Wilmington's 225th anniversary : Sept. 19-24, 1955 , Part 2

Author: Neilson, Larz
Publication date: 1955
Publisher: Town of Wilmington
Number of Pages: 62


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Ford was a very successful business man. He engaged, as a partner, Daniel Eames, and the two men purchased Certificates, which the Colony had given to its soldiers, instead of pay, for tak- ing part in the various expeditions against the French and the Indians. The certificates were of practically no value, when Eames and Ford bought them, but they were redeemed, at a later date, in land, by the Great and Generall Court, and the two men found themselves owners of very large tracts of land in Maine, which was then a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. A letter is in the State Archives, from an Andover man, which calls Eames and Ford "A Royal Pair of Rascals", because of their real estate trans- actions, and praying the Lieutenant Governor to afford relief to the writer.


Cadwallader Ford was one of several hundred prominent men of Massachusetts Bay Colony who engaged to found a Land Bank


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and Manufactory Scheme in 1739, a scheme designed to ease the financial difficulties of the Colony, but which was doomed to failure. Ford was, with many others, engaged in litagation, in 1745, over the affairs of this scheme.


The founding of the Town of Wilmington, or, perhaps more properly, the founding of the Church of Christ in Wilmington, in 1733, found Ford to be one of the original members. He donated a christening basin, to the new church.


Ford died in 1790, having lived a full 87 years of life. His wife, Mary Jenkins, daughter of Joel Jenkins, who lived near the Ipswich River, on Woburn Street, survived him by eight years. (This was the family for whom the "Jenks" bridge was named. They lived about 150 yards north of the river, on the west side of Woburn Street).


Cadwallader Ford II, son of the first Cadwallader, was also a prominent man. He was Captain of one of the Wilmington com- panies of Minute Men, and marched on Lexington Day. In later years he was a representative in the Great and General Court, and was often elected Moderator of Wilmington. He also served as Town Clerk, for several years. Cadwallader Ford II married a daughter of the Rev. Issac Morrill, and there are many people today in Wilmington who are descended from this marriage.


REV. ISSAC MORRILL


Not only a great man of Wilmington, but also one of the more prominent men in the infant republic of the United States was the Rev. Issac Morrill, for over 50 years pastor of the Church of Christ, in Wilmington. Born in Salisbury, a Harvard graduate (1737), he was ordained Minister in Wilmington on May 20, 1741, and served the Wilmington church until his death, on August 7, 1793.


Mr. Morrill was an ardent patriot. During the seige of Ticon- deroga, during the French and Indian War, he was Chaplain in Chief to the Massachusetts forces, and endured, with the soldiers, the rigors of that wintertime seige.


On the day of the Battle of Lexington, the Rev. Mr. Morrill, in company with the Billerica Minister was knocking on the doors of the Minister at Bedford, at 5 a.m. The Bedford Minister, aroused from his sleep, demanded of his colleagues the reason for all the noise, and was told that they were going to Lexington, to fight. The Bedford Minister, who had been suspected of having Tory sympathies, replied that they could go and fight, but that he would stay home and pray, which he did.


After the battle was over, however, Mr. Morrill and the Bil- lerica Minister made it a point to accompany the Bedford Minister to the British lines, at Boston, and to place him in the safe keeping of the British Army, from which he never returned.


The esteem in which Mr. Morrill was held by the people of Wilmington, and Massachusetts, can only be imagined today, but five years after Lexington, when the first exercises were held at that place, it was the Rev. Mr. Morrill who was asked to deliver the Sermon, a sermon which is still in existence.


The second Mrs. Issac Morrill, the former Dorothy Ruggles, was the daughter of one of the Billerica Ministers. It is to be be -- lived, but cannot be proven, that she figured in the story about


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the French Neutral family, which was quartered in Wilmington just 200 years ago, and, if it were she, she was apparently the only Wilmington resident to emerge from the events with honor.


THE FRENCH NEUTRALS


Everyone knows the story of Evangeline, immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. When the Acadians were removed to Massachusetts, and other places. by the Massachusetts forces, in 1755, one family was sent to each town, by His Majesties Lieu- tenant-Governor, with orders to the Selectmen of each town to keep that family.


Sent to Wilmington was a family named Labodeur (or Larba- deur), Jean, his wife, and a numerous brood of children.


They were put into an old abandoned home, the scene of Wil- mington's only Indian Massacre, the Deacon John Harnden home, in North Wilmington. (The site was about a quarter of a mile to the westward of the home of George Hood, on Woburn Street). This home had been abandoned, in 1706, after the massacre-49 years standing empty.


True to the instructions of the Lieutenant-Governor, the Select- men of Wilmington sent in bills, for the money they had spent for the so-called French Neutrals-bills for rent, garden tools, clothing, food, etc., etc. The bills were sent in for a period of several years, and it was only the arrival of a letter, at the Governor's office, which changed the picture. The letter may be read today, in the archives, in the State House. It is in a woman's hand, and scrawled below is the signature of Jean Labodeur. Quotations from the letter read:


"And they gave us a house, wherein to live and the windows were without windows, and the doors were without doors, and when it rained we went from room to room, seeking a dry spot, wherein to stand, and when we complained to the Selectmen they said "Go Build Yourself a Boat!" Please, Your Honor, remove us from Wil- mington, this Town of Woe. Allow me to take my family to Quebec, where dwells a cousin."


The Lieutenant-Governor ordered the Boston Poor House Commissioners to investigate, not only the Wilmington Neutrals, but the Quincy Neutrals as well. Both families were removed from the care of their respective towns, and put into the Boston Poor House, where, it might be presumed, they were at least dry.


It was probably Dorothy Morrill who wrote that letter, from the combination of facts that (1) it was a woman who wrote it, and (2) she was well educated, and presumably spoke French. Mrs. Morrill was probably the only woman in Wilmington who could possibly answer to these qualifications.


SAMUEL DUMMER


Samuel Dummer, a brother of Lieutenant-Governor William Dummer, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was, because of his brother, and because of his own wealth, a prominent citizen of this town, at the time of its founding. He had purchased, a few years earlier, about 300 acres of land, in the Land of Nod, and had built a home there, about 100 yards northeast of the present corner of Woburn and Salem Streets.


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Monday, September 19, 1955


6:30 p.m. Opening of the Celebration at the Wilmington Rotary Park and Playground, Church and Adelaide Streets. Doll Carriage Parade. Prizes. Amusements.


Tuesday, September 20, 1955


6:30 p.m. Bicycle Parade. Prizes. Amusements.


Wednesday, September 21, 1955


6:30 p.m. Amusements at Rotary Park.


10:00 p.m. Talent Contest. Directed and Judged by Ken Wilson, Ray Dorey and Bill Green of Radio Station WHDH, Boston. Prizes.


Thursday, September 22, 1955


6:30 p.m. Amusements at Rotary Park.


10:00 p.m. Beauty Contest to select Miss Rotary Queen, conducted Ken Wilson, Ray Dorey and Bill Green.


Friday, September 23, 1955


4:00 p.m. Gymkhana and Horse Show by the Wilmington Mounties and the Wilmington Trail Blazers. Directed by Mrs Fred Corum and Mrs. Leo Dupras.


10:00 p.m. "Stumpus", Simulated Radio Broadcast, as given on Station WHDH. Ken Wilson, Ray Dorey and Bill Green. Prizes will be awarded as in the regular radio show.


Saturday, September 24, 1955


1:45 p.m. Anniversary Parade, assembles at Silver Lake, on Grove Avenue. Parade Marshall, Fred F. Cain, First President, Rotary Club of Wilmington. Adjutants James Kelley and Rufus Stevens.


2:00 p.m. Start of Parade. March down Main Street.


2:30 p.m. Pass Reviewing Stand on Main Street, near V.F.W. Hall. Parade turns left on Church Street, to Rotary Park, and disbands there.


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PARADE ROSTER


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Company E. Massachusetts National Guard from Wakefield Judge David Williams, State Commander DAV and James J. Sayre, National Service Officer, DAV, with Aides. Wilmington Fire Department Boy Scouts of America Girl Scouts Wilmington Little League Gates of Heaven Parish of South Boston - Band New England Champions of the CYO Other Civic and Patriotic Organizations United States Army Units from Fort Devens Fire Departments


Citizens Hose Company of Danvers. Marblehead, Lowell, Westford, Carlisle, Billerica, Dracut, Burlington, Chelmsford, Danvers, Tewksbury, Hanscom Air Force Base. State Forestry Department. Reading, Wakefield, Stoneham, Melrose, North Reading, Middleton, Andover, Lawrence. Concord, Lexington, Bedford, Woburn, Malden, Wilmington, Winchester, Somerville, Watertown, Methuen, Med- ford, Everett, Cambridge, Boston, Lynnfield, Tyngsboro, Saugus, Arlington. Waltham, Lynn, Chelsea, Revere, Swampscott, Newton.


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Invited Guests on Reviewing Stand


Sumner D. Whittier, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Edith Nourse Rogers, Member of Congress


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Samuel Dummer owned many slaves, which he quartered on his land. He had made money, evidently, in Jamaica, possibly in the sugar trade. before returning to Massachusetts. Why he chose to live in the Land of Nod is a question that has never been answered, but his home was without doubt the grandest one, in these rude parts, at that time.


When the first church was built there was only one pew, be- neath the pulpit. on each side. the rest being built to face the pulpit. Samuel Dummer had the right pew, and no one used the left one.


When the town was incorporated Samuel Dummer was named as the leading citizen, even though, apparently, he had done no- thing towards the incorporation of the town. He was appointed the first Moderator, and was also appointed a Sheriff of Middlesex County, at about the same time. As the first Moderator, it was his duty to warn the inhabitants of the new town to assemble and to preside at the first town meeting, which was held "in the school house" which then stood at about the corner of Main Street and Butters Row.


Dummer died in 1734, and his wife and his only child, a girl, did not long survive him. The inventory of his estate is still re- garded as enough of a curiosity to be quoted, from time to time, in various Boston newspapers.


THE REV. GEORGE WHITEFIELD


Wilmington has, on its Town Seal, a facsimile of the Whitefield Elm, a beautiful tree, which stood adjacent to the present Middle- sex Avenue, in North Wilmington, and about opposite to the White- field School. The present sidewalk goes over the site of the tree, and a monument, erected by the Wilmington Women's Club, nearly marks the site.


The tree was cut down after its death, about 1900, but a section still exists, in the barn of Louis Doucette, on Ballardvale Street, a section which was cut off by Peter McMahon, for use as a butcher's block.


The Rev. George Whitefield was reputed to have preached to the Indians, from beneath this tree, according to local tradition. There is no record of his having done this, but, paradoxically, there is another tradition which, by its disputation of the site, tends to prove the event. A Dr. Silas Brown, of Dracut, purchased the Harnden Tavern in North Wilmington (corner of Woburn and Salem Streets) about 1816, and his descendants have a tradition, which came from the doctor, that the actual tree stood about 100 yards further south, and on the opposite side of the road, in front of the present home of Mrs. Wilson. The doctor could have talked with people who were living in Wilmington during the 1740's.


The Rev. Mr. Whitefield was an English Divine, who had been in the Church of England, and was one of the first to espouse the Methodist creed. He preached hundreds of sermons in the 1740's in nearly all of the Colonies, and many places have been named for him.


In New England, the Calvinistic Puritans did not take too kindly to the Rev. Mr. Whitefield, and many a church denied him the use of its pulpit. Such would seem to have been the case in Wilmington, and, it would also seem, the church members felt


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very strongely about it, for the tradition further states that "he preached to the Indians", no white man, apparently, being willing to listen.


DANIEL EAMES


Daniel Eames, a partner of Cadwallader Ford, lived in the house which stands opposite to the end of Wildwood Street, on Woburn Street. This house was built by Ephraim Buck about 1720, and sold to Daniel Eames. Daniel was the son of Samuel Eames, and there were several men of this name, in the early history of Wilmington, so that a person can be confused as to which Samuel was which, but there was no mistaking Daniel. He married Abigail Harnden Nurse, in 1720. She was the heroine of the Harnden Massacre, in 1706, and was the widow of Jonathan Nurse (or Nourse) of Reading. Jonathan's mother was one of the women who were put to death, as a witch, during the Salem Witch Trials.


The home which Daniel bought was the ancestral home of the Eames family for over 150 years, although Daniel moved to Haver- hill in 1748, and left the building to his son John. By reputation Daniel is supposed to have lived just north of the railroad tracks, on Woburn Street, before his marriage to Abigail Harnden. If he did, all traces of his home were destroyed when the Portland Branch of the B & M was built in 1845.


JIMMY BUTTERS


Among the quainter characters in Wilmington was Jimmy Butters, a great-grandson of Will Butter. Jimmy lived in the home adjacent to the Apple Monument, on Chestnut Street, and was a quite successful farmer, being noted especially for the oxen he raised. He married twice, the second time being after all the chil- dren of the first marriage had left his home for homes of their own.


Jimmy was the owner of the original Baldwin Apple Tree, which was known in Wilmington as the Butter Apple. Much has been written concerning this tree, whose origin is still in dispute.


Jimmy was one of the Wilmington Minute Men who marched on Lexington Day and he also served honorably, in other events of the Revolution.


The story about Jimmy, however, that is practically priceless, was his marriage (second) to Esther Reed, daughter of Nathaniel Cutler, of Wilmington. (Ripley had this story for the subject of one of his "Believe It or Not" cartoons).


Sometime about 1790 Jimmy was in the market place, in Wo- burn, seeking to sell a span of oxen. According to the story, he was stopped by a Simeon Reed, who wanted to buy the oxen, but had no money. It was agreed, between the two men, that Simeon's wife, who was seated on a wagon, nearby, could be the payment. and the wife was bartered for the oxen, each man going home with a different type of property than which he had when he arrived!


Jimmy, to his dying day, insisted that it was the best swap he ever made!


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by the curious (for a Congregational Clergyman) title of "Priest" Reynolds.


Mr. Reynolds married the daughter of Wilmington's first physician, Doctor Jabez Brown, who lived on High Street, at about where the Lally home is today. Dr. Brown was Wilmington's only physician during the Revolutionary War. His widow survived hin for many years, and was a very ardent worshipper in the church where her son-in-law preached, always occupying a front pew.


The story is told that "Priest" Reynolds was very much given to striding about, in the pulpit, as he delivered his sermons. His mother-in-law, who was quite deaf, had a special ear-trumpet, con- structed, a very long one, so that she could hold the bell of the trumpet just in front of her son-in-law's mouth, and thus not miss one word of the sermon. The poor lady had a very difficult time, however, in keeping the trumpet in front of Mr. Reynolds's mouth, and her body used to weave back and forth in its pew, in her efforts to keep up with her striding son-in-law, much to the amusement of the other worshipers in the church.


ASA G. SHELDON


Asa G. Sheldon, a prominent contractor of the 19th century, lived on Woburn Street, near the Daniel Eames farm (his wife was an Eames). He was born in Lynnfield, in 1788, and at an early age was engaged in trucking hops to Albany, from Wilmington. He also owned, at one time, the Nod Mill, which stood on Martin's Brook, just south of Salem Street. He was a terrificaly hard worker, and achieved considerable success, which he has told of very well, in his autobiography, a copy of which is in the Wilmington Public Library.


One story that he did not tell was of his relationship with the American House, in Boston. This was, in the 1840's the finest hotel in America, and Charles Dickens describes it with awe, in his American Notes.


Sheldon, at that time was engaged in cutting down the Pem- berton Hill, in Boston, using a large force of laborers, and 500 ox carts. One evening, dirty and tired, and in rough clothes, he sought to engage a room in the American House for the night. He was refused, by the fastidious desk clerk.


Now, it was a feature of the General Laws, at this time, that any inn-keeper should also take care of the way-farer's cattle.


Sheldon returned to the American House, about two weeks after he had been refused a room. He was dressed in his most expensive clothing, and this time there was no question, and he signed the guest card.


Immediately after signing the guest card Sheldon told the clerk (the same one) to "take care of my cattle!" The clerk looked out the window and saw, in Scollay Square, 150 head of cattle, which Sheldon had had driven into Boston, just for this bit of personal revenge.


The cattle were cared for!


Copyright 1955 by Larz Neilson


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Made on the Premises Tel. OLiver 8-4583


RUDERMAN'S APPLIANCE COMPANY


Dealers in . . .


Leading Home Appliances


Gould


Street


Reading


Compliments of . .


THOMAS F. SULLIVAN


Plumbing and Heating UL 1-7197


Pike Street


Tewksbury


Compliments of . . .


READING SUPPLY CO.


Route 28


Reading Mass.


Good Luck


.


To


ROTARY PARK, INC.


A FRIEND


Best Wishes


ART JEWELERS


440 Main Street


Woburn


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Best Wishes to


ROTARY PARK, INC.


A FRIEND


F


CUMMINGS FURNITURE COMPANY


27 Montvale Avenue Woburn Woburn 2-2826


McMAHON FUNERAL HOME


Compliments of . . .


A FRIEND


176 Middlesex Avenue Wilmington S


A FRIEND


MO 3-3443


GL 2-5411


GROSSMAN LUMBER CO.


Serving New England With the


Finest Lumber and


Building Material


Home - Industrial - Camp


Boston Road


Billerica


W.P .: PROCTOR LUMBER


NO. CHELMSFORD. SO ACTION - MASS.


NASHUA - N.H. MILFORD · M N.


Dempster


Shallow and Deep Well Pumps


Parts and Accessories


H. E. SMITH PUMP CO.


Sales and Service


639 Woburn Street


Wilmington


OL 8-2017


Harold E. Smith


New and Reclaimed Lumber


Plumbing Supplies


HARVEY


BUILDING SUPPLIES


and


WRECKING CO., INC.


203 Boston Road


Chelmsford


GL 2-9297


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SHOECRAFT SHOP 402 Main Street New Shoes - Shoe Service


WILMINGTON CLEANERS OLiver 8-4725 444 Main Street


Compliments of CHAPIN-NICHOLS CO. 42 Haven Street


Reading


BILL & MEL'S SHELL SERVICE STATION


Main


Street


Wilmington


OLiver 8-2311


A FRIEND


Compliments of


VINCENT CURTAIN SHOPPE


Main Street


Woburn


Compliments of JACK RILEY Wilmington Food Mart


ROYAL FURNITURE


Main Street


Woburn


TEWKSBURY


PAINT & HARDWARE, INC.


851 Main Street


Tewksbury


UL 1-7358


Please write to the boys


over there!


GEORGE'S


Wilmington Square


Compliments of .


WILMINGTON


GRAIN & BUILDING


MATERIAL COMPANY


HARRINGTON BROS.


490 Main Street


OLiver 8-8364


BYAM'S LAUNDERERS & CLEANSERS MOntrose 3-8874 OLiver 8-2007


Compliments of


T. C. DALEY


KNOLLWOOD FARM DAIRY


Wilmington


Mass.


HAZEL and FRED Antiques We Buy and Sell Anything 896 Main Street Tewksbury UL 1-7182


Compliments of


P. COGGER CO.


Washed Sand and Gravel


GLenview 3-1381


Compliments of


. .


A FRIEND


A. G. POLLARD CO.


Now In Our 120th Year


Lowell's Leading


Department Store


RUSTY'S TEXACO STATION "Rusty" Brabant Repairing and Inspection Station 287 Main Street Wilmington OLiver 8-8363


EDWARD G. BOYLE


Insurance


Real Estate


178 Main Street


Woburn


Tel Woburn 2-2170


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BOND SHOES Quality Shoes For The Entire Family Florsheim - Stride Rite Red Cross 446 Main Street Woburn


Compliments of


CENTRAL HARDWARE


437 Main Street


Woburn


Woburn 2-0032


GENERAL REALTY CO. Real Estate OL 8-3581 943 Main Street Wilmington Marion T. Murphy Raymond F. Fenton


WARNER'S JENNY


STATION


945 Main Street


Wilmington


Tel. OL 8-8379


V. L. Archibald


WOBURN HARDWARE PLUMBING SUPPLY CO. 502 - 508 Main Street Tel. Woburn 2-2300


BELLINI CORSET SHOP Corsets - Girdles - Bras Lingerie and Hosiery 448 Main Street - Woburn 2-3116 Infant and Children's Wear


Free Estimates


Woburn 2-2589


PHINNEY'S TAXI


Beverly Ave.


Wilmington


OLiver 8-4544


WOBURN


FLOOR COVERING CO.


Linoleums - Wall Tile - Carpets


494 Main Street


Woburn


Tel. GL 8-6345 HARRY BASS, INC. 166 Central Street Lowell


BLAISDELL MOTOR TRANSPORTATION Range and Fuel Oil Tel. OLiver 8-2011


Compliments of . .


A FRIEND


S. F.


WOOD-ABBOTT CO.


Est. 1872


Diamond Merchants & Jewelers


175 Merrimack St.


Lowell


cor. Kirk St.


GL 2-4331


With Best Wishes THE TEWKSBURY ADVERTISER "One Purpose- To Serve The People"


For Promptness!


CALL


JOE'S TAXI SERVICE


OLiver 8-2949


Railroad Avenue


NORTH WILMINGTON CAB


24 Hour Service


A. Brabant


OL 8-2543 - 8-3659


NORTH WOBURN MACHINE CO.


Nichols Street


No. Woburn


Carl C. Neilson - Carl E. Neilson


Robert Farrell


FRANK'S AMOCO SERVICE Main and Eames Street Wilmington Mass.


JACK'S DINER


901 Main Street


North Woburn


Best Wishes . . .


A FRIEND


F. S.


TEWKSBURY TOWN TAXI UL 1-7171


Serving -


Tewksbury


Wilmington and Billerica


Day and Night Service


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THE WILMINGTON ROTARY PARK AND PLAYGROUND


The Wilmington Rotary Park and Playground is a project of the Rotary Club of Wilmington, a project which has been assisted by the residents of the town, under the name of Wilmington Rotary Park, Inc.


The Park, on which is being conducted this 225th Anniversary of the Town of Wilmington, was a former 6 acre cranberry bog, neglected, and the source of nuisances and mosquitos. It was purchased by the Rotary Club of Wilmington, in 1950, for conver- sion into a playground for the children of Wilmington. For the past five years the Wilmington Rotary Park, Inc. has been improv- ing this ground, a job that has yet to be finished. Three acres of land, now filled in, will soon be planted in grass. A skating pond has been made, a shallow pond, for the exclusive use of the younger children, one that will afford, above all, safety. Other portions of the park will be the site of a baseball field, a playground for tots, and room too, for the older folks.


This Park is being made without profit to any person.


To all who have helped in any way, to develop this park, to pre- pare this celebration, and to those who have participated, the Wilmington Rotary Park, Inc. extends its sincere thanks.


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WILMINGTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY


3 2136 00090 8784


Library


For Reference


Not to be taken from this room


5574 D.8


OCCUPANT


P.L. & R. 34.66 No. 4 POSTAGE PAID Non-Profit Organization


Compliments of .. .


FRED F. CAIN, INC.


CHRYSLER . PLYMOUTH . INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS


USED CARS -


WILMINGTON


- MASS.


Compliments of .. .


Compliments of ... .


FREDDIE'S


SUPERMARKET


ANTHONY


SIGNORE,


FOSTER'S CORNER


INC.


Tewksbury


Massachusetts


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