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the history of haverhill massachusetts from its first settlement in 1640 to

by george wingate chase

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The book by George Wingate Chase covers history of the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, describing all the significant events: the laying out of the town, Indian wars, Haverhill in the Revolution and others. Dealing with the two-hundred-and-twenty-year period, represented by a series of chronological chapters, covering a decade, the author offers numerous biographical sketches of many of the early settlers.

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...attention to the history of the church at York, Me. , but without receiving any additional light upon the point. Green- leaf (Eccl. Hist. Maine) informs us that " the first preacher at York of whom any account is preserved, was one Burdett, who came hither from Exeter. " And, in another place, he says, "no record can be found at this day of the first gathering and embodying of the church in this town, nor the proceedings of the church under the two first ministers. It is presumed, however, that it was organized in the year 1673. In that year, the Eev. Shubal Dummer was ordained at York ; and as the uniform prac- tice had been to gather and organize a church before settling a minister, it is highly probable that the church is to be dated from that year. " The first mention made of Mr. Ward, in the Town Eecords of Haver- hill, is a note at the bottom of the page, under the year 1643, stating that on the 29th of Sept. , 1642, he had "sixteen acres of land laid out to him for a home-lot,...