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157 WOLFEBORO, BROOKFIELD WAKEFIELD NH PAPERS 1791-1844

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Most of this old archive / accumulation of papers, documents, and receipts are from the towns of WOLFEBORO, BROOKFIELD, AND WAKEFIELD in then Stafford (Strafford) County, New Hampshire (Carroll County, NH was created from Stafford County NH in 1840).

The papers seem to be most related to the TIBBETTS Family, especially Henry Tibbetts and Samuel Tibbetts, but also including William Tibbets, John Tibbets, Issac Tibbets, Eliza Tibbets, Thomas J. Tibbets, Sally Tibbets, Deborah Tibbets, Hannah Tibbets, George W. Tibbets and others. There is a wealth of genealogical and historical information contained in the papers.

This collection of old documents & papers is summarized as follows:

--TWO 1809 partial (cut-down severely around all edges) copies of THE SUN Dover, NH, for 23 December 1809, and for some date in October, 1809 (masthead with exact date is missing). Lots of interesting information, advertisements, marriages, obituaries, etc., but both papers are seriously incomplete (see scan).

--1812 ROAD PETITION to Stafford County Court (7.5 x 9”), 1-page. Requests that a road be built past the school house and though the land of various citizens named in the document, to improve transportation on the main road from Moultonboro through Wolfborough and Brookfield to Wakefield.

--1815 ROAD DOCUMENT (6.5 x 8”), 1 page, John Tibbets. Concerns building road from Brookfield to Wakefield.

--1816 BRIDGE DOCUMENT (7.5 x 9”), 1-page. Selectmen of Wakefield write about building a bridge over a river on a Wakefield road. Buying planks and timbers, etc.

--1817 SURVEYOR’S OATH (4 x 7.5”), 1-page. Henry Tibbot’s oath to discharge his duty as surveyor faithfully, etc.

--1817 MINUTES of a meeting of the majority of owners of the NEW SAWMILL standing near MT. HAWKINS (6 x 7”), 1-page. Concerns arrangements for repair of the saw mill.

--1820 PAY DOCUMENT (8 x 9”), 1-page. Details about a year of payments made by the town of Brookfield to Henry Tibbets for various & specified work on “town business.” Includes “Surveying land for the town, making taxes, taking inventory.”

--1820 TAX DOCUMENT (7 x 12”), 2-pages. Detailed instruction to Samuel Long (Lang?), tax collector for the town of Brookfield. The documents outlines how to collect the town tax, school tax, state tax, etc., how to report the resulting collection of tax monies back to the town and then to the state of NH.

--1820 TAX RECORD (8 x 13”), 2-pages, separated at center fold-line. “INVENTORY TAKEN BY HENRY TIBBETS.” This informative document is drawn up in the form of a table with horizontal columns for each taxable item and vertical rows for the names of citizens living in Brookfield, NH. FORTY-SIX people are listed including surnames of Allen, Blake, Bagger, Copp, Johnson, Hacket, Hodge, Huggins, Stanton, Tibbets, Wiggin, Young, Newton, Mertin (Martin?), Newell, Bruxton, Moony, Weeks, Cotton, & many others. Titheables recorded include: Mowing & Tillage, Pasturages, Oxen, Horses, Cattle, Buildings, Orchards, Lots, etc.

--1821 TAX RECORD (8 x 13”), 2-pages, partly separated along center fold-line. “INVENTORY FOR 1821.” Quite similar to document described above. Lists 38 names. Including many of the people & surnames listed previously, plus others including: Burgin, Long, Shortridge, Clark, Neal, Pike, Dodge, etc.

--1821 SCHOOL DOCUMENT (7.5 x 8.5”), 1-page, in which the school committee made up of Henry Tibbets, Dudley Pike, and Thomas Chamberlain choose & list specific geography, grammar, arithmetic books etc., for use in the Brookfield schoolhouse.

--1821 LAND INDENTURE (8 x 13”), 1-page, between George W. Tibbets and Henry Tibbets.

--1822 TWO related SCHOOL DOCUMENTS as follows: ORDER TO HOLD A GENERAL MEETING (8 x 9.5”), 1-page of the Citizens of Brookfield to discuss their school, and the MINUTES OF THAT COMMUNITY MEETING (6.5 x 7.5”), 1-page. Record of votes by committee members to set date of school opening, procure a schoolmaster, obtain wood for the school stove, & more.

--1822 VOTING DOCUMENT (5 x 8”), Brookfield, 1-page, Henry Tibbetts.

--1822 ROAD DOCUMENT from Brookfield, 1-page. Henry Tibbets is appointed to survey(?) a road through Brookfield.

--1822 TOWN-LINE DOCUMENT (8 x 9”), 4-pages, ragged edges (see scan). A long, detailed report that describes the exact route that the Selectmen of both Middleton & Brookfield followed when they perambulated the boundary line between Middleton & Brookfield townships, in obedience to a New Hampshire state requirement of all town selectmen. Numerous details of intimate geographical and natural features, even a “beaver dam,” etc., that delineate the exact line of demarcation between the towns.

--1823 PAUPER DOCUMENT (8 x 12.5”), 1-page. Brookfield legal document and financial document concerning setting up a $100 bond to make payments of 75 cents per week over the next year to Henry Tibbets for the lodging and care of Mary Savage a pauper.

--1823 PAY DOCUMENT (8 x 12.5”), 1-page. Details about a year of payments made by the town of Brookfield to Henry Tibbets for various & specified work on “town business.”

--1823 BUDGET DOCUMENT (6 x 7”), 1-page. Calculation of Brookville town expenses for the coming year. Amounts required for the town, state, county, schools, roads, debt for the town house, etc.

--1823 LETTER (8 x 13”), 1-page, from Henry Tibbets to Miss Elizabeth Willey, concerning accounting for money collected at a recent Brookville town meeting.

--1823 TOWN HOUSE DOCUMENT (8 x 12.5”), 2-pages. Details the “amount in full for work and materials on the Town House in the year 1823.”

--1824 INDENTURE (8 x 12”) between Edmund Tibbets and Robert Newell for land in Wolfborough, 1-page.

--1825 POOR BILL (6 x 8”), 1-page. Accounting of payments to the Poor of Brookville during the year 1825. Lists 21 payments to various named citizens.

--1825 INDENTURE (8 x 18.5”), long 4-page document, tear through half of page. Farm lease Robert Newell to John Newell. Many details such as raising specific crops, raising specified stock. etc.

--1826 POOR REPORT DOCUMENT (8 x 14”), 3-pages. A detailed report of how much money was expended for support of the poor in Brookfield during the year 1825. The names of the indigent supported by the town are given along with their ages, and the reason for their not being able to support themselves. Many children as well as adults are listed.

--1826 BROOKFIELD SOCIAL LIBRARY PURCHASE RECEIPT (5 x 6”), 1-page. Nancy Tibbets lists 3 books purchased for the Social Library, including “The Life of Maffit.”

--TWO c1826 SCHOOL DOCUMENTS (6.5 x 8 & 8 x 8”), both 1-page. Larger document is separated along lower fold line, Notes concerning the Brookfield School Committee. One outlines the agenda for a committee meeting attended by Henry Tibbets & Calvin Tibbits. Committee decides school opening date, how to bid out wood & work to be done on school, etc.

--1826 MINUTES TOWN MEETING (7.5 x 12”), 2-pages. Appointing town surveyors for the year and meeting their expenses.

--1827 LETTER TO GOVERNOR OF NH (8 x 10”), 1-page. Recommends Henry Tibbets be appointed as a Justice of the Peace.

--1827 STORE ACCOUNT, Wolfborough, 1 page. --1827 TOWN MEETING DOCUMENT (8 x 15”), 1-page. Long document that authorizes M. Stanton to call a meeting of all the town inhabitants of School District #4, that are qualified to vote, etc.

--1828 SCHOOL DOCUMENT (8 x 8”), 1-page. Brookfield, Henry Tibbets, Dudley Pike, Thomas Chamberlain. School committee meeting notes on hiring teachers for summer & winter sessions.

1828 LEGAL DOCUMENT (7 x 8”), 1-page, Brookfield, Stafford County Court. Concerns Henry Tibbets, Ichabod Richards, Benjamin F. Guffy, Samuel Long (Lang?), and Joseph T? Churchill.

--1829 INDENTURE (7.5 x 12”), 2-pages. Concerns digging a well near the home of Robert Newell.

--1828 MILITIA OATH OF ALLEGIANCE (6 x 7”), 1-page, part printed, part manuscript. Henry Tibbets’ oath upon his appointment as 4th Sergeant in the 2nd Company of the 27th Regiment, 2nd Brigade, of the New Hampshire Militia.

--1830 LAND INDENTURE (8 x 13”), 1-page, part printed, part manuscript.

--1832 LAND INDENTURE (8 x 12”), 1-page, between Robert Newell and Edmund Tibbets.

--1832 SCHOOL DOCUMENT (4.5 x 7.5”), 1-page. Brookfield, Henry Tibbets & Dudley Pike. Concerns hiring Hannah Newell as schoolteacher, what courses she should teach, etc.

--1827 SURVEYOR DOCUMENT (8.5 x 12.5”), 1-page, part printed, part manuscript, and a 1-page attachment. Appoints Henry Tibbets as the town surveyor, assigns him a district of operation. Directs him to require each able-bodied man living in his district a certain number of hours to work on roads within the district. Empowers him to confiscate & sell his neighbors property at auction, if they fail to complete their assigned duties working on the roads. The attached sheet lists his neighbors and their assignments.

--1829 SCHOOL DOCUMENT (8 x 13”), 1-page. Henry Tibbits describes an examination that he made of Brookfield’s District #4 School under the instruction of John Sanborn. Pupils in the various classes were questioned, recited and read in the spelling book, dictionary, Testament, English readers, arithmetic, & geography. Mr. J. Capp has one son over 14 years old that can’t read or write. He names pupils over 4 years and under 14 years old who have not attended the school. 53 scholars have attended the school during the year 1828. He states that the order at the school was good and there was a formula(?) for punishment. The school made very good improvement.

--1837 DOCUMENT (8 x 12.5”), 1-page. Agreement for David Watson to build 16 rods of wall for Henry Tibbets to be built on the side of the road from Tibbets’ house to Benjamin Cooke’s store in Wakefield.

--1842 STORE ACCOUNT (8 x 13”), 2-pages. Lists many different articles purchased by various named members of the Tibbets family.

--1849 SCHOOL DOCUMENT (8 x 9.5”), 1-page. Details the money raised for the Brookville school for the year.

--FINALLY, there are approximately 110 miscellaneous other old receipts and papers dating from 1789 to 1844 (at least 7 date in the 1700s, 21 others date between 1800 & 1815, majority date in the 1820s). They measure various sizes between about 2 x 4” to 7 x 9”.
Most mention Samuel or Henry Tibbets, but other Tibbets family members mentioned include Nathan Tibbets, Miss Hannah Tibbets, & William Tibbets. Of course there are many different surnames included as the other party / parties mentioned in these receipts & papers.
Most of these receipts mention Brookfield, Wolfborough, and Wakefield, but others places mentioned are Middleton, Effingham, Dover, Portsmouth & Ossipee, New Hampshire.
Some of the subject matter in the various receipts include: Blacksmith, horse shoeing, mending plow, store receipts—buying calico, cheese, combs, molasses, cinnamon, sugar, spices, candlestick, tobacco, coffee, etc., various debts and payments, cutting logs, farm for sale, auction purchases, a pair of steers, a cow & calf, oxen, house rent, medicine, payments for road building, school business, bricklaying, a character recommendation, and much more.

Only MAJOR defects in these documents are noted in the above descriptions. Otherwise most of the documents are in pretty good condition (all are on old paper of excellent rag content) but many show wear around the edges, weakness along some fold lines, and some staining (see scans). Many of the papers have however been pasted by someone onto the construction-paper-like pages (which measure about 11 x 15”) of a c1950s scrapbook. The pages of this scrapbook are now separated from the scrapbook covers. Luckily, most of these old papers are only pasted down in the corners and could be EASILY REMOVED from the scrapbook pages for improved preservation.

The Samuel Tibbets mentioned throughout these papers possibly refers to: “SAMUEL TIBBETTS JR., b. 29 August 1747, s/o Samuel Tibbetts (1722/23-1795) and wife, Abigail (Wingate) Tibbetts, moved to Wolfeborough from Rochester, NH prior to 1769. He was called "Samuel Tibbetts Jr. of Wolfeborough" when he was married in Dover, NH, 3 December 1769, to his first wife, MARY EVERSON of Dover. Samuel Jr. was a Revolutionary War soldier and spent the rest of his life in Wolfeborough. Mary (Everson) Tibbetts was deceased by 1823 and Samuel's second wife was one JOANNA MEDER (1779-1836). Samuel died in Wolfeborough on 30 August 1833, one day after his 86th birthday.” A few of the receipts actually state “Samuel Tibbets, JUNIOR.” Much more research could be done on this collection.

This interesting & historical group of old papers would provide valuable information for genealogists, local historical societies, collections, or archives of the State of New Hampshire. The collection provides quite a fascinating glimpse into the varied activities of one small area in New England during the last part of the eighteenth century and the first part of the nineteenth century.


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