History of East Boston; with biographical sketches of its early proprietors, and an appendix, Part 68

Author: Sumner, William H. (William Hyslop), 1780-1861. cn
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: Boston, J. E. Tilton
Number of Pages: 883


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* At this time Gen. Sumner was at the South, and had signified by letter his wish to relinquish the office of president.


t On account of ill-health, Gen. Sumner declined any further election on the Board of Direction.


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EAST BOSTON COMPANY.


1852. President (May 6), S. S. Lewis; - Directors (May 3), S. S. Lewis, Benjamin Lamson, Charles J. Hendee, A. A. Wellington, W. C. Barstow ; - Clerk (May 6), G. F. Wadsworth ;- Treasurer and Superintendent (May 6), W. C. Barstow ; - Solicitor (May 6), E. S. Rand ; - Manager of Ferry (May 6), W. C. Barstow, to July 1, on which date the Ferry Company was incorpo- rated.


1853. President (May 2), S. S. Lewis; - Directors (May 2), S. S. Lewis, Benjamin Lamson, C. J. Hendee, A. A. Wellington, W. C. Barstow; - Clerk (May 2), G. F. Wadsworth ; - Treasurer and Superintendent (May 2), W. C. Barstow ; - Solicitor (May 2), E. S. Rand.


1854. President, S. S. Lewis ; - Directors, S. S. Lewis, Benjamin Lamson, W. C. Barstow, A. A. Wellington, C. J. Hendee, C. C. Gilbert, Lewis Rice ; - Clerk, G. F. Wadsworth ; - Treasurer and Superintendent, W. C. Barstow ; - Solicitor, E. S. Rand.


1855. President, S. S. Lewis ; - Directors, S. S. Lewis, Benjamin Lamson, W. C. Barstow, A. A. Wellington, C. J. Hendee, C. C. Gilbert, Lewis Rice ; - Clerk, G. F. Wadsworth ; - Treasurer and Superintendent, W. C. Barstow ; re- signed Aug. 5; George F. Wadsworth elected Treasurer; Ebenezer Atkins, Superintendent.


1856. Directors, S. S. Lewis, Benjamin Lamson, A. A. Wellington, W. C. Barstow, Lewis Rice, C. C. Gilbert, C. J. Hendee, James P. Thorndike, Rob- ert Farley ; Samuel S. Lewis was chosen President, but being absent in Eu- rope, Benjamin Lamson was chosen President pro tem .; - G. F. Wadsworth, Clerk, and acted as Superintendent until Oct. 15, when W. C. Barstow was elected Superintendent and President, S. S. Lewis having resigned.


1857. President and Superintendent, William C. Barstow ; - Directors, William C. Barstow, Benjamin Lamson, C. C. Gilbert, A. A. Wellington, Lewis Rice, J. P. Thorndike, Silas Pierce, Caleb Stetson ; - Treasurer and Clerk, George F. Wadsworth.


1858. President and Superintendent, William C. Barstow ; - Directors, William C. Barstow, Benjamin Lamson, C. C. Gilbert, A. A. Wellington, Lewis Rice, J. P. Thorndike, Silas Pierce, Caleb Stetson ; - Treasurer and Clerk, George F. Wadsworth.


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APPENDIX.


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H.1 EXTRACTS FROM BOLLES AND RIDGWAY'S REPORT ON THE ARTESIAN WELL.


" The estimated expense for the Southampton well, England, was £9,980. A shaft was commenced, thirteen feet in diameter, and sunk 160 feet deep, and then contracted to eleven feet six inches ; at the depth of 214 feet, the shaft was reduced to ten feet diameter, and at the depth of 270 feet, to eight feet six inches. At 380 feet from the top of the well, the plastic clay was reached. The work was continued day and night. When the shaft was about 520 feet deep, about three gallons of water flowed into it per minute. The shaft was then sunk 562 feet ; they then commenced boring with a seven and a half inch auger, and when the boring was suspended, the shaft and well was 1,260 feet deep, and water to within forty feet of the surface. In 1845, during upwards of four months' daily pumping, the delivery of water was at the rate of up- wards of 1,500,000 per month, and afterwards, in eight days, the quantity raised exceeded 725,000 gallons. When the pumping was discontinued, the water rose, as before, to within forty feet of the surface, in November, 1845."


After giving a table of experiments in pumping, commenced on the 18th of June, 1847, the report says : -


" The average throw of water in this case is four and a half gallons per min- ute, and lowered the shaft twenty-three feet two inches in twenty-four hours. After a cessation from pumping of forty hours, the water rose seven feet two inches.


" Commenced (pumping) Monday morning, 21st of June, at 7 o'clock. The " throw' of water in this case was five gallons per minute. Numerous experi- ments in pumping were subsequently made, and the conclusion drawn from all these trials was, that ' The well will not produce any more than three thousand gallons per day, water sufficient for fifty families.'


" What does M. Agais say in reference to the Paris well, the well of Gre- nelle ? 'Nothing can be more certain, than that the spouting at Grenelle differs essentially from that which we call a water-spout; its source is not upon the surface of the globe, but in its depths; and the impulse which it obeys has its seat, not only under the excavation which has been made, but under all the plains of France, of all the plains of Europe, of all the plains of all the conti- nents; for upon each point of the surface of all the plains one might dig an artesian well, more or less deep than that of Grenelle; in like manner as, from every point of the surface of every healthy, well-constituted man, one would obtain a jet of blood more or less rapid, but always perpendicular to this same surface. The interior water is the blood of the globe, and every vital emission is made essentially in the vertical sense. The immediate cause of this beautiful phenomenon dwells in the heart of our planet, and strikes incessantly all parts of the terrestrial body.


1 See p. 583.


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BOLLES AND RIDGWAY'S REPORT.


"' This immediate cause, then, is nothing else than the central force of the globe; it is the general force of expansion ; that which, from its birth, raised all its isolated peaks, all its chains of mountains ; that which in Iceland projects, to the height of three hundred feet, enormous columns of fresh water, which consequently come not from the bosom of the seas; that which opens volcanoes, sends forth from them torrents of vapor, gas, disunited cinders, and burning lava.


"""The spouting at Grenelle is now and then troubled with paroxysms of spouting. Upon the 30th of April, 1842, it exhibited convulsive shocks, throw- ing forth black substance in large quantities, resembling nothing on the face of the globe, nor in the layers of the earth's crust. In the month of May, many less violent crises succeeded one another, separated by eight or ten days of calm, during which the water approached limpidity.


"' The Grenelle well is so deep that its symptoms portray the effect of ter- restrial expansion. But artesian wells of feeble depth, those of St. Owen and St. Denis, seem not to conform to this theory; they proceed from points so much above the volcanic region.' This is the case with the East Boston well.


" The water of small artesian wells rises to the surface, or spouts eight or ten feet ; but the well of Grenelle spouts one hundred feet.


" It has been ascertained by experiments made in deep-seated mines, that the temperature of the globe becomes warmer, as we descend, one degree for sixty-eight feet in depth, commencing about 150 feet in depth.


"' What is the source of the light in the heart of the sun ? What is, in the heart of our globe, the source of its caloric ? What is, in the centre of each one of us, the source of our vital fluid ? And when our temperament is heated, when from each one of our dilated pores emanates vertically, like an artesian well, a jet of liquid, a jet of perspiration, what is the source of it ? We know it ; the subtile or aqueous matter of our transudation is always furnished to our vital action by the aliments which it calls for and elaborates.


"' The human body, an alternating tributary of its own expansion, which labors to dilate it from its centre to its circumference, and of the surrounding expansion, which labors to condense it from its circumference towards its centre, is incessantly in the alternating movement of systole and diastole. This period- ical pulsation, this vibration, is the essential and continued state of every free body in space. The stars incessantly scintillate ; the terrestrial globe experi- ences constantly, throughout its whole mass, a like movement. We do not directly perceive it, because we are associated with it; but it becomes sensibly visible when we construct an artesian well of considerable depth ; the first jets never arise but by jerks, and the auger which excites them oscillates like a pendulum.


"' The water of the Grenelle well jets up with the rapidity of a swallow, producing 2,500 litres per minute, equal to 312 gallons per minute. A contin- ued jet of this dimension is, for the city of Paris, of great value, and for the enlightened of all countries, of great philosophical value; it is the most beauti- ful source of strong ideas and precise knowledge on the surface of the globe.'


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" The geological formation of the lower portion of the East Boston well is identical with the extreme lower portion of the well of Grenelle, and I feel perfectly satisfied, that if the auger is penetrated to the depth of 1,200 feet, that an abundance of pure water will be the result. What a grand experiment lies before us. How truly elevating is the contemplation of it, and how phi- lanthropie in every one engaged in an enterprise in search of an element as requisite and necessary for humanity as fresh air.


" The more I examine the subject of artesian wells, the more beautiful and correct the principle appears to me, and the more am I astonished at the citi- zens of Boston for not trying the experiment before introducing the water of Long pond.


"All of which is respectfully submitted.


" THOS. S. RIDGWAY, Jr., Mining Engineer, Philadelphia. " JESSE N. BOLLES, Hydraulic Engineer, Providence.


" East Boston, July 3d, 1847."


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ESTIMATE FOR TREES.


Streets.


Feet.


Feet.


Meridian, from Hotel square to Eagle street .


4,000


8,000


Maverick, from Orleans to Border street .


1,500


3,000


Chelsea, to Marion street (from square)


2,000


4,000


Porter, from Chelsea street to Central square


1,400


2,800


Liverpool and London, from Central square to Sumner street (two streets on both sides)


1,700


6,800


Havre, from Sumner to Porter street .


1,800


3,600


Paris, from Sumner to Decatur street


1,100


2,200


London, from Sumner to Porter street


1,900


3,800


Sumner, from New to Jeffries street


4,500


9,000


Webster, from Jeffries street to Belmont square


900


1,800


Lewis, from Ferry street to Hotel square


.


1,100


2,200


Bennington, from Central square to Brooks street


1,450


2,900


Saratoga, from Central square to Brooks street (on both sides) .


2,900


Saratoga, from Prescott to Chelsea street (on one side)


600


Chelsea, from lot 311 to lot 1, and Prescott 200 to Saratoga street


900


Princeton to Marion, from Meridian street


700


1,400


Lexington, from Meridian to Brooks street


1,200


2,400


Trenton, from Meridian to Brooks street


1,050


2,100


Eutaw, from Meridian to Brooks street


950


1,900


Monmouth, from Meridian to Brooks street


300


600


.


.


1 See pp. 595, 597.


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ESTIMATE FOR TREES.


757


Cottage, from Maverick to Marginal street


1,050


2,100


Marion, from Bennington to White street


1,800


3,600


Everett, from Cottage to Jeffries street


2,000


4,000


Whole number of feet


72,600


Number of trees required at a distance of forty feet from each other 1,815


Amount of money required at $2 per tree


$3,630


Extract from a Letter from William C. Barstow, Esq., February 15, 1853.


" Without letting out the secret, I requested to be present at the last meet- ing of the society (Tree Association.) After the meeting was called to order, I asked permission to say a few words in behalf of a gentleman now absent in Europe, who was even a greater friend to East Boston than he was to myself; I alluded to General William H. Sumner. I then stated that be- fore his departure for Europe, and previous to the formation of this society, you had in your will set apart two lots of land, No. 262, section three, and No. 225, section two, to be sold after your decease, and the proceeds appropriated for the very purpose for which this society was formed, i. e. the setting out trees in the streets of East Boston ; and that I had permission to make public the communication I was about to read. I then read an extract copied from your will, in order to show them your views as to what streets they should be set out in, and how they should be protected, and also read a part of your letter to me from Paris, instructing me to make the conveyance at once, and at the same time stated that I stood ready to do so whenever requested to do so by the proper officers of the association. Such a burst of applause as followed this announcement would have done you good to hear. A vote of thanks was passed for the magnificent donation, and the newspapers came out with some most excellent remarks in relation to it."


Letter from Benjamin Pond, Esq., Boston, Nov. 7, 1857.


" GENERAL SUMNER, -


" My dear Sir, - During a casual conversation the other day with our mutual friend Captain Barstow, allusion was made to our Tree Association at East Boston, and the noble benefaction you had bestowed upon it; and I expressed to him the desire of manifesting my own feelings, and what I know to be the prevailing sentiment of our people respecting your timely as well as generous gift.


" Allow me then, my dear general, to say that your action was exceedingly well timed, inasmuch as the association was almost, if not entirely, destitute of funds, yet abounding in plans of expenditure when they should have at hand the means to expend.


" Your princely offer of two valuable lots of land at once enabled our com- munity to entertain a mode of adorning our avenues, broad and spacious as you know them (for your counsels assisted mainly in laying them out), answer- ing to their hopes rather than their expectations.


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APPENDIX. [J.


" You were fortunate also, sir, let me add, in the gentlemen to whom was committed the important work of carrying out your plan ; gentlemen who ex- hibited perfect impartiality in distributing your gift, care and caution in the selection of hardy and thrifty trees, and, as far as I can judge, a wise and liberal economy in the disposition of your means placed in their hands.


" Already our Island ward, from having been a byword for unattractive bar- renness, has not only herself enjoyed the gentle shade and 'living green,' but the fame thereof has gone abroad, and our 'Tree Association ' has become, in some measure, a pioneer for others throughout our Commonwealth. .


" I cannot conceive, General, a more peaceful satisfaction possible to any heart than that you must enjoy with the reflection that your bounty has given means of daily happiness to all who, citizens or strangers, may frequent our wide and lengthy streets, while, unlike other gifts, every added year will impart new strength and increased means of pleasure to your ' growing ' gift.


"Thus much I could not forbear to say, my dear sir, and I trust you will receive this communication with the assurance that it conveys in feeble words the undivided sentiment of the residents of East Boston.


" Very truly your friend,


" BENJAMIN POND.


" General Sumner, Jamaica Plain."


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MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.


From memoranda kept by Guy C. Haynes, Esq., we glean the following names and dates additional to what may be found in the body of the work. Of course, the lists are incomplete ; but meagre as they are, they will be of value.


Marriages.


1837. Nov. 28. Mr. - - Durgan to Miss - Morrill.


1838. Jan. 3. Michael Wilson to Hannah Boardman.


" 11. L. M. Kendall to Mrs. R. H. Kelly.


Feb. 1. Peter Duncan to Mary Jones.


April -. David Thompson to Mary A. Lambert.


May 13. G. W. Pearson to Mary Augusta Barton.


Aug. -. Charles Britnal to


Sept. 13. Josiah Cheever to Miss Rachel Pond.


1840. Nov. Wm. P. Eaton to Harriet Tuttle.


Dec. 2. Hiram H. Hosford to Miss - Noyes.


4 31. John Melville to Miss Mary, daughter of Merrill Pettingell.


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MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.


759


1841.


July 8. Henry T. Butler to Caroline E. Cheever. Aug. -. David Morgan to Miss Mary A. Pierce. Oct. -. Mr. Parker to Miss , daughter of Ephraim


Hall. " 24. F. A. Mason to Miss Pettingell, daughter of Merrill Pettingell.


1842.


Feb. 7. Elisha Cook to Miss Mayo.


" -. Mr. Abbott to Miss - Hunt. Aug. 21. Mr. to Miss -, daughter of Col. Murdock of the Maverick House.


1843. March -. Nehemiah Gibson to Miss Lucy -.


April -. John O. Simpson to Miss Ellen A. Shortwill.


13. E. E. Fletcher to Miss -, daughter of Samuel Fowle.


June 21. Albert Bowker to Miss Sarah Lamson.


Aug. 17. Stephen R. Pearl to Martha French.


Nov. -. John A. C- to Mary S. Lewis.


Oliver Ayers to Mary J. Hooper.


In Hampden, Maine, Dr. Rufus L. Hinckley of East Boston to Eliza Ann F. Hopkins.


Dec. 7. Edward Harris to Miss Zilpha (?) A. Mangum. " -. James W. Cloutman to Miss · Keen.


Births.


1837.


Jan. 22. A son to William Fisk.


Feb'y -. A child to H. Pond.


March 1. A daughter to J. N. Bates.


A daughter to S. Keen.


20. A daughter to Prince Rogers.


April 2. A daughter to Solon Brown.


June 22. A son to Oliver II. Smith.


July 5. A daughter to R. P. Morrill.


Oct. 20. Twin sons to A. A. Wellington.


Nov. 12. A daughter to John Brown.


1838. Jan. -. A son to - Miller.


“ 28. A daughter to Asa Lewis.


April 7. A child to Capt. - - Doane.


9. A son to Enos Morgan.


14. A child to Wm. T. Spear.


May -.


A child to Charles Bowman.


Sept. 10. Indian child born in sail loft on Stephen White's wharf; mother of the Penobscot tribe. The child's name was to be Maverick.


4 28. A child to Jonathan Pierce.


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APPENDIX. [J.


1838. Nov. -. A son to L. M. Kendall.


" 10. A son (Phineas M.) to Dr. P. M. Crane.


A daughter to G. W. Jackman.


Dec. 12. A daughter to Solon Brown.


1839. Jan. 20. A son (Edward W.) to Major J. W. Barton.


4 29. A daughter to Samuel W. Hall.


Feb. 15. A son (George B.) to G. W. Pearson.


" 21. A child to Daniel Dale.


66 23. A daughter to Timothy McIntire.


" - A child to E. Morse.


March -. A child to - - Morgan.


" 22. A daughter to Benj. W. Parker.


May 1. A daughter to - - Pratt.


12. A child to Charles Britnal.


July 4. A daughter to Jesse Tuttle.


" 17. A son to R. P. Morrill.


" 20. A child to Theodore F. Rollins.


Aug. 23. A son (Wm. W.) to Rev. Wm. W. Newell.


“ 30. A child to Wm. A. Noyes.


Sept. 20. A child to Charles Morris.


27. A daughter to James M. Whitten. A son to David Hill.


A son to John Buckley.


Nov. -. A son to - Bailey.


15. A child to John H. Tomlinson. Irish births are omitted. There were two in 1839.


1840. Jan. 12. A son to John Wright.


66


13. A son to A. Crosby.


A child to Wm. H. Calrow.


A son to John Crowley.


March 7. A daughter to John Devereaux.


April 30. A daughter to James Bartlett, Jr.


A daughter (Emma L.) to Wm. H. Delano.


May 3. A child to John Brown.


66


8. A daughter to Thomas Ditson.


A daughter to H. Rogers.


66 15. A child to - · Chase.


20. A son to Alvo Rogers.


66 A son to Prince Rogers.


+ 25. A son to A. S. Foss.


A son to Abner Smith.


July 22. A daughter to Stephen Pearson.


Aug. 6. A daughter to Benj. F. Butler.


Sept. 1. Twin sons to . Jenkins.


" 25. A son to Mrs. Atkins.


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1840. Oct. -. A son to Charles E. Gay. Nov. 1. A son to L. M. Kendall.


A son (Wm. D.) to Dr. P. M. Crane.


A child to - - Burnett.


A daughter to Aaron Gill.


Dec. 20. A daughter to Edwin Bailey.


From Mr. Haynes's return of births in 1849, we take the following statis tics : -


1849. Number of males born 229


Number of females born 208


437


Number of children under fifteen years 3,861


Number of children under four years


. 1,290


Average attendance in schools


1,534


On the list, but do not attend 424


Children at large with no restraint . 613


Number eligible for school who do not attend . 1,037


Births in the several months as follows : -


January


29


August . 33


February


26


September


27


March


October . 31


. 39


April


47


November


41


May .


28


December


47


June


36


.


July .


53


Whole number · 437


Nativity of Parents of Children born in 1849.


Father.


Mother.


Boston


43


31


Other towns in Massachusetts


70


53


Maine


39


69


New Hampshire


29


24


Other States


21


21


Ireland


171


175


England, Germany, Scotland, and Nova Scotia 60


60


Four families having twins


4


4


Number of children born in 1851


437


437


.


64 * 533


762


APPENDIX.


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Deaths.


1837.


Jan. 8. Mrs. H. A. Gerry, wife of Thomas A. Gerry, aged 24.


May 24. Mrs. Lydia Lewis, aged 87.


Aug. 7. Mr. . Lawrence, aged 21.


Sept. 1. John Elms, aged 54.


There were eight deaths in 1837, of which four were chil- dren.


1838. Feb. 6. Mrs. Marian Kilgore, aged 57.


23. Samuel Brown, mast and spar maker, aged 58.


March 23. Mrs. Noyes, wife of Wm. A. Noyes, aged 33.


April 30. Miss Martha Barton, aged 24.


Sept. 28.


W. W. Tyler, a brakeman, killed on the railroad, aged 34.


Oct. 28. Robert, son of J. H. Tomlinson, aged 22 months ; the first burial in the new burial-ground in the fourth section.


Dec. 10. Sarah E., daughter of G. O. Hagar, aged 6.


Deaths in 1838, thirteen, six of which were children.


1839.


Jan. 1. Andrew Bettley (mason), aged 61.


March 15. Capt. D. Wild, at the Maverick House, aged 69.


April 15. Eliza Malgum (Malcolm ?), aged 13.


Sept. 12. Oliver Glazer, aged 18.


Oct. 5. Wm. L. Blye, aged 24.


Mrs. Phebe Granger, aged 49.


4 9. Patrick Smith, aged 30.


" 11. Mrs. Susan Stinson, aged 33.


Nov. 11. Daniel Langley (or Longley) hung himself upon a fence on the beach, first section.


Whole number of deaths in 1839, twenty-four.


1840.


Jan. 13. Mrs. Cecilia, wife of Wm. Il. Calrow, aged 24.


April 2. Philip Kurt, aged 37.


June 14.


William Mullen, aged 35.


Aug. 5. Mrs. Mary F., wife of John Melville, aged 53.


“ 12. Edward Welsh, aged 40.


Whole number of deaths in 1840, eighteen ; thirteen of which were children under ten years of age.


1841. Feb. 14. Joshua Cheever, aged 51.


March 3. Twin son of A. A. Wellington, aged 3}.


June 19. L. M. Kendall, aged 33. " 13. Mrs. Nancy, wife of Abner Smith, aged 20.


July 23. William M. Kendall, aged 26.


Deaths in 1841, 35; under ten, 23; between 20 and 40, 8 ; between 50 and 70, 2; stillborn, 2.


1842. Jan. 22. Twin son of A. A. Wellington, aged 4. 4 27. John Jones, aged 69.


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763


1842.


Feb. 14. Mrs. Hannah, widow of the late Samuel Brown, aged 64. March 6. Mrs. Abiah Ditson, aged 73.


April 8. Mr. Waterman Joselyne.


" 13. A. D. Somerby, aged 45.


July 19. Miss Perses L., daughter of Enoch Morse, aged 22.


Oct. 10. E. A. Putnam, from a wound received in discharge of a gun, aged 23.


11. Mrs. Phelps, wife of the Rev. A. A. Phelps, aged 34.


15. Mrs. Lambert, her nurse.


66


17. Mary Hardy, adopted daughter of Rev. A. A. Phelps, aged 11.


66 20. Mrs. Salmon, aged 90.


Deaths in 1842, 44; under twenty, 27; over twenty, 17.


1843. March 9. Daniel H. Lambert, drowned, aged 40.


Nov. 6. William B. Nason, aged 33.


Dec. 15. Mrs. - Sweetser, aged 61.


29. Charles T. Stevens, aged 88.


Deaths in 1843, 54; under twenty, 43 ; between 20 and 88, 11.


Deaths in 1844, 37; under twenty years of age, 23 ; over twenty years of age, 14.


From the Abstract of the Massachusetts Census, published this year (1857), we extract the following facts relative to the population of East Boston on the first day of June, 1855 :-


Total Population.


WHITE.


COLORED.


Native.


Foreign.


Nativity Un- known.


Total White.


Native.


Foreign.


Nativity Un- known.


Males, Females, Total,


7,855


4,827 4,693 9,520


3,005 2,992 5,997


6 4


7,838 7,689 15,527


25


10


25


Population.


Under 5.


5 to 10.


10 to 15.


15 to 20.


20 to 30.


30 to 40.


40 to 50.


50 to 60.


60 to 70.


70 to 80.


80 to 90.


90 to 100.


Not stated.


2,354


1,753


1,543


1,484


3,579


2,528


1,375


598


238


75 20 1 14


4


17


7,707 15,562


12


6


18


10


13


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APPENDIX.


764


NATIVITY.


U. States.


British


America.


England.


Ireland.


Scotland.


Wales.


Germany


& Holland.


France.


Portugal.


Switzerl'd.


Italy.


Denmark.


Norway &


Sweden.


W. Indies.


Unknown.


Total


Foreign.


Total


Pop'lation.


9,545


1,288


612


3,494


149 14


326


19


2


1


8 14


55


8 17


6,007


15,562


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A few additional statistics are gathered from the last Annual Report of the East Boston Company, presented May 3d, 1858. During the year preceding the date of the report, the city has made the following improvements : - Chelsea street (70 feet wide) has been paved from Decatur to Porter street, 800 feet in length, and the same street has been gravelled from Porter to Bennington street, 2,800 feet in length. The gutters in a part of Everett, Bremen, White, and Monmouth streets, have been paved ; 4,200 feet in length of the streets have been gravelled, and Porter and Princeton streets have been graded, 2,100 feet in length. In addition, the city have built a good substantial brick engine house on Chelsea street, in section four, and also 1,182 running feet of common sewer. Of improvements made by individuals, may be mentioned those on the East Boston Wharf, of which A. C. Lombard, Esq. is agent. These comprise five new brick warehouses on Webster street, 23 by 180 feet each and three. stories high, with cellars under the same ; nine brick warehouses four and five stories high upon the site of the flour mill burnt in 1856. The North wharf has been extended to the Commissioners' line, and the docks dredged out, so that six large ships are accommodated at the same time with deep water berths. Several other improvements have also been made, in order to accommodate the increasing business done upon this splendid location, which has had at its wharves the past year 60 ships, 47 barks, 28 brigs, 133 schooners, and 20 sloops; total, 288 : the greater part of these vessels have discharged or loaded their cargoes there. And at the Grand Junction wharves, 48 ships, 14 barks, 3 brigs, 134 schooners, and 3 sloops have either discharged or loaded their car- goes during the year; and in addition they have had hauled up on dockage, 79 ships, 26 barks, 2 brigs, 1 schooner, and 4 steamers.




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