sors, is a laudable one, and so far as it operates, is highly useful to a State, be its political form aristocratic, or republican. It is, indeed, a feeling inseparable from our condition, and the attempt to eradicate it, is as unwise, as it is futile. It is a powerful motive to good conduct, and certainly a republic has as much need of such motives as a monarchy. No danger need be apprehended from this principle of human feeling, since there is always a corrective in the worst passions of mankind, their envy, and jealousy, and in the entire freedom of suffrage. If this memoir has been extended beyond the bounds ordinarily allotted to biographical sketches, it should be remembered, that it relates the later annals of a descendant of some of the most eminent founders of our State. * She belonged to the Shaker Society-was born in Brentwood in 1705. Rochester, 99. Hampton, 96. Pelham, 90. Weare, 91. Pelham, 97. Sanbornton, 97. Pelham, 90. Salisbury, 94. Canterbury, 101. Springfield, 92. 1810, Widow Anna Sherburne, 1811, Samuel Wingate, 1812, Jonathan Duston,† 1812, Benjamin Jackson, 1812, Eunice Whidden, 1813, Widow Mary Butler, 1813, Deacon Ichabod Palmer, 1814, Widow Mary Ann Snow,‡ 1814, Joshua Boynton, 1815, John Ingalls, 1816, Deborah, (a woman of color) 1817. Mary Currier, 1818, Widow Peggy Kimball, 1818, Widow Mary Kent, 1819, Widow Heard, 1820, John Huntoon, 1821, Thomas Cresson, 1821, Isaac Small, 1822, Widow Hannah Small,|| 1822, Hannah Snell, (single woman), 1823, Lieut. Job Kidder, The year of his decease has not been ascertained. From him, I suppose, the proverbial phrase, common in this region, " As old as Otterson," was derived. He came to this country from Scotland. † Grandson of the intrepid Hannah Duston, of Haverhill, who destroyed the Indians at Contoocook in 1698. She lived to see her fifth generation. Isaac Small was born at Cape Cod in 1721. * A great grandson of William Perkins, who died in Newmarket in 1732, at the age of 116. † Widow of Thomas Woolson, who died at Amherst 1823, aged 93. She was born 22 February, 1722. A memoir of Col. Gregg may be found in the 3d vol. of Farmer and Moore's Collections. Brother to the late Major General Joseph Cilley of Nottingham. TA native of Ireland. 1825, Widow Lydia Bouttell,* 1825, William Burroughs, 1825, James Chase, 1825, Deacon William M'Keen, 1825, Col. Robert Wilson, 1825, Capt. Nathan Brown, 1825, Jonathan Beede,t 1825, Capt. Asa Pattee,‡ 1825, Capt. John Sloan,S 1825, Moses Jewett, 1825, Widow Elizabeth Ferguson, 1825, Widow Mary Noble, 1825, Widow Pearson, 1825, Widow Sarah Crosby, 1825, Widow Martha Lamprey, 1825, Widow Mary Straw,|| Concord, N. H. 26 Oct. 1825. BILL OF MORTALITY FOR AMHERST, N. H. FOR TWELVE YEARS, COMMENCING 1 JANUARY, 1815. Formerly of Amherst. For many years a noted preacher among the Friends. He was in the battle of Quebec under Gen. Wolfe, and served in the war of the revolution. By two wives he had twenty-two children. § The oldest person in that town, and one of those who commenced its settlement, 20 May, 1764. She was a member of the church seventy six-years. Her descendants were 324: Annual number, with the aggregate and average of ages each The preceding Bill of Mortality, with that of the ten years referred to in the Collections, Volume IV, Second Series, embraces a period of twenty-two years, and presents the following facts. The whole number of deaths for 22 years is The average age of each individual, 1 in every 5 have lived 70 years and upwards. 1 in 65 have died annually, on an average. 268 have died under that agė, 1762 persons have lived beyond a century. 534. 24. 321 years. CHURCHES AND MINISTERS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. [Continued from Vol. I, (Third Series,) p. 155.] Hampton. THE Congregational church in this town, according to Johnson, was gathered in the year 1639. It is probably the oldest which now exists in the State of New Hampshire, having, it is believed, continued an organized body from its first establishment until the present time. The ministers who have successively had the pastoral charge of it have been, 1. Rev. Stephen Batchelor, who came from England in company with Rev. Thomas Weld in the ship William and Francis, and arrived at Boston, 5 June, 1632. He was probably settled when the church was gathered, and remained its minister about three years. For further notices of this man, see Savage's Winthrop, vol I. p. 78. |