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emish Bean, Capa. John Sargeant. Lt. Batchelier chosen Selectmen. There was sixty-three ratable polls at 16 years cli, the first.”

FOSTER, SAMUEL

Was born of English parents in Berica, Mass. He came to Candia in 1789, in which year he married Mary Colcord, of Brentwood. They had ten children : Samuel, who married Huldah Lund, of Nashua, where he lived and died; Eben C., who married Betsey Adams, daughter of Dr. Adams, of Pembroke, and lives in Manchester; Moses, who married Abigail Huntley; Polly, who died in Brentwood; Franklin, who married Mercy Huntly, sister to Abigail, and both of Lowell, Mass.; Hannah, who married Nathaniel Chase, of Brentwood; Lydia B., living at Nashua; Lucinda, who married Samuel McQueston; Sally, who married Stephen French; and Betsey, who married Phinehas French, all of Bedford, where Betsey died.

Dr. Foster served three years in the army during the War of Independence, and was at the battle of Monmouth. He used to live in the Parsonage house, which was torn down for the building now occupied by Dr. Isaiah Lane, where he for a time boarded Mr. Remington. He afterwards built the house where Mr. Eben Eaton now lives. In 1812 he removed to Canterbury, and returned in 1815. He died in Brentwood, in 1826,

His widow still living with her son, Mr. Franklin Fos ter, of Nashua, at the age of 87, retains, to a remarkable degree, her memory of past events.

HALL, OBEDEDOM

Was born in Chester, N. H., in 1745, and came to Candia about 1776. He was the first settler in the northwesterly part of the town. It is said of his wife, that on one occasion when Mr. Hall was confined by some injury, or sickness, to the house, she threshed out enough of the newly harvested rye for a grist, and then with a child in her arms, caught the horse in the woods. Putting saddle, bridle, the rye and herself, upon his back, she rode to Trickling Falls, a distance of some twenty miles, to mill. Mr. Hall died in 1805. His wife died in 1799.

HILLS, JOHN

Came to Candia from Chester about 1765, and settled where Mr. Parker Hill now lives. He married Mary Morse, of Chester, they had seven children: Molly', Susanna, Eliza, Edward, Josiah, John, Parker.

Mr. Hills was at Concord, at the battle of Bunker Hill, and at the taking of Burgoyne. When at Bunker Hill, laying down while he loaded his gun, "with his back to the field and his feet to the foe," a buk let finding its way through the fence, struck him on the

foot; he picked it up with the intention of returning it to the rightful owners, but it was too large for his gun, so putting it in his pocket, he brought it home as a token of the first decisive struggle. Mr. Hills was one of the three first deacons.

HILL, JETHRO

Came to Candia from Stratham, in 1765, and settled where John Fitts now lives. He married Mehitable Jewett, of Stratham. They had ten children: James, who died in Minot, Me., Reuben, who went to New Portland, Me., Rachael, Phebe, Mehitable; Wiggin be came an extensive merchant in Bangor, Me.; Sarah died in Sebec, Me.; Joshua lives in Sheffield, Vt. It is somewhat remarkable that Mr. Hill and his wife both met with a very tragical death; he falling and being burned while clearing land, and she escaping from the house in a state of insanity, wandered away in winter, and was found dead in the snow some miles from home.

HUBBARD, BENJAMIN.

In the good old days of yore, says tradition, was born in England, one Richard Hubbard, probably of a family in easy circumstances, if not wealthy. An uncle, living in France, offered to make Richard his heir. Accordingly his passage was paid across the channel by his father, but fortune had determined otherwise than that

he should become a citizen of France, where his de scendants might have lost their heads in the chances of revolution. The captain of the vessel proving to be a rogue, our young voyager was carried to the West Indies, and sold for his passage money. There he was bound apprentice to a blacksmith. After serving his time, the New World, then the El Dorado of all adventurous spirits, attracted his attention, and he came to Boston. He was there married and had two sons, one of whom moved to Salisbury, Mass., and was the ancestor of BENJAMIN HUBBARD, who came to Candia in 1772, and bought the place of James McCluer, on High Street, where Benjamin H., his grandson, now resides. He married Mary Pike, of Salisbury, in 1771. They had three children: Joshua, who married Sarah, daughter of John Robie, and settled where he now lives. Joseph, who married Sally Stevens, of Salisbury, Mass., and lived on High Street, where Elias P. Hubbard now is, died in 1821, and his wife in 1851; Sally, who died at the age of 20.

Mr. Hubbard enlisted for a short time during the revolution and afterwards went to Bennington, as a volunteer under the gallant Stark. It is said that after an engagement in which a number of British were taken prisoners, a Col. Welch was ordered to guard them to Boston, and he had the address to make some of the volunteers, whose term of service had expired, believe that they were obliged to go with him. Among them

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