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Caleb kept the home farm, and at an advanced age, has a very clear recollection of past days. He tells a story of Mr. Nicholas Smith, who had a very neat wife, and while at work with his neighbors on the burnt land, they observed that he was very careful not to get his white shirt blacked; so they, for mischief, often contrived to let some very black stick fall against him, for which he doubtless was duly reprimanded at home. It is said of this Nicholas Smith, that at one time, he was almost the only man left on High street, they having gone to the wars, and one day Mr. Henry Clark came riding up with news that the British were in Raymond woods advancing on the town. Mr. S.'s gun was gone, but he had a powder horn with powder in it, seizing which he boldly started out to meet the enemy.

BROWN, NEHEMIAH

Was the son of William Brown and Ann Heath, of Kensington. He married Ann Longfellow, had three sons: William, Sewell and Nathan. They came to Candia about the year 1765. Mr. B. had three sisters who married and had thirteen children each. Nathan married Ann Currier, and had seven children: Nancy, Sally, Polly, Dolly, Nehemiah, Nathan, Jonathan. Sewell married Susanna Turner - they had twelve children. William married Mary Sandborn, they had four chil dren,

BURPEE, NATHANIEL

Came to Candia about the year 1753, from Rowley, Mass. He married Esther Roth, of the same place,they had eight children: Jeremiah, Nathaniel, Nathan, Ezra, Mehitable, Sally, Esther, Patty. He bought the place now occupied by Jonathan Brown, his grandson, of Winthrop Wells, who, it seems, had been there a short time previous. Mr. Turner and Mr. Obed Hall were then the only neighbors; there was no road excepting a bridle path turning in where Mr. B.'s barn now stands, and so up by the brook to Mr. Hall's. Mr. Burpee seems to have been a man of note, for he was not only one of the first deacons, cotemporary with Dea. Palmer and Dea. Hills, but was a tailor and teacher of singing. His schools were in his own house, where the young people of that day assembled to learn the melodious trills that so charmed our grandfathers. The house then stood in the orchard north of the brook. It was burned and another was erected where the present one now stands.

Dea. B. was out in the old French War, and at the seige of Cape Breton. He died in 1815, at the age of 94. His son NATHANIEL married Dorothy Currier, and settled on the old place. They had four children: Nathaniel, Jonathan, Sally, Molly. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and fought at Bunker Hill and Saratoga,

Dea. Burpee's wife is said to have been a very smart woman, and helped to raise Mr. Turner's barn. No doubt hands were scarce and she was a woman equal to the demands of the times.

BUSWELL, SAMUEL

Came to Candia from Salisbury, Mass., about 1763, and the next year married Betsey Underhill, of Chester. They had eight children: John, Moses, Sarah, Richard, Samuel, William, Hannah and David. John staid on the home farm, married Mehitable McCluer in 1792,they had five children who attained years of maturity: Samuel, Jacob, Mahala, Nancy, Richard. He died in the summer of 1851, aged 84. His wife during the past season received a visit from her only surviving sister, who came alone from a distance of over eighty miles, at the age of 81. The two then took the stage and visited some friends in Raymond. Moses, a physician, died in Maine, Sarah in Chester, Richard was drowned, William was, when last heard from, in Canada, supposed to have died there. Hannah lives

in Canterbury, and David in Bradford.

Mr. Samuel Buswell was a carpenter by trade, and before he had served out his time enlisted in the French War, and was at Cape Breton. He is said to have been very small, not weighing over ninety pounds, but was as brave as many bigger men. He afterwards

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served in the War of the Revainion, where he became acquainted with Gen. Stark, and after the peace helped finish of his house in Demyield. One time, having occasion to carry a grist to mill, he visited the General. He was received with cordiality, and the customary hospitality of the times was by no means neglected. Mrs. Stark, with busy hand, sa plying her wheel, while the General and his cid comrade sipped their beverage and cracked jokes cn ciden times. — "I've been a thinking," says John, looking on his better half, “that if my wife should ever die, I should be obliged to have her coffin made large enough to put in her linen wheel, or she would never stay contented.” “And what do you think," was the quick reply, “that I should do for John? I've been a thinking that his coffin should be made large enough to put in a keg of rum! or he would never stay."

CARR, JOHN

Was born in Chester in 1737. His father was a native of Ireland, and we here give a copy of a certificate still preserved in the house.

"That John Ker and his wife Elisabeth Wilson lived within the bounds of this Congregation from their Infancy behaving themselves Soberly honestly and piously free of any Public Scandall, so that they may be received as members of any Christian Congregation or Society where

God in Providence may order their Lott is certified at Ballywollon June 23, 1736

by Ja: Thompson.'

John Carr married Mary Wilson, of Chester, and came to Candia in 1764, where he built the house still occupied by Mr. Nathan Carr, supposed to be the oldest inhabited house in town. There was no clearing when he came, so that there was some work to be done. During the Revolution, he served three years, and came home with silver enough in the lining of his coat to pay for his farm. In his absence the family were exposed to some hardships; the wolves and bears sometimes destroyed their corn and took away their sheep. At night they barricaded their doors and windows. — Sometimes of an afternoon they had a social gathering to which dames Turner, Ramsey and Rowell came and brought their work. It was a tea party, with this dif ference, that instead of tea they had a huge bowl of sweetened water, with the accompaniment of rye bread and butter. This bowl was of stone ware curiously figured, and when in after days the Colonel kept tavern, it occupied a conspicuous place as a punch bowl. It seems to have been a sort of heir-loom and fell to one of the daughters. The family was one of some wealth in Ireland, and the name has changed from Ker, Kerr and Karr, to Carr, of the present day.

Towards the close of the war, Mr. Carr was chosen captain of the Alarm List, composed of old men and

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