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Beside the front door and under the gables are brackets that help to support the overhangs. Usually the ends of the front and rear topmost girts (known as the plates) which support the rafters are supported by brackets but in this house their place is taken by drops, which are here no longer parts of the frame but merely ornaments. The windows are the exact size
4 The word is derived from sumpter, a packhorse, because they bore the weight of the floors.
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of the original openings and have been restored with case- ments with rectangular glazing rather than the more common lozenge shape. The front door is studded with nails in a diagonal pattern like the "Indian door" preserved at Deer- field, Mass., and the iron latch ring also is a reproduction.
The entry shows the staircase with its original newel and turned balusters of oak. It will be noticed that the brickwork of the chimney is exposed - a sure sign of early work. The framing of the floor joists can be seen, and the floor of the entry is some inches lower than the rooms.
In the parlor may be seen the rather rare feature of two summers. The walls are plastered, a sign of wealth on the part of the builder. Under the northern ends of the summers is incised with a chisel the date July Ye 8th 1683, so there exists here what is not to be found elsewhere in so old a house, the exact date when the frame was raised.
In the hall or kitchen, is a fireplace eight feet and four inches wide. The back corners are curved and in the cavern- ous flue is a trammel bar or lug pole (an arrangement earlier than the crane) from which are suspended the pots and ket- tles. Inside the fireplace, at the right, is the door to the brick oven and near it the niche in the brickwork where the tinder box and tobacco pipes, were kept. The walls of the hall are finished with the common finish of the early days, broad hori- zontal boards with molded edges called wainscot. The old dresser with its dress of pewter has beside it a knife and spoon rack. Forks were practically unknown in New England before 1670 and were not in common use until the beginning of the eighteenth century.
The timbers of the framing in this house of course are old, but much of the interior woodwork and all of the shingles and clapboards (of red oak) are new. While so much necessary restoration work gives at the outset a new appearance to a house, yet it serves to show how the houses of this period looked when fresh from the hands of their builders. The walls were left unpainted and in time, from age, smoke, and sunlight, the wood acquired a soft brown and satin-like tex- ture that cannot be imitated. Another sign of age is to be found in the projection of the sills into the rooms. In later work they were concealed by the floor boards.
The parlor floor of this house had a lining of clay mixed with straw filled between the joists to make the floor warmer in the cold winter season. There is a cellar on one side of the chimney foundation and a half-cellar on the other side reached through a trap door in the floor.
CHAPTER XXXII PRINTING AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
The earliest printed mention of Topsfield appears in "Good News from New England," a tract printed in London in 1648, wherein it is stated that William Knight of New Meadows has gone back to England. William Knight was the first to preach the Word in this place which was not officially given its pres- ent name Topsfield until the year 1649.
The earliest product of the provincial press which may be bibliographically connected with the town is a funeral sermon delivered in 1715, by Rev. Joseph Capen, pastor of the Tops- field Church. The title page reads as follows :-
A Funeral SERMON Occasioned by the DEATH of Mr. JOSEPH GREEN, Late Pastor of the Church in Salem Vil- lage By Joseph Capen, Pastor of the Church in Topsfield. With a Prefatory Epistle by DR. INCREASE MATHER. (Two quotations from the Scriptures.) Boston : Printed by B. Green, for SAMUEL GERRISH, at his Shop near the Brick Meeting House, 1717.
Copies of this sermon are exceedingly rare. The late George F. Dow was the fortunate possessor of a perfect ex- ample and also an imperfect one. The Massachusetts Histor- ical Society and the late Dr. Samuel A. Green also owned copies. Forty years ago the Rev. Anson McLoud of Topsfield possessed a copy which has disappeared without leaving a trace and the only other copy that has come to our attention was sold at C. F. Libbie & Co's auction room in Boston about twenty-five years ago and cannot now be traced. The prefa- tory epistle by Rev. Increase Mather crowns this work with somewhat of a halo and its present high degree of rarity makes it one of the scarcest of the books connected with that remarkable family of New England ministers.
The next printed work identified with Topsfield is a sermon preached here in 1743 by the successor of the deceased Rev. Joseph Green whose funeral sermon has been described. The text was-For God is love,-and the sermon was divided into forty-three numbered parts. The title runs as follows:
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The Banner of divine Love displayed. A SERMON Preach'd at the Lecture in Topsfield, June 29, 1743, BY PETER CLARK, A.M. Pastor of the Church in SALEM- VILLAGE. (Two quotations from the Scriptures.) Bos- ton : Printed and Sold by S. KNEELAND and J. GREEN, in Queen-Street. 1744.
The next Topsfield minister to be honored by a printed sermon was the Rev. Asahel Huntington whose sermon on Jan. 5, 1800, occasioned by the death of George Washington commander-in-chief of the American armies, and late Presi- dent of the United States, was printed by Joshua Cushing in Salem. At least four other sermons by Mr. Huntington were put into type, two being printed in 1810 at Newburyport.
A printing press was established at Salem in 1768 and at Newburyport in 1773. When the citizens of Topsfield required printing done it naturally gravitated to one of these towns, but Salem was nearer at hand and moreover was the shire- town and the better market. The Salem imprint therefore is usually found on printed items identified with Topsfield. Boston, Andover, Haverhill, and New York also are found.
The first printing press worthy of the name was set up in Topsfield in the summer of 1879 by William Perkins. It was a 7 X 11 Golding press that he purchased second-hand in Marblehead. With it came several fonts of type suitable for small jobbing work. Later Mr. Perkins added some new type.
William Perkins was born in Topsfield in 1822 and was the son of Hezekiah B. and Lydia (Ross) Perkins. By trade he was a shoemaker. For a number of years before he bought the press in Marblehead he had owned a small hand press with which he had printed business cards, tickets, slips, etc. With the larger press he supplied the local demands for programs, bill heads and general job printing. A catalog of the Sunday School Library of the Methodist church was printed in 1880 and an eight page account of the introduction of Methodism in Topsfield was published in 1894. The press was first in- stalled in a small building on School Avenue on the right- hand side just over the bridge. About 1890 it was removed to the store on Main Street adjoining Edwards' drug store where it remained until 1901 when it was removed across the street to the rear of the Gould shop which faces on Central Street. Here Mr. Perkins repaired shoes and did odd jobs of printing. He died in 1910 and the printing press and type were sold to Otto E. Lake. The small hand press was sold in 1916 to George Hills, formerly of Linebrook.
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Alphonso T. Merrill, a printer who learned his trade in the office of the Haverhill Gazette, came to Topsfield about 1878, spending his summers in the house on Ipswich Street, after- wards owned by Mrs. Abby Pevear and now by Thomas E. Proctor. At that time he was foreman for Smith & Porter, job printers, on Water Street, Boston. In 1884 he bought out a small jobbing business the main stay of which was the pub- lication of the Massachusetts Medical Journal, a monthly magazine. The press was an 8X12 Golding which he moved to the barn near his house in Springville. Here for a few years during his spare hours he set up and printed the medical journal. In 1888 he moved into the village and established a printing office on the second floor of the stable owned by John H. Towne and now owned by Raymond S. Roberts. Here he devoted his entire time to the business and turned out some very creditable work. Needing more room in a few years he removed the business to the third floor of the Herrick shop adjoining and afterwards to the Robert Lake building oppo- site Poor & Company's store where he opened on the first floor a small store for notions and men's furnishings. In 1901 he was elected town clerk which office he held until his death.
Mr. Merrill was a thorough workman and understood his trade. The mainstay of his printing business was the monthly issue of the Medical Journal. The town reports and the His- torical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society helped out and in addition to the local job printing quite a little work came from out of town. For several years large amounts of printing were done for Gilbert B. Balch of this town, who at that time was at the height of his success in selling the Stod- dard Lectures. All this work was kicked out on the 8X12 Golding press which he purchased second-hand in 1884. The composing room was on the second floor of his last shop. After a short illness he died Dec. 25, 1914, and the business was soon sold to William A. Perkins, a young man who had worked with him intermittently for the previous eight years and who also succeeded him as town clerk.
Mr. Perkins took hold of the business with the enthusiasm of youth. He purchased a 12×18 Golding press and installed an electric motor to run it. The business was growing and his prospects seemed excellent until Oct. 5, 1917, when he was drafted into the military service of the United States. For a time the business was continued under the supervision of Mrs. Alphonso T. Merrill, the widow of the former owner, but the December, 1917 issue of the Medical Journal was the last and Mr. Perkins covered his presses and turned the key in the door
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until the return of peace in the world permitted him to re- establish his shattered business.
After his return Mr. Perkins removed his printing business across the street to the two story building in the rear of the house of Mrs. Catherine Roberts. This was destroyed by fire in January, 1924 and Mr. Perkins then set up his printing business in the barn in the rear of his home near the corner of South Main and Summer Streets. In November, 1927 he pur- chased a Chandler & Price Press with a Miller Feeder which was exchanged in January, 1938 for a Miehle Verticle Press. In the latter part of 1931 a Linotype was added to his equip- ment.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ALLEN, JUSTIN.
Biographical Sketch of Dr. Royal A. Merriam. Deprint from Topsfield Historical Collections, Vol. 4, 1898.
ANDREW, MRS. ARETHUSA E. (PIKE).
Poems. Girard, Kansas, 1902.
ATKINSON, WILLIAM.
And now, bimetallism. Perkins Press, Topsfield, 1936. The enigma of profit. Perkins Press, Topsfield, 1931.
Ethical interest. Perkins Press, Topsfield, 1929.
Mathematics of the commodity dollar. Perkins Press, Tops- field, 1933.
The New Eagle. Perkins Press, Topsfield, 1932.
A short history of the Vacuum Company. Perkins Press, Topsfield, (1935.)
BANGS, GAY ESTY.
Isaac Esty of Topsfield and some of his descendants. De- print from Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 36.
BARTLETT & Co., N. J.
Book Catalog of Occult Books. Perkins Press, Topsfield, 1930.
BESTON, HENRY B.
The Firelight Fairy Book. Boston, 1919. (Written while living in the Parson Capen House. )
Full Speed Ahead. New York, 1919. (Written while living in the Parson Capen House.)
BESTON. HENRY B. see also SHEAHAN. HENRY B.
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BEZANSON, STANLEY O.
Book catalogues of Collection Books. Perkins Press, Tops- field, 1930. (Numerous other catalogs and lists were printed at the Perkins Press for Bezanson.)
BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD.
Annual Report containing matter relating to the discontinu- ance the Newburyport Branch, Dec. 31, 1924. (Boston, 1925.)
BOXFORD, TOWN OF.
Annual reports, 1925-1939. Perkins Press, Topsfield.
BRAMAN, REV. ISAAC.
Discourse delivered at Topsfield, April 26, 1813, at the funeral of Rev. Asahel Huntington. Haverhill, 1813.
BROWN, GABRIELLE M.
An herb primer. Perkins Press, Topsfield, 1935. Same, 1936.
CAPEN, REV. JOSEPH.
Funeral sermon occasioned by the death of Mr. Joseph Green late pastor of the Church of Salem Village with a prefa- tory epistle by Dr. Increase Mather, Boston, 1717. Reprinted in Topsfield Historical Collections, Vol. 12.
CHAPPLE, WILLIAM DISMORE.
George Peabody : An address. Wayside Press, Topsfield, 1933.
CHURCH HOME FOR ORPHAN AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN, SOUTH BOSTON AND TOPSFIELD, MASS.
Annual reports for the years 1889-1903 inclusive.
CLARK, REV. PETER (OF SALEM VILLAGE).
The Banner of Divine Love Displayed; a Sermon preached at the Lecture in Topsfield, June 29, 1743. Boston, 1744.
CLEAVELAND, REV. ELISHA LORD.
Address delivered at the funeral of Deacon Timothy Lester, Nov. 6, 1858. New Haven, 1858.
Address delivered at the Funeral of the Hon. Dennis Kim- berly, Dec. 16, 1862. New Haven, 1863.
Discourse occasioned by the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster preached Oct. 31, and repeated Nov. 14, 1852. (2 editions.) New Haven, 1852.
Discourse occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster. New York. 1853.
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CLEAVELAND, REV. ELISHA LORD. cont.
Discourse on the Existing State of Morals in the City of New Haven delivered before the New Haven Washington Temperance Union in the Court Street Church, Oct. 13, 1850. New Haven, 1850.
Discourse Preached in the Third Congregational Church, New Haven, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 29, 1860. New Haven, 1860.
Dr. Cleaveland's Statement in Reply to Dr. Dutton's Re- view of His Late Anniversary Sermon presented in the Third Congregational Church, New Haven, Nov. 28, 1858. New Haven, 1858.
A Memorial Discourse preached at the Funeral of the late John A. Davenport, Esq., at the Third Congregational Church, New Haven, Oct. 17, 1864. New York, 1864.
Memorial, including discourses by Leonard Bacon and Ly- man H. Atwater and an obituary. New Haven, 1866.
Misrepresentations Corrected. Review of Dr. Cleaveland's Anniversary Sermon, by Rev. S. W. S. Dutton. From the New Englander November, 1858.
Our Duty In Regard to the Rebellion, A Fast-Day Sermon, April 3, 1863. New York, 1863.
Sermon at the Dedication of the Church-Edifice in Court Street erected by the Third Congregational Society in New Haven, Dec. 7, 1841. New Haven, 1841.
Sermon before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at their Meeting in Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1863. Boston, 1863.
Sermon delivered on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Author's Ministry in the Third Congregational Church, New Haven, July 25, 1858. New Haven, 1858.
Sermon occasioned by the present Excitement Respecting the Gold of California. New Haven, 1849.
Sermon preached at the installation of Rev. Jeremiah Tay- lor. Middletown, Conn., 1856.
Sermon - The Day of National Prayer and Fasting. New Haven, Sept. 1, 1861. American Bible Society, New York, 1861.
Sermon to Young Men, delivered in the Third Church, New Haven, Nov. 18, 1860. New Haven, 1860.
Thanksgiving Discourse for Recent Military Successes, De- livered in the Third Congregational Church, New Haven, Sept. 11, 1864. New Haven, 1864.
CLEAVELAND, NEHEMIAH (1760-1837)
Address delivered at Newburyport July 5, 1824 in Com-
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CLEAVELAND, NEHEMIAH (1760-1837). cont.
memoration of American Independence. Newburyport, 1824.
Lecture of Lyceums and Societies for the Diffusion of Use- ful Knowledge delivered in the Representatives' Hall, Boston, Aug. 23, 1830, before the American Institute of Instruction. Boston, 1830.
CLEAVELAND, NEHEMIAH (1796-1877)
Address delivered at Topsfield, Aug. 28, 1850 at the 250th anniversary of the incorporation of the town. New York, 1851.
Address delivered before the New-England Society of Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1849. New York, 1849.
Address made at the Opening of the Cleaveland Cabinet of Bowdoin College, July 10, 1873. Boston, 1873.
An address before the Essex Agricultural Society, at Law- rence, Sept. 27, 1865, in Transactions of the Society for 1865, pp. 3-40, South Danvers, 1865.
First Century of Dummer Academy. A historical discourse delivered at Newbury, Byfield parish, Aug. 12, 1863. Boston, 1865. Reprinted in Proceedings at the 150th Anniversary of the School, Newburyport, 1914.
Flowers Personified. New York, 1849.
Green-Wood Cemetery's directory for visitors. New York, 1849. Also, 1850, 1851, 1852.
Green-Wood Cemetery : A history of the Institution from 1838 to 1864. New York, 1866.
Green-Wood Cemetery illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by James Smillie. New York (1847)
Hints concerning Green-Wood Cemetery its Monuments and Improvements. New York, 1853.
History of Bowdoin College with biographical sketches of its graduates from 1806-1870. Boston, 1882.
Proceedings on Board the U. S. M. Steam Ship Arago, at Sea, July 5th, 1858, in Commemoration of American In- dependence. Paris, 1858.
CLEAVELAND, NEHEMIAH. (1796-1877) (editor)
Biographical Sketch. Brunswick, Me., 1877.
Journal of Rev. John Cleaveland, in Essex Institute His- torical Collections, Vols. 12-13.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, TOPSFIELD.
Articles of Faith and Covenant adopted 1832. Andover, 1832.
Confession of Faith and Covenant adopted March 27, 1859. Boston. 1859.
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, TOPSFIELD. cont.
Historical Manual, 1603-1907. Topsfield, 1907.
Order of Exercises at the Dedication of the new Church Edifice in Topsfield, Feb. 22, 1843. Broadside, 93/4 X 113/4 (outside measure). Salem, (1843).
Report of Trustees, Dec. 31, 1928. Perkins Press. Topsfield, 1929.
CRAWFORD, REV. LYNDON S.
Address delivered in Topsfield, Memorial Day, May 30, 1885. Salem, 1885.
CUMMINGS, ALBERT ORAN.
Cummings Genealogy, Montpelier, Vt., 1904.
DANVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Historical Collections, Vol. 27. (1939) Perkins Press, Tops- field, 1939.
DANVERS RAILROAD COMPANY.
Memorial to the Mass. Legislature to restrain the Boston & Maine R. R. from unfriendly acts. January, 1856.
DENNIS, REV. RODNEY GOVE.
Address delivered at the opening of the Topsfield Academy. May 7, 1828. Salem, 1828.
A Right Hand of Fellowship, given Mar. 7, 1821, at the Ordination of Elijah Demond in West Newbury. Newbury- port, 1821.
A speech delivered at the First Anniversary of the Auxili- ary Foreign Missionary Society of Essex Co. held at Newbury- port, Apr. 10, 1827. Newburyport, 1827.
Dow, GEORGE FRANCIS. (author)
The Arts and Crafts in New England, 1704-1775. Wayside Press, Topsfield, 1927.
Building Agreements in 17th Century Massachusetts, in Old-Time New England, April, July, 1922, Jan.1923.
The Choate House, Essex, Mass., and its recent restoration, in Old-Time New England, July, 1921.
The Colonial Village Built at Salem, Mass., in 1930, in Old- Time New England, July, 1931.
The Diary and Letters of Benjamin Pickman, Salem, Mass., with a Biographical Sketch and Genealogy of the Pickman Family. Newport, R. I., 1928.
Domestic Life in New England in The Seventeenth Cen- tury. Topsfield, 1925.
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Dow, GEORGE FRANCIS. (author) cont.
Essex County Craftsmanship, in Bulletin of the Addison Gallery, Andover, Mass., Oct., 1935.
Essex Tracts (published at Christmas time)
No. I. The Spectre Ship of Salem (with an introduction by P. K. Foley) Salem, 1907.
No. II. Old Wood Engravings: Views and Buildings in the County of Essex. Salem, 1908.
No. III. The Autobiography of Col. Jonathan Burnham of Salisbury, Mass. Salem, 1909.
No. IV. An Inventory of the Contents of the Shop and House of Capt. George Corwin of Salem, Massachusetts Bay, who died Jan. 3, 1684-5. Salem, 1910.
No. V. Synopsis Medicinae by Zerobabel Endecott, Phy- sician of Salem in New England. Salem, 1914.
No. VI. A Pilgrimage to Salem 1838 by a Southern Ad- mirer of Nathaniel Hawthorn with comments by Victor H. Paltsits and John Robinson. Salem, 1916.
No. VII. The River Agawam an Essex County Waterway. Topsfield, 1926.
Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Boston, 1935.
The French Acadians in Essex County, in the Essex Insti- tute Historical Collections, Vol. 45.
Historical Address delivered at the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Topsfield, Mass. Aug. 16, 1900. Topsfield, 1900.
Home Life in New England Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago, in The Chase Chronicle, Vol. 19, pp. 3-9.
The Houses of the First Settlers in New England, in Antiques, Aug., 1930.
The Log of The Marine Research Society, No. I-IV, Oct. 1922-Nov. 1925. Perkins Press, Topsfield, 1922-1925.
The Marine Museum, Salem, Mass. in Old-Time New Eng- land, Oct., 1921.
Men's Frocks of other Days, in Old-Time New England, April, 1922.
Old English Pattern Books of Hardware, in Old-Time New England, July, 1926.
The Paisley Shawl, with some account of the Shawls made in Kashmir, in Old-Time New England, Jan., 1921.
The Patchwork Quilt and some other Quilts. Deprinted from Old-Time New England, April, 1927.
Peat, an old-time fuel, in Old-Time New England, Oct. 1930.
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Dow, GEORGE FRANCIS. (author) cont.
Pewter, Notes on the Use of, in 17th Century Massachusetts, in Old-Time New England, July, 1923.
The Pirates of the New England Coast, 1630-1730. (Intro- duction by Capt. Ernest Pentecost, R.N.R.) Salem, 1923.
The River Agawam, an Essex County Waterway, in 109th Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society in City of New York, pp. 18-39, New York, 1914.
The Sailing Ships of New England, 1607-1907, Series I. Salem, 1922. Joint author with John Robinson.
The same, Series II. Salem, 1924.
The same, Series III. Salem, 1928.
The Sailing Ships of New England, in Old-Time New Eng- land, Oct., 1922.
Shipping and Trade in Early New England. Deprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 64, 1931.
Slave Ships and Slaving. (Introduction by Capt. Ernest Pentecost R.N.R.) Salem, 1927.
The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiqui- ties. Deprinted from Arsbok For Hembygdsvard, Lund, 1933.
Trade Cards, in Old-Time New England, April, July, 1936.
The Trial and Execution of Two Pirates, in Old-Time New England, Oct. 1923.
Two Centuries of Travel in Essex County, Mass. 1605-1799. Topsfield, 1921.
A Walpole Society Pilgrimage, Sept. 30, to Oct. 2, 1921. Boston, Mass., 1921. Perkins Press, Topsfield. Joint author with Dwight Blaney.
Whale Ships and Whaling, Salem, 1925.
William Averill of Ipswich and some of his descendants, in Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 48.
William Bentley, D.D. the Salem Diarist, in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 32, Worcester, 1923.
The Work of the Society for the Preservation of New Eng- land Antiquities, in House Beautiful, Nov. 1925.
Dow, GEORGE FRANCIS. (compiler)
American vessels captured by the British during the Revo- lution and War of 1812: The Records of Vice-Admiralty Court at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Deprinted from Essex Insti- tute Historical Collections, Vols. 45-47, Salem, 1911.
Baptismal records of the church in Topsfield, 1727-1841, in Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vols. 31-32.
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Dow, GEORGE FRANCIS. (compiler) cont.
Record of deaths in Topsfield, 1658-1800, in Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 33. Also deprinted.
Visitors' Guide to Salem, 1908.
The same, Salem, 1916.
Vital Records, to 1850, of Amesbury, Andover (2 Vols.), Beverly (2 Vols.), Bradford, Boxford, Gloucester (Vol. 1 only), Haverhill (2 Vols.), Methuen, Middleton, Salisbury, Topsfield (2 Vols.)
These volumes were published with the imprint of the Tops- field Historical Society, 1903-1917.
Dow, GEORGE FRANCIS. (editor)
American Clipper Ships by Octavius T. Howe, M. D. and Frederick C. Mathews, 2 Vols. Salem, 1926-1927.
American Merchant Ships, Series 1 and 2, by Frederick C. Mathews, Salem, 1930-1931.
The Art of Rigging by Capt. George Biddlecombe R. N. (with an Introduction by Capt. Ernest Pentecost, R.N.R.) Salem, 1925.
The Baltimore Clipper by Howard Erving Chapelle. Salem, 1930.
The Built-Up Ship Model by Charles G. Davis. Salem, 1933.
Captain Lightfoot: The Last of the New England Highway- man. Wayside Press, Topsfield, 1926.
The Diary of William Bentley, D. D., of Salem, Vols. I-IV. Salem, 1905-1918.
Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 34, Jan. 1899 to Vol. 54, Jan. 1918.
The Frigate Constitution and other Historic Ships by F. Alexander Magoun. Salem, 1928.
Goin' Fishing by Wesley George Pierce. Salem, 1934.
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