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The Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, Seventh
Edition, Compiled by Alonzo J. Fogg. Concord, N.H.: D.L.
portant branch of industry. Over
280.000 pairs of sale shoes and boots
are annually made, valued at
$288,000; woolen goods are manu-
factured to the value of $19,000;
58.000 shingles; 1,700,000 feet of
boards and dimension timber are
annually sawed, valued at $19,900;
10.000 bushels grain ground, $10,
000. There are also hub mills,
blacksmith shops, planing mill,
wheelwright shop, &c. Besides
there are carpenters, painters, ma-
sons and butchers. (See tables.)
Resources. Productions of the
soil, $102,064; mechanical labor,
$74,500; money at interest and
stocks, $28,300; deposits in sav-
ings banks, $33,379; stock in trade,
$39,125; summer tourists, $2,500;
professional business, $10,000.
Churches and Schools. Congre-
gational, Rev. J. H. Stearns, 100
members; value of church prop-
erty, $3,000; Episcopal, H. Fergu-
son, rector; 75 communicants;
value of church property, $ 3,500;
Methodist, Rev. D. W. Downs,
pastor, 100 members; value of
church property, $2,000. There
are eight schools in town; aver-
age length for the year, nineteen
weeks.
Hotel. Pawtuckaway House, val-
ued at $5,000.
First Settlement. Epping was
originally a part of Exeter, from
which it was taken February 23,
1741. Its first settlement com-
menced with the early history of
New-Hampshire, long before it
was severed from Exeter. One
hundred years ago it had more in-
habitants than at the present time,
having a population of over 1,500,
being the fourth town in the coun-
ty and the fifth in the State. Wil-
liam Plummer was one of its most
distinguished citizens. He was a
member of the United States Sen-
ate from 1802 to 1807, President of
the State Senate in 1810, and chief
magistrate of the State in 1812, 16, |
17, and 18. William,Plummer, Jr.,
was a member of Congress from
1819 to 1823. He died September
18, 1854, aged 65 years.
First Ministers. A Congrega-
tional society was established in
1747. Rev. Robert Cutler was or-
dained pastor in 1747; dismissed
in 1755; Rev. Joseph Stearns, or-
dained in 1758; died in 1788; Rev.
Peter Holt, settled in 1793; dis-
missed in 1821.
Boundaries. North by Notting-
ham and Lee, east by Newmarket,
South Newmarket and Exeter,
south by Brentwood and Fremont,
and west by Raymond and Not-
tingham. Area, 12,960 acres; area
of improved land, 8,575 acres.
Distances. Twenty-nine miles
south-east from Concord, eighteen
west from Portsmouth, and eight
north-west from Exeter.
Railroads. Concord and Ports-
mouth Railroad passes through the
town, in an easterly and westerly
direction. Nashua, Epping, and
Rochester Railroad crosses the
Concord and Portsmouth at Epping
Corner. The Salisbury, Exeter
and Epping Railroad will have its
terminus here. With the grow-
ing railroad facilities, no doubt but
Epping will increase both in
wealth and population, within the
next ten years.
EPSOM.
Merrimack County. The sur-
face of this town is generally un-
even. The soil is good and well
adapted for grazing and grain.
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