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week we coldbatte the 390th anniversary of the founding of Andover, Kopractice.s.
This afternoon wo father to provide some of the chief incidents in our history. 1
For the beginning of the story we must turn back to the last of the sixteenth century, when people In England word not allowed to worship Cod In the way they wished. A very well group turned to a new country for freedom-ed Now Ing- land-and selling on the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth In 1020. Von years later noro este, by com a settlement called . tho Massachusetts Day Colony. And yet more and more comc. To chcourage pourlumult further inland, the Conszal Court Of- force special privileges ff those willing to undertake the Stranous tache. West of who accepted this offer?
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The worl of the Indian bravos was to fight, hund, and rich; the wordd word the bone molto.
Bebe 2. Purchase of indo
It was from theco Indiane tho 1and Sor Andbier 150 Duru chobed. Preceding the noir puntiora Room Newtonme near Cum- 1 belage, come Rov. John Woodbelogo and . Edmond Faulkner, to Arrange the sorts of calo with Outchemache, the Midion Engano.a. for only sim porada currency and a rod overcoat, she white people come into possession of all the land 2yo ..
over, retained the right to bele timmass from Cho waterd ao long as they left untouched the prepe of the white inimbitante. Zegne 3. Incorporation of Ser
Theugh protesting the Mont lone ; Ougou Ache be- Compendiod Hove Mr. Woodbridge ...
de @ Town, named for Andover 1 Junta County; Destand, which And once boon hone oo many of clans me . sotelorss
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Did you over wonder what SERIE WORD LANE three hundred years ago? At first there were no school buildings but chil- dren gathered in homes where we housewife would divide her time between touching the children and doing her household In payment for instruc Cion, The pupils hoired with the housevors ate sometinup with the preparation of dinmor. .
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Mest sick of further transgression. Ayo, and further
marc, thou shalt year the dunce cap and knock by my chair, that cil : : y coo and profit by thy punishment.
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DAMG SOMERORT: Very well done, children. Now, Feroniah,
Jonathan, Bet . and poli fon thy copybook.
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Satan got our children. Do teamp that which needs preparation, whiles D'eton into the buttery and stir up a spider-cake.
Beend 2. Wiring the First Public Cancol Toucher.
By 1700, there were weis than 100. Tomilics LAving in Andover. For towns of fire wire the law required & Cowaldor School. The first Town Fetich relating to the Grammar School as, recording to IMse soithoy, in february of 1700 of 1701. "Voted and place. at avclient schoolhouse be erected at ve putting of Tobein Wilconis, to be twenty foot long tail alat- only to find a schooldaher For thede wand for your non who wene edtoused to fill TIL position. However, In
In November, die Select
ment to the cocesion.
21. Bralalgo. t carte the offer of forty you and the
Sache 3. Eks Memorial Hall Liberty.
In the South Church, on Tap. 30, 1073, the townspeople. Gathered to dedicato a Memorial Hall and library to the memory of our Civil War Seed. The generosity of o very small number of prominent Verheran provided the larger part of the funds for the corefiet of'. building and the pur- chase of about 3,000 volumes.
At the dedication on Mer MMorich will and library the main address was given. the fomotto minictor, NOV. Phillipe Brooku, who sell In aloving, "It has' sver boon proved that the cuituro of Froko milieu men fit for the chly sort of soldicsship we wont -- the coldfership fes Principles and .Truth, Go In ioviny rahory of the 22 Men whoos natel appear on the memorial tablet, Ho dedicato our Memorial Hall, to Truth, to Loyetis, to Conscience, to Courage, to Culture."
Goder, circulation fileror Macloste an interest in learning and culture on the art Of anu towhopeople Cally Justifying this selection by our fortrailers of a literary as a memorial to our soldier Acct.
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In 1778, the darkest , sur of the Revolution, Phil11'S Aundamy at And over was founded by Samuel Phillips, Jf .. ·
with the financial easistente d' his father, Acquire 2011119 of andover, and his anale, John Phillips of water. In the Constitution, the founders sumolved that the school should instruct youth in "the fresh and and real business of living .? Ap-11 26, 1778, the sonrd of Trus.des -- including thees members of the Phillips kuul . the grandfathers of games Russell aswell and olives w - rolhas, and seven other friends of the foundun -B. he threw meeting. . Two days later, the school opencl Phillips ond main _12. ace from six co chimy Hiphalet Pearson La .
signed by John Hunter, malet
rated auchany in the country School scal was too years later Designed and Hagoned by Paul Revere.
In 1807, Che Trustee Sallela constitution Cop
nicolo_ical seminar, and ....
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cich was flourishinc. alanda or orthodoxy, at alanta- Tera preached throughout the sender and its micolcuantos- after a ceremony of prayer ox -le bichar; hock, ndur Rabbitt's Pond -- traveled at the end of the so-called med. then World " to South andeira, to Marion, to Aid, and even to the Hawaiian Islands Growing side by side with
1908, when it moved to Cambridge.
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Through the years, the school has grown educationally under many fetus headmestere and their faculties; and many national figuras, drawn to the cebook to address the inder Graduaton -- Buch non as Coord Nachington, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Tart, and Calvin Coolidge-left thele mark on the student mind. And it is with pride that we redd buch namco on our list of graduates at Josiah Quincy, John Kirkland, Samuel F. B. Horse, Oliver Wendell Holmes, old Howty L. Stimcon. Tho
chool has grown physically, ved. The beautiful campus Coday in the work of three famous grouteore; Charles Bulfinch, Buy Lowell, 12, and Charles Blatt.
And so Phillipe Acadony, lobu Tounder vol a friend of George Washington, has cons Tom .... in the spirit of & pioncer -- with vision, with compare -- with the very quali~ thcs which have alynyo Aoflusneed the destinies af ous
The Boundary at Albany Anddont.
In 1828, so the story good, What Burgh Abbot, a con- noction of the phillipsi famlly who founded Phillips Enctar and Andover, asked Square Dameel Farrar, "What chail : do with my surplus fund ?? " Mia reply to Madam Abbot come immediately, " Found an Acadony in Andover for the cducation
There had already been como discussion ao to the decimalality of Having a blood for girls in Andover.
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of higher education in Andover. Let us turn to the committee choses by the town to Paraît resolutions expressive of appre- clative acceptance" of this donation. The chairman is N. W. Hazen, Esquire.
ONE: (Looking over will of Mr. Punchard) It is a fino thing that Mr. Punchard has done for the town of Andovor. BAZEN: It is, indeed, Gentlemen, won't you be seated? Fifty thousand dollars with a further beruest of 320,000. With that, Andover may have a High School of which she may be justly proud.
TUO : Mr. Funchard realized that an educated town would menn a progressive town. 2 bellov. he had the best in edu- cation offered him with ho val ton years of age. At that time, his father's death note it necessary for him to give up school Ascendance.
HAZEN: Ycs, and from then bu, everything he attained was Que to his own effort. Few mon at the age of twenty eight would have had the ability and determination to amacs c. fortune .
It has been fortunato For Andover that Mr. Punch. a native of Salem, decided to live here. . Ho has donc much to benefit the town.
ONE: First, by his contribution of intelligent citizenship; in business as a stockholder of the Andover bank; as a partner with his brother, and later as a partner with his brother-in-law, I. Ad he Marland of the Marland Manufacturing Co.r.nr.
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HAZEN: We must do him the honor that is rightfully his. Let us soe. Wo must "cherish the memory of his virtuo. " (He writes. )
"We recognize the obligationo conferred upon us by his enterprise and success in adding to the wealth and in- creasing the prosperity of the town." (Hazen writes. ) HAZEN; . W. . . and we recommend to the trustees under his will, to whom he has so largely confided the super- structure of the school, to adopt the most effectual means to associate his nome and memory with the in- stitution which he has founded and so munificently endowed. "
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You have said much in choos few lines. (They rise. ) We are indeed grateful to Mr. Funchard, and we know that the trustees ho hat appointed, the ministers of the Christ, South, and West Parishes, and the five to be chosen by the town, will do everything possible to carry out his wishes in giving Andover a botter system of education.
Scene 3. The Junior Dia coni.
Part I.
From the little cluster of homesteads of the 1600'3. andover has developed into a sizable com.alarge enough to be incorporated as a city, if. we dosirco to do so. In
1850, our inhabitants numbered Jons than 7. 000; today we are close to the 12 000 wow. The growth in population
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coupled with the expansion of our program of public câucu- tion, made the need for now school buildings increasingly evident. A new Punohard High School in 1917; a new gram- mar school in Shawcheon In 1933; and in the midst of the depression years of the 30's, the brave decision was mado to initiate another building program, On a retter cold December ovoning in 1935, = special Town Meeting was held in the Phillips Academy care and money appropriated for the creation of a Junior High School wing and a gymnasium- auditorium unit which chould connect the new wing with the centor high school and bo uoed by both units. The plans as carried out placed the gymnasium-auditorium unit between the junior and the senior high schools; thus it serves as a connecting link and is readily accessible for use by both cchools. It has been dedicated se a World War I Memorial and is used for Town Meetings and many other public assem-
Port IL.
Some months wore needed to complete surveys, archi .. toctural plane, and arrangements for o federal government loan through the public works administration, but presently, on a certain Monday morning in September, 1934, the corner~ stone was leid. Into a copper box wont records and doou- mento selected as being of special interest or importance. Then the box was set in the cornerstone and mortar woo placed oround it by members of the committee. Our new school buildings were under way:
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But a bigger moment was pet to como. For ton monthe contractor's crows, masons, carpenters, and others skilled în the building trades, shared about tho place. By carly June of 1055, less than a year ahser the cornerstone vas laid, the. junior high school was completed, and on Juno 15 an unusual procession could be ceon: toans of children moving across the campus betrong Stove and Jackson Schools and the new building, carrying booles, chp illos, and amall equipment. Is was moving day for the central schools.
It had been suggested that the junior high school be named for Miss Clare Hathim, withes, principal, and beloved counselor of our souls people formany years, but it was found that no building Sor which federal funds wore appropriated could be named for a living porson, So tho titles romain: £ Tho Andover Janlov, High School and the Komorial Auditorium and Gymnasium.
Although the program of caucation carriod oW in hoso and our other public school Lathis is not pallet, wo . do take pride in its clonents of value and we Look con- Midently to a future that will hold even better cine. tlou- Al opportunities for the boys and girls of our town.
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although Andover, has oors to be best known ss & school town, there are high lights in hor social development, too.
Scene 1. Ann -- Bradstreet.
In the original North Parish of Andover stunds a house around which cling the accoof tions of nearly three cen- turies. It is especially Interesting as having been the home of the first woman pout of araover. Ann Bradstreet and her husband, Simon, care choun" the carliest settlers to Ancover. Mir. Bradetroot was ch entorprising and far- sheing Puritan man of affiles. Mhn, who had grown up 1n an English castle, found the hardships of Colonial life a cevore tez upon hor dollcaso constitution. To take hor mind .
from her physical disco "orts and to fill Ler hours of loreliness, she turnou her mind to writing poetry. Her poems were first published without her knowledge and wege pre- conteu to her by her brother-in-law, Rev. John Woodbpidre, the minister of the first church of Andover.
By the literary mon of her times, MIrs. Bradstroot was regarded as a person of unusual talent. They liked those cender lines written from hos depiro to leave something to her children:
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"That being gone you here may find What was your loving mother's mind Make use of what I leave in Love And God shall bless you from Above." Her courageous spirit and brilliant mind were passed on as a.rich heritage to such famous descendants as William Ellery Channing, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Danao
Scene 2. The Locke Tavern and Mansion.
As we turn. back the pages of memory we find many out- standing celebrities who have visited our historic town. President washington in 1799 breakfasted at Deacon Abbot's Tavern. While carrying there he pskod the daughter of Deacon Abbot to mend his riding glove. When she had done so, he showed his appreciation by gently kissing the maid, which so elated Miss Priscilla that she would not allow her face to be washed for a week.
Our next pleasant memory is of the great day when Concral Lafayette, "The Nation's Guest, " was entertained at the Mansion House. He was received by a com's of Cavol- . ry on that day in June, 1825, Harriet Boccher Stowe lived in Andover while her husband taught at the Theological Seminary. Many more pleasant memories cluster about the old Mansion House, for after its transformation into a tavern it became the logical center of social life
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on Andover Hill. Among its mony noted visitors were Lafayette, Daniel Webster, President Pierce, Mark Twain, J'encell Phillips and Ralph Waldo emerson, who in 1829 en- tertained the people' of Andover with his interesting lec- tures. As we peep into Phillips Academy in 1811 we Find oliver Wendell Holmes writing of his sports at "Pomp's. " The memory of thece happy days led him to write the following:
"Still in the waters of the dark Shawsheen Do the young bathers splash and think they're clean, Do Pilgrims find their way to Indian Ridge, Or journey onward to the far off bridge, And bring to younger caro the story back 02 swimming in the broad and wichty Herrimac." Another who brought fome to Andover was Dr. warmel Smith who wrote, "America" in 1832 while he was a student at the Theological Seminary.
scene 3. Founding of Guild
The Andover Guild as we know it today was so named and organized on June 12, 1896. The organization had already existed for three years under the name of the Society for Organized Charity. The first real home of the Guild was at its present location on Brock Street. The purchase of the lot was made pogoiblo by private subscription. The
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precont building was finished and the formel oponing and housewarming held in December, 1296. Rov. Frodorick Polmor presided, and during an address to the guests said, "Thc cim of the Guild is to promote Industrial, Educational, and Philanthropie Work in the Town of Andovor." The Depart- ments originally organized werc:
Relief Work, Stamp Savings, Boyo' Club, General Fund, and Sewing School, Through the years the program of activities has been greatly enlarged and today the Guild continues to fill a very real noed in the life of the community.
Scene 4. Minuet.
One of the bright spots in a way of life necessarily stern and exacting was the forcing party. The dress of the period coupled with the beauty of the music and the 850ce of the dance itself made such an cecasion a charming inter- lude. The carliest record of a public dancing party is found in the cards losued in 180s for Mr. Ancart's school The dancing legan precisely at four o'clock in the afternoon, at Parker's Hall In the North Parich, A color- od fiddler usually mode musie for the denoore. Cato of North Andover was famous. Among the more popular and beau- tiful of the ances was the Minuct.
Scono 5. Portland Fancy,
Aucg the English country dances popular with the colonists was the Portland Fancy. We still consider it onc of our favorite square danceo.
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Let us turn now to the more serious side of every day living, as we look into the book of Barly American Industries.
Scone lv Forms.
The settlers were indoct fortunate to have in the land that they had purchased tho only fortile soil bo- tween the sands of the Horrimme and tho swamps of Ipswich. Largo farms naturally developed to provide oorn boans, flax, and barley. The housewives directed the milkmaids making butter and cheese and tho bondsnon out and raked the hay and took the corn by oxcart to the gristmill.
Scene 20 The Gristrill.
The first coun gristnill was built in 1718 hear the present Hussey's Pond in Shawahoon Tho miller, Comuch Toys, and his holper ground the corn between to largo grooved stones, turned by a hugo water wheat. The geist was used not only for bread and cakes in the homes but use fed to the animals , : - the pagos of the book of industry we see that Andover's manufacturing gre. op along the banks of the Shawshoon River -- & natural source of power ..
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Scene 5. Powder Mill.
The urgent need for gun powder In 1775 prompted. Samuel Phillipe to build a powder mill on the bank of the Showcheen. The powder was of such a blend that the Commander of the Continental Army, General George Wach- ington, used to send a opcetel messenger for it. The mill oporatod successfully for over twenty years, but a series of explosions in which several people were billed brought forth Town Counsel offers for its closing.
Scone A. Paper M131.
Meanwhile in 1730, Mr. Phillips hod embarded on a new project. For a short time, operations were conducted in the powder mill, while the paper mill was being con- structed .. Thrifty and patriotic Dow England housewives were encouraged to save rago and bring them to the mill. Back to the paper mills we co for the origin of the hurtlo ragbes, which has long cinco become an institution in Toy England homos.
Sogne 5. Printing.
A printing establishment vas bet up in 1793 By ADes and Parker, but it did not flourich. Thảo was 203.2080o. In 1815 by the firm of Flags and Could, The latter fix 1
at first printed for Doston fete Adoators but COM
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12rachel out into vider Molde. He other press in the country inc equipped with craftsmen and tvro to turn out booky in the Hebrew, Greek, or Cliental languages. 1 voc to Anuover, therefore, thet Halvard professors and others sent their orders to be filled.
Business growth and the consequent growth of money transactions crested demand for a bonk. In 1825 organi- zation meetings were held in Jimes Locke's hvorn. A petition to the State Legislature was drawn un, which resulted in the granting of a clever for the Anaever Netional DAIn, Korch 4, 2820.
sone 6. Flannels.
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In 1436 12. TincinyBallus» Cold to the Mailand Brothers the property and medvilages for a toolch mill. It was known as the Ballardvale Manufacturing Co., and was located in Ballardvalo on the Chevcheen hiver_ Tere, for the first time in the united States, tho procces of double spinning wes used, producing the first and rinoss of white flannels, which were especially suited to baby's clothing. Here, too, under the kind and capable guidonco of its later owner, J. Putnam Bradley, was mode a romor !: able record of pleasant capital-inulr relations.
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Scene Z.
For nine years John Smith and his partners operated a manufactory for ebtton machinery in Pryo Village. In 1833 he was joined by John Dove with whom he had worked in the flax mills of Scotland. While Mr. Smith built a flax mill, Mr. Dove went to Scotland to study flax mach- inery. Three years later the first manufacture of flax in America took place in Abbot Village. It was another "Andover First."-
As we close the book of Early Andover Industries wa have but glanced at the beginning of an unfolding tale of progress -- continuous progress that has kept us in step with the times. We cannot linger on this interesting phase of our growth in business and industry but that part of the story you may see for yourselves in the ex- hibit in our gymnasium.
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EPISODE CV
Scene 1. Witchcraft.'
By the time Andover had reached its fiftieth birth- day, Indian troubles and church difficulties, carlier sources of unease to the little settlement, had sub- sided and it seemed that our forefathers might look for- ward to days of greater poco and prosperity. But a new storm cloud was gathering, destined to shower fear and misery and heartbreak upon the lives of many. A
belief in the bewitching powers of Satan was widespread throughout Colonial church groups. Real tragedy stalk- ed the land when a panic of suspicion swept through whole communities, causing neighbors and friends and families to suspect each other of consorting with the Evil One. People thought guilty of witchcraft were brought to trial, but instead of clearing up the un- easiness, the very mannos of court procedure tended to increase the hysteria.' Many innocent people suffered , and some were condemned to death before the storm abatod. The most famous witchcraft case in Andover was that of Martha Carrier. During her trial at the Salem Courthouse in 1693; many a witness attested that Goody Carrier of Andover hurt him. Abigail Williams, Susan Sheldon and Benjamin Abbott testified to Goody Carrier's
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bewitching power, blaming hor for being the cause of their own physical ailments end -.... we their farm animals as well. . Even young children were called as witnescos. Eleven-year-old Phoebe Chandler, a neighbor o" Martha Carrier, swore that she also had been under hur evil power. Goddy Carrier steadfastly sucerted her innocence but the fatal and final words of the judge solemnly declared her guilty of witchcraft and orderod . her to jail. Later she was honged. 1
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MAGISTRATE: Next casc.
CLERK : Martha Carrier, charged with being a witch.
(Reads) Martha Carrier, you are charged with being a witch. Guilty or Not Guilty?
MARTHA: Not Guilty! CLERK : First witness. (ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Steps forward) Your name?
ABIGAIL: Abigail Williams.
CLERI: Do you owear to toll the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you, Coc?
ABIGAIL: I do.
Next witness. (SUS(U SHELDON oomen forward)
Your name.
Suben Sheldon.
Susan Sheldon, do you swoop to call, cto.
SUDAN:
ELIMINERE . Bucan Sheldon, the hunts you?
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Goody Carrier of Modovar Ak bites me, pinches me, and tells me she would out my throat if I did not sign her book.
EXAMINER : Next witness. (PEN JATI ABBOT stops up. )
CLERK: Your name?
BZN - Benjamin Abbot.
CLERK : Mr. Abbot, do you swear to tell, etc.
I do.
EYANINGER; Proceed.
BSX: Goody Carrier declarod che would stick as close as the bark of.h tree. She said I would repent my con- · duct afore seven years came to an end, and that she would hold my nose so close to grindstones as ever it was held since my name was Dinjamin Abbot. EXAMINER: Is that all?
DEN : No. Soon after this, I had a swelling on my foot, and a pain in my side which bred a core that dis- charged several gallons of corruption. I know Goody Carrier has bewitched mo.
EXAMINER: You are sure.
BEN: I am, for when she was taken away, I grew well, ELANISER : Is that all? HEN: It is. {Nie steps back)
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