The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Gilead, Me.,came to Berlin in 1821 or 1822,cleared a piece of laud, and with Cy-rus Wheeler built the first house inthe township, in 1823 or 1824. Inthe spring of the latter year a partyof eighteen people from Gilead ac-companied Mrs. Sessions into thewilderness, and formed the first set-tlement. Mr. Sessions sold his farmto Benjamin Thompson, before died in 1885, aged over 90 Evans came from S. Thompson, an old Rero-lutionary soldier, and his son Benja-min,
The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . Gilead, Me.,came to Berlin in 1821 or 1822,cleared a piece of laud, and with Cy-rus Wheeler built the first house inthe township, in 1823 or 1824. Inthe spring of the latter year a partyof eighteen people from Gilead ac-companied Mrs. Sessions into thewilderness, and formed the first set-tlement. Mr. Sessions sold his farmto Benjamin Thompson, before died in 1885, aged over 90 Evans came from S. Thompson, an old Rero-lutionary soldier, and his son Benja-min, came in 1827. He was a car-penter. Samuel Blodgett, a brotherof Mrs. Sessions, was the first settleron the west side of the river. Benja-min Bean came from Success. Thom-as Wheeler, son of Samuel Wheeler(a soldier of the Revolution, whomoved from Temple, N. H., to Gil-ead, Me., in 1799), came from Shel-burne in 1826. They were all na-tives of Gilead. His daughter Pollymarried Dauiel Green, and Sarahmarried Benjamin Thompson. TheChandlers, early settlers, were ofPembroke extraction. list n 136 Berlin. The first trader in town was Thom-as Green, who had a small store nearhis grist-mill as early as 1835. Heafterwards introduced wool cardingmachinery into town. Daniel Greenopened a store in 1850. He hadcommenced the manufacture of millmachinery in a small way in 1843, atwhich time he was, with his brotherThomas, making clapboards, whichthey drew to Harrison, Me., a dis-tance of forty miles. The last raftwas run down the river in 1851. In1850 the population was 173, the val-uation $161,045. The valuation in1888 was $700,963 ; in 1889 it willamount to about $1,000,000. During the Rebellion, Berlin iscredited with nineteen three-yearsmen, thirteen one-year men, and threenine-months men, over half of whomfill soldiers graves. There is butone man who enlisted from Berlinwho now resides there. Three ofDaniel Greens sons were in the ser-vice,—Sullivan D., Francis D., andCharles V
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