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The ordinary reading lessons of the more alvoneed scholars in the public schools tiere for a long period from their establishment, wus from the Testament, afterward from nn abeidgnient of Morse's Geografiby, the author of which was the father of the fumed inventor of the magnetic tele. graph, then from the Columbinu Orstor, the Amerioon P're- ceptor, the English Render, and feom nh edition of the Constitution of the United States, and of Maine.
J'ost-Office -The first post-office in the town was estab- lisheil at ". Lisbon Four Corners, " In 1808, and James Small appointed postmnster, the name of the office iras afterward elinngeil to " Lishinn Centre, " now to Webster, oud wne one of the 1700 that lindt then been established by the govern- loent of the United States.
Sunivel tleatti, Amos Dwinel, Philip M. Garcelon, now residing nt Farinington, Motna, Samuel Cushion, and Al- bert Larrahec, tho present incumbent, tinve been, in the oriler of their namem, tho several postinnstero succeeding Jaines Small.
Tho eliangeil conilition, relatively, of some of the town of the county since the year 1820, la approzimattvely shown by the net noround uf fringe necruing that year respec- tively nt ench ; that nt the nflice hero, Webster, being $18, nt Little Itiver Village, $8; Lewistown, Sut ; Groene, $37; Leeda, $28; Livermore, $42; Enst Livermarc, $10; Das- ville, SUB; Durham, $26; l'oloud, $11 ; Minot, $108, and Turner, $87.
At the village in the northwestern extremity of the town, which until recently was kunwn by the unwie uf Nilos' Mills, lint now by thnt of Selinttisvillo, to the only other pont-oflice in the town, giving muil fueilisics almo to some residents of Wales, Greeno, onl Lrwistin.
Early Vulura -Froni 1.81 to 1792, the writer'e maternal granilfuther, Jessio Duvien, mold to different artttera bere, sixteen in number, 1480 neres uf land, almiost the whole of it of oxerlernt quality for illluge, bet then furest land, for steam engine of thirty horse-power is hore used, tho mill
the nggregate sum of CoBt sterling, which was equivalent to $187. Tho dollnr being theu rateil nt 45 shillings ster- ling, or " olil tenor " currency, tho price of this Isad theo averaging 18 cents un sere.
A resident here is churgeil in nn Beenunt in IT89, with sole tenther ut 20 cents n touail, n side of upper leather $2, nr ': 00 allllings old tenor ; " in 1794, with 240 noils, double tens, hnlf-u-fullnr; tea, 81 a pound ; în 1700, with molusses at auvonty-five ceuta n gallon, anh $1 a bushel, caffeo nt twenty-flie cents a poumut : in ITDi, with " cotton wool, " at Imdf-n-dullnr a ponit; omil is crediteil in account in 1702, Tur wheut ut $1 o busbel, a borse at 8:8, and " ouc ox for bref," $20.
lu 1792 one of the minre thrifty reslilents here linil a linrec, valueil at £4, and n aleigh und " tackling," the two lutter valueil ot $4, nud probably a few other persons tiere owned onch a horse,
Wascelfuncown .- In April, 1806, a wogon wns brought Into Inthi, in n vessel, perolentily from llomton, for Cuptuin Nn- thoniel Enines, o citizen of the town, which upon its arrive? here immediately after attracted general uotice, nud which could vuly he safely moved along the rough rouils of the country by careful ilriving of the horse tuint drew It.
In 1816 another resident citizen became the owner of n chnise, amt soon offer, a few othor curringes of the enme kitil were owarel here by different porsous.
In 184G no ufficicut instrument in linrresting liny, a horse rnke, of tha " rovoliing " kind, won pot to the test nud np- provcil, and In tr69 unothurt, onit no leza efficient one, n mowing umchine, Ketebum's, was purebased oud ueed by John C. Bryeut.
Some yours before the horse roke and mowing machine were introiluced here, the thrashing mnobine bad come into generat use.
Roads. The first publie highways mnde hy the town Religions Societies .- For half a century frum the time of wore surveyeil by Amuos Duvis, of Lewiston, in June, 1788, the first settlement hiere, schinol-houses, privato dwellinga, under the direction of the selectmen, Willinin Gowell, Satuucl Tobbetts, nud Ebeuoxer Temple, which were gruorally Along the route of rough ways of u kiud enlloil hy sir Wal- ter Scott " bridlo paths," previously opened by the colonists.
nul the stablea of the colonists wero tho pluces in whurli religious scriices were held, lu 1824 the society of Bautions built a commodlous meeting-house upon the clerated lond toward the northtresterw limits of the town, constructeil of One of these ronds, extending centrally through the town woud, the work being dono under the suprrintendence of southward, and intersecting with the Toushum road, koowb Sylvanus Dyer na chief carpenter. Though the building is yet stouling it has become private property.
Upon the ontupletion of this house the Rev. Mr. Hooper was employed by the society as their prencher, and was one of the first reshtent ministers here, though thirty-fito ycore tarlier than toin the Rev. Ichaboil Temple, of the mute religiona sect. nud a resident of Bomloin, Und occasionally prencheil in ilifferent places In the town.
The society In 186G buit a new house for publie worship, selreting a beautifut locaston therefor, upon the high loud near the eastern limits of the village of Selinttia, oud for a time immediately thereafter cugngul the ties. Loonder S. Tripp am residrut pastor, but at present uo preacher is Inteilly entulnyel bere.
The next church edifice in order of ttme from the first, wns built in 1817 by the Universaliats and Baptists ut the villnge toward the southern border of the towy, It wou Ineed apun gronnil of considerable elevation, and bns o graceful sjure surmounted byn vone one hundred nud eight- een feet nhove the ground, forming a prominent oljeet lu ou extenuled visunl range, of which it is the central point. This house is uow the property of the formor religious fret, the members of which are restdeals of this nad of the mljujuing towu of Lisbon, and though it was a few years since required throughout, no religious services ot the present time nre bero regularly held,
The Free Will Bophuts at Sobottlsvillo effected their lacal organization in 188t, and in 1840 built a commodions house, eoustructed of wood nn were all the others, and somo years nfterwaul a bell, the gift of Captain Luther L, Lowhard, Was plncoil in the tower.
The resident pastor of this snoiety at the present time la the Rov. Lewin Dexter, of Topsham, Vermont, who pursued hio preparatory stuilles ot Untes College, Lewiston.
In tho Sabtinth school, when efficiently organized and conducteil, is found a forcible nuxilinry of other instrumen- talities for promoting the intellectual, sooînl, materiul, and mornl interests of the individunt nud of sociory,
Manufacturing Industry,-Secure and unfailing water power of very considerable extent, chiefly upon Sebsttis Josiah Joues, living at the southwie un
nul nu iluproving stair of lend tillage, oud of the mechani- enl industries, are conditions existing here, and which have already been mode subservient to the development of some of the moonfacturing industries, beyoall those of a more general kind of an enrlier period, nod are of so favnrabte u character na to give assornnee that the investment of capital in thexe enterprises will prove as remuneraitve ns slint otn- ployed for the mame puepose in other towns of the State. Lake Sebattis, bnving nt its surface au elevation of three
cinl uren of four square miles, us given by Waltor Wells to his report of the Survey of the Water Powers of Maine, lins its water confineil by an artifoial datn nt its southern Extremity nt the origin of its outlet, oud its reservoir copo- eity ens be considembly increnseit.
Water Powers .- Thio first power at this place, the water of which bas a vertical descent of twelve feet, was first ap- plied to drive machinery for n sow-mitt and grist-mill nearly cighiy years ago, by Robert 11. Nulca, Robert Ross, and others. They were rehnilt lo 1814 by Messrs. Watts and Lombard; the saw-mill being now owned by Kenben Drink- watee, ond the griet-mill hy Mesars. Given Jamison and Cnptuia Luther 1 .. Lombor.l.
Upou tho second dum, ouly n few rods below the first, the woter here having a fall of fourteen feet, the Inte Willlam tt. Frye, of Lewiston, with others Unttt a mullt in 1840, at which were mode flanoch goods until its destruction by ou occidental fire in 186G.
T'ha Sebattis woolon mill, built in 1809 npon tbo site of the one hurbed ood now owned by Retiob D. Jouce, su enterprising eltizen of the town, hus two sets of carla nad two more are soon to be adiled, and sixteen looms, and here, oder the superintendeoce of James F. Hirst, ora oinde waterproof goods or repelleots, the warp being of cotton the illing of wool,
Upon this dnm is the enw-tilt of Messrs. Illll and Foss, built In 1867, iu the basement of which is the machinery for making excelsior.
A few rode still further ilown and mouthword from these, Is the third ilom with a water fall of twelve fect, ujlos which was formerly the saw-mill of John Cushing, Jr., und where now stnods the Wchster woolen milt, built in 1860 by Cuptoin Luther L. Lombard, culurged in 1861 after its trauster to other porties, and now owned by Charles H. Alteo, of Bostou.
At This mill, having six ects of enrus, twelve jacks, ond Bity looms, nul employing one buodred nul thirty persons, mule ond ferunle, are mailo blankeis, Onunels, repellents, nod cassimeres, nul, in neldition to the water power, n boing to charge of Eugene D. Grecaleaf as ogant.
Three mites downunrd by tho course of the Sebattis ttiver, and not far from the southern boundary of the town, ia the fourth power proceeding in numerical order from the firat, having a wotor full of eightron feet, wtiero, in 1780, Jesse Davirs huilt the Grat anw- and grist-mill ; the porrer, wow unapplied, being ot this tima owued by N. W. Farwell, of Lewiston, and others.
Au net of the legislaturo possed some years ago invested the several owoers of water power upon Bebnttis ttiver with restricted corporate powers, and give them a jofot intorest in tho upper dum ujun equitable terins.
Upou ito streniu flowing from Sutherland's Pond, where huff u century ugo Jonathon Weymouth lind # sow-mill, is a water power now unapplied, nud northward of this, at the distance of a mile, is nuotber upon the strent, draining consistorible ares about the Curtis Bog, where the late Barker Curils bad momo years since a enir-poill, now otso unused, both of which may ugain be modo subservient to tho growth of industrial interests.
T'te tegistatiun of the Stuto destgoed to encourage monu- Inctores by nu caciuption froin tization for a limited urriuit, should have such extension hero ns to placo the lowu in this respect in a position oot exceptioonlly uufavor- nbele as compared with other towos of the Stute.
At the water fall owned by N. W. Furwell anil others, which, os u power for moving machinery, in cqoul to ony hrro enumerated, is ou abuodnuce of good building stono, nud facilities for transportution might be secured over the Androscoggin Itnilwny, which extends along the western hondary of the town, and connects with the inrmeuso ex- tout ot railway tines of the United States nad of the British l'rovinces.
long afterward os the " Old Hallowell Rond, ' is now iden- tified os the one extending along the northern prolongation of tho " Lisbon Itulgo" northwird by the tobort llewoy estnte to that of the Into Baker Curtis, Enq.
Over this road for n long period wore tuken the market- able produats of the colonists, and their successora, for eschange with the truders in the larger towns on the tente. boo Itiver, iu ono direotien, or with those in tho towne ou the margin of tidewater, in another ; aud, io 1818, it be- chino a brauch of the northern extension of tho " Buy Bridge Boail," but which now, with the two parallel oucs westward, successively connected sections of the old etnge and post roud from l'ortInnd to Augusta, until dlimplneed by railways. The ono enstward bns ernaed to be o leading thoroughfnro, chtofly by reuson of the focililes for business intercoursr, more evuveniently accessible, recently developed ut Lewis- ton,
At the same time another rond was surveyed, located, nod modo nearty at right angles with the first, extending in the irregular lino connecting the few remoto and sonttered locations of the settlers iu this direction from the clearing made by lobabod Temple, near the eastern limits of the town, wenttyard noross the " Most Roait," further ulong in frout of the cabin of Thomas Tobbetts, ouwurd by the house of his father, Timothy Tebbotis, near the corner, over Daris's mitt pond, und along Unvis's worth Itne to Clark's Meadow Brook, since called Dwelly's Brook, near the west- ern boundary of the town, und uear its southern extremity, with a continuous sucerssiou of angles, detlections, und cor- vatures, up the rugged acelivities of rocky hills aud down ilicir opposite atdes, in hold defiance of laolerinl interrat nud physloud comfort, ond yet with but mlight chuuge in tocotion or constition, this road is pertinaciously couttourd in uso for publio Irnvel.
" Next iu importance to the invention of the alphabet aro all works for nbridging distance," is the utterauce of n re- cent writer of noknowledgeil ability, the truth of which ts born of exprrionee, nad is of general uptics At the request of Ephraim Jordan. ....
town, in 1196, recognised the rugged way they bad "swamped" nlong ovre the rocky high lund, nonr their seve- ral dwellings, extcoding from the westeen boundary of the lown eastwardly a distance of half n tolle to its intersection with the road-suereyed lo 1788 ty Amos Davis, as n public lown woy ; nhd under the direction ef the highway surveyor, all the ovatlable force of the road district was employed for some dnye immediately thereafter in the laborious work of rendering it more safely passable ood less liable to nopleas- ant and dangerous julis.
In 1797 the towa adapted, as one of tte legaliy existing thoroughfnres, tho cond opened by the colonists along the tortuous line of thetr dwellings, on the western margin of the town, extending from Ita iuteescotion with the rond just mentioned, noriliwardly to Wales, ond with bot little varia- tion from its original location, it is still traveled.
At the request of Mtre. Hannab Davies and a few others, In 1800, the town discontinued the rond extending from
Some Settlers after 1800 .- Of those who come here at dif- ferent times ufier the year 1800, weee Benjamin Donnell, from Bath, whose first wife was Rebecca, daughter of Jesse Davics, ond whose land who situated westinrd, a short dis- tnuce from the couthern village ; Charles Wbite, also from Batb, by trade a carringe-maker, who married a daughter of the Ker. . Jonathan Ellie, of Topsham, and whoso firm, before owocil by William A. Dolton, was near the western base of Sebattis Atountain.
Benjamin Itobingoo and his son Jobb, the brothers Walter Jordan and Isninh Jordan, Cyrus Marr, whose wife is now tiviog in the family of hier son-in-law, Col. fleury Morr, in Wales, aged eighty-two, and Apollon Miller, nll from Capo Elizabeth; Asa Jolinson, from Andover, Muss., a honso- carpenter, living where Willinm Itobinson, Jr., now lives ; Jeremiah Moody, n blacksmith, from Westbrook, Kenney, living on the hilt of that Dame,- Westcott, Benjamin llowurd, Hirom Juck, Fairfield Golder, from Lewiston, Samuel Torrin, from Iralnad, Thomas Polly, Ed- wird Brewer, from Freeport, John Coffin, Caleb Lord, Lee Gitbert, n blacksmith, Lemuel Small, Rev. William Frost, Samuel Ramelell, living where Eliphalet S. Brycut now lives, Samuel Ballet, Solomon Maxwell and Riehard Max- well, both from Cape Elizabeth, John Vosmus, William Lane, Lewis Custimon and Joho Sampson, from Bowdoiohow, of whom a few have denccodants Dor living here.
Miscellaneous Notes .- The statement that here was the birthplace of Franklin Simmons, taking now high rauk amoug the great artiste of the age, ie elsewhere mnde, and here lived bin immediate ninternat nucostors, Dorothen Bacheldar, tite mother, oud daughter of Willinn Bocholder, a realdent citizen, pasniug the most of her lifetime here.
llis futher, Mr. Loring Simmons, bow a resident of Lawis- ton, is the son of Julin Siminoue, nud the lotter the son ot Samuel Simotons, a brief notice of whotu oppcars in con- nection with that of the early settlers and school-teachers of the town.
Tho possession of pre-eminent genios nud the development of its Intent powera are dependent upon conditions so iunhi- turlinous aod of such exceeding complexity os to boble the most intelligently directed efforts to trace them all to their origiu,
Foster Wentworth, a lincol descendant from Elder Wil- lintu Wentworth, who emigrated from England, and who was tocated nt Exeter, New Inmpshire, in 1089, was of the sixth generation from the outignint, and was born in Kittery. Mnine, Juty 24, 170G, wout to Cupo Elizabeth, theaco to this neighborhood or colony in 1191, nod theo by removing A mile northernrd, became n citizen here in Jupunry, 1833, nud dicd here August 28, 1801, at an advanced ngc.
Tho Ilou. Jobo Wentworth, of Chicago, of the enme family, etutes, in his elaborate and valuable genealogical work, tunt tho family nome in Englnud was originnily Winte wude, which with many numan und words of our tuu- gunge, lins boen enbject to chunge in the lapse of time.
In 1836 a family from France, of tho aume of Rudroff, come bere, and after a few years' residenoe went to Phila- delphia, the eldest of whom bnd served some years os a pri- vote iu tho ammuies of the first Bonaparte, literally a scarred veteran, as n view of his porson shows, nud tho related to the writer muny incidents of his servico, including the Itussian campnigo aud the battle of Waterloo, in which ho wad sevoroly wounded.
l'bought perhaps not strictly relevant in this connection, the suggestion is bere mundo that the citisens of the town forin n society for the preservation and collection of books, papers, reenrus, and documents especially illustrative of the history of the town.
T'ho post-office ut Sobattisville wns cotablished in the year 1831, and Janira Weymouth was appointed postmaster, the preseut our being Hoao N. Davis.
The unmubor of jegully qualified electors or volers now reslilent bere, io ono hundred and ninety-six, only about ono fifth of whom ore descendants of the first colonists of the townl.
The name Sebattis eccme to have been formerly, ne now, nu individual proper amiue, of frequent occurrence in minny fumifies of the ensteru Indiane, and ocenyionally bow in those of n few of the western, offthe origin und etymologien! timport of which, however, they themselves appear to know but little.
But few of tho older residents are now living here, and of these uro Joseph Temple, etill retuining much of the vigor of his early manhood, trobert Jordan, Joshun Jordan, Jr, nod Charity (Jayuos) Gilpatrick, the widow of Timothy Gilpatrick, bor ut the age of seventy-nino industriously pursuing ber accustomed employmouts,
Mrs. Atartho (Thompson) Horrick, the widow of the lato Captain Nathuuiol Bumes, with much of the mprightliness of ber ently life, atures the social enjnymeuts of the plensant home of her daughter, Mrs. Hurriet Corbett, at Freeport, Mnino.
Cyrus Marr wos a resident citizen of the town from the time of his removal hers from Cape Elizabeth in 1820, until his death n few years sincs, nud wna one of the numerous fusuily who elnim that they are entitled hy right of inherit- Buce to on estote in Scotland, and one of the largest and most volbable in North Britain, worth, it is stated, sixty millions of dollars, oud situnted on the river Des.
The Marrfamily in New England elnim to be descendants of ono Jolin Marr, who is supposed to have settleil iu Porte- mouth, New Hampshire, in fi17, and runt Joha Morr wns of local concern, and as forming the principle of the life of American liberty existing nt this dny.
o son of Joliu Erskine, Earl of Starr, who cupported the canga of the Pretender in 1716.
In 1834 Cyrus Morr disposed of his claim lo lhe Marr estate in Seutinod to the late Nathon Iteynolds, a retinl troder al Lewistou, receiving as nu equivalent therefor the to n cloro.
sum of one hundred dollars, which Mr. Marr espended in repairs upon his dwelling-house, whiet, though it has passed from the possession of bis descendants, is still staniling at the intersection of the roads extending respectively to Wales Bod Lewiston, bolf a tolle northeastwardly of Itobioson's Slouutsio.
An ageal bas recently been employed to proceed to Scot- land to investigate the validity of the olaim of the Mute folly in The United States to the estate of their Ducestoe in Scotland.
[Skeleton sketches of a few families linve been bandeil the publishers for insertion, nod a place given them between the leaves of Mr. Brycot's cutlines.]
Jethro Sanhorn came from Snoborntowo, New Market, New Hampshire, about 1783, and settled on the farm where bis grondson, Joseph Sonboro, now lives. lle had u family of fifteen chilleen, one of whom, Joseph, remained upon the old homestead. It is related of him that one night ot dunk Davies's Mille soothwardly nloug tho western bouks of he went out to feed bis plg and found a benr in this pen with Sehattis River, fronting upon which, onstwardly, were the dwelllogs of Mre. Davies, Jonathan Jordou, Fostee Went- wortb, William Boekonto, and Russell Ilinkley, nod onothee one, in place of it, loonted westwardly, fifty yards or thero- Dbouts, and neatly parallel with the old one; ond this, with some change of loention since, forme with the road last mentioned a continuous line from the town of Lisbon to that of Wales.
the pig in his arms. Bruin jumped out aud Jeparted wilb his prizo. Mlr. S, followed in close pursuit, but to no avail; the benr wns not to bo deprived of hic supper. Joseph Sanborn was out in the war of 1812.
Wmn. S. Estou come from New Gloncoster to Apburo in 1814, and settled on the farm how owned nod occupled by 11. Q, Binke, and known as the Enton form. While mukiog his first olearing upou it he would lako his week's rations oo his buck, travel from New Gloucester to Aphurn, then Minet, eleven miles through the forest guided by mpotted trees, per- form bis week's work, and return for n fresh supply. He raiseil a family of six children, but three of whom are now living. Ono donguter resides In Guilford, Piscataquis County, one in Hallowett, nud a mon, Jobn, in Webster, on what is onlled the John Iticker pince. Mr. Enton had one son, John F., In the Union army during the rebellion.
James C. Speare onme from North Yarmouth in 1811, and located on what has a long time been called the old Frost form, bear Loou Pond, where he now Itves. Io bad a family of nine children, only four of whom survive. Samuel, n con, resides in Cutifornia; Nellie M. in Portland ; Ida nad Fidelia remoîn at home,
The general etinintte condillons aborneteristio of Northern New England whcu uninfluenced adverscly by local enuers .. or by inattention to their domande, may evidently bo mode to barmonize with the requirements for the development of physienl vigor, approaching that of the highest yet attained: by the human race in eutiro and large communities at the present time. In proof of which, if more and cumulative proof were uceded, individual instances of its presence lierc nre found, as in that of Foster Wentworth, Mrs. Mary Torr, and Elijah Jones, ottainiog, by a life of activity nad Inhor, to the age of a hundred yeare, and of numerous others to one of but little less.
llalf n contury nge a mon by the name of Wright wn5 employed ia n ent-mill bere, whose absence during tho term uf his engagonient there being noticed while the machinery. of tho mill was in motion, search was immediately made and he will found in the water below, hie hond acvered from the baily, evidently done by n deseeading stroke of the mat,
Uutil a comparatively reccut period the traffio "= and use of spirituous liquors were the general rule throughout the extont of our lond, bud abstinenco therefrom the exception, while hero, no in other localities at this time, theso condi- tions are becoming reversed, and the social and materin1 condition of the people is soen to be progressing in the bet- ter ceuse of the term, unquestionably in part from the changel here noticed as well ao from other causes.
At the fair held bere this autumn, the domestic animals, products of the soil, and winnufactures there exhibited, the quiet and decorous appearance of the numerous men and women there assembloil, bore witness tlint the obnmnoter- istics of froutier life ure to he displneed by the comforts, conveniences, nnil refinement of a progressivo civilization. An evidence of its continued progress will be the disnp- penrance of exhibitions of brute forco In trinle either of speed or strength, wbother of men er of noimale, the puer- ility of which wne perocived by llomer, that ,
** 11 is not strength, but art thint wins the prize, And to bo stroog is loss thon to ha wino."
Sylvanus Cuslimon, a lineul descendunt of Robert Cusb- minn, one of the Plymouth enlonists, of the seventh gencta- tion from the latter, was born in Middlebury, Massachu- sette, and when a young man eume here with his wife, and passed the remainder of his dnys.
Incidentntly may here be mentioned the fact that only a small portion of the real estate owued by the carly colo- niets in ut this time in the possession of their descendants.
Among those who perislied by the foundering of the stemoship Centrat Amicrien, Coptnin Herndon, wie James V. Sandborn, the son of Captain Joseph Sondborn, A citizen here, on his return from California, and who to the last bravely nwnited the impending fato.
Ono of the former citizene, John Cushing, Jr., though ho lins passed from the living, is especially remembered for his keen perception of the Indicrous, bis lerse oud incisive style of speech and his quick response. An instance of which was his instnat reply to the derisivo allusion to the slow movement of the sniv in his mill by ono visiting it when water in the atrento was hecoming low. The predominant drollery of his nature wos at once seen in his physiognony and the posture of his talt, sparo form, as he snid, " Yen, it goes up one day and comes down the next."
Ile wna in his younger days one of the first resident tenobers of the cleaients of vocal music, evidently inheriting an nplitude therefor, as frequently tho singing of his father was heard by persons possing hie house long after the usual time for retiring for the night.
The late Rafus Dwinel, of Bangor, one of the numerons family of children of Capt. Auron Drvincl, who was long a prominent citizen of the town and a untive of Sudbury. Ansa., was born hero, and here passed hio eorty days, uud in early manhood gove promino of superior business capn biliries for which he was in after life distinguished.
lu addition to those who long since emigrated to the State of Ohio, others sinco, generally young wien, buve gone nt different timce to various localities elsewhere? some to the Western States, including tho distaut one of California.
As enrty as 1880 the general nesembly of Connecticut incorporateil all tho towns in the colouy with town privi leges, and the eminoat jurist and author of Commoninries on Anterienn Law refers in appreciativo terms to the establishment of towns in New Buglant with corporate powers as linving a durablo aud benign effect upon the iostiturions nud moral and cocial onamneter of the peo plo, and M. de Tocqueville regarded the towne of New England ns small and independent republios to all matter:
The outlines of the history of one of these republies including in its settlement and municipal orgnaization a period of but little less than a century, are here brongb
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