. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. act of land in the southern part of the pres-ent town of Stratham, which had come into the familypossession by royal grant, and has been held therein, aportion of it at least, up to the present time. William,son of Richard andPrudence Sea m m o n ,was a soldier in theIndian war of 1696,was a selectman ofExeter in 1699 and1700, and was one ofthe first board of se-lectmen of the town ofStratham, incorporatedin 1716. Richard Scammon,a great-grandson ofWilliam, to whom theancestral home de-scended, married Abi-gail Batchelder, andwas the fa
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. act of land in the southern part of the pres-ent town of Stratham, which had come into the familypossession by royal grant, and has been held therein, aportion of it at least, up to the present time. William,son of Richard andPrudence Sea m m o n ,was a soldier in theIndian war of 1696,was a selectman ofExeter in 1699 and1700, and was one ofthe first board of se-lectmen of the town ofStratham, incorporatedin 1716. Richard Scammon,a great-grandson ofWilliam, to whom theancestral home de-scended, married Abi-gail Batchelder, andwas the father of four children, Hezekiah, James, aprominent lawyer of Kansas City, Sarah C, and M., the latter now residing on the homestead. Hezekiah Scammon, the eldest of these children, wasborn in Stratham, January 31, 1843. He was educatedin the district school and at Andover, New London, andExeter academies, and taught school himself a few termsin early life. January 9, 1867, he was united in mar-riage with Mary E. Jewell of Stratham, when they. Hezekiah Scammox. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 339 established their home upon a farm which he had pur-chased, located about one mile from the village, in thetown of Exeter, in the cultivation of which he activelyengaged, pursuing the same continuously until 1893,with the of two years, wdien he was engagedin mercantile business. His farm contains about 135 acres of excellent land,and has been principally devoted to dairying. For atime he was extensively engaged in the retail milk busi-ness in Exeter, and kept a herd of about twenty years ago he took up his residence in the village,retaining the ownership of the farm and looking afterits management, but subsequently leasing it to another. Mr. Scammon stands in the first rank among Patronsof Husbandry in New Hampshire, by virtue of chartermembership in Oilman Grange No. i, the first grangeinstituted in the state. He is also a charter member ofEast Rockingham P
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