been raised by the sons. At an early age, tho father joined the Provincial troops in the war of l?."ti against the French under General Amherst, and Ins youngest brother Benjamin was a member of Robert Rogers' celebruted company of Rangers. The father was at the foot of Lake Champlaiu on tho way to Quebec, when the news of ils surrender was received tho troops being discharged, he returned to Kingston. Peace being restored by Ihe Treaty of I7C2, and Iho Indians being quieled, the Royal Governor of N, JI. (Wentworth) began to make grants of Townships in the Stale Before this, the settlements in N. H. hud not advanced inward a single township by reason of Indian hostilities. Salisbury, al first called Stevens-town, was granled iu 17(4to Ebenetrr Stevens and others, and under this grant Ebenezer Webster obtained a Lot, two miles from Merrimac river, on a ainnil stream, where he erected a suw and grist mills ; the only mills in the region round-about fur many years. Tho mill site and a small " Beaver meadow ' where wild grass could be had for cuttle, caused the selection of the Lot. Here, in the fall of 17HI, Mr. Webster built Ins " Log Cabin," at which lime " no smoke arose North of it, tins side of Montreal." In this cabin Daniel Webster s hall brothers and sisters were born. About the time of the second morn aire, the faiher built a frame house, near Hie cabin, of one story dug a well