. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. f Sutton, among thefoot-hills of old Kearsarge, and representatives of thefamily have been among its most prominent citizensdown to the present time. Robert Wadleifih came from England and located inExeter previous to 166S. He was a prosperous citizen and in 1680 is shownby the record to havebeen the heaviest tax-payer but one in thetown. His son Thomasw^as a soldier in theFrench and Indian Warand one of the originalproprietors of was the father ofCapt. Jonathan, w^hoseson, Benjamin Wad-leigh, Sr., was tlie sev-enth settler of
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. f Sutton, among thefoot-hills of old Kearsarge, and representatives of thefamily have been among its most prominent citizensdown to the present time. Robert Wadleifih came from England and located inExeter previous to 166S. He was a prosperous citizen and in 1680 is shownby the record to havebeen the heaviest tax-payer but one in thetown. His son Thomasw^as a soldier in theFrench and Indian Warand one of the originalproprietors of was the father ofCapt. Jonathan, w^hoseson, Benjamin Wad-leigh, Sr., was tlie sev-enth settler of the town,removing there fromHampstead in 1771?and settling on whathas ever since beenknown as the Wadleigh homestead, about a mile fromSutton Mills and a mile and a quarter from North Sutton,upon a hillside overlooking what is now known as Key-sar Lake, and commanding an extended mountain Benjamin Wadleigh, Sr., was chosen clerk andselectman at the tirst town-meeting in Sutton, held in1777, and was also the first justice of the peace in Milton B. Wadleigh. 266 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. His son, Benjamin Wadleigh, Jr., was also prominent inpublic affairs, and for many years a judge of the courtof common pleas. The latter was the father of ErastusWadleigh, who was born on the old homestead, andresided there until 1867, when he removed to the Millvillage, where he died in 18S1. He was prominent intown affairs and in educational work, having been asuccessful teacher and for many years superintendent ofschool-Milton B., son of Erastus and Almina (Challis) Wad-leigh was born December 4, 1839, ^^^ educated in the «
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