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Had the author lived to complete his task he would have corrected many errors which unavoidably find way into a work of this nature and for which the kind indulgence of the reader must now be claimed.

Page 18-Line 5 of the note at the bottom of the page the word "equally" should be omitted.

23-Line 15 from the top for "charter" read charters.

34-Line seven from the bottom for "shell contracted" read shell be

came contracted

38-Line 17 from the bottom, supply was before the word "stranded." 69-Line 18 from the bottom read 1775 instead of "1776."

72-Line 19 read 1775 instead of “1775."

85-Line 14 from the top for 1770 read 1777; and line 8 for "has"

read have.

102-Line 20 from the bottom for "candidate" read delegate.

106-Line 9 from the top for "glazed" read gray.

116-Line 3 from the bottom for "preamble" read consti,ution and bylaws, etc.

141-Line 14 from the bottom for "officers" read captains.

156-Line 25 from the top for "Justice Morgan" read Justin Morgan, 160-Line 8 from the bottom for $27.00 read $2700.

193-Line 19 from the top, for "Rev. Lauren Amsoy" read Rev. Lauren Armsby.

221-Line 12 from the bottom, after the word "preacher" add Rev.

Mr. Berry.

222-Line 9 from the bottom, for "administrated" read administered.
255-Line 11 from the top, for "had to cut" read had to be cut.
257-Line 4 from the top, for "cast steel" read Castile.

271-Line 9 from the bottom, for "Elijah Morrison" read Elbridge
Morrison.

275-Line 9 from the bottom, insert the word church after Free Baptist. 389-Line 10 from the top, for "his" read their.

392-Line 12 from the bottom, for "Nathaniel" read Nathan.

401-Last line, omit "Dr." before Joseph Foster.

403-Line 19 from top, supply "Mrs." before Reuben Fitts.

439-Line 12 from the bottom, for "was" read were.

400-Under date 1808, for "David Beane" read Mrs. David Beane;
1812, for "Jethro Hill, 70," read Jonathan Hills, 90.

401-Under date of 1838, for "80" read 84 as the age of Mrs. John
Sargeant; 1835, for "80" read 84, as the age of Moses Buswell.
402-Under date of 1841, as the age of Mrs. Samuel Worthen, for "74"
read 76; 1842, as the age of Mrs. Samuel Colcord, for "80" read
84; 1845, as the age of Mrs. Amos Knowles, for "80" read 86;
1848, as the age of Nathaniel Emerson, for "70" read 76.
403-Under date of 1849, as the age of Benjamin Smith, 2d, for "78" -
read 81; 1854, as the age of Mrs. Silas Cammett, for "67" read
99 years and 6 months; as the age of Mrs. Reuben Fitts, for "76”
read 85; 1857, as the age of Mrs. Jonathan Martin, for "70"
read 79.

404-Under date of 1859, as the age of Mrs. Josiah French, for "76” read
70; 1862, as the age of John Dolber, for "82" read 89; 1867, as
the age of Mrs. John Prescott, for "93" read 73; 1868, as the
age of Mary Dudley, for "79" read 85.

406-Under the date of 1878, as the age of John Clay, for "78" read 81; as the age of Mrs. Silden Moore, for "77" read 71; as the age of Benjamin Sawyer, for "71" read 77; 1881, for "Mrs. Young" read Mrs. Lucy Young.

ADDENDA.

AGED PERSONS.

The following are the names of persons who have died in the town above seventy years of age, in addition to those given in Chapter XIX:

1803, Dorothy, wife of Thomas Worthen; 1812, Jonathan Hills, 90; 1816, Joshua Moore, 73; 1818, Dea. John Hills, 80; 1822, Mrs. Caleb Hall, 77; 1823, Samuel Adams, 74; 1828, William Wilson, 84; 1832, Sarah, wife of Col. Thomas Wilson, 77; 1833, Mrs. James Eaton, 98; 1834, Benjamin Hubbard, Sr., 88; Joseph Pillsbury, 92; 1835, Stephen Clay, 71; 1836, Mrs. John Cammet, 83, Dorothy Fitts, 73; 1841, Thomas Anderson, 2d, 79 ; 1842, Thomas Patten, 2d, 85, Mrs. Nathan Thorn 82; 1843, Mrs. Timothy M. Pearsons, 85; 1846, Mrs. Ephraim Abbott, 93; 1847, Edward Prescott, 77; 1848, Mrs. Joseph Abbott, 70; 1850, Samuel A. Anderson, 78; 1851, Elisha Huntoon, 80, Nathan Thorn, 91; 1852, Henry Clark, 2d., 74, Robert Patten, 76; 1854. Mrs. Thomas Anderson, 2d, 79; 1858, Mary, wife of Samuel Anderson, 71; 1862, Josiah French, 76; 1865, Mrs. Lewis Worthen, 75; 1867, Mrs. Eben Eaton, 72; 1868, Mrs. Theophilus Currier, 90, Eliza, wife of Moses Emerson, 2d, 77; 1869, Mrs. Jesse Eaton, 82; 1871, Sally Adams, 87, Mrs. Joseph Palmer, 73; 1872, Mrs. Asbury Buzzell, 70, Miss Nancy Brown, 81, Mrs. Jeremiah Barker, 78, Ann, wife of John C. Fifield, 88, Eliza, wife of Francis Watson, 71, Lewis Worthen, 82, Peter Neal, 79; 1873, Charles Smith, 79; 1874, Mrs. Josiah Fitts, 83, Polly, wife of Thomas Hobbs, 79; 1875, Mrs. Moses Critchett, 77, John P. Smith, 84; 1876, John Fitts, 82, Jeremiah Lane, 77, Levi Barker, 75; 1877, Mrs. Ephraim Davis, 70; 1878, John Clay, 3d, 81, Joshua Fitts, 78; 1879, Willis Patten, 86, Rufus Patten, 71, John Page, 75; 1875, William Anderson, 89, Miss Jane, daughter of Samuel Anderson, 80; 1880, Nathaniel B. Hall, 75.

So far as it appears by the records no person who has died n town had reached the age of one hundred years.

ADDITIONAL NAMES OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS.

In summing up the names of the Revolutionary soldiers of Candia on pages 95, 96 and 97 the following were accidentally omitted.

Moses Norris, Jonathan Clifford, Jonathan Ring, John Sargeant, Stephen Palmer, Daniel Whittier, Ichabod Robie, Benjamin Smith, James Libbey, Joseph Pillsbury, Amos. Knowles and Benjamin Wadleigh.

OTHER STORES.

John Moore, Esq., and Daniel Taylor, his brother-in-law,. established a store at the village about the year 1822, in the east end of the Dudley tenement block near the saw mill. In 1824, they were succeeded by William Turner, who traded about three years there.

In 1825, Samuel Dudley establishes a store in connection. with his shoe business in a building on the spot where his son, Woodbury J., has traded many years.

In 1844, Nehemiah Colby opened a store in a building which stood on the east side of the main street near the residence of the late Benjamin Taylor.

In 1856, a union store was started by a number of citizens in the building on the west side of the street and recently owned and occupied by the late J. Rowland Batchelder, and which is now utilized as a shoe shop by Nelson Plumer. The stock of the union store was finally bought by W. Sanborn, who had been its agent, and who traded on his own account until 1857, when he commenced to trade in the building on the east side now owned by George E. Kimball. He traded there for ten years, and then sold out to A. A. Whittredge. In 1885, Geo. E. Mitchell bought the stock and traded until 1889, when he sold to Mr. Kimball who opened a meat market.

In 1879, Cyrus T. Lane opened a grocery store in the building which stands near the corner of Main street and the road which leads to the lower saw mill.

Nearly twenty years ago J. Meader Young opened a watch and jewelry store in the building near the bridge on the east side of the main street. Mr. Young left town in 1886.

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