A Memoir of Judge Ebenezer Thompson of Durham, New Hampshire

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Excerpt from A Memoir of Judge Ebenezer Thompson of Durham, New Hampshire: With Some Account of His Parentage and OffspringNotwithstanding Robert Thompson's constitutional bravery, his life seems to have been chie¿y spent in peacefully clearing and cultivating his lands, and in establishing his children. It does not appear that he took any special part in the affairs of the town. His name, however, is found affixed to a document indicative of his interest in the moral and intellectual welfare of the place. This was a petition of the lead ing settlers to Lieut. Gov. Vaughan, in 1715, for a license to employ a school-master, and also to have a separate parish at Oyster River, with power to assess the people for the support of a minister otherwise, as the document goes on to state, we must be without one, and return to Dover again, which was thought a hardship more than forty years ago. And well it might have been thought a hardship, for the parish meeting-house was then at Dover Point, six or eight miles distant, and the way thither through marshes and the wild forest, where there was con stant danger of attack by the Indians.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.