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HISTORY 
 
 TOWN OF WARWICK, 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 From its First Settlement to 1854. 
 
 BY 
 
 HON. JONATHAN BLAKE. 
 
 BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME BY OTHERS. 
 
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 PREFACE, 
 
 '' I ^HE following brief outline of the early history 
 -■- of the town of Warwick, Mass., by the Hon. 
 Jonathan Blake, was written about forty years ago, in 
 1 83 1 and 1832. A small part of it has been written 
 since that time. It was. compiled from the most au- 
 thentic records of the town, made at the time when the 
 various transactions took place; and it contains mat- 
 ters of deep and thrilling interest to all the inhabit- 
 ants, whether they be the regular descendants of the 
 first inhabitants or not. All naturally wish to know 
 something of the origin, character, and condition of 
 the first settlers, — of those who first opened their 
 eyes on this beautiful landscape, this wild mountain 
 scenery, this Switzerland of America ; and here 
 pitched their tents, on these sloping hill-sides and 
 in these winding valleys, beside the running streams, 
 and babbling brooks, and quiet ponds, surrounded by 
 the tall pines of the forest. All wish to know some- 
 
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4 PREFACE. 
 
 thing of the hardy pioneers, who felled the giant trees, 
 cleared up these cultivated fields, made these roads, 
 built these walls, erected these houses, and did so 
 much for the comfort and accommodation of the 
 present inhabitants. To all, then, who have come 
 into possession of this goodly inheritance, it contains 
 matters of great and absorbing interest, which ought 
 to be preserved for future generations. Without any 
 view to publication, it was written expressly for the 
 Warwick Lyceum, before whom select portions of it 
 were read, at different times, as lyceum lectures, 
 to the great edification of the hearers. It was not 
 designed to give a full or complete account even, of 
 the early history of Warwick, but only so much of 
 it as would be interesting to the members of the 
 lyceum ; and even now it is not thought advisable 
 by the publishing committee to enlarge upon this 
 branch of the subject by attempting to supply what 
 may have been omitted. 
 
 From this brief outline, however, we have some- 
 thing more than a glimpse, or a mere bird's-eye view, 
 of our forefathers. We have a tolerably correct ac- 
 count of their characters and habits, their spirit and 
 enterprise, their sayings and doings, their joys and 
 rejoicings, their trials and hardships, their privations 
 and sufferings, and their noble devotion to the cause 
 of education, religion, and good government. The 
 work is now printed just as it was left by its ven- 
 
PREFACE. 5 
 
 erated author, and transcribed by his brother, Samuel 
 Blake, both of whom are now numbered with the 
 sainted dead. 
 
 The committee of publication were requested to 
 write out and complete the history, so well begun by 
 Mr. Blake, and to bring it down to the present time. 
 This, at first, the committee thought could not be 
 well done without making it appear like patchwork, 
 — like new cloth on an old garment. But, after a 
 little reflection upon the subject, they concluded to 
 make the attempt, and to do the best they could to 
 complete the work, and to make it match with the 
 early history of the town. From the town-records 
 and other authentic sources, they have collected all 
 the facts and materials they have used in completing 
 the work. With what success they have executed it, 
 each one must judge for himself Though the whole 
 committee have given their general approbation to all 
 that has been added, without being able to certify to 
 the truth of every particular fact or statement, yet 
 each member is particularly responsible for the 
 articles which stand over the initials of his name. 
 
 It is hoped the book will be acceptable to all. By 
 all the natives of the town, whether living here or 
 elsewhere, it will be regarded with high favor, as a 
 kind of godsend, or heirloom, to remind them of their 
 father and mothers, their brothers and sisters, their 
 kindred and friends. And to all others it will show 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 how Strong, in the breasts of all the natives of War- 
 wick, are the veneration and love of their birthplace, 
 and the home of their childhood. What shrine is 
 more sacred, what spot is more holy, than the place 
 
 of one's nativity ? 
 
 Warwick, March 4, 1872. 
 
 J. G. 
 
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Warwick, Dec. 26, 1871. 
 At a meeting of the citizens of the town, held at the 
 Centre Schoolhouse, for the purpose of considering the 
 propriety of securing the publication of the Hon. Jonathan 
 Blake's " History of Warwick," and of taking measures 
 for the furtherance of said object, — 
 
 Voted, and chose Hervey Barber, Chairman ; Edw-ard F. 
 Mayo, Secretary ; Hervey Barber, John Goldsbury, Nahum 
 Jones, S. P. French, and E. F. Mayo, a Committee to take 
 the matter into consideration, and adopt such measures 
 as they may deem expedient to accomplish the purpose. 
 
 Voted, To adjourn to the call of the committee. 
 
 ^a7t. 3, 1872. — The committee met according to ap- 
 pointment, and passed the following measures as necessary 
 for the purpose of accomplishing the trust committed to 
 their charge : — 
 
 Resolved, That it is the sense of this committee that 
 Blake's "History of Warwick" be brought down to the 
 present time. 
 
 Voted, That the Rev. John Goldsbury and Deacon Her- 
 vey Barber be requested to take the matter in charge, bring 
 the work down to the present time, and prepare the same 
 for publication. 
 
 Voted, To adjourn without day. 
 
 Edward F. Mayo, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 INSTRUCTIONS TO THE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Article 19th of the Annual March Meeting was as fol- 
 lows : To see if the town will take any action in regard to 
 the publication of Blake's " History of Warwick," and 
 appropriate money for the same.. 
 
 March 4, 1872, on Article 19th, Voted, That the com- 
 mittee be authorized to borrow money for the purpose. 
 
 A. S. Atherton, 
 
 2'owti Clerk. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK, MASS. 
 
 THERE is a trait inherent in the character of 
 man which is common to us all, — every one 
 more or less feels its influence ; and that is a wish and 
 a desire to look into futurity, — to see and to know 
 what is laid up for us in the vast storehouse (if I may 
 be allowed the expression) of coming events. And 
 equally curious, and equally careful, are -we all to 
 explore the past, to investigate, to search out, from 
 whence we came, and where we originated. The 
 creation of the world, the creation of man and 
 every living thing that exists, whether material or 
 immaterial, are the constant subjects of our inquiry. 
 And it is just the same with regard to inanimate 
 nature : the busy and inquisitive mind of man, with 
 eagerness and assiduity, searches out the past, the 
 present, and the future ; and, where the faithful page 
 of hii^tory is wanting, conjecture and imagination 
 
 Note. — This was written for the amusement and information of 
 the Warwick Lyceum, at several different times, in 183 1 and 1832, by 
 Jonathan Blake, jun. Copied from the original manuscript by Samuel 
 Blake. 
 
lO HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 supply the deficiency. With what an intense interest 
 do we seek and inquire after the ruins of Pompeii, 
 buried for such a lapse of ages from human inspection 
 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, that the memorial 
 of the transaction was almost lost to the world ! The 
 meanest articles of domestic use that were in vogue 
 in those ancient times are more valued by us, and 
 excite greater admiration, than the most costly furni- 
 ture in modern use. The brilliant and successful 
 achievements of * ChampoUion in deciphering the 
 hieroglyphics on the monuments and temples, and in 
 the tombs, of Egypt,- excite our wonder, and fill us 
 with surprise ; and we catch at every word and sen- 
 tence that will throw light on the history of centuries 
 that have long since rolled away. 
 
 The first settlement of this country by Europeans 
 has now become interesting by the lapse of only about 
 two hundred years ; and we lament the inattention and 
 neglect of our forefathers in not recording the facts 
 and circumstances of the times in which they lived : 
 many events are already lost to the present age and 
 to posterity forever. But let us rescue from oblivion 
 what now remains : let us faithfully record everything 
 that our fathers have done within our knowledge, and 
 hand it down to our children. They will be grate- 
 ful, they will feel thankful, for the historical legacy 
 bequeathed to them by those that have gone before 
 them. The uncivilized natives of this country have 
 set us an example : they hand down from father to 
 son what we can more accurately and more faithfully 
 preserve by our superior knowledge, and acquaintance 
 with letters. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. II 
 
 The theme of our inquiry now is the history of 
 Warwick ; and, although but sixty-eight years have 
 passed away since it was incorporated as a town, 
 many of us could give but a very imperfect account 
 of the scenes that have transpired, and none of us 
 can do justice to the subject. Scarcely three ages 
 have elapsed since this spot * on which we are now 
 convened, and all the adjacent hills and dales, were a 
 howling wilderness, — no trace of improvement, not a 
 vestige of the works of art, not a lonely cultivated 
 field, not a solitary dwelling for civilized man ; 
 but, on the contrary, the whole surrounding country 
 was covered, far and wide, with an almost impene- 
 trable and illimitable forest. The mind unaccustomed 
 to reflection, and unacquainted with woods and wilds, 
 can have but a faint idea of the solitude and gloom of 
 a boundless wilderness ; and those that reflect and 
 consider, and fancy to themselves that they can realize 
 how it looked, how it appeared, and how it was, 
 here "in olden time," may all be mistaken. A sullen 
 gloom, a death-like silence, pervaded the land. Now 
 and then, perhaps, a wandering native might traverse 
 these iron-bound hills in the pursuit of game, or in 
 quest of his enemies. But the prowling beasts of 
 prey and the feathered tribes were the only permanent 
 settlers in these then desolate regions. But, gloomy 
 and silent and desolate as it was, it was destined by 
 the great Author of our existence to be the residence 
 of man ; and, had it not been a wilderness covered with 
 timber, man could not have subsisted here. We are 
 
 * The schoolhouse on the common, in the middle of the town. 
 
12 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 indebted to this wonderful display of Infinite wisdom 
 for all the means of enjoyment, and all the various 
 blessings, which we now enjoy. In an inland country 
 like ours, where, nearly one-half of the year, the water 
 is congealed to ice, and the ground covered with snow, 
 the ingenuity of man has not yet discovered the means 
 of sustaining human beings without the^ aid of wood 
 and timber ; and at this moment, had not wood and 
 timber been found here, these mountains and hills 
 and plains would have been as devoid of the habita- 
 tions of man as the arid and scorched plains of Africa, 
 or the vast and extensive wastes in the open country 
 beyond the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 But to return to the subject. In the year 1735, 
 June 10, "at a great and general court or assembly 
 for his Majestie's Province in the Massachusetts Bay," 
 in answer to the petitions of Samuel Newall, Thomas 
 Tileston, Samuel Gallop, and Abraham Tilton, and 
 others in connection with each of them, the said court 
 voted " that four several tracts of land for townships, 
 each of the content of six miles square, be laid out in 
 suitable places in the western parts of this province ; 
 and that the whole of each town be laid out into sixty- 
 three equal shares, one share of which to be for the 
 first settled minister, one for the use of the ministry, 
 and one for schools ; and that, on the other sixty shares 
 in each town, there be sixty settlers admitted, and, in 
 the admission thereof, preference to be given to the 
 petitioners, and such as are the descendants of the 
 officers and souldiers who served in the expedition to 
 Canada, in the year 1690" (viz., one of the said town- 
 ships to each of the aforesaid persons, with such others 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 13 
 
 as joined with them in the petitions) ; '' and in case 
 there be not a sufficient number named in the said 
 four petitions as were either officers or souldiers in the 
 said expedition, or the descendants of such as were lost, 
 or are since deceased, so as to make sixty settlers for 
 each town, that then such others as were in the expe- 
 dition, or their descendants, be admitted settlers there, 
 until sixty persons in each township be admitted ; and 
 inasmuch as the officers and souldiers in that expedition 
 were very great sufferers, and underwent uncommon 
 hardships, Voted, That this Province be at the sole 
 charge of laying (out) the said four townships, and of 
 admitting the settlers. That the settlers or grantees 
 be, and hereby are, obliged to bring forward the set- 
 tlements of the said four townships in as regular and 
 defencible a manner as the situation and circuthstances 
 will admit of, — and that in the following manner 
 (viz.) : that they be on the granted premises respec- 
 tively, and have each of them an house eighteen feet 
 square, and seven feet stud, at the least ; that each 
 right or grant have six acres of land brought to, and 
 ploughed or brought to English grass, and fitted for 
 mowing ; that they respectively settle in each planta- 
 tion or township a learned orthodox minister, and 
 build a convenient meeting-house for the public 
 worship of God in each township." 
 
 These conditions to be complied with within five 
 years from the confirmation of the Platts. Com- 
 mittees were appointed to lay out the aforesaid grants ; 
 and bonds were required of each settler, under the 
 penalty of twenty pounds running to the treasurer 
 of the Province ; and if the grantees, or any of the 
 
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 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 grantees, fail of fulfilling the terms aforesaid, they 
 forfeited all their title back to the Province. 
 
 Warwick was one of these four grants, and the one 
 petitioned for by Samuel Newall and others ; and it 
 was at first called the plantation of " Roxbiiry, or 
 Gardner s Canada^ 
 
 In June, 1736, Samuel Newall, and the officers and 
 soldiers in the company, under the command of Capt. 
 Andrew Gardner in the Canada expedition, were 
 authorized by the General Court to call their first 
 meeting of the proprietors. Said meeting was held 
 at the house of James Jarvis, in Roxbury, Sept. 22, 
 1736. Capt. Robert Sharp was chosen moderator, 
 and William Dudley, Esq., proprietors' clerk. 
 
 At this meeting, a committee, consisting of Capt. 
 Robert Sharp, Ensign Samuel Davis, and Mr. Ger- 
 shom Davis, was chosen to procure a surveyor, and 
 lay out the " home lots." Each lot to contain not 
 less than fifty acres, nor more than sixty acres ; 
 and each proprietor was taxed twenty-three shillings 
 to defray the expense of laying out said lots, and 
 paying the costs incurred in petitioning the court, 
 &c. 
 
 It is not now known at what time these home lots 
 were laid out ; but by the proprietors' records, on the 
 24th of October, 1737, the sixty proprietors by name 
 drew for their respective lots, and paid twenty shillings 
 each to defray the expense. The home lots, as they 
 are called, began to be numbered in the south-west 
 part of the town, and were laid one hundred and sixty 
 rods long, and fifty rods wide. Mr. Henry Fuller 
 owns the largest part of lot No. i ; and the stones 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 15 
 
 are now visible where they built their first camp, 
 previous to surveying these lots. 
 
 These lots continue on to the north part of Chestnut 
 Hill ; then several of them were located south of the 
 meeting-house, where Mr. Elijah Fisk now lives ; then 
 north of the meeting-house, and over the hill to 
 Medad Pomroy's ; then, beginning at Mr. James Ball's, 
 they continue on to near the north line of the town. 
 
 Thus you see that they selected the hills, or high 
 ridges of land, for the first settlements ; and this is 
 one reason why almost all our roads were located over 
 the hills, instead of passing through the valleys. 
 
 The boundaries of Warwick, as it was originally 
 laid out, were as follows : on the west line by North- 
 field, six miles and thirty-eight rods ; then on Erving's 
 Grant, two miles and thirty-nine rods ; making whole 
 west line eight miles and seventy-seven rods. North, 
 on the line of New Hampshire, four miles and ninety- 
 eight rods on the town of Winchester, and two miles 
 and forty-two rods on the town of Richmond ; making 
 the whole north line six miles and one hundred and 
 forty rods (it was originally called Arlington and 
 Province land, north). East, on Province land (now 
 Royalston) and Pequeag (Athol), on Province land 
 six miles and thirty rods ; * thence, west one hundred 
 and seventy-nine rods to the north-west corner of 
 Pequeag ; thence, south two hundred and fifty-six rods 
 to a heap of stones on the west line of Pequeag, and 
 to a small maple-tree south on Erving's Grant, four 
 miles and two hundred and sixty-five rods. 
 
 * Allowing one rod in thirty for sag of chain, as the old records say 
 was customary. 
 
1 6 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The west and north boundaries of Warwick con- 
 tinue the same as originally laid out ; but when the 
 town of Orange was incorporated, which took off the 
 south-east corner, it left the east line on Royalston 
 three miles and one hundred and two rods ; Ihe south 
 line, two miles and one hundred and eighteen rods ; 
 and the south-east is a zig-zag line, measuring five 
 miles and three huixlred and sixteen rods on the town 
 of Orange. 
 
 It contained twenty-three thousand acres of land, 
 exclusive of the Great Farm (so called), which was a 
 grant previously made of sixteen hundred acres to one 
 Johnson and his company, for military services ; and is 
 the land that Mr. Aaron Bass, Samuel Williams, Par- 
 ley Leland, Samuel Fay, Samuel Moore, and others, 
 now own ; aiid also exclusive of the Severance and 
 ■ Field Farms. The Severance Farm contained two 
 hundred acres, on which Jonathan Blake, and Jona- 
 than Blake, jun., Bunyan Penniman,,Asa Ware, and 
 Stephen Ball, now live, and each of them owns a part 
 of it. It is a traditional story, that it was granted as 
 a reward for the faithful services of the surveyor who 
 laid out this part of the country, and that he had his 
 choice to select where he pleased. The Field Farm 
 never belonged to Warwick, but made a notch in the 
 south-east corner. It. contained four hundred acres ; 
 and Deacon Ward and Jessie Warrick now live on a 
 part of it. 
 
 Late in the fall of 1737, a second division of lots 
 was laid out under the direction of a committee, con- 
 sisting of Deacon Davis and Ebenezer Case, who 
 were empowered " to agree with one or more survey- 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 17 
 
 ors and chain-men and pilots." These second-division 
 lots were called farms, and were to contain one hun- 
 dred and fifty acres each, if the land would hold out : 
 and the surveyors were directed to qualify them ; 
 viz , to lay them out according to the quality of 
 the land, — the poorest land into the largest lots, and 
 the best into smaller ones, so as to have them valued 
 alike. This is the reason why the second-division 
 lots are so unequal in size, varying from one to two 
 hundred acres : for instance, on " Beech Hill " the old 
 original lots contain but about one hundred acres 
 each, that being considered the best of the land ; 
 while the broken lots contain nearly, or quite two 
 hundred. 
 
 I have had occasion to mention sectional and local 
 names in different parts of the town, some of which 
 remain, while others are lost or forgotten. It may 
 not be amiss to state these names for the information 
 of those that may come after us, with the origin, or 
 probable origin, of the same. ** Beech Hill," above 
 mentioned, lies in the east part of the town, where 
 Mr. Abijah Eddy and Mr. Calvin Allen now live ; 
 and the name originated from the large and un- 
 common growth of beech timber it formerly contained. 
 "Chestnut Hill" was so named for the same reason, 
 the chestnut-trees being the most common growth. 
 It is located in the south-west part of the town, where 
 the Messrs. Francis and Jonas Leonard, Joseph Wil- 
 son, and Capt. William Burnett, and others, now reside. 
 " Flour Hill " is in the north part of the town, where 
 Messrs. Phinehas Child, John Bowman, and others, 
 live. It is said this name originated from the follow- 
 
i8 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 ing circumstance : The inhabitants that first settled 
 this part of the town were in the habit of annually 
 setting fire to the woods in the spring of the year, for 
 tne purpose of producing a young and tender growth 
 of trees and plants for the subsistence of their cattle, 
 not having pastures cleared up as we now have. Each 
 one would put a bell upon the leader of his flock or 
 herd or horse, for the purpose of finding them readily 
 when wanted. Within my own recollection, the hills 
 to the west of us were burned over every year for the 
 purpose above stated ^and the illumination occasioned 
 thereby, for several successive nights, will probably 
 never be effaced from my memory. This practice had 
 almost destroyed the first growth of timber on the 
 spot last mentioned, and the land was considered of 
 very little value. Mr. Solomon Ager, who at that 
 time was not considered a prophet nor the son of a 
 prophet, had the hardihood to risk his all (as he had 
 nothing to lose) by settling on this open tract of land. 
 Some of his wiser neighbors attempting to ridicule 
 him for selecting so barren a spot of land to get his 
 living on, the old man replied, that *'it would one 
 day be the Flour of Warwick ; " and ever after it has 
 been called " Flour Hill." 
 
 The east part of the town towards Royalston, 
 where Deacon Ebenezer Stearns, Mr. James Pierce, 
 and others, live, probably from its being so rough and 
 uneven, has sarcastically been called " Moose Plain." 
 The north part of the town, where Messrs. Elisha 
 Rich, David Ball, Amory Gale, and Justus Russell, 
 Esqs., reside, is called " the Brook," originating from the 
 stream of water that takes its rise near the middle of 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 19 
 
 the town, and empties into the Ashuelot River, at 
 Winchester, N.H., being called "Miry Brook." In 
 the south part of the town, the land lying south of 
 Morse's Pond was formerly called " Skunks Baron : " 
 farther south, where Jonathan Shepardson lives, was 
 called '* Padanaram." The first name originated from 
 the sterility of the soil, and the last from its being a 
 plain, level spot. What is now the south-cast corner 
 of the town, where Messrs. Reuben Wheaton and 
 Andrew Burnett live, was called *' Peaked End," from 
 the circumstance of there being no settled spot near 
 them, they being considered the end of the settle- 
 ment. 
 
 The tv.-o natural ponds obtained their names from 
 the owners of the soil near them ; viz., " Pomeroy's 
 Pond," near the centre of the town, and Morse's 
 Pond," a little farther to the south-west. The moun- 
 tain near the middle of the town was called " Mount 
 Grace," in consequence of a child of Mrs. Rowland- 
 son's, whose name was " Grace," being buried some- 
 where near the foot of it. Mrs. Rowlandson, with her 
 child, was taken captive by the Indians at Lancaster 
 when that town was destroyed and sacked and burned. 
 After the destruction of the town, the Indians pro- 
 ceeded on towards Canada with their captives ; and 
 this child died soon after they crossed " Miller's River," 
 ten miles from Warwick ; and Mrs. Rowlandson 
 brought it in her arms, until she arrived near this 
 mountain, where, compelled by fatigue, she reluctantly 
 consigned it to the earth.* 
 
 * This was an early tradition, and then believed to be true ; but it 
 is not authenticated in Mrs. Rowlandson's history of her captivity. 
 
20 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The brook that takes its rise near the west side of 
 this mountain is also called " Grace Brook," until it 
 reaches " Morse's Pond ; " and then it takes the name 
 of " Morse's Brook." The brook that runs near Wil- 
 liam Hastings, J^mes Ball, and through Caleb Mayo, 
 Esq.'s, meadow, was formerly called " Black Brook : " 
 farther south it takes the name of " Scott's Brook." 
 The brook that runs near James Pierce's house is 
 called " TuUy Brook : " the name is derived from Tully 
 River, this brook being the source of West Tully,. as 
 it is called ; and East and West Tully unite, and empty 
 into Miller'i River, in Athol. The north-east part of 
 Warwick, through which this brook passes, is called 
 the " Kelton Corner.*' The name was derived from 
 this circumstance : one Mr. Enoch Kelton, an early 
 settler in the town, located himself on the spot where 
 Peter Sandin now lives, and afterwards settled four or 
 five of his sons around him, and lived in this patri- 
 archal manner a considerable number of years. 
 
 Mr. Kelton was a land-surveyor : although his ac- 
 quired attainments were rather limited, he was a good 
 practical workman ; the monuments that he erected 
 bear ample testimony to that fact, even up to the 
 present time. 
 
 His family afflictions, in one instance in particu- 
 lar, were uncommonly severe : his wife, for fifty long 
 years before her death, was confined day and night to 
 her bed. 
 
 - The north-east lobe of Mount Grace has been 
 called by a local name : one of the first settlers, Mr. 
 Samuel Bennett, set down on home-lot No. 40. This 
 lot lies on the side hill, east of the brook, sloping 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 21 
 
 towards Mount Grace, below Abijah Fisher's house : 
 the remains of the cellar, and a few apple-trees, are 
 still witnesses of the • exact spot. This Mr. Bennett 
 said that one morning, as he stood in his door (which, 
 by the way, faced this part of the mountain), he dis- 
 covered a deer bounding along on the top of the 
 Knob : he said he stepped back, and took down his 
 gun, and fired, "and dropped the buck dead on the 
 spot." His incredulous neighbors, amused with the 
 idea of his killing a deer across the deep ravine, more 
 than half a mile wide, that intervened between his 
 house and the top of the hill in questior^ ever after- 
 wards called it '* Bennett's Knob." 
 
 This same Mr. Bennett and wife afterwards lived 
 where Mr. Aaron Bass now Uves ; and Mrs. Bennett 
 related a story, that, perhaps, is a little colored with the 
 marvellous. The dwellings in those days were not 
 exactly as they are at the present. Many of them 
 were built with logs ; and those that were framed, as 
 well as those of logs, generally were, one end of them, 
 principally occupied by the chimney, a huge mass of 
 stones piled up as a back for the fireplace ; and not 
 unfrequently all that could be called a chimney was 
 a hole in the top of the house to let out the smoke. 
 Eight or ten feet was a fireplace of moderate size in 
 those days ; and some actually used a horse to haul in 
 their back-logs. The house that our good old progen- 
 itors lived in was not out of the fashion. The stones 
 of the chimney on either side, however, were not 
 exactly fitted to the wooden part of the building, or 
 they had settled away, so that there was a large crack 
 at the side of the jambs, where they could see out. 
 
22 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Our heroine said she was sitting one evening, 
 spinning on a foot-wheel, and, happening to look round 
 to the side of the fire-place, she saw a bear looking in 
 at the crack, — she plainly saw his eyes glisten. Bruin, 
 after satisfying his curiosity, cleared for the woods. 
 
 I have a story to relate of the temerity of one of 
 our first settlers. It was Mr. David Gale, father of 
 the present David Gale, sen. : as he was chopping in 
 the woods, near where the present David Gale now 
 lives, with his son, a small lad, he discovered a mon- 
 strous animal in the woods ; it was unlike any crea- 
 ture he had^before seen. The wild beast, on being dis- 
 covered, had immediate recourse to the top of a tree. 
 Mr. Gale, as if unconscious of danger, left his little 
 boy to watch the motions of the ferocious animal, 
 with a charge to keen him on the tree : he went to his 
 house, loaded his gun, returned to-the place, and shot 
 the animal, which proved to be nothing less than a 
 full-grown catamount ; and that was the only one 
 that was ever killed in Warwick. 
 
 1738. 
 
 In the year 1738 a committee of the proprietors 
 was appointed to find out the nearest route from Rox- 
 bury to this new tract of country; and a vote was 
 passed, taxing each of the sixty proprietors, to raise 
 the sum of six pounds apiece, as a bounty to encour- 
 age the first ten proprietors that shall settle, and 
 comply with the conditions before mentioned by 
 actually moving on, and building a house, &c. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 1740. 
 
 23 
 
 In 1740 Deacon Davis was empowered to mark 
 out a way through Pequeage (now Athol), and the 
 said plantation, to Northfield. It is not now known 
 exactly where this way was cleared out ; but it is conjec- 
 tured that it passed through the easterly and northerly 
 part of the town, and went into Northfield, near, 
 where the old North-county road was afterwards laid. 
 
 The old records are silent, as to the proceedings of 
 the proprietors of this new town, for about eight years ; 
 but it may be inferred from the prior proceedings, that 
 the inducements to commence the settlement were not 
 sufficient to allure the wealthy on the one hand, or to 
 enable the poor on the other, to transport themselves 
 and their families to this then unbroken forest, without 
 roads, without means of conveyance, and without any 
 thing to subsist on after their arrival. 
 
 1749. 
 
 In the year 1749 the bounty was increased to twen- 
 ty pounds to each individual, as an inducement to 
 settle, — ten pounds in advance, five pounds in one 
 year, and five pounds more in two years after settle- 
 ment. 
 
 1751. 
 
 In this year the proprietors voted to make up the 
 bounty to thirty pounds (old tenor), or the value 
 thereof in silver. 
 
24 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 1753- 
 
 This year fifty pounds was voted to defray the 
 expense of building a sawmill ; and a spot was to be 
 selected where it would accommodate the proprietors ; 
 and, at a meeting of the proprietors of " Gardner's 
 Canada" (as this settlement was still called), it was 
 voted, " to choose a committee to lay out and clear a 
 road to Pequeage near the pond, south-eastwardly from 
 the way proposed and marked to be laid out towards 
 Royalston from Pequeage to the sawmill ; and to come 
 into the way marked out to go from Royalshire to 
 Northfield." And they chose a committee to clear 
 out said road. It was also voted that the committee 
 for building the meeting-house be desired to proceed 
 to accomplish that business : said house to be thirty- 
 five feet long, and thirty feet wide, with nineteen-foot 
 posts. 
 
 Said committee was also directed to appoint the spot 
 where the meeting-house was to stand. The place 
 selected by this committee to build said house on, 
 and where the timber was collected and framed, was 
 about forty or fifty rods south of Mr. Elijah Fisk's 
 house ; and it was subsequently moved and raised 
 near where the present meeting-house now stands, for 
 reasons hereafter to be related. 
 
 1754. 
 
 On the 7th of August this year, the committee for 
 building made a report that Mr. Mason and Mr. Perry 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 25 
 
 were willing to undertake said building, agreeable to 
 the proposed dimensions, for twenty-six pounds, 
 thirteen shillings, and fourpence, the proprietors to 
 defray the expense of procuring the slitwork on the 
 spot ; and the said carpenters would make the said 
 frame good, and in all respects workmanlike, and have 
 it ready to raise by the first day of October next ; or 
 they would work by the day, and get it done by that 
 time, at four shillings per day. It was voted by the 
 proprietors that they should do it by the "great" for 
 the sum proposed, the committee to defray the expense 
 of the raising entertainment. 
 
 1755- 
 
 The committee for building the sawmill reported, 
 on the 5 th of March, that Mr. Ebenezer Locke, who 
 had undertaken to build the mill in said township, 
 informed them that some time in September last he 
 had been at said township in order to finish said mill, 
 and thought he should have finished the work in a 
 little time ; but some of the inhabitants of Northfield 
 had advised him to leave the place if he had any 
 regard for his life ; for the Indians had done mis- 
 chief in No. 4,* and in divers other places ; and he 
 had left it unfinished. The committee that was ap- 
 pointed to superintend the. building of the meeting- 
 house also reported that the contractors had not 
 performed their work ; but had " only cut ten or twenty 
 trees towards the frame." After considerable delay 
 
 * Now Charlestown, N.H. 
 
26 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 and perplexity about the business, and several times 
 lengthening the contract (or the time for performing 
 the conditions of it), it was reported that the frame of 
 the meeting-house was ready to be raised, but that a 
 dispute had arisen as to the spot where it should 
 stand. 
 
 1756. 
 
 On the loth of March this year, it was voted to 
 alter the spot where the meeting-house should stand, 
 and fix it not exceeding one hundred and sixty rods 
 to the north-east, where the road from Royalshire to 
 Northfield was intersected by the road to the Pond. 
 The meeting-house was raised by invitation of hands 
 from Northfield and the adjacent settlements, on the 
 twenty-eighth day of April, 1756. 
 
 In September this year, the proprietors having pre- 
 viously agreed to prosecute Ebenezer Locke on his 
 bond for not erecting the sawmill, agreed to suspend 
 the same on hearing his excuse. He stated that he 
 had been retarded by reason of the war, and driven off, 
 when at work on the premises, by the enemy's ap- 
 proaching near said township, and killing divers 
 persons, and capturing others ; and afterwards, when 
 he had been at the charge to get up to the work for 
 the aforesaid purpose, the enemy made one other 
 sally, and had killed Grout, Howe, and Garfield, and 
 carried others into captivity. Sickness in his family, 
 and burying his daughter, are among his excuses, and 
 also having his men enlisted into his Majesty's ser- 
 vice. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 27 
 
 We can have but a very faint idea of tlie sufferings 
 and hardships which our predecessors endured in 
 their first attempt to settle this part of the country : 
 the lurking, savage foe, at all times on the alert, ready 
 to take them by surprise, to kill them, and to destroy 
 the labor of their hands ; the wild beasts to haunt 
 around their dwellings, and to tear and mangle their 
 unguarded flocks ; the scanty means of procuring a 
 subsistence, — hunger, poverty, and want staring them 
 full in the face. It needed hearts of oak to success- 
 fully repel these varied bufifetings of fortune ; and 
 hearts of oak they verily had. How would many of 
 the puny sons of indolence and ease at the present 
 day have conducted, had they been placed undei; such 
 trying circumstances ? They would have given up 
 the ghost in a strange land. 
 
 ^ 1757- 
 
 On the sixth day of July, this year, eight pounds 
 was voted to be allowed out of the treasury of the 
 proprietors, "to fortify Mr. Samuel Scott's house, by 
 making a good picketed fort encompassing the same, 
 four rods square, for the safety of the inhabitants." 
 This fort, which was the only one ever built in War- 
 wick, was on land now owned by the Rev. John Golds- 
 bury, and lies on the north side of the road that 
 leads from Widow Jerusha Goldsbury's to William 
 Hastings's ; and from this circumstance this piece of 
 land has obtained the name of the " Old Fort," or the 
 Fort Lot. The proprietors also voted four pounds to 
 enclose the meetinsr-house. 
 
28 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 1759. 
 
 Although four pounds was voted in 1757 to en- 
 close the meeting-house, the frame was still standing 
 at this date uncovered. But the sawmill, according to 
 the old records, " was got a-going," so that the first 
 sawmill that started in this town was set a-going 
 seventy-two years ago. In May, this year, twenty-six 
 pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence was voted 
 by the proprietors to build a gristmill ; and a com- 
 mittee, consisting of Col. Joseph Williams, Mr. Joseph 
 Ma} o, and Mr. Samuel Scott, was chosen, " to pitch 
 on a suitable spot to build it on." 
 
 1760. 
 
 On May 21, 1760, it was voted "to raise the sum 
 of eighteen pounds, lawful money, to defray the 
 charge of some suitable orthodox minister's preaching 
 upon probation within said township during the sum- 
 mer season : " and it is presumed that the Rev. Lem- 
 uel Hedge was the candidate that preached here that 
 summer ; for, on the 24th of September, they voted 
 a hundred and forty-nine pounds, to be paid as 
 follows : eighty pounds for Mr. Hedge's settlement, 
 and sixty pounds for his first year's salary, and nine 
 pounds for defraying the expense of his ordination. 
 
 Thus you see that the institutions of religion and 
 morality, were not neglected by our predecessors. 
 Although poor, and hard pressed in their temporal 
 affairs, they cheerfully devoted a part of it for the 
 promotion of Christianity ; for they further voted that 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 29 
 
 they would agree to pay sixty pounds a year for five 
 years to come, until some other suitable provision for 
 Mr. Hedge's support should be made, provided he 
 settled with them. A committee was chosen, consisting 
 of Capt. David Ayrcs, Moses Evans, Israel Olmstead, 
 Ebenezer Prescott, and Amzi Doolittle, " to treat with 
 Mr. Hedge respecting his settlement here." At the 
 same meeting they chose the same committee, with 
 the addition of Mr. Joshua Bailey, to lay out a tract 
 of land forty rods square around the meeting-house 
 in said township, for a burying-place, training-field, 
 and other public uses. This tract is what we now 
 call the connnon, and contains ten acres of land : the 
 name doubtless originated from its being laid out of 
 what was then called common land ; viz., lands not 
 surveyed and divided among the sixty original proprie- 
 tors. Thus, without detriment to themselves, or any 
 sacrifice of property to be by them felt at the time, 
 they secured to the public a small patrimony, to be 
 enjoyed by us and all succeeding generations that 
 may come after us. And further still, for the accom- 
 modation of their minister, provided he settled with 
 them, they voted that he might have the liberty to lay 
 out a hundred acres of land near the meeting-house, 
 in one piece, out of any of the common lands, to be 
 laid in regular form,*in lieu of the hundred acres in 
 the after-division (or second division) of land, that 
 would fall to the minister's right. Subsequently the 
 hundred acres where Mr. Stephen Reed now lives 
 were laid out to Mr. Hedge. Messrs. James Golds- 
 bury, Asa Wheeler, Rev. Preserved Smith (our present 
 pastor), William Cobb, Esq., Col. Lemuel Wheelock, 
 3* 
 
30 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 and Samuel P. Damon, are all of them located on 
 this hundred-acre lot, although it runs southerly to 
 Pomeroy's Pond. The committee chosen to treat 
 with Mr. Hedge respecting his settlement here in the 
 gospel ministry no doubt performed their duty ; for 
 we find by the old records Mr. Hedge's answer to 
 their call, as follows : — 
 
 To the Committee of the Proprietors of Roxbury Canada (so 
 called) chosen to treat with me respecting my settling in said 
 township. 
 
 Gentlemen, — Whereas the proprietors of Roxbury 
 Canada (so called), at their meeting on the 24th of 
 September, 1760, voted certain sums of money for a settle- 
 ment and s'alary, and likewise granted me liberty of laying 
 out one hundred acres of land near the meeting-house in 
 said place (as per their vote may appear), in case I would 
 settle there in the work of the gospel ministry, and the in- 
 habitants of said township having by subscription made an 
 addition to my settlement, and engage to find me annually 
 thirty-five cords of wood, I have taken the matter into 
 serious consideraton, and hereby inform you that I accept 
 of this invitation to settle in this place. 
 
 Lemuel Hedge. 
 
 176 
 
 On Nov. 12, of this year, the proprietors were for 
 the first time notified to meet in the meeting-house, 
 in said township, to transact their business (having 
 always met in Roxbury before this time). There 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 31 
 
 were at that time thirty-seven settlers or families 
 located on the first division of lots. Mr. Joseph Perry 
 lived where Mr. Joseph Willson now lives ; George 
 Robbins where Alexander Blake, Ebenezer Davis 
 where the widow Drake, Edward Allen where Capt. 
 John Stearns, Thomas Rich where Medad Pomeroy, 
 Barnabas Russell where James Ball, Moses Leonard 
 where Eliphaz Gould, and David Ayres and David 
 Ayres, jun., where Miss Fanny Simonds now lives. 
 
 About this time a gristmill was built on Black 
 Brook, where the first sawmill also stood : the land is 
 now owned by Capt. James Goldsbury ; and said mills 
 stood a little west of William Hastings's dwelling- 
 house, south of the road that leads to Samuel Golds- 
 bury's from said Hastings's. In this early stage of 
 the settlement, and until the gristmill was built, the 
 hardy and industrious ''forlorn hope'' of Warwick suf- 
 fered severely for the want of accommodations which 
 we now enjoy : they were obliged to go a great dis- 
 tance out of the settlement to get their grain ground; 
 and perhaps many times that was not the worst part 
 of it, for many of them were poor, and had but little 
 grain to grind. It was frequently the case that they 
 had to go miles on foot to Northfield, or Athol, or 
 farther still, to buy a peck of corn and get it ground, 
 and then to bring it home on their backs. Nor was 
 this all ; for there were instances of their going to 
 Northfield to buy hay, and bringing it home in the 
 same way, to save their cattle alive. It was thought 
 in those days, that, if their hay lasted until the ist 
 of March, they could get their cattle through the 
 winter. 
 
32 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Seventy-two pounds was voted, this year, to finish 
 the meeting-house ; and it was agreed to build a pew 
 on one side or the other of the pulpit, for Mr. Hedge, 
 he being permitted to choose the side. 
 
 To show how valuable the land was in this town 
 at this time, it appears that lot No. 7, and all the after- 
 rights in said town, was sold at auction for^j. 5^-. 8^/., 
 which was only about four cents and three mills per 
 acre ; but such sales were of rare occurrence, and 
 perhaps were never known after. 
 
 Messrs. Elisha Rich, George Robbins, James Ball, 
 and Asa Robbins were chosen a committee to lay out 
 the common lands in said township into two divisions, 
 the first to contain seventy-five acre lots, and the 
 other to be left discretionary with the committee ; and 
 they accordingly laid out the last into sixty-six acre 
 lots. These two divisions constitute what we call the 
 third and fourth divisions of lands in this town. The 
 third-division lots contain seventy-five acres, and the 
 fourth sixty-six acres, each. 
 
 1762. 
 
 On the twenty-seventh day of December, 1762, it 
 was voted that the proprietors join with the inhabit- 
 ants of the plantation, to pe'^ition the General Court 
 to be incorporated into a town. Col. Joseph Williams 
 and Capt. Caleb Dana were chosen a committee to 
 join with said inhabitants in the petition. 
 
 1763. 
 
 On the seventeenth day of February, 1763, this 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 33 
 
 tract of country was incorporated by the General 
 Court as a town, by the name of Warzvick. 
 
 How the name originated is not now known ; but 
 probably from Warwick in England, or from the 
 famous " Guy, Earl of Warwick." 
 
 We have now arrived at the time, you will probably 
 say, that I ought to have commenced my remarks, or 
 where I might have begun with propriety the history 
 of the town. From this period down to the present 
 time we have a tolerably regular and legible record 
 of most of the public proceedings of the town. I 
 shall not follow the records, by noting every little 
 local transaction that has happened in our public or 
 private affairs, but shall select and abridge a few ot 
 the most interesting events, for our mutual instruc- 
 tion, and for the benefit of posterity. 
 
 When we wish to make an inquiry about any par- 
 ticular place or thing, the first question that suggests 
 itself to our mind is, where, when, or how, did it 
 ha})pen or begin? How, when, and where the muni- 
 cipal proceedings of Warwick originated, shall be our 
 first subject of inquiry. 
 
 In the third year of his Majesty's reign, Seth Field, 
 Esq., of Northfield, by order of the General Court, 
 issued a warrant to James Ball of Warwick, to notify 
 the inhabitants of said town to attend the first town- 
 meeting. Said meeting was directed to be warned 
 by posting up a notification in some public place in 
 said township, fourteen days before the time of hold- 
 ing the same. This meeting was convened the ninth 
 day of May, A.D. 1763, at nine o'clock in the morn- 
 ing. Seth Field, Esq., acted as moderator ; James Ball 
 
34 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 was chosen clerk ; Moses Evans, Jeduthan Morse, and 
 James Ball, selectmen and assessors ; Amzi Doolittle, 
 treasurer ; Samuel Ball, constable ; James Ball, col- 
 lector ; Silas Town and Joshua Bailey, wardens ; 
 Charles Wood and Joseph , tything-men ; Is- 
 rael Olmsted and Moses Leonard, fence-viewers; 
 Moses Leonard, Joseph Lawrence, and Joseph Good- 
 ell, hog-reeves ; David Barrett, pound-keeper : Eben- 
 ezer Davis, field-driver ; Amos Marsh and Moses 
 Leonard, deer-reeves ; Moses Evans, culler of staves, 
 shingles, and clapboards ; James Ball, sealer of 
 weights and measures ; Moses Leonard, sealer of 
 leather. It was voted that hogs may go at large on 
 the common. 
 
 On the 1 6th of June following, the second town- 
 meeting was held ; and they voted to Esq. Paine 
 twenty shillings for services at the General Court in 
 getting the town incorporated ; and Mr. James Ball 
 was to pay him the money, and return the town's 
 thanks. Voted twenty pounds for highways, and 
 started the work at four shiUings per day for a man, 
 and two shillings for a yoke of oxen, and one shilling 
 for a cart or plough. They also voted that the select- 
 men should draw a petition to the General Court, that 
 the westerly part of the county of Worcester, and the 
 easterly part of the county of Hampshire, may be set 
 off, and erected into a distinct and separate county. 
 
 At this meeting, the committee chosen for the pur- 
 pose of treating with Mr. Hedge respecting his future 
 support was directed to condense the proposals for- 
 merly made into the form of an agreement, and to 
 have it recorded on the town-book. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 35 
 
 Which agreement was as follows : viz., " That the 
 town will pay to the Rev. Mr. Hedge a salary of sixty 
 pounds until such time as there shall be eighty set- 
 tled families in said town ; and the salary to rise as the 
 famihes increase, allowing thirteen shillings and four- 
 pence to each family : so that when there should be 
 ninety settled families the salary would amount to 
 sixty-six pounds, thirteen shillings, and fourpence ; 
 and after that, allowing four shillings and fivepence 
 to a family, when they had increased to one hundred 
 and fifty families, his salary should be eighty pounds, 
 to be paid in lawful silver money, at six shillings and 
 eightpence per ounce ; and, annually, thirty cords of 
 wood, cut eight feet long, delivered at his door." Mr. 
 Hedge acknowledged these proposals handsome and 
 generous, and put his signature to them July 4, 
 1763. Nov. 28, the same year, James Ball, Israel 
 Olmsted, and Silas Town were chosen a com- 
 mittee to finish the meeting-house. June 15, this 
 year, the selectmen laid out the first town-road (on 
 record). They began at or near the line of Rich- 
 mond, N.H., near where Mr. Caleb Weeks now lives, 
 and laid said road southerly, by Thomas Mallard's, 
 Dea. Samuel Ball's, and Capt. Josiah Proctor's, to Lot 
 No. 5 I, in the second division, to Samuel Ball's house ; 
 said road to be three rods wide ; and another road, two 
 rods wide, by Moses Leonard's house (now Eliphaz 
 Gould's) ; viz., within one rod of it, to the county- 
 road. 
 
 1764. 
 May 30, of this year, there is a charge on the 
 
36 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 town-book of fifteen shillings, for James Ball, Mr. 
 Evans, and Mr. Nourse taking the invoice, and Mr. 
 Morse making the highway-tax. We should think 
 that this charge was not extravagant. This year the 
 town accepted of a road, laid from the common, south- 
 erly by Elijah Fisk's, and where Stephen Johnson 
 lately lived, to Morse's Pond and Locke's Mills, where 
 Mr. Francis Leonard's sawmill now is : said road to 
 be three rods wide. Also a road beginning at the 
 north-west corner of Benjamin Conant's house, which 
 intersected the last-mentioned road near where Mr. 
 Elijah Fisk now lives : this road was laid all the way 
 on the top of the hill, west of the Widow 'Hannah 
 Rich and Isaiah Bang's houses. Traces of this road 
 are now visible in many places, almost directly on the 
 ridge, south of Mr. Fisk's. Also another road, com- 
 mencing where Mr. Jonas Leonard novv lives, by Mr. 
 Asa Ware's, to intersect the one that leads to Morse's 
 Pond, at the Stephen Johnson place. No width 
 si given to this road. 
 
 1765. 
 
 This year forty pounds was voted to be raised to 
 repair highways ; and it was also voted that the select- 
 men should take care of Elizabeth Rumble and her 
 children, and receive them as toiviis poor (these are 
 the first paupers mentioned) ; and in November this 
 year, the town granted ten pounds, eight shillings, to 
 be proportioned on the inhabitants according to their 
 invoice, to defray the expense of keeping said paupers 
 one year ; and that the inhabitants shall all have to 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 37 
 
 keep said woman and her children their proportions 
 of said rate. 
 
 1766. 
 
 Voted to choose five selectmen this year ; and chose 
 Benjamin Conant, James Ball, Jeduthan Morse, Amos 
 Marsh, and Amzi Doolittle ; and chose Jeduthan 
 Morse, Ebenezer Curtis, and Amos Marsh, assessors ; 
 raised forty pounds to support the highways, and 
 
 voted two shillings to Asa , for keeping Sarah 
 
 Rumble three weeks. The first three selectmen this 
 year laid out a burying-ground, as follows : viz., " Be- 
 ginning at the north-west corner of the meeting-house 
 common, and extending east, on the north line, to a 
 small hemlock-tree, marked for the north-east corner ; 
 thence south, seven degrees east, to a black-oak-tree ; 
 then due south, twelve rods, to a stake and stones ; 
 thence west, to the west line of the common ; thence 
 north, to the first-mentioned corner." 
 
 1768. 
 
 At a town-meeting convened at the meeting-house, 
 March 7, the town voted ten pounds to support a 
 school some part of the year. It was then proposed 
 to the town, whether they would have a moving 
 school ? and it was voted in the affirmative : also 
 voted to have a school kept December, January, and 
 February, by a master ; and the remainder of the ten 
 pounds to pay a mistress to keep school in the sum- 
 mer season ; and voted that the selectmen employ a 
 
38 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 master and mistress, and appoint the school wards, or 
 places, where the schools shall be kept. 
 
 This is the first account that we have of a school 
 being kept at the expense of the town, and, we pre- 
 sume, the first attempt to district the town. In June 
 following, a town-meeting was called, to see if the 
 town would sell a school-lot, and to give the selectmen 
 instructions concerning a woman's school : and they 
 voted that Mrs. Hannah Rawson be employed to keep 
 school ; and they further voted, that, if the major part 
 of the quarter where she lived objected against her 
 keeping, the selectmen should dismiss her ; or, if the 
 selectmen found any material objection against her, 
 they should dismiss her ; and she is to have four shil- 
 lings and six pence per week for the time, she keeps, 
 her father finding: her board. 
 
 1769. 
 
 In 1769, ten pounds was raised for schooling, and 
 the selectmen clothed with the same authority as last 
 year, — hiring, districting, &c. 
 
 1770 AND 71. 
 
 In 1 77 1, the town v^oted twelve pounds for school- 
 ing, and sixty pounds to be worked out on the roads. 
 
 In the year 1770, the proprietors chose a commit- 
 tee, consisting of James Ball, Nathan Goddard, and 
 Samuel Williams, to lay out the fifth and last division 
 of lands in Warwick. They employed a surveyor by 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 39 
 
 the name of Job Gilbert, and laid out sixty-two lots, 
 containing a little over fourteen acres each. These 
 lots were laid out of the several pieces of common 
 land remaining" in various forms in different parts of 
 the town. Where they began, they laid off as many 
 lots as the piece would make, and the fraction that 
 remained would be numbered, and acres enough taken 
 off the next piece (of the same number) to make 
 out the fourteen acres. They thus proceeded until 
 they had surveyed off all the fragments of land in the 
 town. This accounts for the parts of the fourtccn- 
 acre lots being so scattered ; for instance, N. G. 
 Stevens, jun., owns part of a lot adjoining Capt. Wil- 
 liam Burnett's farm, containing five or six acres ; 
 and the remainder of the lot lies south of Israel Fish- 
 er's land. William Perry owns part of a lot south of 
 his house, and the other part is not far from William 
 Hastings's. There is a record of a vote of the old 
 proprietors in 1769, in these words : — 
 
 " Provided always, that it is the true intent and meaning 
 of this proprietary, that all the several slips that were re- 
 served for roads, between any or all of the first and second 
 division of lands in said township, be and remain for the 
 use of the inhabitants of said town from time to time, and at 
 all times forever hereafter, for roads or highways ; and may 
 be exchanged by said inhabitants, for other lands for roads 
 more to the town's advantage." 
 
 • This may be considered as a good title, or right and 
 privilege to the public, that has been little regarded, 
 and perhaps not generally known. After this last 
 division was laid out, there remained one hundred and 
 
40 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 six acres of land to the original proprietors. It was 
 voted to raise a tax of two dollars on each share, and 
 give the town the one hundred and six acres of land, 
 for them to finish off the meeting-house. The town 
 declined the accepting of the offer of the land, as Fran- 
 cis Nourse and Josiah Rawson had laid claim to and 
 entered upon said land.* 
 
 Nothing of particular importance is found on the 
 town records for several years ; but we are now ap- 
 proaching a crisis full of interest and big with events ; 
 and future generations will look back with astonish- 
 ment, reverence, and awe at the mighty deeds and 
 the powerful exertions of the generations that have 
 immediately preceded us. To this generation, under 
 the blessing of God, we are indebted for all the civil 
 privileges we now enjoy. And not only we, but the 
 whole human race, may commemorate this era as the 
 first dawning of the light of liberty. 
 
 Here, in this new worid, in this then thinly-popu- 
 lated country, just emerging into political life, were 
 nursed and cherished the first pure principles of civil 
 and religious freedom. Who of us can restrain our 
 feelings ? Who can stifle the flame of gratitude that 
 bursts involuntarily from the sacred depositories of 
 our hearts } Who that has the spirit and mind of a free- 
 man can undervalue these privileges, and not recipro- 
 cate and rejoice with every true defender of his coun- 
 try, every worshipper of his God ? 
 
 At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, the 
 inhabitants of this town were not a whit behind their 
 
 * This was the last vote on record of the doings of the old pro- 
 prietors. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 41 
 
 neighbors in principle or practice : the same spirit of 
 Hberty that echoed throughout New England re- 
 sponded from our fathers and our brethren. A m.ighty 
 impulse pervaded the whole population. ''Liberty or 
 deatJi' was their motto. The proud spirit of our fathers 
 bade defiance to British thunder ; the bright and daz- 
 zling equipments of regular and well-disciplined troops 
 could not intimidate the hardy yeomanry of our coun- 
 try. I will here relate a story, strictly characteristic 
 of our countrymen : I had it from the mouth of an 
 eye-witness,* who was a brother to one of Gen. Wash- 
 ington's life-guards. It was at the taking of Corn- 
 wallis. The regiment that this man belonged to had, 
 previous to that event, suffered unnumbered priva- 
 tions, were continually on the alert, and their clothing 
 was literally rags : he said nearly one-half of the regi- 
 ment were barefoot ; but their hearts were as true as 
 the needle to the pole. The supplies which had been 
 long expected from the government had not arrived ; 
 but, by perseverance and valor, the day of their deliv- 
 erance was at hand. At this critical period, when the 
 fate of our country was suspended by a thread, the 
 summons from the American camp struck terror and 
 dismay into the heart of the haughty British com- 
 mander. He made a conditional surrender, and the 
 time was set when his troops should march out of the 
 post, and stack their arms. Our allies, the French, 
 were drawn up in a long line on one side, and the 
 Americans on the other ; and the British troops, the 
 prisoners, were to march out between these lines, with 
 
 * Mr. James Davenport of Dorchester, Mass. 
 4* 
 
42 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 trailed arms, unloaded, and deposit them on the spot 
 assigned. Our brave Yankees literally toed the line, 
 for their foet were many of them bare ; while the 
 proud British soldiers were dressed, as the saying is, 
 "neat as a new pin," — every man had his hair pow- 
 dered, and every one was a prince to look to. My 
 informant said that language was too feeble to de- 
 scribe the indignation and resentment of the British 
 soldiers, plainly depicted in their countenances, to 
 think that they had surrendered to such a dirty, 
 ragged, weatherbeaten set of human beings : they 
 gnashed their teeth, and shook their heads, and mut- 
 tered out oaths and execrations too horrid to re- 
 hearse. All the while our victorious countrymen 
 stood firm and unmoved, — guns loaded, swords drawn, 
 hearts of steel : a glow of manly enthusiasm and joy 
 beamed from every countenance ; while the rude winds 
 of heaven sported with their tattered garments. This 
 was truly American ; this was truly the character of 
 our fathers : though poor and destitute, they were 
 powerful, energetic, and brave, and never bowed the 
 knee to, nor owned a superior in, any human being. 
 This regiment that I -have mentioned was presented, 
 by the great and good Lafayette, with shoes and 
 stockings, and every one of the sergeants with a cut- 
 lass, out of his own private purse, as a reward for 
 their integrity, obedience, and devotedness to the 
 cause of liberty. He never deserted them by day or 
 by night ; and when the soldiers were obliged to 
 encamp on the ground, in the open field, he would 
 refuse, when solicited to accept of better^ fare, and 
 lie down on the ground by the side of his horse, and 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 43 
 
 in company with his men. How strange, how aston- 
 ishing, that a young and rich nobleman, born with 
 an ample fortune, should leave the land of his birth, 
 the friends of his youth, the gay and fascinating pleas- 
 ures so alluring to the young, and repair to a foreign 
 land, to espouse their cause, to fight their battles, to 
 associate with and become attached to our rude and 
 rustic sires ! But such was the case ; and what could 
 be the cause ? what reason can we assign for it ? It 
 was the principles of the man, the congenial feelings, 
 the attachment, the indissoluble attachment of kindred 
 souls, — an attachment which adversity cannot weaken 
 nor death destroy. 
 
 1774. 
 
 A meeting was called " in His Majesty's name " (but 
 not in obedience to His Majesty) on the thirtieth 
 day of August, 1774, to take into consideration sev- 
 eral papers sent to the town of Warwick from the 
 town of Boston, and from committees of correspond- 
 ence, to see if the town will enact any thing respect- 
 ing these papers, or any thing else relating to the 
 public difficulties that this Province labors under at 
 this day ; and also to see if the town will make a 
 grant of the sum desired to defray the charges of the 
 committee of Congress. 
 
 Now listen : This meeting was called, or notified, 
 on the 30th of August. See the promptitude, see the 
 ardency of their feelings : unable to wait seven days, 
 as the law required, they are summoned to meet on 
 the fifth day of September, at two o'clock, p.m. Not 
 
44 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 a voice is raised to dispute the legality of the meet- 
 ing, but a simultaneous response of" Forward ! forward ! 
 Our rights are invaded, our liberties are in jeopardy." 
 But let us pause, and hear their simple but energetic 
 
 language : — 
 
 " Voted and chose Mr. Ezra Conant moderator. Voted 
 the sum of eight shilHngs, being this town's proportion of 
 the sum agreed on by the Honorable Council and House 
 of Representatives in their session to pay a committee of 
 Congress. Voted to get two barrels of powder, and lead 
 and flints, answerable for a town stock ; and that the select- 
 men be a committee to procure the same. Voted to adhere 
 strictly to our chartered rights and privileges, and to defend 
 them to the utmost of our capacity ; and that we will be in 
 readiness, that, if our brethren in Boston or elsewhere 
 should be distressed by the troops sent here to force a com- 
 pliance to the unconstitutional and oppressive acts of the 
 British Parliament, and will give us notice, that we will 
 repair to their relief forthwith. Voted to choose a captain, 
 lieutenant, and ensign, and that they enlist fifty men in this 
 town to be at a minute's warning to go, if called for, to the 
 relief of our brethren in any part of the Province. 
 
 " Voted and chose Samuel Williams captain ; James 
 Ball lieutenant ; and Amzi Doolittle ensign. Voted that 
 the expenses of said company (if called to go) shall be paid 
 by the town, an account therefor being exhibited to the 
 town by officers thereof." 
 
 Signed by Ezra Conant, Moderator. 
 
 Here you may see the unanimity of kindred souls ; 
 here i5 a fair sample of our fathers' characters in those 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 45 
 
 gloomy and perilous times, volunteering their prop- 
 erty, and all that was dear to them as men, or valuable 
 to them as citizens, — yes, and their lives too, — on the 
 sacred altar of their country's rights. But my story 
 is not yet half told; for, on the 17th of September, 
 " Joseph Mayo, constable of said town, was directed 
 forthwith to notify the inhabitants thereof to assemble 
 on the 19th instant at three o'clock in the afternoon, 
 to see if the town will vote to choose delegates to 
 represent them in a county congress, to be convened 
 at Northampton on the 22d instant, at nine o'clock 
 in the morning ; also to see if the town will act any 
 thing respecting our public affairs, and choose such 
 committee or committees, and give them instructions 
 as they shall think proper at said meeting." Here 
 again the constable was directed on Saturday to sum- 
 mon the people to meet on Monday, to act on 
 matters of the first importance. Where was the law } 
 The impulse of the moment was their law, their con- 
 science their law-giver, and their God their judge. 
 But they assembled, every man to his post, and chose 
 Capt. Samuel Williams moderator. It was proposed 
 to the town to send delegates to the congress at 
 Northampton on the 22d, and immediately voted 
 in the affirmative. Voted and chose Capt. Samuel 
 Williams and Mr. Josiah Pomeroy delegates. Also 
 voted that an attested copy of the proceedings of 
 this meeting be given to the delegates by the town 
 clerk ; then adjourned the meeting to the 26th instant, 
 at four o'clock, p.m. 
 
 Met again at the time specified at the adjournment, 
 instructed and animated by their delegates, who had 
 
46 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 returned from Northampton. They voted to send 
 Capt. Samuel Williams to represent them in a Pro- 
 vincial Congress, to be holden at Concord, on -the 
 second Tuesday of October following. 
 
 A town meeting was convened Nov. 7, to pass upon 
 and pay the costs of the delegation to Northampton 
 and Concord ; also to see if the town will choose their 
 militia officers, or divide the town into two companies ; 
 viz., an alarm-list company, and a training company, 
 of militia. It may be necessary to state, for informa- 
 tion, that the above company just mentioned consisted 
 of all the exempts from the militia companies by 
 reason of age. The law at that day compelled the 
 militiamen to train until they were forty-five years of 
 age ; and the alarm-list consisted of all able-bodied 
 men between forty-five and sixty years of age. The 
 old men between forty-five and sixty years were 
 obliged to keep themselves constantly armed and 
 equipped, and to meet for inspection and training only 
 once a year, but were obliged to turn out at the call 
 of the authority of the State. 
 
 At this meeting, the town voted to pay Samuel 
 Williams his account for attending the county con- 
 gress at Northampton, as follows : viz., For four 
 days' time, eight shillings ; journey of his horse, five 
 shillings ; and travelling expenses, five shillings : 
 amounting to eighteen shillings. Also voted to pay 
 Mr. Josiah Pomeroy the same sum. They also voted 
 to pay Capt. Samuel Williams for attending the Pro- 
 vincial Congress at Concord, eighteen days, at two 
 shillings per day, and twelve shillings for the journey 
 of his horse, and his expenses three shillings per day. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 47 
 
 These charges speak volumes in favor of the disin- 
 terestedness of the men who served the public in those 
 days. The town then proceeded to choose a captain 
 of the militia, and chose Samuel Williams ; Peter 
 Proctor lieutenant ; and Reuben Petty ensign ; and 
 Amos Marsh clerk. At an adjournment of this 
 meeting, the town voted to choose two lieutenants for 
 said company, and chose the aforesaid Peter Proctor 
 first lieutenant, and Reuben Petty the second, and 
 Thomas Rich ensign ; and voted that the company 
 should choose their under-officers. You may possibly 
 think that I have been too lavish of my encomiums, — 
 that I have said too much in commendation of the 
 actors on the stage at the time we have been con- 
 sidering. But I think that too much cannot be said. 
 I think their conduct to be above all praise ; but I do 
 not deny that they were men, and men, too, of like 
 passions and propensities with ourselves, subject to 
 error, and frequently erring. But where they acted 
 bravely and disinterestedly, they ought to have the 
 praise of it. Infirmities they all probably had, — and 
 infirmities we all have at the present day ; let us 
 pattern after their virtues, and avoid their imperfec- 
 tions. 
 
 In the autumn of 1774 the first appearance of dis- 
 cord on religious matters in this town appears on 
 record. One article in the warrant was as follows : 
 viz., " To see if the town will take into considera- 
 tion the certificates of the differing societies of those 
 persons that call themselves Baptists in this town ; 
 and pass any votes respecting their being taxed to the 
 minister, any or all of them." 
 
48 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 They voted to Aaron Whitney eight pounds for the 
 two kegs of powder ; three pounds and fourpence for 
 two hundred weight of lead and three hundred flints ; 
 and transport of the articles, one pound and nine shil- 
 lings ; making twelve pounds, nine shillings, and four- 
 pence. And they also voted that twenty-seven persons, 
 expressed by name on the records, should not be 
 rated to the minister. 
 
 This year the town granted eighty pounds for 
 repair of highways, forty pounds of it to be worked on 
 the county road : three-fourths of the money to be 
 worked out before the middle of July, the other fourth 
 before the ist of October ; and it was also voted that 
 the wages on the highway should be three shillings 
 for a man, two shillings for a yoke of oxen, and one 
 shilling for a cart or plough per day. Twenty-four 
 pounds (including the interest) was voted for school- 
 ing. 
 
 It was omitted in its proper place to mention 
 the first division of this town into school-districts. 
 June 3, 1773, the town voted to choose a committee 
 of five, to divide the whole town into school-districts ; 
 said division, when made, to be binding on the town, 
 entry thereof being made on the town-book by order 
 of the selectmen. Said committee consisted of Messrs. 
 Jonathan Woodard,, Ezra Conant, James Ball, Dr. 
 Medad Pomeroy, and Amos Marsh. 
 
 1775. 
 
 Jan. 3 of this year, a meeting was convened to 
 see if the town would choose a man to send to 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 49 
 
 Cambridge, to the Provincial Congress in February 
 next ; and to see if the town will accept the proposals 
 agreed upon by the selectmen and a committee chosen 
 by the Baptist society, to leave our lawsuit that the 
 Baptists commenced against James Ball, Medad 
 Pomeroy, and Ezra Conant, at the last May sessions. 
 
 Voted and chose Samuel Williams to represent the 
 town at Cambridge, Voted to pass over the last 
 article. March 6, 1775, it was voted to choose five 
 selectmen ; and Amos Marsh, Samuel Williams, Josiah 
 Pomeroy, Thomas Rich, and David Cobb were chosen ; 
 Amos Marsh town clerk. Seventy pounds was voted 
 for highways. The twenty-ninth article acted on at 
 this meeting. It was moved and voted that they choose 
 a committee of inspection consisting of five men ; and 
 they chose Reuben Petty chairman, Seth Peck, Josiah 
 Pomeroy, Thomas Rich, and Amos Marsh, said com- 
 mittee. 
 
 May 18, it was voted to reconsider the vote passed 
 at the last annual meeting respecting th^ grant of 
 money for the highways ; and they voted instead, 
 thirty-five pounds, — twenty pounds to be worked on 
 the county road. They also voted to send a man to 
 tha Provincial Congress, and chose Samuel Williams. 
 The July following. Col. Samuel Williams was again 
 chosen a delegate to a court or congress to be con- 
 vened in the meeting-house in Water town ; and the 
 town chose three men a committee to give him his 
 instructions ; viz., Amos Marsh, Thomas Rich, and 
 Seth Peck. 
 
 Also voted, the inhabitants do concur with the 
 resolve and recommend of the committees of corre- 
 
50 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 spondence of Norchfisld, Athol, and Warwick, to dis- 
 arm and confine the Rev. Mr. Hedge to the town of 
 Warwick, unless he has a permit from the committee of 
 correspondence of said town. Voted to choose eleven 
 men as a committee to come into some plan to settle 
 the difficulties between this people and Mr. Hedge ; 
 viz., Amos Marsh, Ezra Conant, Samuel Williams, 
 Peter Proctor, Moses Leonard, Jonathan Woodard, 
 Jeduthan Morse, Abraham Barnes, Samuel Sherman, 
 Benjamin Conant ; and the record states that the 
 eleventh man was not chosen, by reason of a mis- 
 count. Meeting adjourned to July 17. 
 
 The adjourned meeting having assembled, the com- 
 mittee on Mr. Hedge's matters made a report, as fol- 
 lows : viz., Mr. Hedge proposes that he will, upon 
 the town's rescinding the vote to disarm and confine 
 him to said town, pledge his honor that he will not 
 influence or prejudice the minds of the people against 
 the common cause which the country is engaged in, 
 and will then join with the town in three proposals : 
 viz., First, to leave it to the General Assembly of 
 the Province ; second, to a mutual council ; third, to 
 any set of judicious men the town and he could agree 
 upon. 
 
 On the report being made, a motion was made to 
 rescind the vote ; but it passed in the negative, as the 
 records say, by a vast majority. The town then voted 
 and chose Seth Peck, Jeduthan Morse, Daniel Gale, 
 and Savill Metcalf, in addition to the committee of 
 correspondence. 
 
 In September, a meeting was called to see if the 
 selectmen should be authorized to purchase a quantity 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 51 
 
 of salt for the use of the inhabitants, and have instruc- 
 tions for retailing the same. Also to see if the town 
 will dismiss Mr. Hedge from his ministerialofTfice ; and 
 to rescind the vote passed at the annual meeting, 
 granting him his salary according to contract. These 
 articles were all passed over ; and seventy-two yeas 
 for dismissing Mr. Hedge entered their protest against 
 the vote. Voted to accept Col. Samuel Williams's ac- 
 couQt for attending the Congress, — two pounds ten 
 shillings. 
 
 1776. 
 
 In March, 1776, the town chose five selectmen (the 
 first three to be assessors), and also chose seven men 
 a committee of correspondence, inspection, and safety ; 
 viz., Josiah Pomeroy, Josiah Rawson, Daniel Gale, 
 Thomas Rich, Reuben Petty, Elijah Whitney, and 
 Joseph Goodell. Voted forty pounds for repairing 
 roads, and twenty-four pounds for schooling. 
 
 On the 24th of May, a meeting was convened 
 for choosing a delegate or representative to meet 
 on the 29th of May, at Watertown, in the General 
 Assembly of the Province. This was the first 
 town-meeting called in the nam.e of the government 
 and people of the Massachusetts Bay, all previous 
 meetings having been called in the name of His 
 Majesty ; and at this meeting the first legal represen- 
 tative was chosen to represent the town : those that 
 had been previously chosen were in defiance of a con- 
 stituted authority. Lieut. Thomas Rich was chosen ; 
 and it was voted to choose a committee of three men 
 
52 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 to give instructions to said representative. Chose 
 Amos Marsh, Josiah Rawson, and Reuben Petty. 
 Then it was voted to adjourn the meeting half an 
 hour, for said committee to draw instructions, and re- 
 port to the town. 
 
 The meeting was opened agreeably to adjournment, 
 and the committee read their instructions to the town ; 
 also a number of resolves of the committee of the 
 county of Suffolk. The town then voted to accept 
 said instrifctions, and also the sixth clause in the Suf- 
 folk resolves. Also voted that the said instructions, 
 and the sixth clause of the Suffolk resolves, " goes on 
 the town book." By this vote, those first instructions 
 are preserved ; and it will not injure us, if it does not 
 profit us, to hear the sentiments they contain. They 
 are as follows ; viz. : — 
 
 " Whereas you, Lieut. Thomas Rich, are chosen to repre- 
 sent the town of Warwick in a General Assembly of the 
 Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, we your constituents do 
 give you the following instructions : — 
 
 " ist, That you represent us, as true and loyal subjects to 
 the power now in the hands of the people of America, and 
 that you do your endeavour that no act or acts be passed 
 encroaching on the liberties or in any measure invading the 
 rights of the People. 
 
 " 2dly, That you grant all supplies necessary for the safety 
 of America under her distressing circumstances ; and that 
 you are not extravagant in your grants to those that maybe 
 employed in the service of the Colony ; at the same time 
 trusting that every true friend to his country will be willing 
 to serve in any place where he may be wanted, for a rea- 
 sonable reward. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 53 
 
 "3clly, That you tolerate all persuasions on account of 
 their religious sentiments, without giving one the advantage 
 of the other, either in their persons or their properties. 
 
 "4thly, That all such laws as in any degree infringe on 
 the liberties of the people be made void. In particular, 
 that of a person having twenty pounds ratable estate, to 
 qualify him to vote in town affairs, by reason of which so 
 great a majority as two-thirds of the freeholders of this town 
 are prohibited voting in town affairs, although they pay the 
 major part of the taxes hereby raised, which is frequently 
 the case in new-settled towns. There are other things that 
 are a burden, such as these : going sixty miles for license to 
 keep tavern, and recording Deeds, all which may be done 
 in every town, or in sundry places in the County, greatly to 
 the advantage of the towns lying in the outside of the 
 Counties. 
 
 " 5thly, As also, paying the Representatives by their own 
 towns, which might be more equitably done by the Province : 
 a great hardship that a town of forty families should pay as 
 much for the legislative power as one that has three hun- 
 dred families in it ; and as we are poor, and hard drove to 
 pay our taxes, every thing that is a burden that can be taken 
 off or eased ought to be done. 
 
 " 6thly, That all deceased wills be proved and recorded, 
 and estates settled, in each town where the deceased last 
 lived, by the Selectmen and Town Clerk in the same town ; 
 and that each town have liberty, at each annual March meet- 
 ing, to choose a Committee or Town Council to prove Wills 
 and setde Estates, and a Register to record Wills and Set- 
 tlements of Estates. Said Selectmen or Committee, and 
 the Town Clerk or Register's fees, to be each year agreed 
 upon by the same town," 
 
 Here in these instructions you see the jealousy of 
 
54 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 our fathers, their repubhcan principles, their love of 
 liberty and equality, and above all, though miserably 
 poor, their determination to support the cause of their 
 country. 
 
 At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of 
 Warwick, July 4, 1776 (this meeting was called in 
 compliance with a resolve of the General Court 
 to express their sentiments on declaring Independ- 
 ence of the Kingdom of Great Britain), a motion 
 was made and seconded, that the town will express 
 their sentiments by declaring for independence 
 by yeas and nays ; and all that are not present 
 at this meeting have the opportunity of giving their 
 names to the town clerk within six days from said 
 meeting, by personally appearing before said clerk ; 
 and voted, that the town clerk give off the sentiments 
 relative to independence to Lieut. Thomas Rich, the 
 representative for said town. Thirty-eight names 
 voted yea ; and forty-four more came in within six days 
 and voted for Independence : making a total of eighty- 
 two j^^j, and not one in the negative. 
 
 A handbill was circulated through the State, and 
 a meeting called, to get the opinion of the inhabitants 
 respecting a constitution and form of government in 
 the several towns. This meeting was in October, 1776 ; 
 and it was voted in this town, that the present House 
 of Representatives, with the Council, should not enact 
 and agree on a constitution or form of government, 
 but that they should report one, and send it out to the 
 towns, for their inspection and perusal ; and they 
 chose a committee to frame instructions for the rep- 
 resentative of the town. Chose Amos Marsh, Josiah 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 55 
 
 Rawson, and Peter Fish. Said instructions were as 
 follows ; viz. : — 
 
 To Mr. Thomas Rich. 
 
 Sir, — Having by a late vote empowered and directed you 
 to join the other members of the General Assembly in 
 forming a plan of Government for this State, and being fully 
 sensible that it is a matter of the greatest importance, both 
 to the present and future generations, that such a plan be 
 adopted as shall be most free from the seeds of tyranny, and 
 have the greatest tendency to preserve the rights and liber- 
 ties of the people, and the most likely to preserve peace 
 and good order in the State, we therefore beg leave to 
 lay before you the following short hints respecting a form 
 of government, which we apprehend, if adopted, will have a 
 tendency to answer the purposes above mentioned. 
 
 ist, That there be buf one branch in the legislative au- 
 thority of this State ; viz., the representatives from the sev- 
 eral towns, with a president or speaker at the head. 
 
 2dly, That an equal representation may be made, and 
 the balance of power properly preserved, let each incor- 
 porated town send one member, and the larger towns not 
 more than four or five, and the other towns in equal propor- 
 tion. 
 
 3dly, That in making choice of the. representative, every 
 free male inhabitant, twenty-one years of age, to have the 
 privilege of voting. 
 
 4thly, That in case sufficient evidence appears to a town 
 that their representative or members are guilty of acting 
 contrary to the rights and liberties of the people, then to 
 have the privilege, at any time in the year, to recall him or 
 them, and choose anew, 
 
 5thly, That not less than eighty members make a house. 
 
56 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 1777. 
 
 On Feb. 14, 1777, there is an account allowed by 
 the town, in the following form : — 
 
 The towji of Warwick to the Selectmen^ Dr. 
 For numbering the people, in the year 1776, agreeably to 
 a resolve of Congress, and act of the Court of the State of 
 Massachusetts Bay. One day and an half each, at four 
 shillings per day : the whole ^i. igj-. od. 
 
 We notice this record, because it coincides with our 
 opinion, that it is much the best way of numbering 
 the people, — the cheapest and the most accurate. 
 March 31, 1777, chose five Selectmen, and seven men 
 as a Committee of Correspondence and Inspection 
 and Safety. Forty pounds was raised for highways, 
 •half of it to be worked on the county roads ; and 
 twenty-four pounds, with the interest money, for 
 schooling. 
 
 Thomas Rich was chosen Representative. 
 
 In August the town met, and voted to pay Josiah 
 Cobb and Asahel Newton twelve pounds twelve 
 shillings, to defray the expense of getting the salt from 
 Boston, apportioned to them by the General Court. 
 
 About this time the depreciation in the paper 
 money caused many embarrassments ; and a meeting 
 was called to take into consideration a late act of the 
 General Court, in calling in the State's money, and 
 granting treasury notes upon interest. And it was 
 voted, that if no other method coulci be adopted than 
 to call in the State's money and put it upon interest, 
 that we would have said money called in and burned, 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 57 
 
 rather than to rim our risk in paying interest for it 
 at a day when money cannot be had so easy as at the 
 present day. Also voted, that the town will make 
 choice of Caleb Strong for their County Register. 
 
 1778. 
 
 March 30, 1778, voted to choose five selectmen ; and 
 chose Amos Marsh, Lieut. Joseph Mayo, Lieut. 
 Thomas Rich, Lieut. Josiah Pomeroy, and Caleb 
 Mayo ; and it was voted that the second, third, and 
 fourth selectmen be assessors. Four hundred pounds 
 was voted to repair the highways, half of it to be laid 
 out on Jthe County roads. Voted to allow twenty 
 shillings a day for a man, ten shillings for a yoke of 
 oxen, and six shillings for a cart or plough.* 
 
 Voted to set off Richard Wastcoat and the inhab- 
 itants about him, as a school ward. 
 
 May 21, 1778, a constitution or form of govern- 
 ment was laid before the people in the several towns 
 in this commonwealth. The vote in Warwick was 
 three for adopting said constitution, and twenty-four 
 against it. 
 
 Sept. 18, a meeting was held to see if the town 
 will pay a bounty on wolves ; and also to see if the 
 town will provide preaching in said town, upon the 
 plan of a free contribution ; also to choose a committee 
 to procure the same, upon the plan above mentioned ; 
 and also to see what measures the town will take to 
 support the widow Sarah Crossman. 
 
 * This shows that the money was depreciated, by allowing such a 
 price for labor. 
 
58 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Voted at the foregoing meeting to pay a bounty of 
 twenty pounds per head on wolves ; and proposed 
 joining with Northfield, Winchester, Royalston, and 
 Athol ;. and voted that the selectmen be a committee 
 to send to said towns. 
 
 Voted to pass over the article for procuring preach- 
 ing. 
 
 Voted that Josiah Rawson and Samuel Mellen be 
 a committee to provide for the widow Sarah Cross- 
 man the necessaries of life ; and chose Dea. James 
 Ball to look into the affair relative to the widow 
 Grossman being an inhabitant of said town. 
 
 The crisis is passed and gone, which was so full of 
 interest and instruction. The " breaking out " (as it 
 has many times been expressed) of the " Revolution- 
 ary war," and the many heroic displays of the genera- 
 tion which has immediately preceded us, have in 
 some measure eclipsed the many meritorious acts of 
 the subsequent times. The most important, the long^ 
 to be 7'emembered iransactiojiy that of declaring' our- 
 selves a free and independent people or nationy had 
 passed by. But much remained yet to be done. The 
 patience, the unexampled patience and fortitude, of 
 our fathers and brothers, was severely tested. 
 
 In the midst of a noble struggle for liberty and the 
 rights of man, they steadily and firmly stemmed the 
 unequal contest, — a contest unexampled in the history 
 of nations. The stripling youth, young and inex- 
 perienced, was now seen contending wifh the power- 
 ful and hard-hearted parent. The rights and the 
 liberties which the God of nature had conferred upon 
 him as his birthright were clandestinely and unfeelingly 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 59 
 
 withheld. The allegorical David, unaccustomed to 
 the ''tented field," unaccoutred with a coat of mail, 
 and unprovided with an armor-bearer to shield his 
 throbbing breast from the cruel and powerful sword 
 of his enemy, trips forward to meet the Goliath of the 
 world, — the Hon of the Islands of the seas. The 
 valley that was between them was the vast Atlantic 
 Ocean ; his armor-bearer was a thousand ships of 
 war, manned by veteran and experienced seamen ; his 
 shield the heavy and thundering artillery, that had 
 so long protected him from the rage of all his foes. 
 
 And mark the result ! Relying on the God of ar- 
 mies, his youthful hands prostrated the proud Goliath, 
 and literally killed him with his own sword ; for never 
 could we have conquered the enemy, if we had not 
 taken arms and ammunition wherewith to have taken 
 off his head. We well know that they contended per- 
 severingly, and accomplished the object they had in 
 view. We are enjoying the rich fruits of their labors : 
 may we have the wisdom and virtue to transmit to 
 our posterity unimpaired all these national blessings ! 
 
 But the " rude din of arms " and " horrors of war " 
 were not all the evils which surrounded our towns- 
 men at this time. To add to the calamities of this 
 (I had almost said ill-fated) town, at the time when 
 the public burdens were the heaviest and most sensi- 
 bly felt, a powerful religious excitement was produced 
 among the inhabitants, by the preaching and ex- 
 hortations of. one Elder Hix, an itinerant Baptist 
 minister, whose zeal, by what has been related of him, 
 could hardly have been exceeded by St. Paul him-, 
 self They went from house to house, convincing 
 
6o HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 and converting one another ; held their meetings by 
 day and by night, in season and out of season. 
 Their daily and usual occupations were neglected ; 
 some of the first characters in the town were sub- 
 jects of irresistible grace, and exhorted and prayed 
 and admonished each other to flee to the ark of safe- 
 ty ; and children and boys, unlearned and untaught, 
 could pray with the tongues of men and of angels. 
 Much enthusiasm made them mad, sober reason was 
 discarded, and the town was well nigh turned upside 
 down. But listen to the sequel. 
 
 When the victims of this delusion (if we may be 
 allowed so mild an expression) were wrought up to 
 the highest pitch, when meek -eyed Charity hoped and 
 believed them to be sincere worshippers of God, the 
 bubble burst, the wolves in sheep's clothing were dis- 
 covered. Such a scene of infatuation and corruption 
 was brought to light as perhaps never was before wit- 
 nessed in a Christian land. Who could believe that 
 this monster in sin, though a pretended servant of the 
 most high God, had long been guilty of conduct that 
 would disgrace a brothel ; and, to fill up the measure 
 of his iniquity to the brim, he absconded from the town 
 with a young girl, the miserable dupe of his nefarious 
 wiles, and a deluded proselyte to his pretended reli- 
 gion. This girl's name was Doolittle. As soon 
 
 as the rookery was broken up by the arch demon's 
 decamping, Mr. Amos Marsh cleared out with Mrs. 
 Doolittle, the girl's mother ; and Mr. Amzi Doolittle, 
 the father of the girl, 'went off with Mr. Thomas 
 Barber's wife. 
 
 The exasperated friends and relations of some of 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. ■ 6 1 
 
 these elopers followed after them, and took Mr. Marsh 
 and Mrs. Doolittle somewhere in the State of New 
 York, brought them back, and committed them to 
 jail in Northampton, where they were tried for the 
 crime of adultery, and found guilty. They were sen- 
 tenced to sit on the gallows, pay a fine, and he was 
 ever after to wear the letter A, in a large capital form, 
 on his outside garment. 
 
 Before leaving this disgusting story, I will inform 
 you of one of the methods this famous Elder Hix 
 used to lead' astray his credulous hearers, and make 
 them the willing subjects of seduction. 
 
 He told them that men and women had their spirit- 
 ual husbands and wives as well as their temporal ; and 
 consequently where the spirit led them to love and 
 admire each other in a spiritual sense, there was no 
 criminality in the connection. 
 
 I think we may truly say with the poet, — 
 
 " When such sad scenes our senses pain, 
 What eye from weeping can refrain?" 
 
 Thus the peace and happiness of four or five fami- 
 lies were completely destroyed, and society received 
 an almost irreparable wound. A solemn warning, this, 
 for all of us to beware of impostors, and not to be 
 led away by infatuated religionists, nor deluded by a 
 mistaken zeal. 
 
 But to return to our previous subject, respecting the 
 national difficulties and obstacles that our fathers en- 
 countered in those exciting and trying times. 
 
 Our government was only a rope of sand. A new 
 
62 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
 had been drawn up and submitted to the town for 
 their approbation or disapproval ; and it was ahiiost 
 unanimously opposed, only three voting in favor of it. 
 The proposed constitution did not agree with their 
 liberal and republican principles ; yet, at the same 
 meeting, they voted to grant the requisition of the 
 General Court, respecting supplying their proportion 
 towards clothing the Continental army. 
 
 The town at this time was also destitute of a minis- 
 ter ; the Rev. Lemuel Hedge having died Oct. 17, 
 1777, on the very day that Gen. Burgoyne surren- 
 dered his army to the Americans. 
 
 The depreciation in the paper money then in circu- 
 lation was an evil severely felt : silver and gold was 
 scarce, and the circulating medium was principally 
 paper. For an example of its value, it is recorded 
 that at the annual meeting in March, 1779, eight 
 hundred pounds was raised to repair the highways, 
 two-thirds of it to be laid out on the county road ; 
 and the wages of a man was fixed at thirty-six shil- 
 lings per day, and a yoke of oxen at three dollars. 
 
 The December previous (1778), it was voted to 
 give the Rev. Samuel Reed six hundred and seventy- 
 five pounds, as a settlement in the gospel ministry ; 
 and it was also voted to relinquish all that are not of 
 the Congregational denomination from paying minis- 
 terial charges. 
 
 They also voted to pay the Rev. Samuel Reed sixty 
 pounds lawful money for the first year's salary, and 
 seventy pounds a year afterwards ; said salary to be 
 paid in money, equal to rye at three shillings and six- 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 63 
 
 pence per bushel, and corn at two shillings and eight- 
 pence per bushel. Rev. Samuel Reed was ordained 
 in Warwick, Sept. 23, 1779, and he had thirty cords 
 of wood added to his salary annually. 
 
 The town meetings at this time were called in the 
 name and government of the people of the State of 
 Massachusetts Bay. In June, 1779, the town convened 
 for the purpose of petitioning the General Court to 
 relinquish a heavy fine laid on them for not raising 
 their quota of men, and to represent their inability 
 to raise men for the service in proportion to their 
 numbers. It has been said that the town could not 
 procure men without paying large bounties, or pro- 
 viding for their families while they were absent ; a 
 large proportion of the inhabitants being poor. 
 
 The town chose a committee of five to draft a peti- 
 tion out of two forms produced by Lieut. Thomas 
 Rich and Col. Samuel Williams, which was to be 
 signed by the town clerk in behalf of the town, for a 
 redress of grievances. In August, 1779, the town 
 voted ' to warn out all persons residing in said town, 
 that were not inhabitants," according to law ; and for 
 the fa 'ure to practise accordingly. They also voted 
 to send a member to the county convention, to be 
 holden at Northampton, to state the prices of the 
 necessaries of life. Lieut. Josiah Pomeroy was chosen. 
 After the delegate had returned from Northampton, 
 the town voted to adopt the doings of the convention, 
 and chose a committee of seven persons to fix the 
 price of hay and other articles which should be 
 thought proper. They also chose a committee of three 
 . persons to hear complaints, provided that any should 
 transgress these regulations. 
 
64 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 On the 8th of November, the town voted to raise 
 seven hundred pounds to pay bounties and mileage of 
 soldiers. 
 
 1780. 
 
 This year the paper money had so depreciated, that 
 five thousand pounds was voted to repair the high- 
 ways. Men's wages fixed at nine pounds per day, and 
 a yoke of oxen five pounds, and a cart or plough at 
 three pounds per day ; and fifteen hundred pounds 
 was raised for the support of the poor. 
 
 May 17, this year, the sixth article in the warrant is 
 as follows : viz., " To see if the town will take any 
 method to prevent the wolves catching sheep." 
 
 The present constitution of this State was laid be- 
 fore *the town for their acceptance the twenty-four4:h 
 day of May of this year ; and they voted to accept the 
 third article, viz., " the article on religious freedom : " 
 seventy-three voting in favor of the article, and finally 
 the whole constitution at large, with this amendment : 
 viz., " That no person shall hold a seat in the civil 
 department of government, except he be a professor of 
 the Christian Protestant religion." Afterwards it was 
 voted not to receive the constitution with the pro- 
 posed amendment ; and a committee was chosen to 
 regulate the objections and amendments. 
 
 The town was called on, in June, to raise a number 
 of men for six months ; and a committee was chosen, 
 with instructions to offer the men that would go into 
 the service for that time fifteen pounds bounty, equal 
 to silver or gold, or a sum equal to their wages. In 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 65 
 
 July following, the town raised fourteen hundred and 
 forty-nine pounds and twelve shillings, to pay said 
 bounty ; and they also raised five thousand pounds for 
 defraying necessary charges ; and in September, to 
 cap the whole, they voted to raise twenty thousand 
 pounds to pay up the soldiers. 
 
 1781. 
 
 Jan. 8, the town voted three thousand one hundred 
 pounds, to pay for horses for the Continental service. 
 About this time the town was called on for three years' 
 men ; and they voted to class the town, and each class 
 was to provide a man, and pay him. Thus may be 
 readily perceived the difficulties that beset our towns- 
 men. We ought to feel grateful that Providence has 
 cast our lot in an age that is distinguished for peace 
 and prosperity, and that we have none to molest us 
 or make us afraid. But the story of our predecessors' 
 sufferings is not yet all told. 
 
 This town was called upon, in July, to raise seven 
 militiamen, and a quantity of beef for the use of the 
 army ; and the town raised, or voted to raise, sixty 
 pounds, silver money, to pay for said beef. And also 
 chose a committee of three men to give them their 
 own securities, and the town would indemnify the 
 committee. They also raised thirty pounds lawful 
 money to pay the men a part of their wages. 
 
 Is it not a matter of astonishment how this town, 
 poor and oppressed as it was with the public burdens 
 of those times, ever succeeded in defraying them, with- 
 
66 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 out leaving a large debt for their posterity to cancel ? 
 But it appears that they did. They must have been 
 better economists than we are, or it never could have 
 been done. In the midst of all their poverty and 
 privations, they seemed to be looking forward into 
 futurity, and making calculations for after-ages, as 
 well as for their own convenience. 
 
 In September of this year, they called a town 
 meeting, and chose a committee of three to petition 
 the General Court to set off the north-west part of 
 the county of Worcester, and the north-east part of 
 Hampshire, into a separate county. Here follows the 
 petition : — 
 
 "At a town-meeting held in Warwick, Sept. 19, 1781, 
 taking into consideration the many hardships and dis- 
 advantages incident to individuals, as well as towns and 
 places, when their situation is remote from county adminis- 
 tration. Such is the case with this town, that the iphabit- 
 ants cannot make any tide to their lands without going 
 sixty miles to get their deeds recorded ; and all probate 
 business, as well as other county matters, are finished at a 
 great distance. Which burden, in addition to our propor- 
 tion in the common cause, renders the inhabitants of this 
 town, and others in like circumstances, unable to continue 
 their exertions with the people and towns who are at little 
 or no expense to do such business." 
 
 The committee were instructed to write to the 
 towns of Hardwick, Barre, Hubbardston, Templeton, 
 Winchendon, Petersham, Athol, and Royalston, in the 
 county of Worcester ; and to Greenwich, New Salem, 
 Shutesbury, Wendell, and Erving's Grant, and such 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 67 
 
 Other towns as they shall think proper, to unite with 
 them in petitioning the General Court to accomplish 
 their object ; also to meet delegates from those towns 
 at Samuel Peckham's tavern in Petersham, on the sixth 
 day of November following, at ten o'clock, a.m., to 
 consult on the best method of proceeding. 
 
 In October this year, the town voted to set off four 
 thousand and sixty acres of land (as exhibited on a 
 plan shown by Elijah Ball), with the inhabitants on the 
 same, to be incorporated into a town with other lands 
 from Athol, Royalston, and Erving's Grant. This town 
 was called Orange. 
 
 1782. 
 
 In 1782, Mr, Moses Leonard gave the town what is 
 now the north part of the burying-ground, on con- 
 dition that the town will fence the same with a good 
 fence fronting the road, with posts and two rails and a 
 suitable wall under the same ; he reserving the privi- 
 lege of feeding the same with neat cattle and sheep 
 only. 
 
 Many of the bodies of the dead were dug up, and 
 removed by their friends from the first burial ground 
 to the present place of interment. 
 
 At the May meeting this year, Capt. John Golds- 
 bury was chosen representative, and a committee was 
 chosen to draw instructions for the representative, to 
 be laid before the town for their approbation ; and the 
 meeting was adjourned until the next Thursday, to 
 hear them. They are as follows, viz. : — 
 
68 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 To Capt. John Goldsbury, — 
 
 Sir, — You being chosen to represent us in the General 
 Court of this Commonwealth, we, the inhabitants of the 
 town of Warwick, do give you the following instructions: 
 viz., That you do your endeavor that the sums apportioned 
 on us of the public charges be lessened, as we think that 
 they are more than our part, according to our ability. That 
 the governor, council, senate, and all other men in this 
 State that are under public pay, be lessened to a reasonable 
 rate. That the charges annually arising be ascertained. 
 That you inquire into the state of the treasury, and of what 
 money hath been granted, and how applied. That all men 
 unnecessarily employed in public business be dismissed. 
 That the General Court be removed out of Boston into 
 some other town." 
 
 These instructions have been copied as a specimen 
 of the fashion of the times ; and also hoping, that, from 
 these blunt hints, those now in public business might 
 gather some instruction from it. 
 
 1783- 
 
 The north and north-west part of the town (viz. 
 school districts, Nos. 7, 8, and 10, as- they now are) 
 were divided in 1783, and the line between them was 
 as follows : viz., " The line to be from what is called 
 Bennett's Knob, Mount Grace, and to extend to Jona- 
 than Smith's south-west corner, and to extend in a 
 straight line to said Smith's south-east corner, and 
 thence northerly the same point to the State-line." 
 
 At the May meeting this year, it was voted that the 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 69 
 
 " Selectmen be directed to write in their returns to 
 the General Court, that, considering the extreme pov- 
 erty of the town, they have not chosen a represen- 
 tative the present year." 
 
 ' June 23 of this year, in town-meeting, it was voted 
 " That the new plantation (Orange) called South 
 Warwick be districted to the town of Warwick, with 
 the privilege of joining with us in the choice of a 
 representative, but to act with us in no town affairs 
 whatever." 
 
 1784. 
 
 On the 20th of January, the town chose Thomas 
 Rich and Capt. Peter Proctor, a committee to assist 
 the selectmen in procuring the best account of the 
 charges that have arisen during the war. (No report 
 found.) 
 
 On the 3d of May, the district of Orange was 
 summoned for the first time to meet with the town 
 of Warwick to choose a representative ; and Dea. 
 James Ball was chosen. This year we find an account 
 exhibited by Mr. Isaac Hastings, which at this day 
 would appear novel ; viz., " To taking care of the 
 meeting-house and mending the doors, eight shillings. 
 To making a tythingman's club and a warden's staff, 
 two shillings." (The account was allowed.) 
 
 1785- 
 
 This year the town was divided into nine school- 
 districts by a committee, who named the inhabitants 
 
70 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 that should belong to each ; and in this imperfect man- 
 ner they have remained ever since, excepting some 
 small alteration, and a division of the north-west dis- 
 trict, making ten in the whole. 
 
 In August a meeting was called to see what the- 
 town would do with William Houghton's rates ; and it 
 was " voted that the selectmen be chosen to inspect 
 and oversee William Houghton, and see that the pro- 
 duce of his labor be appropriated towards paying his 
 taxes as far as may be ; and if the produce of his labor 
 finally fails, and his taxes cannot be recovered, the 
 town shall indemnify the constables respecting his 
 taxes." 
 
 1786. 
 
 In 1786, the inhabitants met in town-meeting, and 
 chose Capt. John Goldsbury as a suitable person to 
 be commissioned as a justice of the peace, and for- 
 warded a petition to the governor, in recommenda- 
 tion of him. A minority of the voters protested against 
 the proceedings, declaring that a justice of the peace 
 could not be chosen by the town constitutionally. 
 
 About this time the public mind was considerably 
 agitated by a rebellion of a part of the good citizens 
 of Massachusetts. The insurgents, with one Daniel 
 Shays, a native of Pelham, at their head, threatened 
 to break up the government of the State, and to put 
 down all the authority of its members. They actually 
 assembled a considerable force ; and for a while they 
 increased in numbers to such a degree as actually to 
 spread terror and dismay through the Commonwealth. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 71 
 
 The government raised a large body of men to quell 
 them, and several lives were lost before they were 
 brought to terms. This town did not escape the 
 shock, being considerably divided. Some espoused 
 the cause of the rebels; while others stood by their 
 rulers. 
 
 Several town-meetings were called ; they chose a 
 delegate to send to a convention in Hatfield, to devise 
 means to allay the disturbance. Mr. Jacob Packard 
 was the delegate chosen. They called a town-meet- 
 ing to see if the town would assist the selectmen, they 
 having been imprisoned for acting in their office. 
 But the article was passed over. 
 
 In September, 1786, there is an agreement with 
 Capt. Samuel Langley to build a new meeting-house 
 recorded as follows, viz. : — 
 
 "The house to be fifty-eight feet long and forty-two feet 
 wide, with a porch on the front of the house, sufficient to 
 contain convenient stairs to go up into the galleries. 
 There is to be forty pews on the lower floor (agreeable to a 
 plan herewith exhibited) ; there is to be galleries in the 
 front, and at each end of the house, fourteen feet wide from 
 the wall, with pews on the back of said galleries, five feet 
 eight inches wide from the wall ; the rest of the gallery to be 
 seats with a convenient alley round, agreeable to a plan 
 herewith submitted. The seats in the front gallery to be 
 for singers to sit in ; the seats in the side galleries to be for 
 persons to sit in, as the Congregational Society shall direct. 
 The house to be completely finished off by the first day of 
 September, 1788, in the following form and manner: viz.. 
 The pews to be with wainscot work, with frieze panels or 
 banisters, and one seat in each pew. The front, of the 
 
72 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 body-seats and the deacons' seat to be wainscot-work, with 
 a convenient communion-table. The body-seats on the 
 lower floor, and the seats in the gallery, to be all framed. 
 The pulpit to be built after the Doric order, with fluted pil- 
 lars, and architraves by the sides of the window. The bot- 
 tom of the canopy to be an octagon panel in the centre. 
 The remaining part by the same rule, the top to be turned 
 with an O. G. ; the entablature to be by the Corinthian 
 order, except the modillion ; the breast-work of the gal- 
 leries to be one wide panel with dental cornices, and built 
 with six turned pillars under the galleries, and panel pil- 
 lars over the same on the breast-work. One eight-panel 
 door at each end of the house, with pediments and double 
 architraves. One double door and two single doors to the 
 porch, with architraves, cornice, and caps ; double doors 
 with six panels each at the entrance of the house, out of 
 the porch, above and below. The frame to be as follows : 
 The sills to be of yellow pine, nine by ten inches square. 
 Five lower summers to be twelve inches square. Four cor- 
 ner posts ten inches square ; to be oak, with cock tenons. 
 Eight pine cock-tenon posts ten inches square. Four prick 
 posts ten inches square. Eight pair of rafters nine by ten 
 inches square. Six pair of compass rafters. Four king- 
 posts broad studded, twelve inches over on each side ; the 
 joists in the lower floor to be within two feet of each other, 
 and those in the roof to be three feet from each other. The 
 house to be braced up and down, in every place where the 
 windows and doors will admit. The boards on the roof to 
 be jointed. The roof to be shingled with good fifteen-inch 
 shingles, with double cornice at the gable ends, with one 
 compass window in each gable end ; thirty-three windows 
 in the body of the house, of twenty-four squares in each 
 window of eight by ten London crown or Bristol glass, with 
 good frames, cornice, and solid caps ; and one window in 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 73 
 
 the porch of the house ; and the porch to be clapboarded 
 with good sound clapboards planed. The floor to be dou- 
 ble, the upper floor to be jointed, the pew floors to be 
 jointed and planed. The gallery floor to be double. The" 
 ceiling over the body of the house and under the galleries, 
 and the walls (except the board ceiling from the floors), to 
 be lathed and plastered The house and porch to be well 
 underpinned with good stones. 
 
 " And the said Samuel Langley do hereby promise and 
 engage to build the house, and finish it off workmanlike, 
 agreeable to. the foregoing directions, by the time before 
 mentioned, on the following conditions : viz., That a suffi- 
 cient number of the society appear to purchase tkirty-nine 
 pews on the lower floor (the pew next adjoining the pulpit 
 stairs to be for the use of the Congregational minister for 
 the time being), the said thirty-nine pews to be nine pounds 
 each on an average, and to be paid for in the following 
 manner : viz.. Two pounds in cash for each pew when the 
 meeting-house is raised ; two pounds m*ore for each pew 
 when they are finished off ; the rest of the pay for each pew 
 to be paid for in neat cattle, sheep, or flax-seed, at the cur- 
 rent price when the meeting-house is completely finished. 
 The pews in the gallery to be five pounds each, on an aver- 
 age^ to all such persons that return their names to the com- 
 mittee to become purchasers by the fifth day of October 
 next. After that day any person may purchase any of the 
 pews in the gallery of the said Langley, as he and they can 
 agree ; as those pews are to be his property till sold. The 
 body seats on the lower floor to be used and improved by 
 any persons that shall choose to occupy them, as the Con- 
 gregational Society shall order. And I, the said Samuel 
 Langley, do further agree and engage that I will receive of 
 the purchasers of the forementioned pews, towards pay for 
 the same, the following materials, at the prices fixed to each 
 7 
 
74 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 article, of each man's proportion as it shall be apportioned 
 by the Society's committee, if each person shall give notice 
 to the committee by the first day of November next that 
 they will provide their said proportion of the materials at 
 the spot by the time hereafter prefixed. And if any person 
 shall neglect to notify the committee as aforesaid, he for- 
 feits his chance of paying in such materials, and the com- 
 mittee may employ any other of the purchasers of pews as 
 they shall think just ; so that there may be no failure of the 
 materials being all on the spot by the time hereafter men- 
 tioned. The materials are as follows : viz.. Ten thousand 
 of good ceiling-beards, one inch and one-eighth thick, at 
 one pound, ten shillings. Twenty-five thousand good mer- 
 chantable inch boards, at one pound, five shillings. Five 
 thousand half-inch pine boards, at one pound. Nine thou- 
 sand half-inch chestnut boards, at one pound. Eight thou- 
 sand of good sawed clapboards, six inches wide, at one 
 pound, five shillings. Twenty-nine thousand of good fifteen- 
 inch shingles, at eight shillings per thousand. One hun- 
 dred pieces of slit- work fourteen feet long, four by five inches, 
 at the rate of twenty-eight shillings per thousand. Eighty 
 pieces fourteen feet long, four by five, at twenty-six shillings 
 per thousand. Thirty pieces twelve feet long, four by four, 
 twenty-six shillings per thousand. Sixty pieces, nine feet 
 long, three by five, same price. Ten hogsheads of good 
 stone lime, at two pounds, fourteen shillings, per hogshead. 
 And if any of the proprietors of pews shall see fit to pay 
 any of the following articles at the prices thereto affixed, 
 towards paying for their pews, I will receive the same, and 
 receipt on delivery, and receive their receipt in pay for their 
 pews. The articles are as follows: viz.. Six thousand of 
 double tens at thirteen shillings per thousand. Thirty 
 thousand tenpenny nails, at nine shillings per thousand. 
 Nmety-four thousand fourpenny nails, at three shillings and 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 75 
 
 four pence per thousand. Five thousand of fivepenny 
 brads, at six shillings per thousand. Three thousand of 
 threepenny brads, at three shillings per thousand. Sixty- 
 two pair of pew-door hinges, at one shilling and four pence 
 per pair. Six boxes of London crown or Bristol glass, 
 eight by ten size, at five pounds, two shillings, per hundred 
 feet. The pews in the gallery that are purchased by the 
 first day of October next to be paid for in the following 
 manner : viz., One dollar in cash when the meeting-house is 
 raised, and one dollar more when the pews are finished ; 
 the next to be paid in neat stock, sheep, or flax-seed, when 
 the meeting-house is completely finished. The slit-work to 
 be at the spot by the first day of May next. The boards, 
 shingles, and clapboards, by the first day of June next. 
 The lime by the first day of September next. 
 
 " And I, the said Samuel Langley, do further agree and 
 promise, that if there should be any donations in labor or in 
 any other way given towards the meeting-house, that I will 
 render an account to the committee of the same, towards 
 the pay of the thirty-nine pews on the lower floor, and in 
 the gallery, as it shall be apportioned by the committee. 
 
 " And I, the said Samuel Langley, do agree that the com- 
 mittee shall inspect and view the workmanship and materi- 
 als of the meeting-house when finished ; and if they judge 
 that there is any deficiency in the work or materials, that I 
 will leave the matter out to disinterested persons that under- 
 stand such business, that the committee and I shall mutu- 
 ally choose ; and I will oblige myself to abide their judg- 
 ment. " As witness my hand, 
 
 " Samuel Langley. 
 
 " Warwick, Sept. 15, 1786." 
 
 And further respecting the meeting-house, it vi^as 
 first decided to face it to the west ; but afterwards it 
 was agreed to face it to the south, as it now stands. 
 
76 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 A meeting was called in August, to hear the peti- 
 tion of James Ball respecting the meeting-house, which 
 is as follows : viz., To see if the town will vote to take 
 the windows that are in the old meeting-house in War- 
 wick, and divide them equally among the school-dis- 
 tricts proportionally as the school-wards stand on the 
 town invoice ; and also proceed to sell the old meet- 
 ing-house for what it will fetch at vendue, and the 
 money or securities arising by the sale of said old 
 meeting-house, bring into the town treasury of War- 
 wick, to defray the public charges of the town, or other- 
 wise dispose of the said meeting-house as the town 
 shall see fit, on condition the petitioners produce to 
 the town an agreement or vote of the Congregational 
 Society in Warwick, that all persons of any denom- 
 ination of Christians in Warwick may and shall have 
 free liberty to meet with the said Congregational So- 
 ciety on the Lord's days and other times, for public 
 worship in the new meeting-house ; and that the town 
 may and shall have the same right to meet in the new 
 meeting-house in Warwick at all times hereafter, to 
 transact the town's public business, as the town now 
 has in the old meeting-house. 
 
 At this meeting it was proposed, whether the town 
 would give the old meeting-house to the proprietors 
 of the new one, on condition that the Society give to 
 the town of Warwick a good deed of all the privileges 
 in the new meeting-house, agreeable to a vote of the 
 Society ; and this vote passed in the affirmative. 
 
 At this meeting the selectmen were chosen a com- 
 mittee to receive the deed for the town from the So- 
 ciety. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 77 
 
 It appears that Capt. Langley built the above-men- 
 tioned meeting-house, by the job, for the sum of 
 fifteen hundred dollars ; and the thirty-nine pews on 
 the lower floor at nine pounds each, and twenty pews 
 in the gallery at five pounds each, make but a trifle 
 over this sum. The pews were called equal in value ; 
 and the members of the society cast lots for the first 
 choice on the lower floor. Old Mr. Thomas Gould 
 got the first choice ; and he chose the pew where Mr. 
 Elijah Fisk now sits, on the right-hand side of the 
 broad aisle near the centre of the house. Mr. Moses 
 Fay had the last choice, — " Hobson's choice," — that or 
 none ; and he had the south-west corner pew. Capt. 
 Langley made a losing job, as he had the gallery 
 pews at five pounds each ; and they were not all sold 
 for many years, and then at a very low price ; and his 
 loss was increased by his losing his dwelling-house, 
 with the principal part of his furniture, by fire ; and he 
 had almost finished all the pews and doors for the 
 meeting-house, which were all thus suddenly con- 
 sumed. The Society made him some remuneration, 
 but not enough to compensate his loss. 
 
 1787. 
 
 In March, 1787, the town assembled as usual, and, 
 for some cause now unknown, adjourned the meeting 
 until April ; and at this meeting it was insisted on, 
 that the meeting should be regulated according to an 
 act of the General Court, published in February, 1786. 
 Whereupon the selectmen and assessors exhibited a 
 
78 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 list of voters, which was read ; and, after some debate, 
 it was moved that a vote should be taken, whether the 
 town would proceed ; and it passed in the affirmative. 
 And the records say, that " Maj. Joseph Mayo protested 
 against the meeting." This transaction is noted, be- 
 cause it was the first time a list of voters was read in 
 town-meeting in this place, and also to show the pro- 
 pensity of mankind to oppose and object to every 
 thing new, right or wrong. The assessors' account 
 for the last years service was allowed, it being only 
 one pound, twelve shillings, each. At the close of the 
 record of this meeting, it is stated, " That the above 
 chcfsen officers in general have taken their respective 
 oaths." "The officers required by law have taken 
 and subscribed the oath of allegiance." 
 
 A meeting was called in August to choose a con- 
 stable ; and the fourth article in the warrant is here 
 noted for its novelty ; viz., " To hear ajiy request of the 
 inhabitants of the town of Warwick, or act any thing 
 thereon as the town shall think proper." This article 
 must have been broad enough to have satisfied the 
 most querulous and gainsaying without any additional 
 words. But the article was passed over. 
 
 Another meeting was called in October, one article 
 of which was to see if the town will assist the select- 
 men in their being taken and imprisoned in May last 
 for acting in their office, and to prosecute those per- 
 sons that took them, or act any thing on that matter 
 that the town shall think proper ; and choose attorney 
 or attorneys to carry on the same, as the town shall 
 think fit. Josiah Cobb, Thomas Rich, and James 
 Goldsbury, were the selectmen ; and I have never been 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 79 
 
 able to find out the particulars of this affair of impris- 
 onment, but suppose it originated in transactions in 
 the Shays Rebellion. The town, however, passed the 
 article over. 
 
 In March, 1789, we have the first record of peram- 
 bulating the town-Hnes. That part of the line between 
 Warwick and Orange was perambulated Dec. 26, 1788, 
 by James Goldsbury and Mark Moore for Warwick, 
 and Levi Cheney and Joseph Metcalf for Orange ; 
 and their report not agreeing with the act of incorpo- 
 ration of Orange, is the original source of the difficulty 
 that now exists betvveen the towns, respecting the lines 
 between them. Capt. John Goldsbury Was chosen 
 representative to Court. 
 
 I 790. 
 
 In March, 1790, the town voted fifteen pounds for 
 the support of the poor. They also voted, and chose 
 Josiah Cobb, James Goldsbury, and Samuel Langley, 
 a committee to stake out suitable places on the meet- 
 ing-house common, for people to build noon-houses 
 and stables on, if requested by the inhabitants. 
 
 John Goldsbury, Esq., was chosen representative 
 for Warwick and Orange. He was also chosen in 
 1 79 1 and 1792. In 1791 an attempt was made to 
 form a new county, by joining with a part of Worces- 
 ter County. It was voted this year that the school- 
 money be divided according to the number of scholars 
 in the several wards, and the selectmen directed to 
 number the scholars in each ward. 
 
8o HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 It appears that the Rev. Samuel Reed had been 
 supported by a fund for a number of years. This 
 fund was created in the following manner : Each 
 individual that meant to support him gave a note to 
 a committee appointed to receive them, of the amount 
 he was willing to put in ; which several notes, bearing 
 interest at six per cent, constituted the fund, the inter- 
 est of which paid the salary, so that each man's inter- 
 est on his note was his minister-tax. In August this 
 year, it was voted unanimously, that it was their minds 
 that the fund that was raised in Warwick for the sup- 
 port of a Congregational minister ought to be dissolved, 
 on condition and agreeable to the petition of Ezra 
 Conant and others, and for the future a gospel minis- 
 ter be supported agreeable to the Constitution of this 
 Commonwealth. The aforesaid fund had been legally 
 incorporated ; and Mr. Ezra Conant's petition was one 
 that had been presented to the General Court to re- 
 peal the fund act. It had had a hearing, and an order 
 of notice had been served on the town, to give them 
 a chance to object against the repeal of the act if they 
 thought proper. 
 
 In November, 1792, the town voted for electors of 
 president and vice-president for the first time, an act 
 of the General Court having authorized them to do 
 so at the June session previous. 
 
 1793. 
 
 At the annual meeting this year, there was but five 
 pounds raised for the support of the poor. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 8 1 
 
 John Goldsbury, Esq., was chosen representative. 
 
 This year a committee was raised by the- town to 
 look up the school and ministry rights of land, and to 
 see what had been done respecting the sale of them. 
 They reported, May 6, at an adjourned meeting, that 
 two hundred and ninety-one acres of the school-land 
 had been sold for one hundred and twenty-eight 
 pounds, fourteen shilhngs. Lot No. 26, in the fifth 
 division, containing fourteen acres, not sold. Also 
 that three hundred and five acres of the ministry- 
 land had been sold for two hundred and thirty-nine 
 pounds. 
 
 This is the source from which the town now re- 
 ceives interest-money to help support the minister 
 and schools. The interest we receive annually 
 towards supporting the minister is fifty-four dollars ; 
 and each of the ten school-districts draws three dollars 
 annually from the school-fund, making thirty dollars. 
 
 This year the town voted that each school-district 
 should draw what money it pays. At a subsequent 
 meeting, they voted that Mr. Jonathan Gale be em- 
 powered to provide a funeral carriage. Also voted, 
 and chose Dea. James Ball, Capt. Mark Moore, and 
 Lieut. Jonathan Gale, a committee to divide the town, 
 and establish a line between the two militia compa- 
 nies. Previous to this, there had been two companies ; 
 but every soldier, when he became liable to do military 
 duty, had his choice which company .to join. This prac- 
 tice gave rise to some unpleasant feelings ; as, each cap- 
 tain or commanding officer being anxious to secure 
 the new recruits, means were sometimes resorted to 
 which could not be justified by gentlemen of honor. 
 
82 HISTORY 'OF WARWICK. 
 
 But this intangible line had the same effect that the 
 stupendous Chinese wall had in another case ; and the 
 competition ceased. The old north road to North- 
 field, and the road to Royalston, by Caleb Mayo's, 
 each leading from the meeting-house, was the line 
 established. In October, the town was convened to 
 choose a delegate to meet a Court's committee at Asa- 
 hel Pomeroy's, in Northampton, respecting a division 
 of the County of Hampshire. John Goldsbury, Esq., 
 was chosen, and instructed to oppose the division, 
 stating that they considered it would be detrimental 
 to the town and the county at large. 
 
 1794. 
 
 This year John Goldsbury, Esq., was again chosen 
 representative. Eight pounds, three shillings, were 
 voted to pay Jonathan Gale for the funeral carriage. 
 It was also voted to build a house for said carriage ; 
 which was put up at auction, and struck off to David 
 Mayo for five pounds, two shillings. This year the 
 town chose a committee, consisting of Mark Moore, 
 Caleb Mayo, and Abraham Gale, to invite the Rev. 
 Samuel Reed to extend the relation subsisting between 
 him and the Congregational Society in Warwick to 
 the town, so that he might be the town's minister, 
 instead of the Society's, upon the town's agreeing to 
 pay him his salary ; with a proviso, that all persons of 
 other denominations were to be exempted from taxa- 
 tion for ministerial purposes. The town then agreed 
 to pay him seventy pounds in silver, at six shillings 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 83 
 
 and eight pence per ounce, and twenty cords of mer- 
 chantable wood yearly, and every year, so long as he 
 shall remain their minister. And they also voted, 
 that he should have the money that the ministry-lots 
 of land were sold for, by giving good security therefor, 
 and deducting the interest out of his salary yearly. 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Reed returned the following an- 
 swer : — 
 
 " Gentlemen, — I have received by your committee the 
 explanation of your grant of my salary, and also the addi- 
 tional grant of the improvement of the ministry money on 
 the mentioned conditions, and am happy in the confidence 
 I find, after so long a connection and acquaintance, you still 
 place in me. And now I freely, and agreeably to your re- 
 quest, extend my ministerial relation to all the Congrega- 
 tional inhabitants of the town of Warwick, and will endeavor 
 faithfully to discharge my trust, as far as my many imper- 
 fections will admit, charitably trusting that I shall meet with 
 that friendship and candor which is so absolutely necessary 
 for enjoyment and happiness in such a relation. My 
 friends, if we all study those things that make for peace, "we 
 shall gahi the invaluable Pearl ; and the God of love and 
 peace who has so long propitiously beheld this church, we 
 may humbly hope, will grant that we still rejoice under his 
 smiles ; and on his wisdom and goodness may we constantly 
 rely, in humble and cheerful obedience to his will. May 
 his grace be sufficient for us, to lead, protect, and defend 
 us in this militant state ; may we grow in knowledge and 
 every Christian virtue, and finally come to the stature of per- 
 fect men in Christ, and be thought worthy to join his church 
 above ! 
 
 " To this our great God and King, and to the mercy of his 
 
84 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 grace, I commend you, and desire to be commended by you ; 
 and under him, and depending on his promises, I subscribe 
 myself your sincere and humble servant, 
 
 " Samuel Reed. 
 "Nov. 3, 1794." 
 
 Mr. Reed's salary was to commence at the above 
 date. The town chose a committee, consisting of 
 Rev. Samuel Reed, John Goldsbury, Esq., and Capt. 
 Mark Moore, to petition the General Court to repeal 
 the act whereby the Congregational Society in War- 
 wick was incorporated, and a fund raised, for the sup- 
 port of the gospel ministry. 
 
 1795. 
 
 This year there was a town-meeting, called to 
 collect the sentiments of the town on the expediency 
 of amending the Constitution. Twenty-one voted 
 in favor of amendment, and nineteen against it. John 
 Goldsbury, Esq., was chosen representative. On 
 May 1 1 the town empowered the selectmen to lease 
 out that part of the Common west of the road, for any 
 term of time not exceeding twenty years. They also 
 empowered them to exchange lands with Josiah 
 Pomeroy, jun., in order to straighten the line between 
 the said town and the said Pomeroy. 
 
 The town granted twenty dollars to erect guide- 
 posts, — the first that had been erected by law. They 
 also reconsidered a former vote to build a stone pound, 
 and voted to build one of wood ; said pound was to be 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 85 
 
 thirty feet square, and well framed, and handsomely 
 underpinned with stones ; the sills to be eight by ten 
 inches square, the rails to be three by five inches, and 
 the plates six by seven inches square ; and it was put 
 up at auction to the lowest bidder, and struck off to 
 Gilbert Mellen for thirteen dollars and eighty-three 
 cents. 
 
 1796. 
 
 In April the town voted that the selectmen be a 
 committee to sell school-lot No. 26, at the adjourn- 
 ment of the meeting. Nathaniel Cheney (of Orange) 
 represented the district. 
 
 1797. 
 
 It was voted to raise thirty pounds for killing wild- 
 cats the year past, and to continue the bounty, at 
 twenty shillings per head, the coming year. 
 
 The town allowed the assessors for taking the in- 
 voice and assessing the taxes in 1796, ten days, at 
 eighty cents per day. Considerable difficulty existed 
 in the town about this time, in regard to the school 
 districts. The districts No. 2 and No. 3 had been 
 joined together, and afterwards separated. They 
 could not agree where to build the schoolhouse in 
 No. 2 ; and the town voted and chose Dea. Chamber- 
 lain of Winchester, Maj. Alexander of Northfield, and 
 Oliver Chapin of Orange, to decide the dispute, and 
 assign the spot to build upon, the district to pay the 
 expense. Oliver Chapin was chosen representative. 
 
86 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The town voted one hundred dollars in addition to 
 the Rev. Samuel Reed's salary. 
 
 1798. 
 
 William Heath had fifty-eight votes for governor, 
 and fifty-seven for lieutenant-governor. 
 
 Josiah Cobb was chosen representative. 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Reed considering that the town 
 did not support him agreeable to their first contract, 
 requested an article to be inserted in the warrant to 
 dismiss him from the ministry ; but, on the particular 
 request of his friends, he had the article withdrawn. 
 
 Nov. 5, this year, it was voted to discharge the tax 
 on dogs by one day's work on the highways for each 
 dog ; and that they fetch a certificate from the high- 
 way surveyor under whom they work to the selectmen, 
 certifying that the services are done. 
 
 1799. 
 
 A committee was chosen to look into the situation 
 of the school districts ; and they reported to have the 
 town divided into seven districts, and each one to 
 draw an equal share of the school-money. They also 
 voted and chose a committee to appraise the school- 
 houses, and another to see what articles are neces- 
 sary for building new schoolhouses, and to put up the 
 stuff at vendue, and the work also. 
 
 It was afterwards voted to have the districts remain 
 as they were ; viz., that there should be nine. 
 
 Oliver Chapin was chosen representative. 
 
HISTORY OF WARAVICK. ' 87 
 
 I 800. 
 
 The town voted not to choose a representative this 
 year. 
 
 1801. 
 
 It was voted to raise four hundred dollars to pay for 
 preaching, and each denomination to draw what they 
 pay. 
 
 1802. 
 
 Josiah Cobb was chosen representative. 
 
 A committee was raised, consisting of Mark Moore, 
 Peter Proctor, Josiah Pomeroy, Jacob Rich, Caleb 
 Mayo, Asa Conant, and Ebenezer Williams, to look into 
 the state of the treasury, and to make a report what 
 sums there are that belong to the ministry, and what 
 other unappropriated moneys were to be found there. 
 The committee subsequently reported that there was 
 $1,222.85 ; that $'](^6.6j had been received from the 
 sales of the ministerial lands, and $499 from the sale 
 of the school-lands ; that there was $332.85 of unap- 
 propriated money in the treasury, besides Mr. Hedge's 
 donation, which amounted to $93.33. This donation, 
 as we have been informed, was from Mr. Elisha 
 Hedge, the father of Rev. Lemuel Hedge, our first 
 minister. We have never learned the amount of this 
 gift, but have found in the old Congregational society's 
 records, that a committee was chosen, consisting of 
 Dea. James Ball, Col. Samuel Williams, and Joseph 
 
88 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Mayo, to send a letter of thanks to Mr. Hedge for his 
 generous donation towards the fund. This was the 
 1 2th of August, 1779. The presumption is, that it 
 was a sum that, with the interest added, after the dis- 
 solution of the fund to the time of this report, which 
 is dated March 31, 1803, would amount to ^93.33. 
 
 The committee reported that there was a deficiency 
 of the money that the ministry and school lands sold 
 for of $166.15. The town voted to raise the last- 
 mentioned sum, and to have it placed on interest, and 
 to be applied annually for the use of schooling. Here 
 terminates the continual strife and fluctuation of our 
 funds in this town j and from this date we may con- 
 sider them settled, permanent, and secure, amounting 
 to $1,383. 
 
 1805. 
 
 In 1805 a town-meeting was called, to hear a circu- 
 lar letter, respecting dividing the county of Hamp- 
 shire ; and Caleb Mayo was chosen an agent, to meet 
 other agents at Greenfield to petition the General 
 Court for said division. The division was not effected 
 at this time ; but the subject was frequently agitated : 
 and in November, 18 10, Justus Russell, Esq., was 
 chosen agent for the town ; and the final division was 
 consummated in 18 12. 
 
 In 1805 the town was, perhaps, as much divided on 
 political matters as at any period since its first settle- 
 ment. Federalists and Democrats were the assumed 
 names of the parties ; and the contention ran so high. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 89 
 
 that fathers, children, brothers, kinsmen, and fellow- 
 townsmen, when convened to exercise the elective 
 franchise, appeared more like angry contending foes, 
 marshalled in battle-array, than like freemen and 
 fellow-citizens. There was no neutral ground. Each 
 party had for its motto, " He that is not for us is 
 against us." The regulations of the law made it neces- 
 sary, that, to be a voter in the choice of a repre- 
 sentative, you " must be a resident in the town for the 
 space of one year next preceding, and have a free- 
 hold estate within the town of the annual income of 
 ten dollars, or any estate to the value of two hundred 
 dollars." Very few were to be found that could not 
 show two hundred dollars' worth of property on the 
 day of election, when perhaps the day before, or the 
 day after, you could not collect a just debt of five 
 dollars. The aged, the lame, and the sick were alike 
 compelled "to come in," to swell and strengthen the 
 one, or to overpower the opposing party. The parties 
 were almost equally balanced here : while the district 
 of Orange was united with us in the choice of a rep- 
 resentative ; and they were as divided, as acrimonious, 
 and as uncompromising, as we were. At the May 
 meeting this year, the inhabitants of Warwick and 
 Orange assembled to choose a representative. All 
 Yankees are naturally jealous of their rights and 
 liberty, but rendered doubly so by the impulse of 
 party feelings, — each party distrustful of the other, 
 and each determined to gain the ascendency, and 
 carry the vote. The presiding officers, for the time 
 being, were critically situated ; and, do right or do 
 wrong, bitter imprecations fell on their devoted heads. 
 
90 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The jealousy and distrust ran so high, that they 
 agreed to leave the meeting-house, and go out upon 
 the Common, each party with their respective leaders : 
 accordingly they marched out in Indian file, and pa- 
 raded in two parallel lines, so that each, being single, 
 might put in his vote without a chance for deception, 
 or of voting twice ; and each might be counted, viz. 
 the number of voters, and the number of votes given 
 in. The town-clerk and selectmen carried the 
 ballot-boxes to the voters. The candidates at this 
 election were Caleb Mayo, Esq., Federal ; and Eben- 
 ezer Williams, Esq., Democratic. On ascertaining the 
 number of votes, E. Williams, Esq., had one hundred 
 and forty-eight, and C. Mayo, Esq., had one hundred 
 and fifty-four, and was chosen. The language and 
 looks and gestures of the contending parties this 
 day, the pen of a Milton, perhaps, could have ade- 
 quately described ; but mine would fail in the attempt. 
 
 1806. 
 
 In 1806 Caleb Mayo, Esq., and Josiah Cobb Esq., 
 were the opposing candidates, and Esquire Cobb was 
 chosen. For the benefit of future generations, I have 
 now recited some of the principal incidents in this 
 regularly fought battle of the contending political 
 parties, .presuming that no other record of it is now 
 extant, excepting in the memories of our fathers and 
 fellow-townsmen, which will soon be lost forever. 
 
 Voted to repair the meeting-house, and to accept of 
 the request of Caleb Mayo and others for the town 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 91 
 
 to relinquish their right and privilege, granted them 
 by the proprietors, of two of the back seats on each 
 side of the broad aisle on the lower floor, and four- 
 teen feet of the seats at the north end of each of the 
 side galleries in said meeting-house, so as to enable 
 the proprietors to erect four pews on the lower and 
 four pews in the gallery of equal size of the other 
 pews in said house, the sale of which to defray a part 
 of the expense of repairing and painting said house. 
 These petitioners were Caleb Mayo, Abraham Ste- 
 vens,- Daniel Whitney, Jonathan Blake, Nathaniel 
 G. Stevens, Benjamin Conant, Josiah Smith, Eben- 
 ezer Williams, Zachariah Barber, and John Gale. 
 
 Caleb Mayo, Esq., William Cobb, jun., and Perez 
 Allen, were chosen a committee to superintend the 
 repairing of the meeting-house. In December the 
 town voted their consent that the Baptist society, 
 which was partly in Warwick and partly in Royalston, 
 should be incorporated. 
 
 1807. 
 
 The town voted two hundred dollars to pay for 
 repairing the meeting-house. 
 
 1808. 
 
 This year the town of Warwick and the district of 
 Orange voted to send two representatives ; and chose 
 Ebenezer WiUiams, Esq., and Josiah Cobb, Esq. (both 
 
92 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Democrats). The militia companies of this town 
 were called to Hadley to a division-muster this year ; 
 and the town voted to pay the officers and soldiers 
 that should attend said muster one dollar each from 
 the treasury. Also the town voted to concur with 
 the town of Boston in preferring a memorial to the' 
 President of the United States for the repeal of the 
 embargo, and chose Caleb Mayo, Josiah Pomeroy, 
 Josiah Proctor, Jonathan Blake, jun., and Justus Rus- 
 sell, a committee to prepare a memorial, and adjourned 
 the meeting half an hour. On the meeting being 
 opened, the following petition was accepted unani- 
 mously : — 
 
 To his Excellency Thomas Jefferson^ President of the United 
 States. 
 
 The petition of the inhabitants of the town of Warwick, 
 in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Mas- 
 sachusetts, in legal town meeting assembled, beg leave to 
 represent : That the inconveniences and privations of 
 property already experienced in consequence of the em- 
 bargo on the vessels and export-trade of the United States 
 fill them with serious apprehensions for the evils that must 
 necessarily result from a prohibition of the exports of the 
 surplus produce of the present season. 
 
 They sincerely regret the necessity (if such existed) of 
 the laws laying an embargo on the extensive navigation of 
 the United States, and prohibiting internal intercourse. 
 By the first, the commercial enterprise of the New-England 
 States, that secured to the farmer a sure market and high 
 price for his produce, is wholly destroyed ; and the grievous 
 privations occasioned by the latter have produced in some of 
 the less patriotic sufferers a relaxation of principles, and a 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. • 93 
 
 contempt for the laws, more to be deplored than the loss of 
 property, and more to be feared from its consequences than 
 from the hostility of any nation whatever. That professing 
 a firm attachment to the constitution of government, under 
 which they have enjoyed unexampled prosperity and happi- 
 ness, they have in all respects observed a due submission 
 to the embargo laws, and measures of your administration, 
 however -distressing or unequal their operation, and im- 
 pressed at all times with the feelings and sentiments of free- 
 men, and jealous of their rights as independent Republi- 
 cans, will ever stand ready with their lives and fortunes to 
 support the constituted authorities of their country, when- 
 ever it is necessary for the defence of those rights and 
 privileges so essential to the happiness of the United 
 States, and of which they claim an equal share. They 
 regret the necessity they are under of calling the particular 
 attention of your Excellency to their relief; but are happy in 
 the enjoyment of the privilege of peaceably and respectfully 
 petitioning for a redress of grievances, whenever they exist. 
 And as our national legislature, contemplating a change 
 of circumstances that might render the embargo unneces- 
 sary, have vested in you the power of suspending its opera- 
 tions, and humbly conceiving that such a change has taken 
 place as will justify the measure, they have a full confidence 
 in your early attention to the true interests of your country, 
 and the suffering of its citizens. 
 
 Your petitioners therefore pray your Excellency, in pur- 
 suance of the aforesaid power, to suspend the operations of 
 the embargo, in whole or in part, as your superior wisdom 
 shall direct, and as in duty bound shall ever pray. 
 
 Which was signed by the aforesaid committee. 
 
 It was then voted that the selectmen sign the peti- 
 tion, and transmit it to the President of the United 
 States. 
 
94 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 l8l2. 
 
 This year it was voted that the selectmen procure 
 a funeral hearse with four wheels (the former funeral 
 carriage had but two) ; and it was voted to raise fifty 
 dollars to pay for the same.* 
 
 On the thirty-first day of July, 1812, Rev. Samuel 
 Reed died, aged fifty-seven years, having been minis- 
 ter in the town nearly thirty-three years. In Septem- 
 ber the town voted two hundred dollars to defray his 
 funeral expenses, and to procure preaching the re- 
 mainder of the year ; and chose Caleb Mayo, Ebenezer 
 Pierce, Samuel Ball, Justus Russell, and William Cobb, 
 a committee to provide some person or persons to 
 supply the pulpit until the next annual meeting. 
 
 I will here record as a matter of history a brief ^ac- 
 count of the Franklin Gla^s-Factory Company's pro- 
 ceedings in this town, with the rise and origin of 
 that presumptuous adventure, its short but moment- 
 ous life, its 'premature and lamented death. 
 
 This year Dr. Ebenezer Hall, an inhabitant and 
 practising physician in this town, possessing a con- 
 siderable share of natural powers of mind, and a 
 peculiarly fascinating and alluring address, more bril- 
 liant than solid, more theoretical and visionary than 
 practical and real, conceived the idea that he could 
 make glass. After a few experiments, not, however, 
 attended with very flattering prospects of success, he 
 had the good fortune (or rather misfortune) by his 
 persuasive and flattering tongue to inspire many of 
 
 * This hearse is the same that we now use ; viz., 1832. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 95 
 
 his neighbors and friends with a belief in the sound- 
 ness of his theories, and the certain prospects of suc- 
 cess that awaited them provided they would embark 
 in the undertaking, and assist him to erect suitable 
 buildings, procure workmen, and provide materials. 
 Numbers of the solid and persevering cultivators of 
 the soil, captivated by his Utopian schemes, were in- 
 duced to lay aside the plough, the axe, and the spade, 
 and mortgage their possessions, and lend their names 
 and their influence to the proposed undertaking. 
 
 After considerable delay and many perplexing oc- 
 currences, they succeeded in completing the buildings 
 of the manufactory and dwellings for the workmen ; 
 and, haying cast sand and salt and potash into the fire, 
 it came out glass. 
 
 New adventurers were added to the list ; and consid- 
 erate assistance was received from abroad : men of 
 wealth and ambition were induced to come in and 
 share in the prospective dividends that so surely 
 awaited them. 
 
 They finally succeeded in making excellent cylin- 
 der glass ; * and were incorporated by the General 
 Court, under the name of the Franklin Glass-Manu- 
 facturing Company, in Warwick. They did consider- 
 able business for a while, having obtained the confi- 
 dence of the public generally. But a scarcity of 
 money prevailing in the community tested the solv- 
 ency of their capital : the banks refused to discount 
 for a while ; and this proved a death-blow to all their 
 operations. The fact was, that the business had been 
 
 * The first melting of glass blown here was on Sunday, Sept. 5, 1813. 
 
96 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 got up and commenced without funds, or any knowl- 
 edge or experience in the art of manufacturing glass : 
 they had procured a foreigner (a Scotchman) of con- 
 siderable ability, but of questionable integrity, to 
 superintend their business, both in erecting the 
 buildings, and superintending the workmen. They 
 paid him extravagant wages ; and, what was worse than 
 that, they were subjected to his complete control, not 
 having the ability or power to calculate for themselves, 
 for want of knowledge in the art : they were conse- 
 quently compelled to submit to his directions, and 
 follow his ludicrous whims, however expensive, through- 
 out all their various operations, to the no small detri- 
 ment of their business and their purse. Workmen 
 were also procured, and very high wages paid to them, 
 and to those that understood blowing glass : months 
 passed away before they were wanted ; and large 
 bounties in addition to all this were paid them to buy 
 them off from their former employers, under the false 
 pretext that it would be impossible to procure that 
 particular kind of artisans unless the utmost secrecy 
 was observed, and a liberal bonus offered as a tempta- 
 tion to induce them to leave other factories, and re- 
 move their families to this new and untried scene of 
 operation. 
 
 The transactions of the Company had been carried 
 on hitherto with too little attention to economy, 
 which is so needful and necessary in all such estab- 
 lishments,* especially in their infancy ; and it could not 
 withstand, all circumstances combined, the financial 
 shock ; and it sank to rise no more. Thus ended the 
 speculations of the time : thus died the hopes of its 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 97 
 
 friends ; and thus were blighted the quixotic visions of 
 its deluded projector. But the void that remained 
 after their dissolution was not so easily to be filled up 
 — in particular, the ruined fortunes of many of the 
 industrious inhabitants of this town, which must 
 require years of untiring industry to amend and re- 
 trieve. 
 
 In December, 181 3, the town voted their consent 
 that the Universalist society in said town should be 
 incorporated, with all the privileges and immunities 
 granted to other religious societies. 
 
 1814. 
 
 This year the present pound was built : it was put 
 up at auction, and struck off to Mr. Elliot Rawson 
 for thirty-eight dollars. 
 
 In June the town voted unanimously to concur 
 with the church in giving the Rev. Preserved Smith, 
 jun., a call to settle in the gospel ministry in the town 
 of Warwick; and a committee of nine persons was 
 chosen to inform Mr. Smith of the proceedings of the 
 town ; viz., Caleb Mayo, Ebenezer Pierce, Samuel 
 Ball, Dr. Medad Pomeroy, Jonathan Blake, Justus 
 Russell, William Cobb, Elijah Fisk, and Perley Leland. 
 The town voted to grant Mr. Smith five hundred 
 dollars annually for an encouragement to him to settle 
 with us in the gospel ministry, and to pay him the 
 first year's salary quarterly. 
 
 Sept. 5, it was voted to accept Mr. Smith's answer 
 reported by the committee as follows, viz. : — 
 
98 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 To the Church and Society in the To7vn of Warwick. 
 
 My Christian Friends, — Having received by your 
 committee an invitation to settle among you in the gospel 
 ministry, I have endeavored to bestow all that attention to 
 the subject which its importance demands. If I rightly 
 understand the purport of the call you have been pleased 
 to give me, I am to receive my stipend annually, so long as 
 I contirtue your pastor. 
 
 Laying the above construction upon the subject, I do now, 
 after having earnestly supplicated wisdom from the true 
 source of all perfection to direct me in this decision, present 
 you with this notice of my compliance with your request. 
 In this procedure I have been influenced by the unanimous 
 voice which so far prevailed in your exertions to re-establish 
 a stated ministry, and in your proceedings towards electing 
 me to that sacred office. And, in thus complyiiig with your 
 request, I trust I have studied duty and those things that 
 may promote our mutual peace and happiness. It is not 
 without fear and diffidence that I accept the important trust 
 which you have judged expedient to devolve upon me : with 
 diffidence, lest I do not possess those endowments which are 
 of so high importance in constituting a faithful and success- 
 ful minister of Christ ; with fear, lest I should not discharge 
 my functions to the glory of God, and to the saving of your 
 souls. I therefore ask your Christian candor that you 
 would look on me as composed of the same perishable 
 materials as yourselves ; that you accept my services, how 
 imperfect soever they may seem in your opinion, as being 
 the result of sincere intentions. For I feel the force of the 
 apostle's exclamation, "AVho is sufficient for these things.? " 
 Who is equal to this arduous work ? And, while I bear your 
 eternal interests in my remembrance at the throne of 
 grace, I earnestly entreat you to commend me in your 
 prayers to the great Head of the Church, that the divine 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 99 
 
 grace, which alone is profitable to instruct and direct, may 
 be my guide ; that, when I have proclaimed the glorious 
 prize of immortality to others, I shall not at last be rejected, 
 as unfit for it, myself Notwithstanding the gospel treasure 
 of unspeakable value has been committed to earthen vessels^ 
 yet the power that" accompanies its promulgation is derived 
 from God. It is, therefore, incumbent upon us, as fellow- 
 soldiers in the Christian warfare, to offer our united prayers 
 to Deity, that his blessings may attend the ministration of 
 his word, that not only our immortal interests may be pro- 
 moted, but the glory of his moral government advanced, 
 and the great laws of it more generally obeyed ; that all 
 who hear the voice of Christ may acknowledge him as the 
 only Bishop of their souls ^ as in the Redeemer's kingdom 
 there shall be only one fold and one Shepherd. 
 
 Bearing such reflections in mind, let us ever adhere with 
 firm and inflexible steadiness to our Christian profession, 
 and aim at making continual improvement in it, from a full 
 persuasion that our labors in love, and attention to Christi- 
 anity, will finally be accompanied with a glorious reward. 
 
 Preserved Smith, Jr. 
 
 It was proposed in town-meeting to choose a com- 
 mittee of five, to transact the business of the ordina- 
 tion ; and chose William Cobb, Ashbel Ward, William 
 Burnett, jun., Perez Allen, and Justus Russell ; and it 
 was voted that the expense of the .ordination be drawn 
 out of the ministry money then in the treasury. 
 Accordingly the Rev. Preserved Smith, jun., was or- 
 dained as pastor over the First Congregational Church 
 and Society in Warwick, on Oct. 12, 18 14. 
 
 In April, 181 5, a report of a committee on the 
 petition of Caleb Mayo, Esq., in favor of Widow 
 
lOO HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Abigail Reed, was reported to the town, and accepted, 
 which was as follows ; viz. : — 
 
 We, the subscribers, being appointed a committee at 
 the annual meeting in March last to take into consideration 
 the request of Caleb Mayo, Esq., for, and in behalf of, the 
 widow of the late Rev. Samuel Reed, have attended to the 
 business of our appointment, and report as follows : — 
 
 That, in examining the former records, Mr. Reed was 
 settled in the gospel ministry in this town in 1779, and was 
 to receive his stipend in proportion to rye at three shillings 
 and sixpence, and corn at two shillings and ninepence, per 
 bushel, and pork at threepence half-penny per pound, from 
 an incorporated society; and that he continued to receive 
 his salary in full for fifteen years. We find, by contract 
 entered into the third of March, 1794, Mr. Reed did be- 
 come the town's minister, and after that to receive his salary 
 in silver and gold ; and we do not find by any of the records 
 that he received any thing difterent from his stated salary 
 for ten years from that date ; and in further examination we 
 find that from 1804 to 181 1, which is eight years, Mr. Reed 
 received $312.75 more than his stated salary. We learn 
 that when Mr. Reed became the town's minister he received 
 a certain sum of the town's money, and secured the town 
 by mortgage of his real estate. We learn by Mrs. Reed's 
 signing the mortgage she is debarred of any dowry in his 
 real estate. We also learn that by the aid of Mrs. Reed's 
 friends, before the judge of probate, she is to receive 
 $200.00 out of Mr. Reed's estate for her own use and dis- 
 posal. We also learn, that, since Mr. Reed's decease, Mrs. 
 Reed, by the aid of her friends, has had the good fortune 
 to get upon the list of the Massachusetts Congregational 
 Charitable Society for the relief of destitute widows and 
 children of deceased ministers, and has for two years past 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. loi 
 
 received about thirty dollars per year, and will probably 
 continue to receive her proportion of the money in the 
 funds of said society. After learning all these facts, we, 
 your committee, are unanimously of opinion that it will be 
 more for the harmony of the citizens of this town to have 
 the business indefinitely postponed than to take any further 
 measures upon it. 
 
 All which is submitted by your committee. 
 
 Justus Russell, ) 
 
 Perez Allen, > Commitiec. 
 
 Joseph Draper, ) 
 
 In April, 1817, the town voted to accept the follow- 
 ing report ; viz. : — 
 
 The subscribers, having been appointed a committee, 
 at the annual meeting in March last, to take into consider- 
 ation the fifteenth article in the warrant of said meeting, 
 relative to the ministry and school funds in the town of 
 Warwick, report their opinion, viz. : That eight dollars and 
 seventy-six cents of the interest of the unapplied ministry- 
 money now in the treasury be added to the ministry-fund, 
 in order to increase the fund to nine hundred dollars. And 
 that the sum of one dollar of the overlays of the town-tax 
 the present year be added to the school-fund in order to 
 increase that fund to five hundred dollars ; and that all the 
 loans of said funds now existing, excepting what is secured 
 by mortgage of real estate, shall, on or be^re the first day 
 of January, next, be collected, and paid into the treasury, or 
 be secured by mortgage of real estate ; and that the said 
 funds, after that date, should be loaned by the selectmen of 
 the town to the inhabitants of the town of Warwick, in 
 sums not less than one hundred dollars, nor over two hun- 
 9* 
 
I02 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 dred dollars, to be secured by mortgage of real estate to 
 double the amount, to be appraised by the selectmen of said 
 town ; and the person or persons that shall not pay the 
 interest to the treasurer on or before the first day of Janu- 
 ary, annually, shall not be entitled to the continuance of said 
 loan ; and that no person shall have a loan a longer time 
 than three years at a time, on condition that others want it 
 for equally good security. 
 
 Joshua Atwood, \ 
 
 Justus Russell, > Conwiittee. 
 
 AsHBEL Ward, ) 
 
 At an adjournment of this meeting, it was voted to 
 reconsider a part of the report of the committee re- 
 specting the ministry and school funds, so as to extend 
 the time of payment to ten years, upon the condition 
 of paying ten per cent of the principal annually, and 
 the interest on such sums as may be loaned to the 
 inhabitants of said town. 
 
 At the adjournment in May it was voted to build a 
 powder-magazine for the security of the town-stores, 
 as follows, viz. : Eight feet square, to be built of good, 
 well-burnt bricks laid in lime mortar, the walls to be 
 seven feet high, with a square roof, well boarded and 
 shingled, and to be ceiled with good white pine boards 
 planed on the inside, and a good, double floor well 
 nailed ; the door to be double, with a good lock and 
 key ; the walls to be eight inches thick ; and a founda- 
 tion of flat stones to be built in a workmanlike man- 
 ner. A committee of three was chosen to superintend 
 the building of said magazine ; viz., Amos K. Whit- 
 ney, Caleb Mayo, William Cobb. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 103 
 
 1818. 
 
 April 4, 1818, voted to accept the report of the 
 committee respecting the purchase of the burying- 
 ground as follows : — 
 
 The subscribers, having been chosen a committee to com- 
 plete the purchase of land of Mr. Bunyan Penniman for an 
 addition to the burying-ground, have attended that service, 
 and report as follows : That we have obtained a deed of 
 said Penniman of one acre and fifty rods of land, measur- 
 ing fifteen rods on the road, fifteen rods on the south line, 
 twelve rods on the west line, and fifteen rods and thirteen 
 links on the north line, and have paid him sixty-five dollars 
 and sixty-two cents as a consideration for the same, it being 
 understood that the town is to fence said land. 
 
 Caleb Mayo, ) ^ 
 
 ,,, „ } Lommttiee. 
 
 William Cobb, .j 
 
 It was voted that the same committee that pur- 
 chased the ground to make an addition to the bury- 
 ing-ground be a committee to fence the same. 
 
 It was wisely said by the wise king of Israel that 
 "■ tJiere is a time for every tJdng ; " and purchasing this 
 spot of ground to enlarge our burying-place was one 
 of those transactions that was performed in its proper 
 time. A more judicious and timely act is not to be 
 found on our public records. 
 
 1820. 
 
 In August, 1820, a meeting of the inhabitants of 
 the town was convened, on the question whether it 
 
I04 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 was expedient that delegates should be chosen to 
 meet in convention to amend the Constitution of this 
 Commonwealth. On sorting and counting the votes, 
 it appeared that there were thirty-two votes against 
 it, and forty-three in favor of the measure. 
 
 In October, Jonathan Blake, jun., was chosen a dele- 
 gate to attend the aforesaid convention. 
 
 1821. 
 
 In April, 1821, the articles of amendment proposed 
 by the convention for altering the constitution of the 
 State were laid before the town for their approval or 
 rejection ; and but two out of the fourteen articles 
 were accepted ; viz., the eighth and fourteenth. The 
 amendments were not popular in this town. 
 
 A brief account of the tornado that passed over 
 the south part of Warwick, an occurrence that may 
 well be remembered by many of the sufferers, but 
 which, for the information of posterity, ought to be 
 preserved, as a very frightful, destructive, and uncom- 
 mon occurrence : — 
 
 On the ninth day of September, 1821, a tremendous 
 whirlwind passed over the south part of this town, 
 most appalling and terrific in its appearance, and 
 most destructive in its consequences. I was an eye- 
 witness of this most sublime and astonishing phe- 
 nomenon of Nature ; and language is too feeble to 
 express my feelings, or to properly and accurately 
 describe the majestic and interesting scene. 
 
 It was on the day instituted by our benevolent 
 Creator for a day of rest that this awful calamity 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 105 
 
 befell us, when, if ever (after the solemn services of 
 the sanctuary are ended), the minds of rational and 
 intelligent beings are composed and calm, and the 
 benign and beneficial influences of religion pervade 
 the heart. Just as the sun was sinking behind the 
 western hills, an appearance of agitation or concus- 
 sion was discovered in the clouds: slight showers 
 of rain had fallen in several places in this vicinity 
 during the afternoon, and the heat had been oppres- 
 sive. The commotion in the clouds had something 
 of the appearance of the angry billows of the ocean 
 when raging at the utmost extent of their fury. 
 These agitations and concussions soon blended to- 
 gether, and assumed a form, which at first sight 
 resembled a column of smoke ascending from the 
 conflagration of a building, or the burning of pine 
 timber on new lands ; but it soon became more com- 
 pactly embodied and more visible, and moved along 
 with a majesty and grandeur inexpressibly surprising, 
 powerful, and great. Its appearance was in the 
 shape of an inverted cone : the bottom, like the besom 
 of destruction, swept every thing before it ; and the 
 top besieged the heavens. The embodied appearance 
 of this elemental strife was black, dense, solid, and 
 compact ; and it sustained its form with all the regu- 
 larity of a magnificent temple. It moved almost 
 direct from the west towards the east : detached 
 pieces of buildings, such as timber, boards, shingles, 
 limbs of trees, leaves, grass, and, in short, fragments 
 of every kind, were thrown out of its vortex in every 
 direction, filling and darkening the air. Birds, espe- 
 cially hawks and crows, were sailing round and round. 
 
io6 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 high in the air aloof from the storm, expressing their 
 dismay by dismal screams. But above all the tre- 
 mendous crashing, stunning, deafening noise, not 
 unlike heav}'- thunder or the internal bellowings of an 
 earthquake, which caused the earth to tremble under 
 us, and seemed to forebode its final dissolution, it 
 filled us with sensations too sublime and too awful to 
 be adequately expressed. Thus far I have described 
 the visible appearance and movement of this scene of 
 terror and destruction ; and now I will attempt to give 
 a short and imperfect account of its effects. 
 
 Its first appearance in the clouds was discovered 
 to be not far from Connecticut River. It was high up 
 from the water, and did not begin its work of destruc- 
 tion until it came in contact with the earth, near the 
 top of the high ridge of land called Northfield Moun- 
 tains. The first building it destroyed was Mr. Garland's 
 house ; the next were Chapin Holden's house and barn : 
 these buildings were in Northfield. Mr. Joseph Will- 
 son's house and barn in Warwick were entirely torn 
 from their foundations, and some of his family badly 
 injured. Mr. Elisha Brown's house was also destroyed ; 
 and one of his daughters, about thirteen years of age, 
 buried in the ruins, and killed : another daughter 
 was permanently injured. These were in Warwick. 
 In the north-westerly part of Orange, Capt. Moses 
 Smith's tavern-house, with barns and sheds, were all 
 swept away in a moment. In the twinkling of an eye 
 they were scattered in every direction ; and a young 
 woman by the name of Stearns, about eighteen years 
 of age, in the bloom of youth (an inmate of the house), 
 was thus instantly called to her final account. Only 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 :o7 
 
 the two persons above mentioned perished ; but many 
 were severely wounded. Some cattle were killed, and 
 others much injured. Five dwelling-houses and thir- 
 teen barns were either entirely destroyed or unroofed ; 
 and many more sustained some damage. 
 
 It is impossible to describe this scene of destruction 
 the morning after the calamity. The resistless fury of 
 the wind had laid low the dwellings and other build- 
 ings of many of our townsmen and friends. Wood- 
 land, orchards, stone walls, and even large rocks, were 
 no impediment to its force.* The wake of the 
 whirlwind was literally covered with wood, timber, 
 boards, shingles, hay, straw, and fragments of every 
 thing conceivable. Heavy logs that had lain years on 
 the ground, and were embedded considerably in the 
 soil, were torn out of their resting-places, and in many 
 instances were broken to pieces. Several rocks that 
 would weigh a ton or more were started from^their 
 beds, and moved a considerable distance. Household 
 furniture and clothing were strewed over the ground, 
 rent and torn, and dashed to pieces. Many articles of 
 value were found in other towns east of us, and 
 a few of them were not materially injured. A part of 
 the roof of a building was found twenty-five miles 
 from the place whence it was taken ; and a part 
 of a leaf of an account-book was found in Groton, 
 about sixty miles from the house where it was de- 
 posited in a chamber. The next day after this awful 
 visitation the town assembled, and chose a committee 
 to ascertain the loss of the inhabitants, and agreed to 
 
 * See Appendix, p^e iS8. 
 
lo8 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 raise four hundred dollars, to be distributed among the 
 sufferers in proportion to each one's loss, or as nearly 
 so as the committee should think proper. 
 
 1822. 
 
 In 1822 a committee was chosen to report the best 
 method to be pursued by the town in choosing, or- 
 ganizing, and empowering our school committee in 
 future. 
 
 The report of this committee contains sentiments 
 honorable and laudable in themselves, and of great 
 importance to the town ; and it is a matter of regret 
 that we have so soon forgotten such salutary advice. 
 
 Here follows the report, viz. : — 
 
 The subscribers having been chosen a committee to 
 report a plan for the better regulation and examination of 
 the schools in the town of Warwick, — impressed with the 
 opinion that the subject of the education of youth, as it re- 
 spects science and morals, which are by law required to be 
 taught in our common schools, is of the highest importance 
 to society ; that there cannot be too much attention and 
 patronage given to this subject by the public ; that a well- 
 regulated and uniform system of instruction throughout the 
 several school-districts in the town would be of great ad- 
 vantage to the community, — to effect the above the follow- 
 ing is respectfully submitted : — 
 
 ist. That it is expedient to choose a committee annual- 
 ly : that this committee consist of two persons, whose duty 
 it shall be (together with the minister of the town) to visit 
 and inspect the several schools twice in a season ; viz., 
 near the commencement, and before the close, of the winter 
 term. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 109 
 
 2d. As strangers and foreigners from different parts of 
 the country are frequently intrusted with the charge of in- 
 structing our children, therefore that this committee be au- 
 thorized to recommend and introduce such modes of instruc- 
 tion, and such books, as, in their judgment, are best adapted 
 to promote the great object for which our schools were 
 established. 
 
 3d. That any person presuming to take the charge of 
 any school within the limits of the town, as an instructor, 
 shall be required to produce to the committee of the district 
 who contracts with him, and to the examining committee on 
 their first examination, such credentials as the law requires. 
 
 4th. That as large sums of money have been frequently 
 paid to those whose services as instructors have been injuri- 
 ous, rather than beneficial, to our youth, that this committee, 
 noting any such defect on their first examination, shall 
 report the same to the district in which he may be engaged. 
 
 5th. That this committee (the minister excepted) re- 
 ceive from the town a reasonable compensation for their 
 services if performed agreeable to the foregoing report. 
 
 Amos Taylor, 1 
 
 Lemuel Wheelock, 
 
 Joseph Stevens, \ Committee. 
 
 JosiAH Proctor, I 
 
 James Goldsbury, J 
 
 The town voted to accept of this report, and chose 
 a committee of two persons, agreeable to its recom- 
 mendation ; but how soon have they forgotten or dis- 
 regarded these useful hints ! 
 
 In 1823 the present hearse-house was built, under 
 the superintendence of Abijah Eddy, Isaac Hastings, 
 
no HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 JLin., and William Cobb, — a committee chosen by the 
 town for that purpose. 
 
 1824. 
 
 In 1824 the meeting-house was painted, and the 
 windows and plastering repaired. 
 
 1832. 
 
 On the 23d of April, 1832, a number of the inhabit- 
 ants of Warwick turned out voluntarily, and procured 
 and set out about sixty rock-maple trees around the 
 burying-ground, and a spruce-tree in the centre, and 
 one each side of the south gate. 
 
 Thus, in an imperfect manner, I have detailed to 
 you the origin of many of the principal events that 
 have transpired in this place since civilized man has 
 claimed dominion over it ; and, in closing, perhaps a 
 few observations on the situation of the town, the 
 productions of the soil, manners of the inhabitants, 
 longevity, &c., will not be misplaced. 
 
 Warwick is situated in the north-east corner of 
 Franklin County, seventy-seven and a half miles from 
 Boston by the stage-road, and twenty miles from 
 Greenfield (the shire-town of the county), having the 
 State of New Hampshire on the north, and joining 
 Winchester and Richmond in that State ; on the east 
 by Royalston in the County of Worcester, and 
 Orange in the County of Franklin ; south on an unin- 
 corporated tract of land called Erving's Grant ; west 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. iii 
 
 on said grant, and tha town of Northfield. It con- 
 tained originally twenty-three thousand acres of land 
 before the south-east corner of it was set off to 
 Orange. The surface is broken and hilly, and a high 
 hill called Mount Grace occupies a very prominent 
 station near the centre of the town. In many places 
 the soil is so rocky and broken as to render it unfit 
 for cultivation : in other places, tolerably good ; not so 
 suitable for English grain as for grass, corn, and po- 
 tatoes. The principal exports are beef, cattle, butter, 
 and cheese ; but not so much of these as formerly. 
 Braiding straw and palm-leaf hats is the principal 
 occupation of the women, excepting attending to the 
 dairy and other household affairs. The inhabitants, 
 generally speaking, are hardy, industrious, and perse- 
 vering, principally cultivators of the earth ; sober, 
 intelligent, and of steady habits, averse to idleness, 
 and aloof from extreme poverty : perhaps as much on 
 an equality as any town in the Commonwealth, — none 
 extravagantly rich, and none miserably poor. The 
 climate is healthy and the air salubrious, and the 
 water is not surpassed by any on earth. The princi- 
 pal disease is consumption ; not exempt, however, from 
 fevers, and the numberless little petty diseases inci- 
 dent to man. Only one person has ever died in this 
 town that was over one hundred years of age ; and 
 that was a Mrs. Willson, who was about one hundred 
 and two years old when she died. As a proof of the 
 longevity of its inhabitants, in a population of eleven 
 hundred and fifty, there are now living forty-six indi- 
 viduals over seventy years of age, — twenty-three 
 men and twenty-three women. Twenty-five of them 
 
112 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 are over eighty years, — thirteen men and twelve 
 women ; three over ninety years, — two men and one 
 woman ; the oldest man ninety-three years, the 
 oldest woman ninety-one years. The aggregate ages 
 of the thirteen men that exceed eighty years is eleven 
 hundred and four years ; and of the twelve women, 
 ten hundred and ninety-seven years : total aggregate 
 amount of the twenty-five oldest persons is two thou- 
 sand two hundred and one years. It is presumed this 
 falls years short of the exact truth, as there are no 
 fractions counted, although some of them amount to 
 almost a year. 
 
 There is now the Congregational society in this 
 town, Rev. Preserved Smith, pastor, which comprises 
 about one half of the voters and taxable property ; a 
 Universalist incorporated society ; part of a Baptist 
 society, incorporated with a part of Royalston, Elder 
 Marshal, minister ; part of another Baptist society, 
 who are connected with some of the inhabitants of 
 Erving's Grant and New Salem, Elder John Shepard- 
 son, teacher; and a few Methodists who belong to a 
 Methodist society in Northfield, and have a meeting- 
 house in the South Woods (so called). Here follows 
 a list of the names of all the persons that have ever 
 been chosen and served as town-officers, with the 
 number of years they served, when known.* There 
 have been two settled ministers of the Congregational 
 order before the present one, Rev. Preserved Smith ; 
 viz.. Rev. Lemuel Hedge and Rev, Samuel Reed. 
 
 Rev. Lemuel Hedge was ordained, and a church 
 
 * See Appendix, page 192. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 113 
 
 gathered, Dec. 3, 1760. Rev. Mr. Forbes of Brook- 
 field preached the sermon from ist Timothy, 4th chap., 
 6th verse. Ministers present, — Mr. Forbes, Mr. 
 Hubbard of Northfield. Mr. Frink of Rutland Dis- 
 trict was moderator, and gave the charge. The 
 covenant was signed by Lemuel Hedge, David Ay res, 
 Ebenezer Davis, Ephraim Perry, David Burnett, John 
 Farrar, Asa Robbins, Charles Woods, James Ball, 
 Jeduthan Morse, Amzi Doolittle, and Silas Town. 
 Rev. Lemuql Hedge died Oct. 17, 1777, in the forty- 
 seventh year of his age, and the seventeenth of his 
 ministry. The sermon at his funeral was preached 
 by the Rev. Bunker Gay of Hinsdale, N.H. Rev. 
 Samuel Reed was ordained Sept. 23, 1779, and died 
 July 31, 1812. Rev. Joseph Lee of Royalston 
 preached the sermon at his funeral. There was a 
 great congregation present. Rev. Preserved Smith, 
 jun., was ordained Oct. 12, 18 14, and still remains 
 here (viz., 1832). There has been one Universalist 
 minister, the Rev. Caleb Rich, and two Baptist minis- 
 ters, the Rev. Levi Hodge, and Rev. John Shep- 
 ardson, that have resided in town previous to the 
 above date. 
 
 Almost one generation has passed away since 
 I commenced and wrote the first part of the history 
 of Warwick. The first settlers have all passed off 
 the stage of action ; and most of the then aged and 
 worthy members of society have followed them to 
 their final resting-place, — the grave. Those then in 
 the prime of manhood are either dead, or tottering in 
 old age ; those that were young then are bearing the 
 
114 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 public burdens, and filling the ranks made thin by the 
 great ^Destroyer ; and those unborn at that time have 
 arrived to adult age, and are busily employed on the 
 great theatre of life. The grand object of the his- 
 torian ought to be a desire to perpetuate the truth, to 
 transmit to all coming time a fair record of all the pass- 
 ing events, uninfluenced by present party-feelings, and 
 above all disguise and hypocritical cant. 
 
 Now (in 1854) a blank of twenty-two years is to 
 be filled ; and I shall begin where I left off in 1832. 
 
 1833- 
 
 In 1833 some proposed amendments to the con- 
 stitution of the State were laid before the town for 
 their approval or rejection ; and there were one hun- 
 dred and eighteen yeas to nine nays. 
 
 1834. 
 
 In 1834 the school-fund was separated from the 
 ministerial fund ; and the town voted that it should 
 be loaned on land security : it amounted to five hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 This year the town built a new pound ; and also 
 the school-districts were defined anew by a committee 
 chosen for that purpose, consisting of Jonathan Blake, 
 jun., Josiah Proctor, and Lemuel Wheelock. 
 
 1836. 
 
 In 1836 the first religious society in Warwick (Uni- 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 115 
 
 tarian) built a new meeting-house, which is now stand- 
 ing (in 1854), being the third house built for, or by, 
 that society. It stands a little west of where the two 
 others stood, and on the west side of the county-road. 
 It is not large, but a neat, well-proportioned edifice, 
 erected by subscription of the members of the parish, 
 at a cost of about three thousand dollars. The house 
 contains sixty slips, or pews, which will seat five 
 grown persons each : no gallery except in front, ex- 
 pressly for the singers. It has a fine-toned bell, 
 weighing a thousand and eighty-nine pounds, which 
 cost three hundred and fifty dollars, which is in- 
 cluded in the first-mentioned sum. This was the first 
 church-bell that was ever purchased in Warwick. 
 The above bell was warranted for one year ; and before 
 the year was out it broke, and was returned to Boston 
 and exchanged for another which was a few pounds 
 lighter, without any cost to the society except the 
 freight each way, and the trouble attending. This bell 
 was also warranted for one year, and lasted until early 
 in 1 84 1, when it gave out also. The society then 
 thought it best to try at Ames's foundry in Spring- 
 field, carried the old bell there, and exchanged for a 
 new one, of about the same weight, and paid the dif- 
 ference between old metal and new : this bell remains 
 sound to this day; viz., 1865. 
 
 The house has a well-finished vestry in the base- 
 ment, for the use of the sabbath school, public meet- 
 ings, &c. The subscribers chose Jonathan Blake, 
 jun., Joseph Stevens, and Samuel Moore, a committee, 
 to contract for building the house, and superintending 
 its erection. It was raised the eighth day of September, 
 
ii6 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 1836. The hands that raised the meeting-house took 
 dinner at Asa Taft's Hotel with the architect and 
 contractor, Mr. "Chapin Holden, two ministers, two 
 doctors, two deacons, and the building-committee by 
 invitation, numbering in all seventy-four. The pews 
 were appraised by a committee, and then put up at 
 auction for a choice, and all sold, bringing four hun- 
 dred and seven dollars more than the cost of the 
 house, which was expended in furniture for the house, 
 and in finishing the vestry.* 
 
 There was an Orthodox society formed in 1829, in 
 this town, partly from seceders from the first society 
 (Unitarian), and a few others, and organized a church, 
 consisting of thirty members ; and in 1833 they built 
 a meeting-house, at a cost of about thirteen hundred 
 dollars. This house stands on the land formerly occu- 
 pied by the Franklin Glass-Factory Company, and 
 near where their main buildings were located, and is 
 a short distance south of the town's common and the 
 Unitarian meeting-house. On the sixth day of Novem- 
 ber, 1833, the Rev. Samuel Kingsbury was settled as 
 their pastor. He preached for them about two years, 
 and was then dismissed. The Rev. Roger C. Hatch 
 was ordained as their second pastor on the twenty- 
 third day of December, 1835, and was dismissed June 
 22, 1853. 
 
 In 1840, at the April meeting, an article of amend- 
 ment to the constitution of the State was voted on ; 
 and there were eighty-three yeas, and fourteen 
 nays. 
 
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HISTORY OF WARWICK. 117 
 
 lawfully bounded by the selectmen by proper metes 
 and bounds ; and a high stone monument with stones 
 about it, and the number of the district on its face at 
 each angle and corner ; and the eleventh district 
 altered to ten ; and districts No. 3 and No. 9 were 
 united ; and ten permanent districts formed, and ac- 
 cepted by the town. 
 
 A dispute about the line between Widow Rhoda 
 Wheelock's thirds and the town-common was this 
 year settled by a reference composed of Richard Col- 
 ton of Northfield, Ozias Roberts of Gill, and Jered 
 Weed of Petersham. 
 
 They were chosen mutually by the selectmen and the 
 said Widow Wheelock ; and their award was accepted 
 by the parties, and the north-east corner of the com- 
 mon permanently established. 
 
 In 185 I the legal voters of the town were called 
 upon to give in their votes in favor of, or against, call- 
 ing a convention to amend and revise the State con- 
 stitution : yeas, 113; nays, 71. 
 
 In 1852 they were again called to vote on the same 
 question, when a hundred and twenty-eight voted in 
 favor of calling a convention, and sixty-nine against 
 it. 
 
 In 1853 they chose Samuel W. Spooner a delegate 
 to the convention to be convened at Boston to make 
 amendments to the constitution of the State. 
 
 At the Novembsr meeting following they were 
 called upon to accept or refuse the adoption of the 
 new constitution as amended, and to be laid before 
 the people : and the votes were, for adopting the same, 
 a hundred and seven votes ; opposed to it, sixty-six 
 votes. 
 
$1,500.00 
 
 Soo.oo 
 
 700.00 
 
 $3,000.00 
 
 $48.95 
 
 30.00 
 
 778.95 
 
 118 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The money voted to be raised by the town this 
 year, 1853, viz., is as follows : — 
 
 For the support of poor, and other contingent 
 
 expenses 
 
 For repairing highways .... 
 For schools 
 
 Total 
 
 School-money received from the State 
 Interest of the Town School-Fund . 
 Total expended for schooling this year . 
 
 Amount of town debts . . . . . $1,338.00 
 
 Number of ratable polls in town, two hundred and forty- 
 four. 
 
 There are now four religious societies in Warwick ; 
 viz., one Unitarian, one Orthodox, one Baptist, one 
 Universalist, and a few Methodists that belong to a 
 society in Northfield. 
 
 The Universalist society was incorporated in Febru- 
 ary, 1814: they have no meeting-house. The other 
 three societies have each of them one, situated in or 
 near the middle of the town. • 
 
 There is no settled minister of any denomination 
 in the town at the present time. There is but one 
 doctor, Amos Taylor, who came herein 1815 or 1816. 
 
 There is no. lawyer: never had but one, Henry 
 Barnard, Esq. Not many very important or interest- 
 ing events have transpired in the past twenty-two 
 years. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 119 
 
 Public and private affairs have moved on in the 
 current of time, with their usual progressive, but not 
 very exciting, fluctuations. Party spirit has been kept 
 alive, and has marked out its alternate rise and fall of 
 the contending parties. 
 
 For the largest share of the time the Democratic 
 party has been in the ascendency, and carried a ma- 
 jority of the votes. At this time the Whig and Dem- 
 ocratic parties are nearly balanced ; and the Free-soil 
 party numbers nearly one-fifth of the votes. 
 
 The town has gradually decreased in the number of 
 its inhabitants for thirty years past, as will be seen by 
 the census. 
 
 The farms, as a general thing, are not so productive 
 as they were forty years ago. Many pieces of tillage- 
 land are nearly worn out (as we term it). Peach-trees 
 are a complete failure ; and not one-tenth part so many 
 apples are now raised as at that time. The trees have 
 become old and decayed, and but few young ones are- 
 set out to replace them, although some attention has 
 been paid to grafting of late. The pasture-lands, which 
 were formerly good, have greatly deteriorated, and are 
 almost covered with noxious bushes, brakes, and ferns ; 
 and they yield comparatively little to their former pi;od- 
 ucts. The hay is also redficed in quantity as well as 
 quality. Less rye and wheat is raised than formerly, 
 but quite as much Indian corn ; oats less, and barley 
 probably more. The greatest manufacturing interest 
 in the town is its lumber. Large quantities of white- 
 pine timber have been manufactured here in times past : 
 the old growth is becoming scarce, being nearly all 
 cut off. Considerable quantities of the second growth 
 
I20 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 of pines are now sawed into pail-staves, and other 
 articles of various kinds. The hard wood is worked 
 into chair-stuff, brush-woods, and broom-handles. 
 
 There are fifteen saw-mills in the town, which an- 
 nually send to market more than one million feet of 
 lumber. There are three pail-stave shops, and three 
 or four shops with circular saws attached, to cut chair- 
 plank and many other small articles ; one axe-shop, 
 three blacksmith-shops, and three tanneries ; three 
 stores (one of them is a small union-store), one tavern, 
 and one post-office. The decline of population and 
 of business in this town may be mainly attributed to 
 its exclusion from the privilege of a railroad passing 
 through it ; while all the adjoining towns but one have 
 a railroad ddp6t to accommodate them, and facilitate 
 the transportation of their productions to market. 
 
 Although I know little of geology, I am induced to 
 believe, from the few discoveries that have been made 
 by scientific men, and the many indications so appar- 
 ent on its surface, of mineral productions, that War- 
 wick will one day be rich in her inexhaustible stores of 
 iron and lead and copperas and firestone, and many 
 othrer valuable and useful articles in manufactures and 
 commerce. 
 
 - Little, however, has been discovered yet ; but that 
 little may authorize us to expect an abundant supply 
 of many of the foregoing articles, and others, perhaps, 
 not now thought of 
 
 I will state, from memory and traditionary lore, some 
 facts and discoveries which I myself have seen, or 
 heard from others. As to iron-ore, that is abundant 
 in many places within the town, I know very well. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 12 1 
 
 As to the extent of the bog-ore I cannot say ; 
 but I can say, that, within my memory, the sound of 
 the trip-hammer was regularly heard from day to day, 
 and iron of the best quality was there manufactured. 
 I have now a small piece of chain which was made 
 from that ore : it is strong, tough, and very malleable. 
 For many years it was used with a draught-chain on 
 the ground to draw logs and timber ; and seldom would 
 a link break in that chain, although not more than 
 half the size of the other. 
 
 For want of proper encouragement, or want of 
 funds, or for some other cause to me unknown, the 
 business was stopped. I have heard it stated that the 
 ore failed ; and well it might, as but one little spot was 
 ever opened or searched out to my knowledge ; and 
 millions of tons may now lie concealed above and be- 
 low that place, and may forever lie so concealed, unless 
 some accidental discovery, or some scientific research, 
 is made to bring it to light. The old forge stood about 
 two miles southerly from the centre of the town, and 
 a little below Morse's Pond, near where Dea. George 
 W. Moore's saw-mill now is. 
 
 About one mile south of this place is Round Motm- 
 tain (so called) : on its north-easterly side there are 
 many striking indications of iron and copperas, the 
 stones slacking when exposed to the light and air, and 
 emitting a sulphurous smell. A little more than a 
 mile south of this place, as I was surveying a piece of 
 land forty years ago, my attention was called by the 
 proprietor of the land to a certain spot where he had 
 dug a hole about a foot or a foot and a half deep, as 
 he said, to find the brimstone ; and it smelled very 
 
122 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Strong of that article. It was of a red or yellowish 
 color. I took a little, and rubbed it in my hands : it 
 not only colored them, but the smell of brimstone con- 
 tinued even after I had washed them thoroughly. 
 
 I intended, when Prof Hitchcocjc made the geologi- 
 cal survey of the State, to have been present, and 
 shown him, not only this, but several other places and 
 substances that I could have pointed out to him with- 
 in the limits of the town ; one in particular, where a 
 certain kind of earth, or paint, is found, which, as tradi- 
 tion tells the story, a man living near by used to dig, 
 and use to paint his cart-wheels. 
 
 The owner of the land, who is now dead, told me 
 that he called it his terre de Seine, as it resembled the 
 earth which is found on the banks of the River Seine 
 in France, from which it derived its name. Black- 
 lead is also found in this town, many rocks being found 
 that have black-lead in their interstices. Iron-ore has 
 been found on Mount Grace ; and also pure lead was 
 found on its north-east lobe {Bennett's Knob) by one of 
 tjie first settlers : he had the iron-ore experimented 
 on, which resulted in the fact that it was too unmallea- 
 ble and too brittle for common wrought-iron. 
 
 There is iron-rock ore on the Daniel Johnson Farm, 
 in the east part of Warwick, near the old turnpike- 
 road that leads to Orange. Many years ago, there 
 were considerable quantities of it dug, and carted to 
 Worcester to be made into emery. 
 
 There is also firestone, or freestone, discovered by 
 Prof Hitchcock when he surveyed the State, and be- 
 lieved to be inexhaustible, situated only about half a 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 1 23 
 
 mile from the middle of the town. For a proper de- 
 scription of the two last-mentioned articles', reference 
 may be had to said Hitchcock's Geological Report, in 
 every town-clerk's office in the State. 
 
 There is a place on the farm, formerly owned by ]\Ir. 
 Wilder Stevens, where there are several Indian mor- 
 tars, as they are called ; viz., deep and nearly round, 
 smooth holes in the solid rock, and three or four feet 
 deep ; and the largest is perhaps two feet across : they 
 are as smooth as if worn out by water, and similar to 
 some holes that I have seen in the bed of Deerfield 
 River, in a dry time at Shelburne Falls ; and what 
 renders it more remarkable is the fact that they are 
 located on the highest land (excepting the mountain- 
 tops) between the valley of Miller's River on the 
 south and the Ashuelot on the north, near where 
 the water descends each way towards those rivers. 
 
 On land formerly owned by Mr. Nathan Hastings, 
 there is a place, under a shelving rock, that was once a 
 bear's den ; and a young cub was caught there, and 
 Mrs. Hastings actually nursed it at her own breast. 
 Not a great distance from that place, on Mr. Thomas 
 Mallard's farm, there is a hole in the ledges, where 
 formerly, if a stone was dropped into it, the stone 
 might be heard to rattle down, down, until out of 
 hearing. Subsequently the boys have thrown in so 
 many stones, that the passage has got stopped up ; and 
 the stones do not now descend far into the cavern. 
 
 Mount Grace is situated near the centre of War- 
 wick, and is one of the highest mountains in the State 
 (according to State survey, it is sixteen hundred and 
 twenty-eight feet high). The water runs out of this 
 
124 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 town, east, west, north, and south. To the east and 
 south it falls into Miller's River ; to the north into 
 the Ashuelot at Winchester, N.H. ; and west into the 
 Connecticut River in Northfield. 
 
 In the year 1830 I surveyed and measured all the 
 roads in Warwick, and made a plan of the town, for a 
 map of the State. There were seventy-six miles of 
 county and town roads at that time ; and there must 
 be about the same now. There have been quite a num- 
 ber of roads laid out and built at great expense since 
 that time, and many have been discontinued. 
 
 Among the early settlers of this town, we find the 
 names of Joseph Goodell«, Samuel Bennet, Dea. James 
 Ball, Amos Marsh, Solomon Eager, Thomas Rich, 
 Moses Leonard, Col. Samuel Williams, Dea. Silas 
 Towne, Col. Joseph Mayo, Caleb Mayo, Capt. John 
 Go]jdsbury, Capt. Mark Moore, and Jonathan Moore. 
 Some of the above have descendants still living here ; 
 and others we know nothing of, except from the 
 records. 
 
 In the winter of 1832 there were forty-six individ- 
 uals in the town that were over seventy years of age ; 
 twenty-three men, and twenty-three women. I now 
 find, on Feb. 1,1854, the following list of aged people ; * 
 but not one of them was seventy years old when I 
 then wrote : those forty-six have all died, or removed 
 from town, within twenty-two years. 
 
 See Appendix, page 198. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 125 
 
 CONTINUATION 
 
 OF THE HISTORY OF WARWICK FROM 1854 TO 1872, RY 
 DEACON HERVEY BARBER. 
 
 August, 1854. — The town voted to instruct the 
 town-agent (James Stockwell) to ascertain whether 
 a new trial on the Murdock case can be had ; also 
 voted to pay the expense of transporting the bag- 
 gage of the Warwick Light Infantry to and from the 
 place of encampment the present year. 
 
 May, 1855. — The town voted upon the several 
 amendments to the Constitution of the Common- 
 wealth, passed by the last two legislatures, as fol- 
 lows : — 
 
 Art. I, yeas 31, nays 3 ; Art. 2, yeas 34, hays o ; 
 Art, 3, yeas 34, nays o ; Art. 4, yeas 34, nays o ; Art. 
 5, yeas 34, nays o ; Art. 6, yeas 34, nays o. 
 
 March 17, 1856. — Article 4 in the warrant for a 
 town-meeting is as follows : " To see if the town will 
 vote to purchase or hire a farm for the purpose of 
 supporting the town-paupers, or act thereon." Also 
 voted that the selectmen be a committee to receive 
 proposals for a town-farm, and report at an adjourned 
 meeting. 
 
 Voted to adjourn this meeting until two weeks from 
 this date, to hear said report. 
 
 At the adjourned meeting, the selectmen made the 
 following report : — 
 
126 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Received proposals from Asa Bancroft for his home- 
 farm, with the buildings thereon, at . . . $2,700 
 Of Dea. Sylvanus Ward for his home-farm and build- 
 ings, at . . . . . ... . 2,000 
 
 For his Ashbell Ward place and buildings . . 1,000 
 
 From Daniel Felton for his home-farm and buildings, 1,700 
 
 From S. T. Delvee for his home-farm and buildings, 1,500 
 
 They also report, that, in their opinion, the town can save 
 $300 per year by purchasing Dea. Ward's home-farm, or 
 Asa Bancroft's ; and recommend to the town to choose a 
 committee to investigate the subject, and authorize said 
 committee to purchase such farm as they may think 
 proper. 
 
 Ibri Baker, \ 
 
 Clark Stearns, S Cornmittee. 
 
 H. G. Mallard, ) 
 
 Wakwick, March 31, 1856. 
 
 Voted to lay the report on the table : afterwards 
 the town voted to purchase a town-farm. 
 
 Also voted to choose a committee of seven persons, 
 including the selectmen, to purchase a farm on which 
 to support the paupers of the town. 
 
 Voted and chose the selectmen by nomination. 
 
 Voted, and chose Edward Mayo, James Stockwell, 
 S. N. Atwood, and Hervey Barber, by ballot. Said 
 committee, after examining the farms in the above 
 report, and Ezekiel ElUs's, Joseph W. Phillips's, and 
 Kimball Whitney's, and conferring with the owners, 
 and considerable consultation among themselves, 
 voted, six to one, to purchase the Bancroft Farm. A 
 few days after, said committee purchased of Asa 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 127 
 
 Bancroft his home-farm and a wood-lot adjoining for 
 the sum of ^2,700. They soon purchased stock, tools, 
 and furniture sufficient for the use of said farm and 
 house, for $1,300; and early in May following they 
 hired a man and his wife to take charge of the estab- 
 lishment, under the superintendence of the selectmen, 
 for the sum of $175. 
 
 Our town-farm has been improved, and nearly all 
 of the paupers have been supported in that manner, 
 from that time to the present (1872), to the satisfaction 
 of a large majority of the inhabitants of the town. 
 Our paupers have a comfortable home, without the 
 continued suspense of removal from year to year, as 
 was the previous custom, when their maintenance was 
 contracted for by the year to those that were willing 
 to take them the cheapest ; and even under that form 
 of support, for some years previous to maintaining an 
 almshouse, it cost the town over six hundred dollars 
 per annum : but, since we have adopted the present 
 system, the largest expense per annum has been but 
 a little over three hundred dollars, and some years less 
 than one-half that amount ; and one year the cost to 
 the town was only twenty-four and a half cents per 
 week for each person supported, including interest on 
 money invested, labor, clothing for paupers, doctor's 
 bills, and all other necessary expenses for the year, — 
 the growth of stock and the products of farm paying 
 all the other expenses. And we have supported from 
 eight to twelve persons during all these years, all be- 
 ing old and feeble people, able to perform but very 
 little labor, — a larger number than would be the aver- 
 age for as many years previous to the purchase of the 
 town-farm. 
 
128 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Aug. 31, 1856. — Voted to give School District No. i 
 leave to build a schoolhouse on the common, near 
 where the old meeting-house stood. During the au- 
 tumn, the present schoolhouse was built on the spot 
 where it now stands. 
 
 May I, 1857. — The inhabitants met and voted 
 upon the following amendments to the Constitution of 
 the Commonwealth, that were agreed upon by the 
 legislatures of 1856 and 1857: Art. i, 48 yeas, 34 
 nays ; Art. 2, 36 yeas, 46 nays ; Art. 3, 44 yeas, 38 
 nays. Also voted to raise $1,000 for the purpose of 
 paying off the town-debt. 
 
 1858. — At a legal town-meeting, thq town voted 
 and chose Henry G. Mallard agent to take charge of 
 the pauper case, commenced against the inhabitants 
 of Warwick by the town of Northfield, with instruc- 
 tions to manage the case as he thinks will be for the 
 best interests of the town. This case was prosecuted 
 to final judgment ; the result being that the pauper 
 (Miss Adeline Phelps), an insane person, was as- 
 signed to the town of Northfield for her future sup- 
 port. 
 
 March i. — Voted to notify all future town-meetings 
 by posting an attested copy of the warrant at the post- 
 office, and another at Scott's store, and a notice at 
 each meeting-house in town, seven days previous to 
 the meeting. 
 
 March 7, 1859. — Voted that a copy of the warrant 
 be posted at the hotel, instead of Scott's store. 
 
 May 9, 1858. — The inhabitants of the town met 
 at a legal town-meeting, and voted upon the amend- 
 ment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 129 
 
 agreed upon by its last two legislatures, as follows : 
 Yeas, 6 ; nays, 36. 
 
 Oct. 2, 1858. — The funerals of Lemuel Scott and 
 Henry G. Mallard were attended from the Unitarian 
 church ; a large audience being present, and in full 
 sympathy with the afflicted families, as two young 
 men in the midst of their usefulness were suddenly 
 stricken down by typhoid-fever, causing a sadness 
 not often experienced by the people of the town since 
 its first settlement. 
 
 May 7, i860. — The inhabitants of the town met 
 at a legal town-meeting, and gave in their votes on 
 the amendments of the Constitution agreed upon by 
 the last two legislatures of the Commonwealth, as 
 follows: Article i, 18 yeas, i nay ; Article 2, 8 yeas, 
 II nays. 
 
 The whole number of persons between the ages of 
 eighteen and forty-five enrolled in the militia. May, 
 i860, was 145. 
 
 March 2, 1861. — The whole amount of indebted- 
 ness of the town, as per report of selectmen, over 
 and above resources, was 1^2,527.03. 
 
 Nov. I. — The selectmen of the towns of Orange 
 and Warwick met, according to appointment, and 
 erected stone monuments on the town-line, beside 
 each of the highways running between said towns, as 
 provided by chapter 84 of the Acts of 1861 ; and the 
 selectmen of Northfield and Warwick performed the 
 same service on the line of their towns Nov. 13 
 of the same year ; also the aforesaid town-officers of 
 Winchester performed the like services on the line of 
 said towns Nov. 15 ; and again those of Royalston 
 
I30 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 and Warwick did the same between their towns 
 Nov. 1 6. 
 
 During the first year of the war, the town in its 
 corporate capacity did not take any action in the 
 matter: but July 28, 1862, the town voted to instruct 
 the selectmen to offer a bounty of $100 to each vol- 
 unteer to the number of thirteen ; also voted to 
 instruct the selectmen to petition the next General 
 Court to pass an act legalizing the assessment of said 
 bounty upon the polls and estates of the inhabitants 
 of the town. 
 
 Aug. 25, 1862. — Voted to authorize the selectmen 
 to offer a bounty of $100 to each person who shall 
 volunteer and be accepted to fill the quota of the 
 town on the last gall for 300,000 men by the Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Voted to authorize the selectmen to borrow money 
 for the before-named purpose. 
 
 Also voted to instruct the selectmen to petition the 
 next General Court for the assessment of the same 
 upon the polls and estates of the inhabitants of the 
 town. 
 
 December, 1862. — The town received the present 
 of a bell from Col. McKim (his wife is a daughter of 
 Col. Lemuel Wheelock, a former resident of this town). 
 Said bell was suspended from the dome of the village 
 schoolhouse, as wished by the donor, and dedicated 
 by a public meeting, with appropriate speeches from 
 several of the citizens of our town, expressing their 
 gratitude to the giver for his valuable and very useful 
 gift.* 
 
 * See Appendix, page 190. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 13 1 
 
 Feb. 17, 1863. — Deacon Hervey Barber gave a 
 lecture in the evening, giving some of the more im- 
 portant events in the past history of the town (it 
 being the centennial anniversary of its incorporation), 
 in the Unitarian church, which was heard by a large 
 and attentive audience. March 2. — The town voted 
 to empower the treasurer, with the approbation of 
 the selectmen, to borrow money to be expended as 
 aid to families of volunteers. Amount paid to 
 twenty-two volunteers previous to March 2, 1863, 
 $2,202.78. April 2. — The town voted on the fol- 
 lowing amendment to the Constitution of the Com- 
 monwealth ; viz., " No person of foreign birth shall be 
 entitled to vote, or shall be eligible to office, until he 
 shall have resided within the jurisdiction of the 
 United States for two years subsequent to having 
 received his naturalization-papers, and shall be other- 
 wise qualified as required by the Constitution and 
 laws of this Commonwealth." The votes being re- 
 ceived anfl counted, there were 40 yeas ; nays, none. 
 
 Dec. 12, 1863. — Voted to authorize the selectmen 
 to procure volunteers for the United-States service. 
 
 April 6, 1864. — Voted to raise the sum of $1,500, 
 to be assessed, or as much of the same as the select- 
 men shall deem necessary, to be expended in the 
 payment of bounties to soldiers who have volunteered 
 or shall volunteer on the town's quota. 
 
 June 13, 1864. — Voted to raise the sum of $624 
 to indemnify the selectmen for moneys expended in 
 furnishing recruits for the United-States service, the 
 same to be assessed the present year ; also voted to 
 instruct the selectmen to fill by enlistment of recruits 
 
132 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 all future quotas of said town on future calls previous 
 to a draft being made or ordered ; also voted to au- 
 thorize the selectmen to borrow money for the same. 
 
 What follows was taken from Adj -Gen. Schouler's 
 " History of Massachusetts in the Civil War," vol. li. 
 Warwick incorporated Feb. 17, 1763. Population in 
 1860,932; in 1*865,909. Valuation in i860, ^342,- 
 556; in 1865, $220,6S7' 
 
 The selectmen in 1861 and 1862 were William H. 
 Bass, Sylvanus N. Atwood, Charles R. Gale ; in 1863, 
 Charles R. Gale, Hervey Barber, Eben G. Ball ; in 
 1864, Hervey Barber, Eben G. Ball, Jesse F. Bridge ; 
 in 1865, E. F. Mayo, J. F. Bridge, William H. Gale. 
 
 The town-clerk during all these years of the war 
 was Edward F. Mayo. The town-treasurer in 1861, 
 1862, and 1863, was Benjamin G.Putnam; in 1864 
 and 1865, Philip Young. 
 
 Mr. Mayo, the town-clerk, writes, " The men who 
 went from our town were among our best citizens ; 
 and those that have returned to us fully octupy their 
 former stations. We have lost in the war twenty-six 
 men. Alexander Cooper, sergeant of Company G, 
 Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 
 was more than three years in the army, and was dis- 
 charged for wounds received at Spottsylvania. He 
 was killed Nov. 22, 1866, by the fall of a derrick, while 
 raising a stone for the soldiers' monument in this 
 town." 
 
 Warwick furnished ninety-nine men for the war ; 
 which was a surplus of nine above all demands. 
 
 April 6, 1864. — The town voted to accept of the 
 grant of land given by Mrs. Experience C. Fisk for 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 133 
 
 an addition to our burying-ground, complying with 
 the conditions of said grant. Also voted that the 
 Chair appoint a committee of three persons to draft 
 suitable resolutions, expressing the gratitude of the 
 town to the donor, .and report to this meeting; the 
 same to be presented to Mrs. Fisk, and a copy to be 
 inscribed on the records of the town. 
 
 Rev. I. S. Lincoln, William H. Bass, and Deacon 
 G. W. Moore were nominated by H. Barber, chair- 
 man, and confirmed by the town. Then voted that 
 the selectmen be a committee to examine the grounds, 
 and report at a future meeting. The committee to 
 draft resolutions, &c., reported as follows : — 
 
 Whereas, As Mrs. Experience C. Fisk presented to the 
 town of Warwick a beautiful and valuable lot of land con- 
 tiguous to tiie existing cemetery : therefore 
 
 Resolved, That the citizens of said town receive the same 
 with gratitude, and, in town-meeting assembled, return a 
 vote of thanks to the donor for her most valuable and 
 acceptable gift. 
 
 Resolved, That this land thus received, and consecrated 
 as a resting-place for the dead, shall be called the Fisk 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Resolved, That the town-clerk is hereby instructed to place 
 this preamble and resolutions upon the town-records, and 
 present the same to the donor, and send a copy thereof to 
 the editor of " The Gazette and Courier " at Greenfield, for 
 publication. 
 
 I. S. Lincoln, \ 
 
 G. W. MooRE, ^ Committee. 
 
 W. H. Bass, ) 
 
 Warwick, April 6, 1865. 
 
 The selectmen, being chosen a committee for that pur- 
 
134 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 pose, examined the grounds given by Mrs. Fisk, and reported 
 that said grounds needed fencing on three sides ; that some 
 parts needed levening;"that several old trees should be cut 
 down, and the old cellar be filled up ; that walks and drive- 
 ways should be made, and that it should be otherwise beauti- 
 fied, to comply with the wishes of the donor. 
 
 Hervey Barber, \ ■ 
 
 E. G. Ball, \ Committee. 
 
 J. F. Bridge, ) 
 
 Report accepted by the town ; and the selectmen 
 were instructed to carry the substance of said report 
 into effect. 
 
 The above improvements were made during the 
 season ; and several times since the town has directed 
 their selectmen to make further alterations ; so that 
 when the ornamental trees have become some larger, 
 and all vacant places that were at first proposed for 
 trees of various kinds are filled, the Fisk Cemetery 
 will compare favorably with ^ny in this vicinity. 
 
 1865. — As per report of the oversee^ of the poor, the 
 sum-total of expense of paupers on the town the past year 
 is $121.35. 
 
 Whole number of weeks' board of paupers on the town- 
 farm was 364. 
 
 Average cost of board per week, 2)Zk cents each. 
 
 Whole expense of the farm, $141.70. 
 
 Sum-total of expense for the year, $263.05. 
 
 Hervey Barber, ) _ r ,y ry 
 
 T -I- -n. ( Overseers of the Poor. 
 
 Jesse F. Bridge, ) 
 
 Warwick, March 4, 1865. 
 
 A small expense per week for the support of per- 
 
HISTORY OF Warwick. 135 
 
 sons on the town-farm, which speaks favorably for the 
 way we support our paupers, and the manner that we 
 proceed in cultivating the farm, and superintending 
 the whole concern. 
 
 This year there died at Whately (at the residence 
 of her son, Samuel Lesure, Esq.) Mrs. Hannah Le- 
 sure, widow of Mr. Samuel Lesure, aged 10 1 years, 
 4 months, and 12 days. Samuel Lesure, sen., was 
 one of the first settlers of the town of Warwick, and 
 was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and for 
 some years a pensioner. His widow received a pen- 
 sion also after the decease of her husband until the 
 time of her departure to that '* better land." We will 
 now record a traditionary anecdote, related by one of 
 her contemporaries, which may interest the younger 
 portion of our readers. 
 
 While her husband was absent in the service of his 
 country, between the years 1780 and 1783, Mrs. 
 Lesure espied one evening in the twilight, in the edge 
 of the woods near her dwelling-house, a large bear, 
 coolly taking a survey of the log-house and its sur- 
 roundings. And, knowing that bears have a particu- 
 lar penchant for pigs, she immediately took hers from 
 the pen, and put it in the house ; closed the door, and 
 barricaded it with table, stools, and blocks, and other 
 movables that the dwelling contained ; put her large 
 fire-shovel into the embers ; and patiently waited the 
 result. Soon Bruin niade his assault upon the door, 
 and she could plainly see his nose under the door, 
 which was hung on wooden hinges, also fastened with 
 a wooden latch, and a string, for the purpose of open- 
 ing, suspended from the outside, — locks at that time 
 
136 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 being almost unknown. The floor being laid with 
 loose boards, the door fitted none of the best. But, 
 not being able to force an entrance,-he next went to 
 the slide board-window (glass at that time was very 
 scarce), which, in her haste, she had neglected to fas- 
 ten. This he soon forced open enough to admit his 
 head, when our heroine seized the shovel, and made 
 such an onslaught upon the head of the bear, that he 
 soon retreated to the woods with growls and snarls, 
 and left our hostess and her lodger in quiet possession 
 of her humble abode. And when Mrs. Lesure was 
 over a hundred years of age, she showed both her ability 
 to labor and her patriotism by knitting stockings for 
 our soldiers that had left their homes to sustain our 
 government when threatened by traitors belonging to 
 the slaveholders' rebellion. 
 
 1866. — See account of the building of the soldiers' 
 monument, which contains all the votes of the town, 
 except those usually recorded every year.* 
 
 March 4, 1867. — The town voted to authorize the 
 treasurer, with the approbation of the' selectmen, to 
 borrow money for the support of the families of volun- 
 teers, disabled soldiers, and the families of the slain ; 
 and the same vote has been passed at the annual 
 March meeting each year from that time to the 
 present. 
 
 Nov. 3, 1868. — Town voted to pay Andrew F. Nor- 
 ton his town bounty (;^I25), with interest, from the 
 date of his enlistment as a soldier accredited to War- 
 wick in the war of the late Rebellion. 
 
 Norton's name, with several others, had been before 
 
 * On pages 146-149. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 137 
 
 the town, and the selectmen as a committee to inves- 
 tigate the subject, for over two years. The others 
 failed to receive -their bounty, not from any neglect of 
 duty, but from being unfortunate in the time of en- 
 listment, it being prior to the date of the act making 
 it legal for towns to pay the above bounty. 
 
 1869. — The legislature of the Commonwealth 
 passed an act abolishing the school-district system. 
 
 April 17. — The town voted to choose a committee 
 to appraise the school-houses, and report at a future 
 meeting ; then voted that the selectmen (James S. 
 Wheeler, E. F. Mayo, and H. H. Jillson) be said com- 
 mittee. Also voted, and added George N. Richards 
 and William H. Bass to the committee. 
 
 And voted to adjourn this meeting to May 15, at 
 three o'clock, p.m., to hear the report of said com- 
 mittee. 
 
 May 15. — The inhabitants met agreeably to ad- 
 journment ; heard the report of the committee on the 
 appraisal of school-houses, and voted to lay the report 
 over to the next March meeting. 
 
 Sept. 6, 1870. — The town voted unanimously to 
 accept of the act, and return to the school-district 
 system. 
 
 Nov. 8. — Voted to appropriate $100 for the bene- 
 fit of a public library. Also voted to accept of the 
 two pieces of land north of Nahum Jones's boot-shop ; 
 the same to be kept as a public park, and to be kept 
 enclosed with a suitable and substantial fence. And 
 also voted that the selectmen be a committee to dis- 
 pose of the timber on the town-farm, if, in their 
 opinion, it \vould be for the best interests of the town. 
 
138 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The proprietors of the park, prior to the above vote, 
 were several citizens of the town, who had authorized 
 their committee to convey said park to the town, on 
 condition that the town would vote to receive it, and for- 
 ever after keep it in suitable repair, as an ornament to 
 the village. Its history is as follows. Some time in 
 August, 1867, Mrs. M. A. McKim (a former resident 
 of Warwick), Mrs. E. C. Sibley, and Miss Sarah Ball, 
 circulated a subscription-paper for the purpose of 
 purchasing the blacksmith-shop lot, north of Mrs. 
 McKim's new house in Warwick Village, and Mr. 
 Jones's lot, north of his boot-shop, to be improved 
 and ornamented for a public park. On said subscrip- 
 tion-paper are to be found the names of our citizens 
 to the amount of 1^325, for the purpose of purchasing 
 said pieces of land. After said facts had become 
 known, Mr. Jones generously presented his lot, and 
 gave a deed thereof to the town ; and the blacksmith 
 lot was purchased of A. S. Atherton, Mrs. McKim 
 being the original owner. They each gave $2^ for the 
 above object. The proprietors, or rather the contrib- 
 utors, met at the hotel, and voted to choose a com- 
 mittee of three persons from their number to take 
 charge of the funds contributed, and finish off and 
 beautify said grounds in a suitable manner for a pub- 
 lic park. Voted and chose Hervey Barber, Calvin 
 W. Delva, and Edward F. Mayo, said committee, 
 who circulated another paper for subscriptions for the 
 above purpose ; and they obtained the promise on the 
 same of the sum of $127.50, to be paid in money, 
 labor, and materials, as specified on said paper, to be 
 expended under the supervision of the committee, for 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 139 
 
 the purpose of levelling, fencing, the setting of trees, 
 and otherwise ornamenting said park. The commit- 
 tee soon commenced their work ; and after some 
 delays, from one cause and another, the more promi- 
 nent one being the want of funds, and the county- 
 commissioners having laid a road in such a way as to 
 necessitate the selectmen to take a part of the pro- 
 prietors' lands for the continuance and extension of 
 said road, the lot, being fenced and nearly finished, 
 was presented to the town, and accepted, as above 
 stated, and a deed of warranty given by Messrs. 
 Jones and Atherton, on condition that the town ever 
 after keep the same in good order, and continue it as 
 a public park. 
 
 March 6, 1871. — The town voted to accept of the 
 proprietors' library, on the following conditions : That 
 the town shall, at the annual March meeting each 
 year, choose a board of five trustees, who shall have 
 power to appoint a librarian, to furnish a suitable 
 place to keep the library, to make by-laws, and adopt 
 such regulations for its government and support as 
 they in their judgment shall think best. Said trus- 
 tees shall have power to fill all vacancies which may 
 occur by reason of death, removal, or otherwise, 
 during the year. They shall report to the town 
 at the annual March meeting their doings and the 
 condition of the library. And the town shall, from 
 time to time, make such appropriations as shall be 
 necessary to increase the number of volumes, and 
 thereby increase the usefulness of the library. And, 
 when the town shall fail to comply with the condi- 
 tions on which they receive the library, it shall revert 
 
I40 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 to the original owners. The town voted, and chose 
 as trustees of the library Rev. John Goldsbury, Dea- 
 con H. Barber, Dr. S. P. French, Jesse F. Bridge, 
 Esq., and William K. Taylor. Also voted to appro- 
 priate the money returned to the town by the county- 
 treasurer, from the dog-tax, to the library; to be 
 expended by the trustees for the benefit of the same. 
 
 April lo. — The town voted to accept a donation of 
 $500, given by Mrs. Mary Blake Clap, of Dorchester 
 District, Boston, and comply with the request of the 
 donor, which was as follows : " That said sum shall be 
 invested by the town, and the interest arising there- 
 from shall be annually applied to the beautifying and 
 keeping their cemetery in repair.'' 
 
 Alsf voted that the town-clerk and selectmen con- 
 stitute a committee to draft suitable resolutions, the 
 same to be presented to Mrs. Clap, and also to be 
 inscribed upon the records of the town, expressing 
 the gratitude of the town to the donor for her very 
 acceptable gift. 
 
 The committee presented the following report, 
 which was accepted by the town : — 
 
 Preamble. — The undersigned having been chosen by the 
 citizens of the town of Warwick, in town-meeting assem- 
 bled, to make and transmit to Mrs. Mary Blake Clap, of 
 Boston, an expression of thanks, and the grateful acknowl- 
 edgment thereof of the people of this town for her gener- 
 ous action. in aid of our cemetery; therefore ' 
 
 Resolved, That we herewith present to Mrs. Mary Blake 
 Clap, of Boston, the grateful thanks of the town for her 
 very generous donation to the town as a cemetery-fund. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 141 
 
 Resolved, That it is our intention to carry out the wishes 
 expressed by the donor, and comply with them in such a 
 manner as to make the spot endeared to us as the last 
 resting-place of the bodies of our relatives and friends a 
 pleasant rather than a gloomy retreat. 
 
 Arnon S. Atherton, Town-Clerk. 
 
 E. F. Mayo, \ 
 
 H. H. JiLLSON, > Selectmen. 
 
 J. F. Bridge, ) 
 
 May 2. — The town voted to prohibit the sale of 
 ale, porter, strong and lager beer, within the limits of 
 the town the ensuing year. 
 
 Nov. 7. — Voted that the matter concerning school- 
 districts in the warrant be referred to the chairman of 
 the school-committee and the selectmen, who shall 
 take the subject into consideration, and report at 
 some future meeting. 
 
 March 4, 1872. — Voted, and chose William H. 
 Gale moderator ; also Henry H. Jillson, Jesse F. 
 Bridge, and James L. Stockwell, selectmen, and assess- 
 ors, and overseers of poor ; A. S. Atherton, town- 
 clerk and treasurer ; George A. Gushing, superin- 
 tending school-committee for three years ; Nahum 
 Jones, Hervey Barber, Dr. F^rench, Jesse F. Bridge, 
 and William !K. Taylor, trustees of the public library; 
 William K. Taylor, constable, and collector of taxes. 
 
 Also voted to accept of the report of the selectmen, 
 which leaves a balance of ^8,450,93, as the indebted- 
 ness of the town above all resources. 
 
 Voted to raise two per cent on the valuation, which 
 shall constitute, with the amount assessed upon the 
 
1^2 HISTORY OF WARWICK.' 
 
 polls, the sum-total of the State, county, and town 
 taxes the present year. 
 
 Voted to appropriate, out of the above, $1,200 for 
 the use of the schools the ensuing year. 
 
 Voted to appropriate $100 to be expended by the 
 trustees for the enlargement of the town-library. 
 
 Voted to raise one-half per cent on the valuation, 
 which shall, with the poll-taxes, -be the amount to be 
 expended on the highways the coming year. 
 
 Voted to continue the school-district system. Also 
 voted to hear the report of the committee raised at a 
 former meeting to take into consideration our school- 
 districts, and make such alteration therein as may be 
 to the best interests of the town, which was as fol- 
 lows, $0 wit : — 
 
 The subscribers chosen by the town as a committee to 
 make such alterations in the bounds of several school-dis- 
 tricts have attended to that duty, and ask leave to submit 
 the following report : — 
 
 Your committee are of the opinion that it will be for the 
 interest of the town, and not add much to the inconvenience 
 of the inhabitants of said districts, to annex the lands and 
 estates of Mrs. Stratton, George W. Smith, Luke :^elvee, 
 Henry Esketh, and the Messrs. Holden, in school-district 
 No. 6, to district No. 4 ; and unite the remaining lands and 
 estates of school-district No. 6 with school-district No. 3, to 
 be called school-district No. 6, — its original number; also 
 unite school-district No. 10 with No. 7, to be continued as 
 No. 7 ; also that district No. 9 take the name of No. 3, — its 
 former number; — making eight districts within the town, 
 numbered from one to eight in regular order. And we are 
 of the opinion that any further alterations would be inexpe- 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 143 
 
 dient at the present time. All of which is submitted for the 
 consideration of the town. 
 
 Hervey Barber, J 
 
 E. F. Mayo, > Committee. 
 
 J. F. Bridge, ) 
 
 Warwick, Feb. 10, 1872. 
 
 Also voted to accept of the report of the Rev. John 
 Goldsbury for the trustees of the town-library ; and 
 ordered the same to be printed with the report of the 
 school-committee, for the use of the inhabitants of 
 the town. 
 
 And the trustees at their annual meeting passed a 
 vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Goldsbury for his able, 
 instructive, and interesting report, and ordered it 
 inscribed on the records of the library. 
 
 S. P. French, Secretary. 
 
 April 20, 1872. — At a town-meeting held for the 
 purpose, it was voted to accept of a second donation 
 of ^500 from Mrs. Mary Blake Clap for the improve- 
 ment of the cemetery, and comply with the wishes of 
 the donor ; and that the selectmen and town-clerk pre- 
 sent to her the thanks of the town for her acceptable 
 and desirable gift. 
 
 A. S. Atherton, Town-Clerk. 
 
144 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 THE REBELLION OF 1861-1865. 
 
 The outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, and a call 
 for troops to defend the national capital, although not 
 unexpected by our people, was nevertheless something 
 of a surprise, as we had for many years lived in peace, 
 and knew very little of the waste of life, of time, 
 and of treasure, which a state of war entails upon a 
 . community therein engaged. At this time, and for 
 many years previous, no military organization existed 
 in our town ; and our whole number of enrolled militia 
 consisted of less than one hundred and fifty men 
 between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, of 
 which more than one-half were invalids, or in some 
 way incompetent to do military duty. Yet on the 
 part of our citizens, both old and young, male and 
 female, there was shown a persevering determination 
 to support the government in putting down the Rebel- 
 lion by enlisting their energies in sustaining the stars 
 and stripes, and maintaining to the last the union of 
 all the States of our beloved country, as the brief his- 
 tory of what we shall say of the doings of our patri- 
 otic people during those years of labor, suspense, and 
 trial, will fully corroborate ; and which shows our readi- 
 ness and willingness to sacrifice time, wealth, and even 
 life, in our country's defence. 
 
 We would first record, that soon after the assault 
 upon Fort Sumter, before any calls had been made 
 upon our town for troops, a large number of our young 
 men had enlisted, and gone to the front to assist in 
 sustaining the authorities in maintaining the rights of 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 145 
 
 all American citizens, — liberty, freedom, and a 
 strong republican government. Although the ma- 
 jority of them were not afterwards accredited to our 
 town, yet those that remained rejoiced to see so 
 many of their companions and neighbors showing 
 their patriotism by giving themselves to the cause of 
 the free institutions of their beloved republic, which 
 were now threatened by their deluded Southern 
 countrymen, — a strong evidence to those that re- 
 mained that the principles of justice, right, and free- 
 dom, would ultimately prevail. And several times 
 during the war large contributions of clothing, band- 
 ages, lint, and palatable kinds of preserves, fruits, and 
 food, were collected by the noble women of our town, 
 and sent to the hospitals for the comfort and subsist- 
 ence of our sick and wounded soldiers, who were suf- 
 fering and dying to sustain the best government on 
 the face of the earth. And often were the manly 
 forms of our fathers and sons collected together to 
 sustain and cheer each other, as doubt and hope came 
 over the wires with lightning-speed, announcing first 
 defeat and then victory to their inquiring and anxious 
 minds, as they were looking for news from the army 
 of occupation or of advance into the enemy's country. 
 And quite often large subscriptions were collected to 
 aid the government in forwarding men to the front, as 
 they were called for from time to time. The whole 
 amount of money appropriated and expended by the 
 town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, 
 was ^8,786.09. There was also raised by private sub- 
 scription $2,638.21, which was not reimbursed by the 
 town. 
 
146 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The amount of money raised and expended by the 
 town, for State aid to soldiers' families during the 
 years of the war, and which was afterwards reim- 
 bursed by the Commonwealth, was $6,403.07, making 
 a sum-total of $17,827.37, which was raised by our 
 patriotic citizens during those years, besides large 
 amounts of articles of various kinds sent for the 
 relief of our sick and wounded soldiers.* 
 
 THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. 
 
 Nov. 7, 1865, the town voted to erect a monument 
 to the memory of its deceased soldiers who fell in the 
 war of the slaveholders' rebellion. 
 
 Also voted that the selectmen be instructed to 
 obtain drafts and plans for a monument, and submit 
 them to the town at some future meeting. 
 
 And voted that the committee be confined to 
 granite as the material for building said monument. 
 
 March 5, 1866, voted to authorize the selectmen 
 to contract for furnishing the material for the erec- 
 tion of a suitable monument to the memory of its 
 deceased soldiers, and to authorize said selectmen to 
 borrow a sum of money, not exceeding $1,000, for the 
 same. 
 
 Aug. 25, the town voted to have the soldiers' 
 monument erected in the Fisk Cemetery. 
 
 During this sea"son a beautiful granite monument 
 was purchased by the selectmen, and transported 
 
 * See Appendix, page 189. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 147 
 
 from the quarry in Fitzvvilliam, N.H., and placed in 
 the centre of the Fisk Cemetery, on suitable and sub- 
 stantial foundations, — a memorial to the patriotism 
 of our sons, to the number of twenty-six,*" whose 
 names are inscribed thereon, and will show to future 
 generations the gratitude of all our citizens ; that 
 they so nobly gave their lives to their country in the 
 suppression of the greatest rebellion ever known, 
 thereby showing to the world that republican institu- 
 tions are revered, preserving the Union, abolishing 
 African slavery,^ enlarging the freedom of all, and 
 leaving our land in a situation to become the greatest, 
 the wisest, and the happiest upon the face of the 
 earth. 
 
 And we are happy to record, that as yet no one has 
 expressed any dissatisfaction that this memento to 
 the worth of our lamented sons has been erected to 
 perpetuate their prowess and patriotism. But many 
 there are who rejoice that they have, in this commend- 
 able manner, commemorated their disinterestedness 
 and valor. A tribute of respect is due to those of 
 our fellow-citizens who gave their influence to for- 
 ward the object, and especially to the selectmen who 
 acted for the town in its corporate capacity, and 
 those friends that still have a deep interest in the 
 prosperity of their former and ever-to-be-remem- 
 bered residence, and who so generously contributed 
 towards its completion, in a sum of $336, which, 
 with the town's grant of ^1,000, makes $1,336, 
 which is the total expense of erecting and finishing 
 
 * See names in Appendix, page 180. 
 
148 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 both the monument and the grounds surrounding 
 the same. 
 
 In addition to what has ah'eady been said of the 
 minerals in this town, we would say that the radiated 
 tourmaline, found in large quantities on Mt. Grace, is 
 one of the handsomest of its kind ; and there are 
 specimens of it to be found in many of the cabinets 
 of mineralogists in this country, and in several in the 
 Old World. From the quarry of crystallized quartz 
 found near the road leading from the Common in 
 Warwick towards C. W. Hastings's pond, on lands of 
 Widow Rhoda Wheelock, are obtained noble speci- 
 mens, which are quite extensively known and ap- 
 preciated by many professors both in our country 
 and in Europe ; and Prof Tenney has a splendid 
 impression of a specimen of this mineral, to be found 
 in his valuable work on mineralogy. We will also 
 continue the account of the natural curiosities in 
 town by a brief statement of an Indian kettle that 
 will hold from eight to ten pails of water, to be 
 found on the south side of a ledge of rocks on the 
 west side of the road, about a hundred rods north- 
 west of Chandler W. Bass's saw-mill ; and of a bear's 
 den, so called, on the Nath. G. Stevens farm, not far 
 from a hundred rods north of the Stevens's mill- 
 pond, and from twenty to thirty rods east of the line 
 between Northfield and Warwick : this den is covered 
 by a shelving rock of a size sufficient to shelter five 
 hundred men. Also, on Mr. D. Stone's Atwood 
 farm, on the west side of the old road, near the Win- 
 chester line, is to be found a large bowlder, adjudged 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 149 
 
 to weigh a hundred tons, which is so nearly bal- 
 anced that it can be rocked with one hand. These 
 things are richly worth the time and trouble of a 
 journey of some distance to any lover of natural 
 curiosities. 
 
 AGRICULTURE. 
 
 For the last twenty years the farming interests of 
 the town have somewhat improved : the inhabitants 
 have become convinced that science and system are 
 as necessary to success as bone and muscle ; and 
 most of our farmers have adopted the plan of culti- 
 vating a smaller number of acres, and by a rotation 
 of crops, and a higher state of improvement, obtain a 
 better return for their labor. 
 
 Their attention is more devoted to the raising of 
 fruit, hay, and vegetables than formerly. Some have 
 planted new orchards, and others have trimmed and 
 grafted their old ones ; quite a quantity of the best 
 varieties of apples are now grown, so that in ordinary 
 years they have enough for their own supply, and in 
 fruitful ones an overplus to carry to market. The 
 number of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, has de- 
 creased more than half; but, as they consist of better 
 grades and larger forms, their value has increased, 
 while their numbers have been continually decreasing 
 
 Their dwellings are more comfortable and elegant, 
 their fences improved, and their carriages and farm- 
 ing-tools show a utility never before dreamed of, 
 and their value has increased over a hundred per 
 cent. There is also an appearance of neatness and 
 
I50 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 thrift to be seen about their homes never before 
 known since the memory of our oldest inhabitants ; 
 and around many of their dwelUngs are now planted 
 ornamental trees, interspersed with flowers and other 
 things of taste, which, in some instances, make the 
 passers remark that these people have much to make 
 them comfortable and happy. 
 
 CATTLE-SHOWS AND FAIRS. 
 
 In the autumns of 1859 ^"d i860 the people of this 
 town held a cattle-show on the Common, and a fair in 
 the Unitarian Church, each year, which were attended 
 by a large number of the inhabitants of Warwick ; 
 and nearly all the towns within twenty miles were 
 represented by quite a respectable number of their 
 best citizens : and many brought with them speci- 
 mens of their agricultural products, and manu- 
 factured articles, while others presented their best 
 horses, neat cattle, sheep, and swine ; and we had 
 natural curiosities, flowers, paintings, and other arti- 
 cles of the fine arts ; and, in fact, about every thing 
 that is ever exhibited on similar occasions. We 
 also, at our first gathering, had an able extempore 
 address from R. D. Chase, Esq., of Orange, on 
 the benefits that we should derive from a continu- 
 ation of these meetings in after years. At our 
 meeting together on the second occasion, W. Gris- 
 wold, Esq., of Greenfield, gave us an interesting 
 and instructive scientific address, interspersed with 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 151 
 
 anecdotes and other matter, so suitably arranged as 
 to give general satisfaction. 
 
 We felt that our cattle-shows and fairs had be- 
 come quite a success ; and we only regret that we 
 have been unable to continue them to this time, as we 
 are satisfied, that, had we done so, it would have been 
 for the advancement of the knowledge of agricultural 
 science, and suggested improvements in practical 
 farming generally. 
 
 MANUFACTURES. 
 
 The manufacturing interests of our town are com- 
 paratively small, for the reasons that have already 
 been stated ; yet with the perseverance and indus- 
 try of our people they are nevertheless considerable. 
 They consist mostly of lumber of various kinds, or of 
 such articles as are made from" lumber, or of which 
 wood is the component part. 
 
 In the first place, we would mention that we have 
 fourteen saw-mills within the limits of the town, two 
 of temporary steam-power : nine of them have circular 
 saws of the most approved structure ; and they, all 
 combined, cut out over four million of feet of lumber 
 annually, consisting of pine, chestnut, hemlock, and 
 hard wood, which is carried to the d(3p3ts in the adjoin- 
 ing towns, and transported by steam-cars on the rail- 
 roads to all parts of New England, and the State of 
 New York. It is worth at the d^pSts, when placed on 
 the cars, on an average, over fifteen dollars per thousand. 
 The whole process of cutting, hauling, manufacturing, 
 
152 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 and carting to the railroads, employs a large number 
 of men in the winter season, and some during the 
 other seasons of the year. We also have nine small- 
 er mills, that cut pail-staves, chair-stuff, shingles, and 
 broom-handles in considerable quantities, which also 
 find a market abroad. 
 
 The stave-mills the past year cut staves and head- 
 ing for over one hundred and fifty thousand pails. 
 And, besides the above, a large amount of wood is cut 
 from our hills and valleys, and hauled to Winchester, 
 Northfield, and Wendell, to be used by the inhabit- 
 ants of these places, or sold to the railroad compa- 
 nies for their use, or transportation to other less 
 wooded regions. 
 
 We have also a tannery that employs eight men 
 manufacturing upper leather. They use three hun- 
 dred cords of hemlock bark annually. This bark is 
 mostly grown in town, and is worth from eight to ten 
 dollars a cord. The annual product of this tannery 
 is over fifty tons of leather, — worth, when ready for 
 market, over twenty thousand dollars. 
 
 In the village is a boot manufactory, which has 
 been in operation eighteen years. The business was 
 established by Nahum Jones (then a resident of Bos- 
 ton, now of Warwick). It was commenced on a 
 small scale, and has gradually increased from about 
 fifteen thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars per 
 annum, and gives employment to forty men in the 
 various departments of the business. The number 
 of pairs of men's, boys', and youths' boots made here 
 in 1 87 1 was twenty thousand. These boots are 
 adapted to the New-England trade. Nearly all the 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 153 
 
 men employed are residents of the town, and owners 
 of real estate. 
 
 In the south part of the town is quite a large 
 shop for the manufacture of brush-woods formerly 
 owned by James S. Wheeler (deceased), but now by 
 his son. They make and send to market over 
 twenty-five hundred gross of brush-woods annually. 
 These woods are made of hard wood, and employ 
 from six to eight men ; and the annual product is from 
 four thousand dollars to six thousand dollars, as the 
 season proves to be wet or dry, the power used 
 being water. And there are several small shops that 
 manufacture quite a large amount of chair-stuff of 
 various kinds. 
 
 THE WARWICK LIGHT INFANTRY. 
 
 In the year 1852 the citizens of Warwick, to the 
 number of fifty or over, united for the purpose of 
 forming themselves into a military company, and 
 petitioned the authorities of the State for powers 
 and privileges given by them to other similar organi- 
 zations. 
 
 Their request was heard, and soon answered ; and 
 a charter was granted for five years under the name 
 of the Warwick Light Infantry, allowing them such 
 recompense for their services as other infantry-compa- 
 nies received, on condition that they well and truly 
 performed all the duties required of them by the 
 statutes of the Commonwealth. 
 
 Said company assembled, and elected James Stock- 
 
154 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 well captain, Edward F. Mayo and Henry G. Mal- 
 lard lieutenants, with all other officers that were 
 necessary to make them an efficient company of vol- 
 unteer militia. 
 
 This company was armed and equipped in a becom- 
 ing and tasteful manner, and performed all the mili- 
 tary duties that the law required for the full term of 
 their charter with a faithful and soldier-like precision, 
 first under Capt. Stockwell, afterwards under Capts. 
 Mayo and Mallard, so as to receive the approbation 
 of their superior officers^ and the esteem of their 
 fellow-citizens. And several times have I heard it 
 remarked by the spectators who witnessed their sol- 
 dierly appearance, and the accuracy of their evolu- 
 tions, " that such a company was an honor to any 
 town." 
 
 THE CORNET BAND. 
 
 For twenty years our town has been cheered 
 and made happier by the hannony of sweet soiindsy 
 called forth by an organized body of . our citizens 
 called the Warwick Cornet Band. Said organi- 
 zation commenced its operations under Charles F. 
 Hastings as leader, which in a few years was trans- 
 ferred to James E. Fuller, and for a few months to 
 Edward F. Mayo, who with their great love of music, 
 and their usual promptitude of action, soon drew 
 around them a dozen or more of our young men of 
 musical talent, who, mostly under their instruction 
 (with occasionally a teacher from abroad), developed 
 so much skill in the science of music, that for several 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 155 
 
 years they were considered an important element in 
 all our public gatherings, and a great source of pleas- 
 ure to the citizens of Warwick as they met from 
 week to week for practice, either on the town com- 
 mon or in the band-room, and united their efforts to 
 become masters of the szveetest, the highest, the most 
 soul-cheering power ever given to man. 
 
 They were often invited to the neighboring towns 
 to assist at their fairs, picnics, and other places of 
 amusement and pleasure ; where they were efficient 
 in calling forth such harmonious strains of excellent 
 music, that, after their return to their homes, they were 
 followed with gratitude from those whose happiness 
 was enhanced ; and we were congratulated for our 
 accomplished band of excellent musicians. 
 
 For several years past, the band has been con- 
 tinued under the leadership of Mr. Samuel Hastings, 
 who has and does still give much time and zeal to 
 the work, as the members have been continually 
 changing, so that at the present time but a very few 
 remain that belonged to the company when he was 
 first chosen to be its leader and teacher ; and we 
 are happy to record that all the expressions of grati- 
 tude and praise given by any one to its first leader 
 and his comrades can, with equal sincerity, be given 
 to him and those with whom he is associated. In 
 fact, the band has become so much of a fixture, 
 that if we should be deprived of its services, even for 
 a short time, our gatherings of all kinds would be 
 exceedingly tame, if we were obliged to meet without 
 seeing their smiling faces, or hearing their sweet, 
 melodious sounds ; and we would here add, for our- 
 
156 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 selves, and the citizens of our town, to the " War- 
 wick Cornet Band," as it now is, and as it has been, an 
 expression of thanks, to be handed to coming genera- 
 tions with this work, that their children and ours 
 may know that their labors of love are appreciated by 
 us, and those that immediately preceded us. 
 
 We hope that the present members will persevere 
 in their noble work, and that those that come after them 
 and have like talents will be moved by their example 
 and perseverance to come forward and do likewise. 
 And we feel assured that their contemporaries will 
 shower blessings of gratitude upon their heads. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 Our schools have been, for some years, considered 
 by our neighbors as good as any to be found in this 
 vicinity. Although we have never had a sufficient 
 number of inhabitants to oblige the town to main- 
 tain a high-school, yet the desire that our children 
 and youth should receive a good practical education 
 has been so great, that, for a series of years, we have 
 succeeded in sustaining one of a private nature, or, 
 in other words, a select school, where the higher 
 branches could be learned ; and, at other times, many 
 of our young men and women have gone one or two 
 terms each year to schools and academies in the 
 adjoining towns ; so that, for the last forty years, we 
 have not only been able to supply our own schools 
 with competent teachers, but have also supplied seve- 
 ral to the neighboring towns. And, in the year 1840, 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 157 
 
 during the winter term, twelve young gentlemen and 
 several young ladies, natives of Warwick, taught 
 school in this and the adjoining towns. For the past 
 few years, the number of scholars attending school 
 has been reduced more than fifty per cent, and some 
 of our schools are very small : yet the interest 
 taken in them has in no way declined, nor our 
 schools, as a whole, deteriorated, as the town-grant 
 of ;^ 1,200 for that purpose amply proves; and we 
 fee] assured, by what we see and hear, that our people, 
 as a class, are determined that their children shall 
 enjoy for time to come still greater facilities of ob- 
 taining a good, practical, common-school education 
 than were given to those of former years, being con- 
 vinced that our common schools are the only sure 
 foundation of a free government. 
 
 HISTORY OF ITS CHURCHES CONTINUED. 
 
 THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL (nOW UNITARIAN) 
 CHURCH. 
 
 As has already been recorded by the Hon. Jona. 
 Blake, the Rev. Preserved Smith was ordained Oct. 
 12, 1 8 14, and continued as pastor of this church and 
 society for thirty years ; and, for this series of years, 
 he not only performed all his church and parochial 
 duties, as a faithful minister, -a devoted. Christian, and 
 an exemplary man, but he was also first and foremost 
 in all things that would in any way advance the true 
 interests of his people, or would further, and be 
 instrumental in, the happiness and progress of all the 
 
158 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 inhabitants of the town. Especially have his influence 
 and example been witnessed in the advancement and 
 j^rosperity of our common schools ; and we feel that 
 we are justified in recording, that, to him more than 
 any other man, are we indebted for the high standard 
 to -which they attained during his long residence 
 among us as our teacher and guide. He asked of us 
 and obtained his dismission in 1844, and preached his 
 farewell sermon Oct. 12 of the same year. After the 
 lapse of twenty years, he came, by request of his still 
 grateful people, Oct. 12, 1864, arid delivered his half- 
 century discourse to a large, attentive, and interested 
 audience. 
 The order of exercises was as follows : — 
 4. Voluntary by the choir, E. F. Mayo, leader! 
 
 2. Reading of Scriptures by Rev. John Goldsbury 
 of Warwick. 
 
 3. Hymn of Welcome. Original. By Miss M. A. 
 Reed of Warwick (now wife of Rev. H. P. Os- 
 good).* 
 
 4. Prayer by Rev. J. F. Moors of Greenfield. 
 
 5. Hymn from " Greenwood's Collection," read by 
 Rev. S. Barber. 
 
 6. Sermon. Text from Acts xxvi. 22, " Having 
 obtained help of God, I continue to this day." 
 
 7. Prayer by Rev. Alpheus Harding of New Salem. 
 
 8. Farewell Hymn. Original. By Miss M. A. 
 Reed. 
 
 9. Benediction by Rev. I. S. Lincoln, resident pastor. 
 After the services in the church, there was a col- 
 
 * See Appendix, p. 205, 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 1 59 
 
 latioii in the vestry, at which there were remarks by 
 both clergymen and laymen, closing with dismission- 
 hymn. The church was very tastefully decorated 
 with flowers and emblems appropriate to the occa- 
 sion, Mr. Smith is now (March 16, 1872) residing in 
 Greenfield, enjoying a comfortable measure of health. 
 We will here quote an extract from Rev. Mr. 
 Smith, where he speaks of the generation that were 
 leaders in the church, and worthy citizens of the 
 town at the time of his settlement. 
 
 "There was the sainted Barnes, whose walk was 
 with God ; J. Blake, sen., was truly, in dress and 
 manners, a gentleman of the old school ; Dea. Caleb 
 Mayo, noted for his straightforward uprightness and 
 integrity ; Capt. Peter Proctor, the unflinching pa- 
 triot ; Capt. Mark Moore, the substantial friend of 
 good order ; and women not a few, who were mothers 
 in Israel, full of good works, and ministrations of 
 mercy and kindness." Also, "In 183 1, Warwick 
 was visited by a dysentery of a very malignant type, 
 which swept off", in about seven weeks, sixteen per- 
 sons, old and young. In the families of John Whit- 
 ney, jun., and John Bowman, four died out of each 
 within a few days. Mr. Bowman's sister and child 
 were buried at one time : at another, a week after, 
 he himself and another child were buried at the same 
 time." 
 
 Rev, D. H. Barlow supplied the desk in 1845, 1846, 
 and 1847, ^ part of the time, but resided in town only a 
 part of the time. Rev. Samuel F. Clark in 1848, one 
 half of the time, and in Athol the other part, where 
 he was settled the following year. Rev. George F. 
 
l6o HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Clark was installed as pastor of this church April 14, 
 1848. Rev. F. T. Gray of Boston preached the ser- 
 mon ; Rev. O. C. Everett of Northfield made the 
 installing prayer ; Rev. S. F. Clark of Athol gave the 
 right hand of fellowship. He was dismissed April i, 
 1852. After his dismission, Rev. Luther Wilson of 
 Petersham supplied till April i, 1854. Rev. Abra- 
 ham Jackson of Walpole, N.H., supplied from April i, 
 1854, to April I, 1855. The Rev. John Goldsbury 
 commenced to supply in 1856, and continued to 
 April I, 1859. The Rev. Increase S. Lincoln com- 
 menced his ministry in September, i860, and closed 
 his labors for this church in June, 1867. The Rev. 
 J. B. Willard of Harvard supplied through the sum- 
 mer and autumn of 1867. From that time to Sept. 
 20, 1868, the pulpit was supplied by different clergy- 
 men. The Rev. William A. R Willard commenced 
 his labors Sept. 20, 1868, and was ordained as pastor 
 of this church and society Jan. 20, 1869. The ser- 
 vices on that occasion were as follows : Invocation 
 by Rev. M. Baker of Orange. Reading of the Scrip- 
 tures by Rev. J. Goldsbury of Warwick. Sermon by 
 Rev. J. F. Moors of Greenfield. Ordaining prayer by 
 Rev. J. B. Willard of Harvard. Charge by Rev. S. 
 Barber of Bernardston. Right hand of fellowship by 
 Rev. I. S. Lincoln of Winchester, N.H. Address to 
 the people by Rev. Mr. Baker of Orange. Benedic- 
 tion by the pastor-elect. The singing, under the 
 direction of Capt. E. F. Mayo, was in fine taste ; and 
 its departing strains will linger upon the ear a long 
 time. The church was wreathed, arched, and gar- 
 landed with evergreens, in a style that did credit to 
 the managers. 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. i6i 
 
 April I, 1870, Mr. Willard tendered his resignation 
 to the church, to take effect Oct. i, 1870. Resigna- 
 tion accepted by the church, and by the society soon 
 after. Since that time the church has been desti- 
 tute of a pastor, but has been suppUed by the Rev. 
 John Goldsbury of Warwick for the former, and the 
 Rev. Mr. Bailey of Athol for the latter part of the 
 time. Unitarian preachers originating from War- 
 wick : Rev. John Goldsbury, Rev. Nathan Ball, Rev. 
 Amory Gale, Rev. Stillman Barber, Rev. Amory D. 
 Mayo, and the Rev. Henry H. Barber. 
 
 Their church edifice (as has been said) was erected 
 in 1836, and was first painted and repaired in 1846 
 by Joshua T. Sanger, under the superintendence of 
 Ira Draper, Caleb M. Proctor, and James Stockwell, 
 a committee chosen for the purpose, who assessed 
 ^150 upon the pews to defray the expenses of said 
 repairs. Mr. Sanger was faithful to his trust ; and his 
 work was performed in a substantial and acceptable 
 manner. 
 
 In 1859, after the church had been considerably 
 damaged by a stroke of lightning, a committee was 
 elected, consisting of Ira Draper, Hervey Barber, 
 and N. E. Stevens, to superintend the repairs upon 
 the same, who were instructed to assess a sufficient 
 sum upon the pews in said church to defray the 
 expenses thereof, not exceeding $300. Said commit- 
 tee contracted with Mr. John Turner of Orange, for 
 the sum of $258, to perform the above services, and 
 assessed $26() upon the pews to pay the same, and 
 other contingent expenses thereof 
 
 Again, in 1870, the parish voted to raise ^500 for 
 
1 62 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 the purpose of new shingling, painting, and repairing 
 their church ; and a committee was elected, consisting 
 of Samuel W. Spooner, Hervey Barber, and Edward 
 F. Mayo, who were instructed to assess so much of the 
 above sum as would be sufficient to pay the repairs 
 of all kinds upon the outside of the building ; while 
 the papering, and other ornamenting of the inside, 
 was to be raised by subscription, or in some other 
 way that might be devised. Said committee assessed 
 ^434.52 upon the pews, and employed the Messrs. 
 Graves Brothers of Amherst (by the day) to paint 
 and ornament, and William K. Taylor to shingle and 
 repair, said church. 
 
 Said committee by their treasurer (Hervey Barber) 
 collected the above ^434.52, and received of E. F. 
 Mayo $284.02, a balance of the proceeds of two prior 
 fairs, or levees, raised by the ladies of the society for 
 the purpose of doing the ornamental work on the in- 
 side of their church; and nearly $100 by donation 
 from William B. Spooner of Boston, Rev. Mr. White 
 of Keene, N.H., the Unitarian society at Springfield, 
 Mrs. Merrifield, and others ; and $60 as the proceeds 
 ^f lectures given by Rev. A. D. Mayo, Rev. J. F. 
 Moors, and Rev. H. H. Barber, — the balance from 
 other sources making a sum-total of ;^ 1,067.83 as the 
 expense of said repairs, which is now (March, 1872) 
 all settled and paid : so that they not only have a 
 well-proportioned church, but one that is completely 
 and elegantly finished ; and they now have as neat, 
 tastefully-arranged, and beautiful a church as can be 
 seen in any of the adjoining towns. 
 
 April I, 1864, Mrs. M ^ O (Blake) Clap of Dorchester, 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 163 
 
 Mass., upon the eightieth anniversary of her birth 
 presented to the First Church and Society in War- 
 wick (her native town) ^1,000; which was gratefully 
 received by said Church and Society. 
 
 April I, 1868, Mrs. Clap, on her eighty-fourth birth- 
 day, made to said Church and Society another dona- 
 tion of ^1,000 ; which was received in the same spirit 
 as the former. 
 
 July, 1868, Miss Mary Ann Hastings of Framing- 
 ham, Mass., bequeathed to the First Society .in War- 
 wick the sum of $i,00D, the income of which is to be 
 for their use forever. 
 
 For this bequest a vote of thanks is entered on the 
 Society's records. 
 
 THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (oRTHODOX). 
 
 Rev. Roger C. Hatch, the second pastor of the 
 Second Congregational Church in Warwick, after his 
 dismission in 1853, resided in Warwick until the time 
 of his death, which took place Sept. 12, 1868, at the 
 advanced age of eighty years. During his residence 
 here he was beloved and esteemed as a good citizen, 
 a faithful pastor, an exemplary Christian, a true man, 
 and devoted friend. 
 
 Since the dismission of Mr. Hatch, the church has 
 been supplied by the Rev. Daniel C. Frost, Mr. Charles 
 E. Bruce a licentiate from Northfield Academy, and 
 others, until 1855, when Rev. Henry M. Bridge, for- 
 merly of the Methodist Church, wa"s installed as its 
 pastor. He was dismissed Dec. 20, 1859. 
 
 Rev. E. H. Blanchard was ordained over this 
 
1 64 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 church April 25, i860, and was dismissed May 11, 
 1868. Rev. Mr. Bissell supplied from June, 1868, for 
 nearly a year. Rev. Edward Barnard Bassett was 
 invited to preach Sept. 2, 1869; and he was installed 
 as pastor Dec. 15, 1869, and is the present pastor of 
 this church (1872). 
 
 We will here record an extract from " The Congre- 
 gationalist and Boston Recorder" of Dec. 30, 1869: — 
 
 " The sermon at the installation of the Rev. Mr. Bas- 
 sett over the church in Warwick was preached by the 
 Rev. Dr. Barstow of Keene, N.H. Installing prayer 
 by the Rev. H. B. Hooker, D.D. Charge to the pas- 
 tor by the Rev. T. Cutler. Fellowship of the 
 churches by Rev. A. B. Fo'ster. Address to the 
 people by Rev. E. Newton. Among the members of 
 this little church, which is in the hill-country of 
 Judaea, is a venerable mother in Israel, now in her 
 ninety-second year. During thirteen years of her 
 life, she read the Bible through every two months ; 
 and has read it through more than one hundred times 
 in all. Now, near the shore of the better land, she 
 realizes the value of the promise, ' And even to your 
 old age I am He, and even to hoar hairs will I carry 
 you.* And now we will introduce an incident of her 
 early life, showing to the people of these railroad 
 times how the people of Warwick travelled seventy 
 years ago. This lady, Sarah Blake Leonard, then the 
 wiie of Francis Leonard, 2d, went to the residence of 
 her father, Jonathan Blake, sen., in the following man- 
 ner, — Mr. Leonard, his wife, and three children rid- 
 ing on one horse, and carrying from thirty to forty 
 pounds of old iron in a bag ; Mr. Leonard carrying 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 165 
 
 a child on each arm, and his wife behind him carrying 
 the baby in her lap, the iron swung across the saddle 
 in the same way that the people of that day carried 
 their grain to mill." 
 
 Congregational preachers originating from War- 
 wick : Rev. John Fiske, D.D., Rev. Moses Fiske, Rev. 
 Swan L. Pomroy, D.D., Rev. Nahum Gould, Rev. 
 Junius L. Hatch, Rev. John Leonard, Rev. Francis 
 Leonard, Rev. Levi Wheaton, Rev. George W. Bar- 
 ber. This society and church united in 1871, and 
 painted and repaired their church edifice. They 
 employed the Messrs. Graves to do the ornamental 
 work ; and they now have one of the neatest, the 
 handsomest, and best-arranged churches, which is as 
 ornamental and as well designed as any in this vicin- 
 ity. 
 
 THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN WARWICK. 
 
 Exactly how early Baptists existed in this town we 
 are not informed, but suppose that there were some 
 as far back as 1797, when the church in Royalston 
 was organized. 
 
 In the history of the West-Royalston church, writ- 
 ten in 1854, we find the following: "In May, 1798, 
 twenty-two members of this church signified their 
 intention to form themselves into a church in War- 
 wick ; and they were dismissed agreeably to their 
 request. At their first church-meeting. Elder Levi 
 Hodge was chosen moderator." 
 
 As this church had come into being as the result 
 of a difficulty. Elder Hodge acted the part of a peace 
 maker: so much so, that, in 1801, the church in Roy- 
 
1 66 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 alston requested him to become their pastor ; and 
 Elder Hodge accepted of their invitation. In i8o> 
 the two churches were united ; and Mr. Hodge con- 
 tinued as its faithful pastor until the time of his 
 death, in 1819, he all the time residing in Warwick. 
 Elder J. M. Graves was the successor of Elder Hodge. 
 In 1 8 17, Elder John Shepardson purchased a farm in 
 the south part of this town, and settled upon it. 
 Here he lived until the day of his death, some time 
 in 1833, and preached in the schoolhouse in the south 
 part of Warwick, and in South Orange, and Erving's 
 Grant, nearly every sabbath, working faithfully in the 
 service of his Master to a good old age, when he 
 was called to a better world on high, there to receive 
 his reward.. 
 
 On the 20th of January, 1843, fourteen persons, 
 members of the Baptist church of Royalston and 
 Warwick, petitioned to be set off as a branch of that 
 church to meet in Warwick Centre. On the 14th of 
 February following, the church voted to grant their 
 request. The branch church chose Asa H. Conant 
 clerk, and adjourned until April i. At the ad- 
 journed meeting. Rev. E. M. Burnham was chosen pas- 
 tor, and nine persons were added by letter from the 
 South-Orange church, all of them inhabitants of 
 Warwick. 
 
 An ecclesiastical 'council was convened Aug. 20, 
 and organized by the choice of Rev. Asaph Meriam 
 moderator, and Rev. Erastus Andrews clerk. The 
 council voted to recognize them as an independent 
 church. Mr. Burnham continued to labor as their 
 pastor until Nov. 2, 1844, when he asked and ob- 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. l6f 
 
 tained his dismission. Rev. L. Fay was then chosen 
 pastor, and continued about two years. For the two 
 following years, Rev. S. S. Kingsley was pastor. In 
 1849, Elder Fay again supplied the desk for about one 
 year. Rev. Caleb Sawyer and others supplied the 
 desk for nearly three years. ^ 
 
 In 1854, Rev. E. M. Barnham labored with them 
 for one-half of the time. The desk was supplied for 
 the most part of 1856-1857 by Rev. Jonas G. Ben- 
 nett. The report to the Association for 1858 was, 
 ''On the 1st of December last we parted with our 
 late pastor. Rev. J. G. Bennett. The spring follow- 
 ing (March), Rev. E. J. Emory came and filled the 
 desk until April, 186 1, when he received a call, and 
 left for another part of his Master's vineyard." 
 
 In May, 1861, Rev. G. B. Bills, became the pastor 
 ancl remained for a little over a year. After he left, 
 the church was without a pastor until autumn, when 
 the Rev. Lyman Culver assumed the charge, and 
 preached until the winter of 1863-64, when the desk 
 was again supplied by the Rev. Erastus Andrews. 
 From 1864 to 1868 the Rev. L. F. Shepardson was 
 the pastor of this church. The Rev. L. Fay and 
 others supplied the desk until June, 1869, after which 
 the Rev. E. D. Daniels became pastor for one year ; 
 then the Rev. H. H. Woodbury supplied until the 
 spring of 1 871, when the Rev. C. Farrar became pas- 
 tor, and continues to the present time. This church 
 has received a donation of a thousand dollars the pres- 
 ent year, from their deceased brother, Daniel Pierce, 
 who gave to his brethren in trust for the fttrtherance oi 
 the gospel of Christ. 
 
l68 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The following Baptist ministers originated from 
 Warwick : Rev. Ebenezer Barber, Rev. Henry Hol- 
 man, Rev. Jona. Blake. 
 
 UNIVERSALISTS. 
 
 The Universalis t society in Warwick was incorpo-, 
 rated Feb. 25, 18 14, and has been supplied by Rev. 
 Robert Bartlett, John Brooks, Stillman Clark, T. Bar- 
 row, E. Davis, and John H. Willis in 1851 and 1852, 
 since which time they have had no regular preaching. 
 They have no meeting-house. 
 
 The following Universalist ministers originated from 
 Warwick : Rev. Caleb Rich, Robert Bartlett, Eben- 
 ezer Williams, and John Williams. 
 
 EPISCOPALIANS. , " 
 
 The Rev. Levi B. Stimson, an Episcopalian minis- 
 ter, originated from Warwick. 
 
 Summary of preachers who originated from War- 
 wick : Orthodox Congregationalists, 9 ; Unitarians, 6 ; 
 Universalists, 4 ; Baptists, 3 ; Episcopalian, i, — mak- 
 ing 23 different preachers as natives of this town. 
 
 SPIRITUALISM. 
 
 During the winter of 1850-51 quite a sensation 
 was raised among the usually quiet people of our 
 town by the announcement in the secular papers, 
 that, in several places in this vicinity, what were at that 
 time called the " Rochester knockings " were heard. 
 But very little was known of the matter by the people 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 169 
 
 of our town until March 5, 185 1, when Mr. F. Che- 
 ney and wife of Athol came by invitation, and gave 
 a pubHc manifestation of the rappings, she being a 
 medium for that phase of the phenomena. Quite 
 a company having assembled, and being somewhat 
 startled by what was heard, and the intelligence 
 accompanying the sounds purporting to be communi- 
 cations from our departed friends that had left the 
 mortal for the immortal shores, some of those present 
 were favorably impressed on the subject, and re- 
 turned home with a determination of giving the mat- 
 ter a further investigation. But little more was done 
 until September following, when the tippings were to 
 be seen at a number of places in this town, also 
 exhibiting like intelligence. Early in October these 
 manifestations became quite common at the house of 
 Dea. Hervey Barber ; and many were the visits that 
 he and his family received from his townsmen, and 
 from the people of the adjoining ones, who came 
 to investigate these, at that time, new and almost 
 miraculous movements. Soon after took place the 
 phases of writing names and messages, and of seeing 
 the forms of persons gone to the land of souls, 
 who influenced one member of the family to speak 
 and give information from the spirit world, and lec- 
 tures on the reforms of the day, above the capacity of 
 the individual that was used as the agent for the con- 
 trolling power. These manifestations continued, and 
 others were added to the list. One member of the 
 family became clairvoyant, and another clairaudient ; 
 and nearly all the phases of mediumship now extant 
 were there witnessed by large numbers : but they 
 
I70 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 varied in their opinions as to the cause of the power 
 that gave the intelligence they received. After con- 
 siderable investigation, this family and several others 
 became convinced that these demonstrations were 
 what they claimed to be, — the testimony of our friends 
 supposed to be dead ; that they still live, or, in other 
 words, give a practical elucidation of the New-Testa- 
 ment doctrine of immortality. But as soon as it 
 became known that it was claimed that these, or the 
 like manifestations, were seen and heard at the 
 time that Jesus and his apostles were upon the earth, 
 and could be proved from the sacred Record, its be- 
 lievers, like those of old, "were everywhere spoken 
 against ; " and as the manifestations have continued 
 with this family and several others, and as time has in- 
 creased the number of the believers, and added strength 
 to their faith in its divine origin and mission, and as 
 the writer of this article is the only person in this town 
 that has felt it to be his duty to preach this new gos- 
 pel both at home and abroad, he and his associates 
 desire that the above account of these things should 
 be transmitted to posterity in this work, for their 
 decision as to the utility and wisdom of their 
 course. 
 
 THE GREAT HAIL-STORM. 
 
 On the 25th of July, 1866, a destructive storm of 
 hail passed from north-west to south-east through the 
 town, and extended into Orange. 
 
 After a very hot and sultry morning, some clouds 
 were to be seen (not far^from two o'clock, p.m.) near the 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 1-7 1 
 
 western horizon : soon an unusual commotion was ob- 
 served, both to the south-west and north-west, in the 
 clouds, indicating severe storms of wind, rain, or hail. 
 Both of these showers were attracted to a point near 
 the western boundary of the town, called Notch Moun- 
 tain. These storm-clouds met near the soutl> side 
 of said mountain ; and near its southern base hail 
 descended in large quantities, and the earth was cov- 
 ered to the depth of eight inches in this region. The 
 hailstones were as large as walnuts, on an average : 
 some of them were of the size of butternuts ; and 
 devastation and a general destruction of all vegetable 
 matter was the consequence of the powers of the 
 united storms. Not only were the crops of grain and 
 fruit literally destroyed, but, for some distance each 
 way on the south side of this mountain, the trees of 
 the forest were so badly cut to pieces that nearly all 
 of them died. Said storm passed from this place to 
 the east, over the farms of Ezekiel Ellis ; then to the 
 south-east over those' of Hervey Barber, C. W. Eddy, 
 Henry M. Harvey, Albert Witherell, William H. Gale, 
 and Ethan Gushing. These farms are located near 
 the centre of its course : but the damage to the crops 
 extended for more than a mile in width on each side ; 
 and all the crops, except grass, were entirely ruined. 
 Many fowls were killed, and the roofs of many build- 
 ings so badly damaged as to oblige the owners to 
 cover them anew, — the glass on one side, and some 
 of them on two sides, was broken to fragments ; and 
 its path could be traced easily for several years after- 
 wards. 
 
 It will be understood, that, on each side of the cen- 
 
172 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 tre of the shower, the damage to the crops decreased 
 as the distance increased ; and, from its place of be- 
 ginning to its end, the hailstones were continually 
 becoming smaller, its fury abating, and the damage to 
 crops less severe. 
 
 The citizens of Warwick that resided beneath its 
 length and breadth were damaged to the amount of five 
 thousand dollars, — ■. perhaps more, as no true appraisal 
 can be made ; and no one storm of any kind, since the 
 great tornado of 1 82 1 , has been the cause of the destruc- 
 tion of so large an amount of property. But our usually 
 calm atmosphere and quiet earth were not left many 
 days in peace ; for, on the Saturday following, one of 
 the heaviest showers of rain that was ever known 
 fell on and about Mount Grace. For the space of 
 over a mile, the rain actually poured down for over an 
 hour ; and the mountain-rills became roaring torrents, 
 the small brooks foaming rivers. Many farms were 
 injured to a large amount ; and the highways that lead 
 from the village towards Northfield and Winchester 
 were in several places apparently ruined : so that the 
 town was injured to a large amount in roads and 
 bridges. Oct. 4, 1869, there was a general rain-storm 
 in this vicinity. The rain fell for over six hours in 
 torrents ; and the destruction of property was greater 
 than in 1866, as the storm extended over the whole 
 town. The roads were damaged to a large amount. 
 Many bridges were swept away : so that the public 
 loss was considerable, but the private loss still great- 
 er. Among the sufferers were Martin Harris, David 
 Shepardson, and James S. Wheeler, whose losses 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 173 
 
 were great, and 'many others considerable. A few 
 days after, there was quite a heavy shower in the 
 north part of the town ; and, as the ponds were 
 already full, it broke A. I. Kidder's reservoir-dam, 
 swept away his stave-mill, took down his saw-mill and 
 dam, and left not a vestige of either to be seen upon 
 the spot where they stood. It also broke several 
 other dams, washing away bridges that came in the 
 way ; causing damage to over four thousand dollars 
 within a very small distance. 
 
 April 25, 1872. — It being the ninety-fifth anniver- 
 sarv of the birth of Mr. Phinehas Child, his friends, 
 to the number of thirty-six, assembled at the resi- 
 dence of his children, on Flower Hill in Warwick, 
 and enjoyed a social season in a quiet way, by grasp- 
 ing the friendly hand, and conversing freely on the 
 general subjects of the day, in which he still takes a 
 lively interest, and calmly gives his opinion as in 
 days gone by ; for he retains his faculties, both men- 
 tal and physical, in a remarkable degree for a man 
 so far advanced in years. After partaking of a 
 bountiful repast, furnished by the visitors, and listen- 
 ing to an explanation of an ornamental cake pre- 
 sented by the wife of the Rev. Charles Farrar, and an 
 historic original poem written for the occasion, as a 
 greeting of welcome for him to his friends, and ex- 
 pressing his thanks for their friendly call, the visitors 
 departed to their homes, feeling that another milestone 
 had been placed in their earthly path as well as in his, 
 as a memento of love, respect, and kind regards to 
 
174 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 him for his long, useful, and honest life, and to 
 themselves for their appreciation of virtue and moral 
 worth in the character of one who has with several 
 of them been a resident of our town for nearly sixty 
 years. 
 
INTRODUCTION TO THE APPENDIX 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 We have thought it advisable, before giving the perusal 
 of the Appendix to the History of Warwick, to present to 
 our readers a brief genealogy of our deceased friend and 
 fellow-citizen, the Hon. Jonathan Blake, and of his ances- 
 tors from the earliest setdement of New England, together 
 with an account of his labors, and the responsible offices 
 that he held, with specimens of his poems ; believing it 
 due to his descendants for what he did for our town dur- 
 ing his long and useful life. H. B. 
 
 [by his brother, SAMUEL BLAKE.] 
 
 Hon, Jonathan Blake was a descendant in the seventh 
 generation from William and Agnes Blake of Dorchester, 
 through Elder James, Dea. James, James " the annalist," 
 Samuel, Jonathan. His ancestry is traced back four genera- 
 tions in England, prior to his emigrant ancestor, William, 
 who was born in 1594. 
 
176 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Hon. Jonathan Blake, " the Historian of Warwick," was 
 born in Dorchester, Mass., May 29, 1780. 
 
 He was son of Jonathan and Sarah (Pierce) Blake."* 
 
 His father moved to Warwick in 1781, and died there 
 Oct. 8, 1836, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. His 
 mother died Aug. 15, 1831. 
 
 Jonathan Blake married Patty Conant of Warwick, Jan. 
 18, 1803. They had six children. 
 
 She died in Warwick, Oct. 21, 18 19. 
 
 He married, for his second wife, Mrs. Betsey (Howland) 
 Ballard of Gill, Aug. i, 1821. 
 
 He died April 13, 1864, at Brattleboro', Vt., aged eighty- 
 four years. 
 
 He wrote the History of Warwick from its first settle- 
 ment to the year 1854. He was a natural poet. He wrote 
 a great amount of poetry on various subjects and on all occa- 
 sions. He kept a voluminous diary for nearly sixty years. 
 
 He was in public business the most of his mature life. 
 He was a distinguished surveyor of land, the practice ot 
 which profession has been peculiar to the Blake family from 
 the first settlement of Massachusetts Bay. He was a friend 
 to all public improvements, and an ardent advocate of rail- 
 roads in their early days. 
 
 He resided in Warwick seventy-three (73) years. 
 
 Was town clerk of Warwick fifteen (15) years ; served as 
 selectman, overseer of the poor, and assessor nine (9) 
 years ; was acting justice of the peace forty-two (42) years ; 
 representative to the General Court two (2) years ; senator 
 of Massachusetts two (2) years; county commissioner in 
 Franklin County nine (9) years, and chairman of the 
 board three (3) years ; a member of the Unitarian Church 
 in Warwick over fifty years ; superintendent of the sab- 
 bath school about 'twenty years. His influence was always 
 
 * See " Blake Family," page 56. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 177 
 
 for good. He was a dutiful son, a beloved brother, a kind 
 husband, a tender father, and has left posterity a rich patri- 
 mony in an example of an industrious, useful, and Christian 
 life. 
 
 SPECIMENS OF THE POETRY OF HON. JONA. 
 BLAKE. 
 
 WARWICK. 
 
 From Warwick's lofty mountains 
 
 And everlasting hills 
 Flow many sparkling fountains. 
 
 And precious, cooling rills. 
 
 How free from all diseases 
 That mind and health impair ! 
 
 How pure her summer breezes ! 
 How soft her balmy air ! 
 
 Now, where in all creation 
 
 Can such a place be found 
 For mental elevation 
 
 To flourish and abound ? 
 
 Proud Science here can flourish, 
 
 And ever will prevail 
 To stimulate and nourish 
 
 The mind that's sound and hale. 
 
 The votary of Pleasure 
 
 Would here be sure to find 
 A more enduring treasure 
 
 Than California's mine. 
 
 And Music's silvery tongues, 
 
 In harmony divine, 
 Shall sing her glorious songs, 
 
 Enchantingly sublime. 
 
J. Blake. 
 
 178 * HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 And Wisdom's choicest treasures 
 
 Shall raise her sons to fame, 
 And bless their grand endeavors 
 
 With an everlasting name. 
 
 Brattleboro', Jan. 4, i860. 
 
 SUNDAY-SCHOOL CELEBRATION. 
 
 IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 
 
 Ques. O KIND teachers ! can you tell us 
 Where the path to glory goes ? 
 Can you warn us of our dangers ? 
 Can you save us from our foes ? 
 
 Ans. Yes, dear children, we can tell you 
 Of the road that leads to bliss : 
 We can warn you of its dangers 
 Through a world of sin like this. 
 
 Ques. O kind teachers ! tell the story : 
 How our bosoms pant to know 
 What will ma1<e us good and happy 
 While we live on earth below ! 
 
 Ans. Yes, dear children : His the Bible., — 
 
 Blessed book ! — that tells the story, — 
 How the young may love their Maker, 
 How the saints prepare for glory. 
 
 Ques. O kind teachers ! let us read it, 
 
 Let us treasure up its meaning : 
 All the good and great will love us ; 
 For 'twill make us leave off sinning. 
 
 A71S. Blessed children, how we love you ! 
 We can never cease to praise 
 Him who gave us all his bounty, — 
 Life and health, and peace and grace. 
 
 J. Blake. 
 
 Warwick, Oct. 2, 1841. 
 
APPENDIX. T79 
 
 DEDICATION HYMN 
 
 FOR THE NEW UNITARIAN CHURCH IN WARWICK. 
 
 Omnipotent and omniscient God, 
 
 Accept of this earthly abode 
 Our hands have upreared to thy name : 
 
 Let thy presence, like heavenly light, 
 
 Seraphic, diffusive, and bright, 
 Here come, and forever remain. 
 
 Let thy Spirit of peace, love, and joy. 
 
 Without any earthly alloy, 
 Descend like the dew that distils. 
 
 Harmonious and heavenly Guest, 
 
 Fill every worshipper's breast. 
 And soften our obdurate wills. 
 • 
 
 Inscribed on thy pages, O God ! 
 
 Are words that thy goodness bestowed 
 To make us both happy and wise. 
 
 We hallow tliis temple to thee, — 
 
 The altar to which we would flee 
 To offer our best sacrifice. 
 
 We have built this house for thy praise : 
 
 Oh ! make it a portal of grace 
 To usher us onward to heaven : 
 
 Like doves to their windows we'll come. 
 
 Or prodigals hastening home 
 To join in an endless thanksgiving. 
 
 J. Blake. 
 
 Warwick, Oct. 4, 1836. 
 
l8o HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 DEDICATION HYMN. 
 
 READ AT THE RE-DEDICATION OF THE UNITARIAN CHURCH, 
 AFTER ITS REPAIRS. 
 
 To thee, our Maker and our God, 
 
 We dedicate this house of prayer : 
 Here may we listen to thy word, 
 
 And here thy benediction share ! 
 Here may thy word like dew distil 
 
 Its fragrance in this holy place, 
 And hearts submissive to thy will 
 
 Its holy precepts to embrace ! 
 
 Here may the strains from mortal tongues 
 
 Begin the everlasting song, — 
 That endless, that eternal one, 
 
 That, rapt in glory, saints prolong ! 
 Here may the Spirit guide in prayer 
 
 That erst descended from above, 
 And all our supplications share 
 
 The blessing of redeeming love ! 
 
 Here may our aged fathers come 
 
 When on the tottering brink of time, 
 In earnest of that heavenly home, 
 
 That better, holier, happier clime ! 
 And here may all prepare to meet 
 
 Their summons at our Saviour's call, 
 And, welcomed at his mercy-seat, 
 
 The great I Atn / the All in All! 
 
 J. Blake. 
 
 Brattlkobro', July 3, 1859. 
 
APPENDIX. t8i 
 
 LINES TO BE SUNG AT A DONATION-PARTY IN 
 WARWICK, MASS. 
 
 To Him that formed the starry skies 
 
 Let all the praise be given, — 
 The Great, the Good, the Only Wise, 
 
 Who sent his Son from heaven. 
 
 He came, a messenger of peace, 
 
 Glad tidings to proclaim, 
 Of endless joys and happiness, — 
 
 AH in his Father's name. 
 
 He told us where our duty lies ; 
 
 How love to God is shown — 
 Better than formal sacrifice — 
 
 By love to every one. 
 
 Our harps upon the willows hung, 
 
 Like captive Jews of old ; 
 God's house shut up, his praise unsung. 
 
 No one to pen the fold. 
 
 In kindness and in love appears 
 
 A friend in time of need, 
 Whose generous heart dispels our fears. 
 
 And sows the precious seed. 
 
 We meet this day to consecrate. 
 
 Each one, their little mije 
 To him whose labors here of late 
 
 Proclaim what's good and right. 
 
 God grant him peace and happiness. 
 
 And we'll reward his care ; 
 And may his work of righteousness 
 
 Each one for heaven prepare ! 
 
 J. Blake. 
 
 Bratti.eboro', Nov. 12, 1858. 
 
[82 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 LINES OF CONDOLENCE 
 
 ADDRESSED TO MR. AND MRS. , ON THE DEATH OF THEIl 
 
 DAUGHTER. 
 
 Parental love may strive to save 
 A blooming infant from the grave, — 
 
 The object of their love ; 
 But purer love and higher claims 
 The God who made it still maintains, 
 
 And summoned it above. 
 
 Sweet little child, it dies, it dies ! 
 Its breath departs, its spirit flies, 
 
 And leaves its clog of dust ; 
 While shining seraphs guide it home, 
 Up to its heavenly Father's throne, 
 
 To dwell among the just. 
 
 In faith convey its body on. 
 Commit its keeping to the tomb : 
 
 It cannot there remain. 
 (A grain of wheat must die to grow 
 In richest soil where waters flow) 
 
 Your child shall live again. 
 
 Though sown a mortal, sure she'll rise 
 Immortal l\eir of paradise, 
 
 Of purity and bliss ; 
 And, clothed in garments white and clean. 
 Forever praise thee, One supreme. 
 In endless happiness. 
 ^' J. Blake. 
 
 Dorchester, Oct. 25, 1851. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 TO THE HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 We now come to the second part of our work, which we 
 entitle an Appendix to the History of Warwick, wherein we 
 record some incidents not mentioned in Mr. Blake's 
 manuscript ; and, not wishing to interfere with his arrange- 
 ments, we place them in this part, so that they may be kept 
 for the benefit of future generations. With some of those 
 that he has recorded, we have added such further expla- 
 nations as we thought needful to make them well understood, 
 and others not so much of direct history as those in the first 
 part of our volume ; but we think they will be of interest to 
 some families, as their ancestors were the principal actors 
 in the events here recorded. 
 
 We will here insert the names of the owners of the fifty- 
 acre or home lots, when surveyed in 1737 ; also, who owned 
 the same lots when the first plan of the township of Gard- 
 ner's Canada (now Warwick) was made ; who owned, or 
 were setded on said lots in 1761, when all the settlers' 
 names were taken at the new meeting house in said town, 
 by order of the proprietors ; and also who reside on or 
 own these lots at the present time, 1872, as near as we can 
 
1 84 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 determine by the proprietors' plan, containing a survey of 
 the said lots, and the one hundred acre-lots surveyed in 
 1738: — 
 
 No. 
 
 Owners in 1737. 
 
 A few years after. 
 
 Samuel Stevens Samuel Stevens 
 
 Benj. Smith ! Benj. Smith 
 
 Gresham Davis | G. Davis 
 
 Wm. Dudley ; Wm. Dudley 
 
 1761 
 
 Jos. Weld 
 
 Jos. Gardner 
 
 Eleazor Ham- 
 mond 
 Josiah Cheney 
 
 Peter Aspinwall 
 
 John Wilson 
 Wm. Sharp 
 tbnr. Smith 
 Sam'i Griffin 
 
 14 Kbnr. Case 
 
 13 j Sam' I Newall 
 I'j ; Kdward White 
 
 Kbnr. Crafts 
 Sam' I Peacock 
 John Parker 
 Joseph Heath 
 Sam'l Wight 
 Joseph Weld 
 Isaac Stedman 
 Samuel Davis 
 Samuel Clark 
 E. Hammond 
 
 John Shepard 
 
 Thos. Hartshorn 
 
 John Gay 
 Minister lot 
 Ministry lot 
 Kdward Morris 
 Kbnr. Crafts 
 
 Ebnr. Maude 
 James Frizzell 
 Joseph Heath 
 
 Thomas Mayo 
 Fohn Seaver 
 Israel Hearsay 
 
 I Jos. Weld 
 
 I Jos. Heath 
 
 E. Hammond 
 
 j J. Cheney 
 
 j P. Aspinwall 
 
 Benj. Wilson 
 Wm Sharp 
 Elias Smiih 
 Sam'l Griffin 
 
 Elias Clark 
 James Ball 
 K. White 
 Sam'l Tucker 
 
 i Stephen Wall 
 Ira Welch 
 John Fester 
 Joseph Waite 
 Sam'l Wight 
 Joseph Weld 
 Isaiah Allen 
 Sam'l Davis 
 Sam'l Clark 
 E. Hammond 
 
 Joseph Shepard 
 
 Thos. Hartshorn 
 
 John Seaver 
 Minister lot 
 Ministry lot 
 Edward Morris 
 Ebenr. Cragin 
 
 E.Maurice 
 J. Frizzell 
 Jos. Heath 
 
 Thomas Mayo 
 John Seaver 
 Sam'l Morse 
 
 not settled 
 Geo. Robbins 
 not settled 
 John Goodale 
 
 Moses Evans 
 
 not settled 
 
 not settled 
 
 not settled 
 
 Sam'l Pratt 
 
 not settled 
 Sam'l Ball 
 Mosely Alvard 
 not settled 
 
 Amariah Roberts 
 not settled 
 John Brandon 
 Tim Nurse 
 
 not settled 
 
 Joseph Perry 
 Ichabod Johnson 
 not settled 
 Andrew Blunt 
 Amos Matsh 
 not settled 
 Nathan Stevens 
 David Bassett 
 
 j not settled 
 
 Ebnr. Davis 
 not settled 
 
 Israel Olmstead 
 Simeon Olmstead 
 
 Sam'l Scott 
 Sam'l Spaulding 
 Amzi Doolittle 
 Jos Mavo ) 
 
 A.Dool;ttle,jun. \ 
 Sam'l Scott, jun. 
 Sam'l Bennett 
 
 1S7.2 
 
 B. Davis's place 
 A. Blake, mills 
 E. Collates place 
 Morris Coughlin, 
 
 pasture 
 
 Coughlin and J. 
 Blake 
 
 Coughlin & others 
 (in part) 
 
 J. Shepardson (in 
 j part) 
 I I. Whittimore's 
 
 heirs 
 \ Whitmore and 
 \ Flagg (in part) 
 I J. Leonard, farm 
 ; ]. W. Green, farm 
 i W. Flagg (in part) 
 I W. Flagg and 
 others 
 
 R. Knight, farm 
 I Bird's pasture. &c. 
 i W. Burnett, farm 
 i W. B. farm, and 
 I Coughlin, north 
 I part 
 
 I Green and Moore 
 I K.in)ball & others 
 I Kimball & others 
 j I'atridge & others 
 
 N. Jones & others 
 I D. N. Shepardson 
 ' Houghton place 
 i H. Williams 
 
 John Morse 
 
 E. Barber, pas- 
 ture 
 
 A. Albee's, Cook 
 place 
 
 Fisk Cemetery, 
 &c., Fisk place 
 
 Rarnard Fisher 
 
 H. M Harvey 
 
 Wid. Hoibrook 
 
 C. W Hastings 
 S. Reed, Smith 
 
 place 
 Sam'l Reed 
 James Goldsbury 
 J. Goldsbury and 
 
 others 
 Elisha Brown 
 K. Brown & others 
 W. E. Russell's 
 
 pasture 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 185 
 
 
 Owners in 1737. 
 
 A few years after. 
 
 1761. 
 
 1872. 
 
 vro4i 
 
 Benj. White 
 
 Gershom Davis 
 
 Moses Evans 
 
 M M Stevens 
 
 42 
 
 Wm. Dudley 
 
 Joseph Gould 
 
 Moses Evans 
 
 M. M. Stevens & 
 others 
 
 43 
 
 Wm Dudley 
 
 Charles Marsh 
 
 Moses Evans 
 
 A. K Litchlleld 
 
 44 
 
 Robert Harris 
 
 Robert Harris 
 
 James Ball 
 
 Litchfield and 
 GokUbury 
 
 45 
 
 John Masecroft 
 
 Wm. Dudley 
 
 Thomas Rich 
 
 Cassius (joldsbury 
 
 46 
 
 Benj. Bugbee 
 
 Wm. Dudley 
 
 Jonathan Perry 
 
 J. & J. Goldsbury 
 
 47 
 
 Joseph Daniels 
 
 Robert Harris 
 
 Joseph Goodale 
 
 [oseph Pierce 
 
 48 
 
 John Chandler 
 
 Jtio. Chandler 
 
 David Allen 
 
 G. H. Richards 
 
 49 
 
 Timothy Mosman 
 
 Timo. Mosman 
 
 Edward Allen 
 
 E. & E F. Mayo 
 
 50 
 
 Sam'l Perry 
 
 Sam'l Perry 
 
 Barnabas Russell 
 
 Messrs. Ma) and 
 others 
 
 SI 
 
 Timothy Whitney 
 
 Timo. Whitney 
 
 Nathan Ball 
 
 Messrs. RLayo and 
 others, Ball 
 Farm 
 
 52 
 
 Robert Sharp 
 
 Robert Sharp 
 
 Moses Leonard 
 
 Messrs. Mayo and 
 others, Ball 
 Farm 
 
 53 
 
 John Allen 
 
 John Mayo 
 
 David Ayers 
 
 Asa Gould and 
 others 
 
 54 
 
 Shubael Seaver 
 
 Joseph Weeks 
 
 David Ayers, jun. 
 
 Heirs of D. Tyler 
 
 55 
 
 Thomas 'I'aft 
 
 Robert Daniels 
 
 not settled 
 
 Heirs of D. Tyler 
 
 56 
 
 Andrew Gardner 
 
 Kobert Heaih 
 
 Jedediah Wood 
 
 C. G. A. Prentice 
 
 57 
 
 Robert Daniels 
 
 Robert Bennett 
 
 Abner Coflin 
 
 C. Hastings 
 
 58 
 
 Thomas Mayo 
 
 Thos. Mayo 
 
 Silas Town 
 
 John Stearn? 
 
 59 
 
 Andrew Seaver 
 
 A. Seaver 
 
 not settled 
 
 John Stearns 
 
 60 
 
 John Rnggles 
 
 John Kiiggles 
 
 " " 
 
 J. Stearns and 
 others 
 
 61 
 
 John Parker 
 
 John Parker 
 
 Charles Woods 
 
 John Whipple 
 
 62 
 
 John Willson 
 
 John Willson 
 
 K. Prestcott 
 
 R. Weeks's heirs 
 
 63 
 
 School lot 
 
 School lot 
 
 not settled 
 
 Wid Lois Smith 
 
 THE WAR OF 1812-14. 
 
 This war with Great Britain was declared by a vote of 
 the Congress of the United States, in the month of June, 
 18 1 2, by a vote of seventy-nine to forty-nine in the House, 
 and of nineteen to thirteen in the Senate ; and, on the 
 i8th, Pres. Madison signed the bill, and war was formally 
 declared the next day. In this war the citizens of Warwick 
 took an active part in defence of their country's rights, 
 although a majority of them were opposed to its declaration. 
 Among those that enlisted in the United-States service 
 were John Ager, George Stockwell, Henry Whipple, and 
 
 Parmenter (privates) ; Benjamin Eddy (drum-major) ; 
 
 Obadiah Bass (musician). 
 
l86 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 We find on the records of the South company of the 
 Militia in our town the following regimental orders : — 
 
 To Ca/t. Williain Burnett, Jun. 
 
 In pursuance of Brigade Orders, bearing date of Sept. 9, 
 1814, you are hereby commanded to detach forthwith, from the 
 company under your command, one ensign, one sergeant, and 
 fourteen privates, well armed and equipped, as the law directs. 
 You are likewise further commanded to parade your detached 
 men near the academy, in New Salem, on Tuesday the thir- 
 teenth day of September, inst., at nine o'clock, a.m., and there 
 to wait for further orders. 
 
 Bknj. S. Wells, 
 Col. Tfd Kegt., 2d Brig., ^th Div, 
 Montague, Sept. 9, 1814. 
 
 Sept. ii, 18 14. 
 Agreeable to regimental orders, a training was appointed to 
 be held on Monday, Sept. 12, 1814; and the clerk received or- 
 ders from Capt. Wm. Burnett for warning the company, which 
 was duly performed according to orders. 
 
 Sept. 12, 1814. 
 
 Agreeable to appointment and legal notice, the company met 
 at the usual place of parade at eight o'clock, a.m., and was 
 called to order by the captain. Voted and chose Cummins 
 Lesure clerk pro tern. The company roll was called, and other 
 duty performed ; and a detachment was made, and the follow- 
 ing persons were detached ; viz., Ebenezer Stearns (ensign) ; 
 Ebenezer Barber (sergeant) ; Ephraim Tuel, Manning Whee- 
 lock, Jonas Leonard, Willard Packard, Dexter Fisk, David 
 Gale, Jun,, Stephen Ball, William Boyle, Abijah Eddy, Jonas 
 Conant, Samuel Abbot, Peter Warrick, Daniel Smith, Artemas 
 Baker (privates). 
 
 (Attest) Lemuel Wheelock, Clerk. 
 
APPENDIX. 187 
 
 The above order was also issued to the North company 
 in town ; and said company was called together accordingly. 
 But, as the records of said company have not been found, 
 we therefore add the following names of persons, that, as 
 we are informed, w^ere detached on said occasion for like 
 services : Abner Goodale (ensign) ; Nathan Atvvood, 
 Stephen Williams, Joseph Williams, jun., James Ball, jun., 
 
 Samuel Ball, Ezra Ripley, Eli Stockwell, Maxwell 
 
 (privates). 
 
 Stephen Gale, Benoni Ballou, George Jaseph, Joseph 
 Jaseph, James Fuller, and some others, went into the service 
 in place of some of the detached men, they having been 
 hired in their stead. Of the aforesaid only these are now 
 living in Warwick : Ebenezer Barber, Henry Whipple. 
 
 During the autumn of 18 14, John Quincy Adams and 
 others, from the government of the United States, were sent 
 to Ghent, in Belgium, to meet commissioners from Great 
 Britain; and, on the 24th of December, a treaty of peace 
 was signed. The news reached our country Feb. 11, 
 1815. Late at night a horseman was heard galloping 
 through the streets of Washington with news of peace ; and 
 " Peace ! peace ! " soon resounded on all sides. 
 
 The joyful news soon circulated throughout the country. 
 It was here, when received, as well as everywhere else, 
 hailed with delight which would, at this time of railroads, 
 steamboats, and telegraph wires, be considered tardy in the 
 extreme. And on the eighteenth day of February, the 
 treaty was ratified by the United-States Senate ; and peace 
 was thereby secured, leaving a government debt of over a 
 hundred million dollars, with our commerce destroyed, and 
 all kinds of industry depressed. But we are proud to 
 affirm, that, under the influence of our free institutions, the 
 above debt was in a few years all paid, and a large amount 
 of surplus revenue divided among the States. 
 
l'88 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 An Extract from the Reflections on the Tornado which 
 passed from Northfleid, throui^h Warwick, to Oram^e, 
 Sept. 9, 1 82 1. By Elder John Shepardson, Warwick, 
 January, 1822. 
 
 How mighty is the voice of God ! 
 
 How heavy is his hand ! 
 When once he sways his awful rod, 
 
 None can his power withstand. 
 Oft has he spoke, of ancient date, 
 
 As many writers say ; 
 And now he speaks to us of late 
 
 In a surprising way. 
 
 From western sky a cloud arose, 
 
 Some thunder and some rain ; 
 A wind which nothing could oppose, — 
 
 It swept both hill and plain. 
 It broke the trees of largest size, 
 
 Tore up the flinty rocks. 
 Striking all nature with surprise, 
 
 Disturbed the peaceful flocks. 
 
 It swept off barns, and houses too, 
 
 With all the goods they owned, 
 Leaving whole families in woe, 
 
 And some with broken bones. 
 But oh ! the most surprising stroke. 
 
 Too shocking to relate : 
 Two blooming youths by whirlwind spoke 
 
 To tl|p eternal state. 
 
 Oh ! come, ye living, search and spy. 
 
 And view the wonder well ; 
 Go forth from North field mountain high 
 
 To Orange lofty hill ; 
 Go see the wounded, hear their groans, 
 
 And hear the mourner's cries ; 
 See the rent earth her God doth own 
 
 With wonder and surprise. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 189 
 
 We will here insert, for the purpose of preserving them, 
 the names of our truly noble sons who toiled, bled, suf- 
 fered, and died in the service of their country during the war 
 of the Rebellion. 
 
 Some of them removed from town prior to the com- 
 mencement of the war, but had not become residents of 
 any other place previous to their enlistment into the Union 
 army. All honor to such ! 
 
 We will first record the names of those that died ; and 
 their names are inscribed on our Soldiers' Monument : — 
 
 Henry W. Lawrence, 
 Francis L. Moore, 
 Levi E. Switzer, 
 Frederic Williams, 
 Benjamin Hastings, 
 LaFayette Nelson, 
 Edward N. CoUer, 
 Seth A. Woodward, 
 Henry H. Manning, 
 
 James D. Delvee, 
 Charles Jones, 
 Jas. Henry Fuller, 
 Willard Packard, 
 Franklin Pierce, 
 John B. Caldwell, 
 Warren H. Blake, 
 Joseph W, Sawyer, 
 Alexander Cooper, 
 
 Leander S. Jillson, 
 M. Stanley Cashing, 
 Monroe L. B. Patridge, 
 Joseph Drake, 
 Edwards Davis, 
 James M. Chapin, 
 Jacob S. Rayner, jun., 
 S.P. Shepardson, Jan., 
 Joseph W. Ellis (27). 
 
 The following are the names of those that returned, and 
 are now residing in Warwick : — 
 
 Lyman Mason, 
 Nath. M. Pond, 
 Henry H. Jillsoi'^, 
 Dwight S. Jennings, 
 
 Rayal E. Stimson, 
 Jesse F. Bridge, 
 George Jennings, 
 George E. Cook, 
 
 Harwood S. Proctor, 
 Joseph A. Williams, 
 William Dugan (ii). 
 
 Names of those that returned, but. removed to other 
 places : — 
 
 Joseph Spencer, 
 Henry O. Cook, 
 George Mason, 
 Frederic Quinn, 
 Amory Gould, 2d, 
 Alphonzo Rayner, 
 
 Richards Mayo, 
 Henry Witherell, 
 Alonzo Scott, 
 Dwight E. Stone, 
 Orrin Curtis, 
 Chas. E. Randall, 
 
 Charles Lawrence, 
 Theodore Putnam, 
 Jairus Hammond, 
 Albert C. Barber, 
 Artemus W. Ward. 
 Richard Weeks, jun. 
 
90 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 William Weeks, 
 Francis L. Fuller, 
 Joseph Putnam, 
 R. Harding Barber, 
 Henry W. Kidder, 
 Andrew J. Curtis, 
 George Severance, 
 George B. Cobb, 
 
 Sumner Lincoln, 
 Peter Dyer, 
 John Farnsvvorth, 
 Lewis Atwood, 
 William H. Mason, 
 A. R. Jennings, 
 Joseph Adams, 
 S. T. Underwood, 
 
 Amos Taylor, 3d, 
 Alfred Houghton, 
 Elliot Stone, 
 Charles W. Higgins, 
 Albert L. Hunt, 
 Silas Jennings, 
 Samuel Adams, 
 
 Total, 41 
 
 Joseph Draper and Luke Delvee were drafted and ac- 
 cepted, and each procured a substitute. 
 
 Charles Goldsbury, William H. Gale, M. W. S. Clark, 
 *Henry O. Cook, *Dwight S. Jennings, Josiah Conant, 2d, 
 George A. Cashing, and John M. Putney, were also drafted 
 and accepted, and paid three hundred dollars each them- 
 selves, or by their friends, and substitutes procured by the 
 selectmen, or others. Total, eight. In all lists, seventy- 
 nine. 
 
 THE REBEL BELL. 
 
 We've got a bell from Rebeldom, — 
 
 A secesh bell, I mean, — 
 Suspended from our school-house dome. 
 
 Upon the village green. 
 
 Its voice rings out at morn and noon 
 
 To call the happy throng 
 Away ixhm sports and games, 
 
 From mirth and laugh and song. 
 
 We know not where it used to hang, 
 
 Nor whom it used to call : 
 If amid scenes of mirth or grief 
 
 Its notes were wont to fall. 
 
 * Drafted after discharged and returned from the army 
 
APPENDIX. 191 
 
 The rebels had designed to send 
 
 This bell to Yankee foes, — 
 Not all at once to ring for school, 
 
 But how, the soldier knows. 
 
 Perhaps its hanging here will save 
 
 The life of some soldier brave ; 
 And he'll come back to friends and home, — 
 
 Not fill a soldier's grave. 
 
 We will not call it rebel now, 
 
 Here in this North land free : 
 It shall not stay and do its work, 
 
 And still a rebel be. 
 
 Oh, no ! a rebel at the North 
 
 Is what we all despise ; 
 Then we'll rechristen and rename 
 
 Our little rebel prize. 
 
 And let it hang and do its work ; 
 
 And, when the war shall end, 
 It shall ring out with joyful shout, — 
 
 Its voice with others blend, 
 
 To welcome back our soldier band, 
 
 Our soldiers true and brave. 
 Who are fighting, 'neath a Southern sky, 
 
 For the Union and the slave. 
 
 Then let it ring at morn and noon, 
 
 No more a rebel bell : 
 Its voice shall teach us liberty, 
 
 It freedom's words shall tell. 
 
 And may all those who enter here. 
 
 Or listen to its voice. 
 Make wisdom^ knowledge, liberty, 
 
 Their earnest, lasting choice. 
 
 Susie E. Barber. 
 
 \Varwick, Dec. 20, 1862. 
 
192 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Said bell was taken from the rebels at New Orleans, on 
 its way to the foundry to be cast into shot and shell to be 
 sent by ordnance into the Union army ; which incited the 
 author to compose the above lines, which were read on 
 that occasion. 
 
 LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS, &c. 
 
 [WRIITEN BY J. BLAKE IN 1832.] 
 
 There have been thirteen physicians established in this 
 town for a longer or shorter term of time, only two of whom 
 have died here. Their names are, — 
 
 Medad Pomeroy, Benjamin Hazeltine, John Garfield, 
 Ezra Conant, jun., Fairfield, Bliss, John Will- 
 son, Peletiah Metcalf, Ebenezer Hall, Ebenezer Chaplin, 
 Artemas Baker, Joel Burnett, and Amos Taylor. 
 
 There has never been but one lawyer who attempted to 
 gain a living among us ; viz., Henry Barnard, Esq 
 
 There have been fourteen different persons chosen repre- 
 sentatives to the General Court ; viz. : — 
 
 No. years' service. 
 
 No. years' service. 
 
 Deacon James Ball . 
 
 . 2 
 
 Dea. Caleb Mayo . 
 
 7 
 
 Col. Samuel Williams 
 
 2 
 
 Ebenezer Williams . 
 
 I 
 
 Thomas Rich . 
 
 3 
 
 Justus Russell . 
 
 3 
 
 John Goldsbury 
 
 9 
 
 Jonathan Blake, jun. 
 
 2 
 
 Nathaniel Cheney . 
 
 I 
 
 Joseph Stevens 
 
 3 
 
 Oliver Chapin . 
 
 3 
 
 Lemuel Wheelock . 
 
 I 
 
 Josiah Cobb . 
 
 8 
 
 AshbelWard . 
 
 2 
 
 • We have been represented forty-seven years, and have 
 been without a representative twenty-two years, since the 
 town was incorporated. There have been twelve town 
 clerks, who served the number of years set against their 
 names, — 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 193 
 
 No. years' service. 1 No. years' service. 
 
 Dea. James Ball . . . 12 Josiah Pomeroy, jun. . .12 
 
 Amos Marsh . 
 
 Col. Samuel Williams . 
 
 Ezra Conant . 
 
 • 4 
 
 • 3 
 . 9 
 
 Jonathan Blake, jun. 
 Ebenezer Hall . 
 William Cobb, jun. . 
 
 . 15 
 • 4 
 . I 
 
 Dr. Ezra Conant, jun. 
 John Conant . 
 
 . I 
 . 9 
 
 Asa Thayer 
 
 Dr. Amos Taylor 
 
 . I 
 • 3 
 
 ALL THE SELECTMEN, SINCE THE TOWN WAS INCORPORATED, AND 
 THE NUMBER OF YEARS THEY SERVED SET AGAINST THEIR NAMES. 
 
 Moses Evans . 
 Jonathan Woodard 
 David Buckman 
 John Ormsbee . 
 Peter Procter . 
 Daniel Whitney 
 Ebenezer Cheney 
 Jacob Rich 
 Joel Pierce 
 Reuben Shattuck 
 
 Year. 
 I 
 
 I 
 I 
 I 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 Yea 
 
 John Whitney . 
 Jacob Estey 
 Zachariah Barber 
 Ebenezer Pierce 
 Perez Allen 
 Elias Knowlton 
 William Burnett, jun 
 Elijah Fisk 
 Jacob R. Gale . 
 Josiah Rawson 
 
 Making twenty selectmen that served one year each. 
 Here follow those that have served two years : — 
 
 
 Years. 
 
 
 Years. 
 
 Joseph Gilbert 
 
 . 2 
 
 Nathaniel Rich 
 
 . 2 
 
 Ezra Conant . 
 
 . 2 
 
 William Cobb . 
 
 . 2 
 
 David Cobb . 
 
 . 2 
 
 Abijah Eddy . 
 
 . 2 
 
 Seth Peck . 
 
 . 2 
 
 Ansel Lesure . 
 
 . 2 
 
 Joseph Mayo . 
 
 .2 
 
 Samuel Ball . 
 
 . 2 
 
 Making ten that have served two years each. 
 Those that served three years : — 
 
 
 Years. 
 
 
 Years. 
 
 Amzi Doolittle 
 
 • 3 
 
 Ebenezer Stearns 
 
 • 3 
 
 Col. Samuel Williams 
 
 • 3 
 
 Ebenezer Barber 
 
 • 3 
 
 Samuel Langley 
 
 • 3 
 
 Col. James Goldsbury . 
 
 • 3 
 
 Dr. John Willson . 
 
 T7 
 
 • 3 
 
 Total seven. 
 
 
194 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Those that served four years : — 
 
 Years. 
 Josiah Pomeroy . . .4 
 Josiah Procter .... 4 
 
 Amory Gale 
 
 Total, three. 
 
 Years. 
 . 4 
 
 Those that served five years : — 
 
 
 Years. 
 Benjamin Conant . . .5 
 Benjamin Simonds . . .5 
 Capt. John Goldsbury . . 5 
 
 Joseph Stevens 
 Total, four. 
 
 Years. 
 • 5 
 
 Those that served six years : — 
 
 
 Years. 
 Nathaniel G. Stevens . . 6 Justus Russell 
 
 Total, two. 
 
 Years. 
 . 6 
 
 Those that served seven years : — 
 
 
 Years. 
 Jeduthan Morse . . .7 
 Thomas Rich .... 7 
 Jonathan Gale .... 7 
 
 Ebenezer Williams . 
 
 Lemuel Wheelock . 
 
 Total, five. 
 
 Years. 
 
 • 7 
 
 • 7 
 
 Only one that served eight years, — 
 
 Dr. Medad Pomeroy, eight years. 
 
 Those that served nine years : 
 
 Years. 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. . . .9 
 Amos Marsh . . . . 9 
 Mark Moore .... 9 
 
 Total, five. 
 
 Those that served ten years : — 
 
 Years, 
 Dea. James Ball . . .10 
 
 Years. 
 
 Caleb Mayo .... 9 
 Joshua Atwood . . .9 
 
 Years. 
 Ashbel Ward . . . .10 
 Total, two. 
 
 Only one person served eleven years, — Col. James Goldsbury . 1 1 
 Only one person served sixteen years, — Josiah Cobb . . . 16 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 ^95 
 
 Making sixty-one different selectmen ; and nearly one- 
 third of them served only one year each. 
 
 The above account is from the incorporation of the town 
 up to and including the year 1832. 
 
 [written by J. BLAKE IN 1854.] 
 
 In the past twenty-two years, we have chosen nine dif- 
 ferent persons for representatives to the General Court. 
 (Lemuel Wheelock had served one year before 1832), mak- 
 ing twenty-two different persons that have represented this 
 town since it was incorporated. 
 
 Clark Stearns served one year, 
 Ansel Davis " *' 
 
 Samuel W. Spooner served 
 one year, 
 
 il 
 
 3J 
 
 Making three persons that have 
 served one year since 1832, 
 and add two before, making 
 five in all that served one 
 year, 
 
 Those that served two years : — ' 
 
 William E. Russell, 
 Ira Draper, 
 John G. Gale, 
 
 2 years 
 2 " 
 2 " 
 
 These three add to four that 
 served before 1832, making 
 seven in all that served two 
 years, 7 
 
 Served three years 
 
 Jacob C. Gale, 
 Abijah Eddy, 
 
 3 years 
 
 -' t 
 
 2 J 
 
 Add these two to four that 
 served before 1832, making 
 six iii all for for three years, 6 
 
 Served six years : — 
 
 Lemuel Wheelock, by adding one year before 1832 
 Caleb Mayo, served seven years before 1832 
 Josiah Cobb, served eight years before 1832 
 John Goldsbury served nine years before 1832 
 
 Twenty-two different representatives. 
 
196 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 The town has been represented sixty-seven years since it 
 was incorporated, ninety-one years ago, and has been un- 
 represented twenty-four years. 
 
 Jonathan Blake, jun., was chosen a delegate to the con- 
 vention for amending the Constitution of the State in 1820. 
 
 Samuel W. Spooner was chosen a delegate to the conven- 
 tion for amending the Constitution in 1853. 
 
 I have never seen any record of there being a delegate in 
 the convention from this town, when our State Constitution 
 was adopted in 1780. 
 
 Town clerks, with the number of years they held the 
 oflfice, since 1832 : — 
 
 There had been twelve differ- 
 ent persons before 1832, and 
 four since that time. Amos 
 Taylor had served three 
 years before and six years 
 since, making nine years in 
 all. So there have heen six- 
 teen town clerks, all told. 
 
 All the selectmen that had held that office before 1832 
 were sixty-one. Since 1832 we have had eighteen different 
 persons. 
 
 Amos Taylor, 
 Lemuel Wheelock, 
 
 6 years 
 
 2 •' 
 
 Abijah Eddy, 
 George Chesebro, 
 Ira Draper, 
 
 6 " 
 
 3 " 
 
 5 " 
 
 Served one year : — 
 
 Joel Pierce, i year 
 
 Harvey Conant, i " 
 
 Add these two to twenty pre- 
 vious ones, makes 22 that 22 
 served one year only ; Ibri 
 Baker, chosen this year, call i 
 
 Those that served two years : — 
 
 Asa Wheeler, two years, added to ten previous ones, makes . 1 1 
 
 „ „ . , 1 And both chosen this year, 
 
 S. N. Atwood, 2 years i , . , , 1, 1 , -.i /u 
 
 ^ , , ^ ,, u r which 3 shall add with those 
 
 Edward F. Mayo, 2 " f .u . i. 1 r 
 
 ^ I that have before. 
 
APPENDIX. 197 
 
 Served three years : ■ 
 
 Samuel Blake, 3 years 
 
 David Gale, jun. 3 '* 
 
 David Burnett, 3 " 
 
 Clark Stearns, 3 
 
 Added to 7 that served before 
 1832, making a total of 15 
 
 George W. Moore, 3 " 1 that served three years each, 15 
 
 John G. Gale, 3 " 
 
 8 J 
 
 Those that served four years : — 
 
 William E. Russell, 4 years I 
 
 Tames Stockwell, 4 " I . , , , , , , 
 
 "i^ T^ , .. Added to three that served pre- 
 
 Hervey Barber, 4 " ^ . _ 
 
 ■^ I vious to 1832, total, 
 
 3 J 
 
 Those selectmen that served five years : — 
 
 Jasper Leland, 5 years 
 
 Ira Draper, 5 " 
 
 Added to four that served pre- 
 vious to 1832, makes total, 
 
 2 
 
 Those that served six years: — 
 
 Joseph Stevens, three, added to ] Which, with two others before 
 three before, 6 years j 1832, make 3 
 
 Those that served seven years : — 
 
 Jacob R. Gale, six years since 1 One, added to five previous 
 1832, and one before, makes 7 >* [ ones, makes 6 
 
 Dr. Medad Pomeroy served eight years previous to 1832 i 
 
 Five different persons served nine years each previous to 1832 . 5 
 
 Two " " " ten years each " " . 2 
 
 One " " " eleven years " ." . i 
 
 One " " " sixteen years " " . i 
 
 80 
 Mikuig eighty different selectmen since the town was 
 incorporated, and the number of years each has served. 
 17* 
 
198 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 RESIDENTS OF WARWICK OVER SEVENTY YEARS 
 OF AGE. 
 
 Names of the Females. 
 
 Age. 
 Mary Lincoln . . . .79 
 Lucinda Gale (widow) . -78 
 Lois Goddard (widow) . . 84 
 Esther Morton (wid., pauper) 78 
 Azubah Whitmore (pauper) . 75 
 Elizabeth Whipple (widow) . 71 
 Sarah Leonard (widow) . . 75 
 Martha Leonard (widow) . 80 
 Eunice Morse . . .70 
 
 Hannah Lesure (w., pensioner) 90 
 
 Names of the Males. 
 
 
 
 Age. 
 
 Asa Atwood (pauper) . 
 
 70 
 
 Gushing Lincoln . 
 
 79 
 
 Phinehas Child (widower) 
 
 76 
 
 Justus Russell 
 
 77 
 
 Stephen Johnson (pauper) 
 
 75 
 
 Josiah Conant (widower) 
 
 90 
 
 Nathan C. Morse . 
 
 79 
 
 Jonas Conant 
 
 78 
 
 Benjamin Conant . 
 
 78 
 
 Simeon Stearns 
 
 74 
 
 David Ball . . .• . 
 
 73 
 
 Asa Bancroft . . . . 
 
 73 
 
 Caleb Weeks. 
 
 78 
 
 Joseph Draper (widower) 
 
 80 
 
 Ezekiel Nelson 
 
 78 
 
 Daniel Whitmore (pauper) . 
 
 80 
 
 Aaron Bass . . . . 
 
 71 
 
 Samuel Williams (widower) . 
 
 11 
 
 Isaac Hastings 
 
 71 
 
 Elijah Davis . 
 
 82 
 
 William Howard . 
 
 76 
 
 Luther Smith 
 
 71 
 
 Amos K. Whitney (widower) 
 
 79 
 
 John Stearns . . 
 
 73 
 
 Erastus Morgan (pensioner) 
 
 89 
 
 Jonathan Blake 
 
 . 73 
 
 Males . 
 
 . ^6 
 
 Females . 
 
 • 33 
 
 Total over seventy years. 59 
 on Feb. i, 1854, at which time the 
 above was taken. 
 
 Eunice Stearns (single) . 
 Tamer Stearns (single) . 
 Sarah Penniman (widow) 
 Mary Gale (widow) 
 Sophia Whitney (single) 
 Polly Davis . 
 Polly Johnson 
 Betsey Conant 
 Susannah Blake (widow) 
 Lucy Eddy (single) 
 Sally Weeks . 
 Polly Knowlton (widow) 
 Lucy Field (single) 
 Eunice Barnard (w., pauper) 
 Anne Conant . 
 Leafy Howard 
 Rose Sandin (widow) 
 Amy Kelton (widow) 
 Elizabeth Spencer (widow) 
 Rebecca Brown (widow) 
 Lydia Stockwell (widow) 
 Hannah Leland (widow) 
 Sally Mallory (single) . 
 
 83 
 71 
 77 
 83 
 74 
 74 
 71 
 72 
 70 
 71 
 75 
 74 
 74 
 80 
 
 71 
 75 
 70 
 70 
 70 
 81 
 70 
 80 
 70 
 
 33 
 
 There are now two persons in town over ninety years of 
 
APPENDIX. 199 
 
 age, — one man and one woman ; eleven between eighty 
 and ninety years of age, — four men and seven women; 
 and forty-six between the age of seventy and eighty years. 
 Of the above, five are widowers, and eighteen are widows ; 
 six are maiden ladies. There are two pensioners, — one 
 man and one woman. Six of the above are maintained by 
 the town ; viz., three men and three women. 
 
 There is but one doctor to add to the thirteen that we 
 -counted in 1832, and he was here but a few years, and then 
 removed to Montague ; viz., Dr. George Wright. Dr. Amos 
 Taylor, before mentioned, is the one now practising here, 
 and has been the principal physician for nearly forty years. 
 The first and only postmaster we have had until within a 
 year was William Cobb, who held that office nearly fifty 
 years, and until his death. 
 
 [written by deacon hervey barber, 1872.] 
 
 The whole number of persons chosen by the town, previ- 
 ous to 1854, to represent them in the Legislature of the Com- 
 monwealth, was twenty-two. In 1855 and 1856, the town 
 voted not to send. Since that time our town has been incor- 
 porated into a district with Orange and New Salem for that 
 purpose. Said district has been represented by a citizen 
 of Warwick four times since its incorporation, by three 
 different persons ; viz., Nathaniel E. Stevens, Esq., one 
 year ; Rev. I. S. Lincoln, two years ; and E. F. Mayo, Esq., 
 one year. The remainder of the time the district has been 
 represented by citizens of Orange and New Salem. 
 
 Previous to 1854, eighty different persons had been 
 chosen, and served as selectmen of the town ; and the names 
 and the years each one has served are to be found in the. 
 former pages of this work. 
 
 From 1854 to 1872, inclusive, seventeen persons have 
 performed like duties ; viz., James L. Stockwell, one year ; 
 
200 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 and Ibri Baker, Clark Stearns, N. E. Stevens, S. W. Jillson, 
 Hervey Barber, Eben G. Ball, for two years each. 
 
 Henry G. Mallard, Charles R. Gale, William H. Gale, 
 Lyman Atwood, for the term of three years each. 
 
 S. N. Atwood, William H. Bass, Jesse F. Bridge, each for 
 four years ; and Edward F. Mayo for the space of nine 
 years, he having served three years prior to that time, make 
 ing twelve years in all. S. N. Atwood had also served three 
 years previous, making seven in all. Hervey Barber, four 
 previous, making six years as his time of service. Clark 
 Stearns, three before ; showing that he has served five years. 
 Ibri Baker, one prior, two subsequent, making three for him : 
 so that we can now add twelve more names to the honor- 
 able list that has preceded, namely, eighty ; it being a sum 
 total of ninety-two citizens of our town that have been elected 
 as selectmen, and performed the onerous duties of that im- 
 portant office, since we have been known as the town of 
 Warwick, — a little over a hundred and nine years. For 
 twenty-seven years previous to 1763, under the proprietors, 
 we were known as Gardner's Canada ; and from time im- 
 memorial prior to 1736, "This country, that surrounds our 
 beautiful Mount Grace, was called Sheomet, its Indian name." 
 
 In summing up the above statement, we find that the 
 persons that have served one year as selectmen are 23 ; 
 those that have served two years, 14 ; also those that have 
 served three years, 17 ; and those that served for four years, 
 9 ; also for five years, 8 ; and for six years, 3 ; for seven 
 years, 7 ; for eight years, i ; for nine years, 5 ; for ten years, 
 2 ; for eleven years, i ; for twelve years, i ; for sixteen 
 years, i : making a total of 92 in all, since 1763. 
 
 The town first elected a superintending school-committee 
 at the annual March meeting, 18 14. Before that time, the 
 resident clergyman performed that service, it being con- 
 sidered a part of his parochial duties; and from 1814 to 
 
APPENDIX. 20I 
 
 1827, inclusive, Rev. Preserved Smith served as an honorary 
 member and chairman of the Board ; and from 1822 to 1825 
 the town neglected to choose any school-committee, as 
 there are no names found upon the town records for that 
 responsible office : so the Rev. P. Smith ably and satisfac- 
 torily performed all the labor of that very important station 
 for that term of years. In 1826, the town, at Mr. Smith's 
 request, elected Dea. Josiah Proctor, Dr. Amos Taylor, 
 and* Capt. Ebenezer Barber, to assist him in its onerous 
 duties. And from that time to the present, 1872, the town 
 has annually chosen from three to twelve persons to serve 
 them in that capacity. 
 
 From that time, 18 14, to the present, the following per- 
 sons have been elected, and have served the town in the 
 capacity of Superintending School Committee, for the follow- 
 ing terms of years, including 1832 : — 
 
 Joshua Atwood, Dea. Caleb Mayo, Joan Whitney, jun., 
 
 Manning Wheelock, Thomas White, jun., Dea. Joel Pierce, 
 
 Calvin Allen, Dea. G. W. Moore, Dea. Edward Mayo, 
 
 Cushing Lincoln, Jasper Leland, Thomas Chase, jun., 
 
 Dea. John Leonard, Joshua Williams, jun , George Jones, 
 
 Rev. D. H. Barlow, A. C. Felton, Harvey Conant, 
 
 Otis Brooks, Esq., H. G. Mallard, Esq., Rev. A. Jackson, 
 
 James Goldsbury, jun,, James Stockwell, Esq., Lyman Rich, 
 
 Dr. C. J. Barber, Harry Grout, Chandler W. Bass, 
 
 E. S. Proctor, Luke Delvee, George A. Cushing. 
 
 Thirty persons, in all, that have served one year. 
 
 Eben'r Williams, Esq., Amos K. Whitney, James Kelton, jun., 
 Capt. John Stearns, Samuel Moses, jun., Harvey Robbins, 
 Rev. S. S. Kingsley, Rev. George F. Clark, George N. Richards, 
 Dea. D. Tyler, George W. Smith, Rev. W. A. P. Willard, 
 
 D. M. Shepardson, William H. Bass, Rev. John Shephardson. 
 
 Fifteen persons that have served two years. 
 
202 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Dr. Ebenezer Hall, Dea. Ebenezer Pierce, Joseph Stephens, Esq., 
 
 Rev. Sam'l Kingsbury, Ch'as. Pomeroy, Esq., Benj. R. Felton, Esq., 
 
 Rev. H. M. Bridge, Oilman Brown, Albert Witherell, 
 
 James L. Stockwell, William H. Gale, Joseph Clark. 
 
 Twelve persons for three years. 
 
 Capt. Ebenezer Barber, James Goldsbury, Esq., 
 
 Dr. George Wright, Wm. E. Russell, Esq. 
 
 Four persons for four years. 
 
 Clark Stearns, Esq., Martin Harris, Appleton Gale, 
 
 Justus Russell, Esq., Abijah Eddy, Esq., E. F. Mayo, Esq., 
 Rev. John Goldsbury. 
 
 Seven persons for five years. 
 
 Charles R. Gale, Eben G. Ball, Esq., Henry K. Atwood. 
 
 Three persons for six years. 
 
 Col. B. G. Putnam, John Stearns, jun. , J. A. J. Moore, 
 James S. Wheeler, Lem'l Wheelock, Esq., Jona. Blake, Esq. 
 Dr. Amos Taylor, 
 
 Seven persons for seven years. 
 
 Rev. Roger C. Hatch, one for nine years. 
 Dr. Gardner C. Hill, one for ten years. 
 Rev. Preserved Smith, one for sixteen years. 
 Dea. Hervey Barber, one for eighteen years. 
 
 Making eighty-two persons that have served in that 
 responsible office in fifty-four years. 
 
 The number of persons that had served as town clerk 
 prior to 1854 was sixteen. Since that time, Ira Draper 
 has been town-clerk five years, Henry G. Mallard one 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 203 
 
 year, Edward F. Mayo seven years, and A. S. Atherton 
 five years, including the present. Ira Draper had served 
 five years previous ; making nineteen persons in all that 
 have served since the incorporation of the town. 
 
 From the year 1802 to the present (1872), William Cobb, 
 Esq., was chosen, and acted as town treasurer forty-seven 
 years ; James Goldsbury, Esq., nine ; Rev. R. C. Hatch, 
 one ; Col. B. G. Putnam, four ; Phillip Young, four ; and A. 
 S. Atherton, Esq., five years ; making a sum total of six per- 
 sons that have filled that office honorably to themselves, 
 and satisfactorily to the town, during the last seventy 
 years. 
 
 The postmasters of our town since 1803 have been Wm. 
 Cobb, Esq., Lemuel Scott, Quartus M. Morgan, Benjamin 
 G. Putnam, and Abner Albee (our present incumbent), 
 making only five persons that have held that necessary ap- 
 pointment, for a term of almost seventy years, showing that 
 location and capability have governed the people in nomi- 
 nating their candidates, in preference to party politics. 
 
 We have now to add to the fourteen physicians that 
 resided here prior to 1854 the names of George Field, who 
 lived and practised in this town two years ; G. C. Hill, 
 who resided with us ten years, then removed to Keene, 
 N. H. ; C. J. Barbour, who was with us from one to two 
 years ; and Samuel P. French, who came here in 1869, and 
 is with us at the present time, and is the only practising 
 physician residing in town : making, with those that have 
 been mentioned, eighteen different persons that have lived 
 with us, and practised their profession, since the town was 
 first settled. 
 
204 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Dr. Amos Taylor, who has been mentioned- twice in 
 this volume, deserves something more than a passing 
 notice from us ; for he lived with us a half-century, and 
 practised his profession in a discreet and acceptable 
 manner for over forty years. He died April 28, 1865, aged 
 eighty years. While he was with us, he was a careful and 
 esteemed physician, an honored citizen, a true friend, a 
 sincere Christian, and an honest man. And before, closing 
 this account of the late physicians of Warwick, we will quote 
 an extract from the Rev. P. Smith's semi-centennial sermon 
 where he speaks of Dr. Medad Pomeroy, who was a con- 
 temporary with the Rev. Mr. Hedge, a near neighbor and 
 an intimate friend. '' Dr. Pomeroy was a native of North- 
 ampton, and a graduate of Yale College in 1759. He died 
 October, 18 19, five years after my settlement, at the advanced 
 age of eighty-three years. He gave me many interesting 
 reminiscences of his beloved pastor, and of those early 
 times, truly 'days of small things,' when both united their 
 efforts to advance the best interests of the new town, both 
 religious and material. Often, when he was attending 
 patients whose means of comfort were small, Mr. Hedge 
 would fill his saddle-bags with such things as were timely 
 and necessary. Dr. Pomeroy's sympathies were very tender 
 for the* afflicted ; and on funeral occasions he was expected 
 to have a seat with the mourners, not unfrequently mingling 
 with his tears words of Christian consolation. His kind 
 feelings to all endeared to him a large circle of friends. 
 He was also distinguished for a generous hospitality. Dr. 
 Pomeroy used to repeat to his friends the following lines, 
 as an expression of his hospitable heart : — 
 
 " ' To my best my friends are free, 
 Free with that, and free with me ; 
 Free to pass the timely joke. 
 And the tube sedately smoke ; 
 
APPENDIX. 205 
 
 Free to act, and free to think, 
 (No informers with me drink) ; 
 
 Free to stay a night or so, 
 And, when uneasy, free to go.' " 
 
 HYMN OF WELCOME. 
 
 BY MISS M. A. REED. 
 
 Friend and Pastor, *thou who ever 
 
 Helped to tune our lips to praise, 
 We, with willing hearts and voices, 
 
 Greet thee with glad welcome lays. 
 Here thy church, our place of worship ; 
 
 Here the people of thy care : 
 Welcome ! welcome ! faithful pastor ; 
 
 Lead again our praise and prayer. 
 
 Fifty years, with all their changes 
 
 Deep inwrought on time's bright scroll, 
 Here to-day, on memory's tablet, 
 
 Gently backward seem to roll. 
 Once again we seem to see thee. 
 
 As by Christ-like faith sustained, 
 In thy manhood's strength and vigor, 
 
 To thy life's great work ordained. 
 
 Girded with the Christian's armor, 
 . Thy great mission just begun. 
 Through long years of patient labor, 
 
 Still we see thee pressing on. 
 Guiding erring feet from danger, 
 
 Telling weary ones of rest. 
 Leading onward, pointing upward, 
 
 To the haven of the blest. 
 
!o6 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Fifty years ! where are the facea 
 
 That were wont to greet us ? where ? 
 Where the voices wont to mingle 
 
 In our praise, and in our prayer ? 
 They like autumn leaves are scattered : 
 
 Some afar on life's broad sea, 
 Some in foremost ranks of battle. 
 
 Some at home, O God ! with thee. 
 
 Fifty years, dear Christian pastor. 
 
 One by one swift circling round, 
 Have thy life with'bright-hued glories 
 
 Of life's autumn richly crowned. 
 Soon thy weary steps will linger 
 
 Close beside our Father's door : 
 Then thou'lt hear a glorious welcome 
 
 On that happy heavenly shore. 
 
 Warwick, Oct. 12, 1864. 
 
 RECORD OF MARRIAGES AND INTENTIONS OF 
 MARRIAGE. 
 
 FOUND IN THE DIARY OF JONA. BLAKE, JUN., OF WARWICK. 
 
 Dec. 7, 1806. Joel Mayo and Abigail Reed, married in Meet- 
 ing-house by Rev. Samuel Reed. 
 Dr. Ebenezer Hall, married. 
 C. Rich, married. 
 Samuel Williams, married. 
 Clark Stearns and Hannah Leonard, married. 
 Jonas Leonard and Patty Davis, married. 
 Mary Champney,^ married. 
 Benjamin Conant, 4th, married. 
 Lois Stevens, married. 
 Josepli Willson and Eunice Ball, married. 
 Mr. Daniel Cook and Widow Goodell, married. 
 
 •May 
 
 13, 
 
 1807. 
 
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 20, 
 
 it 
 
 ii 
 
 3i» 
 
 " 
 
 June 
 
 4, 
 
 u 
 
 Dec. 
 
 10, 
 
 li 
 
 Feb. 
 
 II, 
 
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 Mar. 
 
 9. 
 
 1809. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 18, 
 
 I8I0. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 31, 
 
 ii 
 
 Nov. 
 
 22 
 
 (I 
 
Dec. 
 
 II, 
 
 1810. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1 4, 
 
 1811. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 21, 
 
 u 
 
 Sept. 
 
 29, 
 
 u 
 
 Oct. 
 
 9. 
 
 « 
 
 Nov. 
 
 19' 
 
 a 
 
 u 
 
 21, 
 
 (( 
 
 u 
 
 26, 
 
 a 
 
 Jan. 
 
 21, 
 
 1812, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 12, 
 
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 Nov. 
 
 17, 
 
 a 
 
 Jan. 
 
 2, 
 
 1814, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 31, 
 
 " 
 
 Apr. 
 
 10, 
 
 a 
 
 APPENDIX. 207 
 
 Mr. Samuel Mayo, married, 
 
 Levi Smith and Lydia Cobb, married. 
 
 Cummins Lesure and Polly Ball, married. 
 
 Isaiah Bridge and Sukey Davis, married. 
 
 Anna Stevens, married. 
 
 Mr. Levi Gage and Nancy Barnes, married. 
 
 William B. Stow and Lucy Moore, married in 
 
 the meeting-house. 
 Jos. Williams, Jr., and Patty Williams, married. 
 21, 1812. Asa Melendy and Sally Moore, married. 
 Betsy Champney, married. 
 Zebiah Williams, married. 
 2, 18 14. Joseph Willson and Nancy Reed, married. 
 Stephen Johnson and Polly White, married. 
 Artemas Baker and Elizabeth Bird, married by 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 " 14, " Aaron Leland and Lucy Smith, married by Jona- 
 than Blake, Jr. 
 Nov. 10, " David Rich and Lucretia Mayo, married. 
 Feb. I, 181 5. Elijah Wrisley and Polly Bancroft, married by 
 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Mar. 6, " Caleb Hastings and Huldah Penniman, married. 
 
 " 8,' " Susannah Gould, married. 
 May 30, " Willard Packard and Hannah Smith, married by 
 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Apr. 17, 1817. John Bowman, married. 
 
 Sept. 29, ' " Jonathan Shepardson and Hannah Delvee, mar- 
 ried. 
 " 29, " Artemas Brown and Patience Bancroft, married. 
 Dec. 4, " Lemuel Wheelock and Rhoda Chamberlain, 
 
 married. 
 July 8, 1818. Moses M. Reed and Hannah M. Hazeltine, 
 married. 
 " 13, " Stephen Cobb and Laura Howard, married. 
 Aug. 26, " Joseph Goddard of Orange entered his inten- 
 tions with Maria Moore. 
 " 27, " George Oliver, Esq., and Deborah White, 
 married. 
 
2o8 HISTORY OF WARWICK. . 
 
 Nov. 25, 18 1 8. Elkanah Whipple, his intentions with Elizabeth 
 
 Stearns. 
 Dec. 3, " John Ball, Jr., his intentions with Harriet Moore, 
 and was married in the meeting-house Jan. 3, 
 1819. 
 " 6, " Nathan Stevens of Barre, his intentions with 
 
 Lois Stevens. 
 *' 16, " Samuel Howe of Framingham, and Sally Hast- 
 ings, married by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Feb. 2, 1819. Benjamin Perry, his intentions with Hannah 
 Dean. 
 " 15, " George Jeseph and Mary West, married by 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Mar. 17, " David Barry, his intentions with Sarah Munroe. 
 Apr. 7, *' David Battles, his intentions with Eunice Pick- 
 ering. 
 " 18, " Harvey Woods and Sally Pierce, married by 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 July 16, " Dean Lincoln, his intentions with Mrs. Eliza- 
 beth Eager. 
 Oct. 10, " Warren Atwood, his intentions with Eliza Stock- 
 well. 
 " 33, " Stephen Reed, his intentions with Jerusha 
 
 Moore. 
 " 30, " Samuel T. Delvee, his intentions with Betsy 
 Ball. 
 Nov. 3, " John Whitney, Jr., his intentions with Abigail 
 
 Foster. 
 Feb. 10, 1820. Levi Stimpson, his intentions with Eliza Proctor. 
 •Mar. I, " William Hastings, his intentions with Mary 
 Dutton of Windham, Vt. 
 " 2, " Eliphalet Kingman, his intentions with Mehetable 
 
 Allen. 
 " 4, " Hori Waistcoat, his intentions with Clarissa 
 Fisher of Royalston. 
 Apr. 7, " Stephen J.' Kendal, his intentions with Ruth B. 
 Fisher of Royalston. 
 " 15, " George Fisher, his intentions with Ruth Wood- 
 ward of Petersham. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 209 
 
 May I, 1820. Henry Whipple, his intentions with Polly Smith. 
 Sept. 9, " Jonas Hill, his intentions with Lucretia Moore. 
 " 21, " Daniel Smith, his intentions with Melinda Taft 
 of Richmond, N.H. 
 Oct. I, " Samuel Blake and Betsy Fay, married by Rev. 
 
 Preserved Smith, 
 Jan. 13, 1821. David Ball entered his intentions of marriage 
 with Elizabeth Rice. 
 " 23, " Amory Mayo entered his intentions of marriage 
 with Sophronia Cobb. 
 Feb. 4, " Isaac Metcalf of Royalston entered his inte-n- 
 tions of marriage with Mrs. Anna M. Rich. 
 " 10, " Reuben Harrington of Orange, his intentions 
 of marriage with Abigail Abbot. 
 Aug. I, " Jonathan Blake, Jr., and Mrs. Betsy Ballard, 
 married at Greenfield. 
 Ezekiel Ellis, his 'intentions with Tamazine 
 
 Whitmore. 
 Dean Penniman, his intentions with Hannah 
 Hastings. 
 1822. Chapin Holden, his intentions with Lucy Jackson ; 
 and they were married Feb. 5, 1822, by Jona- 
 than Blake, Jr. 
 Abraham P. Sherman, intentions with Polly Fay. 
 Thomas Chase, Jr., intentions with Rebecca 
 
 Chase. 
 Joshua T. Sanger, intentions with Martha H. 
 
 Leonard. 
 Joseph Williams, Jr., intentions with Hannah J. 
 
 Mann. 
 Moseley Clapp, intentions with Emelia Burnett. 
 James Ball, Jr., intentions with Clarissa Ball. 
 Jonathan Jackson, intentions with Mrs. Lucy 
 Wheeler. 
 " 27, " Cushing Lincoln and Mrs. Mara Gale, married 
 by Jonathan Blake,* Jr. 
 Mar. 9, " William Proctor, intentions with Anna Fay. 
 " 29, " Daniel Johnson, intentions with Almira Porter. 
 
 Sept. 3, 
 
 u 
 
 Nov. 17, 
 
 (( 
 
 Jan. 19, 
 
 1822. 
 
 Apr. 4, 
 
 <( 
 
 May 18, 
 
 (( 
 
 June 25, 
 
 ii 
 
 July 25, 
 
 u 
 
 Sept. 7, 
 
 a 
 
 Nov. 30, 
 
 (( 
 
 Feb. 5, 
 
 1823, 
 
2IO HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Apr. 1 6, 1823. Seth Stratton, intentions with Freedom A. 
 
 Holton. 
 
 " 21, " Adams Batchelder, intentions with Clarissa 
 
 Hastings. 
 
 May 10, " Daniel Pratt, intentions with Bathsheba Delvee. 
 
 Sept 18, " Rev. P. Smith, intentions with Tryphena W. 
 
 Goldsbury. 
 Oct. I, " Amory Pierce, intentions with Sophronia Barnes. 
 '' 3, " Samuel Abbot, intentions with Abigail Jones of 
 
 Templeton. 
 *" 12, " Anson Lyman, intentions with Katharine R. 
 
 Murdock. 
 •• 31, " George Bacheller, intentions with Nancy Pom- 
 eroy Pond. 
 Jan. 16, 1824. Willard Barnes, intentions with Delight Rice 
 
 of New Salem. 
 Feb. 28, " Humphrey VVheelock, intentions with Sophia 
 
 Lesure. 
 Mar. 6, " Sylvanus Ward, intentions with Anna Draper. 
 " 21, " John Hoi man of Royalston, intentions with 
 Eliza Estey. 
 Apr. II, " Elias Knolton, intentions with Mrs. Polly Cook. 
 May 29, " Elisha Rich, intentions with Caroline G. Parker 
 
 of Winchester, N.H. 
 June 4, " Samuel Hammond entered his intentions with 
 Mary R. Thayer. 
 " Joel Leonard and Abigail Delvee, married. 
 "- Silas Lewis, intentions with Sabrina Conant ; 
 and they were married Jan. 9, 1825, by Jona- 
 than Blake, Jr. 
 " Ebenezer Bird, Jr., intentions with Sarah 
 
 Knolton. 
 " Alexander Blake, intentions with Polly Ward 
 and they were married Nov. 18, 1824, by 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 " Henry Willard and Mrs. Sally Wood, married 
 
 by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 " Joseph W. Chase of Royalston, intentions with 
 Melinda Gale. 
 
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 21J 
 
 Sept. 
 
 13, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 3, 
 
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 3, 
 
 a 
 
 5, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 6, 
 
APPENDIX. 211 
 
 Dec. 31, 1824. Jonas Conant, intentions with Anna Barker of 
 
 Brattleboro', Vt. 
 Jan. 21, 1825. Asa Robbins, Jr., and Loving Collar, both of 
 
 Northfield, married by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Feb. 3, " JamSs Pierce and Cyntha Bacheller of Warwick, 
 married by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 " 24, " Eliphaz Gould, intentions with Betsey Simonds. 
 Mar. 4, " Daniel Woodbury of Royalston, intentions with 
 Persis Chase. 
 " 7, " Jonathan Shepardson of Royalston, intentions 
 
 with Nancy Jeseph. 
 " 12, " Capt. Josiah Proctor, intentions with Polly 
 Thompson of Royalston. 
 Apr. 20, " Reuel Collar and Hannah Chapin, both of North- 
 field, married by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Sept. 2, " Amory Gale, Jr., intentions with Patty Leland. 
 *' 29, " Lorenzo Lord of Orange, intentions with Olive 
 
 Moore. 
 " 29, " Gardner Conant, intentions with Livonia Hodge. 
 Oct. 18, " Mr. Joseph Goodell (aged 90 years) and Mrs. 
 Sarah Woodcock of Royalston, married. 
 " 23, " David Clark, intentions with Hannah Fisher. 
 " 29, " David Burnet, intentions with Marcia Grout of 
 Richmond, N.H. 
 Nov. 20, '.' John Smith and Lois Jeseph, married by Jona- 
 than Blake, Jr. 
 " 27, " Elder John Shepardson, intentions with Abigail 
 Lawrence of New Salem. 
 Dec. 2, " Jonathan Gardner, intentions with Abigail Cole. 
 " 9, " William Frye of Bolton, intentions with Fanny 
 
 Fuller. 
 " II, " Andrew Russell, intentions with Melinda Fay. 
 Jan. 13, 1826. Edward Mayo entered his intention of marriage 
 with Eunice Ball. 
 " 21, " Aaron Bass entered his intention of marriage 
 with Mrs. Betsey Rice. 
 Feb. 2, " Isaac Hastings, Jr., entered his intention of mar- 
 riage with Prudence Hallory of Winchester, 
 N.H. 
 
212 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Mar. 20, 1826. Wheaton Kelton of Winchester, N.H., with 
 
 Mary Ann Bishop of Warwick. 
 July 20, " Jacob Collar of Northfield, with Betsey Smith 
 
 of Warwick. 
 Aug. 23, '•' Elisha Brown, Jr., with Almira Cole. 
 
 " 29, " Henry Sawyer of Lancaster, with Catharine B. 
 Burnett of Warwick. 
 Sept. 2, " Ichabod D. Battle of . Orange, with Miranda 
 Moore of -Warwick. 
 " 9, " Joseph. Williams, with Mrs. Lucy Pratt. 
 Oct. 13, " Dennis Fay, with Adaline H. Flagg of Holden. 
 Nov. 19, " Samuel T. Delvee, with Rebecca Stockwell. 
 Dec. 2, " James Goldsbury, with Miranda Sweetser of 
 Athol. 
 " 9, " Charles Barber of Northfield, with Mary E. 
 Williams of Warwick. 
 Mar. 24, 1827. John C. Washburft, with Aroe Clark, both of 
 Warwick ; and they were married April 19, by 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Afay 5, " Seth Woodard, Jr., with Lucy or Arethusa Hol- 
 man of Orange ; and they were married June 
 10, by Jonathan Blajce, Jr. 
 July 16, " Melzar Williams, with Scybinda Wheelock. 
 Sept. !4, " Samuel Gilson of Erving's Grant, with Achsah 
 
 Burnett of Warwick. 
 Oct. 4, " Amory Bartlett of Chesterfield, N.H., with 
 Meriam Conant. 
 " 28, " Jasper Leland, with Harriet Ann Bass. 
 Dec. 8, " Rev. Nahum Gould of Macdonnough, N.Y.; 
 with Rebecca B. Leonard ; married Jan. 29, 
 1828. 
 " 14, " John Adams Green, with Lucy Delvee ; and were 
 married Jan. i, 1828, by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 1828. John Goodell Watts, with Mary Foster. 
 " Elijah Fisk, with Experience Wheelock. 
 " Clement Smith Johnson of New Salem, with 
 
 Hannah Hazeltine Gale of Warwick. 
 " Alpheus Eastman of Hollis, N.H., with Sally 
 AVilliams of Warwick. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 17, 
 
 " 
 
 17, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 12, 
 
 May 
 
 3, 
 
Aug. 
 
 4, 
 
 (( 
 
 a 
 
 23, 
 
 a 
 
 Sept. 
 
 5, 
 
 a 
 
 Oct. 
 
 26, 
 
 a 
 
 Apr. 
 
 18, 
 
 1830. 
 
 APPENDIX. 213 
 
 July I, 1828. David Rich, with Mrs. Eh'zabeth Chesebrough ; 
 and was married Aug. 3, by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 William E. Russell, with Mary Ann Pomroy. 
 David Burnett entered his intentions.with Lydia 
 
 Fulton of New Salem. 
 Asa Taft, with Nancy Burnap of Nelson, N.H. 
 Joseph Ball, with Jerusha Hale, both of Warwick. 
 Daniel Evans and Mehetable Cook, married by 
 Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Dec. 12, 1 83 1. Benjamin Merriam and Mrs. Polly Carter, mar- 
 ried by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Jan. II, 1832. Alexander Burnett and Eliza Burnett, married 
 
 by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 May 23, " George W. Moore and Sarah P. Leonard, mar- 
 ried by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 " 27, " Ichabod Whipple and Fanny Simonds, married 
 
 by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 " 29, " Noah Adams of Winchester, N.H., and Eunice 
 Stearns, married by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Nov. I, " Hervey Barber and Hannah Leland, married. 
 Jan. 8, 1833. Alvah C. Page and Mary Ann Blake, married. 
 June 2, " Artemas Murdock, Jr., and Mary Simonds, mar- 
 ried by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 Sept. 20, 1835. Samuel Nute and Sarah Ann Delvee, married 
 by Jonathan Blake, Jr. 
 " Asa H. Conant and Semira Fuller, married. 
 1836. Benjamin F. Dean and Mary Ann Russell, 
 married. 
 " Keith White and Mary H. Goodell, married. 
 1839. James H. Clapp and Leonora Blake, married'by 
 Rev. Preserved Smith. 
 " 28, " Artemas B. f^uller and Ophelia Packard, mar- 
 ried by Rev. Roger C. Hatch. 
 Dec. 2, " Samuel Fay, Jr., and Sarah Taylor. 
 May 17, 1840. Frederic Clapp and Martha M. Blake, married 
 
 by Rev. Preserved Smith. 
 Nov. 29, " Ibri Baker and Eliza Barber, married. 
 Jan. 5, 1 841. Mr. Furbush and Sarah Fisher, married. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 3; 
 
 Dec. 
 
 21, 
 
 a 
 
 22, 
 
 Nov. 
 
 28, 
 
214 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 1841. Mark Foster and Sarah Nash, married. 
 
 Stillman Barber and Mary Fisher, married. 
 Dea. Hervey Barber and Ann M. Child, married. 
 Joseph W. Green and Mary Ann Ball, married. 
 James E. Blake and Relief Smith, married by 
 
 Rev. Preserved Smith*. 
 Alfred Nutter and Charlotte Mayo, married. 
 Lewis A. Drury and Sarah C. Gilbert, married 
 
 by Jonathan Blake. 
 July 4,1844. Benjamin F. Fuller and Mary Green, married. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 6, 1841 
 
 Apr. 
 
 20, " 
 
 May 
 
 31, '' 
 
 Oct. 
 
 3. ." 
 
 Nov. 
 
 15, " 
 
 Nov. 
 
 7, 1842. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 I, 1843- 
 
 RECORD OF DEATHS IN WARWICK. 
 
 COPIED FROM JONA. BLAKE'S DIARY. 
 
 1807. 
 
 Dec. 12, 
 
 Feb. 13, Frederick Barnes. 
 
 1809. 
 
 " 23, Mr. Peter Delvee. 
 
 Feb. I, 
 
 May II, Mary Ann Blake. 
 
 " 20, 
 
 June 12, Martin Maynard. 
 
 Mar. 10, 
 
 July 8, Mr. J. Weeks, accident. 
 
 " 13, 
 
 Aug. 10, Mrs. Davis. 
 
 May 2, 
 
 Oct. 6, Dr. Ellis. 
 
 Sept. 14, 
 
 Nov. 8, Harriet Mayo. 
 
 Nov. 2, 
 
 " 28, David Bancroft. 
 
 1810. 
 
 1808. 
 
 Mar. 6, 
 
 Jan. 6, Lucy Haven. 
 
 " 12, 
 
 " 13, John Goodell. 
 
 Apl. 17, 
 
 **. 19, Josiah Rawson. 
 
 " 25, 
 
 " 24, E. Rawson's child. 
 
 May 2, 
 
 " 30, Capt. Jonathan Gale. 
 
 " 6, 
 
 April 2, Old Mrs. Mallard. 
 
 " 21, 
 
 June 22, Samuel Lesure's daugh- 
 
 Oct. 2, 
 
 ter. 
 
 Nov. 20, 
 
 Sept. 4, Mrs. Ager's child. 
 
 " 27, 
 
 Oct 21, Thomas Tuel. 
 
 
 Nov. 26, John W. Mayo. 
 
 Dec. 6, 
 
 Dec. I, Mrs. Daniel Cook. 
 
 " 30, 
 
 Mrs. Samuel Mayo. 
 
 Semira Cobb. 
 Lydia Streeter, 
 Mr, Isaiah Fuller. 
 Perez Allen's child. 
 Jno. Moore, Jr.'s, wife. 
 Ebenezer Pierce's wife. 
 Mr. Thomas Gould. 
 
 Jno. Moore, Jr.'s, son. 
 Joseph Severy. 
 Rich. Waistcoat's child. 
 Seneca Whitney. 
 
 Mr. Thornton. 
 
 Mr. Abijah Fisher. 
 Mr. Jacob White. 
 Lewis At wood. 
 James Ball's son. 
 Captain Elisha Hunt of 
 
 Northfield. 
 Mr. Griffith, State paup. 
 Joel Jennings's child. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 215 
 
 1811. 
 Feb. 4, Mr. Daniel Cook. 
 
 " 24, Fanny Ball. 
 
 " 24, Wm. Burnet, 3d. 
 Apl. 29, Thomas Bancroft's wife. 
 June 16, Mr. James Stockwell. 
 
 " 27, Reuben Gale. 
 July 14, Mrs. Eaton. 
 Aug. 17, Richard Waistcoat. 
 
 " 29, Mr. William Cobb. 
 Sept. 21, Severence. 
 
 " 29, Mrs. Johnson. 
 Nov. 4, Azariah Barber's wife. 
 
 *' 28, Jonathan Goddard of 
 Orange, by hanging him- 
 self on an apple-tree. 
 Dec. 14, Nancy Moore, at Brook- 
 line. 
 
 " 17, Capt. Charles Rich. 
 1812. 
 Jan. 7, Fanny Bancroft. 
 Feb. 5, Mrs. Jonas Clark. 
 
 " 6, Old Mr. Weeks. 
 
 " 6, Mrs. Stone. 
 
 Mar. 7, Old Mrs. Bass. 
 
 " 12, Mrs. Martha Conant, aged 
 59 yrs. 8 mos. 
 
 " 31, Mr. Enoch Kilton, aged 
 ■ 86 years. 
 April 9, Mrs. Nathan Kilton. 
 
 *' 17, Joseph Willson's wife. 
 May 16, Polly Fay. 
 June 4, Eph. Robbins, Jr.'s, wife. 
 
 " 6, Med. Pomeroy, Jr.'s, son. 
 
 " 13, Eunice Leonard. 
 
 " 22, Polly Bowman. 
 July 31, Rev. Samuel Reed. 
 Nov. 3, Patience Barber. 
 
 " 20, Jos. Williams, Jr.'s, wife. 
 
 1813. 
 Jan. 4, Mr. Hen. Field of North- 
 field. 
 
 Jan. 17, Betsey Whitney. 
 Mar. 6, Samuel Moore's child. 
 
 " 31, Levi Maynard's wife. 
 May 4, Sibil Leonard. 
 June 3, Mrs. H. G. Stevens. 
 July 19, David Ball's son. 
 
 " 30, Francis Leonard's second 
 daughter. 
 Aug. 26, Ebenr. Bancroft's wife. 
 
 1 8 14. 
 Feb. 16, Mr. Samuel Eveleth. 
 
 *' 17, Mrs. Rawson. 
 
 " 19, Abner Goodell's son. 
 Mar. 1 1, Joshua Atwood's wife. 
 June 5, Wm. Lewis's dau. 
 
 " 8, Mr. Ebenezer Bancroft. 
 
 " 24, Old Mrs. Proctor. 
 Oct. 23, Mr. Minard, glassblower. 
 Nov. 4, L. N. Wood's son. 
 
 " 27, Daniel Peck of Royals- 
 ton, 74 yrs. 
 Dec. 15, Olive Cook. 
 
 " 29, Elona Daniels. 
 1815. 
 Jan. II, Dea. Benjamin Conant. 
 Feb. 3, Eunice Leonard, 6 mos. 
 
 '* 4, Old Mrs. Stearns. * 
 
 " 12, Mr. Jesse Warrick. 
 Apl. 16, Mrs. Taylor, wife of Wal- 
 ter. 
 1816. 
 Nov. 13, Francis Leonard, 6 mos. 
 
 ** 17, Job Maycumber. 
 
 " 27, Old Mrs. Jennings. 
 Dec. 20, Melinda Daniels, 24 yrs. 
 
 1817. 
 Jan. 10, Mrs. Cobb. 
 Feb. 7, Phillip Atwood's wife. 
 
 " 15, Ephraim Tuel. 
 Mar. 5, Mr. Jacob Rich. 
 
 " 22, Josiah Proctor's infant 
 child. 
 
2l6 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Mar. 23, Daniel Collar's child. 
 
 Feb. 19, Old Mr. Bachelder. 
 
 " 25, Mr. Robert Eaton, 83 yrs. 
 
 Mar. 21, Benj. Lincoln Bangs. 
 
 April 3, Joseph Barber's wife. 
 
 " 30, Mr. Jacob Packard. 
 
 June 18, Mr. Jesse Gale. 
 
 Apr. 6, Widow Clarissa Gale. 
 
 " 18, Mr. Jno. Shepardson. 
 
 Sept. I, Mrs. Elona Conant. 
 
 Aug. 19, Rev. P. Smith's daughter, 
 
 Oct. 6, Asa Thayer's wife. 
 
 born and died. 
 
 " 23, Elijah Fisk's wife. 
 
 Sept. 13, Mercy Conant. 
 
 1821. 
 
 " 18, Dr. Lemuel Barnard, 81 
 
 Jan. 24, J. Williams, Jr.'s, wife. 
 
 yrs. 
 
 May I, Mary Whitney. 
 
 Dec. 8, Henry Burnet. 
 
 " 3, Mr. Daniel Whitney. 
 
 1818. 
 
 June 5, Capt. Asa Thayer. 
 
 Jan. 12, Benj. Hastings, suicide. 
 
 Aug. 17, Mr, Josiah Pomeroy, 80 
 
 Feb. 3, Moses Leonard, 81 yrs. 
 
 years. 
 
 6 days. 
 
 Sept. 5, Old Mrs. Goldsbury. 
 
 « 17, Mrs. Litchfield. 
 
 1822. 
 
 May 5, Samuel Barnes's wife. 
 
 Jan. I, Mr. Zacheriah Barber. 
 
 Sept. 25, Lucy Leonard, 27 yrs. 
 
 " 5, Widow Lydia Fisher, 38 
 
 Dec 17, Ezekiel Cook, 39 yrs. 
 
 years. 
 
 " 21, Mrs. Hurd. 
 
 " 5, Mr. David Perry. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Mar. 2, Daniel M. Johnson. 
 
 Jan. 13, Joseph Steven's wife, 22 
 
 June 16, Mrs. Bebe Smith. 
 
 years. 
 
 Dec. 17, Wid. Anna Leonard, 77 
 
 Apr. 12, David Ball's wife. 
 
 years. 
 
 " 18, Nancy Bangs. 
 
 1823. 
 
 May 31, Melinda Knolton. 
 
 Jan. I, Old Mrs. Wheelock. 
 
 Junft 12, Old Mr. Fay, 79 years. 
 
 Mar. 17, Wm. Tripp, killed by a 
 
 July 31, Amos Fisher, drowned. 
 
 tree. 
 
 Aug. 4, Stephen Cobb. 
 
 " 21, Sarah Cobb. 
 
 '• 28, Olive Howard. 
 
 Apr. 6, Mrs. Hannah Bishop. 
 
 Sept. 7, Mr. Moses Fisher. 
 
 June 20, Mrs. Mason. 
 
 Oct. 21, Mrs. Patty Blake, 33 yrs. 
 
 " 28, Mr. Joshua Atwood. 
 
 " 28, Dr. Medad Pomeroy, 83 
 
 July 20, Mrs. Sally Proctor. 
 
 years. 
 
 " 23, Mrs. Sally Conant. 
 
 Nov. 27, Benj. Simond's wife. 
 
 Aug. 4, Mr. Ebenezer Stearns. 
 
 Dec. 21, Mr. Samuel Bowman, 70 
 
 " 13, Old Mrs. Perry. 
 
 years. 
 
 Sept. 2, Maria Mayo. ^ 
 
 1820. 
 
 Dec. 18, Joseph Metcalf, Esq. 
 
 Jan. 3, Roxana Allen. 
 
 1824. 
 
 " 17, Mr. N. Cook, 71 years. 
 
 Mar. 2, Mrs. Bowman. 
 
 " 19, Mrs. Jackson. 
 
 May 29, Old Mrs. Delvee. 
 
 Feb, 14, Harriet Draper. 
 
 July 31, Harriet Leonard. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 217 
 
 Sept. 6, 
 
 " 20, 
 
 Oct. 31, 
 
 Nov. 6, 
 
 • " 12, 
 
 1825. 
 Feb. 14, 
 " 19, 
 
 " 19, 
 
 " 20, 
 Mar. 2, 
 
 May 23, 
 June 5, 
 
 " 5, 
 July 19, 
 
 " 21, 
 Sept. 12, 
 Dec. 21, 
 
 " 27, 
 1826. 
 Jan. 12, 
 Feb. 3, 
 
 Mar. 19, 
 Apr. 15, 
 May 15, 
 
 Aug. 2, 
 " 21, 
 " 25, 
 
 Sept. 9, 
 " 29, 
 
 Oct. 12, 
 1827. 
 
 Mar. 13, 
 
 May 13, 
 
 Mr. Richard Cobb. 
 Widow Sarah Whitney. 
 Mr. Daniel Wiswell. 
 Lois Whitney. 
 James B. Leonard. 
 
 Mrs. Sibil Smith. 
 
 Mr. Wm. Simonds, 63 
 
 years. 
 
 Gen. Arad Hunt of 
 
 Vernon. 
 Old Mrs. Goodell. 
 Mr. Lemuel Hastings of 
 
 Greenfield. 
 Mr. Samuel Mayo. 
 Mr. Daniel Bancroft. 
 Mrs. Esther Russell. 
 Mrs. Gardner. 
 John Bunyan Penniman. 
 Capt. John Pratt. 
 Mrs. Polly, wife of Sam'l 
 
 Williams. 
 Mr. Samuel Lesure. 
 
 Mr. Abel Eddy. 
 
 Samuel Reed, at Green- 
 field. 
 
 Mrs. Betsy Delvee. 
 
 Jas. Ball's wife, suicide. 
 
 Samuel Barnes, at New 
 Salem. 
 
 Wilder Stevens, 79 yrs. 
 
 Capt. Lesure's wife. 
 
 Joel Mayo's wife, 41 yrs. 
 
 Henry Leiand, 76 yrs. 
 
 John Batcheller, 80 yrs. 
 
 Dr. Benjamin Hazeltine. 
 
 May 15, Sally Hastings. 
 
 " 21, Betsey H. Ball, --dau. of 
 Stephen. 
 July 8, Lyman Knolton. 
 Aug. 6, Lieut. Ebenr. Steam's 
 child. 
 15, Fanny Cook. 
 6, James Stockwell. 
 
 Oct. 
 Dec. 
 
 1828. 
 Jan. 5, 
 
 " 5 
 Feb. 12 
 
 David Burnett's wife. 
 Betsey Blake, wife 
 Samuel. 
 
 of 
 
 Mr. Jonathan Moore. 
 
 Mrs. David Rich. 
 
 Deacon Eben'r Pierce. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Fay. 
 Oct. 30, Widow Jones. 
 Nov. 5, John Whitney, Jr.'s, child. 
 
 Old Mrs. Bangs. 
 
 Dec. 17, 
 
 1829. 
 Mar. 17, Jos.Goodell, about94yrs. 
 " 20, Harriet, dau. of A. K. 
 
 Whitney. 
 " 21, Mrs. Burnett, wife of 
 Andrew. 
 10, Mary Fuller. 
 6, Asa Atwood's wife. 
 ID, Mason, son of Joseph 
 Leonard, Jr. 
 
 May 
 July 
 Dec. 
 
 1830. 
 Jan. 
 
 4, Joel Pierce, two infant 
 children. 
 " 5, Mrs. Tryphena Dutton. 
 " 18, Mrs. Lydia Pierce. 
 May 20, Levi Stearns (town pau.) 
 July 3, Mrs. Allen, wife of Cal- 
 vin Allen. 
 Oct. 16, Henry Fuller. 
 Nov. 13, Mrs. Francis Leonard. 
 Dec. 17, Hannah Whitney, 26 yrs. 
 
 1831. 
 Feb. 21, George Mason. 
 Mar. 8, Capt. Eleazer Wheelock, 
 81 yrs. 
 
2l8 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Mar 29, Mr. Reuben Wheaton. 
 Apr. 28, Jane Kendrick (pauper). 
 May II, Hannah Fuller. 
 July 25, Eunice Morse. 
 Aug. I, William, son of Charles 
 C. Cobb. 
 " 5, Serepta Wyman. 
 •* 6, David Rich's child, i yr. 
 " 10, Abel Sanger, 38 yrs. 
 " 13, John Whitney, Jr.'s, 
 
 youngest child. 1 
 
 " 15, Mrs. Sarah Blake, 80 yrs. ; 
 8 mos. ! 
 
 " 19, John Whitney, Jr.'s, dau. | 
 " 19, Nancy Bowman, 42 yrs. 
 " 19, John Bowman's child. | 
 " 21, Mehetable Kelton, wife 
 of Thomas, 84 yrs, 7 
 mos. 
 " 23, Hannah Holden. 
 " 30, Mr. John Bowman, 
 " 30, A child of Mr. John Bow- 
 man. 
 Sept. 2, Wid. Mary Fuller, 80 yrs. 
 " 8, Rebecca Perry, 3 yrs. | 
 Clark Ware, 24 yrs. 1 
 
 Mr. Isaac Hastings. 
 Mrs. Whitney, wife of 
 
 John, Jr. 
 Mrs. Rebecca Packard 
 
 (pauper). 
 Charles E,, son of Alex- | 
 ander Blake, 23 mos. i 
 
 Elisha M. Davis's child. 
 Mr. Asa Conant, 82 yrs. 
 Ebenr. Barber's child. 
 Justus Russell, Jr., 3 1 yrs. 
 Mr. Samuel Abbott, 39 
 yrs. 
 23, Mr. Shelding's child. 
 
 (< 
 << 
 
 14, 
 25. 
 
 27, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 9, 
 
 <( 
 
 25, 
 
 1832. 
 Feb, II, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 21, 
 
 5, 
 
 
 5, 
 18, 
 
 Mar. 27, Capt. Mark Moore, 83 
 
 yrs. 
 Apr, 13, Mr. Nathl. G. Stevens, 
 80 yrs. 
 '• 30, John C. Miller (pauper). 
 May 14, Mr. Amaziah Kelton. 
 June 6, Ebenr. Barber's wife. 
 
 " 21, Old Mrs. Burnett. 
 July 29, Josiah Proctor, Jr. 
 Aug. 31, Col. Abner Goodell, 50 
 
 yrs. 
 Sept. 6, David Burnett's child. 
 Oct. 30, Old Mrs, Pomroy, 86 yrs. 
 
 1833- 
 Mar. 7, Mr, Thomas Hurd, 74 
 
 yrs, 
 Apr. 4, Abijah Fisher, 76 yrs. 
 July 5, Mrs. Fanny Whipple. 
 " 18, Mr. Nathan Leonard, 70 
 
 yrs. 
 " 22, Old Mrs. Thankful 
 White (pauper). 
 Aug. 14, Old Mrs. Robbins, 89 yrs. 
 Nov. 4, Old Mrs. Richards. 
 " 20, Mrs. Mary Ann Page, 23 
 yrs. 
 Dec. II, John Pierce of Dorches- 
 ter, 91 yrs. 
 
 1834. 
 
 
 Jan. 25, 
 
 Old Mr. Samuel Moses's 
 
 
 wife. 
 
 May 30, 
 
 Jona, Delvee, Jr,'s, child. 
 
 June II, 
 
 Elvira Leonard. 
 
 Aug. 7, 
 
 Joseph G. Whitney. 
 
 " 15, 
 
 Rev. Preserved Smith, 75 
 
 
 yrs. 
 
 " 21, 
 
 Mary Atwood. 
 
 1835- 
 
 
 Jan. 7, 
 
 Isaac Pierce, 71 yrs. 
 
 Mar. 3, 
 
 Mrs. Jerusha Ball, wife of 
 
 
 Joseph Ball. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 219 
 
 Mar. 9, Mrs. Griffith (pauper). 
 " 24, Mr. William Burnett, 93 
 yrs. 
 Apr. 29, Mr. Henry Fuller, 55 yrs. 
 July 18, Mr?. Tryphena Smith, 34 
 
 yrs. 
 Aug. 29, Wid. Lois Fisher, 
 Dec. I, Mrs. Betsey Bass, by sui- 
 cide. 
 " 6, Mrs. Nancy Willson. 
 1836. 
 Mar. 4, John Ball, Jr., by suicide. 
 " 23, Mr. Abijah Eddy, 60 yrs. 
 Oct. 8, Mr. Jonathan Blake, 87 
 
 yrs. 9 mos. 8 days. 
 Dec. 24. Mary Ann Fisher (pau.) 
 
 1837. 
 Jan. I, Harris Fuller, 27 yrs. 
 
 " 27, Patty Brown. 
 Mar. 19, Wid. Rebecca Moore, 88 
 
 yrs. 
 May 19, Mr. Jonas Leonard, 91 
 
 yrs. 
 June 3, Henry H. Conant^ 9 mos 
 Oct. 20, Dea. Ebenezer Stearns, 
 60 yrs. 
 1838. 
 Apr. 8, Mrs. Betsey Ball, 56 yrs. 
 May 20, Daniel Green's youngest 
 child. 
 *• 27, Samuel G. Robbins's 
 child. 
 July 5, Mr. Stephen Ball, 63 yrs 
 
 " 7, Daniel Green's child. 
 Aug. 17, Asa H. Conant's child. 
 Sept 4, Sally Mayo, 54 yrs. 
 Oct, 13, David Gale, Jr.'s, son 
 Amos. 
 " 20, David Gale, Jr.'s, young- 
 est child. 
 1839. 
 Jan. 2, Emily P. White. 
 
 Jan. 10, David Godard's wife. 
 
 " 25, Rhoda Cook 
 Feb. 13, Wid. Polly Drake, 47 yrs. 
 
 Sept. 8, Wid. Rich. 
 
 " 26, Nancy Blake, 51 yrs, 6 
 mos. 20 days. 
 Oct. 18, Capt. Joseph Ball, 50 
 yrs., fell from the bridge 
 at Miller's River when 
 raising it. 
 1840. 
 Feb, I, Samuel Cobb, 57 yrs. 
 Mar. 23, Wid. Nathaniel Stearns, 
 
 86 yrs. 
 Aug. 24, Mrs. H. Barber, wife of 
 Dea. Hervey, 27^ yrs. 
 4, Martha Proctor, at New 
 
 Salem. 
 4, Elizabeth Wellman, 38 
 yrs. 
 8, Samuel Manning's dau. 
 
 Elizabeth, 3 yrs. 
 I. 
 15, Melissa Harvey, 12 yrs. 
 
 28, Wid. Ager, 70 yrs. 
 
 22, Joseph Williams, 78 yrs. 
 27, Capt. Daniel H. Smith, 
 65 yrs. 
 Mar. 14, James H. Horton's child, 
 about 8 mos. 
 " 17, Dea. Samuel Ball, 72 yrs. 
 Apr. 13, Mrs. John Ball. 
 June 20, Mrs. Icibinda Williams, 
 
 40 yrs. 8 mos. 
 July 20, Mr. David Gale, 73 yrs. 
 Aug. 6, Capt, Cummings Lesure. 
 55 yrs. 
 
 I, Severence, 18 yrs, 
 
 8, Mr, Jonas Houghton, 50 
 
 yrs. 
 9, Mrs, Mary Baker, wife of 
 Isaac, 27 yrs. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 184 
 Jan. 
 « 
 
 Feb. 
 
 Sept. 
 Oct. 
 
220 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Oct. 9, Miss Anna Whipple, 
 dau. of Henry, 19 
 years. 
 1842. 
 Feb. 12, Mrs. Sarah Severy, a 
 town pauper, very aged. 
 " 26, Col. Lemuel W^heelock, 
 51 yrs. 
 May 4, Mrs. Hannah Smith, wife 
 
 of Jehiel. 
 June 21, Israel Fisher, 83 yrs. 
 Aug. 29, Samuel T. Delvee's 
 youngest child. 
 " 30, Mr. Morgan's child. 
 Sept. 16, Gardner P. Mills's child. 
 *• 24, Gardner P. Mills's child. 
 Dec. 21, Mrs. Grout (wife of Har- 
 ry). 
 1843. 
 Jan. 6, Dea. Francis Leonard, 65 
 yrs. 
 " 25, Mr. Elias Knowlton. | 
 
 Feb. 4, Artemas B. Fuller's wife, j 
 23 yrs. 
 " 8, Franklin Gould, 4 yrs. 
 " 22, Henry Hatch, 16 yrs. 
 Mar. 6, Elisha Severy, a town 
 pauper. 
 " 6, Fidelia Smith. 
 " 6, Alfred Moore. 
 " 20, Timothy Stevens's young- 
 est child. 
 June 2, Mr. Henry Hastings. . 
 " 25, Mr. William Hastings. 
 " 28, Mr. Daniel Johnson, by 
 suicide. 
 Aug. 2, Mr. Philip Atwood, 84 
 
 yrs. 7 mos. 2 days. 
 Nov. 24, Miss Lucy Wheelock, 57 
 yrs. 
 1844. 
 Jan. 6, Foster Bowman, 18 yrs. 
 
 Jan. 17, Mr. Thomas Mallard, Jr., 
 
 47 ys. ■ 
 
 Feb. 3, Charles Mutchens, at 
 Hawley, 15 yrs. 
 " 19, Mrs. Smith. 
 Mar. 24, Christopher Columbus 
 Wheaton Merrifield. 
 " 30, George King. 
 Apr. 5, Wid. Sarah Moore. 
 
 " 5, Infant child of 
 
 Houghton. 
 " 20, Calvin W. Delvee's dau. ' 
 May 12, Mr. Abram Felton. 
 June I, Timothy F. Phillips, 37 
 yrs. 
 " 9, Hannah D. Leonard. 
 Aug. 24, Mrs. Nancy Fay, 63 yrs. 
 Sept. 30, Wid. Anna Reed, 88 yrs. 
 Oct. 16, Joseph Delvee's wife. 
 " 17, Joseph Delvee's infant 
 
 child. 
 " 21, Lorenzo Bancroft, 29 yrs. 
 Dec. 6, Mr. Jonas Leonard, 60 
 yrs. 
 1845. 
 Feb. 8, Azariah Barber, 65 yrs. 
 " 16, David Howland Goodell, 
 2 yrs. 5 mos. 12 days. 
 Mar. 29, Mrs. Fisher (wid. of 
 
 Israel), 78 yrs. 
 May 12, Wid. Beulah Cook. 
 " 23, Wid. Mary Kilburn. 
 July 13, Elihu Gould. 
 Sept. 9, Mrs. Susannah Cobb, 95 
 yrs. 6 mos. 
 " 28, George Chesebro's in- 
 fant child. 
 " 29, Mr. John Green. 
 1846. 
 Jan. 17, Austin Mallard, 25 yrs. 
 
 '■' 18, Harriet Thayer. 
 May 6, Gilbert. 
 
APrENDIX. 
 
 221 
 
 May 7, John Brown's wife, by ' Sept. 17, Thomas Blake, 66 yrs. 4 
 suicide. mos. 
 
 June 28, Sam. Blake's wife, at Low- 
 ell, 43 yrs. 5 mos.6 days. 
 Sept. 8, Calvin W. Delvee's 
 child, 2 yrs. 
 " 9, Philander Pierce's child, 
 16 mos. 
 
 Oct. 4, Frederic B. Blake,, i yr. 
 8 mos. 
 " 8, Henry D. Green (son of 
 
 Joseph). 
 '* 22, John B. Blake, 20 yrs. 9 
 mos. 28 days. 
 
 DEATHS IN WARWICK, 
 
 From Jan. i, 1847, to 1872. 
 
 Taken from the Diary of Dea. Hervey Barber, as a continuation of those 
 taken from that of Hon. J. Blake. 
 
 1847 
 Feb. 
 Mar. 
 Apr. 
 June 
 July 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Oct. 
 Nov. 
 Dec. 
 1848 
 Apr. 
 
 May 
 
 June 
 
 Yrs. 
 
 5, Mrs. Martha Sanger, 47 
 
 3, Stephen Reed, 56 
 
 22, Saml. F. Taylor, 24 
 
 14, Medad Pomeroy, 70 
 
 4, Ebenr. Rich, 51 
 
 15, Parley Leland, 75 
 
 23, Eldad Hodge, 57 
 
 24, Sarah Stevens, 17 
 3, Wid. Hannah Hough- 
 ton, 50 
 
 II, Dea. James Blake, ']Tj 
 
 15, Timothy H. Barber, 6 
 
 25, Wid. Betsey Gould, 51 
 
 I, Wid. Jerusha Golds- 
 bury, 74 
 17, David Goddard, 41 
 
 27, Enoch Robbins, 83 
 
 28, Mrs. Ann L. Ball, 23 
 
 16, Wid. Hannah Whit- 
 
 ney, 67 
 
 19, Elijah Fisk, 74 
 19* 
 
 July 30, Miss Abigail Barber, 53 
 Aug. 2, Joseph Delvee, 45 
 " 26, Bunyan Penniman, 76 
 Oct. I, Thomas Mallard, 87 
 Nov. 22, Ashbill Ward, Esq., 72 
 Dec. 29, Mrs. Ephraim Rob- 
 bins, 69 
 
 1849. 
 Feb. 21, Dau. of C. M. Proc- 
 ter, 3 
 I *' 23, Wid. Hammond, 77 
 Mar, I, Obadiah Bass, 72 
 I " 29, Mrs. Mary Holton, 33 
 Apr. 24, Mrs Lavina Conant, 44 
 I May 9, Wid. Esther Fuller, 66 
 I " 9, Dau. of Chas. Pom- 
 roy, 7 mos. 
 " 9, Endracas Wheeler, 48 
 June 27, Daniel Evans, 45 
 " 28, Miss Esther Smith, 24 
 Aug. 26, Son of Tim. Moore, 
 
 10 mos. 
 Sept. 21, Miss Parmelia Moore, 21 
 " 22, Mrs. Elizaoeth Taylor, 32 
 
HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 15, Ephraim Robbins, 
 
 73 
 
 July 8, 
 
 1850. 
 
 
 ♦' 26, 
 
 June 
 
 23, Miss Ann Whitney, 
 
 40 
 
 " 31, 
 
 July 
 
 27, Mrs. Simonds Smith, 
 
 34 
 
 Aug. 13, 
 
 Aug. 
 
 I, Daniel Holman, 
 
 68 
 
 " 22, 
 
 " 
 
 13, Wid. Jerusha Pomroy, 65 
 
 Sept. 13, 
 
 Sept. 
 
 19, Dau. of F. C. Tay- 
 
 
 " 29, 
 
 
 lor, 2 mos. 
 
 
 Nov. 13, 
 
 Oct 
 
 27, Wid. Nabby Wheaton 
 
 .76 
 
 " 23, 
 
 Nov. 
 
 6, Joseph Stevens, Esq., 
 
 59 
 
 Dec. 22, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 15, Jonathan Delvee, 
 
 80 
 
 '• 25, 
 
 185 
 
 [. 
 
 
 1853. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 16, Mrs. JonathanWhee- 
 
 
 Jan. 25, 
 
 
 lock, 
 
 71 
 
 
 « 
 
 24, Mrs. A. H. Whitney, 
 
 70 
 
 Mar. 26, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 9, Wid. Polly Delvee, 
 
 80 
 
 Apr. 3, 
 
 " 
 
 14, Mrs. L. F. Bur rage, 
 
 44 
 
 May 15, 
 
 May 
 
 12, Nahum Grout, 
 
 83 
 
 
 « 
 
 13, Mrs. Elisha M. Davis 
 
 41 
 
 " 23, 
 
 June 
 
 22, James Fuller, 
 
 58 
 
 June 12, 
 
 Aug. 
 
 6, Miss Alma Gale, 
 
 19 
 
 " 17, 
 
 Sept. 
 
 2, Mrs. John Morgan, 
 
 26 
 
 - 22, 
 
 <( 
 
 22, Son of Benj. Davi.s, 
 
 6 
 
 Aug. 21, 
 
 Nov. 
 
 I, Laban Simonds, 
 
 69 
 
 Sept. 4, 
 
 (( 
 
 28, Son of John Whipple 
 
 H 
 
 Nov. 17, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 21, Dau. of Ansel Davis, 
 
 
 1854. 
 
 
 6 mos. 
 
 
 Feb. 27, 
 
 185 
 
 2. 
 
 
 Mar. 3, 
 
 Jan. 
 
 12, Miss Sarah Leonard, 
 
 39 
 
 " 10, 
 
 
 13, Mrs. David Gale, jun 
 
 23 
 
 
 <( 
 
 15, Mrs. Josiah Conant, 
 
 88 
 
 " 29, 
 
 <( 
 
 16, Phinehas Child, jun. 
 
 48 
 
 May 15, 
 
 Feb. 
 
 21, Mrs Melzar Williams 
 
 .46 
 
 " 29, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 4, Martha Delvee, 
 
 8 
 
 June 26, 
 
 (( 
 
 6, Son of Ansel Davis, 
 
 3 
 
 July 24, 
 
 May 
 
 I, Jonathan Wheelock, 
 
 72 
 
 
 June 
 
 6, Elkanah Whipple, 
 
 75 
 
 Aug. 2, 
 
 (( 
 
 9, Miss Betsey Delvee, 
 
 22 
 
 " 5, 
 
 (( 
 
 22, Mrs. Czarina Wheeler, 29 
 
 " 12, 
 
 (( 
 
 26, Henry Barnard, Esq., 
 
 83 
 
 Oct. 22, 
 
 July 
 
 6, James Hoi ton. 
 
 70 
 
 •* 30» 
 
 Mrs. Lydia Smith, 63 
 
 Mrs. Maria Fisher, 26 
 
 Geo. F. Taylor, 9 
 
 Miss Rhoda Cook, 83 
 
 Mrs Susanna Child, 79 
 
 Miss Lucy Orcutt, 22 
 
 Amory Gale, 76 
 
 James Holmes, 71 
 
 Mrs. Fanny Barber, 33 
 
 Mrs. Nathan Atwood, 58 
 
 Jonathan Moore, 76 
 
 Son of James Stock- 
 well, 22 mos. 
 Samuel Ball, 57 
 Mrs. Bulah Eddy, 69 
 Mrs. Robert Adam- 
 son, 34 
 Mason Davis, 9 
 William Cobb, Esq. 83 
 Miss Maria Williams, 20 
 Elisha Brown, 8i 
 Mrs. Asa H. Conant, 39 
 Mrs. Geo. Dudley, 22 
 Miss Lydia Jones, 79 
 
 Mrs. Nathan C. Morse, 71 
 
 Mrs, Clark Stearns, 33 
 An infant son of N. 
 
 E Stevens, 2 days. 
 
 Amos H. Whitney, 79 
 
 Elizabeth Adams, 12 
 
 Ezekiel Nelson, 78 
 
 Mrs. Ivers Creed, 40 
 Anna S. Barber, 
 
 22 mos. 
 
 Mrs. Ruth Owen, 22 
 
 Mrs. S. C. Reed, 25 
 S. Switzer Goldsbury, 20 
 
 Dau. of Mr. Henry, i 
 
 Eunice Stearns, 84 
 

 APPENDIX 
 
 
 223 
 
 Dec. 
 
 [0, Mrs. Daniel Whitte- 
 
 
 Sept. 
 
 18, 
 
 Jonas Conant, 
 
 81 
 
 
 more, 
 
 75 
 
 Oct. 
 
 9, 
 
 Miss Martha Moore, 
 
 37 
 
 " 
 
 12, Son of Franklin 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 7, 
 
 Justus Russell, Esq., 
 
 85 
 
 
 Whitney, 8 weeks. 
 
 
 1857 
 
 
 
 
 « 
 
 19, Daniel Whittemore, 
 
 84 
 
 Jan. 
 
 12, 
 
 Mrs. Paul Jillson, 
 
 64 
 
 (( 
 
 23, Asa Atwood, 
 
 71 
 
 (( 
 
 20, 
 
 Stephen Johnson, 
 
 79 
 
 1855. 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 25, 
 
 Albert Lawrence, 
 
 21 
 
 Jan. 
 
 9, Mrs. David Gale, 
 
 84 
 
 Apr. 
 
 2, 
 
 Seth Woodward, 
 
 55 
 
 " 
 
 12, Joseph Draper, 
 
 81 
 
 June 
 
 6, 
 
 Mrs. Barnard Fisher, 
 
 35 
 
 " 
 
 19, Josiah Conant, 
 
 91 
 
 (( 
 
 18, 
 
 Miss Lucy Shepard- 
 
 
 " 
 
 19, Widow of Thos.Mal- 
 
 
 
 
 son, 
 
 69 
 
 
 lard, jun., 
 
 56 
 
 Aug. 
 
 9, 
 
 Miss Luthera Whee- 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 27, Widow of Elkanah 
 
 
 
 
 lock, 
 
 60 
 
 
 Whipple, 
 
 n 
 
 Sept. 
 
 I, 
 
 Miss Ellen Bass, 
 
 22 
 
 Apr. 
 
 I, Mrs. Asa Bancroft, 
 
 68 
 
 " 
 
 7, 
 
 Ephraim Morgan, 
 
 93 
 
 May 
 
 4, Dau. of Philander 
 Pierce, 11 mos. 
 
 
 Oct. 
 . 185^ 
 
 3» 
 
 Mrs. Henry Barnard, 
 
 83 
 
 June 
 
 23, Caleb Weeks, 
 
 79 
 
 Jan. 
 
 29, 
 
 Mrs. Elkanah Whip- 
 
 
 <( 
 
 25, Caleb Hastings, 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 ple, 
 
 67 
 
 July 
 
 4, Son of Alfred Brown 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 2j 
 
 Mrs. Burnham, 
 
 54 
 
 
 2 mos. 
 
 
 May 
 
 18, 
 
 Wid. Stephen John- 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 8, Miss Lucy Eddy, 
 
 79 
 
 
 
 son, 
 
 75 
 
 " 
 
 31, Ichabjd Whipple, 
 
 58 
 
 " 
 
 3i> 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Lawrence 
 
 46 
 
 Sept. 
 
 18, Rufus Knight, 
 
 62 
 
 June 
 
 24, 
 
 Mrs. Elijah Davis, 
 
 78 
 
 " 
 
 25, A. Baker Fuller, 
 
 40 
 
 July 
 
 14, 
 
 Wid. Amariah Kelton 
 
 ,74 
 
 Dec. 
 
 6, Wid. Amory Gale, 
 
 80 
 
 Sept. 
 
 29, 
 
 Lemuel Scott, 
 
 33 
 
 Oct. 
 
 13, Sarah Shepardson, 
 
 16 
 
 Oct. 
 
 ^> 
 
 H. G. Mallard, Esq., 
 
 29 
 
 1856. 
 
 
 «* 
 
 12, 
 
 Edward Hastings, 
 
 28 
 
 Mar. 
 
 14, Mrs. S. W. Gillson, 
 
 44 
 
 " 
 
 21, 
 
 Wid. Perley Leland, 
 
 85 
 
 " 
 
 18, Son of Richard .Weeks 
 
 ,10 
 
 (( 
 
 22, 
 
 Benjamin Drake, 
 
 44 
 
 Apr. 
 
 8, Miss Ann Ward, 
 
 27 
 
 Nov. 
 
 20, 
 
 Jehiel Smith, 
 
 69 
 
 « 
 
 9, Mrs. Alexander Blake 
 
 ,53 
 
 Aug. 
 
 29, 
 
 Miss Anna Goss, 
 
 74 
 
 (( 
 
 28, Dea. Sylvanus Ward, 
 
 54 
 
 1859. 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 5, Wid. Sylvanus Ward, 
 
 54 
 
 Jan. 
 
 17 
 
 Laban Simonds, 
 
 n 
 
 June 
 
 I, Son of S. T. Under- 
 wood, I day. 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 18, 
 
 Mrs. Chas. William 
 Cobb, 
 
 21 
 
 July 
 
 15, Mrs. John Farnsworth 
 
 ,26 
 
 Mar. 
 
 7, 
 
 Fannie Phillips, 
 
 17 
 
 Aug. 
 
 6, Miss Martha Chase, 
 30, Mrs. Hervey Par- 
 
 23 
 
 (( 
 
 16, 
 
 Wid. Seth Wood- 
 ward, 
 
 58 
 
 
 tridge, 
 
 68 
 
 u 
 
 20, 
 
 Mrs. Hosea Horton, 
 
 70 
 
 Sept. 
 
 12, Wid. Daniel Smith, 
 
 76 
 
 May 
 
 27, 
 
 Ansel Davis, 
 
 59 
 
224 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 June 
 
 13, Miss Rhoda Hodge, 
 
 59 
 
 Feb. 
 
 24, Willard Packard, 
 
 24 
 
 July 
 
 16, Nathan Atwood, 
 
 70 
 
 Mar 
 
 12 and 17, Son and dau. 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 21, Miss Forbes, 
 
 72 
 
 
 of Wm, Ward. 
 
 
 <( 
 
 25, Simeon Stearns, 
 
 80 
 
 (( 
 
 29, Hervey Partridge, 
 
 72 
 
 Nov. 
 
 30, Mrs. Gushing Lin- 
 
 
 June 
 
 20, Wid. of Dea. J. Proc- 
 
 
 
 coln, 
 
 84 
 
 
 tor, 
 
 77 
 
 i860. 
 
 
 May 
 
 9, Wid. Nathan Leo- 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 16, Isaac Hastings, 
 
 74 
 
 
 nard, 
 
 88 
 
 
 17, Jona. Gardner Gale, 
 
 18 
 
 July 
 
 26, Stanley Gushing, 
 
 19 
 
 May 
 
 31, Mrs. Almira Fry, 
 
 42 
 
 Aug. 
 
 9, Mrs. Joseph Wilson, 
 
 67 
 
 July 
 
 20, Mrs. Elizabeth C. 
 
 
 Sept. 
 
 2, Mrs. Philander Pierce 
 
 43 
 
 
 Bird, 
 
 50 
 
 (< 
 
 28, Francis Moore, 
 
 20 
 
 Aug. 
 
 31, John Smith, 
 
 72 
 
 Oct. 
 
 8, Wid. Bunyan Penni 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 29, Paul Jillson, 
 
 71 
 
 
 man, 
 
 88 
 
 Nov. 
 
 3, Henry Harvey, 
 
 60 
 
 « 
 
 23, Miss Maria Conant, 
 
 43 
 
 Aug. 
 
 28, Henry Gale, 
 
 13 
 
 Nov. 
 
 18, Peter Severance, 
 
 47 
 
 1861. 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 21, Frank Pierce, 
 
 21 
 
 Jan. 
 
 25, Wid. Stephen Reed, 
 
 69 
 
 1863. 
 
 
 i( 
 
 27, Sarah Shepardson, 
 
 16 
 
 Feb 
 
 2, Samuel Moore, 
 
 67 
 
 « 
 
 28, Jane Shepardson, 
 
 10 
 
 Apr. 
 
 13, Aaron Bass, 
 
 80 
 
 Feb. 
 
 6, Mrs. Simon P. Shep- 
 
 
 " 
 
 25, James Chapin, 
 
 20 
 
 
 ardson, 
 
 41 
 
 « 
 
 26, Wid. Field, 
 
 83 
 
 " 
 
 20, Nye Shepardson, 
 
 ^3 
 
 « 
 
 27, Mrs. George Jones, 
 
 69 
 
 Mar. 
 
 5, Miss Sophia Whitney, 83 
 
 May 
 
 4, Miss Fanny Gould, 
 
 69 
 
 <. 
 
 30, Samuel T Delvee, 
 
 68 
 
 (( 
 
 15, Mrs. Lafayette Nelson 
 
 »3o 
 
 July 
 
 20, Henry C. Conant, 
 
 23 
 
 i< 
 
 22, Miss Hannah Burnett 
 
 ,23 
 
 Aug. 
 
 I, Mrs. Josiah Conant, 
 
 59 
 
 « 
 
 23, David Gale, 
 
 68 
 
 « 
 
 II, Ira Ager, 
 
 53 
 
 June 
 
 28, Jacob S. Rayner, jun., 
 
 18 
 
 « 
 
 II, Elijah Davis, 
 
 87 
 
 July 
 
 7, Abbie J. Reed, 
 
 6 
 
 « 
 
 31, Mrs. Q. M. Morgan, 
 
 47 
 
 " 
 
 8, Warren Blake, 
 
 20 
 
 Oct 
 
 2, Wid. James Stock- 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 14, Wid. Jonas Leonard, 
 
 76 
 
 
 well, 
 
 78 
 
 <( 
 
 25, John Caldwell, 
 
 20 
 
 K 
 
 21, Dau. of Saml. Reed, 
 
 
 Sept 
 
 I, Edmund Coller, 
 
 20 
 
 
 3 weeks. 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 15, Munro Patridge, 
 
 21 
 
 Nov, 
 
 9, Gushing Lincoln, 
 
 87 
 
 « 
 
 27, Lafayette Nelson, 
 
 36 
 
 " 
 
 24, Wid. John Bowman, 
 
 63 
 
 « 
 
 27, Wid. Elias Knowlton 
 
 86 
 
 Dec. 
 
 26, Jasper H. Leland, 
 
 27 
 
 1864. 
 
 
 K 
 
 31, John Stearns, 
 
 81 
 
 Jan. 
 
 22, Hattie Phillips, 
 
 16 
 
 1862. 
 
 
 <( 
 
 29, Geo. W. Howard, 
 
 49 
 
 Jan. 
 
 8, Wid. Elisha Brown, 
 
 88 
 
 Feb. 
 
 8, Miss Lydia Ball, 
 
 82 
 
 Feb. 
 
 24, Leander Jillson, 
 
 18 
 
 Mar. 
 
 12, Wid. William Cobb, 
 
 91 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 225 
 
 Apr. 6, Joseph B Atvvood, 23 
 
 May 10, Ivers Creed, 41 
 
 June 4, Wid. James Fuller, 72 
 
 " 18, Seth A. Woodward, 30 
 
 July 13, Lucy Ann Brown, 15 
 
 Aug. 23, James D. Delvee, 23 
 
 Dec. 19, A. Shepard Phillips, 14 
 
 " 22, Mrs. Thomas Chase, 72 
 
 " 25, Frederic Gale, 10 
 
 May Joseph W. Sawyer, 19 
 
 July James Henry Fuller, 22 
 
 1865. 
 
 Jan. 27, Joseph W. Ellis, 30 
 
 Feb. 20, Eben. G. Ball, Esq., 39 
 
 " 28, David Ball, 85 
 
 4, Miss Eliza Shepard, 62 
 
 9, George Cooper, 14 
 
 7, Harriet Goldsbury, 22 
 19, Wid. Caleb Weeks, 84 
 28, Dr. Amos Taylor, 80 
 
 4, Wid. Jona. Moore, 76 
 2, Mrs. Calvin D. Shep- 
 
 ardson, 41 
 
 8, Sam. W. Goldsbury, 66 
 I, Ebenezer Goodwin, 35 
 
 Wid. Samuel Ball, 90 
 Sam. G. Robbins, jun., 30 
 
 Wid. Peter Sandin, 82 
 
 Luther Smith, 83 
 
 Charles Johnson, 12 
 
 I, Dau, of Stephen John- 
 son, 17 mos. 
 Mr. Franklin Whitney, 46 
 Mrs. Harriet Dill, 36 
 Mrs. Esther Morton, 90 
 Wid. Simeon Stearns, 79 
 Wid. Experience Fisk, 82 
 15, Mrs. Nath. G. Stevens, 77 
 4, Mrs. Jona. Shepard- 
 son, 70 
 
 Mar. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 May 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 <t 
 
 25. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 12, 
 
 <( 
 
 '>'> 
 
 (( 
 
 27, 
 
 1866. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 3, 
 
 u 
 
 II, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 9, 
 
 May 
 
 II 
 
 " 
 
 12, 
 
 Aug. 
 
 5. 
 
 (( 
 
 II 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Nov. 23, Alexander Cooper, 43 
 
 1867. 
 June 2, 
 
 July 7, 
 Aug. 20, 
 
 " 2-1, 
 
 " 24, 
 
 Aug. 30, 
 Sept. 19, 
 
 1868. 
 Jan. 29, 
 
 " 30. 
 Feb. 18, 
 Mar. 6, 
 
 Apr. 2, 
 June 4, 
 
 " 6, 
 Aug. 15, 
 
 " 16, 
 
 Sept. 5, 
 " 12, 
 
 Nov. 4, 
 1869. 
 
 Jan. 3, 
 
 May I, 
 
 " 4, 
 Aug. 7, 
 
 " 10, 
 Sept. 6, 
 Nov. 25, 
 Dec. 5, 
 
 " II, 
 
 1870. 
 Mar. 13, 
 Apr. 6, 
 June 19, 
 July 10, 
 Aug. 16, 
 
 " 19, 
 Oct. 5, 
 
 Jasper Lei and, 
 Benjamin Conant, 
 Aaron Morse, 
 Liberty Patridge, 
 William Ward, 
 Dea. Joseph Wilson, 
 Miss Tamar Pickerin^ 
 
 84 
 
 91^ 
 68 
 81 
 
 ,74 
 
 Mrs. Henry Atwood, 
 Isaac Hastings, 
 Nath. G. Stevens, 
 Miss Polly Gould, 
 Willard Forbes, 
 Nathan C. Morse, 
 Capt. Asaph Davis, 
 Mrs. Susie E. Davis, 
 Dau. of A. & S. E. 
 
 Davis, 10 days. 
 Henry H. Manning, 
 Rev. Roger C. Hatch, 84 
 Richard Weeks, 54 
 
 24 
 
 Sam. Davis Wheaton, 53 
 Horatio Holbrook, 63 
 Dea. Joel Pierce, 78 
 
 Mrs. Susan D. Wilber, 37 
 Widow Rhoda Barber, 82 
 Miss Fidelia Proctor, 22 
 Isaac Whittemore, 70 
 Mrs. Artemas Hawes, 55 
 Wid. Richard Weeks, 50 
 
 Miss Polly Conant, 78 
 
 Josiah Conant, j;^ 
 
 Wid. Obadiah Bass, 84 
 
 Miss Esther Stevens, 81 
 
 Wid. Joseph Delvee, 64 
 
 Dea. Danford Tyler, 57 
 
 Thomas Chase, 80 
 
24 
 
 Apr. 
 
 20, Wid. Joel Pierce, 
 
 77 
 
 72 
 
 May 
 
 13, Mrs. Tim. Moore, 
 
 55 
 
 26 
 
 June 
 
 19, Miss Jane E. Bass, 
 
 31 
 
 
 July 
 
 10, Russell Brown, 
 
 80 
 
 76 
 
 
 14, Mrs Elisha Brown, 
 
 70 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 I, Miss Jane Spencer, 
 
 65 
 
 68 
 
 Sept 
 
 24, Mrs. E. S. Green- 
 
 
 43 
 
 
 leaf, 
 
 31 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 4, David Atherton, 
 
 23 
 
 78 
 
 Nov. 
 
 20, Willis W. Johnson, 
 
 26 
 
 55 
 
 1872. 
 
 
 58 
 
 Feb 
 
 I, Daniel Pierce, 
 
 50 
 
 7o 
 
 (( 
 
 19, George Fisher, 
 
 48 
 
 69 
 
 Mar. 
 
 26, Amos 0. Bridge, 
 
 57 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 15, Mrs. Adeline Pond, 
 
 40 
 
 88 
 
 (( 
 
 17, J. Wilson Hastings, 
 
 22 
 
 73 
 
 May 
 
 15, Harvey Conant, 
 
 61 
 
 226 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Oct. 18, Geo. Wm. Barber, 
 
 " 30, Wid. Sam. Delvee, 
 Nov. 2, Mrs. John Grout, 
 Dec. 5, Wid. Isaac Whitte- 
 more, 
 
 1871. 
 Jan. 2, William L. Moore, 
 
 " 2, Mrs. Otis Conant, 
 Feb. 13, Wid. Nancy Merry- 
 field, 
 
 " 15, James S. Wheeler, 
 
 " 22, Jacob S. Rayner, 
 Mar. 7, Wid. Henry Harvey, 
 
 " 31, Miss Esther Fuller,' 
 
 Apr. 2, Wid. Rev. J. Shep- 
 
 ardson, 
 
 " 18, Joshua S. Sanger, 
 
 Whole number in 30 years, 504. Average age, 43^, nearly. Num- 
 ber per annum, i6|. Number over 90 in 30 years, 10. Number over 
 80 in 30 years, 49. Number over 70 in 30 years, 70. Number over 
 the age allotted to man, 129 : a large number, truly, — partly owing to 
 a healthy climate, and partly to the fact that many of our young people 
 remove from town. 
 
 Our town has been considered very healthy, as the loca- 
 tion is away from any large bodies of water or swamps of 
 any considerable size. Most of its territory is elevated to 
 quite an extent ; the air is consequently pure and bracing ; 
 diseases are few ; the people industrious, economical, in- 
 telligent, and happy. 
 
 As a reward for the above privileges and attainments, they 
 are remarkably healthy, and live to an advanced age, enjoy- 
 ing themselves, and retaining their faculties, both of body 
 and mind. We have now living in town four persons over 
 ninety years of age : three of them are natives of the town ; 
 the other has been a resident over sixty years. 
 
 There are fifteen between eighty and ninety, and twenty- 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 227 
 
 seven between seventy and eighty, in a population of less 
 than eight hundred inhabitants. Their names and ages may 
 be found in the following columns : — 
 
 Nantes of Males. 
 
 Age. 
 
 Phinehas Child (widower) 
 
 95 
 
 Samuel Williams (w.) . 
 
 91 
 
 Ebenezer Barber (w.) 
 
 81 
 
 Edward Goddard (w.) . 
 
 81 
 
 Jonathan Shepardson (w.) 
 
 80 
 
 Jesse Gould (single) 
 
 80 
 
 Henry Whipple (w.) 
 
 79 
 
 Gardner Conant (w.) 
 
 78 
 
 Rev. John Goldsbury 
 
 n 
 
 Harmon Williams . 
 
 76 
 
 James Goldsbury 
 
 
 75 
 
 Ethan Gushing, 
 
 
 n 
 
 Warren Atwood 
 
 
 73 
 
 Harry Grout . 
 
 
 80 
 
 Ezekiel Ellis . 
 
 
 80 
 
 Amory Gould 
 
 
 73 
 
 Melzar Williams 
 
 . • . 
 
 71 
 
 Rev. Charles Farrar 
 
 70 
 
 Dea. Edward Mayo 
 
 . 70 
 
 Elisha Brown 
 
 70 
 
 Jarvis Davis . 
 
 . 70 
 
 Reuben G. Hammond . 
 
 . 70 
 
 Males . 
 
 . 22 
 
 Females . 
 
 
 . 24 
 
 Total 
 
 46 
 
 Names 0/ Females. 
 
 
 
 Age. 
 
 Sarah Leonard (widow) . 
 
 94 
 
 Elizabeth Conant (w.) . 
 
 91 
 
 Sally Morse (w.) . 
 
 88 
 
 Hannah Stearns (w.) 
 
 85 
 
 Rhoda Wheelock (w.) . 
 
 84 
 
 Elizabeth Ball (w.) 
 
 86 
 
 Mary Taylor (w.) . 
 
 83 
 
 Martha Jennings (w.) . 
 
 82 
 
 Mary Stevens (single) . 
 
 82 
 
 Augusta Gale (w.) . 
 
 82 
 
 Clarissa Gould 
 
 80 
 
 Sally Holman (w.) . 
 
 79 
 
 Lydia Moore (w.) . 
 
 78 
 
 Melinda Reed (w.) . 
 
 . l(> 
 
 Lydia Ball (w.) 
 
 75 
 
 Tamerzon Ellis 
 
 • 73 
 
 Mary Ellis (s.) 
 
 . 72 
 
 Katharine Smith (w ) 
 
 . 72 
 
 Lois Smith (w.) 
 
 . IZ 
 
 Nancy Fisher (s.) . 
 
 • 71 
 
 Thamar Williams . 
 
 . 72 
 
 Lucy Atwood 
 
 . 70 
 
 Polly Moore (w.) . 
 
 . 70 
 
 Clarissa Brown (w ) 
 
 . 74 
 
 Females . 
 
 . 24 
 
 Aggregate ages, 3,585 years. Average age, a fraction under 78 years. 
 Twenty-two males and twenty-four females, including all those that 
 have nearly completed their seventieth year, this twentieth day of 
 April, 1872. 
 
228 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 A LIST OF NAMES 
 
 OF THE OWNERS OR OCCUPIERS OF HOUSES IN WARWICK IN 1 798, 
 AS RETURNED BY THE ASSESSORS. 
 
 [Copied from the original in the Library of the New-England His- 
 toric-Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.] 
 
 Atwood, Joshua 
 Ball, Jonas 
 Ball, Samuel, sen. 
 Ball, James 
 Ball, Samuel, jun. 
 Bancroft, William 
 Bancroft, Ebenezer 
 Barns, Abraham 
 Barnes, Lyman 
 Bass, Obadiah 
 Barber, Joseph 
 Barber, Zechariah 
 Bangs, Isaiah 
 Blake, Jonathan 
 Burnett, Henry 
 Burnett, William 
 Chase, Thomas 
 Champney, Humphrey A. 
 Champney, Jonathan A. 
 Cobb, William, jun. 
 Cook, Daniel 
 Conant, Asa 
 Conant, Benjamin 
 Conant, Benjamin, 2d 
 Dana, Joseph 
 Davis, Jonathan 
 Delvie, Jonathan 
 Delvie, Peter 
 Dike, William 
 Eddy, Abel 
 Estey, Jacob 
 Fisher, Israel 
 
 Fisher, Abijah 
 Fuller, Isaiah 
 Goldsbury, John 
 Goldsbury, James 
 Goodale, Joseph 
 Goodale, John 
 Gale, John 
 Gale, Jonathan 
 Gould, Thomas, sen. 
 Gould, Thomas, jun. 
 Hastings, Nathan 
 Hastings, Jonas 
 Hazeltine, Benjamin 
 Hemenway, Asa 
 Holmes, Luther 
 Jennings, Joel 
 Kilton, James 
 Kilton, Enoch 
 Leonard, Moses 
 Leonard, Jonas 
 Leonard, Francis 
 Moses, Samuel 
 Miller, Samuel 
 Miller, Gilbert 
 Mayo, David 
 Mayo, Caleb 
 Moore, John 
 Moore, Jonathan 
 Moore, Mark 
 Morse, Samuel 
 Ormsbury, John 
 Packard, Jacob 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 229 
 
 Penny man, Bunyan 
 Pennyman, Peter 
 Pomeroy, Josiah 
 Pond, Joseph 
 Pratt, John 
 Proctor, Peter 
 Rich, Jacob 
 Rich, Caleb 
 Reed, Samuel 
 Ripley, Peter 
 Robbins, Isaac 
 Simonds, Benjamin 
 Smith, Jonathan 
 Smith, Josiah 
 Smith, Abner 
 Stearns, Nathaniel 
 Stearns, Ebenezer 
 Stevens, Wilder 
 Stevens, Nathaniel G. 
 
 Stockwell, James 
 Stow, Thomas 
 Thayer, Asa 
 Town, Ephraim 
 Trull, Benjamin 
 Watts, Nicholas 
 Warrick, Jesse 
 Wescoat, Richard 
 Wescoat, Richard, jun. 
 Wheelock, Eleazer 
 Whitney, John 
 Whitney, Daniel 
 White, Solomon 
 White, Jacob 
 Whiting, John 
 Whiting, Lewis 
 Williams, Triphena 
 Williams, Nathaniel W. 
 Willson, John, jun. 
 
 WARWICK PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 Contained, Jan. i, 1872, 610 volumes. The additions for the year were 
 454 volumes. The Trustees purchased 73 volumes. Donations were 
 received as follows : — 
 
 VOLS. 
 
 Rev. Preserved Smith 12 
 
 Mrs. Mary (Blake) Clap 221 
 
 Wm. B. Trask, Esq 66 
 
 School District No. 7 . . 62 
 
 Hon. Alvah Crocker 7 
 
 Town of Warwick ' . . 5 
 
 Rev. Henry H, Barber 2 
 
 Unitarian Association 3 
 
 Miss Dabney 2 
 
 Mrs. E. S. Sibley i 
 
 454 vols. 
 Whole number of volumes in the library, Jan. i, 1873, 1,064. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Aghd people, lists of, 198, 227. 
 
 Ager, Solomon, an early settler at '* Flour Hill,"^ i8 
 
 Agriculture, 149. 
 
 Appendix, 183. 
 
 Arlington, 15. 
 
 Ashuelot River, 19. 
 
 Athol, 15. 
 
 B. 
 
 Baptists, article in the warrant concerning, 47 ; society incorporated, 91, 165 ; church 
 in town, and ministers, account of, 165-168; ministers of that denomination who 
 originated from Warwick, 168. 
 
 Barber, Deacon Hervey, one of the committee to have charge of the History of War- 
 wick, 7; history of the town continued by him from 1854 to 1872, succeeding Hon. 
 Jonathan Blake, 125 ; lectured on its history, Feb. 17, 1863, that day being the 
 centennial anniversary of its incorporation, 130 ; his list of deaths in town, from 
 1847 to 1872, 221. 
 
 Bark, hemlock, 152. 
 
 Barley, 119. 
 
 Bassett, Rev Edward Barnard, installed pastor of Second Congregational Church, 
 164. 
 
 Bears, stories of, 22, 135; den, 123, 148. 
 
 Beech Hill, so named from its former large growth of beech timber, 17. 
 
 Bell, church, first in town, 115 ; new one from Ames's foundry, Springfield, 115 ; taken 
 from the rebels at New Orleans, and brought to Warwick, lines composed on oc- 
 casion of it, 192 ; a present from Col. McKim, 130. 
 
 Bennett, Samuel, 20, 21. 
 
 Bills, Rev. E. G., pastor of the Baptist Church, 167. 
 
 Black Brook, 20. 
 
 Black-lead, 122. 
 
 Blake, Jonathan, sen., 16, 159. 
 
 Blake, Hon. Jonathan, jun., early history of Warwick, written by him in 1831 and 
 1832, 3, 9, 176; read before the Lyceum, 4, 9; delegate to attend the convention 
 to amend the Constitution of this Commonwealth, 104, 196; town clerk, select- 
 
232 
 
 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 man, overseer of the poor, assessor, representative to the General Court, senator, 
 county commissioner, justice of the peace, forty-two years surveyor of land, 176; 
 brief memoir of, 175, 176; poetry of, 177-1S2. 
 
 Blake, Samuel, transcribed the history written by his brother, 5, 9 ; wrote a brief no- 
 tice of him, 175, 176; first marriage of, 209. 
 
 Blanchard, Rev. E. H , ordained pastor of Second Congregational Church, 163. 
 
 Boot manufactory, men employed in, number of boots manufactured, amount of busi- 
 ness in, 152. 
 
 Boundaries of the town, 15, no. 
 
 Bounty, to encourage settlers, 22; increased to twenty pounds in 1749, 23; to thirty 
 pounds, old tenor, or the value thereof in silver, 1751, 23; to volunteers, 131, 136. 
 
 Bowlder, of about a hundred tons weight, which can be rocked with a single hand, 149. 
 
 Bridge, Rev. Henry M., installed pastor of the Second Congregational Church, 163. 
 
 Brimstone, 121, 122. 
 
 Brook, the, 18. 
 
 Brushwoods, manufactured, 153. 
 
 Bumham, Rev. E. M., pastor of the Baptist Church, i66. 
 
 Burying-ground, laid out, 37 ; some bodies removed from thence to the present place 
 of interment, 67; additions to the, 103; trees planted in, no. 
 
 C. 
 
 Cat.^mount killed, 22. 
 
 Cattle- shows, 150. 
 
 Cemetery, donations for the benefit of the, 140, 143. 
 
 Centenarian, in ; death of one, 135. 
 
 Centennial anniversary of the incorporation of the town, a lecture given at, by Deacon 
 
 Hervey Barber, 130. 
 Chair stuff, 153. 
 
 Chestnut Hill, named for its chestnut-trees, 15, 17. 
 Child, Phinehas, ninety-fifth anniversary of the birth of, 173. 
 Church, First, pastors of, and preachers in, 157, 160, 161. (See Unitarian.) 
 Church, Second Congregational, formed, 116; pastors and supplies of, 163, 164; 
 
 preachers of, originating from the town, 165. 
 Clap, Mrs. .Mary Blake, donations of, for the improvement of the cemetery, thanks of 
 
 the town to, for her gifts, 140, 143; donations of, to the First Church and Society, 
 
 162, 163. 
 Clark, Rev. George Faber, installed pastor of First Church, 160. 
 Climate, m, 12?. 
 Committee, on the History of Warwick, 7 ; appointed by the General Court to lay out 
 
 oris^inal grants, 13 ; to find out the nearest route from Roxbury to this place, 22 ; 
 
 to lay out a road to Pequeage, 24. 
 Committees chosen, 7, 13, 14, 16, 22, 24, 29, 32, 35, 37, 38, 48-51, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 76, 
 
 79,81, 82, 84-S7, 102, 108, 109, 114, 115, 126, 133, 137, 138, 140, 162. 
 Common, the, of ten acres, 29; lands, laid out into two divisions of seventy-five and 
 
 sixty acres each, 32. 
 Constitution of the St.ate, proposed amendments to, two, only, out of the fourteen pre- 
 sented were accepted by the town, 104 ; additional amendments to, acted on, 1 14, 
 
 116, 117, 125, 128-130. 
 Copperas, 121. 
 
INDEX. 233, 
 
 Cornet band, 154. 
 
 Cornwallis, anecdote in relation to tlie surrender of, 41. 
 
 County, separate, petitioned for, 66; of Hampshire, respecting a division of, 82, 8S. 
 
 Court, General, grant from, in 1735, of four tracts of land, for townships, each six. 
 miles square, in the admission of settlers to said territory preference to be given 
 to petitioners and descendants of officers and soldiers who served in the expedi- 
 tion to Canada in 1690, 12. 
 
 D. 
 
 Daniels, Rev. E. D., pastor of the Baptist Church, 167. 
 
 Davenport, James, a relation of his concerning the British, and tiae soldiers of the 
 Revolution, 41, 42. 
 
 Deaths from 1807 to 1846, 214-221 ; from 1847 to 1872, 221-226. 
 
 Delegate to amend the Constitution of Massachusetts, 104. 
 
 Delegates to the congress at Northampton, 45. 
 
 Democratic party formerly in the ascendency, a change since, iig. 
 
 Diseases, iii. 
 
 Districts, school, 86. 
 
 Dog-tax, discharged by one day's work on the highways for each dog, 86 ; for benefit 
 of the library, 140. 
 
 Dudley, William, Esq., proprietor's clerk in 1736, 14. 
 
 Dysentery, malignant, 159. 
 
 E. 
 Earth, red, 122. 
 
 Electors of President and Vice-President voted for, the first time, 80. 
 Embargo, memorial to the President of the United States for the repeal of the, 92, 93. 
 Episcopalian minister who originated from Warwick, 168. 
 Erving's Grant, 15. 
 Exports, III. 
 
 F. 
 Fairs, 150, 162. 
 
 Families or settlers, thirty-seven of them located on the first division of lots, 31. 
 Farms, 119 ; first ones of one hundred and fifty acres each, 17. 
 Farrar, Rev. C, pastor of the Baptist Church, 167. 
 Fay, Moses, had '* Hobson's choice" of pews in meeting-house, 77. 
 Fay, Rev. L , pastor of the Baptist Church, 166. 
 Field farm, of four hundred acres, 16. 
 Fifty-acre lots, owners of in 1737, when the first plan of the township was made, also 
 
 in 1761, and in 1872, 184, 185. 
 Fireplaces, old-fashioned, 21. 
 F'irestone, 122. 
 
 Fisk Cemetery, 133, 134; soldiers' monument erected in, 146, 147. 
 Fitzwilliam, N. H., soldiers' monument made of granite from tlie quarry in, 147. 
 Flour hill, 17, 18, 173 ; why so called, 18. 
 Fort, the only one built in the town, 27 ; Lot, 27. 
 Franklin Glass Manufacturing Company, account of, 94-97. 
 Freestone, 122. 
 
 Fund for the support of Rev. Samuel Reed as minister, 80. 
 Funeral carriage, and a house for the same, provided, 82, 94, log. 
 Funerals, public, of Lemuel Scott and Henry G. Mallard, 129. 
 
234 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gai.e, David, killed a catamount, 22. 
 
 Gallop, Samuel, petitions the General Court for land, in consideration of his services 
 in the Canada expedition of 1690, 14. 
 
 Gardner, Capt. Andrew, in Canada expedition, 14. • 
 
 Gardner's Canada, so called, now Warwick, 24. 
 
 Gilbert, Job, surveyor, laid out sixty-two lots of land, of over fourteen acres each, 
 being the fifth and last division, 39. 
 
 Glass Ctrnpany (See Franklin.) 
 
 Goldsbury, Rav. John, 6 ; one of the committee to have charge of the history of the 
 town, 7. 
 
 Goldsbury, Capt. John, representative to the General Court, instructions assigned 
 him, 67, 6S ; chosen a justice of the peace, 70. 
 
 Gould, Thomas, had first choice in the pews of the then new meeting-house, 17S6, 77. 
 
 Grace brook, 20. 
 
 Graves, Klder J. M., miaister of the Baptist Church, i65. 
 
 Great farm, 16 
 
 Grist mill, voted in 1759, to build one, and a committee chosen to select the spot for 
 it, 28 ; built on Black brook, 31. 
 
 Groton, part of a leaf of an account-book found there, about sixty miles from War- 
 wick, taken thence by the tornado, 107. 
 
 Grout, Howe, and Garfield carried into captivity, 26. 
 
 Guideposts, the first erected by law, 84. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hailstorm, destructive one described, 170-173. 
 
 Hall, Dr. hlbenezer, originator of the Glass .Manufacturing Company in town, 94. 
 
 Hastings, Miss Mary Ann, of Framiugham, Mass., legacy of, to the First Church and 
 Society, 163. 
 
 Hatch, Rev. Roger C, pastor of the Second Congregational Church, 163; death 
 of, 163. 
 
 Hats, palm-leaf, manufactured, iii. 
 
 Hay, 119, 149 : and other articles, the prices of, fixed by a committee of the town, 63. 
 
 Hearse, 82, 94, 109. 
 
 Hedge, Elisha, his donation, 87, 88. 
 
 Hedge, Rev. Lemuel, of the First Church, ordained, 28, 113 ; votes for his salary, 28, 
 29 ; liberty given him to lay out a hundred acres of land in one place, near the 
 meeting-house, 29 ; answer to the call of the committee for settlement, 30 ; agree- 
 ment with, for his salary, 35 ; difficulties with, 50, 51 ; death of, 62. 
 
 Highways, forty pounds raised to repair them, 36. 
 
 Hills, or high ridges of land, selected for the first settlements, 15 
 
 Hix, Elder, his delusions and disgraceful exit from the town, 59-61. 
 
 Hodge, Elder Levi, pastor of the Baptist Church, 165 ; death of, 166. 
 
 Home lots, laid out, to contain not less than fifty, nor more than sixty acres, began to 
 be numbered in the south-west part of the town, 14, 15. 
 
 Horses, the town voted three thousand one hundred pounds to pay for, for the Conti- 
 nental service, 65. 
 
 House, eighteen feet square, and seven feet stud, at the least, to be built by each set- 
 tler or grantee, 13. 
 
INDEX. 235 
 
 I. 
 
 Incorporation of the town, 132. 
 
 Indebtedness of the town, 129 
 
 Independence, national, the town votes unanimously for it, 54. 
 
 Indian capitivities, in 1755 and 1756, 26; corn, 119; mortars, 123 ; kettle, 148. 
 
 Inhabitants, general character of, 11 1; decreased, 119; more than one-twentieth of 
 
 them seventy years of age and upwards, 227. 
 Instructions, from the town to their first representative in the General Assembly of 
 
 the Province, 52, 53 ; to their representative in the General Court, 68. 
 Iron ore, 120-122; forge, 121. 
 
 J. 
 Jarvis, James, of Roxbury, first meeting of the proprietors of the township after- 
 wards Warwick, held at the house of, in 173S 14- 
 Johnson and his company, 16. 
 Jones, Nahum, 7 ; donor of land, 138 ; boot manufactory established by, 152. 
 
 K. 
 Kelton Comer, 20. 
 
 Kelton, Enoch, land-surveyor, 20 ; his wife confined fifty years to her bed, 
 Kingsley, Rev. S. S., pastor of the Baptist church, 167. 
 Knob, Bennett's, 21. 
 
 Lafayette, shoes and stockin.Lrs presented by him to our soldiers, 42. 
 
 Uand sold at auction in 1761, for about four cents and three mills per acre, 32. 
 
 Lands, filth and last division of, laid out, 38. 
 
 Langley, Capt. Samuel, agreement of, to build a new meeting-house, 71-75 ; his dwell- 
 ing-house destroyed by fire, and the pews and doors, nearly finished, of the meet- 
 ing-house were there consumed, 77. 
 
 Lawyer in town, 118, 192 
 
 Lead, 122. 
 
 Leather, 152. 
 
 Leonard, Moses, what is now the north part of the burying-ground given by him to 
 the town, 67. 
 
 Leonard, Mrs. Sarah Blake, notice of, 164, 227. 
 
 Lesure, Mrs. Hannah, aged 101 years, anecdote and death of, 135. 
 
 Lesure, Samuel, sen., a soldier of the Revolution, 135. 
 
 Library, public, money appropriated for, 137; town voted to accept of it, 139; five 
 trustees of, chosen, 140, 141; money appropriated for the enlargement of, 142; 
 report of condition of, in 1S72, 229 " 
 
 Life, loss of, at tornado in Warwick in 1821, 106. 
 
 Light Infantry of the town, 125. 153 ; chartered, and officers of, 153. 
 
 Locke, Ebenezer, delays building a saw-mill through fear of Indian depredations, 
 25, 26. 
 
 Longevity, in, 112, 124, 198, 199, 226, 227. 
 
 Lots, second division of, laid out in 1757, 16. 
 dumber, 119, 151. 
 
236 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 M. 
 
 McKiM, Col., present of a bell from, 130. 
 
 Manufactures, 151. 
 
 Marriages and intentions of marriase, list of, from 1806 to 1844, 206-214. 
 
 Meeting-house, to be thirty-five feet long, and thirty wide, with nineteen-foot posts, 
 24 ; site for it first selected, 24; raised in 1756, in another place, 26 ; four pounds 
 voted to enclose it, 27 ; standing uncovered two years after, 28 ; voted to finish 
 Jt> 32. 35: agreement with Capt. Samuel Langley to build a new one, 71, 161 ; 
 struck by lightning, 161; new one described, 115, 116; repairs on, 161-16:5; con- 
 cerning it, 90, 91, 110, 115. 
 
 Members of the church, and worthy citizens of the old school, alluded to, 159. 
 
 Methodists, 112. 
 
 Military companies, two in town, a line established between them, 81. 
 
 Militia, 92: officers chosen, 47; enrolled, 129. 
 
 Mineral productions, 120, 148. 
 
 Minister, first settled, to have one share or a sixty-third part of the original township, 
 12 ; eighteen pounds raised to defray the charge of one on probation, 28. 
 
 Ministers in town, 112, 11?, 157, 160, 161, 163-168. 
 
 Ministry, for the use of, one sixty-third part of the territory in the township, 12 ; 
 lands sold, 81 ; in relation to the, 97, 101, 102. 
 
 Miry brook, 19. 
 
 Money, voted for Mr. Hedge's settlement in the ministry, 28; paper, depreciated, 
 vote concerning, 56 ; voted to pay for horses used in the Continental service, 63 ; 
 raised for town expenses, 118; to aid the families of volunteers, 130; expended 
 on account of the war, 145, 146. 
 
 Monument, Soldiers', 146 ; a soldier killed at the raising of, 132. 
 
 Monuments, Stone, on the town lines, 129. 
 
 Morse's brook, 20; pond, 19, 20. 
 
 Mount Grace, so named from a child of Mrs. Rowlandson, buried near the foot of it, 
 19; its height, 123. 
 
 N. 
 
 Newali-, Samuel, one of the petitioners for the territory (now Warwick), 12, 14; 
 authorized by the General Court, in June, 1736, to call the first meeting of the 
 proprietors, 14. 
 
 Noon houses and stables to be built on the meeting-house common if requested by 
 the inhabitants, 79. 
 
 O. 
 
 Oats, 119. 
 
 Old fort, 27. 
 
 Orange, the town of, 16, 129 ; in part formed from Warwick, 67 ; district of (then 
 South Warwick), joins with the town of Warwick in the choice of a representa- 
 tive to the General Court, 69. 
 
 P. 
 
 Packard, Jacob, chosen a delegate to attend a convention at Hatfield called to de- 
 vise means to stay the Shays rebellion, in 1786, 71. 
 Padanaram, 19. 
 Pails, water, 152. 
 Paine, Esq., services at General Court in getting the town incorporated, 34. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 237 
 
 Paper currency, depreciation of, 56, 62, 64. 
 
 Park, public, 137-139. 
 
 Party feelings strong, 88-90. 
 
 Pasture lands, 119. 
 
 Patriotic votes, and movements of the town, 41-47, 52-55, 58, 59. 
 
 Paupers, first mentioned, 36,37; the inhabitants to keep them on town farm, 125- 
 127; case, 128; expenses of, 134. 
 
 Peaked End, 19. 
 
 Pequeage, 15. 
 
 Perambulating the town lines, first record of, 79. 
 
 Petition to the General Court for town incorporation, 32 ; for a new county, 34, 66 ; for 
 redress of grievances, 63. 
 
 Pews in the Unitarian meeting-house, owners of and prices, 116. 
 
 Physicians, 118, 192, 199, 203, 204. 
 
 Pierce, Daniel, donor to the Baptist Church, 167. 
 
 Poetry, 168, — by Hon. Jonathan Blake, Warwick, 177; Sunday-school celebration, 
 178; dedication-hymn for the new Unitarian Church in Warwick, 179; dedica- 
 tion-hymn, 180; lines to be sung at a donation party, 181; lines of condolence, 
 182. 
 
 Poetry by Elder John Shepardson, — reflections on the tornado of 1821, 188. 
 
 Poetry by Susie E. Barber, — the Rebel Bell, 190, igi. 
 
 Poetry by Miss M. A. Reed, — Hymn of Welcome, 205, 206. 
 
 Pomeroy, Lieut. Josiah, chosen delegate to attend a convention at Northampton, to 
 state the prices of the necessaries of life, 63; Medad, Dr.,. 15 ; notice of, 204; 
 lines repeated by him, 204. 
 
 Pomeroy's Pond, 19. 
 
 Population in i860 and 1865, 132. 
 
 Postmasters, 199, 203. 
 
 Pound, to be built of wood, underpinned with stones, 84 ; new ones, 97, 114. 
 
 Powder-magazine to be built, 102. 
 
 Preachers, summary of those who originated from the town, 168. 
 
 Prohibition of the sale of ale, porter, and beer, 141. 
 
 Proprietors, meeting first held in Roxbury, Sept. 22, 1736, and after till 1761, 14; 
 twenty shillings each, paid by the sixty, to defray the expense of laying out the 
 home lots, 14 ; first meeting of, in the meeting-house, 30 ; last vote on record 
 of, 40. 
 
 Province Land, now Royalston, 15. 
 
 R. 
 
 Railroad, the want of one, 120. 
 
 Rainstorms, 172, 173. 
 
 Rawson, Mrs Hannah, first town school teacher, 38. 
 
 Recruits for the war, 131. 
 
 Reed, Abigail, report of a committee in favor of, 100, loi. 
 
 Reed, Rev. Samuel, the second minister of the town, ordained, 63; invited to become 
 the Town's minister, instead of the Society's, 82 ; his answer accepting the invi- 
 tation, 83; salary of, increased, 86; death of, 94. 
 
 Regimental orders, 186; men detached, 186, 187. 
 
 Report on the library, to be printed, 143. 
 
 Reports, 100, loi, 103, 126, 133, 134, 140, 142. 
 
238 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Renresentative, none chosen in 1783, on account of, as alleged, the extreme poverty 
 of tile town, 69. 
 
 Kj|5resentatives chosen, 86, 87,^91, 192, 195, 196, 199. 
 
 Residents of Warwick over seventy years of age, 198, 227. 
 
 Rich, Lieut. Thomas, first representative from the town to meet the General Assem- 
 bly of the Province at Watertown in i77'3, 51 ; instructions to, 52, 53, 53 
 
 Roads, the first on record, laid out, 35 ; tlie first accepted, 36 ; important votei about, 
 39: seventy-six miles in town, all of them surveyed by Jonathan Blake, jun., 124. 
 
 Rock, shelving, of a large size, 14S. 
 
 Rowlandson, Mrs., and her daughter Grace, 19 
 
 Roxbury, cr Gardner's Canada, now Warwick, 14. 
 
 Rye, 119. 
 
 S. 
 
 Salt, fi-om Boston, for the inhabitants, 51 ; apportioned by General Court, 56. 
 
 Sawmill, in 1753, voted fifty pounds to build one, 24; delay in building it for fear of 
 Indians, 25, 26; set a-going in 1759, 58; stood on Black Brook, 31. 
 
 Sawmills, 120, 151. 
 
 School, first, at the expense of the town, 37, 3S ; ten pounds voted to support it a part 
 of the year, 37 ; Mrs. Hannah Rawson the teacher, 38 ; districts, first division 
 of, 4S ; nine formed in the town, 69 ; defined anew, 114 ; bounded, 117 ; land sold, 
 81: money, 86; separated from the ministerial, 114; committee, 108,200-202; se- 
 lect one, 156. 
 
 Schools, one of the sixty-three shares in the township, for the benefit of, 12. 
 
 Schools and schoDihouses, 86, loi, 102, loS, 128, 137, 142, 156. 
 
 Scott's brook, 20. 
 
 Scott, Samuel, his house to be fortified, 27. 
 
 Selectmen, 37, 193, 194, 196, 197, 199, 200 ; imprisoned, 78. 
 
 Settlers, original, to be admitted, to be sixty in number, and to have one share each, 
 of the township, 12, 13; to be on the premises, to have a house eighteen feet 
 square, and seven feet stud, and six acres of land brought to, 13 ; bonds required 
 of, penalty twenty pounds, 13; estates to be forfeited to the Province within five 
 years, in case of non-fulfilment of terms, 14 ; early, 124. 
 
 Severance farm, of two hundred acres, 16. 
 
 Sharp, Capt. Robert, moderator of the first meeting of the proprietors, 14. 
 
 Shays rebellion, 70. 
 
 Sheomet, Indian name of the surrounding country, 200. 
 
 Shepardson, Elder John, minister of the Baptist Church, 166; death of, 166. 
 
 Skunks Baron, 19. 
 
 Smith, Rev. Preserved, called to settle, 97 ; his answer, 98, 99 ; ordained, 99, 157 ; 
 half-century discourse of, 15S. 
 
 Soil, III. 
 
 Soldiers, bounty paid to, for six months* service, 64, 65 ; and soldiers' families, money 
 for the support of, 136 , monume.it to, erected by the town, 146. 
 
 South Warwick, called the district of Orange, 69. 
 
 Spiritualism, 16Z. 
 
 Spooner, Samuel W., a delegate to the convention for amending the Constitution of 
 the State, in 1853, 196. 
 
 State Constitution, non-acceptance of, 57, 64. 
 
 Stave and other mills, 152. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 239 
 
 Stockings for the soldiers, knit by a centenarian, 136. 
 
 Straw braiding, iii. 
 
 Strong, Caleb, voted for on the part of the town for County Register, 57. 
 
 Survey of the town, 124. 
 
 T. 
 
 Tannery, 152. 
 
 Taylor, Dr. Amos, physician over forty years, 204. 
 
 rilesto;i, Tiio nis, of Djrchister, a petitioter for a tract of land for services in the 
 Canada expedition of 1690, 12. 
 
 Tilton, Abraham, and others who served in the expedition to Canada, petitions Gen- 
 eral Court, in 1735, for land, which was granted, 12. 
 
 Timber on Town Farm to be disposed of, 137. 
 
 Tornado, a destructive one described, 104-108 ; lines concerning it, i88. 
 
 Town, meeting, the first, 33 ; plan made by Jonathan Blake, jun , 124; farm i.?6, 
 127; warrants posted, 128; officers, 132, 192; clerks, 193, 196, 202, 203; treasur- 
 er, 203. 
 
 Training-field, laid out, 29. 
 
 Trees, 119; set out in the burying-ground, no. 
 
 Trustees of the Library, 140. 
 
 Tully brook, 20; river, 20. 
 
 U. 
 
 Unitarian Church, First Congregational, 157; plan of the interior of, with owners 
 
 and prices of pews, 1 16. 
 Unitarian preachers originating from the town, 161. 
 Universalist Society, incorporated, 97, 118, 168 ; ministers of, and those who originated 
 
 from the place, 168. 
 
 V. 
 
 Valuation of the town in i860 and in 1865, 132. 
 
 Volunteers for the war, 131. 
 
 Vote, for numbering the people, 56; against adopting the constitution laid before the 
 
 people, 57 ; to pay three yeats'-men in the service, 65 ; to raise men and beef for 
 
 the army, 65. 
 Votes, patriotic ones, in 1774, 44. * 
 
 W. 
 
 War of the rebellion, the town lost twenty-six men in, 132 ; their names inscribed on 
 the Soldiers' Monument, i8g ; names of those from the town who entered it in 
 the service of the country, 189. 
 
 War of 1812-14, men enlisted in, 185. 
 
 Warned out of town, all who were not inhabitants, 63. 
 
 Warwick, History of, read before Lyceum. 4, g; committee on, 7; town of, appro- 
 priating money for the publication of, 8 ; territory of, one of four grant*;, each six 
 miles square, granted by the General Court in 1735, each town laid out in sixty- 
 three equal shares, one each for the first settled minister,' the ministry, the schools 
 and sixty settlers, 12-14; charges of laying out the township, and admitting set- 
 tlers, defrayed by the Province, 13 ; first called Roxbury, or Gardner's Canada, 
 14; contained twenty-three thousand acres of land, exclusive of the Great Farm 
 of sixteen hundred acres, and the Severance and the field farms, 16, in; way 
 from, to Northfield, 1740, Deacon Davis to mark it out, 23; town of, incorporated 
 
240 HISTORY OF WARWICK. 
 
 Feb 17, 1763, 3j; name of, probably originated from Warwick in England, or 
 from Guy, Earl of Warwick, 33 ; first town-meeting in, 33 ; first town-officers 
 chosen, 33, 34; names of owners or occupiers of houses in, in 1798, 228, 229. 
 
 Water of the town feeds three rivers, — Miller's, Ashuelot, and Connecticut, 124. 
 
 Wi/, public, marked out through Pequeage, now Athol, to Northfield, 23. 
 
 Wheat, 119. 
 
 Wildcats, thirty pouads bounty for killing them, 85. 
 
 Willard, Rev. William A P., ordained pastor of first church, 160. 
 
 W.lliams, Sanuil, representative to the Provincial Congress at Concord, 46; at Cam- 
 bridge, at Watertown, 49. 
 
 Wjlves, voted to pay a bounty of twenty pounds per head on, 58; vote concerning, 64. 
 
 Wood, for fuel, 152. 
 
 Erratum. — Page 173, line 14 from top, for Flower Hill read Flour Hill. 
 
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