JOHN CARLTON, died 1745, aged 87. 2 John, Christopher, Joseph, Daniel, 2 John, 3Joshua, 2 Christopher, 3 Isaac. -2Joseph, Joseph.

LAURENCE LACY, 2 Laurence born 1683.

THOMAS AUSTIN, 2 Thomas, born 1691. Benjamin, Daniel, Abiel.

SAMUEL AUSTIN, died 1753, aged 83. Wid. Lucy, died 1759, aged 88. 2 Samuel, 3 John, Daniel.

ROBERT SWAN, 2 Richard, born 1691-Joshua, 3 Joshua, Caleb Capt.

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HENRY BODWELL, Josiah, born 1686, Henry, James, Daniel-2 James, 3 James.

JOHN FARRINGTON, 2 Edward, born 1662 in England, came from Lynn to Andover-2 Edward, 3 John, born 1693, Jacob, Edward, 3 Daniel, 4 Daniel Capt. moved to Fryeburg 1764, died 1819, aged 88, Thomas, Jacob, Phinehas Wilton, Philip Capt. John, Wilton, died 1802, aged 48.

THOMAS CARRIER, from Wales, died in Colchester, Con. aged 109 years. 2 Thomas, Richard,

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2 Thomas, 3 Thomas-2 Richard, 3 John.

Andrew

SAMUEL BLANCHARD, born, Aug. 1629, came to N. England, 1639, married, 1654, 2 Jonathan, Joseph, Thomas, John. Samuel moved from Charlestown to Andover 1686, died April 1707, aged 77. Jonathan and Thomas settled in Andover-2 Jonathan, 3 Jonathan born 1686, David, Jacob, Benjamin.

2 Thomas, died 1759, aged 85, 3 Thomas, born 1700. Joseph, Josiah, Nathaniel, Isaac.

3 Josiah, died 1783, aged 78, 4 Josiah, Joshua, Benjamin,—4 Joshua Wilton, 5 Joshua Capt. Amos deacon, Andover. Abel physician Pembroke, N. H.

4 Benjamin, Wilton, 5 Benjamin, Isaac,

JOSEPH EMERY, died 1721, 3 Joseph, born 1696.

JOHN GUTTERSON, 2 John, born 1692, William, Samuel.

HUGH STONE, 2John, Simon, Daniel, Hugh-2 John, 3 John, Joseph.

The first settlers of Andover, like the other settlers of New England were puritans, and left their native country to enjoy civil and religious liberty. They were men of stout hearts, braved the ocean and the greater hardships of the wilderness. Their resolution and fortitude were equal to their trying situation. They felt like a band of brothers, ever ready to encourage and assist one another. Their privations, hardships and sufferings were endured with wonderful fortitude and cheerfulness. In a word, they exhibited a very favorable specimen of all those virtues and excellencies, which characterized the puritan settlers of New England.

CHAP. III.

INDIANS AND SUFFERINGS FROM THEM.

THE features of the Indians are good, especially those of the women; their complexion somewhat reddish, or copper coloured; their hair black and straight; their limbs clean, straight, and well proportioned. A crooked or deformed person is rarely to be found among them. They are very ingenious in their way; are quick of apprehension, sudden in despatch, subtil in their dealings, ready in invention, and in labor assiduous. They had wigwams, or cabins to defend them from the weather. These were built by uniting poles at the top, and inserting them into the ground at suitable distance. These were covered with bark, boughs of trees, or skins except an aperture at the

top for smoke, and a small place for entrance at the side. The fire was built in the centre; the ground around the fire was covered with mats, skins, or boughs, as they could afford. They used no chairs, but sat on this covering, and had no need of a table. They slept with their feet toward the fire. A whole family, and sometimes more, was accommodated in one of these cabins, which had but one room. They were commonly built near good water.

They had skins for clothing before the English came among them, from which they made mocasins for their feet. They often took fish with a kind of spear. They used bows and arrows for hunting and for war. The end of the arrow was often pointed with flint stone; these points have been found in the fields long since the Indians have departed. Their game was sometimes taken in traps, pitfalls or snares. Various instruments of stone have been found, since they have left the country. They soon found the use of hatchets, knives, fire arms, blankets, and other articles after the English came among them.

They made canoes of bark taken from large birch trees. This was sewed together with fibres, or roots. It was put into proper shape, and strengthened by ribs, or thin pieces. of wood, and a rim, like the top of a basket, was fastened all round it and bound with tough bark, or fibres of roots. It was daubed with pitch to prevent leaking. With these canoes, they could pass up and down and across rivers, and they would carry several persons. They were light and might be carried with ease, round falls of water, or from one stream to another.

A few years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the Massachusetts Indians were very much diminished by a pestilential disease and by wars. Some tribes had become extinct; others were very small.

It has been sta

ted, that from thirty thousand they were reduced to three hundred warriors.

Andover was a place of resort favorable to their mode of life. There was a plenty of fish in the Merrimack and the numerous streams running into it; the light land near the water was suitable to the cultivation of corn and beans, and the forest afforded them game. Roger with a small company had a settlement near Cochichewick brook.

Such was the kindness, such the justice and humanity of the first settlers, that they suffered very little from the Indians, for more than thirty years. An equitable consideration was paid for whatever was obtained from them. The inhabitants were able safely and quietly to pursue their business, till the breaking out of Philip's war in 1675. This rendered garrison houses necessary for refuge and defence.

These houses were sometimes made of thick timbers, sometimes filled with bricks between the studs. Sometimes they were surrounded with a rampart, or stockade. A watch was kept through the night. During the time of war, there was a garrison house in every neighborhood in the different parts of the town.

The first violence and damage occurred on the 19th April 1676. "Mr. Ephraim Stevens discovered the enemy about a mile this side of Bodwell's ferry, but escaped upon his horse, and alarmed the inhabitants. The Indians pursued and passed along the main road, without doing any mischief, till they came to the south part of the town, where they killed Joseph Abbot, and took Timothy Abbot." These were sons of George Abbot, sen. Joseph was stout and resolute, and probably made resistance; and there is a tradition, that he killed one, or more, of them, before he was slain. He was in his 24th year. Timothy was in his 13th year, was kept several months, and was brought back by a squaw who knew the family and was friendly. He had been treated by the Indians as well as circumstances would

admit; but, as Hubbard states, was greatly pined with hunger.

"At the same time Mr. Faulkner's house was burned, and Roger Marks was wounded and his horse killed. They killed some cattle, but had time only to cut out their tongues, being fired upon by the people in the garrison." A few months after, a small party of the enemy surprised and captivated Mr. Haggett and two of his sons.* July 10th 1677, John Parker, James Parker, John Phelps, and Daniel Blackhead were surprised and slain at black point in Scarborough.

"In 1688, the Indians commenced another war with the English. Andover suffered more in this, than in the preceding war." In August 1689, John Peters and Andrew Peters were killed by the Indians; and in the same year, Lt. John Stevens, Benjamin Lovejoy, Eleazar Streaton and Robert Russell died in the war at the eastward. In August 1696, John Hoit and William Peters were slain. But the most severe and distressing shock, which Andover ever suffered from the Indians, was on the fifth of March 1698; "when between 30 and 40 Indians surprised the town killed five persons, burnt two houses and two barns with the cattle in them-set another dwelling house and the meeting house on fire; but the fires were happily extinguished before they had done much damage."* The persons killed were Simon Wade, Nathaniel Brown, Penelope Johnson, aged 19, daughter of Timothy Johnson, Capt. Pascoe Chubb and Hannah his wife, aged 41, daughter of Edmond Faulkner. Chubb, two years before, had been Capt. at Pemaquid fort, when he had treacherously murdered two chiefs of the Indians, and had greatly irritated them; and his death afforded them as much joy, as the taking of a whole town, because they had taken, though by accident,

* Dr. Symmes's Thanksgiving Sermon.