Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . tember39, 1826. Charles Gilkey, his grandfather,born in Connecticut, was the first of the fam-ily to come to Plainfield. He came originallyas agent of a wealthy Connecticut family, andremained in their employ for some failing in an attempt to buy a farm withthe Continental money in which his salarywas paid, owing to the depreciated value ofthat currency then, he succeeded in leasingone from the State for nine hundred andninety-nine years. This property is still int
Biographical review .. containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire . tember39, 1826. Charles Gilkey, his grandfather,born in Connecticut, was the first of the fam-ily to come to Plainfield. He came originallyas agent of a wealthy Connecticut family, andremained in their employ for some failing in an attempt to buy a farm withthe Continental money in which his salarywas paid, owing to the depreciated value ofthat currency then, he succeeded in leasingone from the State for nine hundred andninety-nine years. This property is still inthe possession of the family, subject to anannual rental of or eight dollars, wliicli ispaid to the treasurer of the ICpiscopal churchof the town. Grandfather Gilkey marriedLucy Avery, who bore him five chiUhcn —Jonathan, John, Charles, William, and married a Miss Spaulding, and livedin Vermont. Joiin married and spent iiis lifein Vermont, woiking at the trade of ship-car-penter. He had one daughter, who married tiieRev. Robert Christie. Charles was drownedwhen a young man. William died ) CHARLES GILKEY. IlIOOkAIlllCAI, KK\IEVV 283 James Gilkcy, the fatlicr of Cliarlcs Gilkey,a native of Connecticut, l)f)in in September,1769, came to Cornisli when about seven years(ibb liy tra(K he was a mechanical wood-cutler, in which he carried on a iar<^e businessfor some time. After the death of iiis lirotherCharles he took chai}^e of the farm. Highlyesteemed in the community, he served in everyoffice in the gift of the town, including thatof legislative Representative. He marriedNaomi Sniilli, of Ilaiiificld, who was bornin December, 1805. Their children , the subject of this sketch; George,horn in Cf)rnish, who died in 1849; J^imes,born ill Ilainlield, who was a railroad man,and died in Arkansas of a fever contractedthere; Jeannette, who married Wats Beck-worth, of Kansas; John, who is living on theold homestead in Cornish; Julia, who marriedlul
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