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From: "M&M" <>
Subject: Misc Records from another trip to Franklin Co. and Guilford, VT
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:31:14 -0400
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Some misc. records,.

This actually from July 3rd, 2004 trip: CARPENTER
(Leaving Centre/Cemetery Bernardston out to main road, diagonally across
from Streeter's store) "1829 Carpenter Homestead", Hartwell St.?

The home is not open to the public, but through very good luck and
connections my mom and I were given a tour, it is very much the way it was
when they lived there. It was originally owned by Elijah and Felonia
Carpenter. scribbling madly, we learned;

The bench in the hall along with 2 others in the house was made by Richard
PHELPS constructed from hewn logs taken from Deacon Ebenezer SHELDON Fort,
one of four forts built in the area in 1740 for protection from Indians.

A small book (shown us by homeowner) was left in house with note about it:

"In one of the drawers in the "Carpenter Cupboard" are found the following
notes written by Cyrus W. Carpenter and Rev. C.C. Carpenter (sons of Elijah)
on their visits to the old home."

Book is entitled "Hiram Golf's Religion"/"The Shoemaker by the Grace of
God", George H. Hepworth, 1907, E. P. Dutton Co., NY

"Charles C. Carpenter born here in this room" 7/9/1836
"written" 11/1/1909 "died 1918. Here once more" 11/5/1910 "There is also a
book which Rev. C.C. Carpenter gave to the house bearing this inscription"

"I wish this book (by) Hiram Golf (remain) in the "Doctor Carpenter Home" in
Bernardston permanently as a little memorial of Cyrus W. Carpenter who was
born there and who died in NJ 1902.
He was helped by this book as seen on the opposite page (an inscription) and
I am sure it will be interesting and helpful to successive tenants in the
dear old home of our boyhood."
"Charles C. Carpenter, Andover, Christmas, 1909"

The NELSON'S owned the very old house next door (across the side street as
the home is on a corner), next to that is home of STREETER'S who owned the
store across from it, still called STREETER'S and still run by them,
although the family patriarch had recently passed away.

Charles was a doctor and a surgeon, an apothecary unit
with small drawers and shelves is in a corner closet, in what used to be the
office. A sink used to be in this room, but a window in the wall of the
closet, behind the drawers allowed things to be passed from the other room,
believed used to pass things for surgery, maybe because the cooking hearth
was in there and sterilized items could be sent in from there, or that room
was the waiting room, and the doctor could look out to see who was in there,
maybe both.

An article on the house written by Charles under the name of Mr. Martin,
appeared in The Congregationalist, Conversation Corner, Sept. 1896 p. 155.
In it he mentions about returning to town and visiting the now empty home,
getting the key to go in, looking in the licorice drawer in his father's
office, and these memories:
Mother's mince pies stored in cellar; book read as child "The Boy Who Stole
Apples", took pages out of it and put them on the wall, there were some
remnants of these then; sweet well water from the oaken bucket; digging
under a rock and expecting to find a "Chinaman" they dug so far; "Make the
most of these childhood days, be happy yourself and make others happy around
you."

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Across from (Old?) Meeting House Coleraine:

Memorial:
Men of Colrain Who Served in The War For the Preservation of the Union
1861-1865

(they are in alphabetical order) *-Died in service

George W. Adams, Samuel Ashton, James T. Avery, Stanyard Baldwin, Harley M.
Barber, Peter Bard, Amos Bardwell Jr., Reuben E. Barnes, Charles H. Bellows,
Francis Bent, William H. Booth, Uri Bradley, William H. Bradley, *George
Bree, Eli Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Alvin Brown, *Edward P. Browning, Allen L.
Burrington, Levi E.Call, Herbey Carle, Thomas Carle, James W. Carpenter,
*Robert Carroll, James Casey, Ralph Childs, *Luman Churchill, Charles M.
Clark, Edward Clark, Joel L. Clark, Otis W. Clark, George W. Cook, Henry C.
Cromack, Joseph H. Currier, Harvey S. Curtis Jr, John Henry Curtis, *Seth A.
Curtis, John S. Daniels, Samuel F. Daniels, Thomas S. Daniels, *Edwin
Davenport, James H. Davis, Andrew Day, Edward L. Dearborn, Charles B.
Denison, William C. Dewey, Zenas J. Dunton, Timothy W. Eason, James E.
Eaton, Joseph H. Elliott, Abram Elmore, Frederick A. Farley, Joseph R.
Farnsworth, Edwin Augustus Field, Marcus M. Fisk, James Fowler, Sandy
Francis, Patrick Furfey, Henry Grover, *Hugh Hamilton, John Hibbert, Frank
Hodgkins, *Frederick H. Holden, Marcus Hoskins, Chris D. Houghtaling, Henry
A. Howard, Henry M. Howard, James F. Hoyle, George W. Jeffis (Jeffts?),
David Jillson, Lewis Jillson, Samuel C. Jillson, Andrew Johnson, Fayette
Jones, *John Kately, Richard Kelliher, Edwin R. King, John Lackey, *Willard
Lamb, James T. Langstroth, William A. Leach, John McAllister, Hiram L.
McCloud, *Michael McConaughy, Thomas McGinley, Thomas McGuton, Hugh McClane,
Samuel McMana, Henry Martin, Foster T. Merriam, William Millard, Benjmain F.
Miller, Charles E. Miller, Franklin C. Miller, Benjamin F. Miner, James B.
Miner, Samuel A. Miner, Perry Mitchell, James Moran, Owen J. Morse, Loren B.
Moore, Silas H. Moore, Allen Murdock, George Murray, Alvah P. Nelson,
Nicholas Newman, George H. Nichols, Walter C. Nichols, Levi G. Odione, John
R. Orcutt, Ira S. Orr, Charles E. Packer, Alpheus B. Parker, John Pearsons,
Harlow M. Peterson, Charles H. Porter, Edward L. Pratt, *George D. Preston,
Hosea F. Purrington, Edward J. Read, John H. Robertson, Jusitn R. Rugg,
Albert Russell, William A. Russell, William H. Russell, Charles H. Shaw,
John Silvia, John Smead, Arthur A. Smith, Martin Smith, William Smith, David
W. Snow, Leander Asa Snow, *Asa N. Sparks, Elwin L. Sprague, Charles A.
Stanton, Samuel Starkey, Charles S. Stetson, William H. Stone, *George F.
Stratton, Hoyt Sumner, James S. Tenney, George Thompson, Hugh W. Thompson,
Hugh W. Thompson, Vincenlio D. Thompson, Simeon Town, Francis A. Tuck,
Charles Walker, James W. Wallace, Joseph Wallace, Charles W. Ward, Amasa A.
White, *Franklin Williams, Edwin J. Wilson, William H. H. Wilson, Alfred S.
Wingate, Lewis L. Wood, *Philetus York, William H. Young

Oops, too late, will post the rest (Some more Cemetery transcriptions)
tomorrow.

Remembering to add my name this time:

Maura J. Amrich, Tyngsborough, MA



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