1907 antique SALEM nh HISTORY GENEALOGY foldout MAP indian gar portraits rev war

Description: 1907 antique SALEM nh HISTORY GENEALOGY foldout MAP indian gar portraits rev warSCROLL DOWN for MORE PHOTOS in DESCRIPTION Click HERE to view or search ANTIQUE.COTTAGE listings. This listing is for History of Salem, NH. Compiled and written by Edgar Gilbert. Concord, NH: Rumford Printing Company, 1907. Thick heavy hardcover. History of Salem, N.H.by Gilbert, Edgar, 1875-Publication date 1907 Topics Salem (N.H. : Town) -- History, Salem (N.H. : Town) -- BiographyPublisher Concord, N.H. : Rumford Printing Co. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION.Early History of New England — Council of Plymouth — Mason and Gorges — The Two Conflicting Grants — Appeal to the King — Final Settlement of Province Line — Masonian Proprietors — Wheelwright's Deed 4 CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHY. Location and Size — Villages — Elevations — Water Courses — Spicket River — Captain's Pond — Hitty Titty Pond — Canobie Lake — World's End Pond — Soil and Vegetation . 16 CHAPTER II. SETTLEMENT. Early History of Haverhill — Indian Deed — Granting of Land — Fourth Division Lots — Satchwell's Pond — Source of First Settlers of Salem(?)— First Schools— Wolves — Indian Troubles — Highways — Church Matters — Govern- ment— Proprietors and Non-commoners — Methuen Set Off 31 CHAPTER III. BUILDING THE TOWN. Spicket Hill Petition— North Parish Set Off— First Officers of the Parish — Parsonage Grant — Meetinghouse Raised — First Settled Minister — Burial Ground Laid Out — Church Difficulties — Division of the Parish— Petitions for Township— Salem Incorporated — First Town Officers — Alterations in the Lines — Windham — Atkinson Controversy — Seeking New Grants — Quit Claim Deed of 1759 — The Pound 70 CHAPTER IV. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. Congregational — Baptist — Methodist — North Salem M. E. Church— First M. E. Church— Pleasant St. M. E. Church — Miscellaneous Religious Notes — Cemeteries and Funerals 129 CHAPTER V. CIVIL AND POLITICAL HISTORY. Early Census Returns — First Tax List — Tax List of 1800 — Affairs at the Town House — Liquor Traffic — Town House Condemned — New Building Proposed — Political Notes — Division of Counties — State and National Organization— Town Politics — Fremont Campaign — List of Selectmen— List of Representatives — Senators — Postoffice and Mail Service — One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary— Paupers — Town Farm — Water Works — Hose Companies ... ...... 155 CHAPTER VI. EDUCATIONAL MATTERS. First Schools — Early Teachers — Houses Built — Districts Established — History of the Buildings — Old Districts Abolished— Superintending Committee — Extracts from Reports — High School — Salem Social Library — Public Library . 207 CHAPTER VII. MILITARY HISTORY. Lake George Expedition — Boys of '76 — Bunker Hill — Recruiting Companies — "Association Test " — List of Revolutionary Soldiers from Salem — Committee of Safety — Robert Young Case — Captain Woodbury Imprisoned — Militia Organized— War of 1812— MiUtia Act of 1820— Salem Officers in Militia — " Salem Guards " — ^Mexican War — Outbreak of the Rebellion — Records of Soldiers from Salem . 231 CHAPTER VIII. INDUSTRIAL. Currency — Sawmills and Lumb€|r — Gristmills — Farming — Textile Industries — Hatting — Shoe Industry — Enamel Cloth— Board of Trade— Growth of the Villages . . 291 CHAPTER IX. HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES. Early Methods of Travel — ^Paths and Trails — First Roads — Oldest Bridge in Salem — Layiug Out Roads — Londonderry Turnpike — Taverns on Turnpike — Macadam Roads — Washouts — Other Taverns — Railroad Built — Electric Railway Line Opened ....... 310 CHAPTER X. ORGANIZATIONS. Masons — United Order of Pilgrim Fathers — Grand Army of the Republic — Women's Christian Temperance Union — Patrons of Husbandry — Women's Relief Corps — New England Order of Protection — Junior Order United American Mechanics — Daughters of Liberty — Miscellaneous Organizations 334 CHAPTER XI. HISTORICAL TALES. Widow Harris' Loom — Granny Ober's Witchery — Tavern Tales — An Aged Teacher — Tales of Capt. Israel Woodbury— First Baldwin Apple Tree in New Hampshire — Odd Items — Kissing and Quilting Parties — Bird Shoot — Mary Campbell 347 CHAPTER XII. KEY TO HISTORICAL MAP . .362- CHAPTER XIII. BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL. Biographies — Tables of Births, Marriages and Deaths, from Town Records and Other Sources .... 422 INDEX OF NAMES. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAITS. Abbott, Daniel A 428 Ayer, James 1 Bailey, Stephen 68 Buxton, Fred C 104 Cate, Edwin G 185 Cluff, Aaion Milton 36 Cluff, Isaac Newton 272 Coburn, EUphalet 168 Cole, Hon. WaUace W 200 Crowell, William G Frontispiece Davis, Frank D 144 Duston, Ebenezer 188 Duston, Thomas 340 Emery, David S 201 Ewins, James 173 Gilbert, Edgar 4 Gordon, George C 261 Gordon, Howard L 128 Hall, Alvah 24 Hall, Arthur 113 Hall, Clarence 160 Hall, Clifton 336 Hall, Prescott C 313 Hall, L. Wallace 368 Kelley, Gilman D 48 Kelley, Mrs. Walter B 429 Kimball, Charles A 184 Kimball, Four Generations 440 Kimball, William B 144 Lancaster, Thomas D 349 Lancaster, William E 125 Pulver, Willis Du Bois 180 Sikorsky, Dr. Vladimir N 224 Smith, Smiley 432 Smith, Mrs. Smiley 424 Soule, Dr. Lewis F 164 Taylor, Daniel 329 Taylor, Henry P 208 Taylor, John 433 Taylor, John Jr 45 Taylor, Levi W 444 Taylor, Hon. Matthew H 197 Tenney, John F 108 Thom, Darius M 67 Thorn, George W 216 Thom, Isaac 245 Wheeler, Hon. Benjamin R . . 268 Wheeler, John R 252 Wheeler, Hon. John W 176 Wilson, Frank D 80 Woodbury, George ........ 361 Woodbury, Hon. Frank P 72 Woodbury, Isaac . 13 Woodbury, John . . 92 Woodbury, Levi . 357 Woodbury, Oliver G 352 RESIDENCES. Atwood, John P. . Austin, Moses Ayer, James Ayer, Philip Bod well, Warren N. Bradford, WiUiam Brady, John F. Chase, Benjamin . Coburn, Eliphalet . Cole, Wallace W. . Crowell, William G. Duston, David Duston, Ebenezer Duston, Obadiah Duston, Thomas Emerson, Isaac Fletcher, Samuel Goodwin, Alfred E. Gordon, Benaiah Gordon, Kimball Hall, Alvah . Hall, Arthur G. Hall, Ezra Baxter Hall, Prescott C. Hall, Silas . Hoyt, David M. Hunt, Lincoln H. Hutchins, Batchelder B. Jones, George W. Kelley, J. WilUam Kelley, S. MUton . Kimball, Charles . La Court, Peter Little, Maj. Henry Littlefield, Albert L. Lowell, John Messer, Moses Pattee, Seth J. M. Pettingill, Jonathan Robie, Mrs. Frank Rowell, Jacob Shannon, Stephen S. Sikorsky, Dr. Vladimir N. Smith, Morton E. . Smith, Smiley Taylor, Daniel Taylor, Matthew . Taylor, Matthew H. Tenney, John F. . Thorn, Darius M. . Thorn, George W. Webster, Amos N. Webster, Charles . Webster, Thomas . Wheeler, FredO. . Wheeler, John W. Woodbury, Asa Woodbury, Isaac . Woodbury, Israel . Woodbury, John . Woodbury, Levi . Woodbury, Luke . Woodbury, Richard Woodbury, Samuel MISCELLANEOUS VIEWS. Atlas Worsted Mill Baptist Church Boat House, Stillwater . Bridge near Wheeler's MiU . Canobie Lake, from Levi Woodbury's Canobie Lake Park, Main Walk Canobie Lake Park, Rustic Seat Canobie Lake, R. R. Station Carbarn .... Causeway Common .... Congregational Church . Cowbell Corner, Looking North Cowbell Corner, Old Mill Crosby Wharf, Stillwater Dam at North Salem Ewins' Store Graduates, Methuen High School Graveyard and Hearse House Graveyard, Interior View High School Pupils Hitty Titty Pond Road 28 h Hose House, No. 1 . 204 Hose House, No. 2 192 I ^ Hotel Uockingham 96 if- Lawrence Road Library . 316 . 228 r Littlefield Farm, Landscape . 356 Maple Tree, Webster Fann 169 Masonic BuUding . 372 ' M. E. Church, Center . 140 1 M. E. Church, Depot . 144 j;. M. E. Church, North Salem 137 *** MiU Site, MHlville Morrison Store New Road, near Stillwater North Pond Road, Stillwater Panorama View of Salem Center Panorama View of Salem Depot Pine Grove Cemetery . Pound .... Railroad Station, Salem Russ Shoe Factory Schoolhouses : No. 1 No. 4 . No. 6 . No. 8 . S picket Path Stillwater — A Landscape Stone Schoolhouse Tavern, Salem Center . Taylor's Mill Tower, Meadowbrook . Town House, Exterior . Town House, Interior . Wheeler's Mill . Winter Scenes : Below Point A, Looking East Center, toward North Salem XIV ILLUSTRATIONS. Winter Scenes: Electric Line, Toward Nashua 116 Looking toward Point A 339 Main Street, near Carbarn 157 Woodbury Shoe Factory 308 MAPS AND CHARTS. Grants to Mass. Bay Co. and Capt. John Mason ... 7 First Plan of Haverhill 35 Haverhill Boundaries as Originally Laid Out ... 37 Fourth Division Upland .51 Plan of Meetinghouse .90 Charter Plan of Salem 104 Petition Plan 117 Locations about 1759 122 Map of Salem Center 364 Map of Salem Depot 373 Map of Town of Salem Back Cover JAMES AYER. CONDITION: Repaired spine. Cover wear as shown. map torn. there is a partial plate. See listing description and photos. - International buyers are responsible to pay VAT or other Taxes to their countries as required.- eBAY collects and remits sales tax on behalf of several states. If you are a dealer, you can write to eBay to file a form to become tax exempt. LOC: LOC2: BOOKSHELF25-TMK-E222212BDB Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

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