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Edith Woodbury. Built by her husband, Edwin, about 1860. The house previously stood just south; was a one-story structure, the old Hastings homestead, very old. James Hastings' father came to Salem in 1757 and built log house where barn now stands across street from house.
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Johnson place. House has been burned and remodelled several times. Probably Samuel Johnson was first set- tler here. Wm. Lancaster owned it later; came from Boston when his son, Thomas D., was a child. Sold to Henry Walker, a sea captain, about 1830. 'Leif Coburn, Ezra Bennett and Ira Sanborn have since owned it.
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Ernest P. Atwood. The old homestead of Nathaniel Woodman, father of Dr. Benj. Woodman. Wm. Lan- caster once owned the place. Job Coburn bought in 1835. Miss Sarah Coburn has lived here until recently. Site of Perley Ladd place. John Ladd was one of first settlers in this locality. The family kept the place through three more generations-Joshua, Perley, Elmer ; then was sold to Edwin Woodbury, then to his brother, Alonzo. Wm. Barrett owned and lived here when it burned.
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524. Site of Aaron Goodhue house. He bought it of Job Coburn. The place originally settled by George Amey. It was a very old house; burned in 1904. Was owned at the time by F. B. Goodhue and rented to Lawrence par- ties.
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John King. Originally the Moses Whittaker home- stead; he was a Revolutionary soldier ; probably built the house. His daughter married Abraham Woodward, and sold the place to Stephen Duston about 1830. He gave the place to John King's mother, who took care of him. Ice-house, built 15 yrs. ago.
526. 528.) 529.5 Summer Camps.
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530. Just at the junction of the new road by the lake with the old road, at the top of the hill, is an old cellar not marked on the map. A butternut tree two feet through grows in it, showing that the house has been gone a good many years. It is believed to have been the homestead of John Giles, who lived in this vicinity when the town was incor- porated. The cellar marked is the site of the Calley ( ?) house, of later date.
531. Site of the Snell house. Meloon once lived here. The house was burned.
532. Joseph Mackie. He came from North Andover in 1903. Built by Nelson Chaplin, perhaps 40 yrs. ago.
533. Lizzie Gordon. Built by Kimball Gordon. This was the old Caleb Duston farm; he was a great Methodist, held meetings here in the house next. Mrs. Mary MacLean now lives here. Cut, p. 341.
534. Old Caleb Duston house. Kimball Gordon lived here be- fore he built M 533.
535. Formerly part of 534.
536. Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Laid out by private corpora- tion about 1850.
537. Franz Gross. Built by Richard Taylor, 1852. He sold to his father. At the auction of his estate Chas. Austin bought; sold to Geo. W. Lincoln, he to John Shea, he to present owner.
538. House of W. W. Cole, who bought at auction of Wm. Taylor estate. Built by James Taylor out of a barn moved from M 574; he sold to Wm. Taylor.
539. Mrs. Nathan Smith. Built by her husband about 1900. 540. Mrs. Hattie Edwards. Built by Oliver Taylor of Atkin- son. Now owned by Mrs. N. Smith.
541. Site of Samuel Woodward house; later Rufus Kimball lived here. Torn down about 20 yrs. ago.
542. Site of gristmill, close to the road. It was here in 1832. Later sash and planing mill stood a little back. (See Chapter VIII.)
543. Atlas Mill. Formerly cider mill stood here. (See Chap- ter VIII.) Cut, p. 301.
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544. House of Wm. H. Hanson. Built by him about 12 or 15 yrs. ago. Owned by Joseph Jackson of Lawrence.
545. Site of cider mill of Thos. Duston. It was blown down 4 or 5 yrs. ago. On these plains long ago stood tall yel- low pines, whose tops had been broken off through age. The part left standing was called "candle wood," of which the settlers used to make tar. But the Indians came to get it for lights and torches. The settlers tied scythes on long poles and drove the Indians away.
546. Duston's Mill. (See Chapter VIII.)
547. Tenement built to accommodate mill help by Thos. Dus- ton more than 30 yrs. ago.
548. Site of blacksmith shop of Chas. Mirick. It was here only a few years, about 1900.
549. House built by Chas. Mirick about 12 yrs. ago.
550. Frank Nichols. Built before 1830, on site of very old house built by Nathaniel Woodman after he left Zion's Hill. He was the first to put an axe into the forests which grew on this hill. Rooms of old house were 20 ft. square. Woodman raised enormous crops of corn here after he cleared the land. He brought potash from the mill and put ashes all over the land. David Duston bought the place of him. Robert Chase once owned. Wm. Colby sold to Nichols.
551. George Hastings. Built by Jonathan Page about 30 yrs. ago. J. W. Wheeler bought at collector's sale, and sold to Hastings.
552. James Gregg. Built by J. W. Wheeler, 1881.
553. Burton Sleeper. Built by David Duston for a joiner's shop, 40 or 50 yrs. ago. He lived here afterwards, then Obadiah Duston bought it to rent.
554. Charles Plummer place. Built by David Duston before he built M 553. Later he sold to Plummer. Just oppo- site, on west side of road, stood house of Copp long ago. This was called Copp's Hill.
555. No. 10 schoolhouse. Raised May 8, 1854. Partly built from old one at M 561.
556. Old Obadiah Duston place. The original house was the
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wooden part; brick part was added over 60 yrs. ago. Col. James Gilmore, the Revolutionary officer, lived here after the war. Cut, p. 240.
557. Mrs. Spates. Built by Amos Dow about 1850. Hannah Hallowell, sister to Thos. Duston, lived here.
558. Mrs. Edwin Duston. Built by Thomas Duston, 1846.
559. Loren Hunt. Built 20 yrs. ago by Lewis H. Hunt. In- creased and altered since.
560. Edwin Cate. The Thomas Duston homestead. Built probably in colonial days, on site of a former house. Re- mained many years unfinished; remodelled about 1890. Cate bought, 1902. Cut, p. 409.
561. Site of schoolhouse, used after 1838, till 1854. Was old- fashioned, slightly pitched floor.
562. Charles Smith. Built by Amos Duston about 1880 ( ?) ; he lived here for some time.
563. Moved here by Richard Taylor to rent when he lived on Jennings place, M 564.
564. Martha Jennings. Built by Richard Taylor, 1867. The house here before had burned. It was built by Eben- ezer Duston about 1850, after he had torn down the old house which stood here many years. Nat Duston had lived in it.
565. Site of sawmill in 1859, run by Nat Duston. Sold to Richard Taylor, he to M. H. Taylor. Finally torn down and moved across street.
566. Site of schoolhouse-the original one of this district. Was rough, unpainted building with a huge fireplace, long wooden benches reaching across to sides of room, with only one aisle down the middle; floor was pitched toward the teacher's desk. Torn down in 1838.
ARLINGTON MILLS PROPERTY.
A 1. John Taylor homestead. Built by him in 1844. Also the home of Matthew H. Taylor. Cut, p. 412.
A 2. Site of Taylor's mill. In 1802 (and probably earlier) James Alexander had a small wooden mill here, second in business only to Allen's. Bought by John Taylor,
MATTHEW H. TAYLOR HOMESTEAD. (M A1)
OLD MORRISON STORE, NORTH SALEM. (M 568)
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1833; gradually enlarged till 1845, when he tore it down and built a brick mill. This burned, 1870; rebuilt by M. H. Taylor ; burned again in 1878. The ruins are still standing. Cut, p. 297.
A 3. Site of an old weave shed which was moved here and made into a two-tenement house, about where the sheds now stand. In 1852 Nathaniel Paul moved it to M 576, where it burned in 1884.
A 4. Old James Alexander house. John Taylor first lived here with his family after coming to Salem. It was built before 1800.
A 5. Tenement house moved here by John Taylor about 1836. The Arlington Mills Company bought all of this property and land for water right, extending to and about Island Pond, of Mrs. M. H. Taylor in 1905. Jesse Shirley now occupies the Taylor homestead, having the care of the gates for water supply at the outlet of Island Pond. A powerful dam was built there soon after the purchase of the property.
567. Joseph Nichols. The old Ebenezer G. Duston place. There was a small building here in 1833. This has been enlarged to present size.
568. Matthew Taylor place. In 1832 Christopher Morrison kept a store here. Richard Taylor lived here before he built his house at M 570. Matthew Taylor moved in soon after Richard left. Mrs. Taylor lived here until her death five years ago. Cut, p. 413.
569. Tenement house owned by Richard Taylor's heirs. Part was brought from M 534 by Richard, additions put on, and store kept here by him. Fred Erkhart lived here when he had blacksmith shop at M 579.
570. Miss Laura Taylor. Built by her father, Richard, about 1850.
571. James Rolfe. Built by Henry Newton, 1860.
572. Herbert French. Built by Wm. Taylor about 1880. Fitted for grocery store. Mrs. Hattie Edwards sold to W. P. Clark, who had store for a short time, then sold to present owner.
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573. Old Benaiah Gordon homestead; recently owned by Charles Nichols. The wooden part is very old, one of seven houses in this village in 1832. Benaiah built the brick part about 1835. His father may have been brought up in the old house. John Taylor bought of Gordon. He sold to his son, James, he to Wm. Taylor, at the settlement of whose estate it was bought by Chas. Nichols. Cut, p. 416.
574. Mrs. Eliphalet Coburn. Built by Matthew Paul about 1853. Wm. Taylor later owned, sold to Geo. A. Smith, now of Methuen, who lived here, then sold to Daniel Taylor, he to Coburn. Cut, p. 444.
575. No. 4 schoolhouse. Built, 1863. Cut, p. 217.
576. Two-tenement block owned by Levi Taylor. Built by Daniel Taylor about 1888.
577. Vacant store, previously occupied by Fred S. Webster. Built by Nathan Smith about 8 yrs. ago.
578. Vacant building, formerly store and postoffice, about 8 yrs. ago. This was the ell of the building which stood on the corner, moved to Main St., is now M 82.
579. Site of blacksmith shop. Richard Taylor moved an old shanty here. Fred Erkhart was the smith, later Milt Kelley. Burned after a short time.
580. Methodist Episcopal Church. Built 1836, one story, af- terwards raised and vestry built below. Cut, p. 137.
581. Henry P. Taylor's store. Built 1900, after the former building had burned in 1898. The first building was erected by John Taylor about 1840. The store was con- ducted by him, then by Chas. Austin, M. H. Taylor, Wm. G. Crowell, Daniel Taylor, John Austin, Nathaniel Paul, Matthew Paul, George and Henry Taylor. The business since the new store was built has been in the hands of the present proprietor. The property is owned by Mrs. M. H. Taylor. Cut, p. 137.
582. Site of three tenement block of Mrs. M. H. Taylor, burned 1898. Built by John Taylor, 1851.
583. Two-tenement house owned by Mrs. M. H. Taylor. Built by John Taylor, 1846.
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584. Henry P. Taylor. Built by Chas. Austin, 1856. Bought by John Taylor about 1862. Now owned by Mrs. M. H. Taylor.
585. Tenement house of Mrs. M. H. Taylor. Built by Henry Newton, 1848. Bought by John Taylor about 1859.
586. Ebenezer Duston. Built by Isaiah Newell, about 1865. Sold to present owner at auction after Newell's death. Cut, p. 433.
587. Daniel Taylor house. Built by Isaiah Newell about 1844. Isaac Hastings once owned. Now the property of Levi W. Taylor.
588. Levi Taylor house. Built by his father, Daniel, about 1875.
589. Mrs. Edmund Simons. Built by John Taylor for tene- ment, about 1855. Several lived here after he sold to Burns. There was an old house in the rear (not on map). Jonathan Pattee lived there about 1825; Wash- ington Gordon's father lived there later; Nat Paul about 1850. Finally torn down by John Taylor. Just south of this was an ancient cellar in 1832; nothing is known about it.
590. Site of blacksmith shop, built here by John Taylor when he built the first brick mill. Later moved to its present location across the street, M 595. Taylor sold to Burns.
591. Lewis Hall. There was a wheelwright shop built here by Livingston. Wm. Taylor bought and made into a house. Hall bought about 10 or 15 yrs. ago.
592. Beckford house. Moved from near M 533 before 1840. Formerly a blacksmith shop of one room; gradually added to till present size was reached.
593. Site of mill of Henry S. Beckford after 1840, when he failed at Wheeler's mill. There was a very old mill here in 1830, where cotton batting was made, later stock- ings. The idea that there was ever a considerable indus- try here is erroneous; there is not sufficient water power available for any large scale operations.
594. Fred Rolf. Formerly the old Parsonage; an old house even 80 yrs. ago.
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595.
Blacksmith shop; moved from across street, M 590.
596. M. E. Parsonage. Built, 1841, by society. Now occu- pied by Rev. Henry Candler.
597. John P. Atwood. Built by Mrs. Caverly (great-aunt of Atwood) about 1862.
598. John P. Atwood homestead. Built about 1840 by his grandfather, John, whose wife said she earned the money to buy the bricks by braiding hats. Cut, p. 420.
599. Site of old "Bill" Rowell place. No buildings have been here since about 1825.
600. Site of the Ebenezer Duston farm and homestead, later owned by his son, Ebenezer, Jr. Built by Ebenezer's father, David. Burned in 1902; occupied at the time by Carlton Whitney, owned by his brother. Cut, p. 425. William Meloon. Built by James Crossley about 30 yrs. ago. Sold to Ebenezer Duston.
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602. Julius Strauch. Built by Geo. Goodhue 30 yrs or so ago.
603. Adeline Mirick. An old house; Wm. Johnson kept tav- ern here, sold in 1827 to Abner Mirick, who continued the business.
604. Site of blacksmith shop. It stood just at the entrance to the lane, and disappeared over 90 yrs. ago. Samuel Chase, brother of Simeon, was the smith.
605. Charles Head. Built by him about 13 yrs. ago, on the cellar of old house built before 1770 by Samuel Chase; Simeon was born in it. The site was unimproved after the old house disappeared, perhaps 60 yrs. ago, until Head built.
606. Luther Chase. Built by him perhaps 15 yrs. ago, on site of old house built about 80 yrs. ago.
607. Charles Head house. Probably 100 yrs. old; built by John and Benj. Clendenin, who lived here.
608. Site of Goodwin & Chase's store. Stood only a year or so, before 1900, then burned.
609. Site of blacksmith shop; stood nearly opposite Wilson's, close to river.
610. J. Henry Wilson. Very old house. David Bailey, father of Stephen, kept store here 80 yrs. ago. It was said that
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OLD BENAIAH GORDON HOMESTEAD. (M 573)
RESIDENCE OF S. M. PATTEE. (M 625) Mrs. Susie Bendell, Mrs. Susie McLees, Mrs. Anna McNeil, Seth M. Pattee, Frances McLees, Shirley Bendell.
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his will contained a legacy to the school district which was never collected. Back of the house near the brook were the potash works of Clendenin, formerly owned by a Dow.
611. Site of William Clendenin's sawmill. It was torn down about 50 yrs. ago.
612. Herbert Parker. Built probably by Wm. Clendenin, who lived here. Later Nat Paul lived in it. Parker bought in 1894.
613. Site of gristmill of John and Benjamin Clendenin. John Taylor bought the property, together with all the land from his mill to Island Pond, about 1860. Nat Paul ran the gristmill for a time, then Taylor tore it down. In 1865 the shoddy mill was erected on the same site. From the bell on this mill the Corner derived its name. See cut, p. 296. This burned April 29, 1875.
614. Site of John Thompson's store. Later conducted by Col. Richard Bailey. Thompson had postoffice here in 1837. Bailey sold a good deal of liquor while he was here. The building now stands just east, M 615.
615. John Chamberlain Palmer. Formerly stood at M 614 and was store. Obadiah Duston sold to Nat Paul, he to Palmer about 1890.
616. Site of cider mill of Edmund Adams, about 80 yrs. ago. It stood beside the road just on the crest of the hill.
617. Site of John Thompson place. He bought the farm from Edmund Adams, who lived in the old house in the rear. He then built this house, perhaps 1835, and sold the old house. Later Col. Richard Bailey bought the property and lived here. The house burned about 1890. The old house had been the tavern of James Dow, and this hill was called Dow's Hill. John H. Dunlap bought the house and moved to M 618. Both cellars can still be seen, that of the later house being very indicative of the excellence of this site for a residence.
618. Hattie Dunlap place. Formerly stood in rear of M 617 and was Dow's tavern, later residence of Edmund Adams. Moved here by John H. Dunlap about 1840 ( ?).
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619. John H. T. Dunlap. House and shop, built here by him. 620. George Hastings place. Built 65 yrs. ago by Seth Pat- tee; sold to John Dunlap, then to Nancy (Brown) Tib- betts, mother of Mrs. Geo. Hastings.
621. Shoeshop of George Pattee.
622. George Pattee. Built by him, 1865.
623.
Sewall Campbell. Still under course of construction.
624. Clarence E. Rowell. Built by John Dearborn about 50 yrs. ago; sold to John Pinkham. J. C. Palmer bought about 15 yrs. ago, then sold to Geo. Hastings.
625. Seth M. Pattee. Lieut. Thomas Dow had a tavern here a century and a quarter ago. Also a Copp, Aaron (?) lived here. J. H. T. Dunlap at one time occupied. The old house was burned and new built shortly afterwards, about 1902. Cut, p. 417.
626. Ed. Atkins. Built, 1850, by David Duston, Jr. He sold to Washington Gordon, father of Geo., who lived here till 1905.
627. No. 3 schoolhouse. Built about 45 yrs. ago. The old building stood at the turn of the road south of the Daniel Taylor place, M 630, on west side. It was torn down.
628. Daniel Hall place. The Hall house was torn down by Daniel Taylor and the present one built about 1860, on the same cellar.
629. This site mark should be about 20 rods south of M 630, where the old schoolhouse stood.
630. George H. Twombly. Built 1855 by Daniel Taylor, on cellar of the old James Taylor house, which he had built about 1800. Cut, p. 16.
631. Jonathan Pattee's Cave. He had a house in these woods 70 yrs. ago; took the town paupers before the town farm was bought. This is a wild but beautiful spot among rough boulders and soft pines, about which the most wierd and fantastic tale might be woven. There are sev- eral caves still intact, which the owner used for storage purposes.
632. Stephen Shannon. Built by Joseph Taylor about 1800. He had three sons, each of whom settled in the neighbor-
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. hood; Enoch remained here on the homestead; Daniel went to his Uncle James' place, M 630; Asa settled on the old Clement place, M 639. Enoch's daughters later owned the homestead; one of them is Mrs. Shannon. Just east near the turn in the road formerly stood a brickyard. Cut, p. 421.
633. David W. Felch. The original Matthew Taylor place, one of the oldest houses now standing in Salem. He came here from Londonderry. Joseph Taylor was born here about 1780, and his father, Matthew, was born in 1746. We think the house must have been built in the decade preceding the Revolution, since we have not the exact date of Matthew's settlement in Salem. After the death of Enoch the place was sold to Ebenezer Duston, who sold to the present owner. Cut, p. 48.
634. Hannah Brickett place. (In Atkinson.)
635. Isaac Hale place. (In Atkinson.)
636. North Graveyard. First burial date known is 1750.
637.
Jesse O. Bailey place. The Ordway girls lived at M 647, and wove linen goods by hand. Bailey went there to live; they gave him this piece of land, upon which he built the house from an old shop moved from the Brickett place.
638. George Duston. Built by him 12 or 15 yrs. ago.
639. David Duston. Very old house, built by Clement, who lived here many years. In the rear was an old log house, also built by the Clements. This road was called Clem- ent Road after 1830. Jos. Taylor owned, and left to his son, Asa. Sold to David Duston, thence to David, Jr. On this farm was a field with an old cellar, where a Par- ker used to live; also a part near the road, just east with another cellar, called the Townsend place. (Neither of these is on the map.)
640. Marble place. Samuel and Jonathan Marble owned the farm in Colonial days. Now vacant, owned by D. Dus- ton. Joel Ames lived here, 1857; Samuel Clark, Jesse Ball and others have occupied it. Very old house.
641. Davis house.
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642. Site of building formerly a store on Woodman's Hill, near M 550, kept by David Duston's mother. Was moved here; then Moses Woodbury occupied; also Geo. Renew (said to have weighed 316 lbs.), who worked for Moores Bailey.
643. Site of Moores Bailey house, stood at the crest of the hill by the river; cellar still there. The house was torn down by J. W. Wheeler about 15 yrs. ago. Last occu- pied by Benj. Smith.
644. James Cullen. Built by Nathan Currier; Isaac Hale helped with the work. The Bean family afterwards lived here. Michael Cullen, father of James, bought of O. Duston in 1871. This was originally the Dudley Cur- rier homestead; the old house stood exactly on the town line, and the road followed the line straight from the base of Providence Hill to Hale's bridge, instead of bend- ing at these two points as it now does. This would make the present house nearly in the original road, or just west of it.
645. John King. Built by Isaac Alexander, son of James, who formerly owned Taylor's mill. He was a mason, who claimed to have worked on every lighthouse in U. S. His step-daughter sold to Colby, he to Fuller. Present owner bought in 1905. Came from Quebec to Lawrence when 15 yrs. old. The state line makes a sharp angle, the vortex of which is marked by a hole drilled in the back doorstep of this house.
(Map error; no location here.)
646. 647. Jesse Ordway place. He lived here after the Revolu- tion. Had two daughters. Jesse O. Bailey named for him. David Bailey lived here after Ordway, then Oba- diah Duston 2d. The Ordways were a very old family in Salem. The place is now owned by Jacob Blotner. Site of Daniel Pettingill house. Built for Warren Web- ster, who once lived here. Burned many years ago.
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649. Site of Jonathan Rowell house. Formerly owned by father of Jesse O. Bailey, who built it. He was a black- smith and had a shop nearby.
RESIDENCE OF STEPHEN SHANNON. (M 632)
RESIDENCE OF JOHN P. ATWOOD. (M 598)
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650. Site of John C. Downing place. Built out of an old carpenter's shop which stood at corner near Daniel Mer- rill's, M 445. Downing was a remarkably polite man. Just across the street stood the house of Aaron Copp, the Revolutionary soldier. (Not on map.)
651. Site of Brickett Bradley place. This is part of the orig- inal Colonel Atkinson farm. John Ober lived here dur- ing the first years of the town. Later Nathan Currier occupied and worked the farm for the Atkinsons "at halves;" here he made money enough to build the Cullen house. Ben Wilson in 1832 ran the farm in the same way. Bradley bought it, and repaired the buildings. Sold to Chas. Merrill. Finally burned.
652. Site of the Brickett ( ?) place. Jo Bedel lived here; af- terwards a Wheeler, perhaps about 1800. The cellar is in the woods just north of the Captain brook.
653. Site of Johnson's sawmill on the brook. There was af- terwards a gristmill here, sold in 1765 by Edward Carl- ton to Samuel Clement. The stones of the old dam now lie scattered or heaped in the bed of the brook.
CHAPTER XIII.
Biographical and Genealogical.
It would be manifestly impossible to include within one vol- ume the genealogies of all the families of Salem, much less when that volume must also present the history of the town. The older families, as Kelly, Woodbury, Kimball, Messer, Merrill, Webster, Hall, Gordon, Wheeler, Duston, and a score of others, would each require a book in itself; and it would be unfair to give these space to the exclusion of other smaller or more recent families. Moreover, the author believes there are two very suf- ficient reasons why a full genealogical treatment in a book of this sort is undesirable and out of place: first, because the infor- mation which it would contain must be obtained almost entirely from the family in question, to whom, therefore, this book would not be a source of information; and, second, because people out- side of that particular family would care little about its geneal- ogy. On the other hand, any new facts which can be given to aid people in making their genealogies should by all means be furnished. And they are included here in a form that does not leave out any family in Salem, taken from the vital statistics of the town records. All of the births, marriages and deaths re- corded on the town books are given, with also a supplementary collection taken from unofficial sources. Any material enclosed in parentheses has been obtained from some source other than the record where it occurs, and is here inserted for completeness. For example, the maiden names of mothers in the birth tables may have been taken from the marriage records or from private papers, etc., and are not official, although believed to be correct. The entire lot has been arranged in three tables, as follows:
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