The General Court of Massachu-
setts made her a grant of £50 as
a reward for her determined and
bloody strike for liberty.

Mrs. Dustin was the daughter of
Michael and Hannah Emerson, and
tne eldest of fifteen children. She
was born December 23, 1657, and
married to Thomas Dustin, De-
cember 3,1677. She was the mother
of thirteen children and was forty
years of age when captured. Her
descendants by the name of Dustin,
and also her family connections by
the name of Emerson, are numer-
ous in New-Hampshire.

On this island, between the rail-
road and the Merrimack, there is
being erected a handsome granite
monument (on the precise spot
where the wigwams stood) in
memory of Hannah Dustin.

The proprietors gave the town-
ship the name of Contoocook, from
the Indian name of the river, which
touches its south-eastern border.
It was incorporated, and received
its present name in 1760, in honor
of Sir Edward Boscawen, an En-
glish admiral.

First Ministers. Rev. Phineas
Stevens, ordained in 1740; died in
1755. Rev. Robie Merrill, ordained
in 1761; dismissed in 1766. Na-
thaniel Merrill, ordained in 1768;
dismissed in 1774. Rev. Samuel
Wood, D. D., ordained in 1781, and
continued in charge of the church,
for more than fifty years. He was
distinguished for his learning.
Under , his instruction, more than
eighty young men were fitted for
college, thirty-one of whom be-
came ministers of the gospel.

Boundaries. North by Salisbnry
and Franklin, east by the Merri-
mack river, which separates it from
Canterbury and Northfield, and
west by Webster. Area of im-
proved land, 9,274 acres.

Distances. Eight miles from
Concord, north-west.

Railroads. The Northern Rail-
road passes along the whole west-
ern border of the town.

BOW.

Merrimack County. The sur-
face of this town is uneven, but the
soil, though hard, is very produc-
tive, and yields abundant crops,
the surplus of which finds a ready
market in Concord, Suncook, or
Manchester. There is no town in
the State in which the people are
better provided with this world’s
goods than Bow. The soil alone
produces to each man, woman and
child, $200 annually. They have
deposited money in the savings
banks enough to give every rata-
ble poll in town $530 each, or to
give every person in town $175.

Ponds and Rivers. Truree Pond
is the principal body of water.
Turkey River is the principal
stream, and joins the Merrimack
at Turkey Falls. The Merrimack
washes its eastern border. The
ruins of Bow Canal, on the Mer-
rimack, at the Falls, are about three
miles below Concord. It original-
ly cost $13,800, and was built for
the passage of boats, in the days
when the Merrimack was used in
transporting merchandise up and
down its channel. Railroads have
taken the place of canals on the
Merrimack, except when they are
used to convey water power to
move machinery.

Employments. The inhabitants
are nearly all engaged in agricul-
ture. 40,000 clapboards, 550,000
shingles, and 675,000, feet of
boards and dimension timber are