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Title: A memorial of the town of Hampstead, New Hampshire. Historic and genealogic sketches
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Noyes, Harriette Eliza, b. 1848, comp
Subjects: Hampstead, N. H. Congregational Church Hampstead (N.H.) -- History Hampstead (N.H.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: Boston, G. B. Reed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ewilderness, our inherited characteristics are tracable in liis in-domitable courage, in his persistency, in his love of justiceand equal rights, and his inflexible determination to come outahead, at any and all honorable cost. As we stand on the threshold of a new century, a hopesliines over all. We look forward to a clear bright line, trust-ing that it may be a century of peace, that it shall not ask ofus any of those ministrations which war demands. A hopethat fifty years hence, when the children and grandcliildren ofthe schoolboys of today, may gather in this grove to do honorto a longer line of ancestry, that the Hampstead of todaymay have given place to a Hampstead, that in population,culture, arts, and refinement, which embellish and adorn civi-lized life, will be vastly in advance of our position now. A hope that they may search deeper into the history, legendsand personal acts of the town builders, preserving with zealand enthusiasm the ancient landmarks, whether they be that
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HAMPSTEAD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. 169 giant of strength, the Royal Oak, or noble elms that havestood as a guard over our beautiful town all the years since itsearly settlement, the old meeting-house, the early homes, or tlieIelics, rescued from the public or private life of the fathers. Holding all as sacred as the old tombstones, and burnishevery link that binds them to the ancestral chain until itshines, and feel that our ancestors, the pioneers of Hampstead,chose for their inheritance the most goodly land and the mostwise precepts. To duty firmTo conscience true,Honor tried and pressed,In Gods dear sightHigh work, we do. At the conclusion of the address Miss Manora Jenness ofCharlton, Mass., sang Memories of the Past (Mankeville).The first lines ; In the old village school house that stood on the green, Barefooted I played when a boy,And the old familiar faces as I recall the names, Now fill my heart with ecstacy and joy. Miss Jenness singing was especially pleasing and in responseto the w

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