THE
��GRANITE MONTHLY,
A NEW HAMPSHIRE MACxAZINE
��Devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress.
��YoL. VII.
��^OVEMEBER, 1884.
��:n^o. 11.
��THOMAS PERKINS CHENEY.
��BY JOHN Is. McCLINTOCK, A. M.
��The town of Holderness, about the name of which cluster the romance and traditions of a century, where Samuel Livermore lived in feudal style, and where he fondly hoped to estab- lish an Episcopal city, is situated in one of the most picturesque sections of the Granite State. High hills, which elsewhere would be mountains, rise precipitously from the wild Pemi- gewasset river, and form deep valleys,
��The Cheneys were in Newburyport as early as 1680. Somewhere near the middle of the last century, Dea- con Elias Cheney (born in old New- bury, February 20, 1741), in whose veins flowed the heroic blood of Han- nah Dustin, as family tradition asserts, migrated from Newburyport or Ha- verhill, and followed the valley of the Merrimack toward its source. He final- ly settled in the township of Thornton,
��and every variety of Alpine scenery; raised a large family, and died in Jan-
in the midst of which hes 'Squam lake, uary, 1805, at the age of 86. Deacon
a beautiful sheet of water, dotted with Cheney married (i) Jane Plummer,
islands, named by the early colonial (2) Ruth Jackman, of Woodstock,
surveyors Kusumpe or Cusumpy lake ; N. H., (3) Hannah Pike.
while away to the north stretches a Of his children, Samuel was the
primeval forest, clothing the sides of father of Samuel Cheney, of Stan-
the White and Franconia ranges. stead, P. Q., and Alfred Cheney, of
In this town settled the Cheneys, Boston ; Paul J. died in Woodstock,
��a race of strong, energetic, and schol- arly men, who trace their descent through a line of sturdy ancestors, brave and liberty loving, to the ad- venturous pioneer who left the shores of the old world, two centuries ago, and cast his lot with the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
��N. H. ; Moses died in Epsom ; Lydia died unmarried ; Ruth married Abner Colby, of Thornton ; Sally married Andrew Mc Arthur, of Chel- sea, Vt. ; Rebecca married Nathan Blake, of Thornton ; Elias settled and died in Thornton.
Deacon Elias Cheney, soa of Elias
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