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The following autographs are engraved from the origi- nals, signed by Maj. John Freeman, Mr. Thomas Clarke, the pilgrim, and Capt. Jonathan Bangs, son of Edward, the pilgrim, at Satucket in 1680. I suppose these ancient men have many thousands of descendants scattered over the world.
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WAREHAM. See Page 63.
This was formerly the eastern part of Rochester, a plantation of Plymouth. The Indian name was Wawayan- tat. It was first settled about 1682. Wareham is at the head of Buzzard's Bay, and watered by three rivers, the Weweantit, Wanwinko, and Agawam, all which fall about 50 feet, making a good water power.
The harbor is good and safe for vessels drawing 12 feet.
There are many mills and much iron working carried on in the town. Fish of many kinds abound in and around Wareham.
The town was incorporated in 1739. Population in 870, 3,098.
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APPENDIX.
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Town Officers of Wareham for 1872-3.
Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector - Alvin F. Gibbs.
Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor- Nathaniel Sherman, Alden Besse, Benjamin F. Gibbs.
Committee on Town Accounts - William A. Caswell, James R. Sproat, George F. Wing.
School Committee - John M. Kinney, Galen Hum- phrey, Samuel B. Bumpus.
Herring Committee, Agawam - Albert S. Hathaway, Samuel S. Bourne, Lewis D. Perry.
Weweantit - Joseph Shurtleff, Wm. A. Keyes, Henry W. Hall.
Constables - William L. Chipman, Alexander Swift, Daniel E. Swift, John A. Walsh, Isaiah C. Smith.
Highway Surveyors - William H. Mackie, John Gallt, Ebenezer Bryant.
Sextons - Charles H. Besse, Clark G. Swift.
Fire Wards - Joseph Shurtleff, A. S. Nye, A. S. Hatha- way, George F. Wing, William A. Caswell, Josiah C. Besse, Galen Humphrey, Nicholas Sherman.
Weighers of Coal - I. B. Bolles, Alexander Swift, Frank W. Kingman, J. W. Hurley, William H. Fearing.
Sealers of Weights and Measures - Alexander Swift, Francis Carr.
Surveyors of Lumber, Wood and Bark - Galon Hum- phrey, William A, Keyes, Lewis Waters, George F. Wing, Albert S. Hathaway, Charles F. Washburn.
CHURCHES.
First Congregational Church - Rev. I. C. Thacher, Pas. tor.
Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev. William Livesey, Pastor.
Methodist Episcopal Church, East Wareham - Rev. Wil- liam Livesey, Pastor.
St. Patrick's Catholic Church - Rev. H. F. Kinnerney, Pastor.
Masonic. Social Harmony Lodge - Regular meeting second Friday in each month, at Masonic Hall, Main Street. George F. Wing, W. M .; John M. Besse, S. W. ; A. B. Weston, J. W .; E. A. Gammon, Secretary ; N. J. Sher- · man, Treasurer.
Mount Horeb Lodge. No. 150, I. O. G. T. - Meet Wednesday evenings, at Parker Mills. John M. Besse, W. C. T. ; Henry Babcock, Secretary.
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PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Incorporated June 2, 1685. Shire Town, Plymouth.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Deputy Sheriffs.
Abington-Josiah Cushman. Bridgewater-P. D. Kingman. Duxbury-Wm. J. Alden. Honover-Hira W. Rates. Hingham-G. F. Hersey. Marion-Daniel Hall Marshfield-John Baker. Middleborough-James Cole,
jr. N. Bridgewater-Otis Hay- ward.
N. Carver-Benj. Ransom.
Plymouth-Jolin Perkins. John Atwood. Rochester-R. C. Randall.
Scituate-J. O. Cole.
Pembroke-Francis Merritt. . S. Scituate. Willard Torry, jr.
Jailer and Master of the House of Correction. Plymouth-James Bates.
Sessions of the Probate Court.
At Abington, 4th Mon. of May, Aug., and Nov.
At Bridgewater, 4th Mon. of Sept.
At East Bridgewater, 4th Mon. of Feb. and Dec.
At Hanover, 4th Mon. of June. At Hingham, 4th Mon. in March.
At Middleborough, 4th Mon. of Jan., April, and 2nd Mon. in July. At North Bridgewater, 3rd Mon. April and Oct.
At Plymouth, 2d Mon. of Jan., Feb., March, April, May, June, . Sep., Oct., Nov., and Dec.
At Wareham, 4th Mon. of Oct.
County Commissioners.
Joseph T. Wood, Middlebor- ough, term expires Dec. 1875; Win. P. Corthell, Abington, 1873; Charles HI. Paine, Halifax, 1874.
Special Commissioners .- Fred- erick Howard jr. of No. Bridge- water; Jedediah Dwelley, Han- over, 1874.
Times of Meeting-At Ply- mouth, 3d Tu. in March, Ist Tu. in Aug. and Jan.
Commissioners of Insol- vency.
Abington-Jacob B. Harris.
North Bridgewater-Jonas R. Perkins. Plymouth-Albert Mason.
Wreck Commissioners.
Duxbury-Elisha Holmes.
Hull -Nehemiah Ripley, jr.
Marshfield-John Baker, Otis Baker, Curtis B. Goodsil, George HI. Hall.
East Marshfield, Charles H. Tilden.
Plymouth-Josiah D. Baxter, Barnabas H. Holmes. South Plymouth - Comfort Whiting.
Scituate - Perry L. Parker, Jolin Tilden. North Scituate- Win. J. Mewcomb.
Master in Chancery.
Plymouth-William H. Whit- man.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
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Commissioners to Qual- ify Civil Officers.
Abington-Jesse E. Keith.
Bridgewater-Josh E. Crane, Abraham Washburn, 2d.
Hingham --- Amos Bates, Solo- mon Lincoln.
Middleborongh-Everett Rob- inson, Eliab Ward.
North Bridgewater-Geo. W. Bryant, Jonas R. Perkins.
Plymouth-Win. S. Danforth, Jacob H. Lond, John J. Russell, William II. Whitman.
Rochester-Jos. Haskell, The- ophilus King, James Ruggles.
Scituate-John Beal.
South Scituate - Samuel A. Turner.
Warcham-Seth Miller. West Bridgewater - Austin Packard.
Justices of the Peace.
[Including Justices of the Peace and Quorum desigdated by a *; and Justices throughout the Commonwealth desig- nated by a t.] .
Abington-Charles W. How- land, Freeman P. Howland, Jes- se E. Keith, Micah Nash, James Noyes, Henry B. Pierce, Otis W. Soule, George L. Richardson, Samuel B. Thaxter, John D. Wormell. East Abington-Na- thanicl Beal, Charles Bearse, tJacob B. Harris, Zenas Jenkins, Ezekiel R. Studley, Charles W. Soule, Franklin Smith, Horace C. Totman. North Abington- David Ford, James Ford, George W. Pratt, Edward P. Reed. South Abington - Williamn P. Corthell, Albert Davis, Samuel Dyer, Charles S. Morse, Wm. L. Reed, Hosea F. Whidden.
Bridgewater-Samuel Breck, Frederick Crafts, tJoshua E. Crane, Phillip E. Hill, *Lewis Holmes, Mitchell Hooper, Lafay- ette Keith, Francis D. King, Ho- sea *Kingman, Philip D. King- man, Williams Latha m, Frank- lin Leach, Philander Leach, Spen-
cer Leonard, tAsa Millet, Lloyd Parsons, Jeremiah Tucker, Eli Washburn.
Carver-tJesse Murdock, Ben- jamin Ransom, William Savery, Thomas Southworth, Thomas Vaughan.
Duxbury-William Bradford, William H. Cummings, Jonathan S. Ford, John Holmes, John S. Loring, Samuel Loring, Joshua W. Swift. South Duxbury - Harvey Soule. West Duxbury -Elbridge Chandler, Henry B. Maglathlin, Geo. B. Standish. South Marshfield-Benj. Boyl- ston.
East Bridgewater - Jacob Bates, Jos. Chamberloin, Aaron Hobart, jr., Henry Hobart, Ben- jamin W. Keith, Thomas Keith, Wm. H. Osborne, Calvin Reed.
Halifax-Edwin Inglee, Chas. H. Paine, Ira L. Sturtevant, Ephraim B. Thompson.
Hanover-Robert S. Curtis, Jedediah Dwellev.
Hanson-Andrew Bowker, Jo- sephus Bryant, Robert Perry, Jo- seph Smith, George F. Stetson. South Hanson-Isaiah Bearce, Eben B. K. Gurney. South Han- over-Edward Y. Perry.
Hingham - Quincy Bicknell, Solomon Lincoln, Charles N. Marsh, Charles W. Seymour, Elijah Shute, Sidney Sprague, +Joseph B. Thaxter.
Hingham Centre-James S. Lewis, Henry Siders.
Hull-Lewis P. Loring.
Kingston-Joseph S. Beal, Al- den S. Bradford. Philander Cobb, Samuel E. Cushman, Walter II. Faunce, Edward Gray, Noah Prince, Edwin Reed.
Lakeville - Reuben Hafford, Abiezier T. Harvey, John F. Montgomery, Job Pierce, Eleazer Richmond, Churchill T. West- gate, Henry L. Williams, Asa T. Winslow, J. Winslow.
Marion -* Obed Delano, Dan- iel Hall, Barnabas Hiller, Joseph S. Luce, Moses HI. Swift.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
150pp Mar shfield-John Baker, War- ren W. Barker, Nathaniel J. Da- mon, John Ford. North Marsh- field-t Hiram A. Oakman.
Mattapoisett - Wilson Bar- stow, Noah Hammond, Thomas Nelson, Noah C. Sturtevant.
Middleborough - John Ben- nett, Sylvanus Hinckley, Samuel T. Patterson, Noah C. Perkins, Everett Robinson, John C. Sulli- van, William A. Thompson, An- drew L. Tinkham, Sidney Tuck- er, Eliab Ward, Cornelius B. Wood, George W. Wood, Joseph T. Wood, tWilliam H. Wood. North Middleborough-Andrew L. Alden, Zebulon Pratt, Win. B. White. East Middleborough -Joshua M. Eddy, Augustus H. Soule. Rock-Ichabod F. At- wood. South Middleborough- Stillman Benson.
North Bridgewater-Frederic C. Blanchard, George W. Bryant, David L. Cowell, Francis M. French, Sumner A. Hayward, Augustus T. Jones, Edwin H. Kingman, Isaac Kingman, *Jonas R. Perkins, Wm. Perry, Loring W. Puffer, Isaac E. Snell, Ed- ward Southworth, fJonathan White. Campello-Nelson J. Foss, Josiah W. Kingman, Galen E. Pratt.
Pembroke (East), George F. Hatch, Andrew E. Poole. North Pembroke-Francis Collamore. South Hanson-William H. H. Bryant.
Plymouth-Gustavus D. Bates, James Bates, *Jos'h D. Baxter, Lemuel Bradford, Charles Q. Churchill, Charles M. Coolidge, James Cox, Daniel E. Damon, t William S. Danforth, +Charles G. Davis, Wm. T. Davis, George G. Dyer, Timothy Gordon, John T. Hall, Renjamin A. Hathaway, Barnabas H. Holmes, Thomas Loring, tJacob H. Loud, Lean-
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der Lovell, Albert Mason, John Perkins, Thomas Pierce, Daniel J. Robbins, Edmund Robbins, John J. Russell, Thomas B. Sears, Chas. W. Spooner, Isaac N. Stoddard, *William Thomas, Ezekiel C. Turner, *William H. Whitman, Oliver T. Wood. Chil- tonville-George Bramhall.
Plympton-Jas. C. Ellis, Zac- cheus Parker, William Perkins. North Plympton-Zenas Cush- man.
Rochester - John Blackmer, Thomas Ellis, Theophilus King, James H. Look, George Pierce, James Ruggles, George M. White. North Rochester-Israel F. Nick- erson.
Scituate -* John Beal, Ezekiel Jones. North Scituate-Joseph O. Cole, George C. Lec.
South Scituate -- Ebenezer T. Fogg, Charles A. Litchfield, Geo. H. Torrey, *Samuel A. Turner. Hanover, Lemuel C. Waterman, Samuel Tolman, jr. West Scitu- ate-Elisha Jacobs.
Warcham-William L. Chip- man, Joseph P. Hayden, Darius Miller, Seth Miller, jr., James G. Sproat. East Warcham -- John M. Kinney, Adolphus Savery, Nathaniel Sherman. West Ware- ham-Noble Howard.
West Bridgewater-Jas. How- ard, William H. Jennings, Austin Packard.
Trial Justices.
Abington-Otis W. Sonle.
Bridgewater .--- Lewis Holmes. East Bridgewater --- William H. Osborne.
Hingham Centre. --- James S. Lewis.
Middleborough .--- Cornelius B. Wood.
North Bridgewater .--- Jonas R. Perkins.
Plymouth .--- Albert Mason,
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A RECORD.
The publishers have placed on the title page the likeness of Mr. Dudley, which has been nice- ly engraved by Messrs. Bricher & Conant. Mr. Dudley has often been personated by dishonest people, who found they could more easily collect money and obtain favors by sailing under his popular flag. In one case he recovered a large sum from the pirate who appropriated his works. This means is therefore used to guard against future deceptions of that sort.
Mr. D. has been many times solicited for his likeness and sketches of his life to insert in biographical works. These solicitations he has generally repelled, hoping that his record might be more interesting and complete at a later time of life. But sketches have been inserted in several work.s. that are necessarily very imperfect. There is one in Allibone, another in Drake's late Dictionary of American celebrities. But the best is in Duyckinck's American Literature. Several of these sketches fail to mention that Mr. D. ever compiled, printed or published a Directory ; whereas he has produced more than fifty such works, nearly all of them in large octavio forin, and compiled with the utmost care and at vast expense, both of labor and stock. His vorks have ever been praised by the press, for the beauty of their workmanship and the excel- tence of their composition and matter. Besides the Directory publishing business, Mr. D. has jone, in the meantime, much printing and literary work, writing articles for the journals, maga- ines and other periodicals, exploring the labarynths of ancient family history, genealogy, her- ldry, &c., farming, gardening, and caring for his large, young family. He spent his first x years in Massachusetts, as a school teacher, in which vocation his success was marked, and fe has the printed reports of his schools to prove it. Then followed his travels in this country, nd a year's sojourn in England, where he studied the history and archaeology of the early imes, and wrote letters for American journals. He spent some time in Washington collecting nateri: als for a History of the Cotton Trade and Manufacture in this country, which work was published in New York in 1853. Next he held a clerkship in the Tax Receiving Office of New York (City, where he noticed some of the political frauds upon that city's Treasury, and reported hem to the editors of the Herald and Tribune. But Mr. Greeley remarked, that the Democrats would steal worse than the Whigs, and the Herald man said it would'nt pay to expose such things.
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Mr. D's. legal studies occupied five or six years in Suffolk county ; since which he ha- been a member of the Massachusetts bar, and Justice of the Peace. He also belongs to t'e Ver of the United States Courts, and his practice has been quite successful, although he has devoted much time to it.
His early works were the following :-
Dudley Genealogies, 1848 ;
Pictures of Life in England and America, 1851 ;
1. Genealogical Charts, Pedigrees, Arms, &c., 1855 ;
History and Genealogy of the Swift Family in America, 1856 ;
History of the First General Council of Nice, 1860 ;
Officers of our Union Army and Navy ; Their Lives and their Portraits, 1862; Social and Political Aspects of England and the Continent, 1862 ;
. Many years since, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Florida State Historical del ty, and the Minnesota State Historical Society, and Corresponding Member of the Wiscons State Historical Society. . He has been a member of the New England Historic Gencall Society for about twenty years. He also belongs to many other societies, library ciations, &c.
Mr. D. has published the Boston Business Directory for nine successive years, and ha employed by the city of Boston to compile the annual census of children of school age, last ten years, and also to collect statistics of private schools and institutions of learning. year his annual task included the gathering of statistics in Boston, for the great Vienna sition, from which has resulted great and distinguished honor to the modern Athens. .
Mr. Dudley is just fifty years old, having been born in 1823, in a wild, mountainous reg Maine, where most of his early associates have probably passed their lives in rural employ iets He is self-educated, having been left an orphan at twelve years of age, and dependent entirely upon his own resources. His health is now in a precarious state, owing partly to a fraif ce" stitution, and partly to excessive care and labor. Since the great fire of last November, 1, which his entire printing material, business library and many other valuables were des 10) with no insurance to repay the loss, he has felt the burden of business more than ever, and for rest in a 'more retired situation, with less care, and more opportunity for literal scientific study. But the toil and turmoil cease not.
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