John Hayward mentions Ethan Smith's pastorate in Haverhill and Hopkinton, New Hampshire.

Date
1849
Type
Book
Source
John Hayward
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

John Hayward, A Gazetteer of New Hampshire, Containing Descriptions of All the Counties, Towns, and Districts in the State (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1849), 79–80, 84

Scribe/Publisher
John P. Jewett and Company
People
John Hayward, Elijah Fletcher, Ethan Smith, James Scales, Jacob Cram, John Smith
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

HAVERHILL.

This is a very pleasant town, and is one of the shire towns of Grafton county. It is watered by Oliverian and Hazen Brooks. The soil is suited to every species of cultivation common to the climate. There is a quarry of granite suitable for mill stones and buildings, and a bed of iron ore, on the west side of Benton, bordering this town.

The principal village is at the southwest angle of the town, and known by the name of Haverhill Corner. There is a beautiful common in this village, laid out in an oblong square, around which the buildings regularly stand. The site is a handsome elevation, overlooking the adjacent country many miles north and south, and not less than six or seven miles east and west. From the street, the ground slopes with unusual elegance to the west, and is succeeded by broad intervales. The prospect here is delightful. There is another village at the north-west angle of the town, on a street nearly a mile in length, straight and very level. Several of the early settlers of the town were from Newbury and Haverhill, Mass., and from the last place, this town derived its name.

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First Ministers. Rev. Ethan Smith, ordained in 1792; dismissed in 1799. Rev. John Smith, ordained in 1802; dismissed in 1807.

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HOPKINTON.

MERRIMAC CO. Contoocook River flows from Henniker into the southwesterly part of this town, and meanders in a north-east direction. In its course it receives Warner and Blackwater Rivers, and several large brooks, and empties into Merrimac River, at Concord. On these streams are some valuable tracts of intervale and meadow land. The principal village in Hopkinton is seven miles from the State House in Concord. In this town the county jail is located.

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First Ministers. Rev. James Scales, ordained in 1757; dismissed in 1770. Rev. Elijah Fletcher, ordained in 1773; died in 1789. Rev. Jacob Cram, ordained in 1789; dismissed in 1794. Rev. Ethan Smith, settled in 1800; dismissed in 1817.

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