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 yo Asqtiam Lake and its Environs.

Holderness, where the memories of Aug. 26, 1778, Mooney was a mem- the baronial Livermores cluster, and ber of the Committee of Safety, and whose name is still a potent spell again from Jan. 5, 1779, to April 7, wherever great deeds and exalted 1779, when he resigned to take corn- character are venerated. The town- mand of a regiment ordered from ship, which is small, was taken from New Hampshire for service in Rhode Holderness in 1868. Pemigewasset Island. He was the member from river washes the extreme western part Lee in the house of representatives in of the town. Squam river, the outlet 17S2. In 1784, or thereabouts, Col. of Squam lake, runs in a south-west Mooney removed to Holderness, of direction, and empties into the Pemi- which he was a grantee, doubtless at gewasset. This river affords some the solicitation of his friend, Hon. of the best water power in the state, Samuel Livermore, the magnate of much of which is utilized, though that region, who was trying to build double the capital could be invested up an Episcopal city in the wilder- on it to good advantage. In one of ness. His name occurs in the earlv the paper-mills which is still standing records of Holderness as justice of in the village, the father of Col. T. P. the peace and as selectman. He died Cheney and of ex-Gov. P. C. Cheney the last of the century, and. was bur- both worked at the same time for ied on an April day, in the midst of John Pattee, an early manufacturer, a terrific snow-storm which blockaded and helped to make the first sheet of the roads for a week. No monument paper ever manufactured in Ashland, marks his grave save a piece of Another great name beside that of rough granite, emblematical of the Livermore is connected with this lo- stern soldier and tried patriot, who cality. One third of a mile north of served his country well in her time of Ashland village, on a little knoll in peril.

an open grass field, at present owned Mrs. Betsey Shepard, of Ashland,

by Samuel H. Baker, is the grave of daughter of the first town-clerk of

Hercules Mooney, a worthy of con- Holderness, and who has passed her

tinental days, and a prominent man centennial birthday, remembers Col.

in the state for many years. Col. Mooney well. She states that he

Hercules -Mooney was of Lee. He was a tall, stately man, rather good

was in the "Seven Years War" in looking, and one thoughtful of his

1757 as captain in Col. Meserve's appearance. She also remembers the

regiment. Sept. 20, 1776, he was Livermores, Judge Samuel and Judge

commissioned lieutenant-colonel by Arthur. They had almost feudal

the Committee of Safety in a regi- power, and ruled the town despotical-

raent raised for one year, of which ly many years. Whatever they said

Pierse Long was the colonel. This was law and gospel, and unchange-

regiment was stationed at Newcastle, able as the statutes of the Medes and

The troops were subsequently or- Persians. How have the mighty

dered to Ticonderoga, and the regi- fallen !

ment marched to that fortress in Feb- The roads around Ashland are geu-

ruary, 1777. From May 28, 1778, to erally good, having a firm foundatipn,

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