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marched with seven others, under Capt. Benjamin Bean, for the
relief of Ticonderoga. On their arrival at Charlestown, N.H.,
news came of its evacuation and orders to return. They were in
service seven days.
in the spring, the family started for their new home ||, his
wife on horseback with her child in her arms. He soon built a
frame house, east of the road where his son Philip afterwards
lived. Their first log house stood a short distance south of
where William A. Elliot lived in 1892, where his father,
Abraham, with the youngest son, Jonathan, lived and died.
selectman
he, with Enoch Noyes and Timothy Dix, was chosen a committee to
accept of the meeting house.
purchased from Benjamin Noyes, a hundred acre lot, No. 5, Range
14 ||. He divided this between his sons James and Philip. The
lot was called Nottencook.
On arriving at the age of twenty-one, he resolved to penetrate
the forests of New Hampshire for the purpose of selecting a
location for his father, four brothers, and himself. He soon
went back to Amesbury to marry.