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HISTORY OF AMESBURY. XIX
1828.
Congregational society at the Mills; Rev. David Damon; Road at Indian
creek; Savings bank.
1829.
River highway district; Break-water; First steamer.
1830.
Appropriations; East burying ground; Survey of town; School district
No. 9; Division of; Representative contest; Christopher Sargent; Death of;
Sketch of.
1831.
School committee; Pay of; William Nichols, senator; Middle road petitioned
for; Break-water; Jacob Bagley Currier; Death of; Ephraim Weed;
Death of; Congregational church at the Mills organized.
1832.
Middle road laid out; Cholera; Cautionary measures; Presidential elec-
tion; Dr. Towle; Death of; Barn burnt.
1833.
Elijah Weed's house; Joseph Boardman; Death of; Support of preaching;
Meteors.
1834.
No liquor sold; School money; B. R. Hutchinson drowned; Silk culture;
J. H. Town at Congregational church at Mills; Crops in town.
1835.
River road; William Huntington; Death of; Meeting-house at Point;
Rev. Benjamin Bell; Death of ; Steamer on the Merrimac; Rev. B. Sawyer
resigns.
1836.
Stone bridge at the Mills; River road widened; Bailey's dam; Estate of
Aaron Colby; Presidential election; Universalist meeting-house at West
Amesbury; Ferry school-house fence; Primas Hale; Death of; Sketch of;
New meeting-house; Rev. J. H. Town dismissed; Powow River bank;
St. James church; Rev. S. H. Keeler; J. G. Whittier; Small-pox.
1837.
River road to be worked; River school district divided; Surplus revenue;
Contest of; Hearses; P. S. Eaton dismissed; Universalist society at West
Amesbury; Shoemaking; Rev. C. C. Taylor at Episcopal church; Rev. L.
W. Clark.
1838.
Surplus revenue; Contest of; Rev. J. B. Hadley at Point; Joseph Stockman
drowned; Sketch of.
1S39.
Daniel Weed; Death of; Sketch of; John Blaisdell; Death of; Sketch
of; Capt. Vallentine Bagley; Death of; Sketch of; New school-house at
River; New meeting-house at West Amesbury; Rev. J. S. B arry at Univer-
salist society at West Amesbury; Rev. S. H. Keeler dismissed.