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REV. ADELBERT FRANKLIN KEITH is the son of Franklin and Betsy (Bailey) Keith, born in Campello, August 2, 1841. After usual studies in the schools of his native village, Mr. Keith fitted for college in the North Bridgewater Academy, and became a clerk for three years in the treasury department at Washington ; afterward studied theology in the seminary at Hartford, Conn., graduating in 1870; settled in Windham Conn., from 1870-1875 ; in Danielsonville, Conn., 1875-1877 ; in North Providence, 1877-1884, and is now at Campello.
PROFESSOR HENRY BRADFORD NASON, Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., son of Elias and Susanna (Keith) Nason, was born at Foxborough, Norfolk county, Mass., June 22, 1831. In November, 1841, he moved to North Bridgewater, Mass., the native place of his mother, who had died the year previous. In 1843 he attended a school for boys kept by a Mr. Savery at Newburyport, Mass. From 1844 to 1847 he attended the Adelphian Academy at North Bridgewater, now Brockton, Mass. In December, 1847, he entered Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., graduating in 1851. Entered Amherst College and graduated in 1855. On September 1, 1855, he sailed from New York to London, Eng., on the ship Amazon, having a long passage of thirty five days. He trav- eled through Holland, Belgium, up the Rhine to Frankfort, and then to Gottingen, where he was matriculated as a student of philosophy, Oc-
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tober 24, 1855. While connected with the university he devoted his time to chemistry, mineralogy and geology, and also attended lectures on physics and botany, graduating in 1857. He then spent a short time at Heidelberg and Freiberg, and then visited Berlin, Paris and London before returning to the United States.
He spent the winter of 1857-58 in teaching at the Raymond Col- legiate Institute, Carmel, Putnam county, N Y. In April, 1858, he was appointed a professor of natural history in the institute. In the summer declined an appointment as professor of chemistry and natural science in Oahu College, Hawaiian Islands. He accepted an appoint- ment to the same chair in Beloit College, Wisconsin, in September, 1858, and spent a part of each year there, the remainder of the time at Troy, until 1866, when he resigned the position at Beloit to accept the professorship of chemistry and natural science at the institute, which position he still holds.
From 1855 to 1857, while connected with the University, during vacations, he made the tour of Europe. In the spring of 1860 he trav- eled through the southern portion of the United States ; sailed for Europe, July, 1861, and traveled through Great Britain ; spent a term at Gottingen ; thence to Italy, Sicily and Southern France, spending considerable time in the study of volcanic phenomena ; spent the sum- mer of 1872 in California, Nevada, and Idaho In the autumn made a second visit to California, visiting the mining regions of Colorado and Utah. In 1875 made a third trip to California, visiting the Yosemite, Northern California and Nevada. He spent the summer of 1877 in visiting Northern Europe, Finland and Russia. In 1877 he was ap- pointed by President Hayes juror for the United States government at the Paris Exposition, and was assigned the department of mineralogy and metallurgy. In 1884 visited Northern Europe, the fiords and gla- ciers of Norway, extending his travels to the North Cape.
He has published "Inaugural Dissertation on the Formation of Ether," 1857; "Table of Reactions for Qualitative Analysis," 1865 ; translated and revised " Wohler's Handbook of Mineral Analysis," 1868 ; " Table for Qualitative Analysis in Colors," 1870; edited Elderhorst's " Manual of Blowpipe Analysis," 1873 ; fourth and fifth editions of the same, 1875-76 ; edited " Manual of Blowpipe Analysis and Determin-
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ative Mineralogy," 1880 ; compiled "Semi-centennial Catalogue of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute," 1874; and edited "Proceedings of the Semi-centennial Celebration " of the same institution, 1874 ; edited " Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute," 1886.
In 1857 he received the degree of A. M. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Augusta University, Gottingen ; in 1864 the honorary degree of A.M. from Amherst College ; in 1880 the honorary degree of M.D. from the Union University of New York, and the same year the degree of LL.D. from Beloit College, Wisconsin. He has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; fellow of the London Chemical Society ; fellow of the Society of Chemical Industry, England ; member of the American Chemical Society ; corresponding member of the New York Academy of Sciences ; member of the Amer- ican Institute of Mining Engineers ; member of the Troy Scientific As. sociation ; honorary member of the Albany Institute ; member of the Norske Turistforenings, Christiania, Norway; elected member of the University Club, 1883, and of the Union League Club, New York city, 1886.
He united with the South Congregatinal Church at Campello, North Bridgewater, Mass, in 1848, and by letter with the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y., in 1866, where he served as trustee for several years, and was elected ruling elder in 1874.
He married, September 7, 1864, Frances Kellogg, daughter of Hon. Martin Ingham Townsend, LL. D., ex-member of Congress from Troy, N. Y. They had two children :
I-Henry Townsend Nason
II-Louisa Kellogg Nason, deceased.
Henry Townsend Nason, esq, is a member of the well known and highly successful law firm of Townsend, Roche & Nason in Troy.
HON. OTIS CARY, son of James and Hannah (Wales) Cary, was born in Brockton, June 14, 1804. He has been a very active and successful business man, engaged in the manufacture of iron castings and foundry business. He has been selectman of Foxboro' for several years, and represented that town in the Legislature in 1860 and 1861 ; senator from Norfolk county in 1863-64; justice of the peace since 1852;
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president of the Savings Bank in Foxboro', also of the Loan Fund As- sociation ; and vice-president of the Norfolk County Agricultural So- ciety, and president of the Wrenthamn National Bank. Mr. Cary was president of the day at the centennial celebration of the incorporation of the town of Foxboro, on Saturday, June 29, 1878.
He married, November, 1830, Mary Dodge, daughter of Captain Joseph Torrey, of Hanson, Mass. Children :
I -- Mary Ann, born August 15, 1831 ; married Arza B. Keith, of Campello, Mass., April 25, 1854.
II -- Sarah Thomas, born April 25, 1834.
III -- John, born March 20, 1836. Died unmarried at Philadelphia, Pa., May 31, 1862.
IV -- Hannah Wales, born January 5, 1840
V-Charles, born March 7, 1842. Is of the firm of Wood & Cary, straw merchants in Philadelphia, Pa.
VI -- George, born February 15, 1844 ; died May 8, 1849.
VII -- Rev. Otis, born April 20, 1851. Educated in the English and clas- sical schools of his native town, and the High School. Graduated at Am - herst College in 1872; after four years' diligent study also at the Theolog- ical Seminary, Andover, in 1877, after at hree years' course. Licensed to preach by the Derry and Manchester Association at Derry, N. H., in 1876. Ordained at Foxboro, Mass., November 15, 1877. Sermon by the Rev. Jeremiah Taylor, D.D., then pastor in Providence, R. I., and now of Brookline, Mass. Charge was given by the Rev. Nelson G. Clark, D D., of Boston. Right hand of fellowship was by the Rev. M. L. Gordon, of Osaka, Japan.
He married Ellen Maria, daughter of Kimball Webster and Mary Wilson Emerson, of Nashua, N. H., December 18, 1877. Mrs. Cary was formerly a teacher, a graduate of the academy in Francestown, N. H., and Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass., and afterwards doing mis- sionary work in Kobe, Japan, with her husband. He sailed from San Francisco, Cal., February 7, 1878, and arrived in Yokohama. Japan, on the 3d day of March, 1878, and has been engaged in missionary work at Kobe, under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
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HEMAN PACKARD DE FOREST is the son of Isaac and Jane Baker (Packard) Packard, born August 20, 1839. After receiving the usual common school education in his native school district, at the age of fif- teen he entered the North Bridgewater Academy, which had then been in existence but a short time ; commenced fitting for college in the fall of 1856; graduated at Yale College in July, 1862 ; entered Yale Theo- logical Seminary in September, 1863. Mr. De Forest is now an Ortho- dox clergyman ; was installed at Westboro', Mass., August 10, 1871.
S. D. HUNT was born in Sudbury, Mass., June 8, 1823 ; son of Sewall Hunt ; received his education at the academies in Derry, N. H., and Framingham, Mass. ; taught high school at Concord, Mass., eight years, ending 1854; removed to North Bridgewater, now Brockton, and es- tablished the North Bridgewater Academy in 1855.
CHAPTER XVII.
Schools-Free Schools -- Old School Districts-School Committee of the North Parish-School Committee of the Towns of North Bridgewater, and Brockton and the City of Brockton to 1893-Annual Appropriations for Schools-New School Districts- Valuation of School Property in 1882-List of Graduates of the Brockton High School -Historical Sketch of the High School -- List of Teachers-List of School Buildings --- Parochial School and Convent -- Adelphian Academy-North Bridgewater Academy --- Private Schools.
S CHOOLS .- For the past two centuries our country has enjoyed a system of education that has had no parallel. The progress of our country, with all its varied interests, may be attributed to the education of her people. There is no one thing in which the happiness and pros - perity of society is so much involved as in the proper education, the moral training, and discipline of youth, and the many advantages arising from the same cannot be too highly estimated or overstated. The boldness of the measure aiming at universal education through
1 The name of De Forest is an adopted name in honor of David C. De Forest, who had left a sum of money to Yale College to be appropriated to the education of those who should adopt his name.
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the medium of free schools has no precedent in the history of the world. Every nation abroad, as well as states at home, are imitating our ex- ample. The credit of originating these free institutions is due to our Pilgrim Fathers. It was in the cabin of the Mayflower that they agreed among themselves to a written constitution of government which was the nucleus of all the free governments of the earth. At the time they landed on our shores two grand ideas pervaded their minds, namely : religion, or the spiritual interest of their people, and knowledge, or the education of the young.
FREE SCHOOLS .- The fisheries of Cape Cod were carly laid under contributions for the support of free schools in 1671. At a public fes- tival a few years since the following sentiments were offered : " Mackerel Schools and Free Schools, the one the support of the other; " another, "The Fishermen of Cape Cod, they get their learning on their own Hook." These institutions have long been under the control of the government, by them supported and controlled, sanctioned and pro- tected by law as much as the right of a person to their own mode of worship; and the distinguishing feature of the system is in the advan- tage of common-school instruction, which is free to all, without dis- tinction of race, color, or position, and is secured to every child in the State, that the property of the commonwealth shall be subservient to equal and adequate instruction. The mass of the people have been educated, and we have enjoyed what no other nation has been permitted to enjoy,-we have learned for ourselves how to conduct a free gov- ernment, and the success of the same may be seen in the progress that has been and is now being made in all that contributes to make a nation prosperous and happy.
From earliest time the policy of Massachusetts has been to develop the minds of her people and to imbue them with the principles of duty. In doing this she has had the aid of the many towns within her limits, and has a system which is destined to greater and more elevated usefulness than has ever before been seen.
The city of Brockton has ever been ready to contribute of her public funds for educational purposes. Previous to the incorporation of the old North Parish the people paid their proportional part of school ex- penses of the town of Bridgewater, and received a share of the benefits
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of the same. At a meeting of the town of Bridgewater, held Novem- ber 24, 1746, a committee of twelve were chosen "To consult what method may be most beneficial to the Town in improving of ye school for the futer." Robert Howard and Abiel Packard were chosen on the part of the North Parish. The committee made the following report : December 1, 1746. "Voted that the sum of £250, old Tenor, to sup- port schooling in the town one year next following, and that the gram- mar-school has been kept longer in a precinct than has been useful when it comes to their turn, and that the west precinct shall have the improve- ment of ye grammar-school the first year, and then the other precincts in order shall have the grammar-school according to their proportion of ye Tax." We next find a record in the parish books as follows : March 21, 1747. " At a meeting held this day To chuse a committee to take care of the money, and gat a scole masture, or a scoole dame, and to see if the precinct can agree whare the scoole shall be keept this year," it was voted " That Timothy Keith, Robert Howard, and Abiel Packard should be a committee to take care of the scoole the year Insewing." Also, " Voted by the precinct, that the precinct should be devided into three scoole Ricks, to begin at Elisha Dunbar's, and from thence to Abia Keith's, and from thence to Henery Kingman's all to the South of that line to be the South Rick, And the meedal Rick to extend North as far as the north side of Abiel Packard's field that Joynes Zachariah Gur- ney's, by an east and west Line from said place.
" Each peart having Equal parte In the town treasury for draft of money belonging to the precinct for the use of the scoole to be drawed by the committee for the scoole or their order." For a long time after the establishment of the North Parish, or Precinct, there were but three school districts, which were divided as above. "The subject of new school- Houses was brot to the attention of the parish, August 15, 1748, To chuse a man or men to receive the money due from the town to maintain a scoole and to dispose of the same in the best method ; Alsow, To see if the precinct will build one or more scool- houses for the use of the Parish scool, and to act anything proper for accomplishing the same. The meeting was setteled by the choise of Daniel Howard, moderator."
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OLD SCHOOL DISTRICTS .- " Voted that Timothy Keith, Abiel Pack- ard, and Robert Howard should bee a committee to draw the money out of the town treasury this present year, their perporsionabel part for the use of the Parash Scools, and to dispose of the same in the way and man- ner voted by the precinct last year past." December 9, 1751, a meet- ing was held " To agree How and whare the scoole shall be keept the Insueing year. Voted that the scool shuld be keept in three places in the precinct ; also, Voted that the meddal part shuld have the scool the first fore months, and the south part should have it the next two months, and the north part, which extends from the north line of the middle rick as far north as the town extends, should have it the next three months." Again, March 28, 1753, the laying out of the money and "settelling of the scool" was left to the precinct committee. The people of the precinct, feeling dissatisfied with the division, called a meeting, which was held March 11, 1784, "To take the minds of the precinct respecting the grammar school for the future, and act what may be thought proper concerning the same," at which it was " Voted to divide the precinct into four Ricks for the Grammar School; also, Voted that Barnabas Howard, Dea. Jonathan Cary, Mr. Matthew Kingman, and Ensign Issachar Snell be a committee for the purpose aforesaid, and make report at the fall meeting." September 6, 1784, the committee for dividing the district into four ricks for the grammar- school gave in the following report :
We, the subscribers, being chosen a committee by the North Precinct, in Bridge- water, in order to divide said precinct into four parts for the better accommodation of the Inhabitants of said precinct to improve the Grammar School, and having considered the same, do report as followeth, namely : That a line be drawn from Mr. Zachariah Cary's westerly to Ephraim Churchill's, and from thence to Easton Line, and those families on the south side of said line to be the South Rick, and those on the north side of said line to be the North Rick, and from said Cary's easterly to William Shaw's, and from thence to Abington line, to divide the easterly part of said precinct, those families on the south side of said Road to be the South Rick, the before-mentioned Ricks to be divided North and South by the Country Road.
ISSACHAR SNELL. BARNABAS HOWARD. MATTHEW KINGMAN. JONATHAN CARY.
The above report being read, it was accepted, and the meeting voted " that the Grammar School be keept six weeks in each Rick." "Voted
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that the two Ricks on the west side of the Country Road have the Grammar School this year."
After the above division of the parish into districts, or ricks, the pre- cinct committee had charge of the division of the school fund as it was drawn from the town treasury, and upon them devolved the duties that afterward were assigned to the committee chosen for each district.
March 4. 1794. The parish " voted to raise £15, to be assessed on the inhabitants of the parish, for the purpose of English schooling." March 17, 1794. At a meeting of the parish it was " voted to chose a Committy in Each English School District to take care of the school money, and see that it is well laid out for the benefit of each Destrict." The duties of this committee were to procure rooms, teachers, fuel, etc., for the schools in their several districts.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH PARISH .- The following is a list of the school committee chosen by the town for the several districts from 1794 to 1826 inclusive :
Lieut. Nathaniel Orcutt, 1794.
Ensign Howard Cary, 1794, '95, 1802, '04, '06, '11, '16, '17.
Daniel Cary, 1794, '95, 1801.
Perez Southworth, 1794, '95, 1805.
Issachar Snell, esq., 1794, '95, '96, '97, '98. Ichabod Howard, 1794, '95, '98, '99, 1800, '01, '02, '07, '19. Levi Keith, 1794, '95. Benjamin Howard, 1794.
Parmenas Packard, 1794, '95, '99, 1802.
Capt. Lemuel Packard, 1794, '95, 1802,'08. Barnabas Burtis, 1794, '95.
Lieut. Robert Packard, 1795, '96, '97, '98, '99, 1800, '01, '14, "21. Daniel Manley, 1795, 1800. Ephraim Cole, 1795, 1801, '10, '14, '18. Capt. Jesse Perkins, 1796, '99, 1800. Lieut. Eleazer Snow, 1796. Job Ames, 1796. Oliver Howard, 1796, 1803, '05. Waldo Hayward, 1796. John Wales, 1796, 1804. Samuel Dike, 1796, 1803, '07. Joseph Hayward, 1796, 1805.
Eliphalet Packard, 1797. Moses Cary, 1797, 1814, '16. William Brett, 1797.
Jonathan Perkins, jr., 1797, 1806, '07, '11, '13, '16, '19.
Jeremiah Beals, 1797. Rufus Brett 1797.
Capt. Zebedee Snell, 1797, '98. William Shaw, jr., 1797.
Nathaniel Manley, 1797.
Deacon James Perkins, 1798.
Ensign Mark Perkins, 1798, 1804, '06. '08, '11, '17, '19. Samuel Cheesman, 1798. Timothy Ames, 1798, 1800.
Ebenezer Warren, 1798.
Seth Kingman, 1798, 1815.
Jonathan Keith, 1798, 1801, '02, '03.
Thomas Thompson, 1799, 1813, '19, '22.
Nathaniel Leach, 1799.
Zachariah Gurney, jr., 1799, 1804, '09, '14, '18.
Benjamin, Keith, 1799, 1805, '06, '07. '08, '09. Asaph Hayward, 1799.
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Japhet Beals, 1799. Noah Ames, 1799. Josiah Perkins, 1800, '05. Amzi Brett, 1800. Abiah Packard, 1800.
Jonathan Cary, 1800.
Deacon David Edson, 1800, '08.
Dr. Philip Bryant, 1800, '08, '09.
Ensign Jonathan Snow, 1800, '26. Micah Shaw, 1801, '06, '13, '22.
Hay ward Marshall, 1801, '10, '14, '24.
Barzillai Field, 1801, '05, '09, '23.
Ephraim Jackson, 1801, '04.
Samuel Brett, jr., 1801.
Caleb Howard, 1802.
John Tilden, 1802, '07, '09, '12, '22.
Lieut. Ephraim Noyes, 1802, '04, '11, '14, '17.
Isaiah Packard, 1802, '08.
Ensign Asa Jones, 1803, '09, '18.
Job Bryant, 1803.
Asa Ford, 1803. Cyrus Packard, 1803, '06, '15, '21.
Thomas Packard, jr., 1803, '10.
Joseph Alden, 1803.
Capt. Abel Kingman, 1804, '22, "26. John Howard, 1804,
Daniel Packard, 1804.
Shepard Perkins, 1804, '09, '17. Seth Snow, 1805. Zachariah Snell, 1805.
Abijah Knapp, 1805.
Perez Crocker, 1806, '17. Gideon Howard, esq., 1806, '12, '13, '15, '16.
Oliver Snell, 1806, '10. William Edson, 1806.
Ensign Nehemiah Lincoln, 1807, '09, '12. Seth Edson, 1807, '11.
Noah Cheesman, 1807. Samuel Alden, jr., 1807, Joseph Brett, 1807, '14. Joseph Sylvester, jr., 1808, '14. Daniel Howard, esq., 1808, '09, '11.
John Ames, 1808. Levi Packard, 1808, '13. John Burrill, 1809. Benjamin Ames, 1809, '14, '19, '23. Adin Packard, jr., 1810.
Eliphalet Kingman, 1810, '17, '20.
Barnabas Curtis, 1810.
Ebenezer Dunbar, 1810. Jonathan Beal, 1811.
Zebedee Snell, jr., 1811,
Caleb Jackson, 1811, '15.
Joseph Reynolds, jr., 1811.
Silas Snow, 1812.
Turner Torrey, 1812, '14, '17, "24.
Sylvanus French, 1812, '19, '23.
Jacob Fuller, 1812, '20.
Isaac Eames, 1812. Shepard Snell, 1812.
Galen Packard, 1812, '21. Alpha Brett, 1813.
Luke Packard, 1813, '21.
Josiah Dunbar, 1813, '18.
Micah Packard, 1813, '17, '23.
Manley Hayward, 1813, '16, '21.
Asa Howard, 1815, '22.
Capt. John Packard, 1815, '16, '19, '20.
Jeremiah Beals, jr., 1815, '19.
Lewis Dailey, 1815.
Capt. Oliver Jackson, 1815, '21, '26.
James Cary, 1815.
Howard Packard, 1815, '17.
Isaac Keith, 1816, '26. Enos Thayer, 1816.
Apollas Packard, 1816. Darius Howard, 1817, '26.
Ziba Keith, 1817, '21. Thomas Wales, 1818.
Howard Manley, 1818, '23. Jacob Dunbar, 1818. Ezekiel Merritt, 1818.
Samuel Packard, 1818. Josiah Ames, 1818. John Smith, 1818, '24. John Crafts, 1819.
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Parmenas Brett, 1819. Jabez Kingman, 1819, '26.
Jonas Reynolds, 1822.
Zibeon Brett, 1822, '23. Simeon Dunbar, 1823.
David Ford, 1820.
Jesse Perkins, jr., 1823, '26.
Azor Packard, 1820, '24. Oliver Leach, 1820. Theron Ames, 1820.
Williams Alden, 1823.
Hezekiah Packard, 1823.
Zenas Brett, 1820.
Martin Southworth, 1823.
Isaac Packard, 1820.
Martin Dunbar, 1823.
Nathan Packard, 1820.
Isaac Curtis, 1823.
Isaac Hartweil, jr., 1820, '22.
Sullivan Packard, 1824.
Nathaniel Wales, 1821.
Charles Packard, 1824.
David Battles, 1821.
Samuel Dike, jr., 1824.
Azel Gurney, 1821.
Caleb Copeland, jr., 1824.
Barnabas Edson, 1821.
Zophar Field, 1824.
David Ames, 1822.
Nahun Perkins, 1826.
Josiah Brett, 1822.
Joel Ames, 1826.
William Tribou, 1822.
This was the commencement of the practice of choosing a committee- man in the several districts to manage the affairs independently of the town.
March 16, 1795. The parish came together " to hear the Report of a committee chosen to see if they can fix upon any plan that shall operate more equally in the division of Grammar-School District."
The committee appointed by the North Parish of Bridgewater at their meeting in November last to consider whether any alterations can be made in the Grammar School wricks in said Parish wich will be of more general advantage to the inhabitants thereof, Beg leave to make the following reporte, namely :
First, your committee are of opinion that the South west and South east wricks, as to their extent and bounds, remain as they now are. Secondly, your committee are of opinion that it will be for the general advantage of the inhabitants of the North west and North east wricks to be divided into three wricks, in the following manner and form, to wit: The first, or north west wrick to be bounded Northerly and Westerly on Stoughton and Easton, Southerly on the South west wrick, and easterly on the river whareon Reynolds' saw-mill stands, including also Lieut. Parmenas Packard and Ben- jamin Silvester's familys. The Second, or north wrick to be bounded northerly on Stough- ton, westerly on Reynolds' mill River aforesaid, Southerly on the Southern wrick, and easterly on trout Brook, excluding the before-mentioned families of Lieut. Parmenas Packard and Benjamin Silvester, including Daniel Howard, esq., Gideon Howard, and Thomas White, and their familes before mentioned. The Third, or North East wrick to be bounded easterly and northerly on Abington and Randolph, westerly on Trout Brook, and southerly on the South east wrick, excluding Daniel Howard, esq., Gideon Howard, and Thomas White's families, before mentioned. Thirdly, your committee are
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