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pastor; number of members, 95;
church value, $8,000; Baptist, Rev.
William H. Walker, pastor; num-
ber of members, 100; church
value, $7,000. There are five
schools in town, two of which are
graded; average length of schools
for the year, twenty weeks.
Bank. Mason Village Savings
Bank. (See table.)
Hotels. “ Columbian House,”
number of arrivals, 1,200.
First Settlers. See Mason. The
town was incorporated under the
name of Greenville in June, 1872.
Boundaries. North by Temple
and Wilton, east by Mason and
Brookline, south by Mason, and
west by New Ipswich.
Distances. Forty-three miles
southwest from Concord, and
twenty west from Nashua.
Railroad. A branch of the
Fitchburg railroad, formerly the
Peterborough and Shirley rail-
road, has its terminus at Green-
ville village.
GROTON.
Grafton County. The sur-
face of Groton is uneven, but the
soil is deep and fertile, and the
husbandman reaps a rich reward
for his labor, in fine crops of corn,
oats, buckwheat, potatoes, etc.
About 15,000 pounds of maple sugar
re annually made.
Rivers and Ponds. This town
is well watered on its northei'ly
border by Baker’s River, affording
some very good water privileges.
Several small streams have their
source in the southerly part, and
flow into Newfound lake. Specta-
cle Pond is the largest body of wa-
ter. It lies about a mile northeast
from Groton meeting house. |
Employments.. The people are
generally engaged in agriculture;
1,035,000 feet of lumber, 90,000
clapboards and 430,000 shingles are
annually produced. (See tables.)
Resources. Productions of the
soil, $ 70,367; money at interest,
$ 8,200; stock in trade, $ 4,878; de-
posits in savings bank, $ 14,020;
mechanical labor $ 6,000.
Churches and Schools. Christian
church twenty members, and Bap-
tist church thirty members. There
are ten schools in town. Average
length of schools for the year, ten
weeks.
Organizations. In 1776 Groton
was granted to George Abbott
and others, by the name of Cocker-
mouth. It was incorporated De-
cember 7, 1796. The first settlers
were James Gould, Captain E.
Melvin, James Hobart, Phinehas
Bennett, and Samuel Farley, in *
1770.
First Ministers. Rev. Samuel
Perley, Congregational, ordained
in 1779, dismissed in 1785; Rev.
Thomas Page, ordained in 1790,
died in 1813.
Boundaries. Bounded north by
Wentworth and Rumney, east by
Hebron, south by Orange, and
west by Dorchester. Area, 10,531
acres.
Distances. Forty-five miles
north-west from Concord, and ten
west from Plymouth.
Railroads. Six miles to Rumney
station on the Montreal railroad.
Daily stage to Bristol, twelve miles,
on the Bristol Branch railroad.
HAMPSTEAD.
Rockingham County. This
town lies partly on the height of
land between the Merrimack and
Piscataqua rivers. In most sec-
tions, the soil is good, and when |
