The Republican journal., 1902-07-03

now residents OF LlncOlnVllle, though
there is still one whom we reckon AZ
one of our loyal ex-residents, as he
comes often among us and takes deep
interest III all that pertains to the wei
fare of his native town.
OF the two Joseph Richards whose
names appear upon our roll of honor
today, the one known as Minister
Joe" lived on the farm now oVned bv
7. f. Richards, and the other on the
farm owned by his grandson, E. T.
Richards.
Turning our attention to the upper
part of the town we notice the farm
where Joshua Lamb, who came from
dence. 1t was of logs, of course, and
located on the j. b. Noyes farm, about
half way from the site of the present
house to the meadows, the present
Joshua Lamb farm being part of the
same.
The sons of this Joshua, We're Joshua
Jr, commonly known as Capt. Joshua,
who was a captain of militia and lived
and died on the farm in a two and a
half story hip-roofed house which he
had built near where Mr.. Moves now
lives: Benjamin, who had his farm on
the west side of the road, where his son
Joshua, whom many of us remember
passed his lifetime; and the ministers,
George and John, the latter locating
near the Lewis Robbins place. the
buildings now gone. Capt. Joshua
built the Old church in 1921, about the
time the old town house was built. a
grandson of Capt. Joshua, born in the
old hip rooted house on the original
farm. was the first native citizen to
bring home college diploma. The
doctors. Colby and Henry Lamb, were
SONS of John Lamb. The sons of Capt.
Joshua were Daniel, Joel, Caleb, Will
liam. Nathan and Jacob and ! think
Joel was the only one who passed his
life in town. has any representatives
living here at the present time.
Coming to the plantation with Josh
| ua Lamb. 81, was Noah Miller. the
great-grandfather of the present gen
Grafton of Millers: that is. of the older
ones, for the young viii have to say
great three times. Mr.. Miller former
" lived in New Jersey. whence he went
to Nova Scotia. thence to Camden and
Canaan Plantation. He settled what
is now known as the Melvin Dlckey.
George Mahoney and T. b. Wiggin
farms. Noahs sons, as near as can be
learned 10y enquiry, were Samuel, who
| settled the llarvill place when he be
come of age. filled a number of inn
portant town offices number of years,
| and represented the town in the Mas
sachusetts legislature a number OF SEES
| sions He left a family of eleven chill
| dren Noah, il. settled in the north
east part OF the town; John and Joel
Went to Warren; Ephraim settled ON
| the j. W Miller place, and Israel llved
for a time in Palmyra, but returned to
| Miller's Corner. where he passed the
| latter part of his life. The late Judge
! Joseph Miller. who delivered such a
! fine address on our Centennial Fourth
of July, WAS a SON of Israel. Hope Mil
| Ter was the first female born on the
plantation. She married Joseph Could
Among the early settlers. We're three
| by the name of Mariner. Mailer. Jon
athan, and Philip, and from the records
| adjoining land, therefore infer that
they We're brothers.. WHO came here to
/ claim a home out of the wilderness.
| Mailer settled the farm now owned by
his great grandson, Austin Mariner,
/ and jonathan, the farm owned by his
great grandson. \. II. Miller.
! ed by his grandson. Horace Robbins,
/ and Lowell Lang the w. H. Pendleton
farm. Abner Milliken, Revolution
AIRY soldier, settled the farm on which
w. c. Tower now lives, which extend
ed as far as the Richard Martin farm.
and built Il two story house, now stand
| ing His son Nathaniel struck for new
fields and located on the John Brown
place, High street. the home farm be
ing divided between his son Abner anc
/ daughter Mary, Abner having what Is
now the Joel Meservey farm, and Mary
who married Rev. benjamin Jones, re
naming at the home place.
The present Richard Martin place
was settled by Richard Martin, ST. The
j. Is. Iovett farm WAS settled IN $50
by Robert G. Levitt. grandfather of The
present resident.
Charles Mathews from Plaintield set
tied on the Willard Moody farm. Ills
sons so far as | have learned, Wert
James, who settled the J. d. Tucker
farm; Joseph on the George Rankin
farm; Isaac at the Beach; Levi on the
W. O. Mathews farm. Charles and
Archibald, and all the Mathew tamil
les about here easily trace their gene
alogy back to Charles first.
There are many others, but space vii
not permit enumeratlng all who have
cont ributed to the history of the town
III many ways.
VIM. Moody came to the Plantation
in $50 from Old York and located OF
the farm which later was divided be
tween his two sons, VIM. and James
His other sons remaining on the Planta
ton were Robert, who settled at the
foot of Moody mountain on the farm
afterwards owned by his son Robert
and Wellington; and those who left fol-
nearby towns were John, Eben anG
Joseph in Searsmont, Herbert in Hope
and Daniel and Nelson in Appleton.
Three Fletcher brothers-Jonathan
Ephraim and Francis came to the Plan
tation in 1870, and were all prominent
men i'll their day. Ephraim is repre-
scented in town at he present time by
his two grandsons, Ephraim and vii
liam, living on High street. The late
Dr. John NJ. Fletcher was grandson OF
Francis, and the late Robert Moody
was a grandson Of Jonathan.
Timothy Fletcher, who was not con
nected with the three brothers, came
to the new town and taught school in
1903. He soon married and bought a
farm, and died i'll 1864, aged 81. He lad
four sons and five daughters: one
daughter, Mrs. Martha Dung, living at
! l,