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Samuel Little followed Dr. Dear- born, coming about 1830, and remained till 1838, or thereabouts ; was town-clerk several years ; then moved to Thetford, Vt., thence to Lebanon, and thence to Rumney, N. H., where I used to see him frequently when I lived at Went- worth. He afterwards moved West, where he died a few years ago.
Robert Copp was here for a few years, during the time that Dr. Little was here. I remember him well. He was here in 1836, but left soon after; may have been here some three or four years in all.
Reuben Hosmer followed Dr. Little in 1839, and remained till 1848, some ten years.
Hezekiah Bickford came back in
1848, for he was a native of this town, and remained till 1851, some four years.
S. M. Whipple came into town in
1849, an d remains here still, having lived longer in town than any other physician, — near thirty years. He was a native of Croydon, N. H. ; attended medical lectures at Dartmouth college, and commenced practice at New Lon- don in the year 1849. Since he came to New London several others have been here for short periods, as follows :
Otis Ayer, from 1855 to 1857, three years.
Levi Pierce (Homoeopathic), from 1 86 1 to 1864, four years.
N. T. Clark, from 1870 to 1871, two years.
R. A. Blood, from 187 1 to 1873, three years.
J. P. Elkins (at Scytheville), from 1878 to 1879, two years.
There have also been several physi- cians raised up in town, from its native- born or adopted citizens, who have gone to other places.
Jonathan E. Herrick, son of Esquire Jonathan and Rhoda Herrick, who is now in practice in New York.
George H. W. Herrick, son of Dea. Joseph C. Herrick, who was in practice at Charlestown, Mass., and who died abroad in 1877.
��Charles Pike, in practice in Pea- body, Mass.
Ashley Whipple, son of S. M. Whip- ple, of New London, now at Ashland, N. H.
MINISTERS OF NEW LONDON.
Job Seamans was born in Reheboth, Mass., May 24, 1 748 ; was the son of Deacon Charles Seamans, and Han- nah his wife. His father was a farmer at Reheboth ; moved to Swansea, Mass., when Job was about a year old, residing there about four years ; then removed to Providence, R. I., where he lived about ten years. He then moved to Sackville, Cumberland coun- ty, Nova Scotia, where he lived about eight years, and where he died in the year 1771, aged 71 years. Job, the son, followed the farm until the father died. He was about fifteen years old when he moved from Providence to Sackville ; and on August 10, 1769, he married, at Sackville, Miss Sarah Ester- brooks, a daughter of Valentine Ester- brooks, Esq., and who was born at Johnson, R. I., April 14, 1750.
He began to preach at Sackville, having united with the Baptist church there, when about twenty years of age, and about one year before his marriage. Soon after his father died, in 1 771, he returned to New England, and in 1772 he was preaching to the church at North Attleborough, Mass., and on the fifteenth of December, 1772, he was ordained as its pastor. He continued a successful ministry there for about fifteen years. In 1787 he first came to New Hampshire. The entry in his diary is as follows: " Lord's day, June 17, 1787, I preached in Sutton, in the State of New Hampshire." The next entry is, " Lord's day, June 24, I preached in New London, in the same state." He came to New London again in February, 1788, arriving on the 2 2d, at Deacon Hunting's, and re- mained some two months, preaching from house to house. Many of the early settlers of New London were from Attleborough, Mass., and the towns in that neighborhood, who had long been acquainted with him there,
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