[The pay roll of the Council for the year 1786-87, which was inadvertently omitted from its proper place at the end of the Council Records for that year, is given above, together with all the record book contains of the pay roll for 1787-88, which is but a mere fragment. - ED.] WILLIAM SIMPSON, Orford, JOSEPH PEARSON, Exeter, Secretary of State. (Till acceptance of his Resignation, January 3, 1789.) WILLIAM GARDNER,3 Portsmouth, State Treasurer. (From January 7, 1789.) NATHANIEL GILMAN, Exeter, Continental Loan Officer. JOSEPH WHIPPLE, Portsmouth, Collector of the Impost. Keeper of the Magazine at Portsmouth. 1 Resigned January 22, 1789, to accept his appointment as a Senator in Congress. 2 John Calfe of Hampstead was elected State Treasurer by the General Court, January 4, 1789, to succeed John Taylor Gilman who had resigned to accept a federal office. Judge Calfe declined. For biography of Judge Calfe, see 2 Farmer and Moore's Historical Collections, 42. 3 Biographical sketch of Wm. Gardner, Potter's Military History of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Report, 1866, Vol. 2, p. 351; Brewster's Rambles about Portsmouth, First Series, 303. JUDICIARY. Superior Court of Judicature. SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Holderness, Chief Justice. JOSIAH BARTLETT, Kingston, JOHN DUDLEY, Raymond, WOODBURY LANGDON, Portsmouth, Puisne Justices. JOHN PRENTICE, Londonderry, Attorney-General. Court Maritime. JOSHUA BRACKETT, Portsmouth, Judge. JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL, Portsmouth, Register. STATE SENATE. (June 4, 1788, to June 3, 1789.) JOHN LANGDON, Portsmouth, President. (June 6, 1788, to January 22, 1789.) JOHN PICKERING, Portsmouth, President. For the County of Rockingham. (January 22, 1789, to June 3, 1789.) JOHN PICKERING, Portsmouth. President Pro Tem. or Senior Senator. PIERSE LONG,1 Portsmouth. CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN, Hampton. JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Portsmouth. County of EBENEZER SMITH,2 Meredith. 1 Pierse Long died April 3, 1789. Brewster's Rambles about Portsmouth, First Series, 275. 3 No sketch of Col. John Waldron, of Dover, N. H., would be complete without some recognition of the fact that there were two families of that surname in Dover in the seventeenth century, of entirely distinct origin. They were not known to be related to each other, and the earlier generations of neither family claimed relationship. Rev. Dr. Quint has written of these two families (that of old Major Richard Waldron and of John Waldron-contemporaries) as follows. viz.: "If there was any connection between these families (Richard and John of Dover in 1689), it was on the other side of the ocean. County of S ROBERT WALLACE, Henniker. County of S Grafton FRANCIS WORCESTER, Plymouth. "Besides, the Major's name was Walderne, not Waldron, and Walderne was the name of his English ancestry. Their social position here [in Dover] was very different. Richard was speaker of the Massachusetts House, Major-General, President of the Province of New Hampshire. John was Master' Heard's chore-boy. “Richard had great landed possessions; John began without a rod. But, in successive generations the great possessions of Richard dwindled to nothing, while John and John's heirs came to own thousands of acres. "The descendants of Richard had little influence in Dover when John's grandson swept the town at every election. And, strangest of all, the Major's own son abandoned his hereditary surname, and adopted and gave to his descendants, the patronymic of the kidnapped chore-boy." John Waldron was picked up in the streets of an English seaport while a boy in an "unfair manner" by Capt. John Heard, a ship captain of Dover, N. H., taken to America, brought to Dover, and kept by said Heard as a chore-boy at his Garrison House at [now] Garrison Hill, Dover, N. H. Heard died in 1688, Jan. 19 (the same year Major Richard Walderne was massacred), and he in his will calls John Waldron "my prentice" and made him a legacy. John 1 Waldron, on Aug. 29, 1638, married Mary (Ham) Horne, a widow of Dover. She was daughter of John Ham of Dover, the immigrant ancestor of Dr. John R. Ham; her first husband, Wm. Horne, having died shortly after their marriage. John died, 1740, in Dover. They had (among other children) Richard 2 Waldron. Ricliard 2 (John 1) Waldron married (1) Hannah Smith of Durham and (2) Elizabeth who survived him. His will was dated 26 Aug., 1771: proved 29 Jan., 1772. He had (among others) John 3 Waldron. This John 3 (Richard 2, John 1) Waldron is the State Senator, named in the text, and the grandson who (as Dr. Quint says above) “swept the town at every election.' John 3 (Richard 2, John 1) Waldron, born hear 1740, was a farmer, justice of the peace, etc. He raised a company in Dover and led it to Cambridge in the Revolutionary War. While at Cambridge the Connecticut troops, going home, left Washington to appeal to New Hampshire patriotism; and the Captain (Jolin W.) came home to Dover and raised seven hundred men in four days, and went back as Colonel, The death of his wife and the absolute need of his young children made him retire early from the service, but his patriotism was unbounded. Probably Dover never had a more popular citizen. He was in the Provincial Legislature in 1774, and the Revolutionary Convention at Exeter in 1775; Representative in 1782, 83, 85, 86, and '88, 1797, 98, 1801, '2, '3, and '15. He was in the State Senate in 1788, 1790, '91, '92, and 1803, '4, '5, '6. At a single election in Dover he was chosen moderator, lot layer, highway surveyor, overseer of the poor, representative and senator. He was especially famous as moderator. His clear and powerful voice, his energy and decision, made him successful. The records show him to have been moderator for thirty-eight regular town meetings for elections, and eight special meetings. His intense party feelings were not concealed. At one election in declaring the vote he added in a stentorian voice, stating the numbers, so many for England, and so many for America." He was four times married. Col. John was baptized 15 Sept., 1765; and received, with his wife Joanna, as a member of First Church (Cong.), Dover, 12 June, 1768. He had three sons and four daughters. He died 31 Aug., 1827, while on a visit to his son Dr. Timothy W. Waldron, in Bath, Maine, and he was there buried. The editor is indebted to Join R. Ham, M. D., for the foregoing biographical matter relative to Senator Waldron. 4 Hon. Robert Wallace was a wealthy and influential citizen who was reverenced in Henniker and highly esteemed everywhere. His mother was born at sea in the voyage to this country in 1720. Her second husband, James Clark, was an ancestor of Horace Greeley. Besides serving several terms in the Senate and Council, Robert Wallace was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas.-L. W. Cogswell, History of Henniker, passim. 5 Francis Worcester was a representative man in an interesting chapter of events in our political history. Grafton county had been so recently made a political unit, when the dissolution of the provincial government occurred that the people of its eastern and western parts had not become fully accustomed to the new adjustment of county relations, and their ideas of government were discordant. It was in civil affairs rather than in the military that Mr. Worcester was conspicuous in the later part of the revolutionary period. The situation in this part of the state was a source of constant embarrassment to those who were the responsible agents of the revolutionary government of New Hampshire. The strong |