The history of Haverhill, Massachusetts : from its first settlement, in 1640, to the year 1860 . represented his town in the Legisla-ture, and his District in Congress, from 1811 to 1813. At this period, the Merrimack Bank was incorporated, and he becameits first cashier, which office he held, with unsullied reputation, for a quar-ter of a century, and until the infirmities of age rendered repose from itsarduous duties necessary. He was a real gentleman of the old school, ofthe kindest and most cheerful disposition. He was a member of the Bap-tist Church, and his old age was cheered by the ben
The history of Haverhill, Massachusetts : from its first settlement, in 1640, to the year 1860 . represented his town in the Legisla-ture, and his District in Congress, from 1811 to 1813. At this period, the Merrimack Bank was incorporated, and he becameits first cashier, which office he held, with unsullied reputation, for a quar-ter of a century, and until the infirmities of age rendered repose from itsarduous duties necessary. He was a real gentleman of the old school, ofthe kindest and most cheerful disposition. He was a member of the Bap-tist Church, and his old age was cheered by the benignant light andcheering hopes of the gospel, in which he was a firm believer, and anhumble and faithful follower. Modest, retiring, and unassuming, he en-joyed the most unbounded confidence and trust in his integrity. For thelast two years of his life, he declined, under the repeated attacks of paraly-sis, and his death was as quiet and undisturbed as an infants sleep; andon his tomb-stone maybe most emphatically inscribed — Here lies anhonest man. He died October 10, 1849, aged 82 oJ^^^9ta^/^i^ HISTORY OP HAVERHILL. 651 WooDBRiDGE, Benjamin, who married Mary, the daugliter of Bev. JohnWard, (see page 168) was probably a son of John Woodbridge, who wasborn in Stanton, Wiltshire, in 1613, came to New England in 1634, andto Newbury in 1635. Th« latter married Mercy Dudley, daughter ofGov. Thomas Dudley, and died March 17, 1695. He was town registerof Newbury, in 1636. 652 HISTORY 0¥ HAVERHILI,^ CHAPTEK XXXI. MISCELLANEOUS. — The first Tewepaper published in ibis town, was tLe Guardian of Freedom. Printed and published every Friday morning,by E Ladd and S Bragg, in Haverhill (Massachusetts,) 9s. pr. first number was issued September 6, 1793. It contained sixteencolumns of print, each fifteen and one-half inches long and two and one-quarter inches wide, nearly all of which was in small pica type. At first,the paper hardly contained a stickful of a
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