The Farm of the First Minister

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Excerpt from The Farm of the First Minister: An Address Delivered Before the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture, at the Weirs, August 15, 1894 Our gallant leader, Captain Humphrey, and his associates upon the board of agriculture, have this year transferred our summer outing from Boar's Head and the ocean shore to ancient Aquedoctan and the placid waters of Winnepesauke lake. The fact that he has heretofore safely steered our craft along a coast where the headlands are sharp and the east winds often strong, gives confidence in his future pilotage over these placid waters which, coquetting with the mountains, reflect the smile of the Great Spirit by day and the stars which he has set in his firmament by night. We are here for a good time, but skilled as is our leader, we must not depend upon him entirely for its attainment. Cooperation should be our watchword in the prosecution of our pleasures and all our great interests as well. It was not General Grant alone who forced the surrender of Richmond, in 1865, but the pressure of the great armies whom he led to victory. The announcement of my subject suggests three inquiries: 1. Where was this farm? 2. Who was the first minister? 3. What of his farming? To answer these will be my present endeavor. I. Where was the first minister's farm? On the 17th day of January, 1726, the general court of Massachusetts Bay granted to one hundred prospective settlers a plantation seven miles square, lying on its northern border and on both sides of the Merrimack river, at a place called by the Indians, Pennycook. This was known at first as the Plantation of Pennycook. In 1733 it was incorporated by Massachusetts as the town of Rumford, which name it bore until 1765, when it was again incorporated by New Hampshire as Concord, by which designation it has ever since been known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.