1761, Canterbury, Hampshire, Williams Family, Capt. Jeremiah Clough Signed
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This is a wonderful, original document dated 1761, Canterbury, New Hampshire, where William Williams has sold to Captain Josiah Miles a plot of land in Canterbury. Signed atbottom by William Williams, Samuel Lankin, Samuel Shepherd and at side left margin by Jeremiah Clough. Document is 8x14, folds, else in overall good condition. Col. Jeremiah Clough (1736-1819) of Canterbury, was the first male child born in that town. He was a justice of the peace when this State was a r...oyal province under Gov. Wentworth, and continued to be a justice of the peace and of the quorum till his decease. He was many years a member of the Legislature, and was engaged in and commanded a company in the early part of the revolutionary war. At the beginning of the American Revolution, Jeremiah was a captain in the Continental Army, appointed by the 4th Provincial Congress of New Hampshire to raise one of ten companies that formed the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment. This company went to Boston and was in service for seven months from May 27, 1775 at Winter Hill near Boston. In 1776, Capt. Clough and his company went from Winter Hill to Canada for a term of twelve months. After his return from Canada, Capt. Jeremiah Clough was accused by men in Boscawen of being a Tory. On the 9th of June, 1777 Capt. Clough with three other citizens was arrested and placed in jail at Exeter. Witnesses were summoned, including Obadiah Clough who had married Sally, the sister of Capt. Jeremiah Clough. In a letter to his father, Capt. Jeremiah says, "I can't find as there is any evidence against me unless some unguarded words that I should have spoken sometime last spring." However, Dr. Philip Carrigan was accused of disloyalty at Concord and fled to Canterbury. He had married a cousin of Capt.Jeremiah Clough and it was natural that he was permitted to hide in Capt. Jeremiah's haymow and was furnished with food. Capt. Clough was kept in close confinement until Sept. 3, 1777, when upon giving bonds, he was allowed the liberty of the jail yard. On October 3, 1777, he was discharged. Dr. Carrigan was falsely accused "from the tongues of malicious persons who think that they ingratiate themselves into the favor of the government by falsely and wickedly exclaiming against others, " to quote from the petition of release by Dr. Carrigan. Capt. Clough returned home to be completely vindicated by his fellow-townsmen and by the state government. In 1780 he was one of a committee to settle the boundary dispute with the town of Chichester. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1781, and again in 1788 when the federal constitution was ratified by New Hampshire, thenlisted as "Col." Jeremiah Clough. He was a representative of Canterbury in the state legislature in 1783, was a Justice of the Peace, and on the board of selectmen several years. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Eleventh Regiment of Militia.Col. Clough was one of the wealthiest and most respectable farmers in this State, and his beautiful and extensive apple orchard, probably the largest in the United States, has long been the wonder and admiration of travellers. He retained his senses to the last, and after a long life of usefulness dropped like ripe fruit into the silent grave. He was interred on his own farm (the funeral services by Rev. Mr. Wood, Boscawen) and rest we trust in the fruition of blessed immortality. Please view the other historical and Civil War related documents I'll be listing this week.SEE SCAN.I now accept PAYPAL but PREFER other forms of traditional paper payment. Buyer pays shipping(usually FREE within the US and $12 for International), payment must be received within 5 days.
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