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LOT 2, RANGE 5--JOHN WILSON clearedland and put up a log house and framed barn as early as 1803. The barn was never fully boarded, and the bears used to crawl in and catch his sheep. After Wilson's occupancy the lot became a part of the Brown property. John Wilson's son Samuel, also built a log house here in which he lived for a number of years. LOT 3, RANGE 6--Settled by ROBERT LEIGHTON in 1806. He put up a log house, and cleared the land. John Wilson bought the east half, and bulit a log house and barn there. He also built the frame house now on it. He exchanged places with ITHIEL SCATES, since which time this has been in possession of the Scates family and is now occupied by Frank Scates. John C. Leighton built a frame house and barn, on the west half about 1841, which he and his son Joel now occupy. Prior to 1807, he lived on Lot 1, range 7 in Randolph, NH. 1807-15 and 1830-52 in Gorham and 1820, 1828 and 1860-65 in Shelburne. First juryman to attend the court at Lancaster, NH. In 1850 he owned most of the land in what is now Gorham. He occupied the land as a farm and his field was on the north side of the railway and his pasture on the south side. His farm was mostly a poor gravelly soil, on which he cut 15 or 18 tons of hay yearly. The house, which he built, was the one remembered as the old long tenement opposite the Congregational Church, owned by Patrick Mullen in 1881, and replaced by an elegant residence. Wilson sold a part to John Brickett Ordway, who lived in a log house at the foot of Alpine Street. Ordway never paid for it, and his brother, Dustan Ordway, advanced the money for it, never lived on it himself, and finally sold it to Jothan Evans, who sold it to Baker Burbank, who sold it to Barak Jackman. Barak Jackman owned 55 acres of land near Soldier’s Hill. He built a house on Main Street, and in 1850 Wilson and Jackman were the principal owners of the land within the present limit of Gorham Village. The dividing line between the lands of Jackman and Wilson ran just east of R. F. Ingalls’s store to the river. The railway was first surveyed through the town in 1850, and during that year Hazen Evans purchased off Mr. Wilson 2 acres where the Alpine House stood in 1888. Samuel? SOLDIERS--SHelburne has always done her part in her country's service. Many of her early settlers were in the Revolution, among them were Wheeler, Evans, Jonathan Lary and Benjamin Clemens. Samuel Wilson, Hosea Young, Thomas Marston, Peter Wheeler, Reuben Hobart were soldiers of the War of 1812. During the War of the Rebellion many enlisted from Shelburne and did noble work in that brave struggle for the right. Nearly all are mentioned in Col. Kent's comprehensive and valuable article "Soldiers of Coos". Albion Abbott enlisted in the Fifth NH Vols and was probably killed at Fredericksburg, as was Solomon Wilson. Henry Gates was in the Fourth Maine Battery, was in eleven engagements and never wounded. Ira Gates was in the Thirteenth Mass. Woodbury Jackson, John Newell, Delevan Hubbard, Rufus Hodgdon, William Ingalls, served in the Second New Hampshire; Ellery Wheeler was a corporal in the Seventh NH. Darius Green and Leland Philbrook were in service; Sanford Hubbard, Albert Green and Harlan Ingalls, enlisted in the navy. Isaiah Spiller served in the Fifth Main Battery. William Ingalls, Rufus Hodgdon and Leland Philbrook died in service.

Birth	1785	Conway, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States
Marriage	11 Aug 1811	Gilead, Oxford, Maine, United States - Nancy Evans
Residence	1815	Shelburne, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Residence	1820	Shelburne, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Residence	1830	Shelburne, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Census	1830	Shelburne Addition, Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Event-Misc	1837
Residence	1840	Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Census	1840	Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Residence	1850	Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Census	21 Oct 1850	Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Residence	1860	Age in 1860: 75 - Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Census	28 Jun 1860	Shelburne Addition, Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Death	25 Jul 1866	Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States

Spouse	Nancy Evans (1790 - 1880)
Child	Lydia Willson (1813 - 1884)
Child	Harriet Willson (1813 - )
Child	Mary Willson (1816 - 1888)
Child	Francis Franklin Willson (1820 - 1902)
Child	Soloman Willson (1822 - 1862)
Child	Moses Willson (1824 - 1894)
Child	Achsa Willson (1826 - 1869)
Child	Elsie A Willson (1830 - 1914)
Child	Orin Bent Willson (1831 - 1909)
Child	Lucinda Willson (1832 - )

Father	John Willson (1765 - )
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Evans Wilson (1796 - 1872)