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T `HE first Universalist sermon preached here was in 1809,1 by an itinerant missionary of that denomination. His services were held in the house of Benjamin Joy, on High Street, which was afterwards known as Cunningham's Hotel. No efforts towards forming a society were made until 1824, when one was organized at the Academy, under the style of the "Christian Society of Universalists in Belfast." Its name was subsequently changed to that of the "First Universalist Society in Belfast." The Rev. William A. Drew, of Farmington, now of Augusta, officiated as pastor from 1824 to 1826. During a portion of that period, he taught school, and edited the " Christian Visitant," a monthly publication, established by the Eastern Association of Universa- lists. Bigotry and intolerance were at first opposed to the new doctrine, and in 1825 the use of the town hall was refused to the society for services. Colonel Daniel Lane and others, being ten freeholders, then requested the selectmen to call a town meeting, to decide the matter. This was also refused. Thereupon applica- tion was made to Joseph Williamson, justice of the peace, who called a meeting as provided by law. A vote was passed "to lease any portion of the town hall to the Universalist Society, or any other society, for the purposes of religious worship, for a reasonable compensation." After Mr. Drew left, no regular
1 In the Gospel Banner of July 2, 1852, Rev. W. A. Drew says that the first Uni- versalist sermon ever delivered here was in 1822, by Rev. W. Frost, of Farmington.
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preaching was maintained for several years, although services continued to be occasionally held in the court-house.
On the 27th of July, 1836, the society was reorganized, and a new constitution adopted. The members joining in the applica- tion for this purpose were David W. Lothrop, Freeman C. Ray- mond, P. P. Quimby, Samuel Edwards, Ebenezer Stevens, Jr., John Doyle, David G. Ames, Benjamin Kelley, Asa Edmunds, Thomas Bartlett, Sylvester C. Hewes, Samuel S. Burd, Darius D. Pinkham, Nicholas Phillips, Horatio N. Palmer, and Henry E. Burkmar. Messrs. Pinkham and Palmer are the only ones of the number now residing here. In 1839, measures were adopted for building a meeting-house ; and under the direction of Daniel Put- nam, Samuel B. Hanson, Robert Patterson, 5th, Samuel Eames, Gowen M. Armor, Samuel S. Burd, and James Gammans, consti- tuting a committee for the purpose, the present edifice, at the corner of Court and Spring Streets, was erected. Work was
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. ERECTED 1839. 1
commenced on the first day of May. On the fifth day of Septem- ber the vane was placed in position on the spire, and on the 30th of October the house was dedicated. The dedicatory sermon was preached by the Rev. Frederic A. Hodsdon, of Levant, who afterwards became pastor. During the first year after the com- pletion of the house, services were conducted by the Rev. Andrew Pingree, teacher of the village school, and by clergymen from abroad. In January, 1841, the Rev. Darius Forbes, of Hallowell, accepted a call to become pastor, and was installed on the 3d of
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March. The Sermon and Charge on the occasion were by Rev. L. L. Sadler, the Right Hand of Fellowship by Rev. Mr. Pingree, Address to the People by Rev. Calvin Gardner. A large number of persons attended the exercises.
The ministry of Mr. Forbes continued until January, 1844, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Frederic A. Hodsdon. The first pastoral connection of the latter terminated in 1848.
REV. FREDERIC A. HODSDON
was born in Berwick, Nov. 14, 1804. Before coming here, he had been settled at Levant and at Dexter. He accepted a second call to Belfast in 1858, and remained as pastor four years. In September, 1862, Governor Cony appointed him chaplain of the Twenty-fourth Maine Regiment, a position which he occupied until honorably discharged the next year. A commission as chaplain of the Fourteenth Regiment was subsequently tendered him, but declined in consequence of ill-health. After a long and painful sickness, which he bore with Christian fortitude, Mr. Hodsdon died at his residence here, Aug. 19, 1868, aged sixty-three years. His. funeral took place from the church.
Rev. Nathan C. Fletcher, of East Thomaston, now Rockland, became pastor of the society in 1848. He was born in 1810, at Newburyport, Mass. He was one of the Bank Commissioners in 1837, and a member of the Executive Council in 1838 and 1839. His pastoral relations were dissolved in 1854. During their con- tinuance, the society attained a higher degree of prosperity than it had ever enjoyed, being large, influential, and efficient. A new organ was placed in the church iu 1849; and two years after, the exertions of the ladies, who held a fair for the purpose, procured the bell which is now used. The latter weighs 1,527 pounds, and was rung for the first time May 13, 1851.
During the fourth week in June, 1852, the Maine Convention of Universalists was held here. The proceedings were published in a pamphlet of fifty pages.
In June, 1855, Rev. J. H. Farnsworth was engaged as minister at a salary of $900. He was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1822, and was educated in the public schools of that city, in which he was afterwards a teacher. Under his pastorate, difficulties crept into the society, from a feeling on the part of some that subjects of a political nature had been too frequently introduced into the pulpit; and he was dismissed at his own request, early in 1858.
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After leaving here he took charge of a church in Rockport, Mass.
For the purpose of securing a residence for the minister, William Pitcher and others were incorporated by the Legislature of 1856 as the " Universalist Parsonage Proprietary," with authority to hold real estate to the value of $5000. They soon after built the house on Court Street, now owned by B. C. Dinsmore.
The second pastorate of Rev. F. A. Hodsdon, which terminated in 1862, has already been mentioned. Rev. Calvin Gardner preached six months during 1863, and Rev. Mr. Hodsdon was then engaged for a year.
In 1865, the owners of the meeting-house were incorporated as a parish, under the name of " The First Universalist Parish in Belfast." Rev. S. C. Hayford having accepted a call, at a salary of $800, commenced his labors July 1, 1865, and at first gave good satisfaction. Subsequently, he advocated Spiritualism ; and, with only two dissenting votes, the society passed the following resolu- tion of dismissal, Nov. 10, 1866.
" Whereas the Universalist society of Belfast is of long stand- ing, and a large majority of those who are members are still firm in the faith as adopted and set forth by the Universalist Denomi- nation, and have no valid reason to separate themselves from the church organization in the country ; and whereas their pastor, the Rev. S. C. Hayford, has felt it to be his duty to renounce Universalism as a faith, and adopt Spiritualism, with the purpose and intent of preaching the same,1 -
"Therefore, Resolved, That the society can no longer employ him, and it hereby discharges him from further services."
Rev. Giles Bailey,2 formerly of Gardiner, succeeded Mr. Hay- ford.
During 1869-70, extensive additions and alterations in the church edifice were made. The whole structure was raised six feet, and a lecture and Sabbath-school room finished in the base- ment. In the main part of the house, fifty-eight new pews, circular in form, finished with chestnut and trimmed with black walnut were substituted for the old ones. The walls were painted in fresco, stained glass windows added, and gas introduced. Dedication services were held July 20, 1870, as follows : Prayer
1 It was afterwards reported that he had renounced Spiritualism.
2 On the 16th of October, 1868, Mr. Bailey delivered an address at the centennial anniversary at Acworth, N. H., his native place.
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by Rev. Cazneau Palfrey, D.D., of Belfast ; Sermon by Rev. Amory Battles, of Bangor; Closing Prayer by Rev. Mr. Sessions, of Stock- ton. At their close, a collation was given in the lecture-room, followed by a sale of the pews at auction.
Rev. G. W. Quinby was engaged to supply the pulpit for six months, from Nov. 13, 1870. Rev. F. Stanley Bacon, who suc- ceeded him, continued as pastor nearly two and a half years. Mr. Bacon died suddenly of apoplexy. Oct. 14, 1873, at the photograph rooms of H. L. Kilgore, on Main Street. He was a man of culture, and greatly esteemed as a sincere and eloquent minister. His remains were taken to Middletown, Conn., his native place, for interment, being followed to the depot by a sad procession of the members of the society. He was about forty years of age, and unmarried.
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CHAPTER XXII.
MISCELLANEOUS RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
Congregational Society at Head of the Tide formed. - Church organized. - Meeting- house built. - Dedication. - Engraving. - Bell. - Settlement of Rev. Samuel Souther, Jr. - Biographical Sketch. - Succession of Acting Pastors. - Catholic Mis- sion. - Father Ryan. - Episcopalians. - First Public Observance of Christmas. - Friends, or Quakers. - Mormons. - Free-will Baptists. - Millerites. - Religious Extravagances of Jonas S. Barrett. - " Archy Harding." - Seaman's Bethel.
C N the 31st of August, 1846, James Poor, John Mckinley, John W. Wilder, Ephraim K. Maddocks, Edmund Whit- more, Charles Moore, Alfred Patterson, Joshua Towle, Samuel G. Peirce, William O. Wilder, Henry Davidson, Joseph W. Wilder, Silas D. Brown, John McKinley, Jr., John M. Shuman, and Samuel Bullen, "inhabitants of the north part of Belfast and vicinity, feeling the necessity and importance of having stated preaching at the Head of the Tide, in said Belfast," met at the house of Charles Moore, and organized a religious society, under the name of the " Puritan Society of Belfast." Soon after, forty-two mem- bers of the First Church asked and received their dismissal for the purpose of forming a church in connection with the new society. An ecclesiastical council, duly convened on the following 21st of September, proceeded to establish such a church, which the members voted to call " The North Church in Belfast." The religious exercises were as follows: Prayer by Rev. Samuel C. Fessenden, of East Thomaston; Sermon by Rev. Stephen H. Hayes, of Frankfort; Organization by Rev. Nathaniel Chap- man, of Camden; Fellowship by Rev. Edward F. Cutter, of Belfast ; Address to Church by Rev. Stephen Thurston, of Sears- port. A communion service was presented by the ladies of the parent church.
Meetings of the society were at first held in the school-house at the Head of the Tide. In 1847, the present house of worship was erected. It is fifty feet long by thirty-eight in width, and is eighteen feet high. The edifice was dedicated on the 22d of
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September, 1847. The Rev. Stephen Thurston, of Searsport, preached a sermon from Psalms lxxxix. 15. The dedicatory prayer was by Rev. Carlton Hurd, of Fryeburg. A bell, weighing
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NORTH MEETING-HOUSE. BUILT 1847.
one thousand and twelve pounds, from the manufactory of H. N. Hooper & Co., of Boston, was soon after placed in the belfry.
The name of the society was changed on the 14th of August, 1847, to that of the " North Congregational Society of Belfast."
During the first year of the society's existence, several neigh- boring ministers occasionally preached. In August, 1847, a call was extended to Samuel Souther, Jr., a recent graduate at the Bangor Theological Seminary, to become the regular pastor, at an annual salary of five hundred dollars. This call being accepted, Mr. Souther was duly ordained on the same day that the meeting- house was dedicated. The exercises were as follows : Invocation by Rev. J. Freeman, of Prospect ; Prayer by Rev. L. Wiswell, of Brooks; Sermon by Rev. Carlton Hurd, of Fryeburg; Ordaining Prayer by Rev. E. Gillet, D.D., of Hallowell; Charge by Rev. Stephen Thurston, of Searsport; Right Hand of Fellowship by
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Rev. Edward F. Cutter, of Belfast; Address to the People by Rev. Daniel Sewall, of Castine; Benediction by the pastor.
REV. SAMUEL SOUTHER, JR.,
the son of Samuel and Mary (Webster) Souther, was born at Fryeburg, Feb. 26, 1819. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842, taught school in Bangor and Searsport; studied divinity at Bangor Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1846. After leaving Belfast, he became agent of the American Sunday School Union for Maine; preached also at Fryeburg some time ; was afterwards city missionary at Worcester, Mass .; eventually enlisted in the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment, and fell at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, aged forty-five. He married Mary Frances, daughter of Dr. Ira Towle, of Fryeburg, June 29, 1847. Mr. Souther received a dismissal, at his own request, May 26, 1852.
Rev. Joseph R. Munsell, of Vermont, having supplied the pulpit during the summer after the resignation of Mr. Souther, was invited to become his successor. The invitation was accepted, and installing services took place Sept. 22, 1852. Rev. B. C. Chase, of Camden, made the Invocation, followed by a Sermon from Rev. Edward F. Cutter, of Belfast ; Prayer by Rev. Stephen Thurston, of Searsport ; Charge by Rev. Luther Wiswell, of Brooks; Right Hand of Fellowship by Rev. James Freeman, of Prospect ; and Address to the People by Rev. S. H. Hayes, of Frankfort.
Mr. Munsell asked and obtained a dismissal Oct. 1, 1858, since which there has been no settled minister. The following is a list of subsequent acting pastors :-
Trueman A. Merrill, from Dec. 1, 1861, to Aug. 1, 1863. He is now settled in Wayland, Mass.
Josiah W. C. Pike, now of Holland, Mass., from Sept. 1, 1865, to October, 1866.
. T. F. Chambers, from May 1 to Aug. 1, 1870.
Daniel L. Smart, from Aug. 1 to Nov. 1, 1870.
Robert Doig, from June 1 to Oct. 1, 1871.
William N. Todd, from May to November, 1872.
Arthur G. Fitz, from May 24 to Nov. 24, 1873. He is now pastor of a church at West Stafford, Conn.
At present there is no pastor.
The number of Catholics here has always been too limited for
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the support of a resident clergyman. Father Ryan, from White- field, it is believed held the first services here about 1830. At his death, which took place in 1872, he was the oldest priest in the. country. In 1844, Father Moore held meetings in Washington Hall. The Rev. John Force preached in February, 1851. For several years prior to 1870, the Catholics maintained a small chapel on Primrose Street, being visited once a month by mission- aries from Ellsworth or Rockland. They have since worshipped in Hayford Hall and in Johnson's Hall. At present the Rev. J. Peterson, of Rockland, occasionally comes here. The whole num- ber of Catholics here and in the immediate vicinity is about one hundred and fifty.1
There are a few Episcopalians here, and services are occasion- ally held. The Rev. Joel Clap, of Gardiner, occupied the pulpit of the Unitarian Church a single Sabbath in 1838. For the first time in the annals of the town, Christmas was recognized that year as one of the noticeable days in the calendar, being cele- brated in the church last named.
The Right Rev. Henry A. Neely, Bishop of the Maine Diocese, held services in the Methodist vestry on the 5th of September, 1867, and again in 1871.
In 1817, for the first time in this place, religious services were held by members of the denomination known as Friends, or Quakers. Most prominent among those whom the Spirit moved to speak on the occasion was Anna Almy, from Providence, R. I., a young lady who won all hearts by her personal charms, by the pure, almost divine spirituality of her utterances, and who left behind her many warm friends "almost persuaded to be Chris- tians" according to her pure, peaceful, simple faith. All were not brought, however, within the influence of her teachings.2 She was probably the first female preacher here.
In 1838, two illiterate Mormons preached in the court-house, but without making any proselytes. The revelation of polygamy had not then been proclaimed.
During the spring and summer of 1840, Free-will Baptist meetings were held in the town hall. Above the inside door, an inscription, " Woe to the Hireling !" was painted in large letters. The society was not acknowledged by the "Second Meeting."
Millerism, or the doctrine of the second coming of Christ, ob-
1 W. S. Brannagan.
2 Crosby's Annals.
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tained a slight foothold here in the spring of 1843, under the influence of itinerant preachers ; and on the day designated for the end of all earthly things some of the sect awaited the event, arrayed in their ascension robes. The delusion has been repeat- edly revived. In 1854, its followers held a series of meetings in City Hall, and obtained some converts. During the last week in August, 1867, they maintained a camp-meeting at the foot of Court Street ; and, six years after, another on the east side of the river. The devont believers were firmly persuaded of the approaching end of the world, and relinquished their daily avocations.
A singular instance of religious extravagance occurred here in 1842 and 1843. Jonas S. Barrett, a stone mason, an honest and in other respects a sensible man, having adopted novel but somewhat obscure notions of theology, embodied them in a pamphlet of forty- seven pages, entitled "New Views upon the Bible, and its Abuses by the Priests," which appeared in December of the former year. Its doctrines were incomprehensible : they were a medley of mysti- cism and the dreams of Swedenborg. On the 15th of July, 1843, he celebrated the anniversary of " the first year of the second coming of Christ " in the following peculiar manner. In front of his house, which stood on the corner of High and Peach Streets, a grove of evergreens was extemporized and a flag-staff erected, from which floated a white banner, bearing the inscription, "Opening of the Seven Seals," with the representation of a Bible having seven clasps, three of which were broken. At nine o'clock in the morning, seven cannon were fired, emblematic of the seven thunders that announced the opening of the seals. A bugle, drum, and fife furnished music, and a dinner was free to all who chose to par- take of it. During the day Mr. Barrett moved among the numer- ous visitors, discoursing upon his peculiar tenets, and courteously answering all questions that were propounded to him. The best of order prevailed, and the occasion excited amusement rather than ridicule. Mr. Barrett afterwards went to Anburn, California, where he died in 1864.
Among the converts to Barrett's doctrines was one Archelaus Harding, an old man of unsound mind, familiarly known as " Archy Harding." He belonged in Prospect, where he was for- merly a Free-will Baptist preacher. He wore a long white beard which descended to his waist, and would kneel in the street or in the mud, whenever moved so to do, and offer prayer. Ignorant people regarded him as a prophet, or as one gifted with " second
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sight," because he was said to have foretold the death of several persons. Whenever derided, he would pronounce an anathema, which even the most thoughtless feared.
During the summer of 1845, religious services for sailors were held in Washington Hall, which received the appellation, for the time being, of the Seaman's Bethel.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.
Belfast Social Library Society. - Original Members. - Catalogue of Books. - Circulat- ing Library. - Periodical Club. - Reading-room. - Bookstores. - Belfast Debating Society. - Belfast Lyceum. - Officers. - Lecturers. - First Anniversary. - Lec- tures under old Organization. - Miscellaneous Lectures. - Revival of Lyceum in 1850. - Success. - Distinguished Lecturers. - Course in Aid of the Methodist Church. - Home Course. - Debating Society. - Lectures from 1870 to 1874. - Bel- fast Academy. - Trustees. - Grant of Land. - Building erected. - Dedicated. - Suc- cession of Preceptors. - Building burned. - Rebuilt. - Occupied for Public Schools. - Teachers' Institutes. - College Graduates.
T HROUGH the influence of the Rev. Mr. Price, an association was formed, April 21, 1800, called the Belfast Social Lib- rary Society. The original members were James Badger, John Brown, Jr., Alexander Clark, John Cochran, Major William Cun- ningham, Thomas Cunningham, William Cunningham, 2d, Tolford Durham, John Durham, Captain Samuel Eells, John Gilmore, James Gray, Allen Hall, John Haskell, Captain Samuel Houston, Jr., Robert Houston, Joseph Houston, Reuben Kimball, Daniel Kirkpatrick, Ephraim McFarland, Ephraim McKeen, Wiggins Merrill, James Miller, James Nesmith, Thomas Nesmith, Dr. John S. Osborn, Robert Patterson, 2d, Martin Patterson, Rev. Ebenezer Price, John Russ, Isaac Senter, Benjamin Smith, Thaddeus Spring, Nahum Spring, Robert Steele, Lieutenant Jonathan Wilson, Jonathan White, and Robert White, - thirty-nine in all. Others were subsequently added. The admission fee was two dollars. The code of laws and regulations, comprised in eight chapters and forty-five articles, was comprehensive enough for a library of great magnitude. Mr. Price was the first librarian, and the books were at first deposited at his house : they were afterwards removed to the store of James Nesmith, being kept in a locked case. The receipts for the first year, from shares and an assessment, were $110.62, of which $96.88 was expended in the purchase of seventy-eight volumes.1 After Mr. Price left, the interest in the association
1 The following is a catalogue of books embraced in the first purchase, Aug. 21 and Nov. 10, 1800, made of John West, of Boston, with the cost of each volume : -
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seems to have diminished, as only fifty-three volumes were added up to 1815. No records after that year are to be found, although the organization was maintained until 1830, Colonel James W. Webster being the last clerk and librarian. The books have long since been scattered. A stray volume occasionally comes to light, clothed with the substantial covers1 which seventy-five years have made but slight impression upon. About 1820, the number of books was several hundred. Their last place of deposit was in the second story of the store of Mrs. A. D. Chase, at the corner of Main and Church Streets.2
An association called the Female Library Society existed in 1821. Mrs. Alfred Johnson was librarian. It continued only for a brief period.
Adam's Defence. 3 vols. . . $5.00
Adam's Flowers of Travel. 2
Nature and Art
.87}
Night Thoughts
.83
Algerine Captive. 2 vols. . 1.50
Paley's Philosophy 2.00
Belknap's Hist. New Hampshire. 3 vols.
5.00
Brissot on Commerce
1.00
Bruce's Travels
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Brydon's Tour
1.00
Camilla. 3 vols.
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Campbell's Adventures
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Cecilia. 3 vols.
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Clark's Sermons
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Rochefoucauld's Maxims
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Columbian Muse .75
Rowe's Letters
.75
Saunder's Journal .
.50
Staunton's Embassy
3.00
Story Teller
1.00
Thomson's Seasons .75
Vicar of Wakefield
.75
Franklin's Works . 1.00
Fool of Quality. 3 vols. 2.50
tianity 1.00
Wollstonecraft's French Revolu-
tion
1.00
Hawkins' Voyage .75
Julia and the Baron 1.00
Life of Catherine . 1.12}
Man of the World
.87}
Mental Improvement . .75
Morse's Gazetteer .
2.50
Hervey's Dialogues. 3 vols. 2.50
Morse's Geography. 2 vols. 4.50
Mystic Cottager
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Necker on Religious Opinions
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Philip Quarll
.75
Power of Religion
.75
Putnam's Life .
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Robertson's Hist. of America. 2
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Robertson's Hist. of India 1.75
Rumford's Essays. 2 vols. 5.00
Carver's Travels 1.00
Constitutions with Treaties 1.12}
Cook's Voyages. 2 vols. 2.50
Cowper's Task . . .75
Davis' Sermons. 2 vols. 4.00
Fordyce's Sermons
1.00
Vattel's Laws of Nations
2.00
Wilberforce's View of Chris-
Farmer's Dictionary 2.00
George Barnwell 1.00
Books introduced June 1, 1801.
Aspasia Vindicated 1.00
Butler's Analogy
1.75
Gardner's Life
.75
Laws of Massachusetts. 3 vols. 6.50
Muir's Trial .
.75
1 Among the first charges of the librarian are : "Paid Wm. Durham for two sheep- skins, for covers, $1.00; paid Isaac Senter for covering 62 books, at 62 cents each, $3.87."
2 The original book of records is now in the possession of Mrs. Daniel Lane.
vols. . 2.00
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Fellowes & Simpson, the publishers of the "Gazette," opened a circulating library of two hundred volumes, in 1824, at their bookstore. Noyes P. Hawes succeeded them in 1829, and in- creased the number of volumes to over six hundred. Twenty reviews and periodicals were taken for his patrons. H. G. O. Washburn maintained a circulating library for several years, from 1844.
A periodical club existed in 1841 and 1842, having head-quarters at the store of B. Peirce, at the corner of High and Market Streets.
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