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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire + +Author: Ella Mills + +Release Date: July 10, 2011 [EBook #36687] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCH OF DUNBARTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<div class="figure"> +<a name="image-0001"><!--IMG--></a> +<a href="images/cover-f.jpg"><img src="images/cover-s.jpg" width="400" height="655" +alt="(cover)" /></a> +</div> + +<p style="display:none!important;"> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="pagei" name="pagei"></a>[i]</span></p> + +<h1> +SKETCH<br /> <small>OF</small><br /> <big>DUNBARTON,</big><br /> NEW HAMPSHIRE. +</h1> + +<div style="height: 2em;"><br /><br /></div> + +<p class="center"> +BY MISS ELLA MILLS. +</p> + +<div style="height: 2em;"><br /><br /></div> +<hr /> +<div style="height: 2em;"><br /><br /></div> + +<p class="center"> +<small> +MANCHESTER, N. H.<br /> +MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION,<br /> +1902. +</small> +</p> + +<p style="display:none!important;"> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="pageii" name="pageii"></a>[ii]</span></p> + +<div style="height: 2em;"><br /><br /></div> + +<p><!--[Blank Page]--><br /></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page1" name="page1"></a>[1]</span></p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"> +<a name="h2H_4_0001" id="h2H_4_0001"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> +<br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + Sketch of Dunbarton, N. H. +</h2> +<p class="center"> + BY ELLA MILLS. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<div style="height: 2em;"><br /><br /></div> + +<p> +Dunbarton is a town "set upon a hill which cannot be hid." The highest +point of land is on the farm of Benjamin Lord, north of the Center, and +is 779 feet above the sea level. From that spot, and from many other +places nearly as high, the views of hills and mountains are beautiful +and grand beyond description. +</p> +<p> +The twin Uncanoonucs are near neighbors on the south, Monadnock, +farther off on the south-west, and Kearsarge twenty miles to the north +west. On the northern horizon are seen Mount Washington and other peaks +of the White Mountains. +</p> +<p> +The longest hill in town is the mile-long Mills hill, and midway on +its slope live descendants of Thomas Mills, one of the first settlers. +Among other hills are Duncanowett, Hammond, Tenney, Grapevine, Harris, +Legache, and Prospect Hills. +</p> +<p> +No rivers run through the town, but there are numerous brooks where +trout fishing is pursued with more or less success. +</p> +<p> +No body of water is large enough to be called a lake, but Gorham Pond +is a beautiful sheet of water and on its banks picnics are held. +Stark's and Kimball's Ponds have furnished water power for mills, the +latter, owned by Willie F. Paige, is still in use. Long Pond, in the +south part of the town, was the scene of a tragedy in 1879, when Moses +Merrill, an officer at the State Industrial School, Manchester, was +drowned in an ineffectual attempt to save an inmate of that institution. +</p> +<p> +One portion of the south part of the town is called Skeeterboro, +another Mountalona, so named by James Rogers, one of the first +settlers, from the place in Ireland from whence he + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page2" name="page2"></a>[2]</span> + + came.<a href="#note-1" name="noteref-1"><small> 1</small></a> East of the +Center is Guinea, so called because some negroes once lived there. The +village of North Dunbarton is also called Page's Corner; and not far +away to the eastward is a hill known as Onestack, because one large +stack of hay stood there for many years. A brook bears the same name. +</p> +<p> +Those who know Dunbarton only in the present can hardly realize that +1450 people ever lived there at one time, but that was the census in +1820. The first census, taken 1767, was 271. In 1840 it was 1067; in +1890, only 523. The last census gave about 575. +</p> +<p> +The first settlement was made in 1740<a href="#note-2" name="noteref-2"><small> 2</small></a> by James Rogers and Joseph +Putney on the land known as the "Great Meadows," now owned by James M. +Bailey. They were driven away by the Indians for a time. A stone now +marks the spot where stood the only apple tree spared by the Indians. +Probably the first boy born in town belonged to one of these families. +James Rogers was shot by Ebenezer Ayer, who mistook him in the dark for +a bear, as he wore a bearskin coat. He was the father of Major Robert +Rogers, celebrated as the leader of the ranger corps of the French and +Indian wars. +</p> +<p> +About 1751 William Stinson, John Hogg, and Thomas Mills settled in the +west part of the town. Sarah, daughter of Thomas Mills, was the first +girl born in town. Her birthplace was a log cabin on the farm now owned +by John C. and George F. Mills. +</p> +<p> +For fourteen years the town was called Starkstown in honor of Archibald +Stark, one of the first land owners (though not a resident), and father +of General John Stark. In 1765 the town was incorporated, and was +named, with a slight change, + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page3" name="page3"></a>[3]</span> + + for Dumbarton<a href="#note-3" name="noteref-3"><small> 3</small></a> in Scotland near which +place Stark and other emigrants had lived. +</p> +<p> +Dunbarton was one of the towns taken from Hillsborough County to +form the County of Merrimack. Its centennial was duly celebrated +and attended by a vast concourse of invited guests and towns people. +A report of its proceedings was compiled by Rev. Sylvanus Hayward. +Though small in area and population, Dunbarton occupies a large place +in the hearts of its sons and daughters. However dear our adopted homes +may become, we still feel that "whatever skies above us rise the hills, +the hills are home." +</p> +<p> +At the centennial Rev. George A. Putnam paid a glowing tribute to his +native town, saying: "Dunbarton is one of the most intelligent and best +educated communities in New England. I think it will be hard to find +another place where, in proportion to its population, so many young +men have been liberally educated and have entered some of the learned +professions, where so many young men and women have become first class +teachers of common schools. My own observation has been altogether in +favor of Dunbarton in this particular. And it is clear as any historic +fact the superior education of Dunbarton's children has been largely +due to her religious institutions and Christian teachers." +</p> +<p> +That the town is also honored by her neighbors is shown by the +following instances: Many years ago it was said that a Dartmouth +student from an adjoining town, when asked from what town he came, +answered: "From the town next to Dunbarton." Recently the chairman of +the school board in Goffstown, in his annual report, compared the town +favorably to Dunbarton with regard to the number of college graduates. +</p> +<p> +Very soon after the permanent settlement of the town, a committee was +appointed to build a meeting-house at Dunbarton Center. It was finished +previous to 1767, and stood in the middle of the common. Before that +time it is related that + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page4" name="page4"></a>[4]</span> + + "Mr. McGregor preached in the open air, on +the spot now consecrated as the resting place of the dead." This first +building was a low, frame structure, without pews, with seats of rough +planks resting on chestnut logs, and a pulpit constructed of rough +boards. It was replaced in about twenty years by the building now known +as the Town House. This was used only for political purposes after the +erection of the third church on the west side of the highway. +</p> +<p> +About thirty years ago the interior of the old building was greatly +changed, the upper part being made into a hall while the square pews +were removed from the lower part, only the high pulpit remaining. A +selectmen's room was finished in one corner, and in 1892, a room for +the public library. The outside remains practically unchanged. +</p> +<p> +The Rocky Hill Church at Amesbury, Mass., much like this at Dunbarton, +is still used in summer only. There is no way of warming it, and people +of the present day would not endure the hardships their ancestors bore +without a murmur. The third church was built in 1836 on the site of a +dwelling house owned by William Stark; in 1884 it was remodelled, the +pews modernized and the ceiling frescoed. +</p> +<p> +The vestry formerly stood on the opposite of the common and contained +two rooms; prayer meetings were held in the lower room, while up stairs +was the only hall in town. There were held the singing schools, and the +lyceum of long ago; also several fall terms of high schools; among the +teachers were Mark Bailey, William E. Bunten, and Henry M. Putney. +More than twenty-five years ago the vestry was removed to its present +location near the church and made more convenient and attractive. +</p> +<p> +For about nineteen years the church had no settled pastor. In 1789 +Walter Harris was called, and was ordained August 26. He preached more +than forty years. Every man in town was required to contribute to +his support for a time until some of the other religious societies +rebelled. The "History of Dunbarton" says: "Dr. Harris appropriated the +proprietors' grant for the + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page5" name="page5"></a>[5]</span> + + first settled minister, and located himself +on the ministerial lot. He also, by a vote of the town, obtained the +use of the parsonage lot, with an addition of seventy pounds a year, +one-half to be paid in cash, the other in corn and rye." His farm was +in a beautiful location south of the center, and was afterwards owned +for many years by the late Deacon John Paige; it is now the property +of his son, Lewis Paige. +</p> +<p> +In respect to his farm, buildings, fences, Dr. Harris was a model for +the town. Two men once working for him were trying to move a heavy log. +He told them how to manage according to philosophy; finally one said: +"Well, Dr. Harris, if you and your philosophy will take hold of that +end of the log while Jim and I take this end, I think we can move it." +</p> +<p> +Dr. Harris was sometimes called the "Broad axe and sledge-hammer +of the New Hampshire ministry." He was a man of more than ordinary +intellectual endowments, and graduated from Dartmouth College with high +honors. Prof. Charles G. Burnham said in his address at the Centennial: +"The influence of the life and preaching of Dr. Harris is manifest +today in every department of your material prosperity, as well as +upon the moral and religious character of the people, and will be for +generations to come." +</p> +<p> +Dr. Harris was dismissed July 7, 1830, and died December 25, 1843. His +successor, Rev. John M. Putnam, was installed the day Dr. Harris was +dismissed; both were remarkable extemporaneous speakers. Mr. Putnam was +called one of the best platform speakers in his profession in the State. +</p> +<p> +At the close of his pastorate he went to reside with his son at +Yarmouth, Maine; he died in Elyria, Ohio, in 1871. He was dismissed the +day his successor, Sylvanus Hayward, was ordained. Thus for more than +77 years the church was not for one day without a settled pastor. Mr. +Hayward was born in Gilsum, N. H., and has written a history of his +native town; he was dismissed April, 1866. His successors were Revs. +George I. Bard, William E. Spear, who is now a lawyer in + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page6" name="page6"></a>[6]</span> + + Boston, and +at present Secretary of the Spanish War Claim Commission, James Wells +now deceased, Tilton C. H. Bouton, grandson of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel +Bouton, for many years pastor of the North Church, Concord, N. H., +George Sterling, Avery K. Gleason, and William A. Bushee. During Mr. +Bouton's pastorate a parsonage was built in the north part of the +village on land given by Deacon Daniel H. Parker. +</p> +<p> +The first deacons were chosen in 1790, and were James Clement and +Edward Russell. Others were Samuel Burnham, David Alexander, John +Church, Matthew S. McCurdy, John Wilson, John Mills, Samuel Burnham +(a namesake of the first of the name), who with Daniel H. Parker served +for many years. They were succeeded by Frederic L. Ireland and Frank C. +Woodbury, the present incumbents. +</p> +<p> +Church discipline was very strict in ye olden time. What would the +people of the present day think of being called to account for such a +small matter as this? "A complaint was presented to the church by one +brother against another for un-Christian-like behavior in suffering +himself to be carried in a light and vain manner upon a man's shoulders +to the length of a quarter of a mile. The church accepted the complaint, +and summoned the brother before it. He appeared, confessed his fault +and was pardoned." +</p> +<p> +Deacon McCurdy was noted for his strictness in keeping the Sabbath. No +food could be cooked in the house on that day, and no work done at the +barn except milking and feeding the stock. He once, however, mistook +the day of the week, and took a grist to mill on Sunday, while his wife +began the Saturday's baking. On arriving at the mill, he, of course, found +it closed, and on going to the miller's house, he learned his mistake. +He was so shocked that he would not leave his grist, but carried it back +home. +</p> +<p> +The Baptist Church was organized in Mountalona in 1828. The first +meeting house was built by Aaron Elliot, and Isaac Westcott was the +first pastor. In the Spring of 1847 meetings were held at the Center; +Rev. John W. Poland (since famous + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page7" name="page7"></a>[7]</span> + + as the maker of "White Pine Compound") +preached during that season. The next year a church was built. +</p> +<p> +The pastors were Revs. H. D. Hodges (who, with Rev. John Putnam, +compiled a grammar), Samuel Cook, Horace Eaton, Jesse M. Coburn, +Washington Coburn, John Peacock (as a supply), Stephen Pillsbury, +Timothy B. Eastman, Elias Whittemore, Samuel Woodbury, Adoniram J. +Hopkins, Dr. Lucien Hayden, J. J. Peck, Charles Willand, and the +present incumbent, S. H. Buffam. This list may not be exactly correct. +At intervals no services have been held. Nathaniel Wheeler, John O. +Merrill and John Paige were deacons for many years. In 1899 the house +was painted and otherwise improved. +</p> +<p> +The old house at Mountalona was used at times by the Baptists. Methodist +services were also held there. It was burned about seventeen years ago. +</p> +<p> +A Universalist society was formed in 1830 by Nathan Gutterson, Joshua +F. Hoyt, Silas Burnham, Alexander Gilchrist and others and services +were held in the old Congregational Church. Rev. Nathan R. Wright +preached here for four years and lived in a house near the late John C. +Ray's which was burned about 30 years ago. It was afterwards known as +the Hope house from Samuel B. Hope, one of the owners. Mr. Wright was +the father of Hon. Carroll D. Wright who was born in 1840. The family +removed from town when he was three years of age. +</p> +<p> +In 1864 or 1865 Episcopal Church services were held by clergymen +from St. Paul's School in school houses in the west part of the town, +afterwards in the Hope house. In the summer of 1866 the corner stone +of the church was laid on land given by the Misses Stark. The money to +build the church was collected by their grand niece, Miss Mary Stark, a +devoted churchwoman, who died in 1881. The church is a lasting memorial +of her. It is a beautiful building with a seating capacity of 110. The +fine chancel window was given by the father of the Rector of St. Paul's +School. The church was consecrated in 1868, and named the Church of St. +John the Evangelist. For about fourteen years the services were in +charge of Rev. Joseph H. Coit, + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page8" name="page8"></a>[8]</span> + + the present rector of St. Paul's School. +He was succeeded by Rev. Edward M. Parker, a master of the school, +who with the assistance of Mr. William W. Flint, lay preacher, holds +services in Dunbarton and East Weare. In 1890 the church was taken down +and re-erected in North Dunbarton on land given by David Sargent south +of the school-house, in front of a beautiful pine grove. A service of +re-dedication was held December 15, 1890. Frank B. Mills was organist +and leader of the singing with only a short interval until his removal +from town in 1895. The organist at the present time is Miss Sara E. +Perkins. +</p> +<p> +After the removal of the church, a brass tablet in memory of the Misses +Harriet and Charlotte Stark was placed therein by Rev. Joseph H. Coit. +</p> +<p> +Dunbarton has had many fine musicians within her borders. Col. Samuel +B. Hammond led the singing in the Congregational Church for a long term +of years, resigning in 1875. The choir was formerly large and numbered +among its members Mrs. Elizabeth (Whipple) Brown, her daughter, Mrs. +Agnes French, Olive Caldwell, now Mrs. Morrill of Minnesota, the +daughters of the late Deacon Parker, Mrs. Harris Wilson, Nathaniel T. +Safford, William S. Twiss, and others. +</p> +<p> +Before the advent of the cabinet organ instrumental music was furnished +by a double bass viol played by Harris Wilson, a single bass-viol +played by Eben Kimball, a melodeon played by Andrew Twiss, and one or two +violins. When the church was remodeled the organ and choir were removed +from the gallery to a place beside the pulpit. Mrs. Mary (Wilson) Bunten +is now organist. For several years a quartette, consisting of William +S. Twiss, Frank B. Mills, Horace Caldwell, and Frederic L. Ireland sang +most acceptably on many occasions, especially furnishing appropriate +music at funerals, until the removal from town of Mr. Twiss in 1884. +At various times singing schools were taught by Eben Kimball, Joseph +C. Cram of Deerfield, "Uncle Ben" Davis of Concord, and at Page's Corner, +by Frank B. Mills. +</p> +<p> +The first School houses in town were few and far between, + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page9" name="page9"></a>[9]</span> + + with no free +transportation as practiced at the present time. +</p> +<p> +Hon. Albert S. Batchellor, of Littleton, in searching the columns of a +file of old newspapers recently, came across the following which will +be of interest to Dunbarton people: +</p> +<p class="quote" style="text-align:right;"> + "Dunbarton May ye 15, 1787. +</p> +<p class="quote"> + We the subscribers Promise to pay to Mrs. Sarah Ayers Young three + shillings per week for five Months to Teach school seven or Eight + Hours Each Day Except Sunday & Saturday half a day, to be paid + in Butter at half Pifterreen per lb. flax the same or Rie at + 4 shillings, Corn at 3s. Each. Persons to pay their Proportion to + what scollers they sign for Witness Our Hands. Thomas Hannette + 2 Scollers Thomas Husse 1 Jameson Calley 2 Andrew foster 1 John + Bunton 3 John Fulton 2." +</p> +<p> +Before 1805 Dunbarton had three school districts. The first house was +at the Center. Rev. Abraham W. Burnham, of Rindge, in response to the +toast, "Our Early Inhabitants," at the Centennial, said: "My brother +Samuel, when so young that my mother was actually afraid the bears +would catch him, walked two miles to school." This same boy was the +first college graduate from town, in the class of 1795. Robert Hogg, +called Master Hogg, was the first male teacher, and Sarah Clement the +first female teacher. +</p> +<p> +Another teacher of the long ago was Master John Fulton, who lived on +the farm now owned by John W. Farrar. In those days pupils often tried +to secure a holiday by "barring out" the teacher on New Year's Day. +More than once Master John Fulton found himself in this situation. On +one occasion he went to one of the neighbors where he borrowed a tall +white hat and a long white coat with several capes. Thus disguised +he mounted a white horse and rode rapidly to the school house. The +unsuspecting pupils rushed to the door, when, quick as thought, Master +Fulton sprang from the horse, entered the school house and called the +school to order. At another time, while teaching in a private house +in Bow, finding himself "barred out," he entered a chamber window by +a ladder, removed some loose boards from the floor (the house being +unfinished) and descended among his astonished + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page10" name="page10"></a>[10]</span> + + pupils. Dr. Harris +regularly visited the schools, and catechised the children; he prepared +many young men for college and directed the theological studies of those +fitting for the ministry. +</p> +<p> +Many clergymen of the town served on the school committee. Districts +increased in number till there were eleven. In 1867 the town system +was adopted, and the number of schools reduced to four or five. +Notwithstanding the short terms, the long distances, and lack of +text-books (now provided by the town), Dunbarton has produced many fine +scholars, and has provided a large number of teachers for her own and +other schools. +</p> +<p> +I think no family has furnished as many educated members as the +Burnhams. A short time prior to 1775 Deacon Samuel Burnham came from +Essex, Mass., to the south part of Dunbarton. Of his thirteen children, +four sons graduated at Dartmouth College. In 1865 fourteen of his grand +and great grand children were college graduates. Not all of them lived +in Dunbarton, but Samuel's son, Bradford, and most of his children +lived here. Henry Larcom, son of Bradford, was a successful teacher and +land surveyor; he represented the town in the Legislature and was also +State Senator. The last years of his life were passed in Manchester +where he died in 1893. His son, Henry Eben, is a lawyer in Manchester, +and was for a time Judge of Probate. He was born November 8, 1844, +in the Dr. Harris house, and is an honored son of Dunbarton. He was +elected United States Senator by the Legislature of 1901, for the term +of six years and succeeded Senator William E. Chandler. +</p> +<p> +Hannah, eldest daughter of Bradford Burnham, married Samuel Burnham +from Essex, Mass.; she died in November, 1901. Her two daughters were +teachers for many years; the younger, Annie M., taught in Illinois +and Oregon until recently. Two sons were college graduates, Josiah, +at Amherst in 1867; William H., at Harvard in 1882. The latter is +instructor in Clark University, Worcester, and a writer and lecturer +of great ability. A daughter of his brother, Samuel G. Burnham of St. +Louis, graduated from Washington University with high honors, ranking +second in a class of eighty-two. +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page11" name="page11"></a>[11]</span></p> + +<p> +Three sons of Henry Putney were students at Dartmouth College, though +the second son, Frank, did not graduate, leaving college to enter the +army in 1861. +</p> +<p> +Thirty or more of the sons of Dunbarton graduated at Dartmouth College, +while ten or twelve others took a partial course. John Gould, Jr., and +Abel K. Wilson, died at college, Three graduated at Wabash College, +Indiana, two at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and one each at +Yale, Harvard, and Amherst Colleges, and Brown University. It is said +that at one time there were more students from Dunbarton in Dartmouth +College than from any other town in the State. +</p> +<p> +There have been several graduates from Normal Schools, Ralph Ireland +and Ethel Jameson from the school at Bridgewater, Mass. The former is +now teaching in Gloucester, Mass., and the latter in Boston, Mass. Ella +and Leannette L. Mills (the latter the daughter of Leroy R. Mills), +graduated from the school at Salem, Mass. Lydia Marshall, now holding +a government position in Washington, D. C., Mary Caldwell (now Mrs. +Aaron C. Barnard), and Lizzie Bunten (now Mrs. James P. Tuttle, of +Manchester), took a partial or whole course at the school at Plymouth, +N. H. Louise Parker and Mary A. Stinson graduated at Kimball Academy, +Meriden, N. H. Many others have been students at McCollom Institute, +Mount Vernon, Pembroke, and other academies, and several have taken the +course at the Concord High School. Among the teachers of the long ago +may be named Antoinette Putnam, Lizzie and Ann Burnham, Jane Stinson, +Nancy Stinson, Sarah and Marianne Parker, and Susan and Margaret +Holmes. The list is too long for further mention. +</p> +<p> +Among college graduates who made teaching their life work were William +Parker, who died in Winchester, Illinois, in 1865; Caleb Mills, who was +connected with Wabash College, Indiana, from 1833 until his death in +1879. He was greatly interested in the cause of education, and was +known as the father of public schools in Indiana; Joseph Gibson Hoyt, +who was called the most brilliant son Dunbarton ever educated; he +taught several + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page12" name="page12"></a>[12]</span> + + years in Phillips Academy, Exeter, and was Chancellor of +Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, taking charge February 4, +1859; inaugurated October 4, 1859; died November 26, 1862; Charles G. +Burnham, orator at the Centennial, in 1865, who died in Montgomery, +Alabama, in 1866; Mark Bailey, who has taught elocution at Yale since +1855, besides spending some weeks of each year in former times at +Dartmouth, Princeton, and other places. Samuel Burnham, the first +graduate, should have been mentioned earlier. He was principal of the +academy at Derry for many years; William E. Bunten taught in Atkinson, +N. H., Marblehead, Mass., and in New York, where he died in 1897; +Matthew S. McCurdy, grandson and namesake of Deacon McCurdy, is +instructor at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Although not a college +student, John, brother of Thomas and James F. Mills, spent many years +in teaching in Ohio and West Virginia; he died in 1879. Among those who +have been both teachers and journalists are Amos Hadley of Concord, +Henry M. Putney, now on the editorial staff of the Manchester <i>Daily</i> +and <i>Weekly Mirror</i>; William A. (brother of Henry M.) who died some +years ago in Fairmount, Nebraska; and John B. Mills, now at Grand +Rapids, Michigan. George H. Twiss, of Columbus, Ohio, has been a +teacher, superintendent of schools, and proprietor of a bookstore. +</p> +<p> +Of the native clergymen, Leonard S. Parker is probably the oldest now +living. He has held several pastorates, and is now assistant pastor of +the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass. One of the early college +graduates was Isaac Garvin, son of Sam Garvin, whose name was a by-word +among his neighbors; "as shiftless as Sam Garvin" was a common saying. +Isaac obtained his education under difficulties which would have +discouraged most men, and at first even Dr. Harris thinking it not +worth while to help him. He probably studied divinity with Dr. Harris, +and was ordained in the Congregational Church, but late in life took +orders in the Episcopal Church in New York. There were two Rev. Abraham +Burnhams, uncle and nephew, and Rev. Amos W. Burnham, whose + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page13" name="page13"></a>[13]</span> + + only pastorate +was Rindge where he preached forty-six years. Thomas Jameson held +pastorates in Scarborough and Gorham, Maine; he was blind during his +last years. Charles H. Marshall preached in various places in Indiana, +and died nearly thirty years ago. Ephraim O. Jameson held several +pastorates; he is now retired and living in Boston. He has compiled +several genealogies and town histories. Rev. George A. Putnam, son of +the second pastor of the church in Dunbarton, preached for several +years in Yarmouth, Maine, then went to Millbury, Mass., in 1871, where +he still resides—an unusually long pastorate in these times. John P. +Mills is preaching in Michigan. +</p> +<p> +Of the native Baptist ministers were Hosea Wheeler, Harrison C. Page, +who died at Newton Theological Seminary just before the completion of +his course, and who gave promise of great ability; and the brothers +Joel and Christie Wheeler who entered the ministry without a collegiate +education, and both preached in Illinois. +</p> +<p> +Though the people of Dunbarton are too peaceable and honest to need +the services of a lawyer, at least a dozen young men entered the legal +profession. One of the earliest college graduates, Jeremiah Stinson, +having studied law, opened an office in his native town, but devoted +the most of his time to agriculture. He met with an accidental death at +the age of thirty-six years. Among those who continued to practice law +were John Burnham in Hillsborough, John Jameson in Maine, John Tenney +in Methuen, Mass., Judge Joseph M. Cavis in California, David B. +Kimball in Salem, Mass., Newton H. Wilson in Duluth, Minn., and Henry +E. Burnham in Manchester. Only the three last named are now living. +</p> +<p> +The people of Dunbarton are proud of the fact that there has been no +resident physician in town for more than forty years. The last, a Dr. +Gilson, was here for a short time only. Dr. Dugall was probably the +first; while others were Doctors Symnes Sawyer, Clement, Mighill, +Stearns, and Merrill. +</p> +<p> +True Morse was a seventh son; so was Rev. Mr. Putnam, but he refused to +use his supposed powers. Among the native + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page14" name="page14"></a>[14]</span> + + physicians were Abram B. Story, +who died not long since in Manchester, William Ryder, John L. Colby, +Gilman Leach, David P. Goodhue, a surgeon in the Navy, John and Charles +Mills. The two last named practiced in Champaign, Illinois, and were +living there when last heard from. William Caldwell is well remembered +as a veterinary surgeon. +</p> +<p> +Of dentists we may name John B. Prescott, D. D. S., of Manchester, a +graduate of Pennsylvania Dental College, and the late Dr. Edward Ryder +of Portsmouth. +</p> +<p> +Nothwithstanding this exodus of professional men and others, many good +and wise men made the place their home. Deacon John Mills was town +treasurer for thirty-five years, selectman twenty-two years, and +representative eight years. He built the house afterwards owned by his +son-in law, Deacon Daniel H. Parker, who was also a good citizen; as +Justice of the Peace, he transacted much law business and settled many +estates; he held many town offices, was a thrifty farmer, and +accumulated a large fortune. +</p> +<p> +Henry Putney, of the fourth generation from the first settler of that +name, was another strong man, who with Deacon Parker and Eliphalet +Sargent formed a board of selectmen in the troubled times of the Civil +War, that did good service for the town. His only daughter is the wife +of Nahum J. Bachelder, secretary of State Board of Agriculture. He had +six sons, five of whom are now living. +</p> +<p> +The name of Oliver Bailey has been known in town for several generations. +The present representative of that name is one of the elder men of the +town, a thrifty farmer, and was formerly in company with his son, George +O. Bailey, a cattle dealer on a large scale. His brother, James M. Bailey, +still owns part of the paternal acres. Their father, Oliver Bailey, +removed late in life, to Bow Mills, where he died in 1889. John C. Ray +owned a beautiful home in the west part of the town; he was superintendent +of the State Industrial School in Manchester for about twenty-five years +before his death in 1898. +</p> +<p> +The brothers, Captain Charles and William C. Stinson, were + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page15" name="page15"></a>[15]</span> + + wealthy farmers +in the south part of the town; the former removed to Goffstown, and +his farm is owned by Philander Lord. The house is probably one of the +oldest in town. The last years of William C. Stinson were spent in +Manchester. Harris E. Ryder was the first Master of Stark Grange which +was organized in October, 1874. His buildings were burned in 1875, and +not long afterwards he located in Bedford, where he died. His brother, +Charles G. B. Ryder, served on the school committee for several years. +He removed to Manchester many years ago and was engaged in the real +estate business for many years; he died there several years ago. The +buildings on his farm were burned in July, 1899. +</p> +<p> +Major Caleb, son of General John Stark, built a house in the west part +of the town which is still owned by the family and is filled with +interesting relics. His son, Caleb, was the author of the "History of +Dunbarton," published in 1860. He and two unmarried sisters spent much +time here, the last survivor, Miss Charlotte, dying in 1889, aged about +ninety years. She was a fine specimen of the old time gentlewoman, much +given to hospitality. The place is now owned in part by her grand +nephew, Charles F. M. Stark, a descendant on the mother's side from +Robert Morris, the great financier of Revolutionary times. His only +son, John McNiel Stark, graduated from Holderness School, June, 1900. +The Stark cemetery is a beautiful and well-kept resting place of the +dead. Besides Stark, the names of Winslow, Newell, and McKinstry are +seen on the headstones. Benjamin Marshall, and his son, Enoch, were +prominent men in town. Many other names should be mentioned, but space +forbids. +</p> +<p> +The daughters of Dunbarton are not less worthy of mention than her +sons. Some of the teachers have already been mentioned. Another was +Marianne, sister of Deacon Parker, who married a Doctor Dascomb and +went with him to Oberlin, Ohio, where he became professor of chemistry +in Oberlin College. She was lady principal. It was said that there were +two saints in the Oberlin calendar, President Finney and Mrs. Dascomb. + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page16" name="page16"></a>[16]</span> + + Three of her sisters married ministers. Ann married Rev. Isaac Bird, +and went with him to Turkey as a missionary; and Emily married Rev. +James Kimball of Oakham, Mass.; and Martha, Rev. Thomas Tenney; one of +her daughters is the wife of the late Rev. Cyrus Hamlin. Two of Deacon +Parker's daughters are the wives of ministers. Louise is Mrs. Lucien +H. Frary of Pomona, California, and Abby is Mrs. John L. R. Trask of +Springfield, Mass. Dr. Trask has been for many years trustee of Mt. +Holyoke College. +</p> +<p> +Mary, daughter of Deacon John Mills, married Rev. Mr. William Patrick +of Boscawen; Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, President of the American College +for Girls at Constantinople, is her step daughter and namesake. Sarah, +daughter of Benjamin Marshall, married Caleb Mills who studied theology, +though his life work was teaching. Mary F., daughter of Deacon John Paige, +married Rev. David Webster, now of Lebanon, Maine. Mary L., daughter of +John Kimball of Milford, formerly of Dunbarton, has been for more than +ten years the wife of Rev. Arthur Remington, now in Philadelphia. Perhaps +the latest addition to the list is Hannah C., eldest daughter of Horace +Caldwell, who, January, 1899, married Rev. Avery A. K. Gleason, then +pastor of the Congregational Church in Dunbarton, now Raynham, Mass. +</p> +<p> +Mary A., daughter of Captain Charles Stinson, married Charles A. +Pillsbury, known as the flour king of Minneapolis, who died more than +a year ago. +</p> +<p> +Though the rough and rocky soil is poorly adapted to cultivation, +Dunbarton is, and always has been, emphatically a farming town. Yet +a long list of mechanics might be given. Carpenters, blacksmiths, +painters and masons still ply their trades, but the mill-wrights, +shoemakers, tanners, coopers, tailors, tailoresses, and pump makers +are people of the past. Less than fifty years ago a tannery was in +operation at the place owned by Benjamin Fitts, and a good sized pond +covered the space opposite the house of Justus Lord. It was used on +several occasions by the Baptists as a place of immersion. +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page17" name="page17"></a>[17]</span></p> + +<p> +William Tenney was the carpenter who built the town hall; Captain +Samuel Kimball, the present Congregational Church, and many dwelling +houses. Others were the work of John Leach. The man now living who has +done more of this work than any other is John D. Bunten, whose work has +always been done in a thorough manner. +</p> +<p> +The stone blacksmith shop of Jonathan Waite has been used by three +generations, now only for the family work. John B. Ireland still uses +the shop of his father, while Lauren P. Hadley's specialty is iron work +on wagons. During the past few years much timber has been removed by +the aid of portable steam mills. +</p> +<p> +The first store in town was kept by Major Caleb Stark at Page's Corner. +He had several successors, among them being Jeremiah Page and John +Kimball. At the Center I find, in the "History of Dunbarton," a long +list of store-keepers, among whom was David Tenney, one of whose +ledgers is still preserved, where the entries of New England rum sold +to the most respectable citizens are as numerous as tea and coffee +now-a-days. +</p> +<p> +Deacon Burnham kept the store for many years, and later Thomas Wilson +and his son Oliver kept the store. The latter also did considerable +business as a photographer for a time. His son in-law, John Bunten, is +the present proprietor of the store. The business has increased greatly +with the sending out of teams to take orders and deliver goods in +various parts of the town. +</p> +<p> +Among the successful business men who have left town may be named Lyman +W. Colby, who was a successful photographer in Manchester for more than +thirty years, and whose recent sudden death is greatly to be deplored +by his many friends; John C. Stinson, a merchant of Gloucester, N. J.; +Samuel G. Burnham of St. Louis, Missouri; and the late Fred D. Sargent, +owner of a restaurant in St. Paul, Minn., where he furnished meals to +500 people daily, and to many more on extra occasions. He had also a +branch establishment at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>[18]</span> + + which his brother, +Frank H. Sargent is manager. For several years a newspaper was published +by Oscar H. A. Chamberlen, called <i>The Snow-Flake</i>, afterwards <i>The +Analecta</i>. +</p> +<p> +The first library in town was kept at the house of Benjamin Whipple, +and was called the Dunbarton Social Library. Some of the books are +still preserved. A parish library, containing many valuable works, was +collected by Miss Mary Stark, and was for many years the source of +pleasure and profit to the attendants at St. John's Church. Some years +after her death the books were given to a Library Association, formed +at the Center, which in turn was merged with the Public Library, +founded in 1892, of which Miss Hannah K. Caldwell was, till her +marriage, the efficient librarian. The position is now filled by Mabel +Kelly. A library is also owned by Stark Grange. +</p> +<p> +For the past thirty years or more, many summer boarders have come to +Dunbarton. The houses of James M. Bailey, William B. Burnham, and Peter +Butterfield, were well filled for several years, while at many other +places some people were accommodated. At the present time two houses at +the Center, owned by Henry P. Kelly, are filled every summer; also the +house of Frank C. Woodbury, the former home of Deacon Parker on the +"hill beautiful," where "glorious golden summers wax and wane, where +radiant autumns all their splendors shed." +</p> +<p> +The pure air of Dunbarton seems to be conducive to long life. Two +citizens passed the century mark. Mrs. Joseph Leach died in 1849, aged +102 years, 9 months. Mrs. Achsah P. (Tenney) Whipple lived to the age +of 100 years, 9 months. Her centennial birthday was celebrated June 28, +1886, by a large gathering of relatives and friends. Her only daughter +married Joseph A. Gilmore, for many years Superintendent of the Concord +Railroad, and also Governor of New Hampshire. Her grand daughter was +the first wife of Hon. William E. Chandler, who, doubtless, has pleasant +recollections of his visits to his betrothed at the home of her +grandparents. +</p> +<p> +Among the residents of the town who attained the age of 90 years or +more were Mrs. Mary Story, 98 years, 4 months, 12 + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>[19]</span> + + days; Mrs. Ann C., +widow of Deacon John Wilson, 98 years; Deacon John Church, 97 years; +Mrs. Abigail (Burnham) Ireland, 94 years; There were several others +whose ages I do not know. Mr. and Mrs. Guild, near the Bow line, I +think were over 90 years. Many have passed the age of 80 years. Deacon +Samuel Burnham is now 88 years; he and his wife lived together more +than 63 years. Mr. and Mrs. James Stone lived together more than 65 +years. Mrs. Stone survived her husband only a few weeks. Colonel Samuel +B. Hammond and wife celebrated their golden wedding in 1892. +</p> +<p> +Stark Grange is the only secret society in town, though some individuals +belong to societies in adjoining towns. The membership of Stark Grange +is about ninety. +</p> +<p> +The patriotism of the town has always been unquestioned. +</p> +<p> +Dunbarton has sent her sons to battle for the right in every war. +Seventeen men took part in the French and Indian War, including Major +Robert Rogers, and other men by the names of Rogers, Stark, McCurdy, +and others. +</p> +<p> +In the Revolutionary Army were fifty-seven from Dunbarton, including +the brothers John and Thomas Mills, William Beard, and others. Caleb +Stark, afterwards a resident, though very young, was with his father +at Bunker Hill. +</p> +<p> +Henry L. Burnham used to tell a story of a cave on the farm which was +his home for many years (now owned by John Haynes) which once sheltered +a deserter from the Revolutionary Army. The man afterwards went to the +northern part of the State, and at the very hour of his death, during a +heavy thunder shower, the entrance to the cave was closed so completely +that the most diligent search has failed to discover any trace of it. +</p> +<p> +In the war of 1812, eleven enlisted, and twelve were drafted. Probably +Benjamin Bailey was the last survivor. Among those who went to the +Mexican War were Benjamin Whipple and Charles G. Clement. +</p> +<p> +Dunbarton sent more than fifty men to the Civil War; several sent +substitutes. To three men were given captain's + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page20" name="page20"></a>[20]</span> + + commissions, namely, +William E. Bunten, Henry M. Caldwell, who died of fever in Falmouth, +Va., in 1862, and Andrew J. Stone, who was killed at the Battle of the +Wilderness in 1864. Marcus M. Holmes returned a lieutenant and Horace +Caldwell was orderly sargeant; Wilbur F. Brown died of starvation at +Andersonville, and Benjamin Twiss narrowly escaped a like fate at Libby +Prison. He was suffocated in a mine in the Far West not very long ago. +</p> +<p> +Two young men went to the Spanish-American War who were born in +Dunbarton, and had lived here the larger part of their lives, namely, +William J. Sawyer, who enlisted in the New Hampshire Regiment from +Concord, and Fred H. Mills, who enlisted at Marlboro, Mass., in the +Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. He died in Goffstown, June 26, 1900, of +disease contracted in the army. +</p> +<p> +No railroad touches the town, and probably never will, but an electric +car route over the hill has been prophesied. +</p> +<p> +The mail has always come by way of Concord, and the carrier's wagon has +furnished transportation for many people. Hon. William E. Chandler drove +the mail wagon for a time some fifty years ago. The postoffice was +first established in 1817, at the Center; another at North Dunbarton +in 1834; a third at East Dunbarton in 1883. In 1899 the free rural +delivery system was adopted, giving general satisfaction to the +residents. +</p> +<p> +I have written chiefly of the past history of the town, but I think I +may say that the people of the present day are endeavoring to maintain +as good a reputation as their ancestors. +</p> + +<hr /> + +<div style="height: 4em;"> +<a name="h2H_FOOT" id="h2H_FOOT"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> +<br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + Footnotes +</h2> + +<p class="foot"> +<a name="note-1"><!--Note--></a> +1 (<a href="#noteref-1"><small>return</small></a>)<br /> +The early writers generally credited James Rogers with +being of Scotch-Irish nativity, owing to the fact that he was confused +with another person of the same name, who lived in Londonderry. (See +Drummond's "James Rogers of Dunbarton and James Rogers of Londonderry.") +The Dunbarton Rogers was undoubtedly of English birth, in which case the +term "Mountalona," or "Montelonv," must have had some other derivation +than that commonly ascribed to it.—<span class="sc">Editor.</span> +</p> + +<p class="foot"> +<a name="note-2"><!--Note--></a> +2 (<a href="#noteref-2"><small>return</small></a>)<br /> +Probably 1739, and the Rogers family at least came from +Massachusetts. This with the Putney or Pudney family seem to have been +located in the winter of 1839-1840.—<span class="sc">Editor.</span> +</p> + +<p class="foot"> +<a name="note-3"><!--Note--></a> +3 (<a href="#noteref-3"><small>return</small></a>)<br /> +From Dumbritton, the ancient name given to a fort raised +by the Brittons on the north bank of the Clyde in early +times.—<span class="sc">Editor.</span> +</p> + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, by Ella Mills + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCH OF DUNBARTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE *** + +***** This file should be named 36687-h.htm or 36687-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/6/8/36687/ + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire + +Author: Ella Mills + +Release Date: July 10, 2011 [EBook #36687] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCH OF DUNBARTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + + + + + +[Illustration: (front cover)] + + + + + + +SKETCH OF DUNBARTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. + +BY MISS ELLA MILLS. + + + MANCHESTER, N. H. + MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION, + 1902. + + + + +Sketch of Dunbarton, N. H. + +BY ELLA MILLS. + + +Dunbarton is a town "set upon a hill which cannot be hid." The highest +point of land is on the farm of Benjamin Lord, north of the Center, and +is 779 feet above the sea level. From that spot, and from many other +places nearly as high, the views of hills and mountains are beautiful +and grand beyond description. + +The twin Uncanoonucs are near neighbors on the south, Monadnock, +farther off on the south-west, and Kearsarge twenty miles to the north +west. On the northern horizon are seen Mount Washington and other peaks +of the White Mountains. + +The longest hill in town is the mile-long Mills hill, and midway on +its slope live descendants of Thomas Mills, one of the first settlers. +Among other hills are Duncanowett, Hammond, Tenney, Grapevine, Harris, +Legache, and Prospect Hills. + +No rivers run through the town, but there are numerous brooks where +trout fishing is pursued with more or less success. + +No body of water is large enough to be called a lake, but Gorham Pond +is a beautiful sheet of water and on its banks picnics are held. +Stark's and Kimball's Ponds have furnished water power for mills, the +latter, owned by Willie F. Paige, is still in use. Long Pond, in the +south part of the town, was the scene of a tragedy in 1879, when Moses +Merrill, an officer at the State Industrial School, Manchester, was +drowned in an ineffectual attempt to save an inmate of that institution. + +One portion of the south part of the town is called Skeeterboro, +another Mountalona, so named by James Rogers, one of the first +settlers, from the place in Ireland from whence he came.[1] East of the +Center is Guinea, so called because some negroes once lived there. The +village of North Dunbarton is also called Page's Corner; and not far +away to the eastward is a hill known as Onestack, because one large +stack of hay stood there for many years. A brook bears the same name. + +Those who know Dunbarton only in the present can hardly realize that +1450 people ever lived there at one time, but that was the census in +1820. The first census, taken 1767, was 271. In 1840 it was 1067; in +1890, only 523. The last census gave about 575. + +The first settlement was made in 1740[2] by James Rogers and Joseph +Putney on the land known as the "Great Meadows," now owned by James M. +Bailey. They were driven away by the Indians for a time. A stone now +marks the spot where stood the only apple tree spared by the Indians. +Probably the first boy born in town belonged to one of these families. +James Rogers was shot by Ebenezer Ayer, who mistook him in the dark for +a bear, as he wore a bearskin coat. He was the father of Major Robert +Rogers, celebrated as the leader of the ranger corps of the French and +Indian wars. + +About 1751 William Stinson, John Hogg, and Thomas Mills settled in the +west part of the town. Sarah, daughter of Thomas Mills, was the first +girl born in town. Her birthplace was a log cabin on the farm now owned +by John C. and George F. Mills. + +For fourteen years the town was called Starkstown in honor of Archibald +Stark, one of the first land owners (though not a resident), and father +of General John Stark. In 1765 the town was incorporated, and was +named, with a slight change, for Dumbarton[3] in Scotland near which +place Stark and other emigrants had lived. + +Dunbarton was one of the towns taken from Hillsborough County to +form the County of Merrimack. Its centennial was duly celebrated +and attended by a vast concourse of invited guests and towns people. +A report of its proceedings was compiled by Rev. Sylvanus Hayward. +Though small in area and population, Dunbarton occupies a large place +in the hearts of its sons and daughters. However dear our adopted homes +may become, we still feel that "whatever skies above us rise the hills, +the hills are home." + +At the centennial Rev. George A. Putnam paid a glowing tribute to his +native town, saying: "Dunbarton is one of the most intelligent and best +educated communities in New England. I think it will be hard to find +another place where, in proportion to its population, so many young +men have been liberally educated and have entered some of the learned +professions, where so many young men and women have become first class +teachers of common schools. My own observation has been altogether in +favor of Dunbarton in this particular. And it is clear as any historic +fact the superior education of Dunbarton's children has been largely +due to her religious institutions and Christian teachers." + +That the town is also honored by her neighbors is shown by the +following instances: Many years ago it was said that a Dartmouth +student from an adjoining town, when asked from what town he came, +answered: "From the town next to Dunbarton." Recently the chairman of +the school board in Goffstown, in his annual report, compared the town +favorably to Dunbarton with regard to the number of college graduates. + +Very soon after the permanent settlement of the town, a committee was +appointed to build a meeting-house at Dunbarton Center. It was finished +previous to 1767, and stood in the middle of the common. Before that +time it is related that "Mr. McGregor preached in the open air, on +the spot now consecrated as the resting place of the dead." This first +building was a low, frame structure, without pews, with seats of rough +planks resting on chestnut logs, and a pulpit constructed of rough +boards. It was replaced in about twenty years by the building now known +as the Town House. This was used only for political purposes after the +erection of the third church on the west side of the highway. + +About thirty years ago the interior of the old building was greatly +changed, the upper part being made into a hall while the square pews +were removed from the lower part, only the high pulpit remaining. A +selectmen's room was finished in one corner, and in 1892, a room for +the public library. The outside remains practically unchanged. + +The Rocky Hill Church at Amesbury, Mass., much like this at Dunbarton, +is still used in summer only. There is no way of warming it, and people +of the present day would not endure the hardships their ancestors bore +without a murmur. The third church was built in 1836 on the site of a +dwelling house owned by William Stark; in 1884 it was remodelled, the +pews modernized and the ceiling frescoed. + +The vestry formerly stood on the opposite of the common and contained +two rooms; prayer meetings were held in the lower room, while up stairs +was the only hall in town. There were held the singing schools, and the +lyceum of long ago; also several fall terms of high schools; among the +teachers were Mark Bailey, William E. Bunten, and Henry M. Putney. +More than twenty-five years ago the vestry was removed to its present +location near the church and made more convenient and attractive. + +For about nineteen years the church had no settled pastor. In 1789 +Walter Harris was called, and was ordained August 26. He preached more +than forty years. Every man in town was required to contribute to +his support for a time until some of the other religious societies +rebelled. The "History of Dunbarton" says: "Dr. Harris appropriated the +proprietors' grant for the first settled minister, and located himself +on the ministerial lot. He also, by a vote of the town, obtained the +use of the parsonage lot, with an addition of seventy pounds a year, +one-half to be paid in cash, the other in corn and rye." His farm was +in a beautiful location south of the center, and was afterwards owned +for many years by the late Deacon John Paige; it is now the property +of his son, Lewis Paige. + +In respect to his farm, buildings, fences, Dr. Harris was a model for +the town. Two men once working for him were trying to move a heavy log. +He told them how to manage according to philosophy; finally one said: +"Well, Dr. Harris, if you and your philosophy will take hold of that +end of the log while Jim and I take this end, I think we can move it." + +Dr. Harris was sometimes called the "Broad axe and sledge-hammer +of the New Hampshire ministry." He was a man of more than ordinary +intellectual endowments, and graduated from Dartmouth College with high +honors. Prof. Charles G. Burnham said in his address at the Centennial: +"The influence of the life and preaching of Dr. Harris is manifest +today in every department of your material prosperity, as well as +upon the moral and religious character of the people, and will be for +generations to come." + +Dr. Harris was dismissed July 7, 1830, and died December 25, 1843. His +successor, Rev. John M. Putnam, was installed the day Dr. Harris was +dismissed; both were remarkable extemporaneous speakers. Mr. Putnam was +called one of the best platform speakers in his profession in the State. + +At the close of his pastorate he went to reside with his son at +Yarmouth, Maine; he died in Elyria, Ohio, in 1871. He was dismissed the +day his successor, Sylvanus Hayward, was ordained. Thus for more than +77 years the church was not for one day without a settled pastor. Mr. +Hayward was born in Gilsum, N. H., and has written a history of his +native town; he was dismissed April, 1866. His successors were Revs. +George I. Bard, William E. Spear, who is now a lawyer in Boston, and +at present Secretary of the Spanish War Claim Commission, James Wells +now deceased, Tilton C. H. Bouton, grandson of Rev. Dr. Nathaniel +Bouton, for many years pastor of the North Church, Concord, N. H., +George Sterling, Avery K. Gleason, and William A. Bushee. During Mr. +Bouton's pastorate a parsonage was built in the north part of the +village on land given by Deacon Daniel H. Parker. + +The first deacons were chosen in 1790, and were James Clement and +Edward Russell. Others were Samuel Burnham, David Alexander, John +Church, Matthew S. McCurdy, John Wilson, John Mills, Samuel Burnham +(a namesake of the first of the name), who with Daniel H. Parker served +for many years. They were succeeded by Frederic L. Ireland and Frank C. +Woodbury, the present incumbents. + +Church discipline was very strict in ye olden time. What would the +people of the present day think of being called to account for such a +small matter as this? "A complaint was presented to the church by one +brother against another for un-Christian-like behavior in suffering +himself to be carried in a light and vain manner upon a man's shoulders +to the length of a quarter of a mile. The church accepted the complaint, +and summoned the brother before it. He appeared, confessed his fault +and was pardoned." + +Deacon McCurdy was noted for his strictness in keeping the Sabbath. No +food could be cooked in the house on that day, and no work done at the +barn except milking and feeding the stock. He once, however, mistook +the day of the week, and took a grist to mill on Sunday, while his wife +began the Saturday's baking. On arriving at the mill, he, of course, found +it closed, and on going to the miller's house, he learned his mistake. +He was so shocked that he would not leave his grist, but carried it back +home. + +The Baptist Church was organized in Mountalona in 1828. The first +meeting house was built by Aaron Elliot, and Isaac Westcott was the +first pastor. In the Spring of 1847 meetings were held at the Center; +Rev. John W. Poland (since famous as the maker of "White Pine Compound") +preached during that season. The next year a church was built. + +The pastors were Revs. H. D. Hodges (who, with Rev. John Putnam, +compiled a grammar), Samuel Cook, Horace Eaton, Jesse M. Coburn, +Washington Coburn, John Peacock (as a supply), Stephen Pillsbury, +Timothy B. Eastman, Elias Whittemore, Samuel Woodbury, Adoniram J. +Hopkins, Dr. Lucien Hayden, J. J. Peck, Charles Willand, and the +present incumbent, S. H. Buffam. This list may not be exactly correct. +At intervals no services have been held. Nathaniel Wheeler, John O. +Merrill and John Paige were deacons for many years. In 1899 the house +was painted and otherwise improved. + +The old house at Mountalona was used at times by the Baptists. Methodist +services were also held there. It was burned about seventeen years ago. + +A Universalist society was formed in 1830 by Nathan Gutterson, Joshua +F. Hoyt, Silas Burnham, Alexander Gilchrist and others and services +were held in the old Congregational Church. Rev. Nathan R. Wright +preached here for four years and lived in a house near the late John C. +Ray's which was burned about 30 years ago. It was afterwards known as +the Hope house from Samuel B. Hope, one of the owners. Mr. Wright was +the father of Hon. Carroll D. Wright who was born in 1840. The family +removed from town when he was three years of age. + +In 1864 or 1865 Episcopal Church services were held by clergymen +from St. Paul's School in school houses in the west part of the town, +afterwards in the Hope house. In the summer of 1866 the corner stone +of the church was laid on land given by the Misses Stark. The money to +build the church was collected by their grand niece, Miss Mary Stark, a +devoted churchwoman, who died in 1881. The church is a lasting memorial +of her. It is a beautiful building with a seating capacity of 110. The +fine chancel window was given by the father of the Rector of St. Paul's +School. The church was consecrated in 1868, and named the Church of St. +John the Evangelist. For about fourteen years the services were in +charge of Rev. Joseph H. Coit, the present rector of St. Paul's School. +He was succeeded by Rev. Edward M. Parker, a master of the school, +who with the assistance of Mr. William W. Flint, lay preacher, holds +services in Dunbarton and East Weare. In 1890 the church was taken down +and re-erected in North Dunbarton on land given by David Sargent south +of the school-house, in front of a beautiful pine grove. A service of +re-dedication was held December 15, 1890. Frank B. Mills was organist +and leader of the singing with only a short interval until his removal +from town in 1895. The organist at the present time is Miss Sara E. +Perkins. + +After the removal of the church, a brass tablet in memory of the Misses +Harriet and Charlotte Stark was placed therein by Rev. Joseph H. Coit. + +Dunbarton has had many fine musicians within her borders. Col. Samuel +B. Hammond led the singing in the Congregational Church for a long term +of years, resigning in 1875. The choir was formerly large and numbered +among its members Mrs. Elizabeth (Whipple) Brown, her daughter, Mrs. +Agnes French, Olive Caldwell, now Mrs. Morrill of Minnesota, the +daughters of the late Deacon Parker, Mrs. Harris Wilson, Nathaniel T. +Safford, William S. Twiss, and others. + +Before the advent of the cabinet organ instrumental music was furnished +by a double bass viol played by Harris Wilson, a single bass-viol +played by Eben Kimball, a melodeon played by Andrew Twiss, and one or two +violins. When the church was remodeled the organ and choir were removed +from the gallery to a place beside the pulpit. Mrs. Mary (Wilson) Bunten +is now organist. For several years a quartette, consisting of William +S. Twiss, Frank B. Mills, Horace Caldwell, and Frederic L. Ireland sang +most acceptably on many occasions, especially furnishing appropriate +music at funerals, until the removal from town of Mr. Twiss in 1884. +At various times singing schools were taught by Eben Kimball, Joseph +C. Cram of Deerfield, "Uncle Ben" Davis of Concord, and at Page's Corner, +by Frank B. Mills. + +The first School houses in town were few and far between, with no free +transportation as practiced at the present time. + +Hon. Albert S. Batchellor, of Littleton, in searching the columns of a +file of old newspapers recently, came across the following which will +be of interest to Dunbarton people: + + + "Dunbarton May ye 15, 1787. + + We the subscribers Promise to pay to Mrs. Sarah Ayers Young three + shillings per week for five Months to Teach school seven or Eight + Hours Each Day Except Sunday & Saturday half a day, to be paid + in Butter at half Pifterreen per lb. flax the same or Rie at + 4 shillings, Corn at 3s. Each. Persons to pay their Proportion to + what scollers they sign for Witness Our Hands. Thomas Hannette + 2 Scollers Thomas Husse 1 Jameson Calley 2 Andrew foster 1 John + Bunton 3 John Fulton 2." + + +Before 1805 Dunbarton had three school districts. The first house was +at the Center. Rev. Abraham W. Burnham, of Rindge, in response to the +toast, "Our Early Inhabitants," at the Centennial, said: "My brother +Samuel, when so young that my mother was actually afraid the bears +would catch him, walked two miles to school." This same boy was the +first college graduate from town, in the class of 1795. Robert Hogg, +called Master Hogg, was the first male teacher, and Sarah Clement the +first female teacher. + +Another teacher of the long ago was Master John Fulton, who lived on +the farm now owned by John W. Farrar. In those days pupils often tried +to secure a holiday by "barring out" the teacher on New Year's Day. +More than once Master John Fulton found himself in this situation. On +one occasion he went to one of the neighbors where he borrowed a tall +white hat and a long white coat with several capes. Thus disguised +he mounted a white horse and rode rapidly to the school house. The +unsuspecting pupils rushed to the door, when, quick as thought, Master +Fulton sprang from the horse, entered the school house and called the +school to order. At another time, while teaching in a private house +in Bow, finding himself "barred out," he entered a chamber window by +a ladder, removed some loose boards from the floor (the house being +unfinished) and descended among his astonished pupils. Dr. Harris +regularly visited the schools, and catechised the children; he prepared +many young men for college and directed the theological studies of those +fitting for the ministry. + +Many clergymen of the town served on the school committee. Districts +increased in number till there were eleven. In 1867 the town system +was adopted, and the number of schools reduced to four or five. +Notwithstanding the short terms, the long distances, and lack of +text-books (now provided by the town), Dunbarton has produced many fine +scholars, and has provided a large number of teachers for her own and +other schools. + +I think no family has furnished as many educated members as the +Burnhams. A short time prior to 1775 Deacon Samuel Burnham came from +Essex, Mass., to the south part of Dunbarton. Of his thirteen children, +four sons graduated at Dartmouth College. In 1865 fourteen of his grand +and great grand children were college graduates. Not all of them lived +in Dunbarton, but Samuel's son, Bradford, and most of his children +lived here. Henry Larcom, son of Bradford, was a successful teacher and +land surveyor; he represented the town in the Legislature and was also +State Senator. The last years of his life were passed in Manchester +where he died in 1893. His son, Henry Eben, is a lawyer in Manchester, +and was for a time Judge of Probate. He was born November 8, 1844, +in the Dr. Harris house, and is an honored son of Dunbarton. He was +elected United States Senator by the Legislature of 1901, for the term +of six years and succeeded Senator William E. Chandler. + +Hannah, eldest daughter of Bradford Burnham, married Samuel Burnham +from Essex, Mass.; she died in November, 1901. Her two daughters were +teachers for many years; the younger, Annie M., taught in Illinois +and Oregon until recently. Two sons were college graduates, Josiah, +at Amherst in 1867; William H., at Harvard in 1882. The latter is +instructor in Clark University, Worcester, and a writer and lecturer +of great ability. A daughter of his brother, Samuel G. Burnham of St. +Louis, graduated from Washington University with high honors, ranking +second in a class of eighty-two. + +Three sons of Henry Putney were students at Dartmouth College, though +the second son, Frank, did not graduate, leaving college to enter the +army in 1861. + +Thirty or more of the sons of Dunbarton graduated at Dartmouth College, +while ten or twelve others took a partial course. John Gould, Jr., and +Abel K. Wilson, died at college, Three graduated at Wabash College, +Indiana, two at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and one each at +Yale, Harvard, and Amherst Colleges, and Brown University. It is said +that at one time there were more students from Dunbarton in Dartmouth +College than from any other town in the State. + +There have been several graduates from Normal Schools, Ralph Ireland +and Ethel Jameson from the school at Bridgewater, Mass. The former is +now teaching in Gloucester, Mass., and the latter in Boston, Mass. Ella +and Leannette L. Mills (the latter the daughter of Leroy R. Mills), +graduated from the school at Salem, Mass. Lydia Marshall, now holding +a government position in Washington, D. C., Mary Caldwell (now Mrs. +Aaron C. Barnard), and Lizzie Bunten (now Mrs. James P. Tuttle, of +Manchester), took a partial or whole course at the school at Plymouth, +N. H. Louise Parker and Mary A. Stinson graduated at Kimball Academy, +Meriden, N. H. Many others have been students at McCollom Institute, +Mount Vernon, Pembroke, and other academies, and several have taken the +course at the Concord High School. Among the teachers of the long ago +may be named Antoinette Putnam, Lizzie and Ann Burnham, Jane Stinson, +Nancy Stinson, Sarah and Marianne Parker, and Susan and Margaret +Holmes. The list is too long for further mention. + +Among college graduates who made teaching their life work were William +Parker, who died in Winchester, Illinois, in 1865; Caleb Mills, who was +connected with Wabash College, Indiana, from 1833 until his death in +1879. He was greatly interested in the cause of education, and was +known as the father of public schools in Indiana; Joseph Gibson Hoyt, +who was called the most brilliant son Dunbarton ever educated; he +taught several years in Phillips Academy, Exeter, and was Chancellor of +Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, taking charge February 4, +1859; inaugurated October 4, 1859; died November 26, 1862; Charles G. +Burnham, orator at the Centennial, in 1865, who died in Montgomery, +Alabama, in 1866; Mark Bailey, who has taught elocution at Yale since +1855, besides spending some weeks of each year in former times at +Dartmouth, Princeton, and other places. Samuel Burnham, the first +graduate, should have been mentioned earlier. He was principal of the +academy at Derry for many years; William E. Bunten taught in Atkinson, +N. H., Marblehead, Mass., and in New York, where he died in 1897; +Matthew S. McCurdy, grandson and namesake of Deacon McCurdy, is +instructor at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Although not a college +student, John, brother of Thomas and James F. Mills, spent many years +in teaching in Ohio and West Virginia; he died in 1879. Among those who +have been both teachers and journalists are Amos Hadley of Concord, +Henry M. Putney, now on the editorial staff of the Manchester _Daily_ +and _Weekly Mirror_; William A. (brother of Henry M.) who died some +years ago in Fairmount, Nebraska; and John B. Mills, now at Grand +Rapids, Michigan. George H. Twiss, of Columbus, Ohio, has been a +teacher, superintendent of schools, and proprietor of a bookstore. + +Of the native clergymen, Leonard S. Parker is probably the oldest now +living. He has held several pastorates, and is now assistant pastor of +the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass. One of the early college +graduates was Isaac Garvin, son of Sam Garvin, whose name was a by-word +among his neighbors; "as shiftless as Sam Garvin" was a common saying. +Isaac obtained his education under difficulties which would have +discouraged most men, and at first even Dr. Harris thinking it not +worth while to help him. He probably studied divinity with Dr. Harris, +and was ordained in the Congregational Church, but late in life took +orders in the Episcopal Church in New York. There were two Rev. Abraham +Burnhams, uncle and nephew, and Rev. Amos W. Burnham, whose only pastorate +was Rindge where he preached forty-six years. Thomas Jameson held +pastorates in Scarborough and Gorham, Maine; he was blind during his +last years. Charles H. Marshall preached in various places in Indiana, +and died nearly thirty years ago. Ephraim O. Jameson held several +pastorates; he is now retired and living in Boston. He has compiled +several genealogies and town histories. Rev. George A. Putnam, son of +the second pastor of the church in Dunbarton, preached for several +years in Yarmouth, Maine, then went to Millbury, Mass., in 1871, where +he still resides--an unusually long pastorate in these times. John P. +Mills is preaching in Michigan. + +Of the native Baptist ministers were Hosea Wheeler, Harrison C. Page, +who died at Newton Theological Seminary just before the completion of +his course, and who gave promise of great ability; and the brothers +Joel and Christie Wheeler who entered the ministry without a collegiate +education, and both preached in Illinois. + +Though the people of Dunbarton are too peaceable and honest to need +the services of a lawyer, at least a dozen young men entered the legal +profession. One of the earliest college graduates, Jeremiah Stinson, +having studied law, opened an office in his native town, but devoted +the most of his time to agriculture. He met with an accidental death at +the age of thirty-six years. Among those who continued to practice law +were John Burnham in Hillsborough, John Jameson in Maine, John Tenney +in Methuen, Mass., Judge Joseph M. Cavis in California, David B. +Kimball in Salem, Mass., Newton H. Wilson in Duluth, Minn., and Henry +E. Burnham in Manchester. Only the three last named are now living. + +The people of Dunbarton are proud of the fact that there has been no +resident physician in town for more than forty years. The last, a Dr. +Gilson, was here for a short time only. Dr. Dugall was probably the +first; while others were Doctors Symnes Sawyer, Clement, Mighill, +Stearns, and Merrill. + +True Morse was a seventh son; so was Rev. Mr. Putnam, but he refused to +use his supposed powers. Among the native physicians were Abram B. Story, +who died not long since in Manchester, William Ryder, John L. Colby, +Gilman Leach, David P. Goodhue, a surgeon in the Navy, John and Charles +Mills. The two last named practiced in Champaign, Illinois, and were +living there when last heard from. William Caldwell is well remembered +as a veterinary surgeon. + +Of dentists we may name John B. Prescott, D. D. S., of Manchester, a +graduate of Pennsylvania Dental College, and the late Dr. Edward Ryder +of Portsmouth. + +Nothwithstanding this exodus of professional men and others, many good +and wise men made the place their home. Deacon John Mills was town +treasurer for thirty-five years, selectman twenty-two years, and +representative eight years. He built the house afterwards owned by his +son-in law, Deacon Daniel H. Parker, who was also a good citizen; as +Justice of the Peace, he transacted much law business and settled many +estates; he held many town offices, was a thrifty farmer, and +accumulated a large fortune. + +Henry Putney, of the fourth generation from the first settler of that +name, was another strong man, who with Deacon Parker and Eliphalet +Sargent formed a board of selectmen in the troubled times of the Civil +War, that did good service for the town. His only daughter is the wife +of Nahum J. Bachelder, secretary of State Board of Agriculture. He had +six sons, five of whom are now living. + +The name of Oliver Bailey has been known in town for several generations. +The present representative of that name is one of the elder men of the +town, a thrifty farmer, and was formerly in company with his son, George +O. Bailey, a cattle dealer on a large scale. His brother, James M. Bailey, +still owns part of the paternal acres. Their father, Oliver Bailey, +removed late in life, to Bow Mills, where he died in 1889. John C. Ray +owned a beautiful home in the west part of the town; he was superintendent +of the State Industrial School in Manchester for about twenty-five years +before his death in 1898. + +The brothers, Captain Charles and William C. Stinson, were wealthy farmers +in the south part of the town; the former removed to Goffstown, and his +farm is owned by Philander Lord. The house is probably one of the oldest +in town. The last years of William C. Stinson were spent in Manchester. +Harris E. Ryder was the first Master of Stark Grange which was organized +in October, 1874. His buildings were burned in 1875, and not long +afterwards he located in Bedford, where he died. His brother, Charles G. +B. Ryder, served on the school committee for several years. He removed to +Manchester many years ago and was engaged in the real estate business for +many years; he died there several years ago. The buildings on his farm +were burned in July, 1899. + +Major Caleb, son of General John Stark, built a house in the west part +of the town which is still owned by the family and is filled with +interesting relics. His son, Caleb, was the author of the "History of +Dunbarton," published in 1860. He and two unmarried sisters spent much +time here, the last survivor, Miss Charlotte, dying in 1889, aged about +ninety years. She was a fine specimen of the old time gentlewoman, much +given to hospitality. The place is now owned in part by her grand +nephew, Charles F. M. Stark, a descendant on the mother's side from +Robert Morris, the great financier of Revolutionary times. His only +son, John McNiel Stark, graduated from Holderness School, June, 1900. +The Stark cemetery is a beautiful and well-kept resting place of the +dead. Besides Stark, the names of Winslow, Newell, and McKinstry are +seen on the headstones. Benjamin Marshall, and his son, Enoch, were +prominent men in town. Many other names should be mentioned, but space +forbids. + +The daughters of Dunbarton are not less worthy of mention than her +sons. Some of the teachers have already been mentioned. Another was +Marianne, sister of Deacon Parker, who married a Doctor Dascomb and +went with him to Oberlin, Ohio, where he became professor of chemistry +in Oberlin College. She was lady principal. It was said that there were +two saints in the Oberlin calendar, President Finney and Mrs. Dascomb. +Three of her sisters married ministers. Ann married Rev. Isaac Bird, +and went with him to Turkey as a missionary; and Emily married Rev. +James Kimball of Oakham, Mass.; and Martha, Rev. Thomas Tenney; one of +her daughters is the wife of the late Rev. Cyrus Hamlin. Two of Deacon +Parker's daughters are the wives of ministers. Louise is Mrs. Lucien +H. Frary of Pomona, California, and Abby is Mrs. John L. R. Trask of +Springfield, Mass. Dr. Trask has been for many years trustee of Mt. +Holyoke College. + +Mary, daughter of Deacon John Mills, married Rev. Mr. William Patrick +of Boscawen; Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, President of the American College +for Girls at Constantinople, is her step daughter and namesake. Sarah, +daughter of Benjamin Marshall, married Caleb Mills who studied theology, +though his life work was teaching. Mary F., daughter of Deacon John Paige, +married Rev. David Webster, now of Lebanon, Maine. Mary L., daughter of +John Kimball of Milford, formerly of Dunbarton, has been for more than +ten years the wife of Rev. Arthur Remington, now in Philadelphia. Perhaps +the latest addition to the list is Hannah C., eldest daughter of Horace +Caldwell, who, January, 1899, married Rev. Avery A. K. Gleason, then +pastor of the Congregational Church in Dunbarton, now Raynham, Mass. + +Mary A., daughter of Captain Charles Stinson, married Charles A. +Pillsbury, known as the flour king of Minneapolis, who died more than +a year ago. + +Though the rough and rocky soil is poorly adapted to cultivation, +Dunbarton is, and always has been, emphatically a farming town. Yet +a long list of mechanics might be given. Carpenters, blacksmiths, +painters and masons still ply their trades, but the mill-wrights, +shoemakers, tanners, coopers, tailors, tailoresses, and pump makers +are people of the past. Less than fifty years ago a tannery was in +operation at the place owned by Benjamin Fitts, and a good sized pond +covered the space opposite the house of Justus Lord. It was used on +several occasions by the Baptists as a place of immersion. + +William Tenney was the carpenter who built the town hall; Captain +Samuel Kimball, the present Congregational Church, and many dwelling +houses. Others were the work of John Leach. The man now living who has +done more of this work than any other is John D. Bunten, whose work has +always been done in a thorough manner. + +The stone blacksmith shop of Jonathan Waite has been used by three +generations, now only for the family work. John B. Ireland still uses +the shop of his father, while Lauren P. Hadley's specialty is iron work +on wagons. During the past few years much timber has been removed by +the aid of portable steam mills. + +The first store in town was kept by Major Caleb Stark at Page's Corner. +He had several successors, among them being Jeremiah Page and John +Kimball. At the Center I find, in the "History of Dunbarton," a long +list of store-keepers, among whom was David Tenney, one of whose +ledgers is still preserved, where the entries of New England rum sold +to the most respectable citizens are as numerous as tea and coffee +now-a-days. + +Deacon Burnham kept the store for many years, and later Thomas Wilson +and his son Oliver kept the store. The latter also did considerable +business as a photographer for a time. His son in-law, John Bunten, is +the present proprietor of the store. The business has increased greatly +with the sending out of teams to take orders and deliver goods in +various parts of the town. + +Among the successful business men who have left town may be named Lyman +W. Colby, who was a successful photographer in Manchester for more than +thirty years, and whose recent sudden death is greatly to be deplored +by his many friends; John C. Stinson, a merchant of Gloucester, N. J.; +Samuel G. Burnham of St. Louis, Missouri; and the late Fred D. Sargent, +owner of a restaurant in St. Paul, Minn., where he furnished meals to +500 people daily, and to many more on extra occasions. He had also a +branch establishment at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of which his brother, +Frank H. Sargent is manager. For several years a newspaper was published +by Oscar H. A. Chamberlen, called _The Snow-Flake_, afterwards _The +Analecta_. + +The first library in town was kept at the house of Benjamin Whipple, +and was called the Dunbarton Social Library. Some of the books are +still preserved. A parish library, containing many valuable works, was +collected by Miss Mary Stark, and was for many years the source of +pleasure and profit to the attendants at St. John's Church. Some years +after her death the books were given to a Library Association, formed +at the Center, which in turn was merged with the Public Library, +founded in 1892, of which Miss Hannah K. Caldwell was, till her +marriage, the efficient librarian. The position is now filled by Mabel +Kelly. A library is also owned by Stark Grange. + +For the past thirty years or more, many summer boarders have come to +Dunbarton. The houses of James M. Bailey, William B. Burnham, and Peter +Butterfield, were well filled for several years, while at many other +places some people were accommodated. At the present time two houses at +the Center, owned by Henry P. Kelly, are filled every summer; also the +house of Frank C. Woodbury, the former home of Deacon Parker on the +"hill beautiful," where "glorious golden summers wax and wane, where +radiant autumns all their splendors shed." + +The pure air of Dunbarton seems to be conducive to long life. Two +citizens passed the century mark. Mrs. Joseph Leach died in 1849, aged +102 years, 9 months. Mrs. Achsah P. (Tenney) Whipple lived to the age +of 100 years, 9 months. Her centennial birthday was celebrated June 28, +1886, by a large gathering of relatives and friends. Her only daughter +married Joseph A. Gilmore, for many years Superintendent of the Concord +Railroad, and also Governor of New Hampshire. Her grand daughter was +the first wife of Hon. William E. Chandler, who, doubtless, has pleasant +recollections of his visits to his betrothed at the home of her +grandparents. + +Among the residents of the town who attained the age of 90 years or +more were Mrs. Mary Story, 98 years, 4 months, 12 days; Mrs. Ann C., +widow of Deacon John Wilson, 98 years; Deacon John Church, 97 years; +Mrs. Abigail (Burnham) Ireland, 94 years; There were several others +whose ages I do not know. Mr. and Mrs. Guild, near the Bow line, I +think were over 90 years. Many have passed the age of 80 years. Deacon +Samuel Burnham is now 88 years; he and his wife lived together more +than 63 years. Mr. and Mrs. James Stone lived together more than 65 +years. Mrs. Stone survived her husband only a few weeks. Colonel Samuel +B. Hammond and wife celebrated their golden wedding in 1892. + +Stark Grange is the only secret society in town, though some individuals +belong to societies in adjoining towns. The membership of Stark Grange +is about ninety. + +The patriotism of the town has always been unquestioned. + +Dunbarton has sent her sons to battle for the right in every war. +Seventeen men took part in the French and Indian War, including Major +Robert Rogers, and other men by the names of Rogers, Stark, McCurdy, +and others. + +In the Revolutionary Army were fifty-seven from Dunbarton, including +the brothers John and Thomas Mills, William Beard, and others. Caleb +Stark, afterwards a resident, though very young, was with his father +at Bunker Hill. + +Henry L. Burnham used to tell a story of a cave on the farm which was +his home for many years (now owned by John Haynes) which once sheltered +a deserter from the Revolutionary Army. The man afterwards went to the +northern part of the State, and at the very hour of his death, during a +heavy thunder shower, the entrance to the cave was closed so completely +that the most diligent search has failed to discover any trace of it. + +In the war of 1812, eleven enlisted, and twelve were drafted. Probably +Benjamin Bailey was the last survivor. Among those who went to the +Mexican War were Benjamin Whipple and Charles G. Clement. + +Dunbarton sent more than fifty men to the Civil War; several sent +substitutes. To three men were given captain's commissions, namely, +William E. Bunten, Henry M. Caldwell, who died of fever in Falmouth, +Va., in 1862, and Andrew J. Stone, who was killed at the Battle of the +Wilderness in 1864. Marcus M. Holmes returned a lieutenant and Horace +Caldwell was orderly sargeant; Wilbur F. Brown died of starvation at +Andersonville, and Benjamin Twiss narrowly escaped a like fate at Libby +Prison. He was suffocated in a mine in the Far West not very long ago. + +Two young men went to the Spanish-American War who were born in +Dunbarton, and had lived here the larger part of their lives, namely, +William J. Sawyer, who enlisted in the New Hampshire Regiment from +Concord, and Fred H. Mills, who enlisted at Marlboro, Mass., in the +Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. He died in Goffstown, June 26, 1900, of +disease contracted in the army. + +No railroad touches the town, and probably never will, but an electric +car route over the hill has been prophesied. + +The mail has always come by way of Concord, and the carrier's wagon has +furnished transportation for many people. Hon. William E. Chandler drove +the mail wagon for a time some fifty years ago. The postoffice was +first established in 1817, at the Center; another at North Dunbarton +in 1834; a third at East Dunbarton in 1883. In 1899 the free rural +delivery system was adopted, giving general satisfaction to the +residents. + +I have written chiefly of the past history of the town, but I think I +may say that the people of the present day are endeavoring to maintain +as good a reputation as their ancestors. + + * * * * * + + + + +Footnotes + + +[Footnote 1: The early writers generally credited James Rogers with +being of Scotch-Irish nativity, owing to the fact that he was confused +with another person of the same name, who lived in Londonderry. (See +Drummond's "James Rogers of Dunbarton and James Rogers of Londonderry.") +The Dunbarton Rogers was undoubtedly of English birth, in which case the +term "Mountalona," or "Montelonv," must have had some other derivation +than that commonly ascribed to it.--EDITOR.] + +[Footnote 2: Probably 1739, and the Rogers family at least came from +Massachusetts. This with the Putney or Pudney family seem to have been +located in the winter of 1839-1840.--EDITOR.] + +[Footnote 3: From Dumbritton, the ancient name given to a fort raised +by the Brittons on the north bank of the Clyde in early +times.--EDITOR.] + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, by Ella Mills + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKETCH OF DUNBARTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE *** + +***** This file should be named 36687.txt or 36687.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/6/8/36687/ + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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