Proceedings At the Celebration of the Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary of Th
Proceedings At the Celebration of the Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary of Th
Topsfield Mass Town
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39 near at hand, on a conical elevation now used by the town for a gravel pit, can be seen, at the highest point, some six or eight inches below the surface of the ground as the hill has been dug away, evidences of beacon fires, — blackened soil and small bits of charcoal, — fires lighted generations be- fore the advent of the European, the ashes buried by the flight of years. The actual settlement of the New Meadows began about 1639, when the General Court granted certain lands lying near Ipsw...ich river, to inhabitants of Ipswich and Salem who had farms nearby, "to bee enjoyed by those who first settled a village there. " Four years later it appeared that the Ipswich farmers had, since 1641, ''maintained one to dispence the word of God unto them, which they intend to continue. " Among the early settlers were Zaccheus Gould, after- ward a very large holder of land in Topsfield and Rowley Village (or Boxford as it afterward was called) ; the Reding- tons, Abraham and John ; Thomas Howlett and William Per- kins who had come with Winthrop ; Reverend William Knight who "dispenced the word ;" Walter Roper, the carpenter who built the great bridge across the river ; William Howard, the man of affairs; Francis Peabody, the miller and ancestor of a noteworthy line of descendants ; Isaac Cummings ; Wil- liam Towne, whose daughters, Rebecca Nurse and Mary Esty, suffered death during the witchcraft delusion ; Allan Perley, and Alexander Knight who had a Court record as a Her.
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