Part 7

----|---------------------+------+----------------------------------------------- No. |_With whom read Law._|_Com._|_General Remarks._ | |_prac._| ----|---------------------+------+----------------------------------------------- 1 |J. Harris |1814 |Practised also at Goffstown and Wilmot a | | | short time, and resided a short time in various | | | other places, lived at Georgetown, | | | D. C., now in Virginia, on a farm. | | | 2 |Thomas Jameson } | | |Josiah Forsaith } |1817 |Practised in Epping till 1821, removed to |John Harris } | | Andover, Rep. from Andover and P. Master. |Levi Woodbury } | | | | | 3 |Peter Green |1787 |Practised also a short time in Hopkinton, | | | removed from the State, d., 1811. | | | 4 |T. W. Thompson } |1805 |Practised in Boscawen till 1807, Portsmouth, |Christopher Gore } | | till 1817. Rep. in Cong. from 1813 to '17, | | | removed to Boston, Rep. in Cong. from | | | 1823 to '27, Sen. from 1827 to '39 and again | | | 1845, Sec. of State of U. S., 1841 to '42. | | | LL.D. Dart., Harv., Coll. N. J., Columb. | | | 5 |James Sullivan } |1807 |Rep. from Boscawen from 1821 to '25 and |Parker Noyes } | | 1827-28, Sen. 1815, Trustee of D. C. He fell | | | dead while arguing a case in the Court | | | House in Concord, April 10, 1829, a. 49. | | | Brother of Hon. Daniel Webster. | | | 6 |B. Whitman |1811 |Practised also in Boston till 1831, then in | | | Hopkinton, d. in 1839. | | | 7 |Oliver Crosby |1817 |Son of Hon. Amos Cogswell, born April 16, | | | 1790. In Dartmouth Coll. three years, | | | Notary Public. | | | 8 |S. Moody } |1829 |Removed to Boston and went into the |S. C. Lyford } | | mercantile business. |R. M. Field } | |Asst. Clerk of House of Reps. 1843 to '45, and | | | 9 |H. Clossen } |1841 | also Clerk in 1845. Resides in Fishersville. |E. Burke } | | | | | 10 |Caleb Ellis } | | |H. Newton } |1814 |He was born in March, 1790. |B. Chase } | | | | | 11 |Artemas Rogers } |1827 |Practised also at Loudon and several other |S. Fletcher } | | places, went South. | | | 12 |Weare Tappan |1841 |In partnership with Weare Tappan, Esq. | | | 13 |A. Livermore | |See Clerks of Court of Sessions. | | | 14 |S. Moody } |1828 |Removed to Wolfborough, Solicitor for Carroll |S. C. Lyford } | | Co. | | | 15 |Samuel Livermore |1783 |See Solicitors of Rockingham Co. | | | 16 |Samuel Livermore | |Counsellor 1788-89, removed to Boston, returned | | | and died at Concord. 17 |James Sullivan |1791 |See Solicitors of Hillsborough Co. | | | 18 | |1792 |See Judges of Superior Court. | | | 19 |John Pickering |1793 |See Solicitors of Rockingham Co. | | | 20 |Peter Green } |1793 |See Judges of Superior Court. |Jonathan Rawson } | | | | | 21 |E. St. L. Livermore |1793 |Practised also at Gilmanton, Barrington, and | | | Pembroke. 22 |A. Livermore | |See Clerks of Court of Sessions. | | | 23 |W. K. Atkinson |1800 |See County Treasurers. | | | 24 |William Gordon } |1804 |Practised also in Deerfield, and now resides in |Charles H. Atherton} | | Pembroke. | | | 25 | | |He was at Concord in 1814. | | | 26 |Samuel Green |1810 |Practised also at Dover, Clerk of Senate, Dep. | | | Sec., Rep. from Concord. | | | 27 |Phineas Walker |1811 |Practised also at Gilford, Sol. of Strafford Co. | | | from 1819 to 1834, Rep. from Gilford, app'd | | | Att'y Gen'l Jan 10, 1843. | | | 28 |Samuel Green |1815 |Practised in Concord but a short time, removed | | | to Sanbornton and to Bristol, Rep. | | | and Sen. Died in Concord in 1834, a. 52. | | | 29 |Samuel Green |1815 |Rep. from Concord, Trustee of D. C., Trustee | | | and Treasurer of Phillips Academy, Andover, | | | where he now resides. | | | 30 |Baruch Chase |1817 |See Registers of Deeds. | | | 31 | | |Practised before at Epping, afterwards at New | | | Market and Kingston, and is now at Fitzwilliam. | | | 32 |Samuel Green } | |Rep. from Concord, Trustee of D. C., Cashier |William Sullivan } |1817 | of Concord Bank, Ed. of N. H. Statesman | | | and Concord Register, and of Boston Sun. | | | 33 |George Sullivan |1818 |Sec. of State, N. H., 1825-'28, Clerk of Senate, | | | Rep. from Concord, removed to N. Y., and | | | d. in 1831. | | | 34 |George Sullivan |1820 |Practised in Meredith to 1820, Chester 1830, | | | Concord 1839, Manchester, Rep. 1825, '26. | | | Sol. Rock. Co. 1823 to '28, Com. to revise | | | Statutes 1841, '42, Judge of the Police | | | Court of Manchester. | | | 35 |Richard Fletcher } |1820 |Practised also at Plymouth, Ed. of Herald of |Parker Noyes } | | Freedom. Died Oct. 16, 1846, a. 52. | | | 36 |David Barker |1823 |See Judges of Superior Court. | | | 37 |Samuel Fletcher } |1824 |Removed to Plymouth, where he now resides. |Parker Noyes } | | | | | 38 |H. B. Chase |1826 |See Clerks of Superior Court. | | | 39 |H. B. Chase |1826 |Practised in Concord till 1827, removed to | | | New Market, Rep. from New Market 1840, | | | '41, '42. | | | 40 |B. J. Gilbert |1827 |Practised also at Hanover, Treasurer of D. C., | | | Rep. from Concord. | | | 41 |Samuel Fletcher |1827 |Practised also at New Hampton and Rochester. | | | 42 |Henry Hubbard } |1827 |Practised also at Newport, Claremont, Sec. of |G. B Upham } | | State, N. H. 1831 to '38, Clerk at Washington, | | | resumed the practice at Plymouth, | | | Bristol, Newport, Reg'r of Probate for Sul. | | | Co. 1845. | | | 43 |Artemas Rogers } |1827 |See Bradford. |S. Fletcher } | | | | | 44 |S. Moody |1827 |Rep. from Concord, Director and Clerk of C. | | | R. R. Corporation, Adj. Gen. from July 6, | | | 1829, Trustee and Sec. of N. H. Asylum for | | | Insane, Director of Mechanics Bank, | | | Concord, Rep. in Cong. 1847. | | | 45 |J. Burnham } | |Practised in Hillsborough till 1838, Rep. 1829, |L. Woodbury } | | '30, Speaker 1831, '32, Rep. in Cong. 1833 to |E. Parker } |1827 | '37, Sen. in Cong. 1837 to '42, Dis. Att'y U. |Dane Law School } | | S. 1845, Maj. Gen. U. S. Army. | | | 46 |Richard Fletcher |1830 |Treasurer of N. H. M. Fire Ins. Co. | | | 47 |N. G. Upham |1831 |See County Treasurers. | | | 48 |George Sullivan |1832 |Practised also in Pembroke, removed to | | | Michigan. | | | 49 |Henry A. Bellows } |1835 |See Registers of Probate. |J. D. Stoddard } | | | | | 50 |S. Fletcher |1837 | | | | 51 |C. H. Peaslee |1837 |Clerk of Senate from 1835 to '40, Rep. from | | | Concord. | | | 52 |S. Fletcher |1840 | | | | 53 |H. Hubbard } | | |J. J. Gilchrist } |1840 |Practised also in Bristol. |S. D. Bell } | | |Ira Perley } | | | | | 54 |S. Butterfield |1840 |Practised in Lucas Co., Ohio, and Gilmanton, | | | Asst. Clerk of Senate, 1845, '46, Editor of N. | | | H. Patriot, also of a paper in Lowell, Ms., | | | and one in Nashua. | | | 55 |W. Lovell } | |Practised first in Gilmanton, Sec. of State, N. |S. C. Lyford } |1841 | H., 1846, Editor of Independent Democrat. |Dane Law School } | | | | | 56 |Pierce & Fowler } | | |Dane Law School } |1842 |Editor of a paper. | | | 57 |J. Bartlett } |1813 |Removed to Manchester, Editor of Manchester |Pierce & Fowler } | | Democrat. | | | 58 |Pierce & Fowler } |1846 |In partnership with C. H. Peaslee, Esq. |C. H. Peaslee } | | | | | 59 |Baruch Chase? |1802 |He died in 1809 aged 36. | | | 60 | |1829 |Practised also in Pembroke and Concord, | | | Rep. from Dunbarton, previously admitted | | | to the Bar in Ohio. | | | 61 |Stephen Mooody |1801 | | | | 62 |Jonathan Steele } | |See Solicitors of Rockingham Co. |C. H. Atherton } | | | | | 63 |T. W. Thompson |1801 |See Solicitors of Hillsborough Co. | | | 64 |John Harris |1808 |Practised in Canaan till 1822, also in | | | Salisbury, Rep. from Salisbury. | | | 65 |Parker Noyes |1825 |Rep. from Franklin, 1831, '2, '4-'6, '8, '9, '44-6, | | | President of N. R. R. Corporation. | | | 66 |G. W. Nesmith | |In partnership with G. W. Nesmith, Esq. | | | 67 |J. H. Woodman |1808 |Practised in Henniker till 1809, Northwood | | | till 1831, Exeter, Clerk of the House 1828, | | | Reg. Prob. Rock. Co. 1831 to '42, Rep. from | | | Northwood and Exeter, Counsellor 1846, | | | Editor of Exeter News Letter. | | | 68 |Joseph Locke } |1813 |See Solicitors of Merrimack Co. |T. Rowe } | | | | | 69 | | | | | | 70 |E. Parker } | |Practised also at Merrimack, Henniker, and |B. M. Farley } |1837 | Claremont, P. M. at Claremont. | | | |R. M. Field } | | 71 |H. Clossen } |1841 |See Boscawen. |E. Burke } | | | | | 72 |Baruch Chase |1817 |See Registers of Deeds. | | | 73 |Daniel French? |1823 |Practised also at Sutton, Clerk of Judicial | | | Courts Sul. Co., Rep. from Newport, Asst. | | | Clerk and Clerk of H. of Reps, in Cong., | | | Washington, D. C. | | | 74 | |1827 |Practised also in Sutton and Seabrook, | | | removed from State 1845. | | | 75 |E. Trowbridge } |1770 |Practised in Hopkinton till 1772, where he |Francis Dana } | | died, a. 33. | | | 76 |Bradley & Buck |1789 |See Solicitors of Hillsborough Co. | | | 77 |Simeon Strong } |1794 |See Judges of Superior Court. |Timothy Bigelow } | | | | | 78 |John Harris |1807 |Removed to Mass. | | | 79 |John Harris |1809 |Rep. from Hopkinton, Speaker of H. 1818-'20, | | | Pres. of Sen. 1827, Coun. 1828, Rep. in | | | Cong. 1821-25, Gov. 1830, District Judge U. | | | S. 1830. | | | 80 |Baruch Chase |1817 |See Registers of Deeds. | | | 81 |Matthew Harvey |1817 |See Judges of Probate. | | | 82 |M. Harvey } |1833 |Removed to Boston, 1845. |H. Chase } | | | | | 83 |Samuel Fletcher | | | | | 84 |Artemas Rogers } |1826 |Practised in Hillsborough 1826, Henniker 1827, |Samuel Hubbard } | | Loudon till 1833. Studied at Gilm. Theo. | | | Sem., and settled as a minister in Warsaw, N. Y. | | | 85 |Artemas Rogers } |1827 |See Bradford. |S. Fletcher } | | | | | 86 |B. Stevens |1828 |Died several years since. | | | 87 |M. McDonald |1844 |Practised in Loudon in 1844, removed to Pembroke. | | | 88 |H. B. Chase |1826 |See Clerks of Superior Court. | | | 89 |Joseph Bell } | | |G. W. Nesmith } |1835 |Rep. from New London 1841, '42. |J. D. Willard } | | | | | 90 |G. W. Nesmith | |See Solicitors of Merrimack Co. | | | 91 |Asa P. Cate |1846 |Removed very soon after commencing practice to Gilmanton. | | | 92 |E. St. L. Livermore |1793 |See Concord. | | | 93 |William Gordon } |1804 |See Concord. |C. H. Atherton } | | | | | 94 |George Sullivan |1806 |Practised also in Deerfield and Northwood. | | | 95 |Amos Kent |1807 |See Judges of Probate. | | | 96 | |1829 |See Dunbarton. | | | 97 |Jonas B. Bowman |1835 |Practised also in Hooksett and Bedford. | | | 98 |N. Clifford |1844 | | | | 99 |M. McDonald |1844 |See Loudon. | | | 100 |Baruch Chase } |1815 |Practised also in Chester and Barnstead, and |A. Kent } | | in partnership with A. Kent, Esq. | | | 101 |Isaac O. Barnes |1831 |See Solicitors of Merrimack Co. | | | 102 |M. Norris, Jr. |1839 |Removed to Lowell, Ms. |L. B. Walker } | | | | | 103 |I. Perley } | | |Hayes & Cogswell } |1843 | |C. Merrill } | | | | | 104 |I. Perley } |1843 |Removed to Manchester, and died 1846. |C. Merrill } | | | | | 105 |I. Perley } |1844 |Practised a short time previous in Kentucky. | | | 106 |James Sullivan |1791 |See Solicitors of Hillsborough Co. | | | 107 |T. W. Thompson |1797 |See Clerks of Superior Court. | | | 108 |John Harris |1808 |See Franklin. | | | 109 |Daniel Webster |1809 |Removed to Boston, Rep. in General Court | | | from Boston, Rep. in Cong, from Mass., | | | LL. D. at Dartmouth College. | | | 110 |Richard Fletcher |1819 |Practised in Salisbury till 1836, removed from | | | State. | | | 111 |E. Webster } |1831 |Practised in Danville, Columbia Co., Pa., to |R. Fletcher } | | 1838, went to Salisbury 1843, Rep. from | | | Boscawen 1843. | | | 112 |John Harris |1815 |Practised also in Warner. | | | 113 |Daniel French? |1823 |See Hooksett. | | | 114 | |1827 |See Hooksett. | | | 115 |Edmund Burke | |Removed to Chester, Vt. | | | 116 | |1800 |Practised afterwards at Meredith, now at | | | Rochester, Rep. from Rochester. | | | 117 |T. W. Thompson |1801 |See Solicitors of Hillsborough Co. | | | 118 |Baruch Chase |1804 |See Registers of Probate. | | | | | | 119 |John Harris |1815 |See Sutton. | | | 120 |H. B. Chase |1839 |Practised in Warner to 1841, removed to Manchester, | | | Rep. from Manchester. | | | 121 |John Harris |1814 |See Andover.

REASONS FOR GENEALOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS.

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Perhaps at no time since the settlement of our country, has the public mind been so deeply interested in genealogical research as it is at the present. There is now perceived among all classes, a growing disposition to make inquiries respecting the past. The National and State archives are compelled to surrender the treasures which for centuries have been locked up in their musty embrace. On every side individuals are to be found, who are ransacking the homesteads of their fathers, to acquire materials for biography and to settle the questions respecting their ancestors which inquisitiveness suggests.

Some of these individuals appear to be urged on by curiosity alone. If, through their inquiries, they ascertain that they have descended from an old and celebrated family, the discovered fact seems to repay them for all the toil at the expense of which that fact may be brought to light. To establish their claim to descent from some noted warrior of the age of chivalry, or from some distinguished statesman of a later date, they are willing, not only to spend laborious days and sleepless nights, but their purses are open, and their gratitude is freely expressed, to any one who shall furnish them with a link to perfect the chain which may connect them with their supposed ancestors.

A family pride, either innate or acquired, leads other inquirers to their task. It is the height of their ambition to be able to trace their lineage to the first settlers of our country. To have derived their existence from the noble band who left a home rendered insupportable by religious persecution, and crossed the stormy Atlantic in the frail Mayflower, is to them a source of the highest pleasure. In their efforts to establish this derivation, facts of great importance in the local history of our country have been elicited. These efforts have given birth to most of our town histories, whereby materials, invaluable to our future historiographers and biographers are preserved from the ravages of time. These men in consequence of their researches become the _nuclei_ of associations for historical, genealogical, and biographical pursuits, which, here and there, are springing into existence. These associations are awakening the mass of the people to a sense of the importance of the objects for which they were formed. Many young men, naturally enthusiastic in every thing they undertake, have caught the spirit of antiquarian research. From them we have much to hope. New modes of investigation may be projected, new plans for arranging and preserving historical and genealogical discoveries may be proposed, and new deductions from these discoveries may be made. Such are some of the advantages which may be confidently predicted as the result of these labors in the genealogical field.

Other inquirers are inclined to the study of genealogy from the _argumentum ad pecuniam_. The vast amount of property which remains in abeyance in the old world, has arrested their attention. Every announcement of estates wanting heirs stimulates anew their investigations; and the presiding genius of the age suggests to them the possibility of finding themselves entitled to this unclaimed property.

How important, then, that a genealogical record should exist, wherein the heirs of families should have a permanent place! How many bitter controversies respecting heirship would thereby be prevented! How many fraudulent distributions of property would thus be defeated! How many of those who have been rendered destitute by the deceptions of false claimants, would be restored to their legal rights, if such a record had been hitherto properly kept!