The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . arket to Ports-mouth at one time being 12^/2 cents. and navigated two or more boats, hislast boat being the Lion, whose fav-orite haunt was the Lamprey River. These were the picturesque days ofNewmarket, when the shriek of thelocomotive had not yet invaded thepeaceful sanctity of the town, and theharshest note of commerce was thelapping of the waves against theseslowly moving craft, as they enteredor left the waters of the In the later days William andGeorge Drew, sons of Lemuel, had apack
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . arket to Ports-mouth at one time being 12^/2 cents. and navigated two or more boats, hislast boat being the Lion, whose fav-orite haunt was the Lamprey River. These were the picturesque days ofNewmarket, when the shriek of thelocomotive had not yet invaded thepeaceful sanctity of the town, and theharshest note of commerce was thelapping of the waves against theseslowly moving craft, as they enteredor left the waters of the In the later days William andGeorge Drew, sons of Lemuel, had apacket built which they called theFactory Girl, sailing first from New- 54 Newmarlcet on the Lamjyrey market, and afterwards from Doverto Portsmouth. It is interesting to note that thistype of craft, not unlike the Mediter-ranean gondola in its appearance, wasnever popular at any other spot onour coasts except in the region of thePiscataqua and a single river in NorthCarolina. THE VILLAGE CHURCHES The first public religious serviceheld in the village was conductedwithout church or minister. In 1825. Rev. Isaac C. White one Timothy Chamberlain was em-ployed by the Newmarket Manufac-turing Co. to superintend the erec-tion of the No. 2 mill. The prospectof employment had drawn to the towna large floating population, and appreciated the greatneed which existed for public ser-vices that these men might accordingly applied to the com-pany and from the directors securedpermission to use the second story oftheir warehouse, just north of thetown hall, for religious meetings. Heconducted the services himself, read-ing a sermon from the words: Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for theold paths where is the good way andwalk therein and ye shall find rest foryour soul. Jeremiah VI: 16. Some three hundred people at-tended this service, and, led and in-spired by ]\rr. Chamberlain, they thenand there raised the money to securea permanent minister. Early in thefall of th
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