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Title: History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, comprised within the original limits of Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H., with records of the centennial proceedings at Northwood, and genealogical sketches ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cogswell, Elliott C. (Elliott Colby), 1814-1887
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Publisher: Manchester (N.H.) J.B. Clarke
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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udge St.Clair lived ; and of Maj. Shepherd, whose public housewas where J. T. Brown resides, —may never be reproduced.All honor to such patriots! Yet may men strong for theright, and women mighty in virtue, walk these streets andadorn these homes ; cultivate these farms and beautify thesedwellings. Such merchants as Daniel Moore, Goss and Carlton,Todd and Pierce, Shepard, Runlet, Upham, and the Jen-nesses, may not make the place lively by their activities ;yet S. C. Danforth and others may prove as advantageousto society as those whose stores were odorous with the va-pors of alcoholic beverages. May the days never returnwhen merchants who keep intoxicating drinks for saleshall find a customer on this historic Parade, where menwere adapted to the demands of the times in which theylived, l)ut not for later generations made wiser l)y theirknowledge of the past. rands corner.This location is a few miles noith-west of the Parade, onthe great highway townrds Concord from Exeter and Ports-
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cr UJ 2 a:oo CO QZ<CO HISTOBY OF DEERFIELT). 301 mouth. Like all other centers of hiisincss in early times,it is situated on a large, hioli swell of land, surrounded bya fertile tract of farming country, whereon men can liveand rear families amid all that is essential to their highestwcll-lieing, but not in the elegance and extravagance ofaffluence. Industry and economy are necessary, liut penuri-ousness and illiberality are not recjuired. The strong armand generous soul, absence of injurious habits, industry andforecast in business, with needful education, make the till-ers of the soil monarchs of their broad acres, and princesin all sources of rational enjoyment appropriate to countrvlife. A succession of Rands has taverned and traded here.Large teams of oxen and horses have found straw andprovender ; nor was the elevation so high, nor the apex sopointed, as that oxen and horses, and teams of them, needfear rolling off, to the ruin of life and property. But herewas a broad platea

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