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In 1904 Mr. King wrote with reference to "The Passing of the Old School House."
This was occasioned by disposal by the Town of the building for many years occupied for Town hall and School purposes, which stood near site of the present Center School building erected very soon thereafter.
The present Town Hall as we know it, "erected 1904 in part by gift of David E. Smith for benefit of his native Town," made further use of the former building for Town hall purposes un- necessary, and the need for improved School conditions made it advisable for the Town to erect the present modern four-room School building, near the same site.
The passing of the Old School House quite naturally aroused a feeling of sentimental sadness at least among those who had received educational training within its walls.
This doubtless inspired or prompted Mr. King to pen the lines which follow, and have a historic interest in at least a part of the Town's three hundred years as a municipality.
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OLD TOWN HALL AND CENTER SCHOOL HOUSE Erected about 1847. Enlarged and re-modeled 1880. Sold and re- moved 1905.
THE PASSING OF THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE By GEORGE E. KING
Old School House, you are doomed to die, Your task is now complete,
You've served us well in years gone by
And as you go we say good bye For we no more shall meet. Old School House, now your work is done, And ere you pass away, We view the victories you have won, Like glories of the setting sun, At closing of the day.
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And like a friend, who lingers by With parting words to tell, We too, Old School House linger nigh To bid adieu before you die, And speak our last farewell.
Your doors were ever opened wide That we might enter in; Like thirsty travellers to abide And drink the knowledge taught inside, That we might laurels win.
Within thy walls full many an hour We've kept from worldly care; And like some tender, budding flower Protected in its garden bower, Our youth you've sheltered there.
We've oft times sat with task undone, With visions bright and fair Of future days, of work begun, Of joys complete, of victories won, Like castles in the air.
When youth and folly strove to blind The senses from the truthful way; Thy tree of knowledge we did find, Whose fruit imparted to the mind Fresh wisdom, day by day.
We knew not then the breadth of life; Our days were but begun; For youth with childish folly rife Can ne'er conceive of earthly strife, Till youthful years are done.
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The chrysalis whose shell conceals The worm that it may die, The gaudy butterfly reveals That flutters to the flowery fields, Ere Summer days pass by.
As butterflies from tombs are born With wings of hue so bright, We too, from darkness enter dawn, Then view the glories of the morn, Then brilliant noon-day light.
The joys of youth have come and gone Like rainbows in the sky; Like flowers that blow at early morn And wither ere the day be done We too must bloom and die.
As on life's sea we journey o'er 'Mid rock and treacherous shoal, You've taught us how to man the oar When 'round us mighty billows roar That we might reach the goal.
The past is dead, the present lives To light us on our way To that bright realm, which future gives To him, who in his faith believes In the eternal day.
Old School House we must pass away When our Life's work is done; Oh! could the glories of our day Illume like thine that we might say Our victory is won.
Old friend, then we must say good-bye, From you we now must sever ; Your knell is rung, we pass you by, But in our hearts you'll never die, Farewell Old House forever.
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INTERESTING FACTS OF ROWLEY HISTORY
Ezekiel Rogers, the 24th pastor of St. Peter's Church, Rowley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, aroused by the intoler- ance of the Archbishop and high officials of the established church, resigned his pastorate, and organized a company to sail to the new country beyond the sea. He was a man, much esteemed, with a salary of 240 pounds. His going was brought to the attention of the King.
Through his influence, ships were brought from London to Hull for his party. In Mr. Rogers' party were many from the hamlet of Rowley and surrounding Parishes. Twenty families sailed with him on the ship, "John of London" in June and arrived at Charles- town in August. On the ship the first printing press to be used in America, was brought and set up in Cambridge.
Although land was offered in several places and much pressure brought upon him to settle in Quinipiac, (New Haven), he de- cided to take the land between Ipswich and Newbury.
In the session of the General Court, which opened Sept. 4, 1639, it was voted Mr. Ezekiel Rogers' plantation shall be called Rowley. Rowley thus granted with but a mile of sea coast, extended on the west from the Merrimac River to Salem, and embraced what was Bradford (later annexed to Haverhill), Boxford, George- town, Groveland and a part of Middleton.
Bradford was set off Oct. 13, 1675, Boxford on Aug. 12, 1685, Georgetown on April 12, 1838. Groveland was set off from Brad- ford March 7, 1850. A part of Boxford, 600 acres with a popula- tion of 100, was set off to Middleton June 20, 1728.
On Nov. 27, 1785 the Bradstreet, Harris, Hammond and a part of the Pickard farms were added to Rowley from Ipswich.
In 1639 prior to Mr. Rogers' coming, John Shatswell owned land south of Ox. Pasture, John Simond's land on Mill River some half mile and more, west of the Turnpike, and Richard Dummer, pastured land from the dry bridge over the railroad towards New- bury Neck. The purchase of these lands required the 800 pounds contributed by the Rowley settlers.
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The streets of 1639 were about as now, Church, Hammond and School streets were added as time went on.
The beginning of the textile industry in America started with the fulling mill, erected and operated by John Pearson in 1643. In 1680, 103 of the 104 families in town made cloth in their homes and brought it to Mr. Pearson's mill to have it fulled, that is, to have it shrunken and dressed. In 1821, 99 families in town took wool to the mills of Samuel and Joshua Dummer, to be carded.
Rowley is situated in Essex County, thirty-two miles north of Boston and intersected by Route 1, Newburyport Turnpike, and Route 1A, the shore road, passing through the center of the town.
The First Church, the sixteenth in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was organized 3rd. December, 1639.
PLACES OF INTEREST IN ROWLEY
"The Training Place," now known as the "Common," where in the early days the militia was trained. A detachment of Musket- men from the First Battalion of Arnold's Troops, under command of Major Return Jonathan Meigs, encamped here on the night of 15th. September, 1775, while on their march to Quebec.
Platts-Bradstreet House, built before 1677 by Samuel Platts, owned by the Platts Family until 1771, then by the Bradstreet Family until 1906. Originally a rectangular four room house, leanto added about 1725, rear raised in 1771. Main Street, form- erly "The Way to Newbury." Now owned by Rowley Historical Society.
Chaplin-Clark House, built by Joseph Chaplin in 1671. Has first and second story overhang on east end, and brick between the lathing and clapboards which are nailed to the studding. Owned by the "Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities." Haverhill Street, formerly Bradford Street.
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Mighill-Perley House, built in 1737 by Captain Nathaniel Mighill. The rafters are of oak hewn of logs having a natural crook and extend from the eaves to the ridgepole. Owned by O. R. Fountain, M.D. Main Street (Bay Road), near south end of the Common. In front of this house Captain Nathaniel Mighill Perley built the "Country's Wonder," a vessel of 100 tons bur- den, which was hauled to the Warehouse Landing May 2, 1814, by more than 100 yoke of oxen.
Platts House, built before 1709 by James Platts. Owned by Lyman B. Perley. Main Street (Bay Road ).
Kilborn House, built before 1710. Owned by Charles R. Sanborn. Bradford Street.
Site of birthplace of Spencer Phipps, 6 June, 1685. Lieut .- Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1733-1757. Corner of Central Street and Bennett Hill Road.
Site of the First, Second and Third Meeting Houses, built respectively in 1639, 1697 and 1749, on elevation where the Center School House stands. Central Street (Holmes Street). The pres- ent Meeting House was built in 1842.
Site of First Fulling Mill in the New World, built in 1643 by John Pearson, State Marker, westerly end of Central Street, Route 1, Newburyport Turnpike. Ten rods up the river is the dam built in 1642 by Richard Holmes.
Bradstreet Farm. The oldest farm continuously in one name in America. Granted by the town of Ipswich to Humphrey Brad- street in 1635, set off to Rowley in 1785. Off Main Street. Now owned by Charles M. Bradstreet of Bridgeport, Conn., a native of Rowley, a summer resident, and occupied in part by John D. Bradstreet.
One of the oldest houses in town, probably built in the 17th century, is located on Main Street near Pleasant Street on lot granted to John Harris, now owned by Ralph A. Daniels.
Dea. George Jewett House, built 1752. Now the Misses Agnes and Elizabeth Hale home on Pleasant Street.
Prime's Store. On this spot there has been a store kept by some member of the Prime family since 1707. Central Street near Foss' Corner.
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The house built by Thomas Lambert, 1699. This house lot on Main Street was granted to Thomas Barker. It has sheltered one family line for 231 years. It is now owned by Mrs. K. D. Cheney, nee Lambert, a lineal descendant.
Rev. Ezekiel Rogers' house, 1639. This site on Wethersfield Street is occupied by the house now owned by Albert W. Haley.
Joseph Jewett House, built 1725. This is the house now owned by Mr. Ernest B. Mason on Bradford Street.
Town Brook. The town was so laid out that nearly all the first house lots bordered on this brook or one of its tributaries. At one time there were nine tan houses on this brook.
State Marker set up at the entrance to the Rowley Cemetery. "The Burial ground set apart at the settlement of the Town of Rowley in 1639. Here are buried Ezekiel Rogers, Samuel Phillips, Samuel Shepard, Edward Payson and Jedediah Jewett, the earliest ministers of the town and nearly all the original settlers."
HISTORY OF THE FIRST PRESS
One of the issues of the three-cent postage stamps bears a cut of what is known as "The Daye Press."
This press was brought from England in 1638 on the ship "John" of London. It so happened that Ezekiel Rogers and his company, first settlers of Rowley, came on the same vessel, although they had nothing to do with the press. That was owned by Rev. Jose Glover, who with his family and his apprentice, Stephen Daye, came at the same time. Glover died on the passage, or as the old record says: "He reached port before the ship made land." His widow married for her second husband, Henry Dunster, who was at that time president of Harvard College. Samuel Eliot Mori- son, in his "Builders of the Bay Colony," states that the marriage of Dunster to the widow Glover, brought new responsibility, a rather turbulent family of stepsons and a printing press.
The press was set up in Newtown (now Cambridge) and Daye, with the assistance of his son, Matthew, who came with him, commenced printing. This was the first press brought to English America and Massachusetts has the distinction of having the first printing in the English language in America.
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The first item printed was the "Freemen's Oath," a broad- side of which there is no copy extant. The second was "An Al- manack for the Year 1639." No copy known.
The third was a book entitled, "The Whole Book of Psalms." Four copies are in existence but only three of them are complete.
All the printing in the English Colonies until 1675, when a press was set up in Boston, was done on this press. Later it passed into the hands of Samuel Green, one of whose descendants took it to New London, Conn., where it remained until 1773. It was then taken to Norwich, Conn. Five years later it was removed to Dresden, now Hanover, N. H., and thence to Westminster, Vt., where on February 12, 1781, it was used for printing "The Vermont Gazette or Green Mountain Post Boy," the first newspaper pub- lished in Vermont. In 1783, George Hough and Alden Spooner moved it to Windsor, Vt., and used it for printing the "Vermont Journal and Universal Advertiser."
It is now, after many years of wandering, the property of the Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier, Vt.
During the Tercentenary Celebration many persons registered from the following states (but much to our regret, a great many more failed to do so) : Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Colorado, California and Venezuela, South America.
From writings of the "Simple Cobler of Agawam," meaning Ipswich, we quote from an article giving his views of Rowley as seen by a friendly neighbor, which we feel has a proper and worth- while interest in connection with our Tercentenary. The article in full appeared in the Ipswich News-Chronicle issued the week of our celebration.
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The Town of Rowley, celebrating its three hundredth birth- day, is not, strictly speaking, one of the daughter towns of Ipswich. It is true that a portion of her territory was carved out of Ipswich. The method was unusual. Rowley, an honourable community, purchased land from Ipswich to round out her borders.
This spirit of honour has characterized three centuries of com- mon living by her citizenry. So then we greet Rowley, not as a daughter, but as a sister on this happy occasion.
It is natural to wonder how it comes about that one town differs from another. Rowley is different from Ipswich, and dif- ferent from Georgetown. Whence the difference?
Perhaps the answer is not to be found this side of the Atlantic. Towns, by and large, in their early days were settled by people from different parts of England. Rowley takes its ancestral over- seas origin from a slightly different area of old England than did Ipswich.
The initial impulse across the Atlantic can perhaps explain these distinctions which gives our New England towns their peculiar flavours. Rowley does have its own flavour.
Rowley as a town finds itself at the end of three centuries of history essentially New England.
In essence we believe that Rowley today is, in major particu- lars, the Rowley of a century, two centuries or three centuries ago.
The continuity is not static but living. The years have be- queathed in their lengths experience, tradition, depth perhaps; but always the essentials remain despite the accumulation of years.
We like Rowley and we admire it. Walking the streets of the town one breaths a quiet peace, a sweet serenity. As a town it is a credit to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and towns and cities would do well to analyze the qualities which make her what she is.
That we be not accused of platitude or a too sticky sweetness in our sincere praise let us be more particular.
Rowley has progressed naturally through the years. The forces of the larger America have entered into her and her people.
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The essential New England quality is as strong in this week of celebration as it was at the time of the War Between the States or the American Revolution.
The debt which American life as a whole owes to the small compact community is far greater than one would imagine. Some may say through surface thinking that Rowley is but a small com- munity and so not very important. These produced a sound intelli- gent citizenry ; decent honest men and women.
The real America of which the poets sing, and of which the idealists dream is to be found in a community such as Rowley. Here blossoms in free air and sunshine all those things which makes our country what we desire it to be.
On this occasion when our neighbour town holds high festival we would praise her for many things. We admire the simple dig- nity of her streets, the honest pride of community, the neatness and pleasantness of the homes one sees in all directions.
Rowley has had the high courage to do something very worth- while and that is to be Rowley.
We note that the ancient cemetery is kept as a place of beauty and repose, that the Meeting Houses are neat and well cared for. the Common as it always has been and always should be.
To accomplish and maintain this condition means a people who love their town an abiding love, who take honest and simple pride in it. This means a decent and intelligent individualism. This we admire and this we praise.
For our own part if we wanted to understand America and the sources of history which have made it the thing which men admire we would go to Rowley town, talk with her people, enjoy their natural humour, get their slant on political theory and practice.
On this occasion when men and women will come from afar to renew their ties with their mother town they will find a com- munity old in years which is ever young, young, not through any process of historical rejuvenation but through the ability to be part of the country as a whole yet never relinquishing the things which have given it character and personality through the years.
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As a town it has an honourable history. It gave of her sons liberally to the war of the American Revolution, the war between the states and the war to make the world safe for Democracy and to end wars.
It sent out in the days when America was growing with a fast-moving frontier strong sturdy sons to give character to the near, the middle and the far west. So then on this occasion the Simple Cobler of Agawam greets Rowley with respect and affection.
Because we are neighbours we share much in common. Through the years our sons and her sons have looked in the two towns that represented us jointly at the Great and General Court and both have looked on the two towns as part of an individual whole.
The name of Rowley was taken from the village of that name in the district of East Riding-Yorkshire from which several of the families had emigrated. . The new town was a great deal larger in area than it is now with the parishes of Georgetown, Boxford, Bradford and Groveland included in the town limits. The northern boundary extended up to the Merrimac River and part of Plum Island was included in the grant.
The families who originally settled in the town bore many of the names that their descendants still bear. Among the first set- tlers are the names of the Jewett, Lambert, Prime, Spofford fam- ilies and many more whose names are still borne by their descen- dants. Some who sailed with Rogers on the ship "John" of London were: Thomas Barker, Constance Crosby, Thomas Elithorp, Francis Lambert, Edward Carleton, Humphrey Reynor, William Acy, Hugh Chaplin, Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, Robert and John Hasel- tine, Jeremiah Northend, William Jackson, William and John Boynton, Jane Brocklebank, Thomas Nelson, John Spofford and Thomas Tenney. Not all of these emigrants came from the old town of Rowley but it was from there or surrounding towns that they set out with their minister for the New World.
The settlement of the town was done according to lots as was the method in the opening of every new village. This system of dividing the land with the freemen and the commoners getting lots according to their station was the old Germanic tribal method
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and was in use throughout the colonies. Lots were drawn until all the available acreage had been disposed of, and in this way the rich and poor alike had their chance to get the best of the land.
For five years after the opening of the town to settlement, the town banded together as a community in the true sense of the name, with no one owning land separate from the rest of the people. In 1642, the first survey of the town was made and the lots were laid out. The streets were given the names of the towns in England from which the colonists had come: Holmes Street, Bradford Street and Wethersfield Street which still keeps the early name.
The people of the town were a God-fearing group like their compatriots in other New England towns and villages of the time and their early history is intimately connected with the preachings and the habits of the various ministers who were called to the parish. The first church was organized on the third of December, 1639, with the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers as minister. This was the sixteenth church in the whole colony and had a meeting-house near the present school house site.
The first year spent by the settlers in Rowley was filled with hardship, for in May of 1640, the General Court ordered that "Rowley be granted two years' immunity from public charges, in regard of their great loss and charge by purchasing of land and hindrance of planting the last year." The great loss referred to was the payment of £800 to Ipswich and Newbury for land. The settlers subscribed the money for this purchase and were given In* equal in value to the amount they had contributea.
The history of a New England village such as Rowley is a history of the names of the men and women who have "spent their lives, their states, their years, that after-comers might need not fear." The town is a community unto itself, and the "zeal and piety" that figure so largely in the accounts of early settlers still have a meaning for their descendants.
Like the great majority of the settlers of New England, the first inhabitants of Rowley came from the sturdy yeomen stock that gave Old England its greatness. Some of them were dissenters from the established church, some were driven by economic neces-
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sity to seek a new home, but all were accustomed to hard work and were ready to undergo hardship and poverty with a fortitude that they shared in common.
It was to the fortune of New England that so many of her founders were men of great note and learning in their early homes. Such a man was Ezekiel Rogers, whose voyage to Salem in 1638 was heralded with great joy amongst the elders of the colonies. Those two Godly men, Thomas Eaton and Thomas Davenport, who felt that even in 1638 the Bay Colony was becoming too lax in matters of doctrine, tried to entice Rogers to New Haven where they were setting up a theological community in accordance with their strict concepts.
In its early days Rowley has sent many men of note out into the world and many of them became prominent especially in the field of letters. Spencer Phips, born in Rowley in 1685, was adopted by his uncle, Sir William Phips, and sent to Harvard where he graduated in 1703. He was lieutenant-governor of the colony from 1731 to 1757 and a prominent councillor for many years. The Rev. Jacob Bailey was another well-known son of Rowley, whose journal, kept from the time he graduated from Harvard in 1755 until his death in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was a minister in the Anglican church, sheds much light on the customs of our fore-farthers.
Samuel Tenney, M.D., achieved fame as a surgeon at the Battle of Bunker Hill and as a member of Congress for many years. He was born in 1748 and died in Exeter in 1816. The Rev. John Smith, D.D., born in Rowley in 1752 and graduated from Dartmouth in 1773. He was professor of languages in his Alma Mater and published several books. Several other Rowley men were professors in New England colleges and clergymen in New England towns.
Rowley after three hundred years of existence as a real Yankee town, still retains its ancient charm and traditions. Visitors from the old country would certainly find much in the town to remind them of the peace and serenity of some little village deep in the
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heart of England. There is not much of the modern world hustling and bustling in Rowley. This feeling came, to one commentator on Rowley: "Let the world go. To be born in such a place, and in the sereness of old age to die in such a place, and to sleep at last in the same dust with the good old fathers of olden times, were enough to fill the cup of mortal happiness full."
CONCLUSION
In concluding the account of our Tercentenary Celebration and of the many events that transpired during and in connection there- with, it has been our aim insofar as space would permit, to recount the happenings of that eventful period as vividly as possible for the benefit not only of the present generation, but also that the record might be carried forward to those who shall come after us.
We also desire to give full measure of credit to the many loyal workers who did so much toward making the occasion the success it proved to be, without their help and cooperation it could not have been accomplished.
We would gladly, if we could, mention by name each and everyone who contributed in any way to assist in carrying through this noteworthy celebration, but space does not permit, beside we would hesitate along those lines lest by some oversight or lack of information some might be unintentionally omitted, who were well deserving of mention, but we desire to go on record as wishing every- one to feel that their efforts were fully appreciated and are grate- fully acknowledged.
All that transpired is now history, but we trust that this publication may serve to pass on to those who come after us, or may have to do with plans for the next centennial anniversary, something of interest to them in their undertakings.
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May they, then, as did our forefathers of 1839, and as we were privileged to do in 1939, gather in goodly numbers upon our historic Common, and share in a bountiful repast and exchange of pleasantries, around the table "spread once in one hundred years" in connection with the centennial celebration of 2039.
"May they, too, pass down their doings, together with ours, and our predecessors to the then future generations. Tell it to their children, and they to theirs to the latest period of time."
We quote in closing from the pen of our late fellow townsman, Mr. Daniel N. Prime, which expresses our sentiments :
"Tell how that Rogers with his little band, Crossed the wide ocean to this desert land, And on this spot, where late the savage trod, They reared a temple to the living God.
Record their deeds on the historic page, Proclaim their virtues to the latest age- Rehearse the story both in prose and rhyme Through future ages to the end of time."
The End.
-- ERRATA - Page 110, Paragraph 2
The Schooner representing "The Country's Wonder," a float sponsored by the Rowley River Boat Club and Lawrence R. Bishop, was awarded first prize of $25.00.
The second prize of $15.00 was awarded to Mr. Emery A. Lessard, who sponsored the float representing "The Three Hun- dredth Birthday Party."
The Colonial Ball float representing the "King and Queen and her suite," sponsored by Mrs. Edith L. Daggett, was awarded third prize of $10.00.
The prize offered by Georgetown for the best float in their division was awarded to the "Shoe Industry" float of Georgetown.
Page 115, Paragraph 1
The large float representing "The Country's Wonder" built near the Rowley Common in 1814, was drawn by two yoke of oxen representing the 100 yoke of oxen which hauled the original schooner to Rowley River.
This float was sponsored by the Rowley River Boat Club and Lawrence R. Bishop.
Riding on this float were John Prime Curtis, Richard Glynn Hirtle, Dana Edwin Hiller, William Clement Mehaffey and Captain Samuel F. Knowles 3d.
Float "Country's Wonder" on Page 175. Page 177, Paragraphs 5 and 6
The frame work being practically completed and all bolted together, the dead wood was covered with cloth on each side and then the stern was covered.
The deck was covered with cloth stitched together, making one large piece, and tacked upon the batten flush with the deck.
Page 184 and Paragraph 1 of Page 185
The history of "The Old Tan House" inserted in the article "Ship and Boat Building Industry" by error, ought to have been recorded in "Places of Interest in Rowley" on page 196.
The other minor mistakes appearing in the text of the float "The Country's Wonder," "Ship and Boat Building Industry," Rowley, beginning on page 175, may be due to the fact that the corrected copy was not proof read the second time.
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1640
SEBASTIAN
RYE
JOHN SPORFORDI
RICHARD
WICOM
BRIDGES
BARKER
HIGH
WAY
GRANT
JEWETT
WETHERSFIELD
PEARSON
REMINGTON
TO NEWBURY
SCALES
BOYES
JAMES
BELLINGHAM
THOS.
HAZEN
FRANCIS PARRAT
IPSWICH
ROAD
SHA
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