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In 1761 the last of the French and Indian Wars were nearly over with, only sporadic fighting was flaring up. Enoch Hapgood received his discharge papers shortly after the capture of Fort Detroit. He chose to walk home to Concord New Hampshire. As on of Rodger's Rangers he knew he could make better time walking than riding a horse through the wilderness. Besides the British Army wasn't inclined to provide horses for civilians. From Fort Detroit he traveled to Fort Niagara and on to Fort Oswego in New York Province. Then down the Mohawk River to the Hudson River and across the New Hampshire Grants to his home in Concord. Once there, he went to work in his father's sawmill. He was ready to settle down and lead a peaceful life. He was also determined to have nothing more to to with the British Army. Then, his father learned that a new township was looking for someone to start a sawmill up north of Fort Wentworth in the Stonington Grant. Enoch had spent some time there on the return from the raid on Saint Francis. It was good land and there were good stands of timber to supply a mill. They decided to expand the family business...
















