while teaching a winter school in that district. Judge Folsom was a man of mark in that day, standing for much that is strongest and best in our New England character. He was one of the judges of a court of sessions established in 1820, laying out roads, auditing accounts, etc. He was made a deacon

or elder in the Presbyterian church in 1833, represented Chester in the legislature of 1809, and later removed to Derry, from which town he was representative several years. He died August 9, 1850.

The hotel ceased to be profitable when the railroad took off the up-country freight from the turnpike, and its decayed and falling timbers have long disappeared. The estate is now owned by Mr. Walter M. Parker, who has added to the beauty of the original site by extensive improvements. A fine stable of brick with stone trimmings is completed, and a summer residence to be shortly occupied is well under way. The fine photographic view which accompanies this paper will give a good idea of the situation as it is today. Mr. Parker, whose ample wealth allows him to indulge his taste for the beautiful land and water scenery of this region, owns about four hundred acres on the lake shores, including Battery point.

The next largest owner of land on the shores of Lake Massabesic in Auburn is Mr. Andrew F. Fox, who has been many times a selectman in that town, moderator of town meetings, and was representative to the general court in 1852-53. The Island Pond house was built early in the forties by Bradford Beals and Henry C. Joy. They purchased a lot on Caesar's beach, an interesting locality, which received its name from one Caesar Harvey, of whom more anon. one of the best beaches about the lake, a quiet, sequestered spot with abundant forest growth about, inviting to cool drives in summer time and commanding an uninterrupted view northward across the lake with Birch and Deer or Brown's island on the right, and Fletcher's on the left, for nearly three miles to the Massabesic house. Not far from the site of the tavern

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may be seen remains of a cellar, and the foundations of what is said to have been the birthplace and residence of the composer of the music of the "Sweet Bye and Bye," interesting account of which may be found on page eighty-one, volume 1, of the Manchester Historical Collections.

Before the completion of the tavern Beals sold to Joy, who finished and conducted the establishment successfully for eight years. He maintained a fleet of sail and row boats, gave famous fish dinners, and was well patronized by city residents, who were wont to temper their hard work with occasional relaxation. The fact that there was a rigorous prohibition law probably added to the zest of these occasions, and it not infrequently happened that some who zealously voted for the law cheerfully assisted in breaking it. There were no electric cars at that time and it was the heyday of the livery stables. On Sundays and holidays teams were in great demand. Mr. Joy died. May 2, 1868, and the place was sold to C. M. Hubbard, during whose ownership the house was burned. Later it was rebuilt and owned by Capt. David Perkins, but was finally again destroyed by fire, and was purchased by the water commission of the city of Manchester.

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In following up and tracing out the old stories that hang about the shores of the lake like last year's robin's nests, it is interesting to observe how a tale grows in length and breadth until the party who set it in motion would no longer recognize it as his own. I had heard, for instance, of Caesar's beach, but not where or why. Several persons knew so much but no After awhile some one said Caesar was a negro. might have inferred that, but said, "Good! we are progressing." Another said he was a slave who escaped from Salem before slavery was abolished in Massachusetts, which would make the time of his coming before 1780. A third said that he was brought over by one Captain Harvey from whose name he was known as Caesar Harvey, and on escaping from his master's control became a squatter at the tail end of the Massabesic.