A B R IE F H IS T O R Y
O F T H E
. TOW N O F G LO C E ST E R ,
R H O E I S L A N D D ,
P RE C EDED B Y
A SKET C H O F TH E T ERRITORY W H I LE
A PART O F PROVI D EN C E .
BY E LIZAB ET H A . PERRY .
’ ’ A x l v ' A l l u 3 \ h m 1 b U lVI I A LV ! r K lN L il/ Kb.
A B R IE F H IS T O R Y
O F T H E
. TOW N O F G LO C E ST E R ,
R H O E I S L A N D D ,
P RE C EDED B Y
A SKET C H O F T H E T ERR ITORY W H I LE
A PART O F PROVI DEN C E .
BY E LIZAB ET H A . PERRY .
PROVIDEN C E
' PROV IDE N C E P RE S S C O M P AN Y , P R IN HE R S .
1886 .
C P R E F A E .
IN e the fo llo w in e the autho r e e e ee pr paring g pag s , has b n xc dingly
d e sirous that a his to ry of the town of Gloce ste r might be pre s e n te d i n a
e e e e e . A e f e e e conn ct d form , from its first s ttl m nt n fort has b n mad to
e e . I e e e ffi stat things accurat ly , and on good authority t has b n v ry di cul t
T h h to asce rtai n date s i n som e i nstance s . e source s wh e nce t e informa
’ tion is d e rive d a re various : Bartl e tt s Colonial Re cords ; Sch e dul e s
of t he town pre s e n te d ye arly to t he G e n e ral Ass e mbly ; T own Re cords ;
old n ewspap e rs ; private pap e rs ; reading of many books that had re fe r
e e e the e nce to town matt rs ; trav lling ov r town , and information from
’ e ld e rly town s p e opl e .
e e e e z e e Gloc st r has furnish d som citi ns of high p rsonal worth , and
e w e e . honor to oth r to ns , stat s and countri s
PROV IDE N C E . I 1886 . , Jan ,
I T R F L E R H S O Y O G O C STE .
TH E I Burrillville town of Glocester, R . . , including was r F 2 0 I I o ganized ebruary , V3 I t is bounded on the north by b Smit hfield Massachusetts , on the east y , on the south by b Scituate , and on the west y Connecticut . A brief sketch of the territory will be given previous to the time the town was taken from Providence . Its history , in some rude meas ure , is nearly coeval with the first settlement in Providence b y Roger Williams and his associates in the year 16 36 . This land was disposed of to Roger Williams and others by the sachems of several tribes of Indians , they receiving for the e same , payment that was satisfactory to ach tribe . Tracts of land were often granted for very little recompense . It is recorded that Uncas gave the first grant of land by deed . Sometimes grants of land were made to the whites for im portant services done for the sachems . The disposal of
n n lands as to boundaries was very i defi ite , and sometimes
An without date . y enterprise that promoted public good F or was considered payment for lands . instance , to settle a miller that would build a mill to grind corn and other grain a blacksmith or a sawmill built , a grant of land was often given . Sometimes the sachems disposed of hundreds of
acres for very little consideration , also promising to assist
in b the whites cases of emergency , y hastening with their
warriors for their relief . The tribes had very little knowl
edge of the value of land , or the worth of different forest
trees .
Through the kind influence of Roger Williams , the Indians
generally had a strong attachment to the whites . The Nip muck Indians extended from Massachusetts and Connecticut
as into the northwest corner of this State , found when first 6 HISTORY O F GLOCESTER .
explored by the English . Their headquarters were at Oxford ,
l - l Mass . The sma l Pass Coag tribe roamed a litt e south of the
9K ‘ N i k n t l pmuc s . There is a small river ru ning through
b t o me y the name of Nipmuck . These tribes were subj ec t Narragansetts until the time of King Philip ’s war with th e
a English . The chiefs of the Nipmucks s aw that the s chem s of the Narragansetts had enough t o do to look out fe w home ’ own tribe at the time of King Philip s war , consequent called
declared their independence . Some vestiges of these ) ure l _ y
a eara x still remain . Portions of the land had the pp rn the ro win having been planted ; many young trees were g g p e of
r c l< - . e o l deep in the ground bullets were found Within the _ h
rm a n d tion of persons now living , a human skeleton was fou w eral feet belo the surface of the ground . When the bones
o were put t gether it measured eight feet . Some of these
I ndians were very tall . These tribes of Indians were , as far
as is known , the first native owners of this land , a Provi
- fill their vast hunting grounds . These forests were d War o t heg ur bears , panthers , wolves , red deer, foxes , and d High mals . Wolves and bears were so troublesome under the t 1736 that the inhabitants sought legislative enac ackn owl a reward of three pounds was offered for each bea land was 1 the colony . I n 739 this reward was much increase c rown of t Z on wolves , twen y shillings rats , three pence v e rprinted l . shil ings Mass , It
u c The Indians seldom Spent the summer and ould ex e r u d e r same place . This fact will acco nt in some g q he must t o et hf great claims of land . They would cluster g Iuart erly
t r e I o 0 ing their wigwams for protection against other ibs . T
b . villages they surrounded y a fence of trees , logs and stakes The language of different New England tribes was so similar A that each tribe readily understood the other . rrows were
The ' their early chief weapons of warfare . v w g lon y under strangers travelling ; would give to them t y ed by Charles ‘ W the h their igwam for the night , and best they jpt ed was a
fa cn i u. N k e e if they went without themselves . They were t p
* - Fre sh wate r Indians . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 7
t ell their promises . When the sun shone they had a mark to
v it - da hen was mid y , and on clear nights they told the time t moon and stars . I n cloudy weather hey were , like
t he Yank . ees , good for guessing
All their tools were made of hard stone . Bows were made of sin e vs and twisted entrails of the deer and the moose Whe ln ahawk was a wooden club . Many bones of animals ' comm i - e d for special purposes . Corn and nuts were in the were I put in holes dug in the ground , lined and covered R O be rt‘ z rk . They did not eat regularly, but when hungry ; W iili w e n erall o n g y had but wi e , but could at pleasure on l e f Y fi‘w r side dissol ve their connection they had no ballads or fl " Sfi g§ f o perpetuate the traditions of the pas t ; their kn owl
‘ edge was very limited they exercised good j udgment in eat fish ing and drinking . The Indian men furnished the and
fr c ame ; the wome n did the harvesting . They had orn and dm’e ’ hat they depended very much upon yearly to raise . hOId o‘ g s t“icles they could keep for cold winters and great houses . w when game would be very s carce . They had a s Oft e‘ land , iat a crow brought them a bean and a kernel of T e i hman C o wt an t o wit the place where their great god , , 7 cleared . though the crows did some harm , they seldom fell the tn t They also made ma s , baskets and stone vessels . . wil term s fi te was i y , which they called wampum , made of dif did Indians r a which was their est blis hed currency . Previous t hem . J pe an settlements they knew nothing about beg
f' To go e a year in the winter they had a great feast to
' l ived requ. F t Great a her for their bountiful harvest . At this
6 1! '
33113 . S presen were made to the poor . Their family ties were a nd t was mem very strong , great lamenta ion made when a
ber of their kindred died . The men had a great liking for
n fishi g . ‘ lOdLIC C Cl be p ) _ in a Supreme Being havi n g all the attributes lords . many gods of less power than their Great ho n to their fi ac k n o wl argues a species of Pantheism . They ‘ fhe edged agency of their deity i n all things , whether for u good or evil . If an accident occ rred , the wrath of God had T r 8 H IS ORY o GLOCESTER .
so caused it ; in case of good fortune , the Great Spirit was
n the author . They never asked their deity for anythi g , but he the ret urned thanks for favors received , saying that i s best j udge of what is best for them . I t was against the law d of the colony to sell liquor to the In ians , but this law was
broken . In a very few years many persons seeking a n ew heme j oined the Williams colony and purchased what they called
home lots . The government of Providence was at first purely
democratic , but laws were soon found necessary to govern the e colony A general meeting was called , and a committ e of “ ” ‘ wiih five were chosen , called disposers , who were invested t he n saw a n d partial control of affairs . The inhabita ts later felt the necessity of a patent from their mother cou n try to
secure to them a better title to their lands , and protection in
case they were attacked by the Indians . Protection was fi P 1 asked from England and granted . The rst patent for rov
16 E r x dence was written in 44, in which Robert a le , O War w in Lor ick , England , was made Governor Chief and d High u Admiral of this Plantation , a distinct sovereignty nder the chart e rackn o wl protection of the English government . The /
of t la edged the Indian title the colony, and hat the nd was purchased of them and confirmed to them by the Crown of “ ’ ” F er England . The reeman s Oath was the first pap printed
C an1brid e M as s . . f in New England I t was printed at g , It certified that before any member of the colony eould e x e r cise the right of suffrage or hold an y public o ffice ihe must be made what is called a freeman by the General ! uarterly
'
-' was heWas z. Court , or Assembly ; he to show evidence that
man f respectable , and take the oath of a firmation required by the law of the colony against bribery and corruption in the f election of o ficers . I n 1647 there was an organization of t he c olony under
n e b the Parliame tary patent , and a charter grant d y Charles d do Secon , King of Great Britain . The first seal a pted was a “ ' sheaf of arrows bound up with the motto Amorv z mz t omma
engraved upon a leash . F HISTORY O GLOCESTER . 9
8 166 a — July , 3, the royal “charter”was obt ined its symbol t . y an anchor, and its mot o Hope In this ear the colony
n received from Charles the Second , Ki g of Great Britain, a 18 2 charter which , up to November , 4 , was the written law t t of his S ate . The government was at first colonial , then
t . under the charter, and finally under the constitu ion When the to wn of Providence was incorporated the commi ttee chosen by the General Assembly under the chart er
Wicke n de n were Gregory Dexter, William , Thomas Olney ,
Robert Williams , Richard Waterman , Roger Williams ,
F . William ield , John Green , J ohn Smith and J ohn Lippitt Years before the town of Glocester was se t off from Provi t t dence , home se lements were made here sheep and herd s w of cattle ere sent here to graze , with shepherd s and herds
F o r men t o take care of them . several years the I ndian pathway or trail served the white settlers as thoroughfares to t drive heir cattle , and to transport their families and house hold goods to the places where they were to build their log t houses . These emigrants going for h to live in these wild t lands , of en took possession of many acres for each family . The man of means could pay for his lands and for having them t cleared . Others with their own hands mus use the axe to
e n co un fell the trees and build their humble dwellings , often t tering wild animals and the cruel y of Indians . Many of the Indians did not understand why their lands were taken from
T o go forth into the woods where dangerous wild animals lived required men of enterprise and courage . Most of the t t m early se lers of Providence were fro England , some unused t o hardship , others staunch yeomanry , farmers , merchants ,
in de e n d mechanics , blacksmiths , fearing God , honest and p ent , and if right and reason were followed , a race would be produced far better than one descended from pensioned t lords . Some of the settlers were discouraged and re urned to their homes in England ; others ret urned and brought their families , with their household goods , and sought a home d in the wilderness , where for some time their humble well I O HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . ings had to be guarded from the barbarous Indian and wild b beasts . Many bullets made y the Indians have later been found in the centre of large trees . t J ohn Smi h , from Providence , early settled in the northern part of Glocester , and many of his descendants are owners of home estates in that vicinity . Edward Sal s bury early purchased land and built a house ; he was a soldier in t he
F W illiams e s T o urt ellot t s rench war . The , , Eddys , Water
E v an s e s mans , , and others , were pioneers and held landed t estates . There were many families se tled here before the town of Glocester was set off from the county of Providence ; generally very respectable citizens , some of them with their
- s ilver topped canes and silver Shoe and knee buckles . I n many cases there was wealth enough for general comfort ;
n o life was frugal , limited to modern ways . They had daily or weekly newspaper the news was comm unicated from n eighbor to neighbor, though in many cases they lived a long way from each other ; carpets were rare ; the white maple floors for the summer were very cool ; they had braided and husked rugs ; after awhile the parlor floor in
- t some houses was marble pain ed ; the kitchen floor, after breakfast , swept and sanded to take the dust from the shoes F of the workmen . amilies of similar tastes would some times meet for social intercourse . I n quite early times the expense and trouble to get spoons sufficient for family uses to eat their Indian meal pudding and milk , and other uses , b was very great . I n this dilemma they were relieved y the an d fam ily getting a spoon mould, melting the pewter lead wh ite hot , turning it into the mould , and when cold the
n mould was opened and a good spoon taken out . Ca dles for a long time were run in candle moulds— also candles were dipped in a large kettle of hot tallo w by having several candle - wicks strung on a stick these wicks were dipped in w the tallo , then hung on a rod to cool ; then dipped again , and the dipping kept up until the candles were large enough .
* The e w e the S e e the e 1 2 first n spap r i n tat was publish d in y ar 73 , by
e e . Jam s Franklin , i n N wport HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . I I
Necessity is the mother of inventio n . When candles could
t fire - not be obtained , pi ch knots were burned in the place to light up the dwelli n gs .
- Until saw mills were set up , most of the dwellings were made of logs . The early frame houses were generally built
- one story , with small windows , sometimes gambrel roofed ; a others two stories in front , the roof sl nting back so far down as to have but one story on the back side . Early in t he eighteen t h century there were many large two - story framed houses built in different parts of t his land by well
- to do families . I n these houses there were generally two t rooms in front , with a door and en ry between them ; two t he rooms back ; a large chimney in the centre , chimney
r - often serving for the smoke an d draft for five fi e places .
fire - The kitchen place , with strong , large , iron andirons , held a large quantity of wood . Children could sit in the corners of
fire - some of the places , look up the chimney and count the stars . Some of the houses were painted red , a few were painted white , and many not painted at all . In 17 16 there was a great snow storm it snowed one day
w h n and one night , ith a very igh wind ; the snow was k ee deep ; the drifts were ten and twelve feet high . The pioneers learned of the Indians to make succotash by boiling corn and beans together . They also learned how to bake cakes made of Indian meal and water on hot stones
so under the ashes . These were cooked as to make agree T e able and wholesome food . h meal at first was made by it cracking the corn as fine as might be by pounding _ on a a hollow stone , a kind of mortar hammered on the top of F or rock , with a small stone for a pounder . Sunday morn ings , pork baked with beans made a good breakfast . Boiled
W 1th Indian pudding, a little salt , if they could get it , was t di h o m t i s . s e me s ano her favorite , with milk , sometimes with maple syrup , and sometimes without anything . Bean porridge F or m was a dish much liked for breakfast . eats , there were — many kinds wild game in abundance and fish in the ponds . H ousehold industry in the manufacture of wool and flax for 12 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
clothing was very decided . The feathers of geese and birds were carefully preserved to make warm beds for the cold winter nights . 2 th 1 2 On the s of August , 7 7 , George Second was pro claimed King of Great Britain . The proclamation was read from a balcony in the second story 0 11 the west end of the ’ Manufacturers Hotel , Market square , Providence , now taken down . The proclamation when George Third was created King of Great Britain was read there in 1760 ; also the
1 6 . Declaration of I ndependence , J uly 5 , 77 The town of Providence petitioned the Legislature in F e b ruar 1 1 y , 73 , for a division of the town . The petition was received and granted . Three new towns were made and
b S mithfield t . called y the names of , Scitua e and Glocester They were incorporated out of the lands in the western part t of the town of Providence . Glocester was set off abou eleven miles square in the northwestern part of the State . The committee appointed to examine and report in regard to the necessity of a division of the town of Providence were
F . Mr . Samuel Clarke , Mr . rancis Willet and Mr William
Robinson . The land had been surveyed and boundaries set tle d b s y the county surveyor , I t has been handed down that * the name Glocester was first suggested by some English residents from Glocester, England , already freemen , living within the limits of the new town ; also in honor of the
F so n D uke of Glocester , rederic Lewis , of King George
Second . This town was formerly spelled Gloucester . The first settlers had been trained under the laws acknowledged b y Roger Williams and his associates . An act was passed by the General Assembly giving power to ordained elders of every society and denomination of
Christians to j oin persons together in marriage .
e e the e E the Gloc st r , a city in south rn part of ngland , capital of county the e e the S e e e the of sam nam , on v rn , thirty mil s from its junction with
e fin e . I t he Se e B e Bristol chann l , i s a city t is of a ishop , and r turns two e m e e e 10 o n e t he m b rs to Parliam nt ; contai ns a cath dral built in 47 , of fi n e st i n E ngland ; has a sq uare towe r 2 2 3 fe e t high ; contai ns the tomb
E w Se R e D e . of d ard cond , and ob rt , uk of Normandy 1 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 3
was 16 1 1 A town meeting called March , 73 , to organize
the town of Glocester , including the territory of the present town of B urrillv ille (which was taken from the town in t Elisha Knowl on was chosen moderator, and also clerk ;
Zachariah Eddy was chosen town sergeant Capt . John r Smith , town treasurer ; Zachariah Eddy , J . , John Barnes ,
John Inman , Obadiah Jencks , Solomon Smith and Zebedee Hopkins were chosen town councilmen ; Elisha Knowlton and Walter Phetteplace were chosen assistant deputy gover
n ors to the General Assembly . The deputy governors and assistants were the j udges of the highest j udicial courts of the
1 . State until 747, when chief j ustices were appointed When the town was incorporated it contained inbah it a t 1 n s 00 . . Permanent settlements were made about 7
Maj or William Smith , Capt . Richard Waterman and Lieut . b Elisha Know“lton were surveyors appointed y the Assembly t to decide the boundary lines of the own . The town had the same privileges as the other towns in f t the State , to choose their own o ficers , to send depu ies to t he l n o n e General Assemb y , to se d grand and one petit j uror to the superior courts , to control their proportion of the interest of the bank money appropriated for the use of the towns of the colony according to the sums that the land lying in the town was mortgaged for , and what money the town treasurer of Providence had advanced for the land before the division was made , be repaid out of the whole m interest oney . Before the division , to defray the expenses of survey s and laying out of roads , money paid for portions ’ t his lan d n of had to be mortg“aged to meet payme ts . . 1 1 n Gov Ward says , i n 74 , that the colo y of Rhode Island
first purchased , then settled , and hath at all times depended on its inhabitants at their own proper costs and charges as well against natives in former times as agai n st foreign ene m ies in later times . Great sacrifices were made by the town to assist the mother country in her foreign wars from 17 10 1 to 740 . It was necessary to keep some vessels of force cruising on the coast of New England for the safety of trade . I 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
Thei r militia consisted of all male members in heal t h from
t he sixteen to sixty years of age in all towns . They were obliged at their own expense to be always provided with a
firelock n good musket or fusee , a sword or bay o et , cartouch w o box , ith one pound of good powder and f ur pounds of bul
in an f lets , all readiness at y call of a superior o ficer . Many persons living within the limits of the town when organized were made freemen previously, when the land of the t he township was under rules of Providence . All persons casting their votes at town meeting had to be made freemen ’ : and“take the freeman s oath , as follows t h I do solemnly bind myself in the sight of God , tha w en m I I shall be called upon , to give y vote of suffrage as shall j udge in mine own conscie n ce may best conduce an d t end to the public weal of the body . Deputies were chosen once a year at the quarterly meet ing next preceding the meet ing of the General Assembly . The town councils were empowered to lay out t heir high in m ways the same manner as in Providence . The co mittee
e n cke s to survey the town were William J , Richard Water 1 man and Lieut . Elisha Knowlton . I n 733 a road was laid out from the seven - mile line (about ten miles from Provide n ce
Po n a an set t great bridge) to g Pond , in the southwest part of the town . This pond is a fine sheet of water, where many of th e
- B beautiful white water lilies grow . y this highway the means was of intercourse greatly facilitated with Providence . An order came in 174 1 from the King of E n gland direct ing the form of prayer for the royal family to be published or used in the se veral churches and other places of public
c o worship in all the towns of this colony, a py of said order to be sent to every minister or elder of each and every Society l ’ in the colony without de ay . The order was obeyed in this
town . This year was very cold , especially the winter . 1 b In 744, in consequence of war having been declared y the
F n rench against England , measures were adopted to stre gthen to the English colonies in America . It was found necessary e strengthen the military forc of this town . To this end , the
16 T HISTORY OF GLOCES ER .
In 17 5 5 the dividing line between Glocester and Scituate
b . . was run y Henry Harris , Esq , Mr Thomas Steere and ! m Co . Resolved Waterman . They ade their report to the
n Assembly , the said tow s paying all expense . 1 6 d In 7 5 , Sixteen able bodied men were emanded of this town to aid the forces of the King of England in an expedi
tion against Crown Point . To encourage enlisting , a bounty of four pounds ten shillings lawful money was given to each t man , and thir y shillings per month during his service ; also a n F woolen bla ket . The rench in war were struggling hard ,
not only to hold their large possessions in America , but to
me n add new conquests . Constant drafts for and money 1 were called for during seven successive years . I n 763 the F rench power terminated in America, and Great Britain had
control of all the country east of the M ississippi . 1 60 b t I n December, 7 , y order of authority , the dea h of
King George was promulgated throughout this town ; also ,
that the funeral ceremonies would take place at Newport ,
A n 1 6 1. s January 9 , 7 the i habitants of this town were sub e ct s j of H is Maj esty, a copy of what was printed in the Newport Mercury at the above time is here given
T o e xpre ss a just and b e coming conce rn at t he d e ath of the b e st of K e e K e e t he S e e e ings , his lat illustrious Maj sty , ing G org cond , of bl ss d a n d e e the t he e glorious m mory , at n in in morning four compani s of the e e t he e me t m ilitia and troop of hors b longing to town of N wport , at t he e e e e e the Court Hous , from wh nc th y march d i n military mourning to e D D E e e e e e e the e hous of octor avid llis , wh r w r ass mbl d magistrat s and
- h e e e the . A te n t e principal g ntl m n of town t half past i n morn ing , min ut e guns continu e d firing from Fort G e orge ; and b e twe e n e l e ve n and
e e t he e e t he e : the tw lv proc ssion b gan i n following ord r First , four you nge st s e rge ants march e d with th e ir halb e rds cov e re d with black and
e e e e the e me n e e e e e r v rs d ; th n privat four abr ast , with th ir arms r v rs d ; e e e e e four drumm rs , with th ir drums cov r d with black ; four nsigns , with
e e e e th ir colors wrapt i n black ; four li ut nan ts , th n four captai ns , all wi th pik e s cove re d with black and re v e rs ed ; afte r th e m the fi e ld office rs and high sh e riff of the colony as h e ralds - a t- arms ; n e xt to him march e d ( b e twe e n fil e s of a troop of hors e ) H is Honor the d e puty and the civil o ffice rs and a consid e rabl e numb e r of m e rchants and ge ntl e m e n . Afte r the e the e f e e arriving at Court Hous , high sh ri f pronou nc d with an audibl ‘ voice the followi ng proclamation : Wh e re as it has p l e as e d Almighty
e e e e K e e t he Se God to call to H is m rcy our lat sov r ign , ing G org cond , of I HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 7
e e e e e e e the e bl ss d and glorious m mory , by whos d c as imp rial crown of e e I e the e e e Gr at Britain , Franc and r land , also supr m dominion and sov re ign right of the colony of Rhod e Island and Provid e nce Plantations i n N e w E e e A e are e ngland , and oth r colo ni s i n m rica , sol ly and rightfully e t he e e w e e e e the e com to high and mighty Pri nc of Wal s ; , th r for , Gov r e e the nor and company associat d , with numb rs of principal i nhabitants the e e o n e of towns of this colony and p lantation , do now h r by , with full e e e e the voic and cons nt of tongu and h art , publish and p roclaim that P e e e e e the e high and mighty rinc G org , Princ of Wal s , now by d ath of e e e e e our late sov r ign , of happy and glorious m mory , b com our only law e e e e e e the T the e fu l and rightful sov r ign , li g lord , G org hird , by grac of K e e I e D e e e the God , ing of Gr at Britain , Franc , r land , f nd r of Faith S e e L R e I e e upr m ord of said colony of hod sland and Provid nc Plantation”s , T PH N KIN S G ov e rn o r. . S E E OP tc t . e , e c H ,
This day an excellent sermon was preached on the death the b . m of his late Maj esty y Rev Ezra Stiles , fro I st Chron i l 2 th 2 th2 th 2 th c e s 6 8 . , o chapter, , 7 and verses The new King began with a more stringent system of colo
nial policy than heretofore had been exercised . Under the
new King, restrictions on trade and manufactures began to
n cause much vexation , and the colo ists were compelled to sell all their produce in the English markets for such foreign articles as were needed here of the merchants and man ufac t ur r was e s of their country . No wool sold outside the colo nies , and many restraints and requirements were borne .
F R TH E WA R O I N DEPENDENCE .
In 1772 there was an effort on the part of England to increase the revenue of the colonies for the home govern ment , and the larger tax“es were heavy to be borne . The s“uccess in capturing t he Gaspee made a”ll hearts respond We will make our own laws and taxes . This the people saw would for a time cause a great struggle , sacrifice and
. b suffering This Spirit carried out y the people , it was at once seen that great attention must be given , in concert with all the other towns , to military instruction , to bullets and t hi w powder . The people of s t o n were very active to rise in their strength and make themselves politically free and in de é 18 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
pendent . The Assembly , after deliberating and correspond ing with the other colonies , appointed a comm ittee in each town to receive their proportion of powder, bullets , lead and H ints belonging to the colony . Jonah Steere was appointed
. . 12 for this town H e received 77 pounds of powder, 3 pounds 2 of lead , and 49 pounds of flints . F inally the extra duty on tea intensely roused the people ,
t he especially the women . Tea was blotted from signs on
F o r u the stores . a substitute , sage , c rrent and red rasp
a Cemz a tkzz s America n a berry leaves dried , also plant called , were used ; for coffee , burnt rye , peas , and the inside of chestnut bark . da 1 A y of fasting and prayer was appointed J anuary 9 , 1 774 . All the people were called“to a full consideration of independence , and they resolved that the disposal of their own property is the inheren t right of freemen ; that there can be no property in which another can of right take from the owner wi t hout his consent ; that the claim of Parliament
is to tax America , in other words”, a claim of right to levy contributions on us at pleasure . Many ot“her resolutions were passed confirming the above , and finally that this town o will co perate with the other towns in this colony , an”d with the United Colonies , in a resolute stand for freedom . The only limitation to their powers conferred were that our laws
o n should not c flict with the laws of England . They had the power to revoke the charter ; they discouraged the man ufac ture of such articles as could be sent from the mother w country ; j udges were made on the ill of the King, and various requirements without the consent of the people here .
Not long after these acts were decided upon , war ships were t he in Boston harbor, and by their seizures inhabitants were in great distress . Large droves of sheep were sent from this colony . Glocester sent 9 5 . * At t his period the inhabitants o f t his town agreed with the other towns to use their utmost endeavors to encourage
* 1 . the e e e Numb e r of inhabitants i n 774 in vi llag of Provid nc , e e in Gloc st r , 1 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 9
frugality, economy and industry ; to promote agriculture , arts , t and the manufacture of clo h , especially that of wool and linen ; to discountenance and discourage g aming, expensive shows , plays and diversions ; that on the death of a friend a gentleman should wear only black crape or ribbon on th e arm or hat , a lady wear black ribbon or necklace , and to discon u t in ue the practice of giving gloves and scarfs at f nerals .
M a 1 1 1 b da y , 774, was , set apart y the government as a y of fasting , humiliation and prayer, the proclamation being a issued by the Governor . The day was very generally ppro priat ely observed .
Mr . Asa Kimball was appointed to take account of all t arms , powder and ammunition in this town ; and as here w were private as well as public stocks , he was empo ered to go to the house of each citizen in the town and there take the acc“ount . An army of observation was raised , in which this town t furnished her quota . This army was mainly sus ained for
- self defense , at Newport and Providence , in order to prevent or repel an y further attempts to enforce the acts of the
fift - British . Among the y two articles they were to adhere to f for regulating this army was , that all o ficers and soldiers frequent divine worship and sermon in the places appointed 00 for the assembling of the regiment , tr p or company to
In n which they belong . case of neglect , some portio of their pay was forfeited ; also the penalty of a Sixpence was in
an - f curred by y non commissioned o ficer or soldier, should he use an y unlawful oath or execration ; and if a commis sion ed f was o ficer found guilty of profane swearing , he for
feit ed n for every offense the sum of ninepence , lawful mo ey . 1 F I n 775“there were men in this army . orm of enlist : e ment W , the subscribers , voluntarily enlist ourselves to
serve as minute men in the service of this colony , to be under the immediate command of our superior officers and subj ect to the law of this colony for regulating the minute
da men . Each captain received six shillings per y , each all lieutenant five shillings , each ensign four shillings , and w o . thers thirty cents per day, la ful money All persons not 20 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . able to furnish their war equipments were supplied by a
: . committee appointed for that purpose , viz . Messrs John
Wells , Gideon Burgess , Aaron Winsor and Samuel Mays . All officers of whatever grade took an oath to be true and faithful to requirements .
War having been declared , and the great wish being lib ert - b y and sel“f representation , it was resolved y the General Assembly that this colony most ardently wish to see the e former friendship , harmony and intercourse betw en England
n and this colony restored , a happy and lasting co ”nection established upon terms of j ust and equal liberty This colo n y was ardently attached to the mother country .
Mr . Benj amin Colwell was the committee to receive and
m as fire - furnish the war imple ents , such good arms with
- m bayonets , iron ramrods and cartridge boxes , all sta ped with ’ the colony s arms . I n the beginni n g of the war it was impossible to raise the necessary money required by taxation , therefore the Congress of the United States and the Legislature of this State ( also
circu other States ) issued bills of public credit , which were lated as money . Towards the close of the war these bills became very much depreciated , and finally nearly worthless . In many cases great losses were experienced by this depre
ciat ion .
1 6 w 1 0 In March , 77 , the Assembly supplied Glocester ith 5
00 n pounds of powder and 3 pou ds of lead or cartridges , as they preferred , to be prepa red to assist the Massachusetts colony, should they be invaded . Picket guard had to be kept
n up . Salt belo ging to the colony was distributed among the towns , according to the number of inhabitants . Glocester 0 received this year 4 73bushels . 1 I n 774 the Light Infantry of the town of Glocester, an independent company , was formed . ’ ! uakers were exempted from war acts out of respect to their disbelief on the s ubj ect of oaths . A number of persons in Newport refused to subscribe the test oath . Joseph 2 1 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
Wanton and others were sent to different towns . To the f m ar of Stephen Keech , in Glocester, were ordered Richard
Le chmere an d Beale , John Nichol , Nicholas Thomas Vernon , where they were permitted to go at large within the limits of s o the town . The neighbors in th e vicinity were Opposed to the nuisance that the Assembly appointed Deputy Sheriff
Benj amin Smith to remove them from the town . They were with Mr . Keech; who lived i n a retired part of the town , eleven weeks . Their board bill was nineteen pounds
l was and sixteen shillings , awful money . This bill allowed and paid out of the general treasury . The test oath acknowledged the person to be a lawful subj ect of the
an d n government , always endeavor t o adva ce peace and the good welfare of the Plantation , to seek to prevent anything that would be inj urious to said government , and in every way
it s to promote interests . So help me God . A fine of one hundred pounds was imposed on an y person who in any way acknowledged the supremacy of the Ki n g of Great Britain . th 1 6 On the 4 of J uly, 77 , the United States declared them
d e t w was of ar . selves indepen ent , y years followed Peace 1 8 not declared until 7 3, when Washington surrendered his commission and retired to private life . Glocester was 1 12 ordered in 775 to furnish 77 pounds of powder, 3 pounds le 2 flin t sfi of lead , and 4 4 pounds of The soldiers that returned to Glocester after the R ev olu ’ n tio , from Col . Isaac Angell s company , were Reuben Wil ’ n liams , Amos Wood , Natha iel Stoddard , Joseph Turner, S tukel y Inman and Ephraim Andrews . The government was very liberal in b' ounties and monthly
f n payments to o ficers and soldiers that e listed . All signed the test oath . The following named officers commanded the several trai n ed bands in this town
* In 1776 the numb e r of acre s of woodland in the town was T he
e e e e e 88 e e . T e numb r of poll s i n Gloc st r w r 4 ; i n Provid nc , 45 3 his y ar Gloce ste r had more pol ls than any oth e r town i n the S tate e xce pt N ew port . Samue l Ward was Gov e rnor . 2 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
Firs t Com a iz - n p y Benaj ah Whipple , Captain ; Simeo t Sm i h , Lieutenant ; John Eddy , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — p y Samuel May, Captain ; Ezekiel Phet t la e c e . p , Lieutenant ; Daniel Matheson , Ensign
T/z ird Com a n — r n p y Abraham Winso , Captain ; Stephe
Paine , Lieutenant ; Richard Lewis , Ensign .
F oz z rt/z Com a n — p y Stephen Winsor, Captain ; Aaron
Arnold , Lieutenant ; Isaac Ross , Ensign .
All these companies met regularly to practice and ready f at call . Enlisting o ficers were Aaron Winsor, John Wells ,
Gideon Burgess and Samuel M ay .
1 8 In 77 , Asa Kimball , from this town , was appointed com f missioner of the Continental War Loan o fice . No loan was to be less than two hundred dollars .
O fficers of trained bands in Glocester in 1778
F irs t Com an — p y Stephen Olney, Captain ; Benj amin Bur lin ame g , Lieutenant ; Stephen Irons , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — : p y Samuel May , Captain Daniel Mathe s on , Lieutenant ; James Colwell , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y Abraham Winsor, Captain ; Richard u Lewis , Lie tenant ; Nathaniel Wade , Ensign .
Fozz rt/z Com a n — p y Stephen Winsor, Captain ; Isaac Ross ,
Lieutenant ; Israel Smith , Ensign .
Officers of trained ban ds in 1779
F irs t Com an — p y Benj amin Whipple , Captain ; Richard
Tucker, Lieutenant ; Peter Lewis , Ensign .
T/z ird Com a n — p y Abraham Winsor, Captain ; Nathaniel
Wade , Lieutenant ; Zebulon Wade , Ensign .
F ourtk Com mz p y Stephen Winsor, Captain ; Isaac Ross ,
n S E . Lieutena t ; Israel mith , nsign
2 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
n and bla kets . Daniel Owen and Andrew Brown were the
M a - committee of safety from this town . I n y , Sixty eight men were called for from Glocester as her proportion to fill up the
State brigade to be raised for fifteen months . Six pounds
- f bounty was given for non commissioned o ficers and privates , but for a part of their bounty their clothing was allowed if they were willing to receive it in this way ; also ten barrels of
beef, twenty pairs of good woolen stockings , and over three was hundred weight of iron . Asa Kimball appointed to pro
cure the blankets . ’ Elij ah Armstrong was Ensig n in Captain Allen s com
pany . In one company in the brigade , John Eddy was Cap
tain ; Stephen Olney, Lieutenant ; John Bowen , Ensign , taken from the first company of militia in this town . Capt . Asa Kimball and Nathaniel Blackmar were appointed recruit ing officers for the town to raise men to fill up the aforesaid
n battalion in the State . Mr . Kimball was also appoi ted to open subscription in Glocester for the Continental Loan f o fice . Yarn stockings to be furnished in October, forty b pairs ; and in Decem er, eighty pairs ; making one busy w w e year for the omen of the town , hile the men weari d in
- t marchin . but their wa ching , marching and counter g, buoy ant with hope that they soon Should be free to aid in making
their own laws . 1 I n 777 , in consequence of the British having possession t of the island of Rhode Island , many of the inhabitan s left
the island , some going to distant parts not to return , while many came to the mainland and had to be supported for the
then present time in the to wns where they were scattered .
The same year Col . Chad Brown , of Glocester, was chosen field officer for the State from the county of Provi
w r - dence , and John Col ell , J . , Esq . , Lieutenant Colonel of the
third regiment of militia in the county of Providence . At
the same time , in council , was read and approved the return of the officers chosen to command the company of Light r : . Infantry in this town , viz . Timothy Wilmarth , J , Captain ; F c David Richmond , irst Lieutenant ; Martin Smith , Se ond
C e . Lieutenant ; al b Sheldon , Ensign 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 5
" 18 was i December , I 777, a national day of thanksgiv ng and praise . In one place of prayer in this town Rev . J oseph
Winsor presided .
Prices of labor, wares and merchandise were regulated by F in law . arming labor the summer for men was not to
x e e d ' t hre e da e c shillings and Sixpence per y, other seasons of t he year in the usual proportions ; mechanics and tradesmen about the same as heretofore good wheat not to exceed r e seven Shillings and Sixpence per bushel y , four Shillings and Sixpence per bushel ; corn , three shillings and four pence t wo per bushel ; wool , shilli ngs per pounds . The best
- 1 grass fed beef, three pence per pound, and so on . The pr ees of most article-s for food and raiment for the people were also
fixed by law .
1 6 In de en d J uly 5 , 77 , Congress adopted a Declaration of p
a ence . The Rhode Island Assembly being in session , p th M r 1 e C 0 . proved resolution . . Richard Steere and Chad a Brown were ppointed deputies from this town . M a 1 6 The colonial period closed y 4 , 77 . Rhode I sland was the last of the thirteen original States that adopted the she M a 2 1 0 constitution , which did , y 9 , 79 , by a maj ority of two votes . 16 60 All persons able to bear arms , from to years of age, were expected to j oin regiments , unless for good reasons us exc ed . Members of the Society of F riends were exempt from enlisting in any company by produci n g a certificate from the n d clerk of the Monthly Meeti g, to the comman ing officer T within the district in which they lived . his year the test oath was administered to all persons suspected as Tories .
1 8 - s ix I n May, 77 , forty men were to be furnished for the 12 0 army , and pairs of yarn stockings . The J une following, wa 34 soldiers were called for . Caleb Arnold s appointed to a l p y the bounties a lowed by the State . Ratable property as taken in t he town by an appointed : the committee Value of town land , pounds 7 shil 10 0 a n lings slaves , from to 5 years old, 5 pounds ; tr di g stock or E 26 HISTORY GLOC STER .
I 6 2 86 6 and money, , 9 3 pounds ; ounces of plate , ; horses , 3 3 h 2 0 orned cattle , Sheep and goats , oxen , 4 . Zebedee H opkins was appointed to take the number of inhabitants of this town . 1 The year 779 was a year of great trial and suffering . The taxes were still to be i n creased ; paper money had e t h greatly depreciated in value , y t ese depreciated bills were a made legal tender to p y debts , and were easily counterfeited .
The honest and patriotic were impoverished , while rogues w w 1 1 8 and some Tories gre rich . The inters of 779 and 7 0 were very severe .
The estates of a Mr . Hatch and Henry Overing were taken
b as t he possession of y the town , owners were considered f enemies to the government , and given to the Sherif for sale .
The manner of cooking was before an immense back - log
all 0 11 0 11 r and long sticks of wood , fire , la ge iron andirons ,
- - baking a short cake in smouldering ashes , or on a cake board t before the fire . A turkey , goose or chicken was of en cooked by hav in g a wire fastened around t he poultry and h' hung upon the crane y the spit before the fire , often turn a ing it around . A skillet was set underneath to c tch the drippings . da M a 1 1 0 8 . The dark y of y 9 , 7 , will long be remembered F or several days previous , the air was close and seemed t he was to be smoky . After nine in morning there a little
d s o thun er and light rain . Soon after , it grew dark that the
s ee people left their work , both in and out doors ; to read or
had S k b . the time y the clock , a candle to be lighted The y m looked yellowish and gloo y . About noon , birds and fowls went to their roosts and cattle retired . At a little private school in the Irons neighborhood , parents became so alarmed that they hastened with their horses to bring their children home , and without doubt the sam e dispatch was made in many places . The people stood appalled , many thinking the
Day of J udgment was at hand . There was very little wind . To some persons the political aspect of the country made the 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 7
phenomena more to be dreaded ; others thought it was a pre
cursor o f something more fearful to the country . The dark ness continued about five hours . It extended over New
England generally . Since that time some causes have been advanced that produced the darkness . The following is from Guild ’s H istory of Brown Uni versity
o f B row n Dr . Manning , during the cessation . University ’ 1 war se t exercises , in 779 , on account of the , out on a j ourney
his with wife to Philadelphia, on business . H e started from
- Providence Thursday , April twenty ninth , and reached Col . ’ Smithfie ld the Abraham Winsor s , in , where they spent ’ "e t da night . The nex y they travelled to M r . John Brown s , ’ w e ‘ in Glocester, near Chepachet , h re , he says , we had an ’ excellent dinner, and our horses well cared for . They
t he remained i n Philadelphia until following September, when they returned by the same route and called again on ' M r his hospitable friend , . Brown , in Glocester, where they were very much refreshed .
1 80 F In 7 , the army of the rench fleet of the King of F rance , our illustrious allies , having arrived , acted under the t t direc ion of Gen . Washing on . At this time this State was called upon to furnish 630 soldiers to cooperate with them . ’ Glo ce st ers r proportion was 34 men . Zebedee Hopkins , J . , was appointed by the State to receive the money for paying the bounties to the soldiers . Glocester at this time furnished 1 0 pounds of beef and 5 bushels of grain . Messrs . t w C had Brown , John Smi h , Stephen Winsor , Solomon O en ,
n Jonah Steere , Elisha Bartlett and Caleb Ar old were the committee to carry the above into effect . Mr . Moses Cooper was always active in aiding to collect for the soldiers . Calls often were made for men and means . Number of polls At within the town , 5 5 5 . this time Glocester had a greater
* T he . he e e e e e Mr Joh n B rown r spok n of, and who r sid d a part of ach
- e e te the . r the e n e y ar o n his farm in Gloc s r , is Mr B own tha t laid corn r sto of Brown Univ e rsity . 2 8 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
number of polls than any other town in the State except
F bein in Scituate , then including oster, Newport g possession
- of the British . H undreds of yards of tow cloth were mad e
n i . hs f“or the army Ar old says , in H istory of Rhode Island , that history has failed to record the fact that the first sword that flashed in triumph above the captured heights of
d . Yorktown , was a Rhode Island swor Officers approved by the Assembly to command the
: t Glocester Light Infantry, viz . Timo hy Wilmarth , Captain ; F Martin Smith , irst Lieutenant Elij ah Armstrong, Second w Lieutenant Ezekiel Bro n , Ensign . 1 8 1 1 8 2 u Cold winter of 7 and 7 . Large q antities of snow
fell , and people had to travel with snow shoes , as the roads
could not be kept open . Corn and rye had to be carried on
- hand sleds to the mill to be ground . ’ I n 1782 the town was required by law to furnish the State s n 2 10 battalio , for the Continental troops , yards of tow cloth
one yard wide and whitened , and thirty pairs of woolen
stockings . I n 178 3 the war ceased and a proclamation was forwarded was to all the towns in the State . John Smith , of this town , ’ one of Gov . Greene s assistants . Richard Steere , Esq . , continued Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Provi
dence county . The treaty of peace and friendship Signed by the United States and Great Britain was officially received F 1 8 . from Congress in ebruary, 7 4 H is Excellency Gov e rn or William Greene issued a proclamation to make it
w be roclaime d kno n , and caused it to j p by the Sheriffs in their
respective county towns on an appointed day.
Pensions were allowed invalid soldiers after the war. the The inhabitants were charitable and humane . In Revolutionary war they used great efforts for promoting the
independence of the colonies , and after the war was over,
they, with great courage and energy, set about restoring their
Shattered fortunes . e To encourag home manufacture , the Assembly enacted
an additional import duty on many foreign goods , both on
implements of husbandry and wearing appare l . 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 9
* Money became so scarce that many rents were paid in b g rain , and y necessity industrial pursuits were well attended to ; also domestic manufacture was very much encouraged by was le gislative acts . Spinning of cotton commenced about this time .
To make the people of this colony more independent , and
the o f was to increase making linen cloth , an act passed by the Assembly that a bounty of one penny be paid , lawful
' mo n e o n be y , every pound of good hemp or flax that should 1 86 1 8 fla raised in this State during the y ears 7 and 7 7 . All x raised for sale had to be examined by a j ustice of the peace or
r in e a wa den , the town , who also weighed the sam in the pres u e n ce of the one who raised it . Upon the ass rance that the was him flax raised by himself, the j ustice or warden gave a m F o r c ertificate to s ell the sa e . the certificate the man paid
. c n the j ustice one shilling Very ni e , fine and whitened line wa c loth s made in this town . The me n and women began n o w in good earnest to See what the y could do to suppo rt themsel ves independent of e in foreign aid . Meetings of wom n of all ranks life were h eld, where they learned to spin flax, and no lady con s ide re d it beneath her dignity to spin or weave linen or s et woolen clothfor family us e . The men about to establish v arious mills for making boards , nails , etc . , etc . Men of property and influence wore their American wool cloth
- w i . nstead of foreign made . Mr John Bro n , of this town , in 1 8 January, 7 9 , appeared in the General Assembly dressed
m o his o n in cloth made fro the wo l of own Sheep, kept his
e the e e the B urrillv ille N ar a pond in northw st rn part of town ( now in ) , r n b in e e d e e e . a rocky h il l by a l ittl ru nning st am , is a not asily to found m n I t was all surround e d by brush and tre e s . H e re a gang of e from se v
e e e e e e e . T e ral towns had a forg mad , to mak p lat d and silv r coinag h y h ’ e t e 86 the S e e e . mad old and panish mill d dollar , both plat d and mix d T e e e e e e th e e e the e h y w r soon d t ct d , e tools w r tak n and brought with chi f th e e o p e rators b e fore e justice court at Ch e pach e t . It was fi nally s ttl d the e S e th e e e . e e with larg numb r ngag d i n it ilv e r was th n scarc , but
' d ishon e st way of adding to th e ir co fie rs followe d th e ir re putation and e e gav gr at pain to many famili e s . 30 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
a f rm where he lived in this town . And the paper from which this was taken also adds that th e yarn was Spun by a woman 88 years of age . I n some families much fine linen was Spun on a lin en
was wheel , a curious and delicate piece of machinery , and it l quite an accomplishment to earn to use it . The flax was
he t cheled m ade free from its woody parts , and drawn out long , then wound around a kind of distaff that was above the wheel ; a spool was in readiness for the thread t o be wound i around as t was Spun . The movement of the foot on the pedal t he below , set the machinery in motion to twist thread that the fingers we ie pulling from the flax on the distaff. Very nice and fine lawn linen was made , some of it striped wit h
- all coarser thread , which made rich window and bed curtains w F t hitened . ine patterns of diaper for table clo hs , and m a h d any and v rious ot er articles , inclu ing nearly all kinds of wearing apparel and bedding , were manufactured from wool
t he - and flax . Some of towns people will remember Nancy
Bowen , who Spun linen and made it into skeins of nice linen
e . thr ad, and also thread for stockings After getting ready a s s he large a pack as could carry, she would put on her famo us patch dress and take the thread to her regul ar cus
t ome rs . In 17 83 a large number of inhabit ants were very d isco m
fit e d on a ccount of the continental bills and high taxe s . M any pe rsons lost a large part of t heir property by receiving
n o ut t he de pre c iated paper mo ey . The insurrection broke
v e in w ith io le nce . Arm ed men entered Gloc ster and towns
n n ic t Co ect ut , where they were j oined with others to obstruc t he payment of taxes ; persons were rescued who had been s o arreste d by law . The infection spread that a convention was c alled for t he avowed purpose to pay n o more m r t ax e s a n d to overthrow the govern ent . The ioters n ot ( n l o y seized cattle that had been taken for taxes ,
I n w but priso ers hile on trial . Deputy Governor Bowen a t e w ”c d ith great energy at this critical time , causing in the r gleaders to be arrested . United measures were t aken by the three States to crush the insurrection .
2 3 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
Or votes for the proposed constitution against it . Notices of s e t m the above meeting were up in the ost public places , and
s e r to make it sure that all saw and understood it , the town geant and constables were required to go to the residences in of all the freemen and freeholders the town , and give in
person the notice of the above meeting . If very stormy, the a convention would adj ourn from d y to day . The convention 2 2 8 : . was held and the vote stood yeas , 9 ; nays , The following are the names of freemen from this town 1 88 who voted against the new constitution , 7
John Andrews , Daniel Owen , Stephen Smith , J irah Ballou , r Stephen Steere , William Colwell , J . , Ezekiel Brown , Enoch
Steere , Samuel Phetteplace , Elisha Inman , Richard Coman ,
Charles Wood , David Inman , Esquire Luther, John Kimball ,
Daniel Brown , Amasa Eddy , Amos Winsor, Stephen Whip
ple , Samuel Cook , I srael Sayles , Timothy Jenne , Esek n o ckt an u Asa Smith , William C oma , J P tnam , Burlingame ,
Thomas H owland , Stephen Evans , George H unt , Benj amin r Salsbury, J ames King, J . , Joseph Howland , Nathan Paine ,
d Z a h r c e us . 3 , Aldrich , J eremiah Ballard , J , Josiah Brown ,
Daniel Smith , Nathaniel Wade , Stephen Woodward , Squire H e re n de n Williams , Preserved , John Phetteplace , Ezekiel S St ukel ayles , Stephen Colwell , M ichael Cook , y Turner,
n Caleb Arnold, Gideo Bishop , William Turner, Joshua Mathe s on r , James Harris , Robert Sanders, J . , Thomas Smith , Ot hn ial Sanders , Joh n Salsbury, Ebenezer Darling, Gideon a C ook , Jacob Ballard , Asahel Stone , Ad m Phillips , Obadiah
Barz illia n I nman , Dexter, Jonathan Cowa , George Brown , r Andrew Darling, Thomas Steere , Robert Colwell , J . , David C olwell , James Lewis , Joseph Davis , Elkana Brown , Amos
Williams , Orial H opkins , Olney Eddy , Chad Brown , David
Ballou, J ohn Inman , William Eddy, Joshua Cook, John Davis ,
Joseph Estin , Moses Cooper, Caleb Bartlett , Charles Colwell , W illard Eddy , Aaron Arnold, John Stone , Edward Davis ,
James Reynolds , Ishmael Sayles , Esek Whipple , Thomas S ayles, Barak Benson , J ohn Whipple, Zebulon Wade, Ezra r w m H ere n de n r B o n , Solo on , Asa Ballou , J ohn Wells , J . , HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 33
Job Steere, Thomas Barnes , Samuel Potter, Daniel Barnes , Lo e e Jesse Eddy, Christopher Sayles , James Stone , Aaron g ,
H enry Sanders , Ezra Steere , William Wilkinson , Simeon
Place , Daniel Evans , Stephen Salsbury, Ebenezer Darling , son M a John Howland , David Ballou ( of Samuel), Samuel y ,
Samuel Winsor, Jesse Potter, Simeon Sweet , Benaj ah Whip
ple, Aaron Winsor, James King, Charles Salsbury, Nicholas
Potter, Jesse Armstrong, Silas Thayer, Elkanah Sherman ,
Simeon Smith , James Cowan , Thomas Wood , Benedict Bur
in m r l a e . g , Eleazer Ballou , Jesse Lapham , John Mathewson , J , r Basale el Noah Steere , Zebedee Hopkins , J . , Paine , Caleb
T ourt ellot An Steere , Nathan Cooper, Caleb Steere , William ,
H r n de n r e e . drew , Eliakim Phetteplace , Thomas Owen , J , w Joseph Shippee , Andre Phillips , William Wood , Elisha Bur lin ame g , Elisha Steere , William Wade , Martin Smith , Sylvanus
Cook, Thomas Burlingame , Ahab Sayles , Stephen Winsor ,
Reuben Mason , Benj amin Warner, J ethro Lapham , Rufus
Williams , Solomon Lapham , William Arnold , Aaron Phillips , F Ezekiel Phetteplace , Obadiah enner, Benj amin Hawkins , r r Joseph Hawkins , Jeremiah Irons , J . , Moses Cooper, J . , V allett Jonathan Bowen , Jonathan , Edward Greene , William
H awkins , Benj amin Cowen , John Wells , Daniel Page , Joseph
Keech , Joseph Brown , David Richardson , Stephen Aldrich , V alle tt r J esse Aldrich , David , Seth Hunt , Jonathan Eddy, J . , r David Burlingam e , Samuel Phetteplace , J . , William Haw r kins , J . , Jesse Winsor, Jesse Keech , Stephen Barnes , Elij ah
Armstrong, John Steere , Abraham Clarke , Joshua Luther, r r Joseph Phillips , William Page , J . , John Cowan , J . , Moses
Taft , Ezekiel Phetteplace, Abia Luther, Peter Aldrich , John r w Perry, Nathaniel Bowditch , J . , David Mo ry, Solomon Owen ,
r. w John Esten , J , Esek Bro n , John Smithson , Stephen San
ders , Noah Eddy, Benj amin Paine , Stephen Cowen , Joseph
— an Smith largest number of nays of y town in the State . The above votes were carefully sealed up and directed to m b r the General Assembly, to eet y adj ou nment at East ‘ re 1e G enwich , there to be Opened and Opinion of the people G 34 HISTORY OF LOCESTER .
I of this town made known in regard to t he adopt ion of the new constitution of the United States . 2 6 thda 1 8 Thursday, the y of November, 7 9 , was appointed as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer throughout this
State , by Gov . Greene , and from that time until the present there has been but one omission of the above appointment by the Governor or Deputy . ’ Gov . Daniel Owen was one of the State s committe to draft a letter to the President of Congress stating the rej ection of the constitution by this State F reemen from this town who voted in favor of the new Rhode I sland constitution :
Benj amin Wilkinson , Jonathan H arris , Eleazer Harris ,
William Ross , Stephen Blackmar, Simon Smith , Thomas w O en , David Richmond , Jesse Brown , William Steere . 2 2 Ten voted for the constitution , and 7 against it . The political affairs at this time called very decidedly for immediate active exertions of our freemen . A convention was F 1 0 called to meet at East Greenwich , in ebruary, 79 , to
n again discuss the merits of adopti g the new constitution , an d E s H on . Daniel Owen Stephen Steere , q , representing me t this town . An adj ournment of the above meeting at
Newport the following May . H on . Daniel Owen was chosen president of the convention . After much discussion and some was amendments were made , the constitution adopted May
2 1 0 . as 9 , 79 With this act the existence of Rhode I sland a sovereign State ceased . The convention at its close presented their thanks to Presi dent Owen for the candor and impartiality with which he had f discharged the o fice .
b . The following letter was written y the H on Daniel Owen , president of the State Convention that adopted the co n stitu
' tion , to the President of the Un ited States
NE W P O RT 2 1 0 . , May 9 , 79 — H ON ORED S IR I hav e the pl e asi ng satisfaction of i nforming Y our E x ce lle n cy that t he constitution of t he Unite d State s of Am e rica was this day e e the e the e e S e a re e a ratifi d and adop t d by conv ntion of p opl of this tat , g HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 35 bly to the re comm e ndation of t he G e n e ral Conv e ntion ass e mbl e d at
Philad e lphia and the cons e q u e nt re solution of Congre ss th e re on . T he e e the e e A e S e e e low r Hous of G n ral ss mbly of this tat , at th ir s ssion the e e e e e E e form r part of this month , pass d a r solution r q u sti ng H is xc l e e the e e t he be e the l n y , Gov rnor , i n cas constituti on should adopt d by e the A e e e b e the conv ntion , to call ss mbly tog th r , y warrant , as soon aft r be the e e e e S e adoption as might , for sp cial purpos of l cting nators and taking m e asure s for a re pre s e ntation of t he p e opl e of this State i n Con
e . I e e e e Y E x e lle n c the e gr ss can , th r for , assur our y that i n cours of a few e e e e e the L e e be e e e e days , not to xc d sixt n , gislatur wi ll ass mbl d , ith r e e e t he e by sp cial warrant or pursuant to th ir adjournm nt , on s cond Mon in e e I e the e the S e be im day Jun , wh n , hav not l ast doubt , nators wil l m e diate ly appointe d and the State repre s e nte d i n Congre ss ag re e ablv to
the the e e be e . constitution , as soon as l ctions can accomplish d The ratification of the constitution wil l be mad e out and forward e d by the way of the post office with al l possibl e e xp e dition .
. e e t he e e t he Col William Barton , who is a m mb r of conv ntion , will hav honor of d e live ring this l e tte r . the e e e e e e m e e I e the With high st s ntim nts of st and r sp ct , hav honor to be ’ Y E e e e e e our xc ll ncy s most ob di nt s rvant ,
ANIE L E P res id en t . D OW N ,
To the Pre sid e nt of t he Unite d State s .
There was still a great love for England and some had the hope that the Articles of Confederation might be revised in some way so as still to be under the protection of the mother country . About this time a tax of 3o 1 pounds 10 shillings and 7 pence , lawful money, was assess ed on this town to be paid into the general treasury .
1 of b . Slave trade in 774 was disapproved j y the government Still some persons bought and sold the African slave until b 1 8 forbidden y law in 7 7 . The following advertisement was taken from the P rov iden ce
Gaz ette 18 1 : , October , 777
R e e e e e e Y un away from John F nn r , of Gloc st r , a n gro man nam d ock w h 2 8 e a e e e 8 e e ee y , about y ars of g , 5 f t i nch s h igh , mark d o n both ch ks ;
- e had on and took with him a light cloth colore d hom spun coat , with
e ee e the e e e e e wood n buttons , br ch s of sam color , blu s rg jack t , pair of good e e ee e fin e fin e n ew airo f e l ath r br ch s , a Holland shirt , a tow shirt , a p thr ad 6 3 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
o n e n ew e o n e stockings , pair of dark worst d stockings , pair of wh ite ribbe d
. o n e e e o n e e . o n e yarn do , dark silk handk rchi f, lin n do , good castor hat
o n e e . o n e e o n e without loops , f lt do , pair of sho s with strings , pair of sil v e r e e e . e e e e e e r sl v buttons Who v r wi ll tak up and s cur said n gro , and e e A e e . turn him to his m ast r , shall hav six dollars r ward ll maste rs of v e s e are fo rbiddeh o ff s ls to carry said n egro at th e ir p e ril .
S e H N F ENNER . ( ign d , ) JO
Several land owners sold farms about this time . The fol
is Gaz ette 1 6 lowing from the of March , 77 :
—A r th T o B E SO L D O R L E T . e e e e fa m lying in north rly part of Gloc st r , 2 0 e e 1 0 e are containing 5 acr s , adjoining H rring Pond ; 5 acr s within good e e 8 e r e t he e n 00 f nc , 7 or acr s of y i n grou nd , and is capabl of p roduci g 3 e suflicie n t e e bush ls of corn ; it has a q uantity of m adow , pastur and p low e e 2 0 e e e e e ing land , will k p h ad of cattl and is w ll timb r d ; has a good
e e e . A dw lling hous , corn crib , two hov ls ; also an orchard pp ly to
B EN AM IN E e e . J BOW N , Provid nc
AS early as 179 1 the population of the town had s o in creased that in the northern part the men found it so in con v en ie n t to go to Chepachet to attend town meetings that a petition was sent from the town to the General Assembly to
have the town divided . The petition was received , but for
was various reasons the division postponed .
n - All male persons of twe ty one years and upwards , except F or ministers of the gospel , paid a poll tax . several years
mothers had the entire responsibility of their children , man ih aging their affairs the most frugal manner, and living on
the resources of the town as far as possible . Weddings were celebrated without cake made of wheat flour ; ribbons and
many foreign articles of wear were not then worn . All con siderate persons realized that to sustain the strength of the
in new independent nation , great wisdom , uprightness and
lli n e t e ge c mus“t be sought and adhered to . Sidney Smith has well said That civilization does not simply consist in e having bett”er china and adornments , but to be j ust and nobl in conduct . H ISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 37
T H E WAR F i 12 O 8 .
After Washington resigned his commission and our nation had been acknowledged free by England , our people had to t s ruggle hard to meet the exigencies of an independent nation .
England foresaw what we had to encounter, and solaced her self with the hOpe that we should be divided by civil broils fortu and again might be restored to Great Britain . But m for S he ately America, at this j uncture possessed some very able and wise men , who had great influence over their fellow 18 12 citizens . In it became evident that decisive measures must be taken to secure our rights and privileges . Our sea men were impressed into the English service , our commerce , ’ by some acts of their s , was nearly swept from the ocean , and contrary to express stipulation , she refused to give up some military posts at the west and other important points of vital interest to the new republic . o n I n view of these facts and other serious encroachments ,
18 18 12 t . J une , , war was declared with the mother coun ry In this declaration the citizens of this town took an active interest . The military was at once put on a war footing . F F ’ ort Independence , on Robin H ill , ield s Point , Providence , was thrown up to protect the harbor . Members from this town assembled at Chepachet , spade in hand . When all r “ were ready, the commande called out , Shoulder shovels — march All classes j oined in making the defense a breast
n work was thrown up and a ditch arou d it . Some portions of it still remain . Soldiers received eight dollars per month and bounty from the town .
2 18 1 . December 4, 4, a treaty of peace was concluded
Since that time the two cou n tries have been very friendly .
Great depression in business prevailed at this time . f Military o ficers in the revolutionary and colonial periods , from this town
Chad Brown , Stephen Winsor, Samuel May, John Smith ,
Jonah Steere , John Colwell , Dr . Reuben Mason , Caleb Arnold , 8 3 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
r Elisha Ba tlett , Asa Kimball , Simeon Brown , I srael Cooke
Nathaniel Wade , Isaac Ross , J eremiah Ross , Stephen Kim ball , Benaj ah Whipple , Edward Solway, Arnold Smith ,
Ezekiel Phetteplace , H enry Whipple, Simon Smith , Elij ah
n Armstro g , Solomon Owen , Jeremiah Whipple , Abner Chil
Son , Esek Brown , Seth Ross , John Pray, Benj amin Colwell , T o urt ellot John Colwell , Abraham , David Richmond , Na thaniel Blackmar, Samuel Thornton , John Phetteplace , James
Colwell , Peter Lewis , Zephaniah Keach , John Whip ple , H enry W heeler, Edward Salsbury , Jeremiah Irons , Richard Tucker,
Abraham Winsor, Zebulon Wade , I srael Smith , Asa Bow d H e re n de n ish , Asa Kimball , William , Richard Steere, John
Eddy, Stephen Olney, John Bowen , Benj amin Burlingame ,
Stephen Irons , Richard Lewis , Daniel Mathewson , Stephen C Paine , Aaron Arnold, Martin Smith , aleb Sheldon , Simon
Smith , Eliakim Phetteplace , Ezekiel Brown , Timothy Wil h w mart , Zephaniah Smith , Daniel O en , Stephen Kimball .
F W 1806 D IVI SI ON O TH E TO N I N .
' 2 th 180 At a town meeting held on the 7 of August , 5 , the division of the town was again discussed and a committee appointed , consisting of Zebedee H opkins , Seth H unt , T ourt elot t B aralael o ct an Abraham Winsor, Daniel , Paine , J d Putnam and Edward Waldron , to raft a petition to divide
the town as near as might be into two equal parts , thereby
to form two towns , and present it to the next Assembly,
t he 16 1806 . which was to meet on th of April , The petition was presented and granted to divide the town by drawing a
middle line through the of the town from east to west , the
B urrillville northern part to be called , in honor of the
H on f . Attorney General of the State , the James Burrill I n
recognition of this act , Mr . Burrill presented the town a full
s et of books to keep the town records . The southern half
retained the favorite name , Glocester . was The town being divided, an equal division of the poor t he made between two towns , also all debts due or owing,
40 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
18 10 In , four years after Glocester was divided , the town
contained four hundred dwelling houses , a population of ’ man ufact ur two clothiers works , six grain mills , four
ing establishments , seven or eight mercantile stores , two religious societies , twelve private schools , and one good
social library .
R OAD S .
Previous to the town of Glocester being set o ff from
Providence , a road had been laid out from Providence village to Woodstock , passing through what are now the towns of Smit hfield North Providence , Johnston , and Glocester to the was road in Connecticut that leads to Woodstock . This road 1 88 a large country road , and much used . I n 7 SO much of it had been taken by private persons that the travelling at some f seasons had become very di ficult . To repair said road, a petition from the several towns was presented to the Assem l b . y, asking that the road might be relaid to its original width
was ran t ed E s It g , and Thomas Owen , q , of Glocester, Caleb
E s E s H arris , q , of J ohnston , Stephen Brayton , q , of Sm ith
field , and Mr . Thomas Olney, of North Providence , were appointed a committee to relay and Open the road three rods ex en wide, its original width , the aforesaid towns pay ing all p s es . The committee decided to petition for a lottery to raise twelve hundred dollars to aid in paying the repairs . The petition was granted , and Messrs . Timothy Wilmarth , r Thomas Owen , Solomon Owen , J . , Edward Greene and
Nathaniel Bo wditch were appointed directors of said lottery .
The money was raised and the road repaired . In 1774 there was a road laid out from Providence to East 1 2 H oosick , through Glocester . In 79 there was a road from Providence to Albany through this town ; also there was a t 1 2 C . road through this town in 79 to H artford , , and Brook
field, Mass . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 4 1
ROADS .
A road that in the year 1762 passed from Providence to C onnecticut through this town was by a number of persons re re residing in the towns through which the road passed , p s ented to the A s sembly to be s o bad that carriages were not a f ble to pass without great di ficulty , that some part of the way was without inhabitants , and that the road could not be was made passable without some assistance . If the road in a good condition , commerce between Providence and Con n ecticut would be greatly increased . The petition to rai se h r necessary funds was granted by aving a lottery, on co i h dition t at there should bhe no expense to the State . William Dean , Jonah Steere , C ad Brown , Abraham Winsor and Andrew Waterman were appointed directors to carry out these measures . I n due time the road was put in good order for travel . 1 2 I n 77 a road was laid out in the north part of the town , m fro th e colony line , at a place known as Alum Pond H ill , ’ and leading southerly to Cook s mill , about the distance of
five miles , crossing Clear river at the north end and meeting a highway laid out by Massachusetts Bay which leads from
Oxford to Providence . To put said highway in good order, the Assembly granted a lottery to raise four hundred dollars .
Messrs . Jonathan Harris , William Ross and John H owland were appointed directors . No expense to the State .
- After lotteries were forbidden , toll gates were established to raise funds to make repairs on turnpikes .
The road in the south part of the town with a toll - gate was 1 6 made free in 8 5 . I n 18 2 5 a charter was granted to Richard Burlingame and o thers for a turnpike beginning in North Providence and pass ing through Johnston , and a corner of Scituate and Glocester, under the name of the Rhode Island and Connecticut Central
- Turnpike , with the permission to have two toll gates in w Glocester . One of thes e as opposite the hotel kept many 6 2 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . H years , by ezekiah Cady, in the western part of the town ; the other was established Opposite the hotel kept many years
' b . y Mr Richard Aldrich , in the eastern part of the town . In 18 2 6 the S mit hfield an d Glocester turnpike was named the Mineral Spring turnpike . Reports of a committee on w turnpikes ere annually to be made to the General Assembly . The common roads are now laid out by the town and kept in repair by town taxes . The roads are generally kept in good condition .
PP W AY A IAN .
18 16 I n June , , a charter was granted to incorporate the
F : o“ster and Glocester Appian Way Society, as follows e it en acted bt/z e Gen era lAss embl a n d é t/z e a n t/t orit B y y , y y
nereo it is nereb en acted t f y , That the said Society be and they hereby are authorized to make and establish a branch of the turnpike road which by law they have been authorized to make and establish , and to extend the said branch from some * place at or near the dwelling house of Jonathan Williams , in Glocester, to the southerly end of the turnpike laid out by the State of Connecticut , or any other road laid out , or
ma which y be laid out , in that State, leading from Thompson into the Chepachet Turnpike Road , and to make the said branch in the sam e manner, and with all the same privileges , as they have power, by their own charter, to make any other part of said road Provided the said Society shall previously
Obtain the consent thereto , of all the proprietors of the lands over which it will pass , under their hands and seals . No other recorded information has been found of the
Appian Way by the author .
RAILROADS .
18 In January , 74, the town of Glocester was authorized to subscribe and hold capital stock in the Providence and Spring a field Railro d Company .
* ’ Jonathan Williams hom e ste ad in Gloce ste r was not far from that of
. e the e e the . Mr Nathani l Bowditch , in w st rn part of town HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 43
Pon a an sett The g railroad , to connect with the Hartford an d F ishkillrailroad and the Providence and Springfield rail
et . road , has not y been made The W oon asq uatucket Railroad Company was incorporated 18 C he in 5 7, the road to pass through or near the village of
pachet, on the petition of Daniel M . Salsbury , Ira P . Evans ,
Clovis H . Bowen , Horace Kimball , Jason Emerson , Albert
L . Sayles , Ot is Sayles , George H . Browne , Nathan B .
Sprague , Thomas Barnes , Anthony Steere , William Winsor,
Elisha Dy er, Zachariah Allen , Philip Allen , Amos D . Smith a was and H enry B . Lym n . The road built , but passes through Oakland instead of Chepachet .
LOTTERI ES .
The lottery system , sanctioned by the Legislature , was as a 1 commenced early s 763. It seemed to be the best and s wa urest y to raise needed funds to build bridges , churches , u to lay out and repair roads , and make other p blic improve m ents . After a few years the legality of lotteries was with d rawn by th“e Assembly . 1 I n 774, several persons of the inhabitants of the town o f Glocester preferred a petition unto the General Assembly , praying that a lottery may be granted them for the raising s um the of five hundred pounds , lawful money , for the purpose of building a meeting house in the north part o f said h town , and purc asing a lot for the same ; and also a ci ‘ small lot for the use of their Society, commonly called The ’ h Old Standing Baptist , w ich Society is under the care of
Messrs . Edward Mitchel , John Winsor, William Bowen and
Philemon Hynes ; that Messrs . Stephen Winsor, Arnold dire c Smith , Martin S”mith and Jesse Smith be appointed f tors o the same . “ The petition was granted , and it was provided that said persons be managers of the said lottery, they giving bonds according to law in a sum double the amount of the sum 44 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
is which to be raised by the sa”le of the tickets , and that no expense be given to the State . a 1 0 At the session of the General Assembly in J nuary, 79 , w it was voted and resolved , that the H on . Daniel O en , E s Nathaniel Wade , q , and Mr . Seth H unt , be appointed a
committee to settle the account of Messrs . Stephen Winsor,
Arnold Smith , Martin Smith and Jesse Smith , who were the directors of the said lottery for building a meeting house in Glocester , and that the expense thereof be def”rayed by the said directors without any expense to the State . subse The account was settled . Other lotteries were
quently made .
A VI LL GES .
c/z C/z epa et . The site of the village of Chepachet has been the centre of public business in this section since its first
settlement . As the population increased , business in various was 18 1 departments quite extensive for a small place . In 3 dr there were in som e dozen stores for groceries , y goods and was farming utensils , several clerks . Much business done
here from towns around , reaching into Connecticut and
Massachusetts . Two public houses were formerly kept here ; now there is f was 1806 but one . A post o fice established here in ; and
on that day Amherst Kimball was appointed postmaster . : The following persons succeeded Mr . Kimball Cyrus Cooke ; Horace Kimball in 1845 ; Job Armstrong in 1849 ; H orace
Kimball in 18 5 3; William H awkins in 186 1 ; Walter A . Read 188 1866 . in , and Robert H Wade in 5 . The village is pleasantly situated on both sides of Che
pachet river, and is healthy . The climate is somewhat colder
than in Providence . The large elms beautify the village . I n 18 30 there was a great temperance movement ; liquors
was in all the stores were given up , and much less cider made . A large temperance society was formed which exerted a
healthful influence on many persons . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 45
There were great turnouts when shows of wild animals 18 2 were brought to the village . In 5 a fine, large elephant a was brought here, and room for a canv s t ent on the ground w of the Central Hotel was hired to Sho the animal . When ’ the owners were leaving at twelve o clock at night , and pass ing the bridge in the village, the contents of an unerring rifle entered the brain of the poor elephant . H e fell and died .
The perpetrators of this fearful deed were afterwards taken , tried and damages assessed . The village of Claréo i/te is in the northwest corner of the town . A tannery was here in the early part of the present
was saw- century, and continued for many years ; also a mill . 18 18 man ufa In , Arnold Brothers put up a building to c ture cotton yarn . The mill has several times been burnt F or and rebuilt and run as a shoddy mill . several years it was in the hands of H oratio Darling, but now T . R . White
8: Co . run the mill .
s loces ter l We t G is a sma l village near Clarkville . This is a manufacturing place for carpet warp and heavy woollen goods , conducted by the firm of Hawkins H oughton . A ffi was 1862 w as post o ce established here in , ith Mr . Keach postmaster .
lti s ille is t w Wi arn o about o miles south of Clarkville . I t
- has a few houses and a grist mill of long standing .
H a rmony is in the eastern part of the town . It has about
2 00 . inhabitants The village has two stores , several mechan f ical Shops , and a post o fice . Mr . Randall is postmaster .
There is also a hotel here . " Spring Grov e is a village of several houses about a mile east of Chepachet . Here Smith Mowry and his two sons , 18 6 Scott W . and Brown , about 3 , purchased the Spring Grove mill and successfully carried on the manufacturing of cotton goods for about sixteen years . This mill then passed
1868 . . into several hand s, until in it was purchased by T R
White Co . to manufacture shoddy goods . I 6 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
H I LLS .
The range of hills in the western part of the town extend
the to the Green Mountains in Vermont , and views from the tops of some of them are grand . These hills were early as known the great rendezvous for deer ; also rabbits , squirrels and Sparrows consequently venison and other kinds of game were abundant . The deer and the b“ucks fled fr”om the hun - 1 2 ters to the hill tops , hence the name Buck H ill . In 7 8 a law was made to protect the deer . The deer chase seemed
English and homelike to some of the settlers , but to kill a deer in certain portions of the year was punishable with a heavy fine .
H ere a band of counterfeiters found a very secluded cave , 1 8 where they counterfeited the Spanish milled dollars in 7 6 .
They made them of two kinds ; one was plated , the other m ixed . Many persons were found implicated in several
. v towns , and some out of the State After it was disco ered , m a settlement was ade with the town and State . The pen alty was very severe when actual proof of the counterfeiters could be proved . “ ’ Cooper s Den i s quite a curiosity, and for the early
- A solon a settlers it was a good hiding place . b hill is about
M at o n two and a half miles east of C hepachet . y hills run southeast by east some miles , and the turnpike crosses these hills near the south end of the range , about three miles Swamic ut i southeast of Chepachet village . valley s west of
M at o n n . y hills , runni g north and south The town is hilly and rocky . ’ F rom the top of Winsor s hill , Wachusett mountain , in
s . Princeton , Mas , is seen in a clear day The mountain is
feet high . F Pine hill is in the southwestern part of the town . rom t he Sayles Brown hill , on the great road that formerly led from Chepachet to Killingly, are fine views . Pine Orchard
48 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
S E C RET S O C I ETI ES .
The ancient order of F ree Masons was chartered at the F f F . set o f. : . time the town was riendship Lodge , No 7, A t M 2 ls 1800 . A . . , had a meeting on the of October, The fol f : lowing o ficers were installed Joseph Bowen , Master ; Elij ah W W Armstrong, S . . ; David Richmond , J . . ; Asa Burlin
game, Treasurer ; S . Owen , Secretary ; Oliver Owen , S . D . 180 Stephen Burlingame , J . D . I n 5 the meetings were
more regularly held . The meetings were held in the village 180 of C hepachet . In the year 7 the following persons peti t ion ed the Assembly for a charter for F riendship Lodge of F an d ree Accepted Masons from the town of Glocester, viz
Anan Evans , Elij ah Armstrong , Chad Sayles , Solomon Owen , r William Steere , J . , Joseph Bowen , Stephen Burlingame , John
Wood, J oseph H ines , Levi Eddy, Cyrus Cooke , Duty Sals ’ T ourt ellot bury , Thomas Owen , Daniel , Mowry Smith , John w F Wilkinson , Andre Brown , Ebenezer elch , Daniel Tucker, Phett e Angell Paine , H iram Salsbury, Seth Thompson , Job
place , Elij ah Day, John M . Donald, Thomas Ingraham , James r Adfer King, J . , Joseph Putnam , Eddy , Abraham Belnap, r Emor Joseph Burgess , George Har is , Job Aldrich , Olney, r R e min Pitt Smith , Seth H unt , J . , Stephen Eddy, William g T o urt ellot E mor ton , Thomas Darling, Jesse , Thomas Eddy, T ourt ellot Winsor, Jeremiah , Elisha Sayles , and Samuel
Matteson . The charter was granted with all the privileges
of any organized society . One hundred and thirty members
are reported . Regular meetings were held on Saturdays on o r before the full of the moon . f 18 2 8 O ficers in Benedict Aldrich , Master ; I saac Aldrich , W arden ; Willard J . Smith , J unior Warden ; Jethro S . Lap ham , Senior Deacon ; Sterry J . Smith , Junior Deacon ;
Richard Lapham , Treasurer ; Arthur A . Ross , Secretary ;
Otis Sayles and Otis Eddy, Stewards ; Esek Phetteplace ,
Tyler . Officers in the above society in the year 18 84 : Joseph R en al r w ss ae . Perkins , A . Cooper, Ed ard L Phetteplace , Albert HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 49
m . Potter, Willia J . Tracy, William Blackmar, Carlton G
Smith , George E . Cutting, George O . Bligh , Martin W .
Young, Edwin M . Neff, Randall Mowry, Walter A . Read , F elix S . Slavin . About ninety members . The society had F ’ a ree Masons hall in the village .
n 1 The Chepachet Division , Sons of Tempera ce , No . 4, was 2 th 18 2 organized October 4 , in the year 7 . The following
f 6 188 : . o ficers were installed October , 4 Mrs James Angell ,
d . E ...... Webster, Mrs R H Wade , Mrs M D Arnold , Mrs F F S . Sweet, Miss Eva Sweet , red . Wilson , Miss rances Wil
L v k . son Mrs . . . . . e e c , U T Potter, E L , William Sweet , Rev h H . E . Johnston , C aplain . During the last twelve years over thirteen hundred dollars have been paid into the treas ur y . It has about forty members . The meetings of the society are held in the vestry of the Congregational meeting
Mrs Mrs house . . U . T . Potter, Worthy Patriarch ; . Mary 1 8 8 . A . Sweet , Recording Scribe , in 5 1 Harmony Division , Sons of Temperance , No . 3, was F 18 . chartered ebruary 4, 7 5 It meets Saturday evenings at
. . . ; the Harmony chapel A J H ubbard , Worthy Patriarch
. 188 . H enry C Brown , Recording Scribe , 5
BANKS .
’ F 180 F I n ebruary , 4, the armers Exchange Bank was char t ere d , to be located in the village of Chepachet , with a capital of President , John Harris ; cashier, Mowry w Smith . Daniel O en , Simon Smith , Timothy Wilmarth ,
‘ James Aldrich , John Harris , John Wilkinson , Elisha Mathew w son , Solomon O en , Samuel Winsor, Daniel Smith , Simeon
an d T o urt e llo t Smith , Mowry Smith Daniel were appointed w directors of said bank . Daniel O en resigned in March , 180 4, and William Rhodes was elected to fill his place . The
n books of the bank were kept in a co fused state , according to ’ the final report of the Assembly s committ ee to examine the bank . The directors did not at any time have a proper O S HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
d 1808 kno wle ge of the management of the bank . In nearly t he all directors sold out their shares . John Harris continued n 1808 m preside t , and in Willia Colwell was appointed cashier ;
F a an d Elisha irbanks Samuel Dexter were made directors . It was evident to men doing business with the bank that f r there was great mismanagement with some of the O fice s , and that the affairs of the bank needed to be examined . A bank business meeting was called , and the following new
. : directors were appointed , viz Obadiah Brown , Seth H unt , r . so n J , Mark Steere ( of Richard ), Jesse Mowry and Samuel F enner . They delivered the books to the General Assembly .
180 a I n March , 9 , the Assembly ppointed a committee to investigate all the concerns of t he Glocester Bank and make did a report . This they . I t was found in a fearful condition .
h fin . co n e The cas ier, Mr Colwell , was committed to close m ent , no person being allowed to converse with him . The
n preside t of the bank left the State , and his estates were put under attachment . All the members of the General Assem bly manifested a full determination to take the most vigorous and decided measures to thoroughly probe this iniquitous deed to its very centre . The cashier and directors were cited and appeared before the General Assembly with bank books and papers . By this examination it was ascertained that the
n n bank had issued bills to an e ormous amount , far beyo d their capital ; that they had taken notes from Andrew D ex
r l ex i ter, J . , in Boston , without an indorser, payab e at the p f O 1808 . ration eight years from November, , at two per cent interest for upwards of The preside nt of t he bank was then in Boston , and the plates on which the bills were impressed .
T/z e America n An article in , a newspaper published in Prov 180 idence , March , 9 , has the following The funeral of the ’ F l is armers Exchange Bank , in G ocester, on its way to the
General Assembly at East Greenwich . It appears on exam in atio n of the books and papers at Glocester, by a committee
h u - appointed for t at p rpose , that a certain well known trader in bank stock, living in Boston , had got out of that bank I HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . S
something more than half a million of dollars , for which he had given only his note without an indorser, payable at the end of eight years from November last with two per ffi cent . interest , to the cashier, his successors in o ce or order . The bank is shut , and probably never to be Opened is again for Similar busine”ss . The Sign taken down and the keys are in the vicinity .
E s r. Obadiah Brown , q , and Seth H unt , J , both of Provi dence , were appointed a committee by the General Assembly to take into possession all the effects , books and papers of ’ the F armers Exchange Bank , and to collect and present an t h account of the same at the next meeting of e Assembly .
This they did , and a report of the committee before the F 180 Assembly, in ebruary, 9 , was published i n a pamphlet of
- forty three pages . F 18 18 In ebruary, , a number of people of the town of
Glocester obtained a charter for another bank, to be called
F . the ranklin Bank , with a capital of fifty thousand dollars T ourt ello t d President , Jesse ; cashier, Cyril Cook ; irectors ,
T ourt ello t m Jesse , Amherst Ki ball, Cyrus Cook , Joseph t r Bowen , Joseph Wilmarth , Timothy Swee , Amasa Eddy, J . , r r Thomas Owen , J . , Asaph Wilder, J . , Job Armstrong , Ira w Phetteplace Evans , Thomas Mathe son and John H awkins . This bank was successful and continued to do business until 186 the present national system was introduced in 5 , when it was voted to discontinue business . The following are the names of th e directors of the bank when it was closed in
1868 . : . , viz Amasa Eddy, Horace Ki mball , Clovis H Bowen , w Lawton O en , Smith Peckham , H orace A . Kimball , Leonard
Sayles , Joseph B . Smith . President , Joseph B . Smith ; i . . t s cashier, H orace A Kimball The bank paid out surplus
2 186 8 . to the stockholders , October , Several perso n s from this town were shareholders in the n was Greenville Bank whe it formed . The following persons
: were the petitioners for the bank Daniel Winsor, Joseph
e n Asa Math wso , Dexter Irons, Nathan B . Sprague , Winsor, 5 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
Richard Smith , Stephen Steere , John S . Appleby, Reuben
Mowry, Silas Smith and Elisha Steere . in Bank stock owners of this town general , now invest their money in banks in Providence , or in United States bonds .
M I LITA RY .
B OFFI CERS OF TRAI NED ANDS I N 178 1 . (GLOC ESTER . )
F irs t Com a n — p y Peter Lewis , Captain ; H enry Wheeler ,
Lieutenant ; Zephaniah Keach , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — p y Sam uel May, Captain ; James Colw ell ,
Lieutenant Arnold Smith , Ensign .
T/z ird Com an ~N athan iel p y Wade , Captain ; John Pray ,
Lieutenant Esek Brown , Ensign .
F on rt/t Com a n — O p y Isaac R SS , Captain ; Jeremiah Irons ,
Lieutenant ; Seth Ross , Ensign .
io l ss n — 1 8 . S en r C a Com a 7 4 p y Benaj ah Whipple , Captain ;
Ezekiel Phetteplace , Lieutenant ; Edward Salsbury, Ensign .
F irs t Com an — p y H enry Wheeler, Captain Sim eon Bowen , r Lieutenant ; Jeremiah Phillips , J . , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — p y Arnold Smith , Captain ; Abner Chils on ,
Lieutenant ; Israel Co oke , Ensign .
Tnird Com a n — p y Nathaniel Wade , Captain ; John Pray,
Lieutenant Esek Brown , Ensign .
F on rt/z Com an — h p y Isaac Ross , Captain ; Jeremia Irons ,
Lieutenant ; Seth Ross , Ensign .
“GLOCESTER GRENADIERS . 1 2 I n June , 79 , in consideration that the preservation of
this State , as well as other States , depends under the pro t ection of God upon the military skill and discipline of the f an d the inhabitants , that the following o ficers soldiers in F ourth Rhode Island Regiment , in the town of Glocester, 1 v1z octan C0 . commanded by Stephen Winsor, J Putnam , HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 5 3
a Elisha Mitchell, Amaziah Harris , Thomas Steere , Elish r son . a Brown ( of David), Stephen Cooke , J , Moses T ft ,
Joseph Putnam , David Thompson , Gideon Cooke , John
Greene , Daniel Curtis , Henry Phillips , John Cooke , Duty
Salsbury, William Phetteplace , Daniel Smith , Richard Sals bury, Richard Mitchell , David Bowen , Ezekiel Phetteplace , s Stephen Barne , Thomas Barnes , Benj amin Cooke , David d Taft , John Arnol , Jesse Tucker, Vial Salsbury and Darius
' ’ F in Mitchell, all of Col . Stephen Winsor s ourth Regiment , the county of Providence , but all residents of the town of ffi Glocester . The above o cers and soldiers petitioned , with m certain limitations to nu bers , etc . , to form themselves into b ‘ ’ a company y the name of the Glocester Grenadiers . Each officer and soldier of said company shall be five feet and nine inches in height , the number not to exceed sixty fi four, exclusive of of cers . It was granted and by that The name to have a perpetual succession . above company was an independent one . State military officers to command the F ourth State Regi ment from Glocester
1 1 S en ior Class Com an — 79 . p y Jonathan Eddy, Captain ; tan u o c . J P tnam , Lieutenant Eliakim Phetteplace, Ensign
Firs t Com an — Win p y Thomas Mitchell , Captain ; Thomas
sor . , Lieutenant William Wheeler, Ensign
S econ d Com an — : W p y Israel Cooke , Captain Rufus illiams ,
Lieutenant Jesse Cooke , Ensign .
Tnird Com an n p y Amos Winsor, Captain Jonatha
Cowen , Lieutenant ; Isaac Wade , Ensign .
Fon rt/i Com an — p y Willard Eddy, Captain ; George H unt ,
Lieutenant ; Pitt Smith , Ensign .
F tn Com a n — n A n o if p y Edmond Green , Captai ; Jabez r ld , n Lieutenant Oliver Cornell , E sign .
S en ior l ss — n . C a Com an a a I 79 3 p y Jon than Eddy, Capt i ;
Eliakim Phetteplace, Ensign .
Firs t Com an W W p y Thomas insor, Captain illiam W e s S . heeler, Lieutenant ; Benaj ah w et , En ign 5 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
S econ d Com an — p y Asa Ballou , Captain ; Will Lapham ,
Lieutenant .
Third Com an — p y James Potter, Captain ; I saac Wade , r Lieutenant ; John Wells , J . , Ensign .
FourthCom an — p y Pitt Smith , Captain ; Daniel Sayles ,
Lieutenant ; Joshua Winsor, Ensign .
F i thCom an — b f p y Edward Greene, Captain ; Ja ez Arnold ,
Lieutenant ; Oliver Cornell , Ensign .
e i lass om a n — 1 . S n or C C 794 p y Seth H unt , Captain ; Eli r n COO e . akim Phetteplace, Lieute ant ; Nathan p , Ensign
Firs t Com an — W C p y Thomas insor , aptain William r Wheeler, Lieutenant William H awkins , J . , Ensign .
S econ d Com an —Asa p y Ballou, Captain ; William Lapham ,
Lieutenant .
Third Com an — e p y James Potter, Captain ; I saac Wad ,
Lieutenant ; Stephen Cowing , Ensign .
F ourthCom an — p y Pitt Smith , Captain ; Daniel Sayles ,
Lieutenant ; Ezekiel Emerson , Ensign . — Fi thCom an k f p y Benedict Burlingame, Captain Ese
Brown , Lieutenant ; Benj amin H arris , Ensign .
en ior Class Com an — 1 . S 79 5 p y Rufus Steere, Captain r Nathan Cooper, Lieutenant Esek Brown , J . , Ensign .
S en ior Class Com an — 1800 . p y Nathan Cooper, Captain ; t Lo e e Esek Brown , Lieutenan ; Aaron g , Ensign . — Firs t Com an r. h p y Samuel Steere , J , Captain ; Ric ard
n Burlingame , Lieute ant ; Pascal . W . Wheeler, Ensign .
econ d Com an — n S p y Natha Williams , Captain ; Jesse In man , Lieutenant ; Peregrine Mathewson , Ensign .
Third Com an — w en ckes p y Oliver O en , Captain J Sprague, Adfer Lieutenant Eddy, Ensign .
FourthCom an — E p y Ezekiel Emerson , Captain ; sek Paine ,
Lieutenant Stephen Thayer, Ensign .
F th Com an — n if p y James Reynolds , Captain Jonatha
e C . Thornton, Li utenant ; Eleazer larke , Ensign
6 5 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
In 18 2 1 the Glocester Light Infantry and the Burrillville
v and Glocester Washington United Cavalry were re ived , and said companies were attached to the Twelfth Regiment of i the Milit a, in the Second Brigade , in this State , and subj ect ffi to the command of the o cers of that regiment .
1 80 3. Twelfth Regiment of State M ilitia from Glocester
Anan Evans , Maj or, and Richard Burlingame , Second Maj or .
F irs t C n — om a . p y Pascal P Wheeler, Captain ; Samuel
Bowen , Lieutenant ; Robert Aldrich , Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y Peregrine Mathewson , Captain ; J oh n
Wallen , Lieutenant ; Rufus Smith , Ensign .
Third Com an — F p y Ebenezer elch , Captain ; John Arm strong , Lieutenant ; Stephen Thayer, Ensign .
FourthCom a n — n p y Stephe Thayer, Captain ; J ohn Arnold ,
Lieutenant Arnold Sayles , Ensign .
’ F i thCoin arz — e f p y Eleaz r Clarke , Captain ; Thomas Bur il Othn . gess , Lieutenant ; Saunders , Ensign
S ix thCom a n — p y Nicholas Brown , Captain ; Daniel Med
r . bury, Lieutenant Seth H unt , J . , Ensign
1 Fi s t Co n — u 80 . m 4 r pa y Sam el Bowen , Captain ; Esek a P ge , Lieutenant Bani Phillips , Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y Peregrine Mathewson , Captain ; John
Wallen , Lieutenant ; Rufus Smith , Ensign .
Third Com an — F p y Ebenezer elch , Captain ; John Arm strong, Lieutenant ; Stephen Eddy, Ensign .
F i thCom an — m Othn il f p y Tho as Burgess , Captain ; Saun
r . ders , Lieutenant H enry Wheeler, J . , Ensign
S ix thCom an — p y Nicholas Brown , Captain George Olney,
Lieutenant ; J eptha H unt , Ensign .
F irs t Com an — 180 . 5 p y Bani Phillips , Captain ; Esek
Page , Lieutenant Ezekiel Cornell , Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y Peregrine Mathewson , Captain ; John
Wallen , Lieutenant ; Rufus Smith , Ensign .
Third Com an — F p y Ebenezer elch , Captain ; John Arm strong, Lieutenant ; Stephen Eddy, Ensign . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 5 7
F ourthCom an — p y John Arnold , Captain ; Arnold Sayles ,
Lieutenant David Burlingame , Ensign .
F i th Com a n — Othn ial f p y Thomas Burgess , Captain ; r Saunders , Lieutenant H enry Wheeler, J . , Ensign .
S ix thCom a n - p y Nicholas Brown , Captain ; George Olney,
Lieutenant ; Job Phetteplace , Ensign .
180 . 7 After the town of Glocester was divided , the town was required to furnish but three companies : Robert Steere ,
Maj or, for the Twelfth Regiment . — Firs t Com an . p y Job Phetteplace , Captain ; Thomas R
Eddy, Lieutenant ; Joseph Brown , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — Asa p y Ezekiel Cornell , Captain ; Borden ,
Lieutenant Ira P . Evans , Ensign . — Third Com a n r. p y Henry Wheeler, J , Captain ; Joseph
Hammond , Lieutenant ; Jacob Clarke , Ensign .
1 0 F irs t Com an — 8 8 . p y Job Phetteplace , Captain ; Thomas
R . Eddy, Lieutenant Joseph Brown , Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y Ezekiel Cornell , Captain ; Asa Borden ,
Lieutenant Amasa Eddy , Ensign .
i n — r Thrd Com a . p y Henry Wheeler, J , Captain ; Joseph
H ammond , Lieutenant ; Jacob Clarke , Ensign .
18 10 . . Anthony Sprague and John Eddy, Maj ors
F irs t Com an — p y Thomas R . Eddy, Captain Joseph Brown ,
Lieutenant ; Zephaniah Keech , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — r p y Amasa Eddy , J . , Captain ; Esten Owen ,
Lieutenant Seth Peckham , Ensign .
Third Com an — p y Joseph Hammond, Captain ; Jacob Clarke ,
Lieutenant David Page , Ensign . — 18 1 1. F irst Com an Z e h p y Joseph Brown , Captain ; p a n iah Keech , Lieutenant ; Amasa Steere , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — p y Amasa Eddy, Captain ; Seth Peckham ,
Lieutenant Charles Potter, Ensign .
Third Com an — e p y Jacob Clark , Captain ; David Page ,
Lieutenant Charles Wade , Ensign . 8 5 8 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
F irs t om a n — Am 18 12 . C p y Zephaniah Keech , Captain ; asa Steere , Lieutenant Dexter Irons , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — p y Amasa Eddy, Captain Seth Peckham ,
Lieutenant Charles Potter, Ensign .
Third Com an — p y David Page , Captain ; Charles Wade,
Lieutenant Cyrus Burlingame , Ensign .
18 1 F irs t Com a n — n Am 3. p y Zephaniah Keech , Captai ; asa Steere , Lieutenant Dexter Irons , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y David Page , Captain ; Charles Wade ,
Lieutenant ; Cyrus Burlingame , Ensign . Companies of the Twelfth Regiment : Arnold Brown and
r. . Zephaniah Keech , J , Maj ors
F irs n — e 18 1 . t Com a 4 p y Amasa Ste re , Captain ; Dexter
I rons , Lieutenant ; Smith Mowry, Ensign . — S econ d Com an r. p y Seth Peckham , J , Captain ; Charles .
Potter; Lieutenant Caleb Davis , Ensign .
1 F irs t Co a n — 8 1 . m 5 p y Amasa Steere , Captain ; Dexter
I rons , Lieutenant ; Smith Mowry, Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y Charles Potter, Captain ; Caleb Davis ,
n Lieutena t Jeremiah Keech , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y Cyrus Burl ingame , Captain ; George
Smith , Lieutenant ; Asaph Wilder, Ensign .
18 16 F irs Com n — . t a p y Dexter Irons , C aptain ; Smith
Mowry, Lieutenant ; H arris Medbury, Ensign ; Esek Phet
t e lace p , Maj or .
S econ d Com an — p y Jeremiah Keech , Captain ; Christopher
Winsor, Lieutenant ; Thomas Smith , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y Cyrus Burlingame , Captain George
Smith , Lieutenant Asaph Wilder, Ensign .
F irs t Co — 18 1 . m an 7 p y Smith Mowry, Captain ; Harris
Medbury, Lieutenant ; John W . Smith , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — a p y Jeremiah Keech , Capt in C hristopher
Winsor, Lieutenant Thom as Smith , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y As aph Wilder, C aptain George Bowen ,
r . J . , Lieutenant ; Amos Clarke , Ensign HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 59
18 1 w e Lieul 7 . Arnold Bro n , Colonel ; Esek Phetteplac ,
E s tenant Colonel ; George Smith , q , Maj or .
1 1 Fi s t om a n — 8 8 . r C n p y Harris Medbury, Captain ; Joh
W . Smith , Lieutenant ; Welcome Aldrich , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — r p y Jeremiah Keech , Captain ; Christ ophe r Winsor, Lieutenant Benj amin Pai n e, J . , Ensign .
1 1 irs m n — n 8 . F t Co a 9 p y Harris Medbury, Captain Joh W W . Smith , Lieutenant ; elcome Aldrich , Ensign .
S econ d Com an — r p y Jeremiah Keech , Captain Christophe r Winsor, Lieutenant Benj amin Paine , J . , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y George Bowen , Captain ; Amos Clarke,
Lieutenant Solomon Clarke , Ensign .
18 20 t . Arnold Brown , Colonel ; Ira P . Evans , Lieutenan
Colonel ; Jesse Harris , Maj or .
18 2 1 F irs t Com a n — p y Welcome Aldrich , Captain ; John ,
W . Smith , Lieutenant ; Elisha S . Winsor, Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y Rufus Steere , Captain ; Thayer Bellows , n n Lieute a t ; Anthony Sanders , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y Solomon Clarke , Captain Amasa Smith ,
Lieutenant ; Harris Bowen , Ensign . State Militia of Twelfth Regiment from Glocester
F irs t om an /”W elcome 18 2 2 . C a p y Aldrich , Captain ; Elish
S . Winsor, Lieutenant Richard R . Clemence , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — s p y Rufus Steere , Captain Thayer Bellow , us S van . Lieutenant y Bradford , Ensign
Third Com an — p y Solomon Clarke , Captain Harris Bowen ,
Lieutenant ; Lee Steere , Ensign .
2 i C — L 18 . F rs t om an ee 3 p y Harris Bowen , Captain ;
Steere , Lieutenant Lysander Richmond, Ensign .
S econ d Com an — B n p y enj amin Owe , Captain ; Clark Phet t e lace p , Lieutenant ; Asel H awkins , Ensign .
m an — Third Co . p y Elisha Winsor, Captain ; Richard R T urt ellot o . Clemence , Lieutenant ; Daniel , Ensign
8 2 1 2 1 8 . 4. The same as in 3 60 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
— 18 2 F irst Com a n . 5 . p y Richard R Clemence , Captain ; T ourt ellot Daniel , Lieutenant Samuel Waldron , Ensign .
S econd Com a n — Owe n C a t ain Phe tt e p y Benj amin , p Clark place , Lieutenant ; Asahel H awkins , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y Harris Bowen , Captain ; Lee Steere ,
Lieutenant ; H oratio Darling, Ensign .
1 F irs t Com a n — w 886 . p y Benj amin O en , Captain ; Clark i Phetteplace , L eutenant ; Asahel H awkins , E nsign .
S econ d Com an — p y Lee Steere , Captain H oratio Darling,
2 d . Lieutenant ; Otis Paine , , Ensign i C — Thrd om a n . p y Richard R Clemence , Captain Daniel
To urt ellot . , Lieutenant ; Samuel Waldron , Ensign
18 2 F irs t Com a n — 7 . p y Samuel Waldron , Captain ; Brown
F . Burlingame , Lieutenant ; Ora . Steere , Ensign
’ S econ d Com an — w i Phe tt e p y Benj amin O en , Ca pta n ; Clark place , Lieutenant ; Asahel Hawkins , Ensign .
Third Com a n — p y Horatio Darling , Captain ; Otis Paine ,
Lieutenant Orin Reynolds , Ensign .
F irs n — 18 2 8 . t Com a p y S amuel Waldron , Captain ; Brown
F . Burlingame, Lieut enant ; Ora . Steere , Ensign
S econ d Com a n — t p y Clark Phe teplace , Captain Juni Irons ,
Lieutenant ; Clark Steere , Ensign .
T ird C m an — h o . p y Horatio M Darling, Captain ; Otis Paine,
Lieutenant Orin Reynolds , Ensign .
2 w 18 9 . State Militia of T elfth Regiment from Glocester A sa . George Smith , Colonel ; Steere , Maj or
i s t Com a n — F F r . p y Ora Steere , Captain ; Brown Burlin game , Lieutenant ; Olney B . Steere , Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y J uni Irons , Captain ; Clark Steere , Lieu tenant ; Joshua Williams , E nsign .
Third Com an — p y Orin Reynolds , Captain ; Solomon Sweet ,
Lieutenant Riley Page , Ensign .
F irs t om an — F 18 0 . C 3 p y Ora . Steere , Captain ; Brown
Burlingame , Lieutenant ; Olney B . Steere , Ensign . 6 1 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
S econ d Com a n — p y Juni Irons , Captain ; Clark Steere , Lieu t enant ; Joshua Williams , Ensign .
Third Com a n — n p y Orin Rey olds , Captain Solomon
S . weet , Lieutenant ; Riley Page , E nsign
18 1 F irs C n — F t om a . 3 . p y Ora Steere , Captain ; Brown
Burlingame , Lieutenant ; Olney B . Steere , Ensign ; John
Brayton , Colonel Jedediah Sprague , Lieutenant Colonel .
S econd Com a n — p y J uni Irons , Captain Clark Steere , Lieu t enant ; Joshua Williams , Ensign .
Third Com an — p y Orin Reynolds , Captain ; Solomon Sweet ,
Lieutenant Riley Page , Ensign .
1 2 F irs t om a n — 8 . C 3 p y Scott Mowry, Captain Amasa
Burlingame , Lieutenant ; Jencks Brown , Ensign .
S econ d Com an — p y Joshua Williams , Captain ; Alba Bel lows , Lieutenant ; Otis Sayles , Ensign .
Third Com an — p y Solomon Sweet , Captain ; Leonard R .
Williams , Lieutenant ; William White , Ensign .
F irs t om a n — n 18 . C 33 p y Jencks Brow , Captain ; Amasa
B urlingame , Lieutenant ; Alanson Steere , Ensign ; Jedediah
Sprague , Colonel ; Scott Mowry, Lieutenant Colonel .
S econ d Com an — p y Alba Bellows , Captain ; Otis Sayles ,
Lieutenant ; George Eddy, Ensign . — T ir C m a n . hd o . p y Leonard R Williams , Captain ; William
White , Lieutenant ; Joseph P . Sweet , Ensign .
F irs t om a n —" 18 . C 34 p y J encks Brown , Captain ; Amasa
Burlingame , Lieutenant ; Alanson Steere , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — p y Alba Bellows , Captain ; Otis Sayles ,
Lieutenant George Eddy, Ensign .
Third Com an — p y Leonard R . Williams , Captain William W hite , Lieutenant ; Lester Arnold , Ensign ; Scott Mowry,
C . olonel Asa Paine , Maj or
1835 . State Militia of Twelfth Regiment from Glocester — F i s t Com an . r . p y Charles H Steere , Captain Jonathan A T ourt ellot , Lieutenant Cyrus S . Eddy, Ensign ; William
Aldrich , Lieutenant Colonel ; Jesse Armstrong, Maj or . 6 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
C n — w F econ d om a . S p y George L O en , Captain ; rancis
H unt , Lieutenant Nathan Page , Ensign .
Third Com an — p y William White , Captain Lester Arnold ,
Lieutenant ; Rhodes Page , Ensign .
8 F irs t Com an — T ourt ello t a 1 6 . 3 p y Arnold , Captain ; Elish T ourt ellot M . Aldrich , Lieutenant ; H . J . , Ensign .
econ d Com an — S p y Abel Man , Captain ; Warren , u Lieutenant ; Edwin B . Olney , Ensign ; Sam el P . Tucker,
Maj or . — Third Com an . p y George C Smith , Captain George W .
White , Lieutenant ; J oseph Clarke , Ensign . F — 1 8 irs t Com a n . 18 8 . 37, 3 p y Darling S Durfee , Captain ; r Calvin Luther, Lieutenant ; Enoch Steere , J . , Ensign ;
George W . Sheldon , Lieutenant Colonel ; Amasa Westcott ,
Maj or . — c n d Com an . S e o . p y William R Page , Captain ; James R
Rhodes , Lieutenant ; William Wilcox, Ensign .
Third Com an — p y Paris Wade , Captain Dennis Steere ,
Lieutenant Caleb E . Tucker, Ensign .
F irst Com an — 18 . 39 p y Calvin Luther, Captain ; Enoch
r . . . . Steere , J . , Lieutenant ; A A M Steere , Ensign — S econ d Com a n S . . p y C Newman , Captain ; Abel Wade,
n Lieutenant James Owen , E sign .
C - Third om a n . p y Paris Wade , Captain ; Caleb E Tucker,
Lieutenant Abel M . Wilder, Ensign .
18 0 January, 5 , chartered military companies were dis
charged from further State military acts .
LIGHT INFANTRY .
1 80 F 7 . Timothy Wilmarth , Captain ; Martin S mith , irst
Lieutenant ; Elij ah Armstrong , Second Lieutenant ; Ezekiel
Brown , Ensign . F 1 8 . 7 7 Elij ah Armstrong, Captain Ephraim Brown , irst n Lieutenant ; Elisha Brown , Second Lieutenant ; Benj ami
H awkins , Ensign .
6 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
18 1 . r. F t 7 Daniel Smith , J , Captain ; Henry Rhodes , irs
Lieutenant ; Ira P . Evans , Second Lieutenant ; Benj ami n
Bowen , Ensign .
18 18 . . Ira P Evans , Captain ; Benj amin Bowen , F irst a Lieutenant ; Artemas Smith , Second Lieuten nt ; Caleb
Lo ee . g , Ensign
18 1 . F t 9 Benj amin Bowen , Captain ; Artemas Smith , irs Lo e e Lieutenant Caleb g , Second Lieutenant .
18 2 1. Lo ee F Artemas Smith , Captain ; Caleb g , irst
Lieutenant ; Ara H awkins , Second Lieutenant ; Duty Evans ,
Ensign . 18 2 2 Charter revived in .
18 2 2 . Lo e r F e . t Artemas Smith , Captain ; Caleb g , J , irs
Lieutenant ; Ara Hawkins , Second Lieutenant ; Duty Evans ,
Ensign .
18 2 . F 3 Ara H awkins , Captain ; Hardin Sayles , irst F l Lieutenant ; enner Wood , Second Lieutenant ; Burril
Lo e e . g , Ensign The Burrillv ille and Glocester Washington Unit ed Cavalry 18 18 b the was chartered October , , y petition of the follow
Burrilv ille : Elease r ing persons , residents in Glocester and
To urt ellot H arris . Otis Wood , Thayer Bellows , David , Daniel
T ourt ellot C . , Smith Brown , Amasa Brown , Arad Lapham , r Thomas Barnes , J . , Elisha Smith , Richard R . Clemence ,
Abel Phillips , Russell Evans , Thomas Smith , George Olney,
Eddy Waldron , Joseph B . Waldron , Randall Phetteplace ,
Brown Cary , Eddy Keech , J unia Paine, John Whipple , Lo ee Lo e e Washington g , Elisha g , Whipple Sayles , James d r . , Wilson , John Greene , 3 , Harris Cooke , Peter Sherman , J F Zadoc Shearman , Duty Lapham , Coomer Smith , enner Lo e e D an ieI Wood , Smith Ward , Amasa Aldrich , Burrill g ,
Barnes , Russell Barnes , Russell Kelly, James Irons , Nathan
Irons , Amasa Smith , Caleb Westcott , Arnold Angell , John d Peckham , James Aldrich , 3 , Rufus Steere , Amasa R . Tour
t ellot r. n , Richard Burlingame , J , Sanford Edwards , Marti
Mathewson , and such others as may hereafter associate with them , etc . , etc . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 6 5
18 2 0 E leaser T ourt ellot F . H arris , Captain ; David , irst
Lieutenant ; Otis Wood , Second Lieutenant ; Hezekiah ,
Cady, Cornet . 18 2 2 k F . H eze iah Cady, Captain Elisha Smith , irst Lieu tenant ; Otis Wood , Second Lieutenant ; Allen Hawkins ,
Cornet . 18 2 h F 3. H e zekiah Cady, Captain Elis a Smith , irst Lieu n tenant ; Otis Wood , Second Lieute ant ; Allen Hawkins ,
Cornet . 18 2 S en aca F 4 . Allen H awkins , Captain ; Smith , irst r e . Lieutenant ; Stephen Burlingam , J , Second Lieutenant ;
Elisha H arris , Cornet .
18 2 . . 5 Allen Hawkins , Cornet
COUNTY M ILITIA I N GLO CESTER I N 182 0
F i s om a n - fi H arriS h r t C . p y Medbury, Captain ; J o n W Smith
Lieutenant Welcome Aldrich , Ensign .
S econ d Com a n — p y Jeremiah Keech , Captain ; Christopher r Winsor, Lieutenant Benj amin Paine, J . , Ensign .
T i n — r hrd Com a . p y George Bowen , J , Captain ; Amos
Clarke , Lieutenant Solomon Clarke , Ensign . ’ I n 18 37 t he charter of the Glocester and Burrillville Safe
Guards was revived , having become forfeited by the omission f to make the return of certain o ficers elected . The town had a May military training for several years 18 0 f previous to 3 or later, for the general exercise of di ferent
was companies ; besides this there a general muster, the Burrillville military uniting with the Glocester m ilitary to a bri ad form g e . Several hours were devoted to drills and
military evolutions . On the morning of the general training it was a custom that the under officers should go before light to the residence
of the captain and honor him by firing many guns . After awhile the doors were Opened and all were invited into the
- house to partake of a well prepared breakfast . When through in the house they mounted their horses for the training
ground . The captain wore on his hat a tall black and red 9 66 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . b feather, on his Shoulder a silvered epaulette , and y his Side a hi sword dangling that was attached to s belt . In their march
and practice they made a marked display in the towns .
I n the late civil war, James M . Eddy was Captain in the F 186 2 ifth Rhode I sland Regiment in .
George H . Browne was Colonel of the Twelfth Rhode l 1 6 2 F I s and Regiment in 8 . Amasa . Eddy was Commissary
Sergean t in the sam e regiment . Stephen Sweet Was Maj or in the F irst Rhode Island 1862 18 C avalry Regiment in and 63. ’ Alexander Eddy was in the ! uartermaster s department .
C B M AN U FA TU R ERS , U S I N ES S M EN AND
F A RM ERS .
he Mr . Nathan Blackman had a hat factory, where manu
fact ured - silk and felt hats for the old , middle aged and young
- men . Some elderly persons preferred the broad brimme d F hats , especially the riends .
Oliver Owen had a nail factory and a trip - hammer in the
early part of the present century .
n 1800 . son Solomon Owen had a ta nery here before H is ,
Lawton , continued the business until his death . H e was
so n s ucceeded by his , George , who had charge of the tan
nery for several years .
The Messrs . Owen had oil works where oil was pressed
- from cotton seed .
A brick - yard was established in Glocester by the owners
of the clay beds . Elisha Bartlett was one of the first manufacturers of
scythes in Glocester . Potash was manufactured quite extensively in the latter part of the last century by Timothy Wilmarth , in the vicin
ity of Chepachet .
C rude ore , taken from the Sea Patch river in Glocester, was used at the Woonsocket forge before the Revolution .
Mr . George Harris had a distillery in the same building
i - where he had hs grist mill for many years . H e also had a 6 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 7
1808 tannery . I n he built a house to carry on the work of was carding, a little east of the bridge . H ere annually car ried the wool of sheep to be carded and made into rolls to ale a n - m spin on the f mily spinni g wheel to ake woolen cloth . The s e works were sold to the Glocester Man ufacturi n g Com pany . m Near this place , Lawton Owen built a small ill to spin 18 1 cotton yarn , in 4 . This mill was sold to Ira P . Evans , and again sold to Henry B . Lyman and Elisha Dyer . I n r 18 8 . 5 , H orace A . Kimball , J , and Warren Arnold purchased the factory and commenced the manufacture of satinet later, fancy cassimeres . About sixty operatives were employed . F 186 man In ebruary, 7 , a freshet did great damage to the ufacturin the the g establishm ents on Chepachet river, i n vil lage . Large expenditures were incurred to repair the inj ury .
18 2 0 . In , Elisha Dyer and H enry B Lyman b uilt a factory o n the south side of the river, near the turnpik e , where for
- five twenty years they manufactured cotton cloth . They were
b . succeeded y Otis Sayles and Joseph B Smith . About 1862 m they put in machinery to anufacture cassimeres . F ifty persons were employed . After the death of Sayles and 18 8 1 h Smith , in , Edward Valentine had c arge of the factory, and manufactured woolen goods .
M FAR ERS .
Most of the people of the town , outside the villages , are u ind strious and frugal farmers , though for forty or fifty years some of the best farm s have been neglected , as many per sons have left their homes to seek other employment . The late Enoch Steere had one of the best farms in the town . F ruits and berries of various kinds are cultivated potatoes , corn , rye , oats , barley, cabbages and beans are raised , and but ter and cheese are made . The esculent vegetables are car rots , onions , turnips , beets and parsnips .
The First Custom house for carding and d raping wool was wh e re the e B urrillv ille e D e Granit Mill now stands , i n , and was carri d on by ani l
Sayl e s Son . 6 8 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
EA R LY R E LI GI O U S PRIVI LEG ES . Among the early settlers of this land while forming a part o f the town of Providence , were some of the children and
grandchildren of English Dissenters . At first some of them
held prayer meet ings in their very humble dwellings . Som e F called themselves Seekers ; some were riends . Several of the owners of land here spent their winters in Providence
village . Others lived there most of the time , putting on
- u hired help to clear and cultivate the land . Twenty fo r Slaves of the late Moses Brown were employed here in cut ting down trees and preparing the land for good farms pre vions to the year All that were sufficiently favored to have a winter home in Providence had , a part of the year, better religious privileges . Some of the settlers called them selves Separatists , having left the C hurch of England , and m desired only the s imple forms of worship . So e were called
New Lights . 3 F ’ rom Backus H istory of , the Baptists we learn that Elder Edward Mitchell was pastor of a church in Glocester
2 2 1 - ht many years . H e died October , 79 5 , aged ninety eig w ' y ears . Elder William Bo en succeeded him . The church w as was an Independent one . Mr . Bo en is represented faith ful in his ministrations for several years . The above church w as . in the northerly, part of the town lin field P a . Thomas Knowlton was ordained at , Conn , Sep 1 1 1 2 tember , 74 . H e soon after came to Glocester and was pastor of a Separatist Baptist Church . Here he died . Ste phen Place and others assisted Mr . Knowlton in his declining years in church work .
- n Joseph Winsor, great grandso of Joshua Winsor, who 16 8 came to Providence in the year 3 , was ordained October 1 1 6 3 , 7 3, and settled pastor to succeed“Elder Thomas Knowl in : ton . Backus says his history E”lder Joseph Winsor was in full fellowship with o ur churches . The church pros
I 1 e w e S e e e e n 773, Mos s Bro n manumitt d al l h is lav s and b cam a n ard n t a bolitionist . 6 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 9
sev e n t t wo n e w pered , had y members , and a house of worship v illar e was built in the southerly part of the g , near the resi 1 1 dence of the late Samuel Y . Atwell . I n 77 the church j oined the Warren Baptist Association . The members collected a fund to aid in educating pious young men with a view to the was gospel ministry . The Warren Baptist Associat ion the m 1 66 . earliest of its kind in“New England . It was for ed in 7 It had for its obj ect to secure the civil and religious privi leges enj oyed by the mother church in England . 1 6 I n 7 7 , say“s the Rev . David Benedict , in his H istory of was re re the Baptists , the Baptist Church in Glocester p sented at the Warren Association by the Rev . Joseph Win 1 s or F or . 0 . years this church prospered About 79 a number of active members moved to parts of the _ Other un country, and their pastor, becoming aged and infirm , was the able to fully attend to his pastoral duties , and members became reduced and scattered . Mr . Winsor remained with sum them and continued their pastor until his death , in the
- 180 2 . mer of , in the eighty ninth year of h is age H e was buried on his own homestead farm , which was on a com H is manding hill with a very fine prospect . large house is still standing .
Mr . Winsor had a great interest in the religious and gen w eral education of the to n . H e built on his farm a good
- sized meeting house with a gallery the outside was finished , ut b . not the inside Christopher Winsor, grandson of “the Rev . Joseph Winsor, (now living , January , says no
was v church e er organized here , but large neighborhood meetings were held there . Later the house was used for a school . Mr . C hristopher Winsor also says that his grand father, when his sons marr”ied and settled , built a school v iz house near their dwellings . He had five sons , Abra ham , Amos , Christopher, Anan and Samuel ; and seven daughters , viz . Amey, Deborah , Lillis , Martha , Mary, Thank ful , and one died in infancy . All married . Samuel Winsor, his in he r youngest son and for many years Judge Winsor, ’ ’ it ed his father s homestead , on Winsor s hill , and lived there 7O HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
Old s until his death . The Winsor burying ground is on thi
hill . e After the death of Rev . Joseph Winsor, who was for som d was years an invali , his church very m uch broken up by some active members dying and some emigrating to colonize a n eighborhood in the town of Newport and other places in
New York . l' W athr fie d V t . h . e e s Jo n W H unt , Clarissa Danforth , of , ,
and Elder John Colby were devoted religious teachers . Rev . George Lamb held neighborhood meetings several years in ’ A o n old sa . Deacon Steere s large kitchen , Sundays The
meeting - house at Chepachet had either been torn or blow n
down .
TH E D ORR WAR . m w Glocester has been for many years a De ocratic to n . Until 1842 the charter given by King Charles the Second had t o been in full force in this State . Several y ears previous 18 2 4 , the unequal distribution of political power had agitated
many politicians in the State , many expressing a desire for a ‘ l change when it could be peaceably and lawfully made . Samue
Y . Atwell , of this town , strongly favored the giving up of the e land qualification . Some of the Suffrage leaders wer
Thomas W . Dorr , Duty J . Pearce , Ariel Ballou and Joh n R . f Waterman . Mr . Dorr was nominated by the Su frage Con 18 2 v e n tio n as their Governor in April , 4 , and appealed for
support to the people . H is supporters claimed a maj ority of
the votes cast . The J udges of the Supreme C ourt gave their
opinion that the Suffrage C onvention had acted illegally . wa 18 18 2 . s April , 4 , Thomas W Dorr declared Governor by e his party . Two days later the existing government re lected
b . Samuel W . King y a large maj ority over Dorr The Gen Law eral Government favored the and Order “or Whig party, th n ece s and President Tyler, on the 7 of May, said that if m sary he would sustain by force the Charter Govern ent . 2 18 2 t he J une 5 , 4 , Dorr issued a proclamation as Governor of State under the Suffrage Constitution to convene the Gen
7 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . exclusive of officers ; the company to be in the Second Bri
an d it s so gade of the Rhode Island militia, all members , long as enrolled , to be exempt from doing duty in other miltary companies in their district .
C M I S E LLAN EOU S .
1800 Some of the women of this town rode , in , on horse
back to Pawtucket to get cotton yarn of Brown Almy, u manufacturers , to make cotton cloth . I t was the custom p 18 1 of t o 7 , in the absence of machinery, for manufacturers yarn to send the webs into the country to be woven by hand In s looms . some cases matrons of families could hire girl for one dollar per week, with board , to weave . The weaving was paid in yarn . This yarn was used to make cloth for fam * wa use s . ily . India cotton used Linen thread cannot be spun by the machinery used for Spinning cotton or wool on account of the length and is a strength of the fibres of flax . The linen spinning wheel ax great mechanical curiosity . The fl is broken , hatcheled , stretched and made smooth ; after all the woody parts are is t he s e shaken off, it wound loosely upon a distaff fibres le ct ed are drawn out by the thumb and fore - fin ge r at t he same time ; these fibre s were t wisted by the flyers by t he m move ent of the foot on the pedal , and wound upon a bobbin w which turned somewhat slo er than t he flyers . In the mid
dle ages linen and woolen were the only materials for dress . I n this town some of her maidens one hundred years sinc e succeeded in making quite fine shirting and Sheeting ; very
an d handsome diapers and kersey for table cloths , napkins
w an d towels ; bed and windo curtains , striped with coarse
e 18 1 the e Pr vious to 5 all w aving was don e by hand looms . Judge Ly o f e e t he man , North Provid nc , was first to atte mp t to construct t he pow e r
s e e . H e e e . e e loom , but d id not fu lly ucc d mploy d a Mr Gilmor , lat from E e h ngla nd , who had brought som portions of t e powe r loom and dre ss e r
. H e e e e h D t e . with him fi nally succ d d in making loom avid Wilkinson ,
e e e . h of Pawtuck t , i ntroduc d th m into h is mill T e [hand loom was sup e r
se ded . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 73;
was d fine threads . After woven , the cloth perfectly whitene . ’ n ot Men s summer clothes were made of coarser threads , and often whitened . The choicest paper is manufactured from
s. linen . After a few years some of the more favored maiden” would have a silk dress , and a cotton dress called the patch ,
. s or a cotton print C orsets were made of durant , and dres shoes of velvet .
Early many families had all the materials for maki n g boots . and shoes , and employed a Shoemaker to come to their houses . all in the aut umn to make needed supplies for the winter . H igh post bedsteads were used in some families with cur
t he tains , especially as a great protection from the cold in winter . During the latter part of the last century and the first of
the present , spinning and weaving woolen cloth was carried f on su ficiently to meet the wants of the inhabitants . Some of the farmers were at great trouble and expense to get fin e
merino sheep, their wool being very soft . Excellent cloth ’ was , was made for men s wear ; after being woven , it carried to n the fulling and dyei g mill , either at Chepachet or at Kil
lin l . n a g y , C onn When returned , one side had a glossy p .
Covelets were woven of various designs . Beautiful carpets . e n wer made , quite equalling the Venetia ; woolen blankets ,
n flan el sheets and dresses were also home manufactured . Nearly every family knitted their own stockings from yarn
Spun from wool on a wheel , doubled and twisted, or by a dis
n was ! taff held in the ha d . The wool carded and made into
small round rolls about two feet long, then attached to the revolving spin dle of a Spinning- wheel which was turned round by one hand ; at the s ame time the roll was drawn out by the ffi was other hand , and when su ciently twisted , the wheel so
n turned as to wind the thread on the spi dle . Mr . Shadrach
Burrillville was a n Steere , in , manufacturer of wheels to spi
wool and tow . All comfortable families generally had a. d wheel , reel and swifts also a loom and a small wheel to win
q uills to put in a shuttle to weave cloth . 74 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
K CORN HUS INGS . I n the autumn large farmers sometimes had their corn cut from the field and carried into the lower part Of their barns
or in some other dry place , and piled up ready to be husked . On a pleasant morning an invitation was given to their neighboring men to come in the evening to the husking ; set chairs and benches were all round and usually well filled .
Though very busy husking , their social enj oyment in story t elling , etc . , often made them forget their enj oyable supper of
f acco m an in s baked pork and beans , or roast bee with its p y g , bread and butter, coffee , tea and pumpkin pies . When about half through husking , the landlord carried around to the husk ers pitchers of sweet cider, and sometimes New England rum and sugar . After the husking was finished they were invited
into the house , where they had supper . Apple parings were another source of pleasure to Some of F or the young m en and women . two hours or more the girls would pare , the young men hand the apples and d o all l the waiting . Several bushe s would be pared and sliced already for drying to make apple pies late in the spring , when green apples were used up . When through paring , tea and dan cm cake were served ; after this , social entertainments , g and different kinds of plays . Very many families would piece differe n t kinds of calico
- to make a bed quilt . This was put on a frame and made ready for four or five to Sit on Opposite sides , rolling up when quilted as far as one could conveniently reach . Numbers were invited , and at the close a supper was ready, and merry entertainments followed .
T H M AN E L ONE .
F or 18 20 nearly forty years from about , generally in the spring, a solitary looking man came to the town , always walking slowly . H e wore the same tattered suit . H e usu o n i ally called the same families each year . After hs first call the people understood what he wanted , and laid, without his asking, food and drink on the table for him . H e always HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 75
e w r fused any eatables to carry away ith him , but seemed e grateful for anything received . As he always wore the sam suit , rents would often come in them . H e would ask for a e large needle and dark yarn . When these wer furnished he
an d would mend the worn places , return the yarn and needle . e H e seldom answered any q uestions , non in relation to his ut o . past life . Where he came from was not found H is travels extended in Connecticut and New York . Some way the fancied story was circulated that he was once engaged to he be married, and the suit wore was to have been his wed was ding dress but he disappointed , and ever after carefully was ' cherished and cared for the above suit , that made for to m what he anticipated be the ost j oyful occasion of his life . his H e was well proportioned , and personal appearance was gentlemanly , quiet and sad .
T H E B K HAUNTED ROO .
i On the road that leads south , about a m le from the village is n of Chepachet , a brook that after much rai used to some
times run across the road . H ere it was said an Indian
drowned his wife , and all noises heard at this place were believed by many to come from this distressed Indian woman
n still haunti g the brook . 18 2 About 5 an intelligent lady of this town , and her
n cousin , Mr . Rufus Steere , were ridi g to their home from the
village over this road , and carrying a bottle of beer undergo
ing the vinous fermentation . As they were passing the haunted brook , all at once there was a “fearful , loud report , Im like a pistol . The gentleman exclaimed, sh”ot , and I feel n w e the blood runni g do n my back ; I am faint . The hors m was made to go with all speed . They reached their ho e and found the feared pis tolshot was the explosion of the beer
bo l tt e .
was A room for a bank drilled out of a solid rock, near the ’ t he O late Eddy Cooper s , in latter part f the seventeenth _ be century . The trap door that Opened into it could only lifted by a strong rope whichwas attach e d to the ceiling of 6 7 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
t he - was counting room . The rope so hidden as not easily to be found by burglars . ’ ” ’ F Cooper s Den , or orgers Cave , was a great rendez
vous for mischievous persons . The place to enter is very s mall ; one has to creep some distance before reaching the
long room of about thirty by eighty feet , and about twelve h i ' feet igh . The above ledge of rocks s now in the town of Burrillvill e .
PUB LI C HOUSES .
1 80 I n 7 , licenses were granted by the town council to six p ersons to keep a public house in their home dwelling for o n e e y ar on condition that they kept good order, and for the privilege they were required to pay a given n umber of bush e ls o u su of c rn to the town . The corn given was sed to p
p ort the poor of th e town . Later, silver dollars were paid .
In 1800 was , license given to sell liquor on town meeting d ays for fifty cents . Many years after 1800 Six quite large and convenient
h n otels were kept in the tow . H ezekiah Cady kept the hotel in the western part of the town Cyrus F arnum and Richard Aldrich kept the two in the eastern part Daniel Cornell in t he southern part , and Cyrus C ook , Anan Evans and others k ep t the two hotels in the village . At present there are Th u . e three railroads have taken much of the travel , co se i q uently there s much less patronage for public houses .
OTHER O CC URRENCES .
the 18 1 I n great gale of September, 5 , considerable damage
w as . done in the town Many trees , chimney s and fences were
b . lown down , and many doors had to be barricaded Po n e an set On the Page farm , not far from g pond , a mine w as opened a few years since , where some quartz and a little has g old were found , but thus far little been done to find out i t s resources . 1 0 1 ih The marriage law of 7 and later, required notice of u n t ention to marry to be set p in a public place fourtee days , HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 77 a n d persons coming from other States were required to pro d uce certificates that they had conformed to the law . In 1844 a committee was appointed to examine and survey
B urrillv ill t he established line between Glocester and e . It was found that GlOce st e rhad acres more than belonged t o her territory . This fact was presented to the General As s e mbl a was y , when comm ittee appointed to run th e division line again . This was done and found right as presented . ill ill in The acres were added to Burr v e . These acres cluded the well known estates of Messrs . Ahab , Esek and
Welcome Sayles . In 18 5 9 the boundary line between Glocester and Smith
field was settled by the State committee . In 187 5 the boundary between Glocester and F oster was e stablished .
SC H OO LS .
'
The early facilities for instruction were limited . Schools w ere kept in private dwelli ng houses or some little building made for the purpose in the house yard . I n some cases patrons of the school allowed poor parents to send their chil dren to the schools and take day labor for tuition ; in this w a y most of the children were taught to read and write . e Littl girls were taught to do plain stitching in some cases , t he old custom was in vogue for little girls to work a sampler o n linen cloth or canvas . After the Revolution several good f sc hool houses were built in di ferent parts of the town . Men w ere generally employed to teach the winter schools , and
women the summer schools . Some of the summer teachers in structed the little girls to embroider on muslin for bags in w hich to carry handkerchiefs also caps , ruffs and capes . Chil d ren were taught to be reverent to their parents and supe r an d iors , to be mannerly when meeting persons on the road .
A Gre at rix mong some of these early teachers were Harriet , f e rom Providence , teacher of a privat school in the Irons
n . 1 0 eighborhood in 79 Lucina Sayles , Miss Ballou , Anna S ibley, Susan Sibley, Roby Bowdish and Sarah Brewster . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
an d As children advanced in their studies , select schools academies “were patronized Rev . Mr . Atkins , generally known as Priest Atkins , of Killingly, had an excellent family school for boys . C hildren could be carried there on F Monday morning and brought home on riday, after the school closed for the week . Others older were sent to Plain field O Dudley , Leicester, and ther established academies . 18 12 I n the Brown neighborhood , in , Esek Brown , Olney
Brown , Eber Phetteplace , Thomas Owen and N icholas
t - s Keech buil a good sized arched school house , with closet ’ r for the boys and girls hats , and caps , bonnets and dinne pails . H ere generally an excellent private school was kept from seven to ten months in each year until the free school s 18 2 8 were established , in . The common and higher branches
- e were taught . Several other well built school houses wer
o f erected about this time . At Chepachet , besides a school il experienced teachers for older pupils , a school for young ch t h dren was yearly kept . Miss Hannah Blackman kept e school for about thirty years .
I n all the older schools , the scholars had the privilege of choosing their own studies . I n several schools , history, phil
Osophy and rhetoric were taught , and occasionally a young man studied surveying . I n 18 2 8 the State appropriated to be divided among the towns according to their population on conditio n a that each town doubled the amount received . I t was c t d m t he ce p e . The town appointed a com ittee to divide
town into seventeen districts with their boundari e s defined . Each district without a school house was encouraged to build
on e . The free money would sustain a teacher but a few months
yearly . In several of the districts the s chools were kept The longer by the liberality of some patrons in the district . schools were well patronized and generally under good dis
i lin e c p . Teachers were first appointed by a school commit a was is tee ; later superintendent appoint ed , who the su per h as . viSo rof the teachers . The system worked well
80 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
O S CHO LS FOR THE DEAF . Several deaf children from this town have been supported by the Stat e. George M . Darling was a beneficiary at Brat l r t ebo o . , Vermont Several have been educated at the H art ford Institution for the Deaf . All are appointe d by the Gov ern o r h an d , and he is authorized to pay for eac of the deaf
1 . dumb children at the American Asylum , $ 7 5 each year
F o r the blind at th e Perkins Institute , Boston , each one 00 100 for receives $ 3 other institutions , $ ; also a small sum cloth ing . I n the town there are now three deaf and dumb one is blind and one an idiot . A good school for the deaf has been established in Provi
F . dence . It is on the corner of ountain and Beverly streets
The school is free to an y deaf youths in the State who are. t suitable subj ects to be taught . The school is under excellen discipline . Katherine H . Austin is principal .
S O C I ETI ES .
18 2 8 . The Jefferson Society was incorporated in October, e Uriah Colwell , Gideon Smith , David Bowen and others wer
. in the petitioners They were created a body politic , capable an u The s e . law to hold property of y kind, to and be sued d first directors were Gideon Smith , Thomas Mason , Davi
w n Bo en , Simeon Bowen , Zephaniah Mann and Benj ami Smith . Secretary, Jervis J . Smith Treasurer, Uriah Colwell . “ it A school house was built , and a good school kept in n ew until it was too small for the number of scholars . A
Old e and larger house for the school was built . The hous was sold to a voluntary religious association to accommodat e
many in that part of the town . The house was well repaired , 1860 and consecrated in the Union Chapel . The Union Society is a vol untar association for religious y h and literary improvement . The desk is supplied twice eac month alternately by the Congregationalists and Baptists of
- r the town . A Sabbath school i s kept up through t he yea . i . s Edward L Phetteplace the Superintendent . HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 8 1
B V 1 ENE OLENT SOCIET ES . Neighborhood female sewing societies have been formed to aid the poor and religious services in different neighbor 18 6 F v was hoods . In 3 the Glocester emale Bene olent Society formed to assist the religious operations in Chepachet and its vicinity .
w . r . M s as . Mrs Mary Steere President Paris Irons , Vice
President ; Mrs . Roby Browne , Treasurer, and Miss E . A .
F o r s Phetteplace , Secretary ; seventy members . two year w this society as active and accomplished much good .
Besides money raised , many garments were made and given F to the needy . The reemasons of the town granted the society the privilege of meeting in their hall in the village . Since the above time efficient be n ove le n t societies have been sustain ed by the Baptist and Congregationalist organi z at io n s in the village .
B B DE ATIN G CLU S .
held The first half of the present century, societies were t h by young men to discuss the current questions of e day . Meetings in the winter were held fortnightly in school was houses in different neighborhoods . One of these for years sustained , and the following are the names of some of
: the prominent members Joseph Smith , Clark Sayles , Sterry e Smith , Clark Phetteplace , Rufus Steere , Riley Phetteplac d u Thomas Owen , Nelson E dy, Clark Steere , Ruf s Steere ,
la r R e n sa e . B Smith , George Smith , Smith Peckham , Jedediah C rel Sprague , Elij ah Armstrong, y Cooke , Ora Owen , Elisha
M . Aldrich and Welcome B . Sayles .
OTHER ORGANI ZATIO NS .
18 0 Burrillville I n 3 , the Glocester and H orse Thief Detect ing Society was incorporated by the General Assembly upon the petition of Daniel Smith , Andrew Harris , Daniel Smith , r e J . , Abram Baker, Ira P . Evans and others . They wer I I 8 2 HISTORY OF GLO CESTER .
made a body corporate to hold property , to buy and s ell not to e xceed ten thousand dollars . The Pon agan s ett Reservoir Company was incorporated in 18 5 6 by a number of mill owners as an outlet for occasions Pon a an s et t of g pond .
was 1 The Society of Domestic Industry formed in 8 20, an d for the first few years held their annual meetings at Paw t ux et . A number of persons from this town were interested
it s in the society and patronized yearly exhibitions . Jesse T ourt ellott and Chad Brown were among the members of the
standing committee from this town .
G RAVEYA RD S .
F s amilies at first lived some di tance from each other, and
was the death of one of their number deeply lamented . To have their remains deposited near by was a comfort in s or w row . The pleasantest spot of land near their home as the for consecrated place the dead . Later, families connected
would j oin in a burial place . Not alway s were even rude is stones put up to mark the last resting place . It well
n k own that the ! uakers did not erect gravestones . There are a great many small burying grounds scattered so over the town . Some have been kept in good repair, that the places of deposit of mortal remains are less forbidding .
: The following are among them The Armstrongs , Browns , e Tourt ellot t s d Irons , Sw ets , , Winsors , Wa es , Potters , Steeres ,
Aldrichs and Waldrons . The Chepachet burying ground , n was orth of the village , consecrated about one hundred t he years Since , and contains remains of a large number of
It s early settlers . care has been much neglected . Recently the Evans lot has been much improved . Some other owners
n of lots are intendi g soon to renovate theirs . In early times the funerals of most of the familie s were so The far from each other that they were great events . people n be from all around were present . I f a clergyma could not e e s e C n e a pr s nt , om hristia brother would r ad portion of 8 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 3
was Scripture and offer prayer . Sometimes it the silent the prayer of the F riends . When the way was rough to graveyard , the dead had to be carried on the shoulder bier ;
was . if the way long, rests were made and bearers changed The Chepachet Cemetery Association was formed in t he F 18 . year 44 , on the petition to the Assembly by John T iske ,
Scott W . Mowry, Jervis J . Smith , Amasa Eddy, Otis Sayles ,
F . Brown Mowry and rederick A . Squires to be incorporated Said corporation has power to hold land not exceeding t e n a cres , to have a stock of divided into three hundred shares at ten dollars per share , etc . The above cemetery is e pleasantly laid out on Acote H ill , south of the villag
T H E F RI EN D S .
About 1643 there was a change of rulers in England .
was Episcopacy abolished for a season , and Presbyterianism was established . .There were many Dissenters , and among
F o x so them was George , the first public preacher of the
F ox called ! uakers by their opponents . took strong grounds
n against dru kennes s , the vices of the times , the established
s t mode of public religiou worship , and rej ected the sacramen he gave his testimony against oaths , against salaried minis S s ters of the gospel , against tithes , and ome other religiou requirements . Their numbers rapidly increased ; they used the singular pronoun when addressing only one person , and refused to raise their hand to touch the hat when meeting * / is persons of t he irOwn or higher standing . Their society i w d governed by t s o n code of iscipline . They are stro ng advocates of the Holy Scriptures ; they heliev e in the resur t rection of the j ust and the uujus . Great persecution fol ~ lowed the Independents throughout England , especially this
' * th S calle d o n V the ee A de le gation of e oci e ty of Fri e nds ictoria , ! u n ,
- hr . T e e e e soon afte r e co ronation h y wor th ir broad brimm d hats , which
th ey n e v e r remov e d i n honor of any pe rson . But according to custom , on e nte ring he r pre s e nce th e ir h e adsw e re uncov e re d by the ye oma n of
- the e e e e e e . guard , and as th y w r non r sistants , th y submitt d 84 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
sect . In consequence of these sufferings many families left their country and came to the American colonies . Among
l a de vo t e d F them was Wi liam Penn , riend , who came to
Philadelphia , and where to this day many of their noblest institutions are due to the benevolence of this sect . On account of the religo us freedom enj oyed under the j urisdiction of Roger Williams in the colony of Rhode I sland , many families of F riends followed him from the B ay State 16 colony, and their influence in the government from the th 1 00 to the 17th centuries was great . In 7 nearly half of the population of the island of Rhode Island were of the F riends persuasion . Their meeting houses for divine worship were plain and unadorned . Eight of the early governors of this F f colony were riends , and in many towns they held O fices of
a t s . rust , j udges and legislators
To Charles the Second , King of England , Rhode Island o wes her great religious freedom , as in her second charter n othing is said against religious privileges . H is brother w o as . J ames , who succeeded him , not as fav rable Religious l iberty was set forth , and the law of the colony first sanc t io n ed the various religious Opinions , which ever attend a transition state The settlers not knowing for the time what opening might as be for them , scattered they were in the wilderness , and believing that some time must elapse before they would be able to organize and have a regular place for public worship , had neighborhood gatherings in some one of their homes , for
silent worship , unless otherwise moved by the Divine Spirit , a m 1 1 s they felt i pressed by their bountiful Benefactor . I n 79 a plain and substantial house of worship was built not far from the residence of the late Moses Cooper . H ere for nearly one hundred years they met twice each week . Among
his t heir speakers were Smith Battey and wife . Their quar t e rl Smit hfie ld y meetings are held in and Northbridge , Mass . Their yearly meetings have been held in Newport until very f recently, where they met their friends from di ferent parts of the Union . As neighbors and citizens , their influence has 8 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 5
had a strong moral and religious tone . They are true friends
o f . education , and civil and religious liberty In 178 3 a petition was presented to the Assembly by some
F riends to manumit the slaves of this State . The subj ect w s a well discussed , and the com mittee appointed to take into consideration the petition were Thomas Wells , John Smith , of G n locester, Benj ami Howland , Stephen Steere , Joseph Noyes ,
Nathan Millar, and Abraham Lippitt . Though African
was s lave trade disapproved , no final action was taken until 1 8 W 7 7, hen , by vote of the Assembly, it was forbidden that the master of any vessel should purchase or transport any
t o . negroes for slavery, or for any citizen cause said purchase
All children born after the above d ate were to be free . 1 0 I n June , 79 , a society was formed for promoting the abo
' lit io n S of slavery in the United tates , and for improving the
African race . This society was incorporated with the names of one hundred and fourteen influential men of this State . F n rom this town are the names of Hon . Daniel Owe , Rufus
E s . Smith , q , and John Brown , Esq Several of the slaves 1 0 born previous to the Revolution lived until 8 3 . Among the F riends who were governors was Governor
H opkins , who signed with a trembling hand the Declaration d of I ndepen ence . Until the war of the Revolution the holders of offices did not of necessity require any participa tion in military affairs or war appendages . After the war F ’ these were required . Then the members of the riends
S ociety declined any appointments . William Penn says of the early public s“peakers of the F riends (they were both men and women) that they were . c hanged themselves before they went about to change others , as th eir hearts were rent well as their garments , not schemes of Of doctrine and verbal creeds , or new forms worship , but off in f leaving religion the super luous , reducing the cere
mon ious an d substan and formal part , earnestly pressing the t ial , the necessary and profitable part . All that embraced the principles of F riends and attended t r b hei meetings regularly, were y their consent reckoned 86 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
in ~ . cul members , and their children It is their great wish to cate and influence by love and kindness . They have their
n rules of discipline . The perso appointed as clerk is t o record what seems to be the manifestatio n of truth in their "6 meetings .
B M E N IN 1 U S I N ES S 88 5 .
Auction eers— John M . Eddy and H . S . Taylor, Harmony ;
C . Samuel Steere , hepachet
B lachs miths— n Joseph Baraba and Da iel Mowry, Che F pachet ; rank Steere , H armony .
B ox M ahers— Hopkins Houghton , West Glocester .
B utchers— C . . : . . A Capron , E Place , H A Sayles and Benj a m in White , C hepachet .
B uil s— A der . . F . . W . Gorey, E Keech and N Taft , C he pachet ; J . S . Evans , H armony . l lr— Coa an d Wood D ea e . . Walter A Read , C hepachet — to es . . S v . . William Hawkins , W A Read and R H
Wade , Chepachet C . W . Whipple , H armony .
F ish — D ea lers . C . . . . E Brown and W B Shippee , C hepachet
Gris M ills— A m t . . . S Peckham and S ith A Steere , Che pachet Dennis Paine , Harmony .
H ir s — A a D res e s . r . . H H arrington and John A . Staples ,
C hepachet .
H a rdwa re : a n d Cutler — G. . . y H Davis , C hepachet
‘ H a rn ess a er—R h . . M . H Wade , Chepachet
H otel— H . R . Taft , H armony H otel , Harmony .
I ura n c — n n s A en ts F . e C . . g W ar um , William H H awkins and E . W . White (life), C hepachet .
* R e I 16 6 the U e e e hod sland , i n 5 , would not joi n nit d Coloni s i n comm nd ing to the courts to pass laws forbidding the Chlake rs to liv e with in th e ir jurisdiction ; but app e al e d to E ngl a nd for aid to e nabl e he r to carry out h t e princip l e s of he r charte r .
8 8 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
PRO F ESS I ONA L M EN .
P HYSICIANS .
R v olu Levi Eddy, Dean , Mason (lived in the e a tion), Hazael Peckh m , Daniel Bellows , Eleazer Bellows, w Sweet , Edward T . Waldron , J oseph Bo en (living in
George Gary , Mowry S . Peckham , H arrington , r Allen Potter , Samuel Mowry, Jarvis Smith . Albert P otte and George A . H arris are the present physicians .
W LA YERS .
F Asel Steere , John B . Snow, Charles . Tillinghast , Samue l
Ames , Samuel Y . Atwell , James M . Clark , George H . Browne ,
H orace Manchester, Ziba O . Slocum .
BAPTI ST M E ETI N G H O U S E A N D S O C I E TY I N T H E F VI L LA G E O C H E PA C H ET .
I n 18 14 a number of C hristian men seeing the great need of having a house , aside from the school house and private dwellings , for regular religious worship and disci
a o f pline , Obtained charter in October under the name
The Christian Benevolent Society . The meeting house 18 2 1 was not built until , in the northern part of “the village . 18 2 2 re - C t I n January, , it was chartered as the hepache B a t ist s t o Meeting H ouse , the p hold the power to o ccupy it four Sundays each month , and the Universalists every
. . . , fifth Sunday The Rev Mr Pickering from Providence , S mit hfield su and the Rev . Adin Ballou , of , sometimes p
On plied the desk the fifth Sunday . After a few years
w as their services were entirely given up . The lot given by
t o Mr . Amherst Kimball . The pews were sold previous was building the house , to pay the expense . The church s well proportioned , with a steeple and a good bell ; gallerie were on each Side and at one end , and th e pulpit was at th e other end . The cost was about The following 8 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 9
: Thomas e Owen named persons were pew owners , Esek r Brown , J . , Joseph Steere , Ahab Sayles , Amherst Kim ball , Obadiah Smith . Olney Browne , Lyndon Smith , Ste
T ourt ellott . phen Willmarth , Jesse , Chad Sayles , Ira P
' n w Evans , Stephe Eddy , Jeptha Hunt , John B . Sno ,
James Sprague , Eber Phetteplace , Job Armstrong , Cyrus
r. Cooke , Joel Paine , Amasa Eddy , J , Arnold Brown , James
Wilder, Samuel Potter , Joseph White , John M . H unt ,
n r r Elisha Brow e , J . , H ezekiah Cady, Daniel Evans , J . , Sayles
Browne , Amasa Sayles , Arnold Owen , Lawton Owen , Ara A H awkins , Elisha Winsor, Duty Evans , Scott C . rm strong , d C lovis H . Bowen , Jedediah Sprague , and Nelson E dy, with the grant to hold property not to exceed thirty thousand dollars , etc . “ In The the articles of association , under the name of
Proprietors of the Chepachet Meeting H ouse , it was stated that every pew holder on the ground floor had a right to vote a t all meetings of the society . Eight owners of pews on i the ground floor const tuted a legal meeting for business .
A small organ has been furnished . The house has been kept well repaired . It is on a fine lot of land , and has a good
S hed in the back part of the yard .
B APTI ST S O C I ETY AND S UNDAY SC H O OL .
A F ree Baptist C hurch was organized in the village of
18 2 . . C hepachet in the year 5 , Rev Reuben Allen , pastor b H e was followed y the Rev . Joseph White , Zachariah Jor dan , Arthur Ross , Maxcy Burlingame and John Pratt . The u 8 8 18 18 . . 1 0 Rev D C rtis supplied the pulpit in 3 , 39 and 4 .
- - fiv e H e superintended the Sunday school seventy scholars .
ha S ince then the pulpit s been supplied by Rev . Ami Brad
Purkis n bury, I . M . , A . H . Morrill and Rev . Joh Rodgers , the l present pastor . The church has general y had from fifty to
- five seventy members . A monthly conference has generally been sustained . The clergymen that have supplied the pul
pit have usually been the first class in the denomination . 9 0 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
The first Sunday - school reported from this town was organ
iz e d 18 2 8 in , at Chepachet , in connection with the Baptist
church at the meeting house . Job Armstrong was the
r . and D . Superintendent , George Gary, Secretary The school in the above y ear was made auxiliary to the Rhode
- I sland Sunday school Union . The following is the report sent to the Union and printed in the annual report
C H E P AC H E T SUN DAY S C H O O L , IN G L O C E S TER , 18 2 8 .
e e e S e Our school comm nc d on th first unday in Ju n last , and conti n
h e e e e b ue d fiv e . T e e v months av rag nu mb r of scholars w r fifty , taught ’ o f tw o e e the four Instructors . Upwards hu ndr d chapt rs i n Bibl e hav e
b e e n committe d to m e mory by the scholars . Fi n e progre ss has b ee n
r fl . mad e in re ad ing . Our prosp e cts a e truly atte ring
G EOR G E G ARY S e c re t a r . , y
The above school has been continued to the present time ,
M Iran da usually in a prosperous condition . M rs . Sprague
and the present Superintendent , Deacon Smith A . Steere ,
hav e ' dev ot e d and many others , much time to the interest of
- five th e young in this school . There are about seventy
- scholars in the school , and a well selected library .
U A . S ND Y , SC HOOLS
In the summer of 18 2 9 a Sunday - school was organized in ’ " s ix t e e fit h the school district , in the Brown school house
Clark Phetteplace , Superintendent . The school continued — six - fiv months forty e scholars . A library of fifty small vol
umes from the Rhode I sland Sunday - school Union was pur
chased , and many religious tracts distributed . This school ,
s ix during about months in the warm season , was kept up for
fifteen years . It was auxiliary to the Rhode Island Sunday n 1 school U ion . In 8 31 the interest i n religious instruction of the youth was increased by agents sent out by the Rhode
a - 18 2 18 I sl nd Sunday school Union . During 3 and 33 there
were Sunday - schools organized and successfully cared for in
the Central school house , the Harmony school house , the old
Winsor meet ing house , Pine Orchard , Robert Steere district , 1 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 9
Jefferson district , Winsor school house and Richmond dis w triet . Most of these schools ere kept Open only in the warm season . I n these schools , from the reports it is inferred that competent teachers were generally secured , and that there was a good degree of interest in learning the Bible les Of sons . In seven these schools there were well selected 0 1 0 libraries , varying from 5 to 5 volumes , purchased from
- the Rhode I sland Sunday school Union . Eight of these schools were auxiliaries to the Rho de Islan d Sunday - school ' F o r u Union . nine or ten years , abo t four hundred and
- thirty five scholars were in these schools .
- scho ols foun d Superintendents of Sunday recorded , not already named , are Aaron Wood , Abby Colwell , Riley
M r , s . Steere , Job Steere , M iranda Phetteplace , Riley Steere
Susan M . Phetteplace , William S . Potter, Luther Waldron ,
E . A . Phetteplace , Emeline Keech , Christopher Winsor ,
Delia Irons , Mrs . L . Steere , Cyrus Eddy and Samuel Steere , 18 6 was Jr . After 4 there a Congregationalist church and
- Sunday school organized at Chepachet . There is a small F ree — Bapt ist church and Sunday school in the south part of the
fift - 188 F town ; y four members in 4 . orty members in the Sun da - f it f y school . The late Rev . C harles Wade was a a hulpastor
in this church for several years . The above society is partly F in Glocester and partly in oster .
There are two small Advent churches in the town . One
at Clarkville , where Elder Eldridge has spent some time .
The other in the northeastern part of the town . Sunday -a Of schools , part the year, are sustained in the above two
societies . At different times several preachers have supplied
their desks .
C EPI S OPA LIA N S .
F 18 18 The General Assembly was petitioned in ebruary, , for the establishment and promotion of the worship of
Almighty God in Chepachet , according to the discipline , u rites , sages and ceremonies of the Protestant Episcopal 9 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
C Of hurch , in the United States , and praying for an act
n incorporation to enable them , with greater convenie ce , t o
effect their aforesaid purposes , and to manage and secure the property and funds”of which they are now , or may hereafter become possessed . I t was granted , and Joseph Bowen , Ira n P . Evans , Job Armstrong, Anan Eva s , Cyrus Cooke , Amasa
Eddy, Joseph Steere , Asel Steere , Christopher C . Dexter , T ourt ello t Amherst Kimball , Joseph Wilmarth , Jesse , Wil T o urt e llo t liam , Jeptha H unt , Russell Evans , Thomas Owen , r h r J . , Step en Eddy, Esek Brown , J . , Ara H awkins , Benj a
min Bowen , John Wood , Lyndon Smith , Ahab Sayles , r Thomas Matheson , J . , J ohn Hawkins , and also such others
ma as y hereafter be admitted as members , are hereby and forever created a body corporate and politic with perpetual b Of succession , y the name the church wardens , vestry and ’
parish of Christ s church , at C hepachet , in Glocester , etc . w (Schedule of the General Assembly, Thomas O en , ’ r J . , and Anan Evans were delegates from Christ s church to ’ the Episcopal Convention held at St . Paul s church , Paw 18 18 tucket , on the first Tuesday in June , . Rev . George f Taft , Deacon , while In college o ficiated occasionally at ’ i . . hs Christ s church , Chepachet Mr Taft continued services
as often as he could after his settlement at Pawtucket . Rev . f ’ . . . O . o ffi Dr N B Crocker, late St John s church , sometimes i t d c a e . ’ At the Episcopal Convention held at St . John s church , in 18 1 E s Providence , 9 , Thomas Owen , q , and Joseph Bowen , ’
D . M . , were delegates from C hrist s church , Glocester . The was church service in the hall of the Evans hotel , for which
the society paid $45 per year . F o r two or three years the interest in the church increased , and there was a strong prospect that a meeting house
for the society might soon be built , but reverses came in the removal and passing away of several of the more 18 6 active members . In 3 the Rev . Louis Jansen was s ent
here by the Rhode Island Episcopal Convention , to hold the
service of the church in the Baptist meeting house . H e was HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 9 3
t well received , and had on Sundays large congrega ions . H e
18 . made a report to the convention , June , 37 H e remained
- here one year . The Sunday school was well sustained . Hi s wife died here . B y the request of some of the residents in the village , the
186 . Episcopal Convention , in the autumn of 4, sent the Rev
Samuel H . Webb to hold Episcopal service in the unoccupied
Congregationalist meeting house . Services were held here about eight months . Persons interested did not feel able to c build a hurch , consequently for the tim e being the services were closed .
C ON GREGAT I ONA LI STS .
18 In 33, the Baptist meeting house in the village of Che pachet not being permanently occupied , the Rev . Mr . Dun ham was sent here by the Rhode Island Congregational Con sociation . H e supplied the pulpit about one year . An
- interesting Sunday school was sustained . H is health failed him , and he was obliged to leave to get rest . F 18 . In 45 , Orin Otis , a graduate of Yale College and of
Union Theological Seminary, was called to preach to a small
Evangelical Congregational Society in the village . The society was organized by an ecclesiastical council appointed from the several churches of the Rhode Island Consociation . 7 R V\ at erman T o urt ll t e o . William . , Jonathan , Scott W Mowry,
‘ F - Lawton Owen , Orin . Otis and others petitioned the Gen eral Assembly to be created a body politic and incorporate forever . It was granted . A church was formed with ten members . Mr . Otis was ordained and installed pastor of
18 6 . the church in March , 4 D uring this year a very neat ,
- Was convenient and well proportioned meeting house built , hell with a good for the size of the house , and a fine yard , has with a shed in the back part of the yard . A small organ
. . 186 been furnished Mr Otis was pastor of this church until 4, own when , by his request , he resigned and went to live in m . e m Providence At the time he left , there were about twenty 9 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
bers in his church . H e was a devoted C hristi an , and always ready for every good word and work . A well organized Sun da - y school was well sustained . The church for about s ix ’ y ears was without a pastor . The pulpit was generally sup
b . plied y various clergymen The Rev . Mr . Arnold , from 8 . 1 0 . Elmwood , was here some months I n 7 , the Rev . Mr S cott was settled as pastor . H e was active in all church b interest , and was here about six years when he resigned y
request . The following June the Rev . George L . Dickinson t was called to the pastora e . H e was successful in the church
- M a . 18 and Sunday school several years I n y, 79 , the Rev . i . . hs H E Johnson , the present esteemed pastor, commenced
labors with the church .
Su e rin Miss Ruth I rons , Church Clerk ; Stephen Irons , p t - has endent of the Sunday school , which been well sustai ned ‘ since the church was organized . The meeting house is kept
in excellent repair by the society . Recently a fine stained
glass window has been put i n the meeting house , given by
Miss White to the society .
B LI RA RY .
The Union Library Company in Glocester was organized 1 i n the year 794, and the following named persons petitioned T ourt ellot the General Assembly for a charter, viz . William , m Timothy Wilmarth , Jesse Armstrong , Benj a in H awkin s , a Solomon Owen , Jesse Potter, J onath n Knapp , Thomas r Area Owen , J . , Stephen Winsor, Phetteplace , Simeon Smith ,
h n David C rossman, A sahel Keac Ana Evans , Seth H unt ,
Benj amin Phetteplace , Eleazer Bellows , Cyrus Cooke , Sim
eon Steere , Jonathan Harris , Esek H arris , Duty Salsbury, w O r. Daniel wen , Oliver O en , James Mason , Daniel Owen , J ,
o ct an J ohn Aldrich , Elij ah Armstrong , J Putnam , Joseph h H ines , Seth Ross , Step en Wilmarth , Oliver Smith , Peter
H awkins , J oseph Bowen , Samuel Steere , Asa Barlow , Elisha F ield , Stephen Brown , Mark Steere , Asel Steere , Robert Dur
fee , Jacob Smith , Jonathan Paine , Ant hony Place , Stephen Val
96 HISTORY OF GLO CESTER .
80 the smallest a few of the 4 Species of the humming bird ,
- cre ssbill hawks , woodpeckers , warblers , the white winged , w ax wing and cedar bird , sparrows , bluej ay , kingfisher , rob
- ins , woodcocks , partridges , quails , shelldrake , red breasted me r an z e r - cre s sbills g , auks , snipes , red winged and owls .
B OTAN Y .
n M uch wood is yet bur t for fuel . C oal is used more in the villages . Lombardy poplars , chestnuts , several kinds of oak , maple , ash , willows , walnut , birch , cedar , pines and hemlock ;
many fruit trees , and bushes bearing berries ; high and low
laurel , wild cherry , swamp cheese bushes , j uniper , witch
hazel , butternut ; many medicinal plants and wild flowers ;
s umach , sweetbrier , dogwood , wild roses , rhododendron or e h rose tr e , a s rub or small tree with evergreen leaves and
large brilliant flowers .
In the herbarium of the late Riley Phetteplace , about three _ hundred of the different species of plants classed were col ’ le ct e d in his father s garden and on his farm of about three Old hundred acres . The , large and beautiful elm in the house
was yard of the above farm finally split in the centre , though
much was done to save it ; it is now gone . The late Doctor U sher Parsons called it the largest and finest tree in the
State .
GEO LO GY .
F ’ rom Jackson s geological survey of the town , some years
s ince , we learn that about two miles west from Chepachet ,
- near the turnpike , there is a variety of compact , thick”bedded gneiss quarried , and is known as Pine Orchard grit . East
ward from this place is a large bed of black mica , associated
with a little granulas quartz . It is on the roadside . The h road is cut t rough a granite vein . The rocks are of a primary class , consisting of gneiss , mica slate and granite . is ! uartz is found in various forms in this town , and it
capable of being used in different ways . It is a very valuable HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 9 7
as s ubstance , it serves to form the basis of glass , which is composed of this mineral melted with an alkali and oxide of lead . In plate glass it is united with potash of lime .
On the old road leading to Thompson , in the westerly part o f o n e the town , is a ledge of rocks , where part turns around s o F decidedly as to get the name of Elbow Rock . rom the road the ledge is s o slanting that it is easily ascended to the u highest point . The back side is nearly precipito s many feet . On the ground far below are two large rocks having f the form of co fins .
so - On the called Eber Phetteplace farm , now owned by
- . is Mr Benoni Lewis , a very large balance rock , barrel Shaped , t he weighing many tons . It is situated on slanting side of a small ledge of rocks , the bottom of this rock touching on the ledge only in a few places . To the first look it would seem that a slight wind would make it roll down . Several years
- Of since , Mr . Phetteplace took some half dozen his workmen ,
with iron bars and wedges , to try to roll down the large rock .
At first the task looked an easy one , but after hours of all the use skill and strength they were able to , no change could be b made . There the rock still remains , and is spoken of y persons who have visited the notable rock on the east shore
m as . of Lake Me phremagog , about an equal curiosity
F R EEM EN .
F reemen admitted from the town of Glocester, at Newport ,
s et Off 1 2 from the time it was from Providence , from 73 to 1760 r M a 1 2 . . Admitted y, 73 James King, J , John H ogg , Wait
Sm ith , Andrew Brown , Daniel Walling , David Thornton , H ern de e n Cornelius Walling , Preserved , William Coman ,
Phett e . Amariah Harris , Jonathan Olney; M ichel I nman , J ob
place , Richard Steere , William Walling, and David Bur
lin m ga e .
1 a 7 33. C harles Waterm n , Philip Phetteplace , J onathan 13 8 9 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
l Vallet , Zorobabe Cooper, Elisha Eady , David Ross , William r Coman , Samuel Cary , J . , and Benj amin Keech . 1 7 35 . James Blackmore , Joshua H all , Silas Tucker , John Pe re re n e r Page , g Matheson , Thomas Cooper, Moses Coope , r Isaiah Inman , J . , Stephen Shelton , Joseph Eady , Jonathan r Richardson , J . , Isaac Richardson , J eremiah Sweet and
Thomas Wood .
1 6 . 73 Jonathan Wade , Nathan Wade , Jonathan Eady , r Edward Evans , Jonathan Irons , Obadiah J enks , J . , Joseph
Cary , Daniel Sweet , Moses Bartlett , Daniel Aldrich and n Edward Inma , Jr . F 1 . 737 rancis Whitmore , John Marsh , J oseph Pett ingill , Blo ce James y , Job Pray, David Phillips , Joseph H ix , John
r M a in t ire . c . Sly , John Keech , J , and Benj amin
r l Elisha 1 8 . . S 73 Daniel Bartlett , Stephen Paine , J , M iles y , r H eren de n . , J , Richard H ayward , Eleazer Marsh , Ephraim W r , , . , Marsh , Obadiah Bowen illiam Keech J William Colwell ,
Edward Davis , Daniel H ix , James Harris , Ichabod Bumpus , r Eliphalet Eady , Benj amin Keech , J . , and I saac Benson . r 1 . 739 . Samuel Short , David Ross , David Ross , J , Stephen
Smith , John Benson , John Jencks , J erem iah Irons , John
Inman , Anthony Steere , John H unt and Abraham Inman .
1 . 740 . Elij ah Inman and John Daley
1 1 . 74 . Benj amin Smith
1 2 F 74 . Thomas ield , Abner Bartlet and H ezekiah
Mitchell .
1 . 743 Elisha Cooke , Morris Tucker, Silas Williams , Dan
iel Smith and Timothy Wilmarth .
1 H e re n de n 744 . Eliphalet Weight , William , John Grover,
Thomas Knowlton , John Davis , Elias Smith , Noah Arnold ,
Obadiah Inman , John Whipple , Ebenezer Darling , James
Cowen , George Bumpus , Eliphalet Eddy , Ebenezer How
ard , Benj amin Phetteplace , Noah Aldrich , Jonathan Cutler , r Stephen Smith , J . , and Nathaniel Man .
1 74 5 . H enry Shippey, Joseph Shippey , Job Bartlet , Rob
ert Colwell , Edward Bishop and J ohn Chilson .
I OO H I STORY OF GLOCESTER .
r Charles Aldrich , Joseph Aldrich , Joseph Aldrich , J . , Ste
, phen Aldrich , John Andrew , John Allen , Widow Andrews r A . Noah ldrich , David Arnold , Stephen Aldrich , J , Widow
Armstrong (5 children), Caleb Arnold , William Arnold , Gid r eon Arnold , Noah Arnold , J . , I srael Arnold , Nathaniel
Andrews , N edabiah Angell , Ebenezer Aldrich . r Andrew Brown , Elisha Brown , J . , Jesse Brown , Obadiah i Brown , El sha Brown , David Bowdish , Nathaniel Bowdish ,
Moses Bowdish , Gideon Burgis , William Bowen , Benj amin
Burgis , John Bushee , Nathaniel Blackmar , Joseph Barnes ,
Jobe Benson , Jeremiah Ballou , Daniel Ballou , Joseph Ballou , d Nehemiah Ballou , Seth Ballou , Daniel Barnes , Wi ow r Barnes , Joseph Barnes , J . , John Baker , Thomas Burlin game , Widow Baker , Abraham Baker, Stephen Baker , John
Baker, Stephen Bowen , William Bishop , Richard Bart let , David Ballou , H ezekiah Bowen , Widow Bowen , Ezra
E lez e r Bowen , H . Bowen , Mathew Barnes , Bowen , George Ichobod Bowen , Stephen Blackmar, Bollard , Abner Black man , Nedabiah Brown , James Blackmar , Stephen Ballou ,
r H o Jerem iah Bollard , J . , William Bussey, Chad Brown ,
sanna H . Brown , Daniel Brown , Edward Bishop , Thom as
Elez er Burlin ame Bishop , Ballou , David gg , Benedict Burling
B lin m ur a e r. game , Widow gg , Obadiah Brown , J , Ezra Bart let , Caleb Bartlet , Benj amin Barnes , Ezekiel Burlingame ,
Jerem iah Brown , I srael Brown , James Bloss , Elisha Bartlet ,
Ezekiel Brown , Joseph Basset , George Brown , Benj amin
n Brown , James Brow , Obadiah Batton .
Moses Cooper, William Coman , Robert Colwell , Benj am in
Cowen , James Cole , Widow Cooke , Samuel Cooke , Richard
Clemence , Sylvanus Cooke , Thomas Collens , John Coller,
r. a William Colwell , J , S ilas Cooke , Gideon Cooke , Elij h C o shall Cooke , Stephen Coper, _ gg Chace , H enry Clarke , Eli j ah Cooke , I srael C ooke , Israel Chilson , Jeremiah Comstock ,
E le z er Esek Comstock , Samuel Comstock , Crossman , Peter
Crossman , Thomas Curtis , Widow C urtis , I srael Comstock ,
William Colwell , Moses Joseph Cowen , John
Cowen , James Cowen , Samuel Clarke , Samuel C utler, Solo
C . mon utler, Widow Cole HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . I O I h Peleg Dexter, John Dexter, Gideon Daley, Jo n Durfey ,
James Durfey, Edward Davis , Joseph Davis , Andrew Dar An tho ling, John Davis , David Darling , Ebenezer Darling ,
n e . y Dyer, Jeremiah Dexter
Enos Eddy, Widow Eddy, Jemima Eddy (widow), Jona r than Eddy, Jonathan Eddy, J . , J“oh n Eddy , Gideon Eddy , r Joseph Eddy, J . , Joseph Eddy , , Enoch Eddy , Zachariah B Eddy, Daniel Eddy , Abner ates , William Eddy , Eliphelet d n t o n E E e . Eddy, John g , Obadiah sten F airfl ld F F e . Charles ield , John enner, Abraham r Elisha Greene, Elisha Greene , J . , Peter Greene , William
Greene, David Greene .
Andrew Herendeen , William Herendeen , Zebedee Hopkins ,
William H awkins , Amaziah Harris , Jonathan H arris , Zebe r H e rren de en dee Hopkins , J . , Joseph Harris , Thomas , Elisha
H arris , Dan H ix , Henry H ead , Thomas Howland, Samuel H eldrick , Benj amin Hawkins , Uriah Hawkins , William r H awkins , J . , Samuel Howland , Cornelius H avens , Will iam
‘ H e e r n d n e e e r. , John H owland , John H owland , J , William Oz ial abish Howland , H opkins , J Hopkins , Seth Hopkins , i Elij ah Hawkins , David H ill , David Hopkins , El sha Hop Othn ial H erre n de e n W kins , I saac H ix, Luther H ix , , illiam
r H erre n de e n Harvey, Jonathan H arris , J . , Israel , Solomon
H e rren de en H e rre n de e n , Levi , William H ill , Isiah Her re n de e n H e rre n deen H e rre n dee n , Preserved , Eliab , Seth
r F . H unt , John H unt , John Hunt , J . , rances Hambelton r Thomas Irons , Elisha I nman , J . , John Ide , Elisha I nman , d Samuel Inman , Elisha Inman , 3 , Abraham Inman , Ezekiel r Inman , Edward I nman , Samuel Irons , J . , Jeremiah Irons ,
r. J , Israel Inman , John Inman , David Inman , Samuel Irons ,
Oz ial Stephen Irons , Resolved Irons , Inman , William Irons ,
Jonathan Irons . r John Jenks , J . , J ohn Jenks , Jonathan J illson . r Zephaniah Keech , Ch istopher Keech , John Kimball ,
James King, Paul Knapp , Benj amin Killy, Stephen Keech , M an ariah Sylvanus Keech , Joseph Keech , Killy, Asa Kim bell , J orem Kimbell , Nathan Kinyon , Jesse Keech .
Abiah Luther, James Leonard , Arnold Lewis , Solomon [ 0 2 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
Lapham , Jethro Lapham , Obadiah Lewis , Vinten Lewis , L asue r James Lewis , J oseph , Nehemiah Lewis , Richard
Lewis . r Pe re re e n . g Matheson , Gideon Mowry , Thomas Mowry , J , M erethew J acob Mowry , Jeremiah , Noah Miller , Rufus
ackin t ie r M , John Mitchel , John Matheson , Edward M itchel ,
John Matheson , Thomas Mowry , Joshua Matheson , Nero
M a in t ier n o . c M atheson , J Matheson , Simeon , Rufus Macin r M a M elav er t ier , J . , Samuel y, Widow y, Zephaniah Mowry , r ohn M it chel . Daniel Matheson , Experience Mitchel , J , J , M o ffit Daniel M itchel , Andrew Man , Micaj ah , Enoch Moffet
Jonathan M itchel , Zuriel Mitchel , Daniel Man , William
Martin , Jam es Martain , Ezekiel Mitchel , Gideon M arten ,
Reuben Mason .
Thomas Owen , Daniel Owen , Solomon Owen , Joseph
Olney , John Olney .
Jobe Phetteplace , Samuel Potter, John Phillips , Adam
Phillips , Great Jeremiah Phillips , William Phillips , Jeremiah d Polluck Phillips , 3 , Joseph Place , Daniel Place, H enry , r Marke Peters , Nathan Pain , Nathan Pain , J . , Stephen Pain , r Samuel Phetteplace , David Phillips , Jeremiah Phillips , J . ,
Ephraim Phillips , Joshua Phillips , Andrew Phillips , David r r Phillips , J . , Benj amin Phetteplace , Samuel Phetteplace , J . ,
J onathan Phetteplace, John Place , J ohn Page , William Page ,
James Page , Resolved Phetteplace , John Phetteplace , Eph r raim Pearce , Joseph Page , William Page , J . , Abel Potter,
J oseph Phillips , Peter Place , Nathan Place , Stephen Place , Polluck r C harles , Stephen Pain , J . , Benj amin Pain , Richard
Plumer, Simeon Place .
William Raymond, Nathaniel Raymond , Israel Raymond ,
Samuel Ross , Samuel Ross , Jr , John Ross , William Ross , o thum J oseph Ross , I saac Ross , J Round , Widow Richard
s on , Seth Richmond , David Richmond , George Round ,
I saac Richardson , David Richardson ,
Rufus Smith , John Smith , Aholiab Smith , Widow Smith , son Of J ohn Smith ( Arnold Sm ith , Ezekiel S mith ,
Edward Salsbury , David Salsbury , Benj amin Smith , E nos
10 4 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
man , Elah Whipple , Cornelius Walling, Jeremiah Walling ,
Douglass White , Noah Wood , Thomas Wall , Jacob Walling ,
I saac Walling , John Walling, Widow Walling , Daniel Whe lo k r Whe c . lock, Daniel , J , Noah Whitman , Noah White , Jon W athan Whipple, Stephen Winsor, idow Williams , John
Whipple , Thomas Wood , Widow Wood , Jerah Wilcox, Enoch
Whipple .
Names of some old families that have passed a way since the Revolution
E l1 ah n Oliver Aldrich , j Armstro g , James Aldrich , Jesse
Armstrong , John Aldrich , Job Armstrong , Scot Armstrong ,
William Armstrong .
Chad Brown , Olney Brown , Esek Brown , Andrew Brown ,
Sayles Brown , Nicholas Brown .
Benj amin Cowin , Jam es Cowin , Stephen Cowin , J ohn
Capron , Cyrus Cooke , H oratio Cooke , Cyril Cooke , Richard e Clem enc , H ezekiah Cady .
A nthony Dyer .
Daniel Evans , Duty Evans , Ira P . Evans , Stephen Eddy,
A masa Eddy .
Jeptha H unt , J ohn H awkins , Pardon H unt .
Stephen Irons , Samuel Irons , Samuel Irons , Samuel Irons , R esolved Irons , Laban Irons , Dexter Irons , Paris Irons ,
N . athan Irons , Colwell Irons
Kimball , H orace Kimball , Nicholas Keech , Stephen
Keech , Jeremiah Keech . Jonathan Lackey w Thomas Owen , Arnold O en , Daniel Owen , Solomon w Owen , Daniel O en , Ora Owen .
Benj amin Paine , Stephen Paine , Samuel Potter , Arnold
, . Phetteplace , Clark Phetteplace D’ exter Phetteplace Asa Deacon Steere , Samuel Steere , Joseph Sweet , Tim
o th y Sweet , Solomon Sweet , Jere miah Sweet , Jeremy
Sweet , Enoch Steere , Clark Steere , O tis Sayles , Jeremiah
Sheldon , C had Sayles , Ahab Sayles , Wel come Sayles , Silas
Saunders , John Sprague , James Sprague , Smith Sprague , HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 10 5
George Sprague , Jedediah Sprague , William Sprague , Rich ard Steere , Stephen Steere , Mark Steere , Mark Steere, Smith
Steere , Asel Steere , Oliver Smith , Mowry Smith , Thomas
Smith .
William Waterman , Square Williams , William Winsor ,
Obadiah Winsor, Samuel Winsor, Joseph Winsor, Elisha
Winsor, Jeptha Winsor, Benj am in White . b The number of families in Glocester, taken y the census
188 . in 5 , was 47 5 Number of houses , 473 number of acres
0 . in the farm for , the poor, 9
TA ! PAY E RS I N G LO C E STER I N 18 8 5 .
Names of persons living in Glocester that were taxed for real or personal property in 188 5 ’ Moses Aldrich s heirs , Benj amin B . Aldrich , George M .
'
Allen , William Allen , Jesse Angell , Manning H . Angell and wife , James A . Angell , Elij ah Armstrong, Warren O . Arnold ’ and wife , Anna Arnold s heirs , Charles Aylesworth , Lydia Al rwi k de c . A . Armstrong, Edward Atkinson , George
F . . . rancis M Baker, Mary E Baker, Amasa Baker, Jesse P
Ballou , Albert Barnes and wife , Richard Barnes , Charles
’ ' Barnes , Polly Barnes heirs , Louisa M . Barnes , William D rusila Barry, Bates , Mary Babbitt , Alba Bellows , Bowditch m Reservoir Co pany , Andrew Brown , William Brown , Laban n Brown , Elisha Brown , H enry T . Brown , Maria A . Brow ,
Eugene D . Brown and wife , James B . Brown , Oscar M . Brown ,
Reuben J . Brown , Elisha M . Brown , Henry C . Brown , Nancy ’ Brown s heirs , Amasa Burlingame , William P . and George
M . Burlingame , Benedict A . Burlingame . Samuel S . Burgess , F Albert Bucklin , ranci s H . Buxton , Thomas Bresette .
Clinton A . Capron , J oseph H . Cady , James M . Carpenter,
Elias C arpenter and wife , Low Carpenter, M ichael Carroll ,
n Dana W . Capro , Ellery N . Carder, Mary Clark , J ohn S .
Clark , William C legg , Daniel P . Clemence , Reuben A . Clem ence , Richard M . Clemence , Daniel M . Clemence , Leonard A S . Clemence , ngelina Clemence , George A . Colwell , Ray 14 106 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
mond P . Colwell and wife , J oseph , C orliss Coman , . ’ Cole David Coman , Nelson D . Coman s heirs , James B . Coman ,
r . Margaret Conlan , Marvin J . Converse , J . , Edward O C ooke and wife , Edward S . Cook , M ichael A . Cook , J oh n G .
Cook , Silas L . Cook , Percy E . C ook , James Corbin , Amey r u C o ut o n Cornell , John Coughlin , J . , William Couto , Louis , F rancis J . Crawford , William A . Cushman and wife , J ames
N . Cutler, Samuel B . C utler and wife , George E . Cutting and wife , Elizabeth Curtis . ’ t Albert S . Dagge t , Sydney C . Daniels , Dexter Davis heirs ,
Paris O . Davis , Susan Daggett , Elisha Daggett , Hannah L . l Dawley , J ohn Donnelly, H enry R . Dexter, Ellen Dowdel ,
Cornelius and Bridget Drury, Richard C . Durfee and wife , F F rank Dumas , rancis Dunn .
Sophia Eastman , Arnold Eddy and wife , James A . Eddy ’ and wife , George Eddy and wife s heirs , Betsey Eddy , H iram
J . Eddy, Stephen A . Eddy, H enry E . Eddy, John M . Eddy ,
F . Thomas J . Eddy, Arthur Eddy , Mary B . Eddy, anny M x F Eddy, Ale ander Eddy, Owen Eddy, Eugene . Eddy, Maria
Evans , Mason N . Evans , James S . Evans and wife , Amey M .
Evans . ’ F F arn um s F ar Cyrus arnum , Cyrus A . heirs , Charles M . F F num and wife , H arris S . arnum and wife , John A . arnum , F 2 d F F C harles W . arnum , , William erguson and wife , rank
F F . . lin Bank , James ricker , Artemus uller and wife , Ann T J F F iske , riendship Lodge . ’ r s . Go . Daniel C Gleason , Arnold N . y heirs , Sarah J Gory ,
Allen N . Gory , Adeline E . Graves , William H . Graves , Oliver n Gree , William Green and wife , William C . Green , Thomas ’ r S tilman M . Green , James H . Greenhalgh , J ohn Gross , J . ,
Gross . d D . an George A . Harris , M . . , Albert A H arrington wife , ’
n h . Lydia A . H arrington , James Harri gton s eirs , James B F l H ammond , Nancy H . H ammond , ranklin B . Ham , Wil iam
r A llet t e . H ancock and wife , William W . Hawkins , J . , y R
H awkins and wife , George Hawkins , H enry A . H awkins ,
Allen H awkins , Allen and H enry A . H awkins , Robert B .
10 8 HISTORY OF GLO CESTER .
Peckham , James Peckham , Joseph Perkins , H arley Phillips ’ Phe tt e lace s and wife, Michael Phillips , Clark p heirs , Edward F L . Phetteplace , H iram Phetteplace , Horatio N . . Place ,
Allen S . Place , Charles R . Place and wife , William N . Place ,
Lewis M . Place and wife , James M . Place and wife , Calvin
Place , Edward Place , Welcome Place , Harley Place and wife ,
Marvin Plummer and wife , I sabella Potter, William A . Potter , D Albert Potter, M . . , Charles Potter, Benj amin Poole , Pona an set E sias C O. g Reservoir , Pray, Eddy Pray , Richard Pray ,
Jeremiah Pray , Amasa Potter , Amey Pray .
Charles H . Randall , H enry A . Randall , Walter A . Read ,
Laura A . Owen , James Reynolds , Albert Reynolds , William
H . Richardson , William B . Richardson and wife , Horace ’ Richmond and wife s heirs , Lawton C . Rounds and wife , G il bert Rounds , M ichael Reily . F Joseph Sarle , rances E . Sabin , Leonard Sayles , H enry A .
e . Sayles , H enry A . Salsbury , Mercy Saund rs , Albert R Saun ders , Dexter A . Saunders , George A . Saunders and wife ,
. e Albert H . Saunders , William A Sanford and wif , Smith
Saunders , Barton W . Saunders , I saac A . Saunders , Atwell W .
Saunders , Peter A . Sebille , Almeda Simonds , Charles E . Shaw w 1 and wife , Jeremiah Sheldon and ife , Sydney . Sherman S hi e Adin Sherman , Clinton Shippee , Olive and Anna M . pp ,
William B . Shippee , Adin S . Shippee , I saac C . Shippee , Almira F F . . Sisson , elix Slavin , elix S Slavin , Lydia S Slocum , Edwin
Smith and wife , Albert C . G . Smith , Albert H . Smith , Byron
A . S mith , Carlton G . S mith , George C . Smith , Sarah J .
Smith , Marietta Smith , Maria N . Smith , Ann Smith , Martha ’
r . E mo . Smith , Smith s heirs , Abby V Smith , Coomer G
Smith , A nson Smith , E . D . S mith , Russell M . Smith , Chad
a F e dadiah . A . Spr gue, rancis Sprague , J Sprague , M iranda A
k . S en c e s . Sprague , Anthony prague , J A Sprague , John A
Staples , William W . Steere and H . W . Paine , Silas Steere , F H orace S . Steere and wife , red . Steere , Thomas W . Steere ’ F (for wife), William T . Steere , Smith Steere s heirs , Ora .
Steere , Enoch Steere , Job S teere , Charles H . Steere , A . A . ’ M . Steere s heirs , Susan T . Steere , Joseph Steere , Henry W . 1 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 09
’ Steere, Lucy L . Steere , Seth H . Steere s heirs , Ira W . Steere and wife , Samuel Steere , H arris Steere , Clovis W . Steere m W . and wife , S ith A . Steere , George Steere , Oliver Steere ,
t . r . George W . S eere , J . , William H Steere , Oliver W Steere ,
a n Andrew J . Steere , Willi m C . Steere , H arriet Sto e ,
Lyman B . Stone , Andrew L . Stone , Sayles Streeter and wife , F ’ annie E . Sweet , Darling E . Sweet s heirs , Nathan Sweet , ’ Jesse B . Sweet , Thomas P . Sweet s heirs , Sime o n Sweet , w Timothy D . S eet , Mary Sweet . N o rre ddin Taft and wife , Richard B . Taft , H enry R . Taft ,
Edmund M . Taft , H enry S . Taylor, William S . Taylor, Amy t . T o urt ello P Thorp, Nehemiah Tinkham , William C . , Caleb ’ E . Tucker s heirs , Robert S . Tucker, George A . Tucker and
un more . . . T wife , George N and George A Turner, William
Edwin J . Valentine . F m Anan W . Wade , James . Wade , Esek O . Wade , Sa uel
W . Wade and wife , Robert H . Wade , Charles A . Wade , Na thaniel B . Wade , Patrick Wall , John Wall , James M . Water ’ man , Samuel Waldron s heirs , Ruth Waldron , Nancy Welman , w Ed in Westcott , Robert H . West , Mary B . White , Charles L .
Whipple , Henry C . White , Everett W . White , Benj amin
White and wife , William H . White , George N . White , Benj a min A . Winsor, A . L . and Mary E . Williams , Alphonso P . r Williams and wife , Emily J . Winsor, John Wilkinson , J . , ’
s . Joseph Woodhead heirs , Joshua Woodhead
- ! P NON RES IDENT TA AYERS .
Clarence A . Aldrich , Samuel W . Aldrich , Gilbert Aldrich ,
0 . William P . Angell , George A . Atwood , Daniel Angell , n Joshua Angell , J ames Arnold , James Andrews , Byro A . e Andrews , Albert M . Armstrong, Nelson Armstrong, All n
Austin . F Job Ballou and wife , S . C . and B . enner Baker, Isaac m Ballard , Tho es Barnes , Albert E . Barnes , Nelson Barnes e and wife , Seth Babbitt , William Bowen and wife , Ald n ’ S . Bowen , Nancy Bowen , Clovis H . Bowen s heirs , Edward wn w n . . S . Bo en , Cyrus Brown , Amey Brow , Isaac Bro , J O HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
n C a iu . s s . W . Brown , Allen Brow , George W Brown , C Brown ,
William R . Brown , David Brayton , Stephen J . Buffum , Asie
A . E . Branch . u Nell D . Cady, Alva Chase , George L . Chace , Chestn t H ill
Reservoir Company , William Camm and wife , William H .
Clark , Ora Clemence , Stephen H . Clemence , Joseph B . Cook ,
Amos W . Cook , Charles D . W . Cooper , H enry Covil , Thomas
Cole . ’
E . Darling , William Dexter s heirs , Leonard K . Durfee .
Richard A . Eddy , James P . Eddy and wife , William Eddy , r . . 0 . Ira P Evans , J , heirs , Duty Evans , Elisha Evans , Duty
Evans estate . F F Edwin arnum , H enry enner . ’ i e u L b s . Gaskill s heirs , Olney Goodspeed, George W Graves , ’ R ay Green s heirs .
Albert A . Harris , Albert A . H awkins , Lydia A . H awkins ,
William Hanover, William W . H awkins , Stephen P . H enry , F 0 . . . David Hopkins , George Hopkins , Annie C H ill , Aaron
' Horton .
Otis M . Irons and wife , Oliver H . Ide .
F . . . L Keach , H orace A Kimball , Charles Kimball and wife , Joseph Keach , Iscah Keach . ’ 81 o C . Simon S . Lapham , James Legg , H arley Luther s heirs .
Parley M . Matheson , Orin Matheson , David Mason , Sophy l t e re M c In t re S v e s . Martin , y y , Sarah W Miller, H arley
Mowry and wife , Simon Mowry , Thomas Mowry , David A . M o ffit M owry, Cyrus H . Mowry and wife , Warren .
H enry C . Newall and wife . l Oat . Joseph y , Stephen Olney , Cy nthia P Olney, Job ’ Owen and wife , Thomas Owen and wife s heirs , John A .
Owen . ’ H enry J . Paine and wife , Ransom Paine s heirs , Pascoag h F F Reservoir Company , Jo n . Pitts , William H . Poole , A . .
Potter and wife , Prince A . Potter, Earle Potter and wife , ’ Elisha Peter s heirs . l Malory Reynolds , Lafayette Reynolds and wife , Samue ’
Reynold s heirs , Ezra Round , Lowell D . Ross .
1 12 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
muue l 1808 . S a Nathaniel Wade , Winsor, , Cyrus C ooke , T o urt e llot Stephen Wilmarth , Abraham Baker , J esse , Elij ah
Armstrong, Joseph Cady, J r . l 18 1 1. T ourt e lot Samuel Winsor , J esse , Thomas O wen , St uke l Elij ah Armstrong, Levi Brown , y Turner .
18 12 . Thomas Owen , Elij ah Armstrong , John Greene ,
J ames Wilder, Job Armstrong , David Richmond . 18 12 1 . 18 3. The same as r 18 1 . . 4 Thomas Owen , J , Elij ah Armstrong , William
S teere , John Greene , J ames Wilder, J ob Armstrong , David
Richmond , Darius Smith , Eleazer Bellows . as 18 1 18 15 . The same 4 .
r i 18 16 . . n Thomas Owen , J , El jah Armstro g , J ames Wilder,
Job Armstrong , David Richmond , Eleazer Bellows , George r a . Smith , Willi m Steere , J , John H awkins , William Wood ,
William A n drews . r O . 18 1 . 7 Thomas wen , J , Elij ah Armstrong , Job Arm strong, David Richmond , George Smith , John H awkins , A William Wood , nan Evans , Thomas Matheson .
1 18 . S 8 Stephen Wilmarth , Mowry Smith , Samuel teere , W C O Edmund T . aldron , Hezekiah ady, Ziba lney, John H aw kins .
1 . . 18 9 Samuel Steere , Edmund T Waldron , H ezekiah
Cady, Ziba Olney, John H awkins , Isaac Wade , David
Arnold .
S . 18 2 0 . Samuel teere , Edmund T Waldron , H ezekiah
Cady , Ziba Olney, J ohn H awkins , Amasa Eddy, Isaac Wade ,
David Arnold .
18 2 1. Samuel Steere, Edmund T . Waldron , Hezekiah r Cady, John H awkins Amasa Eddy , J . , I saac Wade , David h Arnold , M owry Sm ith , Zephaniah Keec , Timothy Sweet .
18 2 2 . M owry Smith , Edmund T . Waldron , John H aw
' Da id Arn old m r. v , Eddy, J , , Timothy Sweet , Zeph kins _A asa
iah . an Keech , Jr
18 2 3. M owry Smith , Edmund T . Waldron , Amasa Eddy,
r. J , David Arnold , Timothy Sweet , Hezekiah Cady, Daniel h A C e S e , . orn ll , Samuel te re, Ric ard ldrich , Daniel Evans Jr 1 1 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 3
a 18 2 4 . The same as last year with the addition of Abr ham Baker .
18 2 5 . Mowry Smith , Edmund T . Waldron , Amasa Eddy , r h ! J . , David Arnold, Timothy Sweet , H ezekia Cady, Danie
Cornell , Daniel Evans . Jr .
1 2 . 8 6. Mowry Smith , Edmu nd T Waldron , Amasa Eddy , r el J . , David Arnold , Timothy Sweet , H ezekiah Cady, Dani
Cornell , Daniel Evans , Jr .
18 2 7 . Mowry Smith , Edmund T . Waldron , Amasa Eddy,
r . n J . , David Arnold , Timothy Sweet , H Cady, Da iel Cornell ,
Daniel Evans , Jr .
18 2 8 . . Mowry Smith , Edmund T Waldron , Amasa Eddy, r J . , H ezekiah Cady, Daniel Evans , Jr r 18 2 . . . 9 Edmund T Waldron , Amasa Eddy, J , H ezekiah
Cady , Daniel Evans , David Arnold , George Smith .
r. 18 0 . . 3 Edmund T Waldron , Amasa Eddy, J , Hezekiah
Cady, Daniel Evans , David Arnold , George Smith .
. r h 18 1. . 3 Edmund T Waldron , Amasa Eddy, J , H ezekia
C ady, David Arnold , George Smith , Jesse P . Ballou , Richard
Steere .
2 . d Ar 18 . 3 Edmund T Waldron , Hezekiah Cady, Davi nold , George Smith , Jesse P . Ballou .
18 . a . b 33 Abram Baker, Elish S Winsor Sa in Smith ,
C harles Wade , N edabiah Angell , Solomon Sweet , Artemas il S r . Smith , y Steere
18 . . S . 34 Abram Baker, Elisha S Winsor, Sabin mith , N
. h . S . Angell , Solomon Sweet , Artemas Smith , E M Aldric , J . rt llot T ou e . , Daniel Owen , Smith Peckham
18 . . 35 Edm und T Waldron , David Arnold , John West ‘ To urt ellot coat , George Smith , D . C . , Hazard P . Clark , Jess e ll t To urt e o . . w S . , E S Winsor, Solomon S eet . r 1 . . . . T our ll t 8 6 . . t e o 3 A Baker, A Eddy, J , J S , Nedabiah
Angell , Solomon Sweet , Daniel Owen , William Luther, J . C .
Medbury , Joseph Clark , H . W . Darling, Atwell Mowry T ourt llo 18 . . . e t 37 A Baker, J S . , B . Aldrich , H . M . D ar ling, Ezekiel Brown , Isaac Wade , T . Sweet .
18 8 . W a e e 3 Elisha insor , Jeptha Hunt , Rich rd Ste r , Rus IS 1 14 H I STORY OF GLOCESTER .
l T ourt ellot s e . . Sm ith , Anson S mith , Welcome Sayles , A H ,
William Page .
18 . . . . 39 A Baker, E S Winsor, Anson Smith , William
Page , Christopher Winsor, John Peckham .
18 . 0 . 4 E Winsor, Anson Smith , Richard Aldrich , Wil liam Page , Richard Steere , H . N . Cook , Russell Smith .
18 1 . 4 . Leonard Williams , Allen H awkins
18 2 . . 4 Abram Baker, Elisha Winsor, Richard Steere , L
R . Williams , Anson Smith , H . N . C ooke , Daniel Owen .
18 . . . . 43 Abram Baker, L R Williams , Anson Smith , H
N . Cooke , Joseph Winsor .
18 . . . . 44 Abraham Baker, L R Williams , Anson Smith , H
N . Cooke .
18 . . . 45 Abram Baker, L R Williams , Anson S mith , Cyrus
Cooke , Elisha S . Winsor .
1845 . J ustices of the Peace were appointed under the pro vision of the new Constitution for several years both by the — T o ur ellot . n . t State and the tow Jesse S , C harles A Slocum ,
Jesse Phetteplace, Artemas Smith , Thomas Irons , J . W .
Wood , H iram Salsbury , Enos Lapham . T o urt llot 18 6 . e 4 . J esse S , Charles A . Slocum , George u Smith , J . C . Medb ry, S . Sweet . 18 Pard n 47 . p H unt , Abraham Baker, Charles L . Slocum , E mor S . Benj amin White , amuel W H unt , Smith , Thomas
0 . Evans Daniel Owen , Ira P . Evans , Jesse Armstrong ,
Cyrus Cooke , George Olney, William R . Sprague , Samuel
Steere , Thomas Irons , Charles H . Steere , Allen H awkins ,
Clark Steere , J ohn M . Eddy , Ezra Hawkins , Robert Steere ,
George Smith .
18 8 . 4 George Olney, William R . Sprague , Gridley Burn
ham , Samuel Steere , Thomas I rons Charles A . Slocum ,
Charles H . Steere , Ransom Paine , D . E . Sweet , Clark Steere ,
Ezra H awkins , Robert Steere , Abram Baker .
18 . Emor 49 Abram Baker, Cyrus Cooke , Smith , Anson
Smith , L . R . Williams , Rufus Eastman . 8 1 0 . 5 Thomas Irons , H arris W . Colwell , Ezra Hawkins , hm k Gridley Burn a , Allen H aw ins , Keys Danforth , Elisha A M . Aldrich , nson Smith .
1 16 HISTORY OF GLO CESTER .
1 6 . . . 8 . 5 Ebenezer Kingman , Ziba O Slocum , A C Wil liams . 8 1 66 ...... E I ngraham , Ziba O Slocum , A P Williams
Clovi s H . Bowen .
186 . 7 . Clovis H Bowen , E . Ingraham , Job Owen , Charles
Slocum , Ziba O . Slocum , A . Williams . 186 1 8 6 . 8 . The same as 7
186 . . . 9 Clovis H Bowen , J esse P . Ballou , A Smith ,
George Smith , C . Slocum , Z . O . Slocum , A . P . Williams .
18 0 . . . 7 J esse P Ballou , Ziba O . Slocum , C . E Tucker .
By the town Clovis Steere , Caleb E . Tucker . 8 1 1 1 8 0 . 7 . The sam e as 7 18 2 7 . J esse P . Ballou , Ziba O . Slocum , C . E . Tucker . 18 x 73. Jesse P . Ballou , Ale ander Eddy, Ziba O . Slocum . ’ l 8 . o 1 e . O . S 74 Al xander Eddy, H enry A Randall , Ziba cum . l 18 . x . o O. S 75 Ale ander Eddy, Henry A Randall , Ziba cum . 18 lo 6 . . S 7 Alexander Eddy, H enry A . Randall , Ziba O cum . 1 877 . H enry A . Randall .
18 8 . . W 7 Reuben J . Brown , H enry A Randall , illiam n Simmo s , Edward Smith , Clovis W . Steere . F 18 . . . . 79 Reuben J Brown , Charles W arnum , H enry A
Sayles , A . P . William s , H . A . Randall , C . M . Keach . F 8 . . . 18 0 . Reuben J Brown , Charles W arnum F 188 1. . . . Reuben J Brown , C harles W arnum F arn hm 188 2 . . a C harles W , by the county ; elected by
th : . . e town H enry A Randall and J ames B Reynolds . F 188 . . . . 3 Charles W arnum , P H am , H enry A Sayles , h by t e county . F 188 . . 4 Charles W . arnum F 188 . . 5 Cyrus arnum , H enry A . Sayles HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . 1 17
D EPUTI ES F RO M G LO C E STER D U RI NG TH F
C O LON I A L PER I OD .
1 1 . 73 . Mr Elisha Knowlton , Walter Phetteplace .
1 2 . . 73 Capt John Smith , Mr . Job Comstock .
I . r 733 Mr Elisha Knowlton , Mr . Zacha iah Eddy .
I . 734 Capt J ohn Smith , Mr . Richard Steere .
Mr . Elisha Knowlton , Capt . John Smith .
Mr . John Barns , Mr . Walter Phetteplace .
Mr . John Smith .
Capt . John Smith , Mr . Richard Steere .
Capt . John Smith , Mr . Richard Steere .
Capt . John Smith , M r . Richard Steere .
Mr . Edward M itchell , Mr . Richard Steere .
Capt . John Smith , Mr . Richard Steere .
Mr . John Walton , Capt . Isaiah Inman .
Capt . John Smith , Mr . Richard Steere .
Mr . Richard Steere , M r . Walter Phetteplace . W Mr . Richard Steere , Mr . alter Phetteplace . To urt lo t e t . Mr . Richard Steere , Mr . Abraham
Mr . Richard Steere , Col . Richard Smith .
Mr . Richard Steere , Maj . Richard Smith .
M r . Richard Smith , M r . B enj amin Smith . h Maj . Richard Smmit , Capt . Timothy Wilmot . l . . C o . Richard S ith , Mr Andrew Brown
Col . Richard Smith , Capt . Joseph Winsor .
Mr . Richard Steere , Col . Richard Smith .
Capt John Smith , Mr. Richard Steere .
l . . Mr . John Wa ton , Mr Silas William s
Capt . Richard Smith , Mr . Richard Steere .
Capt . Timothy Wilmarth , Mr . Benj amin Smith .
Capt . Joseph Winsor, Capt . Rufus S mith .
Mr . Richard Steere , Mr . Silas Williams .
Mr . Richard Steere , Capt . Timothy Wilmarth .
Mr . Richard Steere , C apt . Joseph Winsor .
Mr . Richard Steere , Mr . Jonathan Harris .
Mr . Richard Steere , Mr . Benj am in Smith . 1 18 HISTORY OF GLOC ESTER .
1 6 7 5 . M r . Richard Steere , Capt . I srael Arnold .
1 66. 7 . , . . Mr Richard Steere Mr John Smith , J r 1 6 7 7 . Maj . Rufus Smith , Mr . Stephen Steere .
1 68 . . t 7 Mr Richard Steere , Cap . Israel Arnold .
1 6 . . 7 9 Mr Thomas Owen , Maj . Rufus Smith .
1 0 . . 77 Maj Rufus Smith , Mr . Thomas Owen . 1 1 7 . . , . . 7 Mr Timothy Wilmarth Mr Zebedee H opkins , J r 1 2 77 . Mr . Abraham Waterman , Mr . Thomas Wood . 1 773. Mr . Solomon Owen , Mr . Caleb Arnold . 1 774 . Mr . Silas Williams , Mr . Chad Brown . ' 1 m 775 . Mr. Silas Willia s , Mr. Daniel Owen . 1 6 77 . Mr . Richard Steere , Col . Chad Brown .
1 r. 777 . Mr . J ohn Smith , J , M r . Stephen Winsor .
1 8 . . 77 Timothy Wilmarth , Esq , Mr . Caleb Arnold . 1 w 779 . Mr . John S mith , Mr . Daniel O en .
A . 1 80 . sa . 7 Kimball , Esq , Mr Reuben Mason . 1 78 1. Mr . Simon Smith .
E s . . 1 8 2 . 7 John Sm ith , q , Mr I srael Cooke . E s 8 . E 1 s . 7 3. Daniel Owen , q , Stephen Steere , q
I 784 . Mr. Stephen Steere .
1 8 . . . . 7 5 Daniel Owen , Esq , Mr Simon Smith
E s . 1 86 . . 7 Mr Seth H unt , Stephen Winsor, q
1 8 . S . 7 7 . Mr eth H unt , Stephen Winsor , E sq
8 . . 1 8 . 7 Mr Seth H unt , Stephen Winsor, Esq
E s . 1 . 789 . Mr Seth Hunt , Stephen Winsor, q
E s . 1 0 . . 79 Mr Seth H unt , Stephen Winsor, q
E s . 1 1 . 79 . Mr Seth H unt , Stephen Winsor, q
1 2 . S . 79 . M r eth H unt , Stephen Winsor, Esq October,
E s . . Samuel Winsor, q , M r . Silas Thayer
REPRES ENTATIVE S T O T H E GENERA L AS S EM F B LY RO M GLO C ESTE R .
1 E s . . . 79 3. Samuel Winsor , q , Mr Silas Thayer
E s . . . 1794 . Samuel Winsor, q , Mr Silas Thayer
1 . . . 79 5 . Sam uel Winsor, Esq , Mr S ilas Thayer
E s . . . 1796 . Samuel Winsor, q , Mr Silas Thayer
12 0 H ISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
r R en se llae r Amasa Eddy, J . , B . Smith . r R e n sellae r Amasa Eddy, J . , B . Smith .
Samuel Y . Atwell , Nelson S . Eddy . w Samuel Y . At ell , Nelson S . Eddy .
Ziba Olney, Allen H awkins .
Charles A . Slocum , Robert Steere .
Samuel Y . Atwell , Abram Baker .
Samuel Y . Atwell , Abram Baker . F Cyrus arnum , William Stead .
S ENAT O RS A N D REPRE SENTAT IVES I N T H E
G EN ERA L A S SE M B LY , U N DE R T H E
C O N STITUTI O N .
F 18 . 43 Samuel Steere , senator ; Cyrus arnum , William
S teere , representatives . C 18 . 44 Samuel Steere , senator ; Jeremiah Sheldon , yrus
F . arnum , representatives F 18 . . . 45 Samuel Steere , senator ; Stephen K iske , Jesse S l T o urt e lot . , representatives To urt llot 18 6 . n . e 4 Amasa Eddy, se ator ; Jesse S , William
Luther, representatives .
18 . F ar 47 Amasa Eddy, senator ; Smith Peckham , Cyrus num , representatives . 8 1 8 . 4 Amasa Eddy, senator ; Smith Peckham , Cyrus Far num , representatives . m 18 . n Sa 49 Samuel Potter, senator ; George H . Brow e , uel Steere , representatives .
18 0 . . 5 Samuel Potter, senator ; George H Browne , Sam uel Steere , representatives . e 18 1. 5 Thomas Barnes , s nator ; George H . Browne, T ourt ellot J onathan , representatives . 2 B 18 . w . ro n e e s 5 Thomas Barnes , senator ; George H , J s e
P . Ballou , representatives .
. F 18 . 5 3 Cyrus arnum , senator ; J esse P . Ballou , George
L . Owen , representatives .
18 . . ahShe 73 George H Browne , senator ; Jeremi ldon , 12 1 H ISTORY OF GLOCESTER .
F s . e 18 5 4. Cyrus arnum , senator ; Jes e P Ballou , Georg
L . Owen , representatives . S eril 1 . 8 5 5 . Smith Peckham , senator ; William S Potter, n W . Clemence , represe tatives . il 1 S e r . 8 5 6 . Smith Peckham , senator ; W Clemence , Wil liam S . Potter, representatives .
18 . 5 7 . Smith Peckham , senator ; William S Potter, Reu ben A . Clemence , representatives . 18 8 5 . Smith Peckham , senator ; Lafayette Reynolds ,
Gaius W . H ubbard , representatives .
18 . 5 9 Smith Peckham , senator Lafayette Reynolds ,
Gaius W . H ubbard , representatives .
1860 . . . Daniel Evans , senator ; L Reynolds , Gaius W
H ubbard , representatives .
186 1. Daniel Evans , senator George Smith , representa tive .
186 2 . Daniel Evans , senator ; George Smith , representa tive . t r 186 . e re 3 Lafaye te Reynolds , senator ; George Smith , p
iv se n t at e .
186 . . n 4 Lafayette Reynolds , senato r ; George S Owe , representative . a 186 . . 5 . Gaius W H ubbard , sen tor ; George S Owen , representative .
1866 . . r , ; , . Gaius W H ubbard senator Elias Carpenter J , representative . 186 r 7 . Alexander Eddy , senator ; Elias Carpenter, J . , representative . 868 1 . re re Smith Peckham , senator ; Elias Carpenter, p n t ativ se e . 86 1 . r 9 Alexander Eddy, senator ; Stephen Eddy, J . , representative . 8 1 0 . re re 7 Elias Carpenter, senator ; Smith Peckham , p t t i se n a ve .
18 1. 7 George H . Browne , senator ; Smith Peckham , representative .
18 2 . 7 George H . Browne , senator ; J erem iah Sheldon , representative .
16 12 2 H ISTO RY OF GLOCESTER .
18 . . 73 George H Browne , senator ; Jeremiah Sheldon , representative . re re 18 . . 74 Ziba O Slocum , senator ; J eremiah Sheldon , p t t i s e n a v e .
18 n re re 7 5 . Ziba O . Slocum , senator ; J eremiah Sheldo , p
e n t ative s .
18 6 . 7 . Ziba O . Slocum , senator ; Raymond P Colwell , representative .
18 . 77 . Ziba O . Slocum , senator ; Raymond P Colwell , representative . F 18 8 . . 7 Philip W . H awkins , senator ; enner R White ,
representative .
F . 18 . 79 Philip W . H awkins , senator ; enner R White ,
representative .
18 80 F . . Philip W . H awkins , senator ; enner R White ,
representative .
h . 18 8 1. P ilip W . H awkin s , senator ; H enry C White ,
representative .
188 2 . . . Philip W H awkins , senator ; H enry C White ,
representative .
188 . . . 3 Philip W H awkins , senator ; H enry C White ,
representative .
188 . . . h 4 Phi lip W H awkins , senator ; H enry C W ite ,
r epresentative .
18 8 . 5 . Philip W . H awkins , senator ; Reuben A Clemence ,
re presentative .
F F T OWN O I C ERS .
' 8 20 To wn oun z l 1 . C c Samuel Steere , Ahab Sayles , Sam n uel Potter, David Ar old , C had Sayles , Richard Aldrich ,
Seth Peckham , Jr . T w Auction e rs r o n e . Zephaniah Keach , J , Timothy
Sweet , Nathan Blackmar .
Ove rs eers o /z e — t P aor r. f George Bowen , J , Richard Bur lin ame g , Philip Waldron .
P oun d Kee ers — p Joseph C ady , Amherst Kimball , Jere
miah Steere , Asel Phetteplace .
124 HISTORY OF GLOCESTER . — The Board of Assessors for 1884 5 return the value of real estate , personal property , 1 8 1 Population in Glocester in 74 , I n 774, 1 0 18 10 18 I n 79 , After the division in , I n 5 4, ’ By this year s census , i 1 6 8 8 . n Polls in Glocester in 77 , 4 Polls in Providence
1 6 . 77 , 45 3 2 N umber of square miles in Glocester, 5 3 .
T I E R S 188 . OWN OFF C , 5
M ode rator Edwin J . Val e ntine .
F . Tow n Clerk C harles W . arnu m ; also Coroner
T e s urer Tow n r a Everett W . White .
r n t — Tow n S e g ea John A . Staples .
' Tow n Coun ez l Gilbert Rounds , Richard Barnes , Jeremiah
Sheldon , A . C . G . Smith , Jam es B . Reynolds . — Tax Collector Alexander Eddy ; also Deputy S heriff .
Ov ers ee r of file P oor William A . Potter . — F Ass ess ors . Charles W arnum , J eremiah Sheldon , Oliver
W . Steere . — W . S en a tor to t/z e Gen era l Assembly Philip . H awkins
R epres en ta tive to flee Gen era ! Assemoty H enry C . White ; (called Senators and Representatives after — he P eace C . F . us tices o t . j f W arnum , H enry Sayles i — M r /z o/ Comm ttee D . s . S e o . . George A Harris , M , Mary
O . Arnold , Lyman B . Stone . ' — e/z oolS uerz n ten den t 100 . S p Thomas Irons salary, $ The town receives from the State school money ; from registry taxes , from dog tax , The town fund, There are three post offices in the town ; one at Chepa chet , as spoken of in another place ; one at West Glocester,
Clarence A . Keech , postmaster ; one at H armony , in the eastern part of the town , H enry A . Randall , postmaster . In the town there are 477 families and 47 3 houses . P P E N D I! A .
B RI E F PER S O NA L NOT I C E S . SAM UEL YO UNG ATWELL graduated at Brown University raduat 18 1 . in 4 . H is ancestry were from England After g 18 1 ing he studied law with H on . John Whipple . In 3 or 18 32 he removed to C hepachet and established h imself in 1 w law . I n 8 35 he as a member of the General Assembly from Glocester and chairman of the State Commission on
wa Banking . H e s a very able advocate and seldom lost a ’ e , case . Some of Providence s most able pl aders at the bar
his f . : , studied law in o fice at Chepachet , viz Samuel Ames
k s e . e n c e James M Clarke , Thomas A . J , Edwin Metcalf, Georg
H . Browne and H orace Manchester . H e died in October
1 . 844 . H e left a widow and two daughters and three sons
GEORGE H UNTINGTON BROWNE , son of Elisha and Roby
h Glo ce st e rin 18 18 . (Bowdis ) Browne , was born in H is father
s on died when his was a few years old , leaving the homestead in Chepachet and a large landed property in northern Ver was mont . H is mother, previous to her marriage , a private ’ school teacher of standing for several years . The son s early winters were spent with his mother at their home in the village , where he attended a good private school . Several summers he was under the charge of a special friend of his mother on a farm near the village , where he had the reading
- of books from a small , well selected library . H ere , before he transla was fourteen years , he read with great enthusiasm the tion of H omer’s Illiad and Dryden ’s Virgel also about one hundred volum es , most of them historical and scholastic 12 6 “APPENDIX .
. librar I works H e said , for the read”ing of the above y , was inspired to go to college . After being prepared i n some studies for an examination , he went to Brownington 18 6 Academy , in northern Vermont . In 3 he entered Brown
18 0 . University , and graduated in 4 H e st udied law with
n Samuel Y . Atwell , in his ative village , and was admitted 1 t o the Rhode I sland bar in 843. At his home village he f established a successful law o fice , which he held for 18 several years . In 5 3 he removed to Providence ; also , f 18 his law o fice . In 5 5 he entered into partnersh ip with Sl ck Colonel Nicholas Van y , which continued until his
18 8 . death in October, 5 H e was several years in the
General Assembly from Glocester ; also , a Representative m 186 1 186 in Congress fro to 3 from the Western District . 186 2 H e was commissioned in September, , as Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteers for nine was Of months . H e elected Chief J ustice the Supreme f Court of Rhode Island . This O fer he declined on account of ill health . H e was twice married . H e leaves two children
his by first wife , H arriet Danforth , and a widow .
V CLO I S H . BO WEN was for many years a faithful Town
Clerk . H e also kept an excellent drug store on M ain street .
was s o n H e the of Dr . Joseph Bowen . H e married the 1880 daughter of Anthony Steere . H e died in . H e leaves
several children .
s o n JOHN BROWN , of Jam es and grandson of the Rev . C had
- Brown , laid the corner stone of Rhode I sland College ; was
treasurer many years of the corporation , and filled many places
an d libe ralit of trust where great wisdom y were required . He
was the first merchant in Rhode Island . H e built a fine mbst mansion on Power street , in Providence , where of his has life was passed . H is residence in Glocester previously
been referred to . H e presented fourteen hundred volumes
to the C ollege library . H e gave dinners to the students on
Commencement days . H e was a leader of Rhode I sland
in the war of the Revolution , and a purchaser with his brother
12 8 APPEND IX .
C hepachet , where for more than forty years he had a good
. H i practice H e was well read in his profession . s health declining, he moved into Providence , where he died .
T B D OC . REU EN MAS ON was surgeon in General William ’
. l West s , brigade in the Revolution H e had a large and ong practice in this town . The house he owned , lived and died is in , still standing on the turnpike , near the village at C he pachet
THOMAS OWEN was admitted a freeman from Providence
1 6 - in 73 . H e was Assistant Deputy Governor from the town
Smit hfield 1 Gloces of in the year 75 3. Later he removed to 1 0 ter, and in 77 he was elected by the town Deputy to the
General A ssembly . Also , he was Assistant Deputy to Gov e rn o r Stephen H opkins . At various t imes he rendered important political services to the town and State .
so n was DAN IEL OWEN , of the above Thomas Owen , admitted a freeman from Glocester at N ewport , in May, w as 175 7 . H e chosen Deputy to the General Assembly in
1 was 177 5 and 776 . H e one of the committee to procure gold t he use and silver enough for State to in the Canada war . H e was chairman Of the committee to draft a letter to Con 1 8 gress in S eptember, 7 7, to explain the reason why this State had not any delegation at the Convention at Philadel phia . H e was a member and President of the C onventions
me t 1 0 that at South Kingstown in March , 79 , and at N ewport Of the following May, that adopted the Constitution the
United States . H e gave great satisfaction for his candor and impartiality in conducting the proceedings of the Con
io n 2 1 0 v e n t . H e wrote from Newport , May 9 , 79 , a letter to President Washington to accompany the m essage that informed the President that the C onstitution of the United States of America had that day been adopted by the people of this State agreeably to the recommendation of the General l C onvention at Philade phia . At the Convention at South
Kingstown t he anti - F ederal members of the Convention offered the Office of Governor of the State to Deputy - Gov 12 APPENDIX . 9
was e rn or f . Owen . This of er he refused A coalition party formed and Arthur F enner was nominated the first Governor
Of the State under the Constitution . In 1786 the coinage of the United S“tates”required the adoption of the decimal system . The die for the was 6 1 8 first United States cent established July , 7 7 . In
1 8 6 . 7 , Hon Daniel Owen , Samuel Winsor, Simeon Thayer, r s F . , , , Arthur enner, J and Caleb Harris Esq“uire petitioned the General Assembly, praying for the exclusive priv ilege of a coinage for this colony for the period of 1 8 twelve years . It was granted in January, 7 7, subj ect to such conditions as should be agreed upon by the As
m l n rm s e b . y H e ry Marchant , William Cha ing , Benjamin Bourn and Moses Brown were appointed a committee to draft and report an act to carry said intention into execution con sistent with the Articles of Confederation and the sovereignty N O of the State . report of said committee is found on the r ecords of the State .
w - 1 H e as Deputy Governor four years from 786 . H e was his a large landholder in northern Vermont , where several of ch ildren settled . He , with William Barton , received the f O 20 1 8 1. grant of the town Barton , in Vermont , October , 7 was Iron ore found on his farm in Glocester, and he had a
- trip hammer run by water power . The iron was made into use b the desired shape for y means of his heavy hammer .
' in Various useful implements were made , and sold other
Of : parts the country, viz . ploughs , harrows , rims for wheels ,
- F o r cranes , trammels , horse shoes , etc . , etc . several years he transacted considerable business with England in the iron
department .
so n - ih- m . Gadco b H is law , Mr William , a merchant in the
1800. village of Chepachet , died about Judge Owen settled his estate and invested some of the property for his widow and
M rs children in lands in the vicinity of St . Albans , Vermont . . Gadco mbafterwards married Judge Asa Aldis and settled at
. . wa Of St Albans Mr . Aldis s a graduate Brown University in
1 6 . dauh the year 79 J udge Owen married H annah Angell, g 1 1 6 . ter of J ohn and Lydia Winsor Angell , J anuary 9 , 73 H e
died in Glocester . 1 0 3 APPEND IX .
CAPT . SOLO MON OWEN , brother of the above Daniel Owen ,
s e e had a great desire to other countries and cross the ocean . As captain he sailed from Providence to the East Indies with valuable orders from merchants from this State . After try ing the sea for several years he returned to his native village ‘ his to spend the remainder of life . H e was proprietor and keeper of an excellent public house in Chepachet previous to 1 the year 800 .
E B ER PHETTEPLACE was the son of J onathan and the H is grandson of Walter Phetteplace . mother , Susanna
was - Smith , the grand daughter of Casper Hyzer, or H auser, a w . as 1 1 6 . German H e born in Glocester , August 5 , 7 5 H e 1 0 early had a taste for history and agriculture . About 79 ,
' be his , with friend Mark Steere , had a ship loaded several autumns with fruits and vegetables to carry to Charleston ,
South Carolina, to sell , they going in charge and remaining
n until spring before returni g . While there , Mr . Phetteplace F acquired a slight knowledge of the rench , and Spanish lan 1 6 b guages . I n January , 79 , he was married y Elder Joseph
Winsor to Waite , daughter of Resolved ( Waterman ) Irons . was h She the lineal descendant of Roger Williams , Ric ard r Waterman , Gregory Dexte and Rev . Chad Brown , of Provi
his dence . Mr . Phetteplace superintended large farm , on
' Of which were a great variety fruit trees and berry bushes . his H e was a great lover of home , a staunch Whig in politics , and deeply interested in sustaining good schools . H e died
8 18 . October , 34 WALTER PHETTEPLACE was a descendant ( through Sir
F e t t e lace n F e t t i lace J ohn p , of Oxfordshire , E gland , ) of p , the
Norman gentleman usher to William the Conqueror, and h who came into England with that monarch . ( Oxfords ire was se t in Annals . ) When Glocester off from Providence w 18 1 as . 3 , the above Walter Phetteplace appointed by Gov
Jencks an Assistant Deputy to the General Assembly . This 1 6 office be filled several years . I n 74 he used great influence to keep sufficient money in the General Treasury for use
1 2 3 APPENDIX .
of eatables , to seek a hom e in the wilderness . After spend ing some time in looking around for the most comfortable
be e place to build a log house for his home , selected a plac near where the house of the late Urania Smith stood . Here he found a good stream of water and excellent game in the
W illiams e s forest . A fam ily of soon followed him from Provi dence . Many of their descendants are still living in the vicinity .
A B RAHAM T OURT E L L OT was the son of Gabriel and Marie urt ll t d To e o . (Bernon) H e came to Providence from Bor eaux , F Of 168 8 rance , on account religious persecution , about . I n 1 06 7 , Abraham bought a tract of land in what is now the m town of Glocester, and about a ile south of the village of
C hepachet . On a commanding hill , he built a comfortable
house which was occupied many years by his descendants . i H s mother lived with him the latter part Of her life . H e
was twice married , and had twelve children , viz . Mary, Lydia,
e n Esth r, Abram , Jonathan , Be j amin and Sarah by his first his wife , and Stephen , William , Jesse , David and Anna by
Of second wife . Some m embers these families have filled important places of trust and responsibility in the town and
State .
F Of ENNER R . WH I TE , son Benj amin White , was born in
his Glocester . H e was successful in large manufacturing
establishments , very honorable in all h is engagements , true
to every trust , and very kind to the poor . H e was several
years a member Of the Town Council and General Assembly .
18 80 . H e married Mary B . Arnold . H e died in November ,
J OHN WATERMAN , brother of Col . Resolved Waterman , 1 was a paper manufacturer in Glocester in 7 5 0 . (Providence
Gazette . ) S mit hfield The above Resolved Waterman , of , bought land m 1 . in Glocester in 7 5 0 . H e arried Mary Smith
TI MOTHY WIL MARTH lived in the village of Chepachet .
H is wife was the daughter of Judge Richard Steere . H e 1 APPENDIX . 33 was in ff an d an e H e int e re sted public a airs esteem d citizen . ’ x commanded a company of militia in Gen . Sullivan s e pedi tion on the Island of Rhode Island, where his musket in his was hand very much Shattered .
Richard Evans , Abraham , John and Resolved Waterman , e Samuel Irons , the Smiths , Eddys , Steeres and others own d I . e land here under the reign of ! ueen Anne , George , Georg
I I . and George I I I . Some of these farms are still in posses n n sion of their descendants . J oh Usher and Aaron Bardee were soldiers in the Revolution from this town , and had pen e sions given them from Congr ss .
O RATI ON .
was the An oration delivered by Riley Phetteplace , at 18 2 8 request of prominent citizens of the town , on J uly 4, ,
e e . in the Baptist Meeting Hous , in the village of Ch pachet Of Mowry S . Peckham read the Declaration Independence .
Both the above named gentlemen were students in medicine . The F 2 18 0 . The former died ebruary 5 , 3 latter (physician) died in the Texan war .
G OVERN O RS OF T H E STATE A F TE R TH E REVO LUTI O N AN D UN D ER T H E
1 R OYA L C HARTER , 775 .
k e e r Nicholas Coo e , William Gre n , John Collins , Arthu
F e . nner, William J ones , Nehemiah R Knight , William Gibbs , F n F James enner, Lemuel Arnold , John Brow rancis , Samuel
W . King .
U DE R T E O STITUTI 18 . N H C N ON , 43
F l n n h James enner, Char es Jackso , Byro Diman , Elis a
H arris , H enry B . Anthony, Philip Allen , William W . Hop
in . n e a e Wil p , Elisha Dyer, Thomas G Tur r, William Spr gu , 134 APPENDIX .
liam C . Cozzens , James Y . Smith , Ambrose E . Burn side ,
Seth Padelford , H enry Howard , H enry Lippitt , Charles C . Littlefield Van Zandt , Alfred H . , Augustus O . Bourn . 18 8 George Peabody Wetmore , the present Governor, 5 .
136 APPENDIX .
Grav eyards Fri e nds
M e n 1 8 Busin e ss , 7 5 Graduate s i n Brown Univ e rsity Lawy e rs and Physicians Baptist Me e ting House and Soci e ty Sunday Schools E piscopalians Congre gationalists L ibrary Ornithology
Ge ology Free m e n
e 1 Famili s , 774 Nam e s of Old Famili e s Re sid e nt Tax - Paye rs
Non - Re sid e nt Tax - Pay e rs Justice s of Pe ace .
utie s C o lo n ial e D ep , P riod Re pre s e ntativ e s to the Ge n e ral Ass e mbly
S R the e nators and epre s e ntativ e s unde r Constitution . Town Office rs o f 1820
T ffi e 188 own O c rs , 5 Pe rsonal Notice s
Oration .
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