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��house, in the same family from the earliest times.

Just off from Main Street is the gam- brel roof of the ancient Bradley man- sion, where lived Samuel Bradley, who was killed by the Indians ; his son John Bradley ; his grandson Hon. Richard Bradley, a leading citizen of Concord ; and his great-grandson, the present oc- cupant, Moses Hazen Bradley, whose sister married the late Hon. Harvey Jewell of Boston.

On the side street which leads over the hill lives Gen. Joab N. Patterson, United-States Marshal for New Hamp- shire, and a gallant commander in the war of the Rebellion.

The old cemetery was west of the church, on State Street. The old State prison, completed about 181 2, caused State Street to be laid out ; but it was many years before it extended south of Pleasant Street. To the west of it was a cow-pasture, within the memory of living men.

Where Mark R. Holt lives was the site of the store where for many years Francis A. Fiske and his father, Francis N. Fiske, were in business. Close by was a blacksmith shop, where the iron- work for Lewis Downing's first wagons was made.

Benjamin Kimball, Squire Kimball's brother, an upright and influential citi- zen and a good hatter, built the house lately occupied by Luther Robie, and had a shop in the south-east corner of the lot. On the lot where Pecker and Lang were in trade, Henry McFarland has erected one of the most attractive residences in the city. Col. John H. George's house was formerly the George Tavern.

The house now occupied by George F. Page, president of the Page Belting Company, was the home of Lawyer

��Charles Walker, whose daughter Lu- cretia, born there, was the first wife of the electrician. Professor S. F. B. Morse. Mr. Walker's law-office stood on the site of Judge A. P. Carpenter's house.

Dr. William G. Carter lives in the house long occupied by his father, the well-beloved family physician, Dr. Ezra Carter,

The old tavern, kept by John West, was long the home of his son-in-law Senator Edward H. Rollins. For many years it was a political Mecca. In one of its many rooms the Know- Nothing party, and later the Republican party, of New Hampshire, is said to have been organized. Through the garden flowed the West Brook, which had its source back of the old prison and the muster- field, and which was the frontier be- tween the north end and south end boys of ye olden time.

Dr. Warren's house was formerly owned by Nathan Stickney, for many years chairman of the Concord Board of Selectmen and a useful citizen.

The Stickney Tavern stood on the vacant lot north of the City Hall. Its sign is at the Historical Society's rooms. The Dearborn house, built in 1756, which stood on the site of the City Hall, is the house at Fosterville which boasts of a cupola. The old Town- house was built in 1790 to accommo- date the General Court. It stood end to the street. It was several times en- larged, and repaired in 1822, to accom- modate the courts of Merrimack County, before it was replaced by the present structure. Here George Thompson, the anti-slavery apostle from England, with his friend, the then youthful but now venerable poet, John G. Whittier, were rather rudely received. This happened just fifty years ago.

In Smoky Hollow was the tanyard

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