and Kimball Union Academy, being
one of the most distinguished liter-
ary institutions in the State. This
school was founded in 1813, and in-
corporated the same year. It was
endowed by Daniel Kimball, Esq.,
of Meriden, with the sum of $ 42,
000, and has an additional school
property of $ 18,000. Number of
alumni, about fifteen hundred.
The average expenses of each
scholar, including tuition, board
and room-rent, is $150.00 per year.
The average number of students,
per year, for the last thirty years,
has been about two hundred.

Of the income of this fund, $ 150
is annually applied towards the
support of a preacher; the remain-
der, in aid of young men who con-
template entering upon the duties
of the ministry.

The success which has hitherto
attended this institution, is a suf-
ficient guarantee of its present
standing and future prospects.
Rev. L. A. Austin, M. A., is the
Principal.

Employments. Farming is the
principal employment of the in-
habitants. Some of the finest farms
in the State can be found in this
town. Many of the farmers keep
summer boarders through the
warm weather, there being about
400 tourists who spend their sum-
mer vacation in this pleasant town.

50,000 clapboards, 200,000 shingles,
and 700,000 feet of boards, etc., are
annually sawed. Furniture to a
moderate extent, is manufactured.

Resources. Agricultural prod-
ucts, $ 179,075; mechanical labor,
$ 5,500; stocks and bonds, $ 14,000;
money at interest, $37,710; depos-
its in savings banks, $ 35,826; stock
in trade, $54,000; from summer
tourists, $ 12,000.

Churches and Schools. There
are five churches in Plainfield viz.
two Congregational, two Baptist
and one Methodist. Revs. C. M.
Palmer and Jacob Scales, pastors
of the Congregational; Revs. H.

G. Hubbard and E. II. Smith,
pastors of the Baptist, and Elder
David Moody, Methodist pastor.
There are sixteen school districts
and seventeen schools. Average
length of schools, for the year,
twenty weeks.

Hotels. Booth House.

First Settlers. L. Nash, and J.
Russell settled here in 1764. In-
corporated, or a grant given, Au-
gust 14, 1761.

First Ministers. Rev. Abraham
Carpenter, (Congregational) set-
tled in 1765; dismissed in 1799.
Rev. Micah Porter, settled in 1804;
dismissed in 1824.

Boundaries. North by Lebanon,
east by Grantham, south by Cor-
nish, and west by Ilartland, Ver-
mont. Area of improved land
24,683 acres.

Distances. Sixty miles north
west from Concord, seventeen
north-west from Newport, and
twelve south from Dartmouth
College.

Railroads. Lebanon on Northern
Railroad, and Windsor on the
Vermont Central, are the nearest
paints to railroads.

PLAISTOW.

Rockingham County. Plais-
tow is a small township with an
even surface, in the larger portion
of the town. The soil is generally
good, being a mixture of black
loam, clay, and gravel. The
many thrifty farms, attest as to
the quality of the soil, and to the
skill and industry of the husband-