Samuel [6], my grandfather, was an old style schoolmaster, presiding over the various nearby "district schools". He married Sarah Gilman, descended from Moses Gilman of early Exeter history, and for years they lived with their children and their children's families in the old Gilman Homestead. This house is said to have been built in 1707 and is still in use, one of the landmarks of that section. Samuel's [6] children were Ellen A., born 1843; Frances S., bom 1845; and S. Roswell [7], born in 1847, my father. Samuel [6] died in 1888, and Roswell, after engaging in the carriage business for some years in Exeter, finally carried on the farming activities at the old Gilman homestead. In 1872 he married Mary A. Smith and his children were two sons Leroy d. [8], bom 1876, and Frank G. [8], born 1879.

Frank G. [8] married Harriet Burlingame of Exeter in 1914 and has one daughter, Estelle G., born 1916. He is a leading contractor and builder in Exeter and lives in the above mentioned old Gilman homestead, which he has improved and kept in fine repair. Leroy D. [8] is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1898. He first practiced civil engineering, but in 1910 became associated with Roger W. Babson Statistical Organization. In 1901 he married Fannie Nottage of Maiden, Massachusetts, and they have six children — Ethel B., born 1903; Dorothy N.,