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is now Candia, about 1773, bought lot No. 30, in the second part of second division, in the original right of Michael Whidden. Near the centre of this lot he built a log house. The well which he dug and the remains of the cellar wall are still to be seen.

In a few years this structure was removed for a more commodious dwelling, glazed with very green French glass, and having an enormous stone fire-place, with manteltree of pine three feet through. This house, the oldest in town, is standing on the farm of R. E. Patten, Esq. Mr. Turner used to come down here to borrow fire. Mr. McClure once contrived to fall a large tree on his only cow, at which he was so much disheartened, that he would have given up his location, had it not been for the persuasion of his wife.

Bears and wolves greatly infested the place, and rattle snakes were plenty. In later days, a grandson of the family killed an enormous wild cat, after the creature had destroyed a whole flock of sheep in the barn now standing. Mr. McClure was past middle age when he came to Candia. About the winter of 1770, while returning, an old man, from a visit to his daughter, in Raymond, he became bewildered in a severe snow storm, and sunk exhausted but a few rods from the path he had lost. His voice, borne by the fitful gusts over the drifting hill sides, was heard at a mile's distance. Ere he was found, he had perished. A pine, at whose foot he fell, had the bark bruised off as far as the

vid man could reach, in the vain effort to keep off the chill which bound his aged limbs in death.

Such was the melancholy fate of the first settler in Candia. So perish multitudes whose restless spirits send them, in advance of civilization, to encounter the dangers of the frontier, or plunge into the unexplored recesses of the wilderness.

Here in this book, when he, seventy years agone, has fallen to be forgotten, is his only epitaph, written by a Etranger:

DAVID MCCLURE,

AN OLD MAN,

A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND AND THE FIRST SETTLER OF CANDIA,

FELL AND PERISHED BY THE WAYSIDE,

ABOUT THE WINTER OF

1770.

MOORE, ANDREW

Was the only son of John Moore, who was killed in the American Army, in 1778, leaving him at two years of age in the care of his mother.

He grew up, not a man of close and rigid business habits, but with rather more than a fair share of wit and humor, which often found its way out in the shape of practical jokes. Many a time did he perplex me, when just aspiring to the dignity of trousers, with sundry questions concerning the growth of my calves. He

was a man of lang face and great muscular strength. scooped a line and had a gigi by da milking, the result of a fractured when a young man.

In the time when de rumples were turnpikes, when

Anderson kept a tarem hive fr and wile, and Labran received the produce of half - Up Country,” wiez a brick business was dine at the Corner, at Master Fitts' and at Capt. Eatin's, when every other man in town was a cooper, and the road to NewCarport was crowded with haled teams, then -- Uncle Andrew was in his prime. One night while on the road. it so happened that six or eight teamsters were stowed away in one room. Two of them, weary with traveling and halen with cvermuch supper, fell asleep and stored so prodigiously that no one else could close an ere. Uncle Andrew Laving turned and twisted for an half hour or so, in vain, finally revolved the matter in mind, and arrived at a satisfactory result. Rising, he softly placed a chair under each foot at the bottom of the obnoxious bel, upon which the nasal cadence gave place to some most extraordinary variations, growing thick and short by degrees, and beautifully shorter, until the climax was reached, in one indescribable short, as both sleepers landed on the floor. The chairs were removed, and the author of the disturbance in bed before their astonished faculties could assign a cause for the trouble.

Mr. Moore was provided with an exhaustless fund of

anecdotes, mostly from personal experience, which, could they be written as he used to tell them, would be worth the reading. He died at the age of 69 years, generally respected, and was a man who held a pleasant place in the memories of most who knew him.

MOORE, COFFIN

Was a native of Stratham, N. II., and came to Candia about 1760. He married Comfort Weeks, by whom he had seven children: William, John, Coffin, Jacob B., Patty, Polly and Comfort. Jacob B. married Mary, daughter of Ephraim Eaton, by whom he had four children: Jacob B., formerly of Concord, N. H., now Postmaster at San Francisco; Henry E., a musical Professor of deserved distinction, at Concord, N. H., who died at Cambridge, Mass.; Mary, widow of the late Dr. Thomas Brown, of Manchester, widely known for his exertions in the temperance cause; and John W., formerly editor of the Bellows Falls Gazette, and Postmaster at Bellows Falls, Vt.

Patty married Dea. Prince. Polly died in Stanstead. Dr. Moore was the first physician who practiced in Candia. He is reputed to have been a very skilful practitioner, but was a little too much addict ed to the prevailing folly of the times, drink. Both he and his wife were persons of excellent education, and it is said that when Mrs. Moore had occasion to talk to her husband for his occasional misdemeanors.

she used the French language, so that the children might not understand what was said. He died in Stephen Palmer's house, in 1768.

MOOERS, SAMUEL

Was a man of much influence in the early times of the town. He came from Hampstead and lived at the Corner," where Mr. John Bean now lives, married a Miss Ingalls, by whom he had five children: Peter, Samuel, Timothy, Nathaniel and Josiah; none of whom, nor their descendants, are now living in town.

He is said to have been a man of remarkable tact in settling all troubles and disputes among the people. Indeed, said the old gentleman who told me about him, "Esq. Mooers and Lieut. Fitts used to rule the town.” At town meetings, nothing was ever done till Esq. Mooers got there. He sometimes, before a physician came into the place, used to pull teeth, if occasion required, and perform some of the lesser surgical operations; hence he was called Doctor; while his wife was one of those useful women, whose services were absolutely indispensable at the auspicious events, which usually take place prior to a christening.

PALMER, STEPHEN

Came to Candia from Epping, in the month of April, when the snow was over all the fences," although

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