The history of Concord : from its first grant in 1725, to the organization of the city government in 1853, with a history of the ancient Penacooks ; the whole interspersed with numerous interesting incidents and anecdotes, down to the present period, 1855 ; embellished with maps ; with portraits of distinguished citizens, and views of ancient and modern residences . en Haverhill, Mass.,and Canada. It was erected by Rev. on the house lot drawn to the firstminister, in the year 1733-4, the town having generously voted [see p. 142] him fifty pounds for building a dwelling-house in Penny
The history of Concord : from its first grant in 1725, to the organization of the city government in 1853, with a history of the ancient Penacooks ; the whole interspersed with numerous interesting incidents and anecdotes, down to the present period, 1855 ; embellished with maps ; with portraits of distinguished citizens, and views of ancient and modern residences . en Haverhill, Mass.,and Canada. It was erected by Rev. on the house lot drawn to the firstminister, in the year 1733-4, the town having generously voted [see p. 142] him fifty pounds for building a dwelling-house in Pennycook. Its dimensions wereforty by twenty feet, two stories in height, with an ell adjoining on the east, ofone story, both parts being covered by a gambrel-roof. The chimneys were verylarge, and of stone. One of them, which remained, as originally built, until1847, was found upon its removal to be about five feet square, and constructedof flat, ledge stones, laid in clay mortar and plastered on the inside with a com-])Osition of clay and chopped straw. Only the ell part was entirely finished atfirst, and contained but three rooms on the first floor. The front part remained in BIOGRAPHICAL. 557 with some modern improvements, overshadowed by the stately ehutrees which Mr. Walker set out in 1756, is well represented by thefine engraving which is here i A few aged people who still remember Mr. Walker, say that he wasfull middling stature and size; not corpulent, but portly in form,and of dignified manners. His eyes were blue and complexion , his temper was quick, but well restrained and at any time he was betrayed into hasty expressions or acts, he wasprompt to acknowledge the fault, and ask the forgiveness of anyone injured. He was exact and precise in all his domestic arrange-ments and business transactions, keeping a memoranda for every day an unfinished state until 1757, when, with the assistance of Lieut. Webster, ofBradford, a joiner of
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