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when released from his arduous duties at Washington, 

 surrounded by many interesting memorials that cannot 

 fail to recall vivid re'collections of those who lived during 

 the colonial and provincial and revolutionary periods of 

 our history ; and entertaining with liberal hospitality a 

 host of friends who delight to call upon him in this pleas- 

 ant rural retreat. 



Samuel Poore, his earliest ancestor in this country, 

 came from England with the family of Richard Dummer, 

 in 1638, at eighteen years of age. At the same time 

 came with them an Alice Poore, aged twenty years, who 

 married George Little, of Newbury, and amongst whose 

 descendants have lived many persons of note and enter- 

 prise. Also Daniel Poore, aged fourteen years, who set- 

 tled in Andover, Mass., and from whom descended Enoch 

 Poore, a Brigadier General in the Revolutionary Army, 

 born in Andover, Mass., 1738, and died near Hackensack, 

 N. J., Sept. 8, 1780; Rev. Daniel Poore, D. D., born in 

 Danvers, June 27, 1789, graduate of Dartmouth College, 

 1811, and Andover Theological Seminary, 1814, ordained 

 as missionary, June 21, 1815, and sailed for Ceylon on 

 the 23rd of the following October ; he was a man of emi- 

 nent piety and learning and spent his life among these peo- 

 ple in arduous and faithful labors ; he died at Jaffna, Cey- 

 lon, Feb. 3, 1855 ; and John Alfred Poore, the father of 

 the railroad system in Maine, born at Andover, Me., Jan. 

 8, 1808, died at Portland, Sept. 5, 1871, and his brother, 

 Henry V. Poor, editor of the "American Railroad Jour- 

 nal," author of "History of Railroads and Canals in the 

 United States," and other works relating to this and col- 

 lateral subjects. 



The three above named who came with the Dummer 

 family are supposed to have been brothers and sister of 

 John Poore, their elder, who also settled in Newbury and 



