the year is not certainly known. He was one of the first three deacons. He married a Miss Hoyt, of Stratham, and they had eight children: Joseph, Stephen, Timothy, Patience, Jemima, Abigail, Hannah and Sarah. He first moved on to the place where Capt. John Pillsbury now lives, and afterwards to the north road, where he died. His son, Joseph, married the widow of Lieut. Thomas Dearborn, by whom he had five children: Moses, Joseph, Polly, Lydia and Salome. Stephen married widow Abigail Brown, and had five children: Olive, Josiah, Lucy, Betsey and Polly. He died on the old place.

Josiah, grandson of Dea. Stephen Palmer, married Betsey Carr, of Raymond, by whom he had seven children: Nathaniel, Sally, Stephen, Asahel, Elisabeth and Abigail. He also died on the old place.

PATTEN, ROBERT

A native of Boston, Mass., came to Candia about the year 1774, and bought his farm of Zebulon Winslow, the same now occupied by Mr. Willis Patten. He married Catharine Carr, of Chester. There is a story related in the family, in regard to this Catharine Carr's history. It is said that she was the daughter of John Carr and Betsey Smith, who came from Ireland. John, it seems, was a person of fine appearance, so that he won the affections of the daughter of a noble family. She married him, and in consequence was banished

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PATTEN, THOMAS

Came to Candia in 1754. and bought a part of the farm owned by Mr. David McClure, whose daughter, Mary, he had married two years before.

He was a son of Dea. Robert Patten, born in Boston, in 1725, on what is now called Common Street. He was baptised by the Rev. Dr. Morehead, as were most of his younger brothers and sisters. There he attended school until about the age of 15, on Pemberton Hill, when the family went to Exeter, N. H., from which place they, in a few years, removed to the "long meadows,” so called, now Auburn, where Dea. Robert died in 1754

This last named gentleman came from Edinburgh, Scotland, about 1724. He was a stone mason by occupa tion, and was employed by the colonial government on the fortifications in Boston Harbor.

Thomas was father of fourteen children, two of whom died young. Elisabeth married John Varnum, and, after his death, Moses Clark, of Deerfield; Thomas died unmarried; Mary married Simon Norton; Jean married Joshua Moore, of Chester; Martha married Joseph L. Seavy, of Rye; Sarah married Benjamin Wadleigh ; Rachael married Samuel Dimon; Margaret married Jacob Sargent; Hannah married Ephraim Fullington, of Raymond, and moved to Cambridge, Vt.; Ruth married Andrew Moore; Samuel married Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel Emerson, Esq.; Moses married Hannah, daughter of Ephraim Eaton.

Mr. Patten was of the race of Scotch covenanters, and strongly attached to his religious ideas. He maintained family worship by reading the scriptures, singing and prayer, so long as he was able to perform those duties. He would "deacon the hymn" himself, and required the whole family to sing, always using the same tune which embraced one line only, and which he would so twist that it went well and came out right in all metres!

When a boy, he was one day in pursuit of a decr, then plenty on the shores of the Massabesic, in company with a Mr. McGregor. Espying a fine animal

near the water, he fired, the shot took effect, but the position and peculiar state of the atmosphere, caused the report of the gun so to echo and reëcho, in a thousand thunders over the lake, so said the old man, "as to make my hair stand on end.”

Some years after coming to Candia, there happened one of those severe snow storms not unfrequent in our climate, when the house was buried so deep in a hard drift that the good people were obliged to get out at the chamber window, and dig an arch through to the door. The hog having been driven from his quarters, meditating, doubtless, on the discovery of an antarctic continent, began a voyage of exploration over the crust to the ridge-pole of the house. Savory fumes from the frying pan were wafted to his delighted olfactories from the chimney, as with many an aldermanic grunt he proceeded onwards, but alas for piggy! as he was arriving at the acme of his hopes, like many an other philosopher he stepped on the treacherous arch-way, fell with dismal squeak into the path, and bounced in upon the astonished kitchen!

On the easterly part of the farm, lies the "dead pond," so called. The country was in former times. much infested with rattle snakes. A dog belonging to the family, was once bitten by one of these creatures, and went off apparently to die, but it was afterwards found that he had buried himself in mud, all save the end of his nose, which caused a complete cure.

Mr. Patten survived his wife one year, and died in 1816, aged 91 years, the two having lived together aş man and wife more than sixty years.

ROWE, ISAIAH

Came to Candia about 1762, from Hampton Falls, and bought a farm on what is called the Pine Hill road. He married Sarah Healey in 1764; they had eleven children: Jonathan, Susanna, Elisabeth, Lydia, Nathaniel, Sarah, Mehitable, Olive, Lucy, Dolly, Abigail. After the two oldest children were born, Mr. Rowe bought a tract of land of David McGregor, of Londonderry, in the original right of James Boyd, and moved on to it, the same now occupied by Capt. John Rowe.

Mr. Isaiah Rowe was out in the French War, and there is now in the house an old military chest and a powder horn brought from Cape Breton; on the latter is marked "Samuel Dalton, his horn, 1756." As to the chest, there are no marks about it to indicate the wars it has passed through, but it serves in the absence of other things as a memento of past times.

Daniel Rowe, and Abigail Stockman, his wife, parents of Isaiah, seem to have come with him into town. They lived in a small house a little west of the farm house of Isaiah, on the north road. He sometimes taught school, and in his own house instructed the neighbors' children to read. It is in the memory of