The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . 714. Chilmarkadjoins Tisbury on the Vineyard even as it does in name was evidently in use a long time previous to its in-corporation, as old documents refer to The Manor of Tisburyalias Chilmark. HERE ALSO CAME THE BRITISH. A Chilmark echo of the Revolution is found in the Acts andLaws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of 1784-5:—June 10, 1785, On the petition of Elijah Smith of Chilmark * =:= =:= Collec
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . 714. Chilmarkadjoins Tisbury on the Vineyard even as it does in name was evidently in use a long time previous to its in-corporation, as old documents refer to The Manor of Tisburyalias Chilmark. HERE ALSO CAME THE BRITISH. A Chilmark echo of the Revolution is found in the Acts andLaws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of 1784-5:—June 10, 1785, On the petition of Elijah Smith of Chilmark * =:= =:= Collector of taxes for the year 1777 * that hehad collected thereon about £390 which was taken from him * V V by a British officer, who carried them , that the Treas-urer be * * •? ordered tocredit the said Elijah Smiththe sum of £390, etc. And again, Oct. 28, 1785. The petition of Ezra Tilton, Collector for the town of Chilmark, was granted; it setting forth that in June, 1782, he was forced by the enemy to deliver up his tax lists, warrants, and £150 in money which be placed to his credit. WINDYGATES. As we enter Chilmark vil-lage, a road is seen leading. Looking east along tlie Chilmark Clitts. 190 MARTHAS VINEYARD. to the Summer estate known as Windygates, which coversthe bluffs of Wesquabsque or Chihnark Chffs, from which canbe had a magnificent survey of the ocean—far, vast and chffs lack the colors of Gay Head, but are quite as won-derful, rough, full of gullies and crevices, steep, wild andirregular in their appearance, while the undulating land aboveis being rapidly redeemed from, a windswept sand dune by thejudicious planting of trees, shrubs and groundlings, heather,broom and the hardier grasses that will tie the sand down. THE WASTING OF THE CHILMARK Whiting noted that during the forty years be-tween 1846-86, a period during which he frequently surveyedthe island, the shore in the central part of these cliffs movedinto the isl
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