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es, $ 10,000; custom boots and
shoes, $7,000; trusses and sup-
porters, $8,000; monuments and
gravestones, $ 15,000; lumber,
$ 18,700; carriages, $6,000; be-
sides printing, millinery, tailors,
jewelry, tin, iron, blacksmith, and
various other mechanical shops.
There are invested in manufacto-
ries, of all kinds, $525,900; em-
ploying 275 men and 216 women
and children, who annually re-
ceive for their labor, $ 175.600,
and produce manufacutured goods
to the value of $740,900; J.
Briggs, the patentee and proprie-
tor of Briggs7 patent piano stools,
has purchased water power on
Nubanusit River, and is erecting
buildings capable of employing 70
men. The increased demand for
his stools has forced him to make
this enlargement in his business.
The Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, Seventh
Edition, Compiled by Alonzo J. Fogg. Concord, N.H.: D.L.
Resources. Agricultural produc-
tions, $128,742; mechanical labor,
$ 175,600; stocks and money at in-
terest, $112,719; deposits in sav-
ings banks, $307,382; stock in
trade, $107,306; professional busi-
ness, $ 80,000; from summer
tourists, $ 12,000.
Churches and Schools. Catholic,
supplied by the priest in Wilton
the first Sabbath of each month;
300 members; church value,
$ 5,000. Congregational Unitari-
an, Rev. A. W. Jackson, pastor;
members, 159; value, $25,000.
First Congregational, Rev. George
Dustan, pastor; 87 members; val-
ue, $ 12,000. Methodist Episcopal,
Rev. A. F. Baxter, pastor; 40
members; value, $8,000. First
Baptist, Rev. W. O. Ayei', pastor;
60 members; value, $4,000.
There are fourteen schools in
town, five of which are graded.
Average length of schools, for the |
299
year, twenty-one weeks. Value
of school houses, $11,200. Total
amount of money appropriated for
school purposes, $3,314.50. There
is a public high school which
has been established about two
years—Thomas P. Maryatt, prin-
cipal.
Library. Peterborough Town
Library has about 4,000 volumes.
Newspaper. Peterborough Tran-
script.
Banks. First National Bank
and Peterborough Savings Bank.
Hotels. French’s Hotel, valued
at $ 45,000; annual arrivals, 7,256.
Union Hotel, value, $ 5,000; annu-
al arrivals, 3,300.
First Settlements. This town
was granted by the government of
Massachusetts to Samuel Ileywood
and others in 1738. The first set-
tlers were Scotch Presbyterians,
from Ireland, and being unacus-
tomed to clearing and cultivating
wild lands, they endured great
privations. Their nearest grist-
mill was at Townsend, Mass.,
twenty-five miles distant, and
tlieir road was only a line of mark-
ed trees.
It appears that as early as 1750
the inhabitants were afflicted
with Indian depredations. Octo-
ber 6, 1750, Alexander Robbe,
Thomas Morrison, James Mitch-
ell, William Robbe, John White,
James Gordon, John Smith, John
Hill, William Scott, and Thom-
as Vender, petitioned to the
General Court of Massachusetts
to allow them to build a fort and
block houses at the expense of
this State, and, also, to have a
guard of twenty men sent them
for their protection. Their ex-
cuse for calling on Massachusetts
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