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From: "G. Hackett" <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Tamworth, NH Hacketts
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 98 14:26:19 -0400

"History of Carrol County New Hampshire", by Georgia Drew Merrill, Picton
Press, Camden, Maine 1991. This is a facsimile of the 1889 edition with a
new foreward by J. Duane Squires.

WILLIAM EASTMAN was one of the first settlers of Tamworth, NH in 1771,
and became a lifelong resident, and was a deacon in Parson Hidden's
church for years. So I pass this info on to Missy Gibbs who had written
to Howard Johnston telling of this HACKETT tie in, re, Jacob Eastman, son
of William, m. Sarah Hackett 25 Dec 1781.

Some of the Hacketts of Tamworth, NH. RE: Colonel Jonathan Moulton
interested the people of Gilmanton, NH (Mostly made up of Exeter, NH
people, especially the Gilmans) in the "plain country between the Ossipee
and Sandwich mountains," and the Gilmans and Hon. Thomas Cogswell became
large landholders here. Stephen Mason came from Moultonborough in 1773.
By this time there were several families located, Silvanus Hall's and
HEZEKIAH HACKETT'S among the number. They worked together, cutting
trees, hewing logs, and rolling up the log cabins for their future homes
one after another, while HACKETT, the excellent shot, was kept hunting
for game for the food of the rest.

Most of the people who settled Tamworth, NH were Gilmans, Moultons,
Wiggins (Wiggin without the s), HACKETTS, Masons, Halls, Stevensons',
Perkins, plus Nickersons from Cape Cod and many others of course.

There was a "HACKETT HILL" so named after HEZEKIAH and EBENEZER
HACKETT, who were prob. brothers according to the author. Many of the
early people settled on HACKETT'S HILL.

Application being made to Daniel Beede, Esq., June 16, 1777, he in turn
notified the freeholders and inhabitants of Tamworth to meet at the
dwelling-house of MR. EPHRAIM HACKETT on the second day of July 1777,
for the purpose of choosing necessary town officers.

MR. EPHRAIN HACKETT was chosen MODERATOR. EPHRAIM and HEZEKIAH HACKETTS
chosen SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS. EPHRAIM HACKETT also chosen SEALER OF
WEIGHTS and MEASURERS. Naturally others were chosen for the other
positions, see page 743 in book.

In 1782 ENSIGN ALLEN HACKET had a written agreement, which bound himself
to serve eight months in the Continental army or send a good serviceable
man in his stead. The town relinquishes its claim on CHARLES HACKETT as a
soldier.

The town of Tamworth voted for NH President and coming in second was that
of W.H.Y. HACKETT a well known Lawyer of Portsmouth, NH. Much has been
written about W.H.Y. HACKETT, his children and descendants. One of his
descendants became Ass't. Secretary of the Navy in 1801. Some of his
descendants married into the famous Truxton Naval families.

HEZEKIAH HACKETT was a member of the Congregational Church.

>From February 1, 1885 (long after the first Hacketts) a REV. EDWARD H.
HACKETT supplied the pulpit for one year.

Tamworth is best known by the numerous Gilman, Wiggin, Hill, Hubbard,
Moulton families. It should also be noted that Alden Washburn, b. 1758;
d. 1826, a Revolutionary soldier from BRIDGEWATER, MA married 1782 Sally
Allen. Alden had been of Moultonborough, NH first before removing to
Tamworth. This bit of information is important to the HACKETTS, because
in Middleboro and Bridgewater, MA the Wasburns married Hacketts and tie
into the Mayflower passengers.

Many more HACKETTS will be found in other towns in Carroll County, NH,
i.e., Brookfield where many of my own HACKETTS lived and died for four
generations; Freedom/Effingham, NH, Wakefield, NH, and Wolfeborough, NH.

The book "History of Carroll County New Hampshire" is not indexed and
makes it very difficult to trace the lines of our ancestors. However,
it's worth the effort. There are 987 pages in this book. Chapters are by
towns of Carroll County.

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