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a garrison-house, and fortified 'at the town's cost' by the 

 erection about it of a wall of timbers lying in contact, one upon 

 another, and held in position by tenon-ends let into grooved 

 posts set in the ground. Eight families besides Mr. Walker's 

 were assigned to it and occupied it more or less of the time 

 until the close of the second French war. When, in 1782, the 

 legislature met in Concord for the first time and held its ses- 

 sions in the hall over Judge Walker's store, which was near by, 

 the president of the state with his council occupied the north 

 parlor of this house, while the south parlor served as a general 

 committee room, and the room above it as the office of the treas- 

 urer of state. It was the residence of Rev. Mr. Walker until 

 his death ; and his son, the late Judge Walker, lived in it 

 during almost the entire period of his life. It is now owned 

 and occupied by Joseph B. Walker, Esq., a great-grandson of 

 Rev. Mr. Walker." 



The barn erected by the First Minister was a fair type of the 

 larger New Hampshire barns of the middle of the last century. 

 It was some eighty or ninety feet long and forty feet wide, 

 boarded up and down with unplaned pine boards. The cart 

 entrances were upon the north side and its driveways were 

 across its longitudinal axis, flanked by bays for hay. In its west 

 end was a granary, slatted on the outside wall. It was en- 

 larged on the south side by the addition of a lean-to for cattle. 



This barn stood at the corner of Main and Penacook streets 

 until 1830, when it gave place to the more modern structure 

 still in use. This, which is eighty feet long by forty feet wide, 

 is entered at the ends and has a driveway twelve feet wide 

 extending through its entire length, on each side of which are 

 bays for the storage of hay. As originally constructed, it had 

 a stable for cattle on the east side of the driveway, and a small 

 stable for horses in the south-west section. Its main timbers 

 are of sawed hard pine, and its roof boards, which extend 

 without piecing from the ridge to the eaves, are of the same 

 material. The other timbers, plank, and boards are of white 

 pine. These, delivered upon the site and ready for use, cost in 

 1830, seven dollars per thousand. 



The erection of this barn was preceded by that of two others, 

 one of them smaller but similar in construction, and the other, 



