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1774, Amherst, New Hampshire, Fisk Family Signed Land Transfer, Cockermouth For Sale
This item is a wonderful, document dated 1774, Amherst, New Hampshire, where Amos Fisk of Amherst, has sold to Jonathan Taylor of Hollis, a tract of land in Cockermouth (now Hebron) New Hampshire. Signed at bottom by Amos Fisk, Thomas Cummings and Samuel Cummings. Document is 8x12, folds,splits along folds, else in overall good condition.
Among the citizens of Hollis in 1775, were four known Tories, whose
sympathies were strongly with the royal government. These four were:
Benjamin Whiting, the first sheriff of Hillsborough County.
Capt. Leondard Whiting, brother of Benjamin Whiting.
Samuel Cummings and Thomas Cummings, sons of Samuel Cummings Sr.,
the first town clerk of Hollis, NH.
PRUDENCE CUMMINGS, sister to Thomas and Samuel Cimmings,
"...was a strong minded young woman. She was the mother of seven children and in her late thirties when the Revolutionary War unsettled the order of things in her life. ... Prudence gathered the women of the town together and formed a 'Home Guard' with herself as Captain and Sarah Shattuck as her Lieutenant. The night of April 21st (1775), she and her 'Home Guard' stopped two 'spies' at the Pepperell bridge armed only with pitch forks. The 'spies' turned out to be Thomas Cummings and Leonard Whiting. Recognizing his sister even though she was dressed in her husband's clothes, Thomas disappeared into the night without challenging her. ... but the 'Home Guard' searched [Whiting] ... finding messages to the British in Boston in his boots. He was carted off to the Safety Committee in Groton, Massachusetts and guarded all night by the women from Pepperell."
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