History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 149

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed. n 85042884-1
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1538

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To a remarkable degree the club has been success- ful in its aim towards "general improvement and social enjoyment," and in tending to break down whatever prejudices or exclusiveness naturally clung to the several religious societies it has been a potent influence in the right direction. Mrs. Harriet L. Wentworth has been its president from its formation. The other officers at present (1887) are : Vice-Presi- dents, Mrs. E. A. Spofford, Mrs. C. E. Whipple. Treas- urer, Mrs. V. A. Burrington. Secretary, Miss Mary W. Nichols. Directors, one year, Miss Maria L. Fowler, Mrs. Sarah D. Merrill, Mrs. Abby Hutchin- son, Mrs. Alice G. Richards. Two years, Mrs. Mary L. Ewing, Mrs. Julia S. Spalding, Mrs. Hattie R. Keith, Miss Isabel B. Tapley.

SECRET SOCIETIES .- They are a small legion. Yet let no man with a new "improved " or " ancient " or otherwise peculiar " order " hesitate to come. There are still plenty of "joiners."

Free Masonry goes back nearly a hundred and ten years in Danvers, to the organization of the " United States Lodge," May 1, 1778. It ante-dated the Essex Lodge of Salem by one year. Among the members of the "United States" were Samuel Page, Jethro Putnam, Daniel Squiers and the famous drummer of New Mills, Richard Skidmore.

The latter was Tyler, and the jewels and regalia were destroyed at the burning of his house in 1805. The lodge had ceased to hold regular meetings be-

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fore this, its decay being attributed to the enlistment of so many of its members in the Revolution. A new lodge-the Jordan Lodge-was established in 1808, the meetings of which were held many years at Berry's tavern, but during the anti-masonry excitement, from 1825 to 1835, meetings were held in South Danvers, and only often enough to preserve the charter. The furniture, regalia, etc., were moved there, and when regular meetings were resumed the lodge kept and has since retained its establishment in South Danvers (Peabody). Many North Danvers Masons went thither until 1863, when Amity Lodge was es- tablished here and provided itself with the comfort- able quarters in the Bank building, which are ex- clusively used for secret society purposes. The first regular communication of Amity Lodge was held October 26, 1863. Seven years later thirty-three of the members petitioned for a new lodge, and the present Mosaic Lodge, which was chartered October 30, 1871, was the result.

The Holten Royal Arch Chapter was constituted March 12, 1872.

There is but one lodge of Odd Fellows,-Danvers Lodge, Number 153. It was instituted September 13, 1870.

The following list of other societies is perhaps not full ; the date is that of establishment :

Ward Post 90, G. A. R .June 8, 1869

Agawam Tribe, Imp. Order of Red Men .Feb. 24, 1875

Fraternity Lodge, Knights of Honor Mar. 14, 1877

Arcadiau Council, No. 249, Royal Arcanum Feb. 10, 1879

Danvers Union Equitable Aid, No. 28 Nov. 29, 1879

Danvers Lodge, A. O. of United Worknien .May 28, 1881

Tuesday Evening Aid Society Oct,24. 1881

Hawthorne Council, No. 755, Legiou of Honor Oct. 1881

State Grand Union Equitable Aid May 15, 1882

Ward Relief Corps, No. 12 (Women) April 12, 1883 Waukewan Tribe, No. 16, Imp. Order of Red Men, ... April 3, 1886 Daughters of Pocahontas. 1887

CHAPTER XXXIX.

DANVERS-(Continued).

CIVIL HISTORY.

OLD OFFICERS .- Under the act of February 13, 1789, any town might "give liberty for swine to go at large during the whole or part of the year," pro- vided they were yoked throughout spring and summer, and "constantly ringed in the nose," the legal yoke to be "the full depth of the swine's neck, above the neck, and half as much below the neck, and the soal, or bottom of the yoke full three times as long as the breadth or thickness of the swines." To see that the laws were enforced, officers called "hog- reeves " were regularly elected until 1827. Many honorable and well-known men were incumbents of this office, seemingly not alluring to ambition. Israel

Hutchinson, Jonathan Osborn and Jonathan Trask were on the first board.

Daniel Rea was, in 1752, commissioned "to take care that ye Laws Relating to ye Preservation of Deer be observed." " Deer-reeves " were chosen from 1765 to 1797; the first, William Poole and George Wiatt; the last, Eleazer Putnam and Timothy Fuller.

A Sealer of Weights and Measures was first chosen in 1759, and but for the resignation of Francis Sy- monds, of the Bell Tavern, his posterity, instead of the descendants of Joseph Pairpont, might now claim the ancestral honor of having first adjusted the pints and pecks of the town to legal standard.

Sealers of Leather were chosen from the very first, and the office was not altogether discontinued until within a few years. Israel Cheever and James Upton were the first leather measurers. Deacon S. P. Fowler has in his possession one of the old iron seals mentioned in this memorandum :

"June 18, 1765. Two Sett of Marks or Seals, was Provided at the Cost of the Town for Sealing of Leather according to the Law of the Prov- ince and the same delivered to the Sealers of Leather for the Present year, the Tees are for Sealing of Tanned Leather, and the Cees for Cur- ried Leather. By order of Selectmen.

" ARCH. DALE, T. Clerk." " Wardens " were elected from 1761 to 1790. The first to hold that office were Jeremiah Page, Bar- tholomew Rea, Gideon Foster, and Joseph Osborne ; and the last, Benjamin Proctor and Oliver Putnam.

The last "clerks of the market," chosen in 1800, were Joseph Osborn, Jr., Gideon Foster, Samuel Page and Nathaniel Putnam, Jr.

Whether or not it was common for the selectmen to appoint sextons, the only record of such appoint- ments is in 1821, the appointees being Isaac Mnnro, Bartholomew Dempsey and William Johnson.

From 1752 to 1791 "haywards" were annually chosen. Jonathan Putnam and John Osbon were the first ; Jno. Dodge and Gideon Putnam the last. That hay-scales were not in existence here earlier than 1770, witness the following interesting pe- tition :

" The Petition of Francis Symonds to the Selectmen of Danvers for the Present year 1770 Signifieth that they grant him the following Request on the following Conditions Namely that he may Erect a Convenient pair of Skails or Stilyards that will answer to way Cart or Sled Loads of hay that are Bought and Sold in our Markets, and that Said Selectmen Enter it in our Said Daovers Town Book.

" That no other Person within two miles of the Petitioner shall have the Liberty or Grant from us to Entercept him by Entering the like or any Skails or Stilyards for said purpose for Twenty year provided and it is understood that said Symonds hath this Grant allowed him by us the said Select Men on those Conditions That he keep said Skails or Stilyards in good order and see them well tended and that he Charges no more for his waying hay or anything Ells Then the Comon Price Now Geutle- men as I trust you will Observe the need we have of such a Convenience and how Likely to Bennefit our Nabourwhod for which Reson I trust you will due it as well as this to oblige your homhul Sarvent. Signed Francis Symonds Danvers June 17th 1770.

" WILLIAM SHILLABER.

" JONATHAN BUXTON.

" JOHN PRESTON. " JOHN PUTNAM.

"The fonr Persons Above named was Select Men of the Town of Dan-

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very for the year 1770; and 1 have Recorded the above in the Town Book According to their order.

" Att : SAM : HOLTEN Jun T. Cler.

Captain Jonathan Ingersoll, Benajah Collins and Samuel Page were chosen in 1811 "to consider the expediency of the Town erecting hay-scales," and their report sets forth the need of such scales near the south meeting-house, "and we also find that a considerable quantity of hay is annually purchased on the road leading from the plains (so-called) to Salem, and that a hay-scale erected in some suitable place on that road would make it very convenient for the inhabitants of that part of the Town, and further, we find from the best information we can obtain that the expense of erecting one hay-scale with all the apparatus thereto will amount to about one hundred and seventy-five dollars."

The acceptance of this report was doubtless the origin of certain massive arrangements of beams, tackle and steel-yards, which, within the memory of older citizens, stood nearly in front of the Baptist Church at Danversport, and which weighed whatever was driven beneath by lifting wagon and load bodily from the ground. The selectmen were, in 1836, in- structed to sell " the Hay Scales at the Neck."

Among those who were licensed to knock down the goods and chattels of their friends and neighbors under the auctioneer's hammer in the first quarter of this century were Sylvester Proctor, John Fowler, Benjamin Porter, Captain Thomas Putnam, Eleazer Putnam, Joseph Shed, Porter Kettell and Stephen Upton. Dr. Shed was an auctioneer from 1818 near- ly or quite all the time to his death, in 1853. Those who began service in the second quarter were William D. Joplin, Hathorne Porter, Edward Stimpson, Squires Shove, Daniel P. Clough, Thomas Trask ; since 1850, Richard Hood, William Dodge, S. D. Shattuck, Alfred Porter, John A. Putnam, Charles H. Rundlett, William B. Morgan, George Faxon, T. P. Conway.

The tax collectors of the early years of the town glad enough doubtless to meet with ready payment in any sort of money, were nevertheless bothered to reduce the several kinds of currency, silver and con- tinental notes of old and new issues, to a common standard. Distraining and tax sales were rare, and abatements common. The assessors left short min- utes of their reasons for abatement, such as "Gone," " Poor and dead," " G. P's dam gave way," "Under captivity by the Indians," "Taxed twice," "Taxed wrong," " Old and lost his faculty," "Poor widow," " Being gone to sea fishing," " Being not well," " Broke his leg," " Not 16 years old."

A move was made as early as 1813 towards the creation of a Board of Health. At that time certain persons asked the town to petition the Legislature for authority to elect such officers. The proposition was dismissed, however, and not till nearly twenty years later, 1832, was the first board chosen. Its

members were Benjamin Jacobs, Oliver Saunders, J. W. Proctor, Thomas Cheever, Samnel Preston, Joseph Stearns, Jeremiah Putnam, Robert S. Daniels and Richard Osborn. Since then a Board of Health have been annually chosen.

TOWN CLERKS AND RECORDS .- The records of the town clerks have reached the thirteenth volume. As a whole, they have been kept remarkably well. A good recording officer must have continually in mind the fact that the writing will outlive the writer and must preserve in his records a full and clear statement of events which shall be of use when they can no longer be aided by the memory of any. Such true quality was possessed by our earliest town clerks, and the spirit has been, for the most part, transmitted through the line. In one hundred and. thirty-five years of town life there have been twenty different clerks, the average length of whose terms is about six and a half years. Since 1800 there have been but seven, the terms of three of whom comprise sev- enty-three years. Here follows a complete list of

TOWN CLERKS.

1752-53. Daniel Epes, Jr.

1754-56. James Prince. 1778-86. Stephen Needham.

1757. Benjamin Prescott, Jr.

1758-60. James Prince.

1761. Benjamin Prescott, Jr. 1791-94. Gideon Foster.

1762. Gideon Putnam.

1763. Thomas Porter. 1764-66. Archelaus Dale.

1795-1800. Joseph Osborn, Jr. 1801-28. Nathan Felton. 1829-34, Benj. Jacobs.

1767. Thomas Porter. 1835-53. Joseph Shed.

1768-71. Samuel Holten, Jr. 1854-65. Nathan H. Poor.

!772. Gideon Putnam. 1856. Edwin F. Putnam.

1773-75. Samuel Holten, Jr.

1776. Stephen Needham.

1777. Samuel Flint.

1787. Jonathan Sawyer.

1788-90. James Porter.

1857-85. A. Sumner Howard. 1886. Joseph E. Hood.

Mr. Howard's twenty-eight years is the longest ser- vice, and was appropriately recognized by apprecia- tive resolutions when he declined to serve longer. Mr. Poor, who was clerk of the old town at the time of division, has ever since been retained as clerk of South Danvers and Peabody. Before the building of the town-houses the records followed the abode of the clerks. A small projection in front of one of the houses where the old Ipswich Road ;crosses the An- dover turnpike, and begins to climb Hog Hill, is re- called by a few aged people as the headquarters of Nathan Felton, whom they remember as an old man dispensing the rude justice of a country squire. Much of biographical interest might and ought to be written of many of these town clerks, but space here forbids. Perhaps the model clerk of all was Dr. Shed, a man who evidently loved to make his records clear and beautiful. He was a physician of the South Parish, residing on the main street opposite and a little below the old bank building, where he also had an apothecary store. Dr. Shed was a justice of the peace, and he drew and acknowledged most of the deeds by which his fellow-citizens made their real-estate conveyances. His death was formally an- nounced at a meeting in Granite Hall April 11, 1853,

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when Dr. Hunt presented resolutions of regret and respect, and the selectmen and other town officers were directed to attend, iu official capacity, the fu- ueral.

Up to the annual meeting of 1887, the town has held nine hundred and forty meetings. Of this number, 309 were held in the several meeting-houses of the First or North Church (of which number 25 were in the " Brick Meeting-house," and 22 at " Village Hall," the basement of the present meeting-house), 293 were held in the South Meeting-house, 2 in school- house No. 5, 17 at Liberty Hall, 2 at Chapman's Tavern, 4 at the hall of Benjamin Goodridge, 96 at Union Hall, 39 at Granite Hall (vestry of the Maple Street Church), 172 in the Town-Hall, 6 at places not named. One of the meetings at "Liberty Hall, in the house occupied by Geo. Southwick, Jun., Inn- holder," was called there in 1828 by reason of the re- fusal of the proprietors of the South Church to allow the use of their house, and at this meeting a familiar parliamentary form was slightly but pungently va- ried ; it was voted " that the communication from the Proprietors of the South Meeting-house pass under the table."

The first attempt at a systematic index of the records was made in 1832. Then the selectmen were directed to have made a " digested index of the town records from the commencement thereof in a book specially for this purpose, with reference to the vol- ume and page in which the subject may be found.'' They were to allow such compensation for the work as when completed they should judge it worth. Nine years later, on petition of J. W. Proctor and others, the index was brought up to date, and it was then made the duty of the clerk to make an annual index. Measures were taken in 1846 "for keeping the records in one office, rather than in separate places, as now kept." But the old indexes have been found to be imperfect, and, with the accumulated records of later years, need has been felt of a new in- dex, based upon a thorough and systematic overhaul- ing of the originals. A few years ago J. W. Porter, J. A. Putnam and I. W. Andrews were appointed to take the matter in hand. They consulted at first and from time to time with William P. Upham, an expert in such matters, and obtained the services of Miss Helen Tapley to do the practical work. The town clerk's records have all been thus indexed, and it is safe to say that no other town can surpass the ac- curacy and general excellence of this work, and but few can equal it. A new vault has been constructed for files and plans in the basement, and the old one for ordinary use has been much enlarged.

MODERATORS. - From 1752 to 1887, inclusive, thirty-five different men have presided over the one hundred and thirty-five annual town-meetings. A list of these moderators arranged chronologically ac- cording as their names first appear, with subsequent years of service, if any, given, is as follows, the right

hand column showing at a glance the total service of each :

Years.

Daniel Epes, Esq., 1752, '53 ... . 2

Capt. Thos. Porter, 1754 ...

Daniel Epes, Jr., Esq., 1755, '56, '57, '59, '60, '65, '66, '67.

Samuel Flint, 1758 1

Thomas Porter, 1761, '62, '63, '71, '72.

Deacon Malachi Felton, 1764. 1

Samuel Holten, Jr., 1768, '81, '84, '86, '87, '89, 190, 1796-1812 .. 24 7

Gideon Putnam, 1769, '79, '83, '85, '93, '94, '95.

Capt. Wm. Shillaber, 1774, '75, '77, '78, '88, '91, '92.

Amos Putnam, 1780, '82

Samuel Fage, 1813, '14 ...

Dr. Andrew Nichols, 1815, '16, '17

Dr. Joseph Shed, 1818

Dr. George Osgood, 1819, 121, '25, '35

Capt. Thos. Putnamı, 1820.

Nathan Poor, 1822, '23,j'24.

Robert S. Daniels, 1826 .. 1

Lewis Allen, 1828, '46, '48, '50, '52, '54.

John W. Proctor, 1830, '32, '34, '36, '38, '40. 6

John Preston, 1833, '37 2

Abel Nichols, 1841.

Daniel P. King, 1842 1

Moses Black, Jr., 1845, '47, '51

James D. Black, 1849, '53, '55, '57, '65.

Wm. Endicott, 1858, '59, '62, '63, '66, '67, '68, '69.

A. A. Putnam, 1860, '61. 2

George Tapley, 1871, '72, '74, '78, '79, '80, '81

George J. Sanger, 1873, '75, '76, '82, '83, '84.

Daniel N. Crowley, 1885, '86. 2

Alden P. White, 1887 1

It may be noticed with what regularity honors al- ternated from say, 1826, to division, 1856, the office being held by north parish men odd years, and by south parish men even years.

TREASURERS .- There have been from 1752 to 1887, inclusive, twenty-one treasurers of the town, as follows :

Years.

James Prince, 1752, '53 ..

Samuel King, 1754

Joseph Osborne, 1755, 56.

Cornet Samuel Holten, 1757, '58. 2

Joseph Southwick, 1759 1

James Smith, 1760-69. 10

Jeremiah Page, 1773, '74.

Stephen Proctor, 1775-83. 9

Gideon Putnam, 1784-88 5

Samuel Holten, 1789-1812.

Samuel Page, 1813, '14

Ward Pool, 1815-18

Edward Sonthwick, 1819-24.

Ebenezer Shillaber, 1825-37. 7

Stephen Upton, 1833-40.

Abner Sanger, 1849

Francis Baker, 1850-55,

Willsam L. Weston, 1856-82. 27

A. Frank Welch, 1882-87.

REPRESENTATIVES .- The following men have rep- resented Danvers in the General Court, arranged by consecutive years after 1802, when the town began. to send several representatives annually :

Israel W. Andrews, 1856, '70, '77 3

Elias Putnam, 1827, '29, '31 ..

Samuel P. Fowler, 1839, '43.

Jonathan Shove, 1844

Charles P. Preston, 1864

Thos. Porter, 1770-72.

Robert S. Daniels, 1832, '41-48

Archelaus Dale, 1770, '73, '76 ...

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Daniel Epes, Jr., 1754, '55, '56, '57, '65, '67. Daniel Gardner, 1759.

Thomas Porter, 1760, 'G1, '62, '63, '65. John Preston, 1764. Samuel Holten, Jr., 1768, '69, '70, '71, '72, '73, '75, '80, '87. W'm. Shillaber, 1775.

Samuel Epes, 1776. Jeremiah Hutchinson, 1777, '78, 179, '80-83, '85-88. Gideon Putnam, 1784. Israel Hutchinsoo, 1789, '91-95, '97, 198.

Culeh Low, 1790.

Gideon Foster, 1796, '99, 1800-2.

1804 .- Gideon Foster, Capt. Samuel Page, Dr. Nathao Read. 1805 .- Gideon Foster, Samuel Page, Nathan Felton,

180G .- Gideon Foster, Samuel Page, Nathan Felton.

1807 .- Nathan Feltou.

1808 .- Samnel Page, Nathan Felton, Sqniers Shove.

1809 .- Samuel Page, Nathan Felton, Squiers Shove.

1810 .- Sammuel Page, Nathan Felton, Dennison Wallis.

1811 .- Samuel Page, Nathan Felton, Depoison Wallis, Daniel Putnem. 1812 .- Sammel Page, Nathao Felton, Deunisou Wallis, James Foster. 1813. - Samnel Page, Nathan Feltou, Dennison Wallis, James Foster.

1814 .- Samuel Page, Nathan Felton, Sylvester Osborn, Hezekiah Fliot.

1815,-Nathan Felton, Sylvester Osboro, Hezekiah Flint, William P. Page.

1816 .- Nethao Felton, William P. Page, Frederick Howes, John Swinertos, Jr.

1817 .- Daniel Putnam, Sylvester Osboro, Frederick Howes, Thomas Putnam.

1818 .- Frederick Howes.

1819 .- Nathan Felton, Dennison Wallis, Daniel Putnam, Thomas Putuamı.

1820-21 .- Nathan Felton.

1822. - William Sutton.

1823 .- Ebenezer Shillaber, Joho Page, Nathan Poor, Nathaniel Put-

1824 .- Nathan Poor.

1825,-Johu Page, Joho Eodicott.

1826 .- Jonathan Shove, Rufus Choate.

1827 .- Rufus Choate, Jonathan Shove.

1828 .- Jonathan Shove, Nathao Poor, Robert S. Daniels.

1829 .- Jonathan Shove, Elias Putnam.

1830 .- Elies Putnam, Joosthan Shove, Robert S. Daniels, Nathan Poor.

1831 (May) .- Nathao Poor, John Page, William Sutton, John Prestoo. 1831 (November) .- John Page, John Preston, Nathan Poor, Jonathan Shove.

1832 .- John Prestou, John Page, Ebenezer Shillaber, Jonathan Shove.

1833 .- Jooethan Shove, Henry Cook, John Preston, John Page.

1834 .- John Preston, Henry Cook, Audrew Lunt, Eben Putoam, Jacob F. Perry.

1835 .- Jacob F. Perry, Andrew Lunt, Daniel P. King, Allen Putnam, Joshne H. Ward.

1836 .- Joshua H. Ward, Jacob F. Perry, Andrew Lunt, Caleb L. Frost, 1837 .- Caleb L. Frost, Eben Putnam, Samuel P. Fowler, Lewis Allen. 1838 .- Lewie Allen, Samnel P. Fowler, Henry Poor, Abel Nichols.

1839 .- Joshna H. Werd, Henry Poor, Samuel P. Fowler, Allen Putoam.

1840,-Allen Putnani, Fitch Poole.

1841 .- Fitch Poole, Samnel Preston,

1842 .- Daniel P. King, Samuel Preston.

1843 .- Frederick Morrill, Joshua Silvester.

1844 .- Richard Oshorn, Henry Fowler.

1845, -- Henry Fowler, Richard Osborn.

1846 .- Henry Fowler, Elijah W. Upton.

1847 .- Elijah W. Upton, Joshına Silvester.

1848, -- William Walcott, William Dodge.

1849,-A. A. Abbott, John Hines.

1850,-Willianı Walcott, Otis Mudge, Henry A. Hary.

1851 .- John lines, Philemon Putnam, Alfred A. Abbott. 1852 .- William Walcott.

1853 .- David Daniels, Philemon Putnam, James P. King.

1854 .- Josoph Jacobs, Francis Dodge, Israel W. Andrewe.

1855,-Israel W. Andrewa, Eben S. Poor, Alonzo P. Phillips.

1856 .- Arthur A. Putnam, Israel W. Andrews, Richard Smith.

1857-58 .- Francis P. Putnam.

1859 .- Arthur A. Putnaui. 1860 .- George Tapley.

1861-62 .- James W. Putnam.

1863-64 .- Charles P. Preston.

1865-66 .- Simeon Putnam.

1867-68 .- Edwin Mudge.

1869 .- Abbott Johnson, of Wenham.

1870-71 .- George H. Peabody.

1872 .- 73 .- George J. Sanger.

1874 .- John L. Robinson, of Wenham.

1875-76 .- Charles B. Rice.

1877 .- Israel W. Andrewe.

1878 .- Charlee B. Rice.

1879 .- Henry Hobbs, of Wenham.

1880-81 .- Gilbert A. Tapley.

1882 .- Alonzo J. Stetson.

1883 .- Andrew H. Paton.

1884 .- N. Porter Perkins, of Wenham.

1885-86 .- Malcolm Sillars.

To the great convention called in 1820 to make the first revision of the State Constitution, in which Daniel Webster, Judge Story, Leverett Saltonstall, Josiah Quincy and others were prominent figures, Danvers sent Caleb Oakes, John Page, Ebenezer Shillaber and Ebenezer King. At the gubernatorial election of 1851 voters were called upon to decide whether or no a convention should be called for another revision of the Constitution. The citizens of this town said "No," 681 to 556. The next year on the same question, "Yes," 638 to 636; in each case the voice of the town was the voice of the State. Delegates were chosen to meet at the State House, May 4, 1853. In this convention were Rufus Choate, Sidney Bartlett, Nathan Hale, George S. Hillard and others from Boston. Robert Rantoul, Marcus Mor- ton, Jr., Henry K. Oliver, John B. Alley, R. H. Dana, Jr., Asahel Huntington, Otis P. Lord, Charles W. Upham and others from Essex County. John A. Putnam, now of Danvers, represented Wenham. At the election, March 7, 1853, the vote of Danvers was as follows :

Whole oumber of votes 736

Necessary to a choice 369

Milton P. Braman had 399

Samuel P. Fowler had 397

Alfred A. Abbott had 370

Andrew Nichols had 300

James D. Black had 297

Charles Estes bad 28/1

Sixteen other candidates had from 1 to 39. Messrs. Braman, Fowler and Abbott were elected delegates. Each of the eight propositions submitted by the con- vention to the people were rejected by this town at the fall election of 1853 by an average vote of about 715 nays to 515 yeas.

Selectmen .- The following is a complete list:

1762 .- Daniel Epes.

Captain Sammel Flint.

Deacon Cornelins Tarball.

Samnel King.

Stephen Putnam.

Lient. David Putunnı.

Samuel King.

Ens. John Procter.

Daniel Gardner.

Jasper Needham.

Joseph Putnam,

1754 .- Daniel Epes, Jr.

Jasper Needham.

1753 .- Daniel Epes, Jr.

Captain Thommus Flint.

Corntt, Samuel Holten.

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Samuel Putnam. James Prince. Ebenezer Goodale. 1755 .- Daniel Epes, ;Jr., Jasper Needham. Capt. John Proctor. James Prince. Capt. Samuel Fliut. 1756-Daniel Epes, Jr. Daniel Marble. Capt. Thomas Fliot. " Deacon Cornelius Tarhle. James Prince.

1757-John Preston.

Francis Nurse. Daniel Gardaer. Benj. Prescott, Jr. Josephi South wick.

1758 .- James Prince.

Nathan Procter. Jasper Needham. Bartholomew Rea, Benj. Upton.

1759 .- James Prince.

Capt. Samuel Flint. John Epes. Ezekiel Marsh, Jr. Ebenezer Jacobs.

1760 .- James Prince.

Jasper Needham. John Epes. John Nichols. John Preston.

1761 .- Samuel Holten:

Nathaniel Pope. Abel Mackintire. Lieut. Saml. King. Benj. Prescott, Jr.

1762 .- Abel McIntire. Benj. Russell, Jr. Daniel Purringtou. Gideon Putnam. . Joseph Putam.

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History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. I, Part 149

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed. n 85042884-1 Publication date: 1888 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1538

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton), ed. n 85042884-1
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1538