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4r 'IN EATON GRANGE AND NOTES OF ANDREWS, KIMBALL, AND EATON FAMILY COLLATED BY CHRISTIE L. EATON j> ) ) t (Prom History of Sutton, N. H.) • > Contortr, |£. p.: Republican Press Association, 22 North Main Street. IS9O. cs 7 / . E 14­ IS<)o 47826 INDEX TO EATON GRANGE, ETC. Eaton Grange, firstsettlement, altitude, 3 Description of views, oflaying out of road, of early use of the house, of neighborhood, 4-6 John Eaton, 7 Present use of Eaton Grange, 7 Golden wedding ofMr.R. H.and Mrs. Ruth (Eaton) Sher­ burne, 9-11 Some of the descendants of Caleb Kimball, 11 Reflections, 12 Caleb Kimballand his ancestry, and the ancestry ofhis wife, Sarah (Sawyer) Kimball, 13-15 Children of Caleb and Sarah Sawyer Kimball, 15 Mary Kimball and John Eaton, 15 Lucretia Kimballand William Haddock, and descendants, . 15 Caleb Kimball,Jr., 17 Sarah Kimball and John Adams, and descendants, 17-22 Betsey Kimball and Lemuel Adams, and descendants, .... 22-26 Jacob Sawyer Kimballand ElizaFurkett, and descendants, . 26 Phoebe Kimballand Stephen Moore, and descendants, .... 26-28 Lavinia Kimball and James Pinker ton, 28 AbigailKimball and Dr. John McCi'illis,and descendants, . 28-29 Eatons and their ancestry, 30 John and Mary (Kimball) Eaton, and descendants, 33-56 Elijah and Elizabeth (Vose) Eaton, and descendants, .... 56-60 Nathaniel and Sarah (Emerson) Eaton, and descendants, . 60-64 Pamelia (Eaton) Messer, and descendants, 31 Samuel Andrew and his ancestry, 65 Children of Samuel and Mary (Dodge) Andrew, 66 Daniel and Sally (Quimby) Andrew, and descendants, 66-68 ...." Mary Andrew and Timothy Peaslee, . 68 Nathan and Hannah (Gregg) Andrew, and descendants, . 68-76s Samuel and Sally (Peaslee) Andrew, and descendants, .... 76-78 John and Mary ( ) Andrew, and descendants, .78 Israel and Phoebe (Messer) Andrew, and descendants,- . », . 78 iv HISTORY OP BUTTON. Sarah Andrew and Dr. William Martin,and descendants, . 79-82 Hannah Andrew and Israel Putnam, and descendants, .... 82-83 Perley and Elizabeth (Muzzey) Andrew, and descendants, . 83-87 Betsey Andrew and Samuel Jones, and descendants, .... 87-88 INDEX OF ENGRAVINGS. Eaton Grange, frontispiece. Eaton familygroup, 0 John Eaton, 39 Frederick Eaton, 45 L.B. Eaton, 49 Horace Eaton, 55 Dr. Jesse Haven Foster, 67 T.F. Andrews, 71 NOTES AND GENEALOGIES. V EATON GRANGE. Eaton Grange, the summer home of the sons and daughters of John Eaton, is located inthe south-eastern part of the town ofSutton, on the road from South Sutton to Warner, near the highest point of KimbalTs hill,so called from Caleb Kimball, its first settler, who is supposed to have come here about 1780-'Bl. The altitude of the site is some twelve hundred feet above sea level. The air is breezy, cool, and most healthful. The roads are hilly,but the drives are embowered with trees, shady and attractive, and the views from the open heights are magnificent. South-eastwardly can be seen the stee­ ples of the Warner churches ;southerly is Stuart mountain, 1800 feet high;south-westwardly is Lovell's mountain. Turning to the right the eye takes in Sunapee mountain, at whose base nestles Sunapee lake in all its beauty, at an altitude of about 1,100 feet; then Dresser's, King's, and New London hills,the last with its church and academy, until directly to the north the eye rests upon Kearsarge which inits majesty crowns the surrounding landscape at the height of 2,942 feet. The summit of the mountain is about eight miles from the Grange, toward which itdescends continuously to Stevens brook as that courses its way toward Warner river along the foot of Kimball's hill. Itis supposed that the location of Mr.Kimball's buildings was determined by the proximity ofarock-sheltered spring on the northerly slope of the hill,of exceptionally pure water, still greatly prized. In1784, the town voted "to appoint a committee to accept the road laid out, passing by Joseph Wadleigh's (South Sutton) and Caleb Kimball's to Warner." Here is evidence of the home onthe billand of the highway to the commerce of the world. For a gen­ eration this was the main road, hilly as it was, of travel south and south-easterly for a large population inmore northerly towns. The increasing travel suggested a tavern, and soon the moderate-sized red house, first built,gave way to a more pretentious mansion. Here 65 \ 4 for years at night the weary traveller found rest and food for him­ self and beast. Sometimes the number of lodgers was so great that they slept inrows on the floor. Here news was exchanged from the up-country and the city. Those stilllivingrecall the busy and merry scenes presented. On the broad field at the east the militia paraded at regimental muster, and the children and adults of this and surrounding towns gathered ingala dress to enjoy the holi­ day and the martial display. On the opposite side of the road near the barn, Mr.Bartlett, of Warner, established a store, which was tended by his son Levi, afterward the well known agricultural and historical" writer. Mr.LeviBartlett inhis old age said to the Eatons, — Ihave known seven generations of your family." In 1786, Caleb Kimball was one of a committee to locate the south meeting-house, and, as one of the selectmen, had care of the expenditure of twelve pounds raised" that year for the support of schools. His home was in the third district," and the school for his children was located on the ledge at the brow of the hill south of the road and within view of his horne — a sightly spot, a solid foundation. Rev. Dr.Horace Eaton, his grandson, who took his firstlessons" in this school-house, was wont to say that his education was founded on a rock." Here the children and grandchildren of Mr.Kimball attended school, and in part acquired the intelligence for which they were noted. Tradition tells us of the sensation of admiration and wonder produced by a visit to the school of a sol­ dier returned from the War" of 1812, dressed" in a captain's red coat. When another and better people's college was built,at a point on the road farther toward Warner near the Benjamin Kendrick place, this old house was removed to the new district on the road passing Jonathan Roby's, and rebuilt near Thomas Morgan's where it remains to this day. In this house John Eaton, afterward U.S. Commissioner of Education, at sixteen years of age taught his first school. Near the school-house on the ledge, crossing the road, John Eaton, who married Mary Kimball,built his first house, carried onhis trade as a brazier, and opened a store. Alltrace of this home is now gone except the cellar, the well,and the tansy patch. On the opposite side ofthe road lived Jonathan Stevens, whose daughter became Mrs. Jacob Osgood, and died in Warner over one hundred and two years of age. Only the old well and a slight depression of ground mark the site of the Stevens house. 5 The next house crossing the road at the foot of the firsthill was the home of Elijah Eaton. It is now vacant. Elijah was the brother of John Eaton, above mentioned, and of the centenarian, Nathaniel Eaton, who lived farther down the road. Here Elijah's son, Carlos, lived,raised his family, and died.— Then came the Ken­ dricks —Samuel, William, and Benjamin the children of Dudley Kendrick, whose home was the second of these, the WilliamKendrick house. The Samuel Kendrick house was at one time occupied by John Morgan, and is now occupied by John Colby and his son Demerit. The William Kendrick house, once occupied by the Sim. monses, by Holton Martin,and the Fhilbrooks, is now vacant. The Benj. Kendrick homestead, once occupied by his daughter, Mrs.P. S.H.Wadleigh and family,is now owned byLeonard F.E. Dresser. Near here Benj. Kendrick had a blacksmith shop. The new house, built by Benj. Kendrick across the road and occupied by his widow until her death, is now removed to a point opposite Hon. Geo. C. Eaton's. A few rods up the road from the Benj. Kendrick homestead was erected, about 1824, the successor to the school-house on the ledge near the grange. This was burnt,and the old red school-house across the road appeared, in which all the Eaton brothers and sisters went to school. In1884 this was changed into a new and more com­ modious white house. But itinno longer crowded as were the older ones withhearty children. The few who attend of another genera­ tion stillplay in the sand, build their miniature stone walls around their miniature farms, houses, and barns, rollup the big snow-balls, slide gaily down the hill,and have their childish quarrels as those before them. The next house below the Kendricks on the south side was the home of Edward Ordway, father of Samuel Ordway and ancestor of all our Ordways. Itis now occupied by the widow and children of Daniel Ordway. Of the next house on the same side of the road, Joseph Johnson's, nothing remains to mark the site but the orchard. Nearly opposite stands the mansion, builtin1814 by John Adams, who married Sally Kimball. They first settled and lived on the summit of Adams hillnear by. His son John Adams afterwards occupied the homestead now owned by Highgate Jordan. On the other side, at the corner of the Waterloo road, stands the house built by Edward Ordway, the son of the Edward above mentioned. It 6 is nowthe home of Hon.

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