--- Here Lyes The Body of Mr 3344 ng the rch in h has ice." ant of acres Deen made to Samuel Thaxter, Wm. Dunbar and another and these farms had been "pitched" upon the hill and plain, a little north and east of the "Falls of Namaoskeag." Upon this hill, and upon the grant of Thaxter, Archibald Stark settled, upon leavArchibald Stark was a Scotchman by birth, ing Londonderry in 1736. Departed This Life June 25th 1758 Aged 61 Years ROWELL, PRESCOTT & CO., PROPRIETORS.... C. E. POTTER, EDITOR. BIOGRAPHY OF GEN. STARK. and was born at Dunbarton, in 1693. Soon JUST as the cars leave the thickly settled part after graduating at the University of Edinof the City of Manchester, and before reach-burgh, he moved to the County of Londonderry ing the Amoskeag Falls, the traveler upon the in the North of Ireland, becoming, what was Concord Railroad, will notice upon the right usually denoted a "Scotch Irishman." Here hand, near to the road, a beautiful oak grove he was married to a poor, but beautiful Scotch upon a gentle hillock; and upon close obser- girl, and soon after emigrated to America. He vation, he will perceive that these oaks shad- at first settled at Londonderry, where he reow the scattered stones of an ancient " bury-mained until some time in 1736, when having ing ground." The ground is destined, ere his house burned, he removed to a portion of long, to be removed by the hand of improve- land upon the Merrimack, then usually called ment, that so speedily and steadily, sweeps Harrytown, but which in 1734, had been inaway the vestiges of olden times, along the cluded in a grant by Massachusetts, to Ephraim banks of our noble river. This humble bur- Hildreth, John Shepley and others, of twentyial place was used by the first settlers of " Na-three thousand acres, upon the east bank of maoskeag" and has but here and there a the Merrimack, three miles in width, and extombstone to tell of the sleepers below. Yet tending from Brenton's Farm (now Litchfield), upon these few, are names, that bring up re-to Suncook or Lovewell's Town (now Pemmemberances of men, who have left their impress upon the pages of our country's history; while one sleeps there, without a stone to point the spot, whose skill and enterprise have done as much for New-Hampshire, as any other man who ever trod her soil. And though no stone tells of his deeds or his virtues; as long as the Merrimack shall flow, whose forbidding difficulties he obviated, and whose sweeping current be made subservient to the wants and conveniences of commerce, so long shall the name of Blodget be engraved upon the memories of our people. The first tomb-"three farms of about two hundred acres stone that attracts the attention in this place of the dead reads thus, Here Lyes The Body of Mr Archebald Stark He Departed This Life June 25th 1758 Aged 61 Years broke), - under the name of Tyngstown. This grant was made for services performed by a company of men under the command of Capt. William Tyng of Dunstable, who in the winter of 1703 marched to Lake "Winnipesseokee upon snow shoes, and killed six of the Enemy, and were about thirty days on said expedition ***** "the said Tyng and Company being the first Company that ever undertook a March in the Winter Season on Snow Shoes, which has since been very serviceable to the Province." Prior to the grant of Tyngstown, a grant of each" had been made to Samuel Thaxter, Wm. Dunbar and another and these farms had been "pitched" upon the hill and plain, a little north and east of the "Falls of Namaoskeag." Upon this hill, and upon the grant of Thaxter, Archibald Stark settled, upon leav Archibald Stark was a Scotchman by birth, ing Londonderry in 1736. |