CollectionsMassachusetts Historical Society., 1810 - Massachusetts For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360. |
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... miles in circumference , has two streams issuing therefrom , the one run- ning southward , and empties itself into the sea , at Rochester , at a place called Mattapoisett harbour ; the other stream , by running about three quarters of a ...
... miles in circumference , has two streams issuing therefrom , the one run- ning southward , and empties itself into the sea , at Rochester , at a place called Mattapoisett harbour ; the other stream , by running about three quarters of a ...
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... miles square . The population in 1791 was four thousand and ninety , which gives one hundred and thirteen to a square mile . The population of the whole state is fifty - one to a square mile . No very remarkable occurrences with respect ...
... miles square . The population in 1791 was four thousand and ninety , which gives one hundred and thirteen to a square mile . The population of the whole state is fifty - one to a square mile . No very remarkable occurrences with respect ...
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... miles north - east of Piscataqua . Cape Neddic is navigable but a mile , or less , from the sea , and at full tide only , for vessels of any considerable bulk , it having a bar of sand at its mouth ; indeed at an hour before and after ...
... miles north - east of Piscataqua . Cape Neddic is navigable but a mile , or less , from the sea , and at full tide only , for vessels of any considerable bulk , it having a bar of sand at its mouth ; indeed at an hour before and after ...
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... miles distant from the then , inhabited part of the town , built up against some high perpendicular rocks , a kind of pound with logs jutting inwards in such a manner that when a person had once got within it , he was confined as safely ...
... miles distant from the then , inhabited part of the town , built up against some high perpendicular rocks , a kind of pound with logs jutting inwards in such a manner that when a person had once got within it , he was confined as safely ...
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... miles , besides passing Piscataqua river , under the com- mand of JOHNSON MOULTON , Esq . the present sheriff of the county . There is a wooden bridge over York river , about a mile from the sea , built in 1761 , the first of the kind ...
... miles , besides passing Piscataqua river , under the com- mand of JOHNSON MOULTON , Esq . the present sheriff of the county . There is a wooden bridge over York river , about a mile from the sea , built in 1761 , the first of the kind ...
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