Page 1080, From the time he was 14 years old until his death he lived in Portsmouth. He followed the occupation of house carpenter, but received large grants of land, and lived on a farm up to 1747, when he sold to Colonel Nathaniel Meserve, and bought a house and garden spot, where he died in 1754. He was a man of considerable activity, and among the New Hampshire state papers is now to be seen an order about agreeing with James Libby. carpenter, for finishing a line of fortifications near Portsmouth. He was at the first town meeting of Scarborough. in 1712 he was constable” for the Bank” that is Strawberry Bank, the ancient name for Portsmouth, and subsequently had many town offices, from selectman down, He was a member of the Church of Christ.40
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