48 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICULTURE. 



The adoption of the State Constitution involved the estab- 

 lishment of a State government with its legislative, executive, 

 and judicial departments. To the latter he was c&lled, as a 

 Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Rockingham County. 

 This position he held for more than twenty years. 



He lived nearly all his life upon the Farm of the First Minis- 

 ter and for many years superintended its operations. But so 

 absorbed by other duties were his time and thoughts that he 

 attempted but little in the line of husbandry beyond the ordi- 

 nary routine of the farm work of his period. In fact, the time 

 for important improvements in agriculture has not yet come. 



Early in the present century, feeling somewhat the weight of 

 years and desirous of establishing him in a settled business, he 

 transferred to his youngest son, Capt. Joseph Walker, the farm 

 which he had occupied for a generation. 



He died at his paternal homestead on the fifth day of May, 

 1822, at the age of eighty-five years. 



APPENDIX C. 



CAPTAIN JOSEPH WALKER. 



Captain Joseph Walker, its third proprietor, was born on 

 the Farm of the First Minister on the 12th day of January, 1782, 

 and reared under the traditions and usages of the period follow- 

 ing the American Revolution. He received a fair English 

 education in the common school of his native town and at the 

 academy in Fryeburg, Maine, in anticipation of an agricultural 

 career. 



A few years after the attainment of his majority, his father 

 transferred to him the ownership of the farm and he thereupon 

 assumed its management. He repaired its buildings and in- 

 creased their number. He added to its acreage and, about 1820, 

 lessened greatly the distance to its fields by the construction of 



Present Safety and Future advantage of These American Colonies: Pro- 

 vided, the Regulation of our Internal Police be under the direction of our own 

 Assembly. 



Entered according to the Original, 



Att; Noah Emery, Clk. D. Reps. 



