. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. formed here, under the preaching of the Bev. John Murray, in 1774. Glou-cester was incorporated as a town May 22, 1639, being named for a city in England, whence many of the settlers had come. It was incorporated as a city April 28, 1873. Among the eminent names of Gloucester are these : Col. Baul Dudley Sargent (1745- 1828), a brave Bevolutionary officer; Jonathan Haraden (1745-1803), a distinguished naval commander; Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820), a states-man and soldier; Col. Henry Sargent (1770-1845), a skilful artis
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. formed here, under the preaching of the Bev. John Murray, in 1774. Glou-cester was incorporated as a town May 22, 1639, being named for a city in England, whence many of the settlers had come. It was incorporated as a city April 28, 1873. Among the eminent names of Gloucester are these : Col. Baul Dudley Sargent (1745- 1828), a brave Bevolutionary officer; Jonathan Haraden (1745-1803), a distinguished naval commander; Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820), a states-man and soldier; Col. Henry Sargent (1770-1845), a skilful artist; Samuel Gilman, (1791-1858), a noted clergyman, scholar and writer; John Os-borne Sargent (1810), an able lawyer and journalist, author soldiers monument at lanesville. of Improvements in Naval, Warfare, and other works ; Edwin Bercy Whipple (1819), a notedr3 essayist and lecturer; William Winter (1836), a popular poet; and Hons. John J. Babson, Addison Gilbert and Gorham B. Low. rinyp c C^rnf-r a locality in the Dorchester district v-iiover s corner, of 334 GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. Goodman H ill, in Sudbury, 415 feet in height. Gr^c^k^rrw NF^rk the southern extremity of West-UUbCUCI ly 1\ , port and of Bristol County. Gore District, a village in Webster. /^ |^ n is a small farming town in the northwest part of VjUMlCil Hampshire County, having Ashfield on the north,Williamsburg on the east, Chesterfield by a serrated line on thesouth, and the same and Cummington on the west. The land ismountainous and broken. Mores Hill, in the northeast angle, hasan altitude of 1,713 feet. The town is rich in minerals, having afine granite quarry, and furnishing specimens more or less abundantof tin ore, galena, graphite, granite, spodumene, blue and greentourmaline, smoky quartz, beryl, zoisite, mica, albite, and is a delightful field for the mineralogist. Mill and Rogersbrooks flow around a beautiful eminence in the easterly part of thetown, and thence in
Size: 1120px × 2230px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherbosto, bookyear1890
