l8o FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



may show them how Massachusetts boys can write Disputes. I have 

 been teaching school in this place about three months. They wish 

 very much to have me continue here, but I shall not, unless they 

 raise their price a good deal. You know that chaps in my circum- 

 stances are looking out for money. Have you got a good school for 

 me in Ohio? 



Yours, &c., C. Dickson. 



[Addressed] 



Prof. Elizur Wright, 

 Hudson, Portage County, 

 Ohio. 



JONAS LONGLEY PARKER. 



On the morning of Thursday, March 27, 1845, the town of 

 Manchester, New Hampshire, was thrown into the most in- 

 tense excitement by the announcement that Jonas Longley 

 Parker, collector of taxes and a well-known citizen of that 

 town, had been murdered during the previous evening, in a 

 thick clump of pines, just east of the village. Robbery was, 

 undoubtedly, the object of the atrocious crime, as Parker was 

 wont to carry large sums of money about his person. It is 

 known that the murderer took a pocket-book containing 

 several thousand dollars from a side pocket in his coat, while 

 he overlooked a wallet in his trousers with $1,635. Large 

 rewards were at once offered for the criminal, both by the 

 town and State authorities. Several persons were arrested at 

 different times on suspicion, but their guilt was not estab- 

 lished. A full account of the affair is given in Potter's His- 

 tory of Manchester, New Hampshire (pp. 619-624). 



Jonas L. Parker, the victim, was a native of Groton, and 

 born in the house, near the Cow-Pond meadows, where Mrs. 

 Susanna (Blood) Prescott was cruelly murdered during the 

 night of November 11, 1885. His remains were brought to 

 Groton for interment in the Parker tomb, on the north side of 

 the old Burial Ground. 



