History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 183

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1672

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hence we hear of the Nantucket as well as of the Newbury branch of the family. Five years later Thomas died at the ripe age of eighty-three years, and four-score years or more, barring accidents, may be counted upon as the Colman inheritance.

Thomas Colman married three wives, who bore him | the public to so great a degree, or his popularity so five sons and one daughter. deep and well-grounded, as Colonel Colman.

Benjamin was the oldest, and possibly it was he whom tradition says "owned a parcel of land ex- tending from near the Meeting-House to where the Glen Mills now are," some two miles or so.

It was, however, his last child, Tobias, the son of his old age, by his third wife, Margery, who was the great ancestor of the Byfield Colmans. Later on Benjamin, born in 1724, who married Anne Brown, living at Brown's Springs, in West New- bury, was the most distinguished member of the fam- ily in its early days, by his long controversy with his pastor, Rev. Moses Parsons, on the slavery question. He has become historical,-one of the way-marks along the line of human progress, showing how fast the world moves.

He seems to have been a logical, well-educated, strong-minded man; if not the William Lloyd Garri- son of that day, certainly the fore-runner of him who was to come and "the voice crying in the wilderness, ' Prepare ye the way.' " He was deacon of the church, and thought it his duty to arraign the pastor as a " man-stealer " for keeping a person in slavery.

And this reminds ns that the Lexington and Bun- ker Hill of the anti-slavery revolution were not at or near Boston, but in Byfield. Thence came the tribes that overran the land, and there was the preliminary contest between Deacon Benjamin Colman and Rev. Moses Parsons.

Looking along the line of the Colman family we find that Moses (born in 1755) inherited the paternal acres, which descended to his son, Colonel Jeremiah, and from him became the property of the subject of this sketch, who has greatly improved the estate and made it one of the finest rural summer residences of this county.

In process of time the area has been reduced to one hundred acres. Moses, of 1755, married two wives ; the first became the mother of Jeremiah, and the second, the Widow Emery, was the mother of David Emery, and afterwards of Daniel Colman, so that the three boys who became prominent citizen-, lived under the same roof-tree as brothers, though no two of them had the same mother and father.

Colonel Jeremiah, like the first Thomas, had knowledge of and love for a horse. He was the best rider ever seen on our streets, and when yonng he paid no attention to roads, but would leap every fence or stone wall in a five-mile ride. IIe was for many years a colonel of a cavalry regiment, in one com- pany of which every man could dismount and regain his saddle with his horse at a canter.

In 1810 he became general agent of the Eastern

Stage Company, with his headquarters in Newbury- port, and he retained that position twenty-nine years, to 1839, when the corporation retired, dissolved be- fore the Eastern Railroad Company.

Seldom has a man lived having the confidence of

He was one of the founders of the Essex Agricul- tural Society and an officer as long as he lived. For twenty-five years he was marshal at the annual fairs. He was one of the founders of the Ocean Bank, a director from its incorporation till his death, thirty- three years, and was the last of the original board. So he was an officer of the Institution for Savings, a trustee of Dummer Academy, thirty-two years deacon of the First Church in Newbury, for many years chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Newbury- port, and for fifteen years a Representative to the Leg- islature. This unprecedented record was no accident, but was founded on the merits of the man as a Chris- tian gentleman, guileless and unspotted.

Moses Colman, whose portrait we give, indicating in his face and appearance the manner of the man, is the eldest son of Colonel Jeremiah. He was born in Newburyport and educated by her best teachers- Alfred W. Pike, David P. Page, Roger S. Howard and Preceptor Cleveland, of Dummer Academy, all of high rank in their profession.

At seventeen he became the clerk, accountant and paymaster of the Eastern Stage Company, one of the greatest institutions of Newburyport in the last gen- eration of men, which furnished quick and cheap travel from Boston to Bangor, and by its branches reached to the centre of New Hampshire and the back towns of Maine.

Oh! what a rush of people in any exciting time to the Wolfe Tavern as the coach, drawn by four or six horses, dashed down the street with Forbes, Akerman, Shaw or Annable on the box, blowing the horn when High Street was reached. Then came the scramble for newspapers, "only five hours from Boston !" We believe that all but three or four of the drivers have passed away ; the oldest now living is, we think, Esek Saunders, of Worcester. One of the most famous was Stephen B. Marshall, who always had " room for one more inside."

About 1859 Moses Colman removed to Boston, where, keeping up with the times and the demands of the people for improved modes of travel, he began a brilliant career on street railroads. First he became superintendent of the Metropolitan road, the first horse railroad in Massachusetts. His previous ex- perience with stages, which were run by time-tables as the railroads now are, and were as true to their time of starting, amply fitted him for his new posi- tion, and at once he became a popular and energetic manager, and no small part of the prosperity of the Metropolitan at that date and since was due to his skill and the impetus which he gave to it.

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He remained there three years, then for five years he owned and operated with much success the South Boston Horse Railroad, and sold it only when it seemed more profitable to sell at his own price than to keep it. We believe this is the only case in any large city of this Commonwealth where one individ- ual has been sole proprietor and manager of a road of much magnitude, but there was not a man in the State better qualified for the duties. He was at home in every department of the work, active, industrious, vigilant.

In 1866, in connection with bis son E. C., he es- tablished the auction and commission house where it now is, on Portland and Friend Streets, in Boston, for the sale of horses and their furnishings of every de- scription. In this business, not before established at the North End, he has remained for twenty-four years, during which time it has constantly increased. There is not a man in this county, if there is in any other, that knows a horse better than he, can quicker see his good points or detect his "onts."

The number of horses and carriages that have pass- ed through his hands is beyond our calculation. At the opening of the late war, Andrew, the Governor of this Commonwealth, availed himself of Mr. Colman's knowledge and experience in this business, and gave | Church was built on the site of the present St. Paul's him large orders for cavalry supplies.

The simple name of the firm conveys no idea to the average mind of the extent or importance of the business, but when we say that it reaches more than one hundred thousand dollars per annum, something may be learned.

Being a man of orderly habits, the business is as well arranged and systematized as that of any other house dealing in dry-goods, groceries, leather or shoes. Moses Colman is a man of much personal intelligence ; by constant reading since he left school he has formed scholarly habits and kept up with the times in liter- ature, but has had little leisure for political life. He has held a seat in the City Council of Boston, and while there took a prominent part in its actions, but he could not neglect the demands of his enormous business, and the adherence to the rule of fully attend- ing to the one iron in the fire has given him success.

Ile has the leading traits of the family, is free, gen- erous, hospitable, is firm in his opinions, but urbane in his manners ; follows in the footsteps of liis fath- ers in the religious principles that lie at the bottom of New Engtand society.

For many years he has been a worthy member of the Congregational Church. He has his winter home in Boston, but spends his summers in Newbury, of which town he is still a citizen, warmly interested in its prosperity.

Mr. Colman has been twice married,-first, to Eliza- beth L., daughter of Edmund Coffin, of Newbury, by whom he had nine children, six of them now living, -three sons and three daughters ; no children by the second marriage.

CHAPTER CXLIII. NEWBURYPORT.1

BY WILLIAM T. DAVIS.

FIRST L'ERIOD.

From the Incorporation of the Town to the Close of the Revolution.

Ix 1642 the inhabitants of Newbury granted au- thority to Thomas Parker, James Noyes, John Wood- bridge, Edward Rawson, John Cutting, Edward Woodman, John Lowle and John Clark to lay out a new town. This town, or rather district of the old town, included what afterwards became the "Port " of Newbury, and in later times, Newburyport. This new section or district of the old town, lying as it did on the banks of the Merrimac River and not far from the ocean, eventually gained more rapidly in popula- iion, and became more thickly settled than the dis- tricts remote from the river, which were cut up into farms, and whose people retained the characteristics of an agricultural population, As early as 1725 a part of the First Parish in Newbury, living near the " water side," as the district lying on the river was sometimes called, was incorporated as a separate re- ligious society, and in 1738 a Protestant Episcopal

Church, by the "water side" members of the old Queen Anne's Chapel, the church on Newbury Plains, which had been built at the time of the or- ganization of its society, in 1711. In 1725 the First Church in Newburyport was organized, and on the 3d of January, 1746, another society was formed at the water side by seceders from the old First Parish at Newbury, which is now known as the First Presby- terian Society of Newburyport. The formation of these societies at the " Port" could not fail to draw, still more distinctly than it had before existed, the line between the two sections of Newbury. As long as on the Sabbath those whose worldly interests were separate, met together in worship at the same altar, there was a tie binding them as one community, which, after the establishment of different societies and the erection of new places of worship, was irre- trievably broken. By the enterprise of the " water side " people a new feature was added to their settle- ment by the erection, at their own charge, of a new town-house, and in 1752 the old one on lligh Street, built in 1735, was abandoned. The location of the new town-house, sought as it was by each section, was a contested problem which the liberality and public spirit of the "new town" people speedily solved. But with the possession of these elements of a dis- tinet community, the municipal tie which bound the two sections together was gradually becoming a

1 Owing to the death of MAJOR BEN : PERLEY POORE, with whom ar_ rangements had been made to write the history of Newburyport, the material gathered by him was placed at the disposal of the writer and has been freely used in the preparation of the following history .- W. T. D.

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senous inconvenience to the inhabitants of the new town and an obstacle in the way of their welfare and progress. Not the least of the annoyances which they keenly felt related to the education of their children.

The public-school system had been planted with a firm root in the minds of New England people, but while thickly-settled communities, with the culture and refinement and growing wealth which were more and more characterizing them, greedily sought its advantages and liberally supported it, the more thinly-populated farming districts had not been aroused to its importance, and were reluctant to afford it adequate pecuniary aid. Thus the people of the " Port" were obliged to establish private schools, in order that their children might receive such in- structions as a well-organized public-school system ought to furnish, but from which, by the votes of those outside of their immediate boundaries, they were precluded. And aside from all other considera- tions, seeds of jealonsies had been sown and were rapidly growing, and the fruits of these were feelings of hostility and dissension, which could not fail to be fatal to a continuance of municipal sympathies and ties.

" Anno Regui Regis Georgii Tertis Quarto."

" An Act For Erecting Part of The Town of Newbury into A New Town By The Name of Newburyport."

" Whereas, The town of Newbury is very large, and the inhabitants of that part of it who dwell by the water side there . as it is commonly called, are mostly merchants, traders and artificers, and the inhabi- tants of the other part of the town are chiefly husbandmen, by means whereof many difficulties and disputes have arisen in managing their public affairs :

"Re it enacted by the Governor, Council and House of Representa- tives, That that part of the said town of Newbury and the inhabitants thereof, included within the following lines, viz. :

" Beginning at the Merrimac river, against the northeasterly end of the town way, commonly called Cottle's Lane, and running as the said Lane doth, on the eastwardly side of it, to the highway commonly called the High Street and so westwardly, as the said highway runs, ou the northwardly side thereof, till it comes to a highway known by the name of Fish Street, and thence southwestwarily as the way goes, and on the eastwardly side thereof, leading hy Benjamin Moody's to a place called the West Indies, until it intersects a straight line drawn from the southwestwardly side of the highway, against Cuttle's Lane, as aforesaid, to a rock in the great pasture, near the dividing line between the third und fifth parishes there, and so as the straight lines goes, until it comes to the dividing line aforsaid, from thence as the raid dividing line runs by the said fifth parish down to Merrimae river, and thenre along said river to the place first mentioned, be, and hereby are constituted and made a separate and distinct town by the name of Newburyport, vested and endowed with all the powers, privileges and immunities that the inhabitants of any of the towns within this province do, or ought by law to enjoy.

" FRANCIS BERNARD, Governor.

" The twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, Anno Domini."

At the date of its incorporation Newburyport con- tained a population of twenty-two hundred and eighty-two, and the territory set off by act from New- bury included six hundred and forty-seven aeres. The town of Newbury had previously included about thirty thousand acres, and was one of the largest towns in Massachusetts, being about thirteen miles long and about six miles broad in the widest place. But though Newbury was so large, the new incorpor- ated town was the smallest in the State. Of course, as is the case in the division of all towns, there were equitable settlements of privileges and expenses to be made; but these, with the exception of those re- lating to common lands, which were not affected for many years, were all satisfactorily and speedily ad- justed. It is needless in this narrative to enter into the details of the vexed questions concerning these lingering settlements, as they are sufficiently ex- plained in the varions published histories, to which the reader has access.

Immediately after the passage of the act of incor- poration a warrant was issuedødated Ipswich, Jan- uary 31, 1764, by John Choat, one of His Majesty's justices of the peace, directed to Daniel Farnam, one of the principal inhabitants, requiring him to call a meeting at the Court-House, on Wednerday, the 8th of February next ensuing at ten o'clock, for the choice of a moderator, town clerk, selectman, treas- urer, assessors, overseers of the poor and all other

Such was the condition of things in 1763, when two hundred and six of the "water side " people pre- sented a petition to the General Conrt, headed by William Atkins, Daniel Farnham, Michael Dalton, Thomas Woodbridge and Patrick Tracy, to " be set | officers. The notification of the meeting was given off from Newbury and incorporated a town by them- February 1st, and at the meeting held in pursuance - thereof the following officers were chosen : selves." In the following year the General Court passed the following act :

Moderator, Michael Dalton.

Selectmen, Stephen Cross, Enoch Titcomh, Jr., Timothy Pike, Daniel Farnamı.

Treasurer, Nathaniel Carter.

Clerk, Stephen Sewell.

Assessors, Jonathan Greenleaf, Dudley Atkins, Samuel Greenleaf.

Overseers of the Poor, Captain Patrick Tracy, Joseph Cottle, Ebene- zer Little, Captain Henry Titcomb.

Constables, John Wyat, Edmund Morse, Jr., Stephen Wyat.

Fire-wards, Edmund Bartlett, Richard Greenleaf, Cutting Bartlett, Jonathan Titcomb, Sammel Gerrish.

Cullers of Staves and Hoops, Captain Cutting Moody, John Stone, Joseph Stickney.

Surveyors of Lumber, Isaac Johnson, Francis Hollider, Samuel Ger- rish, Ichabod Woodman, Samuel Roif, Samuel Greenleaf, William Har- vey, Moses Rogers,

V'ullers of Fish, Jacob Giddins, Caleb Haskel.

Wardens, Ralph Cross, Cutting Moody, Cutting Bartlett.

('lerks of Market, Samuel Tuft, Ebenezer Greenleaf, Jeremiah Pearson, Cutting Moody, Captain Wm. Davenport.

Sealers of Leather, Edmund Bartlett, John Kent.

Hay-ward, John Harris.

Surveyors of Highways, Samuel Titromb, William McHard, Deacon Thomas Moody.

Hog-reeves, Thomas Bartlett, Enoch Pilsbury, Samuel Toppan, Samuel Rolf.

Fence-viewer», Deacon John Kent, William Price.

Sealer of Weights and Measures, Captain Jeremiah Pearson.

Informer of Deer, John Hidden.

To consider Schools and School-houses and Report in March, Nathan- iel Carter, Captain Robert Roberts, Captain Cutting Moody, Benjamin Greenleaf, Ralph Cross.

It may not be without interest to present at this point in the narrative lists of those who were chosen

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at annual meetings to the various offices of modera- tor, town clerk, treasurer and selectmen from the date of the above election until the organization of the city government, in 1851. Such lists are often valuable for reference, and need no excuse for their insertion.

Moderators.

Michael Dalton Feb. 1764

Daniel Farnam Mar. 1764

Daniel Farnam 1765-60

Dudley Atkins .1767

Daniel Farnam 1768-70

Jonathan Greenleaf .1771

Tristam Dalton,

1772-73

Daniel Farnam ,1774

Stephen Cross

.1775

John Lowell

.1776

Theophilus Parsons. 1777

Jonathan Titcomb 1778-79

Stephen Cross 1780

Jonathan Titcomb. 1781

Enoch Titcomb

1782

Nicholas Pike.

1783

John Tracy. 1785

Jonathan Titcomb 1786-87 John Tracy 1788

Jonathan Greenleaf. ... 1790-91-92

Nicholas Pike 1793-94

Jonathan Greenleaf. 1795

Jolin Tracy.

1796

Stephen Cross

.1797

Nicholas Pike .1798-99

John Tracy. 1800-01-02

Enoch Titcomb

1803-01

Nicholas Pike

1805

William Bartlett .1806

Town Clerks.

Stephen Sewall 1764-75

Nicholas Pike

.1776-79

William Work 1813-15

Samuel Cutler. 1816-30

Enoch Titcomb

1790-96

Robert Long. 1797-1805

Treasurers.

Nathaniel Carter. 1764-65

Daniel Dole. 1766-67-68

Benjamin Whitoiore .. 1812-16

Cutting Moody 1768-75

Solomon H. Currier. 1817-22

David Moudy

.1776-81

John Potter 1823-31 Moses Frazier. 1782

Isaac Stone 1832-34 David Moody .1783

Moses Merrill 1835-43 Enoch Titcomb 1784-1810

Jonathan Coolidge .1844-51

Selectmen.

1764. Stephen Cross.

1767. Dudley Atkins.

Moses Bradstreet.

Benjamin Greenleaf.

Daniel Farvam. Stephen Cross. Enoch Titcomb, Jr.

Samuel Greenleaf. Robert Roberts.

I768. Ralph Cross.

Benjamin Greenleaf.

John Berry.

Daniel Farnanı.

Robert Roberts.

1769. Daniel Farnam.

Ralph Cross. John Berry.

William Atkins. Edmund Bartlett.

1770. Ebenezer Greenleaf.

Daniel Dole.

Cutting Bartlett.

1771. Tristram Dalton.

John Lowell. Matthew Perkins. John Stickney. David Moody.

1772. Benjamin Greenleaf. Tristram Dalton. John Lowell. Stephen Cross. Abel Greenleaf.

1773. John Stickney. Richard Smith. Jonathan Titcomb. Matthew Perkins.

1774. Tristram Dalton. Benjamin Greenleaf. Jonathan Titcomb. Stephen Cross. John Lowell.

1775. Richard Smith. Benjamin Greenleaf. Steplien Cross. Jonathan Titcomb. John Lowell.

1776. John Lowell. Tristram Dalton.

Abel Greenleaf. Jonathan Marsh. Moses Little.

1777. Jonathan Titcomb.

Abel Greenleaf. Moses Little. Samuel Tufts. Jacob Boardman.

1778. Jonathan Titcomb.

Abel Greenleaf.

Moses Little.

Samuel Tufts. Moses Frazier.

1779. Same.

1780. Jonathan Titcomb.

Abel Greenleaf.

Nathaniel Tracy.

Samuel Tufts. Moses Frazier.

1781. Same.

1782. Enoch Titcomb.

Nathaniel Tracy.

Moses Brown. Nicholas Pike. Jonathan Mullikin.

1783. Joseph Moulton. Edward Wigglesworth. David Coats. Michael Hodge. Wm. Coombs.

1784. Edward Wigglesworth.

David Coats.

Wm. Coombs. Michael Hodge. Wm. Bartlett.

1785. Same. 1786. Jonathan Titcomb.

Moses Frazier.

David Moody. John Fletcher. Joseph Huse.

1787. Joseph Huse.

Joshua Titcomb. Beojamin Balcb. Henry Hudson. Stephen Cross.

1788. Jonathan Titcomb.

Stephen Cross. John Tracy.

Moses Brown. Josiah Smith.

1789. Thomas Thompson. Benjamin Balch. Win. P. Johnson. Edward Raud. Joseph Noyes. 1790. Joseph Noyes. Edward Rand. W'm. Pierce Johnson. John O'Briea. Nicholas Johnson.

1791. Joseph Noyes. J. O'Brien. Nicholas Johnson. Anthony Davenport. Henry Hudson.

1792. Moses lloyt. Anthony Davenport. Henry Hudson. J. O'Brien. Nathaniel Carter.

1793. John Mycall. Moses Hoyt. Bishop Nortoo. Thomas Thompson. Joshua Carter.

1794. Nathan Hoyt. John Pettingel. John Mycall. Bishop Norton. Joshına Carter. 1795. Jolin Mycall. Joshua Carter. Wmp. Noyes. John Pettingel. Theophilns Bradbury, Jr.

1796. Jolin Pettingel. Theophilus Bradbury. Daniel Horton. Ebenezer Stocker. Gilman White.

1797. Theophilus Bradbury. John Pettingel. Abraham Wheelright.

Gilman White. Eben Stocker.

1798. Abraham Wheelright.

Leonard Smith. Samuel A. Otis. Jolın Pearson, Jr. Charles C. Raboteau.

1799. Charles C. Raboteau.

Jonathan Gage. W'm. Wyer, Jr. Thomas M. Clark. James Prince.

1800. Nehemiah Haskell.

Joha B. Titcomb, John Fitz. Alexander Caldwell Moses Hoyt.

1801. Moses Brown. Wm. Bartlett.

Nicholas Johnson. Abner Wood. Benjamin Balch.

1802. Abner Wood. Israel Young. Jonathan Gage. Anthony Davenport. John Greenleaf.

1803. Same.

1766. Daniel Faroam.

Robert Roberts.

Benjamin Greenleaf. John Sprague. John Berry.

Nicholas Pike .. 1807

Jonathan Gage .. .1808

William Bartlett 1809

Nichloas Pike 1810

Jonathan Gage.

1811

William Bartlett 1812

Daoiel A. White ..... 1813-14-15-16

Ebenezer Musely 1817-18-19

William B. Bannister 1820

Ebenezer Mosely 1821

Asa W. Wildes. 1822

Ebenezer Mosely 1823

Williaor Bartlett 1824

Ebenezer Mosely

1825

John Merrill

1826

Ebenezer Bradbury

1827

Enoch Titcomb. 1784 Caleb Cushing 1828-29

Ebenezer Bradbury

1830

Eleazer Johnson. 1831

Caleb Cushing

.1832

Ebenezer Bradbury

1833-84

Caleb Cushing

1835

lohn Merrill

1836

Caleb Cushing.

1837

John Merrill

1838-39

Ebenezer Bradbury .... 1840-41-42- 43-44-45-46

Henry W. Kiusman 1847-48-49-50 Philip K. Hills. 1851

Eleazer Johnson

1831-51

Samuel Tenney 1811

Enoch Titcomb, Jr. Timothy Pike.

Timothy Pike.

Daniel Farnam.

William Atkios.

Benjamin Greenleaf.

1765. John Berry.

Robert Roberts.

Cutting Moody.

Ebenezer Little.

1804. Samuel French. Joshua Toppan. Benjamin Wyatt. Gilman White. Edward Little.

John Fitz. 1806-12

Michael Hudge. .1780-89

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1805. Same.

1806. Zebedee Cook. John Peabody. David Coffin, Jr. Samuel Foster, Jr. Robert Foster.

1807. Abraham Perkins. Samuel IJ. Foster. Zebedes Cook. John l'eabody. Robert Foster.

1808. Zebedee Cook.

Abraham Perkins. Daniel A. White. Stephen Holland. Amos Toppan.

1809. Jeremiah Nelson.

Amos Toppan. Sewall Tappan. Daniel A. White. Stephen Ilolland.

1810. Jeremiah Nelson.

Sewall Tappan. Stepben Holland. Wm. Woart. Jacob Stone.

1811. Jeremiab Nelson.

Jacob Stone. Isaac Adams. Eleazer Johnson.

Nicholas Johnson, Jr.

1812. Isaac Adams.

Nicholas Johnson. Eleazer Johnson. Ebenezer Mosely. George Jenkins.

1813. Ebenezer Musely. George Jenkins. Isaac Stone.

Edward S. Rand. Joshna Greenleaf.

1814. Joshna Greenleaf. Isaac Stona.

Edward S. Rand. Wm. B. Bannister. Allen Dodgs.

1815. Joshua Greenleaf.

John Wood. Edward S. Rand. W'm. B. Bannister. Allen Dodge.

1816. Wm. B. Bannister.

Richard Bartlett. Phillip Coombs. Edward Bartlett. Obadiah Horton.

1817. Ebenezer Mosely.

Abraham Williams. Robert Clark. Thomas M. Clark. Jacob Stone.

1833. Chas. Il. Balch.

Stephen Tilton. Richard Stone. Jos. George. Ebenezer Bradbury.

1834. Jos. George Moses Merrill. Coffin Boardman. Stephen Frothingham. Nathaniel Jackson.

1835. Eben Stono.

John N. Cushing.

Chas. Il. Balch, Henry Merrill. Jeremiah Colburn.

1836, Same.

1837. Nathaniel Horton. John N. Cushing. Chas. H. Balch. Henry Merrill. Jeremiah Colburn.

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History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 183

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed Publication date: 1888 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1672

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) ed
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1672