Bio: Samuel Scribner :Ashland, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

From Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1709-1886 -Ashland
Compiled & published by Hamilton Child 1886

Samuel Scribner married Hannah Webster, who was an aunt of Daniel Webster's
father, Judge Webster. Mr. Scribner was captured while at work in the
hay-field, by the Indians, during the early Indian wars. He was taken to
Canada, and sold for three years' servitude, but escaped and came home
within a year after his capture. This happened about seventeen years before
the Revolutionary war. His son, Captain Josiah, married Phebe Cross, and was
a drover and dealer in stock in Andover, N. H. John, one of his thirteen
children, married Abigail, daughter of Josiah Emery, of Loudon, N. H., and
had born to him six children, four of whom are now living. He moved here
from Andover, in 1864, and remained here until his death, which occured in
1867, aged eighty-three years. His children, Franklin, John C., Asentha and
Ambrose, are now residents of Ashland. The former married Marcia E.,
daughter of Chase T. and Susan Hackett, of New Hampton, and has three
children, namely, Mrs. Ida G. Fellows, of this town, Carrie A. and George E.
who live at home with their father. Franklin and his brother Ambrose, have
been engaged in the manufacture of Manila paper in this town, about twenty
years. The former has been treasurer of the Ashland Savings bank, for the
past six years, and has lived in this town for forty-three years.


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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman  rickman@worldpath.net
Date: January 6, 2001
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