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Cook, Charles B., 596
Clarence A., 415
Edward, 188 Elihu, 448
Everett, M., 541
James M., 281
John, 67, 448
Linden, 498, 569, 570
Nathaniel, Dr., 68
Richard H., 595
Thomas, 322
T. Washburn, 377 William, 377
Cooke, John, 39 Thomas, 220
Coombs, Henry C., Rev., 65
Cooper, Benjamin, 270
Samuel W., Rev., 271, 479
Colby, Elijah, Dr., 681 Harrison Gray Otis, 368, 653, sketch of 671
Henry W., 290, 291
Richard, 265
Samuel, 278 note
Cole, Abiel, 102
Allen, Capt., 138
David A., 419
Samuel, Lieut., 84
Thomas E., and Fred M., 186
Cornell, Daniel H., 595 Ezekiel, Capt., 129
Joseph H., 373
Joseph W., 417
Peleg, jr., 128
Stephen, 127 William M., Dr., 89
Colton, William, 88
Comer, John, Rev., 113
Comey, J. F., 204
Comstock, Joseph J., Capt., 496
Conant, P. D., 590
Cone, Dwight E., Dr., 692, 694 William, Rev., 113
Congdon, Benjamin T., 358 Caleb, 407 Charles T., 359 note
Congdon, James B., 145, 165, 360, 368, 372 and note, 373, 377, 381, 395 Joseph, 354 Mary T., 396 Conger, Everett L., Rev., 277
Connell, A. I., Dr., 692, 694 Charles W., Dr., 600
Thomas, 627 William, 610, 612 William, jr., 582
Connelly, M. H., 612
Connors, Thomas F., 565, 566
Converse, Edmund W., 565, 566
Coe, Curtis, Rev., 479
William, Rev., 334 note
Coffin, Davis, 353 Frederick, Charles H., Walter H., and Arthur S., 420 Timothy Gardner, 395, sketch of 670
Coggeshall, Haydon, 351 note
John, 342 John, jr., 351 note Robert C. P., 381 note Thomas, 335 note William, 470
Coggshall, Billings, 131 S. W., Rev., 279
Cohannet Purchase, the, 7
Colburn, Jotham, 276
Thomas, 17, 20 Timothy, 74, 83
Copeland, Benjamin, Dea., 67 Elijah, 94
Horatio and George, 200
Josiah, 84, 162
Coram, Thomas, 70, 120
Corey, C. L., 204
Hugh, 30
Gideon, Rev., 153
Joseph, Capt., 101 Samuel Valentine, Rev., 276
Coleman, Abner, 281 Collins, James H., 368 John, 533 Collyer, John, 275 J. N., Rev., 506 note
William M. and B. L., 90
Cornish, Aaron, Dr., 681 Hannaniah, 99 Israel C., 381 note
Corr, Peter H., 303, 304
Corry, John, Rev., 507
Corwithy (Kerwithy), David, 220
Cory, Benjamin, 127 Isaac, 128 Cotton, John S., 469, 474
373
INDEX.
Cotton, Josiah, 243 Couch, D. N., Col., 168. 534 Coughlin, J. W. Dr .. 692 Coultas, A. J., Rev., 505, 506 note
Coupe, William, & Co., 193
Court house at Fall River, 664 Court houses and jails in New Bedford, 663, 664; at Taunton, 660-663, 655 Court proceedings, early, 651-653 Courts, District, of the county, 658
Covel, A. S., 549, 574, 575, 577, 579, 581, 587, 590, 601, 693 Benjamin, 581 Thomas B., 471 Covell, Clement P., 358 note Cowel, Joseph, 52 Cowen, Jonathan, 147
Cox, Arthur, 147, 210 Ebenezer, 265 E. F., Miss, 694 James V., 383 Obadiah E., Rev., 363 note
Coy, Nehemiah, Rev., 161 William, 220
Crafts, Frederick, 247, 277 W. A., Rev., 133
Craighead, Thomas, Rev., 108
Crandall, Joseph, 499 Phineas, Rev., 480 William, 354 Crandell, Nathaniel, 300 Crandon, Philip, Rev., 147, 149
Crane, Abel and John, 88 Adoniram, Col., 90 Edward, Dr., 89
Ebenezer, Henry and George, 203 Gershom, 88
H. W., 201 John, 72, 90 Jonathan Rev., 59, 90 Joshua, E., 228 Silas A., Rev., Benjamin and Daniel, 89 Crankshaw, A. E., 600 Felix, 576 Cranston, Philip, Rev., 506 note
Crapo, Consider, 102 Henry H., 359, 364, 373, 584 Peter, 102, 103 William W., 351 note, 380, 381, 383, 402, 412, 584, 596, 660 Crary, William H. A., 521 Crocker, George O., 372 note James H., 368 Joseph, 266 Josiah, Rev., 241 Oliver and George O., 353 Peter, Rev., 119
Crocker, Samuel, 142, 160, 263, 273, 292, 295, 296
Samuel and William A., 294 Samuel L., 278 note, 283, 300 William A., 145 278 William A., Samuel L. and George A., 300 & Richmond, 294, 295, 296 Cross, Latham, 411 Crossman, Edward, 271 James W., 277, 278 John, 220, 227 Joseph, 76 Nathaniel, 228 Robert, 227, 228, 261, 266, 291, 321 Robert, son of Robert, 228, 286, 301 William W., 297
Crowell, Stephen. 354 note
Cudworth, David, jr., and Caleb, 439 James, Capt., 29, 37, 38, 40 James, grandson of Capt. James, 31, 422 Cumming, Arthur, 402 Cummings, A. G., Rev., 481 Charles R., 623 E. N. & Co., 159
E. W., Rev., 385
Harmon and C. J., Revs., 506
John W., 659, 693, 694 Preston, Rev., 73 William and John, 187
Cunneen, James E., 585, 591
Curry, John, Rev., 279
Curtis, H. H., & Co., 159
Cushman, Eliphalet, 367
Hercules, 110, 545, 678 Seth L., 278 Z., 362 Cushing, Herbert, 213 James F., 320 James R., Rev., 276 note Cuttle, Gilbert P., 585
Daggett, Ebenezer, and sons H. N. and H. M., 55 Handel N., 156, 177 Homer N., 160 John, 48 note, 54, 98, 283, sketch of, 678 Joseph, 54 Levi, Rev., 152 Nathaniel, 54 Robert, 138 S. L., 158 Thomas, 54 & Clap, 159 Daily, John, 74, 75, 83 Daland, George, Rev., 133
374
INDEX.
Dalglish, John H., 278 note Daman, John, 31
Damon, Joseph, 328
Danes, Thomas, Elder, 166
Danforth, Allen, 273
George, 273 note, 274 note Horatio L., 278, 669
Oliver, 242 note
Samuel, Rev., 240, 243, 244, 294
Samuel, jr., 295
Thomas, 160 Thomas, 2d, 161
Danielson, Charles R., 596
Darling, Theodore, 200
Dartmouth, Baptists and Quakers in, 24, 25 church troubles in, 24, 25
churches of, 118, 119, 166, 167
early educational measures in, 117, 118 early industries of, 119
efforts made in, to divide the county, 117
extracts from the records of, 25, 26 first grist mill in, 26
gazetteer of the the town of, 186-188 in the Revolution, 99
list of freemen in, in 1686, 26
list of proprietors and early settlers in, 27-29
Quakers and Baptists in, 115
records showing municipal interfer- ence in personal affairs in, 116, 117 schedule of prices of necessaries in 1779, 104 territory included in the old town of, and its thirty six proprietors, 23, 24 visit of Bartholomew Gosnold to, in 1602, 24 note Purchase, The, 8
Davenport, Dudley, 395, 407 E. W., 157 James F., 589
William C., 278 note
Davis, Benjamin, 128 B. H., 500 David P., 589
Elisha, 179 George, K., 158 Ina C., 595
John, 134 John R., 214 Jonathan, Capt., 125, 128 Jonathan W., 377 N. R., & Son, 190 Perry, 473
Davis, Richard, Rev., 122 Robert T., Dr. 533, 570, 575, 579, 580, 582, 587-589, 592, 594, 596, 615, 693 Stephen, 127 William, 99, 128, 188
Davol, Abner, 447 and note Barjonas, 127 Benjamin D., 518, 521
Bradford D., 497, 564, 576, 579, 582, 584, 586, 587, 590, 594
Ezra, 274 note, 279 note
George S., 575, 590
Stephen, 491 and note, 493, 564, 575, 576, 579, 582, 584-586 William C., 492 and note, 575, 587, 627 William C., jr., 569
Dawes, Ebenezer, Rev., 73, 274 note Ebenezer, Dr., 681
Day, Alfred B., & Co., 205
B. B., 157 Samuel, 58
Deady, Louis J., Rev., 507 note
Dean, Abieser, (father and son), 662, 663
Barney, 278
Barzillai, Capt., 162
Charles H., 574, 578, 588
David, 86 Ebenezer, Capt., 47, 77, 97, 266
Edward, 203
Eliab B., Major, 86
Elijah, 85
Francis B., 279 note, 295
Gardner, 89 Gardner T., 541, 582
George A., 157, 176
G. A., & Co., 157
George W., 190
Gustavus L., David, P. K. and Henry, 201
Isaac, 92
Israel, 2d, Capt., 97, 266
Jacob and Darwin, 94
James, 83, 84, 100
James, Joseph, David, Benjamin, Aaron, Walter, Ezra, David, jr., James, jr., 88 James A., 180
James B., Dr., 684
James H., 290
John, 220, 227, 252, 256, 258
John Gilmore, 86
John M., 585 Joseph, 71, 72, 84, 160, 663 Joseph, sr. and jr., 296 Josiah, 270, 293
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INDEX.
Dean, Josiah and sons Josiah and Eliab B., 263 note, 292 J. O., & Co., 200 Luther, 289 L. B., 196 Noah, 266 N. Bradford, 278 Paul, Rev., 81 Philander W., 301
Robert, 296
Robert S., 278, 279 ncte, 295
Samuel, 66
Theodore, 263 note, 278, 585 Thomas C., 90 Walter, 20, 69, 71, 227, 232, 233, 252 William, Capt., 92, 95 William, jr., 92 William R., 283
Deane, Ezra, Dr., 680
Dedrick, A. C., Dr., 692
De Forest, Heman P., Rev., 56, 276
Delano, Abisha, Reuben, Ephraim, Rich- ard and Nathaniel, 135 Ephraim, Elnathan and John, 138 George, 415 Jabez, 325 Jabez, jr., 210 John, 137, 407 Jonathan, 134 Joseph, Capt., 123 Joseph C., 358 note, 411, 415 Joshua, 137, 330
Richard, 135 Thomas, 137 Timothy, 407 Warren, jr., 210
Demarest & Brady, 159 De Moranville, Charles, 102 Louis, 102 Denison, Henry C., 420 John H., 420
Desmond, John, 545
Devotion, John, 54, 122
Dewey, Loring D., Rev., 479 Orville, 334 note, 354 Dews, Edwin, 377 Dexter, H. Mortimer, Rev., 276 note Dickson, Robert, 57 Dighton, early educational interests in, 73
early families of, 70 churches of, 73, 74, 119, 180 collectors of the port of, 70 note early cotton mills in, 120 early manufactures of, 120, 121 early settlers of, 69-71 early ship building in, 120
Dighton, extracts from the early records of, 71, 72 ferry at, 72 first church of, 72 gazetteer of the town of, 196, 197 in the Revolution, 100
industries of, 150
list of proprietors and incorporation of, 68, 69 manufactures of, 180, 181
officers of, in 1712, 72
schedule of prices in, in 1727, 73
Furnace Co., 180, 197 Manufacturing Co., 180 Rock, the, 197
Dillingham, Benjamin, Capt., 99, 325, 328, 329
Diman, J. Lewis, Rev., 479
Dinnegan, D. G., 405
Dixon, Joseph, 302
Doane, Elisha, 376
Dobra, Christopher, 172
Dodge, Nehemiah and son John C., 156
Dods, John B., Rev., 277
Doe, Walter P., Rev., 113
Doggett, Simeon, Rev., 165 Simeon, jr., 247 Dolan, W, A., Dr., 692, 694 Dorman, Seth, 91, 93 Micajah, 63
Doughty, Francis, 221, 239, 253
Dow, Albert F., 629, 630
Doyle, Joseph J., 159 Rev. Father, 507 note
Drake, Benjamin, 74 Benjamin, son of Benjamin, 76 John, 75, 221 Joseph, nephew of Benjamin, 77 Lincoln, Capt., 162 L. S. and A. L., 163
Simeon, Lieut., 126
Thomas, 74
Thomas, and sons John and Benja- min, 75 Thomas R., 278 note W. E., 200 Draper, Eben S., 592, 593 Ebenezer, 155 F. S. & Co., 159
Gamaliel B., 172
George A., 591, 594
Herbert M., 158
Josiah, 156 J. B., 158 O. M., 174 William F., 594, 597 Drew, Alfred E., Rev., 480 Isaac, 328
376
INDEX.
Drew, William, 200
Dring, Charles P., 589, 601
Driscoll, James, 453, 463, 563
Dubuque, H. A., 659, 693 Duff, Bradford F., Mrs., 211 Dunbar, Elisha, 358 note Franklin, 273 note George H., 402 Joseph, 301 Samuel O., 275 note, 281, 304 W. E., 304 Duncan, John, Rev., 505
Dunham, Isaac, Rev., 276 note Joseph, 63 William E., 585 Dunn, William, 221 Durfee, Benjamin, 604
Benjamin and son Thomas, 425
Bradford, 459, 464 and note, 465 468, 469, 481, 492, 503, 512, 513, 516,
517, 542, 555, 556, 558, 563, 565, 572, 605
Bradford M. C., 572-575, 591
Charles, 447, 511
David, 441, 471
family, the, 434-436
Fidelia B., Mrs., 503
George B., 569, 576, 579, 584
George H., 478
George N., 577, 591, 600
Gideon H., 499
Holder B., 504, 565, 579, 580, 581, 627 Horatio N., 576, 585
James, 373, 407
Joseph, 503, 598
Joseph and wife, 479
Joseph, Col., 450, 484, 566
Joseph, Col., account by, of the British invasion of Fall River, 441- 446
Matthew C., 465, 470, 474, 513
Nathan, Dr., 474 and note, 496, 503, 521, 562 Richard, 479
Robert, 108, 430
Thomas, 605
Walter, 484
Walter C., 499-501, 533, 579, 580
Wealthy, 479, 563 William, 407 William B., 548, 581, 601 William F., 380 Dwelly, Frank H., 572 Jerome, Dr., 694 William H., jr., 630 Dwight, Edmund, 296 Thomas, 475
Dwinell, B. L., Dr., 696, 699 Dyer, D. Hartwell, 568, 575, 576, 578, 584, 585 Timothy J., 210 Dyson, Robert. Rev., 507 note
Eames, Asa., 494, 627 Earl, Benjamin, 475 note, 545 and note Caleb, 127 Daniel, 131
Henry H., 450, 589, 612, 693
John, 132
J. M., 589 Lloyd S., 570, 579, 581
Oliver, 453, 563 Peleg H., 474 Robert, Capt., 129
Easterbrook, James, 189
Eastman, L. R., Rev .. 89 note Robert K., 368
Easton, churches of, 78-82, 161 early settlers of, 74-77 early industries of, 83, 84 educational interests in, 82
gazetteer of the town of, 197-200 in the French and Indian war, 77
in the Revolution, 101
incorporation of, 74 industries of, 162-164
iron business in, 83 Alexander D., 575, 578-581, 585, 587 Fred W., 594, 597
Eaton, James, jr., 354 note Louis H., 354 note T. B., 274 Eddy, Daniel C., Rev., 477
Ebenezer and Eleazer, sons of John and grandsons of Samuel, 63
George H., 577, 579, 580, 582
George H., jr., 465
George M., 384
George S., Dr., 575, 694
Henry H., 598
James, 186, 189
James C., 598 Jesse, 470, 471, 598, 608 Job, 351 note, 462, 464
John, 131, 512 note, 513, 517, 598
John, jr., 251
John and Jesse, 462 and note, 468 Jonathan, 63 Joshua, 131 Peletiah, 266 Saul W., 279 note
Thomas F., 501, 502, 598, 612 William, 359 note William H., 582, 678 Edmenster, James, 439
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PERSONAL REFERENCES.
Edson, Edward, Rev., 379 note
Educational methods and measures of the early colonists, 33, 34 Elam, Samuel, 401 Eldridge, Elnathan. 134 George H., 334 note Isaiah, 135 Isaiah and Salathiel, 138 John H., 290 Killey, 137, 407
Eliot, Joseph, 64 Thomas, 251 Thomas Dawes, sketch of, 671 William H., 296 Ellery, William, 70
Elliot, Joseph, 93
Ellis, Alden G., 373 Jabez, Capt., 98 James, 138, 669 James P., 278 note John, 147 John, Rev., 139 Leonard B., 354 note, 384 Nathan S., 383
Elms, George N., 288
Ely, Thomas, Rev., 480
Emerson, Daniel, Rev., 118 John F., 394, 395, 396
Emery, S. Hopkins, Rev., 243, 246 note, 276 note, 283 William M., 406 Estes, John H., 570, 578, 589, 600 Etzensperger, John, 159
Evans, David B., 191 D., & Co., 155 S. A., 205 Samuel E., Rev., 139 William, 103, 577 Everett, A. M., 157 Dennis, 157 Ewer, B., 376 Seth, Elder, 477
Fairbanks, Ellis, Capt., 94 Willard, A., 278, 283, 300
Fairhaven, Bristol Gazette of, 136 churches of, 166 early academy at, 137 early business in, 135 early roads in, 134 early settlers of, 134 early town meetings in, 136 erection of, 133, 134 gazetteer of the town of, 209-212 in the Revolution, 135 National Bank of, 210 New Bedford bridge at, 136, 212 progress in, 165 AS
Fairhaven, proprietors of lots in, in 1790, 135
schools of, 211 ship building in, 137 streets laid out in, in 1790, 135
Foundry Co., 211 Improvement Association, 210 Institution for Savings, 210 Riverside Cemetery of, 210 Star, the, 212 Fales, Samuel, 266, 273, 294, 295, 657 note Timothy, 651, 663
Fall River, account of British invasion of, by Col. Joseph Durfee, 441-446 act creating the town of, 447, 449 aldermen of, list of the, 632-634 Algonquin Printing Co. in, 597 American and other Print Works in, 566, 567, (See Fall River Iron Works Co.) American Linen Co. in, 492, 568, 569
American Print Works in, 482
Annawan Manufactory in, 565 armory, 493, 494 and note
at the close of the Revolution, 447 attempt to abolish city government of, 531 Bank, founding of the, 465
Bar Association of, 658-660
Barnaby Manufacturing Co. in, 593 Barnard Manufacturing Co. in, 586
Bay State Print Works in, 484
beginning of individual investment in manufactures in, 536 Bleachery, 583 Bobbin and Shuttle Co., 590
Border City Mills in, 585 boundary dispute relating to, 430 Bourne Mills in, 593
burning of the Granite Mills in, 543 business concerns of, in 1826, 473, 474 B. M. C. Durfee High School in, 612, 613
B. M. C. Durfee Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of, 541
calico printing in, 466, 467, 482 care of the poor of, in early days, 510 capital invested in, from New Bed- ford, 461
causes of the growth of, 524 Chace Mills in, 589
chapter from the village records of : 1803, 509; 1804-5, 510; 1806, 511; 1812, 511-513; 1815-16, 514; 1817- 25, 515; 1846-29, 516; 1830-32, 517; 1833-35, 518; 1837-39, 519; 1840-
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OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE.
42, 520; 1843, 520-21 : 1844-46, 521; 1847-49, 522; 1850-53, 523
Fall River, charter amendments, 542 charter, provisions of, 525-527 chief engineers of the fire depart- ment of, list of the, 627
cholera of 1832 in, 484; of 1854, 508; the last, 530
church history of, before organiza- tion of the town, 477 note
churches of, 476-481, 502-507 Citizen's Savings Bank of, 496
city assesors of, list of the, 641, 642 city clerks and assistant clerks of, list of the, 640
city engineers, physicians, superin- tendents of streets, and district physicians of, lists of the, 642
City Hall, 511 note
city officers of, list of the, 632-42
city treasurers, collectors, auditors, solicitors and marshals of, lists of the, 641
common councilmen of, list of the, 634-640
Conanicut Mills in, 565
co-operative banks of, 541
Cornell Mills in, 595
cotton manufacture, influence of, upon, 554
cotton manufactures, difficulty in dis- posing of, in, 456
cotton mills founded in, between 1820 and 1830, 462-466
cotton mills, increase in the size of, in, 491
Crescent Mills in, 581
Custom House and Post-office build- ing in, 544-546
customs collectors of, list of the, 545 Daily Globe, 623
Daily Herald, 622, 623
Davol Mills in, 575
division of the fourteen lots in, and owners of same, 424-429
Durfee Mills in, 572-574
early militia officers of, list of, 440
educational history of, chapter on the, 602-618 Electric Light Co., 629
Emergency Hospital in. 694
establishment of public library in, 532
Evening News, 621, 622
financial crisis of 1857 in, 528-530
financial depression of 1837 in, 484 financial history of, 551-554
first city officers of, 527
Fall River, first cotton factory in, 450 first dividends of the Troy Co. in, 456-458
First National Bank of, 541
first town officers of, 509
Fire Department, 526 note, 624-629
Five Cents Savings Bank, 500
Flint Mills in, 581
freighting facilities of, 548
Friends and their churches in, 478 founding of cotton mills, 537, 540
founding of cotton and other mills in, 548
founding of miscellaneous corpora- tions in, 549
founding of the Troy Cotton and Woolen Manufactory and the Fall River Manufactory in, 451-459
Gas Works Co., 548
Globe Yarn Mills in, 592
Granite Mills in, 570
great fire of 1843 in, 485-490
growth of, after the Civil war, 539
Hargraves Manufacturing Co. in, 599
Hargraves Mills in, 594
hat-making in, 599
Hospital, 693, 694
in the early wars, 437, 438
in the French and Indian war, 439
in the war of the Revolution, 441- 447
in the war of 1812, 459. 460
in the Civil war, 532-536
incorporation of, as a city, 525
increase in population of, 536
Indian reservation in, 426, 438, 439
industrial conditions of, in 1830, 481, 482
industries established in, between 1830 and 1840, 468, 469
Iron Works Company, history of the, 555-561
Iron Works, 468
Kerr Thread Co. in, 595
Kilburn, Lincoln & Co. in, 600
King Philip Mills in, 588
land history of, 422-430
Laurel Lake Mills in, 589
leather manufacturing in, 600 L'Independent, 624
list of the purchasers of the " Free- men's Purchase," 422 Machine Company, 601
Manufactory corporation, 561-563 Map of, between 424 and 425
Marshall & Brother, James, in, 599 Massasoit Manufacturing Co. in, 592
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INDEX.
Fall River, Massasoit National Bank of, 496 mayors of, list of the, 632 Mechanics' Mills in, 575 Medical Society, 692, 693 Merchants' Manufacturing Co. in, 574 Metacomet Mill in, founding of, 492; 566
Metacomet National Bank of, 498 Monitor, 475 note, 620
Montaup Mills in, 579 Narragansett Mills in, 580 National Union Bank of 470
natural characteristics of, 436, 437 New England Fur Co. in, 599
newspaper extracts relating to, 471- 475
newspapers of, 620-624 organization of the city government of, 527, 528 Osborn Mills in, 577, 578
park system in, establishment of the, 538
Parker Mills in, 597
Pocasset Hat Co. in, 600
Pocasset Manufacturing Co, of, 564
Pocasset National Bank of, 499
Pocasset Purchase in, division of the, and owners of same, 423, 429, 430 Police Department, 528 note poor farm and almshouse, 513 population statistics of, 550 postmasters of, list of, 544 post-office established in, 450 power weaving, beginning of, in, 455 prices of cotton products in, in, 1820, 458
Public Library, 618, 619 Quequechan Mills in, 567 railroad facilities of, 496 rapid growth of, between 1820 and 1830, 460 Richard Borden Manufacturing Co. of, 577
Robeson Mills in, 569 Sagamore Manufacturing Co. in, 584 Sanford Spinning Co. in, 596 Satinet Factory in, 467, 468 Savings Bank, 469, 470 School Committee of, list of members of the, 616-618 Seaconnet Mills in, 590 Second National Bank of, 501 selectmen of, list of the, 630-631 settlement of the State boundary line in, 532 sewerage system begun in, 531 and note
Fall River, Shove Mills in, 582 "skeleton in armor," found in, 486 note
sketch of, in 1813, 450, 451
Slade Mills in, 591
Stafford Mills in, 587 statistics of growth of, 549, 550 steamboat lines of, 495, 496 and note
Stevens Manufacturing Co, in, 596 street railways in, 629
Tecumseh Mills in, 571
topographical changes in, 542 tories in, 446
town assessors of, list of the, 631
town clerks of, list of the, 631
town houses of, 449, 511, 512
town officers, list of the, 630-632
town treasurers and collectors of, list of the, 631 transportation, freight, in, 538 Troy Cotton and Woolen Manufac- tory in, 563, 564 Union Belt Co. in, 590
Union Savings Bank of, 541
villages included in the city of, 525 note
Wampanoag Mills in, 579
Wamsutta Woolen Mills in, 598 water supply and works, 546-548 water transportation of 495
Watuppa Reservoir Co. in, founding of the, 458 Weetamoe Mills in, 576 Wyoming Mills in, 590 Falls Manufacturing Co., 155 Fanton, B. S., Rev., 481 Farmers' Factory, the, 155 Farnsworth, J. H., Rev., 365
J. Russell, 247 R. W. C., Rev., 560 note
Farnum, Jerome, 213 Roger, 157 Farrar, George, Rev., 81 Farwell, Thomas, 221 Faunce, Silas, 188 William, Elder, 164 Fay, Solomon P., Rev., 479 Fearing, Israel, Major, 135, 324 Fellows, Stephen, Rev., 481 Fenner, Henry G., 568 Henry S., 591 Ferguson, George, 84 John, Rev., 57 Fernald, O. H., Rev., 279 note Fessenden, C. B. H., 402, 404 Field, Albert, 153, 264, 283, 300 George M., 599 Fields, Braddock, 201
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INDEX.
Fillebrown, Thomas, 91 Fillmore, Jesse, Rev., 362
Financial crisis of 1834-37, 145; of 1857, 167
Fish, Frank L., 575 George H. and Frank L., 298 Henry H., 298, 465, 524 Isaac, 495
Myron, 595 & Huttlestone, 137
Fishbough, William, Rev., 277
Fisher, Abijah, John and Eleazer, 63 Brothers, 204 Charles E., 589
J. M., & Co., 159
Nathan, 277 Nathaniel, Rev., 72, 73
Samuel, Eleazer, Israel and Nathan- iel, sons of Daniel, 63 S. E., & Co., 159 Fiske, George R., 465 Isaac, Dr. 698
Samuel E., 178, 180, 189, 190, 197, 201, 203, 624 U. M., Rev., 277
Fittz, L. L., Rev., 133
Flanders, Rev. Dr., 365
Fletcher, Elijah T., Rev., 480 Phineas D., 191
Flint, B. K. and B., 205, 206
Franklin C., Rev., 154 note
John D., 506, 579-582, 585, 594, 595, 597, 693, 694 Flocken, Louis M., Rev., 507 note Fobes, Benjamin, 76, 83 Perez, Rev., 87 Samuel, Col., 111, 276
Forbes, Charles H., 418 J. R., 418 Forbush, Jonathan E., Rev., 57
Force, Benjamin, 52
Ford, James, 465, 469, 470, 473, 475, 494, 516, 518, 533, 544, 628, sketch of 675 Forman, Samuel, 603 Forrest, John, Isaiah and Samuel, 63 Foster, Alexander, Capt., 98 Charles, 278, 288, 301 Francis A., 586, 589 James R., Dr., 172
John, 651, 661
John, Rev., 270
Lewis S., 155
Thomas, 649
Timothy, 424 Ward L., 164, 199
Fothergill, Ralph, Rev., 507
Fowler, Orin, Rev., 479
Fox, George S., 404, 405
Fox, Jabez, Rev., 89 Thomas, 173 William H., 278 note, 658 W. Y., 696 Francis, Gideon, 196 Isaac P., 629 Tisdale, 281 Franklin, E. I., 159 Joseph, Capt., 101
Fraser, John, 335 note, 405
Freeman, Benjamin S., and Joseph J., 158 B. S., & Co., 158 David, 52 Daughady & Co., 195
Freetown, early churches in, 107-109 early manufacturing interests in, 110, 111
early physicians of, 111
early school interests in, 109, 110
gazetteer of the town of, 189-191
in the Revolution, 102 lots and lot owners in, 29-31 Journal, the, 189 French and Indian war, the old, 46; the last, 47
Canadians in the county, 182, 183 newspapers, 183
Asa P., 500
Charles G. W., 89
David, 90
Ebenezer, 173
Enoch, 470, 494 and note, 515, 600
Enoch J., 577
Ephraim, 203, 271
H. W., 396
Job, 470
Job B., 523, 575-577
John, Rev., 507
Levi, Rev., 89, 90
Samuel, Jacob, Levi and Israel, 88 William H., 247
Frothingham, Paul Revere, Rev., 334 note Furbush, M. I., 156
Fuller, Albert, 658 Elias E., 304
E. K., Rev., 133
George E., Rev., 507 note
Jacob, Capt., 100
John, 157, 363
Jonathan, 52 Philemon, jr., 210 Samuel, Dr., 680 William E., 283 note, 290 Fulton, Robert, 152, 204
Gage, Benjamin, Mrs., 354
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INDEX.
Gage, Jessie A., 694. 695 Gaige, William, 110, 603 Gallagher, Charles W., Rev., 166, 279, 505 Galligan, E. E., Dr., 696
Gallop, John, 227, 250
Gammons, John G., Rev., 506 M. E., 113 Gardner, Elisha B., 577 E. C., Job, sr., Job, jr., Samuel and Leland, 189
Hiram, 131 Job, 178 Johnson, Dr., 684 P. S., 131
Reuben M., 419
Garrisons maintained during King Phil- ip's war, 38 note
Gavin, Rowland, 80
Geddings, E. J., Rev., 152
Gee, Caroline A., Mrs., 694
Gellet, Sarah M., 474
George, Matthew, 152, 204
Gerry, Nathaniel S., 534
Gibbs, Alfred, 145, 351 note, 360 Ansel, 210 George W., 578 Henry L., 131
John L , 384
Robert S., 574
Rowland, 210
Samuel and Robert, 131 William L. B., 210
Gifford, Abner, 128
Abner B., 128 Abraham, 334, 358 note
Charles H., 335 note, 383 note Ellis, 523
Ferdinand H., 465
Frederick S., 377
George W., 628
J. H., Dr., 692, 694
P. A., 164, 199 William H., 587
Gilbert, David, 93 Eleazer, 76 F. S., 159 George, 161 Horatio, 278 note John, 221, 222, 321 John, sr., 252 Joseph, 101 Nathaniel, Capt., 47, 88, 265 Samuel, 88 Seth, Capt., 101 Thomas, 222, 256, 261, 440 Gile, George W., Rev., 505 Gilligan, Daniel, 564
Gillingham, James L., 658 Gilmore, A. A., 199
A. A., & Co., 164 Elisha, 264 E, W., 199 E. W., & Co., 164 John, Major, 86 Jonathan, 86 Melvin, 86
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