Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm part 4 -- 1870s Life goes on

• 1870 Census, Salisbury NH
• 15th Amendment to the US Constitution
• 1873 daughter Mertie is born
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 1870 

Census

1870 Census
Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm
Salisbury New Hampshire

She is 36 years old, living with her husband Amos L. Ham, also age 36.  Amos apparently has a daughter from a previous marriage, Nellie Ham who is 13, the same age as Mary's son Marshall Scott.  Adella G. is 10 years old, Silia (indexed as Lila E. Scott) is 8 years old

Salisbury within Merrimack County
and the county within New Hampshire
from Wikipedia

1870 

15th Amendment to the US Consittution

15th Amendment to the US Constitution

Credit: Thomas Kelly/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

from Ancestry.com Historical Insight

The 15th Amendment outlawed racial discrimination at the election polls, but white leaders in the South ignored the Constitution. In 1870, Mary Jane Bacon may have witnessed or experienced political discrimination while living in Salisbury, New Hampshire after ratification of the 15th Amendment.

1873

birth of fourth child, Mertie M. Ham in New Hampshire, father Amos Hamm

Mary Bacon Scott Hamm mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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Resources

"New Hampshire Marriage Records 1637–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011. “New Hampshire Statewide Marriage Records 1637–1947,” database, FamilySearch, 2009. New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records. “Marriage Records.” New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.  Ancestry.com

• Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscawen,_New_Hampshire
• Findagrave.com memorial
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77431876&ref=acom
• Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury,_New_Hampshire
• Shaw Corner Cemetery, from MapCarta
• https://mapcarta.com/22530846
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1860s Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm part 3 -- 1860s, Civil War

• 1860 Census Salisbury NH
• Northern Women during the Civil War
• 1862 daughter Silia born
• 1865 husband Harvey Scott dies
• 1866 marriage to Amos L. Hamm
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1860 

Census

Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott Census part 1
Salisbury, Merrimack New Hampshire

Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott Census part 2
Salisbury, Merrimack New Hampshire

They lived in Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire per Census.  She was 28 years old, her husband Harvey was 33.  Children Marshall was 3 years old and Adela G. was 4 months old.  Also living with them is Harvey's sister Lucretia M. Scott, age 31 years old.  It doesn't look like she ever married.  We will try to find out in another blog.

Harvey and Mary Scott purchased some land, to check out the land deed, see Harvey Scott's blog 

Northern Women during the Civil War Historical Insight

1865 Women during the Civil War
Historical Insight from Ancestry.com
Credit: MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images

The American Civil War presented Northern women with new opportunities outside of the domestic sphere.

1862

third child Silia Scott was born

The Cure for Strong Drink
The Cincinnati Enquirer, 9 December 1886
from Newspapers.com

1864 

second plot of land purchased with Harvey Scott , check the link for information.

1865

Husband Harvey Scott died of Tuberculosis 30 January 1865 at G.H. Fort Monroe, Virginia
Andrew Johnson's Inauguration Historical Insight.  Click on the link to find out more about his death and the circumstances surrounding it.

1866

Mary Jane Bacon married Amos L Ham in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1866 when she was 34 years old.  I don't have primary sources for this marriage, yet.  But she had young children, and it was pretty important to have a husband as a partner.  Wonder how they met?  He had also been married before, had a daughter the same age as Marshall.

Mary Bacon Scott Hamm mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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Resources

"New Hampshire Marriage Records 1637–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011. “New Hampshire Statewide Marriage Records 1637–1947,” database, FamilySearch, 2009. New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records. “Marriage Records.” New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.  Ancestry.com

• Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscawen,_New_Hampshire
• Findagrave.com memorial
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77431876&ref=acom
• Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury,_New_Hampshire
• Shaw Corner Cemetery, from MapCarta
• https://mapcarta.com/22530846
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Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm part 2 -- 1850s, young adult and marriage

• 1850 Census Boscawen NH
• Glasworks in NH
• 1855 Marriage to Harvey Scott, Boscawen NH
• 1856 son Marshall Scott born Salisbury NH
• 1860 daughter Adella born Salisbury NH
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1850 

Census, Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Mary Jane Bacon
1850 Census
Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Starting with line 12, Henry and Dorcas Bacon, both age 46 are living on the farm with their children David, Charles and Jane Bacon.  Dorcas' parents John and Rachel Carter also live with them.  Here, she seems to go by the name of "Jane."

Boscawen within the county of Merrimack
and the county within New Hampshire
from Wikipedia

Glassworks in New Hampshire

1850 Glassworks in New Hampshire
Historical Insight from Ancestry.com
Credit: Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

In New Hampshire, the glass industry began to take shape during the American Revolution, [and] became the heart of the state’s industry. 

1855 

Marriage

Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott Marriage Record

Married Harvey Scott on 2 January 1855 in Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire.  Not much to see in this record.  So much information not written down by what I think of as a lazy clerk.  It must have been a cold wintery wedding.  Again, I wonder how did they meet?  By the way, in the Ancestry.com index, her husband is indexed as "Hanry" Scott.

1856 and 1860

First child, Marshal Winfield Scott born 11 October 1856 in Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
Second child, first daughter Adella Grace (aka Della) Scott was born 4 February 1860 in Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Mary Bacon Scott Hamm mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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Resources

"New Hampshire Marriage Records 1637–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011. “New Hampshire Statewide Marriage Records 1637–1947,” database, FamilySearch, 2009. New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records. “Marriage Records.” New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.  Ancestry.com

• Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscawen,_New_Hampshire
• Findagrave.com memorial
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77431876&ref=acom
• Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury,_New_Hampshire
• Shaw Corner Cemetery, from MapCarta
• https://mapcarta.com/22530846
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Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm part 1 -- 1830s, the Early Years

• 1832 Mary Jane Bacon is born Boscawen NH
• 1837-1838, brothers Charles and David are born
• 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
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Mary Jane Bacon Scott, wife of Harvey Scott.  She lived through the Civil War, and the turn of the century. 

Mary Bacon Scott Hamm mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

You can check out the Ancestry.com entry I have for her here.



Below is the Family Group sheet report generated by the Legacy Genealogy software.

Family Group Sheet for Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott
from Legacy

1832

Mary Jane Bacon 1832 Birth Record

Mary Jane Bacon was born on March 30, 1832, in Boscawen, New Hampshire, to Dorcas Carter Bacon, age 29, and Henry Bacon, age 28.

1837 - 1838

birth of brother Charles Bacon

birth of brother David Bacon

1848 

Seneca Falls Convention Historical Insight

1848 Seneca Falls Convention 

Historical Insight from Ancestry.com

Credit: MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images

During the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, female leaders gathered together for what would be remembered as the birth of the women’s suffrage movement. -- Ancestry.com

Mary Bacon Scott Hamm mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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Resources

"New Hampshire Marriage Records 1637–1947." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011. “New Hampshire Statewide Marriage Records 1637–1947,” database, FamilySearch, 2009. New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records. “Marriage Records.” New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord.  Ancestry.com

• Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscawen,_New_Hampshire
• Findagrave.com memorial
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77431876&ref=acom
• Salisbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury,_New_Hampshire
• Shaw Corner Cemetery, from MapCarta
• https://mapcarta.com/22530846

Harvey Scott Part 9 Pension Index

• Pension Index

Harvey Scott 1868 Civil War Pension Index
from Ancestry.com

Harvey Scott.  Widow Mary J. Scott.  Curiously, B.E. Badger is written in the "minor" line and is listed as "Gd'n" which, according to Ancestry, the abbreviation "Gdn" means guardian.  Not sure who was guardian for whom.
On an Ancestry Message Board, the abbreviation as it is listed here might mean that Badger is the guardian or decision-maker for Mary Bacon Scott.

On the lower half is some information I should be able to use later on.  1865, April 22, the Widow Mary J. Scott made an application 90531, certificate 99380.

On 1868, October 23, on the Minor line, is application 166.981, certificate 122.800 -- did Badger make another application for Mary?  or what?  He had three children, Marshall born 1856, Adella born 1860, and Silia born 1862.

Another Index, found on Fold3

NARA T289. Pension applications for service in the US Army 

between 1861 and 1900.

So, I wanted to see if I could get some information using the Civil War pension application numbers.  Below is some information to that effect, but I haven't accessed it yet.  It is here for your perusal.

From a Rootsweb threadThe numbers are the application numbers. If you send to NARA for the pensionfile, you will use at least one of these numbers.

http://www.pacivilwar.com/cwpahelp.html 

This page should help you out; even though, it is Pennsylvania.

http://www.searchforancestors.

com/genhelp/military/nara.html 

This pagewill help, as well.

http://www.archives.gov/research

_room/obtain_copies/military_and

_genealogy_order_forms.html 

This page is where you can order the forms that you will need to order records from NARA.

[UPDATE] I searched on Google and found (again) Fold3.  I have a premium account there, and they've provided me with most of those documents I wanted from NARA!  yay!

Widow's Application

Below is a Widow's Pension application for Mary and her three children.  It looks like she made this application with the help of B.E. Badger of Concord NH.

Widow's Pension listing all three children
found on Fold3
Approved pension applications of widows
and other dependents of Civil War veterans

No 99.380; New Hampshire; Mary J. Scott
Widow of Harvey Scott; Private, Company E, 10th Regiment NH Volunteers
Concord (NH) Agency; Rate per month -- $8 starting 31 January 1865
Additional sum of $2 per Month for each of the following children until arriving at the age of 16 years, commencing July 25 1866 wiz:
Marshall W., 10 October 1872
Adella G., 3 July 1876
Lilla E. 12 March 1878
Certificate dated 12 September 1867; Sent to B.E. Badger, Concord NH
Act 14th July 1862
Book C, Volume 9, Page 289

Claim for Widow's Pension, with Minor Children

Here is another application with more detail.  The quality of the image is not very good, but it is still readable.

Another Pension application
found on Fold3
Approved pension applications of widows
and other dependents of Civil War veterans

Concord
War of 1861, claim 99.380
Brief in the case of Mary J. Scott, Widow of Harvey Scott, Private, Co E, 10th NH Volunteers
Post office address Salisbury NH
Proofs Exhibited
Service -- Adjt. Genl (Adjutant General) Reports Harvey Scott musterd into Service September 14, 1862.  and died in US Hospital Jany 30, 1865, of Phthisis.
Death -- Surg. Genl. Reports Harvey Scott as having died Jany 30th 1865 at Hampton Genl. Hospital, Fort Monroe, VA, of Phthisis.  Lient. Tucker certifies that Harvey Scott died of Consumption got by exposure in the US Service and in the line of his duty.
Marriage -- Records shows that Harvey Scott and Mary Jane Bacon were married Jany 2, 1855
Names and dates of birth of children

• Marshall W. Scott, born Oct 11th 1856, who will be 16 years old Oct. 10th, 1872

• Adella G., born Feby 4th, 1860, who will be 16 years old Feby 5th, 1876

• Lilla C, born March 13th 1862, who will be 16 years old March 12th 1878

Proof of ages -- Affidavit of Persons present
Loyalty -- Shown
Agent and his PO address -- B.E. Badger, Concord, NH
Issue certificate for Eight dollars per month, commencing January 31st, 1865, and two dollars per month additional for each of the above-named children, commencing July 25, 1866
Signed C.M. Tompkins, Examiner; Passed September 2nd, 1867
Approved S.F.S.; I.B.M

My thoughts about this document:  It looks well preserved, but I'm looking at photos of scans of photos -- you get the idea.  The writer who filled this document out has wonderful handwriting, and it looks like Spencerian penmanship.  You can get the similar books and improve your own handwriting!

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In the proof of death, we find the connection between Phthisis and consumption, another term for pulmonary tuberculosis.  Also we notice that this disease is spelled differently.  We also find written down how he contracted this, and that it was in the line of duty.

We find a secondary proof of marriage date.  It is secondary, in that it isn't the original marriage document, but the writer looked at and obtained the date from that primary source.

We have the exact dates of birth for each of the children.  The third child I've always seen spelled as Silla.  This may have been an error in deciphering Spencerian handwriting, but it is Lilla.

We find that Harvey Scott was a loyal soldier.

And, finally, we find the name B.E. Badger again.  He seems to have acted as Mary Jane's liason, helping her with the government forms, endless forms.  Did he act free of charge?  Or did he charge a commission to help families out?  Perhaps this is a subject for another search, when I run out of ideas.

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

Harvey Scott Part 8 Death and Burial

• 30 January 1865 Harvey Scott Death 
• Phthisis
• Burial
• Cemetery
• Historical Insights -- Medicine during the Civil War

This is only three months before the end of the Civil War.

January 1865

Harvey Scott January 1865 Death Register

This is the handwritten register which includes Harvey Scott's death.  He was a Private of Company E, 10th NH Infantry, died 30 January 1865.  He died at G.H. Ft. Monroe, Virginia.  He died of Phthisis.  I've never heard of this, I'll get back to it.  Comments says E. McClellan AF?A.

Phthisis

from Medicine Civil War -- Nurses

Phthisis is a progressively wasting or consumptive condition; especially :  pulmonary tuberculosis, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.  He died of tuberculosis. If you look at the register, you'll see several men died the same day.  

Civil War Diseases: Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis killed about 14,000 soldiers during the war. There was no known cure for it during the war. Even today there is no real cure, it can be treated but never cured. Once you get this disease you get it for life. -- Civil War Academy

From Pinterest

Harvey Scott 1865 Veterans' Gravesites
from Ancestry.com

This is an index from National Cemetery Administration's US Veterans' Gravesites list.  Harvey Scott was in the US Army, died and was buried the same day, 30 Jan 1865.  He is buried at Hampton National Cemetery, Cemetery Road at Marshall Avenue, Hampton VA.  Section E, Site 944.



This is the entrance to the Cemetery

Harvey Scott Cemetery Entrance
Find A Grave Memorial# 118519019

This is a photo of the gravestone.  USA.  Harvey Scott.  N.H.  Pretty worn down.

Harvey Scott gravestone
Find A Grave Memorial# 118519019

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

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below information from Ancestry.com's 

Historical Insights: Medicine during the American Civil War

Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesHarvey Scott

HISTORICAL INSIGHTSMedicine during the American Civil War

Medicine during the American Civil War

Ambulance wagon trains lined up near battlefields in
preparation for the wounded soldiers who would
inevitably require their assistance. 1863, City Point, Virginia. Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

During the American Civil War, the sheer volume of wounded soldiers forced doctors and nurses to develop life-saving medical techniques.

The vast majority of deaths during the American Civil War were not on the battlefield; they were caused by disease. In 1861 germ theory did not exist, the root of infection remained a mystery, and medical training was crude. Little advancements had been made in the field since the American Revolution; some physicians still championed medieval methods of bloodletting, purging, and blistering to rebalance the body’s humors. However, development in weaponry, namely faster, more accurate rifles and shells killed hundreds of thousands and left many more badly wounded. Thus the war forced doctors and nurses to rethink medical treatments, as tens of thousands of soldiers flooded the ill-equipped field hospitals. The sheer volume of injured men prompted rapid amputations. By 1865, a surgeon could remove a limb in six minutes flat. Anesthetics were common—chloroform and ether were given to patients, along with morphine for the pain. Ambulance service also was born during the Civil War. The fallen were gathered from the field, their wounds wrapped up, and they were shuttled to battle-side hospitals. But for many, these advancements in techniques and sanitation came too little too late—upwards of 500,000 Americans died from disease and infection before the war’s end.

Media Gallery

 

Army doctors were unprepared for the scale and type of injuries that flooded the field hospitals. At the time of the Civil War, there was little understanding of sanitation—infections were common and often required the amputation of limbs. 1863, USA. Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

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Many hospitals were at capacity because of the immense number of wounded soldiers. Makeshift infirmaries were set up in tents in all major cities, including the nation’s capital at Washington, D.C. May 1864, Washington, D.C.. Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

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For amputees the recovery process was long and difficult. Many had to relearn to walk, while some remained wheelchair-bound. 1865, Washington, D.C.. Credit: MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

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In hospitals, disease spread quickly. With little knowledge of hygiene, doctors and nurses put their lives at risk to treat the flood of incoming wounded soldiers. About 1862, USA. Credit: MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images

 

Harvey Scott Part 7 Another Deed 1864

• 1864 Deed

May 1864

Here is another deed only a couple of years later.  Let's see what this one says

Harvey Scott 1864 Deed first half

Book 181.  Know all Men by these Presents, That We, John G. Smith of Salisbury county of Merrimack and state of New Hampshire and Clara J. Smith, wife of the said J.G. Smith, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to us in hand, before the delivery hereof well and truly paid by Harvy Scott of the same Salisbury, the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeof, convey and confirm unto the said Harvy Scott his heirs and assigns forever, 

a certain tract of land laying and being in said Salisbury and bounded as follows, to wit:  commencing at the south west corner of Elipalet Little's land and running north on said Little's west line to a wall running westerly, thence on said wall westerly to land of Wm. H. Moulton, thence southerly on said Moulton's easterly line to a bound three rods north of Harvey Scott's most westerly corner bound, thence easterly parallell with said Scott's north line four rods to bound, thence southerly three rods to said Scott's north line, thence easterly on said Scott's north line to his northeasterly corner bound, thence southerly on said Scott's easterly line to the highway, thence easterly on said highway to the bound first mentioned, reserving to the said Smith his heirs and assigns forever the right of way acrost the foregoing described land to land which the said Smith owns adjoining said land on the north side of said described land also reserving the right to cross and recross to and from a piece of land which said Smith now owns laying between the foregoing described land and land now owned by the said H. Scott containing five acres be the same more or less

Harvey Scott 1864 deed second half

To have and to hold the said granted premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, to him the said Harvy Scott and his heirs and assigns, to his and their only proper use and benefit forever.  And I the said J.G. Smith and my heirs, executors, and administrators, do hereby covenant, grant, and agree to and with the said H. Scott and his heirs and assigns, that until the delivery hereof, I am the lawful owner of the said premises, and am seized and possessed thereof in my own right in fee simple; and have full power and lawful authority to grant and convey the same in manner aforesaid; that the said premises are free and clear from all and every incumbrance whatsoever; and that I and my heirs, executors and administrators, shall and will warrant and defend the same to the said Harvey Scott and his heirs and assigns, against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever.  And I Clara G. Smith, wife of the said J.C. Smith, in consideration aforesaid, do hereby relinquish my right of dower in the before mentioned premises.

And we and each of us do hereby release, discharge and waive all such rights of exemption from attachment and levy or sale on execution, and such other rights whatsover, in said premises and in each and every part thereof as our family homestead, as are reserved or secured to us or either of us, by the Statute of the State of New Hampshire, passed July 4th, 1851 entitled "An Act to exempt the homestead of families from attachment and levy or sale on execution," or by any other Statute or Statutes of said State.

In Witness Whereof we have herunto set our hands and seals this thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord 1864.

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us:  Isaac Sanborn; J. M. Hayes?; J.G. Smith [his mark]; Clara J. Smith [her mark].

State of New Hampshire, Merrimack.  Personally appeared the above named John G. Smith and Clara J. Smith and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be their voluntary act and deed -- before me, dated the thirty first day of May 1864; J. M. Hayes, Justice of the Peace.  Received June 1 1866

Harvey Scott 1864 Deed

This is the deed in its entirety.  It looks like Harvey purchased more land adjoining his current land.  It looks very twisty in the descriptions, so I can't determine how large this tract of land is.  I can recognize that he paid $150 for land that was right next to his.

Harvey Scott mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

In this 1860 map found on Old Maps Online, you can see the road running southwest is called South Road.  I think this area (not the area marked in blue, but just to the west of this marked area) is where we should find the Harvey Scott farm.  I think it would be a farm, or maybe a homestead.

1860 Salisbury NH
from OldMapsOnline.org

This is an index map.  Salisbury is located in section 244.  The next map is the detailed part of that section showing property ownership.

Salisbury Index map

This is a close up detail of a 2000 property map of Salisbury NH.  The town is right at the convergence of all those roads, with South road going to the left.  I suspect the property is north of South road.  Although I don't really know.  I would love to know.  Can you help me out?  Do you know where this property is?

Property Map of Salisbury NH, Map No. 244
detail showing Salisbury

Am I anywhere close?  Is this YOUR Harvey Scott?