. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; . .87 per$100 ; amount ap-propriated for thesupport of publicschools (1871),$24,000. Newbury port was taken from Newbury and incorporated as a townJan. 28, 1764. The first church was organized in 1725; and the Lowell was in the ensuing year ordained pastor. He was suc-ceeded by the Rev. Thomas Cary. The first Presbyterian church wasfounded in 1744, and the Episcopal church in 1711. The Whitefield died suddenly in this place Sept. 30, 1770; and abeautiful monument has been erected over his remains reposing in theOld South Church.
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; . .87 per$100 ; amount ap-propriated for thesupport of publicschools (1871),$24,000. Newbury port was taken from Newbury and incorporated as a townJan. 28, 1764. The first church was organized in 1725; and the Lowell was in the ensuing year ordained pastor. He was suc-ceeded by the Rev. Thomas Cary. The first Presbyterian church wasfounded in 1744, and the Episcopal church in 1711. The Whitefield died suddenly in this place Sept. 30, 1770; and abeautiful monument has been erected over his remains reposing in theOld South Church. The first newspaper in the place was commencedin 1773 by Isaiah Thomas. The Herald was established in extensive conflagration, commencing May 31, 1811, swept awaythe buildings covering an area of sixteen acres, and checked for manyyears the prosperity of the town. The first institution for savings wasestablished in 1820, being the third in the State. The deposits fromits 10,000 depositors amount to nearly $4,250,000. It now occupies a. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, NEWBURYPORT. NEWBURYPORT. 369 fine stone-front building on State Street, costing about $28, S. Moseley is the president. The introduction of the cotton-manufacture in 1836, the opening ofthe Eastern Railroad (1840), and the incorporation of the town with apart of Newbury as a city (April 17, 1851), have each, in turn, served toadvance the prosperity of the place, and to render it one of the mostthriving, as it is one of the most beautiful, cities in the Common-wealth. The present mayor is Warren Currier. Eminent men: Tristram Dalton (1738-1817), a statesmanand scholar; William Bartlett (1748-1841), a benevolent mer-chant; William Plummer (1739-1850), a distinguished politician;Dudley Atkins Tyng, (1760-1829), an able lawyer; Parker Boyd (1764-1830), a gallant soldier; Jacob Per-kins (1766-1849), a celebrated inventor; William Ingalls, (1768-1857), an eminent physician; John Lowell, (1
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