. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. and night, and the dis-charge of a musket from its sentrybox indicated to all who heard it theapproach of the Indian S0V \\-\v\ went out armed to their work, on 1 Garrisons in* 1746, Province of )New Hantpe. | We, the subscribers, being ap-pointed a Committee of Militia for settling- theGarrisons in the frontier Towns and Plantationsin the Sixth Regiment of Militia in this his Excellency, Penning Weutworth, Ksq.,Governor, &c, having viewed the situation andenquired into the circumstances of the Di
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. and night, and the dis-charge of a musket from its sentrybox indicated to all who heard it theapproach of the Indian S0V \\-\v\ went out armed to their work, on 1 Garrisons in* 1746, Province of )New Hantpe. | We, the subscribers, being ap-pointed a Committee of Militia for settling- theGarrisons in the frontier Towns and Plantationsin the Sixth Regiment of Militia in this his Excellency, Penning Weutworth, Ksq.,Governor, &c, having viewed the situation andenquired into the circumstances of the District ofRumford, do hereby appoint and state the follow-ing Garrisons, viz.* The Garrison round the house of the ReverendTimothy-Walker, to be one of the Garrisons in sdRumford, and thai the following inhabitants, withtheir familvs, viz : Capt. Johu Chandler,Abraham Bradley,Samuel Bradley,John Webster, Nathaniel Rolfe,Joseph Walker, Jr., Obadiah Foster, be and hereby are, ordered and at thatGarrison. Extract from Report of Committee, May 75, %&Sb Families quartered at the Garrison of the First Minister,1745. week days, and with their families totheir block house, to worship, onSundays. The First Minister prayedand preached with his gun Gospel and gun were nearcompanions in those days. Indeed,even yet, the gunpowder age has notfully passed. The frame of thishouse is mainly ofpitch pine and whiteoak. Its boardingand inside woodworkaie of white pine. Itoriginally consisted ofa two story front, forty-feet long and twentyfeet wide;. and of aone story ell, abouttwenty feet was coveredwith a gambrel roof.
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