History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ch he labor-ed in his youth still remains in the possession of thefamily. The house is a large, old-fashioned framebuilding,—a farm-house, where for scores of yeara thecountry teams from the north as far as Canada,sometimes a hundred a day, passed to Newburyport,then a great port for shipments, and would, more orless, put up. In the next house eastward lived theFeltons, a family which sent three sons into theworld seldom equaled in modern times, ami who wouldhave given fame to a whole
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ch he labor-ed in his youth still remains in the possession of thefamily. The house is a large, old-fashioned framebuilding,—a farm-house, where for scores of yeara thecountry teams from the north as far as Canada,sometimes a hundred a day, passed to Newburyport,then a great port for shipments, and would, more orless, put up. In the next house eastward lived theFeltons, a family which sent three sons into theworld seldom equaled in modern times, ami who wouldhave given fame to a whole State. One was presidentof Harvard College; another was the greatest lawyerthat ever entered a court-house in California; andthe third, still living in Pennsylvania, is a railroadmagnate. .\t the time of JIoscs Browns birth this sectionwas famous for the manufacture of wagons andchaises ; and Moses Brown learned the art of carTriage-building. On reaching his majority he estab-lished himself in that business at Newburyport, andthe first work he was called to do, was repairing a 1 By George J. L. T iiI©sSIEej Itiii- NEWBURYPORT. 1809 carriage for the Hon. Tristram Dalton, living onState Street, opposite tlie Wolfe Tavern, in an ele-gant mansion. Mr. Dalton was a high-toneil gentlemanof influence, wealth and learning—perhaps the mostcultivated man in the town. At a later day he waselected Senator, the firet from Massachusetts in theFederal Congress, and became tiie close and trustedfriend of President Washington. Mr. Dalton invitedMoses Brown into the house, where he, born of poorparents and to hard work, amazed at the rich furniture,the elegant pictures on the walla, the abundance ofbooks, and other magnificent surroundings, almostlost himself in wonder and delight; nor was he lesspleased in going to the carriage-house, at the neat-ness of the premises, the beauty of the flowers, utter-ing their morning prayers in their odors risingheavenward, and the acres of frui
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