TITLE: Notice of Early Families of Candia:  

SOURCE: HISTORY OF CANDIA: Once known as Charmingfare; with notice of Some 
	of the Early Families, by F.B. Eaton, Press of the Granite 
	Farmer, James O. Adams, Printer, Manchester, N.H.  ©1852

				BURPEE, NATHANIEL

Came to Candia about the year 1853, from Rowley, Mass.  He married Esther 
Roth, of the same place,-- they had eight children:  Jeremiah, Nathaniel, 
Nathan, Ezra, Mehitable, Sally, Esther, Patty.  He bought the place now 
occupied by Jonathan Brown, his grandson, of Winthrop Wells, who, it seems, 
had been there a short time previous.  Mr. Turner and Mr. Obed Hall were 
then the only neighbors;  there was no road excepting a bridle path turning 
in where Mr. B’s barn now stands, and so up by the brook to Mr. Hall’s.  Mr. 
Burpee seems to have been a man of note, for he was not only one of the first 
deacons, contemporary with Dea. Palmer and Dea. Hills, but was a tailor and 
teacher of singing.  His schools were in his own house, where the young 
people of that day assembled to learn the melodious trills that so charmed 
our grandfathers.  The house then stood in the orchard north of the brook.  
It was burned and another was erected where the present one now stands.
	Dea. B. was out in the old French War, and at the siege of Cape 
Breton.  He died in 1815, at the age of 94.  His son Nathaniel married 
Dorothy Currier, and settled on the old place.  They had four children:  
Nathaniel, Jonathan, Sally, Molly.  He was a soldier in the Revolution, and 
fought at Bunker Hill and Saratoga.  
	Dea. Burpee’s wife is said to have been a very smart woman, and 
helped to raise Mr. Turner’s barn.  No doubt hands were scarce and she was 
a woman equal to the demands of the times.


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