. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . oke, The Old Allenstown Meeting House Josiah and Bathsheba Allen of Epsom,Lois Evans, widow of Capt. GeorgeEvans, who afterward became aUniversalis!, and Deborah for a few years the two lists arepractically duplicates, and, after 1827,many new names appear in the secondbook. Time will not permit me togive the complete roll, but it containsthe names of most of the older fam-ilies of Allenstown and some fromother towns. The families repre-sented were, the Dickeys, Tripps,Bickfords, Wor
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . oke, The Old Allenstown Meeting House Josiah and Bathsheba Allen of Epsom,Lois Evans, widow of Capt. GeorgeEvans, who afterward became aUniversalis!, and Deborah for a few years the two lists arepractically duplicates, and, after 1827,many new names appear in the secondbook. Time will not permit me togive the complete roll, but it containsthe names of most of the older fam-ilies of Allenstown and some fromother towns. The families repre-sented were, the Dickeys, Tripps,Bickfords, Worths, Davises and Rob-insons of Epsom; the McCutcheons, that Mr. Clark, an unordainedpreacher, took the supervision. Thiscould hardly have been correct forRobert Allen preached here as lateas 1825 or 1830, and Mr. HenryDowst, born in 1820, rememberedthat he lived with Joseph Brown onthe present Fred Page farm andpreached, as well as worked on thefarm. Hall Burgin was for many yearsClerk; William Clark and SamuelKenison, Jr. also rilled that office,and J. G. Martin was the last to holdthe Old Allenstown Meeting House—Exterior View Connors and Cofrans of Pembroke;Jonathan Martin of Candia and thePhilbrick, Burgin, Johnson, Clark,Perkins, Rowell, Cate, Nelson, Keni-son, Dowst, Bachelder, Marden,Haynes, Brown, Hayes, Evans andother families from Allestown. Al-most every family in the Easternand Southern part of the town wasrepresented. Elder Abner Jones was undoubt-edly the first pastor, although JohnHarriman Clark once wrote that thechurch was organized by his grand-father, Ichabod Clark; that Allen was the first pastor, and The deacons, or a portion of them,at least, were, J. G. Martin, CharlesRowell and E. T. Philbrick. As to pastors, it is not at all prob-able that Elder Jones, the first pastorever lived here, but came occasion-ally; but Elder Robert Allen livedhere for a time, and Elder Taft wasa resident, but probably for a shorttime, as his name does n
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