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  • People
    • Thomas Butler (b. 1674)
    • Thomas Abbott (1643-1713)
    • Humphrey Chadbourne (1615-1667), Pioneer of Old Berwick
    • South Berwick's First People
    • Humphrey Spencer (c. 1674 – 1712)
    • William Spencer (c. 1631-1696)
    • Some Old Families of Shorey’s Brook
    • Sagamore Rowls
    • Humphrey Chadbourne and the Atlantic World
    • Patience Spencer and Kinship
    • Nicholas Shapleigh and Allegiance
    • William Black and Diversity
    • Thomas Holmes and Adversity
    • Jean-Baptiste Hertel and Contest
    • Mehitable Goodwin and Resilience
    • Judge Benjamin Chadbourne (1718-1799)
    • Berwick Soldiers at Siege of Louisbourg by Nathan Gould
    • Micajah Currier (1774-1818), postmaster and merchant
    • Dr. Nathanael Low (1740-1808), physician and almanac publisher
    • Northend Cogswell (1762-1828), merchant; Charles Northend Cogswell (1797-1846), attorney; William Lambert Cogswell (1803-1879), New York distiller and financier
    • William Lambert (b. 1772), lawyer; Rev. Ebenezer Little Boyd (b. 1768), Baptist minister; and Dennis Ferguson (1815-1900), tanner
    • Citizen, Merchant, Community Leader: A New Interpretation of Jonathan Hamilton by Margaret Kugelman Hofer
    • Jonathan Hamilton (1745-1802)
    • Dr. Ivory Hovey (1748-1818), physician and merchant
    • The Cushings and the Cushing Mansion
    • Gen. Ichabod Goodwin (1743-1829), militia leader and sheriff by Paula Bennett
    • Master John Sullivan and A Wife’s Apology
    • Black Sara, citizen of Berwick
    • The Furness Family
    • James Sullivan, son of old Berwick, by Daniel Breen
    • Timothy Ferguson (1788-1839), merchant and investor
    • Frost Family
    • Alexander McGeoch (d. 1824)
    • Gen. John Lord (1765-1815), merchant; Isaac L. Moore (1826-1886), Joseph Maddox (1847-1916) and Albert Maddox (1873-1954), shopkeepers
    • Early Chadbourne Family
    • Tilly Haggens, a father of South Berwick
    • John Haggens (1742-1822), merchant; Capt. Theodore F. Jewett (c 1788-1860), sea captain and merchant; Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author
    • Dr. Theodore Herman Jewett (1815-1878), physician; Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), author; Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1879-1931), physician
    • Olive Branch Lodge, No. 28, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
    • South Berwick Volunteer Fire Fighters
    • Micajah Currier (1774-1818), postmaster and merchant; Hannah Brown, shopkeeper
    • Capt. Theodore F. Jewett (c 1788-1860) and Thomas Jewett (1789-1864), merchants
    • John Frost (b. 1794), postmaster and store keeper
    • Sarah Bartlett Frost (1776-1848) and Josiah Paul (1813-1892), innkeepers
    • Sarah Norton (c. 1767-1862) , Elisabeth Norton (c. 1775-1848), and Nathaniel Adams (1793-1861), shopkeepers
    • William Allen Tompson (c. 1786-1835), Berwick Academy preceptor; Dr. Caleb Sanborn (1814-1871), physician; and Madison C. (Mattson) Sanborn (1844-1872), soldier
    • Dr. Charles T. Trafton (1822-1888), physician; St, Michael's School; South Berwick Town Hall
    • First Parish Congregational Church and Methodist Episcopal Church
    • Edmund Haggens (1759-1829), West Indies merchant; Isaac Hersom (1825-1911), grain merchant
    • Henry G. Harvey (1832-1888), Civil War veteran, builder
    • Walter Burleigh (d. 1930), textile mill operator, and Charles H. Burleigh (d. 1921), inventor
    • George Campbell Yeaton (1836-1918), Smuttynose murder prosecutor and Sprague murder defense attorney
    • Capt. Isaac P. Fall (1830-1909), Civil War veteran, brick mason
    • Charles Keays (1812-1879), brick mason; George W. Keays (1818-1884)
    • Abner Oakes (1820-1899), justice of the peace; Marcia Oakes Woodbury (1865-1913), artist
    • William P. Atkinson (c. 1836-1896), physician
    • First Baptist Church
    • Ebenezer S. Hanson (1825-1905) and Nicholas Hanson, Jr. (1831-1904), pharmacists
    • Capt. Samuel W. Rice (1784-1858), sea captain
    • Dr. Christopher P. Gerrish (1829-1909), town physician and surgeon
    • Charles Northend Cogswell (1797-1846), attorney and legislator; Hon. John B. Nealley (1810-1886), state senator
    • John G. Tompson (b. 1799), bookbinder and retailer
    • Samuel Parks (1784-1865) and Thomas Boylston Parks (1789-1861), merchants
    • Business Block Entrepreneurs
    • James Scott (c. 1802-1860)
    • St. John Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Masons; and Simeon P. Huntress (1844-1923), liveryman
    • John Noble Goodwin (1824-1887), Maine congressman and Arizona governor
    • John Perkins Lord, Esq. (1786-1877), author and lawyer
    • St. Michael Catholic Church
    • William H. Fogg (1817-1884), China trader
    • Will of Micajah Currier, Esquire, of South Berwick
    • Micajah Currier Burleigh (1818 -1881), sea captain, industrialist, NH legislator, from History of Strafford County
    • Ichabod Goodwin (1819-1869) and John W. Goodwin (1825-1911), brothers on opposite sides of the Civil War
    • Dudley Hubbard (1763-1816); Hayes Family: judge, writer, tariff commissioner, Civil War general, editors
    • Rev. John Tompson (1740-1828) and the First Parish Parsonage
    • George H Muzzey (1842-1905), Civil War soldier, cotton factory paymaster - from the Salmon Falls Independent
    • Archibald MacPhaedris' Up-River Investment: A Rollinsford/South Berwick sawmill, from the Warner House Newsletter, fall 2007
    • Revolutionary War Soldiers of Berwick, by W. D. Spencer, 1898
    • Tilley Higgins 1771 Tax Valuation
    • Simeon P. Huntress (1844-1923), liveryman
    • Isaac Joy, house joiner
    • Hon. William Burleigh (1785-1827) and John Holmes Burleigh (1822-1877), congressmen
    • Otis E. Moulton (1851-1914), builder
    • Charles E. Hobbs, grocer
    • Timothy Ferguson (c. 1788-1839), merchant and cotton mill founder; Benjamin Nason (1788-1875), merchant; and John Francis Walker (1844-1890), banker
    • Francis Raynes, shoemaker; Olive Raynes (b. 1833), teacher
    • Henry C. Willard (1842-1920), dry goods retailer
    • Jedediah Jenkins (1767-1852) and Jerusha Parks (1763-1855), farmers
    • John Francis Walker (1844-1890), banker
    • Olive Raynes (b. 1833), teacher c. 1875
    • Lewis B. Hanson, blacksmith
    • Mark Libby (1822-1907) bicycle dealer; Mark Addison Libbey (1855-1940), inventor
    • John Samuel Thomas Cushing (1801-1873), manufacturer
    • Capt. Benjamin Franklin Goodwin (1817-1891)
    • Elizabeth W. Tobey (c.1839-1922)
    • Joseph Darville (c. 1855-1936) baker, Ella Tebbetts Darville, and Emily Hill Darville
    • Joshua E. L. Bradeen (1846-1907), machinist, and Lydia Stiles Bradeen (1845-1932)
    • Charles W. Murphy (c. 1834-1899) and Rosetta Durgin Murphy (c. 1833-1922)
    • Thomas Dearborn Jewett (1790-1864), merchant, and Betsey Lord Jewett (1791-1867)
    • Herbert G. Drew (1855-1923), millwright
    • George H. Yeaton (1852-1942), cattle breeder
    • Elisha H. Jewett (c. 1816-1883), state senator; Sarah Orne "Sally" Jewett (1820-1864)
    • Thomas Boylston Parks (1789-1861), merchant; Samuel Harding (c. 1780-1844), sea captain; Dennis Ferguson (1815-1900), tanner
    • Joshua Gilpatrick Goodwin (1805-1897), dairy farmer; Israel W. Goodwin (b. 1823), tanner
    • Schoolhouse No. 5
    • Civil War Veterans
    • Robert Hodsdon; John S. Pike (1815 -1888), retail merchant; Abby S. Pike (1814-1896)
    • Samuel Hale and Francis Hale, agents, Portsmouth Manufacturing Company
    • Quamphegan Landing and Portsmouth Manufacturing Company
    • 28 Middle Street
    • Andrew J. Nealley (1815-1887), shop keeper; Albert Maddox (1873-1954), grocer
    • Methodist Episcopal Church
    • Eben Nealley (1807-1888), tavern keeper
    • John Plumer (1800-1873), baker and Methodist deacon
    • George Goodwin (1796-1861), mill paymaster; John Henry Plumer (b. 1829-1894), livery stable owner
    • Dr. Charles A. Trafton (c. 1787-1855), physician; Hon. John B. Nealley (1810-1886), state senator
    • Joseph Hutchings, boat builder
    • Bartholomew Nason (1756-1822), merchant; Benjamin Nason (1788-1875), businessman; Elizabeth Plumer Bailey (d. 1897)
    • Charles H. Burleigh, woolen mill foreman, and Sarah Burleigh
    • Charles Wentworth
    • J. Bailey
    • Capt. William Lowell Foote, woolen mill owner
    • House at 349 Main Street
    • H. Harvey
    • M. C. Grant
    • H. Sweat
    • Dr. Christopher P. Gerrish (1829-1909), town physician and surgeon; Walter Flynn, grocer
    • McIntire Shingle Mill
    • Capt. Gooch Cheney (1836-1895), South Berwick Gundalow Man
    • Ira Gilpatric (1802-1878) and Richard Davis (1801-1895), tinsmiths
    • Captain Hypie Philpot, Rollinsford Gundalow Man
    • David Cummings (b. 1827) and William I. “Willie” Cummings (1869-1946), shoe manufacturers
    • Boarding House
    • Abner Oakes (1820-1899), justice of the peace
    • Rebecca O. Young (1847-1927), banker
    • Walter H. Downs (b. 1853), attorney
    • Charles Edward Norton (1795 - 1873), justice of the peace, town clerk, church deacon;Charles E. Whitehead (c. 1817 – 1878), tailor
    • Thomas J. Goodwin (1833-1912), selectman
    • Freewill Baptist Church
    • Andrew J. Nealley (1815-1887), shop keeper; Albert Maddox (1873-1954), grocer; Willis Salley, World War I veteran
    • N. Hanson, Druggist
    • E. R. McIntire Hardware Store
    • J. P. Davis Stores & Tinware
    • Union Store
    • C. C. Merrill Shoe Store
    • S. W. Ricker Fancy Goods
    • Rebecca Smith Millinery Store
    • Chas. E. Hobbs, Grocer
    • Chas. Malloy, Boots and Shoes
    • Tyler Jeweler and Brookings Photo
    • Chas. E. Whitehead Tailor
    • N. W. Kendall Stationer
    • Mary Ann Wentworth Hart (1820-1891), Freewill Baptist preacher; Alfred W. Hart (1843-1863), Civil War soldier
    • Business Block Businesses
    • Horatio Nelson Twombly, China trader
    • Newichawannock Hall
    • The Browns, Farmers of Tatnic
    • 1825 letter from New Orleans by Capt Theodore F Jewett
    • South Berwick Civil War Veterans
    • Deborah Brock, mill worker
    • Eliza Ann Barker, choir leader
    • Benjamin Franklin Davis, Civil War soldier
    • Mattson Sanborn
    • Benjamin Stillings, liquor dealer
    • Francis Brown Hayes (1819-1884), railroad executive
    • Isaac L. Moore (1826-1886), shopkeeper
    • Joseph Murphy (1796-1872), carpenter and cabinetmaker
    • South Berwick Central School
    • Ruel B. Rideout (1874-1944)
    • Ben F. Davis (1862-1933), druggist
    • Arthur E. Muzzey jeweler; Mary L. Muzzey, teacher; George A. Muzzey (1903-1945), World War II soldier
    • South Berwick Electric Company
    • John Thomas Driscoll (d. 1941), chief of police, lunch counter owner
    • George W. Butler (1814-1881), merchant, church treasurer; Ruel B. Rideout (1874-1944), retail merchant
    • House at 341 Main Street
    • House at 343 Main Street
    • Dr. Frank Flynn, dentist
    • House at 376 Main Street
    • Paul Parent, coal dealer
    • House at 378 Main Street
    • House at 380 Main Street
    • House at 388 Main Street
    • House at 392 Main Street
    • House at 400 Main Street
    • House at 394 Main Street
    • House at 395 Main Street (at Webster)
    • Timothy D. Flynn, shopkeeper
    • John Mahony, billiard hall operator
    • Delia Heon O’Donnell, grocer
    • House at 405 Main Street
    • Arthur Landry, cobbler; Reo Landry, barber
    • Patrick Cauley (b.c. 1850), confectioner, and Bridget Cauley, mill worker
    • Albert Roberge, Sr., baker, and Emily Gilliland Roberge
    • Joseph Roberge, baker, and Albert Roberge, Sr., confectioner
    • Joseph Roberge and Albert Roberge, Sr., bakers
    • Rev. Lewis Tibbetts (1810-1885), Methodist minister; Provensal family
    • Mary Provensal (b. 1882), shop owner, Dube family
    • Dube family
    • William Preston (1809-1875), weaver; Arthur Landry, cobbler
    • Ed Lauzon, grocer
    • Cleophas Dube, insurance dealer, and Adelia Turgeon Dube
    • Omer Saindon, tailor
    • John Cleary and Clifford Cleary, tobacconists and candy store owners
    • Arthur St. Pierre, brick mason
    • Laundry
    • William Doherty, barber, and Ellen Cleary Doherty; Chaney Family
    • Leo “Ben” Vachon
    • Dance Halls and other Gatherings
    • Team Sports and Horseracing
    • Amateur Theater in South Berwick
    • Old Berwick Historical Society 1962-2012
    • Swasey-Currier House
    • Pelletier Family, shoe workers
    • Harry Adlington, railroad agent
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