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From: "Newell Family" <>
Subject: Re: [LADD-L] Rockingham Cty History-D. W. Ladd
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:40:16 -0700
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Those of you who know this line may pick up on this but I noticed the
mention of the THYNG farm. Isn't that a name associated with LADDs??
Janet
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Subject: [LADD-L] Rockingham Cty History-D. W. Ladd
> Hello again..
>
> Came across another little piece of info while searching through the
> Rockingham County information on Rootsweb.. this piece talks about the
> County Farms in Rockingham.. time period is around 1868.. it initially
> discussed the Webster Farm being purchased by the county to be used as a
> central point for the overseers of the county to be able to take care of
> individuals unable to pay their debts. The Webster farm was purchased in
> 1868 for this purpose and goes on to describe the what they did.. in a
small
> note it also states the pasture and farm for a D. W. Ladd was also
purchased
> in 1868 for the same purpose.
>
> I am not sure who this D. W. Ladd is.. but in checking my files for that
> area and timeframe.. it could be Daniel Ladd b. 1781 d. 1868.. married to
> Grace Powell.. this Daniel is the son of Jeremiah Ladd & Tamison Sias..
> grandson to Daniel Ladd & Alice of Epping, NH.. great grandson to
Nathaniel
> Ladd & Catherine Gilman. Anyone out there have any ideas or thoughts on
this
> one?
>
> Would be interested to know more about this person as he is a part of my
> line.. sort of off the path a bit.. but nonetheless.. part of my line.
:-)
>
> Bonnie Ladd Sullivan
>
> ************************
> Chptr 6 - The County Farm & Internal Improvements from History of
Rockingham
> County, NH
> From: Michelle McKenzie -
> Source: History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative
> Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago,
> Ill., 1915
> Page 85 CHAPTER VI THE COUNTY FARM-INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
>
> Previous to the establishment of the County farm system, the selectmen or
> overseers of poor of each town had charge of all persons needing
assistance.
> At various times the Legislature enacted laws which largely increased the
> number classed as county poor. The system of allowing each town to care
for
> the poor within its limits led to some evils, was expensive, and made it
> necessary to locate buildings at some central point in each county where
this
> large class of unfortunates could be better provided for. The County
> convention at its session in the month of June, 1868 authorized the
purchase
> of a farm and the erection of suitable buildings to accommodate 250
inmates.
> The authority to purchase said farm was committed to a joint board
consisting
> of a building committee,--John R. Reding, of Portsmouth; W. H. Robinson,
of
> Exeter; H. P. Hood, of Derry; and I. L. Robinson, of Fremont,--selected by
> the convention, and the com- missioners, James C. Brown, John J. Leavitt,
and
> Abbott Norris, who finally selected the Thyng farm, so called, in the town
of
> Brentwood.
>
> The farm contains about one hundred and sixty acres, and is situated 2-1/2
> miles from Epping depot, on the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad. The
Nashua
> and Rochester Railroad now Connects at said depot.
>
> The first cost of the Thyng farm was $6,500, including thirty acres
adjoining
> land. The total first cost of the almshouse was $19,632. The following
year a
> building for the insane and a large barn was added at an expense of
$9,487.
>
> The same year (1868) the county convention authorized the commissioners to
> purchase woodland and pasture, and the farm of D. W. Ladd was bought, 160
> acres, for $4,500.
>
>
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