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��of the late Abraham Prescott, founder of the Prescott Organ Manufactory in this city. Professor L. H. Hayden of Washington, D.C., is his only son.

Performing quietly but habitually at the polls and elsewhere, his duties as a citizen, Dr. Hayden seeks no political preferment. But whenever summoned by the unsolicited suffrages of the peo- ple to any appropriate and practicable service, no ordinary consideration in- duces him to shirk the responsibilities which are spontaneously tendered to his custody. E. S. S.

��Errata. — Notes. The birthplace of the Rev. Benjamin Ray Hoyt was New Braintrcc, Worcester County, Mass., and not " Braintree," as was stated in the Granite Monthly, vol. 6, p. 235, (18S3). A. H. H.

A KiTTERY correspondent of the " Biddeford Union," writes that at some time previous to 1760 the mail was carried from Portsmouth, N.H., to Wells, Me., by a dog having a package fastened to his neck. The dog was finally killed by the Indians.

T. L. T.

Littleton Errata. — In the article on Littleton, in the Granite Monthly of June, 1882, vol. v., no. 9, a few errors, some typographical and others historical, have been brought to the attention of the author, who furnishes the following corrections : —

1. Page 293, in the sixth line from the bottom, it should be Pckg W^illiams instead of Per ley Williams.

2. Page 294. The name printed Peter Barney, in the third line, should be Peter Bonney, This Peter Bonney was the father of Hon. Benjamin W. Bonney of New- York City.

3. The remark following the name of

��Nathaniel Rix, jun., on p. 294, should refer to David Goodall, jun., who was the first Democrat elected to the Legis- lature in Littleton.

4. In the next to the last paragraph on p. 295, it should read Rev. George G. Jones instead of Rev. J. Jones. He was formerly chaplain of the Thirteenth Regiment N. H. V.

5. Page 297. The correctness of the statement that Dr. Calvin Ainsworth was the first practising physician in town,\is questioned. There is now, at least, a well-authenticated tradition to the effect that a Dr. Samuel Dinsmore was located in Littleton as early as 1 795, which was before the time of Dr. Ains- worth.

6. Same page and paragraph. Dr. O. H. Boynton, although practising somewhat in town, was never located there.

7. Page 298, eighth line. Dr. F. T. Moffett was a soldier in the Fourteenth N. H. Regiment, instead of the Thirteenth, as printed.

8. Page 302, ninth line from bottom, Burns Lodge, No. 66, F. and A. M., was established in 18 jQ instead of iSj8.

Milton Blodgett, Democrat, born Feb. 2, 1834, represents his native town of Stewartstown ; owns with his brother Frank a farm of five hundred acres. Married first, in 1859, Mary Whitte- more ; second, Mrs. Helen Weeks ; third, Sept. 7, 1S80, Matilda Wright. Two children. Branch and Verne. He has been selectman three terms, and is a granger and Universalist. i. Josiah Blodgett was one of the earliest settlers of Stratford. 2. Howard Blodgett, set- tled in Stewartstown. Two of his brothers were captured by Irdians. 3. Thomas Branch Blodgett, the father, was born in Stewartstown.

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