Granite State Monthly Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...of superior abilities. He died January 10, 1787. Ebenezer Smith, born in Exeter in 1734; was a Proprietor of Gilmauton, but settled in Meredith in 1768, and was a " father of the town" for many years. He was judge of probate; lientenant-colonel of 10th regiment militia; president of the senate two years. He died August 27, 1807, aged 73. Hon. Matthew Thornton, born in Ireland in 1714; came as a lad to America; studied medicine; was surgeon on Lonisbourg expedition; member of congress from 1776 to 1778; chief-justice of Hillsborough county; judge of the supreme court; member of the council in 1785. Soon afterwards he moved to Massachusetts, and died in Newburyport, June 24, 1804, in his 91st year. Simeon Olcott, of Charlestown, was born in Bolton, Conn., October 1, 1735; graduated at Yale college in 1761, and settled some three years later in Charlestown as a lawyer; he was judge of probate in 1773; chiefjustice of court of common pleas in 1784; associate justice of superior court in 1790; chief-justice from 1795 to 1801; U. S. Senator to 1805. He died February 22, 1815, aged 79. Enoch Hale, of Rindge, came from Hampstead in 1760; was justice of the peace in 1768. He vtos born in Rowley, Mass., November 28, 1733; was a leading citizen of the town till he removed to Walpole in 1784. He died in Grafton, Vt., April 9, 1813, aged 79. Moses Dow, of Haverhill, was the first lawyer of Grafton county, and for some time was register of probate. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Hon. George Atkinson, Esq., who was born, lived, and died in Portsmouth, was a man of considerable ability, strict integrity, and of an irreproachable character. He was four times appointed a delegate to the Continental congress, but each time declined the office. He was also appointed a mem...