1889 History of Carroll County - Table of Contents

I. The County of Carroll, page 1

Organization — Towns Included — Additions — Boundaries — Name — Strafford County — Area — Location and Boundaries — Population, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Wealth — Statistics from Census of 1880 — Financial Condition — Altitudes.

II. Geology, page 4

Rock Formations — Rock Systems — The Age of Ice — Glacial Drift — Lower Till — Upper Till — Champlain Period — Kames — Recent or Terrace Period, etc. etc.

III. Geology (Continued), page 8

Modified Drift, etc. — Saco River - Pine River — Ossipee Lake — Altitudes around Winnipiseogee Lake — Departure of the Ice Sheet — Lake Basins — Terraces — Kames — Clay — Dunes — Lake District Elevations — Conway Bowlders — The Washington Bowlder — Ordination Rock — Madison Bowlder — White Mountain Granites.

IV. Minerals, page 16

Copper — Arsenic — Galenite and Silver — Bornite — Sphalerite — Pyrite — Chalcopyrite — Arseuopyrite — Fluorite — Hematite — Magnetite — Tin — Limonite — Quartz — Beryl — Epidote — Mica — Feldspar — Tourmaline — Chiastolite — Fibrolite — Apatite — Scorodite — Calcite — Novaculite — Gold.

V. Flora, page 19

Alleghanian, Canadian, Arctic or Alpine Divisions — White-Pine — Pitch and Bed Pine — Hemlock — Oaks — Chestnut — Butternut — Elm — Maples — Birches — Beech Black and White Ash— Black, Choke, and Fire Cherries — Black Spruce — White Spruce — Balsam-Fir — American Larch — Poplar — Small Trees and Shrubs — Alpine Plants.

VI. Indian History, page 23

Aboriginal Indians — Iroquois — Mohawks — Algonquins — New England Tribes — Wigwams — Social Life. Government, and Language — Food — Religion — Taratines — War, Famine, and Plague — Nipmucks Passaconawav — Wonalancet — Kancamagus — Lovewell's Enterprises, Battle, etc. — Death of Paugus — Abenaquis — St Francis Village — Bounties for Scalps and Prisoners.

VII. Early History, page 39

The Sokokis and Pequawkets — Eastern Boundary Line — Walter Bryant's Journal — Continuation of Boundary Line — Ranging Parties and Military Occupation — Early Grants — Townships Granted — First Settlement — Early Censuses — Population, Polls, and Real Estate — Rapid Increase — Early Selectmen.

VIII. Early Land Grants, Titles, etc., page 44

Grants by James I — North Virginia — Plymouth Company — Captain John Smith — New England — Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason — Province of Maine — Laconia — First Settlement of New Hampshire — Annulling of Plymouth Charter — Death of John Mason — Litigation — Robert Tufton Mason — Governor Benning Wentworth — Twelve Proprietors and their Grants — Legislative Settlements of Mason's Grant.

IX. Early Settlers, page 50

Character of Early Settlers of New Hampshire — Concerning the Houses, Manner of Living, etc. — ''The Meeting-house" — Minister — Traveling — Labor — Children— Carroll County Pioneers — Hardships — Privations — Sufferings — Education — Dress, etc.

X. Primitive Manners and Customs, page 55

Clearing Land — Planting — First Crops — Preparation of Flax — Carding — Garments — Houses — Modes of Traveling — Food — Primitive Cooking — " Driving" — Game — Liquors — Tools — Spinning — Loom and Weaving.

XI. Roads, page 63

Indian Trails — Roads, Turnpikes, and Highways — Early Post-routes — Extracts from Governor and Lady Frances Wentworth's Letters — Return of the Governor's Road to Plymouth — A Coach and Six — Turnpikes — Canals — Railroads — Lake Navigation.

XII. Revolutionary Period and War of 1812, page 73

The Association Test — Patriotic Spirit — Colonel Poor's Regiment — Bounty and Encouragement —Names of Recruits — Colonel Badger's Return — Colonel Badger's Report to Committee of Safety — Names of Officers and Soldiers — Scouting Parties — Wakefield — Wolfeborough — Effingham — Moultonborough — Tamworth — Conway — Sandwich — Tenth and Fourteenth Regiments — War of 1812.

XIII. White Mountains, page 87

Topography — Mt Starr King Group — Mt Carter Group — Mt Washington Range — Cherry Mountain District — Mt Willey Range — Passaconaway Range — Albany Mountains — Pequawket Area — History — Mythology — First Visited — Winthrop's Account — Darby Field's Ascent — Josselyn's Description — "The Chrystal Hills" — Later Visits — Western Pass or "Notch" — First Settlement — Scientific Explorations — Scenery of the "Notch"

— Nash and Sawyer's Grant — "A Horse through the Notch" — Sawyer's Rock — First Articles of Commerce — Tenth New Hampshire Turnpike — Brackett's Account of Naming and Ascertaining the Heights — Other Scientific Visitors — Hardships of Early Settlers — First House in the "Notch" — Crawford's Cabin on the Summit — Summit House — Tip-top House — First Winter Ascent — Carriage Road — Glen House— Mt Washington Railway — Mountain Tragedies — "Among the Clouds" — Signal Station — Mt Washington Summit House.

XIV. Scenery, Attractions, Traditions, and Legends of Carroll, page 101

Observation Points: — Copple Crown — Moose Mountain — "Tumble-down Dick" — Mt Delight — Green Mountain — Mt Prospect — Pocket Hill — Batson Hill — Trask's Hill — Whiteface and Cotton Mountains — Ossipee Mountains — Mt Shaw — Ossipee Park — Whittier Peak — Uncle Tom's Hill — Red Hill — Mt Israel — Sandwich Dome — Mt Whiteface — Passaconaway — The Potash — Mt Paugus — Mt Wonalancet — Mt Chocorua — Apostrophe to Chocorus — Gow Hill — Bear Mountain — Table Mountain — Mote Mountain — Eagle and White-horse Ledges — Haystack Mountain — Cathedral Ledge — Devil's Den — Mt Attitash — Conway's Green Hills — Mt Kearsarge — Thorn Mountain — Iron Mountain — Double-head — Spruce, Black, and Sable Mountains — Baldface — Lyman, Glines, and Cragged Mountains.

XV. Scenery, Attractions, Traditions, and Legends of Carroll (Continued), page 109

Character of First Settlers — Lake Winnipiseogee — Squam Lake — Squaw Cove — Sandwich Notch — Chocorua — Paugus.

XVI. Scenery. Attractions, Traditions, and Legends of Carroll (Concluded), page 125

Champney Falls — Bear Camp River — The Great Carbuncle— Saco River — The Story of Nancy — Carter Notch — Pinkham Notch — Boott's Spur — The Crystal Cascade — Glen Ellis Falls — Goodrich Falls — Conway — Echo Lake — Diana's Bath — Artists' Brook — Thomas Starr King — The Poet Whittier.

XVII. Military History, page 134

Military Affairs in Carroll County Prior to 1861 — Soldiers in the Rebellion 1861 to 1865.

XVIII. Masonic, Odd Fellow, Medical, and Temperance Organizations, page 186

MASONIC. — Morning Star Lodge, Wolfeborough — Charter Oak Lodge, Effingham — Unity Lodge, Union — Carroll Lodge, Freedom — Red Mountain Lodge, Sandwich — Ossipee Valley Lodge. Centre Ossipee — Mount Washington Lodge, North Conway — Officers of the Grand Lodge. ODD FELLOWSHIP. — Saco Valley Lodge, North Conway — Bear Camp Lodge, Sandwich — Cold River Lodge, Tamworth — Osceola Lodge, Bartlett — Trinity Lodge, Eaton — Fidelity Lodge, Wolfeborough — Crystal Lodge, Madison — CARROLL COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — Work of the WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

XIX. Newspapers and Manufactures, Page 221

Newspapers — Charles H. Parker — Timber and Lumbering — Maple-sugar Making — Other Resources — Healthfulness — Why Manufacturers Should Locate Here — Emigration Should Tend Hitherward.

XX. State and County Officials, page 232

Delegates to Constitutional Conventions — Early Representatives — Classed Representatives — Members of Congress — State Councillors — Presidents of the Senate — State Senators — Justices of Court of Sessions — Justices of Court of Common Pleas — County Justices — Clerks of Superior Court, Court of Common Pleas, and Supreme Court — Judges of Probate — Registers of Probate and Deeds — Treasurers — Solicitors — Sheriffs — Commissioners.

XXI. Courts and County Buildings, page 238

History of the Courts — The Superior Court of Judicature — The Inferior Court of Common Pleas — The Court of General Sessions of the Peace — Probate Court — Trial Terms — Court-House — County Farm, House, and Jail.

XXII. Courts, Lawyers, and Notable Trials, page 242

Introduction — James Otis Freeman — Samuel Emerson — Samuel Peabody — Judge Charles A. Peabody — Ira A. Bean — Lawyer Everett — Robert Tibbets Blazo — William M. Weed — Nathaniel Quimby — Aaron Beede Hoyt — Neal McGaffey — John McGaffey — Judge David Hammonds Hill — Erastus P. Jewell — Henry Asa Folsom — A. Birnay Tasker — Levi Folsom — Henry C. Durgin — George P. Davis — Elbridge Fogg — Charles E. Hoag— Horace L. Hadley — William B. Fellows — Alonzo McCrillis — David McCrillis — Samuel Hidden Wentworth — Paul Wentworth — Moses J. Wentworth — George Winslow Wiggin — Alpheus B. Stickney — William Quinby — Aaron Beede, Jr — John Peavey — Zachariah Batchelder — Joseph Farrar— Charles F. Hill — William Copp Fox — Edwin Pease — George E. Beacham — Sewall W. Abbott — Joseph Tilton — David Copp, Jr — Amasa Copp — William Sawyer — Josiah Hilton Hobbs — Luther Dearborn Sawyer — George Y. Sawyer — Hon. Joshua Gilman Hall — John Paul — Amasa C. Paul — Charles Chesley — Frank Hobbs — Charles W. Sanborn — Edward A. Paul — Arthur L. Foote — Josiah Dearborn — Samuel Q. Dearborn — Hayes Lougee — John Sumner Runnells — Orestes Topliff — Nicholas O. Blaisdell — Elmer Smart — Josiah H. Hobbs — Uriah Copp, Jr — Sanborn B. Carter — Buel Clinton Carter — Samuel D. Quarles — Frank Weeks — Oliff Cecil Moulton — George Barstow French — Charles B. Gafney — Zara Cutler — Benjamin Boardman — Obed Hall — Hon. Joel Eastman — Francis Russell Chase — Charles B. Shackford — John Colby Lang Wood — John B. Nash — Frederic B. Osgood — Hon. G. W. M. Pitman — Seth Wyman Fife — John Bickford — James A. Edgerly — Conclusion — Notable Trials.

XXIII. Wolfeborough, page 279

Kingswood — Grant — Grantees — Associates —Township Defined — Wolfeborough Addition, etc. — Topography — Bays — Lake Wentworth — Ponds — Mountains— Aborigines — Name — Survey — Committee for Settling — Miles Road — Elisha Bryant — Drawing of Lots — First Mills — The Neck — First Settlers — Forfeitures — Charter — Action of Town in First Meetings — Fair — Quaint Records — Officers — Prosperity and Depression — Ammunition — Committee of Safety — Inventories of 1776 — Governor Wentworth and his Farm.

XXIV. Wolfeborough (Continued), page 296

Something about the Proprietors — Early Settlers — Early Families and their Descendants.

XXV. Wolfeborough (Continued), page 312

Revolution — Proprietors and the Land they Owned — Schools — Advancement of the Town — Wolfeborough Village about 1800 — Action of Town in Civil War — Later Chronicles — Civil List.

XXVI. Wolfeborough (Continued), page 325

Church History — Town Meeting-house — Rev. Ebenezer Allen — Congregational Church — North Wolfeborough Congregational Church — First Freewill Baptist Church — Rev. Isaac Townsend — Deacon B. F. Parker — Second Freewill Baptist Church — First Christian Church — Second Christian Church — Second Advents — First Unitarian Society — Church Buildings.

XXVII. Wolfeborough (Continued), page 347

Schools — Early Teachers — "Master Connor" — School Districts — School Committees — School Money — Wolfeborough and Tuftonborough Academy — Incorporation — Charter — Lot — Proprietors — Academy Building — Chapel — Pewholders — Trustees of Academy — Preceptors — Christian Institute — School Money for 1888 — Number of Scholars — Social Library — Brewster Free Academy — Temperance.

XXVIII. Wolfeborough (Concluded), page 356

Mills and Manufactures — Early Stores and Traders — Taverns — Hotels — Summer Boarding-houses — Insurance Company— Banks — Physicians — Fatal Casualties — Fires — Societies— Brewster Memorial Hall — Present Business Interests — "Pen Picture" — Financial Condition — Biographical Sketches.

XXIX. MOULTONBOROUGH, page 392

Location and Surveys — Grant — Names of Grantees — Bounties to Settlers — Bounties to Mill-builders — Petition of Proprietors — Incorporation — Name.

XXX. Moultonborough (Continued), page 396

Boundaries — Moultonborough Neck and Long Island — Brown Family — East Moultonborough — Moultouborough Falls — Moultonborough Corner — Red Mountain — The Cook Family — Ossipee Mountain — Ossipee Park — B. F. Shaw — Ponds and Streams — Little Winnipiseogee Pond — Red Hill River — Gristmill — Sawmill — Emery's Mills — Indian Occupancy, Relics, etc. — Early Prices.

XXXI. Moultonborough (Continued), page 401

First Town-meeting — Inventory — Division Lines — Jonathan Moulton — Moultonborough and Sandwich Social Library — Colonel Nathan Hoit — 1820 — Early Settlers and their Descendants — John Marston — Richardson Family — Smith Family — Lee Family — Evans Family — The Sturtevants — Moulton, Bean, and Ambrose Families, etc. — Early Life — Prominent Natives not Residents — Temperance Question.

XXXII. Moultonborough — (Continued), page 407

Ecclesiastical — First Meeting-house — Congregational Church— Covenant Presented — Signers — Petition in Relation to Rev. Samuel Perley — Rev. Jeremiah Shaw — Salary — Ordination — Rev. Joshua Dodge — New Church at the Corner — Methodist Church — Pastors — Freewill Baptist Church — Christian Baptists and Adventists.

XXXIII. Moultonborough (Concluded), page 410

Physicians — Business Men — Other Sketches — Action of Town in the Rebellion — Civil List.

XXXIV. Tuftonborough, page 422

Introduction — Boundaries — Description — Scenery — Township Granted — Names on First Inventory — Petition pf Woodbury Langdon — Other Petitions — Reception of Petitions, etc. — Act of Incorporation — Record of First Town-meeting — First Roads — First Settlers — Town-house — Public Library.

XXXV. Tuftonborough (Continued), page 430

Congregational Church — Methodist Episcopal Church — First Christian Church — Second Christian Church — First Freewill Baptist Church — Advent Church — Temperance — Schools.

XXXVI. Tuftonborough (Concluded), page 436

Civil War — Postoffices — Villages — Islands — Sketches — Civil List — Biographical Sketches.

XXXVII. Brookfield, page 450

Incorporation and Description — Early Settlers — First Town-meeting — Records of 1795 — Inventory of 1796 — Further Town-meetings — The Haven Farms — Religious Societies — The Great Rebellion — Business Interests, etc. — Prominent Families — Civil List.

XXXVIII. Wakefield, page 462

Wakefield — Original Name — Incorporation — Changes — Surface — Bodies of Water — Extract from Proprietors' Records — Petition for Incorporation — First Town Officers — Civil List.

XXXIX. Wakefield (Continued), page 468

Topography — Masonian Proprietors — East Town — Early Settlement — Lots — Early Settlers — Lieutenant Jonathan Gilman — Captain Jeremiah Gilman — John Horn — Captain David Copp — Deacon Simeon Dearborn — John Dearborn — Josiah Page — John Kimball — Noah Kimball — Colonel Jonathan Palmer — Andrew Gilman — Clement Steel — Benjamin Perkins — Rev. Avery Hall — Samuel Sherborn — William Moore.

XL. Wakefield (Continued), page 473

Early Settlers Continued — Samuel and Joseph Haines — Robert Hardy — Extract from Diary of Robert Hardy — Josiah Hunford — Samuel. Samuel, Jr, and Ahner Allen — Nathaniel Balch — Eliphalet Quimby — Daniel Hall — Samuel Hall — John Scribner — Reuben Lang — Jacob Lock — Weeks Family — Mayhew Clark — Nathan Mordough — Joseph Maleham — Daniel Horn — John Huggins — Benjamin Safford and others — John Wingate — Eliphalet Philbrook — Captain Robert Calder — Captain Joseph Manson — Joseph Wiggin — Richard Dow — Isaac Fellows — Nathan Dearborn — Thomas Cloutman — Benjamin and David Horn — Simeon, Isaiah, and Jacob Wiggin.

XLI. Wakefield (Continued), page 478

Wakefield in the Revolution — Extracts from Records — Signers of Association Test — Captain Gilman — Militia Officers, Requirements, and Supplies — Early Roads — Some Acts which make for Peace and Safety.

XLII. Wakefield (Continued), page 481 Transition State — Petition for Repeal of Lumber Act — Petition Relative to Arrears of Taxes — Tax List of 1795 — Town Business — War of 1812 — John Paul — Wakefield in 1817 — Extracts from Town Records and Action of Town — From 1817 to 1842

— The Poor in Town — The Mexican War — War for the Union — Action of Town in the Rebellion — Town Debt.

XLIII. Wakefield (Continued), page 487

Ecclesiastical History — Centennial Poem — First Church — Organization — First Members — Early Action — Rev. Asa Piper — Rev. Samuel Nichols — Rev. Nathaniel Barker — Martin Leffingwell — Joseph B. Tufts — Rev. Daniel Dana Tappan — Rev. Alvan Tobey — Rev. Sumner Clark — Rev. George O. Jenness — Rev. Albert H. Thompson — Rev. Lyman White — Early History of Church and Society — Deacons — Other Members — One Hundredth Anniversary — Second Congregational Church — Organization — Original Members — Ministers — Deacons — Sunday-school — Freewill Baptist Churches — Methodist Episcopal Church — Second Advent Church — Episcopal Church — Meeting-houses, etc.

XLIV. Wakefield (Continued), page 506

Education, Early Provisions for — Teachers' Wages — First Schools — Districts — School Committees — Common Schools — Dow Academy — Wakefield Academy — Collegiates — Teachers, etc. — Libraries — Societies.

XLV. Wakefield (Concluded), page 514

Development — Union Village — Railroads — Wolfboro Junction — Manufacturing — Population — Polities — East Wakefield — Taverners and Traders — Early Prices — North Wakefield and Wakefield Corner — Physicians — Longevity, etc — Biographical Sketches.

XLVI. Effingham, page 531

Situation — Original Grant — North Effingham — Area — Surface — Boundaries Indian Relics — Proprietors' Meeting — Conditions of Charter — Survey — Early Settlements — Association Test — Early Accounts — Pay of Town Officers — Civil List.

XLVII. Effingham (Continued), page 538

Roads and Bridges -Highway Districts in 1802 — Mails, Postoffices, Stage Routes — Effingham Falls — South Effingham — Huntress Neighborhood — Merchants — House on Green Mountain — Ice Cave.

XLVIII. Effingham (Concluded), page 547

Preaching — Churches — Schools — Higher Schools — Physicians — Sheriff — F. W. Barker.

XLIX. Freedom, page 560

Incorporation — Description — Boundaries — Population — Freedom Grange — Manufacturing — Mercantile Houses — Physicians — Hon. Zebulon Pease — Savings Bank — Baptist Church — Christian Church.

L. Freedom (Concluded), page 567

Civil List — Town Annals — Biographical Sketches.

LI. Ossipee, page 579

Description — Lakes, Streams, and Ponds — Origin of Name — Boundaries and Changes — Incorporation — Forts — Indian Monumental Mound — Where some of the Early Settlers lived — Early Mills — Stores and Traders.

LII. Ossipee (Continued), page 589

What the Early Records Contain — Early Taverners — Early Marriages — First Inventory.

LIII. Ossipee (Continued), page 594

Gleanings from Town Records — Action of Town in the War of 1861 — Later Chronicles — Condition of Schools.

LIV. Ossipee (Continued), page 603

First Congregational Church — First Meeting-house — Freewill Baptist Churches — First Methodist Episcopal Church.

LV. Ossipee (Continued), page 615

Villages — Ossipee — Centre Ossjpee — West Ossipee — Ossipee Valley — Moultonville — Water Village — Leighton's Corners — Family and Personal Sketches.

LVI. Ossipee (Concluded), page 633

Civil List — Statistics — Biographical Sketches.

LVII. Sandwich, page 644

Charter — Boundaries — Names of Grantees — Additional Grant — First Meeting of Proprietors — Orlando Weed — Terms of Settlement — Other Settlers — Further Encouragement — Drawing of Lots — Daniel Beede's Survey — Committee to Prosecute Colonel Jonathan Moulton — Proprietors' Gift to Sandwich.

LVIII. Sandwich (Continued), page 649

Situation — Healthfulness — Scenery — Sandwich Dome — Red Hill Pond — Wentworth Hill — First Birth — Selectmen's Return in 1775 — Some Residents in 1776 — French and Indian War — Revolutionary Soldiers — Early Traders — Lower Corner — Centre Sandwich, 1800-10 — Business Centres — Early Industries — Physicians — Dentist — Mills and Manufactures — Merchants — Sandwich Cattle — Freshets — Longevity — Summer Boarding-houses, etc. etc.

LIX. Sandwich (Continued), page 664

Characteristics of Early Settlers — Emigration — Early Population — Early Commerce and Highways — Place of Settlement — Colonel Jonathan Moulton — The Association Test — Signers' Names — Inventory of 1783 — Personal Sketches.

LX. Sandwich (Continued), page 677

Church History — Elder Jacob Jewell — Calvinistic Baptists — Freewill Baptist Church — Sketches of some of its Pastors — North Sandwich Freewill Baptist Church — Methodism — Congregational Churches — The Friends — Education — Sandwich Library Association.

LXI. Sandwich (Concluded), page 694 Excerpts from Early and Late Town Records — Action of Town in Civil War — Civil List — Biographical Sketches.

LXII. Tamworth, page 731

Name — Surface — Bodies of Water — Boundaries — Chocorua Lake — Tamworth — Grantees — First Settlers and Settlements — Progress and Prosperity — "Siege of Wolves" — Trout — Tamworth Village — South Tamworth — Hotels — Tamworth Inn — Tamworth Iron Works — Chocorua House — Merchants of Tamworth Iron Works — Cottages — First Inventory — Water-powers, Mills, and Manufacturing.

LXIII. Tamworth (Continued), page 743

Town Annals from 1777 — Action of Town in Civil War — Soldiers in Organizations outside the State — Civil List and Later Annals.

LXIV. Tamworth (Continued), page 756

Church History — Arrangements for Settling Mr. Samuel Hidden — Parsonage — Letter of Acceptance — Organization and Ordination — Original Members — Rev. Mr. Hidden's Pastorate — The Hidden Monument — Other Pastors — Deacons — Freewill Baptists — Rev. John Runnels — Second, Third, and South Tamworth Baptist Churches — Rev. David Bean — Methodist Episcopal Church — "Reminiscences of Rev. Samuel Hidden" — Education.

LXV. Tamworth (Concluded), page 765

Some Citizens, Families, and Business Interests — Biographical Sketches.

LXVI. Albany, page 782

Grant — Boundaries — Grantees — Description — Settlement — Petition — Orlando Weed — Colonel Jeremiah Gilman — Allard Family — Population — Albany in 1868 — Timber Lands — Freewill Baptist Church — Union Chapel of Chocorua — Civil List.

LXVII. Eaton, page 788

Date of Grant — Description — Number of Polls in 1783 — First Town-meeting — Additions to Town — Eaton Centre — Snowville — Mills — William Robertson — Other Early Settlers — Sketches — Churches.

LXVIII. Eaton (Concluded), page 795

War of 1812 — Action in Civil War — Civil List and Extracts from Town Records — Inventory, Valuation, etc., 1889 — Biographical Sketches.

LXIX. Madison, page 802

Organization — Description — Boundaries

— Some Early Settlers — Mills — Silver Mine — Physicians — Early Taverns — Traders — Silver Lake — Silver Lake Village — Bickford's Cave — Madison Village.

LXX. Madison (Concluded), page 809

Town Annals — Freewill Baptist Churches — Rev. Charles E. Blake — Civil List — Statistics.

LXXI. Conway, page 815

Introduction — Conditions of Charter and Boundaries — Grantees — Pequawket — The Original Proprietors and List of Settlers — Andrew McMillan's Petition — Roads — Prominent Settlers — Signers of Association Test — Early Mills — Early Prices — Early Innkeepers — Early Taxes — Early Music — Early Survey — Freshet of October, 1785 — Inventory of 1794.

LXXII. Conway (Continued), page 826

Extracts from Proprietors' Records — Annals from Town Records — Action in the Civil War — Civil List.

LXXIII. Conway (Continued), page 843

Brief Sketches of some of the Early Settlers, their Families and Descendants — Physicians — Schools.

LXXIV. Conway (Continued), page 859

Ecclesiastical — First Preaching — What Rev. Timothy Walker wrote — Mr. Moses Adams — Rev. Mr. Porter's Letter — Church Organization — Covenant — Signers — First Minister — Other Pastors — Second Church — Meeting-houses — Baptist Church — Protests — Organization — Petition for Incorporation — Pastors — Reorganization — Other Pastors — Conway Freewill Baptist Church — Methodism in Conway — Episcopal Church.

LXXV. Conway (Concluded), page 873

Industrial Development — Mills, Tanneries, and Stores in 1832 — Largest Tax-payers in 1832 — Chaises in 1832 — Conway in 1858 and 1872 — Farms, etc. — Conway Village in 1879 — Conway Savings Bank — Sturtevant's Peg-wood Mill — Bennett's Spool Factory — Conway House — Pequawket House — other Business Interests — North Conway — Scenery — Libraries — North Conway Water-works, etc. — Railroad Stations — Hotels — Kearsarge House — North Conway House — Sunset Pavilion — Bellevue House — Eastman House — Artists' Falls House — McMillan House — Randall House — Moat Mountain House — Past and Present Business Men and Interests — The intervale — Intervale House, etc. — Kearsarge Village — Merrill House — The Orient — The Ridge — Redstone — Centre Conway — Cotton's Manufactory — Centre House, etc. — South Conway — Green Hills — Conway Street — East Conway — Biographical Sketches.

LXXVI. Bartlett, page 909

Description — Scenery — Mountains — Rivers — The Saco — Incorporation — Grant — Lieutenant Vere Royse — Pioneers — Relative to a Bridge over East Branch — Roads and Bridges — Signers to a Petition — Andrew McMillan's Petition — Mills — Something Concerning Early Settlers — Names on the Tax-list of 1811.

LXXVII. Bartlett (Continued), page 917

Town Annals and Civil List — Action of Town in the Rebellion.

LXXVIII. Bartlett (Concluded), page 927 Early Hotels and Staging — Physicians — Bartlett Village — Bartlett Land and Lumber Company — Kearsarge Peg Company — Description — Business Interests — Glen Station — Later Hotels — Resources — Freewill Baptist Church — Methodist Episcopal Church — Chapel of the Hills — Biographical Sketches.

LXXIX. Hart's Location, page 942

LXXX. Jackson, page 945

Introduction — Scenery — Situation Mountains — Incorporation — Grants — First Settlers — Petitions — First Town-meeting — First Road — Inventory of 1801 — Some Early Settlers and their Descendants — Personal Sketches.

LXXXI. Jackson (Concluded), page 956

The First Schoolhouse — Early Teachers — School Surroundings, etc. — Freewill Baptist Church — Rev. Daniel Elkins and Other Pastors — The Protestant Chapel Association — Temperance — Libraries — Manufacturing and Merchants — Hotels — Centennial Celebration — Civil List — Action of Town in the Rebellion — Character of the People — Glen Ellis Falls — Biographical Sketches.

LXXXII. Chatham, page 977

Description — Population — Families —Action of the Proprietors — Early Settlers — Extracts from Town Records — Chatham in the Rebellion — Reminiscences of Samuel Phipps, Jr — Church History — Education — Civil List — Biographical Sketches.

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Contributed 2022 Jul 10 by Norma Hass, extracted from History of Carroll County, New Hampshire by Georgia Drew Merrill, published in 1889, pages v-xi.

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