Nicholas4 Caverly (Nathaniel3, Thomas2, Moses1)
Nicholas Caverly was born in Barrington, Strafford County, New Hampshire on 13 August 1791, son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Daniels) Caverly. He married Betsey Stickney, daughter of Nathan and Rachel (Phelps) Stickney, on 1 July 1817 in Orford, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He died in Barrington 31 December 1866 and was buried in the Nathaniel Caverly Family Cemetery.1
Nicholas was a farmer. He had two children: John Stickney and Nathaniel. For a short time around 1816 he and his brother Joseph relocated to Orford, Grafton County, New Hampshire, where he met and married Betsey Stickney. He returned to Barrington around 1820; his brother Joseph remained in Orford, where he married Olive Gage, had six children, and died on 7 November 1839.2
The Journal of Reverend Enoch Hayes Place, a Free-Will Baptist minister and spiritual advisor to the Caverly family, lends insight into the religious life of the Caverly Family. Below are excerpts from the Journal of Reverend Place, referring to several visits he made to the home of Nicholas and his family.
Wednesday evening, October 30, 1833: Preached at Mr. Nicholas Caverly’s in Barrington to a crowded assembly. Quite a number kneeled for prayers, and some found peace and exhorted for the first time. Converts were very happy and old saints made to rejoice.3
Sunday, February 16, 1834: Preached to a multitude at Brother Nicholas Caverly’s and baptized Brother Andrew Hawkins, John Brown and Ephraim Caverly, three tall men, the two former heads of families, much of the divine influence was felt both at the house and at the water.4
Wednesday, February 11, 1835: Attended monthly meeting at Deacon Hale’s and preached to a full assembly in the evening at Brother Nicholas Caverly’s.5
Wednesday evening, December 23, 1835: Preached at Brother Nicholas Caverly’s in Barrington. Several spoke in the meeting of God’s goodness.6
Monday, October 17, 1842: My son William Smith his wife and her brother Mr, John E. Foss took leave of us to go home to Charleston ME. Some 200 miles from this, our house was crowded with the kind neighbors and friends. We kneeled and prayed together, tears flowed like rain, and all seemed to rejoice in that blessed hope, that glorious hope of meeting all our friends in heaven. Our dear children have spent 4 weeks with us in New Hampshire for which we feel glad and thankful, although duty has called me from home and I have spent but a few hours at any one time with them. My daughter Susan Demerett and me went with them to Brother Nicholas Caverly’s in Barrington, where they were to take Sister Olive Twombly with them to Charleston. Here we had another solemn weeping praying time, and then gave the parting hand to our dear friends wishing them God’s blessing and praying that he would send His angel before them and keep them safe through all the dangers on the way.7
Monday, September 1, 1845: Visited Brother Nicholas Caverly and his father, both very sick, with others in Barrington and Strafford.8
Friday, February 11, 1859: We visited at Brother Nicholas Caverly’s in Barrington. Good time and good presents. God bless them.9
Friday, December 9, 1859: I visited and prayed at five houses in this town and Barrington, mainly with the sick. Wife went with me as far as Deacon Smith’s. We imparted of such as we had to a poor sick sister to make her comfortable, and the Lord gave us more than four fold at Brother Nicholas Caverly’s and Deacon E. Smith’s before we got home.10
Saturday, March 8, 1862: We visited and prayed at Brother Timothy Drew’s and Brother Nicholas Caverly’s in Barrington. Sold one history, and received one dollar as a present from Mrs. John S. Caverly.11
Wednesday, June 3, 1863: Visited by request at the house of Brother Nicholas Caverly, in Barrington, whose grandson Nathaniel Caverly, a beautiful youth of some over 17 years, fell at the battle of Chancellorsville, with the Captain Lewis H. Buzzell before named. No historian can ever delineate the horrors of this bloody war.12References:
1 Nathaniel Caverly Family Bible, in the possession of Lynne Rhodes, a copy of whose records are in the R. Stanton Avery, Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
2 Nathaniel Caverly Family Bible.
3 William E. Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 2 vols. (Boston, Mass.: NEHGS and NHSOG, 1998), 1:371.
4 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 1:379.
5 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 1:404.
6 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 1:425.
7 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 1:622.
8 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 1:745.
9 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 2:1394.
10 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 2:1436-7.
11 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 2:1558.
12 Wentworth, Journals of Enoch Hayes Place, 2:1617. Reverend Place was in error when he referred to Nathaniel's death at Chancellorsville; Nathaniel died in the Battle of Providence Church Road on the last day of the Siege of Suffolk, the other campaign that occurred in Virginia in early May 1863.
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