The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . WMm. ft ift;3.|| Free Baptist Church. the southern end of the principalvillage, and nearly opposite it, in1781, the first frame house in theneighborhood was set lit) for John Jonas C. March, anative of Ports-mouth, whose firstwife was SallyWingate, a daugh-ter o: Judge AaronWingate, his sec-ond wife havingbeen her March was a son of ClementMarch, who was six and a half feethigh and of a commanding presence ;it is told of him that on occasion of FARMING TON. 269 > undue disturbance in his house or in
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . WMm. ft ift;3.|| Free Baptist Church. the southern end of the principalvillage, and nearly opposite it, in1781, the first frame house in theneighborhood was set lit) for John Jonas C. March, anative of Ports-mouth, whose firstwife was SallyWingate, a daugh-ter o: Judge AaronWingate, his sec-ond wife havingbeen her March was a son of ClementMarch, who was six and a half feethigh and of a commanding presence ;it is told of him that on occasion of FARMING TON. 269 > undue disturbance in his house or ina public place, he would say to oneof his sons, Nat, take my canethere. When the boy appearedwith the long and significant stickupon his shoulder, quiet would ensueat once, without the speaking of aword. The younger March was one of thefirst to open a store in town, and it issaid that a certain obnoxious sobri-quet of the busi-ness quarter is dueto the calling ofthe swamp behindhis store Marchs Dock by lumber- J men and team- £ ? sters, as similarplaces in his na-tive town
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