Upstream - logginginlincolnTuttle Simon Tuttle was born in Massachu-setts around 1788. At the time he served in the War of 1812, his residence is listed as Franconia. He married Sally

Upstream Newsletter of the

Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society

Winter 2015

Docents Needed

If you are interested in volunteering at

the Museum, we are always looking for

people to help out during the summer.

This is a great opportunity to browse our

collection, learn some of the rich history

of our area, as well as share our museum

with visitors. If you would like to help

out, call Donna Thompson at 745-8821.

LINCOLN HISTORY TIDBITS

In this issue we are continuing

the document prepared by Cindy

Lloyd for the 250th Anniversary

of Lincoln, New Hampshire, this

time focusing on the mid 1800’s.

1829

After 15 years without a town govern-

ment, the people on the east side of the moun-

tain, along the Pemigewasset River (Indian for

crooked pine place in the mountains), decided

that there were enough of them to start over.

Six inhabitants and legal voters, namely Fay-

ette Baron, Isaac Jones, Stephen Russell,

Simon Tuttle, Sam Jones, and Charles Kennis-

ton, petitioned Joseph Dow, the Justice of the

Peace in Franconia, to call a town meeting for

the purpose of organizing a town government.

The first meeting was held February 12, 1829.

Three selectmen were chosen: Stephen Russell,

Simon Tuttle, and Fayette Baron, with Stephen

Russell as Town Clerk. The main concerns of

the town government, then and for the next 60

years, were raising money to provide the ser-

vices expected of a small town, providing for

(Continued on page 2)

TASTE OF HISTORY

COOKBOOK

Our collection of recipes has been

compiled into a beautiful cookbook, Taste

of History. In it you will find 190 recipes

from past and present cooks of the area.

This Book will make a great gift!

Taste of History is available for pur-

chase for $15.00 each at the UPHS Mu-

seum, Lincoln Public Library, and Fadden’s

General Store. All proceeds from the sale

will go to the renovation project of the mu-

seum.

UPHS Officers:

Carol Riley, President

Donna Thompson, Vice President

Janet Peltier, Treasurer

Directors: Toni Nelson

Jack Patterson Cindy Lloyd

Carol Govoni David Thompson

Editors: Barbara Avery, Cindy Lloyd

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schools, building roads and bridges, caring

for the poor, and meeting state and county

taxes.

Many of the early settlers lived on

farms along what is today the Route 3 corri-

dor in North Lincoln. Because of the rocky

soil, most of the farmers in Lincoln were

very poor and required town support or were

habitually mortgaging their stock and/ or per-

sonal goods to survive the winter. Food and

medicine alone taxed their resources and yet

they still managed to improve the roads and

build bridges to tie together the scattered

community and make it more accessible to

travelers.

1832

In the autumn of 1832, Nathaniel

Hawthorne passed through Lincoln, the gate-

way to Franconia Notch. The fruits of his

brief visit appear in “The Great Stone Face,”

“The Ambitious Guest,” and “The Great Car-

buncle.”

1842

Because means of transportation at

the time were poor, slow, and expensive,

rather than require small children to travel,

families petitioned for schoolhouses to be

built closer to their homes. The East Branch

schoolhouse was appropriated to be built for

$40 with $10 added to build a bridge across

the Pemigewasset. The schoolhouse was to

be located between what is now Clark’s

Trading Post and the bridge, on the west side

of the original Peeling (Woodstock) road.

The foundation of the school is still visible

and marked by a sign. Following this original

model, it was voted to build schoolhouses in

each of three designated school districts.

The principal farmers in the 1840s

(Continued from page 1) were the Tuttles, the Dearborns, Stephen

Russell, Thomas Pollard, and Jeremy Han-

son. The main products were corn, oats,

wool, peas, beans, potatoes, barley, buck-

wheat, butter, cheese, fruits, hay, flax, meat,

rye, and wood. Most of the farmers also

made maple sugar and syrup.

A special treat was leather aprons.

Maple syrup was boiled for a short time and

then poured onto the snow where it hard-

ened. It was considered to be a delicacy to be

eaten with raised doughnuts and pickles. The

first major improvement over the Indian’s

way of heating sap (dropping heated rocks

into bowls of sap) was the use of large iron

kettles and open fires. As subsequent im-

provements were made, sugar houses were

built to consolidate boiling the collected sap.

Oxen were used well into the twentieth cen-

tury in preference to horses to haul the col-

lected sap to be boiled. They were slower

than horses and tended to spill less sap. To-

day many sugaring operations are mecha-

nized. Forty gallons of sap are required to

make one gallon of syrup.

1843

Simon Tuttle had the first of the

many taverns and inns in Lincoln, which he

operated out of his farm built in 1843. Tut-

tle’s farm was one of the largest and best

kept in town. His tavern was used as a stop-

over for the Concord stagecoach traveling

between Plymouth and Franconia. Tuttle’s

Tavern was situated near the location of what

would become the home of Murray Clark of

Clark’s Trading Post. Some Lincoln resi-

dents, realizing that the natural beauty of the

region was one of their greatest assets, were

beginning to cater to the tourist trade.

1844

Benjamin Knight built a tavern

known as Knight’s Tavern. It was comforta-


bly equipped to accommodate tourists. He

sold his property to William Kenney and Ira

Coffin who built the original Flume House.

In 1848, they sold the hotel to Richard Taft

who opened the Flume House to paying

guests on June 30, 1849. Taft was one of

Lincoln’s outstanding citizens and contrib-

uted greatly to making the Franconia Notch

region a popular summer resort. Some of the

early visitors were Daniel Webster, Franklin

Pierce, Theodore Woolsey, President of

Yale, and Edward Everett Hale, author of

“The Man Without a Country.”

1853

In 1853, the Merrimack River Lum-

ber Company began to log on the East

Branch, on land acquired from the Fisk and

Norcross Company. Norcross was already

actively logging in Woodstock. Trees

were cut near to and were floated down the

river for further processing.

However, from 1830 to 1892, Lincoln

saw very slow growth. Although the popula-

tion doubled, the town remained tiny (50 in

1830, 57 in 1850, 65 in 1880, and 110 in

1892 after the arrival of J. E. Henry’s log-

ging crew). During these years, agriculture

(farming) continued to be the main source of

income. Most of the Lincoln inhabitants

lived along the southern part of the road from

North Woodstock to Franconia Notch. Only

three families lived in the area which would

later become the village of Lincoln and one

had to ford the river to get there.

All of these farmers worked up their

own firewood. Between 1846 and 1858

Stephen Russell sawed out their logs in his

sawmill located on the east side of the Fran-

conia Notch Road near the Pemigewasset

River. The Hansons also operated a mill just

north of the Russell mill. Other sawmills

appeared, but it was later in the century that

bigger industry came to Lincoln to tap the

forest resources which covered most of the

town.

1859

The first industry of real importance

was established in 1859 by Henry Baker who

bought Stephen Russell’s land and made the

sawmill over into a bedstead factory. In the

1860s, he turned to the production of chair

backs.

1861-1865

Four Lincoln residents were engaged

in the Civil War, Cyrus Merrill, Joseph

Fadden, James Smith, and Lyman Jackman.

Cyrus was killed at the Battle of Bull Run.

Joseph was wounded at Chancellorsville and

died two months later after returning home.

James enlisted in 1864 and was mustered out

in 1865. Lyman rose to the rank of Captain.

He was captured by the Confederates at

the Battle of Poplar Springs Church and was

subsequently exchanged in 1865 and mus-

tered out.

1871

The original Flume House burned. A

second Flume House, one of the finest sum-

mer hotels in the mountains, was built by

Richard Taft and Colonel Charles Greenleaf

on the same site at a cost of $32,000. It was

subsequently managed by the Elliot brothers

of Lincoln, and Mason Dolloff and his wife

ran the café. In 1883, it was enlarged and im-

proved, doubling its size, but this hotel also

burned in 1918. Another early hotel was the

Mt. Liberty House (1890s) which was near

the Indian Head and had no superior among

moderate priced hotels. It burned in 1902.

Because most of the early hotels were de-

stroyed by fire, and their records with them,

it is difficult to trace the many famous people

who were known to visit Lincoln as the tour-

ist trade steadily grew.

(Continued on page 4)


Who were these early settlers?

Where did they come from?

Where did they go?

Tuttle

Simon Tuttle was born in Massachu-

setts around 1788. At the time he served in

the War of 1812, his residence is listed as

Franconia. He married Sally Sargent of

Thornton and they had two children born in

Franconia, John in 1816 and Charles in 1818.

According to the Grafton County Gazetteer,

1709-1886:

“Simon Tuttle came to Lincoln…

about 1824, and settled upon the

place where his son John W. E. now

lives, on road 3. He commenced

running a tavern, and from the be-

ginning, the house had been known

as Tuttle’s Hotel. In the early days

they were often obliged to turn a

cow out into the storm to give place

for a traveler’s horse. A fine house

and barn have been erected where

the log house formerly stood. John

W. E. Tuttle has lived here all his

life, has a fine farm, and has kept up

the reputation of the house which

his father established. Mr. Tuttle

has been first selectman a number of

years, and has also served as town

representative.”

Simon and Sally Tuttle both lived out

their years in Lincoln and are buried at

Parker Cemetery in Woodstock. Simon died

in 1864 and John, who had married Hannah

Elkins in 1839, continued on in his father’s

stead running farm and hotel. Mother, Sally,

died in 1881. Charles had married Mary Jane

Barnard in 1841 and moved to Hopkinton,

New Hampshire. In their later years John

and Hannah also moved to Hopkinton where

Hannah died in 1890 and John in 1896.

Jones

Samuel Jones was an early resident of

Lincoln. Born in Medway, Massachusetts in

1779, he, his widowed mother Hannah, and

his brothers Aaron and Jesse moved north

and can be found on the 1810 census in Lin-

coln. In 1816, Aaron sold his property and

headed west, other family members fol-

lowed, except for Samuel and his family.

Samuel Jones had married Mary

Spencer in Peeling in 1803 and their eldest

son Isaac was born in Lincoln in 1808. Both

1879

In 1879, Mason Dolloff and the Han-

son brothers built a bobbin and chair stock

factory where they manufactured 600,000

bobbins a year.

To be continued……

The next installment will include the exciting

changes brought about in the 1890’s.

(Continued from page 3)


They appear on the 1830 census with four

small children. In the mid 1830’s they

headed west to northern Indiana, where he

died in 1840, Arvilla died there in 1868.

Russell

Stephen Russell was born in 1769 in

Massachusetts. In 1801 he married Faithful

Jesseman of Franconia. They appear on the

Franconia 1810 census with five children,

then lived in Bethlehem where more children

were born. According to the Grafton

County Gazetteer, 1709-1886:

“As early as 1808 Stephen Russell

built a house just below the present

Flume House, which he opened as a

hotel, ever since which there has

been a hotel in the vicinity. The

principal occupation of the inhabi-

tants, and their principal source of

revenue, is the care of tourists. The

road through the “Notch” was built

by the State about 1813.”

By 1830 Stephen and Faithful were living in

Lincoln with their still growing family, in-

cluding son Stephen born in 1818. By 1850

parents Stephen and Faithful had died. Many

of their children had left Lincoln, but son

Stephen Moody Russell remained. In the

1840’s he married Eunice Hanson, daughter

of Jeremy and Eunice (Fernald) Hanson.

Stephen and Eunice Hanson raised eight chil-

dren and remained in Lincoln until their

deaths, hers in 1899 and his in 1907. Their

Daughter Addie married Dura Pollard. (Continued on page 8)

Samuel’s and Isaac’s families appear on the

1830 Lincoln census. In 1834 Samuel sold

some of his property to son Isaac and the re-

maining to debtors and died or left the area.

Isaac Jones married Olive Blake of

Thornton in the late 1820’s. They resided in

Lincoln with their first six children, then

moved to Peeling (Woodstock) in the late

1830’s where they had four more children by

1850. Before 1860, Isaac left his family and

moved west to Wisconsin. He fought in the

Civil War from there and died there in 1878.

Three of his sons, William, Isaac Jr., and Is-

rael, all born in Lincoln, fought with New

Hampshire Regiments in the Civil War.

Isaac Jr. never returned from the war, having

died of disease in New Orleans in 1863.

William married Elizabeth Schofield and

moved to Thornton. Israel married Mary

George and moved to Easton.

Two of Isaac and Olive Jones’s

daughters survived into adulthood: Mary

Jones married Royal G. Smith and Betsey

Jones married Thomas Vincent Smith. Both

couples lived in Woodstock where they

raised large families. These couples and

many of their descendants are buried at

Woodstock Cemetery.

Barron

LaFayette (DeLafayette) Barron was

born in Thornton in 1793, son of Benjamin

and Abigail (Varnum) Barron. By 1800 the

Barron family had moved to Peeling. In

1816 DeLafayette married Arvilla Bradford

of Thornton and they settled in Lincoln.


Lincoln in 1860

From north to south:

Walkers Falls & Cascade

Cascade Falls

Basin

Cave and Pool

Flume House

Bowling alley

Chapel

Flume & cascade

John Guernsey

Stephen Russell, sawmill,

school

Stephen M Hanson

Ebenezer Drew

Simon & J. W. E. Tuttle

Tom Pollard

School


Lincoln in 1892

From north to south:

Walkers Falls

Store

Cascade Falls

Basin

Cave and Pool

Flume House

Stable

Flume

Levi Guernsey (son of John Guernsey)

School & Town House

Mrs. M. Dolloff (Emma Hanson Dolloff, widow of Mason Dolloff)

Stephen M. Hanson

Stephen Russell

Mrs. Alice Clark (daughter of Stephen Russell, wife of Franklin Clark)

J. A. Bell

David Dearborn

Dura Pollard

William Pollard


Guernsey

John and Jane (Wallace) Guernsey

moved from Lisbon to Lincoln before 1840

with the four youngest of their eight children.

Daughter Phoebe married the above men-

tioned Stephen M. Hanson and remained in

Lincoln until her death in 1914. Son Levi

Guernsey married Aurilla Dyer of Maine

around 1856 and raised five children in Lin-

coln. Levi was considered one of the best

guides in the area for travelers staying at the

Flume House. He lived just south of the

Flume House and charged $3 a day for his

services.

Fadden

Joseph and Rebecca (Williams)

Fadden came from New York with their fam-

ily. They were around the area sporadically

from 1820, but were settled in Lincoln by

1830. An older daughter, Ellen, married

Jeremiah Smith and they too settled in Lin-

coln to raise a family. Ellen and Jeremiah’s

firstborn, James Smith, served in the Civil

War. By 1860 Ellen and Jeremiah Smith had

moved to Franconia with their growing fam-

ily.

The three youngest children of Joseph

and Rebecca Fadden, Adeline, Joseph and

Simeon Dana were born in or nearby Lin-

coln. By 1860, parents Joseph and Rebecca

moved back to New York State.

Son Joseph married Harriett Richards

and settled in Thornton. He died in 1863 af-

ter returning home, injured, from the Civil

Hanson

Jeremy and Eunice (Fernald) Hanson

married in 1820 in Gilmanton, New Hamp-

shire, where they had two children there be-

fore moving to Raymond, Maine where they

had six more children. After their youngest

child died in 1836, they headed for Lincoln,

as the story goes, by oxcart with their surviv-

ing three sons and four daughters. Jeremy

and Eunice both died around 1850, but some

of their children continued to make Lincoln

their home. Son Ora T. Hanson never mar-

ried but farmed in Lincoln until his death in

1903. As mentioned above, daughter Eunice

C. Hanson, married Stephen Russell. Son

Stephen Moody Hanson married Phoebe

Guernsey, daughter of John and Jane

(Wallace) Guernsey of Lincoln.

Stephen and Phoebe Hanson raised

nine children in Lincoln. Daughters Clara

and Hattie Arabell as well as son Darius

served Lincoln as school teachers in the

1870’s and 1880’s. Daughter Emma married

Mason D Dolloff, who, along with Emma’s

brothers Darius and Isa Hanson, ran Dolloff

& Hansons, manufacturer of bobbins and

chair stock.

Those buried at Hanson Farm Ceme-

tery in Lincoln include: John and Jane

Guernsey; Jeremy and Eunice Hanson and

their children Ona T., Arabell H., Stephen

M., and Stephen’s wife Phoebe and their

children, Darius, Lizzie F., Mary A. and Ber-

tha.

(Continued from page 5)


War. His wife died only a year later leaving

three small children. They are buried in Pine

Grove Cemetery in Thornton.

Son Simeon Dana Fadden also moved

to Thornton, married Mary Ann Yeaton and

raised a large family, including James H.

who married Ida H. Kelly. James and Ida

Fadden are buried in Woodstock Cemetery;

Simeon and Mary Ann are buried in Pine

Grove Cemetery in Thornton.

Pollard

In April of 1841, Thomas Pollard

married Mary Ann Elliott in Nashua, New

Hampshire. Right after this they made their

way to Lincoln where they remained for the

rest of their lives. The first two daughters

died young, but the third daughter, Roana,

married George Henry Brown. Roana and

George lived in Thornton where they raised

twelve children.

Tom and Mary Pollard’s two sons,

Dura and William, remained in Lincoln and

were well known as hunting and fishing

guides leading people into the great wilder-

ness east of Lincoln. For many years the

Pollards ran a boarding house in their home

accommodating sportsmen as well as family

travelers.

William Pollard married Ada Venott

Dorey from Nova Scotia and had four daugh-

ters. Dura Pollard married Addie Russell,

daughter of Stephen and Eunice (Hanson)

Russell, and had two sons and two daughters.

Tom and Mary, their daughter Mary,

son William and his wife Ada and daughter

Elsie are all buried at Parker Cemetery in

Woodstock. Dura, wife Addie and two chil-

dren, Herman and Carrie, are buried at

Woodstock Cemetery.

Boyse (Boies, Boyce)

Timothy Boyse and Harriett Smith,

daughter of Samuel Smith, were married in

Woodstock in 1847, and settled in Lincoln

where they raised at least eleven children.

Son George S. Boyse married Alberta Rus-

sell, daughter of Stephen and Eunice

(Hanson) Russell mentioned above. Son

Charles W. Boyse married Ida Whitcomb

and they are buried in Woodstock Cemetery

along with two young children, George L

and Mary G.

Drew

Ebenezer and Betsey Drew moved to

Lincoln in the 1850’s from the Lakes Region

area. They settled north of Tuttles, south of

Hansons, and farmed. They had no children

but remained in Lincoln until their deaths,

hers in 1882 and his in 1891. They are bur-

ied at Parker Cemetery in Woodstock.

Dearborn

David Dearborn was born in Peeling

(Woodstock) in 1833, son of Russell and

Lydia (Aldrich) Dearborn. In 1850, when he

was 17 he was living with the Tuttles in Lin-(Continued on page 10)


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coln. In 1854 he married Abigail V. Parker,

daughter of Reuben and Mary (Vilas) Parker,

and they settled in Woodstock where their

daughter Winnie was born. He enlisted to

serve in the Civil War in 1861 and was dis-

charged as disabled a year later. They then

settled in Lincoln where they had two sons.

Daughter Winnie married and moved to

Massachusetts in 1878. Sons Henry and J.

Scott remained in the North Country. David

died in 1897 and Abby in 1899 and they

were buried at Parker Cemetery in Wood-

stock.

Baker

Henry and Elizabeth Baker moved to

Lincoln before 1860, purchasing Stephen

Russell’s land and sawmill. The mill em-

ployed several young men and was converted

to produce bedsteads, and later chair backs.

(Continued from page 9) At the onset of the Civil War two of Baker’s

employees left to serve. Cyrus Merrill died

at the Battle of Bull Run; Lyman Jackman

returned to New Hampshire and later wrote

History of the Sixth New Hampshire Regi-

ment in the War for the Union.

The families written about above were

not the only families in Lincoln between 1830

and 1880, but they were the ones who perhaps

stayed longer, or left more generations to impact

our area. They stuck it out when times were

tough, travel slow and tedious.

In 1883 the Pemigewasset Railroad fi-

nally made its way to North Woodstock opening

up the whole area to greater possibilities. Tour-

ism and industry were able to make great ad-

vances in the coming years because of this.

Barbara Avery

[email protected] / 745-8845


The Company Store

Painting by

Jack Richardson

Many remember the Parker-Young Company Store, where everyone in town did their

shopping. It was also where the workers picked up their pay envelopes, and if they had spent

all of their wages, the envelope was empty. Thus the saying, I owe my soul to the company

store.

Jack graciously painted and donated this beautiful artwork to the Town of Lincoln, as

his present to the celebration. Jack also gave the UPHS permission to make prints of the paint-

ing and sell them. We are offering 50 numbered and signed prints for $150.00 each. They are

15x21 unframed and unmatted. They can be purchased by contacting Carol Riley, 603-745-

8159.


Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society

PO Box 863

Lincoln, NH 03251

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Our Facility

The building at 26 Church Street in Lincoln has had a

long and varied history and for many years has been home

to the UPHS. Over the past several years many improve-

ments have been made. It is now apparent that the siding

and roof needs to be replaced. This project will probably

cost about $75,000

We would welcome any donations toward this capital

project. Thank you for your consideration.

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Upstream - logginginlincolnTuttle Simon Tuttle was born in Massachu-setts around 1788. At the time he served in the War of 1812, his residence is listed as Franconia. He married Sally