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  • Old Berwick Historical Society
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  • People
  • 19th Century
  • 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
  • People of the 19th Century
  • 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
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