Manchester Historic Association collections . anges had taken place. Amoskeaghad a memorable fireworks, greater and grander than everwitnessed on the Fourth, with a fiery thirst so intensethat the mighty waters of the Merrimack, surging roundits feet, failed to quench it. The illumination and firepainting of land and water, with the flames wildly leapingand roaring, presented a scene grand and weird, yet beauti-ful. Never were the signal fires of the Indians on thisspot so far-reaching. It was a beacon to the nearby city,to warn her that soon a regiment of men, women and chil-dren would invade
Manchester Historic Association collections . anges had taken place. Amoskeaghad a memorable fireworks, greater and grander than everwitnessed on the Fourth, with a fiery thirst so intensethat the mighty waters of the Merrimack, surging roundits feet, failed to quench it. The illumination and firepainting of land and water, with the flames wildly leapingand roaring, presented a scene grand and weird, yet beauti-ful. Never were the signal fires of the Indians on thisspot so far-reaching. It was a beacon to the nearby city,to warn her that soon a regiment of men, women and chil-dren would invade her precincts with a never-retiringpurpose. The exodus from Amoskeag, the breaking up of thehomelike community to be scattered never to meet againas a people, was a sad and closing event of this decade. We hail with gladness this Old Home Day reunion,for its influence in bringing together some of Amoskeagsformer inhabitants, and cherishing in the hearts of latergenerations a love for the home so dear to the parents,grandparents and By Arthur P. Dodge The following sketch was written about thirty years ago and pub-lished in a pamphlet of twenty-four pages, by George H. Ellis, Boston,but is now scarce.—Editor. V ^HINEHAS ADAMS was born in Medway, Mass.,the twentieth day of June, 1814, and comes fromthe very best Revolutionary stock of New Eng-land. His grandfather and great-grandfather participatedin the Battle of Bunker Hill, and served through thatmemorable war. He had three brothers and seven sisters,of whom the former all died, previous to 1831. Three sis-ters are now living: Sarah Ann, born in 1816, the wife ofE. B. Hammond, M. D., of Nashua; Eliza P., born in 1820,widow of the late Ira Stone, Esq., formerly an overseer inthe Stark Mills; and Mary Jane, born in 1822, widow ofthe late James Buncher, Esq., a former designer for theMerrimack Print Works in Lowell, Mass. Mrs. Buncheris the present popular and very efficient librarian of theManchester Public Library.
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