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 Windham, N. H.

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��18G6. George W. Weston.

1867. Loren Thayer.

1868-70. Rei Hills. 1871, '72. Albert A. Morrison. 1873-75. William D. Cocliran.

1876. Joseph P. Crowell.

1877. Abel Dow.

1878. Horace Anderson.

1879. '80. Abel Dow.

1881, '82. Horace Anderson. 1850. Delegate to constitutional con-

ventiou, Jeremiah Morrison. 1876. Delegate to constitutional con-

vention, Horace Berry.

WAR OF 1812-'15.

The war of the Revolution had passed and the colonies were free, but the best of feeling did not exist between Elngland and her late col- onies. England was arrogant in her demands and in her treatment of weaker nations ; the United States was jealous of its rights. War was hardly averted in 1795. At length the conflict caine, and the soldiers of Windham were as follows : Benjamin Blanchard, William Balch, Robert P. Dinsmoor, Samuel Dinsmoor, Samuel Davidson, Richard Dow, Thomas Nesmith, David Campbell. David M. Gait, Alexander Gordon, John B. Hilands, Moses Sargent, Philip K. Wiles, Rufus Patterson, Stephen E. Blaisdell, Samuel Rowell, Amos Dow, Thomas Moore, David Durrer, Phin- eas Danforth, .James Simpson, Sam- uel Marshall, Aaron Senter, Matthew Clark, AVilliam Simpson, John Nes- mith, AVoodbridge Cottle.

The war was exceedingly unpopu- lar, and when news of peace was re- ceived there was great joy among the people. The news was brought by Samuel Armor, on horseback, from

��Haverhill, Mass. Rapidly he came from the latter town, and joyfully proclaimed the glad tidings. Riding up to the houses of the people he shouted "Peace! Peace! Peace!" and with a few explanatory words reined his horse into the highway and was gone. The news spread rapid- ly, and joy and gladness reigned su- preme.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTOUY.

The Scotch settlers of Windham came to this wintry land to have

'A faith's pure shrine,"

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��' To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife."

��They were hard-headed, long-head- ed, level-headed, uncompromising, un- conquered, and unconquerable Pres- byterians. They were of a stern and rugged type. They clung to the ten- ets of the Presbyterian faith with a devotion, constancy, and obstinacy little short of bigotry, and in it was mingled little of that charity for others of a different faith " which suffereth long ; " nor is this surprising when we consider the circumstances of their lives, and the stock to which they belonged. They were the de- scendants of a brave and heroic race of men and women, who had resisted the enci'oachments of the '• Estab- lished Church " of England, risen in opposition to it, and in 1638 entered iiko a '"solemn league and covenant" to maintain the reformed religion in Scotland, and to resist and put down popery and prelacy : hence the name of "■ Covenanter."

For the preservation of their relig- ious liberty and their form of faith the Covenanters had struggled, and fought, and suffered amid the moors

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