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Title
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A history of the town of Keene by Simon Goodell Griffin: 1773 Census
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Type
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Text
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Date
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1773
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Description
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The 1773 census for Keene, ordered by Governor Wentworth, lists one enslaved male
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Format
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PDF
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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University of New Hampshire Library
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Contributor
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Carroll, J.
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Bibliographic Citation
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Simon Goodell Griffin, "A history of the town of Keene from 1732, when the township was granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, when it became a city," 1904, pages 159-160, https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofk00grif/page/158/mode/2up
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Location
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Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, US
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extracted text
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TOWN
159
AFFAIRS.
In December, the same year,
the town Voted to hear Mr. Augustine Hibbert [Hibbard]
preach further upon probation."
In September the town "voted to allow Josiah Richardson to alter the Road Leading from the meeting house
to Ichabod Fishers and to Remove Said Road and to
Turn out on the South Side of the meeting house with a
Stait line to Ichabod Fishers in the place which the
Said Richardson has choesen." The meetinghouse then
stood on the south side of what is now Central park.
in the
Ministry
among
us."
"
The Richardson Tavern.
Josiah Richardson had built, and then kept tavern in,
the colonial house which was replaced in 1893 by the
Y. M. C. A. building, and this change opened the present
line of West street from the Square.
It had previously
turned west from Main street, diagonally, about where
Lamson block now stands, and was called Poverty lane.
With this change it was given the name of Pleasant street.
In October, Gov. John Wentworth requested a census
of the population of the
selectmen of each town.
province,
The return
by the
Keene was:
to be taken
for
160
HISTORY OF KEENE.
"Unmarried men, 16 to 60 yrs
Married men under 60 yrs
Boys, 16 and under
Men, 60 yrs. and upward
Females unmarried
Females married
Widows
Male
slaves
David Nims, Eliphalet Briggs,
65
96
140
11
217
105
10
1
jr.,
645
Benjamin Hall, Selectmen."
(State Papers, vol. 10, Census, 1773.)
population of the province was given as
72,092; whole number of slaves, 674; slaves in Cheshire
county, 9.
In those years of peace and prosperity and rapid growth
of the towns and the provinces, the mutterings of the approaching storm of the Revolution began to be heard. A
young monarch, George III, had come to the throne; the
colonists were loyal to their sovereign and regarded the
mother country with devotion but the abundant evidences
The
total
;
of prosperity in America had led the home government to
believe that a large income might be drawn from that
source, and thus relieve the over-taxed people of England.
To make the taxes as little burdensome and irritating as
possible, they were levied chiefly in the form of duties on
and other commodities which came
competition with colonial products, and by stamps on
But even these softened
all legal and mercantile papers.
measures were felt to be an assumption of the right to
seize and dispose of the property of the colonists without
remuneration or representation, and aroused a determined
spirit of opposition. Neither the petitions of the colonists
for redress nor the arguments of powerful advocates of their
cause in parliament produced any effect. The government
The people became greatly
persisted in its blind folly.
excited, and acts of violence followed the attempt to
enforce the obnoxious laws. The stamp act was to go into
operation on the first day of November, 1765. On the last
day of October the New Hampshire Gazette, published at
Portsmouth, appeared with a mourning border. The next
day people came in from the towns around, the bells were
foreign sugar, molasses
in
