. The Londonderry celebration. Exercises on the 150th anniversary of the settlement of old Nutfield, comprising the towns of Londonderry, Derry, Windham, and parts of Manchester, Hudson and Salem, , June 10, 1869. . use of Representatives, May 7, 1731. Whereas there are great frauds and deceit practiced bypersons travelling in this Province by selling of ForeignLinnens under pretence they were made at Londonderry,in this Province, which tends to the Damage of those wjioreally make and sell the Linen in Londonderry, Arc, forprevention of which and for encouraging the manufac-turing Linen in
. The Londonderry celebration. Exercises on the 150th anniversary of the settlement of old Nutfield, comprising the towns of Londonderry, Derry, Windham, and parts of Manchester, Hudson and Salem, , June 10, 1869. . use of Representatives, May 7, 1731. Whereas there are great frauds and deceit practiced bypersons travelling in this Province by selling of ForeignLinnens under pretence they were made at Londonderry,in this Province, which tends to the Damage of those wjioreally make and sell the Linen in Londonderry, Arc, forprevention of which and for encouraging the manufac-turing Linen in said Town, Voted, That an Act be drawn up authorizing the saidTown to make choice of a suitable person to seal all suchlinen as shall be made in the said Town, and to liave a Sealwith the name of the Town engraved on it, and authorityto such sealer (if suspect twas not made in the Town) toadminister an oath to the persons that bring linen to besealed, that it was bona fide made in said town. The foregoing extracts from the Province Records estab-lish three important points: 1. The good character of the first settlers. 2. The interest they felt in schools. 3. The excellence of their home manufactures of linen. X. -Engravedby GEPerit^ .e^rft^* d:^^^:^:^ 63 ADDRESS. by hon. aaron f. stevens. Fellow Citizens of Londonderry: You meet here to-day, a mighty concourse of the living,in the solemn and majestic presence of the dead. You areassembled to honor a brave and sturdy ancestry, and torejoice in the fruition of those labors which were begun bythem in the midst of suffering, privation and danger. Noscene could be to us more suggestive, no occasion more in-teresting. Before you are the habitations of man, thegrowth of prosperity and peace, the homes of industry andindependence. Around you are the broad and fertile acreswhere for generations your ancestors plowed and sowedand reaped the harvests which are the reward of skill andindustry. The sunlight of peace rests upon us to-day wi
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