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VOLUME 1. NUMBER 41. 
SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 1905. 
Whisperings. 
Those of my readers who are in- 
terested in historical matters, and es- 
pecially in genealogies, will be inter- 
ested in the following item, bearing 
on Manchester, which I take from the 
Boston Transcript. It isa reply to a 
question which we printed in these 
columns a week or two ago regarding 
the Rev. John Eveleth, whom Rev. 
Mr. Lamson says in his ‘ History of 
Manchester’’ taught school here in 
1700. It follows: 
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Rav. John Eveieth was grandson of : 
the colonist Sylvester Eve.¢th and his 
‘wife Susannah, who were registered 
in Boston, First Church, 1643. Syl- 
Vester died 1689. His son Joseph, the 
father of Rev. John, 1641-1745, mar- 
ried Mary Bragg. John, born in Glou- 
cester, Mass., Jan. 25, 1670, graduated 
at Harvard college, 1689, taught 
school at Manchester, and was called 
to the pastorate in Stow, was ordained 
in 1700. Meanwhile he had married 
Mary Bowman of Charlestown, and 
their eldest son died while in the pas- 
torate at Stow. But as he appears to 
have died in Charlestown, it seems he 
was a student at Harvard college. 
Rev. John Eveleth resigned his 
charge at Stow in 1717, and within a 
few years became chaplain at the fort 
in what is now Biddeford, Me. He 
was also pastorat Arundel, 1717-1729, 
a hamlet not far from Cape Porpoise. 
He was laboring in those places 1714- 
1726. (See “History of Biddeford.”) 
Some time about 1730 Rev. John Eve- 
leth removed to Spruce Creek, near 
the line of Eliot and Kittery, Me., 
where the people erected a house of 
worship and near which he died in 
1734. His father Joseph survived 
eleven years, living at Boston, Glou- 
cester and Chebacco, where his mar- 
ried years were spent till 1745. He 
was one of the Salem jury, 1692, in 
the famous witch trials. 
Through an error in the print or 
news item John had been confused 
with Joseph, but there is no plain re- 
cord of any John Eveleth besides the 
Rev. John of Harvard till much later 
than 1689. Mrs. Mary Bowman Eve- 
leth spent her last years in Stow, and 
her tombstone is in the ancient ceme- 
tery there. Descendants of this pair 
may be found in Worcester County, in 
New Hampshire and in Maine. The 
Bragg-Eveleth family comprised Rev. 
John, 1669-1734; Elizabeth, 1671 ; 
Joseph, Jr., May 31, 1674; Isaac, 
1676; Edward, 1679; Moses, 1682 ; 
Mary, 1683 ; and Hannah, 1685. The 
mother, Mary Bragg Eveleth, died in 
Chebacco parish, Ipswich, Jan. 23, 
1713-14, aged 64 years. 
Rev. Ephraim Eveleth, born in 
Princeton, Mass., 1801, died in New 
York 1829, as also Rev. Joshua Eve- 
leth, born in Stow, Mass., and settled 
in Princeton, Mass., who died in Wor- 
cester, Mass., 1829, were doubtless 
descendants of Rev. John Eveleth, 
1669-1734. (See Babson’s ‘ Early 
Settlers’’ and Cowell’s ‘‘ Essex,’ 
page 150, Sibley’s ‘“ Harvard Grad- 
uates.’’) Cas fe 
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It’s a shame to give it away, but the 
following story which came to my 
ears yesterday morning about two 
Manchester young men, is too good to 
keep. It appears they went to the 
Hub Washington’s birthday to spend 
the holiday, and from accounts en- 
joyed themselves hugely. In the 
evening they took in one of the 
theatres—and they were not all alone, 
either—and leaving the theatre in 
good season, they thought plenty time 
was at hand to accompany their two 
fair companions to their respective 
homes. This they did, and by real 
quick connections with electrics, elev- 
ated, etc., they arrived at the North 
Station at about 11.23 all out of 
breath, but just in time for the theatre 
train which leaves at 11.24. Not 
aware of the fact that all of the cars 
on the track did not go out with the 
train, the two young men clambered 
into the first car they reached and by 
the time they had collected their 
thoughts the theatre train ahead of 
them was pulling out of the station, 
leaving the extra cars behind. 
They remained in Boston all night. 
But that is not all. When the train 
arrived in Manchester the two “ sight- 
seers’ were not on it. They did not 
arrive home at the hour they were ex- 
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pected and the two households began 
to wonder. Neither of the boys being 
accustomed to be alone in a big city 
at night was the cause of considerable 
worriment for their parents. But they 
survived, and arrived home next day 
all safe and sound. 
No New Candidates. 
No new candidates have appeared 
for any of the offices in Manchester 
during the past week. In fact, nothing 
new has developed during the week 
which would indicate any warm con- 
tests or debates during town meeting, 
which opens next Monday, March 6, 
at noon. 
The list of candidates for the vari- 
ous offices are as follows: 
FOR SELECTMEN 
Fred K. Swett, Edward S. Knight, 
William E. Kitfield, T. W. Long, 
T.. B. Stone, Orrin A. Martin. 
FOR TOWN CLERK 
Alfred S. Jewett, Walter R. Bell. 
FOR TOWN TREASURER 
Edwin P. Stanley. 
FOR TOWN AUDITOR 
Allen S. Peabody, Frank G. Cheever, 
Howard M. Stanley, Leon W. Carter. 
FOR SCHOOL COMMITTEE (3 years) 
Edward A. Lane, Curtis B. Stanley. 
TRUSTEE OF PUBLIC LIBRARY 
Roland C. Lincoln. 
TRUSTEE OF MEMORIAL BUILDING 
Jeffrey T. Stanley. 
TRUSTEE OF CEMETRIES 
Frank P. Knight. 
WATER COMMISSIONER 
Nathan P. Meldrum. 
PARK COMMISSIONER 
Chas. O. Howe, J. S..Reed 
TREE WARDEN 
J. N. Lipman, 
Wm. Young. 
Wm. F. Spry 
Washington’s Birthday. 
The holiday passed very quietly in 
Manchester, there being nothing out 
of the usual run, save the Red Men’s 
dance in the evening. Places of busi- 
ness were closed before noon. Many 
people went to Salem or Boston to the 
theatre, and in the afternoon a large 
crowd of horse racing enthusiasts 
went to Gloucester to witness the 
race fora purse of $200 between A. 
C. Cumming’s bay mare Wiltonwood 
and W. W. French’s Grey Ghost, won 
by the latter three out of four heats. 
M. E. Gorman’s Collerton was one of 
the many horses which were sent over 
the speedway in brushes between the 
heats. 
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