. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; . (1766-1817),an author and clergyman ;Ezekiel Bacon (1776-1870), an author, andM. C. from 1807 to 1813;Catharine MariaSedgwick (1789-1867),a well-known and popularauthoress; Mark Hop-kins, , (1802),an eminent divine, author,and late president ofWilliams College ; Wil-liam Pitt Palmer(1805), a poet and jour-nalist ; John S e e l yHart, (1810), afine scholar, editor, andauthor, now residing inPhiladelphia; CyrusWest Field (1819), projector of the Atlantic telegraphic cable;Henry M. Field, (1822), an able editor, and author of a w
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts; . (1766-1817),an author and clergyman ;Ezekiel Bacon (1776-1870), an author, andM. C. from 1807 to 1813;Catharine MariaSedgwick (1789-1867),a well-known and popularauthoress; Mark Hop-kins, , (1802),an eminent divine, author,and late president ofWilliams College ; Wil-liam Pitt Palmer(1805), a poet and jour-nalist ; John S e e l yHart, (1810), afine scholar, editor, andauthor, now residing inPhiladelphia; CyrusWest Field (1819), projector of the Atlantic telegraphic cable;Henry M. Field, (1822), an able editor, and author of a workcalled The Atlantic Telegraph. This is the inscription on the headstone of the Rev. John Sar-geant : — Here lies the bodv of the Rev. John Sergeant, who dyd the 27th day of July,A. D. 1749, in the 46thyear of his aire. Where is that pleading form T ask, thou canst not show,Hes not within filsp stone, theres nought but dust below;And Wheres that pious son] that thinking concious mind,Wilt thou pretend vain cypher thats with thee inshrind?. THE EDWARDS MONUMENT, STOCKBRIDGE. ^HOYl pVlQm so caue<^j perhaps, from its sienitic ledges and^ OLUIlt/Ildiill, its numerous bowlders, was detached fromCharlestown, and incorporated Dec. 17, 1725. STONEHAM. 485 It is a brisk and thriving town of 829 dwelling-houses, 4,513inhabitants, with a valuation of $2,890,815, and a tax-rate of $ per$100. It lies on high land in the easterly section of Middlesex County;and has Reading on the north, Wakefield and Melrose on the east,Medford on the south, and Winchester and Woburn on the west. It isreached either by the Boston and Lowell or the Boston and MaineRailroad, with the latter of which it is connected by a horse-railroadfrom Melrose. The distance from Boston is about 9 miles. Within its limits, which are 4 miles in width by 2 in breadth, thereis much variety of surface; and from Farm Hill in the north, BareHill and Tailor Mountain in the south-west corner, the observer mayenjoy delight
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