Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . PRESENT SEAL Impressed upon the broad seal of the County of Middlesexis the following legend: Incorporated A. D. 1630. How orwhen this historical inaccuracy occurred it is impossible to ascer-tain. The records show that Middlesex-shire, Essex-shire,Suffolk-shire, and Norfolk-shire were legally incorporated May10, 161:3, the latter county not being the present Norfolk, but acounty including the towns of Salisbury and Haverhill in Massa-chusetts, and Hampton, Exeter, Dover,
Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . PRESENT SEAL Impressed upon the broad seal of the County of Middlesexis the following legend: Incorporated A. D. 1630. How orwhen this historical inaccuracy occurred it is impossible to ascer-tain. The records show that Middlesex-shire, Essex-shire,Suffolk-shire, and Norfolk-shire were legally incorporated May10, 161:3, the latter county not being the present Norfolk, but acounty including the towns of Salisbury and Haverhill in Massa-chusetts, and Hampton, Exeter, Dover, and Strawberry Bank,now Portsmouth, in the province of New Hampshire. It is verylikely, however, that the date of 1630 is intended to conform tothe arrival of John Winthrop, who brought the new charter fix-ing the limits of what many are pleased to term as the originalterritory of Middlesex County, being from three miles south ofthe Charles river to three miles north of the Merrimack; with alimitless boundary westward to the sea, in other words, stretch-ing for an equal width from the Atlantic to the Pacific! As itex
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