m fathers, so called.
The following are the names of the forty-one persons who signed the constitution of government on board the Mayflower, and are known as the Pilgrim Fathers: John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Myles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, Richard Warren, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Edward Tilley, John Tilley, Francis Cook, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Ridgedale, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eaton, James Chilton, John Crackston, John Billington, Moses Fletcher, John Goodman, Degory Priest, Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow, Edward Margeson, Peter Brown, Richard Britteridge, George Soule, Richard Clarke, Richard Gardiner, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edward Doty, Edward Lister.
Each subscriber placed opposite his name the number of his family.
The following is the text of the agreement which was signed on the lid of Elder Brewster's chest (see Brews
enerous citizens, among them General Butler, who gave his check for five hundred dollars.
Malden
Incorporated May 2, 1649.
Population in 1860, 5,865; in 1865, 6,871.
Valuation in 1860, $3,366,963; in 1865, $4,040,431.
The selectmen in 1861 were John S. Rice, Henry H. Hyde, Paschal P. P. Ware; in 1862, Hubbard Russell, Henry H. Hyde, John S. Nichols; in 1863, Hubbard Russell, John Fenderson, Samuel Shute; in 1864, Hubbard Russell, John Fenderson, Samuel Shute, John H. Abbott, Edward Fuller; in 1865, John H. Abbott, Samuel Shute, Elisha B. Loring.
The town-clerk during all the years of the war was A. F. Sargent.
The town-treasurer during the same period was Henry A. Newhall.
1861. A citizens' meeting was held on the 20th of April, the day after the attack upon the Sixth Regiment in Baltimore, at which it was—
Resolved, That we believe it to be the duty of every lover of his country and his race to assist in crushing out the Rebellion and treason now existing in t