Mt. Moosilauke (1825) - Daniel Welch
". . . Daniel Welch, who was crazy by spells, started about 1825 to go from Mr. Daniel Ramsey's by Silver rill, to Joseph French's east of Knight hill, where Stephen Noyes once lived. He never reached the place and was never seen again. The old story runs that straying away through the woods far up the side of Moosehillock, he perished in the great gorge, south of the lower mountain peak, and that his spirit still crazed wandersthere yet.
Old hunters who took their last journeys in the forest about this time used to tell how no one ever stopped in that gorge at night without experiencing a haunted and weird like feeling, and some said they had heard the lost man just at nightfall calling for help from the shadowy gorge, and had seen his white ghost gliding noiselessly through the stunted spruces mid dark firs.*
*Welch gave the town much trouble as will be seen by the following following from the town records:
1821 - Due Nathaniel Clough $3.94 for advertising Daniel Welch.
1821 - Paid Joseph Kimball for going after him $7.32."
From "The History of Warren, A Mountain Hamlet Located Among the White Hills of New Hampshire" by William Little, 1870.
