History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 189

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1818

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1670 .- William Harvey, James Walker, selectmen. (No other names given in the record ; probably an omission in the record.) William Harvey, James Walker, deputies; Nathaniel Williams, constable. (No surveyors named).

1671 .- George Macey, Richard Williams, Walter Deane, James Walker, William Harvey, selectmen ; William Harvey, William Witherell, deputies ; Joseph Wilbore, constable ; John Maycomber, Encrease Robinson, surveyors.

1672 .- George Macey, Richard Williams, Walter Deane, John Tisdall, Sr., William Harvey, selectmen; William Harvey, George Macey, deputies ; Richard Stevens, llezekiah Hoar, constables; James Walker, Thomas Leonard, surveyors.

1673 .- Walter Deane, Richard Williams, George Macey, William llar- vey, John Tisdall, selectmen ; William Harvey, George Macey, dep- uties; Aaron Knapp, Sr., John Deane, constables ; John Cobb, Jo- seph Wilbore, surveyors.

1674 .- Walter Deane, George Macey, Richard Williams, William Harvey, John Tisdall, selectmen ; George Macey, Jolin Tisdall, deputies; John Richmond, Shadrach Wilbore, constables; Edward Rew, Israel Deane, surveyors.

1675 .- Richard Williams, Walter Deane, William Harvey, George Macey, John Tisdall, Sr., selectmen ; George Macey, William llarvey, depu- ties ; James Tisdall, Thomas Deane, constables; John Turner, John Bryant, surveyors.

1676 .-- Richard Williams, Walter Deane, George Macey, William Harvey, Samuel Smith, selectmen; George Macey, William Harvey, depu- ties; John Hathaway, William Witherell. constables.

1677 .- George Macey, William Harvey, Richard Williams, Walter Deane, Samuel Smith, selectmen; William Harvey, George Macey, depu- ties; Thomas Gilbert, Joseph Hall, constables ; Thomas Lincoln, Isaac Deane, surveyors.

1678 .- George Macey, William Harvey, Walter Deane, James Walker, Samuel Smith, selectmen ; James Walker, Samuel Smith, deputies; Samuel Williams, Thomas Harvey, Sr., constables; James Tisdall, James Leonard, Jr., surveyors.

1679 .- George Macey, William Harvey, Walter Deane, James Walker, Samuel Smith, selectmen ; James Walker, Samuel Smith, deputies; Joseph Willis, Isaac Deane, constables; Robert Crossman, Thomas Gilbert, surveyors.

1680 .- William Harvey, Walter Deane, George Macey, Thomas Leonard, selectmen; John Hathaway, Thomas Leonard, deputies; Gyles Gil- bert, Thomas Williams, constables; Joseph Hall, Joseph Wilbore, surveyors.

1681 .- George Macey, William Harvey, Walter Deane, John Hathaway, Thomas Leonard, selectmen ; Thomas Leonard, John Hathaway, deputies ; Henry Ilodges, Ezra Deane, constables; Thomas Harvey, Joseph Willis, surveyors.

1682 .- George Macey, Thomas Leonard, William Harvey, Walter Deane, John Ilathaway, selectmen; John Hathaway, Thomas Leonard, deputies ; John White, James Walker, Jr., constables; Robert Cross- man, Sr., Samuel Thrasher, surveyors.

1683 .- William Harvey, George Macey, John Hathaway, Thomas Leon- ard, Walter Deane, selectmen ; Thomas Leonard, John Hathaway, deputies ; Samuel Hall, Sr., John Smith, Jr., constables; Gyles Gil- bert, John Lincoln, surveyors.

1684 .- George Macey, Thomas Leonard, Walter Deane, John Hathaway, Sr., John Hall, selectmen ; Thomas Leonard, John Hathaway, depu- ties ; Joseph Wilbore, John lodges, constables.

1685 .- Walter Deane, William Witherell, John Hall, Thomas Leonard, George Macey, selectmen ; Thomas Leonard, William Witherell, Sr., deputies; John Richmond, James Walker, Sr., constables; John Bryant, Joseph Tisdale, surveyors.

1686 .- George Macey, Thomas Leonard, Walter Deane, William Ilarvey, John ITall, selectmen; George Macey, Thomas Leonard, deputies ; James Leonard, Joseph Tillden, constables.

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During the usurpation of Andros the Plymouth government was suspended, and no record of officers is to be found during those years, 1687-88.

The names of Henry Hodges and William Harvey as selectmen for both those years are ascertained from the proprietors' records ; the names of their associates do not appear.

1689 .- Thomas Leonard, William Harvey, Henry Hodges, Nathaniel Williams, James Leonard, Jr., selectmen ; Thomas Leonard, Nathan- iel Williams, deputies ; Thomas Leonard, John Hall, deputies at August court.

1690 .- William Harvey, Thomas Leonard, Nathaniel Williams, Henry Hodges, James Leonard, Jr., selectmen ; Thomas Leonard, William Harvey, deputies.

1691 .- Nathaniel Williams, Thomas Leonard, James Leonard, John Hall, Henry Hodges, selectmen ; John Hall, John Hathaway, depu- ties.

LIST OF FREEMEN.

William Poole, John Gilbert, Sr., Henry Andrews, John Strong, John Deane, Walter Deane, Edward Case, William Parker, 1637 ; John Parker, 1641; John Tisdall, 1643; William Holloway, William Hailstone, Richard Williams, 1644; George Hall, 1645; Oliver Pur- chase, 1646; James Wyatt, 1648; James Walker, 1650; William Hodges, Thomas Gilbert, 1651; George Macey, John Bryant, 1654; William Harvey, 1656; Anthony Slocum, 1657; William Witherell, Peter Pitts, Thomas Lincoln, 1658.

Additional from List of 1670.

Jonas Austin, Edward Babbitt, John Bryant, Richard Burt, Jonathan Briggs, John Cobb, Israel Deane, Thomas Deane, John Hathaway, John Hall, Aaron Knapp, Thomas Leonard, James Leonard, Jr., James Phillips, Samuel Phillips (1686), John Pole, Encrease Robin- son, George Shove, Francis Smith, Samuel Smith, John Tisdall, Jr., James Tisdall, Samuel Williams, Joseph Williams, Nathaniel Wil- liams.

Additional from List of 1683-84.

John Crossman, Robert Crossman (1686), Ezra Deane, John Deane (2d), Joseph Deane, Samuel Danforth, Gyles Gilbert, Thomas Gilbert, John Hathaway, Jr., Samuel Hall, Sr., Thomas Harvey, Sr., Thomas Harvey, Jr., William Hall, Henry Hodges, Edward Richmond (1691), John Richmond, Nathaniel Shove, Uriah Leonard (1690), Richard Stevens, Israel Thrasher, Joseph Thrasher, Joseph Wil- bore, Shadrach Wilbore.

Those who took the Oath of Fidelity only.

James Bell, James Burt, Richard Burt, Sr., Thomas Brayman, John Briggs, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Caswell, Edward Cobb, John Cloy, Thomas Cilton, Robert Crossman, William Earance, John Gungill, Hezekiah Hoar, Jabesh Hackett, Timothy Halloway, Thomas Joanes, James Lennett, Daniel Mokene, John Maycomber, Jeremiah New- land, Richard Paul, Edward Rew, John Richmond, Sr., Hughe Rocester, William Scadding, Nicholas Streete, Francis Streete, Rich- ard Smith, William Shepherd, Richard Stacye, Peter Stakenbury, Christopher Thrasher, John Turner, Thomas Willington, Nicholas White.

CHAPTER LXIV.

TAUNTON .- ( Continued.) ECCLESIASTICAL IIISTORY.I

" THE clergy," writes the Hon. F. Baylies, historian of Plymouth Colony, "the clergy were the principal instruments in keeping alive the spirit and enterprise of the English race in the wilds of America." The first ministers of New England were no mean men. They were highly educated, and their names are reg- istered among the foremost of that or any other age.

Taunton claims that her two ministers, in the be- ginning of its settlement, were inferior to none of them. They rank in ability, scholarly attainments, and commanding influence with Wilson and Cotton, of Boston, Higginson and Williams, of Salem, and the Mathers of Dorchester and Cambridge.

It was in 1637, Rev. William Hooke was instru- mental in gathering a church in Taunton. Mr. Sav- age calls him " the spiritual guide of the settlement." He was its first pastor, having for an associate in the ministry, according to the custom of the times, another eminent man, Rev. Nicholas Street. The former was known as pastor, the latter as teacher. Their church, according to Thomas Lechford, in a pamphlet pub- lished in England in 1642, numbered "ten or twenty." We have no Taunton record giving the exact number or names of members. Mr. Hooke, a native of South- ampton, England, in 1601, at the early age of twenty- two, proceeded to the degree of Master of Arts in Trinity College, Oxford, "at which time," remarks Wood, " he was esteemed a close student and a relig- ious person."

Having preached several years in the mother-coun- try, he was attracted to New England, and in both lands earned such a reputation that Cotton Mather could say of him, " He was a learned, holy, and hum- ble man." Dr. Trumbull also makes mention of him as a man " of great learning and piety, possessing excellent pulpit talents." One of his sermons, preached in Taunton, July 23, 1640, on a day ap- pointed by the churches for public humiliation in be- half of England in time of feared danger, was so well * liked that it was printed in London in 1641, bearing the title of " New England's Tears for Old England's Fears."

A second sermon, " preached upon a day of general humiliation in the churches of New England in the behalf of Old England and Ireland's sad condition, by William Hooke, minister of God's Word at Taun- ton, in New England," was printed in London in 1645. These sermons were "intrusted in the hands of a worthy member of the honorable House of Com- mons, who desired they might be printed for the pub- lic good." Such a publication was a rare testimonial from the House of Commons to the merit of the Taun-" ton preacher. The report of his sermons having reached New Haven, the church and people, who had listened to such a remarkable man as John Daven- port, call him to serve as Davenport's associate in the ministry, after serving the church in Taunton seven years. He had a successful ministry of twelve years in New Haven, when he returned to England, led thither by his interest in the Commonwealth, related as he was to the Protector, of whose family he became a member, acting as domestic chaplain. His wife, sister of Whalley, one of Cromwell's trusted friends, had preceded him.

Rev. Nicholas Street, the colleague and successor of Mr. Hooke in the ministry of Taunton, was also

1 By Rev. S. Ilopkins Emery.

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his successor in the church of New Haven. This was on the " 26th of the 9th, 1659." On the removal of Mr. Davenport to Boston as Wilson's successor, Mr. Street became sole pastor of the church, so con- tinning until his death, April 22, 1674. It is not quite certain who was Mr. Street's first wife. Mr. Baylies' statement that it was the sister of Elizabeth Pool lacks confirmation. We are sure, however, that his second wife was the widow of Governor Newman, and his descendants are numerous in Connecticut and elsewhere. The earliest Taunton ministers were not only eminent in their profession, but influential in all town affairs both in Taunton and New Haven. They were resorted to for counsel, and their words on all subjects were weighty. Their churches, of course, were of the prevailing New England order, and they, as dissenting ministers, were the recognized leaders of the people.

The third Taunton minister was Rev. George Shove. Ordained in 1665, he remained sole pastor till his death in 1687. Little is known of his work as a minister, but he was largely interested in the secular as well as spiritual affairs of the town, and his name appears as one of the proprietors in the Taunton North Purchase, as also one of the six original pro- prietors of Assonet Neck in 1680. He was interested in schools, and is credited with the statement that in 1685 there were "eighty scholars on the list of Taun- ton school, some of whom had entered Latin." His own son Seth was one of these, a graduate of Cam- bridge, and the first minister of Danbury, Conn. Rev. Mr. Shove was thrice married, his first wife being the daughter of Rev. Samuel Newman, the renowned minister of Rehoboth. He had ten children, and his descendants are numerous in New England, many of them belonging to the Society of Friends.

The fourth minister of Taunton was an eminent man, the Rev. Samuel Danforth, son of Rev. Samuel Danforth, the minister of Roxbury. His mother was the daughter of Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the First Church of Boston. He was graduated at Har- vard College in 1683, and married a daughter of Rev. James Allen, a colleague of Rev. John Davenport in Boston. "The town was extremely anxious to obtain - Mr. Danforth," writes Mr. Baylies. Capt. Bartholo- mew Tipping, for his services in securing him, re- ceived "ten acres of land adjoining his own." He afterwards sold Mr. Danforth his house and lot, which were not far from the bridge, on what is now Wash- ington Street, and which included the water privilege where the cotton-mill stands. Mr. Danforth, like his predecessor, receiving but a small salary, by economy . and industry secured a considerable estate. He was a man of versatile talents, and could not only preach good sermons, but as occasion required counsel and instruct his parishioners in law and medicine. He was influential in all civil and religious matters, not only in his own town but in the colony. Hence we find him preaching " a sermon before His Excellency

the Governour, the Honourable Council, and Repre- sentatives of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, on May 26, 1714, being the Anni- versary Day of the Election of Councellors of the said Province," and "published by their order."

The ministry of Mr. Danforth extended from 1687, the year of his ordination, to his death in 1727, a period of forty years. " He was peculiarly fortunate," writes one familiar with the history of his time, "in retaining the attachment of his people. They were eager to settle him, and their interest in him con- tinued to the end." Mr. Danforth was interested in the Indians, visited them often, acquired their lan- guage, and prepared an Indian dictionary, a copy of which is in the library of the Massachusetts Histori- cal Society. Mr. Danforth, like his predecessors, in the beginning of his ministry preached to the scattered families of his flock, gathered in their own house of worship, where now stands the beautiful stone church of the First Parish, coming from what are now Norton, Dighton, Easton, Raynham, Berkley, Assonet Neck, and Mansfield. These separate townships sprung up for the most part during his ministry, and no wonder they felt the need of shortening the distance between their homes and the coveted sanctuary for themselves and those who should come after them. We have seen the correspondence between the mother-church and these several colonies, conducted in a Christian spirit, but revealing the extreme reluctance with which these colonies are sent out.

It was a church, therefore, weakened by many re- movals which called the fifth minister of Taunton, Rev. Thomas Clapp. His ministry was shorter, ex- tending only from 1729 to 1738, less than ten years. Mr. Clapp was a native of Scituate, son of John Clapp, born in 1705, and a graduate of Harvard Col- lege in 1725. He was married to Mary, danghter of Judge George Leonard, of Norton, in 1731. He was cousin of the eminent President Clapp, of Yale Col- lege. On concluding his ministry in Taunton the office was laid aside, and returning to Scituate, his native place, he became colonel of the militia, justice of the peace, for many years a representative of the town, and also judge of Plymouth Colony. The manuscript sermons of Mr. Clapp, which I have seen, show him to have been no mean preacher. He is de- scribed by a contemporary as "social in his temper, extremely fond of company, and very hospitable." His house in Taunton was pleasantly situated on the river near the head of Dean Street, now occupied by Col. Gordon.

The sixth Taunton minister was Rev. Josiah Crocker, a man of excellent pulpit talent, and emi- nent as a preacher in his time. He was a son of Jo- sialı and Desire Crocker, of Yarmouth. His grand- mother was a daughter of Governor Hinckley, and sister-in-law of Deputy Governor William Bradford, and through him related to Prince and the Mayhews. His mother was a daughter of Hon. John Thacher,

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granddaughter of Hon. John Howland, and great- granddaughter of Hon. John Carver, the first Gover- nor of Plymouth Colony. Mr. Crocker graduated at Harvard College in 1738. When nineteen years of age was ordained in Taunton, May 19, 1742. His pastorate continued till Nov. 1, 1765, a period of more than three-and-twenty years. He continued to reside in Taunton, and was here buried in 1774. "Of all the preachers I ever heard," once remarked Deacon Eddy, of Bridgewater, who remembered his sermons, "none surpassed Mr. Crocker in his earnest yet tender, persuasive manner." Chief Justice Parsons made a similar remark, many years ago, to the Hon. Samuel Crocker, of Taunton. The Taunton minister was a great friend of Whitefield and the Tennents. Mr. Whitefield preached in his pulpit, and Mr. Bay- lies is accountable for the remark, "Many were dis- pleased with him for this." The people in Taunton, as elsewhere, were divided concerning what were called "new measures." But Mr. Crocker entered into them most heartily, and would be called at the present time a revival preacher. He was often in- vited to preach in neighboring towns, and persons came from a long distance, even as far as Plymouth, to listen to his sermons. The story is told of a woman who quieted her baby, weary from the long march, by shouting "Crocker's ahead."

Mr. Crocker was twice married, and had seven sons and two daughters. Josiah, the eldest son, settled in Taunton, and married a daughter of Hon. Zephaniah were Samuel and William Augustus, the former so long known in Taunton as the senior member of the manufacturing firm of Crocker & Richmond, the latter father of the Crocker Brothers, who have been identified with the copper-works and other large manufacturing interests of Taunton for so many years.

After the dismission of Mr. Crocker in 1765, sev- eral ministers occupied the pulpit as candidates for settlement, but Rev. Caleb Barnum became the seventh pastor. He was a native of Danbury, Conn. His first pastorate was at Wrentham, Mass. He was installed in Taunton, Feb. 2, 1769. He is particularly remem- bered as the patriotic minister of Taunton, not only advocating the cause of American independence with his fervent appeals, but entering the Continental army as a chaplain and laying down his life in the service. He endured great hardships with exem- plary Christian fortitude, and when obliged by the condition of his health to leave for home, rested on the way at Pittsfield, where he died the 23d day of August, 1776, in the fortieth year of his age. Rev. Mr. Allen, of Pittsfield, who was with him in his last hours, dwells gratefully on his "serenity of mind," his " most exemplary patience and submission to the will of heaven." Being asked his present views in the approach of death of the goodness of the Amer- ican cause, for which he was sacrificing his life, his

reply was the most memorable one, "I have no doubts concerning the justice and goodness of that cause, and had I a thousand lives they should all be willingly laid down in it."

Mr. Barnum left a widow and seven children. Priscilla, who married a Vickery, was the mother of Charles R. Vickery, Esq., and Mrs. Paddock Dean, of Taunton ; Anna, who married a Child, was the mother of Mr. George Child, long a grocer in Taun- ton, and his sisters Mary and Jane Child.

The successor of Mr. Barnum was Rev. Elias Jones, who came hither from Halifax, Nova Scotia. His ministry was very short, hardly a year. In- stalled in April, 1777, we find him leaving in 1778. "A young man of prepossessing manners and ad- dress and fine talents for the pulpit," he nevertheless " fell into such error," we are informed, as made the church willing to part with him. Nothing is known of him afterward.

Rev. Ephraim Judson was the ninth minister of the parish, a man of marked ability and of wide influence. He was a native of Woodbury, Conn., a graduate of Yale College in 1763. His first settlement was in Norwich, Conn. His ministry in Taunton com- menced in 1780, where he continued ten years. His eccentricities are remarkable, many instances of which are remembered, but cannot here be re- corded. He was blunt, abrupt, fearless, uncompro- mising, made many friends and some enemies.

The parish was divided at the close of his ministry Leonard. Their children who reached adult age in 1790. For a time he continued with a portion who

removed their meeting to the west part of the town, but subsequently settled in Sheffield, Mass., where he continued in the ministry until his death, Feb. 23, 1813, at the age of seventy-five. Upon the stone which marks the place of his burial may be found the inscription, " A learned Divine, an acute logi- cian, and an evangelical preacher. He was mild, courteous, and hospitable. By his numerous friends he was deem'd a wise counsellor, an active peace- maker, and a sincere christian. What he was in truth the Great Day will disclose."

The successor of Mr. Judson in the First Parish was Rev. John Foster, whose career was not alto- gether honorable to the holy office he held, whilst his abilities in certain directions were of a high order. But his ministry, which began in 1792, terminated in 1799, to the relief of the people.

His successor was an altogether different style of a man, whose memory is very precious, even to the present time, Rev. John Pipon. He was a native of Boston, and was graduated at Cambridge College in . 1792. In 1799 he came to Taunton as a candidate, and was ordained in January, 1800. President Kirk- land, then of Boston, preached the sermon. Hon. Francis Baylies, who loved him as a brother, writes thus affectionately of him : "Guile and envy had no place in his heart. The increasing thrift and comfort of his neighbors were to him a source of constant grat-

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ification. The happiness of others increased his own. He would have banished want and woe and suffering from the whole human race." Many instances are given of his disinterested charity. His name in all the region was a synonym for sympathy and good will to all. He never married. His parish was his family ; he was wedded to his flock. A beautiful tablet on the interior wall of the stone church of the First Parish expresses in its inscription the high ap- preciation of this minister by the parish :

" In memory of Rev. John Pipon, for 21 years minister of this church. Born in Boston, A.D. 1762. Ordained in Taunton, Jan. 15, 1800. Died in Taunton, Jan. 7, 1821, æt. 59.

" In his intercourse with men, the most genial humor was joined with the most tender sympathy. His compassion was unbounded, and all his substance was given to the needy. While many knew in him a well- trained and accurate scholar, all could see and admire the humility, charity, piety, and self-sacrifice of the faithful pastor.

" To keep here his name in honor, friends who knew him have erected this tablet A.D. 1860."

Mr. Pipon was succeeded by Rev. Luther Hamilton. Born in Conway in 1798, he was graduated at Wil- liams College in 1817, ordained in Taunton in 1821, and resigned in 1832. His successor was Rev. An- drew Bigelow, D.D., a native of Groton in 1795, a graduate of Cambridge in 1814, and a pastor in Taun- ton from 1833 to 1842. On leaving Taunton he officiated as minister at large in Boston. Dr. Bigelow was a scholarly man, and quite influential in his denomination. He published several sermons and addresses, as also a book of " Travels."

Rev. Charles H. Brigham followed Dr. Bigelow in 1844. Like Mr. Pipon, whose ministry he much ad- mired, he was a native of Boston, a graduate of Cam- bridge, and never married. He was also ardently devoted to his parish and parish work. His attach- ment to the people was reciprocated, as the tablet on the church wall opposite Mr. Pipon's in its inscrip- tion shows :

" IN MEMORIAM.

"Rev. Charles Henry Brigham, minister of this church A.D. 1844 to A.D. 1866. Born in Boston, July 27, 1820. Ordained in Taunton, March 27, 1844. Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1879. A scholar of varied learning, a citizen of wise public spirit, a preacher direct and sincere in speech, he rendered eminent service to letters, education, and religion, while by his sagacity, devotion, frankness, and sympathy he made his people his personal friends.

" The zeal of his youth and the energy of his manhood were given to this society, and to honor his memory as a teacher and a man this tablet is placed here A.D. 1881."

Mr. Brigham was succeeded by Rev. Fielder Israel, whose pastorate extended from Dec. 23, 1869, to July 21, 1872. He is now settled in Salem, Mass.

The next minister was Rev. Eli Fay, who entered upon his work Feb. 26, 1873, and resigned to accept a pastorate in Sheffield, England, in October, 1876.

The last pastor was Rev. Frederic Meakin, who commenced his labors in 1878, September 25th, and closed them in September, 1882, for a visit to Europe with his family, where he proposes remaining for some time for rest and study. The parish is at pres- ent without a pastor.

most charming spots in the city. It is the spot se- lected by the first settlers of Taunton for a church site. On this hallowed ground they first began to worship, in a rude edifice, of course, in the begin- ning. When their meeting-house, as they called it, was begun or finished we know not, only this record remains, "In 1647 the calf pasture was sold to Henry Andrews for building the meeting-house." This answered the purpose till May 19, 1729. "This day we began to raise the meeting-house in Taunton," an extract from a paper in the handwriting of John, the father of Brig .- Gen. Godfrey. This was the second Taunton meeting-house, built by Samuel, the son of Richard Williams, with two galleries, accord- ing to the custom of the times. The third was built in 1789, by Mr. Demonds, of Scituate, was a large wooden structure, removed to Spring Street, to make room for the building of the present substantial stone edifice, and was still occupied for church purposes, first by the Universalist Society, next by what is now the Winslow Church, and then by the Free-Will Baptist Church, until in 1867 it was bought and taken down by Mr. Francis Dean, to enlarge his homestead between Summer and Spring Streets.

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History of Bristol County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 189

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1818

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1818