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CHAPTER XXIV.

Effects of the war upon manufactures.-Stickney's canal.-A Factory. -Embarrassments.-Town petition for leave to send representative.-Presidenti»l election. -War of 1812.-Great excitement at Piscataquog.-Arrest of Wm. P. Riddle, William Hall, Col. John Carter, Sergeant McCoy, and others.Town permitted to send a Representative.--Presidential election.-Division of School Districts, Nos. 1 and 8.-Presidential election.-Population of Manchester.-Arrest and conviction of Daniel D. Farmer.- Death of Gen. Stark.-The controversy regarding the Mammoth Road.-Presidential election.-Population of Manchester.-Mammoth Road again.-Presidential election.-Build Mammoth Road.-Small Pox.-Old Meeting House altered into a Town House.-Presidential election.-Substitute for part of Mammoth Road.-Insane Asylum,-Candia Road.-Additional Highway Districts.-Vote to buy a Town Farm.-Committee and money raied.-Committee to make new school Dietricts.-Sale of lots by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company.-Town meeting to make additional municipal Regulations. First boards of Firewards and Police.-Annual town meeting of 1840.Attempt to adjourn.-Excitement.-Choose Constables -Choice of Selectmen.-Justice Stark's remarks.-Laying out of Elm, Bridge, Lowell, Concord, Amherst, Hanover, Manchester. Pin, and Chestnut streets.-Laying out of Harvey or Nutt road.-Population,-Presidential election.Committee chosen on Town House, and Cemetary Lots.-Meeting as to these lots, at Washington Hall.-Deeds submitted from the Amoskeag Mannufacturing Company.-Deeds accepted.-Vote to hold next meeting in Baptist Church, on Manchester street. -Accept deeds again from Company. New Town House Lot.-Order Cemetary lot to be fitted up.-Vote to build Town House, raise money for the same.-Town Meetng as to Town Farm.Town House, and Pound.-Calef Road laid out.-Vine street, and various back streets laid out-.Reservoirs.-School houses at Nos. 6 and 9 built.Annual meeting of 1843.-Vote to adopt certain chapters of the Revised Statutes.-The Hooksett Road laid out.-Town Meeting June, 1843.-Vote to prosecute all persons who violate the license law,-to make the house on Town Farm a house of Correction.-Town Hall destroyed by fire.—Town Meeting Aug. 30.-Vote to build Town Hall.-Vote as to the feasibility of bringing water into the town.-Twon Meeting of September 17, 1844.Reservoirs.-Presidential election. -Courts to be held here.-Committee on Common Sewers.-Murder of Jonas L. Parker.-Application for a city charter.-Vote to build Sewer from Bridge street to Granite street.-City Charter accepted.

While the Manufacturing interest was thus thriving in this neighborhood and town, there was a corresponding thrift noticeable in most other interests connected there with, although from the commencement of Manufacturing in 1810, to 1815, and perhaps to 1820, the difficulties with Great Britain had a visible effect upon the progress of the place. The stagnation of business incident to the war in the section of country bordering upon the Merrimack, above Amoskeag, had a decided effect upon

the business of this place, as aside from farming, most of the people were directly or indirectly connected with the navigation of the river, or with the manufacture of lumber. But in a few years after peace was proclaimed, business again revived, and at length, the renewal of the manufacturing interest at Amoskeag in 1825, and its subsequent continuous increase, has produced a thrift in the place, at once surprising and unparallelled. After Judge Blodget's decease, his heirs, under the direction of his grandson, Thomas Stickney, Esq., attempted to finish the canal, and to carry out his plans of improvement. To further this end the grant of a lottery was obtained from the Legislature, as has been already named. Mr. Stickney proposed to commence manufacturing of some kind, and for this purpose built or completed a short canal, leading trom the river below the main falls into the old and disused canal. At the foot of this canal, and directly across the old canal, he fitted up a building, two stories in height and 42 feet in length by 18 feet in width for a mill. But the project failed, and it is not known what sort of manufacture was proposed to be prosecuted in the mill. The building was moved to the east side of the canal and is still standing. At length, after attempting to save a portion of Judge Blodget's estate, which was left much involved, Mr. Stickney became embarrassed in his pecuniary affairs, and returned to Boston, and the estate passed into other hands. Mr. Stickney is remembered as a gentleman of courteous manners, of sanguine temperament and of great energy, and it is probable that at some other more appropriate time, he might have secured a fortune out of his grandfather's estate. But the war of 1812 ruined his prospects.

At the annual meeting in Manchester, March 12, 1811, it was "Voted to petition the Legislature to have leave to send a Representative."

"Voted John Stark, Jr., Isaac Huse and Capt. Dwinell, be said Committee."

The petition was presented, but without success.

At the Presidential election holden Nov. 12, 1812, the vote for Electors in Manchester was thus:

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