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1866-03-25 Page 6

old they call it Frank Edward
after his and her brother Mat [illegible]
and Ed Shepard were married
three weeks ago last Thursday
The joiners are at work in the up
per part of the Academy
Down where Martha was teaching
they are having protracted meetings
There was a crazy man by the name
of Cheney from Holderness Village
got up in meeting one night and
said he thought religion was a
good thing he was brought up under
pious training his parents were both
pious Cheney's only his mother
was a Plummer before his Father
married her and at another time
screamed out "Oh the cream of
tartar pole" and at another "we have
got a good president this year"
at another time Marth sat in front
of him and he put his arms a
round her neck She was up here
last Thursday Jo Cummings &
Curt are agoing to stay at home
this summer and Noah says they
may fix up as much as they are
a mind to and in the fall
will sell him one half and give
them the other Cook's Mill was
burned several weeks ago The Grants
place in Walpole at the top of
the hill there by Aunt Mary's home
been burned Truman Pearsons
has written to Melva Ann & Mary
has sold out for $1000, and reserved
the rights in the home garden
wood shed barn &c until April
1867 The place is to be sold [illegible]
next Wednesday She has interest
on her money. Father lent Kate
to Sam Malligan yesterday and
he was gone all day with her and
he did not ask him any thing but
she paid him twenty or twenty five

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old they call it Frank Edward after his and her brother Mat [illegible] and Ed Shepard were married three weeks ago last Thursday The joiners are at work in the up per part of the Academy Down where Martha was teaching they are having protracted meetings There was a crazy man by the name of Cheney from Holderness Village got up in meeting one night and said he thought religion was a good thing he was brought up under pious training his parents were both pious Cheney's only his mother was a Plummer before his Father married her and at another time screamed out "Oh the cream of tartar pole" and at another "we have got a good president this year" at another time Marth sat in front of him and he put his arms a round her neck She was up here last Thursday Jo Cummings & Curt are agoing to stay at home this summer and Noah says they may fix up as much as they are a mind to and in the fall will sell him one half and give them the other Cook's Mill was burned several weeks ago The Grants place in Walpole at the top of the hill there by Aunt Mary's home been burned Truman Pearsons has written to Melva Ann & Mary has sold out for $1000, and reserved the rights in the home garden wood shed barn &c until April 1867 The place is to be sold [illegible] next Wednesday She has interest on her money. Father lent Kate to Sam Malligan yesterday and he was gone all day with her and he did not ask him any thing but she paid him twenty or twenty five