He said fiercely, "I will buy two guns, go to Concord, kill Judge Stanton with one, and shoot myself with the other, or else wait quietly till spring and see what will come of it." A possible precursor of President Wilson's Mexican policy.
He was accused by a woman of milking a cow in her pasture; pleaded guilty, but added, "I left a ten-cent piece on the fence." An East Hanover man is remembered for his cheek in slyly picking lettuce or parsley in the gardens of the professors and then selling them at the back door to their wives.
And a farmer from Vermont who used to sell tempting vegetables from his large farm.

He was so friendly he cordially greeted the ladies who bought from him with a kiss.

Grandmother evaded this attention by stating her age, and so was unmolested.

The names of his family were arranged in alphabetical order.

"Hannah A., give Miss Kate another cup of coffee; Noah B., pass the butter; Emma C., guess you better hand round the riz biscuit." Life then was a solemn business at Hanover.