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The committee report reads thus: "By taking two seats of the men's, and two hindermost seats of the women's with five feet of the women's fore-seats and second seat, will make room for five pews more, making thirty-four in all." It was voted that every pew occupier should supply a half cord of wood yearly, and more or less as the tax might be. The course adopted by the West Parish about the construction of pews was an improvement on the "Old Tunnel" method. In that house every one made his pew to his own taste, but here the society built the pews uniformily and the pew-owner paid the cost.
St. John's Episcopal Church is situated on Central street, in the village of Saugus. It was organized in 1883 as a Sunday school for the Episcopal children of the community. It was started by Thomas Ash- worth in a building opposite the present church edifice. Occasional services were held by Rev. John Beers. In 1885 the Mission was placed in charge of Rev. Thomas L. Fisher, of Linden. May 8, 1888, the pres- ent church building was consecrated by Bishop Paddock and dedicated to St. John. From that date to 1902, no church records can be found. At that time the Mission was placed in charge of Francis L. Beal, a lay reader, who reported thus: "The conditions were depressing; congre-
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gation less than a score; Sunday school almost the same number; the Mission had little hold on the community. We found no register; the edifice was in need of repairs and all conveniences for worship lacking." Out of such conditions Mr. Beal built up a prosperous church. The total membership at Saugus church is 129 families. The Sunday school has a membership of 80. The church edifice is built of wood, as is also the neat Rectory house.
Of the work at Cliftondale let it be said that this Mission, begun in 1906, passed into the care of St. Stephen's at Lynn, until 1914, when it became a separate parish, under the rectorship of Rev. Charles W. G. Lyon, and the growth has been steady ever since. A Rectory house was bought on Pleasant street in 1919.
The list of rectors at the Saugus church (St. John's) is as follows: Revs. John Beers, 1883-85; Thomas L. Fisher, 1885-87; L. H. Merrill, 1887-89 ; Dr. C. H. Sycmour, 1890-91; Joseph Carden (layman), 1892-94; E. A. Danks, 1895-98; C. W. G. Lyon, 1900-10, commenced as a layman ; A. H. Ross, Charles W. G. Lyon, Musgrave F. Hilton (1917-19) ; and C. H. Heigham (1919-20). The present Rector, Dr. Musgrave F. Hilton, has served to date.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Cliftondale was organized in 1855. Among the charter members were Sebastian S. Dunn, Mrs. Au- gusta Raddin, Mrs. Emeline Proctor, Charles Raddin, George H. Sweet- ser, Charles Sweetser and Stephen Coates. The present total member- ship is 450; present in Sunday school, 675. The superintendent is Ernest A. Hodgdon.
The pastors that have served are as follows: Revs. James Blod- gett, 1857; George F. Pool, 1857-59 ; Solomon Chapin, 1859-61; J. S. Day, 1861-63; Daniel Waitt, 1863-66; F. G. Morris, 1866-68; J. F. Bassett, 1869-69 ; J. E. Richards, 1869-70; George E. Reed, 1870-71; Joshua Gill, 1871-72; R. W. Allen, 1872-75; G. W. Wilder, 1875-77; A. O. Hamilton, 1877-78; G. M. Melden, 1878-80; W. P. O'Dell, 1880-83; G. A. Phiney, 1883-86; C. A. Littlefield, 1886-89; Edward Higgins, 1889-90; C. H. Wal- ters, 1890-93; George S. Painter, 1893-94; A. R. Sweetser, 1894-95; L. C. Clark, 1895-96; R. L. McKensie, 1896-99; F. O. Beck, 1899-1901; J. S. Dancey, 1901-02; Donald H. Gerrish, 1902-08; William M. Gilbert, 1908-13; A. F. Reimer, 1913-16; James C. Cairns, 1916-21; Shirley D. Coffin, appointed 1921.
A chapel was built in 1857, and remodeled in 1881. June 19, 1914, it was burned to the ground, and the following year a new church was erected on a lot in Cliftondale Square. The present building was dedicated March 5, 1916. The value of the latter edifice is about $90,- 000. In 1921 there was a pipe organ installed, the value of which is $5,000. This was the gift of the women of the parish.
The Church of the Nazarene organized in Cliftondale, March 22, 1897, charter members including the following persons: Sarah Bond,
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Alexander Mumo, Lottie G. Mumo, Angie Merrithen, John F. Newton, Sarah Newton, Charles Phillmore, Mary Phillmore, Frank L. Sprague, Athella E. Sprague, Whitman J. Webber, Mary L. Webber, Agnes M. Wilson. The present membership is forty six, with a Sunday school attendance of about sixty-eight pupils; W. L. Weddleton is the superin- tendent. At first this society worshipped in a hall in Clifton Square, and later in a building now used as a depot. The church was dedicated April 19, 1899. The supposed value of this property is $4,000. The society was "burned out of home" while occupying the Odd Fellows' Hall, February 25, 1899. The various pastors have been in order as follows: Revs. Charles H. Davis, A. B. Riggs, F. E. Talbee, H. B. Hor- ley, Martha E. Curry, J. C. Bearse, Edward E. Martin, C. H. Strong. Tom M. Brown, Robert J. Dixon, C. P. Lanpher, J. Glenn Gould, pres- ent pastor.
Saugus Center Methodist Episcopal Church was organized July 23, 1877, and a church edifice was dedicated April 24, 1878. It was a wooden structure, and is still standing. It was built largely by mem- bers of the church. The present membership of the church is fifty, and that of the Sunday school is about fifty-eight pupils. The super- intendent is Ellery Metcalf.
The first members of this organization were as follows: William W. L. Cripps, James Kettelle, Mrs. Mary Oliver Kettelle, Mrs. Margaret Whitley, Mrs. Mary Jones, Mrs. Angeline Spinney. These were received on confession of their faith by Presiding Elder Rev. Daniel Dorchester, D. D. The following were received by church letters: James W. Dear- born, Henry Inarmby, Mrs. Elizabeth Inarmby, George F. Spinney, Helen Mann, Mrs. Susan W. Warhurst, Miss Charlotte M. Townsend, Mrs. Martha J. Hall, Benj. Homan, Mrs. Sarah Homan, Ralph Homan, Ida C. Homan, John L. Andrews, Hattie Andrews, Vina Andrews, Mrs. Clara A. Andrews, Wilbur J. Bryant, Mrs. Sara W. Bryant, James T. Vanstone, Mrs. Nancy Vanstone, James Amery, William Penney, Sarah Elizabeth Penney, Lizzie Cripps, Mrs. Judith Ingalls, Lucy Ingalls, Laura Ingalls, Mary Cook, Mary Whiteley, Nellie Wilson, Sarah Wilson, A. Libby, Emmeline Libby.
The following have served as pastors: Revs. Emerson H. McKen- ney, Samuel Plantz, Arthur W. Terreill, Webster Millar, Daniel Richards, C. I. Mills, George W. Mansfield, Frank K. Stratton, F. H. Taylor, Thom- as L. McConnell, Harry Compton, James A. Ross, W. L. Clapp, Delo C. Grover, Lonis I. Holway, E. W. Strecker, E. L. Benedict, Richard Evans, E. W. Dunlavy, Thomas Walker, A. B. Gilbert, C. Howard Fisher, Wil- liam Full, George H. Sutherland, J. W. Higgins, Henry E. Leech, W. F. Koonsen, James C. Watson, S. T. Lippincott, G. Albert Higgins, Victor B. Chiconine.
CHAPTER VI.
TOWN OF IPSWICH.
While it has been fairly well decided that this section of the country had been settled, after a manner, hundreds of years prior to the landing of the "Mayflower," it is not the province of this work to enter into this pre-historic record in this connection, although it will be touched upon elsewhere in this work. To begin this sketch of Ipswich, it is well to give something concerning the Indians the first white men, as now known to have landed here, found upon their arrival.
This territory known as Agawam, meaning "resort for fish of pas- sage," consisted of about 118,500 acres. In the summer, schools of mackerel darkened the waters of the bay as they migrated to their southern home. The name of the. Sagamore of this domain was Mas- connomet, meaning "John" with us. His relation to other Indian tribes is unknown to this day. Possibly his was a sub-tribe of the Massachu- setts, or the Algonquins, whose power is said to have extended from Charles river to the Merrimac. His subjects are always represented to have been kind and easily managed. It was Captain Hardie and Nich- olas Hobson, exploring the coast in 1611, who testified that these Indians were kinderhearted than any tribes they met. Masconnomet was con- verted under the teachings of Governor Winthrop's company, and it should be recalled that the good Governor came to New England origi- nally for the purpose of Christianizing the Indians. It was on March 8, 1644, that the old chief in question put himself, his subjects and all his possessions, under the government protection of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and agreed to be instructed in the Christian religion. The subjoined is an account of the examination given the chief by the Whites :
1-Will you worship the only true God and not blaspheme ? Answer-We do desire to reverence the God of the English, and to speak well of him, be- cause we see he doth better to the English than other gods do to the others. 2-Will you cease from swearing falsley ? Answer-We know not what swear- ing is.
3-Will you refrain from working on the Sabbath, especially in Christian towns ? Answer-It is easy for us-we have little to do any day, and can well rest on that day.
4-Will you honor your parents and all of your superiors? Answer-It is our custom to do so.
5-Will you refrain from killing any man without cause or authority ? Answer- It is good, and we desire it.
6-Will you put away fornication, adultery, incest, rape and sodomy ? Answer- Though some of our people do some of these things, we count them naught, and do not allow them.
7-Will you put away stealing ? Answer-We answer this as the sixth question. 8-Will you allow your children to read the word of God, so they may know Him aright, and worship Him in their own way? Answer-We will allow this as opportunity may permit, and as the English live among us, we desire to do so.
About 1617 a fearful pestilence prevailed among these Indians and depleted them to a large extent. Perley, a local writer, thus describes
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the death of the friendly old Indian chief: "Masconnomet saw his tribe fade away, as a summer cloud ; his rich domain become the abode of the pale face; his scepter broken, fall from his nerveless grasp. In 1655 the selectmen granted him a life interest in six acres of planting ground. He died March 6, 1658. The 18th of the following June his widow was granted the same ground during her widowhood. Both were buried on Sagamore Hill in Hamilton. With him were buried his gun, tomahawk, and other implements of the chase. The tribe lived in scattered wig- wams, much at the town charge, till it was practically extinct about 1730."
The landscape of this section of Essex county affords a variety of beautiful natural scenery-the hills, the dale, the meadow and the marsh lands, with streams here and there to make glad the scene. In summer time the verdure of the flowers, the cattle and sheep feeding leisurely, the first setting of the waving grain, the ripening fruit, including the purple plums, and the golden and amber autumn leaf, one and all are ob- jects of untold beauty. While the general topography is the same to- day as it was years ago, of course drainage and time's hand has made various changes. In the year 1885 the following was written concerning this portion of the county:
The Linebrook District has a beautiful sheet of water called Baker's, Pritchard's, Great and Hood's Pond, by which last name it is now known. Its surface is eighty feet above Town Hill, or one hundred and ninety-two feet above sea-level. It might be made an excellent reservoir for fire or other purpose, for the village of Topsfield, or Ipswich, or perhaps both. Rev. Jacob Hood, of Lynnfield, who died in 1885, at the age of ninety-four years, surveyed it in his youth and computed the area at nearly eighty acres. In the winter of 1861-62, M. V. B. Perley surveyed this pond and made by traverse table sixty-five and nine-tenths acres. A third of the pond is in Topsfield, and in 1874 the town stocked it with perch and black bass, thus availing itself of the State law which, for that purpose gave that town exclusive control of the waters for fifteen years. On its bosom blooms the fragrant white petaled lily; and boats for rowing and sailing invite to healthful recreation; and it lends a charm to the surrounding hills. On the west, rising seventy feet above its surface, is a broad grazing field where General Israel Putnam in his boyhood, when in the tutelage of his stepfather, went to find and "fetch" the cows; and on the east is Burnham's Hill, named from James Burnham, who in 1717 owned the land.
The chief streams of this town are Winthrop's, Norton's, Howlet's, Mile and Bull brooks, which used to be good fishing for pickerel and trout. Other streams are the North or Egypt river, Muddy and Ipswich rivers. The last named stream rises in Maple Meadow brook, in the town of Bur- lington, and meanders through Wilmington, North Reading, Middleton and Topsfield, entering Ipswich upon the southwest border. On its banks have been from an early time sawmills, gristmills, papermills, tanneries, cotton and woolen mills, while today its chief industry is the immense hosiery mills, among the largest in the world.
Old deeds speak of ponds in the vicinity of the West Meadow, but which are unknown to this generation; yet there are swamps which answer to the location and size.
Numerous hills make charming the landscape of this town. They
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include the following: Heartbreak Hill, 196 feet high, from which it is related an ancient hunter's daughter watched in vain for the return of her lover (a sailor boy), and there died of a broken heart. Turner's Hill, 250 feet high, which years ago became a well improved and frequently sought summer resort; it has long since been styled "Mount Turner." Bartholomew's Hill, 204 feet high, stands just above the William Bar- tholomew farm, whose owner was an early benefactor of this neighbor- hood. Turkey Hill, 240 feet; Jewett's Hill, 212 feet high; Little Turner, 197 feet high; Bush Hill, 193 feet high; Scott's Hill, 180 feet high ; Saga- more Hill, 172 feet high; Prospect Hill, 262 feet above sea-level, shows us White Mountains, and Old Monadnock in all its beauty. Cemetery Hill, or Town Hill, is 184 feet high, showing the city and surrounding farming community, as well as the spires of numerous churches in Ames- bury and Newburyport. Castle Hill, located on the famous Ipswich Beach, at the mouth of Ipswich and Plum Island rivers, rises a distance of 165 feet above the railway track in Ipswich.
Not far from a dozen years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, four and a half years after Captain Endicott colonized at Salem, and three years after Governor John Winthrop formed a colony known in history as the Massachusetts Bay, it was learned in Boston that a movement was being made to settle a colony of Jesuits in way of a mis- sion. So in order to prevent this religious sect from getting a foothold, Winthrop sent a colony of thirteen men, with his son John Winthrop, Jr., as leader, to forestall the talked of enterprise. The record of events connected with this affair show that the company was made up of John Winthrop, Jr., John Thorndyke, William Clark, John Biggs, Robert Cole, John Gage, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Howlett, William Perkins, William Sergeant, and three others, who in March 1633 took actual possession of the soil of Agawam.
The record shows "A Court holden att Newe Towne-Cambridge- August 5th, 1634, ordered that Agawam shall be called Ipswitch," where- fore August 16, 1634, begins the corporate history of this town. It was named in honor of Ipswich, England, from whence the colony mostly sailed, and where they were well treated before departure from the Mother Country. The records show that Masconnomet sold his fee in Ipswich to John Winthrop, Jr., March 13, 1638, and that he expressed himself satisfied with such deal, March 5, 1639. The following is the deed-one of no little interest, even after these two hundred and eighty- three years:
I Masconnomet Sagamore of Agawam do by these presents acknowledge to have received of Mr. John Winthrop the sum of £20, in full satisfaction of all the right, property, and claim I have or ought to have, unto all the land, lying and being in the Bay of Agawam, alias Ipswich, being so called by the English, as well as such land, belonging to me in these parts, Mr. Dummer's farm excepted only; and I hereby relinquish all the right and interest I have unto all the havens, rivers, creeks, is- lands, huntings and fishings, with all the woods, swamps, timber and whatever else
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is or may be, in or upon the said ground to me belonging; and I do hereby acknowl- edge to have received full satisfaction from the said John Winthrop for all former agreements, touching the premises and parts of them; and I do hereby bind myself to make good the aforesaid bargain and sale unto the said John Winthrop, his heirs and assigns forever, and to secure him against the title and claim of all other Indians and natives whatsoever.
Witness my hand, 28th of June, 1638.
Witness hereunto: JOHN JOYLIFF, JAMES DOWNING, THOMAS COYTMORE, ROBERT HARDING.
MASCONNOMET his X mark.
The Court ordered that Ipswich refund to John Winthrop, Jr., the twenty pounds named in the above deed, November 5, 1639. February 22. 1705, the record says: "The Court orders that Samuel Appleton, and our two Representatives, Nehemiah Jewett and Nathaniel Knowlton, treat with Hon. Wait Winthrop about Masconnomet's deed of Agawam, made to his father, deceased."
When Ipswich was settled in 1633, the boundary on the north and west was the boundary of the ancient Agawam; on the east the ocean; on the south, Cape Ann (Gloucester), Jeffrey's Creek (Manchester), Enon (Wenham), and Salem village (Danvers), four hamlets then belonging to Salem. Newbury, 12,300 acres, was set off in 1635 and contributed to the territory of Newburyport 4,575 acres in 1764, and Parsons 8,072 acres in 1819 which became West Newbury, June 14, 1820. In 1636 the Court established the western line of the town six miles in the country. The eastern and southern boundaries re- mained the same. In 1639, Ipswich with Newbury contributed to Row- ley 10,310 acres for which the two towns received £800, and out of which were made the towns of Bradford, 4,564 acres, in 1675; of Boxford, 14,200 acres in 1685 ; of Middleton in part, about 2,500 acres, in 1728; of George. town, 7,548 acres in 1838; and of Groveland, 5,230 acres in 1850.
In 1650 Ipswich contributed the part of Topsfield north of the river, a part of 7,375 acres. The hamlet of Ipswich, 9,440 acres, was incorpor- ated as Hamilton in 1793, and the Chebacco of Ipswich, 7,839 acres, be- came Essex in 1819. In 1774 certain families of Ipswich were set off to Topsfield; in 1784 others were set off to Rowley; and in 1846 still others to Boxford, and there now remain 25,478 acres, the heart of the town as known today.
Concerning the first settlement, and from what was styled the "Wonder-working Providence," the following is quoted: "The peopling of this towne is by men of good ranke and quality, meany of them having the yearly revenue of large estates in England before they came to this wildernesse." In Rev. Joseph Felt's history of the Town, we read: "A large proportion of the inhabitants possessed intelligent minds, virtuous hearts, useful influence and remarkable character. They well understood how the elements of society should be for the promotion of its welfare, and how such elements should be formed and kept pure from ignorance
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and irreligion. They were careful of their own example, and thereby gave force to their precepts. They attended to the concerns of society as persons, who felt bound to consult the benefit of posterity as well as their own immediate good."
As a matter of citizenship it may be stated that no person was al- lowed to plant or inhabit Agawam without leave of the court. The fol- lowing list of names is compiled from the public records of this town, and are supposed to be all who settled in the first decade-between 1633 and 1644. As many of their descendants still reside within this county, it is believed that such a roster will be of value, and of no little personal interest to many of the readers of this work:
SETTLED IN 1633-
Winthrop, John Jr.,
Cole, Robert,
Sellman, Thomas,
Gage, John,
Hardy, Thomas,
Howlett, Thomas,
Perkins, William, SETTLED IN 1634-
Franklin, William,
Perkins, John,
Dillingham, John,
Fuller, John,
Manning, John,
Newman, John,
Parker, Thomas,
Symonds, Mark,
Ward, Nathaniel.
SETTLED IN 1635-
Haffield, Richard,
Sayward, Edmund,
Bartholomew, William,
Hassell, John,
Hubbard, William,
Sherrat, Hugh,
Bradstreet, Simon, Bracey, Thomas Bradstreet, Humphrey,
Jacob, Richard,
Short, Henry,
Bradstreet, Dudley,
Johnson, John,
Symonds, William,
Coggswell, John, Covington, John, Cross, John,
Kinsman, Robert,
Knight, Alexander,
Wade, Jonathan,
Dudley, Thomas,
Dudley, Samuel,
Metcalf, Joseph,
Webster, John,
Firman, Thomas,
Moody, William,
Wells, Thomas, White, William,
Foster, Reginald, Fowler, Philip,
Mussey, Robert,
Whiteyear, John,
French, Thomas,
Osgood, Christopher,
Williamson, Paul,
Fuller, William,
Perley, Allan,
Woodmouse, Mr.
Wyatte, John,
Gardner, Edmund, Gidding, George, Goodhue, William,
Saltonstall, Richard,
Wythe, Humphrey, Younglove, Samuel.
SETTLED IN 1636-
Jennings, Richard,
Rogers, Nathaniel.
Lord, Robert,
Sawyer, Edmund,
Merriall, John,
Seaverns, John,
Norton, John,
Sherman, Samuel,
Norton, William,
Wilson, Theophilus,
SETTLED IN 1637-
Hayes, Robert,
Heldred, William,
Hovey, Daniel, Jordan, Stephen,
Kimball, Richard, Ladd, Daniel,
Quilter, Mark, Rawlinsone, Thomas, Reading, Joseph, Symonds, Joseph, Thornton, John, Turner, Capt.
Sergeant, William, Shatswell, John.
Thorndyke, John, Clark, William, Biggs, John, Carr, George,
Currin, Matthias,
Robinson, John,
Sewell, Henry,
Spencer, John,
Easton, Nicholas, Elliot, Fawne, John,
Jackson, John,
Short, Anthony,
Jordan, Francis,
Kent, Richard,
Tredwell, Edward, Tuttle, John, Varnum, George,
Denison, Daniel,
Lancton, Roger,
Wainwright, Francis,
Mussey, John,
Bishop, Thomas, Clark, Daniel, Dorman, Thomas, Hall, Samuel, Harris, Thomas, Hart, Nathaniel,
Peabody, Francis,
Appleton, Samuel, Archer, Henry, Averill, William, Bishop, Nathaniel, Bixby, Nathaniel, Boardman, Thomas,
Procter, John,
Saunders, John,
Andrews, Robert,
Scott, Thomas,
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Browning, Thomas, Challis, Philip, Clark, Thomas, Colby, Arthur, Comesone, Symond, Cross, Robert, French, Edward,
Baker, John, Brown, Edward, Burnham, John, Cochame, Henry, Cartwright, Michael, Cummings, Isaac, Cooley, John, Crame, Robert, Dane, John, Dix, Widow, Emerson, John, Emerson, Thomas, English, William,
Andrews, John, Belcher, Jeremiah, Bellingham, Richard, Bird, Jathnell, Bird, Thomas, Boardman, Samuel, Bosworth, Samuel, Chute, Lionell, Davis, John,
Lawson, William, Lord, Widow Catherine
Morse, Joseph,
Northe, John,
Wedgewood, John,
Whitred, William,
Whitingham, John,
Williamson, Michael.
SETTLED IN 1638-
Eppes, Daniel,
Gibson, Thomas,
Graves, Robert,
Greenfield, Samuel,
Hanchet, John,
Kimball, Henry, Kingsbury, Henry,
Knight, William,
Lumkin, Richard,
Metcalf, Thomas
Miller, William,
Morse, John,
Whitman, Robert,
Wilkinson, Henry.
SETTLED IN 1639-
Farnum, Ralph,
Filbrich, Robert,
Firman, Dr Giles,
Gilvin, Thomas,
Cochame, Edward,
Hadley, George,
Newman, Thomas,
Hodges, Andrew,
Pitney, James,
Humphrey, -
Preston, Roger,
Hatley, Richard,
Knowlton, John,
Storey, Andrew,
Mohey, Robert.
SETTLED IN 1640-
Lee, John, Paine, Robert,
SETTLED IN 1641-
Hoyt, John, SETTLED IN 1642-
Safford, Thomas,
Adams, William, Annable, John,
Douglass, William,
Perry, Thomas,
Fellews, William,
Pettis, John,
Beacham, Robert,
Green, Henry, Howe, James,
Pengry, Moses,
Brown, Thomas,
Knight, Oleph,
Podd, Daniel,
Brown, John, Cowley, John,
Knowlton, Thomas,
Scofield, Richard,
Dane, Francis, Davis, Richard, Day, Robert,
Lee, Thomas,
Smith, Richard, Warner, Daniel.
Lamson, Edward, Lammas, Richard, SETTLED IN 1643- Low, Thomas, Windall, Thomas.
Andrews, Richard, Buckley, William,
Perkins, Isaac,
Pike, Purrier, William,
Newmarch, John,
Nicholas, Richard,
Paine, William,
Scott, Robert,
Sherman Thomas,
Silver, Tho'nas,
Stacy, Simon, Swindjer, William,
Taylor, Samuel,
Tredwell, John,
Whipple, Matthew,
Thompson, Simon,
Tingby, Palmer, Button, Matthias,
Castell, Robert,
1640 Bachelor, Henry,
Urann, -,
Hart, Thomas,
Bitgood, Richard,
Knowlton, William,
Redding, John,
The population in 1650 was not far from one hundred and forty families, or about 700 souls. In 1680 there were 126 voters, equal to about 850 people. The United States census returns in 1830 gave this town 2,951; in 1885 it had reached 4,247; in 1887 the Manual of the Legislature for the Commonwealth gave the number of voters as being in 1920 shows the town's population to be 6,201.
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