History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 42

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

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From the death of Mr. Phillips, in 1696, Mr. Payson continued as sole minister, and the bequest from Mr. Rogers vested in the college in 1700. Mr. Payson entered in the church register the following state- ment:

"TRANSACTIONS ABOUT Ma. ROGERS' DONATION.

"About two years after Mr Phillips's decease ; The Town had two meetings to try ye Towns mind abt holding Mr Rogers' Donation upon y· Termes expressed in his Will : at neither of which a vote in the af- firmative could be obtained. at Their last meeting, ye Town choose a comittee to send to me to koow what Sallery I would be willing to take up with, both while alone, & also in case another Minister should be called, by which comittee (vizt Deacon Jewett, Capt Weicom, Cupt Boynton, Lieu Dresser, Cornt Pierson) I returned propositions to ye Town on both Articles abovesd. But nothing was acted upon them, & so ye matter lay silent ; till ye last winter in ye year 1699 sometime in Octobr 1699 I fell ill, my aile continuing, and seeming to be of a threat- ning nature ; The Town, sometime in Novembror Decenthr, had a meet- ing, and obtained a vote for holding ye abovesd Donation upon ye condi-

tion that it was given upoo, presently upon which, ye church conveend to considr wt Minister to invite and did pitch upon Mr. Richard Brown of Nubury. At web time two Bretbren vizt Capt Bointon and Lieu Dresser were chosen Messeogrs to send to Mr Brown to signifie ye churches Act calling him to ye work of ye Ministry amongst us. Abont ye latter end of Decembr ye Lord was pleased to give me liberty to come amongst my people agen, & to exercise ye whole Sabbath, and so con- tinued to do. After some time, some of or Bretbren signifyed to me their desire yt something further might be done as to calling Mir Brown amongst us. I told them ye chh had proceeded as farr in ye matter as was convenient, not having as yet acquainted ye Town with wt had bin done, nor obtained their concurrence wth ye churches choice ; therefore I thought ye next step mmust be to consult ye Town in ye matter. upon which a Town meeting was quickly warned, after ye warning wroff, & before ye time appointed for sd meeting came I received a letter from Mr Brown, in which he writes as followetb vizt be pleased sr to nudr- stand, yt to come at present I canot ; and to tarry longer, as yor case is circumstanced, would be phaps greatly to yor detriment, & bec[ause] I would not to yor damage deceive you, pray sr be pleasd to take it in good part, if I hereby Intreat you not to expect my coming at all. This let- ter I totally concealed from all psons living , till after ye abovesd meet- ing was past, that none might any way be Influenced thereby. Att this meeting nothing could be done in ye matter. The Lord baving bin pleased to restore my health Again, the Generality of ye Town appeared very dnll abt acting anything on my Proposition referring to calling another Minister, so ye meeting issued in words, sed preteria nihil. Some of the Brethren being still unsatisfyed, motioned for another meeting, wrupon some of the selectmen came to me, and Informed that some desired another Town-meeting to settle ine a Sallery if I continued aloue & they would know of me whether I did desire it, my Answr was, that the time for settling my sallery while I was alone, being lapsed, I did not desire yt ye Town should be conveend meerly on yt account ; But if they had anything further to transact in reference to calling another Minister & saving their Living, I would bindr nothing of that, they might warn a meeting as soon as they pleasd. The Select men seemed satisfyed, and not Inclinable to warn any meeting on that acct. But the abovesd unsatisfyed Brethren continuing to urge their former motion abt another Town-meeting; one was at last appointed to Be on, or abt ye twenty-third day of Febry. At this meeting my abovesd propositions were bronght a foot many appeard as willing to congdy with ye Brst, while I was alone but as to ye latter yt referred to calling another Min- ister ye most were dnll and would not stirr to decide a vote. I had told some of the chief of ye Town before this meeting yt seeing they had not taken up with my propositions, it was now their turn to make proposalls to me ; accordingly ye Deacon in The Towns oshalle abated five pounds from my 2d proposition refering to calling another Minister which took off 30 pounds from my Sallery then & so ye proposition was agen put to vote, but with as little snecess as at first, & so ye meeting ended withont doing anything at all as to ye holding ye abovesd Donation. So the mat- ter lay till the College officer took possession of the several parcells of Land and meadows which they have improved since. At ye abovesd chh meeting to chuse a Minister, I proposed to make choice of Mr Jnº Emmerson because I concluded he would surely come ; which had they done they had certainly secured their Donation, if the Town had con- cur'd, and sallaries had been agreed on ; But there was no likelyhoed that mr Brown would come, & so it proved.

" I did count it necessary to know hefore hand, what the Town would do for me in case they saved their donation by calling another Minister ; and that for eundry Reasons First We are bound to provide for our own house. 2ly soon After my Settlemt my father Phill : was nneasie about his sallary, and told me yt ye Town was not able to keep two ministers, 3ly ; I was Informed not long after my Ordination, That # chiefe man then in Town (viz Capt Phil: Nelson) declared in a Town Meeting, that ye Town could not maintaine two Ministers, proposed to let one of them go. And 4ly I found my own salary very scanty while we were two together. fifty & three pounds in grain was my whole allowance (wth my Wood) by ye year ; five of web was yeurly taken off for Parsonage Lands yt I Improved so I bad but forty-eight pounds in Graine @ annum, for sundry years after I had a family. Not long be- fore my father Phill: decease, the Town added seven pounds to my sal- lary, so made it Sixty in Groin, which in those times was allw[ays] counted a third at least Inferiour to money. finally I was informed when ye abovesd things abt calling another Minister, were in agitation, that it was said amongst some yt I must take what the Town would give me. I tho't it needfull therefore to know before hand a little about the matter, to prevent uneasiness afterwards. but as is above specified,

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'ing all be al. d. Now let any Iudiferent persons Judge how this b sat u cate tose. f forte J, and lapse try. colledge."

I'ISTSCRIPT.

To Refry & ret ( Mr Brown's Letter (menti ned in the al ve lt ri was, be us the nuit en of holding s4 Donat'in was BT tex| 1, that there was then no time to apply t any body so Th ref re if yT wh had known before sd Towy meeting was os r that b . w. J not me. They might have counted it a sufficient W und to A in thing al ut the case. Therefore I kept the knowledge fitfr m tuti, this meeting was past. Yet nothing was done about . thủ they know hạt but he might cute-und did know yt they could ston ther"

All things considered the pastorate of Mr. Payson was more successtul than that of any other minister of this church. From the death of Mr. Phillips to the settlement of Mr. Jewett, a period of thirty- three years, nothing appears of record in church or town denoting any differences between Mr. Payson and the people under his charge.

Samuel Palmer, Timothy Harris, Humphrey Hob- son and Joseph Boynton were ordained deacons while Mr. Payson was alone in the ministry.

The record of his death, entered in the church reg- ister by his colleague and successor, is as follows:

"The Rev4. M. Edward Payson died Aug. 22, 1732, about yr rising of ye Sun, In ye 76 year of his nge, after about a month's Languishment and after lle had preached y" Gospel in Rowley more than 51 years."

"Beati Mortui ii qui Domini causa moriuntur etiam dicit spiritus ut requiescant a laboribus suis & opera corum sequuntur cos."

JEMMIAH JEWETT, fifth minister, son of Jonathan and Mary (Wicom) Jewett, of Rowley, where he was bern 1705, baptized June 3, 1705, was graduated at Harvard t'ollege 1726 and ordained and settled col- ligne with Mr. Payson November 19, 1729. The third merting-house was built during his ministry, and was occupied in October, 1749. The last child baptized in the old house was Joanna Todd, October 10, 1749, while the first persons owning the covenant in the new house did so October 29, 1749.

The number of church members in 1744 is given by hun in the church register as follows: "About 2% |ursous at present in full communion with this (. 3 males 125 Females."

further said to >4 Jewet, 'That you preach That there is certain number elected, and another number are passed over, and if it be so, say sd Hobson,' the consequence is that man does aet necessarily." An investigating committee was chosen April 2, 1749; the committee reported that Hobson write out his ex- planation.

December 27, 1749, Hobson refused to write out any explanation of his speech, and the church voted the acknowledgment was satisfactory.

August 20, 1749, James Hidden was accused of having said that part of a sermon by the Rev. Moses Ifale was false. The church voted his conduct dis- orderly.

December 21, 1768, Deacon Bailey complains that Eben Hidden had charged him with "telling a posi- tive lye, and when he [Hidden], was asked why he sung a few Sabbaths ago, his answer was yt he did it to let ye congregation Know, yt he knew and yt fool did not." He also said, at the same time, when Dea- con Bailey set the tune, "that he was serving the Devil."

Several of the church were admonished for their sin of " disorderly walking " and many others for for- nication.

Mr. Jewett died May 8, 1774. The Parish voted to pay the expense of the funeral and ercet a suitable monument at his grave.

EBENEZER BRADFORD, sixth minister, born in Canterbury, Conn., May 29, 1746, was graduated at Princeton College 1773, settled August 4, 1782, died January 3, 1801. The funeral charges were paid by the Parish.

Here ends the permanent ministry of Rowley. They were able and godly men ; the tie binding them to the church was severed only by death. Every minister since settled bas been dismissed. Of the period since 1801, I may well use the language of a former pastor : " Pastors, since the commencement of the present century have been, themselves, more un- easy than before, and the people have been more un- vasy, regulating their zeal for the truth, by their in- terest in the man who proclaimed it."

DAVID TULLAR, seventh minister, was graduated Mr. Jewett married, November 11, 1730, Elizabeth, only child of Richard and Dorothy (Light) Dummer, of Newbury, by whom he leid three children Dum- at Yale College 1774, settled 7th December 1803, dismissed October 17, 1810. He is said to have been a meek and godly man, better fitted to love his Lord w, laplized April 30, 1732; PA1 L., baptized June i than to fight the devil with fire. Ile died at Shef- 1. 1.11. Body, baptized May 9, 1736. In his , field, 23d August, 1839, aged ninety years. Probably mesopp men expressed their own opinions. On it woukl have been better if Mr. Tullar had declined the Zith of Detber, ITIs, the church voted that hey vent olendel with the lon. John Hobson, a Tto Sitzen, who had been frequently a member of the Cooperal t urt and Speaker of the House in F1,that Has m hay said in the meeting house so The do ut Outorer, 171s, That the Doctrine of plus grand by Ris'. Mr Jelicha Jewett, \ ones, an Boare in explaining himself

his call to preach here, as he began with opposition in both church and parish. While Mr. Tullar slept his people did not sow tares in his wheat-field as there was no tare-seed to be obtained here but they did sow flax-seed over all his garden and cultivated land; eats were drowned in his well, his swine let loose, his gates destroyed, his fruit trees gird led, and he, himself twitter, before an ecclesiastical council, of inability to propagate his species.

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JAMES W. TUCKER, eighth minister, was gradu- ated at Yale College 1807, settled June 24, 1812, dis- missed June 24, 1817, as the salary was insufficient to meet his necessities. He was much respected and beloved. He died at Springfield, N. J., February 11, 1819, aged thirty-two years.

WILLARD HOLBROOK, Brown University 1814, was the ninth minister, settled July 22, 1818, dismiss- ed May 12, 1840. During his ministry the Sunday- school was established ; and a stove placed in the meeting-house. Many opposed heating the meeting- house as a sintul innovation. The first Sunday, a very cold day, after the stove was set in the meeting- house many left the house, overcome with the intoler- able heat, yet there was no fire or funnel connected with the stove.

JOHN PIKE, Bowdoin College 1833, was the tenth minister, settled November 18, 1840, dismissed January 5, 1869. The fourth meeting-house was built during his ministry; it was formally dedicated on Wednesday, July 13, 1842 ; the day was warm, nearly one hundred degrees in the shade. On the 19th February, 1853, the widow Hannah Kilbourne died here. She had been a consistent member of this church more than sixty-five years.

LYMAN H. BLAKE, eleventh minister, was settled November 9, 1869, dismissed April 27, 1874.

WM. R. JOYSLIN, twelfth minister, was settled December 2d, 1874, dismissed December 22d, 1875.

CHARLES C. BRUCE, thirteenth minister, was set - tled July 2, 1878, dismissed November 28, 1882.

Since the dismission of Mr. Bruce the church has had no settled minister.

This church now having in full communion about one hundred and sixty-six persons, forty-six males and one hundred and twenty females, still maintains the faith of the fathers and still retains as a part of its " Confession of Faith"-

. . that God created man upright, that our first parents freely sinned and fell, and that sll their posterity are born destitute of holiness, dead in trespasses and sins, and justly exposed to the wrath and curse of God.

". . . that God, in his mercy, has not left all mankind to perish forever, but of his mere good pleasure has, from eternity, elected some to everlasting life ; and has determined to deliver them out of a state of sin and misery, and to bring them into a state of salvation by a Re- deemer.

". . . that without a change of heart, wrought by the special agency of the Holy Ghost, who is truly God, no one can be an heir of eternal life.

. . that there will he a general resurrection of the righteous and the wicked and a general judgment ; at which all the righteous will be received to everlasting happiness, and the wicked sentenced to misery without end."

Temporu mutuntur, nos et mutamur in illis

From December 3, 1639, to the present time this church has had deacons, elected for life, as follows : The dates of appointment and death are given.

Thomas Mighill, appointed December 3, 1639; died July [June] 14, 1655.

Matthew Boyse, appointed December 3, 1639 : returned to England. Maximilian Jewett, appointed December 3, 1639 ; died October 19, 1684. Francis Parrat, appointed December 3, 1639 : died in England 165G.

Samuel Brocklebank, appointed January 8, 1665-66; died April 21, 1676. William Tenney, appointed February 3, 1667-68 ; died August 5, 1685. John Pearson, appointed October 24, 1686 ; died December 22, 1693. John Trumble, appointed October 24, 1686 ; died March -, 1690-91. Ezekiel Jewett, appointed October 24, 1686; died September 2, 1723. Samuel Palmer, appointed February 1, 1707-8 ; died June 21, 1719. Timothy Harris, appointed February 1, 1707-8; died March 24, 1722-23. Humphrey Hobson, appointed April 21, 1723 ; died June 23, 1742. Joseph Boynton, appointed April 21, 1723; died November 25, 1755. Edward Payson, appointed February 12, 1739-40; died March 1, 1769. Francis Pickard, appointed February 12, 1739-40 ; died September 12, 1778.

David Bailey, appointed February 18, 1761 ; died May 12, 1769. Moses Clark, apppointed May 15, 1769 ; died April 20, 1791.

Thomas Mighill, appointed May 15, 1769; died August 26, 1807. Jeremiah Jewett, appointed May 15, 1769 ; died December 3, 1809. George Jewett, appointed March 9, 1791 ; died May 5, 1829. Joshına Jewett, appointed April 4, 1807 ; died January 3, 1862. Nathanial Mighill, appointed December 10, 1828 ; died August 3, 1845. James T. Plummer, appointed October 1, 1845 ; now in office. Nathaniel Bradstreet, appointed June 27, 1862 ; died June 4, 1879. Daniel W. Bradstreet, appointed January 8, 1880 ; now in office.

THE CHURCH IN BYFIELD PARISH .- The inhabi- tants living in the northwesterly part of Rowley, as early as 1702, joined with such of the inhabitants of Newbury as were living near the " Falls " in the erec- tion of a meeting-house, and in 1706 gathered in church order by themselves.

MOSES HALE, the first minister, was settled 17th of November, 1706, died 16th of January, 1743-44. The parish paid the expense of his funeral.

The present meeting-house of this parish is in Georgetown.

THE CHURCH IN LINEBROOK PARISH .- The inhab- itants in the sonthwesterly part of Rowley, joining with a part of the inhabitants of Ipswich, organized a church 30th of November, 1749, with GEORGE LES- LIE as first minister.

The present meeting-house of this parish is in Ips- wich.

THE BAPTIST CHURCH .- This church was organ- ized 16th of November, 1830, with twelve members.

In 1830 their present meeting-house was built. The following year a Sunday-school was established.

From the date of organizing, tbis church and so- ciety gradually increased in numbers, so that during the pastorate of the Rev. Mr. Carr the meeting-house was enlarged and beautified.

The regular pastors of this church have been as follows :

Caleb Clark 1831 to 1834

Jeremiah Chaplin 1834 to 1836

Benjamin C. Grafton 1839 to 1841

Cephas Pasco 1841 to 1848

Zenas Wildes

1818 to 1850

Alexander W. Carr

1×51 to 1862

James W. Lathrop.

1862 to 1867

Edwin T. Lyford

1868 to 1870

Robert G. Farley.

1870 to 1871

Andrew Dunn

1871 to 1874

Patrick Galeher

1876 to 1878

John W. Chase

1879 to 1881

James H. Gannet.

1881 to 1884

Jonathan Tilson

1884 to

THE FIRST UNIVERSALIST PARISH .- This parish was regularly incorporated 1877, and a meeting-house

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built Lut it has never had a church or a settled min-

EvreATION .- When the first school was established in town is not known. In 1047 it was made an indict- able offense for towns not to maintain schools.

Charles Browhe taught school here before 1650, and John Trumble taught for several years before his death, 1607.

February 3, 1656-57, the town agreed with William Boyuton to teach school, and advanced money to enlarge his house for that purpose.

Boynton continued as the town school-master for more than twenty years.

In 1682 Simon Wainwright was employed to teach the town school.

About 1696 Mr. Richard Syle was employed as town schoo !- master, and so continued to the time of his death, 1721-22.

Mr. Samuel Payson suceceded Mr. Syle, and con- tinued in service, with the exception of a few years, to 1757.

In the years 1742, 1746 and 1747, Mr. Benjamin Adams was the school-master.

From 1757 varions persons were employed fur short terms, until 1789, when the town was divided into school districts and continued so divided until school districts in towns were abolished by law in 1×69.

The town now maintains seven schools. Below is given the names of those born in Rowley, or going out from our schools, who have been graduated at somue college. Those in italics were ordained min- isters:

Harvard, 1654

THes Mghill ... .

1663

J.A Ii iman.

1667

Samuel Shepard

1686

- . r Thi name change I frein Bennett

1703

1710

Jt luth Jei từ

1,26

Amos J. Saunders

Brown University, 1835

Nathaniel Mighill. Amherst, 1860

Alfred Maddock

16 1861

James 11. Foss Brown University, 1863

John L. Ewell Yale, 1865

George B. Blodgette. Brown University, 1866

William Greenwood.

Amherst, 1871

John M. Potter Brown University, 1874

1875

Jeremiah J. Cressey.

Nashotah, 1879

1771

1772

Partimonth, 1773

Brown [ niv., 175G

1787

Immonenth, 178+

1790

1741

1" .3

Thomas Jewett ..

.Ilarvard, 1797

1798

Транс Адать ..

Dartmouth, 1798

Samnel N Gage ..

1798

William Lambert,

Jeremiah ( 'haplin. Brown University, 1799

Parker Cleaveland. Harvard, 1799

John M. Bradford. Brown University, 1800

. .

1800

Nathaniel Toud.

David Jcicett Dartmonth, 1801

Paul Jewett.

Dartmouth, 1803

John Piko

Harvard, 1806

Samuel Adams

180€

Jonathan C'ogsirell

Dartmouth, 1806

Josi ph Merrill

.. Yale, 1806

William Todd.

Charles Wheeler. Brown University, 1807

Nathaniel Merrill Dartmouth, 1809

1809

David Mighill

1809

John Richards.

1810

Daniel Chute.

John Scott.

= 1811

James Bradford.

Brown University, 1812

Thomas ('. Scarle.

Dartmouth, 1812

James Chute ..

Ilumphrey Hobson

1815

Alfred W. Pike

Joseph Searle ..

Harvard, 1816

John S. Tenney.

Dartmouth, 181G

Joseph Torry

Harvard, 1819

John P. Cleaveland.

Bowdoin, 1821

Jeremiah Searle

Princeton, 1821

Moses C. Scarle.

Brown University, 1824

Henry C. Jewett.

Dartmouth, 1828

Daniel Perley

Harvard, 1828

Charles Proctor

Moses P. Stickney. Amherst, 1830

Ariel P. Chute Bowdoin, 1832

Charles C. Taylor

Benjamin Proctor, 1834

Thomas E. Payson

Amherst, 1834

George W. Cressey .. .Bowdoin, 1835

1836

James W. Tucker.

Richard T. Searle Union, 1837

Churles N. Todd Amherst, 1839

Amory Holbrook. Bowdoin, 1841

Francis P. Hale.

1845

Daniel W. Pickard.

1748

Pur m r Jewett

17:2

1755

Largh l'var- n

1758

1. 1 -ster ...

1761

1764

Edward II. Potter.

174.

. Yale, 1836

Isane G Bramnu

1833

Milton P. Braman.

.. Union, 1821

Richard S. Spofford.

Bowdoin, 1816

1813

1814

I>15

Henry C. Knight.

1810

Brown University, 1802

Of Rowley men of recent times, none deserve men- tion more than FREDERICK KNIGHT, bred here, lived here, died here, educated in our school and at Har- vard College and the law school at Litchfield, Conn. Hle was a poet and philosopher, a lover of nature and of nature's God. Those who had cultivated only the bigotry they inherited from an ignorant ancestry said he was "crazed in his understanding," but the poor and the children loved him. He died Novem- ber 20, 1549, aged fifty-eight years. A marble shaft marks his grave. About thirty years ago was pub- lished a memorial volume, entitled " Thorn Cottage,

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or the Poet's Home," containing a few of his poems and aphorisms. He wrote:

" He that cuts his owo wood is twice warmed ; he that earns his own bread is twice blest. The labor procures and sweeteos the food. Let him try every other method-send to the Indies for condiments, and he will fail."

" While shallow brooks and slender rills,

Derived from rains and little hills, Go tinkling on their way, As if they thought their noisy thanks, Would please the springs along their banks, As shallow things as they ; Deep rirers, by the mountains fed,

Exhaustless as their fountain-head, Roll silent to the sea."

ROWLEY MEN IN THE WARS .- In 1640 a military company was formed. Sebastian Brigham was cap- tain, with John Remington as lieutenant. Rowley men were in service in September, 1642, to disarm Passaconaway, who lived near the river Merrimack.

In August, 1653, the town furnished men for the seonting party for service at Piscataqua.

In 1673 the court appointed Samuel Broeklebank captain, Philip Nelson lieutenant, and John John- son ensign of the Rowley foot company. In ser- vice in "King Philip's War " in 1675-76.

In Captain Thomas Lothrop's company, called the " flower of Essex," was Joseph Pearson, who was killed at Hatfield, August 25, 1675, and John Harri- man, Jacob Kilborn and Ezekiel Sawyer were slain with Lothrop September 18, 1675, at Bloody Brook.

In this war our Deacon Samuel Brocklebank was captain, and under him were John Hopkinson, Wil- liam Brown, Joseph Bixby, Simon Gawin, Caleb Jackson, John Jackson, Joseph Jewett, John Leigh- ton, Stephen Mighill, Thomas Palmer, John Stickney, Samuel Tiller.

On Friday, April 21, 1676, at Sudbury, Captain Brocklebank and a part of his company, and Captain Wadsworth, with his company, were entirely destroyed by Philip and his warrior's.

In 1689 Moses Bradstreet was captain, with John Trumble for lieutenant. This year Rowley furnished men for a guard at Haverhill and Dover.

In the expedition against Quebec, 1690, Rowley fur- nished one captain (Philip Nelson), one lieutenant (Abel Platts) and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates. All their names cannot now be found.

The town record May 6, 1691, shows payments to the following for military service in Canada, viz .:

£ s. d.

" To Samuel Platts for Lieutenant Platts. 13 1 2

To Joseph Scott for Samuel Brown 4 17 7

To Captain Fisk for Robert Claflin. 4 12 7

To Dearon Jewett for Ezekiel Jewett, his son. 503

To Thomas Nelson, Jr., for Samuel Freoch, 4 15 11

To Goody Swan for Richard Swan, her husband. 4 15 17

To Widow Wood for Ebenezer Wood, her son. 10 1 2 To Margaret Wood for Samuel Wood, her husband .. 4 12 9

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History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Vol. II, Part 42

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