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attention to the official and other duties connected with the above-named work.
DR. WALTER HENRY KIMBALL.
Mr. Kimball was born June 20, 1820, and was son of Amos and Lucy (Foster) Kimball. He graduated at Dart- mouth College, 1841. Resides in Andover, Mass., where he is a physician.
CHARLES ISRAEL ADAMS, ESQ.
Mr. Adams was born Dec. 21, 1823, and was son of Isaac and Sophia (Spofford) Adams. He graduated at Dartmouth College, 1852; and, after teaching school in Gloucester for several years, he commenced the study of law in Boston, where he afterward had a law-office. In his legal profession he continued but a few years, his consti- tution not admitting of such close application to business. He contracted a fatal illness, of which he died about 1863.
HENRY OLIVER PEABODY.
Mr. Peabody was born May 13, 1826, and was son of Oliver Tyler and Sarah A. (Towne) Peabody. Mr. Pea- body being of an ingenious turn of mind, his thoughts were early directed to the invention of a better breech- loading rifle. Several years after conceiving the plan of his invention, he spent in perfecting and completing the " Peabody-rifle," which is said by the best judges to be superior to the other rifles of this class. The small-arms committees of Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark have pronounced this gun as "meeting every requirement of a military weapon." Other governments have made similar and equally satisfactory reports. Large orders have been executed by the manufacturers (Provi- dence Tool Co., Providence, R.I.) for the Swiss Military Department, than whom no people are better instructed in
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the use of fire-arms, or are better judges of their merit. The Dominion of Canada also have these arms largely in use. A military small-arms commission in our own country closes its report by saying : " Having examined and tested all the breech-loading arms submitted for their considera- tion, the board recommends for adoption the breech-loading arm known as 'Peabody's.'" Mr. Peabody is a resident of Boston.
REV. ALBERT BRADSTREET PEABODY.
Mr. Peabody was born Nov. I, 1828, and was son of Samuel and Mary (Bradstreet) Peabody. His childhood was spent at Boxford at school and at work upon the farm ; later he studied at Pembroke Academy, N.H., and at Phil- lips Academy in Andover. For several years he was a teacher, part or all of the year, at Bow and Raymond, N.H., Ipswich, West Newbury, and Boxford, Mass., and for a year at Tarrytown, N.Y. After this he became a Chris- tian, and felt it his duty to leave the farm, to which he had returned from teaching, and study for the gospel min- istry, this being his mother's expressed desire before her death. He studied a year in connection with Topsfield Academy, and entered Andover Theological Seminary in the autumn of 1856, and graduated there in 1859. For a part of the following year he was a resident licentiate at Andover. He accepted a call to settle from the Congre- gational church in East Longmeadow, Mass., in April, and was ordained there May 24, 1860. He continued in the ministry there with happy relations and marked success, for above seven years, when he resigned, and for about two years was acting pastor for the church at Seabrook, and at Hampton Falls, N. H. In November, 1869, he received a second call-an unsuccessful call having been extended to him in February, 1860-from the Congrega- tional church at Stratham, N.H., which he accepted, and
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was thereupon installed Nov. 25, 1869, and continues there with good success to this time.
Mr. Peabody has had his share of the work that usually falls to ministers, - on school-committees, councils, com- mittees of the several associations; secretary of County Conference, president of County Bible Society, secretary of County Missionary Society, &c. He was a delegate to the National Council of the Congregational Churches, that met at Detroit in the fall of 1877. During the summer of 1879 Mr. Peabody made the voyage to Europe, travelling, with great pleasure and profit, through Scotland, Ireland, England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy.
CYRUS KILLAM BARTLETT, M.D.
Mr. Bartlett was born Jan. 23, 1829, and was son of Samuel and Lois (Holt) Killam. He labored upon the farm and attended the public schools, till about eighteen years of age. Afterwards he fitted for, and prosecuted the studies usually pursued in, college, at the academies in Topsfield, Mass., and Pembroke, N.H., Bradford Seminary, and with a private tutor,- Rev. William S. Coggin. He was engaged in teaching for a season. He studied medi- cine with Dr. George Cogswell of Bradford, and with his brother Joseph E., and then had his name legally changed from Killam to Bartlett. He was a member of the Berk- shire Medical School one term, and then of the medical department of Harvard College, from which he graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1852. He practised his pro- fession in Newton and Charlestown, Mass., six years, when he was appointed assistant physician at the Asylum for Insane, Northampton, Mass., where he remained ten years. In 1868 he was appointed superintendent and physician of the Minnesota State Hospital for Insane, at St. Peter, where he is still in office.
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WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HERRICK, ESQ.
Mr. Herrick was born Jan. 6, 1831, and was son of William Hale and Lois (Killam) Herrick. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1854. He read law in Boston with Esquires Harvey Jewell and A. A. Ranney, and, at the same time, attended the Cambridge Law School. He commenced the practice of law in Boston in 1857, and practised at the same time, for a short period, at Andover. He has continued in his practice in Boston and vicinity, until the present time, and has always borne the reputation of being a shrewd, learned, and honorable legal adviser. His legal compositions are numerous, and honored by the profession. He edited Kerr on Injunctions, and, with Judge Redfield, also prepared for publication several other prominent works. In 1870 he published the first edition of his Town Officer; another edition is ready for the press. This is the standard work of its kind at the present time.
APPENDIX.
APPENDIX A.
LIST OF TOWN-CLERKS OF BOXFORD.
1686-1710. John Peabody, sen.
17II. Thomas Hazen.
1712-1723. Thomas Perley, jun.
1724-1729. Joseph Hale.
1730. Thomas Redington. 1731. Joseph Hale. 1732. Thomas Redington.
1733-1735. Joseph Hale.
1736-1742. Joseph Symonds.
1743-1749. William Foster.
1750-1751. Thomas Redington.
1752-1757. Thomas Perley.
1758. Aaron Wood.
1759-1760. Thomas Andrews.
1761-1779. Aaron Wood.
1780-1788. Thomas Perley.
1789-1790. Aaron Wood. 1791-1792. John Dorman.
1793-1796. Jonathan Wood.
1797-1798. Parker Spofford.
1799-18II. Moses Dorman. 1812-1813. Amos Kimball.
1814. Moses Dorman.
1815. John Kimball.
1816. Moses Dorman.
1817. Amos Kimball.
1818. Moses Dorman.
1819. John Tyler, 3d.
1820. Moses Dorman.
1821. Amos Kimball.
1822. Moses Dorman.
1823. John Bacon.
1824. Moses Dorman.
1825. John Bacon.
1826. Charles Peabody.
1827. George Pearl.
1828. Phineas Barnes.
1829. Benjamin Robinson. 1830. Phineas Barnes.
1831. Benjamin Robinson.
1832. Phineas Barnes.
1833. William Farnham.
1834. Samuel Kimball.
1835. William Farnham.
1836. Samuel Kimball.
1837. Moses Kimball.
1838. Samuel Kimball.
1839. Joshua T. Day.
1840. Samuel Kimball.
1841. Joshua T. Day.
1842. Samuel H. Batchelder.
1843. George Pearl.
1844. Samuel H. Batchelder.
1845. George Pearl.
1846. Moses Dorman, jun.
1847. William R. Cole.
1848. William Lowe. 1849. William R. Cole.
1850. Moses Dorman.
1851. John F. Kimball.
1852. William E. Killam.
1853. Joshua T. Day.
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1854. William Lowe.
1855. William H. Wood.
1856. William E. Killam.
1857. William H. Wood.
1858. William E. Killam.
1859. William R. Cole.
1860. William E. Killam.
1861. William H. Wood.
1862. William E. Killam.
1863. William H. Wood. 1864. William E. Killam. 1865. William R. Cole. 1866-1868. Roscoe W. Gage. 1869-1870. William R. Kimball.
1871-1872. Thomas P. Dorman.
1873-1877. Ancill Dorman.
1878-1879. Benjamin S. Barnes.
APPENDIX B.
LIST OF SELECTMEN OF BOXFORD.
As will be seen, the number of selectmen chosen annually in the early part of our history was generally five. Since 1822 the number has been three. The following is the list, viz. : -
1687 .*
John Peabody, sen., William Watson, Daniel Wood, John Andrews, Abraham Redington, jun.
I688.
John Chadwick, Thomas Andrews,
Daniel Wood, Abraham Redington, jun., Thomas Hazen, John Peabody, sen.
I689.
Joseph Bixby, Thomas Hazen, William Foster, sen., Joseph Andrews, William Peabody.
1690.
John Peabody, Nathaniel Brown, Joseph Peabody, sen., Thomas Redington, Thomas Perley.
1691.
John Perley, Moses Tyler, Thomas Andrews, Samuel Symonds, John Kimball.
1692.
Samuel Symonds, sen.,
Thomas Hazen, Joseph Peabody, sen., John Andrews, Robert Eames, sen.
1693.
John Peabody, sen., John Chadwick, Zaccheus Curtis, Daniel Wood, sen., Joseph Bixby.
1694.
Thomas Perley, Thomas Hazen,
Moses Tyler, William Foster, sen., Ephraim Curtis.
* See page 87.
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HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1695.
John Perley, Moses Tyler, ' Joseph Bixby, John Andrews, Joseph Peabody.
1696.
John Peabody, William Peabody, Thomas Andrews, Jonathan Foster, Jonathan Bixby.
1697.
Joseph Bixby, Joseph Andrews, William Peabody, John Chadwick, Thomas Perley, jun.
1698.
John Peabody, John Andrews, Samuel Symonds, sen., Joseph Hale, Moses Tyler. .
1699.
Thomas Perley, John Peabody, John Andrews, John Eames, William Peabody.
1700.
John Perley, Joseph Bixby, Joseph Andrews, Josiah Bridges, Joseph Peabody.
1701.
Samuel Symonds, Thomas Perley, Thomas Redington, John Kimball, Samuel Smith.
1702.
Samuel Symonds, Daniel Wood, Joseph Hale, John Andrews, John Stiles.
1703.
John Peabody, Thomas Hazen, Jonathan Foster, Samuel Symonds, Timothy Dorman.
1704.
Thomas Perley, Joseph Bixby, Abraham Redington, Joseph Andrews, Josiah Bridges.
1705.
John Peabody, Joseph Peabody, jun., David Wood, Nathaniel Perley, Zaccheus Curtis.
1706.
Thomas Hazen, David Wood, Richard Kimball, Samuel Symonds, sen., Jonathan Bixby.
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HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1707.
John Peabody, Thomas Perley, Joseph Hale, Samuel Foster, Thomas Wilkins.
1708.
Thomas Hazen, Abraham Redington, Zaccheus Curtis, Luke Hovey, Jacob Perley.
I709.
Thomas Perley, John Andrews, Joseph Bixby, Luke Hovey, Samuel Fisk.
1710.
Samuel Symonds, sen., Thomas Jewett, Jonathan Foster, Daniel Kenney, Samuel Fisk.
IZII.
John Peabody, Daniel Wood, Timothy Foster, Cornelius Brown, Thomas Jewett.
1712.
John Andrew's, Samuel Symonds, jun., Samuel Foster, Moses Tyler, Jacob Perley.
1713.
Jonathan Foster, Nathaniel Peabody, Thomas Cummings, David Peabody, John Andrews.
1714.
Joseph Bixby, John Tyler, Jeremiah Perley, Jacob Smith, Thomas Perley, jun.
1715.
Joseph Hale, Timothy Dorman, Samuel Symonds, John Chadwick, Thomas Spofford.
1716.
Thomas Jewett, Jonathan Bixby, Job Tyler, John Symonds, Daniel Kenney.
1717.
Thomas Perley, jun., Thomas Perley, sen., John Andrews, John Howe, Joseph Eames.
1718.
Joseph Bixby, Cornelius Brown, Joseph Peabody, Samuel Symonds, Ephraim Dorman.
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HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1719.
Joseph Hale, Thomas Killam, Luke Hovey, Joseph Symonds, John Wood.
1720.
Thomas Perley, jun., Joseph Bixby, Thomas Wilkins, Nathan Eames, John Andrews, jun.
1721.
Joseph Bixby,
Thomas Jewett, Thomas Cummings, Richard Peabody, Nathan Peabody.
1722.
Timothy Dorman, Jeremiah Perley, John Chadwick, Thomas Redington, Samuel Symonds.
1723.
Joseph Bixby, Stephen Peabody, Samuel Symonds, Thomas Perley, John Kimball.
1724. David Peabody, Stephen Peabody, Daniel Kenney, Timothy Stiles, Nathaniel Perkins.
1725.
Stephen Peabody, John Stiles, sen., John Symonds, Joseph Hale, jun., Jonathan Tyler.
1726.
Thomas Jewett, David Peabody, Robert Andrews, Jacob Hale, Thomas Redington.
1727.
Thomas Perley, Joseph Hale, Samuel Pickard, Nathaniel Symonds,
John Howe.
1728.
Joseph Hale, Thomas Cummings, Jacob Smith, Timothy Stiles, Moses Tyler.
1729.
Stephen Peabody, James Curtis, Jacob Smith, Jacob Perley, John Stiles, jun.
1730.
Joseph Hale, Joseph Symonds, Thomas Perley, Thomas Andrews, John Wood.
377
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1731.
Joseph Symonds, Stephen Peabody, Thomas Cummings, Jacob Smith, Samuel Foster.
1732.
Jacob Perley, Robert Andrews, Joseph Hale, jun., Zebediah Foster, John Bixby.
I733.
Stephen Peabody, Nathaniel Symonds, Jeremiah Perley, Jonathan Foster, Samuel Gould.
1734.
John Symonds, Joseph Hale, jun., Thomas Redington, Timothy Stiles, Zebediah Foster.
1735-
Joseph Hale, Jacob Smith, Jonathan Foster, Timothy Stiles, Amos Perley.
1736.
John Symonds, Luke Hovey, Jonathan Foster, Stephen Peabody, John Killam.
1737.
Joseph Symonds, John Kimball, Joseph Hale, Thomas Peabody, Jeremiah Foster.
1738. .
Joseph Symonds, Thomas Peabody, Robert Andrews, Benjamin Porter, Gideon Bixby.
1739.
Robert Andrews, Benjamin Porter, John Andrews, Thomas Peabody, John Dorman.
1740.
Thomas Andrews, Joseph Hale, Jonathan Sherwin, Samuel Gould, Nathan Kimball.
1741.
Robert Andrews, Zebediah Foster, Thomas Peabody, Nathan Peabody, Thomas Perley, jun.
1742. Robert Andrews, John Kimball, Thomas Andrews, Luke Hovey, jun., Jeremiah Foster.
378
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1743.
Robert Andrews, Benjamin Porter, Joseph Symonds, Luke Hovey, Thomas Redington.
1744.
Robert Andrews, Benjamin Porter, Joseph Hale, jun., Thomas Redington, Job Tyler.
1745.
Joseph Symonds, Zebediah Foster, Nathaniel Perkins, Thomas Peabody, John Dorman.
1746.
Joseph Symonds, Thomas Peabody, Amos Perley, Jonathan Foster, Jeremiah Foster.
1747.
Jonathan Foster, Thomas Redington, Nathaniel Symonds, Thomas Peabody, Thomas Perley.
1748. Benjamin Porter, Joseph Symonds, Luke Hovey, sen., Gideon Bixby, Joseph Hale, jun.
1749.
Thomas Redington, John Hovey, Nathaniel Symonds, Aaron Kimball, Isaac Adams.
1750.
Thomas Redington, Jonathan Foster, John Peabody, jun., Luke Hovey, jun., John Hale.
1751.
Jonathan Foster, Joseph Hale, jun., Aaron Kimball, Joseph Hovey, Jacob Cummings.
1752.
Thomas Peabody, John Dorman, Francis Perley, Richard Kimball, John Hale.
1753.
Jonathan Foster, William Foster, Richard Kimball, John Peabody, Solomon Wood.
1754. Thomas Peabody, Thomas Perley, Job Tyler, Thomas Andrews, Paul Prichard.
379
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1755.
Thomas Perley, Isaac Adams, Jacob Cummings, Joseph Hovey, Solomon Wood.
1756.
John Peabody, Luke Hovey, Solomon Wood, Nathan Barker, Samuel Fisk.
1757.
Thomas Perley, Joseph Hovey, Aaron Kimball, Moses Porter, Jacob Cummings.
1758.
Jonathan Foster, Asa Perley, Ebenezer Killam, Richard Kimball, Solomon Wood.
1759.
Jonathan Foster, Francis Perley, Samuel Fisk, John Chadwick, Nathan Wood.
1760.
Thomas Perley, Luke Hovey, Aaron Kimball, Gideon Tyler, Jacob Cummings.
1761.
Thomas Perley, Luke Hovey, Aaron Kimball, Gideon Tyler, Jacob Cummings.
1762.
Aaron Wood,
Luke Hovey, Jacob Cummings, Isaac Adams, James Andrews.
1763.
Aaron Wood,
Luke Hovey,
Israel Adams,
Jacob Cummings,
James Andrews.
1764.
Aaron Wood, Isaac Adams, Aaron Kimball, John Chadwick, Asa Perley.
1765.
Aaron Wood, Joseph Hovey, Jacob Cummings, Moses Porter, Ebenezer Killam.
1766.
Thomas Perley, Samuel Runnells, Abraham Redington, Jonathan Foster, Paul Prichard.
380
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1767.
Asa Perley, Richard Kimball, Nathan Andrews, Nathaniel Peabody, James Peabody.
1768.
Asa Perley, Joseph Hovey, Ebenezer Killam, Stephen Runnells, Paul Prichard.
1769.
Asa Perley,
Isaac Adams, Richard Foster, Moses Porter, Nathaniel Perley.
I770.
John Hale, Samuel Runnells, Nathan Andrews, Nathaniel Peabody, Jacob Cummings.
1771.
Asa Perley,
Isaac Adams, Jacob Cummings, Joseph Hovey, Paul Prichard.
1772.
Nathan Wood,
Isaac Adams, William Perley, Jonathan Foster, Richard Peabody.
1773.
Nathan Andrews, Isaac Adams, Moses Putnam, John Cushing, William Perley.
1774.
Asa Perley, Isaac Adams,
John Curtis,
John Robinson,
Benjamin Perley.
1775.
Nathan Andrews,
Isaac Adams,
Nathan Wood,
John Cushing, Moses Putnam.
1776.
Nathan Andrews,
Isaac Adams,
Nathan Wood,
John Cushing, Richard Peabody.
1777.
Asa Perley, John Chadwick, Benjamin Perley, Samuel Spofford, Jacob Andrews.
1778.
Asa Perley, John Cushing, Benjamin Perley, Asa Merrill, John Wallit.
381
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1779.
William Perley, Isaac Adams, Benjamin Perley, Lemuel Wood, John Dorman.
1780.
Nathan Andrews, Lemuel Wood, John Curtis, Bradstreet Tyler, Asa Peabody.
1781.
Aaron Wood, Isaac Adams, Benjamin Perley, Lemuel Wood, Moses Peabody.
1782.
Asa Perley, Asa Merrill, John Dorman, Lemuel Wood, Francis Perley.
1783.
Nathan Wood, John Robinson, Stephen Symonds, Jonathan Foster, Francis Perley.
1784.
Nathan Andrews, William Porter, Francis Perley, Samuel Carleton, jun., Asa Peabody.
1785.
Francis Perley, Lemuel Wood, Jonathan Wood,
William Porter,
Thomas Perley, jun.
1786.
Francis Perley,
Samuel Carleton, jun., Thomas Perley, jun.,
Lemuel Wood, Samuel Kimball, jun.
1787.
Nathan Andrews,
Jonathan Foster, Samuel Kimball, jun., Thomas Adams, Amos Perley.
1788.
John Dorman, John Robinson, Francis Perley, Ivory Hovey, Aaron Perley.
1789.
Richard Foster, Lemuel Wood, Samuel Kimball, jun., Moses Carleton, Daniel Nurse.
1790.
Nathan Andrews, Lemuel Wood, Richard Foster, Moses Carleton, Stephen Peabody.
382
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1791.
John Dorman, Ivory Hovey, James Chute, Parker Spofford, Simeon Stiles.
1792.
John Dorman,
Ivory Hovey, James Chute, Parker Spofford, Simeon Stiles.
1793.
Francis Perley, Lemuel Wood, David Kimball, jun., Parker Spofford, Simeon Stiles.
1794.
Francis Perley, Lemuel Wood, David Kimball, Moses Carleton, Parker Spofford.
1795.
Francis Perley, John Tyler, David Kimball, Samuel Chadwick, Moses Dorman.
1796.
Thomas Perley, John Tyler, Timothy Dorman, Samuel Chadwick, Moses Dorman.
1797.
Thomas Perley, Enos Runnells, Samuel Perley,
Samuel Spofford, jun.,
Moses Dorman.
1798.
Thomas Perley, Enos Runnells, Moses Dorman, Samuel Spofford.
1799.
Thomas Perley,
Israel Adams,
Nathan Andrews, jun., Israel Foster, Amos Perley.
I800.
Thomas Perley,
Israel Adams,
Nathan Andrews, jun.,
Israel Foster, Amos Perley.
1801.
Thomas Perley, Moses Carleton, Jacob Andrews, John Kimball, Joseph Symonds.
1802.
Thomas Perley, Moses Carleton, Jacob Andrews, John Kimball, Joseph Symonds.
383
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1803.
Thomas Perley, Lemuel Wood, Jacob Gould, jun., Israel Adams, Israel Herrick.
1804.
Thomas Perley, Enos Runnells, Joseph Symonds, jun., Thomas Spofford, Israel Herrick
1805.
Thomas Perley, Isaac Barker, Joseph Symonds, jun., John Kimball, Israel Herrick.
1806.
Thomas Perley, John Kimball, Joseph Symonds, jun., Enos Runnells, John Dorman.
1807.
Moses Dorman, John Kimball, Stephen Spofford, Samuel Carleton, Amos Perley.
1808.
Jonathan Foster, jun., Moses Dorman, Stephen Spofford, Jonas Runnells, Jacob Gould.
1809.
Moses Dorman, Jonathan Foster, Parker Spofford, Daniel Adams, Daniel Chapman.
1810.
Moses Dorman, Jonathan Foster, jun., Parker Spofford, Daniel Adams, Daniel Chapman.
1811.
Moses Dorman, Samuel Spofford, Stephen Spofford, Samuel Kimball, Abraham Perley.
1812.
Stephen Spofford, John Kimball, Simeon Pearl, Parker Spofford, Joseph Symonds, jun.
1813.
Moses Dorman, John Kimball, Joseph Symonds, jun., Simeon Pearl, Jacob Gould.
1814.
Moses Dorman, John Kimball, Joseph Symonds, jun., Simeon Pearl, Jacob Gould.
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HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1815. Moses Dorman, John Kimball, Israel Foster.
1816.
Mosès Dorman, John Kimball, Amos Perley, Simeon Pearl, Solomon Lowe.
1817.
Moses Dorman, Israel Foster, Amos Perley, John Tyler, Artemas Kimball.
1818.
Moses Dorman, Amos Kimball, jun., Jacob Gould, Simeon Pearl, Abraham Perley.
1819.
Moses Dorman, Amos Kimball, jun., Jacob Gould, Simeon Pearl, Abraham Perley.
I820.
Moses Dorman, Amos Kimball, jun., Jacob Gould, Simeon Pearl, Abraham Perley.
I821.
Moses Dorman, Seth Burnham, Charles Peabody, Simeon Pearl.
I822.
Moses Dorman, Jonathan Foster, Simeon Pearl, John Tyler, jun.
I823.
Moses Dorman, Aaron Spofford, Josiah Kimball.
1824.
Moses Dorman, Simeon Pearl, Aaron Spofford.
1825.
John Bacon, Solomon Lowe, Asa Foster.
1826. Josiah Kimball, Daniel Wood, Benjamin Pearl.
1827. Samuel W. Clement, Josiah Kimball, Charles Peabody.
1828.
Samuel Kimball, Samuel W. Clement, Edmund Barker.
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
385
1829. Samuel W. Clement, Samuel Kimball, Phineas Barnes.
1830. Samuel Kimball, George Pearl, Benjamin Robinson.
1831.
Thomas S. Hovey, Samuel Kimball, Moses Dorman, jun.
1832. Moses Dorman, jun., Simeon Pearl, Amos Kimball.
1833.
Amos Kimball, Moses Dorman, jun., Phineas Barnes.
1834.
Moses Dorman, jun., Amos Kimball, William Farnham.
1835. Amos Kimball, Moses Dorman, jun., George W. Sawyer.
1836. Moses Dorman, jun., Amos Kimball, Thomas S. Hovey.
1837. Joshua T. Day, Charles Peabody, George W. Sawyer.
1838. George W. Sawyer, Joshua T. Day, Amos Kimball.
1839. Joshua T. Day, Samuel Andrews, John Sawyer.
1840.
Moses Dorman, jun., Joshua T. Day, George Pearl.
I841. Joshua T. Day, Moses Dorman, jun., William H. Herrick.
1842.
Moses Dorman, jun., Samuel W. Clement, George Pearl.
1843. Joshua T. Day, William H. Herrick, John K. Cole.
1844.
Moses Dorman, jun., George Pearl, William R. Kimball.
386
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
I845.
Joshua T. Day, William H. Herrick, Ancill Dorman.
1846
Moses Dorman, jun., William R. Kimball, S. W. Jenkins.
1847.
George Pearl,
Ancill Dorman, Moses Dorman, jun.
1848.
Moses Dorman, jun., George Pearl, William R. Cole.
1849.
Joshua T. Day, Ancill Dorman, William Lowe.
1850.
Ancill Dorman, Joshua T. Day, Benjamin S. Barnes.
1851.
William R. Cole, Ancill Dorman, Benjamin S. Barnes.
1852.
Ancill Dorman, William R. Cole, John F. Kimball.
1853.
John F. Kimball, Moses Dorman, Benjamin S. Barnes.
I854.
Moses Dorman, Oliver P. Killam, John F. Kimball.
1855. John F. Kimball, William Lowe,
Leonard Perley.
I856.
Moses Dorman, George Pearl, William R. Cole.
1857. John F. Kimball, William E. Killam,
William H. Herrick.
1858.
William E. Killam, John F. Kimball, William R. Cole.
1859. William R. Cole, William E. Killam,
Benjamin S. Barnes.
1860. William E. Killam, William R. Cole, Joshua T. Day.
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
387
I861.
William R. Cole, William E. Killam, John K. Cole.
1862. William E. Killam, George W. Chadwick, Thomas L. Spofford.
1863. John F. Kimball, William E. Killam, Israel Herrick.
1864. William E. Killam, Joshua T. Day, William R. Cole.
1865. John F. Kimball, Benjamin S. Barnes, Edward Howe.
I866.
Ancill Dorman, John F. Kimball, Oliver P. Killam.
1867. John F. Kimball, Ancill Dorman, Roscoe W. Gage.
I868. Roscoe W. Gage, Joshua T. Day, John Pearl.
1869. George W. Chadwick, William E. Killam, John K. Cole.
1870.
Ancill Dorman, George W. Chadwick, Joshua T. Day.
1871. George W. Chadwick, Ancill Dorman, John K. Cole.
1872.
Thomas P. Dorman, George W. Chadwick, William R. Kimball.
1873. Oliver P. Killam, Ancill Dorman, John K. Cole.
1874.
Ancill Dorman, George W. Chadwick, Israel F. Spofford.
1875. George W. Chadwick, Ancill Dorman, John K. Cole.
1876.
Ancill Dorman, George W. Chadwick, Isaac W. Andrews.
388
HISTORY OF BOXFORD.
1877. George W. Chadwick, John K. Cole, Ancill Dorman.
1878.
Ancill Dorman,
George W. Chadwick, James Henry Nason.
1879. George W. Chadwick, Benjamin S. Barnes, John K. Cole.
APPENDIX C. SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM BOXFORD.
SENATORS.
Two senators only have been furnished by Boxford, viz. : -
1781 .- Aaron Wood (1719-1791); b. in Boxford; son of John and Ruth (Peabody) Wood. (See his biography.)
1869. - Julius Aboyneau Palmer * (1803-1872) ; b. in Little Compton, R.I. ; son of Thomas and Susanna (Palmer) Palmer.
* Hon. Julius A. Palmer, son of Thomas and Susanna (Palmer) Palmer, was born in Little Compton, R.I., June 14, 1803. His parents were both descendants of William Palmer, - who came over in the ship " Fortune," and landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 1621,- though distantly related to each other. He went to Boston in 1819, and was, at the time of his death, the senior member of the firm of Palmer, Batchelder, & Co., jewellers, in that city. He was an uncle of Rev. Charles R. Palmer of the Tabernacle Church, Salem ; and he delivered the address at the dedication of the new Tabernacle chapel, in 1870. He was an ardent temperance man, and was several times selected as the temperance candidate for mayor of Boston. He was a repre- sentative to the Legislature from Boston in 1843 and in 1851. Retiring to Boxford on account of his age and health, he was elected to the Senate from Essex County in 1869. This was his last public office. Mr. Palmer was connected with many charitable, religious, and reformatory organizations, where he exercised marked influence on account of his intelligence and high personal character. He was an active member and deacon of the Mount Vernon Church, Boston. Deacon Palmer, though living much of the time and doing business in Boston, was nevertheless closely identified with this town, where he held, occupied, and improved a valuable estate, and where he gave his encouragement to all good local undertakings. He died in Boston, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 1872, and was buried from the Mount Vernon Church the following Saturday. Mr. Palmer married Lucy Manning Peabody, daughter of Major Jacob Peabody, a descendant of Capt. John Peabody, one of the early settlers, who resided in the old mansion that was razed to the ground by Deacon Palmer.
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