History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . e the deacon had, it is true, but it wasof the same pattern, and equally as venerable. was in this service nearly twenty years, andwas as regular as the sun in his rounds, and is stillremembered as a large man of fine physique, quitecompanionable, and of a social turn well calculatedto win friends, a host of which he had on the line ofhis route. He was succeeded by a line of stage-coaches put on by Russell Wheeler and Jonas For-ristall, of Royalston,. about 1830. This enterprise,afte
History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . e the deacon had, it is true, but it wasof the same pattern, and equally as venerable. was in this service nearly twenty years, andwas as regular as the sun in his rounds, and is stillremembered as a large man of fine physique, quitecompanionable, and of a social turn well calculatedto win friends, a host of which he had on the line ofhis route. He was succeeded by a line of stage-coaches put on by Russell Wheeler and Jonas For-ristall, of Royalston,. about 1830. This enterprise,after a trial of a few vears with indifferent success, TOWN OF RICHMOND. 121 was given up, and Renoni Ballou, of Richmond,continued the carrying of the mail from Royalston toKeene on the same line, with a horse and wagon,for some years. He carried some passengers anddid errands, since called express business. About 1835 another line of stages, carrying themail from Worcester to Keene, was run under themanagement of that king of staging, Genery Twitch-ell, and was continued until about the time of the. STAGE COACH. building of the Fitchburg railroad, when the dailymail route over this line ceased, and the mail wascarried tri-weekly only until 1876. The driver onthis line for several years is still remembered, — wasusually called Mac. Another post route and stageline from Brattleboro to Boston was opened about1830. This was run daily, the morning stage fromBrattleboro arriving about eight in the morning, andthe evening stage from Boston about 6, p. m., afford-ing ample travelling and postal facilities, equal infact to that of au}^ other country town ; but all thiswas changed when the Fitchburg railroad and its ex-tensions were completed, except that the mail andexpress-wagon continued to run from Winchester toFitzwilliam three times a week in connection with theCheshire trains until about 1876. Of the old drivers on the Brattleboro line, Pennockand Sylvanus Perliam, perhaps, (who w
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