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��SUTTON.

��But the days of a year fly on their round With sign of builders on the ground ; The structure grows

'Mid hammer's sound, To rival those The red flames found, More stately and grander far than those ' Which fell in the burning fearful throes.

Turret and spire and roof and wall, Chancel and organ, chapel, all Await to-day

The Master's call ; We bow and pray As low we fall, Accept Thou what we build, to-day ; Take, and take never Thy grace away. Pittsfield, N. H., 1876.

��SUTTON.

��[The following historical scrap, furnished by Erastus Wadleigh, Esq., of Sutton, will be of inter- est, especially on account of its presentation of the varying orthography of the name attached to the well-known mountain in western Merrimack.]

��Sutton was granted by the Masonian Proprietors to Capt. Obadiah Perry and sixty-two others from Haverhill, Mass., and vicinity, in 1749. It was described by them as being a tract of land seven and one-fourth oniles long and five miles wide, lying on the west side of Kyah Sargg Hill, in form a parallelogram. The limit has never been changed. As appears from the records Kyah Sargg Hill was written by the grantees at that date Ki a sarge Hill ; in 1750, Ci a sarge Hill ; 1752, Ci ar sarge Hill ; in 1761, Ki- a sargy inHill ; in 1765, Chy e sarge Moun- tain.

Mrs. Osgood, widow of Jacob Osgood,

��late of Warner, (who was founder of a religious sect, now nearly extinct, called Osgoodites) is supposed to be the oldest native of Sutton now living. She was born September 12, 1779. and is a daughter of Jonathan Stevens, who was one of the six first settlers of Sutton. Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Messer and wife, was born May 6th of the same year, and died Dec. 1875, in the 97th year of her age. No settlement was made in town except David Peaslee, and family, prior to 1770. The first child born in town was born Oct. 31st or Nov. 1st, 1770. It was said the birth was near midnight, hence the uncertainty of date.

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