ALBEE, John, Ichabod - Cheshire County, New Hampshire
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ALBEE, John, Ichabod - Cheshire County, New Hampshire
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Posted: 12 Nov 2006 11:48PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Homestead in One Family since 1787
Westmoreland Boy Lives on Farm Where Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Lived and Died.
Special in The Reformer
Keene, N.H. March 5 (about 1920)
Glenn C. Wellington, 9, of Westmoreland has a distinction which probably no other boy in New England shares, living on the place where his great-great-great-grandfather lived and died. Not only this, but his father, grandmother, great-grandfather, John Albee, and his great-great-grandfather, Ichabod Albee, also lived on the place. All are buried in Westmoreland.
The Albee homestead was settled in 1787 and since that time has always been in the family. The old stone furnace built when the first Albee homestead was erected, a log cabin, is still standing. The only window in the cabin had four lights of glass, measuring five by seven inches, in front of a shoemaker’s bench in the olden days.
There is still standing on the place a small building which was used before 1800 for a schoolhouse. The attic of the building was used by the teacher to hide the children when she heard the Indians coming and the trapdoor and ladder used to get to the loft and always in readiness to escape the redskins is still preserved.
The land on which these old buildings stand is now owned by Mrs. Mary I. Cole, a descendant of the Albee family, and Dr. George Albee of Worcester, Mass.
Westmoreland Boy Lives on Farm Where Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Lived and Died.
Special in The Reformer
Keene, N.H. March 5 (about 1920)
Glenn C. Wellington, 9, of Westmoreland has a distinction which probably no other boy in New England shares, living on the place where his great-great-great-grandfather lived and died. Not only this, but his father, grandmother, great-grandfather, John Albee, and his great-great-grandfather, Ichabod Albee, also lived on the place. All are buried in Westmoreland.
The Albee homestead was settled in 1787 and since that time has always been in the family. The old stone furnace built when the first Albee homestead was erected, a log cabin, is still standing. The only window in the cabin had four lights of glass, measuring five by seven inches, in front of a shoemaker’s bench in the olden days.
There is still standing on the place a small building which was used before 1800 for a schoolhouse. The attic of the building was used by the teacher to hide the children when she heard the Indians coming and the trapdoor and ladder used to get to the loft and always in readiness to escape the redskins is still preserved.
The land on which these old buildings stand is now owned by Mrs. Mary I. Cole, a descendant of the Albee family, and Dr. George Albee of Worcester, Mass.