Jesse Fellows

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Jessie was a surveyor and farmer in Sutton, Hillsborough/Merrimack Co., NH. The 1790 New Hampshire Census shows Jessie Fellows living in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Household information shows 1 free white male age 16+, 1 free white male <16, 1 free white female (Roll No 1, page no 55). _______________________________________________________________________________

From "The history of Sutton, New Hampshire : consisting of the historical collections of Erastus Wadleigh, Esq., and A. H. Worth"

HISTORY OF SUTTON

The Fellows farm, having been owned by Jesse Fellows and his descendants more than three fourths of a century, passed out of their possession in 1875.

When Jesse Fellows moved to this town he had with him his wife and one child, and the family, with their household goods, travelled on an ox-sled drawn by ten yoke of oxen. They completed the journey in three days, stopping the first night in Warner, and the second night at the farm now owned by John Pressey. Mr. Fellows had bought a hundred acres of wild land, on which he had, in the previous autumn, erected a rude log house, where they lived seven years, at the end of which time they moved into a small frame house.

Mrs. Fellows lived to be almost a centenarian, within three and one half years of it, and yet retained her mental faculties to a surprising degree. Even up to six weeks before her death she was able to relate incidents of early years, including her recollections of the dark day, at which time she was ten years old. She became totally blind twenty years before she died. She was b. in Amesbury, Mass., and is supposed to have been sister to Hezekiah Blaisdell, who m. Anna Sargent, and moved to Sutton. Her father was Jonathan Blaisdell, who, as a gunsmith, was in the battle of Bunker Hill, and died on the way home from the fight. Several of the name and family of Blaisdell have been noticeable for longevity.