"Recollections of a Salt Marsh Farmer"-
By John D. Fogg
Edited by Eric N. Small -- 1983
Section 18
Page 9a: Great Grandfather Reuben Batchelder.
(Courtesy of the Batchelder Family)
Page 9b: Great Grandmother Betsey Batchelder.
(Courtesy of the Batchelder Family)
Page 9c: Homestead of Great Grandparents Reuben and Betsey Batchelder, Brown's Avenue, Hampton Falls, 1895. L. to r.: Joseph Kimball, minister of the Line Church, Jessie R. Batchelder, Elizabeth S. Green, John Batchelder.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 10a: Great Grandfather Stephen Green.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 10b: Great Grandmother Dolly Green.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page10c: Homestead of Great Grandparents Stephen and Dolly Green on Exeter Road in Hampton Falls, 1902.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 11a: Grandparents John and Mary I. (Green) Batchelder, 1900.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 11b: Fogg's Corner. Homestead of Grandfather David Fogg on the left in Seabrook and homestead of George A. Fogg on the right in Hampton Falls, 1900.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 12a: The Line Church, about 1903, founded in part by John's ancestors -- the Batchelder and Green families.
(Courtesy of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 12b: Interior of the Line Church, after the renovation project in 1893.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 12c: The Dearborn Academy at Seabrook Village, 1900.
(Collection of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 12d: George Washington's Birthday, Dearborn Academy, 1903.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 12e: The First Baptist Church of Seabrook, where the Fogg family worshipped, now a museum and meeting place of the Historical Society of Seabrook, 1905.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 13a: Batchelder Family Reunion at the Dearborn Academy, 1902.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 13b: Batchelder Family Reunion at the Dearborn Academy, 1902.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 14a: Home of grandparents David and Jane M. (Chase) Fogg, Fogg's Corner, Seabrook, 1902.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 14b: Grandmother Jane M. Fogg.
(Courtesy of Stanley A. Hamel, her great, great grandson)
Page 14c: John D. Fogg, 1896.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 14d: John D Fogg and his classmates at the Great Hill School in Hampton Falls. John is in the middle row, on the left. His teacher is Miss Edna M. Hardy, 1900.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 15a: Summer at the Fogg Farm, Fogg's Corner, Hampton Falls, 1902. Built by Samuel Fogg in 1846.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 15b: Winter at the Fogg Farm, Fogg's Corner, Hampton Falls, 1900.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 16a: The Fogg Family. L. to r.: Chester N., Frank B., Marion I., George A., Sarah G., John D., Mabel W. Fogg, 1904.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 16b: Women gathered at the Fogg Farm. L. to r.: Mary I. Pollard, Marion I Fogg, Sarah G. Fogg, Mabel W. Fogg, Helen Pollard, Mary I Batchelder, sitting, 1905.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 17a: Chowder Party at Poplar Hollow, Seabrook Beach, 1904. L. to r.: John D. Fogg, Mabel W. Fogg, Abbie (Brown) Kimball, Ellen (Hilliard) Brown, Amos Brown of Illinois, Sarah G. Fogg, and Marion I. Fogg.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 17b: The Fogg Family having a clambake at the Rocks Dock in Seabrook. John D. Fogg is in the foreground and George A Fogg is at the far right beside the horse and buggy, 1900.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 18a: Line Church School headed for Hampton Beach, 1904. John D. Fogg is the 8th person from the left, sitting in the third row.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 18b: Taking a Sunday drive, 1908. L. to r.: John D., Marion I., Chester N., and Mabel W. Fogg.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 19a: Making a quilt in the barn on the Fogg Farm, 1914. L. to r.: Helen Pollard, John D. Fogg, Mary I. Pollard, Sarah G. Fogg, Chester N. Fogg, and Marion I. Fogg.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 19b: John's wife, Mary Olive (Evans) Fogg, and their first child, George Austin Fogg, 1921.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 20a: Hampton Falls Town Hall, built in 1878, where John conducted his duties as a selectman from 1926-1939.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 20b: Dedication of the John D. Fogg Park, October 13, 1974. L. to r.: John D. Fogg, Eugene A. Heal, and Robert Davies.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 20c: John D. Fogg with the John Deere Co., filming crew on the Hampton Falls marsh, 1978.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 23: Chester Knowles at Brown's River near the Rocks Dock during the August Season.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 26a: Map of the Hampton Falls and Seabrook marshland.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 26b: Amos Chase.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 26c: The Rocks Dock in Seabrook, where the farmers would camp out during the harvest season, 1902. To the far right is a gundalow loaded with salt hay.
(Courtesy of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 30a: Dodge Bog Shoe.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 30b: Randall Bog Shoes, used by the Fogg Family.
(Collection of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 31a: Poney, the first horse used to mow the marsh by the Fogg Family, 1903.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 31b: William H. Bragg and his son Carl S. Bragg at their home on Dearborn Avenue in Seabrook. Man holding reins of horse is Frank Ordway, 1908.
(Courtesy of Elizabeth H. Bragg)
Page 31c: John Allan Brown and Clara M. Hatch, his wife.
(Courtesy of Hubert R. Brown)
Page 32a: Paul E. Batchelder with his horses, "Buddy" and "Daisy," mowing on the Fred P. Sanborn marsh in Hampton Falls.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 32b: Arthur Evans' rig and horse, "Bill," after cutting and stacking hay, 1926.
(Courtesy of Mildred Evans)
Page 32c: John N. Sanborn.
(History of Hampton Falls, Vol. II)
Page 37: John D. Fogg's Account Book, showing the date, acreage, and cost for mowing the hay on the Hampton Falls and Seabrook marshes, 1916.
(Collection of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 38: Porter Brown with a hay fork -- Summer of 1922. Charles B. Brown on Hay Stack. L. to r.: Gladys Prescott, Myron Brown, Elinore Brown, Helen Prescott, Porter Brown, and Jennie Prescott.
(Courtesy of Hubert R. Brown)
Page 42a: Arthur Evans' rig after cutting and stacking the marsh hay in 1926, and his horse, "Bill."
(Courtesy of Mildred Evans)
Page 42b: Charles N. Dodge.
(History of Hampton Falls, Vol. II)
Page 42c: Augustus Fogg.
(Courtesy of Grace, Harvey and Huldah Fogg)
Page 42d: John W. Locke.
(Donald N. Small Collection)
Page 42e: Joseph B. Cram.
(History of Hampton Falls, Vol. II)
Page 43a: Percy S. Weare.
(Courtesy of Natalie Pond)
Page 43b: George F. Merrill.
(History of Hampton Falls, Vol. II)
Page 43c: Chowder Party at Seabrook Beach. L. to r.: John D. Fogg, George A. Fogg, Chester N. Fogg, Herbert Brown, David Brown, Ralph Fish, Arthur (Skipper) Evans, David Brown, Charles Card and Sumner Card, 1902.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 44a: Paul E. Batchelder's Team, 1926.
(Courtesy of Mildred Evans)
Page 44b: Charles H. Bragg.
(Courtesy of Jean Bragg Eaton)
Page 44c: A home on Rock's Road, showing how the salt hay was used as banking against the foundation as an insulation during the winter. L. to r.: Josephine Felch, and George Everett Felch.
(Courtesy of Dorothy L. Knowles)
Page 47a: Brownie, the first mare used by the Foggs on the marsh.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 47b: Jack.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 48a: Hay Drag, used to take the hay from the windrow to the stack.
(Collection of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 48b: William (Bill) Davis with Nellie, a clever mare with a memory of an elephant.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 48c: Carl S. Bragg.
(Courtesy of Elizabeth H. Bragg)
Page 51a: Carolus Woodwell, son of the minister of the Line Church, on the Brown's River in front of the thatch grass at the Seabrook marsh, 1904.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 51b: Leavitt W. Brown.
(Courtesy of Doris Schrempf)
Page 52a: Pitching hay from a gundalow to a hay wagon at Walton's Landing in Seabrook, 1903. On haystack -- David Follansbee. L. to r.: F. Phineas Beckman, Lawreston Eaton, Albridge Jones and Edwin Morris Eaton.
(Collection of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 52b: William H. Walton holding the reigns on a hay wagon at Walton's Landing at Seabrook, 1897.
(Jere L. Smith Collection)
Page 53a: Gundalow and Hay Wagon at Walton's Landing in Seabrook, 1903. L. to r.: F. Phineas Beckman, Lawreston Eaton, David W. Beckman and Herman Beckman.
(Collection of the Historical Society of Seabrook)
Page 53b: The Chase family unloads salt hay from a gundalow at Walton's Landing in Seabrook.
(Courtesy of the Josiah Chase Family)
Page 54a: Farm Dock, Hunt's Island to the left and Beckman's Island to the right, in Seabrook, 1937.
(Courtesy of Gertrude B. Humphrey)
Page 54b: Canal at the Farm Dock, 1937.
(Courtesy of Gertrude B. Humphrey)
Page 54c: Gundalow at Hampton Falls Depot Dock.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 56a: Stephen Brown with his Devon cattle.
(Courtesy of Leavitt W. Brown)
Page 56b: John D. Fogg with a dog and John Colby Evans with his yoke of oxen, 1908.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 56c: John Colby Evans hauling marsh hay with a yoke of oxen.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 56d: John C. Sanborn.
(History of Hampton Falls, Vol. II)
Page 56e: George J. Curtis.
(History of Hampton Falls, Vol. II)
Page 57a: Ellsworth Brown.
(Courtesy of Martha Green)
Page 57b: F. Phineas Beckman.
(Courtesy of F. Herman Beckman)
Page 57c: John T. Philbrick.
(Courtesy of Stanley A. Hamel)
Page 58a: Article 9 of the 1850 Seabrook Town Meeting, asking the voters how to dispose of the thatch and grass growing on Common Island.
(Courtesy of the Town of Seabrook)
Page 58b: The 1850 Town Meeting voted to auction off the thatch and grass on Common Island.
(Courtesy of the Town of Seabrook)
Page 59: Dedication of the Mile-Long Bridgeat Hampton Beach, May 14, 1902.
(Frank Be. Fogg Collection)
Page 60a: The Mile-Long Bridge, 1904.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 60b: Hampton Falls Railroad Depot.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 60c: Piling for the Mile Long-Bridge being floated on rafts with the tide from the Hampton Falls Depot Dock, 1901.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 64a: Seabrook Village after a snowstorm, looking south toward the Line Church Parsonage and the Dearborn Academy, 1902.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 64b: Shoveling snow on Post Road in Seabrook, 1934.
(Courtesy of Abbie A. Small)
Page 66a: John T. Batchelder.
(Courtesy of Martha R. Batchelder)
Page 66b: David F. Batchelder.
(Courtesy of Martha R. Batchelder)
Page 66c: Warren H. Batchelder.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 67: Andy Fogg. (Donald N. Small Collection)
Page 69: Forrest C. Chase.
(John D. Fogg Collection)
Page 70a: George A. Fogg mowing the field at Fogg's Corner in Seabrook, 1900.
(Frank B. Fogg Collection)
Page 70b: John D. Fogg plowing his corn field with a horse, Jack, and a bull, Tom, 1930.
(John D. Fogg Collection)