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28 Green, Nathan, from Leicester, was a farmer, living in the north-easterly part of the town; he abstained from all spirituous liquors, and in that respect was almost an exception in those days. About the year 1820 his house was struck with lightning; Mr. Green and his wife felt the shock. It affected him like a stick of wood coming with force against his lower limbs. It stunned Mrs. Green. They heard no report, though it sounded to others like the firing of a gun; there was no rain; the hemisphere was diversified with light and brassy clouds; there appeared a black cloud in the center, "like a man's hand," from which it was supposed that the electrical fluid proceeded. The carpenter who repaired the house found it considerably shattered and thought there was not a nail but what was either drawn out, or started. He m. a French lady, Margaret, dau. of John D. Jersey, from the Island of Journsey. They had no children. Nathan Green, (a nephew of his,) lived with them from a child, to whom he gave his property; he m Fanny Bicknell; they had one child whose name was Charles. Mr. Green d. in 1822, ae. 71.

Glazier, John, came from Shrewsbury in 1773; he owned a good farm in the center of the town, and kept a public house; was an honest, upright man, anxious to promote the welfare and prosperity of the town; he gave them the use of his house to hold their meetings in, until the meetinghouse was built; it is the place that Asa Richardson now owns, and is supposed to be the oldest house in town. He m. Sarah, dau. of Isaac Temple, of Shrewsbury; their ch. were:—1. Smyrna, m. Bridget Foster; whose ch. were:—Bridget and Abram Foster. When Smyrna was about four years old he fell into a well and climbed out alone. When he was a young man he was very fond of a gun; he shot at