. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . ied byour parents and grandparents, andalso by the earlier citizens of thetown for their annual elections andother purposes, as an educationalconvention was once held here, asinging school and various politicalmeetings preceding elections. Thishouse is probably the first publicbuilding erected in town, althoughit is somewhat uncertain from anyrecords that I have found. Perhaps,there was a school house in DistrictNo. 1 (the Evans District), as in 1811,the town paid for glass, etc. for moved in
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress . ied byour parents and grandparents, andalso by the earlier citizens of thetown for their annual elections andother purposes, as an educationalconvention was once held here, asinging school and various politicalmeetings preceding elections. Thishouse is probably the first publicbuilding erected in town, althoughit is somewhat uncertain from anyrecords that I have found. Perhaps,there was a school house in DistrictNo. 1 (the Evans District), as in 1811,the town paid for glass, etc. for moved in 1813, and in 1814 moneywas paid to Samuel Gleason andothers for work on the town house,the old one in fitting it up. Thiswas, perhaps, never used, or, at themost, but once or twice before wefind indications of a new one. It iscurrent tradition, and probably cor-rect, that the Christian Church orSociety, heretofore described, com-menced this edifice and was not ableto complete it as the cost would havebeen too heavy for them. Probablythe church never numbered morethan thirty families, most of whom. Old Allenstown Meeting House—Interior View repairs, and there was a tax assessedin 1818 for a new school house in thatdistrict and also in the same year inDistrict No. 3 (Buck St.) Therewas apparently no school houseerected in the South Parish, (DistrictNo. 2), until later, for in 1822 thetown paid Charles Rowell rent for aroom in which to keep school. The first mention of anything inthe line of a town house is in 1813when they paid John Porter threedollars for rum, hauling the meetingor town house, and Hall Burgin forcider for the same purpose. It seemsthat Judge Burgin gave a buildingfor a town house, which had to be were in moderate circumstances anda building like this would mean moreto each than they would feel able topay. Therefore, the town assumedthe burden and, as a partial offset,sold the pews. In the researchesthat I have made the first mentionis jn 1815, when the town pa
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