hundred rods of concrete walks have
been laid, besides a large amount of gravel walks ; hundreds of
shade trees have been set out, and, what is of still greater im-
portance, increased painstaking and taste in the care of build-
ings and grounds has been extensively developed throughout
the town.
The burden assumed by the town of Holden to secure the
construction of the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad has
been discussed in the story of the last half century. This railroad
runs in a northwesterly direction for about seven miles within the
limits of the town. There are five stations in Holden — Chaf-
fins, Dawsons, Holden, Jefferson and North Woods. The first
two and the last are flag stations ; at the others all trains stop.
The present agent and operator at Jefferson, George Henry
Stearns, has been connected with the road and the station since
its opening, September 4th, 1871. Though the railroad has by
no means fulfilled all the hopes of its promoters, it has been of
great importance and value to the town. For years before its
construction there had been little growth to the town. Build-
ing at once began, especially at the Center, and property ap-
preciated largely in value. The temporary withdrawal of the
early train perceptibly checked this rapidly rising tide of pros-
perity, and development has since been gradual and only indi-
rectly to be attributed to the railroad, without which, however,
the measure of prosperity which has been enjoyed would have
been out of the question.
The Massachusetts Central Railroad, running from Boston
to Northampton, crosses the town from east to west. For the
whole distance there is a sharp grade, with many curves and
bridges. This railroad has two stations in town —Quinapoxet
and Jefferson. The latter was for a long time the terminus of
the road, it not having been opened for traffic beyond until
1887. About one hundred. rods from the Jefferson station on
each road, the Massachusetts Central passes above the Fitch-
burg. At one time there was a Y, so that cars could be trans-
ferred from one railroad to the other. This, however, has
FACILITIES OF COMMUNICATION. 197
since been removed. The Massachusetts Central was com-
pleted as far as the junction with the Boston, Barre and Gard-
ner Railroad, December Ist, 1881. May 16th, 1883, trains
ceased torun. In 1886, traffic was resumed, and the road was
soon opened through to Northampton.
Lines of telegraph follow both roads, the line along the Bos-
ton and Maine being used only for operating purposes. There
are public offices of the Western Union Telegraph Company in
connection with the stations at Jefferson and Holden. Lines of
telephone from Worcester to Princeton and Rutland pass
through the town, with instruments in a number of offices. A
line of long-distance telephone from Boston, west, also follows
the road-bed of the Massachusetts Central, but no office has
been established in the town.
For many years after the settlement of Holden, there was
no post-office within the borders of the town. In the Massa-
chusetts Spy, during the early years of the present century,
may be found advertisements of letters for Rev. Mr. Avery
and other residents of Holden, which were lying in the post-
offices at Worcester and Leicester. Late in the winter of 1815
a post-office was established at Holden. A list of the succes-
sive postmasters, with the date of their respective appoint-
ments, follows: Benjamin Davis, February 21st, 1815; Mer-
rill Davis, April 3d, 1819; Lemuel Davis, March 2oth, 1826;
Merrill Davis, January 28th, 1828; Dennis Davis, March
29th, 1832; Charles Chaffin, May 2oth, 1835; Avery Davis,
June 2d, 1849; Caleb Kendall, Jr, December oth, 1852;
Charles Chaffin, August 5th, 1853; Ethan Davis, June
29th, 1861; Samuel W. Armington, September 27th, 1866;
Patrick A. McLaughlin, October 26th, 1885; Mary F.
McLaughlin, September 30th, 1887; Samuel W. Arming-
ton, May 14th, 18809.
The next post-office was established at Jefferson. The
name was Jeffersonville until 1891. The fifst postmaster was
M..V. B. Jefferson, who was succeeded, in 1886, by William J.
Prendergast, and he in turn, in 1889, by Edward W. Merrick.
198 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Till the appointment of the last named, the office was kept at
the railroad station by G. Henry Stearns, assistant postmas-
ter. A post-office was also established in February, 1882, at
Quinapoxet, with Cyrus G. Woods as postmaster. The name
ot the office -was Woodville for a time, being later changed to
Quinapoxet.
CHAPTER XII.
BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURES.
Stores. — Brick-MAKING. — MILts. — ‘TANNERIES. — MANUvu-
FACTORIES.
IKE the beginnings of much else in town, it is be-
lieved that the first store in town was kept near the
Bullard place. The sign continued to offer “West
India Goods” for sale within the memory of many
now living. Among others, Lieutenant John Reed kept store
before his removal to West Boylston.
In 1780, Samuel Damon came to Holden and engaged in
mercantile business at the old Damon stand, which he carried
on till his death in 1815. His son, Colonel Samuel Damon,
was associated with him as a partner after 1810. Hecontrolled
the business almost all the time until his death in 1851, a part
of the time having partners associated with himself. Some
of the individuals or firms doing business at the Damon stand
at different times were Damon & Bartlett, Boyden & Goodell,
Damon & Knowlton, Knowlton & Allen, Charles L. Knowlton
and Augustus F. Damon. The latter sold, in 1857, to Joseph
H. Gleason, who gave way a year later to Paul Wadsworth &
Son. Joseph H. Gleason and William H. Drury, in company,
bought out the Wadsworths in February, 1865; sold to Charles
F. Parker in February, 1867, and bought from him again Jan-
uary 1st, 1889. Mr. Drury took the business alone April rst,
1871, and sold in 1868 to William H. Walker. In 1878, the
business passed into the hands of Edwin H. Streeter, who was
succeeded in turn by Albert A. Cobbett. He sold in 1890 to
the Holden Store Company, who still carry on the business.
200 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
A little building, at first standing nearly in front of where
the Baptist Church now stands, and later removed to the lot
now occupied by the residence of Charles Flagg, was used for
years by Lemuel and Merrill Davis as a post-office and for
the sale of a few goods. About 1840 the building now occu-
pied by Fred H. Fales as a store was erected by Ethan Davis,
Sr. It was soon occupied by Boyden, Goodell & Davis as a
boot and shoe manufactory, a few goods of their own make
being sold on the premises at retail. In 1844 Avery Davis put
in a stock of goods, doing the business of a general store for
eight years. In 1852 he sold to Nichols & Bryant, who dis-
solved partnership after two years, Willis Bryant carrying on
the business alone for two years longer, when he sold to Joseph
H. Gleason. After the latter removed to the Damon stand,
this building stood empty for some time, being fora while used
as an armory. In 1865 a stock of goods was put in by Alfred
Morse, with Samuel W. Armington in charge, who took the
business in 1868, and carried it on till 1877. Fred H. Fales
then succeeded him, and has carried on the business till the
present time.
In the fall of 1889, Samuel W. Armington put a stock of
goods in the building adjoining the Fales store, and has since
carried on mercantile business in connection with the post-
office.
When, in 1838, the store at the “ West Village” was offered
for sale by Eunice A. White, guardian for minor heirs, it was
stated that the property had been improved as a store for
twenty years. It was !ater occupied by several members of the
Davis family. In 1856, it was in the hands of Alfred Morse,
and was managed for him by J. Henry Warren from 1856 to
1868, The business was then purchased by Edward W. Mer-
rick, who carried it on for three years in company with his
father, and then alone till 1882. James F. Putnam succeeded
him, and carried on the store till his death in 1890, since which
time it has been managed by his widow, Mrs. Sophia Putnam.
J. W. Wheeler started a small grocery store at Eagleville, and
ran it some years before 1884, when the business was bought
BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURES. 201
by Stephen T. Cole, who kept it till 1888, at which time Mr.
Wheeler took charge again, managing it himself till the spring
of 1892, when he closed it. Mr. Cole started, in May, 1889,
another store in the immediate neighborhood.
In May, 1875, Gustavus S. Holden opened a general store
in the building erected for the purpose by Howe & Jefferson.
Five years later he associated with himself his brother, James
A. Holden, and they took the firm name G. S. & J. A. Holden,
which partnership still continues. In 1890 they left the Jef-
ferson store, which was run for a time in the name of the Jef-
ferson Manufacturing Company. The business passed into the
hands of L. G. Petts & Co., October Ist, 1891.
The store at Quinapoxet was erected and is owned in con-
nection with the factory in that village. It has been occupied
successively by A. P. Sampson, Cuthbertson & Crawshaw, Ira
D. Bates, Johnson Brothers, Courtney, Knapp, A. A. Cobbett,
Feeley & Burns, and G, S. & J. A. Holden. The last named
firm rented the store in 1887, and ran it for three years in con-
nection with their business at Jefferson. In 1890 they
centered all their interests at Quinapoxet.
In Whitney's History of Worcester County, it is stated:
«There is a brick yard two miles and a half northeast of the
meeting house, where are made annually sixty thousands
of bricks.”” The yard here referred to was in the part of the
town soon after set off to West Boylston. Brick were
manufactured in this yard for many years. It may also be
noted that Josiah Ball, and later his son, Israel M. Ball, made
brick to a limited extent on their place, the Ball farm, which
has for some years, till 1892, been occupied by Lorenzo D,
Newton.
The water privilege at Bryantville, which had been used by
Town Bartlett as a candle-wicking mill, and afterwards as a
wood-working shop, was improved as at present by Lyman Bry-
ant, who came to town in 1827. He was at first, for a short
time, in partnership with James Cowden. The planing mill
and cider mill are at present owned and run by Frederick L.
Bryant.
202 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
The mills built by Asa and Ira Broad, later passed into the
the hands of William Howe and Martin V. B. Jefferson, and
from 1871 to 1877 were run by the firm of Howe, Jefferson &
Austin. Waldo E. Austin, the junior partner, then bought out
the interests of Messrs. Howe and Jefferson, and has continued
the business to the present time. He uses the mills as a basis
for his business as a contractor and builder, preparing builders’
finish, and also does mill work, especially repairs of fulling
mills and dye vats. He also fills orders for custom work, and
carries on a general lumber business.
The first tannery in town was about half a mile west of the
Center, at the foot of “Landlord Davis’” hill. The exact date
of its construction is not known. Deeember 23d, 1789, the
tannéry, together with seventeen acres of land, was sold by
John .Watson to Heman Richardson. He was succeeded in
the management by his son, Edward Richardson, from whom
the tannery took the name by which it was often called. There
was for many years a small tan yard on the Hall place in the
south part of the town. In 1825 John P. Maynard built a tan-
nery at Eagleville, across the road from the present site of the
Holden Mills. In 1840 this tannery passed into the hands.
of the brothers, Waterman G. and Samuel Warren, who car-
ried on the business in partnership for ten years. Samuel
Warren continued the business at Eagleville for about five
years longer. W.G. Warren, in the spring of 1850, purchased
the Richardson tannery, and carried on the tanning business
there until 1882; till 1867 alone, for the last fifteen years in
company with his son Samuel. In 1874, W. G. Warren, in
partnership with his sons, Berthier and Henry W., under the
firm name of B. & H. W. Warren & Co., erected the brick tan-
nery at the Center, which furnishes facilities for turning out
its specialty, card leather, that are unsurpassed, if indeed
equalled, anywhere else in the state of Massachusetts. In
1881, Samuel Warren became a partner, and the firm name was
changed to W. G. Warren & Sons. Since the.death of the
father in 1886, the business has been continued by the surviv-
ing partners under the style of W. G. Warren’s Sons. In
BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURES. 203
1887 the two tanneries then in operation, with a capital of
#3,500, employed four hands, and tanned one thousand and
- eighty-five hides, the value of the leather being estimated at
$5,300. The tannery of W. G. Warren’s Sons now employs
sixteen hands, and there has been a corresponding increase in
the number of hides tanned. ¥
The first manufacturing in Holden was done at Unionville.
“ Messrs. Eleazer Rider & Sons commenced spinning Cotton
Yarn at this place in 1809. These persons had been previ-
ously engaged in the same business, at West Boylston. It is
stated upon good authority, that they were among the first, (if
not the first), manufactyirers of cotton yarn in Worcester Coun-
ty. In 1810 the dpe of the Messrs. Rider contained 48
spindles. The same Year, the establishment was purchased by
Mr. Joshua Bassett and Mr. Farnum White. An addition was
then made of 56 spindles. Mr. John Rudman purchased of
Bassett and White, in 1814. The factory was sold to Mr. John
Slater, 1819. In the following year, repairs and alterations
were commenced. In 1821, Mr. John Lees became the owner,,
who continued to make repairs and additions during the three
following years. Weaving by the power loom commenced
1822. In 1824, Mr. Lees sold nineteen bales of sheeting to Mr.
Samuel Parkman, Jr., of Boston, who shipped the goods to Bata-
via. It was reported at the time, to have been the first shipment
of cotton goods from this country, which passed around Cape
Good-Hope.””
Mr. Lees ran the mill more than twenty years, the firm name
in 1841 being Lees & Eldridge. Later Jonathan M. Ladd
leased the mill and run it anumber of years. The mill was last
in the hands of Charles L. Truchon, who confined its operations
to the spinning of cotton yarn. It was destroyed by fire, Au-
gust 8th, 1882, When burned, it was a two story building,
eighty by forty feet in size, with an ell twenty by sixty, was
valued at $16,000, and gave employment to about twenty
hands.
‘Damon History, pp. 145, 146.
204 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
It is an accredited tradition that the first water privilege ever
occupied in town was at Chaffinville, where John Bigelow built
a mill in 1726. Manufacturing was begun here in 1817 by
Royal H. Chaffin. He at first made a specialty of dyeing wool
and coloring yarns, in which he attained great excellence and
a very wide reputation, the first prize having been awarded to
him in a competition of much importance. Mr. Chaffin ran the
mill for many years, and then sold out to his son, Alfred H.
Chaffin. In his hands woolen goods suitable for prison uni-
forms were principally made. In 1879 it was a one-set mill
giving employment to nine hands. June 2oth, just after it had
been refitted and leased to Peter Scanlon & Co., it was burned
at an estimated loss of $7,000. About 1870, Alfred H. Chaffin
put in an unusually fine grist-mill. This was later burned and
rebuilt and was burned again in 1890.
In 1825,a Mr. Morse built a factory at the village now
known as Jefferson. It soon passed into the hands of John
Jefferson. In 1841, it was a satinet factory, containing one
hundred and eighty spindles and eight looms. The Damon
History says': “ During the late ‘hard times’ the proprietor has
devoted more attention to agriculture, than to the manufacture
of satinet—at a ‘dead loss,’”” For many years, previous to 1830,
Colonel Artemas Dryden was engaged in this village in the
manufacture of machines for carding. Later he built a satihet
factory, which, in 1841, contained three hundred spindles and
eight looms. At that time it was owned by Samuel Damon.
but was not running for the same reasons as Mr. Jefferson’s.
In 1858, William Howe and Theron E. Hall formed a co-part-
nership and under the style of Howe & Hall engaged in the
manufacture of woolen goods at this place. In 1860, Martin
V. B. Jefferson bought out Major Hall, and the business was con-
tinued under the firm name of Howe & Jefferson until 1886.
During the continuance of this partnership they so extended
their business that, in 1886, instead of running one set of ma-
chinery as in 1860, they were running twelve sets. When the
‘Damon History, p. 146.
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partnership terminated after twenty-six years, there were only
two other manufacturing establishments in the state which had
run so long under the same firm name without change on ac-
count of death, failure or other circumstances.
January Ist, 1886, Mr. Jefferson purchased the interest of
Mr. Howe, and has since conducted the business under the
style of the Jefferson Manufacturing Company. The plant in
1892 consisted of two mills (besides a shoddy mill, leased
to William Day), an office building, six storehouses, a store and
forty-six tenements. The upper mill contained seven sets of
cards and forty-six looms, and was run by a Corliss engine of
one hundred and twenty-five horse power. The lower mill con-
tained seven sets of cards and eighty-four looms, and was run by
a Wheelock engine of two hundred and fifty horse power, which
was put in place in 1891. There were two hundred and sev-
enty-five hands on the pay-roll. The upper mill was devoted to
the manufacture of fancy cassimeres, and the output amounted
to twenty-three thousand yards per month; the lower mill was
devoted to satinets, of which one hundred thousand yards per
month were marketed.
December 8th, 1892, the Jefferson Manufacturing Company
were heavy losers from fire. The flames first appeared about
half-past eleven in the forenoon in the picker-room, a separate
building near the lower mill, and the lower mill was soon burned
to the ground. The upper mill also took fire, but was saved,
though considerably damaged by smoke and water. The loss
amounted to $150,000, which was more than half covered by
insurance.
The mill at North Woods, or Ruralville, was erected by B.
T. Southgate of Blackstone for a woolen mill, but in 1827 it
was changed to a cotton mill by William Buffum. It after-
wards passed into the hands of Colonel Samuel Damon, who
owned it in 1840, when it contained fourteen looms and one
thousand four hundred spindles. Later, Wesley Howard made
bagging there; then for a time, about 1850, cotton cloth was
manufactured by J. W. Freeman, who was succeeded by A. P.
Colvin. From 1858 to 1862, it was controlled by Wright &
206 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Morse, with William H. Walker as manager. In 1862, it was
transferred to Walker & Wright. In 1868, it was taken by
James H. Wright, who ran it till about 1874, when the mill be-
came the property of the West Boylston Manufacturing Com-
pany. They ran it for some years with Whipple Harris as
agent, and in 1882 leased it to A. H. Turner & Co., who still
run it. The mill contains three sets of cards and ten broad
looms, and about seventy-five thousand yards of fancy cassi-
meres are annually manufactured. About forty-five hands are
employed.
Deacon John Lovell, for many years previous to 1841, had
run a machine for “custom carding,” and a small mill for the
manufacture of cotton batting and wicking. In 1837, the mill
contained six hundred spindles, twelve hands were employed,
and ten thousand pounds of warp, eight thousand pounas of
batting, and twelve thousand pounds of wicking, were manu-
factured. On Sunday, May 24th, 1847, the mill and its
contents were burned. At this time the mill was owned '
by David Parmenter, and the machinery was owned and
operated by Holbrook & Wilder. After some years the
mill was rebuilt, and in 1873 it was controlled by the
Lovellville Manufacturing Company; in 1876, by Messen-
ger & Wright of New York; in 1879, by the Lovell Woolen
Company, under management of Klebert & Findeisen, and
in 1886, it was purchased by Cyrus G. Wood, and is now
combined with his mill at Quinapoxet, the whole being
treated as one plant.
The factory at Quinapoxet and the village connected with it,
stand on six hundred acres of land, formerly a part of the
“French Land,” which were bought by Damon & Thaxter in
1827.: In 1831, Samuel Damon, having purchased the interest
of his partner, erected a mill for the manufacture of cotton
sheeting. In 1841, this mill contained one thousand four hun-
dred spindles and forty looms, manufacturing two hundred and
fifty thousand yards of sheeting. Colonel Damon, with various
partners, controlled the mill until his death in 1851. In 1856,
it was sold to A. F. Smith of Grafton. From 1862, it was run
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for some years by Howe & Myers. It then passed into the
hands of Stowell & Ward, who manufactured satinets. May 27th,
1871, their mill was burned with an estimated loss of thirty
thousand dollars. It was at once rebuilt, was run for a time
by Wood & Ward, and in 1876 was purchased by Cyrus G.
‘Wood. This mill, in connection with the Lovellville property,
contains ten sets of cards, gives employment to one hundred
and seventy-five hands, and produces one hundred and twenty
thousand yards of satinet per month.
The Moss Brook Mill, at the village known as Dawsonville,
formerly called Delaneyville, has been run since 1873 by Charles
Dawson. Prior to 1854 it was the property of Colonel Samuel
Damon, and was put to various uses, having originally been
a shingle mill. It was then disposed of to Benjamin Franklin,
who manufactured forks of all kinds. In 1862 or 1863 the
property was sold to Ashworth & Day. Mr. Day soon took it
alone and manufactured shoddy for several years. The first
shoddy made in town, was made here, “a company of Eng-
lishmen with machinery imported from England” having been
engaged in the business as early as 1857. March 14, 1866, it
was sold to Kimball & Talbot; October 15th, 1867 to John
O’Brien; December 19th, 1868, to Crompton & Dawson of
Worcester, who were engaged in the mill supply business.
December 20th, 1873, the partnership between Mr. Dawson
and Mr Guild, who.had succeeded Mr. Crompton, was dis-
solved, and Mr. Dawson, who had removed to Holden in July,
1870, devoted his whole time to Moss Brook Mill. He has
since that time greatly improved both the mill and the village.
The mill itself has been much enlarged, and is now run by an
eighty horse power engine, and contains four sets of woolen
machinery. Ten or twelve tenements, a dry house, a picker
house, store-houses and other buildings have also been ad-
ded. At first satinets and melton flannels were made, but
for the last ten years the product has been fancy cheviots
and cassimeres, of which about ten thousand yards a year are
turned out.
208 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
In 1864 and 1865, a stone dam, eighty-five feet long, later
extended to one hundred and fifteen feet, was built across the
Quinapoxet river at the site of the Springdale mill. A two-set
wooden mill was then erected, but was burned in 1875. A
stone shoddy mill had been put up in 1874, and in 1876 the
four-set stone mill now standing, was built by G. J. Smith,
who ran it for a time, and afterward leased it to different
parties. In July, 1892, after extensive repairs, it was started
by its present owner, James Dorr, who is manufacturing
satinets.
The saw and grist mills at Eagleville were purchased in 1821
of Caleb Kendall by Samuel Clark, who erected a small fac-
tory. This mill was burned in 1834, but in the following year
it was rebuilt, and was later enlarged to its present dimensions.
In 1840, it was owned by Le Baron Putnam, and was run under
the style of The Eagleville Manufacturing Company. It had
at this time sixteen hundred spindles, and the annual product
amounted to two hundred and seventy-five thousand yards of
shirting.
October 16th, 1852, Luther Wright and Alfred Morse pur-
chased the property, and October 1st, 1860, by purchase of his
partner’s share, Mr. Morse became sole owner. The trustee of
his estate sold the property, January sth, 1874, to Milton S.
Morse, who died in the spring of 1877. The mill was run
under the name of Estate of Milton S. Morse until 1881,
when the present style of the Holden Mills was adopted. The
death of the widow, in 1881, and the purchase by Stillman F.
Morse, January Ist, 1888, of one-third of the property has made
the firm for the last five years to consist of George M. Morse,
Susan A. Monroe and Stillman F. Morse. Stillman F. Morse,
the present agent, took charge of the business December 31st,
1879.
The property consists of a large mill, an office, a boiler
house, a store and about twenty tenements. The power consists
of a water wheel of one hundred and forty-three horse power
and a steam engine of one hundred horse power. The mill
BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURES. 209
contains five thousand six hundred and sixty-four spindles, and
eighty-six twenty-eight inch, and fifty-two forty inch looms.
Seventy hands are regularly employed. The weekly product
is twenty thousand yards of print cloth and nine thousand five
hundred yards of four-leaf twill goods. This mill has the rep-
utation of making the best print cloth which is sold in the Prov-
idence market.
Half a century ago the making of boots and shoes was an
industry of considerable importance in this town. In 1837,
five thousand eight hundred pairs of boots and ten thousand
pairs of shoes were made. This industry has been transferred
to other places. In spite of this loss, the number of persons
employed in manufacturing increased from two hundred and
twenty in 1837 to about six hundred in 1885, and the value of
the product increased in a much greater ratio.
CHAPTER XIII.
PERSONAL NOTICES,
Rev. Mervin J. ALLEN.
“HE Rev. Melvin J. Allen was born in Cincinnatus, N.
| Y., May 7th, 1852. He studied at the Cortland
Normal School, and at the Cazenovia Seminary, and
was graduated from Amherst College in 1879, and
from Andover Theological Seminary in 1882, taking also a post-
graduate year at Andover, 1890-91. He has been pastor at Ash-
by, 1882 to 1888, where he was ordained November 8th, 1882,
at Holden, 1888 to 18go, and at Littleton, N. H., since 1891.
JosEPH Sranrorp Ames, M. D.
Joseph Stanford Ames, son of Lewis and Mehitable For-
bush Ames, was born in Marlborough, December 21st, 1828.
His boyhood and youth were spent upon his father’s farm.
He attended the common schools and the Marlborough Acad-
emy.
Naturally fond of books and of investigation, his thoughts
were early turned to the study of medicine. He accordingly
attended the Medical School of Harvard College, and was grad-
uated from the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield in 1858.
He became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society
in 1860.
A few months after his graduation he married, January 5th,
1859, Lizzie, daughter of John and Catherine Parmenter
Perry, who was born in Sudbury, July 20th, 1835. He be-
gan the practice of his profession in Holden in November,
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1858, and this has been his home for more than a generation.
Their only child, Josephine Stanford, was born July 24th,
1869, and died September 16th, 1891.
He easily secured, by the wide range of his knowledge, by
the breadth and the catholicity of his views, and by the upright-
ness of his character, the esteem of his fellow citizens as a
man; and by his uniform kindness and courtesy of manner,
and his professional integrity and skill, won their confidence
as a physician. He has ever been, and still is, an earnest stu-
dent of the ever progressive science of medicine, and a wide
reader of general scientific and political literature ; and main-
tains a most active interest in the great questions, political,
social, moral, and religious, so characteristic of the present
century.
His tall and erect form, his singularly unaffected manner,
his wit, his knowledge of men and things, his interest in the
life and welfare of those with whom he has lived, and to whom
he has devoted professional skill and ability of a high order,
and his unimpeachable honor render him a marked personality
in the life of Holden in this generation.
Rey. Evisna ANDREWS.
The Rev. Elisha Andrews was born at Middletown, Conn.,
Sept. 29th, 1768. At twelve years of age he moved with his
parents to Vermont. His father, in ‘his early years, was a
teacher and surveyor, and Elisha acquired knowledge with re-
markable facility, and was competent to impart all the instruc-
tion required in the district schools of that day.
When about seventeen, he removed to Galway, N. Y., where
he followed teaching and surveying for several years, residing
during this period with a pious aunt, through whose godly
counsels he received such convictions as ultimately led him to
the Saviour. At nineteen he commenced to preach, and in 1793
he was ordained pastor of the church in Fairfax, Vt., where he
remained until the winter of 1796, when he located in Hopkin-
212 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
ton, N. H., for about a year, and then transferred his residence
to Nottingham West (now Hudson). Early in 1800, he be-
came pastor of the church in Templeton. At that time this
church had members in twelve or fifteen towns. For fourteen
years he had regular appointments at Holden, twenty miles
distant ; at Barre, about twelve; at Athol, about ten, seldom
passing and repassing without preaching at the intermediate
stations. He visited Holden once a month for fourteen years,
except once on account of sickness; he was equally regular,
though less frequent, in his visitsto Barreand Athol. At least
twelve churches now occupy the ground over which his pas-
toral labors extended during the first ten years of his residence
in Templeton, and he is still remembered in that region as the
Apostle of the Baptists.
In February, 1816, Mr. Andrews removed to Hinsdale, N.
H., where the Baptist Church was the only one in the town,
and where for several years he ministered to Baptists and
others. Afterwards he preached at Princeton, Leominster,
Templeton and South Gardner, where he gathered a church,
and again at Hinsdale, where he was regarded as the senior
pastor until the close of his life, February 3d, 1840.
Mr. Andrews possessed great native ability, and his theologi-
cal information was remarkable. He received the honorary de-
gree of Master of Arts from Brown University in 1803. He
was frequently invited to preach upon public occasions, and was
honored over New England as one of the purest and most use-
ful men in the Baptist denomination.
As a writer, Mr. Andrews was known chiefly among those
of his own denomination, and as a defender of their faith.
Some among his published writings are, ‘The Moral Ten-
dencies of Universalism,” “‘ Strictures on the Rev. Mr. Brooks’
Essay on Terms of Communion,” “ A Vindication of the Dis-
tinguishing Sentiments of the Baptists,” “A Review of John
Wesley’s Tract on the Falling from Grace,” “ A Review of Win-
chester’s Dialogues on Universal Restoration.”
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Samuel WaALLAcE ARMINGTON.
Samuel Wallace Armington was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
February rith, 1837. When about two years of age his par-
ents came to Holden, and made their home in the west part of
the town on what was then known as the Davis farm, where
his father engaged in farming and in the wood and lumber
‘business.
His boyhood days were spent on the farm, in the wood lots
and in attendance upon the common schools of the town.
When about sixteen years old he went into a store as clerk and
from that time until 1861, except a year passed in Vermont at
his native place, he was in stores in Holden and Worcester.
Though desiring very much to enlist in the early part of
1861, he did not because lis parents and friends thought him
not sufficiently strong to endure the hardships of a soldier's
life.
He did not enlist until the call was made, after the disaster
at Ball's Bluff, for men to fill up the Fifteenth Regiment, a
regiment than which few in the Army ot the Potomac saw
harder service. He was with the regiment during 1862 and
1863, and, in spite of the long marches and various hardships
of army life, was present and took part in nearly every battle
in which his regiment was engaged.
He was twice wounded, once at the battle of Fair Oaks, and
again at Fredericksburg, but in each case only slightly. At
Mine Run, Va., November 27th, 1863, he with others was
taken prisoner, and was kept for more than a year in the pris-
ons at Belle Isle, Andersonville, Charleston and Florence.
While larger and stronger men than he broke down under
the strain, Mr. Armington, of more slender build, showed bet-
ter powers of endurance. Still, so great was the change wrought
during those months that few would have recognized him when
his release came, December 16th, 1864.
Before he had sufficiently recovered from the effects of his
prison life to doa soldier's duty, the war closed. He did not
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return to his regiment, and was discharged from the service in
June, 1865. Besides Mr. Armington, two of his brothers were
in the army, both of whom lost their lives, and are buried in
unknown graves: Alonzo C. Armington, Third Vermont Reg-
iment, who was killed at Savage Station, in one of the Seven
Days’ Battles, and Henry C. Armington, Ninth Maine Regi-
ment, who was killed in front of Petersburg at the blowing up
of the fort.
After partially regaining his health, Mr. Armington returned
to mercantile business, and took charge of one of the stores in
Holden Centre.
Three years later, in 1868, he bought the store, and carried
on business for himself until 1877. Since then he has lived at
what is known as Pine Grove Farm, a place that under his man-
agement has become one of the pleasantest resorts in the re-
gion for summer visitors from the cities. He was married
October 8th, 1865, to Harriet Shaw of Dresden, Me, who
died May 22d, 1884. They had two daughters, May Jose-
phene, who was born May 28th, 1868, and died December 13th,
1877, and Fannie Louise, who was born June rith, 1872.
In 1866, he was appointed postmaster of Holden and held
that office until 1885. He was re-appointed in 1880, and is
postmaster at the present time, and also proprietor of one
of the stores in the Centre. He was the first commander
of Post 77, G. A. R., of Holden. Mr. Armington has served
his town in the following offices: Town clerk, 1868, 1869,
1873 ; Town Treasurer, 1873, 1874, 1875, and Selectman, 1881.
He was also chosen to represent his district in the State Leg-
islature of 1887.
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Watpo E. Austin.
Waldo E. Austin was born in the town of Franklin, Vt., on
the 31st day of August, 1839. His parents were David Brown
and Rebecca Hunt Austin. During his early boyhood his
father, a country blacksmith, carried on business in a shop just
over the Canadian border, but moved to the center village of
the town when he was about ten years of age.
His education was such as the district schools afforded, sup-
plemented by a course at the Franklin Academy, and his ex-
periences in his father’s shop where he assisted in the manu-
facture of all kinds of farming tools, such as axes, hoes, and
forks, and in such other work as belonged to the blacksmith’s
art of that time.
Leaving home in the spring of 1858, he spent a year in Can-.
ada West, near the city of Brantford, going from there to Rock-
bridge, Wis., where he resided for three years, teaching school
winters, with farming and shop work during summers.
Returning to Vermont in 1862, he worked in a wagon shop
until winter, when he again taught school, gaining his first ex-
perience in “ boarding around.”
In January, 1864, he came to Holden and soon entered the
employ of Ira Broad, in the mills where he has since spent so
many busy years. The work being too heavy for his strength
he gave it up, and in the autumn entered the employ of Howe
& Jefferson, where he remained two years. Office work prov-
ing too confining, he then entered the service of Theron E.
Hall, and had charge of his mill in Sutton for the season. Re-
turning to Holden he again worked for Mr. Broad until 1868,
when he removed to Somerville, where he carried on his busi-
ness of contractor and builder for three years. Ira Broad hav-
ing died in the meantime, and the mill property being in the
market, his attention was called to it by his former employers,
Howe & Jefferson, and, returning to Holden, he, with them,
purchased the property and carried on a general sawmill and
216 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
lumber business, which soon included building also, until
1877. Since that time he has continued his business alone.
During all these years he has manifested a live interest in
whatever tended to the material, moral, and educational wel-
fare of the town, serving on various committees and in the dif-
ferent boards of town officers.
On the 13th day of October, 1862, he married ‘Abbie Pris;
cilla Chase, daughter of Aaron and Mercy Harris Chase.
They have three children:
Herbert Austin, born September 14th, 1866; graduated from
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute with the degree of
Bachelor of Science in 1890, and is Professor of Nat-
ural Sciences at the Maryland State Normal School,
Baltimore, Md.
Susie Lillian, born June 8th, 1868; a member of the class of
1895, Vassar College.
Waldo Edward, born March 18th, 1873.
Rev. Josrru Avery.!
Rev. Joseph Avery was a son of Deacon William Avery,
South Parish, Dedham, and was born October 14th, 1751. Be-
fore the close of his sixteenth year he entered Harvard Univer-
sity. During his junior year his mind was deeply impressed
with the subject of personal religion, and to such a degree that
for a season he was unable to pursue his regular studies. Dur-
ing the four years of college life he was an uncommonly exem-
plary and conscientious student. He has been heard to remark
that at one time he was the only undergraduate of the univer-
sity not addicted to the use of tobacco. He graduated in the
class of 1771, with much honor. With some of his fellow stu-
dents he carried forward a friendly correspondence long after
leaving the hallowed retreats of Cambridge. Dr. Tappan,
‘The sketch of Mr. Avery in the Damon History was rewritten by Dr. Da-
mon, and was published in ity modified form in the Afassachusetts Spy in
1875. Every word of the above sketch has been taken from these papers of
Dr. Damon, although neither form of the sketch has been unvaryingly fol-
lowed.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 214
Hollis Professor at the University, was an intimate friend and
correspondent.
He was ordained and settled over the church in Holden in
December, 1774. Rev. Jabez Haven of Dedham preached the
ordination sermon, which was published. In December, 1777,
he was married to Miss Allen of Worcester, niece of the cele-
brated Samuel Adams of Revolutionary memory. The inter-
course of Mr. Avery with his family was uniformly character-
ized by kindness and affection. The temporal and spiritual
welfare of his children was a subject of great solicitude.
His habits as a country parson were exceedingly methodical.
He devoted certain days to farm labor, and others to study in
the preparation of his sermons. His sermons were usually
written. He numbered his sermons until 1816, when No.
2180 was found written upon one of them. The latest date,
however, when a sermon was written, was in the year 1822,
two years before his death. It is not known that any of his
sermons were ever published, although he is known to have
written frequently for the press. His style was remarkably
pure and chaste, and in doctrinal views he was Evangelical and
Calvinistic. Dr. Thomas Scott was a favorite commentator.
It is a noteworthy fact that Mr. Avery carefully examined
the marginal references of Isaiah Thomas’ quarto Bible, while
it was going through the press at Worcester.
This edition of the Bible, I have the impression, was the first
edition in English printed in America. It was printed and pub-
lished in Worcester in 1791. Eliot’s Indian Bible had been
previously printed in the seventeenth century. Mr. Thomas re-
marks in the editor's preface to this edition, ‘“ The marginal
notes and references to the quarto edition were all previously
examined and compared with the text by the minister of Hol-
den; every sheet of the text, before its committment to the
press, by the clergymen of Worcester.”
It was during the later years of the pastorate of Mr. Avery,
that the great Unitarian controversy prevailed throughout the
eastern part of Massachusetts, and, perhaps, in no part of the
State was the controversy more rife than in the vicinity of
218 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Worcester. In several of the neighboring towns a division of
the church was the unhappy result, while in Holden no such
schism occurred. This was, doubtless, owing in a great meas-
ure to the mild, yet strictly gospel style of Mr. Avery’s preach-
ing, devoid of controversy.
During his long pastorate of half a century, he ever exhib-
ited the conduct of a peace-making minister of Christ. He was
styled a “peacemaker.’’ Enviable title! Proud distinction !
He was never heard to complain ot his arduous labors as a
pastor. When some of his parishioners desired him to re-
linquish his pastoral charge, the tears were seen to course his
cheeks, furrowed by age. He loved the people of his charge,
and his love was abiding until the close of his life.
“Nor e’er had chang’d, nor wished to change his place.”
He appeared in his pulpit until within two weeks of his death,
which occurred March 5th, 1824.
REMINISCENCES OF Mrs. Mary Avery.!
It has been thought that a few reminiscences of Mrs. Mary
Avery, the city-bred young woman who came to share the lot
of the poor country minister, may be of interest to the de-
scendants of those among whom her husband labored, and that
these recollections may have a historical value as well, in show-
ing the difference of the customs and manners of a hundred
years ago from those of the present time.
She was born in 1755, and lived in what is now the city of
Boston till some years after the death of her parents, passing
the latter part of her sojourn there in the family of her mother’s
brother, Samuel Adams, so widely spoken of as the “ Father
of the American Revolution.” She was, as might be supposed,
well imbued with the patriotism of that eventful period of our
country’s history, and often, in advanced age, would regale the
‘By Mrs. Mary A. W. Davis, a granddaughter.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 219
ears of her grandchildren with accounts of the sayings and
doings of the “high sons and daughters of liberty,” whom she
held in high esteem.
Referring to the Boston Massacre, she would tell them of
the consternation which filled every heart, when a mounted
horseman rode furiously through the streets, shouting at the top
of his voice: ‘Our brethren are lying like slaughtered sheep in
King Street!” She would also speak of a class of young ladies
of “ high rank,” who were associated together to be taught the
art of spinning flax on the little wheel, under the auspices of
those same “high sons and daughters of liberty,” and of an ex-
hibition of skill at the close of the term of instruction, given
in Faneuil Hall, when a prize was presented to the most suc-
cessful pupil. Great was her satisfaction in saying that it was
adjudged to Miss Polly Allen, and with quite an air would she
declare that, “ The value of the prize (a laurel wreath) was in-
significant in itself, but the honor!”
How the poor country minister met and fell in love with
this fair maiden, was on this fashion. She had left Boston,
and was living with her elder brother, Joseph Allen, then of
Leicester. He had buried his wife, and Polly came to fill the
place of housekeeper to him, and to care for his two motherless
children. In pursuance of a custom then and afterwards in
vogue, for prominent members of the congregation to invite to ©
dinner any stranger exchanging with their own pastor, Mr.
Allen on one occasion welcomed Mr. Avery asa guest. The
young minister was at once smitten with the charms of his hon-
ored host’s sister, and in due course of time sought her in mar-
riage and received her December ioth, 1777.
It was a new and unaccustomed field that opened before her,
but she nobly acquitted herself, in the midst of many depriva-
tions and unwearied toil. It was the darkest period in our
Revolutionary war, and all felt it in their homes in scantiness
of supplies. Mrs. Avery mentioned, as one fruit of the efforts
of the kind parishioners to provide for their pastor, the specta-
cle of twenty frozen spare-ribs which adorned the attic rafters
on her arrival at her new home.
220 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
As illustrating social style and customs, prevailing, and her
ignorance of the difference between city and country, she re-
lated that, being informed that the wife of a prominent pa-
rishioner had come to make a bridal call, and possessed with a
strong desire to show proper respect to her visitor, she deliber-
ated whether she should array herself in a blue silk or a crim.
son paduasoy, but finally decided upon the latter, as being the
least pretentious. On descending from her chamber she was
surprised to find her caller dressed in clean every-day ap-
parel in what was called a “long-short skirt’ (more of
the short than the long), with a short sacque above, and
with distaff in hand to improve the time of her call in
spinning. The minister's new wife knew better the next time
than to appear in silk. It may be noted in passing that she
had an unusually large supply, because silk dresses descended
by inheritance from mother to daughter, and Mrs. Avery, like
her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, was an only
daughter.
It is not to be forgotten that domestic duties were in some
respects more severe at that time than now. All the cloth used
in the family or for personal wear, was, in well-appointed house-
holds of the middling class, woven in the house, and the tailor
and the shoemaker were accustomed to go from place to place
to do what was needed to set forth their customers properly
for another season.
The minister was expected hospitably to entertain his trav-
eling ministerial .brethren. Having at one time kindly fur-
nished ample provision over night for man and two beasts to
a perfect stranger hitherto, when the year came round he pre-
sented himself to the lady of the house again, quoting the pro-
verb, ‘One good turn deserves another,’ and having been. so well
served once, I have come again.” She did not like it. She
was in the habit of saying to the good man of the house, as
they sat down to the table: “Take off, as you serve, some of
the best pieces of the meat and put them on a plate ;” and then
arranging vegetables on the same dish, she would cover it and
set itin a warm corner of the old-fashioned fireplace, for any
PERSONAL NOTICES. 221
chance arrival after the family had dined. Seeing this proc-
ess gone through with on three successive days, and an unex-
pected guest each day to partake of the provision thus pru-
dently made, a new and young assistant inquired if she always
had some one come for a dinner after the family was through.
From this account it will not create surprise unbounded to
learn that the incumbent of the Holden pulpit bore a burden
of debt, incurred for his education and some little “setting
out” for his daughters as they grew up and went to fill other
homes, till the death of his eldest son. The untimely death by
accident of this son, who had accumulated, as a bookbinder, by
untiring industry and economy, what in those days entitled
him to be called « well off,” relieved his aged father, as partial
heir, from debt near the close of his life.
Order and neatness were striking characteristics of Mrs.
Avery's reign, which was supreme in her own household, and
she became an accomplished, though somewhat exacting house-
keeper. Her mind was well stored with hymns and poems,
learned in her youth, and, possessing in a remarkable degree
the power of aptness in quotation, she was interesting in con-
‘versation ; and with the wheels all running smoothly in house-
hold affairs, it was a delightful home, and much enjoyed by the
young ladies of the town and others. She survived her hus-
band eighteen years, and died in 1842 in the home of her el-
dest daughter, Mrs. Aaron White of Boylston, with whom a
large portion of her widowhood had been passed. —
None of the descendants of this worthy couple became
permanent residents of Holden, but some of the grandchil-
dren are still living in advanced years, who recall their visits
there, while they add :
“Tis now become a history little known,
That once we called that past’ral house our own.”
222 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Rev. Tuomas Earite Bass.
The Rev. Thomas Earle Babb, son of William George and
Anna Earle Babb, was born in Orange, N. J., August 21st,
1840; fitted for college at New York University Grammar
School ; was graduated from Amherst College in the class of
1865; studied at Bangor Theological Seminary 1865 to 1867,
and was gtaduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1868.
He was ordained at Eastport, Me., January 19th, 1869, and has
been pastor at Eastport, Me., 1868 to 1871; Oxford, 1871
to 1878; of the Presbyterian Church at Victor, N. Y., 1878 to
1883; at West Brookfield from December Ist, 1883 to Decem-
ber Ist, 1889; of the Third Congregational Church, Chelsea,
from December Ist, 1869 to June Ist, 1892; since then at
Holden.
Epwarp BAILEY.
Edward Bailey was born in Holden, February 24th, 1814.
He was the son of James Bailey, who was born October roth,
1780, in New Jersey, and married Elizabeth Gleason, who was
born in 1785, in Marlborough. Their children were:
Elizabeth, born September 28th, 1809; married Charles
C. Chaffin, of Walpole, N. H.; died January 12th,
1842.
Charlotte, born June 21st, 1811; married Rev. Aldin
Grout. yo
Edward, born February 24th, 1814.
John, born March 8th 1817; died May sth, 1818.
James H., born July 20th, 1820; died at Attleborough,
where he was principal of an academy, May 6th,
1856.
Abigail Goodell, born April rgth, 1825 ; married Joseph
H. Gleason.
The father was a small farmer, and the sons were brought
up to work on the farm. Edward received a common school
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education, which was supplemented in a small measure by
attendance on the yearly “select schools”. He also attended,
for parts of two terms, academies at Amherst and Andover,
where he gained a little acquaintance with Latin and Greek.
Finding that his constitution would not endure the strain of
paying his way while securing a liberal education, he consented
to become a missionary teacher at the Hawaiian Islands, under
the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
He sailed on the “Mary Frazier”, December 14th, 1836, and
arrived at the Islands the next April.
He was stationed first for two years in Kohala, on the Island
of Hawaii, then for one year at the high school at Lahainaluna,
on the Island of Maui, and then at Wailuku, where he remained
until he left the Islands in 1888. At Wailuku he had a boys’
schooi fur one year, and then took charge of the Female Semi-
nary at that place for eight years, or till 1858, when, as the
American Board wished to finish up their work at the Islands,
he with others consented to a separation from their service.
Thereafter they sought as citizens to help forward the work of
civilizing and christianizing the people as best they might while
seeking a self-support. In this line of life he practiced survey-
ing, and was also sugar boiler and planter. Scientific studies
also engaged his attention as opportunity allowed. He has
now returned to the United States, and for the past four years
has made his home at Oakland, Cal.
In December, 1836, he married Caroline, daughter of Jonas
and Sally Wheeler Hubbard, who was born August 13th, 1814.
They have had five sons, as follows:
Edward Hubbard, born February 28th, 1838.
Horatio Bardwell, born December 27th, 1839.
William Hervey, born January 24th, 1843.
James Clark, born June 4th, 1846.
Charles Aldin, born April 17th, 1850.
HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
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Rev. Freperic A. BAaLcom.
The Rev. Frederic A. Balcom, son of Madison A. and Re-
becca F. Cook Balcom, was born in Worcester, January
26th, 1853. He prepared for college at the high school in
Grafton, and was graduated from Williams College in 1878,
and from Yale Theological Seminary in 1881. He was or-
dained at West Hartland, Conn., January oth, 1882, and has
been pastor at West Hartland from May, 1881 to June, 1884;
at Holden from June, 1884 to September, 1886 ; teacher at
Dow Academy, Franconia, N. H., from September, 1886 to
March, 1887; pastor at North Leominster from July, 1887 to
November, 1889; and of the First Congregational Church,
Rockland, from November 1oth, 1889, to the present time.
IsrAEL MANNING BALL.
Israel Manning Ball is the son of Josiah and Sophia Man-
ning Ball, and grandson of Captain Israel Manning, whose name
he worthily bears. Captain Manning, who was born in Lan-
caster, January-29th, 1756, and died in Holden, January 34d,
1821, was the second son of John and Prudence Houghton
Manning, and a descendant in the sixth generation of Mr.
William Manning, one of the founders of Cambridge, who
came from an ancient family which in the fourth century emi-
grated from Saxony to England. His great-great-grandfather,
William Manning, Jr., was a prominent merchant of Cam-
bridge, one of the selectmen of that town, a messenger of the
church to England to secure a pastor, and by appointment of
the General Court one of those designated to collect and dis-
burse the monies raised for the first Harvard Hall, and to di-
rect its construction. Thiough his grandmother, Martha
Wheelock Houghton, he was descended from Rev. Ralph
Wheelock, who was educated at Cambridge, England, and be-
ISRAEL M. BALL.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 225
came one of the founders of Medfield. He was one of those
who, April 19th, 1775, responded to the Lexington alarm, join-
ing the company of his friend, Captain Samuel Sawyer. The
service of this company was of short duration, but shortly after
it returned to Lancaster, he again enlisted and joined the com-
pany of his kinsman, Captain Ephraim Richardson, and had
the honor of firing his first gun at the battle of Bunker Hill.
How long he remained with this command is unknown, but in
April, 1777, he enlisted from Worcester County in the Fif-
teenth Massachusetts Continental Line, Colonel Biglow, in which
command, first in Captain Hodgkin’s company and afterwards in
the company of the distinguished Captain Howdin, he served as
corporal for three years and participated in the noted battles in
which his regiment was engaged. A few weeks before his
term of service expired, his father died, which rendered it nec-
essary for him on leaving the service to remain at home and as-
sist his widowed mother in the care of her family and estate.
On January Ist, 1781, he married Mrs. Lydia Richardson
Wright, widow of Abel Wright of Sterling. About 1782 he
purchased an estate in Holden where he settled and engaged
in farming, in which occupation he continued until the close of
his life. In 1819 he received a pension from the United
States Government. Captain Manning does not appear to
have sought public office, but it is known that he took a deep
interest in public affairs, and was recognized as one of the lead-
ing citizens, and died at his residence, Manning Hill, now the
home of Israel M. Ball, highly respected and deeply mourned.
He left surviving him a son, Rev. Abel, and four daughters,
Nancy, Pamelia, Polly and Sophia. Abel was graduated from
Brown University in 1817, studied Theology with the Rev.
Dr. Emmons, of Franklin, was ordained November 7th, 1820,
and settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in Ply-
mouth, Vt. He was pastor of eleven churches in all, and re-
tired from the ministry about thirty years before his death,
which occurred at Goffstown, N. H., December 20th, 1879, in
the ninety-second year of his age. He left a widow who has
since died, but never had issue. Nancy married a Mr. Red-
226 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
ding of Sterling. Pamelia married Mr. Ebenezer Neff. Polly
married the Rev. Thomas Marshall, a Baptist clergyman, and
Sophia married Mr. Josiah Ball, late of Holden. All the
daughters died leaving issue, but none of the families remained
in Holden, except that of Mr. Ball.
Mr. Josiah Ball was a representative citizen of Holden,
where he lived a useful and honorable life. He was the son of
Jotham and Anita Cheney Ball, and was born in Holden,
February 11, 1784, and died there November 12th, 1867. His
father, Samuel, was a native of Concord and a descendant of
John Ball of Wiltshire, England, one of the founders of Con-
cord, and believed to be the “Mr. Ball’ who came to Massa-
chusetts with Governor Winthrop. Mr. Ball had by his wife,
Sophia Manning, to whom he was married in 1813, nine chil-
dren, as follows :
Josiah, born July 4th, 1814; died October 5th, 1814.
Dr. Jonas, born November 26th, 1815.
Sophia, born January 16th, 1818.
Harriet Wheelock, born January Sth, 1820; died July
29th, 1875.
Dr. Simon, born June 27th, 1822.
Mary Greenwood, born April 15th, 1824.
Israel Manning, born April 3d, 1826.
Melinda Ann, born February 2d, 1828.
Amanda Caroline, born July 12th, 1831.
Mrs. Ball died January 11th, 1837, and he then married
Elmira Fales, by whom he had two children :
Jennie, born July 22d, 1839.
Dr. J. Warren, born June 28th, 1841.
Israel Manning Ball was born at Holden, April 3d, 1826..
His boyhood was spent at the old homestead on Manning Hill,
the house having been built by Captain Manning about one
hundred years ago. His early life passed as uneventfully as
that of most farmers’ boys of his day. At the age of six years
a
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he lost the use of one eye, which was a serious misfortune and
great obstacle to him throughout youth and later life.
He received his education at the town schools and at the
Nashua Academy, after which he taught school for a number
of years with much acceptance in New Hampshire, Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey and New York. The loss of his eye
proved so serious an impediment to a studious or professional
life, that he returned to Holden and purchased one of his
father’s farms, on which was a brick yard.
In connection with farming he engaged for some years in
the manufacture of brick, and in 1860 purchased the up-and-
down saw mill, situated on Ball Brook, near its entrance into
the Quinapoxet river, and there carried on the lumber
business until logs and mill gave out. The mill and dam were
erected by Mr. Ball’s father about 1810.
Upon his father’s death, in 1870, Mr. Ball purchased and
removed to Manning Hill, where he and his son, Granville M.
Ball, now reside, being among the few to occupy the old estate
where parents and grandparents have lived and died.
In 1877 Mr. Ball became associated with his son, Granville
M. Ball; under the firm name of I. M. Ball & Son, in the
manufacture of brooms, and so continued until 1885, when
they entered upon their present business of poultry farming,
being among the most extensive farmers in this line in the
state.
On account of impaired eyesight he was denied a place in
the army during the rebellion. He was chosen a member of
the town school committee in 1865, and served in that capacity
about sixteen years. He has held the office of justice of the
peace for over twenty-eight years, having been first commis-
sioned by Governor Andrew in 1864, and since re-commis-
sioned by Governors Rice, Claflin, Robinson and Russell, the
present term expiring in 1899. He has since early manhood
been a member of the Baptist Church and has held prominent
positions in the church and Sabbath School. He is a member
of the society of Sons of the American Revolution, and has
been a life long member of the Republican party.
228 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
He married November 27th, 1850, Mary Dickerman
Newton, daughter of Deacon Lemuel Dickerman and Sarah L.
Fessenden Newton. They have four children now living:
Ella Danelia, born October 2d, 1851, now the wife of
John Hapgood Brooks, Jr., of Worcester.
Granville Manning, born March 2d, 1853, now engaged
in business with -his father; married Emma, C.
Raymond of Winchendon, now deceased:
Herbert Eugene, born June 14th, 1855, a prominent
banker of Topeka, Kan., and now president of the
Investment Company of America; married
Willietta Goddard, daughter of Henry Goddard,
Esq., of Worcester, a graduate of Wellesley
College.
Mary Louisa, born June roth, 1857, a graduate of
Wellesley College, now the wife of Judge Loren
L. Morrison of Rockford, Illinois.
Mrs. Ball was one of the first women elected to serve on the
town school board, and has been president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union since its organization in Holden.
She, like her husband, was in early life a teacher, as have been
three of their children. Mr. and Mrs. Ball have both been
active in the cause of temperance and education, and were
among the first trustees of the Library Association, and have
taken a lively interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare
of the town, and their hospitable home, “ Manning Hill,” with
its pleasant surroundings and many family gatherings, is a
cherished spot in the hearts of kindred and friends who are
scattered throughout our land from Maine to California, and
from Canada to Central America.
J. WARREN BALL.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 229
JostaH WarreEN Batt, D. D. 8S.
Josiah Warren Ball, son of Josiah and Elmira Fales Ball,
was born at Holden, Mass., June 28th, 1841, on what is known
as Manning Hill. His early education was limited to that which
the town schools then afforded. On the breaking out of the
war in 1861, he entered the army, serving first with the three
months’ men in the Holden Rifles, and afterward in the First
and Second Massachusetts Cavalry Regiments. For bravery
he was promoted to a lieutenancy, and remained in the service
until April, 1865, when he was honorably discharged.
Returning home in the autumn of 1865, he studied dentistry
for a time with Dr. Tourtellot, one of the leading dentists of
Worcester, after which he went to Marion, Alabama, where he
continued his studies for three years in the office of his
brother, Dr. Simon Ball. He then returned to Boston and was
graduated at the Boston Dental College in 1870, being a
member of the first class to complete a course at that institu-
tion. He is a member of the leading Dental Societies of the
State, and president of the Massachusetts Dental Society. He
was for several years instructor in Operative Dentistry at the
College from which he was graduated. His practice is exclu-
sively high class, and quite extended and lucrative.
Dr. Ball married Miss Elizabeth B. Farrington of Rox-
bury, and after her decease, in October, 1879, Miss Edna E.
Smith of St. Johns, N. B.
Horatio Barpwe Lt, D. D. '
Horatio Bardwell, D. D., the third pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church in Holden, was born in Belchertown, November
3d, 1778. At the age of nineteen he began to study with his
brother-in-law, Rev. William Fisher, with whom he remained
until his entering Andover Theological Seminary in 1811.
June 21st, 1815, he was ordained as a missionary of the Ameri-
230 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at New-
buryport, in company with Messrs. Richards, Poor, Meigs,
Warren and Mills, with whom, excepting Mr. Mills, he sailed
for India in the ship “ Dryad,”’ October 3rd, 1815.
He joined the mission at Bombay, the first established by
the Board, and continued his labors there until the climate
had so impaired his health that the only hope of saving his life
Jay in immediate removal. He then left Bombay and returned
to this country, arriving here in 1821, having been. absent six
years. While in India he had been printer as well as mission-
ary. Before retiring from his pastorate in Holden, he enter-
tained serious thoughts of returning to India, which he would
not relinquish until a council of skiiled pliysicians reported
that such a step would seriously endanger his health and
life.
After his partial recovery of health, he was settled, October
22d, 1823, at Holden, as colleague pastor of Rev. Mr. Avery,
and became sole pastor in the following March in consequence
of the death of his venerable associate. During this pastorate,
the church and town experienced powerful revivals of religion.
The most noteworthy occurred in 1829 and 1830, which began
in the “select school,” taught by Mr. David T. Lane, a graduate
of Amherst College, who had previously been associated with
the famous evangelist, Nettleton, and as a result of which Mr.
Bardwell received one hundred and fifty to the church. October
24th, 1833, he was dismissed at his own request from his pas-
torate in Holden.
Before his formal dismissal from the pastorate, Mr. Bardwell,
with the consent of this people, had already entered upon his
work among the churches as a representative of the American
Board. This work he carried on for three years, traveling
widely and preaching with his wonted zeal. :
In 1836 he was installed pastor of the church at Oxford,
where he continued his labors nearly thirty years, until about
two years before his death. He died May gth, 1865, in conse-
quence of injuries received while endeavoring to save his barn,
which had accidentally taken fire.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 231
He married, in 1815, Miss Rachel Forbush of Andover, who
survived him. He also left four sons and one daughter, the last
named the wife of the Rev. S. J. Austin, for some years his
colleague over the church at Oxford.
In 1841 Dartmouth College conferred on him the honerary
degree of Master of Arts, and, in 1857, Amherst College the
degree of Doctor of Divinity.
«The key to the entire life and character of Dr. Bardwell is
found in his consecration to the work of missions. He pursued
his studies just at the period when the churches began to be
stirred with a new zeal for extending the kingdom of God
amongst the heathen. It was an untried experiment; and
demanded singleness of purpose, firmness of faith and heroic
self-denial. In giving himself then to the Lord in an undertak-
ing so arduous and perilous, he gave himself without reserve to
the service of God for life. Whether in India or in his native
land, it was his joy to live for Christ. Honored and beloved as
a missionary, he was not less honored and beloved as a pastor.
He gave full proof of the excellence of his spirit in the strength
of his affection, his unceasing watchfulness and in his care for
the souls of his people. He was regarded by his brethren, and
by all who knew him, as a man singularly unselfish, free from
self-complacency, always ready to do, and always ready to yield ;
never shrinking from service and never obtruding himsclf.;
always courteous, affable and genial ; always a man ; a Christian
always.”
“He was the author of a most charming life of the Rev.
Gordon Hall, one of the early missionaries to India, and it is my
sincere wish that some one had performed a similar labor of
affection and love for him whose noble life and untiring labors
have contributed to shape the destinies of the church of Christ
in both India and his native land. Many a young man, not
only of Holden but elsewhere, owes to him the first impulse
which awakened in his soul a desire tu preach the gospel.’”
From an obituary notice by Seth Sweetser, D. D.
2 From'the biographical sketch published in the Afassachusetts Spy by S.
C. Damon, D. D.
HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON Bascom.
George Washington Bascom was born in the town of Gill,
Franklin County, January 21st, 1803. He was one of the
youngest of a large family of children. His father died in
Boston, March 8th, 1814, of typhus fever, while representing
his town in the Legislature. He was thus, at the age of eleven
years, left dependent on his own efforts. He learned the trade
of machinist, and worked as opportunity offered in different
parts of the state. He finally located in Holden, where he
met and married Harriet Dryden, the youngest daughter of
Artemas Dryden of Holden. After living a short time at
Drydenville, now Jefferson, they settled on the old Dryden
homestead in the south part of the town, where they lived
many years with their children.
George, the eldest, was born May 24th, 1832, and is by
occupation a carpenter. He enlisted in the army in response
to the call for three months’ volunteers, and later went as Cap-
tain of Company B, Fifty-first Regiment. He married Marietta,
eldest daughter of Joab S. Holt, and still lives in Holden. His
family numbers three sons and two daughters:
Nellie Maria, born February 16th, 1866; a teacher.
William Henry, born August 6th, 1868; an insurance
agent.
George Edward, born August 27th, 1869.
Clara Kimball, born October 12th, 1875.
Fred Winthrop, born December 19th, 1880.
Artemas Dryden Bascom, the second son, was born August
20th, 1834, and was also among the first to respond to his
country’s call for volunteers. He is a blacksmith by occupation.
He married Emerette F., daughter of Joseph and Emily
Clemans Davis, and still resides in town. They have four
children :
Harry Chester, born December 21st, 1864; an attorney at
law in Fitchburg.
GEORGE W. BASCOM.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 233
Cane Emily, born June 3d, 1868; a teacher.
Mary Clemans, born June 15th, 1873.
Marion Alice, born July 22d, 1879.
Harriet, the only daughter, died at the age of two years and
nine months.
George W. Bascom won a high place in the estimation of his
townsmen by his strict integrity, pure life and genial charac-
teristics. He was honored by being twice elected to represent
his town in the legislature, in 1851 and 1852. Healso served
on the board of selectmen and in other offices of trust with ear-
nest fidelity.
He died October 12th, 1885, aged eighty-two years; his wife
died the following July, aged eighty-one years.
Rev. App.ETON BELKNAP.
The Rev. Appleton Belknap was born in Framingham, Sep-
tember Ist, 1802. After having supplied the pulpit of the
Baptist Church in Holden for some months, he was ordained to
the pastorate, June 13th, 1832. He continued as pastor only
about a year, "however, closing his labors October 27th, 1833,
with the expressed intent of studying for further preparation
for the ministry. From 1835, for thirteen years, he was pastor
at East Jaffrey, N..H., and for two years, about 1850, at St.
George, Me. In March, 1855, he settled at Lyme Center, N. H.,
where he remained until 1862, when he removed to Post Mills,
in the town of Thetford, Vt., where he preached three years.
He then returned, in consequence of failing health, to Lyme,
where he spent the rest of his life, supplying occasionally, but
never again settled as pastor. He died February 2d, 1877. He
was a good man, and proved himself in all his pastorates a faith-
ful minister of Christ Jesus. He was twice married. April oth,
1832, he married Nancy E. Boynton, of Framingham, who died
in 1859. In 1860, he married Susan W. Bliss, of Lyme, N. H.,
who is still living there. He had one son, Fenelon Belknap,
born in Holden, and now living in Barton, Vt.
234 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Ira Broan.
Ira Broad, son of Asa and Prudence Boyden Broad, was born
May 13th, 1810; married Lucy J. Foster of Rutland, October
3d, 1838, and died in his native town, July 17th, 1869. He
was largely selt-educated, the schools of the town and a short
term at New Salem Academy being his only aids. He devoted
several winters during his early manhood to teaching in New
Jersey and in Holden.
His active business life was a combination of various occupa-
tions, including teaching, agriculture, the manufacturing of lum-
ber, the contracting for the construction of dams and roads, etc.
He was a man of large views and strong intellect, and was
characteristically self-reliant. In company with his brother Asa,
he built the mills now occupied by W. E. Austin, and also sev-
eral houses, and he always exhibited a deep interest in improv-
ing the town.
He represented Holden in the Legislature in 1850, and for
more than twenty-five years filled important offices in the town.
Alike in the course of town affairs and in its political history
may be marked the influence which he exerted on the character
and history of Holden.
Rev. Joun Keiitey Cuase.
The Rev. John Kelley Chase was born in Exeter, N. H.,
April 22d, 1822. He was a son of Joseph Chase, a descendant
of Aquila Chase, who came from England to Newbury about
1625. A brother, James N. Chase, who died in 1862, was also
a Baptist minister. Rev. John K. Chase studied at Atkinson
Academy, Pembroke Gymnasium and the New Hampton Insti-
tution. Baptized May 23d, 1841, he began at once to preach
as opportunity offered, received a license in the same year, and
was ordained as an evangelist in 1844 at Milton Mills, N. H.
His pastorates have been at Lebanon, Me., 1845 and 1846; South
IRA BROAD.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 235
Hampton, N. H., 1846 to 1849 ; Hampden, Me., 1849 to 1854;
Pittsfield. N. H., 1854 to 1857; Rumney, N. H., 1858 to 1865 ;
Hydeville, Vt., 1865 to 1867; Rockland, 1872 to 1874; Holden,
1874 to 1879, and Rowley, 1879 to 1882. Since 1882, con-
tinued ill-health has prevented his serving as pastor, and he
has resided at South Hampton, N. H.
Isaac CHENnERY, M. D.
“ Dr. Isaac Chenery was born at Medfield, 1742, six weeks
after the death of his father. Early in life, he entered the ser-
vice of his country, as a soldier in the French and Indian war,
and spent one campaign to the northward upon the lakes. He
received a serious injury upon his ankle soon after his return
home. He was under the care of a surgeon for nearly four
years ; during which period he commenced the study of physic
and surgery, without having previously enjoyed the advantages
of a good education. Blessed naturally with a vigorous consti-
tution and a strong mind, after a few months study he ventured
to offer himself as a practitioner. In 1768, he settled in
Holden, and by a faithful, tender and successful care of his
patients, soon became extensively known as a physician and
surgeon. During the Revolutionary war, he spent one year as
a surgeon in the army. His charges as a physician were uni-
form and moderate. In the social, relative and public duties
of life he was beloved and respected. His death occurred Oc-
tober 20th, 1822. He had nearly completed his eightieth year.
When death closed his long and laborious life, many tears of
sorrow were shed over an affectionate father and friend, by a
numerous offspring and acquaintance.”
Dr. Chenery married Susannah Pierce, who died a year be-
fore him after more than half a century of married life. - After
her death he wrote the following lines :
1 To this point, this sketch is taken from the Damon History, pp. 60, 61.
236 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
‘*Removed from all the pains and cares of lite,
Here rests a pleasing friend and faithful wife,
Ennobled by the virtues of her mind,
Constant to goodness and to death resigned,
Sure in the silent Sabbath of the grave
To taste that tranquil peace she always gave.”
Their children were :
Thaddeus, born April 27th, 1769.
Zillah born July 12th, 1771.
John, born November 12th, 1779.
Susannah, born February 5th, 1785.
Alony, born January 27th, 1788.
Leonard, born April 27th, 1794.
Nathan.
Isaac.
CoLONEL SAMUEL Damon.
The following is an extract from the early records of the
town: “June 1779 came to Reside in Holden Samuel Dammon
and Abigail Dammon his wife . . . . they came from
Midway in the County Suffolk.”
These were the father and mother of the subject of this sketch,
and this removal to Holden was so near the date of their mar-
riage as to be almost their wedding journey. They made the
trip from Medway on horseback, Madam “ Dammon” and a ne-
gro servant riding on the same horse, while their household
goods followed in an ox cart, requiring two days for the pas-
sage. Mr. Damon had learned the trade of cabinet-maker in
‘Medway, as appears by old-time specimens of his handiwork
still treasured among his descendants. Their first dwelling in
Holden was one mile east of the center village on Bunker Hill,
so-called, where still may be seen remnants of the stone fire-
place and chimney. Here their children were born. Subse-
quently, and before their establishment in the village home-
stead, they lived for a time in the yellow house, long since
removed, a half-mile west of the village on the premises now
known as the John Richardson place.
Cot. SAMUEL DAMON.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 234
The name Damon, as the word indicates, is doubtless taken
from Greek myth or story, and is found as a family name in
half the countries of Europe. The spelling of the word, however,
presents a curious jumble; here are some of the varieties: Da-
man, Damman, Damond, Dammant, Daming, Demmon, Day-
mond.. In the list of passengers in the ship “ Elizabeth Ann”,
landing in New England in 1635, is “Jane Dammand, aged
g”’; when she married John Plimpton in 1644, the record makes
her “Jane Dammin.” The Holden family traces its lineage six
generations back from the first named Samuel, through Deacon
Samuel and Joseph of Dedham, to Deacon John Damon, who
emigrated from Reading, England to Reading, Massachusetts,
in 1633. It was representative Puritan stock, energetic, devout
and thrifty. All through colonial days, its members frequently
appear with the important titles of deacon or selectman or
captain; for they were good Indian fighters when that was the
business in hand. In this same year, 1779, this Samuel of
Dedham gave to the successive oldest Deacons of that place,
one thousand dollars, the interest to be devoted forever to
provide Bibles for the poor, town paupers excepted. It is
said that fund, after more than a hundred years, is still doing
its good work—thanks and honor toan excellent series of « old-
est Deacons,” the guardians of the fund, as well as to the
founder. In interesting contrast with the foregoing, and as
showing seventeenth century thrift in addition to benevolence,
in the family character, there must be quoted a single line
from the earlier records of Reading, West Parish: “Caesar,
a clever man, was the slave of Joseph Damon.”
The west forty feet of the Damon dwelling in Holden village
is one hundred years old, and for almost that period has been
occupied continuously by members of that family. On this very
site, moreover, in still earlier days, stood “that Noted House in
said Town Known by the Name of the Old Public Meeting
House;” and this quotation is from a posted notice dated
“March ye 16 1791,” announcing that the building ‘‘is to be Sold
at Public Auction on the last Wednesday of this Instant at the
House of Lem’] Abbot.” The sale and removal of the Meeting
238 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
House made way for the original dwelling which immediately
followed. Contiguous to this, on the east, was erected a small
low building, used as a store,’ both store and dwelling being first
occupied by one Miles, who sold to Samuel Damon, senior, about
the year 1800. Some years later, his son, Samuel, built the
present store extension, with its ambitious little portico of Doric
columns in the style of the period. Just here, growing out of
the stone foundations, as if a shoot from the roots of the house,
is the veteran old woodbine, still vigorous, though planted in
1835. The fine elm tree, near the west side door, was set out
by Charles L. Knowlton, the husband of Alony Damon, in
1836, the birth year of their first child, Caroline. The trunk
was torn in twain by an ice storm in 1861, one-half drooping to
the ground, but the parts were tenderly put in place and bound
by an iron bolt with success that the iron is now half buried in
living wood. For a full century, with the exception of two
years, there has been kept here a country store ; moreover, for a
large portion of this time some member of the family has held
town office, and the business of the office conducted chiefly
here, Major Isaac Damon, of the third generation of Damon
occupants, having himself been Town Clerk twenty-two years,
and one of the Assessors twenty-eight years. This ancient edi-
fice, therefore, with the ground thereunder, counting from very
early days when the inhabitants gathered to worship here, has
seen and touched so much of the life of the town’s people, that,
for this reason, if no other, it is worthy of mention in these
annals.
Colonel Samuel Damon, born in 1786, began His business
career at sixteen in his father’s store, where his unusual capacity
was soon made manifest. He continued in charge of this store
forty-five years. In the course of a few years, he also became
sole or part proprietor of stores in the adjacent towns of Rut-
land, Paxton and South Leicester, meantime planning and con-
ducting extensive manufactories. In 1828, in company with
his nephew, Jason Goulding, he built the cotton factory in
Phillipston. In 1831, he erected the mill at Quinapoxet. Later
he became owner of mills at North Woods, Drydenville, Daw-
SAMUEL C. DAMON, D. D.
3
PERSONAL NOTICES. 239
sonville, North Oxford and the Trowbridge mill at Worcester,
most of which manufactories he operated many years, and owned
at the time of his death in 1851. He was also an extensive
dealer in real estate, the Registry at Worcester showing more
than three hundred conveyances by him. He was always promi-
nent in the affairs of the town, having filled at different times
most of its important offices, including that of Treasurer for
thirteen years, and was elected four times to the Legislature.
To this array of employments and activities, he added further
that of bank director and the colonelcy of a cavalry regiment.
In all these positions of responsibility, whether in the prosecu-
tion of his business or in places of trust or public office, he
- proved himself a man of rare force, broad-minded, sagacious and
honorable.
He married, July 4th, 1810, Alony Chenery, daughter of Dr.
Isaac Chenery. To them were born nine children, of whom
‘only two survive, the second son, Isaac, and the youngest daugh-
ter, Susan, Mrs. Gale. A sketch of the eldest son, Samuel C.,
the late Rev. Dr. Damon of the Hawaiian Islands, follows. In
continuance of the honored line of Samuels, is Dr. Damon’s
son Samuel, recently Minister of Finance in that island king-
dom, and the latter’s son Samuel, now a Freshman in Yale Col-
lege.
SamuEL CuEenrery Damon, D. D.
Samuel Chenery Damon, the eldest son of Samuel and Alony
Chenery Damon, was born in Holden, February 15th, 1815. He
was graduated from Amherst College in 1836; studied at Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, 1838 and 1839, and was graduated
from Andover Theological Seminary in 1841. Before entering
on his theological studies, he was for a year principal of the
academy at Salisbury, Conn. and during these studies,
he acted as private tutor in a family in Burlington, N. J. While
thus engaged in teaching, very flattering offers were made to
him, accompanied by urgent appeals of friends, to induce him
240 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
to devote his life to business, but he remained unshaken and
true to his convictions of duty.
While pursuing his theological studies, it was his purpose to
go as a missionary to India, and he even began the study of the
Tamil language. He was ordained September 15th, 1841, and
was preparing to carry out this long cherished purpose, when a
most urgent call came from the Sandwich Islands for a seaman’s
chaplain at the port of Honolulu. After careful and prayerful
consideration, Mr. Damon surrendered his former plans, and
accepted this position. He sailed from New York, March roth,
1842, via Valparaiso and Callao, and after a vogage of seven
months’ duration, reached Honolulu October 1gth, 1842.’
Mr. Damon’s work at Honolulu was carried forward under
the auspices of the American Seaman’s Friend Society. At the
time that he entered on his work, from one hundred to one hun-
dred and fifty whale ships visited the port of Honolulu every
year. Dr. Damon’s own statement is as follows: ‘From 1842
to 1867, at the lowest estimate, six thousand seaman annually
visited this port. During these twenty-five years, my labors
were abundant, and sometimes beyond my strength.” What
his labors were cannot be fully described. It was his practice
to visit all these ships, to scatter Bibles, Testaments and tracts,
and to converse personally with as many of the sailors as possi-
ble. For forty-two years, he was pastor of the Bethel Church,
and preached there every Sunday, not only to sailors, but also
to merchants, sea captains and many others, who were drawn
to this well-known place of worship.
Aside from his duties as a seaman’s chaplain, Dr. Damon
performed many other important services. Being an accepta-
ble speaker, he was often called upon to give addresses on pub-
lic occasions, and he held a prominent position in missionary
associations, as well as in all institutions organized on the
Hawaiian Islands for charity and education. He was not only
an able speaker, but also a ready writer. Only three months
after his arrival at Honolulu, he began the publication of a
‘A manuscript note, in the handwriting of Dr. Damon, gives the date as
Och 27."
PERSONAL NOTICES. 241
monthly journal, which he called “The Friend.” This periodi-
cal took the place, in some respects, of a general newspaper,
but, possessing both high literary merit, and a decidedly re-
ligious character as well, it became not only a channel of com-
munication for great multitudes on both land and sea, but also
an educating and elevating agency for all that part of the world.
The travels, acquaintance and influence of Dr. Damon were
very extensive. In 1849 he visited Oregon and California. In
1851 he visited the United States, coming by the way of the
Isthmus of Panama, returning to the Sandwich Islands in 1852.
In 1861 he made a tour of the Micronesian Islands on the
“Morning Star.’ In 1869 he again visited the United States,
‘ and then traveled through England, Palestine, Egypt and
Greece, returning to Honolulu in 1870. In 1876 he attended
the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, also revisiting his
New England home and friends. In 1880 he came once more
to the United States, and then made an extended European
tour, visiting England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Switzer-
land and France. It is said that he also visited China and
Japan. In all these years he also carried on an extensive cor-
respondence with friends and acquaintances all over the world.
He married, October 6th, 1841, Julia Sherman Mills of
Natick. They had five sons :
Samuel Mills, born July 9th, 1843 ; died June 2d, 1844.
Samuel Mills, born March 13th, 1845.
Edward Chenery, born May atst, 1848.
Francis Williams, born December t1oth, 1852.
William Frederick, born January 11th, 1857; died Octo-
ber 23d, 1879.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from his alma
mater, Amherst College, in 1867. In 1869 he became a mem-
ber of the American Antiquarian Society, and in 1879 a cor-
responding member of the New England Historical and Genea-
logical Society.
While still a student at Andover, he was invited by his
townsmen to give the address at the celebration of the centen-
242 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
nial anniversary of the town. This address was published at
the request of the committee of arrangements, together with
notes and an appendix, which increased the amount of matter
fourfold. During his visit to the United States in 1876, he
gathered considerable matter for a continuation of the history
down to that time, which, however, he was never able to prepare.
His death occurred February 7th, 1885, and resulted from
inflammation of the brain. On the afternoon of the next day,
Sunday, his funeral and burial were attended by a great throng
of sorrowing triends, including the king and his ministers.
“He was one of nature’s noblemen,—of fine personal appear-
ance,— always pleasant, cheerful and happy,— always laboring
to make others happy here and hereafter,—a truly model Chris-
tianman ... . . andit may justly be said that the
world was made better by his having lived in it.”"
Rev. GeorGce DarLine.
The Rev. George Darling was born October 24th, 1821, in
the town of Sterling, but the family removed to Holden when
he was an infant only six months old. He united with the
Congregational Church in Holden when about fifteen years old.
In the fall of 1840 he went to West Troy, N. Y., and taught
school there and in that region. He was graduated from Union
College in 1846, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in
1849. He was ordained at Hamilton, Ohio, July 12th, 1850, and
was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that place for about
two years. Leaving the West after a severe sickness, he was
called, in the fall of 1852, to the pastorate the Appleton Street,
now the Eliot, Church in Lowell, where he remained between
two and three years. Since then his pastorates have been at
Hudson, Ohio, for fifteen years; Waupun, Wis., for sixteen
years, and Oconomowoc, Wis., for two years,
‘Quoted from the remarks of Nathan Allen, M. D., at the dedication of the
Damon Memorial, from which much asisstance has been derived in the prep-
aration of this sketch.
Rev. ELNATHAN DAVIS.
PERSONAL NOTICES. 243
An elder brother of the above, Samuel D. Darling, having
been graduated from Williams College in 1836, studied theol-
ogy at Gilmanton, N. H.; was pastor at Yarmouth, South
Royalston and Orange; in 1850 removed to Oakfield, Wis.,
and labored there as a home missionary until his sudden death
in 1873, at the age of sixty-six years.
Rey. E_natuan Davis.
The Rev. Elnathan Davis, son of Ethen and Sarah Hubbard
Davis, was born at Holden, August roth, 1807. He was grad_
uated from Williams College in 1834, and from East Windsor,
now Hartford, Theological Seminary in 1836. He was ordained
as a Congregational minister at Holden in November of that
year, being at the time under appointment as a missionary of
the American Board to South Africa. Dr. Paine died.
November 30th, 1888.
lation of books.
December 8th, 1802.
Jefferson.
December 16th, 1820.
December 21st, 1774.
December 22d, 1742.
Joseph Davis ordained.
December 24th, 1835.
cated.
December 26th, 1853.
etors.
Gale Free Library opened for circu-
DECEMBER.
Mill and other buildings burned at
The house of Ethan Davis burned.
Rev. Joseph Avery ordained.
The Church constituted, and Rev.
Present Baptist meeting-house dedi-
Last recorded act of the Propri-
December 28th, 1892. Sesquicentennial Celebration of the
organization of the Congregational Church. An Historical
Address was given by the pastor, Rev. Thomas E. Babb, and
many others participated in the interesting exercises.
December 31st, 1807.
Baptist Church constituted.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE STORY RETOLD.
giHiE historical address given by the author of this
work at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the town, with some supplementary matter, is
printed here as it gives a brief review of the whole
history of Holden, and thus may fitly close this record:
Mr. PRESIDENT, FELLow CITIZENS, FRIENDS ALL :—We are
met to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
incorporation of Holden. That past history should be reviewed
is in accordance with the common manner of such celebrations.
While on the present occasion it is impossible to rehearse with
fullness the annals of the past, while the most that can be
done is briefly to suggest the principal events which have
occurred, it certainly commends itself as fitting that we should
together look back over the multiplying years and generations,
and mark what is most-noteworthy in the history of our dear
old town.
We must look back, indeed, beyond the epoch the anniver-
sary of which we celebrate. Incorporation did not create the
the town. In the spring of 1741, what was officially desig-
nated as “the northerly part of Worcester, commonly called
North Worcester,” was already, in essential particulars, a town,
unified and self-centered, fit for independence, capable of indi-
vidual development. Incorporation was merely the formal
recognition of the existing fact, and the legal certification of
an independence which location had constrained and history
had developed.
394 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Of aboriginal history there is none to relate. There are’
few traces of the presence of Indians within our borders, there
is no tradition of Indian dwelling, there is no record of bloody
deed of Indian warfare.
Before we reach the century and a half of independent his-
tory we have three-quarters of a century of dependent history.
For more than seventy years this territory was a part of Wor-
cester. When we remember that in 1635, before the Pilgrim
had been in Plymouth for half a generation, the people in some
towns began to complain that they “were straitened for
want of room,” we are not surprised that thirty years later the
beautiful valley of Quinsigamond, almost exactly half way
between the settlements on the coast and those on the Con-
necticut river, attracted the attention of the General Court.
A committee, chosen in 1667, reported the next year that the
territory now embracing not Holden only, but also Worcester -
with its eighty-five thousand inhabitants might “supply about
sixty families.” The General Court accordingly empowered the
same committee to lay out an_area equal to eight miles square,
and to establish a settlement. In 1674 and 1677 deeds to this
territory were secured from the Nipmuck Indians.’ In 1684
it was voted out of the four hundred and eighty plots, into
which the whole should be divided, two hundred should be
Jaid out “at the northerly end of said plantation.” From this
time our territory has been distinct.
Because of Indian raitls and for still other reasons “the
plantation of Quonsikamon, alias Worsterr,” grew slowly. It
was incorporated as a town in 1722, when it contained scarcely
fifty houses, and it is doubtful if in all the northerly part there
was the rude cabin of a single bold pioneer. This, I say, is
doubtful. We lack all certain. information as to the original
settlement of Holden. Records are silent, tradition is dumb.
Proprietors’ records, however, have been kept since 1722.
In that year the proprietors of the common and undivided lands
in Worcester ordered a survey of the meadow lands in this
northern portion. After a survey was made, a certain number
'Damon Ilistory, pp. 63-66.
THE STORY RETOLD. 395
of acres were allotted to each proprietor.' From that time for-
ward those who had received their allotments became joint pro-
prietors of all the undivided lands, and the management of the
common and undivided lands ran parallel with the administra-
tion of town affairs, but distinct from it, till the year 1853.”
The first record looking to settlement here relates to the
contract with Jonas Rice for burning lime. Lieutenant Jonas
Rice was the first permanent settler in Worcester, and the
moderator of the proprietors’ meetings which first dealt directly
with our territory. Lime having been discovered in the east-
ern part of this district of Worcester, in March, 1723, he
contracted with the proprietors for the exclusive privilege of
burning it for the term of seven years. It is not certain,
however, that this led to settlement, or even to his availing
himself of the contract, as, ten years later, several proprietors
to whom a similar contract was offered, burned a “kill” to
test the lime, which “it was thought would prove very good.”
Not far from the same time, possibly a little earlier, Lieutenant
Simon Davis settled west of here.
'The following is the form of record of the allotment of lands to the sev-
eral proprietors :
“Worcester octobr 2gth 1724 Parsuant to a vote of the Proprietors of the
Common and undivided land in the north part of Worcester I have laid in
said north part thirty acrs of land with one acre allowed for swagg of Chain
as a first Division of land for the use of the School Said school Land lyeth
on and adjoyning to the westerly side of meetinghouse hill, & bounded
Every way by Common land as here discribed in the Platt surv[ey]Jed by
“BENJ’A FLAGG Jun”
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°The last meeting of the Proprietors was held September 7th, 1844. The
last recorded act was the appointment of a chainman, December 26th, 1853.
396 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
1724 was an important year for the settlement of “ North
Worcester.” January 29th, the Proprietors received a sur-
veyor’s report of the amount of meadow land; March 18th,
they voted to proceed “to Divide and Lay out the Common
and undivided lands in the North part of Worcester”; April
29th, a committee of five was chosen to lay out “four
Publique Roads Six Rods wide”; July 22d, a tax of two
shilling was levied on each ten-acre lot, the first tax for local
purposes ; in October the roads were laid out ; and November
2d the first actual allotment of land was made;' a second
division of Jand and then a third followed till, in 1736, more
than twelve thousand acres had been divided.
November 14th, 1733, a petition was received by the pro-
prietors from James Thompson and sixteen others, praying
that the proprietors “‘would be pleased to get the Land
Taxed for Building a meeting-house and settling the Gospel
among them.” At this time, however, the proprietors did not
grant the request, contenting themselves with the declaration
at the adjourned meeting, January 16th, 1734, that they will be
“ready to Give Due Encouragement toward Settling the Gospel
in the North half.” At the next proprietors’ meeting, however, '
three years later, it was ordered that a suitable meeting-house
be built, that “ Provision be made for supporting an orthodox
minister to preach the Gospel . . . for three years next
to come,” and a tax was levied of four pence per acre for the
first year, three pence for the second year and two pence for
the third year. The meeting-house was to be “ fifty foot long
and forty foot wide and twenty Two feet between Joynts.” It
stood on the site since occupied by the Damon estate.”
'See page 12.
* The following was the notice of sale of the original meeting-house :—
“NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that their is to be Sold at Public Auction on the Last Wednesday of this
Instant at two O’Clock P. M. at the House of Lem! Abbot in Holder in
Holden that Noted House in Said Town Known by the Name of the Old
Publick Meeting House; their is a variety of Excelent Boards no doubt, and
a Large assortment of fine Timber, which the purchaser may make Large
THE STORY RETOLD. 397
It now seemed to the people here that they should be estab-
lished as a distinct municipality. Their interests were entirely
separate from those of Worcester. In one year, at least, Wor-
cester had already released its north half part from all taxation,
if the residents would care for their own roads. One great
duty of towns was to provide for public worship, and one great
privilege of citizens was to attend public worship. Distance
made it impossible for those living in the north half to worship
in Worcester. Indeed, of those who later constituted the
church, the majority held membership in Rutland. As we
have seen, the proprietary of Holden was entirely distinct from
that of Worcester. The two were in fact, and should be in
form, separate and independent.
Accordingly, March 3d, 1740, Worcester willingly assented
to the proposed division,' and in May, Mr. John Bigelow was
chosen to carry to the General Court, at its May session, the
petition of twenty-five of his fellow citizens, that they might
be set off as a distinct and separate township. Unsuccessful
at this session, the petition met with favor at the next. The
bill for the incorporation of Holden* passed the House of
improvements upon besides Some Glass and Nails all which will be sold
together, or in sepperate Lots as will best accommodate the purchaser or
purchasers. the Conditions of sale will be made Known at the time and
place above mentioned.
JAMES DAVIS,
‘March ye 16th 1791 EBEN ESTABROOk, } Committec.
PAUL GOODALE,
‘““N. B. Notice is hereby given to all persons that have any Demands on
said House as private property; they are Desired to Remove the same before
said Day as no allowance will be made to any Person by the Town that
Shall Neglect the same.”
'“Voted that ye Northrly part of the Town Comonly Called North Wor-
cester agreeable to ye Pertition Line formerly Run be Set of a Distinct &
Seperate Township if it be ye pleasure of ye grate & General Court in Con-
sideration of Their grate Distance from ye place of public worship.” Wor-
cester Town Records.
2“ AN ACT FOR ERECTING THE NORTHERLY PART OF THE
TOWN OF WORCESTER, INTO A DISTINCT AND SEPARATE
TOWNSHIP, BY THE NAME OF HOLDEN.
““WHEREAS the inhabitants of the northerly part of the town of Wor-
cester, commonly called North Worcester, by reason of the great difficulties
398 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
Representatives January 2d, 1740 old style, 1741 new style, and
was signed by the Governor January gth. By another act
passed in March, Mr. Bigelow was authorized to assemble the
qualified voters on the first Monday in May, which was done.
Making no allowance for change of calendar, on the gth of
last January, Holden had been one hundred and fifty years in-
corporated; on the 4th of last May it had been one hundred
and fifty years an organized municipality.
And how many and who were these who heroically assumed
the responsibilities of a new town, and served religion and
education? It seems almost insidious to choose any names
from the lists of our first families, yet time forbids the men-
tion of many. Lieutenant Simon Davis was Moderator of the
first and of many succeeding town meetings, selectman and
tithing man; Cyprian Stevens was the first town clerk; one
of.the first selectmen was Captain John Bigelow who had been
the bearer to the General Court of the petition for incorpora-
tion. With these were others as worthy. The Rev. Mr.
Davis in his sermon preached here fifty years after his ordina-
they labour under, have addressed this court to be set off a separate and dis-
tinct township, whereto the inhabitants of sd town have manifested their
consent,—
“BE IT ENACTED by His Excellency the Governor, Council and
Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the
same,
‘“That the northerly part of the town of Worcester, within the following
bounds; vizt., bounding, southeasterly, on the lines dividing the north and
south proprieties in said town, and is known by the name of the dividing
line; westerly, partly on the town of Leicester, and partly on the town of
Rutland; north-westerly on said town of Rutland, and easterly on the town
of Shrewsbury, be and hereby is set off from the town of Worcester, and
erected into a separate and distinct township, by the name of Holden.
*» And the inhabitants thereof be and hereby are vested with all the powers,
priviledges and immunities which the inhabitants of other towns within this
province do or by law ought to enjoy.
‘Provided nevertheless,
‘«That the said new town shall pay their proportionable part of all such
province and county taxes as are already assessed upon the town of Worces-
ter in like manner as if this act had never been made.”
Copied from Volume If. of the Provincial Statutes, published by authority
of the State, omitting, however, the insertions of the Editors. 5
THE STORY RETOLD. 399
tion, says that the people numbered in 1741, all told, twenty
families. The names of perhaps forty men have, however,
been preserved as active in town, as poll tax payers, or as
church members, before the close of the year 1743.' And
what had they for a “setting out” wherewith to begin munici-
pal housekeeping? Their rude homes were new, for few houses
in town were ten years old; consequently within and without
they lacked much of convenience and comfort which they later
gathered about them.” So far as the records show, only four
'The following were the signers of the petition dated May 13th, 1740, and
presented to the General Court by John Bigelow: Simon Davis, James
Smith, Timothy Brown, Abraham Newton, Samuel Davis, James Cowdin,
Jonathan Lovell, Thomas Broad, John McConkey, Cyprian Stevens, Samuel
Clark, James Caldwell, James Gray, William Clark, Joseph Woolley, Jotham
Bigelow, John Child, William Cowdin, David Cowdin, Benjamin Bigelow,
Thomas McMullin, Samuel Hubbard, David Brown, Joseph Hubbard, Sam-
uel Heywood.
The following early members of the church are not included in the above
list: John Fletcher, William Nichols, Jabez Harrington, Samuel Pierce,
Amos Heywood, Samuel Bennett, Eleazar Davis.
°The ordinary supply of tools and household conveniences may be judged
from the following inventory of the estate of Cyprian Stevens, a prominent
citizen of the town—four times Selectman in the first six years of its history.
“A True Inventory of all and Singular the Goods Chattels and Credets of
Cyprian Stevens Late of Holden in the County of Worcester Gent. Prized
at said Holden the 15th Day of May Ano Dom. 1754 by James Moore Jabez
Beamon and Samuel Peirce &c as followeth,
£ Be d.
Imprimis his Apparel 04 02 oo
Item his Books 00 08 00
Item his half-pike and Sword 00 06 co
To one Yoke of Oxen 08 00 00
To four Cowes 09 09 00
To Three Heifers 05 07 00
To Two Paier of Steres O4 19 00
To one Mare and Colt og 00 00
To Riding Furniture 00 16
To Swine 03 00 co
To one Carte and Wheels 02 O5 00
To one Seed-plow 00 09 00
To one Chain and Horse Traeeses 00 13 oo
To one Shovel and two Forkes 00 06 00
To Two Axes and two Sawes ol 02 00
To Square and other Carpenter Tooles 00 09 00
400 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
roads had been laid out. The town property consisted of the
new meeting-house, destitute of pulpit, pew and even floor,
which indeed was still in the hands of the proprietors, and was
not surrendered till some time after.’ It was thus, rich only
To three Sythes and three hoanes oo o7 00
To Beetel-ring, wedges and old Irion oo 10 {ole}
To Grane 03 06 oo
To Hand-Irions fireslice Tongs and Troimels Ol o4 oo
To Iron pott kittels Skillite and frying-pan oo 12 00
To Warming-pan candel-stick Box-Iron and Skimer oo 05 00
To Puter wessels and Wooden-Ware Ol 16 oO
To two Beds and Bedsteds and their furniture 04 {ele} oo
To two Beds more and their furniture 04 14 oo
To Linen and Flax Ol 10. oo
To Chestes and Tables co 12 oo
To one Loom one Slay and two Spining wheels ol 07 00
To Chaiers dri cask Sider bariels and Indore lumber o1 05 oo
To one Dri Hide 00 06 00
To one Large Ioron Kettel 00 08 00
To Hooseing and Land and Pue in the meeting
House 460 00 00
Z S. d.
Sum Total §52 13 oo
‘at a meeting of the Proprietors of Holden by an adjournment at the
Light house Tavern, Boston, augt 14: 1744
‘cat said meeting the following report was made & accepted
In observance to a vote of the Proprietors of Holden at their meeting at the
Light house Tavern in King street Boston upon tuseday the 17th day of
April last, we accordingly attended upon the affair Submitted to us by said
Proprietors & went to Holden and there mett together the second tuseday of
June Instant and took a view of the meeting house built in said Town by the
said Proprietors, and heard what the Inhabitants had to say respecting the
finishing the same and makeing & Disposing of pews in said house—and
are of opinion that the said Proprietors be at the Charge of finishing said
House so far as may be Necessary for the accommodation of the Present
Inhabitants and that Sundry pewes are alredy Built and more are required
to be built in said meeting House for the accommodation of those that de-
sire Pew’s Evento the Number of twenty-Two takeing in the Two hind
seats for the doing that Number, Reserving to som of the Non resident Pro-
prietors Two three, or not more than four of said Pews, & one for the Min-
istry, and the remainder to the Present Inhabitants. & are further of opinion
that the Proprietors should pay to the Inhabitants the Charge they have
been at in building the pulpitt, & the Body of Seats be low and that Each
person that shall have a Pew, be at the Charge of Building it, & Cielling it
up to the Girt, Exept the Charg of the Pew to the Ministry, and we are fur-
THE STORY RETOLD. 401
in the empty but strong hands, and full and strong hearts of
its citizens, that Holden began as Holden, a century and a
half ago.
Before we turn away from the obscure records of the earliest
years, interesting and important so far as they have been pre-
served, it remains to notice and name two of the worthies
of that day. For eighteen years, from 1725 to 1743, Colonel
Adam Winthrop was Moderator of all the meetings of the
proprietors. Holden, as well as Worcester, profited much in
those days by his enterprise and sagacity. As a mark of their
grateful respect, he was allowed in the first, the second, and
the third divisions of land, his first choice of land. He well
deserves what Dr. Damon said of him fifty years ago, ‘He
emphatically may be called a father of the town.” Mention
must also be made of him for whom the town was named, the
Hon. Samuel Holden, who was a prince among London mer-
chants, a director of the Bank of England, and a member of
Parliament, an earnest Christian man and a leader in Christian
beneficence,' who was the architect of his own fortune, and
ther of opinion that when that said meeting house is finished, and the pews
disposed of that the Proprietors then Resign up the said Meeting house to
the Inhabitants of said Town they submitting themselves to the votes
of the Proprietors and Further that if the Proprietors accept of what is
a bove proposed that then we or som other comtee, they shall appoint pro-
ceed to the disposal of said Pews all which is humbly submitted,” Pro-
prietors’ Records.
| “Bur give me leave to refozce in the distinguishing Honours of Providence
and Grace to the Deceased Mr. HoLpEn, that he seem’d to be ove of the Ser-
vants with ve Talents ; in as much as it pleased GOD in his early Youth to
jx him (as he once wrote to me) in those Principles and Inclinations which
rul’d in him thro’ his Life; and then being rais’d to great /?7ches, and endued
with uncommon Powers of Mind, and his /xtegrity with his Capacity being
manifest to all about him, together with his Déligence ¢n Business which
renders one fit to Stand before Princes; the eyes of City and Court also were
in time set upon him, his Honesty and Prudence commanding their /steem ;
and so he came to shine not only at the Head of the DiIssENTERS, that great
and good Body both in the British Church and State; but also at the Head
of the Bank of England, and on ¢hese Accounts (as 1 have heard) was even
courted and constrained by the MINISTRY into a Seat in Parl‘ament!
And now the Wonder of Grace to him and in him was, that amidst so many
and great Avocation and Incumbrances from the World, the Svercs and
4
d
4o2 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
who gave as grandly as he accumulated; whose benefactions,
together with those of his family, to college and church in the
New World amounted to no less than £10,000. May Holden
ever be worthy of the honored name which she bears.
Town officers were elected on the 4th of May, 1741, and
two weeks later was held the first meeting for the transaction
of town business. The records deserve to be read in full.
*¢ Att a Genaral meeting of y* Inhabitance of ye Town of Holden
on y@ nine teenth Day of may Anna Domani 1741 Leagaly Assem-
bleyed.
Mr Simon Davis was Chose a moderator for this meeting
‘¢(r) voted to have y¢ Gospel preached in Sd Town
‘¢(2) voted to have y¢ Gospel Preached for Six Sabaths forward
after the next Sabbeth.
“*(3) voted that Samuel Peirce Willam Nickels and Thomas
Mcmollen be a Committe to provide a minister and a place for his
Entertainment
“*(4) voted to haue a wrigting and reading Schoole kept in Sd
Town voted to have it Three months to begin att the first of Sep-
tember next the parsons hereafter named ware Chosen a Committe
to provide a School master viz Cyprian Stevens and Samvel
Thomson
*¢(5) voted to build a Surficant pound in Sd Town
voted that all parsons in Sd Town come to the age of Sixteen years
shall attend the work of erecting Sd pound on the Twenty fifth Day
of this Instant may or pay ten Shilings per man
‘*(6) voted that fifty pounds Shall be Raised to Defray Charg of
preaching and Schooling
‘This meeting is solved ”
Thus simply and grandly did the fathers lift the burdens
which incorporation laid upon them. As it is well expressed
Temptations of so many of its Glorées; his Eyes were not dazled with its
glittering shows, nor his /Vear¢ taken off, but the rather the more settled on
the infinitely greater and eternal Blessedness of Heaven; the care of his own
Soul, the temporal and spiritual Good of Mankind as far as his Influence
could reach; that hereby he might please, honour and glorify GOD in his
Generation, maintain a Life of communion with Him and Devotedness to
Him, and make to himself Pr/euds of the Mammon of Unrightcousness, that
at Death he might be received into Mauns/ons of Light, and everlasting Hah-
étations.” Sermon of Dr. Benjamin Colman before the General Court, pad:
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in the hymn, which, written for the celebration fifty years ago,
we have just made a part of ours to-day,
“First in their noble thoughts and plans,
The love and worship, Lord, of Thee;
Then, the strong training of their youth
The love of Man and Liberty.”
As soon as possible a church was organized, with fourteen
constituent members, all of whom were men, and the same day,
December 22d, 1742, Rev. Joseph Davis, a son of Lieutenant
Simon Davis, was ordained as the first pastor of the young
church and town. The meeting-house was then completed ;'
schools were kept year after year in different parts of the
town, wherever room could be found for them, and road mak-
ing was carried forward as rapidly as possible.
The one hundred and fifty years of our history as a town
very naturally fall into six periods, each of twenty-five years.
Within the borders of the town, one of the most memorable
events of the first quarter-century was the earthquake of 1755,
the effects of which were quite widely felt, but were nowhere
more marked than in Holden, chiefly in that district later set
off to form the town of West Boylston. At the time Rev. Mr.
Mellen, pastor in Lancaster, says that several acres of land
were “quite surrounded by a visible fracture in the earth, of a
circular form, of various width and depth,” and_ vividly
describes the effects especially upon the trees.” It is said that
‘May 24th, 1743, the town ‘‘ voted that there be a desent pue built att
ye cost and charge of ye Town at ye west end of ye meeting house next to
ye pulpet Stares and to be for ministral use.”
2 At the north east corner of the town of //o/dex, ina low obscure place,
there are several acres of land quite surrounded by a visible FRACTURE in the
earth, of a gircular form, and of various width and depth.
“A small rocky river is upon the north, and other-ways chiefly covered by
a steep hill, set with thick wood.
‘“‘The breach upon the hilly sides is upon the declivity of the hill, and isa
perpendicular sinking of the ground, in some places more than the heighth
of a man, but without any presen? opening.
‘“The trees on each side of the breach by this means, being thrown into
various directions, and sometimes crossing one another, over head at right
angles, sometimes thrown out by the roots.
‘“‘Upon the less uneven land is vow a rupture of different dimensions, not
4O4 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
the marks of this convulsion may still be traced. Twice dur-
ing this period the little town was desolated by sickness, in
1749 twenty-two dying, and then in 1756 a pestilence break-
ing out here, which caused the death of forty-five persons,
almost one-tenth of the population, and then spread to other
towns with consequences as lamentable.
As regards matters beyond our own borders, the citizens of
Holden shared in the courageous and patient endeavors of the
New Englanders against Louisburg and in the French and
‘Indian war. Edward Everett says that the people of Massachu-
setts, between 1755 and 1763, “performed an amount of mili-
tary service, probably never exacted of any other people, living
under a government professing to be free.” Careful estimates
show that the thirty thousand population of this county sent
nine thousand men into the war; our mother town, from four-
teen hundred inhabitants sent five hundred. Though in conse-
quence of the incompleteness of the muster rolls, the names of
only twenty of those who went from a little community of less
very deep or yawning, but sometimes dividing it self into ¢wo, and fre-
quently emitting cracks to some distance from its main body; the ground
being thereby very much broken into pieces, and some large masses intirely
dis-joined from the rest.
‘Upon the River side it is easy to see where the rupture was, but at pres-
ent there is no opening, only a sand that seems to have been thrown out,
and a great dislocation of the stones of vast bigness in the channel, The
old channel is indeed in great measure block’d up, and seems to be rads’d
something answerable to the sézkéng of the land at the hill, and causes a
considerable /a// of the water where it is said there us’d to be little or none:
and this is not improbable from circumstances which seem to demonstrate
that this whole body of earth when torn from the hill, was push’d several
feet towards the River.
‘« The stump of a tree that happened to stand directly over the chasm, on
the east, is divided into two equal parts, one standing upon the outside of
the chasm, the other upon the inside, but not opposite to each other, the
half within the chasm being carried five feet forward towards the River.
‘*A large log also that crosses the breach upon the same side, is dislodged
from its ancient bed at the end lying without the chasm, but retains its
former situation within. The same thing is seen in the roots of a tree that
is turned up in the chasm upon the opposite side to the west.
‘*Some trees that stood upon the margin of the river tumbled into it,
and notwithstanding the large quantity of earth hanging to their roots, the
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than five hundred, have been preserved, yet we do not fear
that Holden fell behind her sister towns in faithfulness and
valor. We know of at least one, Sergeant Ephraim Bennett,
who died in actual service on the Crown Point expedition in
1755.
In the second quarter-century of our history, the Rev-
olution came, and men found profit even in the sacrifices and
the losses, which the colonies had borne. These hardships
had trained heroes, who could wrest liberty even from England
herself. In 1768 Mr. Davis records the observance by the
church of “a day of Fasting and Prayer on account of the
Aspects of divine Providence in our public affairs.’ But
prayer could not avert the storm. Peace could come only by
the sword, liberty by Revolution.
The temper of our citizens in this crisis is displayed in the
following resolutions, two out of fourteen which were drawn
up and passed in response to a pamphlet from Boston contain-
ing resolutions and an appeal.
‘*(1) Resolved that Liberty both Religious & Civil is a most
Precious and Enestimable Gift of the Great & Glorious Creator of
place from which it was taken is not left void, but the earth behind has
come forward and clos’d up the breach. The turf also at the channel, is in
some places doubled over and crowded together.
“‘T very lately saw this remarkable place, with a view at publishing the
account of it here. It has been seen by many people, and some of them per-
sons of some distinction.
“Tt seems probable that the eruption and swelling was greater at the
River than in any other part; which may possibly account in some measure
for the descent of the other land that way, which in the general lay a little
higher: and this might help to continue the channel in its rais’d situation.
‘“‘T observ’d upon a little hillock not far from the center of the circumfer-
ence, a small quantity of fine sand spread upon the leaves, which seem’d to
be spewed out of the earth, and a little spring to appearance of a strong
mineral tincture, ouzing thro’ it, and falling down its sides.
‘“‘Had only such a rupture as this happened in a place inhabited and set
with houses, the terrible effects of it are not hard to conceive. And it ought
to be improv’d as an admonition to thankfulness, and readiness for such a
like event.”
A Sermon Delivered June 16, 1756. At the Second Parish in Lancaster.
By Jon MELLEN, A. M., Pastor of the Church of Christ there, Bosfon:
1756, pp. 8-11.
406 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
all things granted to all Rational Creatures: neither can any Person
or Persons innocently give or Sell it away from himself any more
than he can take it from another
‘<(2dy) If any have been so unhappy as to Surrender their
Liberty such Act of theirs Cannot induce any Moral Obligation of
Servitude on them Personally Espicially ; if they were Enslaved by
irresistable Power: surely then it Cannot reasonably hind their
Successors in every future Generation”
Our fathers, however, were not ready to make universal
application of the principles which they so forcibly stated.
The following paper, executed a year and a half before the reso-
lutions which I have just read, but not recorded until four
years after their date, seems not without interest and_per-
tinency.
*¢ Know all Men by these presents that I, Joseph Harrington of
Weston, in the County of Middlesex in the province of Massachu-
setts Bay in New England Gent" for & in Consideration of Fifty
Pounds Lawfull Money of the Province aforesaid, to me in hand paid
by Nathan Harrington of Holden in ye County of Worcester, Yeo-
man, the Receipt whereof I do Acknowledge & myself therewith
fully & intirely Satisfied, have Bargained, Sold Set over & delivered
& do by these Presents according to Law Bargain Sell Set over &
deliver unto the Said Nathan Harrington a Negro Man named Bos-
ton, about Twenty Five years of Age, to have & to Hold to the
Proper use and behoof of him the Said Nathan Harrington,”
and so on to the end of legal verbage. There is every reason
to suppose that poor Boston was serving in Holden’ while the
citizens were declaring and declaiming in favor of liberty, and
they may every one of them have been utterly unconscious of
the inconsistency. But liberty fought out brought yet wider
liberty in its train, till at last it has been proclaimed to all the
inhabitants of the land.
What the men of Holden voted for, they were ready to
fight for. The researches of Dr. Damon gathered the names
'In 1765 there were two negroes in town. In 1777 the tax levied on the
Negro named Pole was abated; the latter was a member of the church in
1743.
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of thirty-five who served in the Continental Army, and of forty
more who went out as militia men. One in every ten of the
total population bore arms in the cause of freedom. Thomas
Heard was killed in warfare near Saratoga, Moses Wheeler and
Jeremiah Fuller died amid the agony of Valley Forge. The
only commissioned officer from Holden in the Continental Army,
Captain George Webb, received the high but deserved honor of
a special letter of thanks from General Lafayette.
Scarcely less interesting is the story of the struggles of
those who remained at home to meet the requisitions so often
made upon them. Bounties were voted to volunteers, large
quantities of beef were called for and sent to feed the army,
clothing and blankets were gathered up from the homes of the
people, doubtless leaving many a household destitute of needed
comforts, for freedom’s sake.
It may also be noted that in the long days of the struggle
Holden involuntarily became a refuge for the Tories, who fled
in needless fear from Worcester and fortified themselves for a
time on Stone House Hill, and that amid the distresses of debt
and disaster which followed the war, scarcely less dreadful
than war itself, some of the citizens of Holden sympathized
with the movement known as Shays’ Rebellion, and a few
actually joined the Regulators.
In January, 1773, after one month more than thirty years of
pastoral service, Rev. Joseph Davis, at his own request, was
dismissed from his office, although he continued to reside here,
serving in the work of the ministry as occasion offered until
his death in 1799, at the age of seventy-nine years. After an
interval of about two years, Rev. Joseph Avery was ordained as
pastor, to hold the office nearly fifty years.
The closing event of the first half-century of our history
was the building of a new meeting-house, on the lot given to
the Town for public uses by John Hancock in 1789. When
this period closed, Holden had a population of about eleven
hundred. The valuation was thirty-five thousand pounds, and
the appropriations were one hundred and thirty pounds for
highways, seventy pounds for schools and sixty pounds for
408 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
necessary charges, aside from the usual salary of Mr. Avery,
sixty-six pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence, which
would make the rate of taxation $7.45 on the $1,000. At this
time, however, highway taxes were worked out at the rate of
four shillings per day for a man, and two shillings for a yoke
of oxen with plough or cart. It may be noted in passing that
all taxes were reckoned in pounds, shillings and pence till 1797,
and highway taxes were not reckoned in dollars and cents till
1806.
The second quarter-century closed with the building of a
new meeting-house, the third period began with school-house
building. The town set apart four hundred pounds, and soon
almost all the districts or “squadrons,” as they were then called,
were supplied with buildings commodious and convenient for
the times.
During this period the old church had remarkable quicken-
ing and growth. The closing years.of the eighteenth century
and the opening years of the nineteenth were an era of wide-
spread irreligion and immorality. For fifty years the church
had scarcely received on an average one male member a year.
From 1801 to 1808 not one was received. The first religious
revival which had ever touched the town brought nearly ninety
members into the church in 1809. The Baptist Church was
organized in 1807, and grew steadily amid this revival spirit.
There were, however, serious ecclesiastical difficulties during
this period. Not long before 1800, the introduction of instru-
ments of music into the choir roused an antagonism, which it
required all Mr. Avery’s skill to quiet. Still more important
were the questionings and controversies, contemporaneous with
the rise of the Unitarian denomination. The deepening
religious spirit of many on the one hand, the increasingly
“liberal” temper of many on the other hand were elements
hard to hold in combination. Only such patience, tact and
wisdom as Mr. Avery had and used, could have prevented the
old church from being rent in twain, as were so many of the
old churches of the Commonwealth. It would be very interest-
ing to study the articles of faith which he drew up for the
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church in 1811, but unfortunately they had already been lost
half a century ago.
This third period closes with the distressful years before and
during the war of 1812. From the policy of the nation at
that time, Holden suffered like all of New England. Against
it Holden used to the utmost its voice and vote. In July,
1812, the town adopted a petition to Congress against the
declaration of war, drawn by a committee of which Rev. Mr.
Avery was chairman (as he usually was when important
papers were to be drawn), and in the elections which followed,
for Representative in Congress, President and Governor
respectively, only eleven Democratic votes were cast, as
against one hundred and ninety-five Federalist votes for Gov-
ernor. How many of our citizens actually served as soldiers,
we do not know, but in 1815 the town voted “to give the three
men that went on government service eight dollars per month
to each of them.”
This closes perhaps the most troublous period in our annals.
During most of this period there was no growth or develop-
ment of the town. In 1810, the population (one thousand sev-
enty-two) was actually less than twenty years before. In 1809,
however, was begun at Unionville, by Eleazer Rider & Sons,
the manufacturing of cotton yarn, almost the first business of
the kind in all Worcester County, the dawn of our bright
industrial day.
Passing now from the half of our history, in which the his-
torian is dependent on brief records and meagre tradition, to
the half which lies within the knowledge and memory of not a
few who hear me, we may well pause for a moment to consider
the work and worth of those who were, in a pre-eminent sense,
the makers of this town, and in their own sphere and _ propor-
tion, the makers of the Commonwealth and of the nation. A
vast amount of labor was performed in the first half of our
history. To all who live here now, may be said, “ Other men
labored, and ye have entered into their labors.” The
pioneers of Massachusetts had not, like the pioneers of the
New West, the momentum of a great nation and of an over-
410 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
flowing continent, and the accumulation of centuries to aid
them. With little equipment beyond his axe, his plough and
his strong hands, the settler struggled with the wilderness ;
cleared away the forest ; erected his simple cottage which
affection, intelligence and piety made a home, better than
which, in all essentials, the world has never seen; fought the
wolf, the crow and the rattlesnake ;' forced the coy earth to
yield the corn and the flax, from which the housewife, a help
for him, meet to share alike his labors and his honors, wrought
food and clothing; built roads; bound every stream to a saw,
and made it, like Samson, to grind in a mill; receiving with
meekness the word of God’s minister, yet blazed his own path
through the mysteries alike of theology and of statecratt ; and,
under the influence of the New England home, the New Eng-
land school-house, and the New England church, trained up a
generation, likewise industrious, liberty-loving and God-fearing.
Was not this a task for heroes, and were they not heroes, who
wrought it so well in Holden? In the words of the honored
man, who half a century ago in this very place so impressively
told their story, “‘ Honest, intelligent, industrious and religious
ancestors are among the richest of Heaven’s blessings to any
people. Citizens of Holden, God has bestowed upon you that
inestimable blessing. The wise man hath well observed, ‘The
glory of children are their fathers.’”
The twenty-five year period which rounded out our munici-
pal century was one of the least eventful in our annals. Dur-
ing these quiet years the town steadily prospered, increasing
in population more than in any other similar period since the
1 Holden May 24, 1742. Voted to make a Rate for killing of black burds
Jay burds woodpeckers and Rattel Snaikes: voted that aney that kill aney of
these Varmon Shall have Sixpence pr head old Tener.”
‘*Holden, May 14, 1792. Voted for the Town to Give a Bounty of two
shillings for Every Crow aney of the Inhabitants of the Town shall Kill
for one Year from this Day.
‘+ Voted that every person shall Carry the head of the Crow he Kills to the
selectmen and the Selectmen pay the above Bounty therefor.”
Town Records. Similar votes appear in 1808 and 1814.
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first, and making a greater proportional gain in manufacturing
than during any other period.
In 1822 Rev. Joseph Avery, having almost finished a half
century of service, was constrained rather than consented to
cease the active duties of the pastorate, which he had so long
and so well discharged, though he bore the title and received
part of the salary of pastor till he died, two years later. Like
his predecessor, he dwelt among this people to the end of his
days, and each hill which overlooks the Center is consecrated
by the dwelling there of a good minister of Jesus Christ.
October 22d, 1823, Rev. Horatio Bardwell became pastor of
the Congregational Church. Ten years later, almost to a day,
October 24th, 1833, pressing his second resignation against
the wish of his people, in order to engage in work for foreign
missions, which he loved so well, he was dismissed from his
pastorate, and the same day Rev. William P. Paine was
ordained and installed as his successor. Several large revivals
marked this period, the most marked’ being in 1830, when
more than two hundred united with the two churches, of which
some of you are witnesses. In 1820 stoves were introduced in
the old meeting-house. Then, -in 1828, it was moved back to
its present site and thoroughly repaired, a belfry was added
and a bell purchased. With the dismissal of Mr. Bardwell and
the coming of Dr. Paine, the relation which from the
beginning had subsisted between the town and the Congrega-
tional Church was severed, and ecclesiastical doings found no
more places in the town records.
During this period the Baptist Church built two meeting-
houses. The first was built in 1819 on the site just north of
the Damon Memorial, and being found too small was succeeded
by the present building in 1838. November 14th, 1836, was
held the first town meeting in the new Town Hall, erected at
a cost of $4,000.
The schools were greatly helped during this period by the
regular visits of a committee of supervision, of which Mr.
Bardwell, whose visits are still remembered pleasantly by those
who were children then, was chairman as long as he remained
A412 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
in town, and then the office passed .to Dr. Paine, who
discharged its duties for more than thirty years with scarcely a
break. On the other hand, about the same time the districts
were authorized to manage all their own affairs, and perhaps
this complete isolation worked a fully counter-balancing damage.
During the latter part of this quarter-century the question
of temperance became a burning issue. Dr. Paine tells us that
in 1833 it entered seriously into the choice of a minister, and
that public opinion was greatly divided. The preponderance of
sentiment was, however, on the side of temperance. In 1835
it was voted, one hundred and fifteen to forty-five, not to
license the sale of liquors in town. In 1838, on a quiet
summer morning, Philip Edwards, while passing peaceably to
his work, was attacked with an axe and butchered by a neighbor
who had been crazed by the use of intoxicating liquors. The
friends of temperance, led by Dr. Paine, whose printed sermon’
remains as a witness, well used this tremendous argument for
temperance. In 1839 the petitioners against the repeal of the
'* A Sermon Occasioned by the Murder of Philip Edwards. By William
P. Paine. Worcester, 1838 ”
The text of this discourse was Job xxiv, 14: ‘‘ The murderer, rising with
the light, killeth the poor and needy.” The heads of the discourse were :
‘first. .An uncommon and important event generally makes a much
deeper impression, in the place where it occurs, than anywhere else.
‘* Secondly. We are taught, by this awful event, the importance of always
being prepared for eternity.
‘* Thirdly. Our sympathy, prayers and assistance, are due to those, whose
interest[s] have been especially affected by this melancholy catastrophe.
*“ Fourthly. Tt is obvious that the shocking event under consideration was
caused by the use of intoxicating liguor.
‘“ Fifthly, that the use of alcoholic liquors, as articles of drink, is dan-
gerous.
“Sithly. Intoxicating liquor ought not to be used as a drink.
‘« Seventhly. The traffic in intoxicating liquors ought to cease.”
The discourse concludes in these words :
‘‘T appeal to you all for the sake of purity and peace and safety—for the
sake of injured innocence—for the sake of broken-hearted and affrighted
wives, of sorrowing children and suffering families—for the sake of every-
thing dear here and hereafter, to do, w ithout delay, all that is practicable to
protect yourselves, and your families, and this whole community, from
that subtle demon—that demon of perdition—the drivk of destruction.”
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stringent act of 1838 were one hundred and seventy-four and
only eighty-six favored the repeal, while the women, three
hundred and fifty-five in number, unanimously petitioned for
its retention. The vote on the late prohibitory amendment
was one hundred and sixty-one to seventy-nine.
With the year 1841 came the centennial of the town. It
was becomingly celebrated May 4th, under the direction of
a committee chosen at a citizens’ meeting, and the well-
remembered exercises have of late been often in the minds and
mouths of many of you. A son of the town, later widely
known as the Rev. Samuel C. Damon, D. D., of Honolulu,
gave the Historical Address, afterwards published with addi-
tional matter, and after a dinner served in the Town Hall to
three hundred and twenty persons, there was appropriate and
interesting speaking.
This mile-stone past, we enter another quiet period in the
life of Holden. There was no increase in population, though
there was a decided gain in property. The old Congregational
Church was all the time led by Dr. Paine. The Baptist Church
maintained itself, but attempts to establish Methodist, Adven-
tist and Universalist Churches all were unsuccessful.
No public buildings, except school-houses, were built or
repaired, In 1854 land was secured for a new burial ground,
and August 24th, occurred the formal dedication of the Grove
Cemetery, the site of which is by nature fine and rarely suited
to its use, and which, by the filial piety of two daughters of
Holden, has been beautified with an entrance which eminent
authority pronounces unsurpassed in any similar town.
However quiet in home affairs, the period ending in 1866
must yet be a period of glory on account of our share in the
Civil War. I need not rehearse the story at large,—how the
North was suddenly plunged unprepared into the desperate
struggle, and fought for four long years, till at last treasure
and blood, poured out without stint, cemented again the Union.
Alike in timeliness and in relative amount of service,
Holden stood among the first of all the towns of the Common-
wealth. At the first summons, in the very week which was
ree : HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
ushered in by the cannonade of Fort Sumter, the Holden
Rifles enlisted as a company, and Saturday, April 2oth, left
Worcester for the seat of war, while the women of Holden
with hearts distracted by the pain of parting and patriotic
pride, gathered Sunday in the Town Hall to work for them.
Thirty-one names stand on the records of the town of those
who instantly sprang to the defence of the assaulted flag.
Long as that flag waves shall the story of the promptness of
the Holden Rifles be told to their own honor and the honor of
Holden. After three months’ service the Rifles returned with
ranks unbroken by casualty to receive the enthusiastic public
welcome of the town. Many of them quickly re-enlisted for
three years, or the war, and many other noble young men with
them. For four years, call for soldiers fast followed call, but
Holden more than met all demands, and when the war closed
this little town of less than two thousand inhabitants had
furnished two hundred and four soldiers, four more than her
full quota. As in the Revolution, the number of soldiers was
more than one in ten of the total population. Eleven had been
commissioned officers. Meantime those who remained at
home had as nobly carried the financial burdens necessarily
imposed. The amcunt expended by the town in bounties and
aid, besides what was repaid by the state, was no _ less
than $8,000.
Upon the marble tablets set in the Town Hall by the
Holden Soldiers’ Monument Association as a permanent
memorial of loyalty, valor and patience unto death, are recorded
the names of thirty of our soldiers who were martyrs as well
as heroes. They should be read in our hearing to-day: Uriah
Bassett, killed; George T. Bigelow, killed; H. Erskine Black,
died ; Levi Chamberlain, killed; Edward Clark, died; Albert
Creed, died of wounds; Elisha G. Davenport, killed ; Henry
M. Fales, killed; John Fearing, died of wounds; Charles
Gibbs, died; James W. Goodnow, died in prison ; James
W. Haley, died; John Handley, killed; Henry M. Holt,
died; John R., Houghton, died; Amasa A. Howe, died in
prison ; Calvin Hubbard, died in prison; George T. Johnson,
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died ; Ira J. Kelton, died of wounds ; Lyman E. Keyes, killed ;
Frank Lumazette, died of wounds; Harlan P. Moore, died ;
George W. Newell, died of wounds; William C. Perry, died ;
Michael Riley, killed ; Winslow B. Rogers, died; John B. Sav-
age, died in prison ; George Thurston, died of wounds; Horace
L. Truesdell, died of wounds; Alfred S. Tucker, died in
in prison. Their fellow-soldiers in the Grand Army of the
Republic, who honor this occasion with their presence, yearly
decorate the graves of those who sleep among their kindred.
Be it ours, whenever the mother town counts her jewels, to
reckon as the most priceless of all, the steadfast daring of her
heroic sons. Let me but adda partial roll of the battles in
which some of our heroes fell: Chantilly, Antietam, Cold
Harbor, Newbern, Drury’s Bluff, Spottsylvania, Welden Rail-
road, the Wilderness! What memories these names evoke!
Need we go further for proof of Holden’s worthy share in the
suppression of the great Rebellion? Needs Holden praise
indeed, what praise is possible, beyond this, that her citizens
and soldiers, to the music of the Union, kept step with
Massachusetts ?
The sixth and last period needs no detailed record. It is
too familiar to all. In 1871 the Boston, Barre & Gardner
Railroad was opened for travel, its building involving the town
in heavy indebtedness and yet a necessity to our prosperity,
The Massachusetts Central Railroad, after a prolonged struggle
with great financial difficulties, has at last been opened asa
through .ine. In 1876 the Town Hall was repaired, enlarged,
and made a “Memorial” of our fallen soldiers. The Baptist
church was refitted in 1874, and immediately afterward the
Congregational church was remodelled. A little later, the
honored Dr. Paine, after more than forty-one years of active
labors, became “ pastor emeritus,’ and in 1876 he fell asleep,
the last of the four pastors who had filled the long period of
one hundred and thirty-five years with service of that church
and the whole community. The Roman Catholic parish,
established early in this period, has already outgrown its first
416 IIISTORY OF HOLDEN.
church, and just now enters the fine edifice consecrated last
Sunday.
The cyclone, which mowed a swath of destruction through
the town, passing near the Center, was fortunately attended
with no loss of life and comparatively little damage to person
or property, but will always be memorable for its power, and
for its terrible possibilities.
In respect to schools there has been great progress in the
last quarter-century. In 1866 $2,100 was appropriated, and in
1891 $6,700, Holden standing first of all the municipalities of
Worcester County in the percentage of its taxable property
devoted to schools, and seventh in the whole Commonwealth.
The town that marches in the foremost rank in Massachusetts,
marches in the foremost rank in the land. Early in this period,
to great advantage, the whole management of the schools was
vested in the Town School Committee. The last advance step
in administration is the appointment of a superintendent. A
High School was established in 1880, from which fully forty
have already been graduated. School-houses have been stead-
ily improved, that built in Jefferson in 1885 being one in
which any country town might justly take pride, but the one
ordered to take its place almost before its ashes were cold,
being finer yet. The Public Library, founded in 1876 by the
Library Association, has been made over to the town, increased
by gifts and appropriations to more than three thousand six
hundred volumes, which constitute a collection of unusua! merit,
and, with the reading room, is open free to all citizens more
hours weekly than the library of any similar town. _ Still more,
the Library, as well as the High School, has been provided in
the “Damon Memorial” with a home which is the pride of our
town, and the admiration of all behbolders, the gift of our hon-
ored friends, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Gale, whose absence to-
day we regret.
Looking back now, half a century, we see great prosperity.
Our population has increased fifty per cent., and the value of
the property in town has doubled, and instead of the twenty
paupers reported in 1837, we now report but four. The
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amount, as well as the value, of our farm products has greatly
increased. We cultivate two hundred acres more than in 1831,
and devote to pasture one thousand acres more, while of our
twenty thousand acres, only four hundred and twenty-five
belong to abandoned farms. Meantime manufactures have
been developing far more rapidly still; while, in 1837 the
value of all we made was scarce a hundred thousand dollars in
one year, of late it has exceeded half a million dollars.
From the vantage ground of this rapid survey of our history,
we may well claim that this town is a type of the true New
England town, Holden is a type in the circumstances of its
founding, settled as it was for the sake of homes, and incorpo-
rated for the sake of church. It is a type alike in the almost
purely English descent of its first inhabitants, and in the
mixture of race and blood which we now see in our factories
and schools, but all now as then in spirit true Americans. It
is a type in the steady success of its agricultural interests, and
in the parallel development and success of its manufacturing.
It is a type of the best of New England in the work of school
and library and church. We do honor to what is of greatest
worth in the life of Massachusetts, New England, and the
United States, when we honor Holden to-day. We take pride
in the fact that our town has been the nursery of so many
worthy men and women. Let me name only those who from
the hill-sides of Holden have gone out to labor in the ministry
of Christ: Fisher, Cheney, Marshall, Walker, Manning,
Winch, Wheeler, Davis, Howe, Richardson, Foster, Damon,
Darling, Bigelow, Holbrook, Hubbard, Perry, Brooks, Johnson,
Weeks, McLaughlin, Baumann, Prendergast, Murphy, and
Hamblen. With sucha roll ina single department, compute,
if you can, the full sum of our contributions to the work of
the nation, the world. Not to speak of other lands, our
brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters may be found in
a thousand communities in a score of states, and in the success
of every one the mother town rejoices to-day.
But Holden has been a home as well as a nursery. It has
not exported all its worth, Though change has been so busy
418 HISTORY OF HOLDEN.
among us that only twerty homesteads are now in the hands
of the families which occupied them at our centennial, yet
industry and thrift and intelligence and morality and religion
have not departed from among us. To-day those who come
back to us, as well as we who abide here, recall the names, the
faces, the lives of the noble men and women who have stead-
fastly and well wrought in field and mill, in home and hall, in
school and church, to make and keep this grand old town.
Each heart recalls a different name, but all are worthy. May
we not claim, with honest pride, that Holden is still the home
of those not unworthy to be heirs of the honorable past which
we recount ?
Let us make it so. Holden is still only a foundation.
What has been wrought is but preparatory to what shall be
wrought. Let us build upon this foundation so well that when
the historian of another fifty years, of another hundred and
fifty years shall take up his tale, he shall glory in our work
as we in the work of our fathers. In the words of Longfellow,
with which Dr. Damon closed fifty years ago: ‘“ Look not
mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely
improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the
shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
The Chapter of Personal Notices is not indexed here
Address, Centennial, 5, 52,53,
5; ALS:
Address, Sesquicentennial, 75,
393:
Adventists, 128, 413.
Anniversaries, 51, 61, 73, 103,
105, 346, 353, 355, 386,
388, 389, 391, 392, 413.
Area of Town, 2, 8, 42, 363.
Articles of Faith, 93, 100, 112,
408.
Band of Hope, 348.
Baptist Church, 74, 110, 392,
408, 413.
Baptist Society, First, 119,
_ 389.
Blizzard, 388.
Boundaries of Town, 1, 9,
43. 3
Bounties for killing Vermin, 3,
410.
Brick Yard, 201.
Carriage, First, 362.
Celebration of Lee’s Surrender,
69, 388.
Cemeteries, 21, 341, 390, 413.
Census of 1760, 360.
Chapel, 129, 386.
Church Edifices, Baptist, 70,
116, I17, 120, 121, 200,
391, 392, 411, 415.
Church Edifice, Congregation-
al, First, 13, 37, 88, 396,
400, 403.
Church Edifice, Congregation-
al, Second, 38, 44, 74, 75,
105, 108, 117, 149, 387,
407, 408, 411, 415.
Church Edifices, Roman Cath-
olic, 70, 123, 124, 389,
399, 415.
Clerks, Town, List of, 364.
College Graduates, 139.
Common, 38, 56, 144, 149,
387, 407.
Congregational Church, 17, 23,
45, 74, 88, 392, 397, 399,
403, 406, 408, 411, 413.
Congregational Society, 104,
106, 107, 108.
Covenants, 89, 90, 93, 100,
LOL, 114,
Cyclone, 69, 389, 416.
Damon Memorial, 116, 141,
143, 390, 411, 416.
Death Rate, 340.
Deaths, List of, 339.
Dinners, Public, 55, 82, 157,
413.
Drought, 22, 390.
Earthquake, 23, 392, 403.
Expenditures, Town, 16, 17,
22, 24, 29, 38, 43, 44, 45;
46, 47, 62, 66, 68, 74, 92,
104, 133, 136, 137, 167,
402, 407, 408, 409, 414.
Fairs, 69, 195, 349s 353-
420
Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Club,
73> 352s 392.
Fast Days, 22, 24, 387, 390,
405.
Flowers, 2.
French Woods, 4, 35.
Funds, Town, 11, 22, 44.
Golden Weddings, 335.
Grain, 363.
Grand Army Post, 69, 87, 191,
3559 387) 415-
Grange, 349, 386.
Hall, Town, 43, 63, 67, 74,
81, 349) 392, 411, 415.
Hearse, 341.
High School, 137, 143, 152,
416.
Hills, 2.
Hotels, 194.
Hymns, 53, 54, 75, 155, 342-
Incorporation, 14, 73, 386, 389,
393, 397-
Independence Day, 48, 69,
_ 389, 390.
Indians, 8, 10, 394.
Installations, 99, 108, 118, 391.
Inventory of Estate of Cyprian
Stevens, 399.
Knights Templar, 346, 389.
Land, Allotment of, 12, 392,
3955 396.
Land, Employment of, 2, 363,
417.
Lectures, 69.
Libraries, 15, 56, 140, 143,
145, 147; 152, 391, 392,
416.
Lightning, 390.
Lime, 11, 395.
Location of Town, 1, 7.
Longevity, 335, 339:
Meadows, 358.
INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Memorial Day, 69, 191.
Memorial Services for Wash-
ington, 39, 387.
Memorial Tablets, 63, 64, 414.
Methodists, 127, 413.
Militia, 62, 163, 165, 169, 173,
407.
Mills, Cotton, 47, 203, 205,
206, 208, 409.
Mills, Grist, 31, 47, 208.
Mills, Saw, 31, 47, 208.
Mills, Woolen, 47, 204, 206.
Ministers, 129, 417.
Missionaries, 129.
Money, 392, 408.
Murder, 49, 390, 412.
Music, Church, 39, 47, 94,
108, 118, 121, 408.°
Negroes, 49, 406.
Nondescript Club, 349.
Noonhouse, 386.
Ordinations, 17, 24, 88, 92,
103, IfO, II5, 117, 119,
3915 3925 403, 407, 411.
Parsonages, 107, 119, 124.
Pastors, 17, 22, 24, 33, 40, 45,
86, 88, 91, 96, a
106, 115, 118, 119, 120,
I2I, 123, 124, 1247, 403,
407, 408, 411.
Paupers, 43, 68, 391, 416.
Petitions, 13, 14, 48, 61, 389,
396, 397, 398, 399, 409,
412.
Physicians, 41, 336.
Poem, Anniversary, 76.
Politics, 48, 61, 384, 409.
Population, 22, 29, 360, 407,
409, 410, 413, 416.
Postoffices, 197, 387.
Pound, 16, 402.
Preaching Provided by Town,
14, 16, 47, 56, 149, 4o2.
Prices, List of, 31. ae
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 421
Proprietors, 9, 12, 356, 391,
392, 394, 395, 396,:397,
400, 401.
Quarry, 2, 144, 150.
Railroads, 4, 66, 69, 71, 196,
389, 391, 415.
Rattlesnakes, 3, 410.
Representatives, List of, 382.
Resolutions passed by town, 25,
U44 159, 364, 405.
Revivals, 93, 99, £03, 116,
II7, 119, 120, 121, 408,
Il.
Rifles, Holden, 62, 86, 157,
173, 388, 390, 414.
Roads, 12, 193, 363, 396, 397,
403, 407.
Roman Catholic Parish, 7-4,
123, 415.
Salaries, 17, 24, 33, 46, 92,
98, 408.
School Committee, 136, 380,
411, 416.
School Superintendent, 81, 136,
416.
School-houses, 22, 38, 68, 133,
136, 137, 138, 143, 145,
388, 389, 405,413, 416.
Schools, 16, 17, 22, 38, 56, 81,
132, 149, 360, 380, 402,
403, 407, 405, 411, 416.
Selectmen, List of, 366.
Settlements, First, 11, 13, 410.
Shays’ Rebellion, 35, 407.
Shoemaking, 48, 209.
Sickness, 23, 335, 387, 391,
404.
Sidewalks, 195, 196.
Slaves, 49, 406.
Society for Detecting Thieves,
5.
sais
Soldiers, 18, 20, 29, 62, 64, 86,
161, 388, 390, 414.
Soldiers’ Monument Associa-
tion, 63, 69.
Stores, 199.
Streams, 3.
Sunday Schools, rog, 117, 122,
128.
Tanneries, 47.
Taxes, 14, 16, 22, I11, 134,
161, 167, 193, 359, 396,
402, 408.
Telegraph, 71, 197.
Telephone, 71, 197.
Temperance, 48, 347, 391, 412.
Toll House, 193.
Town Meetings, 5, 16, 25, 43,
47; 73) 91, TLO, 132, 134,
149, 159, 358, 389, 392,
398, 402, 411,
Treasurers, Town, List of, 365.
Trees, 2, 195, 403.
Undertaker, 341.
Union Evangelical Society, 129.
Universalists, 128, 413.
Valuations, 362, 407, 413, 416.
Village Improvement Societies,
.. 195 349:
Villages, 3, 207.
War, French, 18, 161, 391.
404. ;
War, French and Indian, 20,
161, 404.
War of the Revolution, 21, 24,
28, 34, 163, 388, 405, 414.
War of 1812, 169.
War, Mexican, 169.
War of the Rebellion, 62, 157.
169, 173) 1745 413.
Washington Total Abstinence
Society, 49, 347-
Women’s Christian Temper-
ance Union, 348, 391.
Women’s Relief Corps, 355.
388.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
The numbers in heavy-faced type refer to Sketches in the Chapter of
Personal Notices.
Abbott, Chenery, 52, 169, 194,
346, 350.
Abbott, Eliza Ann, 130.
Abbott, Jarvis, 169, 195.
Abbott, John [1st], 31, 33, 37;
164, 194, 361.
Abbott, John [2d], 128.
Abbott, John T., 349.
Abbott, Mrs. John T., 349.
Abbott, Lemuel, 37, 169, 194,
237, 248, 371, 372, 390.
Abbott, Samuel, 112.
Abbott, Simon, 128, 354.
Adams, Aaron, 358.
oe John, 336, 349) 354;
379:
Ainsworth, Charles H., 127.
Aldrich, Frank A., 186.
Aldrich, P. Emory, 158.
Allard, Andrew, 164.
Allen, Abagail, 279, 280.
Allen, Benjamin [1st], 357,
6
361.
Allen, Benjamin [2d], 161,
162.
Allen, Betsy, 123.
Allen, Dwight D., 186.
Allen, George, 103.
Allen, James C., 194.
Allen, James H., 74, 186.
Allen, Jesse. 163, 165, 261.
Allen, Joseph, 219.
Allen, Lambert, 110.
Allen, Leonard, 357.
Allen, Mary, 217, 218.
Allen, Melvin J., 108, 192, 210.
Allen, Nathan, 158.
Allen, Pelatiah, 112.
Allen, Willard, 121, 122, 336,
376.
Almer, Roxana, 336.
Ames, Joseph S., 210, 337.
Ames, Josephine S., 138, 211.
Ames, Lewis, 210.
Andre, Pierre M., 35.
Andrews, Elisha, 131, 115,
121, 211, 321.
Armington, Alonzo C., 186,
214.
Armington, Fannie L., 214.
Armington, Henry C., 186,
214,
Armington, May J., 214.
Armington, Samuel W., 154,
174, 191, 197, 200, 213,
255, 364, 365, 379, 384.
Ashworth & Day, 207.
Atherton, » 350.
Austin, David B., 215.
Austin, Herbert E., 138, 140,
216.
Austin, Mrs. 8. J., 231.
Austin, Susie L., 138, 140, 216.
Austin, Waldo E. [rst], 68,
74,, 125, 142, 202, 215,
2345 266, 379, 380, 381,
Bie
3
Austin, Waldo E. [2d], 216.
Avery, Joseph, 24, 33, 37, 39,
40, 46, 47, 48, 85, 86, 92,
93-941 95,96, 98, 99, 197,
216, 230, 246, 333, 362,
388, 389, 392, 407, 408,
409, 411.
INDEX OF PERSONS. 423
Avery, Mary A., 40, 217, 218.
Avery, William, 216.
Babb, Thomas E., 108, 222,
394) 419.
Babh, William G., 222.
Babcock, Aaron G., 170, 337.
Bacon, John, 128.
Badew, Charles, 186.
Bailey, Abigail G., 222, 349.
Bailey, Charles A., 223.
Bailey, Charlotte, 131, 222.
Bailey, Edward, 130, 222.
Bailey, Edward H., 223.
Bailey, Elizabeth, 222.
Bailey, Horatio B., 223.
Bailey, James, 222, 373.
Bailey, James C., 223.
Bailey, James H., 139, 222.
Bailey, John [1st], 164.
Bailey, John [2d], 222.
Bailey, William H., 223.
Balcom, Freceric A., 108, 224.
Balcom, Madison A., 224.
Ball, Amanda C., 226.
Ball, Diah, 174.
Ball, Ella D., 228.
Ball, Granville M., 227, 228.
Ball, Harriet W., 226.
Ball, Herbert E., 228.
Ball, Hollis, 347.
Ball, Huldah, 340.
Ball, Israel M., 74, 123, 201,
224, 354, 381.
Ball, J. Warren, 174, 226, 229.
Ball, Jennie, 226.
Ball, John, 226.
Ball, Jonas, 226.
Ball, Josiah [rst], 201, 224,
226, 229.
Ball, Josiah [2d], 226.
Ball, Jotham, 226.
Ball, Mary D., 228, 348, 381,
382.
Ball, Mary G., 226.
Ball, Mary L., 140, 228.
Ball, Melinda A., 226.
Ball, Oscar C., 186.
Ball, Phineas, 360.
Ball, Samuel, 226.
Ball, Simon, 226, 229.
Ball, Sophia, 226.
Ballou, Hosea, 128.
Bancroft, Jacob H., 53, 75.
Barber, William, 162.
Barden, Charles, 174.
Bardwell, Horatio, 46, 47, 53,
55598, 102, 103, 136, 229,
247, 339, 347, 387, 391,
Il.
Bartlett, Artemus, 304.
Bartlett, Isaac, 360.
Bartlett, Jonathan, 164.
Bartlett, Levi, 254.
Bartlett, Phineas T., 170.
Bartlett, Town, zor.
Bascom, Artemas D., 175, 232,
379-
Bascom, Carrie E., 138, 233.
Bascom, Clara K. 232.
Bascom, Fred W., 232.
Bascom, George, 173, 175, 232,
267, 343s 349s 35% 377-
Bascom, George E., 232.
Bascom, George W., 232, 354,
376, 383.
Bascom, Harriet, 233.
Bascom, Harry C., 138, 140,
231,
Bascom, Marion A., 233.
Bascom, Mary C., 233.
Bascom, Nellie M., 138, 232.
Bascom, William H., 232.
Bassett, Dexter T., 175.
Bassett, James S., 336.
Bassett, Joshua, 203.
Bassett, Preston, 128.
Bassett, Uriah, 65, 175, 414.
Bates, Ira D., 186, 201.
Bates, John W., 175.
Bates, Theodore C., 191.
Baumann, Henry W., 129,
417.
Bayliss, , £28.
Beaiman, Jabez, 399.
Belden, Charles R., 175.
424 INDEX OF PERSONS.
Belknap, Appleton, 117, 122,
233.
Belknap, Fenelon, 233.
Bennett, Austin C., 187.
Bennett, Charles A., 140.
Bennett, Ephraim, 161, 405.
Bennett, Fred E., rio.
Bennett, Phineas, 360.
Bennett, Samuel, 360, 399.
Bent, Hezekiah, 43.
Berry, Joseph, 187.
Betterley, Edward S., 187.
Bigelow, Benjamin, 399.
Bigelow, Daniel, 357.
Bigelow, George T., 64, 175,
_ 4lq.
Bigelow, Isaac, 92.
Bigelow, John, 6, 16, 89, 132,
133, 162, 169, 204, 357,
359, 365, 366, 367, 388,
_ 397; 398, 399-
Bigelow, John F., 129, 139,
fay
Bigelow, Jotham, 6, 89g, 133,
359) 399-
Bigelow, Nathan, 162.
Bigelow, Samuel, 21, 161, 162.
Binney, Joseph G., 117.
Binney, Thomas, 358.
Bixby, Jacob W., 187.
Black, Charles E., 254.
Black, Daniel, 163, 165, 360.
Black, Elizabeth B., 340.
Black, George W., 154.
Black, H. Erskine, 65, 175.
414.
Black, Hannah, 254.
Black, Jacob, 163, 165.
Black, James D., 142, 254.
Black, John, 165, 361.
Black, Lucy, 254.
Black, Lydia, 256.
Black, Samuel, 254.
Black, Simon, 254.
Blake, Jeremiah, 164, 339.
Blake, Joel, 128.
Bliss, Susan W., 233.
Boardman, John, 99, 103.
Bond, George C., 1.
Boston, Philip, 164, 400.
Bougle, Thomas, 164.
Boyd, James, 367.
Boyd, John, 161.
Boyd, Samuel, 20, 161, 162.
Boyden & Goodell, 199.
Boyden, Goodell & Davis, 200.
Boyden, Comfort, 327.
Boyden, Daniel, 147.
Boyden, Eunice C., 327.
Boyden, John, 254.
Boyden, Leila S., 138.
Boyden, Lucy P., 139.
Boyden, Prudence, 234.
Boyden, Silence, 327.
Boynton, Ebenezer, 42.
Boynton, John, 170.
Boynton, Nancy E., 233.
Bracewell, Joseph, 187.
Bradish, Alfred, 349.
Brattle, William, 35.
Brigham, Leonard B., 365.
Britton, 53578
Broad, Aaron, 163, 165.
Broad, Asa [rst], 234, 383.
Broad, Asa [2d], 170, 202,
234, 376.
Broad, Dexter, 376.
Broad, Ira, 202, 215, 234, 370,
377; 378, 383.
Broad, Mrs. Ira, 70.
Broad, Josiah [1st], 60, 361.
Broad, Josiah [2d], 361.
Broad, Thomas, 399.
Brock, Albert L., 175.
Brooks, Charles [ist], 112,
115.
Brooks, Charles [2d], 129,
140, 417.
Brooks, John H., 228.
Brooks, Nancy, 112.
Brooks, Samuel, 121.
Brosnahan, Eugene F., 126,
Brown, David [1st], 6, 89,
359, 366, 399.
Brown, David [2d], 164.
Brown, George W., 175,
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Brown, Isaiah, 37, 164, 165,
37°.
Brown, John, 112.
Brown, Thomas, 357.
Brown, Timothy, 359, 399.
Bruce, Samuel, 6
Bryant, Charles, 376, 377.
Bryant, Fred A., 123.
Bryant, Fredrick, L., zor.
Bryant, Lyman, 201, 336, 340,
341s 3755 376.
Bryant, Walter D., 350.
Bryant, Willis, 200.
Buckminster,
Buffum, William,
Bull, Isaac, 357.
Bullard, Anna, 3.0.
Bullard, Hannah, 340.
Burke, Poly, 112.
Burnett, Charles E., 70,
383.
Burnett, George M., 175.
Burnham, Charles L., 175.
Burns, John, 388.
Burns, ae 340.
Burr, 8.
Burt, David, 137.
Burt, Latham, 186.
Bush, Hezekiah, 356.
Bush, Joseph, 19.
Butler, James, 356.
, 88, 92.
205.
175s
Button, » 358.
Buzzell, Mary Bes 138.
Cain, Lucy W., 138.
Caldwell, Hannah M., 305.
Caldwell, James, 6, 359, 399.
Caldwell, Patty, 112.
Callum, William I., 175.
Canniffe, Lyman R., 175.
Carr, Peter, 147.
Chaffee, G. Edwin, 157.
Chaffin, Alfred, 68, 175, 191,
3475 377:
Chaffin, Alfred H., 204.
Chaffin, Charles, 43, 51, 86,
197, 354, 374, 375) 376,
383.
425
Chaffin, Charles C. 222.
Chaffin, Frederic W., 176.
Chaffin, Elisha, 376.
Chaffin, Hannah, 340.
Chaffin, Harry W., 187.
Chaffin, Hollis, 170.
Chaffin, John, 372, 373.
Chaffin, John E. 364, 377.
‘Chaffin, Jonathan, 375.
Chaffin, Royal T1., 204.
Chaftin, Samuel [rst],
165, 361.
Chaffin, Samuel [2d], 170
Chaffin, Sarah, 336.
Chaffin, Tilla [rst], 165, 372.
163,
‘Chaffin, Tilla [2d], 374, 383.
Chaffin, Willard, 187.
-Chaffin, Winslow, 170.
Chamberlin, Benjamin M., 74.
Chamberlain, Emmagene, 294.
Chamberlain, Fred L., 350.
Chamberlain, Levi, 65, 176,
414.
Chamberlain, Sumner, 294,
349» 350 3775 378.
Chamberlain, Mrs. Sumner,
2545 349-
Chapin, Henry, 353.
Chapin, Jobn, 170.
Chapman, Gates, 68, 291, 379.
Chapman, Mary A., 2
Chapman, Sophia, 291.
Chase, Aaron, 216.
Chase, Abbie P., 216.
Chase, Aquila, 234.
Chase, James N., 234,
Chase, John K., 121, 234, 380.
Chase, Joseph, 234.
Chase, Nathan, 340.
Chenery, Aloney,
248, 239.
Chenery, Cryus [1st], 311.
Chenery, oe [2d], 63: 176
Chenery, Henry C., 176.
Chenery, Isaac [st], 360.
Chenery, Isaac [2d], 40, 165,
235, 311, 336, 370.
Chenery, Isaac [3d], 236.
160, 236,
426 INDEX OF
Chenery, John, 236.
Chenery, Leonard, 336.
Chenery, Mary A., 305.
Chenery, Mary T., 311.
Chenery, Nathan, 236.
Chenery, Susan L., 311.
Chenery, Susannah, 236.
Chenery, Thaddeus, 236, 246,
248, 311, 336, 387.
Chenery, William D., 74, 140.
Chenery, Zillah, 236, 248.
Cheney, Anita, 226.
Cheney, Ebenezer, 164.
Cheney, Elizabeth, 260.
Cheney, George L., 176.
Cheney, Isaiah, 164, 165.
Cheney, James, 164, 165, 361.
‘Cheney, James E.. 50, 377,
353.
‘Cheney, Joseph, 129, 139, 260,
I
pena Josiah, 34, 361.
Cheney, Simon, 170.
‘Cheney, Solomon C., 165.
Chickering, Samuel, 37.
Child, Daniel, 357.
Child, John [1st], 6, 28, 33,
375 134, 162, 169, 194,
359, 367, 368, 369, 354,
399:
Child, John [2d], 33, 163,
165, 169, 364, 369, 352.
Clapp, Asahel, 128.
Clapp, David, 336.
Clapp, Mrs. David, 254.
Clapp, Millia, 248, 256.
Clapp, Oliver, 347.
Clapp, Seth, 109, 256.
Clapp, Silence, 248, 249.
Clapp, W. Warren, 176.
Clark, Anthony, 11.
Clark, Edward, 64, 176, 414.
Clark, Edward B., 176.
Clark, Fanny, 291.
Clark, George S., 176.
Clark, John, 176.
Clark, John H., 176.
Clark, Robert, 186.
PERSONS.
Clark, Samuel [1st], 6 359,
399-
Clark, Samuel [2d], 208.
Clark, Samuel A., 176.
Clark, Simeon C., 157.
Clark, Thaddeus S., 187, 191.
Clark, William [ist], 359,
DOO.
Clark, William [2d], 170.
Clark, Winifred S., 138.
Clarke, James F., 110, 129,
137.
Cleland, Thomas, 87.
Clemans, Celesta, 257.
Clemans, Emily, 232, 256.
Clemens, Jonathan, 165.
Clough, Frances L., 331.
Clough, William, 331.
Cobb, Jeremiah, 292.
Cobb, Nancy, 292.
Cobbett, Albert A., 199, 201.
Coes, Abigail, 266, 344.
Coffin, C. Carleton, 192.
Colburn, Job, 360.
Colburn, Mehitable, riz.
Colburn, Paul, 112.
Cole, Stephen, T., 187, 201.
Collier, Mrs. » 390.
Collier, Adelaide S., 307.
Collier, Eliza, 307.
Collier, Francis A., 307.
Colvin, A. P., 205.
Combs, Ariel, 176.
Combs, Simon E., 257.
Comstock, Albert M., 187.
Conant, » 99.
Converse, Otis, 117.
Cook, ———, 128.
Cook, Rebecca F., 224.
Cooley, Marius S., 70, 187.
Coolidge, Amos H., 108,
Coolidge, Caroline, 280,
Coombs, Reuben, 169.
Corey, George A., 17,
Cotton, Noah, 162.
Cotton, Thomas, 162.
Courtney, — , 201,
Cowden, David, 359, 399.
INDEX OF
[ist], 359,
Cowden, James [2d], 201.
Cowden, Jolin, 280.
Cowden, William, 399.
Coxe, Doran B., 138.
Crage, James, 162.
Crage, Thomas, 162.
Creed, Albert F., 64, 177, 414.
Creed, Isaac, 187.
Cowden, James
Crompton, ———, 207.
Crompton & Dawson, 207.
Crosby, ———, 115, 321, 357.
Crosby, Sparrow, §2, 165, 170,
195.
Cross, Joseph, W., 137.
Crowell, Ezra T., 128, 342.
Croxford, William, 340.
Cummings, Philena A., 336.
Cummings, Preston, 249, 347.
Curtis, ———, 357.
Cushing, , 88.
Cuthbertson & Crawshaw, 201.
Cutler, Ebenezer, 106.
Cutler, James, 162.
Cutting, George E., 177.
Cutting, Jacob P., 177.
Cutting, Joseph B., 177.
Cutting, Lucinda R., 344.
Damon & Bartlett, 199.
Damon & Thaxter, 206.
Damon & Knowlton, 199.
Damon, Aloney K., 160, 238.
Damon, Abigail, 160.
Damon, Annie C., 160.
Damon, Augustus F., 160, 173,
199, 377:
Damon, Charles F., 160.
Damon, Edward C., 241.
Damon, Francis W., 241.
Damon, Harry C., 160.
Damon, Helen, 160.
Damon, Isaac, 143, 160, 170,
177, 191, 235, 239, 343,
3531 3645 379 3775 379s
380, 383.
Damon, Jane, 237.
PERSONS. 427
Damon, John, 237.
Damon, Joseph, 237.
Damon, Marion V., 160.
Damon, Mary A., 160.
Damon, Penniman, 160.
Damon, Samuel [1st], 237.
Damon, Samuel [2d], 160,
199, 236, 235, 370, 371.
Damon, Samuel [3d], 37, 43,
451 51, 52, 55, 86, 136,
160, 170, 199, 204, 205,
206, 207, 236, 365, 373,
374) 3751 383.
Damon, Samuel [4th], 122,
123.
Damon, Samuel C., 5, 52, 53,
59, TIO, 129, 130, 137,
139, 151, 158, 160, 191,
239, 413, 417.
Damon, Samuel E., 239.
Damon, Samuel M. [rst], 241.
Damon, Samuel M. [2d], 239,
241.
utan Susan A. [1st], 160.
Damon, Susan A. [2d], 143,
I44, 151, 152, 153, 154,
158, 159, 160, 239, 416.
Damon, William F., 241.
Daniels, Joseph, 170, 371.
Darling, George, 129,
242, 417.
Darling, Henry G., 139.
Darling, Samuel D., 129, 139,
243, 417.
Davenport, Allen, 177.
Davenport, Elisha C., 65, 177,
414.
Davis, Abigail P., 130.
Davis, Alden G., 188,
380, 381.
Davis, Alona, 249.
Davis, Avery, 60, 116, 197,
200, 256, 257-
Davis, Azubar, 256.
Davis, Bancroft, 60.
Davis, Benjamin, 170, 197.
Davis, Betsey, 256.
Davis, Catherine, 256.
1395
a5,
428
Davis, Charles E., 140, 252.
Davis, Daniel [1st], 358.
Davis, Daniel [2d], 170, 256.
Davis, Daniel [3d], 256, 257.
Davis, David [1st], 255.
Davis, David [2d], 45, 60,
254) 31% 3371 347. 376,
Davis, Danas [1st], 60,
170, 197, 249, 256,
ae
Davis, Dennis [2d], 256,
Davis, Dolor, 60, 247,
253, 255-
Davis, Dorinda, 249.
Davis, Edith H., 138.
Davis, Edmund, 165, 254.
Davis, Edward J., 177, 252.
Davis, Edward L., 86.
Davis, Eleazer [rst], 255.
Davis, Eleazer [2d], 256, 399.
Davis, Elnathan [1st], 37, 60,
2545 337+ 305, 37%) 372;
82.
Davis, Elnathan [2d], 60, 106,
110, 118, 129, 139, 243,
249, 250, 257, 342, 343;
353s 417-
Davis, Emerette F., 232.
Davis, Erskine E., 252.
Davis, Esther, 256.
136,
257)
257.
249,
Davis, Ethan [1st], 44, 45, 55,
60, 200, 243, 246, 250,
254, 279, 365, 372, 373;
382, 383, 388.
Davis, Ethan [2d], 52, 60,
63, 68, 109, I10, 170,
194, 197, 200, 250, 270,
347> 345, 349) 350. 375;
376, 392.
Davis, F. Marguerite, 139.
Davis, Florence P., 139.
Davis, Francis E., 177.
Davis, Francis G., 246.
Davis, Gardner, 170, 254.
Davis, George D., 177.
Davis, Hannah [1st], 256.
Davis, Hannah [2d], 254.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Davis, Hannah [3d]. 139,
249.
Davis, Helen L., 139.
Davis, Helen T., 246.
Davis, Isaac [1st], 60.
Davis, Isaac [2d], 57. 60, 86,
342:
Davis, Isabella G., 129, 248.
Davis, Israel [1st], 60, 132,
133. 256, 360, 361, 364,
365, 366, 367, 368.
Davis, Israel [2d], 37. 409,
163, 165, 256, 370, 382.
Davis, James [1st], 60.
Davis, James [2d], 28, 33, 34,
37, 38, 60, 134, 163, 165,
246, 253, 337, 365, 308,
369, 379, 354, 388, 397.
Davis, James [3d], 165, 254.
Davis, John [1st], 42.
Davis, John [2d], 52, 170, 370,
‘B51, 375:
Davis, John [3d], 19, 56, 60.
Davis, John L., 49, 259, 390.
Davis, John N., 256, 257.
- Davis, Jonathan [1st], 165.
Davis, Jonathan [2d], 254.
Davis, Jonas, 254.
Davis, Jones, 170.
Davis, Joseph [1st], 256.
Davis, Joseph [2d], 256, 382.
Davis, Joseph [3d], 17, 22, 24,
60, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 130,
254, 256, 338, 361, 386,
387, 388, 390, 398, 403,
405, 407.
Davis, Joseph [4th], 232, 256,
395s 377-
Davis, Lemuel, 48, 170, 194,
1947, 200, 255, 372, 5
Davis, _ 164. nneH aT
Davis, Lucy, 254.
Davis, Lucy C., 249, 256, 257.
Davis, Lydia, 256.
Davis, Maria M., 256, 257,
Davis, Martha, 256. :
Davis, Mary [ist], 2 204.
Davis, Mary baat ee a
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Davis, Mary [3d], 256.
Davis, Mary [4th], 256.
Davis, Mary [5th], 249, 256.
Davis, Mary A. W., 21
Davis, Mary E., 252.
Davis, Mary H., 252.
Davis, Mary J., 256, 257.
Davis, Maud E., 138.
Davis, Merrill, 171, 197, 200,
347:
Davis, Nancy [1st], 129, 248.
Davis, Nancy [2d], 254.
Davis, Nancy [3d], 336.
Davis, Oliver, 256.
Davis, Patty, 254.
Davis, Paul [1st], 60, 256,
364, 365.
Davis, Paul [2d], 3, 51, 60,
171, 194, 246, 248, 249,
255, 333, 364, 365, 373,
3755 393-
Davis, Paul [3d], 256, 257.
Davis, Phineas, 60.
Davis, Relief [1st], 254.
Davis, Relief [2d], 55, 250.
Davis, Ruth, 255.
Davis, Sally, 254.
Davis, Samuel [1st], 60, 249,
2535 255.
Davis, Samuel [2d], 255.
Davis, Samuel [3d], 164, 256,
399.
Davis, Samuel [4th], 52, 194,
256, 257.
Davis, Sarah [1st], 339.
Davis, Sarah [2d], 249.
Davis, Sarah E., 381.
Davis, Simon [1st], 60, 249,
253, 255-
Davis, Simon [2d], 5, 6, 13,
19, 575 60, 86, 89, 253)
254, 255, 256, 359, 366,
395, 398, 399, 402, 403.
Davis, Simon [3d], 160, 162,
256.
Davis, Solomon, 164, 256.
429
Davis, Solon P., 75, 87, 140,
158, 252)
Davis, Stephen, 255.
Dacia, Teresa, 246, 249, 256,
257.
Davis, Theodore E., 246.
Davis, Thomas, 60, "163, 164.
Davis, Thanas J-, 60, 171,
248, 249, 374) 375:
Davis, Thomas W., 246.
Davis, William V. W., 108.
Dawson, 1 357) 358.
Dawson, Charles, 207, 379.
Dawson, Charles A., 74.
Day, » 207,
Day, William, 205.
Dean, Paul I., 188.
Defose, Charles L., 177.
Denny, Austin, 177.
Derbuel, Anthony J., 123, 287.
Dickinson, John W., 87.
Dinsmore, , 390.
Dockham, Daniel, 188.
Dodd,! James, 37, 360, 371.
Dodd, John, 37, 135, 164,
165, 364, 370, 371, 373,
382.
Dodd, John B., 144, 150.
Dodd, Jonathan M., 336.
Dodd, Lucy M., 336.
Dodd, William, 361, 364.
Dodge, George S., 108, 129.
Dodge, Lucy A., 139.
Dorr, James, 208.
Dow, Jonathan, 271.
Dowd, Catherine A., 139.
Drake, Lucinda, 336.
Drury, Abel, 171.
Drury, Bertha M., 138.
Drury, William [1st], 48, 58,
ch 164, 339, 371, 372,
oe William [2d], 171.
Drury, William H., 110, 199,
349) 350 354: 3775 387,
379:
'This name was earlier written, Dods and Dodds.
430 INDEX OF
Drury, Mrs. W. H., 349.
Dryden, Artemas, [rst], 163,
164, 232.
Dryden, Artemas [2d], 171,
204, 347.
Dryden, Harriet, 232, 233.
Dryden, Lydia, 289.
Dryden, Thomas,
165.
Dunker, George, 188.
Dunn, Andrew, 119, 257.
Durdeen, Smith, 188.
Dyer, E. Porter, 353.
162, 164,
Eagleville Manufacturing Co.,
208.
Eames, Olivia, 49.
Earle, Anna, 222.
Earle, Stephen C., 125, 144,
149, 150, 151.
Earle, William H., 353.
Eaton, Samuel, 164.
Ebet, William, 29, 164.
Eddy, Mary, 323, 324, 325,
326, 327, 336.
Edwards, Philip, 49, 259, 390,
12.
Eells, Cushing, 130.
Eells, Myron, 130.
Elmer, Electa, 336.
Estabrook, Austin, 171.
Estabrook, Eben R., 171.
Estabrook, Ebenezer [1st], 33,
35, 163, 165, 370, 371.
Estabrook, Ebenezer [2d], 35,
165, 171, 382, 397-
Estabrook, Ellen A., 249.
Estabrook, George, 136, 171,
337) 347:
Estabrook, James, 58, 171,
3731 374°
Estabrook, Jedediah, 21, 162.
Estabrook, John, 171, 254.
Estabrook, Jonathan, 171.
Estabrook, Jones, 171, 249.
Estabrook, Joseph [1st], 356.
Estabrook, Joseph [2d], 39,
17t.
PERSONS.
Estabrook, Samuel [ist], 21,
161, 162, 361, 397-
Estabrook, Samuel [2d], 163,
165, 361.
Estabrook, Stillman, 171, 375-
Estabrook, Washington, 171.
Estes, David F., 74, 75, 875
108, 121, 142, 154, 192,
258.
Everett, Samuel, 118, 122, 258-
Everett, William, 112.
Fairbanks, Edward, 74.
Fairbanks, Joshua, 109.
Fairbanks, Myra, 129.
Fairbanks, William H., 378,.
379.
Fairbuaks, Winslow, 171, 336-
Fales, Annie W., 139.
Fales, Elmira, 226, 229.
Fales, Fred H., 123, 200, 365-
Fales, Henry M., 65, 178, 414.
Fales, Lemuel, 128.
Fales, Leonard, 171.
Fales, Sarah, 340.
Farrar, Charles E., 178.
Farrar, Peter, 172.
Farrington, Elizabeth B., 229.
Fay, Henry C., 81, 108, 259.
Fay, John B., 280.
Fearing, John, 64, 178, 414.
Feehan, Daniel F., 126.
Feeley, & Burns, 201.
Fessenden, Sarah L., 228, 336.
Fisher, Gideon, 162.
Fisher, Jonathan, 129, 139,
17.
Fisher, William, 20, 161, 386.
Fisk, Bezaleel, 360, 361, 365,
367.
Fisk, Caleb $., 109, 110.
Fisk, David [ist], 33, 109,
163, 164, 360, 364, 367,
368, 369.
Fisk, David [2d], 139.
Fisk, Isaac, 109, 129, 248,
Fisk, Johnathan, 164, 16s,
Fisk, Lemuel, 52.
INDEX OF PERSONS. 431
Fisk, Lois P., 303.
Fisk, Ruth, 339.
Fisk, Samuel, 70, 340.
Fitch, ———, 357.
Flagg, Austin, 378.
Flagg, Benjamin [ist], 13,
357+ 358s 359, 395.
Flagg, Benjamin [2d], 37, 261,
357: .
Flagg, Mrs. Benjamin, 34.
Flagg, Charles, 200, 259, 266,
344, 3545 3655 378, 379;
aro.
Flagg, Elizabeth, 261.
Flagg, George. 43, 172. 374,
375:
Flagg, Jonathan, 164.
Flagg, Lyman, 172.
Flagg, Mary E., 261, 349.
Flagg, Mary W., 340.
Flagg, Preston, 261.
Flagg, Richard, 20, 22, 37,
132, 161, 360, 366, 367,
369, 384.
Flagg, Silas [1st], 45, 52, 86,
109, 172, 254, 259, 261,
340, 373, 374, 383-
Flagg, Silas [2d], 173, 377,
8
ee William, 162, 163, 164,
3741 383.
Flagg, William H., 10g, r1o.
Fletcher, Ebenezer [1st], 21,
162.
Fletcher, Ebenezer [2d], 21.
Fletcher, James, 165.
Fletcher, John, 89, 359, 399.
Fletcher, Joseph, 163.
Foote, Charles W., 194.
Forbes, William T., 85.
Forbush, Mehitable, 210.
Forbush, Rachel, 231.
Ford, Charles H., 178.
Foster, Charles T., 354.
Foster, Elisha, 164.
Foster, Lucy J., 234.
Foster, John P., 129, 139, 417.
Foster, Samuel, 50, 52, 373,
374:
Foster, Stephen S., 353.
Franklin, Benjamin, 207.
Freeman, J. W., 205.
Frost, Dana, 254.
Fuller, Augustus Fg 2235
Fuller, Fred L., 178.
Fuller, James E., 67.
Fuller, Jeremiah, 29, 164, 361,
407.
Gale, Jonas, 361.
Gale, Joshua, 164, 165.
Gale, Samuel C., 138, 141, 143,
144, 145, 149, 150, 151,
152, 153, 154, 157, 159,
160, 416.
Gale, Susan A. D., 143, 144,
151, 152, 153, 154, 158,
159, 169, 239, 416.
Gammell, Andrew, 178.
Gardner, Alexander, 357.
Gardner, Andrew J., 188.
Gates, Abraham, 112, 116.
Gates, Judith, rr2.
Gay, Amasa, 164.
Gay, Samuel, 103.
Geer, Roman J., 188.
Gibbs, Charles, 64, 178, 414.
Gibson, Mathew W., 123.
Gilbert, Caroline D. H., 336.
Gile, William A., 192.
Gill, Franklin, 178.
Gleason, ——-—, 357.
Gleason, Charles W. . 174, 353.
Gleason, Clark W., 63, 353.
Gleason, Daniel i, L., 178.
Gleason, Dexter F., 178.
Gleason, Elizabeth, 222.
Gleason, Jason, 163, 165, 361,
369, 370.
Gleason, Joseph H., 63, 109,
110, 174, 178, 191, 199,
200, 222, 349, 359, 354s
381.
Gleason, Thomas W., 109.
to
Gleason, Warren L., 272.
Goddard, George S., 121, 193,
3495 377:
Goddard, Henry, 228.
Goddard, Josiah, 130.
Goddard, Willietta, 228.
Going, Jonathan, 115, 231.
Goodale, Israel, 361.
Goodale, Paul, 37, 164, 165,
369, 379, 397-
Goodell, John M., 375.
Goodell, William, 130.
Goodenough, Ithamar, 163.
Goodnow, Ebenezer, 162.
Goodnow, James W., 64, 178,
414.
Goodwin, John B., 137.
Gookin, Daniel, 7, 8, 9, 10,
356.
Goss, Enos, 169.
Gould, Joanna, 122.
Goulding, 5 Rls
Goulding, Ignatius, 160, 368.
Goulding, Jason, 172, 238.
Goulding, Jonah, 322, 323.
Goulding, Peter, 357, 36r.
Goulding, Sally, 322.
Goulding, Sarah H., 340.
Graham, Charles S., 140.
Graham, George S., 74, 188,
TOT, 343) 359 354-
Graham, Maud E., 139.
Grant, Miles, 128.
Grant, Samuel, 164, 360.
Gray, James, 6, 359, 399.
Gray, John, 357.
Green, Samuel S., 158.
Greenwood, Abner P., 354,
391. .
Greenwood, Asa, 37, 164, 372,
373-
Greenwood, Fred C., 140.
Greenwood, Samuel D., 375,
376, 383, 387.
Greenwood, Joseph, 162, 361,
364, 366, 367.
Greenwood, Thomas, 162.
Griffin, John, 164.
|
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Griffin, Patrick, 125.
Griffin, Samuel, 70.
Griffin, Thomas, 123.
Grosvenor, Mason, 103.
Grout, Aldin, 130, 131, 137,
222, 249.
Grout, Daniel, 163, 165.
Grout, Oriona, 249.
Grout, Thomas, 361.
Guild, , 207.
Guyotte, Joseph, 125.
Hadwen, Obadiah B., 353.
Haggett, Thomas, 357.
Hale, Amy, 257.
Hale, Dorothy, 255.
Hale, Lydia G., 257.
Hale, Saladin, 257.
Haley, James W., 64, 178,
414.
Hall & Howe, 262, 273, 281.
Hall, Danford, 272, 376.
Hall, Dustin, 195.
Hall, Edmund, 37, 164, 165.
361.
Hall, Edmund T., 262.
Hall, Mortimer T., 178,
Hall, Theron E., 63, 174, 179,
IQI, 204, 215, 262, 273,
281, 347, 353, 364, 383.
Hamblen, Isaac S., 121, 191,
263.
Hamblen, S. Willis., 129, 131,
140, 417.
Hancock, John, 38, 55, 140,
Pienelie Joh
andley, John, 179, 414.
Handy, Edward, 179.
Handy, George W., 179.
Handy, William H., 179.
Hapgood, » 358.
Haradon, John S., 120, 123,
264, 353-
Harbison, Fred A., 267.
Harding, Abraham, 357.
Harrington, Dennis, 125, 188,
265. |
Harrington, Dennis W., 380.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Harrington, Ephraim, 42.
Harrington, Francis A., 84.
Harrington, Jabez, 89, 360,
361, 399.
Harrington, Joseph, 406.
Harrington, Lemuel, 164.
Harrington, Martin, 43.
Harrington, Mary E., 265.
Harrington, Mary J., 265,
266.
Harrington, Micah, 42, 164,
166.
Harrington, Nathan, 33, 42,
163, 164, 169, 365, 370,
406.
Harrington, Samuel, 42, 164.
Harrington, Samuel D., 43.
Harris, Job, 21, 162.
Harris, Mercy, 216.
Harris, Valentine, 163, 165.
Harris, Whipple, 206.
Harris, William, 361.
Hartwell, Mary A., 160.
Harvey, Charles H., 254.
Hastings, Horace, 128.
Hatch, Estes, 357.
Haven, Jabez, 92, 217.
Haven, Noah, 109, 163, 165,
361, 364, 369.
Haven, Samuel F., 56.
Hayes, Eudora F., 137.
Haynes, David, 358.
Heard, Thomas, 29, 164, 407.
Heard, William, 165.
Henchman,! —, 356.
Henchman, Daniel, 8, 21.
Henchman, Nathaniel, 356.
Hennessey, Daniel, 266.
Hennessey, Dennis L., 265,
266.
Hennessey, James, 266.
Hennessey, Martin, 265.
Hennessey, Martin J.,
419,
Hennessey, May, 265.
Hennessey, Mary F., 266.
‘Also written Hincksman.
266,
+33
Hennessey, Thomas [rst], 74,
125, 147, 265, 380.
Hennessey, Thomas [2d], 266,
Hennessey, William B., 266.
Henry, Albert, 179.
Henry, Edward C., 179.
Henry, Malvina, 271.
Henry, Polly, 112.
Heywood,? Amos [ist], 37,
89, 134, 169, 359, 361,
367, 369, 399.
Heywood, Amos [2d], 134,
163, 165,.
Heywood, Charles, 163, 165,
361.
Heywood, Daniel, 358.
Heywood, David, 164.
Heywood, John, 165.
Heywood, Josiah, 358.
Heywood, Lemuel, 164.
Heywood, Levi, 164.
Heywood, Samuel [1st], 6, 37,
89, 169, 359, 360, 364,
365, 366, 367, 368, 399.
Heywood, Samuel [2d], 37,
165, 372.
Heywood, Simon, 172.
Higginson, Thomas W., 154,
353°
Hildreth, Isaac, 305.
Hill, Charles R., 179.
Hill, William, 188.
Hinds, Daniel, 165, 360.
Hinds, Nimrod, 165.
Hoar, Leonard, 358.
Holbrook, Charles W., 129,
139, 417.
Holbrook, David, 166.
Holbrook, Judith B., 340.
Holbrook & Wilder, 206.
Holden, Addie B., 142.
Holden, Gustavus S., 74, 179,
IQl.
Holden, G. S. & J. A., 201.
Holden, Howard, 128.
Holden, James, 357.
* The name also appears as Haywood and Howard.
134 INDEX OF
Holden, James A., 123, 381,
382.
Holden, John [1st], 37, 122.
Holden, John [2d], 349, 353,
354:
Holden Mills, 208, 282, 291,
295.
Holden, Samuel, 15, 55, 401.
Holden Store Company, 199.
Holman, John, 169.
Holman, Sullivan L., 192.
Holmes, James, 356.
Holmes, Reuben, 137.
Holt, Amasa, 163, 166.
Holt, Clara A., 267.
Holt, Clara L., 267.
Holt, Ellen M., 267.
Holt, Ephraim, 164, 361.
Holt, Flora C., 267.
Holt, Fred T., 267, 379, 380.
Holt, Henry E., 267.
Holt, Henry M., 65, 179, 267.
slits
Holt, J. Winthrop, 267.
Holt, Joab S., 52, 172, 232,
267, 353, 377:
Holt, Jonas, 267.
Holt, Marietta, 232, 267, 349.
Holt, Masten, 360.
Holt, Moses, 279.
Homes, William T., 164.
Horrawannonit, 8.
Hosmer, Dennis, 179.
Houghton, John R., 64, 179,
414.
Houghton, Prudence, 224.
Howard, Amos, 37.
Howard, Anna, 107.
Howard, Benjamin, 367.
Howard, Jacob, 107, 375.
Howard, Joseph, 339.
Howard, Wesley, 205.
Howe, Abby, 272.
Howe, Abel, 37, 361.
Howe, Abraham, 165, 361.
Howe, Amasa, 172, 194, 272.
Howe, Amasa A.. 64, 179,
414.
PERSONS.
Howe, Anna M., 273.
Howe, Asa, 112, 361.
Howe, Augustus F., 271.
Howe, Augusta F., 373, 251.
Howe, Barney, 374, 375:
Howe, Charles N., 271.
Howe, Church, 188, 207, 268,
354.378.
Howe, Clara P., 270.
Howe, Dorothy, 112, 272.
Howe, Dora L., 273, 324.
Howe, Edith G., 270.
Howe, Eleazer, 356.
Howe, Elener, 112.
Howe, Elmira, 271.
Howe, Francis A., 271.
Howe, George, 272, 378, 379.
Howe, Hannah, 112.
Howe, Hervy N., 271.
Howe, Hiram, 179.
Howe, Israel, 360.
Howe, Jefferson
202.
Howe, Joel, 272.
Howe, John W., 120, 121,
123, 272, 347.
Howe, Jonathan,
361.
Howe, Joseph, 166.
Howe, Joseph L., 271:
Howe, Jotham [1st], 270.
Howe, Jotham [2d], 110, 111,
112, 166, 270, 272.
Howe, Jotham [3d], 271.
Howe, Levi H.. 247, 270, 271,
343:
Howe, Lucretia, rr2.
Howe, Lyman, 272.
Howe, Mary C., 271.
Ilowe, Nathan, 52,
383.
Howe, Nancy J..
336.
Howe, Olive A., 270.
Howe, Sally, 112,
Howe, Sarah, 272.
Howe, Silas, 270.
Howe, Silas A., 271.
& Austin,
164, 166,
128, 376,
267,
272
a]2,
whe>
~/--
INDEX OF PERSONS. $35
Howe, Susan, 271.
Howe, T. Walter, 138.
Howe, Thomas [ist], 112,
123, 272, 374) 375:
Howe, Thomas [2d], 272.
Howe, William [1st], 52, 74.
121, 202, 204, 205, 262,
266, 272, 281, 328, 344,
376, 3775 378, 384.
Howe, William [2d], 75, 86,
121, 129, 137, 139, 274,
17.
Howe, Williamy J., 270, 419.
Howe, Zora, 122.
Howe & Jefferson, 204, 215,
266, 273, 282.
Howe, & Myers, 207.
Hubbard, Aaron, 337.
Hubbard, Abel, 165.
Hubbard, Alona, 123.
Hubbard, Amos, 163, 165.
Hubbard, Attai, 166, 267.
Hubbard, Azubah, 279.
Hubbard, Benjamin, 112, 271,
270.
Hubbard, Betsey. 279.
Hubbard, Calvin, 65, 180, 414.
Hubbard, Caroline, 130, 223.
Hubbard, Charles P., 261.
Hubbard, Clarissa, 267, 268.
Hubbard, Cryus K., 280.
Hubbard, Daniel, 172.
Hubbard, Dorinda D., 280.
Hubbard, Eli [rst], 112, 279.
Hubbard, Eli [2d], 349.
Hubbard, Elisha, 109, 163,
166, 248, 278, 361, 365,
369, 370.
Hubbard, Elisha M., 280.
Hubbard, Emerson, 347.
Hubbard, Eunice, 278.
Hubbard, Eunice C., 280, 340,
Hubbard, Harriet M., 280.
Hubbard, John [1st], 357.
Hubbard, John [2d], 111,
112, 115, 122, 279.
Hubbard, John F., 180.
Hubbard, Jonas [1st], 37, 223.
Hubbard, Jonas [2d], 350,
ou:
Hubbard, Jonathan, 357.
Hubbard, Joseph [rst], 6, 13,
23, 331 37, 89, 109, 132,
133, 134. 359, 361, 365,
366, 367, 368, 399.
Hubbard, Joseph [2d], 37.
Hubbard, Levi, 166.
Hubbard, Louis F.. 194, 261,
349-
Hubbard, Lois M., 139.
Hubbard, Loring P., 261.
Hubbard, Lucy, 121.
Hubbard, Lydia, 112,
Hubbard, Lyman A., 18o.
Hubbard, Martena E., 280.
Hubbard, Martin, 1So.
Hubbard, Mercy, 34. 279,
280.
Hubbard, Molly, 279.
Hubbard, Myron E., 18o.
Hubbard, Nancy, 325.
Hubbard, Persis W., 270, 271.
Hubbard, Peter, 164, 166, 172,
_ 379, 361, 371
Hubbard, Polly, 112.
Hubbard, Raymond D., 138.
Hubbard, Samuel [ist], 33,
37, 89, 132, 133, 278,
359, 361, 365, 366, 367,
368, 399.
Hubbard, Samuel [2d], 21,
162, 163, 165, 169, 36r.
379, 371, 386.
Hubbard, Samuel [3d], 172.
Hubbard, Samuel B., 1009,
110.
Hubbard, Samuel D., 70, 377,
378. .
Hubbard, Samuel W., ro, 248,
2795 374- ;
Hubbard, Sarah, 243, 245,
250, 279.
Hubbard, Sarah A., 280.
Hubbard, Silas M., 52,
248, 278, 280.
Hubbard, Simon [1st], 122.
109,
436 INDEX OF
Hubbard, Simon [2d], 128.
377: /
Hubbard, Stephen N., 180,
253,
Hubbard, Mrs. Stephen N.,
359. :
Hubbard, Stillman, 110, 376.
Hubbard, Tilly, 37.
Hubbard, William, 172.
Hubbard, Willard M., 118,
122, 123, 172.
Hubbard, William M., 129,
3539 417-
Hull, > 99-
Humphrey, Edward P.. 137.
Humphrey, Henry H.. 18o.
Iiunt, Harding, 280.
Hunt, Rebecca, 215.
Hurbert, Mary, 256.
Hutchinson, William, 256.
Hyde, Beriah W., 172.
Ireland, William, 249.
Jackson, Charles G., 138.
Jackson, Thomas, 356.
Jefferson Manufacturing Com-
pany, 205, 282, 291, 295.
Jefferson,! John. 204, 273,
375- ;
Jefferson, Martin V. B., 63,
87, 125, 195, 197, °202,
204, 273, 281, 377, 378,
379-
Jefferson, Mary A., 121, 273,
328.
Jennings, John, 119.
Jerome, Edward, r10.
Jerome, Irene E., 154.
John, —, 8.
Johnson Bros., 201.
Johnson, Albert C., 129, 417.
Johnson, Florence L., 139.
Johnson, George C., 138.
Johnson, George T., 64, 180,
414.
PERSONS.
Johnson, Helen C., 419.
Johnson, Mattie C., 139.
Jolls, Thomas, 165.
Jones, Abel, 165.
Jones, Catharine, 255.
Jones, Nathaniel, 357.
Jordan, Charlie E., 139°
Jordan, William A., 188.
Joyce, Thomas F., 124, 283,
386.
Keep, John, 55, 250.
Kelton, E. Frank, 139.
Kelton, Ira J., 64, 180, 284,
415i
Kendall, Abigal S., 336.
Kendall, Caleb [rst], 208.
Kendall, Caleb [2d], 172, 197.
Kendall, Herbert I., 188.
Kendall, James, 172.
Kendig, Amos B., 191.
Kennan, Elijah, 195.
Kennan, Myron J., 180, 195.
Kennan, Silas F., 180.
Keys, Charles G., 137.
Keyes, Ezra, 165.
Keyes, Isaac, 166.
Keyes, Israel, 166.
Keyes, James, 358, 359.
Keyes, Lyman E., 64, 180,
45.
Kilburn, William W., 188.
Kimball, Ormand D., 267.
Kimball, Thomas, 163, 16s,
361.
Kimball & Talbot, 207,
King, 356
, :
Kingsbury, Joseph, 36r.
Kinney, George W., 82, 120,
123, 285.
Kirby, Alfred J., 195.
Klebert & Findersen, 206.
Knapp, —, 201.
Knapp, Fletcher, 357.
Knowles, Thomas, 37.
Knowlton, Caroline, 238.
'The name was earlier written Jepherson.
INDEX OF PERSONS. 437
Knowlton, Charles, 174, 365.
Knowlton, Charles H., r8o.
Knowlton, Charles L., 52, 160,
199, 238, 365, 383, 384.
Knowlton, Daniel, 43, 336,
373-
Knowlton, Franklin A., 180.
Knowlton, George, 172.
Knowlton, Maria, 336.
Knowlton & Allen, 199.
Knox, Henry F., 180.
Knox, Walter D., 181.
Ladd, Alfred, 174.
Ladd, George H., 188.
Ladd, Henry C., 181.
Ladd, Jonathan M.. 203, 377,
383.
Lakin, Anson, 70.
Lakin, George S., 325.
Lakin, Marion E., 325.
Lamb, Edward P., 188.
Lamb, William A., 87, 107,
286.
Lane, Benjamin H., 121, 188,
192, 286.
Lane, David T., 230.
Larned, Lizbeth M., 138.
Lawrence, Henry, 169.
Learned, Alonzo.K., 82, 137,
142, 143, 148, 158, 191,
287.
Lecount, W. F., 127.
Lee, Henry, 357.
Lees, John, 47, 203.
Lees & Eldrige, 203.
Leland, Isaac [1st], 19.
Leland, Isaac [2d], 340.
Leonard, Isaac, 357.
Leonard, Moses, 357, 358.
Leonard, Thomas, 357.
Leslie, Charles H., 189.
Levally, Godfrey, 181.
Lincoln, Albert A., 181.
Lincoln, William, 51, 55. 57.
Lindsay, Jacob, 16r.
Livermore, Daniel, 357.
Locke, Martha S., 260.
Logan, John M., 181.
Loring, George B., 158.
Loring, Silas H., 189.
Lovell, Alexander, 357.
Lovell, Amos, 163, 166.
Lovell, Asa, 163, 166, 361.
Lovell, Bernice I., 139.
‘Lovell, John, 109, 110, 206,
374 375-
Lovell, Jonathan, 6, 22, 132,
360, 361, 365, 366, 367,
399.
Lovell, Lewis, 181,
Lovell, Nathan, 165.
Lovellville Manufacturing Co.,
206.
Lovellville Woolen Co., 206.
Lovering, Joseph F., tgt.
Lowell, Henry H., 181.
Lowell, John W., 350.
Lowell, Julia, 267.
Lowell, Nehemiah G., 117.
Lowell, Oliver, 267.
Lowell, William J., 181.
Lumazette, Frank, 65, 181,
415.
MacArthur, Jessie, 257.
McCabe, John M., 189.
McCabe, Thomas F., 419.
McCarty, —, 92.
McCarthy, Edward, 189.
McCloskey, James F., 124,
283, 287, 381.
McConkey, John, 399.
McDonald, Arthur, 125.
McDonald, John A., 18r.
McGann, John D., 124, 288.
McGrath, James, 181.
Mack, John, 163, 166.
Mack, Sarah, 298.
Mckay,———, 128.
McLaughlin, James W., 129,
140, 288, 417.
McLaughlin, Mary F., 138,
197.
McLaughlin, Michael, 70, 123.
McLaughlin, Patrick A., 197.
438
McMaster. William, 162.
McMullen, John, 164, 166.
McMullen, Thomas, 359. 399,
02.
Mahana, John, 165.
Mann & Marshall, 262.
Mann, Billings, 262.
Mann, Jason, 52, 172.
Mann, Jemima W., 262.
Mann, Susannah, 339.
Manning, Abel, 129, 139, 225.
289, 417.
Manning, Israel, 224, 225, 226,
289.
Manning, John, 224.
Manning, Nancy, 225.
Manning, Pamelia, 225, 226.
Manning, Polly, 225, 226,
290.
Manning, Sophia, 224, 225,
226,
Manning, William [1st], 224.
Manning, William [2d],
Mansfield, Jeremiah, 360.
Marble, Albert P., 158.
Marble, John, 358.
Marsh, George A., 140.
Marsh, Hannah, 340.
Marshall, Abel, 289. 2
Marshall, Thomas [1st], 289.
Marshall, Thomas [2d], 112,
115, TI16, 122, 226, 289,
224.
417.
Marshall, Thomas M., 290.
Marshall, Timothy, 166, 289.
Marshall, William, 289, 361.
Martin, Joseph, 181,
Martin, Lewis, 7o.
Mason, Nancy F., 340.
Mason, Samuel, 116.
Mason, Sarah, 112.
Mason, Thankful, rr2.
May, Henry, 172.
May, John E., 181.
Maynard, Ira B., 13.
Maynard, John P., 172, 194,
202, 323.
Mayo, John S., 181.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Mead, Benjamin [1st], 134,
360, 368, 369.
Mead, Benjamin [2d]. 166.
Mead, Charles T., 350.
Meads, Mary, 255.
Mee, Hattie L., 305.
Melsop, James, 189.
Merriam, Horace, 189.
Merriam, John, 358.
Merrick, Edward, 200, 291.
Merrick, Edward W., 74, 157:
195, 197, 200, 201, 379,
380, 381.
Merrick, Ephraim 112.
Merrick, Lula F., 138.
Merrifield, Frank H., 182.
Merrifield, Mary, 336.
Merrill, D. K., 127.
Merrill, John M., 127.
Merrill, N. J., 127.
Messenger & Wright, 206.
Metcalf, Albert A., 74, 204,
350 379; 380.
Metcalf, Eunice, 112, 322.
Metcalf, Jabez, 164, 166.
Metcalf, Jonathan, 161.
Metcalf, William, 43, 52, 86,
116, 121, 122, 123, 274,
292, 3731 374:
Metcalf, William C., 118, 122,
123, 136, 292, 294, 350,
_ 377 379, 383-
iles, » 238.
Miles, Edwin J., 354.
Miles, Richard, 162.
Miller, Barnes, 358.
Millet, Ebenezer, 361.
Mills, Julia 8., 241.
Minot, Stephen, 357.
Mirick, Elisha, 162, 163, 166,
361, 370.
Monroe, Susan A., 208.
Moore, Angelia R., 270.
Moore. Charles S., 182.
Moore, Elliott, 349, 350 4
Moore, Mrs. Blvott, oe ane
Moore, Franklin, 109,
182, 354.
110,
INDEX OF PERSONS. 439
Moore, Fredric L., 110.
Moore, Harlan P., 65, 140
182, 415.
Moore, Harris W., 139, 140.
Moore, James, 399.
Moore, James S., 52, 121,
122, 123, 375.
Moore, John B., 109.
Moore, Jonathan [1st], 157.
Moore, Jonathan [2d], 166.
Moore, Jonathan [3d], 354,
380.
Moore, Jonathan L., rqo.
Moore, Lizzie E., 138.
Moore, Marcus, 109, 189.
Moore, Nathaniel, 357.
Moore, Newell, 109, 110, 172,
260, 377.
Moore, Thomas, 1&9.
Moore, William [ist], 270,
’
354:
Moore, William [2d], 125.
Moran, Thomas, 189.
Morey, Angela M., 306.
Morris, George, 306.
Morrison, Loren L., 228.
Morse, ———-, 204.
Morse, Alfred, 200, 208, 291,
389.
Morse, George M., 208.
Morse, Horace B., 109, 140,
189.
Morse, Joseph, 361.
Morse, Milton S., 208.
Morse, Sadie I., 138.
Morse, Stillman F., 74, 75,
82, 123, 208, 266, 295,
380, 354.
Morse, Timothy, 163, 166.
Moses, Samuel A., 182.
Moss Brook Mill, 207.
Moulton, Horace, 127.
Moulton, Maud A., 139.
Mulcahy, Grace F., 138.
Munger, ———, 128.
Murphy, James, 189.
Murphy, John, 21, 162.
Murphy, John R., 129, r4o,
Ape
Murphy, Michael, 182.
Muzzy, W., 195.
Nado, Michael, 189.
Neff, Ebenezer, 226.
Newell, Aaron, 37, 361.
Newell, Bertram S., 138.
Newell, George W., 64, 182,
415.
Newell, Hastings, 7o.
Newell, Hiram P., 182, 191.
Newell, Mary, 390.
Newell, Phineas R., 123, 174,
182, 191, 343, 349-
Newell, Mrs. P. R., 349.
Newell, Sarah, 339.
Newell, Susan F., 390.
Newton, + 357. 360.
Newton, Aaron, 361.
Newton, Abraham, 6, 399.
Newton, Calvin, r1g.
Newton, Dana, 128.
Newton, Lemuel D., 201, 228,
336, 419.
Newton, Mary D., 228.
Newton, Nahum, 189.
Newton, Thomas, 358.
Newton, Windsor, 121.
Nichols & Bryant, 200.
Nichols, David, 165.
Nichols, Jonathan, 166.
Nichols, William, 6, S89, 109,
300, 359, 360, 361, 365.
366, 369, 399, 402.
Nichols, William H., 182.
Northrop, B. G., 344.
Noyes, Charles J., 353.
Noyes, Peter, 361.
Nutten, Peter, 20.
Oben, John, 164, 166, 361.
O’Brien, John, 207.
O’Brien, William, 182.
O’Kane, Michael A., 126.,
O’Reilly, Patrick T., 123, 127.
440 INDEX OF PERSONS.
Ormsby, Marcus, 172.
Osborn, Araminta, 340.
Osborn, Elizabeth, 340.
Oulton, John, 356.
Packard, Sadie I., 138.
Paddock, Charles F., 182.
Paddock, John D., 189.
Paddock, Reubin, 37.
Padelford, John W., 189.
Page, Jonathan, 169.
Paine, 3 357%
Paine, Arthur R., 140, 298,
300.
Paine, Charles P., 248, 299.
Paine, Elijah, 103,
Paine, Horatio W., 303,
Paine, Laura M., 298, 300.
Paine, Mary, J., 303.
Paine, Sarah C., 298, 299,
342-
Paine, Sarah L., 298, 299.
Paine, Seth H., 182.
Paine, William, 358.
Paine, William F., 298, 299.
Paine, William P., 45, 47, 52,
555 57> 61, 63, 69, 71, 72,
86, 102, 109,- 118, 136,
172, 261, 296, 339, 342,
353, 388, 391, 392, 411,
412, 413, 415.
Palmer, Jennett, S., 306.
Palmer, Thomas, 356.
Panton, Maxie, 182.
Parker, Aaron [1st], 300, 303.
Parker, Aaron [2d], 302.
Parker, Alfred, 305.
Parker, Alice L., 139, 308.
Parker, Amelia, 305.
Parker, Amos [Ist], 300.
Parker, Amos [2d],
Parker, Arthur H., 305.
Parker, Charles E., 1, 74, 142,
153+ 154, 304, 305, 306,
3541 379, 380, 381, 382.
Parker, Charles F., 199.
Parker, Charles H., 140, 308.
Parker, David F., 110, 303.
Parker, Ebenezer R., 70-
Parker, Edward, 182, 3°5-
Parker, Edwin S., 183.
Parker, Elizabeth [1st], 303-
Parker, Elizabeth [2d], 305.
306.
Parker, Emeline M., 305.
Parker, Florence, 308.
Parker, Frank C., 74, 308, 354.
Parker, Freeman, 306.
Parker, George S., 303. _
Parker, Gilbert, 306.
Parker, Gilman, 306.
Parker, Hannaniah, 300.
Parker, Henry [1st], 302.
Parker, Henry [2d], 128, 303,
"306.
Parker, Henry B., 305, 306.
Parker, J. Raymond, 302.
Parker, Jennie M., 308.
Parker, John, 301.
Parker, Jonas, 300, 301.
Parker, Jonathan, 301.
Parker,-Mary, 303.
Parker, Matilda, 306.
Parker, Naomi, 303.
Parker, Nathaniel, 301.
Parker, Ruth, 303.
Parker, Samuel P., 308.
Parker, Theodore, 305.
Parker, Thomas, 300, 301,
306.
Parker, Timothy [rst], 301.
Parker, Timothy [2d], 301,
302, 419.
Parker, Timothy [3d], 11,
128, 173, 393> 333> 377-
Parker, Warren C., 189.
Parker, William, 183.
Parker, William W., 108.
Parkman, Samuel, 303.
Parmenter, Catherine, 210.
Parmenter, Cyrus T., 189.
Parmenter, David, 206.
Parmenter, David F., 174 :
Parmenter, Henry H., a
Parmenter, Joshua R., 190.
Parmenter, Lydia [1st], rr2.
INDEX OF PERSONS. 44t
Parmenter, Lydia [2d], 112.
Parmenter, Rodney A., 183.
Parmenter, Solomon, 112, 166.
Parmenter, William A., 190.
Partridge, Daniel W., 190.
Partridge, Jesse, 164, 166.
Partridge, Peter, 165.
Partridge, Warren, 337.
Paul, , IIl.
Paul, Charles, 169, 183.
. Peacock, James, Igo.
Peck, Georgia A., 76, 158.
Pendleton, Charles H., 192.
Penniman, Abigail, 160, 236.
Perry, Aaron, 112.
Perry, Abner, 372, 373, 374.
Perry, Cyrus, 109, 309
Perry, Cyrus M., rio, 129,
140, 183, 309, 417.
Perry, Daniel, 165, 36r.
Perry, David, 163, 166.
Perry, John [1st], 111, 165,
167, 361, 369.
Perry, John [2d], 210.
Perry, Lizzie, 210.
Perry, Matilda, 305, 306.
Perry, Moses, 305.
Perry, Nancy, 109, 137.
Perry, Sara F., 138.
Perry, Tabitha, 112.
Perry, William C., 64, 183,
415.
Peter, Simon, 165.
Petts, Lyman G., 195.
Petts, L. G. & Co., 200.
Phelps, Cyrus P., 349.
Phelps, Ellen, 140, 349.
Phillips, Charles W., 140, 381,
382.
Phillips, Henry L., 140.
Pierce, Hannah, 340.
Pierce, Oliver, 183.
Pierce, Samuel, 6, S9, 109,
360, 361, 364, 366, 367,
» 3993 402:
Pierce, Susannah, 235.
Pile, William N., 128.
Pinkerton, Alfred S., 84, 85.
Piper, Alfred, 183.
Plimpton, John, 237.
Pole, 406.
Pollard, Andrew, 55, 119, 121.
308.
Potter, David, 30, 163, 165.
Potter, James, 30, 165.
Potter, John, 163, 166, 339.
Pounding, Daniel, 357.
Power, John J., 126, 127.
Powers, William J., 138.
Pratt, Edwin F., 183.
Pratt, Sarah, 112.
Preble, Thomas M., 128.
Prendergast, James, 125.
Prendergast, James M., 124,
140, 417.
Prendergast, William J.. 74.
197, 379, 380.
Prentice, , 98.
Prentice, Thomas, 357.
Preston, Samuel, 183.
Putnam, A. A., 353.
Putnam, Addison N., 273.
Putnam, Archelaus, 123, 336,
Putnam, Austin, 1go.
Putnam, James F., 200.
Putnam, Laura, 336.
Putnam, Le Baron, 52, 208,
376.
Putnam, Mary E., 139.
Putnam, Salmon, 340.
Putnam, Simon, 127.
Putnam, Sophia, 200.
Putnam, Willard K., 183.
Quiquonassett, 8.
Rand, Wilbur, 108, 309.
Raymond, Amos, 163, 166.
Raymond, Asenath, 302.
Raymond, Emma C., 228.
Raymond, James, 173.
Raymond, Lucy, 272, 320.
Raymond, Lydia, 279.
Raymond, Paul, 33, 134, 162.
163, 166, 169, 368, 369.
442 INDEX OF
Raymond, William, 163, 165.
361.
Read, Anna, 267.
Redding,
oe
Redican, John F., 126
Reed, John 173, 199.
Rice, 3 99.
Rice, Caleb, 356.
Rice, Elijah [1st], 360.
Rice, Elijah [2d], 164.
361.
Rice, Elisha, 357.
Rice, Ephraim [1st], 357-
Rice, Ephraim [2d], 357.
Rice, Ezra, 165.
Rice, Gershom, 356.
Rice, Henry, 21, 162.
Rice, James, 357, 395-
Rice, Jonas, 11, 356.
Rice, Jonathan ‘Trst], BR aks
134, 367, 308, 369.
Rice, Jonathan [2d], 52.
166.
Rice, Joshua, 357.
Rice, Josiah, 357.
Rice, Jotham, 161.
Rice, Mary E., 280.
Rice, Peter, 55, 109.
Rice, Thomas, 357.
Rich, A. J., 191.
Richardson, Edward, 202, 324.
Richardson, Heman, 203, 324.
166,
163,
BUD,
Richardson, Isaac C., 350,
_ 354:
Richardson, John, 128, 336,
3755 379, 383.
Richardson, Lydia, 225.
Richardson, Merrill, 63, 106,
T29, 137, 139, 3410. 353;
417:
Rider, Eleazer & Sons,
203, 409.
Riley, Michael, 64, 183, 415.
Ripley, George, 357.
Rivers, Edward, 125, 183.
Rivers, Peter, 183.
47;
PERSONS.
Robbins, Sylvester C., £10,
1735 337s
Robinson, Albert B., 183,
311, 337-
Robinson, Benjamin F.. 136.
Robinson, Jeremiah, 166.
Robinson, Thomas, 184.
Roel, Sylvanus B., 137. 312.
Rogers, Aaron H., 128.
Rogers, Emory, a4. (4.2, DAF,
160, 184, TOT. 343, 349s
380.
Rogers, Mrs. Emory, 349.
Rogers, George F., 364.
Rogers, Hannah, 339.
Rogers, Henry M.. 107, 191,
380, 381.
Rogers, J. Warren, 377, 375.
Rogers, M. Helen, 138.
Rogers, Winslow B., 65, 184,
415.
Rood, James T., 136, 190,
313, 337, 379:
Ross, Emma R., 351.
Ross, Isaac, 313.
Ross, Isaac N., 140, 313, 353.
Roper, George B., 349.
Rounds, John 120, a4
Row, Samuel, 163, 165
Rudman, John, 203.
Rugg, Joseph, 360.
Russell, John E., 353.
Salter, Enos, 357.
Sample, Agnes, 138.
Sampson, A. P., 2or.
Santon, Oliver, 184.
Sargent, Daniel, 166.
Sargent, Digory, 357.
Sargent, Ephraim H., 184.
Sargent, Frank D., 108.
Sargent, Polly, rr2.
Sault, Julius, rgo.
Savage, George E., 154.
Savage, Hannah F., 292, 294.
Savage, John B., 64, 184, 415.
Savage, Sarah S 336.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
sawyer, Alfred, 376, 378.
Sawyer, .Alphonso B., 154.
Sawyer, John G., 1go.
Scanlan, Peter & Co., 204.
_ Schofield, John E., 190, 191.
Seaver, George H., 184.
Seaver, Moses N., 336.
Seaver, Roswell R., 184.
Shaw, Harriet, 214.
Shedd, — , 128.
Shepard, Daniel, 112.
Shepard, Nabby, 112.
Sheppard, Nathaniel, 164, 166,
361.
Short, John, 184.
Shute, Frank, 160.
Shute, James M., 160.
Simpson, Chloe, 257.
Skiff, Austin E., 190.
Skinner, Aaron G., 173, 337.
Slater, John, 203.
Slocum, Abigail, 262.
Smith, A. F., 206.
Smith, Albert D., 337.
Smith, Amasa, 115, 116.
Smith, Andrew, 28, 162, 361,
368.
Smith, Angelina, 336.
Smith, Artemus C., 184.
Smith, Asa 165.
Smith, David [1st], 163, 166,
V3, 3995 371
Smith, David [2d], 185.
Smith, Edna E., 229.
Smith, Ephraim, 163,
361.
Smith, G. J., 208.
Smith, George A., 185.
Smith, Herbert J., 185.
Smith, Isaac, 162, 368.
Smith, James, 6, 359, 399.
Smith, Joab, 166.
Smith, John [1st], 356.
Smith, John [2d], 337.
Smith, John F., 374.
Smith, John M., 173, 337.
Smith, Levi [1st], 128.
166,
I43
Smith, Levi [2d], 128.
Smith, Moses [rst], 33. Si,
369.
Smith, Moses, [2d], 128.
Smith, Ruth, 302, 303.
Smith, Sarah, 339.
Smith, Thorret, 185, 336.
Smith, Willis, 375, 376, 383.
Snow, Aventon, 166.
Snow, Seth, 163, 166, 361.
Snow, Simeon, rro.
Solomon, 8.
Southgate, B. T., 205.
Spaulding, J. Calvin,
ILO, 190, 380.
Spencer, Dwight, 120,
Sprague, Augustus B. R., 87,
158, 192.
Sprague, Frank M., 191.
Sprague, Homer B., 69, 389.
Spring, John P., 125.
Sprout, Isaiah, 162.
Stearns, 5 BSG
Stearns, Bartholomew, 164,
166.
Stearns, Ezra J., 185.
Stearns, G. Henry, 196, 108.
Stearns, Homer D., 123.
Stearns, Increase [1st], 165.
361.
Stearns, Increase [2d] 165.
Steele, Charles H., 155.
Steele, George W’., 185.
Stevens, Charles E., 51, 136.
Stevens, Cyprian, 6, 22, 89,
132, 133, 169, 359, 360,
364, 366, 395, 399, 402.
Stevens, Thomas, 165.
Stickney, Clifford W., 136,
142, 318, 337, 381, 382.
Stickney, Moses, 360.
Stickney, Simon, 164, 166.
Stickney, Zillai, 163, 165.
Stimson, Henry A., 158.
Stone, Alice E., 138, 305.
Stowell Frederic M., rro, 207.
380.
109,
me
Stowell & Ward, 207, 389. |
Stratton, Josiah, 163, 361, 369,
370, 382.
Stratton, Samuel S., 50, 173,
347:
Streeter, Edwin [1., 190, 199.
Strong, Luther W., 190.
Sumner, Os
Swaim, Samuel B., 119.
Symonds, John, 163, 166.
Taft, Henry, 163, 166, 361,
37°:
Talbot, Gertrude E., 138.
Taylor, Isaac, 358.
Tenney, Olive, 313.
Thayer, John R., 87.
Thomas, Isabella A., 308.
Thompson, C. O., 353.
Thompson, Edward P., 381.
Thompson, Hugh, 360.
Thompson, Isaac, 162.
Thompson, James, 13, 396.
Thompson, Phineas, 166.
Thompson, Samuel, 21, 33,
162, 163, 166, 341, 360,
365, 366, 367, 369, 402.
Thompson, William, 1go.
Thurston, Cornelia M., 137.
Thurston, George T., 65, 185,
415.
Thurston, Lyman F., 185.
Tilton, Josiah H., 86, rrg,
120, 319.
Ting, »357: |
Tingley, Timothy C., 119,122, |
319, 342.
Titus, Joseph A., 191.
Tolman, Franklin H., 186.
Tracy, Leonard, 118.
Train, Charles, 117.
Train, Robert, 162.
Train, Samuel, 360.
Travis, Charles, T., 74. |
Truchon, Charles L., 190, 203.
Truesdell, Elnathan, 354. |
Truesdell, Horace L.. 65, 185,
415.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Truesdell, Lucius, 155.
Truesdell, Waldo B., 139.
Tucker, Alfred S., 65,
415.
Turner, A. H. & Co., 206.
Turner, Bezaleel, 166.
Turner, Charles, 128,
155,
33s
Turner, Charles F., 190.
Turner, George, H., 185, 349.
Turner, Samuel, 267. 272,
336.
Turner, Stella, 267.
Tuttle, Fred H., 190.
Tuttle, William G., 108, 148.
Underwood, Calvin, 195.
Usher, Bridget, 357.
Verry, Herbert W., 110, 191,
347:
Vinnedge, Nannie, 305.
Wadsworth, John, 141.
Wadsworth, Paul & Son,
Waldo, Cornelius, 356.
Waldo, Jonathan, 357.
Walker & Wright, 206.
Walker, Adoniram J.,
22%.
Walker. Amasa, 353.
Walker, Mrs. D., 342.
Walker, Eli, 320.
Walker, Eunice M., 322.
Walker, Hervey D., 129,
Walker, Hezekiah, 112,
272, 320, 361.
Walker, Joel, 122, 123,
199.
323,
166,
320,
375-
Walker, John [rst], 103,
116, II7, 119, 129,
275, 320, 417.
Walker, John [2d], 322.
Walker, Joseph H., 83.
Walker, Lucy [1st], 112, 279,
20.
Walker, Lucy [2d], 339.
Walker, Lydia, 320.
115,
136,
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Walker, Persis, 112, 320.
Walker, Polly, 112, 279, 320.
Walker, Rachel, 112.
Walker, Sally [1st], 320.
Walker, Sally [2d], 272,
Walker, Silas, 112, 121,
320.
Walker, Sylvia J., 322
Walker, Tabitha, 320.
Walker, William H., 68, 199,
206, 349, 350) 3541 377:
Walker, Mrs. W. H., 349.
Walker, William R., 320.
Walker, William S., 129, 322.
Walsh, Robert, 124, 287.
Ward, ———, 356,
Ward, Austin W., 378, 389.
Ward, Obadiah, 358. :
Ware, Alonzo K., 109, I10.
Warren, A. Kirke, 326.
Warren, .Ann E., 324. 331.
25,
Warren, Berthier, 202, 324,
326, 327.
Warren, B. & H. W., & Co.,
202, 324,320.
Warren, Blanche L., 325.
Warren, Ebenezer,
Warren, George W., 326.
Warren, Harry L., 327.
Warren, Helen G., 328.
Warren, Henry W., 74, 140,
142, 158, 202, 273, 324,
325, 326, 327, 343, 365,
_ 379,384.
Warren, Herbert L., 140, 326.
Warren, J. Henry, 200, 291.
Warren, John, 322.
Warren, Jonah, 322.
Warren, Jonah G., 323.
Warren, Jonas, 121, ons
Warren, Jonathan, 322
Warren, Joseph, 322.
Warren, Marion E., 348, 381,
82.
Waren, Mary S., 327.
Warren, Samuel [1st], 322.
Warren, Samuel [2d], 123,
202, 323.
22
123.
’
145
Warren, Susan E., 324.
Warren, Water fins G., [1st].
202, 322, 325. 326, 327,
331 336,
Warren Waterman G., [2d].
328.
Warren, William FI., 328.
Warren, W. G., & Sons, 202,
3245 325, 326.
Warren’s Sons, W. G.,
203, 324, 326, 328.
Waters, George, 117,
122, 173, 320.
Waters, Huldah P., 252.
Waters, Mary A., 252.
Waters, Willard, 252.
Watson, John, 202, 324, 375.
Watson, Woodman H., 119,
330.
Webb, Constant, 166.
Webb, George, 30, 37. 39,
135, 165, 330, 370, 407.
Weeks, Albert W., 129. 417.
Welch, John M., 194.
West, Joseph T. O., 337.
West Boylston Manufacturing
Co., 206.
Weston, Laura 5., 292.
- Wheeler, Aaron, 34, 164, 166.
Wheeler, Abraham, 129, 139,
ITY
Wheeler, Asa, 173, 372-
Wheeler, Eunice C., 280, 340.
Wheeler, Jonathan, 25, 164,
166, 361, 367, 368.
Wheeler, Joseph H., 200, 201.
Wheeler, Moses, 29, 162, 163,
665, 337, 301, 407.
Wheeler, Nathan, 164, 165.
Wheeler, Sally, 223.
Wheeler, Thomas [1st], 357.
Wheeler, Thomas [2d], 165.
Wheelock, Martha, 224.
Wheelock, Ralph, 224.
White, Aaron [1st], 302.
White, Aaron [2d], 135. 246.
302.
White, Mrs. Aaron,
220s
146
White, Abigail H., 340.
White, Alonzo A., 192.
White, Barney L., 347.
White, Eunice A., 200.
White, Farnum, 50, 203, 374.
White, Margaret, 302.
White, Mary .A., 246.
White, Morris E., 103.
White, Stephen, 361.
Whiting, William C.,
192.
Whitney, A. A., 195.
Whitney, Isaac, 162.
Whitney, Jonas L., 191.
Whittemore, Hezekiah P., 191.
Willard, F. Augustus, 117.
Willard, Margery, 255.
Willard Simon, 253.
Williams, Count De Leon, 185.
Williams, Cynthia B., 331.
Williams, John, 165.
Williams, Lester [1st], 331.
Williams, Lester [2d], 63,
120, 121, 324, 331, 353.
Williams, Waterman L., 140.
Willington, John, 163, 166.
Willson, Francis, 163, 166,
361, 369, 370.
Wilson, Ebenezer, 340.
Winch, , Mrs., 388.
Winch, David, 163, 166, 360.
Winch. Francis, 166.
Winch, James, 52, 375.
Winch, John, 164, 166, 361.
Winch, John W., 186.
Winch, Moses, 129, 134. 417.
138,
INDEN OF PERSONS.
Winch, Sally, 259.
Wing, ———, 356.
Winn, Cyrus D., 185.
Winn, James W., 186.
Winn, Moses, 336, 390.
Winn, Peter S., 194.
Winslow, Samuel, 158.
Winthrop. Adam, 9, 12, 356,
401.
Witt, Edward F., 195.
Wood, Benjamin, 346.
Wood, Cyrus G., 198, 206,
207, 266.
Wood, J. Frank, 74.
Wood & Ward, 207.
Woodbury, John, 121, 123.
Woodbury, Robert, 191.
Woods, Leonard, 99.
Woodward, Harriet, 257.
Woodward, John, 21, 162.
Woolley, Joseph,’ 6, 360, 399.
Woonaskochu, 8.
Worthington, Albert, 303.
Wright, Abel, 225.
Wright, Frank, 186.
Wright, George, 195.
Wright, James H., 206, 375.
Wright, Judah [1st], 164, 166,
361.
Wright, Judah [2d], 52. 333.
Wright, Luther, 208.
Wright, Maria, 313.
Wright & Morse, 205.
Wyman, Charles P., 137.
Young, John, 133.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
Read, page 109, line 13, 1870, for 1842.
Add, page 139,—
Crass or 1892.
Martin Joseph Hennessey, Helen Clara Johnson,
Williamy Josephine Howe, Thomas Francis McCabe.
Read, page 161, line 24, 1757, for 1857.
Add, page 192, line 8,—1893, Rev. Thomas E. Babb.
Read, page 201, line 29, and page 336, line 8, Lemuel for
Lorenzo.
Add, page 261, at close of sketch,—Charles Flagg died Sep-
tember 2d, 1893.
Add, page 293, at close of sketch,—William C. Metcalf died
January 6th, 1894.
Add, page 302, line 6,—-He led the Sturbridge Company, of
Col. Warner’s Regiment, at the Lexington Alarm.
Read, 308, line 11, invidious for insidious.
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