I Have Stood In The Dent Of His Cellar On The Bank Of The
Brook, And Talked There With One Whose Grandfather Had, Whose
Father Might Have, Talked With Lovewell.
Here also he had a mill
in his old age, and kept a small store.
He was remembered by
some who were recently living, as a hale old man who drove the
boys out of his orchard with his cane. Consider the triumphs of
the mortal man, and what poor trophies it would have to show, to
wit: - He cobbled shoes without glasses at a hundred, and cut a
handsome swath at a hundred and five! Lovewell's house is said
to have been the first which Mrs. Dustan reached on her escape
from the Indians. Here probably the hero of Pequawket was born
and bred. Close by may be seen the cellar and the gravestone of
Joseph Hassell, who, as is elsewhere recorded, with his wife
Anna, and son Benjamin, and Mary Marks, "were slain by our Indian
enemies on September 2d, [1691,] in the evening." As Gookin
observed on a previous occasion, "The Indian rod upon the English
backs had not yet done God's errand." Salmon Brook near its mouth
is still a solitary stream, meandering through woods and meadows,
while the then uninhabited mouth of the Nashua now resounds with
the din of a manufacturing town.
A stream from Otternic Pond in Hudson comes in just above Salmon
Brook, on the opposite side. There was a good view of Uncannunuc,
the most conspicuous mountain in these parts, from the bank here,
seen rising over the west end of the bridge above.
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