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Other works were Quarles' "Emblems and Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, "' 1799, with copperplate engravings; "The Life of Nelson"; "The Life of Paul Jones"; "The Poetical Works of Peter Pindar, a Distant Relation of the Poet of Thebes"; the "Idler," in two volumes; Volume Il of "Letters written by the late Right Honorable Philip Dorman Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield,"' Volume I of which was published at Boston.
The publishers of these were Angier March, successor to Blunt & March, Thomas & Whipple, and John Mycall.
An evidence of the magnitude of this business is the extensive advertising of books in the local papers of that time, and the fact that one of the stores burned in the great fire of 1811, contained a stock of $30,000 worth of books.
Newburyport is, or has been, more or less identified with some of the most prominent educational institutions of the present, first among which is Harvard College. The town of Newbury contributed to the support of this institution in its earliest years, and had the honor of claiming its first graduate, Benjamin Woodbridge of this town being placed at the head of the class of nine who completed the course in 1642.
Position in the class was determined by the standing or rank of the families of members, a method in keeping with the rigid social distinctions of those days.
Newburyport furnished seven professors to Harvard College, including Samuel Webber, who was made president in 1806, and Cornelius Conway Felton, who was similarly honored in 1860. Other college presidents born here were Sam- uel C. Bartlett of Dartmouth, Leonard Woods of Bowdoin, and Benjamin Hale of Hobart.
Dummer Academy, Newbury, was founded by Governor Dummer in 1761 and was the first institution of its kind in operation in America. It has had a notable history, and is still in a flourishing condition.
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EMINENT NEWBURYPORT MEN OF EARLY TIMES
Chief Justice Samuel Sewell, the subject of Whittier's poem of which the quotation on the first page of this book is the beginning, was born in 1652, and was one of the most learned and respected men of his time. He married Han- nah Hull, daughter of John Hull, master of the Massachusetts Mint, referred to on another page as the first silversmith in Boston, who presented the bride with a dowry equal to her weight in silver sixpences.
Theophilus Bradbury, a jurist of distinction and member of Congress un- der Washington's administration, was born here in 1739. He was also justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.
Charles Jackson, a son of Jonathan Jackson, was born in 1775, and be- came an eminent lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.
Patrick Tracy Jackson, born in Newburyport in 1780. Merchant and origin- ator, with his brother-in-law, Francis C. Lowell, of cotton-cloth manufacture in America. They invented machinery, and established a mill at Waltham which was in successful operation many years, and was said to be the first manu- factory in the world to combine cotton spinning and weaving under one roof. Later, Mr. Jackson purchased the entire site and water privilege of the present City of Lowell, which he founded, and named in honor of his brother-in-law and former partner, then dead. In 1830 Mr. Jackson, in company with Mr. Boot, conceived the project of constructing a railroad in New England, and, overcom- ing great obstacles, completed it in 1835. This was the Boston & Lowell Railroad, now a part of the Boston & Maine system.
Charles Toppan, the first president of the American Bank Note Co., was born in 1796, and studied engraving in Philadelphia. He was later associated with Jacob Perkins, with whom he went to England to introduce improvements in bank-note engraving. In 1858, he organized the American Bank Note Com- pany of New York, with branches in Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Montreal.
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The Noyes House in Newbury, once occupied by Rev. James Noyes, native of England, one of the early religious leaders of the founders of Newbury. Erected in 1646. Still occupied and in splendid state of preser- vation.
House on School Street, birth- place of William Lloyd Garrison, the famous liberator. It was in this house that the famous re- vivalist, George Whitefield, died
The Newburyport Homeopathic Hospital
Dalton House, former resi- dence of [Hon. Tristram Dalton, the first United States senator from Massa- chusetts. Erected in 1746. Now the home of the Dal- ton Club.
The old Curzon's Mill. Erected in 1676, "for the towne's use to grind the towne's grist."
Home of the Historical Society of Old Newbury, containing many articles of interest per- taining to the early history of the Newburys.
The Ilsley House, High Street Erected in 1691
The Anna Jaques Hospital Buildings
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Jacob Little, son of a prosperous merchant of Newburyport, was born in 1797, and at an early age entered the employ of a prominent merchant of New York. He afterwards became a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and was the acknowledged head of the financial world of that city.
William Wheelwright, one of Newburyport's greatest benefactors, was born in 1798. He was a ship-master, and was cast away on the coast of Brazil in 1823, which led him to settle and engage in business in South America, in the development of which he became a prominent factor. He established steamship lincs and built the first railroad on the continent, overcoming tremendous natural obstacles, and finally accumulating great wealth. His statuc in bronze stands in the public square of Valparaiso, the gift of the people, in recognition of his achievements.
He always retained his attachments for and interest in his native town, and in his will provided for the establishment of a scientific school here, when the fund, which now amounts to over $600,000, should be sufficient. A part of the in_ come of this sum is now used to defray the expenses of a scientific education for such graduates of the High School as desire it, some being maintained in Europe for this purpose.
Caleb Cushing, the eminent lawyer and statesman, was born in Salisbury in the year 1800, but came to Newburyport with his parents at the age of two years. He was educated for the bar, and early achieved distinction in his pro- fession. He was minister to China and to Spain, and represented this country at the Geneva tribunal.
He was also commissioned brigadier general in the Mexican War, and held many other important offices.
Others whom Newburyport has been proud to call her sons by birth or adoption are :-
Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, Bishop of Rhode Island, born here in 1812.
Ben: Perley Poore, journalist and author, born at Indian Hill Farm, Newbury, the home of his ancestors for many generations, in 1820.
General A. W. Greely, of the United States Army, commander of the Arctic Expedition bearing his name. He was born in 1844.
Mr. William C. Todd, founder of the Free Reading Room of this city, and donor of $50,000 to maintain a free newspaper reading room in the Boston Pub- lic Library. Mr. Todd was born in Atkinson, N. H., in 1823; and was for many years principal of the Female High School of this city.
Josiah Little, founder of the Public Library.
Michael Simpson, by whose liberality the Public Library building was greatly enlarged and improved.
George Peabody, the famous London banker, whose benefactions amount- ed to millions of dollars. Mr. Peabody received his early business training here in the employ of his brother, but was obliged to leave Newburyport after the great fire of 1811. He endowed the Newburyport Public Library with a fund of $15,000.
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NOTES
The quaint old sign of the Wolfe Tavern is a pleasing reminder of the ancient institution of that hostelry, as well as a token of early patriotism and tribute to military greatness.
Capt. William Davenport brought back from the plains of Abraham en- thusiastic appreciation of his late commander, General Wolfe, who fell a sac- rifice to bravery in the hour of his hard-earned victory. When, therefore, in 1762, Captain Davenport transformed his dwelling near the lower end of Fish (now State) Street to a tavern, he dedicated it to his lamented leader, andl placed in front a swinging sign, elaborately carved, with a portrait of General Wolfe, surrounded by a wreath entwined with scrolls, the whole appropriately painted and gilded. This highly decorative emblem was freely threatened with destruction during the Revolutionary War, when only the hatred of all things British was thought of, and former pride in the achievements of Wolfe for- gotten. While all other reminders of royalty were destroyed, and notwith- standing the declaration of a local newspaper that it was an "insult to the in- habitants of this truly republican town, " it remained in place until destroyed by the great fire of 1811. The present sign was erected in 1814, when the tavern was removed to its present location.
Before the introduction of railroads, the Wolfe Tavern was the property, and a station, of the Eastern Stage Company, which ran daily trips, with relays of horses, to Boston and Portsmouth; and the arrival and departure of the stages, which, it may be noted, were all built in Newburyport, were events of consid- able importance and attended with consequent excitement. The Eastern Stage Company was the forerunner of the Eastern Railroad Company, which road is now operated by the Boston & Maine Railroad Company.
The brick building on the corner of State and Harris Streets, which was the nucleus of the present hotel building, was first occupied as a residence by Colonel John Peabody, uncle of George Peabody, and then a merchant in this town.
Two Newburyport men, members of Capt. Richard Titcomb's company, were of the number that conveyed Benedict Arnold to the British ship Vulture, in September, 1780, and scorned his offer of promotion, if they would follow him in his then announced desertion from the American to the English forces.
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One of the ancient institutions of Newburyport was the office of town- erier. In early times he commanded attention with a drum, and one of his duties was to escort petty culprits through the principal streets, calling at- tention to their offences, which they also were sometimes required to proclaim.
The Curfew Bell was a movement to compel the retiring of young people from the streets at nine o'clock in the evening, and with the exception of a short interval, was rung nightly for one hundred ninety-two years.
The first vessel to display the American flag on the river Thames, was the Count de Grasse, Capt. Nicholas Johnson, of this port.
A Newburyport ship, the Indus, was also the first to sail from this country to Calcutta, after the war of 1812, and made the return trip before news of her arrival had otherwise reached here.
A few months later in the same year, another vessel, the Dryad, sailed from here to carry to Calcutta the first five missionaries of the American Board of Foreign Missions, an organization established here by a Newburyport and Salem clergyman, but which has long since outgrown its early home and removed to broader fields.
The history of ship-building at this port includes many items of general interest. While it is impossible, through imperfect registration, to ascertain the exact number of vessels built on the Merrimac, it is probable that, from first to last, the number would be upwards of two thousand.
The water-line model which enabled a designer to more easily and accu- rately ascertain the lines and sections of his creation, was invented here by a prominent ship-builder, Orlando Merrill, in 1794. The original model of this in. vention is now preserved in the rooms of the New York Historical Society.
In 1853 the celebrated clipper ship Dreadnaught was built here, a vessel whose remarkable records of crossing the Atlantic in a little more than thirteen days were nearly equal to those of the first steamships.
Newburyport closed the record of ship-building in Massachusetts, with the launching, in 1882, of the Mary L. Cushing, the last vessel of that class built in this state.
Although the various societies of Daughters of the Revolution are of com- paratively recent formation, the spirit which they represent was manifest in Newburyport as early as 1796, as shown from the following from the Impartial Herald of that year :---
Newburyport, February 26, 1796. Female patriotism. A number of ladies belonging to this town met on Monday, in honor of the day that gave birth to the man "who unites all hearts,"' and dedicated a few glasses to the following truly sentimental and highly republican toasts:
1. May our beloved President preside at the helm of government longer than we shall have time to tell his years.
2. Mrs. Washington, respected consort of our illustrious chief.
3. May the fair patriots of America never fail to assert their independence, which nature equally dispenses.
4. Maria Charlotte Corday. May each Columbian daughter, like her, be ready to sacrifice their life to liberty.
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5. The day that saw the wondrous hero rise shall, more than all our sacred days, be blessed.
The entire section surrounding Newburyport is a shrine for the lovers of that sweet poet, John G. Whittier. He was born at East Haverhill, about 10 miles distant from Newburyport, and the larger portion of his life was spent at Amesbury, only five miles distant. He was a frequent visitor to the home of James Cartland, a cousin, at Newburyport, and he died at Hampton Falls, N. H., only eight miles from Newburyport.
It was a few miles from Newburyport, in the town of Amesbury, from the home of Whittier's later years, that he was buried in 1892, the simple service attended by a gathering of genius such as few occasions could attract.
All the houses which are thus honored by the presence of the gentle singer of the Merrimac valley are still standing and are exceedingly interesting to many visitors.
An interesting reminder of Whittier, in Amesbury, is the "Captain's Well," the subject of his poem of that name.
It was constructed by Captain Bagley, in or about 1794.
"I will dig a well for the passers-by, And none shall suffer from thirst, as I."
Captain's Were
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SOUTHERLY CORNER HIGH SCHOOL GROUNDS, AMESBURY
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Newburyport's main street is lined with buildings of the architecture of a century ago, many of which have been very well modernized. This view is of State Street, looking north
A very fine system of parks is maintained by Newburyport. The view here depicts Atkinson Common, showing the statue of the Volunteer, by Kitson, erect- ed in honor of the Civil war sol- diers, and the tablets also stand- ing in their honor.
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As an old city, Newburyport possesses many charming doorways. The two depicted here are (upper right) the one in the Cushing home on High Street and (low- er left ) the vine grown doorway of the Spencer-Pierce house at Newbury, said to be one of the most beautiful architectural specimens in this part of the country.
New St. Paul's (Episcopal) church and Queen Anne's chapel. This building is of stone, and was erected in 1923, to take the place of the former wooden struc- ture erected in 1800. Bish- op Bass once presided over this church.
The Old South (First Presbyterian) church, Federal Street. Erected in 1756. The bodies of George Whitefield, the famous evangelist, who died in an adjacent house, and Rev. Jonathan Par- sons, an early pastor, lie in a crypt beneath the pulpit.
Spire of the church of the First Religious Society (Unitarian) on Pleasant Street. This house of wor- ship? was erected in_1801. From an architectural stand- point it is one of the most beautiful churches in New England.
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OLD HOUSES AND NOTABLE PLACES
PARKER RIVER and LOWER GREEN, about four miles from Boston & Maine Railroad station. The first settlers of Newbury landed on the north shore of this river, in 1635, and erected the first meeting house in the immediate vicin- ity of the green. The first burying ground is only a few rods distant from the traveled highway and, at the present time, is surrounded by a cultivated field. Previous to 1650 a ferry was established over the river to the "great neck." In 1758 a bridge was built, at the old ferry place, under the supervision of Mr. Ralph Cross, with funds raised by lottery authorized by the General Court.
THE SPENCER-PIERCE HOUSE stands on the farm lot of four hundred acres, laid out to John Spencer in 1635. It was probably erected by Daniel Pierce about the year 1670.
"TRAYNEING GREEN," laid out when the settlers of the old town re- moved to the new town of Newbury in 1645. On the high land on the easterly side of the green, a detachment of troops under the command of Col. Benedict Arnold encamped September 15th to 19th, 1775, inclusive, on their way to join the ex- pedition for the capture of Quebec.
THE NOYES HOUSE on Parker Street, built about the year 1646 by Rev. James Noyes, associate pastor with Rev. Thomas Parker.
THE COURT HOUSE stands on the Mall, and nearly opposite is the Putnam Free School building, one of the earliest and most liberal institutions of its kind.
THE COFFIN HOUSE, owned and occupied by Tristram Coffin, Jr., in 1635, and afterward the residence of Joshua Coffin, the historian of Newbury. It has remained in the possession of the descendants of Tristram Coffin to the present time.
THE BURYING GROUND of the First Parish, nearly opposite the Coffin house. In this graveyard many of the first settlers of Newbury were buried, in- cluding Henry Sewell, father of Chief Justice Sewell.
THE ILSLEY HOUSE. The southwesterly end of this house was probably built by Stephen Swett about the year 1670; the northeasterly end by Daniel Clark in 1756. Oliver Putnam, senior, kept tavern here from 1783 to 1797.
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HOUSE NO. 65 HIGH STREET, owned and occupied by Hon. Caleb Cush- ing at the time of his death.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN MEETING HOUSE on Federal, Street, erected in 1756, remodeled in 1829 and rebuilt in 1856. Here preached Rev. George White- field, the revivalist, Rev. Joseph Prince, a clergyman blind from early boyhood, and Rev. Jonathan Parsons at whose call for volunteers, tradition relates, a company was raised, in the broad aisle, to serve in the Revolution. Sunday, September 17, 1775, a portion of the troops enlisted for the expedition to Quebec under Col. Benedict Arnold attended public worship here. In a vault under the pulpit, Whitefield, Prince and Parsons are buried.
NO. 5 SCHOOL STREET. The house in which William Lloyd Garrison was born.
NO. 11 SCHOOL STREET. The house in which Rev. George Whitefield died.
SEA WALL and FLAT IRON POINT, between Bromfield St. and Ocean Avenue, affording a fine view of the harbor.
PLUM ISLAND at the mouth of the Merrimac river. This island extends in a southeasterly direction for nearly nine miles. During the summer motor busses run regularly, for the transportation of visitors to and from Market Square, to the beach, which has been the scene of frequent shipwrecks. The most mem- orable one is described by Celia Thaxter in a poem entitled "The Wreck of the Pocahontas."
BOMBSHELL, formerly at the Corner of Independent and Middle Streets, brought from Louisberg by Nathaniel Knapp after the capture of that fortress in 1758. Now located at Bartlet Mall.
MARKET SQUARE. On the southeasterly side stood the house owned by William Morse at the time of the witchcraft delusion in 1679. His wife, Eliza- beth, was sentenced to be hanged as a witch, but was reprieved and afterwards released. The meeting house of the Third Parish in Newbury, Rev. John Low- ell, pastor, formerly occupied the centre of the square. In 1801, a new building was erected on Pleasant Street, to which the society removed, and the land under and adjoining the old meeting house was purchased and laid out as a market place for the use and convenience of dealers in hay, grain and other products of the farm and dairy.
SITE OF THE OLD WOLFE TAVERN, corner of Davenport Lane and State Street.
NO. 13 CHARTER ST., for many years the residence of Miss Hanna F. Gould, who was the author of several volumes of prose sketches and poems.
NO. 10 TEMPLE ST.Dwelling house formerly owned and occupied by Rev. John Lowell. Removed from State street to its present location in the year 1771.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING, erected by Patrick Tracy in 1771 as a residence for his son Nathaniel Tracy. Washington occupied apartments in this house on the occasion of his visit to Newburyport in 1789 and Gen. Lafayette was entertained there in August, 1824. In the year 1865 it was purchased for the use of the Public Library. The building was remodeled at that time, and in 1882 en- larged, by the addition of the Simpson annex for the accommodation of the free public reading room, which was established and has since been maintained by the liberality of William C. Todd, Esq.
DALTON HOUSE, built by Michael Dalton about the year 1750. After his death it was occupied by his son Tristram Dalton, who was the first Senator to Con- gress from Massachusetts after the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The house with the land under and adjoining the same was sold in 1791 to Moses Brown, Esq., who lived there for many years. Now home of the Dalton Club.
DEXTER HOUSE, No. 201 High Street, built by Jonathan Jackson in 1772 and later purchased and occupied by "Lord" Timothy Dexter, a wealthy and eccentric character, by whom it was adorned with many wooden statues, since removed. It was occupied in 1874 by Mr. George H. Corliss, the renowned engine builder.
OAK HILL CEMETERY, consecrated July 21, 1842. Entrance from State street opposite Greenleaf street.
NEW HILL BURYING GROUND on Pond and Hill streets. This lot of land was purchased by the town of Newburyport for a burial place in the year 1800, but several persons were buried near the northeasterly corner of the lot previous to 1735. The graves of Caleb Cushing and Hannah F. Gould are near the summit of the hill. Now called Highland cemetery.
OLD HILL BURYING GROUND. Within this enclosure many who were once prominent in the social, political or professional life of Newbury are buried. On the head-stones that mark their graves are many quaint inscriptions.
FROG POND and BARTLET MALL. This pond was in existence previous to the settlement of Newbury in 1635 and is mentioned in the earliest grants of land made when the new town was laid out in 1645. The broad promenade on the easterly side of the pond was constructed in 1800, through the exertions and liberality of Capt. Edmund Bartlet. The Court House stands on this Mall and the Newburyport High and Putnam Free School building is nearly opposite. The statue of Washington, by J. Q. A. Ward, presented to the city by Daniel T. Tenney of New York, is at the easterly end of the Mall.
HOUSE NO. 34 GREEN STREET, built by Hon. Theophilus Parsons in 1789 and owned and occupied by him until his removal to Boston in the year 1800.
MEETING HOUSE OF THE FIRST RELIGIOUS (UNITARIAN) SOCIE- TY, on Pleasant street. Built in 1800. A good specimen of church architecture with fine interior. Square pews and high pulpit.
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BROWN SQUARE, laid out by Moses Brown, Esq., and made free to the public in 1802. The statue of William Lloyd Garrison in the center of the square was presented to the city of Newburyport July 4, 1893, by William H. Swasey, Esq.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. The first building, erected on this site in 1738, was taken down in the year 1800 to give place to a second edifice, which was destroyed by fire, April 27, 1920. Right Rev. Edward Bass, D. D., was in 1800 rector of the church and was the first Bishop of the Diocese of Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island. The present church was dedicated Nov. 27, 1923.
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OULD NEWBURY, on High street, corner of Winter street. Historical collections of every description, including that of the Newburyport Marine Society, organized in 1772.
LOWELL-JOHNSON HOUSE, 203 High Street, built about 1774 by John Lowell, an eminent lawyer, afterward Judge of the United States Circuit Court, and father of Francis Cabot Lowell, for whom the city of Lowell was named; grandfather of John Lowell, who founded the Lowell Institute in Boston, and also grandfather of James Russell Lowell, thepoetand Minister Pleni- potentiary to the Court of St. James. The house was sold to Patrick Tracy in 1778 and occupied by his son, John Tracy, for many years. In 1782 the Marquis de Chastellux and other officers of the French Army were entertain- ed there.
NO. 260 HIGH STREET. At this house John G. Whittier was a frequent visitor during the last years of his life.
THE TOPPAN HOUSE, No. 20 Toppan's Lane. This house was built in 1670, by Jacob Toppan, who married Hannah Sewall, sister of Chief Justice Sewall.
HOUSE NO. 270 HIGH STREET, owned and occupied by James Parton, author and writer at the time of his death.
HOUSE NO. 267 HIGH STREET, built on land granted to Secretary Edward Rawson, son of Sir Edward Rawson, in 1638 by the town of Newbury. He was elected deputy to General Court. He was the first to be interested in the manufacture of gunpowder. May 22, 1650, he was elected Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. A steel engraving of Sec. Rawson and his daughter, Rebecca, is at the Old Newbury Historical Society. Mr. Alonzo Taft, father of Ex-President and Chief Justice W. H. Taft, visited the city especially to see the homestead of his ancestor, Edward Rawson, and was told that the original house stood farther back on an eminence, the grounds con- taining many acres.
OLD SHIP YARDS on Merrimac street, extending from Merrimac court to Ashland street.
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FERRY LANDING at the foot of Jefferson street, opposite Carr's Island. For nearly a century and a half travellers on the way to Salisbury and the eastern frontier crossed the Merrimac river at this point in a ferry establish- ed by George Carr in 1644.
ESSEX MERRIMACK BRIDGE and DEER ISLAND. The first bridge connecting Newburyport with this island was erected in 1792 from designs furn- ished by Timothy Palmer. It was replaced in 1810 by a chain suspension bridge, which was the second of its kind in the country, and, in consequence of a serious accident, again remodeled in 1826. The island is an attractive and pictur- esque spot, with one dwelling house thereon, which was owned and occupied by the late Harriet Prescott Spofford, the authoress.
FERRY ROAD LEADING TO LAUREL HILL. Laid out in 1668 for the accommodation of travel between Newburyport and Salisbury, now Amesbury.
THE CHURCH YARD OF QUEEN ANN'S CHAPEL, now Belleville Cemetery. Within this enclosure the first founders of the Episcopal church in Newbury are buried.
THE BURYING GROUND AT SAWYER'S HILL, probably laid out soon after the organization of the Second Parish in Newbury in 1695. Rev Moses Hale, one of the first ministers in that parish, and Col. Moses Little, who com- manded a regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill and afterward served un- der Washington at Long Island, Harlem Heights, are buried in this enclosure.
THE SAWYER HOUSE ON THE ROAD TO CURZON'S MILL. One of the best specimens of early New England style for achitecture to be found in "Ould Newbury." George Sawyer located in California.
MILL AT THE MOUTH OF THE ARTICHOKE RIVER. Built upon land granted John Emery, Junior, in 1679, "provided that he build a corne mill to grind the towne's corne." A picturesque spot much in favor with artists.
BIRTHPLACE OF CORNELIUS CONWAY FELTON, President of Har- vard College, near Brown Springs, on the Bradford road. The house was takeu down some years ago, only the cellar walls now being visible.
PIPESTAVE HILL, the summer residence of Hon. Tristram Dalton, while Senator to Congress from Massachusetts.
INDIAN HILL, sold by Great Tom, Indian, to the town of Newbury in 1650. In 1710 conveyed to Samuel Poore, and afterward the property of his lineal descendant, Ben: Perley Poore, Esq.
TURKEY HILL, two miles from the Boston & Maine Railroad Station in Newburyport. On the southeasterly side of this hill formerly stood the house owned by John Brown at the time of the Indian depredations in 1695. On the northerly side, near the travelled highway, is the residence built and oc- cupied by Col. Moses Little in 1748.
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THORLAY'S BRIDGE over the river Parker. First built by Richard Thor- lay previous to 1654; afterwards repaired at the public expense and main- tained as a free bridge to the present time.
DUMMER ACADEMY, established in 1763 by Lieutenant-Governor Wil- liam Dummer. Incorporated in 1782.
OLD MANSION HOUSE near Dummer Academy, built about the year 1712, as a summer residence for Lieut .- Gov. Dummer.
OLD PARSONAGE HOUSE, Byfield. The birthplace of Eben Parsons, the owner of Fatherland Farm, and his brother, Theophilus Parsons, Chief Jus- tice of Massachusetts.
FATHERLAND FARM, formerly owned by Richard Dummer. Afterwards the property of Eben Parsons, who built in 1802 the house now standing there. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Forbes of Springfield owned and lived there, where Mr. Forbes had a fine breed of horses.
THE LONGFELLOW ESTATE at Newbury Falls, for many years in the possession of William Longfellow, the paternal ancestor of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the distinguished poet.
THE BYFIELD ELM at the homestead of Mr. Benjamin Pearson, about one-third of a mile from the Boston & Maine Railroad station at Byfield.
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For much of the information contained in the foregoing pages the compiler is indebted to a volume entitled "Ould Newbury," by John J. Currier, published by Damrell & Upham, Boston, Mass., and the "Colonial Book," published by Towle Mfg. Co., Newbury- port, Mass.
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