Richmond, July 6, 1736. Sylvester's Canada.-Granted for service in Canada Expedition, 1690. Rindge, Feb. 3, 1737. Rowley Canada.-Granted to John Tyler, Joseph Pike, and others, for service in Canada Expedition of 1690. Plan of it laid before General Court, Jan. 23, 1739. Appropriation made for a meeting-house, 1743. Salisbury,* Feb. 3, 1737. Baker's Town, and Stevens's Town.Granted for service in Canada Expedition of 1690, under Captains John March, Stephen Greenleaf, and Philip Nelson. Plat confirmed, Jan. 2, 1740. Swanzey, Feb. 21, 1734. (Lower) Ashuelot.-Ordered to be laid out, June 24, 1731. Tyng's Town, † May 1, 1736. "Old Harry Town."-East of Bow and Goffstown. Granted in 1735 for service, under Capt. William Tyng, in 1703, by "pursuing the Indian enemy into their own country on snow shoes," the first attempt of that kind. Soon settled after 1738. Walpole, Jan. 15, 1736. No. 2, Great Fall, Bellows Town.Granted to John Flint and others, Nov., 1736. Marked on a map No. 2, but called No. 3 in a petition of its proprietors. Warner, * 1735. New Amesbury. Washington, Jan. 15, 1736. New Concord, Camden. Winchester, June 21, 1733. Arlington, to its incorporation.Granted to Josiah Willard and others. Incorporated, June 20, 1739. " 'Besides these towns, Massachusetts by the decision in favor of New-Hampshire, Guildford, granted for service under Capt. Samuel Gallop, in Canada Expedition of 1690, and its plat accepted, Feb. 3, 1737, and other towns subsequently of Vermont; Groton Grant, or equivalent of 10,800 acres, for what was included by Littleton, Major Willard and Reed's Farms, and for loss in Indian wars, granted, April, 1735, and confirmed, June 15, 1736; portions of Salisbury, Amesbury, Haverhill, Methuen, Townsend, Ashburnham, Bernardstown, Colerain, Conway, and other territory." CHAPTER II. Brief history of the War of the Revolution, Federal Constitution, and of the Great Rebellion, Regiments, Officers, etc. THE war of the Revolution originated through the persistent determination of the mother country to tax the colonies, without their consent. The colonies maintained that taxation and representation were inseparable; and that, as they had no voice in the English Parliament, it had no honorable right to tax them. The first tax imposed, was in 1765, and called the "Stamp Act," which ordained that, upon all business documents and newspapers, stamps should be fixed, which the colonies were. obliged to purchase of the government. This Stamp Act met with such opposition that it was repealed in 1766, but Parliament at the same time asserted the right to bind the colonies in all cases whatever. The next year they imposed a tax on tea, and several other imports. Like the Stamp Act, it was met with powerful opposition. This tyrannical course of England the colonies refused to assent to; and when two or three cargoes of tea arrived in Boston the people were determined that it should not be landed, and, on the night of December 16, 1773, a party, disguised as Indians, boarded the vessels and threw three hundred and sixty-two chests of tea into the harbor. The English government were indignant, and were determined that the colonies should yield to their requests, and the colonies were quite as determined not to submit to any laws they had no part in making. At length, the troubles between the mother country and her colonies culminated in bloodshed, on the nineteenth day of April, 1775, at Lexington, Massachusetts, and terminated by the colonies becoming a free and independent nation. The people of New-Hampshire had always been loyal to the mother country, but, when their liberties were at stake, they were quite as zealous to defend their rights as those of their sister states and furnished their full quota of men to secure our American independence. But our limited space will not permit us to give any extended history of the war of Independence; neither is it required, for every reader is conversant with the history of the American Revolution. The Revolution produced, of course, its own heroes; and NewHampshire, to-day, feels proud of her Langdons, Weare, Sullivan, Stark, Scammel, Hale, and many others, who lent a helping hand in this great struggle for American liberty. On almost every northern battlefield, the blood of New-Hampshire's sons ran freely. At Bunker Hill, Long Island, Monmouth, Bennington, Stillwater, Saratoga, and in many other smaller battles, they assisted in sealing our independence with their blood. FORMATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. At the close of the war of the revolution, our country-what is now called the United States-was divided into thirteen colonies or States, with separate, organized state governments. For five years the states lived under a national confederate compact; but it was soon found that this compact had no strength in itself to maintain a national government. The confederated Congress could declare war and contract debts; but it had no power to pay those debts, only to advise the several states to pay their respective shares of debts thus contracted by Congress. In May, 1787, delegates from the several states (with the exception of Rhode Island) met in Philadelphia to form a National Constitution. After a session of four months of careful consideration, and looking at the several interests of the respective states, the Constitution of the United States, under which we now live, was drafted, and signed by the members of the Convention, September 17, 1787, and received the assent of the requisite number of states early in the summer of 1788. George Washington was the unanimous choice of the people for the first President under the new Constitution, and was inaugurated in the city of New York, April 30, 1789, as President, and John Adams as Vice President of the United States of America. As the central government of the nation is part of the history of New-Hampshire, and for future reference of our readers, we here with append a list of all the presidents and vice presidents of the United States up to the present time. VICE PRESIDENTS, AND John Adams, Mass., Apr. 30, 1789 to Mar. 4, 1797. Thomas Jefferson, Va., Mar. 4, 1797 to Mar. 4, 1801. Aaron Burr, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1801 to Mar. 4, 1805 George Clinton, N. Y. (died Apr. 20, 1812) Mar. 4 1805 to Mar 4. 1813. Elbridge Gerry, Mass., (died Nov. 23, 1814) Mar. Daniel D. Tompkins, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1817 to John C. Calhoun, S. C., Mar. 4, 1825 to Mar. 4, Martin Van Buren, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1833 to Mar. 4, 1837. Richard M. Johnson, Ky., Mar. 4, 1837 to Mar. John Tyler, Va., (President after death of W. THEIR TERMS OF OFFICE. George M. Dallas, Penn., Mar. 4, 1845 to Mar. Millard Fillmore, N. Y., (President after death William R. King, Alabama, (died Apr. 18, 1853) John C. Breckinridge, Ky., Mar. 4, 1857 to Hannibal Hamlin, Me., Mar. 4, 1861 to Mar. Andrew Johnson, Tenn., (President after death Schuyler Colfax, Ind., Mar. 4, 1869 to Mar. 4, Henry Wilson, Mass., Mar. 4, 1873 to Mar. 4, THE GREAT REBELLION. Every reader is conversant with the cause and origin of the late rebellion, and it is enough to say that the people of the Southern States were determined not to submit to the rule of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, and, soon after his election in the Fall of 1860, took measures to absolve themselves from the original union, and form a separate government for the Southern. States. In this crisis of our nation's history, President Buchanan was not equal to the emergency. A portion of his Cabinet were in known sympathy with the South, and were suffered to remain in office and wield their official power in the interest of their Southern brethren, A large portion of the members of Congress from the Southern States openly declared, in their seats, the right of secession, and their intention of resigning their seats in the national Congress, and returning home to sustain it. 66 The first hostile demonstration made against our national Government was the firing upon the steamer Star of the West" which was sent with provisions to supply Maj. Anderson, stationed at Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. The next was the bombardment of that fort and its capitulation to the Southern forces, April 13, 1861. The firing on Fort Sumter created a great indignation throughout the whole North, and, on the fifteenth day of April, the President called for seventy-five thousand troops, to serve for three months. Thus commenced one of the greatest rebellions that ever occurred in any civilized nation, which continued for four years, and over five hundred thousand men sacrificed their lives, doubtless they all thought, for the good of their country. But this national calamity brought forth some good fruits. African slavery, that had been the scourge of the nation for so many years, was forever prohibited, and to-day every person in our nation enjoys, under the law, every blessing which his Creator intended for him. New-Hampshire promptly responded to the call of the President, and the first New-Hampshire Regiment of U. S. Volunteers was armed and equipped and ready for the field, May 25, 1861. The officers of the First New-Hampshire Regiment were Mason W. Tappan, Bradford, Colonel; Thomas J. Whipple, Laconia, Lieutenant Colonel; Aaron F. Stevens, Nashua, Major; Enoch Q. Fellows, Sandwich, Adjutant; Richard N. Batchelder, Manchester, Quartermaster; Moses K. Hazelton, Bradford, Paymaster; Alpheus B. Crosby, Hanover, Surgeon; Henry C. Shaw, Hanover, Assistant Surgeon; and Stephen G. Abbott, Bradford, Chaplain. Space will not permit us to give a full list of the Company officers. The first regiment did not see much fighting, but their duties were quite as arduous, if not as dangerous. They were on picket duty on the Potomac, the larger portion of the time on the Maryland side of the river. When Col. Tappan with his regiment marched through Pennsylvania Avenue, he passed the White House, in review before President Lincoln, and thence two and onehalf miles to his camp. They had scarcely reached their quarters, before a messenger arrived from the President, complimenting Col. Tappan as having the best and most thoroughly appointed reg |