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 298 Whitefield.

"Samuel Morison, Gent," also in acres. He was the ancestor of the

many deeds. He was much engaged Campbells of Windham, of Hon.

in public business. He married Mar- Charles H. Campbell of Nashua, and

tha, daughter of Samuel Allison, of of James Madison Campbell, late of

Londonderi-y. She was born March Manchester.

31, 1720, and was the first female

child of European extraction born in John Dinsmoor, son of John Dins- that town. She died Dec. 3, 1761. moor of Scotland, came to London- He died Feb. 11, 1776, and in the derry in 1723, and is ancestor of the cemetery overlooking the bright Dinsmoors here. His house was in sparkling waters of Cobbett's pond Londonderry, the front door-stone they sleep their last sleep. being on the line between Windham

and Londonderry. He died in 1741.

Henry Campbell was here in 1733. His grandson, William Dinsmoor, was He was born in Londonderry, Ireland, a man of parts, and possessed quite in 1697, and married Martha Black a poetical gift. The latter was fa- in 1717. He was son of Daniel ther of the elder Gov. Samuel Dins- Campbell, born in 1660 at Argyle, moor of Keene, of Robert Dinsmoor Scotland. He located in the west (the " rustic bard "), and an uncle of side of the town, and his descendants Col. Silas Dinsmoor, the noted Ind- live to this day upon the ancestral ian agent.

��WHITEFIELD.

Extract from an Unpublished History.

By Levi W. Dodge.

Error as to the spelling of the name ignorance of the oiigin and true ap- of the town crept in early, and this plication of the title, has given rise to doubts expressed by To call it " Whitefields" in 1774 some as to the origin of the title ; would have been a misnomer, as there or, — as there is a reason for every was no place for a field of white established fact, — its why and its throughout all the dark evergreen wherefore. It is true that in the wilderness within its borders. No original grant, as copied, the name intervales existed suggestive of what has a plural ending, and also many might become white fields by a sum- times thus appears in some of the mer's product of daisies or a winter's earlier records ; but it was clearly, as burden of snow. Black forests every we think, on account of a clerical where abounded, save upon the high- lapSHs pennoi, or extravagant end- lands thickly covered with the decid- ing of the cl in the original petition, uous growth, or subsequent use of the name, and The writer has in his possession

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